Why would they? It just shows he was not even on the party.

Already starting to feel good about your bet? :D

"Markets can stay irrational way longer then you and I can stay solvent"

"There is a long history of govements lasting a lot longer then they should"

Expat's foreign income ;)

Good or bad news?

You received my zap quite fine :D

I have been playing with raspiblitz LN node for ~2 years. I got to relatively high ranking routing node, but it was quite a journey to set up + up to 1h a day job, just to sustain that and I earned a few sats... If you want to run LN node just for yourself (and your rl friends) to zap on nostr then it would be quite easy and comparable to running small wot nostr relay (but I am not sure if there is such implementation yet) - if you have some Linux sysadmin skill of course - my brother was running umbrel LN node with no sysadmin skill - just google/ai though If you want to run routing LN node and be profitable - it is difficult because of the issues with managing liquidity. But running public nostr node is probably more difficult due to bots and it is also difficult to be profitable.

This is it. Bottom is in!

Gold holdings are basically flat for more then a year.

Nostr is centralized the same way LN is. Nobody is running their own relay. Or? Are you?

True

https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Documents/slt_table5.txt It is not the "country" holding them, it is mostly private investors - eurodollar banks, shadow banks, pension funds ...