California circa 2018

Shot on my Canon AE-1 using Afga Vista 200 film.

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What is your favorite fact about #Bitcoin? I’m in love with the fact that its true scarcity makes it perfect for capturing and storing the value of our time and effort like no other asset. 🧡⏳

What would have to happen for you to consider Nostr a failure and move on to other things?

Giving up a humongous thing that formed a good part of my childhood and created so many good memories!!!

As of today I have told my mom to cancel my gaming membership so I can use that money to keep stacking more and more sats

#Bitcoin

#Gaming

#Proofofwork

A steelman argument is the opposite of a strawman argument. It's where you imagine the best possible argument from your opposing side (sometimes even better than they themselves can articulate it), and address that. In other words, you treat your critics like absolutely serious people and try to address any concerns they may have with regards to your outlook.

If someone were to argue that, "yeah bitcoin is cool, but ultimately when push comes to shove the major governments are going to outlaw it, drive it into the black market as a small asset, and issue a replacement that they back as legal tender", what would your steelman argument be?

Similarly, if someone were to argue, "Look how fast they are advancing on superconductors. Quantum computing may come sooner than we think, and threaten Bitcoin's security. That's why I don't buy bitcoins", what would your steelman argument be?

JUST IN: World Economic Forum says a 🇪🇺 Euro #CBDC “can help safeguard public money in the face of a surge in cryptocurrencies like #Bitcoin .” 👀😮

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OK, there is a lot of news on various outlets about LK-99 and the ongoing race to validate/refute of 3 Koreans who claim to have created the world’s first room temperature superconductor.

I will give a quite info dump here.

1). WTF is this? Room temp superconductors (RTSC) are basically unobtainium. This is the stuff in the Avatar movie. It was calculated earlier this week that it would take an exascale machine (1x human is 20 petaflops) around 100 million years to brute force a 50:50 chance of discovering such a material. It’s a super hard problem.

2). Why do we care? Such a material can move electricity with zero resistance, this means no heat or waste from electronics. It means super dense chips, data centres without thermal limits, it means powerful enough magnets to hold proper fusion plasma, it means quantum computers with no thermal error, it means science instruments with no noise, zero loss transmission lines, vastly superior battery tech, proper ionic space engines.

That just some of the stuff we can predict today, there are no doubt many totally unforeseeable things too. It’s basically a completely new paradigm of human capabilities. It’s on par with humans discovering coal.

It means the 21st century will be unrecognisable compared to 20th century, as information and energy technologies are completely reset at a higher science foundation.

3). Is it real? Currently betting markets are 50:50 having been only 5-12% positive last week. The consensus is shifting towards “this is real” that’s not how these things usually go.

What do I know?

I have read the background and the science papers and spoken to a few people. I am the sort of person who reads patents as a hobby, have seen BS claims before. This looks real, has a new hypothesis that has been validated by world class simulation centre in Lawrence Bell Nation Labs, and various labs are now beginning to publish papers replicating physically what the Koreans claim.

My own theory is that the superconductor is a particular isotope of lead. Specifically Pb 207, only 22% of Lead is Pb-207 sI believe some enrichment may be required to achieve a pure RTSC. I expect various entities to race to construct such plants if this theory is confirmed. Why do I think this?

Because Lead-207 has unique nuclear spin properties among stable lead isotopes.

Isotopic properties.

Lead-204: Spin = 0

Lead-206: Spin = 0

Lead-207: Spin = 1/2

Lead-208: Spin = 0

Copper-63: Spin = 3/2

Copper-65: Spin = 3/2

Only 22.1% of Lead is 207.

My own theory is that RTSC is a macro phenomena of engineered quantum entanglement, where the spins of individual Pb-207 nuclei become entangled with each other. This could potentially influence the electron behavior on a macroscopic scale. This might aid in forming Cooper pairs, enabling superconductivity.

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It's my bday!

I turn 34.

Thank you nostriches

I don't what will be a nostr fetish, but "normal" fetish I think some of my illustrations depict so well that.

Richard Heart has been sued by the SEC for securities fraud

Richard Heart has been sued by the SEC for securities fraud

we hiked way out to this cool tree that stood out among the hills & it turned out to be fake 😂

people are like "bitcoin is too expensive" yet here I am, in exile, paying EUR 4.75 every time I use the ATM

As a former atheist, I understand why religiousness seems absurd.

However, this is usually due to a difference in definitions rather than substance. Atheists think of “God” as an external ruler deciding events and making judgements from afar.

Theists realize God exists within each of us, known as the Atman in Hinduism, the Holy Spirit in Christianity, or the Self of the World in the words of Alan Watts.

If the word “God” carries too much baggage for you, try replacing it with “The Cosmos” or “The Ground of Being” as Tillich calls it.

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