> I suspect many of us don’t One thing I’ve learned after crossing the 50 year mark is that time is actually the most valuable thing we have (and, most egalita

> I suspect many of us don’t One thing I’ve learned after crossing the 50 year mark is that time is actually the most valuable thing we have (and, most egalitarianly, everyone starts out with more or less the same amount of it left). So while troubleshooting can be enjoyable to many, time spent troubleshooting any issue that would simply be impossible to encounter in an alternative system is expensive indeed. Consider reading this very understandable paper, which I consider at least as important as the Bitcoin paper: https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf https://edolstra.github.io/pubs/nspfssd-lisa2004-final.pdf