Sachin

Bitcoin won't fix governments. They are monopolies. They will be broken in nature as long as the monopoly privileges remain. No person, group or technology can fix that.

Guys There were two solo blocks mined this week TWO https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000a7aa0173a48ea5fcbf947a290bc7d25fc176ce83225c https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000022b7f4d4475c72653a898672c121715af5c62c5f21da

Mises institute folks have a lot of patience in addressing arguments. (Tom Woods, Bob Murphy, Tom DiLorenzo, Patrick Newman, Jonathan Newman, Ryan McMacken, et al.) I tend to want them to use as many words as possible because the more words they use, the better their arguments get. I feel like they’d generally be wonderful people to disagree with (although I agree with Bob here in the quoted video below) nostr:nevent1qqs275s5zc6xde3vu64q56zz3ghnl6ny7p5wtdysnzzj6zl6ca4xttqzyrslez8cudu8s3v8cgeh7n4epfrvpsrz93pwwlt4a39rw5slxrmzyqcyqqqqqqgpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqc68g34

Wonderful excerpt used by Murray Rothbard in his essay 'Education: Free and Compulsory': "As the Reverend George Harris expressed it: Savagery is uniformity. The principal distinctions are sex, age, size, and strength. Savages... think alike or not at all, and converse therefore in monosyllables. There is scarcely any variety, only a horde of men, women, and children. The next higher stage, which is called barbarism, is marked by increased variety of functions. There is some division of labor, some interchange of thought, better leadership, more intellectual and aesthetic cultivation. The highest stage, which is called civilization, shows the greatest degree of specialization. Distinct functions become more numerous. Mechanical, commercial, educational, scientific, political, and artistic occupations multiply. The rudimentary societies are characterized by the likeness of equality; the developed societies are marked by the unlikeness of inequality or variety. As we go down, monotony; as we go up, variety. As we go down, persons are more alike; as we go up, persons are more unlike, it certainly seems... as though [the] approach to equality is decline towards the conditions of savagery, and as though variety is an advance towards higher civilization.... Certainly, then, if progress is to be made by added satisfactions, there must be even more variety of functions, new and finer differentiations of training and pursuits. Every step of progress means the addition of a human factor that is in some way unlike all existing factors. The progress of civilization, then...must be an increasing diversification of the individuals that compose society.... There must be articulation of each new invention and art, of fresh knowledge, and of broader application of moral principles."

Any branch of science is useful to the extent that it helps you understand causality, i.e. what causes what? Economists seem to consider themselves to be above this.

TIL Hindu epistemology also comes to the conclusion that Revelation (Surudhi), Reasoning (Yukthi) and Experience (Anubavam) are three ways of ascertaining the truth.

Arseblog is one of my all time favourite blogs and Arsecast is one of my all time favourite podcasts. https://fountain.fm/show/FmCiJrlhTxFSuJWcI0u8

nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 Would be amazing if you could make a tutorial for the embedded node version of nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 good ser 🙏 Would be lovely to share it with Bitcoiners I know, get them onboarded to it and help them go fully and truly self-custodial while using Lightning.