The WEF posted a positive story about bitcoin mining’s ability to soak up stranded energy and capture otherwise-leaking methane.

But they made sure to call it “data centers”.

The most hilarious thing about this board game is the official instructions allow you to print money if the bank runs out 😂😂😂

My parents are on here now: #[0]​ & #[1]

Bitcoin farm miners got “rugged” around in my country (Venezuela).

There, you can’t have a decently sized mining gear operative and make it through the day without the Gov knocking on your doors, so… they make you “sign up” and be “under their wing”. Well… apparently they seized some of the big mining farms and dump on the market (of the market dump I’m not sure but it’s plausible).

You telling me you can TRUST your government and expect anything good out of them? Stuff like this makes me sad… A country can’t progress if the little entrepreneurs that are left get rugged.

“Corruption” it’s a word that is almost the everyday coffee in Venezuela, doesn’t even hurt anymore. Hope this doesn’t spread to anymore countries.

Venezuela means “Little Venice” but nowadays is more like “Little China”

Had a Bitcoin nightmare. Price dipped to 14k, I went to buy a huge stack, but had slow fumbling fingers, and it returned back to 19k in seconds, and I missed it. Was very distressing.

Gm & pv 💜

Just joking around with you, there’s more than enough cheap sats to go around (especially this past year).

I think the block subsidy is the biggest price suppressant currently. Idiots will sell cheap, but miners must sell close to 900 coins a day still. This is great for those of us who have priced in all future halvings (enables massively cheap sats) but will be almost impossible for fiat brains to comprehend until the only Bitcoin they can find already has a owner.

Damn, I was kinda eyeing those for myself! You beat me to it⚡️

I'm headed to D.C. to discuss why the Lightning Network is the open, inclusive, equitable payment innovation the world needs

A public good that enables open, fair, innovative payments is as American as it gets

It's time for the U.S. to embrace #Bitcoin  & Lightning

Let's go ⚡️

Credit: Wojakbitcoin (twitter)

The thing is, I think the world would be a much better place if the European Union was strategically independent, and fully capable of defending itself and setting its own foreign policy, independent of the United States. I think having a strategic competitor to the United States that shares liberal democratic values would be far superior to the current arrangement. I would literally sleep better at night.

Here’s the problem: despite Macron’s dream of pursuing this strategic autonomy, they’re not doing any of the things that’s would be necessary to make this a reality. To the contrary, Macron literally just went to China and called for deeper integration between the EU and China. France and Germany are in the advanced stages of exporting the manufacturing of their electric vehicle manufacturing to China! This is insane.

Macron is actually right to be pissed off at the US for its protectionist economic policy, stemming from the new industrial policies coming out of the CHIPS Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. The economic populism in these bills, should have been primarily aimed at China, and should have excluded critical allies like the EU — Only Mexico and Canada were spared due to their free trade agreement with the US. This was bad fucking policy by Congress. It punched the Europeans in the eye, economically for no good reason. But Americans are feeling very economically isolationist these day. So there’s a lot of idiocy going around on both sides of the Atlantic.

But this highlights another absurdity about the EU’s engagement with the US right now. Instead of running to China asking for deeper integration, because the US just snubbed them, they should be trying to sell the American public on how it would benefit *them* to cooperate with the EU on energy and supply chains. Not trying to convince Xi Jinping.

Sure, the US have become fickle assholes on trade policy. But it’s certainly worth the damned investment to push back on this. What the hell are we doing, here? This is serious shit.

I still have optimism that there will be a reversal of course here. But it’s going to come when enough of the North American and European public becomes sufficiently terrified through some external crisis. The real question is, how much damage will have been done when that happens?

Okay plebs, over the months I’ve asked some deep philosophical questions of you all, but this one is going to be the most revealing.

What’s your favorite pizza topping?

Nostr & Bitcoin is good, i think, but people are not, at least the most

Hey, the world still operates on its debt standards. Could be beneficial to learn both sides of the coin.

go to free places which will stay free and normal:

mexico

el salvador