New Kilim design 🔥

NOSTR is the first place I published it💥

#Pegahrug

Fantastic book.

„We need to puncture the self-importance of the age with regular contact with older, deeper, wider sources of feeling: through contact with a natural world that pursues its own priorities with little reference to our own sagas, through the reading of history books that shrink our modern-day adventures and convulsions to a more manageable and rightful size, and through travel to countries that take no interest in our own peculiar national preoccupations, scandals and triumphs.“

What if every time you fall asleep, you actually just reset the simulation and it’s not really the you from before. 🤨

Happy 53rd birthday Fiat experiment.

Today marks 53 years of the world being "temporarily off the gold standard". And most people today believe it's always been normal to back your currency with nothing but violence and it's the crazy people that want something else.

Wanting to be working on pushing freedom tech forward, but being stuck in the fiat mines is hurting my heart

Tether is not a CBDC.

It's literally a BDC

Tether is not a central bank, they don't issue notes of an independent monetary unit. They aren't associated with any govt. Tether is just a modern banknote with most of the same problems, risks, and trust issues. The difference being it is available to anyone with a smart phone without an account -- which is actually a significant improvement over the old garbage.

Tether is custodian issued digital banknotes. Literally in every use of those terms this is the accurate thing to call it. "Cash" has always just referred to banknotes issued that were redeemable in gold or at a bank that was a bearer asset. The difference with a stablecoin like Tether and physical cash is the oversight/surveillance that the institution has for the digital alternative. This is why ecash is actually the only thing that digitally shares basically all the characteristics of physical cash (txn privacy from issuer and bearer asset). Tether is far easier to freeze accounts and spy on what everyone is doing. Obviously why people want to label it "something bad."

My point is that the CBDC label is NOT accurate, and when we use words and labels arbitrarily, it desensitizes people to them. If people just become "whatever" about Tether (because if you don't use it, who cares), and everyone calls it a CBDC, then after a few years of this people are just going to think "CBDCs are fine, who cares?"

Calling everything we don't like a CBDC is a HUGE BENEFIT to actual CBDCs.

Bank digital currencies are not a problem. They will remain solvent as long as the "bank" does. They are a much better option than credit cards, and the option of being able to issue ecash is even better.

BDCs are certainly a far cry from the #Bitcoin sovereign world that we are building and have nothing to do with it, but they are ALSO a far cry from a genuine CBDC.

So please, stop using words that matter in a stupid and cheap way, because when we REALLY need them, you'll have sucked them of all of their power and meaning.

The ~1000 Bitcoins Challenge - Bitcoin Puzzle

In 2015, someone anonymously created the "Bitcoin Puzzle," possibly to demonstrate the vastness of the private key space or simply for fun. This puzzle involves 160 different Bitcoin addresses, each containing an increasing amount of Bitcoin, and the challenge is to find the private key associated with each of these addresses.

The logic behind the puzzle is that random keys were chosen within specific ranges of the private key space, and increasing amounts of Bitcoin were sent to these addresses as follows:

- For keys in the range of 2^0 ≤ key < 2^1, 0,001 BTC was sent.

- For keys in the range of 2^1 ≤ key < 2^2, 0,002 BTC was sent.

- And so on, continuing to larger ranges, such as 2^255 ≤ key < 2^256, where 0,256 BTC was sent.

The challenge lies in finding these private keys, making it a test of cryptographic and computational skills.

In total, 32.896 BTC were distributed among these addresses. So far, 77 of the 160 puzzles have been solved, with private keys being discovered and the funds moved. Some addresses have been "updated" by the creator, who in 2023 increased the rewards for unsolved puzzles by 10 times. For example, the reward for address #66 is now 6.6 BTC, #67 is 6.7 BTC, and so on, up to #160, which has 16 BTC.

This puzzle is extremely complex and may even have been created by Satoshi Nakamoto himself (speculation). The only clue is that the Bitcoins were distributed across different bit sizes, up to the limit of 2^160, reinforcing the challenge of finding the correct private keys in such a vast space.

I always stress the importance of being balanced to my kids.

Being balanced in our house is code for being awesome at everything. lol

That hasn’t been true for me

Growing up I didn’t have any homework during school breaks. Zero tutoring.

Now I see kids with a ton of homework; taking lessons and crap.

What happened? Let the kids play!!!