I read an article today about how booming the US natural gas industry is right now. I'm really curious when we might start openly talking about how we were never ever going to get rid of fossil fuels with the addition of wind and solar without batteries capable of fully replacing natural gas plants. I need Andrew Dessler (who is not on Nostr) to talk me down from this very pessimistic ledge.

I am worried for the family of the person HBO is about to claim is Satoshi. What do we gain through these witch hunts? Nothing. Bitcoin is beyond anything Satoshi could have imagined. It doesn’t belong to h them anymore. In many ways, Satoshi is irrelevant. That’s a good thing.

I think I am finally old enough to really appreciate Bob Dylan’s music.

"According to data from TheMinerMag, Foundry USA Pool and MARA Pool mined 18% of all bitcoin blocks in January 2022. As of August 2024, that figure has risen to 33.6%, and that doesn’t include U.S.-based hashrate connected to Chinese pools." https://theminermag.com/news/2024-09-26/china-bitcoin-mining-dominance/

Good morning. I'm still the new *interim* host of @`The Progressive Bitcoiner'.

You're probably an anarchist if you support this.

the Guardian

‘We look after our neighbors’: how mutual-aid groups are filling the gaps after Hurricane Helene

The federal government, state governments and larger non-profits have had a slower – and, say some residents, insufficient – response

Direct action isn’t petitioning the government authorities to do better or fix things that are broken. Direct action is saying, “screw it, we’ll do it ourselves” or, “we can stop this without them”. The first step toward freedom is acting like you are already free. This is also known as anarchism, btw. K bai.

How can you not love David Graeber’s ideas on anarchism, anthropology, and the exploration of human possibilities?