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tl;dr We can only pretend that fiat is working if there is no alternative.
I agree with that take. broadly. So much expensive human effort is expended on repetitive cognitive tasks. Those will be faster, cheaper, and more reliably done by AI. Also, freeing up all those labor hours will bring down the labor costs and increase the efficiency of everything else.
I haven't looked into the details, but I've seen predictions of 90% average cost reductions. That happened many times during the Industrial Revolution, so it's not as implausible as it might seem.
Sorry I hit enter accidentally, without giving me a chance to write the body of the post. I'll write below:
In the last week I went through the process of setting up a lightning node (all done manually on an Ubuntu vanilla install, no umbrel, no citadel).
I then got my kids the blue wallet app, and pointed it to the node (you can via the advanced settings).
Then I sent them some sats, and they love sending money to each other with the qr codes, etc. For the next few weeks I may give them a bit of their allowance in bitcoin.
They also started playing some of those games that reward you with sats, they get really excited when they get 5 sats or what not.
A great experience, I recommend it.
Spreading the word about SN on my blog!
I'm not a writer, just a browser of SN:
I think of this site as being modelled on Hacker News. HN was about being the front page of the internet: good content from around the web rising to the surface through updoots.
Maybe I'm old-school, but I wouldn't think of publishing to/on SN, or thinking of it as some form of a Substack thing. To me its about sharing good finds from the www and discussing them. I think there's a comment here already about self-hosting and that sounds like a better way to go imho.
But did I read your piece on Zen and SN and really liked it. So if you want to use SN as a place to publish, please do, it looks like you have some great things to contribute and I look forward to reading more.