Bisq is built for those who:

- Want to exchange a national currency such as dollars, euros, naira, or yen for bitcoin.
- Want to exchange a wide range of alternative cryptocurrencies for bitcoin.
- Do not want to trust any entity to hold their funds.
- Do not want to forfeit control or privacy to a central authority in order to trade with other individuals.
- Regard financial transactions as a form of private speech that should be protected from surveillance by banks, governments, and other institutions.

#bisq #decentralized #dex #bitcoin #nokyc #nostr #p2p


There’s nothing wrong with Twitter going paid only.

You just can’t call yourself a public town square anymore.

It’s a paid social media app, that’s all.

Nostr will happily work towards taking over the role of open public communication 🫡


En #WoB23 presentamos:

🟧 ¡@`lunaticoin` se une a #WoB23 como partner!

"El mundo desde #Bitcoin".

Descubre en su podcast por qué #Bitcoin es importante desde muy distintos enfoques y perfiles de la comunidad hispana.

👉 https://lunaticoin.com

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good morning nostr, gradually then suddenly 🫡

https://m.primal.net/HLYv.mp4


The payment methods on Bisq vary in chargeback risk, regional availability, transaction size, fees, privacy, verifiability, and other characteristics. The top consideration for maintaining payment methods is chargeback risk. PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App are not supported on Bisq because chargebacks for payments made with those services are relatively easy.
The list of available payment methods can be found in the link below.

#decentralized #bitcoin #dex #nostr #crypto #nokyc #p2p

https://bisq.wiki/Payment_methods


The underlaying problem of socialism.

https://video.nostr.build/0f1a3dcab55e05129d0dc557d0fff247ede34c64fbe1789b2ccb491f016d3929.mp4


Prefiero a que #bisq haga todo esa ella solita en unos días.
Esperando que llegue Bisq 2.0 (Misq) con ganas.


Pre-release de #Bisq

https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases/tag/v1.9.13

Más información en las notas de la versión.
Actualiza siempre validando la descarga.

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Tener que crear una cuenta para comprar una maleta en tu tienda online de manetas.
¿Cuántas maletas crees que voy a comprar en los próximos 10 años, para que me valga la pena crearme la cuenta?


Se le puede preguntar por Bankia?


Me han convencido, voy a activar los zaps ahora mismo.

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really cool that in less than a year, nostr has become the main place i go to when i’m on my phone.

i used to post on instagram & twitter frequently, but i find it much more fulfilling to post pictures/notes on nostr. it’s not the zaps, or the clients doing, but rather the serene & solace feeling nostr encapsulates.

after being raised by the internet in its later years, i finally get the chance to breath and be able to experience what the internet felt like in the beginning. no utter dread. no engagement farming, & manipulation advertisement tactics.

this is how it was supposed to be.


Si la SEC sabe a quién demandar y dónde enviar la denuncia, el proyecto no está descentralizado.


En #WoB23 estamos de fiesta!!!

🟧 ⚠ @SamouraiWallet se une a @Wo_Bitcoin

La wallet #bitcoin que permite mantener tus fondos seguros.

Enfocada en privacidad y seguridad, implementa funcionalidades únicas como PayNim, Whirpool o Stonewall para subir de nivel de privacidad al operar.
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👉 https://samouraiwallet.com

También permite llevar tu soberanía a un nivel superior con el "todo en 1" para nodo #Bitcoin con su "RoninDojo Tanto", listo para para conectar y usar:

👉https://samouraiwallet.com/ronin


En #WoB23 presentamos:

🟧 MIGUEL ÁNGEL FERNÁNDEZ ORDÓÑEZ

Economista español conocido por su carrera en el ámbito económico y financiero, incluyendo su papel como Gobernador del Banco de España entre 2006 y 2012.

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Now we know why Jacob of Israel had 12 sons 😄 nostr:note1k66r29gg932drd6pu2cmtun08jt3nu7zz0srz7flq2gndqshumuqg4zu0k


Renuncia CEO de Binance .US


Me pasa eso, pero con zaps.


517. Magic Money!

https://image.nostr.build/b2c7951a06e1e4f9e5a8154acc848d55652684cd142142a4a039265bcb1867b6.jpg


Probably nothing. #11s

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Secondary accounts on youtube might be going in the direction you're pointing at.


Bisq is less susceptible to censorship or government intervention since it doesn’t rely on a central authority to operate.

#bitcoin #decentralized #nostr #dex #p2p

https://bisq.network/getting-started/


What is the earliest mention of Nostr in a printed book?

Broken Money mentioned Nostr and was published in August 2023. I assume some other printed books must have at least mentioned it within the year prior to that? nostr:note1u7hfudn3j0rft2uv2ae7a9dlw33pcrjtu7cp7g7u9edpcp87e3jsy5z4uk


When I was a kid, I used to watch Batman Beyond, which was set in the future.

The money they used was called “credits” and was digital, with no banknotes/coins. People would swipe cards like credit cards, but also when doing a bearer asset payment, they would hand a card with credits on it to someone who would take possession of it. The same type of card could be loaded with various amounts of credits for various sizes of transactions. Normal people used the money (it was ubiquitous) but also criminals used it, implying the funds couldn’t be frozen or taken back or anything like that, much like cash.

Turns out they were satscards, I guess.
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This really is the worst. Instagram started the trend with their hideous "log in or else" flow. Then Twitter and reddit went to insanely privacy-hostile API changes instead of simply requiring a proof of work or anon payment. Even some major nostr relays seem to be doing Tor blocking now (damus? Not sure, but I get a ton of errors connecting to certain relays via Tor.)

Platforms have become so fearful of bots/spam/scraping (or rather pretend to be fearful, so as to justify blatantly commercial and anti-social decision-making) that they've totally destroyed the open access model that a functioning freenet depends on.

This is the main reason I want to see "unowned" protocols succeed. Jack has it right: we're at a turning point.

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A couple weeks ago the Relay for Reddit app I've used for many years stopped working because the developer added a dependency on Google Play services to force paid subscriptions. GrapheneOS doesn't play well with that.

So I begrudgingly switched to the Infinity app. Well, this week it appears they started blocking all known VPN and data center IP addresses.

I hate this recurring feeling as a Cypherpunk that the walls keep closing in.


Should we be avoiding the dreaded "social media algorithms," or should we be thinking about them differently?

I feel like a lot of people have an inherent problem with this vague concept of “THE ALGORITHM” (which henceforth will receive the all caps & scary quote treatment) and their nostr feed that is entirely misplaced from the real problem of centralized social media, so I thought it would be good to address it directly.

First, “THE ALGORITHM” is just a set of rules that determines how you see your feed. There is no necromancy or joining of the dark side involved, and it has nothing to do with whether "THE ALGORITHM" is “good” or “bad.” The very idea of “not having an algorithm,” just means you want the algorithm to list the posts of who you follow in chronological order.  It in no way means you are “algorithm free,” it just means that the rules of your feed are "take only the posts from the people I follow and order them chronologically," and that’s basically it.

Everything about the concept of a social network and the incredible potential and beauty of #nostr as a protocol is in controlling your experience, what content you see, and how you see it. This is literally the entire point of having follows, followers, and reposts in the first place. It's at the core of the very notion of what social media is. This is literally “an algorithm” in the same way as prioritizing new posts over old would be, or limiting those who post more, or amplifying those who post less in your feed. They are exactly the same kind of rules, they are different only in specificity.

So what’s the problem with “THE ALGORITHM” then? It’s nothing to do with some vague notion of an “unnatural” feed or whatever it might seem like since we seem to have developed this distaste for the very concept. The problem is purely that **someone else** has been specifically manipulating your feed *against your best interests.*

It’s the same issue as censorship. My blocking a dickhead who won’t shut up about their shitcoin or who squeals at me under every single post with demands to read some communist propaganda on my podcast, isn’t censorship, it’s me choosing who I interact with. Censorship is when an external participant, someone not involved in the conversation at all, decides that I should not see some idea or should not communicate with some person *despite my explicit desire to do so,* and is able to remove my access from it without my permission.

The same goes for “THE ALGORITHM.” It’s not a problem if I’m controlling it for my own feed, this is a basic and fundamental tool of digital filtering that absolutely must be embraced, not feared or run away from, because it’ll make a huge difference in the user experience. It’s simply that someone else shouldn’t be controlling it to be at odds with the content and experience that the user specifically wants and is trying to create. Only THEN it is a very bad "algorithm" and a dangerous relationship.

The problem with all of these things has nothing to do with what they actually are, its about who has control.

The user is always supposed to be in control of who they follow, the content and ideas they want to see, and the people they want to associate with. Only then is it truly a free market and open space guided and created by its users. The problem has always been about central points of control forcing information asymmetries that aren't real, censoring ideas that are beneficial to you and inconvenient to them, etc.

I always like to try to analogize these sorts of things to the IRL world to understand what makes them bad and why a good one is actually incredible important. In the real world, if you go to a party and decide to converse with your friend, while ignoring all others you are weighing their interaction higher than the others at the party. If you decide to play a game of beer pong with your friend, you are creating a very specific set of rules by which your interaction will fall into. Not because you enjoy the evils of "THE ALGORITHM," but because you want to get drunk and have a lot of fun. Censorship would be if some external govt or other party was able to mute your conversation from thousands of miles away, while you were standing in front of your friend talking to them. THEY interrupted your conversation and shut off your communication channel despite both of you explicitly agreeing to the interaction. Or you were having a conversation with your friend and the second they began telling you about how your mutual acquaintence in in the hospital with myocarditis, they vanish from the party and a person you don't even know immediately walks up to explain to you how safe and effective the Pfizer products are.

An IRL "evil algorithm" would be this external institution or person making a particular group at the party invisible to you without your knowledge, it would be forcing a beer pong table in front of you no matter where you went or what else you wanted to do. Constantly enticing you to get drunk and play a game you were doing everything to avoid. Even adding arbitrary obstacles to all other activities and dropping NLP messaging of "drink up" and "solo cup" into all of your conversations without your knowledge. As crazy as it sounds, this is essentially the norm. This is how our online environment has evolved. So it makes sense that when we broke free of that, we would have a horrible taste in our mouths for the very idea of "THE ALGORITHM." It certainly isn't irrational, despite being misplaced.

Being part of the digital world is a weird thing when comparing it to real life. There is never a situation in meatspace where one has to filter how they will talk to a million people all at once. The very notion is comically absurd. But this IS a consideration in the digital world. Its like being dropped into a seemingly unlimited ocean of content and people, which is to the individual, genuinely infinite, as more content and interactions are being added to it by the minute so fast that it would take a lifetime to even manually sort through it all. Blocking, filtering, information rules, value weights and yes, "THE ALGORITHM" aren't things that are nice to have, these things are critical, inescapable tools for navigating the endless ocean of the digital world. These are not things to be afraid of or label broadly as "evil" and avoided at all costs. To the contrary, they are basic pieces of the puzzle that I think we need to understand. We need to put them in the hands of the user, so we can do incredible things with them.

The one core concern, is quite simple: How do we enable *the user* to set the rules, and not a third party? In my opinion, this is all that distinguishes the ultimately good from the bad.

We must remember not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Creating "THE ALGORITHM" is not accepting an invitation from Darth Vader to join the dark side. It's just a means of curating your feed so you get the best experience you can, and you find the content, ideas, and community that you came to #nostr looking for.

When we realize the importance of custom controls and modes of interaction, then we realize what all of these clients really are. Every one of them is really just a different "algorithm" that the user can select from. One that shows only images, one that filters everything but a certain community or topic, one that organizes based on most zapped, or by the number of likes specifically from those in your network, and on and on. The potential of #nostr isn't an algorithm-free experience, it's in an ecosystem with an unlimited number of experiences to choose from so that each person can either choose or build the community that they want, in a global square with no rulers.

An important step to getting to the future we want is to understand, with specificity and nuance, the exact sources of the problems we are trying to fix, rather than painting broad strokes and just carrying around a bunch of baggage about a tool we should be using for ourselves. The promise of nostr, and Bitcoin, and so many other tools we are building on and embracing is to create at the communication layer, a foundation of freedom that can be accessed by every single user no matter where they are in the world.

So in short, there is no such thing as "THE ALGORITHM." The problem has always been about who has control over your digital world? Is it you, or is it someone else? In the fight to prevent that control from finding its way back into the hands of someone else, it would be foolish to let our PTSD over the past have us avoid the very tools that would let us build a future specifically tuned to give us the very value and and autonomy that we all seek.


I don't think it's hard to understand: people like party & sex.
ARCA is a lot harder to understand.
https://youtu.be/NL-tvd8jeBc?si=sRYsiIVX0-CZGuLu


Updated monthly or bi-monthly.
Bisq does not spend thousands on marketing, that's all. It's growing organically and being developed step by step
https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq/releases/

You can see volume data here:

https://bisq.markets/es/


With Bisq you can buy and sell #bitcoin while maintaining privacy, Bisq never holds your funds. Deposits held in 2-of-2 multisig wallets encourage safe and successful trades.
#decentralized #p2p #nostr #zap #zapathon #btc
https://bisq.network/


#zapathon https://image.nostr.build/fbb67ac1a3f0d8a769d142ab771644f4efc2e02a501a61449fa988c6ea40f180.jpg


We all will convert to Muslim (and become women)


mempool.bid estaría bien.