finally looked up the charmign curmudgeon himself, Luke Dashjr: "Spam is generally and broadly defined as anything that people have not consented to participate in and don't want to participate in but are being force to against their will." "Everybody who has adopted bitcoin has agreed to this monetary use case and financial transactions and even to an extent smart contracts, but everybody has not agreed to storing other data, processing altcoin stuff that's not even part of bitcoin like the ordinals and inscriptions. So the fact that there is not unanimous support for these things means they are spam." ----------ok this is what i agreed to as well. when i see the blocks on the mempool explorer googles, that's what i imagine being stored in my node. blocks of monetary data. it's the "monetary aesthetic" that max keiser talks about

we just need to know who owns how much of the money no one should be able to paint stuff on their Rai stone so to corrupt bitcoin, it didn't take Terahashes of compute power, it just took a marketing campaign to add functionality to the code and completely taint the whole thing reputationally if not functionally.

"i think it's a coin toss whether they are or not" "this looks like some kind of leveraged ETF that would not get into the S&P500 no matter how big it is--but that would harm their credibility" "they could punt on it: we are still considering it." "maybe due to political pressure. this administration has clearly staked a position that it is very pro bitcoin. the S&P is a regulated entity as well. they exist at the mercy of the SEC. they are not immune from political pressure. "more likely than not, they will approve it".

this morning i needed to pay rent with Satoshis. my lightning wallet didn't quite have enough, so then i realized i needed to convert cold storage bitcoin to lightning bitcoin. thankfully Aqua exists because i wouldn't know how else to do this. apparently CashApp just does this for me even though it looks like 1 bitcoin wallet it actually is both lightning and bitcoin rolled into one. it's called a "Peg-in powered by SideSwap"

my mom just gave me the best gift ever. she said, "im ready for another bitcoin video." my problem now is i messed the youtube recommendations up by clicking on 1 (only one) taylor swift/travis kelce engagement short . and now i'm getting a bunch of celebrity junk and i might just have to delete youtube profile to clean up this mistake. so i'm escaping to Nostr to ask, what's the best bitcoin video for someone's mother?

Is there a Bitcoin meetup or Bitcoin scene in Portland OR?

A boomer mentioned how he thought AI was changing society quickly in a dark way and doubted there was anyway out of a "soft totalitarian system" Of course i had to mention bitcoin then he asked, "Every system has vulnerabilities: what vulnerabilities does bitcoin have?" ----my answer----- Getting people onboarded, and one world government his worry: isn't the world already monolithic? can't the governments or "shadowy global cabal" cooperate to ban it. isn't the network centralised? i pointed to my Start9 node running in the corner. look they would have to come take this away from me. "Do you have Starlink", he asked? wily boomer.

I wonder why they ask at the urgent care if I've had covid shot and follow up by "which company?" Is it they want to check if I know the company name and likelihood that I'm not lying? Or is something wrong with one of the shots and they still ask the question years later?