Barrick
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Daily Bible Readings. Intrigued by Bitcoin, American Politics, and Health. Striving to be grateful, productive, and upright.
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$100,000,000,000,000
An honoree in the fiat currency hall of shame. The Zimbabwe $100 Trillion bill was issued in 2009 during one of
history's worst hyper-inflationary events.
Zimbabwe's official inflation rate hit 231,000,000%, and the bill was worth the equivalent of 0.40 USD--not even enough for bus fare.
Zimbabwe has since redenominated their own Zimbabwe dollars, as well as "dollarizing" and adopting the US
dollar as an official currency. 
Made of Money: Venezuelans transform banknotes into art in bid to give them value.
“Venezuelan migrants in Colombia are giving their devalued currency a new lease of life by recycling near-worthless bolivars into artworks… Venezuela’s rate of inflation reached 2,000,000 per cent in 2018 following economic measures by socialist President Nicolas Maduro.”
(Anu Shukla, 2019) 
A kilogram of tomatoes next to 5,000,000 Venezuelan bolivar, its price and the equivalent of 0.76 USD.
(2018, Carlos Garcia Rawlins). 
Can anyone recommend a great AI text to speech solution? Preferably something low cost or free? I’m open to running it on my own hardware.
I’m really impressed by ElevenLabs’ product. It sounds near-human to me. For my project, it would cost over $300.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #texttospeech
We have reached the moment Bitcoin's evolution when US presidential candidates are publicly endorsing it and incorporating it into their campaign platforms. This is historic. #Bitcoin
Are any of the old school cypherpunks presenting at this year’s Bitcoin Conference?
Really enjoyed Nick Szabo’s presentation last year on the cypherpunk movement.
#Bitcoin is a-peel-ing. View quoted note →
Is #Bitcoin non-political or is it deeply political?
I love the idea of future historians listening to today’s podcasts to understand history.
How cool would it be to listen to a podcast recorded during the American Revolution or Civil War?
Is it possible to quote tweet on #Damus? If so, how?
(I know, I know… they’re not tweets. Quote note?)