Connect with nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac, he knows about freelancing in design IIRC
Further feel-good reading from 'The Great Taking':
"Perhaps you have heard of the “Everything Bubble.” What is it?
I will explain the horror of it simply. Let’s take the example of a single bond with no fixed maturity date, i.e., a perpetuity. This bond pays a fixed annual dividend of $5. If the market rate of interest is 5%, this bond has a value of $100. If the Fed lowers interest rates such that the market rate of interest for this bond is now 1%, what happens to the value of the perpetuity? The fixed dividend of $5 remains unchanged. As 5 is 1% of 500, the value of the perpetuity goes up five-fold to $500. Now if the Fed increases market rates back to 5%, the value of the perpetuity paying a fixed dividend of $5 returns to $100, and hence, there is an 80% decline in value. It’s basic math.
The entire global financial complex is, essentially, a big perpetuity, i.e. a financial instrument with no fixed maturity date. The prices of all fixed income instruments are determined by interest rates, and all equity market and commercial real estate values are similarly driven.
The Fed created the “Everything Bubble” with the justification of fighting the Global Financial Crisis, which of course the Fed had also created, by lowering the Fed Funds Rate from 5% to near zero, and then keeping it near zero for most of the past 15 years. The Fed has now increased the Fed Funds Rate from near zero in April of 2022 to more than 5.00% in just one year.
That the decline in global financial and real estate markets will be massive, has been made certain. This cake is baked. The financial gains of the past 15 years have been an illusion."
CBDC tracker...
"A watched pot never boils"
It will come in due time
Did I miss something over the weekend?
I've been thinking a bit about this.
The possibility of backdating could expose #nostr to innumerable possibilities of spam, confusion, astroturfing, etc.
We need to fix this.
nostr:note1qvtvq0jwf45ncpekxx86p2ukwaxjk7yeuk6dmt5wghhxh2d3fdrq6dzhx7
My NIP:
NIP-USE-MEANINGFUL-NAMES-INSTEAD-OF-NUMBERS
Miners receive the transaction fees in addition to the newly minted coins. At some point there will be only transaction fees
Depends, most software wallets are able to talk to hardware wallets, so you likely don't need to switch your software. It will just send the transactions to the hardware wallet for signing.
If you don't want to do transactions, but just store BTC you already have for the long term, indeed you don't need anything, neither hardware nor software (just don't lose your key).
So right now you're running on general-purpose hardware, and trusting it to manage your private key.
If you were to use a hardware wallet, you would transfer that trust to the hardware wallet. You wouldn't be adding a trusted party, you would replacing one with the other.
In a world where anyone can choose their appearance, the value of looking like Halle Berry or Kim Basinger immediately goes to zero
exactly
Wow, 'The Great Taking' does not mince words:
"Inevitably following the “Everything Bubble” will be the “Everything Crash.” Once prices of essentially everything crash and all financial firms rapidly become insolvent, these collateral management systems will automatically sweep all collateral to the Central Clearing Counter- parties (CCPs) and Central Banks.
The trap, into which all nations have been herded, is ready and waiting to be sprung.
There will be an epic end point to the decades of seemingly out-of- control financialization, which served no beneficial purpose for human- ity, but the devastating effects of which are apparent even now.
It has been a deliberate strategy executed over decades. This was the purpose of inflating the global bubble entirely out of proportion with any real world thing or activity, which must end in disaster for so many, with no pockets of resilience allowed to remain in any country."
That makes sense. If I wear blue pants, you are automatically seeing them because the photons I emit strike your retina. But in principle you would be free to intercept those photons and replace them with something of your own choosing
Depends on whether/how the code that is running at the time handles the KeyboardInterrupt exception
https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#KeyboardInterrupt
In my view, it's a lie to the other person, but then the lie comes back to bite you