Yeah that one is really good. I haven’t seen an episode I didn’t like.
The most interesting episode to me was the story of the Nabateans. I’d never heard of them and was blown away by their situation.
When I have a week straight of trimming I listen to any and all good content I can find.
There is a really high-quality YouTube channel called “Fall of Civilizations” that tells some incredible stories that are well researched by a credible historian.
I definitely receive the information with a grain of salt (as I do everything) but it’s amazing how many times the world has ended for certain populations throughout history.
Plagues have killed > 50% of global populations many times. There have been hundreds of cases of complete societal collapse from corruption and miscalculation and misfortune. Whole kingdoms and jurisdictions have been conquered and subjugated thousands of times. Natural disasters have destroyed entire nation states and metropolises time and time again.
It really drives home the fact that these things can happen and will happen again. I’m not a doomer, but nothing can outrun entropy long-term. Best to stay prepared and understand that civilizations aren’t static…
This cultivar (Hash Burger) is so dank. Crazy resinous, super flavorful and highly effective 😂 #dankstr #weedstr 
Can’t teach heart. Can’t buy chemistry. Can’t hire loyalty.
I use ZeusPay as my receive wallet and it’s a 7/10. It works reliably to receive but it’s usually slow and takes a bit of finesse on my end daily.
The operations (as far as UX) of the software aren’t always consistent which is weird to me but in the end my funds do always settle. If they could make it 20% more efficient it would be a 9/10. But I understand that they’re doing a lot of “hacking” to get an embedded LN node to receive funds. So it is what it is.
ZeusPay also just won’t work reliably for sends. So that pushed me to setup a Phoenix embedded node for sends, and it work really well. I love that wallet and it feels like peak Lightning. If they could make it receive as well as all of the other functionality they offer it would be 10/10 software.
I think a 12 year old could use ZeusPay with some help setting it up for sure, but they’ll have times of being frustrated with it. But in the end it will work for them. Phoenix for sends is highly recommended.
No perfect solution exists but we have good optionally and substantially better functionality right now vs when I started in Bitcoin in 2019.
I’m hopeful Lightning can be developed further. If it was just a bit easier to setup channels and receive LN payments non-custodial I think it would be a-near perfect fast payments solution. Very good as is imo but high-fee environments make it less economical if you haven’t set up a channel.
Did not ever think I’d use Lightning daily a few years back. Now I do and it’s non-custodial and payments are successful 99%+ of the time. Really promising imo.
I will start to use Aqua just to play with Liquid. I have it setup already just no funds added bc I haven’t had a real reason to use it yet.
Hard to imagine why anyone would want to buy real estate as an “investment”. I think a lot of the time they don’t understand the carrying costs.
I grew up in a rental property family and god damn it’s a massive pain in the ass and very expensive long-term.
No because they have no control of transactions on the Network or the money supply. They’d just hold a lot liquidity with the programmatic central bank (Bitcoin)
So you peg in to Liquid and since it the 1 minute blocks it’s adequate as a fast tx system?
What do you use Liquid for?
I know a couple others have. Russel Okung and I can’t remember the other but on tother NFL player did. Definitely will become a bigger trend especially after bitcoin pumps a couple more times this year.
Major respect to this guy 🫡
That’s a really good idea to run new implementations on liquid but the federation would have to agree to it and then choose to run the OP code(s) or whatever changes they wanted right?
There needs to be another place to run this stuff and see how it works out in the world and to begin to stress test it. Liquid would be an awesome sand box, I would peg in some sats to play immediately.
It’s been a crazy journey. I’ll keep pushing…
Happy to be here and happy you are too fren 🫡🤝