They are buying treasuries from a highly leveraged position and the stock is going to tank eventually. I’d sell any bank shares I was holding also.

Yeah, my sons and I saw a wolverine TWICE in the same day at the Mosquito Flats entrance to the John Muir trail in the Eastern Sierras of California 10 or 11 years ago. When we reported it to the ranger station they wouldn’t count it as a “confirmed sighting” since my son was only 8 years old at the time. An actual confirmed sighting was reported this year. Since the average lifespan of a wolverine at 7 to 12 years, I assume that there is a natural breeding population in the area.

Dude! I’m reading your journey and it’s totally inspiring me. You can do it!

Permanently high fees? I don’t think so. As more and more people adopt a technology prices for hardware fall. I don’t know how old you are, but do you remember when VHS or DVD players came out? What about flatscreen TVs over tubes? What about solar panels or lithium batteries? When technology is new, the price is very high but once mass adoption takes affect and mass manufacturing practices can take over the price drop significantly. I paid over $1000 for a DVD player in the 90s now I can find a high-quality Sony DVD player on Amazon for under $100 bucks.

I’m already seeing USB powered miners and miner/space heater units for sale in the range of the average individual. Now imagine a bitcoin miner the same size as the keypad at your local grocery store, which is run off the wasted energy from the conveyor belt. High fees are a temporary condition and will come down over time until they reach a sustainable bottom.

Now, on your question about how to manage a lightning channel. The more reliable, well balanced channels can demand a higher fee to ensure smooth transactions. The best channels will get the highest fees commensurate with bitcoin transaction fees to remain competitive.

Now, imagine that keypad at your local checkout stand running a bitcoin miner and a lightning node. The transactions run on the lightning network and batch to a single bitcoin network transaction daily. Instead of paying approximately 3% in a credit card transaction fee the retailer is now making a profit off of each transaction.

Once there are billions of miners around the world, transaction fees will naturally fall. It’s all part of Satoshi’s grand design and things are going pretty much according to plan.

As usual, I don’t disagree with your statement. However, don’t forget that Trump was not a great president. He was the best president to be elected in the last 170 years or so. But since before Lincoln Americans, when electing a president, have had a choice between the lesser of two evils. Remember, the Trump tax cuts raised taxes for many W2 workers, it was Trumps “ two weeks to slow the curve” that shut the country down and sent liberal governors into full tyrant mode, Trump never fired Faucci,

Trumps operation warp speed developed the mRNA vaccines and the stimulus checks Trump sent out are responsible for about 1/3 of the inflation we’ve experienced over the last three years.

Don’t get me wrong, I voted for him twice. However, I would vote for a better candidate, if one existed. Have you looked into the Convention of States movement? I think it’s a constitutional solution, short of revolution, that may be a good answer.

RX-8 is a slug compared to the RX-7 or Miata. The 2+2 design adds a lot of weight. An RX-7 for less than twice the cost will give you more performance with a lower rebuild/repair cost. A “spec” Miata will blow the doors off a stock RX-8 and be less expensive than an RX-7 to repair/modify. All that being said, a 2000 Corvette costs around the same as a RX-7 and will pretty much smoke any import. Of course, if you like working on cars a Triumph TR6 that needs a restoration costs around as much as the RX-8 you are looking at but is WAY cooler. I can talk about cars all day.

From the manufacturer “This unique terminal ballistic design technology provides superior knock-down power for north american thin-skinned, medium game.”

I recently listened to a podcast with Joseph Wang, who worked at the Fed. While I wholeheartedly agree that central banks are bad for a free market economy, his take was that the Fed wouldn’t have to implement such drastic measures if the government stopped spending so irresponsibly. IE: federal deficit is 118% of GDP. Unfunded liabilities of $133T. Interest on federal debt is growing faster than income. Etc. etc. etc.

The point being is that even Keynesian economists believe that the federal government has put us into a debt spiral and extreme inflation is the only way out.

Friday was great. I went to the Radio Made Easy class on Thursday/Friday. The band was playing, all the speakers were there mingling with the crowd, food was great. But less than 100 attendees were there.

I live about 4 hours East. I had to get home Saturday morning to help help out a few people I promised.

Dude! I was there Thursday and Friday. We could’ve walked right by each other and not known it.

Why are you in disbelief? It’s a pattern that’s been in place for a long time.

Wouldn’t that technically be criminal intent on the part of the FDA?

My brother brought his boat down and we fished below the dam at Watts Bar lake. We fucking killed it! 17 white bass, a nice hybrid, a good “eating size” catfish and a bonus walleye. Plus a cooler full of skipjack. Not bad for three and a half hours of fishing. We ended up with about ten pounds of nice fillets. Food for people, food for the chickens and pigs and fertilizer for the garden.

That would make me a believer and change my point of view.

Remember, they told us that Iraqi soldiers were taking babies out of incubators and smashing them on the ground when Iraq invaded Kuwait. That’s part of the reason why I joined the military. I wanted to go kill those evil people. It was all a lie.

Look for proof from multiple sources that are not mainstream media or government sponsored. Including all governments. I’m not saying it’s true or not. Just verify your sources before you get upset.

How are you getting 10% back? I’m using the Fold Card to get 1% back plus a spin. How else are you getting money back?

For that to happen the deep state would have to approve of it first. Besides, enabling acts, if not wholly unconstitutional are definitely anti-liberty. How do you think we got so many three letter institutions that enforce their policies on us without Congress ever enacting a law? Enabling acts!

Never gonna happen. The ballot measure has been proposed several times. Polls indicate that splitting California into two or more states along political lines would overwhelmingly pass. Prop 9 appeared on the state ballot in 2018. However, that measure was removed before the election and banned by the state Supreme Court. Any future attempts to split the state were also banned by the state’s Supreme Court on September 12, 2018.

I know that way more than 21 bitcoiners are smarter than me.

It depends, what is your vision for Nostr.cooking? Your logo needs to fit the feel. Think about it this way: big financial firms like Prudential and Fidelity have mountains in their logo to project power, stability and permanence. FedEx has an arrow in their logo to denote speed and directness. What’s your tag line? What’s your catch phrase?

It’s a pleasant graphic. However, anyone that knows anything about marketing can’t answer the question without knowing more.