I hope day 1 I did a bet.

Nice post, the discussion on Hacker News was also interesting. I recently came back to Proton for emails only. In the past I had issues with Proton Drive and emails because we can't use our own software and sharing with the outside world was not really user-friendly. For Proton Drive I ended up using my own SSD shared in a Samba share in my local network or using Nextcloud. Have you tried the calendar in Nextcloud? I use it to sync across devices. There is Qloud which provides such services with a free tier up to 5GB of storage I think.

Thanks, I will give it a try

@k00b I am wondering, I just tried to zap him 21 sats (my default amount) for his post. He received 21 CCs according to the details. However I would have expected it to be deduced from my wallet, then converted it into CCs if he could not receive it because of fees. It could be nice to have a choice in the settings to decide which means of payment we want to prioritize. Each time I zap posts or comments I would expect it to be sats since it is peer to peer, or at least sats deduced from my wallet and converted to CCs if the peer did set up a wallet but the payment failed for whatever reason (fees, peer not online, etc). However each time I create a post or comment I would prefer to use CCs since it is website related.

The idea of the fiat channel is interesting. Is it a wallet we can use when we have poor Internet connection, like Phoenix, using trampoline method or should we assume it (syncing, etc) consumes a lot of data?

I was thinking again about your question, and I would like to add something else, although it is not a movie (sorry for being a bit off-topic). It is a very short episode of South Park, Margaritaville: https://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/9do3gw/south-park-margaritaville-season-13-ep-3

If you didn't watch it, I highly recommend it, it is extremely funny, good for a short meetup, and it is about the 2008 financial crisis.

Grape of Wrath. The story background is in the 30s, right after the Great Depression, based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name. People couldn't find jobs so they decide to go West, to California. Bitcoin-wise, I like the scene where the main character realize the dollar lost value and can't buy anything for the same coin. And the acting is good.

I think it is a good setup and good motivation as well! Where do you save blockchain data? Do you have an option to mount an external drive on Umbrel with the click of a button? In my case I use docker-compose (custom setup) and mount the external drive at boot as specified in /etc/fstab. If Umbrel doesn't provide an equivalent setting, you could ask for a feature request. The advantage of doing it externally is you could buy separately a NAS to save all that data (let us say it includes family photos), so that you can have an automatic backup in case of disk failure. If you do it for the whole disk on your computer you would probably save uneeded data (related to your OS).

I don't know how people set up their node, but I already switched 1-2 years ago to a 2TB disk, and the machine is the same. I just had to mount a different peripheral. In my case it is external but with a screwdriver it shouldn't take too much time to swap an old disk though. In my setup only configuration files are on the machine (with the OS). I wonder, in your setup you purposefully don't want to use a peripheral, or is it that you bought a node which doesn't have a tutorial to show you how to mount an external hard drive or SSD?

Throwing to the trash the possibility to get 10,0000 yens (in my case it was in Japan) into my bank account. Accepting it was highly immoral because it would make everyone poorer, yet everyone I know accepted it and felt temporarily richer.

Actually in my view in this particular case I don't see the financial system or government as responsible for this but the people. The fallacy came from everyone thinking money could be free. So if everyone had collectively decided to throw government money to the trash, even if the government had printed money, I wouldn't have bought Bitcoin. I bought it because I was the only one in my circle throwing "money" to the trash. For pretty much every other cases I can think of since 1973, I agree with you as well, the financial system is a total fallacy.

I see, thank you. I took a look at this website: https://cuex.com/en/usd-ars_pa And indeed it is striking to see the difference, like a different currency. I didn't know.

Very interesting post. In movies made 50-60 years ago, it is always striking to see the different relationship with money people had. E.g.: if you want your child back, give me a suitcase with 1 million dollars. Nowadays there would be probably a limit imposed by banks to withdraw cash. I think my first digital transaction was with Bitcoin. Until then I was just using cash thanks to its nice anonymity property (every year, I had every new credit card application rejected anyway). If the government didn't create so much laws to make it impossible to buy bitcoins for edge cases like me, I would still be buying it with KYC.

I selected I knew it when I discovered Bitcoin. Although when I discovered Bitcoin in 2013 it was just to make money by using imperfect information on markets. What really brought me to Bitcoin is in 2020, there was no way governments could incentivize people to stop working by giving them money. Work = Money. Hence if someone can get money without working, there is a fraud going on.

So what is your current setup? Do you have a platform (wallet/node) linked to Stacker News to send/receive sats? If not, what was your struggles related to?

And what is the name of the exchange rate you used for measurement to say ARS has strengthened against USD by 40%? The blue one?

Sorry for my meaningless comment. Do you mean there is still a black market? I have never been in Argentina, but thought it was gone after Milei. That being said, I don't speak Spanish, not sure how to interpret this chart. Does it mean ARS exchange rate decreased by 40.1% against USD?

At least with Milei the exchange rate looks more like a staircase to Heaven, whereas in the past it looked like a rocket launched to the sky.

I replied quantum but in a far future. The second for me could be government/tax since I never declared to the Tax office all the stupid messages I send to my wife with Lightning.

Interestingly Chinese people use 中本聪 because contrary to the Japanese language, Chinese people have to use Chinese characters to write, they don't have katakana to reflect foreign concepts. Starbucks for example becomes 星巴克, whereas in Japanese it is written in Alphabet or in katakana. So my interpretation for Chinese people using 聪, is that they have to appropriate the name of Satoshi by using Chinese characters and cannot just write サトシ.

In Japanese, a common way to write his name would be Satoshi Nakamoto サトシ・ナカモト since it is a foreign naming related to a foreign concept (Bitcoin). Actually the Japanese version of Wikipedia is rightly using this naming: https://ja.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B5%E3%83%88%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8A%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%88

Japanese medias which have used Nakamoto Satoshi 中本哲史 are just as clueless about Bitcoin as other mass medias.