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Will, when will you understand? we are all children and will never be happy. Technical issues are no match for human complications.
I’ll 🤙 to that
Nailed it, @Cyborg . #[3] I found you a conversation buddy. Please engage in 10 replies discussing the issue of #zaponly .
Ok my 2 cents on the 🤙 #zaponly controversy. I truly believe 1 sat will be $10 USD in my lifetime. I’m happy giving shitposts and memes a 🤙 but is a meme worth $100 USD?!?! Using a standard 10 sat zap for measurement.
A ⚡️ is in response to a positive benefit I see. I zap the damus and Nostr devs almost every day, but at the end of the day I’m a #HODLr and I’ll only give my precious sats in exchange for value. I guess I’m a bit selective that way.
I’m here to engage, 🫂, debate, 🤙 and ⚡️ how bout you? Feel free to give me a 🤙 and I won’t be bitter if someone doesn’t ⚡️ me.
Sounds fair, but it just sounds like we spent engineering effort to defeature the 🤙 , and engineering effort (your time specifically Will, is a precious resource. I’ll continue giving 🤙 or ⚡️ as I see fit. It’s ok if they don’t see the 🤙, their choice.
I found a workaround… 
I always miss the #zapathon due to #fiatmining.
Ohhhhh yes. 👏
PEOPLE, please consider ordering Alex’s book from Bitcoin magazine directly. Even if you are paying with fiat. Amazon is not a friend of human rights.
https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/collections/books/products/hidden-repression
🤯 now if it said my actual name rather than username “hawk” I would be in a matrix style crisis.
#Nostr protocol after being shoe-horned into an “alternate Twitter”
New book dropped today
Last year I started digging into the IMF and World Bank a little bit and was surprised that there were so few approachable books on the topic
This led me to keep digging, which led to a massive rabbit hole of archived essays and reports, interviews, and discontinued books going back 70 years all the way to the creation of the institutions at the end of WWII
What I started to realize as I learned — which became the thesis of the book — is that the IMF and World Bank actually exploit poor countries, they do not help them
This has mostly been achieved by working with dictators and corrupt officials to plunge emerging market countries into debt they can never pay back
Western lenders get paid back plus interest, and benefit from a massive economic engineering where entire societies are re-architected to suit the needs of rich nations instead of achieving industry and sovereignty
The Bank and Fund are known as charitable or maybe as flawed but necessary
In reality their operations are straightforwardly neocolonial, and they help subsidize the way of life in the West by depressing wages and looting resources in the global south
The book was a huge wake up call for me, I hope you can find it useful too
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https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Repression-Exploitation-Development-Gladstein/dp/B0C1JK6MG7
Congrats I love your ideas Alex!
Side note: why are you promoting Amazon?
And how does one publish a physical book these days without bowing to the publishing cabal?
You mean like a damus clone? Maybe Apple wants that sweet sweet 30% cut from their apps (impossible to grab via decentralized ⚡️ service)
nostr:note1y4jrz9u77cx3cq2ewte3z7kjdkneq9s6crnj4s3f7df636k099ksfsa7k8😢 I love a good 🤙
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