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Humble Bitcoiner

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Ry 3w ago 💬 2

Should be easier now, ya? Thanks for the inspiration. I need to do another one.

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Global Sports Central

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Ry 4mo ago 💬 1

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Micael

#asknostr

Guys I have a loved one fighting with cancer now.

I want books recommendations to help in this particular situation.

You know those that are usually suppressed by the mainstream….

Cheers!

Ry 5mo ago

The Metabolic Approach to Cancer

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calle

Ry 9mo ago

You old zipper neck, you

Replying to DEAD ACCOUNT

That's amazing 🤩, wish I could use or pay with #bitcoin in the states 😉

Ry 10mo ago 💬 1

Do you ask to? By simply asking, “would you like to be paid in cash, card, or bitcoin?” I’ve orangepilled my landscaper and favorite booth at the farmers market. Many laugh, but a few are Bitcoin curious and all that’s needed is to start a conversation.

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EZ

Facebook's hyper agressive growth strategy includes targeting fresh internet users in poor countries where most people access internet via mobile.

They partner with local mobile operators to offer 'free unlimited data' for accessing Facebook and its ecosystem, while the rest of the internet is 'paid.'

For most of the new internet users, Facebook is the internet. It's the most efficient data harvesting operation, maybe ever.

Ry 10mo ago

Damn if AOL could see what they missed out on…

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Lyn Alden

A lot of sci fi and fantasy books tell an incomplete story and then go on for tons of books and thousands of pages to complete it.

What if, and hear me out since I know it’s weird, you actually tell a full story in under 400 pages.

Ry 10mo ago

I’d rather read about fixing the broken money. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Daniel Prince

When you were looking out of the window whilst trapped in a classroom at school, what did you wish you were doing instead?

Go do that.

That was your subconscious or your gut yelling at you of who you were supposed to be.

Ry 10mo ago 💬 1

This one hits hard Daniel… I never focused in school. But what was I thinking about? 🤔

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hopelessromantic

Ry 11mo ago 💬 1

Call the falconers. This is how we fight the drones. Trained birds of prey.

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Ken Berry, MD

Please explain this chart.

Think carefully before replying...

Ry 11mo ago

Humans need pain and discomfort to properly feel and appreciate rewards. In many western, especially US, countries, we live in a comfort-only, instant and constant dopamine hit society. It’s too easy and too comfortable. So people feel depressed, and they don’t know why. Then the drug makers literally write the book on how to diagnose mental health disorders. The incentives are all wrong, and the doctors are (unbeknownst to them) trained on biased science, and they do what they think is best for the patient, and what is easiest and most rewarding for them, and write a prescription. Over, and over, and over again.

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Mr. Sat Stacker

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Ry 11mo ago

They were back ordered when I got mine too. Sign up for the email, and when they become available buy right away. Didn’t take too long to get one as I recall.

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Solosatoshi.com 🇺🇸

The Bitaxe project will be adding a new open-source Bitcoin home miner to the series of revolutionary devices!

The Bitaxe GT (Gamma Turbo).

Here's what we know:

Ry 11mo ago

Sign. Me. Up!

Ry 11mo ago

I need another bitaxe! But I’m out of fiat so winning this will square me right up!

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Mr. Sat Stacker

#asknostr

Late last year I bought a bitaxe miner and was expecting it a week ago. I learned they delivered to the wrong address and got a refund.

So back at square 1.... I'm in the US.... where can I buy a bitaxe from a reliable source?

Ry 11mo ago 💬 1

I got mine in US from nostr:npub1k8s3skyy5mg5h07w8zvuk5lgrqadmejz7fjdpl60zaznw8sxzdxqxm6y88 thinking of getting another one

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Lyn Alden

I hear this a lot, but one of the ways I gained this skill was by being a generalist in a room full of specialists. A systems engineer. The dumbest person in a room of specialists.

I previously ran the engineering and finances of an aircraft simulation facility. I had a lead computer scientist, a lead IT manager, a lead mechanical engineer, a lead electronic engineer (which was initially my area), a lead aeronautics engineer, a lead graphics engineer, and various juniors, and together we had to1) build and maintain a set of aircraft simulators and 2) repeatedly customize those aircraft simulators for individual clients and then I 3) had to oversee the finances of this. And we'd have upper-management requirements (fiscal goals and limits, broader strategic priorities, etc).

I started as a junior electrical engineer, became the senior electrical engineer, and then moved into that more broad-based tech leader role.

In that role, I had to balance all of those things. I would run meetings, but talk the least. It would be 70% initial questions or letting others speak freely, 20% follow-up questions or purposeful counter-points to sort out the differences between competent people, and then 10% declarations or decisions from me. And even when I made those, I would go to each senior party privately and gather their opinions to look for critical flaws to see if an error correction was needed somewhere along the way after that.

Several of my senior engineers who reported to me were older and more experienced than me, so rather than acting the hot-shot, I would talk to each humbly and view my role as like, "someone has to do this whole organization thing, so please help me maximize your input to that."

Someone had to be the person who was the second best at each of the disciplines, and read people and technicals enough to know who should be promoted to lead each of those disciplines and when they were speaking out of competence vs out of pride or other human details. That was my job. I had to make all the separate engineering disciplines clear enough, and agree enough, to chart a single path forward, and then agreed to by upper management who had way less technical details.

And that came down to what is known by systems engineers as the "critical path". In other words, the critical path is the hardest or most expensive or most contested thing of a given project, so you can focus on solving that as the core, so that the periphery would follow.

That role sounds cool, but there's another side of the coin. I realized early I'd never be focused enough to dominate a specialty as some of the hyper-focused specialists I knew could. I could nail an individual project at like a B+ or A- level, but not an A+ level. I was more drawn to the broader picture from the start. I could be a B or B+ at everything, and an A- in my speciality, but I couldn't care enough even about my specialty to bring it to an A+ level. I wanted to be someone who helped all the A+ specialists come together.

I've since applied this systems engineering mindset to analyzing global macro flows, but also to analyze things like bitcoin or major tech themes like energy or AI. Some of it is instinctual or experienced, but other parts are easily teachable.

And the most easily teachable concept is to always think of the critical path. Picture multiple parallel things that all have to go right to get to the goal, and then imagine the hardest of those paths. That's the path to then focus on in terms of realizing how time consuming or expensive it'll be to solve, and how it might be accelerated.

Lots of other things are easily solvable with some resources, but the critical path is the real project-maker or project-killer. Across discliplines, formally or informally, try to be able to identify it, or identity the right people and ask/watch them enough to help you identify it.

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Ry 11mo ago

Loved reading more about your background Lyn. Thanks for sharing

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jimmysong

GM, Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate Boomer book and reflective of why that generation is so self-absorbed and high time preference.

Ry 11mo ago

Goddamnit are you going to make me reread it now? It was my summer reading assignment before freshmen year. Been a long time

Ry 11mo ago

I frickin love the #bitcoin community. Watching people rally behind bitcoin only or no reserve, to fight the corrupt xrp bullshit. It’s a fucking movement like I’ve never seen in my life on a national scale. Be proud bitcoiners. And keep pushing. 💪🏼

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x92vbb

Actually this would indeed affect almost every fucking UTXO, even from exchanges, because the majority of tx could be linked on its way from the coinbase to your wallet to a "crime".

If an exchange by chance ever accepted tainted coins, ALL coinjoins out of that tx will be considered illegal.

This would be a nuke.

Ry 11mo ago

Sure. And guess what happens when EVERYBODY is guilty of a crime? It’s nasty and dirty and corrupt and they arrest you just because they want to- which happens already, or it’s unenforceable. In any case, they can’t get cold storage coins without consent. If the goal is protecting my assets, Bitcoin fixes this.

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L0la L33tz

So the Trump's 'crypto* EO is out, and I'm seeing lots of weak bitches cry that its a shitcoin reserve.

Given the fact that the proposed digital assets stockpile would possibly be built on *seized* coins, let me give you a quick introduction to forfeiture law, and why crying for daddy to please please make its pile of flying horseshit "bitcoin only" *literally* the most retarded thing you could be wishing for, ever.

Forfeiture law – or civil asset forfeiture, to be precise – is this fun little game the government plays in which it does not have to accuse you of a crime to confiscate your property.

Instead of accusing you of a crime, the Government claims that the asset itself has facilitated a crime, and can therefore be seized by the Government.

In civil asset forfeiture, there is no innocent until proven guilty. To get your property back, *you* have to prove that the Government is wrong – which turns out pretty complicated seeing how its impossible to prove a negative.

Civil asset forfeiture results in cases that are not filed against a person, but filed against the property itself. This results in fun little cases like US vs. Binance Account XYZ, or US vs. 123 Wilmington Drive.

To extend this idea to Bitcoin, in a civil forfeiture case, the US Government is in theory able to seize *any bitcoin* that has *ever* come out of a criminal transaction.

Made some bitcoin for selling a service? Bought some bitcoin on a P2P exchange? Unless you checked that the UTXO you received has never touched a criminal transaction in its entire history, your coins can be confiscated, and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.

As Cato Institute points out in its piece on civil forfeiture reform, forfeiture law is routinely misused to enrich the Government – Philadelphia, for example, has seized over 1000 homes, over 3000 vehicles, and over $44M in cash over an 11 year period. In 2010, the city tried to seize *an entire fucking house* because a woman's grandson sold less than $200 of weed out of the basement.

If you think that taxes are bad, civil asset forfeiture is straight up evil.

It doesn't matter whether you participated in a crime. It doesn't matter whether you know that someone else participated in a crime. If it involved your property, even if said property was fully legally acquired, the Government will come and take it.

Civil asset forfeiture is the most insane Government funding technique that is out there, and you most definitely do not want this declared as a strategic means to pump the Government's bitcoin bags.

You are *literally* asking the Government to steal your coins with a practice that *every* libertarian advocate wants to see abolished.

Ry 11mo ago 💬 2

Civil asset forfeiture is purely evil. That said, the whole point of bitcoin is P2P and permissionless. They can call my coins guilty all they want, but they can’t actually seize them without my consent.

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HODL

😂

Ry 11mo ago

Actually the cia could use a bit more dei.