There’s a huge conversation going on in my notifications about this, so I thought I’d just make a post and let everyone weigh in.

Is spanking children effective/appropriate?

Dry aged shot of the month.

The Elegoo Neptune 4 Series printers are fairly capable machines for the price. Unlike the premium brands, they need a bit of profile tuning, but not an excessive amount. This is how TPU layers should look like, and all it took to get there was upping the volumetric flow rate a bit and altering a few line width settings.

Most printers have set the volumetric flow too high by default, this one had them set way too low. The direct drive extruder has more grip on flexible Filament than Elegoo thought.

#3Dprinting

My 10 year price target for bitcoin is $8,008,135

Heuristic:

Anyone who got to bitcoin before you did is smarter than you are.

You may not like it but accept it.

IMO it's the best node package. Their documention is also incredibly well written. I'm considering running another machines with StartOS. One for Bitcoin and one for non-bitcoin services. I'm glad that clearnet access is going to be improved and released soon.

As a fan of arm SBC, my main worries are energy consumption and proprietary BIOS. Even though coreboot has its blobs, it makes power efficiency better around 20-30%. Pine64 sells a risc-v SBC. Still early but my bet for the "perfect" server is a risc-v SBC with two nvme s2 native support.

The bullish case for Noderunners

Now that privacy is on the verge of being outlawed is the best time there has ever been to set up and run your own Bitcoin node.

This is probably going to sound like a sales pitch because it's coming from me, but that's really not the intention of this post.

It doesn't matter which node implementation you choose, just choose the one you want or whatever is the most convenient for you to get started. Run Core, run Knots, run Start9, run BTCpayServer, Parmanoodle, Citadel, my god, even Umbrel if you must.

The important thing is that it's YOUR node.

Think about it. We have ~18000 Bitcoin nodes online which is a laughable number when you compare it to the number of people on Nostr, Bitcoin talk and Twitter. At least three of those 18k are mine, and I suspect more people run multiple nodes, so the actual number of noderunning individuals is probably another magnitude smaller.

These Noderunners are serving the network, but much more importantly, they can verify that they get real Bitcoin when receiving UTXOs. And they can do so independently, over Tor, which means that, to this day, no one can stop them from doing so. With privacy services shutting down and wallet apps disappearing from appstores in certain jurisdictions, having your own money transmitter might not only come in handy, it could be the only way to transact if you have to.

No one knows what's going to happen next, but don't make the mistake to think the EU won't follow suit. Be prepared for the when your favorite wallet shuts down. Practice recovery with Sparrow or a similar wallet which allows you to connect to a node which is behind Tor. Preferably your own, but Uncle Jim Nodes work too. Ask your friends if you can't run your own.

At this point in time, individual Noderunners have not been targeted, because it's hard and the effort mostly outweighs the benefits for the gubberment, so far... And with every node coming online, it gets harder to take Bitcoin down. Which in return strengthens each and every one of us. A critical mass of NodeRunners is an unstoppable force, I don't claim to know when that critical mass is reached, but I am fucking sure it's not 18000.

So, what to do now? Bust out your Raspberry Pis, RockPros, old Laptops, iMacs, PCs. whatever you have and get to work. Build a node, run it and learn to connect to it. Do it before you need it. There's no need for a clearnet connection if you're not selling stuff or are otherwise uncomfortable with linking your public IP. Running it behind Tor is absolutely fine. No need for lightning either (but it's fun if you want to).

Too dystopian for you? GFY and take a look around. It's going to get worse before it can get better.

IF YOU DO NOT LIKE THE DIRECTION THINGS ARE HEADING. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

TALK IS CHEAP.

The All in Pod was a staple of the week for many of us.

When Chamath said stagflation wouldn’t happen a couple of years ago, his justification was that it couldn’t happen because he didn’t even know what stagflation meant.

People like Luke Gromen, James Lavish, Lyn Alden were consistently providing clearly researched work with explanations on macro without making claims with that kind of hubris.

Those doing the work were all Bitcoiners.

They’re the opposite of chamath and his ilk. Jason too. We daydream about having Bitcoiners buy the Knicks one day out of spite but that’s for another post.

What’s great about the group of Bitcoiners, is we’ve all had to admit that we were all kind of full of shit about what we knew about money.

That’s why we’re having fun.

People that can admit they were wrong are also capable at laughing at themselves and not taking themselves seriously. These are genuinely fun and interesting people to be around.

All bias aside, they are special people and very rare.

Those that can’t admit when they’re wrong are consistently in a tailspin to avoid the inevitable ego death. They turn into something weird then dark.

The next phase of FUD is these types of people getting behind the money transmitter definition change. Be on the lookout and call it out as soon as you see it.

They will do anything to be able to say I told you so. The changing of definitions is their saving grace from embarrassment and having to admit they were wrong. They most likely have VC money and political sway.

The fight you stage is here. We have to be prepared and quick to act before team ego gets momentum. They need Bitcoiners to be illegally transacting somehow or their ego death is certain.

I can't help but to see parallels between this "Money Service Business" applies to noncustodial services and The Pirate Bay's struggle against copyright trolls and, later, the Swedish State.

TPB also didn't host any illegal copyrighted content, they merely facilitated users sharing it beweem themselvs.

Samourai's Whirlpol, also didn't touch useers funds a merely passed message.

To me, we are fighting the same semantics

The peace of mind that comes with being debt free is priceless. Life isn't only about number go up.

I have to keep the million to myself, my wife even thinks I’m crazy

So Iran likely spent over $100M attacking Israel and Israel spent over $1B shooting down nearly all of Iran's drones and missiles.

What a fucking waste.