Amazing that it was written in 2014, when bitcoin was hardly mainstream

Guess that'd make it trickier to publish in the zine tho

Both shipments were headed for Bitcoin 2025 Las Vegas

Nice, glad you liked it. Definitely write up your thoughts, I'd be interested in reading them

Great story! Personally, I think this would make a great piece for the zine @plebpoet, though probably only if the original author can be credited

That's cool, I'd love to be able to call myself a patent holder. I'd have no idea where to even begin with the system.

I'd love to see bitcoin implemented in classroom management technologies so I can use sats as rewards and incentives beyond just grades

I know it's not something that really exists in tradfi, but it's exactly the kind of thing bitcoin can do that traditional banking can't

Sadly, the lesson that will be learned is "don't trust politicians" (which is true), but the bigger lesson they need to learn is not to trust in government policies at all in the first place (and thus don't vote for artificial market manipulations like solar "credits")

As for me, I don't think I'll be affected. I have solar panels, but I don't produce more than I consume.

Maybe that can be the topic of your book. A History of Financial Tomfoolery :)

Sometimes when I think we've hit peak clown world, I have to remind myself to actually check the historical records. I'm sure there are lots of examples of crazy stuff going on in markets in the past too. (Or at least, i tell myself that to try and feel better about the present.)

It's been a great conversation piece. I explained SN to a bunch of normies who saw it on my desk. I told them it's like Reddit but with really thoughtful people and high quality posts, and that I've stacked over 900,000 sats (around $800) just by posting on it.

Maybe "burn" carries too much connotation. Another way to think of it is an upgrade that is not backward compatible.

This is cool data. Would you be interested in automating the data collection and also keeping the records in a spreadsheet or something?

I lost my cowboy hat this week after a streak of 100+ days :(

Who are the KOLs?

As bad as it might be for your health, I can't bring myself to hate McDonalds. Too many good memories as a kid.

Consume in moderation, and it should be fine.

IMO Trump voters are pretty easy to understand, and when so-called "elites" say they don't understand them, it's not really because they don't understand--it's because they don't like them and don't want to understand.

It'd be like asking a Palestinian to try to understand Israel, or an Israeli to try to understand a Palestinian. Easy to understand, but do you want to?

"Who took the same test on this platform"

"Source: International IQ Test"

The data is meaningless

Stacker News this week

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I think I'm more on Lopp's side of this. I don't really see the burning of quantum-vulnerable coins as "a pre-emptive violation" of one of Bitcoin's principles, as the author of this article puts it. I see it more as a part of the overall upgrade package to post-quantum cryptography. As long as there's a long enough runway for people to upgrade before their coins are lost, I think this is a fair outcome.

The author of this article also argues against any large scale human intervention in bitcoin:

The problem is that every major upgrade to Bitcoin is going to be a large scale human intervention and open to subjective debate, as I wrote about in #849906. I think it's naive to think otherwise. I agree with the author that we need to be careful about large interventions, but it's implausible to think that we can just categorically reject anything that involves subjective judgment. Even the statement that we should reject such interventions is itself a subjective judgment, and a large scale intervention on the side of ossification.