Dont lend money to people who can’t repay their debt.
Matt
codinginlondon@iris.to
npub16nd6...ftma
Former finance C++ C# dev writing about the merge of mining into the energy grid 🔋
What’s the problem?
21Energy builds a very gentle steak defrosting device.


For French readers: a very informative essay by Alex Stachtchenko
Le role de la monnaie imprimée dans la dérive vers un état qui en fait trop, au point de détruire les libertés des individus.
A lire du début jusqu’à la fin (il y en a pour au moins une heure)
https://medium.com/@AlexStach/l%C3%A9viathan-mon%C3%A9taire-de-largent-magique-au-cauchemar-totalitaire-c62b86036629
If Gates did the same rebrand as Saylor, he’d just get Soft.
The language used to justify coersion
“Threat to democracy”
“Social responsibility”
sounds like lines out of Atlas Shrugged.
We understand Interpol wants to catch the bad guys.
But that should not mean weakening encryption and putting everyone’s data at risk.
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BREAKING: Macron to rename English Channel to “Mer de France”

Dubai airport check-in does not print boarding passes / luggage receipts.
You have to queue at a separate counter to get paper printouts.
“Hi sir, can I see your boarding pass?
- Sure, let me just bring up my phone, bring up the email app, connect to wifi, wait…, click on the view now link, wait… oh there it is.”
#simplicity
Source: Fukagawa Edo Museum, Tokyo
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Hahahahaha
My thought exactly whenever I drink from a plastic bottle.
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As long as it’s not financed with more taxes.
How about converting existing croissant 🥐 reserves?
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Soon 1000sats will be 1EUR. This makes conversions easier.
Calculator and accounting ledger (Japan).
Excel spreadsheet of the Edo era.


Bic Camera in Tokyo still accepts bitcoin.
But my lightning wallet didnt recognise their QR code.
You need a specific application.


Morning kaya toast in Singapore


This popped up in a conversation with friends a few weeks ago:
Imagine if Dyson was integrating the Heatbit mining chips inside their wifi-enabled air heaters…
Thousands of users around the world would be mining bitcoin for Dyson without even knowing.
Dyson:
https://www.dyson.co.uk/fans-and-heaters/hot-cool/white-nickel
Heatbit:


Heatbit: Bitcoin-mining heater | Best space heater & air purifier 2024
The easiest way to start Bitcoin mining at home. Stack SATS with CES Innovation Award winning device. Join now

One extra level of indirection
#falseinnovations


Casa São Miguel
Somewhere in Alfama…
#60pastelarias
#pasteldenata


Lunch by Lisbon Persian Homemade Food.
They happily deliver around Lisbon and elegantly accept sats (with a discount).
Lunch+dinner = 63500 sats
4 years ago this would have cost ~388764 sats.

