Bitcoin class of 2011. He who dies with the most Bitcoins wins.
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2024-04-16 20:12:20 Event JSON
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Last Notes npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker OMG... Does he, in fact, smell like tacos? I sincerely hope senior Trejo is getting a cut of this action, it's just too funny to go nowhere... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Talk Data Comm Be Say Keep it super generic but try for the meaning of 'free speech' as much as possible. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker A guy going by the name of "Freedom Tech" has never heard of Wikileaks? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker > Let me guess, you were unsuccessful in finding photos of that pesky curve? Of course I can't find photos of something that you think should exist but does not. What a silly concept. > Water doesn't curve Damn, drops of water and waves must not exist then. I've been so blind! > You can literally go and verify those sources and calculations yourself. That's my line. > this is how it always goes. First it was bouncing lasers off the moon, then you moved the next thing This is what must happen when you refuse to accept the evidence for the previous thing. Either that or we stop talking. > Now you're rehashing the fabled flights That's it? Your entire rebuttal to the subject of those flights that absolutely do exist is simply smearing them as "fabled?" If they're mere fables then the millions of people that flew them must be in on the conspiracy? > Can you tell me how you verify ground speed over water when you're in a plane? You just divide the miles by the time. Each jet has it's own top speed rating. None of those commercial jets have one fast enough to make up the difference of an extra 10,000 miles or whatever it would take to make the antarctic flight on a flat earth. > it's just a coincidence that there are not an equal amount of times zone in the north and south Why in the world would the southern hemisphere need an equal amount??? No one lives down there! Time zones are a political boundary and there are far fewer countries in the southern hemisphere. > Do you have any exclusive evidence the earth moves around the sun? Nah, Galileo made some great points and I've never heard them properly rebutted. What I've observed of the nature of the solar system (and yes I have a nice telescope) lines up perfectly with Galileo's model. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I see we just aren't getting anywhere because we don't trust each other's sources. Fine. How about we trust the commercial viability of an entire pair of flights that fly right over the south pole daily, each way, and has been doing so for decades? Qantas QF 64 & it's return are daily flights that couldn't possibly be commerically viable if they flew over a flat earth. No matter if you beleive that the south pole is a perimeter wall or not, with no globe the huge distance between Sydney & Johannesburg would require more fuel than you could fill up the entire inside of the plane with! Have any flat earthers explained (credibly) how the hundreds of people each day that take that flight were not really going over antartica like they thought they were, and didn't really arrive just a few hours (instead of days) like their tickets said they did? For that matter, a flat earth would have flights over the north pole, like JL41 from Tokyo to London, go a lot faster than the curved path that they say they take. What are those flights doing up there for so long? Circling iceburgs to fool us all about the nature of the planet instead of commercially competing against rival flights? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Now how do we get him active on Nostr? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker > "You can recreate the effect you are talking about over a small body of water" Um, no, you can't. If there's no curvature, then there's no hiding the bottom of the boat before the top. It's just that simple. I see nothing in your video that is evidence otherwise. (Not to mention the scale would be wrong.) I can't shift any goalposts on a single claim. A claim that I am confident making, by the way, because I used to live near Long Beach and saw ships pulling out of LA's largest harbor daily. They always went 'over a hill' on the horizon, and never, ever, just kept shrinking until gone. I won't try to 'steel man flat earth and geocentric positions.' It's not worth my time... But I can stand by a statement I've made and encourage you to verify, not trust, like I would to any would-be bitcoiner. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Until the day all the powerful organizations are disbanded, that's a sure way to put him back where he is now. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker That depends greatly on what he had to sign to stay free. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Ah, good. It sounded kinda like you though arresting was too harsh. ;) The problem with your plan is that most of the world is clueless. So few would even show up to mock him. :( Meanwhile there would be plenty of his loyal toadies (like the WEF & WHO) who are trying to free him. Unfortunately, people like this need to be unalived before they are rescued from justice. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker If we're going to be civil about it, yes. What he deserves is a lynch mob to draw & quarter him without any due process. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker It's not enough to "Defund" these rougue organizations... We must fund their assasins. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I've literally never met anyone who is using bluesky, nor have I even heard of activitypub. Is that like a bar where they do arts & crafts? These aren't serious competitors, and even if they were, the serious privacy advocates are all working on Nostr, so it's the only one that activists are going to use. ...And the more authoritarian govts become, the more everyone becomes an activist. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Like with bitcoin adoption, I see nostr adoption as slow going but assured because there will always be people out there that desperately need an uncensorable speech platform. Bitcoin will make it all the way to a global money used by everyone someday because of the network effects of money. They won't have a choice. However Nostr's future isn't as assured. Like you said the average person isn't likely to worry about being banned, and payments over social isn't as appealing to them as we like to think it is. But Nostr, like Linux, has that awesome usefulness in solving techie problems behind the scenes that will keep it growing regardless, even if the mainstream keeps using their microsoft and apple products forever. I think we need to be prepared to accept this future for it. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Damn, good show, man! This looks like we're close to a perfect bitcoin wallet finally... One that few critics will find fault with. (Just have to build the exchanges & abstract away a few things like mint selection first.) What else am I missing that this thing can't do yet but still needs for full mainstream adoption? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Rachel's boyfriend from "Friends," obvious. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Well no clients are using any form of key revocation as far as I can tell. Maybe key-control ID management would be better done on a new layer above (or below?) Nostr. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I don't think using the world "clown world" is helping anything. It makes these disgustingly brutal acts seem too jocular. We left clown world around covid hit. We live in a complete authoritarian dystopian shithole world now. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Nostr Wallet Connect - Calle writes a lot about it here. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker These would be awesome options on some kind of key management client. Something that (at the time of posting) allows you to choose your npub and revoke compromised npubs. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Key control is something that has many solutions but none agreed on yet... One approach would be for an individual software to manage all your keys... Offering a Revoke function. Maybe bitcoin wallets could offer this add-on. They are key management software at heart, afterall. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker We would have to take more responsibility for our own protection/enforcement, at least initially. So when a society first transitions to anarchy it would be hard on retirees/idiots, etc. Not impossible though. However, there are already some great writings about how we could form a fully decentralized legal system and how regular folk could simply subscribe to an "Assurance Agency" to protect them from most problems in life. (From a mugging to foreign invaders) It's a multi-prong full solution & a whole new way of structuring society. Worth looking into if you're curious. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Make privacy even better, & transparently so. I don't think hardly anyone knows exactly where Nostr is completely private and where it's sorta private. It may be the best private communications network mankind has ever made, but it seems there has been zero public education on what it's limits are. At the very least I'd like to see apps give you a link at the time of posting explaining exactly what these limits are... So you know if the fedcoats are going to show up at your door or not when you say something risky, for instance. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker You do realize that making us Android users, who still have no idea when we can download your entire product, drool excessively like this is cruel & might be against some Geneva conventions. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Taking him down to El Salvador to see the volcano mining up close, eh? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker OTOH, they certainly weren't commies. Gen Z is shaping up to become total commie fodder and that probably won't end too well. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker GM/PV Nostr frens! Today the privacy wars scale up with another self-censorship, this time from my favorite privacy wallet, Wasabi! https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-now-blocking-u-s-residents-and-citizens The good news here is that this wallet bakes in TOR usage and that is not optional, so the actual usage of the wallet doesn't appear to be hindered in the US in any way. This announcement was likely just a fed-facing statement to appear that they are compliant. Still, I'm thinking of moving to JAM inside my umbrel node for any future coinjoins. How about you guys? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Wasabi next: https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-now-blocking-u-s-residents-and-citizens/ My take: Also completely unnecessary, but since TOR use is not optional inside Wasabi wallet, I don't see how this changes anything during actual usage. This announcement was likely just for assuring the fedcoats that Wasabi is being compliant. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker That was so nice of her to tell her fellow child molesters how they can easily pay for their habit... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker That was so nice of her to tell her fellow child molesters how they can easily pay for their habit... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Ouch. As a citizen of the USSA I'm honestly hurt. Your wife has a razor-sharp tongue, man. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I guess it could seem that way if you don't notice the fighting we do on other fronts. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Which decentralized protocols have been captured again? Was it key-pair encryption? Torrents? Onion Routing? I2P? Tell me you don't understand what protocols look like without telling me... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker You mean other than the native crowd funding feature called zaps that we've been using so much already? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker No, you're just not very smart, that's all. Bitcoin is well on track to becoming the alternative system that takes over all financial systems. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Crypto Open Patent Alliance, just sued faketoshi & won. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Adding that kind of complexity to the base code is 1001 headaches waiting to happen... I doubt any serious devs would undertake such an upgrade. Not to mention, how many node runners would download that frankencore version? Not all bitcoin node runners are privacy advocates; some just want to earn more dollars. The proper way to decentralize this is joinmarket's approach. Joinmarket is a P2P network, with no central point of failure that I have seen. It's based on the Coinjoin protocol, which is, like bitcoin, truly open source & distributed. Both Samourai and Wasabi have implemented the coinjoin protocol in their products too, so some were very surprised to see that the fedcoats would come after a company that just implemented open source code... But honestly I'm not surprised that they did. They don't care about what you use, only that they can find someone to stick in a cage. Neanderthals. Joinmarket doesn't (appear to, so far) have anyone to stick in a cage. Just 61 volunteer contributors on github. https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Century of the Self (BBC, 4 hours) It shows how Sigmund Freud's nephew created Public Relations and the commercialistic society we live in today. This effected everything from politics to corn flakes, even inventing santa claus & all kinds of odd marketing tricks. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker What a good boy. He's already better than coldplay.... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker If the browser works for you then there's no reason to stop. - But don't trust that bitcoin wallet nor any of their future promises... They're on record as being major liars & hypocrites. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker My bet is that if she was smart enough to do this, then she was smart enough to get the mortality stats on all the patients to her hospital and show those to the court... And wouldn't you know it, her patients actually lived while the others didn't do so well. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Somehow "I told you so" just doesn't cover it. The drama we had over these shitcoiners during their launch back in 2015 was epic... Yet so prophetic. They were the 1st scammers to say "We love Bitcoin, buy my shitcoin." https://m.primal.net/HwlI.png npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Didn't Elon just soft-announce fees for all new users to post? So basically all new users could come here. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Legend. What a unique sales proposition. Gotta ask: Does he keep a set of his backups on dry land? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Do you have any idea how small your market is? In the US alone, you'd have a few thousand people (who are perceived as "radical domestic terrorists" by the mainstream) appreciate Nostr for this, while the other 330 Million people all call for their arrest. You'd certainly put nostr on the map... Just not in the way you're hoping. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I do know how Tor works, and only an organization like the CIA could deploy enough routing nodes to spy on anyone through it... And they won't get everyone they cast their net for. So it's mostly kosher... Just don't do anything very illegal there, because they may be casting a net for you if you do. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I'll buy yours if you buy my MASTERS OF EVERYTHING TOKEN. Total supply cap of 5. That's right, only 5 people can be the master of everything that ever existed and ever will exist. Total cost: 5,000 BTC each. First come, first served. Exclusive monkey jpeg crafted for each token! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker And we love billionaires who embrace the thing that competes with the thing that made them billionaires! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Salma Hayek's dance scene in Dusk till Dawn says you're full of shit. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I know that feeling bro... I had a student driver ding my pristine car last week. No insurance yet, scared out of her mind. I don't involve cops when it can be helped, so I looked up the cost of the repair on my phone in front of her, so she handed over $200 (most of that cost) & we parted with no hard feelings. I like to think of it as a lesson in anarchy. ;) npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker How can you call Monero "not inflationary" though when it's issuance can never be audited? I don't use Monero simply because sound money needs transparency at the base layer, or one day it'll be inflated away again just like the dollar is. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker New freedoms are always something to celebrate. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Aw Hell no! Cents have their own symbol, so should sats. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker UnBacked, as in there is no gold in the reserves that you can exchange it for. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker It's unpacked money, like all countries issue today. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker It wasn't for Biden. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker SMH. Do they even try to defend this random act of centralization somewhere? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Rest in Peace Samuele Landi: Pioneer on the Indian Ocean Seastead, now at the bottom of the sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwqQDaV188k Tragic, horrible news, everyone. The most daring seasteading venture to date now lies at the bottom of the Indian Ocean with it's owner, Samuele Landi, and two others lost to the sea, presumed dead. According to Oswald, the documentarian we have spoken with here on this board before, a massive storm on Feb 2nd split the barge in two parts and submerged it, taking 3 lives including Landi's with it. Oswald has already made this mini-doc addressing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwqQDaV188k (Skip to 3:50 to start with the latest events) Samuele will be remembered as a seasteading pioneer, and hopefully serve as a seassteader's cautionary tale for us to use overcome, not shy away from, building on the open sea. Rest in peace, friend. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker What kind of woke-ass, blue-haired, liberal lefty morons do you take us for? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker LINK PLZ npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker So sorry for your loss. I have a much younger pooch that I feel that way about already, and I often think how much pain it will be to lose her one day. I guess this confirms it; it's going to suck bigtime. 😢 It's crazy how human connections can be so much weaker than our connection to our furbabies. Their love is so simple and pure, always present. They never get too tired or in a bad mood to show you how much they love you. What a gift they are. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker If you have any of his skin left over I'd like to make a wallet... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I have a bad back and had to do this for many years, on top of carpet & a sleeping bag. Now I live in a hardwood-flooring-only house and was forced to move to a bed. Even though I found the stiffest mattress I could, I often yearn for the floor again. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Definitely 1, because not knowing if your post went out or not is a much more serious problem in Nostr (higher consequences) than it is elsewhere. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Not well, but I'm trying to learn. Feel free to shanghi the whole idea if you want to work on it. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Not well, but I'm trying to learn. Feel free to shanghi the whole idea if you want to work on it. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker It' would take a full Nuremburg Trial 2.0 to even start to address this mess. So many evil people doing evil things it makes Nazi Germany look like amateurs... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Unsuprisingly, it seemed to start happening at the same time professional league esports popped up. They've now got more eyeballs watching than the NFL does! There's some major, major sponsor money behind this trend now. It's not going away. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I've considered doing something like this but it'll take more than just Kroger's API... It should show house prices, car prices, rent, fast food chains, doctor bills, etc., Basically track all things people buy over time and price them from Pizza day to the current time. Every view is graphs, no numbers unless hovering. I could imagine the UI having life priced in 4 columns: Fiat, Inflation-adjusted fiat, gold, and bitcoin. Maybe a 5th for the S&P500. There should also be some way to enter in a 'savings account' amount and watch how that would have performed over time. Now that mainstream finance is standing behind bitcoin, and laymen can now believe that it will continue to exist in the future instead of just crashing to zero one day, this data could get even the most careful noob to start saving something in bitcoin. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Pop! OS by System 76. - https://pop.system76.com/ I've used Mint, Ubuntu & Debian for over a decade, but Pop! is the smoothest of them all. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I am convinced you're mostly right and the sausage machine is set to autopilot most of the time. I mean just look at all those Hallmark romance films and their knock-offs on other networks... You can find like 4 new ones a day nowadays, just change the job title and actors, poof, whole new movie with little to no re-writes. But there are still good filmmakers out there with original ideas, just once in a blue moon. Even in major properties like the Star Wars franchise there are rare gems to be found... Those Sequels were trash but did you see 2016's Rogue One? I literally judge that to be the best movie of the entire franchise, even over Episodes 4, 5, & 3! It had the most real drama by far. Some say Chris Nolan makes great movies this century but I think he's a bit overrated... Still got a nice style, however. I'm actually quite surprised how good a few movies are that a B-list actress named Samara Weaving keeps finding herself in. Go check out "Ready or Not" from 2019 to see what I mean. Just wow. Mahem and Guns Akimbo were also brilliant. She was also Bill & Ted's daughter in B&T3... She's really great a picking roles and practically any movie she's in should be a cult classic. One things for sure; the better the movie, the less the mainstream seems to talk about it. This is the root of your problem. Enjoy! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker US grabs even more sea around it... THIS is why you need to put your seastead out 200+ nautical miles from everyone. https://www.earth.com/news/the-u-s-just-expanded-its-territory-by-a-million-square-kilometers/ This year it's more shelf, who knows what it'll be next year. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I don't even grok how her contract as a cast member of The Boys would allow her to do this! She's absolutely unrecognizable like this and frankly Hughie is too good looking for her now! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker LOVE Andor. & this is such a great, universal quote. In fact, the whole time period in the Star Wars universe centered on the rise of the rebellion, from Obi-wan's miniseries up until my namesake blows up the death star, has an extremely bitcoin rebellion ethos. That includes the following series & movies: (In chrono order) *Obi-wan Kenobi (miniseries) *Rebels (Animated series) *Andor (Livce-action Series) *Rogue One (Movie) *Star Wars A New Hope (Movie) The best star wars movie ever, IMHO, is Rogue One, but it's hard to pick the better series between Andor and Rebels. Sure, the animation feels chincey with Rebels but the story is oh-so-good, and 100% cannon. In fact, the new live-action Ahsoka series is a direct continuation of the Rebels story set years later. As bitcoiners we should all absorb every quote and lesson that Andor, Rebels, and Rogue One have to offer us. They were made for us more than anyone else. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Very interesting... But I still want an input method that can be used in quiet or adversarial environments. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Did you actually just post that to the guy who sells satscards and opendimes? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Time-delay those fiat bitches by using CashApp to turn BTC into fiat on the fly, and only use that to pay off credit cards (and the rent payment.) Everything else you buy (on credit) will be delayed and paid off with bitcoin. Win/win. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Can you do CashApp? Lots of folks #OnZero like myself use only it + credit cards now. Can't beat that combo. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Yes, but that "if" isn't trivial. C'mon man, stop shitposting and start making Lightning work for every last human! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker So psyched about this new federation of them... 19 Circular economies & counting! https://fbce.io/ npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I am regrettably this old. https://i.nostr.build/xPkV.jpg npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Last year it seemed everyone on both Bitcoin Twitter and the legacy media both were talking about it. This is probably less than 1% of that. 😢 npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker It's a big educational push by bitcoiners to new bitcoiners that still have their coins on an exchange; we basically teach or remind them to take their coins off exchanges like coinbase and move them to cold storage every Jan 3rd. Search X for #ProofofKeys and you'll see there have been a few people talking about it this year afterall, mostly since my note. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Am I the only one who is bummed out today that no one is talking about proof of keys at all? It's bitcoin's 15th birthday and there isn't even a thread about that in the top 15 posts at r/bitcoin. Nor is it any kind of trending topic on X! Only here are people talking about bitcoin's Birthday but I guess because we're all maxis already there is no need to talk about proof of keys here. So noobs won't have any enticement to get their coins off exchanges this year. :((( npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker New trailer for Aisland Seasteading video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyOtNPMryEA&lc=UgyGEVP5ZwjaMn4Y81N4AaABAg This short teaser trailer shows the conditions on the Aisland seastead much more clearly than before, and was obviously produced for the 1 year anniversary of the seastead's launch. Good stuff. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I'm a L2 maximalist. ;) We certainly need it for bitcoin to become useful currency, but I don't think we're going to see a single L2 defeat all the others for quite a while, maybe centuries... Because TradFin (Nations, banks & corps) needs their high-KYC'd, well-regulated Bitcoin while bitcoiners want the opposite. (And Senator Warren can't stop us getting it.) Thank goodness more than one L2 can be popular at once. I'd ideally like to see ETFs and bank-custodial Bitcoin in use by TradFin while the rest of us choose the L2 flavor that is best for us individually. Maybe we even have room for a more Private L2 (for extreme privacy) beside the existing ones today. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Now define L2s... Are the ETFs L2? They're going to win by many metrics. Is custodial lightning L2? It's going to beat the crap out of self-kept lightning. Are individual Fedi federations all L2? One of those, if done right, has the possibility of eclipsing lightning too. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Tell us you haven't done the math without saying you haven't done the math. You're talking about blocks of infinite size... We literally fought a war in 2017 and won against a majority of miners and businesses who just wanted to double the block size... Your proposal is redonkulous. We fought that war because doubling the block size would drastically reduce the number of nodes & harm bitcoin's decentralization/self-sovereignty. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I've had so much faith in lightning for so many years it really kills me to agree with you, but today I think I finally can. The way I see it, there are 4 _Bad_ Problems with Lightning that stop adoption: 1. Inbound liquidity is needed - In practice this requires custodial wallets. (& autobalancing costs money!) 2. Bad UX - (Not UI, but the difference to users in applepay and ensuring channels are liquid.) This will likely requires AI to fix! (But then that would be a security problem) 3. Lower security than on-chain (no hardware wallets for lightning) How can we move to the 2nd layer if we only think of the base chain as a safe place to store our wealth? 4. Possibility of being forced to pay channel open/close fees. Imagine having a bank account that regularly debited you for fees for what they do on the backend. Ain't nobody gonna put up with that in the long run! There are certainly other problems but these four are biggies because they seem impossible to crack. Man I hope I'm wrong but that's how it looks today. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I prefer to let the fee market price those nitwits out, but I'm glad you did this with Knots so we can see the difference in performance between clients. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker My Wavlake artist profile: https://www.wavlake.com/profile/lukeparker For those nostriches that didn't already know, I was the artist known as "CryptoKnight" that put out a few bitcoin parody videos back in 2017-2019! I just added them all to Wavlake, and if I earn more than a few sats over there I might start making more. Enjoy! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Holy Crap! Seasteading looks like it's finally starting to take off! I've been closely following Seasteading since 2010 and eventually I got to the point where I was numb to all project announcements because no floating platforms ever materialized. Then in 2019 there was a brief moment of hope with Elwar's little house on the water, at least until the Thai Navy attacked, and things quickly went back to zero. But that was somehow enough to start a new revolution in seasteading. Four years later and now we have a plethora of projects that are actually taking shape! Here's what's got me excited for seasteading again: 1. Sam's barge-based Seastead now floating in the Indian Ocean. (You can see it in this crowdfunding video for a documentary about it: ) https://geyser.fund/project/floatingcity 2. Ocean Builders begins selling their Deep Water pods that have the underwater room, fit for deep-sea seasteading! (You can watch them lowering the new type of spar here: ) https://oceanbuilders.com/blog/lowering-the-spar-into-the-water/ 3. Most encouraging of all, Ocean Builders has also announced that they have already backlogged over 300 (!) orders for their seapods in varying configurations. They are now moving into their 'sea neighborhoods' stage of planning. (Watch OB President Chad Elwartowski explain it here:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0eEIKI510M These three things are happening now, not at some far off date in the unproven future. By this time next year I hope to see a neighborhood of seasteaders floating off Panama and several barges linked together hosting a budding deep-sea neighborhood in the Indian Ocean as well. These are both things I never could hope before now would happen in the forseeable future. And hey, don't forget all those other juicy projects at the seasteading instutute: https://www.seasteading.org/active-projects/ Surely one or two of those will pan out too! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Damn, if you raise that bar any higher we'll all need telescopes to see it... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Need to work on that OpSec brah... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Hi Oswald! Thanks for responding here. I've got so many questions about both the barge Seastead and your film. I'll number them for you below to save time, feel free to take your time answering them. 1st of all, I looked at the seasteading.org projects list and the only one they have listed in the Indian ocean is "Freedom Haven," although it is still listed as in port. Is Sam's seastead associated with that? If not, is the seasteading institute aware of his project at all? Secondly, what are Sam's main goals/hopes/dreams for his project? Is it about floating autonomy, or more of a technical showcase? Is he trying to make new land because he's anti-state, or is this more of a project to house the poor/immigrants/those in need kind of thing? 3rd: Which flag is he going to fly? 4th: What kind of economy does Sam hope for this project? Is there a type of job that Sam feels this environment is best suited for? 5th: What power & freshwater generation capability does the have here now, and what does he have planned for later? 6: About the barge's maintenance, will someone have to actively scrape the rust & life off below the waterline? 7: Does Sam have a plan for inviting/allowing immigrants yet? 8: Does Sam have any defense plans for Pirates or other hostiles? 9: Does Sam have any type of governance structure planned for the community on his seastead? 10: How did you meet Sam & hear about the project? 11: What's your background in seasteading? What do you hope to see it achieve? 12: What event/scenario/goal will you need to cover in order for your docu to be finished? Thanks again for your work in the space and I will help spread the word over multiple platforms. Cheers! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Works smoothly for me, but can't find the relay settings page in it... Future addition perhaps? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker In a bull market? Good luck. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Agreed, and yes the existing apps could use a little more improvement first. Maybe Jack's right, search is what they're missing... We've already got some great starts just missing that. I personally wouldn't even talk much about keys; I'd just show (in video form when possible) an automatic login using a wallet & LN-Auth. Everyone has a phone, this login UX is a great selling point. I've been thinking about a script for such a video for a while now, mulling it over in my head. Waiting for search to be perfected could take another 5 years though; I need to draw a line in the sand and turn this into video before I get old and gray... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Decentralizing search itself seems impossible. We're likely stuck with private search providers. The thing that centralized Google as our legacy web search provider was simply that they produced better search results than all the others by a wide margin. Like all other decentralized systems, the only way I see to stop that happening to private search providers in Nostr is for them to share a search distribution protocol. Do you think it would be possible for Nostr devs to work together and build a single search protocol for all their apps that includes results from all present and future private search providers? Or will the problem always remain that a new private search provider could pop up that is so good they'll steal eyes away from the in-app search results? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I eat out a lot and the shrinkflation I have been seeing, in all restaurants since covid hit, is simply redonkulous. It's the most constant topic of conversation at our mealtimes, which items we discover that very day that have fewer items or smaller portions for the same price. It's absolutely constant now. I haven't touched a big mac in years, but if they are even 50% of the size that they used to be I can guarantee you that most of their weight is strictly cheap additives somehow. Probably cancer-causing additives, too. They just stopped caring last year.