Last Notes
Ok I’ll ship to android eventually but not sure how soon tbh :(
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GM #nostr
Awoke to thunder. I can hear the rain coming, but the road is dry. Guess my yard work is gonna get messy😬.
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If Greta wants to be useful she should advocate for more trees to be planted, white pavement, & more efficient ACs, etc.
This summer heat sucks 😫.
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This is a good read.
Bitcoin was always going to become a power struggle at the nation state level. Anything capable of challenging the monetary system was eventually going to attract attempts to control it. At least for now, Bitcoin creates money through work rather than debt.
But what is the end goal?
Simply killing Bitcoin would not remove the threat. The idea would remain, and destroying the dominant cryptocurrency could just clear the field for something harder to control. Maintaining Bitcoin’s dominance while limiting what it can actually be used for makes far more sense.
That means restricting peer to peer use through regulation, while preserving enough transparency to make those restrictions enforceable.
Transparency does not stop P2P. Regulation does. Transparency makes the regulation enforceable.
The declining block subsidy creates another vulnerability. As it falls, the cost of supporting or influencing hash power becomes smaller relative to the financial system around Bitcoin. If maintaining influence over mining has strategic value, it does not necessarily have to be funded by mining revenue alone. Banking revenue can subsidise it to maintain control.
This is why I think Knots was too inconsequential. If it was going to seriously challenge Bitcoin’s direction, it should have thrown down the gauntlet.
Privacy at the base layer, making peer to peer cash much harder to regulate through surveillance. Then a small tail emission, maintaining a permanent market for proof of work and making it harder for mining to become dependent on external financial interests as the block subsidy disappears.
But the more fundamental defence against capture is competition outside Bitcoin.
Maximalism is what enables capture. When one network becomes the overwhelmingly dominant alternative, controlling that network becomes disproportionately valuable. The answer is not to replace Bitcoin maximalism with Monero maximalism. It is to make sure there are always credible alternatives.
Bitcoin should be challenged by Monero, and both should be challenged by everything else capable of doing the job. Different systems should compete on privacy, censorship resistance, security and their ability to function as actual peer to peer cash.
Cryptocurrency was always destined to become squad wealth.
There is a natural economic force behind this. A challenger has enormous potential upside if it takes ground from an incumbent. Its users, holders and developers share in that upside, attracting capital, labour and attention. An incumbent that already dominates has much less upside simply from maintaining its position. By contrast, smaller or emerging systems offer asymmetric returns: if they succeed, early participants are rewarded far more than those in established networks. That dynamic turns participation itself into a form of aligned speculation, where belief, contribution and ownership reinforce each other.
That creates a persistent incentive to back credible underdogs. It can be suppressed through regulation, misinformation or force, but the incentive itself remains.
So perhaps the best thing for Bitcoin is not permanent dominance at all. For Bitcoin to succeed as peer to peer cash, it may need to lose its monopoly on the idea.
The goal is not the end of government. The goal is honest money, accountable government and the end of usury. That does not require one cryptocurrency to win forever. It requires credible alternatives so neither governments nor monetary networks can assume people have nowhere else to go.
The threat of exit is the tension that maintains the balance.
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Should be in test flight soon. Do you have an iOS device?
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GM nostr
what you give, is what you get. put good out in the world and watch it change for the better
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Six planet alignment coming up! Mark your calendars!
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📰 **In this week's issue:**
📖 **What Happened This Week In The Nostr World**
Between August 3 and August 8 alone, the protocol saw four high-severity security advisories published, a new NIP merged for labeling, and a major cli...
👤 NM team
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I am concerned about going ons at CERN.
There’s these videogames called Doom, & Dead Space.
Whenever humanity fiddles with interdimensional stuff (especially on Mars) it doesn’t turn out well 🫤.
Sound on 😂🤣
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Good morning, Nostr!
I'm travelling for the next few days, but I'm still good for a GM, a picture and a zap.
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GM
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GM ☀️ Maria
Cheers to you ☕️☕️ ‘clink’
Glad the homestead is still in motion even if it’s a little slower right now.
Try to stay cool as best you can with your heat
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Today's motto:
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Sometimes that Schizo mfer spitballing random shit is what keeps things interesting.
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Normies: “Those things are bad for society, I wish someone would stop it”
Accelerationists: “Make more of it happen until the masses are motivated to change the paradigm 😈”
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Block 962002
1 - high priority
1 - medium priority
1 - low priority
1 - no priority
1 - purging
#bitcoinfees #mempool
Good morning Nostr 🌞
I am glad I missed that flight because it meant I was put up in a hotel and didn't have to spend 6 hours trying to sleep on the airport floor.
But this morning is really hard for me. I hardly slept 3 hours. I am deeply aching everywhere and have acute pains I haven't had in weeks. I feel really sad how far back this nonsense has set back my recovery.
And also I feel super disappointed. I have a whole ass doctor's note to not carry things or walk much. I should have stood up for myself more and refused to do this trip. I did try to get service to help me. But who could have known it would be this bad.
But also... I could have known. Just last year when I was flying for a conference I had to "sleep" at the Boston airport. I've been stranded overnight every time I've flown domestically for about a decade now.
Currently I'm at 18 hours since I left my home to go to Dallas. I literally could have been there already if I had just driven myself.
I think for my part domestic air travel is dead. Why am I putting myself through this? I feel so deeply sad about how far our infrastructure has fallen 😭
Slow motion reveals the intricate wing mechanism behind a dragonfly’s steady hover. Its four wings can be controlled in different combinations, giving it remarkable control in the air.
📹dannydogelive
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You’ll never have an abusive foid wife that regularly neglects, belittles, and abuses you 😔✊.
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Construction workers on a high-rise during the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Columbia
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Now that’s old school ironing
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Yup I think it is a bad RAM stick
Little monkey loves dragon fruit 🐒
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This is me.
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There’s transgenders having gay sex at CERN, and you’re laughing, saying no big deal.
We do not know the mass level implications of this for humanity, and you’re just brushing it off as another Tuesday.
I see people just put up a wire grid and grow vines, all the time. They lose the leaves in the winter and then the terrace is sunny again.
Just enjoy what I’m doing, not what I’m wearing. 😜
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Rules of the High Peaks. ❄
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You're such a loose-lipped nutter, mate... Why don't you take an hour to retreat into reflection and practise some deep meditation?
Yeah, same vibes, fr.
To be honest, devs blocking software testers is not a good look, but okay.
China built this massive “super microscope” to explore matter at the atomic scale, with over 100× the brightness of older facilities.
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This brand new cruise ship is 322 meters long, weighs 156,000 tons, carries over 3,500 guests, has over 20 bars and restaurants, and features 4 pools plus a roller coaster built into its waterslide.
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Little girl trying octopus for the first time…
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Calle is a little gay boy if he did block you.
I mean yeah he does things but the Bitcoin ego stroking cult is insufferable.
People who aren’t willing to different opinions aren’t people that should be trusted.
Personally, they give me mad NVK vibes.
@nprofile…nj27 could it be, that your lithning adress is corrupted? When I try to send on Amethyst I get an error.
Last @nprofile…kr2f for a while? @nprofile…zslp @nprofile…qy52
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Bitcoin was never the dream.
Free, uncensorable, fully-accountable, self-custodial money was the dream.
The dream is the problem to be solved. Bitcoin is _currently_ the best solution to solve that problem.
What I see too much of, in the Bitcoin space, is people choosing the solution or altering the solution, and then warping the problem to match it. And then we risk ending up with an unsolved core problem, after we thought that we had already solved it.
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