It actually makes perfect sense because we are literally BUILDING #Nostr while using #Nostr to organize and find the community to build with.
It would be like an early version of GitHub being used to track updates and version history *for GitHub,* because a good tool was finally built to accomplish the task.
You are looking at something that necessarily begins with the people who are building and exploring what this protocol can be used for. #Nostr is a beta level startup, not a finished project.
It’s just like the earliest people on the internet only talking about the internet and what they could do with it. Of course that’s what they would talk about, literally EVERYTHING is still left to build.
It’s not at all as strange as it sounds, it’s just weird *for a corporate product,* but that’s not at all what #nostr is. nostr:note1j0s42w9g4736zgg33jer0xhjazrkzfesrwcjt9n57hmrxc7urv5q6lkm2m
Holy crap, I discovered today that people are literally scared of — and wearing masks to protect from — the “Monkey Pox Epidemic.”
They are legit scared and believe the media is telling them about something important and relevant to their lives.
It’s weird how totally disconnected I am from that dumb shit now. I legit thought it was nothing but memes.
lol, not bringing anything here, I’m not gonna be talking about Monkey pox anytime soon, I was just stunned to find out there’s “another pandemic” being pushed and I legit had no clue it was even happening. Just demonstrates how unbelievably powerful your social network and where and who you spend your time with is paramount to your view of the world. A whole mainstream mass psychosis cycle could’ve passed without me even knowing 🤣🤣
Nobody is gonna do that unfortunately. But we’re just putting in endless redundancies to prevent it from happening again. I’ve also got guys working under the front deck right now to finish a huge drainage thing that pushes all the water toward the side of the house. And as much as I reeeeaally don’t want to, I think I’m going to have to redo the back half of the driveway. It’s just complete shit, cracked and separating in a few places, it literally tilts TOWARD the house in addition so all the water from rain rushes down the driveway into the front of the house foundation. I’ve done some work to redirect it, but it’s still getting under because the driveway is too broken up. Might be adding that too the list 😅😫
Yeah for sure. I would go ahead and cast a wide net of people. Better to have a lot of content early, and then whittle down if you have people or content you don't like. It's better for discovery than trudging through the chaos that is the global feed, lol.
Honestly just scroll through my follow list and see what you like. Or you could literally copy my npub and "log in" from my view and you will see my feed and follows just as I see them. Then you could explore my feed and see what you like or don't, and follow as desired. That's a really cool thing about #nostr many dont know. you can basically see through the "window" of what any user's experience is by pasting their npub into the client in a "watch only" mode basically. It's a cool way to play/explore
This is purely a demographic thing, don't try to be interested or talk about things you don't care about THAT will 1000% come across as fake.
It's simply that most people who came here, becuase the people who saw how bad this problem was and had the tools to actually fix it... *were* bitcoiners, and they are excited about #nostr.
Waht I'm getting at is that the solution isn't to stop talking about what you like or posting about other stuff arbitrarily. The solution is to bring other people to this place that aren't bitcoin and #nostr fanatics.
If we just get annoyed with people for liking what they like, we will have exactly zero success in making any change.
Might as well yell at the clouds.
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Exactly, don't try to be something because it's needed and dont try to avoid talking about something because other people are already talking about it.
#Nostr is about the ability to truly be authentic without being controlled and manipulated. So be that. 👏
Sure, but it’s axiomatic to networks that they have to start with a small, cohesive group. Calling it an “echo chamber” or avoiding it for that fear is to misunderstand the stage of the network, imo. A larger and larger group around one idea, is *exactly* how you finally get groups that become large enough to have secondary interests and “side groups” begin to naturally develop.
In other words, I think we SHOULD be getting as many people as we possibly can who are interested in #Bitcoin, #nostr and censorship resistant social and internet protocols, because that’s exactly how we will get a network large enough to begin fostering the beginnings of thousands of other topics, hobbies, and interests.
lol, she’s just suggesting in good faith what she thinks will help attract more people to #nostr. I just don’t think it’s the right strategy because it’s unrealistic. There’s an easier path, imo.
“Going to start selling in mid/late 2025”
Sad man, this girl is going to watch her dollars plummet to worth fucking nothing. She’s going to retire thinking she has the money to live comfortably for a long time, and it’s gonna dry up in under a decade, then she’ll have sold her #Bitcoin, which she will be sure was the right decisions when we get a bear market, then it’s going to scream past everything and do the exact opposite of what the dollar does.
I understand why people have this viewpoint, but it’s still just so sad. They don’t understand that dollars are literally fucking trash. And they are selling something scarce for something extremely abundant that is only accelerating in how much more gets issued.
Yeah I've noticed that, it pulls some of the motivation out of it, or at least has in the past. I'm happy to report that as time passes this is less of an issue.
When i have an idea that I know is just too big or that I'll never get to, I always just share it out to the world. My hope is that somebody will be excited enough to get it done and I'll have done my part in helping to start the spark. Then i just focus on those things that I can and need to take to their finish line and i can let go of the 100 other ideas that I come up with along the way.
I actually understood it incorrectly. It’s hashed differently so it’s not as simple as the replacement of “bc” like I had read elsewhere. There’s a post floating around with some links to explore on it, but I think there seems to be a way to derive an address from it, but regardless the same keys can absolutely be used for that purpose if we so chose. Only found this out recently myself. Pretty cool and hope it gets explored
This is purely a demographic thing, don't try to be interested or talk about things you don't care about THAT will 1000% come across as fake.
It's simply that most people who came here, becuase the people who saw how bad this problem was and had the tools to actually fix it... *were* bitcoiners, and they are excited about #nostr.
Waht I'm getting at is that the solution isn't to stop talking about what you like or posting about other stuff arbitrarily. The solution is to bring other people to this place that aren't bitcoin and #nostr fanatics.
If we just get annoyed with people for liking what they like, we will have exactly zero success in making any change.
Might as well yell at the clouds.
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Yeah the “we” distinction should be avoided. Thats fiat language that attempts to equate us and society itself with the insanity of our govt. Something that are very, very much not the same thing.
Not related, the reverse isn't true of the above statement. Like saying "free markets don't have Minitries of Truth," wouldn't suggest everyone was free if they simply don't have a Ministry of Truth.
It is neither a sentiment nor unrealistic. It’s a simple fact, there is no such thing as economic freedom when there is a central bank. Period. They are axiomatically opposed. How anyone feels about it is meaningless.
There are people who claim to support free markets but defend a central bank that price fixes most important price in the economy:
-- the price of borrowing and using resources up today at the expense of tomorrow.
They then casually dismiss both our astronomical overconsumption & debt problems...
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The market doesn't "decide," price controls don't work because the price is a result of voluntary market interaction. It's a thermometer, not the heat itself.
Price controls are analogous to capping the thermometer and letting pressure build up, while claiming that we've controlled the temperature outside.
Saying "the market decides" is like suggesting we are "letting the weather decide the temperature" instead of the weatherman. When the second statement is just nonsense. The weatherman doesn't control the weather, if he is manipulating the thermometer then its just lying about what the real temperature is.
My proposal isn't about "letting the markets decide," because markets are literally the only thing that create prices in the first place. I'm saying we shouldn't have institutions with the express authority to completely monopolize a market and then lie about the price.
Price controls are simply lies, we should just stop lying.
Sir, the "free market" isn't what excluded you, the lying manipulating market run by central banks and giant politically connected corporations that own everything and rent it all back to you is what is "excluding you." then they are buying you off with a pittance on the side and claiming they are helping you.
Check the original post, we have a central bank that issues trillions every year and direct it through a massive financial and corporate apparatus.
Your anger at the "free market" is massively misplaced, because you don't live in one, not even close.
Literally, buy #Bitcoin and don’t save or calculate long term profit/value in dollars. Calculate it against whether or not you should just hold #Bitcoin instead. Thats it.
Price controls are literally what make it nonexistent. If we don’t understand what is causing our problems and refuse to even point out why things are being destroyed. Nothing gets better. In fact it all just keeps getting worse 🤷🏻♂️
Our only options are to have the govt fix it for us, or opt out. I suggest opting out by buying a money they can’t print.
Fiat literally means “by decree,” and it refers to a money that is forced on people and whose entire value proposition is because you are forced to accept it and/or pay taxes in it. It’s a market not based on genuine value or real attributes of the money, but on the artificial violence used to prevent the market from dropping it.
So again, just because we are specifically talking about being precise with our language, #Bitcoin being a ledger doesn’t make it fiat, anymore than applications being only code make them fiat.
I also kinda disagree on the explanation of other money and their flaws as being a bad place to start explaining things. Most people don’t know the first thing about money, so sometimes you have to start at the beginning.
(Also I don’t think calling it a ledger is controversial really 🤔)
I’ve had decent success with explaining how our money works, but I do it with as little jargon as possible and usually stick with basic principles in bite sized amounts.
Curious, what has been your most successful strategy since this one turns you off?
The value of hyper proxy would be in letting it be placed behind a normal domain, as I understand it.
You could have a swarm of people (or multiple of your own computers) hosting a file or a webpage or something, and people could visit it at cadayton.com/page, instead of using or installing Holesail and some confusing key.
Unless I’m missing something, that’s what I think the main use would be of this.
I'm perfectly aware of this as I've done the narration for every one of his books. He doesn't mean this literally like he is suggesting that you can actually package your soul in a box and ship it off to someone. One does not have to be religious to understand the concept of "selling your soul." 😆
Why I think the idea of “superintelligence” and “AGI” is HEAVILY exaggerated or misunderstood:
Assuming we have Ai much smarter than the average human, smarter than the typical PhD (granted smart and “PhD” are not at all equal but for the sake of simplicity). If (or when) this occurs, this will not mean Ai will just be able to invent whatever we need or make all decisions better than anyone else. And I think all we have to do is look at humans to make this simple assessment —
• If we asked a physicist and a biologist what was the most important thing to focus our time and resources on, do you suspect the physicist would find something related to physics and the biologist would find something biological?
This points to the question of speciality. What an Ai is trained on will determine what and how it values things, and there is no amount of information that will make it perfect and forever aligned with the truth at all times. It will always have a weight toward something, because the question of WHAT to value for training and for dedicating resources is present at all stages. It presupposes that we already have the answer if we assume Ai will just magically come up with it.
• in addition, the answer to “where should we devote resources” isn’t static. It changes year to year, month to month, even minute to minute sometimes. It is a question of value and judgement. The only way to sort out this relationship is through trade and competition, denoting the **necessity** of Ai that compete and exchange data and resources.
• General intelligence is useful, but extremely inefficient. Generalists are great to have for combining and relating ideas, but specialists still down into the true details and do the dirty work of real building and fine tuning of the world. Specialization isn’t just an economic phenomenon, it’s a physical reality of the universe. It will be the same with Ai, because Ai doesn’t defy universal laws, it’s just a computer program.
— A giant, trillion dollar cluster AGI will not be as valuable or produce nearly as good results or decision making capability as 10,000 much smaller and specialized AI’s focused on their own corner and trading resources with others to accomplish their task or test the ideas or paths of progress apparent from their vantage point. Nothing in nature resembles the former.
• Intelligence isn’t an omnipotent, unrestricted power. Mental intelligence isn’t the only kind of intelligence. I think as humans we have become deeply arrogant about the fact that we are “so smart” and we have begun to worship our own intelligence in such a way that if we ever imagine something smarter, then it MUST be God and it must be without any limits or flaws at all. Yet there is nothing to suggest this. The “smartest” people today often have the greatest blinders on, and everyone is only as good as the information they have and the values lens through which they see everything.
While the intelligence explosion will be shockingly disruptive and revolutionary in many ways, and while I do see it as an extremely likely outcome in the rather near future, I think the vision of a giant, all powerful AGI dropped on the world like a nuclear bomb is increasingly a projection of our own ignorance and arrogance. It simply doesn’t hold water, imo.
Covered a lot of these ideas in the 31st episode of Ai Unchained:
https://fountain.fm/episode/98UjiXJsa1b2VusbQQur
I said, and try ot be clear about my wording more recently, "the intelligence explosion is in our very near future," not AGI. I increasingly think "AGI" suffers from a fundamental semantic problem of being undefinable.
Are you implying that you think AGI is going to happen and that it will just replace humans? I'd love for you to defend that claim if that's what you are arguing.
The fact that they immediately turned this into “gender-based violence” is just insane to me. They are causing so much of the very problem and they double down on a massive part of it almost instantly. They are breeding, weak, cowardly men, who are out in a situation where they think manipulating, lying, and hiding who they are is how they get women. Then they feel victimized when it all goes to shit because what actually happened is they turned into a creepy coward out of some weird attempt to not be “offensive.”
We have serious mental health disorder and unfortunately this article displays some of it. And it couldn’t be so clearly demonstrated by the horrific long tail consequences of this type of culture that are detailed in this very article.
This is why you have a ritual. And you ALWAYS perform it.
YOU, by an order of magnitude, are your greatest threat to losing your BTC. The overwhelming majority of the people who will lose BTC will do so because of lost keys.
I have personally dealt with this and trust me, you don’t want this burned into your process by the pain of losing a huge amount of wealth. Do it because Guy told you to.
Make a simple, repeatable backup ritual, and DO IT EVERY FUCKING TIME. If your storage method is across the house, if it’s outside in the rain, get off your ass and go get it, and BACKUP YOUR SEED.
You’re welcome 😁 nostr:note1nkz0a3mgn6c7m5shgqllfvkhynzm6v6vy5ss65uws7ylnpfm2a8qnj4jcw
Thought of something today…
People like to compare Bluesky and Nostr because they are built around a similar idea. But it’s claimed Bluesky has more users, a few million apparently. But Nostr supposedly only has 100k or so active users.
Yet today I went searching for real world events and groups around each. What did I find?
Couldn’t find a single event about Bluesky.
Yet the first search found numerous conferences, meetups, and other gatherings for #Nostr
I think this is actually a decent litmus for telling the difference between an app with some users, and a movement. One is cheap, the other lasts.
#Nostr is a movement. We aren’t going anywhere. 🫡
lol, that’s not what is happening here.
Simply observing a comparison and *defining something* by its relationship to something else are completely different things. Nobody calls #Nostr “better Bluesky.”
Does my observation makes me sound brainwashed? 😂 How many resources are being devoted to brainwashing people on the differences between #nostr and Bluesky do you think?
I asked an honest question. How you interpreted it as bragging and what on earth I would be bragging about in my previous note is beyond me. The fact that you can’t answer makes me assume you’re either retarded, or I’m talking to a 3B weight LLM or something.
I can’t believe I forgot about these guys again. Even had them on the show to talk about CoinOS and it was the first wallet I ever used that integrated Liquid, Lightning, and Onchain. In fact, it’s how I got my very first L-BTC.
It has Lightning address and even Nostr pubkey by default. Pretty dope. Just registered to see the whole flow. If you save it to home screen as a web app it’s super simple flow. This is how simple a wallet should always be, love the extremely minimal design. nostr:note1zt4tjhzfsvnyryq6w5ac0rx3huw78tgccz7pphnd8v00etrua9xqzw95dt
• When you create a software key it gives you the seed like any normal wallet.
• If you are using a Coldcard then it’s just the Coldcard seed, there isn’t a new one for the wallet.
• If it’s multisig you need to also save a copy of the wallet config. I always simply email that to myself, it’s needed to restore, but isn’t terribly sensitive, I prioritize availability over privacy there. Although I send from a protonmail account to another protonmail account with the subject “BACKUP” so it’s just always searchable in email if I need it.
There is nothing uniquely different about Nunchuk and key backups. It forces you to save your seed during the key creation process like any of them. You might be remembering incorrectly or confusing how you set it up?
I never had this occur. I have the seed from my software key like I do any of them. Are you sure you aren’t mistaken? I’ve made and used a bunch of keys with Nunchuk and have never had the situation you describe.
Make a key backup ritual that happens EVERY single time you make a wallet, even if you are just screwing around.
Do it because it’s simply the rule for when you make a wallet. Every time. If you have to, Imagine you are role playing as a meticulous OCD cypherpunk spy with 5 secret passports and money hidden in the slab under your house. That guy would *always* have a backup, and it would be highly organized. Whatever you need, just DO it. nostr:note196z4s5xuq4ux3trhavnf7paef5c7ajduypqhn3wwujstsdp3x6es3wz2fg
I think you would have thought differently if you had read the original script. They ruined the theatrical version, imo.
In retrospect it wasn’t actually bad, but I had already fallen in love with the story I had originally read a few years prior, and seeing the most important parts of it change when I saw it in the theater made me initially hate it.
No but I worked at Scott Rudin Productions on the Disney studio lot in LA for a while after I left school. It was a mix between utter chaos and then hours sitting around doing nothing. They had a script library with thousands of submitted scripts, and one of the things we were allowed to do was read anything without a red cover (marked for production) and if we found something good we could suggest it to the producers.
The two best I read were from directors/writers I noticed by name, Nolan and Alfonso Cuaron. Interstellar and Gravity. Neither were in production at the time or being considered, but I read probably a hundred scripts while I was there. Actually a number of enjoyable ones.
Gravity had theatrical changes to the core story of the main character’s struggle, but they were actually improvements, imo. Interstellar completely changed its core theme to something completely different and even ruined one of my favorite conversations in the film. The conversation between Damon and Mcconaughey was originally him talking to an Ai humanoid, which made the meaning of their conversation far more impactful. The Ai was explaining to him that humans were still needed because they still had “better programming.”
Not going to explain it all in a Nostr note, but it was far more like a scientific puzzle and contemplation of the future in the script, while the movie was all “we can quantify love!” 😒
I actually liked the element that we were technologically advanced but humbled by the fact that we were all going to die if the soil was ruined. And they also didn’t go deep into why, just basically suggesting it was possible (unless I’m remembering the movie wrong I didn’t remember much explanation). But there were plenty of other things I had issues with. That one wasn’t prominent for me, especially since it was just a reality to set the stage and not part of the puzzle of the film itself.
This is the world Ai was always supposed to deliver. 🫡
Frens! The future is finally upon us ❤️! Let thy memes flow from the heavens and wash away the scum of politics beneath the ceaseless torrent of memetic ridicule. 🤣 nostr:note1wevqnmuwlueed2kjhmpc3j3rwzvypjmadlv32spp95kvh45a5e8qnnkuqk
Dude, the amount of Kamala ads on YouTube now is fucking vomit inducing. And they don’t let you skip them! So I have to hear that bitch’s nonsense for like 20 seconds. And it’s literally event before stuff that my 2 year son wants to watch.😡
God I hate election season. I really should’ve put a pi-hole in my network a long time ago. This might make me finally do it.
Explain it like I’m 5.
I want to hear if this is what I actually think and exactly how you’d interact with it, and also that would probably help people scrolling past it too.
This is a web front end tunnel that talks to a peer swarm in the background basically like a proxy server? Am I getting that right?
It’s in the Bitcoin Audible feed, it will be split off soon as well but we are making feed changes on the backend so the separate “TPR only” feed is yet to be available. Sucks cuz it’s kinda unsearchable because of that right now. But I’ll have it shifted correctly on our end and it will show up in the aggregate feed and in its own feed.
Here is the link to the first episode though: https://fountain.fm/episode/GEH4q0Zd8RWYRB8p90bL
Yo @jb55 is there a particular trigger or tag for blurring an image that @damus will read? I’m curious because I have an idea for a filter that I could run on my personal relay to test something out. Could be really cool to pair with a different project I’m working on.
I found a lightweight model that can determine with pretty solid accuracy whether an image is NSFW or not. Would be cool to have a SFW relay that did this for you and auto-blurred posts from people you follow that might have nudity.
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