James A Lewis

Husband, father, #Catholic #Christian, Amateur Philosopher, Bitcoiner, freedom lover, word nerd

#dadstr

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npub1nf9vm6uhs4j7yaysmjn9eqlf7et5t6hvrkdqgpd995vcc9yfjyas0pxa3x

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Profile Code

nprofile1qqsf5jkdawtc2e0zwjgdefjus05lv469atkpmxsyqkjj6xvvzjyezwcpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqg0waehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmdqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsq3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdsw297ll

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Last Notes

2026-01-28 18:16:31 UTC

Bitcoin is monetary tech, not an agnostic decentralized database.
#nevent1q…3pcj

2026-01-27 12:49:06 UTC

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Honestly

2026-01-17 20:18:36 UTC

https://youtu.be/mXx4OA91OiI?t=13m25s
What?!?! End to end encryption is about to be outlawed!?!? This is why we need Nostr and make it the norm.

2026-01-04 00:46:21 UTC

I knew I recognized him from somewhere!
https://image.nostr.build/0c2cf46ff5d894749f65b08010bbe3bdc88edb4b8fdb63c2b656f624ac18399a.jpg

2025-12-07 03:21:23 UTC

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Jesus was born six months after John the Baptist, according to the biblical record (Luke 1:36), and John was conceived a little after Zachariah's service in the temple, which is an annual event in the late summer or early autumn, if I recall correctly, which puts John's birth in the late spring or early summer the following year, and so Jesus in the early winter.

2025-12-03 23:44:13 UTC

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BuT tHe Holy Spirit iNspIREs thE reader!

2025-12-02 11:33:33 UTC

The Theology of Bailey Building and Loan
Why It’s a Wonderful Life is the greatest Christmas movie of all time!
Like all good Christmas movies, it’s actually about Advent and preparing ourselves for the change that Christ brings to the world. It’s a Wonderful Life is the greatest Christmas movie of all time because it demonstrates the difference Christ makes in issuing His second greatest commandment.
This film demonstrates a world that would be dominated by the love of money over the love of neighbor. Pottersville is a real possibility if good men choose to not act.
https://youtu.be/NRmv6eu1Bag

2025-11-09 13:22:02 UTC

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Thought I was going to learn a totally new Bitcoin feature, then I realized the guy just invented betting on BIPs 😂

2025-11-04 13:18:47 UTC

If trade and labor are supposed to be charity, money given in exchange is a token of thanks. Monetary exchange is, in essence, a declaration that someone did good toward oneself. In a real sense, it makes the "what" money is into information, yet it requires anchor in reality.
A proposed definition: token of thanks, abstracted trade, and evidence of goodwill
Another popular definition: medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value
I would love to hear your thoughts!
https://youtu.be/5PUiBXp2NIg

2025-10-07 13:16:25 UTC

Trade & labor are willing the good of neighbor, but what's that?
https://youtu.be/04bHgLnt7b8
It all boils down to Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. Each service we render and good we deliver result in some increase in goodness, truth, and beauty in or for the other. This can become our aim, and we can then better fulfill that purpose to which God has called us as professionals.
PS:
Nothing lacking beauty can be called good.
Nothing untrue can be truly beautiful.
Nothing without goodness is true.
Goodness makes a thing more beautiful.
Truth makes a thing better.
Beauty makes a thing more true.

2025-10-01 13:55:30 UTC

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Following

2025-09-26 11:12:46 UTC

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Good categorization and bulk tools

2025-09-22 17:34:53 UTC

https://youtu.be/HnHrNpwMnTs
Loving an enemy of this kind means to will his highest good, and that is to do our best to ensure he achieves the beatific vision, and this requires his repentance. This does not mean we preserve his mortal life but use this opportunity to bring about the deepest contrition possible.
For this circumstance, what would elicit contrite repentance more than an impending end of life? Anyone who cowers at the suggestion is not brave. Courage and solemn justice are difficult virtues when a man has unjustly taken the life of an innocent, and I do not envy the responsibility of the agent of the state, but it must be done.

2025-09-21 19:42:54 UTC

This merits much discussion.
https://youtu.be/vDBFkFuwn0U

2025-09-16 12:00:51 UTC

Nearly All Wars for 150 Year Were Fought for THIS Reason
https://youtu.be/Q0A8nyz-2CI
After over a century of fighting, we are hardly any closer to unanimously saying people can just keep their stuff and help out each other.
The reason is because people don't know trade and labor are for love of neighbor.
#theologyofcommerce #mutualprofit #business #personalproperty #propertyrights #bitcoinfixesthis (nearly) #podcast

2025-09-10 19:54:55 UTC

Charlie Kirk, Trump, Aaron Danielson, children attending mass before school, young women on busses. It's getting worse and quickly. The media oligarchs, activist judges, and legislators of ill will are complicit. We are quickly approaching a hot civil war, and it is currently one-sided.
Was that the shot heard around the world?

2025-09-10 19:46:08 UTC

Pray for Charlie Kirk.

2025-09-05 00:45:20 UTC

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Excellent! I am also very surprised that is actually AI! It sounds so human.

2025-09-04 23:45:32 UTC

I legitimately have this on repeat
#nevent1q…s8aj

2025-09-04 17:40:16 UTC

https://youtu.be/DL1lnwaff8k
So good!

2025-08-27 14:58:41 UTC

I am of a really strong 'Twenty Øne Pilots' kick and thoroughly enjoying it
Where are my fellow TØP fans?
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mPRGtCKpQcAN-S9djP0uQnW43beVagM2c&si=7ICpmbTfgLICKzmT
#twentyonepilots #music

2025-08-17 23:38:16 UTC

https://theologyofcommerce.com/blog/article/on-labor-trade-a-sacramental/
Getting the ball rolling on my rebrand has been slow going, but I finally have my thesis hosted at the new domain.

2025-08-17 14:19:59 UTC

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Yes!

2025-08-16 16:04:26 UTC

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Thank you, brother!

2025-08-16 15:16:54 UTC

Make stuff with your kids! This was more educational than days or possibly weeks of "normal" school.
https://blossom.primal.net/bad0701fe998ade323fe73e6bfe79496fa23a28d75150c645dde6d07ca31c973.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/310d0f6ed03e2770d7586b1379f8a07aa11631bea2748c7fd0ed5e57f57166e0.jpg
Procedure, importance of planning, following directions (we had to scrap one part), and seeing a small project go from ideation to planning to production and to final product. Honestly, the fact that he made a mistake on a part was highly beneficial, especially when he saw the purpose later on of the feature he cut off.
https://blossom.primal.net/f6bea570de5727cd25b7778727179049246654d8a22cd9149344bd581871b8fc.jpg
This tab confused him at first as he made his cuts, and so he didn't keep them, but he later saw their purpose.
#education #homeschooling #mechanicalengineering #engineering

2025-08-16 13:39:55 UTC

Best website for purchasing PC hardware in the US?
#askNostr
I've used NewEgg, mostly, but I'm a habitual brand disloyalist. I make them earn my loyalty.

2025-08-16 05:34:25 UTC

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"Just don't get divorced" ... or "do the sorts of things that make them *want* to stay with you"? 😂
I recently celebrated 10 years with my wife. It simultaneously seems weird to me that we've been mapped that long, yet also it would be more weird otherwise.

2025-08-15 13:14:49 UTC

Does a private video chat app exist for Nostr, yet?

2025-08-15 03:19:37 UTC

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Between no-fault divorce, a justice system that is very generous to women, and the sexual revolution, of course being single looks attractive. It's all lies, though. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here.
Getting married young is a gift. Getting to know oneself first is overrated. A good life consists of community built on marriage, family, and friendships. Men and women find themselves when in service of and friendship with others.

2025-08-14 18:52:29 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/tTjA_6HNPQA
This mind disease is viral and deadly. It's the real pandemic. It's infecting way more women than people realize. This is because women take on each other's grief and multiply it. It comes from the desire to commiserate and comfort, which are good and healthy feminine motivations, but it gets perverted by social media.
I'm seeing a lot more of this sort of thing going around, and I want to warn you all of it.

2025-08-07 18:28:18 UTC

The wife is making this today 🤤

2025-08-04 02:11:37 UTC

finis commercium charitas proximii est

2025-08-03 14:11:08 UTC

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I like amethyst, too. Primal is nice for on-boarding because of the built-in wallet, though.

2025-08-03 14:08:35 UTC

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Instead of "vocation," I would call that region "Day Job." Vocation means calling, and so that would be better used in the intersection of mission and passion, but it should also occupy the region to Ikigai, as well. One's calling in life is what he's meant to do, should fulfill the deepest part of one's identity, and will bring him the greatest joy.
A true vocation doesn't need to be a money maker, since fatherhood and motherhood are great vocations. This is in part why marriage is elevated to the status of sacrament in the Christian church, and it is called matrimony, which means mother-making.

2025-08-03 13:57:18 UTC

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Is spice preference more nature or nurture, I wonder. I love spicy foods, but I'm just all kinds of European with a sprinkling of native American and a tiny pinch of Mongolian. (Who isn't, knowing the proliferation of Atilla?)

2025-08-02 21:32:46 UTC

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Makes me wonder what other things crop up in other mixes! Like, maybe Indians and Russians make funny dietary needs with many generations of herbivore from one side and near carnivores on the other 🤷‍♂️ interesting thing to think about

2025-08-02 21:17:40 UTC

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Some good friends of ours are interracial. It's nothing to put the marriage at risk, but there are unique challenges, a benign one being an extraordinary hair care routine. The African and European genes apparently fight each other and produce hair that needs care totally different than either parent is used to, making for a 2-hour routine needed weekly.

2025-08-02 14:21:23 UTC

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/july/documents/20250729-missionari-digitali.html

2025-07-31 12:58:46 UTC

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This is why I refuse to buy Apple. I'm just not paying into a walled garden system that hates me. That is also why I'm not buying Microsoft either. Linux and Android only.

2025-07-29 02:23:12 UTC

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I'm relaunching my podcast soon.

2025-07-25 21:25:30 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/live/xu0wKnKSKuM

2025-07-25 17:00:50 UTC

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I'm sure some clients might have a process for it. You might be able to add a nostr client to the options under the "share" button on the other apps, like text and email are.

2025-07-25 16:57:46 UTC

At the 2025 #catholiccreatorconference in Steubenville OH https://blossom.primal.net/6d2a31fcc12cf8977b1afc9f06d4921a6124280cfd7539c07adf6cb3d6f0fcc2.jpg

2025-07-25 11:31:24 UTC

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I think you want to just screenshot it and/or link the URL.

2025-07-23 18:36:32 UTC

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Resetting my payment routing profile fixed it!
https://blossom.primal.net/c0f9cd81a3a5c42176180f68753b0634ce03849aacc9536a3c4d7ecf1e6350c4.jpg

2025-07-23 14:11:52 UTC

Just set up a new channel via @nprofile…xl8h, but I can't get any payments through it. This is after restoring my wallet. Should I close the channel and start a new node?
https://blossom.primal.net/ea3c247b3a20eca52fb1926b61bfa110c2b288257a0c964d6836e93deeec751a.jpg

2025-07-22 13:09:50 UTC

I have a conference I'm attending in two days with a ton of creators, mostly YouTube and podcast. Who'd like to help me orange and purple pill a bunch of them?

2025-07-22 13:03:36 UTC

I'm fairly certain my old npub (this one) will still have better engagement, and it doesn't look like my leak went anywhere, so I might just revert to using it again.

2025-02-22 15:49:47 UTC

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There's always that possibility. My NIP05 has been updated, so the hacker must have got into my web hosting account, too, or else I am whom I say I am.

2025-02-22 15:08:16 UTC

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Follow the new npub! You can unfollow this one.
#nevent1q…f75g

2025-02-20 00:49:27 UTC

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New npub
#nevent1q…ywwd

2025-02-19 00:39:21 UTC

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Follow my new npub
#nevent1q…g7na

2025-02-14 01:10:48 UTC

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Follow my new npub!
#nevent1q…q7h0

2025-02-14 01:10:30 UTC

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Follow my new npub!
#nevent1q…7l95

2025-01-27 05:06:44 UTC

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A screenshot I cropped but failed to hit "Save" in the image export. In all likelyhood, only three people saw it and none of them will leak it from their cached images (original deleted), but still...

2025-01-27 04:38:04 UTC

Alright ... So I leaked my NSEC, and I've started a new NPUB @@npub1etr…3zeq, updated my NIP05, etc. I also re-followed everyone. What else should I do?
#askNostr #oops
I don't think re-signing my old notes is a good idea, nor probably possible.

2025-01-27 03:30:49 UTC

Leaked my NSEC. Oops. Moving to new npub: @npub1etrvvjyl6tllrhxakezj3rkxftkh3yv8m998fvlqpt87dtdngkzqhl3zeq

2025-01-27 03:16:24 UTC

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No way... I can't believe I did that. Time to rotate keys and update passwords...

2025-01-27 03:13:44 UTC

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"Login with Extension" instead of a MS account? Yes, please!

2025-01-27 03:08:30 UTC

Created my very first Rust GUI app, and it took far too long! Haha!
It's a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game built on Rust+Slint.
Also, #askNostr, why is it 213.2MB!?! It should be something like 750kB!
https://image.nostr.build/f43082d3376bc6e8c2158cd38a0467272cf8a104c6cd85d47638d95f7661f84f.png

2025-01-26 15:30:07 UTC

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Needs a "login by extension." "Login by NSEC" is iNSECure

2025-01-24 13:27:55 UTC

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Self defense or no, it was still censorship and caused the split. Like I've said elsewhere, I'm still not a big blocker, but I think I'm approaching a balanced view that is no longer "small block."
When I finish Roger Ver's book, Hijacking Bitcoin, I'll grab The Blocksize War.

2025-01-24 13:27:23 UTC

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2025-01-24 12:54:40 UTC

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Eventually, so that it's not only the financial elite that can use L1, the block size does have to increase, and I think it's a matter of when and by how much, not whether or not. That's clear from the early Bitcoin design going back to Satoshi himself. The big blockers needed to be convinced of L2's being eventually viable options, not be censored and kicked out. That hurt the community.

2025-01-24 12:45:45 UTC

If Nostr was around during the block size wars, would the bitcoin software have changed direction?
I learned recently that, while I was still new to bitcoin, the big blockers were kicked from the forums. No wonder I didn't really header much about it. Censorship hurt the community and caused a split on the network.
Unity is deeply important, and that was a bad call by the Core devs and forum mods. I think it's also bad that those two sets had such overlap.

2025-01-24 12:19:54 UTC

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Literally 80+% of the whole industry

2025-01-24 12:14:32 UTC

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Standalone web apps that aren't intended to be shared wouldn't normally need to keep keys from being hard coded. That constitutes a lot of projects on GitHub.

2025-01-24 11:51:57 UTC

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Some people actually do store private keys on GitHub. Even if that key is configurable, their actual key is often used as a default to make testing faster.

2025-01-24 01:56:10 UTC

Still listening to #HijackingBitcoin. I got into Bitcoin in 2016, right as the block size war was coming to a head, but I heard almost nothing about it. I heard about BCH, but I always thought it was a spinoff that was more separate. I'm learning a lot about the real history of the development.
I'm still not a big block Bitcoiner, but I do agree that the core devs did unnecessarily prevent the block size increases that were actually intended. We still need secondary layers, too, because the use and the verifiability need some level of decentralization.
Who else has read or listened to the book?

2025-01-23 12:14:25 UTC

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100% it will! Nostr is freedom tech like Bitcoin is, so it's almost inevitable he'll be attracted to it. I hope he works on the marketplace side of things.

2025-01-23 01:42:40 UTC

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I and my wife were home schooled. We plan to homeschool our children. The best way to reform education is simply not participate in government schools. As demand for it does down, so do its problems.

2025-01-23 01:17:36 UTC

Wow! This is an air exhaust vent, not for water. That's frozen condensation! Haha!
https://image.nostr.build/20d9e94fc68856c3a3a4365d7ddc5ad9d4c644aa8324f2f81906296894a3c6aa.jpg

2025-01-22 19:12:46 UTC

So, how long until the recently released Ross gets purple pilled?
#freeRoss

2025-01-21 12:31:04 UTC

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Hahaha! Why would they want to censor that? To protect talk about their friends?

2025-01-21 12:27:40 UTC

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MAGA FUD. Not going to happen.

2025-01-21 01:13:02 UTC

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In terms of number of orders of magnitude, but still enormous! The last four years were weird, though.

2025-01-20 18:08:53 UTC

#GulfOfAmerica
https://image.nostr.build/3780bbe1d75672904f069462371943ad2f673ca5cafd5e9e897267c3b0c17d0d.jpg

2025-01-19 20:48:37 UTC

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Interesting idea! The number two correlation for repeat incarceration is financial illiteracy after fatherless upbringing, and that is likely in large part due to not having a meaningful way to contribute to the market. Could be a great way to fix the system in-part.

2025-01-19 01:56:48 UTC

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Exactly.
I'm not a big blocker, but nor am I exactly a small blocker either. In the far future (multiple decades, centuries), maybe we'll see giant blocks to maintain the L2s and L3s, but it's a far cry from what BCH will end up being.
Using bitcoin L1 has to be be more common than running an L1 full node.
#nevent1q…3ayd

2025-01-18 15:21:16 UTC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FjHH8Qf3aO4

2025-01-18 14:40:25 UTC

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Again, this is for the future, many years from now.
I think there ought to be more users of bitcoin that node operators. I think a single transaction ought to be cheaper than running a node. The upwards fee pressure of 8 billion people putting transactions on a 7tx/s network would make each cost possibly a years salary of an average person.
A metric we could use for fees is their proportion to the cost of owning and running a node for a year.
Trading "your everyday node operator" for "your everyday bitcoin user" is a profitable trade.
That's not to say that every transaction ought to be on-chain, but that users need to actually be able to set up their a LN channels in a decent timeframe.
#nevent1q…jtjt

2025-01-17 16:58:08 UTC

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25x incoming if that becomes a thing.

2025-01-17 02:42:57 UTC

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I want to explore drive chains as a way to alleviate L1 congestion while maintaining some level of self-custody. It's seeming more and more like the only way. DC+LN could really widen the adoption potential.

2025-01-17 02:28:55 UTC

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For now, yes. I'm setting my sights not on this year but in five when adoption is up 10x and again after that. The chain doesn't need to contain all the world's transactions, but I don't want L1 to be only for the financial elite either.
2300tx/10min/8B ppl = 1tx/person per 66year
64000/10min/8B ppl = 1tx/person per 2.4year
One of two things has to happen for a self-custody future: greater block sizes scaling partially with adoption or an L2 that is trustless and doesn't require direct and proportional L1 interaction.

2025-01-17 01:01:58 UTC

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Looks like floating granny underwear 😂

2025-01-17 00:33:48 UTC

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How expensive should it be to run a full node? Current low-mid end hardware costs about 0.001BTC, and storage is about 10MB/sat. If the blocks are fill for a year, that's a little more than 5ksat/yr. 100ksat startup cost and 5ksat/yr is really quite cheap.
With hardware costs going down and performance going up, I think a block size increase could be warranted. Carefully and cautiously, we could try 2MB, and then 4MB in another four years, maybe keeping trend to a maximum of 32MB as the adoption reaches the end of the S-curve.
A balance must be struck between throughput and security. The narrow optima is widening between these as of now, and I'd rather a world in which self custody and everyday people interacting with L1 remains a thing for my children.
#nevent1q…xlx4

2024-12-25 14:57:19 UTC

Merry Christmas!
https://image.nostr.build/f66fd2ce792cd518b18a860ccd22f9588bdff991de66b43826699fc91fd82201.jpg

2024-12-23 02:13:17 UTC

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Such a good game. I loved making maps, too.
Did you know one release of this was rated M?

2024-12-23 02:08:40 UTC

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Brain to machine interface will 100% be a thing. I just hope and pray we are a freedom and privacy loving society when that happens.

2024-12-21 15:36:53 UTC

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I'm sure some people have been working on it, but lightning won't be as beneficial if one believes in a multi-coin future.

2024-12-21 15:12:27 UTC

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I don't think I've ever seen `Shop Around the Corner`! I'll have to check it out!

2024-12-21 14:57:52 UTC

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`It's a Wonderful Life` is the story of our time. America is currently Pottersville, and it got here because of warped, frustrated old men who couldn't say "no" to playing with the way our society is run for their own gain, in the fields of legislature, money and banking, the corporatist capitalist tenancy to lower quality and raise prices, etc. We are George Bailey. We've been slaving away at making this a better place and only narrowly escaping defeat.
The only way to restore Bedford Falls is to realize why we've been put here on this earth and no longer wallow in self pity, initiating the change we wish to see, not relying on the greedy to needs but working as directly with each other as possible.
Bitcoin, Nostr, and neighbors fixes this. #maga

2024-12-21 03:18:01 UTC

Watching `It's a Wonderful Life` with the family. George Bailey is my spirit animal.
https://image.nostr.build/0897189e10bb6f23092649c3bc9b006a388a18228e0e03499bd5b1efebbe6400.jpg

2024-12-20 13:14:36 UTC

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That's how I felt this entire run so far

2024-12-16 00:33:34 UTC

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All *good* things. And since it is technology that makes playing by the rules not only easier but the only feasible path, I would definitely call it good, and thus from God in the same sense all good inventions come from him. Unlike compound interest on loans.

2024-12-16 00:30:13 UTC

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Self mute 😂

2024-12-15 19:51:51 UTC

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Okay. I'll see about checking it out.

2024-12-15 19:50:50 UTC

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Thanks for such a thoughtful response!

2024-12-15 16:23:08 UTC

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#askNostr
#nevent1q…5p8u

2024-12-15 16:20:09 UTC

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Each person maintains only a couple lightning channels per year, big block:
8B people * 4tx/yr * 250B/tx = 8TB/yr
Each year, a full node would have to add $150 in storage if they only use disks
VS:
Small block, self custody:
8B people * 1tx/person * 10min/2700tx = 56.3yrs
Time to make one transaction per person art current rate.
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There's no way to self-custody for every person at the current rate. As it currently stands, an on-chain transaction will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for 99.99% of people.