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@Nunya Bidness you asked where the money is going on the pod today. If the Fed's standing repo facility usage is an indicator, it's literally evaporating:

Overnight Repurchase Agreements: Treasury Securities Purchased by the Federal Reserve in the Temporary Open Market Operations

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Fiat is always inflationary IN THR LONG TERM but deflationary spikes happen, and it's never pretty when they do. We've not really seen one since Bitcoin existed other than maybe VERY briefly at the start of the "pandemic." Eventually what has to come after this is that Big Print Larry Lepard's been on about.

Square laid down the gauntlet when it came to Bitcoin merchant adoption. On the one hand, they made it a painless process for merchants to finally get out of credit card fees, and for customers to be able to pay with the world's best money. On the other hand, they're 100% a middleman. Worse, by default, merchants are going to be using custodial lightning. We can take a moment to celebrate what they've accomplished, but we must immediately then pivot to doing everything we can to render it obsolete, if sovereign use of Bitcoin is truly the goal. It's not enough to say that merchants can use BTCPay and handle their own liquidity channels, or to say they can get the effortlessness of Square -- we need to get the benefits of BOTH to truly deliver on the promise of Bitcoin. Surely a world of middlemen was not the end goal, so it's certainly not time to stop striving.

We've officially surpassed 95% of all bitcoin that will ever exist having been issued. got another 115 years for that last 5%...

Okay, Opportunity Cost (the plugin from @npub1guh5...6hjy) was already impressive, but I was just watching The Sopranos with subtitles on and it totally gave me the bitcoin equivalent price of the $600 mentioned. One of the more amusing places I've seen it pop up and do its thing.

Someone order a Fra Diavolo? #foodstr

The time seems ripe for this banger from @Svetski from 2022. Though thankfully with Nostriches this feels like preaching to the choir.

Bitcoin Magazine

Why You Should Sell Your Bitcoin

21 + 21 more reasons why you should sell all of your bitcoin now.

Guys! My boss gave me a raise, denominated in #Bitcoin! I didn't even have to ask for it! They just stepped it up a few days ago, and have pushed it even higher bit by bit over the past few days. I could get used to this...

So, for my lunch break today, I put one of my dogs on a leash, like I always do, because she refuses to come in sometimes (rescue -- more of a stress thing than a game, I think). I let all three of them out, and came into the kitchen to heat up some chili. Well, a few minutes later, I look out, and she's dug under the fence. Somehow, this leash, which often catches on things IN the yard, is avoiding snagging anything, and she's running around the brambles and downed branches being a menace. I ran out with no shirt on, slippers, and sweatpants (the work from home uniform), and proceed to yell her name, going back and forth across multiple houses worth of wooded space behind all the neighbor's yards -- just hoping she won't go all the way out to the state highway. She did get into the backyard of the last house before that highway, but I do think that she's scared enough of cars that we were safe to begin with, but it's hard to tell. I was trying to find ways to corral her, but nothing worked -- even a tennis ball, which is like her crack. Eventually she ended up running along the narrow strip between the chainlink fence and the chicken wire fence we used to rely on, and I was able to get in her way so she had nowhere to go and grabbed the leash. Got her back to the gate, opened it up, and of course the other two dogs ran out. Thankfully they listen better, but still, annoying. Suffice to say, my dog dug a tunnel to get out of a fenced in enclave, ran about freely for awhile, and then released the other dogs she was in an enclave with. I'd be annoyed, but it occurred to me that I've no choice but to be proud of my little Hamas doggy. I wonder if any of the neighbors saw me out there getting caught up in the brambles all shirtless like...