My Bitcoin node infrastructure upgrade for 2025 is nearing completion. I know I promised a write-up on the particulars of the design. However, this would be such poor operational security that I would have to pass it up.

“In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him a commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange. If they do not desire it, they are not forced to deal with each other. They seek further. This is the only possible form of relationship between equals. Anything else is a relation of slave to master, or victim to executioner." - The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

Finding a block is difficult, but as luck has it, some miners overshoot the requirements by 100x or more (898243). It is a bit like a hole-in-one without a reward.

I used to be a passionate coder. These days, I dedicate my time on building infrastructure to reliably run the brilliant code you guys write 🫡

I have been a diligent and passionate notetaker, and I believe this has been a success factor at some stages. In the 90s, I worked with a genius IT friend who would not take notes because, as he saw it, crucial elements would have been outdated the next time he needed them, and his notes would be inaccurate. Today, I also don't take notes anymore. It is faster to ask AI the same questions again if I forget the answers.

The saying "Dress For The Job You Want, Not The Job You Have?" applies to everything else. Build out the compute infrastructure for where you want to go not for what you need today. Hone your skills for what is needed at your destination. It is more fun to then go apply those new skills instead of constantly having to patch up deficits under time pressure.

I have maged to choose my relais so that each nostr client has a different view on the reality called life; or Earth or nostr feed 😅.

What is your programming style: (type a) throwing the baby into the pool's deep end, or (type b) studying error handling and testing for weeks before writing the first line of production code?

PV

With every strong book I read and every insightful podcast I listen to, I have even less to say than before. Firstly, for every topic, someone dug deeper (way deeper), and secondly, it is all rather obvious and will reveal itself to whoever wants to hear it when the time is right. This is a cool episode of the @Bitcoin Infinity Media with @_Checkɱate 🔑⚡🌋☢️🛢️ where you can verify or update your stance wrt mempool spam filtering and what you'd want to do with Satorhi's coins before quantum computers are here.

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Here is an idea to facilitate the build-up of circular economies: We would need a new feature in @BTC Map where I can advertise myself as a potential customer, willing to drive up to say 20 miles for groceries if I can pay with lightning. Shop owners would then be able to see the opportunity more clearly.

PV

Ayn Rand: "It is the kind of play that depends upon what the members of the audience are capable of bringing with them into the theater." Satoshi Nakamoto: "If you don’t believe it or don’t get it, I don’t have the time to try to convince you, sorry."

nostr.band says I zapped 14M sats total. My goal is to make Bitcoin succeed and see myself as custodian rather than owner of some of the sats stacked in 2014ff. did I miss cool and important "sat routes" to success?

100pro agree to your comments on sponsors going south. V4V is the way. Love your show! I hope I find a way to just boost using straight forward lightning. Love my non-v2 podcasting app. https://fountain.fm/show/51hgGerqfMRRaqT5npXx

What do you think will happen to Bitcoin's price once it is done falling? Exaclty!

I am getting relay time-outs... if you care for what I have to say 🤨, wss://relay.mess.ch is where you find me.

As we work with AI smartly, we will get a massive productivity boost. And we get evaluated and rated by the engine. There will be committees assembled by the leading AI engines and some of you will get a call and perhaps even a medal like "Member of the Global Brain Atrophy Committee" ... jk ..., but realistic it is to be expected.

Working with ChatGPT is like working with an optimistic colleague who takes one step at a time and takes feedback really well. This is me and ChatGPT writing a little Rust program that calculates the final seedword for a set of 11 or 23. The draft was straightforward; if the code failed to compile, I would poke back and get these replies. It is funny how it would say, "You are slicing..." when the code was written by ChatGPT just five minutes ago. However, with a bit of tweaking, I got a working program. - Ah, good catch! That’s due to a change in the crate structure in the newer versions of bip39. The MnemonicType was moved or renamed. - Ah yes — another subtle change in the bip39 crate! - Ah! Got it — thanks for catching that. The issue here is that in the newer bip39 crate versions, Language is an enum, and its word list is not accessed via .wordlist() anymore. - Ah yes — this error means you're slicing a string (&bits[..entropy_bits_required]) at a character index that doesn’t exist. Let's break it down...

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