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2024-11-20 06:26:12

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It's a tradeoff of supply-audit-design that is essential.
Privacy, while being one of the most important aspects of individual sovereignty, doesn't solve the problem of inflation debasement and centralized control of money issuance.
As stated in the Monero page above, Bitcoin solves this by providing an immutable public ledger that is currently the most secure decentralized network.
We have proposals that are pushed such as Bolt 12 that tackle the anonymity problem. It is not a a clearcut failure as monero folks push it to be while ignoring the other aspect of this.

2024-11-19 06:37:51

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The problem we have is not privacy: after all, we have cash that fulfills the problem of privacy. What we need is to separate the state from the money issuance. This is a much bigger problem than not being able to buy drugs online. A MoE that is incorruptible by the state fulfills this premise.

2024-11-02 18:08:02

Just finished setting up #Bitaxe #Supra. I must say it's quite loud even at 50% fan. I really hoped it would be quiter.

2024-10-31 17:37:13

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Your coldcard is a signing device, it holds your private keys in an airgapped environment. If you pasted your seed phrase into bluewallet, it now has your keys and they are no longer airgapped as the Blue wallet app has now accessed them.
They both have the same receive and change addresses derived from the same seed phrase. You should make sure you are able to spend the coins from Bluewallet, after confirming that, you can reset your coldcard and create a new wallet with it. Use the recieve address from the newly generated wallet and send the coins from blue wallet to tgat address.
Once receievd, uou can copy the json of the new wallet and create watch only wallet with it in Bluewallet.
Be very careful when making sure you can spend he coins in Bluewallet.

2024-10-29 10:44:12

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Having to choose sides is a loss of freedom in itself. People should be be able to setup internal and external policies that are beneficial to them without having to deal with black and white allegiance that are pushed down the throats of everyone these days. Protectionism, interventionism and seclusion leads to tyranny. Too much government involvement is the core problem here.

2024-10-29 09:13:11

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It is choosing between two poisons. And they make it seem like it's such an easy choice.
Why can't we have a choice that is not tied to either pro-west or pro-russian outcomes? Why are there no politicians that declare such course?
It is imperative for small nation states to declare their independence from having to take a side in this. Forcing to take sides is prevalent lately, even Switzerland was pressered to choose a side and jeopardize its neutrality.
Best government is the one that governs least.

2024-10-28 14:32:56

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Kicking all Russian speakers out because of a fear that some of them might be working for Russian interest?
The main problem with this approach; anyone one can be working for Russian interest.
The biggest spy scandals involved subverted citizens of the opposing coalition.

2024-10-23 12:03:33

It seems absurd that some figures pushing SoV narrative for #bitcoin intentially leave out the fact that bitcoin was foremost a tech that cut out the intermediaries. In fact, by solving the Byzantine General's Problem, the need for centralized models is left behind; those still pushing these outdated models are malaign or just too stupid.

2024-10-11 10:45:37

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Dutch central banker is the biggest producer of this misrepresentation. I hope they singled him out.

2024-10-10 08:44:07

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Where's that Han dude?

2024-10-09 17:43:08

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Biggest thing now: bolt12,
is from blockstream too

2024-10-09 12:41:24

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I lived right in the centre of Amsterdam for two years, and I can confirm – you grow out of it. Especially with the English tourists pissing and puking all around.

2024-10-07 19:38:45

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Can I buy these with monero?

2024-10-04 11:19:06

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Peach Bitcoin or Robosats for non-KYC.

2024-10-01 20:10:07

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We can safely say the UX is not negatively affected.
Why the drastic difference? When we used to run through Orbit, it was substantial.

2024-10-01 20:00:09

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I have enabled the internal TOR and, to my surprise, it has no latency deterioration.
Excellent work.

2024-09-30 06:56:17

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What about DM inbox and outbox relays?

2024-09-30 05:37:47

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Does the recipient also need to have similar client?

2024-09-29 13:49:43

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The antithesis is that Bitcoin is still considered a risk-on asset class in the conceptual framework of TradFi world, snd this susceptible to risk on/off flows.

2024-09-29 10:54:04

Every step is a small fall.
Tread lightly.

2024-09-28 10:46:19

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It can't be in its true sense: used for adversary exclusion.
It was born to be weaponized.

2024-09-28 09:33:50

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It's more nuanced than a coin went up. I gave you the reason why DOGE went up and tried to explain why one can't draw analogies based on that.
FWIW, I own and use monero too, I just dont cheerlead for it at the expense of Bitcoin because Bitcoin's proposition is not just privacy – anyone with honest attitude can comprehend this simple truth.

2024-09-28 07:50:35

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DOGE is a shitcoin with dismissal intraday volume, if you understand market dynamics, it's easy to see that thin markets are more volatile. The fact that Elon cheerleader a shitcoin, which rallied on that hopuim, is not the same as outperforming all tradfi assets on significant volume. There can be no analogy between these.
Monero cheerleaders look desperate, there's escaping that unless the attitude of these people changes.

2024-09-28 07:20:55

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You can buy whatever you want, no shame in that. But you can't cheerlead an alt without looking desperate.
Bitcoin is not just about privacy, it's more about printer go brr. If you, the monero cheerleaders, can't grasp your heads around that, there's nothing to be discussed further.

2024-09-28 06:01:38

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Say that to the Monero folks who say increase in fiat terms is nor value. Annoying shitty comeback.

2024-09-27 20:40:43

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You mentioned Bitcoin increased in fiat shitcoin terms – I'm saying it's an increase in value, not only in fiat but in everything. Bitcoins buy more moneros today than yestrday. It's a shitty counter arguement used by Monero folks all the time.

2024-09-27 20:05:56

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Its not a fiat metric but basic idea that a medium of exchange appreciates in value, be it fiat, basket if groceries or an ounce of gold.
Bitcoin's primarily goal is to detach the state from the money issuance – as evidenced by the inscription in the genesis block. Privacy, while a very important aspect of it, was never the only thing that mattered.
Monero folks always leave this side of the coin unmentioned while eagerly accenting how bitcoin is shit and monero where it's at because it's more privacy focused.

2024-09-25 15:04:43

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Wh not chromium or brave?

2024-09-25 05:38:00

GM nostrmonde

2024-09-24 20:43:17

The #nostr relay thing is quite tricky if you move between clients and versions. They don't seem to persist at account level but rather each client has its own relay setup and the relay configuration of the account in prior client is neglected.
Different clients solely adding their own relay to the existing relay set is surely a UX inprovement.
#nostrplebs

2024-09-23 10:55:58

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You don't want to defund the state, you want the state to be an old relic buried in the depths of history.

2024-09-22 11:29:21

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I'm not sure about the assertion regarding paper ETF.
While it becomes increasingly hard to assess collateral value in traditional finance, with Bitcoin it's very easy as the verified information is public in the blockchain. There's a perpetual audit going every 10 minutes on average; that's the consensus.
Bad actors we've known a few. ETF mismanagement, if it is to occur, will be just another version of mismanaged funds (mtgox, terra, FTX etc).
Nothing new.

2024-09-22 10:22:33

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If government needs to raise taxes to wage a war, it'll be a much harder feat than just printing money.

2024-09-21 18:15:13

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I don't understand how is this not implemented yet.

2024-09-20 10:52:23

I wonder why a central banker would be responsible for the biggest #misinformation campaign against #Bitcoin?
https://www.blocktrainer.de/en/blog/why-misinformation-about-bitcoin-is-so-persistent

2024-09-16 11:25:20

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Even if the data server is run by yourself?

2024-09-16 11:02:06

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Why not just setup an XMPP server and use a FOSS client instead?

2024-09-11 07:35:41

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This too shall pass.

2024-09-09 07:34:46

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What is the verdict for GrapheneOS running on a Pixel?

2024-09-07 09:34:24

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Let's see if I get this correctly: if I'm running citrine + TOR relay for DMs, others should be running TOR, plus they should be using my relay to write to the relay and read from the relay?

2024-09-07 08:47:30

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Does that mean we shouldn't use for DM inbox?

2024-09-04 17:04:41

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Being actively agonist is the only thing will diminish the overreaching grasp of statists.
This is facilitated now with bitcoin.

2024-09-04 07:53:29

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After setting up, do all the previous DMs that were stored in different relays disappear if we only leave this relay for DMs? That's what I encountered.

2024-09-03 12:33:56

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I'm on this right now but can't seem to find filtering by nips, is there such a relay search?

2024-09-03 11:46:21

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Seems like I managed.
Thank you for pointing to the tight direction.
The preparatory steps were poorly described in the other posts about this.

2024-09-03 09:58:29

So I wasn't able to run #citrine relay while connecting through #TOR.
Can someone post a more detailed instructions on this?

2024-09-02 22:39:51

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I can see it has errors in the relays section. Should we see connections in the citrine home page?

2024-09-02 22:23:14

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How do I know of it's working?

2024-09-01 22:27:08

A neat trick.
#nevent1q…dhmm

2024-09-01 18:53:20

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You can use sandboxed Android Auto with GrapheneOS. Works just like running on a regular android.

2024-09-01 18:51:20

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It's not a cause for teouble if uou do a bit of searching. You have cross platform airdrop app which is open-source, here's the link to the within repostory: https://github.com/localsend/localsend

2024-09-01 10:39:30

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Yes, paid LN invoice and had problems with the receipt not working. It did go through now though. Must be connection issues to the mint. I'll change the mint.

2024-09-01 08:54:37

#Keychat default #mint is refusing connection and not paying out my #cashu tokens. The more I try new tokens and mints and what not, the more disenchanted I become.

2024-09-01 07:58:07

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Threema is open-source, you can also sign up anonymously, and it has perfect forward secrecy, which Session doesn't have.

2024-09-01 07:15:49

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What about threema? Session had some issues if I recall correctly.

2024-08-31 10:39:50

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Hello there stranger! Welcome!

2024-08-29 12:10:06

This is a perfect example of overreaching.
If you somehow - against all odds - stop being a nobody and start accumulating power&wealth, you will inevitably be undone by the statists. This evidence speaks for itself: he was fucked in his native Russia; he fled to the West. Now the West is fucking him. Even the Arabs can't help him.
This is the result you get when you stop being an extension of the agendas that work to keep the power structure unhinged.
#nevent1q…8xyn

2024-08-28 13:02:22

Ghosts by #Paris
#nostr #travel #photography https://image.nostr.build/680f8237308f495c5e90ea93ab8b464689f11e6e2cb3892f1958abdaa0989fbf.jpg

2024-08-27 10:18:16

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Why did you chose calyxes though?

2024-08-24 10:22:38

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I just downloaded a client and set up an nsec. What do you do thst you get onboarded? Welcome to the nostr space.

2024-08-16 19:59:54

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I use them with GPG keys, master is always offline, and in offline and secured environment you can create signkng keys that are linked the yubikey.
This approach, if implemented with bitcoin back up and signkng process, could be quite popular and imo not less secure than currwnt signing devices.
Maybe there's an imminent failure factor that I'm not aware of and the #techsavvy may shed some light on these limitations.

2024-08-16 18:59:20

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I alwayas wondered why is it less secure to use a yubikey for sugning than a HWW with a secure element that is closed source.

2024-08-16 13:06:00

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Badically we need the agora on #bitcoin juice

2024-08-05 17:39:54

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The XMR folks.., here they come. 1 2 3 here we go

2024-08-05 14:07:27

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The FED will have to kill some to get some. Maybe they will just raise the target inflation rate.

2024-08-05 12:26:41

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I dont know which country has ex post facto laws. Criminalizing actions that took place in the past, when they were fully legal at the time, seems a very farfetched and controversial thing. Though maybe in the US these things are normal; I couldnt care less.

2024-08-04 15:06:07

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A bummer for US citizens.

2024-08-04 14:41:14

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That's like your opinion or can you elaborate with something profound? Reads like FUD and XMR cheerleading.

2024-08-04 14:18:52

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If rules could stop bitcoin, it would be long dead.

2024-08-04 11:05:05

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AshkeNazis?

2024-08-04 10:31:33

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Not necessarily. I mean globalists.

2024-08-04 08:18:53

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That's what we get when we can't put a representative government in place. Glibalists have infiltrated the highest offices of the western world and we, the people, have made that possible through inaction and petty hedonism.

2024-08-03 12:11:03

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Its legal to buy, so there's really no incentive to spend additional time trying to find more private ways of aquaring it.
Thanks for the reply.

2024-08-03 11:52:57

If #Monero tx untraceability is based, it shouldn't matter whether you buy it from a #CEX OR #P2P.

2024-08-03 11:25:44

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What is happening is this: tick tock, another block. I do me, you do you. Thanks.

2024-08-02 18:11:01

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Similar long-run logic was used by Keynes to justify inflation back in the days “in the long run we are all dead.., controlled inflation is good for the economy/jobs etc”. We are doing what we can here and now and bitcoin is the best chance we have against the current world economic system that incentivizes the rich and punishes the poor. I use XMR and bitcoin for transacting but I would never keep a hefty amount of value on XMR, though I do appreciate it for what it is.

2024-08-02 13:00:19

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Bitcoin was meant to tackle the central banking cartel as evidenced by the inscription I'm the genesis block. Its more than just privacy.

2024-08-01 15:49:33

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There's no way weight-only classification system is just towards women as testosterone decides a lot in terms of aggression, stamina and drive. Just look at how Emane is beating up those poor girls even though the weight class is the same.

2024-07-28 11:22:02

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With more inflows Bitcoin liquidity will increase to the point where people won't need stable coins because Bitcoin will be the most stable of them all.

2024-07-23 06:41:50

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Why the sudden increase?

2024-07-21 11:21:23

Merging of two rivers in #Geneva #Switzerland
#World #Travel #Photography https://image.nostr.build/793c3714a4f3706606ac1db968fc2c7aa1d443d072870144762cb3878f940e7e.jpg

2024-07-21 09:08:22

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Try the android app, their new addition. Works perfectly fine here.

2024-07-21 09:06:59

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I'm using robosats and have encountered no issues in terms of user experience. Tor makes things a but slower but it adds best privacy. Ditching TOR is not a good option, they CSB however provide an alternative for those who wish to use NWS.

2024-07-20 15:20:38

#Quote of the day
https://image.nostr.build/c570a07463dcef90b7fe54994a4c1663512aa53fb4fbb8edd83e4978d4dc4065.jpg

2024-07-18 08:18:39

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Good people are empathic, hardworking and generous. Poems of heroes are not sung because they were egocentric lazy schmucks.

2024-07-17 19:53:30

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One can easily set up a decent node under 250 USD. Its not that much.

2024-07-17 13:23:19

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In dummsty, every point made falls back to the usual volatility tricks (liquidity and volatility are inverse in relationship).
Regarding the second assertion made regarding the analogy to gold and the distortions created by "fake derivative market", a refutation to this easily be demonstrated in the block chain. If you don't settle on-chain, you don't own the bitcoin. All the ETFs are supposed to be backed 100% by on-chain bitcoins.
The more liquidity enters into bitcoin, the more resilient it will become to the only slippery slope it has: volatility.
As they say, volatility is the price we pay.

2024-07-17 08:33:28

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Thanks for the post.
How exactly can BR influence the bitcoin network through their holdings apart from the usual volatility increase in case they decide to dump their holdings?

2024-07-15 11:55:49

Chop your wood, it'll warm you twice.
Mine your sats ⚡

2024-07-14 10:13:02

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How is this achieved? Who's doing the settlement and is it done on daily basis? How can we be sure that the provider is not just bucketing trades?

2024-07-05 07:50:14

https://image.nostr.build/e99ae11eb79c927bb17b808acdb2cddee0c65bf0f68d13f803aaa289be4111a1.jpg

2024-06-30 17:09:32

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I had the same thing with Revolut. A scammer called the bank and asked to reverse the translation where he paid me for Bitcoin sold through p2p exchange. He accused them of facilitating illicit activities (accusing me of something illicit). The bank reversed his payment without lettinge me know and later sent me an email saying they are terminating the ralationship with me without any further details.

2024-06-27 11:34:56

Hedging BTC's Purchasing Power
We assume that the price volatility of goods against Bitcoin is significant enough to create a certain demand in hedging this volatility risk. Suppose there is a requirement to provide a certain amount of funds for the purchase of an asset, and we only have funds in the form of bitcoins, and the recipient wants a certain amount in local currency. Furthermore, the transaction has an escrow account mechanism with a settlement period of 10 days against the executed ownership title.
We can easily set up an escrow account in a bitcoin transaction, but the problem is that the seller will price himself in local currency because he is required to do so by law in the jurisdiction where he resides. The current solution to this is to use stablecoins, which means going through an exchange process and adding additional layers of trust.
With new native bitcoin proposals that offer similar properties to stablecoins, it becomes increasingly important to build something that does not require trust in centralized mints.

2024-06-27 11:03:16

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Ok, so how’s the balance upheld? Someone takes the opposite position?

2024-06-26 20:11:39

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So basically hedge against fiat the amount of sats you took out for something? And it involves a bit of trust placed in the mint on the other hand?

2024-06-26 20:02:43

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What are benefits to this? What's the added value?

2024-06-18 17:56:05

Donate for privacy
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2024-06-17 17:23:51

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That's a normal evolution of a log curve and other side of the coin where the market becomes more liquid and volatility decreases.

2024-06-15 09:06:57

Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.
— Seneca

2024-06-11 16:07:35

This is very interesting. Thanks for the excellent work.
#note12p5…0rc4