Maybe my new favorite quote from @Gigi: "Bitcoin checks all the boxes when it comes to the characteristics of living things: it grows, reproduces, inherits and passes on traits, uses energy to maintain a stable inner structure, is cellular in nature, and responds to the various environments it lives in."

Never heard something clearer about nostr: it's moving digital identities from the application layer to the protocol layer.

I started "The Genesis Book: The Story of the People and Projects That Inspired Bitcoin", by Aaron van Wirdum, without expecting much. But what a book. Amazing synthesis power and such breadth of coverage. "Originally established to act as a lender of last resort about a century earlier, the Federal Reserve had been manipulating interest rates for almost as long. Now, it also started picking winners and losers in the market with bailouts, and even began allocating resources throughout asset markets via QE. The central bank’s mandate had over time expanded to include tasks that could equally well describe the types of duties more commonly attributed to Soviet-style central planners."

Trump vs. Biden é o mesmo que Pezão vs. Garotinho

"It's impossible to counterfeit watts. It's impossible to meddle with the properties of watts or bait-and-switch watts. It's impossible to gerrymander watts. There is no way to veto someone's watts or make one person's watts carry more weight than another person's watts. There is no way to ignore someone's watts. Nobody with any amount of rank can escape from the effects of watts. Being unsympathetic to watts doesn't negate the effect of watts. There's no way to manipulate the logic of watts to subversively encode exploitable back doors or trap doors. Watts are free from the risk of meddling, interference, mismanagement, and abuse. For these and many more reasons, watts produce a systemically secure technique for people to represent their will, resolve their disputes, and reach consensus on the legitimate state of ownership and chain of custody of their resources." People, please read Softwar, by Jason Lowery. It's a masterpiece. One of my best and important reads lately, hands down.

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Small World

Jack Stauber · HiLo · Song · 2018

Can't have enough of Jack Stauber. Are you on v4v platforms, man?

A found this article very useful, on UTXO management:

River

Bitcoin’s UTXO Model: What Is It and How To Manage UTXOs | River Learn - How to Store Bitcoin

Learn how to manage Bitcoin's UTXOs to reduce transaction fees, a detailed guide on UTXO management, its impact, and practical tips for every Bitco...

Just wow: https://hugonguyen.medium.com/proof-of-stake-the-wrong-engineering-mindset-15e641ab65a2

Lyn Alden

Implications of Open Monetary and Information Networks

Published: April 2023 Recent decades have been characterized primarily by closed systems, both financially and online. The financial system as we k...

A must-read

Fountain

Unfilter • 378: War is Feature, Not a Bug • Listen on Fountain

When a story breaks, we learn little details that can form a bigger picture, and it all starts with those three soldiers killed on the border of Sy...

Check this out, worth the he time

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