Its not obvious but this happens by default with APK installed on android. The app must be signed with the a key and the key must match the already installed version.

Choosing the correct app when you first install it is the key.

haha, Lyn, this user is notoriously unpleasant

Of course rich under a fiat standard.

It’s such a stupidly framed question anyway.

Average IS WHAT LEADS TO FIAT.

We didn’t just end up on a fiat standard by accident. It’s because we gave up greatness.

To be rich is to be noble.

That’s the goal.

Bitcoin is a MEANS to a richer society, with richer people. NOT average.

Else I wouldn’t give 2 shits about bitcoin.

Hawala is neccesary in a gold based system, where transferring physical gold is a huge risk. Portability and verification are the downfall of gold. Hawala gave birth to the goldsmiths and that gave birth to fractional reserve banking. And we've been debt slaves ever since.

You would think that a system as trust-demanding and archaic as the Hawala would have perished entirely by now. Perhaps the fact that it still exists to any extent today suggests how difficult it is to fully comprehend how bad the modern fiat system actually is.

Hawala is actually a way more permission-based system than the Western banking system, which other than requiring ID to open is basically carte blanche thereafter. If the western banking system failed, the irony would be that what would replace it may be much more permissioned than what exists currently

The idea of people remaining on twitter etc for some kind of virtuous reason is hilarious. “I’m just using it to bring people to nostr”

When all the boomers started hopping on facebook did the younger gen stay to help bring their parents across to fill_in_the_blank platform? No.

People follow those who lead.

Leadership is not standing still and talking. It is action.

Let your actions express your priorities.

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What we need is a verifiably fair lottery.

Not for gambling, mind you.

For choosing our public servants.

I bet we'd get a better outcome with randos selected for short terms than with people elected in a popularity contest.

Hawala is great. It's the opposite of Bitcoin as it's built on trust, and lots of it.

It's an inspiration for lots of peer-to-peer networks, financial and otherwise.

IIRC it was the inspiration for Ripple before Ripple became a blockchain.

One Day the appreciation for permissionless money will increase dramatically in the US ect. Unfortunately some people need something very dramatic to happen as a wake up call before realizing things.

Currently chilling at a cafe at midnight in some Red Sea coastal town five hours south of Cairo.

A doctor from Syria recognizes me and comes to talk. He is briefly here in Egypt but works in Syria treating people.

He and his colleagues use the informal Hawala system to move money for legitimate purposes, because Syria is sanctioned by the US. The Hawala system is ancient, stretching back to the medieval Silk Road and prior, but is still used today in many regions. He’s a fan of Bitcoin obviously.

So many people in the developed world take money for granted. But people in developing regions or conflict regions often have a better appreciation of permissionless money, undebaseable money, etc.

Frugal isn't the goal. Having a good life is the goal.

Of course you can never buy ice or go on vacation but that's not the world I want to live in.

It would definitely make people more frugal / responsible with their money.

Many people consider deflationary currency as having profoundly positive moral effects on the economy writ large. For example, people are more frugal and thus are more prone to “buy it for life”. Companies start competing on who makes the longest lasting product instead of the trendy thing with planned obselesence. Etc

I usually do an hour long walk every day and recently i’ve just been chatting with chatgpt with voice chat to ask questions about physics and to bounce ideas off it. Its like being on a podcast instead of listening to a podcast like I normally would do. Very odd but cool experience.

I don’t think Bitcoin has ever claimed stability. What it has claimed is deflation instead of inflation. Where did they talk about stability?