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  1. Why guess what hyperinflation is like when you can live it? @Natalia reports on hyperinflation in Turkey.
  2. @supertestnet's latest invention lets you buy, borrow, and die peer-to-peer, and non-custodially, with collateralized bitcoin-only loans.
  3. @C_Otto studies a force close, an often expensive and involuntary lightning channel operation, that cost them 140k sats. Let it remind us lightning fees will only remain as low as channel management allows.
  4. Altcoins don't sparkle in Bitcoin's shadow, so @jimmysong expects them to try to grow on bitcoin instead.
  5. AQUA is a mobile wallet for Blockstream's Liquid sidechain. AQUA isn't new, but interest in Liquid is. @Thawne reviews it with a skeptical eye.
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Top Monday meme \ 26.2k sats \ @TheBTCManual

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Top Friday fun fact \ 10.8k sats \ @Coyote_Cosmico

Remember the episode of The Simpsons where Homer eats the Guatemalan insanity pepper, then has a psychedelic journey?

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His spirit guide in that episode, the "Space Coyote," was voiced by country music legend Johnny Cash.

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El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)

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