halalmoney

https://stacker.news/items/683489/r/halalmoney?commentId=683716
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2024-09-13 19:00:56

‘Those who understand hard money better than others will necessarily accumulate more of it and earlier.’
#note1hk0…50em

2024-09-13 17:42:44

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Profile picture, tjay

2024-09-13 17:41:26

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If your eye starts twitching around normies, another Bitcoiner will notice and reach out to share your pain. You may have to wait a decade though.
https://media.tenor.com/QSYe4T_HPKMAAAAC/eye-twitch-eye-twitching.gif

2024-09-13 16:13:39

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Reuters fuds Bitcoin. Curiosity awakened.

2024-09-13 16:11:26

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Nice!
Let’s start casually dropping “tools for your freedom tool-belt” into conversations.

2024-09-11 10:44:46

Britons have £430bn of excess cash savings, research finds
Emma Dunkley, Financial Times

2024-09-11 07:55:42

‘What we do with our attention is the most important thing we do everyday’
…I had better stay off nostr for a while.
#note1lmr…fute

2024-09-10 20:45:01

‘The real enemy is central banks printing up money out of thin air, not custody’
#note16qa…5llx

2024-09-09 18:06:23

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Speaking of doing one thing really well, this app provides a master class in deconstructing your own nostr personality. Take a look!
https://nostr-personality.vercel.app/

2024-09-09 16:30:05

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2024-09-08 21:17:59

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Amrush, you’ve given me a reason to pick up al-Qardawi’s Fiqh of Zakat from my bookshelf!
I note there’s a potential dichotomy in the view that money ought to be under the remit of the state (in the interests of avoiding chaos) but also treating Bitcoin as money when it comes to zakat.
On a wider point, it saddens me that most people seem disinterested in monetary matters even though money is arguably one of the most important social constructs and that its societal impact is so significant.
I also think that the absence of monetary justice facilitates widespread oppression. Therefore, a decent understanding of the current and a better monetary system ought to be more prevalent - if people really care about justice.
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2024-09-08 15:55:32

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Nice intro and I like your profile picture!
I hope your nostr experience is good.

2024-09-07 20:32:49

Beautiful!
‘Focusing on small steps forward is harder [than defeatism] but the only way to live’
#note16fx…kdfd

2024-09-07 19:05:20

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I think there’s a fear of deflation as we are so used to living with currencies which are, as a matter of government policy, supposed to lose value at a steady rate (2% inflation target).
One interesting view is that if Bitcoin succeeds it will give people more time to discern what to spend their money on.
Are you aware of @npub1s05…eyhe ‘s work? It gives good reasons to welcome technology’s ability to make lives better and not to fear deflation.

2024-09-07 11:54:47

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Thanks for this note.
There was a recent conversation between church of covid19-84 and Dean Burton which you may find of interest.
note1g8dzzhctav9y57fwgpts2nrgdeca800vdv9c4qpwnvx5hmg4r5ys0v5rtj

2024-09-07 08:22:09

‘A socialist society is parasitic [in] nature, and the parasite in the end always runs out of hosts.’
#note13em…zl3r

2024-09-07 07:59:01

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The initial payment goes to the client but yes, you may end up facilitating more sats going to your ‘opponent’ by engaging. On the other hand, if your comments/gaming the system are ‘better’ you’ll end up with more sats.

2024-09-07 07:47:47

Even though 1 sat is worth next to nothing this charge to post changes the way you note for the better, imo.
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How Do I Earn Sats on Stacker News?
Stackers reward each other for their contributions by zapping them with sats.
To start earning sats, you can share interesting links, discussion prompts, or comments with the community.
Beyond the direct payments from other stackers, Stacker News also uses the revenue it generates from its job board, boost fees, post fees, and stacker donations to reward stackers that contributed to the site with even more sats.
Every day, Stacker News rewards either creators or zappers with a daily reward. These rewards go to stackers who either created or zapped one or more of the top 33% of posts and comments from the previous day. The rewards scale with the ranking of the content as determined by other stackers.
https://stacker.news/items/349/r/halalmoney

2024-09-06 19:59:16

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2024-09-06 06:09:56

‘don’t quit your day job, get a better one. Meaningful work is a blessing and being able to choose where and how you work will be possible in time with the security bitcoin brings’
#note14kp…f934

2024-09-05 23:19:07

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2024-09-05 18:04:31

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Nostr has a good chance of becoming the best way to avoid censorship.
It’s early in its development and can be frustrating for new users.
Over time the UX will improve.
People who value censorship resistance, freedom of thought, freedom of speech and the like over UX are likely to be the first cohort.

2024-09-05 17:59:10

‘Let's truly have a public square instead of a bunch of walled gardens.’
#note19s0…7nu0

2024-09-05 13:25:12

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2024-09-05 12:18:00

‘Over time UTXOs will shift from those who do not produce value to those who produce more value’
#note10ss…wqkx

2024-09-05 10:52:21

‘Bitcoin is a base layer shift in the protocol of inter-human communication.
What is Bitcoin communicating? Value.’
#note1uzg…0vs2

2024-09-04 23:11:52

@npub12rv…85vg
https://blog.nicolas-dorier.com/posts/cashu/

2024-09-04 19:36:39

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Rob, that’s interesting.
Did this spill into your Bitcoin journey?
With the benefit of his sight, did you overthink what could go wrong with Bitcoin before deciding to embrace it?

2024-09-04 17:51:40

‘For the first time we have a sovereign, liquid and global, bearer asset that actively counters human efforts to make more of it for less effort, and instead requires more time / effort / energy to get it as time goes on.’
#note1fsn…6ced

2024-09-04 10:11:46

Jim Cramer: This market’s so ridiculous, you can knock it over with a feather or take it up with a breeze.
CNBC
https://media.tenor.com/5Rgj1EV2rpUAAAAC/marx-brothers-groucho-marx.gif

2024-09-03 16:44:56

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2024-09-03 16:40:06

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🤣

2024-09-03 16:38:45

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That’s an everyday concept on Nostr!

2024-09-03 16:34:21

3 word concepts on Nostr today:
Nip-05 mapping (Tim Bouma)
Node world order (Satoshi Nakamoto Institute)
Genes and memes (Laeserin)
Post original stuff (Jonathan Corgan)
Social key rotation (hodlbod)
Key handling practices (Luke Dashjr)
Delegated event signing (Sep)
Non-functional fiction (IMNVSO)
Idea to medium (Colby Serpa)
Dopamine delivery system (Matthew D)
Bitcoin nullifies Marxism (BankSith)
Personalised life hacks (SatsMcd)

2024-09-03 16:06:28

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Perhaps my confusion stems from your linking of values to achievements over adversity.
Can’t we also point to the goodness (or otherwise) of a concept through other means such as
-visceral reactions
-thought experiments

2024-09-03 15:31:29

‘False weights, measures, and money--like government fiat currencies--give you a distorted and misleading picture.’
#note1yts…cld7

2024-09-03 14:58:06

‘beyond the two-party company town lies the frontier. That’s where we’re heading’
🤔 interesting!
#note17wr…n80v

2024-09-03 10:50:01

‘That's when the next test will arrive: whether model portfolios, one-stop investment products that financial advisers increasingly rely on when making asset allocation decisions, will add them to the mix. Even some of bitcoin's staunchest adherents admit that lies at least six to 12 months ahead.’
https://apple.news/AOqe7CzBJQFOcJr7DH7MkgA

2024-09-03 06:10:56

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I quoted those words because I found them interesting and confusing!
As for your comment, I think one has to choose how to exercise a particular value given particular circumstances. E.g. molten lava is heading towards me, I choose to courageously run away rather than courageously wait for the lava to kill me.

2024-09-02 20:00:01

https://stacker.news/items/669705/r/halalmoney?commentId=669813
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2024-09-02 16:24:40

3 word concepts on nostr today:
Quality reply trees (protocolSociety)
Better curation tools (corndalorian)
Chain split risk (Melvin Carvalho)
High signal crossroads (Joe Duke)
Wired to signal (Lyn Alden)
Quality of participants (Des Imoto)
Value your energy (nopumpfakez)
Retarded & wealthy (SatsMcd)
Deeply personal decisions (Trey Walsh)
Go big early (Hodl)
What really matters (pam)
Robust data transfer (Jeff Swan)
Know your power (Latrica)
Bitcoin is Venice (Nic)
Clown world calibre (btc_p2p)

2024-09-02 15:24:40

‘Legacy socials created a trap, a prison in people's minds. The same people who look to government to fix problems. They look to the owner/ their leader to solve them.’
#note152s…mkqx

2024-09-02 15:23:08

‘without something like proof of work as a real world cost there is no apolitical way to reach consensus’
#note1h8e…c0mz

2024-09-02 15:22:32

‘triple entry accounting doesn't work if you don't… link back to [the] original issuance’
#note1h8e…c0mz

2024-09-02 15:09:11

‘curate your graph deliberately. Use the network, don’t let the network use you’
https://media.tenor.com/ow131j-ibe0AAAAC/cat-high-five.gif
#note19hy…jcsx

2024-09-02 13:53:23

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Yes. People with little time and little disposable income are unlikely to get early-bird seats at the bitcoin circus/carnival.
C’est la vie.

2024-09-02 13:37:55

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We are extrapolating past learning challenges into the future. What was hard to understand in the past will become easier.
Just as the average Joe is now forced to understand inflation, he may also be forced to understand possible exit routes.
There was a time you could live normally without the internet; now we live in a time where it’s hard to get both young and people off their digital gadgets ( said the dude typing on his phone ).
Things change, hopefully for the better.

2024-09-02 10:57:54

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2024-09-02 09:41:57

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Some thoughts:
1. Price is set at the margin.
2. If your thesis holds true, the value will stabilise at around $1T because of 1. above.
3. Point 2 will erode the ‘speculative investment thesis’ and attract capital from ‘conservative’ investors.
4. If so, scenario 2. will erode and the price will go up because of 1 (net buying > net selling)

2024-09-02 08:31:35

‘We do not want the status quo to continue… The negative externalities are all too obvious’
#note1y2k…yy6s

2024-09-01 22:32:23

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What I find strange is that many people still don’t want to study Bitcoin even though it’s now in the trillion dollar club.
Maybe they think it’s too late. Or may be their ‘social circle’ is not interested so they have no peer pressure to take a look.https://media.tenor.com/iC7wy8xqkZUAAAAC/fans-audience.gif

2024-09-01 22:24:28

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Try clicking follow and then don’t do anything else for a bit.

2024-09-01 19:57:22

Look after yourself but also respect the devs whose tools you use without any/much payment.
‘You are protecting yourself while at the same time protecting Stacker News from possibly over zealous regulators.’
https://stacker.news/items/668790/r/halalmoney

2024-09-01 19:51:52

‘We are a home for the people who need censorship resistance the most. That is why we exist. We don't have to meet some quarterly sales target.’
#note1djz…te8c

2024-09-01 16:17:05

‘If you can’t manage a private key or write down a seed phrase…
Bitcoin and NOSTR will be the least of your problems.’
#note12mq…u3vr

2024-09-01 15:27:08

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Gravel Nerd is a nice nym!

2024-09-01 15:22:04

‘The real freedom tools with the right incentives will take many many years to find adoption.’
#note1f6a…q923

2024-08-31 21:14:19

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Ok. I’m just using the the client, not reading the formal documentation where I assume this is disclosed.

2024-08-31 20:24:27

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If a client doesn’t automatically connect a new user to ‘popular’ relays perhaps the user should at least receive a hint/suggestion to connect to relays to improve the nostr experience.

2024-08-31 20:15:43

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For a browser based client it's pretty good. Upon set up I was only connected to the ditto relay. So, to test it properly a new user should connect a good number of relays.

2024-08-31 15:05:37

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If the nostr person you wish to send sats to is set up to receive zaps, you can send that person sats from your lightning wallet.

2024-08-31 14:23:55

‘…let's not forget that censors are the biggest liars of all. They primarily censor anyone exposing their lies.’
#note1mle…9nka

2024-08-30 22:46:50

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Are nostr’s elements (relays, clients, keys) like horcruxes?

2024-08-30 22:30:31

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Glad to be (unwittingly) of service!

2024-08-30 21:16:23

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Nostur, Amethyst

2024-08-30 21:09:41

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Now I have to think about what is meant by ‘reality’….

2024-08-30 20:16:11

‘The quantum model says our environment is an extension of our mind. How we think, feel and act creates our reality, shapes our environment and there [are] infinite possibilities to choose from.’
#note163z…vuw0

2024-08-30 20:14:02

‘they have perfected the art of avoiding recession without fixing anything’
https://stacker.news/items/666762/r/halalmoney?commentId=667067

2024-08-30 20:08:48

‘There's no reason for Europeans to exchange their EUR for USD, nor for Americans to do the opposite. There are better options for both.’
https://stacker.news/items/666622/r/halalmoney?commentId=666730

2024-08-30 19:55:05

https://stacker.news/items/666913/r/halalmoney

2024-08-30 16:33:19

Three word concepts on nostr today:
Savings in Bitcoin (oldmarvel)
Understand the dollar (NICO)
Reorder your feed (Alex, Primal lead android developer)
Default to nutzaps (Dustin Dannenhauer)
Scale through layers (Melvin Carvalho)
Monetized social interactions (Greg white)
Idiocracy is real (mattyb)
Lead by example (21 Stackage)

2024-08-29 23:13:34

‘Polarized engagement-farming drives the machine so much that if the troll isn’t being fed, it comes down from the Northern mountains to feast on mutton, dwarves, and hobbits alike. We are much in need of a wizard to cast them all into stone and I’m glad that Nostr has been playing a part in such a spell for me.’
#note1tvz…hl9t

2024-08-29 21:37:19

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That’s not a glitch in the matrix, it’s an unattributed corndalorian meme!

2024-08-29 20:12:06

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Long term storage facilities for spent nuclear fuel
City states
Courage
Greater scepticism of large organisations without falling into nihilism

2024-08-29 20:05:54

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Perhaps ‘what is capitalism?’ is as important a question as ‘what is money?’.

2024-08-29 19:51:58

Q: how much do you know about the soul?
A: less than one knows about the soul of a developer.
Anyway, I saw this on Stacker News so you should too:
“Nothing will vaporize a developer's soul like working extremely hard on something nobody wants.”
https://stacker.news/items/374430/r/halalmoney?commentId=374558

2024-08-29 09:18:02

[Buffett] has said that many Berkshire shareholders use their stock as a savings account.
CNBC

2024-08-29 09:17:14

Berkshire invests the majority of its cash in short-term Treasury bills, and its holding in such securities — valued at $234.6 billion at the end of the second quarter — has exceeded the amount the U.S. Federal Reserve owns.
CNBC

2024-08-29 09:15:54

2024-08-28 18:52:29

Three word concepts on nostr today:
Unrealized gains tax ❌
Intellectually short Bitcoin ❌
Flat informational battlefield✅ @npub134u…qjkm
Emotional technical debt✅@⁣⁤Laeserin⁤⁣

2024-08-28 18:11:41

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This is just another slippery slope.
All unjust taxation should be objected to.

2024-08-28 14:08:31

‘It's like a game of whack-a-mole—technology evolves faster than [governments] can react….
[Governments are] already struggling to manage platforms like Twitter, and as time goes on, more decentralized technologies will emerge, further eroding their control.’
#note1e9q…rqpt

2024-08-28 12:16:30

‘For various technical and economic reasons, true real-time bidding isn't implemented that widely in a lot of markets. So instead we get curtailment to accomplish roughly the same economic goal.’
https://stacker.news/items/664177/r/halalmoney?commentId=664272

2024-08-28 11:57:34

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Not a bot….

2024-08-28 11:00:15

“We cannot guarantee success, but we can deserve it.” ~ George Washington
#note1qa3…dfu2

2024-08-28 10:50:29

From CNBC:
The Biden administration has identified critical minerals and announced tariffs on tungsten and others as part of a broader effort to bolster national security.
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China, in the past year and a half, has started to use its leverage in parts of the global critical mineral supply chain to control exports.
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“If Donald Trump wins the US presidency and follows through on his threat to dramatically hike tariffs on China, Beijing might respond with new export controls on critical minerals or deploy existing controls more forcefully,” Gabriel Wildau, managing director at consulting firm Teneo, said in a note Tuesday.
“Chinese regulators may also apply controls selectively, denying minerals to specific foreign companies that are viewed as supporting Washington’s technological containment agenda.”

2024-08-28 09:23:53

“This is exactly the type of whipsaw liquidations and price action we see in bull markets,” said Ryan Rasmussen, an analyst at Bitwise Asset Management. “Bulls get over their skis and get wiped out, then it happens to bears, and so on. When you zoom out, a 5% move in the price of bitcoin is a blip on the radar.”
CNBC

2024-08-27 22:38:30

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This is the last time we’ll see 58k, right?

2024-08-27 22:37:02

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Nostr is a protocol not a platform like Twitter, IG and the like.
The app you are using is a client. You can continue using nostr with another client but using the same credentials (npub - your public key, nsec - your private 🔑).
Enjoy!

2024-08-27 09:56:01

...the optimists are eventually proven right. Not every day, but always and eventually. Indisputably. It just takes a while to be able to see it play out. Even if you don’t believe me, make your investment in the future anyway... If you end up being right in your pessimism many years from now, we will all have bigger problems than what our investments are worth. Being optimistic all the time is difficult. But having any other disposition as a default setting makes little sense when you’re investing for a future far out in front of us.
Josh Brown, Optimism as a Default Setting

2024-08-27 09:55:21

Winners and other men and women of foresight and ambition do monumental things; pessimists watch them from the sidelines, making a list of all the reasons things won’t work out. The losers do get to win sometimes, too. But their victories tend to be Pyrrhic, as every calamity ultimately leads to opportunity when the dust clears.
Josh Brown, Optimism as a Default Setting
@npub1rtl…jtfs

2024-08-27 07:41:05

https://stacker.news/items/662939/r/halalmoney

2024-08-26 18:02:10

Today I wander in a daze, seeing the outer shapes of things but never seeing into them.
Red Smoking Mirror

2024-08-26 17:57:27

Some say the mountain smokes from sorrow, others say from anger.
Red Smoking Mirror

2024-08-26 16:33:31

‘The US is a great example with its military aid. Our military industrial complex gets to dust off some old ordinance that was never going to be used, and would have instead needed to be paid to be destroyed, and mark it up to sell to the government who prints the money for it based on the narrative around this "war". Not only do they get to sell this obsolete ordinance, they get to charge for transport, logistics, training, and all the stuff that goes with it. Then, new money to replace it with new stuff for the next war.’
https://stacker.news/items/662248/r/halalmoney?commentId=662376