#bitcoin is a peer to peer broadcast network

#lightning is a peer to peer state channel network

#ecash is a client-server network

which is the odd one out?

I appreciate the number of cash-only businesses I’m encountering in Colorado, but man, these guys need bitcoin.

If I zap you, it’s nothing personal- I’m just testing Nostr Wallet Connect with #nostr #safebox

All of this is true. It doesn't mean that grid based solar and wind are bad.

Subsidies are examples of bad central planning at the hands of the government.

Look into volumetric pricing versus load based pricing. Load based is what you need to keep costs down in the long run. This is because load based pricing changes consumption patterns. Consumers hate it because they want a steady bill and they don't like to change their consumption patterns. Electricity billing has always been volumetric and people are resistant to change.

Volumetric pricing is an example of bad central planning at the hands of a monopoly. (A government mandated monopoly btw.) It means utilities need to match load to demand even when demand is sky high. That's really expensive in aggregate but the cost is socialized and nobody has to change consumption patterns or have inconsistent power bills, so it is the most popular choice. Tragedy of the commons.

Intermittent generation like wind and solar makes the problem worse. They get subsidized because they are popular with the public. Why does the voting public love all these terrible policies? Because the voting public is economically illiterate. They are, quite literally, a bunch of socialists.

Batteries solve the problems of pricing and intermittent generation by time shifting demand patterns. They also save a ton of money by reducing the need for transmission and distribution, the most wasteful part of our electrical grid.

Once you see the whole picture it's clear that batteries are the way forward.

I really need to re-read the Dostoyevsky I've read cos I read them when I was quite young. And there's a few I've still not read.

I think I'll read Dante's Divine Comedy next.

Welp

#GrapheneOS

Lightning channels are railroads - private pathways where value travels frictionless, unobstructed by looters’ toll booths.

tap to nut

nut to pay

near field cashu

this project is damned, we started it before finding a good name for it

concern yourself with the total understanding of mankind

Cashu is Bitcoin gift cards.

For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time.

I know few ever log on under someone else's npub but if a user could follow other npubs to their actual nsec when logged in as a different npub would make discovery so much easier.

Who wants nuts? Reply with “🥜” and I’ll send you some — testing the latest update.

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I am sending zaps to each Olas picture I see.

Just saying..

Decrease cost of living every year while growing a growing family. How do you reduce your cost of living maximally?

So, how to configure amethyst such that it only connects to a local citrine relay, but the public outbox model relay list is still correct?