DisparateBits

I just learned there’s more bitcoin on eth than there is on lightning and I’m shook

reading Bitcoin Billionaires and fuck I don’t have enough bitcoin lol. Think I’ll read The Genesis Book next.

Nic Carter said sound money, stablecoins, and prediction markets were the only big things out of crypto. Do you agree, or do you see other things in the horizon? I’m very bullish on Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, but I’m aware of the UX and this is nothing the average person would use.

Wonder if the 80k Bitcoin really is Roger and this is how the SBR is funded and he gets citizenship again

opened a new channel after having lost power and forgetting to restart the ol' albyhub. kinda doubt the average person will ever use lightning. I don't find it hard but it is more work than the average person will commit to.🤷

proof reading is extra important on nostr 🤷 still better than anything else.

what does do you run at home vs what do you run in the cloud and why? I run my Bitcoin node behind tor as that seems best practices but I don't connect to it on the go. it would be nice to run stuff on a home server, but I worry about a mix of privacy (ip leaking, security vulnerabilities), and uptime (power outages or network outages). recently lost power, forgot to restart my albyhub, lightning channels closed 😕

twitter limits the number of people you can follow apparently. I have a lurking account since there is just more activity on there in general. what a load of shit. I have a huge array of interests so I tried to follow what I'm interested in so the algo can recommend more things and I get rate-limited? lame. bullish on nostr.

I like the idea of nostr but I hate social media. Like censorship resistant money and comms are important in my eyes. p2p, decentralized, even better! But social media sucks. Advertising sucks. I remember a Bill Hicks standup clip where he asks the audience if anyone works in marketing, and then he tells those people to go home and kill themselves. I’m not sure “fix the money” will fix what bugs me about the world. From food to entertainment and just about everything else, it’s been studied and engineered to make it addictive. Salted and seasoned and perfectly crisp, or manufactured, edited, directed, it’s all just designed to be as addictive as possible so numbers go up and you come back for more. I hate the meaninglessness of it all. A whole economy of little real value propped up by addicts.

my daughter has said she wanted to be a teacher for some time now. today she broken down crying at the thought of AI/robots eliminating that as a job. personally don't see it happening as it stands now, but it's harder and harder to prepare your kids for a future.

I only know some Python/Django and wanna pick up Go too. My end goal is to work in Bitcoin for a living. I don't have a traditional CompSci education, middle-aged with a family, so time is precious. But Bitcoin has made me interested in everything -- game theory, networking, decentralization, comp sci, economics, all of it. What is your best advice? There's no clear roadmap, and the software dev job market is apparently in the shitter for the foreseeable future -- I imagine the Bitcoin dev space is even smaller with higher expectations, too. Feel free to share/mention if you know any devs who could help.

Goose or Claude code, and why?

GM! as I drink my coffee and ruminate, I realize I am getting older and a bit crotchety and I'm okay with that. I am so tired of hearing non-stop about fucking LLMs and having them in fucking everything. Also vibe coding. What the fuck? get the fuck off my lawn