Funny how the first taste of something is often the defining taste.

It is pretty uggo.

Heroes ii is better.

There's a Linux port that is excellent:

Me and my kids do whole family games. Highly enjoyable.

I liked this phrase. Well turned.

It warms my heart that I was (indirectly) able to aid in the technical betterment of SN with this post. Thank you.

This one looks good!

I highly enjoyed your episode with Voskuil on Bitcoin Takeover. Great stuff!

Bitshala is awesome! If only I could get to Goa...

Don't you know the moon follows you? No matter high high the price goes, the moon is always farther away.

Thanks for the heads up. I will!

eth isn't bitcoin

I guess I don't get it

If we look at the world as it is now, it seems clear that Bitcoin spawned a large number of shitcoins.

Fiat money is collapsing (do you want to bet on how many generations away that is?) But it is doing so because of its own corrupt weight, not entirely because of Bitcoin.

Gravity and Babel are beyond me. I'm saying look around you, few indeed are the enduring standards that permeate the globe. Even evolution, in its millions years work has only managed to produce resonances, not singularities.

Agreed. I am skeptical that humans organize in such a way that there is only one network that matters.

We are still speaking a lot of languages on planet earth.

I've read the page on numaraires before (I think the last time you referred me to it). But what I don't get is how it implies BTC exclusively.

If there is another source to read I'm happy to go there, but at the moment, I'm skeptical of anything that claims to be the one and only.

I'm on board with Bitcoin as censorship resistant money.

I don't understand why it can only emerge once.

Obviously many people use other chains.

Mostly the consensus rules of those chains are not even close to Bitcoin. But in a sustained high fee environment, I don't see why a second Bitcoin couldn't emerge.

Why can't the same consensus rules with a mining algo change produce similar security?

BTC doesn't scale.

What do you think stops a second Bitcoin chain from starting?

Unfortunately, there's no way around the speed of light.

I'm not really that interested in Mars. I'm just a simple earthling wondering if we shouldn't start a second Bitcoin chain here instead of soft forking...

This is one of the points I find most interesting: is there some special about btc and how it got started, such that no other chain, even using the same consensus rules, can ever duplicate it?

Disagree. They wouldn't be sats, they'd be whatever the people using the chain want to call them.

This is the difference between whether you think it is the chain history that makes it Bitcoin or the consensus rules.