If the node network became shakey for ordinal transactions, wouldn't that encourage wallet devs towards the centralization of node infrastructure between default wallets and mining pool nodes? Is it really smart to pull at this thread right now?

Are you generally against the placement of arbitrary data on chain, despite the fact that snowden hid a poison pill on chain to protect himself from the government/elites trying to assassinate him? Why not just prune this data?

I don't like the timing of this ordinal shit, obviously a lot of people are fleeing towards bitcoin, and degens are clogging up the pipes with jpgs. But, if its not critical to network operation, I don't know if its the best idea to be doing this.

That said, I'm hardly qualified to say, its just my 2 cents.

Some transactions take more space than others, depending on a few factors like if its a native segwit transaction, how many UTXOs had to be used, how many outputs there are. You could have a block that only fits 100 transactions, and another that fits 3000, just due to the size of the transactions; so miners price things per byte (v-byte, see segwit) to get maximum fees per block. 1 transaction that takes 250kb but only pays .000,01B isn't worth 100 transactions that take 2.kB and pay .000,001B each.

Guy swann of bitcoin audible I believe has one.

Have you ever looked into a a degoogled phone? Graphene OS has a reasonably good UX.

This attribution report doesn't shy away from singling out climate change as the singular driver in a complex weather system, despite requiring multiple steps to connect the two. I won't pretend to be an environmental scientist, but showing how closely a single phenomena follows a model without justifying that model is how you get the field of economics dominated by Keynesians calling themselves "empiricists".

Its too convenient that this attribution report is picking a negative event to analyze, I reject this premesis. Put these models up against the weather in Virginia over 10 years and show me how they fit.

This account is temporary, I am using it for testing and to help pass the time, I'll be rolling under a permenant account in the near future where I'll have all that set up. Thank you for the consideration though.

Definitely. Words either, really. So long as you don't violate my personal/property rights then we will get along just fine, I don't care what you think about how I live so long as we can agree to not initiate aggression against each other.

Jesus Christ, I hope they make it through alright. Our society is fucked, the response online is making me feel pretty uneasy.

I am finding it hard to take this seriously when they are banging on about India's struggles with covid and the WEFs assessments of what they are deficient in. They conflate humidity with air pollution, which seems like a sly way of saying they shouldn't be irrigating their crops. They say stakeholders are working to reduce pollution, which is a red flag, considering the term stakeholder is pretty loaded, and the only way forward for India is modernized appliances like air conditioning.

Generally, they spend this whole section extrapolating 1 or 2 data points without any qualification or reasonable explanation. This has the structure of a deceptive argument, they cite a couple facts to make it seem like this is well researched, but their analysis goes far past the point that can be argued by the data.

I think it would be something to the effect of, the banks all fail because they don't have any money in reserve. The fed offers to roll your debt over (house, cars, phone, etc.) Into a new currency. This is attractive because they'll give you a bit of stimulus up front, and your employer won't be able to access their bank either, so it'll be your only choice. From there, they can shut things off whenever they want.

I'm inclined to believe, this is the stick they'll use to scare us into bailing out the banks, rather than their ultimate objective.

Oh, ahhh, yes, to answer your question, same with anything like system of a down and immortal technique. Pop makes my ears bleed, I'd rather listen to a garbage can full of silverware being dragged down the street honestly, and I appreciate free thinkers.

Compliance and liberation weren't bad, wont stand down I could listen to regularly, but it really just doesn't hold a candle to knights of Cydonia. The lack of serious musical counterculture has been deeply saddening the last few years, at a time when we need them most.

Bugs

So instead the banks use the BTFP, they get liquidity at current interest rates, now they owe interest on something they own that's not making any money. They think they can thread the needle, if they make enough money this year to dig themselves out then they survive, if they don't they'll be deeper in debt. The level of short term thinking is at once hilarious, and also very sad that its so easy to get people to engage in such immoral behavior.

If I could afford to eat what my dog eats that would be quite the blessing. CZ is flexing.

I mean, I don't see how nostr fixes this. If we were popular enough then we would have bots too. Paid relays are different than twitter blue how, except for price? PoW signatures don't fix it either, how long will my computer have to sit and hash to create a credible signature? Couldn't a scammer, even with completely outdated hardware...easily...out produce credible signatures? Getting verified here, which I don't really understand, seems like its just some social ring, uhhh paging Craig Wright? There will still be new bots every single day, not saying it can't be fixed, but the solutions proposed aren't a complete picture yet.

Everyone has some belief that they find self evident and beyond question. Modern day many act this way towards democracy, never questioning if it is truly a just and fair decision making structure.

This is irrational and destructive, chose what you believe in, don't let it be chosen for you by propaganda or peer pressure. Place your belief in something beyond human ability to change, like god, I lean towards individual soverignity. I could defend it rationally, but my belief in it supersedes any justification, its not on the table, its not up for debate.

I have been investigating the possibility of using a used Intel NUC from eBay, buy a new drive and you can run circles around the PUI for maybe $100-150.

Maybe I am misreading, but everything else he says seems to argue against how bitcoin works. He is advocating for a money supply based on people involved, and against using CPU cycles.

I don't know about Lyn Alden, but I have been thinking about it along the lines of what increasing the money supply means. Its biases the economy towards lending. A decrease in money supply would bias the economy saving. Both if these are deviations from a neutral currency, where there is no external influence on what you should do with your money, its closer to pure information, reacting only to market forces.

This is why we call the block reward a mining subsidy, you are actually biasing the economy towards mining in an unnatural way, you are redistributing wealth from every user towards miners. This is, in a nontrivial way, wrong, but its the least wrong way to introduce a new currency that we have.

Strictly my 2 cents.