Dear #Nostr community: please describe your experience buying or selling #BTC for fiat in the cash app. Good, bad, indifferent? How high are the fees? Any "gotchas," restrictions or privacy leaks I should know about? Recommended alternatives? #Openquestion #Newb #Help

A local business will deliver baby goats to your event - it's a mobile petting zoo! What will they think of next? 🐐

Question for the #Nostr, #BTC, #Lightningnetwork community: what's your favorite fiat-to-crypto on ramp & vice versa? Looking for safe, low-fee options in the US. Thinking about a Kraken acct, but would prefer something easier to set up.

>>Federal Reserve Double Talk<< "The Fed doesn't have a secret lab where they are developing a digital currency," quips Federal Reserve Chairman, Jerome Powell at the FOMC press conference, 03-20-24 "The Federal Reserve will continue to explore a wide range of design options for a CBDC." - Published by the Fed in a paper titled "Money and Payments: the US Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation," pg 17, Jan. 2022 Sources: https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf

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The US Senate debate over legislation to ban Tik Tok includes an important discussion about fundamental issues, especially the impact on free speech. Rand Paul's comments start at 13:50. Spoiler alert: Paul's comments are the best part 😉

Ok, everyone, I'm new to #NOSTR, and I don't have a #BTC Lightning wallet yet. Do you have recommendations? I have an Android phone, and I use various hardware wallets for long-term HODLING. My current plan is to choose a software lightning wallet, send BTC to the software wallet, and - once lightning payment channels are closed - send long-term BTC savings back to my hardware wallet. Otherwise, BTC amounts in a lightning wallet should be kept low, and treated as small amounts of cash/ spending money. What lightning software wallet do you recommend for security and use-ability on Android? I'm not very technical, so I probably won't build my own Lightning node. Any other advice about getting started with the ⚡ Lightning Network? ⚡

I'm interested in any and all opinions of Raoul Pal's "Everything Code" and his advice series, "How to Unf*** Yourself" on RealVision. I recently listened to Pal's interview with Nathaniel Whittemore, and he makes some startling assertions. Mostly, I'm skeptical of anyone who claims to have figured out the future of money, geopolitics, and finance. I'm willing to dig deeper into Pal's views, but I need some citations, charts, and data. Pal quotes a lot of numbers and correlations in the interview below, but he doesn't offer any sources for this information. I'm curious what others think about his macroeconomic analysis? Interview below: #Macroeconomics #Finance #Bitcoin #Markets #Raoulpal #Forecast #Predictions #Everythingcode #Economics #Equities #Bonds #USD #Fed