When I was 20 years old I thought science fiction and fantasy were the same thing. To be fair, in Greek we call it epistimoniki fantasia, επιστημονική φαντασία, which means scientific fantasy. I joined the Athens Science Fiction Club (ALEF) and talked to trad-published greek authors and quickly learned that fantasy and sci-fi are nothing alike. I am now 40 years old, I've outsold all those authors combined, and I now know once again that science fiction and fantasy are the same. Never lose your childlike wonder.

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Spam is such a big problem on the internet that most of us webmasters have had to shut down forums and close comments on our blogs. It's why I've been so excited for lightning used as a spam filter, even though I haven't seen an implementation yet outside of stacker news. Spam is wasting hundreds of manhours with moderators and resources. If I choose to filter ordinals and other spam transactions from my mining template, I have every right to do it. You can just go to another miner and send your transaction, they'll be happy to accept the sats. Permissionless does not mean anarchy. You have every right to spam the protocol, I have every right to filter it because you're wasting my time and resources. I won't run the ord disrespector only because the guys promoting it are deranged spooks and because it's untested code. But if the next bitcoin core version filters out a huge chunk of spam, I'll run it.

I want to work with bitcoin businesses but many are plebstores, meaning amateur ones. Which is fine but the level of Dunning-Kruger effect is starting to grate on me. Yes you need a fucking newsletter. Yes you need a fucking blog. Yes you need to do fucking sales. Sales are not fiat. FFS. I'm here if you need a marketing agency.

I believe at some point even unspendable utxos will be able to be offered as collateral. It's the same with gold. Let's say you have a small golden nugget. Getting it verified might cost half of its price. But if you show it to someone, thus proving that you own it, they might consider the risk acceptable and lend you the money. Bitcoin can be verified with a simple wallet signature and even if it can't move on-chain due to high fees, it's still there. I think microlending services will happily take them. Perhaps even with accepting the seed words themselves in case of liquidation. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't consolidate your utxos when the fees are low. I'm just saying it will become so valuable that people will find a way to use even the smallest bit.

I asked btcpayserver about an easy way to run it, basically you either run it on your own node, which is troublesome. And there's the option of running it on a hosted server, like voltage cloud or lunanode. They recommended lunanode.

I think I'm being reasonable and calm and then someone tells me bitcoin doesn't have enough throughput to handle as many transactions as BNB has and I go into rant mode.

Controversial opinion: Prepare to lose your bitcoin. I believe that almost everybody will eventually lose their entire stack. Hodlers will get rekt. FIRE and early retirement, travel the world guys will get rekt. Some bug in a popular wallet, some seed generation algorithm will be reverse engineered like milk sad, or any other random way that will compromise your seed words and make you lose your sats. Prepare for that. Have alternative storing options, preferably on metal plate with no multisig nonsense or anything else. Just drop 1 million sats on a wallet that you've generated with randomness and leave them there. Have cashflow to recover. Ideally from online businesses. Have a network of bitcoiners that will be willing to help you get hired again, to trade with you, to support you. I think we'll only start seeing more and more of this as price goes up and incentives to trick people are increasing. The point is to put yourself in a position to get some of it back immediately, not to hoard sats.

Running a node is the only way to have a vote in the bitcoin system. For example, my node will never run drivechains, even if they manage to do get through. The right to vote in the bitcoin protocol is analogous to being a citizen in Ancient Athens. Not all were citizens, and (unfairly) all were male, contributing members of the Athenian society. There were slaves and people born elsewhere that didn't have citizen rights. And anyone going against the city-state was ostracized, but that's not possible in bitcoin. The analogy still stands, because the Athenian citizen had to stay informed on current events, matters of the state and had to vote on various issues. That's why democracy worked, not because everyone voted, but because the voters were mainly valuable citizens. Back to bitcoin, it seems we're creating the same sort of governance. Informed noderunners get a vote, people who leave the thinking to others do not get one. It's a sort of democracy of 17.000 noderunners and it's messy but it works so far. And it's the only way to sustain one.