Each shortcut introduced in your application to save some development time today has to be repaid manifold in the future during the maintenance phase.

After seven years of its introduction the Java Platform Module System (JPMS) is still not yet fully adopted in the Java ecosystem. Migrations take a long time and after the migration is before the next migration I guess.

Bitcoiners vs. Spammers? LuganoPlanB

"You Don't Change Bitcoin, Bitcoin Changes You". Therefore Bitcoin will not change to appease the old institutions. That does not make sense. #LuganoPlanB

Not all merchants are equally prepared to accept⚡ in Lugano as sometimes the terminsl is not ready (empty battery etc.), but at some places it seems to be almost daily routine.

Hardcoding the theme with libadwaita and GTK4 really sucks. Now the user interface really looks inconsistent.

Thunderbird as a snap on Ubuntu 24.04 is too restrictive as it prevents you from sharing the gpg private key with your applications. Good it is still possible to install thunderbird from a deb package.

After a long waiting time there is finally again a new bitcoin programming book available: "Building bitcoin in Rust" by Lukáš Hozda

But that is part of clown world as well! Only option :-(

Words may change their meanings over the span of thousands of years. Homer used words in Odyssey and Iliad that are not used nowadays anymore with a neutral or positive connotation. So, do we really want to reclaim the word "authoritarian" in a positive sense? Does that not just add more confusion in any discussion?

The bitcoin rabbit hole has many neighboring rabbit holes like freedom, education, nutrition, energy etc. If you really explored the bitcoin rabbit hole you will fall into the other ones as well. That will falsify many assumptions of other discipline and doctrines. Therefore books like "Resistance Money" trying to look at bitcoin from only one perspective never questioning their own beliefs are disappointing readings.

Using the Calendar class in a Java code sample in 2024 is somehow an anachronism. Recently seen in "Simple Object-Oriented Design" published by Manning.

Money enabled division of labor and trade. The example in economic books explaining "Coincidence of wants" with bartering e.g. shoes for a loaf of bread are silly and backwards. The profession of the shoemaker did not exist before the invention of money. There was no such bartering.

Well, I guess there will be no zapping for the movie "God Bless Bitcoin" from my side. If you want to donate you would have to fill out a form at BitPay (they still exist?), really? That's seems from another era...

Why is Musk crying the loudest about the CrowdStrike incident? Maybe because that may cast a damming light on other very centralized system with single points of failure e.g. Tesla?

It is somehow ironic that a billion computers were knocked out by a software that should protect them from being knocked out by malicious software. In this case buggy code is equivalent to malicious code.

Listened to the last "Coin Stories Podcast" by @nat brunell with @Jeff Booth and I fully agree that Bitcoin is money. Defining it as "digital commodity" is just mental gymnastic in order to appeal to existing legal frameworks in certain countries. Jurisdictions in which Bitcoin is treated as money and in which there are no capital gain taxes on Bitcoin like El Salvador, Switzerland etc. will flourish.

By reading "Bitcoin vs Altcoins" by Phil Champagne one may get the impression that this boxing match is not won by bitcoin in the first round by knockout ;-)

"Bitcoin Development Philosophy" by @kalle describes the core principles of software development in the bitcoin ecosystem such as decentralization, trustlessness etc. Principles that all developers in the space should be aware of.

The fate of the company DigiCash should be a warning to all Bitcoin companies that overeagerly comply with regulations. Diluting any of Bitcoins inherent principles makes your company just another fiat company.