Last weekend the weather was in the 70s. This morning is snowing. Only in Montana. .

I bought my first bitcoins in 2012. If I had hoarded all the Bitcoin I ever bought, I would be quite rich today. I have no regrets. It's money, it's meant to be spent. Every time I broadcast a transaction to the network without getting authorization from any government or bank it gives me a rush.

GM nostr. It's 2:44 am and I can't go back to sleep. Might as well get some work done.

Me zappy zaps no send 😭

I should have checked this a while ago but the working name for my project already exists as a similar app in the iPhone app store. Had to rebrand my app and just purchased domains for it.

GM nostr! I'm always so early in saying don't trust so-and-so and then I get so much push back... And I'm like, alright, I'll just shut my damn mouth and keep my thoughts to myself until all you fucks realize I'm right... There's still a lot of you all up on Michael Saylor's dick as well, just saying... View quoted note →

I love when I give ChatGPT some files and instructions and watch it work away for almost 30 minutes on my prompt. In my head I picture rows and rows of GPUs running red hot somewhere to deliver in 30 minutes what would be a week's worth of work for me. All for a $20/month subscription. I don't think OpenAI is making any money off of me with as much compute time as I put on their model. 🤣

GM nostr! What's everybody building today? I've got to take the publisher quality metrics I've been collecting for a week and wire in publisher-direct RSS feeds to my app's backend for faster news alerts and scraping.

Bitcoin doesn't need to play nice with the banking system, or seek the approval of regulators or the Jewish banker cartel. If you think that, you have lost the fucking plot.

Pay attention to what they do, not what they say. Many pay lip service to the freedom ethos of Bitcoin, but in practice you can see that it's merely an investment asset to them. All that they truly care about is realizing massive capital gains. Number go up at all costs. Bitcoin didn't used to be dominated by that culture of greed. "Number go up" replaced "freedom money" as the dominant mindset in the space. I've been mulling over this culture shift all morning in light of the Bitcoin Magazine conference 🤮 and I think I'm going to have to get it off my chest and write an article on Yakihonne later today.

GM nostr people 💜

There was an interesting situation that developed in Zimbabwe with currency hyperinflation. As inflation accelerated and the government began printing larger and larger denominated bills, eventually this hyperinflation reached the inevitable end where even a wheelbarrow load of the largest denomination bills was effectively worthless. When this happened, the government responded by replacing the currency. A whole new currency was issued and the old currency was banned. The government hadn't learned the correct lesson however and the new currency also accelerated into hyperinflation, quickly losing purchasing power. Here's the interesting part: as the new currency became increasingly worthless while the old currency became increasingly scarce, a black market sprang up in parts of the country where people started transacting in bills of the old currency, because enough of it had been destroyed and the government was no longer printing it, so people were able to agree on an exchange rate for what bills were left of it.

Might see some interesting collaboration between Google and Anthropic come out of this, considering they're both developing their own models.

The advantage with Knots is that it's much more configurable than Core. If you're just running Knots with the defaults then you're just running the 'opinion' of the Knots devs instead of that of the Core devs. The thing with Knots however is that there are a lot more knobs to play with so that you can run an opinionated node that matches your ethos. View article →

I see it as being a time to step away from worldly toil and focus on reflection.

Excited for this only because it gives more competitive incentive for other companies to improve the efficiency of their models, but I can't in good faith use a Chinese AI model.