A couple of months ago I hired Chrysanthi, a wonderful actress to make some bitcoin videos. During the shoot I asked her to pose around in normal everyday positions, reading the book The Bitcoin Standard. I knew I wanted to make a video about it so we just shot in Read more…
Most of the arguments people have against bitcoin stem from a simple fact: Their financial privilege allows them to dismiss it. They have never been unbanked, they always have an array of options like Google Pay, Apple Pay, Paypal, Amazon, credit cards and so many others. Their country’s currency has Read more…
Most bitcoiners have their own, much different definition of what it means to orange pill a person. I’ve seen mentions of getting a taxi driver to download a lightning wallet and sending the payment in sats to them. Is that truly orange-pilling? Hmm… no. It is a great first step, Read more…
I played around last night with Midjourney AI until they stopped my free trial. I started playing after someone posted his prompt about a bar on a spaceship. There’s a prompt for me that never gets old, and I can reroll it for hours and not get bored of the Read more…
The three most important writing lessons I’ve embraced and actually utilized in my work are the following: Jim Butcher’s livejournal blog. https://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/ An amazing resource, every post is just a lesson in itself to understand storytelling. The irony is that I also bought his mentioned teacher’s book, the Formula something, Read more…
Sadly with the pandemic and the rest of the nonsense I didn’t attend our usual speculative fiction workshop at ALEF since 2019. Our writing workshop has been going on for 20 years and the number of inside jokes and rituals has come up to a ridiculous amount. All in all, Read more…
I’ve started teaching a series of bitcoin workshops. The goal of this project is to help people learn about bitcoin, that’s all. I plan to open source this workshop, as in I’ll share pretty much every resource I use and the steps I take to teach it. It’s not very Read more…
Kate Bush’s recent success with the hit song Running Up That Hill because of Stranger Things is a perfect example of why I say you need to own your copyright. In a brilliant move that ended up being the best decision of her career, she produced, sang and funded the Read more…
The biggest problem with home mining is that these ASIC units are very loud, and run very hot. The stock fans are basically all you need to cool the unit but they’re loud, like a big whiny siren. Unless you have a basement or something you’re gonna need some DIY Read more…
To all the people who don’t understand why I hate pixel art: Game artists used to work around the old CRT TVs. This technique allowed them to reach more detailed and smooth lines, some effects are lost now that people just play the games on a normal screen most of Read more…