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Natural Law Anarchist 🏴 | Bitcoin Noderunner and Miner 🧡 | Aristotelian | Student of Nature | Highly Sensitive Person | High IQ Retard | Austrian Economist | Autodidact | Polymath | Selfish Prick | Excellent Source of Protein and Triglycerides Intellectual honesty is key. Consent is king. Chaos is self-regulating. Authority of any man over another is necessarily a fiction.
Replying to Avatar Ch!llN0w1

I don't think this is cheating so much as multiple discovery of the same truths

It's really telling about most humans that their response to AI is "oh good, I don't have to think."

Replying to Avatar Dr. Bitcoin, MD

If you are old, about half way done, like me, you might remember the Challenger shuttle explosion. It was broadcast live on plain old television service and they wheeled in a TV for us to watch in my kindergarten classroom, presumably due to the “teacher in space program.”

Needless to say, the launch didn’t go as planned and our teacher abruptly shut off the TV. At 5 years old, I didn’t know what I was looking at…I had seen videos of other shuttle launches and knew the vehicle sort of intentionally fell apart when certain tanks were out of fuel so it wasn’t clear to me that at the time that what happened to challenger wasn’t planned.

Anyhow, a lot of words were spoken to our class but nothing I can remember was said other than our parents would talk to us when we got home. I vaguely recall a serious talk with my parents about the shuttle exploding and me being asked if I understood what they were saying. I totally understood what they said. But what they didn’t say I had no fucking clue about.

Call me stupid, I didn’t realize there were people aboard the rocket. I mean, strapping your ass to a bomb doesn’t sound plausible, right? It didn’t really click with me that the failure of the shuttle to get to space meant that people died. A specific number of people. With names. Identities. Families. But I knew the launch ended in an explosion and the rocket didn’t make it to space. Mission failure. Try again next time.

Sometimes we can be too quick to assume what another person understands.

Big affirmative on that last statement!!

I can totally understand you not understanding.

But how in the fuck are you about halfway done if you're that young? I'm older than you and I'm just getting started!!

Yeah actually, it really does.

I just look up stuff on Wookiepedia for more details just like anything in the Milky Way I want to learn with a regular encyclopedia. Or refer to the historical documents known as Episodes I - VI, Andor, and Rogue One.

No one does. I've religiously watched and consumed it my whole life and I'm still learning. It's a level of complexity that rivals real life. I didn't know about the quotes about Republic credits being the ruler until today!

I mean it worked as money in Star Wars in the Outer Rim systems, but that was in a mature market wherein most of the "low hanging fruit" of gold deposits were already mined after rigorous exploration of the galaxy with hyperspace technology.

Even then, paper Republic dataries, which were supposedly backed by specific gold and silver denominations, became worthless after each regime change as it turned out the government was massively inflating the credit supply each time. Hence Republic "credits."

This is why Outer Rim merchants like Watto required cash only, preferably the Peggat system as minted by the Hutts, likely because they had a more credible incentive to ensure the purity of their cash currency, since they didn't have the kind of monetary privilege that credits afforded to the Galactic Republic.

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I had no idea you were a member of the Illuminante!

Big Bloated Brobdingnagian Bullshit Bill

Hell yeah!! Yeah people will do that because they know if you're doing it on a holiday you probably really need the money.

Agreed but who TF uses B-Cash?

Oh yeah! Probably just coin management while fees are low. I hope so. It transfered from an old style address to segwit, right?

I mean on principle though that's still way better than not admitting those self evident truths.

Only issue is the soybean oil. If they made that shit with beef tallow it'd be healthy.

Singlesig with passphrase is super simple and versatile, and you still get to keep secret information distributed, such as between your brain and your hardware wallet.

Replying to Avatar Kevin's Bacon

This is just after an accumulation of input of stuff he's said. The most recent thing I saw was a podcast episode where he was talking with nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43qudhcug

With his stance on the spam debates and just complete refusal or inability to get the other side and his refusal to consider self sovereignty and existing solutions that are working as part of enforcing miner decentralization, and with his advocacy for starving entire countries, yeah I think he's arrogant AF.

That being said, this podcast episode offered a nice bit of insight from his perspective which even still has some nuggets worth inspecting, even if he lacks a comprehensive solution and lacks respect for the dissenting viewpoints.

This is just after an accumulation of input of stuff he's said. The most recent thing I saw was a podcast episode where he was talking with nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzynhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43qudhcug

With his stance on the spam debates and just complete refusal or inability to get the other side and his refusal to consider self sovereignty and existing solutions that are working as part of enforcing miner decentralization, and with his advocacy for starving entire countries, yeah I think he's arrogant AF.

Peter Todd is an arrogant technocrat who conveniently ignores private property and the validity of contracts. Unfortunate because his intelligence is a great asset when directed productively. He doesn't fully understand markets and he definitely doesn't understand property rights.

I'm watching Peter Todd and Walker talk about tail emissions and mining incentives and the thing is he's right about a lot of stuff, same stuff I've been saying for a long time about how tail emissions are not a big issue (if you had designed Bitcoin that way to begin with). But he doesn't understand two major things: self sovereignty (like of the mempool policy) and the need for mining decentralization and how it fixes all of his concerns with Bitcoin's future.