havent had ramen my local spot for awhile
price went up in NTD since i was last here, but lower in sats
11k sats for a bowl of delicious 😋
Halloween is starting to become a consumer holiday in Taiwan; I dont think they quite get it yet 🤭
oh well, i guess ill take salmon sushi and beef patties wrapped in beef slices shaped like a hand as opposed to a pile of cheap high fructose corn syrup candy stuffed in pillow cases instead
those poor shitcoiners 🥲🤣
The government has gone too far. https://gizmodo.com/feds-say-you-dont-have-a-right-to-check-out-retro-video-games-like-library-books-2000516767
"gaming historian" has a better ring than "emulation geek" 🤔
ECB says Bitcoin will make everyone poor
The Minneapolis Fed says Bitcoin must be taxed
The Chinese now say Bitcoin will kill us all
whats that one tweet from a long time ago? "i just want to see central bankers piss themselves"
mission accomplished 🤣
Taiwan is a great place to be of course! come visit 🥳
i was under the impression that WCDMA deployed during the mobile boom (3G) in all the markets that mattered. CDMA "won" and moved the industry to be more data-focused.
GSM and CDMA are different technologies, but they eventually converged when data/voice/sms all became one in a decade (LTE). but the preference of GSM/HSPA in smaller markets over CDMA2000 has more to do with leapfrogging then-traditional phone networks to data-native networks than some anti-American stance. (IMO)
The mobile revolution wasnt waiting on any country's ambition. if we're talking a country trying to push through standards, arent you thinking of that BRICS member pushing through TD-SCDMA? That didnt go well outside of their borders.
GFY was "good for you" to me for way longer than I would like to admit
Tell those clowns to figure out how to swap to Bitcoin themselves, why put the burden and cost on you?
Red: I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.....
my friend is looking to get into a boating accident 🤭
eh, i got used to whichever text-to-speech is available on my phone to read epub files i download. every now and then i'll switch it up and/or adjust the pace or tone.
librera reader is great for this (also supports 3rd party TTS voices)
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This new paper is a true declaration of war: the ECB claims that early #bitcoin adopters steal economic value from latecomers. I strongly believe authorities will use this luddite argument to enact harsh taxes or bans. Check 🧵 for why:
Rather than praising bitcoin as a tech paradigm shift à la petroleum and the internet, the authors introduce the blatantly luddite argument that "early adopters" ... "increase their real wealth and consumption" ... "at the expense of [latecomers]".
Then they go on to brazenly advocate for legislation ... "to prevent bitcoin prices from rising or to see bitcoin disappear altogether" in order to prevent "the division of society".
The authors also model some projections, to illustrate the paltry amount of BTC that will remain available for latecomers. (Woe is me! Conspicuously left out is the reason that has driven 15 years of bitcoin adoption & development: it's simply better tech.)
In all the years I've been monitoring the bitcoin space, this is by far the most aggressive paper to come from authorities. The gloves are off. It's clear that these central bank economists now see bitcoin as an existential threat, to be attacked with any means possible.
Many of us have warned that this was coming: bitcoin as a major political fault line both in national and international elections. Well here it is. It means that us HODLers must take action to insure that governments respect our basic right to hold property.
And no, this won't be a war between haves and have-nots. Rather this will be a historic clash between those who stand for the natural rights of the individual, and those who clutch at the failed ideologies of collectivism and central planning.
Here's the download link to the paper: "The distributional consequences of Bitcoin". (We need detailed rebuttals. Who's writing one?)
how they claim software outside of their system can steal economic value and leave out money printing within their system really just shows they view laypeople as uneducated idiots who cant put anything together on their own
Kendrick Lamar - ignorance is bliss
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etf要玩什麼金融把戲是它們家的事，我覺得沒什麼好怕的。想玩的東西又不缺。ETF不管如何經營，它們會無法湊不出來超過21M比特幣。就算它們欺騙了投資者，害得是它們自己和信任它們的人，比特幣節點們不會鳥它們的。🙂↔️
比特幣etf有這個「來真的」特殊點，基金，債券，股票，各式各樣的金融產品就是沒有🫠其他的東西倒了，還有辦法“救” 每次金融風暴還不是有“中央銀行/政府”叫人民買單 。比特幣etf被發現沒有比特幣，想救也無法救。
有了這個etf產品以後就感覺跟市場說 ： 「要不要玩玩看真的？」那些生為投資者的人要玩玩看，還是繼續玩永遠贏不了的騙局呢
理由有很多啊，就過程嘛
比特幣身為另一種資產目前許多投資者白紙黑字上無法買。（譬如公司，投資銀行，國家，等等 叫他們學大眾挖礦或註冊虛擬貨幣交易所用冷錢包+節點是免談的） ETF當為暫時的窗口跟者大眾剛開始用的交易平台脫離留言板的時代是一樣的意思。
ETF不是比特幣，它代表比特幣發展的過程🤓