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Weight the interest rate against what you expect BTC to do over the course of a loan. Then calculate your opportunity loss by not being able to buy BTC instead during that time. See how much you're really losing. I hate buying expensive things but if it's for a bigger payoff, it can be worth it. Get the one that will last the longest vs. the opportunity cost of the car. Maintanance and parts availability are also factors. Should be pretty good for both I'd imagine. Ford is probably a little cheaper, but not by much.

Anyways, gm. ☀️

Self-custody is the only way forward.

Without it, all of Bitcoin’s other properties are pointless.

As of two months ago they had not. Fold sucks to be honest. I'm grateful for the 7M sats I stacked, but it's not worth it anymore.

I consider LN a done deal. The reasons were briefly posted on twitter already but since twitter account is deleted I'll provide them again here.

1) Serious LN dev is hard and time consuming, I no longer have time or resources to keep it up or even maintain what has been developed so far. In my opinion the whole LN protocol is overly complex and is getting worse and at this point can only be developed by very few high profile specialists at a very slow pace. Philosophically, I think Bitcoin as a protocol should have a complexity barrier such that it does not get beyond a point where laymen just can't understand and trust it, I think LN has already passed that barrier.

2) It's been 6+ years of struggle to get LN anywhere beyond a community of mostly ideological users with no visible success or perspective. My opinion is ultimately LN is not what market at large wants from Bitcoin and folks should look into other directions besides dumb payments, and not overly fixate on LN.

3) Remaining LN demand has been mostly absorbed by various custodial solutions. A truly non-custodial LN wallet will always be worse than a custodial one in UX terms and historically we see that majority of remaining users consistently choose convenience over control. This makes developing end-user non-custodial LN solutions feel like the most thankless thing in the world.

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Do you want me to quit you?

Treasures unearthed in a random box from my move I’m getting to sorting. I was OBSESSED with this game (keeping it, dgaf) and can’t believe I forgot about these earrings. 🤙

I listened to a joe rogan podcast years ago where this dude Randall Carlson described a mega flood event he called the Younger Dryas caused by a asteroid about 12,000 years ago. He had some really cool photos - which I cannot find searching online at the moment - of places on Earth that look like they’re shaped by an unimaginable amount of water.

One picture was of a mile wide canyon with two symmetrical, perfectly conical holes bored into the rock. Their shape looked just like when you stir liquid in a glass.

There’s floods caused by a whole lotta rain, then there’s floods fueled by rapid melting of glacial ice. The podcast is worth a listen, or at least Google younger dryas.

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