There are precisely two electronic device categories that I have a fond affection for: my 1996 era TI-82 calculator and my @Coinkite #coldcard collection. There is something very satisfying about using a purpose built machine with easy to navigate, well organized linear menus with every menu option having an important function…but no so many functions that you’ll never know what most of them do… The physical interface of the Q is a massive improvement over the mk4, which was massive improvement over mk1. If you can only have one, get the Q. If you want or need small, mk4 is better but if you really need small, consider just teleporting the seed instead of transporting it on the device. The only thing that would make me love my Q more would be simple games, or maybe a more easily accessible calculator function, both of which would be kind of absurd to put on the device…but the fact that the Q has a calculator mode is awesome.

Have you ever heard that quote attributed to Ben Franklin that “Beer is proof that Gid loves us and wants us to be happy?” I think that was a typo. He meant #boobs. I think he must have meant boobs. Remember, this is the guy who wrote a letter with advice on taking an older woman as a mistress over a younger one for a long list of very practical considerations…

I exist. Or at least I am pretty sure that I do.

If the UK is imprisoning people over tweets, I’m totally OK with Putin invading England. I mean, if it’s already a failed state attacking its own citizens, it might as well be invaded by someone we can go to war with. Hard to go to war with England now to free its subjects.

Anyone going to cheatcode? I’m trying to find a spring 2026 conference to go to.

It’s not clear to me how the cumulative notional value for strategy‘s preferred offerings add up to $14.7B…I get about $58B (8+11+12+13+14)…same for converts…even non-cumulative notional converts is wrong…the 1 in $8.214 is clearly wrong… I don’t understand the table…

Maybe bitcoin is the solution to the us federal government debt. And maybe governmental debt everywhere. Think about it. Suppose you were allowed to tax everyone in the US every time they sold something for more than they bought it for and suppose bitcoin becomes equal in value to all money…you’ll eventually be able to tax all of money as it will all be capital gain along the way…and the more frequently people buy and sell, the larger the fraction of value you get to extract by taxation (just imagine selling all of your bitcoin every time the price went up 10x since 2010 -and immediately rebuying -…you’d pay a tax on your 9:1 gain 6 times…you’d have only 18% of your original stack left if tax rate was 25% (0.75^6=0.18).

Nostr is a much healthier place to be.