Well if succeeding is “lasting forever” then no government can have “succeeded” until the end of time
We just all have to let go the idea that we’ve found history’s last best greatest and most noble way of organizing ourselves (or that such a system is even possible) and admit that our systems of social organization are all entirely downstream of the technologies we have available to us for communication, violence, production, health and money.
This is 100% real and I share it all the time
Other questions include
Where did Saylor get started (MIT & Air Force)
Who funded Microstrategy to get started (DuPont)
What product do they sell (I can’t figure it out)
Why do they have offices all over the world (good question)
I did not and although I could have theoretically bought more corn instead, the truth is my daughter will only be 3 this year and so I convinced myself the pictures and videos we take will justify spending 100x in future purchasing power
The garage door opener is a different story. That’s just me being a high time preference idiot
Bought new iPhones for wife and myself instead of soldiering on another year with cracked 3 year old phones, am I even a real Bitcoiner
All we need to do is keep building working solutions on Bitcoin Lightning and allow vendors to continue to normalize adding 3% to credit card transactions and we’ll win
I can’t seem to get breakfast at a dinner for two for $30 anymore
I used to spend at least $50-60 taking my wife and daughter to dinner. Now it’s $90-100 at the same places.
Random idea
Is there a feasible way to structure it so that
Someone could lock up a UTXO on the lightning network without being the node runner?
I haven’t thought this through at all, but if there were some smart contract that could allow someone to enhance the liquidity on that network and earn fees without spinning up their own node, that would be interesting
It’d be a form of secured credit I guess
I guess the simplest way to do this would be ecash issuance
Because there’s really no way to do this trust minimized, you’d always be at risk that the node failed with force closes etc. you’re always trusting the node operator.
By building the pyramid of nuclear weapon lies, to be specific
Do you see the game they play
The oil pharaohs have suppressed nuclear and in turn every innovation that challenges their power nostr:note17zcdkn8jxau7d28sa3pwu8204xk9vcgvwu442eagte9u7mwmld9sl6lyez
We’ve gone from “account suspended” to “ka-boom” real quick
Don’t make me tap the sign 
It’s going to get really exciting
The new iPhones, the 360 cameras, these Blazar Remus anamorphic lenses, the DJI SDR system, the DJI LiDAR focus ecosystem… it’s all bananas. Even Sigma cracked a 28-105 f/2.8. Just bananas.
Prosumer video tech is getting truly and completely unbelievable
I have paid for too many deferred big ticket items in the last month for us not to blast away to $100k in short order
Thank you for the heads up fren. Would have walked right into this.
Later on Clair De Lune would be perfect for a GN
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