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bc1984adam 2 years ago
Endeavour spacecraft flying over Los Angeles, September 21, 2012. image
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bc1984adam 2 years ago
A lot of the Scaling Debate is misguided, with a standard of value that favors hypothetical future users as opposed to people living and using #bitcoin today. Compare to Climate Debate: Quality of Life for people in energy poverty today vs. "Nature/Future Generations"?
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bc1984adam 2 years ago
Certainly we could come up with better names than Nostr and eNuts guys, I mean c'mon.
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bc1984adam 2 years ago
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) was a notorious swordsman of the Victorian era. While at Trinity, the half-Irish Burton killed another student in a duel for mocking his moustache. Burton learned 29 languages and became proficient in fencing. During an expedition to Africa, he was impaled with a native spear, the point entering one cheek and exiting the other, and leaving a scar that can be seen in this photo. Burton authored a number of important texts on the sword (including Sword & Bayonet Exercises, a classic book on the history of the Sword, and his "Sentiment of the Sword" about fencing) and translated a number of important Eastern cultural and mythological texts. A scholar, spy, and world explorer, he also had an interest in the occult, native sexual practices, drugs, runes, snake charming, was initiated into an esoteric Sufi brotherhood, as well as into a Hindu sect, all of which made him a subject of controversy and fascination in his time. image
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bc1984adam 2 years ago
P2P e-cash > Store of Value (What use is a permissioned SoV?)
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bc1984adam 2 years ago
Tetradrachm of Abdera with leaping #griffin, struck under Anaxipolis. Period: Greek - Classical Period c. 439/437–411/410 B.C. Collection: MFA Boston. image
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bc1984adam 2 years ago
Jason and the Golden Fleece - Greek Bronze Box Mirror, Latter Half of 4th Century BC image
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bc1984adam 2 years ago
Most diehard bitcoin USERS have 10s to 100s of UTXOs. Most bitcoin speculators have few to none. If none, then what they have is merely an IOU instead of a UTXO*. *A UTXO is an "I Owe Me".