Wish I was hearing more of this and less “vote trump for price pump” [never mentioning the social cost of numerous freedoms, or goals like the introduction of military presence at protests exercising free speech]
I have no love for Harris, but the idea that the Trump regime would advance human freedom is nonsense. Unapologetic monopolists, through and through.
Bitcoin, regardless of whether it’s at 58k or 100k in fiat terms, is the first (only?) viable opportunity to remove oneself from this endless cycle.
Long read, philosophers welcome, tl;dr-seekers beware 😉
I’ve been thinking deeply today about the concept of action: of freely manifesting the next instance of reality. This concept takes many forms, but today I’m looking at it in the context of speech and Bitcoin/cryptographic sovereignty…
*Running your own node fulfills the direct peer-to-peer nature of Bitcoin’s original state*
So. It’s easy to understand the practical case for running a Bitcoin node, with benefits like the ability to verify your coins and improved privacy.
But there’s also a philosophical consideration that I’ve been mulling over… and I’d love others’ input.
When running a node, you not only verify and sign transactions; you also broadcast them to the network, where another node (peer) can pick up the electrons (loosely described).
If you use your wallet provider’s node, you depend on them to communicate your desired transaction with your trade partner. By using another entity’s node, you sacrifice the pure peer-to-peer nature of the Bitcoin network.
Likewise, by running your own node and freely broadcasting your own transaction to your peer, you take full control of (and responsibility for) your action and its effect.
This isn’t to suggest that “you must run node to be good bitcoiner” or some nonsense like that (although it’s self-evident that running a node is usually good). Most of us still depend on internet and electric companies to achieve any of this stuff.
I’m moreso contemplating different setups and permutations of sovereignty.
There’s something beautiful about the process of communicating your intended transfer of value on your own terms, permission-less-ly, rather than asking a service provider to communicate it for you.
So, I’m coming to view it more as an expression of the principle of freedom of speech.
We know the code-is-speech case, but that’s a little different. As I understand it, it means that freedom of expression includes the math and language of code, such that code is included among in the types of speech to which we have a right.
On the other hand, I’m thinking about the moment of broadcasting a transaction from your own node.
Taking this action is exercising the freedom *to* speak, to express your intention of transferring value.
To broadcast a Bitcoin transaction, from your own node, is to declare your participation in this global network of near-perfect consensus.
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there is something profound about that moment of action, of doing, of “is-ness”, of the truth and reality of manifesting action in the present moment.
Of course, grokking this profound experience is not constrained to Bitcoin transactions — the beauty of being/doing exists everywhere — but I’m struck today by the freeness of action, and how that action is itself an expression of the right to speak and to assemble.
There’s something exceptional about action - generation, manifestation, creation. When the freedom to speak is overlaid on the significance of action, then the choice to run your own node, and to broadcast your transaction directly to the network of your peers takes on a deeper significance and value.
Thanks for reading 🫂🧡
#plebchain #showerthoughts #grownostr #philosophy
Depending on your technical level and your privacy preferences:
Robosats is a peer-to-peer exchange that runs over Tor, and is one of the most private ways to buy Bitcoin (ie you’re not tying your identity to every transaction you make, or making your net worth known)
I believe @strike is now available in Europe. It’s an excellent way to stack Bitcoin, with an ethical company, but like most exchanges requires KYC and reduces privacy. Not sure if @CashApp is in Europe yet, but same thing. Also @peachbitcoin is a European app, peer to peer, which appears to be extremely user-friendly.
Hope this helps 🫡
All good things, and certainly busy (although it’s a different world in wine than in medicine, in terms of what busy means) but not complaining
Definitely looking forward to all the election stuff being in the past that’s for sure
How are the little ones?
So it seems like if you add the fountain.fm relay to your relay list, your notes will appear in the homepage of the fountain podcast app for listeners, regardless of relevance.
Use this responsibly, of course 🫡
I hope that @merryoscar will forgive me if people start spamming it today and create more work for your team. But I know we’d all prefer to kick nostr’s tires and break stuff now, before it gets bigger and with more downstream dependents 🤝
It can be a little daunting to order something (especially when it’s a meaningful amount of sats) online, with a payment method that doesn’t allow chargebacks. I had a moment of trepidation myself.
But I can safely say, Carlo not only fulfills your order honestly and quickly, but he does it with such care and attention to detail that you can genuinely feel his love for the art 🎨
#ShowerThought this morning:
One of the small ways we can all contribute to the growth of Nostr is by lifting up other nostriches, especially those with independent businesses and crafts. Bring more of these business to Nostr. Handle more of these exchanges on Bitcoin.
“Be the change you want to see in the world” as @ODELL says (or was it Ghandi?) and give these artists and producers a reason to show up here, and to promote their presence here, and to drive more users here.
It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy if we fulfill it ourselves 🫡
#grownostr #artstr #plebchain nostr:note1hal744ckjr75wyxv3kwrv8h8mfselqpa9kvg9h5vppshr402fk4s3ceqhh
Yo @𝓢𝓮𝓻 𝓢𝓵𝓮𝓮𝓹𝔂 bro
You writing songs now my dude?
Either I’ve been outta the loop or the #plebchain needs to stop sleeping on our boy Sleepy 😁🫂🤙
This caught me by surprise but I fucking love it. Cheers brother 🥂
#artstr #musicstr #grownostr
https://wavlake.com/track/a4d9a1c7-41ba-4e96-944b-34f696089384
😂 well I thought it may be AI, because it didn’t sound much like your voice lol, but I guess I need more coffee before I start reading the fine (bold) print hahaha
Love u brother 🫂 AI or not this was very fun 🤜💥🤛
Aw that’s awesome! I’ll have to think it over. RHCP is my all time favorite band so I’d be fascinated to see how an AI model tries to replicate their sound. Maybe something like “red hot chili peppers in the mid-2000s with lyrical content that tells the story of [insert epic novel]”
Lord of the rings, GoT, Odyssey, His Dark Materials, etc
Or even better, excerpts from spiritual texts like the Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Tao Te Ching, etc
Might be wild
Lol, this pretty much sums up why this relay is such a great use of sats 💪
One question - what does this mean?
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“Filter also broadcast notes to 3 of the recipients (tagged users) NIP-65 relays”
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I’m reading it as: the relay picks three of the npubs tagged in a note (if there are tagged users), and then sends the note to their preferred relays (?)
Specifically their read/write relays?
The first three tagged users?
How many of their relays?
(Sorry to pepper you with questions lol, just curious because this sounds like another tremendous value-add)
First off, that sucks, sorry to hear.
Now, get your content on https://flare.pub by @zach (the sharp mind also behind flockstr). The UI/UX is incredibly slick, for one thing.
Resilience: your content is published to your Nostr relays, with all the implied benefits that nostr brings.
Reach: I’m not sure how many users there are now, but we know that nostr is growing (or rising, as @NVK might suggest). Even if it’s not your primary platform yet, the redundancy is valuable.
Large file hosting: I’ll defer to Zach for specs/limits but i know you can buy upload credits. Would love to see your content here on Nostr, brother 🤙
Nothing has reach compared to YouTube 🤷♂️
But as nostr’s userbase continues to grow, and as existing social/media platforms begin to adopt Nostr and convert their apps into clients (a la @fountain_app podcasts), then having a robust and well-established nostr presence can only set one up for success 🤙
I’d also offer that in Ben’s case, considering his work with HRF, many of the users who seek out his videos may specifically appreciate being able to access the content outside of the big tech silos and heavily surveilled media networks.
Daylight savings time is silly, but there’s something kind of trippy about watching the clock go from 1:59am to 1:00am.
At least now I can tell myself I’m going to sleep at a somewhat reasonable bedtime 🥱🫂
To GN or not to GN? That is the question… yeah I’m gonna stay here and nost for just a bit longer 📝🤙
When #frost becomes a viable multisig-style tool for nostr private keys, does the cryptography in some way allow for “converting” an existing nsec into a FROST structure?
In other words, could I retain my primary keypair and somehow make it into a an offline key? (Currently it was generated in @damus and has only been exposed to Damus and a pen-and-paper backup).
I’d love to gain the additional security but not have to rebuild the content and social graph that I’ve spent nearly 2 years building. But how?
Or as another route, could I use a new FROST multi/nsec along with an nsec-bunker type authorization tool, such that the new key is the master key behind my bostonwine nsec?
Not sure who to ask… @NVK@rot13maxi and @benthecarman, y’all were discussing on today’s @BitcoinReview or maybe @jb55, or @PABLOF7z - nsecbunker is your creation, right?
Hell, might as well #asknostr
Hot damn 🔥⚡️
While the cryptography is well-beyond my skill level, this is incredibly cool and suggests that a hardware device could in fact support this. thanks 🫂
PS tryin to zap you but getting an error generating LN invoice in damus
Oh yea - depending on your client there’s usually a way to edit your profile > edit Lightning address and you can input something
Depending how familiar you are with Lightning, happy to help with setting that up if you need 🤙
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