#zapathon

I am open to recommendations on a platform to make Broken Money easily buyable with sats, either print+ebook or just ebook (since I won’t be handling physical shipping).

Let me know some of the best ways to proceed and I’ll look into them.

This first round is print books on Amazon, which is done. Next in the queue is the kindle version which should be available within a week or so.

And then the audiobook will come out. It’s in development but it takes time.

In parallel with the audiobook, I will be working to have it available in print in Barnes and Noble and other bookstores.

And I will figure out a way to make it buyable in sats. As I said, I am open to suggestions on the best way to do that. Any books I happen to sell in person will of course be buyable with cash or sats.

And then depending on sales figures, I will be looking into translation options.

All of the profits from the first thousand copies sold (about $5 per book) will go to the Human Rights Foundation Bitcoin Development Fund.

And for those for whom the book price is a burden or distribution is an issue, perhaps because they live in countries where the money is most broken, I invite them to pirate it.

Remember ordinals 💩 ?

Good Morning! Time for a walk before the sun gets too high. 🐶🐾🫡☕️☕️☕️🌅🕶️

Good morning 🐶🐾🫡☕️☕️☕️

Clase de economía en One piece:

- Dinero ≠ Tesoro

- Intercambio indirecto ≠Trueque

It's Thursday afternoon. That means a Zapathon is coming in just a couple hours. What are Zapathons?

Zapathons are unofficial events that happen on nostr which consist of rapidly Zapping as much sats or as many people as possible. The main focus of the event is to have fun all the while stress testing many Lightning wallets and clients across the nostr protocol.

While Zapathons can occur at any time throughout the day and throughout the week - they can be completely random - most Zapathons happen on Thursday and Friday at 5pm Eastern Standard Time.

You'll find hundreds of people Zapping every single note they come across or they'll be targeting specific notes or even targeting specific individuals. (Zap the devs!) You'll see memes and animated GIFs flooding your main feed as everyone celebrates, produces content to be Zapped, and wants to partake in the fun and excitement.

Some Nostriches like to hold their best memes, GIFs, or even announcements for Zapathons. Posting your content during a Zapathon could mean a healthy boost of eyeballs and Zaps for your note.

All you need to do to participate is have a Bitcoin Lighting wallet and like to have fun. That's it. You can also follow the #Zapathon hashtag for an extra dose of excitement if your own personal feed is a little bland during a Zapathon time period.

Someone I know in Egypt has a co-worker that was recently arrested for being a “black market” dollar dealer.

Authorities don’t mind if you own dollar accounts in Egyptian banks. But they don’t like you withdrawing them. They want to be able to fractionally reserve them, rehypothecate them, etc.

Unlike Argentina, Nigeria, Lebanon, Turkey, and many other countries, stablecoins are not popular in Egypt for dollar exposure. A common reason cited is they don’t like the intangibility of them. Same for bitcoin. But black market dollars are commonly traded for, albeit with legal risk.

“In no period of human history, has paper money spontaneously emerged on the free market. The only sure way to bring paper notes into circulation was to impose them on the citizenry.

Historically, private coinage came first and only later did governments take over. It carries the risk of total and permanent value annihilation.

In a truly free market, paper could not withstand the competition of commodity monies. The more farsighted and prudent market participants would get rid of their paper money first, and the others would follow in due course

Inflation is that part of the money supply that comes into being because of the invasion of private property rights. As in the case of debasement, banknotes have been falsified both by ordinary criminals and by the “guardians” themselves, as in 1781 when the Bank of Amsterdam started counterfeiting its own banknotes.

Economic science has put us in a position to understand that competitive coinage is an even better way of preserving the trustworthiness of coins. There is no economic reason not to allow every private citizen to enter the minting business and to offer his own coins.

As long as the citizens are free to produce and use the best money available, sound money prevails, whereas debased money and fractional reserves lead a fringe existence".

- J.G.Hülsmann

#Bitcoin > #CounterfeitMoney