Just leapt over the Ruble. Approaching the Swiss Franc.

I need Nostr to distract me from all the other stuff I gave up. LOL

Western governments have burned 3000 years of hard earned moral credibility in less than 20 years.

if people where hyped and on fire already, the new #satoshi emails are just bringing even more 🔥 🙌🏻 #legend

The ECB can't help but write articles about the 'failed' Bitcoin.

If it was as much of a failure as they claim (laughable), then would they be writing about it as relentlessly as they are?

Gradually, then suddenly. #Bitcoin

1. I haven't had a sync time take a month even on a small raspberri pi. It's about a week, maybe a little bit more. Are you sure these people aren't using old HDD drives instead of an SSD? Or maybe the internet connection is a limiting factor here? Those make a huge difference

2. You are correct that a larger UTXO set makes it take quite a bit longer because of the I/O from disk, but this would be no different if it was literal adoption growth or some BRC20 garbage being shoved into the chain. Which means the only solution is literally to drastically lower the blocksize, or to alter the UTXO model entirely because of this inescapable reality of the system.

3. The baremultisig problem can be gotten around at the node level, by being instantly disregarded after creation. The only UTXOs that contribute to this problem are ones that get spent again, and therefore are involved in future transactions.

4. I completely agree we should be doing everything possible to make it easier to run a node, but the big problem with falling/static node counts isn't the difficulty of running one, its the fact that no one is incentivized to and everyone coming in isn't thinking about network stewardship, they just want their app to work.

5. High fees and ignoring stupid projects that do nothing but shit in the public park that is #Bitcoin are still the only real solution to this problem, imo.

We cannot control how people use Bitcoin, and we cannot change the UTXO model (assuming there is even something that could "fix" this issue), which means we need to think about and implement ways to compress the validation of the UTXO set. This was why I mentioned UTREEXO. I also saw you mentioned assumevalid as well. I suspect this can be largely mitigated with a database mechanism rather than any sort of block control or consensus alteration. Would be nice to see people working on this problem more seriously, but I don't think it's our #1 concern. In fact, I think if we could use UTREEXO to get the UTXO set from other nodes immediately and start working with a full node within minutes, while the full validation happens in the background, I think this isn't a drastic concern.

(also we get the lucky benefit that Ai is currently causing an *aggressive* funding and focus on an increase in the size of, and lowering of cost for RAM, so at least that is working in our favor)

A legit concern ≠ existential crisis

'fair' does not exist in the world.

nor equality of outcome.

these are human created paradigms which do not occur in nature.

those who insist on fairness and equality of outcome will someday destroy the rose.

it is a great irony that they choose the rose to symbolize their movements.

the rose is a symbol of inequality. only the rose is a rose. there are no others.

there are many beautiful flowers in the world, but none of them are a rose.

those obsessed with fairness and equal outcomes hate anything which exposes their lack. because in reality, they are not focused on fairness. they are focused on their own lack and failure.

they hate, because they lack. they see no opportunity because they hate.

like Marx, who died alone and despised, having alienated everyone because of his intolerable bitterness and hate, those who obsess over fairness instead of opportunity, devolve into a need to control and destroy others to 'make things fair'

imagine, as someone who loves computers and code, that i obsessed how unfair it was that jb55 or ben are so much better at coding than me.

if i think like a Marxist, rather than be happy for them and inspired, decidng that the best thing i can do is become the best coder i can, i will start making up stories about how unfair it is.

ill need to find something to blame. ill blame it on their privledge. their race. anything i can. because as a Marxist, i cannot bear the idea that someone might be better, or have more, than me.

Marxists are obsessed with what they dont have. And they hate because of it.

They hide behind the words of the 'freedom fighter'. But its a lie. All they desire, is to TAKE from those who have. Because the Marxists just KNOWS they dont deserve it.

fairness and equality of outcome do not exist in nature.

the only thing which does exist in nature is opportunity, and opportunity acted upon.

I’m re-reading Cat’s Cradle and next up is Player Piano.