Hmm let's all think, 🤔, what is the one major thing people had put into their bodies over the last few years? May be something slightly rushed, experimental and forced on many.

Something that alters things at a RNA level (just temporarily of course). Something with 10s of thousands of serious and life threatening reactions. Something that when people had loved ones die or get very ill and spoke up about it they were shouted down by media and bureaucrats as "conspiracy theorists".

You know like a "vaccine" that was so ineffective that they had to change the definition of vaccine so they could call it one? One people got and still got the illness it was to prevent and still spread it.

Then doctors and politicians simply said GET MORE OF THEM and many millions of dumbed down 🐏 lined up and did it, AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN and ONE MORE TIME, and they still are shrieked at, "gEt a bOOsTeR" and many still do. 💉 💉 💉 💉 💉 ♾️

Of course clearly none of that happened, it is so insane there is NO WAY about 70% of the US population went along with it. I mean we are not that stupid!

Or are we? 🤷‍♂️

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I have the unfortunate situation where a co-worker will not stop talking about "the ICE network... I just nod and carry on walking 😁

My friend likes to add a bit of French vanilla non-dairy creamer to her coffee and asked me to look at the ingredients to see if it’s healthy or not.

Creamer is an ounce-for-ounce contender for the worst food on the planet.

The ingredients are: sugar water, water, sugar, seed oil, isolated milk protein, and chemicals.

One of my least favorite routine things about modern society is how comically bad our food is. People look back at how bad it was having cocaine in Coca Cola and stuff like that, but when you add all processed food together in a typical person’s daily consumption, it’s arguably worse than that.

What's a good amount of sats to open a #Lightning channel with?

#asknostr

Ever notice that the longest running and most impactful “world” projects aren’t from government agencies or large corporations anymore?

Manhattan Project: 5 years

Getting to the moon: 9 years

Closed source and finished 👆

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Open source and ongoing 👇

Linux: 32 years and runs 90% of world compute

Bitcoin: 15 years and is transfiguring the world’s economic paradigms

Nostr: well, it’s a bit young yet but it’ll probably bury a few fistfuls of billionaires

Yeehaw. What other comparables are there?

🤔

I find it interesting that, in Romans 1, one consequence of God's judgment is effectively "don't reproduce" - a revocation of the command and blessing of Genesis 1 & 2, to "be fruitful and multiply."

The only good thing about inflation is it reduces the load on the economy by debt for housing and transportation. The problem of course is these assets suffer from being overpriced as a direct result.

it was voluntarily provocative (posting this on nostr) but it's true. i'm not sure how that relates to elon musk... isn't he libertarian i.e. in favor of less taxes and a smaller state?

correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure there’s no guarantee how many sats a share in these etfs are worth

on a dollar value, they’ll do fine but on a per sat basis investing into an etf in a bull day dilutes the per share sats value of everyone else in the fund

the reverse happens on bear days, afaict. here’s the lil scenario i walked through to convince myself of this dynamic.

100 shares, 100k sats. current price is $2/sat. $200k total NAV

ea share worth 1k sats

lets say the price moves up, to

$4/sat, $400k NAV, 100k sats

i buy 10 shares, $40k in, buys 10k sats

110 shares, $440k/110k sats

1k sats/share

market moves: day price is $5. $40k buys 8k sats

110 shares, 108k sats

989sats/share

market moves: day price is $2. $40k buys 20k sats

110 shares, 120k sats

1.09k sats/share

the big question is: is the price per share sold updated for the sats they acquire? or do they just accept money at price X, buy as many sats as they can at day-end and that’s what gets added to the fund?

More time to stack some extra #sats

I see many people that want to "fix Bitcoin" with all kind of mental gymnastic "solutions" that are NOT Bitcoin, but nobody is looking to fix what is obviously not working well: force closing channels.

Right now, Bitcoin and LN works as is supposed to be.

It is not a real problem opening channels in high fee environment. You can fix that with batch opening channels and consolidate the fees.

The problem is when you get a force close channel, because on the path you got a shity Tor node, with shity maintenance and your HTLC got stuck on the way, then triggered the force closing. Or whatever other reason for that force closing that can cost you a fortune.

We can transact very well and fairly cheap over LN if we do not have all these crazy force closures in high fee env.

I can live with opening channels in high fee env. Is a cost that node runners could asume it and can be manageable.

But I cannot live with the threat that some day, some payment got stuck for reasons that I cannot control and for that my channel got closed.

Spend and replace works perfectly fine on LN to refill your emptied channels.

Please STOP looking into bullshit solutions and fix the damn force closing channels. Then we will have another 10+ years of smooth adoption, meanwhile we can build more robust solutions for billions.