Dear Lord, giveth me the strength to not attempt to fix software issues which can only be reproduced on one physical device.

If anyone is keeping assets at Binance, please move them out today. We recommend @Alby Alby Hub for serious lightning users, businesses, and people who really know how to store & back up a seed phrase safely... for other users who want to keep a low lightning balance we recommend @Rizful.com

Configuring DNS -- that thing you do once every 18 months, infrequently enough that you can never remember what "@" means or where to put it in the record. Consistently annoying for me from the period 1998 -> 2024.... and now.. Another task finally solved by AI, because you can ask AI "How does this thing work again?"

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Lawsuit Challenges National Park Service Ban on Cash Payments

A federal appeal challenges whether Americans can still spend real dollars on their own public land—or must surrender privacy to do so.

To me, it's 100% obvious why this is such a problem, but, every time I explain the issue to Normies, they just don't get it. Why is it so hard understand that "we don't accept cash" is a plague and must be struck down by courts?

A lot of assets that are "not volatile" -- are actually very fucking volatile. Try selling a house (or other real estate) after fire, flood, or earthquake, or riot -- or even an economic crash...

Weirdly Bill Gates should probably go to jail, but actually just for not giving a shit about Windows and making it such a horrible experience for everyone. The other stuff I don’t really care about that much.

When I discuss "what I do" with real normies (those that are financially unsophisticated), and I mention BTC, invariably they say "are you a trader?" -- I think in their minds, they assume anyone involved in BTC is a "degen day-trader", someone looking at technical analysis all day and doing risky things with complicated-looking charts & graphs. But, ironically: I have actually started multiple "fiat" businesses before this, some of which scaled well above 25 employees and into many, many millions of USD in profit... and working on Lightning is actually THE FIRST time I feel like "I'm doing something which I will still be doing in 10 years." Like, Lightning is just getting started and there is an enormous future ahead for it. All of the prior fiat businesses, I could envision their failure/destruction (due to changing market conditions) from the very beginning. I just don't see an end to Lightning. I think it IS the endpoint, at least for the next several decades.