20 sats \ 0 replies \ @userbob6 11 Jun 2023 \ on: The Grateful Dead, Cypherpunks, and Bitcoin: What a Long, Strange Tale bitcoin
I used to make lightning bolts out of opal and trade glass-blowers for cash or really nice functional artwork. Lightning bolts, teddy bears and crescent moons were all they ever wanted. One of my fondest memories is the time I kicked it with Bob Snodgrass, a very well known dead-head glass artist, and I sold him every lighning bolt i had made, over an hundred. I only charged him five bucks a piece for them, but he became very focused and excited when i told him I had lightning bolts. I could tell he would have bought them all at any price I wanted. I could have charged him twenty and he would have bought them. Bitcoin is a world-changing discovery, and the Grateful Dead are a world-changing group of musicians. If you guys never heard of it, the String Cheese Incident is a soft fork of the Grateful Dead. i always wondered if someone in this group is a big contributor to the creation of the Lightning network. After reading this, it wouldn't surprise me.