Indeed it does! But it’s still the best measuring stick in bitcoin purchasing power.

You can get 28.6 ounces of $gold with a bitcoin right now ($btc price 76189$). The #bitcoin #ATH was in November 2021, when you could get a whopping 37 ounces of gold with a single bitcoin. So today's price is about 77% off the ATH, meaning we need to see 98946$ to meaningfully speak of ATH.

HISTORY: Peso / Satoshi parity

1 sat = 1 ARS🇦🇷

Do cruises use steam engines?

Damn, I asked Claude to "ELI-undergrad" something and it replied with:

"Let me explain [it] in a way that I wish someone had explained it to me when I was learning it."

#Claude

lol except that it isn’t and purely depends on perspective. One side would say it’s the corrupt billionaires because they are the ones corrupting the govt. the other side would say that the problem with the govt is that it is ALWAYS corrupted, so having it big and powerful is just creating incentives to *create* corrupt billionaires.

In the market people actually have to appeal to voluntary customers. In govt they get stolen funds and contracts from the money printers.

In other words they cannot be separated from each other. It’s a virtuous (or malicious?) feedback loop.

GM brother

I think of this one often these days 🤝

OK folks, where can I find a good intro guide to #meshtastic and especially recommended beginner hardware?

One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is non-traditional story structures.

(Spoilers for The Matrix, Sicario, and John Wick if you haven’t seen them by now…)

A good example of a traditional story structure is The Matrix. It’s a typical three-act structure with an underdog protagonist who explores a whole new world, powers up via his mentor, and then takes down the stronger villain and gets the girl. But it’s more creative and better executed than most. Top shelf stuff.

In contrast, a movie like Sicario is less traditional. We mostly follow the story from the protagonist’s perspective. But then toward the end, she basically gets defeated and her worldview is invalidated. And then a supporting character, like a dark anti-hero type, kind of takes over as the main character for the final 20 minutes of the film. It’s quite highly rated and very good, but that kind of structure can be risky because the protagonist that we've come to care for goes through an anti-climactic and unhappy ending, with the dark/cynical side winning over the light/optimistic side. And it’s not even as simple as “villains win”, but rather, the anti-hero kind of takes over as the main character and defeats villains in the original protagonist's place, so we have partial "protagonist rotation", where a supporting character kind of ends as the main character. It’s a higher difficulty level to land that type of ending because the viewer is like, “Damn. I mean amazing too, but damn.”

A less complex example of a non-traditional structure is John Wick. It’s an action movie, one of the better ones for its genre, but the non-traditional element is that we know from the start that the protagonist John Wick is the biggest badass around. None of the villains are as strong as him individually, or even close really. The villains are the underdogs. And so to make that non-boring (“John Wick just kills everyone and wins easily”), it requires things like greater numbers of villains, and/or various schemes to surprise or outsmart the protagonist. It’s also a little harder to stick the landing because the climax can be less satisfying if you know from the start that the protagonist is stronger than the antagonist, and so it either needs emotional depth, complex situations, or other ways to make that ending satisfying.

I’ve been exploring some of these and thinking about it a lot because my novel has a number of these types of non-traditional elements, which elevates the difficulty in terms of making them satisfying despite going against the basic structure that people expect as a baseline.

Are there books, shows, or movies you like that go through rather non-traditional story structures?

I could forsee a dystopian future where everyone is allowed to say exactly what they are thinking online, but only with a digital ID.

It arguably is one of the few devices in the Bitcoin signing device space that properly explains its threat model, risks and benefits.

If you are wondering, your bank card is more secure than 95% of HWWs.

You can't control the planet, governments and green activists are going to learn that the hard way. The planet is doing its thing, with us or not, and even if we're extinct..Earth will always be there, better than ever.