Thought for the weekend:
Time flies like an arrow,
Fruit flies like a banana.
Not a Polar Bear
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Not a Polar Bear, who went from Electronics -> Software -> Databases -> Monetary Systems.
Some friends and I have set up a choir (chorale21.org.uk). It’s going nicely and now I’ve added a QR code for Bitcoin donations. A committee member has raised a concern that “people ...might be interested in utilizing the bit coin aspect to take advantage of the choir”. It’s going to be a long slow journey…
…and then there was this time that #Bitcoin c-r-a-s-h-e-d from $73,738 down to £63,546.
It’s the weekend. 🧘♀️
Buying a fiat white from Vladimir the Ukranian at The Cobbled Roastery in Edinburgh. Paying with #BTC with my card from @Danny Scott, followed by a quick replenish on @strike. Life’s good.
The dollar is collapsing against #Bitcoin. It will soon be at an easily remembered rate of $1 = 1,000 Sats and after that $1 will equal 100 Sats and then…
(Sat = Satoshi = 100 millionth of #BTC)
“America through the looking glass: The crypto bros crowdfunding a new country” - a long read from the BBC. 
BBC News
The Bitcoin bros who want to crowdfund a new country
How a group of Silicon Valley tech entrepreneurs plan to create "the network state."
Coming soon to a financial district near you…
“You played a house that can't be beat. Now look your head's bowed in defeat. You walked too far along the street where only rats can run.”
David McWilliams, 1967
“The only one who knows this ounce of words is just a token, is he who has a tongue to tell that must remain unspoken.”
Showing my age now…