Stack Bitcoin until your purchasing power starts going up faster than you can spend it. Then do whatever you want, forever. It really might just be that simple.

Read Vonnegut.

Today I tried to put a VR headset on a gen-X relative, and she didn't want to go anywhere near it. "Oh no, that's not for me." Never gave it a try, but knows she won't like it. I get this exact same feeling when I try to talk about Bitcoin with basically anyone. "Oh, sure, sounds great and all, but I already decided to ignore it forever." It's a signal. The person I'm talking to has no interest in my opinion. I can stop talking.

While killing a few hours at the local mall last week, I thought back to what this experience was like as a kid, seeing hundreds or thousands of things I wanted but couldn't afford. This time, I could buy anything in the mall. Anything at all. So I set out to find some new stuff. Maybe I was at the wrong mall, but for hours I couldn't find a single thing I needed. Until at last I did find something. I found the contentment of knowing that I already have everything I need.

How long until the ETFs claim to custody 30 million Bitcoin? What would it look like if the ETFs were running a fractional reserve? I'd guess that'd look like big inflows without much price increase.

@walker I really enjoyed the Devon Eriksen episode of THE Bitcoin Podcast.

Anyone else seeing weirdness with mempool.space API? right now: https://mempool.space/api/v1/fees/recommended returns: {"fastestFee":41,"halfHourFee":33,"hourFee":29,"economyFee":29,"minimumFee":24} But if I go to mempool.space, I see: 22 / 46 / 327 / 375 / 418 So weird.

Seeing an odd Moscow Time on your Orangeclock? Something is up with the price check (mempool.space/api/v1/prices) Which just now gave me back: {"time":1705600800,"USD":-1,"EUR":-1,"GBP":-1,"CAD":-1,"CHF":-1,"AUD":-1,"JPY":-1} Where can I buy this $-1.00 BTC at?

Is Primal Web just randomly refreshing itself every few minutes for anyone else? Just now happened halfway through typing a note, now lost to oblivion.

Hey @FOLD BITCOIN (pArOdY): You ought to Google this list of topics: 1) Bitcoin Lightning 2) Liquid Bitcoin 3) Transaction batching Because you're asking for $11 in fees right now instead of ~$2.25... Don't sell me on no fees/low spread and then hit me with 5x miner fees! Sure, if I want to do $10,000 buys this would be a screaming deal, but if I wanted to buy that much it wouldn't be with you, sorry/not sorry.

Bitcoin Dad Podcast is great. (In case you hadn't heard.)

"Indeed, in deeply corrupt institutions, there is simply no way to make it to the top without participating in the corruption."

The Epoch Times

How Pervasive Is Academic Corruption?

Besides education and science, this got me thinking about politics, law enforcement, medicine, shit--basically everything?!?

@Marcelinho Messing around a bit with my clock. (Bottom row of fees is: reject / minimal / low / med / high.)

Aqua, huh? Sounds interesting... Anyone have more info than the basic teasers?

Some bitcoiners want to swim in a lovely river. Others celebrate their use of that river as a toilet and/or dump. Different strokes, I guess...

I guess transaction fees alone might just sustain future miners after all...

Ordinals in the blockchain: You're fishing in a lovely stream. All of a sudden, a turd floats by. Before long, 10,000 turds float by and the river starts to clog up. Upstream, a whole community of larping retards chant, "It's our stream, too! You have no right to ban our use case!" Anyway, probably best to have something other than fish for dinner until the retards move on to some other dumb shit.

"Don't you know, pump it up." "You got to pump it up." ... It's a musical morning at my place.

Every once in a while, I try out running my own lightning node. Then I get bored of having to manage the channels and go back to another custodial solution. As I think about trying again, who would you recommend opening channels to and why? How big should these channels be?