The United States government is the number 1 state sponsor of global terrorism. We got every other place by a country mile.
Matthew D
MatthewD@nostr.ly
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Dreaming of a front porch fit enough for banjo plucking.
The cost of money is however much it costs to secure the Bitcoin network. Never forget that fact.
This bond market crap is just that, it's crap.
I'm not sure which app is slower, X or Primal.
Maybe I need to clear a cache or something, it can't be that both of them are this bricked.
Whether the CC exploit was an inside job, or if it was just a bug found by a frontier AI - the lesson this teaches is basically the same.
Entropy is at the foundation of everything, and if it can be cracked it will be cracked.
These lessons in Bitcoin are like landmines. Not your keys not your coins (MTGOX et al)
Not your entropy, not your key - ehhhh maybe.
The thing that attracted me to Bitcoin was my bullshit detector. I followed the truth, which is found many different ways.
That same thing lead me to running Bitcoin Knots, and signalling BIP110.

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Distrust anyone who tells you you're not smart enough to understand something.
@jack @miles π it's high time you added Bitcoin payments to Square Online stores. I'm not sure why this hasn't been added as a feature yet, but when I go in the Weebly settings for my Square acct - there's still no option for Bitcoin payments.
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The way Saylor COULD be an attack on Bitcoin is probably a cultural attack.
Start off by stacking Bitcoin in pub co to "hedge inflation" --> dominate news cycle, podcast circuit for years --> community lauds the strategy as novel --> distracted with NGU suitcoiner narratives --> bitcoins centralize, cultural values erode --> Bitcoin development reflects the general state of the user base, distracted/adrift from the roots of what makes Bitcoin sound
Maybe that line of thinking is off base, but I can see how something like that could definitely happen.

Knots and the one hundred and tenth Bitcoin improvement proposal take Bitcoin down to first principles.
The decentralization, and security arguments I have encountered fail the smell test. They occur 2 or 3 levels above what the root problems are with the Bitcoin network today.
Completely blowing out datacarriersize because things like slip stream exist - well slip stream exists because of cheap fiat credit enabled by $MARA pub co status & the incentives that are derived from large pubco miners.
If pubco miners were exposed 100% to the free market, their incentives would be forced to align with low time preference & long term health of the Bitcoin network.
There is no spoon
Should I start a Bitcoing Treasury Company meetup? People who own Bitcoin treasury company stocks can talk about their stock portfolios.

Can we trace the rise in spam on bitcoin blockchain with the prevalence of Grant funded developers?
Where I'm going with this is that people are earning money in a system that must be a free market. If you are working on something that wouldn't otherwise be profitable, chances are you could be doing more harm than good.
As someone who has benefited from grants myself, the work is mostly uneconomic in nature. Sure, it is good work and maybe fulfilling but I'm not sure it has a place in the free market.