It really does seem that there are powerful people who benefit from giving us reasons to fight each other. 
So, this video by @skdh affirms a bit of a theory that I've been thinking about... I'm pretty sure the galactic community Satoshi hails from doesn't use radio waves to communicate, it's just too archaic, slow, and unreliable at interstellar distances.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-jIplX6Wjw
It's very possible the "no-communication theorem" isn't a fundamental limitation of physics, like the speed of light, but just a limitation of our understanding of quantum physics. It could be very possible that faster-than-light communication could just be a protocol problem of some sort, and we're not very good at quantum protocols, because we don't have decent quantum computers.
But what if Satoshi gave us the concept of Bitcoin, not only for us to become a postscarcity civilization by incentivizing Humanity to harness more energy than we need, it also provides a profit incentive to invest heavily in quantum computing. There'll be a land grab to repatriate bitcoins held in P2PK addresses.
In this case, we're going to need a soft fork to add "P2QR" addresses, Pay-to-Quantum-Resistant address keys. I'm thinking something based on FALCON makes sense. FALCON signatures are definitely larger, maybe by about 10x, but the additional security would be worth the additional bytes, imo.
If there ever was a galactic community of peaceful extraterrestrials who, out of kindness, gave us a nudge in the right direction at a time we could not only make use of it, but also truly need it, I think it'd be mighty clever to give us Bitcoin. If bitcoinization does usher in an era of economic and technological prosperity and expansion, a Bitcoin Renaissance, as it were, maybe with the incentives built into Bitcoin, we'll be well-prepared for the big moment where we can meet Satoshi's kind and thank him for what he did for us.
Remember: Everything is good for Bitcoin. Even hacking addresses via quantum computers, and meeting aliens, it all hardens the protocol.
- The Exophiles, Datalinks
Re: A potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan...
Whatever happens, you know those upgrades you wanted? That 5 year old laptop you've been thinking about replacing?
Maybe buy your electronics now. Let's call it "ePrepping".
If something really bad happens, the price of everything will double and it won't go back down.
Inflation is so weird. I constantly catch myself thinking... was it always that expensive? How long ago was it cheaper? Such a mindfuck.
I'm a millennial, fwiw
You probably don't care that I'm a millennial, but I just assume you do because I'm a millennial
One of my favorite scenes from Antitrust is where they take fingerprints off the | key after the hacker protagonist used the children's keyboard to do hacker stuff because kids don't use pipes when they use computers apparently 🤷♂️
Replace Akira with Ghost in the Shell, actually, way more "computers" moments
- Akira
- Elysium
- Antitrust
- Password: Swordfish
- Grandma's Boy
Right now it's just a proposal as an unmerged RGB / LNPBP spec:
https://github.com/LNP-BP/lnpbps/issues/24
Still, it could serve as the basis for scaling Lightning one day when a Bitcoin is worth many millions. There is a plan for hyperbitcoinization, and layers are a big part of it.
Although some have disagreed, I'd describe a Bitcoin layer as an open protocol that uses either the Bitcoin blockchain or Lightning payments network for settlement or consensus. For example, RGB uses an L1 UTXO for consensus of ownership over an asset, and it also makes use of LN to form a system of token channels.
An open protocol could be defined as software capable of being self-hosted that has an interface that other applications can make use of. This could be accessible by either RPC, REST, or embedded APIs.
One might be tempted to split layers into separate payments layers and application layers. But if one sees Nostr as Cash App, Venmo, or Strike (social payment platforms) but just in a protocol that other applications can build upon, in what traditionally would been used an API, then in every case where a layer has a financial application, it too can be a payments layer, so such a distinction doesn't make sense for the prior definition of layers.
Further, anything worth doing can have a financial application of some sort, especially if built into a protocol. Many protocols don't use money, or worse, they use their own fee token, and this inhibits their capability to scale and mitigate against bad actors.
So, I think it makes sense to call things like Nostr, Fedimint, Cashu, LNBits, Carbonado, etc., L3s. Another interesting case is the future Lightspeed Network (LSN), which builds on RGB... I would still classify it as an L3 payments network, since it helps scale Lightning with even more performance and smaller denominations of a sat. Perhaps in the bitcoinized future, LSN will be a better analog for point-of-sale Visa payments than LN, which would probably be a better analog for something like interbank FedACH.
Indexes like Electrum usually fit between L3s, so they could be considered L2s. The Ordinals index currently has no off-chain payments capability itself, so it could be classified as an L2. Non-fungible assets in most cases can only really be settled on the base layer since there's not enough liquidity for routing between multiple payment channels.
Rana doesn't yet support GPU secp afaik... I have an issue up tho if you want to chime in... Offer's still open, sipa
Ironically, Elon's fear of competition makes me want to opt out even more
Haha, just saw that update. Non-TestFlighters won't get it, sadly
Bitcoin companies don't really have to compete, even if they're doing similar things. TAM is 8 billion+, and using the UTXO set of ~85 million as a rough heuristic for how many "Bitcoin users" there are, we're only about 1% in.
Not everyone needs to care as much as Bitcoiners do to use Bitcoin, but I see newcomers make "The Journey Through The Rabbitholes" all the time. We're a growing community, and the future looks very bright. We need all sorts of individuals working hard at finding different approaches to crack certain markets. It doesn't have to be coordinated or centralized. Direct cooperation is nice, but even serving to inspire others is sometimes good enough.
Nothing better than a good BitDevs
TIL it was the Chinese are the real racists, talk about a plot twist
If you think "Chinese" is a race, not a nationality, maybe you're the racist
Twitter changed its logo to a shitcoin 😹
There's no such thing as a normie bitcoiner. We've all had to go through a lot to be this weird. But that doesn't mean we're alone. It's good to be on this journey together, ya weirdos. 
Just found the PoW option on Gossip. I hacked my version to output leading zeroes updates and compiled with as many optimizations as I could think of. Let's see how this goes! 40 bits of SHA-2 on a 32 thread Ryzen 9 5950, LFG!
Sure, that's all good too, and might play well in Era 1, but I still think the moon has far more energy to give us. And there's no contest for Era 3.