“If our desires are out of accord with anything that the finite world can offer, it might seem that our nature is not of this world, that our hearts are made, not for the finite, but for infinity. The discontent of our souls would appear to be the sign and seal of their divinity.” Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity

In Dec of 2022, River published What Could Bitcoin Mining Look Like at One Zettahash. It concluded that while the benchmark seemed relatively close, we could still be a decade or two away from 1ZH/s. Narrator: it only took 2.5 years.

Welcome, dude! @IronHummingbird

The hero is the man of self-achieved submission.

GM

Love watching this guy’s trapping vids w my 4yr old daughter. YouTube just demonetized his channel. How can we get him some zaps? @ODELL @jack @jack mallers

None but ourselves can free our minds

Coinage first appeared during the Axial age, a time in which “all civilizations developed along parallel lines, even when there was no commercial contact. There was a new prosperity that led to the rise of a merchant class. Power was shifting from king and priest, temple and palace, to the marketplace. The new wealth led to intellectual and cultural florescence and also to the development of the individual conscience. Inequality and exploitation become more apparent as the pace of change accelerated in the cities and people began to realize that their own behavior could affect future generations. Each region developed a distinctive ideology to address these problems and concerns. Taoism and Confucianism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India and philosophical rationalism in Europe. The Middle East did not produce a uniform solution, but in Iran and Israel, Zoroaster and the Hebrew prophets respectively evolved different versions of monotheism. Strange as it may seem, the idea of “God,” like the other great religious insights of the period, developed in a market economy in a spirit of aggressive capitalism.” A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong

GM

Elections are a black hole. Cling to the bitcoin network for refuge.