I make it a habit to listen to several btc podcasts weekly. I'm concerned about getting lost in the btc echo chamber. Feeling a lack of active initiatives and really knowledge expanding stuff. Time to rotate some old stuff out and new in.

I let my subscription to the orange pill app lapse. Sorry, I'm not seeing any value in it yet. I'm not the kind of person to reach out to a stranger just to say "btc is pretty awesome, Isn't it?". I don't need confirmation and don't see enough events listed it make it worth it either.

Can anyone confirm if Lincoln said this? It's so easy to get caught in keeping up either the Jones' or finding the next shiny toy that a gpod reminder at the right time can change things.

Nostr/btc "problems": I was send 2 payments in my lightning wallet today. No notes attached. I've not found who but thank you to whoever that was.

I've read too many news articles today and it's put me in a fatalistic and sad mood for our future. Can anyone offer me some good articles or encouraging words?

What he describes is not capitalism. The assemetry comes from cronyism and politics picking favorites. Business owners should be paid by performance. When it's your business the buck stops with you and if you can't fix an issue, then you yourself suffer as the business does.

Ahh a throwback to my altcoin days. I got notifications of dust on coinbase that would cost more to get it then its worth.

Honest question: what happens when traffic and storage requirements get so high it becomes impractical for a single person to host a relay? Will nostr splinter into smaller groups, or possibly only hold posts for a certain period of time? I could see either happening and I don't see either as implicitly wrong

Sorry, I'm feeling the need to state the obvious attached is a great clip of the assumption that every problem is followed by the agreement that the only solution is to give the government more power. https://fountain.fm/clip/RUX9xdLc4jgMy02KZIB2

https://fountain.fm/clip/RUX9xdLc4jgMy02KZIB2 We have to be as accurate as possible when discussing bitcoin as any errors in representation weaken our overall perception to the general public. Any person could start a "new bitcoin" and spin up the exact same mo etary policy, code, and scarcity . All we'd have to do is have a different first"genesis" block. What it would be missing is the network effect of the existing network. All the nodes,clients,miners,etc would not know or acknowledge its existence. This would make it very weak bit it would still have the same scarcity and other properties.

https://fountain.fm/clip/Qxo5SgQMTdVeJw1gDXmh In the case of wealth vs time preference I do agree that those who are more wealthy can afford to have higher time preference. It is a percentage of resources needed for immediate physical needs as a function of available resources. For those spending 80-100% percent of thier money on daily needs (food,housing,etc) they have no option at all to wait for that money to sit for any period of time, whereas the cery wealthy can put 98%plus into long term higher yielding investments and choices and not put a dent in living expenses funds.