Though admittedly he was usually more cautious in his tourney games and mainly used f4 in blitz.

this quote reminds me of chess and is one of the reasons chess is such a beautiful game.

in chess, when you move a piece, you’re attacking new squares but also losing influence over the squares you were attacking before. you see?

chess is the art of seeing yourself forward. the calculation muscle that’s constantly evaluating the gain and loss to every move.

in life we’re constantly doing this by the way. taking risk, all day every day. more than you think.

you need to go to a higher up floor. do you want to take the elevator or the stairs? the stairs are probably safer but you lose time and energy. the elevator is easier but is a man made machine with potential dangerous risks. ok well are we going to floor 2 or floor 100? am i healthy or do i have health issues? you evaluate; you choose.

there are no moves in both chess and life with only gain and no loss. for this reason, both chess and life are nothing you can master or finish. it’s an art you develop as the artist

An alternative would be to write a very long string of characters 😅

There are tiny portable printers for $100. You print the QR. First to scan it gets the sats.

I think you can already do that with minibits

I don't think we will ever have on chain privacy on bitcoin, it is at odds with getutxoset.

What we need is great second layer decentralized privacy solutions (like JoinMarkets), and hopefully some new onchain primitives would help too...

Bullish on the UTXO set!

I guess it’s kind a sad territory we went! “We are open source but fuck you users”

Phoenix rally disappointed me

Hopefully bull bitcoin

Who is going to be the first integrating Bolt12 on LDK?

It's been a hell of game!