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2024-02-27 06:50:11

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Hang in there, regarding the debt! The good part is that it should eventually mostly just inflate away! As long as the rate is not too predatory.. (I hope it’s not)

2024-02-27 06:46:15

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2024-02-16 19:21:39

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They are just being naive when it comes to Russia. I guess it’s a natural human thing. People just before WW1 or two didn’t exactly think it’d unfold the way it did.
I mean, it’s not like I don’t understand the sentiment. I do. I think that wanting to get out of NATO, not getting involved in any wars not on their soil, and leaving Europe to its own devices, is a coherent position to have.
But then, don’t pretend it has anything to do with pacifism, freedom, or striving for a better world. Because it’ll be a world where the last islands of freedom are increasingly puppeteered by authoritarian regimes.

2024-02-16 16:11:31

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My children are older than your son.
Having been born in the Soviet Union, it so happens I understand Russian, although that is not my native language. Me knowing that language is a consequence of Russian occupation that my nation went through. I can also read Ukrainian, but to a lesser extent. I am saying this to explain that I can and do consume primary sources on what’s going on in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. Your assessment that Ukraine is ‘worse’ can only be a result of some type of propaganda that you have been exposed to. Because if you would have gathered information from primary sources for the past decade, you would know that this is simply not true.
I don’t ask for Americans to send troops to Ukraine. Not least because that would provoke a direct confrontation with NATO, which would pull my country directly into the conflict, and part of the frontline would be situated directly in it. The fact of the matter is though, that Ukrainians have nowhere to go. The beast has come to their house, the fight is on their soil. Where are they supposed to flee to?
All I’m saying is, while they are fighting, they should get everything needed to defend themselves. Because if they stop fighting, and Ukraine stops existing as it gets subsumed by the beast, that will just embolden it. And less than a decade from now, there will be an attack on a NATO country, and that’s when you’ll end up sending Americans to again die in faraway places. That’s the path we’re on of Russia doesn’t suffer a decisive defeat resulting in the collapse of Putin’s regime.

2024-02-16 13:54:42

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What the fuck do you even mean? I’m not talking about some rosy future where no Putin can wage war. I’m talking about here and now where a war is currently going on.
Yeah, I haven’t seen war, unlike all of my grandparents whose lives were ruined by it. I’d like to keep it that way, that’s the whole fucking point.

2024-02-16 13:06:53

I have been toying with the idea of buying some land to start a #homestead , or build a house, or something. But I’m having a lot of doubts lately.
I see how people fawn over Putin, not realizing fully what he is and what he actually represents. I see political in-fighting in America about amusingly minor issues in the grand scheme of things. I see a non-negligible part of Americans actively being against supporting the Ukrainian war effort that could stop Russia here and now. I see rest of the West finding their heating bills much more important than said support. I see truckers and farmers in Poland not seeing past their nose to what’s to come.
This area of freedom is precious and unprecedented. And it won’t last if we’re not in the mood to collectively pay for kit and munitions for people who are paying with their lives. And sure, if you’re on the other side of the pond, this might not touch you personally. I guess it’s fine to not care too much about other people’s freedom. But for me, all the #freedom that #bitcoin and #nostr provides will mean shit if my potential homestead gets bombed to phosphorus covered ashes in 4-8 years time.
So I guess I’ll just get some more of the orange coin and wait to see how things unfold. In case I happen to need to get property somewhere further away from that God damned metastasis of an empire.

2024-02-16 12:22:35

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Why am I not surprised.

2024-02-13 18:38:23

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So, basically joined Nostr because someone showed it to them, and only have it on that single app, but don't necessarily know how and why it works.

2024-02-13 18:35:40

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I think that's for people who might not have saved their nsec somewhere else.

2024-02-13 16:29:08

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That’s @npub1f5p…wt3z

2024-02-13 16:27:27

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I only see your notes from 7 days back. You can't really expect to have much traction in 7 days on Nostr. The community is not huge, there are no algorithms to surface you, everything is organic.
That being said, I think your account has a lot of potential! I'd suggest to not focus on Bitcoin as much. In my opinion the most interesting people here are the ones who don't talk only about Bitcoin or Nostr. Like @rev.hodl

2024-02-12 07:03:26

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Ignoring

2024-02-11 21:49:40

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Sort of. Except Russia is the empire. There are still many federation subjects with their own "titular" ethnicities. Bashkirs, Tatars, Karelians, and more. I think that's part of the problem that they can't figure out of they're running a nation state or an empire.
But yeah, Russia hasn't successfully run a democracy for a meaningful period of time. So they don't have the collective memory to fall back on how to run a democratic country. They then believe en-masse that it's not actually possible, and that it's a sham everywhere.
It really looked like there was a period after the Soviet Union where they really tried to run a "normal" country. Then that didn't work out, so they fell back to what they're used to - having a tsar. If you look at Russian history, that's a recurring pattern. They try to modernize and be like any other European country, then that doesn't work, then they become antagonistic to the West. Then they lag behind in development. Then someone figures to try and modernize and be "normal". Rinse and repeat. I hope they can somehow break out of that cycle eventually.

2024-02-11 21:34:48

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Well, yeah, but that's apparently not a realistic option.

2024-02-11 15:36:29

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Yeah, pretty much. We basically started the government, the military, the intelligence services from scratch right away. Whereas in Ukraine initially the same Soviet institutions persisted. Including the personnel.
But there are reasons for that. Our historical situation was markedly different. Latvia was a full fledged nation during the whole interwar period. One that was well developed industrially and socially. Think interwar Denmark or Finland. So from our perspective, and also according to internation law, we restarted that country, treating the Soviet Period as illegal occupation. As we didnt want a repeat of that situation we single mindedly took the geopolitical course "as far away from Russia as we can get".
For all the other ex-Soviet countries apart from the Baltics the situation was different in that for them the independence sort of 'happened'. E.g., they didnt spend late eighties trying to get out of it. So then the response was different too.

2024-02-10 19:20:51

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Yeah.. Somehow we really dislike the idea of Russia invading neighboring countries.

2024-02-10 19:03:36

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Here’s a rational argument against his position from someone living very near to Russia. You might even visit here if you choose to attend the next Nostr Unconference :)
What riles me up the most is his gripe about “NATO expanding and encroaching on Russian interests”. Here’s the thing. We worked very hard to get into NATO for more than a decade. Look up Vaira Vike Freiberga NATO speech. We wanted to get in because we never wanted the repeat of Russian occupation. We barely survived the last one as a nation.
He can’t wrap his mind around the idea that people might have a will of their own that they exercise through action.
From our point of view it was us who wanted out of the Soviet Union , we took action to achieve that (see Baltic Way, barricades). We wanted to get into EU and NATO. We took action and achieved that. It’s not Soviet Union breaking apart, and NATO expanding. We did it, even though nobody apart from us was very keen on either idea.
From this perspective, we understand Ukrainians. They wanted to rid themselves from corrupt pro-Moscow president who wanted to nix the EU association agreement. They took action, and achieved it.
To punish them, Russia annexed Crimea, and invaded the country. Then launched a full scale invasion 8 years later to destroy Ukrainians as people and as a nation.
He can’t stomach the fact that people can have a will that they express through action. He can’t stomach the fact that people would want the freedom to choose their own government.

2024-02-10 18:49:01

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You’re right, the Nazi collaboration is not a very meaningful fact in this context.
What are meaningful facts however are how Moscow was a backwater during most of the time he discussed, how Alexander Nevsky fought very hard to subjugate other parts of old Rus under Mongol rule, and how the realm governed from Moscow was called by many “Muscovy” well into the 18th century to discern it from the Western part of old Rus.
You could as easily interpret medieval Rus history in a way that shows how the country whose capital is Kiev is the direct descendant of Kievan Rus, and the country whose capital is Moscow has little to do with it, apart from being founded and run by people who betrayed old Rus.
You could also argue that Russians are not a real ethnicity, because the ancestors of modern day Russians are the Russified local tribes from around Moscow, as well as Mongols, Tatars, and everyone else at some point falling under Moscow’s dominion.
I wouldn’t interpret history that way myself though. Because it’d be as one sided as the bullshit Putin spouts.

2024-02-10 10:30:52

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Interpretation is everything though. Apart from that, he very conveniently forgets facts that don't fit his narrative. Such as Soviets collaborating with the Nazis on the attack on Poland.
It was a very weird pseudo-historical diatribe.

2024-02-10 07:07:23

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GM from the orhwr side of the globe! 😅

2024-02-09 16:14:21

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Sorry for being snarky. I hate the man vehemently. I live in a country that borders Russia and falls squarely within their imperialist ambitions. Were it not for us getting into NATO two decades ago, I might be in a trench right now. Or dead already. So that inevitably colors my attitude towards him.
I get your point, but how else to frame him really?
He is detached from reality, and he demonstrates it clearly in this interview too. If he wasn’t, he would’ve never started the full scale invasion. No rational actor would.

2024-02-09 12:54:25

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Which part did you like more, the part where he explains how Hitler was just compelled to start the war by attacking Poland, because Poland just wouldn't give Gdańsk away, or the part where he describes how Zelensky's father who was born in 1947 fought in WWII?
He's not a madman, but he is a KGB-man. Which means he has trained to lie and deceive professionally.
Anyone listening to what Putin has to say without keeping this in mind is doing themselves a huge disservice, and risks becoming a useful idiot.
Like Bush Jr. believing he was able to get a sense of Putin's soul.

2024-02-09 10:50:42

Interview summary in one picture. https://image.nostr.build/38e7a3eef4a4b3cb939c453e21750e87a130b64164659cb5981e53b585eb435a.jpg

2024-02-09 09:22:10

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You risk losing solid 20 IQ points by watching it, so be careful.

2024-02-09 09:05:21

So, was that the real Pootin or one of the doubles?

2024-02-07 13:05:26

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Haha!

2024-02-07 07:57:02

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How did you guess? Is my handle a dead giveaway? 😂🤣
🇱🇻 🎉 👋

2024-02-06 21:00:37

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Please be like @npub1a2c…w83a and post your bear content here!
Welcome!

2024-02-01 08:49:34

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You’re here now, aren’t you? :)
But yeah, there’s Lyn Alden, Jack Dorsey, and “Nostr celebs”. Though I do find interesting people to follow from time to time!
(I’m not one of them, I just lurk, comment sometimes, and repost stuff)

2024-01-30 20:48:27

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Thanks! Is there any back of the napkin calculation regarding how much space is optimal?

2024-01-30 13:42:13

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He’s just giving benefit of the doubt.

2024-01-30 09:53:22

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How do you keep the rabbits in the colony if they roam free like that? Don't they burrow out of it?

2024-01-28 07:28:58

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“We work jobs we hate, to buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like.”

2024-01-24 18:05:08

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He did. It’s just that you don’t need GitHub to use Git.

2024-01-12 12:15:59

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2024-01-11 07:55:06

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Do you understand Russian?
I do. Meaning, I'm able to gather information from a wide variety of sources. Western, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Russian opposition, Russian propagandists in English, Russian propagandists in Russian, as well as Russian ideologues, and just normal netizens.
Let's put it like this. Your view is at best incomplete.

2024-01-10 09:30:32

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I assumed that'd be the answer, yes. Well, not the part about the fonts.
I find it sad though. I'm actually looking forward the day when "Made in Russia" is a sign of quality. Not just within Russia, but outside of it too. Because that'd signal that a tectonic paradigm shift has happened within Russia, and the world in general has likely become a better place because of it.

2024-01-10 08:20:36

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Looking forward to the day when people who hate Bitcoin are on Nostr. That's how you know it has succeeded beyond all expectations. 😄

2024-01-10 08:15:50

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Any idea why that's the case? Where I live using the local language increases sales. To the point where manufacturers from neighboring countries sometimes even use a local-sounding brand just for our market.

2024-01-10 08:12:07

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I love Nostr to the bottom of my heart, but do you really think that dimwits who can't get a Yubikey would be any better when it comes tk handling nsec? 🫠😂😂

2024-01-08 18:58:53

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I do the same atm. I do believe it'll grow up to where you can have a kind of a wallet app for the keys, and delegate all signing to it.
I think Alby does something similar, but I haven't tried it!
Btw, the suggestion to tag stuff is a good one. Basically lands the note in more global streams for people who might not be following you to see!

2024-01-08 07:42:37

Pretty cool visualization of countries' debt levels.
#note18fn…z5l9

2024-01-08 07:40:07

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Btw, can't zap you!

2024-01-08 07:39:41

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I see this! How dead is dead?

2024-01-04 21:34:13

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If I read it correctly it's an AI generated image that passes the normal user verification routine used on subredits where ahem... mostly images are posted.

2024-01-04 21:28:39

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You have a posting quota? 😅

2024-01-03 10:45:33

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The power of inertia is formidable indeed.

2024-01-03 09:29:25

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Да, мобильный. Второе видео, которое ты потом опубликовал, показывает нормально!

2024-01-03 09:11:03

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Primal too. Why?

2024-01-02 07:43:27

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Sounds like you want to use a cargo workspace for your project!
https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch14-03-cargo-workspaces.html

2024-01-01 19:27:45

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Русские сервера только для российских ботов?

2024-01-01 19:24:30

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Looks like the zap approval requests are not going through for me at the moment too. I had this a few days ago as well, but I think they all rolled in a day later.
That made me try Primal though, and I must say the zapping functionality there works great. So I now switch between clients, and use Primal when I want to zap!

2024-01-01 10:17:24

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What the hell!
For real? Hope you're good..
And, well, Happy New year! 😅

2024-01-01 02:14:40

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Judging by the facial expression Mr E is losing though! 😬
Monopoly is a great game. In that it teaches very well how the system can be basically rigged against you!

2023-12-30 08:14:03

Who needs to be tagged to renew the #nostrverified domain? 😬
#asknostr

2023-12-30 00:29:19

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Oh man, lol 🤣
I'm sure that must be a thing though!
<Googles frantically>
Yup, it is 😄
https://m.primal.net/HVsa.jpg

2023-12-29 23:34:31

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Aaand they missed the 'Indian IPA'. But I guess they just didn't need it for the meme! 😄

2023-12-29 21:18:22

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Welcome!
I was afraid you’d be one of those people who might not hang around due to how Bitcoin centric this place tends to be. But your bio says it all, you’ll fit right in!

2023-12-29 15:38:43

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Yes, exactly! Rust lets you encode a lot more into your types than what you would normally be used to in other languages.
Regarding errors, if there’s semantic meaning attached to the negative ints in the API, you might want to have an Error type that captures that meaning on Rust side. Look into the thiserror crate that lets you easily spin up custom error types.

2023-12-29 15:10:01

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Not yew and wasm, but lots of Rust. Typically you deserialize directly into your type, and then maybe have an additional validation method on it if the shape is not enough.
In practice it’s not really that bad when it comes to types. You can set Serde to ignore unknown fields to deal with APIs that throw the jungle together with the monkey and the banana. But yes, if something that you need out of the API can be NULL, that should be an Option on Rust side.
But that’s a win. Right? Right? 😂😅

2023-12-28 21:02:28

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I think your best bet is to have an account with a centralized exchange, and then doing limit orders to get maker fees. That’s the cheap part. Getting it off the exchange is the expensive part with those amounts. I know that some exchanges support Lightning, and I think on some of them Lightning withdrawals are currently free.
Opening a channel to a self-custodial wallet can get expensive, but if you’re running a node it’s probably not that bad.

2023-12-28 14:06:28

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“it operates on the Nostr protocol”
Oh really? How does “it” avoid double-spend then, given that the Nostr protocol doesn’t have… you know… _a blockchain_.
Clowns.🤡

2023-12-24 21:07:55

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It probably will though. Because in normie-land Bitcoin is crypto.
I recently had a conversation on the orange tech site about Nostr. And the take-away was that many normies find the fact that as soon as they get on Nostr they’ll have Bitcoin shilled very off-putting. From their perspective it’s ‘crypto-adjacent’ and full of crypto scammers.
Now, I understand why that gets people aggravated. But it really shouldn’t, that’s just the way things are. That also means that in normie-land the price of Bitcoin rising makes people FOMO in. But a significant portion of those will be people who think that if Bitcoin could’ve 10000x, any other ‘coin’ potentially can. Because they don’t really realize that there’s actually a difference. So they’ll go for the cheapest Shitcoin with a pretty website they can find.
For a time this is bound to push up shitcoin prices too. Until the dump part of the scheme, that is. And then the cycle starts anew.
Keep calm and stack sats.

2023-12-23 11:29:44

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WoS still works. Just not everywhere.

2023-12-22 20:43:06

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Finally got around to setting up #zapplepay
Feels good man 😄

2023-12-22 13:08:42

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I love how people neglect the power of emergence although it’s literally the root of civilization as a whole.
If one pays attention it’s everywhere. A platform that lets people do their thing always eventually wins against a closed system, and a decentralized ‘platform’ always eventually wins against a closed platform.
It’s slower, but it harnesses the power of emergence. Which is the force of nature itself.
A garden can be made quicker than a natural forest, but the forest eventually subsumes all gardens. Decentralized money will eventually win. Nostr will eventually win. People will look back at today’s social media walled gardens as a curious trivia. Much like we see the closed computing networks of the eighties.

2023-12-13 13:32:12

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I really have issues when everything is framed as a geopolitical struggle. It completely robs people of their agency. I mean, if Russia invaded my country (again), I couldn’t care less about what kind of a geopolitical game the Americans are playing, as long as we get the aid that we need.
But yeah, agree completely with the general premise that a compromise is not in American interests. If the goal is for Putin to be finished (and I think it is), giving him some form of normalisation such that he can rebuild and restock for a renewed push 7 years down the line would be madness.

2023-12-13 12:59:57

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That would just embolden bloodthirsty autocrats the world over.
Besides, Putin’s signature means shit. The guy’s track record of abiding by international agreements that Russia is a party of leaves much to be desired. So a peace agreement with his government would mean shit and count for absolutely nothing.
Do I need to somehow indicate that I’m a foreign agent to keep you out of trouble?

2023-12-13 12:27:35

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Amazing how quickly a human mind adopts. I was reading this, and thinking, ‘Wait, Sleepy, why you GPT-ing bro?’
Kudos for not passing it as your own though!

2023-11-09 10:17:23

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Watching the green candles with glee

2023-11-06 08:43:25

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Hi! How’s stuff?

2023-09-18 19:38:19

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Wow, talk about serendipity! This is something I was thinking about just yesterday!
So what’s the reasoning why not having a secure element is a good thing?

2023-08-17 18:34:28

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That’s actually very well known. In countries that manipulate exchange rates only the (black) market has the actual rates. Case in point - the discrepancy between official and (black) market exchange rates of roubles in the Soviet Union.