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704 sats \ 22 replies \ @DarthCoin 12h \ on: Stacker Saloon
Quick update from my construction site... the roof story in few gif frames :)
3 tons of ballast on this roof carried with a small 40L bucket (each bucket weight 30kg):
- 30 buckets of rocks
- 30 buckets of gravel with dirt
- 30 buckets of fine dirt for herbs and plants
- 10 additional buckets for laterals
...damn hard work !
This is referring to Lopp's proposal, it's pretty duplicitous to say "Bitcoin Core wants to" do it, IMO.
These are the five authors listed on the proposal:
Jameson Lopp [Casa] Christian Papathanasiou Quantum Bitcoin Ian Smith CTO at Quantum EVM Joe Ross VP of Product at Quantum Bitcoin Steve Vaile Head of Global Consulting at Quantum Security Defense Pierre-Luc Dallaire-Demers also at Quantum EVM
These are not Core developers.
Ugh, this is beautiful, Siggy. What a testament. And I love how you didn't do the normal thing that people do, make your friend sound like some kind of paragon. But rather a messy person, full of virtues and vices, wins and losses, all mixed together. Sounds like me, sounds like everyone I know. He is lucky to have been seen, over the years, with such attention.
I've been going to all the Bitcoin meetups in my area after getting inspired again and my experience last night was a little intersting going to a new meeting. There were 2 speakers and while both said BTC was probably the safest bet they were shilling alt coins saying that if you wanted to get some crazy gains you gotta take risk. They had bought FART as well as TRUMP coin and were pushing something called hbar. At one point someone said that McDonalds was gonna start hashing because hash power is all that is gonna matter to stock investors and we will hit 1 million in less than 2 years. I think there was like 15 people there and only time the speaker got some push back was when he said AI coins are the real future. I guess just watch out where your getting your information from. I was live reacting in our friend signal chat it was pretty painful at times
unfinished portrait of my cat
shaping up pretty well!
using a large brush so I have to make imprecise decisions
I got a job at an oil refinery once. They were building some new vessel or pipe-related thing (it's shocking how many pipe-related things are at oil refineries) and my job was to watch a hole. This was a safety measure; when workers were inside the vessel or pipe, someone was required to be on the outside to get help in case something happened to them--think attack of the noxious fumes. Also, I was a go-fer.
One day I was asked to go get a channel lock wrench from the tool trailer. I did not know what a channel-lock wrench was. I still remember the expression on the journeyman's face when I asked him if he could tell me what it looked like. Keep in mind, while he was in the vessel, he was relying on me to watch out for his safety. He concluded that his safety was not in good hands. Obviously, any non-retard knows what a channel lock wrench is.
Heuristics are great at hints about whether a person is knowledgeable or not, but perhaps should be given slightly less weight in our evaluations than a person's arguments or actions. Mr Bunney may be capable of producing useful podcast insights even while being ignorant -- but how will we know?
I'm thinking about this particularly with regard to
ai slop. After all, it is a similar kind of heuristic people use to evaluate whether a post is slop of not (the presence of the em dash, too many emojis, the this, not that pattern, etc). There may be good and interesting things in the slop, but unfortunately, it's an asymmetric battle: slop can be generated at significantly less cost than is required to evaluate it. But heuristics seem like such a blunt tool for the job.The answer to your question is no. We are all retarded, just some people are better at avoiding circumstances where it shows.
I'm thinking of starting a ~parenting territory. Would this be of interest to anyone? I always struggle to find the right territory for parenting-related topics...
I sometimes wonder if the way I viscerally dislike the Bitcoin treasury company shenanigans and am convinced they are scams is in anyway related to how no-coiners feel about bitcoin due to a lack of understanding...
I only eat once a day. My eating window is 5-7. I've done this for about 5 years now.
I don't think I will ever return to 2 or 3 meals a day.
In general my energy levels are much higher than before and I just feel better than I used to (less brainfog, more energy, weigh less, etc).
Beyond the health benefits, there is also the question of time. When you only eat once per day (or once every few days), you start to realize the incredible time-sink that eating is.
- Decide what to eat
- Buy food
- Prepare food
- Eat
- Clean up (goto start)
Multiple that by 3 meals instead of 1 and stretch it out over several months and you will see the incredible amount of time eating / digesting takes in your life.
Even if you are very conservative and assume eating Breakfast / Lunch is only adding 45 mins per day total, thats still 12 days of time per year....
this week's zine cover
I'm finishing it rn
anyone have something they want to add?
whatever you say in reply I will be compelled to print
I can't remember if it's ever come up how a big newish thing is what smart people expect their jobs to do for them - so much more than pay a living wage. Friends, meaning, status - the last is especially a bitch - all tied up in jobs. It's so fucking dumb.
If you have a marriage where you need your spouse to be your everything, that is a dead marriage walking. It will ruin almost everyone. And yet our culture has largely made it the default belief about career, for a certain breed of well-educated white-collar types. We've made a god of it, built an implicit infrastructure of worship around it. It's hard to think of something more poisonous that people don't taste as poison.
I'm now at the beginning of the fiendishly difficult endeavor of untangling all this. It's so fucking hard in ways I wouldn't have imagined when I was a newb. Maybe bc when you start out you swim up the gradient of more and it's progress you can feel. Once you get enough more that stops working. At least it has in my case.
I've always admired KK bc he seems to have become maximally himself, and with a bit of attention - not too much, it seems like - bent a working life around his own nature, and not the reverse. Not everyone has the privilege of being able to pull that off, but I think many could. Many who are reading this can. It gives me hope.
Great job!
When you open any page on SN for the first time, that orange square pops up next to the nym. It disappears really fast though, I don’t think it used to do that. browser version.
Oh I'm sorry! I didn't mean to baselessly accuse!
I didn't understand that these were pre-sold. This is because I am dumb, but let me explain why I didn't get it:
Here are the mentions of
pre in your explanation:- RFQ s
preads - capture a s
pread - To capture this s
pread - Ap
preciate you giving us a chance
And here are your mentions of
sold:- and "
soldout" status - 1,000 nodes have been "
soldout"
You see, unintelligent people like me are incapable of making the connection that this means they were pre-sold. Again, my sincere apologies.
However, since all the purchases are trackable on-chain, and these are pre-sold, that means all the coin is still on chain? That's cool. Could you please share some txs?
You're using grapheneOS on mobile right siggy? I wonder if the browser doesn't support a feature we expect or something.
I’m not sure which bit you are referring to but a typical Carlos reply would be;
‘I’m more of a ‘controlled explosion’ than a blast, but since my party tricks are more intellectualI I doubt you would get them’
And I would probably take a kicking for it… but I’m all about the chaos…
I have used lightning, in person, to buy things in multiple countries and overall it worked very well. Custodial, non-custodial on an umbrel, and non-custodial through an LSP they all went through.
The payments were cheap, almost instant, and they did what no-other cryptocurrency can do…
Cheap quick proof of work payments that are legitimately scalable for millions of people.
No waiting for 20 minutes to ‘spend the utxo again’. No using a chain (ie bcash) with totally empty blocks. No raising the block size which comes with its own set of compromises (unacceptable)
The shipcoiners hate lightning and no matter what they say ‘it’s failed’. Because it gives “their coin” basically no reason to exist.
No other cryptocurrency does what Bitcoin/lightning does meaning it 1) doesn’t raise the block size 2) doesn’t require empty blocks and 3) allows for instant transactions that are actually proof of work that aren’t a giant pos scam.
Any crypto that isn’t ’proof of work’ is a scam and does not compete it doesn’t count.
And in the PoW arena there’s nothing else that brings scalable ‘sound money’ to millions of people as realistically as Bitcoin + Lightning.
Because we (software engineers) are much better at providing the necessary context (both technical and business) to LLMs. We are also much better at breaking problems in smaller sequential steps because we (sort of) understand how the machine works
As far as I know, I can't use Phoenix mobile to do something like receive zaps on nostr or stacker news. Most of the mobile wallets are not good at asynchronous receive. And as far as being an easy onramp for normies, I think this is a pretty huge obstacle. If I tried to run a webshop with a mobile lightning wallet, it wouldn't work because new node wouldn't be on.
Channel creation is also a pain for new people. If I tell a friend I want to send them a zap to show them how it works and they download Phoenix, they don't have any channels open. I thought for a while Phoenix was doing the thing where they would let you accumulate sats until you had enough to open a channel, but in reading over their FAQs just now, it looks like they don't do that. Maybe I'm confusing them with Zeus. Doesn't matter: to meaningfully use lightning, you can't just up and let someone zap you 100 sats or even 1000 sats. Even starting with a 10k sat zap is kind of silly. As far as onramps go, this is another huge obstacle.
In both cases, ecash fixes the problem. I'll admit it's almost the same fix as a custodial account, with the slight benefit that the mint may be blind to your intra-mint transactions. I suppose the advantage of mints right now is that people seem willing to run them like it's the wild west while the custodial people are generally adopting kyc compliance. This gets to your point about jurisdiction being the key, which is a good observation.
I don't think I said/implied that ""ecash is at least as risky as Phoenix." I said ecash is good at onramp, and I think this is true.
So: I agree with all your points except that Lightning solves onramp.
Will my fanciful ai-operated mint fix this? probably not. But I'm open to looking under ugly rocks for solutions.
In this regard, it is critical to highlight that the United States cannot be “drawn into” a conflict that it has already participated in for years. Israel’s strikes on Iran are the direct result of U.S. backing – diplomatically and militarily – which lowered Israeli perceptions of costs and perceived risks of an assault on a country substantially larger than itself.
This is how I've felt about everything Israel does. It's all funded by Uncle Sam, and thus there lies the power to stop the aggression. Not with Putin, not with the CCP, but - utlimately - with the American people:
Just as Washington has the capacity to embolden Tel Aviv, it also has the influence to hold it back.