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Loving nostr!

I am using it on the phone mostly using the apk

Mempool will clear again. Tomorrow?

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Did fonts on iris get bigger over night?

I don't think I can ever change that. Her husband couldn't and he had over 30 years to do it.

Some people are just lost.

My mother in law likes socialism, because it builds out "great infrastructure and roads". No!

I am in a very, very socialist country and they have shit roads and no infrastructure. So...

You'd think there are places that take sats, right? Wrong. I've not seen a single one in Laos. I can't tell you if it is because of lack of knowledge or because of legality. It might be because everything is cash here anyway. You can't pay with card anywhere.

But government is not heavy handed in day to day life from what I can tell. Notably, many local vehicles operate without license plates. Why? "No need. No police here. Only need license plate in city".

So regulation or legality seems not so likely an explanation. Might be pure ignorance and a lack of local BTC-USD liquidity.

The currency of Laos is something else. In 1979, it started with what could be considered reasonable denominations:

1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 Kip (that's the name) and they had coins too for fractions of a kip.

None of these are worth anything today. In 1988, 500 Kips were added to the mix and the 1000 kip note was added in 2003. From what I can tell, the 1,000 is the lowest note in circulation today., worth about 5 american cents. The exchange rate is 17,000 to one to the USD right now and I regularly pay for dinner using 100,000 kip bills.

In terms of devaluation, the kip went from 100 to 100,000 over 44 years. That's 17 percent per year.

Oh, and the kicker: ATMs have withdrawal limits of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 kip. So at best, you're getting 88 bucks of the local shitcoin out of the machine at any time. Adventures in late stage fiat.

The feed is so much better over here. Wow

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http://iris.to is great and solid

Currently my favorite

Did you see the payment in getalby?

I think I just zapped this one or the prior post of yours. Can you see that on your clients?

Works now, see the zap symbol?