Thank you

I usually have a pretty good memory for obscure pop stuff and I have absolutely no memory of this, before my time for sure. What was also before my time was Chuck Berry’s sweet little 16 which if memory serves was definitely a song sexualising 16 year old girls, and that goes back to the 50’s or whenever Chuck Berry was on top.

Yes you're right I remember those times living in Welly and the concept of property ownership and investment really spreading right up until I left in 2007, some of my friends were getting into it and it all sounded like Greek to me. I am 100% biased but I believe overall NZ has the best lamb, beef, seafood and produce in the world. Aussie beef is right behind, but one thing they do have is multiple supermarkets selling rump cap for roasting at home, which is a damn shame because it's a delicious cut and absolutely piss easy to make, hopefully this changes in NZ soon.

Definitely seems to be the case in NZ, and I am not sure about the US and can imagine it very much depends on the specific local market, however as a whole in Australia we are off the races, again, at least for the next few months.

I have a conspiracy theory that after the US Govt bailed out the banks in the GFC, the resultant increase to the US money supply meant other country’s currencies were suddenly very competitive with the dollar, possibly explaining the exchange rates at the time. This would’ve been painful for American importers, I can only imagine how expensive NZ lamb must have gotten for instance. Anyway at this point the US would have asked their closest allies and trading partners if they could also kindly send expand their money supplies too, in order to get exchange rates back to their historical norms. For allies such as NZ and Australia, the only feasible way of doing this was to lend, lend, lend, in doing so creating money/debt and increasing their total money supplies.

I may be completely wrong but comparing the USD/AUD chart with the mean Australian house price between 2010-2020 is interesting.

Genuinely funny 🤣

Wow how did you find all of these places? I paid for an excellent meal in Vienna last year using Lightning but it seemed to be one of the only places in the whole city accepting btc.

Are you able to expand at all? How do you know this?

Said queue here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AusFinance/comments/1o1vaqs/queue_for_gold_on_martin_place/

I work nearby and the line was even longer yesterday lunch time

Hmm, seems inflationary. What is the planet brain scheme at work here with these tariffs? What will the knock on effects of this be, excepting of course, more inflation?

That article about Custodia’s problems with their state Banking Association is very interesting, or perhaps depressing. It will be interesting to see what’s next!

It's 'baby's first bitcoin forum' and it sucks.

Very nice! I will look forward to adding this to my next gnome deployment

I don't know what I was expecting from that article that but this caught me off guard

Hilarious. Never change, Bangkok Post.

I see as of a few minutes ago that Hanke has tweeted about this.

Was this posted last week? If not please find here another opportunity to beat up on the Economist, one of my favourite things to do!

Thanks for sharing that, an old elementary school buddy is working for a UK university somewhere up north so that’s very interesting to read. I don’t know who Oxford Economics are but wow talk about money well spent. Just kidding. They are right about the apprentice thing, I believe it is much more formalised in Germany for example. I expect we will see an increase in trades, seems to have worked out well for a lot of Aussies who were never meant for the higher learning experience.

Thanks. Does it make sense to you now? It still does not make sense to me. How do you devalue ‘tokenised instruments’ that are denominated in the base currency?

Nice thanks, I wasn't crazy about the last album so wasn't really planning on giving this a listen but I have decided against it and added it to my regular rotation playlist. should have a good idea of my thoughts in about a month...

I have thought about this a fair bit but not come to any solid conclusions. I think the Bitcoin network/blockchain is the perfect tool for the job allowing people to use their public key as their identity, as it is with nostr. this is for online use only, i don't see any need to doxx oneself as part of this solution.

I could see a world where people develop their reputation online using their public key as their identity. if someone posts something the world will be able to ascertain if it was truly posted by the person with the reputation or someone else pretending to be that person. in a world where deep fakes are commoditized I could see that being a use case, the importance of the bitcoin network being the source of truth is of course that it is owned by no one and can be used and trusted by anyone, as opposed to a centralized system being the arbiter of who is who.

Of course this goes against those who want to keep the bitcoin network focused on transactions rather than secondary use cases, I won't dig into that as I am not informed enough on the topic to have an opinion.

Of course the big issue here is a key pair is a tricky thing for the majority of people to manage, and while Fostr exists I have to wonder how realistic an pseudonymous identity service not run by a govt is, people are so uninformed I can't help but that that by the time a solution was robust enough for mass use and at the same time people understood their need for it, the govts of the world will have this shit even more locked down than they already do.

@freetx I have never heard of ION and very surprised to see such a thing under the MS banner, thanks for bringing it up!

and of course thanks OP for bringing up spaces, i will look at that too. For anyone else curious: https://docs.spacesprotocol.org/