there’s no “trade-off” between sound money and personal sovereignty. don’t be gaslit

michael saylor converses with a lot of analogies. some of them are nice, some are terrible

nostr is implementing the pgp dream

where do i find fedimint mints?

shill me ecash stuff. fedi, cashu, wallets, mint explorers, nostr integration. whatever can be played with mainnet right now

because of variable rates and adjusting to CPI with Israeli mortgages (aint nobody stupid enough to lend fixed shekels) some people find themselves pay a full year and still owe the same nominal total everything is so over extended

LN is designed to have topography elasticity. if they go for the big hubs they will push a more mesh like topography. same protocol, same connections, no need to change anything. just route around tyranny

privacy technologies will unfortunately keep getting criminalized one by one. luckily they always go for the lowest hanging fruits, incentivizing better solutions the arms race between individuals and collectives is endless, but this is how societies evolve

the state exists precisely so that we will NOT have to trust every counterparty we come in contact with, delegating it to the rule of law. a superstate trustless apparatus like bitcoin is a civilizational upgrade in this context

why don't we like let builders iterate over the dumbest, simplest to maintain grug covenants (LNHANCE with CTV and APO emulation) without wanking over endogenous fees, WHILE UTXOS ARE STILL CHEAP AS FUCK and then see what finds use cases to see what can be improved? it's not like segwit and CSV were the only requirements to make LN perfect. they were the minimum, and LN still launched and iterated into a very useful paradigm, regardless of the shortcomings sound engineering is about knowing where to compromise

own it

liking on nostr feel stupid when you can zap

wallet of satoshi, phoenix, alby, all self cucked for transmitting pennies in zaps meanwhile you can practically move millions in USDT between solana, tron, eth on something like exodus wallet without giving even a private name, from inside the U.S, on all app stores 👀