Why does Amethyst connect me to like 500+ relays? Anyway to cut this down to a reasonable number? I filled in what I thought was appropriate in the relays settings and also added "proxy relays" thinking that would fix. But no such luck there - still connecting to crazy amounts of relays and everything works super slow all the time now. #asknostr

This is pretty cool:

Bitcoin Wallet Tutorials

GitHub

GitHub - vake21/bitcointutorials.org: Bitcointutorials.org is a community-driven library of video tutorials designed to help people learn how to use bitcoin tools effectively and securely.

Bitcointutorials.org is a community-driven library of video tutorials designed to help people learn how to use bitcoin tools effectively and secure...

The disease is chaos and the cure is control Freedom will ultimately be traded for safety - not temporarily, permanently. This is the logical outcome of policies already in motion. The writing is on the wall and ignoring will not make it disappear. We are being maneuvered into a state of constant crisis, constant outrage, and constant need for solutions. If you've read the book 1984 then you know full well that is part of the whole plan; to keep you always with an enemy in your sights, the wars always going, and with a crisis always happening we have to remember there is no government on earth that would ever let a good crisis go to waste, certainly, not in America. Our rage, it will be cultivated. Criminality will be tolerated. Tragedy will, as disgusting as it is will be used to pull us towards not freedom, or love, or righteousness, or peace, but rather more CONTROL. The surveillance state already entrenched and continuing to build out at rapid speed (Flock AI powered ALPRs, Stargate Texas and Stargate UAE, plus however many new datacenters under construction for other public-private big tech firms), it will serve as the architecture of all of this control. Civil war will not be the beginning, but the justification for martial law, but martial law will not be the end game - no, no, but rather the mechanism by which a new political and societal order comes into play. We are watching the careful engineering of dependence, total dependence and total control. The disease is chaos and the cure is control. If history is any guide, once the cure is administered, liberty is going to be very difficult to recover.

Great write up! Hits on all key points. "We already have a Wholesale CBDC system in place." I fully agree. Also, the GENIUS Act and licensing requirements in combo with the fact that the Act specifies that it is illegal for non-bank entities to pay interest/yield to holders of their Stablecoin is key. So as per usual the government crushes the free market and picks the winners. As we all know, JP Morgan Stablecoin will incoming pretty quickly. If you're going to transact in Stablecoins then who will people want to use - issuers like JP Morgan that pay interest/yield on holdings or issuers like Tether who can't legally pay interest (unless granted a banking license)? Even with other bank entities issuing stablecoins it won't matter because they'll have Palantir aggregate all the data to one centralized location and then the illustrious government will utilize Palantir's AI to issue the social credit score.