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2025-02-24 13:28:44

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2 years ago, BTC was only about $24K... whatever impact ETFs, MSTR, etc have on price, it sure seems like 4x in 2 years might easily cover it. i.e. I think most of the price action in general is speculative noise that drowns out any real signal that can be gleaned. If you told me back then that you predict ETFs and MSTR would force the price up to about $50k in just 2 years, I would have been like, "yeah, sure, that sounds about right."

2025-02-07 15:04:30

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... perhaps. But, it sure seems like the 'complexity' of changing one simple wallet setting from Mainnet to Testnet is worth it for the attractiveness of risk free learning... not to mention not having to learn how to make use of an exchange first.
I'm not trying to argue. Really. You obviously get the orange-pilling results you're looking for.

2025-01-24 19:13:24

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Is it paying off, though? Despite BTC hitting a new ATH this week, and a steadily growing BTC per MSTR as planned, MSTR has been down more than 20% from its ATH for months now.

2025-01-01 15:31:04

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I was just thinking I haven't heard much shilling for MSTR lately. 🤔 (*checks price*)... O, it closed yesterday (i.e. 2024) about where it was back when BTC broke 80K. That's gotta be disappointing given the significantly higher BTC price combined with the increase in BTC per share since then. I sure hope BTC starts pumping soon to get the MSTR hype train going again. (actually, I'm kinda hoping for a 58K BTC sale again).

2024-12-30 00:11:12

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yeah, I don't really know how any of this works; but @npub1wyu…87ez is my main driver perhaps for no other reason than the others seem to occasionally skip content I feel like I should be able to expect to see.

2024-12-24 14:08:24

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It's okay to consider advice; but do the work yourself to learn why the advice is either good or bad.
Hopefully, you wouldn't just uncritically act according someone else's advice that you need to buy a new car... especially when that advice is coming from a car salesman.

2024-12-23 10:56:18

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It seems to me the conventional wisdom is that Bitcoiners trend younger than average, and that Nostr (so far) are by far disproportionately a subset of Bitcoiners. However, it would make sense to me that that subset is disproportionately those of us who have been hungry for the cypherpunk movement to finally take off and go mainstream since like the 90s. (i.e. we're old).

2024-12-22 21:05:01

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https://image.nostr.build/268386cc4698e8a0fff2a1bc0af174587bab6f09d89fb6a572055b2f6cce449f.gif

2024-12-22 20:31:43

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Anyone should be able to learn. To me, the key is to start small enough that it doesn't even make sense to get a hardware wallet at first. Just play around with like $20-$100 worth self-custodied on a phone app. Practice sending corn to yourself and/or back and forth with a friend. Practice wiping the app from your phone then recovering everything with your seed phrase. If you fuck up, you did it before you even had a devastating amount to lose. None of this is all that difficult. Once you feel comfortable, you will have developed a pretty good tool-set for now knowing when it makes sense to switch to a hardware wallet - or maybe you will conclude that 3rd-party custody is what would work best for you... the point is to put yourself in a position to make an educated decision regarding your personal situation rather than just blindly going with someone else's recommendation. If you're not willing to put forth even this minimal effort, you should probably just stick to ETFs if you want any exposure to Bitcoin at all.

2024-12-22 15:13:47

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Howie sounds like he's in a cult. It's one thing to not remember hearing someone say something. It's quite another to vehemently insist that the absence of such a memory necessarily indicates it wasn't said. The end result is a blatant attempt at gas-lighting on behalf of his cult whether he actually remembers hearing it or not.

2024-12-22 14:55:25

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I have no idea if this is the specific clip referred to; but, it's a pretty good one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTlxpxdH3Yk
To be reasonably fair to Fauci, he does seem to make it a point to stop just short of claiming 100% effective - in fact, he specifically mentions 95% - but regardless, he repeatedly asserts that if you are vaccinated, you shouldn't worry about getting infected (i.e. you may as well assume 100% effective)... this was over 2 years ago, though; and, I haven't heard anyone making such a ridiculous assertion anytime recently.

2024-12-22 13:03:38

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Yeah, now, that's more like it. Thanks!

2024-12-20 15:03:54

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Yeah, certainly could be... Could also be that Bukele calculated a positive misperception that he's defying the IMF on account of a purposefully vague tweet.

2024-12-20 14:18:07

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They may very well have bought it. My point is that the use of "transferred" make it not clear either way. I must have skimmed through a dozen articles so far that report it as a 'buy' but they all seem to originate from the same "transferred" source tweet that you and I are referring to, with no indication that they have any further information than what you and I have. I'm not saying I necessarily think one way or the other... it just strikes me as odd as worded, and I'm happy to wait for explicit confirmation.
BTW, I think they MUST be holding Bitcoin elsewhere. They have made it transparent some time back that they would purchase 1 BTC every day, and the address they have made public reflects almost EXACTLY 1 BTC every day. They supposedly have additional BTC revenue however: perhaps most notably, from mining. When they first established their transparent BTC address, they announced a bunch of the initial balance was from mining BTC... clearly they MUST have been able to mine some more since then. If their transparent public address is only showing the 1 BTC daily purchase, then they MUST be keeping the mined BTC somewhere else. (BTW, I'm conceding that maybe no one is dumb enough to pay their taxes in BTC, but that would be another potential BTC revenue steam that isn't being added to their transparent public address).
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-mined-nearly-474-bitcoins-adding-state-crypto-holding-last-three-2024-05-14/

2024-12-07 14:20:05

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Up until now, I haven't cared much one way or the other with regard to inscriptions - I know almost nothing about how they work. Not being able to sync a node in 10 years would be a good reason to start caring, though.
What is it about inscriptions that take so much time to sync. I think I know enough to know it's not purely due to the size of the data: the last 2 years combined account for less than 30% of the total blockchain. (roughly 15% for each of the last 2 years). So, what is it about processing inscriptions that turns 15% of the data into taking 50% of the total time to process?
PS. I'm not sure what terabytes of data you are referring to... all the sources I can find suggest the total blockchain size is still more like 620 GB. Perhaps this suggests why I'm misunderstanding something.

2024-12-05 11:37:13

So, I guess this is the time of year they roll back their clocks in Moscow?

2024-12-04 21:15:34

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Um. Yeah, that's it Mr. Fed Chair, sir... no competitor for the dollar here.
https://image.nostr.build/ff2d65b0c0b02f23e636ebd566bf79c34e435a18fc1af3cccb813231d9e9f458.gif

2024-12-04 11:20:44

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... in 2024 dollars, of course. Much more by the time we get there (unless doing so obsoletes the dollar altogether).

2024-12-02 15:31:24

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Wow! This is quite an amazing compilation. So many 'news' presenters uncritically accepting what a politician will do or not do based purely on what "he said...". Either they have never met a politician before; or, they really just saw themselves as nothing more than Biden's public relations department. 🤔

2024-12-02 13:38:33

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"Experts on pardons said they could think of only one other person who has received a presidential pardon so sweeping in generations: Nixon, who was given a blanket pardon by Gerald Ford in 1974."
Even then, Ford pardoned Nixon for a specific time period that had ended a full month before he issued the pardon - unlike Joe's pardon of Hunter which extended all the way up to and including yesterday for some reason.

2024-11-24 15:17:46

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This. Also, the difference between NVIDIA and MSTR is that there's potential for NVIDIA to continue to produce new and innovative things. MSTR's value proposition IS the mania flywheel... until the mania ends.

2024-11-23 13:31:31

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BTC itself is mostly a speculative gamble. Though, I believe there is an adoption 'floor' that, given enough time, will eventually catch up and bail out any mistimed speculation (at least, for the foreseeable future) - which supports the strategy to ignore speculation and just stack sats regardless. I see MSTR as this BTC speculative gamble on steroids.
Eventually, BTC adoption will reach its potential (whatever that happens to be). The biggest question for me regarding MSTR is will there necessarily be enough time for the BTC adpotion floor to be able to bail out a mistimed speculation on steroids? i.e. a purchase of 100K BTC today could take years to recover from a very possible (if not on brand) BTC drop to 50K in the near future... a purchase of MSTR today could take 3x or 4x or even longer to recover (if ever).
https://image.nostr.build/c93c6a2222e061f531b3124fc2d7057f6c5a94851d908c12634892a761f90483.png

2024-11-23 12:52:28

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Really? That's awesome. Is this client-specific? In @npub1wyu…87ez for example, I can't even figure out how to mute anything other than another npub.

2024-11-23 12:45:51

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purist with 1 caveat: does it count as content from another network if it's a screenshot posted on nostr for the purposes of mocking the other network? I do enjoy those.

2024-11-23 12:21:53

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i.e. I'd prefer to be able to just pay for each search with cashu tokens directly.

2024-11-23 12:13:36

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athenut.com looks like a really cool idea. I'd prefer not to have to keep track of a separate token in another browser wallet with yet another 12-seed phrase, though. I guess I could just 'top up' 1 search token at a time; but, that kinda seems like a hassle, too, that shouldn't really be necessary.
just my 2 cents.

2024-11-20 11:03:20

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If I understand this correctly (and I may very well not), the U.S. gold reserves are priced at about $40/ounce for accounting purposes - a holdover from the old gold standard days. I believe Lummis' proposal is to sell gold IOUs to the Federal Reserve for dollars at the market rate (currently about $2600/ounce). That way, the gold doesn't actually move anywhere, the Federal Reserve balance sheet stays balanced, and the government suddenly has a huge stockpile of USD they can spend on Bitcoin.

2024-11-19 20:58:14

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Wait... is this him finally acknowledging that BTC will never go to zero.

2024-11-19 12:24:41

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Yeah, probably just Coinbase IOUs.

2024-11-19 11:33:17

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Love my UPS so much I almost enjoy short power outages 😬. One time, though, the outage was so widespread that it must have knocked out the power to my ISP's relay station or whatever, as well. So, all I could do was sit and stew about how fragile my ISP's infrastructure is 😡.

2024-11-18 16:19:21

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As I understand it: the simplified version of why you would pay a premium for MSTR compared to the underlying BTC is the expectation that the company will continue to increase the BTC per MSTR share; thus, eventually turning the initial premium you paid into a discount for the increased amount of BTC it represents.
That sounds like a great deal, but how does the company increase the BTC per MSTR share?: It issues new shares at the premium price so that it can buy even more BTC at the market price; thus increasing the BTC per share ratio. And/or the company sells convertible bonds that effectively accomplishes the same thing - just with leverage on a longer timescale.
In other words, if the flow of investors to buy new shares were ever to dry up, the later investors who hadn't yet seen their initial premium price turn into a discount price never will. This sounds like a ponzi scheme that must eventually run out of the new investors necessary to keep it going. It just happens to be a legal ponzi scheme without any apparent fraud or deception. Just make sure to go in with your eyes wide open to these realities. "Buyer beware, Freaks"

2024-11-18 11:38:56

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Is there anyone who ever bothers to audit clients to make sure they verify signed notes (I sure don't. Probably wouldn't even know how if I were inclined to)? If so, are there any popular clients that are known not to be verifying signed notes?

2024-11-08 12:23:35

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I wouldn't be ideologically opposed to an uncapped supply schedule. But, I'm not sure I get the point. I suppose replacing lost coins could help with price stability - that is, if there was a way to track how many coins are being lost. Otherwise, it seems to me that an arbitrary supply schedule would just have an equally arbitrary effect on price stability. Not to mention, there are other (likely stronger) natural forces other than lost coins that impact prices (technology, population growth, etc).
All this is to say, trying to pin down price stability seems like a fool's errand. I strongly suspect that once the price volatility of bitcoin isn't dominated by a still way early rate of increased adoption and speculation, its natural deflationary nature - even with a capped supply schedule - won't be too overwhelming to achieve reasonably stable (but yes, still slowly deflationary) prices.

2024-11-08 10:57:45

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very very very bad for whom exactly? I don't use nostr for anything personal (yet); so, protecting my privacy isn't really paramount. Other than that, is there some reason that I may not be considering why it's bad to use nostr without a VPN?

2024-11-07 02:25:40

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Despite my opposition to his politics, I used to respect Bernie for his authenticity... but he just keeps endorsing puppets of the very oligarchy that he denounces.

2024-11-07 01:09:17

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I guess trying to protect against edits, and HTML rendering, and nanny bots, and any other feature that not all clients are necessarily interested in implementing just seems like an impossible expectation to me. I would argue that experimentation at this level is more important - especially since clients are still broken in many different ways anyway.
If users think that a client sucks because it shows raw HTML instead of rendering it the way some other clients do, that sounds like how progress ultimately proliferates.
As an aside, FWIW, I'm not convinced that clients that obscure original pre-edited notes will ultimately be deemed by consensus to be the superior clients.

2024-11-06 21:30:48

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Since relays and clients are inherently free to participate or not participate in implementing the illusion of any such 'edit', isn't this all just academic?

2024-11-06 14:03:51

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Van Jones is right: The burden of proof is never on the accusers; it's always on the accused to prove the negative.
🤡 🌎

2024-11-06 11:06:40

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Absolutely. To be kind of fair to her, though, she just represented the final inauthentic move by her party to try to fake its way through this entire election process.

2024-11-04 15:08:33

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I interpret this to mean that YouTube will still host your content; and, anyone with the proper YouTube URLs can watch it, right? You just need an efficient way to promote the YouTube URLs (because, presumably, YouTube has ceased doing so on your behalf).
I would continue to use YouTube for hosting while I still can; and, focus on trying to migrate your following to Nostr. Maybe create an nPub just for promoting videos - maybe even a whole Nostr client as a gateway to YouTube URLs could be a good project for someone (similar to what @npub1v5u…n0v5 does for podcasts?). Either way, a potential audience could have easy access to your library without even necessarily having to set up a Nostr profile if they didn't want to (but could if they wanted to receive notifications, make comments, other engagement, etc).
If you can get to the point that Nostr has sufficiently supplemented your reach, then it would be much less painful to eventually abandon YouTube as your host as well (either voluntarily or otherwise).
I think I would be very hesitant to make the move to rely on another centralized alternative - just to be in the position to potentially get rugged again.

2024-11-01 09:41:21

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#note18pe…nykk

2024-10-30 17:14:23

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I'm more looking forward to "see, we told you bitcoin was worthless" after it inevitably 'crashes' back down to 80K.

2024-10-29 17:34:29

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At the very least, an edit ought to indicate that it is in fact an edit - even if the original is obscured.

2024-10-28 13:23:59

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This is true. Though, the bank reserve ratio is still much higher now than when there was a reserve requirement. Due to all the new money printing since the 2008 GFC (let alone 2020 and beyond), bank lending still has a long way to go to get the reserve ratio back down to pre-GFC levels (then, presumably, continue on to a zero ratio). In other words - believe it or not - we haven't even begun to feel the effects of a zero reserve requirement, yet.

2024-10-26 14:15:40

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Heck, even an hour or so with softballs from a milquetoast Anderson Cooper puts her on the word-salad defensive.

2024-10-25 17:19:53

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Agreed. Unless you've diligently ensured your nsec has continuously remained isolated from the Internet (which might be nobody), it's prudent to operate as if your nsec has already been compromised.

2024-10-25 16:54:18

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How safe are even signing extensions really? Would you trust an extension to guard a bitcoin key of any value, for example?... or is this in the context reasonable safety is on a spectrum?

2024-10-25 16:46:05

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Serious question: Are signing apps considered standard best practice ATM?
Frankly, as long as I'm going to be pasting my nsec into any app - even if I know it's only ever going to be pasted into that one app - I'm still not going to trust that nsec with anything important.

2024-10-25 13:11:38

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Yep... just an absurd movie. Not that it wasn't entertaining, though. I just would have enjoyed the believable premise better without all the unnecessary unbelievable nonsense thrown in.

2024-10-25 13:02:06

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Neat premise. Absurdly executed. Somehow whenever a tanker ship runs aground or a plane falls out of the sky, etc it just so happens to be in life-threatening proximity to some of the few people remaining in a sparsely populated area? Come on. Once is enough... multiple times just ruins any hope of continuing to suspend disbelief.

2024-10-23 16:58:43

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FWIW, a simple transaction of payment for sex among consenting adults legally constitutes 'sex-trafficking'. It used to not be that way. It used to be that any form of human 'trafficking' necessarily involved involuntary participation. There may indeed be real fuckers and real victims involved in this story; but I can't help but roll my eyes at the headline and think about how the contemporary abuse of the term 'trafficking' has done such a disservice to actual victims - whether in this case or elsewhere.

2024-10-22 15:34:59

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Yeah, I find market dynamics overall to be a big mystery myself. Clearly day traders know something that I don't (or at least they think they do).

2024-10-22 14:37:18

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The daily volume has consistently been in the $10s of billions (well over $30B yesterday alone). It doesn't seem particularly productive to me to try to draw such conclusions regarding price coordination from < 1% of overall trading volume. Different market participants have different buy/sell pressures. ETF investors likely skew one direction. Miners skew in another. Taken together, they still only represent a mere sliver of the overall market.

2024-10-22 13:26:59

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My guess is miners. My sense is that the industry has been particularly cutthroat since the halving in April; but that over the preceding year+, the rapid rise in value of their BTC reserves has provided them with quite the war chest to slowly sell off in order to sustain operations during a down and/or chopping sideways market... at least for a while.

2024-10-21 18:01:07

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Hmmm.. I'm not sure that relying on shared custody does much to teach self custody. Using training wheels does in fact teach balance to ride a bike.
Regardless, if I don't want people too afraid to take the first step, I'm suggesting something like a singlesig wallet app on the phone they likely already own; not purchasing at least a 2nd signing device (either for themself and/or their spouse) in addition to having to sign up for some sort of assisted custody wallet service. Remember, the premise here is that we're only talking about a mere 100k sats at first. I think most newbies on the fence about dabbling in so little would be completely turned off by any relatively significant additional investment and enrollment process just to do so.
Learning can certainly be an incremental process. That process ought to be learn singlesig; then you can learn multisig, imo.

2024-10-21 15:07:19

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I think when someone just bought their first 100k sats is the best time to teach "ultimately, you're responsible for protecting your keys". Conversely, "Don't worry. If you screw up, your spouse might be able to bail you out." seems like the beginning of forming bad habits.

2024-10-21 14:04:25

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Not really; but it depends on implementation. Most I've seen suggest that you should retain possession of 2 of the 3 keys in a 2-of-3 multisig, for example... There is no counterparty risk if a) your authorization is required to move funds; and b) you don't require anyone else's authorization to move funds.
The real risk multisig introduces is complication risk: simply more keys to keep track of.

2024-10-21 13:54:03

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Generally, I still subscribe to the Sparrow Wallet best practices. Though, I'm not married to the amount thresholds. In short, I still think a paper seed for a singlesig wallet can be perfectly appropriate depending on the situation.
https://image.nostr.build/fe0e229d1cd014578bbfe732af086d60b7b60cd9fbd368b6d1d2fb6e03d37296.png
https://sparrowwallet.com/docs/best-practices.html#summary

2024-10-21 13:30:31

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Ultimately, I think I tend to agree with your conclusion. However, i don't think gotcha videos are representative of most people. What you have seen are a subset of the most entertaining responses - curated from a total set already skewed in the direction of an intellect that would even consider participating in such videos.

2024-10-21 09:48:54

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https://image.nostr.build/8f690e9150483be374f626b8ddc2883fd4614572b8c3dbff1fd38c11d9f8bc36.jpg

2024-10-20 23:10:33

#BTC #Bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/3593d9129d2f5eed9808fcf07267310d9803285cf84475cacfd37516a7df04b1.mp4

2024-10-19 15:32:28

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As if screen-shots aren't a thing? Perhaps the suggestion that this is at all effective speaks to the intellect of the modal #BlueSky user.

2024-10-19 15:11:29

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Morons. They didn't appear to be wearing gloves... I think I'd consider covering the pole with some kind of permanent dye for the next time... or maybe cover the flag in different colored dyes camouflaged by the colors on the flag.

2024-10-18 10:16:09

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It occurs to me that the vast majority probably aren't so quick to switch browsers. They may just be less inclined to visit sites that bombard them with ads so much. It would be interesting if this resulted in a significant decrease in traffic to those sites... or maybe the vast majority just aren't using ad blockers in the first place? 🤷

2024-10-18 09:53:00

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... Are you not entertained ?!

2024-10-17 21:49:40

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Without a credible threat of losing you, employers will almost always try to keep you complacent with a token carrot. Remember that a fair price for your labor is determined by the market; not just your current employer. It's good practice to assess your alternatives from time to time even if just to keep yourself informed on that price.

2024-10-17 16:32:04

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As I understand it, this is due to X no longer blocking a user's posts from accounts that user has blocked. So, I guess this is something Bluesky does? Is obscuring nostr events from npubs that have been muted even feasible; let alone really desired?

2024-10-17 11:36:16

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Good question. Ideally, consumer demand should have organically prompted change long ago; but I think consumers as a whole have become too apathetic. I chalk it up to Deranged Fiat Mind syndrome.

2024-10-16 16:07:13

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so, date/time stamps are just inherently unreliable... that hadn't occurred to me, but it makes sense... good tip!

2024-10-16 14:20:10

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I think it all boils down to the well-intended but naive socialist impulse that it would be an inherently good thing for a society to enforce material 'equality'... they just don't seem to see the word 'force' is hidden right there in plain sight.

2024-10-16 11:19:54

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Furthermore, if you can't inspect the code, even being able to change the server would be no assurance of privacy, either.

2024-10-16 10:57:35

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Amen! I particularly like that you didn't demonize the word 'censorship'. It is simply a reality that some content will get censored by some relays; and, frankly, this is a good thing.
There seems to be a lot of energy wasted trying to claim that this isn't 'censorship'. I think this is a mistake. It provides a false point of contention. I believe it would be more productive to simply embrace the fact that individual relays will conduct 'censorship' within their own individual jurisdictions as it were - but as you correctly point out, this does not present a censorship problem for the network as a whole.

2024-10-15 10:47:16

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CORRECTION: Upon some deeper diving, it seems the trust fund is in fact designed to be 'backed' by treasuries (this was my mistake; not @npub1ath…4k6d'); so, if I understand it correctly now, the ~$2.8T is already reflected in the total debt.

2024-10-15 10:19:25

This is a really good explainer by @npub1ath…4k6d on the U.S. social security trust fund.
The trust fund only exists as an accounting fiction. That is, there are no assets backing it up. Put another way, it could have been designed to be backed by treasury bonds, for example, but the issuance of those additional treasuries (i.e. government liabilities) would consequently just push the national debt higher by the same amount (currently about $2.8T). Regardless, everyone - even the government - expects it to be in the negative in about 10 years, so there won't even be any fictional assets anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEmsH1VIuQ

2024-10-15 09:32:28

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I doubt my search has been exhaustive, but @npub1wyu…87ez has been my main driver lately.

2024-10-13 15:05:07

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Nearly 50 years ago, the hype was well deserved compared to the state of the art movie making at the time. It continues to amaze me how many CGI movies are still being created that look way more fake than a bunch of stop-action models from a half-century ago. But, I can agree, the story-telling was merely good at best.

2024-10-12 23:50:12

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I can't argue, though personally I would flip Empire and A New Hope. Also, everything that happened after Jar Jar's first appearance is dead to me, so my list is only a list of 3.

2024-10-12 17:12:36

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Yeah, I'm not sure I remember anyone ever directly threatening him physically. I don't know what the context is vis-a-vis any assessment made by this other guy's video that you posted. I was just responding to what you said you were curious to see.

2024-10-12 16:38:15

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This might be the most succinct account (~7 min.) of the incident(s). If you're interested, there are much more detailed accounts that came out later that dive much deeper - but require much more of a time commitment to view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cMYfxOFBBM

2024-10-12 13:39:06

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Full Disclosure: I consume an awful lot of content by both Bret and Eric. I generally respect their opinions as a default position. So, I absolutely acknowledge my bias. However, I am eager to hear views that challenge my prior assumptions - even from someone who I'd never heard of before.
That being said, when that someone can't even make it 12 seconds without such an obvious misrepresentation as "self-appointed leaders of the intellectual dark web", they've lost the benefit of the doubt necessary to retain my attention any further.

2024-10-11 10:16:16

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https://image.nostr.build/fa616e7ebf5538e00bcd441a19bb10d65491c024e92be951f9a03c3371a65861.gif

2024-10-11 09:56:55

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I suppose apps would then have to choose for themselves whether to support private DMs or remain in the app stores. Ultimately, there will always be clients that offer features that the authorities don't like.

2024-10-10 21:19:44

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U.S. Elections Importance Chart:
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2024-10-10 20:39:43

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What's Bitcoin?

2024-10-10 15:16:50

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which seems ironic since price gouging can only actually exist where free-market competition has been prohibited - like when the government grants utility companies exclusive access to serve your home.

2024-10-10 10:00:52

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So, you're out in the rain with a bunch of electrical equipment to produce a report that you could easily shoot from a dry vantage point - and you choose to mock someone else who just wants to get a little exercise as 'Florida Man'. 🤷‍♂️

2024-10-10 09:37:50

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#nevent1q…2lre

2024-10-09 13:11:45

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I loved how he implied this must have been Peter accidentally revealing himself while clarifying his own earlier satoshi post. I read it more as just the pedantic response of a smart-ass.

2024-10-09 11:27:28

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I think Cashu.me does a pretty good job of this. However, if you just want to locally transfer ecash tokens from one wallet to another, clicking 'SEND' with no destination to specify doesn't feel very intuitive to me. It seems like the 'SEND' ecash function could be indistinguishable from a lighting wallet; but 'WITHDRAW' ecash needs to be its own function.

2024-10-09 10:52:39

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#nevent1q…f4uq

2024-10-09 10:47:42

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The 'investigation' was ridiculous. He basically rounded up a list of suspects and then forced himself to pick one - even after acknowledging early on that Satoshi could just be some anonymous cypherpunk with no trail to a real identity at all - necessarily excluding them from any possible list of suspects. The 'evidence' he found was just an exercise in anomaly hunting - resulting in confirmation bias.

2024-10-08 11:41:03

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It seems it couldn't be mere coincidence that the $250K threshold matches the FDIC limit... maybe they have private insurance that's set up to match the same expectations as a fiat bank... or maybe they just figure that someone with more than $250K would be willing to pay more because they perceive it as better than the uninsured fiat alternative.
BTW, this just sounds like a lie (at least, it's grossly misleading):
"You have full control of your bitcoin (not a custodian)"
Sorry, having to rely on 2 entities other than yourself to sign any of your transactions can't reasonably be considered 'full' control.

2024-10-08 11:08:02

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"Obviously, the roads... the roads go without saying, don't they?"

2024-10-08 09:57:08

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at a $150/month service fee, I don't think it will be the way for too many.

2024-10-07 19:01:03

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The do love to quote mine.

2024-10-07 17:55:54

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It seems obvious that this same attitude has led supporters of the Democratic Party to spend so much effort attempting to demonize Trump as some sort of Hitler-esque figure. That is, they wouldn't even have to bother if their preferred alternatives had been at all inspirational.

2024-10-07 13:49:52

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We even use 'barrel' as a unit of measure of volume... and, that volume changes depending on the substance being measured... and, I'm pretty sure it's still the worldwide standard unit of measure for oil (because that's the way dollar hegemony wants it).

2024-10-06 12:29:44

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Translation: paywalls only work for the content people actually want.

2024-10-06 11:44:00

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Eventually - maybe not tomorrow or even in the next 20 years, who knows? - this realization will cause real estate to start falling; then crash completely resulting in a global financial crisis similar to (but much worse than) 2008. Unfortunately, this is what 'gradually, then suddenly' means IRL. Bitcoin is the lifeboat, but the ship sinking won't be pretty.

2024-10-06 11:27:26

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Just a reminder that Section 230 preserves the right of private platforms (at least in the U.S.) to moderate content (or not moderate it) as they see fit.
This is necessary for a free speech Internet - at least until Nostr obsoletes the need for this government permission.