FOSS or nothing #staySAIF

Parts for Seedsigner are probably about to be sold out soon. Grab them while you can. Oh and buy some dice.

I'm so proud of my son. He's been playing around with Scratch and getting familiar with how to program a game. And he's been learning from YouTube tutorials, especially from this channel here: He's basically been able to recreate Geometry Dash in Scratch from following the tutorial, and it looks really good! He loves to show me what he's making in Scratch. I'm even more impressed that he's able to sit down for 2 hours at a time and just focus on building his game, and he's only 8 years old! He has this incredible ability to get in the zone and just flow. Very impressive for his age. Need to cultivate his drive and push him to continue this. It's just so amazing to watch, and I am so grateful to be his father. Alhamdulilah.

And there will be many more wars to fight still. Wouldn't want it any other way.

Just noticed that the Bitcoin Majlis relay has 50 articles posted so far! Let's keep writing and let's keep growing!

Another great read "The appropriate measure of commitment is therefore not whether someone would die for Bitcoin. A dramatic sacrifice may take a moment. Building a school takes years. Operating an honest business takes decades. Raising competent children takes a generation. Preserving an institution without capturing it for private benefit may require a lifetime. The more serious commitment is the willingness to live under discipline. It appears in those who save patiently, tell the truth when deception is profitable, care for others during hardship and build institutions they may never personally control."

Nostr is anti-influencer digital communication. Well, at least that's what I'm hoping the protocol will become!

What I find most illuminating about the anti-BIP110 campaign isn't really any of the technical arguments (although those are important), but the overall social strategy. There was a real coalition of privacy advocates (like Samourai and Wasabi developers agreeing on something!) and certain independent developers and long-time critics of Bitcoin Knots who opposed BIP110, yet they were largely overshadowed while the campaign instead wrapped itself around Saylor, Andy, Coinbase, and other institutions in the "Bitcoin Security Consortium." From a consensus building perspective, that seems like a missed opportunity or an odd own goal. I mean if I were trying to build opposition, I'd have elevated the privacy and decentralization voices, not the institutions that many Bitcoiners are already largely skeptical of. The technical debate is one thing, ok, but at the social layer the anti-BIP110 side seemed to misunderstand how Bitcoiners actually form consensus, like they are socially retarded.

Because they want to keep propping up fiat, and want to destroy Bitcoin so that it is no longer sovereign money

May Allah destroy every single one of these companies