Do you feel like something is fishy when big money predicts bitcoin is going to the moon? It's been almost a year with big names endorsing it and there's always something at the back of my mind telling me to stay humble. Should I just be thankful I made the right investment or should I prepare for a battle?
Now it feels like the retail is completely unaware of what is going on while big money tries to make their wildest predictions heard. If you are a big hedge fund thinking there will be a x10 by the end of 2025, you will try to frontrun the retail instead of telling them the price will skyrocket. Something doesn't add up. At the end of the day 1 BTC = 1 BTC but these fuckers are up to something, mark my words!
I always have mixed feelings when some Mr. Famous/Wealthy endorses Bitcoin (especially a banker weasel) or say it is going to hit $XXXK soon. I know it is inevitable but I also feel these fucktards are up to something!
I think using "have fun staying poor" (HFSP) in an argument is a disservice. It suggests that if you don't adopt Bitcoin, you will miss your chance at becoming rich. While this may be true to some extent, it isn't what the actual goal of this inevitable financial revolution is – becoming free and independent. This will especially be the case for the late majority of adopters, who will have little to no immediate financial benefit from adopting Bitcoin. If anything, I believe "have fun self-censoring" (HFSC) is a more accurate way of highlighting the main issue in times of rapidly growing surveillance states with an authoritarian agenda that worsens by the day.
BREAKING: Satoshi Nakamoto's identity has been revealed. He urges people not to be paranoid anarchist and give their keys to the institutions because the second bailout for the banks didn't happen.
If countries were run like businesses, they would be paying dividents to citizens, not collecting taxes like subscriptions.
And if I am a subscriber rather than owner, who collects the dividends on the other side? This is especially important for countries running surpluses.
When I see headlines like this one, I always think these people are trying to appeal to the future generations who will look back in retrospect to figure out what happened and try to gain their trust and therefore control them once again. Currently everyone knows that these people are all part of the club and helped creating this mess, but imagine if a major depression hits, how warnings like this would read to the people who didn't have direct experience. "Woow, JP Morgan's CEO warned them but they didn't listen..."
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Bitcoin popularized of the term "fiat" money/currency and opened the Overton window. In retrospect this will be the most significant achievement in its early days, not the price. Nobody would be able to remember exactly what $1000, $10 000 or $100 000 used to mean and when. Just like nobody today knows what $1000 meant in 1930, only vague compassions and useless charts.
It would suck but at this point I don't know if I would feel as bad as with previous hacks/thefts. There were enough precedents and warnings and this is litteraly the first thing that everyone in the space learns when they decide to do their due diligence.
Hahaha yeah, like is that supposed to be a compliment you dumb fuck, to keep me responsible when you eventually lose it because you have your seed on your forehead 🤣
Bought a treadmill a while ago,, 2 hours at 5.5km/h avg. in the morning, 2 hours at 5.5 km/h avg. in the evening, total of 22km of podcasts and shitposting while becoming immortal.
I will probably feel more comfortable reading and navigating through the InnoDB code than through the CSS of a web page and I REFUSE to accept it is somehow my fault. I am absolutely convinced that CSS is designed to torture people and the best part is that there is no alternative. I thought that Tailwind might help but then I saw stuff like
"xl:w-56 xl:gap-2 xl:items-start select-none overflow-y-auto hide-scrollbar sticky items-center border-r border-border-color top-0 z-20 h-screen max-h-screen hidden md:flex flex-col px-2 py-4 flex-shrink-0 gap-1"
This is where the whole AI effort needs to be focused on, the world needs to break free from this CurSSe!
Not exactly, we have words for these, actually many synonyms. There are nuances, when it comes to insults, we have hundreds of words. On top of that different regions of the country have their own. Insults are a national sport so a lot of thought has been put into them to be perfectly crafted for every occasion so it actually cuts deeper, not only scratch the surface.
Haha, you are right, never even thought of it, the only issue I ever had was when learning latin alphabet at 7-8 when I always had to think before writing N instead of И
I am aware that the current paradigm for Nostr is smart client/dumb server.
However do you think it might be useful to have some open-sourced algorithm that some "smarter" relays could use and serve notes for different optional feeds - something like "Explore"?
If you subscribe to a relay of specific kind, you can get a specific feed. There will be no tracking, data mining, personalisations, etc., just an algo recommending stuff based on a publicly available data like hashtags, number of likes, reposts, number of account followers, etc.
In the future when Nostr inevitably grows its user base, there will be more and more people trying to share their opinion or find their tribe. If the general recommendation is to just reply to people, then the replies will be flooded with low quality responses, which will be just people trying to be noticed. Having something like "Explore" could help people find what they are actually interested in and engage with it. Interested in music? Hit that #music hashtag and get algorithmically crafted notes relevant to the topic, not just #music notes with "ORDER BY timestamp DESC"
Just my 2 sats, what do you think?
I am aware that the current paradigm for Nostr is smart client/dumb server.
However do you think it might be useful to have some open-sourced algorithm that some "smarter" relays could use and serve notes for different optional feeds - something like "Explore"?
If you subscribe to a relay of specific kind, you can get a specific feed. There will be no tracking, data mining, personalisations, etc., just an algo recommending stuff based on a publicly available data like hashtags, number of likes, reposts, number of account followers, etc.
In the future when Nostr inevitably grows its user base, there will be more and more people trying share their opinion or find their tribe. If the general recommendation is to just reply to people, then the replies will be flooded with low quality responses, which will be just people trying to be noticed. Having something like "Explore" could help people find what they are actually interested in and engage with it. Interested in music? Hit that #music hashtag and get algorithmically crafted notes relevant to the topic, not just #music notes with "ORDER BY timestamp DESC"
Just my 2 sats, what do you think?
Many old people here are still longing for the "good old days", what they actually miss is being young or having the piece of mind that the government is almighty. Most of the people however are immune to stuff like "we", "our" and "us" coming from politicians.
Just laugh and try to have one of these conversations where you know what they are going to respond each time, then just wish them luck building the utopia 😂
This is exactly what I want, I will even give my nsec to BB if he can make my profile better.
Seriously though, I have done my due diligence, I have played with it by making some dummy client and interacting with relays, I have read some of the NIPs, what I mean is there can be an explore tab like there already is trending hashtags on Snort, isn't that spoon feeding me already, is Big Brother serving it or what?
Yes, I want to be on the cover of Vanity Fair.
Where did I say I want followers, I just don't want to talk to myself, I even proposed a way of giving small accounts a dedicated space in an explore section.
Since we are trying to genuinely psychoanalyze each other, was that a projection?
Same case for me, but the reason for that is probably the fact that the amount of people here is orders of magnitude less, which makes your replies more likely to be seen/interacted with. I get that. But if Nostr is destined to scale to tens/hundreds of millions of people, it will be harder and harder for small accounts to even get any interactions and the incentive for them to stay wouldn't be here, the whole comment section will be filled with people begging to be noticed and the content would suck. If that is the case it will either implode because people would give up on trying to share their thoughts or it will become just a message board where popular accounts are interacting with each other and everyone else will be nothing but a content consumer.
Yeah, I might be wrong but at some point there will be a need for having an algorithm for some specific optional feeds, e.g. "Explore" as long as it is completely open source. I know the current paradigm is smart client/dumb server, but maybe some "smart" relays serving you notes after some some algorithmic (again, open sourced) processing could be useful, after all you are either interested in reading from them or not.
I use it for reading and writing as well because the UI is way better, but I need to switch to Amethyst every time I want to zap someone. I get that you can provide dummy mail, deposit small amount but gaming the system defeats the purpose, isn't nostr supposed to be "not the system" to begin with 😃?
It isn't a problem with Nostr, Amethyst allows me to connect to my node and have everything functional but the UI/UX isn't as good. Primal doesn't give me the option to use my wallet instead of using them as custodians. That's why I was wondering why I see so many @primal.net addresses here, either I am missing something or people just decided they trust Jack and started using his custodial wallet, even if it is for small amounts, like wtf...
My biggest fear is writing a long, detailed note expressing my thoughts regarding a specific topic, only for it to just fall flat – nobody sees it; nobody cares.
In other words, my biggest fear is wasting time.
Isn't that the purpose, sharing information and gathering different perspectives. At least that is my goal with all types of communication. Maybe writing for yourself is some kind of therapy but that is what journals are for, not public mediums.
You know the saying that everyone will get their 15 minutes of fame. It makes total sense since each generation has its "40 years of fame" - their potent and active years. However the next cycle could be much more potent since current situation is a bit different. The boomers are basically still in power and refuse to give it up, they have been "famous" for the past 60 years, effectively stealing 20+ years of "fame" from the next generation. Once this gerontocracy ends, this will cause all of the "potential energy" for change that has been suppressed to be released pretty quickly and the world will change drastically. We will basically skip one generation during the power transfer and the young generation will probably be in power for more than 40 years as well. It will be something like the current situation in the British monarchy - the queen lived for so long, she basically left just a few years to her son to be in power and he will soon be replaced with her grandchild who will probably reign for longer than usual and probably make a bigger impact.
We will see, I think the "owners of the matrix" do realize that they either go all in on enslaving us in the next few years/decades or the world breaks free from them once and for all. Both the technology for complete freedom and complete surveillance is already here in its initial form, how it would play out depends on the bravery of the individuals. I think the lockdowns were the perfect litmus test, some countries succeeded, some failed miserably. I am an optimist and I do hope that the majority of people, especially the people who fell for it learnt their lesson and will be immune to the narrative the next time around.
We should break the cycle of young people forgetting what their grandfathers fought and died for and appreciate our freedoms without people dying for it en masse.
I really wish monuments were working as expected but it seems that young generations notice them only when they disagree with the message they are supposed to send and try to get rid of them. We are so inefficient in passing actual experience through the generations or even across the same generation living in different parts of the world. You can read as many history books as you wish, but you will never actually get what it was like to live during a specific event or under a specific regime until you actually live through something similar and appreciate it because of your direct experience. Just like the popularity of the socialist ideas in the West despite all of the warnings, maybe it is time for people there to play with fire and try to tame it.
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