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2024-10-16 14:19:25

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Its capitalists that create tyranny. How many workplaces are democratic? Capitalism is a religion forced on most of the world.

2024-10-16 12:52:46

What are zaps for, is this some kind of business model? Is it necessary, why does every single nostr client have them?

2024-08-22 11:09:48

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People need to know where to look, they also need to know he was censored by the relays in the first place. But he can't relay that message if hes censored. Will folk have to scour the internet to check every time he doesn't tweet for a few days, or can the outbox model solve this automatically?

2024-08-21 16:39:14

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What is this in layman's terms please?

2024-08-21 15:32:41

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The president of the US was banned on at LEAST 5 differnt social media platforms. Thats the litmus test for censorship: Can Donald Trump post there.

2024-08-21 14:04:17

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I feel like this could become a bit like the 51% bitcoin problem only much easier: if we have even as many as 100 relay operators used by most people it wouldn't take much for all of them to agree to ban someone by sharing the same ban list - which already happens with spam lists - even if not intentionally its likely that censored people will just get added to a 'censor list' without much thought.

2024-08-21 14:01:07

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If its trivial to go somewhere else after being kicked of a relay, then why would any relay operator ever bother kicking anyone off for any reason. Either kicking someone off solves a problem or it doesn't. Either they can post or they cannot. It makes zero sense that a relay operator would waste time banning anyone or anything if its trivial to carry on posting on a different relay.

2024-08-21 13:53:50

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Thanks for the reply. Your points are all valid and a focus in 3 and 4 solves the problem partially, but the downside is that people don't like spam so don't want small obscure relays so I don't think this will ever happen - people having 25 relays in their client. But an even greater issue is that relay operators will come under pressure to censor from both law enforcement and client users. My fear is that Nostr ultimately has owners - client relay owners -who will always be held accountable either by govnts or by their customers. The annonymity stops there and so then does censorship resistance.

2024-08-21 13:11:12

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Why bother when Monero already does what we need. BTC L2 can never be as private as monero as you still have to expose BTC transactions publicly.

2024-07-25 15:41:55

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what does this have to do with my question? poor avoidance.

2024-07-25 13:06:01

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Not true. That is a myth peddled by capitalists. Everyone is susceptible to bad behavior, that does not mean everyone is choosing to behave badly. People are also highly keen on sharing. Capitalists spend an enormous amounts of energy trying to beat that instinct out of us through schooling and propaganda.

2024-07-25 12:32:26

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If children are going hungry and shoeless (as millions around the world do) , is that because THEY are lazy bums?
Capitalism fails when it fails children. It fails humanity. I don't care about your financial arguments, Children shouldn't go hungry because of a system they were born into that selfish adults obsessed with wealth have failed to address.

2024-07-25 11:00:08

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Yes there are no greedy wealthy people.

2024-07-25 10:51:07

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Great, but if nobody uses the small relays that choose not to ban its not much practical use. In the end we just have to trust the big servers to not censor. Nostr becomes centralised around the big well funded well known servers.
Saying ' well its not censorship because you can always take your freespeech somehwere else' is neither a technical or philosophical solution to platform censorship,. Every other platform uses this clause - of course anyone can put their posts elsewhere eg on Mastadon or Nostr or twitter if censored by one platform. But that has its limitations, and those limitations aren't solved with Nostr anymore than they are with Mastadon.

2024-07-25 10:30:14

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Bitcoin will never get decent privacy. The core devs have and will continue to work hard to prevent that ever happening. Bitcoin is a state backed currency that requires you to use business owned custodial off chain wallets to give you the feeling of privacy that still does not yet exist.

2024-06-26 13:35:45

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Because greed is a sin. Look around the slums of the world. And ask yourself if they deserve it.

2024-06-26 13:29:41

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https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full
prove it. Nobody has yet.

2024-06-26 13:12:22

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Not shadow banning is a low bar by which Nostr should set its censorship standards As every day passes I can see Nostr is becoming Mastadon. Really has little going for it once relays are given the power to censor. Actually activitypub offers better and more reliable comms in most instances. We are all going to have to chose relays like we chose mastodon servers. Nostr has lost its was.

2024-06-20 15:47:30

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Good. Porn is a scurge on society, and especially children. I oppose the ID. An outright ban on profiteering from porn would be better.

2024-06-20 15:41:48

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If I put a gun to your head and say work for me for free for the rest of your life you are free to say no.
Is your defense of freedom under capitalism?

2024-06-20 15:38:52

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Nobody should have a billion dollars. That would make everyones standard of living extremely high. Only the very greedy ignorant, and selfish would opposes such a redistribution of billionaire wealth.

2024-06-20 15:28:23

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I'm not free to just go work where I want. I can't just rock up to a beach selling buckets of sand. I can't believe how delusional capitalists are. I CAN just quit my job, but I lose my home and go hungry. I can do some slave wage work, but I lose my time , energy and dignity, and my home. Its such a asanine thoughtless thing to say you can just become anything and get rich by choice. I am 100% sure you make lots of money by exploiting others. Its the only way you would be able to believe such a thing.

2024-06-20 15:24:21

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But who owns what? where does the ownership begin? Also Socialists own their labour but Capitalists own other peoples labour. But materials and land are owned by everyone! Most capitalists inherit their wealth which means ownership is indefinite , and why rules made by 13c lords in England means their families own most of the land (real wealth) today. Its rediculous.
Inequality is grwoing, that is the whole point of
capitalism. To grow your share indefinitely. Its the
law for companies to maximise shareholder profit. Illegal if they don't. Endless expansion is the law of capitalism. And they are doing
very well at it.The rest are not. They can't play, they have no chips, no land, no resources. Its rigged. Socialism fixes this.

2024-06-20 15:14:36

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I live in Netherlands

2024-06-19 16:52:35

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No it doesn't. AT best it accepts a bitcoin-fiat payment mechanism like bitpay. The merchant doesnt even see the bitcoin, they don't even have their own address.

2024-06-19 16:38:09

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Capitalism is just getting capital. Corruption gets you capital. Theft gets you capital. Guns get you capital. Its all capitalism. Screwing over other people to exploit them is the basis of any kind of capitalism. There is no capitalism that does not exploit. Read Marx, he explains what capitalism is, he coined the phrase. And every wealthy banker in the city understands Marx, Das Capital thats how they know how to make money.

2024-06-19 16:13:42

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Even a bank account is better than bitcoin, since your transactions are only known to the banks, not the entire world.

2024-06-19 16:09:59

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But they did. For thousands of years. People traded goods accross large regions in large groups long before money was invented.

2024-06-19 12:42:16

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Well, the dollar system has been working pretty well for several decades. Debt has always been rising in every country, money is debt. What matters is distribution not volume.

2024-06-19 12:34:16

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You can be a CEO and socialist or left wing. He's a capitalist of the highest order. He's gotten very rich our of exploiting people. Thats what capitalism does.

2024-06-19 09:53:17

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This is why Bitcoin is useless. You can't really buy anything in Bitcoin except fiat. And when you do its full KYC or you are not going home with anything except illegal goods on the darkweb.

2024-06-19 09:30:01

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You lose privacy, anonymity and soverignty. Almost everything Bitcoin exists for.

2024-06-12 13:43:33

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Apple chose to use google as their default search engine, because they don't care about your privacy anymore than Google does.

2024-06-12 13:33:06

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How do you know they aren't collecting your personal data ? Apple have lied before and they will lie again.

2024-06-05 13:11:15

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The govnt only has this power because it is privately owned, because they aren't actually govenring in the interests of anyone except capitalists. Corporations and govnts are one and the same thing. Just as security guards at nightclub are part of the business of the nightclub.

2024-06-05 13:05:40

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No. If the cost of my rent goes up I just pay it. I have nowhere else to go. Same with utilities and basic foodstuff. I cut back on luxury items. If wages rose in line with inflation things would carry on as they did (all else being equal in markets - which it usually isn't)

2024-05-30 16:20:05

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But not being able to spend your currency for a few days is VERY bad. Its not a small thing. Even if you only use it for speculation : if the price drops 50% in those days it can be a financial disaster. As a currency its even worse. Its a joke how Bitcoin bros brush this insane transaction fees off because they only last a 'few days'. And they also continue long after a few days to be very high. Bitcoin as it is today is a failure. It fails at everything it was supposed to thwart fiat with.

2024-05-23 14:05:43

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It scales as well as and as easy as controlling transactions on your fiat bank account. Sure I can send anyone bitcoins without permission, but those bitcoins become worthless to the recipient if the govnt taints the bitcoin address. This is the problem. Coins get tainted and Bitcoin is not fungible. Cash is more fungible. Its hard to trace tainted notes, its easy to trace Bitcoin, software already does this very effectively.

2024-05-22 13:48:46

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Sure you can do that but the immutable public Blockchain is not yours and it is not private. Govnts can see every transaction. And in many countries in Europe you must declare your bitcoin (even zaps) for capital gains. So that private no KYC transaction you just used is only private if you break the law and refuse to pay taxes. Good luck in prison if you go that route

2024-05-22 13:43:13

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The govnt can and does monitor all transactions via KYC and capital gains tax laws. Of course you can break the law, but Bitcoin isn't goign to help you do that easier than fiat cash does. The govnt has made laws that require Bitcoin transactions to be transparent, and its very very difficult (and also illegal) to prevent that transparency without risk of jail (at least in UK) or doing something radical like move to El Salvador. Max Keiser moved to El Salvador because he knows Bitcoin is not lawfully private in UK and US (he lived in both). He knew the writing was on the wall and got out with his fortune before the govnt comes for it. And it will.

2024-05-22 10:31:48

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What is the advantage of Nostr over Twitter? Nostr is a public forum, if it's relays are censored and controlled by unknown entities then it isn't really much different to a centralised platform like Twitter. More precisely it becomes another mastodon, with all its limitations.

2024-05-16 13:44:18

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If Bitcoin ever gets the privacy innovations that Monero has, it will become illegal. So you might as well switch to monero now and stop waiting. Bitcoin is only NOT illegal because it is super easy for govnts to control, trace transactions and taxes and (most importantly) takes the focus away from actual private permissionless cryptocurrency like monero.

2024-05-09 15:19:08

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if it is not private it is not permission-less. Your coins can be watched, and if you don't have permission from the state to spend them, you can be arrested and charged.

2024-05-09 13:53:56

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Why is Monero privacy only for people who use darknet? Its such a silly logic to say you prefer Bitcoin as it has weaker privacy/darkenet associations. kind of begs the question, why not use something even LESS private and LESS darknet asociated like paypal or visa. Either you want good privacy or you don't. Privacy isn't only for darknet users, its for law abiding citizens too . If you don't want privacy what IS the point in bitcoin? Just to profiteer at rising prices? Because that is its only remaining utility if privacy is not.

2024-04-25 14:04:22

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SAFE/MAIDSAFE network has been trying to solve this problem for over 10 years and still we don't have a working implementation of a truly private/immutable internet

2024-04-17 17:21:01

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'LN rube goldberg network'
thats a perfect description. Hilarious because its true. thanks!

2024-04-10 14:00:43

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They don't want you to do that. Or they wouldn't ask for your email.

2024-04-10 14:00:00

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No it isn't. With a private browser you can use duckduckgo and even google without logging in. Kagi is the ONLY search engine I know of where you have to register and log in to use.

2024-04-10 13:34:26

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Whatever happened to 'Don't trust, verify' that used to be the rallying cry of open source/ privacy advocates.

2024-04-10 11:00:15

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Its laughable that a search engine requires personal data about you before you can use it. And a pinky promise they won't associate the data with your account. I find it odd that decentralised nostr bitcoin types are supportive of these kinds of closed projects with same data gathering capabilities as google et al?

2024-04-10 10:56:36

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They pinky promise 'We will be good stewards of any personal information you share with us. We do not log or associate searches with an account.'
How is that much better than trusting a closed source browser?
Its laughable that a search engine requires personal data about you before you can use it. I'm sure it works well, but then again so does gmail.

2024-04-10 10:19:02

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no browser vpn support

2024-03-22 16:47:11

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cryptomus is the same. The whole point of crypto is to have permissionless direct payments, not to rely on 3rd party buinesses providing custodial services . So again, I ask where can buy something with crypto directly online as per the orginal vision of Satoshi, with no custodial third party ?

2024-03-22 15:48:08

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But what can you actually BUY with stable coins (or any crypto) apart from a vpn subscription?

2024-03-22 13:37:19

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It makes more sense to use fiat, unless you have a load of monero and not much fiat. Which is going to be the case for anyone selling high value stuff illegally on the black market. I guess my question is how do black market sellers get rid of their monero for actual food once the possibility of changing it for cash in person is eliminated (i can't imagine even that is easy to do for large amounts)

2024-03-22 13:28:00

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Which businesses and shops accept stable coins? I figured at some point you have to change them for fiat unless the only thing you want to buy is black market goods.

2024-03-22 12:28:35

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Thanks for the explanation. Seems its essentiually the same as changing crypo for fiat on an exchange (but more like a lightning channel for it). Ie a bit more convenient, delayed cash out. As you say anything that requires a similar level of trust as centralized exchange is unappealing. Might as well just use paypal.

2024-03-22 12:23:01

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Would you not want to use monero to buy bread just because bread is not illegal?

2024-03-21 11:38:08

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Until you can buy your groceries, fuel and utilities in Bitcoin (not via a licensed fiat exchange service) it is not permissionless . If the only thing you can buy with bitcoin directly is drugs and illegal goods its not money, and its not useful for society, and its absolutely not permissionless.

2024-03-21 11:31:42

Won't another bigger problem with monero adoption under hostile conditions (ie where is is made illegal to use it) be mining. If mining itself has to go underground that would create problems, it could be come very difficult to do, which might also make mining more centralized via organised criminal mining operations.

2024-03-21 10:42:57

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I see what you mean about when cash disapears monero may be all thats left for the black market, and if that can never be exchanged for digital fiat on an exchange (which it likely won't) then white market goods (say food ) may start to appear on black markets, else those selling balck market goods won't really be able to live of their profits. But still purchase of other things like utilities, cars and houses aren't really possible that way . Black market sellers will still struggle to spend their monero profits on things they actually need. Fiat isn't going to disappear, but when paper cash disappears, maybe what happens is that black markets just shrink or disapear as crypto becomes pretty useless for buying things you need to live off. Some may see this as a good thing. Of course any country who doesn't get rid of cash or legalises monero as currency could cash in on this, as El Salvador is doing with bitcoin. Then again they risk get invaded or overthrown in a coup de tat via the US foreign policy. As we have seen in many countries that have attempted to change their currency or petro dollar to something else. eg Libya..

2024-03-21 10:27:35

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To be honest, I don't really understand stable coins , they still have to be exchanged for cash on an exchange like any other crypto right? What is the purpose of them other than to remove problems with speculation? Maybe you can explain that to me please?

2024-03-14 14:39:21

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You are missing a piece of the puzzle tho. Almost all the money made on the shadow market is cashed out to spend on the white market. Drug dealers and gun runners need to feed and clothe themselves too. Monero doesn't solve this problem. The black market is ultimately just another way for people to get hold of fiat. Monero is just an intermediary tool to that end if it can't be spent on white markets.

2024-03-13 10:33:35

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'you can use it in a totally sovereign way, connecting your own node and plugin into many apps thanks to WebLN protocol.
But there’s also an easy and accessible wallet experience for newcomers and users who aren't necessarily up for the struggles of running a node, like artists and creators. Alby Accounts provide exactly that.'
You me and my dog all know that most people, are not going to set up their own lightning node. For a start it requires a personal server/cost, and technical skills Not even bitcoin enthusiasts and techy folk can be bothered with this cost/effort . I know some will, but most won't.

2024-03-13 10:27:32

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I love the idea of Monero, and there is nothing wrong with the crypto itself, but if you can't purchase goods with it then its privacy is irrelevent. I don't want to live in a world where everything I buy must be bought on illegal markets. For that reason I believe Monero, however perfect its privacy and utility is, will never be used as a currency. If I can't buy food and fuel with it, its not that useful. If I can't buy anything else with it either except on black markets then its really not going anywhere further than it is today because its an absolute certainty that no govnt on earth is going to allow mass use of monero.

2024-03-12 10:33:47

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custodial garbage. I'd rather use paypal, cheaper, no capital gains taxes, just as non-private.

2024-03-12 10:18:33

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if selling products for monero is made illegal (and it will be soon) then you won't be able to purchase food or anything with monero legally. doesnt matter how private the transaction, you still need a seller in the open. Else it will be for darknet only. Nobody sells Oranges and Pasta on the darknet.

2024-03-06 15:33:03

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Honestly, I don't know what the solution is. It seems inevitable now that Monero will be banned as a form of payment, bitcoin is becoming harder and harder to use privately and without declaring for tax purposes. It may be used on the darkmarkets but lawful use is not going to be an option soon. Even bitcoin is difficult to spend without documenting every transaction and necessarily handing all your financial details to govnts for capital gains purposes. XMR business will likely not be able to comply with laws soon.

2024-02-21 14:38:18

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Having no centralized exchanges isn't an issue. The main problem for monero is that spending it on goods and services could be made illegal. In which case, even if spending monero is completely private, selling goods and receiving monero for them it is not, (except on darknet markets). This is a big problem for Monero. I can conceive that soon it will be made illegal to accept monero as payment for goods and services. Once that happens it's value is tied ONLY to dark markets. That's not great.

2024-02-15 14:37:38

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OK, that is all fair reasoning, but can you answer me this:
Why isn't monero more popular/valuable than bitcoin or any of the other 30+ crypto altcoins right now? Why has it not come close to Bitcoin or even ethereum adoption? What reason is there for it not becoming more successful if what you say is correct?

2024-02-08 11:55:01

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expensive and too complicated to use. Monero is simple

2024-02-08 10:12:05

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Once a public bitcoin address is linked to you, you can never hide from it. To spend it, everyone will be able to know how much you spent and when, and sometimes to who. But when a public monero address is linked to you, nobody can know how much or where it went. You can continue use it privately. Monero is far superior to bitcoin in every way except it lacks the popularity network effect

2024-01-03 14:58:52

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Bitcoin maximalists: What are the arguments against monero vs bitcoin?. As far as I can tell it ticks all the boxes of bitcoin and more but NONE of the ones that other shitcoins have (accept for network adoption rate). Privacy is a massive flaw in Bitcoin and its not being addressed by bitcoin devs at all (which itself is frustrating and dubious by its continued absence from discussion) Monero is the best candidate for privacy coin. And since privacy is the TOP feature required by Bitcoin right now, why not use Monero. Coinjoin is complex, expensive and open to supression by regulation. Lightning is not private and also complex. And now that exchanges are blocking tainted coins Bitcoin can't even be considered fungible anymore, let alone private. Why should anyone use Bitcoin over Monero?

2023-12-12 11:58:12

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I sometimes think bitcoiners are deliberately trying to alienate normal people. Nobody (NOBODY) is going to look at this video and think ' bitcoin is actually simple to use now'

2023-12-12 11:46:19

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How many transactions have not gone ahead because of censorship tho? The fact of the matter is that every transaction is traceable and when coin mixing is soon to be banned/ illegal it makes bitcoin not as fungible as cash or gold. All Those hundred trillion US dollar worth of transactions may not be censored but they are being traced, and many will be censored at the end of the line

2023-12-07 14:54:05

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Yes they can. The govnt / lawmakers can issue an order not to spend from a address. If it moves you are arrested. Thats it. Bitcoin CAN be censored. And it HAS been.

2023-11-15 16:41:57

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So what you are really saying is that sats are pretty much worthless for the foreseeable future. And certainly we won't see Bitcoin reach 1m in our lifetime, even if it keeps growing as it has.

2023-10-20 12:36:15

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what is it?

2023-10-19 17:53:10

Nostr devs overlook a crucial point about the modern world: Huge numbers of social media users esp on twitter (and majority of westerners who are under 35) describe themselves as socialists. They are not interested in crypto. They want to socialise their opinions not monetise them. Crypto capitalism is not the future many seek. Zaps have hindered nostrs appeal to the masses in my opinion, bitcoin only excites nostr nerds and devs who own crypto already. Nostr should be about freedom FROM money (including crypto), like peer to peer torrenting /chatting if you want to attract the mass of politically active people who use social media like twitter . Free speech should not be monopolised and controlled by corporations, but it should also not be monopolised and controlled by capitalism and money either. Including crypto capitalism.

2023-10-19 13:55:08

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Bitcoin is not anonymous, and any attempts to make payments more anonymous still requires you to keep records of transactions for tax purposes. Only the experts and lawbreakers can use bitcoin anonymously, and even then its not a done deal. Lightning wallets require email addresses, average people don't or can't self host, and even thats only pseudo-anonymous unless you really go out of your way . Zaps expose your identity, decentralised nodes are never going mainstream. Making bitcoin not useful.

2023-09-06 15:28:43

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yes, i think that is a problem with lightning when btc switches to pure fees based mining.

2023-08-31 15:22:24

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Yeah, but you have no idea what its doing in the background. Open source matters beyond the money,

2023-08-23 10:36:05

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the main issue is shadowbanning. Is there a way a nostr user can easily know his posts are being blocked/filtered/removed within your client. At the very least it will deter spammers continuing spamming into the ether if they know they are going nowhere.

2023-08-16 15:24:19

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Capitalists keep the profits of other peoples labour. Producing wealth for themselves only. They use that wealth to buy land , resources and power for an indefinite period. To control others and pay them less and less over time for their labour. And yes I agree that is slavery. Capitalism has created a wealthy elite who own (steal) and control all the worlds resources and labour and keep the profits for themselves. Almost any and every major US corporation can be an example of this grotesque failure and inequality created by capitalism in every place on earth. Most countries in the world are capitalists yet the majority of worlds nations have people living on less than 10 dollars a day. Capitalist ideologues seeking to protect their wealth and power indefinitely have destroyed caused great suffering, destroyed ideas, sharing, people, culture and the planet. And not even a few exceptions exist.

2023-07-27 14:57:48

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Capital by definition is the difference in power over others. Capitalism is the creation of that power. Freedom tech that profiteers is a contradiction. If freedom requires gatekeepers asking for money its not freedom. A nostr obsessed with zaps and money will undermine the gains nostr could make to create greater freedoms. Rich people never gave people more freedom. Thats why they are rich.

2023-05-25 13:30:55

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Why do we need a replacement for signal?

2023-04-27 13:53:19

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Or to put it another way: Every major Nostr client appears more interrsted in pushing Bitcoin than Nostr (and actually I think thats probably true). I don't have a problem with that. But I am very confident the public at large will. Or at best will just not see it as a serious alternative to Twitter. I hope I am wrong, but reality is most people are either not interested in bitcoin or dislike it. So making zaps a major part of Nostr is not going draw people. But it may put them off.

2023-04-27 13:49:03

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I know. But the zap symbol appears everywhere which makes it seem like zaps are a major part of the Nostr ecosystem. That will put average people not interested in Bitcoin off because it makes Nostr seem exclusive to bitcoin nerds. The zap symbol becomes an ad for Bitcoin almost straight away. Its a turn off. The majority of the public are not going to understand let alone use lightening/zaps so it looks weird to have the symbol there visible in every post/interaction on Nostr. There isn't a paypal or visa symbol there. If there was that would also put people off. It should not be so integral to Nostr as to be equivalent button to likes. Unless you don't want non-bitcoin enthusiasts to use Nostr.

2023-04-27 11:08:54

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Great comments. I especially agree re dropping the crypto emphasis. I think Zaps are a turnoff. I'd like to see clients make that a feature you have to actively turn on. By having it on by default it makes Nostr look like its a network only for users of bitcoin. It is a big turn off for the general public who like it or not, already find Bitcoin weird , nerdy and/or complicated. And to make matters worse its actually even harder to get on board with lightning than it is Bitcoin, you have to have a good understanding of bitcoin before you can even think about using lightning.
Being that the zap button is next to 'like' and 'repost' in almost every client, for most users this makes it seem equally as important to the network. It is not. Nostr should be for people who don't want to use zaps too. Even people who hate bitcoin. Remove it by default. Most people will never care about lightning, at least not when they are first starting out, its too much, too complicated, too nerdy and too soon IMO.