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. 

 God I hope so 

 I've avoided losing sats because of those who came before me. ❤️
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 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. 

 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
 

 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. 

 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. 

 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. 

 How would a password manager help?  

 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. 

 This would be quite a useful feature 

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

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

 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).  

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

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

 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. 

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

 I dig it. 

 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. 

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

 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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 He rugged himself by buying Twitter. Imagine if he'd instead built an alternative on Nostr with nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyfehcpn . Fucking opportunity missed. 

 Fair point. I think some groups are afraid of being shamed by their success.
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 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.

 

 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 

 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. 

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

 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. 

 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 

 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. 

 Glad to have you here. 

 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. 

 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. 

 Fucking sad.
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 "Fraud" 

 Do they have a Bitcoin/Lightning donation address? 

 imagine walking by and seeing something like that 

 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. 

 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. 

 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? 

 The idea looks awesome.

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

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

 But in a weirdly calm way. 

 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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 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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 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 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. 

 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. 

 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.