Are sunglasses bad for mental health? Like do they block some good vibes/rays from the sun from getting into our bodies? #asknostr #sunnyday ☀️

The really sad thing about constant currency devaluation throughout the world is that it benefits those who have the most access to cheap credit at the expense of those who do not.

People on the lower end of the income spectrum in Egypt are generally dealing with cash. Their wages and savings get debased, and they own fewer hard assets, so they have fewer offsets. Their ability to buy imported goods diminishes, their ability to travel outside of Egypt diminishes, and their costs in general rise.

People on the higher end of the income spectrum in Egypt have access to foreign bank accounts and/or have multi-year domestic property loans, which are basically currency shorts. They mitigate the impact from the ongoing devaluation, or in some cases benefit by it.

As a tangible example, last year I took out a 7-year loan or currency short against the Egyptian pound, and used it to buy a villa that houses a 9-person extended family (7 when my husband and I are not there). The money supply goes up by 20% per year but my interest rate is 3%, which is an ultra-cheap long-term currency short. Within the first six months of the term, the Egyptian pound was already cut in half relative to the dollar. Who knows what the exchange rate will be over the next 6.5 years.

The past four decades of global Fiat World have been like a game of Blackjack. In Blackjack, you try to get to 21 without going over. In Fiat World, you get into a position so that you can take out low interest debt and buy scarcer assets with it, and you do that as much as you can but without going bust in a downturn. The major governments can do that the most. The big banks are next. The big funds and asset managers and public corporations are next. The wealthy individuals are next. Then the middle class, and then the working class and the poor.

And the global aspect of Fiat World is important. An asset allocator can operate globally, so among the 160+ currencies out there, they can arbitrage them. They short a currency with negative real interest rates, and buy good assets somewhere with it. I personally did it in Egypt not to make money (we don't plan to sell for the foreseeable future) but to ensure good housing for the family at modest expense. But global firms do this around the world to make money. As the global economy got more and more financialized over the past four decades, a lot of professional talent shifted from engineering or medicine or wherever else and moved toward financial arbitrage.

Weak money financializes everything else. Strong money can de-financialize everything else.

This #bitcoin thing looks pretty interesting. May be good to get some in case it catches on.

I've been taking an aspirin a day for almost 10 years. I couldnt remember why I began doing this in the first place. So, I proposed the question to AI.

It's response was not helpful in reminding me why.

Do any of you do this and if so, why?

I don't have any heart or blood conditions and none of that runs in my family.

#RandomThoughts #AskNostr

Random Thought but is the Bitcoin having hype kinda of like selling the news?

Since the halving supply shock should be priced in so why are we hyping it up?#Bitcoin #AskNostr

There is a guy at work that over-uses the word “thus” and it makes me want to choke him out.

Im not a violent person. Am I crazy?

#asknostr

Alcohol affects people differently. Some get really happy and chatty, others get a really short fuse, some get emotional, etc. What kind of drunk are you?

#asknostr

I observe that it's a somewhat unpopular current opinion in maxi circles (and I love maxi circles <3), but I think Taproot Assets are indeed potentially useful for stablecoins. We'll see how it shakes out.

A lot of people have ideological beliefs about what "should be", but for people operating every day in developing countries with high inflation, a bitcoin wallet that has BTC and USD, and lets them skip Binance/Tron, could be really useful. There's real market demand for that.

Do I want shitcoins on bitcoin? No. But I think they'll burn themselves out anyway. In the meantime as a bridging tool, dollars on bitcoin would meet a real utility demand and benefit bitcoin adoption overall.