Obviously 1M/btc. GRRM has spun an inextricably complex story. He has to rewrite book 5 if he wants to move forward, which is not happening.

Good one, although the title made it seem like the article was about archaeology.

But Nostr has Zaps. There should be a way to make this work.

I had the same experience. Smart people who know there is a problem and are capable of doing hard things in life, yet they smile and nod and do nothing.

Small anonymity set and infeasibility of verifying non-existence of inflation bugs are reasons enough to avoid XMR.

Typical government financial repression.

Regardless, it's complete robbery.

We have a corrupt fiat money system that needs to be fixed first. Otherwise all that extra resource, labor, and time will go into longer hours of soulcrushing busywork.

What about the first part---the pre-pandemic numbers?

It's also a distribution issue (---not implying communism is a solution). From the perspective of Kings 500 years ago, we would be living in an age of abundance already---more food than we need, transportation that takes us anywhere on Earth, all of human knowledge readily accessible, magical technology... Yet a post-scarcity state is nowhere in the radar.

Is there a length limit on Reads? The article of cut off.

You don't need government for money. If you examine history, this will be clear. Gold emerged as money because of its properties, and then monarchs stamped their faces on coins made of gold. Governments have only undermined money ever since, first by reducing the gold content of their coins, and in recent decades by backing it with nothing but the assumption of economic growth and the promise of violence.