Old school machinists are slowly becoming extinct.

Which is problematic because not every part needs to be ran on a high end CNC.

#metalworking #machining #proofofwork

https://youtu.be/OuZjjActWmQ?si=Mx-tmgViBGczTL5n

Recent video of one of my guitars, the visit from guitarist Matthew McAllister is a great opportunity to hear how my guitars sound, he also went away with the guitar, there is no better indication of success than that. #proofofwork #classicalguitar #ritchieguitars
https://youtu.be/5QWzgAU8EFg?si=muv3UjEppzJeqYAf

https://youtu.be/0W2jEedynbc?si=0pN2VkRkgXDhvgYT

I’m not educated enough to speak on this more than just some questions. 17 minutes into the interview with @d7f3a2d8 and @5e313964 it seems that Luke’s solution to capitalisms problems is communistic, socialistic, and even Fascist doctrines? Commodity price controls, yield controls, interest controls, and even funding for trade schools.
Im not speaking against any of these solutions, but how can we condemn some things while promoting capitalism; then turn around to say we need the other “isms” to fix the greed of capitalism? It really is privatizing profits, socializing the losses.
Help? @eab0e756 @83e818df @58c741aa

#bitcoin #proofofwork #postscarcity #capitalism

Daily drawing day 239: I’m working on some pieces for my portfolio, starting with creating characters! This one is based on the super cool @ursk8kid (on Instagram)

Hop on Substack to read about my process of creating the portfolio, I’ll be posting about all the stages: characters, environments and sequential image:

https://open.substack.com/pub/drawingoutloud/p/portfolio-chat?r=3e7qrt&utm_medium=ios

#dailyart #proofofwork #skateboarding #illustration
https://m.primal.net/PXOY.jpg

https://youtu.be/Vfq7LNDCdNQ?si=7CB1P17CcUKbXQHk

One of the best speach on bitcoin from the great master antonopoulos ₿
#bitcoin #decentralization #proofofwork #speach #sats #zap

The #olas hype has motivated me to finally dive into my old photography portfolio that I haven't culled/edited in ages.

Thousands of hours of #ProofOfWork in there that I never got around to polishing/publishing due to life chaos.

Big additions to gallery.benwehrman.com coming soon

Thanks for the much-needed push, @fa984bd7 ! And happy birthday!

#ProofOfWork was my lifetime
Others have all my records and files
Redacted or not … ima ready.
Whatever happens I must trust universal law to win. #love must

https://youtu.be/5A4xBp2rizQ?si=Mm5JN560j1rTmP8e

Daily drawing day 202: The #bitcoin adoption level I want to see: paying with #lightning for good quality fresh food at your local market
#proofofwork #bitcoinstandard #bitcoinart #artstr #craftstr
https://m.primal.net/OBAU.jpg

https://youtu.be/7tQIGuCyOHQ?si=xnkidxLTD5_kLg4w

Once you completely understand what @83e818df is explaining here again, you will understand why bitcoin is anti capitalism/for profit. You do not need profits for innovation. You do not need the centralizing of capital for innovation. Value will be provided where value is needed. We are in this together…be better. Thank you @edcd2055 !
#bitcoin #proofofwork #capitalismsucks

A little story….

In the last two days I have moved my newsletter email list of 7000 people away from Aweber, a service similar to Mailchimp. They decided to match Mailchimp’s prices so my monthly bill jumped from $50/month to $130/month. That’s 160% increase, literally overnight!!

After a full rage quit, I briefly considered paying MailChimp, but its way too expensive, I don’t need any of the extra “features”, and the constant upselling is painful. So I decided to try and build something myself and eventually landed on Sendy, which I paid around $60 for, as a one-off licence payment.

After two days work, I now have a Sendy instance setup on my website subdomain and it sends the emails via AWS SES. I send about 3 email newsletters out per month, each one around 7000 emails. The first went out last night and the bill from AWS was $0.32. So my total monthly cost will be about $1, and I’m not paying for the number of ‘subscribers’. Compared to $130, that is a 99.23% saving!! Literally insane.

Proof of work and hosting your own shit wins again. It’s also a good example of where technology can be used for extortionate levels of value extraction, but also massive value gains if you do it yourself. I also pray for the day when self-hosting a cloud becomes much easier and more reliable so I’m not relying on Amazon (email) and Google (website, via an intermediary) to make this setup work.

#proofofwork #sendy #photography #value