Wow some really wacky anti vegan comments here! Food looks amazing.
If terrorists had taken control of the World Trade Center, and it's estimated that 10 pct of the population of the building is terrorists (90 percent civilians) do you:
A. "Turn it into a parking lot"- these people are human animals
B. Fire rockets randomly into the windows
C. Target the floors known to have civilians bc the terrorists are using human shields
D. All of the above?
When I click "share" a post in amethyst, it produces a web URL to snort.social. This works to share the content to non-nostriches, but what about for people who have a nostr client? Shouldn't we also have a way of sharing a URL that causes the browser to open your nostr client of choice? nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z
Possible catalysts for bitcoin:
1. Money printer go brr
2. Adoption by individuals in countries with high inflation (negative real interest rates for savers)
3. Adoption for native use cases (e.g. nostr, AI)
4. Institutional bail outs
5. Bank bail ins
6. Increase in global adoption due to improvements in tools and UX
7. Growth of circular economies
8. Increase in financial censorship
9. The halvening
10. US ETF approval
11. Adoption as reserve asset for central banks
12. Adoption by large corporations
What did I miss?
Bitcoin is a collective delusion, a faith-based system which enables its volunteers to track work and resources contributed to the community across time.
Thanks for writing this! We need more nostr guides. I've struggled with understanding how it's working behind the scenes and reading the nips is anything but clear to a lay person.
How are nostr relays gonna keep running in the long term? Seems like we have the same problem.
I feel the same way
I would like to use bitcoin exclusively. No more fiat. But I pay people, and if I were to pay them with bitcoin they wouldn't be able to do much with the Bitcoin other than exchange for fiat.
The stores where they buy gas and food won't accept bitcoin. And why should they? Everyone can pay in fiat and almost nobody can pay in bitcoin.
How can we escape this cycle? What small actions can we take to make our lives more and more bitcoin without requiring a Herculean coordinator to cause the whole community to go bitcoin at once?
If one of the big issues with Tor is lack of performance due to the "free rider" problem, and one of the issues with lightning is potential deanonymization (solvable with Tor), then shouldn't these two technologies scratch each others backs? Lightning micropayments from Tor browsers to reward Tor node operators for providing high performance?
What do local farmers do with the male chicks?
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Right, yeah I can add/remove but getting them all synced up is quite tedious. It would be nice if I could copy paste the whole blob into a text box or something at least.
Is there a way to easily transport my list of relays from client to client? I use a variety of clients and I'd very much like if they all used the same set of relays. But entering my relays one at a time on every client is serious UX tedium. Plus I change the list from time to time, and then I have to go everywhere and do it over again. Help? #nostr #nostrhelp
The exact mechanism might matter here. The Fed can conjure up $25T and try to buy all the outstanding bonds on the market. This would have the effect of driving interest rates to 0 (or below, as there's some inelastic demand for treasuries out there). Would this qualify as paying off all external debts? If they theoretically could buy all the public debt, then the Fed would be holding it all but the Treasury would still technically owe it (to the Fed).
If the Treasury is to do it without the fed, then the Treasury would need some kind of special authorization to create money. Assuming they get that, maybe they "mint the coin" (e.g. a series of trillion-dollar coins) in order to pay down debt. Then they have to find a buyer for said trillion dollar coins. Are they going to force bondholders to accept these relatively worthless coins? If so, this sounds almost like just defaulting outright on the debt.
I guess a third option would be for the Fed to use their magic to conjure up money and just wire it directly to the TGA (Treasury's account at the Fed) and then from there the Treasury can just spend that money whenever they need, instead of borrowing more. Once this has been done once, why would anyone ever believe in fiscal restraint anymore? What is the point of the government ever issuing another bond?
I think the real problem is that with any of these options, the credibility of the system is called into question. Predicting the impact of such a loss in confidence is hard. People will still need dollars (to pay debts, use in commerce, etc) so it won't go to zero overnight. If it happened, I personally would expect a sudden move down some double-digit percentage when the news comes out, then accelerated inflation going forward as people increasingly look for alternatives.