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Digging up these rare metals will poison us just as lead did with gasoline and so many other mistakes we have made to introduce chemicals and molecules that the human body (and ALL of life on Earth) is not able to manage or mitigate.

This is very reasonable analysis. By the way... I had a fat lightning channel open to your node from some time... I had some meh issues with my node and have replaced it... Expect a slightly fatter channel coming in soon from a random node.

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I'm actually kind of surprised that Sugar Daddy never put a hit out on him. either suggests he has reasonable scruples (lol) or he was in on it from the very beginning. I just felt like he was getting fooled.

Wait no. I have slipped into the wrong timeline. How do I go back to the one where he is just gone?

Eehh.. Maybe nope 😂?

Honestly, Craig Wright was a better faketoshi than this, which is the pretty freaking low bar.

This is a great interview. I'm enjoying listening to it. I appreciate the overlap of philosophy and Bitcoin ideas and theory that you do. It's excellent. You said you're still trying to figure out how to think about how we can have a digital thing that we can't copy. I have a frame that I use to explain that. It may not go deep enough for you though, and I would love for you to poke a hole in it if you can. The private key is just a number, and there can only be one of those numbers, just like there's only one number seven. We can duplicate representations of the number, but we can't duplicate the number itself. There's only one. In fact, the number seven is a private key and we could send Bitcoin to one of its addresses this moment. But the nature of seven being such a low number makes it less entropic, I guess. At least in the frame of the human mind which uses that number a lot And so we are biased towards it. So what we're doing is laying claim to a single number that is in such a large domain that it is practically impossible to guess it as you discussed earlier in the interview. So that's how we cannot copy it because there is only one number seven. Now, the concept of "what are numbers" in the first place is an interesting discussion that I'm probably not capable of having with someone on your level. 😀 Okay, back to listening to your excellent interview.

What are you talking about? That sounds exactly like Satoshi. 😁

This is an age-old catch-22. Give users the power, or basically make primal. Balance will be the solution, but I don't know what that is in this case.

And if you think a couple steps further, it gets worse. His opponents would already know this, they would have used this against him. in the election, or now that he has assumed office. Unless... They are all in it... Or the whole thing is just one big show and another way they are all in ON it. The only other option really is it's all a conspiracy theory, all just a big story that Epstein stuff was never that bad. Lol.

All nodes switched over to Knots. Not sure how much of a difference it makes, but that's my decision.

You're right. I'm much more in the worst people camp.

And then there are those of us squarely in the middle. A lot actually.

EPUB actually is an open format. I believe it can be locked down, but EPUBs are available in an unencrypted non-DRM fashion. Not sure if you can extract them from an Amazon device. It may be possible. If your ethical guidelines would allow it, you could also see if this library has an EPUB copy of the book you already own. https://annas-archive.org/

I agree, and I am not under the illusion that fedarated models offer complete security. But I wild be willing to store much more value as L-BTC as I would in Cashu or Wallet of Satoshi for example. Even when I run my own lightning node, I can rug myself. 😁

I feel like this is a very one dimensional understanding of what lightning is becomming. It certainly did not turn out to be something that the average user could easily do in a sovereign way. In that regard, it's really a failure. It's a wonderful protocol for people who can extend the amount of effort necessary to run a node. And though that's hard for most end users, the service providers and banks themselves will certainly be running lightning nodes to send money back and forth to each other. And things like custodial lightning nodes and single issuer mints are not going to bring us back to sovereignty.. but things like fedimints or federated models like liquid or wallets like Aqua are emerging and showing us that there will be ways to make trade-offs with second-layer solutions that do still retain distribution in their models. All of those current distributed implementations interact with lightning. In the end, the solutions are coming.

Many forms of Bitcoin banks will exist. Single-issuer chaumian ecash mints will be one of them, but I'm going to be personally using models that distribute trust instead of centralize it, like federated models, either in e-cash or in something like liquid. Electronic bitcoin IOUs from single issuers face the same issues as custodial lightning providers. And because of this, they should only be used for pocket change, in my opinion.

Even though it sounds like SORE-ee?

I would say it seems that way to me too, but I also don't know for sure.