@Start9 OS update - Bitcoin Core installed and synced. The first 24 hours I made it to 66% so thought I'd be done in a day and a half, but the last third took another 36 hours for a total of about 60 hours. Not bad. I now have ever one of your transactions on my SSD! Electrum installed and syncing. After that I'll connect and test Sparrow.

I'm falling behind - there's so much going on that it's impossible to keep up with everything. I just started playing with @Minibits and watched @BTC Sessions tutorial. ecash looks cool - I can see why it improves custodial payments. And now @calle is talking about sending ecash over Signal and https connections over nostr and it sounds like it's pretty big. Where does this go? Do we end up with a completely decentalized internet that's similar to Bitcoin infrastructure where each node can join as they please? Run whatever rules they want? Censor (or not) as they see fit? What infrastructure is being made obsolete right now?

Looking forward to Bitcoin 2024 - come say hi at the OpenSats booth!

At #Nostrasia there was an app doing on the fly translation from English for the Japanese audience. Does anyone remember what it's called? I am starting a Bitcoin Meetup in Kyushu and would like to use it for presentations. My conversational Japanese is reasonably good but I'm not confident I can explain Bitcoin!

Eat here #Nostrasia - あか牛 means red cow - it was the emperors breed.

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