James A Lewis

Trade & labor are willing the good of neighbor, but what's that?
https://youtu.be/04bHgLnt7b8
It all boils down to Goodness, Truth, and Beauty. Each service we render and good we deliver result in some increase in goodness, truth, and beauty in or for the other. This can become our aim, and we can then better fulfill that purpose to which God has called us as professionals.
PS:
Nothing lacking beauty can be called good.
Nothing untrue can be truly beautiful.
Nothing without goodness is true.
Goodness makes a thing more beautiful.
Truth makes a thing better.
Beauty makes a thing more true.

2025-10-01 13:55:30 UTC

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Following

2025-09-21 19:42:54 UTC

This merits much discussion.
https://youtu.be/vDBFkFuwn0U

2025-09-16 12:00:51 UTC

Nearly All Wars for 150 Year Were Fought for THIS Reason
https://youtu.be/Q0A8nyz-2CI
After over a century of fighting, we are hardly any closer to unanimously saying people can just keep their stuff and help out each other.
The reason is because people don't know trade and labor are for love of neighbor.
#theologyofcommerce #mutualprofit #business #personalproperty #propertyrights #bitcoinfixesthis (nearly) #podcast

2025-09-10 19:46:08 UTC

Pray for Charlie Kirk.

2025-09-04 17:40:16 UTC

https://youtu.be/DL1lnwaff8k
So good!

2025-08-17 23:38:16 UTC

https://theologyofcommerce.com/blog/article/on-labor-trade-a-sacramental/
Getting the ball rolling on my rebrand has been slow going, but I finally have my thesis hosted at the new domain.

2025-08-17 14:19:59 UTC

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Yes!

2025-08-16 15:16:54 UTC

Make stuff with your kids! This was more educational than days or possibly weeks of "normal" school.
https://blossom.primal.net/bad0701fe998ade323fe73e6bfe79496fa23a28d75150c645dde6d07ca31c973.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/310d0f6ed03e2770d7586b1379f8a07aa11631bea2748c7fd0ed5e57f57166e0.jpg
Procedure, importance of planning, following directions (we had to scrap one part), and seeing a small project go from ideation to planning to production and to final product. Honestly, the fact that he made a mistake on a part was highly beneficial, especially when he saw the purpose later on of the feature he cut off.
https://blossom.primal.net/f6bea570de5727cd25b7778727179049246654d8a22cd9149344bd581871b8fc.jpg
This tab confused him at first as he made his cuts, and so he didn't keep them, but he later saw their purpose.
#education #homeschooling #mechanicalengineering #engineering

2025-08-16 13:39:55 UTC

Best website for purchasing PC hardware in the US?
#askNostr
I've used NewEgg, mostly, but I'm a habitual brand disloyalist. I make them earn my loyalty.

2025-08-16 05:34:25 UTC

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"Just don't get divorced" ... or "do the sorts of things that make them *want* to stay with you"? 😂
I recently celebrated 10 years with my wife. It simultaneously seems weird to me that we've been mapped that long, yet also it would be more weird otherwise.

2025-08-15 13:14:49 UTC

Does a private video chat app exist for Nostr, yet?

2025-08-15 03:19:37 UTC

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Between no-fault divorce, a justice system that is very generous to women, and the sexual revolution, of course being single looks attractive. It's all lies, though. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here.
Getting married young is a gift. Getting to know oneself first is overrated. A good life consists of community built on marriage, family, and friendships. Men and women find themselves when in service of and friendship with others.

2025-08-14 18:52:29 UTC

https://youtube.com/shorts/tTjA_6HNPQA
This mind disease is viral and deadly. It's the real pandemic. It's infecting way more women than people realize. This is because women take on each other's grief and multiply it. It comes from the desire to commiserate and comfort, which are good and healthy feminine motivations, but it gets perverted by social media.
I'm seeing a lot more of this sort of thing going around, and I want to warn you all of it.

2025-08-03 14:11:08 UTC

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I like amethyst, too. Primal is nice for on-boarding because of the built-in wallet, though.

2025-08-03 13:57:18 UTC

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Is spice preference more nature or nurture, I wonder. I love spicy foods, but I'm just all kinds of European with a sprinkling of native American and a tiny pinch of Mongolian. (Who isn't, knowing the proliferation of Atilla?)

2025-08-02 14:21:23 UTC

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/july/documents/20250729-missionari-digitali.html

2025-07-25 21:25:30 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/live/xu0wKnKSKuM

2025-07-25 11:31:24 UTC

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I think you want to just screenshot it and/or link the URL.

2025-07-23 18:36:32 UTC

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Resetting my payment routing profile fixed it!
https://blossom.primal.net/c0f9cd81a3a5c42176180f68753b0634ce03849aacc9536a3c4d7ecf1e6350c4.jpg

2025-07-23 14:11:52 UTC

Just set up a new channel via @nprofile…xl8h, but I can't get any payments through it. This is after restoring my wallet. Should I close the channel and start a new node?
https://blossom.primal.net/ea3c247b3a20eca52fb1926b61bfa110c2b288257a0c964d6836e93deeec751a.jpg

2025-07-22 13:09:50 UTC

I have a conference I'm attending in two days with a ton of creators, mostly YouTube and podcast. Who'd like to help me orange and purple pill a bunch of them?

2025-07-22 13:03:36 UTC

I'm fairly certain my old npub (this one) will still have better engagement, and it doesn't look like my leak went anywhere, so I might just revert to using it again.

2025-02-20 00:49:27 UTC

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New npub
#nevent1q…ywwd

2025-02-14 01:10:48 UTC

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Follow my new npub!
#nevent1q…q7h0

2025-01-27 03:30:49 UTC

Leaked my NSEC. Oops. Moving to new npub: @npub1etrvvjyl6tllrhxakezj3rkxftkh3yv8m998fvlqpt87dtdngkzqhl3zeq

2025-01-27 03:08:30 UTC

Created my very first Rust GUI app, and it took far too long! Haha!
It's a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game built on Rust+Slint.
Also, #askNostr, why is it 213.2MB!?! It should be something like 750kB!
https://image.nostr.build/f43082d3376bc6e8c2158cd38a0467272cf8a104c6cd85d47638d95f7661f84f.png

2025-01-24 12:45:45 UTC

If Nostr was around during the block size wars, would the bitcoin software have changed direction?
I learned recently that, while I was still new to bitcoin, the big blockers were kicked from the forums. No wonder I didn't really header much about it. Censorship hurt the community and caused a split on the network.
Unity is deeply important, and that was a bad call by the Core devs and forum mods. I think it's also bad that those two sets had such overlap.

2025-01-24 12:19:54 UTC

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Literally 80+% of the whole industry

2025-01-24 12:14:32 UTC

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Standalone web apps that aren't intended to be shared wouldn't normally need to keep keys from being hard coded. That constitutes a lot of projects on GitHub.

2025-01-24 11:51:57 UTC

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Some people actually do store private keys on GitHub. Even if that key is configurable, their actual key is often used as a default to make testing faster.

2025-01-24 01:56:10 UTC

Still listening to #HijackingBitcoin. I got into Bitcoin in 2016, right as the block size war was coming to a head, but I heard almost nothing about it. I heard about BCH, but I always thought it was a spinoff that was more separate. I'm learning a lot about the real history of the development.
I'm still not a big block Bitcoiner, but I do agree that the core devs did unnecessarily prevent the block size increases that were actually intended. We still need secondary layers, too, because the use and the verifiability need some level of decentralization.
Who else has read or listened to the book?

2025-01-19 20:48:37 UTC

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Interesting idea! The number two correlation for repeat incarceration is financial illiteracy after fatherless upbringing, and that is likely in large part due to not having a meaningful way to contribute to the market. Could be a great way to fix the system in-part.

2025-01-18 15:21:16 UTC

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FjHH8Qf3aO4

2025-01-18 14:40:25 UTC

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Again, this is for the future, many years from now.
I think there ought to be more users of bitcoin that node operators. I think a single transaction ought to be cheaper than running a node. The upwards fee pressure of 8 billion people putting transactions on a 7tx/s network would make each cost possibly a years salary of an average person.
A metric we could use for fees is their proportion to the cost of owning and running a node for a year.
Trading "your everyday node operator" for "your everyday bitcoin user" is a profitable trade.
That's not to say that every transaction ought to be on-chain, but that users need to actually be able to set up their a LN channels in a decent timeframe.
#nevent1q…jtjt

2025-01-17 16:58:08 UTC

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25x incoming if that becomes a thing.

2025-01-17 00:33:48 UTC

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How expensive should it be to run a full node? Current low-mid end hardware costs about 0.001BTC, and storage is about 10MB/sat. If the blocks are fill for a year, that's a little more than 5ksat/yr. 100ksat startup cost and 5ksat/yr is really quite cheap.
With hardware costs going down and performance going up, I think a block size increase could be warranted. Carefully and cautiously, we could try 2MB, and then 4MB in another four years, maybe keeping trend to a maximum of 32MB as the adoption reaches the end of the S-curve.
A balance must be struck between throughput and security. The narrow optima is widening between these as of now, and I'd rather a world in which self custody and everyday people interacting with L1 remains a thing for my children.
#nevent1q…xlx4

2024-12-25 14:57:19 UTC

Merry Christmas!
https://image.nostr.build/f66fd2ce792cd518b18a860ccd22f9588bdff991de66b43826699fc91fd82201.jpg

2024-12-23 02:13:17 UTC

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Such a good game. I loved making maps, too.
Did you know one release of this was rated M?

2024-12-23 02:08:40 UTC

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Brain to machine interface will 100% be a thing. I just hope and pray we are a freedom and privacy loving society when that happens.

2024-12-21 15:36:53 UTC

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I'm sure some people have been working on it, but lightning won't be as beneficial if one believes in a multi-coin future.

2024-12-21 14:57:52 UTC

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`It's a Wonderful Life` is the story of our time. America is currently Pottersville, and it got here because of warped, frustrated old men who couldn't say "no" to playing with the way our society is run for their own gain, in the fields of legislature, money and banking, the corporatist capitalist tenancy to lower quality and raise prices, etc. We are George Bailey. We've been slaving away at making this a better place and only narrowly escaping defeat.
The only way to restore Bedford Falls is to realize why we've been put here on this earth and no longer wallow in self pity, initiating the change we wish to see, not relying on the greedy to needs but working as directly with each other as possible.
Bitcoin, Nostr, and neighbors fixes this. #maga

2024-12-16 00:33:34 UTC

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All *good* things. And since it is technology that makes playing by the rules not only easier but the only feasible path, I would definitely call it good, and thus from God in the same sense all good inventions come from him. Unlike compound interest on loans.

2024-12-15 19:50:50 UTC

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Thanks for such a thoughtful response!

2024-12-15 16:23:08 UTC

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#askNostr
#nevent1q…5p8u

2024-12-15 15:54:19 UTC

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I don't think I am. Bitcoin still has a scaling problem if self-custody is not to be a thing of the past.

2024-12-15 15:46:38 UTC

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I'm looking for a synopsis. Got a source to which I can go?

2024-12-15 15:45:35 UTC

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I have an idea. What if to be consider to be running a "full node" one participates in a database sharding proof of storage system, so it's ensured that the full chain will persist, but not necessarily on any single node? I can imagine a RAID striping type system across nodes. If a node keeps X of every Y blocks, and somehow proves it to its neighbors, and there are Y groups who all keep track of neighbors, the storage needed per node will be X/Y of the total size of the chain. Let's say 5 of 256, so adjacent groups have an 80% overlap, while reducing load to about 2%. Reconstruction would be quite rapid. If a group goes empty, the data could be reconstructed from four other groups, and a node could automatically manage to which group it is assigned. This would allow meaningful participation while greatly reducing load. Whole-chain full nodes would still be a thing for those who would want that, obviously.
To maintain the full node aspect of verifying chain integrity, each node proves to itself the change to the database, and the group publishes the agreed upon proof to the chain with a many-multi-sig (allowing for a latency), sorta like a parity, so the shard system will occupy exactly one transaction per block. This would become the basis, then, for a layer 2 of virtual addresses, wherein an on-chain address is non-custodially occupied by many sub addresses, and the per-shard database proof also contains the transactions of virtual addresses. Cross group transactions might have to be on-chain, but they could at least be rolled up after a signed cross-group acknowledgement (making the other group acknowledges the transactions into its virtual addresses). Cross-group lightning network could also become a thing.
This is starting to feel a bit like drive chains, NGL, but still a bit different.

2024-12-15 15:25:59 UTC

Thinking about scaling again. What are the arguments for and against everyday people needing to be able to run full nodes? (small block/big block root arguments)
I'm not saying we need big blocks or Bitcoin is doomed, but I am saying that with technology getting better and storage getting cheaper, the need for small blocks will decrease.
Thoughts?
#askNostr #bitcoinscaling #bitcoin #layer2 #BTC #BCH

2024-12-14 20:10:24 UTC

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It is indeed! My MIL said I should give it a listen and wants my opinion.
So far, I get the impression he's intellectualized being butthurt from the BCH fork. I'll take it seriously, though.

2024-12-14 19:58:28 UTC

Listening to #hijackingBitcoin right now. Who else has read/listened to this book? #askNostr

2024-12-13 03:40:20 UTC

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Fr fr #RealTalk

2024-12-12 03:09:58 UTC

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No, I didn't try this. Yes, this is just a joke.

2024-12-12 03:09:34 UTC

Worst food combinations. Go!
Here's mine:
Tuna in chocolate pudding, served hot.
#askNostr

2024-12-12 02:41:08 UTC

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Lightning-accelerated Drive Chain-powered Chaumian mints run by distributed computing systems with sharded databases and multikey is the future.

2024-12-12 02:31:08 UTC

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I literally have a shirt with this on it 😂

2024-10-13 18:28:04 UTC

It would be a gift to humanity that glitter go extinct. Any confetti finer than a coin ought to be discontinued.

2024-09-13 16:24:38 UTC

So beautiful
https://youtube.com/shorts/dBi9VOY0wlA

2024-09-12 11:37:13 UTC

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Meet Caspian Edward Lewis, who arrived in the early evening of Monday, Sept. 9th. He weighed 8lbs 2oz, and was 21½ inches long
https://image.nostr.build/5dcbe50d88b91edbd15e7e2081b2070de1f04f40bf16bab902f4544ff082b08d.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/137b8f327c77b437099243f0ec11a7d885fd899b4818858c42ecd1d3ec3303d5.jpg
#nevent1q…hpkp

2024-09-09 20:48:33 UTC

🎉 Baby No. 3 is on the way! 🎉

2024-09-04 12:23:20 UTC

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MachMotion.com

2024-09-04 12:20:14 UTC

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The place is called MachMotion
MachMotion.com

2024-09-04 12:15:22 UTC

Some big news! I took a mechanical engineering position at a local, family owned company (whom we know well and are related)!
So, if you do CNC work and need repairs or upgrades to your machines, be they mechanical, electrical, or software/controls, give me a DM. I'll get you connected, and we'll take good care of you.

2024-09-03 14:23:23 UTC

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#hypernostrification

2024-08-31 15:16:18 UTC

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No, you boosted via the #Fountain nostr client app and saw it on another nostr client app!
Unified online actions FTW!

2024-08-19 13:29:46 UTC

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What I don't get is how being in-tune with the wife's cycle could be anything but sane.

2024-08-19 13:02:31 UTC

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The hellthread hasn't really been a thing for awhile, and God willing will never be again, so it may already be the case that those already get muted. A similar solution could be in the works.

2024-08-19 12:57:08 UTC

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What if the real price trajectory would have been 2% deflation instead of the 2% inflation they aim at but exceed? It used to be (pre-1971) that things got cheaper with economic progress, not more expensive.

2024-08-17 14:58:11 UTC

The basic human currency is trust.
If you trust your friend or family member to return favors and regard you with goodwill, money is not necessary.
Money is what extends trust to strangers, because by giving money in exchange, they promise good will be returned.
Money is information about good done to and for others. It is a substitute for trust and goodwill. It does not replace trust, but extends it. Fundamentally, to trade money is to say the money is trustworthy and said trust may be borrowed by the counterpart in trade.
When money becomes untrustworthy in a society that has greatly relied upon it, that society breaks down. Only when society fixes the money will it recohere.

2024-08-17 12:54:55 UTC

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I would agree that we have a lot of fake stuff all over the internet, but it's heavily mixed. I don't know about 70-90%, but maybe the 80-20 rule is in terms of attention rather than actual volume of content; that, I believe already.
The MSM, including the tech giants de facto, push a narrative that keeps the people atomized and out of close knit community, because friendship is the opposite of tyranny. Brother against brother, father against son: if they can divide us, they will, because that makes us weak, and a weak proletariat is a controllable one.
The solution is real, in-person community. They can't fake human interaction.

2024-08-13 22:30:23 UTC

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Open source ones are fine, though. Forget Squarespace and Wix, but WordPress is pretty good. Plus, the client can make simple edits and add content, so you're not on the hook for tedious minor updates and such.

2024-08-09 23:27:00 UTC

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Cool! It had been a bit since I tried it, and I have to say, UI scaling has come a long way! Several years ago, 4K looked awkward, but it's basically a good a windows and macos, now.

2024-08-09 00:08:33 UTC

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I've seen mint but never tried it. Might have to experiment in my free time.

2024-08-09 00:07:58 UTC

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Desktop. I believe minimal is basically CLI-only.

2024-08-08 19:57:11 UTC

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At the same time ... I've found we have definitely erred on the side of too much explanation, and now our eldest basically needs us to tell him our reasoning before he complies. Authority exists and is not just one will overpowering another.

2024-08-08 13:03:22 UTC

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No way...

2024-08-08 02:23:28 UTC

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USDT over bitcoin lightning?

2024-08-07 23:14:57 UTC

About to build a machine that can actually edit video and give my poor 7y/o laptop a break. https://i.nostr.build/DqrhIuDpVPM5zKiX.jpg

2024-08-07 17:08:11 UTC

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The main paradigm shift is exposing interfaces to the user other than keyboard and mouse actions in-app, and anything more would be near exclusively a per application-pair basis. With this, the user can plug anything into any other thing with a similar data structure!

2024-08-06 12:28:52 UTC

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I just realized that Gossip is written entirely in Rust! It's the only real client on Windows (never got nostrmo to work).
I might have to dabble and contribute!

2024-08-06 11:46:24 UTC

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Got 'em!

2024-08-06 02:56:11 UTC

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I've been interested in them for awhile. Never got to the point of buying one. Might be an excelent note-taking device.

2024-08-06 02:53:31 UTC

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I bet we're pretty similar, looking at this chart.

2024-08-06 02:52:15 UTC

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The one word I say like a good ol' boy is "oil," and only in the context of cars. First job in high school was a JiffyLube in central Texas. Otherwise, I sound a mild Californian.

2024-08-06 02:42:27 UTC

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I'm still green enough that I am just getting to know the landscape, let alone actually choosing a UI kit. Got suggestions?

2024-08-05 18:27:59 UTC

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Depends on the application and how low-level the language is, but this definitely can be true. I'm mostly web-dev, so the probability is much lower in my space... but never zero.

2024-08-05 18:10:48 UTC

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Or ad-book. So much "suggested" content and ads...

2024-08-05 18:09:01 UTC

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Interoperability, zaps, and data sharing. If you could add someone by a known ID, have data cross the app barrier (like the in-game ID same as chat ID), maybe even do business (imagining gig-sharing, freelance co-op, or something of the sort).

2024-08-05 17:36:30 UTC

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I would spend *just enough* on income producing assets to equal my absolute minimum expenses, celebrate my new wealth just a little with family and friends, and the rest (70-80%?) goes into long-term storage bitcoin. I'll do the same at each 10x therehence.

2024-08-04 15:45:18 UTC

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For real, though! I've kept seed oils out of my diet, and I only very lightly burn in the sun. I mowed shirtless yesterday and am perfectly fine today.

2024-08-04 01:19:54 UTC

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This is exactly what is wrong. Good diagnosis.

2024-08-03 01:04:22 UTC

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As a dude myself, I wish women didn't want to be treated like a dude, either.

2024-08-01 19:35:14 UTC

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This is the right way to do Nostr: use multiple apps for what they're good for!

2024-07-31 23:30:20 UTC

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Here's one travel post:
#nevent1q…9qdd

2024-07-31 20:01:36 UTC

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You know ... I wouldn't doubt it

2024-07-31 19:54:06 UTC

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??? Psyop?

2024-07-31 19:52:02 UTC

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No worries.
I'm sure there is content out there you wish was also on nostr. What creators/platforms/etc. are they?

2024-07-31 18:15:31 UTC

Is this an automated RSS nostr publisher? Making a simple app for podcasters/bloggers to "sign up" their RSS to nostr would be great! Incentivize it by "letting" them monetize their feed in nostr! (Via Zaps, obv)
@nprofile…l2he