We seriously need a very simple alternative to github that is permissioned by simple schnorr keypairs. Github is an impediment to productivity.

How to make growing old more enjoyable: Post more notes that age well.

Bitcoin is not a democracy. If "the majority" of nodes get to decide what the bitcoin protocol is then a government could just spin up a a couple million nodes and change the 21 million hard cap. That isn't how it works. The rolling set of nodes that *verify bitcoin received in exchange for something else* have 100% of the hard power over the protocol rules. You need to be producing/trading something of value in exchange for bitcoin in order for your act of transaction verification to have an impact on the network. If the bitcoin you receive does not comply with your version of the protocol then verification fails and you stop providing economic value to whoever sent you the "bitcoin". The rolling set of people doing this determine what the protocol is.

On this day in 1517 some guy wrote a white paper that forked the church and offered an alternative to their financial fuckery.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! --Rudyard Kipling

Pro-tip: listen to Allen Watts for 10 minutes a day.

Running libbitcoin.

I haven't been a huge fan of core for a while now and personally run libbitcoin instead, but the amount of mindless stuff being said by people about core 30 is disturbing because it shows that the bitcoin community is clearly a lot dumber and more easily manipulated than it was a decade ago. Or maybe it's just endless September and these people are all new (post 2017 or 2021).

What is a language? Is it schelling point? I'm paying a lot of data to ask this question

Bitcoin is acting like a US financial product.

This is why you need a G in front of Sovereignty.

Everything is a circle jerk given a large enough frame of reference.

Since everyone is forking bitcoin now, here's my fork. It's called Bitcoin Boar. It's not yet another fork of bitcoin core though, this is a full node implemented with libbitcoin, because I woke up and chose violence.

GitHub

GitHub - bitcoinboar/boar: Bitcoin Boar integration/staging tree

Bitcoin Boar integration/staging tree. Contribute to bitcoinboar/boar development by creating an account on GitHub.