Delighted to announce the launch of my publishing house and online bookstore TheSaifHouse.com, publishing the best Bitcoin and economics books in high quality cloth hardcover and audiobook and ebook and offering 10% off for payment in bitcoin!
To launch, we're selling a fine cloth cover version of nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a's new book, Broken Money, as well as Fiat Food, Matthew Lysiak's forensic investigation into how inflation ruined the modern human diet and health.
You can get these two books, as well as my Principles of Economics, The Fiat Standard, and The Bitcoin Standard, all in hardcover for $99 only ($89.1 if paid in bitcoin!)
This is amazing news! Congratulations.
Mutiny is now easier to self host!
We've re-engineered our storage solution, VSS, to run on a normal host, rather than Cloudflare's beta D1 service. Everything has been running smoothly since we migrated. Let us know if you have any issues.
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/self-hosting-mutiny/
VSS is a key part of Mutiny because browser storage can be at times unreliable, especially on iOS. VSS is end-to-end encrypted storage for lightning channel state. It also makes it easy to restore your wallet on another device.
The cool upside: now that this part of Mutiny Wallet is just a standard server + Postgres, it's a lot easier to self-host Mutiny. We put together a new repo with the core pieces you need, and we have docs there as well for how to self-host Mutiny on a VPS.
This sounds amazing!
Is the merged and changed code usually an improvement?
โBut markets do not tend toward monopolies, except through the use of coercive violence. Quite simply, individual producers who charge exorbitant prices cannot stop competitors from undercutting themโunless they resort to force. In decades of examining this question, I have never come across a single example of a monopoly provider whose monopoly status was secured on the market peacefully rather than through coercive intervention. It is always government rules and regulations that create monopolies, as they are the only barrier that can stop peaceful private enterprise. The irony here is that government mandates turn specific industries into monopolies, which then normalizes the idea that this industry inevitably can only function as a monopoly, making it a โnatural monopoly.โโ
Principles Of Economics by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
Government creates monopolies through coercive intervention.
"If debasement can occur, it eventually will occur for any number of reasons."
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That sounds interesting. What did you learn?
"Computer illiteracy and economic ignorance are the toxic cocktail that makes it impossible to understand Bitcoin."
โ Beaytyon
Fantastic move! All Bitcoin content should also be available on another platform. Hope that other Bitcoiners will follow.
I very much like the idea of asking the right question(s). It depends on the person and what it is that that person finds the most important thing in their life.
I think for most people savings is an important one. I use the keynote from Michael Saylor at BTC Prague. He shows how no asset can keep up with real inflation over time, except Bitcoin.
But when the word Bitcoin drops, the first thing they'll mention is the price and how it has fallen.
I've just received a grant of $25,000 USD (in Bitcoin) to work alongside the Human Rights Foundation educating political dissidents around how to use BTC. I'm very humbled and excited.
Rather than focus on me for this post though, I want to take you on a journey regarding one of the stories I've witnessed at the Oslo Freedom Forum that has had the most impact on me.
In Oslo 2022, I watched a woman take the stage and talk about her activist husband who had been abducted and imprisoned in Nicaragua, leaving their daughter fatherless, as they had no contact with him at all.
I also met a wonderful woman learning about Bitcoin wallets for the first time, as a way to fundraise and get money into countries where dissident bank accounts would be shut down.
A year later I returned to Oslo and learned two things.
1. The woman I spoke with/coached and the woman onstage were the same person. Her name is Berta Maradiaga.
2. Due to the efforts of the HRF her husband Felix had been freed and returned to them for the first time in 3 years. They even showed a video of his daughter's tearful first reunion.
I encourage you to watch all 3 videos here. It is a harrowing story and it emotionally broke me watching it play out in real time. I got to spend a bunch of time with Berta recently at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, and she continues to learn about BTC and how it can be used to further their cause. She is wonderful.
Grab your tissues.
Felix In Oslo 2019 (Before being imprisoned)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtoWHNLw-o
Berta in Oslo 2022 (Pleading for help to release her husband)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AicUo9hVlI
Felix Returning To Oslo 2023 (after his release and reunion)
Congratulations! It's well deserved :-)
Fantastic insight:
"... expect complete industry capitulation to Bitcoin..."
"... expect complete industry capitulation to Bitcoin..."
โYou can summarize all of modern climate science with one sentence basically and that is:
Everything that socialists like makes the weather good, everything that socialists hate makes the weather bad.โ
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That is it indeed in. nutshell.
Bitcoin's circular economy, one person at a time.
Reminds me of the story with grain on each square on a chess board doubled.
