Poisson distribution: 40 minutes without a block and now four blocks in two minutes

I have spent hours (actually days, because this is not my domain of expertise) implementing water-tight night modes on my websites without the odd component still glaring bright and causing eye cancer. I appreciate every app that understands the difference between 3 a.m. and 2 p.m.

FIAT money is little more than state-controlled karma points. Exchange your points for Bitcoin to maintain purchasing power.

🎾 - "Fifteen years of serve training in less than two minutes - this guy is pretty cool ( ... and it works (of course, only after having completed the fifteen years of serve training 😇) #tennis

Manipulating money is a crime, which makes Bitcoin prices one of the most powerful coordination tools in human civilization.

It may be routine for you and obvious. Still, if I am honest, it blows my mind that it is possible today (as compared to 2000), to get a decent barebone with incredibly cheap and colossal RAM and storage and network interfaces and fail-overs, install bitcoind, electrs, cln, lnbits, nutshell, RTL, nextcloud, onlyoffice, jitsi, photo prism, listmonk, WordPress, transmission, ... all for FUCKING free, if (big if) you know how this shit works. I remember paying dozens of thousands of dollars annually for WebEx in the early 0 years. But you know what: back then, people would join just because of the video conferencing tech and tell their loved ones about it at dinner or breakfast (depending on time zones); my product was the add-one ;-) I bought their shares before Cisco acquired them, waaaay before Eric Yuan started Zoom. Here we are 25 years later, and FOSS is king. Love it.

I am sympathetic to DOGE's efforts, not because I like disruption and drama but because I like transparency, rational thinking, and good decision-making. Some DOGE critiques ( even seem to reinforce its necessity. But I also support EFF and its efforts, and now EFF clashes with DOGE (

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Of course, one should never have collected these giant data pools in the first place. What do you think about this?

Much work has gone into planning and evaluating an upgrade to my computing infrastructure, and purchasing these is also quite costly. Mind you, I only have a few people using any of my services (lnbits instance, cashu mint). This initiative, which is fueled mainly by idealism, aims to contribute to the world I want to see, which includes decentralized, permissionless, and private payments. The work is much fun, and I get a sense of giving back to the community, the people who built all the cool tools I am deploying, and Satoshi.

GM 🌥️ This week, a friend asked me why we are confident there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins. In response, I wrote this (in German):

Warum gibt es nur 21 Millionen Bitcoin? – Bitcoin Weesen

It was a profoundly insightful conversation (yes, four hours) between Marc Andreessen and Lex Fridman. I just picked out one thought: In the context of "having just four sinks of high school immigration (US, Canada, UK, Australia), Marc asks what is going to happen to all other countries that get brain-drained. As talent is rare and limited, what will a country do if all the smart and young kids have left? And why does society at large classify colocalization and material resource extraction (of the past) as evil while ignoring or applauding the extraction of human capital? For me, the four hours of listening were well spent.

Both AO and EO takes a lot of news coverage lately.

In our circles here on Nostr, saying that you will be rich by staying humble and stacking sats is not exactly breaking news. You know it works (and you'll be wealthy in 10 years) or at least you believe it works because you know people who you trust believe in it. If I go out of Nostr to the people who surround me, I see a behaviour that seems to say "it's not for me". People find comfort in having missed the boat. Because bonding it comes with the responsibilities for learning about and buying Bitcoin. My message to these people: be honest with yourself. Admit that you don't want to be weathly, after all (not judging). Or else get going; most of Nostr is here to help.

So much good stuff is happening for Bitcoin and the people who believe in it, the people who built it, and the people who are building it. It's incredible. This is very inspiring and a fantastic start to the year.

intelligent people are sometimes hard to understand because for them, everything that is easy to understand seems obvious and thus not worth mentioning - leaving humorous or higher-order observations; as can been seen here on nostr 🐬

Firefox nightly with tabs on the left - the art of finding joy in those small things 🐬

I am totally absorbed by reading and learning and am not producing enough. ⬆️ ⚙️ in 25

PV and welcome to emerging properties

PV - taken during a recent stay in Piacenza

Raging Moderates sounds awfully close to @Bugle.News #40HPW🎧 except one is serious and one is ironic -

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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.