Raging Moderates sounds awfully close to @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 except one is serious and one is ironic - https://fountain.fm/episode/CuOJByoz3v64goiJPf52

Philosophers At Work I liked reading books by philosophers. However, I just now realized I never saw one at work. Most of the time, the work was done long before I read it or read about the situation that gave rise to the work. With Bitcoin, this is different as we are experiencing its introduction to the world, history in the making. We have read and heard people talk about Bitcoin's electricity use and associated CO2 emissions. Some work was led by emotions and arrived at untenable conclusions. For instance, Mora et al.'s 2018 paper entitled "Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C)". Then, there is the much more accurate work of knowledgeable authors. However, if they appear to defend a preformed conclusion rather than arriving at one after neutral deliberation, their work is more challenging to read for the critiques. And then there is the book Resistance Money, subtitled A Philosophical Case for Bitcoin by @Andrew M. Bailey , @Bradley Rettler and @Craig Warmke. I much enjoyed their scientific work on Bitcoin's energy consumption from a neutral ground and with a global humanitarian goal. Rather than arguing for what is good for them, the stance many people willingly or unwillingly take, they tried to approach the question assuming that tomorrow, they could wake up as any one of the eight billion people. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Bitcoin's energy consumption. If you are already a Bitcoiner and short on time, you might skip to chapters 9 and 10 directly. It became apparent to me why we need philosophers.

Primal notes that it cannot connect to PlayStore (I am using grapheneos). Is PS needed for full functionality?

Gareth sure does get his point across 💪🏻🍀. Great conversation 🙏🏻 https://fountain.fm/episode/eSHXWEwo4kV019VLFDhm View quoted note →

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"It's not fun to live in the matrix, but you can learn to see how they play tricks" - Richard Greaser https://wavlake.com/track/1ca84e5e-19cb-46e5-a3a1-750acb61004b

all Bitcoiners of the past, present, and future are building this beautiful and powerful bedrock - perhaps Bitcoin will outlive medieval castles.

Thanks for the ride or die pod. https://fountain.fm/episode/cuQVo2bLmhZAWR5lJWRY View quoted note →

"[...] the government calling you a tax-payer is a bit like a rapist calling his victim his girlfriend." - @knutsvanholm and Luke de Wolf on the difference between "voluntary" and "consensual".

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Thank you for the jacket @Lucho Poletti 🙏🏻

You may have heard the advice to set your goals high and ambitious. This may seem counterintuitive for people who just started a new project and see more risk in goals being too bold rather than too humble. This post is a spontaneous reaction to a sensation I had this morning. The sensation that we are at the beginning of the next wave of massive successes for Bitcoin. The successes will come from increased purchasing power, the adoption by more and more groups of our society, the goodwill it will enjoy, and even some life-saving stories. With it, we will hear about the celebration of adopters and the frustration of critiques being wrong again. We will read about cases of new wealth well-spent, successful Bitcoiners who lost their minds, and those who were robbed. However, what occurred to me was none of the above. I thought about how goals provide guidance and orientation in life. With the next success wave (call it bull run, if you will), we will also see goals met or pulverized. And with each goal met, we lose a guiding star. Just think of it. Let the purchasing power of Bitcoin go to one million US dollars (of the kind 2024). I bet there will be aspects of and behavior in many Bitcoiner's lives that will no longer make sense. Achieving goals comes with fanfare and feels excellent. Losing goals is silent and may be noticed only months later, and without goals, we may start to meander and float. Please do yourself a favor, plan for success, and set your goals accordingly. Small goals may be good and helpful tactics, but they will not survive. Figure out what will keep you motivated and aligned with reality at the height of the next bull run. Find your eternal goals that follow your successes.

What do you Bitcoiners think of tailscale? Is this software I should consider as part of my Bitcoin setup?

Who says that you cannot change your opinion at age 94 and we see Buffett go Bitcoin? View quoted note →

Router died last night - MindlinerTre down, Mountainlake services down 😑, need to upgrade my setup a notch , sorry for any trouble ( https://amboss.space/node/02d695b01c7a6909e716c863fb39bc5fb7bbdc3824b7fdce53adc593e5be080e73)

"Imagine being an expert in the very fields that overlap Bitcoin and getting it wrong not once but continuously over several years in front of a large audience - and costing your family generational wealth along the way. Although bitcoin proponents often carry bias-inducing bags of bitcoin, bitcoin critics often carry much bigger bags of lost opportunity. But unlike bitcoin proponents who can sell their bitcoin for fiat currency at any time, bitcoin critics can't unload their opportunity costs. It's too late. They'd have to change the past. Opportunity costs, like diamonds, are forever." - copied from "Resistance Money" by @Andrew M. Bailey, @Craig Warmke, and @Bradley Rettler

Finally reading "BITCOIN: EVERYTHING DIVIDEND BY 21 MILLION " by Knut Svanholm as the weather allows for it -

Studying Bitcoin has been one of the easiest learning trails to start understand the driving forces in today's world. That is amazing and quite counter intuitive. It is the analogy of throwing babies into the pool to "teach" them how to swim.

saluting all the builders on nostr, bitcoin, lightning, cashu 🫡

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