Fix the money and the world will fix itself.

Epic!

Exactly. It’s not really a truck. It’s a cross dressing car that functions passably as a suburban dad truck. And it functions passably as a sports car. And a taxi. But all the whiz bang wow features can’t make up for the fact that aluminum fails by shearing rather than bending…steel is for trucks.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a cybertruck hater. I’m a realist. The weird looks were only cool when they were going to do that whole thick steel exoskeleton thing…but as they went with decorative thin steel panels placed over aluminum unibodies, it doesn’t have to look like a freaky triangle for strength purposes. The looks are more or less for show, and that really bothers me when I think about what it looks like when I get out of my cyberbeast. But it’s fun to drive.

Hypothesis: the obesity epidemic is in part an infection or more properly a colonization of the bowels by a bacteria or set of bacteria that have acquired the ability to secrete a hormone that makes _you_ crave the foods _they_ need…

Maybe some oral antibiotics before going carnivore could ease the transition?

Happy birthday. 100 sats for ya!

No, I’m the real Peter Todd. You think somebody with an art degree can code? nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm

Wow…that dude probably knows some of the earliest bitcoiners.

Nostr, but for uber… nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

And yes. Educating about bitcoin and sharing why people hold bitcoin is a great way to give back

You can quote me anonymously. There’s enough detail there to narrow it down to literally one person on earth and those that know will know it’s me.

My story has been shared many a time. Back when bitcoin was small, I was a somebody. A minor somebody, but somebody nonetheless.

Need a better money to give people a reason to spend the dollar.

I read this: https://m.slashdot.org/story/138276

I read this a moment later: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

And about 10 minutes later I downloaded bitcoin. But it took a day or two before I learned I had to find a menu option to turn on mining.

I went from 0 to running bitcoin in a breath because I _wanted_ bitcoin to succeed, even if I never got any. As a 12-13 year old kid, i had a shitty living arrangement and I was saving money to get out someday. I got beat up and had all my money stolen. Less than $500, but a lot to me back then. Fast forward to 2010, and I knew that if I could help Bitcoin succeed, then perhaps someday the system could grow big enough for anyone to store hundreds or even thousands of dollars of value in. I’m really rather glad I had what at the time seems like a crushing blow…I worked my ass off, got a college scholarship, got degrees in astrophysics and math while working 3 jobs in college, started a PhD in biomedical engineering, and then pivoted to medicine…it wasn’t until I was a first year resident at a well known multi specialty private group practice with a world wide reputation located in southeast Minnesota that I found Bitcoin. While I was poor still then, I felt that I had “made” it. And running this bitcoin thing on my laptop was my way of giving back. It just happened to be like me and roughly 64-256 other people mining at that time, judging by my share of blocks at the beginning.

A feat that will never be repeated…I was around in 2010…a poor resident walking to the hospital every day…little did I know then the worthless amount of bitcoin I mined would someday rival the value of my medical license.

The moment you think you have enough bitcoin, that is the moment when you lost your chance to have as much as you will have wanted to have.

That’s hilarious. Would be a real shame if people spammed his mailing address.

Bitcoin helps one very important and moderately indebted government: the US.

How? Government needs dollar to drop in value to increase nominal tax receipts to make paying back debt easier. This means people need to value stuff more than dollars. Bitcoin is part of that stuff.

Wow…it’s 2024 and macs still can’t read ext4 file systems. And apple’s filesystem is proprietary. Talk about ghetto.

Another suitable mint. Or ring of mints. Or web of trust. This design is pretty clever.

Bitcoin has no government regulation. It’s the behavior of people around bitcoin who are regulated.