There's not much going on. Presidential Election coming up on January 13th 🥳

It will be the 8th one where taiwanese can vote directly.

Do consider visiting! What would you like to know?

Everything is all good. it was nice for the PLA to announce their satellite launch, normally they wouldn't say anything 🫠

Election season in Taiwan 🤷

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Tbh what is happening now is mild despite the rhetoric in media 🤷, when I was in elementary school the PRC launched missiles over the island during our first direct presidential election which I was told I could see from the schoolyard (1996, Taiwan was under dictatorship/martial law until 1987). PLA fighter jets that need occasional escorts home when they wander into US-drawn Republic of China airspace (which actually stretches across the Strait into their mainland) is just business as usual. Our friends across the Strait also often draw silly lines on maps that no one pays attention to😂

Prior to that, in 1971 when Republic of China ceded its seat on the UN Security Council to the People's Republic of China, the US even ceased all fighter jet sales to Taiwan, depriving it of air defenses increasing tensions for a decade. Despite tensions, Taiwanese ended up building their own fighter jets in response (FCK-1) until eventually fighter jet sales resumed, today the indigenous fighter jet is called the Brave Eagle. Taiwan with it's fertile land and diverse human capital is fairly self sufficient and thrives under tension

Regardless, strategically Taiwan is a tough nut to crack, amphibious invasion was even avoided entirely by the US during WWII due to its difficulty. Billions of dollars in Chinese aircraft carriers don't actually help in an invasion of Taiwan either, something to think about.

Getting that Softwar thesis to play out in Taiwan would be fascinating 😎

Bitcoin is not legal tender, the recent legislation has nothing to do with it (legal shitcoiner shenanigans). Taiwan (a territory of the Republic of China🇹🇼) uses the New Taiwan Dollar which is issued by the Central Bank of China since 2000 (issued by the Japan-established Bank of Taiwan prior to that). Monetary history of Taiwan is pretty interesting and not well understood, Taiwanese even experienced hyperinflation in 1947 (40,000% in a year!) when the former japanese colony was handed over to the US-allied Chinese nationalists fled from the Chinese Civil War and struggled to maintain stability.

Presently the constitution of the Republic of China🇹🇼 only recognizes the dollar-pegged New Taiwan Dollar as legal tender and invokes strict capital controls on it. Bitcoin as Taiwan legal tender would require a change to the constitution which would be nearly impossible as it would require super-majority 3/4 legislature approval. Taiwan would likely pursue self-determination given the opportunity instead. The Republic of China (circa 1911) constitution is structured in a way to prevent that 🫠, many hurdles for 23 million Taiwanese to be recognized on the world stage

Taiwan is a global leader in providing affordable secure computing which is aligned with the goals of Bitcoin, and Taiwan stands to benefit across many sectors as the Bitcoin network continues to spread with or without the Republic of China. As much as I would love to believe that handing a bunch of copies of Bitcoin Standard to legislators would make Bitcoin legal tender, it just wouldn't play out like that. It would be interesting to see Bitcoin flourish on the island but like most countries, we have shitcoiner problems to deal with.

Come visit nostr:npub1yvt22y0mkehu9n2fr50wlxg3rg0zjfrcezpeat352shjkjd9l8jqgxz9q9 when you're here! Plenty of food choices near our meetup

Lots of different religions on the island, and they pray often. Taiwan sits on the ring of fire (frequent earthquakes) and get annual typhoons, can't always expect peace when the earth constantly shifts beneath our feet. Make the most out of each day and be excellent to one another. Do visit when you get a chance, enjoy the beauty of nature, get to know the culture and enjoy delicious foods

What you hear on your screens regarding our silly neighbors are the least of our worries. Literally everything is reinforced concrete anyways 😂

🥳Everything is fine here, come visit

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沒經驗的海軍下雨天別想出海，很危險呢

It's a burn address up until someone figures out how exactly how Satoshi started up Bitcoin.

Chance close to nil

台灣人是生活在台灣的人，台灣是海島，有多元的人，多元的文化，自己的歷史。 別用這種手段把我們圈進去🫠

嚴格說漢族人也不存在好嗎 都是亂說的

Surprisingly I tripped over the bandwidth limit on the VPS I use to make the nostrich.friendship.tw public relay available, twice in this billing period

I thought maybe I was getting DDOS'ed but seems like people actually using it 🫣 I might have to blow away the relay on a more frequent basis to keep under bandwidth limits going forward

Are we listening to the same episodes? Odell scolds McCormack like he's a schoolboy each time 🤭

This is important information 🤓

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Happy new year !

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My node will validate and propagate blocks from templates 1 and 2 marginally faster 🫡

Good morning 🌞

If only there were nostr stickers 🥹

You're living the sequel 🤭

An average lifespan is like 4 million blocks 👀