To be fair, they did give us five minutes between classes to use the bathroom and rush to the next class, with a 30 minute meal break that included the time it took to get your food and find a place to eat it. No food or drinks in most classes. Thank god for the 5 minutes between classes (if you weren't late - punishment!)

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I have a dream of an educational institution for those who want to explore anything and question everything.

I know that sounds radical today, but I feel that's the true purpose of education. The dominant philosophy of academia today (in my experience) seems to be that the student is supposed to accept at face value anything presented to him.

There is no time for questioning the underlying assumptions or statements of the curriculum. Things are as they are and that is that!

Read this 1300 page textbook and let me know if you have any questions so I can tell you to read pages 100-156 again.

Now give us 50-100k+ and shut the fuck up.

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Trust the science!

You are wrong because you don't have _insert degree_.

You can't say that here!
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Interestingly, I used to think I would hate to be a teacher; I would in schools as they are today.

But I am deeply excited by the idea of teaching when I experiment in my mind with what a proper institution of exploration looks like for me. I can actually picture myself engaging with young (or older) minds and loving the process of education.

Pretty much everything touched by government and the fiat system is destroyed, including the passion of those within the affected systems.

Looking back, my state education after about the half way point (grade 6) was a total waste of my time. In fact, I think I became an adult worse off than I would have been if I had spent half the amount of time studying what I wanted to at the time, and the other half just being a kid or working a job when I was old enough.

Sitting in a hard plastic chair for nearly 8 hours per day, 5 days per week (with work to do on the weekends) felt more like prison than education.

Peace.


Nice.


My favorite error message up to this point in my life:

Error: UnexpectedMessage: Unknown message

👌


Just looking at this image, I have no idea what the purpose of this is. All I see is four boxes that have something to do with addresses.


I also don't know what a Lightning offer is though. Like I said, I may be missing important context.


No. I can tell that I'm entering addresses in, but for what purpose?


Rather, that I shouldn't spend my Bitcoin to buy X.


To be fair, he did say 'need.' I think his point is that most people can have the use of things without the headaches of owning them. That obviously doesn't apply if your value is to keep the same house for your entire life (or while your children grow up). Owning it would be the surest way of achieving that want.

But I do agree with your sentiment. I hate it when people tell me I shouldn't spend my Bitcoin. Fuck you. The whole point of money is to express my values. Otherwise, what are we here for?


I don't want my accounts to be so easily intermingled. That's why I have separate accounts. I think the way Amethyst handles it, for example, is my ideal way of handling account switching.

Of course, having settings that allow one to customize account switching would be nice so people can have a tailored experience.


The best? Maybe not. But they may have a massive impact on your life or a life you love. Literally in the case of 2 and 3.

1. Study philosophy
2. Stay hydrated
3. Learn basic first aid and life support


Using Trezor devices for U2F is pretty cool. I have a Model One that I specifically use for this purpose. It has held up for several years in my wallet. I have another Model T that I also use for this purpose and it works well too. It just isn't quite as portable as the smaller Model One so it stays at home.

Is it overkill? Absolutely. But at the time I wanted an open option that had a display.


I don't really pay attention to mainsteam media. However, I occasionally see a Sky News or similar clip that makes me laugh because of how savage Australians can be. The accent just makes it 🤌


That's what I do everytime I leave a job that has forced plans or contributes for me. It ends up being about 50% gone but I've never regretted putting the other half into Bitcoin. My current hospital participates in the forced state retirement plan, which I recently found out was putting Bitcoin in their portfolio. The plan is somewhat well known for being extremely conservative. Sign of the times. I get a chuckle when my coworkers push back on Bitcoin not realizing they are already indirectly investing in it.


I simply don't want the feature to do anything at all, which seems like the simplest scenario in my mind. It's the easiest ask. It should require zero effort to get rid of such a thing. Even X makes you explicitly say you want to save something. Amethyst just does it without even telling you and has no simple way of stopping it.


Is it possible yet to not have drafts in Amethyst?

I saw somewhere to not enter a relay. I haven't, yet I still see drafts.

I don't want drafts. I never wanted drafts. I don't want to request deletion for drafts. I simply want them to never be recorded anywhere. A complete disabling of the feature.

I gave Amethyst another chance after seeing some people say it was being remedied, but I'm not seeing how.

I still think this issue is needlessly complicated from a user perspective and should have been strictly opt-in from the start.

What am I missing?

#Amethyst


Or they just aren't aware. Not everyone is buried in this topic like we are. There are plenty of people buried in other topics, without whom many of us would also be fucked. No one has the bandwidth to be deeply knowledgeable on all topics.


I have no idea what I'm even looking at. I could be missing some context and may not be your target demo though.


The main problem I see is that the primary incentive is usually "do it to support the network, bro." People are doing what economically makes sense. It doesn't make sense for me to get paid in fiat, have mostly fiat bills, and spend a fee to use Bitcoin, spend a fee to replace the Bitcoin, and then have to live the nightmare of tracking all of the buys and sells for my taxes.

There are so many differences between jurisdictions that there is no single answer to more people spending Bitcoin. The incentive where I live is to spend fiat and save my extra in Bitcoin. I usually have a disincentive to spend and replace. The only time that hasn't been true is when there is a 10% discount on some larger purchase I'm making. Even then, I usually don't want to deal with the tax tracking of it.

This is a multi-faceted issue, but I do agree that more merchants would not solve my issues. I actually don't even need merchant adoption as much as I once did (with all the conversion options). What I need is simpler tax tracking or no taxes at all on Bitcoin for the full economic incentive to bother with spending and replacing.

I donate a lot more Bitcoin than I spend because the tax situation isn't complicated for me when I donate.

I don't think the network is any worse off doing what I do. I'm still pulling value out of the fiat world and putting it into Bitcoin on a regular basis. I'm just not micro transacting myself to death when my reality simply isn't set up for it.

If Bitcoin was legally a currency without taxation, I'd be living completely in it today, even if I lost a percentage for doing so. I would do that on principle. But the amount of work I'd need to do right now is beyond what I am willing to do. There may be ways to make it easier, but not easy enough.

The UX and laws just aren't there for me yet. And this isn't really surprising. The Fiat rails have almost a century on Bitcoin.

We are going the right direction. I'm on more of a Bitcoin standard in my own life than I've ever been, even with how I use it right now.

Like nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarjd93kztnrdaksz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7um5wgh8qatz7tvu4p said, we're gonna make it.

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It's amazing what happens when you can't just dump someone else's money into the ocean for every launch.
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Depends on the item. Sometimes it just says Butter, or whatever. That is mostly how I use them. To make sure that things like sour cream are actually sour cream, which is unfortunate but still helpful. I'm not going to produce every item myself at home.


I understand that. I was responding to the comment.


It sure is. But claiming that one doesn't need to worry is a technical claim that may not be true. Bisq isn't a total shield from state tracking.


Another idea I had was using electrical box covers. They aren't quite as tough, but may work well for those who want to make backups of backups cheaply or need something that is easy to hide.

For example, you could put these under carpet, screw them to studs inside walls, under floors, in vehicles, or even on an electrical box if you're feeling extra cheeky. https://image.nostr.build/ed28591113f41392078872b420622c1687e04816da695db4448706c14f6f8cb2.jpg

There are lots of cool possibilities for flat plates like this. Sizes vary.

#bitcoin #seed #seedphrase #bitcoinbackup

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For anyone interested in an example of all the materials:

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Seedor is cool and all (they look nicer maybe), but you can do something similar on your own. You will pay more depending on the steel specifications (heat tolerance, corrosion, etc), but buying the best I could find cost very little in comparison to something like Seedor.

I spent around 50USD for the punch kit (hammer, letters, numbers, platform) and all the materials needed for the steel backups. You can tailor the amount of materials to lower the price. I bought quite a lot to experiment.

I'm fairly public about my journey in Bitcoin, but ordering parts like this or going to a hardware store can naturally be a lot more private than ordering a kit from a Bitcoin company.

One disadvantage is that I didn't have a guide to help with stamping, but it wasn't that difficult  to freehand. I'm sure there are kits with guides or whatever the technical term is. You could consider engraving.

I haven't looked for a steel capsule yet, but I have seen them on keychains for holding medication. I'm sure something exists.

I haven't done this, but I have considered cool hiding ideas for these. You could easily install it on something like a vehicle (with the bolt head flush and in view) or something else that is double walled and most people would have no clue that it's a hidden seed.

Seed backups is a pretty interesting topic once you start experimenting and thinking about it.

Have fun.

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NOTE: THIS IS FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD THE SEEDOR PRICE, WANT MORE PRIVACY, OR HAVE SOME OTHER NEED.

I don't care if you like Seedor and own their products. I just used it as an example because it is the closest popular example I can find like this sort of backup. My goal is to give people a cheap and private backup option, not to attack Seedor or any other product. Use whatever you want.
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#bitcoin #seed #seedphrase

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That's an interesting glass


I think physicians should still be able to practice if it's made clear what their licensure status is (none, this or that org, just med school, etc). I can choose for myself what I want in a physician. Especially when it comes to family medicine. I can understand hospitals wanting more standardization for something like emergency medicine, but primary care should be individual


I don't really care if someone eats crickets per se. After all, the chickens that lay the eggs I eat live off of bugs mostly. Maybe they aren't directly good for us, I have no idea.

What bothers me is that they are clearly trying to hide what it is.

Acheta protein.

Why not just write Cricket Protein? I think it's because they know most people don't really want cricket protein.


I would certainly expect Trump to sell every case he can though, especially this close to the election. It just wasn't as sellable until blood was drawn.


It really isn't that amazing. Media coverage inspires certain people to do things like this. It is seen with school shooters and other types of violence too. I think there is also an incentive for media to cover these things while they're hot, which fuels the cycle. My guess is that things like this happen more often than we know, the media just isn't as interested until a bullet is fired.


You're talking about breaking the tax law it sounds like. I think it's a mistake to assume that using Bisq means one doesn't have to worry about tax laws. My hope is to abolish taxes on Bitcoin, but I'd like to live outside of a cage until then.

Besides, capital gains would be the most retarded tax to go to prison for given that you're still up anyway. That isn't the case with income tax.


Never take a polygraph. All you'll get is pseudoscience that may or may not cause you harm.

Fun relevant history:

Gary Ridgway (the Green River Killer) passed a polygraph after having already murdered dozens of women. Investigators at the time had mostly been focused on Melvyn Wayne Foster, who had failed a polygraph exam.

Robert Lee Yates Jr. - Passed
Ted Bundy - Passed


I guess I am voting for a degenerate soon-to-be crypto scammer to free Ross.

Might as well get something good out of the shitshow.


Envy is vile.


I really love when someone smugly points out a dip on a chart so zoomed in you can almost see the fucking pixels.

Buy high, sell low. That's all the broke people know.

I'm one of those idiots who buys the highs, lows, and everything in between.

It doesn't pay to try and sell freedom to a fiat brain. Complete waste of time.


Each spend and replace is two records I have to track for taxes. I'm not doing that for a coffee. That's the problem for a lot of us.


I've used it for years. It is good for all my fiat subscriptions. I haven't had to deal with annoying cancellation processes in years. I smack that close card button the moment I even get a whiff of fucking around. Haven't dealt with a compromised card and the headache of switching a bunch of services over either. It's a good life.


Dude.
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They also had a less desirable license from what I remember, but that's a point of contention that won't matter for everyone.


I suppose an all or nothing update policy isn't technically an 'auto update', but it also isn't as simple as you frame it. It wasn't just that they made it easy to update my node or "press 'yes' ", it was that all the updates were tied to a single update button. I did say that I tired of trying to figure it out, meaning that I may just have missed something. Either way, I think the entire design incentivized what *I* consider bad behavior for a Bitcoin node.

I'm also leaning more toward a Bitcoin node being a single use machine, but that isn't for everyone. Do whatever you want.


I don't remember being able to choose which apps updated and which ones didn't when I used Umbrel.


But who forked off?


Everything academia touches is dying because academia is dying.

Trust the science.

That statement is the antithesis of science and it is the general attitude I've seen from academics.

True scientific inquiry isn't as popular as it once was, in my opinion.


I remember taking tests that would start a timer if I looked away from my screen. It was an awful experience and made my testing anxiety so much worse. It was particularly bad for me because I tend to close my eyes or move my head around when solving difficult problems.

All of this shit is fucking ridiculous. Even if this isn't real, it easily could be right now and likely will be at some point. Pass.


My primary issue with Umbrel was its approach to updates. It defaulted to automatic updates for everything and I tired of trying to change that. That approach may be fine for most apps, but I don't think Bitcoin full nodes should be updated automatically. We need most people on the network being actively involved with node management, in my opinion. Each update is effectively a vote, and a policy of automatic voting for the majority of voters seems like a recipe for disaster with something like Bitcoin.

None of that is to say that you shouldn't run a node if you're unwilling to research each update. It could be the case that having a portion of nodes be completely patched and updated is a good thing. I just think having too many is a potential attack vector.

I use the Start9 OS for now, but plan to switch to Parmanode next year.

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Lame.


They should at least include parental control of apps if they're going to force shit like that. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to choose which apps can be used. Most of the TV OSs are absolutely powerful enough for this functionality. They just don't give a fuck what you want or need. That's why I'm not buying that shit anymore. Glad to hear you won't either.


Virtually every predator on the planet has 24/7 access to your child if they have unrestricted access to internet connected devices.

I remember being taught to not trust strangers in parks, stores, etc as a child. Most predators relied on chance, being close to a victim, or executing specific plans.

How do you even begin to protect a child when every predator is in their pocket?

Of course, predators aren't the only danger, which makes the topic even more concerning.

Technology has many positive benefits, but I don't think most people are taking the negative consequences seriously enough.


The most interesting thing for me with these dreams is the feelings I have when I wake up. I can still feel whatever the person was feeling and it's like I have that trauma even though it wasn't real. Unfortunately, they're usually fucked up. Some of them have stuck with me for years like they're memories now. I can remember crawling through that field but I know it wasn't real. It still makes me sick to think about crawling through the bodies. Most of my dreams aren't like that.

I've wondered if this is where some ancient beliefs come from. I feel like I was these people but not. I can see how people would have interpreted similar feelings as visions, reincarnation, other worlds, etc.


I have weird dreams sometimes where I'm someone else somewhere else. One I remember the most was being a soldier crawling slowly through a field of bodies. I wasn't me though and all I cared about was crawling through all the bodies to get to the other side without being seen. I remember vivid details that I usually don't recall from dreams.

They are the weirdest fucking dreams. The brain is interesting and terrifying sometimes.


Meh. Productivity is notoriously difficult to measure and define. Research can be tailored to show just about anything one wants it to. I'm especially skeptical when the guy writing the piece proclaims his excitement about being able to write the piece from home.

I'm sure there is a mixture of truth from both angles, but I've personally witnessed employees gaming metrics and rising to the top without actually being the best at their jobs.

I remember working in a call center and having my metrics hurt by following up with customer emails and phone calls to actually solve their problems. I was assigned an improvement coach (to avoid being fired) who was a top performer. His coaching was that I had to stop doing things that didn't help my metrics, which meant I needed to let customers fall through the cracks. He taught me how to game the metrics, not provide better support. My metrics improved, but I quit anyway due to the stress and guilt of just not actually doing a good job.

I've see this shit in too many jobs. Mouse jigglers and all kinds of bullshit. Most companies equate looking busy to productivity. I just don't trust any of these 'studies' one way or the other.

Output/profit/what is shipped is all that matters in my opinion. But I've never seen productivity measured that way. It's always some bullshit metric (lines of code, hours clocked, mouse movements, length of time on phone, etc)


Well, that judge is a retard.
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Same. I started in Bitcoin at an ATH. Over the years, it has averaged out to the point that I'm still ahead of my peers even if a 50% dump happens.


What game?

I store my extra energy in Bitcoin so it isn't stolen from me. I'll still be 'buying' at $1B.


What would the qualification be?


Oh, I thought you meant for Bitcoiners.


Honestly, I think it would be mostly good company. I'd swing by.


I'd feel gilty if I bought that shit now.


It's a zap jerk.


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It would be cool if you guys built Obtainium-like functionality into the app to allow repo installs/updates.


Is this you after Bitcoin dies again?


I think humans have an innate desire to fill voids with something, when the reality is that a void is sometimes the most optimal situation.

Governments are so massive right now that most people can't conceptualize having a void that simply isn't filled. The reality is that average people want mostly the same things and would likely optimize everything over time much more effectively for humans than any government or AI could.

I'd rather see micro AIs used privately in various industries to optimize within those industries. That would be a free market approach vs some god AIs that allegedly optimize many things at the hands of a few people.


Your model seems to be one big AI government with a small number of humans in charge of it via inputs and "failsafes."

I simply think that's a worse version of what we already have. I think the simpler approach is to just remove government from everything we can and replace it with nothing.


I just don't understand why it's there then. We still have to elect the "failsafes" and define what a fail even is. It's just a more complicated version of what we already have. Having an AI make decisions that government shouldn't be involved with anyway isn't going to fix the resulting problems that come from having government involved. Government can't possibly optimize life for everyone. All it can do is pick who it wants to win and eliminate the rest. The only real solution I see is to remove government entirely from anything that isn't regulating force against citizens and property. Having an AI decide the most optimal winner doesn't fix the underlying flaws.

People should be left free to optimize for themselves (as long as they don't violate the property rights of others), not have government do it for them, AI or otherwise.

My issue is with what you think government should be doing. Having AI involved doesn't fix that for me. It probably just makes it worse.


Who defines radical? Who decides the representatives? You're slow boating your way back to human governance of humans. Humans using AI as a tool to help them make decisions seems like a more useful approach than the addition of an extra step and piece of government to monitor (AI). What happens when the AI determines that the optimal situation is for it to have free agency without human involvement? And if it's wrong or radical in one area, why is it any more trustworthy in any other area? This just seems like a more complicated form of government to me with an even greater potential for abuse of rights. It seems a lot like having a government made up entirely of scientists and pragmatists. We'd end up right back at Hitler before long. Philosophy is important for 'optimizing' human life on earth, and having something like AI as it stands isn't going to necessarily appreciate that.


The problem is and will always be definitions.

Desired outcome (for who?)
Optimal (what does this mean exactly? By what standard is something optimal?)

Free markets are largely the answer to these questions. Government is meant to protect property rights, not optimize things for us.

A fundamental disagreement on what government even should be is another big definition issue that won't just go away by introducing AI to the problem.


It identifies as 80


Spoiler: Some humans will never stop violating others until they are forced to.

Sitting around and waiting for the worst humans to build and control weaponry is retarded.

Explosives have mostly ended kenetic wars compared to what they used to be.

I'd rather blow up an enemy than keep sending in tens of thousands of my own people to just get killed.

Pacifists tend to live in a fantasy world paid for by those living in the real one. There are simply times when violence is the only way to settle disputes.

It may seem ironic to a simple mind, but advanced weaponry is the best way for one to remain at peace. Being easier to abuse doesn't lead to less violence in a world where evil exists. War should be as horrific and unimaginable as possible if we really want to avoid it.

I love peace but I also understand that it sometimes comes at the expense of war.

Also, the Peace prize was one of five prizes. It wasn't the only thing he valued.

Some things conveniently or ignorantly left out here: People were using black powder and nitroglycerine (used for vasodilation now) explosives before dynamite. His invention reduced the chance of accidental detonation and made workers handling it a lot safer. His work on explosives was inspired by construction, not war.

Yes, his inventions were later sold for military use, and he indeed did not want to be known mainly for that. But that is in no way a negative point against his character. He did amazing work in his time that is worth celebrating.


Stay proud and stack sats.


I wonder if they will be paying us back for unrealized losses...
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The frequencies would hardly be useful if it was a free for all. The government isn't usually telling people that they can't emit signals in the air. They are telling people they can't interfere with certain other signals. Like taking over a radio station's broadcast. It serves no one. There would be no way to make radio useful if anyone could just broadcast on any frequency they want to at any time.

But I would like to see the frequencies privatized and courts used for property rights violations rather than massive institutions that really don't need to exist. There would be a human owner if they purchased it privately.

I also think it is dumb to apply the exact same standards to those in emergencies though. I can see a case for letting reasonable violations go in such cases.


You had to read past where I specified US to make this comment. It is very common to refer to US citizens as American.

GFY

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Obviously not, but it should be.

The Bill of Rights are restrictions on government, but they clearly governments don't always respect rights. Hence the Second Amendment.

I view Bitcoin as a physical defense (second amendment) of speech and property rights. I extend this view to Bitcoin related concepts, such as signing devices/software and self-custody because such tools are what gives Bitcoin its teeth.

The very concept of property rights is negated when a government is able to dictate by force what is and isn't money and how I may protect it from theft. My money is my property, and I should be free to use it for any end that doesn't violate the rights of others, which includes my speech. Bitcoin is also FOSS code, which is another free speech issue.

All of this is my opinion, of course.


I'm still bullish on the US regardless of which clown wins the presidential election. None of them can destroy my American spirit.


God I hope so


I've avoided losing sats because of those who came before me. ❤
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I don't think any of these rules were made to hurt people in life threatening emergencies. They seem to be a good faith effort to promote safety and prevent harmful interference under normal circumstances. At least the ones I've seen.

There is clearly a distinction between doing something to save life and doing it to cause harm.


I'm shopping for a new one gallon water jug and there are a surprising number of people who are genuinely upset that some one gallon jugs 'only' keep ice for 3-4 days instead of 4-5 days like some other options.

Who the fuck is only drinking one gallon of water every 4-5 days? I drink about one gallon daily.

I understand that some conditions require care with water intake, but I don't know of any that would be that limiting or common enough to warrant such expectations of water jugs.

Maybe they are giving small children water from them? Just seems bizzare.

#RoomTemperatureWaterMaxi


This sort of catastrophic thinking has a paralyzing effect on people and does nothing to actually solve problems. You can't have a definite solution to a problem that doesn't even exist yet. Technology is and has always been an iterative process over time. Developments in quantum computing and encryption will likely be made in tandum over many years. We already see that happening with encryption standards now and have with classical computing for decades. Hence the reason we don't use certain encryption schemes anymore. This isn't a new movie.


I suspect that encryption will evolve like it always has. But if it doesn't, the modern world is over anyway. Bitcoin won't matter. It would be total chaos. Production would likely slow to a crawl that's insufficient to support most of the humans alive. Most critical services would be fucked (energy, water, emergency, hospitals, etc). We'd have to figure out how to be primitive again and I suspect most humans would die. Infant mortality would skyrocket again and the average human would be considered old at 40.

Is that what you need to hear? Lol


Where does anything go? You're asking for people to speculate. There's lots of that already.

Quantum computing isn't yet what people speculate it will be, so there can only be speculation.


Radio regulation has nothing to do with air ownership. A free for all would likely make radio useless. I am more in favor of private entities regulating frequency use, but controlling air has nothing to do with it. The main issues are related to safety and interference.


"Heavy duty" somehow becomes more meaningless every year.


Satoshi: Here is a novel implementation of an idea that could totally shift the balance of power and improve the trajectory of human civilization. You can have it for free. I just want to disappear and remain anonymous once we get it working.

Journalists/Documentarians: wHo WaS sAtOsHi?

What a boring and uninspiring topic.


But yes, a unique random password would limit any potential damage they could do either way.


Yes, but that doesn't prevent the person you share it with from accessing the shared password. I may have misunderstood your point.


What I find confusing is why it has to go away. We have all kinds of bullshit domains now that it could just become another one of those. It doesn't need to go away to stop being a country domain. Tons of people in tech use it for I/O, myself included. I would think that there are far more websites using it that have nothing to do with the country anyway.

But we shouldn't have such centralized control of web domains. I doubt it will be easy to fully replace given how much traffic has been reduced to a relative handful of domains that have no interest in change.


This would be quite a useful feature


I'm just wondering how someone could login to an account without being exposed to a password. The password has to go into a web page field to submit a login request.


I quietly say this to everyone who isn't starred in my contact list. 24/7 do not disturb maxi.


How would a password manager help?


This is basically what I used to do for scam calls (back when my phone wasn't always on do not disturb and I answered calls).


This is a helpful way of explaining it. Frankly, I hope it becomes part of the infrastructure that forms the web.


Me: "Excuse me, toots."
Wife: "Move, tits?!"

🙄


I think most things are probably more complex than the mainstream media portrays.


Unfortunately, the people I see are usually not happy to see me, so dark humor is a coping mechanism. I get to see pretty much every type of person and bizarre situation. Foreign bodies that people like to stick up their butts. One of the funniest encounters was a dementia patient that clearly must have been a pimp or something at some point. He would tell us about how he had to beat the shit out of people for getting rough with his girls.

There's also a lot of really sad shit mostly. Lots of drug use, homelessness, and mental illness (usually at the same time). I've been called every bad name there is, and have been explosed to almost every fluid in the human body. I once had a gun shot victim thrown over the counter of my waiting room after which his masked "friends" took off. Gangs are getting worse. CPR on a baby while the parents scream and cry was the worst experience so far, but you always know there can be worse.

I get to see a lot of the effects of fiat, actually. Degrading food, care, and increasing shortages in healthcare.

It's been a wild, interesting, fun, miserable, enlightening, and dark experience that I am somehow thankful and not thankful for. I've had several "defining moments" as Dr. Phil calls them.

I get to meet really old people too, which has been mostly nice. Learn lots. I had a conversation about calculus with a dementia patient a while back who was what we call pleasantly confused. Turns out he was a Math professor and he lit up when I started talking about my love and hatred of mathematics. It's a joy to see people briefly come back to reality.


Watching someone die and then loading their body into a bag has really changed my perspective on life. Life is full of little moments like that.

Most of the things I worry about won't matter in 100 years. Most of them don't matter today.

I guess the takeaway is to not worry quite so much. None of your worries go into the bag with you.


It's also a great way to get annoyed even if it isn't a scam. Voicemail maxi.


You keep saying 'schools' as if that means something. Which ones? My school had no computer studies outside of elective classes


It depends on which schools you mean. Public schools? Probably not if you look at the state of them now. Some private schools maybe. I would teach my own children about it if I really cared that much (I do).

Frankly, I doubt this will ever happen. My speculation is that Bitcoin will move much like the web did. Most people use it now, but few have any idea how it actually works.


I dig it.


I don't necessarily even mind paywalls if the content is good. The only thing I would love to change is how I pay it. I'd love to replace ads and paywalls with a lightning payment QR, zaps or something like that.

Especially ads. I'll gladly zap your page whatever peanuts you'd make from ads just to rid my life of them while supporting creators.
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Fair point. I think some groups are afraid of being shamed by their success.
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He rugged himself by buying Twitter. Imagine if he'd instead built an alternative on Nostr with nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyfehcpn . Fucking opportunity missed.


Fair enough. The internal computer of my smartTV dying is what finally landed me on a display. The display itself was actually fine but couldn't be used anymore. Quite sad really. A lot of them stop getting updates too (or broken ones, which I think was my issue) which ends up encouraging waste.

Here is some data for the day you do need a new one. It's actually quite difficult to find a non-smart TV these days. https://image.nostr.build/c84e5dfe8d84c388cce60002f39691c7b7ef36940eb619f828670e1662f4bebb.jpg


Dearest Karnage... We have to get you on the dumb TV train!

In fact, my TV is technically a commercial display (they're built to last longer as a side benefit).

It's so fucking nice to just have a display like the old days.

I connect a MiniPC to it that runs Fedora and a full Bitcoin node.

No bullshit apps. No TV OS that is often stupidly insecure. No spying. Just blissful pixels and light.

Anyway, I recommend NEC the next time you're shopping. Newegg tends to have previous models for a lot cheaper. I think I paid about half the usual price that way.


On a side note, I really appreciate that you make it explicitly clear when your work is beta. It's far too common now for companies and projects to take the same approach while concealing that users are beta testers. It is incredibly annoying. It's much better to know going in that you're being helpful intentionally rather than as an unaware guinea pig.


A more extreme option would be to send them an email of you sending sats via Lightning to one of their competitors lol But I have liked Mullvad for years. They've always been receptive when I've made suggestions and some of them have actually been implemented. The update process for RPM used to be more tedious. Now it's handled with my system updates.


Aren't you still paying the on chain conversion fee? I thought the point was to stay within Lightning to avoid the fees. Unless I'm missing something nostr:nprofile1qqsph3c2q9yt8uckmgelu0yf7glruudvfluesqn7cuftjpwdynm2gygprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qyt8wumn8ghj7am0wshxummnw3ezuurpwf68jtcpzdmhxue69uhhwmm59e6hg7r09ehkuef0gn5qes


Yeah, I they're missing a great opportunity within the Bitcoin and Nostr ecosystem. They are already one of the very few VPNs I have any amount of trust for.


I actually did email them several months ago and they told me it was in their plans.


I escaped from North Korea to meet some very nice human beings here in Nashville at Bitcoin Park! nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td nostr:npub1m3tu3l6y59g2tmackq23v5vgn59u7hu66gxg8xajghz59tqm6xnqk2m888 nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg ✊🗽 nostr:npub1jddnc9ma408dey575wcsqhg5jtc2n7765y4gdnnrswlwgqnnat7swe4s60 nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z nostr:npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3 nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx @

https://m.primal.net/LKcT.jpg


Glad to have you here.


Port workers are offering themselves up as sacrificial scape goats. RIP.


Fucking sad.
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And he is upset that politicians are more concerned with using the situation for political gain when they aren't actually the ones doing anything to help.

So basically, another day in America.


He is basically saying he needs helicopters to make use of anything else that have for disaster relief. They aren't able to reach some people in the mountains.


"Fraud"


Do they have a Bitcoin/Lightning donation address?


If you know anyone still without power or water in the Greenville SC or surrounding area, my cousin’s business now has power and she’s opening up 12-6 today for free showers for anyone who needs one in the community! BYOT - bring your own towel! #yeahthatgreenville #driftgreenville #hurricanehelene https://image.nostr.build/2c0ef1772b47bb4f65339329be964d4a062b84466e87b27eacf9c7cb5e550665.jpg


I'm having an early morning (late night for me) cigar and decided that I'm a bit bored with the Nostr, Bitcoin, and political topics (especially since there seems to be a monoculture around these topics right now).

I'm finally going to work on contributing to content diversity on #Nostr. I made a new npub if anyone is interested in #cigars and #cigar related topics. I hope to socialize virtually over cigars in the future (video, audio, etc.). Things like Corny Chat look interesting.

Peace.

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I recently learned that the Unabomber planted pubic hairs obtained from a public restroom in a bomb as one of his attempts to taint the investigation.

As nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx say: Be aware, freaks.


imagine walking by and seeing something like that


How long until Diddy gets suicided?


These mother fuckers are dropping trillies like nothing, robbing us blind, but still have the balls to ask us to pay for a flood disaster.

Cool, but where the fuck is all the money going? The printers go brrrr for everything else. We have a welfare state. The government inserts itself into nearly every area of our lives. It thinks it knows best for everything else but can't deal with a flood?

The evil billionaires are doing more than the people who do nothing but wag their fingers at producers.


It also gets dicey when you try to value some of these things in terms of fiat once you accept that fiat debt is vapor. It just doesn't make sense in my Bitcoin mind anymore. Maybe I'm wrong, but every market is ultimately made of individuals like me making decisions based on what makes sense for themselves.


Yeah, I don't consider what is essentially a guaranteed default to be an asset lol

I'm also not convinced that Fiat and debt are actually all that different, but that's a minor point I guess.


Is it as simple as a dude just saying they should do it and that the clock is ticking?

I'm sure everyone would be okay with having it all, but that isn't how life works. Everything comes at a price.

I agree that improvements should be made if there is no tradeoff in the ability of people to run nodes, but that isn't the case from my research. Going the Monero route would have us needing a lot more storage than we already do at current usage.

It makes more sense to approach this with additional layers than to change the base layer that is already good at doing a particular job.

I think there is an error in thinking that a single protocol can be everything you want or need in a single package. I'm sure you'd have a ton of engineers lining up to talk to you if you or Snowden actually knew how to build such a system without tradeoffs.

What is the best proposal you've seen that would allow for the base layer to essentially do what Monero does without associated tradeoffs (mainly storage requirements)? Where am I wrong?


I'm having an issue in #Obtainium that I'm not sure how to solve.

Example:

Tuta releases their app binaries under their git repo releases section.

I have that link in Obtainium and install their email app for Android. Cool. Updates and everything work well.

Today, Tuta decides to throw the binary for their new Tuta calendar app in the same releases section.

Obtainium thinks there is a new update for my email app, but figures out that there is a problem once I click to update. The error was actually quite helpful. It only took me a few minutes to figure out what was going on.

Where I'm stuck now is that there isn't really anything I know to do as a user.

I see a lot of settings related to the app title and regular expressions, but I have no idea what to put in that would include only the app I want from the release section.

On a side note, I wish release sections were used for single applications only. It gets confusing when repos start having a lot of different app binaries in a single release section. At least for me. Maybe I'm the problem and have been using Obtainium incorrectly. I have no idea.


But in a weirdly calm way.


That's it. I was thinking it makes me feel a little mutinous.


I've had discussions with people about Bitcoin and the environmental impact it has. My opponents have always been misinformed on the particulars in general, but I noticed a subtle tendency toward energy use itself being bad in their arguments.

"Bitcoin is a waste of energy."
"We could use that energy on something else."
"We should be using less energy."

Their primary focus is usually on the amount of energy used rather than the source. Granted, these people are average people in my real life, so they aren't super knowledgeable on Bitcoin or probably energy in general.

But I find it interesting that people don't make the connection that the ultimate difference between us and cave people is the amount of energy we use.

People who want human life to get better should be looking for ways to use more energy in general (making things more efficient without degrading output is fine), not less.

I can at least understand wanting to use better energy sources (although many of them aren't in favor of the better options we have either), but to want to use less energy for its own sake is bizarre to me, especially when we don't have to and all the evidence suggests that doing so would make life worse for humans.


Why aren't proponents of human extinction killing themselves?

They could immediately reduce carbon emissions by securing a bag over their own heads yet they don't.


The idea looks awesome.

But I'm really digging the branding for some reason.


People should be more specific and say that you aren't forced into one proprietary algorithm when using Nostr.

Algorithm is also a term that many people misunderstand. They usually apply a negative connotation to it that makes no sense.


What I expect in the US:

Why should someone posting more valuable content have more zaps than someone who posts lower value content?

Those npubs already do the most zapping but they need to zap even more because fair is fair.

I'm proposing an Opportunity Zapconomy. You can learn more about the reality of my plan by voting for me and seeing it after I win. Specific details can be found in the 10k bill the night before the vote happens.

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This is the crux of the problem. If they out contribute (whatever contributing even means), they effectively do take over the protocol.

There is no winning for everyone with this issue.

A thing is either FOSS or it isn't. You can't get pissed at someone for doing something you told them they had a right to do. At least not rationally.


It can't easily be solved. They built an entire brand around WP (as the trademark rules allowed) years ago and now he's changing the rules after extorting them. That isn't worthy of respect in my opinion.

He is making weak claims in an attempt to avoid competing with them.


I would say the only appropriate action would be to make your license define what you expect from people who rally around the technology. Otherwise, you have no right to later get upset when people do what you gave them the right to do. No one will ever agree on every principle. That's why licenses exist.


Part of the problem is releasing things under particular licenses that don't actually list expectations that one silently has.

Is there some agreement stating what "contribute" means and what amount of it would be sufficient?

I understand the general intent that most people have when they say they want companies to contribute back to projects. But vague wishes and desires are not the same thing as a legal licensing document. It's ridiculous to get mad at a company for not doing something you never told them they had to do. The whole point of a legal document is to hold people accountable when they don't do what you think is right.

I think the dude is grasping at straws to destroy a competitor and looks like an asshole in the process. He's trying to go back on terms they didn't set and agreed to years ago. At least from what I've seen of the issue.


I wonder if people will be quoting npubs 200 years from now.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1YnAtQtueg

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If anyone commited murder against them, it was their own government.

Self-defense is not murder.

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This is super cool. Via Brian Roemmele:

“In 1936 many high school students saw this film. It was to help them understand manual transmissions.”

https://v.nostr.build/ZBOYXagNxq3aXShc.mp4


Super helpful. I learned a lot.


Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just.

Terrible, but just.

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My government has a duty to protect me, not the people in enemy countries.


I wonder how many people's votes are actually swayed by a vice-presidential debate.

Well, I guess for Trump it matters a little more lol


That ship seems to be getting closer...


Fuck it all.

#Binary


Do nothing...

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“Do nothing to harm self-custody.”

Matthew Pines’ message to the US government regarding #Bitcoin.

#btc #freedomtech #policy #wallets #selfcustody

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I would expect a photo to look better than that with nothing done to it lol


They do.


There's nothing I love more than having a dinosaur like John Kerry tell me that I shouldn't be able to make up my own mind on what is and isn't true or relevant to me.

I don't need CIA or government controlled entities controlling the information I see.

Fuck John Kerry. Long live #Nostr.

All our differences aside, this thing is worth protecting.


I'm aware that not every problem can be solved easily, but something like this seems like an issue to solve if you want people to plug their vehicles into power sources all over the place that may or may not be faulty. I don't think it's reasonable to have to worry about getting shocked just by charging your vehicle, especially when the expectation is that people will be plugging them into sources they have no control over.


There could be a physical connection that doesn't connect if something doesn't seem right with the power connection. There would need to be something between the charging port and rest of the vehicle. I'm not saying their computers can do that. It was mostly a theoretical joke. But it probably isn't a bad idea to confirm that a power source is good before allowing it to connect to something that costs as much as a vehicle. I realize you can't control what people touch a vehicle with, but the charging port is an access point that seems theoretically possible for a computer or sensor to monitor. My knowledge here is limited, but it seems that an improperly wired charging source would look weird to a computer monitoring the vehicle charging port and the current flowing through it. I'm imagining something similar in theory to what the brick on my phone and laptop does. It doesn't just allow whatever the hell I plug it into to dictate what gets to my device as far as I know.


Okay?


I didn't say anything about your use of them did I? I said I would remove them in my settings. I don't use them. I have no issue with other people using them. They are just a useless distraction in my UI.


Do mixers and things like that actually resolve this issue or do they simply make someone else look like me and make me look like someone else? If so, that isn't really any better.

If that is the case, the best anyone can hope for is that analytics software will at some point be considered inadmissible in court. Otherwise, I can't see how a lot of people aren't fucked.

Please share information if you know that I am missing something here.

I've seen some good points from Monero supporters, but going in and out of these types of systems has data leak concerns too.

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I trade some of my KYC Bitcoin to someone who isn't KYC'ed. Cool. They now have KYC free Bitcoin.

What happens if they fund terrorists or something with it?

How do I prove I wasn't actually the one who sent it when the KYC trail ends at me?


I wonder if government will eventually require these for seed plates.

https://m.primal.net/LHHi.webp


Either way, I would have thought that a car that's basically just a computer with wheels would be able to safely deal with bad charging sources.


I can only imagine that the ground wire would somehow be energized to be getting shocked from touching metal on the car. Wouldn't GFCI stop this if it was his outlet?

Assuming it's modern and not some redneck shit lol


That's pretty fucking ridiculous if it came from the factory that way. Lol


I would remove the emoji button if you made it an option. I use zaps as a 'like' button anyway. Boost and zap is all I need.


Ah, the dipshit's way of brushing off being confronted for saying something that isn't true.


Are you actually leaving major carriers though?


Cool, but you are still a thief and seem to be proud of it.

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Seems legit. Click the link.


I'm calling it now:

Trump will fire Gensler and replace him with someone worse.

There really are no "good" options for such a role since the role itself is so evil. The best you can rationally hope for is someone who does nothing, and the government won't tolerate such a person.

I'm afraid we will want Gensler back. He hasn't been all that bad considering how awful the entire institution is.

People are cheering for his removal as if the position and institution will go away with him; they won't. They'll simply be filled with someone else.

And be honest with yourself. What kind of people do you think actually want roles like that? It's not like there's a large pool of good people eager to take the job. They're mostly varying degrees of awful, and even if they aren't, they won't be able to do much good inside such an evil box.


How do they ever know? Audits. I am not interested in breaking the law and finding out how they know at trial before being thrown into a cage. Especially for capital gains of all things. The tracking is just annoying, but I'm not risking prison for this.


Probably isn't good enough when getting thrown into a cage is a potential outcome.

Paying the capital gains tax itself isn't my main issue. My main issue is with tracking every little transaction (buy and spend). It's fucking tedious. I could let software do it probably but that opens up a whole new privacy concern when it's already bad enough.


Bitcoin being treated as a currency without capital gains taxes. I hate having to keep track of it and it makes actually using Bitcoin quite a nightmare.


Why?


There is no "the one." My values have changed over time, and what I value in my spouse now isn't the same as when we were 20. If she hadn't grown with me, she wouldn't be "the one" anymore (which entirely dispells the soulmate ideal). We would have instead grown apart (and I did with someone I once thought was who I would die with). The universe doesn't care about you and doesn't have a particular person chosen for you. People in fact do change and not always for the better. You may find "the one" and end up divorced in 20 years. I think this sort of thinking comes from Disney princess type movies that mystify love and connection.

Your values should determine who is right for you and who isn't. Those values will likely change over time and sometimes the people in your life will too. My wife, up to this point, has grown in the same direction with me, so we remain together. She could go in a completely different direction ten years from now. Or I could. I hope not, but that's reality.


One of her best points in my opinion is that you also can't escape politics by simply not participating. You'll still suffer the consequences and they will likely be worse if those with principles and virtue yield to those who have no virtues or principles.


Besides that, I don't think issues of culture and philosophy can be fixed with politics. Politics is downstream of culture. A sick culture leads to sick politics. We have to fix culture. Politics can't be fixed before that. Any measure like this will just be erroded for this reason. The cancer will always grow again because it was never fully killed. Ayn Rand wrote a lot of good material on this issue.


Tribalism also tends to centralize anyway, just as it did to give us the two major parties we have now.

The incentive will always be for the smaller gangs to consolidate to gain more power. Four will just become two again once people realize that winning on the big issues is more important than losing for the minor differences between a given set of smaller gangs. Purity tests return, as they always do with tribalists, and we are right back to trying to have more gangs to fix the problem.

Parties and collectivism are the actual problems in my opinion.


There is nothing explicitly preventing more than two parties from existing in the US (they do).

The problem is that people tend to become tribal because of collectivist philosophy (most don't even know they're afflicted with the disease, which makes it even more lethal).

Having more parties isn't really going to fix anything if people are still tribalists.

In fact, parties wouldn't matter all that much in a rational society. Many of the US Founders were actually against the concept of parties because they feared what the collectivism and tribalism would lead to (they were right).

Having more of the cancer doesn't seem like a good solution to me. You'll still be ruled by gang warfare. There will just be more smaller gangs. So maybe tyrannical rule by 31% instead of 51%. That isn't much of an improvement.


Using AI tools to improve my writing has helped me write better without AI. This counters what some people claim will happen with the use of AI. I am not becoming dependent. I am becoming better. Amusingly, I need AI less the more I use it (in this context).


I will.


I don't think participation is always going to lead to me getting my way. It can't. I vote every election and still voice my disgust for the political environment. My point is that I'm at least throwing a wrench in whenever and wherever I can instead of just letting the lowest common denominator rule without resistance of any kind. I've accepted that I'm most likely just going to be a very small wrench, a spec of sand really, in the gears of the machine. But enough grains of sand can really start locking shit up, even if the machine doesn't fully stop.

More people not voting will only make it easier for an ever smaller group of people to have total control. I'd rather keep government fighting than have that.


You can also strategically vote. I'm in the US, so for me that means voting in such a way that gridlock is encouraged. It's often much better to have a government that does little than one that does much, even if you happen to agree with it for the moment. There is almost always a candidate that is strategically better in my experience, even if I hate them.

Using the US as an example, that could be Kamala, Trump, or someone else on the ballot depending upon what your desired strategy is.

I agree that Trump is definitely not going to right the ship though. He may sink it slower, but some may want it to sink quicker.

Thinking and participating is better than doing nothing at all. Resistance of any sort is always better than none.


No, as in you suffer the consequences of the increasingly evil people you allow to slide into power uncontested.

Resistance within the system is more important than having a politician in office you feel fully represents you; that will probably never happen for anyone.

Hopelessness and non-participation is the surest way to end up living in the worst political environment imaginable, which definitely is not what you live in now.


I was just goofing about the irony of it. I use YouTube quite a lot.


Voting doesn't solve every problem but just standing idly by and not even trying to steer the political environment (if only in a less bad direction) is a great way to get fucked harder.

Politics do matter greatly, even if the options are all shit by your own standards.


You just may feel a bit lonely while you're doing it. Although, I've felt lonliest while lost in a device "connecting" with others, so maybe not.

I practice this by having a cigar with a friend or by myself. I'm sure you can think of your own way if you don't do the whole cigar thing. Coffee with Excedrin, etc. nostr:nprofile1qqsph3c2q9yt8uckmgelu0yf7glruudvfluesqn7cuftjpwdynm2gygpz3mhxue69uhkvun9deejuat50phjummwv5q3yamnwvaz7tmhda6zuat50phjummwv5q35amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvajhgctvvfujucm0d5hhvvg30hgh9


You still can.


Posted to YouTube lol


I love Rod Serling's work. I am saddened by my discovery that a lot of his work was edited (quite significantly in some cases) by corporate sponsors of the day.


Sounds like you just created a new boutique coffee brand.


OBS is pretty much the gold standard.


The CIA is one of the most fucked up organizations I have ever studied. It is so thoroughly evil that abolition is the only moral option I can think of.


They almost never 'take' power. Politicians are given power and you can see many historical examples of this. Many of the worst examples have simply abused power that never should have been given to government by the people in the first place. It was always going to happen and doesn't just pop into existence out of thin air.

That isn't to say that there aren't individuals within these contexts who didn't consent, only that enough of the culture and population did. Otherwise, it never would happen. Hitler wouldn't happen. Mao wouldn't happen. Stalin wouldn't happen. People like that were given too much power because of bad dominant culture/philosophy and abused it.


That's just absurd. People historically vote for these people. Regimes don't just gain unlimited power without broken cultures that enable them.


Inslaw PROMIS


I agree, but a nation's politics is generally a reflection of its culture. One can't have a state and then expect to be completely separated from the deeds of that state. Unfortunately, it is the case that bad culture (mostly collectivism from what I see) leads to even worse states over time that become incredibly difficult for people to change.


You'd still need to create a circular economy with metals again anyway. I think the more likely case is that people choosing to deal with archaic metals would be the ones trying to figure out how to swap into Bitcoin to pay their suppliers, not the other way around.


Your assumptions make no sense. They can switch to a metal that almost no one accepts as payment anymore but they can't accept Bitcoin? That just doesn't make sense. Why is the assumption that metals would be what everyone defaults to in a digital world? Your thesis is that suppliers in a global economy will choose to fuck around with metal coins instead of adopting a digital currency that is already being used globally. We already did that once and ended up with fiat. People didn't have Bitcoin as an option.


'Trust the Science' has always been baffling to me. Trust is antithetical to science. 'Verify the Science' is a more appropriate slogan to anyone who actually understands science.


I think his point is that we may be able to go ten by ten instead of one by one if marketing efforts are optimized. Sure, we could change the world in twenty years, but I'd rather do it in 5 or 10 if possible. My time on earth is limited. One by one is almost never the optimal solution.


I got an email from nostr:nprofile1qqs9v9et20mnqagtgrnrc5qmzcrgmkt2y3087p23vawqlmyczlhfdcqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejszxmhwden5te0vejk2ern9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshhq6trwvq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmnyrwt363 saying that some  of my data was being deleted automatically.

Although that data is still exposed elsewhere, I really appreciate that Coinkite is at least trying to limit the attack surface for my data automatically.

Good move. Keep up the good work.


Actually, I think I first learned of Nostr by using a search engine to look for decentralized alternatives to Twitter. I came across a blog post that had Damus (I don't think they realized the difference between the protocol and client), Mastodon, and Bluesky.

Mastodon was fucking awful.

Nostr was so cool that I didn't even try Bluesky. Although, it did take about a year for Nostr clients to get to a level I could cope with full time.

My guess is that far more people will take this sort of path than the conference one. I'd assume that MOST people who will care at conferences have already bought in. Basically, a Nostr conference. I see value in that, but not some random Nostr booth at a general conference.


Having it mentioned in podcasts not exclusively dedicated to Nostr is probably more impactful.

"That Elon Musk isn't really defending free speech all that well. Have you heard of Nostr?"

At least that's how I tend to learn about stuff like this. I've never been to a conference.


I didn't see the link the first time for some reason.


Is this actually confirmed or still speculation?


Interestingly, my acid reflux is better or non-existent when I eat mostly fat/protein (animal sources) based meals. I usually have no problems if I eat a half dozen eggs fried in butter and covered in cheese. Add in bread or potatoes and I feel sick again. Actually, I feel quite good after having animal based fats and protein (even though I don't eat meat). I have almost no bloating and feel like I have more energy.

I think the carbs were causing my digestive issues, not the fats like I was told. I'm sure everyone is different, but I'm suspicious that fats are blamed for more things than they probably should be.


Ah. Zap.store is relatively well known in the space at this point, but wasn't to me until recently. I think the idea is to Nostrfy things like Google Play, but I haven't had much time to study it.


FM, 🫡


This is a well-written response to what I think is a pathetic controversy.

Frankly, it seems to be mostly driven by investors and company owners feeling threatened by SeedSigner. Of course, I haven't seen every interaction between those involved, so my impression could be wrong. I don't really see the threat, as SeedSigner is a somewhat niche device that I don't recommend for MOST people I talk to about Bitcoin. I use them and have built them for others for educational purposes.

I've had nothing but wonderful interactions with the SeedSigner project leader, but I'm sure he has communicated negatively with someone. So have I.

Of course SeedSigner could reduce its current attack surface, but that's true of all devices and software I know of. Everything has some tradeoff.

Ultimately, I think security models and related products will improve to the point that average people simply don't have to worry about stuff like this.

In the meantime, I'd prefer that we all work together to mitigate risks and educate newcomers without exposing them to stuff like this. I feel better about this approach than when I participate in drama or see it happening.

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Have you had it break yet? Lol


How is it any more random than Google Play or the Apple Store if it comes directly from the developer?


What is the mission now?


It's on my post-school list for 2025. Will obviously post to Nostr when I fall down that gigantic rabbit hole 😁


I think it depends. Having a device store keys could be a hole for some people. I don't think the potential holes matter so much if the device doesn't store keys or touch the web, assuming one doesn't want the device to store keys. But I do agree that it's obviously better to have the smallest possible attack surface even if you do want a RPi type signer. Most things can be better.


Yes, but all of the UI elements are still there. I'm planning to build what will essentially be a feed client that has almost no UI elements. Ideally, it will allow people like me to have multiple accounts where we can login and view only what we want to in that moment. For example, one npub could show only news related npubs if you want to hop on for ten minutes over morning coffee without scrolling through a huge list of unrelated npubs. I know you can do already do this on pretty much every client, but I'm hoping to do some other cool and potentially novel things as far as minimalism and lurking go.


I don't know if it's because I'm getting older, but I'm leaning more toward wanting an extremely minimal client where I can just read and leave. the ultimate lurker.


WOW! 10k Subscriber cracked🙌

⇒ I started this year with 200 Subscribers, no Income from Social media, and entirely dependent on Austria and a single source of income.

Now, I’m pursuing my passion full-time, with the freedom to work when and where I choose. I've surpassed 10k subscribers on YouTube alone, grown to over 15k followers here on X, and have more than 3K weekly listeners across all podcast platforms.

🔽Simple Formula on HOW🔽

DAILY DEDICATION
⇒ Healthy Diet
⇒ Good 8h Sleep
⇒ lifting weights + running
⇒ Time with Family + Friends
⇒ Working daily on my Passion (Incl. Sat & Sun)

FOCUS
⇒ No late night parties
⇒ No Smoking
⇒ No Alcohol
⇒ No intoxication
⇒ No consumption distractions

"Focus is about saying NO" - Steve Jobs
https://m.primal.net/LAIZ.mov


Wondering this too. I was looking for the git repo to see if there were any binaries for Obtainium


I was totally unaware of this.


Interesting.

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I could see it on Amethyst but not on Primal Android


No.


This is where I have landed. It just isn't worth it.


It is neither top nor bottom
It is dust in the wind, no man's land, purgatory
It is all bottoms and no bottoms
It is all tops and no tops
It just is...

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Whatever age you think about it and decide that's what you want. I'm not so arrogant that I think I know what everyone else should do and by what age, nor do I pressure them one way or the other. I just have the opinion that one should understand why they want to do something and not just do things because they've been pressured to. Especially when that thing is another human being depending on you for survival or being legally bound to another person and the choices they make.

Some people should absolutely not have children, can't care for them anyway, and certainly should not be pressured into doing so. It's just an overly broad and careless take that has massive consequences. What's true for you isn't necessarily true for everyone. Having a 'hop in, think about it later' attitude gets some people in a mess that other people have to clean up.


Lol Yep.


I didn't say you needed a lifetime of study. Having kids and getting married out of pressure before figuring out if it is what you actually want is retarded.


One of them is a Broken Money sticker, lol:

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I can't remember which maxi(es) saved me, but I was researching how to become an Ethereum developer.

My god.

💀⚰🪦


Major is relative and seems to be reserved for moments when those closest to the printers are hurting. Else, it's a mild problem.

I agree if your point is that it's all just a slow burn crash to zero all the time. That's what it seems like to me. The rest of it is usually marketing and moments of hype. It's all the other times that really matter yet get no coverage.


158k gang?


No it isn't. People should only get married and have children because they want to, not because they've been pressured to. In fact, we should be pressuring people to be sure they're ready for the responsibilities of both before doing either. People should fully understand what they are getting into before taking on an existing human and/or creating a new one. Far too many people just do these things because they've been conditioned to.

That's a recipe for disaster that frequently ends in divorce or people like me supporting someone else's kids through the welfare state.


Thanks! I came across Citrine yesterday as part of this quest.


Is it possible or practical to have a #Nostr relay that:

-Runs on a phone or whatever and relays only the relay owner's notes?

-Is added and removed automatically by a client when someone follows the owner?

I'm still trying to figure out the technical aspects of Nostr, so there are many things I don't understand about how it actually works.

I'm imagining a scenario where each person relays and backs up their own notes and "follow" (or whatever term) means that the client is adding that relay to their list of relays and that info to their own relay so clients can know follow data automatically.

My whole goal here is to have the option of being as sovereign as possible without relying on other people for my relay needs. Currently, I don't have any control over any of it and I'm trying to figure out how to be in control as much as possible.


Interestingly, I have the exact same default relays in Primal and see none of the spam I see in Amethyst. Is there an ideological or technical reason why?


I'm one of those weirdos who still buys and downloads MP3 files when available. Granted, I do use YouTube to find music I want to buy, but they're putting their music there.

Wouldn't it be their fault for choosing a career with such an allegedly small market? They're the ones giving into the DRM shit and streaming services. And if they're only doing it because it's the only way to get paid to make music then what is the complaint exactly? If there is no alternative really then I don't see how that makes anyone servicing the industry a dick.

There is an alternative though. People used to value music more because they actually had to go buy it I think. Now, I have to go out of my way to find people who will actually sell me their music instead of whatever streaming platform they're on.

But I'm not interested in "buying" music on some platform that can just take it back either. I think DRM is part of the problem. I don't want to go and buy stuff I may not actually be able to keep. So renting it is the next logical option for me, and that sort of model lends itself to something like Spotify. In my case, YouTube Premium to avoid ads, but I use it for stuff other than music.

You can't lock your music down and then tell people they're rent seeking for getting your music the way you've incentivized them to get it.


I have a textbook that is really irritating me. I don't think it's a coincidence that the appendices and index sections are larger than some books I've read.

There is a disease in academia of relying on reference manuals to teach subject matter. It's fucking tedious and unhelpful, at least for me. I don't buy that most people are reading this shit instead of running to YouTube for a ten minute video.

Blah blah blah blah blah.

Universities are full of people who really just don't want to teach and I'm constantly wondering what the point of it is if some dude on YouTube or Udemy is doing it for free or a few dollars.

There seems to be this idea that it isn't real education unless you're reading 100+ pages of bullshit that leaves you more confused on the subject matter than you already were.

"It's supposed to be self-directed education."

Cool, but you can self-direct your education without paying some useless middle man $30k+ so what exactly is the value add? Why are we paying alleged experts to not educate us while also buying the books and watching external videos that do?

I've had an entire course composed almost entirely of YouTube videos from one fucking YouTube channel that was posting videos publicly for free. It's a joke.

I've probably ranted about this before, but any young person reading this should seriously consider whether college is actually worth it (it's unavoidable for certain careers). I'm a couple semesters from being done (sunk cost and all), so I'm probably going to finish. But it's been a fucking waste. I would have been better off buying the list of books that all these schools are using for at most a couple thousand dollars and pairing them with open/paid courses online.

I would have been better off just buying Bitcoin if nothing else.

I wanted a BS in Computer Science, and I'm on track to have one. But I'm honestly sitting at the end of the rainbow wondering why the fuck I just wasted all that time and money.

I do have a much deeper understanding of engineering, Mathematics, and computer science, but I didn't really need to pay my useless professors a salary for that. I did it all on my own anyway and there are lists of the important topics and resources posted online for free.

Now I'm writing a textbook. Peace.


Fuck Reddit.


Definitely missing it!


Obviously, you could just have a client hide notifications or whatever from people you don't follow, but that doesn't help with the cost of the spam and low value responses.


This goes beyond just spam though. I'm almost definitely not going to get any value from someone who can't or won't spend whatever small sat amount is required to interact with me. I don't even necessarily need to get the sats if there's some technical way to give it to my relays instead. I'd prefer to make it optional though if possible. I just don't really need to see shit from low value npubs. And if I do see them there should at least be a cost for it if they're being sinister like spammers. The free for all model clearly isn't cutting it regardless.


I'm not sure anything created with direct input from Jack is going to be a side project lol The dude tends to go big.


Why would I be seeing Reply Guy on Amethyst but not Primal when both apps are using the exact same relays?

What don't I understand?


Tor is sometimes sold as bullet proof by some people. There are principles that a lot of people probably don't follow when using it.


Maybe not, but it could at least help fund relays that may otherwise go offline due to the extra cost of spam. There's a similar advantage to all the one sat spam transactions I get on Lightning. Sure, it sucks, but at least fees are being paid and even I'm getting wealthier by some micro amount. That's certainly better than getting absolutely nothing from spam like now. It would also be cool if users could set a fee for interacting on their notes. I doubt anyone who can't afford a few sats are or whatever the amount is are going to say anything I really care about anyway. It's probably just going to distract me and add no value.


Maybe, but they aren't laughing when they end up in my emergency department nearly dead from an infection or other illness they likely could have easily prevented with antibiotics or other meds. They're getting even more meds in the end and are usually a lot closer to death or disability than they would have been otherwise.

Everything has pros and cons. I'm sure there are many missed opportunities associated with rejecting tech absolutely too.


I do respect Larry Fink for admitting that his opinion was wrong and that it has changed with new information.

Like him or not, this is the attitude of a good leader and at minimum a smart person. Having the alternative attitude just makes you stupid and a lot of people do.


The exploding device game is not really worth it in my opinion. I'm imagining some country doing this with Apple (Google, etc) devices. That would be an attack (brand damage, theft, etc) on US companies and, in my opinion, would warrant a response from our government.

It's just too messy and I think we should all agree to put it into the bad actor category of attacks. I don't see an overall gain coming from this sort of thing, especially when explosives are involved. Even the addition of spyware is too messy for my taste.

On the flip, it probably is less damaging overall compared to just bombing the entire area, but I still think the overall global damage is too high in the long run. It will get out of control.


Wen exploding Bitcoin miners?


I think it was Family Guy or Bill Maher, but I'm not sure. I remember some skit or joke about a suicide bomber dying and getting to heaven only to find 72 male virgins. Killed me


Holy fuck this is funny


I hadn't thought about it before, but it's quite hilarious to think that I'd rather just gamble at a slot machine and pay with Bitcoin than fuck with shitcoins. It would be simpler and more fun if I actually enjoyed gambling.

And if I didn't have a strategy for being a pump and dump scammer, I'd be far better off just saving my fiat.

This is why my blossoming Bitcoin mind originally went Bitcoin only, I just didn't realize it fully at the time.

It's not hard to imagine that others will have a similar experience and flock to sound money, even without fully understanding why. In the short term, it's just easier to breathe. I lost so much stress when I went Bitcoin only. It was a massive weight lifted. I chose Bitcoin because it was the only one of any real value in my limited knowledge based opinion at the time.

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It's interesting how often I defend red meat in healthcare when I don't even eat meat.

I wish I could but I've just never been able to stomach meat. I can't stand the taste or texture.

But I can say without doubt that I feel better when my meals are mostly animal based protein and fats (butter, eggs, cheese, greek yogurt, whey isolate). I don't buy the hype against red meat. It seems like the healthiest option if it's raised well, and it's probably healthier than most food now even if it's the cheapest meat.


Didn't they add an explosive?


Lol I don't, but you can't know one of those fuckers didn't end up in the wrong box.


Yeah, we very well may not see it.


I usually keep my work pager clipped to the scrub pocket right over my heart.

Call me paranoid, but it's going on my lower leg pocket from now on. 😬


I often get a good little laugh when people tell me that aliens don't exist in a mocking way. (I've never said they do, only that I think it's highly possible)

An intelligent being in the universe mocking me for thinking that intelligent life could exist somewhere else in the universe. It's quite fascinating. We are literally evidence that it already exists and is possible. The argument really is whether it exists again, and to think it might seems totally reasonable.

That's a long winded way of saying that your approach is probably the most logical one.


Your mistake is in thinking that Americans are generally long term thinkers. I'm not seeing evidence that they are anymore. To many of them you are asking way too much, which is partially how we got here, in my opinion.


It's so childish to think that every relay would or should allow any and all type of content regardless of what the relay owner and users think.

Fork off and/or run your own relay if that's really what you think. No one is stopping you. You don't have a right to subject the rest of us to things we find objectionable.


WE must not do anything. YOU must. That's literally my whole point. You don't have to censor spammers or child pornography (or whatever else) on your relays. I don't want to associate with those sorts so I (not we) want the ability to choose not to. It seems as though nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s agrees on spam at least. Freedom of association is an often forgotten aspect of free speech


If you want absolutely no ability to filter any content whatsoever (censorship) to exist for users and relay owners, then you by extension do want to subject people to child porn and other unwanted content. That is literally what you are saying. Your argument is faulty. You can't have freedom and also tell others what they must allow on their relays, networks, and devices. I am not "silencing" your viewpoint. I'm simply laying out what your point of view is and disagreeing with it.

You can run your own relay and so can the spammers. That's the historical difference that you're leaving out. You guys can have it! That doesn't mean the rest of us want to be involved and it certainly doesn't mean we must sink our ships just so you can be on it.

I even stated in my post that different relays and clients would disagree on where the lines are drawn and people would thus need to be somewhere else. You're not off the network under that model. You just may not be on my screen, where you seem to think you have an inherent right to be. You don't.


This reminds me of something I wrote recently.

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#Primal is quickly becoming unusuable.


I guess we were bound to rediscover old weaknesses.


Current status of the #Samourai case.

#samourai #freesamourai #newstr

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Same.


He will hang himself with the shitcoining.

My hope is that the day one stuff comes first or happens at all. I think I have to do it for Ross, especially given how fucking rotten and pathetic the options are regardless. At least something good could come from the clownshow.

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This is me right now.


In my opinion........

How do you know they said it harshly? I think part of their responsibility is to be honest and set realistic expectations (in an encouraging and helpful way), and10 isn't very little. Not everyone is good enough right now and some may never be. And she lost an election? Sounds like the same issue. What age is old enough to learn that you sometimes have to go home and get better at a craft?

I hated public schools in the US, but it sounds like you want them to let everyone win at everything they want. I expect her to hate that because she is a child. But how exactly is she going to make it in the world if she becomes an adult thinking she's going to win every election and position she wants?

I think it would be a much greater disservice to set the bar at the floor to avoid hurt feelings. Of course, they should set expectations in an encouraging way, but that in itself is a valuable lesson. Not everyone is going to be encouraging. Few are. It's ultimately on her parents to teach her the value of keeping at her goals.


Not everyone who adopts an open money is going to think exactly the same or share the same values. That's the whole point of open money.


Probably leftover after selling for Bitcoin 🫡 I had some ETH get stranded when I went Bitcoin only


Trumpcoin incoming? It's over. Pack it up.


I still do have those for some apps that don't have binaries on the git repo for some weird reason.


I'm not totally against installing a separate app though


I'm not sure what flow one would have beyond just sending sats. Make it look like a traditional app store I guess. Maybe give them the option to set a fee, recurring zaps, etc. Elementary OS had a cool app store back when I tried it several years ago. Something simple like that would make me happy.

What I really don't want though is to have to actually download and install something other than my current client. I prefer that every Dev/app in the store also show up as a normal npub in my client so I can just find them in Primal and do the deed. That's for a donations perspective. Downloads and purchases would obviously be a different animal.


I'm seeing none in Primal.


I've reached the point where most of my apps are installed and managed by #Obtainium and I like it.

That is all.


Nice. Will having it as default potentially lead to frustration though? Amethyst has always been bad at making it clear when a feature is present in my experience. I remember first using it and being driven mad by things I simply didn't understand.


I'm sure we will eventually find some journalist that commited the most bizarre suicide right before publishing a story that would expose the corruption in the recycling industry 🤣


You have me curious as well. The deeper you dig, the darker the shade.


Thanks for sharing it though! There's so much stuff in this space that I can't keep up on my own.


No.


There is no better indication of economic retardation than using the term "late stage capitalism" in a serious manner.


Supporting FOSS development is pretty annoying...outside of Nostr. Nostr makes it sooooooo easy that I'm even more annoyed now when I try to support projects outside of this sphere.

I remember trying to donate to Debian once and got so annoyed that I just gave up. There have been FOSS projects that attempted to solve this problem and those annoyed the shit out of me too.

Zapping has made me LESS patient than I already was, and I think that's a great sign. Plus, it's easier than ever to donate anonymously if one takes care and really wants to.

I remember the first time I was zapped like 10-20k sats one day for some posts I'd made and having a holy shit moment where my brain was flooded with all the possibilities of how this one thing could change so many things. I later learned that was just scratching the surface with Nostr, but it's a massive scratch.

I'm also getting annoyed when I pay for groceries now. Just give me a fucking QR code. I think the future is bright.


Lol I would love for this to be real. The reverse Cramer is pure signal 📡

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Probably not, but it's still better than just floating around aimlessly.


NotebookLM is creepy. Cool and impressive. But creepy.


I think there's a difference when a certain material is recycled vs reclaimed but it depends on the context of the material. I don't understand them all to be honest. I don't think most people care either lol


Maybe it means it started as an egg carton and remained an egg carton?


I was being facetious. Spam on something like Nostr was always going to be a major challenge.


I'm not sure what good enough actually means in the context of design. Words instead of icons would probably be good enough for people to figure out, but that doesn't mean it looks good lol


Added complexity is always the way to go.


This is also a tactic that is often used to imply that two theories have equal weight when they don't just because the problem at hand is not yet fully understood.

Consciousness coming from some external signal has no evidence.

Consciousness being completely self-contained within the skull and arising from a combination of chemicals, impulses, and matter within the skull is directly observable right now. And can be tested by damaging the matter, interrupting the impulses, and changing the chemistry. Adding the whole external signal idea is unnecessary.


You don't have to assert anything with certainty to avoid not adding in additional and unnecessary components to explain something you're observing. Adding some imagined signal from some unknown location that is transmitting to some unknown receiver in every brain is a lot more complicated than just sticking with what is already contained within the skull.

We can already affect consciousness with chemicals, which suggests that our internal chemistry plays a role in consciousness. Doing that for me doesn't affect everyone else, which also suggests that we aren't all conscious by the same linked mechanism.

It isn't logical to make an explanation more complex than it needs to be. Then you have to start addressing a whole new set of problems, like where is the signal coming from? What is sending it? How did that get there? When you could just instead stick with what we can actually observe right now. We already have theories that may not be 100% accurate but also don't add additional complexity for no reason.


My MK4 has been nothing but trouble. The Q has been okay-ish, but the screen is so dim even at the brightest that I can't get cameras to scan QR codes on the screen. Meanwhile, SeedSigner works just fine. ColdCards are way overrated after actually using them. I'm probably done with them.

SeedSigner in general has a more positive team in my experience and I like their ethos better. Not for everyone, but it really taught me a lot

I would recommend using hammer in pins instead of soldering if you plan to build one yourself though. The project leader sells assembled kits. nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl


We basically turn off consciousness using chemicals before surgery. All sorts of chemicals change thinking and levels of consciousness, which makes your guess the most reasonable I've seen.


This is the most rational explanation given what we can literally watch happen when you change the chemistry within a body. Get someone drunk, deprive them of air, give them medications, etc and their thinking or state of consciousness can be demonstrably changed. We can already test this. We basically turn off consciousness with chemicals for surgery.


There is no collective stomach, nor is there a collective mind. We may share ideas, but that doesn't make us antennas for some mysterical signal.


Even if it doesn't let you use a different credential, this is still beneficial if someone snatches your phone while it's unlocked. They would at least not be able to get into critical apps. I believe that was something thieves figured out a while back.


The same reason banks have vaults even though the front doors lock.

The idea is to use different credentials for added security. Just slapping the same credential into all of them indeed makes it pointless, which is what I assume you're doing if you don't see any benefit.


What's the ultimate difference?


I never said I don't think it's complex, only that it isn't going to matter in the end. I'm going to win or die trying.


The Che shirt is always sweet icing on the dipshit cake.


Me too. More people get hurt the longer this sort of shit goes on. I think we will eventually see decentralized exchanges setting rates. It's kind of ridiculous that we have centralized shitcoin mills with this much power.

But again, people who hold Bitcoin in custody can call bullshit a lot easier than in the past. "Show us your Bitcoin."


Someone will eventually abuse the IOUs and bullshit will be called. They can't just print the Bitcoin for a bailout when that happens. Someone will have to actually die, which is the way markets are supposed to work. Printing fiat won't help either.


They can't delete my actual Bitcoin in cold storage like they can dilute fiat or gold with paper. Taking self-custody of Bitcoin is easy now. Gold isn't. Paper games aren't going to last as long with Bitcoin. Calling bullshit is just too easy and companies like Coinbase will get killed


They do not delete anything for me. That's my entire point.


Someone will eventually get screwed by IOUs. They always do. We have a way of protecting ourselves, even if price is temporarily affected.


It doesn't matter what form of bullshit they settle in. The existence of Bitcoin is going to make these types of a games a lot more dangerous when someone calls bullshit like in 2008.


Why hasn't Shamir backup been more widely adopted?


I'm a genius. The end.