There needs to be a note type for "switch to new npub to continue following this npub, kthxbye".

I'm considering making a new key, just for a laff.

It is also bad cryptographic practise to use EC keys for more than one message anyhow. Read BIP 340.

🤔 how do I turn my notes into URLs so can can just repost all my nostr content on the other platforms. Its gunna be hard making a habit of oping these apps again, but for the sake of helping nostr adoption, i think it's a good enough reason...

Honest opinion;

What would you do with an 8th grade education to earn value in today's world without going into more debt for schooling?

I agree here with these house examples.

But it can be a slippery slope, and there is a time and place for choosing the principled approach over playing the game becomes too corrupt.

It's a scale with slippery slope.

Especially because *they* won't start actively penalizing the wrong behaviors, they will just keep increasingly subsidizing the pre-approved behaviors (while making alternative choices too costly for most of the people).

Some days yes, why shouldn't I?

please refer to last note 😂

its a collective of pseudo-wokes and limo liberals who scour the fediverse looking for posts which offend them, so they can put the posters name on a list. then they mob message the instance admin and demand they remove the OP, or else. if the admin tells them to pound sand, they put the whole instance on the list, along with some woke cult pejoratives that usually include a phobe or phobic suffix somewhere.

just consider fediblock as a Stalin like thing run by an obsessive group of cultish elitists who are similar to Scientologists, but not dressed quite as well.

honestly, the world is better off with them hiding in their holes.

Actually it is on the agenda :).

Last year EU declared nuclear as being green energy.

US is preparing to build the first nuclear SMR in Romania through Project Phoenix and then expand the program through EU.

What are the risks to doing a coinjoin, do you risk exchanges or miners blacklisting your Bitcoin if asked to by .gov?

Interesting debate would be whether it would be hypocrisy to use the subsidy to build solar for your house while knowing and arguing that the system is net worse for everyone.

I would argue that operating under the fact of these market regulations, it would be ineffective use of capital for you to not use those subsidies.

It's potentially potentially a delicate battle between staying morally uncorrupted and truthful vs surviving.

- Reminds me of the old communist saying in CZ which perfectly describes how this corruption of market incentives breeds corruption of morals - the saying was "Who's not stealing (from the public), is stealing from his family"

Why would nuclear power reduce a company's perceived ESG rating?

This makes no sense to me.

14:00 "The deeper they went, the more preserved everything was. 100 feet down they found an eerie world of shopping malls and car parks that in places were virtually untouched"

Seems to dispel the underground nuke theory (in case the lack of radiation or visible explosion didn't do that already)

Finished all seasons in 3 days ez

Is it weird, that I don't worry about whether men view me as their equal?

You'll often see charts or visuals illustrating the depreciation of the $USD over time, normalized to $1.00, of which I occasionally share myself.

However, there's an important caveat: these visuals rarely account for short-term yields. Displayed below is the purchasing power of $1, adjusting for annual CPI inflation (in red) versus the purchasing power of $1 accounting for 1-year Treasury yields less annual CPI inflation (in blue), starting from 1962

Notice anything?

The purchasing power of $1 from 1962 to the present equates to $1.85 when accounting for 1-year Treasury yields and inflation. Meanwhile, adjusting for inflation alone leaves you with just $0.10 of purchasing power.

Quite the massive difference.

However, there's more nuance to consider:

1) Let's separate the data into distinct eras,

From 1962 to start of 2009:

- Average annual inflation: 4.40%

- Average 1y yields: 6.22%

- Average difference: +1.82%

Real gains in purchasing power.

From 2009 to Present:

- Average annual inflation: 2.34%

- Average 1y yields: 1.00%

- Average difference: -1.34%

Real losses in purchasing power.

2) The data doesn't include the 1940s where financial repression massively devalued the USD to erode real debt burdens (the data I quickly threw together only went back to 1962) in the post war period.

3) Why 2009 for the change in eras? What has changed? If the U.S. can just pay a nominally higher yield than the inflation rate in perpetuity, are the fiat doomers really just delusional?

In my view:

- Positive real yields can be sustained with a clean balance sheet. It's feasible for the government to pay creditors a positive real interest rate when real debt burdens are low, demographics are booming, and the global GDP is exploding as the world industrializes.

- With Debt to GDP meaningfully > 100% and other tailwinds reversing, this is no longer the case. Post GFC and the introduction of ZIRP + QE to facilitate "growth", has the positive real yield era behind us, at least until real debt burdens have been eroded - which will take either explosive real growth, or a steady dose of inflation above yields, debasing creditors in the process.

The Bottom Line: The reality is that the average/median American individual or family often doesn't have much disposable income to capture such yields. The ones that do, benefit; and the ones that don't are the ones that pay for it.

When you look at charts showing record wealth disparity, or are wondering why the political landscape is more polarized than ever, keep this chart in mind.

Fiat inflation didn't bother the investor class from for forty years as yields outpaced inflation. Currency devaluation wasn't felt in the slightest by this cohort, they didn't just escape the devaluation, but outpaced it significantly.

Now, with Debt to GDP levels domestically and globally near record levels, expect the post 2009 dynamic to continue into the future on a longer time frame. Don't let the current tightening cycle fool you as to what must occur.

Inflation > Yields, over a sustained period of time, is the only way global governments can mask their insolvency.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

Too many games don't work, it's worth it!

Plus get to keep those sweet cuda cores for AI stuff on Linux, no need to radeon

I have developed such an awful aversion towards the word "crypto". I can't help but cringe when I hear it.

Is there any strategy you guys use to gracefully differentiate bitcoin from crypto without sounding cultish or being misunderstood?

I need an elegant way to tell my no-coiner friends why they should avoid everything but bitcoin.

#morningbrew #dailynews #plebchain #BeOG

As long as you have an active node and channel state backups or trust another person to do it. The potential to be rugged by your peers or channel host is always there after you make a transaction. This caveat doesn't exist for L1. Once the transaction is sufficiently confirmed you can't be rugged. It is final. Maybe there is a different term for it.

Worse, in practice, most lightning users don't even use it this way. They use it custodially.

I'm willing to entertain trade offs. But we're throwing away major value props of Bitcoin for scalability. The few things that differentiate it from fiat.

Defeats the whole purpose.