not the Bitcoin Standard. it is soooo boring.
I had a fundamental understanding of Bitcoin because I had someone close explain it to me. With that basic knowledge, I love reading/watching anything by nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc
very pretty! how will you make them into ornaments?
yesterday's loaf, sliced and buttered for breakfast. #foodstr #breadstr
the circle of ui 😵💫 it rules us all...
I feel like this is the beginning of fuck marry kill with a twist.
I'd pet the horse, befriend the elephant and eat the rabbit.
nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 and I have bet 100K to not talk about anything Bitcoin related for a month and you can be our referee! No orange pilling, no sats, no lightning no price predictions, no nothing. We start now and end on Dec 31st 00:00 PT. Lfgo! 😜🤫
too bad no one is taking me up on this. I can not talk about Bitcoin pretty easily 😆 my feed is all yarn and bread and sewing.
I shy away from talking about Bitcoin when people ask. I'm not good at explaining it nor answering people's questions.
I learned to knit out of a book that I bought at Barnes and Noble. There were two common styles of knitting, continental or English. The way you learned largely depends on who taught you and where you were from.
Fast forward two decades later to now, I've evolved my style to include multiple styles that I learned from people on the internet. Some styles aren't that efficient at doing certain things. Ribbing, for example, where you alternate knit and purl stitches to create the stretchy edging you find on cuffs and collars. I do the knits in continental and purls in Norwegian. It is way more efficient than doing it all continental style as I usually did for many years.
But if I were to knit a long row of purl stitches, I wouldn't use Norwegian. Instead, I'd switch to Portuguese where the yarn is held and tensioned differently relative to the work. In a way, it is almost as of you are working the back of the work as the front.
And again, I'd knit differently if I were doing colorwork where I have to manage multiple strands of different yarns.
Me knowing all of this and being able to apply it to my craft wouldn't be possible without the exchange of information among knitters in cyberspace. I don't know of any native Norwegians or Portuguese people in person, much less ones who would be able to teach me how to knit in their generational style.
I'm feeling grateful to live in such exciting times of information exchange 🥰 #knitting
I don't know yet. I have to wait for it to cool down more. I'll definitely post a picture!
now that's a bread! 🎉
this loaf has been months in the making. I've already lost count of how many frisbees and somewhat-edible loaves I've made.
can't wait to see what it looks like on the inside 🤤 #foodstr #breadstr
sweet! this would have been useful yesterday when I was setting up mine, haha. I'll still give it a watch though, maybe I missed something. thanks for sharing!
after you buy the item, it creates an order for me on my side. then I know who bought it and I message them for shipping info. I usually ship between 1 - 2 business days.
I updated my LN address so it is no longer walletofsatoshi.
I think that's enough nostr housekeeping for the day. time for a hot chocolate ☕
I got my nostr marketplace stall up and running! I created a listing for the tick tock next block coaster I made last week to try it out.
it feels like such a huge step in the right direction. I finally have a place to put my handmade things online for sale without third parties getting involved. just me, you, nostr and Bitcoin 🫂 #nostrmarketplace #nip15
apple pancakes 🥞 I'm getting closer to making the perfect pancakes from scratch. #foodstr
mittens don't have to match ;)
finished a tiny pair of socks 🧦
it is so nice be able to make things for the little one. good use of leftovers. waste not! #knitting
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!
"What if Satoshi was Taiwanese?"
an interesting thought experiment in this long form post on a nation's identity, democracy in Asia and Bitcoin.