It’s not so much that we are attracted to funny people, it’s more that when you have a crush on someone you think all their jokes are hilarious.

Selling Bitcoin as a partisan political tool is both inaccurate and a short term strategy. Bitcoin is political in the sense that any disruptive technology will have political ramifications, especially one that disrupts money. But Bitcoin is not partisan. You can not ascribe to Bitcoin the social or even economic values of any particular political party. It is software; our values are still our job to uphold, Bitcoin will not fix that. Bitcoin has survived this long because it is nearly impossible for any one organization to control it. That is why it’s interesting, and why it can not belong to any particular political party. What can happen, however, is the creation of a public perception that Bitcoin is aligned with a particular party or movement. That has largely happened in the United States, and with that we get all the drawbacks of being a political football. Bitcoin ends up both credited and blamed for political changes it has nothing to do with. It becomes harder to explain or promote the technology to half the population, and we eventually face regulatory fallout when the other party returns to power. I can’t dictate what others think of this technology, but I need to make it very clear: Bitcoin is a global, neutral network. It is far bigger than any political party. Bitcoin fixes money, but it will not fix anyone’s political, moral, or social issues. We still have to fix those ourselves.

I was staying out of this particular drama, but it’s gotten too ugly to ignore. And here I’m not talking to the loud American political Bitcoin maxis; this is for everyone watching the chaos... I’m sorry. This isn’t the Bitcoin I fell in love with over a decade ago. The below is a very clear example of this growing attempt to twist and re-brand Bitcoin into a political weapon. Bitcoin is a global, politically neutral technology. These aren’t my values, nor those of my dear friends in the Bitcoin community, the events I organize, or the businesses I run and support. Please don’t think these hate-mongers represent all of us. I’m sorry this is happening.

People be like "that's taken out of context!" So you go check the context, and that shit is even worse 😳

Okay but that's an accusation not an argument

lol, sounds like he's ready for marriage!

It's not a text book, it's a social media post. I imagine we could think of some random exceptions, but, in general, this is accurate. If someone has no male/female friends then they would have to be not viewing those people as unique individuals.

I care about the monetary use case for Bitcoin. ...it’s really the only use of Bitcoin that I care about. I also don’t have any issue with people discussing how to optimize for that use case, I also want to optimize for a monetary use case. However, years ago, I realized that there isn’t an effective way to prevent other use cases of Bitcoin. That just comes with the whole open and decentralized thing we got going on here. And that’s okay. In fact people wanting to use Bitcoin for all kinds of things is a sign of success. The monetary use case would be in trouble if no one respected the chain enough to make use of it. The only way to decide what is and is not spam are fees. Space in a popular public blockchain is a scarce and valuable resource, it should be expensive. If someone is willing to pay the fees for their use case, well, then it’s not spam. I also find it unlikely that criminals will use a public blockchain to store evidence of horrific crimes. If we are at all successful, then on chain transactions will be expensive. Layer one is likely to be full of what I would consider to be expensive junk. In part because I realized that, I went to work on Lightning. What happens on chain is governed by the fee market. Lightning is how we get the monetary use case.

Okay, did you have a reason for me?

When someone tells you that they don’t have any friends of the opposite sex they are letting you know that they don’t value the opposite sex as real people. To them, they are simply tools.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1jbbtxq/africa_in_1880_before_the_scramble_updated_map/#lightbox

https://brilliantmaps.com/map-of-africa-in-1880/

There is such incredible beauty and power in motherhood. ...imagine, the ability to create whole new people! Wild.

One of my dogs has the cone on his head, and when I try to give him treats he's always missing them and then they get stuck in his cone and he can smell them but doesn't know where they are 🤦‍♀️ poor guy.