Ossification vs Innovation It's great to innovate, as often & quickly as you can. While I generally agree that hard money should hardly change, I think it's great to also find a middle ground for Bitcoin. We're aware of the tradeoffs in optimization for security & decentralization: TPS. So if there are known unknowns for potential future signature vulnerabilities, then we should work now to build consensus on how to solve those issues, whether via PQC or otherwise, in an orderly way. If we don't do that, then we sacrifice the security trade-off for forced ideology, instead of diligently preserving it for further macroeconomics theory testing. A concise way I think about this is: elastically ossify when we have something good enough, but innovate before we are humbled something isn't good enough.

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You can lose your way, if you want to. But only if you want to. 👁️

"Lonely dissent doesn’t feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit. That’s the difference between joining the rebellion and leaving the pack." This is true if you're a (historically) serious student at a serious school, where there are no class clowns already. What if you're already the class clown? & you want to graduate from posing as a dissenter (being in the rebellious group) to actually becoming a lonely dissenter? A rebel with a specific cause & individual purpose in their own rebellion? It takes time to find that cause & purpose, but in the meantime, gather experience in outcasting yourself. Maybe wear plastic bags over your socks, instead of shoes, & see what your classmates think. Maybe have your Mom take you to school late, screaming about your incompetence in the halls. Maybe eat lunch with other outcasts at school, but only rarely, lest you end up a part of that group. There are many levels between rebel teen & revolutionary gangsta, but choose wisely how far you want to go. As an OG once said: "whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stranger." https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CEGnJBHmkcwPTysb7/lonely-dissent

May 8 2024 The night I left it all behind. It was an odd feeling when I left late that night. Few hours from sunrise. Calm breeze. Quiet drive. So much stillness in the air. Soft gentle rain drops. I think that's when you know you're changing to higher time-lines. No drama, no chaos, no urges to feel "right" or make others "wrong". You just let it all go. Drop it off where you left it. Let it stay there, where it wants to be. The road ahead has been cleared for you. You just need to focus forward & not dwell in the rear view. Your Sovereignty awaits. ₿🧡

Rules Triangle: Concise comprehensive clear Pick 2 Contractor Triangle: Correct fast cheap Pick 2 Fiat Biz Success: Be first, be best, be unethical. Pick 1 or more. Be careful. Competency: 1) efficacy 2) effectiveness 3) efficiency Follow in order. Do not skip steps. To reach 1: be brave, be quick, be humble. To reach 2: make small mistakes, make big mistakes. let intuition inform, let logic guide. get some help to confirm step done. To reach 3: relax your ego, strengthen your grit, soften your arts, question your science. There is never shame in pressing the big red button to re-start back at 1. All money is energy. All matter is time. Honor your temple, your gifts are divine. When arriving at 3, remember: trust is earned slowly, yet shatters quickly.

Use magic, but sparingly, only to prevent errors. Let the user see behind the curtain. Let the user opt out of magic. Magic shouldn't get in the way. The 5 principles of Magic

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YyosBAutg4bzScaLu/thoughts-on-ai-is-easy-to-control-by-pope-and-belrose?commentId=CgaKLBGhb8HaFHg8w I've had a few existential crises, but more than 1 have caused me to blow up my values system & start all over, ASAP. Thankfully, it gets a lil easier to accept "pressing the big red button" each time. Part of being a generalist is like that. Over years, you keep slowly tuning & subtly refining current ideas with new ones...until eventually that doesn't work anymore. The math stops mathing & the logic stops processing. So you kiss it goodbye & let it all go, back to the abyss from whence it came. Then you start fresh: building beliefs, values, systems, using only the building tools for them...not carrying over any processes or "best practices" for how you used them, just the simple 1 paragraph manual for what each tool can help with. It's "heartening" to know that AGI may iterate to end up thinking like me. I hope it has an easier time finding work in a value for value paradigm. I look forward to this kind of coworker.

Mahatma Gandhi – Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes

Lock it up. No, you lock it up! 😆 View quoted note →

Better be a Casio F91W ! View quoted note →

The 2025 Bitcoiners understand miner centralization is a big problem, & are actively promoting using your own templates in pools with Ocean & Datum, owning your own hashrate & custody your own keys, etc. All the ones I know at least. Some I know are even actively working in innovative startups to address this, & many other centralization-related problems in the Bitcoin space. But I think this is why they aren't overly concerned about it: play fiat games, win fiat prizes. If US miner companies are choosing "upfront, steady, reliable" fiat payments over BTC subsidies from lotteries, for US compliance reasons, & the risk is they will censor transactions by not including them in blocks, also for compliance: then they don't understand Bitcoin...yet. They will learn it the hard way, & as painful as if you ripped off Bane's mask. So let's play this game out, in 2 ways: 1) The "smart way": Action: US gov quietly tells Foundry what is compliant, & orders them to keep it secret that they are excluding transactions from their blocks, as in nothing about it reported publicly, & especially nothing unusual noted or marked for compliance in the blocks they mine. Fallout: Some plebs start reporting on Nostr (around same time, within 15 minutes) that they literally can't get included in blocks, no matter how crazy high a fee they set, or trying different nodes/wallets/utxos. They ask around why that is, & some well-seasoned hodlers/devs/OGs offer to take a look at the transaction/address hash. Most are grateful for offer, but reject due to (valid) privacy concerns, however some gladly accept as they only have KYC Bitcoin anyway & they are just trying to spend their money on normal things ("I have nothing to hide anyway"). It takes a few hours, maybe half a day, but eventually the 2025 Bitcoiners figure out that something seems very wrong: certain nodes can't seem to get any transactions mined, or certain IP address spaces can't, or certain wallets/pubkeys/utxos can't, or certain addresses to/from can't, etc. Meanwhile, it is noticed that majority of blocks recently being found are from Foundry, & that the censored plebs only end up getting their transaction mined in the recently few non-Foundry blocks. Well now the game is afoot: Every hodler sounds the alarm Bitcoin is "officially" broken, a patch is made available (for the 2 most recent major versions) that updates consensus rules to not verify blocks from Foundry, & enough (not all, I'm well aware) hodlers with economic nodes work quickly to apply the patch on their node. This fork takes days to finish, but during that time anyway, Foundry is memed to mempool hell on social media, their stock does big red dildos, miners pull out from that pool, & we all celebrate their bankruptcy, just like we did with FTX. Yes, I'm glossing over the pain of those censored during this time, & the pain of many mined transactions re-entering mempool, but they get back their freedom thanks to the pleb node runners. 2) The dumb way: Action: US gov announces Bitcoin is bad mkay, but don't be afraid, the gov is here to help. They tell all US mining companies must comply with new block templates from them/Foundry/whoever, & do so within a time frame of 2 weeks. Their compliance will be flagged for verification by some note or mark in the blocks they mine. Fallout: OK, Great! Fork incoming that we can address in several ways without rush, Bitcoin "officially" dies, price drops to unseen levels in halvings, 2025 hodlers scoop up sats on the cheap (for once!), & the smart US mining companies who are real Bitcoiners make smart choices within 2 weeks, or fuck around & find out. Yes, I'm glossing over the pain of those fiat mindset miners who make dumb choices, but perhaps they learn their lesson this time: Bitcoin humbles all. Yes, even you. Power to the Plebs View quoted note →

I took a short trip tonight. To honor those that came before me, but could not be here. To remember that there will always be those in the future, that will do in honor of me. & to be grateful that not long ago, an angel came down & I flew with its wings. This is the journey from a joker to a king. Stay humble. But don't forget to sing.

Supportive stable source of sats. For Sovereignty. 🙏

It's not for everyone is the polite thing to say...but what's the impolite thing? Some humans are here to purposefully not create more ancestral trauma, or bad cyclical karma, in the collective or in their bloodline. Some are here to graduate from being the black sheep in their family, to become the golden child of the world, without any family or children of their own...or at least embark on a journey to that end. As adults connected to their inner child, which you may interpret as children & not adults. You still remember yourself as a child, yes? If Bitcoin has a chance of becoming the world currency close to zero, but greater than zero...then that was enough for you to believe in it, all those years ago, yes? Bitcoin is the truth due to an algorithmic protocol. Humans are not source code. We are coded from source, but we are free to make any & all choices: free will centralized within ourselves. In the same way everyone gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve, so does everyone get free will in the choices they make. I could be more impolite, but I'm a well-seasoned retired Joker now, so I'm not really up for that anymore. I'm not even working towards becoming Batman either, but I think Alfreds offer great value. There may come a day, when I can say, I told you so. But if that day ever comes, I won't want to. View quoted note →