Thanks for the insights, Lyn!
And for everyone else like me who needed that last paragraph elaborated on: https://chat.forefront.ai/share/df243096-8769-4134-be66-5ae37e19c10c
Good evening
There are days where I think of leaving New Zealand. There is a loneliness to the country - you really feel how isolated you are from the rest of the world. I recently had a friend visit from Israel, who commented that she hadn’t felt this sort of isolation since visiting Nova Scotia in college. And I live in Christchurch, a city of 350,000.
You get the sense that you are just watching the the world play out on your screen, as opposed to actually participating in it. There isn’t much of a bitcoin scene, or an anything scene. And so few people travel because our closest neighbour, Australia, is an over 3hr flight.
People make fun of Americans for not traveling, but America is really like 30 countries in one, the regional cultures are so distinct. My parents are from small towns in Mississippi and Georgia, which are a different planet compared to New York, which is wildly different again to where I went to college in Ohio.
New Zealand is comparatively homogenous (with the possible exception of Auckland).
And NZ is huge - deceptively so! Even if your map includes NZ (which many don’t), it is lying to you about its size. Here is a map of NZ superimposed over Europe:
You could use the template of NZ and place it anywhere in Europe and you would capture at least 100 million inside it. Now consider that NZ has only 5 million people.
...Anyway, I say all of this, but then there are days like today, walking amongst ancient, extinct volcanoes I find myself humming the Jurassic theme without even realising it, when I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.
Ark + Fedimint + Validity Rollups, with Lightning as the interoperability layer for instant settlement between them all.
That is the future of bitcoin payments, privacy and self-custody (or community custody).
Physical, so long as it is paperback
I wish I could zap you for this!
Congrats on the summit! Definitely worthy of a Zap
Easily 1%
Happy to hear it! ❤️
What's the secret to using Fountain without your phone melting down?
looking forward to your public beta ♥️
Citadel Dispatch 92: Mandibles with Lionel Shriver
BLOCK: 778126
PRICE: 4202 sats per dollar
TOPICS: Lionel Shriver is the author of The Mandibles - a book is set in the United States in 2029 during a debt crisis that results in hyperinflation and economic collapse.
listen: https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/cd92-mandibles-with-lionel-shriver/
One of the best dispatch episodes yet. Lionel gets it.