Good to know, thank you for sharing this article. I guess the main conclusion is do like Nakamoto Satoshi to avoid having the same kind of justice applied for the printing press in the Middle Age. I am still happy to use cash and paper books as people don't apply the same logic for physical things. Sad for this developer.

Nice pyramid of kids haha

It depends on what tourist means (1w, 2w, 1m). Legally speaking a tourist can be considered 3 months depending on the country. In this case 3: Thailand, Japan, and another one I didn't go for almost 10 years (and incidentally where I was born) but I won't name it. If we decrease the tourist definition to 1m instead of 3, then many more!

In my case I am more a kind of lump sum guy, I buy when I can and wait good opportunities. Since it is a kind of lump sum it is not that hard, just have to wait. So when there are nice drawdowns I buy, when there are not I wait. In 2022 however I bought everytime I could more in a DCA fashion. Since 2024, when there is a drawdown I feel smart to buy so there is a good psychological effect.

Now I am more focused on saving money to go to Bitcoin conferences than buying Bitcoin though. Going to Nashville will require a lot of money!

Interesting. According to this page of the Ministry of Economy, there will be indeed a tax cut for small, medium and big companies: https://www.chusho.meti.go.jp/zaimu/zeisei/syotokukakudai.html

The document above says that the increase of the paychecks of employees will be used to deduce taxes. Up until 35% or 45% depending on the size of the company, taxes will be cut in proportion of the raise given to employees.

But where will the money go? Thanks to the coronavirus now I know it may go into Bitcoin, gold, but also into Dodgecoin, foreign cars... At least it acknowledges long term inflation since the plan is until Reiwa 9 (2027 in Western calendar)

As the new saying says, this is because of Putin. When I read this I almost feel ashamed to say that thanks to Bitcoin I never felt as wealthy as I am now, and the exchange rate has made my income increase significantly. Following inflation yesterday I saw rice sold with sugar in it in the supermarket and the box looked like half empty (shrinkflation). After 2011 there were gold coins sold for 100,000 JPY as a commemoration of the Earthquake in the Eastern part of the country. When I checked it's value yesterday it was now sold at 360,000 JPY...

Nice! Bookmarked.

Yes, thank you for bringing that up! I didn't know for the swap instance.

Taken from the Telegram group there is also these references: Official Community Website: https://www.diamondhands.community/jp

Diamond Hands Wiki（Summary of routing and Lightning information） https://dhwiki.notion.site/

Thank you for the link, I didn't find it!

Interesting, I didn't expect Vietnam second. I see why there was a Lightning conference there now.

Interesting. I looked for some statistics and found that my experience of trains always late matches the rush hours (and I was always taking the train during the rush hours). More than 1 time every 2 days statistically the train was late in 2018 in Tokyo, during the rush hours. Based on the numbers from: https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/330619?page=2 Based on the data here: https://www.mlit.go.jp/report/press/content/001328948.pdf I see a lot of suicides, which matches also my experience (I often read "passenger accident").

I guess you didn't take the train between 08:00 and 09:00. At 08:55 at Shinagawa with the sound of people walking at the same pace during the rush hour, the first time, I got dizzy and had to slow down.

But indeed after work I don't remember having heard the train was late. Maybe you worked at 10:00?

Yes, on time when the weather conditions are good. Or maybe my brain tend to focus on all the times when the train was late and forget when it wasn't.

Isn't it! Many small innovations which make your life better.

Indeed. It translates also into Bitcoin as well. I pay with cash and I don't expect to be able to pay with Bitcoin before 5-10 years in Japan. The advantage being it is unlikely that suddenly someone will mess up with the infrastructure which makes social interactions possible. So long term we can expect more stability. With my job I saw many times foreigners failing where Japanese people don't, just because in Japan we don't change the version of libraries like that and we have to test everything to make sure there are no regressions. The bad side is upgrading becomes rare. The good side is it is not failing unexpectedly and we are confident it should work.

I am not sure if the geographical aspect has anything to do with that though. For example Indonesia is composed of multiple islands and is quite different in this respect. For me the geography has more to do with the Everything-is-done-here kind of mindset. I was impressed to see that even small things like drivers for printers were done domestically. We see innovation which happens just here, and wouldn't take off outside of Japan (typically the toilets).

In the past when I went to a dentist in Tokyo, he told me I was lucky not to have to do what my father did. It is quite common to have the elder son take over what the father did. You can find in Japan old historical texts that you don't find anymore in China. So not even professional activities but also objects are also better transmitted in Japan, e.g. compared to China.

The contrarian view of your post could be: why not improve what can be done or perfect something instead of expanding and in the end just make crap?

I think countries like the US are quite liberal, whereas Japan is more conservative (not liberal like in CNBC English with Biden but like in common English in the sense of how people take risks). Related to risk taking I don't think there THE best answer, there are trade-offs in both cases.

I use the second one. Quite good. It even worked after I put it in the washing machine by mistake. The major con for this router is that each upgrade removes previously installed packages, which makes upgrades a hassle. In my case I need the ds-lite package for example, I always have to reinstall it after each upgrade.

Besides upgrade issues, it is a good router and lightweight.

"Coming soon" is spelled with 1 "m". On the website there are 2.

Your question reminds me when I was writing letters to my grand-mother. I got pocket money from her stollen by the postal system. I also bought a CD of music which got stollen once. So one answer to your question: reliability I guess, at least depending on the country.

It may have changed since then, but last time I looked at robosats the market to transact BTC to JPY or JPY to BTC was not quite there, same for other platforms like Bisq. Furthermore to pay on Internet in many cases it was a hassle without a credit card or without installing a non open-source app to do a bank transfer. So what remained as a choice was cash. And with Vexl you can use it to create your peer to peer network to transact with cash and sell or get bitcoins.

With Vexl also you can ask the identity of someone so you are pretty much free to choose any means of transaction. It could be BTC to gold, BTC to JPY in a cafe or meetup. Vexl favors these kind of physical ways to do exchanges like this and with Vexl this is at your discretion. With robosats I think this is more Internet focused.