My wife told me that I live in a bubble. When I asked why she thinks that, she pointed out that my bookshelf is Bitcoin, Jordan Peterson and software books to one third each 🤷🏼‍♂️

If you're looking to learn to code for the joy and empowerment, I highly recommend bash script.

It helps you to be great at maintaining your computer, and following guides to install things with Linux.

Anything you might execute from the command line is code.

Here's how you start (works on Linux or Mac)...

1) create a paranoid crypto anarchist directory and go into it

cd ~

mkdir pca

cd pca

2) make a file

touch GFY.sh

3) edit it with nano (vim later when you're getting skilled and seeking efficiency). This makes step 2 redundant, everyone relax, I know.

nano GFY.sh

4) on line 1, very important, put...

#!/bin/bash

This turns the document into a program.

5) Let's print something. Add these 3 lines

echo "GFY World!"

sleep 10

clear

This will print to screen, wait 10 seconds, then clear the screen, then the program ends. Notice, each new line is a new command, and they can be sequentially typed in if you want. All these lines of bash code work manually too.

6)

Make the program executable...

sudo chmod +x ~/GFY.sh

This is superuser do (elevated privileges), change mode function, add executable option, and the path to the file (~ is shorthand to the home directory of the current user).

7) now you can run the program like this...

./GFY.sh

Or

~/GFY.sh

In the first example the full stop stands for the current directory. So whatever your directory you're in, the computer knows to replace the full stop with the current path, and then it adds on the rest. You have to be in the same directory as your program for this work.

In the second example, you don't have to be in the same directory because you're specifying the path fully, although in shorthand with ~

This might seem very trivial but it is the basic building blocks for building more and more complex things, such as Parmanode .

You can actually read the Parmanode script and see what it's doing.

Maybe I should do a video one day explaining the code.

yes! eventually, we haven’t posted almost any talks for this year yet 😭

It’s really cute local and state politicians passing bills to allow for bitcoin to be used for payment of taxes and state bills.

But then those payments would also be TAXED lmfao what a joke. So giving them your bitcoin, AND paying taxes on it.

No sleep till no taxes on bitcoin payments.

📰 Where do you get your Bitcoin/Nostr NEWS from? 🤔

I've been working on a decentralized electronic voting protocol that's fully peer to peer, eliminates the possibility of electoral fraud or double voting, keeps votes private, and is verifiable by anyone.

It benefits from Nostr relays, and Bitcoin’s clock, and DOES NOT require a blockchain or token.

I would greatly appreciate cypherpunk eyes looking over it before releasing.

Ya’ll want Nostr Lyn to write a sci fi novel in whatever spare time she has, or get back to finance?

Anyone gonna be in Vegas for Unconfiscatable September 16-19?

pops is trying to convince me that inflation is happening because of a 0.8% population increase from illegal immigrants

Spreading #Nostr is more important than ever. Drop your Npub and follow each other!

Ours:

npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q

they don’t tell you this but ime giving up coffee, sugar, and alcohol makes life a lot more fun

having normal ass emotions and sleep cycles is great