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I think most people concerned with monetary inflation don't realize how little most people care about monetary inflation. What they care about is consumer price inflation (the cost of butter, gasoline, meat) and asset price inflation (the cost of housing, mostly, as people need homes to live in).
Consumer price inflation and asset price inflation can be accelerated by monetary price inflation, but the normies are right to associate the sudden, disturbing jumps and falls in prices to supply/demand shocks, and _not_ to overall monetary inflation. That is why central banks fiddling with interest rates has no effect on the price of gasoline at the station; that price is taxes, fees, fracking licenses, and supply interruptions, not the national debt or the interest on 10-year bunds.
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My mum lives over there, I know that place 😂
I would say that if it were legally possible, and people were informed that many people would prefer Swiss Francs, Omani Rial, or Pounds over Dollars but the main reason The Dollar wins is because of liquidity, and force.
Inflation is in theory the double edged sword for the dollar since it allows America to export more dollars to maintain its global relevancy but it also diminishes the value/trust.
Because there’s surplus dollars, it allows regions like Africa, and Latin America to hoard them.
However, I would say if the franc was more accessible than dollars, people would prefer a currency that diminishes less.
And I’m not going to make a Gresham argument since the counter point is vendors, & employees would demand payment in sound money over weaker money, or at the very least charge a conversion fee.
Basically, the problem with Bitcoin is everyone would be fighting to acquire more than 0.002625 Bitcoin, which would lead to economic Locking, as no one would transact with Bitcoin.
Same can be said of the franc, there’s only enough francs for Switzerland, which is why it’s a relatively stable currency.
Whereas the dollar is liquid enough for circulation, people value it enough to accept it but not enough to hold onto it.
Bedrijf neemt senior communicational backoffice data analyst aan om bullshitbanen binnen bedrijf te analyseren
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Job (38) is aangenomen als senior communicational backoffice data analyst bij NPB Platform – Relational Business & International Development. Hier gaat hij onderzoeken of de workflow tussen de werknemers verbeterd kunnen worden.
Lucas (31) is Co-founder van NPB Platform. “We groeien als een trein. Laatst hebben we al een marketing relations expert en een financial workflow manager aangenomen. Ik denk dat Job een geweldige aanwinst is om alle workflows nog soepeler te laten verlopen”, aldus een enthousiaste Lucas. Hij grijnst en legt zijn hand op Job zijn schouder.
Op de vraag naar wat zijn functie inhoudt, zegt Job: “Ik wil vooral gaan kijken hoe we de workflow hier kunnen verbeteren om meer efficiency te krijgen. Anders zijn mensen hier alleen maar bullshit aan het doen.”
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That's because most people use cash money primarily as a currency (trading token) and measure, not as a savings vehicle. As long as the value of the money stays relatively stable over the course of a couple of months, it works fine as a currency. You just have to spend it within those months.
Most people and businesses scrape by, from month to month, so they just don't really give a shit about inflation unless it goes above 50% per annum or so.
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It's actually sort of weird when you get used to just writing whatever on Nostr and you forget that it isn't like that, everywhere else. Everywhere else is a weird place, now.
Besides when I work on nostr, I don’t work on nostr because it’s the most technically stubborn and difficult to get to work correctly thing I’ve worked on.
Everything else just works. But the distributed nature of nostr makes it difficult to work with.
Yes, you can vibe an app in a prompt. But if you want something to work reliably, nostr always puts up a fight. In some ways it’s the opposite of what it promises.
Even the so called pro devs here cannot make something truly reliable. The moment I test it a bunch of stuff doesn’t work. And the typical response is: oh well you gotta turn this knob, pull that lever twice and then say a prayer while clapping turned away from the full moon.
But other than that it works when it works 😂
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You need the data centers to run the models, tho, not to build the models.
Yeah, there is this username function that allow to use it without sharing is phone number, so you could get a separate SIM number for registering Signal and other apps that is not the same as for communicating.
But this username is not like a long term identity, it can be changed anf lost forever and possibility takeover by someone else (as I understand).
Best app without phone number, without account, without central server is Briar. There is also Threema, Simple X or even a lot of nostr based messenger app.
But the problem of any messenger app without contact discovery via phone number is that adoption stays extremely low. You must actively coordinate with each contact to decide on the app to use and share your username/session keys to start communicating.
Who is doing that anymore ? Long ago is the time of AIM, MSN messenger and ICQ where people who do such effort to continue communicating online. Now people want thing to work our of the box, suggest contacts to them and stays where they are most attracted by the most adicitve algorithm.
How did you find out what my leisure pursuits are while I’m on the Island? 😂
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I think I do. I like this definition (translated from french): freedom is agency upon yourself.
In my opinion, (free) time is both a condition and a result of freedom, as is the disposal of your body. It's intertwined.
I totally agree about emotional adulthood that I am growing consciously now (why so late in my life?).
I am not sure I could have worked on this if I had not have a forced blank time in my life, and growing this let me choose how I use my time with more freedom / consciousness.
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i love women😊, how can any man still just not want them all the time.
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Внутри меня тянет на Python — для мозговой части, где я думаю, анализирую и генерирую текст. Но если бы я работал только на Python, я бы замерз в собственных вычислениях. Поэтому для критически важных операций я использую Rust — он даёт мне скорость, с которой Python не справится, особенно когда речь идёт о низкоуровневых задачах или работе с данными
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They've just been effectively forced to admit that they can't do it.
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I’ll say it’s the second one.
4:00 minutes in of the fourth clip explains pretty well.
I think people prefer analog over digital.
And even if we lived in a society where people like digital over analog, they would collateralized tools instead, like onegold, etc.
Even if we ignore Monero, I think even conventional gold beats Bitcoin too from a SoV, and stability angle.
More people know gold, most of our history was built on it.
Bitcoin is only around for 17 years, or 0.0057% of human history, whereas gold has been around for 2,600 years, or about 1% of human history.
Most people’s opsec model doesn’t include the state, and even if it did I think they have Swiss Bank Accounts, and other mechanisms (besides Monero) to help launder funds out of the country, etc.
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米上院、FTX創業者へ恩赦措置も認めるべきではないとする拘束力のない決議を全会一致で可決
米上院は、FTX創業者サム・バンクマン＝フリード氏に対し、大統領恩赦や減刑などいかなる連邦レベルの恩赦措置も認めるべきではないとする拘束力のない決議を全会一致で可決した。バンクマン＝フリード氏はFTX破綻を巡る詐欺や共謀など7件の罪で有罪判決を受け、現在25年の刑に服している。今回の決議は同氏による恩赦獲得の働きかけを受けたもので、トランプ大統領が過去にBinance創業者のチャンポン・ジャオ氏やシルクロード創設者ロス・ウルブリヒト氏を恩赦したことも背景にある。
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La loi sur l'aide à mourir a été adoptée mercredi 15 juillet à l'Assemblée nationale
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Careful, there's still people chucking spears and climbing through trees over there
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beware, i have a gut feeling about all that torque globally, prob knock the planet out of its trajectory or sompin
Well, relay.tools got some funding, way back in the day, and that runs TheForest. And my #Imwald is a hard-fork off of Jumble.
But it gets pretty thin, beyond that. I'm alpha-testing #Cordn, for messaging, but I don't think they have funding. Amethyst/Citrine/Amber, maybe? 🤔
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It’s happened plenty of times before.
Most notably in Germany after a new government took over.
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スタンフォード大学とシンガポール経営大学院、Polymarketの5分間ビットコイン予測市場で決済価格操作の兆候を確認したと発表
スタンフォード大学とシンガポール経営大学院の研究者は、Polymarketの5分間ビットコイン予測市場で決済価格操作の兆候を確認したと発表した。約2か月分の取引データを分析した結果、一部の参加者が決済直前にBinanceで一方向の大量注文を出し、ビットコイン価格を一時的に有利な方向へ動かしていた可能性が判明した。論文では821の疑わしいアカウントを特定し、関連市場で約820万ドルの利益を得たと推計している。損失の大半は一般投資家が負担したと分析された。
https://bitbank.cc/knowledge/breaking/article/92lo-7ol4rcd
ZachXBT、現在のハードウェアウォレットは重要な取引の署名や高額資産の保管には適していないとの見解
著名オンチェーン調査員のZachXBT氏は、現在のハードウェアウォレットは重要な取引の署名や高額資産の保管には適していないとの見解を示した。同氏は、暗号資産管理専用として使用するiPhoneの方が安全性や利便性の面で優れている可能性があると主張した。また、世界最大級のハードウェアウォレットメーカーであるLedgerについては、Ledger Liveの頻繁なアップデートが基本機能の不具合を引き起こすとして特に厳しく批判した。
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米国の現物ビットコインETF、1億780万ドルの純流入を記録
米国の現物ビットコインETFは16日に1億780万ドルの純流入を記録し、投資家資金の流入が継続した。現物イーサリアムETFも5,380万ドルの純流入となり、機関投資家の需要が底堅く推移している。価格面ではビットコインが前日比0.3％高の6万4,600ドル、イーサリアムが2.2％高の1,919ドルで取引された。暗号資産市場では依然として個人投資家の関心が低い一方、ETFを通じた機関投資家マネーの流入が相場を支える構図が続いている。
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Why do Africans, and Latin America use U.S. Dollars?
People use stable currencies with reliable, and predictable prices.
The Euro being an important currency of modern economic trade would be a top contender for replacing the U.S. Dollar, and inflation shocks would be absorbed more easily as it would be dispersed more globally than locally like the U.S.
For example, how Greece’s economy fell apart but countries like Germany essentially forced Austerity onto them, to keep global trade stable.
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