IMO, this kind of awesome cloud formation is proof that the strong paramagnetic fields around high-basaltic volcanic mountains capture the electrons from solar wind incursions and it's not just the altitude that causes the condensation to aggregate but electrostatic attraction is equally or more important since without a negative charged dust particle there can't be a water droplet

otherwise every time you boil eggs in your kitchen you'd get clouds on your ceiling

*The Rare Sat Lie*

Let's start with some facts.

You cannot own a satoshi (sat). You can only own a utxo, who's value is measured in sats. Just like you cannot own a "kilogram" but you can own something which weights a kilogram.

The idea that a sat can be rare is a lie, since sats don't exist.

A utxo also cannot be sold, because as soon as it is spent, a completely new utxo is created, and the creation of this new utxo makes the previous utxo (which you wanted to sell) spent. To act of spending "an unspent transaction output" (UTXO) transforms it into something fundamentally different, a "spent transaction output" (STXO) and creates a new UTXO.

The idea that a utxo can be sold is a lie, since even utxos cannot be sold.

The idea that a rare sat from a "special" utxo can be bought is thus a double lie.

*Rare Sat Sophistry*

The conmen, the useful idiots and the otherwise honest but contrarian pundits will rationalize the spreading of the "Rare Sat Lie" with sophistry and appeals to libertarian morality such as "it's a free market, people can believe whatever they want and waste their money however they wish".

Of course, this line of reasoning is meant to create strawmen arguments so that every person that is righteously indignated at the spreading of these lies can be painted as being opposed to the concept of individual freedon itself, which immediately places the TruthSeeker's outrage outside of the Overton Window (and subject to ridicule).

Let us dispell the strawman argument.

The "market" (a small niche of degenerate gamblers) can want whatever it wants, yes. But it till cannot change the reality that individual satoshis (sats) do not exist as "things" or virtual objects. This reality is not subjective.

The sophists will also rationalize that "it cannot be stopped" and thus all you can do is "cry harder" (ironic eh?) and that any and all attempts to combat the lies are futile (at best) or stupid.

It may be true all the truthseeker can do is cry and shout, but it is also true that to combat the spreading of such lies is a virtuous and noble pursuit. And it is also true that the direct result of the shouting can be to save a victim from otherwise being conned. Which is, we would all agree I hope, a moral good, if not a moral imperative.

People are free to spread the lie that such things ("rare" "sats") are real, and fraudulently sell utxos of low value presented as "rare" "sats" for utxos of higher value, but to do so by exploiting the ignorance of people and confusion around the complex technology of Bitcoin is evil according to nearly almost moral code that ancient and modern civilizations have produced.

I am the last person that would deny someone the right to be evil. But I believe if you see a fraud and you don't call out the fraud then you too are a fraud.

So, the strawman is really just straw.

*The Rare Sat Con*

Beyond it being morally bad to spread lies generally, the spreading of the lie also occurs within the context of textbook confidence trick.

Confidence tricks involve :

- the mark: the victims whose money is to be acquired fraudulently

- the roper: reels in the mark via exposure and marketing, peaking the curiosity of the mark (i.e. a conference or media organization)

- the inside man: provides a venue for the con to take place, or supplies goods and services used in the context of the scam (a mining pool or a marketplace)

- the conman: gains the confidence of the mark extracts the money (the seller of a rare sat)

- the convincer: an acolyte of the conman which gives a taste of the profits to the mark either by investing in the mark, or showing off his profits to the mark (a fellow rare sat trader)

The conman and the convincer can interchange roles. For example, conmen and convincers can publicly con each other repeatedly and alternatively, with gains and losses which compensate, with the tacit understanding that the goal is really to gain the confidence of a mark from which both convincer and conman can extract money from.

Everyone except benefits in this zero sum game, except obviously the mark.

In the end, the mark was never forced to give up his money. He willingly parted ways with his funds, deceived by the confidence trick.

Selling "rare sats" for utxos of higher sat value is without doubt a confidence trick.

I will let it up to your imagination who you think plays which role in the rare sat con.

shill me your favorite people I should follow and I will follow them. can be yourself, unless you are lame and cringe.

Is there a privacy-focused camera that automatically blurs faces? There should be

introverts on last day of conference

wait, you guys aren't set up at that crazy former socialist industrial site near the trash factory?

oh, just occurred to me that if there was that place there might be others

nice.

no, you are at the place in funchal so no way you even know what i mean when i say the former abandoned industrial site covered in socialist graffiti

you guys have NO IDEA about this place, it's even more awesome than you even suspected but ... ok, apparently your leaders don't want you to know what a fucking awesome and antiauth place this is.

carry on...

Still trying to understand this angle (for years). Not being snarky? Why magical?

In the US, it would be a bunch of taxable events without enough reporting to not make it a total nightmare come tax time.

What am I missing?

The new Heatbits are great.

I’m currently drying my hair with btc 😂

Yes

how can I help?

The place you screenshot is where you'll spend your halving party in 2024.

Ah, there you are!

Bom dia!

I'd love to visit the co-working space some time. Yes, my memory was not so good, it was some time ago you featured in Bitcoin Magazine.

Would be good to get a little intro to the local Bitcoin community and maybe you will find the project I'm working on interesting.

Oh yeah, and the politics, how to not get involved xD

Anyone who is following/reading this note, I am imminently going to be in Madeira, and I am as a scout to find a place to move to, I figured as a part of that I should try to find the local Bitcoiners in the area to connect with.

I recall there was a guy who was interviewed about this, and they had some kind of Bitcoin education place set up, I'd quite like to check that out but I forget his exact name, all that I have in my memory is Alex Lojas or something like this, apologies for forgetting.

Anyone who is on the island already, of course, be it known that more of us plebs are coming. We being the two guys working on the Indranet project.

Next step, a nostr stage at Bitcoin Atlantis as well 👀