I suggested people understand what the options are. I didn’t recommend they use it as their primary approach.

I bought one a while back and played with it before installing a 2TB NVME and turning it into a node that’s much more performant than the Raspberry PI 4 that it replaced. At the time buying a new PI would have cost me more than the Nuc did. I think PI prices are down a bit since then, but the performance of a Nuc relative to a PI is worth any premium IMO.

Note: I wouldn’t have converted it to a node and put it online if I had ever exposed my real private keys to that machine. I only used it to play with toy keys and to test various options for manual keygen etc. Trusting real private keys to general purpose computers is risky enough. Doing that and then connecting that device to the internet later is way more risk than I’m comfortable with.

For about the price of a Coldcard and minimal accessories for it, you can get a barebones Nuc and 16GB of RAM and use it to practice setting up an air gapped signing computer.

There are risk trade offs for every approach, but if you have tried a bunch of dedicated hardware devices and you haven’t tried using an air gapped PC running tails with no storage devices or networking, it’s probably worth spending a couple hundred dollars to play with some configs that are possible using that approach too.

The attention whores are just mental masturbators without the attention. At the same time, they are burning their reputations over a pyre of their own shit.

We can’t get people to ignore them any more than we can get them to stop by paying attention to them.

Give people tools to analyze what is actually going on so the outbursts of panic are less damaging and then move on with your life and let the unproductive clowns on both sides waste their time fighting each other.

Funny how price reverts back to the pre-Miami range and inscription activity returns to its pre-Miami pace.

Almost like the dipshits trying to suppress price during the conference have moved on to other projects and the other dipshits playing with inscriptions took a short vacation to circle jerk into wizard hats.

“What if mirrors are not what we think they are?”

What do these people think they are? Have any of them explained that?

“How does the mirror know what’s behind here?”

https://nostr.build/p/nb9167.mp4

That’s why the ability to do this stuff privately and offline is so critical. The entrenched players will have tons of incentives to fear monger about open source offline AI.

It’s important for people to understand what they’ll lose if only giant tech companies can run AI in a centralized way.

Mobile Safari seems to not like something

It can be trained on/augmented with private repositories of documents that are meaningful to you.

Your emails/chat histories

Your notes

Books you’ve read

Transcripts of podcasts you have listened to

Articles you have read

This will end up being powerful in ways we can’t predict.

This fiat AUM money manager 🤡 would support restrictions on self custody if he was ever given a chance. Guaranteed

With the help of ChatGPT I was able to get my 35GB bitcoin database and all related queries and code converted from MySQL to PostgreSQL in a few hours.

PG has some statistical functions that will make it easier to do some box plots of average fees, fee rate, size, and vSize for inscriptions.

She’s such a pathetic caricature at this point it’s embarrassing. I wonder if the stroke made it worse or if the stroke just made it harder for her to hide it the way she used to.

I’m old enough to remember when it was crazy to believe that an asteroid or comet brought about the end of the dinosaurs.

If you accept that it is highly likely that a comet brought about an end to the last ice age in a sudden global catastrophe and deluge and then you read ancient history and myths through that lens, you find all sorts of connections that make much more sense.

I’m not active there anymore, but @bourbonicp

How much did people pay to go to a blockchain technology conference?

TIL it is possible to script Stellarium and that it supports VR.

Highcharts is great. It’s free for personal projects like this, but I wouldn’t have a problem paying for it either. After this experience I probably will eventually use it in my SaaS.

It has the chart types I wanted and the export features are quite nice too.

The degen spending by inscription type so far, not including the cost of commitment transactions or transfers or anything else:

text/plain;charset=utf-8: 213.8081 BTC

image/png: 80.5846 BTC

image/webp: 36.1615 BTC

image/jpeg: 27.3573 BTC

image/svg+xml: 12.9382 BTC

all others: 18.8551 BTC

Total: 389.7048 BTC

≈$10.5M cuckbucks as of today

JPEGs were never a popular image format for inscriptions. Funny how memes develop in the absence of evidence.

https://inscriptionwatch.com/transactions_by_type.html

Yes, I’ve been working on collecting the data for them for a couple weeks now and just finished up the last of my initial data collection yesterday. All the charts are available here:

https://inscriptionwatch.com/transactions_by_category.html

https://inscriptionwatch.com/transactions_by_type.html

This is going to be fascinating to watch. Still far too early to say, but if the daily total fees end up 5x higher than what they were before, ≈20 BTC/day to ≈100 BTC/day, that would be something.

I smile when I see people who have never had their livelihood depend on their ability to support the use of complex software by real people in the real world make bold predictions about how their grand theoretical software visions will play out.

That’s cute, now go build something and prove it.

Both the Miller Lite chick and the HK chick show their tits off at least as much as the old ads they criticize. You think that’s an accident?

If you want to understand why half the country is on Adderall, it’s so the pharmaceutical companies can get rich giving losers an excuse for not doing all the things they know they should have done/should be doing.

The DSM-5 is a jobs program for people who borrowed too much money for the wrong degrees and the pharmaceutical companies get their vig too.

We have lost so much of the ancient context that the Bible emerged in.

“All your base are belong to us”

“Your gods are nothing but servants of God.”

Solon got just a taste of what Moses would have grown up immersed in as an adopted noble in Egypt.

If you assume The Flood coincided with major milestones in the Great Year and you look at new archeological evidence that is emerging from the same time ≈12K years ago, and you evaluate our cultural artifacts through that lens, what insights are waiting to be found?

Wolfram said they used the output of Rule 30 as their source of entropy in WolframAlpha for a while.

A recent supply chain attack.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/fake-trezor-hardware-crypto-wallet/48155/

California went from a $97.5B surplus to a $32B deficit in a year. That’s impressive levels of incompetence even for commies.

I’ve been checking the Strike API docs about once a week since I saw #[0]​ mention they were going to add the ability to buy bitcoin to their API. Looks like they did that yesterday.

It should now be possible to do extra custom BTC buys via API based on whatever criteria you can dream up.

It’s important that you understand he bent the knee.

An interesting take from someone who likes to think she has more power than she really does.