Finished reading "Praxeology" by @knutsvanholm that Knut kindly signed for me in Lugano. It's a book about the foundations of bitcoin as Austrian economics, natural law etc. but without mentioned bitcoin directly. For the latter you can only find hints as the twenty-one chapters, the orange disk on the cover picture etc. You have to do the work yourself and you will find the orange future on your own.

Created my own version of a Bitcoin block clock showing the stats of my own node and services including forwarded lightning payments, found mining shares by the Bitaxe etc.

"The Man Without Qualities" written by Robert Musil describes a society in which people possess expertise only in their square millimeter of knowledge. That is exactly what we see with some bitcoin core developer and their groupies. There we encounter single‑track minds that refuse to abstract beyond their narrow expertise and to view the bigger picture. Their argumentation only reflects their square millimeter of knowledge and any other input from outside that area is vehemently rejected.

Not fixing the bugs that are enabling the abuse of the Bitcoin time chain and rewriting the documentation is the dangerous precedent here. Framing it the other way around is just Orwellian newspeak. Hackers do not have rights to abuse the system that have to be protected by the community.

Being able to set up your own Nostr relay for storing your posts is a powerful expression of your digital sovereignty.

The datum gateway from Ocean was really the missing part that brings together mining equipment and your full node in an easy and modern fashion.

Solo mining without constructing your own block template somehow misses the point. Configure datum gateway for solo mining to be a real sovereign solo miner.

"Four Horsemen" is a documentary movie with a collectivist mindset and therefore it seems not appropriate to cite it positively in an anarcho‑capitalist bitcoin context.

On the ground, the Knots vs Core debate is clearer. The applause during the Lugano panel — and if you talk to people — suggests that support for Knots is stronger than what the internet discourse implies.

@Samuel Kullmann The canton of Bern could also deinvest from some of its company like BLS, BKW to buy bitcoin. Those companies do need some competion as they are not really costumer friendly and efficient anyway.