I wanted to share my thoughts with @Bitcoin Beans and the rest of the world on my household's chocolate powder purchasing decisions. All dollar prices here are in USD. We pay $5.60/lb for 100% cocoa powder and have no idea about the heavy metal content. The brand that got good marks with their chocolate bars in terms of heavy metals is Ghirardelli, and their cocoa powder goes for $10.59/lb on sale ($14.12/lb for people who pay regular price). We don't actually know the heavy metal levels on this product, but we're making an educated guess that they use their own cocoa powder to make their chocolate bars. So that's what you're up against. Sell for under $5.60/lb and dominate the market. Price it over $14.12/lb and see if it sells. Personally, we ain't rich, and we consume far more cocoa than average. That's why we get the cheap stuff. But if you can do like 10 lbs shipped to the USA for 100K sats, I'll commit to it right now (as long as this year's heavy metal tests look good). What I'm saying here is that I'm willing to double my costs in order to directly support a small farmer who actually tests their crops. 🤙

Is it true that both the number of #lightning channels and the total amount of coins held in channels has been going down for years?

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It is so amazingly useful to spin up a fresh VM in under 10 seconds. It makes reproducing issues in a clean environment so much faster. And there's no question as to whether the issue is affected by a chroot, or dockerization, or running in a different kernel namespace which has different permissions. No, it's s real VM, running on a real CPU. And when I close the program (the terminal, bowser or what have you) everything gets automatically cleaned up. I ❤️ you, #QubesOS

@Whitepaper Books If you are open to suggestions on what to carry in your store, I'd like to submit this for consideration: "Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World" by David Friedman It's from 2008 and talks about encryption, surveillance, virtual reality, AI, ecash, and contracts in cyberspace (& more). I'm not through the entire thing yet, but it's been interesting so far, especially with the benefit of hindsight.