I'm curious, people who think the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is a good idea: Do you genuinely think that it's a good thing that the US Federal Government survives, more or less intact in its present form, in perpetuity? If not why are you promoting its survival by encouraging it to buy and custody Bitcoin?

Someone with the "good Claude" wanna vibe code this? View quoted note → View quoted note →

Saylor??? 🤔 View quoted note →

Hey @Adam Soltys coinos down again?

hey whoever is behind @zap.stream site is returning cloudflare error 1101

Keep in mind most plastic isn't / can't be recycled... One reason why I try to get glass, metal (aluminum) or wood products whenever possible. View quoted note →

The energy use profile of AI right now, wildly unsustainable both economically and environmentally, is like Icarus flying too close to the sun. It will crash, and probably soon. Meanwhile, Bitcoin will keep chugging along, reinforcing economic reality in 10-minute increments.

GM... There's something really compelling about "design within constraints"... Especially in our era of digital abundance in general and AI slop in particular. Late-90's / early 00's CGI in movies really had this. You could tell, even if it didn't look "good", it was the best they could do with what they had, and as a result filmmakers were making conscious decisions of what to do with it... i.e. it wasn't an "afterthought." Today, projects like #pico8 and ordinal art work of MDV (quoted) goes into this category. The Bitcoin Blockchain is a way of enforcing harsh digital constraints. View quoted note →

GenSkullz is a generative art #ordinals project... This isn't just a monkey jpeg, it's actual 3D art that lives solely on the #bitcoin Blockchain, and is displayed in-browser using three.js . (An earlier project of MDV, the creator of #blockforge ):

GenSkullz ~ MDV

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As evidenced by the recent On-Chain-Zap-Flap, there is a real tension in #bitcoin between the "privacy hawks" and the idea of an open transparent ledger.... But it seems like the situation with ZCash and the prospect of unlimited & opaque money supply inflation would suggest that Bitcoin's "provably finite supply", which requires some sacrifice of anonymity, is a feature not a bug.

I might have asked this before but let's give it another shot #asknostr, good recommendations for privacy-preserving AI? I'm using Lumo from Proton, and it's decent, but my renewal's coming up soon and I want to know what other good options might be out there... Not ready to run local models quite yet. OK with "trust me bro" privacy (i.e. Proton) as long as the entity is able to make a reasonable legal commitment to it.