I guess bitcoin is a scam…the kind of scam where almost everyone in the world agrees it’s worth a metric shit ton more than it is today and we merely sit and wait while the stupid or elderly sell their coins during price discovery.

Becoming a physician makes you late to everything in life. You go in and time stands still for a decade and you come out and it’s like, whoa, the world is different. I was very early to bitcoin. But since I was late to that paycheck thing, $20 was a big sacrifice for me…which was still a once in a lifetime win, but it’s an example of being early and being late simultaneously.

Stable coins on Bitcoin…good idea or bad idea? My gut says anything that creates incentives for miners outside of transaction fees from transactions equally available to all hash power is a net negative for bitcoin. Thought?

Having listened to a lot of core vs. Knots discussions, it reminds me of arguments between husbands and wives. The point of the argument isn’t to actually solve problems or understand stuff. It’s to bitch about feelings and anxieties and wants…but facts and reality.

Interesting irony on the Core vs. Knots debate: one side defines success of filtering as precisely that which the other side defines as failure. This is why they can’t agree: Knots folks see creating conditions that make slipstream profitable as a success while Core folks deem making spam transactions equally available to all miners a success. That’s a bit tongue-in-cheek but pretty accurate.

Any adventurous bitcoiner out there want to test a miniscript script? I don’t understand the _v part of the and statement… andor(multi(3,keyA,keyB,keyC),older(4032),andor(multi(2,keyAA,keyBB),older(32768),and_v(v:pk(keyAAA),after(1200000)))) (Formatted for humans): andor( multi(3, keyA, keyB, keyC), older(4032), andor( multi(2, keyAA, keyBB), older(32768), and_v( v:pk(keyAAA), after(1200000))) ) But as far as I can tell, this script does exactly what one thinks it should.

I think I’m OK with the US federal government earning bitcoin by stealing it from genuinely bad people as adjudicated by a US court system. I think that’s better than f’ing people over by printing dollars to buy shit, and it’s kind of like a proof of work all on its own.