A while ago, I got all excited around the idea of Bitcoin as art . It was such a satisfying perspective that I decided to embrace it and implement a tipping service on the Bitcoin Testnet for this website. A fun experiment, a way to learn something and tinker around with the technology. The best part was: it somehow didn’t require any maintenance. It would work without further tinkering.
There is nothing like the filter of time. When a book from 1850 receives praise, you know its insight is timeless and its quality undeniable. This essay discusses what the law should be and shows the tragedy of what it has become. The content still relevant today, reminds us of how the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Web development is the skill that irritates me the most. It has improved over the years. The tools available today are far superior. But, I only glimpse at better web design skills. I often times struggle to understand why some websites look the way they do. Even with full access to their source code, replicating them isn’t always evident. There are HTML & CSS tricks I refuse to practice in the aim of simplifying what I imitate. That means some layouts don’t look exactly the same.
Because I can, I recently added support for testnet Bitcoin Lightning payments into this website. The beauty of Freedom and privacy respecting software is that you can do anything you want with it. There are many ways to do it. You can always use a service, provider for that, but the beauty of Bitcoin, the reason it is valuable, is that you can do it yourself.
Bitcoin is this strange thing I don’t fully understand. Going down the rabbit hole, as it is commonly known, I generally feel disappointed. Every bitcoiner I meet is a fanatic insisting that I buy bitcoin instead of a supportive mentor. The best buys of my life took place under guidance not pressure, thus I’m always reluctant to listen. Why are they constantly trying to sell it to you?