Sent some sats but not sure if it worked. Congrats on the baby!

Yup. Mining is hard. If they were making money they’d keep it all for themselves.

But this is the point of halving. To force users to pay individually for security rather than collectively.

Questioning whether mail in ballots are a risky way to run an election or suggesting mail in ballots are more prone to fraud was considered a “cyber attack” by the federal government.

Listen to this interview carefully…we built this apparatus for a vastly different purpose; to serve us, not themselves: https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/

Bitcoin is monetary body armor.

I need to learn this.

They use the horror of abortion to rile people up and make them not think of what would be required for government to apply laws against it.

I am a radiologist; while I often biopsy and every once in a while cure disease, 95% of what I do is simply tell others what’s going on inside their patient.

I would choose prison over testifying against a patient regarding what I saw inside them—unless it somehow would avoid _imminent/impending_ death or severe harm…To me, any law requiring me to act to the contrary is itself null and void.

It is currently 2 trillion times harder to mine a bitcoin block than when I solo mined my first block on my MacBook Pro. With block reward halvings, that’s 32 trillion times more hashes per bitcoin than back in my day.

Back then, I naively thought that if people started mining bitcoin while excluding a subset of transactions, then I’d just start mining again and even if it took me all month and doubled my electricity bill, I’d push those transactions through myself. What a fool I was.

Found it. Turns out the block explorer Blockstream.info just doesn’t show the address. Blockchain.com (yuck) does.

Suppose you solo mined a block a long time ago. Wallet is long gone, but you sent the coins to yourself and still have them in a wallet.

Is there a way to find the address the coinbase was mined to? Clicking back wards on all UTXOs gets exponentially tricky to stay on the right path.

No, this is a deep take, not a shallow one, but you may have missed the point.

The real issue here is whether it is wise to permit government access to private knowledge about our bodies. Everyone has an opinion here, which is why it’s a political issue, but my moral rejection of abortion as flat out equivalent to murder has nothing to do with the fact that I don’t believe the government should be given private medical data to prosecute such crimes.

Something can be morally objectionable and this doesn’t mean we should grant government powers specifically forbidden (such as unlawful search and seizure) to it just because we object to feticide.

Feticide is bad. Giving government the powers needed to prosecute feticide has a lot of downsides.

I’m not arguing in favor of abortion. I’m morally opposed on religious grounds…I’m arguing whether it is wise to permit government full access to private information about our bodies.

It kind of amazes me that abortion, an issue largely applicable to a fairly narrow slice of the population, is an important issue in elections.

Most people considering terminating life within themselves are 1) female 2) young 3) pregnant unintentionally.

What percent of humans or voters fit this demographic?

While I believe extremely in medical privacy, and I’m not sure the Supreme Court was wrong to invent a right to privacy in Roe v Wade as a matter of humans rights (if technically improper jurisprudence), I think the real solution here is a constitutional amendment guaranteeing privacy that extends beyond personal papers and effects.

Human rights include commercial privacy. Full stop. If you can’t spend your money privately, you have essentially zero property and privacy rights.

It’s like guaranteeing right to free speech but taxing emission of sound waves into the atmosphere or ink for printing on paper or requiring ID to post text on the internet.

This is why I only carry p320 clones I build myself and why my truck guns are all 80% at-15’s. I chose not to invite federal jurisdiction over my rights.

It’s getting there

Someone needs to make a Linux distro for bitcoin. It should include nostr:npub1qqqqqqp95lxt767sczj6rptd0rewnuyvw79h08f4aqd4aglh0m0s0h855a (the Blockstream satellite app), core, lightning node options, electrum, desktop wallets, RNG tools for seed generation, etc.

I hear ya. I prefer to manufacture my own firearms. Self made firearms are exempt from the firearms laws that apply to firearms used in interstate commerce (see how the Supreme Court struck down the gun control act of 1990: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lopez)

So I guess I need to learn mutiny wallet.

Free men don’t ask

Real medicine. Not thinly veiled tyranny bullshit medicine.

FTFY: rich pussies