doing the new FCA mandated "Appropriateness Assessment" at a UK Bitcoin exchange and there are no right answers

Apparently @Saifedean Ammous is the new editor of the Daily Telegraph https://image.nostr.build/e7780b1327a92831acc4eee13841c5695e39baa8c3567e24e8d4b4fe36636e3a.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1080x1691&alt=Daily+telegraph+front+page+highlighted&blurhash=%5ECP%3Ft1%25M.7Di%3Fvx%5DMd%25MwHMxtlsn_3nNoztSjEM%7B.TIUR*%25gR5Rj-%3BIpJAxuMdXT%24LXTNGo0V%40og%3FHtRaJf8g3aKRQt6jFX8gNiwNeoza%7DM%7BNHn%24&x=392d77f7663e6ed792df2eb33f27a4c08561734bb0bc120f8c43b05c450b34d4

Wonka movie is a great opportunity to teach your kids to mistrust the government and large corporations 🤘

Sad that The Free Press has turned itself into a Zionist propaganda outlet. Used to be really interesting.

watching Die Hard, and lol: “When they touch down, we’ll blow up the roof, they’ll spend a month sifting through rubble, and by the time they work out what went wrong, we’ll be sitting on a beach, earning twenty percent.” - Hans Gruber trying to steal some bearer bonds in the 80s

Blockchain spam causes other participants to up their transaction fees, so the overall fees mined is more than just the spammers' contribution. This means spammers get some leverage AND if they're the same entity as the miners, then possibly it's a net gain from wasting sats on spamming.

lol listening to a Bitcoin podcast and then it breaks to hear an ad for Wise

confession: I have no idea what the terms "intersectionality" and "neoliberalism" mean but I hear them a lot lately should probably do some googling!

if economic collapse ended the cultural rise of communism, Bitcoin will force an end to woke ideology supported by the expansion of bureacracy

Fascinating watching the state mafia response to a competitor in Wild Wild Country.

Bitkey seems great. Will order one when they accept Bitcoin for payment!

"tracking the price of hard currencies" 😂

LoL finally watched There Will Be Blood and now I get the Dollar Milkshake theory reference 😅

damn, this makes me pessimistic about the prospect of Bryan Caplan every becoming a Bitcoiner

Trust, Diversity, Credit Cards, and E-Commerce

Caplan and Candor

some promise on the horizon for Canada, although caveat that all politicians are corrupt narcissists until proven otherwise

"$aving the planet"

March cuts

😒 when you're watching a heist or gangster movie and thinking how dumb it is because they could just use Bitcoin and/or encryption

CBDCs will enable the USA (and others) to default on their sovereign debt without collapsing the USD. I think that's the real reason it's being pushed so hard. As long as people have CBDC accounts then the impact of bank runs are minimised, hyperinflation has a backstop, and the economy can be stimulated with newfound granularity. It just requires complete control over the masses who might otherwise circumvent the CBDC-based policy interventions. And along the way abuses of that control for the sake of whatever other ideology or political need has power. In reality it's probably not going to work so well to protect against the sovereign debt default, but the power abuses and arbitrary control will remain.

I wonder how much transcribed conversation data companies like Amazon and Google have from their household listening devices (Echo etc.). The scale and context of that type of data would be a scary levelling up for LLMs.