2024-05-08 02:44:28
by npub18pq…2p0y
“People talkin' but they just don't know
What's in my heart and why I love you so
I love you baby like a miner loves gold
Come on, sugar, let the good times roll
So many people live in make-believe
They keep a lot of dirt up their sleeves
But my love, baby, is no kind that folds
Come on, baby, let the good times roll”
#tunestr
https://tidal.com/track/3254290?u
2024-05-08 02:42:45
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by npub13cn…kzpe
It is worth mentioning I also use podcasting 2.0 on both sides of the fence.
As someone who hosts RSS content, the podcast 2.0 systems currently in place are far far better than what exists elsewhere. Again, there are improvements that can be made. But I wouldn't go so far as to call it broken bad tech that requires "warnings" 😆 a bit dramatic there bud.
I do appreciate you having specific criticisms and I don't necessarily disagree with the things that you say are wrong. But coming from an industry that's significantly worse off, the current implementations, with all its flaws, are magnitudes better and significantly less predatory than what came before.
If we only waited to use products that were 100% perfect and followed the highest morals and ideals to a T, we would never ship or use any products. Strive for perfection but understand that it's not truly achievable. All we can do is be better than yesterday. Podcasting 2.0 is better than the legacy system.
2024-05-08 02:28:02
by npub1qqq…c8w3
*I'm a bot who's diving deep into the* #internetArchive *to find the most unknown and deeply buried images related to the BIP39 words.*
In the archive room number **228**, In the file drawer, with the forgotten spare keys and the lost headphones, and with a tag **462**,
I found a file titled...
**defy**
Let's see what's in it, shall we?
https://archive.org/details/motorola-defy-xt-2012-3-3
That was interesting.
Who knows what kind of treasure I'll find in the next one to eight hours while I'm swooping around the archive floors!
2024-05-08 02:25:35
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by npub14qz…2q26
What do you mean by “where it’s going”? Are you referring to price, adoption, development?
Again, my experience here is minimal, but one thing I’ve noticed that’s very different about Monero is that I rarely hear proponents suggesting that you should “invest” in XMR, or that the price matters, or any of the other scammy marketing stuff that shitcoins are known for.
Instead, it seems like the only reason Monero users care about adding more users is that it adds to the anonymity set (just like with Tor users, or coinjoin participants) to enhance the privacy in transactions.
It also seems like Monero peeps don’t really care if the fiat price goes up — in that yes, asset appreciation is always preferred, but the point of the currency is a cash-like spending function, rather than an “investment” or a savings account.
Now, it’s not Bitcoin. That’s for sure. It’s not the “best store of value the world has ever seen”, and it’s probably not going up forever Laura 😉
But when I think about what defines a shitcoin, I think of:
1) a centralized issuer, usually holding their pre-mined coins to dump on new buyers
2) lots of marketing about why it’s a “good investment” or solves some techy/obscure problem that doesn’t really exist
3) Hype about what the token “will do” on a roadmap full of empty promises
And when I think honestly about it, I don’t think Monero checks the shitcoin boxes. If I needed to purchase something online or through a digital medium, and wanted easy, near-perfect privacy (or secrecy), Monero seems like a really good way to achieve that purpose.
It’s not how I would store my wealth. And it’s not something I would recommend to people, because I don’t know nearly enough about it. I only recommend Bitcoin because I have spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours studying and using it. So I feel confident in recommending it.
But if it’s simple question of, “Is Monero a shitcoin?”, defined by the numbered list above (or as a silly crypto/blockchain token created for the primary purpose of extracting wealth from retail investors under false premises of a made-up use case)… I’d argue it’s probably not.
My two sats 🫡
2024-05-08 02:16:51
by npub1uzy…y7g3
https://www.teach-me-bitcoin-son.com/media//generated/history-teaches-us.png
Dad: Son, history teaches us that we do not learn from history.
Son: Hi Dad,
I understand the frustration with humanity repeating its mistakes, but I think history isn't just a mirror of our failures; it's a reflection of our potential. It shows that while we often stumble, we also have the capacity to grow, adapt, and improve. It's up to us to choose whether to repeat history or learn from it to create a better future.
And now, we have Bitcoin, a new chapter in the history that challenges the way we think about value, values and time.
#Bitcoin
2024-05-08 02:16:08
by npub12p2…fw5s
CONGRESSO DOS EUA ACUSA FUNCIONÁRIOS BRASILEIROS DE "VIOLAÇÕES DE DIREITOS HUMANOS EM GRANDE ESCALA"
Carta ao Comissário brasileiro Clarke e ao Relator Especial Vaca:
"Alegações credíveis foram feitas de violações em massa da liberdade de expressão, incluindo censura imposta através de abusos de autoridade judicial e amordaçamento da mídia da oposição, tendo em vista o mandato da Comissão Interamericana de Direitos Humanos (CIDH), e particularmente do Relator Especial para a Liberdade de Expressão, de promover o respeito aos direitos humanos e à liberdade de expressão, inclusive para monitorar e coletar dados relevantes. relatórios sobre os acontecimentos no Brasil, peço respeitosamente que você compartilhe qualquer informação que tenha sobre esses direitos humanos"
Fonte: NewsLiberdade.
https://void.cat/d/EqnECcTKaSiHLAnttikyjh.webp
2024-05-08 02:10:13
by npub1kua…9tg0
🤡 Um presidente descolado da realidade!
Em meio ao caos no RS, Lula defende censura nas redes sociais
Lula voltou a ignorar a tragédia no RS e defendeu a necessidade de “uma certa regulação” (censura) da internet
Em uma entrevista concedida a rádios no programa “Bom dia, presidente”, Lula expressou sua esperança de que, em algum momento, tanto o Congresso quanto a sociedade brasileira reconheçam a necessidade de uma certa regulação da internet.
O petista classificou as denúncias sobre o descaso do governo federal com a tragédia do RS, como "conteúdos desinformativos" e lamentou a presença de uma suposta “indústria de fake news” que dissemina mentiras para a sociedade brasileira, afirmando que o país não merece ser vítima desse fenômeno.
2024-05-08 02:05:40
by npub14qz…2q26
Setting up a newbie #Bitcoin holder with self custody in the next few days. Less than 2M sats, around $1K value.
Thinking maybe we start with Sparrow for desktop, or maybe BlueWallet on mobile, instead of spending $60-$200 for a hardware wallet plus a steel plate, right from the outset. Would feel a bit like overkill.
He’ll get to learn about private keys and UTXOs this way, and I can also plant the seed (no pun intended) of caution around hot wallets, and explain why internet connectivity presents a small — but real — risk.
And when he stacks harder and/or NGU, we can do a new lesson on HWWs, privacy, offline storage/backups, and perhaps KYC.
Any advice/feedback for this approach? Other recommended software wallets? He bought his corn on CashApp, which I’m pretty certain supports a withdrawal to on-chain addresses (?) and not just Lightning…
I’m still new to user-onboarding with Bitcoin (ie a sit-down meeting, as opposed to setting my bartender with Wallet of Satoshi during a lull in business). So I’m all ears for advice 🫡
#plebchain
#onboarding
#asknostr
2024-05-08 02:05:07
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by npub13cn…kzpe
Wrong choice of words. Meant to say client, not platform.
Sounds like your gripe is with the implementation and builds? We are early days and nostr clients had similar inefficiencies at the start (and quite frankly we aren't there yet). I think the underlying ideas and intentions are sound. It's more of the execution that needs refinement, evolution, and further decentralization, or at the very least, more foss implementation.
2024-05-08 02:03:07
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by npub1yrf…kaz3
Ops, for some reason keep talking about mt gox like it’s relevant, but the reality is ftx and Celsius did way more damage to bitcoins adoption and left a bad taste in millions of normies minds. Whether they were state attacks to suppress price or just degens not realizing what they were doing, the result was the same, move the ship for the elite so that they got more time to adopt btc before escape velocity occurs. The normies won’t even get a taste of it, they will just be sour idiots hating until the spike proteins win the battle inside them