@rtfakts @20th_Centurygal Damn I clicked to post this and there you were…I guess I’ll just zig zag away, through the boredom and pain, occasionally glancing up, through the rain…
@saylordocs This concept has been expressed in many ways and I find the answers interesting. I am pretty sure the RAR say “of course take 50% odds to make 1000x the money.” Statistics interpretation…
For me I would take the million, to make 100% sure my position in life improved.
@WalkerAmerica You should do a tweet series where every time it goes back to 58k you clip one of the scenes in the montage of him trying to off himself….
Whatever you think of the way Core devs have conducted themselves individually recently, having one piece of software used by 90% of nodes is a massive issue. Bitcoin would survive any attack via that avenue, of course, but we should seek to resolve any weaknesses proactively IMO
Govts owning #Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset without a massive overhaul of the relationship between it and the citizens might pump our bags but solves little of what is destroying Western civilization today.
In my idealistic (rainbows and lollipops) view, a government, truly aligned with #Bitcoin's core ethos & freedom values would first;
🔒 Enshrine citizens' privacy (transactional or otherwise) in law
💻 Integrate tech (zk or otherwise) into all government databases to protect privacy & transparency
✅ Publish all government spending programs and payments on an open-source blockchain for full traceability & accountability
Govts are public entities, the citizens are private. Everything today is upside down.
To Heather:
31 years ago today, my first child died from heart failure. She was born with a congenital heart condition and was 6 1/2 weeks old.
It was the most painful experience of my life, and it wasn't until 7 years later that I was able to transform the grief I for loss, into gratitude for the time she was with us.
I did therapy, and many other things. They all helped a bit. But nothing took away the grief, the sadness, the feeling that the colors of the world were not as rich without her in it.
It took a powerful breathing process to finally transform all that grief I had stuck inside me.
There are things we have no control over in life, and some things we do have influence upon.
Her passing taught me this cold hard truth. But she gave me many gifts.
She taught me early on that life is temporary.
She showed me that whatever setbacks I faced in life I could get through, having gone through perhaps one of the toughest challenges of all
She showed me that there is no greater power than love
She taught me to treat each day as though it were my last, to live fully, to take responsible risks rather than life in fear. Because once "the worst" has happened, you can get on with living.
Becoming an entrepreneur, a coach, a mediation and breathing teacher, and a person who seeks God's wisdom, were all enabled through the gifts she left.
Even the work I do to uncover the myths around Bitcoin's environmental impact (it's unequivocally net-positive for the environment) were made possible by her, because I no longer care about being accepted, fitting in, or criticism.
What I care about now is truth, love, freedom.
I learnt on that same breathing course all those years ago that opposite values are complimentary: it is only when faced with death that we truly value life.
I knew that life was temporary beforehand. But after, I learnt how to life a life based on the knowledge that life is temporary.
And that made all the difference.
I learnt that joy is found not in events or accolades but in the silent corner of our own heart. This knowing freed me from seeking accolades and victories, but to treat each moment that I stilled my mind and felt content and happy as a victory.
Most of the people I coach are outrageously successful by other people's compass, but feel like a failure by their own compass.
She taught me how to guide them from pain to freedom.
Sharing this with you today because it is my belief that there are no corridors where love cannot be spoken about. If just one person holds their children and loves one a little more closely tonight, then my post has served it's purpose.
Forever in gratitude to you Heather Rose.
The energy expenditure is the primary value delivered function of the protocol. The whole point is that Bitcoin is a reverse-optimized computing system designed to produce bits of information that are as physically expensive to transmit, receive, and store as possible.
This is how bitcoin achieves physical security, decentralization, and scarcity, because the large quantities of power being drawn from the globally distributed power grid to generate the bits of information are themselves physically real, physically scarce, and physically decentralized.