PV - taken during a recent stay in Piacenza

Raging Moderates sounds awfully close to @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 except one is serious and one is ironic -

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Philosophers At Work I liked reading books by philosophers. However, I just now realized I never saw one at work. Most of the time, the work was done long before I read it or read about the situation that gave rise to the work. With Bitcoin, this is different as we are experiencing its introduction to the world, history in the making. We have read and heard people talk about Bitcoin's electricity use and associated CO2 emissions. Some work was led by emotions and arrived at untenable conclusions. For instance, Mora et al.'s 2018 paper entitled "Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C)". Then, there is the much more accurate work of knowledgeable authors. However, if they appear to defend a preformed conclusion rather than arriving at one after neutral deliberation, their work is more challenging to read for the critiques. And then there is the book Resistance Money, subtitled A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin by @Andrew M. Bailey , @Bradley Rettler and @Craig Warmke. I much enjoyed their scientific work on Bitcoin's energy consumption from a neutral ground and with a global humanitarian goal. Rather than arguing for what is good for them, the stance many people willingly or unwillingly take, they tried to approach the question assuming that tomorrow, they could wake up as any one of the eight billion people. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Bitcoin's energy consumption. If you are already a Bitcoiner and short on time, you might skip to chapters 9 and 10 directly. It became apparent to me why we need philosophers.

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"[...] the government calling you a tax-payer is a bit like a rapist calling his victim his girlfriend." - @Knut Svanholm ∞/21M and Luke de Wolf on the difference between "voluntary" and "consensual".

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What do you Bitcoiners think of tailscale? Is this software I should consider as part of my Bitcoin setup?

Who says that you cannot change your opinion at age 94 and we see Buffett go Bitcoin? View quoted note →

Router died last night - MindlinerTre down, Mountainlake services down 😑, need to upgrade my setup a notch , sorry for any trouble (

Amboss Space

02d695...80e73) - Amboss Space

Lightning Network Node: 02d695b01c7a6909e716c863fb39bc5fb7bbdc3824b7fdce53adc593e5be080e73) - Bitcoin Mainnet - Amboss Space

"Imagine being an expert in the very fields that overlap Bitcoin and getting it wrong not once but continuously over several years in front of a large audience - and costing your family generational wealth along the way. Although bitcoin proponents often carry bias-inducing bags of bitcoin, bitcoin critics often carry much bigger bags of lost opportunity. But unlike bitcoin proponents who can sell their bitcoin for fiat currency at any time, bitcoin critics can't unload their opportunity costs. It's too late. They'd have to change the past. Opportunity costs, like diamonds, are forever." - copied from "Resistance Money" by @Andrew M. Bailey, @Craig Warmke, and @Bradley Rettler

Finally reading "BITCOIN: EVERYTHING DIVIDEND BY 21 MILLION " by Knut Svanholm as the weather allows for it -

Studying Bitcoin has been one of the easiest learning trails to start understand the driving forces in today's world. That is amazing and quite counter intuitive. It is the analogy of throwing babies into the pool to "teach" them how to swim.

saluting all the builders on nostr, bitcoin, lightning, cashu 🫡

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Often people don't even understand what problem Bitcoin is solving, some don't even see there is a problem. Obviously too early to talk to them about Bitcoin and the new order. I try to steer the conversation to movies (have you seen "In Bruge") or other light weight topics (are you happy with your life).

It's a good time to stack sats and I wished I could tell others because it could show them the way out of the debt spiral. Hahaha. My mistake: others might well have totally different prefs; who am I to know if they are not happier in the middle of the pack being kicked around. Again: it is a good times to stack sats.

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The US dollar died 1971. Each time the FED prints money its a hardfork, a new coin is born, which should come with a new name.

I have been a tiny bit absorbed by re-modeling my mobile data infrastructure 😅 . Seeing cool apps (the ones that integrate Bitcoin as a global payment rail) get kicked out of the App Store and Play Store has prompted me to abandon the iPhone. I bought a Pixel 8 pro, installed grapheneOS, and had to find replacement apps for my stuff. I also setup Nextcloud and linked everything together. Two weeks in, I am still down some critical apps, but luckily, only on the leisure part of life: I need two robust apps for sailing (Navionics don't work, PredictWind and Windy need Google Play Services).

The fact that personal investment has become so simple (stay humble, stack sats) makes many of the other strategies look like hobbies. Stuff like TA and waiting for the next FOMC meeting is clearly a cult rather than a strategy.