I wonder what the trends are like so the regard to engineers starting on Bitcoin projects vs shitcoin projects now compared to 4 years ago. Are people starting to realize the shitness and see where the real value is yet?

Land of the free. The US is a joke. They are nothing of what they claim to stand for. There are wonderful folk in the US, but the leaders are disingenuous charlatans. At least with every step they are showing their true colors.

Writing fresh C++ for the first time in like 10 years. Decided it would be fun to have some Gtk notifications on changes certain network / mempool stats (using the my local mempool.space instance's API). Initially wanted to make a top panel widget, but that didn't seem as easy. So notifications should work.

I'm trying to find documentation around the rationale of Capital Gains Tax and how it came to be a thing. More and more I'm asking "why" about taxes... I can't believe how my whole life I'd just accepted all these taxes as if they're a law of nature without questioning their justification. CGT is basically enforced donations to the government. I read how CGT was introduced so that it share the burden that had been covered my Income Tax only up until that point. As if Tax as a whole is some given thing. It's all just so annoying. If the government provides certain services, let me opt in and pay for the value I get. V4V. wtf is this arbitrary percentage of gains nonsense.

20years ago when I was a kid into punk music, going against the trend and at the same time learning how to code and messing on the internet… I wish I’d learned about about the cypherpunk movement. Or actually, any time between then and now! I would’ve loved to have gone down that rabbit hole

Was looking at #flockstr, but can't see how to filter by location. Definitely excited for it as an alternative to "meetup"

Great... I updated my profile description on Highlighter.com and it seems to have erased all of my profile details #highlighter

If you wish you’d bought more when it was low, you will probably wish in the future that you’d at least bought more at the current price. Don’t waste time. Don’t wait. Gain your financial freedom for the future. I wish I’d bought more at lower prices but I know we’ve got so much further ahead. It’s not going to depreciate like current currencies, so just store your value “bit” by “bit”

For any #southafrican bitcoiners here: Does pick 'n pay accept lightning as a payment method ? I haven't been in the country in a while but I read that just now. #southafrica #lightningnetwork #bitcoin

It's funny how much harder it is these days to spend your time and energy freely and with privacy. Same goes for the money we receive for giving that time and energy to the organizations we work for. Slowly (or, fast?) we are transitioning to an extremely orwellian society where everything is monitored. Even exiting from this monetary system is getting harder as exchanges are tracked and bank accounts ask for "payment reasons." Getting bitcoin is only going to get harder and harder as they realise more and more that they might lose control.

Ooo the fountain updates look pretty

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