Happy NY “Disagreement” Day #Bitcoin May the spirit of GFY live on forever. “On this day in 2017, at the height of the Blocksize Wars, a select group of powerful miners, businesses, and figures in the Bitcoin industry under an intiative by the Digital Currency Group, had a meeting that later came to be called the "New York Agreement." They believed that their combined market, hashing, and social power allowed them to make the decision to unilaterally push a hard fork to increase the Bitcoin blocksize despite virtually no support from the large development community and a significant portion of Bitcoin's user base. This was the beginning of what was called the SegWit2X proposal and the first major attempt to change the consensus rules of the network through attempted dominance of the hash power. After the success of the UASF, support dwindled as the deadline came closer, and the lack of developer support & talent resulted in a major bug causing the forked network to immediately grind to a halt upon execution due to an "off-by-one" bug. The SegWit2X chain never produced a block. • Celebrate by committing to something at the beginning of the day, and then back out at the last minute 🤣”

All other social media now is just the places I go looking for things to share on #Nostr 🤣 Social has become the dominant mode by which we experience the internet. Its purpose is to filter information through our social tribes. Which is a GREAT thing, not a bad one as many assume. The bad part is that it has been owned by platforms, rather than the user. It always necessitated a protocol from the beginning, and was never going to work otherwise. But now seeing its potential and that it’s completely open and permissionless to build on, this is going to change the entire web from top to bottom. I now have over 4,600 notes. Don’t underestimate the value of building a foundation in this place, because we will be able to use it for a million things that were never possible on closed, centralized systems. Slow and steady wins the race.

Brace yourselves, the printer is coming… “It’s important that the economy grows faster than the debt” — Bessent, Treasury Secretary They are realizing cutting the budget and freezing the debt machine isn’t in the cards, and so they go back to the old playbook.

A truth I was surprised to discover: Most people want slavery. They just want to be comfortable. And the moment a little bit of freedom causes discomfort, they rush back to their cage. Then to delude themselves because they can’t accept that reality, they label all things uncomfortable as “slavery” and all things comfortable as “freedom.” Convincing themselves that because their cage is “nice and safe,” this means they are actually free.

Kinda wild to watch the people outraged at the death of innocent Jewish people, dismiss or even celebrate the death of innocent Palestinians. And people outraged by the death of innocent Palestinians, celebrating the death of innocent Jewish people. They don’t even know they are literally the same people.

Sometimes I’m still just randomly amazed that the public completely accepted that all small business was legally forced to shut down while all the giant corporate stores were allowed to stay open during lockdown.

Bitcoin breaks through the all time high on Rad Swann’s birthday… coincidence? There are no coincidences.

I’m about to just fly somewhere randomly in the middle of the day so I can use lightning at a @SteaknShake

Logging into Nostr services is so wonderful. When I don’t have my password or my manager is acting up (happens often) on mobile, I just give up and wait until I’m on desktop again. But I just did this with @nostr.build and remembered they had the “login with DM” and in a few seconds was in my account. I love it. The key based web is gonna solve so many annoying fucking problems😭🙏🏻 I do have a question for @The Fishcake (nostr.build) though, I don’t seem to have anyway to upload media on mobile. Is this my browser or is there something not showing right on the mobile version of the page? 🤔

GM I finally have the new contractor ready to go, and I have a smaller team that will finish out the upstairs second bathroom that has been out of commission for more than a year now. We are coming up on the 2 year mark for this “6 month project” and we will have been without a laundry room for a full year on August 4th. Our new contractor has to tear out everything “done” and start from scratch, so I’m basically out all of the money we invested in framing, ducting, and electrical downstairs up to this point. However, starting from nothing, his timeline is 3 months… which is what this should have been from the start. If they stick to that timeline, this will end up being a 27 month project that COULD have been completed in 3 months, and I could’ve just been stacking sats through all that time rather than splitting my days between correcting work downstairs, maintaining loans, trying to figure out how to spend as little BTC as possible, and working out of a mess of a “storage closet” essentially with one bathroom and no laundry in the house. This has been one big giant mess, but I feel like the light at the end of the tunnel is coming into focus and I’ll have a real studio, finally after all these years, before this coming winter. And the whole downstairs will be heated by hash power is a quiet and easy setup. Keep moving forward 🫡