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do you know how much they’re subsidizing their oil?
i recall seeing a while back that if you pay with chivo you get a discount on gas prices at the pump, is this the subsidy you’re referring to or something else?
+1 for someone who can share detailed financial data on El Salvador
First they came for your smartphone, then they wanted to get their smarts everywhere with IoT.
Fortunately most devices can be used without an account still today, and we have Linux and BSD that allow you to run your own OS in your own hardware. But that might change in the future, given the design of the new security chips in new computers.
And for mobile we have GrapheneOS, a great smartphone OS without any big tech into it. It's basically what Android should be.
The goal of the LSP Spec is to create an open system and avoid lock-in. Hopefully this plays out. With that said, capital intensive markets tend to be more centralized than non-capital-intensive ones.
One factor that might offset some of this tendency to centralize is that there are diminishing returns to increasingly massive LN channels. A 10BTC LN channel isn't all that useful if the average payment size is 10k sats. Individuals need many channels in order to reach the full network, which means that smaller players can enter the LSP market and sell small to medium sized channels.
SN is a read-only relay, and Nostr clients can subscribe to it. Everything posted becomes a Nostr event. SN user profiles define the lud06 metadata field set to username@stacker.news and can receive tips directly from Nostr users.
Great heuristic on how the system will try to control you based on your inclination to obedience.
Bring it on Orwell, me and my community of misfits are getting stronger every day!