"Everyone should be a wholecoiner". Western #Bitcoin 'ers, should realize that this will be impossible for most plebs around the world however hard they try.
Westerners ($, £, €) are "proxy" cantillionaires & benefit from being closer to their country's strong currency printer.
Normie: show me something that will help me understand bitcoin. Something a regular Joe can watch to know bitcoin isn’t just for criminals.
Me: Sure! Here’s my friend Gigi.
As Nikola Tesla and Henry Ford BOTH predicted, the abstract power-projection applications of an immutable monetary ledger would have nations "fight" each other WITHOUT BLOODSHEED or physical violence.
What if #Bitcoin could reduce the probability of WW3 occurring?
If only there was an open, permission-less, decentralized digital store of value that you could use to get your money out of Nigeria after selling your #bitcoin.
Oh wait...
Between the price of ships and the deep water pipe dropping considerably, OTEC cost curves are starting to look like PV/Wind, but for a baseload energy source. And we keep finding new revenue sources, does anybody know who would be interested in early ENSO data?
entire substack in an evening and now working through their (his/her?) book list, all I want is an off-grid passive house that I can warm (61°F-73°F) with a single S9...
When I say ossification of bitcoin is preferred, it doesn’t mean no commits ever made again. That’s not how software exists, things will come up and software will need to upgrade
What I mean is bonsai like “gardening”, minimal maintenance changes
Less/no new features
The Njord board design is done! Time to have it sent off for fabrication. I’m pretty excited about how this one turned out! It will allow S17 and S19 control boards to control/modulate an AC fan while tricking the control board into thinking it’s running stock fans (spoofing).
Unfilled blocks are terrible for Bitcoin's security model. Why pay more than 1sat/vB if you can just wait a day? A steady stream of inscriptions ensures miners get the fees they need. Bitcoin's future looks bleak when the mempool is like this, and hinders Lightning adoption.
Bitcoin's security model *requires* that blocks be full. I, personally, would be much less cavalier about inscriptions if this were not the case. But as the subsidy declines, which happens very quickly, due to the halving, fees must pay for chain security.
I don't like the term "hustle".It's so fiat.There is an ethical shadow to it,when someone is hustling it means someone is getting kinda scammed. Bitcoin doesn't pump that hard anymore & that's a good thing. It pumps enough to be an incentive there but it teaches mostly discipline
glyphs (back chevron) looking good in lvgl + MicroPython!
Was pretty easy to get them properly placed.
Getting real close to "oh, sh*t, this is really happening!"
Jamie IS right.
There's nothing magic about 21 million coins. The source to bitcoin is controlled by six people. Who is to say they don't change it to 210 million coins?
What prevents (yet another) fork? Or another coin?
And without utility, scarcity is meaningless. twitter.com/liron/status/1…