Literally all that matters.

Take it away and the system is useless.

Man, thank you.

I dunno why this concept is so hard for people to work out on their own.

Too fucking focused on the fiat value vs the freedom they have a chance at obtaining/maintaining.

Ordinals will die as on-chain fees rise beyond the overall RoR of their value OR people finally realize how truly retarded the concept is. Whichever comes first.

Agreed, tho for slightly different reasons.

Like speciation/evolution, after a certain size of population is met votes start to get averaged out.

Voices and opinions get drowned out.

Neutral votes become a much more effective target for manipulation/influencing.

Lastly, it is much, much harder to have accountability be enforced via the populace. Without this check, ineffective/harmful actors are allowed to maintain their seat for much, much longer.

Change is hard. Momentum has to build. This is natural.

So long as change is occurring, however small, its a good thing and should be celebrated. Espeically in a world filled with complacency…

What about a counter-narrative of:

Bitcoin miners are saving the planet because they use mineral oil to cool themselves (not water) instead of burning it.

Yes, yes - not the same kind of oil. But we are dealing with the people of the land! The common clay of the West! You know, morons.

100%. There is an ocean of difference between an unfinished product/project that people knowingly opt into (for free) and those who sell an unfinished product as something final.

On nostr, there are as many or more web clients than native applications. This makes me sad. Its early days, still, tho - and so people are trying out / prototyping ideas. This is sensible. And again, its all up front.

Versions? All I see is a russian nesting doll of walled gardens.

One big con.

The real web has no versions.

Who is defining this shit, anyway? Thats the real question. Scams only work once narratives are in place. Whoever is declaring these things are (or are close to) the center of the scam.

It’s almost like - oh, I dunno - browsers weren’t meant to be a universal application platform.

The world has forgotten what is possible with properly written software on hardware from 20 years ago, let alone today.

Instead, we have what @saifedean would call “fiat software”. It’s so bad that people are wrapping web apps in #electronjs as a hack to get more desktop-like functionality, break out of the browser, and just add to the security nightmare.

We all need to collectively reject this movement.

Wait wait - so could you mount a defense that, in the eyes of the government, bitcoin isn’t money? There is no value being transferred?

Plenty of evidence that they don’t!

Highly recommend, people. Attended Jimmy’s class and haven’t looked back. Worth the money.

You will walk away having built your own proto-wallet and sent transactions.

He will teach you the basics of eliptic curve cryptography and how finite fields are used - which still blows my goddamn mind.

Bring it on. The more this escalates, the more bitcoin will adapt and overcome. Mining will become even more decentralized and transaction will become even harder to track (hello, taproot).

Amen. I don’t need fiat offramps.

Couldn’t agree more.

To go firther, I believe Musk is a text-book narcissist, oscillating between covert and overt, victim and champion.

SpaceX is great.

Tesla is fine.

You know, when it comes to tech - particularly software - the real good stuff comes from people building something they just want to use themselves and think other people do, too (often for money).

Scammers, idiots, and imposters don’t. Their base incentive is take your money for as little value as possible. Zero value is the norm, these days.

It can be hard to discern people’s true motives for building something, but this is one I often look for: they’d use it regardless if everyone else hated it.

Yes. Its a fun party trick. But the last thing the world needs is more screens in front of its face in place of the uncensored, raw world.

Key point: uncensored.

And yet we are commanded to “know ourselves”.

I think the rewards that come with knowing who we are - strengths, weaknesses, biases, vices, depth of emotion - are well worth the difficulty.

Further, one who knows themselves enriches the community even further. A community who has focused on themselves is going to be made of stronger stuff than their neighbor who doesn’t.

We are all sovereign individuals. Whether or not we abdicate this responsibility doesn’t change that.