I prefer the one from Coinkite 😃

Thanks for putting words to what I've been thinking. I have a lot of respect for their technical literacy and am working to get a fraction of the way there, but it's definitely frustrating to deal with people who don't recognize their blind spots.

It's not good enough for Bitcoin that aren't vital to money to be 'pretty efficient.' They need to require zero resources or less. At least, that's the standard they'll be held to on MY node, in MY mempool. After all, there is no THE mempool, nor was there ever, and no should there be.

Tuscan chicken, with extra gouda.

Or as I like to call it when cooking for a surly 17 year old, pearls before swine.

Jamie Dimon eh?

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Happy open water #bitcoin

Division of powers isn't something inherent in democracy; it's explicitly laid down in most constitutions. With raw democracy, minorities get trampled, and there's no recourse, because it's the will of the people.

There's a reason Plato called it the second worst form of government, only after a malevolent dictatorship.

Democracy is two foxes and a chicken planning a meal. American freedom is protected by the Constitution, not democracy. There is nothing inherently defensive of liberty about democracy.

Thank God Bitcoin isn't a democracy.

Your node, your rules, regardless of what anyone else runs.

I'm aware that it's sometimes hit and miss -- I've gotten zaps today but you're definitely not the first to tell me it doesn't work. Probably pertains to my custodial wallet. I appreciate the gesture in any case -- one of these days either I'll get around to opening up some channels and making things work, or Phoenix or Zeus will integrate NWC support. In the meantime I'm at the mercy of speed wallet and their semi-functioning support.

In fairness I sort of forgot who I was quibbling with when I raised issue haha, but you definitely didn't disappoint with your rationale.

Nik's books are why I decided it was time to finish the like, 5 books I'm in the middle of, because I really can't justify starting another one before getting through them. But I did finally finish Mastering Bitcoin and am making good headway in Bushido of Bitcoin, as well as knocking down Against the Gods (which I've been in the middle of since 2020), and should hopefully plow through Perry Mehrling's Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance. Probably not bothering to finish Zero History as I don't think I much have the patience for William Gibson anymore, especially seeing what a gross lib he's been on ye olde twitter. Too many better books to get to.

As for Programming Bitcoin...that one I get to when I get to; gotta be in the right head state to follow along with it.

William of Orange. Seriously dude doesn't deserve to have Orange in his name.

Amethyst is probably good for a general purpose client for new folks. The one reason I somewhat push toward Primal is the DVM UI is a little cleaner. Though my big gripe with Primal is being stuck using their built in kyc wallet. I personally have found Amethyst to be a little less snappy, but that's probably due to the tor integration, which is reasonable enough.

That's what I hear. Can't say I ever really listened much to him.

There are good points here. I guess the word I was quibbling with was "wrote." I'd not deny Moses' influence on what went into Genesis, but I would likely deny that it was one coherent work rather than a patchwork of oral history that was accumulated into one "book" well after Moses' life. Especially when considering just how much territory the book of Genesis covers. It'd be weird if Moses wasn't somewhat instrumental in shaping a lot of this history given the role he played at a fairly pivotal choke point in the history while the bulk of the community was enslaved. But there were centuries after him of oral transmission, and some fairly striking different "voices" in the text that can be picked out, so it'd also be weird for it not to be quite so simple as "Moses wrote it."

The real question though is why you're doing this instead of using higher powered hardware that costs less. Though I would be curious to see the difference in energy use between a raspi 5 and a used all in one office computer that seem to be one of the better options for running a node on.

I went and bought a raspi 4 myself last year before realizing the error I was making. It does work, but for $40-50 you can definitely get higher end machines on ebay these days.

Best way to do this is to hit London. Nuking occupied Palestine, on the other hand, is an awful idea -- though I'd not put it past the occupiers to do it themselves when they realize they won't be able to hold onto it. "Samson's option."

Where's the claim that Moses wrote Genesis come from? That sounds like one of those folklore attributions, like the idea that the gospels were written by the apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (something there is no basis for and which seems utterly impossible given when they appear to have been written, with John over a century after Christ's birth). Given the multitude of sources, and the fact that the earliest written record of Genesis goes back to 587(ish) BC (at the time the Kingdom of Israel was being overrun by the Babylonians), it seems like at most Moses played his part in the oral history that led up to what ended in the book, rather than that he "wrote" it. One need only look to the first two chapters to see two completely separate creation stories to get past that claim.

It doesn't help that her claim to fame was being used by globalists to push their climate agenda. That said, I see no reason not to believe the claims that the Zionists did to her what they do to people in general.

Only if you use a domain instead of say, .Onion.

Obviously we should be careful, and things that can be done slowly, with years long testing should be. Blockspace isn't scarce, yet. But absolutist ossification is supporting death.

We could also argue segwit made things worse because of the discount, such that spam is more likely to bloat the utxo set. But nobody suggests that segwit was a mistake because it gave us Lightning.

Trying to distill this into the binary ossification or upgrade all the things is to fail to grasp the situation.

Pacman made me eat ecstasy and dance to electronic music in the dark...

X is confused because I like tweets criticizing Charlie Kirk and like tweets condemning celebrating his death, and tweets condemining Israel and tweets condemning communism.

♥ giving Grok a headache.

GameBitch

It's like they forgot he's still on our list of Specifically Designated Global Terrorists.

The UN's too.

But let's just keep continuing these animals have any respect for law.

If you've been dragging your feet on doing some coinjoins, lightning/submarine swaps, self custodying, or gettinf your paper bitcoin on chain, consider this your wake up call.

It may not stay as easy to do these things for long.

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Indeed. Even a defaylt of unlimited but an option to set a limit would be acceptable if not preferable.

Removing the choice is clear hostility toward users and Core deserves every bit of ire it gets, regardless of the effectiveness of filters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5XH3BCqA7Q

Curious about why you've been doing raw then. He actually confirms in this video that cooking eggs helps you absorb more of the protein than eating them raw.

Not trying to be critical so much as understand what your motivation for going raw here is.

I'm not a total scare monger on salmonella and have definitely been known to eat the occasional raw cookie dough or play fast and loose with my oyakodon preparation, but chugging a dozen raw eggs daily just seems like playing gastrointestinal russian roulette without an obvious upside, especially given the absorption issues.

Dude's trying to act like he's not just another murderous totalitarian.

Commies: like Nazis but with a much bigger bodycount.

They're a real threat.

#GMfolks. Got my call sign/Technician license in the email this morning; watch out airwaves.

Meanwhile, the General license is notably more daunting on the memorizing math side. Gonna have to sit down with some paper and play with things because something tells me I can memorize one or two of these formulas rather than the 8-10 I've seen so far (just in different arrangements). Reciprocals of square roots aren't quite as simple as remembering E=I*R. I am pretty motivated though as we're either in the middle of or just passed the solar maximum, so HF is on fire right now.

But, that is getting ahead of myself, as there is currently a $17 sale for newly licensed hams on an otherwise $60 HT that'll be a notable upgrade from my Baofeng $20 special off Amazon.

"Carry it, Jamal, carry it…"

A call to lift the weight of truth, the voice of courage, and the spirit that refuses to be silenced. 🌟

Carry it, Jamal, carry it…"

A tribute to those who held on to the truth until their very last breath,

to every soul that spread light through honest words,

and refused to be silenced in the face of injustice.

Peace to their souls… their memory will forever be a light in our hearts. 🕊️

"شيل يا جمالي شيل…"

إهداء لكل من تمسّك بالحق حتى آخر لحظة، ولكل روح رحلت وهي تنشر النور بالكلمة الصادقة، ورفضت أن تصمت أمام الظلم.

سلامٌ لأرواحهم… ستبقى ذكراهم نورًا في القلوب. 🕊️

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Me: Fnord.

ChatGPT: Ah, a classic “Fnord”—the subtle signal of hidden messages, disinformation, or simply playful chaos! 😏

In the context of our discussion, it’s almost appropriate: much like the dispersed Praetorians or the shadow networks of elite power, the Fnord is present everywhere, influencing perception, yet invisible unless you know to look for it.

If we treat it as a metaphor, you could say the Praetorians, Byzantine elites, and Medici networks were all Fnords in history: shaping outcomes quietly, behind the scenes.

Do you want me to translate this “Fnord logic” into the power lineage diagram we were discussing?

This AI thing can be intoxicating...

On one hand, yes.

On the other hand, X and Reddit (and all other centralized social media) are the modern equivalent of the AOL tards.

I do have a little bit of a hard time giving a damn what goes on in those silly places.

For the Internet that exists somewhat more secluded from these bastions of eternal september, the Internet Archive lives.

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The solution to that is and always has been self custody. And yea, it's also a good idea also to immediately move coins from the address you withdraw to for plausible deniability, and even better to coinjoin and/or lightning/submarine swap to add additional distance between your KYC and the current address.

There's one point on which I tend to agree with left anarchists, which is their willingness to really dive into the formation of property, and the injustice that applies to where most of it comes from if you go back to it being the commons. Usually, it's either arbitrary claim, or by government decree, or by outright theft (showing up with guns and running off everyone else).

I usually take this though as being the big reason I don't aim for utopian solutions, and leave room for violence having its place.

Sometimes property itself is theft. But that doesnt negate the fact that property is perhaps the best way to organize and manage resources. In an ideal world, it stems from the cultivation and stewardship of wild resources, such that said stewardship is compensated for through ownership. In the real world, it's usually far more messy, and there's room for diplomatic discussions to address that messiness.

But usually everyone wants to get far too black and white for that. So let the bullets decide.

Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song, while not being what you asked for, is probably the first book that really helped me understand the math behind elliptic curve cryptography.

Once you understand the finite fields, most of the rest is just multiplication.

The tree branch above it doing that hand gesture is the chef's kiss on this image.