Lololol, I am working on mining, by working on missiles. Real technology at the foundational layers is multipurpose. It is not unethical to sell a weapon. It is not my job to police customers any more than it is Samurai's job to enfore financial laws. Understand? The anti-war hippy bitcoiners would send us back to the stone age in hatred of metal buildings because the same metallurgy enables mechanized war. Alas, only in war is their low time preference. In mining there is no technology investment. 99.99% have no interest. I might have recently met the one exception, but it certainly would be an anomaly. Everyone just wants the tech from 3 decades ago so they can start today. Zero patience. See, the miners are on the fiat standard. Every bitcoiner's brain is still wired to think through fiat. Probably.ine too, but I try to at least have some awareness.

Sometimes I will read Beautyon's tweets even though he has me blocked, and I will think that I should be working on the critical product for adoption that everyone else is neglecting... but then I remember there is nary a serious bitcoiner to be found in most parts. But the military is serious, and through building weapons, I can carry the torch of the dying culture of engineering and technology advancement, a culture bitcoin will restore to its full grandeur, but totally foreign to the fiat-world bitcoiner of the present era. Pity.

I just bought one of these micro PCs. With the external GPU, it absolutely obliterates performance of my tower PC that's a few years old. 2 tb SSD means it can work great as a node. Pricey for specs, but it can replace a laptop too while traveling and I always have external mouse and keyboard already. This should be next unit of compute imo. Unlike Mac Mini, can run direct off battery pack.

Bitcoin is actually also not a digital asset A proprietary AI model, a set of CAD files for an aircraft, or a digital scientific lab notebook are examples of "digital assets" The nonsense that bitcoin is an "asset" or "money" is merely an attempt to regulate it

Store of value is a means, not the end The key is securing freedom of association

Wow, so now my payments could also be as shadowbanned as my tweets!

Hot take: Iran will become the world's first real bitcoin country following its liberation

I haven't looked to closely, but they look like real users to me

Haven't looked at this chart in a while... looks like NOSTR went from 10k to 20k in about two years. i.e. dysmal failure to catch on I wonder when people will figure out that NOSTR grows by disrupting centralized two-sided-marketplace apps first? Met a Brazilian guy working on "Doordash over NOSTR"

Where do my new followers come from if I am not actively posting? I get a few weekly. Is this indicative of more pro-social discovery mechanisms than on X?