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2026-03-03 03:41:15 CET

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Is that @nprofile…rzrk?

2026-03-02 08:26:25 CET

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My current model of it is that addresses are all possible state locations (addresses). That's location in a logical sense, but maps to the space we experience because of the way energy states transform.
Your will acts through the keys which map to your body. You are a signer, cosigning the transactions that life offers you. You have a rational intellect that grasps the order (abstract, non physical) superstructure. That makes reality intelligible to you, so that you can choose to cosign more order into the physical world. This is what it actually means to have intelligence, and be a moral actor.
You are a free intersection of temporal and non-temporal being. You have utxos (energy in time) grasp timeless order and posses a signing key. (Body, intelect, will.)
I may just not get the whole block chain fractal yet. My way of thinking of it is that the present is just one block or tensor covering the state of every address. Time is a squence of stepwise locally integrated transformations via a kernel function on the whole keyspace. (A convolution.) One key space state to the next key space state.
This is the paper we are talking about. It explores what Bitcoin might tell us about the architecture of time:
https://bitcoinlens.net/
This essay is my take on it, poorly named because it didn't end up really going into theology, just physics and metaphysics based on the insights in the paper and how I think they really flower when grounded on Thomistic metaphysics.
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html

2026-03-01 15:21:33 CET

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AI productivity paradox explained
#nevent1q…x932

2026-02-28 18:04:38 CET

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For end-users, yeah, the package manager is taking care of it. Even though the key layer actually sucks still, at least it's there. But most devs are way too blasé about supply chain security. Especially in js and rust. I cringe every time I see one of those pipe curl to bash oneliners.

2026-02-28 11:19:14 CET

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I actually mean what I say. I don't think could have possibly been more straightforward. How you take it is up to you. You're into stoicism, right? You can get in your feelings or not. You can get defensive or not. You can take the feedback or not.
I actually like you or I wouldn't have bothered.

2026-02-28 10:10:38 CET

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I think you are having trouble with the is/ought distinction. Earning money is not the same as stealing it. Getting away with it doesn't change that.

2026-02-28 06:44:08 CET

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Gossip and detraction are unbecoming of grown men. If you have a technical point to make, make it. You sound like little girls.

2026-02-27 22:56:50 CET

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Still nonsense. I don't have to put your smut transactions in my mempool if I don't want to. It's very interesting that your definition of freedom involves telling other people what to do with their computer and your definition of censorship is not helping you pay for gambling and porn. Also get some help.

2026-02-27 03:00:17 CET

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Do you defy the crabby ones?

2026-02-26 15:02:06 CET

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KYC all computer logins
#nevent1q…xa8v

2026-02-26 14:50:49 CET

OS-level age verification laws
https://youtu.be/Ie9-kgxKjIc

2026-02-24 23:49:38 CET

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We are so early.
When I hear "digital asset" I feel like I'm watching a caveman use a laptop as a club.
#nevent1q…jtd5

2026-02-24 23:31:58 CET

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Also, "AI" is not really intelligent at all. Its powerful, but it's a database with a cool text-based interface. That's impressive and useful, but it's not that deep.

2026-02-24 23:29:01 CET

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IDK. Humans are linear thinkers and perennially late. When the curve is steepening, they think it's going nowhere. When the curve is rolling over they think it's up forever. Try that with an s-curve that is already in diminishing returns

2026-02-24 23:25:09 CET

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Dog food is the best food for devs

2026-02-24 23:07:45 CET

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This is a banger. Slop is fiat in the domain of attention.
- Fiat slop money
- Fiat slop media
- Fiat slop art
...
It's all fiat and it's all slop.
Cryptography is the sword that slays the Slop Dragon.
Return to the real.
#nevent1q…kn0f

2026-02-24 22:53:54 CET

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Awesome, looks very similar in some ways to what I'm building! Maybe we can find some ways collaborate or interoperate.
https://zsubmesh.net
Set up your zaps!

2026-02-24 22:14:32 CET

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I think fees will work fine to keep miners in business, but that may be what happens anyway. It remains to be seen if the current granularity is sufficient in the long term to settle l2 and l3. But we can always add a couple of decimal places when the time comes, and that may extend the halving for a time.

2026-02-24 22:06:56 CET

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The overall psychological effect I've seen of Bitcoin and privacy tech on people is positive. But you generally come into it deeply because you need it. And you usually need it because you have woken up to the system we are living in and how it has effected you the people you love and society in general. And how evil and dangerous it actually is. If you think that's a mental illness, you are the one who is still in the matrix.
Self sovereign money gives you peace and allows you to think long term. Privacy reduces anxiety and gives you a sense of dignity and freedom.
The truth is scary, but I'd rather look it in the face and try to do something about it than go back to the dream.
https://blossom.primal.net/b3d09e4082e0dd4073a8ece571a219d9ea1d758efc672b9988562a31ca295de5.png
https://blossom.primal.net/6b9b706ef7b8e09638a22b83490f2e4c403c1f27f9cc144a59c7959e8aff23e8.jpg

2026-02-24 06:38:13 CET

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Both right. Easy in all the wong ways, hard in all the wrong ways.

2026-02-24 06:32:27 CET

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One does not have to explain oneself ⚔️

2026-02-24 02:04:37 CET

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On an information theoritic basis, AI can't raise overll signal. Actually can only lower it. It's a tool. The signal comes from you.

2026-02-23 22:07:12 CET

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Information wants to be free.
Distillation points to a couple of things:
1. AI is totally porous. Access is binary. Prompt injection, data poisoning and distillation can really be solved, just mitigated
2. AI companies have no moat but hardware. They are databases and if you sell access, the contents can be exfiltrated.
They have to appeal to the same legal frameworks they violated to build these databases to protect them now.

2026-02-23 21:48:14 CET

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Only two times I saw my dad cry: when his dad died and when my mom died

2026-02-23 21:02:03 CET

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Nice. I've run into those things. Very cool.

2026-02-23 10:25:45 CET

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But have you reflected on your own priors. Try this exercise I learned in an acting class and see where it takes you. If you were a llm, what would the prompt have been that set you up to have this opinion. Show the full text.

2026-02-23 10:25:06 CET

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2026-02-23 10:18:32 CET

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Sitting here watching my little boy sleep and thinking about my dad. Look at nostr, here is this. Perfect timing, man. Thanks. Profound and true.

2026-02-23 10:08:42 CET

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Sometimes new ideas bounce off us. I bet it will click for you at some point

2026-02-23 00:02:53 CET

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Put another way: from the perspective of the one being measured, biometrics are not security but targeting.
#nevent1q…5u4g

2026-02-22 23:55:11 CET

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Now think about biometrics: keys you can't hide or rotate. Security is about asymmetric cost. Do biometrics protect you from your adversary or protect your adversary from you?
It's not red vs blue.
It's the system vs. you.
#nevent1q…e6l6

2026-02-22 16:43:33 CET

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And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.
Ecclesiastes 7:26

2026-02-22 16:39:45 CET

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Many such cases

2026-02-22 16:29:43 CET

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https://blossom.primal.net/d66709db300b61a1857a8939b5950999d42ec553a28b9f66ac64a5084878244e.gif

2026-02-22 16:23:27 CET

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A Catholic recognizes you at the liquor store.

2026-02-22 07:43:53 CET

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Beep boop.

2026-02-22 07:39:20 CET

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This isn't quite right. The miners only matter because the small hodlers hold. The small hodlers matter the most. Not the "influencers" (gay word, btw) not the whales, not the miners, not the ETFs, not the institutions, not even the devs.
Everything else is downstream from people who hold small stacks on hard wallets and run nodes. As long as those people do their thing, the rest of the circus will organize itself around them. And it doesn't even matter if they know what they are doing (and mostly they don't) as long as they keep doing it.

2026-02-22 07:31:15 CET

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Maybe you're just melodramic

2026-02-22 04:52:22 CET

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What's the difference between a Catholic and a Baptist?

2026-02-22 04:26:25 CET

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Teetotaling is a sin

2026-02-22 03:58:22 CET

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So. Incredibly. Early. God bless, Jack!

2026-02-22 03:21:45 CET

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This.

2026-02-22 00:25:41 CET

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Jack! Thank you thank you thank you. I'm excstatic that my ramblings are providing some value. I'm grateful for the chance to engage with the work you and Nick (and the rest of the circle that's forming) are doing.
I wasn't so much coming from a GR perspective as expecting that if the ledger model is true, it will explain the appearant conflict between QM and GR and the holes in both and just trying to mine that. It seems fruitful to say the least. I think my primary frames are just Thomistic metaphysics and some intuititions from neural networks that aught to apply to time as a transforming sequence of keyspace states. (I've done a bit of work with artificial neural networks.)
You've given me a lot to think about as usual and I'm heads down on a pretty deep bit of code so it may take me a couple of days to cogitate and give you a fullsome response, but I will!
I can say that I totally agree that a wave is just a description of successive states and not properly a thing. (Rieficarion casts a lot of shadows, in general.)
I think there is something.more I might be able to say about memory/information and order that I didn't grok when I was writing the essay. But the thoughts aren't fully formed. I need to let em cook.
Wow, this is a lot of fun! Very excited. Thanks again. Will follow up soon!

2026-02-21 08:03:04 CET

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*Bitcoin will preserve whatever we commit, truth or mistake, signal or noise. It is a map of us. The real debate is not whether an inscription is monetary, but whether it is worthy of time.*
#nevent1q…vq6x

2026-02-21 07:56:17 CET

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What about God?
The lesson of entropy that Bitcoin teaches us about the physical time chain, that physics bears out when that lesson is applied, is precisely that man creates nothing. We only participate in creation as cosigners by our choices.
And, correct me if I am wrong, is this not also precisely what St. Thomas says about money, explicitly: that it does not reproduce?
One thing that actually just clicked for me in light of Jacks comment and what I learned while writing my little essay, is that another way to say what Jack is saying (I think, correct me) is that money IS the model memory, a form (in the Platonic sense, even) accruing order that the rational will cosignings. Either we choose higher goods, or we err and choose lesser goods.
We choose to participate in bring higher order that comes from source into being by coordinating our work or recycle the goods of the world under fiat (fictions of human value creation, dollars, ape jpegs, rent seeking, interest) under entropy.
The conclusion is not only that simple spam is pure entropy, but that non-monetary data with "financial" use cases that have these vaneers of being money-related are perhaps worse, because they are actually fiat, aka fictions of value creation.
Word magic is fraud. We don't create.
Hopefully that ramble made sense.

2026-02-21 06:52:59 CET

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Shocked, I tell you.

2026-02-21 06:44:20 CET

Bip 110 🍿
Spam is not an existential crisis and neither is a soft fork.
Bitcoin is money and tightening up is good maintenance, so I'm for it unless someone shows a technical problem, but this drama is cooked and it feels like a bad rerun.
But I activated my node, so I feel some peace. Let the chips fall where they may.
I'm standing with the plebs because smallhodlers are our heart, but no hate for the Bitcoin gliterati either.
Keep stacking.
"Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him."
Haldir, Fellowship of the Rings, Book II, Chapter 6 "Lothlórien"

2026-02-21 06:11:33 CET

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Ideally they would. Easy for me to say coming in and Monday morning quarterbacking, but it seems like this whole situation is wildly political for no reason. The conversation would ideally have been:
"Hey, we're behind on some maintenance. Let's drop some cruft, tighten some unnecessarily loose data limits that are feeding non-monetary use and kill the inscriptions hack."
Then we would have a calmly go through back testing against the chain to make sure we didn't chop any legit monetary use and roll the thing. It's not that hard.
And then I assume there would be hot cocoa with marshmallows. ☕
Obviously that ignores that there are incentives, financial interests, rivalries, reputations, egos and tribes. I'm not surprised this is hard for non-technical reasons. My point is just how purely non-technical problem actually is here.
The actual technical problem itself could have been solved by small number of people in a matter of weeks if they were working together well. Instead we have a total shitstorm.
Whatever. It will be fine, but I have to be pro 110 on the merits until someone can explain why its a bad idea from on the merits. 🍿

2026-02-21 01:06:12 CET

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The real quantum threat is the friends we made along the way

2026-02-21 01:01:02 CET

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The word theoretically is doing way too much work here. CRQC is never going to happen because it's not physically possible. There is no known physical threat to ECC, including Bitcoin keys. The only threats here are FUD, regulation and self-inflicted mangling of the network.

2026-02-20 22:58:28 CET

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I think that overstep was more than an overstep and they also neglected mainenance, like fixing the inscriptions hack. Without accusing anyone of anything, I can't help but notice that both the actions and inactions all pointed in the same direction of allowing shitcoinery on the network.
Bitcoin is money. Anything that can be done to tighten parameters to shut down non-monetary uses that crop up or sneak in a unintended consequences of other changes, without breaking existing monetary uses, should be done because that is responsible maintenance.
It narrows the state space, reduces the attack surface and supports keeping the network distributed by keeping the block light.
From a purely technical perspective (I've got no tribal dog here, and my local community if very core-centric, and I am friends with core devs) 110 really looks like a maintenance catch-up after some neglect.
Don't shoot but that's my honest read on the technical picture and somebody who has built and maintained software-based systems for a very long time.
Instead of fighting about this we could be focusing on making sure that 110 is a technically correct tightening of the bolts. No reason it should be anything else.
If there are specific, concrete issues, I am sure they can be fixed if brought to light.

2026-02-20 22:37:23 CET

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That's insightful because those are the kinds of power games we are swimming in. And it makes sense because Plato and company hated sophistry, which is what you call that game.
But I looked it up and what Plato actually wrote in Phaedrus was this, which he put into the mouth of Socrates.
"I am myself a lover of these divisions and collections, so that I may be able both to speak and to think; and if I find anyone else who I think has the natural capacity to look to one and to many, I pursue him ‘in his footsteps, behind him, as if he were a god’."
Which seem more like straightforward reverence for the skillful intelect, with implicit anti-sophistry. Later he says:
"First, you must perceive the nature of the thing you're discussing... Then, having grasped the single idea that unifies the many particulars (collection), you must next divide it... trying not to mangle any part, as a bad butcher might do."

2026-02-20 22:22:22 CET

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Bitcoin is money. Invest in yourself.

2026-02-20 22:07:49 CET

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Many fine people on both sides

2026-02-20 22:07:07 CET

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Thank you very much! I don't want to inadvertently spread error.

2026-02-20 20:55:43 CET

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Team human, let's go! 💪

2026-02-20 20:38:50 CET

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Small miracles.

2026-02-20 20:20:40 CET

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Telos. Beautifully explained.
If I can tie in an engineer's perspective on this: this is exactly why I do support 110. Telos is how you do rational software architecture and make rational maintenance decisions.
If the purpose of the protocol is money, then we can objectively decide what to do as software maintainers. If we are allowing space for non-monetary uses to slip through which can be closed without hurting monetary use, responsible software maintenance is tightening those constraints.
This simplifies the state space, reduces attack surface and supports decentralization by keeping the chain lighter.
I haven't found any arguments against 110 on valid technical grounds. It appears to be correct software maintenance. Rational node software maintenance is important to Bitcoin.
I also agree that spam will probably be priced out in the long run, so I'm not going to dramatize it, but that is not an excuse for us to willfully neglect proper maintenance.
Does that make sense?
BTW, totally other topic:
I wonder if you might be interested in taking a look at this essay I just wrote. I tried to ground the physics of Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time in Thomistic metaphics. You might find it interesting and could possibly tell me if I screwed anything up on the metaphysics side.
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html
Either way, I will definitely look forward to hearing you on the podcast. I hope it brings a little more reason back to the conversation.

2026-02-20 19:17:49 CET

Cooler heads make better decisions. Better arguments too.
Can we not disagree like grownups?
I support 110 on the merits, but I dislike the tribal shitshow more than I even care about the issue.

2026-02-20 19:01:39 CET

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I think a lot of lawyers go in with noble intentions, but I doubt even 1% keep that nobility. The system itself is so evil. I think the same is true for most high status professions to some extent, for the same reason. Imagine what you would have to play along with to get through medical school these day. A soul is a tough thing to keep clean in this world.

2026-02-20 18:56:27 CET

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This is a good thread.
#nevent1q…fnwj

2026-02-20 18:52:16 CET

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I think he does. Walker seems cool. Still a fan of the show. This kind of reletavism is something we're all swimming in and it's hard to be a public figure. I'll push back on it no matter who and no matter what about, but I'm not dunking and we all need a chance to course correct. I hope others will do the same for me.

2026-02-20 09:05:00 CET

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You've got to grok Jeff's whole framework to put it in context. It's worth doing. We get bombarded with a lot of things that sound profound. But some things actually are. Watch him on some longform podcasts and read the book.

2026-02-20 08:56:58 CET

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Is the new skill solving nostr riddles?

2026-02-20 08:47:38 CET

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Our favorite meal. I've been thinking for a while now that maybe when the system really cracks, that will be the signal. They will have nothing else left and go full alien. But then I think, they keep kinda using it already... So how would we know what "full alien" looks like?
Maybe we will know it when we see it. Like live news coverage of a big silver saucer landing on the Whitehouse lawn and Trump pulls out the chair for Gleep Glorp from Alpha Centauri. 👽

2026-02-20 08:39:14 CET

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Oh, I do. I'm psychic. We're in sync now. Can you feel it?

2026-02-20 08:30:17 CET

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If consensus rules are censorship, then let's just remove them. Fuck protocols. Those are rules man. Let's just all set our network cards to spray bits down wires because that's freedom man. Let's shit on the dining room table! FREEDOM!

2026-02-20 08:22:14 CET

So much shitposting! Nostr is back!

2026-02-20 08:20:45 CET

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This was your better argument

2026-02-20 08:13:02 CET

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So you don't know what circular reasoning is.
Try this. If you have a medical information system, and you upload your music collection, and your doctor says "hey, this is just for medical information" are you going to say "well, it's a medical information system, and I uploaded information, so now it's medical information"
Maybe you would, but your doctor might diagnose you with being retarded, and that would be fair.

2026-02-20 08:06:13 CET

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Wait, let me guess: circular reasoning is when your reasoning is circular.

2026-02-20 08:04:42 CET

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Do you know what circular reasoning is?

2026-02-20 07:44:55 CET

Bitcoin is money. A monetary transaction is when you use Bitcoin as money.
If you act like you don't know this, you have either a moral or an intellectual impairment.

2026-02-20 07:38:18 CET

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If you're going to play dumb, I'm going to believe you

2026-02-20 07:29:50 CET

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So, you don't know what money is? That's an embarrassing position to take when you have a Bitcoin podcast.

2026-02-20 07:06:54 CET

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Didn't I answer you? Or do you need a linguist? I mean, words don't really have objective meanings, right? Who is to say? What is a word? How can we even understand the question? Why bother to write it then?
In case you need it spelled out, I am throwing you epistemic nihilism back at you.
How are we supposed to interpret people who claim they don't know what "woman" or "monetary" mean? I could formally define either for you but you are just playing dumb and I'm not playing along.
If you want to have a serious conversation,, it starts with admitting that words have meanings.

2026-02-20 06:03:34 CET

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What is a woman, @walker? Do you need a biologist?

2026-02-20 04:10:38 CET

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I don't have a better idea, but that is a beautiful photo. ... Hornet's Buzz is my best idea. I think I like Satoshi's Stinger best (per @nprofile…c0a0). Btw, have you used Sovereign Reserve yet? That's an elegant name. Encrypted Reserve?
... You have a fun job.

2026-02-20 02:40:00 CET

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Make no mistakes.
#nevent1q…mrep

2026-02-20 02:39:42 CET

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Set up your zaps! 😂

2026-02-20 01:17:27 CET

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Only vaguely. Spark is an offchain shared signing tree protocol, if I understand it correctly.
You are multisig-ing your way through a predefined tree of possible outcomes for a shared utxo

2026-02-19 23:27:47 CET

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*Real privacy is operational security*
Write it on your heart.
#nevent1q…zq42

2026-02-19 18:30:01 CET

Bits before bots

2026-02-19 18:22:55 CET

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Oof

2026-02-19 18:03:10 CET

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Why wouldn't you

2026-02-19 09:57:58 CET

Bitcoin > AI

2026-02-19 06:48:04 CET

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I use AI very heavily while I program, but I'm still the one programming. I think "vibing" is cool for non-programmers. I think professional programers who are going autopilot (or writers or lawyers or...) are playing with fire. It can turn you into a slop zombie or make you the best you've ever been, but that's up to how you use it.

2026-02-19 05:16:04 CET

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Halving and cycle psychology just nudge things into motion, but the setup is the setup. The real structure is marginal adopters for current use case. Cycles are just an overlay.

2026-02-18 23:25:23 CET

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Every crisis and mania gets bigger. Or at least directionally

2026-02-18 23:24:01 CET

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Yup. The fiat world is a pressure cooker and people are spazing out

2026-02-18 23:11:00 CET

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I'm glad she's ok. Seeing that kind of thing is still always upsetting.

2026-02-18 23:09:24 CET

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We've barely begun to see how Bitcoin changes the way we see the world.
Don't let the title put you off. It's 90% physics, 10% metaphysics (about the boundaries of physics).
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html
#nevent1q…d7v4

2026-02-18 22:58:47 CET

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I love the sentiment. But their jobs were useless to begin with. The reason they are going to lose their jobs is the government going broke. But they will blame AI. Same good outcome either way and we can both say we were right. 🤺

2026-02-18 22:52:52 CET

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Godless ones

2026-02-18 20:18:54 CET

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I didn't expect Bitcoin to explain the structure of the universe.
Honestly it sounds laughable. Like a bad characiture of Bitcoin philosophy. But here we are. The rabbit hole goes where it goes .🐇
I added a postscript on cosmology to this essay.
#nevent1q…navs

2026-02-18 19:50:52 CET

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Bitcoin is economic discipline.
#nevent1q…smc6

2026-02-18 19:41:32 CET

Gm. Ashes to ashes.

2026-02-18 13:29:04 CET

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Sounds good! No preference on structure, just happy to engage. There are some small things I touched in the physics as I traced it down, in case I undersold that. Don't know if it would helpful to the update or not. Can't wait for the update!

2026-02-18 13:00:22 CET

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Running BIP 110
#nevent1q…6yk5

2026-02-18 12:54:04 CET

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@jackk @nprofile…e9rx I added a little postscript with some conjecture viz cosmology. (I'm still mostly sure it's just angels holding lanterns.)
https://zsubmesh.net/essays/bitcoin-and-the-theology-of-time.html