Lovely afternoon in the sunshine.

US lunar eclipse rn.

People fail. People flail. Often looks similar.

Community Network Deep roots lead to tall branches.

Bitcoin Red Team needs to point the frontier units at the Bitcoin aspects that overlap with Psychology, Money, Philosophy, and History to see what understanding can be gained that will help guide feature decisions. It’s not just software.

Played one of my better rounds without fanfare today. Yet to break 80. Within reach. #golf is hard.

Mobile games today. Acknowledging that software is a commodity, and human relationships and developer taste are the value now. (The other value is data, but set that aside for now, because we’re trumping that with privacy and personal autonomy for this conversation.) To download and play Chess, Risk, Roulette, BlackJack, Poker, and so many other simple games today they still demand internet connected for tracking and ads, their core mission is to sell things stuff, and they want your signup, often demanding it. Just not necessary any longer in the world of Nostr, lightning and easily built quality games by devs and creatives that are doing it for the love of it. I had the frustration when I just wanted to play roulette on a plane, and have a game of risk on my own against the computer. Had the idea for the solution when I typo’d ‘programming’ into ‘brogramming’ and wondered what that could be. In my work I’m building a co-op to change an industry, because solutions built around software can now be de-corporatized and ownership decentralized. So here’s the thought: One Apple Store and Google Play store under a Co-op Dev Account (even better if a good candidate already exists). Then the apps get pushed out through there with stipulations around anonymity, in-app payments, connected web and tracking rules etc where the target is anonymity allowed, tracking disallowed, ads disallowed, connectivity requirement disallowed, etc. you get the idea. A place where software can be secure, open, decentralized, anonymous, local-first, and where achievable—high quality, all while front side purchase routes to dev through the co-operative and/or developer-tips route to dev directly via nostr by zaps. Thoughts?

Let’s say the 4 year cycle persists, because humans will human. If I live until 80, I have 7 bull markets left. Low time preference thoughts on mortality lead to long term planning and short term stacking.

And look at Elon go. Fun mail-day.

IYNYK

In the Midwest, where tornados show up unannounced at times, you have certain days at certain times where the tornado sirens are tested and all the locals know to ignore it. Damn the tornado that shows up in that time slot.

Yes, please.

Nothingburger? No. Not a nothingburger. Just the wrong solution to the problem still worth solving. Let's say the hammer was trying to drive a screw, and failed, do you just swing a bigger hammer because the screw is worth driving? Or, do you look for a solution more elegant. Remember, devs, Bitcoin is more elegance than code. It interlaces with humanity at a personal, familial, community, and macro level. You can't just swing a hammer at every problem that comes along and expect it to resolve cleanly. And problems will indeed come along, because it's being managed by humans. Flawed as we are, our solutions too will be. So it will take the best among us to resolve these issues elegantly, timelessly, and sustainably. Intelligent patience is what it requires. Your adversaries definitely use that daily for their work.

Spam War is active. 🍿 Blockchain diverges.

Lunch on the left. Dinner on the right. Dessert at the top.

Golden Rules of Modern Software Respect > Capture Relationships > Moats Value-for-Value > Extraction Data > Software The decentralization of intelligence will commoditize software, allowing us to create systems that will replace poor SaaS companies with decentralized data services that properly facilitate our relationships. SaaS will be forced to learn the golden rules of modern software.

For self-custody: If multisig is your pick, 3 hardware wallets. One from Trezor, Blockstream, & Bitbox as the three keys. All Bitcoin-only firmware/versions. If not multisig: a strong 25th word adds security if fully understood. Do the homework. My Top Wallet picks: Passport Core (my fav but discont) Bitbox02 (either orig or nova) Trezor Safe series (with BTC-only) Blockstream Jade (either version) Newer Candidate: Passkey by Block (under review)

@HeldBrand is up and running with a few test brands. About to roll out the other 9k initial brands. Should the brands be bundled to a particular follow pack registry for better visibility above scammers and impersonators? If so, I’m not sure which follow pack sources have the best exposure and reputation. Tips on where are welcomed.

LA and Venice Beach were about the peaches and cream this trip.