I agree: the best way to find reliable truths is using the scientific method, but history is not a repeatable experiment.
I opened nostrudel in TorBorwser a few days ago and things seemed to work? So I don't know what to make of it.
Rate of change is percentage of total supply, not an absolute number. Total above-ground stock is circa 212,582 tonnes, so your 3,000 denotes 1,4%, which seems too high, but okay.
Mining added 1% to supply, in 2023, and the majority of the rest of the supply growth came from recycled gold (mostly melted jewelry, as people responded to the spike in price) leading to a temporary jump of market-available gold of 3%.
https://www.gold.org/goldhub/research/gold-demand-trends/gold-demand-trends-full-year-2023/supply
Not sure on those exact numbers since the page you link states 3,644 mined and 1,237 recycled in 2023, but I graphed production as a percentage of supply and you're right: it's basically 2%. Given this stability from 10 tons/yr to the recent 3,600 tons/yr, you have to wonder whether that's a free market decision. If not, then we still have the question of why 2%.
Bitcoin is more scarce than actual gold nostr:note14x62xvpkgrpqysgp0g9alk0qglakgxetdaqqsm08mn34nyyc4a8q9m8lsw
Given the increasing price per ounce over time you would think so, but no: in 2023 about 3,000 metric tons of gold were added to the global supply.
Think what that implies about inflation and Bitcoin.
"fiat currency is not backed by violence as many people think, it's actually backed by a captured economy" -- nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p
Yes, but the captured economy is maintained by the threat of violence
A web of trust relay? This is a great idea
When do we get to download that car? 
If you're not on a mobile device, the YubiKey model works pretty well.
Why *aren't * you suggesting hardware signers?
It's common to mistake disinterest for incompetence. The more powerful you are, the more you benefit from appearing weak. The best way to do what you want is to have others beg you to do it.
"History provides the roadmap to the future. If you want to know where you're going, you have to understand where you've been."
Ken MacDermotRoe, History Counts. http://mdrtalk.org
Profile from https://archives.wpkn.org/host/profile/10860/ken-amp-marchand:
Ken is a graduate of Princeton where he majored in history and of Columbia Law School where he focused on international law. He was a corporate litigator in New York City and later served as an Assistant Attorney General for New York State. Ken, also, served for 8 years in the U.S. Army Reserve, JAG Corps where he was a Captain.
You haven't accepted that the Emperor has no clothes until his nakedness no longer bothers you.
You won't win an emotional argument with logic.
Snowden does, and Jack mentioned that there was something preventing him from using nostr again. I don't know if that means tor is once again unable to connect, or that even with tor something is leaking tracking data.