Yep, well spotted.

It's a miracle that I'm not broke given how bad I am with math.

I'm glad you've found gnucash and it's helping you see through your finances clearly, but I fail to see what's the issue with the speculative attack. Would love it if you could guide us through that.

If you can't afford another computer, I would say a hot, passphrase protected wallet in your laptop should provide a reasonable amount of safety for the size of your stack.

Framework laptops might be of your interest.

Does it have anything to do with Atlas Shrugged?

If we are going for biological metaphors, rather than a meta-organism, I would describe your observation as Tyson engaging in a symbiotic relationship with the environment.

There are many cases in nature of beings that survive only due to peculiar relationship with other beings in their environments. Odd relationships, many times mutually beneficial. Other times, the benefit only goes one way, but the free-loaders will typically aid the environment at large by containing the development of their victims.

Link to somewhere?

It made me not be scared of debt anymore.

Great attention to detail.

All stats were ran on Feb 20. With the current volatility, they get outdated fast.

The lack of accuracy in how they describe cashu is hurting my eyes.

@calle look how they federated your boy

Shorting is always there, with or without the tax advantaged account regulation you present.

The truth is that the fiat game is won by getting the best debt you can find at the largest amount your cashflow allows. Then buy assets with it.

Ecash custodians are better than regular custodians.

You are missing the point. No decent ecash developer in the bitcoin scene is stating that ecash is non-custodial.

I borrowed money from the bank.

That feels even filthier.

I saw this back in the day and thought: Ain't nobody got time for that.

After fighting for 10 hours with a broken Wireguard topology, only to realise that the issue was a shit rule in iptables, I've finally seen the light. Now I want to learn the shit out of iptables.

Thanks for planting this seed in my brain.

Cast iron pans and good quality knives.

Well, generally any piece of high quality kitchen ware that will outlast me.

I don't do hard proselytism. If a merchant has zero interest, I don't push even the slightest bit. I don't think it's productive at all. What I actually do is bringing up awful bank fees, excessive taxes, how important cash is for them to survive, etc. Kind of just paving the foundations on how banks and government are a terrible thing for their business. With that, I hope that one day I can slide in the bitcoin thing elegantly.

With merchants that do have an interest, I help them out with setting up wallets, organizing charge info, how to go back to fiat if needed, etc. The usual thing. I focus on providing very simple solutions at first, because if the first thing you bring on the table when they want to onboard is 20 hours of hard learning, it's just not going to happen.

I should also note this works with small and family businesses where you can chat directly with owners. Any business where you only interact with employees and/or the ownership is far away from the trenches are a no-no.

Both. I've been seduced by the whole carnivore topic. I have not gone full carnivore, but I am favoring meat more and more. You can catch me having steak for breakfast here and there. I've also been staying away from anything that's not fresh and normal food (normal as in, it's actual food, not industrial garbage). I would sum it up like this: I mostly eat stuff that both existed a 100 years ago and will go bad if you leave it on the counter for 2 weeks. There are some exceptions, but most of my diet fits that.

And I've been very consistent with exercise. I've noticed how exercise is a long-term thing: after the initial couch potato to I'm gonna do something phase, gains slow down. But they still happen. You simply need to show up regularly, even if you don't push yourself a lot. As counterintuitive as it is, the key for my success in exercise has been to take it easy (but always show up). I don't think there's been a single week in the past couple of years where I've done zero exercise.

As for motivation: I've been both very unhealthy and very healthy, and the difference is hard to describe with words. I'm not going back, not even if a truck runs me over. Being in good condition is addictive.

Oh let's wait a bit. I would rather discuss that when I'm in a position to make it happen. I don't want to torture myself with day dreaming.

Glad you are enjoying it.

I hate those never-borrow-under-any-circumstance posts. As you could read in my first episode, it's one of the reasons I decided to document this whole thing publicly.

I use LibreOffice Calc. You could also do the same with Excel.