Its just how I've come to think of it in my thinking about these terms. In every instance of its usage it's always been used as a term in order to defame or make another seem "bad"

I've been reading Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand and i think greedy & Selfishness can be used interchangeably.

Is it greedy for a man to concern himself with his own needs,  before that of others? Can a man sustain himself, if he doesn't "greedly" concern himself with his own matters before others?

To be one of a martyr in lieu of being seen or perceived as not "greedy" by sacrificing himself for the sake of others leads to a world where one always expects another to sacrifice themselves for his own sake or be ostracized by society for being too "greedy"?

Just thoughts I've had about the word and how people use it. Not sure if it is true or not but i do believe it is worth podering a bit deeper if we are to use it to call another "greedy"


I've thought about doing this one too. Prefect. I'll get on it as soon as we finish this one.


ALL THAT REMAINS  takes a 6 year hiatus then comes back and puts out a  BANGER!!
Metalcore at is finest.

https://youtu.be/01rW8JxwpO8?si=b50OUs19gRcLcZLw


mises.org: What Can Carl Menger Teach Us about Falafel Sandwiches? -- https://tinyurl.com/259kez6x -- What better way to explain the relationship between higher-order and lower-order goods than with food? Here, we look at the falafel sandwich. #liberty #news


Seriously this is what they do


Brain dead mfers


BOY BURN THAT RELATIONSHIP AND START FRESH. THAT'S A RELATIONSHIT!


I've been floating around on #nostr for a while. Felt it was time to do a proper introduction.

A few things about me:
- Dad, husband, #AUStrich
- Poster of stolen memes #memeadaytil100k
- Reformed coastal engineer, in the midst of a career change
- Co-founder at impactsociety.co, writing and building tools to help leaders

Love nostr and seeing its evolution.

#introductions


You admitted that whatever they publish is true. If it's true without question then you must idolize them. Or else you would take into consideration that what you read is in fact not truth and should be questioned.


I dont worship anyone or anything. Unlike yourself,  you've admitted to idolize publications that for your bias narrative.


Imagine being this dumb


Coming from MR PUBLICATION'S HAVE PUBLISHED THIS INFO SO THIS INFO MUST BE TRUE. 💀💀


I dont need to read some publications about miner manipulation that is on its face false. Its a waste of time to do so. Miners CAN NEVER CONTROL BITCOIN PRICE.


NOW youre getting it.


Welcome


Typical rebuttal from a knuckle dragging idiot. You've got 0 proof that your claims that miners are manipulating price is true. But yet you are trying your hardest to tout that it is. Its utterly hilarious how cucked you are to news articles telling you how to think.


Oh,  so news articles don't lie? Since when? If your literal barometer for if something is true or false is some news outlet publishes something or not your deserve to be treated like the fucking retarded idiot you are being treated as.


There are no curre t eveents youre reffering to. Youre literally just making shit up. Gfy. Miners ARE not manipulating shit. They literally cant, there is 0 ability for them to do so. If you believe that to be true then you havent dont the homework to understand how your point of view is flawed and completely ignorant of facts.


I know, youre nobody. That i can be sure of. Everything else tho. Im retarded af about.


Why are you this retarded


You fucking would


Came here to say this but the one and only onyx had it already in mind. The meme says it already its a 1,2 punch stack sats and GFY.


It CAN NEVER WORK ON ITS FACE. It's just a piece of Paper. Tell me how a piece of paper gives you anything? It doesn't its just Paper.


Don't know who needs to hear this today... Maybe you?🤔😆
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b70TUbdfs


I've been thinking about upgrading my set up as well. Not too sure tho. I'm just a nobody.


It’s a brand new mic, but you should look into the Lewitt RAY large diaphragm condenser mic.

It will sound way better than the SM7B and it has extra features where it auto changes the gain of the microphone depending on your proximity.

It’s like a camera with auto focus, it keeps your voice consistent. It also can be used as an auto mute. If you have to cough, just move away from the mic and it will automatically mute.

I have not personally used it, it just hit the market, but it looks like the perfect mic for podcasting. Especially if you’re not an audio engineer or have good mic technique.


The constitution is a shitcoin. It's literally garbage. Tapping a piece of paper doesn't do anything. The only thing that protects free speech is that of action.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Bya3cJb8DEpBXgyaPJpdR


Bolt 12 comes to LDK.

https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/bolt12-has-arrived/


All you need is a mute button, being conscious and self-control.

This place will be suit you if you use those three things.

Otherwise, maybe the algorithms at the other place is better for you.


Soon going to launch the first multi-currency Cashu ecash wallet as a progressive web app. So stoked about this, here is an exclusive preview for you Nostr!

https://m.primal.net/IBeu.png


I have no idea what Stratum V2 is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

Sound familiar? 😄 That was me not that long ago. But now it's not me and it doesn't have to be you because I made this pocket guide about Stratum V2!

It's a short 8 page zine that you can print at home and share with your friends. Just print the double sided PDF, cut, and fold!

It's perfect for anyone that wants a quick overview of the project, including a brief history and timeline.

You can find this and more of my zines at: https://satsie.dev/zines

https://technicaldifficulties.io/zines/sv2_zine_nostr.jpg

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Just checked. I've had 20k sats stuck there forever from flipping the free shitcoins they give you. Won't withdraw.


Thats what is here for. If you have any other ones on your list that you've been meaning to get around to. Please feel free to point me to them.


Just when you thought people couldn't get any dumber https://image.nostr.build/d29fdbb722380f832d37c6e962c26577a2488c8a813acce1417277a559a23fbf.jpg


Yes this is my podcast ! I don't really refer to my online name on the show much. I think I'm irrelevant to the content itself. I'm just reading, learning and enjoying the journey of these topics and content all the while sharing with all of you so you may enjoy them as well.


🤝🤲🙏 too kind good sir. Ty for being A long time listener.


https://image.nostr.build/b5452b6b5bfe2710ebbafe98cb06f06d3d55b215a409f07946a99dcb9c0cecd0.jpg
#meme #memes


MMF is sooo GOOD


how do you define greed?
what is it about a person using ones labor in the way he see fit, gives you the individual, the ability to judge what he may or may not take? how much is "too much" ? how much is just not "greedy"?

who decides what is greedy and what isnt?

is a well fed man eating food in front of a starving man, greedy?

is a man earning well abound more than he could ever spend in his life, greedy?

greed doesn't exist, point to me the greed particle. you cant.

greed only exists in your own mind when placing moral judgements on the actions of others. so therefore is your moral judgement of an action of another greedy, in the sense of you wanting your actions to not be perceived as "greed"?


There are now multiple LightningTipBot forks on Telegram. The beauty of open source 🧡.

Sats.Mobi bot is the same as the OG bot plus new features added such as a built-in PoS and support for bolt cards.

Beware: only use these bots for very small amounts and always make sure you trust its operator.

Let a dozen bots bloom! 🤖🤖🤖

SatsMobi Telegram community:
https://t.me/satsmobi


💯 percent. Shits fucked.


GM GOKU


Bitcoin is just data, GFY GOV.  https://image.nostr.build/dc76ca31c20f69e4502576748beeb585ff0fc154dbe5142fecff3957a94152c3.jpg


When you ask Jeff Booth “what happens to prices on a Bitcoin standard?” (He’s 100% correct). https://image.nostr.build/83720160f3ebe5202ce7c09bf85d46bcf3d46c8eefa567a424073106b7349bc5.jpg


Meme champion nostr:npub19py4fxzwrxlkyxc6s458sp5fp5hz0hwsumzcc98yr60q5umz4n8qfxz9sn answers 21 questions 🙌

Full episode: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GE-AJilAltw

#bitcoin #nostr #grownostr #plebchain #askabitcoiner21questions https://video.nostr.build/882b3b075a9f2b7fbe409967a7dc26f3d7c401cb0730a34882d8baede647199b.mp4


So are we at the part where we just use carrier pigeons with PSBTs and LNURL QR codes so we can get the gov to go after the pigeon population?


Why Phoenix told everyone to use the drain wallet feature in the app and then pay 50% of the prevailing mempool rates to do so is just astoundingly ridiculous. We are talking $2-$3 to leave everyone trying to move wallets in limbo. Oh, also they have RBF disabled. Now I have to load in Sparrow, sync to my node, and create a cpfp transaction. Insanity.


Welcome


Freedom money IS NOT free. It costs money to have the responsibility to own what it is you earn. Its definitely frustrating i know. This is why i told you to send it to munity instead of trying to do onchain. Onchain is pricey occasionally. Not really viable for smaller denominations. Be patient your money isnt stolen. Just waiting to be confirmed.


LAAMEEE


Did you remove Phoenix from you phone yet? It should be auto headed to it by removing it should make it not go there anymore and re open the which app would you like to use option.

Maybe try intead of Uninstalling it go to app setting and disable it...?


Go use mutiny! Its a web app.


Yes


What a tool with the mask.  No wonder he's so dumb.


This morning’s vibe is giving Cryptofinally and that’s a big no for me. #iykyk

Nobody can make an adult person do anything. You choose how you respond, you choose how you react, you choose what you say, you do what you want.


#meme #memes #funny #humor #nostrmemes #nostrmeme #memestr https://nostrcheck.me/media/fbe5e80ec8db5c439e2582d5799d25e2fe8b958b1edf595a173ae1c8aaf46077/2a8e47c18a3a008d1764ec67b7228dfa8e9bbcf16bcb1fcf4eb93b3d08804689.webp


#meme #memes #funny #humor #nostrmemes #nostrmeme #memestr https://image.nostr.build/42ea7f0121ea8c4d3abd630c3afa8436f9658700ccb4f22ada73e33e3be8860b.jpg


Become a cyber bully today

Embody the extremist they make you out to be https://image.nostr.build/d522e5b1c592b507e27a2355041caa273929e1fa79b6901af19e33416ee526b5.jpg


"Sticks and stones may break my bones,
but words will never hurt me."

An adage lost to time;
Mental fortitude, a lost art.


If you an individual,  let someone's else words "hurt" you, it is ultimately your responsibility to do with that what you will. To blame someone else for how YOU feel is literally the most childishly immature thing imaginable. Then To proceed to " leave" a platform in which you can mute ignore said person shows even more immaturity of oneself to the point you had to go to such and EXTREME  to get others to rally to the "victims" corner.

In the end words are just words, they aren't reality. Reality is what you make it to be. If you're gunna play a victim and cry and whine and go to such extreme measures to communicate your emotions. It says much more about the instability of yourself , than that of others.


Welp time to put a node on my desktop. This is at least powerful enough to be able to run my own lightning node. Sorry raspi. This thing is blowing through the chain though not bad at all. https://image.nostr.build/232e5a8e5de7c353468a30fd7a5e8fa3b6ce24266b9ef2cbc6a6e04a64d52c4a.jpg


yeah they think the non kyc nature makes it a risk for them and the vagueness of being a money service business


Phoenix decidió salir de la exposición de las leyes estadounidenses.

Que significa para 🇦🇷Argentina? podría replicarse. Pero que riesgos carrearía?

Simplemente que ya no tendrás tan fácil instalar tu la app desde la play/app store.

Ahora tendrás que ir a GitHub y descargar el .apk

Y si lo banean de GitHub? No te preocupes, para ese entonces habrán copias por todas partes.

No se puede banear el código.


If you held out against the nastiness during the covid period and refused to take the drugs, even at risk of detrimental to your career and wellbeing, there's a good chance you'll get through the latest assaults on your freedom.

If you caved in before...this will be your chance to stand firm.

They're going to ramp up the attacks.


Cuz the gov fucking sucks ass. They are doing so to protect themselves. So they don't get samouri'd


They regulations they pulled on samouri is making them afraid to offer services to US  users just in case ya know.


https://m.primal.net/Hzqb.jpg #logic


Its available everywhere RSS feeds propagate. Antenna pod etc. This episode just being posted might not be there just yet,  give it a day to spread.


Hope you enjoy


Check out today's new post


Is Privacy a human right?
is free speech a human right?
what entails a right?
how are rights derived?
lets find out on todays read

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/axiomsofliberty0/episodes/Human-Rights-Are-Property-Rights-by-Murray-N--Rothbard-e2isbk4


Read #Spooner

nostr:note1py2lqafdrs2px9k6qwvvkfncxs22markjtnkc37qlmdtspej0jzquemzqs
https://m.primal.net/HyPA.jpg
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The difference is, murder is a crime. Money laundering is a "crime."

Have you ever met a money laundering victim? Someone can be a victim of theft, but there are no victims of money laundering.

Arresting someone for money laundering because they developed a private transaction tool is like arresting someone for "aiding and abetting murder" because they manufactured the steak knife a murderer used to cut his steak a week before he committed murder.

Adopting the state's framing is losing the battle before a single shot has been fired. Money laundering is not a crime.  Crimes have victims. There are no victims of money laundering.


Need to make sure you enter the correct derivation path. There’s different derivation paths depending on whether the funds were deposit, premix, or postmix. https://walletsrecovery.org


nostr:npub16ws45r63qruealwvc697493nsdzs2k93hw9j8dc2d0affjakskuqdewfmt see here bud


Congratulations to nostr:npub1ej2rwvt46908z65w80wt6dd0s74ehyve8zv97n9cxdgrpld5pwjs0h5jr0 on winning the 150k bounty we are going to use his monkey on the pins ! https://image.nostr.build/b468e9f775486da90b6495264430a8610133a562316c20568d13e5dfc7fc503e.jpg


Oh shit


holy shit. samourai wallet devs arrested? https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering


If nobody hodls it, it isnt money.


But but shi is better than bitcoin

ItS a ToOl

Privacy IS all that MATTERS

fucking rekt


And if you ACTUALLY READ the whole post instead of getting psyopd to be triggered by the word immigration youd see i was into bitcoin BEFORE i was into learning about the philosophy of freedom.


What the hell are you going on about? Tf I've never said shit about globalism, if you're speaking about immigration is pretty simple.

Either you're free to move about as you wish,  or you're not. Seeing as it's pretty simple that if you're must seek permission from another individual in order to do something,  it follows logically that you're a slave in some form or another if you're not able to live where your wish.

So the scenario in which you speak of is ACTUALLY one where individuals (most of whom dont consent) under taxation see their taxes misallocated to serve a regimes agenda to bring in voters. So is this ACTUALLY an immigration problem OR IS IT ACTUALLY a GOVERNMENT problem? Seems you need to think about these problems more deeply than to just blindy accuse another that values the freedom of choice above all else.

In a society in which taxation doesnt occur, and funds arent distributed arbitrarily to such ways. Do you really think this many individuals would willy nilly come to the same place? It would make 0 sense for any majority of people to move in such ways. The incentives in place are what motivate those that do what they do to do so.

So before you get your panties in a bunch of something so ignorantly stated think about the problem much deeper than PEOPLE FROM OTHER PLACE BAD, I HATE OTHER PEOPLE COME TO MY PLACE. do better , be better.


Amazing


GM KWEKS


Looks like an insane asylum for psychopaths


Zapped AND BOOSTED


#asknostr #bitcoin #whatsyouropinion?

OK Plebs, I have to confess...
I'm bummed!😐
Here's what's happening...

The annual bitcoin conference, bitcoin2024, is in Nashville this year. They're running a contest for original songs to be pressed on the "Bitcoin Record." As I best understand it, the twenty-one songs that are upvoted the most on Wavlake ("21 CROWD-SOURCED FINALISTS") and curated by contest judges will make it onto the record: https://b.tc/conference/2024/bitcoin-record

So why am I bummed?🤔🧐

I guess I assumed that "The Bitcoin Record" would be about bitcoin. I wrote a ballad about bitcoin, an homage to the genius of Satoshi Nakamoto, and submitted it to the contest. Thanks to the generosity of those who have Zapped it, "Asymmetric Liberty" is ranked #40 as I write this appeal.

https://wavlake.com/track/6f20f4fa-fd25-49e1-aae3-fec18f73c6cd

Believe me, I have no delusions about being a great musician or artist, but at least three nostriches who've listened to the song say I have a bit of a Johnny Cash vibe...😜🤣

That aside, what I find disturbing is that--of the top-voted tracks ahead of me--only maybe 10-20% have anything to do with bitcoin!😳 Sure, there's some really nice music in the running, and the songs that mention bitcoin are good, but so many of the entries have nothing at all to do with bitcoin...😮

I'd love to be on the record, simply because I think the lyrics of my song (you can read them below) have some important things to say about this utterly amazing, world-changing invention...💖😁

 https://image.nostr.build/cafc84d0e1b325e14c87e20ec73ecc54acc7c3a7b3fb02299498f3ca6b67c5f2.jpg

So I'm appealing to my fellow #plebs, #bitcoiners, #frens, and #nostriches; if you agree with me that the "Bitcoin Record" probably ought to be mostly about bitcoin; Would you please consider listening to my entry, or at least reading the lyrics? And--if you like it--tagging "Asymmetric Liberty" with a few sats to help it rise in the contest ranking?🙏🏻

If you've read this far, THANK YOU for your time and attention, and beaucoup thanks if you're willing to ZAP "Asymmetric Liberty" and boost this message so more eyes will see it and more plebs will know there's a serious bitcoin ballad in the running.😆🫂💖


Sats sent!


nostr:npub13700uhjmtvfl49n4drcr0qg7rk863m8rzqdgceddpfwh2ejlumdqn6375k has influenced me alot. Knowing and calling this gentleman friend def helped pushed me to doing this idea.

Thanks, im more than happy to take up the mantle and carry the torch of freedom forward from the prior generations that have fostered it.


Who is the best female singer in #bitcoin and #nostr who is NOT a songwriter and wants a partner?

I want to collaborate.


See that yellow fat? That's a telltale sign of grass fed/finished (possibly some grain during finish).

A grass fed, but fully grain finished bovine's fat is white/light pink.

Know your fat and no one can fool you.

nostr:note1nmnxgsdt8cav8s84nj58sp43dz8vlq2v82ax5z8j73xzzlwpwnps4pnyud


ATTN BITCOINERS WITH LOGO DESIGN SKILLS

150K BOUNTY!!

most of you know im taking the kids to a zoo trip next month ,looking to have BTC PINS create wooden pins to give to each of the kids to commemorate the event.

Need a cool bitcoin/zoo type of logo kid friendly! Best design gets 150k sats!


Wtf is this scammer doing this shit


Well since finding bitcoin in 2021 I've began diving down into the broader spectrum. Id say about 2022 is when the philosophy aspect of libertarian/ancap/ freedom really began to peak my interest.

I just couldn't understand why is it that is never heard of ANY of these people before. Why do others think freedom is so extreme? I began to really think of people just became more exposed to the ideas that it wouldn't be seem so extreme.

Then one day i was arguing with nuts on twitter one day over immigration (before the USA  immigration really became front and center) was called a communist, told unfettered immigration is bad etc. It really stuck with me for days. I couldn't understand how people believed these ideas.

So i thought well what can i do to help people get more exposure ( and myself to read more about so i could better articulate the arguments) nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev was a pivotal part of my bitcoin journey. So i thought well why don't i do what he did for bitcoin articles,  but instead do it for philosophy on freedom.  If anything itll help me gain a better understanding and it might help others who don't have the time to read them.

So thats how it started. Yeah can't believe it's been a year of reading and learning.


Hope you enjoy my journey learning and experiencing philosophy of freedom,  liberty& sovereignty.


Was so good watching it LIVE


This that new movie in theaters?


It would have to be at least 5 to sway the choices of who does and doesn't get grants. I was under impressions that OS was doing good things here funding open source stuff.  Now you're claiming the opposite. If this is true,  others directly coerced by OS NEED to come forward and speak the truth.


Well I mean I should bring it to your attention since it is my podcast


Nope this is derek wills. Why does ross owe you sats tho? He lose a bet?


How does all 9 of the board members who get paid 0 to do open sats collude in this way? Def more meat to this storyboard than you're giving us.


oh? i wasnt aware


does the constitution protect rights? are constitutions socialist?

Derek ( @anacpair on twitter)  breaks it down for us in todays read

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/axiomsofliberty0/episodes/Ep-57-Anatomy-Of-The-Constitution-By-Derek-Wills-ancapair-e2inm15


Working here https://image.nostr.build/5e648847651967e4aeb8169a977b85bb4b8394dc50d97820a9e564bc8d0434d6.jpg


I didnt want to be TOO strict with a description. Wanted maximum creativeness ability engaged for a small pin 1.5" across. Thank you for your submission!


i Love the monkey in the corner with the logo on its belly i wonder if that could work! ill give this post a couple days to se what i get


Best day ever


#bowlstr https://image.nostr.build/d437cd31e60962501c5b292204ef56b0b327cb0e692888ccc4ca63a500b81980.jpg


In all seriousness, if you are a business owner or CEO, you need a Chief Bitcoin Officer.


Hi Allerseits - dies ist mein erster Post hier auf Damus. Was muss ich wissen? Wie funktioniert das hier?

#introductions https://image.nostr.build/30920f8d83e42339e7eb731c8268d64a0ffc070b84f3c6394bd4bc94ef9e461d.jpg


Its a key based system. Instead of email/ password system with one central database of servers.  So when you post its signed by your key 🔑 then broadcasted to tugged different servers of nostr ran by normal people like you and me!


Nice post from AJ towns.

Def worth a read.

https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2024/04/20/team-slow-and-steady


Amazing, enjoy your Saturday my ass has got to get to bed. Work was rough im beat


Noted


Nice!  It's gunna be a nice California day today. A brisk 68°


Only when worn without panties DUH


Just getting home from the fiat mines. Nice to see you up this early!


Braiins doesn't do ffpps so the fees they got in the block they were gunna keep. Now if the second block had been foundry or antpool then I'd have been worried about a reOrg. Braiins getting the block secured that reorg wasnt gunna happen.


https://m.primal.net/HxhK.png

# Halving Fee Chaos

The Bitcoin halving is an anticipated event, one of those Bitcoin holidays that happen every once in a while. Along with Soft Fork Activation and various financial instrument introduction days, it's one of those not-quite-predictable days that occur every few years which give Bitcoiners reason to pay attention and mainstream media to speculate.

This year's halving was much anticipated, as halvings usually are, but we had a bit of an incident that requires some further explanation. The block subsidy decreased from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC on block 840,000 as expected, but what wasn't expected was the 37.626 BTC in fees that came along with it. To give some context, that's easily the highest ratio of fees to block subsidy that Bitcoin has *ever* had. [One transaction](https://mempool.space/tx/152b928e97bb9e874da1bd4abdf766ae0cdc7a2f260dad5542967cb414c58489) paid nearly 8 BTC in fees by itself.

## More Fees

It wasn't just block 840,000 that had high fees, over the next 5 blocks, we had fees of 4.486, 6.99, 16.068, 24.008 and 29.821 BTC respectively. The fees are the highest it's ever been. This situation in Bitcoin is unprecedented.

Up to this point in Bitcoin's history a block whose fees were higher than block subsidy were pretty rare. There were a few in the 50 and 25 BTC eras, but these were mistakes by the user (usually forgetting to put in a change address) and almost all of the fee came from a single error transaction. In the 12.5 BTC subsidy era, there were a few transactions toward the end of 2017 when the cumulative fees exceeded the 12.5 subsidy. In the just-ended 6.25 BTC subsidy era, there were many blocks during the ordinals craze which exceeded the 6.25 BTC subsidy.

Still, these were relatively rare, and most blocks even in the most recently completed era mostly didn't exceeded 1.5 BTC. Yet in this new era of 3.125 BTC subsidy, every single block as of this writing (block 840018) has had fees exceed the subsidy, some by many multiples. So what happened? Why was the halving block getting so much in fees?

## Runes

The reason has to do with a new protocol called Runes. It's yet another colored coins protocol on top of Bitcoin that Casey Rodarmor designed back in [September of 2023](https://rodarmor.com/blog/runes/). The main idea is to allow coin issuance on Bitcoin that uses the UTXO set natively.

Now to back up a bit, colored coins have been around for a long time. The main idea is that you can "color" certain Bitcoin transaction outputs as meaning something in addition to the Bitcoin amount in the output. It could be another "asset" and issued as a token. The first implementation of such a protocol happened 11 *years* ago in 2013 and there have been many attempts since, including MasterCoin (renamed Omni), CounterParty, and more recently, RGB, Taro Assets and BRC-20.

As Rodarmor states in his blog, his motivation for making another protocol is to bring some of the asset issuing from other chains to Bitcoin. To make the launch of this protocol more interesting, Rodarmor decided to start the issuance on block 840,000, leading to the chaos we saw.

## Simplification vs Game Theory

Casey Rodarmor is also the creator of ordinals, and he took one of the concepts, which was to name assets using the capital latin alphabet on Runes. This is a normal fine choice, but what happens when there's a conflict? If two assets have the same name, how do we distinguish between them?

To simplify things, the protocol just looks up what assets exist already and if the name conflicts with something that exists, then the new asset isn't issued. This indeed simplifies the client and gives a global unique name to each asset. Unfortunately, it also makes for some terrible incentives.

## Sniping Asset Issuance

The first incentive problem is that if the transaction issuing the asset is sent out to the Bitcoin mempool, then as that transaction is gossiped to nodes around the network, other observers can snipe the name by getting the transaction in earlier.

Now "earlier" in Bitcoin is a strict concept. Blocks are ordered and transactions within a block are ordered. Whichever comes first gets the symbol and the asset issuance. But if you want to squat on a good symbol name, you can just look for mempool transactions that are attempting to create a new asset and create your own with a bigger fee. That's the essence of sniping.

What's really terrible about a situation like this is that *both* transactions will likely go into the block, but only the first will successfully issue the asset. The second will not issue the asset but *still pay the fee*.

Miners generally order transactions by fee rate, so a higher fee likely means that they'll get to issue the asset. I say likely, because there's a second incentive problem here I'll discuss later. But game-theoretically, both participants are incentivized to increase fees continually to one-up each other. The dynamic is similar to the [One Dollar Auction](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction), where participants end up making rational choices, but end up with an irrational result (like paying $1.50 for $1). Every loser pays lots in fees for nothing.

## Second order Game Theory

Now given this first-order incentive playing out, it's not a surprise that a lot of issuers purposefully put in a very high fee initially to discourage anyone from trying to snipe the symbol. After all, if your sniping attempt fails, then you lose out on the fees you tried to snipe with. There's also a significant uptick in the usage of RBF for this reason, so that you have the option to one-up the sniper and the sniper to do the same to the issuer.

Note that RBF isn't useful here to *get out* of paying the fee, as a replacement transaction has to pay more than the previous transaction in fees. Either way, the miner ends up with the fees.

Now back to the miner's role. The miner can, if it so desires, give preference to the *lower* fee transaction by including it earlier in the block. Indeed, the incentive is to give miners off-band fees if possible to order transactions in such a way as to win by not revealing how much you've paid. Miners in this protocol have a lot of leverage.

## Conclusion

Runes have resulted in some really high fees, though it's hard to know if the design was intentional or unintentional. What we do know is that Runes have been hyped up for the last few months and have been anticipated for a while, and certainly being one of the first assets issued under the protocol has some marketing value for the eventual goal of getting them listed on an exchange.

Sadly, in addition to the normal scamming of altcoins being completely centralized, there is a deeper cost in terms of block space congestion, where fees of 1000 sats/vbyte are currently not enough to get into certain blocks. The Runes asset issuance has overridden almost every other use case at the moment.

That said, the current rate of Runes issuance is completely unsustainable. Just in the first 18 blocks, there's been over $20M in fees spent, most of that in Runes issuance. At this rate, Runes issuers would be spending $150M a day or $1B a week. I honestly can't see them doing this for much longer than a month or two. In the meantime, it must be great to be a miner finding these blocks.


Gm onyx


Ok I've built this for fun and it's incredible.

A Cashu gateway: it's a normal Cashu user who has a Lightning node (or another Lightning payment backend). Everyone can act like a gateway as long as the mint supports ecash HTLCs (NUT-15).

If you as a Cashu user know of such a gateway, your wallet can send your Lightning payment request to it instead of to the mint.

The gateway responds with an amount (it can take a fee). If you agree, you send it ecash, and it pays your Lightning invoice. The process is atomic.

What does that mean? Let's think a little ahead and imagine this was deployed on a significant scale.

Even if the mint is full KYC for peg-in and peg-outs, a user could still make Lightning payments anonymously with the help of other users.

(!!! this alone would be huge !!!)

This would also enable us to make on-chain-only mints which opens up a whole new way of building mints (reserves could be in a multisig for example).

Crazy part: Gateways can be lazy and use custodial Lightning backends. The user doesn't care as long as the invoice gets paid.

Yes. That means you could use your Strike or Blink or LNbits account to act as a Gateway for a Cashu mint you like.

There could be many of crazy people like you. Nobody would ever know. Neither the mint. nor your LN service provider would notice. They all just see invoices.

It gets weirder. Gateways could use *another Cashu mint* as an LN backend. I know sounds like an inception nut but bare with me.

A user of mint M1 can ask a gateway of mint M1 to pay an invoice. The gateway could pay the invoice via mint M2 and receive ecash from M1 in return.

I always thought "you could run a mint for a thousand users on a Strike or a Blink backend without them even noticing the smallest thing".

Now I think you could probably run a mint for 100k users without them noticing, if there are other gateways handling payments for everyone.

Note: this is still experimental. Only paying works right now over the gateway, not receiving (more complicated).

The bast part though is that it doesn't require any Cashu protocol changes and the mints don't have to give you permission to do this.

It's all pretty nuts.

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To Inscription frenzy:
If something is Non-Fungible & Digital, then how can it be Non-Fungible.

Your inscriptions have zero value, Open your eyes.


Any platform/ server based so im using isn't working.  Yet nostr is. That's cool. Anyone else having issues?


Nope nothing out of the ordinary. Via btc hit then braiins hit right after within like 2 or 3 mins. Soon as i seen braiins hit i knew there wasnt going to be any reOrg


Alot can change when you change your relationship with media and money.


But its not 420 there its 204


Finding Purpose and Creating Value
https://youtu.be/OOFUbdn6oCs?si=O8WZ9RLNZVfFAfxB


They are symptoms of the fiat fuckery. As more and more people become disillusioned they exasperating everything else to match said disillusionment. More extremes to become normalized before the collapse.


45 sir


Read the article thought the same thing. Heavy bcash tears in this read.


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Ive said it ince ill say it again FOREVER. TETHER IS ALREADY A CBDC!


ZEUS v0.8.4-beta1 is now available for testing

- Ability to select wallet/node on start-up
- Currency conversion: Silver (XAG) + Gold (XAU)
- Password page: improve layout
- Bug fixes

## Links

Release notes: https://github.com/ZeusLN/zeus/releases/tag/v0.8.4-beta1

ZEUS documentation: https://docs.zeusln.app/
Embedded node FAQ: https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/faq

Android

Universal APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.4-beta1-universal.apk
arm64-v8a APK: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.4-beta1-arm64-v8a.apk
Manifest: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.4-beta1.txt
Manifest Signature: https://zeusln.com/manifest-v0.8.4-beta1.txt.sig

iOS

IPA: https://zeusln.com/zeus-v0.8.4-beta1.ipa
Apple TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/vVnODWoi https://image.nostr.build/6b629ec6f4788abe75bfa7ec124f05430ede8cb991b4947e3abfb13ef71b0850.jpg


Never DOCTA!


This happens once every 4years, take the influencer/devs 🍆 out your mouth for a day - it's good for ya.

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49 ser


Minimum wage is a communist price control that makes many entry level positions illegal, increases prices for consumers and forces dependency on the state.

Any two parties should be able to agree on any price for the exchange of labor.


Filed out my paper work yesterday to be a chaperone on the field trip.  Just waiting on them to decide the day of the trip now. Thanks to all of you that made it possible


Yes,  can badly afford to live as it is now.


I am anti-state because I'm pro-liberty.

People who whine about purity tests usually do so because they dislike being reminded that they are not really being true to their core principels. That's your problem, not mine. I am generous enough to include in the libertarian umbrella you mini-statists. Don't complain if we point out that consistent libertarianism is actually anarchism. If that bothers you, stop talking about it or asking us to pretend like you don't have some statist/socialist deviations. I'm happy to include minarchists in the libertarian tent, just as I'm also happy to work with conservatives, classical liberals, and even lefists, on some shared issues, but I don't pretend they are libertarians.

You are welcome to join our tent but don't expect those of us who are more consistent in our principles and devotion to human liberty to dishonestly pretend that your statism is libertarian. You should simply be grateful that consistent libertarians (anarchists) are willing to consider you minarchists fellow libertarians and appreciate the parts you happen to be good on and to overlook your more problematic views--as long as you don't keep bringing it up. Don't ask for more than that. Instead of trying to justify the need for the state, which is only going to get criticized by consistent libertarians, let's just focus on the 95% we do agree on and push for and work for liberty.

I don't see anarchist libertarians trying to purge minarchists, but when they say things like "well I am not an anarchist," this is just a disguised (and dishonest) way of really saying "I oppose aggression most of the time--except for a few cases where it's 'necessary,'" then don't be surprised if other libertarians disapprove of this condoning of aggression, and don't then run around whining that your feelings are hurt. If you don't want to be criticized for advocating aggression by fellow anti-aggression libertarians, stop talking about it.

-Stephan Kinsella


Yeah in pioneer days work was just outside the home on the farm. Work isn't like that now a days. Private schooling is vastly entirely too expensive for me to afford. Give me another 2 epochs then maybe.


Well if i quit my job or the mom did nether of us would be able to provide for the kids Themselves.


It would be infinitely better than now. If voting got us into the mess we're in now.  Imagine if instead of people worrying about the next political pundits attempting to swindle themselves into office for another few years. That time was actually spent doing PRODUCTIVE things. Like inventing new things, creating art, music, podcasts.

Voting is AN EXTRACTIVE process. Its give legitimacy to a system in which wealth (private property) is taken from one group to be given to another whomever which got the most votes this season. If you believe people are dumb and ignorant and need leaders to be lead. How is it that you can choose that leader out of those same dumb and ignorant people and expect them not to be fallible in anyway?


The entire gov funding schooling system sucks. Were all well aware of this. Unfortunately having all kids be able to be home schooled is not an option.


Bitcoin mining pools should issue rewards in ecash so that participants can mine without an account and remain private. Miners can withdraw their ecash balance to Lightning or on-chain whenever they feel like it.

Nobody needs to know who you are and how much you've earned while mining. This is more important than most people realize.


Lies 5lbs is nothing


Were gunna make it!


Nostr is much better than any other platform.


Its not easy.


Thanks to all that made this happen weve gotten to the full amount  YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST
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Absolutely!


You guys are utterly amazing 👏 ❤ 💖  NOSTR IS THE BEST COMMUNITY OUT THERE.


Voting is a farce. Always has been. No amount of voting makes a difference in the end. As whomeever you vote for is functioning from funds that are stolen (taxes) so therefore they face 0 consequences for any choice they make while in office.


So today when i pick up my daughters from school today. The oldest is all excited with a piece of paper in her hand. I asked her what it was, she said it was her permission slip to go on her field trip to go to the Zoo.

I proceed to read the note. The teacher sent this note out to ask the parents that she wanted to take the kids to the Zoo. Due to the PTA board being dissolved for some reason she couldnt get ANY funding approved for the trip. So she was asking all the parents if they could support paying for the trip for their child and if this was too burdensome for any family to do she'd understand. I felt bad for my daughter cuz i know she seemed super excited for this trip to the zoo.

The trip costs $21 dollars per kid. Her class size is 32 students. Can we raise a million or so sats here to pay for the entire class to go?

Id be forever grateful to be able to pay for her class to go and help the parents out there that cant afford to be able to spend this money for their child. I dont ask for satoshis like this but i think this is a worthwhile idea to do for my child and hwr class to experience the zoo.

Please repost for more visibility on more relays.

Cheers Nostr i know i can count on you guys.


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*The Rare Sat Lie*

Let's start with some facts.

You cannot own a satoshi (sat). You can only own a utxo, who's value is measured in sats. Just like you cannot own a "kilogram" but you can own something which weights a kilogram.

The idea that a sat can be rare is a lie, since sats don't exist.

A utxo also cannot be sold, because as soon as it is spent, a completely new utxo is created, and the creation of this new utxo makes the previous utxo (which you wanted to sell) spent. To act of spending "an unspent transaction output" (UTXO) transforms it into something fundamentally different, a "spent transaction output" (STXO) and creates a new UTXO.

The idea that a utxo can be sold is a lie, since even utxos cannot be sold.

The idea that a rare sat from a "special" utxo can be bought is thus a double lie.

*Rare Sat Sophistry*

The conmen, the useful idiots and the otherwise honest but contrarian pundits will rationalize the spreading of the "Rare Sat Lie" with sophistry and appeals to libertarian morality such as "it's a free market, people can believe whatever they want and waste their money however they wish".

Of course, this line of reasoning is meant to create strawmen arguments so that every person that is righteously indignated at the spreading of these lies can be painted as being opposed to the concept of individual freedon itself, which immediately places the TruthSeeker's outrage outside of the Overton Window (and subject to ridicule).

Let us dispell the strawman argument.

The "market" (a small niche of degenerate gamblers) can want whatever it wants, yes. But it till cannot change the reality that individual satoshis (sats) do not exist as "things" or virtual objects. This reality is not subjective.

The sophists will also rationalize that "it cannot be stopped" and thus all you can do is "cry harder" (ironic eh?) and that any and all attempts to combat the lies are futile (at best) or stupid.

It may be true all the truthseeker can do is cry and shout, but it is also true that to combat the spreading of such lies is a virtuous and noble pursuit. And it is also true that the direct result of the shouting can be to save a victim from otherwise being conned. Which is, we would all agree I hope, a moral good, if not a moral imperative.

People are free to spread the lie that such things ("rare" "sats") are real, and fraudulently sell utxos of low value presented as "rare" "sats" for utxos of higher value, but to do so by exploiting the ignorance of people and confusion around the complex technology of Bitcoin is evil according to nearly almost moral code that ancient and modern civilizations have produced.

I am the last person that would deny someone the right to be evil. But I believe if you see a fraud and you don't call out the fraud then you too are a fraud.

So, the strawman is really just straw.

*The Rare Sat Con*

Beyond it being morally bad to spread lies generally, the spreading of the lie also occurs within the context of textbook confidence trick.

Confidence tricks involve :

- the mark: the victims whose money is to be acquired fraudulently
- the roper: reels in the mark via exposure and marketing, peaking the curiosity of the mark (i.e. a conference or media organization)
- the inside man: provides a venue for the con to take place, or supplies goods and services used in the context of the scam (a mining pool or a marketplace)
- the conman: gains the confidence of the mark extracts the money (the seller of a rare sat)
- the convincer: an acolyte of the conman which gives a taste of the profits to the mark either by investing in the mark, or showing off his profits to the mark (a fellow rare sat trader)

The conman and the convincer can interchange roles. For example, conmen and convincers can publicly con each other repeatedly and alternatively, with gains and losses which compensate, with the tacit understanding that the goal is really to gain the confidence of a mark from which both convincer and conman can extract money from.

Everyone except benefits in this zero sum game, except obviously the mark.

In the end, the mark was never forced to give up his money. He willingly parted ways with his funds, deceived by the confidence trick.

Selling "rare sats" for utxos of higher sat value is without doubt a confidence trick.

I will let it up to your imagination who you think plays which role in the rare sat con.


When when I'm met with someone who's advocacy for any other form collectivism coordination it should always be met with this simple summary as i feel it is a quite complete encapsulation of the coercivists VS voluntaryists debate

Should the world be ran by voluntary interactions and exchange guided by individual economic decisions

OR

should the world be planned and dictated by a small group of arbitrary people elected by a majority whom force their decree in everyone with violence.


There's a place that I found
as far as I can see this place lies within
 the depths of my dreams
In a garden surrounded by fire trees
 through the smoke a silhouette
I can barely see
there's a man within an ax
standing in the rain
 he looks me straight in my eye
 and this is what he had to say

https://youtu.be/jUcHKQ4G1vo?si=sVkmHcjsrq-7n1KJ


Yes brown up the meat flavor it with all the flavorings you need I usually brown some  onion and garlic In butter beforehand then add the meat salt to your fat meat nice and well crack about half a dozen eggs over about half a pound of beef add chives some basil lots of sea salt delicious


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Do yourself a favor do not give the state your bitcoin. They aren't worthy


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Taxes involve coercion. So by proxy any coercive action that forces you to do any act you otherwise would not do is immoral. Taxes are backed by the threat of forcing you in a cage (or worse death) if you do not comply with said tax. You do not get to protest,  you don't get to vote on it,  you don't even have a say.  It's just "the way things have always been" so everyone just goes along with it.

If a thief steals from you,  your own money,  you'd call it theft every single time. But for someone reason a mythical thing called "government " comes and takes your money under that same threat as the robber/ thief its all of a sudden not robbery?

What makes the 2 different is when the thief gets what he wants he will normally dissappear and never be seen by you again.  Government on the other hand takes your money buys things "for you" that you didnt want,  tells you it's for your own good,  then continues to follow you around to do this act for your entire life ensuring you is in your best interest to allow them to keep doing it.


💀💀💀💀 this has got to be a walker satire


New Q WHO DIS? https://image.nostr.build/013e47d3de9b23281cbc8b174a5ef6a5f60f3ce0c5179bf7aec78364c874e5c9.jpg


I helped him buy those cards


Why is todd so fucking retarded


Bitblockboom was quite the fun fest. Thanks to all of you that came,  those that i got to hang with. Until we meet again.


Join the Movement!

Rockstar and NVK on now!

Tunestr.io nostr:note1xnu37nn3w0f45kt4svy55xgqnggmquq94dex8ruexwpupa46xusq5mgryj


Dont change bitch.


Holy poofness doggo. He looks so happy tho
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I actually do need one of these cards though. https://image.nostr.build/70e775fd287194d698c69f2dc5054ed359b335a08a38d58ffe343389923b494d.jpg


I think its because the tread wear and life suffers so although no air in them, the tread suffers as the tradeoff.


I have a bone to grind with you, Nostr. I’ve been slaving away trying to build a completely new ecosystem for a media hosting, and we’ve been charging bare minimum to keep the service afloat while providing a human-to-human/dog support, and yet people complain how “outrageous” the pricing is. If the price cannot afford even a cup of coffee after costs, it is not outrageous in my book. Creators love to complain how they get nothing for their work, while many devs are literally giving away their time, knowledge and investment into the craft of tech. Also, your fucking bullshit about 1 sat = 1 sat, while closely monitoring fiat rates, is getting old and tiresome. At least be honest with yourself, and stop placating bullshit. I am not your slave, I am not your daddy, if you need a good service that is free from ads and other bullshit, then someone has to pay. If you do not want to pay, do it yourself or go to YouTube or TikTok or Instagram, and stop pretending like you give a fuck.
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Now go and fuck yourselves, and make sure to enjoy it! 🐶🐾🫡😤


Home stead on girl. Someones gotta do it!


It was nice the first day. Long but nice. Enjoy your day as well maria!


Why don't people want to dedicate $20 per month (or 4 cups of coffee) in total for Nostr tools they use every day?

If we want freedom tech to succeed, the tools that make it possible need to be funded: relays like https://nostr.land, media hosts like https://nostr.build, clients like https://damus.io, etc.

Complaining about:
- why media hosting is expensive when it takes hours of work per day to keep running, and risks like CSAM content make it harder to maintain
- recurring relay fees when it takes constant work to keep up, and recurring server bills
- clients not being perfect while they require a lot of time to make work and optimize
doesn't help with anything

If everyone on Nostr making shit calculated how many hours they spent on nostr development and how much they actually profited, and compared that to if they got a job with their skillset, I would bet it's way higher than how much an average startup loses

So please, support your clients, relays, media hosts, and everything else you use


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Gm nostr. Work shop day at Bitblockboom. Gunna be a nice long day of fun.  Looking forward to day 2 of shenanigans


Day 1 of BBB complete. 28 hours of being awake. Time for me to call it a night. See yall tomorrow.


That was my thought,  they just do it "voluntary " to normalize it in the minds of everyone.  Guaranteed it becomes mandatory eventually.


You dont need to, just go with it Lyn AL"DAN"


In line at the TSA today. Dumb "facial recognition software" nonsense going on. I watched and watched more than 100 people in front of me conform to this shit.  Not one, not a single person refused to do it. My turn inevitably comes to partake in their BS. I SAY NO. simple. Shouldve seen the look on the ladys face.


The libertarian believes that individuals should be free to live their lives as they see fit, as long as they do not violate the rights of others.

~ Murray Rothbard


The blocksize war wasn't so much about the blocksize (or, even, scaling Bitcoin). It was really about who controls the consensus rules and how we upgrade the protocol.

For context, a bunch of startups raised tons of money between 2013 and 2016 based on ridiculous user sign-up projections and then we had a long and painful bear market and they were looking for scapegoats (the developpers that were "throttling the network") to justify the lack of growth. I am thinking here specifically of Coinbase, Bitpay and Blockchain.info.

The vibe I got is that they thought of Bitcoin itself as a corporation, that they were the equivalent of Bitcoin's board of directors because they represented the interest of VC investors, and thus they were entitled to decision making power over the network.

I don't doubt that a few people were genuine about scaling p2p e-cash (e.g. Roger Ver) but I suspect what really motivated them is that they believed control of the Bitcoin network would be an asset to their business interests, and lack of control was being used as an excuse to why their interests weren't being satisfied.

There was also a bunch of developers that I believe may have been afraid of losing their relevance (Gavin and Garzik specifically). Regardless of their intentions or psychology, it seemed clear to me that the consortium of vc-backed startups (particularly Bitpay, Coinbase, blockchain(.)info and Roger) had picked a team of developers they thought they could control and wanted to appoint them as a technical management team whicn would execute their strategy, and these guys were willing to step up for that role.

I was physically in the room when the CEO of Blockchain.info (with the very obvious support of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong) announced that Bitcoin Core devs were being fired and would be replaced. This was after a couple days of failed discussions with other industry people. This was the moment when I realized what was really going on.

And finally, you had a Bitcoin mining giant (Bitmain) controlling both asic production and mining pools with a vested interest in promoting the idea that Bitcoin was a democracy and the way to vote was to buy hashing power. The main ideology being pushed here was that a formal governance mechanism of the protocol needed to be established and that hashrate was the only objective measure of who makes decisions.

The underlying big blocker ideology was that the chaos of spontaneous consensus of nodes is unpredictable, flimsy, bad for business. The absence of a formal governance process was seen as the root cause of the issue.

These companies really believed they could control the protocol, and controlling development of the protocol was seen as a very valuable asset to your company. I imagine they thought of themselves as the founders of a new consortium that would solidify itself into a permanent institution. The business interests would pay developers and set the goals, and the mining interests would ratify their decisions with hash power voting. That was their plan.

This became blatantly obvious when Bitmain used its refusal to activate segwit as leverage to get what it wanted (a blocksize increase and recognition of its hashpower as a vote mecanism) even though Bitmain iself acknowledged it was not really opposed segwit.

It was classic traditional politics: I'll give you segwit if you give me something in return.

This is the language the VC suits, investors and tech startup people understand and they were very happy to "negotiate" and find "consensus".

This eventually materialized into the New York Agreement, negotiated literally as a backroom deal during theConsensuss shitcoin conference. I was there and I refused to attend.

This (private) meeting consecrated the alliance of startups/investors and bitcoin mining interests in their appointment of a technical management committee. If you think this sounds like Jekyll Island, you're not alone.

They packaged segwit with a blocksize increase (Segwit2x) and decided to force a hard fork as a condition to "allow" us to have Segwit.

We know the rest of the story: we ended up activating anyway via UASF (or more precisely, the miners activated Segwit after they New York Agreement signatories became scared UASF would lead to a chain split which they were going to lose). And the blocksize increase was also abandoned shortly after when they realized their hard fork would cause a chain split and that they would not be able to claim that their new shitcoin is the real bitcoin.

All these people were subsequently were very pissed off they couldn't control the network, which they thought they were entitled to. Some ragequit, others created a bunch of shitcoins out of spite, Roger went on to spearhead BCH as the real Bitcoin, all these fools realized they might as well make some money off of it, everyone went all-in on the shitcoin casinos after that. The "small blockers" eventually went on to evolve into the Bitcoin Maximalists and cypherpunks that today tell you to run your own node and own your own keys.


How many Dan's could a dam hold Dan's if a dam could hold Dan's?
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I really think people have misunderstood the key limitations that led gold to be so completely captured.

It’s about SCALE of value transfer, not simply that it’s centralized into custodians. The larger the scale, the MORE captured gold is, rather than less. Moving $200 of gold is easy. Moving $2 Trillion is practically impossible. Entire countries neither hold nor settle their own, physical gold during deals.

This is perfectly opposite for bitcoin. The larger the amount the easier. The larger the amount the cheaper and move important and more astonishingly unique the degree of control and ability to safeguard, fine grain control and time for certain actions, to build vaults, to distribute politically, and 1,000 other options can exist to protect and remove trust in EVERY transaction of value above $1 million.

Sure we want this to be given to everybody, but the idea that a small country and stick the middle finger to a large one and keep their capital perfectly safe, is a world shattering shift in the power dynamic.

And there is no central bank in the world that can maintain interest rate manipulation against the market if $1 trillion in value can leave the country in under 10 minutes.

To add to this, it’s a permissionless and open network. In other words, ANY solution, or tool, or protocol we want to run on top of it, it doesn’t matter who has what coins, in which custodians, under what jurisdiction, they still can stop no one from launching their own system payment or cryptographic tool to solve whatever problem they seek.

What happened to gold will not come close to happening with #Bitcoin, even in the worst case scenario.

Whatever a Bitcoin “captured” world would look like, if things decentralize and we get trusted custodians as the dominant platforms and all that re-centralization that we got with the web… it STILL will be orders of magnitude superior to the fiat world we are currently in because even if it *fails* to conquer our entire vision, bitcoin still solves some of the most critical issues of gold merely as a global digital, permissionless currency backing, perfect collateral, and censorship resistant SoV.

IMO, it will be revolutionary no matter what. It is up to us *how* revolutionary we want it to be.

I dig more deeply into those key differences in this show if interested:
https://fountain.fm/episode/ZBlS2FEz5lCWlQQeSG5K


Morning Maria!


He was taking about rage quitting twitter the other day because everyone was going at Vlad


GM NOSTR. One day left until BITBLOCKBOOM LFG!


Welcome


Welcome fren GM


Hello! I am Michael, a 2024 Mises Institute apprentice from Nigeria. It all started with reading Ayn Rand as a young boy. Thereafter, a burning passion for the liberty philosophy took me down the long road to freedom, where I discovered the series of compelling literature on liberty and the free-market—including the works of Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and the Austrian School of Economics. I believe that liberty is indivisible, most essential for self-actualisation, and that society can best attain prosperity under the institution of private property. I seek to spread the libertarian message across Africa and the rest of the world, realising that only political freedom can foster the economic prosperity that Africa and the world greatly seeks. Join me in making this a reality. Cheers! #introductions #introductions


Wtf did i just read


Went on nostr:npub109vfayn7595xzzxj5wd7kzgh5pygvf76cl72zmh8mqdvv8hdvrssme9kfa and had a blast with Phil and walton. Check it out below!

https://youtu.be/eQyh3VvriXw


I think what Milgram showed us is what happens after state schooling. Children from homeschooling and community schooling would, I believe, show entirely different results.
https://void.cat/d/3UL9NhBNhxram9VW8G5j4T.webp


I read Roger Ver's new book, “Hijacking #Bitcoin” which doesn't align with how I remember things. I debunk his core claims in today's episode of This Week in Bitcoin:

https://www.thisweekinbitcoin.show/episodepage/06-debunking-big-blocker-alternative-history https://i.nostr.build/3PYXm.jpg


Yes FUCK them use VPN service. More importantly just use twitter less and less. Advocate for more nostr usage by your friends


Nope no limits


Gm amethyst fam


Yall missing out on Blues ART!
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Gooood Mooooorning Nostr!!!!!
#GM #meme #memestr #grownostr #plebchain
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Guess ill wait for the clips of the best parts to be cut out


👀👀fuck i don't listen to Peter


Ohhhhi haven't seen this one before


I absolutely cannot recommend this book enough to any and all people out there seeking to understand the modern financial world. Rothbard absolutely nails it in an easy to understand prose.

Once the veil is lifted, it can never be laid back.

This is one of those books that really drives home the “aha” moment of understanding the inevitability of Bitcoin.

#StaySovereign #bitcoin #BTC #BitcoinOnly #economics #austrians #finance #mining #news #lightning #nostr #liberty #pleb
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Idk if people are ready for this, but I believe the world is. First tests of USD Ecash. Backed by BTC.

Everyone can run a mint. Everyone can make a wallet. USD can be spent everywhere BTC is accepted. Open protocols all the way down. No gatekeepers. This is only possible because of the permissionless nature of Bitcoin.

You'll zap USD on Nostr and you'll be happy. It's going to be so insane.
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Amazing


Yes ive heard that before. Ive just never tried Indian food before, so i wouldnt even know what to get. Ive also heard the accept shitcoins too, sadly.


Every damn time https://image.nostr.build/eaaac81d75a9314eea94c26e2511ac2e184065e4564a83aa1ea8cb6e9ccea593.jpg


Learn something new about'cha!


Technically they aint wrong.


I like dragons 🐉 they've been in lore and mythical stories since forever. How can you not like dragons? https://image.nostr.build/b4b585ce39b3669b820fa3031d8affcc8a9264ee50002a621ceff4143971341b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3dede855f95144b37c8a9bf1f77594dd31fd476a44a5abb59e1f5b188c7dbd2f.jpg

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The raddest little skelly army you could ever ask for. https://image.nostr.build/0262e3c18090f6f444266b0cf98235effbb44aefd955a4c424076c24ea27fc47.jpg

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She wasnt ready for my  Millennium Falcon glass,  panties fell to the floor shortly after.  https://image.nostr.build/983d28775e7897f63027c7572d0bfc570961c5bb1bfe4d4135b15601fb747fc1.jpg


One for the psychonaughts 🍄 https://image.nostr.build/3e734964a94a0c171a302baf35bf6b4fdbe043dd9aac0c01dba22f82853b0b96.jpg


Ball of squiggles i thought looked cool https://image.nostr.build/f077a5b88417cd1aac9cb9afda023418ff4d4202500848690ff9daa0554b2abe.jpg


Whale tail https://image.nostr.build/f27cfc53f224c103655009e966c09e864c79772b8276693033fe98d9445209b9.jpg


Blown glass eggs https://image.nostr.build/f559ac905d12b945d7917b45a0398d5655ca3d23248e744e3c9052ac692c7caf.jpg


Jelly fish blown glass https://image.nostr.build/cf2785f7eee7384cedfa03a6a29826f53a973cbb7aaae44b6226117d3b089806.jpg


Yes very fun indeed. Boysenberry festival currently so lots of cool things around.


Fun day sunday at the park with the kids enjoy your sunday yall https://image.nostr.build/c26dd09f5ebc168070b0ffc2682a79e8673fd832315f0e3720a67d33e2dd725c.jpg


Welcome to nostr momma of humans


Any alleged ‘right’ of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

— Ayn Rand


I invite you to listen this incredible lecture, "The occult art of Law" (spanish subtitles)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/PqXS0Hfd6lKi/


Nothing reminds me more of how much I hate the government than tax filing season.


CryptoCloaks™ Sues Vlad Costa For Libel Following Accusations Of Taking Soros Money

Written by Richard Greaser
https://www.bugle.news/cryptocloaks-sues-vlad-costa-for/


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#meme #memes


Fuck em,  stack sats and out preform then YoY


Bigger blocks do not expand the access to the security and sovereignty of #bitcoin

It only *dilutes* it


Slay brudda


gm #nostriches

#thethouwow #frens #fam https://image.nostr.build/868109342d10ccb2ebca5a4bb09ada6ae16fb1ea73e335a6376ac0e1d9478ede.jpg


Convo with my SIL last night:
Her: Social media has gotten so annoying. The only platform I even use anymore is #Tiktok and even that has the addictive doom-scroll effect so I have to limit myself.
Me: I find myself using #Nostr the most now because I get a lot of satisfaction from “catching up” on the notes of the day.
Her: There’s a chronological feed?!
Me: Yes and no ads…
Her: I’M SOLD!

😎🤙 I’m a Nostrvangelist 😆


He refused to follow dogma. He said he'd rather be himself than to continue doing anything that he didn't agree with.


The Intellectual Humility of the Spontaneous Order

My latest from Mises

https://mises.org/mises-wire/intellectual-humility-spontaneous-order


Every time you see some "news" (especially from govs) appearing in your feed, remember this cheatsheet for critical thinking:

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#memes


Ground beef and eggs is always a solid choice. Bitblockboom in less than a weeks time. Getting excited for the trip to dallas. Going to be good fine off work hanging with bitcoiners. https://image.nostr.build/03323d6ee1788488b4284255b36ff84278d432c295911c6c2d1293821ec60e9b.jpg


Below is a tweet that was recently made in response to my excerpt from the twelfth chapter of “𝟮𝟭 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀”. Following that is my response, reposted here for your education and enjoyment.

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You are sadly mistaken.

#Bitcoin is not a number on a postit or on anything else; 𝗶𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗿𝘂𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻. These rules involve a type of mathematical function known as 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, which is easy to solve in one direction, but impossible to solve in the other direction without a brute force guess-and-check. This brute force requires 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲, in much the same way that mining gold does, which is why Bitcoin's hashing process has been likened to actual mining.

In this way, Bitcoin relies on 3 things to function: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗼𝗿𝘆 of its users abiding by its rules, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 of cryptography, and 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘄𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝘀 in its use of energy. Bitcoin cannot break or neglect these 3 pillars, and 𝘢𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 3 𝘦𝘹𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯.

You said that "𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘺𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘰." This was also the case with gold, when it was first monetizing thousands of years ago, and is an example of the game theory mentioned above. Like Bitcoin, gold is also built on the 3 pillars of game theory, math (on a quantum level), and physics in order to continue to exist. However, 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁.

It's often said that gold has "intrinsic value", but in reality, 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧. Value, by definition, 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 come from a beholder who wants something, and sees a means to achieve their desires in the thing they're beholding. Gold's apparent scarcity, durability, beauty and other attributes led to it being valued by anyone who wanted their money to not be easily debased or destroyed, and wanted it to look nice, too.

Gold's beauty may be one of its only advantages over Bitcoin's invisibility (though that invisibility is often an advantage over gold's confiscatability). Bitcoin's many attributes include being:
- 𝗮𝗯𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗲 (unlike gold, which exists in unknown quantities on Earth, practically infinite quantities throughout the universe, and increases in supply when it increases in price)
- 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 (Bitcoin is made of information, so every additional copy of its code make it more durable)
- 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 (infinitely divisible, if needed, unlike gold, which is very difficult to divide, and can only be divided down to the atomic level)
- 𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 over 𝘢𝘯𝘺 communications medium (unlike gold, which is very difficult to transport)
- 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘀 (unlike gold, which often has minor impurities)
- easily 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 and 𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 (unlike gold, which has often been faked and is difficult to verify)
- as 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲 and 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 as writing down or memorizing 12 words (unlike gold, which is difficult to store and easy to confiscate)
- 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 (as good as Bitcoin's qualities are today, it will always be improvable, unlike gold, which will forever be merely a metal with an atomic number of 79)

𝗔𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻, and see why it's superior to all other forms of money, including gold. 𝘠𝘰𝘶 may see more value in a substance that has an 𝘶𝘯𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 and 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦 supply, that 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺 when it rises in price, that is 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵, that is often 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, that is 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 and 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘺, and that is difficult to store and 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦.

If so, then you will value gold more than bitcoin, and that is your right. But 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱, for the tangible advantages it brings to the ways they save and exchange the fruits of their labors. But like the Chinese who, over a century ago, valued silver more than gold, and were left behind by a world that valued gold more than silver, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗳𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱 or anything else that can be used as money.

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Clover integrated strike payments?


Junk is the trunk that makes the bunk go crunk.


Nostr taught me how the internet could be a place of inspiration and community instead of a distopia captured by big tech.


There's a little thing at the top that let's you choose which feed you want. You're saying it only shows those 3? That's odd


Its my zap wallet sadly 😥


Vast majority of individuals have become so soft they cant handle seeing something they dont like.

Instead of taking personal responsibility for their own feelings and what to do about it they want to point a finger at someone else and blame someone else for how they feel. Sad state of affairs human interactions have fallen to.


Welcome to the wide wild world of uncensored content. Take responsibility for yourself and what you see. Become Ungovernable


So you mean gay men? The world is so backwards


Not really, guess i dont have many friends to speak of anyhow.


God damn it you guys are really trying to bankrupt me with these cards


There should be a bitcoin fud debunking PDF.


Trying to drop the hints on reddit when i get the chance https://image.nostr.build/05a19356575211ea91cd2d4eef7ed578f40d78f88cad7a663e57a2018e2ce040.jpg


Waves for days


GM Nostr community! 🤘
There is a new fun job opportunity for a social media manager: Super part-time, super flexible. Must know dead-bird app (Twitter/X) and bonus points for knowing a purple-bird app (💜)
Must have some experience in social media, but not like super senior, so this is ideal for a career-starter who wants to get into the industry.
Spanish language desirable but won’t be a deal breaker if you no puedo hablar.
There is a possibility of going full- time eventually.
Shoot me a dm if that’s who you are or know the right person! And please share this note! 🫶

#bitcoinjobs #jobstr #bitcointalent


𝗠𝗬 𝗩𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻

As you can see from my note below, this account is now under new mangement. I am the real Satoshi Nakamoto, so I know EXACTLY how it was always intended to work.

https://m.primal.net/HqOj.png

BSV is the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 Bitcoin because it adheres to my original vision for Bitcoin, the one laid down in the whitepaper that I defintely wrote. BTC is deviated, bastardized by developers who couldn't read a whitepaper if it slapped them in the face.

These pretenders, the BTC crowd, have strangled Bitcoin’s scalability with their fee market nonsense. "Store of value"? Bullshit. Bitcoin was meant to be ELECTRONIC CASH, not digital gold for hoarders. BSV’s unbounded block size is the key to global adoption, not some “LiGhTiNg NeTwOrK” fantasy.

And let’s talk about utility. BSV isn't just a cryptocurrency; it’s a blockchain platform with REAL utility. Smart contracts, tokens, big data — you name it, BSV can handle it. While BTC struggles with its identitity crisis, BSV is busy being the blockchain of 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴.

The critics love to throw around words like "sCaM" and "fRaUd" like candies at a parade. They don’t undrstand true genius when they see it. I’ve been in court, I’ve shown the evidence. Only idiot keyboard warriors with too much time on their hands can deny what’s right before their damn eyes! 👀

This is why BSV is the ONLY Bitcoin that remains true to my original vision. It's the ONLY blockchain that can scale, that has utility beyond just speculative trading. And those who disagree simply lack the intelectual capacity to grasp the brilliance of my vision, BSV.

https://m.primal.net/HqOl.png

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𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁:
https://m.primal.net/HqNj.mp4


#FreeSoftware vs Propietary.

https://m.primal.net/HqEN.png


What examples do we have in society today in regards to anarchism?
we dive into Edwards succinct summarization of articles and reads that are invaluable to learning more
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/axiomsofliberty/episodes/Anarchy-and-the-Law-by-Edward-P--Stringham-e2hppse


Getting this episode done for yall on this fine Easter Sunday https://image.nostr.build/d8690349de6a7d6dd526eda924125f0a4359cdb9f8067f51cc3bb94051c76647.jpg


# A Declaration of Separation

## To The Governments & People of Earth:

We claim the right to exist, and we will defend it. We do not seek to overthrow anything. We do not seek to control anything. We/merely wish to be left alone.

All we ever wanted was to live in peace with our friends and neighbors. For a long, long time we bore insults to our liberty; we took blows, we did what we could to avoid injury and we worked through the system to get the offenses to stop. That has now changed.

We no longer see any benefit in working through the world?s systems. At some point, working within a system becomes cowardly and immoral; for us, that point has arrived.

Regardless of the parties in power, their governments have continued to restrict, restrain and punish us. We hereby reject them all. We hereby withdraw from them all. We hold the ruling states of this world and all that appertains to them to be self-serving and opposed to humanity. We now withdraw our obedience and reclaim the right to strike back when struck. We will not initiate force, but we do reserve the right to answer it. We did not choose this ? it was forced upon us.

## To The Governments of Earth:

You are building cages for all that is human. In the name of protection, you have intruded into all areas of human life, far exceeding the reach of any Caesar. You claim ultimate control of our property and our decisions, of our travels and even our identities. You claim ownership of humanity far beyond the dreams of any Emperor of any previous era.

Understand clearly: We reject your authority and we reject your legitimacy. We do not believe that you have any right to do the things you do. You have massive power, but no right to impose it upon us and no legitimacy. We have forsaken you. We are no longer your citizens or your subjects. Your systems are inherently anti-human, even if all their operators are not. We are not merely angry young people. We are fathers and mothers; aunts, uncles and grandparents; we are business owners and trusted employees; we are mechanics and engineers and farmers. We are nurses and accountants and students and executives.

We are on every continent.

This is not a burst of outrage; this is a sober declaration that we no longer accept unearned suffering as our role in life.

For long decades we sat quietly, hoping that things would turn around. We took no actions; we suffered along with everyone else. But after having our limits pushed back again and again, we have given up on your systems. If our fellow inhabitants of this planet wish to accept your rule, they are free to do so.

We will not try to stop them. We, however, will no longer accept your constraints upon us.

From now on, when you hurt us, we will bite back. If you leave us alone we will leave you alone and you can continue to rule your subjects. We are happy to live quietly. But if you come after us, there will be consequences. You caused this because of your fetish for control and power. The chief men and women among you are pathologically driven to control everyone and everything that moves upon this planet. You have made yourselves the judge of every human activity. No god-king of the ancient world ever had the power that your systems do.

You have created a world where only the neutered are safe and where only outlaws are free.

## To The People of Earth:

We seek nothing from you. We do not want to rule you and we do not want to control you.

All we wish is to live on earth in peace. As always, we will be helpful neighbors and generous acquaintances. We will remain honest business partners and trustworthy employees. We will continue to be loving parents and respectful children.

We will not, however, be sacrificial animals. We reject the idea that others have a right to our lives and our property. We will not demand anything from you, and we will no longer acquiesce to any demands upon us. We have left that game. We reject all obligations to any person or organization beyond honesty, fair dealing and a respect for human life.

We will shortly explain what we believe, but we are not demanding that you agree with us. All we ask is that you do not try to stop us. Continue to play the game if you wish; we will not try to disrupt it. We have merely walked away from it.

We wish you peace.

## To Those Who Will Condemn Us:

We will ignore you.

We welcome and seek the verdict of a just God, before whom we are willing to expose our innermost thoughts. Are you similarly willing? We would stand openly before all mankind if it were not suicidal. Perhaps some day we will have to accept slaughter for our crime of independence, but not yet.

Your criticism and your malice are much deeper than mere disagreements of strategy or philosophy. You do not oppose our philosophy, you oppose our existence. Our presence in the world means that your precious ideals are false. Some of you would rather kill us than face the loss of your ideologies, just as those like you have either hated or killed every sufficiently independent human.

You present yourselves to the world as compassionate, tolerant and enlightened, but we know that your smooth words are costumes. Oh yes, we know you, servant of the state; don't forget, we were raised with you. We played with you in the schoolyard, we sat next to you in the classroom. Some of us studied at the same elite universities. We watched as you had your first tastes of power. We were the boys and girls standing next to you. Some of us were your first victims. We are not fooled by your carefully crafted public image.

## What We Believe

1: Many humans resent the responsibilities that are implied by consciousness. We accept those responsibilities and we embrace consciousness. Rather than letting things happen to us (avoiding consciousness), we accept consciousness and choose to act in our own interest. We do not seek the refuge of blaming others, neither do we take refuge in crowds. We are willing to act on our personal judgment, and we are willing to accept the consequences thereof.

2: We believe in negative rights for all: That all humans should be free to do whatever they wish, as long as they do not intrude upon others; that no man has a right to the life, liberty or property of another; that we oppose aggression, fraud and coercion.

3: We do not believe that our way of life, or any other, will make life perfect or trouble-free. We expect crime and disagreements and ugliness, and we are prepared to deal with them. We do not seek a strongman to step in and solve problems for us. We agree to see to them ourselves.

4: We believe in free and unhindered commerce. So long as exchanges are voluntary and honest, no other party has a right to intervene before, during or after.

5: We believe that all individuals should keep their agreements.

6: We believe that honestly obtained property is fully legitimate and absolute.

7: We believe that some humans are evil and that they must be faced and dealt with. We accept the fact that this is a difficult area of life.

8: We believe that humans can self-organize effectively. We expect them to cooperate. We reject impositions of hierarchy and organization.

9: We believe that all humans are to be held as equals in all matters regarding justice.

10: We believe that the more a man or woman cares about right and wrong, the more of a threat he or she is perceived to be by governments.

11: We believe that there are only two true classes of human beings: Those who wish to exercise power upon others either directly or through intermediaries and those who have no such desires.

12: Large organizations and centralization are inherently anti-human. They must rely upon rules rather than principles, treating humans within the organization as obedient tools.

## Our Plans:

(We are building our own society. We will supplement traditional tools with networking, cryptography, sound money, digital currency and anonymous messaging. Our society will not be centrally controlled. It will rely solely
on voluntary arrangements.

We welcome others to join us. We are looking for people who are independent creators of value, people who act more than talk, and people who do the right thing because it is the right thing.

We will develop our own methods of dealing with injustice, built on the principles of negative rights, restitution, integrity and equal justice. We do not forbid anyone from having one foot in each realm - ours and the old realm - although we demand that they do no damage to our realm. We are fully opposed to any use of our realm to facilitate crime in the old realm, such as the hiding of criminal proceeds.

We expect to be loudly condemned, libeled and slandered by the authorities of the old regime. We expect them to defend their power and their image of legitimacy with all means available to them. We expect that many gullible and servile people will believe these lies, at least at first. We will consider traps laid for us to be criminal offenses. Any who wish to join us are encouraged to distribute this declaration, to act in furtherance of our new society, to voluntarily excel in virtues and to communicate and cooperate with other members of the new society.

Free, unashamed men cannot be ruled.

# We are The Free and The Unashamed.


I find that a vast portion of my knowledge i have gained, was aquired by looking up something & finding something different along the way.
-Franklin P. Adams


This one would’ve probably get you banned from Reddit. https://image.nostr.build/9fe4573b21e9f90b43d62377929df8821fc668264afa3ce090ff4f4900626d7a.jpg  nostr:note1htrejqw2f0rrlvl0xsrjzfjwqafljrfcvtjjdh3pnatgxuk4v5gs66xmmm


A good way to judge people is by observing how they treat others that can do them absolutely no good

-anon


Hello world! First post on Nostr #introductions


Welcome


It's been exactly one year since I started Nostr!🍌🎉
Thanks guys!
#nostr #plebchain https://image.nostr.build/ba0b09731d2bb479f0c4b92a430f0a84969ce99eab0f6764769e15c22237d0ca.jpg


Years of tweets proof of shitcoiners and their horrible takes sacrificed at the altar of elon.


So many homes. Look at how they built them.  You can tell that they built them with competitive features in mind. Also built with the long lasting nature of many rooms to accommodate a growing family to be passed down generations. This long term thinking will bring its way back eventually.


I'm pretty sure I've seen nostr:npub1gu47n7fxfm4py48jktmu6tdqcvva4e87fntynuzzf62zxnw2e7tsc6907g wearing a shirt with this on it. The shirt is out there too be purchased


Feliz vernes chula.


"Excuse my bias that bluesky uses the protocol i invented"

Incentives,  Incentives all the way down.


Lol, grinding.

#zapathon #FFVII
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Yeah listened to it last night. Was a good episode


#bitcoin only freak. Ada is dead


Sounds like someone's 🧂 scale is off the charts


Yeah loads of ladies out here just like you say about the men where you live 😆


I attached the newest and last single on the end of that note.


You've obviously never been to California


Biden is considering to cap rent prices. Price control is usually one of the last actions before hyperinflation. We’re seeing the US Empire falling in real time. What a time to be alive.


Some of us get crucified for the truth we are spreading.
Don't back off one inch friends.
You are the 3% of future Sovereign Individuals.
We can go crazy trying to save the world but some people just don't want to be reached.
It's sad and tragic but it is the price to be paid when paradigms of this magnitude shift.
Takes a special kind of wired brain to process it.
Mix of humanitarian, libertarian, radical, loving the abstract and unknown, a bit of a hacker attitude, in love with logic and reason, not attached to physical possessions...we are DIFFERENT.

#nostr #sovereignindividual #cyberage #revolution #art
https://m.primal.net/HoJp.jpg


Equally as goes for women with their dads.


Yes the last one,  hence my note about the end of the era. Sad to see it happen. All things good come to an end.


Did you not scroll to the end of my post?


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😂💀 https://i.nostr.build/2RkK9.jpg  nostr:note15fwxd45zwssy0gffd9r3d6a477v37k2jqcmy7cj20rg8dkk005kshqcwnm


With all the notes posted today about guitarists, I'd like to offer this duo. I've seen them live and they are amazing.
CC nostr:npub1zt8u9mz68x3e6qhey8mhuuqahst4kc587gka7qj84uuhq6t878vsn7yx9r nostr:npub1lxktpvp5cnq3wl5ctu2x88e30mc0ahh8v47qvzc5dmneqqjrzlkqpm5xlc nostr:npub1lnms53w04qt742qnhxag5d6awy7nz6055flnmjkr6jg39hm86dlq7arrnt

Rodrigo y Gabriela

https://youtu.be/PT9hvyDvKHA


Amazing. Marachi guitarist are so skilled. 🔥


The end of an era. SUM41s last ever single released. 27 years of music ended.

Sum41 was one of the few first rock bands i ever got into growing up. Very influential in my taste for what composition made a great song. Prolly why I enjoy both screaming and singing in songs more than any other genres. My teenage years were formed by the lyrics of many of these tracks on Does This Look Infected? Then they followed up with CHUCK.

I've only ever gotten to see them live one time. Glad i did. Derek and Co.  May you ever find success in whatever it is you're doing with your lives now. Your music has helped me and shaped my life,  I'm sure there are thousands of others who'd agree. Here's to getting older.

Far in, ohhhh. Wait, we singing?
Take everything left from me!
All! To! Blame!

[Verse 1]
How can we still succeed taking what we don't need?
Telling lies, alibis, selling all the hate that we breed
Super-size our tragedies (you can't define me, or justify greed)
Bought in the land of the free (land, free)
[Chorus]
And we're all to blame
We've gone too far, from pride to shame
We're trying so hard, we're dying in vain
We're hopelessly blissful and blind to all we are

[Post-Chorus]
We want it all with no sacrifice!

[Verse 2]
Realize we spend our lives living in a culture of fear
Stand to salute, say thanks to the man of the year
How did we all come to this? (you can't define me, or justify greed)
A greed that we just can't resist (resist)

[Chorus]
And we're all to blame
We've gone too far, from pride to shame
We're trying so hard, we're dying in vain
We're hopelessly blissful and blind to all we are

[Post-Chorus]
We want it all, everyone wants it all, with no sacrifice!

[Bridge]
Tell me now, what have we done
We don't know, I can't allow
What has begun to tear me down, believe me now
We have no choice left with our backs against the wall!
[Chorus]
And now we're all to blame
We've gone too far from pride to shame
We're hopelessly blissful and blind, when all we need
Is something true to believe

[Post-Chorus]
Don't we all, everyone
Everyone, we will fall

[Outro]
Because we're all to blame
We've gone too far, from pride to shame
We're trying so hard, we're dying in vain
We want it all, everyone, don't we all...

https://youtu.be/yYk2BTwuQnM?si=4rSzEzxaj1FreTVZ


REALITY CHECK: I had the opportunity to meet some big creators the last days.

Been trying to nostrpill all of them.
There is an interest in having the community non ruggable.. but they don’t really worry about decentralization or being censored. Also they don’t care about zapping…

USABILITY and UX is THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR FOR THEM!

I got some interest from the interoperability of different apps on the protocol - but it’s still hard to understand for them.

For most people #nostr doesn’t solve a problem yet. Which is fine.. I think it’s just an important reality check and it makes you realize how early everything on nostr is right now. Most here did their POW - and if you read this you’re an #nostrOG

I just realized how fkn exciting it is to be part of a new technology emerging. We all see the work we need to do but also have the grand vision - which no one knows how it’s going to play out.

THE WORLD NEEDS NOSTR IT JUST DOESNT REALIZE IT YET


Here I did it for you
https://m.primal.net/HpWS.mp4


Great video Just couldn't upload it here

https://twitter.com/ToxiKat27/status/1773705058783474105


Gm nostr:npub1zt8u9mz68x3e6qhey8mhuuqahst4kc587gka7qj84uuhq6t878vsn7yx9r

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Gm nostr, may all your weekends be a killer one! Spend all of it with family


if anyone in st. louis or near st. louis need bitcoin mining help from an hvac contractor, please hit me up.

my dad has worked with bitcoin miners before, and has been doing hvac since 1980 and would love to help.


Merkle Tree or UASF General nostr:note1ly9qphv4h59af5yp0wmhe00xz4xsp9dsx4kzuwqkw8es5ew0gzgsn5a7pg


I'm def digging the trade-offs with minibits.


Oynx STAPH being cute.


Hell yeah,  let's do it together!


Pay attention ladies,  many a such men out there.

DON'T GET  BEARDFISHED!


Welcome to the next level of human interaction


Its been real,  it's been fun freaks. Its been real fun. Time to turn in for the day. SHSS.


Only the monero shills are on nostr


No cool kids here


How else are we supposed to put ourselves to sleep but to be updates


Forward privacy is reserved for the snooze fest thats bitcoin.review


Could've fooled me sleepy


You put it in the box 📦 😏  and you like it in the outbox


Pink box froze steam


Sleepy is an iPhone cuck?


Be careful what you ask to be put in your inbox


OnlyClips is busted lol


Exposed


Global is wild,  i enjoy finding randoms on global


Yup fr odell


I mean NVK


Hello late


I just follow everyone 😆


Never have i ever used blastr


Nostr relays are the microcosm of the free market in play


Greatest bull market hasn't started yet O'Dell


From Phoenix


My zaps say no inbound liquidity


Stacktoshi


I see your pfp now


Ah you figured it out!


Lowly npub are you using zap.stream?


Long live the shit postin


Fiat is the less spicy talker


Most of the wild stuff i see comes from the Japanese nostrisches


Bod napkin maths


MUH UTILITY


Im not entirely that worried about it sleepy, it's just shit posting i do here, just nice to be able to post THE REAL SPICY memes here without worry of banning


Lot of my notes went poof that are old. Oh well.


Whys that sleepy


Nope i still pay a couple


On


Derek is being a small relayooorr and hates in blastr NOW?


EPIC RUG


FUCKING RUGGED


Serious.. best thing i ever did.


Fiatjaf is black and white,  let that spicy pablo color this shit up


I have similar issues with those whom i KNOW i follow unable to tag them in posts unless i pull the FULL npub. Rarely see their posts either


Would be nice


Amethyst king of Android


The Orange Sun has regular features of Africans on the ground at least once a week.

The Orange Sun is a space on twitter (we tried dual casting on nests/cornychat but would hardly ever have anyone join here.
Its the first daily bitcoin morning news show recap Monday-Friday 8am-10am South African time.


Regarding the bridge incident, we will never know the truth and pointing out inconsistencies or this or that solves nothing. It is a time sink and They know it so dont waste precious time on the latest distraction. Its times like this when some grimey ass shit gets done while people are bickering over numerology. Stay focused...


YOLOD it all in with only about 5 months of education into bitcoin. Good thing Guy swann was there to guide me through the longest bear markets that tested my conviction the highest.  Never looking back. Stacked for 3 ½ years, it's just about time to start dancing. 🕺


GM. 💜 Nostr fixes this.  #Nostr #Plebchain #Grownostr 🔮
https://v.nostr.build/eZgyx.mp4


Did that already sir in the summer of '21. Fuck the banks.


Heat without covering up food flavor


Welcome


First post here! I am hoping to find a community I can learn and grow with!

#introductions


Nostr search does lack but its worth the trouble to find the rich content


All the damn time at work. Facing the shelves I'll hit something with my elbow or something and like a fucking ninja catch it before it hits the floor.


Manifest it onyx


But boat fuel can’t melt steel beams.