Is this website real?

Hormuz Safe

Iranian digital insurance service

I just had to make the timeline into a dress for the famous athenian peplos kore.

Cool Roman calendar recreation.

Timeline as library concept 2.

Timeline as library concept.

HODL makes sense. The core of his argument is that the Bitcoin risk-reward asymmetry no longer exists. Paul argues that the -75% risk remains, but the x10 is imposible. Why? Because going from $1Trillion to $10 Tn would require "an economy the size of the US". But he is comparing GDP - a metric of flow - to market cap - a metric of stock. To make the comparison apt he would have to pick total US wealth or market cap of other assets. For example gold stock is valued at $31 Tn. US stocks have a combined market cap of $75 tn. Bond markets add up to more than $150 Tn. Real Estate is in the 100s of trillions. Bitcoin only needs to match gold to do 30X. Is this probable? Obviously you can disagree on that. You can also disagree on the timeline. But it is obviously not some kind of mathematical immpossibility. In fact, if you think that Bitcoin will become money you should be counting on it. I would argue that what is irrational is to treat Bitcoin as a speculative short term asset, given the volatility. In fact HODL for the long term is the only strategy that makes sense. Even if you don't believe in Bitcoin becoming world money in the long term, it makes more sense to hold a small percentage in your portfolio as insurance against being wrong than to "rebalance" when you make a small paper profit. On reflection his argument was not worth much. I should have just replied "OK Boomer".

Tree of History. I've added the Sassanid Persians and changed the egyptian scarab to an Ankh to make it clearer. I've also replaced the sumerian An. Added the american eagle and chinese flag to bring the timeline up to the present. I'll work on cleaning up the roman numerals to make the dates more meaningfully line up with the shields. I could also start including faces around the outside... or maybe replace the assyrian fighters with ones relevant to each era... I have to start thinking of the future part. Always fun to make some predictions. #scifi #history #timeline

Other Stuff... What would athenian Democracy look like in a virtual world? Imagine the entire electorate of a modern city - millions of people- all meeting in a virtual space for a big debate on an important issue. Of course not everyone gets to speak... but everyone can make their opinion or support known in some way. Everyone can react in a visible way showing approval, disapproval or a range of other emotions to what is being said. In the Roman Senate for example, support for a speaker would be shown physically by moving closer or further away from him. Claps, groans, cheers, nods of approval could all convey to those present how well a speech was going. Often these indirect signs were enough to show consensus or lack of it and the issue would never be put to a vote. The speaker could react in real time and adapt his position to the reactions of his listeners. What would this look like today? Social media shows how emojis, likes and other reactions can express a variety of feelings... but it is still very limited. Maybe avatars could also shift places to move closer to the position that they identify with in real time. Supporters of a speaker could also show their desire for their speaker to be given more time to speak or time to respond to a question. This would be easy to test in a multi-candidate debate with mixed reality participation. Instead of simple like/dislike you could have much more nuanced interaction with the audience. True audience participation affecting the outcome of the debate. Imagine a stadium filled with 100.000 people, plus 10 million more joining via VR. All of them able to express themselves in some way. All of them theoretically able to be given speaking time in the debate if they gather enough real time support. It could be chaos or it might be boring... but it's an experiment that I would like to see. We definitely have the tech for it. Maybe one of you conference organisers might want to give it a try... Or maybe a Nostr dev can think of a way to create a simple virtual space with the necessary capacity.

Tree of history. #history #timeline

What happened to the 4 million merchants that Square enabled Bitcoin payments for? Is there any data on how many activated or use it? Any volume numbers? @BTC Map and the shadowy supertaggers are doing great work... but surely Square must publish official internal data at some point? @Joe Nakamoto this would be a very interesting topic to do a deep dive on. Even if the news is disappointing.

Micrópolis. Más allá del Leviatán Nuevo libro de @npub19dg0...6yd2

This crossover now changes incentives somewhat. It's not the same to ditch treasuries when you are tanking your own portfolio than to do so when you are hedged. Many countries are now in that situation. This trend will probably accelerate.

Fun with timelines. Representing history as the tree of life. It's still work in progress, many mistakes. (Yes, I'll fix the numbers...). What would you change? What other empires deserve a mention? #history #timeline

EU proposal for new taxes on digital services, gambling, crypto.

euronews

EU tax proposals could yield up to €11bn per year, Commission says

European Commission is examining proposals to finance the next EU budget through tax changes targeting digital services, gambling and crypto assets...

This is just a rework of the Tobin tax.

Tobin tax - Wikipedia

Centralised exchanges would have to comply. However it's hard to see how they could track #P2P exchanges.

Column

Micromosaic grottesque column #timeline #history

Orazi e Curiazi

Orazi e Curiazi - Wikipedia

From @River 's excellent report on adoption. Nation state adoption.

The digital euro is on the way. #CBDC

Foundation for Economic Education

The Slow Disappearance of Cash in Europe - FEE

Under the guise of fighting money laundering, the EU is making anonymous economic activity progressively harder.

TIL the Pylos combat Agate. Amazing!

Pylos Combat Agate - Wikipedia