People say the internet loves cat pictures. Let’s test it.
Stay humble and play scales…and stack sats
Stay humble and play Hannon…and stack sats.
I offered to accept Bitcoin again today, but got a fiat check instead. At least he didn’t laugh like the others 👍
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Write a song about pianos to the tune of Elton John’s Rocket Man
Are bitcoin wallet seed phrases only in English?
I just went through and updated the Linux software, powered down the VM and then proceeded to update the windows software. I restarted the mini pc, opened the VM, waited for everything to load and my virtual Umbrel is now back in business! Over a month now and still running great!
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Anyone else seeing massive warehouse facilities being built and then slapped with a “for lease” sign? Massive multi-building apartment complexes too? Or only in NJ? Seems like a lot of wasted materials and space for something no one asked for.
In 2014, the brilliant technicians at Yamaha created a new type of piano, the TransAcoustic. It looks like a regular upright or grand piano with an electronics box on the outside, but inside, there is a lot going on. It has a normal piano action with hammers and dampers, but it is fitted with a computer and a special bar and sensors for the electronics part of the beast. It also has specially designed transducers on the backside (for an upright) or underside (for a grand) that lightly connect to the soundboard so as not to disrupt the soundboard’s function. This piano is able to create different sounds from the electronics that are played directly through the soundboard via the transducers without the use of a speaker system. The soundboard, essentially a wood diaphragm speaker, is the speaker!
Consider the piano itself as a functioning system in a box. It has the hardware of a piano (case, action, strings, etc.) and can function as a piano would. The TransAcoustic aspect of the piano is able to create other instrument sounds, projected out of the soundboard, such as a harpsichord, organ, electric piano, and a string orchestra all while you play the hardware of the original piano. The piano is not a harpsichord, but the TransAcoustic addition allows the piano to sound like a harpsichord. In this sense, the piano is able to run a separate operating system, the harpsichord, on the physical piano hardware. The harpsichord then essentially becomes a virtual machine existing within the original hardware, the piano. Without the hardware of the piano, the harpsichord sounds would not be able to be played or heard.
The idea of a virtual machine adapted to work on a piano opens up many new possibilities to music creation and piano value. It is not like a digital piano; a digital piano requires speakers because it does not have strings or a soundboard. It is also not like Yamaha’s hybrid pianos which have a real wooden action inside of a digital piano case because those also require speakers. It is an entirely different creature that uses the beauty and perfected functionality of a high quality piano with the expansion of the sound palate beyond what the pedals can achieve. It is a wondrous pairing of analog and digital available to pianists and composers to find new sounds and create new music. This could very well be an important part to the future of the piano. 
Today we naively start a new journey. The path ahead is long and arduous. Bring some #bitcoin along. You might need it.
Anyone else just kind of patiently waiting for the USA to default?
I don’t have a NIP-05
When #Bitcoin $88,000?
The art of fingering
A client yesterday asked me if cash was still good as a joke with a smile.
I looked him dead in the eye and said, “It is for now, but we’ll see”
His smile disappeared and he looked confused and concerned.