This was a nice story about a crocodile.

It looks like Jim Rickards also thinks Nassim Taleb is a charlatan. Yesterday he called the black swan theory junk science.

Canadian banks are experiencing significant withdrawals of deposits, moving into GICs.

Chartered bank selected liabilities: Month-end (formerly C2)

Month-end data on chartered bank Canadian dollar deposits and foreign currency business with Canadian residents.

What is the best website to use when shilling Nostr to non technical people? Ppl asking me for a step by step guide, not sure what to give them.

Jim Rickards in a recent article said that the real problem is not a banking crisis but simply a shortage of collateral (Treasuries) to support bank derivative positions. He said that leads to bank failures and the regulators don’t understand the problem. Is this true? How can this round of bank failures and insolvencies be caused a shortage of collateral? Does he really mean that the derivatives positions have ballooned while the value of collateral (bonds, mbs, stocks) has dropped? If this is true, is it likely the regulators, the Fed and the Treasury don’t know about this shortage of collateral?

#[0]​ told me about this limited edition Bitcoin guitar that Martin is releasing. It has a 1 oz gold coin embedded.

What are the most zappable notes today? Anyone curate a list?

Wen sats balance natively in Damus #[0]​ ? Too many steps to zap with muun. Or would that be trouble for laws