In our circles here on Nostr, saying that you will be rich by staying humble and stacking sats is not exactly breaking news. You know it works (and you'll be wealthy in 10 years) or at least you believe it works because you know people who you trust believe in it. If I go out of Nostr to the people who surround me, I see a behaviour that seems to say "it's not for me". People find comfort in having missed the boat. Because bonding it comes with the responsibilities for learning about and buying Bitcoin. My message to these people: be honest with yourself. Admit that you don't want to be weathly, after all (not judging). Or else get going; most of Nostr is here to help.

So much good stuff is happening for Bitcoin and the people who believe in it, the people who built it, and the people who are building it. It's incredible. This is very inspiring and a fantastic start to the year.

Downloaded the latest @blockstream green wallet (2.0.17) to a MacBook Pro (Ventura 13.7.2) from blockstream.green. The software crashed immediately upon startup (I tried it on two different laptops). Then, I resorted to the previous version (2.0.16), which worked as expected. I hope that no newcoiners will experience the same.

We are zapping. If you host your own lightning address: amazing. If you know the dude or chick who hosts your lightning address: very cool. If you use npub.cash, 1a. If you are on Wallet of Satoshi: it's a start. One step at a time on low time pref.

This is the view from down below; taken on a sailing trip to Norway two years ago. There are people standing on the edge...

I just zapped this note from https://mint.mountainlake.io ✔️

The closer to facts the more ChatGPT acts like a patient teacher. As the conversation gets a more human touch, ChatGPT turns into a very smart mirror.

a few seconds later: thanks for the code, chmod u+x chat4egge & ./chat4egge ... and pray 😎

My goal for Q1 is to ramp up my computing setup: put redundant components in place for instant fail-over switching, and create more capacity for Bitcoin, lightning, cashu, and nostr. Everything without asking for permission and the certainty that Bitcoin will not fail should I screw up any of the config or wiring. The power of de-centralization goes goes far for all of us.

People who still make their bets based on this man's advice are NGMI.

Technically: "I am here, so you pay me some of the money you owe me," or "I am here to ask you to transfer some of the debt you owe me to the car dealership."

I should also add this, which ChatGPT mentioned in the same conversation: "The pursuit of knowledge, beauty, and meaning, even in a transient existence, is a testament to the resilience of life and intelligence." I would like to cite the original authors whose texts were used to train the model. Perhaps in the future, ChatGPT will be able to produce a matrix with original texts and ppms.

"Why This Hope Matters: This open-minded perspective is not just comforting—it fuels curiosity and a desire to explore the unknown. The future of life and intelligence in the universe might be far more extraordinary than we can currently imagine." - ChatGPT

That's the spirit. At best (me being nice), TA is for the short term. Therefore, it cannot capture Bitcoin's long-term nature.

In addition to success, one can expect some fun in the recipe.

"In about 32,000 lines of code, Satoshi Nakamoto embedded the potential to displace the stabilizers’ monetary dogma that had influenced the dominant Keynesian and Monetarist monetary theories for almost a century." - The Genesis Book by Aaron van Wirdum; this is a brilliant book, very entertaining and hugely insightful

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intelligent people are sometimes hard to understand because for them, everything that is easy to understand seems obvious and thus not worth mentioning - leaving humorous or higher-order observations; as can been seen here on nostr 🐬

Asking myself why I find this picture (that I will add to my collection 🙏 ) intriguing ... It looks like Bitcoin, being this absolutely brilliant innovation of the century that most of us here cherish, can still get an upgrade. For once, Bitcoin seems to be on the other side of the affinity game: typically shitcoins are seeking affinity to Bitcoin, here Bitcoin appears to seek affinity to natural beauty (optimized for dozens of millennia).

Ideas are the raw materials. Execution is the art to polish some of them to success.

The auditor reported "Error: Mint Error: proofs are pending. (Code: 11000)" on the most recent swap involving my mint. What can I do to fix the situation? The mint (https://mint.mountainlake.io) runs fine as far as I can see.

Happy New Year 🍀

Very important work and great episode (thank you nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj , Roger, and Zack). Who needs enemies if your own elected government and/or executive branch is constantly looking for excuses to tighten control and restrict personal freedoms.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/

PV and welcome to emerging properties

PV - taken during a recent stay in Piacenza

🎯 Don't buy expenses unless you know what you are doing.

Raging Moderates sounds awfully close to nostr:npub1563z6kxmvuy7s8zhzan8m0hzmkavyfzg2aw6h7f0fvcvdms398csaxc9n6 except one is serious and one is ironic - https://fountain.fm/episode/CuOJByoz3v64goiJPf52

nice VT-100 terminal style 🍀 - reminds me of the days I was working on a DEC VAX mainframe.

Philosophers At Work

I liked reading books by philosophers. However, I just now realized I never saw one at work. Most of the time, the work was done long before I read it or read about the situation that gave rise to the work. With Bitcoin, this is different as we are experiencing its introduction to the world, history in the making.

We have read and heard people talk about Bitcoin's electricity use and associated CO2 emissions. Some work was led by emotions and arrived at untenable conclusions. For instance, Mora et al.'s 2018 paper entitled "Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C)".

Then, there is the much more accurate work of knowledgeable authors. However, if they appear to defend a preformed conclusion rather than arriving at one after neutral deliberation, their work is more challenging to read for the critiques.

And then there is the book Resistance Money, subtitled A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin by nostr:npub1yezu4atsdgchvlyjz5efwks8n7ze2rssq674qe04m5pp8e5y32tqfdawc7 , nostr:npub1jddnc9ma408dey575wcsqhg5jtc2n7765y4gdnnrswlwgqnnat7swe4s60 and nostr:npub10afr060h0g3vf2ykynr6cvw2u7ta3tzpgjczfyufp420aeeen0xszf0xj0. I much enjoyed their scientific work on Bitcoin's energy consumption from a neutral ground and with a global humanitarian goal. Rather than arguing for what is good for them, the stance many people willingly or unwillingly take, they tried to approach the question assuming that tomorrow, they could wake up as any one of the eight billion people.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Bitcoin's energy consumption. If you are already a Bitcoiner and short on time, you might skip to chapters 9 and 10 directly.

It became apparent to me why we need philosophers.

- the world I want to see more of

"[...] the government calling you a tax-payer is a bit like a rapist calling his victim his girlfriend." - nostr:npub1jt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqt8la9y and Luke de Wolf on the difference between "voluntary" and "consensual".

PV

I am thinking mainly of an easy way to access my network remotely.

What do you Bitcoiners think of tailscale? Is this software I should consider as part of my Bitcoin setup?

Who says that you cannot change your opinion at age 94 and we see Buffett go Bitcoin?

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MindlinerTre is back up again 🫡 (note to self: don't store the router config backup on a server that is inaccessible should the router die)

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Great app 🎯. How can I get my mint (https://mint.mountainlake.io) back into green territory? It had an issue with an expired c-lightning-REST certificate and was down for a bit.