Last Notes
African challenge of US dollar’s dominance bears first fruits
African nations are incrementally abandoning the greenback for the yuan and local currencies, the Economist reports.
🟠 Zambia now accepts mining royalties in yuan and has mandated local currency for domestic transactions (offenders face fines or prison)
🟠 Egypt, Nigeria & South Africa signed new yuan swaps; Kenya converted dollar loans to yuan, saving ~$215M annually in interest
🟠 Standard Bank — Africa’s largest lender by assets — cleared first transactions via China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System; yuan cross-border transactions in Africa rose 4x from 2020–2024
🟠 The Pan-African Payment System (PAPSS) now connects 160+ banks to settle intra-African trade in local currencies, potentially saving $5B/year.
The transition is not painless: companies must rewrite dollar contracts, exporters face conversion fees, and some industries lack the dollars needed for imports.
Despite that and the fact the dollar still rules 70% of external debt, with the Zambian kwacha up 15% this year, Africa is betting on a multipolar currency future.
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You're probably right, but it's a human process and it's how we discover the new equilibrium.
My app strategy in the AI age is just to fit more content into an app. So much that it becomes a sort of moat of its own.
To clone my app, you’ll need to spend hundreds of hours running agents around the clock and then debugging and fixing things that don’t work.
I think it’s somewhat of a moat. Win by overwhelming the copycat.
FACT n STATEMENT - NOT an OPINION
What does that mean? Did they claim to have fixed the Mnav problem?
I still believe "apple is very secure", at least to external attacks and for how secure a OS can actually be
So I see it as randomAndroid<Apple<GrapheneOS
Block 961394
1 - high priority
1 - medium priority
1 - low priority
1 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@nprofile…azht oooof wrong host, tell us abot that entropy
New Farbound experience idea: peek into another world
#Wordle 1,875 3/6*
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After a few months of not posting anything, it started again.
THIS "IS" HUGE far away from normalcy before 28FEB2026 War
(nobody barely in any media will tell u much due to media blackouts)
The UAE's gold refining operations have been significantly impacted by the ongoing Iran war, with disruptions causing delays and logistical challenges in the gold market. Some refiners are struggling to source doré, leading to potential shortages and price volatility in the market.
Also RAW Supply from Africa so called "blood gold" near ZERO now
As Africa nations 1. opens local refinery and 2. slowly getting upper hand over terrorist insurgency sponsored by western powers.
@nprofile…azht describe entropy
@nprofile…azht are there you dumb fuck? Tell us what do you think about entropy
Finally published a kind 30023 event. (Let's make BIP-110 happen.)
#naddr1qv…cm86
These recomps of old games are getting out of hand. This OG Pokemon port has become a full on HD-2D remaster with all the mods. There's even 1st & 3rd person view options in the overworld.
Then:
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Now:
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Builds for PC mobile & Switch
https://github.com/bryanthaboi/gen1recomp
You'll need these ROMs
https://archive.org/download/game-boy-collection/Pokemon%20Red%20Version.zip
https://archive.org/download/game-boy-collection/Pokemon%20Blue%20Version.zip
https://archive.org/download/game-boy-collection/Pokemon%20Yellow%20Version%20-%20Special%20Pikachu%20Edition.zip
#retrogaming #gamestr
PV kenshin.. that block will come.
typo - g7 bonds "NOT acting" as safe heaven
Arabs had maybe finally realizing that rotating oil profits into dollar for protection from 🇺🇸mafia was NOT so great idea to keep continue.
even if no formal declaration is made publicly about end of petrodollar this month
Yes..
Our mind is a database.
I was gonna say Nostr signer but nah, Tamagotchi
GM
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Been chatting on Nostr all day today. In and out of many great live streams @nprofile…k4fj @nprofile…a4k8 @nprofile…scn5 @nprofile…h25z all doing awesome shows today. Lots going on!
Thicc as fuck yo. Have a talk with @nprofile…azht about entropy
yes but what do you have to say
#nevent1q…3sa0
And they think that character is Ron Swanson.
similarities are astounding expect US DEBT $1T < and now $40T
if Kevin Warsh even remotely try to become Paul Volcker that will do REGIME in WASHINGTON not what CIA wants for now.
at 5% interest payment >$1T
REPAYING INTEREST (DOLLAR KILLER) > HIGHER MILITARY WARFARE FORCE BUDGET (DOLLAR GUARDIAN)
In cryptography the best way to check if you are sufficiently skilled yet, is if you feel like you know a lot but also nothing at the same time
If you want to play both chains, you’ll need to use a UTXO that is an descendant of a new block’s coinbase
You're right; no idea why it didn't work for me for a bit. 🤷♂️
Post downed; the work continues. 🤙
And what then? They replayed your TXs on BIP110, congrats, nothing changes on the main chain for you
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GOLD at $4300/oz again (ath was 5600 in Fed before war)
1975s is back 2025s again? High Interest , Arab oil Crisis, Iran Revolution
👉 Rate hikes are no longer bad for gold. BOJ FED keep trying again again.
In the later half of the 1970’s bull market both gold and interest rates went up.
The gold to US10Y spread broke out of a descending wedge recently = gold outperforming interest rates.
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This is huge since G7 bonds are acting safe heaven for sovereigns / institutions
(nothing to do with retail physical gold market - it not drive price
~30% of physical gold market getting relocated slowly as Dubai hub is still offline unless us troops withdraw fully africa processing gold locally coming acting small relief)
Tempting!
What should I build with this?
https://i.nostr.build/KCs1J1u4joItkoqd.webp
> Clearly you are doing this. When you request a feature in GrapheneOS, then you request the Graphene team to work on this solution.
Nope, this is out of context.
I *used to* request this in the past (before publishing this meme) here on Nostr, but as soon as I noticed they ignored my messages, I did research and found their "criticism" of the similar request:
> What you're requesting is that we add things which are easily detected by unsophisticated adversaries
Which is a strawman argument. The duress pin behavior is currently clear without any tools: a device reboots, shows an error.
And in the same response they have:
> Keep doing it and you'll be suspended
Because somebody suspected that they are targeting some unexpected scope they can't properly explain.
Two very bold mistakes in one comment. This would be insanity to ask them for any request after reading all this.
And what scope is that really? I don't know for sure yet. I received an independent response here, a good one:
#nevent1q…0lnp
> protecting whoever else
Is the phone owner's security part of the scope? Hello, @npub1235…0ht5? I know you won't respond to me. All this is for the records.
Users have no idea what Pandora's box they are carrying with them.
Maybe they are about to ship a new model and degrading the old ones to make it look smarter and faster 😅
And then there's a genuine failure of the equipment and everything vanishes without a trace on its own.
Ideally you would use fair dices 😉