If you live in #Spain, especially those living off grid or in remote areas, I can't recommend #masmovil highly enough. 50GB of data at €10/month IVA incluida and rock solid 4G, using the phone as a wifi hotspot, VPN on... Getting set up online with a work computer is now a non-issue. Only have to deal with one company that seems to be really on the ball, no infrastructure. I expect I sound like "Welcome to the 21st century" but it was no fun when we were dependent on local wifi providers with a monopoly and a couldn't care less attitude. And mainstream phone companies are still taking the piss with prices and tariffs, and not able to provide a reliable service out in the sticks. It's not unusual for friends to have their phone one end of the house and answer it having run outside to get coverage. And that's the lucky ones. I don't know if it still applies but when I first came to Spain there was a mandate that internet companies had to connect everyone who wanted it. From fibre optic running through a village of 80 people, to worst case satellite at 2000m up in a valley. I guess the next stage is a mesh setup, in case everything is captured?
I've seen some hashtags but #foggate ? We need to get out more, folks. image One theory is the govt social engineering people out the cities to less densely populated areas. Well, that is a big policy about turn right there, because the govt prefers everyone in one place, easier to " look after". For a real life example, Franco drove the rural population into the towns, and there they still stay. Rural depopulation is massive and is a global trend. The more in cities, the merrier. Maybe govts saw sense in encouraging humanity to once again live in harmony with nature and are trying to fog us out for a few days so that billions of urbanites with suffocating mortgages upsticks into the countryside to build neat little homesteads with a bridging loan. If so, I would run for the hills because the govt has lost its tiny mind. What a physically and financially ridiculous notion. But hey, those who want to relocate to the countryside and live the dream off grid , be prepared, because the fog that's been a regular natural phenomenon for aeons ain't great for power generation for modern conveniences :) This poster puts tongue firmly back in cheek and gets on with a chilly survival mode day.
When a professional is flexing or trying to railroad me into a decision and they tell me they have 20 years experience, therefore... my grandfather advised me to ask a simple question. Is that 1 x 20 or 20 x 1 year?
A €100 worth of gold and a €100 in cash. Which one will you spend first? When the cash is gone, will you spend the gold as if it were cash, or would you br a lot more thoughtful? Especially if you know it theoretically increases it's value in euros over time. That's how I'm trying to explain how digital gold, bitcoin, solves so much. It is so valuable, so hard to produce, you just aren't going to be a frivolous spender if you think in bitcoin. You will try to get your money's worth, buy smart, buy well, buy less crap. You should eventually spend less time working to buy what you need to maintain a viable, decent standard of living. That thinking would apply from individual to state level. I have had a bitcoin mindset my whole adult life. Nowadays with bitcoin a thing, I don't feel like a crazy person not chasing the buck for fulfillment. The fiat euro or dollar has never been able to, and by design cannot underpin what is necessary to be happy and fulfilled. They are just a control tool to keep us headlessly working or headlessly accumulating more and more to keep the system going. For what? For the people printing that money, giving false promises that they have your back. I'm not here on this planet to keep a fiat system functioning, any more than my cat is, or the trees in the forest or the fish in the sea. I'm just born on a certain rock at a time when the fiat experiment was in full swing and most people around me from the cradle onwards were hooked in and unquestioning. There was once a time when stuff on sale was made with love or an eye to longevity. Stuff was repairable, inheritable. And there wasn't much of it. There was no abundance of riches for most. You might have one precious thing. Despite advances, and supposed abundance, almost everything we do now and make is less efficient, less elegant, less useful than we know it could or should be. Stuff is thrown away unrepairable and short lived by design. What were treats are now part of the daily grind. As a countryside dweller, it is so clear to me that mankind tries to dominate nature for the same reason a bully picks on their victim - an attempt to cover for our own inadequacy. We can't replicate let alone improve on 1m2 of Amazon rainforest, so we cut it down and burn it and put a cow in it's place. Nothing against cows, but talk about dumbing down and de-riching a marvellous resource gifted by this planet. It seems there is nothing man made either digital or tangible that can match bitcoin for power and elegance. It is maths, which seems to explain much of the natural world, personified. It is more precious than we thought gold was, and with way more features on the spec sheet. And it's for everyone in that noone can change it without massive consensus. If you have a pot of digital gold or a pot of currency backed by a hard asset, you will spend it wisely. If you have a pot of currency backed by the goodwill of a person who can print some more at will, see it for what it is and stop banking on it bringing peace of mind and peace on earth. It does the opposite. Ramble over.
Which came first, the pound or the penny, the cent or the dollar? #asknostr Sats are the 21 quadrillion units of the protocol known as Bitcoin. Every 100 million sats are called a bitcoin which is represented on exchanges as 1 BTC. Maths says the max supply of bitcoins is 21 million. The protocol enforces that policy. Just thinking aloud after the TFTC podcast with John Carvalho.
Great interview with a person of integrity: a measured, challenging grown up in the Bitcoin space. Credit to Marty for dealing positively with some uncomfortable truth bombs.
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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast • #568: Building A Way Around Govt Digital ID with John Carvalho • Listen on Fountain
Marty sits down with John Carvalho to discuss his BIP on bitcoin units and an update on Pubky. Links: https://pubky.app/ https://pubky.org/ https:/...
14 years later the thesis of the 4 Horsemen still holds up, as does the badge image This documentary opened my eyes to the burgeoning shit show baked into post 2008. Stupidly I didn't pick up on bitcoin that was proposed as the future of money.
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Award-winning documentary film investigating how the global economy really functions. Instead, it proposes an alternative: a return to classical ec...