Yeh, but when my builders seating like crazy to finish the job on time and I'm sitting here watching him wondering what to shitpost next, there is just a twinge on guilt, not much, but a little 🤣
I thought you weren't going to publicise Switzerland, cos you didn't want us plebs coming and living the good life with you 😂
Booking my flights now ✈️
Semi seriously,
Back in the day we hosted friendsreunited:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_Reunited
Which was like:
https://www.classmates.com/
I went to school with one of the two founders and became friends with both of the founders.
I miss the UK site and the US site might benefit from a makeover.
I could make direct, personal contact to the UK founders.
Yep, Jason Porter and Steve Pankhurst were attempting to resurrect it by buying back for £1 from DC Thompson.
I put them in touch with Michael Birch who had bought Bebo back for a $1 a year earlier.
(I knew Michael's brother Paul from Adam Street Club in London, where he was the entrepreneur in residence.)
Both the Bebo and Friendsreunuted buybacks failed to spawn anything useful.
Also, semi seriously Facebook.
No, I don't think you should email Mark Zuckerberg.
But think about being self sovereign of your life story content. Photo's video's, messages, blogs, commentaries.
Imagine your lives digital content sitting on your own relay, protected by your own keys and you deciding directly who has access to this.
You may encrypt some stuff, you may share other stuff.
You decide.
My bank XAPO talks about send USD using UMA but doesn’t explain how.
I’m guessing it’s just regular lightning, converted on the fly at both ends to USD.
I’m not aware of any USDT integration into Bitcoin outside of Liquid.
A closer look at how UMA uses the Lightning Network
UMA enhances LNURL and Lightning Addresses by including compliance messages and currency exchange features. This upgrade, along with the Lightning Network's fast settlement and Bitcoin's global reach, ensures affordable worldwide money transfers.
LNURL is a protocol that simplifies Bitcoin transactions over the Lightning Network, making them more user-friendly by enabling actions like payments and login without complex addresses.
https://www.xapobank.com/en/blog/introducing-universal-money-addresses-at-xapo-banknostr:note1pvx2eepa54wd0pe56ruqmfm2ypxe8p3vy5t6w4nsgud4gg48dv4s998rga
Hey @damus the app still thinks I'm zapping myself every time I send a zap.
Now sometimes, due to old age and senility I do zap myself by mistake, but most of the time I am zapping somebody else 😂
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