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Evidently China has sold a shitload (pun intended) of yuan, to the tune of something like $680billion worth. Which is being correlated with the huge upward move in Gold today. Which would explain the air-pocket under Bitcoin. Also, here’s a no-coiner kitten. Appreciate you. https://image.nostr.build/9d6d4aec7ee73d1cc75206d7bb7603054e9c15386e94511387cd6b096ab57ade.jpg

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Bitcoin spot ETFs saw $425M net inflow on May 5th, per SoSoValue, marking 3 days of gains. BlackRock's IBIT led with $531M, reaching $44.212B total net inflow. #crypto #blockchain #news #BTC #Bitcoin

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"We Are At A Tipping Point": Shale Giant Diamonback Says US Oil Output Has Peaked, Slashes CapEx Amid OPEC Price War "We Are At A Tipping Point": Shale Giant Diamonback Says US Oil Output Has Peaked, Slashes CapEx Amid OPEC Price War The OPEC price war has made landfall in the US. Following our report earlier that https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/goldman-again-slashes-oil-price-forecast-saudis-launch-price-war-quota-buster in the day) and will decline in the months and years ahead after crude prices plummeted. Separately, the Texas company trimmed its own full-year production forecast Monday, and said that it expects onshore oil rigs across the entire US industry to drop by almost 10% by the end of the second quarter and fall further in the months after. “This will have a meaningful impact on our industry and our country,” Diamondback Chief Executive Officer Travis Stice wrote. “We believe we are at a tipping point for U.S. oil production.” The outlook from Diamondback, one of the industry’s most prominent producers, marks a key shift for expectations within the sector. Before oil prices started plunging last month, most banks and research firms had forecast US shale production would grow this year and next before plateauing later in the decade. The Permian, they said, was apt to peak in the late 2020s or early 2030s depending on prices. Not any more. As Bloomberg notes, the US shale fields have been the engine behind the surge in US crude output over the past 15 years, making the country the world’s top producer and largely energy independent, much to the horror of OPEC. The ability of companies like Diamondback to quickly bring new wells online using hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has bedeviled OPEC. But the prospect that shale may now have reached its peak and is facing years of painful decline, poses a huge threat to US President Donald Trump’s goal to turbocharge fossil fuel production. While analysts and pundits have long said repeatedly that US shale is poised to peak, the industry had managed to prove them wrong by innovating and driving output to fresh records year after year.  So the assertion by Diamondback that the moment has finally come is extremely noteworthy. “Today, geologic headwinds outweigh the tailwinds provided by improvements in technology and operational efficiency,” said Stice, who will step down as CEO at the company’s annual shareholder meeting later this month. US oil futures, pricing in a global demand recession, have dropped about 20% since the start of April when Trump announced wide-ranging tariffs that triggered a global trade war. At the same time, OPEC and its allies have surprised markets with plans to increase oil supplies more than expected later this year in response to internal bickering, and particularly the unwillingness of some members such as Kazakhstan to comply with set production quotas. It’s led to frustration spilling out both privately and in public comments from America’s oil bosses. US Energy Secretary Chris Wright sought to reassure the industry during a visit to Oklahoma last month, saying turmoil from the president’s trade war is likely to be fleeting. “We can’t help but wonder if the last ‘letter to stockholders’ written by outgoing CEO Travis Stice was intended as much for government leaders in Washington, DC as it was for FANG shareholders,” Tim Rezvan, an analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets wrote in a note to clients. Diamondback said the number of crews fracking wells, which it estimates has fallen 15% this year, will continue to shrink as shale operators dial back amid unprofitable oil prices.  The company now expects to produce about 488,000 barrels of oil per day this year, when taken at the midpoint of its new guidance released Monday. That’s less than 1% lower than the roughly 492,000 barrels-per-day view it gave three months ago. The driller is the latest US operator to announce cutbacks in recent months. EOG Resources and Matador Resources are also dialing back activity, while Nabors Industries said that shale producers plan to cut 4% of their drilling rigs by the end of the year, citing a survey of nearly half the industry. For the immediate future, Diamondback is cutting three drilling rigs and one of its frack crews, leading to a total of $400 million slashed from its budget this year, Stice said, the clearest indication that US output is about to fall off a cliff, because if the most efficient and lowest cost producers have no choice but to throttle output what does that leave for the smaller, less efficient frackers? “We are taking our foot off the accelerator as we approach a red light,” Stice said. “If the light turns green before we get to the stoplight, we will hit the gas again, but we are also prepared to brake if needed.”   https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden Mon, 05/05/2025 - 23:50 https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/we-are-tipping-point-shale-giant-diamonback-says-us-oil-output-has-peaked-slashes-capex

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🔔 🔔 NEW OP_RETURN 🔔 🔔 This may come as a surprise to some, but Bitcoiners will always reject coercive changes. It was true when the corporations and miners wanted to increase the “arbitrary” block size, and it’s true now as Bitcoin Core devs decide to remove the “arbitrary” OP_RETURN limit. https://mempool.space/tx/a527c6f4f4e7148f5b84cfb3a896dd02e9477fe9cf1f4b03c32f5c056c8a648c

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Bangladesh Is Back At It Again With Another "Plausibly Deniable" Territorial Claim To India Bangladesh Is Back At It Again With Another "Plausibly Deniable" Territorial Claim To India https://korybko.substack.com/p/bangladesh-is-back-at-it-again-with Bangladesh’s increasing alignment with China and Pakistan could imperil India’s Great Power plans... https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/httpssubstack-post-media.s3.amaz%20%2844%29_3.jpg?itok=5DZmiA0_ Bangladeshi Major General (retired) A.L.M. Fazlur Rahman, who serves as chair of the National Independent Commission of Inquiry investigating the https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/26/bangladesh-to-investigate-2009-paramilitary-mutiny-massacre  that preparing for this scenario might deter India, which could in turn prevent Pakistan’s possible defeat, thus averting the existential threat that India would then pose to Bangladesh. The incumbent government, which came to power after last summer’s https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/analyzing-the-regime-change-sequence-that-toppled-bangladeshs-long-serving-prime-minister  at the time as a veiled threat to once again host Indian-designated terrorist-separatist groups if India doesn’t make concessions to Bangladesh. This year’s two territorial controversies thus far were preceded by Yunus’ special assistant Mahfuj Alam https://korybko.substack.com/p/a-provocative-map-shared-by-the-bangladeshi  on X in late December that made claims to surrounding Indian states, with these sequential developments altogether ringing alarm bells in Delhi about Dhaka’s intentions. Although each were “plausibly deniable” in that no official territorial claims were made, the trend is unmistakable, and it’s that the new Bangladeshi authorities are weaponizing fears of this scenario. From their ultra-nationalist perspective, this is a pragmatic means to rebalance what they consider to be Bangladesh’s lopsided relations with much larger India, but it risks backfiring by heightening Delhi’s threat perceptions with all that entails. In the current context of India signaling that it might launch at least one surgical strike against Pakistan in retaliation for last month’s https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/pakistans-military-leader-has-the-most-to-gain-lose-from-the-pahalgam-terrorist-attack , Indian military planners can’t confidently rule out that Pakistan might coordinate its response with Bangladesh. To make matters worse, Rahman also wrote in his two posts that Bangladesh “needs to start discussing a joint military system with China”, which lays claim to India’s Northeastern State of Arunachal Pradesh. Seeing as how there’s always the possibility that another Indo-Pak war could lead to China intervening on Pakistan’s side, which Indian military planners call the two-front war scenario, this latest twist could lead to a three-front war as the incumbent Bangladeshi government aligns closer with both against India. India already felt that it was becoming encircled by China over the past decade, but this might soon evolve into a siege mentality if ties with Bangladesh continue to worsen due to its officials’ rhetoric. The new regional security system that’s taking shape as Bangladesh de facto incorporates itself into the Sino-Pak nexus could decisively shift the balance of power against India. In response, India might intensify the https://korybko.substack.com/p/russia-expressed-confidence-that  of its strategic partnership with the US, albeit more on the US’ terms than before. India cherishes its strategic autonomy, which is why it’s thus far declined to participate in the US’ https://korybko.substack.com/p/will-india-join-the-asian-squad  of China, but that could change if the US informally makes more military-strategic support of India depend on this.  Amidst its increasing encirclement that might soon evolve into a siege mentality as explained, India might feel that it has no choice but to concede to this so as to avoid being coerced into concessions by China, either scenario of which could imperil https://korybko.substack.com/p/jaishankars-article-for-the-economist . https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden Mon, 05/05/2025 - 23:25 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/bangladesh-back-it-again-another-plausibly-deniable-territorial-claim-india

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Libertarians are a joke.

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Well ofc, here is the commit for this feature https://github.com/LNVPS/api/commit/7e10e0dd6eecc2bb3286945a281165a949fe7c90

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1 #USD = 5.687 #BRL Fonte: https://www.xe.com

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Not more than 30 minutes surely?

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try 101@api.lnvps.net

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Snort renders generic replies for all threads also

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Hmmm I know it's a small team, maybe 1 dev nostr:nprofile1qqstxwlea9ah3u6kjjszu6a7lrnhqkfh8eptp2z6v0e9558tlkkl2rgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxnhwden5te0wfjkccte9ekkjmnfvf5hguewvdshx6p0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0wsvavr is usually really responsive and has always helped me in the past

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Well it’s clear Trump admin wasn’t serous about it. DOGE promised 1-2 trillion but found 1/10 of that, which Trump wants to spend on the bloated military.

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Bitcoin spot ETFs see 3rd day of inflows, totaling $425M! BlackRock's IBIT led with $531M inflow. Total net asset value of these ETFs: $110.685B, 5.91% of Bitcoin's market cap. #Bitcoin #ETF #crypto #blockchain #news #BTC

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https://github.com/LNVPS/api/issues/31

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Beijing Stops Publishing "Hundreds Of Statistics" To Cover Up Economic Collapse Beijing Stops Publishing "Hundreds Of Statistics" To Cover Up Economic Collapse Two weeks ago, when we first reported that as a result of the ongoing Trump trade war with China, "chttps://www.zerohedge.com/economics/our-export-orders-disappeared-chinese-factories-shutting-down-laying-workers-ft-finds?s=08 ", we said that as a result of this war of attrition in which the outcome of every incremental clash and battle will be used just as aggressively for media propaganda, "the fact that any marginal pain will be amplified as trade war weakness will mean that Beijing will do everything in its power to prevent the full extent of the shutdowns from being revealed." Sure enough, fast forward to today when the https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-data-missing-096cac9a that whereas "not long ago, anyone could comb through a wide range of official data from China... then it started to disappear." Regular China-watchers know very well that when it comes to local "data" reporting, China's fabrication and goalseeking skills are second to none, and even the US Bureau of Labor Statistics is a rank amateur compared to Beijing's https://www.stats.gov.cn/english/ , which tramples over actual econometric reporting with the glee of a bull in a, well, China shop. It's why nobody actually believes any of the propaganda released by Beijing, and instead independent, private (and very expensive) third-party services for data collection and analysis are used to measure accurately the current state of China's economy. So imagine how bad it must be when instead of simply making stuff up, China decides that the easier approach is simply to no longer report the fake data. The best example is surely the data on Chinese youth unemployment which hit a record 22% in the summer of 2023... at which China decided to simply stop reporting it altogether. In the US, bad data is just "seasonally" massaged and birth/deathed until it is +300,000. In China, they just stop reporting it. *CHINA TO STOP PUBLISH DATA FOR YOUTH JOBLESS RATE https://t.co/uNdAYho9wo — zerohedge (@zerohedge) https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1691272742752911360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Curiously, China halted reports on its youth unemployment just weeks after we quoted Goldman China strategist Maggie Wei (https://www.dropbox.com/s/eso17232dqg1qmn/China%20Data%20Insights%20Why%20has%20youth%20unemployment%20risen%20so%20much%20in%20China%20%281%29.pdf?dl=0 ), who said that "Chinese youth unemployment rates tend to be higher than overall unemployment rates as this group appear particularly vulnerable to economic downcycles, likely due to a lack of experience." In other words, when it comes to early indicators of economic collapse, this is it.... And more importantly, such an indicator would also telegraph to China's millions of unemployed young men and women that there are millions more like them, and that all they have to do to fix their plight, is to demand change in Beijing and stage a youth insurrection. Which, of course, is the single biggest nightmare for China's communist party. But it's not just youth unemployment: according to the https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-data-missing-096cac9a , land sales measures, foreign investment data and countless other unemployment indicators have gone dark in recent years, while data on cremations and a business confidence index have been cut off. Even official soy sauce production reports are gone. In all, "Chinese officials have stopped publishing hundreds of data points once used by researchers and investors", according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. In most cases, Chinese authorities haven’t given any reason for ending or withholding data. But the missing numbers have come as the world’s second biggest economy has "stumbled under the weight of excessive debt, a crumbling real-estate market and other troubles, spurring heavy-handed efforts by authorities to control the narrative." Or, precisely what we said when we warned in April that "Beijing will do everything in its power to prevent the full extent of the shutdowns from being revealed." China’s National Bureau of Statistics stopped publishing some numbers related to unemployment in urban areas in recent years. After an anonymous user on the bureau’s website asked why one of those data points had disappeared, the bureau said only that the ministry that provided it stopped sharing the data. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/land%20area.jpg?itok=nsSwnDzy The "mysteriously" disappearing data, which is there one day, and gone as soon as it gets ugly, has made it impossible for people to know what’s going on in China at a pivotal time, with the trade war between Washington and Beijing expected to hit China hard and weaken global growth. Plunging trade with the US has already led to production shutdowns and job cuts, but of course, without actual data to confirm or deny the true state of the economy, Beijing can rely on propaganda and state media, both of which it rules with an iron fist and an impenetrable reality distortion firewall. Of course, getting a true read on China’s growth has always been tricky. Many economists have long questioned the reliability of China’s headline gross domestic product data, and concerns have intensified recently. Official figures put GDP growth at 5% last year and 5.2% in 2023, but some have estimated that Beijing overstated its numbers by as much as 2 to 3 percentage points; in some cases speculation is rife that China's economy is actually contracting, and how can it not be when the largest asset of China's middle class. real estate, has been in a persistent shock for the past five years with Beijing unable to kickstart growth as it already has too much debt. To get what they consider to be more realistic assessments of China’s growth, economists have turned to alternative sources such as movie box office revenues, satellite data on the intensity of nighttime lights, the operating rates of cement factories and electricity generation by major power companies. Some parse location data from mapping services run by private companies such as Chinese tech giant Baidu to gauge business activity. One economist said he has been assessing the health of China’s services sector by counting news stories about owners of gyms and beauty salons who abruptly close up and skip town with users’ membership fees. None of this is news to regular Zerohedge readers: Back in 2007, the late former Chinese premier Li Keqiang famously told the U.S. ambassador in 2007 that GDP data for a Chinese province he governed at the time were “man-made” and therefore unreliable, according to a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable. Instead, he said he kept track of electricity consumption, rail-freight volumes and new bank loans. Official GDP figures were “for reference only,” he confided to the ambassador, according to the cable. Li died in October 2023. Meanwhile, Chinese "data", at least the type that is still reported, magically goalseeks to the centrally-planned mandates of the Communist Party, never veering as much as 0.1% from where it "should" be: China’s official GDP growth of 5% in 2024 exactly - and hillariously - matched the target the government had set the previous year.  Economists privately dismissed the figure, with one telling the WSJ it would have been more credible if authorities had released something lower. Retail sales, construction activity and other data painted a considerably weaker picture, they noted. Bank of Finland and Capital Economics have generally found bigger swings in GDP than what China reports—and its estimates are lower than official figures in recent quarters. But of course, admitting even more weakness would promptly push the tide of trade war against China, and that is something Beijing - which is locked in an existential for Xi Jinping clash with Trump - simply can not afford to do. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/china%20actual%20gdp.jpg?itok=pMk4HqQz Shocking nobody, in December a prominent Chinese economist at state-owned SDIC Securities, Gao Shanwen, said at a conference in Washington that China’s economic growth “might be around 2%” the past few years, adding, “we do not know the true number of China’s real growth figure.” China’s leader Xi Jinping ordered that Gao be disciplined and he has been banned from speaking publicly for an unspecified period. The Securities Association of China warned brokerages in late December to ensure their economists “play a positive role” in boosting investor confidence. For its part, China’s statistics bureau has defended its data practices, saying that data quality has improved over the years and that it has taken steps to ensure accuracy and investigate any misconduct during collection. Nobody outside of China believes that, but many - in their blind Trump derangement fury - will blindly parrot it, facilitating the spread of Chinese propaganda offshore. In February, Goldman Sachs came up with an alternative way of measuring China’s economic growth by crunching figures such as import data, which can be read as proxies for domestic spending. The thinking was that trade data get published frequently and is hard to fudge, since China’s trading partners also report those numbers. That approach implied that China’s growth in 2024 averaged 3.7%. Using a different method, Rhodium Group, a New York-based research outfit, said growth was closer to 2.4% in 2024, or less than half the reported growth! But reality does not matter when - as we https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/our-export-orders-disappeared-chinese-factories-shutting-down-laying-workers-ft-finds?s=08 - presenting an image of stability, no matter how fake and manipulated, is paramount for China’s Communist Party, especially now, with many middle-class Chinese worried about the future and the country entering uncharted territory in its competition with the U.S. Often, the data that goes missing involves areas of high sensitivity or headaches for Beijing, such as the property market, whose collapse in recent years wiped out billions of dollars of household wealth and triggered protests by frustrated home buyers. To this point, one data series that hasn't been banned yet, but soon will be, is China's consumer confidence. It has never been lower. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/china%20consumer%20confidence%20feb%202025.jpg?itok=VR4UWBpE As reported here previously, during the boom years, China’s developers furiously bought up land from local governments at sky-high prices. The transactions poured money into local governments’ coffers and signaled future development plans, a key driver of the economy. At one point China's real estate market was the single largest asset on planet earth, as this Goldman chart from 2021 showed.  https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/china%20property%20market%20world%27s%20largest%20asset_34.jpg?itok=v_FxqpXB And then the crash came: the downturn began in 2021, after Beijing tightened credit on the sector, resulting in a domino effect which culminated with the bankruptcy of such property giants as Evergrande and Country Garden, and the collapse of Vanke. With home sales falling and real-estate developers going bankrupt, a Chinese think tank called Beike Research Institute released a report in 2022 that found the average housing vacancy rate among 28 Chinese cities was far higher than the average in the U.S. and other places, a sign of oversupply.   The report drew attention because China doesn’t release an official vacancy rate, and property analysts were trying to figure out how badly developers had overbuilt. A few days later, Beike retracted the report and apologized, saying that some of the data had errors. Analysts said they believed the group pulled the data under government pressure. That's when the official data started disappearing too. Figures show the value of land sales plummeted 48% in 2022, a big problem for heavily indebted local governments, which suddenly lacked funds to pay salaries or carry on with infrastructure projects. That data disappeared at the start of 2023. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/national%20land%20sales.jpg?itok=5FmLFXsQ Then, by mid-2023, much of the talk locally revolved around the dismal job market for young people. Many of the students finishing college didn’t have job offers, and viral social-media posts showed them dressed in caps and gowns splayed out motionless on the ground, interpreted by many as a form of silent protest.    Around that time, the official youth unemployment rate hit a record 21.3%. Zhang Dandan, a Peking University economist, made headlines saying she thought China’s true youth unemployment rate might be as high as 46.5%. Then, as noted above, in August 2023, Beijing announced they would simply stop releasing the youth unemployment rate, saying they "needed to revisit" how they calculated the figures. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/china%20unemp%20rate%20yhouth_0.jpg?itok=TGznprsz Hilariously, five months later Beijing began releasing a new data series. The real youth jobless rate, it said, was 14.9%, or about half of what the previous series had reported. Officials said the new data series excluded nearly 62 million people who were studying full-time in universities, and so shouldn’t be counted as jobless. That, of course, make zero sense to economists. Statistics typically count anyone actively looking for a job as unemployed, including full-time students. Alas, since the cover up is usually worse than the crime, by this point China had little to lose and things only got worse. In April 2024, China’s stock market was teetering as economic worries deepened. Foreign investors dumped more than $2 billion of Chinese stocks over a two-week span, spooking domestic individual investors. China’s two major exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen abruptly announced that they would stop publishing real-time data on inflows and outflows of foreign investors. The Shanghai Stock Exchange said in a statement that it was aligning its practices with other international markets, which don’t disclose real-time trading data of specific groups of investors. After authorities stopped publishing the real-time data in mid-May, the CSI 300 benchmark index continued its decline for four consecutive months, until authorities announced a blitz of measures to support the country’s weakening economy in September. Amusingly, while Beijing has repeatedly vowed and jawboned it would stimulate the economy and markets, it has yet to actually do so, for one simple reason: China has no fiscal space, with total Chinese debt at historic levels as Beijing already used up its debt quote in the past 20 years to boost the economy while borrowing from the future. In response to Trump tariff hikes, China vows to unleash much more stimulus, as it has every week for the past 3 years. Luckily, at 330% debt/GDP China has lots of fiscal space for stimulus Oh wait... https://t.co/UmJL9ZwjnQ — zerohedge (@zerohedge) https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1909269689651360218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Some data are still publicly available but harder to get. Beijing passed a law in 2021 that caused data providers to make certain information, such as corporate registry data and satellite images, accessible only in mainland China. Meanwhile, formerly trusted Chinese data provider Wind Information started to limit international users’ access to certain data sets, such as online retail shopping figures and land-auction records, in early 2023. That led one economist at a foreign bank in Hong Kong to start making regular weekend trips to the neighboring mainland city of Shenzhen to download data, the economist told the WSJ. Also gone in recent years: official figures on Chinese toll road operators’ year-end debt balances and the number of new stock-market investors. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/chinese%20toll%20road%20data.jpg?itok=oboFJoOL And who can forget the absurd lengths Beijing went to during covid to cover up the economic devastation in the aftermath of the Wuhan virus spread. China stopped publishing national cremation data after it ended its controversial zero-Covid policy to contain the virus in late 2022, a move analysts estimated could lead to between 1.3 million and 2.1 million deaths. The government also censored discussions about the impact of the virus on social media. Last but not least, the country’s sharp drop in fertility has also become a major economic liability... and the data pointing to it is gone, too. In the mid-2000s, an economist named Yi Fuxian questioned the accuracy of China’s population data and argued that tuberculosis vaccinations were a better measure of population growth because every newborn in China is required to be vaccinated. In 2020, only 5.4 million such vaccines were administered, according to data compiled by the private Chinese think tank Forward Business and Intelligence. Chinese authorities said the country recorded 12.1 million births that year.  Sure enough, a year later, the National Institutes for Food and Drug Control discontinued the weekly data release of tuberculosis vaccines administered, along with other vaccine data. One can only imagine the true extend of demographic devastation in China... well, literally. Because there is zero data to actually analyze it. Some information that has disappeared defies explanation. Data providing estimates of the size of elementary school toilets stopped being released in 2022, then resumed publication in February. Official soy sauce production data stopped appearing in May 2021, and hasn’t returned. https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden Mon, 05/05/2025 - 23:00 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/beijing-stops-publishing-hundreds-statistics-cover-economic-collapse

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I feel like video hosting is the final boss that must be slayed. nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9's latest is very promising in that regard. Now we just need a client that implements it, and better discovery tools for finding interesting videos. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqun2rcnpe3j8ge6ws2z789gm8wcnn056wu734n6fmjrgmwrp58q3qyv8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99uqzqt93junzla40jljxn4vsr7h6e0q95n8mcu256e49gam606288fd8fwvxqy

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The API docs are here: https://api.lnvps.net/swagger/index.html

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Different billing intervals are supported, you can technically create a renewal for as low as 1 second, ill look into it

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Why a Tiny Change in Bitcoin's Code Sparked a Big Debate About Its Soul https://files.sovbit.host/media/16d114303d8203115918ca34a220e925c022c09168175a5ace5e9f3b61640947/66cc993675764f058dfe7e42aee826a71c8587475d6b4adb9c0a3e75e6182102.webp If you’ve been hearing some whispers about Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN change and a software project called Bitcoin Knots, you might wonder why developers are arguing over something as obscure as a few bytes of data. But this isn’t just about code. This is about the philosophy that defines Bitcoin itself. --- What’s Happening? A proposal in Bitcoin Core—Bitcoin’s reference software—suggests removing the 83-byte limit on OP_RETURN, a small field in a transaction that lets you write arbitrary data on-chain. Sounds harmless, right? Well… not quite. OP_RETURN is where people have embedded everything from digital artwork (Ordinals) to proof-of-existence hashes. Removing the limit could turn Bitcoin into a general-purpose data store—more like a blockchain Dropbox than a financial system. This triggered a fierce debate. And that’s where Bitcoin Knots comes in. --- Bitcoin Knots: The Protest Fork Knots is a Bitcoin software alternative maintained by Luke Dashjr, a Bitcoin Core veteran with strong views: Bitcoin should be money, not a graffiti wall. Block space is precious. Don’t waste it on “junk.” Nodes should protect the network’s monetary integrity, not host JPEGs or spam. Knots tends to be more conservative than Bitcoin Core, enforcing tighter policy rules. It's like running a stricter version of Bitcoin without splitting off into a new chain. A veto signal for those who want to stay pure. --- Why This Debate Matters What’s being debated isn’t just bytes—it’s Bitcoin’s purpose. There are two philosophical camps: 1. Bitcoin as a Permissionless Utility Platform Let users decide how to use it. Block space is for sale—who are we to judge? 2. Bitcoin as Sound Money, Nothing More Every non-financial use case risks diluting its core mission. Storing art or arbitrary data invites spam, bloat, and noise. This tension between flexibility and purity is foundational to Bitcoin’s development. It’s not just technical—it’s existential. --- What the Plebs Should Know Bitcoin is not governed by CEOs or politicians—it’s governed by consensus. Even tiny code changes can lead to huge philosophical splits. You run the node, you decide. That’s the point. So when you see debates like OP_RETURN, don’t roll your eyes—lean in. Because under the hood of every pull request is a battle for Bitcoin’s soul. --- Final Thought This isn’t just a debate about data—it’s about defining the limits of freedom within a protocol meant to maximize freedom. That’s why some want a bigger canvas, and others want to guard the frame. Both sides care deeply. But only one will write the next chapter of Bitcoin’s history. --- Want to stay grounded in the hard questions of Bitcoin protocol, testing, and verification? Connect or follow for more. #Bitcoin #OPRETURN #BitcoinKnots #BitcoinCore #Decentralization #CryptoPhilosophy #DigitalSovereignty

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GM

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They really want you so sick and unhealthy nostr:note145w3jrprwvt27gtaqk9whtceqpuhgcar58ysv9xay7rgd8ylddhsnmjtdf

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比特币现货 ETF 昨日总净流入 4.25 亿美元，持续 3 日净流入 Foresight News 消息，据 SoSoValue 数据，昨日（美东时间 5 月 5 日）比特币现货 ETF 总净流入 4.25 亿美元。昨日单日净流入最多的比特币现货 ETF 为贝莱德 (Blackrock） ETF IBIT，单日净流入为 5.31 亿美元，目前 IBIT 历史总净流入达 442.12 亿美元。昨日单日净流出最多的比特币现货 ETF 为富达 (Fidelity） ETF FBTC，单日净流出为 5782.15 万美元，目前 FBTC 历史总净流入达 115.97 亿美元。截至发稿前，比特币现货 ETF 总资产净值为 1106.85 亿美元，ETF 净资产比率（市值较比特币总市值占比）达 5.91%，历史累计净流入已达 406.62 亿美元。 https://foresightnews.pro/news/detail/72037

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Von der Kanzlerwahl bis zum Amtseid - der Zeitplan Der Koalitionsvertrag ist unterschrieben, Scholz mit Großem Zapfenstreich verabschiedet. Heute soll Merz zum Kanzler gewählt und sein Kabinett vereidigt werden. So sieht der Zeitplan aus. ➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/kanzler-wahl-ernennung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de #Regierungsbildung #Merz #Bundeskanzler #Kanzlerwahl

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The way billing works its only for fixed intervals like 1 month, zapping arbitrary amounts would be weird, not impossible though..

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GM good morning

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To quote my daughter "I’m trying"

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Merz' Heimatregion: Sauerland für Deutschland? Wenn Friedrich Merz heute vermutlich zum Kanzler gewählt wird, schauen sie in Arnsberg vor allem stolz in Richtung Berlin. Aber auch mit glasklaren Erwartungen. Ein Besuch in Merz' Heimatregion. Von Jan Koch. ➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/mittendrin/merz-kanzler-sauerland-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de #Kanzlerwahl #Merz #Regierungsbildung #mittendrin #NordrheinWestfalen

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Price suppression?

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what is "S" ?

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I understand that I could just leech and block their way of paying for my use (even though it's a constant fight). I could probably also pirate anything on Netflix. I pay because I understand that things cost money. I'm always willing to pay in place of ads if given the opportunity. Your principle is quite interesting. You're unwilling to pay them anything but quite willing to benefit from their labor and investment. I would almost empathize if you had no option to pay, but you do and choose not to.

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apparently silver surfer is a woman

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nice idea, works perfectly!

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They willingly left? I wonder what percentage of those qualified for pensions and just opted to retire with income without having to work.

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受中美貿易戰波及，印度正憂慮中國傾銷商品 印度對中國的貿易逆差已擴大到1000億美元。僅在今年3月，印度的進口總額就上升了25%，主因是電子產品、電池與太陽能電池板的需求上升。 https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cm24lgrz10ko/trad

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Use link lnvps.net?ref=calle if you want to support your favorite nut developer

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So did I. It worked!!!

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中国只需要普及8小时工作制，提高工人待遇，人才自然就来了。 16个小时的工作，牛马不如的待遇。 再多的大学人才都会逃离。 牛马都会躺平。

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It’s glorious

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GM, its been 21 days since I last coded, lets see if i still remember how to...

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vmess://eyJhZGQiOiAiMTA0LjIxLjc3Ljc5IiwgInYiOiAiMiIsICJwcyI6ICJcdTdmOGVcdTU2ZmQgQ2xvdWRGbGFyZVx1ODI4Mlx1NzBiOSIsICJwb3J0IjogMjA1MywgImlkIjogIjk3NDdmYmM0LWMyYzYtNDMyMS1iY2Q5LTNkNjFlZThmMWU3YiIsICJhaWQiOiAiMCIsICJuZXQiOiAid3MiLCAidHlwZSI6ICIiLCAiaG9zdCI6ICJyYWsxbTEuOTg2OTg2LnNob3AiLCAicGF0aCI6ICIvIiwgInRscyI6ICJ0bHMifQ==

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https://i.nostr.build/tFKSocdzl7cWTTDY.jpg nostr:note1egnhsumpjh49z58n7y80pg9swuy559lqncyvtx06acuz50lw5ckqzjxfz5

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heavy rain

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Yea its still a WIP

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Beijing Stops Publishing “Hundreds Of Statistics” To Cover Up Economic Collapse From ZeroHedge Two weeks ago, when we first reported that as a result of the ongoing Trump trade war with China, “chinese factories are shutting down, laying off workers“, we said that as a result of this war of attrition in which the outcome of every […] May 5th 2025 11:00pm EDT Source Link: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/beijing-stops-publishing-hundreds-statistics-cover-economic-collapse Share, promote & comment with Nostr: https://dissentwatch.com/boost/?boost_post_id=965522

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Hey nostr:npub1kvaln6tm0re4d99q9e4ma788wpvnw0jzkz595cljtfgwhldd75xsj9tkzv I went ahead and did a factory reset and the wallet assigned me an address. widetramp458@minibits.cash While I think it’s a cute name, any chance you can arrange for me to get chriso@minibits.cash that I’ve paid for

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GM

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Go within to find the answers to your problems. Be still, breathe, and listen.

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Last time I drove my golf kart on the road two big fat bikers came out of the woods and assaulted me

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GM GN

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Was der internationale Austausch bringt Millionen Studierende und Wissenschaftler hat er bereits gefördert: der Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD). Zum 100-jährigen Jubiläum steht der Verein vor politischen Herausforderungen. Von Britta Mersch. ➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wissen/forschung/100-jahre-daad-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de #DAAD #Studium

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That was already the plan, didnt execute

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The cool thing is you are still able to change what you do moving forward. We all do things emotionally at times, it is how we respond in the future that makes the differencece

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Consuming Protein Is Now Right Wing... Consuming Protein Is Now Right Wing... https://modernity.news/2025/05/05/consuming-protein-is-now-right-wing If you consume protein, you’re now a right wing MAGA extremist bro, according to Vanity Fair. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/protein.jpg?itok=jdBZLQiz Yes, really. A recent https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/protein-maga-craze?srsltid=AfmBOoqrxRtlAktKrXCmNQVjJFnAyTXc1dZ-gQSwQ_XHEQ8IMloJArEP  the moribund magazine published asks “Why Are Americans So Obsessed With Protein?” and provides the answer “blame MAGA,” further referring to “podcast bros” and RFK Jr.’s health push as reasons why protein is popular. WHY ARE THEY PROTEIN SHAMING https://t.co/QpleQ8Fpuv — Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) https://twitter.com/LibertyCappy/status/1919027805662150935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw It couldn’t possibly be to do with the fact that you need protein to survive though could it? The article states “For decades, an American protein mania has been building. This year, it may be hitting its peak,” noting that everywhere you look there are articles about protein intake and suuplementation. The piece goes on to quote an internist at Cambridge Health Alliance and associate professor at Harvard Medical School who states “I don’t have a good sense on what’s driving that right now, other than if it’s just the usual manosphere—or manomania, here in the United States.” It adds that “One thing he’s noticed: More men than women arrive at his office interested in protein. Ah, so it’s also a gender thing to be interested in getting enough protein. Why are Liberals so anti-protein??? — FreedomHealth (@LaughlandMorgan) https://twitter.com/LaughlandMorgan/status/1919034123991081104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The fact that it is an essential micronutrient that provides the building blocks of muscle, bone, and skin is by the by, apparently. That is leftist brain rot summed up — Dan Keller (@DanTJMAJWC) https://twitter.com/DanTJMAJWC/status/1919049177717240166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw You can imagine the instruction to the writer from the editors… Media bosses: "Find something that white conservatives like and write a story about it." That is how protein and bowling become racist. — Exposer of Donkey Fazoo (@Ionoclast50) https://twitter.com/Ionoclast50/status/1919152469264711686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw They’re literally discouraging you from getting protein. Because a soy boy populace is a controllable populace…. — Chyck Justice 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 (@Chyck_Justice) https://twitter.com/Chyck_Justice/status/1919056697512907263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw They want you weak. Anything good for you became problematic. This only happens so consistently when it is intentional. Who would want you to reject all the things that are good for you? Someone who wants you weak so that you can be destroyed. https://t.co/5RwhFC2boo — Occidentally (@occidentally) https://twitter.com/occidentally/status/1919033317061763211?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw And, don’t forget, it’s “gendered.” Gendered how? I know both men and women who have protein heavy diets — Southern Belle (@SBelleofAL) https://twitter.com/SBelleofAL/status/1919035301227270580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw The gender studies major claims that a random innocuous thing is—*gasp*—GeNdErEd!! ERMAHGERD!! — Susan Davis (@RealApexKaren) https://twitter.com/RealApexKaren/status/1919039034711580802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Pure insanity. Protein is not “gendered.” Everyone needs it to live. Also, the writer is nuts. https://t.co/b16nJOvk17 — MarsColony (@MarsColony01) https://twitter.com/MarsColony01/status/1919053954811338850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw File this along side exercise is right wing and not being obese is bigoted. What's right-wing today? Today, going to the gym is right-wing. According to the Guardian, having personal responsibility and working hard to better yourself may make you less of a fat leech who blames society for all your problems. Indeed. https://t.co/qdCsgz9dTt — Leo Kearse - on YouTube & GB News (@LeoKearse) https://twitter.com/LeoKearse/status/1798362317111119948?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw *  *  * Your support is crucial in helping us defeat mass censorship. Please consider donating via https://pauljosephwatson.locals.com/support . https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden Mon, 05/05/2025 - 22:35 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/consuming-protein-now-right-wing

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Shouldn't publishing any event count as activity

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GM friend

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I don't change my follow list, does that mean im not active?

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El Nido

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OpenAI verwirft Umstrukturierungspläne Der ChatGPT-Entwickler OpenAI wollte mit veränderten Unternehmensstrukturen Investoren anlocken. Nach monatelanger Kritik wird der Plan jetzt aufgegeben, die Kontrolle bleibt bei einer nicht gewinnorientierten Gesellschaft. Von R. Spiegelhauer. ➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/chatgpt-umbau-gestoppt-102.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de #ChatGPT

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こうなんか、余計な買い物をせぬように工夫したい

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ホームアプリをなんかなんかしたい

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Love how the buds are starting to really pop! Having just played 700 saplings a month ago, we are so excited to see that starting too… 😊

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中国官员提出川普及Xi都派出特使见面沟通贸易关税问题。 川普政府给予北京几位中国官员的名单认为这些人适合与美国国家安全顾问会面，以改善两国的沟通。这些中国官员是中共政治局常委。

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