Sounds good! I did read TBS, and I'm almost finished with TFS. They're both very good. Have you preordered saif's third book yet?

Honestly, I find it to be a very special, significant book, and everything I'm reading is blowing my mind. I've pieced together some of this from interviews, but it's nice to read it all in one place. But I'm also not, like, an intellectual reader. I usually just read gay alien smut on my Kindle, lol, so maybe it's refreshing to read nonfiction in physical book format.

Hodl precious kittens

I may not be wealthy, but I am a High Cat Worth Individual

What was the latest drama? There's been so much, it's hard to keep track, lol

Sure... Typical CLN erasure

I guess I'm just easily impressed... Haven't finished, but it's been enjoyable so far.

Today I learned that not only does Monero have NFTs, which at first I was like, awesome, well done, that must have been very technically challenging!

But the devs suddenly, unilaterally, merged a change to censor txs containing minted Mordinals, and they're asking mining pools to censor txs they don't like. Wow. Wowowow.

Say what you will of Ordinals, at least Bitcoin didn't lose the fucking plot...

https://monero.observer/monero-to-block-nfts-upcoming-release/

I have tinnitus in my right ear because I forgot to wear ear protection while I spent three hours hammering a 24 word seed phrase into a series of stainless steel washers on an actual anvil, but it was damn well worth it to give a big middle finger to the big banks so I can keep my wealth in my own hands and not someone else's.

SpaceX is about to launch a rocket that will make the price to launch payload to orbit as low as $10/kg. Gold is currently worth $60,000/kg. There are people right now working to figure out how to take advantage of that arbitrage opportunity. Something to also consider, when looking for a long-term store of value.

Carbonado.io

Bitcoin's storage layer

Carbonado.io

Bitcoin's storage layer

So, what this is telling me is that there are couples with access to $4M that can live on $160k/year entirely risk-free* and do nothing of value to society other than to be wealthy and not even make use of it?

I don't consider myself as someone who gets jealous at the wealthy, but I make an exception for cantillionaires. This system of fiat is so disgusting.

*provided, the Federal Reserve doesn't screw up so egregiously somehow that the US dollar becomes entirely worthless... Because that can't happen, right? There's no way that's happening, right???

Just bought $1k even at these prices. Why? I remember $33k. I remember $50k. You never know when we'll never see $27k again.

Layer 3s build on Lightning. RGB is also both an L2 and L3.

Explain to me what you mean? Because your statement isn't true.

Bitcoin = Settlements Layer (L1)

Electrum Server = Accounts Layer (L1.5)

Lightning = Payments Layer (L2)

RGB = Contracts Layer (L3)

Fedimint = Banking Layer (L3)

Nostr = Social Layer (L3)

Carbonado = Storage Layer (L3)

Sidechains are not layers, they're separate blockchains. Layers show us, we only really need the one blockchain.

I'm not concerned about scaling. Plenty of these layers can scale themselves, but that will take work. It's time to build.

Bitcoin is the Settlement Layer, the foundation upon which other layers are built.

Electrum Server = Accounts Layer

Lightning = Payments Layer

RGB = Contracts Layer

Fedimint = Banking Layer

Nostr = Social Layer

Carbonado = Storage Layer

If you have more questions, it's most convenient for me to answer them on Telegram, I'm trying to use less social media.

I won't respond to this nonsense. Rust is for those with low time preference. I value my time, and won't use it to push back against trolling.

Bitcoin layers got me bullish.