Listen we can disagree on whether wanting to deport people for not having a license to enter a certain plot of land is shitty politics but I hope we can all agree that disappearing people goes more than a few steps too far

I guess we won't stop until Bitcoin the default payment method of this planet.

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Except the Knots crowd. They want to "filter" it

It is funny to watch Tether try to graft themselves onto the Lightning Network.

From their perspective it makes sense: Lightning is the most efficient, lowest-cost settlement rail in existence, and Bitcoin has already done the hard work of building it out.

If they can use Lightning to move their IOUs around, they can piggyback on the credibility of Bitcoin while preserving their own centralized power.

But the whole thing misses the deeper point.

Lightning is not just a network of payment channels; it is a network of conviction.

Bitcoiners run routing nodes not because they expect to get rich on tiny transaction fees, but because they believe in the mission.

So they don’t run their nodes with an economically viable model, most of them will be operating at a loss.

Every sat they forward means that they are expanding the reach of sound money.

That sense of participation, that alignment with a cause larger than themselves, is what makes the infrastructure resilient.

Try substituting a dollar proxy for that mission, and the ethos evaporates.

No Bitcoiner wakes up eager to donate liquidity and bandwidth to make Tether stronger.

Anyone operating a node that carries Tether will demand higher fees.

The difference is structural: Bitcoin routing is subsidized by belief, while token routing will always be mercenary.

This is why stablecoins will never truly compete with sats on Lightning.

They may succeed at moving volume for a time, but they will never summon a volunteer army.

Bitcoin nodes are happy to give because they are defending the hardest money the world has ever seen.

Token nodes will only give if they are paid, and they will want paying well.

That asymmetry ensures that Lightning will always be cheaper, more reliable, and more resilient for Bitcoin than for any imitation that tries to ride its rails.

The same thing has been seen with peer to peer network of Bitcoin to cash transfers.

Bitcoiners are happy to trade at spot, while anyone facilitating USDT trades are asking for a fee to complete a deal.

Sats must flow

My face is very tense today. I keep relaxing it only to find tension creeping back. Does this count as exercise?

Arachnophobia is real 🕷

Except for the spider legs 🤣

Here is a bacteriophage virus model (model by Jpxfrd on printables.com) My wife needs some models for a kids science day visit at her work (she works in a biotechnology lab).

The T4 bacteriophage is in my opinion the coolest looking virus, it looks like a spider or like Rocky from Project Hail Mary. The T4 phage is used as a vector in cloning and biotech recombination methods. Medical research has also taken an intrest in the phage to use as "antibiotic" because it targets bacteria.

#3dprinting

its just resting 🤙

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Always "fun" trying to maintain compatibility across three versions of iOS using the native UI 🤣 (I know that iOS 17 interface [toolbar] sucks, and 18 is not the best look either)

I think we can all agree that we collectively all don’t like GaryV right ?

I’m brand new, just learning this, but I feel a ‘calm’ here (if that makes sense), almost like you’re all real people, not bots and targeted ad algorithms. I found Nostr through an Ian Carrol video.

I’m interested to see the ways I can lean into Nostr, and away from the big apps.

No Rapture in South Australia. Though if it’s going to happen in Oz, I feel it will be an Eastern Coast thing.

This actually has been news for a while now. I heard a study came out like 6+ months

I’m just waking up. Looks like I got left behind.

The FDA needs to be dismantled. This shit is ridiculous. THEY APPROVED THE USE OF TYLENOL FOR 80+ years and now are saying it gives kids autism when the mom takes it while pregnant

I made it even a bit bigger 😜🤣

I rate that one a scale of "my kids would stick their faces in it and eat it ALL" - looks amazing. Basic recipe or do you do anything unique?

It would be better if it was a relay page per npub. Definitely easier to manage

I assume he is talking about the #flatearth guy, npub1c7k2hu076gq62vv9unw9urrt4c4utkce6uatlpq9xhestk8s2xqql8qh4c

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You’re so productive 🫡

Heath insurance in the US is a scam. Where I live it's definitely not a scam and is useful to protect against outlier events.

My grandmother left us today. 106 years of old. More than a century of history.

Over her lifetime the Lebanese pound was subject to a 126,000x devaluation. An average of about –11.7%/yr compounded in USD. The lira lost about 99.9992% of its dollar value over that span.

She understood all of this. She once showed my mother a 1LL bill from the1930’s and said: This was when the money was worth something in this country. They destroyed it all.

If so-called bitcoiners are people who believe that the earth is flat, it means they have no idea about physics, astronomy, and elementary mathematics, which means that bitcoin is science fiction to them.

Its just a meme at this point, id say it benefits them 😛

Ah yes...not embarrassed at all 😅

What is cream of wheat then? It tastes the same!

Isn't cream of wheat, grits? Used to have it for bfast as kid, but with some milk on top and auger, and maybe a pad of butter

it’s the easiest thing ever too, we literally just have to read a script and flirt with each other for a few minutes in front of class. 😭 I think i made them nervous bc im really good at it LOL

Free speech exist but can be dangerous. You can be shot or fired from your job for it.

I'd rather go to jail for a couple of years, than go down in a hail of bullets for posting a meme.

Pro grifters lol