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I have mastered the art of picking relays for different functions in Amethyst. Those small buttons on every relay in the list are more useful than I thought.

damn the global feed is eerily chill if you disable all free relays...

I think Amethyst would benefit more from having tighter controls over which relays to post to, e.g. being able to post a single post to only a subset of your relays. Perhaps I ought to suggest this on the issue tracker. I would love for this functionality be accessible by holding the "Post" button in the creation UI.

Audio CDs may or may not be the best invention in the #music industry. You buy a slate of plastic and shine a laser on it whenever you wish to hear the tunes etched on it. Or you shine a laser on it once to copy the etched tunes onto a different storage medium, to keep them with you and prevent the disc from being worn-out. And nobody can take it away from you. Ever. #plebchain #tunestr

I've recently been thinking about claims on how #Bitcoin, according to Bitcoiners themselves, has the potential to stop wars by making it harder to finance wars with a finite currency supply that cannot be devalued by government-controlled inflation. There's only one problem with this. If a country that hasn't adopted the #BitcoinStandard starts a war with another country, then the attacking country can inflate its own fiat currency supply ad infinitum (with obvious consequences for that country's citizens, who can be considered main holders of that country's currency, as most likely that currency is mandated to be the only legal tender — rapid inflation will most likely lead to massive poverty since nobody's actually gonna raise wages to keep up with inflation) and potentially have an economic edge over a country with a stable currency, that might have trouble assembling enough capital and human forces to fight off the attack. This makes a country adopting a Bitcoin standard essentially fully subservient to the will of its own citizens, since in case of hostile policy people can just stop paying taxes (bitcoin doesn't go away if a single country collapses, assuming miners are spread out more-or-less uniformly — and it's rather hard to forcefully take possession of) or stop buying government bonds denominated in BTC, cutting off lending for the country. Which, in case of an attack by another country, could lead to the country's defenses being compromised — since you can't issue more currency, eventually you will run out of money to pay wages to cops and soldiers that could roughhouse people into giving up their money. This subservience of a government to their own people may be a good or a bad thing, depending on your political views and whether you are the government or one of the aforementioned people.