Morning Nostres #coffeechain 
Playing with Pheonix Wallet, should have tried this before now. Feels very different to everything else, seeing channels opening and channel fees etc. I run a node so all that actually feels good to see, but I imagine itās a lot for a casual user to absorb.
Their announcement around their new beta prompted me to go and download it. I think thatās going to help big time
Ohhhhh yes. 80/20 hit rate I reckon. Iāve stopped trying - by now everyone knows Iām here when theyāre ready
A deep sense of caution and mistrust, I dunno š¤·š¼āāļø Iām a very simple fogman
You canāt have your cake and eat it. I now understand this ancient wisdom
Thatās very kind but sadly me no OPA
#foodstr 
Oh baby 
Swan says "Bitcoin is a religion".
I ask if that is a good idea.
Bitcoiners now seem reluctant to answer.
What are your thoughts?
I'm inclined to see lack of engagement as a confirmation of my suspicion that many Bitcoiners don't like the idea that bitcoin is a religion, or that normies think of bitcoin as a religion.
I see myself as a Bitcoiner newbie. And I'll state my view about this question later, in some more detail.
https://twitter.com/enur72/status/1676246611968630784?t=rEDjuSvNpt-OnTHo9ODz4A&s=19
Has a lot of similarities to a religion. Devoted following, crazy conception myths, strong moral code, evangelising users, sacred texts, all sorts.
There is no One to worship though. Even Satoshi.
I feel the question itself is not important, unless you donāt like religion and think this is a problem? Bitcoin doesnāt care.
In my view a church is just a place where people meet. And bitcoin does bring a lot of people together who needed to come together to change the world for good. I donāt mind the analogy personally.
What if our monetary future does not continue down the path of centralization and debasement but, rather, follows a new path of decentralization and growing value? Todayās dollar hegemony was engineered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Tomorrow, the currency of America could be based on the twin ideals of the Founding Fathers and Satoshi Nakamoto.
Unlike America, which lost its first battle over centralization just a few years after its founding, Bitcoin won its first battle over centralization during the Blocksize War, where user control and personal freedom defeated business interests and the concentration of power.
On July 4, 1821, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams warned of an America that would become a global imperium āin search of monsters to destroy.ā An America where the āfundamental maxims of her policyā have āinsensibly changed from liberty to force,ā where we have become āthe dictatress of the world.ā
Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adamsās words, is ānot dominion, but liberty,ā and that our true march is āof the mindā and not the sword.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-and-the-american-idea
We can hope, and stack to the future
Only joking, itās Camembert
Belgium
āLetās be Honest ESG Investing will Harm the Environmentā - some Yale expert
When the big bankers want proof to show the public why theyāve changed theyāre mind, they hire the elite institutions to publish a couple papers to āback-upā the shift in narrative. This one here is capitulation on ESG.
https://www.cityam.com/lets-be-honest-esg-investing-will-actually-hurt-the-environment/
Itās all just so tiresome. A cycle of anti humanism, as old as weāve allowed non productive people to make the rules. Something fixes this

