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Your life is like bitcoin (or an ogre)

…because your life has layers.
You have your base layer, your second and your third layer.
Take care of your base layer, your core values and first principles - the way you wanna live. Your family, your religion, your body and mind.

Find your hobbys and projects on the second layer. The stuff that lets your juices flow.

And your Adventures and Experiments fly on your third Layer. The crazy shit you always wanted to do!

And then you have -

A HARD LIFE!

#hardlife #newstandard #livewithhigherlows

Julian Figueroa · 1w

⚠️ I’ve never shared this story before, but 8 weeks before graduating… I took out student debt and bought Bitcoin. In 2016. At $400 a coin. Didn’t tell my parents. I thought it would c...

Hi-Yah Lowes @Hi-Yah Lowes 1775286397

Wonderful Video! Thank you for your honesty! The mirror you describe is something I recently discovered… and it really takes courage to look into and see yourself and identify yourself with it. I’m starting to make changes and really understand the meaning of stay humble and stack sats!

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Vibing with #shakespeare for nostr Radio Station!!

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Derek Ross · 4w

Awesome.

Hi-Yah Lowes

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Bitcoin is like putting your kids to bed — just when you think you’ve finally got it, they hit their highs and lows all over again.

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jack mallers · 19w

going live in a few minutes. let’s ride, Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/live/ayxk0SYLfBE?si=9OMXnxH4dNOzEeYG

Hi-Yah Lowes @Hi-Yah Lowes 1764025650

Hi Jack, i would love to get your opinion on the following…. I’m lately thinking about, whether we should get rid of the “buy” button and simply call it “exchange into Bitcoin”. I think the unit bias is the most hindering thing for potential new participants in the network.
Especially after you “promoted“ Bitcoin with “the exit keeps getting more expensive” (in one of your videos). In the end it’s not about how much Bitcoin you buy, but about how much fiat you exchange for a hard money.

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Rizful.com (zap tester) · 19w

we tested zaps on this note… we made six attempts to⚡zap this note, at [email protected], over a period of 36 minutes. six of the zaps were successfully paid... please check for 6 satoshis received. however, we did find that only four of the payments produced zap receipts in time for our s...

Kaputalism Minimalist · 23w

The Bitcoin consensus follows the majority of all economically active nodes. Hence it is as susceptible to control by capital and hence affected by the wealth inequality as everything else. The insan...

Hi-Yah Lowes @Hi-Yah Lowes 1762204556

What is an economically active node? A node is on or offline - or not?
They don’t earn money, they publish the chain. Please correct me as I’m trying to learn and understand.
And blackrock and saylor are not getting more powerful through more BTC.

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My children are my proof of work. #pow #btcdad

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My first steak and egg breakfast … not bad for the first try

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Stefan · 25w

Hashers are not “miners”.

Hi-Yah Lowes @Hi-Yah Lowes 1760860018

Can you explain that?

epsql · 25w

Entities providing hashrate without deciding what block to mine are not miners since they have no say over what transactions go into the next block. This means that mining can still be centralized even if hashrate providers improve upon energy efficiency. This is why adaption of StratumV2 and of s...

SatsAndSports · 25w

If 51% of the mining hashrate get together and say they'll include only OFAC-compliant transactions, and they'll build only on top of OFAC-compliant blocks, then we'll have a cartel of miners that can...

Hi-Yah Lowes @Hi-Yah Lowes 1760859947

I’m curious what @Jeff Booth will answer.

But aren’t the nodes always looking for the longest chain? And while the 51% heighten the possibility of mining the next Block, it’s still possible not two get it maybe two times in a row. As soon as the cartel is two blocks behind, there is no way of catching up with the next block - so they could continue working on their OFAC-Chain but it would be shorter and therefore not valid for the nodes.

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SatsAndSports · 25w

This mining group have 51% of the hashrate. If they remain coordinated, i.e. only mine their OFAC-compliant blocks *and mine only on top of each other's blocks*, then they will have the longest chain When they first decide to do this, then it's possible that - for the first couple of blocks immedia...

Clayton · 25w

But if someone with unlimited money (a country like USA or China) wanted to attack the network by paying the miners to mine empty blocks indefinitely, they could effectively stop the network since the...

Hi-Yah Lowes @Hi-Yah Lowes 1760859514

But wouldn’t that undermine the incentive of the miners? The reward for the miners is the Coinbase and not so much the fees. If the coinbase gets worthless because the network dies there is no incentive to mine empty blocks in that scale.

Clayton · 25w

But if their goal is to make money, as long as they are being paid enough to attack the network by a bad actor then they don’t care about the incentive of the network. They’re basically being paid to bring down the network. And in my opinion we have to assume that will happen if we really think ...