It's -18C outside so we made some ice lanterns with the kids

Bitcoin has followed a power trend consistently, which is how networks typically grow. Current price of $88k is below the trend (~$114k on my model, varies a bit depending on which data was used to fit the model) and Bitcoin has been this much below the trend only about a third of the time in it's history and well within normal variation. In one year the trend sits at $158k and to the current price level will be at the 5th percentile meaning that the price typically is above that level 95% of the time. Obviously network growth is not the only thing affecting price but these other factors are the drivers that push the price either above or below the trend.

@HODL did his part with his Nostr only vlogs to grow Nostr, maybe Nostr only @Derek Ross memes will get us over the 1M user line!

Beef sirloin, chimichurri, oven roasted carrots and sweet potato & potato mash #foodstr

Got some books from Santa. We're living in exciting times!

GM and Merry Nostrmas!

I've been a happy #grapheneos user for a little over year now. @Max gives an excellent summary on why that's a great choice plus a few recommendations (I tweaked a couple of settings, too, after reading this). I would add as a pro also the ability to install apps from unofficial sources ( @Zapstore was mentioned which I use also) even if Google starts limiting this on regular Android. That restriction combined with banning encrypted messaging apps from the Play store is not even that far fetched. Stay safe and don't carry your phone everywhere, especially protests etc! View article →

Inspired by a moronic rant by a local politician: if you want people to make more sustainable choises when consuming stuff, instead of printing more money as you suggest to fund your centrally planned projects (which leads to inflation which leads people to rather overconsume on useless crap than to save), why not make the sustainable options cheaper (and stop inflating everyones savings away)? Not by taxing the unsustainable options more, you can't set a global tax, but by actually making them cheaper with innovation. People will follow incentives but only a small minority will pay premium on inferior products just for ideological reasons.