What ever happened with orange piling your friends you haven’t seen in years? Did they ask about shitcoins you like and miss the whole point that BTC is the only right answer. Lol.

Nostr confession: Having witnessed the rise and fall of dogecoin & platforms like ChangeTip, I am skeptical about the sustainability and usefulness of social micro-tipping. I'd love to be proven wrong over time; but if the value being given is real, the cognitive load for continually, arbitrarily & voluntarily giving away many, many tiny chunks of money is just too high to sustain after the novelty wears off. Less-frequent, higher value tips offered for exceptional circumstances or content may be more sustainable, but penny-shaving "like" equivalents don't make sense to me.

Btc will be the only crypto to survive on a long enough time horizon. Bet accordingly

Got some epigenetic test results back (telomere length & DNA methylation) that put my epigenetic age at 13 years older than my chronological age.

Lots of work to do!

become more childlike and "play" more to rediscover your creativity. walk barefoot, get your hands messy. write things no one will see.

your adult brain always wants an end result or point. allow yourself to just have fun in the doing. there's no goal, just fun.

I truly love nostr

lightning long over due. but coinbase casino will never properly differentiate #Bitcoin. very disingenuous game Brian is playing.

will admit they‘ve sold a lot of Bitcoin but if it aint self custodied those customers aren’t onboarded.

my take is avoid their platform, warn newcomers

Coinbase not rushing on lightning is no surprise. Shitcoins are much more profitable because people buy and sell them often. Bitcoin is less so, you buy it, put it in cold storage (if you go that far) or just leave it on Coinbase. This is the typical bitcoin journey. Shitcoins are traded back and forth and amass Coinbase much fees, such wow.

Lightning takes away from justifying massive unchain transaction fee add-ons. I have not looked to see what Coinbase charges now, but I imagine there’s a nice profit baked into every transaction. On lightning, not so much. I mean, they could, but then you’d be left trying to justify a 50% fee (or whatever they decide) on a small transaction, people would be pissed.

At the end, it all comes down to money and profits. We know what Brian cares about over his own dignity.

A steelman argument is the opposite of a strawman argument. It's where you imagine the best possible argument from your opposing side (sometimes even better than they themselves can articulate it), and address that. In other words, you treat your critics like absolutely serious people and try to address any concerns they may have with regards to your outlook.

If someone were to argue that, "yeah bitcoin is cool, but ultimately when push comes to shove the major governments are going to outlaw it, drive it into the black market as a small asset, and issue a replacement that they back as legal tender", what would your steelman argument be?

Similarly, if someone were to argue, "Look how fast they are advancing on superconductors. Quantum computing may come sooner than we think, and threaten Bitcoin's security. That's why I don't buy bitcoins", what would your steelman argument be?

no need to switch to a new hashing algo. hash rates will just simply increase.

hashing algo (sha256) is not impacted by QC in the same way that encryption would be.

no need to switch to a new hashing algo. hash rates will just simply increase.

hashing algo (sha256) is not impacted by QC in the same way that encryption would be.

If LK-99 is real, the world might need to transition to quantum proof encryption faster than anyone thought.

Amazing to hear all the stories of kids being unschooled and homeschooled.

Such a new rabbit hole for me 👀

Learned a ton nostr:note12rg0xz68fu5kg96tlfp93zvywef580jhxyu4t7zu53c6rq2cfmcqugwgxg