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npub1sp0r...j02v 11 months ago
IF YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION YOU TOTES SHOULD PAY MORE ATTENTION
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BoomTown 11 months ago
Aren’t we already living mandibles?
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johnbfive 11 months ago
Apr < hurdle? Wonder who is floating…
AFTER USING THEM FOR 2 YEARS I PAID OFF MY 0% CARDS RIGHT AFTER THE RATE WENT UP, AND THEY TOOK AWAY THE MAJORITY OF MY OVERALL CREDIT LIMIT IN RETALIATION, CRUSHING MY CREDIT SCORE APPARENTLY RUNNING UP 0% CARDS AND TRANSFERRING BALANCES IS FROWNED UPON BY THE BANKSTERS (ALTHOUGH I WAS NOT DOING THE TRANSFERRING PART). THEY CALL IT 'BUSTING OUT' #TIL
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bitcoin.truth 11 months ago
hmmm. i dunno what the implications of this are. can someone please explain to me like im retarded.
I was curious myself, so here's what a robot told me: Imagine you have a piggy bank where you keep your allowance. Sometimes, you might want a toy that costs more than what you have saved. So, you ask your parents to lend you some money, promising to pay them back later. This is similar to how adults use credit cards—they buy things now and agree to pay for them later. Now, let's say many people start borrowing more and more money using their credit cards. This means they owe a lot and have to use a big part of their future allowances to pay back what they borrowed. When so much of their money goes to repaying debts, they have less to spend on other things they enjoy or need. For the whole country, this can be a problem. If lots of people are busy paying off debts, they might buy fewer goods and services. This reduced spending can slow down the economy, leading to fewer jobs and opportunities for everyone. So, while borrowing can help us get things we want sooner, too much borrowing can make it harder for everyone to enjoy a healthy and happy economy.
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John 11 months ago
I’m sure some of that is hodlers taking cash advances to stack more sats
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Kush 11 months ago
I hear you Delly… and it’s the worst kinda debt… and it’s being cranked by working ppl with the better credit profiles
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BBG 11 months ago
But just look how great my credit score is !! 🤣
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Kris 11 months ago
Plus Q2 layoffs reports and my egg buying habits….Giant red flags
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Deleted Account 11 months ago
our future generations seems burdened by high debt that will due on their shoulder. sad.
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Deleted Account 11 months ago
People think the fiat ponzi has no upper bound but it will inevitably be breached and #bitcoin is poised to fill the void with sound money that incentivizes rational capital allocation
open channels with them is the last missing piece for me. I'm lucky these people are even on custodial lightning wallets... Maybe I should get into Uncle Jim mode just for this purpose...
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John 11 months ago
They keep offering me 0% 1 year APR and I keep accepting so I can stack more sats
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heinz57 11 months ago
His question wasn't sincere. He was just looking for an opportunity to shit on P2P bitcoin.
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BTCrevolutionary 11 months ago
People are struggling out there trying to keep up with the joneses…. Sad…
Once I figured out how LN is ought to work, I just configured the node to be able to route transactions so that other nodes have incentives to open channels as well. Bunch of swaps at LightningNetwork+, few liquidity purchases at Magma from Amboss and a few channels to big LSPs made it not necessary to manage anything more frequently than once a month. Budget is what hard in my case - I can't just open many 1+ million sats channels
What’s crazy though, credit cards will throw offers of 3-5% for 10-12mos and I often take them up on it if I can use the capital to earn. So I’ll have a $100k in credit card debt for half the year using their money to make money. Granted, this isn’t where most of these people are on the chart, but that is at least a slice of it if I’m in there.
US credit cards do it. It’s a temporary offer to get usage or trap you 🤷‍♂️. But I just deploy it from a positive net worth position so it’s easily paid in full at the end of the low percentage period. Each card may be 30-40k but they add up. Mind you, they all started at 2-3k but over the years they end up high limit with responsible usage and asking for a bump in limit every 6 months without letting them do a new credit pull. Always keep your credit frozen.
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Austin 11 months ago
Some of must have bought the dip. How do you pass on sub 80k coin?
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Brian 11 months ago
who's voice did I just read that in? 😂 the one from tfct and the intro
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Chad Lupkes 11 months ago
I keep my credit cards paid off, and my wife only uses them enough to get the points and then also pays them off. Carry no balance.
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losefriends 11 months ago
Now add increased prices due to the Trump tariffs.
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npub193sk...ygu3 11 months ago
Great excerpt. The Big Print is bridging the knowledge gap in a subtly profound way
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serenitys forge 11 months ago
We get a lot of cards offering 0% on balance transfers for 12-18 months here in the UK. The scam part is the transfer fee. Most people paying off the minimum payment spend the 12 months just paying off the transfer fee. I have £5,000 in CC debt, and its time to transfer again. I pay 2x the minimum payment plus the transfer fee divided by the time period of the offer. The last time i did this i was paying £125 a month. Gets the capital paid off quick which lowers the transfer fee so when i do this agin that fee will be lower. So more of the £125 goes to the capital. You got to play the gane to your advantage 😂