A p80 19 clone. I have only done crazy glock builds. This one has a 16 inch barrel.

I just got my gen 3 binary/pull-release trigger today

Strong work!

I get a tax break for putting money into a retirement account. Think of it as a bonus 50% return on day 1…anyhow, I have GBTC in that account since 2018…it’s not a huge part of my stack, but, I can’t use that money for any asset I want, only what custodian allows me to purchase. In fact, I can’t take custody of that untaxed asset until I pay tax or get old. ETF would be better for folks like me than GBTC.

5% per year?

I’ve often wondered how to think about my stack…income is good for me as a radiologist, but stack is big too. Hard for my mind to compare a high rate of income in one currency to a slowly growing bitcoin stack…

At any rate, I’m motivated more by my work itself rather than the pay at the moment, but at some point I’ll have to hang up the scrubs. At least now I know how to think about it.

Meh. Most people can’t do private key management. But these people can do ETF’s. Is ETF ideal from a self sovereignty perspective? Nope. Not even close. But there are many many people that need a trustworthy third party custody based bitcoin solution. Will that trust be violated? Probably someday. But it doesn’t happen that often with registered securities and happens quite frequently with “bitcoin exchanges.”

Amen to this. It’s the cheapest way to motivate diverse talented efforts too…sure most will fail and few will profit greatly, but the chance at riches is what can motivate long grueling work…

Cool idea.

Economically unspendable outputs are indeed something to consider. But high fees are what motivate more efficient use of block space. There are clever ways bitcoin could be used today, but the software to take advantage of the rules of bitcoin hasn’t been written yet.

Fee pressure needed to incentivize funding of more efficient use schemes. Schnorr signatures were added to bitcoin a few years ago and they have the clever property that you can take the sum of signatures to create a signature that’s valid if and only if all signatures in the sum were valid. No need to waste block space with a signature per input…in fact, multiple users could collaboratively create a many input many output transaction with only one instead of thousands of signatures.

You don’t understand violence. You mistake violence for aggression.

Violence is the enforcement of your will against another despite their resistance.

Violence is not by definition wrong or immoral. But aggression is.

You’re a fool. You think you can enjoy peace just because you are harmless? Aggression will find you (as it does us all) and any man should be capable of countering violence with violence.

In fact, I would argue you can be peaceful if you can’t be dangerous. Don’t confuse harmless with peaceful.

Until new software gets written to make more efficient use of Bitcoin block space, there are only so many people able to exercise financial sovereignty and we will remain close to that limit.

Trans is a not a new phenomenon. Been with humanity far before it became en vogue. Risk of suicide is roughly 40% — which is why this has historically been considered a mental disorder.

Regardless of how medicine or popular culture categorizes trans people, it is only natural to be careful with with such souls, knowing they will self terminate with an astoundingly high probability

Don’t be a dick. Be nice. Be an educated human.

Don’t forget: your right to keep and bear arms is as important, no, far more important than bitcoin. Without proper government fear of the militia, bitcoin has no hope.

Arm yourself. You have a right to any arm you can bear (globally, but ensconced in the founding documents permitting the American federal government to exist).

If you won’t buy a rifle, are you even a bitcoiner?

Listening to the “Left Behind” series. It’s a lot of books. I’m on book 3, where they start talking about digital money. Kinda creepy, plausible, and prescient.

Bech32 nostr objects…this would have been meaningless drivel not all that long ago.

Bitcoin blocks can store data for effectively forever. If there is a way to put a reference to an eternally available URL on the blockchain, there would be a use for such data. Figure out how to monetize eternal data availability.

Well, in my experience, uncommonly good looking for age, that’s for sure. Usually they still look at little squished at this age, and it ain’t pretty.

In the US, land ownership has a nuanced meaning: conditional but exclusive use permit.

This is wisdom. My home network setup is awful. All one network with no vlan to segregate traffic (except my entirely offline bitcoin satellite network of 3 nodes).

I should put camera stuff and guest network ok it’s own vlan.