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2024-05-03 14:54:21

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Think from the other direction: covenants are useful not just to restrict your own spending, but mainly because you can prove to a counterparty that you cannot spend it any other way. This removes a layer of trust, that currently we can only solve with multisigs, but with that comes a bunch of interactivity requirements.

2023-06-29 22:31:59

Good analysis, with points I hadn't thought of.
https://www.zherbert.com/bitkey/
The direction doesn't seem very @npub1sg6…f63m?
What happens when Block gets hacked and all their users KYC, IPs, AND complete on-chain history gets leaked? Subpoenad?
When users with compromised phones blindsign an evil TX, will you repay them, or...?
I get the tradeoffs you’re trying to make, but it seems to be setting people up for trouble? Surely a better UX gently introducing them to address validation etc is better? If not, isn’t this closer to the legacy system than Bitcoin’s ethos?

2023-04-30 21:43:57

So bored of people unable to imagine a world without masters. It already exists! It’s here! Come and use it!
https://twitter.com/bretweinstein/status/1652781562998542341 https://nostr.build/i/8ee239d4d99a8681b7c9f88670447bf0b737317589f71547171372a23d0118e5.jpg

2023-04-25 08:02:59

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From the other direction, spiritual folks have had the concept of the soul since forever, but it’s obviously hard to put into scientific terms. However-
1. On that Lex podcast above, Levin describes a feature of death that seems to make no evolutionary sense - beings will give up and die when their situation seems hopeless, but in identical situations when they still have hope, it demonstrates they have plenty of energy to fight (example experiment with rats trapped in water, some taught that if they hold on long enough they get rescued). Why ever have ANY instinct to give up if the goal is to perpetuate your genes, surely any cost is worth paying? That does sound a lot like a video game player resetting the game, though…
2. Excellent book by a full skeptic neuroscientist who investigates spirituality/psychic phenomena/pseudoscience mumbo jumbo, and is ultimately brought to accept the evidence suggests the physical plane is not all there is: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58977909-proof-of-spiritual-phenomena
Could add much more but I’ll leave it there for now

2023-04-25 07:53:03

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You can get there by piecing together the fragments.
Start at the bottom layer: cells are intelligent actors that communicate and cooperate toward higher order goals - biologist Michael Levin, eg https://lexfridman.com/michael-levin/ but any video or pod he’s on will work.

2023-04-25 07:47:04

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Yes but I don’t get the relevance to my comment?

2023-04-25 07:36:27

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This totally misses the wood for the trees!
Either: your consciousness/personality is an emergent phenomenon resulting from the community of cells that make up your body - think like how countries can have a character, or toxic bitcoin maximalists - in which case without the cells there is nothing.
Or: consciousness is something originating outside the body and maybe 3D space itself, you might use the term “soul”, in which case they voluntarily elect to constrain themselves inside physical bodies for some purpose - some say just to experience the universe, or experience struggle and hardship, perhaps to provide more meaningful existence.
Notice how in bitcoin we voluntarily constrain ourselves down from the huge scope of the Wild West internet, into this very limited system, because it gives our interactions more significance, so much so that we can use it as money, the foundation layer of society…

2023-04-23 06:01:14

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I was looking for exactly this too, link?

2023-04-20 21:20:19

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Cos it’s still custodial, just much less bad type of custodial. You’re not transacting sats, but sats IOUs.
Conceptually just like fiat started out, which worked ok until the rugpulls.
That said, the people working on bitcoin ecash are smart, realistic, know its weaknesses and are working to mitigate them.
I think Calle had an idea for provable reserves, which would eliminate the creeping fractional reserve risk.

2023-04-13 07:43:58

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Maybe I’m naive, but Ray just doesn’t seem the type.
He *says* that a ton of accounts are frozen by US regulators, and there’s simply nothing he can do for those until they’re unfrozen. The US also insists they’re not allowed to tell the customers why they are frozen.
Heartbreaking to read the comments though. If it can lead more people to learn self custody at least there’s a positive in the long run.

2023-04-11 22:14:25

Substack notes is like nostr, only all your content and followers are owned by a third party who holds absolute power over you and is beyond rebuke https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_a37572c9dfc0ad9b3295e105aa68cbdf5b76530b2023e7affd22ba93147e5d17.jpeg

2023-04-11 22:02:06

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People will be coming in here expecting all the buttons to work and shit.

2023-04-11 21:54:10

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They’re the opposite of lies

2023-04-11 09:07:08

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If it’s labelled clearly that it’s a conversation prompt I’m all for it.
If it’s presented like it might be a real person’s account… we don’t need any more Influencers posting trite stuff for engagement.

2023-04-08 17:03:04

Spent the day with normies today. Sometimes it do be like this.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_d8e23124e5bac14e93f9aec68a4f50653f7446d8cccf694d4e41c8ad91c06693.jpeg

2023-04-08 16:21:20

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I think you still have the power to turn it around, but it’s a slim outside chance now. You have the least docile, domesticated population (still not great though). There is still a strong spirit of innovation, it’s just been misdirected by fiat. You would need the right political figure to claw their way into power and just act like a rational human being. I’m not confident that will be allowed to happen though.
The outcome is probably something like the UK, clinging to illusions of past grandeur whilst other nations with less baggage rise. Bullish on Latin America.

2023-04-08 16:16:35

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_fe12a8f8c82274b89adf1d5d23b6640cc681f736eca1a92c8afd7fe0dfa6d9b5.jpeg

2023-04-08 14:25:36

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We just need the right guys in charge this time!

2023-04-06 16:44:38

I can’t believe there’s a whole Appearance settings page now and #[0] still trolls me with no force dark mode option. Why sir, when you are so very close to greatness, why will you not fully embrace your destiny?
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_c3fb65559abec0ec29109d06fcbb30bc1276afa5e4612456d2b626ce911d5993.png

2023-04-06 12:18:37

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GOOOOOOD MORNING #[2]

2023-04-06 12:17:36

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_bc2989da0b3dc1b7cbbbeb8d6f684ec9dd46cab7bf7d5682c348bf17077ffaf8.jpeg

2023-04-05 12:04:15

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Finally, a free market!!
I’m concerned though that we’ll see natural centralisation of data as the costs are hidden, socialised, and delayed until catastrophic problems. People say similar about Lightning.
But as there, at least you can be completely sovereign if you want.

2023-04-05 09:16:53

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FOLLOWED

2023-04-05 09:16:11

Nostriches, one thing I don’t understand is how relays wouldn’t just have a perpetually growing storage requirement. Multiply redundant storage is wasteful until the one day it’s needed and today the incentive is to spam notes to many relays for discoverability and redundancy. Paid relays kinda solves it but imperfectly. What’s the long term vision here?

2023-04-03 19:44:06

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Going to make more of an effort here from today.

2023-04-03 19:43:17

#[0] today 😔
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_2a9260de8184b61480f416301ee83538779d2625a31cdfeb131bf58d13938198.jpg

2023-03-29 08:45:41

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The rugpulls will continue until custody improves

2023-03-28 09:03:17

“Backed by the full faith and credit of the United States”
vs
“Secured by the full weight and hashpower of the global timechain”

2023-03-27 14:35:32

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Nothing, but I don’t like being completely reliant on Tor 100% of the time. Today it’s 95% LAN, 5% Tor when I’m away from home base. It’s not just bitcoin but also passwords, files etc.

2023-03-27 10:51:30

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I run an Embassy which doesn’t support Tailscale/Wireguard just yet otherwise it would be a slam dunk. Tor is so flakey atm.

2023-03-26 21:59:51

Travelling a lot soon.
Node: leave it plugged in at a family member’s house? Or bring it with me?

2023-03-26 21:24:26

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I don’t know how we’re going to thread the needle of keeping block space scarce yet enabling sovereignty for all. Trustless base chain access is a must.

2023-03-26 21:18:20

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Absolutely yes. The culture needs to be ingrained into future generations to have a shot. It needs to become LAUGHABLE to suggest a monetary system where someone has control.

2023-03-26 09:08:55

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Interested. I want nostr to work but finding it might be too early for me in UX terms.

2023-03-26 08:41:52

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You use the past tense so confidently…

2023-03-26 08:18:24

A plausible cause for the level of existential fear needed to cover the coming money printing & control centralisation is not aliens, but AI.
We are already being primed for it the last year.
Imagine: genuine public belief in a non-physical intelligence that knows everything and could control anything. To most people, that’s a god.
Either it “gains access” to dangerous hardware, or it “takes down” some digital infrastructure.
The “only defence” will be to cryptographically restrict all digital services to real humans and the “only authority capable” of ensuring they’re real humans is government.

2023-03-24 15:02:04

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_a16105fbf27791d31e5d47c985e12e797bb7f7e762450dd642fa89064915a38b.jpeg

2023-03-24 07:34:08

What will the US regime blow up to distract from and excuse the money flood?

2023-03-23 09:01:33

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It’s adorable watching them walk through the dunning-kruger curve in real time ❤️

2023-03-23 08:55:51

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Could be. Disclosures over the last year or so are priming the public for it. But I think that’s still too abstract for them to go for, and for the public to really accept.
I think they’ll choose false flag violence pinned on Russia. We have already seen violence against friendlies with Nordstream and Silvergate.

2023-03-23 08:48:20

The monster currently wearing the skin of the US ruling regime is going to need a very big distraction away from this banking crisis, very soon.
An orderly reshuffle of depositors and capture into a pseudo-CBDC is not going to be the main event. Too many people are noticing and questioning.
There will be something drastic, it will be shocking, and deflecting, and soon.

2023-02-20 23:29:37

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But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.

2023-02-14 13:21:14

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Sir you have just changed my life.