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Dr. Bitcoin, MD
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Bitcoin OG since 2010, former laptop solo miner, blockstream satellite node runner, #2A rights user, radiologist

It can be done, at least in the case you didn’t spend anything after establishing channels.

Sorta. A lot of people sold during the decade. You can sell your claim if it were big enough and a lot of big accounts did.

Had a conversation about this with my wife and girls this morning.l loved your “childish” paradox of “can God make a rock so heavy he can’t lift it.”

My wife underscored the patience of God.

Evil exists now because 1) evil began and 2) God has not eliminated evil yet.

Were God to eliminate evil now, He would be eliminating a lot of people. But out of grace He gives us time to reject evil.

Source? AFAIK, stats are based on handgun vs. Rifle (with shotgun being counted as rifle)…we can see the difference between handgun and rifle rounds objectively on imaging (meaning rifle velocities…short barreled AR’s might look like handgun shots). But we can’t see difference between AR and and bolt action or lever action guns.

Influenza will have a hard time being as big a thing as Covid. It much harder to get that viral genome to be as easily transmitted from person to person because of the average minimum number of infectious particles that need to be transmitted. It’s a sloppy, statistical process and you basically need a lot of spit to do it (think small cannon balls flying in a parabolic trajectory through the air). Covid was transmitted much more like a vapor than a spit cannon-ball (spit cannonballs evaporate as they fall and become smaller; eventually these become too dilute to be infectious).

Yup. Death by rifle is indeed more common than one might suspect by the meme too.

I’m an absolutist when it comes to the second amendment, but false facts and hyperbole don’t serve that interest.

I don’t believe they can be sued for anything but violating constitutional rights.

If government violates constitutional rights and supreme court agrees, whichever government was found to be violating rights has to pay attorney fees for the victor.

New York State was ordered to pay about $500M for the decade long NYSRPA v. Bruen loss in 2022.

What is DiD?

Signature aggregation is a mathematical technique whereby you can take the literal mathematical sum of two signatures and have the result be valid. In theory, all the block space wasted on signatures could be replaced with a single signature covering every transaction in the block. Bitcoin requires 0 changes to make this happen. It’s just that someone has to write the wallet software.