Not sure how it goes in the rest of the world, but in Australia, seems a lot of ‘hard working’ tradesmen and labourers spend half their time on break/smoko, or on their phones, charging arbitrarily high rates for average/poor work, whilst dropping $$ on drugs/alcohol/gambling, and complaining about cost of living. There’s very little integrity, pride in workmanship, and personal ownership. Respect to those actually getting stuck in and aiming higher ✊🏻

I can appreciate the argument for controlled inflation to stabilise prices and prevent collapses. It’s like a global fee for ‘stability’. People would buy into it if it didn’t exist and was sold to them as a nominal yearly fee or subscription that keeps things steady. It’s the flip-side of Bitcoiners who would ‘happily’ pay fees to keep their money in a full reserve bank. How the printing is distributed, cpi calculated, arbitrary fluctuations in rates etc., is where it clearly doesn’t deliver in reality though.

@Zoltán Why you always a follower of the scam bots trying to contact and follow me?

Trying to figure out best way to get my 6yo hands on with Bitcoin. Which wallet? Key mgmt? Let him transact? watch only? Obviously concerned he’ll make a mistake, opsec, wallet support, device damage etc Ultimate aim is to let him see his stack grow and easily receive sats for work/achievements. More a savings account than transaction. Any thoughts/suggestions out there? #asknostr @BTC Sessions

Considering melting down my gold wedding ring to sell for Bitcoin 🤔.. I’m still happily married too 😂

Lining up around the corner for gold in central Sydney

“There’s a supply response coming through.”

Gold FOMO untarnished by price meltdown

Hate how I have to tip-toe around conversations with family and friends whenever Bitcoin is relevant and should be brought up

First rule of Core v30: You do not talk about CSAM exploit 🤫

Does Bitcoin fix McDonald’s fucking up my order every time?!!

The film industry worried about AI. They’re already losing out hard to gaming. My kid, and many others I see, aren’t interested in watching a movie anywhere near as much as playing a video game

How does my @primal feed work? Should I see every post from my follows in chronological order? I seem to see posts from less than half my follows regularly, and the majority that are leftover rarely

I collect things with no sentimental value, speculating on future return, now realising the nominal gains and how illiquid they are. WTF am I doing?!

Base layer wealth strategy = own your home + stack self-custody sats

Start of the end of Core. It’s probably a timely reminder that the devs and process needs improvement if handling the worlds MONEY

@Jameson Lopp Can you help me to understand something regarding illegal content added to OP_Return? If I’m running a node and I have the 80b limit, an entity trying to get something larger into a block has to go to a miner because my node will filter it out, right? Does that mean the miner would have to make a decision on whether or not to add the content? Making them a sort of vetting body? I can’t image any miner would willingly add illegal content regardless the financial benefit.

If someone asks me what makes Bitcoin valuable? I ask them what makes gold valuable? 9 times out of 10 they have no idea or can’t explain it. They just blindly accept that it is for some reason