The argument by central bankers and mainstream economists is that prices have to always go up, because prices going down means that people will delay purchases indefinitely to wait for even lower prices. They want to discourage people from saving money in excess. The claim is that it’s bad for highly leveraged financial systems. When explained like that, it sounds like bullshit and borderline criminal to me.
Pages 236-244 of Broken Money describe the concept in detail.
I was surprised by how much academia is studying decentralized social media. It was insightful to learn about the similar challenges that different protocols are trying to tackle in their own ways. The unconference style of the workshop was a great way to share ideas and meet new people. What better way to try to bridge the gap and understanding between protocols than with @Alex Gleason and @rabblenostr:note1fnxupdzq558nf860g9x3eu23cgfwrcj06xplj0wjn5nnyy5860hqk6f78k
There’s a no recording policy; following https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_House_rule
We were at a restaurant bar with a bunch of folks tonight. Tomorrow’s event will be on campus at Princeton University.
It took weeks, but I finally moved almost all my online accounts off of Gmail and behind an anonymous email proxy. It should make it easy to find out where your email address leaked from. I suggest everyone do the same.
Meanwhile, Apple wouldn’t approve my Culture Shock conference app submission because it linked out to external Bitcoin Lightning wallet apps to tip physical human beings at a physical conference. The App Store review team is a joke.
Legitimately trying to prepare tax returns and can’t access websites, government or otherwise, to get the information I need to do so because of internal server errors or I need to be physically mailed a security code. 🤦🏻♂️
I love that Damus was built by the people, for the people, with little to no funding to begin with, was open source from the start, and is the first iOS client that started a lot of this. Damus will get better over time.
Primal is fantastic but started closed source and centralized before becoming open and more decentralized, had funding, and I don’t think it has as many community developer contributions. Nothing wrong with any of that, but both clients were born out of different environments.
The Damus translations team uses Session. I prefer it over SimpleX as SimpleX is near unusable at the moment, very buggy and crashes a lot on iOS. Session is a fork of Signal and the UX is pretty good. The long ID string is a nice privacy feature, in my opinion.
This is great. Usernames are also paired with a random number, and you can get a new random number if you don’t like the one they give you. So there’s no unique vanity username in that sense.
Didn’t know you could manually enter a number! It didn’t seem to work on iOS when I tried. Maybe I’ll try on Android.
I’d still prefer not needing phone numbers (attack vector) or vanity usernames at all, but rather have a globally unique random identifier. I like how Session does it. But I understand the tradeoff for needing a pleb-friendly identifier paired with a recovery mechanism.
What are some other sources are you looking for? There’s no standardized API schema for fetching price so it’s not as easy as just swapping a new one in. There’s custom code that needs to be written for each source. Happy to add more.
To each their own. I’m not a Bitcoin absolutist. My expenses are in USD. Tracking inflation of USD relative to Bitcoin is interesting. Data is interesting.
Just ignore that part. Signal is otherwise a solid secure messaging app. Snowden has previously shilled it. I prefer it over Telegram because Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted by default, even though it has all the nice bells and whistles. They even fixed my only major gripe with it, which is leaking phone numbers, by offering usernames.
Congrats! As an expat living in the US who has gone through the immigration system (albeit under much easier circumstances), I know it can be frustrating not being free to move or do as you please. Enjoy the new status!
That’s too bad. Nostore has worked great for me.
Are there any issues or improvements with Nostore that you are aware of that you would have liked to address if you were still interested?
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