Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review

On-chain wallets achieve a roughly 1-1 mapping of transactions to transactions:for every economic transaction that a user performs, roughly one blo...

“Soft-Fork/Covenant Dependent Layer 2 Review” I've finally published my big article sponsored by Fulgur Ventures, analyzing all the main covenant proposals, and the L2 proposals that would use them. tl;dr: Ark is pretty cool, and CTV is a good way to get it.

Record numbers of migrants living in Britain are jobless with more than 1.6 million unemployed or 'economically inactive' people costing taxpayers an estimated £8billion | Daily Mail Online

Official figures show that 1,689,000 non-UK nationals are either unemployed or classed as economically inactive because they are not looking for a ...

The UK is spending £8billion/year on illegals, while in three years they've provided just £7.6 billion on military assistance to Ukraine. Basically they'd rather waste billions on unproductive and violent non-whites (mostly) then help white people fighting to keep all of Europe safe. We could compromise and give them all jobs demining Ukraine... It's not very difficult work. Just incredibly man power intensive to do safely, and dangerous if you get complacent.

Status: Having drinks at a fancy rooftop bar overlooking Odesa harbor, watching cranes loading a container ship. Don't underestimate how remarkable this is. Officially Russia has closed the Black Sea to Ukrainian shipping, and they've tried to attack that port over and over again. Ukraine said fuck you and blew up enough Russian ships that Russia has withdrawn from the Black Sea, and Odesa port is shipping more cargo than before the full scale invasion. Killing evil people works.

I was able to travel from Riga to Odesa entirely with Bitcoin, paying for the tickets with Bitcoin directly. Riga → Moldova: AirBaltic accepts Bitcoin with BitPay (ugh). Moldova → Odesa: LikeBus accepts onchain Bitcoin (and other coins) via some Ukrainian payment provider.

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