GM, #coffeechain. Snow is slowly melting here and I can't wait for the 50 degree days later this week!
Hitting to communications planning this morning, have a show layer, then choir.
Monday, Monday...
What are you up to?
#grownostr #podcastlife
GM, #coffeechain. Snow is slowly melting here and I can't wait for the 50 degree days later this week!
Hitting to communications planning this morning, have a show layer, then choir.
Monday, Monday...
What are you up to?
#grownostr #podcastlife
Specifically his framing - modernity has thrown out the baby with the bathwater, rationalizing away religion. Meaning-making, of which religion is a large generator of, is a fundamental process in humans (or systems in general). Without it, the drive for persistance and cohesion disolves away. True nihilism is self extinguishing in the long run, and not just for the individual.
How it fits into the larger narrative of navigating through the Metacrisis - We are at a crossroads, facing a future of the death of humanity (global catastrophe through economic optimization, ecological and environmental neglect) or the death of OUR humanity (dystopia - centralized control to avert catastrophe). We need a framework to navigate through, not around, and how we do it cannot be solely through top-down communication.
There is intrinsic value, and recognizing it is what creates long term sustainability not just for us as a species, but as a planet. Wheras being driven by pseudo-values like money and power creates a fundamental disconnection, maximizing near term goals.
That messaging might be too in the clouds for some, but its deeply resonant to me, and a driver for my pursuits.
Luck can be an unpleasant factor if your hashrate is low. To be able to regularly pay out hashrate contributors, pools are tempted to join even bigger pools to join forces and reduce risk of weeks without a single block found...
The nature of Bitcoin is such that once version 0.1 was released, the core design was set in stone for the rest of its lifetime. Because of that, I wanted to design it to support every possible transaction type I could think of. The problem was, each thing required special support code and data fields whether it was used or not, and only covered one special case at a time. It would have been an explosion of special cases. The solution was script, which generalizes the problem so transacting parties can describe their transaction as a predicate that the node network evaluates. The nodes only need to understand the transaction to the extent of evaluating whether the sender's conditions are met.