I just thought how utterly fucked CoinBase, the Twinkerpinkle twins, Crypto.com are gonna be if the Trump administration makes amends with Binance, and I could help but feel a smile on my face.

Wen dip?

Yes, but that, like the "you can make money" marketing argument, appeals to people who: 1. want to create content, even if it's simply putting their opinions out 2. have opinions/content that is susceptible of being censored on the mainstream platforms (at least until now) 3. are unwilling to change how they present those opinions/contents, i.e., would rather give up the platform As far as 1. is concerned: a large majority of users are lurkers/readers who only want to be fed content, not produce it. 2. is just a small subset of all the people who post stuff. 3. is an even smaller subset. My point being, it seems a lot of people in here haven't really done a minimal analysis of what the real addressable market is, so how do we expect to find answers and ways to engage with it? A lot of this smells like desperation to "make money". If you come to Nostr (or any social media platform really) with the expectation to be paid for your content, well, you're not gonna make it. View quoted note →

What is this good for though? Will they sell their BTC and "realize" the "profits" -- and be out of BTC? Is the BTC on their portfolio taken into account as far as the country's solvency goes, for instance if they want to issue debt, or take a loan from the IMF? The fact that they accumulate BTC for the future is great in itself. Keeping count of the "profits" not so much. View quoted note →

As much as we all may like the man, gentle reminder that Bobby Kennedy Jr did not win the election. Trump did. Just saying, because based on the amount and type of RFK Jr content I'm seeing these past couple of days, it would seem many people believe he's the one taking possession in January and that it's his platform that's going to be implemented in full. And he hasn't even been nominated for any official position yet, let alone one so important as to require Senate confirmation.