Marius

It's funny to see people reposting Jack's notes with almost anyone following Jack in the first place.

Bitcoin is counter-culture: leaderless, permissionless, trustless, censorship-resistant, and discussed at an unconference.

In the late 80ies and early 90ties I spent all my time on molecular and cellular biology which earned me a PhD in the natural sciences. This is not a bragging exercise but the preamble to a book recommendation. Granted I studied three decades ago, it is nevertheless amazing how much more clarity and insights I get from Nick Lane‘s books. Had he been my professor then I might never have gone down the software engineering path, might have missed Bitcoin altogether 😬. So, if you have a friend or family member who studies biology - here is the perfect gift 🍀. #biology #mitochondria #energy #life #genesis

I find it both fascinating and surprising how much of the publishing world (including posts and podcasts) is increasingly synchronized daily, with ideas starting with a thought leader on one end of the world and ending with a poll among the people on the other within 24 hours. I admire people who take the time to breed their own ideas to fruition. And I need to remind myself to be more critical of what I read, even if it sounds compelling at first: do I really want to read, digest, and adopt it? Or do I let it pass?

Congratulations to

The Nutty Pill

for winning the Golden Nut in the #nutnovember contest. It's a really cool Bitcoin history and learning app that rewards knowledge with sats.

Downloaded the latest @blockstream green wallet (2.0.17) to a MacBook Pro (Ventura 13.7.2) from blockstream.green. The software crashed immediately upon startup (I tried it on two different laptops). Then, I resorted to the previous version (2.0.16), which worked as expected. I hope that no newcoiners will experience the same.

My goal for Q1 is to ramp up my computing setup: put redundant components in place for instant fail-over switching, and create more capacity for Bitcoin, lightning, cashu, and nostr. Everything without asking for permission and the certainty that Bitcoin will not fail should I screw up any of the config or wiring. The power of de-centralization goes goes far for all of us.