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Mad Philosopher
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Google keeps asking for my birthday to prove that I’m over 18. But I’ve had the account for over 20 years! You figure it out, thank you very much. 🧐

I just realized the other day that the essential philosophy of hodling is just turning us into savers like our grandparents and great-grandparents were back in the day. It’s not really more complicated than that.

About a month ago, I started exploring how to setup an online store to accept Bitcoin. I looked into various frameworks and webservices that I could use. Then it hit me how simple it is. You don’t need any of that. You need two or three things, with the third being optional:

(1) Basic, self-hosted code to create a wallet address for a customer’s transaction.

(2) Run your own node that you can query to see that an invoice got paid to the above address.

(3) Access to a public/paid API to query for a realtime Bitcoin exchange rate, so you know how much to set the invoice for, if you want.

That’s pretty simple, I think.

On my farm, I’ll make a salad from dandelion greens, goose foot, and plantain. They all just grow among the grass in my yard. 😋

I’m currently reading _Amazing Grace_, the book about William Wilberforce and his 20-year fight to make this happen in the British Parliament and in British society. It’s an amazing story of a man who used his wealth and position to change an entire society, and ultimately the world, so that today we don’t give a second thought to the notions that one man should not own another and a society should care for its poor and vulnerable.