I find it encouraging how profoundly Bitcoin and the findings of the Austrian school of economics have penetrated our society. Statements that, a couple of years ago, were to be found only in Bitcoin circles are now printed in established newspapers and propagated by politicians. I just asked ChatGPT whether it is exaggerated to compare modern states and central banks to drug addicts; it will mainly accept the comparison as sound (with the caveat that some debt-financed state interventions are productive while the effects of drugs never are). This is what winning looks like: it is slow, subtle, but unstoppable.

Satoshi's Christmas present for me by @npub140lj...e9pc and Ernst Aklin (aklin.com)

Firefox nightly with tabs on the left - the art of finding joy in those small things 🐬

I am totally absorbed by reading and learning and am not producing enough. ⬆️ ⚙️ in 25

After an upgrade fountain stopped working. I can no longer login with my nostr account. Anyone else? Is this a GrapheneOS issue?

PV and welcome to emerging properties

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 -

Fountain

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway • Biden Pardons Hunter, Trump’s Tariff Proposals, Kash Patel’s Appointment to Lead the FBI • Listen on Fountain

Scott Galloway and Jessica Tarlov discuss the implications of President Biden’s pardon for his son, Hunter. Then, they get into Trump’s tariff ...

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.

Primal notes that it cannot connect to PlayStore (I am using grapheneos). Is PS needed for full functionality?

PV

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

PV

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

I started the day by scrubbing 78000 sats off an old signing device, leaving no sats behind.

The main button (front) got partially stuck on my Blockstream Jade, making it hard to enter the correct PIN or approve/reject transactions. Loosening the two screws on the back a tiny bit fixed the problem 😃

PV