Currently trying to figure out how to do a relay any tips ?

Goodnight, Nostr. If you don't run your own Bitcoin node or your own Nostr relay yet, look into it. It's not overly complicated, it helps with decentralization, and gives you control over your money and your data.

Are there any times in history that experienced civil unrest when economic and political conditions were similar to what they are today? When I have conversations with those in their 70s, they say they have never seen the world as fucked up as it is right now and am curious if information just didn’t travel as fast, or are we truly experiencing a 4th turning. If we are, what are you doing to prepare aside from adopting a Bitcoin standard? Thoughts?

Back in the 1930s and 1940s, there were a lot of capital controls, lending restrictions, securities restrictions, etc. And it was for two different but intertwined reasons.

One obvious reason was that, among countries involved in trade wars or shooting wars, they wanted to reduce capital flows to the enemy.

A second reason was that, due to the war, sovereign debts became so high relative to GDP that they had to inflate away the debt, which was a form of default. It wasn't just 6102; it was a broad range of controls. Carmen Reinhart described it well as “creating a captive audience” in an

IMF Working paper:

“High public debt often produces the drama of default and restructuring. But debt is also reduced through financial repression, a tax on bondholders and savers via negative or belowmarket real interest rates. After WWII, capital controls and regulatory restrictions created a captive audience for government debt, limiting tax-base erosion. Financial repression is most successful in liquidating debt when accompanied by inflation. For the advanced economies, real interest rates were negative ½ of the time during 1945–1980. Average annual interest expense savings for a 12—country sample range from about 1 to 5 percent of GDP for the full 1945–1980 period. We suggest that, once again, financial repression may be part of the toolkit deployed to cope with the most recent surge in public debt in advanced economies.”

-IMF Working Paper No. 2015/007

Unfortunately, as most here know, both conditions are once again present in the 2020s. The US/Europe vs Russia/China contest is providing a useful excuse for governments to crack down on privacy, p2p exchange, money transfer, etc. Meanwhile, western governments have a similar sovereign debt problem that ultimately necessitates inflating the debt away.

Some of this Operation Chokepoint 2.0 stuff is just targeting scammy crypto companies and things like that. And the SEC enforcement actions are also going after crypto securities fraud and so forth. For bitcoiners, those things are not particularly relevant.

But under the surface, the bigger risk is all of the ongoing pressure on privacy, p2p, and the free flow of capital, including tighter bank restrictions and debanking.

Who’s doing intermittent fasting?

I’ve been back on it for a month now, and the results are great.

- Better sleep

- lost fat

- gained strength

- more focus

- more energy

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PV nostriches! Have you had your coffee yet? ☕️💜

I don’t believe you need to be a radiologist to understand.

Elon changes Twitter logo to Doge. Doge pumps. Later he changes it back. Doge crashes. *Heavy Sigh*

Why do people like this guy and / or think he is smart?

I wish if instead of selling Bitcoin, the US government would buy some.

It would be awesome if government owned most of the Bitcoin.

Let’s say #Bitcoin crashes to $100.

That’s a market cap of $2.1 billion.

A few dozen high net worth psychopath holders would buy up almost all of them (just in case) and USD price would be back up to today’s levels in no time.

The farther it falls, the faster supply is gone.

This really puts it in perspective