The opposite of courage is to give up.

"This hard-fork is expected to include features which are currently being discussed within technical communities, including an increase in the non-witness data to be around 2 MB, with the total size no more than 4 MB, and will only be adopted with broad support across the entire Bitcoin community." " The undersigned support this roadmap. Together, we are: Kevin Pan Manager AntPool Anatoly Legkodymov CEO A-XBT Larry Salibra Bitcoin Association Hong Kong Leonhard Weese Bitcoin Association Hong Kong Cory Fields Bitcoin Core Contributor Johnson Lau Bitcoin Core Contributor Luke Dashjr Bitcoin Core Contributor Matt Corallo Bitcoin Core Contributor Peter Todd Bitcoin Core Contributor Kang Xie Bitcoin Roundtable Phil Potter Chief Strategy Officer Bitfinex Valery Vavilov CEO BitFury" https://medium.com/@bitcoinroundtable/bitcoin-roundtable-consensus-266d475a61ff

I thought nostr had a names problem, but it turns out Twitter is actually no better. Incredibly shit experience for a centralized service that has no excuse.

Guess who

I wore an "infinity divided by 21 million" shirt to the whale party in Hong Kong tonight and no less than 7 people asked me what 21 means. I think it's time to pack it up and go home.

@jb55 rocking it in Hong Kong

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The best part about being a conspiracy theorist is:

80% of my Claude usage is fixing mistakes introduced by Claude.

What's the best custodial lighting service that supports zaps these days?

They say fashion comes in cycles

Neoconservatives are actually Trotskyites, which makes me think maybe Stalin was the good guy.

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Wait wait wait wait wait, famous person just said THAT about Current Thing!?

The reason Trump is cagey about Epstein is because Melania was trafficked. Discuss.

Paper bitcoin is a thing because our territory of freedom has no exports. Even worse, our territory of freedom is completely dependent on imports from the fiat dominion. Whoever produces the stuff you need decides what form of money you will pay with. To pay for goods and services produced in the fiat dominion, you must use fiat. That's where fiat gets its power - if you want access to the global economy you must go through fiat as a gatekeeper. So even if you pay with bitcoin for imports from the fiat dominion, you don't get what you're paying for until someone settles the trade in fiat. By paying in bitcoin you're actually just creating demand for fiat. That's why most people are actually better off with custodial bitcoin. It's not about the difficulty of self custody, it's about a guaranteed offramp into the fiat they need to access the economy that produces the stuff they want. A bitcoin standard just means the net producers in the economy are bitcoiners, and so you need bitcoin to access the economy. Right now it's the exact opposite. We fix this by becoming better than the fiat dominion at improving the human condition.

This is where it all started going downhill: