Thanks, will look for ghee

I'm trying to define in my head a problem I see with Bitcoin lightning transactions.

In the stores here that accept Bitcoin, there is a device "Tiankii" POS that is a smartphone integrated with a receipt printer. Small stores just have a Bitcoin wallet on someone's phone.

I don't know how they know which wallet is being used for the charge. It seems like they frequently have to hunt someone down with the wallet on their phone.

I often have this gnawing feeling of "have I paid?" I need some noise or flashing lights or something printed to assure the world Im not stealing this.

While trying to pay for something today, the one device was being shared with someone else's shop. So it was back to cash.

Problem: How to create a POS that is spread across smartphones.

I wonder if receipts could be Nostr Notes that could be zappable. I just want a Nostr note that proves I paid.

Would the store have an NSEC with a bunker key allowing each vendor's phones to be used to ring up receipts? This could integrate commissions easily with the zap sharing.

No more chasing down wait staff with machines to pay if they get a commission on their phone.

googling "high cholesterol foods" to consume

"lots that used to sell for $8,000 now sell for $18,000"

Returning Salvadorenos and some foreigners are buying up the best property. Without the overhang of violence, the prices of volcano vistas, tropical breezes and no-red tape jurisdiction is free to rise to its market rate.

At first I thought, how terrible all the wealthy foreigners buying the best views, locations for themselves and the locals are once again sentenced to live in the shadows earning pittance for hourly wage. They have No hope of owning the properties they clean and maintain.

The power of Bitcoin to emancipate the little guy from wage slavery is captured in the portfolios of the wealthy.

Then I thought, who is selling to the wealthy foreigners? Is it not the Salvadorans? Why didn't they sell to their poor neighbors?

Why do the current owners perpetuate this "injustice"? Why do they not take it upon themselves to give to their local brethren.

There must not be a morality around buying/selling property. If I don't buy something, someone else will who may be worse for the locals. The going rate is the going rate. To refuse to buy property somewhere just to keep the market for the "locals" is stupid I've finally concluded.

If some of the new elite are foreign bitcoiners, the locals may be lucky. No Bitcoiner is going to force them to take medication they don't want, or control their freedom or encourage them to addictions and poor health.

Charity and free markets must not mix somehow.

My family has always served the wealthy and we are happy in that role. We know how to take care of their stuff and to also take care of our own small property. I do not want to switch places with them either with all their problems.

Perhaps "owning" is a responsibility only for those who have earned it. And in this new world, at least some of those new owners are bitcoiners.

Sounds wonderful. This Nostr algorithm is one-upping tik tok with the life challenges.

Ok I'm ready to test this app out. I can already feel my phone sending out laser beams to make the world a better place.

Maybe this will get better phone service on these mountain hikes too.

Ok, I've downloaded the HallowApp

It asks for email or phone number.

Then I chose goals: grow closer to God &Patience and Humility.

Next selections were Catechism and quick prayers

Funny life discovery:

I can either go back to USA and keep working job to pay rent and food.

Or move to Central America and survive indefinitely on pupusas, desayunos tipicos and work on whatever I want.

I'm literally on a treadmill in the US.

Citizens here are also on a treadmill in their own country unfortunately ( that's a different story).

It seems like a no brainer to step out of the rat race.

The only problem is, 90% of the reason of a job in the US is because it is my Identity.

I have to figure out how to have self-worth if I don't have my job anymore, and I start something else that I may fail at.

The question is, what to create here that adds value to society.

Teaching English is important. It's like an open source operating system. I'm not a happy teacher tho.

It should be inventions.

I could imagine making a sailing academy on the lake that I can see out of my hotel.

I should probably go visit the lake.

I have questions about a prayer app called "hallowApp", but banning it is next level!

I was just contemplating this statue. It looks like Jesus or a little angel is emerging under her feet. Not sure what the horns represent.

Embrace the nap

My favorite movie :-D

I have a love hate relationship with the zap button. 2 many choices of what to zap, and it takes longer plus I have no idea how to represent them on the taxes. But it's the most fun feature of Nostr for me.

Flowers

What are the JavaScript tricks? Did it get confused on something that should have been obvious?

Does those AI investors have some hope here?

Grok says PE ratios were

1880s to 1890: below 10

1900: 10 to 15

1920s: up to 20 and some beyond

1950s 10 to 15

1960s:18 to 20

Grok also says 4 trillion would need to exit the S&P500 to bring average PE down to 10

Interesting point. Better to convert money in hardware commodity to digital commodity. Those ANET switches can't get zapped around the globe.

PE of 48. Seems incredibly risky.

I guess less network switches are also required

I do think there's some interaction between electronics and humans that's more than just the buttons we put on the electronics.

But it's all just anecdotal stuff.

Recently I experienced two objects appearing that shouldn't be there.

A backpack that was left at a restaurant appeared in friend's car. (I saw this one get left behind).

A shirt that someone lost on a beach, showed up clean and washed in their closet in their hostel room a month later.

I lost a car key on a beach in San Diego and when I went to look for it, there was a swim meet that day and while they were announcing the winners, they also announced my lost key :-). That one at least was just luck.

not very scientific I know, but I believe in gremlins.

We used to call those "sweat bees". I have no idea why they hover in place around people.

Ahhh! Baby Elephants are so cute. But why is a newborn elephant in knee deep water.