Why do people give the politicians such power?
Here's a fun game for the afternoon - pick one of these shapes and repeat it to make some nice periodic pattern out it... 💜 
Welcome 🤗 you just vibe and hangout with others. There's no algorithm - you are the algorithm here.
Blue is winning though 🔵
It's on demand (afaik) as you scroll through your feed... so it connects and disconnects very rapidly based on what needs to be displayed. My number of relays sometimes jumps to 1500 and then down under 200 again.
So essentially this is leveraging the fact that you usually follow only at most thousands of people and also the fact that you can only view a small number of pieces of content at the same time on your screen. And then finally, some relays are actually shared / used by multiple people, so the number of relays that you practically need to pull from stays similar no matter how many people you follow.
I don't think Amethyst connects to global by default, I think that's only when you view global. nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z, is that correct?
This is related to the number of people you follow, not the whole network.
My Amethyst is currently connected to 200+ relays without effects on performance or battery - it just works - check how many relays you are actually connected to.
Who needs sleep when you have wheels on the bus...
I remember many blocks in the last 6 years, where fees made large chunk of block rewards - sometimes even more than subsidy. And people barely noticed, some were a bit annoyed that things are slower and more expensive.
Yes, hard to disagree. This is probably especially hard for folks that were deep in some software stack or classic BE work. Folks that know how to imagine stuff, define requirements and click around through a tons of UIs have (imo) a bit advantage here.
My grandmother literally uses multiple AI chatbots to build smaller apps / image things for her friends and she's able to tell me which AI is now better for this, since she compared them.
Either this, or the higher proliferation of bitcoin expands the number of people that are able to switch to the more native and open source solutions when things get worse, because they already made the first move.
It's unclear to me which effect will be dominant in 10 years from now and I'm unable to guess whether we will consider the institutional adoption as a good or bad thing.
One thing is clear to me - I remember the meme around 2017 that said "institutions are coming." Well, institutions are here now.
New wave of grants: a mix of protocol research, infrastructure maintenance, privacy-preserving wallets, and mining decentralization. https://opensats.org/blog/fifteenth-wave-of-bitcoin-grants
Nice, Silent Payments seems like a great direction. I'm not aware of any major arguments against it except for the need for scanning, but that can be improved via various approaches.
or they are particularly dumb in those locations 😉
It's not clear and it's probably fuzzy, so I wouldn't trust this data much, just directionally. The source is this https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1i7l2iy/percentage_of_irreligious_people_in_europe_2019/
Bitcoin adoption in Europe - merchants accepting per 1 million inhabitants.
Europe by Average Beer Consumption per Capita (Litters per Year)
The map of found meth labs in Europe. 
Classic Christmas Snow Butt
The point of #introductions tag is to introduce yourself with some facts about you or something you enjoy 😉
If only the system somehow balanced itself so people pay in total what it's worth to them in total...