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Hmmm, well I’m not surprised.
I should have guessed, but the Internet Archive has all of these up! No need to go to https://yewtu.be/ anymore.
Time to finally cancel all those subscriptions that you’ve been dreaming about freeing yourself from perhaps? 
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Empirical assessment of the role of the Sun in climate change using balanced multi-proxy solar records. Factors other than direct TSI forcing account for around 80% of the solar influence on the climate.
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Just wanted to give a shout out to a friend of a friend who is in the midst of an attempt to beat the all-time record for a self powered round of the munros.
For those of you not familiiar, a munro is any mountain in Scotland over 3000ft. There are 282 of them. And for the record that means running, cycling, and kayaking between them all.
The previous record is 31 days 23 hours.
She’s currently on track to beat it! With 48 left to to go, and 5 days 19 hours left to do it. Unreal!
You can follow along with her progress here:
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Something rotten in the state of the UK…
#freedom #truth
I wonder yesterday they called out Boris for lying but the problem goes so much deeper…
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Is this real? Sky News reporting that Andrew Tate has over 21 million bitcoin 
https://twitter.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1671165887867678720?t=Tw5QBLNYbjRFXB1nW12JdA&s=19
Do the jails in Romania take BTC?
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They certainly don’t give it back
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A handful more bagged over night… 39 to go!
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Buy Sound money!!!
“$572,000,000,000 Added to US Debt in Two Weeks, Total Debt Now Exceeds China, Japan, Germany and UK’s Combined GDP”
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I’m more concerned with all the people ignoring the laws of nature! Find a balance!
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Very good from Mike Masnick (although the Amazon example is a bit dubious). Seven rules to avoid enshittification (where you start off making things better for users and end up screwing everyone over).
I reckon MaidSafe have all these covered.
- Tell your investors that you’re in this for the long haul and they need to be too.
- The community is everything
- Create more value than you capture.
- Empower your community, and then trust them.
- Find ways to make money that don’t undermine the community or the experience.
- Never charge for what was once free.
- Don’t insult the intelligence of your users.
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https://www.bis.org/publ/arpdf/ar2023e3.pdf
III. Blueprint for the future monetary system:
improving the old, enabling the new
Key takeaways
• Tokenisation of money and assets has great potential, but initiatives to date have taken place in silos
without access to central bank money and the foundation of trust it provides.
• A new type of financial market infrastructure – a unified ledger – could capture the full benefits of
tokenisation by combining central bank money, tokenised deposits and tokenised assets on a
programmable platform.
• As well as improving existing processes through the seamless integration of transactions, a unified
ledger could harness programmability to enable arrangements that are currently not practicable,
thereby expanding the universe of possible economic outcomes.
• Multiple ledgers – each with a specific use case – might coexist, interlinked by application programming
interfaces to ensure interoperability as well as promote financial inclusion and a level playing field.
Introduction
Throughout history, developments in the monetary system and society at large have
been closely interwoven. This interplay has been a story of one side pulling the other,
leading to dramatic leaps in economic activity over time. On the one hand, the
evolving needs and demands of society have spurred the monetary system to adapt.
On the other hand, key innovations in money and payments have unleashed latent
demand for new types of economic activity that have led to dramatic spurts of
economic growth and development.
The rapid expansion of trade and commerce over the past 500 years would be
scarcely imaginable if buyers and sellers still had to cart around heavy chests full of
metal coins to pay for goods and services. The advent of money in the form of book
entries on ledgers overseen by trusted intermediaries opened the door to new
financial instruments that bridged both geographical distance and the long lags
between the delivery of goods and settlement of payments.1
With the advent of the
electronic age, paper ledgers became digital, adding impetus to the “dematerialisation”
of money as well as claims on financial and real assets. Electronic bookkeeping
accelerated paper-based processes, allowing accounts to be updated at the speed of
light. Through dematerialisation and digitalisation, the interplay between money and
the economy has wrought profound changes on society at large.
Today, the monetary system stands at the cusp of another major leap. Following
dematerialisation and digitalisation, the key development is tokenisation – the
process of representing claims digitally on a programmable platform. This can be
seen as the next logical step in digital recordkeeping and asset transfer. Tokenisation
could dramatically enhance the capabilities of the monetary and financial system by
harnessing new ways for intermediaries to interact in serving end users, removing
the traditional separation of messaging, reconciliation and settlement. Tokenisation
could unlock new types of economic arrangement that the frictions inherent in the
current monetary system have hitherto made impractical.
They intend to implement a universal ledger that will track all assets, debt, and shipments. It will be used to shape and micromanage human behavior. Give this a read. This was just announced. No where in the document do they address abuse of this system. They talk about privacy but only in terms protecting from actors outside the BIS and not from the BIS. This is total control of what you buy how much and it being factored into a score. It take a bit for the PDF to load.
This guy goes through it.
“Mistakenly” 
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