Thanks for the comment. Better than Phoenix? Why in particular? Other than...phoenix is pulling out of the US...

Thanks for the comment. Is this meant for people running public nodes, or would it be suitable for private (personal) nodes as well?

Thanks, I just saw the anti-bot verification and passed, it was a bit hidden.

Np. I rearranged the bullet points just before I sent, what I meant to say on the first bullet point is that those offers (US Strike, EU Revolut, etc) are all on robosats and bisq.

Couple thoughts:

I haven't been able to use WSJ links on archive.is anymore, is there a trick now?

Thanks for this, looks amazing. Wow, that Berlin group seems to have multiple events a week and sometimes a day! Lots of action there...

Also I did some poking around and found this - https://einundzwanzig.space/meetups/. Lots happening.

Interesting, thanks.

How does this compare, conceptually, with a 2 of 3 multisig?

FYI if you're looking for what readers value, as judged by how much they zap a post, you can do some searches like the following:

That'll give you the top ranked posts for a specific month (change the parameters as desired).

Interesting that Robosats (another P2P trading platform) has built a system with no reputation. You are encouraged to never re-use your robot tokens.

However, people do re-use their robot tokens, all the time. So, that's their reputation. You see the same users all the time.

I wonder about how the Robosats no-reputation thing can work, over the long term. Especially when attacks like this come up.

If you've already eliminated processed food and feel better, but not that great then I encourage you to try Carnivore. (Or keto/low-carb, but Carnivore is very simple and easy to follow, after a couple weeks/months).

It cures so many issues.

Follow these folks: Dr Shawn Baker - book, The Carnivore Diet - a great overview, easy to read. He also has a great podcast, and a great youtube channel Dr Ken Berry - youtube channel, very highly regarded Plant Free MD - carnivore podcast, good stuff, by Dr Anthony Chaffee. He's also on youtube quite a bit, I'm not sure if he has his own channel

Also read The Big Fat Surprise - book by Nina Teicholtz - outstanding book, won a lot of awards, this is what started me out, in terms of questioning standard nutritional advice. Not a ton on carnivore diet in particular, but lots of info on how fruits/veggies/fiber/whole grains aren't as great for you as we've been told, and also on how cholesterol is a bad endpoint for measuring cardiovascular health (because people with lower cholesterol often have shorter lifespans), and how meat, eggs, and dairy are actually very healthy for you. Toxic Superfoods by Sally Norton - interesting book about a whole class of fruits/veggies that contain a specific plant toxin (oxalate) that doesn't get nearly enough attention, and might be one of the things on a vegan diet that can cause real problems.

If you don't want to read any books, check out online interviews, there's loads out there.

I saw this on mempool.space and wondered what it was.

Could someone ELI5 how/why specifically this happens?

Or maybe it'll help the population collapse even faster. ;-)

Thanks for this detailed write up.

I'm having a hard time understanding how Robosats can be cheaper than Boltz, for swapping from Lightning to BTC.

Boltz charges .5% of your lightning total, to swap from Lightning to BTC (and then the transaction fees are on top of that).

The cheapest that I see on Robosats to "swap out" (i.e. go from Lightning to BTC) is -1.9%. So if I'm understanding right, you're getting 98.1% of your lightning btc out, into on-chain bitcoin.

Or is it somehow the opposite, you're paying LESS for the bitcoin that you get, when you go from lightning, to on-chain?

Hard no on that, they're evil.

Also, I don't think their pension plans are going to do well once serious inflation begins. If they raise pensions with inflation, they have to admit that inflation is really bad, and they won't want to do that.

In the post World War I hyperinflation, in Germany, retired civil servant's often had ridiculously low pensions once inflation really kicked in.

Thanks. I'll bet if you wrote up a detailed post - or had friends and family write one - of exactly how bitcoin is being transacted in Venezuela, you'd get a lot of interest.

For instance, something like this post: Uruguay - The New Land Of The Free?.

Not that Venezuela is the land of the free, but a feet-on-the-ground, detail rich report like this gets a lot of interest. And sats!

Yeah I'm not quite sure I get it either, about the commercial real estate.

I'm sure you're right, but I need it spelled out a little more...

Interesting, thanks for the updated.

How specifically are people transacting with bitcoin? Lighting wallets, which ones? On-chain transactions? Guess it depends on the amount.