Chastising someone for defending their IP is ludicrous. You can always tell who has never owned or ran a business.
Also, pointing to FOSS or free market like that is some way to hand wave (alleged) theft away is chickenshit behavior.
The offending party could have designed something original and they chose not to.
[November 13, 2024] #Vegas #Bitcoiners Meetup - 6:30pm at Sierra Gold - 9465 S Eastern
100K $BTC? Hot topics in the #Bitcoin space, finance, macro, etc. We talk all things #BTC -- Come make some new friends!
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/vegasbitcoiners/events/304193551
#vegaslocals #lasvegas #nevada
#gm #nostr -- Allegedly a lot of Bitcoin news supposed to drop today. Will it be underwhelming like the last several times?
BTW, much prefer Meg Myers version over the original by Kate Bush. Meg is massively underrated so if you've never done a deep dive on her discography, do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7iVWK2W48o
#nowplaying #music #tunestr #musicstr #alternative #altrock
So we're all trillionaires by 2028. Nooiiiice!
But seriously, yes, I've already seen people start their Herbalife-like pitches for coins they obviously have massive bags in again. Just been responding that this is your chance to sell before they start bleeding out again.
Under a road map being unveiled Tuesday, the US would deploy an additional 200 gigawatts of nuclear energy capacity by mid-century through the construction of new reactors, plant restarts and upgrades to existing facilities. In the short term, the White House aims to have 35 gigawatts of new capacity operating in just over a decade.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-12/cop29-us-has-plan-to-triple-nuclear-power-as-energy-demand-soars
#nuclear #energy #climate
#gm #nostr
Feel like I have a hangover after yesterday's Bitcoin price action. Internalized a bunch of emotions throughout the day. Where is your mind?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ62RzJkYUo
#nowplaying #music #tunestr #musicstr #alternative #altrock
I've always considered it a done deal simply because they really don't have to do anything but move the already seized coins from one place to another to say they've done it.
Whether they continue to acquire after that is the real question for me. But yeah, such an easy bar to start the process and they essentially get a bucket of goodwill for doing so.
So #Bitcoin has more AUM than GLD, has the highest inflows of any ETF in history in under a year, and still isn’t available to some brokers like Vanguard (Bogles the mind — pun intended) nor is it in target date funds that dominate 401k buys. I’m no mathematician but…
#gm #nostr -- This dude was the opener at SEMA Fest last night and his finale had a brilliant verse so using it for my SOTD:
"I heard your brother's in the desert
He's been fighting for our freedom
He's been chasing nameless faces ever since he finished rehab
Can we support the individual, without supporting the whole damn complex?
It's either shooting guns or heroin, at least one of them pays for college"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuePPW8eHxI
#nowplaying #music #tunestr #musicstr #alternative #altrock
I think the disconnect is believing people voted for Trump.
Many voted against the Democrats including many people that have voted Dem their whole lives. They gaslit their base saying there was nothing wrong with Joe Biden for several years, only to have a weekend rendezvous coup and install Kamala as the candidate over holding an open primary, and then they resumed the gaslighting by saying Trump was "the end of democracy" yet they literally just committed an equivalent act on their base.
This was after nearly the last decade where they kneecapped Bernie, pushed multiple prominent young party members out (while doing some heinous shit to them) like Tulsi Gabbard, as well as vilified a portion of their wealthy donor class.
Finally, the majority of America is relatively moderate/centrist. Pretty much every election was a candidate that was just slightly left or right of center but within the last decade the Dems also decided to crank the volume on that from a 7 to bat shit crazy.
Extreme candidates pushing their narratives like the Squad. The DEI movements that saw many people lose promotions or jobs to someone that was not equally qualified just to hit a made up quota. The insane push for trans everything -- tell me how every celeb just happens to have multiple LGBTQ kids wanting to be the opposite sex when that would be a statistical anomaly? So on and so forth.
People got fed the fuck up. They voted against the Democratic Party more so than voting for Donald Trump. Moreover, the fact that all of the discarded Democrats that joined the Republican party made it look more like what they were used to via what their party had become.
All the party needs to do is return closer to the center and they'll be fine. That should start with burning down the co-opted DNC. So, if you actually care about the Democratic Party, that is where your hatred and vitriol should be placed, and you should mobilize fellow Dems to demand change from within.
But hey... Orange Man Bad. Amirite?
Yep, that's exactly how I see it. I help run our local Bitcoin meetup and we have multiple lifetime Dems that held their nose and voted Trump this cycle. I'm talking deeply entrenched from places like Chicago and New York and find their lifelong party nothing like what they grew up with.
I will also say I heard both of those I'm referencing they believed Kamala was a bigger threat to democracy than Trump. Definitely wasn't a good look to be projecting Trump was the "End of Democracy" and then going on TV and talking about censoring social media.
Lastly, I think the Dems could have put up multiple moderate candidates and beat Trump, especially if they didn't ostracize Tulsi, RFK. I fully believe that if they didn't go so extreme over this last decade and ran Tulsi this cycle, we'd see our first woman President in history. Now she is likely to be the first woman President as a Republican.
One of the the biggest nuclear FUD talking points revolves around nuclear waste. Imagine had we not lost decades of innovation in the space due to the propaganda coming out of the Cold War, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, etc.
Moltex Energy Canada says new research demonstrates "the unique capability" of its Stable Salt Reactor - Wasteburner (SSR-W) to consume used nuclear fuel, supporting its ongoing development of a reactor that can "significantly reduce nuclear waste while producing clean energy."
The company said the peer-reviewed paper "highlights that the SSR-W - developed by teams in New Brunswick, Ontario, the UK, and the USA - can consume the vast majority of transuranic (TRU) elements present in used fuel bundles from Canada's Candu reactors".
It added: "These transuranic elements, which are created during the fission process, are radioactive for thousands of years. Unlike traditional reactors that accumulate these elements over time, the SSR-W is designed to consume them as fuel, presenting an innovative approach to reducing nuclear waste."
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/moltex-reactor-can-consume-used-fuel-research-confirms
#nuclear #energy #climate #technology
So I can blame this on ADHD and not my age?
It's real bad when you end up in a bathroom stall at the gym and don't need to go... not that I've done that recently.
#gm #nostr -- Don’t worry even if things end up a bit to heavy, we’ll all float on alright.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk
#nowplaying #music #tunestr #musicstr #alternative #altrock
From the "Privacy Shmivacy" files:
"Every phone call you make and text you send passes through an invisible system so critical that the FBI queries it millions of times annually. Most Americans have never heard of it. But this “ultimate little black book”–a system that maps not just phone numbers, but traces the patterns of number ownership and manages important parts of our daily communications–is about to vanish behind layers of private ownership and regulatory resistance.
August 2024’s quiet announcement that Koch Equity Development (described by Bloomberg as, “a private investment arm of Koch Inc.”, which recently rebranded earlier this year from Koch Industries Inc. to simply, Koch Inc.) would acquire iconectiv (formerly Telcordia) for $1 billion barely made headlines outside of industry publications. The deal appeared, at surface level, to be about phone number portability–the system that lets consumers keep their numbers when switching carriers.
The reality is far more concerning.
This investigation reveals how America's most sensitive telecommunications infrastructure could soon be controlled by a private conglomerate that is simultaneously fighting to weaken federal regulatory authority."
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/the-secret-system-behind-every-call
#privacy #technology
The lack of self awareness by liberals today in the wake of the ass beating they took last night is astonishing.
The DNC is co-opted. It pushed out several of your quality candidates like Tulsi, RFK, et al by calling them extreme or crazy. Then your party subverted Democracy (nice try with the projection) and installed Harris after a weekend coup of BIden, which is now overly obvious with Biden's MAGA hat and Jill's red power suit. Had it not sidestepped democracy, you're probably celebrating President Tulsi Gabbard today.
But instead, they're doubling down on the white male hate and added in calling the black and latino voters stupid. I'm sure that will bring them back into the fold for 2028. Late Stage Feminism is a wild thing to live through.
#gm #nostr -- I think it is safe to say the mainstream media is officially dead after what we witnessed this election cycle. We now have legacy media to pair with legacy financial. May both cozy up next to some brontosaurus fossils in a museum somewhere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J2QdDbelmY
#nowplaying #music #tunestr #musicstr #alternative #altrock
[November 6, 2024] #Vegas #Bitcoiners Meetup - 6:30pm at Sierra Gold - 9465 S Eastern
Post election $BTC fallout? Hot topics in the #Bitcoin space, finance, macro, etc. We talk all things #BTC -- Come make some new friends!
RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/vegasbitcoiners/events/304072486
#vegaslocals #lasvegas #nevada
From the "Nerds are always coming up with cool ideas" files:
Stanford Cancer Institute scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct Inspector Gadget style.
“The idea is, Can you turn a cancer dependency into a cancer-killing signal?” asked Nathanael Gray, PhD, co-senior author with Crabtree, the Krishnan-Shah Family Professor and a chemical and systems biology professor. “You take something that the cancer is addicted to for its survival and you flip the script and make that be the very thing that kills it.”
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/10/protein-cancer.html
#health #cancer #medical #technology
Welcome aboard! The beauty of nostr is that you control your algo based on the people, hashtags, etc. that you follow.
So I'd recommend doing some cursory searching on topics of interest and follow people that you see post quality content there.
Welcome aboard! The beauty of nostr is that you control your algo based on the people, hashtags, etc. that you follow.
So I'd recommend doing some cursory searching on topics of interest and follow people that you see post quality content there.
And my alma mater is already 0-1. I knew they'd be bad after having their entire team bought by power programs but they were really, really bad tonight.
There is a good chance I may be done with college sports after all of the NIL and pay for play garbage. If I wanted to watch pro sports, I'd watch pro sports.
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Welcome aboard! The beauty of nostr is that you control your algo based on the people, hashtags, etc. that you follow.
So I'd recommend doing some cursory searching on topics of interest and follow people that you see post quality content there.
That’s never been the point.
We know both sides will continue to print money and debase the dollar. The difference is the resistance levels between the two. One side is usually against over regulation whereas the other is not and is the culprit of the anti-crypto army, Operation Chokepoint 2.0, etc.
This vote is simply to (hopefully) allow the past of least resistance for Bitcoin over the next 4 years and to free Ross.
Bears visit the Cards today... the team they ran out of Chicago in 1959. Roster is still very depleted with starting LT and SS ruled out and best DE, starting CB and starting LG questionable.
Anyhow, it's another opportunity for 18 to develop and that is all I've stated I cared about for this current season. Likely to be running for his life with the patchwork offensive line so making good decisions and getting the ball out quickly is today's goal.
Need the Saints to handle the Panthers to keep them at the bottom of the league standings -- we get their second rounder and it is trending to be the first pick of the 2nd.
https://image.nostr.build/7fd8d89dbbee8a5241e2c409489785de14ea3084bac83908b9ae3876f2b3d3d7.jpg
#chicago #bears #arizona #cardinals #nfl #football
I think this was a very fair and balanced piece.
I will tell you that anytime we have this discussion at the Vegas Bitcoiner Meetup, the "protecting against unintended consequences" is usually always the point that resonates with people and scares them the most. They quickly jump to Taproot and everything that came out of it.
I'd say the "maintaining Bitcoin's function as sound money" usually runs neck and neck or a very close second. I can't recall ever hearing any of the other three, or they were phrased in such a way I didn't make the connection.
I'm sure they'll just throw up some solar panels to handle it... right? We can't build enough nuclear capacity fast enough between this, AI, and Bitcoin.
"By 2030, the estimated annual electricity consumption for EUV tools alone could exceed 54,000 gigawatts, more than 19 times the amount used by the Las Vegas Strip in a year. This staggering figure highlights the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions to support the growing demands of the semiconductor industry."
https://www.techinsights.com/blog/euv-lithography-power-hungry-path-innovation
#energy #technology #semiconductors #nuclear
#gm #nostr -- Giving you some new hotness this early Saturday morning. Shallow Dive feels like they could sit in several older alternative eras. If these guys keep writing great songs, sky is the limit for these youngsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlauzwIWpJw
#nowplaying #music #tunestr #musicstr #alternative #altrock
Do any Bitcoiners actually invest in Bitcoin miners? Asked this at our last meetup and nobody said they did. I currently don't either, but if I did, I think CleanSpark would be the only one.
If you do, what is your thinking versus buying spot? Or, if you have money locked in a walled garden, what is your rationale for buying miners over MicroStrategy, the ETFs, or any of the leveraged ETF plays like YBTC or BITX?
#asknostr #bitcoin #investing
Yeah, that's my general take as well.
I do have old company investment accounts I rolled over and I'm liking the leverage BTC ETFs right now as they pay out monthly which is allowing me to compound some other positions. If BTC really runs, may end up making a killing from them.
Welcome aboard! The beauty of nostr is that you control your algo based on the people, hashtags, etc. that you follow.
So I'd recommend doing some cursory searching on topics of interest and follow people that you see post quality content there.
Welcome aboard! The beauty of nostr is that you control your algo based on the people, hashtags, etc. that you follow.
So I'd recommend doing some cursory searching on topics of interest and follow people that you see post quality content there.
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