Where does this idea that therapy is just self indulgent and only serves to help people blame others for their problems come from? Was this maybe how therapy was in the 90's? Do we all know someone who went to therapy for years but never became a better person? I used to have this idea, but then I went and did it. I've done three different types of therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, regular talk therapy, and EMDR. All of it served to make me a much more self aware and considerate human. At times yes you certainly go "holly s@#$$ I can't believe that person did that thing that was so f@#$$#@ up!" But you also gotta take a good long look in the mirror. "Why do I keep picking these people?" etc. I did not find the experience to be at all coddling. You?

Chicago is a violent city. I know, I'm from there, I have all kinds of terrifying stories. Should troops show up to Chicago I doubt they will help. They will put on a good show right in the center of town, right where there isn't an issue and they aren't needed. Chicago does need some help, but this ain't it.

We’ve been working on making it as easy as possible to run litd (which is of course the all-in-one Lightning node management tool that includes LND, Loop, Pool, Faraday, and Tapd!) And if you’d like to run it, you’ve got some options! Clone and build the repo:

GitHub

GitHub - lightninglabs/lightning-terminal: Lightning Terminal: Your Home for Lightning Liquidity

Lightning Terminal: Your Home for Lightning Liquidity - lightninglabs/lightning-terminal

Download and run a binary:

GitHub

Release Lightning Terminal v0.15.2-alpha · lightninglabs/lightning-terminal

This version of Lightning Terminal (LiT) ships lnd v0.19.3-beta, loop v0.31.2-beta, faraday v0.2.16-alpha, pool v0.6.6-beta and tapd v0.6.1. We'll...

Run the Nix package:

NixOS Search

Have some bash scripts set it up for you:

GitHub

GitHub - HannahMR/run-litd: Checklists, example files, and helper scripts for getting a Litd node up and running on a ubuntu server.

Checklists, example files, and helper scripts for getting a Litd node up and running on a ubuntu server. - HannahMR/run-litd

Use the Docker image:

lightninglabs/lightning-terminal - Docker Image

“Positive” economics is used to discover cause and effect without the broader moral or societal implications. Ex/ if you do X, you can expect Y. “Normative” economics looks at the broader effects of an economic choice. Ex/ using child labor would increase profits by X%, but the moral and societal impact are too great to make that a wise choice. We need both. We need to understand cause and effect, and we need to then ask what kind of world we’d like to live in.

Goals

Evolution > revolution. Revolution is replacing an old monster with a new one. Evolution is removing the need for a monster.

The loud American Bitcoin maxi’s are the enemy of Bitcoin, or certainly the understanding of Bitcoin that I signed up for. I studied monetary theory in University, and I was appalled when I realized what an epic concentration of power control of money provided a government. I fell in love with Bitcoin when I realized that it was a means of removing that concentration of power. The maxi influencers that exist today, and the people that they are attempting to appeal to, are not in the Bitcoin world to remove concentrations of power, they are signing up to be at the top of the next concentration of power. They aren’t showing up to remove the monster, they are showing up to be in charge of the new monster.

It’s amusing how often I am accused of being ‘brainwashed’ by the evil feminists. It’s funny because I have been the subject of brainwashing attempts, but it wasn’t the “feminists”, it was the fundamentalist Christians.

Lately I’ve been appreciating how important curiosity is. I’ve found that when I’m having a difficult interaction with someone, when the way they are treating me isn’t up to my standards, it’s generally because they have no curiosity for me or my ideas. And I am better able to understand a situation, and come up with strategies and ideas when I’m looking at things with a sense of curiosity.

I haven't left Bitcoin, but I have left the American Bitcoin maxi scene. And so if I keep talking about Bitcoin, but I'm not talking to American Bitcoin maxi's, who am I talking to? I've been trying to leave the Bitcoin bubble for years and expand to new communities so which communities would be good to take a look at? This is my list so far... The LatAm FinTech world The cyber security scene The broader open source software community Human Rights activists Que mas?

It's weird to me that we have this common narrative that therapists just encourage people to be "victims" and blame everyone else and do nothing. In my experience that is wildly inaccurate. A good therapist calls you on your shit. You can't do therapy without taking a good long look in the mirror.

What's you're fav Linux admin command? Like what do you type in your sleep? Mine is $ sudo lsof -n -P -i | grep LISTEN

The dude that was lecturing me on men and women last night told some stories about his grandfather beating his father, and his father beating him. This quote is all I could think about 😢

Every. F#$%%^. Time. Sometimes I gotta go look in the mirror and check to see if “please lecture me about masculinity” is tattooed on my forehead. Whenever one of these crypto bros spots me it’s like they just can’t help themselves. I was out on a date with my husband last night. We were just chilling on the patio of some funky bar in San Juan when a pack of dudes walks in and shares the patio table with us. They looked familiar, after a few min we sorted out that we’ve met them before at one of the local crypto events. I never start these conversations. “masculinity” and “femininity” are not a part of my day to day vocabulary. Not one time ever have I started this conversation. But I’ve done it so many damn times I can spot it a mile away and map out the whole thing. The beginning of the convo has lots of lovely words and includes things like “women are amazing”, “men are strong”, “men and women are not the same”, “I love to see a traditional family”, etc. The middle of the convo starts to get dark and includes things like “men are inherently violent”, “women are just complex and emotional creatures”, “men should be men and women should be women”, “men are the natural leaders”, “the world is inherently violent and hierarchical”, etc. etc. The end of the conversation is really the part that they love and can’t wait to get to. Sometimes I think they might nut in their pants if we make it all the way to this part. “men should be the decision makers”, “women will naturally submit to a dominant man, it’s just nature”, “women don’t really want to make decisions, it’s too stressful for them”, “the world should be led by men”, “we lost our way when women got brain washed into thinking they should be like men”… “repeal the 19th!” Well yesterday it started with one dude wanting to talk about parenting. “you have daughters?” And he wanted to tell me all about his daughters, but I can see it coming a mile away. He wasn’t talking with me, he was talking at me. He was just loving the opening to start lecturing me about women’s nature. I tried to wrap it up and change the topic, but that was never going to work. It started at the beginning of the convo with lovely things like “I love my daughters” and then we got to the dark middle “men are inherently violent”, “the world is run by violence.” I tried to diplomatically disagree and told him that I have a higher view of men, and we get to chose what we lean into, etc. But of course he then started into the ugly end of the convo with him running through scenarios trying to demonstrate why violence rules the world, and the part he was really waiting for… “that’s the hard truth. I can tell you about the hard truth of women too!” And nope, nope, nopidy nope. I just got up and left. Every. F#$%%^. Time.

The writing was on the wall with the “have fun staying poor”. I came to the Bitcoin because I wanted to demolish power structures. HFSP very clearly states “I’m here to create a monetary hierarchy where I am above you”. The American Bitcoin influencers now are motivated by being above others, and they try to sell Bitcoin by promising that those who adopt it will also be above others. It’s the antithesis of what I thought we were doing here and it’s heart breaking.