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2024-08-28 20:44:49

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Yep. This one seems obvious to me, tho. Maybe I should work on a NIP, myself…

2024-08-28 20:43:39

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What, then, differentiates real estate from other forms of property?
The whole thing may be illegal. But the laws are not immutable.
Really just comes down to how close the needle is to people NOPEing the fuck out of the US with their money.
Way ahead of them.

2024-08-28 20:41:40

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I don’t think they care. I am convinced each subsequent generation views the previous gens oversteps as normal - and thus they push the envelope ever forward.
“[new policy here] isn’t that big of a deal - it’s just *one more step* in a long history of steps! It’s tradition!”
This ends in slavery or a revolt.

2024-08-28 16:03:07

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This could be waaaay worse. I need a way to opt out, set a minimal zap requirement, etc. Does muting work on zaps? We’d need a whitelist for zaps - but then that really limits the potential for zaps.
Advertisers are ruthless. They’ll create accounts, zap, and abandon them all to your doorstep faster than you can blink - there is nothing to stop them. They can zap you 1 sat, and it’s a home run in terms of conversions. They’ll play this game until the number of sats they need to send is no longer profitable - and that should be our primary way to control our experience with advertisers.

2024-08-26 19:59:50

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Just a matter of time before there is a massive security breach at Coinbase, too.

2024-08-25 19:22:22

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- shrinking population
- 123% debt/gdp
- $35.2T and growing by $3T/ year, and accelerating
- main export is the devalued $$$
- spending more on public debt interest than our military
- most manufacturing still outside of the country
- technical expertise advantage eroding faster and faster
- dead middle class
- weakening upper class
- growing homelessness in all major cities
- rampant obesity and declining health (check out boomer obituaries - getting younger and younger!)
-communes coming back “in style” as neither gen z nor millenials can afford housing
- marriages on the decline
The US is already dead. Everyone is just in denial.

2024-08-24 02:52:04

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It’s optional, obviously. DRM is how you properly secure. Because the content is segmented, you can pay-to-play, pay-as-you-go, whatever. DRM is how you get secured, distributed hosting. Only the license server has to be controlled (or trusted with a 3rd party), and can easily sit on top of a btc pay server or lightning (or zap, etc etc). This is a solved problem.

2024-08-23 19:14:46

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I am in video. And, to do it right, is a tall order.
I’ve been working on something in my spare time. It will make use of blossom and nostr for the distribution of content and discover ability, but that’s really where nostr’s reach ends.
Video needs to be adaptive to best ensure it can be watched. A lot of people will throw mp4s up and call it a day, but the content really needs to be segmented with sane, adaptive variants.
To aid/incentivize creators, as well as for security reasons, a kind of drm where they can maintain some ownership and/or proof of origin needs to exist. I’ve implemented (from scratch) all of the big DRM protocols, and they are all so close be Ming a great *open* platform - they just need to make use of a creator-owned key pair for identification purposes. What gets harder is trying to tie that with someone who pays for content, and having the option of that content being encrypted specifically for that viewer - this is resource intensive.
Finally, an open license server is needed to manage the collection of streams in a place the creator can control. I am working on this, too. I believe a creator should have the option to take down their content or move it to a different identity if they want. They can’t influence others ability to duplicate it (unless encrypted) nor block those who’ve paid for it from keeping their own local copy.
That’s just for serving the content.
You need a player, which is non-trivial. I think HLS (vs DASH) is more universal (and a shit ton simpler), and is supported by every mobile platform, TVs, and most major browsers (given a JS implementation). So I think a universal format can be achieved.
Then there’s the encoding. To have mass compatibility, you really need to narrow the options to a known “ladder” of quality variants everyone can then follow. If you’re new to video, this is non-trivial. But, existing streaming providers have already settled on a good subset (which we could reduce further - need to optimize for storage!).
It’s a thing. It’s being worked on, silently and anonymously. Security and proof of origin are, I believe, paramount to help reduce distrust.
For me, I’m looking way beyond TikTok clones. I want disrupt the fucking *media* the way websites did to newspapers. And it needs to be open and permissionless. And it needs to be *10x better* than the incumbents (YouTube, media corps). I think it’s not only possible, but likely to organically converge to a medium like nostr. It’s a race to the bottom, cost-wise, right now. We can out-perform all of these companies. But careful thought and planning is needed.

2024-08-22 17:42:39

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Do you ever reflect on just how much time the world is losing by ignoring bitcoin?
I mean, we know that’s the way it is - adoption curves are a thing…
But the longer it takes to reach the 50% inflection on adoption, the more the world suffers. The opportunity cost is so, so much more than lost wealth - it’s literal loss of life. Heartbeats. Slaves to working, oppressive regimes in all forms, a lack of hope.
We have the “legend” memes describing what our future generations will think of those of us who saw, recognized, learned, and adopted early. But the opportunity cost that most will endure means we are not going to be spending much time taking about us early adopters, but the woe the world endured by not adopting. It will be, at best, the way we think of oppressive monarchies in a time of democracy.
Sometimes it just hits you. I guess this thought of yours, Lyn, triggered it.

2024-08-21 15:53:04

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While I don’t disagree that derivatives usually make it easier to manipulate the spot pricing via papering, bitcoin remains perfectly auditable.
I can’t really see how this enables any more manipulation than another exchange coming online.
What mechanics are different here?

2024-08-21 04:39:03

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Why? Almost all of it is not theirs. And cucks have been begging for “institutional interest” - well, this is it.

2024-08-19 19:56:18

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https://m.primal.net/KEno.jpg

2024-08-17 18:38:10

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Plus one for @npub1k8s…6y88 . Have spent a couple of grand with them, all delivered pretty damn quick. The only thing was a lack of notification on the package shipping, but it was there quickly enough.

2024-08-17 04:15:27

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What clock + voltage? What is the avg temp?

2024-08-17 03:51:33

Challenge accepted
#note15dc…xqmd

2024-08-17 03:51:14

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Got deets?

2024-08-16 18:36:44

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Be careful @npub1qny…95gx - this is where corruption really starts to sneak its way in. Be willing to walk away for a while and spend some time in the wilderness to keep yourself grounded. Avoid the temptation of celebrity.
Remember you are mortal.

2024-08-14 02:53:00

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Came to say this. Might just be a perfect movie.

2024-08-08 18:58:18

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Did I miss something? What brought this on?

2024-08-06 19:03:39

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One of the few actors I am optimistic about. I try not to have heroes, but hard not to cheer @npub1cn4…3vle and @npub1ex7…vyt9 team on.
It’s my belief that Strike is going to be one of the biggest players aiding the transition from fiat when we hit the adoption inflection point.

2024-08-06 04:00:10

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Pics or it didn’t happen.

2024-08-05 17:30:15

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Hell, Bear Stearns. Wen Lehman 2.0?

2024-08-05 17:28:09

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The biggest dips are after the first fed funds rate cuts. With extreme precision.
All of you fellow stackers sitting on that stinky fiat hoard, waiting to buy - the time is near! But it is not yet.
This dip is just the pre-game.

2024-08-05 00:27:22

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The issue has nothing do with JavaScript and everything to do with the dumbasses building the frameworks.
Just look at OG Java. Same thing. Fuck, they have frameworks to build other frameworks.
But yeah, JavaScript can be pretty stupid, too.

2024-08-04 20:21:31

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Ah, thanks for this!
Sometimes, when I need to be humbled, I’ll look at the vastness ocean or the starry night.
Other times, I look at the products of human efforts, like this one, and am so deeply embarrassed by our species that I feel small again.
Stay humble, stack sats.

2024-08-04 20:14:22

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I’m in! Happy to be an early builder. Lemme know.

2024-08-04 19:49:32

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Life funds a way…

2024-08-04 19:38:57

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Something very familiar about this…
https://m.primal.net/JnoI.jpg

2024-08-01 19:48:49

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If we aren’t trying to reach everyone on the planet with freedom-enabling tech (wherever they may be), then what the fuck are we even doing?

2024-07-29 00:56:45

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What kind of power draw have you seen on just the 2 chips? Would expect better than 33w

2024-07-27 23:38:56

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Bitcoin conferences are for rent seekers and influencoors. Maybe some narcissists that aren’t already the former.

2024-07-27 18:51:19

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That’s why attending these conventions, unless you persons is already publicly correlated, is a Bad Idea.
I can’t help but feel all of these conventions should be virtual and protecting the very things they are convening over. But, there’s not really as much money to be made that way, is there?

2024-07-27 00:54:12

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Yep.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_bombing

2024-07-26 00:02:15

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This isn’t sarcasm.

2024-07-18 17:16:26

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Ideas cannot be owned.

2024-07-18 03:28:02

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Ah… and also you can have a single npub “address” resolve any of N servers, as well?
If so, that’s huge! Root btc nodes need to be on this pronto in addition to dns.

2024-07-18 03:20:12

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Very helpful. Gracias!

2024-07-18 03:19:39

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Right… with blossom, tho, it’s possible to have static data replicated, tho, right? Doesn’t help with anonymity per se, but does make the data anti-fragile.
So if the data in question was executable code - a script maybe - and then paired with a similarly distributed database (like SQLite)… you could have the beginnings of a distributed app. The database just needs to be filled with CRDTs that can be merged however…
Yeah… if I’m understanding this correctly, you could use this as an address scheme to a distributed app.

2024-07-17 19:34:38

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Can you give a rundown of how this actually works? I am struggling with so many parts…
What does “bringing TCP” have to do with http hosting? They are two totally different layers.
How is data actually hosted? *is it hosted*? Or just relayed from an actual http host? Is this what you mean by TCP? That the relay will relay socket data? That’s… questionable… could lead to all sorts of misuse?
Thoroughly confused.

2024-07-16 16:35:28

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You’re confusing stubbornness with conviction. They are very different.
Conviction is a requirement for progress. It requires constant testing and reevaluation under new info. For this reason, it craves new experiences and ideas. It hardens it. Emboldens it. If it fails any tests, the conviction dies. With time, conviction grows.
Stubbornness is indifferent to progress. It does not care about new data - in fact, it hates it. It runs away from tests and experiences. It wants to live no matter the cost. It lashes out at anything that threatens it. With time, it weakens.
Both react to time. Time has a way of eroding all of the weak things away, and only the strong things remain. Conviction is strength.
Your declaration, itself, is a conviction. You should hope that it’s not stubbornness.
Old people are just grumpy because it can be frustrating watching younger people repeat the same mistakes they made. Those old people aren’t yet old enough to realize that those mistakes are a built-in cost towards growth. It’s a good thing. Really old people smile when they see these mistakes, and aren’t concerned at all. Like watching a child learn how to ride a bike - the skinned knees are a requirement.

2024-07-15 02:53:47

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Couldyou tell us a bit more about that power supply?
Also, what kind of temps are you averaging with them clustered together like that and mounted to a board (not much airflow on the back, which adds a few *C)?

2024-07-13 04:14:47

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Trying to figure out the most ideal form factor of a “case” to mount them to with a 5v rail they can all share with a single larger power supply.
Been a fun little experiment! May try liquid cooling, next. Then going to work on expanding the ideas to support the hex or 0xAxe (which doesn’t look ideal to build).

2024-07-13 04:11:10

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Depends on the silicon lottery. I have some that do have better avg hashrate and are more stable when undervolting and staying around 500mhz, and others that need the juice. Still others that can be pushed *hard* and consistently get into the high 700s.
I run large north bridge heat sinks that have 2 heat pipes and a noctua 8mm fan to cool them all in the low 40s.

2024-07-10 18:53:28

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When will block announce availability of these chips in small bulk?
Us plebs would happily produce an open #bitaxe miner design that utilizes them. If decentralization is the goal, this is the way.

2024-06-17 19:26:20

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Everyone should just assume that all data stores will eventually merge / interoperate, if they aren’t already.
Everyone should consider themselves lucky that it is not fully so, already.
Recommend perusing an old sci-fi novel, The Shockwave Rider, that outlined this. Also coined the term, “worm”, I think.

2024-06-13 15:22:11

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Hahahah you think voters are more than piggy banks…

2024-06-07 02:59:45

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Awesome! But fuck! Now I gotta buy a bunch of new keys and spend time adding them to all my accounts.

2024-05-31 20:22:19

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This is fucking brilliant.

2024-05-31 20:17:01

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We get a new muppet to maintain the illusion of choice?

2024-05-31 16:16:19

I concur.
#note13ej…qlgk

2024-05-27 18:19:26

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Hear hear. It was about being uncensored and unconfiscatable. It is succeeding like never before.

2024-05-16 20:05:40

I would go so far as to say:
Your USD savings account belongs to the government. They can take it at-will, either by force, law, or just dilution.
This incentivizes you to spend it faster than they can. And the government is really, really good at spending.
#note1ym5…s898

2024-05-13 18:58:15

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Just because one leaves a trail of breadcrumbs does not mean they are hungry.
Just because the data is there does not mean it has to be used to manipulate the origin of that data.
The ad services are free to scoop up this info and do with it as they please. They could be doing it now. That (some) data is there is completely moot to the question of whether the community is better served by handing over permission to be manipulated.
Thankfully, nostr inherently gives users the absolute ability to never lose control over their experience.
The larger question isn’t whether ad-driven clients should be created, imo. It seems it should be “how can nostr protect users from the inevitable onslaught of noise (dms, comments, etc) that will come from amoral actors. A question that has been here the whole time.
I would like to see more brainstorming on this notion, first.
Muting isn’t going to be sufficient. Imagine ddos levels of noise being generated.
All I can think of is super strict modes of “only people I follow and that they follow”, web-of-trust style. But that breaks down when money gets involved (influencers).

2024-05-06 18:29:43

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If only life was so black and white…
For bitcoin to win, there will be losers. And many will not be in the 1%.
We could see everything from businesses failing to retirements destroyed.
It’s not “burning a country”, but there will be broken eggs in order to make the btc omelette.

2024-04-30 19:01:16

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This seems like maybe enough ground to get a case thrown out or force some decisions to be made.

2024-04-29 23:32:46

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*some

2024-04-29 23:32:26

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WTF? This hasn’t been done elaborate joke?

2024-04-27 22:32:35

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Another excellent point!
Similar tactic to Zimmerman defense - it forced the gov’t into a corner.

2024-04-27 22:30:52

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Excellent point! Wallets should have a “read-only” mode which means that they are incapable of signing, and then transmitting, any transactions. The deniable plausibility then becomes “I was just viewing existing transactions, already transmitted and received, outside of the wallet”. Naturally, since apps are global, there is a method to turn this off if outside of the US/EU - and it asks on generation of the private key / account.

2024-04-20 01:04:54

Happy #halving, #psychopaths! 🍻

2024-04-15 19:26:43

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You are not alone.

2024-04-12 19:00:11

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If you think the eurodollar world currently sees bitcoin as stable ground, you are in for a big disappointment. There is still a ton of work to be done and bitcoin, as devoted as I am to its purpose, still has a lot left to prove. I believe bitcoin is, in the long term, the best destination of value during a flight to safety - but it has yet to prove it can handle the eurodollar scale. I think it can, as-is, with some bumps along the way, but the world at large certainly does not agree, else adoption would be higher.
The idea of bitcoin being 10x higher and the stock market being 80% lower at the same time suggests a huge economic downturn (way beyond typical volatility) AND the eurodollar participants exiting the system into bitcoin. Think about all of that value leaving that system and into another, and what that means. Highly unlikely.
Much more likely is that the shift to bitcoin is slow and gradual, such that stocks are fine. OR, if the stock market plunges, it means a huge hit to production - which will hit bitcoin too.

2024-04-10 18:26:29

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Why not? Narcissism has been the tradition since the boomers. Now its a fucking industry.

2024-04-09 19:57:21

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I don’t get these takes. Bitcoin is and always will be tied to economy. If the stock market drops by 60%, it means there is economic distress. This means selling of bitcoin for USD. Bitcoin will go down. People will exchange at least some of their savings in btc for survival.
The same argument (low supply on exchanges) for the price rapidly going up is also the same argument for why it can go down in just as rapid of a fashion.
Until we live in a btc-denominated global economy, this is the way it is.
I am fighting for that future but it is not here, yet. Its fun to dream, but people also need to be real about this.

2024-04-08 18:39:59

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Yep. Despite the errata of Generations/Fourth Turning and pseudo-science-y feel of Strauss-Howe theory, its proving to be remarkably prescient. It fits too well to be dismissed.

2024-03-20 17:14:35

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Savings at large, in any fiat currency, is fucked on a generational level.

2024-03-15 23:05:48

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DON’T THREATEN ME WITH A GOOD TIME

2024-03-11 00:59:55

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The buggest thing that is affecting bitcoin’s USD pair and isn’t priced in is the devaluation of the dollar.
Thats what is really moving the needle right now. Why else are the exchanges (literally pick any one, on wall st or in crypto) showing so much leverage?
The second biggest thing that isn’t priced in is the speed and magnitude of that leverage unwinding.

2024-02-02 23:06:29

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A 21st century Paul Revere’s Ride.
…turns out, it WAS televised.

2024-02-02 23:04:31

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Wait ‘til Liz Warren hears about this shit! There will be hell to pay!
Some has GOT to stop this before millions lose out on their testnet retirement funds.

2024-01-13 18:23:04

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Then there is the typical games played with prolonged float on volume before settlement (t+1 or 2) that enabled temporary btc to “appear” before settlement.
“Temporary” makes one think its not a big deal, then you realize they can do this every trading day, forever.
THEN there are the coming derivatives (beyond existing futures) that will be ran by the same people runnubg each ETF.
These are wall st games. And many bitcoiners cheered for this.
I’m just gonna continue to self-custody and chill.
Fuck wall st. Roll your 401k into a self-directed IRA and buy corn you can self-custody yourself.

2024-01-07 01:30:51

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YES! …but no soeech synthesizer? And where’s the tape backup?

2023-12-22 18:10:41

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Andreas already nailed this:
The internet of money.

2023-12-20 19:21:28

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Reputation or work?

2023-12-17 18:25:14

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Reputation systems should be based on work, not socializing. So merit it is, then.

2023-12-17 18:22:48

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WE SAVE (for) THE FUTURE

2023-12-17 18:19:18

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Back in my day we did this with ol’fashioned linear regression! *shakes fist*

2023-12-17 18:18:14

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…unless its a deathmarch. <demotivator>

2023-12-10 18:36:06

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Hey - thank you for those annual reports (and all of the other stats you collect).
I read it every year, and compare to the few stats I produce on my own.

2023-12-10 18:33:53

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…and bitcoin is “bad for the environment” lol

2023-12-10 18:25:28

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Can you name another reason to centralize anything?
The point *is* control.

2023-12-09 18:46:49

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I get your point.
But every tyranny, every empire before them has fallen. I see no reason to believe this one is different.
You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The idea is now out there. This is why you don’t need to hope in bitcoin, you can *know*.
You’re only hope is we get it right the first time, for everyone’s sake. But if we don’t, then we will try again. And again. And again. Entire races have seen generations come and go in pure slavery, and yet we keep gaining ground.
Mankind’s instinct and fate is to wrestle with and balance freedom and tyranny.

2023-12-08 01:46:23

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“Saving state”. Ritual requires end-od-day routine of writing down where to pick back up, what stuff to out back in your head, etc. use short-hand. Use notes to speed up rebuilding state in your head.
Often, for me, this involves writing down next few steps, what questions are unanswered, and recently answered questions. That’s usually enough to jog memory.

2023-12-07 18:38:39

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I LOVE this.
Got a real Avatar kind of vibe to it.

2023-12-07 18:36:17

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Lol. Hashrate will move, regardless. Their may be pain during transition but the net result will be even more decentralized mining as the non-“public” miners move to other locations/pools with better conditions.
Either the economics of bitcoin work, or they don’t. They are based on allowing the free market to do its thing. I don’t believe this can be stopped. If authorites squash/capture one market, two free ones will pop up to replace it due to incentives alone.
Nah, if there is any brains at all with the authorities, best to keep a quiet eye on it as-is less they force it adapt and decentralize even further. China made a big mistake. I suspect the IS may learn from that.

2023-12-07 18:30:58

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Yes. And if they are juicing the mempool with garbage ordinals, eventually that ponzi will die out.
In the meantime, everyone learns a *little* more about lightning and node configuration.
Can’t stop the signal.

2023-12-07 18:29:17

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Like bcash et al? I welcome it. Growing pains, which was op’s point, but good for bitcoin at large.

2023-12-07 18:28:06

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One of the best ways to move things forward is put something out there that you KNOW is wrong, and then stand back and let others tell you how its wrong (usually followed by showing you). A good tactic when things stagnate. People LOVE to tell others how wrong they are.
This is good for StratumV2. Will push thibgs forward.
There have always been, and always will be, bad actors in the bitcoin space. Makes us stronger!

2023-12-07 17:51:36

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I always get a little nervous watching people be so eager to make changes to a protocol due to valid usage that they don’t like.

2023-12-07 17:05:14

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BITCOIN IS NOT A DEMOCRACY

2023-12-07 02:29:26

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The lack of another electronuc master was worth ditching it from the beginning. Then batter battery life, etc.

2023-12-06 19:53:29

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Literally all that matters.
Take it away and the system is useless.

2023-12-06 19:52:17

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Man, thank you.
I dunno why this concept is so hard for people to work out on their own.
Too fucking focused on the fiat value vs the freedom they have a chance at obtaining/maintaining.

2023-12-06 19:48:50

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Ordinals will die as on-chain fees rise beyond the overall RoR of their value OR people finally realize how truly retarded the concept is. Whichever comes first.

2023-12-02 23:04:30

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Agreed, tho for slightly different reasons.
Like speciation/evolution, after a certain size of population is met votes start to get averaged out.
Voices and opinions get drowned out.
Neutral votes become a much more effective target for manipulation/influencing.
Lastly, it is much, much harder to have accountability be enforced via the populace. Without this check, ineffective/harmful actors are allowed to maintain their seat for much, much longer.

2023-11-30 17:10:18

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Change is hard. Momentum has to build. This is natural.
So long as change is occurring, however small, its a good thing and should be celebrated. Espeically in a world filled with complacency…

2023-11-30 17:08:19

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What about a counter-narrative of:
Bitcoin miners are saving the planet because they use mineral oil to cool themselves (not water) instead of burning it.
Yes, yes - not the same kind of oil. But we are dealing with the people of the land! The common clay of the West! You know, morons.

2023-11-29 17:57:30

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100%. There is an ocean of difference between an unfinished product/project that people knowingly opt into (for free) and those who sell an unfinished product as something final.
On nostr, there are as many or more web clients than native applications. This makes me sad. Its early days, still, tho - and so people are trying out / prototyping ideas. This is sensible. And again, its all up front.

2023-11-29 17:39:29

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Versions? All I see is a russian nesting doll of walled gardens.
One big con.
The real web has no versions.
Who is defining this shit, anyway? Thats the real question. Scams only work once narratives are in place. Whoever is declaring these things are (or are close to) the center of the scam.

2023-11-29 17:19:43

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It’s almost like - oh, I dunno - browsers weren’t meant to be a universal application platform.
The world has forgotten what is possible with properly written software on hardware from 20 years ago, let alone today.
Instead, we have what @saifedean would call “fiat software”. It’s so bad that people are wrapping web apps in #electronjs as a hack to get more desktop-like functionality, break out of the browser, and just add to the security nightmare.
We all need to collectively reject this movement.