You should see the amount of garlic I scoop into the stir fry I make for us. It’s crazy.

I’ll take your word for that, but it’s a no thank you from me. 😊

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Gn, nostr. 😴

I took this picture at a children’s birthday party at pet store.

Probably because he has more followers on literally any other social network he has an account on than there are total users on nostr.

Glad to help!

I’ve owned bitcoin for 7+ years now, actively reading and learning about it for maybe 6 of those years, and I still feel like I’ll never fully understand it. What I do know, is that I’ve yet to see any of the purported “better tech” out there be able dethrone it. It moves slowly, it evolves slowly, and it is more secure and unhackable than any network on earth.

You can buy it from an exchange like Coinbase, through an app like CashApp, or directly from another human. No need to mine or even understand how it works to acquire it.

It’s getting smoother by the year. Self custody through the latest hardware wallets and mobile wallets is pretty smooth. You’re right, though, I don’t think custodial storage will be going away anytime soon, and that keeps getting better, too.

It’s coded into the software and predetermined. Once the block reward is given, those coins can be spent by whoever got them however they want and are part of the total.

Anyone can buy some, and yes, if you somehow find some and transfer it to your wallet, you now own it.

So, a lot of that is just memes.

Let’s start with what makes it different: it’s the first, it’s the biggest, it’s the most decentralized.

It was also a paradigm shift in technology, allowing for digital scarcity, which can’t be duplicated. When I first started using it, there were maybe 5000 altcoins. Now there are 50,000+. There’s only been one bitcoin, though. Nothing has ever dethroned it, or even come close.

As to how it changes the world, there are LOTS of ways. To briefly cover a few…

Probably scarce money has never existed before. Its deflationary nature and hard cap completely change how all money previously has worked.

The mining itself also pushed our energy usage forward it wild new ways. For mining to be profitable, it needs to use energy a lot cheaper than most people or businesses pay. As such, it has been pushing renewables forward, can be used for load balancing, and works great on otherwise waste energy. It can even help mitigate methane by burning it where it was otherwise vented.

Lastly, at least on this list, it takes control of money out of the hands of any government. None can ban it, none can manipulate it. Several have already tried and failed.

To put it as simply as possible, tons of computers all over the world are all running calculations attempting to guess the next “block” that contains a reward plus transaction fees. This happens roughly every 10. The more hashing power (energy) you put into the network, the better your chances at being the one that guesses the next block. Every 4 years, that reward is halved until there are no bitcoin left.