Stablecoins can be frozen, banned, blocked, confiscated at the blockchain level. Why? Because there is a centralised issuer. Bitcoin cannot. Because it is decentralised.

Stablecoin Freezes 2023–2025: Data Analysis of USDT vs USDC

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GitHub - permissionlesstech/bitchat-android: bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes

bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes. Contribute to permissionlesstech/bitchat-android development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bitchat is great, but bluetooth range limits its utility as an emergency alternative for Internet shutdown situations. Iran right now being a good example. @calle is working on adding wifi mesh capacity. That would be a nice range extension. What would be the next range increase that can be done with existing cellphone hardware?

World History Atlas | Ancient and Modern States | Events | English and Russian.

Interactive detailed political map from ancient times to our days. Empires, kingdoms, principalities, republics

Is amazing. If you like #history and maps, this is an amazing resource.

The silver sqeeze is looking fun. Some people have been waiting 20 years for this.

Accounting, law, media, even science... it's all copy-paste now! ...and soon it will all be AI slop.

ChatGPT has gone from free to freemium to unusable unless you pay really fast. By the end of 2026 the free version won't get 2+2 right. I imagine other chatbots will follow a similar path. Thankfully we can make our own. Self-host. Check out Umbrel and Start9. They have a lot of AI tools. @Start9 @Umbrel ☂️

Territorial expanse of empires million km2 from 2500 BC to 2500 AD. #history #timeline I still don't fully trust the data. It seems as it gets more complete it loses accuracy. I'm going to have to manually check it all...

Skynet on track for 2029.

All databases will leak. KYC is dangerous. #Privacy is important.

Still not the final form, but continues to improve in historical accuracy. #timeline #history I've thrown in some future predictions for fun.

The Nigerian ban is also interesting. Instead of banning mining, like China, they banned all possession and use. The results were fun.

An Uber style private hire vehicle does an estimated 10x trips per day as a private car in a city the size of London. An extra 100.000 taxis/ubers could take 1 million private cars off the streets. It seems like low hanging fruit to reduce traffic problems in large cities. My guess is that there are political reasons not to do it (taxi licensing is a source of money for many municipalities).

Dems: we need a police state because climate change. Reps: we need a police state because immigration. Is there a political option that does not involve a police state?

It's so funny to me that the real metaverse, despite billions spent by Meta, MS and others, is Minecraft. Millions of kids are spending time on thousands of servers.

Slightly better data. Most curves are still just an approximation, but the roman, mongol, british, spanish empires now reflect the historical expanse a bit more accurately. I will keep improving it. #history #timeline

In the future... Bitcoin will protect our property rights. Nostr will enable our free speech. 3D print will guarantee our self defense. But for sovereign individuals to survive and thrive we need to imagine the institutions that will allow us to live in a free, open and voluntary society. Where cooperation and trade are not dictated from above by kings and parliaments, but built bottom up and constantly evolving to fit our needs. Some authors like Vernor Vinge (The Ungoverned), Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) or Heinlein (The Moon is a harsh Mistress) have tried to imagine what would replace nation states and governments in a voluntary society. Others like David Friedman (The Machinery of Freedom), Murray Rothbard or Bruce Benson have theorised. More have studied what institutions historical stateless or decentralised societies used for conflict resolution and to provide the services that we have come to rely on the state for. Solutions and ideas are out there. But how to go from idea to reality? How to meme a freer world into existence?

Incomplete and only approximate... but I like the format. Territorial expanse (M km2). #timeline #history

Great book for 10-12 yr olds. Although probably very good reading for adults also. @Tuttle Twins TV

Creo que esto se publicó en 2012 (en español). Sigue siendo muy interesante. Yo aporté mi granito de arena a la traducción española. @Unión Editorial ⚡️