Me too 🙃

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nostr:npub1spyzucqh3skwn9k6d4n4wl6k52evglxtrjzvs8et09sxxl9hrduq945j7y has been writing a great daily journal chronicling his trip in El Salvador: https://stacker.news/items/552530

Revisiting the Hong Kong of my childhood through cinema.

The larger threat to Bitcoin is not core devs adopting a central planner mentality and trying to force through an aggressive protocol change.

It's a lack of experienced developers familiar with the codebase, who are capable (and willing) to do deep code review on even the smallest updates.

The inflation bug of 2018, for instance, was not the result of some radical soft fork. It was the result of a minor optimization to bitcoin core that got merged with barely anyone looking at it.

Central planners are easy for even most non-technical bitcoiner to spot. What few seem to grasp is that by creating a culture that is hostile to developers - that treats every core dev as though they are an attack on bitcoin - you end up with insufficiently reviewed and maintained, yet vitally important software. The worst of all worlds.

What we should do is welcome developers with open arms, assume good intentions, and trust ourselves to be able to spot anyone developing a Mike Hearn complex.

This is inane.

It isn't unlimited or ungoverned funding, and it isn't risking destabilizing the network. Rather, it is the lack of open source developer funding is what risks destabilizing the network (lack of eyeballs doing deep code review).

If any of the founders that control premined shitcoins started donating to bitcoin developers, I'd be happy about it. They have no means of changing or destabilizing the network. I choose what software I run and the consensus rules I subscribe to.

Saylor does a masterful job of talking out of both sides of his mouth throughout this interview.

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I like the orange coin. I don't trust the orange man.

Christchurch

There’s nowhere better than New Zealand in fall 🍁

GE.

God that's a terrible rhyme

Never forget the 23rd of May. The day the big blockers tried to steal it all away.

GE Orange. Pura Vida and happy NY Disagreement Day 🧡

GE. Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day

Me, opening lightning channels with friends so they can receive payments

Thanks!

I don't mind some electronics for the enterainment system, or power windows, say. I just don't want a computer managing my car's engine and internal operation. And I sure as heck don't want a car that is recording me, constantly phoning home, and can be remotely disabled.

If I want to buy a car that isn't just a surveillance device on wheels, what are my options?

And how far back do I need to look? Should I be browsing the market for Rav4s from the 90s and then retrofit it with apple car play and better speakers?

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I recently visited Hong Kong for the first time in years. Even on my last visit in late-2019, when protesters were still out in full force, it was clear the city was dying - gradually being deformed from a bastion of freedom into ‘just another city in China’.

I grew up in HK in the 90s before my mother moved us to New Zealand. I would return every year to my visit my father, and spent my gap year and college summers there as well. The city had an incredible energy, and the sense of freedom was unlike anywhere else.

It’s sad that those who didn’t know it during that time have no point of reference, and can’t see what was lost. They just see what it is today: Shenzhen + the ability to use google without a VPN. For those that do know the Hong Kong of old, visiting today feels like watching one of those horror films where the murderer wears the face of their victim. Things superficially look the same, but soul is gone.

I had hoped to revisit some of my old haunts, including doing the Victoria Harbour Ferry Zig-Zag that leo@lightning.engineering charted out in a blog post: https://blog.liongrass.hk/2020/05/04/victoria-harbour-ferry-zigzag/#more-916. I found I had very little motivation, though. The weather and pollution were also abysmal, which mirrored my spirits and seemed appropriately funereal.

GM

GE

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.” - HL Mencken

So onchain BOLT12, basically?