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Fuggity stuggity chitzendy chonk.

Bongbongbongbong! View quoted note →

@+Ragamuffin! It's those hillbilly nerds again! View quoted note →

I wonder if I could try being a stand-up comedian. I live in a metropolitan area with comedy clubs. I bet there's one or two that even have an open mic now and then. But I'm trying to think, have there been very many successful comedians that make you laugh, but then also make you feel like more depressed by the end of it? Is that something people want because that's probably how it would work for me. #asknostr : Should I try and see if I would be any good at a stand-up open mic somewhere, you think?

Bitcoinners are a cargo cult.

"I forgive you." It is possible those three words can give freedom to another human being. But they are certain to set you free.

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The attack surface of all of the technology joined together by the Internet is mind boggling. I used to work with APIs between enterprise software and just about anything else you can imagine. Most of the tech that I supported was public facing. If you've ever worked around such things, you know how complicated they are. I used to say almost every day: it blows my mind that all this shit actually works. Security and architecture designed to stop humans are not going to present the same challenges to artificial intelligence. I don't mean that artificial intelligence is immediately going to outrun human capabilities in every arena. But it doesn't take every arena. News has been dripping in one breach at a time. So far, almost every one a surprise. Attacks on connectivity. Attacks on security. Attacks on software two or three jumps downstream from the key system. Eventually, even convincing and powerful social attacks on people. The drip drip will become a stream will become a river will become a flood will become a torrent. And some of it will be entirely fake... made up. Meta social attacks that only need to fool about half the people. At least it will be fun to watch. We ain't seen nothing yet.

I've not read much of his work, but I did happen to read this one, and it made a mark on me. "Cell" by Stephen King If you know the story, have you realized that we're watching this in real time but in slow motion?

Holding your Bitcoin in wallets that use side chains or drive chains includes both technical risk and counterparty risk. In time, these systems will be much more hardened, security wise. And I believe transactional privacy is knocking on the door here as well. But, I believe right now is still a very bad time to be holding anything more than trivial amounts in these types of wallets and systems. Get your Bitcoin off exchanges and get your Bitcoin out of drive/side chains.

The early #monero folks did not mock bitcoinners. They did not see monero as a replacement for #Bitcoin but as a compliment. Two different projects with different tradeoffs. The sort of mockery and meming seen today arose during the blocksize wars. And was very similar to the kinds of insults and ideas being pushed by the bcash, (#BCH) camp. For example the fixation on the tagline of the white paper "peer to peer electronic cash" and the frequent taunt that bitcoin has failed at that. A point I see as currently true but shortsighted. Roger Ver, in fact was (is?) a monero proponent. Human beings tend to polarize and divide into camps. Cest la vie, I guess. Bitcoin and monero are both extremely important ideas for the future of ALL of us. They both have tradeoffs. We will learn to master these tradeoffs or we will die while mocking the "other side".

Just a little PSA. #Aqua Wallet is fully functional again, including fully backed peg outs. If you have some L-BTC in limbo, you can just ship it to aqua wallet and peg it out for BTC.