Live freely, be open, welcoming, flexible, and playful, and appreciate the depth of human interactions. Be the real you - always.

Last Friday, I sold my boat, MARANEA, after five years of intensive sailing. It was a fabulous experience, alone, with friends, or with family. First and foremost, it has brought me closer to the elements and allowed me to learn how to work with nature. Of course, this is also sad, but I believe I've found the right moment to say goodbye. Letting go is a natural part of life and enables me to stay free. #sailing #life #nature

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I have been running #GrapheneOS on my Pixel 8 for about a year now, and I have gotten myself into a bit of a mess with app stores. Apps have been installed using F-Droid, Droid-ify, Obtainium, Zapstore, or Aurora. Do you have any advice on how to clean up? Which app store should I focus on?

The next time you have argument with someone dear to you, consider the possibility that the misunderstanding or difference is owed to progress on the personal timeline. I have misunderstood others because I was ahead or behind by a few years. In order to "meet", we need to align on more than just four dimensions. Sometimes, as in the case I am trying to make, we might not really disagree at all, we merely miss each other on the timeline.

The more I read about the history of computing and cryptography, the more I see this absurd whack-a-mole game between individuals and the state. Governments impose controls, individuals push boundaries. From ancient civilizations to Bitcoin, the cat-and-mouse continues. We need to accept our current state of affairs, realize how intellectually poor it is, and work from here #cryptography #individualism

Thank you, Gloria and @Peter McCormack for this interview. It's cool to see some technical aspects of Bitcoin delivered to a broader audience, and hopefully, it will show listeners the enormous depth of Bitcoin, the phenomenon, and redirect their attention away from headlines and onto the technical beauty.

In his book "Scale", Geoffrey West, takes a close look at Biology using the physics toolbox and finds fascinating patterns. Did you know that the hearts of all mammals beat approximately 1.5 billion times? The heart beat rate gets slower as the weight of the animal grows, with heavier animals therefore living correspondingly longer. According to the data compiled in the book, this rule also applied to us, homo sapiens, up to about 1800. Thanks to the technological and societal improvements, our hearts now beat 2.5 billion times on average. A second finding was that all mammals consume approximately 300 food calories per gram of body mass throughout their entire lifespan. This was also true for us humans before we started agriculture, and our energy flux corresponded to about 100 watts. Since then, it has grown to about 11'000 watts, almost as much as that of a whale. Suppose unconstrained Darwinian evolution were the only mechanism at play then we would not expect to see "constants" like the one's above. We would see a continuum of values. It was this discrepancy that led West to the research and the findings published in the book that I am not going to leak here, of course.

Saw a post yesterday about Nostr not being funny (my internet connection here is so bad I can't search for it). This book is brilliant and great fun. ... even Freud admitted that reducing human behavior to unconscious drives could sometimes miss the obvious truth. He famously said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” A man is shaving with a straight-edged razor when the razor drops out of his hands and lops off his penis. He gathers it up, stuffs it in his pocket, rushes outside and hails a cab, telling the driver to get him to the emergency room fast. There he tells the surgeon what happened and the surgeon says, “We'll have to work quickly. Give it to me.” The man reaches into his pocket and deposits its contents in the surgeon's hand. “But this is a cigar,’ says the surgeon, “not a penis!” And the man says, “Oh, my God, | must have smoked it in the cab.”

Looks like my compiler is a bit of an overachiever: ... [100%] Building CXX object src/test/CMakeFiles/test_bitcoin.dir/__/wallet/test/walletload_tests.cpp.o [101%] Building CXX object src/test/CMakeFiles/test_bitcoin.dir/ipc_tests.cpp.o [101%] Linking CXX executable ../../bin/test_bitcoin [101%] Built target test_bitcoin

The concepts of being "antifragile" or going "long vol" comes to mind: "The reason that being healthy and robust equates with greater variance and larger fluctuations, and therefore a larger fractal dimension as in an EKG, is closely related to the resilience of such systems. Being overly rigid and constrained means that there isn’t sufficient flexibility for the necessary adjustments needed to withstand the inevitable small shocks and perturbations to which any system is subjected. Think of the stresses and strains your heart is exposed to every day, many of which are unexpected." Copied from the book "SCALE" by Geoffrey West.

I am working on my local AI setup (getting all of Supermicro, Nvidia, Ubuntu, Ollama, and AnythingLLM to talk efficiently to each other), which is very exciting. However, this kind of work also hijacks my speech center, so I'll just share a picture of my recent trip to Berlin.

This week @BTC Map was serving me well again when I bought a pair of fabulous shoes at Atheist Shoes in Berlin (

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Easily find places to spend sats anywhere on the planet.

When I told the owner that I thought it was very cool that he was accepting Bitcoin, he said that he no longer does because there were very few customers buying with Bitcoin, and that his service provider had terminated the service. Ten minutes later, he was gladly accepting Bitcoin again. I think he was just early, and that the kind of nerds buying his shoes did not overlap with the Bitcoin kind of nerds. I can see the two subgroups converging... Cool store and super friendly owner.

There are only two groups who don't need to adjust their portfolios: those who don't have any assets and those who have all in Bitcoin.

Launch #bitchat in Zurich and get 10 people in a 1250 km radius (Milano was "active"). Launch it in Berlin and get 0 contacts in the 1250 km radius. Early. Won't be used for dating just yet.

Today I have received a parcel that came all the way from Shiraz (Iran) to my home in Switzerland. Firstly, this miniature Persian rug is an excellent piece of art and craftsmanship. And secondly, for me, it is a success story for Nostr and Bitcoin. @Pegah and I know of each other from Nostr only, and Nostr's WoT facilitated the communication and the trade. And Bitcoin provided the payment rails. Thank you, @Pegah Rug , Nostr, and Bitcoin.

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Enjoyed Riga a lot ♥️. And #BH2025 felt like a Bitcoin conference in 2016 wrt people, style, and insights. Dozens of nugets to take home. Here are two: "99% of the people don't understand Bitcoin treasury companies and are better off just hodling Bitcoin" - @preston and (paraphrasing) "Most Bitcoiners are unprepared for the wealth rip that is coming to them. Get creative, find out who you are. Consumers will drown, producers will flourish" - @M A D E X https://cdn.satellite.earth/313a156305b0870979730fc11f63adaadc361a96e12e69f555168fb0d9a221bc.jp

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