This line from the film "Contact" has been going through my mind a lot recently...

Primal looks pretty cool, but I can't figure out how to login to it. Am I missing something? Can someone help me with this please?

13 years ago today, Satoshi stated succinctly why boating accidents are good for #Bitcoin:

𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗜𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝘆 A couple weeks ago, Connor Boyack (author of the Tuttle Twins and many other books) recorded an episode of his weekly "musing" podcast, and started by talking about the difference between sins, transgressions, and iniquity. These words are often tossed around, even in more religious communities, without much thought to what they 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 mean. Connor explained that "sin," for all their negative connotation in our modern culture, simply means "to miss the mark," like an archer missing the center of the target. Sins aren't good, of course, but they're not what make us evil; they're what prove that we're human. Transgressions, on the other hand, are intentional and knowing violations of God's law, so they're generally much worse. And iniquity is living with a false paradigm, belief, or tradition, which then leads to sins and transgressions. So if sins are just general mistakes, and transgressions are deliberate rebellions against something one knows is right, then iniquity is the matrix that the culture is plugged into, the system that so many are so inured and hopelessly dependent on that they will fight to protect it. No one likes it when someone else points out a mistake (sin) they made, and no one who purposefully does something wrong will want to be told what they should do instead, but some people will literally fight to the death before waking up and repenting from their iniquitous lifestyle. And yet, as Bitcoiners, we're tasked with helping to awaken those who are ready to take the r̶e̶d̶ ̶ orange pill. We have perhaps the most powerful tool for fighting against iniquity ever, and the final phase of the eternal war against those who would prefer slavery and death to freedom and life has scarcely begun. Everything we do to help people wake up to the realities around them (both glorious and terrible) is a small win for the future of all humanity.

It's finally happening! Nature is healing. 😌

I love it when my family is reading from the Bible and talking about it around the dinner table, and things like time preference are brought up in our discussion. Tonight, we were reading from Luke 14:1-11, where Yeshua gives a parable about a wedding. Here are verses 8-11: "When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; "And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. "But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee. "For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." Lower your time preference. Delay gratification. Be generous to others. Always be grateful. Stay humble. Then let God exalt you.

Me, every time I check the mempool lately: