Why not? Wouldn’t the mint know that the deposit occurred at the same time as that IP address made the request?
Content is king. It’s better to bring the content here.
Imagine two nostrs. One where there is none of the good content from Twitter and the other that has all the good stuff and our own stuff too. Which one would you rather be on?
Sats balance zero’d out in both nostr:npub1s4m06xdlu6fuhfhs4m3nhpp8xdpsdprwccdktckkzusfu8qzzprqnfpz6a and nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 this weekend, with not clues as to how. We are so painfully early.
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He’s clearly smart and for a “non-bitcoiner” understands those deeper concepts about money. Part of me wonders whether the shitcoinery is a misdirection. On the other hand, his promotion is causing real world people to lose their money. I don’t know. I can’t explain it!
The can confirm that. For me, the wallet ends up in Loading: Setup and doesn’t seem to finish. I’m not sure if it’s hung or still working because there is no visual indicator of progress. The blue bar doesn’t seem to move.
I don’t know but I would think it would be hard to water cut through a large stone. The force of the water would dissipate over distance and those stones are incredibly thick.
It’s a fascinating problem. I was wondering if they used water as a level. They could fill up a pool and use the water level to set a line across all the stones. They could cut away any parts above the water to make them all smooth and even. Who knows! Quite the mystery.
Loved this video.
My takeaways:
On life:
1. Things usually work out if you persist and really believe in what you’re doing.
2. Your willingness to fail gives you the ability to succeed.
3. Don’t let fear of failure hold you back. Even if you fail, nobody will remember.
4. Anything worth doing is hard.
5. With enough persistence, most things that seem impossible become possible.
6. Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer too easily.
7. Most people do what’s expected of them and not what they believe in.
8. Leadership is having a belief system, knowing what you believe in, an internal compass.
9. The world is changed by a very small number of people who follow their core beliefs and don’t listen to others.
10. Only those who fail greatly can succeed greatly.
On VCs:
1. Almost all VCs add no or negative value.
2. If you haven’t built a startup or have equivalent experience, you haven’t earned the right to advise an entrepreneur.
On startups:
1. Business plans are useless except for showing the issues the entrepreneur is thinking about.
2. If you want to change the world, join a startup and not a big company.
3. All the exciting opportunities are at the fuzzy, obscure edges of the system where things are uncertain.
4. Don’t listen to experts. Their predictions are no better than dart throwing monkeys. nostr:note17xduv8jv592edsr24qh8jj34egdtd47k0aap8jruhf47wz6hjaqq8e8m46
This article is very true.
I believe America as a constitutional republic, as envisioned by the framers, is gone. Unfortunately never to return.
There is already a low grade civil war underway. Expecting this to get much worse as claims on dwindling resources continue to increase. (Let’s see what happens when California and Illinois need a bailout from Texas and Florida.)
Hopefully remnants of those core foundational principles, that once made America great, will survive in some of its future parts. nostr:note1myl826yy43h5x8287wddpxhvhnzy4sgv8eyp6fkumtrcyweg63js5hz6tl
I’m not sure what you mean exactly.
I would assume that such people who can’t afford to save anything will just spend whatever they receive. I guess if you can’t save anything, bitcoin’s store of value benefits won’t matter much to you.
Shawn, I think you’re right that most normies probably don’t consider their local currency devaluation.
I could see it as the inverse: NgU. If someone has bitcoin to spend, I assume that they believe that it will “go up in value”.
If they have both bitcoin and fiat ready to pay, they might choose the one that they believe won’t go up as much.
Speaking from my own experience, I feel these issues. Do I want to spend my bitcoin that I worked so hard to stack? That’s “going up” by 50% per year? (That’s probably magnified 10x if you have non-kyc sats that you jumped through hoops to acquire.)
Honestly, I really only give it to friends, family, and community members that I want to gift the most scarce thing other than time. If there is both fiat and bitcoin in my wallet I generally want to get rid of the fiat first.
I’ve come to terms with the fact that most customers will prefer to use fiat for payments.
It’s Gresham’s Law… customers will always prefer to spend their devaluing currencies first.
I think that Bitcoin won’t start gaining mainstream traction for payments until sellers refuse payment in anything but bitcoin (Thiers Law).
I’m assuming bitcoin stays at the store of value stage for a while. We still have a long way to go in this stage (ie culminating in the global reserve asset).
Yeah, wondering if this will stick. Really interesting to see the crowdsourced marketplace for designs too.
I just saw an article that California was going after the Ghost Gunner team for creating another company called Coast Runner to sell metal CNC machines. Ghost Gunner uses them to create untraceable guns from the comfort of your own home.
Here’s Coast Runner. I didn’t realize that the home tech had gotten this good. Makes 3D parts out of titanium and other metals.
Yes, and I would add … reform the GRAS rules.
My understanding is that many countries require positive proof that something is safe before allowing it in food. Apparently the US has laxer rules where you can add stuff to food if you don’t know it’s harmful. Of course, those business don’t want to know if something is harmful. 🙈🙉
https://www.fda.gov/food/food-ingredients-packaging/generally-recognized-safe-gras
Also, the US forces these toxins on other countries too!
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/16/revealed-monsanto-mexico-us-glyphosate-ban
I’ve talked to many doctors in the 🇺🇸 and many acknowledge that they can no longer practice freely. The hospitals and large companies provide protocols that they’re forced to follow.
We saw that in the pandemic. Doctors who tried prescribing “unapproved” medications were fired. They were unable to act in what they believed were the best intentions of their own patients.
I agree that doctors went into the profession motivated to bring healing. The reality of the situation is that, sadly, many are forced to comply with the diktats of those pharma, insurance and hospitals who don’t have our best intentions in mind.