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Bitcoin, Nostr, history, sci-fi, FOSS, P2P...
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flix 2 weeks ago
Historia Mundi V Added some more battles, books, connections, coins. Increased font size for legibility. #timeline #history image
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flix 2 weeks ago
Bisq over 1000 live offers! @Bisq #P2P #DEX It's been years in the making, but liquidity keeps growing. image
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flix 2 weeks ago
Brent below $60 is not normally a very good economic indicator... image
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flix 3 weeks ago
The rise and fall of empires in the last 500 years. #history #timeline image
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flix 3 weeks ago
It looks like somebody is trying to clone me. Probably for nefarious purposes. Beware scammers! npub1tplxqu56w38uue08nyxwpsj3y8hxtmhzdja8zd0yj0p2mzx4zjms3hy5vz
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flix 3 weeks ago
This looks like arbitrage opportunity. image
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flix 3 weeks ago
A betting market on political corruption would be fun. Bet on the first politician (from a list of 100) to be involved in a corruption scandal. For the average punter 1/100 odds are fun. For journalists it would create an incentive to investigate... they could make big bets just before leaking the news. Watching the odds could also tell people a lot about their elected officials' reputation. This would be trivial to build on Nostr...
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flix 3 weeks ago
Argentina public debt continues to decline. What Milei is doing is nothing short of a miracle. His policies should be studied by all countries with a debt problem. His reversal of hyperinflation and committment to budget surplus will be in the history books next to Mises 1922 and Volcker in 1975. Technically what he has done seems simple and common sense - spend less than you earn - but in the real world and with politics things are never so easy. The bad incentives for the very same politicians that have to make the tough decisions and think long term mean that they hardly ever do. image
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flix 3 weeks ago
MONEY comes from latin MONETA, which in turn has its root in the verb MONERE (to warn or advise). Money was information from the start. Bitcoin is just a return to its roots.
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flix 3 weeks ago
In his 'Natural History' Pliny quotes Eratosthenes as measuring the circumference of the Earth at 252,000 stadia (~39.000 km) which is very close to the actual ~40,075 km. He also very clearly calls it a globe. Erastosthenes was born in 276 BC.