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More events that refute Graeber's argument:
1. The emergence, growth and usage of Bitcoin and circular economy initiatives built around Bitcoin - all of which have happened and are happening spontaneously.
2. The slow rate of adoption of Bitcoin in El Salvador despite being declared as legal tender.
Also, regression theorem is something I just discovered thanks to this podcast episode. Bob's explanation of it filled some gaps in understanding about Bitcoin's value I never realised I had despite having read Menger's origins of money.
Thanks for sharing!

2024-09-06 21:49:41 UTC

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Which exchange are you tracking this on?
Didn't it already fall to 0.04000 on Coinbase?

2024-09-05 14:31:01 UTC

Interesting story here 2 hours in about Milton Friedman changing his mind about Government’s role in money after reading more about Scottish free banking:
https://youtu.be/K8r5c2prWew
He argues in favour of Government control of money in his famous work ‘Capitalism and Freedom’.
Lawrence White says this is the paper Friedman wrote with Anna Schwartz after he changed his mind:
'Has Government Any Role in Money?' by Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz (PDF)
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6900301.pdf

2024-06-29 09:32:03 UTC

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2024-06-04 13:40:13 UTC

I cannot imagine living in any other country.
India is both brilliant and retarded at the same time.
Democratic republics for the win.

2024-05-25 11:10:06 UTC

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2024-05-25 09:03:09 UTC

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Set up an LN address on your profile so that people can zap you sats

2024-05-25 07:19:44 UTC

Two men sitting in armchairs, surrounded by trees and nature talk about the history of operating systems, the open source movement and the philosophy and principles behind them.
https://youtu.be/YwqmLi0MoYU?si=VvtghRPzIzRIgBEz

2024-05-25 03:37:48 UTC

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2024-05-25 03:33:16 UTC

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That's clutch

2024-05-24 20:35:12 UTC

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2024-05-24 18:06:16 UTC

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And above all, fuck Keynes:
'The story of Keynesian economics starts with his work on India. Between 1909 and 1913, he was the most important defender of British monetary imperialism in India. For this work he was awarded a position at the British Treasury during the First World War.'
https://mises.org/mises-wire/keynes-young-imperialist-1906-13
#nevent1q…lc27

2024-05-24 17:35:51 UTC

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Reposting this for all the colonial thots masquerading as stablecoin apologists who supposedly want to 'bank the unbanked'.
You and I are not on the same side. Fuck the US Dollar, fuck the stablecoins backed by it, fuck you.
Bitcoin only.
#nevent1q…sdty

2024-05-24 16:06:45 UTC

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2024-05-24 11:47:18 UTC

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Yes

2024-05-24 10:27:45 UTC

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Yes it is. I just looked for links to other apps but couldn't find any.
Do you not watch YouTube anymore?

2024-05-24 09:05:37 UTC

This is a ridiculously good podcast. If anyone here on Nostr wants to get an introduction to India and what we're about, I'd point you to this one.
https://www.youtube.com/@amitvarma
I recommend starting with this episode:
'The incredible insights of Bastiat and Hayek'
https://youtu.be/40PvmJLSedw?si=R5DdR8ctZaWUi8zv

2024-05-24 03:41:41 UTC

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2024-05-24 03:34:00 UTC

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2024-05-24 02:20:31 UTC

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2024-05-23 15:31:30 UTC

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2024-05-23 14:35:17 UTC

lt's been a while since I've watched a video with a clickbait title and a surprised expression on thumbnail.
It has turned into a counter-signal now. I actively try to avoid videos like that.

2024-05-23 14:00:31 UTC

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Your own relay on your phone
#nevent1q…8g83

2024-05-23 12:45:56 UTC

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What fiat money does by interfering in the money market in the form of benchmark rates, quantitative easing and tightening, foreign exchange reserve management is prevent the discovery of prices by the free market, an antithesis to the system that Friedman here describes.
#nevent1q…knlz
The problem of money is the biggest we will solve in the 21st century.

2024-05-23 09:38:26 UTC

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2024-05-23 05:42:32 UTC

https://m.primal.net/IKXi.jpg

2024-05-23 00:48:48 UTC

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2024-05-22 17:50:27 UTC

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2024-05-22 13:00:52 UTC

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2024-05-22 10:09:31 UTC

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2024-05-22 08:59:03 UTC

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2024-05-22 05:34:07 UTC

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It seems like since Primal doesn't have zap splits or forwards enabled, whatever is zapped to this note from primal will end up in my primal wallet
I just tried zapping this note on Primal and the tx history shows that I zapped myself

2024-05-22 05:32:12 UTC

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@npub1e0z…0txy seems like you don't have enough inbound liquidity on your LN wallet or your node isn't reachable from Alby or Phoenix
I tried zapping this note 👆 with splits on and it isn't going through

2024-05-22 05:23:03 UTC

The following is an unrolled Twitter thread written by @npub1e0z…0txy about Bitcoin covenants that I'm copy pasting here. It is a good explanation of what Covenants are and aren't, what they can do and what they can't.
(This deserves a lot of zaps so I've set the zap split as 100% to be forwarded to her.)
Here it is:
"
had a good chat today with @mattcsnow and he asked the question “how do you know that the bitcoin you get when covenants exist doesn’t have some weird restrictions on it” this is a good question; the answer is below 🧵👇
ok so the quick answer is that as long as you can independently choose the address that your bitcoin goes to you can have complete assurance that the coins you receive are in your full control. no funny business
bitcoin addresses dictates what kind of lock is put on that bitcoin. if you pick a single sig or multisig address, those coins will only be locked up by those keys. nothing else
the covenant things that people are talking about (in theory) limit what addresses bitcoin can be sent to this is useful for some uses but isnt something you will encounter in general or in “normal” bitcoin wallets
this is also why knowing how to hold your own keys and own your own bitcoin addresses is important. that address is your key to self control. if someone else is picking the address your coins go to, its not your money!! 💰
yes it really is that straightforward. covenants getting added to bitcoin is an optional thing that people will have to elect to send their money into, by using an address that has those specific restrictions built into it
you dont want to use it, fine don’t send your bitcoin to those contracts it’s something you can choose to participate in or not! and you’ll have to move your coins to opt into it
just like you have to move your coins to opt into taproot addresses. this is the beauty of softforks in bitcoin (as well as the utxo model!!) you hold your keys, you decide what restrictions your coins have
some people are really looking forward to locking their coins into more complicated vaults! some people like to put their coins into lightning contracts some people let others hold their keys for them even today🤷
so go forth and write the contracts that you like and make you feel happy and secure about your coins and hold them there!! no one can move or even touch your coins without you agreeing to send them to those contracts
this is why self soveiregnty on bitcoin is so cool: the protocol lets everyone decide how they independently want to guard their bitcoins. other people making different choices has no impact on you personally and i think that’s pretty cool!!
"

2024-05-22 03:40:09 UTC

https://m.primal.net/IJnQ.jpg

2024-05-22 01:24:14 UTC

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Just caught up with what they've been up to
Adding NWC and enabling self-custodial LN payments is huge for them
Hope they integrate themselves further into the Nostr ecosystem

2024-05-22 00:33:52 UTC

tal vez necesite aprender español por si acaso
https://image.nostr.build/d95c05c61cbcbda7f906c514773108255f6a90b3a45f3cec973cccb2a4d4f3fd.jpg

2024-05-21 23:11:01 UTC

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Coracle is an underrated Nostr client
#nevent1q…h6mu

2024-05-21 16:30:48 UTC

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2024-05-21 16:00:30 UTC

Klaus Schwab is stepping down.
I don't know if it was the case for others or if history will look at it that way, but Milei's speech at WEF was a big turning point in how I looked at politics and made me go down a fascinating rabbithole.
It helped me understand that Socialism and Liberalism are different things whose meanings have been twisted to mean the same thing.
Liberty is an idea whose time has come.
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/21/2024/klaus-schwab-says-hes-stepping-down-as-world-economic-forum-head

2024-05-21 14:58:44 UTC

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I think we need to move on from follow counts to something better
Google+ had circles
Facebook, Orkut and Myspace had friend lists
LinkedIn has connections
They all emphasized on displaying only relationships that were two-way. That is better and makes contact lists less of a popularity contest.

2024-05-21 14:46:33 UTC

Embrace the stereotypes
https://image.nostr.build/70b75edf4d7886908771b35f4cd83028fde1e85adc00a54e17840abd3abc3e86.jpg

2024-05-21 10:55:15 UTC

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2024-05-21 10:39:49 UTC

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Yep 👆

2024-05-21 07:50:53 UTC

https://youtu.be/8Kt2De98Bck?si=OMfwlTquEwAYplf2

2024-05-21 02:44:58 UTC

Behind every ruined software product there is a growth and marketing lead

2024-05-21 01:14:41 UTC

👑
https://video.nostr.build/64630dcef6012bf8d5a415f5f47cb03a6086b8211f5c183b5ba7acf3cf3e0749.mp4

2024-05-20 10:41:51 UTC

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter = Way to keep up with Bitcoin dev without having to open blue check swamp
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/17/

2024-05-20 10:25:37 UTC

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It's just a design choice by devs of respective clients. It's up to them to choose the event kinds their clients display. And we can pick and choose according to our preferences.

2024-05-20 10:20:49 UTC

1. Joins Nostr
2. Posts rage-baits
3. Doesn't get engagement
4. Realises one has to be nice and interact with people like a human being to build a contact list
5. Gets annoyed and leaves
6. Rage-posts about Nostr on Twitter
7. Gets engagement
8. Attainment of freedom averted

2024-05-20 10:08:38 UTC

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Even 'edit post' is an event kind which isn't supported by most clients. You might see the edits I've made to the typos in the first paragraph on Amethyst but not on Primal.

2024-05-20 10:05:36 UTC

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Everything action you do on Nostr, posting, liking, replying can be called as 'events'. Each event has a 'kind' number which describes what type of event it is.
What you're looking for is long form content (kind: 30023)
The following are some clients that support this event kind:
Yakihonne: https://yakihonne.com/
Habla: https://habla.news/
Highlighter: https://highlighter.com/
Not all twitter-like clients we use display this event kind on your profile by default.
Amethyst does support it on Android though. You can always share a link on your preferred twitter-like client after publishing on the long-form client. The post will still be nostr-native and people can directly zap it as well.

2024-05-20 01:22:24 UTC

https://m.primal.net/IIXP.png

2024-05-19 19:14:15 UTC

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We'll come back stronger next season ❤️ 🤍

2024-05-19 18:25:06 UTC

https://m.primal.net/IIRo.jpg

2024-05-19 05:09:52 UTC

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2024-05-19 04:46:55 UTC

'There are roughly about 300 million people who use UPI, however, India has close to a billion bank accounts.' https://image.nostr.build/f301fefbf6ee1fda3a06b7843293b89a915021c3b97ac1a54b56b51edbdd8d35.jpg

2024-05-18 08:25:13 UTC

'Knowing how to read, change and run code is modern freedom.'
- Niftynei

2024-05-18 05:43:11 UTC

https://youtu.be/NdNvoN6FXLw?si=wTGYElAWQzvXvFES

2024-05-18 05:20:28 UTC

https://youtu.be/eHX9sgBt1nE?si=Tzzn4bVbp4lMXgpv

2024-05-18 04:37:17 UTC

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2024-05-18 04:35:41 UTC

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Having it as an option that can be turned on and off would be great

2024-05-18 03:20:47 UTC

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2024-05-17 15:03:14 UTC

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2024-05-17 14:47:57 UTC

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2024-05-17 14:00:56 UTC

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2024-05-17 07:55:04 UTC

https://youtu.be/wArMaqpNvFE?si=Zx5TiOQNjk9UAPhC

2024-05-17 06:49:10 UTC

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And the first step towards that is to take the control of monetary policy out of the Government's hands

2024-05-17 06:32:10 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/8fae5e78e4039f9092c896f04d7b7b3e779649b043b2b04846d20f280f82eed9.jpg

2024-05-17 06:25:03 UTC

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I think Bisq too is as complex to use as Robosats

2024-05-17 06:11:39 UTC

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Milei getting elected, Twitter's corporate stance leaning libertarian, Bukele showing results with Bitcoin as legal tender are all seemingly insignificant and momentary but quite helpful events for those like me living in liberal democracies like India that want freer markets, trade and society.
About 900 million people are on the relatively open internet, atleast a little aware of what's going on in the world.
It becomes easier to make a case for libertarian ideals in such an environment.
#nevent1q…0k8j

2024-05-17 05:51:35 UTC

The common narrative of IMF spoiling countries doesn't apply to India. The country has gotten three loans from the fund so far. The first two didn't do much. We remained a socialist mess.
The third one however, was accompanied by economic liberalisation during 1991.
Tariffs were reduced, trade was liberalised, licencing requirements and other restrictions started to be progressively removed over the coming years. The country started down the path of free market capitalism, albeit only partially.
The country has improved quite a bit since then on all quantitative measures of economic and human development.

2024-05-17 03:58:56 UTC

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Oh boy

2024-05-17 03:01:13 UTC

I'm smirking at this, but maybe this bill is more of a statement than something concrete to be executed.
Lot of dominoes are falling.
'An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.'
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2024-05-17 02:04:26 UTC

https://m.primal.net/IHZi.jpg

2024-05-17 01:59:27 UTC

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There seem to be people within the organisation or those who get involved with them who don't agree with their decision to promote Ordinals and inscriptions at all. Yet they hold it all together somehow.

2024-05-16 18:41:54 UTC

The people behind Bitcoin magazine must be extremely talented at dealing with people
It's so difficult to bring together people of such diverse interests the way they do

2024-05-16 06:07:41 UTC

Nostr is slowly transitioning from the 'innovators' phase to the second phase.
Lightning is slowly transitioning from the 'early adopters phase' to the third phase.
Bitcoin is firmly in the early majority phase.
https://image.nostr.build/877c9203ae80d17cc46177ed7311194b10c32ad8bb674570b476cdf11bb72388.jpg

2024-05-16 01:07:07 UTC

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Can't wait!

2024-05-15 21:20:47 UTC

Pushing USD-backed Stablecoins is a new form of colonialism.
If you're promoting it, you and I are not on the same side. Go fuck yourself.
I live in India. It is in the Global South. So spare me your utilitarian nonsense.
Bitcoin only.

2024-05-15 19:38:39 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/191dbd08ce273092c6beb890796328990168177af84cf0f762524e4a846b3ce9.jpg

2024-05-15 06:51:53 UTC

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/china-facing-epic-deflationary-crash-it-can-no-longer-hide

2023-08-24 15:27:40 UTC

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Yeah I never knew about it till Evan replied to me on Twitter when I was complaining about Tor I think 😂

2023-08-24 11:47:41 UTC

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Ahh I think I shouldn't connect to many relays at a time
Doh!
#nevent1q…qyy6

2023-08-24 10:03:10 UTC

Been testing and trying out about a dozen Lightning wallets now.
Currently in the process of writing a detailed description/review of each of them for the blog section of bringin.xyz

2023-08-23 14:36:39 UTC

Some progress on minimising trust when using LN Addresses
https://twitter.com/hampus_s/status/1630219164265619456?t=-9nqvOJYXAxJO4W4J3pLUw&s=09

2023-08-21 18:06:45 UTC

I think there is a right way of doing PR, marketing, sales, growth, content, communication or whatever you want to call it.
It's like I know intuitively why something can and can't be done. But owing to my inexperience, I can't exactly articulate it adequately, which is frustrating.
I'll have to try.
The fiat internet has made a mess of what can be considered to be acceptable practices.
Things that nobody would ever do in real life are now acceptable online.
Growth hacks and aggressive shilling are taking precedence over building sustainable relationships with end users and customers. Users and customers have become numbers on an excel sheet that needs to keep going up no matter what.
Something doesn't *feel* right about excessive selling and aggressive marketing. This isn't necessarily a commentary on whether or not those practices work and deliver results.
I love small business owners and local restaurants here in Tirupur who make it a point to build a relationship with people who visit. I love visiting these places and buying from there.
As I am writing this, I can't think of a single internet company that has built a good product and marketed it by building real relationships with people. Considering that the kind of products internet companies build are less capital-intensive than a local retail shop, I can't really understand why this is the case. It feels very strange to think that expecting something like this is a very unrealistic proposition.
Something doesn't *feel* right is all I have right now.

2023-08-20 20:12:38 UTC

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(1) Zaps
(2) Receiving zaps to bolt12 offers rather than custodial ln addresses but that's up to LN implementation teams
(3) People
Not that patient about (2)
Willing to be patient for (3), even if it takes years. People will mostly come for zaps I feel like.

2023-08-19 19:32:37 UTC

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Wow

2023-08-18 15:17:15 UTC

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We need to get rid of follower counts I think and replace it with something better

2023-08-17 22:00:12 UTC

Value is a social construct that is emergent.
But what we use to store, measure and transact that value between each other cannot be a social construct.
It has to be something real.
Energy is real.
Cryptography is real.
Math is real.
Bitcoin is real.

2023-08-17 21:56:09 UTC

> Central Banks print money like there's no tomorrow. Money's value goes down because there's a lot more of it. Everything that's priced in that money goes up in value.
> They blame it on COVID, then on some geopolitical conflict. Heck, they're blaming the bloody weather now!
> They tell people it's all under control. Inflation is transitory. They have an economics degree from *insert ivy league name* so it's fine. They can predict the economic decisions of billions of people precisely.
> But wait, inflation is not going away *Shocked Pikachu face* They reverse course. That too, in a dramatic fashion! They start draining the money supply.
> Cost of credit, which was near zero (LOL) in some places, is suddenly exponentially higher. Because regulating the cost of credit is one of the mechanisms central banks use to regulate the money supply.
> What's this now! Suddenly, govts have a lot of interest payments due. Mounting debt to GDP numbers. Budgetary allocations take a hit. Corporate margins start taking a hit. People start losing jobs. Pricing mechanisms are broken. Welfare spending takes a hit.
> Govts are in trouble. Banks are in trouble. Corporations are in trouble. Regular people are in trouble. Society destabilises.
> Conflicts, protests, violence, anarchy.
> Nobody knows who to point fingers at. Nobody is taught in school what benchmark rates, repo rates, QE, QT mean.
> We can't even verify with accuracy what the money supply is. It's hidden behind some vague term called monetary aggregates. How are common folk supposed to understand what's going on?
> Who gets the blame? Elected politicians who probably don't know what the hell's going on. might Doesn't matter which party they belong to.
> Your favourite politician who you think has been doing a lot of good things takes the blame. Your favourite party starts losing its reputation. Doesn't matter who or which party it is.
> When money is broken, nothing can be fixed. When money is fixed, everything can be fixed.

2023-08-17 21:53:03 UTC

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_school_of_economics

2023-08-15 15:53:04 UTC

Oh my word
Zeus' recent alpha release is sick

2023-08-14 21:23:45 UTC

My attempt at getting access to Bolt12 offers so far:
>Have to set up a node as only CLN supports Bolt12 on the implementation level. Already have one running with Umbrel so that's okay.
>CLN interface on Umbrel is quite technical. Deposited and Withdrew sats. Sending and receiving on-chain is not that well-developed yet. Backup method is not suited for non-technical people at all.
>Similar story for RTL for CLN as well. It is quite technical and on-chain transfers are not that well-developed yet.
(When I say not that well-developed for on-chain, I mean that the wallet interface is very basic and there isn't much customisation with regards to fund management.)
Swept all my funds back to my default wallet for self-custody.
Going to look for other ways to get access to Bolt12 offers.