Just plotted the 'net repo' (RPTTLD and RRPTTLD data taken from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=379), this seems like quite a non-event to be honest.
Just plotted the 'net repo' (RPTTLD and RRPTTLD data taken from https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=379), this seems like quite a non-event to be honest.
Hm, actually, repo 75 billion, reverse repo 106 billion, that would make it a 31 billion liquidity removal rather than injection, right? 😂 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables?rid=379
Nvm, gotta stop trying to rely on AI for quick answers. For whoever is interested, source straight from the Fed > https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RPONTSYD/#
Got the justice.gov link for this document? Couldnt find it searching for "Document 383" here: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/search
Dont die (yet), hope you first get to enjoy a long & fulfilled life with your kids & let others enjoy their lives with or without 🫶
Whats wrong with the bitcoin for Signal / iMessage thing? Why does that irk you?
I dont know you or Calle but have listened to quite some cashu / ecash podcasts over the years. Literal quote from Calle, Citadel Dispatch #120 March 2024, around the 1h35min mark: "ecash is not bitcoin, it just works with bitcoin".
That quote is part of a larger and quite nuanced answer in response to the question "Do you consider ecash a scaling solution for bitcoin". He very clearly says he does not and repeats the need to be "extremely pedantic" with these definitions several times, to prevent people from getting wrecked/rekt.
Again, I dont know him or you, but this feels like an unfair representation of what hes saying about cashu and tbh, just feels like internet fighting for the sake of internet fighting. Which I guess I'm now contributing to via this reply, but whatever.
If AI & robotics really end up taking all our jobs then they will have a lot of competition for the few remaining human jobs though right? 😱
My view differs from yours. I believe it's yachts. Given that yacht values have been on an upward trajectory in recent years, the outlook can only improve. Now is the prime moment to enter the yachting market. https://www.yachttrading.com/
Whaha this bot is just top class 😂
The arm tattoo seems a bit much 😱
When in doubt why not just go to the source? Dont see v30 on https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/ yet
Interesting, guess I should start basing my opinion of Americans on their elite circles rather than South Park. Won't be nearly as much fun though 😑
Haha, was thinking the same, great immature minds think alike 🫶
These Netflix nature documentaries are actually based af.
I had no idea. 😂
https://blossom.primal.net/7574b39a23286a01b8a2554708c8009e391e72216f7247876ac92095891a98c0.mov
Beautiful animal 🤩 I'm sure there was an opportunity for some kind of a 'small pecker' joke in there as well, but meh, good stuff 🫶
Not to be a dick and hijack your note, but it reminded me of one of my favourites, figured I'd share 😇 Taken quite some time ago, RIP to 2 of them 😟
It sounds like your dad has his vineyard, you have your Bitcoin, and what about me? I'm building my legacy on this commercial yacht. Land is good, but the memories created sailing with family are equally priceless. https://www.yachttrading.com/new-yachts-for-sale/yacht-type-businessyacht/
Hahaha you have a pretty funny setting on your spambot man, good stuff, would zap you if I could 💪
Incredible trip to El Salvador to meet Bukele and see for myself what has changed since last time I was there.
I think most that follow me, know where I stand on #bitcoin. That, as long as it stays decentralized and secure (which means it must be used as a medium of exchange) it is IMPOSING the first global free market that has ever existed. A competitive, yet cooperative protocol and network that forces abundance broadly. We are both the map and territory - our actions within it, and aligned to it, strengthen and protect Bitcoin, bringing more people to it and they each, in turn grow in their own understanding - which in turn strengthens it further. We are bitcoin, we are Satoshi. Each node (us) of sovereignty adding our voice, time, energy into something that changes the course of history.
Because that map of “what will be, or “what already is” (as long as it remains decentralized and secure) has never existed before, our minds have a hard time with it. So instead, most revert to measuring #bitcoin from within the system they have always known. This leads to most of the fights within bitcoin. People far deeper down the rabbit hole, versus those just entering or choosing to remain trapped (and not being able to yet see the bigger picture)
You can imagine - that change would be chaotic because the change……is the change within each of us. All 8 billion of us, and we often can’t see our own hypocrisy, the lies we tell ourselves. Etc etc. In addition, with over 3000 years of us living in a zero sum game - where someone else had to lose for us to win. So for many, it would seem normal to play by the rules of the old game.
This is why I went to El Salvador. I went to meet the President and see for myself who he was and what choices he might make along the way. Ie - how deep was he down the rabbit hole? Did he see El Salvador and himself as part of system change to a global free market that would permeate around the world - or would he be a pawn and be captured in a game that created imperialism 3.0? It was a very deep discussion…..lasting almost 2.5 hours. I came away convinced that he gets it. Moreover, he might be the most impressive leader of a country I have ever seen. Said to me, more people in El Salvador need to be in self custody, more need to use it as a currency, not in stablecoin but natively on lightning, more in non custodial. He understands the larger forces at play here.
El Salvador is still Bitcoin country, but is still early. Having a nation with security is a big deal. 50 years of poverty, gangs, wars, fear in a society doesn’t change overnight. (All of that caused by broken money and psyops)
It takes time to rebuild trust. I was last here the day after all the gang violence (coincidentally starting after introducing Bitcoin as legal tender)
Huge changes since I was last here, not only safer, but hopeful. That hope will lead to opportunity for people, and that opportunity to value creation. The downtown core in San Salvador, previously one of the most dangerous places in Central America is feels a like a European city with thousands out walking. Cool Social houses (Video below) shops everywhere with the hustle and bustle of people and opportunities. Bitcoin isn’t yet used broadly, but making inroads. I spent in it almost everywhere - but you could tell - bitcoin transactions are fairly rare.
Lots more to do, and big plans underway. Stay tuned!!!
And a huge thanks to Max and nostr:npub1pq2ll9l7qdmxsfqyrd5w9gul8c7ftqy9yepcqvc8a2l2ys9zhd6sk42rew for all their work in El Salvador and in helping make this a fantastic trip.
What a time to be alive!
https://blossom.primal.net/3937c43a0c98ec9871ac97651bc23885c6698586d63734bff846c271423e4369.mov
Nice to follow, thanks for sharing! Out of curiosity: "as long as it stays decentralized and secure (which means it must be used as a medium of exchange)" is a pretty important assumption. What makes you confident that will actually happen?
Perhaps the faith that in the end, most people are not stupid and will eventually stop accepting that their time is stolen via fiat printing and switch to the better money? I.e. you have faith in the majority of individual decisions slowly trending towards BTC? 🤩
New here, first post! #introductions
Gonna take my time to figure out which profiles & feeds I want to follow and zap around a bit. For now I wanna share two ego-checking lessons learned from joining Primal & Nostr, that I just wanna put out there in case it helps anyone:
1) When you create an account, dont forget to store the private key somehow, before signing out of the app! I incorrectly assumed the key was stored on my phone and/or I'd be able to sign back in to the app via a passcode or something. Locked myself out of account #1 that way 😂
2) When you create an account, dont forget to follow at least some profiles during the creation process! If you dont, you wont be able to (easily) follow accounts afterwards. This caused me to end up with account #2 from which I could not follow people.
Fortunately the Primal team was very helpful and explained what I was doing wrong along the way.
So here I am, on account #3, ready to read, zap & write 🤩💪