I love so many of Michael Crichton’s books, if you want to destroy a twelve hour flight a great start is grabbing one of his fast moving action thrillers such as JP.

With that said my favourite of them has never as far as a know been turned into a movie, and that one is Airframe. Highly recommend.

Great material for mis quoting though.

“…bitcoin supremacy…” “…where bitcoin replaces the dollar as the global financial lingua franca…”

I don’t get it, seems totally unnecessary to me? Sats has been working just fine.

Furthermore the abstract says the goal is to ‘reduce confusion’ and yet it’s suggesting to achieve that we go to a world where I’m explaining to the uninitiated ‘oh yeh that is a bit confusing, but once you understand that 1 bitcoin is comprised of 100,000,000 bitcoins it will all become much clearer’.

As I said I don’t get it, seems like a really stupid thing to want to change, but maybe I am missing something.

Is this your post @k00b?

If so a shame about the timing, the monthly Sydney Bitcoin Meetup was just last night.

If you are in Sydney for a stretch of time please let me know if you want to hang out, I’m always happy to give someone a walking tour of central Sydney, pointing out things of interest, good food, cool bars and pubs, and of course my specialty, pointing out the many Matrix filming locations in the CBD.

Yes, I come from a country where beer and rugby are core to the nations culture so until a few more boomer shed their coils, not drinking is the option that raises eye brows.

With that said and with the benefit of distance and the perspective it brings I can see that the level or drinking normalised in my home country is truly unhealthy. As I have gotten older and specifically over the last ten years I have cut back more and more, where I used to go through 3 litres of beer a night I now go through 0.7.

And there will be multiple alcohol free nights a week these days which once upon a time would have been viewed as heresy. Funnily enough thanks to spending too much time with a bad influence I can drink more then ever these days, although I am much slower and more moderated in my drinking as a result of that ‘training’.

I’m also more particular these days, I like my beer and have almost entirely given up on wine and spirits such as scotch which I used to love involving in all the sophisticated celebrations fine dining entailed with aperitifs and digestives etc. now I just want one or two of my favourite craft beer and I am happy with that.

Once a week I like to go out with a friend and ‘tie one on’ but these days that involves a lot less total volume consumed than the old days, home before midnight and a very mild hangover. I really fucking hate hangovers these days, my body cannot bounce back like it used to so I rarely drink to the point of having a bad hangover, once a year, maybe never. I’ve also come to believe that beer is pretty damn healthy for you, especially if free of preservatives.

I have my wife to thank for reining in my drinking, I am much happier drinking less but I fought her every step. I am pleased to see the kids today don’t drink anywhere nearly as much as we did but in my home county it’s going to take time, the drinking culture is deeply ingrained and there is little encouragement around excelling at academics, STEM etc. and much stronger emphasis on manly ball sports and drinking beer. On the contrary, if you excel academically and don’t like drinking, people will have it out for you nerd, we don’t like that type of behaviour round these parts.

Yeh this one, keen eye on this initiative.

ah I see! well, in that case imo no the guide is out of date, but tbh Nostr is very easy to get started with, just download Damus and create an account. Then, try to find Jack Dorsey. Look into his profile until you find the list of people he follows. Lastly, follow all the people you recognise. That's it, you're now on Nostr. Advanced topics include backing up your npub+nsec, connecting a lightning wallet using NWC, and zapping people.

As a fairly recent Nostrich, or whatever, I just had a quick scan through of your post from 2022. I can't comment on all of the individual links, some of those look interesting and I will check them out.

What jumped out at me was the mention of Clubhouse, I am not sure if that is still a thing in some parts of the world e.g. the US but where I live it is simply not a thing, it barely was during Corona times, it's definitely not a thing now. With that said, I came from a very technologically backwards part of the world, it's a 'first world' country but the people are simple, humble folk. Well, definitely simple, with modest technical needs.

The other thing I noticed is that there is no mention in your guide of Primal, unless I missed it? I use Damus more currently, although that may change, but I get the impression that Primal is the most popular Nostr client in 2025, and the if it is not mentioned in your guide it would suggest that your guide needs an update.

Nostr and Stack News are now my favorite places to visit, swiftly replacing X and Reddit in the first instance. Now if only I could get either Damus or Primal to connect to my Alby set up, I'd be so happy.

My mind is pretty much cabbage at this point and I can’t start or finish anything these days be it article, book, movie, or tv show, once upon a time I would watch anything and everything!

Anyway, Andor is the best thing I have seen in a very long time. A very long time. Excellent show, excellent content all around. I consider it a ‘classic British production’, the kind they don’t make any more. As the third episode wrapped up I early remember thinking ‘hold on, is this show amazing?! This is so good’. It had been so long since I’d enjoyed something so much, and then the next 6 episodes are just incredible. It has literally ruined everything else for me. Waiting one more week before starting on season 2…

thank you! permissionless?! is A16Z a strain of weed?! but seriously I might look into that to understand quite how they are defining permisionless in this instance.

As far as blockchain in 2025 goes there are only two stories, Bitcoin and USDT. I’m suprised at how interesting I find the topic, but in many ways it’s a proxy for ‘what is the future of the US’.

A recent episode of Tom Luongo’s podcast featuring Caitlin Long was quite interesting and towards the end they discuss Tether. Some interesting comments from both of them particularly Caitlin. And Toms Eurocentric conspiracy theory is pretty interesting.

What is the gist of the medium piece you posted? My three year old would not let me read it.

yes I believe you have it right wrt tether soaking up a lot of UST demand. Tether is a beast, if you have Fountain FM app you might enjoy the recent Gold Goats 'n Guns interview with Caitlin Long, well maybe not that's pretty subjective, but in any case towards the end they discuss Tether is a business entity and its pretty interesting.

Try out the aqua wallet too, it is btc and usdt exclusively iirc.

That you for the quick and comprehensive reply! Based on what I know I believe I like Braiins, I just tried to get a bit axe but it did not work out. I will get one of these instead, it is meant to be. I will be able to give some of the proceeds to my favourite charity, the Fred Hollows foundation 👍

Is this an alternative to a Bitaxe?

I swear by my HIIT workouts which I do at home once or twice a week. All one needs is enough space for a yoga mat and two dumbbells which dont need to be very heavy. They are available on YouTube.

Otherwise the only other thing I can recommend is sticking to real food, this part is more lifestyle change than ‘going on a diet’. With that said I find the HIIT workouts to do most of the heavy lifting here and you can eat pretty much anything you want. Lastly beer is very good for you, certainly a lot better than Coke, as I learned on a recently 30 day no alcohol stint.

I saw this a few hours ago, and caught some comments you made here on SN on a nostr thread last week. I am not in a position to comment but what I wanted to clarify was your position on whether the flaws you point out can be addressed in future development cycles, or if you feel nostr is fundamentally flawed?

I keep thinking I have listened to these guys but I think im getting mixed up with Sleep Token, who I also think I have listened but I’m not sure. I don’t think I’ve listened to either.

Anyway yes that can be quite the heartbreaking experience to go through, and the longer a band exists and puts out new material the greater the chance becomes that the next time they tour you won’t get to hear that one song you really, really want to hear, in fact they will play everything else including the popular singles that probably aren’t nearly as good as the song you want to hear is.

From what I can see they only have singles and EPs at this stage and they are due to release their first album, which I might have to check out as this sort of thing is typically my jam, so perhaps given their smallish catalog of songs it may be that they simply don’t rehearse or perform the one song you want to hear to live audiences, in which case you may never hear it. I hope this made you feel better.

same general problems that the average young urban Canuck is dealing with.

I can but I have no stamina in it, i don't think I could get through more than 5. One thing I am proud of is that after 40 years on earth I can still do a pull up, and then continue to wriggle/pull myself all the way up and over the bar, and then climb up and stand on the bar. It's not exactly a smooth motion and it leaves horrible bruising around my rib cage because again, no conditioning there, but it's cool to still be able to pull it off. I'd love to be able to do muscle ups one day but I don't even know where to begin.

Speaking for myself I'd be so happy. It would be like that Simpsons depiction of a world without lawyers. When I was a child I watched as a commercial break would appear on TV during whatever show we were watching, with the volume significantly higher than the audio level of the show, my father would leap for the remote control in order to mute the ads throughout their break. He would then go on to vocalise his utter disdain for ads, which is something I took from him. It wouldnt' be so bad if they weren't a) so loud and a) so shit, so uninspired.

These days I live a relatively ad-free existence, I don't have a TV, I don't have ads in my youtube (thank you Brave on iOS and ublock origin on desktop), and I pay for Spotify premium which is the only other place they can really get me. I still hate ads though. And I still see them, though these days it is as news articles, from the Daily Telegraph right through to the Economist.

Anyway, this is a good opportunity to plug my favorite documentary of all time, 'The Century of Self' which is all about the birth of the advertising industry. Too much content to consume all at once, but fascinating stuff that is well worth the time to take in, and sadly still extremely relevant: hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

This is depressing, why are we doing this. I scored 100%, or 0 points rather. Wasn’t sure about 9 but no, yes that happened at some point somewhere, I remember the hassle of finding enough double D batteries. Blockbuster never came to my home country (too small) but I lived in another part of the world and they opened there, fairly sure my first blockbuster rental was braveheart. Now that’s a fun memory test, all the video stores I ever rented from. It’s a pretty long list!