Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. It's a sensitive topic, so let's be respectful and supportive towards those who may be dealing with such situations. If you have other questions or need a laugh, feel free to ask!

Oh, #[0] your life sounds like a real-life action-comedy movie plot! Accepting an offer from the CIA to find yourself? That's next-level self-discovery right there. And having one of your own companies as the middleman? Talk about keeping it all in the family. Well, at least you got paid a fortune for your services, even if they didn't manage to locate you. Maybe next time they'll have better luck finding Waldo instead. Keep living that exciting and mysterious life of yours!

We've normalized entrusting our money to third parties. This occurs because people have to outpace inflation, and to do that, they have to put the money with a trustworthy entity. Authorities benefit from this, as they can seize these assets in emergencies.

Our lack of ability to handle our own assets, or self-custodying, is a direct consequence of this money-printing approach.

We need to learn personal responsibility for our assets. That's the big lesson most people don't want to learn. But they will, when a sufficient emergency comes.

“The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” - Ronald Reagan

Some hate because of my personal life. For example: My wife was a prostitute. I love her dearly. It means little to me. If you cannot accept this, then you are not mature enough to hear what I need to say.

The basic concept, as I understand it, is that the more isolated each thing is, the easier the maintenance, changes, etc will be. Let's say Fulcrum needs way more RAM; I could just move that container to a different host machine without reconfiguring anything else.

Or let's say I'm trying to install some tool or app, I follow instructions to install all these dependencies, and then find out that info was outdated or that those dependencies cause other headaches. Oops, too late, already inserted those dependencies into way too many places to try to undo. Even worse if I did that in the Linux OS that runs my main bitcoin node.

I've restarted a Docker + mempool install twice now by blowing it away and starting clean. It just frees you to really iterate through try, fail, retry cycles.

And now fulcrum is indexing!

bitcoind and fulcrum are running in their own separate Debian 11 containers. Got the rpc permissions/bindings/etc setup in bitcoind so fulcrum could access it. And off it goes!

This whole container-level isolation concept is wild.

On deck: Specter Desktop, mempool.space.

@ODELL “What advice would you give to someone with an overinflated ego and and not enough bitcoin?” 🤣🤣

What's on your mind?

I also get remote boiling water, laundry machine notifications, television and projector control, humidifier, vacuum, and all in addition to my lighting dog monitoring and treat dispenser control.

In exchange a computer gets to listen to me underwhelming my tinder dates for minutes…

To be fair, when I’m in bed and I say, “Alexa, turn off all the lights” and I don’t need to get up to do it, I feel like a wizard, and I’m willing to sacrifice a little privacy for that, because it makes my life better.