There are several cryptocurrencies which are regularly used for purchases. Just because BTC and meme-coins get the media coverage and speculation doesn't stop others being used for transactions.

In the UK as well. My bank is pushing the phone app, and making it difficult to use the website without a phone. I will probably change my banking provider soon.

The MSM blame their favorite bogeyman and you just believe them ... how do you manage to use a keyboard with an IQ that low?

Durable tools of all types that you can use or sell are good value in an uncertain future. Useful skills and community are important as well. Lynette Zang talks about all this.

I currently use newpipe-sponsorblock on f-droid, which looks like a precursor/sibling/fork from tubular

Sure there are some extremists in almost every political faction, but were his comments denounced by others in his party?

So I installed Gossip, created an identity but did not publish it, and added some relays and followed your public key. Now Settings says my "public key not set" while Account>Keys says "ready to sign events" and your follow says "relay list not found" and Inbox is empty. What else do I need to do?

I already have done some rough work on the idea and have a bit of an idea what a good spec would look like.

Can you expand on that? Is the idea being actively discussed/developed anywhere?

Lots of prepper channels on Telegram with pdfs, eg https://t.me/PrepperCollective

I think a video featuring Xerxes, Yasmin and Zachary would be fun.