Maybe I'm naïve but I have found random animals wandering, including a mother cat with new kittens that got into my yard. Neither the mother nor the kittens had any tags (we check for rfid chips too) so we got them rehomed. If there is a collar/tag and a means to reunite them with their original homes I'd jump at the chance.

I'm curious, did the cat have a tag or was it chipped identifying it ? Absent of any evidence to the contrary I can see how they might think its a stray. I get that it worried you but did they have a means to reach you to advise you they found it?

Bitcoin allows anything, just for it like brash or bsv did. People wi eitger take it up or not. It seems in those two cases most users opted against the change. I could, for example hard fork a bitcoin where 1% of all spends come to me and if by some miracle I convinced enough people to use that fork, I could spend that newly formed coin. Try what you want to try and let the market decide.

I listened to Creature from Jekyll Island as an audiobook. I start to feel much of the fault is in the education system teaching modern economics. until we have more understanding, people will continue to think the tools they modern system uses will eventually fix the problem.

Mandibles isn't strictly a bitcoin book, but it does fall into the "collapse of the world as we know it" genre.

I see the reference to the Howey test but the phrasing is a bit difficult. Are you asking if we should be collecting money from those in nursing homes for investments? If so then yes, provided they are mentally capable.

When I tried to learn to make soap I became frustrated that most soap "making books were actually soap milling (adding things to existing soap like flowers,oils,etc). I'd start to read the directions and most started with "take your bar of soap and chop it up".

Last time I asked this it came off a bit like trolling, so let me try another way..... with o.g. bitcoiners being drilled on "not your keys,not your crypto", how are federated ecash/mints building trust and minimizing risk?

Well that's one way to donate to a scammer quickly.

I don't post much. It not because I dislike nostr. It's not because I'm posting elsewhere( I closed by Facebook years ago and never had instagram,twitter,etc). I just work on me and my life. I'm no influencer. I'm not a role model. I am just an average pleb trying to make it. Good morning everyone. #nostr

That internalized trauma also closes you eyes to what you deserve and what you can do. Sometimes the mental walls are the hardest to overcome.

Very interesting. Let us know how it turns out. Be sure to let it age/season before using it. even a small pocket of unmixed lye in your soap will ruin your day.

It kinda already is. Bitcoin is in use in Cuba through apps. I dont have hte youtube video handy but groups have already been over there and showed a thriving economy beyond the "recognized" Govt. money.

Agreed, meek does not mean a doormat. I've always said I don't want to be the loud, abnoxious person in the bar proclaiming my greatness. I'd much rather be the person in the corner doing my thing while the others say about me "Don't mess with him, you'll lose"

Not that I have a giant #bitcoin stack,but there is still something that I'm having trouble following. While I totally understand and agree that we want to avoid moving between fiat ant Bitcoin networks as there is a loss at each trade, How does everyone work in a world where most of the economy is still in the fiat/dollar world?

If for example Satoshi came back and claimed his bitcoin how would you advise him? transfering small amounts to dollars at a time, only buying from bitcoin only companies while undestanding you'd have some items you simply couldn't get, or some third thing?

Thank you so much Guy. These reminders help knock us out of the concerns of day to day toward focusing on future. I totally know and understand that feeling that what we do doesn't matter. I've felt so burdened by the day to day that I've lost the plot and this helped me go back into looking at the bigger picture. It's not a one time event, being made to focus on the larger scope is an ongoing battle, given that I and likely others often get caught in the mire of the daily actions.

I would submit the worst device would actually be any ledger device with its special "feature" of off device seed storage

Imagine if an enterprising developer built an interface for the already existing global ticketing system that sites like priceline and Orbitz already use.

My thought for the day: "bitcoin didn't make me rich, but did protect me from being poor" I'm okay with that.

Sounds like my job slapping "senior" on the front of a title in lieu of a raise.