I found that there are no shortcuts. The more my life depends on stuff I don't understand, the less I feel at ease. For me, it was and is worth to spend the time to dig deep; sometimes, I return from my studies as a different person, most often as a happier.

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Today, I stumbled over this ( talk by Yanis Varoufakis. Perhaps the powers behind the YouTube algorithms thought I needed a dose of that. I did think highly of YV; I thought it was unfortunate that he did not have the full support of his president and his people when he was finance minister in 2015. I thought he could have made a remarkable difference then. Now, this talk is disappointing in many ways. Bitcoin is quite possibly the best bullshit detector ever - SMH. Is Yanis Varoufakis aspiring to become Taleb-2? Why not have him debate @Saifedean Ammous, @Lyn Alden.

It is nice in this part of Switzerland. Hope one of these days you’ll be joining a gathering 🤙🏻 -

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Organized a class reunion 40 years after finishing our matura (high-school). Everyone loved it. Someone has to organize it. Why not be the one if nobody else moved forward by September?

What is the most secure way to shift funds from USD on HSBC to Bitcoin ((really) asking for a friend)? Naturally, this will go to an "un-hosted wallet" (while passing my best to all "un-divorced marriages").

I need to set some people up for Bitcoin. Coldcard or Bitbox 2 for the bulk. In addition I’d like to set people up with a “pocket wallet”. Have been recommending Blockstream Green lately. What do you think about “blue wallet”? It is cool that they cover both L1 and L2.

Remembering the time when I wrote close to 1m lines in Java. Loved it. https://medium.com/@jankammerath/we-dont-need-java-anymore-it-belongs-to-a-different-era-ccbc028beed9

🙏🏻 to @Shawn for expanding my musical horizon 🪂

I am very grateful for nostr and Bitcoin - two strong anchors for everything else.

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With only one year delay 🐌, I am enjoying https://lnroom.live Thank you @tonyaldon - this is a fantastic resource.

"There is no such thing as a genius in finance; if someone is being [called] a genius, they are just using leverage, they are taking risk. Without leverage, finance is just plumbing. There are no plumbers out there who can lay plumbing at 1% of the cost of everybody else. If you are in finance and you make 100 times the returns of everybody else, you are not a genius; you are using leverage, and you are going to blow up eventually." - @Saifedean Ammous

To shoot a great picture, you must choose your lens to neither lose details nor overview. In this unique and illuminating episode of WBD @Natalie Smolenski and @Lyn Alden explain why the democratic system of checks and balances has become defunct and provide an outlook to possible scenarios as we approach the 30ties of the 21st century. @Peter McCormack keeps amazing me with the quality and the diversity of his interviews.

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For the freaks who contemplate running a lightning node, I wanted to share my experience with [core lightning](https://corelightning.org/). #noderunner [MINDLINER](https://1ml.com/node/03830ecd6fefbfc926a35ba474e56bb7466402570843b4936fbd984b7fbb213ac7), my first node went online five years ago. I assumed that running lightningd was similar to running bitcoind, i.e., download, start, forget. I was opening a few channels but failed to invest the time to understand the inner workings. As a result, most of the payments failed unless I opened a channel directly to the vendor. I bought [some stickers]( "All I Got Was This Sticker") and updated some pixels at [Satoshhi's Place](https://satoshis.place). After a year, I closed the channels and decommissioned the node. My next node was [KONTIKI](https://1ml.com/node/0322154776b0814c78b2675e34c232d91335ce7ad25137a079adfdb9db279429f1), and it was running slightly better. One morning, my node had a new name: "Slickerglee." I don't know what happened. Was I hacked? I did not have the time to investigate the situation. Happy that I still had my funds, I closed the channels and decommissioned ... "Slickerglee." With my next node, a [Raspiblitz](

GitHub

GitHub - raspiblitz/raspiblitz: Get your own Bitcoin & Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD

Get your own Bitcoin & Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD - raspiblitz/raspiblitz

"GitHub - raspiblitz/raspiblitz: Get your own Bitcoin & Lightning Node running - on a RaspberryPi with a nice LCD"), I made a tiny move towards de-centralization. The Raspiblitz works very well, and for the first time, I had a lightning node I could use for day-to-day payments (from sending zaps of a few sats to paying hosting invoices of several hundred dollars). In fact, I only began to appreciate _how_ well the Raspiblitz software package works after I started changing/upgrading stuff manually. Soon, I realized that I was sitting at the helm of on a rather large ship, not knowing how to maneuver. I wanted my fourth and current node [MindlinerTre](

Amboss Space

MindlinerTre - 02d695...080e73 - Amboss Space

MindlinerTre - 02d695b01c7a6909e716c863fb39bc5fb7bbdc3824b7fdce53adc593e5be080e73 - 0 channels - capacity - sats - Bitcoin Mainnet - Amboss Space

"MindlinerTre - 02d695...080e73 - Amboss Space") to become a valuable routing node. In addition, I also wanted to understand how it works and eliminate at least a few of the blind spots in my understanding. I started out with a bare metal server and, for three weeks, stacked layers upon layers to finally have all parts working. And there is still much work left. Conclusion: It was definitely worth my time, and I appreciate the learning. There is a choice to make between two viable options: Either putting in the time to learn about the dozens of crucial components or running a well-functioning Raspiblitz (and refraining from altering it and accepting not understanding much of the setup). And now, of course, you can even run a personal node [on your phone](

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