If the USA successfully drives all bitcoin and crypto companies out of the country, will that be good for countries that aren't the USA? IE: Most of the world?

Seems like it would be bad for the USA but maybe bad for America isn't good for everyone else.

Make a CLI version, nobody cares if they look meh.

I set up my last one with Umbrel, which would have been fairly smoothly done if it wasn't for failing hard-drives and initially trying on a machine which kept overheating and powering down.

Drive-space is the thing. You are gonna want a 1TB drive really. The blockchain will take up more than half of that already.

Oh, okay. Sirius business and spam, but that's it.

Only those two things.

Nostr is for sirius business, no time for fun machines here, only business machines.

50 blocks to go!

As we know, the first genesis block contained a coinbase message with the headline "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

And then at the last halvening a block was mined with the coinbase message saying "NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue." (Though they missed and it was a block early)

Has there been a headline the miners might sneek into the halvening block tonight?

I saw "U.S. Debt Interest Payments Reach $1 Trillion" recently but I think it was some blog not a paper of record.

The halvening will be on 4/20 if you write dates wrong like an american 🚬

You can indeed follow hashtags.

I've been liking phanpy as a client lately. It's "catch up" mode is pretty great.

Like any social network the key is to follow hundreds of people really.

Well, he may think he can do what he wants with the users but the rate the users are leaving might indicate otherwise.

It's emptying as quickly as Myspace did when Murdoch bought it.

I delete mine within weeks.

Well, Elon didn't actually want a shitposting site when he bought a shitposting site, he wanted some sort of "everything"/banking app.

I dunno why he thinks buying a shitposting site and trying to turn it into a banking app is a good plan, but it will indeed lead to KYC of every user, or maybe moving the company to a new country at least.

He wanted first dibs on their eyeballs.

Over 200 eyeballs during his lifetime.

Good cat.

I have posted a few of today's memes to my friend Dan whose birthday is today. He'll be confused and has no idea what a nostr is I shouldn't think.

Nice work.

Reckon everyone ought to be withdrawing their labour from Spotify these days. I wouldn't let 'em carry my stuff at all now they won't pay small artists at all.

And big artists have even more power.

Only those stuck on the record labels that own most of Spotify are stuck there really.

Repent! Quit your job! Slack off!

Screenshot.

Anything else will disappear eventually.

If there were the main difference Mastodon would easily take the trophy. A network filled with robots vs a network filled with people? Well, I'm not a robot (and I can prove it, I fucking swear) so I guess I'd be on the network for humans.

If they've already admitted that they don't delete things when they said they would delete things then paying them to "really honestly this time delete the things" seems like it'd be a fools move.

They'll just come back the next year saying they didn't really delete it again and asking for more.

Remember when "going viral" used to mean that people liked a thing so much they shared it with their friends?

And now it just means the algorithm picked it and forced it into everyone's feeds.

What's most depressing about the almost-certain fact that multiple nations are currently silently stacking sats, is that the UK is in one of the best positions to do so! It is already printing so many billions of pounds that diverting a few of them into BTC would make litterally no difference at all to it's crippling debt problem.

And yet we are almost certainly not among the countries doing it.

It's very like how Kodak wouldn't invest in digital photography because they owned film photography and didn't wanna cut into their own business.

Only the GBP is already defunct to the dollar and double-ducked coz of Brexit, so it's like next generation squared of that.

Games and AI.

Is that still the best way given that I'll need lnbits for other purposes anyway?