The bounty for “breaking bitcoin” is pretty fucking big. There’s a multi-billion dollar prize to be won for finding a way to move someone else’s coins without having the keys.

Given Bitcoin has been around for 17 years, all code is available to anyone with a laptop, and the price has been up for grabs since day 1, we can slowly start to conclude that it’s highly unlikely such an exploit is possible at the code base layer.

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Good to hear. By the sound of it, I suppose you’re already way ahead of the herd.

My oldest (10) is the only kid in his class/football team/neighbourhood/friend group without his own tablet.. luckily he’s a good kid and he understands why we do what we do (we’re open and vocal about it). It also keeps us in check: no phones during dinner, movies, games, social interactions etc.

But goddamn I hate to say it.. I’m extremely pessimistic for the coming generation(s). We’ve had 10 year olds come over who couldn’t watch a 90-minute movie because the attention span just wasn’t there.. 8 year olds coming to a sleepover with a tablet and a powerbank, unable to play boardgames because of the patience required.. 3 year olds who can’t go more than an hour without watching some YouTube.. it’s gruesome once you see it with your own eyes..

And don’t even get me started on the attention-cancer they call Roblox (35M active *daily* users in the US and Europe <16!!)
Whatever you do, stay as far away from that shit as you can.

My generation likes to dump on the boomers for fucking everyone over financially and leaving us with nothing, but I think what we’re doing to the kids now is an order of magnitude worse. We’re destroying their future so we can get fat and lazy. At least the boomers got rich enough to leave us with a nice inheritance…

As you say, I think you’ve managed to articulate something that a lot of people feel deep down, but can’t put into words.

I’m trying to raise the kids on a higher standard, but when all their peers are “delulu”, it’s like fighting the tide..

I believe >60% of 4 year olds have their own tablet in my country, and you can bet your ass they don’t spend 20 minutes a day on it. I personally think that the next 10-15 years, when the “screens since birth” generation comes of age, are going to be… interesting.

Lots of words, but still not clear how this translates to Proton.

If the GrapheneOS devs enjoy the occasional sniff of coke up their nose (or whatever you may find morally repulsive) that does not mean their product is shit and you should stay away from it..

With this stance, pretty much every product on earth can’t be used because everyone has some kind of dirt on their name one way or another…

Double that, and you know you’re in the EU!

As a Walker, you shouldn’t complain about gas prices! 🤪

Anyway.. Rookie numbers, man.. We just topped $12/gallon in my flat little country in the EU.

Sorry to hear and I second your note... we see it happening right in front of our eyes again and again, and no matter how hard we try, we can’t break the cycle. We’ve tried everything.. doctor’s drugs, dealer’s drugs, moving in, letting go, meditation, sports, work, group therapy, a buddy system, you name it.. It’s been the same loop for over 2 decades.

It’s absolutely devastating for the person in question, but also for their immediate friends and family.

Sorry to hear about your case, brother, and keep fighting the good fight!

I’ve encountered multiple catatonic episodes from a sibling, once progressing into a malignant catatonia.

I don’t pretend to know shit about chemical imbalance theory, but I’m pretty sure there’s something unbalanced happening there..

In the spirit of ash Wednesday, faith and penance: do some good out of love for God or your fellow man. Don’t do it so you can advertise your goodiness on fucking Facebook.

After years of telling my very good friend and decade long colleague how absolutely fucked the fiat system is, (and basically shilling him Bitcoin without shilling him Bitcoin), he swung by yesterday and voluntarily started asking about my view on geopolitics and if this was a good time to buy..

After we talked for over an hour about bond math, geopolitics, US debt, the end of globalisation, Japan, and how absolutely cooked the whole system is, he pulled the trigger and finally bought his first chunk of Bitcoin. He’s down 10% and he’s not even 24 hours into his btc journey..

I guess we’re enemies now 🤣