Arriving at a merchant you found on BTCMap, only to realize they don’t take Bitcoin is absolutely soul crushing.

I feel so sorry for everyone called Claude, who will never be taken seriously when signing any position statement, give feedback, or letters of support.

I managed to buy gelato with Bitcoin twice today, in two countries! Both were great and payments went smooth, but the gelato from Sablé in Bologna (left) absolutely blew me away, made by Alessandro, an award-winning gourmand and Bitcoiner.

Excellent choices

The wildest notice I’ve ever seen taped to the counter of a diner

The train consists of two locomotives, a baggage car, two economy cars, a skyline car with dome, and a sleeper car with one triple room, three double rooms (pictured), six single rooms and six berths (pictured).

Via train #692 heading to Churchill from Winnipeg. The 1710km long ride is scheduled to take 45h, but today the train terminates at Thompson, due to heavy snow and a derailment of a freight train ahead.

About half of the cashu mints listed here seem to have already given up. Another 25% are terribly out of date. https://audit.8333.space/

Is “knowing what you want” the last marketable software skill in the age of LLMs, or will they get good at that too eventually?

Stablecoins are both saving and destroying the dollar, depending on which editor is currently at the desk of FT/Bloomberg/WSJ

Within our lifetime we might find out what that “Great Filter” is that prevents sufficiently advanced civilizations from emerging. Insanely cool knowledge to die with.