I've been waiting for the year of Linux desktop for like 4 years now. It's 2025 and it is still terrible.

I need a list of pubkeys to follow who are not Bitcoiners and are on Nostr and talk about things other than Bitcoin. I don't mind even if they are leftists.

The H1B system today is like tax laws for rich people. When there are loop holes, it gets abused. The system was broken for a very long time starting with the lottery process. The people were never the problem, the system was. One other thing that isn't talked about much is how a lot of American companies have stopped doing in-house hiring of engineers but instead started outsourcing almost all projects to companies like TCS, Infosys, Accenture and Cognizant who have massive bases in India and naturally these companies bring in thousands of workers on H1B and underpaying them or simply use the offshore model. From my understanding the reason companies started going this route is because hiring in general is hard and imagine hiring 25-30 engineers to do various things for a single project but then also have them on payroll for a long time even after the product is ready because firing isn't easy either. So companies just pay extra to outsource all this work to these software services companies.

Everyone: Lightning is a failure This makes no sense to me because I don't even understand the criteria of saying it's a failure. Nobody even uses Bitcoin to make payments, that's not lightning's fault. And for the 1% of 1% who actually make any payments, lightning is the only L2 that exists and is the only one that actually works. We can call lightning a failure when we create a circular economy of Bitcoin where merchants accept it and people actually pay with it and then lightning doesn't work in such an economy. The only circular economy we have is white dudes posting tik tok videos of buying coffee in El Salvador and lightning seems to be working fine there.

Guys I know shitcoins are fun and all but please have better standards than XRP.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Indians are the largest population of Bitcoiners on the planet. We would give away our lives just to buy gold for absolutely no reason.

Passing on complexity to Layer 2 and application devs and expecting them to perform miracles on top of Bitcoin is generally a bad thing. The more complex your code is, the higher the chance of bugs and vulnerabilities. We have to separate out Bitcoin the network and Bitcoin core here. Bitcoin network needs to be dumb and simple like it already is today. Bitcoin core can do a lot of heavy lifting for layer 2 and app devs by supporting simple op_codes. Ultimately it's the user who will win because their chances of losing money is lowered.

2024 bull market

Does Saylor not want OP_VAULT? I mean it's literally what he should support, right? coz it protects all the coins his company is buying non-stop with investor money.

When we activated Taproot, people were raving about it and tweeting by tagging miners when they would signal for it, yet 99% of the people had zero idea of what it would bring to the table. Today simpler soft forks don't get consensus. It's all about marketing, every single time.

What truly gets you a vote on the Bitcoin network is a miner, not a Bitcoin node.

A lot of people probably know Bernoulli's principle and how airplanes get off the ground by fast moving air resulting in a pressure difference causing a lift, this doesn't mean you're qualified in having a say on airplane wing design. Same with Bitcoin, you probably aren't qualified enough to having a say in a softfork getting merged.

Imagine how broken fiat system must be that a random coin on the internet made by a random dude is about to hit $100k in 15 years.

Real men play video games.

The problem with switching to Linux from Mac is that, there is always 1 app or feature that you love more than your woman and only works on Mac and Windows and you miss it so much that you hate your life.

This 98k is playing with my emotions.

I've setup a windows machine today after like 7 years and the setup process is like a massive advertising campaign. - 4 different things to sell and each one pops up in a separate screen. - every single advertising and telemetry setting you have to OPT OUT!! - mandatory sign in to Microsoft to use the machine. Windows can get away with all this shit because Macs are expensive and Linux has poor laptop/desktop choices unless you boot from USB and GNOME still sucks after all these years!

If illegal immigrants are deported we are going to have a massive Uber eats and doordash problem. Andrew (Jose) won't be there deliver your food anymore.

By the end of this decade, people will start to realize Bitcoin is just for Michael Saylor, Blackrock, Governments and whoever got in early. You might not like it but this is the direction we heading right now.