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The big problem with the Bitcoin community is that many see it only as a way to get rich, and getting rich is just a side effect of its nature. In addition, many also long for the returns of years past, and simple mathematics tells us that this will never happen again.

The fact is that every day the world is getting worse, and technology, as the Unabomber correctly predicted, is not making us freer but more enslaved, and we are heading towards total technocracy.

In the midst of this mess, Bitcoin is the only thing that allows us, on the one hand, to protect our wealth from the government and, on the other, to take our wealth elsewhere, as well as transfer it to whomever we want without anyone's permission and out of the thieving hands of the state.

Nothing stops this train.

— Lyn Alden (before traveling with Deutsche Bahn)

At the beginning of 2025, I mentioned in a number of places that I thought during 2026 we’d get to the point where building your own highly competitive self-custody bitcoin wallet would be doable with an LLM during the year.

Sadly, what mostly happened instead is that wallet developers continued to double-down on fully trusted and custodial platforms, further centralizing Bitcoin and bringing pervasive censorship on Bitcoin closer to reality.

Still, we did (almost) deliver the software required to bring the original claim to bear, with a full graduated wallet in a simple library allowing wallets to offer highly competitive fees and overall UX being close to ready…if anyone wanted it.

I spent a few days over the holidays testing it out, having an LLM build me a native iOS graduated wallet, and it nearly entirely works, basically only missing some bugfixes and the ability to store and display transaction descriptions. At least we built it.

1) Bitcoin is one of the best moneys

3) Belief in authority is religion not all religions are superstition.

2) other dude already explained why you're wrong. I raise my own beef, lamb, chicken and pork. If you learn to raise your own food and at sustainable levels you will find out meat the most efficient and is the least harmful. Death is natural and my animals only have one bad day in their life. The vegan diet is only viable with tons of petroleum product inputs and habitat destroying mass farming and tons of processing to even make the food digestible. Hunter gathering might be the least harmful but not feasible for every population. Check out joel salatin's talks at polyface farms.

Realized today that one of the reasons Pluribus is a fascinating mystery is the same reason Luke Dashjr is a fascinating character.

You see, neither the Pluribus nor Luke are capable of lying. Or at least, that's what they claim...

But when you delve deeper, you realize that they both perpetrate an incredible amount of deception, and they do so via what any normal person would call a "lie of omission."

As such, Pluribus is a captivating mystery show because you're constantly trying to figure out how the hive mind is being deceptive while still answering all of the questions from the protagonists honestly.

There are only a few billionaires in any given country. Why won't politicians call them and try to talk reason to them, and negotiate something beneficial for society? These guys should listen to reason.

Humans are animals.

Acceptable and optimal are not the same. Acceptable health with supplements, sure but there is a large gap of human harm between acceptable and optimal. You can choose that for yourself but not for others. B12 is narrow compared to the broad spectrum nutrients in food. You don't know if or what health risks you take on by being so far from the diet you evolved for and the things you are missing.

I don't actually. Preserving meat seems much more manageable to me. Vegetables and fruit are a constant pain with things like looking good on the outside then turning out to be rotten inside. Meat is just a matter of tracking the clock and freezing. That isn't a personal thing, the hassle of telling what is ripe and rotten is universal.

I'm opposed to mass feed growing to feed animals. Cows eat grass, chickens eat grubs and other bugs, pigs are amazing for turning human plant food scraps into meat. Feed is a last resort to get through winter if you are treating your animals decently.

No, but the humans the human genes are sourced from are animals.

I think that it says a lot that you concede there is a fair amount of supplementation and hoops to jump through to make it work vs just eat a steak.

The dogs, cows, and chickens that went extinct.

You still never addressed mice caught in threshers. I haven't even brought up the issues caused if we lose the population control from hunting.

Veganism sounds great first order thinking but it lives in denial of a fair list of unintended consequences. Lots of consequences to meat eating too, but the difference is I've stared the consequences of my decisions in the eye including 2nd and 3rd order and I stand by my decisions.

Give the animals the best life you can while alive then kill them as quickly and painlessly as you can. Try to limit waste. I'm not taking the position of the status quo at all.

But my cows were in a field eating grass, not feed. So I already answered this one.

Veganism is vague, with different strictnesses. Insulin uses animal products as input. You are changing the definition of vegan to allow some animal inputs but not others.

You also insist on a broad "harm" which you haven't defined. It somehow excludes the complete extinction of at least 2 species.

I'm not chasing eternally moving goalposts. You've asked if your fort is sturdy then bragged that I didn't catch you when you ran away. Your fort got wrecked mate.

as DAG on IPFS network

FileDrop can run directly on your PC, temporarily turning your computer into the host.

You don’t need a domain, paid hosting, or server configuration. FileDrop automatically tunnels your files to the web, making them accessible from anywhere. After the upload/tunneling is complete, your PC does not need to stay online — you can turn it off and the files will remain accessible.

Blossom, in contrast, works like a traditional CDN.

It requires a domain, a server, and proper setup. If your Blossom server goes down, your files immediately become inaccessible. You can mirror your files to another Blossom server for redundancy, but that requires maintaining additional servers — which can also go down.

A great investment gives you the freedom to explore who you could be and go live your best life; if you have to spend most of your time monitoring numbers on a screen, you are anything but wealthy.

#orangebook

Forty thousand Americans die on government roads every year, and nobody holds anyone accountable. Yet when libertarians suggest private alternatives, the response is always the same: "But who will build the roads?" The question itself is more interesting than people realize. It reveals not the impossibility of markets, but the depth of the state's success in making people unable to imagine alternatives to its failures. nostr:naddr1qqgxywfsxccxgdmxxscngcnx8qcnyq3qklkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qxpqqqp65wu8l4h8

Good luck

But Nic Carter just said 10 years have been wasted on lightning. Ugh

Is it stealing if we’re saying they have no owner? (Freezing insinuates this)

It’s stealing if it’s not yours lol. “Theft” isn’t a technical term, it’s a moral one.

While we cannot make this decision on behalf of a theoretical future Bitcoin community, I think burning vulnerable bitcoin is inevitable.

First of all, I think it’s the right decision. In a world where a CRQC (cryptographically relevant quantum computer) is on the short-term horizon, these coins will not remain with their original owners. No amount of hopium will solve that. Instead your options are only (a) freeze or (b) let some CRQC owner eventually steal them. I definitely prefer (a).

Luckily, it doesn’t have to be a lot of coins - any addresses which were created from a standard seed phrase + HD derivation can be recovered with a QC-safe ZK proof. It’s only the very very old coins (or more esoteric wallets) that would be frozen.

Finally, it’s worth pointing out that I think this is inevitable. In a theoretical future where a CRQC is on the horizon, both forks will exist. The market will ultimately decide which bitcoin they value more - one with an extra million coins of supply as the CRQC owners steal lost coins or the one without. I cannot imagine the market preferring the former.

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Was asked yesterday by some very good friends (over 20 years together) in YPO about how I would feel if Bitcoin went to zero - and as a result….i went to zero.

I had to explain (again) that I can’t believe I’m lucky enough to live at this time, with all of you, and contribute to this protocol that is aligned to my beliefs. That the reason it won’t fail is the tens of thousands (and growing quickly) people like that who have also realized their agency in creating the world they want to see.

But even in the unlikely event that it did fail, that I wouldn’t change a thing.

What a ride and so fortunate to be creating it with you!

We are so early.

Missed the point.

It’s survived as long as it has because it’s verifiable.

If you’re going to ask people email, at least release some sats. There’s a lot of other LN wallets. No one cares