I have not read Galileo nor do I know much about his life, other than what is said about him in pop culture. Did not know that he actually did the majority of his research in uncontroversial topics/fields, but that is not so surprising either. Thanks for the info.

"When one has a Galileo Complex, they necessarily believe that which goes against the Cathedral's Official Truths, just as Galileo did in his time."

The implication, which you probably did not intend to make, is that Galileo himself had such a complex; and the impression, which I received from one of his biographies, is that the bulk of his research was aimed at being outside of the areas covered by official doctrines, and he only ran afoul of the Inquisition due to including, in one of his published works, extrapolations from his scientific findings that obviously contradicted doctrines. He could probably have escaped infamy and remained some minor scientific nobody, completely unknown outside of the occasional history of physics, if he hadn't argued against the Church instead of metaphorically waving his research in the Pope's face.

HODLing is doing something good (at least in terms of the price of btc), no matter the mindset of the HODLer, no dispute there. However, there are some people contributing in this way simply because they cannot figure out how to send their bitcoin or they just kinda forgot about it. Whether or not a majority of bitcoin is kept off the books because they are lost/have dead owners doesn't really matter in terms of price, apart from potentially being correlated with how much demand there is for bitcoin.

I know that it is *something* to be holding bitcoin, but I don't hold that much, and I would like to contribute something a little more than making a microscopic dent in the price.

Holding Bitcoin through a 400 -> 20,000 -> 3,000 market, for example, is not a passive thing for the living. It is a form of risk taking, just as investing in a startup is risk taking and generally not viewed as passive, and it is why those who successfully pulled it off are rich if they weren't already, and those who didn't are poorer than they would have been otherwise. Over time, risk decreases, and correspondingly so does the merit and reward of holding Bitcoin.

Yup, that's one of the first tasks. A preliminary task is fixing up my development station, I'm still stuck in a situation where I am more comfortable on my 'tolietbox' than on my dev comp I put together a while ago.

If one's contribution to the world is merely holding bitcoins then at that point where one decides to "just hold" he may as well drop dead - that'd be the best case as it would guarantee he held forever.

So now, wut do ? Revive block explorer ?