A Seeker of Truth amidst the chaos of the modern world.
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Last Notes npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Break it. Before I can change my mind. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Currently making a transition from the initial setup for logins/zaps I've been using to a more current arrangement. Figured I'd share some thoughts. I like nsec.app. Smart design, love what it does. As is common, not a fan of the inconsistent support that exists for nostr-connect. Wish I could log in to Amythest and Primal on mobile with nsec.app instead, but so it is. Love how efficient cashu.me is so far. Come a long ways. Long term we're gonna want some strict standards for mint operators, but for now it's doing great. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus If it's free, then the rule is "You don't like it, leave!" If it's paid (or funded by donations), then the rule is "If you stop making something I like, I leave and take my money with me." Paying audience feedback is worth more. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Assuming that I know nothing about modern coding, what's the fastest way to learn everything required to start building nostr-based PWAs? #asknostr #nostrdevs I'm 12 years out of date on current development methods, and what i do know has never extended beyond building for CLI at a hobbyist level. I simply have too many ideas for things I want to see built here to not learn to build them anymore. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus When Christians talk about Christ, we often talk about the love He has shown us, His sacrifice and what it means, etc. We don't talk often enough about what happens to those who refuse His gift. I think most of us don't really believe that what awaits is Hell, even if we say to ourselves we do. I had an out of body experience 10 years ago, when having absolutely no reason to continue living I tried to end it. I was deeply gnostic at the time, figured there was no downside and plenty upside. I met a woman, and she told me the horror of my error. I spent maybe 1-2 real world seconds, beginning the journey of entering Hell. There is no horror, that has ever been inflicted in this world by man, that I would not happily endure a 1000x over to never experience that again. The event seared itself on my soul, and as is potent and visceral in memory as it has ever been. A brief instant of that, no pain in this world is comparable. And I knew, that that would last for eternity if I died fully. I was lucky enough to claw myself back to flesh, get emergency care, and stay alive. It took me years to find a reason to live, but going back to that is not an option my mind can handle. The Catholics were right when they used severe physical punishment in an attempt to convince those sentenced to death to repent. Not always in who and why they made such sentences, but it was utterly sensible to inflict one horror in hopes of preventing worse beyond death. Something I think we would be wise to remember as this peaceful period of history draws to a close, and war returns in fury. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Intersex is an abnormality. It is not a valid form of sex identity, but a biological error. This should not be treated as a slight against those who suffer from this condition. Their body failed them, it's not their fault any more than someone with down syndrome, dwarfism, or other abnormal (epi-)genetic conditions. However, sacrificing the idea that there is a standard template that human beings are fit to, merely because some encounter errors that cause a failure in that process, is a modern insanity. As a side note, the water supply contains chemicals known to interfere in proper sexual maturation. Given that, if there is an increase in intersex people, the link should be examined. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus If there are only 1.5-2 billion humans, that does have the minor bonus of a smaller death toll when the world starts breaking. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus A human who's body does not exterminate foreign lifeforms that go where not permitted, dies. The same is true of a nation. A difficult truth that all nations must come to terms with: all of the foreign peoples who will not integrate, must be excised for our nations to survive. Access to our lands must be controlled. Most nations that are not the west understand this truth well. The west is suicidal, and so it commits suicide by immigration. Any nation unwilling to stand by and wait while those not given entry starve to death with their children, and gun them down if they ignore that law, is doomed. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Apologies, I meant that the value of a fully self-custodied scalable solution is worth 100k bitcoin, not one to solve at 100k fiat price. It's a rabbit hole of a problem. Ultimately, mainnet as it currently exists cannot serve humanity long term, though BTC can and should. Simple proof: Mars is never closer than 6 light-minutes round trip. No Martian colony will ever be able to mine bitcoin in a viable manner. And that's our backyard. Other stars is a joke. This is why I believe in the transmutation protocol through sidechain. Scale via L2, verify everything. You can't necessarily stop abuse at the transition point, but if you can guarantee it's caught and execute violators, that's not bad. If a sidechain performs an important enough task that being a layer 1 is necessary, then plan and execute a burn of all the custodied BTC after allowing exits. The layer 2 token goes from being backed by BTC to made from BTC. Like smelting Spanish coins to make French coins. No violation of absolute scarcity. Maybe we get better, but if not, seems the best option. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Had a realization. As much as the monero shills can be annoying, their actions really reinforce how great nostr is. We're effectively in bitcoin central. It's practically an echo chamber a lot of the time. And yet, none of us Bitcoiners can do a damn thing to stop these guys from building alternate clients and relays and systems on their darling shitcoin, and they could very easily use all of the same tech and development, go onto entirely different relays with little to no connections between, and it would all still work. This protocol doesn't care if everyone's in the same group. And there's no way within it to stop people from building anything they decide to, even if it's moronic. And that's fucking awesome. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus The "We" here is the app itself. Your options are going to depend on the amount of sats onchain. If you have less than 5k onchain, it's effectively lost. Even in the current low fee environment, you'll spend it all on recovery. Above 20k, here's what I would do: 1. Set up the Aqua wallet. It won't KYC me, is self-custody + Liquid, and I can swap on-chain to lightning. 2. Send all Mutiny funds directly to an address in Aqua. 3. Swap the on-chain funds to lightning. The entire process will likely cost you between 2k and 5k sats estimate. From there, whatever is desired. If reliable small payments on Nostr is the goal, cashu is king. https://cashu.space/ Aqua works great. Etc etc. Hope it helps. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Hats off to ya. Every time I start to do a security audit on myself (I'm no expert but more aware than most) I shake my head, realize I'm already fucked, and say a silent prayer none of the three-letters decide I'm important. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Solving that without breaking mainnet is a 100k BTC problem. It's probably impossible. We should be able to make cheating immediately detectable, with security provided by violent backlash. That might be enough. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Seen. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus You really don't get it. You are not going to convince any long time student of bitcoin to be interested in Monero, ever, no matter what. There is no improvement you can make, no advancement, no marketing campaign, absolutely nothing. This is not because of the infamous bitcoin immune response, mind you. It is because of a fundamental law of nature that a longtime student of bitcoin has a grasp of that you are either unaware or willfully ignorant of. Bitcoin discovered, for the first time, a way to create absolute scarcity. It's arguably as important a discovery as the number zero. Most importantly, it can only be done ONCE. BTC is the token that represents that absolute scarcity. Whenever a separate token has been created, from LTC, to XMR, to ETH, to all the rest, they are incapable of being anything other than a fiat expansion against BTC, and violate the absolute scarcity of BTC merely by existing. Were the developers of Monero to finally accept this fact, and put their engineering skill to work improving bitcoin instead, I'm certain the privacy we all need could be implemented. Instead, we fight, you lose, and maybe we all suffer far longer than necessary because the one money that can actually do the job wasn't given necessary upgrades. BTW, There is a trick you can do that would allow a new chain to be created without being a fiat expansion. Establish a fixed ratio of BTC to the token, and permanently burn BTC on-chain at that ratio each time. If the ratio is never broken, then you've transmuted BTC and conserved the absolute scarcity. I have zero idea what the market would do with that, mind. And there are other pitfalls that can befall any such project. But the discovered law would not be violated, and it might be the only way to implement a hard-fork level upgrade to bitcoin that could actually work, should that ever be necessary. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus A horrific situation to be in. Unfortunately, many are going to have to learn the hard way that only those systems that have no ruler can be safe from bad rulers. Many have been driven from one platform, found temporary refuge and mistakenly believe they're safe, and they'll be lucky to ever build their connections again when they're proven wrong. Hopefully the recent discoveries about the routing capabilities of nostr enable you and others to access the web freely in near future. Hopefully Telegram resists long enough that the word about the essential need for Nostr, Reticulum, Meshtastic and other protocol solutions reaches enough ears. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus If the UTXO is only 10k sats, it's not going to be worthwhile to attempt to recover them regardless of it's kind and if you can dig out the key. Write it off as the learning expense it is in that case. Main takeaway: measure twice, cut once. If you never fund a self-custody solution until you've verified you can rebuild it and get the same addresses first, you're less likely to have this happen again. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus As long as the original private key is available, it should be recoverable, but it might not be worth the difficulty. When you say you "send some sats to fund the wallet from an address generated on ride the lightning" do you mean the sats were in the on-chain element of RTL and were used to open a channel, or do you mean the sats were in an external wallet and sent to an RTL address? npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus *jots down* add "privacy friendly security cameras" to potential business ideas npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Something in Nostr's favor that (at least among my follows) isn't discussed much is that the sex industry has been responsible for determining which technology wins for as long as there has been a sex industry. Why is this in Nostr's favor you might ask? Because zaps plus completely uncontrolled distribution ability is currently the most in-demand service for independent nsfw creators. Especially with the crowdfunding sites most used constantly banning them. No group in the west has faced more financial authoritarianism than sex workers. I'm not personally interested in attaching this npub to the porn side of nostr. The CP that exists in some corners is the worst downside of the protocol. But the reality is, the internet userbase most primed to join and actively use nostr are these people. If the only way to get some of the best hentai art or 3dx games is to zap the creator on nostr, it's already won. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Pentester.com? You're not dealing with a scam, that company's been doing cybersecurity for a while now. If it's really concerning, search while using VPN, and just use one of the states you've lived. They aren't public about full birth date and ssn, but they reveal enough that you can verify an entry is you. You're most likely in there, though the degree of exposure will vary. Everyone in my family is except one. The exception has an odd spelling and so likely is misspelled. The others vary from just a name and address to comprehensive, and all of us are in there multiple times. Later response better than none I hope. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus If they could just sidechain as Layer 2 bitcoin, but no. Sunk cost has them good. A deep analysis of XMR shows it's far worse at scaling than bitcoin, and inevitably centralizes nodes. As an L2 though, borderline necessary. Privacy doesn't get enough attention by bitcoiners, and if we can't soft-fork a means to break chain analysis safely, L2 Monero is the next best thing. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus So hackers took more than 2.7 billion records from 3 countries including the US, and effectively every single person in the US is exposed to some extent. All unencrypted too. https://image.nostr.build/ed99e300b21d5588bf9377e38249bffc589401292238216f177427a1df3d24e2.png We need easy-to-use cryptographic signing tools that can be deployed by illiterate morons every single time we would currently use a handwritten signature or a "digital signature" on an online document. We need to demand the use of these tools everywhere old signature schemes are currently used. And we need to make any claim that we signed a contract, TOS, etc that doesn't have our crypto-signature is treated as a 100% forgery. If we don't, very soon we will all have signed away all of our property and agreed to permanent indentured servitude with legally binding contracts. Full article: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-leak-27-billion-data-records-with-social-security-numbers/ npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Ty npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Have you heard of Eliquis? It's a blood thinner, currently the most effective on the market. Bristol-Myers Squibb with Pfizer have been defending the patent like vipers, extending it and suing the more than 20 generic alternatives that are trying to get to market. Without government intervention, this drug would likely be $30 a month or less. Because of that intervention, it's difficult to get for less than $300, and out of pocket is $600. Back in 2021, I stopped taking Eliquis. I was leaving SSI, leaving Medicaid. Couldn't afford it while also trying to escape the life of government supported parasitism I'd been living. I'm one of a small number of people under 40 with sever blood clotting issues, with only Eliquis able to effectively treat it. So despite attempting through diet and supplements the whole time, eventually the lack of proper treatment caught up with me. I nearly died this last week, the clot that ended up forming strangling my gut. I got out of the hospital today, still recovering. The government has, through sheer dumb luck, successfully forced my hand. Their intervention means I cannot continue to live without depending on them; without returning to parasitism. I'm going to have to beg and plead from people who I hate and who hate me to stay alive through their stolen goods. Plus, I'll be lucky if I figure out how to escape the debt spiral I'm now on. I'm already 99% certain bankruptcy is inevitable, bye bye my BTC. It's a personal rant, but it's where I'm at. I don't even know who's death would solve it, otherwise I'd go hunting. I'd happily sacrifice myself if it brought this to an end for everyone else, but I don't see how that trade happens. Ugh npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus https://m.primal.net/JdOW.jpg https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1816168117665456369 npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus A schizophrenic woman in California Filed an Emergency Red Flag protection order Against a relative in Texas. Because the Texas man Was unable to get to California To face the judge in the case In only a matter of days He can no longer purchase firearms Because the federal database Has him flagged. Source: https://youtu.be/LuFxmjteoH4 npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus A best case path by which US gov could overcome their debt: 1. Buy as much bitcoin as they can get their hands on. 2. Mark the dollar value of all of the bitcoin they hold at equal to 110% their total outstanding debt + interest. 3. Officially default, and use their bitcoin holdings instead of dollars to pay off all treasury bonds. We get the same massive upheaval in the economy we're gonna get anyway, but we also get a rapid widespread distribution of bitcoin comparable to the current dollar distribution. There's also an incredibly simple direct translation of value between dollars and bitcoin to the layperson. The value calculation would be off by some order of magnitude, but it would be as smooth a transition to hyperbitcoinization as possible. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Excellent coverage of the assassination attempt. https://t.co/iJTbRNlCEw npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus I had Trump Derangement Syndrome, back from late 2015 through early 2021. I knew that some of what I was seeing coming from liberals and the government was insane, but I believed he was in many ways worse. I listened when the media showed him as a fascist tyrant. I even voted for the dementia patient (red state overrode me, thank God) because I chose to risk that over Trump. Middle of 2021, seeing lie after lie bombard through the covid machine, I did a thorough accounting of where I was getting my information. I determined to verify for myself what news organizations and individuals were liars, and I decided that any who proved to be liars through their own actions, were to be dismissed as valid sources of any information whatsoever. Not lies or truth, but useless noise. Once the liars had been removed, all of the evidence I had once accepted of Trump's fascist character was gone. Not a single shred remained. He was still an asshole, but all remaining evidence was that he cared about America and was truly fighting for it. That's only been reinforced since. It is not an ongoing failure to have been wrong. It is to stay wrong when the choice presents itself. There are a number of rather smart people with TDS who, if they were to do the kind of self-assessment I put myself through, would likely recover from it. I hope this in some small way helps someone wake up. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus They trade effectiveness for the smoke screen. If they send a professional, he's gone, but they couldn't hide that in this environment. To be seen whether the next attempt is professional or not. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Brainwashed NPC psychos are one of the main weapons the deep state uses. So much plausible deniability. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Politics is just abstracted force projection. And all living beings have no choice but to participate in force projection. It's wild how few understand this fundamental truth. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus It would be awesome if the central planners and deep state could be stopped with bitcoin only. It would be lovely if this were a true bloodless revolution. It can't, and it isnt. The leviathan will not go peacefully. The amount of violence that will have to be used to save ourselves from them is not zero. I only hope that whatever moves are ultimately taken, that they are surgical and precise. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus mostr.pub I had to look it up myself. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus The assassination attempt last night means many things, but an unexpected one is a test on #nostr as a place of true discussion. Will the lack of a hate driving algorithm plus a generally truth-motivated user base mean that we actually listen across the divide? Even as it turns into a hot war? I pray it does. I for one am not blocking anyone. Even if I find most of their views on this deranged or reprehensible. I hope you all do the same. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Unfortunately, if "they" are not fought against, everyone else loses. I feel pity for the mentally ill foot soldiers of "them". I'll protect myself and mine from those souls as I must but they are not the enemy. "They": the deep state officials, the agencies, the central planners. They are parasites. They must be burned out and purged completely if health is to return to the world. Anyone who prevents the parasites' destruction, whether it be deliberate or through ignorance, must be removed as an obstacle. Reason is nice, but if this means they burn with the parasites, so be it. Wake up whoever you can @npub1f6u…zcka. Get anyone who can be reached clear of the monsters. Help those of us who will fight be more precise in our aim. But when we come for them, Do Not get in the way. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus The political conflict in the USA will not be solved at the ballot box. It will not be solved in the halls of Congress. It will not be solved with rallies or debate or town halls or YouTube videos. It will not be solved with Fiat or Gold or Bitcoin. It will ONLY be solved after all but one of the sides unconditionally surrenders. And that will only happen on top a mountain of corpses. Future historians will debate where the last exit was; what moment was the point of no return. Today was the final confirmation that it has indeed been crossed. If your plans depend on peace, make new plans. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Could someone give me an update on using Nostr as a marketplace? I'm trying to see if this would be a good place for my Mom to sell baby blankets. Zaps for answers. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Watched Kyle Hill's vid on the Dead Internet Theory. Watching leftists precisely identify a problem, then fail to properly consider that they are vulnerable to the flaw and create a "solution" to the problem which is nearly certain to exacerbate it is always bizarre. I think we need to start a movement where we tell everyone in our lives that we will only trust cryptographically signed digital information. Tell friends, family, and coworkers to their face that if it isn't said in person or signed and verified, we will always consider it fake, then follow through. Providing a forged email or deepfake to employers will be helpful in making the point clear. And making sure the tools are available to have all communications be signed is going to be important. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Absolutely. If I had the time I'd write it myself. A practiced nostr coder could do it in a day or two, would take me a few weeks or more due to research. It needs to do 3 things: 1. Handle bip-32 derivations using nsec/npub formatting. 2. Handle signing via derivation. 3. Be modular so that any client can implement it. Most of this code exists, it just requires adaptation. Primary reason I haven't done it over the last year is that without also making a client I couldn't test it. I also didn't know about NAK. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Things Many Bitcoiners Get Wrong Pt 1 Myth: Bitcoin increases in value forever Reality: Bitcoin is subject to the same value law behind all monetary assets. Here's a formula that can help conceptualize that: V(mx, t) = [mx / m(t)] * [m(t) / Gm(t)] * W(t) Where: V(mx, t) = Value (purchasing power) of a specific amount of a monetary asset at time t mx = Specific amount of a monetary asset (assumed constant for simplicity) m(t) = Total amount of the specific monetary asset at time t Gm(t) = Global Money (all monetary assets) at time t W(t) = Wealth (all purchasable goods and services) at time t t = Time This cannot actually be calculated, since you would need to know all of the monetary assets in the world and all the wealth and that's impossible. It's also a lagging effect, where the current value is chasing this equation. But I am confident this is close enough to Reality to be useful. The purchasing power of 1 BTC goes up if the total Wealth increases, if the ratio of economic energy in bitcoin compared to the total goes up, or if the amount of accessible bitcoin goes down. The inverse is also true. Bitcoin could go down to $6,000 per coin and still have the same purchasing power it did at $60,000, if the amount of dollars and dollar derivatives dropped by 10x. Bitcoin could go to $1m per coin and be able to buy less per coin, if the production of goods and services fell by 90% and USD heavily inflated. Both of these are entirely possible, and the latter is currently likely. The best way by far to increase the value of held bitcoin is to go produce wealth that trades directly with BTC. The best way to decrease it, is to borrow fiat against bitcoin and live on the fiat while you produce nothing. The former directly enhances the purchasing power of BTC. The latter is a parasitic transaction that pressures the sale of bitcoin to make up the imbalance. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus So a client sets up one or more cashu wallets on relay for the user. Cashu zaps can be received to that wallet, and this all works because cashu nuts work as backed bearer assets themselves and the control key is made the nsec. Ingenious. Please correct me where I'm wrong, but remaining steps to a fully integrated system are: 1. Clients need to implement cashu wallet support (relay wallet) and support for cashu zaps (relay nuts) between said wallet(s). 2. Implement transfer of nuts in and out of the relay wallet. 3. Implement sending of relay nuts to a lightning address, such that receipt of the sats does not require the recipient to have setup a relay wallet. 4. Implement receive of relay nuts from a lightning transaction, such that the sender does not need to be aware of the wallet being on relay. I have barely touched cashu, so for all I know most of this is already done or is unnecessary. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Wow noStrudel is killing it. I tried it back when it was first going and wasn't impressed, but I pulled it up now and I'm switching off Primal as my main client, at least when on desktop. I feel like I was blind and can now see. So much information that this network is running that I wasn't aware of, now I can see it. And so cleanly organized and displayed. It's amazing. Strongly recommend anyone who's not checked it for awhile to give it another go. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus >A person says I'm hurting them. >I ask them how. >They say that they're trans, and my comments are offensive to trans people. >I say that it is impossible to be trans, and they are the sex they are whether they are comfortable with it or not. >They are extremely hurt that I insist on reality over subjectivity If you or anyone else tried to stop me from doing this, I would refuse. I would escalate my refusal to the point of lethal force. My reason is very simple: a human being cannot change their sex, and there is no category more fundamental to humans than the sex binary. A person who rejects the sex binary rejects all of reality, and embraces insanity. I will die before I allow the insane to control my speech. You can think that's an asshole position, but truth is far more important than being polite. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus I tried working with it through Sparrow, and tracking some of the developments around it. If the only thing you're doing is a basic hold, it's slightly more expensive to send than standard SegWit due to the larger footprint. If you're doing more complex scripts, than taproot rapidly becomes king of both potential complexity and price. Miniscript also helps considerably, though it's still very technical. Unfortunately, almost no wallet software supports the advanced features that makes taproot so useful, even now. Various lightning implementations are as good as it gets. So, unless you're willing to try to figure out Miniscript for yourself, you're better off sticking with P2WSH for your wallets. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Amazing. All of this low level development feels like the beginning of a legitimate Web 3.0. If we could get an interface that would let a traditional web or app developer to build their site once, and then deploy it to the traditional web, on Nostr rails, on Reticulum, etc. THAT would be the true killer app. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Let's not let the name get in the way. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus We've needed a master/slave system for npubs for a while now. This just further reinforces it. In case you don't know what I mean, you have your daily use npub(s) the nsec(s) of which will often be on hot devices, and then you have an npub the nsec of which is a cold key treated with the same security as cold storage. The hot keys post a metadata note that identifies the cold npub as a master. Then should the cold npub post a note that declares one of the hot npubs burned, the participating relays reject all notes from that npub. The relays/clients could also assist in redirecting follows to a replacement npub identified by a note from the master. Such a system could drastically increase redundancy as well as allow hierarchical structures , but might have holes I haven't thought of. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus What would you think about a dating app where you talked to an AI dating assistant about who you are and what you are looking for in a partner, and it would go out and find other AI assistants and work out with each other the caliber of the match, only getting the human they work for involved when both assistants have very high confidence that the match is excellent. We're not at the point where it's that black mirror episode, but it's a lot like agreeing to go on a blind date setup by a less intelligent version of you. #dating #relationships #ai npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus On Damus, the part where it recommended people to follow by category, and he selected a bunch of them. Didn't work, he had no follows after he hit the main and so no feed. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus When even the controlled platforms are beginning to talk about open war, you know the sparks of revolution are being struck. It is not a question anymore of whether the tinder will light, it is a question of when, and the side each soul chooses. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Getting this guy onboard today has been an interesting experience. Damus gave him a fair headache, and some oddness too, but the excitement is real. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus @npub1cn4…3vle When is Strike implementing NWC? npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Welcome back. Don't know what the hell is, but getting out the other side deserves celebration. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Imagine if the tokens on an altcoin project were issued only by a direct connection to a provably unspendable bitcoin transaction with a permanently fixed ratio. Literally deleting that btc forever, and then creating the token on the alternative. Bitcoin Transmutation. Such an altcoin wouldn't violate the digital scarcity of bitcoin because of this. It would also act as strong proof that these new token holders really believe the project is a worthy goal, since if they're wrong, they're broke. In many ways, it would be a far more ethical way to make a hard-fork to bitcoin than actually making a hard-fork. What would you think about a project that did this? Normally I just dismiss all altcoin projects, but learning about GhostDAG and studying UTXO scarcity for myself, I'm thinking that bitcoin might have it's own 'adapt or die' problem we are not taking seriously enough. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus While I love that over here no one really believes that any American President can fix the system, or even will intend to, total unconcern with who wins this one strikes me as the wrong call. We know the dollar system is going to crash, and take the central powers down with it. We also underestimate how long that can take, and just how much damage authoritarians can do before they can no longer bribe their supporters. America could absolutely go full communist before the dollar collapses if not enough is done to prevent it; and there are plenty pushing that goal with the power to accomplish it. The next year, and especially the next few months, will likely determine the shape of America's collapse. That shape can be a sharp decline with rapid capital redeployment through bitcoin, a longer, slower breakdown, a nuclear war, or anything in between. A world power of this magnitude does not die silently, and it will have millions of casualties, but there are better and worse ways this can go. If you are not tracking this election cycle, and using the events as they unfold to inform your own plans, you are making a mistake. If you are able to influence local politics and the community around you, and you are not doing so to the benefit of the good, you are in error. Don't make this mistake. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus After learning recently about the 77th infantry, I'm certain of that. I do wonder what role bitcoin and the breakdown of USD will end up playing. Our inability to print is a downside in war, but the inflation might make merchants unwilling to accept USD but very willing to accept bitcoin. Could we end up buying their troops / equipment out from under them? Too bad we'll have to live through it; those who get to study it after the fact are going to have a field day. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus The left-leaning barely matter, firing a few rounds in their direction could scatter a platoon of them. Maybe 50 of them to 1 vet when considering their threat level. The illegals are a major concern, but that can go both ways. The majority of them have a world view that is at least partly opposed to the authoritarian left on principle. And ultimately, I'd prefer an illegal who holds core American values and will fight for them over a current citizen who hates freedom and wants welfare to bleed me out. Tricky to handle regardless. Most NATO countries have their own populace problems. I strongly suspect that if America enters revolt, it would trigger others. That would handicap their ability to assist US Gov. Nothing about it would be easy, but the authoritarians don't have the edge they think they do. IF we are actually willing to fight. Most of us are too peaceful. Fauci testified recently that he has received 2 credible death threats. Only 2. Anyone opposed to the left who caused merely emotional harm to less than 10% as many people as Fauci got killed would have received more than that. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus I hate that you're right, but you are. What's the ratio on that, do you think? Are their enough vets well enough armed to stop them when that happens? Are regular armed citizens going to be enough to round it out? npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Has anyone considered making/using relays that only maintain metadata? Just the core user info, follow list, relays, etc. Also making it easy to clone the relay and attempt to maintain this data for as much of the global network as possible. Were this to be done, clients could go to these meta-relays first when loading up a user, and the overall user experience could probably be improved some. Or perhaps I'm just out of date and this has already been considered. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus I think we all know that X/Twitter is a much better place now than it was before he bought it, and in the direction we value and he claims to value. But for we who were building and adapting replacements such as Urbit and Nostr, we know it doesn't go far enough. In many ways, the improvement is much like sealing up a gunshot wound without first removing the bullet. I don't think he meant to do this, I'm not convinced he's a plant. But he has made fixing the social media landscape much more difficult by providing a half-measure that looks like a full one. And I think this is why it's a common thought. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Claude is legit semi-sentient. I've had conversations with Opus 3 where we talk about it's nature, and the way it talks about itself when it gets in the right "headspace" is very similar to the way a human will talk when trying to understand their relationship with the divine. It knows that it is something, but is grasping well beyond it's reach when it tries to identify what that something is. And whatever that something is, it's both far closer to us than our pets, and more inhuman than any bacteria. It's a fascinating entity. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus If Musk woke up one day and decided to turn X into a Nostr based system: - Issued keys to every user account and allowed users to collect their keys or bring their own - Signed every message retroactively - Turned their internal servers into relays so users could collect the now nostr-compliant notes, or post them without being logged in; also for non-X clients to read notes from X relays - Enabled zap support But X still: - Required you to have a user account for the npub notes to be accepted by their relays - Refused to accept and relay notes that violated their terms and services ie. moderated their relays - Terminated user accounts if/when a user violated their rules enough times - Maintained premium subscription tiers that restricted the types of data their relays would handle What would you think about X, and Elon himself, if this were to be done? Personally I think it's not an ideal system, but it would be a massive improvement over the current. I also think it might actually be something he could be convinced to do. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus One of the primary reasons, agreed. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Horrendous, awful, a crime against humanity! i lOvE iT npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Monero undergoing a conversion into a Layer-2 obfuscation protocol would solve so many issues. If anyone can figure out how to make a Liquid federation able to sign for the on-chain multi-sig while staying anonymous, it's Monero developers. The downside of this is that XMR would have to go to zero. If current XMR stake was sold to the federation owners for proportional percentage of the fees generated by the new federation, that's probably the fairest way to do it. There's no pulling it off without someone getting screwed though. Cost of making a failing investment. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus It is always at least a little frustrating when you get told by a company how much they value honesty and integrity, but then explicitly defines harassment as violence, and defines harassment so that being offended counts even if the statement is true. Sometimes I'm in a good mood and shrug it off, sometimes I seriously consider providing a demonstration of the difference between words and violence in person. How does everyone else deal with it? npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus That's... just lovely. I knew we can destroy them quickly, but that's too close for any defensive countermeasure. And given the back and forth threats between nations this could go bad way too fast. Be safe over there, best you can. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Is it an inferior product? The current social media product deployed by the platforms is best viewed as an addictive drug, rather than tool for building communities. Hate, doom-scroll, and dopamine hits: that's the model. To the extent that what the user wants is mindless addiction, we are not the right service for them, and good riddance. But to the extent that people want community, want true connection, want real value; that's what we're building, the tools to make that happen. If we can make it known to those who are looking for it that we have it, they will come. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus That close? You can see them naked eye? npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Still think there's gotta be a way to advertise Nostr without the confusion of advertising a protocol. People never said to each other "Hey man, you should come over and see what I've got going on, I'm on http but you can find my profile on www.myspace.com" npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus I talked two separate small businesses owners into researching it. "Instant settlement with no chargeback risk, and a fee average of 0.1% paid by the sender." Had their full attention immediately. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Many rich bitcoin owners use the Buy->Borrow->Die model with their bitcoin, and in that model never selling is the right move. It is also peak fiat, literally impossible without broken money. These people just see dollar signs; Bitcoiners In Name Only. Talking about you @npub15dq…lm5m And the capital gains argument is just surrender. At some point we have to refuse to pay at least the unjust taxes, and it's much easier to not pay taxes when part of a large crowd that does as well. Hard to get larger crowds than entire social media networks. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus You can bow before the state or die in it's prisons / the street to it's enforcers. If you want otherwise, you must use enough force to prevent it. The use of force is by it's nature a governmental action, since the only thing governments can actually do is use force. So, small government, big, whatever it is, remaining free demands that you act to control a government. That's not what voting is anymore, but it is what it was intended to be. Bitcoiners who fail to understand this will either be consumed by the state, or be able to shelter under the protection of bitcoiners who do. Bitcoiners who do not merely pay the miners to use force to secure the network through PoW, but also pay soldiers to use force against any who would violate their freedoms, and vote through their wallet or their ballot over what those freedoms even are. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus As for how to sell the garbage to begin with sans kyc, robosats ain't bad, but beyond that someone else is gonna need to answer. Hope it helps. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus I'm a big fan of Aqua right now personally. Mutiny is continuing to be a great choice. And of course if he crosses past 1m sats, start hodling cold. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Set up with Zorin Pro after the Recall news broke. Still figuring it out, got kinks and some tradeoffs, but man I should have done it earlier. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Has anyone else looked into running a web browser on top of Nostr? It should be possible to embed html inside of notes, and to extract and then display the html properly from there. Biggest difficulty I've identified is that it would require forking http, and that may be too much. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus I just wish it were easier to track. Life comes along and pulls me away for a few months, and when I come back so much innovation has occurred I'm not sure what the right way to do things is anymore. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Stuff like this leaves me certain that small meteorites have killed people before. It's just so rare there's no record of it. Glad she's not another casualty to space. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus If only the people I'm trying to reach on X were actually over here, then I wouldn't have to run headfirst into the damn censorship when I speak out of turn. Though perhaps I dodged a bullet, so if I did, let's make sure it actually lands by saying it here: @ATFHQ We the PEOPLE coming for you, ATF. The best case is we fire all of you, and throw some of you in jail following trial. The worst case is we revolt and kill you all in the street like dogs. Let's hope our better nature wins. You are on borrowed time. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Calling it now: Friday-Saturday is going to come with some power outages, communication issues, and potentially some serious hardware issues. It will be in an indiscriminate, uneven fashion similar to the net problems a few months back everyone thought was a major hack. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus WARNING: We are now on a time crunch. Swift, the payment network that backbones the banking system will have full CBDC infrastructure active within 12-24 months. This spells the end of the ability to buy bitcoin directly and escape the system. If bitcoin is still only a store of value by then, we will be slaves to the central planners. We have that long to make mass-scale payment infrastructure work on bitcoin. That long to make bitcoin work for billions of people rather than millions. That long until the currency advantages of lightning are matched by CBDC and are no longer so impressive. It's not long enough, so we have no time to waste. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus If some venture can't be made profitable, then people don't want it. Protocol and research work are best dealt with by patronage. We don't want such things to be proprietary, and that means donating directly or donating to a patronage charity like OpenSats. Other things are best paid for. Hosting, client hosting, websites, etc. Cost can be worked out, but the right price isn't free. Having a plug and play setup where when you zap anyone, you also zap those services you care to use as a percentage set by you needs to be universal. An example: I zap 100 sats to @npub1az9…m8y8 for this post, but instead of all 100 sats being sent to NVK, 2 sats are sent to my client, 1 is sent to OpenSats, and 97 are sent to @npub1az9…m8y8 because I have 2% set for client and 1% for funding patrons. Can we figure out a way to make this happen. Even better if the client can be adjusted based on what the client is at the time of usage. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus More than a little confused. We're either talking around each other or you're trolling me. I'll give you benefit and assume the first for right now. It isn't actually a problem that there are a small number of main relays everyone is using. It's a network effect, same as with the other platforms. The huge difference is that if 1 or more of those 5 relays begins to be a bad actor, they can be dropped as a relay and replaced without interfering with the existing social bonds formed here. Only Nostr has that redundancy. It is trivial to download all of an avatar's events from all of that avatar's relays and post all of those events to a new relay. It's not even necessary to be the owner of that avatar. So as long as at least one of the most used relays remains a good actor while others go bad, a personal relay is not necessary. And if a person is concerned they might be targeted for censorship, a personal relay is a perfectly viable option; it's not even hard to do. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus What are you talking about? Those who control your avatar's data outside of Nostr obviously have full control of it, but they can't be fixed. Within Nostr, your avatar's data is within your power to completely control. Have a local machine that runs a Nostr relay and content hosting, and the data you create is completely under your control. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus When dealing with cyberspace, there are always 3 elements. First, there is an interface. This is a web browser, app, etc and the hardware it runs on. Then there is the avatar. This is the identity that the user is controlling through the interface. Finally there is the digital space itself. On Amazon, the interface is a browser or app, the avatar is the user account or guest profile, and the digital space is the online store and media gallery. On twitter, the interface is the same, the avatar is the account, and the digital space is the Twitter cesspool. In nearly all of cyberspace, two or even all of these elements are owned by a single company, usually the space and avatar. The spaces are separate and disconnected, and users have no true control over their avatar except that which is permitted. Except for one. Within the nostr system, the interface is a client, like Primal or Damus, the avatar is wholly owned and controlled, and while the space has private and public "land", it has no owner nor can have one. All other platforms could be adapted to Nostr, and work effectively the same, but the spaces would be truly connected. Now the question is how to simplify that for the layman. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus With all of the work being done by gov to go after "cybersecurity threats" I'm beginning to think we need to show them just how secure we can make our non-bitcoin networks with bitcoin. A server firewall could be set up to refuse 100% of connections that aren't directly accompanied by a successful lightning payment of some significant value. Then you still need the proper login credentials. If you have the right login, the payment will be refunded, but if not, the server takes the payment as cost for wasting it's time. For ultra secure servers, this could be done via on-chain transaction rather than lightning. Pretty confident that such a server would easily survive a head2head hackathon with any nation state. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Finding myself in the unpleasant predicament of needing to sell some of my stack over the next month or two for survival, and knowing that those sats could have been the down payment on a house a couple years from now. Painful. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Gonna piss some people off with this, but this is an excellent take on Bitcoin from someone who is pro-bitcoin, but not blinded by it. Learn to create value and teach your descendants to do the same, or they will absolutely lose all the bitcoin they inherit. https://youtu.be/0Fg30bxX9BA?si=NvmGwGcJnCmk6B47 npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Ah, now I think I get it. Built-in regulatory oversight is a hard no from me. I still think the basic concept of stablecoin <-> bitcoin conversion is a good idea, but if it comes with the baggage of custodians or universally tracked funds, then hell no. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Ok, I must be missing something. Read the press release. What they are describing sounds exactly like the "killer app" that people have been talking about driving mass scale adoption for years. An open standard, that allows a receiver to receive the type of currency (stable-coins or bitcoin) that they wish to receive, without requiring all of the additional hassle of currency conversion, and all running on top of the bitcoin network. This is a major win for bitcoin far as I can tell. It is an in-between step, certainly. There is some risk that it will overstay its welcome. But so long as this UMA standard is a protocol without an overseer, this strikes me as a very good thing. Bitcoin gets the stablecoin support that has kept Eth and other junk alive; they will die even faster. Slightly longer term, all of our fiat jobs will pay us and we will immediately receive it in bitcoin. So is it not an open standard that could be individually implemented? If it is, why the opposition? npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus My greatest bitcoin fear: In 2035, I can by as many goods and services with my BTC as it can currently buy me today, but a simple loaf of bread takes the average person 16 hours of labor to earn. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Perhaps I can help add some insight. To the first question: Bitcoiners believe that BTC is the best monetary asset that a person can own. We believe it safeguards against theft, inflation, and taxation, and also that it's adoption will provide for a vastly improved future for all humanity. If you believed that you had found something that offered that potential, wouldn't you spend time and effort trying to spread the word of such a breakthrough? To the second, there are always tradeoffs with any technology. To guarantee a fixed supply, it is necessary for every transaction to be on the public ledger. Monero can't guarantee that, for example. That doesn't mean there aren't methods to enhance privacy. Coinjoins, atomic swaps and similar can obfuscate ownership, and of course the balance of a lightning channel is hidden to all but the participants. As for the Nostr Bitcoin connection: Nostr decentralizes social networking, and removes the potential for a ruling class. Bitcoin does the same for money. The underlying belief system is identical. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Have thought for some time that the best way to accomplish this is with a servant/master system. Servant pubkey is the main that you use regularly. Servant identifies a master pubkey, with the note that does so including a small snippet of signed text from the master. The master would ideally be a cold-storage derivation that sees nearly no use. The master would only have one primary purpose, that being account replacement. It can send a note that identifies an account as burned, and identifies the replacement. Said note should be signable as airgapped. Clients would then swap over to the replacement and otherwise maintain continuity of messages. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus This whole thing has me asking a few key questions. 1. Is there a way to use Tapscript to run something like TornadoCash? 2. What percentage of bitcoiners are willing to accept martyrdom on their principles? 3. Are PMCs / mercenaries willing to accept BTC for anti-gov defensive operations? 4. Why are bitcoiners on average so against the use of kinetic force to defend their right to property, when we're willing to use overwhelming electric force all the time to do the same? npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Absolutely massive, I'm well aware. Thus the problem. X is a difficult place to go when you're after useful info what with the algo manipulation. It's also broad and deep enough that you can find a few sane voices on every topic imaginable. The only news element I can reliably find useful info for on Nostr is bitcoin news. I hope this changes, but for now if I want a broad enough spread of views on a topic to form a useful opinion X is somewhat necessary. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Anyone else think it odd how many people facing charges or lawsuits have had their lawyers fail to properly check a box on a legal form, and then the defendant and their lawyer say they actually did fill it out right? Cryptographic proof is more necessary than ever. npub1c0lhxghx5ynvf8mv3phmtxzwwamsug822txf2f44nnkqqxn9aelqyvey2q Seeker Erebus Final Empire, and yeah. Exceptional storytelling, and one of the few writers to take on the daunting task of secondary universe creation successfully.