I find gpt 5.4 to be generally more useful in most contexts. I do use Claude in certain roles where it does better, but those are fairly limited.

This is all fun and entertaining, but wouldn’t be the same if you just taught one lobster this and then shared all of its memory markdown files with new lobsters? Seems computationally redundant to ‘educate’ thousands of independent deployments from a token efficiency perspective, no?

I don’t follow this particular beef very closely. But my advice - it’s generally considered bad faith to accuse your opponent of being a Nazi and expect them to engage with you in good faith.

Are you considering open sourcing tenex? I’m looking for exactly such a solution and I’m not a fan of molt bot’s (formerly Clawed bot) approach to granting full control over the host machine

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Outline:

What establishes Cashu as the next evolutionarily step in a users bitcoin journey.

What makes Cashu more than just an interesting tech stack that uses Bitcoin.

What does it solve for that Lightning does not. How does it make layer 2 technologies like Lightning stronger.

What types of users / personas should consider operating a mint. Is this journey a philosophical one (further the Bitcoin mission), a technological discovery arc (discover what’s possible for Bitcoin), a business plan (how to become profitable running a mint)?

I have to go back to work now, but happy to collaborate further if you find this useful.

I spent some time seeing if I could start a Cashu mint on some spare hardware in my home lab, but found the documentation lacking. Not necessarily the technical how to, but more the larger context.

Why do this exactly, what aim would it serve? What to do after the mint is running? What defines success exactly?

Getting a mint up and running is the easy part. The real questions I had were not met with answers.

Thanks for taking the time to write this, it’s directionally aspirational, and aligned to reality for many bitcoiners.

I can’t however, help but think about the historical analogy throughout human history. We almost always fight amongst one another, especially those we should be aligned with.

The decisive factor, in tipping the scales towards unification tends to be either a powerful external enemy that poses an existential threat, or a powerful / charismatic leader that can pull the unified voices together.

The latter does not presently exist, but the former does. Perhaps the path lies in educating as to its methods and intentions.

I’ve heard it said, “talk softly and carry a private key to your sovereign stash”

Changing one’s entire tribe is of substantial difficulty. Who has the time in a world predestined to the impossible chase of fiat.

Rings mostly true, though I would suspect there is a segment that do understand PoW, but are too lazy to put the work in.

I mean, if you can’t appeal to their sense of reason, why not speak to their sense of wonder and mystery.