CarGurus used Car Index:

According to the index, used car prices are up 2% in the last month, and have increased the last 3 months consecutively.

Used car prices are at the same level they were in October of 2021, before the Fed even started raising interest rates.

My thoughts: higher interest rates means higher financing cost for used cars. Higher financing costs means lower demand. Lower demand for used cars means lower prices. 😅

At least that is what I thought would happen with high interest rates. But I've been wrong on this so far.

Why are used car prices so sticky?

Who remembers google wave? Found an old photo on one of my aws buckets. Time stamp: aug 12, 2009. Someone should rebuild wave on #nostr 😆

I gotta say, I was strongly opposed to edge-to-edge media, but now it’s growing on me 🥰

Demographics.

Watching travel show about #Tokyo🇯🇵

Holy moly 🔥

Just remembering my self that I’m off the fiat mines for more than two month.

Soo many miles to walk, so many podcasts to listen to, so many books to read, so much coffee to drink.

I should be getting that text any minute now. You know, the one from that friend who only texts when bitcoin is pumping.

-man creates a tool

-tool replaces need for as many laborers

-laborers invent machines that reduce the need to work as many hours and frees their time

-freed men invent computing devices and automate much of their work providing more time to think

-brilliant thinkers harness limitless amounts of energy to power increasingly better and more powerful computers

-computers work as design partners with humans and allow them to create engineering masterpieces

-previously unthinkable engineering designs allow humans to transcend into the cosmos

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Why does nunchuck put QR scan key as air gapped but NFC not?

Is NFC less safe than QR? Is NFC not air gapped? What is air gapped anyway?

I really want coldcard MK4 but now thinking of getting keystone due to what I'm seeing on nunchuck..

Please coldcard fans enlighten me

Time is the currency of life.

Bitcoin is the currency of time.

MacOS is not a user controlled operating system. Placing the whitepaper on the harddrive doesn't change that.

When all of Bitcoin twitter has moved to Nostr then what's next?

How do nostr gonna attract other CT and even non crypto folks from other sosmeds? What is going to be the pull factor? Is zap enough?

Pretty sure 0 censorship/sovereignty won't be a pull factor because most people don't care / ignorant about it.

If there is one group of Bitcoin skeptics i like to listen to, it would probably be Doomberg.

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What if the US Treasury put out a standing order to acquire any and all bitcoin at $1 million per. A mere $1 trillion would buy 1 million btc. The market cap instantly be sufficiently large and liquid for nation state use and settlement of international trade. It would be a coup de grace, and set the US up for hegemony for generations.

I'd be depressed 15 years ago. Now I'm in peace and with popcorn 🍿 ready.

At the dealership buying out a lease. Car is worth way more than I owe. Is it bad taste to try and sell it right back to them?

I suspect that there will be early UBI enticements with the CBDCs to get people onboard.

Carrot then stick.