Hipster, Iconoclast, ฿atman.
"People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives [by not buying bitcoin], they hardly seem to notice."
- Charles Bukowski
Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel influenced Bitcoin over the course of years, including the block size debates. There is even a back and forth between him and Adam Back. He was funding Bitcoin development, but I suspect not for good.
There is even a 2010 thread between Epstein's publicist and Michael saylor where she comes to the conclusion that she could not compromise Saylor.
I read the block size wars, and now it's sort of makes sense that it was an ugly compromise. Because if they didn't compromise on larger 2MB blocks, then the big blockers would have wanted 4 MB, 8 MB, 16MB, etc....
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"Why We Abandoned Matrix: The Dark Truth About User Security and Safety"
" Federated networks are naturally more vulnerable to metadata leaks than P2P or centralized networks"
Upgraded white noise to 0.2.1 & was able to create two new nostr account on two separate phones. Logged in to those accounts on amethyst and followed each other. I was able to successfully use it, however group chats had issues. This is still an improvement.
At this point in my life I don't want about sex. Anyone can have sex. What I really desire is cuddling, affection, and love, and having someone who's always in my corner, fighting for me and caring about me, and vice versa.
According to Ed Dowd, a former portfolio manager at BlackRock, the COVID vaccines "were designed to take care of a pension problem with the boomers, and then bring in 10 to 15 million younger, mostly male folks as replacement population."
"If I was going to want to take care of a debt problem and inflate the economy, I would do exactly what's happened."
In the newest Rogan episode with Elon musk, Elon states that signal messages can be cracked with about $750,000 of computer time, and it was done on Tucker Carlson's messages arranging the interview with Vladimir Putin.
I don't have the exact location in the 3-hour podcast. Episode #2404.