wading in deeper in ALby hub
note to self to keep test amounts small because i'm still learning.
first test:
what happens when I delete Sub-wallet on ALby Hub:
it looks like it's marooned the funds (1000 sats) in the attached Alby Go instance (and i didn't save the connection secret as suggested).
so basically, if i offer someone to host their wallet, i can maroon their funds if I want to... no wonder my brother was like "nah thanks" when i offered to make him a self hosted wallet on my server.
speculation is always a thing & oh to be more like the Germans
"Undaunted Courage" Stephen Ambrose:
"Tobacco wore out land so fast there could never be enough, but tobacco never brought in enough money to allow planters to get ahead. Their speculation in land was done on credit and promises and warrants, not cash, so they were always land-rich and cash-poor. Small wonder Jefferson was obsessed with securing an empire for the United States.
"Tobacco culture represented an all-out assault on the environment for the sake of a crop that did no good and much harm to people's health as well as to the land, not to mention the political and moral effects of relying on slavery for a labor force. But to Virginia's planters, even to so inventive a man as Jefferson. there appeared to be no alternative. In fact, an alternative existed right under their noses.
"German immigrants, farming in the Shenandoah Valley, had a much different relationship with the land from that of the planters of English stock. The Germans had not received huge grants of land from the English king or the royal governor, they had bought their land, in relatively small holdings. Coming from a country with a tradition of keeping the farm in the same family for generations, even centuries, they were in it for the long haul, not for quick profit. They cleared their fields of all trees and stumps, plowed deep to arrest erosion, housed their cattle in great barns, used manure as fertilizer, and practiced a precise scheme of crop rotation. They worked with their own hands, and their help came from their sons and relatives. No overseer, indentured servant, or slave-men with little interest in the precious undertaking of making a family farm was allowed near their fields.(33)"
tobacco farming --> bitcoin mining?
self hosted custodial servers/miners --> small family farms
speculation --> tradfi cos
