So, the fiat ETF suppose to be backed by the real #bitcoin right ? If yes, then how would you know that they do hold it and just don’t give you a fake numbers like the rest of the cRaPtO exchanges

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Katie and the kids don't like the bitterness of the 100% cacao chocolate. Me, I love it. Delicious hot chocolate for me everyday it is then! No sugar. Just milk and cacao. 🇨🇷

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Jesus that's terrifying

Just tried a piece of 100% dark chocolate.

I don’t know what to do with my mouth

Many bitcoiners and freedom advocates are sleeping on nostr, but that's okay. We'll keep building and eventually things will click.

With every new touchpoint they'll realize that nostr is bigger and more vibrant than the last time they saw it.

Just switched to the Mullvad Browser and will switch from NordVPN to Mullvad VPN once my current subscription with Nord ends in a few weeks.

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Is that a sticker because I would buy that sticker.

Temperament is the most important thing in investing.

I’ve known many smart people, who underperformed because they simply had a difficult time controlling their emotions.

Your brain is constantly seeking psychological comfort, and the truth is that good investing is about being extremely uncomfortable for long periods of time.

Good analogy to explain nostr to non-technical folks?

He did say bitcoin was topping out, and he was right this time

So there's this progression. First you see something like Cashu when you say, "Oh, it's a custodial lightning wallet with better privacy for users and no accounts." And then you realize, "Oh, I can use this to pay someone who is offline. I just send them a string and that’s the ecash note.” And then you realize, "Oh, this works over long range radio with very low bandwidth. And then you realize, oh, if we trust the same mint, we can actually use it to route lightning payments without open channels to the mint (the channel is the trust). And we can use it as a lightning wallet for ourselves. And then you can say, oh, we can create these community mints for “islands” that are not connected to the internet.

And then you realize, "Oh, there can be more than one Uncle Jim, and we don't have to trust this one person. We can have shared custody, and this thing has better privacy." And suddenly you realize you are were not expecting anything like this at all when you first saw it, when it began. It has completely different implications than what I was expecting previously.

It's the same with Nostr. It's like, "Oh, this is not a very good protocol. It depends on a few relays and you can’t even store images on it and who would use it." And it's cumbersome. Now there are blogging platforms and communities and marketplaces and AI communicating over it. And there's this innovation that no one was expecting when they first started. It was like thinking about the protocol and trying to judge it by its design, but its use (and implications) is discovered, not designed. Same way you can send a calendar invite over email, or do encrypted group chats over it (DeltaChat).

It’s interesting to see, how we use technologies that in theory should not have worked, but in practice, they do. Bitcoin is one of them. The probability of its success was very low.

A friend of mine said in a podcast with me that Bitcoin’s risk adjusted value is actually better than a decade ago. Yes, you could have bought cheap Bitcoin. But its success back then was very improbable. Now you are buying the asset of the parallel financial system, back then, it was a membership card in a club of geeks. After several that have failed…

To blow stuff up. Fire cannons and flintlock rifles