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I have a theory that a lot of what's driving the shitcoinery at Bitcoin Core is simply the "low impact death spiral" - adding small things that are seemingly low risk and clear/assured value, but small. These pileup and the product becomes a mess, core mission diluted. Failing. Allowing other use cases and catering to people who ask for "small" change, is an easy way to deliver "value". Where, for people wanting to make an impact within bitcoin L1, there isn't really any easy, risk-free value to add - so why risk it? Why do the hard thing? It's a lot less sexy and rewarding to just be a maintainer. Most people want to build, make an impact, deliver change, be recognised for doing something great, put it on their CV and wear it with honour. Working with affinity scam projects, is a way to do that: A lot of people genuinely think those DeFi use cases are valuable, and for early-stage bitcoin maximalist, the idea of moving everything onto bitcoin to beat all the other alt coins is an AMAZING idea! "Yeah, let's put it all on bitcoin cos then alts go away and bitcoin wins!" So, if you can help make that a reality, why wouldn't you? It's an easy way to deliver value and LOADS of people will applaud you for it. It takes work to understand why this isn't a good thing, and people don't like doing work --- Money is broken, we need to stay laser-focused on fixing it, and not getting distracted by sparkly things along the way

How you know bitcoin is severely under-adopted: a highly contentions soft fork is actively being considered and searching 'bitcoin' on YouTube yeilds only cringe-face, click-bait, "crypto" price predictions

Gold has _already_ failed— that's why fiat exists. If gold was so good, we'd still be transacting in it...

When Small Modular Reactor Mining? https://youtu.be/cxDd3Whl_9s?si=Z2sSAQeZnyo6EadB

Do yourself a favour and get lost in the world of alternative keyboard layouts: https://layouts.wiki/guides/start/intro/ #runningDusk-WP on ZSA Voyager

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Just finished intro to Linux course by The Linux Foundation. Using Fedora workstation, feels so good

Bitcoin has the best qualities of the Dollar (but better) AND the best qualities of GOLD (but better). Low adoption isn't a reflection of a flaw in bitcoin, but of a flaw in human recognition.

How on earth were they going to lift that 1000 tonne granite slab out of the ground? Unfinished Obelisk 🤯

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What is your definition of a bitcoin maximalist? Someone on X was claiming it means wanting everything on bitcoin, I replied: Disagree—A bitcoin maximalist is someone who believes in peer-to-peer electronic cash, not defi, trading, NFTs, or other shitcoinery. "Maximalism" means being all in on bitcoin and the promise of bitcoin (the problem it solves: broken money), as opposed to having anything to do with alts. They said "No, that's minimalism" Which, in a sense is correct, but is also nonsensical as a descriptor. To be precise you could say bitcoin "as a inflationless electronic cash system" maximalist Because what they are saying is more like bitcoin "as an immutable database for anything you want" maximalist