People told me there were only free things and expensive things in Iceland. No cheap things.
Today I learned it so real. After 3 weeks of searching for rent and staying in hotels, spending more than 6000 USD, I now have a place to stay for free for the next few weeks.
I am grateful but this does not even make sense! #WTFiat
Why Iceland?
I want to explore if this is a good place for working on Nostr full time. Plus the nature is amazing. I want to see if it’s feasible to operate a global scale software company outside Silicon Valley and even outside US. To spread the seeds of decentralization. Silicon Valley, at least from a working class perspective, is way too convoluted by its big tech money. But I have to admit the life quality there is better for me personally. Let’s see if I can build my new life in Iceland or Europe.
Iceland has a lot of renewable energy, they have traditionally exported that energy in the form of smelted aluminium , but if they had any sense they would be mining Bitcoin and exporting that instead .
I heard Iceland had a mine that used 1/3 of nation’s energy
What kind of a mine , like an aluminium mine or something like that ?
Waste of energy: in other words , it is effective and it's upset the bankers etc ... boo hoo .
Also people don’t understand that electricity can’t be saved. Extra electricity produced by plants actually harm the grid. Activities such as Earth zone Hour are totally science denying and stupid. The key problem is not saving energy, it’s producing energy without harming the environment.
I actually wonder if traditional bank system such as swift uses less energy when verifying a transaction. I do believe energy saving is important, but I also believe that quantitative easing is evil.
The winter ahead of you is going to be long and dark. I hope that you are the kind of person that get things done because there are no distractions instead of getting depressed because the sun is missing for weeks.
I have developed this bad habit of getting up at 2pm and went to bed at 4am even when I was at California. I will be fine.
