You neglected to mention that they observed "the right amount" of monero arrive in his CEX account "in the right time frame," namely, within minutes after withdrawing them from a prior exchange. That is called a timing analysis trace and it would not work if monero didn't leak data about the amount and the time of a transaction.

Euros - bureaucrats are sharing the plan to steal your hard earned savings.

They are laughing in your and your family’s face.

What are you going to do about it?

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Fingers crossed!

Just said “nothing stops this train” on Fox Business live. ;)

Why did the Empire bother to compact their garbage if they just ejected it

into space anyway?

-AMeanCow, Oct 2014

NEW: The High Court in London has issued a Worldwide Freezing Order (WFO) against Craig Wright, requiring him to pay £1.548 million to cover Peter McCormack’s legal fees from the 2019 defamation case Wright filed against him.

High School should teach:

• Taxes

• Investing

• Negotiating

• Real Estate

• Entrepreneurship

• Personal Finance

• Financial Planning

What would you add?

I just received word that Craig Wright has discontinued all parts of his UK libel proceedings against me.

Meaning it's OVER. I just got my life back.

I'm so extremely happy right now! Thank you to everyone who has supported me!

🧡

Let's say the AI apocalypse doomers are correct.

How should I prepare for judgement day? Seems like it would be smart to add EMP weapons to one's armory.

But all the EMP generator guides I can find are for dinky toys. Where's a guide for a scaled up generator that will fry every circuit within a hundred yards?

The Fed's Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), the facility that they introduced after the March 2023 banking crisis, now offers lower borrowing rates than the Fed pays in interest on reserve balances.

So, banks are arbitraging this by borrowing from the facility (i.e. from the Fed) at one interest rate, and then depositing that borrowed money with the Fed to earn a higher interest rate, and thus are earning that risk-free spread. They're arbitraging the Fed.

Sideproject #…

"without further ado" is such a useless phrase, why not just skip it entirely and get to the point?

Why are there so many people with masks? I know that was a thing even before Covid lunacy, but why?

They don’t like the new appstore preview images. Sorry for delay 😔 nostr:note16nt34dz4x8pdu79ka78jejeyp3t0at5x4ll8z8zdm62trgkzdxyqaydcpe

There seems to be something with Nostr that I've seen through casual observation and then discussions among new people - that having a really small following results in disproportionately low engagement. (ie. half the followers means 1/4th the engagement or something similar)

In other words, it seems like the bootstrapping phase of this network for new people is worse than on traditional platforms. But I can't think of an obvious reason why this might be unless it's a consequence of not having cross-talk between relays.

Wondering if there might be a way to somehow amplify or ensure wide relay connections for those new to the platform, without amplifying bots and scams at the same time?

Maybe this is just sort of an inescapable reality of the tech, but mostly just thinking out loud. 🤔

I spoke at a big bitcoin-adjacent company this week and one of the best questions was from someone who asked what the downsides of bitcoin adoption might be.

I always do appreciate these steelman questions, the skeptical questions, the ones where we challenge ourselves. Only when we can answer those types of questions do we understand the concept that we are promoting.

So the classic example is that in modern economic literature, "deflation is bad". This, however, is only the case in a highly indebted system. Normally, deflation is good. Money appreciates, technology improves, and goods and services get cheaper over time as they should. Price of Tomorrow covers this well. My book touches on this too, etc. The "deflation is bad" meme is still alive in modern economic discourse and thus is worth countering, but I think in the bitcoin spectrum of communities, people get that deflation is fine and good.

My answer to the question was in two parts.

The first part was technological determinism. In other words, if we were to re-run humanity multiple times, there are certain rare accidents that might not replicate, and other commonalities that probably would. Much like steam engines, internal combustion engines, electricity, and nuclear power, I think a decentralized network of money is something we would eventually come across. In our case, Bitcoin came into existence as soon as the bandwidth and encryption tech allowed it to. In other universes or simulations it might look a bit different (e.g. might not be 21 million or ten minute block times exactly), but I think decentralized real-time settlement would become apparent as readily as electricity does, for any civilization that reaches this point. So ethics aside, it just is what it is. It exists, and thus we must deal with it.

The second part was that in my view, transparency and individual empowerment is rarely a bad thing. Half of the world is autocratic. And half of the world (not quite the same half) deals with massive structural inflation. A decentralized spreadsheet that allows individuals to store and send value can't possibly be a bad thing, unless humanity itself is totally corrupted. I then went into more detail with examples about historical war financing, and all sorts of tangible stuff. In other words, a whole chapter full of stuff. I've addressed this in some articles to.

In your view, if you had to steelman the argument as best as you could, what are the scenarios where bitcoin is *BAD* for humanity rather than good for it, on net?