Has anyone tried to do a hybrid virtual/real conference with a virtual space that is visible in the real space and vice versa? Free tools like

Topia | Virtual Campus, Virtual HQ, and Social Experiences

Real-time social experiences inside accessible virtual worlds. Bring people together to work, learn, and collaborate. Free for up to 50 visitors.

would seem to make it technically very easy... but of course the difficulty is social coordination. @Decentralized @Gigi @Hodl Hodl @paul keating I understand that conference organisers don't want to devalue the in-person experience... but maybe seeing a lot of remote avatars participating in some of it would make it seem even more special to be there physically.

A friend just started being very successful on instagram, on her way to a million followers. She does not know how to monetise it. I suggested that she try posting a ⚡ LN address for donations and tips. It's an easy experiment that will take her less than 5 minutes to do. If it works, my next suggestion is that she posts some exclusive content behind a zapwall with @Fanfares . Of course I will also suggest that she post notes on Nostr, although I don't know if that is an efficient use of her time... Any other ideas or suggestions?

EU forces USDT delisting from centralized exchanges. This seems like an opportunity for #P2P

Una humilde propuesta para resolver el problema de la vivienda y el paro en España. En España hay ~5 millones de personas recibiendo una paga del estado por no hacer nada (parados y perceptores de IMV). Una casa unifamiliar tiene de media 100.000 ladrillos. Si cada parado pone 100 ladrillos al día, en un año serían (5.000.000 x 365 x100 ) 182.500.000.000 ladrillos equivalente a 1.825.000 viviendas unifamiliares. En un sólo año. Con casi 2 millones de viviendas adicionales en un sólo año, se acabó el problema de la vivienda en España. Y si no, pues repites un par de año más y ya son 5 millones de hogares. ¡Hala! Problema resuelto. De nada. 😉

Marble map of the Roman Empire under Trajan.

Uh, oh... ☢️

Has anyone put interactive live zaps ⚡️on the big screen at a Bitcoin conference yet? @lunaticoin @Joe Nakamoto @npub1au23...t53j What's the best way to get live audience participation via Nostr? Maybe show all notes with a certain hashtag ranked by zaps?

China is cursed. The inmensity of the crime committed is almost beyond comprehension. The moral and economic consequences will be dire.

One Child Nation - Wikipedia

Square Adventurers: FINALLY SUCCESS bought soap at a local small business. https://stacker.news/items/1504239

IDEOLOGY vs CONSPIRACY CONSPIRACY: Need to keep it secret and small. Constantly pay off, blackmail or threaten conspirators. Need to control and surveil all to make sure that everyone is perfectly coordinated. Participants feel guilty, constantly questioning "are we the baddies?" and willing to defect if success seems unlikely. IDEOLOGY: You can teach it in schools. Useful idiots will spread it for free. Millions of volunteer enforcers. Censorship and propaganda is mob enforced. It survives on auto-pilot and spreads. Participants feel virtuous. It engages tribal instincts at the deepest level allowing complete suspension of disbelief and anger at outgroup.

EU first vote on digital euro #cbdc coming in weeks.

European Parliament

Digital euro | Legislative Train Schedule

As part of Economics and Monetary Issues policy, the Commission presented a proposal for digital euro to complement cash

#history #timeline

Stablecoin -> Bitcoin atomic swaps ⚛️ We need and uncensorable, no-KYC, #P2P, #DEX to allow atomic swaps between stablecoins and Bitcoin. Stablecoins are shitcoins. They make a promise that they cannot keep. Their issuer is a central point of failure. When they de-peg and crash, as some have already done and most will eventually do, we will see Bitcoin repriced in stablecoin terms. Centralised markets will just block trading and withdrawals (again). A DEX will show the truth. It will direct the funds into Bitcoin like a funnel.

@PROMETEA @Entropy @lunaticoin

Is this website real?

Hormuz Safe

Iranian digital insurance service

I just had to make the timeline into a dress for the famous athenian peplos kore.

Cool Roman calendar recreation.

Timeline as library concept 2.

Timeline as library concept.

HODL makes sense. The core of his argument is that the Bitcoin risk-reward asymmetry no longer exists. Paul argues that the -75% risk remains, but the x10 is imposible. Why? Because going from $1Trillion to $10 Tn would require "an economy the size of the US". But he is comparing GDP - a metric of flow - to market cap - a metric of stock. To make the comparison apt he would have to pick total US wealth or market cap of other assets. For example gold stock is valued at $31 Tn. US stocks have a combined market cap of $75 tn. Bond markets add up to more than $150 Tn. Real Estate is in the 100s of trillions. Bitcoin only needs to match gold to do 30X. Is this probable? Obviously you can disagree on that. You can also disagree on the timeline. But it is obviously not some kind of mathematical immpossibility. In fact, if you think that Bitcoin will become money you should be counting on it. I would argue that what is irrational is to treat Bitcoin as a speculative short term asset, given the volatility. In fact HODL for the long term is the only strategy that makes sense. Even if you don't believe in Bitcoin becoming world money in the long term, it makes more sense to hold a small percentage in your portfolio as insurance against being wrong than to "rebalance" when you make a small paper profit. On reflection his argument was not worth much. I should have just replied "OK Boomer".