I had dinner with a friend I haven’t seen in almost 20 years tonight. He’s doing so well, and has a wonderful young family. That was such a good thing.

WTF is @bitcoinist.app it’s literally pinged all of my posts, very annoying.

Natural Law in the sheets, Arcane prolix in the briefs. View quoted note →

If you have never been involved in a lawsuit you have no idea how the process works. I’m not saying it doesn’t have serious problems. In fact, my opinion is that it’s a broken system that is fundamentally deranged. But! It _does_have reliably enforceable rules and procedures that are part of that busted system that a competent lawyer can leverage for your benefit. And forget criminal law for a moment, the process of a normal, marginally complex civil lawsuit is so much mandatory tedium it would completely blow your mind. But if your lawyer understands the difference between begging for justice and leveraging bureaucracy there are powerful mechanisms, Stygian levers and gears, actuating the soulless golem of law at your disposal.

There’s more to say about the NY lawsuit re: making claims on “abandoned” bitcoin but here are a couple quick notes on the issue. View quoted note →

I fucked up my calendar and missed a hearing for the first time in 13 years of practicing today. It wasn’t a big deal and not an important hearing and everything worked out. I got to apologize to the judge and informed my client who was gracious as well. But it’s hard to explain just how stressful this was. First missed hearing ever.