Depend what you mean by easier. More free societies don't need parallel society. There is more demand for them in North Korea than in Netherlands… Juraj Oct 14, 2023, 2:56 PM
A nice blog about forced association vs free association. I perceive democracy as a form of forced association. People who don't want to cooperate and are at each others' throat (either literally in a form of primitive violence, or intellectually - cancel culture, network effect enforcement) are forced Juraj Oct 14, 2023, 10:10 AM
Hard one - what is a dollar? If you have a balance that you see in some app, how can you tell that what you have there is a dollar? And I don't mean in a trivial way ($ sign next to the number).… Juraj Oct 14, 2023, 8:24 AM
Wonderful people, is there a good explanation about how the eurodollar system works internally? What do banks have on books, etc. I hoped this talk would shed more light, but it's too high level. Wikipedia entry is helpful, but I still have many questions.… Juraj Oct 13, 2023, 12:51 PM
This is geek porn. This analyses Bitcoin chain data to estimate average price on any given day just from the BTC amounts sent on chain. The script assumes that people send round dollar amounts, so they put amounts into bins based on most commonly sent amounts and they try to… Juraj Oct 12, 2023, 3:11 PM
New OptionPlus podcast about one of the most important projects in Bitcoin space that almost no one knows about (yet). I interview @Philipp from @Get10101 about their Lightning wallet with integrated lightning-DLC based futures/"stablecoin". This project allows you to hold sats, but also a synthetic dollar- Juraj Oct 12, 2023, 2:33 PM
Trezor Safe 3 is out! It's like the Trezor One, it costs €10 more (€79 vs €69). Changes compared to One I noticed: it has a secure element (not even the Trezor T has one) it can do Shamir backup (for me a killer feature, why I primarily Juraj Oct 12, 2023, 12:05 PM
