We may have an explanation for the next couple of days' actions here... https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/regulators-set-to-seize-troubled-philadelphia-bank-republic-first-f138401c

We may have an explanation for the next couple of days actions here... https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/regulators-set-to-seize-troubled-philadelphia-bank-republic-first-f138401c

Money (short song) - Louis Cole (2019) You've heard the O'Jays (Ohio represent!) "For the Love of Money", and you've probably heard Pink Floyd's "Money," but how many stackers have heard ["Money"]( by Louis Cole?

Bitcoin's Night on Broadway

Bitcoin's Night on Broadway

Bitcoin

Bitcoin got lost on the way to his own conference.

Bitcoin Battleship

Bitcoin Battleship

Bitcoin Battleship

Check out this fun Bitcoin Battleship game. ...truth be told, I just want to create a kind 4550 event to mess around with it in the pleblab nostr devs course.

 So a couple of months back, I [polled stackers](https://stacker.news/items/441054/r/jasonb) on the nutritional merits of Kraft singles and got resoundingly pessimistic results. I'm trying to eat better and found this Amish-made American cheese yesterday. There's no phosphates, which seemed to be the big critique of the craft stuff and why I actually don't buy it anymore. Thanks @k00b! At the end of the day though, I'm not a chemist. So the question is, am I doing any better with this stuff?

Here's what I'm working on:

Arcade Wallet

Generated by create next app

Should I call it:

Vast - Brandon Coleman

brandon coleman

vast, by brandon coleman

track by brandon coleman

Hey, I got a bounty out on stacker.news for anybody that has a LOT of free time!

Stacker News

Attn: Losers Wanted! Can you lose at Bitcoin Battleship? \ stacker news ~bitcoin

OK, I want to try my first bounty. It's technically possible to lose at this Bitcoin game I made. The first person that can provide a screenshot sh...

Any parents out there that want help getting your kids interested in sound money, here's a piggy bank for you! Let me know if you need any help setting one up. Kind of obvious, but like, don't put a lot of money in it.

GitHub

GitHub - ttooccooll/PIG

Contribute to ttooccooll/PIG development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is a UI for an LNBITS wallet that's meant to look like a piggy bank. Children can track their deposits but don't have the ability to withdrawal. It is meant to function like a physical piggy bank and the parents can always go back to the original LNBITS url and withdrawal when a large enough amount of money has been accumulated to place somewhere more secure. There are a few other fun learning links and various real-time stats for the network. Grab your admin key from an LNBITS wallet and plug it in your environment variables as the value and REACT_APP_X_API_KEY as the key. Then, take a moment to reflect on the fact that I'm accepting no liability for all the money you're going to lose from using this app. Ruminate on it day and night and go on a fast if you don't feel as if you fully appreciate how silly it would be to put any significant amount of money in here. Then, have teaching your kid about Bitcoin and remember that you and only you are the one who will cover their losses if something goes wonky with this software. Big thanks to plebdevs.com and their plebdev course, where I learned how to make lightning wallets! demo: My copy of the piggy bank if you want to play around with it:

React App

Web site created using create-react-app

(Do NOT send sats here unless you intend to give them to me!) enjoy, jason npub1a95w2zch0gqfa0vhlgygz0xklwxccw6st88qkmhsk8d3tke2sqaqamsnzq

Hey all! I just finished the second plebdevs course, and it is FIRE! Here's something I was able to make after finishing the first one. As a testament to the course, I didn't know anything about coding in any language before going into that first course. If you've ever used LNBITS and thought to yourself, "I really just wish this felt like a Star Trek: The Next Generation spaceship console," here's your chance: here's a demo: and here's the repo:

GitHub

GitHub - ttooccooll/TNG-LNBITS-version: This is a way to turn your LNBITS wallet into a starship console.

This is a way to turn your LNBITS wallet into a starship console. - ttooccooll/TNG-LNBITS-version

@RABBIT HOLE RECAP Hey guys, thanks for all you do in the space! I was just listening to RHR from yesterday and something caught my ear. You mentioned, as you've been consistent with in the past, the idea of altruism as a failed ideal. Later in the podcast you guys both seemed energetic to praise the external injection of capital that initially stimulates these growing circular economies. Am I right that, at least initially, most of these initial injections are usually purely altruistic? I'm thinking specifically about Bitcoin Beach and Bitcoin Ekasi. Sorry if this is nit-picking. This view of altruism seems like a slight, but potentially soul-sucking difference between what the older Austrians thought (coercive or dependancy-creating altruism-bad, freely giving out of plenty to folks who physically can't bootstrap themselves-good) and what's popular among a lot of modern bitcoiners. I'm just curious if you've thought through the early circular-economy donor situation or if there's something listeners like myself might need clarity on. Thanks!

Here's another fun game to share with folks who don't get the whole decentralized thing. ...OK, it's not actually that fun since you're going to win like over 99% of the time, but it makes the point.

Bitcoin Battleship

Bitcoin Battleship

Can someone explain to me the cowboy hat system on stacker.news? I was all excited about my cowboy hat (not knowing what it was) and am devastated that it was whisked away from me just as fast as it had been awarded. Thank you!

Hello world. You can now buy my latest cd direct from me with bitcoin (on-chain or lightning). To the best of my knowledge, I'm the first jazz musician on the planet to offer this option. www.branscumtunnes.com/bitcoin

What does Oppenheimer teach us about CBDCs? Do you remember where you were when you first heard the acronym MAD? I first heard it when I was a teenager on a trip to the air force academy and we were afforded a tour of NORAD1. My memory is a little hazy on the details, but the most interesting part was when an instructor came out and explained a nuclear war scenario to us. He gave us a vague idea of where all the US nukes were, then a vague idea of where all the Soviet nukes were. After this, he told us what he’d do to confirm the Soviet nukes were in the air before launching ours to all of their major cities. The end. Hands went up. We wanted to know what would happen next. How would they shoot down the enemy nukes? How long would the war last after the first shots were fired? Why target civilians? This was when he told us about Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)2. Nuclear attack in the Cold War era wasn’t about winning or losing. It was about making the consequences of war unbearably devastating for all parties. The logic went that reasonable actors would therefor avoid kinetic war altogether. For the first time in my life, I understood the true reasoning behind the nuclear race in the cold war. Of course, the biggest catch in the system was that all parties with this power need to be assumed to be reasonable...forever. Oppenheimer3, this summer’s blockbuster biopic about the enigmatic physicist behind the atomic bomb, explores his moral concerns with continued nuclear arms research after WWII. The film dramatizes both his personal and political life and the ethical questions surrounding each of them. The most interesting theme for this writer was the paradox concerning Oppenheimer’s devotion to creating a weapon of mass destruction for one war, and then trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle before the the next one broke out. Fortunately, that hot war hasn’t come yet, but Oppenheimer didn’t accomplish his latter goal and we’ve since developed nukes that make the a-bomb’s mushroom clouds look like the mushrooms from Super Mario Bros4. The film highlights Oppenheimer’s Jewish heritage and his personal convictions concerning the rise of Nazism. With all of the other moral ambiguity, it portrays him as having deep integrity in this regard. However, once that threat had been neutralized, he begins to see more clearly the significance of this new category of weapon. Oppenheimer, or at least the Oppenheimer of the movie, grows to understand acutely the immense burden that now lays on all future generations. Each new nation or other entity that developed nuclear weapons was another trigger-finger on a potential apocalypse. Of course, this could also usher in a new era of threat-induced peace so long as all parties remain reasonable...forever. The dropping of the two atom bombs was horrific. Even so, the weaponization and bureaucratic manipulation of money that exists around the globe today produces more death than the combined total of these two bombings5. Millions of central and western Africans have been robbed through the debasement of the CFA franc by the French government6. The physical violence this has inspired is incalculable. Thousands died in the Arab Spring. The violence was itself inspired by economic hardship in the region, partially a result of the 2008 bank bailouts7. Local inflation in countries like Venezuela8, Zimbabwe9, Turkey10, and Argentina11 results not just in poverty, but in a significant drop in health care and education and a corresponding rise in violence. The weaponization of money and resulting inflation after WWI is even seen by most scholars as a large contributing factor to the rise of Nazism for which Oppenheimer was working against12. Using this same inflation, the richest and most powerful are able to actually able to further enrich themselves through the Cantillon Effect13. More overt weaponization exists in political sanctions, sinister a way to declare war on the civilian population of a country without declaring war on their military. Sometimes, as in the current case in Myanmar, these sanctions hurt the opposition groups more than the actual government that is being opposed14. With all of this in mind, adopting a currency that the government, a corporation, or a single individual can control by the click of a button is arguably one of the most dangerous threats to humanity’s thriving. Whoever held this power could decide who is allowed access to food and who is not. They could decide how long or how much you were allowed to save before it was deleted. They could monitor everything you bought and everywhere you bought it. I’m talking about a Central Bank Digital Currency15 (CBDC). Proponents argue that these concerns about abuse won’t be problems so long as we can trust those with the power. Basically, they are counting on either their allies to remain in power, or their detractors to be ethical enough to refrain from the previously described activities. So with a CBDC, “democracy” can only exist with a uni-party system or the ability to elect perfectly morally upstanding leaders...without a single exception...forever. Bitcoin fixes this16. Unlike nuclear bombs, a CBDC can’t function without widespread adoption. You and I will ultimately determine if this technology has any power. Fortunately, we have an alternative. Bitcoin does not have the power to stop you from buying groceries. No one can debase it’s value from a foreign or domestic state. It requires no extra fees for cross-border payments. While weaponized money may currently be responsible for more death and suffering than nuclear war, we now actually have an armor to protect against it. I only hope that by the time they make the movie about it, we have chosen the happy ending.
 1 https://www.norad.mil/About-NORAD/ 2

Live Science

What is mutual assured destruction?

Mutual assured destruction, often abbreviated as MAD, it is part of the military strategy of deterrence.

3

Oppenheimer (film) - Wikipedia

4 5 https://www.newsweek.com/how-many-people-died-hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-second- world-war-1522276 6

Bitcoin Magazine

Fighting Monetary Colonialism With Open-Source Code

France still uses monetary colonialism to exploit 15 African nations. Could Bitcoin be a way out?

7 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/12/17/bread-and-gas-economic-boost-needed-after- arab-spring 8

Venezuela: All you need to know about the crisis in nine charts

Discontent fuelled by hyperinflation, power cuts and food and medicine shortages have led to a political crisis in Venezuela. What's going on?

9 https://www.voanews.com/a/africa_its-nightmare-zimbabwe-struggles-hyperinflation/ 6177373.html 10 https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/07/21/lessons-from-turkey-on-the-evils-of-high- inflation 11

Argentina inflation soars past 100% mark

Inflation hits triple digits for the first time since the period of hyperinflation in the early 1990s.

12

Encyclopedia Britannica

Walter Simons | German Lawyer, Constitutional Scholar | Britannica

Walter Simons was a German jurist who served as interim president of the Weimar Republic, from March to May 1925. After serving in the German forei...

13

Adam Smith Institute

The Cantillion Effect — Adam Smith Institute

The conventional history of economics usually starts with Adam Smith, David Ricardo and J. S. Mill. But there is one who came before, who might des...

14

Bitcoin Magazine

In The Absence Of International Support, Myanmar’s Exiled Government Should Explore A Bitcoin Bond

Myanmar’s exiled National Unity Government is struggling to secure international support, making the case for a bitcoin-focused bond offering.

strategy 15 https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/tech/us-digital-dollar-cbdc/index.html 16

Bitcoin builds a better world.

Bitcoin is a misunderstood technology that is building a better world. Bitcoin has protected human rights, saved people from high inflation, suppor...