It's time to come to grips with reality. 100% renewable grids are unreliable and outright dangerous for populations leveraging them.
The abundant energy future is here if we're willing to take it. We just need to ignore the climate hysterics.
https://www.tftc.io/its-time-to-get-serious-about-baseload-energy/
Variance killed more than its handful of good ideas. The sad part is weāve been sitting on the solution the whole time with nuclear power.
One thing that doesnāt get mentioned enough is kW/acre. How much wildland are we willing to level for solar panels and windmills?
They should have the freedom to manage their platform any way they want. Why should they run their product according to your rules?
Right now, mostly accounting. Trying to figure out tax implications of receiving bitcoin. How much it was worth in usd when I got it, etc.
This will either be ineffectual or push miners overseas. They have to compete globally, and canāt be inundated with stupid regulations.
My name is bitcoin ranger. I didnāt miss the boat.
Agreed, we got the petro-dollar in return. The world hasnāt been cruel to the US.
Most important metric in bitcoin
Stephanie Kelton keeps telling me deficits are good for me. I donāt know enough economics to know why sheās wrong, just that it doesnāt seem right to spend so much. Seems like living way above our means. I get that the US wonāt default, but that doesnāt mean we are feeling the effects of it.
Many people ask why.
The short answer is because nothing stops this train.
The longer answer is that 1) the rest of the world isnāt buying as many Treasuries anymore, 2) investors prefer cash to Treasuries, and 3) there are now balance of payments issues and so the United Stated has EM-like characteristics where stocks and bonds can struggle together due to capital outflows.
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You clearly havenāt seen the end. Spider-Man stops the train, weāre good.
Notedā¦. I donāt get it.
Being sovereign is easy.
If someone tells you its "too hard" to self custody or use a hardware wallet just because it's unfamiliar, they think you're stupid & you shouldn't listen to them.
This is how easy it is to protect yourself from 99% of the problems that lose people their #Bitcoin...
https://v.nostr.build/RVukrLpRkfY8uMyz.mp4
(This is a nostr:nprofile1qqsfy229w70e8lgtxavlz9t78k06yrel6fxyhreteafqet8kfxhhwmg2c6av2 Jade Plus, btw. "GUY" gets you 10% off if you are picking one up.
And there are a plethora of other great hardware wallets out there too. There's no excuse to not protect yourself when it's this easy.
Grow a pair and take ownership of your Bitcoin.)
Most people donāt care about protecting their money from the government. Thatās why they flock to FDIC insured accounts. My grandma isnāt going to self custody her bitcoin. Sheās far more likely to lose her keys than the government 6102ing her coins. Far more bitcoin has been lost to people screwing up self custody than intervention on legitimate use. We need to stop telling people theyāre stupid, and work on custodial solutions if we want this to scale and integrate into society.
Basically getting network dependent apps started. If thereās no activity, people will leave even if the UI is nice.
Nostr needs a plan to solve the cold start problem prior to being stripped of our 1st amendment. Until then, itās competing against X, which has a much larger network.
To that end, we need to find a way to cater to the hard side of the network, the content creators. What do they need? What do they not like about X? The nostr community needs to figure that out and solve for it.
How do we get around the block size problem? Only so many transactions can happen on chain. Use a 2nd layer, Iām back to trusting the matrix.