Big brain thinking. Are Air Conditioners net warming or cooling to the ambient temperature in total. Excluding the power consumption and residual heat needed for the electricity. And whatever the answer is, by how much. Ratio needed.

Ask yourself, based on the principles of money, is BIP300 good? Does it make Bitcoin better at being the best money ever created/discovered based on the principles of good, sound money (fungible, scarce, portable, durable, recognizable) 👀🤔 BIP300 feels like shitcoiners and miners wanting to make significant changes, with inherent increased attack surfaces and altered mining, just to basically game mining and pin all kinds of crap to Bitcoin. Remember kids, Satoshi didn't intend mining to be some huge corporate game. He wanted plebs to mine off of CPUs. It's a fair point to consider when thinking about how Bitcoin succeeds as a money.

Thoughts on how to un-KYC. 🤔⛓️ Aren't a lot of mixers hot wallets essentially? Where if they went poof, goodbye, everyone gets rugged? Yes. Federated side chains are the epitome of trust. But there is no such thing as completely trustless. (Think about it). From the software kernels to the hardware devices to the Core and mempool interfaces, we're using some limited trust often. Liquid is what I consider a lukewarm wallet. Adam Back IMO has been here since day 1 and has a good reputation for being all about the tech. He's low key and sticks around to build interesting stuff. Not a lot of ego. Just a computer and finance geek enjoying tinkering. Blockstream makes good FOSS stuff too IMO. Whereas, Sparrow, for example, when mixing, at some points is hot. Your coins and getting zipped around and you have to trust they'll come back. IMO, Liquid has a good reputation and trusting them in small, measured doses is a point some of us can consider. Fees to peg in and out are 0.1%. Lowest in the game for what's trying to be accomplished. Caveat: no I don't work for them. I just went down the rabbit hole and literally came up with: liquid, coinjoins, or atomic swapping off chain with something like XMR. In each scenario trust was involved at some level, as were fees.

WOAH. 🤯🥴 This is wild. The revenue agency canned 120 employees for taking pandemic relief handouts they were ineligible for. I mean...

Toronto Star

Canada Revenue Agency fires 120 workers who claimed CERB benefit while on the job

Tax agency reviewing 600 cases where current employees received Canada Emergency Response Benefit during the pandemic. So far, one faces a fraud ch...

I feel like some very powerful and influential people are low key using #SimpleX #Tor #Proton etc... on highly protected networks... While some other more aloof powerful and influential people are running a raw Apple iPhone with 1234 as a password. Makes you wonder who has access to who's info. 🤔 🥴 #Privacy #Surveillance #Freedom #PersonalInformation

Oh I forgot its #Zapathon time! Just in time... I made pickles the other night. #Picklethon haha. 🥒⚡️🥒⚡️🥒⚡️🥒⚡️🥒⚡️

Some memorable software in stages... Late 80s/Early 90s 1) Hypercard, Simcity, Oregon Trail, Breakout, Word Processing, Encarta Mid 90s 2) Netscape, Yahoo, Winamp, Chatrooms, Anglefire, Geocities, Hotmail, Freevote, PowerPoint, Warcraft 1, Myst, ICQ, Napster Early 2000s 3) MSN, IRC, MySpace, Limewire, Torrents, Wikipedia, Facebook, Piratebay

Winamp and VLC media player might have been the pinnacle of music software. Hahaha. #OldSchool