GM - I completed the new backup project using the proxmox backup server software running on a supermicro hardware (this plus Bitcoin = peace of mind 🧘‍♂️)

Today, I analyzed the Ethereum blockchain and found that about half of all bits are zero. This just cannot be sound money.

The Pendulum Nothing is ever exactly right. Instead, any particular part of the universe is always off to one side or the other. Universal forces, including human actions, constantly aim to push everything back to equilibrium, only to overshoot and start all over. Politics is no exception to this rule. Hence, the current state can always be criticized. Very prominent examples of such criticism are targeted at Milei for his attempt to put the budget and state finances back onto their rails, at Musk for shutting down government agencies and cutting costs, at Trump for kicking people out of the country and focusing on the USA, or at Kennedy for "putting American public health in jeopardy" as the Guardian noted back in November. No complex task has one correct solution. There are just different approaches with advantages and disadvantages. In current public discussions, I lack a fair appreciation of both effects and side effects. Of course, if one starts cutting spending in large and convoluted organizations, wasteful and valuable work will be affected. And if governments overspend their budgets by spending their grandchildren's money, this is not just evil but also has positive effects. The current public discourse is not nuanced enough, as far as I can see, thereby increasing the pendulum's amplitude. Let's take the letter that 77 Nobel laureates sent to the US Senate last December to oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s (RFK) nomination as Secretary of the HSS as an example. I don't mind the 77 people speaking up and writing a letter, but I criticize their lack of self-reflection. Since the start of the millennium, the public has lost trust in institutions (including pharma, the food industry, and medical policies), and rather than informing and counteracting, the corporate media stoked that fire. I ask the 77 to think about what they could have done differently in the last two decades to solve or mitigate those problems based on which an election has now been won. There are countless such examples. Even though I can't ask the 77 directly, I can ask myself. If I dislike current developments, I ask myself what I should have done differently and aim to change accordingly.

I could use some help. Every time I try to sign into a new app using nos2x-fox, I get 12 pages of signing requests from yakihonne.com. What is happening, and how can I get rid of it?

My feed here on Nostr is the most intellectually honest stream of info apart from DMs.

GN (picture by @Berrit)

Saw him live last week in Zurich - wonderful guitar sounds -

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GM 🍀 friends - my coffeemaker takes about 20 minutes to get ready - enough to fold stacking sats into the morning routine

Take the words for entertainment purposes only and watch the actions. There are no shortcuts. Don't hope, do the work.

Life is so much easier for those who stay flexible and adapt quickly. Resisting unavoidable change leads to depression and grumpiness. Every once in a while, it is essential to resist and alter the natural flow of the world. However, unless this is done in a homeopathic dosage, there is a high risk of burnout. Why not enjoy the ride along the flow of the world and work with it rather than against it?

This is too good not to get up at night to buy corn. The outlook for #Bitcoin is as strong as last month, and the entry price has improved as quite a few people need liquidity.

Today: dd.mm.yyyy = 25.02.(20+25)^2

I asked ChatGPT to estimate the likelihood of the following opcodes being merged and deployed in the next five years: OP_CTV, 50-70%, simple, well-reviewed, useful for scaling. OP_CAT, 30-50%, more general-purpose, but not urgent. OP_VAULT, 30-50%, niche use case, but useful for security. OP_CSFS, 10-30%, powerful but complex and controversial. Are these reasonable?

Poisson distribution: 40 minutes without a block and now four blocks in two minutes

FIAT money is little more than state-controlled karma points. Exchange your points for Bitcoin to maintain purchasing power.

🎾 - "Fifteen years of serve training in less than two minutes - this guy is pretty cool ( ... and it works (of course, only after having completed the fifteen years of serve training 😇) #tennis