It's not the core developers; this post has a dishonest title. The idea comes from a BIP, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal. Anybody can submit them.

Ratio of family members who are using bitcoin to those that aren't. Right now it's 3:8, with one new hodlr onboarded this year. Works pretty good in my book, because there's a lot of diversity in my family. We've got a good mix of normies, nerds, religious puritans, deviants, live-laugh-lovers, workaholics, etc.

To deal with 2025, the age of brainrot, I honestly think the government needs to make an app for this. AI dating, where you create your perfect partner, then sext it whenever you want. The AI learns what you like, dislike, and builds a profile. When you're ready (and/or sick of lonely fapping with your AI), you opt-in to the AI matchmaker, who finds you a compatible partner who is also using the AI matchmaker. You two go on a date, and you gain points. Rate your date in the app, and share your results on X (Or VK I guess, because this is Russia)

Fast forward a few months and you two have enough date points to reach level zero in the matchmaking app. Cash in your points to waive all marriage registration fees, and there you go, a new Homo Techno family has launched. Level one begins when your first child is born, and along with that, the goods flow in. A maternity box, a subscription to free diapers, a weekly free meal, and monthly grocery voucher thru the app.

Level two is reached when you have a second child, which comes with the same perks of level one plus the added bonus of a Nintendo Switch 2! PEOPLE GET IRRATIONAL WHEN OFFERED FREE STUFF

If any government wants to make this happen, I'm available for commission. I can build it for you for the low low price of 1 Bitcoin a year.

Thanks for the link to the repo!

Re: lessons learned from my failed anime TCG card business.

So what I was doing was I was buying bulk card lots from Yahoo Auctions Japan. I focused on Precious Memories, a very niche TCG which was sold only in Japan. I'd buy lots of cards from collectors. Some lots were just commons, uncommons, rares, probably leftovers from searching booster packs, other lots were from collectors moving on from the game. Lots of cards at low price, then I'd list them individually on eBay.

Nobody in the US was selling it when I started. I was getting lots of sales from US collectors who hadn't heard of the TCG, but saw their favorite characters and had to buy.

Early 2020 I saw $2000 in sales in a month, thought that was pretty good. Unfortunately it was all downhill after that. US sellers started doing what I was doing. Sales dropped off so I had to lower prices to keep them coming.

2020 there were massive shipping delays. I was having to wait 3 months to get new product. It wasn't like I was sold out though. I had 30,000 cards and almost 10,000 listings at one point. If you searched, "Precious Memories" on eBay at the time, you'd see hundreds of my listings. Mostly $3-$10 commons, but I was getting one or two sales a day.

I had work ethic, photographing/listing/sleeving, but I didn't have a good business plan. Time went on and I kept taking on more responsibilities that didn't have any ROI. Things like building wikis, translating player manuals from Japanese to English, and sleeving every single card for storage.

I ignored what worked for other people and tried to do my own thing. I think there are 2 ways you can make it selling cards on eBay. 1 is selling a high volume, 2 is selling high value cards. I was going for option 2, trying to extract the highest possible dollar amount from each card. With mostly low value cards. That's why I had 30,000 cards and low sales.

In hindsight, I wish I would have minimized my inventory by doing fire sales more often. My mission statement was, "bringing Precious Memories to the USA" but I wasn't focusing on getting the product into people's hands. I wasn't trying to help the players, I was trying to help myself.

I had a lot of customers who would message me asking for cards featuring specific characters. Some obsessive fans would pay up to $70 per card if it featured their waifu. They'd ask me to get more and check back later.

I wish I had branched out to Etsy, or some other selling platform that offered subscription boxes. Most of my returning customers would buy cards with the same characters over and over, and I think they would have subscribed to a monthly drop service. I never got that far though, I was only on eBay.

Hope that helps! Maybe it gives you some ideas for your journey!

Oh, another thing I just thought of. That coin photographing machine you made-- have you thought of selling a version of it? B2B kind of a thing? I'm reminded of the gold rush and the people who made their fortunes selling tools. Just a thought!

Keep up the good work!

Props to you for asking your landlord if they would take Bitcoin directly! You've planted a seed in their mind. Your place looks like a beautiful paradise! Dropped a sub, looking forward to see what you do next.

Buy Bitc- oh wait.

Ey this is pretty cool! Love the automation you built. Simple idea and the business execution is looking good. I've had similar physical collectible business ideas (anime TCG cards) that failed miserably. I'm rooting for you!

One complaint, the coins in the carousel on the landing page have a pricetag and a buy tooltip. I was expecting to be able to click a coin I like, and be able to buy it. Turns out I can't. Clicking the buy now text just closes the tooltip. So it looks like the only alternative is to click the 'browse assets' button where I'm taken to the coins list page where I have to re-find the coin I liked.

I'm curious about the 'Login with Lightning' feature. I've never seen that before. Is it a custom implementation or is it something that's standardized? (I am curious to know if I can do that with my own websites)

Digging into the source code of the Login with Lighting page, my browser complains that there's a stray <script> tag which falls outside the <body>. IDK if there's a good reason for that, but it seemed to work anyway.

Last point, love the good performance of your landing page. I don't have a GPU and the page is still smooth. Lots of websites today don't run this smooth. Respect!

I need to rant about this somewhere. Scalping already means something horrible and violent and I don't like that people use it to describe free market arbitrage.

Nintendo Switch 2 sells for over $600 on eBay. Isn't this a sign that Nintendo's listing price is way too low?

I see this over and over again in VTuber merch drops. The merch sells out at droptime, and actually re-sells for higher on secondary markets. Isn't this a sign that the original price was too low?

I've done a lot of free market arbitrage over the years. I won't buy if I don't see a margin. There are huge margins with limited items because the listing price is too low.

I hear it again and again, influencers are worried about setting their prices too high to where their fans can't afford to buy their products. They're ignoring the market value out of a sense of moral obligation.

TL;DR: It's ERC-20 but on Bitcoin

I want to agree with you because decentralization and p2p is essential, but I don't because it's not practical. There have been times in Bitcoin 2018-2021(?) where it cost me double digits worth of USD to make a Bitcoin transaction. IDK about you, but I'm not paying $10-40 USD in FEES to pay for a $5 subscription. In those times, I quit using Bitcoin and I used Paypal instead. I want Bitcoin to be a medium of exchange, not just a store of value.

Lightning isn't perfect and I'm not saying that's THE solution, but we can't scale transactions on-chain. Maybe you're sour about the blocksize wars? I know I am. I'm a Roger Ver fan and I wanted big blocks. We lost though, the market picked small blocks, and now we gotta figure something out.

Best thing we got is Lighting. I'm hopeful that something even better comes along. Something more private, p2p. I don't think it's Ecash. Cashu forgets, "Not your keys not your coin" and there's little incentive for custodians to play nice and not rug (other than ecash wallet app developers.) Wasn't there another two methods? Liquid? Or was that vaporware? I don't know.

Honestly my ideal scaling solution fantasy right now is a Dogecoin Drivechain. The drivechain would link transactions between BTC and DOGE. DOGE uses PoW so it's tolerable. Basically do business on DOGE and settle on BTC. IDK if that's realistic though, I'm not a bitcoin dev.

When I still had a job, I was getting paid in Bitcoin and my employer had no idea it was happening. To them, it just looked like direct deposit into a bank account, but that bank account was Bitwage. I set it up to pay me out 50% USD, 50% BTC. Bitcoin native jobs don't really matter with a system like this. If you're a worker and you want it, you just set it up and you got it.

It's good to know that they don't have to be enemies. They're just two guys who love similar things and each built some cool software, they just went about it a different way.

asking for help can get you fired? bro that's toxic

I've been lusting over https://frame.work/ .. I still don't have one, too broke, but I want it as my next computer.

I hear good things about Lenovo X1 Carbon.

System76 is great too. I had a Bonobo WS that I used for years and it was one of the best computers I've owned.

For your use case, you could probably find something on Newegg in the $600-$800 range that would do everything you need. Granted, I'm a Linux user and I have no idea what kind of computer you need to run Windows.

For multitasking, more RAM is always better. Nowadays I don't run anything less than 32GB. IDK anything about modern processors, but when I'm shopping I always use https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ to compare the processors of computers I'm interested in.

+1 the system76 recommendation. A few years ago I sold my System76 Bonobo WS because I got a desktop gifted to me, but then a few weeks later I started to miss the laptop. My only complaints with it were the fan noise and the 4K display. It didn't play nice with my multi-monitor setup, where one screen was 1080p and the laptop was 4K. But the laptop itself was very powerful, great for Docker/K8s/emulation and a workhorse that never let me down.

That outfit is bizarre! Neat effect on video. Cool to see the behind the scenes photos.

"Like Humans Do" has lived rent-free in my brain since I heard it on Media Player in Windows XP. My siblings and I must have danced and listened to it hundreds of times on loop.

I collect bubble wrap and twist ties

According to what? Your intuition?