“My teeth are scarce but they’re not worth billions of dollars” —The Financial Times

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Ouch. That's if you don't eat, pay bills, pay debts, taxes to the black hands in order to stay out of prison. #Freedom is getting time consuming to acquire. Wait until Q3!

#Bitcoin

I thought they'd dropped that to 3k?

Unless the cyber Pandemic does too

i think it's more likely that we will see something like a controller that has a core of Ark with channels over Lightning and the bank will be Bitcoin and everything else will be a clearinghouse of tier 1 or tier 2 (as in, lightning and ark respectively)

the internet takes out the latency and complexity of banking and it can become a lot simpler

i also think that the single unified lightning network of today will fracture into multiple independent networks, it doesn't have the capacity to scale that big and if it can hook into a bulk clearinghouse scheme like Ark it will be a network of networks

#afternoonthoughts

Yes, good point.

Technology disrupts most, but not all.

Most phone companies are now ISPs

Kodak didn't become a digital photography company

Xapo is already a pure Bitcoin bank, Coinbase is becoming one.

Others like Revolut include Bitcoin services.

Will banks survive and thrive with Bitcoin (a lot of people are still addicted to custodial services) or will they die?

folks

what do y'all use for vibe coding

have an idea for a fun project for myself, but don't really know the latest and greatest tools

Will be dilluted by 98%

21 capital???

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Two years ago, this guy cost me the equivalent of half a bitcoin (around $15K at the time) in emergency vet bills — but I couldn’t imagine life without him today. 🥹

yup