I maintain that the current cohort of bitcoiners is the worst ever. They piss their pants over a 5% drop. They do literally nothing to improve the profile of Bitcoin in their communities. Which is actually preferable to them interacting with real people. They don't spend bitcoin with local merchants who accept it. Just fucking useless.

In the long, long ago, it was suggested that if Bitcoin were to ever be successfully coopted, the solution was simple -- we will just fork. A silly idea for a low-market-cap mindset. Oh how much harder it is to stomp the price, the market dominance, the claws of Bitcoin sinking into retirement accounts and mai street point of sale terminals using lightning as rails. Just think where the XBT/BIP110 folks are starting from. They literally, willingly erased a decade of progres, with no guarantees that, within a decade, they won't be dealing with some similar "existential" crisis -- that it all won't go pear-shaped again and require the fortitude of some hairshirt mob to reset the Bitcoin game again all the way back to zero. That's not how you make progress.

JANE GET ME OFF THIS CRAZY THING

Reading When Money Dies makes me realize that there will never be a broad, popular understanding of what inflation is and why it happens. Germans who actually lived through hyperinflation were blaming literally everyone but the government. They blamed the industrialists. They blamed labor. They blamed The French. If you think it is necessary for people to understand Bitcoin at some classic economics philosophical level in order for Bitcoin to win, you might as well give up on it.

A good idea that can't get traction is practically no different than a bad idea.

"New Hampshire Republicans have allowed their party to become a breeding ground for low-life Free Staters who consistently spew vile, racist, and dangerous content. Time and again, these so-called 'leaders' of the Republican Party, including Donald Trump and fringe Free Staters, have repeatedly resorted to this despicable rhetoric," Buckley said."

Sometimes the best thing you, as a hardcore, can do for a cause is to burn out and never represent it again.

This guy's dad wrote The Sovereign Individual, a turgid advertisement for an investment newsletter for rich douchebags. View quoted note →

O that's too bad. View quoted note →

Correct. View quoted note →

I have like 250k monero microfluffies. Can I buy a coffee yet? Or do I have to wait for someone to invent super private coffee for paranoid internet assholes.

### For the past 7 days I have * Run self-custody tech support for 12 people trying not get sat-gaffled by ColdCard Mk3, including my wife * Migrated UTXO's originated by a seed PROBABLY generated by a Mk2 in 2019 to a new dice-rolled seed, because I just couldn't sleep. No logic. Pure animal-backed-in-a-corner chemical fear. * Upgraded and stomped the macaroons for my meetup's node+btcpayserver * Throughout all of this, entertain visiting family * Watch a bunch of venal fucksticks charge for what I did for free