ELECTRIC COINS

Still working on opening a lightning channel. Need about 20k more sats. Should open the channel and leave enough in there to keep it open and for zapping. I guess I'll just need to make sure to do SOMETHING on the network once every three weeks or so.

I like how simple Kryptex is to use. Even on my little desktop PC with a low-power GPU. As long as I don't treat it like a full-blown mining machine, it's all good. Slow going, as expected, but, hey, every day, I'm getting closer. I'm still 5 zeros in, but looking forward to one of the zeros to the right of the currency dot disappearing eventually. I'd like to get to a place in life where I can buy some cheapo desktop machine with a decent GPU, put kryptex on it, and just let it sit there mining 24/7.

RICH TIPPING THE RICH

Recently, I saw that the guy who ran the Silk Road marketplace on Tor, and then got arrested, and is now out of jail, got millions in bitcoin gifts/donations(?).

I have no idea, obviously, but I feel like those weren't people just giving out of any sense of altruistic kindness or to help someone who is probably already rich.

I took a quick peek at the wiki page of the guy; apparently either the boyscout codes have changed to facilitate illegal activities or he figured out the truth behind the American Exceptionalism smokescreen.

I learned about agorism, which is cute on paper, but, given the depths by which some depraved humans will sink to get what they want, would very likely not work in reality. Unfortunately, violence is kith and kin to the human experience. We are not but animals with a 1% genetic advantage over our nearest evolutionary cousins.

Getting back to the dude though, I'm morally on-board with a silk road like situation, but I'd like to see one where human trafficking is weeded out. I'm guessing if people could anonymously get illegal stuff from that place, getting non-consenting people was probably on the shelf as well. That's bad.

Of course, we could just, ya know, legalize recreational drugs globally, and let people be grown-ups and make their own decisions regarding them, provide help, instead of jail, for people who destroy their lives because of them, like people do with tobacco and alcohol. Then, there wouldn't necessarily be a need for a silk road. I get it, though, some apes in leadership positions somewhere are profiting off addiction, prison, and all the other horrible things humans are doing to each other, so we're never going to be allowed to be grown-ups.

Greed has monetized infantilization.