The subscription model means that one has to trust someone to deliver in the future. There are scalability and trust issues involved here. Money and microtransactions solves this problem.

Found some new inputs about privacy in "Das Privacy Handbuch" by Timo Volkov from . Sad is the part about privacy in cars. Yeah, we really need something like a open source car ;-)

"Virtus Digitalis" by is certainly the Best book - pun intended - about bitcoin and stoicism. A lot of dots have been connected in this book: Bitcoin, stoicism, low time preference and decentralized structures really match perfectly. So, remember if the price crashes the next time, be stoic and calm as you can not control when other people panic.

In reference to "It is easier to port a shell than a shell script" one may also conclude that it's easier to change a runtime system than to get millions of programmers to change their programming paradigm and tooling. Therefore virtual threads in Java will prevail over reactive programming using RxJava, Spring WebFlux etc.

Enjoyed reading "Bitcoin ist Freiheit" by . Liked the analogy between bitcoin transaction hardening like cement over time and the comparison between Bitcoin’s "security budget" and that of the Swiss army. Spoiler alert: the former is now way higher.

Published a tutorial how to setup a private nostr home relay: https://stacker.news/items/1297484

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Added a tutorial here https://stacker.news/items/1295637

Added a tutorial here https://stacker.news/items/1295637