Wusang: Isle of Blaq is the World's Ultra Simple Asset Numbers Game. It mixes proof-of-work effort to get a coin with randomized luck-of-the-draw to maybe win a bonus. Info at https://wusang.vercel.app
#games
I've discovered another immutable law of the universe...
If you put on a T-shirt in the dark, it will go on backwards. Every. Single. Time.
Gotta get that bridge going. My posts here auto-go to mastodon, bluesky, and X.
Good advice is good to have.
Am currently in a health care facility and the restroom taught me a good lesson.
#themoreyouknow
This is something that I've come to take for granted. On the very rare occasion that I make a stock trade, it somehow hits me every time, "Oh, that's right, I've got to wait until tomorrow morning for this to actually go through." It's like putting a letter in the mailbox and waiting for a few days for the person to read it.
Neat. I understand ordinals is a word that's touchy with people around here. Still, innovation and creating and building! My thought is that stupid jpg mints will play themselves out, or not, whatever the market/people decide. Also, I think it's less about jpg nfts and more about the other stuff that might could be built some day. Any link to the project?
Mutiny Wallet apparently is shutting down. My thoughts:
(1) I guess I wasted a bunch of sats opening channels.
(2) Much respect for what the Mutiny folks created though. After everything, this seems to me to reinforce the notion that people matter and people fuel these things. And, when the fire burns out or the people get burnt out, the project ends.
(3) In a weird way, this makes me like Bitcoin even more. At this point, it really doesn't rely on people much to fuel it. It just keeps fueling on and doesn't care about people burning out or businesses not paying bills or whatever causes project shutdowns.
#bitcoin
It feels good to get something working. I made a little token called Hivebits (HBIT) a couple of years back, it was on the fritz for several months, but I got it working again today.
HBIT operates with a Bitcoin-esque ethos:
- 21 million HBIT hardcoded max supply
- PoW - the only way to earn HBIT is if you provably and consciously put in some effort (simply comment with the !HBIT command), then you get 1.0 HBIT
- only one HBIT per day allowed so as to avoid pilferage and keep emittance low
- HBIT can be sold/bought etc. on the open market at https://tribaldex.com/trade/HBIT
Today's success in getting Hivebits (HBIT) operational again was due to the coding wizardry of hivetoday nostr:npub14gcd064f7nl7l30hk7tkd3msmk3nwaygwkkzfxmlqgmmrr555pfqfcrsj6 and the VPS service of Skhron nostr:npub1yequ2pswfmkgyzylmvkfawz8z3nqlh0hcgaqr4e3xy2grxplq96stt6anu Give them a look-see or follow.
All the HBIT details at https://peakd.com/hive/@hivebits/about
#plebchain #bitcoin
This is some next-level degen action: https://thedefiant.io/news/defi/degens-can-now-make-memecoins-from-tweets
Right, and yet leftist folks in the US and Europe are clambering to go in that direction.
#bitcoin and #politics are getting conjoined at the hip. The article below says Harris is trying for a Democrat reset. Two things: (1) as far as why? It's clearly money and votes that Trump's gaining and she's losing. Hard money is not a Democrat/Keynesian position. (2) Democrats/liberals must kowtow to green ecologists first and the bitcoin-kills-the-planet that's narrative that's been implanted will be hard to sway otherwise.
https://ambcrypto.com/kamala-harris-seeks-to-reset-crypto-relations-whats-behind-the-move/
Just wrote my thoughts here (tldr; it was a good step forward):
To bitcoiners, Trump's speech https://www.youtube.com/live/EiEIfBatnH8?si=GxYagadnY2q0Oi_s may have seemed like more of a campaign stump speech and a bit underwhelming bitcoinwise. At least that's how I perceived it as he was speaking. Whereas other speakers were in Nashville to talk bitcoin, Trump was there to campaign and bitcoin was a topic in the campaign.
Also, Robert Kennedy Jr. may have set the bar pretty high by laying out his plan with ambitious bitcoin reserve purchases. I like high goals, however, I'm not sure if his goals are even possible: buy 550 daily until 4 million. Umm, only 450 are minted per day. Who's selling?
Zooming out...
- RFK Jr. is much more free to say things. He has zero chance to win. He will not be president and his plans are moot (moot other than maybe in that they can serve to something of a "first offer" bargaining chip for Trump to react to).
- Trump stands a good chance to win, at least 50/50. Thus, he needs to be more cautious in what he says. For instance, if he'd said, "I promise to replace the US dollar with bitcoin!", the crowd likely would have erupted in applause. However, burning down the house statements like that would be political suicide. You must win office to make changes in office.
From a broad perspective, the speech was huge. We're taking steps here and this was a very big one. This post logged Trump's promises well: https://stacker.news/items/625076 but here are my thoughts:
- A former president and maybe next president spoke at the biggest (at least in US) bitcoin conference. That's de facto official recognition. That alone is a huge change from ignoring bitcoin, combating or criticizing bitcoin.
- A bitcoin reserve or "stockpile" was promised. This is a step in the right direction.
- The notion of keeping bitcoin in the US was big. It's rather general at this point, but hopefully that means protecting those who code, miners who mine, hodlers who hodl, etc. This is maybe bigger than the reserve, actually.
- Personally, I really liked the advisory council proposal. That puts bitcoin "in the White House". That puts people who get it speaking into the president's ear, instead of the media's spin or hell-bent politicians trying to drum up public attention. A good advisory council could help keep the president on point.
- Also personally, I thought the 1 BTC coin gift was pretty cool. Would love to see that sitting on the Resolute Desk.
Overall, considering how far bitcoin has come, I think this will be seen in the future as a watershed moment.
Trump bitcoin promises source: https://stacker.news/items/625076
In the US, Democrats often try to out-left each other with a "I'm more 'progressive than you" stance. And, Republicans try to out-right each other with a "I'm more conservative than you" stance. If we can get the parties to try and out-pro-crypto one another with a "we're more pro-bitcoin than you" stance, then we'll really be in business.
#bitcoin
Democrats feeling left out and trying to shift the party narrative. If both parties start clambering to be "pro-crypto", that's very bullish for #bitcoin
If the "central criticism" of #bitcoin is that there's a "lack of practical, real-world use", then we're doing alright. Pretty sure hedging your wealth against inflation is a practical, real-world use case. And then there's actually buying stuff. A shirt on your back or food on your table is rather practical and real-world too.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/27/politics/donald-trump-bitcoin-cryptocurrency/index.html
Coding (or rather, TRYing to code) might be the most humbling thing I've ever done.
#coding #stayhumble