No you don't. The greatest societies in history were maybe coincidentally ones where alcohol was normalized; dry societies tended to fade into the background.
What you probably want is just to have better people around you. Cut some slack to those you have now, but not too much.
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A year after I burn my nsec, all I really want to remain are my 5 most profound notes. At that point, there's likely no good that will come to me from the rest.
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There are only two currencies I'm interested in: bitcoin to whatever extent it works, and whatever else is optimal for the rest (I'd choose monero)
Bitcoin is optimal money, but a very suboptimal currency. Flakes of gold were similarly untenable as a currency FWIW.
No I don't mean exchange rate volatility; I mean the costs of using bitcoin P2P (without a third party involved and all the metadata that creates) are too high for most transactions which are small.
Bimetalism may be exactly what we need. One currency that acts as commodity money (scarcity heavy, SoV), and one other to act as credit money (settlement of debts, MoE). I don't think we can have our cake and eat it too with a single asset. For two schools of monetary theory, two sets of constraints & tradeoffs seems sensible 🤷♂️
Fiat Central-Bank Monopoly Money certainly ain't the answer
It doesn't work.
"The nsec is the password. The password to what?"
The answer is: "the nsec itself", not "some system or app"
It's not a simple analogy, and understanding the difference is crucial.
I tried (and failed) to argue the nsec-password equivalence yesterday in a thread 🤣🤷♂️
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Nsec *is* a password and vice versa, so why not just store your proton password in a remote bitwarden if you want a bunker-like solution without nostr? But also, why wouldn't proton just allow nostr logins too?
Oh yeah totally agree! One key to rule them all is a huge problem.
Akin to address reuse in BTC in 2010, we worked hard to solve that the manual direct way long before BIP32 made the issue trivially easy to avoid.
There's more value if folks can get intuitively comfortable with handling multiple keys, not necessarily the hard way but most likely that'll be most effective, before tools make it seem like magic.
We're talking about different things.
If you share a password/nsec, multiple services can be comprimised at once.
If you type a password/nsec into a shady app (proton, a proton companion or clone, or anything else), it'll be compromised.
Both points are true. People shouldn't do either.
People are already better (but still bad) at not reusing passwords. Painting an equivalence between passwords and nsecs helps folks grok the problems with nsec reuse.
Painting a distimction between them creates some very difficult differences in our expectations.
"Identity" on the other hand is distinct, and we do need a way for multiple nsecs to sign for one identity, the same way we have ways to allow multiple passwords to authenticate the same human.
All fair points, but still, you're only looking at the cases where users type nsecs into untrusted apps, which is IMO orthogonal to whether a legacy solution can or should try to be built out on nostr.
We should teach *users* why nsec security is important, not chill *devs* trying to build out the ecosystem. I use amethyst; never gave it any of my nsecs. Why not nostr login on proton too?
Something needs an nsec at some point unless you're doing your cryptography with pen and paper! I use Amber as a signer (on GrapheneOS with network permissions disabled for that app)
I hear ya though, you're definitely not wrong about nsec security! And I was bit off about PW/nsec equivalemce 🙄
Just thought as an amethyst/amber user, it was an odd reaction to nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug s suggestion, because I'd love to conceivably install & open proton, click a button, sign an event in amber (or whatever), and get logged into my (maybe just newly created) proton account. 🎉
A Qubes AppVM for every identity, anon, pseudo, or real, ephemeral or persistent, with tor, clearnet, VPN, or a combination along with custom firewalls configured for each one.
"Now, what were you saying? Something about not liking the colors of the titlebars in #QubesOS?" 🤣
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Never got the sense they "cared" about their customers. Started as a LN GC merchant, added rewards, but still won't send users a LN reward withdrawal 😔
I give HWWs to my orange pills as a tangible "bitcoin thing in their hands" with the requisite disclaimer that it can't be trusted, but neither can a lone generic PC by itself, so 2 is better than one to disperse risk (plus the ceremony of signing offline can be cute & informative)
For me personally though, they're a novelty. I use #qubes for bitcoin stuff on a spare laptop, and keep the seeds in keepass in an offline appvm. The signing ceremony on qubes os is mundane, but effectively the same as an airgap HWW signing.
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"Hey young campaign staffer, your task is to make crypto people like me in November! Go!"
It's a little funny because for a few years around 2010, many normies would be taking on huge career risks (at the time) entering the bitcoin space of gambling & drugs. That emvironment quickly matured, for normies. For politicians though, every fuckimg thing at any time is a career risk, but addressing them is their job. The result is a very amusing set of mannnerisms & behaviors...like I dunno... projecting support or authority with hugely unearned confidence over a thing an intern "studied" for a couple days on their behalf 🤣
I wonder if Lummis can actually work a coldcard? 🤔
"Abolish" (v.): To do away with wholly; to annul; to make void; -- said of laws, customs, institutions, governments, etc..
In the 21st century, this word is only ever used ironically. "Wholly" has come to mean "transitorily, to create a new but essentially similar thing"
Central banking...still exists but differently
Slavery...still exists but differently
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#language #control #warfare
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Keysend: How to find a node pubkey to send invoiceless sats to
Lnurl: How to find an actual invoice to send sats to
A realworld analogy of paying a contractor for work: you can either request an invoice with all the details of the work and payment destination & pay that (lnurl), or you can skip the invoice, swing by their home (pubkey) and just drop off some cash (keysend)
You pass security, buy the case, meet the crew at the gate, combine all the parts & assemble the explosive nuclear quantum bioweapon inside the case, leave it at the gate, board, takeoff ... land in fiji and profit from all the terrorism & money laundering
Not sure about "theft"
If you wanna leave your country (to one that won't extradite you), it's not hard to open & maxout as much credit as you can, buy BTC, leave & never look back.
If your bank wants to take your loan (people often call it their savings) & not pay it back, it's similarly easy, except the banks don't have to actually leave; their lenders (customers) don't do shit as their banks default on their loan/savings, and neither do regulators, rather, they encourage, demand & reward it. 🤦♂️
Few households today demand payment for their services in the economy.
Of the few that do, some of them are smart, and save any leftover income they earn until they need or want to spend it. The rest are shockingly stupid, and give banks or companies or governments much of their savings as...unsecured loans.
But the rest of the modern slaves are unimaginably stupid for not demanding payment for their services at all. The "direct deposit" folks, telling their employers/customers to just pay the banks all of their earned monopoly credit denominated income instead of ever wanting to get paid anything themselves.
It's weird. I can't relate to that latter groups mindset at all 🤷♂️
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I give HWWs to my orange pills as a tangible "bitcoin thing in their hands" with the requisite disclaimer that it can't be trusted, but neither can a lone generic PC by itself, so 2 is better than one to disperse risk (plus the ceremony of signing offline can be cute & informative)
For me personally though, they're a novelty. I use #qubes for bitcoin stuff on a spare laptop, and keep the seeds in keepass in an offline appvm. The signing ceremony on qubes os is mundane, but effectively the same as an airgap HWW signing.
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So the advice to the banking industry is: go easy on the useless AML shit; go hard on "whatever you think it takes" to actually lower risk.
What could possibly go wrong?
Quote from below: A "True Risk-Based Approach" to yield "higher value, quality outputs" and focus on "the usefulness of the information" monitoring programs generate is proposed in attempts to ensure that Financial Institutions "allocate resources toward mitigating crystallised risk rather than processing and documenting coverage against theoretical risk that has not been observed".
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Take her to the gym, work out, then bang her. Best of all worlds.
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It involves a lot more than just that, but yeah no one will keep your xpub private for you like you would; if you share it with anyone, assume at some point everyone will know it (even if they may not know it's yours, it's still a public account history of sorts, and there's value to be taken from that information)
Trivial mitigation. Keeping a post-it of your password in a drawer rather than posted on the monitor makes little difference to the cleaning maid.
And Biden has a LOT of evil maids in his orbit 😉
Seeming is being, and this conference seems like a Trump campaign circlejerk
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Now imagine explaining the same picture, except... you were never actually there, neither was the bad person, the event never actually occurred, and you've never actually met them before.
"Alcohol used to cost a lot; now it costs a lot less; soon it'll seem like it costs next to nothing..."
Somehow I don't think alcoholics react to a marshmallow test like typical people who exhibit patience for a bigger reward 🤣
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