Made the same tweet and nostr note. Note: 5 likes, 210 sats Tweet: 10 likes, 0 sats Plus I pay about 20k+ sats per month for Twitter, so I'm losing sats with that platform (though I've also supported plenty of paid relays, too)

Our code contains few comments, and recently that left room for ambiguity which was caught in code review. I added an assertion and error condition to catch the ambiguity, but I realized; if I had written a comment, would I have ever come to write the code to handle this error condition? Lesson: Don't comment your code, just write more code. There are lies, damn lies, and then there's documentation.

In a furry chat I started a while back, someone posted a hammer & sickle, or as I think of them, the "soviet swastika". I told them it was tasteless and the cause of much death and misery and I'd rather not have it in the chat. They pushed back, saying, hasn't the dollar done the same thing? Will you ban images of the dollar? And I thought about it for a moment, and I responded: "I'm fine with that. It's well-known that debasement of the petrodollar is used to fund the military industrial complex to fight forever wars." They weren't mad, in fact, they were impressed by my consistency. I think many a Bitcoiner would be hard-pressed to disagree with me there, either. After all, we understand better than anyone, the dollar is not synonymous with the practice of capitalism. In many ways, becoming a Bitcoiner lends a sense of perspective that transcends traditional politics. That said, if you want to add a new opcode to Core, things might get a little contentious.

I had a very @Lyn Alden thought just now... I just think it's interesting that W2 employment came about in order to fight wars and reduce inflation caused by deficit spending.

Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 - Wikipedia

And here we have the war, record deficit spending, more funding to the IRS, increased financial surveillance, FedNow, and CBDCs. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

I was worried when Damus removed Zaps, Nostr usage was reduced. The news about #Twitter today is a good reminder that often the centralized systems do the selling for you... I see lots of people getting Nostr-pilled!

What if the year on Satoshi's planet is 3.992699064567648 Earth years? (210,000 blocks * ~10 minutes) / 60 minutes / 24 hours / 365.25 days

Will be giving a talk at Boulder Bitcoin on the 27th:

Meetup

Bitcoin is for Everyone, Tue, Jun 27, 2023, 5:30 PM | Meetup

Hunter Beast is a Bitcoin wallet developer and member of the LGBT community. He'll be offering his perspective on why Bitcoin matters in a presenta...

I'm really looking forward to this one!