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Where would you recommend going to learn more about splicing? Setting up inbound liquidity has always been a pain for me.

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$100,000,000,000,000

An honoree in the fiat currency hall of shame. The Zimbabwe $100 Trillion bill was issued in 2009 during one of

history's worst hyper-inflationary events.

Zimbabwe's official inflation rate hit 231,000,000%, and the bill was worth the equivalent of 0.40 USD--not even enough for bus fare.

Zimbabwe has since redenominated their own Zimbabwe dollars, as well as "dollarizing" and adopting the US

dollar as an official currency.

Made of Money: Venezuelans transform banknotes into art in bid to give them value.

ā€œVenezuelan migrants in Colombia are giving their devalued currency a new lease of life by recycling near-worthless bolivars into artworks… Venezuela’s rate of inflation reached 2,000,000 per cent in 2018 following economic measures by socialist President Nicolas Maduro.ā€

(Anu Shukla, 2019)

Thanks for sharing this. Leonardo AI is another free image generator worth trying.

I suspect that the amount of future onboarding will depend at least partly on the how much censorship people experience. There may come a time when Nostr’s uncensored freedom of speech becomes even more valuable than it is today.

As for influencers, I’m sure that will likely be part of the story. I just hope that it doesn’t become overly partisan politically. I much prefer the current vibe.

Centralized social media platforms engage in content moderation that could in some cases undermine the freedom of speech. Twitter is a prime example of this, with many documented cases. I don’t see that problem with Nostr.

I don’t disagree that there is a bigger network effect with other platforms—they’ve been around for far longer. But I also don’t know that Nostr needs to replace them. Is that really the problem that Nostr solves?

A kilogram of tomatoes next to 5,000,000 Venezuelan bolivar, its price and the equivalent of 0.76 USD.

(2018, Carlos Garcia Rawlins).

Can anyone recommend a great AI text to speech solution? Preferably something low cost or free? I’m open to running it on my own hardware.

I’m really impressed by ElevenLabs’ product. It sounds near-human to me. For my project, it would cost over $300.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #texttospeech

Can you help me unpack what he meant by global? The Lightning network has always been global. Beyond being able to download the Strike app, area they now offering fiat on and off ramps in all of those new countries?

I like how Mallers said they are openly competing with Binance. Bullish about a Bitcoin only on-ramp with an approachable interface.

Really interested to see what the future of large language models will be, especially since we’ll be able to run them locally on our own hardware and train them on whatever specialized sources we want.

We have reached the moment Bitcoin's evolution when US presidential candidates are publicly endorsing it and incorporating it into their campaign platforms. This is historic. #Bitcoin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7FPl065II

Thanks. I’ll be sure to watch. šŸ¤™

Are any of the old school cypherpunks presenting at this year’s Bitcoin Conference?

Really enjoyed Nick Szabo’s presentation last year on the cypherpunk movement.

If you’re using 3.5 as a productivity tool, it’s definitely worth trying for a month and then deciding whether to renew. GPT4 is noticeably better.

Which ones have you found most useful so far? I tested a few but didn’t get much out of them.

The search plugin seems pretty useful. I’m really eager to get access to Code Interpreter, but don’t have it yet.