0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fanis 16 Jul \ on: World Debt In BTC bitcoin
Here's a website called "world debt in bitcoin"
the website:
(yes, I know it's probably a work in progress, but it falls so much into the cliché that US Americans conflate their country with the whole world that I couldn't help but find it amusing)
Nope: the French parliament has two chambers (Assemblée Nationale and Sénat). The President can only dissolve the Assemblée Nationale, and hence French people are only going to reelect this "half" of the Parliament (the Assemblée has 577 members, the Sénat 348).
It happened from time to time under the 5th Republic in France. Last occurence was Chirac in 1997. So yeah, kinda of a big deal.
Note that France is a bicameral system where the Parliament has two chambers: the Assemblée Nationale ("national assembly", which Macron just dissolved) and the Sénat (senate). The Assemblée Nationale can dismiss the government, and reciprocally the President can dissolve the Assemblée Nationale. But the Sénat remains unchanged.
This post made me hungry so I sliced myself a few of this bad boys. This is around 110 grams of cheese (about 1.5x the daily average consumption according to the above study).
Left to right: Mothais sur feuille (foreground), Compté (background), Laguiole (fg), Roquefort (bg), Reblochon.
(mandarine for scale, but might eat is as well)
PS: if you have questions about French cheeses feel free to ask them below, I'll try to answer throughout the day 🧀
Interesting to see more and more of this kind of services pop up, with Lightning present from Day 1. Of course it makes a lot of sense, and it would almost seem absurd today to launch something like that without Lighting support, but that wasn't the case just 1-2 years ago.
A side note. Taken from their website:
Customers pay you from their wallet directly to yours
I know it's just wording, but if the service takes a 1% cut, then it's clearly not directly from the customer's wallet to yours. It's instant, automatic withdrawal to your wallet at best.
There's a clear tension between services that offer instant automatic withdrawals to your own wallet and can charge their fee before performing the withdrawal ; and services like Zaprite that don't want to be in charge of your funds at any point, and thus can't take a fee on each transactions and hence have to rely on charging a monthly subscription. My guess is they don't address the same market, and the Zaprite model starts to make sense when you begin to see steady cahsflow in sats going through.
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Why call it Stealth Money then?
You can order a wallet device which you will receive in a few days and set up or add an old Bitcoin wallet if you have one.
I don't get who is the target. Something called Stealth Money certainly attracts people who are already deep in the space, rather than newcomers who need the simplicity of being able to buy everything from the same place.