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That's why these bitcoin circular community projects are so interesting to watch (and support).
It's simple -- when bitcoin is the currency in which income is received, it's senseless to convert to fiat simply to spend in fiat, or a stablecoin, when when expenses can be paid in bitcoin.
Currently hopeful that Tollgate (bitcoin-enabled hotspot) creates the opportunity for many to be able to begin earning in bitcoin.
WTF is Ethena?
Oh, some stablecoin. #3 in rank, just behind USDC. Has about 1% the daily volume of Tether.
Oh, and Arthur's "biggest position and largest generator of absolute return".
For years I've been following these two on https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaFactChasers and https://www.youtube.com/@TheChinaShow -- had no idea each has their own channels with additional content.
This dumping of new car inventory as used cars is a practice common today in other parts of the world (including the U.S. as well). This is because the car manufacturers don't want dealers to engage in a price war on new vehicles. So a car gets a few days as a "courtesy car" for their service/repair department and a hundred miles or whatever later, that car can be sold as used or become eligible for being sent to an auction house.
Love this!!!!
Using it for demonstrating how a Tollgate operator can sell CashU vouchers for access to a Tollgate Hotspot:
#991732
https://tollgate.me/
New to all this?
From #780938 you will find this:
https://brrr.gandlaf.com/
which lets you print a CashU voucher (paying for it using LN is an option),
then from a mobile phone wanting to get pay for Hotspot access, .... without any CashU Wallet, simply scan the QR code from the voucher and paste that CashU token into the Tollgate sign-in page
If your phone camera app doesn't convert QR codes to data, you can use other apps, ... such as Binary Eye, for example on Android, to get the CashU toek from the QR code.
That measures "questions asked" (i.e., new question posts). Why ask a question when a search returns the answer?
It's not just AI that made Stack Overflow die, it's
- having to press the "Accept Cookies" prompt,
- the "Are you a human being?" CAPTCHAs
- the Questions showing the Green Checkmark (i.e., Answered) and the answer was: "Figured it out, guys .... thanks" (and nothing more).
Waymo stops this train:
(actually, Waymo, being door-to-door, and door-to-station probably increases commuter rail ridership today. But combined with RoboShuttles ... it's game over for the transport mode designed for your Grandfather -- long before he was your age even.)
Buses are designed to maximize systemic efficiency (passengers per driver).
Commuter rail is designed to maximize systemic efficiency (passengers per conductor).
The point I am making ... the convenience for the commuting passenger does not figure at all into that equation.
RoboTransit [nice, I'm going to steal that], having no driver or conductor, can be sized to match market demand. And as a frequent public transit passenger, I would like to see waits per-connection of five minutes or less, and door-to-door service. Simply having affordable RoboTaxi + RoboShuttles (vans) would likely be more than acceptable.
There's limited demand, and naturally passengers will gravitate towards the fastest solution (all else being equal), end-to-end. That takes those passengers off of rail, making rail more costly, per passenger, and RoboTransit less expensive, per passenger.
Welcome.
Greater liquidity (i.e., "Finding a buyer / seller that works for my location and payment method") is so badly needed on most every P2P platform.
That link is a bit outdated now, but still has good info.
Soon, I will be able to schedule a RoboTaxi to pick me up near my office at 4:17 pm. I then will take that to a bus hub, where I board a RoboShuttle that will, in 5 minutes or less, depart to a hub closer to my home. From there I find my waiting RoboTaxi which brings me home.
Even if that takes 10 minutes longer than driving myself, I was able to check e-mail, text chat, make phone calls, etc., all the way -- because I wasn't driving.
In the morning I do that same route but in reverse.
With such an option there is no longer any reason for commuter rail to exist -- except perhaps for a couple direct and/or express routes that connect major hubs.
As more people discover the convenience and speed of this robotaxi/shuttle route method, highway congestion decreases.
If I share my wifi with a neighbor, I trust they aren't abusing that and are being respectful to not waste my bandwidth, for example.
WIth Tollgate-OS that lets me put a (minimal) price on that bandwidth, and if they want to stream video 24x7, they can -- they just would have to pay more for doing that. They can even run a Tollgate-OS router and re-sell my bandwidth to their neighbors, and earn a little profit themselves. And their neighbors can do the same (though, each additional hop increases latency, so there are limits).
I don't know meshnets well, but I presume they strive to ensure optimal routing and are fault tolerant where, if one path slows, or goes down, your traffic continues through another path.
I don't know Tollgate's roadmap for that specifically but the software choosing which upstream Tollgate node to automatically purchase from next, based on cost, is something planned.
Gift cards don't always get redeemed, and of those that do get redeemed, many are not redeemed right away.
It varies by issuer retailer and market category, but generally (rough estimates) about a quarter of cards remain unredeemed after one year.
That unredeemed amount is (eventually) booked as "breakage", which is pure profit to the retailer.
So they are getting cash for the sale of the gift card, and booking that as a liability until it is redeemed. So a gift card is like an interest-free loan (albeit with uncertain repayment date) to the retailer.
Why would they give that up? I suppose they could operate an underfunded mint and add funds as needed based on card redemption, but I suspect an electronically transferrable card balance would increase redemption rates. (e.g., due to regifting, as one example. I got a Best Buy card, but I'ld rather have the sats so I trade it online -- and since there's essentially no risk to the buyer I can sell it near its face value).