What variety are you growing? What state are you in? I’m outside of Houston, I think I got a frost hardy one, who knows at this point :)

I’m thinking that banana trees might be the best mulch producers. Just one years growth here. Trunk is 6”, 15’ high. Looking good!

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#Bitcoin Stats

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Block height: 855516

Sats/USD: 1581

Fees: 3 sats/vByte (fastest)

#grownostr

I want to start a local bitcoin / lightning and nostr group. I'm most active on Facebook, but I realize that many want privacy... Should I have the group on Facebook, then have a signal channel privacy folks can join that don't want to be on Facebook... I looked at meet up like bitcoinpark does, but it seems expensive and I don't want to put a ton of money into it.

I worked for Microsoft for a short period of time and looking back on it I'm a bit embarrassed about how quickly I became a Microsoft fanboy. I started using Bing as my default search engine and bought some stock (did pretty good on that at least). It was a temp job, but they teased us with longer term employment with lines like "every day is a job interview." After two months they laid off the entire team anyway once the job was done (it was 3D editing for their 3D maps project).

The point of sharing this is to illustrate how a person's loyalties are driven by incentives. I thought I could have a future there and felt that my success was tied to the company's success, so I was willing to do things voluntarily to promote the company. I wasn't as aware of how shitty their business practices were then, but I had no love for them prior to my employment either.

Nowadays I use this lesson when considering the various information sources I consume and when I get into discussions with people online. According to a quick Google search the government employs nearly 20 million people in the US, plus another 2.25 million at the state and local level, and if they are anything like me they are going to have more favorable opinions if the govt because that is how their bread is buttered, and they are incentivized to defend the govt because if this.

I think most people underestimate the power of incentives in driving human behavior. If #Bitcoin is a threat to the power that govts hold then there is an army of people incentivized to oppose it. Thank goodness it's designed in a way that they can't actually stop it and all they can do is bitch about it online.

I think about this quote all the time.

“After spending many years in Wall Street and after making and losing millions of dollars I want to tell you this: It never was my thinking that made the big money for me. It always was my sitting. Got that? My sitting tight! It is no trick at all to be right on the market. You always find lots of early bulls in bull markets and early bears in bear markets. I've known many men who were right at exactly the right time, and began buying or selling stocks when prices were at the very level which should show the greatest profit. And their experience invariably matched mine that is, they made no real money out of it. Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money. It is literally true that millions come easier to a trader after he knows how to trade than hundreds did in the days of his ignorance.”

- Jesse Livermore, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

gm nostriches!

any #mushroom enthusiasts care to guess id. I don't know.

Nostr is not ready for the masses

This a honey pot for hackers

Yesterday, for the first time, someone was trying to go into my Microsoft account.

Has anyone built a Nostr relay with Cassandra for the database?

the bubbles are always white