Beneath The Ink

Anyone here know where I might be able to find a bitcoin meet up in Miami?

Ive had a transaction stuck for over 5 hrs now....

What exactly is a business owner today? At its core, a business owner is someone who organizes inputs — labor, capital, materials — toward an output in the form of goods and services. They work to monopolize those inputs, package them neatly into a brand, and make transacting with them as smooth as possible. It has been incredibly lucrative to be a business owner because there has always been a need to organize these inputs in the market place. However this era we are entering into changes everything. Now we have AI and AI is the ultimate organizer. When agentic AI systems reach maturity, will the role of “business owner” even exist in the same way? It’s possible we’re moving toward a world where everyone is in service to everyone else, with AI coordinating the match between skills and needs in real time. That doesn’t mean jobs “disappear” — it means jobs as we know them dissolve. Employment won’t depend on whether a company has an open position. It will depend on whether you want to work and what skill you’re willing to offer. If you’re expecting to find the security and comfort of “getting hired,” the future might feel bleak. But if you shift your perspective toward the skills you bring — and the willingness to offer them directly to those who need them — you’ll always have opportunity. The real question: 👉 Are we ready to think of work as skill-sharing rather than job-holding?

What is description of happiness most resonates with you? Aristotle's virtues or Mihaly's concept of the flow state?

"Now money-making, as we say, being twofold, it may be applied to two purposes, the service of the house or retail trade; of which the first is necessary and commendable, the other justly censurable; for it has not its origin in nature" - Aristotle The Politics chapter 10

The politics - Aristotle book 1 chapter 9. A man in ancient Greece was able to articulate the history of money as if straight of the pages of Lyn Alden's Broken Money. Why is it most high schoolers graduating today cannot articulate it?

What if democracy truly is the pinnacle of human government? Think through the ages. Greeks came to democracy. Then empire, then.... Nothing Roman's were a republic first. Then an Empire, then.... Nothing. The British lived brutish lives. Then the people got fed up and forced the Magna Carta. It was a democracy amongst nobles. Then an Empire, then .... Nothing. Folks, America got fed up and forced democracy out from under the grip of the king. THEN AN EMPIRE.... If you dont want it to be ..... nothing.... dont become illiterate about democracy. Its the only government your voice has weight in. Become illiterate, look to Federal Government for help when they dont care about you. They are forming and protecting their empire. The democracy worth fighting for, fighting the kings, and the oppressors is the government that serves your neighbor as equally as it serves you. Its the one in the city hall. The place you can actually show up in twice a week to make your self seen and make yourself heard. The further a person you chose to represent you has to travel to represent you, the less in common you'll have. How far is the Federation of states? How far is the republic? The kings will snatch away your freedom, claiming to be a representative but seeking an empire with their buddies. Stick with the government that exists to serve you not the other way around. Go to the city hall. They meet every two weeks.

If i were to vlog, it would be about the lack of civic participation in usa. Im not talking about fed level stuff everyone and their mother has an opinion. I'm talking about your city or country level stuff. Just not enough going into it. Might be why we are having probs.

I think ecash is probably the best scaling solution we have for bitcoin as it currently stands. While there are some interesting solutions being proposed, most if not all of these other solutions require a dramatic hard fork to the bitcoin network that I dont think are worth the risk. I know cashu has been a hit, but I think fedimints are going to win out in the end. Its easier to place trust in an organization that in a single person. Especially if it goes the intended route of fedi where families and small communities run the fedimints. This plus bitchat could bring bitcoin finance mainstream.

I think ecash is probably the best scaling solution we have for bitcoin as it currently stands. While there are some interesting solutions being proposed, most if not all of these other solutions require a dramatic hard fork to the bitcoin network that I dont think are worth the risk. I know cashu has been a hit, but I think fedimints are going to win out in the end. Its easier to place trust in an organization that in a single person. Especially if it goes the intended route of fedi where families and small communities run the fedimints. This plus bitchat could bring bitcoin finance mainstream.

Boundaries, humanities greatest obsession. Every great achievement, every great atrocity has been a direct result of some break past a previously known boundary. Today, with AI, we have a tool that is trained on all known boundaries. Some will use it to outsource their intelligence, the heroes and villains of our day will be those who use it to push the boundaries of human knowledge.

"Ur-Nammu, the founder of the Third Dynasty of Ur, promulgated his law code, which lists in its prologue some of his ethical achievements: he did away with a number of prevalent bureaucratic abuses, regulated weights and measures to ensure honesty in the market place, and saw to it that the widow, the orphan, and the poor were protected from ill treatment and abuse." Humans have been thinking of economic justice since the time of the Mesopotamians, our oldest known civilization.

Self hosting (home lab) rabit hole ruminations: Start9, umbrel, these are great options to dip your toes into self hosting. It makes the experience digestible and if you are only interested in running the tools that the bitcoin community has labeled as necessary to be "self-soveriegn" it works out of the box and that has a world of value in of it self. But if your are curious one. Seeking knowledge and always looking to break the next link in the long shackle that holds you from sovereignty, these options are simply not enough. If you want to run any open source program or os when your heart desires you need access to docker. In many cases you can easily download production ready software with a two line command you can copy paste... While start9 and umbrel have great teams working hard to bring what the people want to their systems they need sidelined options to everything and are always a few versions behind. This is the nature of the beast unfortunately. But in this ever changing world where some of the most important tools like ai have open-source options that can't fully be utilized with what these guys offer Its more important than ever to truly understand what you are trying to achieve with these systems. Running a bitcoin node can be done on almost anything, having your own private chat server is a nice party trick, but some of the truely powerful self hosted solutions aren't native to these ecosystems. Im open to hear everyone's opinions but I feel I've way too quickly put grown my start 9. I may just wipe it and set a new Ubuntu or other linux image on the hardware. Anyone else go through something similar?

Anyone self hosting llms here? What kinds of things are you doing with it and why, if you dont mind me asking?

Honestly, there's not enough conversation around data sovereignty as there should be. It just goes against the grain of what "smart" people these days think should be the focus. Most developers seek to raise walls around it and raise it like a herd of cattle so their corporation can be the sole benefactor of the slaughter. It can be incredibly cheap to run a home server, why don't more people do it? Why isn't it popular to host your own data? I'm not even touching on the security and privacy aspect of it, I'm talking the mere economics of it. I have 2 kids and a wife and I'm super involved with my extended family ie in laws, brothers, my parents. Just think about the aggregated cost per year on data hosting subscriptions. If everyone pays between $2-$5 in an extended family of 10, you can pay for a $600 server in one year. Most hardware should last you at least 5 if taken care of correctly.

If, in the very near future, AI applications make it incredibly easy to offer goods and services at scale without the need of employees, what would work look like? #asknostr

Legit request for anyone who might care to help me here, if you are changing your node to knots whats your personal reason? I've been trying to follow the conversation on all the podcasts and nostr but it seems both sides are talking past each other and most people are set on their ways without much give and take.

I find that kind of realization comes when there's a calm in life. When I have sone time to truly think about the chaos, the small moment I've stepped outside of it. Nice piece 👌