Laeserin

Bitcoin hasn't actually moved down the list much. Surprising. I guess there was that spike to $120k between now and the last time I looked. Basically, nothing really changed, in the medium term.
https://0x0.oslim.dev/6e885074ae9f26b9819fac156174e7f8b57d066730c37368d3e812cac892a637.webp
https://8marketcap.com/

2026-07-07 10:06:51 UTC

Zuby! 🤩 One of the few people I miss from Twitter.
https://youtu.be/eO1u5SjC6Gk

2026-07-07 09:51:13 UTC

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I genuinely found this interesting because it's so different from the stuff I usually watch and they said some things I hadn't considered before.

2026-07-07 09:50:03 UTC

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There are different sources of deflation.

2026-07-07 09:48:01 UTC

Too long, didn't watch:
You are dangerously short Bitcoin.
https://youtu.be/Vf_86h8FiiQ

2026-07-06 20:54:50 UTC

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🇪🇸 +1

2026-07-06 20:53:39 UTC

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I'm too old for this shit. 😂

2026-07-06 20:45:10 UTC

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That's a relief. I try really hard to make complex things easy, with very mixed results.

2026-07-06 20:39:25 UTC

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I turned the different kind mappings into templates, and you can now add your own template, to publish whatever you want.
It's not idiot-proof, and you have to fiddle with it to install, but it's very powerful. 🤷‍♀

2026-07-06 19:17:35 UTC

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I'm working on like 5 different clients and 3 relays, 2 other servers, and a Big Data migration project. 😭 I can barely keep them straight, at this point.

2026-07-06 19:08:38 UTC

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These people need to learn.
https://www.derebus.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Francke-1-1536x1025.jpg

2026-07-06 19:04:11 UTC

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I can't keep up. Haven't had a chance to implement the gifs change, yet. 😂

2026-07-06 19:03:06 UTC

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Yes, let's go through and undo all cards after every game. It's only fair.

2026-07-06 19:01:33 UTC

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/06/trump-fifa-balogun-red-card-review-intervention

2026-07-06 18:57:53 UTC

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I manually curate longform articles from websockets onto my https-based website, so that they are available to a wider audience.

2026-07-06 18:56:20 UTC

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https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1017048371083620&id=100083353988428

2026-07-06 18:54:28 UTC

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https://media1.tenor.com/m/a0uoV6V62RQAAAAd/multipass.gif

2026-07-06 18:38:41 UTC

Mood. #fifa #trump #worldcup
https://laeserin.blossom.band/833af71b8696c59db7f747af9315e132e30fc99604fd1b1adbed9dbde4721106.jpg

2026-07-06 18:36:09 UTC

🇪🇸⚽

2026-07-06 17:13:31 UTC

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https://laeserin.blossom.band/b189135af3655662316d9dc8ec9e30024ba7eceff5fcf74e0d77e4b960647005.jpg

2026-07-06 16:56:04 UTC

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Love this.

2026-07-06 16:27:10 UTC

This article has been printed in my online magazine.
https://blog.imwald.eu/p/npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl/d/central-planning-in-charity
#naddr1qv…7g8g

2026-07-06 14:58:00 UTC

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It's just stocks. Gold and real estate are down.

2026-07-06 14:56:38 UTC

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Hey, they gonna tax money wherever they can find it and everyone else got no moneys. 😂
Pensioners practically nearly getting negative pensions at this rate, but their houses are next

2026-07-06 13:23:52 UTC

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Headed down.

2026-07-06 13:22:27 UTC

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Admire the hustle.
https://media1.tenor.com/m/FFurq2xQgeoAAAAC/taylor-swift-cheers.gif

2026-07-06 13:17:30 UTC

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Facebook and Amazon are notorious for buying up any promising competition and then closing them down.
That's why they killed Skype; to promote Teams.

2026-07-06 12:57:24 UTC

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He's always been a Wall Street guy.

2026-07-06 12:53:20 UTC

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I feel the same way about houses. The more energy-efficient the houses are, the bigger people build them, and the more the government subsidizes the building. But they most energy efficient housing is old and small because it didn't take that much energy to erect, doesn't take much to run, and it is continuing to be used

2026-07-06 12:43:22 UTC

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Think about the question some more.
It doesn't make sense to ask if Starlink or Tesla of ChatGPT would have happened, anyway. We have to ask if something more useful, inexpensive, or otherwise advantageous than them might have been invented, instead, if resources had been less concentrated and there had been less private central planning?
I generally assume there would have been.

2026-07-06 11:30:54 UTC

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I find it qurious that you first said it was a shitty concept because it is possible to trace back to the original person. Then I say it isn't possible to trace back, and now you say, Wow, that's a shitty concept! Can't even trace back to the original person. 😂🤦🏻‍♀️
What a waste of my time.

2026-07-06 11:28:36 UTC

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It's easy to build cool stuff, if you have more money than God. 😂
No one knows what cool stuff we don't have because the entire economy has been bled dry to feed Tesla and Starlink and Amazon and Facebook.

2026-07-06 10:05:19 UTC

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Someone could also just use your phone.
Same as having someone else buy beer for you.
This isn't a panacea.

2026-07-06 09:26:49 UTC

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No. The tokens can't be tracked back to a particular person. They use blinded signatures and unique nonces.

2026-07-06 09:15:02 UTC

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Yes, that is what it does.
Of course, this creates a problem for anyone without an offical ID. Like someone here illegally. They can't generate these tokens.

2026-07-06 09:12:54 UTC

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That is the specification from the EU. What some particular national app does is determined by whoever builds it, so each code repo would need to analyzed, separately.
The EU app is only a flimsy PoC.

2026-07-06 09:08:56 UTC

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We already all live in the same house. 😂🤷🏻‍♀️

2026-07-06 09:08:00 UTC

The wealth taxes people are suggesting wouldn't stop wealth inequality, even if they were efficient. They would barely slow it down. If you actually made them so high, as to be effective, you would risk tipping over into deflation and causing a sovereign wealth crisis. And there is nothing to stop the government from using the new tax income for more give-aways to the rich.
For instance, they could hit Elon with a 6% wealth tax. His wealth would still grow much faster than the economy. And they can then give his companies environmental subsidies, NASA projects with inflated prices, AI innovation grants, Department of Defense work, free land for data centers, etc. Or they could rent the data his apps collect, and use that to track everyone. That's one way how he got so rich, in the first place: carbon credits for Teslas.
**People are right to think that wealth inequality at these levels are a scourge on humanity and a gross injustice, and they are right to be angry about it. We should all be angry about it.** But they are wrong to think that they can solve the problem of wealth inequality with politics, as the government is what made these people so rich, and these people now effectively own the government. These measures can only offer a temporary reprieve and assuage the righteous anger for a bit, which is better than nothing, but they do not solve the underlying problem of the government being way too big and printing way too much money.
We have to fix the money, to fix the world.

2026-07-06 08:54:31 UTC

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Yeah, some countries will let you go to a local government office or post office, prove who you are, and then they send you a QR code or random string in the mail and you enter that into the app. Or something. If you already have digital ID setup on your phone, you can just use that for the wallet setup.

2026-07-06 08:51:42 UTC

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Yes. The digital ID knows specific things about you, that it collects at setup, and issues ZKP independently.

2026-07-06 08:39:10 UTC

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The biggest problem is a completely different one: Who verifies that an app supports the XRP system?
They have defined only Google Play and Apple AppStore as verifiers, so independent app stores and APKs are in legal limbo and are set to be cut off. Which is absolutely crazy and looks like more American techno-colonization.

2026-07-06 08:36:17 UTC

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The EU app specification for the national apps requires you to connect to the government system during setup (through the Internet, e-mail, or postal mail), to verify your ID. After that, it functions independently and issues the tokens anonymously. The apps are required to be open-source.
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet

2026-07-06 08:28:29 UTC

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To be fair, he was chronically ill before he started this crazy regime. He might have ended up with the same problem or worse, if he had done nothing.

2026-07-06 08:22:02 UTC

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They just issue tokens saying if you above the requested age limit. I think 16 and 21, or something.

2026-07-06 08:17:13 UTC

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ZKP is the only thing I could even imagine implementing. Anything else would require me to collect, analyze, and store personal data, which is a legal nightmare.

2026-07-06 08:14:18 UTC

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The article you shared isn't particular negative about zkp. You must be referring to some other article.
Also, it assumes that the zkp is coming from a company, not a state ID agency. It doesn't cover the use case for those of us who already have digital IDs, which is almost everyone, including most Americans. The new thing is the app issuing tokens, not the digitized identification.

2026-07-06 08:09:00 UTC

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Yes, the EU idea is that each national government has a digital ID wallet app you can download, and that generates cryptographic tokens saying you are a person over a particular age, residing in a particular country, etc.

2026-07-06 08:03:36 UTC

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> Globally, only 1.5% of adults have $1 million or more, but that represents 48.4% of global wealth, or $250.6 trillion, within the 56 countries surveyed, which as Mazeau says, is biased toward the wealthiest nations.
> Though the rate of growth in the number of millionaires continues to be striking, UBS shined a light on adults with wealth between $5 million and $100 million. There are now more than seven million people globally with wealth of that magnitude, with 4.1 million of those individuals in the U.S., UBS said. China ranks second with 516,000 individuals.
> The ranks of these multimillionaires has expanded globally since 2000 in every bracket tracked by UBS as their collective wealth soared at a compound annual growth rate of 8.7% in nominal dollars, or 6.1% adjusted for inflation. The mere millionaires saw their wealth grow at an annual rate of 4% adjusted for inflation since the start of the millennium, UBS said.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/soaring-financial-markets-millionaires-ubs-report-33cf3438

2026-07-06 07:30:23 UTC

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Nominal USD.
Some of their other figures are adjusted for inflation, but inflation was low in 2025, so it doesn't make much difference.
Here is the full report. Always an interesting read.
https://www.ubs.com/global/en/wealthmanagement/insights/global-wealth-report-clients.html

2026-07-06 06:07:35 UTC

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I saw this and was like, Damn, they're broke. Buy moar corn. 😂

2026-07-06 05:55:32 UTC

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Would you sell, tho? I'd just pay and keep the Bitcoin, regardless.

2026-07-06 05:49:16 UTC

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Yeah, the buckets.
They're trying to tax this stuff so heavily that it's collapsing the price and driving everyone underground, thereby destroying their potential tax revenue. 😂
Trust these people to always go full retard.

2026-07-06 05:45:53 UTC

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I broadcasted.

2026-07-06 05:44:31 UTC

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Phoenix. I have been using Phoenix for that long.

2026-07-06 05:43:58 UTC

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It's automatic _for me_, not for them. They actively manage a pool of channels for the users.
You just download the app and pay them for liquidity and they do the rest.

2026-07-06 05:40:16 UTC

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Been using it, daily, for years.

2026-07-06 05:37:40 UTC

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You get one dynamic channel from them and they manage it and splice it, and stuff. You pay them fees for the work.
It's never failed me. I've stopped zapping and etc. and just use it for everything. Just tip and pay people from there.

2026-07-06 05:35:05 UTC

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Not really. They do all of the work. Idiot proof.

2026-07-06 05:29:38 UTC

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I switched to Phoenix. Went batty managing my own channels.

2026-07-06 05:28:15 UTC

Changes to German Bitcoin taxes incoming.
#nevent1q…jcdz

2026-07-06 05:27:56 UTC

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Bitcoin and gold and fine art and Oldtimers and foreign currency, etc. are all classified as "tangible assets" and are tax-free after 1 year. You only pay taxes if you spend them before that date and make a profit. They're things bought to hodl, essentially, rather than to trade.
Silver used to be in the same class, but they wanted to tax it, so they moved it into the "industrial goods" class. Now, they want to move Bitcoin into the class where stocks are, so that they can apply withholding on trading transactions.
They say this is justified as it gets bought and sold, rapidly, rather than hodled, and is usually held in the form of ETFs and traded as paper.

2026-07-06 05:19:21 UTC

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They're going to do withholding taxes in Germany, soon. Germans buy enormous amounts of crypto and gold, so the price will have to sink, again, so that we can afford the taxes padded on top. 25% down from here, I think.

2026-07-06 05:17:31 UTC

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The Great Unwind.

2026-07-06 05:16:41 UTC

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We're their exit liquidity. 😂
Oh well. Fuck em. Crypto is on sale.

2026-07-06 05:15:15 UTC

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But crypto caving under the pressure is not a good look. Proves most people who had bought it were just trading.
They're selling and buying stocks. 😂

2026-07-06 05:13:52 UTC

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He wants us all using his USD stablecoin.

2026-07-06 05:12:44 UTC

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There are some Nostr plugins for it, too. #obsidian
https://git.imwald.eu/silberengel/scriptorium-obsidian