What kind of asshole idiot crams as many people as possible into a country already experiencing the biggest residential real estate bubble in the world? Canada's population just hit 40 million while a tear-down bungalow on .2 acres of a barren arctic plain is selling for $800,000. The only explanation for this country is that we've all become asshole idiots.

Heard a loud bang, thought it was some teenagers fucking around but then the sirens started and I turned on the scanner to learn that someone flipped their car nearby. Now the medi-vac chopper is on the way. Sounds like a DUI situation. Lots of crazy in the air tonight...

The internet used to be cool, man.

It is my opinion that governments should shut down all custodial crypto exchanges and the miners. Maybe then we can get back to decentralization. Every new lawsuit is just further proof of why we need bitcoin.

Binance can die in a fire. Bitcoin isn't going anywhere. Days like this are necessary to separate the posers from the OG's.

please stop asking me to rate my customer service experience

Found a tick under my shirt today. Tough little bastard. I killed him with a hammer.

The official inflation stats are nonsense; the only price that matters is housing because that is what defines the real value of everyone's wages.

Dream laptop: 14" 1920x1200 500 nits matte 4-6 Xeon cores 64gb ECC RAM 2x2280 nvme raid 1 Coreboot, IntelME disabled Internal battery No cameras or microphones SD card slot (I can haz two?) Crappy speakers, bare minimum Blobfree wireless Three USB-A ports, two USB-C (one at rear for charging) No external display ports Keyboard from a Thinkpad X220 Touchpad from a MacBook Wide range operating conditions, humidity, temp etc. Must support stock Fedora Workstation It can be an inch thick and up to 3 lbs so long as it is sturdy and quiet. Should be optimized to run plugged in for long periods without wearing down the battery.

I have been watching the mempool since mid-2017 and this latest surge of activity driving fees up over 600 sats/byte without any corresponding FOMO price action is clearly an attack. No other cause is believable to me. I'm not saying that all the inscription/ordinal stuff is spam, but a vulnerability is clearly being exploited alongside well-intentioned transactions. This is to be expected, and so is the response--we must do something to stop the attack. The answer is above my pay grade but I am glad to hear that @Luke Dashjr is working on it.

Liquid > Lightning, a rant. I have run several lightning nodes, the first in 2018. I have also used several custodial lightning wallets. Every time my conclusion has been the same: lightning is a facinating idea which will never triumph as bitcoin's payment layer. The situation with lightning: - concepts too complex for even intelligent people to grasp - on-chain transactions are regularly required - routing often fails The reality is that: - complexity leads to the dominance of custodial lightning solutions - channel management destroys any potential savings on fees - lightning often just-doesn't-work, particularly over tor Whilie lightning works well enough under controlled circumstances to make a compelling demonstration, in practice it is more expensive, less reliable, less private and more centralized than on-chain transactions. High speed micro-transactions between enthusiastic peers are really neat. After 5 years I have yet to see any other practical use case for lightning.

"Your" bank has already spent all of "your" money*. * - Debt.

Unpopular opinion: zaps are incentivizing bad content on nostr. Endless humblebragging about mass zapping fractions of a cent to dozens of strangers is not good content.