/biz/ - Business & Finance

There are documentary records of carpets being used by the ancient Greeks. Homer, assumed to have lived around 850 BC, writes in Ilias XVII,350 that the body of Patroklos is covered with a "splendid carpet". In Odyssey Book VII and X "carpets" are mentioned. Pliny the Elder wrote (nat. VIII, 48) that carpets ("polymita") were invented in Alexandria. It is unknown whether these were flatweaves or pile weaves, as no detailed technical information is provided in the Greek and Latin texts.

Flat-woven kilims dating to at least the fourth or fifth century AD were found in Turfan, Hotan prefecture, East Turkestan, China, an area which still produces carpets today. Rug fragments were also found in the Lop Nur area, and are woven in symmetrical knots, with 5-7 interwoven wefts after each row of knots, with a striped design, and various colours. They are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Other fragments woven in symmetrical as well as asymmetrical knots have been found in Dura-Europos in Syria, and from the At-Tar caves in Iraq,[15] dated to the first centuries AD.

These rare findings demonstrate that all the skills and techniques of dyeing and carpet weaving were already known in western Asia before the first century AD.

Totally Organic Discussion Edition

>Flare snapshot date - December 12th 2020:
https://flare.ghost.io/claiming-spark-faq/
https://flare.xyz/supporting-exchanges/
https://flare.wietse.com

>Past /XSG/ threads
>>/biz/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=&search_subject=xsg&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_op=all&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=op

>UHNWI aka Mellon:
>>/biz/thread/S16595583
>>/biz/thread/S17266853
>>/biz/thread/S17914598
>>/biz/thread/S18102776
>>/biz/thread/S18417446
>>/biz/thread/S19283439
>>/biz/thread/S19919081
>>/biz/thread/S19980410
>>/biz/thread/S20098041
>>/biz/thread/S20429829
>>/biz/thread/S20720991

>Kendra Hill:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1189356847117033484.html

>Other Insider:
>>/biz/thread/S17203568
>>/biz/thread/S19464720

>Other Other Insider:
>>/biz/thread/21924286#p21931998

>Bank of Canada Insider:
>>/biz/thread/S20806161

>Conference Anon:
>>/biz/thread/S21274558

>33 million XRP anon:
>>/biz/thread/S21485221

>Judy Shelton (Trump Fed nominee):
https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/springsummer-2018/case-new-international-monetary-system

>The Myth of Market Cap:
http://galgitron.net/Post/The-Myth-of-Market-Cap---Version-2

>Twitters:
https://twitter.com/BabaCugs

>What wallet do I use?
There is no right answer for this. Mostly personal preference and security vs. convenience.
Hot storage (with Spark support) - XUMM or Exodus.
Cold storage - Ledger/Trezor or Paper/Metal Wallet