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Not a Polar Bear
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Not a Polar Bear, who went from Electronics -> Software -> Databases -> Monetary Systems.

I know the Prisoner's Dilemma. Can you give the jailer's dollar offer in simple terms (eg. if you accept Bitcoin and the other rejects Bitcoin you win X. But if you both accept Bitcoin you get half X).

Here’s a thought. Craig Wright really *is* Satoshi (or one of the Satoshi team) and wants to distance himself from the crazy distribution of the contents of the genesis wallet that will come once he’s legally shown he’s is *not* Satoshi. Why on earth would such a supposedly smart person put up such a poor case in court?

The number of #Bitcoin Sats per dollar us too large for a quick conversion. I believe that once the rate goes below 1,000 (very soon!) quoting prices in Sats will become more easily understood and acceptable.

https://polarbitcoin.net/static/one-dollar-buys.php?startDate=2010-12-31

I recall a YouTube video from maybe two years ago where two guys were playing with #pihole and they blocked youtube ads.

Any instant suggestions from anyone before I trawl my video history?

it's crazy how we try to analyse using SMA, Fibonacci, RSI, etc but all along the #Bitcoin price is driven by USA-centric emotion, pausing at every $1,000 resting point on the way up.

$44,000, $45,000, $46,000 (briefly), $47,000.

I wonder what next...

No. ETF fees will go to zero and folks will accept the delay in buying/selling #Bitcoin (money making opportunity for fund managers) and the risk of a rug-pull as the small price to pay for the lazy management of their funds.

"the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war." G Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four.

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Just bought The Bitcoin Standard and The Fiat Standard for nostr:npub1zga04e73s7ard4kaektaha9vckdwll3y8auztyhl3uj764ua7vrqc7ppvc directly from nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak (TheSaifHouse.com). Paid via lightning with my Primal wallet. Thanks for all the zaps Nostr, they do add up!

The whole process was smooth as butter. The future is bright! ☀️💜

"Principles of Economics" is my favourite from @Saifedean. It's very readable.

For the younger members of the Nostr community…

A cheque was a specific form of paper on which you could request your bank to transfer funds to another person’s account.

You would complete the form with the person’s name, the amount to transfer (in both text and numbers), the date and your signature. You would then hand the form to the recipient who would give it to their bank with another piece of paper specifying their account and confirming the amount. Their bank would pass the cheque to your bank which would confirm the correct completion of the form (amount in text and numbers matched, valid date, sufficient funds and valid signature) before replying to the recipient’s bank to confirm the transaction. This process would take about five working days (not elapsed days).

The reason for writing the date on the next few cheques to be written was that one often wrote last year’s date “on autopilot”, effectively dating cheques over a year ago. Cheques dated more than three months in the past were invalid. Aaaargh!!

Thank goodness for #Bitcoin and the #Lightning network.

I remember the days when one of the New Year jobs was to write the year in the next 10 cheques in the chequebook!

We like charts that go up and to the right. So be ready for a 90 degree ccw rotation of the plot at midnight.