Bought at $70k, $66.5k… my memories of not buying when it went down $18k to $3.5k in 2018 are enough to keep me consistent on this…

what I am concerned about for vibe coders is that they might think they can just skip this part of learning how to program which in my view was actually the most enjoyable part of the whole thing. It’s nice to at least kind of understand how things work.

Please listen to this and understand the scale and complexity of nature:

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The Science of Everything Podcast • Episode 157: The Geologic Time Scale • Listen on Fountain

A survey of the Earth's history through the lens of the geologic timescale. We begin with a discussion of the terminology of geochronologic units a...

Dear Lord, giveth me the strength to not attempt to fix software issues which can only be reproduced on one physical device.

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Lawsuit Challenges National Park Service Ban on Cash Payments

A federal appeal challenges whether Americans can still spend real dollars on their own public land, or must surrender privacy to do so.

To me, it's 100% obvious why this is such a problem, but, every time I explain the issue to Normies, they just don't get it. Why is it so hard understand that "we don't accept cash" is a plague and must be struck down by courts?

A lot of assets that are "not volatile" -- are actually very fucking volatile. Try selling a house (or other real estate) after fire, flood, or earthquake, or riot -- or even an economic crash...

Weirdly Bill Gates should probably go to jail, but actually just for not giving a shit about Windows and making it such a horrible experience for everyone. The other stuff I don’t really care about that much.

When I discuss "what I do" with real normies (those that are financially unsophisticated), and I mention BTC, invariably they say "are you a trader?" -- I think in their minds, they assume anyone involved in BTC is a "degen day-trader", someone looking at technical analysis all day and doing risky things with complicated-looking charts & graphs. But, ironically: I have actually started multiple "fiat" businesses before this, some of which scaled well above 25 employees and into many, many millions of USD in profit... and working on Lightning is actually THE FIRST time I feel like "I'm doing something which I will still be doing in 10 years." Like, Lightning is just getting started and there is an enormous future ahead for it. All of the prior fiat businesses, I could envision their failure/destruction (due to changing market conditions) from the very beginning. I just don't see an end to Lightning. I think it IS the endpoint, at least for the next several decades.

We just pushed out some new, hyper-paranoid security stuff for Rizful NWC connections. We've tested it with multiple nostr clients and it seems to play nice, but if anyone suddenly finds that that they can't connect to their NWC wallet, please get in touch with us ASAP. There could theoretically be a misbehaving client somewhere that won't be able to get through our new security hoops.

You can now "swap" on-chain BTC to Lightning, and Lightning to on-chain BTC, using a free Rizful account. This should be so easy that no tutorial is needed, but just in case....

How to Swap On-Chain Funds To Lightning | Megalith Lightning Docs

Swap on-chain Bitcoin into Lightning so funds become fast, low-fee, and ready to use from your Rizful wallet.

How To Swap Lightning Funds to On-Chain | Megalith Lightning Docs

Swap Lightning Bitcoin from Rizful to an on-chain address when you want long-term storage, self-custody, or a regular Bitcoin transaction.

@Rizful.com now supports on-chain send & receive. Please try it out and let us know any comments!

I want to visit some of these trees and pay respects:

List of individual trees - Wikipedia

Support for onchain deposits and withdrawals is coming to Rizful, in about 7 to 10 days.

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