The first part is for sure correct.

The second part… that’s Saylor’s axiom and that’s personal to him… mine would be kill your heroes and look at the world, make up your own mind… many of the highest intellect people I know trade because it’s an incredibly challenging game to consistently win. They love the game, even after they have their money.

Thank you CK

This one got quite personal and philosophical.

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Just finishing up our summer stay in Vancouver. Thanks for all the zaps, I got the chance to spend them all due to the great merchant adoption in this city.

Props to the CoinOS team for helping make that happen.

Child of the 70s I see.

We shouldn’t care.

We should care who builds the hyperloops and matter transport beams. Assuming people value their most scarce asset - time.

Two medium orders plus coffee.

We were lucky in that we took direct flights from HK and our friends arranged pickup from airport including the ferry ride. Decent mix of options from backpackers to high road lux resorts, will be fam friendly or not depending on where you stay.

Checking out Boracay, the Bitcoin island. Breakfast paid by sats that were zapped my way! Thank you Nostr.

I think voice social media (Clubhouse, Airchat) is the current arc of new innovation.

Voice lends itself to “many to many” (not broadcast like video), yet solves the toxicity / flame war issue found in text only.

It’s like writing for Coindesk / Bitcoin Magazine / Kraken, except for not having a boss and being paid in sats.

Don’t forget to hook up your account with Wallet of Satoshi so you can get zapped some sats.

I have memories of HK in the late 80s. It was super gritty. Stinky smells wafting in the humid air, sneezing into a tissue would reveal soot you breathed in, seas of people. It’s much cleaner now. And less people on the streets, despite an increase in population, I think that’s the impact of the Internet.

Yes if you are doing it right, because you should use a re-shipping service as an extra layer of opsec.

The scarcity of gold is about to change. #Bitcoin.

Really, it's a race to develop space mining tech, the cost to orbit is already becoming feasible.

References:

[1] $500-$1000 per kg to LEO

https://space.com/2032-asteroid-mining-key-space-economy.html

[2] cost to LEO chart

https://futuretimeline.net/data-trends/6.htm

[3] Starship $10/kg to LEO

https://wccftech.com/elon-musk-starship-launch-cost-reiterate/

https://void.cat/d/B6joBadcpDoRwhXprbvtBa.webp

Thanks. Good to be here.

So the Lightning Network channels are declining while node count is up.

Does this mean the channel paths are calcifying around well worn routes? Any LN experts out there know what's causing this divergence?

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My bank decided to re-issue a credit card due to fraud risk

My cellphone is on the old credit card number

Bank logins use that cellphone as a 2FA (WTF)

So the bank effectively shut down access to their own online banking

The entertainment value is immense

Now wondering if central banks will be comedy central when trying to execute a CBDC

I really like the concept using macro liquidity, I’ve been wanting to get a feed into a Global Liquidity Index to do some indicators as well.

It’s a great point since AWS captures the compute environment and shapes some of the language environment. Unlike AWS, blockchain L1s are notoriously hard to change once in production. Thus they become disadvantaged against challenger L1s.

Key point is that a protocol has longevity and lock-in like the Internet’s TCP/IP and HTTP for the web. Meanwhile languages each have their time in the sun and then slowly lose favour. ETH is a language / compute environment so it doesn’t mean it will last forever like a protocol. BTC is more of a protocol. The time is coming when apps will not be written for ETH because it’s too long in the tooth, and too hard to build on.