#2 is a reason to buy bitcoin, not the others, duh some people think so backwards
LOL
While driving around today, it was my wish to hear a song by Frank Zappa on the car radio (this is exceedingly rare, but it HAS happened, usually a jazz station playing Peaches en Regalia).
The next best thing than can happen actually did happen: Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple came on. This is a song ABOUT Zappa losing all his music equipment in a fire on the shore of Lake Geneva, because of "some stupid with a flare gun."
True story. Zappa also got attacked on stage 10 days later in London. It was a rough tour.
Happy 85th birthday, Frank!
Well, it's because those are moments that create harmony.
And harmonizing creates a blissful vibe.
My current classical music obsession is "Zappa spielt für Bach."
It makes me wanna get better acquainted with more classical composers, including Chopin.
That's awesome. It's like a Delica on steroids.
No hablo fake Spanish. The M-word is vile hate speech. Cannabis is a noble plant.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
No hablo fake Spanish. The M-word is vile hate speech. Cannabis is a noble plant.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Trump is demented in the sense that he suffers from narcissistic caricature dementia. He's a pitiful human being in need of immediate retirement.
👆 This response is gonna win people over and encourage consensus...
or is it?
Perhaps it's just not hard enough yet and therefore your rebuttal isn't strong enough yet?
Let's all keep trying ✊ It's probably gonna get even harder
Are you absolutely certain it's criminal hate speech having something to do with Nazism, in Southeast Asia, where Buddhism is rather prevalent? These symbols have been displayed in many Japanese temples since way before Nazis existed, and on maps as symbols indicating temple sites.
New track release, "In Loving Memory," dedicated to loved ones lost but not forgotten.
nostr:naddr1qvzqqqy0kvpzq4cgk8mqrj5vg5lt7c3yy6kvjyuv7km3f6dxl7pugavvfusgmuacqq0xjm3dd3hhv6twvukk6etddae8jtf3xumrxwf5xumnxve5xccs06usec
Blindfolded DCA ignorance is bliss!
Gotta be price agnostic and consistently hard working.
No sense in wasting time and energy stressing over timing the bottom.
That approach is not for me
It's time for decentralized leadership (as ironic or counterintuitive as that sounds) build it and they will use, and proprietary back off stupid. For the good of all
Pojama people
My juniper slab got sparkly gold epoxy filled in the cracks (to simulate kintsugi), with brushed-on polyurethane coats (not poured epoxy) to seal, and now it's the plinth of my turntable. It was lots of fun to DIY it myself. Yours looks great, too! Well done!
I have now fully open sourced the code which creates this on-chain BIP-444 futures contract!
The contract starts with an atomic deposit into the contract address of 1 BTC each (to make sure both parties put in the same amount into the contract address).
Context: BIP-444 makes the use of OP_IF & OP_NOTIF consensus INVALID upon activation.
The contract is built as follows:
The taproot address uses the NUMS point as described in BIP341, to provably show the key path is not active.
We have two parties, a "YES" (444 activates) and "NO" (444 does NOT activate). YES and NO for short.
The first leaf is a 2 of 2 multisig of both parties. This exists to be able to self send the UTXO AFTER BIP 444 activates. This is because BIP-444 just added a clause that UTXOs created before activation will NOT have the BIP-444 consensus rules applied to them. This self send removes that exception.
The second leaf: has 2 ways you can spend with it, a 2 of 2 (YES and NO) multisig, just like the first leaf OR the NO party, with a time lock which is LESS THAN the third tap leaf. This is important because it uses OP_NOTIF
The Third Leaf: The YES party can spend, after a time lock AFTER the second leaf.
The order of the timelocks is important. If BIP-444 activates, the spending condition that can spend before you will be consensus invalid, so it doesn't matter if you believe 444 activates.
So to summarize:
- If BIP-444 DOES activate, the party who believes it will be able to use the second tap leaf to get 2 BTC out.
- If BIP-444 DOES NOT activate, the party who believes that will use the third tap leaf to get 2 BTC out.
Since each side is highly confident in their position, the fair market price is a 1:1 ratio, implying 50% likelihood.
With 85 days until activation, this contract as written gives you an implied ~430% APY on your bitcoin! The risk is being incorrect on your opinion of BIP-444 activating.
You could modify the collateral each side puts up to get different implied odds of the futures contract as well.
Github: https://github.com/Rob1Ham/BIP-444-Futures
Address: https://mempool.space/signet/address/tb1p07flh4waghmkeep0l20nf2tyn4tw9wy3w4j5vkrf6mue9ddtakgsgc5clr
Anyone who wants to take the BIP-444 WILL activate side, let me know! The Author of the BIP has agreed to this, I have already asked for a larger bet size beyond the 1 BTC I initially proposed, but I have more!
Encouraging gambling as a solution for a problem is pretty sus to say the least. There are better and more mature ways to settle a dispute.
Nostr native music is here!
This is a proof of concept, that I might build out further if time allows. Expect bugs, missing stuff, you know the drill.
Using custom event types, no NIP yet.
Integration coming to x21 soon.
Wavlake and the likes can easily integrate by publishing their tracks as nostr events.
Feedback welcome! Haters, buzz off 🤣
"Haters, buzz off" is my favorite part of this note, but everything else is also 🔥
What kind of wood ya got there? My turntable plinth is a fatty slab of western juniper. It was fun to polish it, but sanding by hand was a mistake. 2 years of tennis elbow was torturous. You're smart using power tools!
Look at the floor up close, then push away hard, repeat at least 21 times, preferably more. Absolute first thing.
As long as wifey doesn't make him do that in urinals, too. That's just going too far and makes no sense
Adults clean the toilet sometimes because standing pee is a splashhappy ordeal. Men should save all peeing for while shitting, haha, that would be funny shit
The day out of time should be January 3rd, ₿itcoin creation day. We all rest while tick tock next block.
We don't fax no more. We broadcast proof of work with cryptographic keys
Me dork too!
Welcome to the club
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgpwvfnjntfua5xdtehmsypq229r79jdy2p3v4ekaw0t673lehmus9anml8
Today's morning menu is decided. The peppers are from our home garden, and they're the best peppers weve ever grown so far. Compost tea makes a huge difference!
My body speaks to me in this way too. It's like a sixth sense related to nutritional value or something.
A lot of people prioritize the effect food has on the mouth, but eating serves more needs than that alone, and the effect food has on the rest of the body is more impactful than instant gratification for taste buds.
Got no subscription for me to cancel in the first place.
It was fun, but a little laborious, to make my own hummus at home. Haven't done that in a while. Gotta get back into it.
My favorite snack is hummus, fresh alfalfa sprouts, and nutritional yeast on a pita or a naan or sourdough 🤤
MUSHROOMS GALORE! 🍄
The nutritious ones!
Hummus is fantastic, too!
GM!
Good vibes
Must be something in the air
!nfectious?
That seems to be the case! Good thing you didn't try to say that on TikTok!
De verdad muchas gracias para decirlo usted!
No soy hispánico pero estoy practicando hablar español para la salud de mi cerebro y para mi capacidad de comunicación con más de la gente in mi ciudad y con todo el mundo.
Lo siento si mi español no es perfecto. Estoy tratando, no es fácil, pero disfrutarlo.
Gracias por la comunicación conmigo. ✌️
Wow, that dude's ride goes fast!
All my other dads are dead now, and if ICE apprehends my last living dad, it will be a sad development. Especially since he's such a hard worker, serves the community tirelessly, and has been a naturalized US citizen for decades.
Antifa is not my thing, but ICE seems to be indiscriminately racist and brutally insensitive, which is also not my thing. They need to cool it and do their jobs better, which means do some investigative work with tactical precision to identify unwanted wrong-doers, but disturb the law-abiding, peaceful community members less.
If my dad doesn't get targeted, harassed, or apprehended it would be a sign for me that ICE is doing a good job after all, and that would make me happy.
Hopefully that doesn't make me a moron too. ✌️
‼️ EMERGENCY BROADCAST FOR THE REAL ONES 📢
Let’s check in with how Saturday’s #BlockParty is heating up with 2 days and 18 hours to go!
⛏️ Alliance growing: 119 active workers / 482 total
📈 Hash stacking: 11.9 PH
🥵 POOLS SWEATING BECAUSE THE UPENDO TEAM IS ASSEMBLING! KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING!
Join the revolution: https://upendo.rigly.io/
(Don’t forget to pick your favorite bitcoin education charity when you smash some hash!) 
Planning to participate this weekend, but this is confusing: There's rigly, there's upendo, and there's Alliance. Are these all the same pool, or three different pools? Who's got a link to a clearer explanation about how pools work and how truly independent solo mining works? Please? My bitaxes are raring to go!
#asknostr
Misanthropic scrutiny of the bubble of human affairs is a really valuable meditation for all IMO, and deep connection with the natural world, the wider world outside of human concerns, is a very healthy practice, too.
Estranged from society and civilization is not estranged from the world, as the world contains so much more than the superficial bubble of human affairs.
Humans are so fucking full of themselves, and you gotta factor them out at least some of the time to get a clearer view. That's just my dumb take though.
Yes, separation IS an illusion, but because of that, isn't identity an illusion as well?
In my view, there is no one alive today that was another person in another life in the past. That would imply some kind of separation between the individual self and the cosmos it's composed of.
So for me, it's not reincarnation of discrete individuals that takes place, but rather reconstitution of the energy that animates us. To me, this suggests that we are indeed made of the same atoms and molecules as were the Chinese bodies that preceded us, but it's not the same person.
Perhaps the sense that we have memories of past incarnations is due to the fact that memories (echoes?) of the events live in the matter and energy that we are made of. Not sure, but it's fun to contemplate.
As a result of my study of neuroplasticity, it has become harder for me to accept the idea of classical reincarnation, but who really knows? Not me! 😄
The 4th Turning is quite an interesting book that describes the progression of modern history in a novel, cyclical way. It's a good companion to The Sovereign Individual.
If you like these books, and Softwar too, you might also like reading the works of Daniel Quinn. They all tie in to bitcoin philosophy, but in a sly, roundabout way.