"You Don't Change Bitcoin, Bitcoin Changes You". Therefore Bitcoin will not change to appease the old institutions. That does not make sense. #LuganoPlanB
Not all merchants are equally prepared to acceptโก in Lugano as sometimes the terminsl is not ready (empty battery etc.), but at some places it seems to be almost daily routine.
Thunderbird as a snap on Ubuntu 24.04 is too restrictive as it prevents you from sharing the gpg private key with your applications. Good it is still possible to install thunderbird from a deb package.
Words may change their meanings over the span of thousands of years. Homer used words in Odyssey and Iliad that are not used nowadays anymore with a neutral or positive connotation. So, do we really want to reclaim the word "authoritarian" in a positive sense? Does that not just add more confusion in any discussion?
The bitcoin rabbit hole has many neighboring rabbit holes like freedom, education, nutrition, energy etc. If you really explored the bitcoin rabbit hole you will fall into the other ones as well. That will falsify many assumptions of other discipline and doctrines. Therefore books like "Resistance Money" trying to look at bitcoin from only one perspective never questioning their own beliefs are disappointing readings.
Using the Calendar class in a Java code sample in 2024 is somehow an anachronism. Recently seen in "Simple Object-Oriented Design" published by Manning.
Money enabled division of labor and trade. The example in economic books explaining "Coincidence of wants" with bartering e.g. shoes for a loaf of bread are silly and backwards. The profession of the shoemaker did not exist before the invention of money. There was no such bartering.
