Yes - which means that either the Bitcoin network has some kind of internal timepiece or it references an external clock in order to know how long ten minutes is, or else the difficulty adjustment wouldn't be possible. That's where I'm hung up.

Seems like referencing an external timepiece is the opposite of antifragile but I haven't found a good answer yet for how this precisely works.

I have a question I'm not sure where to look for an answer.

Bitcoin's target block time is 10 minutes, but what does it use as a reference point?

What clock does it look at as the source of 'truth'?

GM

I just smashed my technical interview and I feel unstoppable.

First of 4 interviews tomorrow.

3 years of PoW put to the test. Looking forward to it.

LFG 🔥

💜

GM

That just means you were outside. A win a lot of us can't claim 😂

On a long enough timeline, any one person's stack will equals the block subsidy.

Hell, on a long enough timeline, any one person's stack, no matter how modest, will one day equal the yearly issuance 😶

I'll take a look, thanks for the suggestion 🤝

Appreciate you 🤝

I'll take a look tomorrow when I get out of the fiat mine.

I just need to push past the frustration of seeing it working and then suddenly not. I'll do some reading and then fuck around and find out.

Tomorrow is a new day 🌅

I really hate dealing with nodes.

The one I've been using for the last year is turning off randomly. No clue what's wrong. Suspect it's the raspi so I thought I would install core onto a laptop.

Thought it would be a good chance to unshackle myself from Windows and try Ubuntu.

Days later, halting steps. Ubuntu installed. Core is verified and installed. Blockchain is syncing.

For a few hours anyway. App crashes for no reason, and now it's refusing to start, even with

'snap connect bitcoin-core:removable media'

from the command line.

For fuck's sake. I like Ubuntu well enough from what I've seen, but it was a huge mistake since I've never touched Linux before. Seriously considering abandoning the whole thing and going back to Windows. At least I understand how that shit works well enough to properly troubleshoot.

Ugh. I need to go to bed and look at this with fresh eyes tomorrow.

I was 2 years clean before I relapsed. Just quit again for the nth time.

Stay vigilant, but you got this. congrats on kicking the habit. One of the hardest things to do.

I'm not sure, his heyday as a Bitcoiner was before my time. Every video I've seen him in demonstrate him as an incredibly articulate champion of the protocol.

Even if he is a shitcoiner it's hard not to respect the work he's done.

I wouldn't mind knowing more about the background here myself.

Enjoy the ups and acknowledge the inevitable downs. Knowing like-minded people on here, and owning the peace of mind that comes with hard money definitely helps.

Hope you have a great weekend 🤙

Friday night. Cooking a bit of top sirloin, vibing to one of my 90's mix CDs. Wife is curled up with a book in the next room.

Bitcoin and Nostr humming in the background, conquering the world block by block, zap by zap.

Nothing is perfect, but this feels pretty damned close. Clown world can't get me down.

There's going to be a day when it is no longer possible to buy sats, at any price.

When that day comes, I'm going to be heartbroken. Somewhere along the way buying became less about saving for the future and more of a ritual of wellness.

It reminds me I'm on the right path. It helps me get through the bad times by reminding me that I lucked into witnessing the dawn of humanity's greatest flourishing.

What a time to be alive and exchanging slave money for Satoshi's gift.

GN plebs.

I'm taking the 100 days of code python course.

It's decent. I'd say worth the $ if it's on sale. I use it in conjunction with 3 other Udemy python courses to get multiple angles on the same material. Seems to help a bit. When one doesn't explain in a way that I grok, the others help fill in the blanks.

Yeah, I realized that too late. So me having coffee with 'Grey' is what I'm known by, for better or worst.

Oh well 🤷

Damn, that was quick. WoS is pretty springy these days.

Cyberterrorism. The banking system is imploding in slow motion anyways. Why not add a 9/11-esque attack to cover its collapse, in addition to providing justification for CBDCs?

Obscure with one hand, offer 'solution' with the other.

With the RESTRICT act, it feels like within a decade the masses will be using a trough of gov't approved surveillance apps and nothing else.

Funny how Nostr has arrived in time to help fight back against it.

How do you expect to have a full recovery when you're not even pocket steak'ing?

I prefer 28k to 58k

Double the sats per slave dollar. Who can argue with that?

Definitely a 6

The banks are failing. The next halving is imminent.

Plebs are ready.

Also see: the English, and their language.

Signal.

Thanks for the reminder, at this point just staying humble and grinding your stack upwards is the best decision that you can make.

💀