nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a just back from Egypt. Amazing place. The hyperinflation is real! Lovely community. 
I used to live nearby, more than 20 years ago. By law buildings can’t exceed 5 floors in nearby areas so that the top of the greatest pyramid can be seen from miles away; I used to see it everyday when going to school.
I’m curious about the cold water immersion technique that is used for physical and mental health. In particular I see all these videos of people getting in lakes with ice on the surface or in bathtubs full of ice and liquid water. Nearly freezing water, so around 1c to 2c. That’s really cold. I have gone swimming in water that cold, I’m not a fan.
So how long should we be in cold water and how cold should it be? Turns out it’s longer and warmer than i thought.
According to this research review the water should be 10c to 15c and immersion should last 11 to 15 minutes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802003/
Even wirh that knowledge it doesn’t make me want to go swimming right now.

Before getting in cold water, a person must have a very hot shower, stay in sauna or exercise for a while. It helps thickening the skin and improves the overall immune response for the cold. Now in Spain the water is really cold that I would only put my feet; mainly because it’s not sunny enough to get dry afterwards. Swimming or staying by the sea is relaxing anyways.
That something new, that is better than bitcoin in what it does, is happening in the backstage of this world. Check this out:
https://nostr.band/note1fva4q2pq6wjxj8tnyrtukx4rfzjlsghh3rm7frj29z3q2q5a65cqyef8n0
So you stopped using gold for something new; bitcoin. And as you said (in other words) people will stop using bitcoin if there is something that is better than bitcoin at what it does; something new. Seems to me that we are in a “wait for it” phase.
If you repost, only your profile name appears in a line at the top on Plebstr for example. If you quote post, we can see your profile picture and name as well as the comment you make and the original post. Maybe it’s a visual issue, for someone that is following a lot of people and has a busy homepage it’s not easy to notice the profile name without a picture for a repost while scrolling down quickly to catch up with the feed or find something interesting.
English still rules the world, but that’s not necessarily OK. Is it time to curb its power? | Michele Gazzola | The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/27/english-world-power-language-linguistic-justice
People usually learn a new language for a purpose and there are many resources available to learn English in comparison with any other language. If the demand is for another language and there are enough resources, the other language might take the lead.
Few things can happen only in Spain!
It says, “this image is not available In your country”. Is that how it should be?!
Kinda a weird movie that doesn’t get watched for a second time.
Or was it half way and for some reason destroyed everything?!
I can’t remember much of this movie, he ended up as a gardener in the end, didn’t he?!
He was like, “I was quiet for the entire song and didn’t challenge my voice, I better fight the band!” while grinding on his teeth!
Virtual Currency Points; VCPs.
In March 2022, I have introduced VCPs (Virtual Currency points). So that the international transactions are made without relying on one currency or another and the financial crises are easily avoided.
You may have noticed that banks are increasing their gold reserves and that there are interests for local virtual currency and that was after the note was published.
The picture of the note showing its date will be in attachment to this post; I can’t edit it to avoid that its date gets changed. Here its content:
Conversion of international banking system: The VCPs system:
* Each central bank would keep its assets and funds in homeland.
* Establishing the value of one virtual currency point. I suggested that: 1 virtual currency point (VCP) = 0.1 gram of gold.
* Virtual evaluation must be made to each currency, virtual currency points must be added to each currency’s market value.
* International transfers and payments must use the virtual currency points, VCPs, assigned to each currency in international operations.
* Daily, weekly, monthly or yearly the actual money corresponding to the virtual currency points used in payments and transfers will be sent by any chosen mean of transport to the banks that had completed the operations or to the corresponding central banks.
In this way no currency would prevail in international payments as all currencies will be considered as VCPs.
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Because of the need of more guidelines to start using VCPs I have published the following updates:
VCPs allowance updates:
- Not only gold, also precious stones or agreed minerals held in banks can be used to obtain the VCPs allowance (public VCPs allowances). At the same time what is registered and kept in circulation (of gold, precious stones and agreed minerals that belongs to the people) in the country as private VCPs allowances to increase the VCPs allowances. The people can use their personal VCPs along with their precious items for purchases; for example if they sell or use their own gold to buy something, they must give their VCPs registration receipt or card (if they didn’t register their gold to obtain VCPs allowance, they can get it registered at the moment they decide to sell it so it gets added to the private VCPs allowances of his/her country).
However, the registered materials must be declared at all borders while traveling once exceeded an internationally agreed specific amount (such as the value of €10000). Therefore a registration method can be agreed with gold and jewelry shops. For instance, while evaluating the materials getting registered, an online VCPs account (for a first registration) can get made on the site that is getting ready and the registration can be combined with a physical/online card (VCPs allowance card. For registering other materials in a later moment, the same card can be used to access the same account. Note that the materials must be used with the private VCPs allowance card for buying or selling, while for public VCPs accounts it’s not necessary because the materials will be kept in the central bank or other banks) or a receipt with a serial number (and other methods to protect customers from fraud). Banks can buy private VCPs while buying gold or other agreed materials and make them public VCPs. And people can have public VCPs allowances corresponding to the value of money (currency) they have already in their accounts. While if people buy gold from the bank (with cash or any other payment method), the related public VCPs allowance will be transformed into private ones (the buyers must receive the actual gold with the private VCPs allowance).
- The agreed materials that can be used to obtain public VCPs must not be consumable (such as oil or natural gas) or used for industrial purposes (such as iron or lithium).
- The printed and online (used by credit or debit cards) currency kept in circulation of the concerned country must correspond to the value of public VCPs allowance that must correspond with the value of gold kept in the central bank (printing more money will decrease its own value internationally).
- Private banks in the same country can have a public VCPs agreement with the central bank so that each bank registers and declares how much gold or valuable materials it has and get its own share of public VCPs allowance and its related printed/online currency in circulation.
- Gems and gold kept in museums can have public VCPs allowances that correspond to their weights only not the archeological values.
- International trade can use public VCPs allowances and the physical payment must follow; either by a preferred currency or gold. However if two or more countries have a trade agreement they can barter goods using IVCPs (International VCPs Allowances; that does not need to have a deposited amount of gold although they will use the same reference as public or private VCPs because it’s a general way to evaluate goods of different types; so for example oil can be swapped for electronics based on how much IVCPs are agreed to be equally swapped each year; i.e. a gallon of oil that costs 50 IVCPs can be swapped for a device that costs 25 IVCPs and grains that cost 25 IVCPs in an International VCPs Allowance Agreement where all parties receives the agreed goods without transferring money or gold). The amount of IVCPs can be agreed per year or there could a multiple online account/s viewable by the countries/parties taking part in the agreement showing the balance of International VCPs that can still be used in bartering goods for each one of the participating countries/parties).
- Cryptocurrencies can be like International VCPs they won’t need to have a deposit of gold, however they must go through an evaluation process compared to their current comparative value and gold (i.e. the amount of bitcoin that must be paid to buy a 0.1g of gold now can become the fixed value) so that the Cryptocurrencies can still be used for trading or bartering for goods even after the release of VCPs. The Cryptocurrencies can sustain the deficiencies of amount of currency that can be used in the same country or internationally (because not everyone can have enough gold deposited to sustain the daily trade). However regulations on the amount of Cryptocurrency/ies exchanged in a country must be agreed with its own central bank or there could be an international agreement; this amount can’t be less than what’s already in use of a certain Cryptocurrency. Or Cryptocurrencies can be exchanged with IVCPs (to protect people’s money while keeping in mind their compared value with gold now) and an amount of International VCPs allowance can be used also for bartering goods in the same country through an agreement with its own central bank.
- Public VCPs must have printable cash allowance that can be in the country or overseas (registered in banks, exchange companies and at borders). Each bank can have registers of local or foreign cash.
- In order to avoid the devaluation of the currency, because the printed money will corrisponde to the gold or valuable minerals held by the country, the concerned country must retrieve the cash abroad and replace it either with another currency or IVCPs through a trade agreement.
- To compensate the deficit of VCPs necessary for daily use within a country and to make a proper distinction, locally, Local Virtual Points (LVCPs) can be used.
- The Local VCPs would be issued by local authorities.
Meanwhile a consortium blockchain is being developed to help proceed using VCPs.





