Code has a smell.
Politics has a smell.
If you don't have a good nose, you're going to get ruined.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #446
Bitcoin Tech Talk #446
Interesting Stuff
GM, not drinking is a superpower.
GM, I got all my powerlifting PRs after the age of 40.
It must really suck to be an altcoin bagholder, but imagine being a crypto VC back in 2017, backing stupid projects instead of just buying Bitcoin.
Nostr, like Bitcoin, is not for the marginal user. Good thing, too, because the marginal user wants everything done for them, doesn't care about self-sovereignty, privacy or rights and hates anything that requires more than 1 click.
There's a baptism to get into these things, and it requires you to level up your game.
The new narrative is to copy everything that Bitcoin does because none of the other "use-cases" turned out to have any utility.
I call that progress.
GM, I'm learning how to do the boxer step jump rope, and it's a lot harder than it looks!
I'm reading papers about rational trigonometry and not basing math on set theory, rejecting infinite sets and real numbers using Cauchy's category of converging sequences and my mind is blown.
It's like I'm reading the Austrian Economics of the Math world.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #445
Bitcoin Tech Talk #445
Interesting Stuff
He is risen!
Uncomfortable Truth: Everyone in tech kisses the rings of the VCs because they have the money, even Bitcoiners.
My death He died.
GM, realized last night that the current year is a square (45 x 45 = 2025)
GM, in an attention economy, you get valued for your audience, not your ideas.
OpenAI will buy BlueSky and make it even more cringy and fake.
The really scary prospect of AI is not general AI (not happening), but that it will be able to churn out addictive content. The internet is already an addictive place, imagine it with much more of the content that gets you hooked.
AI is not that good yet, but it's not that far from it, either.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #444
Bitcoin Tech Talk #444
Interesting Stuff
GM, you can tell a tech will last if it consistently attracts young people. I have no idea how many young people use Nostr, but given that it's very different than other platforms, some cohort of young people at some point will make it popular. Maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow, but it's inevitable as long as it's around.
If you have savings you can just do things.
If you want debt, you have to get permission.