'Austrian vs. Neoclassical Analytics' by Robert P. Murphy
Bob Murphy does a great job in this lecture. Highly recommend watching this.
Right, as long as the private keys are not on device, it's good
Can a watch-only wallet be set up for other hot wallets though?
All seeing Big Brother in the sky that can convict us of thought crime. https://youtu.be/D5swU8lZiqM
Ah
Literal interpretations of metaphorical ideas tend to muddle things
I thought they also had schools of thought that advocated seeking judgement within
Okay wow I was not familiar with Daniel Day-Lewis' acting
This goes beyond 'wrongthink' and potentially becomes 'dangerthink' 😂
I'm not a member of an Abrahamic religion so I'd like to understand this perspective. Any pointers?
These debates ought to be in the forefront of political discourse, but alas, we're stuck with debating how much free helicopter money each person gets
Found an interesting concept in property rights theory:
'Ad coelum doctrine:
Asserts that a landowner's rights extend not only to the surface of their land but also indefinitely upwards into the airspace above and downwards into the earth below, potentially to the center of the earth.'
If ownership is derived from homesteading/first-use, i.e. transformation of an unowned resource by mixing it with one's labour and making it an extension of their self, I don't think this can be valid.
I've been closely following nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qzxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skc34yxrm as I think their model represents what I think is the cutting edge when it comes to self-custodial Lightning on mobile.
Here's a timeline:
•Mid-2023 they started testing a feature which runs an 'embedded node' on your phone (Neutrino node on your phone with LND). Stable version was out a few months after.
•After that they set up their own LSP and started letting people purchase and lease channels from it.
•Slowly brought in taproot channels, seed recovery (aezeed), swaps (in-house and external services), LN addresses (with tradeoffs i.e. hodl invoices), point-of-sale, cashu, coin control, multiple embedded node setup, along the way.
Coming soon: Watchtower, NWC and Payjoin.
If they enable Bolt12 on the embedded nodes and also figure out how to let people use their embedded nodes for routing I don't think any other wallet can hope to come close to being as good. But Bolt12 is an implementation-level thing and I don't even know if routing is possible in this model.
Blockstream does have it now. But I don't think Nunchuk does.
Agreed on nostr:npub1cvqlzvmjercdn0ypsmv8f7j9lge6ahsnueh5rparh53wuswftv4q49yjt3. It works very well for me. There are upsell/account options available; but it's not at all in your face after your initial login "as guest". Though, as best I can tell, the iOS version isn't open source (no Github like there is for android or desktop)... Not a deal-breaker for me, though, since I don't use mobile wallets as the sole transaction signer, anyway.
I find nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n way less intuitive (and way more cluttered with junk)... maybe I just need to be using it with a Jade. 🤷
Bluewallet was my first, and is a great simple ux, but I ultimately abandoned it completely due to no testnet support - which has become a huge pet peeve of mine for wallets in general (nostr:npub1cvqlzvmjercdn0ypsmv8f7j9lge6ahsnueh5rparh53wuswftv4q49yjt3 definitely handles testnet the best, IMO).
Cove looks like a very promising Bluewallet alternative, but is clearly not yet ready for prime-time.
Being able to add a watch-only wallet is becoming a top-priority feature for me
The government does allocate a few dozen crores each year to promote select languages, predominantly Hindi. To what effect, I don't know.
But you can be sure that they won't stop spending because of the ruckus it will cause (same goes for budget allocation to every other department).
So, the leeching will continue for a long, long time. For every perceived 'issue', you'll have a set of voters, drunk on fiat-fueled debt, holding the entire country hostage for every Rupee taxed and spent on 'solving' it. 
No but you do have to set up a channel first to start receiving.
It's pretty easy, but you'll have to pay for setting up a channel first.
I have no issues at all with you guys selling me stuff.
But I'd appreciate a Nostr login option as an alternative to email. Is that something you've considered?
I love the fact that wallets are selling me stuff. I want them to make money and be profitable by providing useful services.
But it's a personal preference thing which I can understand.
In fact, as a regular Amethyst user, I wouldn't mind at all if you asked me to pay for certain services or features. You and the other devs are doing great work. It's incredible that it's free. But it would be no less incredible if you guys got compensated for your hard work.
Nunchuk nostr:nprofile1qqsvxq03xdev3uxehjqcdkr5lfzl5vawmcf7vm6ps73m6ghwg8y4k2spz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqz9nhwden5te0dehhxarj9eekcmm5dpujuamfdcq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvuasnac is quite underrated. Feature-dense and good UI. It would be my pick.
Blockstream nostr:nprofile1qqsfy229w70e8lgtxavlz9t78k06yrel6fxyhreteafqet8kfxhhwmgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgewaehxw309ac8yetdd96k6tnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0dm7kcr is decent and very well worth a try
Electrum does the job well and it's quite functional
Bluewallet is really good for newbies. Probably the best to recommend to them.
Cove (iOS-only) has been making the rounds
No victim no crime
And reg tendency to gravitate towards a single langauge:
Depends on what area of life we look at.
Cultural areas like music, news, media, religion, movies, art, literature will always be local languages no matter how much one tries to change it.
Professional, economic and business requirements may require people to learn English, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. depending on who the person is economically interacting with.
Legally and politically, yeah. There could be a tendency for one universal language to emerge. English has by far the best chance at getting there because of the advancements and scholarship that has been made using this language.
Depends on the region you're looking at. Big cities obviously have a lot of English speakers. And some states like mine, Tamilnadu, have a higher percentage of English speakers than the others. Generation-wise, yep. More now than before.
Anyways, the point I was trying to make in OP was that govt education sucks in informing people about natural rights, constitutional rights, liberties and the legal system. Because the medium of instruction in govt schools are not in English.
Either the legal, administrative and judicial system ought to switch to local languages. Or public education ought to switch to English.
I'd rather have the languages switched *and* have the education system completely privatised and deregulated both at the same time.
Could very well be a language that links people, yep. It already is to a great extent hahaha
I'm a content writer by profession and English puts more sats into my wallet 😂
But there are billions like me who would keep interacting using our native tongues with other speakers of them. Like there are some languages which are integrated into people's lives and culture to such an extent that they won't ever die out. My language, Tamil, is one of them.
I don't think we're going to converge on one language though.
The future is going to be way too local for that to happen, since I think big states are unsustainable and will collapse under their own weight.
Who is doing the pushing though?
Because I don't think homogenisation of certain areas is ever going to happen.
Language is a politically charged issue in India. Union govt preferably wants people to learn and speak Hindi in the name of decolonization. While state govts preferably want the language of the respective subcultures in their jurisdictions in the name of cultural preservation.
And yet, English - spoken by probably 10% of the population - remains the language of supreme and high courts, formal contracts, laws, legislations and regulations.
Neither levels of govt really stress the importance of people learning English.
Food for thought.
Oh shit I didn't know we were talking about the post
I was just going on a random tangent 😂