Jesus was born six months after John the Baptist, according to the biblical record (Luke 1:36), and John was conceived a little after Zachariah's service in the temple, which is an annual event in the late summer or early autumn, if I recall correctly, which puts John's birth in the late spring or early summer the following year, and so Jesus in the early winter.
The Theology of Bailey Building and Loan
Why It’s a Wonderful Life is the greatest Christmas movie of all time!
Like all good Christmas movies, it’s actually about Advent and preparing ourselves for the change that Christ brings to the world. It’s a Wonderful Life is the greatest Christmas movie of all time because it demonstrates the difference Christ makes in issuing His second greatest commandment.
This film demonstrates a world that would be dominated by the love of money over the love of neighbor. Pottersville is a real possibility if good men choose to not act.
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!
Thought I was going to learn a totally new Bitcoin feature, then I realized the guy just invented betting on BIPs 😂
If trade and labor are supposed to be charity, money given in exchange is a token of thanks. Monetary exchange is, in essence, a declaration that someone did good toward oneself. In a real sense, it makes the "what" money is into information, yet it requires anchor in reality.
A proposed definition: token of thanks, abstracted trade, and evidence of goodwill
Another popular definition: medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value
I would love to hear your thoughts!
Trade & labor are willing the good of neighbor, but what's that?
It all boils down to Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. Each service we render and good we deliver result in some increase in goodness, truth, and beauty in or for the other. This can become our aim, and we can then better fulfill that purpose to which God has called us as professionals.
PS:
Nothing lacking beauty can be called good.
Nothing untrue can be truly beautiful.
Nothing without goodness is true.
Goodness makes a thing more beautiful.
Truth makes a thing better.
Beauty makes a thing more true.
Good categorization and bulk tools
Loving an enemy of this kind means to will his highest good, and that is to do our best to ensure he achieves the beatific vision, and this requires his repentance. This does not mean we preserve his mortal life but use this opportunity to bring about the deepest contrition possible.
For this circumstance, what would elicit contrite repentance more than an impending end of life? Anyone who cowers at the suggestion is not brave. Courage and solemn justice are difficult virtues when a man has unjustly taken the life of an innocent, and I do not envy the responsibility of the agent of the state, but it must be done.
This merits much discussion.
Nearly All Wars for 150 Year Were Fought for THIS Reason
After over a century of fighting, we are hardly any closer to unanimously saying people can just keep their stuff and help out each other.
The reason is because people don't know trade and labor are for love of neighbor.
#theologyofcommerce #mutualprofit #business #personalproperty #propertyrights #bitcoinfixesthis (nearly) #podcast
Charlie Kirk, Trump, Aaron Danielson, children attending mass before school, young women on busses. It's getting worse and quickly. The media oligarchs, activist judges, and legislators of ill will are complicit. We are quickly approaching a hot civil war, and it is currently one-sided.
Was that the shot heard around the world?
Pray for Charlie Kirk.
Excellent! I am also very surprised that is actually AI! It sounds so human.
So good!
I am of a really strong 'Twenty Øne Pilots' kick and thoroughly enjoying it
Where are my fellow TØP fans?
#twentyonepilots #music
https://theologyofcommerce.com/blog/article/on-labor-trade-a-sacramental/
Getting the ball rolling on my rebrand has been slow going, but I finally have my thesis hosted at the new domain.
Make stuff with your kids! This was more educational than days or possibly weeks of "normal" school.
Procedure, importance of planning, following directions (we had to scrap one part), and seeing a small project go from ideation to planning to production and to final product. Honestly, the fact that he made a mistake on a part was highly beneficial, especially when he saw the purpose later on of the feature he cut off.
This tab confused him at first as he made his cuts, and so he didn't keep them, but he later saw their purpose.
#education #homeschooling #mechanicalengineering #engineering
"Just don't get divorced" ... or "do the sorts of things that make them *want* to stay with you"? 😂
I recently celebrated 10 years with my wife. It simultaneously seems weird to me that we've been mapped that long, yet also it would be more weird otherwise.
Makes me wonder what other things crop up in other mixes! Like, maybe Indians and Russians make funny dietary needs with many generations of herbivore from one side and near carnivores on the other 🤷♂️ interesting thing to think about
Resetting my payment routing profile fixed it!
