Let's Decentralise Bitcoin Mining

Bitcoin mining has become more centralised. The Antpool Bitmain monopoly needs to be resisted.  FPPS and all its fiat variations need to go eventually. Let's decentralise mining, check out https://ocean.xyz/

Satoshi Retirement

So "retirement" is not the right word, graduating from work life, FIRE, minimal living, freedom, self actualization, choose your pill. I'm not sure what your preference is, but we all want to focus on what we are good at and not have to worry too much about compensation. Graduation from slave life must be close, I hope, now how many bitcoin do we need? 

In this exercise, I will ignore appreciation of the asset, aka NGU technology (number go up) pumpamentals. How many satishis per hour do you need before you die. But with the price at around $60KUSD one btc per year allocated now, seems ruffly reasonable. Especially since you know it will cover inflation and probably go up more, so your yearly budget can get a bit fatter. 1btc/year = 11415 sats per hour with a 24-hour day = 3 Sats a second. Feels like you could almost make that in zaps on nostr!But getting more real, considering our tip rate on Blogger, for an 8 hours x 5 days work week it comes to 13sats per second, 48077 per work hour, or currently around $30 an hour work spend equivalent.  So you need as many btc as you have years left to live if you can handle this budget. It is not great and it could be hard to save up this amount, especially if you're young, it might be 70 btc

Really we know the GNG tech will not fail and that we can include the growth of the asset base in our figures. In traditional finance, there is a rule of thumb for living off your assets where you can spend 4% per year. So if you want to retire starting at 1 btc per year you would need only 25 bitcoin.

Jeff Ross thinks you can double the rule of thumb for Bitcoin to 8% per year, because bitcoin has had such a great return and we can expect this to continue. That means you can cut the requirement down to 12.5 btc! that's $778,352??? What??? That seems LIke FIRE for many people!

So yes, you might want more than 60KUSD per year, but whatever it is it still seems quite low. My friend once told me he thought he needed 10 figures in the bank to quit working like a slave ($10MUSD+). You wouldn't normally think to retire off of $800KUSD at the moment, but maybe you would if it was converted to Bitcoin.

Silent Happyness Meta and the Meaning of LIfe

Words are made from metaphors, It can be hard to grok this, Even the thought on it can seem ephemeral. The very structure of our thought floats away as we try to describe it. We use words that themselves are made of metaphors, which could be a gesture or a feeling but which we can only describe on this page with words. So then those metaphors are made of metaphors. It's about as 'meta as you can get, but I think understanding this 'meta' is powerful in many ways.

 I can describe the word "happyness" as lightness and warmth in the heart, fulfillment of the mind. I could also just copy a dictionary definition.  

Happiness, in psychology, a state of emotional well-being that a person experiences either in a narrow sense, when good things happen in a specific moment, or more broadly, as a positive evaluation of one’s life and accomplishments overall—that is, subjective well-being. Happiness can be distinguished both from negative emotions (such as sadness, fear, and anger) and also from other positive emotions (such as affection, excitement, and interest). This emotion often co-occurs with a specific facial expression: the smile.

Oh Britannica what a riddle of words, the last part though.. that's concise! "Happiness" is a concept that without words you would express with a little head wiggling and a smile on your face. What is a "smile" it's a "U" shape.

WTF IS THIS CRAZZYNESS!!

To bring in our bitcoin metaphors as is becoming a habit in these posts, let's think about code again. In code a word or an expression is made up of binary. And it just so happens that binary is a very basic metaphor. It can be expressed by the presence or the absence of a thing. A person without speaking, can put a thing on the table in front of you, look you in the eye, put it behind their back, look you in the eye again, then hold it in their hand and make a question gesture. Now you have a binary proposition, a binary metaphor without words. 

For most programmers looking at binary does not convey much meaning and even if it does it takes a long time to figure it out. You might be able to pick up numbers, letters and basic instructions, but you would need to read a long line and then put it all together to see the functional meaning of it and this would take a lot more time than looking at the higher levels of code. 

Similarly, it's easy to lose the meaning of a word because we are stacking metaphors. Doing iterative cycles, getting meta, even in the act of speaking, and you can lose track of which layer, which inception, is the base layer, is closest to the source, this is what makes good communication such a challenge. The base layer is the most true, with every layer of abstraction, each loop, and with the 'embed codes' you get distortion and noise, more possibilities for errors and vulnerabilities. So as in computer programming and code the same thing can happen in language and communication.  We also see this in the evolution of the law, physics, and nature, but that is another blog post, for now, I just want to get into how this is fundamental in our thinking. 

So.. how about we use this to do something productive!!??.... Suck on this ChatGPT. "What is the meaning of life?" I am going to write my answer and then see what the AI's answer is, no strike that I will use my self-hosted AI! I am predicting that it will be a long yucky one from the AI machines because I don't think it has Grok'd the fundamentals metaphors of language yet and that it is hamstrung by the binary metaphor, where humans have metaphors that are much more varied and in a way multidimensional. 

To me the meaning of life is simple, it can be answered in the same way you would answer the meaning of any other word.  This leads me to think the meaning of life is simply, to create more life. 

To explain this I can define a 'word' as a tool used to bring on the idea of that which it describes, and the context, where generally the whole of humanity is the broadest view.  

Now what does the AI say?

Marx-3b-V2 says

"The meaning of life can be understood in many ways. It’s a complex concept that involves understanding our purpose, goals and values on this planet. The idea behind it also includes exploring different perspectives to find happiness within ourselves or with others around us.

Life is an ongoing process where we are constantly evolving and learning new things about the world around us. This constant change can be seen as a positive thing because it allows for growth, adaptation, and improvement in our lives. However, there’s also negative aspects to life such as death or loss of loved ones which could potentially cause depression if not properly managed by therapy or other forms of treatment available today.

The meaning of life is often subjective and varies from person to person based on their beliefs, values, experiences, etc. Some people may believe that the purpose of life is simply to survive while others might think it’s more about finding happiness within themselves through personal growth or contributing positively towards society by doing good deeds like helping those in need without expecting anything in return."

Ahaha, it sucks so much it is almost a glitch. When you only have binary I suspect it is difficult to think. You end up throwing up long-winded definitions with more and more nested contradictions. 

Human metaphor in contrast to this mechanical binary logic, is so it turns out metaphysical. We defined a word with itself again, but somehow we can comprehend that loop and it is clear. A fractal structure that makes sense. Metaphysics comes to a point where they cross over with normal physics and this is at the quantum level. Here comes Schrodinger's cat, or as bitcoiners, is it more like the Bazentine general's problem? Some will just say it's word salad. I don't want to fall into the same trap that Marx-3b-V2 did.

Either way, our thoughts can easily be held in a state of superposition, and this allows for better definitions and more accurate communication. Something less defined can often be more defined. A word can be formed through gestures that are wordless, and undefinable. Even without knowing it, we are quantum and different from the AI, because we can handle the meta loops. We can see a structure of fractals and accept a possibility for accuracy. Computers find this difficult, they often just regard more lines of code as more accurate. 

I think humans can always have an edge on AI because of this and I hope this helps others be empowered with clearer thought now. There are many questions left they can go on indefinitely, but happiness, and the meaning of life are best left to rest in their own metaphor now. Thanks for reading. 

Useful Hunting Analogies for Catching Goals

I'm not such a fan of bitcoiners using stories that emphisize the power of war, violence and weapons technology. They are not wrong, but I prefer to think of the power of peace, honor, trust and defensive technology, but... just thinking about hunting analogies and I have to admit, they seem useful. 

Such a primal concept that many people can understand can be useful for business strategy. Leadership and hunting seem like such a good combo. 

Hunting involves different methods of manipulating an environment and act to catch and control a chaotic unpredictable, yet clear goal. We have time, various 'tool' types and psychology of two beings going on, here's some.

1. The set the hidden trap method. 

2. The chase it down with persistence, focus and more endurance. 

3. The secret silent arrow snipe after quietly sneaking to position in the bush.

4. The generous amo automatic gun rampage, no accuracy but many attempts and just keep going. 

5. The full on, face to face wrestle it down with brute force and a dagger method.

6. The bait in the pen or on a hock on the line.

7. The chase the heard off a cliff

8. Using hunting dogs

9. A traditional compromise of 3 and 4 with a 5 held in reserve if the beast comes for you.  

There are probably many more. I think it's useful to pick one for whatever goal you might have. I think they are useful even when you look into them further, telling the story of the hunt. At the moment I am going with method 2. 

Why 100 pushups a day?

With bitcoiners under attack we might need the shield of virtue to go with the sword of truth. We don't know what virtue we will need, but the discipline of doing something everyday has got to be on that measure along with the strength and health that will come with the exercise. We are not all princes in shinning armour, but we can try to be, and I think we might need it.

Watered Down AI Personalities

Autonomous Interpersonal Regulation - Parallel AI Generated Personas

Imagine with AI you can generate an online version of your self that has its view and temperament watered down or vulgarly concentrated. This could appeal to different streams of audience and be targeted at each. The audiences would not be aware that they were receiving the media, text, audio and audio visual that was run through this system and your overall influence would be greatly enhanced. 

It already happens, people create separate promotion streams formulaically that are targeted at different groups of people. In music and film people change what is cut in and out of clips and what filter they use. In songs, they change out the country or city for your local city, someone is standing in a music studio booth singing every city in the world into a microphone and the producer is just using code to make all the different versions of pop hits and labelling them so they fit right into Spotifys exploitation databases. How much more of this would happen if AI did it all for you and so you didn't have to feel ridiculously desperate in the process.

I think this is happening and it is best we get our heads around it. There can be many versions of you diluted by AI, there can be many versions of famous people running in parallel. We see this happening now for political figures, with different add campaigns for different voters and using AI to generate this and even though this may already be having a major impact, I think it is just the beginning. It could start getting into how your children present themselves on social media. our interpersonal relationships, already influenced by a digital algorithmic filter, are getting another filter layered on top of AI controlled somewhat by you, but also autonomous.

More to the point interpersonal relationships are very important to us and like a drug , they are addictive. This is where dilution, hilariously and ironically comes into play. The dose causes toxicity, frequently applied in medicine also applies in interpersonal relationships. Toxic maxi's have felt this, trying to orange pill everyone they can and being told they are too intense. Dilution seems to be a powerful concept for manipulation. Hard drugs are watered down to ease people in and get them addicted. 

I think the AI versions are less human, not as beautiful and not to be trusted. The danger is that people don't notice that part of what they are getting and just feel comforted by the dilution that fits their tolerance. We can't let our tolerance for toxic personalties to drop. Our capacity for regulating our interpersonal relationships is important and I think we will need to hold on to if.

On that note this goes out unedited, sorry.

Happy Halving! Sorry I'M COMING BACK

It has longer than normal between my posts over the last year. To be honest I have had second thought about whether to keep up publishing my thoughts and cartoons. There is so much happening in bitcoin and with some other secret projects and things providing more profit I have been focusing there. For instance family and eToro. having a lot of success there and if you are not copying me already, now is the time.

It often seems that these thoughts just disapere into the void and nobody hears them. Also it is hard to just push out stuff and not get it to the standard I want. Tonight though, looking out the window as we do every 4 years in bitcoin I think that there has been great value in putting down thoughts for me personally and also seeing how many of you are viewing on a regular basis and the comments, I think it makes a significant impact. 

I have over 300 posts made now and 92 sitting in draft waiting to be finished. The ones in draft are also normally the hard long, work intensive ones, so a bit to look forward to there.

In the future it would be great for it to be a more collaborative project and for it to be on nostr, for better monetisation and freedom. Let me know what you think? More cartoons? I think I will do more cartoons! We need a halving one. or is it "halvening"?

For now I recommend www.bitcoinhalving.club to ring in the new 4 year era. 

Dreaming on this chart.. again .. red could stay over the blue.

And off course stacking as hard as you can!

Here are some of the previous posts made around halving halvenings   whatever.

https://midwaycrypto.blogspot.com/2017/04/bitcoin-inflation-convergence.html kinda missed it timing wise

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8024469696531078262/1009257586463299650

ps I don't think that old wallet qr is active, just use waletano