The NZD is like one of those shitcoins that doesn't even make the first page of Coinmarketcap.

For some reason YT decided to feed this up to me today 😂 Mike is one of those guys who is ideologically such a Statist that bitcoin's success is both a repudiation of everything he believes, and deeply threatening to the "reasonable, centrist, adult-in-the-room" soft authoritarianism he yearns to see enacted across the world. Mike is the man for whom the "Have Fun Staying Poor" meme was invented. He is poor in the sense that really matters: intellectually bereft and morally bankrupt... And I can only hope bitcoin's continued rise will make him reputationally destitute as well. @Lawrence Lepard

Are there any ARKs running on Liquid? I want to get a sense for the UX.

Just having fun playing with my bitcoin

It's generally not my kind of art, but I swear all I want for Christmas is a @M A D E X painting of some babe and a machine gun.

I can imagine how many eth folks are looking at this lovely little series of higher lows and higher highs and embodying that dude with the butterfly meme. If it rolls over, max pain.

You can't convince me this is healthy

Am I the only one feeling a bit depressed by the resurgence in shitcoins?

Great, non-technical overview of the Ark protocol by @Neil Woodfine:

For those looking for the best independent reporting and commentary on the US security state and Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, I highly recommend The Grayzone: https://www.youtube.com/live/PgDHJyaSCjY?si=faZcB8M5lyAxicM6 They come from a really principled anti-war progressive viewpoint. And even though I am in the free market anarchist camp (the the extent there's enough ancaps to comprise a camp), I have deep admiration for their intellectual honesty and rigor.

This painting by @🟠 isolabellart has quickly become one my prized possessions 💜 It isn't just the beauty of the art, and incredible expressivity in the brushstrokes, but the fact that I purchased it on Nostr, with bitcoin. Every time walk through my entryway and see it, it makes me smile. I think of how this nascent, censorship-resistant communications protocol connected me in New Zealand with an incredible artist in Italy. And using unstoppable money I was able to instantly transfer value across the globe. No middle-men. No "platforms" taking a cut and manipulating me with their ads and perverse incentives. Just two people, trading value for value. The best money in the world, for some the best art.