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In the free city of Prospera, inside Honduras, they have 3D property rights. This means that real state ownership does not simply apply to the terrain, but also to the space above.
This opens up interesting human action. For instance, if a neighbor is worried that someone might build a tall skyscraper where there is currently a small house, he can buy the space above his neighbors space to prevent this from happening.

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https://bitstein.substack.com/p/everyones-a-speculator
A review by Bitstein on what it means for an asset to be speculative through the lens of Mises and praexology.

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A place to get books from. Should have all that the genesis library had and more, according to what I heard.
https://annas-archive.org/

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Some guy at the Barcelona Bitcoin Only meetup maintains this list of ATMs. It specifies whether they are KYC or KYC-free, which is useful.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=1dWxLNUN3oQbbUPlnOeG_PbpbpfBSuh4&ehbc=2E312F&ll=41.37698856563798%2C2.1427734369872997&z=15

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fschiffgold.com%2Flampoon-the-system%2Fus-markets-feel-sick-after-bernankekrugman-bet-on-bull%2F&psig=AOvVaw1uAMRCjYZfAzg5yRKotWB9&ust=1665510263405000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAkQjRxqFwoTCKDGpq-b1voCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
A good comic to explain in layman terms that money moving around, no matter how fast or how much, does not create more value in society.

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This guy discusses traditional escrow, how it could be done with Bitcoin and a company that will start offering the service.
https://tristanbietsch.com/bitcoin-redefines-escrow/

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https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information/bitcoin-explained.html

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https://bitcoinfax.net/
Service to send fax by paying a lightning invoice. It's anonymous, so it could be used to send some funny faxes around, if you know what I mean.

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Pedazo de meme, crossover entre Bitcoin y Dune.
https://twitter.com/GhostOfNakadai/status/1671971496489525261

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https://bitcoin-vps.com
A list of hosting companies and services that take payments in Bitcoin.

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A great read from Arman the Parman on how futures and other derivatives can be used to suppress the price of Bitcoin in a similar way to the price of gold. Also explains why, unlike with gold, doing this to Bitcoin is a dangerous game and will inevitably fail long-term.
https://armantheparman.com/futures/

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A funny webpage that teaches math with nice visuals.
I haven't tried it but the visuals look awesome. It might be worth giving it a shot.

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lconf.gandlaf.com
Some slides from gandlaf21 explaining cashu, with a nice animation to showcase the blinded signature scheme.

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An essay on why chasing new fancy technologies might not be the best idea.
https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology
And it's sibling slides for presenting.
https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

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A webpage where you can complse transactions from arbitrary inputs and sign them.
coinb.in

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https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R0005
A European Union regulation allowing house cricket powder to be mixed with all sorts of food products.
Worrisome facts:
- For fuck's sake, it allows putting crickets in pizza.
- It provides permission to do this for a single company during five years (Cricket One Co. Ltd)
- It specifies that, if any competitor wants to get the same permit, they cannot reference any of the scientific research presented by Cricket One. Bring your own science, you lazy scumbags.
- It doesn't mention anywhere if producers need to disclose in the packaging that this cricket powder has been mixed in the food.

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https://dallery.gallery/the-dalle-2-prompt-book/

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https://euenergy.live/
This webpage shows the price per MW tomorrow in Europe.
This one (https://transparency.entsoe.eu/) shows much more detailed charts and data points of all countries in Europe, including grid loads, production, prices, etc.

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El meme que me encanta.
https://postimg.cc/vcW1qK8s/0e1ef51d
[![F0-Md-R17-Xs-AIp6m-L.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/Pr7mxGBP/F0-Md-R17-Xs-AIp6m-L.jpg)](https://postimg.cc/vcW1qK8s)

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https://youtu.be/8An2SxNFvmU

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A collection of counter arguments and fact-checks on the most common criticisms of Bitcoin by deniers.
endthefud.org

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Una estatua de un noble y mercenario de la dinastia Medici, vestido con su armadura y blandiendo su espada.
Es característica por el mensaje inscrito en la espada, que se dirige directamente al lector:
Non mi snudare senza ragione,
non m'impugnare senza valore.
Do not unseath me without reason,
do not wield me without courage.
No me desenvaines sin razon,
no me blandas sin valor.
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_delle_Bande_Nere
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temistocle_Guerrazzi

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A distributed, retail level speculative attack on fiat. Loans to buy Bitcoin.
https://faucet21.com/

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Una cuadro de Juan Valdez Leal. El tema de la obra es lo efímero de la vida y, en especial, de la gloria y la vanidad.
Los cadaveres del primer plano muestran un obispo y un caballero de la orden de calatrava. La balanza, sujetada por cristo, tiene en un plato el pecado y en el otro la virtud.
El cuadro es una advertencia: depende de cada uno perseguir la virtud y evitar el pecado para que, en el momento del juicio final, la balanza se incline hacia el lado correcto.

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Framework (frame.work) is a laptop brand that sells modular laptops.
- The SSD and RAM memory are easily swaped.
- The motherboards, with a soldered CPU, are also upgradeable.
- They sell spare parts for keyboard, battery, speakers, display, etc.
- The laptop has 4 embedded USB-C ports that can be filled with "Expansion Cards". These expansion cards are cool gadgets that look like a Game Boy cartridge. They can be used to either add ports (effectively, they are USB-C-to-whatever adaptors) or to add expanded disk memory.
Actually, you can buy the parts and make a kind of weird x86 large rasperry pi with it. They even offer a few open source designs so you can 3D print a case for it yourself.

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A simple web app to split the bill by using Lightning and Paynyms. Runs on LNBits.
goingdutch.pm

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https://unchained.com/hodl-cave
An interesting visual on Bitcoin's long term returns and volatility.

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A collaborative, web based Markdown editor that can be self hosted.
https://hedgedoc.org/

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https://hwstartup.wordpress.com/2013/03/06/how-to-build-a-5-arduino-clone/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-2fvj7GsOQ
1. Fetch so we have info from all remotes
2. Pull the main branch from the upstream
3. Push so that my private remote is in sync

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https://hwstartup.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/how-to-run-an-arduino-on-a-9v-battery-for-weeks-or-months/
An explainer on how to optimize an arduino, hardware and software-wise, to make it last as long as possible while running on batteries.

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Un encuesta interesante del INE con datos sobre la distribución de salarios en España en 2021.
https://www.ine.es/prensa/epa_2021_d.pdf

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https://sive.rs/anon

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A provider of physical keyloggers with all sorts of different formats and products.
The full blown keyboard keylogger is specially evil.

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Private keys are out there, available for everyone to check them, since they are simply a number between 0 and 2 ^256 .
This page is an ordered visualizer that lets you travel through all existing keys
The point is to show practically how absurdly colossal the number of keys is to understand that it's practically impossible to simply stumble across someone's keys.
keys.lol

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https://www.reddit.com/r/castiron/comments/10h9xq2/finally_got_most_of_my_collection_displayed/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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https://juandemariana.org/ijm-actualidad/analisis-diario/la-vivienda-es-cara-por-culpa-del-gobierno/

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https://pfpmaker.com/laser-eyes
memed.io/laser-eyes-meme-maker

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tipcards.sate.tools
Alternative links: https://tipcards.io/cards/
This webpage allows you to create tip cards. Each QR code can be pre-funded with a certain amount of satoshis. Once that has been done, anyone that reads the QR can retrieve the sats, and the QR code goes into used state.

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https://collabfund.com/blog/little-rules-about-big-things/
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Afew things Ive come to terms with:
There is rarely more or less economic uncertainty; just changes in how ignorant people are to potential risks.
You should obsess over risks that do permanent damage and care little about risks that do temporary harm, but the opposite is more common.
The only way to build wealth is to have a gap between your ego and your income.
Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking.
A lot of financial debates are just people with different time horizons talking over each other.
Its easy to conflate “Im good at this” with “Others are bad at this” in a way that makes you overestimate how valuable your skills are.
Its important to know the difference between rosy optimism and periods of chaos that trend upward.
If your expectations grow faster than your income youll never be happy with your money no matter how much you accumulate.
The inability to forecast the past has no impact on our desire to forecast the future. Certainty is so valuable that well never give up the quest for it, and most people couldnt get out of bed in the morning if they were honest about how uncertain the future is.
Having no FOMO might be the most important investing skill.
Few things are as valuable in the modern world as a good bullshit detector.
Most of what people call “conviction” is a willful disregard for new information that might make you change your mind. Thats when beliefs turn dangerous.
People have vastly different desires, except for three things: Respect, feeling useful, and control over their time. Those are nearly universal.
The market is rational but investors play different games and those games look irrational to people playing a different game.
Theres a sweet spot where you grasp the important stuff but youre not smart enough to be bored with it.
A big takeaway from economic history is that the past wasnt as good as you remember, the present isnt as bad as you think, and the future will be better than you anticipate.
Most assholes are going through something terrible in their life. People hide their skeletons, which requires blind forgiveness of their quirks and moods because youre unaware of what theyre dealing with.
History is driven by surprising events but forecasting is driven by obvious ones.
Pessimism always sounds smarter than optimism because optimism sounds like a sales pitch while pessimism sounds like someone trying to help you.
Every past decline looks like an opportunity and every future decline looks like a risk.
A comforting delusion is thinking that other peoples bad circumstances couldnt also happen to you.
For many people the process of becoming wealthier feels better than having wealth.
Something can be factually true but contextually nonsense. Bad ideas often have at least some seed of truth that gives their followers confidence.
Every market valuation is a number from today multiplied by a story about tomorrow.
Comedians are the only good thought leaders because they understand how the world works but they want to make you laugh rather than make themselves feel smart.
People learn when theyre surprised. Not when they read the right answer, or are told theyre doing it wrong, but when they experience a gap between expectations and reality.
People tend to know what makes them angry with more certainty than what might make them happy. Happiness is complicated because you keep moving the goalposts. Misery is more predictable.
Getting rich and staying rich are different things that require different skills.
Moneys greatest intrinsic value is its ability to give you control over your time.
Past success always seems easier than it was because you now know how the story ends, and you cant unremember what you know today when trying to remember how you felt in the past.
“Learn enough from history to respect one anothers delusions.” -Will Durant
Theres more to learn from people who endured risk than those who seemingly conquered it, because the kind of skills you need to endure risk are more likely repeatable and relevant to future risks.
Nothing too good or too bad stays that way forever, because great times plant the seeds of their own destruction through complacency and leverage, and bad times plant the seeds of their own turnaround through opportunity and panic-driven problem-solving.
Most people can afford to not be a great investor. But they cant afford to be a bad investor.
What money can and cant do for you isnt intuitive, so most people are surprised at how they feel when they suddenly have more or less than before.
Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of whats happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.
Unsustainable things can last longer than you anticipate.
“The thing that is least perceived about wealth is that all pleasure in money ends at the point where economy becomes unnecessary. The man who can buy anything he covets, without any consultation with his banker, values nothing that he buys.” - William Dawson
Napoleons definition of a military genius was “The man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.” Its the same in business and investing.
Its hard to tell the difference between boldness and recklessness, greed and ambition, contrarian and wrong.
Woodrow Wilson talked about whether something was accountable to Darwin or accountable to Newton. Its a useful idea. Everything is accountable to one of the two, and you have to know whether something adapts and changes over time or perpetually stays the same.
Risk has two stages: First, when it actually hits. Then, when its scars influence our subsequent decisions. The recession, and the lingering pessimism that does as much damage.
Tell people what they want to hear and you can be wrong indefinitely without penalty.
Optimism and pessimism always overshoot because the only way to know the boundaries of either is to go a little bit past them.
Reputations have momentum in both directions because people want to associate with winners and avoid losers.
Its easier to lie with numbers than words, because people understand stories but their eyes glaze over with numbers. As the saying goes, more fiction has been written in Excel than Word.
Its easy to take advantage of people. Its also easy to underestimate the power and influence of groups of people who have been taken advantage of for too long.
You have five seconds to get peoples attention. Books, blogs, emails, reports, it doesnt matter if you dont sell them in five seconds youve exhausted most of their patience.
It always looks like we havent innovated in 10 or 20 years because it can take10 or 20 years before an innovation is an obvious success.
When and where you were born can have a bigger impact on your outcome in life than anything you do intentionally.
Most people are good at learning facts but not great at learning rules the broad lessons from events that will apply to future events.
Everyone is making a bet on an unknown future. Its only called speculation when you disagree with someone elses bet.
There are two types of information: stuff youll still care about in the future, and stuff that matters less and less over time. Long-term vs. expiring knowledge. Its critical to identify which is which when you come across something new.
The same traits needed for outlier success are the same traits that increase the odds of failure. The line between bold and reckless is thin. So be careful blindly praising successes or criticizing failures, as they often made similar decisions with slightly different levels of luck.
When communicating, “know your audience” easily becomes “pander to your audience.”
Most financial mistakes come when you try to force things to happen faster than is required. Compounding doesnt like when you try to use a cheat code.
There is an optimal net worth for most people, after which not only does happiness stop increasing but more money becomes a social and psychological liability. The number is different for everyone, but is probably lower than most people think.
Risk is what you cant see, think only happens to other people, arent paying attention to, are willfully ignoring, and isnt in the news. A little surprise usually does more damage than something big thats been in the news for months.
Innovation and economics can be miles apart. Twitter directly influences geopolitics between nuclear states and is worth half as much as Progressive Auto Insurance.
Risk management is less about how you respond to risk and more about recognizing how many things can go wrong before they actually do.
There is too much marketing (waving your arms) and not enough branding (building trust).
A lot of people dont realize what bet theyre making. Maybe they thought they were betting on disruptive technology, but it turned out they were betting on low interest rates. Or they thought they were betting on alternative energy, but it turned out they were betting on subsidies and tax credits. Many bets dont work not because your bet was wrong, but because you didnt realize the bet you were making in the first place.
Housing is often a liability masquerading as a safe asset.
Asking what the biggest risks are is like asking what you expect to be surprised about. If you knew what the biggest risk was you would do something about it, and doing something about it makes it less risky. What your imagination cant fathom is the dangerous stuff, and its why risk can never be mastered.
A lot of good writing makes points that people already intuitively know but havent yet put into words. It works because readers learn something new without having to expend much energy questioning whether its true. The alternatives are points that are obvious and well known (boring) or something thats non-obvious and unknown (often takes too much effort to understand and impatient readers leave).
Emotions can override any level of intelligence.
Small risks are overblown because theyre easy to talk about, big risks are discounted and ignored because they seem preposterous before they arrive.
If you have an idea but think “someone has already done that,” just remember there are 1,010 published biographies of Winston Churchill.
No one is thinking about you as much as you are.
John D. Rockefeller was worth the equivalent of $400 billion, but he never had penicillin, sunscreen, or Advil. For most of his adult life he didnt have electric lights, air conditioning, or sunglasses. Everything about wealth is circumstances in the context of expectations.
Read fewer forecasts and more history. Study more failures and fewer successes.
There is an optimal amount of bullshit in life. Having no tolerance for hassle, nonsense and inefficiency is not an admirable trait; its denying reality. Once you accept a certain level of BS, you stop denying its existence and have a clearer view of how the world works.
Most problems are more complicated than they look but most solutions should be simpler than they are.
About once a decade people forget that bubbles form and burst about once a decade.
If something is impossible to know you are better off not being very smart, because smart people fool themselves into thinking they know while average people are more likely to shrug their shoulders and end up closer to reality.
You cant believe in risk without also believing in luck because they are fundamentally the same thing—an acknowledgment that things outside of your control can have a bigger impact on outcomes than anything you do on your own.
“Reality will pay you back in equal proportion to your delusion.” Will Smith
A common irony goes like this:
Paranoia leads to success because it keeps you on your toes.
But paranoia is stressful, so you abandon it quickly once you achieve success.
Now youve abandoned what made you successful and you begin to decline which is even more stressful.
Risks greatest fuels are leverage, overconfidence, ego, and impatience. Its greatest antidote is having options, humility, and other peoples trust.
Once-in-a-century events happen all the time because lots of unrelated things can go wrong. If theres a 1% chance of a new disastrous pandemic, a 1% chance of a crippling depression, a 1% chance of a catastrophic flood, a 1% chance of political collapse, and on and on, then the odds that something bad will happen next year or any year are … pretty good. Its why Arnold Toynbee says history is “just one damn thing after another.”
People suffering from sudden, unexpected hardship can adopt views they previously would have considered unthinkable.
Its easiest to convince people that youre special if they dont know you well enough to see all the ways youre not.
A large group of people can become better informed over time. But they cant, on average, become more patient, less greedy, or more level-headed during periods of upheaval. That will never change.
Good ideas are easy to write, bad ideas are hard. Difficulty is a quality signal, and writers block usually indicates more about your ideas than your writing.
More people wake up every morning wanting to solve problems than wake up looking to cause harm. But people who cause harm get the most attention. So slow progress amid a drumbeat of bad news is the normal state of affairs.
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An online webstore that sells bitcoin themed socks.
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https://maisonmaachi.com/
Another BTC only t-shirt store.

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Or why you can't win money by sequentially doubling your bets.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(probability_theory)

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ieverynoise.com
You can look up an artist, see their genre labels and find similar artists based on that.

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nodeless.io
Services to accept bitcoin without having to run a node, but with easy self custody options.

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A small dutch shop where they build and sell pretty sick custom laptops.
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https://www.printables.com/es/model/295768-pedraforca-mountain
Un modelo imprimible en 3D de la montaña Pedraforca.

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Próspera is a free private city in Honduras. It acts as a special regulatory zone, where the Honduran government has given away the civil and business regulations and courts to a private company that oversee the area.
https://prospera.hn/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera

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Una entrevista a Sandra Piñeiro, una remera anoréxica. Acaba de publicar un libro explicando su experiencia, titulado "Remando en la oscuridad".
https://www.eldiario.es/euskadi/referentes-en-femenino/sandra-pineiro-importancia-hablar-anorexia-deporte-piensas-controlas-llegar-matarte_1_9828068.html

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A Bitcoin cover of some of the best bits of V for Vendetta.
https://twitter.com/thecryptoc0up1e/status/1588915098122616832

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A great article by Pierrer Rochard explaining why they are plenty of incentives for a distributed speculative attack on fiat using Bitcoin and how this could drive a sudden, explosive adoption and price increase of Bitcoin.
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/speculative-attack/

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https://www.swanbitcoin.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-custodians/

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https://github.com/DesobedienteTecnologico/dtails
You can make a tails with software like sparrow or bisq in it.

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https://www.twitch.tv/tanglesheep
A twitch channel where you can pay some sats via Lightning so that some sheep in a farm get some munchies and watch everything live. Gold for nocoiners.

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A wonderful essay by Bastiat in which he explains how most people fall into the trap of not contemplating the full consequences of economical decisions and how this is justified to support extravagant public spending.
http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html

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A clip from the first Matrix movie that fits perfectly with a mysterious description of the fiat system.
https://youtu.be/qedAzTA8nY8

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https://www.axiombtc.capital/capital
Una buena fumada de Allen Farrington sobre bitcoin y la acumulacion de capital.

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Good anti FUD article.
https://www.swanbitcoin.com/why-a-fixed-supply-money-does-not-lead-to-economic-catastrophe/

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https://www.citadel21.com/why-the-yuppie-elite-dismiss-bitcoin
A brief essay with some hypothesis on why smart people from social upper classes dismiss Bitcoin while less intelectual profiles easily buy into it.

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A webpage by Bitstein that curates resources on meat-only diets.
justmeat.co

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A curated repository of exchanges and bitcoin-payable services that don't require KYC procedures.
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A cool store with Bitcoin art and apparel.
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A database on wallets that includes the derivation paths used by each of them.

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https://whatthefee.io/
An easy to view on mobile tx fee-confirmation time estimator for the blockchain.