614: Self-Hosted Location Tracking

Thanks for the good coverage of what's going on in btc core. This is the sort of episode I appreciate with the show

I think Bitcoin still has a perception issue. Most folks I talk to think of it as a scam or not real (in a currency sense). Those I hear talk about it tend to be fairly libertarian or they're distrustful of the current financial systems brokeness / inequalities. Most people will follow the financial advice of societal norms (savings, stocks, etc) and by the time that norm changes the majority of Bitcoin will be owned by banks / companies. As they can afford the risks of non-trad finance systems and reg folks, who can't take that risk (financial or perceptual), will be too late to reap the goals currently touted.

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Just food for thought. I do wonder what the eventual effects might be for bitcoin, hopefully positive!

Welcome back for the new year! Whilst I prefer the shows not focused on US-internal politics, I know there'll be some of that, it's only natural for a US based show. If we're talking about the US Fed, though ... what do you think about the NY Fed holding 7000 tonnes of gold on behalf of foreign governments ? After invading Venezuela, the US might be able to steal its bitcoin reserves, or maybe not. The gold in NY is much easier to steal. If I wanted a sovereign reserve, I know where I'd look!

Love the track! Nice pick, Chris. Filoxera: love it

Video would be a nice option but not necessary in my opinion

I've been enjoying the balance of the show recently, keep up the good work!

I have ADHD and use podcasts and audiobooks to help me focus at work, video just distracts me and so I never use it. That being said if others would like video I'd have no issue with it so long as you remain an audio first show. I've given up on a few long time listens due to the hosts moving to a video first mindset and making the audio a waste of time to listen to, I'd hate to see that happen to TWIB. tl;dr: Video is a fine addition, as long as you keep an audio first mindset.

This seems a very accurate description of btc to me, and also one which depends on two things: btc being hard money, and btc being usable as money for trade.

Trying to keep it short: Money used for Money-Commodity-Money trades is capital. This is how an industrialist uses money. Contrast this to the Commodity-Money-Commodity use of money by say a poor farmer.

It's interesting that you ask if Saylor is downplaying btc as an asset, when the clip you played has him describing it as capital. In classical political economy, capital is a specific role played by hard money.

🎯 help you bring ideas into reality That's one thing I've struggled with, I've got lots of good ideas but I need assistance and assistants 🤭 to help me move forward to completion

What I would like to see more Nostr apps doing is hiding the fact that they are Nostr apps. Just obscure it away so normal people think it's a normal app, and not a power app. And let the features and usability make them a fan without them realizing it

Custom scripts for everybody! 🥳🥳

Ya there's definitely nothing wrong with waiting. 6 to 12 months from now it will be much more capable, and in order of magnitude easier to set up

I've been setting up mine to automatically log conversations. I've been feeding it all of my notes and business ideas. Everything gets automatically cataloged into obsidian. That obsidian vault is included in the QMD database for vector memory search. My agents have excellent short and long-term memory with minimal token usage. To set it up right, you really need to spend quite a while setting it up - or buy the files from somewhere. I've been setting up going on 3 weeks. It has already made me more productive. Soon my calendar will be synchronized. Client leads with automatically be filtered and surfaced front and center to me. The more you use something like this, the more you will start to understand how you can compound little abilities on top of each other. One cron job can trigger a cascade of events and work. I have used simplistic bots for many years. I used to have one that would pay my child support for me. That ran with no issues for about 5 years before they updated the site and broke my bot. I used to use another one for automatically populating descriptions and titles for an online store. At that time, I was replacing an employee with a simple bot. These things have been providing real value for people, for longer than people assume. Again it all comes down to how you use it and what you're doing with it. 6 to 12 months from now the landscape will be much different. Right now it's very hard to set up correctly and easy to burn money if you don't know what you're doing. But soon a lot of these things will be ironed out and much more normal people will be able to get higher value from it. On top of that, every time the models get better or cheaper, that means you can also upgrade your system to be smarter or cheaper.

I don't know who's spending $1,000 but you doing it wrong. I spent $15 in the past 3 weeks with more usage than I've ever had. It all depends on the model. But If they are also using it to do scraping and analyzing, it's not exactly simple work. And if you compare that to a human being doing the same work - that $1,000 is probably much cheaper than a human spending the time manually scraping and analyzing. I think I saw a graph recently saying that Claude opus outputs - in one prompt - between 5 and 15 hours of human work. Obviously that's not on every prompt, but that's pretty substantial even if it's expensive at a 30 cent API call, then maybe it's an extremely good deal. It's all very relative to what you're using it for and what your accomplishing in the end. Some of us have been playing with AI models for years already so we already know how to prompt better and we get better results. You've got to keep playing with different models - talk to them in different ways - and be explicit, try to remove ambiguity. And if you're having problems writing prompts - ask one AI to write a prompt for you to give to the other.. and that will often increase your chance of a one shot successful prompt

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For the fed worker contract ratio. I don't see firing fed workers (especially in the areas effected so far) having a real impact on spending. They'll probably be replaced by more contractors who'll cost even more while they're employed. And the gov will become even less capable of doing basics functions by itself then it already is

A metal plate is a good idea, thanks I'll have to look into that.

Nice song!

On the established financial people not understanding the shifting market, Rule of Acquisition number 217. You can't free a fish from water.

Banger 🧨🧨 Pure signal

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42 seems like the perfect episode to boost for the first time using sats sent from my self hosted alby mode hosted on my start9 pure to my fountain wallet. Sorry I've been away and unable to boost but start9 had a sale going and I was stacking every day I could to take advantage of it and then I ran into some technical difficulties during my server setup, let's be honest mostly between the keyboard and chair. Good to be back and self sovereign. And I'm honor of episode 42, don't forget your towel!

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Congratulations on episode 60!

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If John Deaton and his team were smart they'd make a political ad with the audio of Liz saying who she wants to keep crypto away from and then show a picture of each group with American dollars as she lists them. He doesn't stand a chance of winning but he can at least tear her down a bit and maybe limit the amount of damage she can do.

Heard it on the This Week in Bitcoin podcast.

First, enjoy the vacation, it's well deserved. Second on Ace's thought on the Amazon coin, I agree with his assessment but I think the real play will be the interest. They will treat the Amazon coin like a gift card where you deposit money with the company and redeem it later, and in that in-between time the company is accruing interest. Starbucks is rivaling some banks with their gift card interest bearing holdings and I'm sure Amazon is not far behind them.

Need part 2, great conversation 🧨

There are still good women out there... Just snagged one... Alas I did not get a girlfriend this cycle... Moved her straight to wifey

Congrats! 🎉🔥🧡

Cool to hear you're expanding on Wavlake and Nostr 🔥

Love this series, keep up the great work!🚀🧨

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The North Sea nexus. Fuck the Brits, butt hurt bastards

I will make a correction - bitchat was mentioned. I overheard somebody asking somebody else if they want to try it. It sounded like a group of two or three people were going to try it at Lake Satoshi

Rev.Hodl da man, we need more people like him 🧨🧨🧨

Karl is the real Rev 😏

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I thought that sounded like AI. Not bad though!

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I heard Steve mention John on Security Now too. I had to lol

You self-censor yourself on the word ass? That's extremely gay

Leave your routers alone. People need those proxies. 😉

EU can suck a dick and they will HFSP

Sorry for my hieroglyphics 😆 It's my way of being lazy, and saying "hello" 🧨 Isn't firecracker... Dye-no-mite https://c.tenor.com/9MLz1UBPxq0AAAAd/tenor.gif

Phoenix was always still usable in the USA, using the APK, no VPN needed It was only removed from the Google app store in the United states. It was still available in Aurora, Github, Obtainium

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Obsidian is 🔥🔥

Join the people on de-googled phones

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Ftr btcpayserver has had payjoin for years - anyone with a btcpayserver should turn it on!

I got a bunch of the original Jades for $20/ea New ones look good, old ones sucked

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Mosquito Mystereeee 🎶 https://fountain.fm/track/PZ3WN7yvRdyygZYjoUs2 @nevent1qvzqqqp…

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Wow it's not every day you hear Back Orifice brought up 🔥🔥☠️🐄🔥🔥

There's a regional Bitcoin meetup on Nov 6th-8th at the Drury inn in Grand Rapids. 10191429 This is the code for discounted rooms. The code doesn't work on the app but works online. The Drury inn serves breakfast and dinner. They also give you 3 free alcohol drinks with dinner. So Friday well have dinner and drinks. Saturday breakfast and dinner with drinks. Sunday Breakfast. We'll figure out lunch on Saturday depending on how many people show up. This event is family friendly. So bring your family and let's get a ton of Bitcoiners to hang out and network. Be there!!!

Thanks for everything you do with advertising pleb stuff man. I've known Rev.Hodl for a while and just went to his Permaculture class and it was awesome! Highly recommended! Really great experience and the food was out of this world. Side note: we need some kind of Nostr Nip for Rating People/Places/Events 🤔 Rating Sellers/Items/Marketplaces 🤔

Happy episode 100! I hope the show keeps being worth you making it, because I sure appreciate listening to it. Banger of an episode 99 too 👍

More of this shit please 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Happy Birthday 🧡🍻🎉