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Ryan
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Yep, I'm old.

If I was a dog I wouldn't want an extra coat either.

Mosha was a rescue, I got her at 6 mo. She came with a coat, boots, and a few other dress up items. She was literally afraid of them. The previous owners had 3 young daughters, and I think she may have had some bad experiences playing dress-up. At least that makes sense to me. I never pushed her into it. She just pees fat in the winter.

Mosha has a thing against clothes & boots, she just freezes up and won't move 😂 I even had a buddies mom make her a fitted coat. Nope 😅

It *could* cost consumers *if* prices are skewed towards certain rounding values according you America's central bank.

Meanwhile there have been studies in countries that have eliminated the lowest denomination coinage and this was found not to be the case in all of them. That is if you believe the central banks of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hungary, Belgium, Germany, Finland & The Netherlands. The main difference being these countries have already done it, and have actual data.

I remember seeing all the same prognostication before Canada made the change. It didn't come to fruition. I'll just agree to disagree. Have a good Saturday 🤙

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

did you know that nostr:npub10qdp2fc9ta6vraczxrcs8prqnv69fru2k6s2dj48gqjcylulmtjsg9arpj has a nostr extension for signing events from Chrome and Firefox? i've stopped using Alby and exclusively use this extension now.

https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-soapbox-signer

have you used it yet? what features are you missing that you'd like to see, if any?

Wonderful. Nos2x-fox is a bit buggy. I'll test this soon.

That guy vs a 16 year old pug with no teeth? I don't know...

😂

Mosha will be fast this morning. I'll take a little walk alone, this is outside of pug temperature range.

No excuses needed, but I'll take it 🍫

No problem. It's -23 outside. Mosha will be up soon and that chill when I go outside will perk me right up 🥶😳🫡

GM node ☕☕☕

I'm 3 cups deep now 🫨

Replying to Avatar Logen

The issue isn’t whether rounding sometimes goes down; it’s that rounding injects randomness into something that is supposed to be exact. Cash is the one form of money the state prints, controls, and protects with criminal law. You can’t counterfeit it. You can’t alter it. It is supposed to be perfectly fungible. But once you force rounding, a five-dollar bill can settle to $4.95 or $5.00 depending on the totals, which means the same bill now has different settlement outcomes based on a mathematically biased process. That’s not fungibility. That’s drift.

And the drift isn’t neutral. Retail prices overwhelmingly end in .99, .98, and .97. Those endings push totals just below nickel boundaries, so rounding skews up more than down. Sales tax doesn’t cancel this it adds another fractional layer, that you guessed it.. must be rounded again, stacking abstraction on top of abstraction. Even if one transaction rounds in your favor, the system as a whole pushes in the opposite direction. These are small losses per purchase, but they are systematic, not imagined. Over millions of transactions, they become real transfers of value.

This is why it isn’t paranoia: the state demands exact cents from you when you pay taxes, yet forces probabilistic cents on you when you pay with cash. Precision for them, randomness for you. Rounding breaks fungibility, undermines cash’s core function, and creates a quiet form of extraction, a constant one. This is modern coin clipping, just with decimals instead of silver.

I'll just stick with my decade long real world experience that it isn't an issue I guess. Have a good day.

1. Mutes in Amethyst don't do what you are implying they do. They are private, known only to the user, and don't contribute to "shadowbanning". Only reports in Amethyst are used in deciding what posts to put behind a click through. This can be disabled as well if the user wants.

2. It's more likely people would just unfollow a new user making false reports against long time Nostr devs. They have trust built with years of building and community interaction. New users haven't.

3. What relays do you use? How do you know they aren't censoring you? If you really want to guarantee you don't be censored, you would run your own relay.

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