Deepest condolences @siggy47 glad you’re able to write about your friend to help process the lifelong friendship you had and the memories that remain with you.

sorry to hear about your mate

Nice one! Good timing too as just launched my own writing initiative > Fiction-imagining our future in Bitcoin from present day ideas, predictions and concepts. Check it out here: #1011647

Great idea! I’ve participated in the one @siggy47 set up and thought it was a good idea. I think getting people into the weekly rhythm of the writing competition will be key. The winning conditions should be transparent to keep people wanting to participate.

There is a book I’ve been recommended Taxtopia about “ a rogue accountant breaks ranks to share his journey from clueless naïf to skilled tax consultant -and in doing so blows the lid on the murky world of making the tax burdens of the ultra-wealthy disappear.

In the topsy-turvy world of tax avoidance, you can get richer by buying a yacht, the world's biggest exporter of coffee is Switzerland, and billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and the Duke of Westminster often pay less tax than you do.

If you suspect that tax is a rigged game, a con, designed to fleece the little guy, you are about to find out just how shockingly true that really is.” https://www.amazon.co.uk/TAXTOPIA-Discovered-Injustices-Secrets-Evasion-ebook/dp/B0B2VQSDXZ

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine. In 1834, it was sold as a cure for an upset stomach by an Ohio physician named John Cook. It wasn't popularized as a condiment until the late 19th century!

Playing super mario

Thanks @siggy47 for putting this out there. I've participated in both and had been searching to see if these were still on. I like to see it continue so hope these suggestions can be of some help:

If we have writing contests in this territory the questions could be focused on a particular book/article that relates to Bitcoin and other relevant topics. You could also try them in other territories and have the contest prompt relate to one of the top posts to expand on others ideas.

Another idea is that you announce the book/article to read at the start of the month (or whatever timeframe), crowdsource the most interesting question/topic/idea related to it, then run a writing contest on it.

I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now which reiterates those sentiments particularly our top-down (centralised and binary) views of the world.

Put simply, people create everything in their mind first, but if we can't evolve the abstract realities we truly desire that bring about happiness, virtue and reason, then we will suffer through the consequences of our collective faulty minds (and leadership) time and time again.

If you can believe it there are a long history of eclipse enthusiasts, who call themselves "umbraphiles." People travel around the world to witness the few minutes of solar eclipse totality.

Not much better than that!

Thank you! I hope more bitcoin love affairs are shared on SN

Energy Bills and Council Bills are similar in interest-free instalments so could be another avenue for you to explore while the bull rages on.

Oh really, that's quite early too! Does anyone know if there is map portraying the various institutional buy-ins and financial instruments into bitcoin? Would be a cool time-series visualisation.