Being a pianist myself and knowing him, I feel bad for the man. Especially considering he has a baby girl now… that is so rough. I’m definitely praying for him…

The issue lies, I believe, in a flawed understanding of selflessness and sacrificial love on the part of the author. And maybe because she does depict them being in love and the you see what I think is a more likely situation: they wouldn’t necessarily be in love but more likely bonded by their trauma. Well, at the very least in the book.

It wouldn’t change much whether they were male or female as I see it, to answer another comment here

To sum it up, I think hunger games are the kinds of books that are fun, but fall into some of these excesses of sentimentality without which they could’ve been a pretty damn good

I only vote for exactness because I think in this case it would be better to ask the user if they were sure they wanted that extension and give them an option to never ask again and use the robustness approach after that

Yes, my friend. The issue is that I cannot receive in LN and I need to use my salary to live, and because I receive from a KYC source and live in a country that heavily controls all on and off ramps, I also need to do coinjoins, and I also have my savings in cold storage. Now, my salary is such that doing all this seems to me that it implies paying at least one 100ish dollar fee. Where I live and with my earnings that is simply not acceptable.

So yes, I'm forced to receive in fiat and buy it after the fact rather than spending a significant fraction of money just to get my money where I want it to be.

Yeah, I am aware of lightning and liquid and I'll have to make do for the time being somehow, but mentioning these things as though they magically fix all people's issues and use cases is really missing the point of the matter.

@om this answer's your question as well.

I honestly don’t see the point to all this. Right now, I’m being forced to receive my money in fiat again because of these fees since they effectively keep me from being able to distribute mu sats amongst my wallets. Pretty lame situation imo. I hope it just dies down sooner rather than later…

It is worth to remember though: yes, we can take bitcoins to heaven. But we can take them to hell too. The question is where we want to end up….

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I see. Well, in that case I do agree with the opinion that most share that privacy need not be solved on chain. At least not now. And if it does become a need, it can be implemented.

However, if L2 solutions to this become the norm, then problem solved.

Again, hard to make such decisions based on events that may not even happen when there is an easier path, development wise, that can achieve the same goals. And if it doesn't, attempting to implement on chain privacy is still something that can be done.

Think about it for a second: all this that we hear about bitcoin was said, to smaller or greater degree, about the internet when it came around. In the end, the internet has been used to impose the most strictest of government and social controls that were simply unheard of until now. Would you say it was a mistake to create it?

I'd say whatever we do can be misused. There isn't much sense in stopping to use something that is good because it may be used as a weapon.

While it is likely laws like these can get passed, it's also likely to exist countries that do the opposite. Not to mention that, in terms of resistance to KYC laws, bitcoin is leagues better than normal bank accounts.

I think this is likely. Worth noting that non kyc addresses and commerce will still exist for sure, but people just won't send non kyc bitcoin to kyc addresses and that is that.

On the other hand, things might not play out this way, depending on the incentives and general capabilities of law enforcement, but the possibility is real

Huh. That's actually a nice idea. I'll try that then. Thanks a lot!

I’ve not read these, but I throroughly recommend O Século do Nada, by Gustavo Corção. I’m pretty sure there’s an English translation. At the very least there’s a French one: Le siècle du néante

Because of the tinkering. In particular the work to make finding the right solution more efficient and also because you get closer to the hardware of the computer, which I find interesting.

Not to mention it connects you to the source of bitcoins. If ever I get but one sat from mining, I’d think that would be super cool

I find ebooks good for technical stuff. But there is absolutely nothing as good as sitting down and opening a good book. If it’s older than you and bought at used book store, even better.

And after reading the Iliad, one must go to the Odyssey and then the Aeneid.

Although I can't claim to have ever finished even the Iliad, but the level of elevation refinement is something that is even hard to comprehend nowadays.

Great post!

I'd be interested. Mining is the part I find most fascinating about bitcoin.

A lot of friends of mine use it for boilerplate. I gave chatgpt a try when learning zig and it seems like it could be a nice google substitute.

I’d still prefer a book or a course though.

For work (ruby and rails) never really felt the need

Belle’s line did make me lol out loud