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Amr Gharbeia
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I speak geeky, legalese and some human. Ownlife doubleplusgood.

That's be nice. Bitcoin has not found a Debian maintainer for over a dozen years now, which is a shame because so much is downstream from Debjan.

This is the blog post the book came from. https://kadavy.net/blog/posts/zettelkasten-method-slip-box-digital-example/

Mixing zettlekasten with your tool of choice is a very personal choice and there's a lot of people suggesting workflows. It can get very complex very quickly especially if you add Getting Things Done. His makes a good start and is very close to what I use, except I use org-mode instead of markdown on emacs and mobile.

...then suddenly.

You could jump that wall on your right hand side and find someone to talk to someone about it.

Downside: keys could just disappear one morning.

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I know physicians in Egypt that, after their shift, go home and stack physical dollar bills. They earn no interest. If a thief or a fire takes their home, they're done.

They have looked around at the monetary technologies available to them, and decided that this was the best one: stacks of paper claims issued by the global hegemon that they're not particularly fond of, stored in their own home rather than trust the banks. What a sad state of affairs.

They put as much of their illiquid net worth as possible into buying a condo, and the rest of their liquid net worth goes into paper dollars with no interest. So, for starters, they have to sacrifice liquidity for savings.

Egypt is not a very tech-savvy market; bitcoin, stablecoins, and other similar tech are all on the fringes. Many Muslims believe that bitcoin is speculation and thus bad, and so I appreciate the work that Saifedean and others do to show that no, bitcoin is interest-free sound money and good. If anything it's fiat money that doesn't conform to Muslim ideals. But more importantly, most Egyptians haven't actually spent time to understand the tech, unlike Nigeria or other countries. It's just not a "thing" there yet.

The only time I encountered someone in person who had not yet heard of bitcoin, was in Egypt. I was speaking to a friend, and we were talking about the Iranian protests; she was happy that many women had taken off their head coverings if they wanted to (she herself was someone who did so in Egypt, where it's permissible). I was like, "yeah, but it's rough for them. They risk getting bank accounts shut off. That's why some of them have promoted bitcoin. but I think it's still way too small yet."

And she was like, "what's bitcoin?"

And I was surprised. Many people haven't understood bitcoin, but most have heard the name. She hadn't heard the name even in 2022.

What we have today is clearly a local maximum. This is clearly not the height of monetary technology.

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I don't think Egyptians are more or less tech-savvy than people are in socioeconomically similar countries. They are just less free. Transacting in "virtual currencies" without prior permit is a crime in Egypt since the banking laws changes in 2019 (if I remember on the top of my head). It is also a country with very weak rule of law. Even before 2019, police would lurk on localbitcoins and entrap potential buyers, then charge them with money laundering.

Like everything Egypt related, finding good on-ramps is going to be a tough nut to crack. In the meantime, people are vulnerable to losing the vast majority of whatever wealth they had.

Energy density is useful for mobility, portability... The main factor here is Energy Return on Investment (EROI), perhaps the most important energy factor no one os talkong about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_on_investment

Right. My first impression is this: there is something wrong if you have to enter your secret key in a device and if your device is compromised, so is your identity that you invested in. This is why PGP has subkeys and revoke certificates. Not sure if something like nostr could be made so you can resume your account with another subkey, but at least you should be able to revoke it.

Oh, well. Hello world. I guess.