Happy new year Darth. Still as funny as ever

I have heard this over and over again. While i agree with it, i am kinda bored of it as well, but maybe someone else learnt something.

I am more interested in hearing about stories and avenues of bitcoin adoption, not for HODLing but for business level transaction settlement, global trade settlement, bypassing the banks, by-passing the SWIFT rail. That is the dynamics I am watching most keenly. Not even who is accepting lightning for ice-cream.

I mean Jack is smart and there is truth in what he is saying but my personal interest is different.

Being a TPA is a competitive business with cutthroat margin, and agencies themselves have very little pricing power. So 8% for the exact same seat is ridiculously high. It may be because they don't have the volume of Expedia and trying to make up by premium.

I mean if you take crypto out of the equation, I suspect no agent will survive by charging an 8% premium for the same seat. But may be travala finds some crypto lovers who will pay the 8% to not off ramp via an exchange.

I know some bitcoin maxis who absolutely have no asset other than bitcoin (maybe just like $100), so they have to spend their bitcoin. Probably Travala is for them.

Just checked, Singapore to London (one way) on Valentines day. Travala charges about 8% more than the British Airways site itself for the same flight.

I don't know if their algorithm differentiates based on customer profile, but I gave so many details so that you can try to check for yourself.

This is what they call as

Came for the numbers, stayed for the revolution.

Keep educating people.

Hours? Brute forcing to guess even a six digit pin (as in my bank) takes barely a few seconds by writing some code.

But, please tell me, which bank exposes the entire account balance via automated, kyc free and memory less api call containing only a pin?

I have a soft spot for it, as it is a Singaporean enterprise.

I booked a flight once using lightning, just to see how it works. And yes, it did work flawlessly as expected. No complaint from service or operational perspective.

But...the fare quoted was/is ridiculously high, compared to whatever the airlines quotes on its own site. I read that travala gives coins/points back, but only if you have some kind of (separately purchased) membership, so it does not work unless you are a very frequent traveller.

I do like businesses that accept sats, but not ready to pay a huge markup for the privilege of spending sats. Until there are many more competitors, I suspect merchants like travala will continue to exploit an unusual degree of pricing power.

Again, experience wise, it is flawless.

Strategy liquidation

Went through oshi's site. If that is how one has to spend the sats, that explains the obesity rate in America.

Wish he would (also) sell fruits and vegetables

Then who will pump my bag?

Learn linux tv was my favourite YouTube channel, although now a days i mostly read documentations.

You need some degree of hunger, patience and self discipline to go through. Also, having basic knowledge of computer systems (like a computer architecture 101 course), knowing what memory, processor, drives do and ability to read/write some code help.

I have heard a lot of good words about pop, but have not used it personally. But yeah, I would totally accept it if I was buying a system 76 box.

Mint, feren os, kde neon all pretty slick and nice too. None hurts. And it does not even matter much. Focus below the gui/visual layer to understand the system, and the terminal is the way to talk to the system.

If you know the terminal, you can also use headless instances via ssh from a cloud service provider.

It is not one operating system. Linux stands for just the kernel. Everything else on top of it are different flavours, and can be widely different.

If you are a noob, you can try sticking to debian/ubuntu umbrella (e.g. Mint) and go deep into learning bash. I tried arch for sometime but realised I don't have the patience to fight the system. As a developer, I have to write real codes that work and hence I am into Ubuntu based distros.

Don't get into the distro hopping or endless gui customisation, those are not productive. Learn GNU LibC, C. C++, Rust and that will make you feel like God with your Linux box.

And yes. If you are also into Bitcoin (since you are in SN), why not try to run your own knots node from the command line, connect sparrow wallet to your knots and use that to broadcast your transaction?

The original way to use Bitcoin.

Standard argument by keynesians. Why would anyone spend it?

Well, one would spend it when it is cheaper to spend it. When the seller values it more than fiat junk so thag he can get it. This is how thier's law works to substitute bad money with good

Merry Christmas dearth, let's not fight in this season 🤣

These media houses usually shill Chinese Yuan or some new BRICS shit. Many of these media platforms or reporters are funded by think tanks spreading specific narrative too. So while the core message may have a kernel of truth (even Americans are migrating from dollar...slowly but surely), it is pointless to expect objective analysis.