I'm sure chat-gpt has it all under control.

For real, the one weekend I missed and they hit it! Ugh, I've been participating in these block parties for so long, but was busy this weekend and forgot to point it to the pool.

You don't give them an alias for you to go by to make convo a little easier?

It is that time of day again where Peter Todd justifies war crimes. Paying taxes isn't justification for being targeted in war. I remember you justifying killing children as well and they don't even pay taxes nor are they responsible in any way for the war crimes of their government. Insidious.

That makes no sense. Unless you don't believe any of this:

FYI, Burning trees, wood, paper etc doesn't really contribute to climate change anyway or add CO2 to the atmosphere. Trees aren't fossil fuels, which is what we should be worried about. Their carbon just comes from tree growth and those trees take carbon out of the atmosphere during their growth, while burning them just returns that same carbon back. So long as new trees take their place, it is pretty much carbon neutral. So burn away! Cutting down and burning old growth forests is harmful, but otherwise burning sustainable wood is just fine. It is why I prefer charcoal grilling. Better taste and more sustainable!

Haha, I try not to play that game. Any market price driven by leverage will always be a short term price. That leverage will always come due and with it, the price. While it is mind-boggling that the price has come down $67k, I try not to think about my net worth coming down similarly. For my own sanity, I focus on my net worth at times like this for future planning. My net worth in bear markets highlights true market conviction in what bitcoin is. There is a growing number of people year after year that are choosing to use and hold bitcoin even during the darkest bear markets. It actually brings me solace thinking about that in times like this. Sentiment is extremely bearish and yet here we are at ~$60k.

If there wasn't any collateral damage to keeping it at 83 bytes, I'd be fine with that. The problem is all about comparative harm and I feel there is far more harm in leaving the limit at 83 bytes than there is in effectively removing it. It is a shame that the debate has fixated on the monetary use case of bitcoin rather than the technical reasonings for wanting the limit removed to avoid those harmful side effects of not doing so. After all, I don't think there are too many in this debate that don't want bitcoin's use case to be monetary.

What natural cycle is that? Saying it is "natural" doesn't point to an actual cause, it simply absolves humans without a reason. So what is it?

Narrator: The train did in fact come to an abrupt halt in 58 days.

To be fair, you can run your own Primal caching server and the client does allow you to input your own server instead of using and relying on theirs. But it is a fairly beefy server that pulls notes in real time from other relays that you specify regardless of whether or not your client is actually requesting those notes. So it isn't exactly a server that you can spin up without some decent hardware and bandwidth. That said, I do think there is a place for clients like Primal on the ecosystem. Primal is great for use with mobile metered connections precisely because of that caching services. Data use with Primal is far lower than with other clients, especially with the outbox model now being more widely used. Yes, the potential for censorship is going to be there, but the great thing about Nostr is that none of use are locked into any single client. I find myself using multiple clients regularly simply because I have yet to find the perfect client for every situation.

Why can't governments just be normal. https://substack.com/@freethinkr273162/note/c-284669361

That's what stratumv2 is for. No need to run a node implementation maintained by a single individual to achieve what you want there.

The one weekend I was busy and didn't point my miner to the block party! 😭

https://antoinep.com/posts/relay_policy_drama/

The pendulum will definitely swing more in favor of the attacker until AI tooling on the defensive side becomes more ubiquitous. More of the same ol' cat and mouse game that has taken place in security for decades.

What is going on in Venezuela is such a tragedy. The images are horrific. They need as much support as they can get. I love that platforms along with bitcoin can get funds directly to the people that need it most. Though sadly, usually what is most needed at times like this is simply more helping hands.

That's why I specifically mentioned sustainable tree forestry.