How to onboard the first billion people to Bitcoin (lightning)? I have recently written an article about a strategy that would be non-custodial, semi-decentralized and does not rely on any soft-forks or updates to protocols, can be implemented today and will solve the fees issue right now. Juraj Dec 11, 2023, 1:01 AM
Energy efficiency is determined by markets automatically. If people are willing to pay more for using the model than electricity and other costs, it is energy efficient automatically - generating not value than energy costs. It's called profit. Too bad these communists believe that energy efficiency is actually achieved Juraj Dec 10, 2023, 7:11 AM
True. But all of these llms are psychedelic cascade of free floating reveries. I was always making fun of people who look too much into the meaning of dreams. Now we listen to machines dreaming. This was not invisible to people in AI. I did my masters in AI and… Juraj Dec 10, 2023, 3:52 AM
I love the user experience of bitrefill esim. No bullshit forms, two click lightning payment, data works. Search could be better ("esim" + country did not find the local sim, had to go through the list). But compared to anything else, this is just better. I don't Juraj Dec 9, 2023, 8:26 AM
Capital gains taxes don’t just steal your wealth, they change the way you make bets If you have a 70% chance of doubling your money or losing everything, a full Kelly bet is 40% of your portfolio But if you are taxed 50% on your winnings, your true upside… Juraj Dec 9, 2023, 4:16 AM
Is this the place to channel my dislike for Telegram? No end to end encryption by default, impossible for groups, usually a lot of traffic (messages), but pretty low quality. If someone wants to "connect on telegram", it's like if they told me they trust in Juraj Dec 8, 2023, 3:42 PM
I'm halfway through "Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids" by Bryan Caplan. This book is a breath of fresh air for anyone who's ever felt the pressure to over-parent and sacrifice everything for their kids. Caplan throws out the traditional parenting playbook and Juraj Dec 7, 2023, 1:00 PM
Bitcoin Growing list: There are now 14 known companies doing greenhouse negative #Bitcoin mining They actually reduce emissions, because they use flare-gas as their power source The 14th is Scilling Mining, who use vented gas from farms Did I miss anyone? And a heart-warming video to go with it: Juraj Dec 7, 2023, 11:46 AM