It's done. This is Virtual Network Computing on Parmanode. Here is my Mac Browser looking at the ParmanodL laptop's desktop environment. Isn't she gorgeous?

At the risk of pissing people off, I'm gonna say it... Generational Bitcoin wealth is overrated. Do it for humanity instead: Your great grandchildren will be diluted with the genes of 6 other strangers (your, your wife's, and 6 other great grandparents). Their kids, your great great grandkids, will have the genes of a mixture of 16 people alive today, most of them normies. It gets much worse with more generations obviously. It's similarly important to be good to random people you share reality with today, compared to overthinking the welfare of some kids 100 years from now who are mostly made up of the genes of other people, who have the same toenail shape as yours. Stack for all humanity, not for generational wealth. I mean, imagine how little you know or care about the life of your 16 great great grandparents.

Have you ever heard the piano play Bach's Cello suite in G?

If you enjoy geeking out on privacy, Parmanode has got your back, now with I2P, and these possible Bitcoin settings; easily switch at you pleasure from menu choices... 1) Clearnet & Tor 2) Tor only 3) Tor only out (no inbound connections) 4) clearnet only 5) I2P and Tor 6) I2P only 7) I2P only out (max stealth) Purchased ParmanodLs also have .. 1) ParmaScale (Tailscale private VPN network for anywhere SSH connections and wallet to node connections) 2) Nym VPN - decentralised open source VPN 3) Parminer 4) Datum And Knots is the default because fuck spam. ParmaDrive is way better, as it's ALSO a personal data server/cloud to help deGoogle and deApple yourself. ParmaTwin is best, a second ParmaDrive which you or a friend can keep geographically separated, but on the same ParmaScale network, reciprocally banking up data for geographical redundancy. You get to have an encrypted offsite backup of all your data, in sync daily. parmanode.com

Who do you think would be the best person to give a lecture(s) to an interested teenager on the climate hoax?

We have a clan member has dementia - sad, not pretty and tough to deal with.

Running Bitcoin over Tor will help you avoid your ISP knowing you run a Bitcoin node, which can help you hide from the government (indirectly) that you are a Bitcoiner. There isn't much point in doing that if you already have any KYC coins (most people), but for those rare bastards... Parmanode will install Bitcoin and will check with you FIRST what your Tor preferences are, and configure your bitcoin.conf file perfectly (difficult to do manually). You can switch around however you want, eg Tor only, clearnet only, hybrid, or Tor only with Tor only outwards (extra private). I'm not necessarily recommending it, because it makes IBD much slower, but it's there as an option, and it's exquisitely sexy code.

Smol rant on the lingo of money... Currency is backed by money. Money itself has no backing. If it did, the backer is money, the backee is currency, not money. Bitcoin is becoming money of the world. Not global currency. Not reserve currency. Not asset (which can appreciate in value), but money (whic measures value). It is not money yet, except for the community of traders that truly use it as money, isolated from their country's trade and it's money (ie no one). Again, Bitcoin is not money, it is becoming money. This is not a blemish on Bitcoin, it is about defining money. Clearing this up helps discussions. One way to think of money which might help is like this... 1) first define the circle around the economy, eg Australia 2) then look for the token that is ubiquitously accepted and preferred in trade. In Australia, AUD is money. In Uzbekistan, AUD is not money. Bitcoin is not money in either economy. For the entire world, we have barter, but the closest thing to money is USD. Gold certainly is not world money, because USD by far is preferred. USD isn't backed by gold. If it was, gold would be money, and USD would be currency (as it once was). So USD is money of the world, nearly. It certainly is money of USA. Labelling it money does not award the property of it being good, nor sound. USD like all fiat is unsound money, and shit. "Sound" referring to ease of creating more (hard money vs easy money, DONT SAY SOFT MONEY!🤣) I could be wrong about the following, and if so, it doesn't change what I've said so far, but I'm not sure if gold was ever world money (as opposed to local money in local trade in multiple communities across the world). I can't confirm if there ever was a time when there was significant world trade where gold was preferred over bartering the money of each country... When each country has gold as money, international trade was insignificant, I SUSPECT. As international trade grew, paper trade took over to solve the friction. If correct, this suggests gold can never serve the world economy as money, it will always need paper. Bitcoin fixes gold.

Adding here for Nostr friends... @giovacatallaxy I am rarely impressed by logical reasoning, but this breathtaking logical deduction made me one with Nature - the best thing I've ever read on Twitter, besides "Running #Bitcoin". Do not miss it and please share profusely. @ " Since my dear friend Arman included me in this interesting exchange, let me bore you guys by sharing a logical chain of reasoning in 10 steps. 1) In what follows, the term "law" refers to a coercive rule—one whose violation legally permits the use of physical coercion in response. As such, a law is not necessarily created (nor necessarily enforced) by the state. 2) A law can be just or unjust. 3) Arbitrary law (i.e., law made by someone) is, by definition, unjust. This is because justice requires non-arbitrariness. If someone declares, "This is just because I say so," it is unnecessary to know what "this" is to conclude that it is unjust. 4) Non-arbitrary law is, by definition, just. Being non-arbitrary, it exists independently of people's ability to perceive, understand, enforce, or desire it. It exists like gravity. 5) Equality before the law is the principle that the same coercive rules (whether arbitrary or non-arbitrary) apply to everyone without exception. 6) It can be logically demonstrated that: a) Respect for the principle of equality before the law is not only a necessary condition for a coercive rule to be non-arbitrary but also a sufficient one. b) The non-aggression principle (where aggression is defined as the initial violation of private property) is the only coercive rule that does not violate the principle of equality before the law. Therefore, the non-aggression principle (NAP) and the principle of equality before the law are not two distinct and independent principles on which libertarianism is based: the NAP logically derives from the principle of equality before the law. For practical purposes, they are the same. The logical demonstration can be found here: giovannibirindelli.substack.com/p/the-ethics-o… Grok's logical verification of this demonstration can be found here: x.com/giovacatallaxy… 7) The state, by definition, is an organization that can legally perform actions that, if done by anyone else, would be prosecuted as crimes. In other words, it inherently violates the principle of equality before the law. 8) The term "rule of law" (as opposed to "rule of men") logically implies non-arbitrary law and, therefore, the rule of the non-aggression principle (and thus the absence of the state). If it meant the rule of arbitrary law, it would, by definition, be the rule of men, rendering the distinction between the rule of law and the rule of men meaningless. 9) Freedom, or justice, can therefore be defined as the rule of law (i.e., the rule of non-arbitrary law). As such, personally I would not call it "anarchy". I associate the term "anarchy" with a situation in which there is no rule, and everyone does as they please. 10) Libertarianism is a label. Some libertarians in the past (e.g., Nozick) have advocated for limited government. Others (from Rothbard onward, nearly all libertarians) have logically demonstrated that the state (whatever its dimensions and functions) is a criminal organization. What matters is not the label but logically derived truths. Given that justice requires non-arbitrariness, the only objectively just coercive rule is the non-aggression principle (which outlaws the state). All other coercive rules are objectively unjust. I'm open to any objection as long as it is logically consistent. "

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I am rarely impressed by logical reasoning, but this breathtaking logical deduction made me one with Nature - the best thing I've ever read on Twit...

People who block others for wanting to filter spam on Bitcoin do not know the definition of irony.

Starting today, ParmaDrives (16 terabyte self-sovereign AF personal data servers) will only have Bitcoin Knots available as the Bitcoin client.

ParmaDrive is less buggy than X and Primal

Countries are not "run". They are ruled. People and businesses do not need a government to operate, they are "petmitted", by rulers, who practice extortion through the threat, ultimately, of violence. It is the government that is run, not the country.

The fuckwittery on Reddit is incomprehensible... A typical Fuckwitter would think of some dumb ass question, and instead of doing a Google search and having an answer in 12.4 seconds, they take the time to construct a long ass post, with a flair tag and all, then respond to comments, wasting everyone elses time, and cluttering feeds with stupid shit. How did this species win?

Separate everything and state.

After years of writing, teaching, coding - I build and ship (worldwide) what I think is the best Bitcoin security setup. And when someone has a technical issue, it's damn handy that it's my own code, so it's way easier to troubleshoot. But should you trust me, or anyone, to build a node for you? Short answer is no, and yes, and well it depends. To get your hands dirty and run a node soon, and experience what it is, yeah, it's a good idea, but one should continue to learn and for a longer term project, replicate the first node (mostly), with DIY on a second node. Are there backdoors? No, but you shouldn't trust me, just assume there are back doors and use the machine accordingly, without putting anything sensitive on it. Your node should not have private keys on it anyway unless you are running a lightning node, then there's no choice. Also, read my code. It's not as hard to follow what's going on, just a sequence of commands that individually work on the command line. You can learn from the code what Parmanode is doing, it's almost a guide in itself.

Good morning to the people who want the state to be abolished, even if it's not morning for them.

Bitcoin is over 100k, you can stop being gay now people, geez.

I give you a new version of the Bitcoin node client: "Bitcoin Deis". If you're unhappy with Bitcoin Core policy changes, you can now run Bitcoin Deis/Knots. Bitcon Deis is not complicated - it's a clone of Bitcoin Core version 28.1 ( a version before significant shenanigannary took place), and I made some changes to the graphics and text. You never actually need to follow the latest versions of Core to stay in consensus. Bitcoin Deis is only available currently with Parmanode. Repo here:

GitHub

GitHub - ArmanTheParman/deis: Bitcoin Deis

Bitcoin Deis. Contribute to ArmanTheParman/deis development by creating an account on GitHub.

Abolish the state