Well then Amazon might not be the prime example for this problem then.

The frustrating thing is that we can’t know without ever having had real interest rates during that span. Although interest rates during the 90s were far closer to floating. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that the price controls got really bad.

It says that these don’t make economic sense as massive, market dominating corporations. It means that on a bitcoin standard they would be far more distributed and competitive and the value provided would be catered to more specific and smaller audiences and would change more based on locale and other factors.

If you think that it means we can’t have what Amazon offers without a giant, corporate, unprofitable, VC backed institution to suck up the whole market and push everyone else out, then I think you are misunderstanding the nature of value and how the market provides it.

To the contrary, Amazon is *destroying* value, because there is a better and more economically sensible optimum for providing the service. Evidenced by the fact that without being subsidized and killing 1,000 competitors while losing money for a decade on cheap fiat loans and VCs, it wouldn’t have lasted. It would’ve had to provide net value *much* sooner and at a smaller scale.

This would literally NEVER have survived without the fiat standard.

Same with companies like Amazon. It would’ve never been possible to get that big before ever making a return. nostr:note1xt6nst390c0klt39uqzfkmx06mcu6pyt6rkht6xvd4c26zj8ap9qr7a00x

Damn, been a long time since I’ve watched Rob Roy. Damn good movie

Everyone making a wallet and node client: Do it like nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm

Better yet, use what they did and figure out how to make it just a little bit better. But regardless, copy the design of the projects that get it right. 👏🏻🫡 nostr:note1e5acpywutv0q39atn6x2kvl2pg3zypuqa4dlf46ldj47szv53xsqryukg5

19 minutes isn’t a long block. Thats actually extremely common. It’s the 1+ hour blocks that are rare, but they also happen... most often when I need a transaction to go through quickly.

Maybe you should teach an online course on that! 👏🏻

Same

Haha this is golden 🤣

lol, this was a late night musing. Judging by the vitriol you responded with it’s clear you care WAY more about this than you should. Simmer down Mr Cheerful.

lol I’m not reading all that 🤣

Some of us have trouble. You should reach an online course to help us out

I don’t like Trump, and I have very little faith in govt ever being a positive force. It’s at least never moved anywhere but in the wrong direction for my entire lifetime…

But, an RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek, Elon, and Ron Paul cabinet with the balls and conviction to try and fix things is really hard to not think would be awesome.

Haha I’m dying 🤣🤣

Best thing was just remote wallet use and then my own personal mempool.space

But using it while away from the house has always been frustrating and slow. But with NWC and then with Holesail having the full app soon I think that problems gonna be solved.

I use my Start9 a lot but I can easily see my frequency if using it double very quickly with these new tools integrated.

I believe he’s alluding to the fact that we don’t own our devices or what we can do on them these days. I mentioned iOS so figured that triggered the thought. Could be wrong tho 😆

Yeah it uses NWC to talk. Was using it without trouble in Lugano. (Until my power blinked off at home 😅😭)

It spikes real bad for short periods every so often. Not out of the question but I don’t specifically remember it.

Man, having Alby Go plugged into my Start9 with Alby Hub is just the coolest and cleanest implementation.

The wallet is so basic, and having one tap zaps finally on iOS even is just awesome. It works fast. It stays connected and I haven’t gotten any errors yet. And I can read everyone’s Nostr zap notes because I get zaps straight to my sovereign Lightning wallet.

If this is a preview, the future is gonna be lit AF. 🔥

Cash App is super underrated. I’ve gotten a bunch of people into using Bitcoin simply because I was able to show them how easy it was with their Cash App. I just tell them how to get their address or Lightning invoice and then send them some. The rest of the process is self evident

Happy Diffie-Hellman Day!

On November 1st, 1976, a paper was released to the world titled "New Directions in Cryptography" by Whitfield Diffie & Martin E. Hellman. Marking the first practical protocol for safely exchanging cryptographic keys over a public channel. Initially conceptualized by Ralph Merkle, and then actualized in the Diffie-Hellman key exchange.

Happy Halloween 🎃 👻

#Bitcoin

They are having to build their entire own index to fix it. Sucks because if we could just fix the podcast 2.0 index this wouldn't be an issue. Causing a ton of unnecessary work

I don't know of a good way except to call them out publicly and label them what they are.

Also important to build strong communities that refuse to accept that shit and then outlast the fools who get swindled by them.

There is no short term solution that doesn't feel like hacking at the branches, imo. But long term I think consistency of message, calling them out, and showing and reminding everyone of the outcome over and over is the only decent option on the table.

Ah, but what if you regularly GM in the afternoon to throw them off? nostr:note1vtu2la46tk029fq7m64rla5r60mltgulmwcsdnd0acgvl2mtyu3sm07s88

Yeah it super blows that they have a damn shitcoin network behind it. Ignorance is bliss 🤣

Would love to have this for a secure mobile device

I get so excited about taking a video just for my wife to show Rad of the dumbest little things that I just know he is going to think is SO cool. 🤣 nostr:note1zrszxhyvzgfcwk7nfu9cnwtscuu0apv0avnsggh52lw4dw58frtqp3w0m2

Once or twice at least 🤣

How is it that after all this time people still dont understand that owning #Bitcoin doesn’t mean control over the network?

It will take time to unlearn the fiat frame. Thinking that only *certain* people should own #Bitcoin or it’s in trouble is the opposite of why it exists.

nostr:npub1gnwpctdec0aa00hfy4lvadftu08ccs9677mr73h9ddv2zvw8fu9smmerrq had a good point though that with remote login they could delete the logs as soon as I got it turned back on maybe? 🤔

“Privacy is treated like a luxury, but it’s a necessity.”

nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg https://v.nostr.build/Qxtwev7EhbTcWffF.mp4

#Bitcoin privacy with a hell of a panel… https://v.nostr.build/eCghasSGYrFDczDh.mp4

I’ll investigate again when I get back, sessions was saying he was getting the same thing until Albyhub, but it’s connecting with the same tool. Seems like it’s likely something weird with whatever service that’s running it rather than LND connect specifically.

Nice! I haven’t tried moshi yet

You stole the spirit of the post I was going to make when I did this for the first time in Lugano 😆

Been using Alby Go in the same way and it’s so fucking dope

Finally got my Coinkite shirt 😆🫡

Eh not regular joe, but close. I would say this is the UI for the prosumer computer guy. I can’t still see a lot of areas where someone will feel confused or overwhelmed. It’s hard AF to make the complexity of all of these tools intuitive and simple. But they’ve made an incredible step in the right direction and showed how good it can be if designed right.

The hardest thing about being successful isn't obtaining wealth, it's keeping it.

— something i heard once that stuck with me

Ba dum tiss