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52 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 18h \ parent \ on: Trump announces tarrifs tomorrow. What happens? AskSN
There is no right/left, only nationalists and globalist, what passes for "center-right" is meaningless. If Tusk was completely irrelevant then the CIA wouldn't have needed to fund his installation.
tanks, railroads
Non-sequitur, the similarity is in that its a provocation and bait. Whether that's bait for tanks artillery boots or missiles or EW is irrelevant. Whatever the "deal" is in Ukraine and Europe's cope with it could make this a non-issue, but if the plan is to make that go sideways then this is another shoe available to drop. Poland isn't building up for no reason at all.
Yea seems like everyone is either clueless or lying.
Even the few somewhat respectable talking heads that should know better aren't talking about the currency implications of something like this either, that must be the quiet part which is verboten to speak of.
The worst and lowest signal people think nothing good can come of it, so the opposite is all but guaranteed
Possible outcomes:
- Overall tariffs actually get reduced as other countries face the consequences of reciprocity, velocity of money increases in lower tariff environment
- New tariffs get applied and this crushes foreign currencies reliant on dollar exports, US consumers barely notice as dollar purchasing power increases while the foreign countries get margin called
- The markets shit a kitten and forces Fed capitulation later in the week, giving the Treasury Sec nearly complete control
- This sets something even spicier with China into motion, an operationalized "black swan" event that leads to an even bigger globo-economic restructuring
Order emerges from chaos so I'd expect some combination of all of these.
I've got similar in 1440p/QHD and the eye comfort was a requirement, less blue light frying your eyes and brain.
Unfortunately seems its discontinued, not sure what the replacement model would be since it's gotten harder to shop with all the gamerslop
Tusk is literally a EU globalist and was installed with USAID money, his party replaced the nationalists
Anything resembling right wing is their military build up, that's only so that the Suwalki Gap can become the next Donetsk
The usual suspects won't allow any changes to the status quo without a fight
The military won't F around with this one, I don't think they want the optics of just taking it, but will live with it if need be.
China blockades Taiwan as our Navy is blockading Panama? Long popcorn.
This is another argument FOR cards in the eye of the seller, people trapped without cash would have used the excuse to a pastry or whatever. Retailer wins again.
Lightning routing fees are closer to 0.1%
That's not an "all-in" cost though, as long as businesses still have expenses in dollars accepting fiat for goods and services will remain be cheaper than Lightning PLUS exchange spreads.
As a spender I also get that percentage back and then some, and bear 0 risk. There's a massive cult around airline shitcoins too that will never give that up. I've personally paid the 3% up-charge at superette because who wants to go to an ATM all the time?
I do think there is room for it in remnant cash business, where arbitrary banking issues exist, weed stores were a good example Mallers hit on in the earliest days... gun stores faced censorship issues too... these are again areas of hostility not unlike the internet. Empirically there's been no market validation outside areas of hostility.
This sounds great, use Bitcoin as a hedge against debasement to lower the interest expense, until nobody buys them in size...
So are buyers lined already up for this? and btcpolicy is just the front org to introduce it in a way that looks organic?
Or is this some tip-of-the-spear move to shift the Overton window?
Or worse, a strawman set-up for the purposes of failing publicly?
Every episode with a damn cliffhanger...
There's even more to be made in routing.
In this case they never had Lightning in the first place, they're just done pretending.
Romania, France... Poland next?
These people that lecture on the virtue of democracy and label every rival a dictator are peeling back the curtain and showing you that it's always been a giant hoax.
Lightning.Pub has been my effort to provide a sturdy base for more commercial use and start nudging things in that direction.
L402, while I don't agree with the semantics, is also directionally correct in identifying the need to monetize API's. Lightning Labs in general seems to be getting more commercially focused with their roadmap, which is important.
I don't care for the semantics of Greenlight either, but there's signal in the Breeze-Greenlight solution being commercially focused.
Phoenix wallets Phoenixd spin out is more capitulation to commercial architecture.
I've dunked on mobile nodes and their toy use-cases for a long time, and now the capitulation to that insight across the ecosystem is becoming apparent. There's not much notice yet, but these pivots are an important step, because now the real building can begin now that folks have figured out what NOT to build.
geographical borders
Exactly this, this is an area where Bitcoin and Lightning should excel as the friction of cross-border is really high in the legacy system. It ties into the overall money of the internet use-case.
Not just friction either, some countries populations are geo-fenced from payments altogether, which has been part of our thesis with Lightning.Video. Enabling global content creators is an asymmetric move against big platforms with permission-based or advertiser dictated programs.
niche not worth dedicating more energy to?
Bingo, untold resources have already been wasted trying to force Bitcoin as a payments system in the meat space, that's not where its product market fit is because there's not a real problem there to be solved.
Even the Bitcoin Bar, Pubkey, still does most of its transactions with cash or CC. There are some usability issues with multiple bartenders using a single node (which the architecture Lightning.Pub and ShockWallet solve actually) but that doesn't change the fact that customers, even hardcore bitcoiners, have 0 reason to pay in Bitcoin except to virtue signal. Even I use my Discover card when I'm in town.
Paying attention to this wrong thing has left gaps in other areas though of course, its entirely our fault that micro-services and things susceptible to chargebacks on the internet are not using Bitcoin/Lightning. There's people catching on to the fact that Bitcoin should be the native currency of AI, but even simpler than that, things like VPS/VPN/Mail Relay and things like that in a hostile internet environment are prime candidates... its just that the tooling for this still sucks horribly as we've collectively built everything but what is needed.
Yea double wired sucks if anything takes down lines (or power in many cases) in the area... Starlink is great for that reason alone, and the back-up plan is only $10/mo which you still may be able to register for even if your area isn't eligible for full residential scale service
Perhaps a high gain 5G antenna you can put on the roof would make cellular at least serviceable for backup? If you can get a pole high enough for line of sight it could make a big difference... but that's probably going to cost just as much as Starlink equipment and cell towers are often impacted by power outages too.
Quite the opposite! You were ahead of the times, I wasn't.
Tether maximalism turned out to be 100% correct. Tether promoting US national security by monetizing its debt, while setting the stage for what the Commerce Secretary and Treasury are now doing, may go down as one of the most epic clandestine ops in history. Backdooring global Bitcoinization through dollar hegemony is such long-game shit it simply was not on the radar, my bad.
You're right again now too, I think.
Saylor's whole tip-of-the-spear bit couldn't be any more obvious if he held a conference at Fort Meade, and people simply aren't ready to let go of the underdog energy. Egos wrapped up in the Satoshi fantasy must continue to be nurtured as well so that things like S&P inclusion come in the context of "revolutionary potential" as you aptly put it, not just one spooks arbitrage on information asymmetry.
Virtue signaling is important work to keep both ordinary hipsters and America's enemies in the box until they have no choice but to dollarize (and thus bitcoinize). Given that, and since it would be trivial for him to do, it's a salient point you've raised.
God speed, Patriot. 🫡 🇺🇲