Showing a gun doesn't automatically mean they send sats. It just means they have a sending wallet attached.

That wallet may never get used.
They may receive enough CCs for zaps that sats are never pulled from the sending wallet.

I've tried to run my node over I2P, but even after a couple of days it still had no I2P connections.

That too, but the tax policies have always been the same, and greater acceptance by merchants mean less worry about taxes, for the more ballsy types anyway.

Stablecoins are subject to taxation too. In practice there may not be any tax to pay, but they still need to be kept track of and declared.
And they don't protect from inflation, while bitcoin has been seen as promising to do that.

Yes. I used to be all in on it in my tax-advantaged accounts (had no other option for BTC exposure in those) but now a part of me can't wait for it to collapse, because it has to happen and better sooner than later.

Once bitcoin has been flushed of what's been dragging it down, it can rise again, and come out stronger.

It was interesting to watch in 2023 and 2024, but it's clear it can't continue forever. In a world where 90% of BTC supply is held by one entity, I want to hold neither MSTR nor BTC.

Some people are blinded by their faith and won't examine their conviction in light of new data. They will live in denial, and dig their heels in by coming up with increasingly more absurd rationalizations.

I admire those who are able to take a sober look and admit publicly they were wrong.

That would increase the leverage.
When your preferreds are backed by your stack, you don't want to shrink the latter, especially when the stock is down.

Thanks! On mobile in portrait mode I didn't see it until I scrolled the toolbar to the right.

Nice!

There doesn't seem to be one for links though? I never remember how to add a link with text. I always get it wrong: either put the URL before the text, or I use the wrong order of parentheses vs square brackets.

What about the real bitcoiners that only got orange pilled at $124k and then sold their houses for self-sovereign, censorship-resistant money?
Or is there no such cohort?

Then you have this:
Are meat eaters more likely to live to 100? Here’s what the science says

It's the law of diminishing returns.
For example, many people with backyards could grow some food, and maybe become 50% self-sufficient. But to be 100% self-sufficient is not twice as hard; it may be orders of magnitude as hard.

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For private usage, I use Ask Brave for free.
https://search.brave.com/ask

It uses:

Qwen 14B
Llama 3.1 8B
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Gemma 12B

All models are hosted on Brave’s servers, under claims of no logs, no cloud storage of chats, and no use of data for training.

Maple AI's E2EE model is interesting! But it seems its main relevance is for secure chat storage.

The 40s have been the most challenging for me in some ways. The shattering of many illusions. It is a midlife thing.

But I believe I'll come out stronger.

Retirement savings will be irrelevant to those who own the AI.
Those who don't will die once they've run out of organs to sell.
The survivorship bias will indeed make abundance the norm.

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Gemini's training data includes Google Books (40 million titles) and YouTube auto-generated scripts. It's hard to compete with that.

Or if there aren't, which is the better choice of encryption to use.

One more reason: it's a good way to learn how Bitcoin works.

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