Statecoins are essentially e-Cash tokens; haven't thought about it that way yet. Interesting
Makes sense though. Both are a way to move an underlying coin off-chain

Cc @calle

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-China and Brazil agree to skip the dollar and exchange their own currencies directly.

-China uses yuan to settle LNG imports from the UAE, from the French supermajor Total.

-Saudi Arabia joins the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as a dialogue member.

-Saudi Aramco signs big refinery deals for construction in northern China.

It's been a pretty big few days for the anti-petrodollar crowd.


Except, we should not overlook the obvious address re-use..


No the better move is if we all used private payment protocols so we don’t even have to think about this garbage.


It sure is.

Have you been to Prague? Great city, and host to the OG citadel (Paralelní Polis)

https://pizzaday.cz/ 20.5.-21.05.23 up next


Beer = malted grains, hops, water and yeast.

Certainly not fancy stuff like "coffee taste". My mind still not change in that.


I hate to break it to you, but none of this is beer!
Stay away from fancy; beer is Lindy. Get yourself a proper Pilsner and be done with it.


🚨 Snort is now blocked in China🚨

https://void.cat/d/RMf7hbWcXR3iotvM5Rns2t.webp

These still work:
https://iris.to
https://hamstr.to
https://astral.ninja
https://nostrgram.co

h/t #[0]


Still have to get my head around privacy implications.

All comms are public and freely scrapable for data miners.


Few.


It is, or rather was, an eCash token. Worth 2100 sats.

Redeemable into Lightning sats at redeem.cashu.me


PSA 🚨 for Lightning Noderunners

[bug]: new version of CLN and maybe eclair won't force close channel from SCB request.

So, you may want to be aware of your peers and the issue.  Follow the comments for the fix.  There is a discussion in Plebnet from earlier today.

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/7301


https://astral.ninja doesn't display URL images. Didn't know a tiny things like that would annoy me that much 😀


I tried damus.io/web , but doesnt let you Follow users. ("Sorry not implemented").
Coral.social seems broken, keeps loading forever.

Will try astal.ninja and alphaama.com now. thanks for the tip


Probably a thing with the client (Branle?)..