Learning by making mistakes seems to be my playbook 😂

I had a dream last night that I woke up startled from.

We were at the local train station arriving home after an overseas holiday.

Wife was carrying the baby and I was carrying all the bags.

I put a bag down on the ground to find a train ticket. A train came in to the station and a crowd of people rushed in kicking the bag onto the tracks… I was most flummoxed… then I woke up.

Very mundane but none of these things make sense… especially if you know me

I think you are both kind of right. Insurance as we know it is rotten with debt and perverse incentives. But risk pooling is good, in and of itself.

In a post-debt world, I would imagine mutual aid organized on a pure equity basis with digital contracts.

Nothing's perfect, but that would be pretty good and should be scale with minimal moral hazard

The ultimate ride or die bitcoin believers are our wives, how they hell did I manage to find my wife while bitcoin was at $200 each 😂

Insurance can only work in a fiat economy where money is printed to cover claims.

You pay the "loan" in reverse each month and hope they pay you in the end.

What do 2025 Bitcoin skeptics in 2025 have in common with 1995 Internet skeptics:

They've never used it

I still remember in 1995 trying to persuade my Dept of English professors to let me do my thesis on this newfangled thing called "The Internet".

None of them had used it. But they all had an opinion about it. And they were all happy to tell me why my research proposal was risky and reckless, and why the Internet itself wouldn't amount to much.

Fast forward to 2025, same vibes. Plenty of Bitcoin skeptics, plenty of people calling it reckless and risky. Once again, not one of them has used it, let alone researched it.

Back in 1995, it turned out that the opinion of one 20-something student who had studied and used The Internet was more informed than a team of college professors who hadn't.

Same is true today, the opinion of a Gen-Z who has studied and used Bitcoin is more informed than a team of economists, journalists, or financial advisors who haven't

Insurance is a scam. Fiat banking in reverse.

What is this?

good morning and merry christmas 🥰🎄☕

i am bleary eyed drinking coffee by the tree. always knew today would be a tired day: last night i fulfilled my life long dream of being santa. i have always wanted to be santa, even before i wanted children. such a unique opportunity for magic. 🥲✨

i am feeling so blessed in this sleepy state. sitting at the bottom of the stairs with baby in arm. waiting to see my toddler’s face as he realizes the overnight transformation of the living room... so, so blessed...

sending love and smiles to all the world today. go play like a little kid. with trucks or blocks or video games. be a goof today, that is my wish. i love you.

My dyslexic grandfather was a baker in the army.

He would go in all buns glazing….

Merry Christmas everyone 😘

Turkey bad

Beef good

Merry Christmas #Austriches

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I totally understand not wanting to be an unwitting mule transporting illegal numbers like bits representing CP when processed correctly.

Mechanic notes that running a node makes you a sender and receiver of illegal numbers (such as binary digits representing CP) because nodes are in the business of sending and receiving blocks and consensus rules do not prevent certain sequences of bits from being embedded via op return (which had been done since forever) or inside cleverly constructed public keys (recent development).

So Mechanic wisely restricts his consideration to each nodes mempool, somehow believing that illegal numbers in RAM are somehow going to be treated differently than illegal numbers on disk (one can persist mempool to disk though and can chose not to evict any transaction ever if they wish). I don’t think the law will see it that way, but from a moral perspective I totally agree with Mechanic. I’m not sure a court will care whether you have to type or copy/paste a command or double click a file to reveal illegal numbers.

Here’s an interesting example: if you run a node, copy and paste this in to the terminal:

bitcoin-cli getblock 00000000000000ecbbff6bafb7efa2f7df05b227d5c73dca8f2635af32a2e949 0 | tail -c+92167 | for ((o=0;o<946;++o)) ; do read -rN420 x ; echo -n ${x::130}${x:132:130}${x:264:130} ; done | xxd -r -p | tail -c+9 | head -c184292 > bitcoin.pdf

Now you have your own copy of a 184 kB computer file that happens to be a PDF file with embedded images. But a similar command could reveal something vile and illegal.

Now I agree that the miner who mined the block containing illegal numbers should never knowingly do so. And forcing illegal numbers to be submitted directly to a miner does provide a chain of responsibility and a legal target for law enforcement, much like OFAC address ban list already does.

But as soon as miners figure out how to detect illegal numbers to rightly filter them, the bad people sending illegal numbers will just become more clever at obscuring the data. One must accept that bitcoin can and will be used to publish the most disgusting and evil of all illegal numbers eventually, if costs of doing so remain sufficiently low.

If one wanted to be as “blameless” as possible while running a node, perhaps the best way is to either run a satellite node that transmits nothing or run a conventional node in “blocks only” mode that forgoes the mempool entirely.

But this old issue of illegal numbers is something bitcoin has been dealing with for years. And if bitcoin can’t be censorship resistant enough to be unaffected by the worst of illegal numbers, it can’t be censorship resistant enough to serve as money. Just like proof of work “wastes” energy, bitcoin will transport illegal numbers if bad people make it do so.

I see old people everywhere 😂😂💜

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not enough!

Where is Palm Cove?

#memestr