never stop learning:

bad thing about smart people is, their intellect is limited by their ego, experience, and knowledge.

GM

i realized there is no flatpak nostr apps for linux. there are fedishit apps, but no nostr apps.

GM. BUILD FOR THE CAUSE. BUILD A BETTER BITCOIN ECOSYSTEM FOR BITCOIN AND THE PEOPLE. DONT BUILD FOR THE FUNDING.

I have been using Linux for the last 5 years. I didn't switch because i wanted to escape windows. I switched because fedora's immutable OS distributions, Flatpaks, Distroboxes, DevContainers, Steam with Proton, Gnome, and etc. This is what I have been looking for in an OS or a long time. Apps have permissioned access to the file-system via file/directory select dialogs. I can "sandbox" Non-Flatpak apps with Distrobox with seperate home folder just for the app. I can code stuff inside DevContainers isolate my devtools. Etc. I really love the experience. Not to mention lots go amazing Flatpak GUI apps for managing Flatpaks, AppImages, Distroboxes. You don't have to touch Terminal at all. Anyway I also have been doing some hobby game development on Linux. I use WebGPU, since it can translate to anything, a nice middle layer, not outdated like OpenGL, and less complex than using Vulcan directly. I have a feeling many games developed on Linux, can easily ported to Mac and Windows. If it works on Linux it can probably just work on Windows too. Probably.

GM

8 DATUM blocks today:

DATUM is cooking today:

OCEAN with DATUM is in top 10 again for the week to date, building 2% of the blocks:

Based on CPI $20 in 1899 would worth ~$700 today. Which is NONSENSE. It would worth ~$36k. - US was in gold standard back then. - So we can easily know that $20 means 0.97 once of gold. - Then we need to apply gold inflation. We can't know the exact number but gold supply above ground back then was around ~772 million once. - So 0.97 once is like 0.0000000126% of the total supply back then. - If we apply the same % on today's gold supply which is ~7 billion once of gold, we get 8.74 once. - And based on the today's market price it would worth ~$36k First of all basket goods in CPI keeps changing. And second of all if you compare what everyday products you can buy, you also include how much cheaper those everyday products are today. How much of it we mass produce today. The automation etc. So its a horrible metric. It doesn't calculate what was the actual value of $20 was.

sometimes i talk too much GN

"open source is in cRiSis." "open source needs mOre mOney, bigger teams, massive foundations…" no it doesn’t. we don’t need more. we need less. we need dedicated devs, small, focused groups who can build the foundations used by millions, even billions of devices. and that shouldn’t be treated like a flaw. it’s the proof of human creativity, ingenuity, and the willingness to carry meaningful responsibility. money shouldn't be a motivator. bitcoin development shouldn't be done by practically employees.

Having huge teams working on one Bitcoin client is not something to be proud of. We should have more Bitcoin clients made by small groups of dedicated developers. View quoted note →

More than ever, we can’t let Bitcoin drift into the control of a few big companies. Once Bitcoin development turns into huge orgs with oversized teams, engineers each owning some tiny slice of a giant internal subsystem, the whole thing loses what made it powerful in the first place. Bitcoin must stay something individuals can run, understand, build, and compete on. View quoted note →

Complexity and hardware requirements are the biggest obstacles for decentralized Bitcoin and its adoption. We have far better hardware today, especially on mobile than we did in 2009. We should be able to compress the complexity away. If all this progress still can’t make running Bitcoin more accessible, something is fundamentally wrong. THE BIGGEST GOAL of Bitcoin development should always be accessibility: lowering hardware requirements, lowering developer requirements, and making it easy for more people to build their own clients. If we keep prioritizing "doing 'cool' things on Bitcoin" over the fundamentals, running a node will keep getting harder. Building a Bitcoin client will become unrealistic for individual developers. That is unacceptable. And I’ll stand on this hill until the last fight against unnecessary complexity. WE CANNOT GIVE UP on Bitcoin being something individuals can run. WE CANNOT GIVE UP on Bitcoin clients being something individuals can build competitively. We cannot let Bitcoin drift into another academic experiment with no realworld accessibility. Everybody should be able to run a full Bitcoin node on their phone without thinking about it. Everybody should be able to build a full client without complexity crushing them. It should be as easy as building a web app. As easy as installing an app and actually using it meaningfully. Public APIs should not be the default.

long waited video

this also includes the non-listening nodes as well:

Bitcoin Node Software

you can easily make your bitcoin node a listening node over tor. get help from an ai for it. make your node a listening node. so other metrics also counts them :) its easy.

if i find a block today, i will work on my bitcoin client day and night. then go work at a fast food place, i really wonder how it feels like. maybe meet some people there. then work on my other projects.

they don't know about nostr