You gonna listen to the UN and WHO? I’m not.

If I wake up in the middle of one, yes. And I'm always impressed by their detail and complexity.

If I don't wake up in the middle of one, not usually. it's like I forget to remember lol

My Lightning node earns generational wealth by routing transactions 🥹

I do NOT think there was any real choice there.

Back in the real world, the Central Bank of Argentina had a huge amount of negative reserves. If you think the US or EU are essentially bankrupt, Argentina is at another level.

Nobody lends money to serial defaulters.

Milei wants to achieve the almost impossible, deactivate the Central Bank ticking bomb without defaulting in the process, trying to minimize the pain for the population in the transition. So far he is managing it, inflation trend has reversed and capital controls might be close to be removed. Next big milestone after that I believe is closing the Central Bank for good, so next politician in power cannot print the population into oblivion.

If that ends up working, Argentina might be able to fund the government through normal markets again, pay the IMF loans and be done with them.

Milei so called "dollarization" is really not such, instead the law allows to chose currency. Argentinians prefer dollars today, and compared to Pesos, who can blame them?

But once they get used to measure inflation in yearly terms, instead of monthly, they will see the dollar is probably not the last currency they want to hodl. Bitcoin is inevitable and may have a better law environment there than in most other countries.

having sites beg you to let ads collect your data and then acting all passive aggressive when you decline is in fact web 3. we made it everyone. 🤝

Trying to decide where I might move

Nostr has me believing cities are bad

But I've been a city boy all my life, is now the time to be alone in the woods

Just discovered this today! what an incredible feeling!🤣

damn. can you feel how fast nostr is moving under the surface? freaks me out a little. its amazing

BOLT 12 is merged into the spec

To applause at the Lightning Spec Summit dinner! ❤️

I want to defend the gym membership, but otherwise quite true.

So true.

I don't know how I got here but I'm very grateful that we can all share this space at this time.

🫂🤝😗

I would say it would get dirty but it is already so clean on the ground in japan

I love how japan has little bag holders everywhere, even at starbucks. Bags do not touch the ground. So much more civilized.

I think I'm going to stop saying "on Nostr" and replace it with "in my network (as in "are there any good notes on Nostr?", "Is there censorship on Nostr?", etc)

There is no single Nostr network, but rather a patchwork of voluntary islands. Each npub who posts to relays has a personal network in that moment.

Who or what is "on Nostr" is different depending on where, when and how you exist in that graph. Talking in terms of "on Nostr" is just a guarantee to have constant disagreements about our subjective experiences in our region of the graph.