George Saoulidis

When I was 20 years old I thought science fiction and fantasy were the same thing. To be fair, in Greek we call it epistimoniki fantasia, επιστημονική φαντασία, which means scientific fantasy. I joined the Athens Science Fiction Club (ALEF) and talked to trad-published greek authors and quickly learned that fantasy and sci-fi are nothing alike. I am now 40 years old, I've outsold all those authors combined, and I now know once again that science fiction and fantasy are the same. Never lose your childlike wonder.

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I'll admit I didn't expect people to like Tennis Girls that much. Colour me surprised. Read it now on Amazon. https://amzn.to/3HmuDOY

I met one of Libby's fans today at the Nostr booth in BTCPrague! @franny @Love is Bitcoin 💜⚡

Spam is such a big problem on the internet that most of us webmasters have had to shut down forums and close comments on our blogs. It's why I've been so excited for lightning used as a spam filter, even though I haven't seen an implementation yet outside of stacker news. Spam is wasting hundreds of manhours with moderators and resources. If I choose to filter ordinals and other spam transactions from my mining template, I have every right to do it. You can just go to another miner and send your transaction, they'll be happy to accept the sats. Permissionless does not mean anarchy. You have every right to spam the protocol, I have every right to filter it because you're wasting my time and resources. I won't run the ord disrespector only because the guys promoting it are deranged spooks and because it's untested code. But if the next bitcoin core version filters out a huge chunk of spam, I'll run it.

I want to work with bitcoin businesses but many are plebstores, meaning amateur ones. Which is fine but the level of Dunning-Kruger effect is starting to grate on me. Yes you need a fucking newsletter. Yes you need a fucking blog. Yes you need to do fucking sales. Sales are not fiat. FFS. I'm here if you need a marketing agency.

I believe at some point even unspendable utxos will be able to be offered as collateral. It's the same with gold. Let's say you have a small golden nugget. Getting it verified might cost half of its price. But if you show it to someone, thus proving that you own it, they might consider the risk acceptable and lend you the money. Bitcoin can be verified with a simple wallet signature and even if it can't move on-chain due to high fees, it's still there. I think microlending services will happily take them. Perhaps even with accepting the seed words themselves in case of liquidation. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't consolidate your utxos when the fees are low. I'm just saying it will become so valuable that people will find a way to use even the smallest bit.

I asked btcpayserver about an easy way to run it, basically you either run it on your own node, which is troublesome. And there's the option of running it on a hosted server, like voltage cloud or lunanode. They recommended lunanode.

I think I'm being reasonable and calm and then someone tells me bitcoin doesn't have enough throughput to handle as many transactions as BNB has and I go into rant mode.