True. A single $3 coffee transaction can also be considered spam, at least by *some* people, compared to settling e.g. 500 different $3 transactions from a second layer in a single tx.

Similarly, that second-layer tx settling 500 coffee payments will also be considered spam by *some* people, because the same second layer may be used to trade monkey JPEGs or whatever the hell the market thinks is worth something at any given time.

To each their own, as long as they pay the fees.

If we can get it to robust enough point. This may be how formstr powers self custodial document uploads.

Political infighting as Iran navigates sanctions, lingering threat of war

Political rivals blame each other as Iranians are further squeezed by sanctions that are unlikely to be lifted soon.

#Undercurrents: #Trump declares #WAR on Rand Paul & Thomas Massie

Since posting this, I took another stab and looked up what "nagara" means in Sanskrit. It means "city" or "town".

Proves me wrong, right?😉

What do we name cities and towns after?

Usually its named after a thing or a person.

A good example of a place named after a thing would be "Little Rock, Arkansas".

We need not look very far to find examples of places named after people. I'll let you do that, and frankly, I'm confident that you can come up with a handful of cities named after people without resorting to search engines or AI. The list of places named after people would make this word wall a lot longer than it already is.

So what kind of people might get cities or towns named after them?

Founders? Absolutely.

The illustrious? No doubt.

While founders would likely be associated with the cities/towns they founded, what types of cities/towns would be associated with the illustrious?

The place where they were born and grew up?

The place where they primarily lived?

The place where they achieved their most significant accomplishments?

The place where they lived out their final years and died?

Sure, why not?

What if, before the word "nagara" became synonymous with "city/town", it was an honorific designating kundalini awakening and enlightenment, i.e. Naga (kundalini serpent) and Ra (source of light)?

What if the standard was to name places after enlightened beings who were born, lived, achieved, or died there...

but...

eventually...on a long enough timeline,

people's awareness of the meaning of these terms faded

at which point someone noticed how so many cities had the same suffix

and decided that the suffix of "-nagara" must mean "city/town".

I can't prove this, but it's not implausible either. Words make some funny leaps...I mean, you still "dial" phone numbers and "turn" things on right? ;)