Good beer. Good read. Good bookmark. Good vacation. GN!

Ok, I'll bite. Who's Dan? 🙈

"Bitcoin is voluntary money. People use it because they chose to, not because they are coerced."

#beerstr #floridstr Papaya Hose 👀

Happy birthday Lord Satoshi

Waterhouse pulls a bill from the top of the bundle. The top is printed in Japanese characters and bears an engraved picture of Tojo. He flips it over. The back is printed in English: TEN POUNDS. “Australian currency,” Waterhouse says. “Don’t look Australian to me,” the Army guy says, glowering at Tojo. “If the Nips had won…” Waterhouse says, and shrugs. [...] The fine print on the bill says, IMPERIAL RESERVE BANK, MANILA. “Sir! You okay?” the Army guy says. Waterhouse realizes he’s been thinking for a while. [...] He was thinking about whether it was okay to take some of this money with him. It’s okay to take souvenirs, but not to loot. So he can take the money if it’s worthless, but not if it is real money. Now, someone who was not so inclined to think and ponder everything to the nth degree would immediately see that the money was worthless, because, after all, the Japanese did not take Australia and never will. So that money’s just a souvenir, right? Probably right. The money is effectively worthless. But if Waterhouse were to find a real Australian ten-pound note and read the fine print, it would also probably bear the imprimatur of a reserve bank somewhere. Two pieces of paper, each claiming to be worth ten pounds, each very official-looking, each bearing the name of a bank. One of them a worthless souvenir and one legal tender for all debts public and private. What gives? What it comes down to is that people trust the claims printed on one of those pieces of paper but don’t trust the other. They believe that you could take the real Australian note to a bank in Melbourne, slide it over the counter, and get silver or gold—or something at least—in exchange for it. Trust goes a long way, but at some point, if you’re going to sponsor a stable currency, you must put up or shut up. Somewhere, you have to actually have a shitload of gold in the basement.

Sitting at the beach. Ordering stuff from @npub1eequ...at9s. Paying for it using #Bitcoin through @ZEUS. Posting about it on #Nostr. Life is beautiful. The future is now.

@Rico 👀

Das Sein entsteht durch Schöpfung, durch Zeugung die Existenz.

"Bitcoin's value is likely to increase as the growth of the bitcoin economy exceeds the inflation rate - consider bitcoin an investment and start running a node today!"

"Would like to ask you for your assessment" "Do you expect this to continue now?" "What do you expect immediately?" Just to mention a few messages lately. It has begun...

"I ride a bike myself but I hate cyclists" - @Rico no truer words have ever been spoken about how I feel about a lot that I see in our deer community 🙏

"Ein wenig Generosität wiegt sehr viel Verwaltung auf. Die Tribunen waren Umverteiler; sie verteuerten dem Armen das Brot, um ihn mit ihren Ideen zu beglücken etwa indem sie kostspielige Universitäten bauten, deren stellungslose Absolventen der Wohlfahrt, also wiederum den Armen, zur Last fielen und keinen Hammer mehr anrührten. Der Arme, soweit er nicht parasitär denkt, will möglichst wenig Staat sehen, unter welchen Vorwänden der sich ihm auch anbiete. Er will nicht geschult, geimpft und gemustert werden; all das hat die Armen und mit ihnen die Armut sinnlos vermehrt."

"Das war besonders schäbig, denn Gold und Salz müßten jedem ohne Zins zustehen als reines Äquivalent seiner Arbeit, so wie er es aus dem Sand der Flüsse wäscht oder von der Klippe kratzt."