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Daniel Wigton
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Catholic stay at home father of 6. Interested in spaceflight, decentralized communication, salvation, math, twin primes, and everything else.

If we must, then can that law be that the sum total of all laws affecting any jurisdiction cannot exceed 1MB of plain text or 200kB zipped and be understandable by a median highschool graduate and cannot require reference to any external document or internal dictionary.

The zipped part is to keep legislation from being written in an overly dense fashion.

Nothing is ever fixed by rule sets. The rules are an aspiration for how people should behave. If people aren't ready to behave justly they will adopt a broken rule set (black markets etc) that allows the behavior they want.

Rules can only constrain a population that values the goals the rules reflect.

If we want to get rid of usury we need to value discipline, sacrifice, and hard work.

Well, yes. "Follow" itself is a terrible term. I follow Christ and that is it. It implies a heading "I am going this way after this thing." I am not a "follower of Mr Dorsey" but I am mildly interested in what he might have to say and it is useful to build a list of known identities from which you can learn new identities.

What is the proper graph term for connected nodes? I think of them as contacts. "Dyad?" That is a terrible word.

It's the "my" part that is weird. From my perspective you are an interesting rando on nostr. I follow many accounts. Using possessive language is an influencer mindset. I get similar feelings on Twitter when bigger accounts will say "one of my reply guys." Good grief they are peers who took the time to engage. Should we all just be shouting into the void?

Solid point #1.

The transmission *could* be considered manual in that there is only one gear. But yes you lose the fun of shifting, but you gain the fun of instant always there torque. It's about an even trade off.

I will admit I am unaware of any of the above, but neither do you back any of your claims. I am more interested in what he says officially than with whom he associated in the past. Jesus associated with tax collectors and prostitutes without endorsing either profession.

Are there any documents he has produced or actions he has taken that support your thesis?

I submit that perhaps you are thinking of an overstated version of papal infallibility that the church doesn't hold. I also believe that Francis is willfully misunderstood. Yes he speaks in a messy way, but liberals interpret everything he says in an overly worldly way hoping to mislead people in their direction and conservatives interpret everything he says in an overly worldly way so they can be seen as more righteous than the Pope.

I am not saying he's tremendous, but neither is he a satanic mouthpiece.

With respect to crap-coins. You realize we are running Christianity-Core over here right? Protestantism are hard forks, and anything beyond o.g. protestant are meme-religions that will go to 0 when the strip mall they took over is bulldozed.

Replying to Avatar David Caseria

Bitcoiners Should Be Catholic

With skepticism and moral relativism more prevalent than ever, it's unsurprising that people are inclined to think one's religion has the same level of importance as a favorite sports team. However, everything in life is ordered toward a highest intrinsic good. It is vital to acknowledge what that good is. The Catholic deposit of faith supports principles Bitcoiners cherish, agreeing on what is truly good.

We believe in objective truth.

A signature is valid, or it's not; a transaction is confirmed or not; a block is accepted or not. These are the fundamental objective truths that form the basis of Bitcoin. These truths are not subjective to personal judgment or the whims of politicians. Grounded in mathematics, Bitcoin takes its form in the objective reality of the universe. Yet, many people today don't believe there are objective truths, or at least, if there are objective truths, they think we can't know what they are. However, it is contradictory to say it is true that there is no truth. Objective truth describes reality, so it is true or false for everyone. Since religion, properly understood, describes reality, its central claims are objective and can be investigated. Any religion worth pursuing puts objective truth in the middle of its dogmas. Catholics believe β€œMan tends by nature toward the truth.” (CCC 2467) Central to the Christian claim is that God is the truth: β€œI am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6). Bitcoiners are some of the only people in our secular world who understand objective truth.

We believe in solidarity.

A society maintains a proper monetary order when the hardest money becomes the only money (Copernicus-Gresham's Law). Furthermore, Bitcoin is a consensus protocol. The network rules bind every participant together, and we all share in the fruits of the network. Users, miners, and developers depend on each other to maintain the network's health. Similarly, the Church teaches all creation orders toward solidarity: "Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity, based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all." (Sollicitudo rei Socialis 39) Humans are social animals who flourish in a community bound together toward common objectives. Bitcoiners intuitively grasp this fundamental Catholic social teaching.

We believe in subsidiarity.

While the Bitcoin network is a shared resource for the common good, it is not a collectivist enterprise. Not your keys, not your coins, flows from the ethic of subsidiarity: β€œA community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.” (Centesimus annus 48) Fiat currencies have perverted this principle by introducing the unnatural institution of the central bank. Bitcoin rightly reorders money management back to the lowest level of society: the family, who can hold their keys to save, earn, spend, and invest their own money with sovereignty. Finally, β€œthe principle of subsidiarity is opposed to all forms of collectivism. It sets limits for state intervention. It aims at harmonizing the relationships between individuals and societies. It tends toward the establishment of true international order.” (CCC 1885) Bitcoiners understand the proper international order Catholics have been discussing for centuries and are working toward making it a reality.

Bitcoiners should discern the Catholic faith to deepen their understanding of these principles that resonate deeply with the ethos of Bitcoin. Catholicism offers more than a belief system. It provides a path to spiritual fulfillment and a community grounded in timeless truths, with teachings that will always be true, like the immutable ledgers we keep on our full nodes. Joining the Catholic Church means embracing a tradition that stands the test of time and offers profound purpose and social cohesion in accordance with the eternal law. Join our journey to seek the truth.

Excellent premise, and beautifully argued as well. I wonder about trust, however. One of the main points of the practice of Catholicism is to grow in trust of the Father. It is what Adam failed to do and what Christ did perfectly. "Father in to your hands I commend my spirit."

Faith and trust seem to be intrinsic to the nature of reality. See Kant's critique of reason, GΓΆdel's incompleteness theorem, and Descartes. We can't know without believing something unproven or trusting in someone.

Bitcoiners, however, like to talk about trustless protocols. Many see Bitcoin as trustless money and want to apply similar approaches to other forms of human activity. This is a false notion.

Nothing can operate in a truly trustless fashion. We trust the core developers, we trust our hardware, we trust our cryptography, we trust that 50% of miners won't collude, we trust that societal protections will keep someone from beating us with a wrench for our keys.

I like to reason things out for myself, but I cannot prove my base assumptions, nor can I personally verify all the spiritual and behavioral guides that I need to live well. I need to outsource my reasoning to something I trust. For me the only guide that has agreed 100% with everything I can reason for myself is the Catholic Church. Maybe that is because I am a cradle catholic, but it's batting average is too good. Giving it my trust as a proxy to trusting God is practical.

So I agree, Bitcoiners need the Catholic Church, but not only as a natural fit, but also as a correction.

Make sure you take time to pray, go to bed on time (without electronics) and get up at first alarm.

I am speaking from current experience wherein I am unmotivated, shirk prayer, stay up too late, bring my phone to bed, and get up too late. It is a depressing cycle.

#nostr does not yet have all the types of conversations I want, but man is it easier to create a high quality feed.

Kind of. You don't have to generalize to all the primes if you can show that at least one of the co-prime pairs is "small." small being less than the square of the largest prime in your list.. as long as your list is all the primes up to that prime.

If the co-prime twins are evenly distributed then this shouldn't be a problem there will be an ever increasing number of twin prime candidates less than the square as the list gets longer. But the best I can do there is show that there will be PI[(p_n-1)/(p_n-2)] / 2 less than PI[pn-1] / 2

PI being the product of all the terms. Unfortunately the numbers get so massive compared to p_n^2 that I can't really say anything conclusive even though there should be plenty. I need headspace to think about larger patterns of gaps between gaps of primes. I.e. if the twin primes are far enough apart then they need to spread out enough to have some less than p_n^2.