The Family's version has better harmonies.

I'm just starting on the newsletter, crap.

I belong to the same camp.

I could see that evolving, if only because it gives those "capable of extra-individual survival" something to trade for what those "incapable of individual survival" offer. You have to cut sections out of a puzzle piece if it's meant to fit with other, partial themselves, pieces. If you're a puzzle maker, you can't be sure the puzzle will be solved as intended unless you create many such codependent partial pieces.

*a musician touches their audience with air

No. I wouldn't even say I listen lol. Do you?

I just like the relatively indefinite range of acoustic instruments. It sounds warmer and more real.

Someone shared an insight with me recently that's kind of relevant: a musician is touches their audience with air.

I like Siouxsie's version. It's more upbeat. Garbage's makes my mind dress me in black leather and chains.

Nirvana for sure, but I could be acoustic biased.

"I will die if I let him pick BBQ again"

I'm trying to understand this. Normal fiber optics work by pulsing or varying light to be interpreted as 1 and 0s, ie information. I'm guessing this aims to encode the 1 or 0, or whatever range a qubit has, into the particle itself. In which case, we no longer have to worry about how the photon travels, but instead, what the photon represents.

Some people are so disagreeable that when you agree they'll put words in your mouth that they disagree with.

One of the things I like about forums is they have a goldilocks pace. Twitter-like social media can't help but make bad things as fast as the good things. Quicker engagement, quicker to distraction, and quicker to enemies.

“Should I pick dinner or die?”

My wife makes much more sense to me now. I do wonder why she doesn’t feel the threat of death when she complains about my choices though.

When the finish line is unknown, it’s an endurance race.

I like Mutiny for the simplicity. All of them are all hard to use for a newbie. If you’re in India, you might be able to use Phoenix which is an easier non-custodial experience.

If you are just looking to try things out with small amounts of money that you don’t mind losing, there are custodial wallets like Blink and Wallet of Satoshi that are very simple to use. But again, I’d only recommend using these with small amounts of money for learning/fun purposes. If you want to be an early bitcoin and lightning user, and security is a concern, you’re going to have to nerd out a bit and learn some technical stuff.

LSPs should eventually solve the inbound issue. If the only problem we’re left with is explaining outbound then it reduces to the familiar “this is how much money I have to spend.”

Whether something is secure enough for you to use depends on your threat model.

If you’re looking for generic advice, use a non-custodial Lightning wallet. If you can’t run a computer, but have a phone: Mutiny, Zeus, or Breez. If you can run a computer: look into Start9 and Umbrel.

If you want personally tailored advice, you’ll need to provide more information.

It helped me see that Lightning doesn’t sell itself very well. It’s kind of like the internet asking us if we want to use IP or TCP. At some point Lightning (tcp) needs to be the singular interface to bitcoin (ip) or it isn’t the right abstraction.

It’s pretty spot on. It mostly explains the benefits with a hint of education on invoices vs addresses and peer to peer.

It’s interesting to see on coinbase next to a bunch of competing things (from a newb user’s perspective). It’s easier to assess whether Lightning is compelling to a non-bitcoiner in coinbase’s context.

Taibbi wrote about MMT and that viral video recently. (Subscription required.)

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