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William ₿ Travis
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Been buying bitcoin since 2018. I particularly like http://river.com. The Bitcoin White Paper http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Christ is Lord.

Mark Cuban would love to be the most powerful person in the world. He just picked the wrong candidate, and he knows it.

A couple more big heavy rocks are in place. The dog seems to approve.

And yes, these were all in my yard. When it rains, the float up from underneath. All I have to do is pick them up without pulling a hammy. Below is another one I can't move without the tractor. It's going to be a step off my back deck.

You switched from privacy to liberty. It's a false dichotomy. There is privacy for those who want it through mixers. Meanwhile, THE DISTINCT thing, liberty, is very much intact. Everyone is perfectly free to use the system. No one can rewrite a transaction. That's the liberty. What's more important is that you cannot be censored on the bitcoin network. Free speech, my friend.

Lol. Then I'm an idiot. Don't listen to me.

Bitcoin is down, and I have no fiat left to buy more.

So instead, I will go outside and continue to work on the sidewalk I am assembling from rocks I find in the yard.

Yeah. I hear you. I like marching around the walls of Jericho in the safety of numbers, but the idea of going up against the giant alone is terrifying.

Why do I feel like I will regret eating 30-40 olives?

Replying to Avatar VINNIE 🌞

I had a good conversation with a friend the last night about this. I’m going to rant a bit, so my apologies in advance.

I’m in the camp that’s in borderline disbelief to the fact that we ever built truly gorgeous buildings, because I’m too young to have ever seen it with my own eyes.

How we built these things in the earlier times blows my mind completely, especially because it seems we have a chip on our shoulder and assume previous generations were less efficient, less intelligent, etc.

His take was that it all changed when computing began, among other things but this was a talking point that we sat with for a while.

- The best looking cars were built prior to the 1970s

- This is also when we started building boxes across the board, applying to residential, commercial & industrial buildings.

With this in mind, I realized everything back in the day was built with real artistic expression.

Now everything we build is

1. Done with ‘efficiency’ in mind

2. Built on software that started in a place of right angles and straight lines, and it does a great job of just that. It also over time probably trimmed jobs, therefore removing human brains (which are capable of being artistic) away from the design process.

3. The big one, built with profits in mind.

Hence removing artistic expression as the base of creation. It seems to be computing, efficiency and profits first, and then building within that.

IMO this is the only reason why some people like modern sculptures like cloud gate, It’s a rounded object in a city, surrounded by right angles. Same with some modern art, especially the chaotic stuff- the chaos can be attractive to some when surrounded by squares.

This is interesting and aligns with Jacques Ellul's thesis in The Technological Bluff. The bluff (as in poker) was that technique or efficiency is really a process drive towards complexity. We have, in your example, used computers to build more efficient structures. The effect is that we have become separated from the design process. Pen and paper is genetic and more similar to building than cad. It is much more accessible to design on paper. Anyone can do it, but you have to be a trained cad engineer--complexity.

I am blown away by the artists we see on Nostr. What they can do with the most basic physical instruments is outstanding and awe-inspiring. I am much less impressed by work done on computers. It seems cheap and easy.