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 I am very wprried about the place she wants to put everyone in. 

Me thinks that some are more equal than others in her eyes. 

So some people might end up at the same place as others, you know, the same but different, but still the same.  
 Look, as a nostr user, I'm just going to offer a post-mortem opinion. 

I like the people involved, but I never understood why it was a good product. Not saying it wasn't, I'm saying comms were not clear enough as to the benefits.  
 I'll bite. 

1) why is that good ? 
2) what are the chances they lose the sats ? 
3) what are the privacy garantees? 
4) Is there any restrictions to spending I should know about ? 
5) how does that compare to e-cash like e-nuts ? 


I have a ton of questions 
 Ok, so it's a disposable fedi/ln wallet ? 

probably useful, definitely too early.  
 Blame the immigrants is a massive strawman from the left. 


The immigrants just want a better place to live, that's understandable. 

Complaining about immigration policy is the real gripe of the right. The left just deflects by calling it racism. 

There's a massive difference between the authorized level of immigration in the USA and the actual level. Border enforcement is in shambles. 

🤔🤔 
 NO-STIR VS NAW-STIR WE’RE FIGHTING AGAIN 
 know-starr 
 Major Hunger games vibe

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 I’m gonna be on stage at the conference sort of representing nostr users. 

I have my own thoug... 
 What we love : 
Freedom for us
Freedom for others
Freedom of ideas
Ownership over content
 


What we need (not just for Nostr) : Better key management tools.  
 You gotta be grillin meats man. 

Smokin meats 

Charring those meats

2-3 times a weak minimum 
... 
 I need yo say it. 

Grilling will give you cancer. 

That fat hitting the coals and sizzling turns into carcenirogens and is then coating your meat which in turn you eat. 

Legit plenty of uncles that LOVED grilling have had stomach cancer at a young age. 

Cut that bad habit if you wanna see your grandchildren.

You've been warned. Also lose some weight before you're diabetic too.  
 How to get your hand chopped off.

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 If I fancy losing some weight, guess what I don’t do? Stuff my fat face with Ozempic and then g... 
 Food is 80% of the battle 
exercise is only to look dece after you shed the weight  
 Yes, but not for losing weight. 

You can't out-exercise a bad diet.  
 FWIW...

My general recommendation for all who are new to buying #bitcoin is to dollar cost aver... 
 it's nice to preach to the choir here, but in reality that is a very poor sales pitch considering the risks involved. 

in fact new people (with low information) will act (rationally from their perspective) and loto-ticket a lump sum. 

The DCA stuff is for long-term convicted savings. A new person will not follow that advice, neither should they. They can't differentiate well BTC from ETH from penny stocks. You could give the same pitch for any asset and it would be, in most cases, very dumb to commit long term cash-flows to it. 

Fwiw 
 Robert Kennedy, although not perfect, is the best candidate running for president of the United S... 
 nah bruv, too corruptible. 

At least Trump is locked in by  his base.  
 eh.... they just confirmed what we already knew. 

For extrajudicial actions to be taken, one must be above the law. 

I don't think you can direct the military and be judged by standard criminal law.

 
 THERE IS ALREADY MORE REAL ENGAGEMENT ON NOSTR THAN BITCOIN TWITTER.

THE RIDE OR DIES ARE HERE.
... 
 The kindergarten teachers took away ratios because children were causing too much trouble. What a buncha cucks. 
 If the socialists had their way, you'd get face ID at the gate.  
 why fire protection. 


I think I'm more a minarhist because I believe, and I'm pretty sure I'm right, that without use of military and police, the neighboring organizations will use violence successfully to annex volontarists. 

For voluntarism to thrive, one needs to be able to provide indispensible goods to neighborhood AND have enough of a dissasive threat of violence to discourage annexation. AND have a way to have other people behave in civil society that is not police. 

So basically, without practical solutions to hose problems, the only viable ideal is minarchism. 

Even then, the policing needs to be quite extensive with regulations to keep the peace and not poison rivers or have a bunch of accidents.  
 and after that people argue for auto-updating nodes.... 
 More like crashes 
 there must definitely be a better system for assigning leadership of a state than regular electio... 
 leadership assignment isn't an issue. 

Unfettered power is. 

Consider a world where any new law may be defeated if 15% of the population votes against it. What war is going to be waged ? What restrictions of freedom may be voted in ? What overspending may be engaged in ? 

Many such checks may now be implemented with public key cryptography. 

Leaders are fine. Rogue agents as leaders are not. 

 
 That is SO SICK !!!! 
 No one is going to talk about how that hand is placed ? the girl bending has a correct hand placement. wtf happened with the walking girl ? she met a midget ? 
 shots fired, Marty's scoped 
 I'm recording a bitcoin.review episode about OP_CAT today, drop your questions and comments below... 
 How does OP_CAT's risks can be fenced out to limit risks associated with it compared to other proposals that have a similar stated goal? 

How does OP_CAT advances self custody solutions in regards to inheritance and 5$ wrench attacks / kidnappings ? 

Is OP_CAT creating a new de-facto crypto dividend ?

If there is a new soft-fork with CAT, what are the considerations regarding the new players in the space : Saylor / ETFs / Nationstates / Politicians? 

Looking forward to listen ! 
 Nah, off-protocol key management is the solution 
 I see what you mean now. 

I don't understand qhy we don't just use some kind of waterfall HD keys like in bitcoin. 

Master nsec--> derive multiple nsec 

When you see a key with a higher derivation number you consider all previous keys compromised and mark the messages with those keys as compromised. 
 that would be really bad if it was the case 
 I said it before and I'll say it again and again: we need ideas to fix the huge traffic issue wit... 
 like when are we dropping the stupid JSON representation ? 

Binary format with 2 version bytes at the beginning  
 Pro tip- don’t swivel in your chair in meetings/interviews/etc. it makes you look nervous/unqua... 
 i just bored 
 The overton window never widens, it just shifts 
 My wife rarely posts anything on centralized social medias but yesterday she did post a helicopte... 
 did you listen to the latest bitcoin fixes this podcast,? it's specifically about envy 
 This was such a good podcast. The kind that stays with you years in the future. 


THANK YOU SO MUCH for this.  
 Being on nostr is great just for the simple fact that you aren’t running up against pentagon le... 
 it won't change HODL. You'll always be able to control the algo. 

No MKUltra here, unless you want it.  
 They can fork off at any time. 

Why haven't they done so already? 
Why are they bragging about the ability to do so ? 

Mainly because they know they can't, it would be disastrous for them to be excluded. 

All they are trying to do is to incite some sort of compromise by showing their strength even if their strenght is insufficient to hold them on their own.  
 CBDC = the mark of the beast 

C = 3 x B = 2 => 6 
D= 4 + B = 2 => 6 
C = 3 x B = 2 => 6 

Without it one won't be permitted to buy or sell. 

Resistance will be prosecuted. 

The profecy predicts that compliance will be rewarded by nuclear fire. 

Resist brothers, so that your progeny thrives in the future. 
 
 I don't think it's wise for him to brag at this point. His successes should speak for themselves. Bragging may destroy everything he built.  
 Odell ( nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx ) is right about no... 
 ODELL is right about alot of things   
 Rollup sequencers are MSBs. 
 They wanna stop freedom money to put a chip in your hand: The mark of the beast, checksum 666. Those who don't have it won't be permitted to buy or sell. Those who resist will be persecuted and executed. Isn't that what the bible had predicted? 
 My son recently turned 3 and he has forgotten everything we told him about listening and cooperat... 
 immediate punishment at the first sign of refusal. 

There is a place and time for self determination and independent thinking. Sadly that place and time is not in front of your parents when you're three. 

Giving chances and being lenient just teaches him that you really aren't serious about anything until you get mad about it and act. 

Things get alot easier when they know you always mean business. 

To clarify to the weirdos out there : I'm not talking about pain compliance. I'm talking about either removal of dopamine inducing items (toys and TV) or temporary restrictions on movements (time outs).  
 there is no red 
there is no blue 
there is the state
and there is you

fix the money, save the world  
 If you were to ask an establishment politician or bureaucrat, “what books should I read to unde... 
 covid 19 : the great reset  
 We can make nostr a home for everyone

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 i ain't got much to say, it's so peaceful here 
 What's your opinion on "picking the lesser evil" (e.g. voting)?
On one hand, it can potentially p... 
 Thought experiment: 

You have a constitutional law that says : any vote in parliament (or house or whatever) is subject to a 15% popular veto. Meaning any 15% of the population can strike down any law as an added condition for votes. 

This would result in very limited government after a while. The obly things that would pass would be lateral adjustments that everyone thinks are needed. 

From that point we extrapolate to the current situation where the population has a 0% veto on any vote. That means that government has the freedom to expand because they get to burden future governments with long term liabilities. 

So what we can conclude is that voting does nothing but involving yourself in the political process via say : lobbying and representatives in both the bureaucracy and elected officials does ALOT with few ressources. 

Involvement is thus a moral duty for Brave bitcoiners.  
 learn to code, it's one of the best ways to change the world 
 working through CLRS and Discrete math part time. Ill be ready to contribute at some point lol.  
 Nihilists suffer from recency bias. They need to zoom out. Everything always happens this way. It... 
 I'm so sorry to have a time preference that is limited to my own lifetime..... I guess I should accept that everything goes to shit and hope for things to get better after I die ...... 
 If you're not subscribed, you are failing your duty as a bitcoiner to be educated on the important aspects of the protocol. 

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 I can see the future.

Problem is, nobody believes me at the time when I predict it and once my v... 
 What principle stops you from trading your convictions ?  
 Well there are important points to consider. 

Having more bitcoiners is better than having less. Why ? Because it prevents all kinds of nasty social attacks in meat space. And some violent ones too. 

Also, not having privacy ends up taking censorship resistance out of bitcoin. 

So like, I understand the carefulness to improve the protocol, but "pure store of value" ends up being "pure pile of shit". 

 
 Unsubstantiated take 
 Bunch of wrong assumptions here : 

I said more bitcoiners not more ETF holders. More bitcoiners is by definition more decentralization. 

Privacy solutions do not necessarily entail supply cap obfuscation. For example : coinjoin, payjoin etc... 
 It is officially Stevie Ray Vaughn season in the office. 
 I don't get it 
 You can trade an ecash token against another ecash token from another user *atomically* (i.e. use... 
 Do you have a protocol name for this operation yet good sir ? 

If I may suggest, I think this should be called  Mind Goblin !