I can never understand how the beast works, though I kinda trust the tech. Investigating the guts of Bitcoin is way too complicated. Not necessary to understand all the technical details, but I like the

Bitcoin was premined. A bit misleading imo. Satoshi mined the genesis block on January 3rd but no blocks were produced until releasing bitcoin core 0.1 on January 9th on the cryptography mailing list.

Massage is only part time on the side now with paid work. Massage was too uncertain and stressfull, not enough clients.

Watching altcoin valuations measured in bitcoin during the bear market tends to create Bitcoin maxis.

If you compare Bitcoin to VISA, yeah it's slow, but that is apples to oranges comparison. If you compare bitcoin to gold as a final settlement layer, then it is blazing fast.

How many entities control Bitcoin's network? 5 major mining pools? Miners or miner pools do not control the network. Only theoretical threats from miners are DDOS or double spend attack (aka. 51% attack),

wow nice so you just use the invoice directly from the vendor eh? Yes.

Have used the v4vapp on mobile through keychain app to buy beer and food in Finland with merchants who accept lightning payments. It is slower than a lightning bitcoin wallet like Breez, but it has always

It's a fun rabbit hole, trust me :D

I did watch the entire video. What made you think I didn't?

Why Bitcoin rather than any other crypto? To that I would say because it's the most secure and decentralized.

NOSTR is not running on a blockchain though, the data is stored on relays, or simply servers of individuals. It just implements lightning transactions.

The thing with tax funded education is that you are taught what the bureaucrats think you should learn instead of what you want to learn. There's no market feedback process.

The problem with Bitcoin is that it was designed to free us from the old money, the old rules, and banking systems, but what came after Satoshi went silent is not actually according to the plan IMO. What

Madeira is very pro-bitcoin even in their local government level. They can't make it a legal tender because of EU, but otherwise there are a lot businesses acccepting bitcoin there.

Let it fall to 10k so I can stack more!

Holy cow, the original recipe actually calls olive oil I know, right! Some pestos had no olive oil whatsoever!

I looked at the ingredients of pestos at a local supermarket and found one out of a dozen that didn't have rapeseed or sunflower seed oil – they are included in so many groceries that aren't raw ingredients

Stumbled upon it on What Bitcoin Did podcast where Erik Hersman from Gridless was talking about it. Here's a link to the Youtube version if you're more interested in it.

From what I have seen Bitcoin is being used more as an investment than for buying stuff. For a new asset to become a currency, it arguably needs to become a store of value first, especially when the adoption