You don't need to know a lot of chemistry to ser that the info GPT4 gave you is wrong. 1 kg of fat can't possibly become 2.8 kg of CO2 and 1.6 kg of water, for a total of 4.4 kg.

What the fuck? This fucking bullshit again? I've traveled to the US five times this year and they had stopped asking for this.

I did a quick search and SWIFT has 11k member institutions who move $5 T daily, in 45 M daily messages. So let's apply some Pareto here and let's say that 20% of those messages do 80% of the value, and we have $4 T in 9 M messages to call "high volume" anything above $444,444 current purchase power.

How many institutional and non-institutional actors are sending $444k per transaction DAILY? I doubt there are one million, but that would be the Bitcoin network user numbers you're looking to make the initial calculation in the first post.

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Another thing to take into account though, which I think makes BTC potential to he spent even lower, is that those spending it will not do it unless they have a reasonable expectation to be paid in BTC as well. So, if I transfer 500k in BTC to pay for a house, I would only do it if I have another asset to sell that I know I will be able to be paid for in BTC. Unless I'm simply liquidating my wealth because I'm bankrupt, or I'm old and don't intend to pass it on, or something.

You have to find the equilibrium point of two variables: as BTC's purchase power goes up, the number of people who will transact in it will in fact decrease, not increase, because it will become too valuable to spend. To have an idea of what the intersection is, probably you want to find out how many high volume (let's say the equivalent of $50,000 in purchase power, or 500k, or 5 M, it's arbitrary) transactions happen every day and how many users that is.

It was so obvious that what he was actually doing was try to cause paperhanded idiots to panic sell, so he and his bankster cronies could scoop up the discounted sats...

Someone just said "let's take a 30,000 feet view, a helicopter view" and I WAS ABLE NOT TO REMARK.

A good example of the "global climate change" scam.

Ignore for a second the woke tilt of the article with all that crap about "women are more affected by climate change" and "indigenous people".

It does convey very well how the Corporatist regime works. Like the 20th century forms of fascism and fascism's predecessor communism, and before that French jacobinism and Enlightened Despotism, the system is based on the appellation to a "higher goal" which superseeds the free will of private individuals and is the only valid guide of the world economic and social institutions.

As it happened with classical fascism and communism, the Corporation, with its organizational power and its ability to move and control massive resources without personal responsibility, is the vehicle the State bureaucracy uses to enrich itself, and the State with its monopoly of legal violence and the legal system itself, the vehicle that the Corporation uses to enrich itself, being in effect one and the same. nostr:note19wmun4zj929zdnre2zc7vxv9jp9d3ws0q0vvhfdn040x3ng0zgvqafmz9n

Such person never existed. There was a Catalan farmer called Joan, from the village of Canyamars, who tried to kill the king. It's still debated why. But no "Juan", or "bocata calamares" in Catalonia, thanks.

"Resistencia a la autoridad"

This is what I always tell Americans. You guys think you are being abused by your government (you are), but way too often you lose sight of the immensely different relation you have in terms of rights vs the State compared to other Western countries (not to mention non-Western ones).

In this case indeed this man was treated unjustly - there is little you can do about that, if a cop wants to fuck with you. But the most important part and the fact is that later on the courts upheld the law and his rights.

In Spain, not only the cops are free to stop you, frisk you, confiscate anything you carry, demand that you give them your ID, take you away just because, and abuse you physically and otherwise - they won't suffer any sort of consequence because even in the rare occasion in which the law is not on their side to begin with, the prosecutors and judges systematically are.

If a cop, any cop, for whatever reason, stops you in Spain, you better just shut the fuck up. The level of freedom with which Americans talk down and even insult cops carries legal penalties here - plus the beating they'll give you for talking back.

https://youtube.com/shorts/lApnFHGT5QE

Correct, he explains how it has to be an ordered process. First liquidate assets to reduce the short term debt. Then reduce expenses to balance the budget, so there is no need to issue new debt. Finally take away from future politicians the moral hazard that the central bank and the printer represents. Milei doesn't have anything against the peso per se. It's the ability of corrupt politicians to monetize the debt by making the central bank issue pesos, that's the problem that he wants to address. People miss the point.

He is not backtracking though. He has explained many times the process that must be followed. Right, nostr:npub168ycwtyy6xechg7exmkwj0snqgqpv89mzu0ttggpjnhmklkyfjeq4s39ff ?

If you understand Spanish, here's a video:

https://youtu.be/dV_VbrPM0AI

I do, regularly.

I've been hard at orange-pilling some good friends these last months before the end of the Plebs-led Bitcoin era. Just now, thinking about my latest attempt, I realized there may be one single small discourse adjustment when I explain how it works to them, that may help onboarding.

One thing that really puts them off generally speaking (and everybody I think) is the extreme fear of losing their keys. We (people holding already) make a huge emphasis on the fact that if you lose your keys, your coins are "lost forever"... But you can lose your keys to your coins and still simply send them to a newly created wallet. The keys are only used to create or migrate a wallet, in the end, which should be rare events.

I know that for the OG's here this will be "DUH, OBVY". It's not that I didn't know it myself. I just hadn't seen it from the point of view of making it much more relevant to assuage fears when explaining Bitcoin to potential newcomers, and to tone down the importance of the keys (just to tone it down, still making it central).

"Illicit money" means in more than 90% of the cases victimless crimes: "illegal" drugs and "counterfeiting".

In other words, this is a false narrative even for fiat, making up crimes that are only designated as such due to political reasons to justify totalitarianism.

US agents bribing Spanish spies to give them secret information. The Spanish government in shock, arguing that "why would they do that if we already give them everything they ever ask for every time?", literally. nostr:note10qsu0zue86lnn8ymz8dlwk5yuj8fmws4g8c3p60vx4neyh7gz4mq6hwkkd

Sounds like these Riot people are a bunch of thugs.

No purple please. It's an ugly combination, plus if you feel the orange is too strong, you would only make it worse adding purple.

Those otherwise very good looking side bars may take too much real estate. Other than that it's looking good.