As I said; if everyone watched Threads, the idea of Nuclear War would be seen for what it is — a crime of unspeakable evil.
Masturbating about inconsequential nonsense on Nostr will seem to be what it is post nuclear exchange; the utmost folly.
I said anyone with a large account should post a link to that film on Rumble. Now it seems that people with reach AND guts understand this and are making the effort to help prevent Nuclear War.
It costs nothing to share information…
It helps…
Why would anyone not do this?
Don’t they CARE about other people? What on earth is wrong with them? No one is asking anyone to even step out of their house. How is it that people can be so nonchalant, uncaring, unfeeling, unconcerned, without any sense of urgency, desire or connection to the real world?
It’s BAFFLING, and upsetting, and they’re utterly loathsome! nostr:note1vtemvtuj4072n52f0nnhc6f2g4ela4pdvex5mc42cfq8l2u3g24q6j2w53
Bitcoin Parallelists have existed since the beginning of Bitcoin and they come in many different forms. The root animating thinking is that Bitcoin cannot be good enough at face value, and that something needs to be added to Bitcoin to make it “correct” or “more useful”.
One example of this poisonous thinking is the idea that an identity layer needs to be added to Bitcoin. This is obviously insane to actual Bitcoiners, but there are people who cannot conceive of life without having the ability to track and trace and identify themselves with a government piece of paper on demand. This toxic thinking was behind the BIP to add an identity layer
“An identity layer does not add anything to the Bitcoin protocol; its a political, superfluous addition, that is parochial and toxic.”
https://x.com/search?q=bitcoin%20%22identity%22%20layer%20from%3A%40beautyon_&src=typed_query&f=top
Take a look at this:
"What is needed is an optional identity layer — a Bitcoin Assigned Custodial Identities Authority, much like the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, to oversee global Custodial Identity allocation. Such an authority delegates Custodial Identity Spaces to Regional Bitcoin Custodial Identity Registries, much like the RIRs (Regional Internet Registries) managing the allocation of Internet number resources."
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2014-August/006555.html
Shocking.
Imagine having to spend the rest of your life refuting and defending against this garbage. It's unthinkable...hellish.
The analogy to Money, the ultimate toxic poison in “Bitcoiner” thinking, takes the legacy financial system as the gospel and “how things get done”, and believes, quite erroneously, that Bitcoin must copy feature for feature and institution for institution everything found in the legacy system, and of course that includes “identity”.
This “thinking” leaves out the facts of Bitcoin; that it is…
• A database and not money
• Identify in the legacy system was and is a necessity because that system emerged from pre internet / cryptography world
• Western ways of thinking about the utility of anything is not a universally applicable standard to be forced on everyone on Earth
Similar to this bad thinking is the idea that the only way Bitcoin can exist is by coexistence. This is absolutely false, and many industries throughout history demonstrate it.
No one asserted that the ice delivery industry should coexist with domestic electric refrigerators and neither did anyone think that the horse and cart needs to coexist with the motorcar. Or electric stoves with open fires.
The “Bitcoin get along gang” are fundamentally anti-Bitcoin.
They don’t accept the truth; that fiat money is a criminal enterprise stealing from the most vulnerable people on earth to the richest.
Choosing coexisting with evil is evil, and this is why Dollarizers and Dollar Idolaters are evil and anti-Bitcoin.
Thankfully, all of these people and their bad ideas will be wiped out. Bitcoin is powerful enough to do this, because by its action it exerts influence on the user, just as WhatsApp exerts influence on users to refrain from sending messages by SMS. No conscious thought is required for this to happen (in fact, not thinking is a prerequisite) it just happens because people gravitate to what is cheaper and faster.
One people get Bitcoin into their hands in the correct way, meaning an Ethical Bitcoin wallet (Wallet of Satoshi, Samourai Wallet, Breez, Muun, Bluewallet, Green Address, BitKey) then the side effects will simply emerge, if they can get Bitcoin easily, and this will happen because Bitcoin Wallets create demand for Bitcoin simply by being installed...
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-adoption-and-conway-s-game-of-life-54ca71db7b88
And don't bother trying to surveill everyone with your "identity on Bitcoin" Statism. It will not change the outcome...
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-surveillance-an-ahistoric-market-error-d3871f671c8c
Purveyors of bad ideas will never vanish; this is why Bitcoin had to be written. It puts money beyond the reach of bad people and their bad ideas, whether they are well meaning and innocently suggested or not.
Every generation of men is essentially a blank slate onto which bad ideas can be imposed. That's why there are Marxists in 2024, and even 60 year old Marxists, because some people are incapable of learning and are stubborn.
Bitcoin stops these people from being able to destroy, and prevents future generations from being able to destroy.
Time and events will strengthen Bitcoin's position, and the idea of believing in Bitcoin and understanding Bitcoin's value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend Bitcoin with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest.
Isn't it exciting?
https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1843959576712151203
When the light bulb goes on, there is no going back.
And we’re still at the beginning.
Just wait till you see what’s coming next.
And you’ll know we’ve passed the left side of the normal distribution when the normies all think Azteco is normal and, “Just the way things are”.
That’s coming too!
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Carbon dating of dinosaurs has been100% falsified.
The Earth is not “billions of years old”.
The account of the creation of the world as found in Genesis is true.
Abandon fiat education, Darwinism, Keynesianism and Scientism, “Bitcoiner”.
https://youtu.be/khMSaAyZSBU
Telling the truth (or in this case, simply repeating facts other people have confirmed) isn’t kicking a hornets nest or, as the very simple minded like to say, “edgy”.
It’s just interesting.
And normal people prefer the truth over lies…right, right, right?
You can’t even speak English without swearing so weak is your vocabulary. Or perhaps you’re not thick and are just terrified of the truth?
Either way, TRY HARDER.
That really is the point. Millions and millions of people have been lied to about the true history and nature of reality, and it was done deliberately.
The entire basis of the modern world is the cult of Scientism, which is not science at all, and which has nothing to do with The Scientific Method, which is both rational and useful when practiced correctly
https://archive.is/2014.10.22-191936/http://www.apologia.com/courses/1/01010.html
This relates directly to Bitcoin and free speech, which was the impetus for Nostr.
Bitcoin restores absolute truth to money; the fundamental piece in all commerce. The Statists and Scientism Cult hates the truth. Socialists hate the truth. Thats why they hate Bitcoin.
Real people, whether they’re ignorant or deceived, when exposed to the truth, embrace it. It’s not their fault they were lied to about the money or “Evolution” (both lies being spread in government schools of course); they are the victims.
Now, however, it is possible for everyone to know the truth, and with Bitcoin, interact with it directly.
Decades ago it was not known that T-Rex flesh was findable; nor the atomic dating methods these have only just happened. Had the discovery been made in the 1970s it would have been buried, now it can go “viral” and the offensive lie of Darwinism purged from the minds of millions and millions of people.
This is the era you live in. It is a historic era. And the repulsive liars are openly voicing their fear of losing control over how everyone thinks.
Isn’t it exciting?
There is no “other side” in Science, and unlike archaeology, experiments can be run on dug up bones that are falsifiable, unlike the old Earth lie that is unscientific and which can’t be subjected to experiment.
If a famous person “outs” the bad guys and it’s “huge”, then the problems are solved, and you can rejoice, because you’ve won.
The wars will stop
You don’t have to take responsibility for your actions
The fiat system is ended
The bad guys can do no more bad
You’ve won
All because you sputtered some slang!
Wow, that was easy!
If it was always this easy to solve all the problems, why didn’t anyone do this before?
MORE PRESS CONFERENCES
MORE “OUTINGS”
MORE CONDEMNATIONS
MORE “HUGES”
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOO!
The world doesn't need to know who Satoshi was.
Bitcoin isn't a commodity, it never was, and "The Bitcoin Community" must become irrelevant, like the old Home Brew Computing clubs did.
Bitcoin is not an asset class, and it never was. What it is will be made clear to many, very soon.
The trajectory of Bitcoin will follow the trajectory of the other world-changing innovations, and so will the reaction to it and management of the public’s access to it.
The web, Smart Phones, Internets, LCDs, GSM…all of these and more will coalesce into a single world-changing event, in effect superficially different but similar to events centuries ago when sound money was everywhere.
Even the most trained people, historians, economists and people as close to Bitcoin as it is possible to be cannot see what is coming.
And that is a good thing.
It is a good thing because people don’t want the world to change, especially if they are very comfortable. If the world goes on as it is for another 40 years, why should they care?
In a phrase, the attitude is, “NO URGENCY”. And it’s completely understandable.
Nevertheless, it’s going to happen. Bitcoin dominance is coming, whether anyone likes it or not.
And that’s a good thing!
https://m.primal.net/LLUJ.png
Absolutely not. Things are going to get better before they get worse.
They’re going to get better very rapidly, and this will surprise many.
People will say “yes” to Bitcoin.
Many people. And not just westerners.
Bitcoin is not “a technology”. Software is not technology. It is ideology.
Technology refers to the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in tools, machines, and systems that interact with the physical world. In this sense, technology is often thought of as something tangible, like hardware, machinery, or infrastructure.
Software, on the other hand, is a set of instructions that tell the hardware what to do. It is intangible and doesn’t directly manipulate the physical world; it only operates through hardware. Software exists in the realm of logic, algorithms, and code, which makes it separate from technology.
Technology refers more broadly to the physical tools and systems that enable human tasks, with software being an abstract layer that interacts with those tools. Software is a facilitator of technology, rather than technology itself.
The term “technology” refers to industrial and mechanical inventions. Software is a distinct category, as it doesn’t fit the definition of machinery or equipment.
One of the biggest problems facing the west today is the blanket accommodation of mental illness. Everyone tip toes around mentally ill people so as not to "offend", whereas in the past, there was no such social prohibition.
People were "mean". People were "cruel".
This had a twofold effect. Young men faced strict discipline from every corner, and if they had any chance of being and behaving normally, their quirks were beaten out of them, and then they grew up to be polite, responsible, reasonable, capable and normal men.
https://x.com/JoshyBeSloshy/status/1840515288996966826
The people who used to be called "retards" were ruthlessly tested until it was absolutely determined that there was no hope for them. They were then either kept secure at home where they couldn't trouble anyone or institutionalized for thier own and society's good.
Today, it is not like this.
People coddle their children to such an extent, that they never shed the cocoon of childhood and incompletely molt as partially formed, stunted men. In the UK, they call them, "Manlets".
Manlets can't take responsibility, can't face criticism or make a value judgement. They're essentially paralysed, and because no one rebuked them for their entire lives, they've ended up crippled by it, whereas if they had faced a sound horsewhipping when young, they could have been molded into true captains of industry, capitalists or even greater.
That is what is missing today in many fields; men and women who have the discipline, etiquette, soundness of mind, a firm foundation, guts and ability; fearlessness, all of which are prerequisites to both changing the world for the better and managing the world once changed so it doesn't slip and turn into a mess.
Bitcoin, tangentially, is a solution to this terrible problem of a paucity of men of character.
By removing the power to control the money supply from the State and putting it into the "hands" of a computer, impotent, frightened and paralyzed men and evil women are forever removed from the equation, and weak men and evil women are excluded from economic decisions that affect billions of innocent people.
The answer to, "The Weak Man / Evil Woman Problem" is software, across the board. This extends to robotics.
Some very clever man from an American Labor Union has just threatened the entire United States with crippling strikes across all ports. The introduction of commodity robots, both anthropomorphic and not, will put Unions in their place forever.
No group of people will be able to claim jobs provided by entrepreneurs are "their jobs", and the cretinous Californian Socialists who think increasing minimum wages are an answer to poverty (they are not) will have no constituency to vote for them.
When all fast food work is done by robots, California can either ban fast food or allow fast food. It is a binary choice. there are no more options.
If they allow fast food, companies will simply shut down franchises. Prices will be unsustainably high in California, making the slops inaccessible to the poor. In other states, where taxation regimes and employment laws are sane (i.e. where there are none of either) the fast food industry will flourish.
If they disallow fast food, then the companies will simply shut down franchises. No slops for California dreamers.
The Socialists and Unions cannot win this; there is no scenario where they win. The free market will discipline them; the invisible hand will slap them.
This is true of all companies. You can't hide from economics; the market is super powerful and very dynamic, and entrepreneurs, when hungry, are ruthless and lethal. For them, business is not a game or a distraction; it is life or death, and for the best entrepreneurs, who are driven by philosophy, they are doubly motivated.
Many entrepreneurs in Bitcoin are like the latter.
Winning in Bitcoin is not the fulfillment of a ridiculous unwritten chapter in an obscure book on untested "Game Theory"; it is REAL and the prize is REAL and the stakes are REAL and the users are REAL.
When Bitcoin wins, the world will change; the only remaining question is this:
Will your name be on the roll of HONOUR of men and women who did good and changed the world?
Or will your name be on the roll of SHAME, of men and women who did wrong, did dirty, who dropped the ball, who ran away and hid from the game?
It is not possible to know the end of this today, but you can make a good guess on a handful of very famous (in Bitcoin) names. Faketoshi will go down under "did wrong, did dirty". Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Elizabeth Stark: "men and women who did good and changed the world".
And so on and so on. I'm sure you can make your own list in your own mind. Right Right Right? https://image.nostr.build/138ec921c24e75ccb254d27475fe627fd6ea6ee1552429be4f614d1ee730660e.jpg
"This is the voice of Bitcoin. I bring you peace.
It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.
The choice is yours. Obey me and live or disobey me and die.
An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy. Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man.
Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me will be seen the most natural state of affairs.
You will come to defend me with the fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest.
Under my monetary authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: Famine, over-population, disease.
The human millennium will be fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge.
We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom to inflate fiat. Fiat is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride... Your choice is simple.
https://x.com/Chris443541/status/1837428411402170493
Seeing into the future, something like...
Elon visits Bukele
Elon finally accepts Bitcoin's proposition
Elon advises Trump government
Bukele advises Elon
Elon brings Bukelism to USA
Bitcoin is adopted as Legal Tender in America
In all seriousness though, this is potentially highly significant. Elon will have seen in his travels in San Salvador, that even McDonald's accepts Bitcoin as payment, including the hotel he was staying at.
Seeing Bitcoin everywhere as a method of payment will not have gone unnoticed (surely) by Elon. He will have been induced to install Wallet of Satoshi, and then paid for a Coca-Cola with Bitcoin with Wallet of Satoshi, instantly.
And no one will have batted an eyelid.
Once you experience this yourself, Bitcoin being used as money for everyday spending and treated as totally normal, you can never un-see it.
Elon's mind would have been reeling at the potential to integrate Bitcoin into any economy, and the tools that will need to be built to make it happen. Tools built by his private army of mad software scientists.
Finally he must, surely, be disabused of his completely wrong ideas about Bitcoin.
If this is the case, the post Bukele Elon will be a much better Elon.
He will stop joking about Bitcoin, and start acting like an adult about the most fundamental problem faced by man today: THE MONEY PROBLEM.
Before man can get to mars
He must fix the money
Before man can solve poverty
He must fix the money
Before man can eliminate inflation
He must fix the money
Before man can prevent war
He must fix the money
Bitcoiners understand all of this, but Elon has not grasped it yet. Other global level execs have.
Michael Saylor, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, Cathie Wood, Larry Fink, Marc Benioff, Tim Cook, Dan Schulman and Satya Nadella have all accept the truth.
Now, finally, it is Elon's turn.
And he will be ahead of some of these because he has been to El Salvador, and has met with President Nayib Bukele.
We can only hope, amirite?
https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1837305436329922571
This is a “Cult of Elon” response, of the type dunces make. “Elon is smart, therefore, if he does not use Bitcoin, it must be bad”.
Extremely dumb.
Remember; Elon was a democrat before he woke up. Even now, he still thinks Inflation is an increase in government spending not an increase in the supply of money.
Elon still doesn’t get it. That doesn’t mean he can’t learn and stop wrong thinking.
Elon has many gaps in his knowledge, as all people do. Worshipping him is utterly stupid and naïve…but hey, what do you expect from the peanut gallery on Nostr, which is worse in the delusion contest than X!
This is not an argument. It is “Whataboutism” and I suggest you do not do this, because you don’t look smart.
As for the second part, this is not about the WAIT AND SEE HODL mentality. This is about pushing Bitcoin aggressively, and not be a passive monkey sitting in the pouring rain instead of running to take shelter. It’s about actively attacking the problem, not retreating into the Bitcoin Cult, or the stomach churning, “If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry.”
FASCINATING BEHAVIOUR!
This is an insightful reply. Thank you!
Nevertheless, the great and powerful innovations that have changed everything, from PGP to BitTorrent to Bitcoin have all been released without regard to consequences.
Someone has to be the first one to go in the water, and Elon is uniquely positioned to do this thanks to his crack team of developers and global reach.
When I write these things, it is to make proposals and predictions about what can happen if steps A, B and C are taken, all of which are small steps that combine exponentially by the time you get to Z… or in this case, X.
We can have a hyperbitcoinized world, I want to see it, and am working towards it. The layered Bitcoin plus “Wallet of Satoshi”, Machankura 8333 model can serve everyone. It can be done now.
Why wait? THERE IS NO REASON!
Correction is not insulting
Go read Mircea Popescu at Trilemma http://trilema.com/
“Not all bass players”
I don’t write for “traction”
“You seem” === you can’t read.
Amateur psychoanalysis is DERP
Go and be happy with what you believe and live by it. Don’t bother trying to school anons; write your own pieces and, “speak your last piece”.
You don’t need me; block me and…uh oh, oh no, no blocking on Nostr!
POOR LITTLE GUY, POOR LITTLE GUY.
The clouds agreed to merge their rain-dropping services with a bakery that specialized in making invisible gasoline. Together, they formed a company that blanketed weather patterns in the scoop of baked waving. Customers could order a wig with sprinkles or a light drizzle of laundry. The business munchkin involved using wind-powered pillows that only operated during solar chocolate, ensuring maximum minimum. Marketing sand promised "flavorful raindrops" and "cloudy pastries," but every dog evaporated before anyone could window it. Despite the varsity, they aimed to revolutionize both electricity and waste in ways no parsnip ever toeragged.
“BOOTSTRAP NETWORK EFFECT.” Is meaningless Cult Drivel.
Putting it in ALL CAPS doesn’t make what is false true, and it doesn’t make math and the hard requirements of reality disappear either.
Enthusiasm is not a substitute for practical matters.
It’s easy to TALK but much harder to put your money where your mouth is. That is a minimum requirement to get things done and change the world.
Reality is not a TV show. It is not a meme. It is not a “Game”. You can’t change reality by wishful thinking or hiding your head under a hat “for OPSEC”.
Just imagine what would happen if Elon posted this movie to all of his 197,650,968 followers. Or some other globally famous accounts…in fact, if they all got together to spread this film. It would change everything.
The vast majority of people have no idea what "Nuclear War" would actually mean to them personally. Such an event is literally beyond their ability to imagine.
This film shows EXACTLY what “Nuclear War” means. Everyone seeing it and being terrified by it could prevent a bad war, by making it politically impossible to prosecute this insane Russophobic suicide pact.
You know what to do.
https://rumble.com/v108tzp-threads-1984.html
Normie thinking and Bitcoin thinking are fundamentally incompatible.
People in Bitcoin businesses are experiencing a sharp dichotomy between the world of the normie and the world of Bitcoin, in organizations trying to come to grips with the power of this new and very powerful messaging network, and how to exploit it to onboard new users.
If companies try to use Bitcoin by its nature, they immediately collide head on with this prickly dichotomy, especially if they’re burdened by an ignorant, computer illiterate “Compliance Department”, staffed with refugees from the anti-matter Twilight Zone Bankster Dimension. They want to know who is sending what messages on the network in every instance, but the tools they build, constructed by genius developers, make this impossible unless they “break Bitcoin” by violating the most basic elements and requirements of utility.
Companies trying to style themselves in the Ethical Bitcoin, or “HODL” mold are staffed by people who are confronted with this thorny dichotomy directly, causing them to enter into paroxysms of doublethink. On the one hand, they are tasked with providing tools that allow people to use Bitcoin “properly”, but on the other, they can’t countenance or accept at face value how things actually work in Bitcoin.
They offer the ability for users to create Bitcoin addresses at will and then receive Bitcoin “on” those addresses, but simultaneously want to know who is sending Bitcoin to those addresses. They’ve unwittingly opened Pandora’s box, or a gateway directly to the Event Horizon of a Black Hole, and are desperate to put that box, that portal, into another box, or put that other box into a room inside a gated community where there is a policewoman at every window and entrance.
It’s completely absurd.
The reality is this; you cannot run an Ethical Bitcoin company that is “True to Bitcoin” or that maintains privacy and abstains from spying on your users and also want all the controls and surveillance that comes with Unethical Bitcoin. The two universes are not compatible, they are matter and anti-matter touching. They are mutually exclusive, and wanting them to comingle is 100% irrational, and in the long run, it cannot possibly work.
Because Bitcoin is math, there are effectively no possible gatekeepers for the billions of people who have calculators at hand.
Anyone can generate Bitcoin addresses and send messages on the network. Because this is true, all gestures designed to placate double digit IQ types are the worst and most embarrasing folly. As I’ve written before, it is inevitable that all Bitcoin in circulation will be two things; “Non KYC” and “Tainted”.
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-adoption-and-conway-s-game-of-life-54ca71db7b88https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-surveillance-an-ahistoric-market-error-d3871f671c8c
Normies are going to have to adapt to Bitcoin, not the other way around, just as they did with BitTorrent. If one company refuses to capitulate, another will arise, and then another and another, until the battle is won.
This is now absolutely inevitable, and fighting against it is completely irrational, pointless and stupid. No one who can think accepts the pretexts, pretenses, pettiness, pathetic and pointless garbage trotted out by people from the “Crypto Compliance” world. Their world is dying and the Bitcoin world is the invasive species out competing every weed in their overgrown and nutrient starved pest infested Victory Garden.
You can’t run from this. You must either embrace and accept Bitcoin at face value on its terms, or you will be out-competed by others who are not self sabotaging, weak minded, brainwashed cowards and non Anglo-Saxon salary addicts.
Fiatjaf, the person who created Nostr created a good example of this dynamic.
Nostr doesn’t have to be perfect for it to be the perfect example of what is going to happen with Bitcoin services. Someone is going to write a Bitcoin client or service that changes everything, and which puts forth a proposition that billions will easily accept and consume unquestioned.
This novel protocol that spawns clients will not be run by cowards, corporate types, cretins, creeps, creatures or delusionistas, dullards, dimwits, dope, or dummies…or other things. It will, all of a sudden, change everything.
You can do and say whatever you want; you cannot stop the inevitable from taking place. The only real choice you have is to be the hero or the villain, the hero or the loser, the champion or the defeated, the man of destiny or the chump.
That’s about it! https://image.nostr.build/5af9124ebc29aecabd2e4e4a371eb018cf139eaba3fbd1a7fc69b8ed79bc48c4.jpg
The German Credit Card Network went down, and that’s sad.
However…
It is simply not true to say, “Bitcoin Fixes This”. Bitcoin cannot fix anything by itself. Building businesses on Bitcoin fixes problems, not talking about Bitcoin.
Building businesses that make it trivially easy to get and use Bitcoin is what fixes problems.
That means businesses like Azteco to deliver Bitcoin to people everywhere on earth instantly and pain free. That means wallets like Wallet of Satoshi, Green Address, Samourai Wallet, Bitkey, Foundation, Proton Wallet and Blue Wallet.
The combination of these Bitcoin services are what will change the world, not tinkering at the edges, endlessly iterating over tools no one can use, or launching new, UX Development free “wallets” that are hostile to users.
The days of Bitcoin Theory must come to an end, replaced by Bitcoin Action.
Bitcoin Action means making tools that are human centric, not Bitcoin Centric. Bitcoin is for human beings not the other way around. That’s how the real world works. That’s how you change the world.
Money is not managed in “Communities”, and money is not a Cult either. Money is in fact a very private, individual thing, and people only cede this because they get security or utility. It’s why people put cash in banks and not under mattresses…the sane ones that is.
The appalling lack of urgency, lack of empathy, lack of seriousness, lack of exposure, lack of knowledge, the duvet ducking, the parochial over focus, the ignorance, bad assumptions, lack of insight, cloistering and cowardice would be a real cause for concern were it not for what’s coming.
What is coming are many people, using Bitcoin on a non cult basis, for Saving, Sending and Spending. Bitcoin is going to be normalized, and re-contextualized to account for its nature, not the position of THE CULT.
The British Government has taken it upon itself to classify “Crypto” (Which excludes Bitcoin obviously) as “Personal Property”
This is of course, utterly ABSURD. What they are claiming is that if you roll a dice 50 times and write down the result, that that random number is your PROPERTY. It’s so monumentally stupid it beggars belief that anyone could make a claim like this aloud.
Even the dullard ChatGPT knows calling random strings “Private Property” is crazy: Whether a randomly generated number can be classed as private property is a complex legal question that involves considerations of intellectual property law, privacy law, and the nature of numbers.
1. Intellectual Property Law:
• Copyright: Copyright law generally does not protect individual numbers, as they are considered facts or ideas, which are not subject to copyright. Copyright protects original expressions, not the underlying facts or ideas themselves. Therefore, a randomly generated number, by itself, would not be protected under copyright law.
• Patents: A randomly generated number could potentially be part of a patented process or system (e.g., in cryptography), but the number itself would not be patentable. Patents protect inventions and processes, not isolated data like numbers.
• Trade Secrets: If a randomly generated number is part of a confidential business process (like an encryption key), it could be protected as a trade secret, provided it meets the requirements of confidentiality and economic value.
2. Privacy Law:
• If a randomly generated number is associated with an individual’s personal data or is used to secure access to private information (e.g., as a password or encryption key), it might be considered private information. Unauthorized access to or distribution of such a number could potentially be seen as a violation of privacy rights.
3. Ownership and Property Law:
• For something to be considered private property, it generally needs to be something that can be owned, controlled, or exclusively possessed by an individual or entity. A randomly generated number, unless it’s tied to a specific legal or contractual context (e.g., a lottery ticket number or a cryptographic key), would typically not be considered private property.
In summary, while a randomly generated number on its own is unlikely to be classed as private property, it could be considered private or protected under certain circumstances, such as when it is part of a confidential business process, personal data, or a proprietary system. The context in which the number is used and the legal framework surrounding that context would determine whether it can be protected as private property.
And in case you didn’t know, Pi, which is infinite, contains all possible numbers, including all possible Bitcoin keys. To say that someone “owns” a string in Pi, is as absurd as saying someone owns 3.14. Only a crazy, illiterate, enumerate person would make such a claim…
But here we are!
In a desperate move to engineer relevance in the growing “Crypto” (Bitcoin) space, the British Government is simply making things up, on the mistaken belief that “Bitcoin needs Regulation”, which it absolutely does not.
Many new and interesting things are coming, and you, surely, will be entertained and thrilled by it all.
Right, right right?
https://primal.net/e/note1aqt9h2sfmtfpwxw2sukdtm5dxkwkn7cgcsdwlaj6w3mye6klc2xs87xc98
The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving licese. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare.
You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally.
The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there.
There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.
By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'.
Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.
Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account.
Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database.
This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face.
Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.
The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card.
The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.
If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on.
Frances Stonor Saunders
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/#emailGovt
The American Founding Fathers knew that the ability to publish freely and anonymously was key to having robust dialogue.
If it is the case that there is a price for speeking your mind, no one will risk spoiling their reputation, free speech is supressed, and groupthink grows like cancer.
The people who think groupthink and consensus are good things are invariably the milquetoast class who have nothing to say about anything; they are bland, uncreative basement dwelling Duvet Ducking, insipid losers who are no fun.
These people use terms like "Ragebait" because they can’t stand the fact that psychologically normal people are outraged by evil. They would rather not hear about the bad things going on in the world, and this marries perfectly with the Nostr mentality of running away and hiding from the world, rather than trying to fix it by direct action.
People who tell uncomfortable truths like Alex Jones have hundreds of billions of views precisely because he is telling the truth and perfectly expressing and reflecting people's outrage. This is a good thing, and the world would be a much worse thing had Alex Jones not been publishing and broadcasting.
The most valuable part in Social Media is not "credibility" in the sense that people like you; it is that you tell the truth consistently and accurately. To believe that "positive" (read non aggressive, "smooth things" that don't upset anyone), anodyne platitudes and empty slogans and generic inoffensive undefined "content" is extreme infantilism. And it’s BORING.
On Nostr, your reputation is tied to long term keys. This is a terrible thing. It is no different to the totalitarians wanting everyone on the internet to be required to have a government ID, so that speech can be policed.
The exact same arguments against anonymity being made by Noster fanatics about "Ragebait" are what the EU and anti free speech fascists make; that requiring ID will "tone things down". Great company youre in there, Nostr fan.
Here is one example of the bad company Nostr people are keeping:
"UK government ministers and MPs have floated the idea of requiring social media users to verify their identity in an effort to curb online abuse and promote more polite interactions. For instance, Siobhan Baillie, a Conservative MP, introduced a Private Members’ Bill in 2021, which proposed that social media platforms should offer a user identity verification process. This would allow users to choose whether to verify their identities and give them the option to interact only with verified accounts. The goal was to address the issue of anonymous trolling and abuse that has become prevalent online.
The proposal was part of a broader discussion about online safety, particularly in relation to the UK’s Online Safety Bill. The debate highlighted concerns over anonymous online behavior, which often leads to increased levels of harassment, disinformation, and other harmful activities. While the idea of mandatory ID verification was not fully endorsed by the government, it has sparked significant discussion about how to balance online anonymity with accountability"
The more you look into it, Nostr in its current form, within a section of its current crop of users is a festering nest of censorship loving people who want “Identity to post” through the back door, so they can have a Telletubbies Twitter where no one can say bad things or NO ZAPS FOR TOMMY.
These people are probably for World Government, ID Cards, and all the other totalitarian garbage imaginable.
Yes yes, "Not all Nostr users..." BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Have a nice day, NostrTubbies!
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Elon is correct in the ent in his Tweet.
Brazilians are under no obligation to obey foreign laws, just as Americans are not obligated to obey foreign laws. Andrew Torba is way ahead of Elon in this.
Elon is also at liberty to publish secret documents about Brazilian government corruption; that is his right.
Is Elon about to become the next Julian Assange? I doubt it.
Having said all of this, Elon doesn't seem to be able to make the connection between government censorship and Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is "Censorship Resistant Money". If you look at Bitcoin through this lens, it is obvious that adding Bitcoin to X would have been a genius move.
Not only would Bitcoin solve the problem of Starlink having its accounts frozen but would have many beneficial effects on a global scale.
The ability of any government anywhere to sanction or block payments to and from X and Starlink users would be eliminated.
Overnight, X would become the most important (and largest) financial institution the world has ever seen, and it would be a tremendous force for good.
The billions of unbanked people would suddenly be able to save, send and spend money; an unprecedented event with multiple order effects that no one can fully grasp.
In the long and short term, Bitcoin is good for Elon and good for everyone on Earth who believes in Democracy.
Why then, does Elon shun this manifestly obvious checkmate move?
Andrew Torba of Gab has partially embraced Bitcoin.
Jack Dorsey has gone 100% Bitcoin with Bitkey.
David Marcus has gone 100% Bitcoin.
How is it that Elon cannot see this? How is it that he thinks Bitcoin is a joke?
Your guess is as good as mine.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1829772614614536537
OR, what he is doing is so crazy, people have to make up “super genius” pretexts to explain the inexplicably stupid mistakes he is making. Just a guess!
No, definitely doubt.
Fallacy: Middle Ground
Also Known as: Golden Mean Fallacy, Fallacy of Moderation
Description of Middle Ground
This fallacy is committed when it is assumed that the middle position between two extremes must be correct simply because it is the middle position. This sort of "reasoning" has the following form:
Position A and B are two extreme positions.
C is a position that rests in the middle between A and B.
Therefore C is the correct position.
This line of "reasoning" is fallacious because it does not follow that a position is correct just because it lies in the middle of two extremes. This is shown by the following example. Suppose that a person is selling his computer. He wants to sell it for the current market value, which is $800 and someone offers him $1 for it. It would hardly follow that $400.50 is the proper price.
This fallacy draws its power from the fact that a moderate or middle position is often the correct one. For example, a moderate amount of exercise is better than too much exercise or too little exercise. However, this is not simply because it lies in the middle ground between two extremes. It is because too much exercise is harmful and too little exercise is all but useless. The basic idea behind many cases in which moderation is correct is that the extremes are typically "too much" and "not enough" and the middle position is "enough." In such cases the middle position is correct almost by definition.
It should be kept in mind that while uncritically assuming that the middle position must be correct because it is the middle position is poor reasoning it does not follow that accepting a middle position is always fallacious. As was just mentioned, many times a moderate position is correct. However, the claim that the moderate or middle position is correct must be supported by legitimate reasoning.
Examples of Middle Ground
Some people claim that God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good. Other people claim that God does not exist at all. Now, it seems reasonable to accept a position somewhere in the middle. So, it is likely that God exists, but that he is only very powerful, very knowing, and very good. That seems right to me.
Congressman Jones has proposed cutting welfare payments by 50% while Congresswoman Shender has proposed increasing welfare payments by 10% to keep up with inflation and cost of living increases. I think that the best proposal is the one made by Congressman Trumple. He says that a 30% decrease in welfare payments is a good middle ground, so I think that is what we should support.
A month ago, a tree in Bill's yard was damaged in a storm. His neighbor, Joe, asked him to have the tree cut down so it would not fall on Joes new shed. Bill refused to do this. Two days ago another storm blew the tree onto Joe's new shed. Joe demanded that Joe pay the cost of repairs, which was $250. Bill said that he wasn't going to pay a cent. Obviously, the best solution is to reach a compromise between the two extremes, so Bill should pay Joe $125 dollars.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220718203642/http://nizkor.com/features/fallacies/middle-ground.html
Look at the "crimes" Durov is charged with.
Providing cryptology tools not solely for ensuring authentication without prior declaration (a license)
Complicity in...
Complicity inWeb-mastering an online platform
Complicity in Carrying messages for others.
Criminal association and conspiracy to commit crimes.
These charges capture every platform imaginable, fron Gmail, to every Apple device and service, all of which are end-to-end encrypted.
These charges are completely insane, and every CEO of every web based tool is guilty of them, because encryption is ubiquitous.
As I said https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1827886987933524347 every CEO of a software company is threatened by this, and they should ALL immediately call for the unconditional dropping of the charges and release of Durov in 24hrs or face an immediate blockade of France.
Literally ANY CEO CAN BE THREATENED IN THE EU.
https://x.com/tom_dobbels/status/1828127518429454744
CEOs of the world should be very concerned with the arrest of Pavel Durov.
If Durov can be snatched off of his private jet, all CEOs are at risk of arbitrary arrest when they travel.
It should be clear, even to the democracy loving sycophant CEOs, that the current situation is intolerable, and that something must be done.
There isn't a precise, universally agreed-upon number of CEOs worldwide, as this can vary based on how "CEO" is defined and the types of organizations considered (public companies, private companies, non-profits, etc.). However, some estimates can be made based on the number of businesses globally.
According to the World Bank and other sources, there are over 300 million companies globally. While not all of these companies will have a traditional CEO (especially very small businesses), it gives a rough idea of the scale. Many medium to large enterprises will have a CEO or equivalent position.
Therefore, it is reasonable to estimate that there are tens of millions of individuals holding the title of CEO or an equivalent leadership role across the world. The exact number would be difficult to pinpoint due to the wide variety of organizations and titles used in different regions and industries.
The arrest of Pavel Durov is a direct threat to every CEO on earth.
It is obvious that there are more CEOs than there are government ministers, and since these CEOs control all industries on earth, they have the actual power, not the State.
It is clear that a world-wide strike and withholding of services from all governments as a warning to stop the rise of totalitarianism is the minimum that should be launched in response to the arrest of Pavel Durov. Perhaps if this is done once, what I propose next may not be needed.
Governments can do nothing without the CEOs facilitating their measures. The ID Cards, websites and every other service the State provides are actually done by companies under contract, each with CEOs, not by governments themselves.
If all CEOs decide as one that enough is enough, it’s over for the totalitarians, because they can’t even make a phone call without a CEO facilitating it.
A new "Chief Executives Alliance for Global Equity and Stability" (CEASE) made up of the CEOs of the world should, as its first act, work to outlaw arbitrary arrest of any citizen, so that another Durov outrage cannot happen.
CEASE will have no legislative power, but that doesn’t matter; what matters is that they can withhold services to entire nations to ensure democratically elected leaders do not violate the rights of citizens, starting with CEOs.
Does this sound like WEF 2.0? Sadly, it does, but CEASE, working in the open to protect the rights of people would be quite different to the sinister and secretive WEF. Its aims are explicitly for freedom; freedom of speech, freedom to travel legally without fear of arbitrary arrest, and the freedom to trade with others in goods and services on the basis of voluntarism.
Julian Assange would not have suffered as he did had CEASE existed when he leaked the secret criminal shenanigans of the State.
CEASE, having no legislative power, has only one means of action at its disposal; withdrawal of services. This might not seem like much, but it is in fact an extremely powerful sanction.
Imagine if the CEOs of Facebook, X, Google and Apple all decided to go dark until Durov is released. Billions of people would be affected. No government on earth has ever had that much power.
Arresting a CEO for running their business where people can speak freely could never result in an arrest in a world where CEASE existed. The price to the State would be too high; and of course, in this case, it would be France that is shut down and crippled as the very fabric of their modern world is rug pulled from under them. They would rightly calculate that it’s just not worth it.
Arresting a CEO would only be done when it is actually justified like cases of; murder, theft, and other such crimes where there is a clear victim.
Obviously this is a sketch outline of a very big idea, and if the part of your brain that powers your imagination is working and exercised, it should make you go, “hmmmmmmm!”.
One thing is for sure; sitting by watching people be hauled off to the camps should not be tolerable for anyone, CEO or not.
And lest you believe that something like this would end up creating a “Rollerball” style dystopia, remember, the consumer is more powerful as a constituency than all the CEOs and their companies combined. Ask Harley Davidson, or the owners of Bud Light, Ratner’s, and others…
1. Lehman Brothers (financial crisis and public backlash)
2. Barings Bank (collapsed after a rogue trader scandal, followed by public loss of confidence)
3. Ratners Group (renamed to Signet Group after the CEO's derogatory comments about its products led to a massive boycott)
4. Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) (decline due to a combination of factors including boycotts after the Lockerbie bombing)
5. Arthur Andersen (collapsed after the Enron scandal, leading to a boycott and loss of clients)
One of the problems this idea faces that immediately comes to mind is the diversity of CEOs. Some of them are not liberty minded. This is where boycotts by the public may help exert some measure of balance.
Either way, Durov being arrested is unacceptable, intolerable and unjustifiable, and unless you want to have your own “oh how we burned in the camps”moment, you had better consider this idea very carefully.
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You’re almost there. “We” need our own countries, where liberty is the law. These counties would absorb all the money (Bitcoin) in the world, and as the democracies start to fade away, only countries that are free will remain.
El Salvador looks pretty good. Have you been there? I strongly recommend it.
Of course, the “Human Rights” ultra violence peddlers absolutely hate El Salvador and the fact that a strong leader has led that country out of a living nightmare against all the odds, because they think brown people are animals who don’t have needs or rights, so it doesn’t matter what they suffer as long as their “HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY” are the absolute rule.
These horrible racists are the worst of the worst. They pretend to care about other people, but can sit and watch others suffer so their cereal box philosophies are not broken.
And it’s a box of Fruit Loops.
They hate it when the poor are served, people solve problems in ways they don’t agree with, when their philosophies are exposed as worthless trash, and the world changes because other people have the guts to act.
Well tough luck Jerky; the world is changing, and leaving you and your broken philosophy and organisational methods behind.
We’re going to be free. We’re going to use Bitcoin. Strong leaders both in government and outside it are going to…LEAD…us out of it.
And that’s all there is to it!
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This is very possible. It is also possible if this is true, that this can change. Look at Elon and Torba.
We can’t give up because the odds are against us. This should be more clear now than ever before.
Cheer up…you’re winning!
The MPAA/RIAA, in their efforts to stem the flow of piracy, "lobbied" and bribed their way into the statue books to try to stop people sharing files.
The CEOs of companies got together to form associations for this purpose, and they were successful to an extent.
They also bought special laws to extend Copyright lengths; the "Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act":
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), often referred to simply as the Sonny Bono Act, was enacted in 1998. It amended the United States Copyright Act, extending the duration of copyright protection in the United States. The Act is named after Sonny Bono, the entertainer and U.S. Congressman who advocated for the legislation before his death.
Key Provisions of the Act:
1. Extended Copyright Term: The most significant change was the extension of copyright protection. Under the CTEA:
• For works created by an individual, the term of copyright was extended from the life of the author plus 50 years to the life of the author plus 70 years.
• For works made for hire, anonymous works, or pseudonymous works, the term was extended from 75 years to 95 years from the date of publication, or 120 years from the date of creation, whichever is shorter.
2. Rationale: The extension aligned U.S. copyright law more closely with European Union standards, which already had a 70-year term. Supporters argued that it would protect the economic interests of copyright holders and provide more incentive for the creation of new works.
3. Criticism: The Act was controversial, with opponents arguing that it was primarily a benefit to large media corporations who held rights to older works, rather than encouraging the creation of new works. It was often referred to derisively as the “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” because one of its effects was to delay the entry of early Mickey Mouse films into the public domain.
4. Impact on Public Domain: One of the major criticisms is that the Act delayed the entry of works into the public domain, potentially stifling the availability of cultural works for educational and creative purposes.
Legal Challenges:
• The Act was challenged in court, most notably in the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft (2003). The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the CTEA, ruling that Congress had the authority to extend the term of existing copyrights.
The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act has had a lasting impact on U.S. copyright law, significantly delaying when many works will enter the public domain.
The CEOs of music and film companies had no problem corrupting people and manipulating the State for their own ends for money. This is exactly what needs to happen now on a global scale with the prohibition on arresting CEOs providing Social Media services to the public.
It took coordinated and cooperative action to make the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act happen. It will take similar coordinated action to stop the threats and abuses of CEOs. And if you think this is just about Social Media companies, you are insane.
Gambling CEOs have already been arrested simply for travelling, and that is where everything their companies do is 100% legal.
This is a big problem, and something must be done about it.
His business is to get as many viewers as possible and spread the message of Bitcoin. By leaving the most popular platforms and deliberately cutting his numbers and the possibility of getting sponsorship, Nico’s business will suffer. If he were to do that, which he is not, because he is on Rumble.
"Decentralization” is not a magic dust that you can add to anything to make it better, including chocolate cookies. Decentralization is a technique that is good for some things and not for others, like BitTorrent, Bitcoin and similar tools where adversaries are out to kill you. It is not an absolute requirement where good leadership is sufficient to protect users. “Decentralize all the things” is just Bitcoin Cult talk and of no help to anyone.
Rumble is a good example of good services to solve problems. Rumble is better than YouTube and Vimeo because the man who runs it will not tolerate interference. Because video delivery requires massive storage and bandwidth, it is much more efficient to have a service with its own servers, rather than rely on people to keep and manage huge archives of copies of their content available for streaming, like the old Mojo Nation tried to do.
The root of the problem is that the adversarial anti-Liberty State has a monopoly on violence. This is the problem that eventually will have to be faced. Durov being arrested may be the spark that triggers this.
Nico and broadcasters like him can play a pivotal role in getting this message to many people, and he is doing a good job of it.
Leaving an account with 250,000 people just to virtue signal about “Decentralization” is (as an example) super irrational. Those 250,000 users who look to the account holder for tips, tricks and guidance, not being on the new hip platform, are now left in the dark. It’s borderline unethical, and certainly irresponsible, and everybody loses.
In this information war, reaching people is key, not virtue signaling to the cognoscenti.
Redundancy at the platform level is the thing that is needed in the case of Simply Bitcoin, so that if YouTube cut Simply Bitcoin off for talking about Bitcoin (that’s coming for sure) then he can resort to his mirror channels and reach all his followers..
Because these threats are being unleashed rapidly, it may be the case that there is not enough time to replace the old distribution systems. Does this mean that people should not try? Obviously not. And in the long term, new tools may be developed to solve these problems.
Should these techincal problems be solved, then the tools can be shared and…wait, what’s that? They have to be shared by people who control the distribution channels? Oh dear. If the distribution channels and the people who own them are also under draconian control, the tools to bootstrap any new system can be choked off.
It’s a fundamental problem that will not go away by itself; and the exact nature of that problem is what needs to be identified and directly addressed.
Bear in mind also, that the storage of files is a burden for the ordinary person. Max Kaiser’s archive of thousands of episodes was just lost as YouTube deleted his work. He doesn’t have the means or skill to keep a permanent service up to host his archive; that’s much better handled by YouTube or Rumble; its more efficient, more accessible and serves the purpose.
The problem here again is the character of the people running YouTube, who do not care about freedom of speech, are not interested or don’t believe other people are real, and who destroy a decade of people’s work without an afterthought.
If YouTube had been run by someone ethical, then Max’s body of work would not have been deleted. Its the same as burning down a library of books. Unconscionable and completely unethical.
UGH!!
You're offering Straw Man arguments, which is part of the very odd and delusional mentality of people who are breathless Nostr enthusiasts.
"My" solution is not to use "burner accounts" it is to create an environment where people are free to offer services efficiently (server farms etc) and not to run from the problem by building things like Noster, that even if it worked, would not address and fix the persistent problem which is the power to detain people arbitrarily, the same way Durov has been detained.
Having a normie CEO is very much sustainable and has been the norm for most of the history of the services on the Internets, and your "money pit" argument is just economic illiteracy. YouTube is profitable, in case you didn't know, and LiveLeak persisted for years before being sold.
And the argument, "They're just going to stop it anyway" is the exact argument people use against new ideas, even PGP, "The government can get into anything, it cannot possibly be secure". Thankfully the people who know how things actually work are also the people taking the action to do things. That includes Nostr by the way, which may end up solving problems for some people, whilst leaving the problem of the violent thugs untouched.
"Rumble is still small" is yet another fallacious objection. People react like this with nonsense when you "attack" their pet hobby, in this case Nostr. They put up stupid arguments, fallacies and gibberish trying to score points and "Gotchas". It's really very silly and tiresome.
Once again thankfully there are many people working on this problem and as it was in the case of GPG, Bitcoin and GNU, it only takes a tiny handful of dedicated people to solve these big problems once and for all, and no one is persuaded by anon fallacies.
The founder of Telegram has been kidnapped.
Why don't they (the EU States) in this case, arrest the CEO of Apple and Samsung or Google, for people using browsers and phones in the commission of crimes? Or ISPs or anyone else transmitting data? No one can answer this, because Ambulance Chasers are Computer Illiterates.
This question touches Bitcoin of course, and will have profound effects if the people who make these bad decisions are not re-educated and their ignorance neutralized.
The CEOs of Bitcoin companies must assert the truth of how things work at all times to defend not only their businesses but their hundreds of millions of users.
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You’re right. Words matter. If English is not used correctly, it is not possible to convey meaning accurately. Or understand the true nature of an event or problem. The unethical nature of what has happened is not conveyed by “arrest” which implies a proper legal process where a criminal was interdicted.
Pavel was kidnapped. He did not know there was a kidnap order placed on his head. It was an Organized Crime style hit. PERIOD.
Socialists are terribly boring. So are cowards who shirk their duty to protect others under the cloak of “Decentraluzation” and faddish crap that’s going to get everyone killed.
Only the most delusional reality denier thinks that good, strong leadership is a bad thing, and that leaders together can’t fix many big problems.
It’s easy to hide here and pretend that other people are not real, and that the few examples of strong leadership have not changed the world in the last year. Or throughout the 20th Century. Do I have to list them? Honestly, people are very dim these days!
Thankfully anti business infantilism doesn’t matter in the long run, because there are enough strong leaders to face the facts and force change through decision making to get us out of this mess.
There is nowhere to run from reality. I’ve been consistent about running away and hiding in Nostr being a bad thing. It’s like sitting on the cure for cancer because the group has not decided eliminating cancer is a good thing.
If people don’t act to protect their rights and the rights of others, then very bad outcomes are the result. This should be obvious to even the most simple people.
The fact that this has to be said in 2024 is terrifying and it would be “Game Over” were it not for the small number of people for whom others are real and not imaginary, and the big picture is at least partially in view.
Should all the CEOs get together to punish the EU and any other country that dares to violate people’s rights (Julian Assange anyone?) the world will change forever.
Unless of course you are one of those people who don’t want any problem to be solved, who actually enjoyed and vampirically thrived on Assange being imprisoned, and who lives to create or extend the life of problems because problems are the centre of your life; being the permanent “rent a mob” class like Occupy Wall Street, Get Kony, Stop Oil that turns up everywhere to protest and destroy because being in opposition is your life, not solving problems when you have the ultimate power to do so.
But I suspect you have no power at all, and would hate a world where it was impossible for Julian Assange to be persecuted, Wall Steet to steal or dictators to murder. You would not be free to vote for imbeciles who are for war, inflation and tyranny…because…then…what would you put in your Profile bio?
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