When people look at the bill and complain about rising prices, I'm sympathetic with their disbelief and anger, but know that this is self inflicted pain.
There is no reason to use their inflationary shitcoins. Yes, you would still feel the effects of uneven rise and distortions of price signals even if you only used sound money. But the general effect of inflation just goes away.
It's similar to surveillance. We can complain all we can about big tech watching over our private messages. But we can use end to end encrypted messaging and the problem goes away.
It does not require change in others. Use surveilled messengers to invite people over to encrypted services. Install GrapheneOS. It's no problem, don't overcomplicate. Same with fiat. Use it as an interface with the larger economy. Change only what you need into the shitcoins. No need to lecture others, give them the funny coins they want. Perpetual short of fiat.
Overcomplicating and complaining about the sad state of the world gives you likes, individual action makes your life better. Don't find excuses.
It's all so complicated, no one uses it, how will I do something I'm used to doing the old way.... There were countless of people who have had similar excuses and old ways of doing things. They just changed and now they are doing things differently. It's not so hard.
The day is today.
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While I agree with most of the practical consequences of this article, the language is very misleading.
Price is discovered after successful exchange. And it is valid for that exchange and does not mean anything for the next exchange. Thus there is no such thing as price manipulation. You either get or sell something for the price you wanted or not. Faces you make during a poker game are not binding, the cards and your choices are.
As such, there is no price manipulation on the markets.
With paper Bitcoin - all is well if all market participants know what they're buying. If I'm buying a future, I know it's a (possibly cash settled) bet on a future price. It's ok if someone does not want to settle in kind, in many cases that's too expensive. If a gold producer wants to sell an ounce of gold in Papua new guinea in the future and the buyer is in Argentina, they do the in kind spot trades on local markets and settle the difference. This is ok and an innovation of financial markets. Same with options.
You are not entitled to any price and thus this rhetoric of manipulation does not make sense. Yes, Bitcoin is a fixed cap asset. But exchange value is still on whether you are able to find a counterparty or not. Cancelled orders don't matter. Paper Bitcoin does not matter.
Fractional reserves are a problem, swapping to your wallet is definitely a good idea. But the way Kraken does reserve proofs is still ok. You should still withdraw immediately if you are not trading.
Good point about rehypothecation of collateral on lending platforms. Use Firefish which has exactly this property.


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Securing bitcoin's scarcity: fighting fake bitcoin
Bitcoin has a limited supply, so why does it seem like the market's being manipulated? The truth may surprise you.
It's not only about encryption, but encryption is necessary for honest communication.
The opposite of encrypted communication invokes the panopticon effect. You change your communication if you believe someone is observing it.
Of course you lose the feeling of intimacy in an encrypted chat group with many people (and you should, having the feeling of "this is encrypted messenger, I am not being watched" is dangerous), or if you don't trust the other person.
But if you do and you don't trust the communicator, you're not yourself. You are playing a show for an adversarial audience.
These days, strong encryption is absolutely necessary for healthy human relationships. Yes, we prefer in person, but the world no longer works like that. If you travel away from your loved ones, you want to still be intimate with them and keep in touch. You don't want to present them with the version playing for the panopticon, you want to stay you.
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We are not waiting to be led.
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The manifesto of the liberated emergent being
We are not waiting to be led.We are not here to follow maps drawn by others.We are here to listen—deeply, bravely—to the faint pulse of somethi...
I don’t seek rigid structure — I seek resonance
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Biohacking


You could have voted with your attention,
but you don't know how to control it and it's directed externally by corporations and divisive politics, they just take over your attention.
You could have voted with your money, but you were never interested in understanding how it works, how to make it and how to keep it. So they stole it from you, taxed you, evaporated its value through inflation and now you don't have a vote in the market economy.
You could have voted with your time. But you spend most of it on things that grab your attention and on making money in a hamster wheel.
You could have voted with your feet. But the world out there is scary and far and you would have to change your life significantly.
So you at least vote by putting a sheet of paper in a box, and you hope that this act, which is all vote you have left will change things for the better. And then you're disappointed and frustrated, because either your favorite tyrant did not win or they did and the result is the same as always.
Learn to use your attention
Learn about money
Save your time
And vote in ways that matter
Biohacking je často spájaný s rôznymi suplementami alebo praktikami. Z hackingu si ale berie aj používanie technológií. V tomto dieli podcastu sa pozrieme na niektoré z nich – biofeedback, neurofeedback, svetlo, vibrácie, elektrická stimulácia, rôzne trackery, lepšia (a zdravšia) obrazovka a podobne.


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Biohacking technológie - zotavovanie, cvičenie, svetlo, meditácia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpTUd0yqBwc
Biohacking je často spájaný s rôznymi suplementami alebo praktikami. Z hackingu si ale berie aj...
Llama4
Notably, users and companies "domiciled" or with a "principal place of business" in the EU are prohibited from using or distributing the models, likely due to governance requirements under EU AI and data privacy laws.
EU companies, what do you say? Feel protected?
There is a file, you load it to a smart enough device and suddenly you can talk to it.
Where do I buy interdimensional tickets to this section of the multiverse?

