oh excellent — do you mind sharing the source then? earliest reference i could find for the first one was a 1941 book titled Money and Men that had a fictional dialogue involving Franklin. for the second quote the earliest reference i could find was a book by Gertrude Coogan from 1935 called Money Creators in which she attributed the quote to Franklin without a source.

No need to use fake Franklin quotes when real ones from him on the subject are plentiful:

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/a-modest-enquiry-into-the-nature-and-necessity-of-paper-currency

nothing came of it?

https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-ditto

ditto is probably the best nostr web client.

you referring to some other alex or something else entirely?

did you check to see whether large amounts of the code and features were laundered by claude from other existing apps? if your app has unique features then it shouldn’t get rejected—appeal it and highlight the unique features and check to see if claude used something like react native or flutter. the framework code sometimes triggers a false positive since other apps use the same exact code.

lesson learned: if you market your product as a potential super cyber-weapon that is too dangerous for the masses, don’t be surprised if it gets hit with export controls.

They were actually forced to back when they initially lost their payment rails. I remember it was check in the mail or bitcoin back then. They’ve since got their fiat rails back, but still accept bitcoin.

Their fork of mastodon is no longer interoperable with the larger fediverse, but it never really was because all the major instances blocked gab’s as soon as they switched to mastodon in 2019 after mastodon called them bad names:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2019/07/statement-on-gabs-fork-of-mastodon/

How is MiamiCoin doing these days?
At least he said #Bitcoin instead of crypto. Maybe he learned his lesson—one can hope, but I remain skeptical.

Bitcoin magazine has a short memory with these opportunist pump-and-dump players.

https://twitter.com/francissuarez/status/1438504891526250498?s=46&t=9krlMyf-jEHcbRMndZxEvw