0 sats \ 0 replies \ @crrdlx OP 7 May \ parent \ on: Web of Trust thoughts nostr
Awesome, looking forward to seeing things grow out. Thanks for what you do.
Amen. And that usually means...always! Frankly, in all cases and with all people, I've found that trying to keep my mouth shut and ears open tends to see things go a lot better. Key word: "trying"
Last night my wife and I went for a drive. She was talking sweetly about plans for "when we retire." One plan was to begin after I get through this "bitcoin phase."
My brain thought, "You never get over the bitcoin phase. Once orange-pilled, you can't unsee things."
I kept my mouth shut.
The last moon pics I took were during the eclipse (the experience was great, the photos were terrible). Paused while riding my bicycle to work and snapped this one just before sunrise today. For some reason, maybe the way the plants seem to be reaching upward, I recalled the "To the Moon Guy" back on Reddit. Haven't checked /r/bitcoin in forever, but that moon battle cry used to be a thing.
Anyway, it was a nice pause this morning, a quiet, still morning look at the moon. I need more of these types of moments.
This is just crazy enough and ugly enough that I like it. I actually talk nostr on nostr (because (a) it's new and growing and needs feedback and (b) where else do you talk nostr?). But nevertheless, props to you...learned stuff, had a thorn in your side, dug in, did something about it. Love it.
Well, that wasn't very kind of you. Yes, I understand what you're saying. The point I'm making is that going through those steps to get bitcoin is a lot of unnecessary steps. If the goal is to get bitcoin, one could simply get bitcoin, avoid the others, and avoid the possibilities of messing up or code flaws or hacks or whatever.
Made this clip from the Unchained podcast by Laura Shin. https://fountain.fm/clip/JO4GujaaACldPIr52NWs It's about a bitcoin layer 2 called Botanix. I'm not against L2s, actually think a ton of innovation can and will occur there, but...I dunno.
Sounds like a lot of steps, a lotta trust places, and a lotta chances for me to screw up somewhere along the line.
So, what you gotta do is...
. start on Ethereum
. use a bridge to port over to Botanix
. then you have wrapped ETH
. then you can go to uniswap and swap wrapped ETH for bitcoin
. then you have BTC on bitcoin
Love the last line in the clip, "Right, right."
Interesting you mention badges. First, aren't those client-specific? (I'm really not sure.) If so, that wouldn't work as an NFT...the whole point of an NFT is that it is unique (U) and if each client did their own thing...not unique.
Also, the (O) of ownership would be a problem in my mind. Though I don't know how badges work on Nostr, my guess is that they are assigned to me (like an airdrop?). But, as such, I can't transfer them away from my "account".
Anyway, the reason I say it's interesting is that I kind of had a discussion on this on badges on the Hive blockchain...are badges really NFTs?
Appreciate the idea.
Just wanted to point out a distinction...
Often we hear something like, "All religions seek to reach the mountaintop. It may be called nirvana, enlightenment, or heaven, or whatever. But, there are many paths to that mountaintop, with each religion merely following a different path up to the same peak." Your passage below seems to reflect that.
Almost all religions have some form of 10 step plan to be better, while bad things happen if you don't.
However, Christianity is different. Other religions rely on a person doing something to reach that peak...meditation, sacrifice, good works, etc, as you allude. With Christianity, Jesus came down from the mountaintop to carry us all up. Reaching the peak is a gift given to us independent of anything we've done or anything we do. Grace.
I think you're saying exactly what I'm saying, but you might have said it better. I especially like:
If there's substance to {ordinals, inscriptions, runes} then it will find its market and be sustainable. If not, then it'll just fizzle out and drain liquidity from people who bought into it.
and
Until I see something coming from {ordinals, inscriptions, runes} that's not...then I'm not interested.
I guess my hope is that that something might just happen. And if not, that's okay too. I just don't see the silliness as being sustainable long term, think it'll fade eventually, and that something worthwhile may emerge.
Bitcoin doesn't have the supply question mark that gold does. How much gold is really out there? Or here even? Don't know, but we do for bitcoin.
And oh, even if 21 bazillion new bitcoins were found out in space, getting them to Earth would be easy.
I guess by innovation I was talking about something different than pics on chain, not sure what, something that hasn't been done before.
I'd still sat ordinals and runes are clever in that someone figured it out. Tokens aren't new, doing this way is.
I think 99% of the tokens will be nothing and sadly people will lose money. I think excitement will wane. But an alternate unimagined innovation may be out there.
That's an interesting thought. I guess in a way that's true in that there is no authority to run it. In another way I don't think it's true...there are definitely rules. I think about the halving and the OP_CAT argument. The code rules say we half and say no to OP_CAT without changing the rules.
Happy halving day bitcoin. Is it halving or halvening? Personally, I like halvening as it sounds like a happening (which it is!). However, I think most people have gone with halving. Either way, just a few blocks yet to go to 3.125
I've seen folks say, "'halvening'" isn't even a real word." Oh yeah, yeah, you're right. That really matters with bitcoin. hodl fud fomo