Keeper Security, only tangentially related to Bitcoin in the sense that it uses cryptography, is now implementing 24 word mnemonic using BIP39 so users can back up their password vault. Every time someone uses concepts from Bitcoin this breaks down walls; we're winning.

Me!

The good news is I don't think you necessarily need to do this from scratch either. There already are businesses that do accept it. Perhaps what needs to be done is get together with them to get their lessons learned in how they made it work.

I definitely don't think you're the only one interested in doing this sort of work.

Unfortunately I missed the ones last night. One of my kids birds got out and was exhausted trying to track it down.

Sad really...

I used to see them all the time growing up in Winnipeg. Haven't seen them in years (been in Alberta for 20+ years).

I think you're right, Pat. Tucker was basically a figurehead for the network. Really, ask anyone: name a person at Fox and pretty much everyone names Tucker first. Given Fox's legal trouble, he's the natural scapegoat.

We can't brute force our way to turning Bitcoin skeptics over. The best we can do is, figuratively, plant enough pebbles in their shoe which they can only ignore for so long. To me, the WEF saying "data centers" is where they start to realize the pebble is there.

I suppose we should take small victories where we can. It's still frustrating that rather than being intellectually honest and admitting an error, they've chosen to obfuscate their ignorance.

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The people behind @NYTimesUp chose violence... and I love it!

Maybe I should. I did have a dream I was buying a Real Bedford jersey last night... though the weird part is I was buying it at Canadian Tire.

To start with an aside, I think he should practice what he preaches and label Tesla and Space X as government funded companies.

Having gotten that out of the way, I always come back to JP Morgan's quote, "a man always had two reasons for doing a thing: a good reason and the real reason".

My thought is as follows:

Elon's good reason for labeling media as such is that he wants transparency and truth. The real reason is he's said in the past he wants Twitter to be the everything app, which would include being the sole source of journalistic truth. One can only accomplish this by alienating all other media outlets, which he's been very active in doing, and these labels are just part of his censorship attack.

Not defending a lot of the bs that the media publishes, but what I disagree with what he's doing on those grounds.

If only there were some buyer if last resort that could use that energy...

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/04/14/sunshine-vs-the-grid-why-the-czech-republic-had-to-shutdown-their-solar-plants-over-easter

I think TikTok is horrible for multiple reasons, but primarily its connection to the CCP. Therefore my family and I do not use it. Having said that, this bill accomplishes precisely nothing unless they also ban VPNs.

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100%. Few seem to understand that productivity gains should result in deflation, rather than artificially forcing inflation.

Remind me again what Buffett was calling rat poison?

https://nationalpost.com/news/coca-colas-cocaine-connection-is-worth-over-billions

I have an electron microscope in my lab that can also measure soft X-rays as a by-product of the electron absorption - this is useful for elemental mapping (called Energy Dispersive X-Rays). Here's an image I took for fun - I mixed table salt (NaCl) with no-sodium salt (KCl). The red is the sodium salt, the green is the potassium salt.

Notifications don't work in Amethyst ever. Tbh, I feel like that's a good thing.

I give him massive respect for not deleting this tweet as well.

Done. Good luck with your talk!