Help me with math. If the radius of a circle with a diameter of 8 feet is increased by 2 feet, what is the circumference of that new circle?

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“Music is everything…”

“An intonation of transcendence…”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D-7x7LlUXms&pp=ygUHSmJwd2F2ZQ%3D%3D

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PSA: Less than 50k blocks till the next halving

Tick tock next block

https://timechaincalendar.com/en

I ordered 500 1-inch vinyl bitcoin logo stickers from StickerMule. I place them nicely and attractively next to the Visa/Mastercard logos on Point-of-Sale terminals, ATMs, my

fiat bank drive-through drawer, gas pump credit card readers, etc. when I’m out and about.

He dreamed of a ship in the world

That would carry his father and he

To a place they could never be found

To a place far away from this town

A Newcastle ship without coals

They would sail to the island of souls

Unforgeable costliness

Data integrity is critical in engineering, mathematics, architecture, relationships.

Warped, faked or incomplete data leads to product failure, marriage failure, bridge failure, roof failure.

This is the flaw of Fiat money. Fiat presents facade of value yet it is detached from actual market conditions.

Declaring a data set to be accurate does not make it so.

Bitcoin offers a valuable foundation for data of every kind; it is auditable and immutable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaB3Zw5_p9c

How Justice speaks to Fiat:

“Do you expect me to overlook obscene wealth you’ve piled up by cheating and fraud? Do you think I’ll tolerate shady deals and shifty scheming? I’m tired of the violent rich bullying their way with bluffs and lies. I’m fed up. Beginning now, you’re finished. You’ll pay for your sins down to your last cent. No matter how much you get, it will never be enough— hollow stomachs, empty hearts. No matter how hard you work, you’ll have nothing to show for it— bankrupt lives, wasted souls. You’ll plant grass but never get a lawn. You’ll make jelly but never spread it on your bread. You’ll press apples but never drink the cider. You have lived by the standards of your king, Omri, the decadent lifestyle of the family of Ahab. Because you’ve slavishly followed their fashions, I’m forcing you into bankruptcy. Your way of life will be laughed at, a tasteless joke. Your lives will be derided as futile and fake.”

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Hmm, thought it had it set up. I’ll take a look. Thanks 🙏🏼

“Governments at nearly all times and places have been the main beneficiaries of inflation. Rather than protecting society from it, therefore, all of them have sooner or later given in to the temptation of using inflation for their own purposes.

First they stopped combating it.

Then they facilitated it,

encouraged it,

and finally promoted it with all their powers.”

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Excerpt from The Ethics of Money Production

Chapter 7: Enters the State: Fiat Inflation through Legal Privileges

Part 1: Treacherous Clerks

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

IMO, whoever in gov’t that decided an entire US state should simultaneously receive a BLARING TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCASTING NETWORK AT 4:46 AM BLASTING THROUGH THEIR CELLLPHONE SPEAKERS should face negative consequences.

Appreciate your signal 💪☢️

"Returning the Guard Dog to Its Chain?"

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Does it make sense, in the specific context of Bible-based Christianity [defined by the teachings of the Old and New Testament, let's say], to liken the role of government to a chained-up junkyard guard dog?

I.e., governing authorities are to defend [not seize] specific territory [namely, the lives and property rights of the citizens] by punishing or even killing evil aggressors.

When the government uses its "sword" to steal from its own citizens [fiat, legally enforced monetary monopolies, money printing] it's like a junkyard guard dog getting off its chain leash and indiscriminately tearing into people instead of protecting only its area of responsibility.

#Bitcoin puts the chain back on.

It restrains the government's power, monetarily.

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"...The only way for the people to keep their government in check was to control the government’s resources.

If the government needed more money, therefore, it should approach the citizens to pay higher taxes.

Inflating the money supply provided it with more resources than the citizens were ready to contribute..."

Ludwig von Mises, Theory of Money and Credit (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1980), pp. 466–69.

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“However, to the smaller blockers, Bitcoin was not a business, nor a payment system taking on VISA, Paypal and Mastercard. It was a new form of money, something far more ambitious and potentially far more transformational to society and the economy. It was taking on central banks. In general, small blockers had nothing against Bitcoin becoming a fast and cheap payment system; it just came second behind their main priority, which was a robust and new form of money.”

Excerpt from "The Blocksize War: The battle for control over Bitcoin’s protocol rules" by Jonathan Bier

Appreciate you building cool things that we all can use but not all of us can build.

lil zzzap

“The Ethics of Money Production” is a good resource on the evils of inflation from the perspective of the Christian scholastics (Thomas Aquinas and Nicholas Oreseme).

Available for free here:

https://mises.org/library/ethics-money-production