Shawn Flowers

Bitcoin is 500% larger than Ethereum because we historically have not let ETH types 'join the club,' so to speak. Now that Ethereum is in its death throes, the ETH boys are trying to bring their failed ideas to bitcoin. We run BIP-110 to act as a shield from this effort.

Why isn't Iran accepting gold as toll payment for Hormuz? Gold has been around so much longer and you can hold it in your hand

@2140data Welcome to the Oracle problem

Just bc something is on-chain doesn't auto-make it true You can have a smart contract to mow your lawn but Bitcoin cannot know the lawn was mowed Proofs provide part of the solution but the main benefits are lost if a trusted 3rd party is still required 🤷‍♂️

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@CaseyPutsch Power concedes nothing without a demand

An interesting note- No person from either the Republicans OR Democrats have reached out to me in anyway since the primary. Our campaign managed nearly 20% of the vote against the entirety of the political machine in a Gubernatorial election with an incredibly low amount of funding. I find this to be bewilderingly odd.

Ordinals are dying. Earth is healing.

You may not agree with BIP-110. You may decide not to run it. And you may have good reasons for holding off on it. Personally, I run Knots without BIP-110. But the mere existence of this BIP is enough to frighten many scammers away. And that is a wonderful thing. Sats are fungible. Ordinals are not. Thus, ordinals are a scam that do little more than extract wealth from naïves while bloating the timechain.

A Hungarian psychologist raised three daughters to prove that any child could become a chess grandmaster through early specialization. He succeeded. Two of them became grandmasters. One became the greatest female chess player who ever lived. Then a sports scientist looked at the data and found something nobody wanted to hear. His name is David Epstein. The book is called "Range." The Polgar experiment is one of the most famous case studies in the history of deliberate practice. Laszlo Polgar wrote a book before his daughters were even born arguing that geniuses are made, not born. He homeschooled all three girls in chess from age four. By their teens, Susan, Sofia, and Judit were dominating tournaments against grown men. Judit became the youngest grandmaster in history at the time, breaking Bobby Fischer's record. The story became the gospel of early specialization. Pick a domain young, drill it hard, and you can manufacture excellence. Epstein opens his book by telling that story honestly and then quietly demolishing the conclusion most people drew from it. Chess works that way. Most things do not. Here is the distinction that took him four years of research to articulate, and that almost nobody who quotes the 10,000 hour rule has ever read. There are two kinds of environments in which humans develop expertise. Psychologists call them kind and wicked. A kind environment has clear rules, immediate feedback, and patterns that repeat reliably. Chess is the cleanest example. Every game ends with a winner and a loser. Every move is recorded. The board never changes shape. The pieces never invent new ways to move. A child who plays ten thousand games will see most of the patterns that exist in the game, and pattern recognition is exactly what chess mastery is built on. A wicked environment is the opposite. Feedback is delayed or misleading. Rules shift. The patterns that worked yesterday may be exactly the wrong patterns to apply tomorrow. Most of the real world looks like this. Medicine is wicked. Investing is wicked. Building a company is wicked. Scientific research is wicked. Almost every job that involves a complex changing system with humans in it is wicked. The Polgar sisters trained in the kindest environment any human can train in. Their success was real and the method was correct. The mistake was generalizing the method to fields where the underlying structure of the environment is completely different. Epstein's research is what made the implication impossible to ignore. He looked at the careers of elite athletes outside of chess and golf and found that the pattern was almost the inverse of what people assumed. The athletes who reached the very top of their sports were overwhelmingly people who had played multiple sports as children, specialized late, and often switched disciplines well into their teens. Roger Federer played squash, badminton, basketball, handball, tennis, table tennis, and soccer before tennis became his focus. The kids who specialized in tennis at age six and trained year-round for a decade mostly burned out, got injured, or topped out at lower levels of the sport. The same pattern showed up everywhere he looked outside of kind environments. Inventors with the most patents had worked in multiple unrelated fields before their breakthrough work. Comic book creators with the longest careers had drawn for the most different genres before settling. Scientists who won Nobel Prizes were dramatically more likely than their peers to be serious amateur musicians, painters, sculptors, or writers. The skill that mattered in wicked environments was not depth in one pattern. It was the ability to recognize when a pattern from one domain applied unexpectedly in another. That kind of thinking cannot be built by drilling a single subject. It can only be built by accumulating mental models from many subjects and learning to move between them. The deeper finding is the one that should change how you think about your own career. Specialists in wicked environments often get worse with experience, not better. Epstein cites studies of doctors, financial analysts, intelligence officers, and forecasters showing that years of experience in a narrow domain frequently produce more confident judgments without producing more accurate ones. The expert builds elaborate mental models that feel comprehensive and turn out to be increasingly disconnected from the actual structure of the problem. They stop noticing what does not fit their framework. They mistake fluency for understanding. Generalists do better in wicked domains for a reason that sounds almost mystical until you understand the mechanism. They have less invested in any single mental model, so they abandon broken models faster. They are used to being a beginner, so they are not threatened by the discomfort of not knowing. They have seen enough different domains that they can usually find an analogy from one field that unlocks a problem in another. The technical name for this is analogical thinking, and the research on it is one of the most underrated bodies of work in cognitive science. The single most useful sentence in the entire book is the one Epstein puts almost as a throwaway. Match quality matters more than head start. A person who tries six different fields in their twenties and finds the one that genuinely fits them will outperform a person who picked one field at fourteen and stuck to it on willpower alone. The lost years were not lost. They were the search process that produced the match. Every field they walked away from taught them something they later imported into the field they finally chose. The reason this is so hard to accept is cultural, not empirical. We tell children to pick a path early. We reward the prodigy who knew at six. We treat the late bloomer as someone who failed to launch on time, when the data suggests they were running an entirely different and often more effective optimization process underneath. The Polgar sisters were not wrong. The conclusion the world drew from them was. If your environment is genuinely kind, specialize early and drill hard. If it is wicked, and almost every interesting human problem is, then the people who win are the ones who refused to specialize until they had seen enough to know what was actually worth specializing in. You are not behind. You were running the right experiment all along.

@_5umeet @nono2357 ^ What he said. I second the motion. Please implement!

@nono2357 Can we get an option to accept emails only if sender puts N sats in it. The sats should be sent back/refunded automatically if the email was not reported as spam in X time. It should fix the spam issue.

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Bless whoever did this LOL

"Who would build the roads? Bitcoin is a ponzi backed by nothing and is only useful for criminals because it boils the oceans and it will be worthless anyway because of infinite pizza quantum computers." "Without the state there's nothing for Bitcoin to buy!" You are here "It always made sense to separate money from state. Black markets are the only free markets."

@djsenior13 The Midwest Bitcoin event in Ohio in September looks to be taking up that challenge :)

Someone needs to create an event without coretards, shitcoins, treasury companies, shitcoins on Bitcoin, no CBDC coins etc.. a Bitcoin is Money Event.

@btcmap um, so safe to say this was designed from current or ex military?? Why is latitude and longitude the primary info for location. Us plebs generally use a physical mailing address. Just saying

@bitcoinpolicy Bitcoin replaces traditional banking. Banks will be able to hold Bitcoin out of necessity and/or hold your collateral and put you in debt.

US regulators have a rule on the books that effectively bans banks from holding Bitcoin — and the window to fight it closes June 18. We built FixBasel.org so you can submit a comment in *minutes*. This is your chance to stand for Bitcoin in the federal record. Make it count.

@coinjoined @PunterJeff @saylor @coffeebreak_YT Hmm. So what about the part where "claims" are counted as losses on balance sheets and the insurance companies pay top lawyers to paying out as little or nothing if possible. And I paid for the privilege of this risk management lol

As someone working in insurance who regularly gets accused of running a "fiat Ponzi," this resonated with me. @PunterJeff did a great job calmly defending @saylor 's financial engineering against @coffeebreak_YT (who i still very much respect) Insurance is the opposite of a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi depends on concealment, dilution, and a constant flow of new entrants to sustain old promises. Insurance is a voluntary contract between sovereign individuals: "I will assume a measurable risk from you today and indemnify you if loss occurs tomorrow." No coercion. No redistribution. Just the free pricing of risk between consenting adults. I'd even argue, insurance is one of the most libertarian things ever created x.com/zaidlikesmstr/…

Top two attacks against Bitcoin Ill go first. "core" and Wallstreet

@francispouliot_ @torproject Kinda helps explain the silence around supporting the Samouri developers etc.

I only realized 3 years later that @torproject woke social media losers blocked me on Twitter

All this to stop a nuke that didn't exist and open a strait that wasn't closed.

"Immediately I came back to El Salvador because we are Bitcoiners." "We started seeing all these companies landing in El Salvador." "One of the Bitcoin Mexican companies said 'we wish we had your laws.'" "If you touch Bitcoin, this is the place to be." Will Hernandez @whbitcoin is the President of @asobitcoin the Bitcoin Association of El Salvador. In this interview at the second annual @MaxAndStacyGolf Invitational, Will and I discussed: - his experience as a Salvadorian with the transformation under President Bukele - his Bitcoin origin story with an international payment in 2016 - how he became President of @asobitcoin and how they support the Bitcoin ecosystem in El Salvador: law firms, payment processors, exchanges, OTC desks, entertainment companies, and more - his experience with events in Bitcoin Country such as @btchistoricosv and this Golf Invitational - his experience representing Bitcoin Country at many conferences around the world Thank you Will for taking the time to share your story. @maxkeiser and @stacyherbert and Bitcoin Sports Network @BSN_Events do a spectacular job creating special experiences. I had a blast recording all of these mini-interviews at the second annual Max and Stacy Golf Invitational. It was also fun moderating three panels at the Bitcoin Country Night event that Will and @asobitcoin organized after Day 1 of @TheBitcoinConf in Las Vegas recently! About 400 people registered for that event. Lots of Bitcoiners are interested in moving to El Salvador and even relocating companies there. If you're also interested, reach out to @whbitcoin 🇸🇻🚀