Based on a recent test toot, it seems that there are only about 50 active bitcoiners left on Mastodon.

Right, but if a binary setialization was used, details encoding of Unicode would still have to be sorted out.

On the bright side, this does not about validation or consensus, but display of some special characters. (I mean I think there is no use case where clients REconstruct y Json, and any diffrence would lead to different hash.)

Am I supposed to believe that the FDIC has like a savings account somewhere with billions of dollars in it?... because I don't 🤣

Anyone know where the money is coming from so i don't have to read about the FDIC?

Took some LSD yesterday, I love how every time I take it I end up understanding something new about myself :)

here’s the first draft: edit like the wind!

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*Make SVB Depositors Whole - 1 of ~120*

On March 10th, Silicon Valley Bank went out of business. This has left thousands of tech startups and venture capitalists unable to make payroll, to manage their billings, and to make the world a better place.

The Tech industry is the beating heart of American dynamism and it is difficult to imagine the extent to which working people across the US - and possibly across the world - will suffer if the depositors of the bank are not made whole.

With interest rates at staggering decadal highs, there seems to be little possibility of financing a restructuring of the bank on the open market. The scope of world-changing innovation supported by SVB and brought about by its depositors has consequences so profound, and so far in the future, that it is frankly unfair to try to value it using the politically questionable discount rates cruelly imposed top-down by the government in recent weeks and months. The only solution is a bottom-up effort to save this vital engine of growth, prosperity, opportunity, progress, and change.

This is why we are asking for $1bn to ensure the tech startup and venture capital community is not made to suffer unnecessarily for the sins of the credit markets. Please note this is the maximum GoFundMe will allow and so we expect to need to do this around 119 more times. But we have to start somewhere. We have to try. We have to be the change we want to see in the world.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Save Tech. Save the VCs. Save America.

Is threading completely borked for anyone else here? Or is it just snort.social?

It's quite possible that they've changed the behavior since I visited too. And also possible the behavior varies from one ATM to another.

Hmm I might have to do some more testing but my reports were not only from my own experience, but also that of others. But, not scientific because: since I don't actually want to wait, I was recently only using Electrum with RBF switched off (since they have that toggle in their interface), never on.

Also I am using them only occasionally since as mentioned I don't actually trust them (which to my mind is like a 100x bigger issue than LN support! An ATM which randomly decides to not issue cash is not OK!).

Re: SIMs and so on, good point. Behaviour might change if you are using a foreign number.

you'll still see that one for interactions on the lightning network

you guys realise that SVB was/is literally punting around in liquid securities markets, right? this is the insanity that fiat brings to “banking” - commercial banks have to fail because raising the everything price hits their book of mortgage backed securities (I can’t even believe I’m typing this it’s so stupid) because there isn’t enough of a yield in making *actual loans* and the maturity mismatch is too scary anyway. SVB is FTX, just with mildly less stupid and fraudulent shitcoins - but stupid and fraudulent shitcoins nonetheless. so is every other “bank”.

fuck me sideways. it causes me acute emotional distress that people think this is normal and don’t see any problem with it. we live in such a clown world 🤦‍♀️

I was able to buy a SIM at pharmacy (haven't come across a mobile carrier yet where I've been) & didn't give my ID when buying

But I haven't been able to activate cause I don't have a tool to open my SIM slot (paper clip failed) - maybe you need to KYC when you activate?

And very odd given that it is a win-win for everyone if they move to LN with an onchain fallback.

They have the infra for it already 😵‍💫