Putin is often portrayed as out of touch with reality (e.g. "3-day" special military operation), yet he gives relatively competent answer about cryptocurrencies. Guess he is just too busy reading Mastering Bitcoin and similar. :)

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Cory Bates (@corybates1895) on X

Let the Hash Wars begin.

Replacing Twitter is so boring. Let's replace stackexchange.com!(I was inspired by answering a question and receiving a zap for it. Needless to say, that would not be possible on stackexchange.) Anyone working on it? Guess not much is missing, just some tags/topics. And perhaps bounties with real money put in escrow, but could be overkill, would need some arbitrator to decide who gets it.

@#[0] What does this mean, please? Is it what I owe you, what I would owe you if API access were paid, or ...?

CBDC designers face an interesting dilemma: they want to make their funny money popular, but not too popular, otherwise banks could go bust. ECB itself claims that: "The intention is to incorporate limit and remuneration-based tools in the design of a digital euro to curb its use as a form of investment." (section 2.3 of https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/digital_euro/investigation/governance/shared/files/ecb.degov220929.en.pdf ). And per-user limits kill usability. (I imagine here a limit like "no user is allowed to hold more than X eur in CBDC.) Imagine a retail store begging customers: "please no more CBDC payments, we hit our limit." But ECB proposes to automatically send the excess to a linked bank account, they call it waterfall. So I am cautiously optimistic about the future.

Spun up a new relay at wss://nostr.xmrk.mooo.com . The machine is a hosted one with 512 MB RAM, and using nostr-relay written in python and sqlite db. But I do not expect much interest, so should be enough for now.