Confucius say “man who hit head against wall enough times; must choose wall wisely”

The meme in a reply to this note that makes me laugh the hardest before I go to bed tonight will win 10000sats.

You can get an extra 5000 sats if you win and have also shared this note.

Good luck to all and happy December. 🥳

'the price of bitcoin' posts are back I see lol. That respite didn't last long 🥲

11yr 4mo 3 days as an enlisted Chinese linguist in the Navy. 2019 out and into MSFT as a Site Reliability Engineer. then Fundrise as full stack dev. then sixgen.io as a sales/dev for a cyber infra product. now mining ops as a dev.

I have lots of random PRs for docs and such. worked on Fedimint UI/setup for a bit under a nym. have been contributing some to Sv2. I am def not a prolific OSS dev by any means. you can find some Delving Bitcoin posts I've done as well under the average-gary handle.

3yrs ago today I first bought some sats on Coinbase.

since then...

node runner.

key holder.

meetup organizer.

code contributer

BV room organizer.

university lecturer.

the rabbit hole is deep and vast... Onward.

Thought about this a lot early on in my bitcoin journey. Early adoption would have been slower. Price moves would be more muted. Otherwise, I think this system would have worked out just fine...if it survived the risky early years.

The relative growth of the monetary base still trends to 0, it just never actually gets there. This is a much closer analog to the gold supply schedule. Monero and Grin both went with this option.

IMO the hard cap was the right choice to give bitcoin the best chance of survival during the riskiest period of it's existence. Satoshi was always thinking long term. 🐐

"there are too many NIPs, I liked when the protocol was just a half-dozen NIPs"

"we will need hundreds of thousands of NIPs in order to standardize all forms of human communication"

Feel like I was reading everything at that point in time, but isn’t ringing a bell. Will check it out soon. Thanks.

He’s killing it lately with the ocp2.0 reporting and stablecoin stuff, and his fight! I was certain the maxi god would strike him down by now

rumor has it satoshi came to btc++; anyway here’s peter k todd talking about replace by feerate can mitigate a lot of problems with tx bumping

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Why do the politicians come and get dinner during my shift?

My evil little goblin brain always tells me to fuck with their food.