I predict: European countries are going to attack Russia. Article 5 of NATO won't be triggered because Europe will attack, not be attacked.

I see no other reason why the West continues to support Ukraine in a losing war. They aren't just going to give up and say "oh well we tried". And Ukraine is almost out of fighters.

Nostr is such a relief from Twitter and the ‘top table’ influencers with all their sycophants. Dread to think what all the chat is about right now. Most likely State capitulation and panic

Ty. I'm on it ;)

Gn.

#cybersecgirl

GM ☕️

I wonder how many agents are engaged in the sub division that is addressing this stuff? Is it a half a dozen, is it a dozen or several? Super curious what their process around this is their thinking and what informs their decision... where orders come from etc etc...

That's why they do it with a mortgage, rather than a one-off tax.

They did one here before, I think in the 1950s. They value the houses (they just did this for all homes, 2 years ago), and then they put a 20% state mortgage on everyone's house and you repay the state over 10 years or so. The state confiscates your equity and you buy it back.

They did one here before, I think in the 1950s. They value the houses (they just did this for all homes, 2 years ago), and then they put a 20% state mortgage on everyone's house and you repay the state over 10 years or so. The state confiscates your equity and you buy it back.

About Liquid, Cashu and Fedimint.

As you may know I have recommended the use of these solutions to gain privacy, especially Liquid versus the expensive and inefficient coinjoin, but this does not mean that I am not aware of the risks.

My point of view is strictly pragmatic, I use these solutions for my own benefit being aware of the risks.

The example to follow is eMule, which in many ways I have always considered the precursor of Bitcoin. eMule has been around for more than 25 years and has not been able to close down, why?

- Open source

- Distributed

Any layer that is applied to Bitcoin to gain privacy and be able to resist state censorship will have to be.

- Open source

- Distributed

- Its creators must be anonymous.

All centralized and federated solutions will be closed and if their creators are known, they will be jailed unless it is a honeypot. In the same way for decentralized solutions, if their creators are not anonymous, they will also be imprisoned.

You have already seen with Samourai that for the USA there are no jurisdictions, wherever you are from you will be arrested, so both Liquid, as Cashu, as Fedimint are temporary solutions that will end up closed in one way or another.

If you can use them to your benefit then use them, but be aware, I hope that now you understand my defense of Joinmarket against other alternatives and my hope with Joinstr.

No, haven't read that one. I thought you were referring to When Money Dies.

They will take anything they can get.

Germany realized people put all their money in house construction, so now they discuss reverse-mortgages on houses.

I've read a lot of books, sir. My handle is the German word for "female reader". 😂