Geopolitical skill issue View quoted note →

There seems to be this idea among politicians currently that we beat China by becoming China

Technical debt jubilee

Professional Twitter posters are an attack on bitcoin

Oh yeah and in the future every time bitcoin goes up the news story will be a picture of Larry Fink smiling

Bitcoin scaling doomers / busy bodies

My child: AHHH Me in my head every time: *I remember you was conflicted, misusing your influence. Sometimes I did the same. Abusing my power, full of resentment. Resentment that turned into a deep depression. Found myself screaming in the hotel room

View quoted note → Lightning is very much living, it is more alive than any mailing list or Twitter post about scaling bitcoin. It has 100k+ channels over 5 years of main net, btc-at-risk miles on it. We know the flaws of lightning intimately because we’ve been using it, and testing it and improving it. X miracle bitcoin scaling solution is in fantasy land and due to not existing at any scale is as good as dead. They’re fun to think about though.

Yo

Focusing solely on number of devs / velocity of dev on bitcoin now is a bit silly— sort of like focusing on http development instead of Amazon Of course bitcoin development needs to continue, but we’re at the Amazon phase, not the gopher —> http phase

Gm self custody is best custody

This is for #[0]​ and anyone else (like me) who thinks they’re smart because they backed up their keys but haven’t read the fine print on Damus “Delete” Build nostril (I always knew it was 👃tr) nostril —envelope —sec <hexprivkey> —kind 0 —content “profile.deleted = false” -p <hexpubkey> | websocat wss://relay.damus.io

Maple syrup update day 4 🍁 1.5 gal harvest today! My dad spotted another maple that I hadn’t seen this fall and I tapped it, so will have 3 trees worth of sap tomorrow. Big enough batch to boil outdoors— got enough to finish to an 8 oz bottle so will try that in the next couple days.

Who’s running the exclusive nostr whale relay 👀