Can always use another Bitaxe...
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Won't bow to man
Won't bow to government
Won't trust in a failed system of self-fulfilling lust
Won't love a world where my God is mocked
I defy
- Demon Hunter, "The World is a Thorn", 2010
Above all else You stand mighty and terrible
Yet gracious and compassionate
Slow to anger and of great mercy
Until the day I take my last breath
My soul will praise the Lord, and everything within me
Extol His holy name
- Extol, "Extol", 2013
Debugging some SQL code I wrote 4 years ago. As an old(er) programmer, I'm in that stage where I can't believe I wrote something that good.
A programmer at various ages:
15: I write awesome stuff!
25: I can't believe I used to write such bad code. NOW I'm the best!
35: I was such an idiot when I was younger! I'm never going to be a great coder, but I'm decent now.
45: I'm better than I thought I was. My experience has allowed me to write some cool code using techniques and concepts from other areas of my life.
50: I can't believe I used to write code that good. I can't believe I built some of the stuff I have.
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I can't speak to how my future self will feel, but damn. I feel very old today.
@Adam O’Brien
I remembered seeing a @Simply Bitcoin episode you were on a while back. You had given a presentation on a Biblical case for Bitcoin. If I'm remembering correctly, can I get a copy of that?
A friend is heading to do missions in Middle East soon. We were discussing how Bitcoin checks a lot of boxes for financing mission work.
Thoughts?
"Don't spend your bitcoin" & "We need a circular economy" sound like they're conflicting statements. They're not.
If you can pay for something in Bitcoin, use a Bitcoin-only onramp like Strike (my current favorite), Swan, or Bitcoin Well to buy the Bitcoin and then send it from there.
The reason I like Strike--thank you @jack mallers!--so much for this is that this is all easily done over Lightning.
Yes, settlement for the Bitcoin purchase takes a while--thanks fiat world!--which means that you will need to keep "enough" Bitcoin in your Strike account to cover the actual payment.
For me, keeping a "wallet" amount of money on Strike perpetually is worth the ease of use and the ability to contribute (in my small way) to beginning the circular economy in Bitcoin.
(If only they were giving me "DCA" credit for my automatic paycheck buys...)
A highly-researched perspective on Russia/Ukraine that isn't standard propaganda: 
He publishes multiple long-form articles a week. And brings the receipts.
SITREP 9/10/24: European Antinomy Squeezes Zelensky from Both Sides as Kursk Front Crumbles
There’s a lot of disparate but significant information today, so let’s start off with the biggest developments.
Every time I see another story like this, it makes my blood boil.
It's surprising that this is still on Youtube: