I'm calling it: everyone's internet history this week will be one of these 4, "just browsing 😂

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To be honest, I think the bitcoin ETF is the most boring thing about bitcoin right now. Whenever I get asked about it I'm like, "meh".

Yes, the ETF should be good for price and liquidity, since it gives large pools of walled-garden capital more access to bitcoin exposure.

But in my view, the most important thing about bitcoin right now is all of the little hubs popping up around the world. Bitcoin Beach, Bitcoin Lake, Bitcoin Jungle, Bitcoin Ekasi, Africa Bitcoin Conference, Indonesia Bitcoin Conference, etc. As well wallets and other technologies that help them localize their custody of bitcoin rather than keep it all stashed in the giant Binance honeypot or wherever, and any solutions that help link to them all together for payments or that help them trade peer to peer or onboard from fiat to bitcoin in distributed ways.

The rise and connectivity of those hubs is impressive and is worth supporting.

good morning nostr, the fam was feeling bullish so we got another dog 🫡

Oh boy.

Commies in disbelief.

Fingers crossed YA politician is not too much of a disappointment.

Even just a few inches better would be a world of change for the castigated Argentinian economy.

I don’t believe to the politicians and govt! Let’s see where Javier Milei mouth is at 👀

When people are riding around on horses in real life or in movies, especially in complex crowded environments, every single time I find myself distracted and wonder, “what is the horse thinking?!”

Like imagine it from their perspective- people are riding them, there is all sorts of commotion everywhere, and they don’t really know what’s going on or what everybody is doing, but they’re pretty chill about it anyway.

"La borrachera de visible consumo del siglo XX no puede entenderse al margen de la destrucción del dinero sólido y del estallido de la keynesiana teoría de la preferencia temporal alta, de vilipendiar el ahorro y deificar el consumo como elemento clave de la prosperidad económica. El reducido incentivo al ahorro se ve reflejado en un creciente incentivo al gasto, con tipos de interés manipulados por regla general a la baja y bancos en condiciones de emitir más crédito que nunca. El crédito ha dejado de circunscribirse a la inversión y ha pasado al consumo. Las tarjetas de crédito y los préstamos personales permiten que las personas se endeuden con el fin de consumir aunque no sea con pretensiones de invertir en el futuro. Resulta un signo irónico del grado de la ignorancia económica contemporánea fomentada por los economistas keynesianos el hecho de que se culpe al capitalismo, un sistema económico basado en la acumulación de capital del ahorro, de dar rienda suelta al consumo ostentoso; todo lo contrario a la acumulación de capital. El capitalismo es lo que ocurre cuando la gente abandona su preferencia temporal alta, pospone la gratificación inmediata e invierte en el futuro. El consumo de masas alimentado por la deuda es algo tan propio del capitalismo como la asfixia lo es de la respiración."

And the taste?

This sums up Nostriches IRL pretty well.

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so much of decision making is simply a test of how honest you can be with yourself.

The basic ways the government steals your money:

- If you earn it: income TAX

- If you own property: property TAX

- If you spend it: sales TAX

- If you save it: “inflation TAX”

devaluation through inflation (not a tax per se, but reduces purchasing power)

- If you invest it: capital gains TAX

- If you start a business: licensing fees “TAX”

- If you own a profitable business: corporate TAX

- If you gift it: gift TAX

- If you pass away: estate TAX

- If you travel: tourist or departure TAXes

- If you buy fuel: fuel TAX

- If you own a vehicle: vehicle registration & road TAX

- If you buy certain goods: excise TAX

(on items like alcohol, tobacco, & gasoline)

- If you use utilities: utility TAX

- If you import or export goods: customs duties and tariffs “TAX”

- If you extract natural resources: resource royalties and severance TAXes

- If you own a pet: pet licensing fees “TAX”

- If you engage in certain activities: sin TAXes

(on items or activities deemed harmful, like tobacco or gambling)

- If you buy or sell property: stamp duty or transfer TAX

- If you stay in a hotel: hotel TAX

- If you fly: airport TAXes and fees

Am I forgetting anything 🥵

#AskNostr 🙋‍♀️❓

#OverTaxed 🪙 💰

#TaxSlave ⛓️🔊

#BostonTeaParty 🚢 🫖

#Bitcoin #BTC 🧡

October 24th. #31days

Snuck in a quick back workout between meetings.

Only real benefit is the quick block times of course a lot of trade offs. My luck with on chain transactions on Bitcoin is anytime I am in a rush there is no blocks for 30-1hr literally the worse on chain timing luck. Ideally Liquid would have more activity for better privacy. I still think in a truly high sustained fee environment Liquid would have more interest. Until then probably will not get much traction.

I own some liquid to play around with boltz.exchange . Swapping out from lightning to create receive liquidity. Then can swap back in when I need some in a pinch send capacity. But yea no one really uses it. I check mempool.space every block I'm in has like 1-5 transactions max.