Good morning, please read my long rant on why Miley Cyrus’ Something Beautiful is the most perfect love song. … for me anyhow. It’s starts with setting the scene of a date “water to red wine, kissing to kill time”. Which is excellent as of course red wine is the best drug to take on a hot date. Her and this date are clearly in a deep conversation, which is very much my love language. “Said I don't wanna talk about it for too long. Baby, now I think I do.” This date says or does something that inspires so much trust that she is able to “Send home the guards”. For me this one is a rare treat. I walk through the world with a whole crew of guards, rarely do they get to take a break. And when this date then says “something beautiful” she let’s herself fall into infatuation. “I'm losing my breath”, “I'm so obsessed, yes”. I think when you are younger it’s very scary to get lost in a person. You don’t know how you will find yourself again. But when you’re an old bitch like me, finding a moment where you can even pretend to get lost in someone is quite a treat. It’s a beautiful ride to go on… in the rare moments when you can find it. It’s amazing to get lost in admiration for someone’s best qualities. You know tomorrow morning they will say something harsh, or burp, or do that other thing that really irritates you and you will once again realize their flawed humanity and sober up. But, for tonight you can be completely enamored, you can get lost and “drown in devotion”. But it’s not just the lyrics, the dramatic style of the song captures the moment when you look them in the eye and a wave of desire hits you. It’s all consuming. It’s the date night we’re all striving for 🍷💥😍🫶

Good morning, please read my long rant on why Miley Cyrus’ Something Beautiful is the most perfect love song. … for me anyhow. It’s starts with setting the scene of a date “water to red wine, kissing to kill time”. Which is excellent as of course red wine is the best drug to take on a hot date. Her and this date are clearly in a deep conversation, which is very much my love language. “Said I don't wanna talk about it for too long. Baby, now I think I do.” This date says or does something that inspires so much trust that she is able to “Send home the guards”. For me this one is a rare treat. I walk through the world with a whole crew of guards, rarely do they get to take a break. And when this date then says “something beautiful” she let’s herself fall into infatuation. “I'm losing my breath”, “I'm so obsessed, yes”. I think when you are younger it’s very scary to get lost in a person. You don’t know how you will find yourself again. But when you’re an old bitch like, me finding a moment where you can even pretend to get lost in someone is quite a treat. It’s a beautiful ride to go on… in the rare moments when you can find it. It’s amazing to get lost in admiration for someone’s best qualities. You know tomorrow morning they will say something harsh, or burp, or do that other thing that really irritates you and you will once again realize their flawed humanity and sober up. But, for tonight you can be completely enamored, you can get lost and “drown in devotion”. But it’s not just the lyrics, the dramatic style of the song captures the moment when you look them in the eye and a wave of desire hits you. It’s all consuming. It’s the date night we’re all striving for 🍷💥😍🫶

I care about the monetary use case for Bitcoin. ...it’s really the only use of Bitcoin that I care about. I also don’t have any issue with people discussing how to optimize for that use case, I also want to optimize for a monetary use case. However, years ago, I realized that there isn’t an effective way to prevent other use cases of Bitcoin. That just comes with the whole open and decentralized thing we got going on here. And that’s okay. In fact people wanting to use Bitcoin for all kinds of things is a sign of success. The monetary use case would be in trouble if no one respected the chain enough to make use of it. The only way to decide what is and is not spam are fees. Space in a popular public blockchain is a scarce and valuable resource, it should be expensive. If someone is willing to pay the fees for their use case, well, then it’s not spam. I also find it unlikely that criminals will use a public blockchain to store evidence of horrific crimes. If we are at all successful, then on chain transactions will be expensive. Layer one is likely to be full of what I would consider to be expensive junk. In part because I realized that, I went to work on Lightning. What happens on chain is governed by the fee market. Lightning is how we get the monetary use case.

One of my dogs has the cone on his head, and when I try to give him treats he's always missing them and then they get stuck in his cone and he can smell them but doesn't know where they are 🤦‍♀️ poor guy.

Bitcoin, should it succeed as money, does a lot to reduce concentrations of power in the world. But Bitcoin can not tell us what values to have. It can not tell us what to do with that increased freedom. That is still a human problem.

It’s not so much that we are attracted to funny people, it’s more that when you have a crush on someone you think all their jokes are hilarious.

I’m worried about U.S. political division. It’s not just alarmist algorithms, it’s people I know/knew posting excuses for abandoning their values. From both sides I keep seeing long posts that boil down to 'two wrongs make a right', even from those who once preached principle.

Selling Bitcoin as a partisan political tool is both inaccurate and a short term strategy. Bitcoin is political in the sense that any disruptive technology will have political ramifications, especially one that disrupts money. But Bitcoin is not partisan. You can not ascribe to Bitcoin the social or even economic values of any particular political party. It is software; our values are still our job to uphold, Bitcoin will not fix that. Bitcoin has survived this long because it is nearly impossible for any one organization to control it. That is why it’s interesting, and why it can not belong to any particular political party. What can happen, however, is the creation of a public perception that Bitcoin is aligned with a particular party or movement. That has largely happened in the United States, and with that we get all the drawbacks of being a political football. Bitcoin ends up both credited and blamed for political changes it has nothing to do with. It becomes harder to explain or promote the technology to half the population, and we eventually face regulatory fallout when the other party returns to power. I can’t dictate what others think of this technology, but I need to make it very clear: Bitcoin is a global, neutral network. It is far bigger than any political party. Bitcoin fixes money, but it will not fix anyone’s political, moral, or social issues. We still have to fix those ourselves.

I was staying out of this particular drama, but it’s gotten too ugly to ignore. And here I’m not talking to the loud American political Bitcoin maxis; this is for everyone watching the chaos... I’m sorry. This isn’t the Bitcoin I fell in love with over a decade ago. The below is a very clear example of this growing attempt to twist and re-brand Bitcoin into a political weapon. Bitcoin is a global, politically neutral technology. These aren’t my values, nor those of my dear friends in the Bitcoin community, the events I organize, or the businesses I run and support. Please don’t think these hate-mongers represent all of us. I’m sorry this is happening.

When people try to police my behavior by telling me that I’m not being ‘feminine’ I explain to them, sometimes not so kindly, that I decide what is and isn’t feminine and they don’t. And gents, I really think y’all should do this too. Men tend to get even more pressure to be ‘manly’ than women get to be ‘feminine’. If you’re male, then everything you do is masculine. End of story. If people try to tell you otherwise, politely inform them that they can get fucked. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

Zuckerberg is an atrocious human being, but I tend to believe him here in this story from back in January. Government pressure to quiet people or remove info is a clear cut violation of free speech rights. It's wrong when 'they' do it, and it's wrong when your team does it.... cuz it's just wrong.