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2024-09-01 17:16:45

People are claiming that “not a single serious journalist” thinks doxxing @npub180c…h6w6 was unethical. Is this true? Certainly there must have been at least one “serious” journalist who has weighed in… help me out here https://image.nostr.build/2550ded9f4f60f49dc7f5e17e1a6c2d78205bd0f5a795b5322729f0ef2015227.jpg

2024-08-19 06:42:16

Personhood credentials
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.07892

2024-08-18 07:25:59

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Ok but Gerard has been poking at the Basilisk cult sense well before crypto was a thing. They’re mocking tech fanboys always trying to pivot, hence the word.

2024-08-10 19:28:51

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Based

2024-08-07 06:59:42

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Barack Obama

2024-08-07 06:09:43

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I just got mobhandled over on Bsky for “white knighting for the New York Times”

2024-08-06 19:45:08

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What a commitment to free enterprise and free speech, using courts to force people to support you. True Hero that Elon.

2024-08-06 19:37:29

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I gotcha

2024-07-30 17:48:57

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Implausibly self-serving proposal. Good luck with that.

2024-07-30 17:46:28

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Example of “weird”

2024-07-30 17:43:19

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Wait what is PODCONF and how am I not a member

2024-07-19 00:09:45

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And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is nostr?”

2024-07-18 23:45:25

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That’s what I’ve been saying

2024-07-18 23:21:52

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Speaking of what happens in public:
Chapter 6 of your book would like word
https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/

2024-07-18 03:01:52

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The algorithms are recording whatever you do and you are training them by your behavior. The algorithms will be used on your grandchildren. Act accordingly.

2024-07-18 02:51:14

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It’s like the national anthem out there

2024-07-17 18:13:46

Didn’t realize JDV was lan Alex Jones fanboi
https://youtu.be/OJCrs0Do4IM

2024-07-17 17:26:06

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Nonetheless it’s still better for institutions to hold power than for individuals.

2024-07-17 16:45:52

To explain it in bitcoin terms some of you might understand:
the deep state is the nodes who maintain the ledger
The deep state is what prevents someone who temporary acquires a 51% majority from rewriting everything to their liking
The deep state prevent dictators and tyrannical majorities alike from cleaning house and installing stooges
If a nation has fallen into tyranny it’s because the deep state has failed #note13js…nrtp

2024-07-17 16:41:41

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And just to see the obvious thing, a government whose interests are deep and broad his favorable to a government whose interest is a small handful of oligarchs in their families

2024-07-17 06:46:04

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NYT saying at Trump Vance going to print so much money so bullish https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/us/politics/trump-vance-us-dollar.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

2024-07-17 05:09:43

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Cool we’re in a situation where one of the candidates is actually incentivized to act like Hitler because it’s literally a win-win for him.

2024-07-17 03:29:22

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Anyone is free to make hyperbolic predictions about any of the paths we have before us, this is a long-standing American tradition protected by the first amendment and for good reason; so we can argue about things. The sitting President of the United States claiming that the election has been stolen by specific actors, this isn’t moving the goalposts it’s not the same sport.

2024-07-17 03:23:36

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Sane people Who were just going about their business being sane and all, got annoyed with how stridently you oppose Trump and decided to throw the country away. That’s exactly what happened.

2024-07-17 03:16:27

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I’d love to have the 10 seconds before and after his offer to exchange aid for Ukraine for political dirt, also For 10 seconds before and after all of the tweets where he said that millions of votes had been stolen… what about the phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State do we have a 10 seconds before and after there?

2024-07-17 03:07:48

What could have caused the uptick on assaults on election workers?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/election-workers-are-being-bombarded-with-death-threats-the-u-s-government-says

2024-07-17 02:56:32

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So because the system held when he took his first shot at it, and it wasn’t as bad as people were originally saying we should let him take another shot? The deep state can’t hold forever.

2024-07-16 18:01:34

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….a lot of people made Kyle Rittenhouse an instant celebrity, hero of the FAFO movement, let’s agree to go just as hard on anyone who gets excited about Kyle Rittenhouse

2024-07-16 16:57:53

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You’re basically arguing against the first amendment which is close enough to Fascism that I have no compunctions about suggesting you’re probably a fascist.
The complete otherization of “the left” and “they” also a tell.

2024-07-16 16:55:57

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If I try to describe a society without aspiring trillionaires who control the communication systems and throw power around like a sledgehammer and you immediately think “murder” that’s on you dude not me.

2024-07-16 07:02:26

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I have no idea what you’re talking about that Press his job is to call what they see. You can’t not report the news because somebody might get mad.

2024-07-16 03:58:46

Concerning
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-america-hungary-again

2024-07-16 03:34:52

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Many things but probably most of all the fact that the guy in the middle of it is claiming that he’s solved free speech, which is the most 1984 thing we have going outside of the book itself. Which would be one thing if he was a crazy person ranting on the street but there’s millions of people who believe him - that’s the most excruciating part to watch.

2024-07-16 02:04:02

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-cDMNdFXSUWr9HulQHDSmOaAE4LRoRpe?si=GxxCXUt6NoRUfqgQ
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/15/archives/nixons-own-expert-criticizes-cutbacks-in-school-lunches-expert.html #note1c3h…qye5

2024-07-16 01:56:38

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This was addressed in Hubermans podcast with Robert Lustig about 2:13:00 I.

2024-07-16 01:53:08

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Even if he loses, Ryan Selkis might be ANGRY and sue you for UNJUST TREASON or something. Privacy tools make SLAPPs harder to grind out.
Do you have TAILS on a flash drive?

2024-07-15 21:32:59

It was always intended to be a tool for Elon to gaslight people while stirring up chaos. Not broke, functioning as designed.
Elon is trying to dunk on the media for not blurting out “assassination attempt omg” without apologizing for all the misinformation that he amplified. It’s gross. #note133d…cf0y

2024-07-14 20:15:10

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And there are times in the past when journalists have failed to do this and ended up being humiliated, a headline that’s up for 2 minutes that turns out to be wrong will hound them for a long time

2024-07-14 20:10:49

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100%. I’m not a formally trained journalist but I would imagine that rule number one is, “in the middle of a crazy developing situation, only report what you know”.
It might look obvious from 2000 miles away but when you are at the scene of a crowd where gunfire is happening it is very confusing and everybody’s describing different things happening and so you just report what you can confirm. I’m not really sure what the other motivation would be, like they were going to cover this up or something, I’m not really following the logic there.

2024-07-14 18:24:57

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Great work on “collective sense making” :
https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird/

2024-07-14 18:05:12

For those of you who haven’t witnessed a shooting - it’s not like in the movies; The camera does not pan to the shooter, who pulls the trigger, and we all watch in slow motion and the bullet flies toward the target.
It’s more like, you hear sone unexpected sounds and people just start going apeshit

2024-07-14 18:00:58

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This is what we knew had happened at the time and this is the way that media reports things; it’s literally their job.
Why is everybody so triggered?

2024-07-14 17:46:11

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Why is it hard to comprehend that they have protocols for this type of event that don’t involve just blurting out whatever other people are screaming?
Their job is to not report speculation or false information.
Are they reporting false information?

2024-07-14 17:08:14

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Based. I’m done with X for a while. Elon and friends are gaslighting, claiming to promote free speech when they are just trying to promote chaos so they can mold their own truths.

2024-03-03 19:36:47

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If I’m running a full node on windows is there a quick way to count the number of UTXOs that have less than .001 in output?

2024-02-09 19:18:39

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Wait so is nlock time Not Related to check sequence verify

2024-02-09 19:17:22

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I guess I would have thought naïvely that the n Lock is part of the locking script for example in a lightning transaction The locking script has various pads and some of these paths involve n locks

2024-02-09 19:13:53

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In the bitcoin software is the data structure of outputs considered differently than the nlock times? I’m confused reading a description of CTV because it refers to the outlets and also the nlock I would think that the N lock is contained in the outputs

2023-12-23 18:46:22

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Thanks

2023-12-23 18:30:42

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Is she here? My nostr search functionality is not effective

2023-12-07 22:22:41

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Wow this is really wow

2023-12-07 18:42:06

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Right the free market is great until you get smacked by the invisible hand and then it’s cruel
FUCK YOU INVISIBLE HAND

2023-12-07 18:41:07

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What the holy hell did Elon smoke before going on stage?

2023-12-07 18:38:40

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Limpwar is better and it’s only 3.58 or free if you download it

2023-12-07 18:35:19

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That was actually a clever thing he did, blocking people who liked posts that disparaged him so that people would get pissed they were blocked and retweet the screencap of the block, and also preempt them from chiming in with inane comments like “Gosh what a dumbshit”
It’s a great technique for BlueSky.
His softwar arguments are horrible, but credit were credit is due, he’s a clever guy who knows who to ride the crowd

2023-12-07 18:26:48

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How about you just give us your Spotify handle and we can decide whether we want this or not

2023-11-28 23:11:46

Charlie Munger - Feeling Like a Victim is Perfectly Disastrous
https://www.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger

2023-11-28 00:42:00

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Would be sparse unless you followed a ton of people or you're all looking at the same house. Is there something fancier than "just show comments from people I follow?" What I think would eventually happen is you would have to get whitelist stamping organizations.
I guess maybe you could think of two tiers - people I follow and people who satisfy some criteria that allows me to see their stuff in broader settings

2023-11-28 00:20:26

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Red Team here: Who is going to stop SEO management corporations from flooding every commonly hit url with astroturf ads?

2023-11-28 00:18:27

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Hey it solved racism and transphobia I think anonymous internet yelling should at least be given a shot to fix inflation too

2023-11-27 23:11:22

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We were all younger in the past, so hard to tell, but I remember it being glorious.

2023-11-27 23:09:38

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It's nice that there is a network whose bread and butter is something other than who is calling whom racist/sexist/transphobic/anti-semitic today

2023-11-27 20:10:32

"Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-insurrection-act-2024-election-03858b6291e4721991b5a18c2dfb3c36

2023-11-27 19:40:57

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I was for a minute, but I just went ahead and went with satellite.earth and it seems fine... thanks

2023-11-27 19:25:48

Is there a good way to interact with nostr from a windows desktop that doesn’t require being diverted to GitHub and installing from source code?

2023-10-13 00:46:23

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What are the most common opcodes in bitcoin

2023-10-13 00:18:07

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What objects or classes have .context.nIn as methods or variables?

2023-10-13 00:11:43

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What’s the notation for defining a method of a class in C++?

2023-10-13 00:07:12

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Would you be able to tell me where in the bitcoin core GitHub I could see any of the above objects?

2023-10-13 00:05:14

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What objects have stack as an attribute?

2023-10-13 00:03:59

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OK so with in the bitcoin code base what object would this be referring to what object would have execute_bip-119 as a method?

2023-10-12 18:46:51

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Ok so for this BIP 119 what other classes are used?

2023-10-12 17:47:55

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OK so to be clear, this part of the code is involving an instance of CTXin?

2023-10-12 17:46:34

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Thanks! So what does “self” refer to? Like what class or object is being used when this part of the code is being run?

2023-10-12 17:43:42

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Hey cyborg. Long time no talk to.
Anyways do you know much about the code base in bitcoin? What about the BIPs? In BIP 119 the code refers to something self.vin what object or class is being referred to here?

2023-09-25 18:30:19

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“ As a result, a coalition of ES-miners is not stable. In short, a coalition of ES-miners cannot form and will not survive.”
Not a thorough analysis…. This idea comes up a lot that somehow coalitions won’t form because people could break them and form other coalitions. 1) Actual coalitional game theory has notions of kernel and nucleus and stable set etc that take further horse trading into consideration 2) Empirically in the real world coalitions do form and tend to have cohesion, the real world is not zero viscosity

2023-09-25 17:17:46

MicroStrategy owns 158425 Bitcoins.
The entire security subsidy for 2025 is 164250 Bitcoins.

2023-09-20 05:52:01

So with #spiderchain can one set of orchestrators steal? And if they do, does that muck up the whole stack of LIFO pegged coins?

2023-09-11 17:53:44

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https://youtu.be/nSc0GoVRqtE
“Competition is for losers”
As soon as it becomes feasible miners will start to engage in anti competitive behavior.

2023-09-11 17:48:48

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1. Validate his concern with Saylor. He has had legal issues and there’s no reason anybody should be turning a blind eye or going full whataboutism to defend him just because he’s bullish. Ignore Saylor, he’s just a loud voice.
2. Bitcoin is a unique Schelling point, there’s 10000 smart Ivy dudes working on other projects that are competing but only one clear Schelling point.

2023-09-11 17:00:15

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Basically, Bitcoin nodes, then

2023-09-11 03:49:30

We don’t need decentralized Amazon we need the absence of centralized behemoths like Amazon. #note1kek…eevt

2023-09-10 18:25:03

Think for yourself and think critically.
Is it a conspiracy theory to suggest Mr Snowden is a simply a Russian asset trying to distract us from the fact that Elon Musk is unilaterally making decisions about which nations attack which nations? (Russia)
The real danger isn’t sprawling inefficient bureaucracy trying to minimizing impacts of a pandemic it’s with centi-billionaires who have no rules and answer to nobody, control the flow of speech and other information, and are free to partner with dictators across the globe. #note148d…l2wx

2023-09-10 17:30:07

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Now do Elon Musk

2023-09-10 02:48:31

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It could set up a path. One day, some miners are struggling so they decide to collude and mess around with a drivechain. Drivechain go south. A year or so later, the same miners are struggling, now they’ve already grooved the road to collusion. People often overestimate the speed at which miner collusion would destroy the value. It wouldn’t be overnight. Plenty of time to take their profits and go do something else.

2023-09-10 02:32:58

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Majority miners if they existed could not make such choices without nuking the entire L1. A problem with DC is It gives miners who might be willing to collude a little playground where they have fun doing reorgs and few sniping and other shenanigans without hurting the main chain.

2023-09-10 02:29:07

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The drivechain folks are promising people get whatever they want. Why not? Publicity stunt might pay off

2023-09-10 02:25:52

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Just the place where Ye holds his coin so he doesn’t have to remember his keys

2023-09-10 00:05:51

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Who/what is the scam? Maybe DC bad idea, but who is scamming whom?

2023-09-09 20:41:47

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If a miner included a Kanye Weat drivechain proposal in a block, would other miners ack it? It’s a legit question. What if Kanye bribed miners for two weeks ?

2023-09-09 20:39:52

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It’s 100% political among the miners. If there are situations in which it’s appropriate to steal a lockbox, the process will be controversial, hence political.

2023-09-09 18:55:37

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Just like the Wisconsin Republicans are hoping to impeach a judge they don’t like before even before hearing a case. Political nuclear options often become acceptable when they shouldn’t be.

2023-09-09 18:54:08

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Right. I’ve suggested the Kanye West is a good candidate. Well known, maybe paranoid to have other people keep his keys, maybe doesn’t trust himself to keep his keys … why not just trust hashrate escrow? No key hygiene required.

2023-09-08 21:13:55

If Elon Musk is your idea of a sovereign individual, then our goal as a society should be to eradicate all sovereign individuals.

2023-09-08 02:55:29

Bitcoin security model is not a ”budget”
https://youtu.be/0bUpF0wJrxo?si=X-UZXCJkee5Gfx3v

2023-09-07 01:42:52

“BuT FiRSt HanD AcCounT”.
Really? Tucker Carlson can fuck a hedge trimmer https://image.nostr.build/e303a20cb3840f06958072d663a34c564e2ba67e8cb9e3362b1d40ba227581ec.jpg

2023-09-06 18:25:01

The problem with relying on the private jet class paying for proof of work is that the private jet class does not need or care about proof of work. #note1l0d…se0d

2023-09-06 18:22:15

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Where are people suddenly getting this “hurried and contentious” thing? Paul has been talking about this for well over half of Bitcoin’s existence.
I think people are just turning away from any uncomfortable discussion of security budget by saying “well nobody knows”

2023-09-06 17:52:02

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I have some objections to this analysis.
The "wildly contradictory" arguments that you point to are precisely the problem: Fees could be so high that only rich people can use L1 (plebs sure aren't going to spending $50 every transaction) while at the same time even these higher fees could represent a such a small fraction of total market cap that it doesn't keep things secure.
My understanding of the drivechain idea is that it's aiming to aggregate huge volumes of lows fees up to main chain. It's not clear that it would work exactly as planned, but it does represent a possible Goldilocks arrangements that doesn't fall back onto Saylor's silly "oh but rich people pay to transport art and pay real estate agents 3%" argument. I'm having trouble picturing high value investors needing to settle $10 million a few times a second.
Certainly, we're not relying on high value investors constantly making L1 transaction to keep Bitcoin running?
If Bitcoin where to obtain this sort of global store-of-value status such that trillions of dollars was changing hands every day, handling transactions off L1 would have become the norm. If I'm a rich folk settling $10 million in a single transaction, it's not the security of PoW that I'm most interested to pay for, it would be the handling of keys and this sort of thing that your average Walmart heiress isn't going to be confident with - so this will be handled by boutique Swiss bankers, who would devise their own ways to skimp paying the billions of on-chain fees.
The problem with putting the security assumption on high net worth investors is that they are the easiest to capture, they don't care about censorship resistance. If the blockchain is captured by a monopoly miner or a cabal of corporations, it need not cease to be a store of value, as long as these high net worth investors continue to believe it's a store of value.
Also, no need to pile on to this "VC-backed" ad hominem: Either it's a well-thought out idea (since 2015) or it's not

2023-09-05 19:36:45

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Elon musk has just discovered that free speech has this funny property that sometimes what other people say has effects on other people, now he’s mad so he does things like suppress views on Twitter that are critical and suing people off Twitter. He has an 8th grade understanding of free speech