If I understand correctly, in Portuguese how something is said may depend on the gender of the speaker. Do other languages do this?

Termux doesn't require opening local network on VPN with split tunneling. It would be nice if ported terminal app didn't require this.

I think one must be careful, especially with a renewed/discounted purchase, not to get a model with a locked bootloader. Most Verizon models in US I believe. When Amazon has one of their storewide sales, non current, but new pixels are often nicely discounted.

A prime example of government distortion of free markets. Sadly, providers of bitcoin backed loan products are not incentivized to oppose this tax because its avoidance is a significant driver of demand for such products.

I've been thinking of revisiting some Krishnamurti. You are inspiring me to do so. 🙏

Yes, but when you encounter other humans IRL, do still try to acknowledge them even if just a smile and nod 👍

It's a challenge for sure! My current lifestyle does not require optimal digital functionality, so a strictly FOSS graphene phone with an old iphone available in a pinch works. Tails meets my current laptop needs. Cool that you run qubes. Tried once on an old macbook, but couldn't jump through enough hoops. May have to retry sometime with a newer pc. Partly just venting my frustration with fountain's choice, so thank you for that opportunity 😉

Closed source proprietary software. Antithetical to bitcoin ethos, IMHO.

I check and double check then delete old wallets (measure twice, cut once). If I missed anything, then supply reduction to fellow bitcoiners 😉

Any thoughts about these for trying to avoid non voluntary iris scans? https://www.reflectacles.com/

Sorry if an uninformed question, but why not just drink h2o? When I sometimes get water for drinking by filling a jug at some store, I just get distilled or equivalent.

I'm NOT a writer and have no aspirations to be one. But having your own style is definitely a good thing in my opinion. For example, I remember reading some Hemingway in my youth. After much time, I'm not especially clear on what I read, but I am clear in remembering that I liked his style. In your effort to meet certain quality bars, please don't lose your personal style.

Never mind, I wasn't seeing all the replies. I'll catch up.

Please explain a little what is meant by fractured mempools.

If it helps to motivate you, so be it, but I think the meme, although funny 😆, will prove to be may too self deprecating! I look forward to enjoying your fiction one day 👍

I've considered this response also, but I believe Satoshi was responding to Dan Larimer. He later became a founder of the scam EOS, and is probably a billionaire because of that scam. Not certain of any point I'm trying to make. Maybe just to be careful of someone having the last laugh if we engage a bit too harshly?

I appreciate the thought. I'll get there eventually. I'm an amethyst user on graphene, and that works well for me. I'd like to use ecash for zaps, and was hoping amethyst or another similar client might build in an ecash wallet whose balance I can maintain externally with a lightning wallet. I'm aware of nostr wallet connect, and that may ultimately be the route I take, but my initial desire was to avoid inter app communication on my phone. I think I may be overly concerned though, and just need to get on with it. I do want to join the zap party! Curious to know how you're setup for zaps if you don't mind sharing.

Ah, an easy one 😉 https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7268126 and https://youtube.com/@PresidioBitcoin

I just don't want to see incentives to route around our peer to peer mempools with things like slipstream. As much as possible, I hope all miners can be on a level playing field. Once I finally get my bitaxe setup, I want to be able to compete fair and square. This is obviously on a very small personal level, but when this scales it may be critical to mining and bitcoin's decentralization. It is my understanding that other standardness rules are important for ddos and other attacks. The op return limit is not. I would probably be in favor of a consensus softfork that limited blockchain spam without negative centralization risks. But that is quite unlikely unfortunately. Sadly, 4mb blocks/transactions of crap are possible. Will blocks be heavier without the op return limit? Maybe, but I believe negligibly so. I'm more concerned with centralization risks, utxo set harm (I think this may have a greater impact on costs to run a node than any potential small increase in storage costs.), and making it harder to securely maintain bitcoin core. I'm no one significant here though, and am just regurgitating information. But it is information obtained from multiple well regarded 😉 minds past & present of bitcoin, and it makes sense to me. Best to you and all of us! but I need to step away from this soon. Rainy day, but when that passes, I need some rays!

With all the great benefits of segwit (lightening!), it also enabled (made a concession to?) consensus valid 4mb blocks. In this world the potential harm of blocking consensus valid transactions with an insignificant amount of data in an op return should not be something the reference implementation of bitcoin is a party to.

Come on, Jimmy, slipstream bad, let's not incentivize that behavior! Add to that the potential harm to the utxo set, all for inconsequential storage costs of op return data? What if someone discovers a way for anchors in op return to facilitate or enhance a legitimate scaling solution, should core be standing in the way? Core is on the right side of this one, and wonderfully, anyone that disagrees is free to not upgrade or switch to knots. All this said, I very much appreciate all you do and have done for so long!

Agree. God candles up are going to be fun, but they'll go both ways. IMHO, withstanding human emotional incentives of euphoria & despair with a choppy but steady grind up will be the best way. Probably not happening yet though 😉 But the larger bitcoin gets, the more it will fulfill the foundational role of free market money for the economy of the world.