Egypt is one of the handful of countries joining BRICS next year.

Friends and family here who don’t normally talk about finance are talking about it a lot. They see it as a pathway to escape the yoke of the dollar and American imperialism. They ask if this could mean the downfall of the dollar, and so forth.

I’ve been writing about long term de-dollarization for the past 3-4 years, and of course Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent freezing of Russian reserves accelerated it around the margins. I touch on de-dollarization in Broken Money too, in the “Heavy is the Head That Wears the Crown” chapter.

But like most things, people got overly excited by this process. Popular gold analysts were calling for a gold-backed BRICS currency announcement here in August, which of course never came.

Some major BRICS countries don’t even really like each other, like India and China. This will be a stepwise piece by piece process of closer financial and trade integration. Over time, countries can swap currencies rather than go through dollar rails.

It’s an important geopolitical process, but beware of people hyping it up too much or making something out of it that it is not.

They want to give all the carrier info to all of alphabet 'partners' instead of just to Google Fi. Stuff like towers you're on etc.. they emailed about it and it was easy to opt out.

Nice try Google Fi.

Holy cow.

I gotta have one of these. Can you point me in the right direction?

Actionable error messages are super underrated.

From the next version forward, when Amethyst fails to complete a zap, it will provide sufficient description to help people report and diagnose the problem with each other. When the user clicks in the Message button, a copy of the error message is sent to the receiver.

Reputation score is attached to a user pubkey.

Any mechanics with tips on the longevity, and cost of maintenance of Japanese hybrid x ICE vehicles?

#carstr

#cars

#asknostr

Has the CEO of Nostr made a plan to comply with Queen Ursula’s latest decree?

regulatory fragmentation is going to slow everything down, and make it all worse.

Not finalized but if I had to guess, $60-80, with a choice of several different enclosures, and with shipping within the US included. You'll always be able to build this stuff more cheaply on your own. But if you appreciate the convenience of having it all there and want to support the builders, the kits and assembled devices will be a great option.

The plan is to offer just the enclosures, all of the components as a kit, or an assembled device with pre-loaded software. Over time we would like to add more configurable options, over-the-air updates, the ability to inexpensively purchase additional display modes via LN payment, many more enclosure options and themes, and other features. These things take time, but the plan for this concept is ambitous. 🙂

Haven't listed them in my store yet, DM if you'd like to arrange a p2p purchase. 👍

What’s so hard to understand about rules without rulers?

Thx Andreas 🧡

I'm #Amethyst you can subscribe to some hashtags.

You even can check witch hashtag a user is following in its profile.

I find it quite useful, tbh.

Are hashtags really useful? #asknostr

Why not use communities instead of cluttering the post text with hashtags?

Personally, I've found reddit style communities more useful for discovery and niche topic discussion than randomly searching for hashtags on twitter or even nostr.

Analysig and discovering a problem is not the same as proposing a solution for it.