Alright, well, I probably have some form of ADHD or OCD or something. I've never been formally diagnosed, nor do I care to be. What I can tell you is that I get hyper fixated on things.

When I lose weight I don't just eat healthy, I weigh and measure every I eat to the gram. When I decide to work out, I don't try to get a little stronger, I make a meticulously planned routine and log and track every single lift. I don't try to get stronger, I try to become the strongest.

And when I started stacking bitcoin, I didn't just DCA, I continue to shove every single spare penny I can into bitcoin, and learn every thing I can manage. I don't want to just stack, I want to contribute.

Essentially, broken brain.

Earn them. It's been my main income since 2013.

If you have time for any side job that earns you sats, even if current fx rates lose half or even quarter, just remember 1sat=1sat.

Example: One of my friends makes memes on commission for sats which is super fun and made her a bunch of sats as she went the past couple of years.

This can be you, and you, and you.

I spent the better part of 15 years being the tightest, scrimp-ing-est, coupon cutter, penny saver master I could be. Saving money like that feels good, but wastes your time.

You don't save your way to riches.

Sure, don't be profligate. You don't need a TV, you don't need the latest phone, you don't need a new car.

But that time you spend clipping coupons and shopping at thrift stores is better spent increasing income.

Figure out how to increase income, don't worry so much about expenses. Buy sats with your increased income.

Simple answer. I have broken brain.

Sounds kinda healthy to me!

The most reliable people I know operate like that. Perceive things from a do rather than a leech perspective. It's amazing that you found SN so fast though - took me a year after launch to find it and another year and a bit to not just read but actually sign up.

Share interesting content. Intereact with people. Don't do it for the sats though, people notice quickly if you are just trying to get sats without putting the effort.

I got a question for you.

Are you able to use sats in Malawi? Are there businesses around you who accept Bitcoin?

--Thomas Sowell on Bitcoin Scaling and Fake L2's

The only scaling limitation of Bitcoin is its finite supply and distribution, therefore, it cannot be scaled without a supply increase or people with large amounts of Bitcoin giving large amounts of it away. These things are not going to happen, so when someone tells you there are scaling paths they are scammers and liars, or retarded.

Lightning is just re-usable chain transactions, so your complaint with Lightning is that people cannot afford even 1 transaction.

This is inherent to all fake layer 2's, the difference is they knock lightning and smuggle trust to scam you.

There's nothing that can be done about this. A transaction requires a minimum amount of sats even at a near 0 fee rate (which we're basically at now).

This means the upper bound on scale is how many sats available divided by the number of people that desire them, and sats are very rare.

Now you're getting it, if you cannot afford to make a transaction yourself, you must trust someone who can make it for you.

The only way to be self-custodial is to be able to afford to be self-custodial. This fact cannot be cheated.

Realistically this will take about 20k sats minimum, but in all economic practicality it's more like 200k+

ShockWallet with Lightning.Pub for example will use a trusted "credit" balance to then automatically buy a channel from the LSP market once it is economically viable to do so. Since it is an account system that solves node sharing over Nostr, your entire household and every app/device can use a single node (channel) for economic sustainability.

I would agree that there is some "worry factor" while even some of us (yours truly included) are not 100% clear on Lighting rules and channel liquidity, it is almost impossible to ask/encourage new guy to participate and have 1 mil sats channels (1M is $1000 mind you) just for buying coffee and movie tickets once in a while. Phoenix mobile wallet and Blink making it easier for a new folks to grasp or experience the new cool reality but there is a rather steep learning curve and not everyone will make it... IMO. YMMV

My best buddy since like 30 years calls himself "the glue", so I guess he's a perception engineer (or a "smooth, sneaky mf", lol). I often disagree with him philosophically but when we get to agree on a plan, we get things done. The disagreement most often helps fine-tuning the plan, because arguments are fine as long as there's respect. You can hash things out.

It's much harder to respect random people on the internet though, but it can definitely be done.

Without releasing too much information, my company uses prompt management tools which treat prompt versions like source code for this reason. Actual code is pinned to prompt versions for compatibility and the like

This seems like an extremely odd thing to say. Can you link to where they said this?

I read all that, but I didn't see anyone swear to never fix consensus-level bugs.

Yes, but Hostile Attribution Bias is a tool in Bitcoin. It's reinforced with our beloved don't trust, verify. This is literally what anyone that values verification over trust has asked for and - I think - for good reasons.

It kinda sucks to be subjected to it because people often forget to respect the subject of their verification, and then can easily turn into ad-hominem slinging outrage; it has happened to me personally many times and cannot (and in my opinion should not) be prevented. I think that the trick is to minimize it on pointless things, which is why "our users" should have been changed, because it distracts from the discussion to be had.

I agree with @k00b that next time we should help out more intensively. Propose the fix ourselves and/or tag involved people that we know are here. The discussion may have gone unnoticed.

Let's see if there's outrage or that we're too skeptical ourselves

That was a really interesting read. I'd never really considered the origins of album covers before.

Day 1 of reminding @Car that I did NOT vote for effing ETF scammers, Saylor the fiat scammer, Mallers the fiat scammer, Trump the fiat scammer, Blackrock the fiat scammer.

Appendix of the day: FUCK DEEZ GUYS. THEY ARE BAD ACTORS BRUH.

I was joking the other day that SN is kinda anorexic for what it does, and for Next.js it's actually a huge feat lol

k00b's inequality:

security >> UX > DX >> marginal gains in performance

most probably you are right. we should talk again about this in 6 months.

In addition to constantly looking to reduce expenses, I try to get as much back in bitcoin rewards as possible.

I’m not as obsessive as some, but I do check to see who has the best deals with Fold or Lolli (although it’s not clear if you can actually withdraw your sats from Lolli).

I'm not a US citizen but I greatly appreciate initiatives like this 👏

I disagree with the black pill view, but I do think 3a merits thought moving forward.

("falling block rewards" means that miners have no long-term incentives to keep mining. So the "network security" will fail as well")

I'm interested in exploring failure modes, AND success modes, stemming from this dilemma that bitcoin must either overcome or succumb to.

On the success path, I like what @justin_shocknet said "Real chain-activity MoE is when institutions use it like they do wires today, still a decade out or more."

So maybe it's a race between something along these lines, and the security budget getting unbalanced in a way that makes bitcoin vulnerable.

You could try. In case of FL, see https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2021/48.193

I think it's possible in theory but in practice you'll need a FL lawyer and they will not be cheap. Maybe @siggy47 has some thoughts about this? I'm not a lawyer, just work with them sometimes.