Is the mint down? Can't use it or locate it for over 24 hours now. (NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.)

I see it as both being necessary, and, as with chicken<->egg, I don't know which must come first. But I really want both.

I'd say yes and no. If bitcoin stops being a real store of value, then we have to reconsider things. The reason for having a transparent blockchain is to avoid inflation bugs which could crop up with a more private, encrypted, blockchain. However, if one doesn't care about the store of value aspect, then it means that it is mostly just a medium of exchange. For a simple medium of exchange, the risk of an inflation bug on a private blockchain is much less concerning. Also, a private blockchain might actually make more sense for a medium of exchange.

If it hurts, it helps me get motivated to lose weight.

You'll have to fight me for that title!

But from what I read, recently the mining concentration has become even greater on Monero, no?

I think this is the link to the article : https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/16/10/4910

I love your service. But is there an issue with the encrypted models since yesterday? I can't get Kimi K2.6 to work (in the browser) since yesterday. I tried different browsers and different computers.

True. But he died. So I think the only way for one to be okay with that scenario is if one believes in the resurrection (or in forever Paradise). Then it all makes sense. Otherwise, It's much harder to swallow.

I like reading things like that but then my mind always "circles back" to Palestine. How could one be all "just let go, move on, start over, be happy" when an invading horde of barbarians steals your house, steals your land, starves, kidnaps, maims, tortures and kills members of your family, on a daily basis, for decades? Letting go of the small stuff, yeah, I can see it. Trying to avoid ruminating about pointless stuff, yeah. "Don't sweat the small stuff", yeah, I see it. But there are things that need sweating, it seems to me.

You're right, we certainly should get "Know Your Cat" for KFC.

Matt Odell : "When you're rolling the dice, you're creating the randomness for your seed. That's what secures your private keys. That entropy, that is generating your seed. So just don't do that." That did not age well.

Why put this part??? : "We make no allegation of fraud, theft, deliberate backdooring, or prior knowledge of the defect. Nothing in the public record supports any of that, and we would oppose anyone who claims it. " Your ask in that letter is basically for him to step down, retire and be transparent. Ok, fine. But then why assert these other things that you don't know? I don't know if there was theft, backdooring or prior knowledge. That's not for me to decide and especially not at this stage. It will all be evaluated in court, no doubt. But FOR SURE, I would never "OPPOSE" such claims!!! WTF is that???

My lesson to this is, once again, don't "trust the experts". I heard so many times, on podcasts, everywhere, that rolling your own dice was dangerous, you shouldn't do it, just trust the device. Once again, I'm glad I didn't trust the experts.

Where's the option for : run away AND blame the users?

We're gonna know very soon.

The part after 25:00 was the most interesting to me. Thank you.

Exactly. However if bitcoin becomes suitcoin/shitcoin territory, I'm out.

And I agree with that, which is why I made the decisions that I've made so far. But v30 shows a bad direction for bitcoin. A spamchain is not what I signed up. I'm in support of bip 110. If bip110 doesn't go through (and we don't at least get a bip110 coin), I'll be gradually checking out of bitcoin and looking at the alternatives.

To people who say money doesn't buy happiness, I heard a guy say : "try me".

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