ooh, yeah, 116 bits is literally how much bruteforce countermeasure there is between a bitcoin address and the pubkey it relates to, that is VERY strong protection, you can't generate that many hashes in a thousand years even if computer's continue to proliferate at the rate they are now, certainly it's unlikely to happen in less than 100 years, assuming a massive breakthrough in mathematics and computational device technology

Yeah. It would be nice if utxo management was presented more front and center, so people don't feel helpless in front of the firehose of stuff to learn. Wait... What's a hidden address? Lol!

UTXOs and hidden addresses was sufficiently anonymous

properly using that to advantage has taken a long time for wallet developers to actulaly implement

if bitcoin were anonymous like monero, we would have never come this far with adoption. It’s part of the magic sauce

Did I survive the blockening?

this is why i have continued to interact with you, i like what you say and feel like i have some part in the story and you continue to entertain me

i feel like i have been where you are and i just want to help confirm that you are hearing teh same things i heard

if someone is pretending to help you, this is a key marker of them being fuckers, btw

i'm not here to help you, i'm just telling you what happened to me and my opinion of these asshats you have disrupting your mind here

Removing people is the best way to be a toxic person. Sadly, you're right, we have to remove people who remove people.

i have had some extraordinary experiences due to this drug, but most of the stuff you ever find is utter shit, and i tried to find something decent on the dark web but it was all fake and bullshit, and after having the real thing for real, i just don't have the patience to even try it much more, and i don't want to get into trouble and the other thing is that it makes my cramps way worse so it's just not even on my list of things to do at all

but i will just tell you, that for some people, like me, it sometimes brings on a visionary experience, and it is a very important one, i've had it happen about 3 times in my life so far

this one i had in particular really made concrete the understandings i was building about the nature of evil and psychological manipulation, but it was too heavy on my body to use and i was in the early stages of kidney problems at that point, that didn't fully manifest until a bit over a year later with vision problems and other symptoms

so, don't mistake who i am, just because i told you that i had some very important experiences that were precipitated by this drug, i am not any different to teh person you talked to before, this was part of how i came to be like this

disrupting the parts of the brain that meth wakes up is a big part of how i became who i am, defines so many of my dreams and my life experiences, and of course, why i have a particular interest in the drug

i don't need it, it just made me feel some moments of health and gave me some insights that i had to go through to get there. i know that what it was doing was just limiting things that were causing me to live in a fog for a brief time and those moments helped me forwards

Meth is a bad idea... Sorry, I've only started reading, I'll make a proper response in a minute. Please don't take meth... It will only weaken you, rob you of energy, as you put it. Replace the urge with a different release until it stops.

the amount of energy they steal from you is incredible, and you really don't realise it until you start to actually shun this kind of behaviour, i discovered this in early 2022, and realised that everyone i was having regular contact with was abusing me

my life instantly changed because i had freed up energy that was no longer going to them

and you might be amused at the experience that snapped me out of it

i had a good friend, the only good friend i made while living in Bulgaria, who hooked me up with maybe the highest quality methamphetamine i have ever taken

i accidentally dosed too high on my fist time using it, i mixed up a solution with rice malt as this preserves it, and i had a vision during the experience of this entity that was attached to me, it sorta resemebled a cigarette, but it had a face like my father, and it scuttled away like a cockroach, but for a second or two i locked eyse with it and it was frozen, and as soon as i blinked it shrank away behind me

i started to seriously study how cult brain washing and mind control worked, as i had had the thought come to me that i needed to research this, while working for a company called Dusk Network... because there was something i could not put my finger on about how the guy, one of the founders, had charmed me when i was in the interview, and his humiliation ritual on our daily standups with the current whipping boy, and there was a seasonal meatspace gathering that was held in ... i forget, i think Porto, in portugal, oddly enough, and i refused to go because i didn't want to do yet another covid test or be forced to get a jab. This led to me being fired, and it was during this time that i had this experience about the demon/spirit thing that was attached to me

anyway, point was, shortly after that, i landed a job working for a subcontractor in Varna, and there i ended up wandering onto Twitter, got lightning-pilled and watched the Terra/Luna/Celsius fiasco unfolding and became a full blown bitcoin maxi

the job didn't last, and the war broke out in Ukraine just before i started (and i remember when what started that was on the news while i was in jail in, i forget when it was, maybe june 2014) and i eventually fled to Sarajevo and through my twitter experience came into contact with someone who wanted me to build a lightning-powered anonymity network protocol, and then spent almost a year in Cambridge working on that

so, yeah, anyway, my point was, the sooner you start to recognise cult style manipulation going on, people feeding off your attention, and wasting your time with bullshit, the sooner you will start to have a lot more things happen that could not have occurred without your energies beeing freed up

i expect there is more surprises around teh corner for me now but basically i don't have this problem of people getting their fangs into me... i'm extremly hostile to this kind of bullshit behaviour and attack it everywhere i see it now, and it's only benefiting me, if for nothing else than the catharsis of fighting the real evil

I have ceased to care. You are not honest, I see that. I was foolish to trust you as much as I did. You began this thread to troll me, and the effect is that you taunt anyone who is genuinely searching the scripture. No more. We're done.

That's a weak copout my friend. Calling you out publicly. Nobody gave you a deadline to answer by. Be better.

It's okay to say "I have my own assumptions that I'm not willing to change."

I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to write out that response. It helps give context to what you'd written, and brings us a bit closer to understanding one another. I will try to be concise.

- No, I am not Eastern Orthodox, but decisively of the Western, Reformed/Protestant type. (And no worries at all for a 'misidentification'!) That means that I believe Scripture to be the 'only rule for faith and obedience,' that it is 'the final arbiter' on all questions of doctrine (like the Bereans in Acts 14:11). So for any question, I will point back to Scripture for the answer.

- I get your point that 'Gnosticism' as it is known today is somewhat different from the many forms of it in the early church. But what it was, and what it still has echoes of, was rather decisively dealt with in the early church--for that I would refer you to Irenaeus' work. He showed that the general thrust of the gnosticism of his day was out of accord with right teaching (read: Scripture).

- In Luke 8:10, Jesus is speaking to the church, to those who had been 'born again from above,' who had been renewed by the gift of the Holy Spirit. The kingdom of God is not a place--yet (see The Revelation for that), but is now an ethic: it's in our hearts. It's in our hearts like it was in Rahab's heart before Joshua took Jericho. It is the ethical rule that precedes the geographical realm, when Christ comes to conquer all his and our enemies at the Last Day. We still pray to this day, "thy Kingdom come," as we can imagine Rahab did in her prayer closet. She was 'in' Jericho, but no longer 'of' Jericho--because she was 'of' the coming Kingdom of Joshua, but not yet 'in' the kingdom of Joshua. But he was at the gate.

- Where is Christ? He is seated in heaven (Eph. 2; Heb. 1), at the right hand of God, 'from thence he shall come to judge to quick and the dead.' The Christ of Scripture is a man (John 1), a particular man (Matthew 1), who lived on this earth, at a particular time and a particular place "under Pontius Pilate--it is all in order" (as CS Lewis put it). He hungered, he wept, he had arm hair, his feet got dirty. "Christ" is not a state of consciousness that any human can achieve with enough meditation, enlightenment, and ego death. I know that is the teaching of many flavors of gnosticism and even some flavors of theosophy, but it is not the teaching of Scripture. Christ is not a state of mind or of being--He is a single, unique, historical, individual person, "born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were subject to the curse of the law." (Gal. 4).

- Yes, God is infinite, but--having material bodies--we are finite. We are bound by both time and space while he is not. We are not emanations from him, we are uniquely created minds/hearts/wills, though created in his image and likeness. He is not made of body, parts, or passions--he does not suffer change. We are, and we do.

- Much of what you've written is known by many names, be it gnosticism, the 'ancient philosophy,' theosophy, etc. The 'reconciling of the opposites,' the 'As Above, So Below' ideas, etc. To get at why these ideas in general--monism, as a catch-all term--cannot be reconciled with the teaching of Scripture, see Peter Jones, _The Other Worldview_, or--if you're a deep-diver--Michael Horton's _The Divine Self: The Origins of 'Spiritual, Not Religious'_ (Volume 1).

- The real point of my objections to this is that if 'All is One,' if 'I am the universe experiencing itself' (to quote another version of these ideas), then all of this resolves into the worship of self (or, the Self). If All is One then I am All and All is Me, God is I and I am actually he--or more precisely, we all together with the rocks and trees and birds and bees are God and we only need to remember who we Really Are. But we merely collapse into ourselves, and then into oblivion. And that was the primal temptation of the Serpent, wasn't it? "Look within," he said to Eve: "what looks good *to you*? Don't you want to be God? Never mind his threats, shut your ears to his Word--he's lying to you. Listen, instead, to me." This is why many who go down this path end up deciding that the Serpent himself was the savior--that the Serpent himself was the one that 'gave us knowledge/gnosis'. It is the primal lie; the first murder. And we have been 'dying the death' ever since.

- There is nothing 'within' except sin, corruption, and self-worship, unless or until the Spirit of God grants us the new life 'from above' (John 3), our eyes are opened, our hearts are changed, and our polarity/ethical disposition reverses back toward God. Only by turning away from ourselves and toward God (who is external to us) can we find redemption. Before this, we are blind, dead, enemies, alienated from God, without hope in the world, unwilling to enter the kingdom and unable to even see it. We are not merely sick; we are spiritually dead. That's what's 'within'--death.

I do not necessarily write the above to persuade you to embrace more historically orthodox teaching (not to be confused with Eastern Orthodox as in the denomination)--though I certainly would love it if you did--but simply to point out that pantheism (or monism, or gnosticism, or whatever you want to call it) and Christian theism are incompatible. We can choose one or the other, but not both.

I failed miserably in my objective to be concise. Didn't have time to refine, my apologies. But hopefully the above lays out just a bit more of the reason why I said what I said above.

After six days of silence, I've come to the realization that the kind of extended silent meditation retreats I used to think were essential for my annual reset are simply not what I need anymore.

While Goenka's masochistic, dogmatic approach works for some—even when modified to allow for walking and moving meditation—I have come to find it unnecessarily rigid.

The truth is, meditative awareness isn't confined to a strict schedule or silent halls. It's available in every moment—whether sitting, speaking, eating, working, walking, or playing.

As Buddha taught in the raft parable:

"My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river. Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation."

Even the teachings themselves—the methods, the practices, the techniques—eventually become a burden if we continue to carry them after they've served their purpose.

I'm continuing with my moving and sitting meditation practices for the remaining 34 days of this annual reset, but I've expanded my awareness to fully embrace the inclusion of mindfulness in writing, reading, and speaking. Each moment offers an opportunity for presence and awareness.

It feels good to be back—refreshed, recharged, and aligned with purpose.

How is everyone this evening?

#IKITAO

But i like to poop, ser

Bitcoin needs to soft fork to be quantum resistant ASAP.