Rebirth I finally won this. Classic Reiner Knizia. Fast and smooth playing but tons to think about. #boardgames

I didn't realise that the OP_RETURN limit expansion in Core v30 is to prevent UTXO bloat - where spammy data is kept in the UTXO set. It's a pragmatic solution to spam damage - not an encouragement of spam This needs to be explained better. @Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast 🙏

Star Wars: Rebellion This is longer than I usually like and I don't often play 2 player games but I love Star Wars - at least the original 3 films. Fury of Dracula for two is a good summary as you're hunting for the rebel base around the galaxy. I was the Empire and got beaten pretty easily, but I did get to interrogate Han Solo and get him to tell me where the base was. #boardgames

Not even pretending to be a free country at this stage. How are they going to enforce this? "BoE officials said the central bank planned to press ahead with proposals for imposing ownership limits of £10,000 to £20,000 for individuals and £10mn for businesses on all systemic stablecoins — defined as any widely used for UK payments or likely to be in the future."

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Power Grid: The Stock Companies An expansion for Power Grid that turns it into an 18xx-style stock management game. It's a bit early to tell, but on the face of it this seems like a significant improvement. There's none of the turn-order rubber-banding - which spoiled the original for me. The only problem is that the English translation is poor and some finer points were a bit vague. Should be smoother next time. #boardgames

@Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast maybe interview Tadge Dryja?

Interesting podcast of an interview with an economic historian about the of the history of private money and the benefits of bitcoin and stablecoins. https://lnns.co/GwtJIK37hEZ

I posted a note via Nosotros and it shows 9 relays, but I only have 4 configured in settings? I deleted a few the other day as Jumble told me I had too many. @Cesar Dias

Cashu.me does not connect to my account via NWP. I added the URL, but zaps are broken. I do not know if it's a NWP problem with me playing around with lots of Nostr clients or if it's a problem with Cashu.me. @Egge

A friend wants to invest in Bitcoin, so I wanted to try out some wallets. I thought I'd give the @Blockstream app (aka Green) a try as it's the top player in Bitcoin development. My sats were in @Blitz Wallet , but it's a bit too early to be really usable. Lightning payments were broken, so I had to get my money out using Spark - which worked fine. The only other Spark wallet I could find was @npub18y2x...6dty (a Chrome extension + mobile app) so I got sats out using that. I tried to transfer sats into the Blockstream app using Lightning, but, to my surprise, the payment went through as mainnet. I wasn't bothered as the fee was cheap. I then realised that the Blockstream app doesn't support Lightning out of the box. It's an "experimental feature" that you have to enable in settings - except that feature wasn't there. 🤯 I gave up and did a mainnet transction into Misty @Breez ⚡️ - a reliable mobile wallet that supports mainnet, liquid and lightning with no fuss. I might try Xverse again another time as that did the job too.

Fate of the Fellowship I couldn't resist this in the shop. It's thematically brilliant. Better than War of the Ring because the characters are so important. Punishingly hard. I have played 3 times and only come close once and that was because I got a lift from the giant eagles to Mt Doom. Playing with 4 gamers shares the cognitive load. Surprised I've enjoyed it so much, but disappointed it's too much for my son. Upgraded from Nazgul minis to black cubes. #boardgames

Elevenses Sweet little half hour tableau builder from 2014 about serving tea to the ladies. The white cubes used for scoring are sugar cubes. #boardgames

Glad The Six of VIII is getting reprinted. I played it on the tricksters table app and it's very solid. It's traditional without being boring.

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