Oddbean

I’m not here to spout politics, there’s enough of that on other platforms. I’m interested in keeping up with the latest technology, interacting with it, and being around the bitcoin community with the most signal. I sort of get the “stand and be counted” argument you’re making but I can’t get around unbalanced tradeoffs it creates. Sure, you get to stand for a greater cause and “the man” or whomever can audit and say, wow look, all these real people have a belief. For me it gets back to—verifiable to whom? Also the platform is such right now that zaps are fairly transparent. Nostr has pulled back the veil in certain regards and put “faces” and names with certain lightning transactions. Requiring verifiable humans, I feel opens a can of worms around financial sovereignty.

yeah, I can see that — as I said I created a separate account to ask technical questions for op sec reasons too. But yeah, I don’t think it’s so much about particular verifiability as there can always be fakes, but generally if people were really fed up with something, and it was just posted openly by prominent and regular people alike, the State would take notice in a hurry. I would also like to see financial transactions to be as private as possible where desired. Maybe there’s a way for NOSTR to join zaps in a pool and unjoin them to obscure it to third parties.