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As I implied in the first note, the dip caught me completely short in cash where I usually keep it, so I had to take a look at my "normal" bank.
I keep that account basically empty so no help there. But I do have a credit card with them, which I never use either, but it's there for an emergency -- like a 10% flash dip.
No time or patience to handle the 25-30-100% absurd markups the crazies at the P2P exchange wanted, so I rushed to Binance dot com.
Long story short: it had been such a long time since I last operated through a "normal" bank and through a cex, that I wasn't even aware that this top-3 Spanish bank now blocks all transactions related to "crypto" and apparently they've been doing it since 2021.
I did find some cash somewhere else, so I was able to buy -- a lot less than I wanted, but better than zero.
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Unrelated, but maybe not so much:
Remember that the US managed to break the Soviet Union through a 30 year long arms race. In reality, since they went off gold and turned on the infinite fiat printer, the Soviet Union lasted less than 20 years.
Current US public debt: 118.58% of GDP
- Total debt: 257% of GDP
Current PRC public debt (even with fake statistics from the CCP): 90% of GDP
- Total debt: 280% of GDP
Total debt is probably the better measurement for China, since there is no such thing as a "private sector". Companies like Evergrande are fake "private enterprises" acting as vehicles for the CCP and the PRC government, in the end.
And where is all that cash going?
"Chinese-characteristics" colonialism in Africa and Latin America, massive upgrades of the PLA, especially the navy, massive deployment of surveillance state within China and related terrorist activities abroad, increbidbly hyperinflated real estate and stock bubbles (as sole outlets for investment in a completely unfree market under central planning by a totalitarian regime)...
In sum, looks like another arms race with the US.
By the way, what the fuck caused this? It's midnight here and I was just watching Batman.
Oh what a question to ask HERE... Be ready for the usual sermons and admonishments about selfcustody, non-KYC, P2P, Armstrong's bald head and CZ's evil master plan...
The real answer though is, if you have access to it, Binance dot com (not US). But really, just whatever.
That said, once you've done the deed do withdraw and rinse those dirty KYC sats...
I will more than gladly acquire the sats of anyone stupid enough to be selling right now and at such discount. Yum. nostr:note1z5323w9m6u28yhsdxted3az6xkk9ss4dzg2v6pmfl35ue25373eq6at9xs
Motherfuckers couldn't you just wait until month's end?
Anyone got any positive experience with Satsback.com? I have had the browser extension for a couple of months now, I've used it every time it popped up asking to activate it, and spent literally thousands of dollars through it (hotel bookings and such for work, mainly), and not even once has it worked or accrued anything. I'm starting to feel that this is just a scam to track my movements.
Yep, I did that. Also set lightning as default. But it won't save the settings. Probably a server thing, will try again later.
Yeah, I signed in and it keeps asking me to fill in my withdrawal settings, but it keeps giving an error when I do and try to save them.
In any case, a blanket gate does not work for me. I need to be able to whitelist, at the very least.
Very cool though, I will keep the acount and use it when they add that.
The example I gave of mIRC before, that was it for me, really. Pre-"social media".
Nostr, for now, is kind of a return to that, and that's why I'm also so adamant against people trying to make it like Twitter. We do not need "features" or a "platform" or "algorithms" to TALK TO PEOPLE.
Anyone asking for any of that is really just looking for ways to grift on other people.
nostr:npub1n0delesspp5qyp9sd6d4fql9g3s96k7g4yyvfmpdncpp542wvxzqksp427 has this feature. I tested by sending an email to thebullishbitcoiner@nodeless.io and received an email response with the following invoice. The minimum paywall is 1000 sats.
You can check it out here:
https://nodeless.io/?ref=b42efe7e-7efb-47ec-b2dc-3421f24f331f 
Whaaaaaaat
So you can whitelist/blacklist, or is it a blanket thing? That wouldn't work for me.
Can't find info on the email service though
nostr:npub1n0delesspp5qyp9sd6d4fql9g3s96k7g4yyvfmpdncpp542wvxzqksp427 has this feature. I tested by sending an email to thebullishbitcoiner@nodeless.io and received an email response with the following invoice. The minimum paywall is 1000 sats.
You can check it out here:
https://nodeless.io/?ref=b42efe7e-7efb-47ec-b2dc-3421f24f331f
Whaaaaaaat
So you can whitelist/blacklist, or is it a blanket thing? That wouldn't work for me.
Can't find info on the email service though
Fuck, I would love that.
Wasn't proof of work proposed for email originally? But of course, people like "free" stuff...
Oh fuck, time to fiat-mine and I haven't mae coffee yet
That's why I keep saying that we do not need algorithms. Get rid of that shit now.
Well, from the "social media" grifter point of view, for me, intuitively, the ideal situation would seem to have TWO separate markets, one here, one there. I would think that the lesser the overlap, the larger the total number of unique followers. So actually going there to bring attention to Nostr and make them move would seem detrimental to the total grift.
Latest one, seen yesterday.
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