Nearly finished reading Theft of Fire by Devon Eriksen… haven’t been able to put it down. First Novel I’ve read in many years. Ticks all the boxes; pushes all my buttons. Heard about it when @Guy Swann interviewed him on Bitcoin Audible in

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Sometimes in life and the course of history, there are moments where simply stating the truth, in a clear and understandable way, can stir a fire i...

Glad I got my hands on it! Looking forward to more of this!!!

GM It's been like 15mo since I created my #nostr keys, after which I joined Nostrasia and met many nostriches/bitcoiners since. The Nostr ecosystem has improved SOO MUCH since when I joined. UX and stability of microblogging clients is like 100x better. And there are so many other more tools and ideas around now. Super excited about it all. Just sad I haven't contributed any dev yet! Plenty of time! pv, stay humble, LFG etc.

Am I the only one who finds it extremely difficult to navigate email threads on gmail?

Its not my field but AI advancements I see mostly are mostly generative LLM or Image diffusion models etc. all pattern based. Is there any work being done on logic learning AI that would actually be more of a form intelligence rather than an imitation? Stuff that can do logical deduction and reasoning and math. From what I have read LLMs are just glorified “complete the sentence:” monkeys.

Just made delicious ramen at home . So amazing. My favorite. 横浜家系. Made my wife a more generic 豚骨 ramen. Accidentally I prepared double portions for each of us! So obviously ate hers too, totaling three portions for me. AND then I finished the soups off by adding rice as a “risotto”. I am dead. But happy. #foodstr #ramenstr #japanlife #pleblife

Drinking a ice cold beer in the dark in a hot bathtub is the best

Going to be weird when miners pay bitcoin for their electricity in order to receive bitcoin for their mining.

In the future I can imagine myself having multiple wallets, be it Lightning or ecash, which I segregate by use case and use some app that abstracts these being categories like “groceries” or “entertainment” etc, allowing me to budget each month by just automatically topping up each wallet appropriately at month start from a main Bitcoin wallet. I can imagine working in layers of decreasing liquidity like this. Almost like the storage/memory layers in computers. They get bigger and slower where you access them less frequently

How does gravity work to flat earthers? Is it based on the same physics? Surely if you're near the edges of the flat disc, the gravitational pull would no longer be downward but have a diagonal pull. Things wouldn't fall vertically in places like Australia or South Africa.

Anybody have recommendations for podcasts about #QuantumComputing ?

Laziness is an enemy of improvement. Don’t give up on things because they’re inconvenient. If you believe in them, work to improve them

二千百兆 the maximum number of sats to ever exist. 21e14. In Japanese 10^8 is 一億 (oku) so 1bitcoin is 1 oku sats. But with 21m Bitcoin, that means 21x10^14 sats. 10^12 is 1兆 (chou) in Japanese. So we’d have 2100兆 sats ever created. You can write 2100 with characters for “two thousand hundred” 二千百, so altogether it’s 二千百兆 (ni sen hyaku chou) sats

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?