To anyone still using brainwallets for cold storage, this is from 2015:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foil0hzl4Pg
Don't use brainwallets unless you're prepared to lose it 😅
Ahh, there's that charming Chinese culture
These are three-spotted crabs/red spot swimming crab. Very easy to eat, just use hands, no crab leg cracker needed
There's so many types of crab in Taiwan 🤯🤤
Today is last day of fall crab season in Taiwan. 萬里 is where 80% of consumed crab in Taiwan is from. For every weekend since the end of September, the wanli crab association hosts an event for the public to pick up live crab to bring home or cook on the spot. They even have a cool website https://wanlicrab.tw , someone really put effort into it
Having ate two large crabs already, still hovered around poking at the smaller ones, seeing which might still be 'full' at this stage of the season.... Crab Auntie was like "save your time, today's the last day, how about we fill you up a bag to bring home?"
15 of these crabs for ~83,000 sats. Time to wait for next season
三點蟹 。。。
啊
秋天過了🥲
here's part 2 of my podcast appearance. There's a few details in here that I wish i elaborated on further; I had a few brain farts and mispoke a few times. I will continue to work on improving communication; I definitely need to slow down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg0rbYThi_c
I talked about how the recent news of "Taiwan making Bitcoin legal tender" is a failure of "Taiwanese Bitcoiners" to communicate with the wider global community. As much as anyone would like for Taiwan to have Bitcoin as legal tender, it wouldn't play out like that.
There are a lot of open questions for what it would mean for Taiwan to have Bitcoin as legal tender, especially those that concern the viability of the constitution of Republic of China 🇹🇼 to integrate it ,(ie does Bitcoin use in Taiwan need the Republic of China's approval at all?). It's not as simple as handing out copies of Bitcoin Standard to our legislators to draft out a few laws.
As many have said, Bitcoin is like a language. Bitcoin provides a common ground for all nations to communicate with one another, and Taiwanese who wish to see Taiwan on the global stage should reflect on how to speak the language of Bitcoin better. Taiwanese should take all opportunities to be part of the global discourse otherwise they'll have to contend with further viral tweets of no substance that goes nowhere.
In Taiwan, Bitcoin discussion has deteroriated over the years due to a general misunderstanding of Bitcoin's fundamentals, even those who have been in the space for over a decade fail to grasp the basics. (we even have shitcoiners in government) However, despite that and however distractions will play out, Taiwan will continue to play a noticeable role in global bitcoin adoption anyways, and Taiwanese should be aware and proud of that.
I thought a bit about what I wanted to add in Bitcoin discourse. I wanted to avoid repeating the same interpretations of Bitcoin from all the podcasts I've heard over the years I tried to come up with my own.
I tried to take a fun route:
"What if Satoshi was Taiwanese? Would a Taiwanese be motivated to discover something like Bitcoin?"
I pose this question not to find out who Satoshi is, but just as a means to tell a story.
I attempt to explain a bit of Taiwan monetary history and how the Bank of Taiwan issued the first island-wide circulating currency (the Taiwanese Yen issued by the Japanese empire) and how it was captured by the Republic of China through hyperinflation using ink, blood, and bullets.
Some might not agree with my description of history (definitely some details missing), but there are Taiwanese of all types, I am but one of 23 million: there are those who wish for Taiwan to make its way on the global stage on its own terms (make a new system), those who wish to pick up the Republic of China mantle and be the lighthouse for democracy in the Chinese-speaking world using its 112-year old constitution (fix the existing system), or those who seek the familiar embrace of a lost homeland to avoid bloodshed in the Strait (use someone else's system).
Which Taiwanese would be the one who stumbles on Bitcoin?
I hope the talk is interesting at least!
crab second day in a row🤤, family friend grabbed 20 wild 毛蟹s near 林口, 0 sats 🥳
https://video.nostr.build/2c1253c0af544ba83276df79e1e58f1aca43dc55781e2d4975ce275a31f449ab.mp4
Today I spent ~430,000 sats on lots of delicious crabs 🤤
台東 , east coast of taiwan
many shades of blue appear in the water as the sun moves west, compels one to pull over to take a pic. Smartphone can't do it justice
Got on a Chinese speaking podcast, shared a bit of my Bitcoin journey. My second time on a podcast, first time in Chinese, come hang out at nostr:npub1yvt22y0mkehu9n2fr50wlxg3rg0zjfrcezpeat352shjkjd9l8jqgxz9q9
Tom & Jerry 发现比特币 (發現比特幣) https://open.spotify.com/episode/5y6q4wvGuXa6fbVeUysXYK
Could have done better, got a bit tongue tied,but hope it is interesting to someone out there. I need to work on downshifting a few gears to communicate effectively
Satoshi White Paper Kindergarten -- no matter who you are, everyone starts at zero on the first day of class🫠
Lightningaddress.com
Lnbits.com
Then figure out how to run your own instances 🙂 (satdress, lnbits)
Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, so by 1930 they honestly thought it was pretty great up until they lost everything as most resistance was dealt with much earlier🫠 Taiwan didn't nearly experience the atrocities that happened in mainland China (Manchuria was in 1932) and throughout South East Asia as the japanese empire expanded.
In Taiwan, the japanese colonizers ended foot binding, opium trade, helped end many of the diseases on the island, built railroads, basically industrialized the island exporting lumber, coal, and gold. Many of Japan's influence on the island from then are noticeable and have melded into Taiwanese industry and culture today.
Not all rainbow and sunshine, the japanese imperial army killed aborigines, chased opponents up into the mountains, which they eventually recruited to fight in the jungles in southeast Asia toward the end of WWII. (Takasago Volunteers)
Fun fact: the japanese imperial soldier Teruo Nakamura who hid out in Indonesia for decades after WWII being last to surrender in the 70s was actually originally from Taiwan. Accepting that the war was over meant the poor guy had no home to return to 🥲
