Where you see challenge I see opportunity.
Remember that my first Bitcoin employer was Bitcoin only when I started there in 2015. I built infrastructure to support Ethereum, Ripple, many Bitcoin forks, etc.
Now it supports a wide swath of assets and is valued at over a billion dollars.
My (tiny) 401K provider seems to have misplaced $50k I instructed then to send to Fidelity and Fidelity has no clue what I'm talking about.
Fucking trusted third parties!
Extreme first world problem: when you own multiple homes and every time you move between them Netflix makes you jump through a bunch of hoops because it thinks you're sharing the account.
If humanity has a Creator then there's no reason why that Creator can't also have a Creator. And so on...
Theologians call this issue "infinite regress" though I think it's better described as Infinite God Recursion.
I think it's best to consider "God" to be the word people use to describe whatever created the universe as we know it. This entity or phenomenon may or may not be conscious, may or may not care about us, may or may not even exist.
Seems intellectually dishonest to claim certainty that such a thing does or does not exist without verifiable proof either way.
The term is used by plenty of folks including philosophers and metaphysicians.
I fail to see how I'm making a strawman argument. I'm not even arguing that it's a fact, just stating it's a possibility.
Like it it not, Bitcoin is a distributed database with a programming language. Improving the basic attributes for manipulating said database will inevitably also improve its usability for non-monetary purposes.
Fair warning:
Prior to 2020 I paid for my own travel expenses to speak at conferences.
This past cycle, all I required was reimbursement for a quality flight and hotel.
I expect it will take even more to make it worth my while after this cycle.
I gave a presentation on why lightning node in a box is a huge challenge back in 2019. The support load was so high for us that we decided to stop hemorrhaging money and discontinued the product line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSKy2-rpIHw
Sounds similar to my recent experience I wrote about. Meet with cardiologist recently and he said he's not concerned because I have no family history of heart disease.
I am getting one new blood test that he says can predict the risk of my arteries getting inflamed.
Bad week for BSV.
Craig loses identity case.
Craig gets referred to UK criminal prosecutors for defrauding the court with forged evidence.
Craig gets charged with contempt in Florida case.
Calvin says sayonara, claiming he's off on "an adventure."
Collapse feels imminent.
Fun fact: while traveling with firearms is difficult if not impossible, traveling with body armor is frictionless.
I've traveled to dozens of countries with soft body armor and nondescript armor like bulletproof clipboards. Never been stopped a single time. I suspect you can get away with pretty much anything that's not a steel plate.
I like AR500 armor.
Unfortunately it looks like the place I sourced clipboards from closed down but there are plenty of clipboard providers. I'd suggest buying several and actually shooting one to verify it works.
The Florida law being used to charge middle school boys who generated likenesses of classmates is some hot garbage. What the fuck is "realistic" and how the hell is "identifiable" determined?
According to the law, a sufficiently accurate hand drawn likeness could also be illegal. It will be interesting to see how this law holds up.
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Not gonna lie, I do have plans to spend some of my bitcoin:
1. Invest in / donate to organizations building freedom enhancing technology
2. Construct a self sufficient citadel
3. Acquire more weapons & defense systems
4. Pay for advanced longevity medical treatments so that I can watch the nocoiners die of old age
Called it.
Today will go down in history as Craig's greatest fail, at least until he gets taken down on criminal charges.
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