Agreed, definitely not a win, when combined with the core 30 issues, what not to say government isn’t trying to influence Bitcoin is some backhanded way.

no bitcoin has larger daily liquidity than monero. my opinion is that monero has a larger P2P marketplace.

And you dont own something if you pay taxes on it

After reading The Great Taking, I doubled down on Bitcoin because I now realize that it’s the only thing I actually own.

it's just a smoother and safer pipeline to get the average normie to download cake wallet get some xmr and start transacting privately then trying to get that same normie to trust (or run) and understand a lightning solution and do the same

Mmhmm

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No, it’s not. One of my best friends is a professional mechanic and he stresses oil changes over everything. I have heard the exact same thing from diesel specialists that I’ve paid to work on my vehicles.

Engine oil is the buffer between all of the moving components in your motor. As the move (thousands of times per minute) they all rub. When metals rub they shave microscopic pieces off of each. Your oil becomes filled with huge amounts of hard and abrasive materials. The oil also gets degraded from micro plastics (gaskets degrading) and hydrocarbons (ICE by products).

No amount of efficiency upgrades stop or mitigate these processes.

your keys = your coins, unless you're a minority key holders in a multisig wallet . no one else has a systemic claim and ability to take it.

food can be bought with monero. rent can as well if your location independent. there was a house for sale in Argentina and Japan on xmrbazaar recently. you could use a proxy shopper to pay your rent. gas would have to be bought via giftcards.

Bitcoin in self custody is NOT a "security entitlement"

what you said it that everything you can do with Monero you can do with Bitcoin, so why hold it?

but you *cant do everything you can do with Monero with Bitcoin.

thats why people have it.

www.xmrbazaar.com

people are living on xmr salaries today without banking institutions.

Great question.

(I wish there was a more integrated way to follow all rsponses to a particular note or thread.)

Not easy being a content creator 🫂

I got you both, ill post more about... well, I'll figure something out, surely

show me the directory where you can "pay for all those things with lightning nonkyc"

I'll wait.

Yeah I thought about that. Just like spreading positivity to the feed, but that gets exhausting too

yeah that's why I put it at the bottom of the list but if you own land and occupy it with weapons and machinery to make weapons at any time. it'd be harder to confiscate it in some type of dragnet. still less ownership then btc. I'd say monero gives you the strongest ownership. with btc if you have kyc or are linked to your wallet somehow they can just put you in jail until you give up your keys. with monero it's hard to even prove you own something.

Been slowly taking steps back from nostr lately. I still love most of the people and the protocol itself, but the repetitive conversations… taking over the entire feed…Nah.

GM friends

Have a great week

For detail on this:

The FDA requires a minimum of 2.7% of the fat in infant formula to be linoleic acid. LA is needed as a precursor to arachidonic acid (ARA), which is essential especially for infants.

2.7% is fair, given that grass fed beef fat is 1-3% LA and cow’s milk is 1-5%-2.5%. Human breast milk is a rabbit hole…because of the modern, LA heavy diet that skews the studies higher. However, US infant formula ranges from 10-25% LA, around an order of magnitude from what is needed. Hmm 🤔

So ok, that’s not exactly a ban on non seed oil formulas right? Well, the one formula AFAIK that doesn’t include seed oils (which have other issues besides high LA btw) is Serenity Kids Toddler formula, a cow’s milk based formula. Instead of seed oils for LA and ALA, they add ARA and DHA, which would be made from the LA and ALA precursors in seed oil formula. SKT should also have some LA 1-3%, but maybe not enough ALA, which is why they add ARA and DHA to cover it.

Now, it just-so-happens that the one seed oil free formula on the market has YET to be approved (after years) as an *infant* formula. Toddler? Fine. But infant? No. So many parents I’ve talked to are apprehensive to use it for infants because it specifically doesn’t say *infant*, it says *toddler*. The distinction between those two words is the core of the issue.

So when I say that the FDA *requires* seed oils for infant formula, no they don’t technically but, there is essentially a de facto ban on seed oil free infant formulas in the US. If you zoom out and look at the seed oil influence over the food industry, medical complex, university/research, and regulators, plus that 10-25% LA in formulas, then you’ll see what’s actually going on.

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Gm

Missed it!

Which teams were they?

Just found out that a streaming platform here in India has rights to the NFL. Kinda want to watch a little bit.

Where do I start? Like who do I keep an eye on? Underdogs, favourites, rivalries, history, etc.

Haha yeah you're right

But my point was that there seemed to be a sense that social experience was always going to be driven by walled gardens, ads and algorithms. Nostr is going to disrupt this in a big way.

Similarly, there's a sense now that trusted third parties at the ISP-level are always going to exist. Risk includes being captured by the state. I wonder what that's going to look like in 18 years.

People say we're early in terms of Bitcoin adoption.

I say we're still early in terms of internet adoption itself.

The internet is nowhere near its final form.

Good morning bro 🫂

In India it was YouTube

They were streaming big games for free

They were streaming NBA games as well!

Women who are good drivers might be able to understand. Too many variables and chaos in football.

I don't hate it. I'm dumbfounded by technology where you don't need a trusted middle man, which is unheard of until Bitcoin. But the adoption will not be universal. Too many other cryptos. The fiat value of Bitcoin is only because of how the market is. The inherent value of Bitcoin won't be meaningful until it becomes a standard, which it'll never.

Finally down to following only a few people on nostr. You do know usage of nostr, I started following a lot of people and had mostly developers, Bitcoin maximalist among them who have nothing else to say other than bitcoin, flooded the feed and made the nostr experience boring.

Bitcoin was started by CIA.

The lack of evidence of the contrary is all the proof I need.

It is though. The Declaration of Independence states that we are endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights, and the US Constitution does not grant rights, it specifically tells the government that it shall not infringe on the those rights.

The socialiatic crony socialism society we live in today has noting to do with what America was originally founded on.

fr fr brother 😎👌

Classic song. Hahaha

It’s annoying to develop a dependency to anything that’s physical.