Yeah I’m not doing that in my late 40s with a decent fiat job and supporting a family in an already expensive place.

How can I send fiat and buy cashu tokens

“The nation state relies on taxation which is a form of theft. These are not consensual transactions. Of course, they would prefer to not have citizens that are private. They would very much prefer a system of taxation that cannot be hidden from.

That’s where the term ‘daylight robbery’ comes from. Back in England, there was [this idea) that ‘the home is the castle,’ and the tax man did not have the legal authority to enter the house and see the amount of wealth that you have inside, like how many gold coins does the subject have available. That was not allowed by law. It was a rather private system. So the solution was to tax what was visible. So the tax rate that you had to pay as a subject was dependent on the number and size of windows in your house, because that was something the taxman could see from the outside. You could not hide the number of windows that you have. And so the obvious protection mechanism unfortunately was to decrease the size and quantity of your windows. So a lot of old houses have their windows laid full of bricks to decrease the tax burden of individuals. So this was why we call taxation ‘daylight robbery’ — because it literally robbed the daylight of honest people.

Privacy benefits the victim, and surveillance benefits the attacker. And so if we create systems that are used widely by people and that have privacy as a default, then all of a sudden we substantially increase the cost of attack for any type of adversary. And if we create tools and software that have this default utilization of privacy at a cheap rate, then we decrease the cost of defense. I believe that’s the closest path to world peace, so to say — it’s a cypherpunk world where privacy is safeguarded and any attack is simply not profitable.”

@npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt / Ep.32 / 53:04

I‘m fascinated by how everyone thinks the world and relationships are complex, except for Trump.

#Germany is producing 30 Gigawatts of Solar electicity today, and is still burning 12 Gigawatts of coal. 🙄

#Europe #Energy

Why make an exchange? You can just force them out and let Jews continue to live where they've lived for thousands of years. Indeed, Israel can expand.

Gaza owes Israel an enormous amount of money in damages. Gaza giving up land to pay for those damages would be fair.

Had a long conversation with the father of another kid at Rad’s soccer practice. He saw my #Bitcoin shirt and 20 minutes later he’s going to get the audiobooks for The Bullish Case for Bitcoin and The Bitcoin Standard. nostr:note1jqesnjxw2vmytwjvryzlt5z8mfly89z9aanjaec2pxhnyl2cj2qqny3u2v

1) You do, just not the land, or rather the value of the land, that it stands on.

2) You don't anyway, until you've paid off the 30 year or so mortgage.

Saving in #bitcoin is cool but earning bitcoin is the apex method of accumulation.

P2P. No KYC. No exchange fees or spreads.

The goal is to create a culture of liberty, independent of mainstream society, emphasizing voluntary associations and mutual respect.

What they don't tell you is that you can just hire mathematicians. I had to prove one of my models was correct for a paper and was having difficulty with some differential shenanigans. After wasting my time for a month trying to do everything myself, I ended up just hiring one for 2 hours of work. Best money I have ever spent.

You'd be surprised but credit card companies spend money too.

But credits cards make everybody poorer. Taking a percentage of every transaction compounds exponentially over time until the credit card companies have nearly all of the money.

Now count how long it takes for them to reach final settlement

Sales start at 250k sats and go up in increments of 15k sats

People with default settings are 95% of the users. You are not improving privacy if you ignore 95% of your users.

We ask users to define a DM relay by themselves via popups and in the relay list. This will be even more front and center in the future.

Last time I saw it, setting up a Nostr DM relay is a lot easier than setting up a SimpleX relay for myself.

The simple fact that Amethyst does not run a DM relay already makes us better than SimpleX. There is no single point of failure that a court order could target to break people's privacy.