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David A. Harding
@David A. Harding

Co-author of the Bitcoin Optech weekly newsletter (2018-) and the third edition of Mastering Bitcoin (2023). Brink.dev grant committee member (2022-) and former board member (2020-22). Lives in Hilo, Hawaii. All opinions are my own.

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  • wss://nostr.mom/ โ€“ write
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Recent Notes

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What's the name for the emotion when you ask it to do something and then come back later to discover it wrecked things and you forgot to git commit the previous improvements?

(That makes me wonder if I could set up an every minute cronjob to create btrfs snapshots or something.)
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What does "global liquidity valve" mean? Is it something like: when people have excess cash, they buy bitcoin; when they need cash, they sell bitcoin?
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Finally had my first chat with someone on bitchat (i live in an area where "region" may have less than a million people). Worked great.
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For Mastering Bitcoin, the publisher wanted to go with Bitcoin-the-network and bitcoin-the-currency. I was fine with that, as its what I normally used, but I discovered when working with the non-Bitcoiner editor and proofreaders that they had a hard time guessing which was which. I got a lot of queries about whether I really meant to use caps (or vice versa for lowercase), especially since I did occasionally use the wrong case. Next time I work with normies, I'll probably ask to just use common noun casing throughout.