yo anybody still out there?

🇸🇻 El Salvador is set to host one of Latin America’s tallest skyscrapers: Tether Tower.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino has confirmed plans for a 70-story global headquarters in San Salvador, which will also house other digital asset and tech companies.

A fast Nostr app is essentially a collection of intertwined cache objects that prevent the code from having to deal with raw Nostr events all the time.

Oh you need to explore home renovation YouTube more.

Yours is much better! congrats for the work.

The wave in the background is a statistic on art production from each period based on 29.000 items in the Louvre museum... it's a proxy of sorts for wealth.

Here's another weak attempt to put it all together...

#history #money #timeline

What small businesses are here?

I just got asked to provide a list of small Bitcoin businesses for a podcast that wants to interview them.

Help me with my list

Is it better to stick with standard names like ‘coin control’ or go with more descriptive ones like ‘select coins’?

I didn’t go to film school for no reason lol 😂

I remember when they would call you a lunatic for saying this kind of tracking was possible.

Now it’s in commercial products as a feature.

I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

#2a

When I was younger I would always win when we played monopoly.

I would always win because I would volunteer to be the banker and then I would cheat by subtly giving myself more than the other players.

This is essentially how the economy works.

every time I post my protests in climate action groups I get censored, lol.

Here’s what NPR didn’t share from the interviews I did with them (four in total) for the most recent episode of Planet Money:

•That while it’s awkward for most Bitcoin enthusiasts to have the political class here now, it’s better that they are here so that we can have conversations about Bitcoin out in the open with them, instead of conversations on the topic happening behind closed doors.

•That it’s a good thing that the U.S. government is no longer antagonistic toward Bitcoin, because there are activists and others living under authoritarian regimes globally who rely on bitcoin as a money of last resort, and if the U.S. is openly hostile to it, it gives more leverage to the leaders of those authoritarian regimes.

•That Bitcoin is the separation of money and state, but that doesn’t mean the state won’t have something to say about it. And that, again, it’s better that Bitcoin enthusiasts and industry leaders are at the table to have those conversations with politicians.

•(I believe I also told the reporter about the work Gridless is doing in Africa, which is incentivizing the growth of renewable energy, and that Bitcoin shouldn’t be a bipartisan issue and that some Democrats like Ro Khanna see the benefits of it, but I’m not totally sure of that.)

In total, I spoke with the reporter who interviewed me for somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes and they clipped two lines from what I said so to fit them into the narrative they wanted to craft.

While I get that this is how journalism works - that all reporters have a bias - I wanted to weigh in to let you all know that what I shared was manipulated to fit an agenda.

I used to defend NPR’s public funding, as I thought the organization served a public good, but I no longer feel that way.

If they refuse to tell the whole Bitcoin story, they no longer have my support.

Meat eggs water 💦

Pretty basic