@Knut Svanholm β/21M The subscription model means that one has to trust someone to deliver in the future. There are scalability and trust issues involved here. Money and microtransactions solves this problem.
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Found some new inputs about privacy in "Das Privacy Handbuch" by Timo Volkov from @npub1evnv...jxzx. Sad is the part about privacy in cars. Yeah, we really need something like a open source car ;-) 

"Virtus Digitalis" by @npub17ddc...uley is certainly the Best book - pun intended - about bitcoin and stoicism. A lot of dots have been connected in this book: Bitcoin, stoicism, low time preference and decentralized structures really match perfectly. So, remember if the price crashes the next time, be stoic and calm as you can not control when other people panic. 

In reference to "It is easier to port a shell than a shell script" one may also conclude that it's easier to change a runtime system than to get millions of programmers to change their programming paradigm and tooling. Therefore virtual threads in Java will prevail over reactive programming using RxJava, Spring WebFlux etc.
Enjoyed reading "Bitcoin ist Freiheit" by @Samuel Kullmann. Liked the analogy between bitcoin transaction hardening like cement over time and the comparison between Bitcoinβs "security budget" and that of the Swiss army. Spoiler alert: the former is now way higher.


Published a tutorial how to setup a private nostr home relay: 
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Tutorial to Setup a Private Home Relay \ stacker news ~nostr
Introduction This tutorial describes how you can create your private backup relay for your nostr notes and how you can configure Amethyst to always...
Finished reading "Praxeology" by @Knut Svanholm β/21M that Knut kindly signed for me in Lugano. It's a book about the foundations of bitcoin as Austrian economics, natural law etc. but without mentioned bitcoin directly. For the latter you can only find hints as the twenty-one chapters, the orange disk on the cover picture etc. You have to do the work yourself and you will find the orange future on your own. 

Created my own version of a Bitcoin block clock showing the stats of my own node and services including forwarded lightning payments, found mining shares by the Bitaxe etc. 

"The Man Without Qualities" written by Robert Musil describes a society in which people possess expertise only in their square millimeter of knowledge. That is exactly what we see with some bitcoin core developer and their groupies. There we encounter singleβtrack minds that refuse to abstract beyond their narrow expertise and to view the bigger picture. Their argumentation only reflects their square millimeter of knowledge and any other input from outside that area is vehemently rejected.