No. It's a different implementation. Better is subjective and I don't think running different implementations of Bitcoin is a good idea. Neither did Satoshi.

Ah.. Good point. They do integrate the cost of manufacturing into them, and that is calculated into their value. This means you would not be able to redeem for their full value for gold.

But it's a 1-time fee, unlike digital currencies that get charged a transaction fee every time there used.

Don't get me wrong. We should have both. Freedom currency in both digital form and physical form.

unfortunately EVGA does not make GPUs anymore

my personal list is:

- Linux

- OneDev

- Proxmox VE

- TrueNAS

- Go (programming language)

- FoundationDB

- Jellyfin

- WireGuard

- SQLite

- ~IPsec~ (I despise IPsec)

and a lot more

this is so MAD:

#PopeFrancis was a powerful voice against #war, and yet in the last week,the #DoomsdayBriefcase, #Football, was in Vatican twice:

1) when JD Vance met #PopeFrancis

2) at the pope Francis' funeral

(HT #StephenSchwartz)

On our walk today Elliott was asking why things are priced the way they are. We went from supply/demand, scarcity, money printing, inflation + cantillon effects, all the way to marginal theory.

Marginalism blew his mind (how someone might pay $1000 for a bottle of water if they were in a desert).

Bitcoin maxi in the making 😅

We are (probably) poisoning our immune systems with vaccines. This is something I never thought much about until they nudged the semi-mandatory, immunologically useless, obviously harmful mRNA thing on us. RFKjr is right in essence even if he’s wrong in detail: look at how many vaccines they give kids now in the USA. Kids are recommended to get 20 of the damn things before they’re 18 months old. 35 shots total; each time you’re doing something to the immune system. Most of the illnesses they give these shots for are harmless or virtually impossible for children to get. And they want you to get 24 more shots afterwords. Why would you immunize a 6 month old against monkeypox or genital warts? What are these imbeciles thinking? They’re not thinking; they’re just pumping product into meat puppets to make line go up.  In my day, kids were given vaccines against a couple of genuinely dangerous things, and that’s it. I have suffered no ill effects from not having a tetanus shot when I was an infant. If you step on a nail, you can just go get a tetanus shot and you’ll be fine. People claim autism might come from something in the vaccination schedules; it might, I’ve never looked into it, but I think there is a very obvious case to be made that food allergies are related to something in this schedule. We have control groups: I am told this problem doesn’t exist in Russia or Africa or among the Amish. Of course food allergies could be something else, but someone should look into it. It’s very plausible that fiddling with kids immune systems while they’re teething could cause such problems.

Or just put your existing SIM card in a dumb phone for a day

#carnivore #birthday

So my wonderful kids & wife got me this...

Yes. Too many think that ideas are valuable. They aren't. Ideas are abundant and free. Execution is scarce and valuable.

Yes. Too many think that ideas are valuable. They aren't. Ideas are abundant and free. Execution is scarce and valuable.

Like I said. It doesn't matter. The point of the post is that the column is still there, soft deleted.

Also, it's funny that you thought I didn't know any of this.

Same here. This'll be my 4th year of growing produce on my property. Thinking of raising some ducks for meat.

Charles Ponzi was an amateur. Central banking under unbacked fiat money is the biggest, systemic fraud in history. GM #nostr 🧡💜

You can bounce radio waves off the moon, amateur radio operators do it all the time. They sent probes to Mars in the same timeframe so delivering a reflector to the moon does not require people to be there. All I want is proof that they got people there, and there isn't any, because they "lost" it.

recommend me some relays

Accidentally orange-pilled a sticker vendor in Mexico. I only had 500 peso notes, and he didn't have change. So I had him install Wallet of Satoshi and sent him 100 pesos (~$5 USD) via Lightning.

He was actually pretty clueful. He seemed to understand that this was like digital gold. He also seemed to understand me when I explained how Bitcoin was a protocol – kinda like email – and that's why I was able to use different software to send him Bitcoin than Wallet of Satoshi. And he seemed to understand that since the amount was so small, Wallet of Satoshi was the one who actually had his Bitcoin, not him.

Second time I found someone who was willing to accept ₿, but normally didn't. First time was a t-shirt vendor who knew all about Bitcoin, but didn't himself have a wallet, and just got his friend to accept it for him.

Bitcoin is getting to the point where so many people know about it that you don't have to convince people its valuable. They already basically know what it is even if they've never personally used it.

I am once again convinced that "vibe coding" is fucked and haunted.

I'm cognizant of the fact that I've written this exact note before...

How many times will I be drawn by the AI siren song only to remember that it is, indeed, fucked and haunted and that reading, thinking, and writing code just works way better (obviously)?

Or at least its something like: know when to get off the ride. Get your basic scaffold up and then kick that shit to the curb and take the reigns again. It will eventually make your life worse 100% of the time if you don't recognize when the time has come to evict the demon!

breaking news: i pulled up my order of china 3d print and electronics and it was 25% off from last week. so i shipped it. 👀 wat is going on? #tarrifdenier

I thought I had you muted because of your bitcoin trolling, but I guess it's also because you're a rude asshole.

NDK documentation is making me seriously angry

why is gene roddenberry the only scifi creator that ever imagined a better future?

Yeah?

Should I ditch the laser eyes? Overplayed? #asknostr

people keep telling me that damus is way too complicated. it has to be so simple a toddler can use it or else noone will use it.

your app has keys? too hard.

your app doesn't have unique usernames? too hard.

basically everyone is retarded

Lets math!

2+2?

what do you mean? how do you stop condensation ?

The Bitcoin on chain protocol does not depend on any specialized hardware to hold your money. All you need to have is your signing key which is never part of the network. You have a receiving key that is public and a private key that is private. A signing device is a tool that does this. The protocol has signing devices in hot wallet, could wallet configurations. Your actual Bitcoin doesn't even exist! It's a ledger entry that is public and it's within the realm of 2.1 quadrillion parts.

The bitaxe is a mining device that has nothing to do with custody of your own Bitcoin.

Since it took me about 7 years to understand the basics I would recommend you do the same. If your signing device breaks it's nothing as long as you have your keys written or stamped and in a secure place. That's what self custody is all about.

Your credit card is an inflation creating device due to fractional (and not so fractional) reserve banking where money, digitally is created out of nowhere without any work.

Your welcome. I pray that you can understand how this works. I pray that in service to God you have no need for any of this.

Usury is not freedom.

Maybe associating everything with Bitcoin to a specialized piece of hardware that failed under less than pristine conditions isn't a good idea.

Today I learned that BitAxes are not waterproof. And that keeping them close to a plant is not a good idea.