Crimea is actually not an island, but a peninsula connected to the country it legally belongs to (as recognized by most of the international community, including China).
Economically, Great Britain is orders of magnitude larger, and an independent country, not belonging to France or Ireland.
France did not invade it previously without provocation. Plenty of gaps in your parallelism.
Russia knows better than to directly attack a core infrastructure of the west.
Just get rid of them, have enough books around.
It'll be painful at the beginning, as with quitting any addiction, but then the improvement will be clear.
I'm not against the state, I believe most alternatives are possibly worse. Is that bad? (Your take will probably depend on which country are you from)
Testing publication of torrent magnet link of BBC 2 documentary
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/25/ukraine-enemy-in-the-woods-review-bbc
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:856edc83465a07c9f8ecfb065381df34ff9d1c2b&dn=Ukraine%20-%20Enemy%20in%20the%20Woods-m001xr4x.mp4&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.gbitt.info%3A80%2Fannounce
Test gossip, 1,2,3
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They accept lightning payments.
This can help, but it's not a full solution
Lukashenko announced that he plans to run for a seventh term as president of Belarus in the 2025 elections. He has been in power since 1994. https://t.co/kVhkvSiKMT
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In case anyone is still confused about nuts or what it means and why we always talk about it (me today haha), here is my know-nothing dummy explanation and why this is a big deal IMO:
Cashu is an ecash protocol(is this correct?) created by nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg
People are calling them nuts because cashews are nuts... get it?
The terminology is irrelevant. They can be called tokens, air, water, chicken teriyaki.. it really doesn't matter! What matter is that this is a Layer 3 payment system that transfers tokens at the speed of light (or so I think). Lightning being layer 2, and bitcoin being layer 1.
The reason why this is a significant development is because now everyone has a cashu address. Thanks to amazing work by the legendary nostr:npub1mhcr4j594hsrnen594d7700n2t03n8gdx83zhxzculk6sh9nhwlq7uc226 , if you go to npub.cash you can see that you already have an address to receive these layer 3 tokens, which just happen to be easily redeemable into lightning. This means that any new person who joins nostr automatically has (custodial) layer 3 payment access, which can swap into layer 2 and into layer 1 and into fiat if need be.
I don't know any of the underlying mechanics of this, I am not a genius like nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg and what I have described could be incorrect, but it sure feels like this is roughly how things work.
Nuts are custodial, meaning a mint is holding your balance and can look up your npub to see if you have some. Once called upon, these nuts can be sent to another nutter (cashu wallet) or directly to a lightning address! This interoperability makes everyone a layer 2 user. All we need is a clever UX toggle / button / terminology to make it really obvious.
IF this were to be turned into a library that devs could include in their client code and "it just works", THEN it could be a game changer! No more directing people on how to get a wallet right as they join. They can experience the magic of bitcoin indirectly via layer 3 > layer 2 transfer all without knowing anything (as long as they can get on nostr).
In practice, this means anyone joining an audio nest, a zapstream, a flare.pub can automatically get paid. Yes, it's just tokens, and yes it's centralized and custodial, BUT, they see the value instantly and are only a click away from digging deeper. It's a STEPPING STONE that makes it significantly easier to get onboarded into the new paradigm.
I have not been this excited since the discovery of nostr itself! If I'm mistaken somehow, or don't understand things correctly, please let me know and forgive my dumbass 🤣 And if this means what I think it means, then let's make magic happen!
(casual onlooker here)
So the difference with custodial lightning is that the custodian (mint in eCash) is blind to the amounts in the database? As long as payments are done within the same wallet/mint, there is no need to hit L2?
I guess fedimints add a layer of consensus on top of it so that holders of eCash don't need to trust a single party?
I guess... but the border is still not functioning correctly. Can they keep at it for as long as the rubles flow (as long as they don't show pro-Putin signs)?
Do you have a link? Could not find the article.
For future reference, here's my public key. It's the same one that's been there since the bitcoin.org site first went up in 2008. Grab it now in case you need it later. http://www.bitcoin.org/Satoshi_Nakamoto.asc
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/satoshinakamoto.asc
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Are bitcoin payments dead in El Salvador?
nostr:npub1dmcd5wqd3yku05svp6xqk5gyywek4cgg0w3dk63tcu0rmjxnanns5xutjm (I guess...)
I'm testing all lightning capable wallets oıt there. Right now I'm testing Bridge Wallet.
https://www.mtpelerin.com/bridge-wallet
1. I could buy sats* with bank transfer.
2. Money arrives in a working day.
3. They deliver coins in 7 days witout KYC.
Stay away. Scam artists.
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Did you finally get them?
Depending on where you live, tap water is probably the best option
mostr.pub seems to work!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6
Does that work?
https://bitcointv.com/w/cxdzRgSctKoowLgtDwdWr9
Let's keep this up!
Buenas!
This two gentlemen will ask to your question in a much more articulate and comprehensive way then me.. 😬😄
Jokes apart, very interesting episode of nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z podcast this one
At 24:45, check the effective tax rate of US companies and European companies. Maybe that's part of the missing money?
https://youtu.be/sDzfOLtFrxA?t=1484
For instance:
Airbus, effective tax rate 2022: 18.5% https://www.google.com/finance/quote/AIR:EPA
Boeing, effective tax rate 2022: -0.65% https://www.google.com/finance/quote/BA:NYSE
OK, maybe a bad example, maybe Boing had a bad year in 2022 :Devilish:
NVDA: -4.47% https://www.google.com/finance/quote/NVDA:NASDAQ
AAPL: 14.72% https://www.google.com/finance/quote/AAPL:NASDAQ
LVMH: 26.66% https://www.google.com/finance/quote/MC:EPA
SAP: 44.72% https://www.google.com/finance/quote/SAP:ETR
SIEMENS: 38.31% https://www.google.com/finance/quote/SIE:ETR
Which ones are from US? Anecdotal, sure, methodology is crap and I don't know shit about where Google Finance is getting those numbers from, but still...
The USA are inflating the world money supply and in the process exporting that inflation to poorer countries, thus extracting wealth. I don't see the event horizon that close, as long as inflation can still be exported. I haven't watched the full video yet, but if they don't take that into account, conclusions are biased.
Shamelessly nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z 😁

