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2024-09-11 12:58:34

GM! Wind power is dumb

2024-09-11 03:27:21

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If I was a hardcore gold bug there is literally nothing that could convince me to admit this. That’s hilarious

2024-09-10 22:45:25

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THE NEXT COSMERE BOOK’S CHAPTERS ARE BEING POSTED WEEKLY AHEAD OF THE DECEMBER BOOK LAUNCH:
https://reactormag.com/columns/wind-and-truth/
The first 13 chapters are already up.

2024-09-10 04:20:55

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LOL!!

2024-09-09 23:16:34

🫡⚡️👍🏻 suck it Peter. Never trust someone selling anything they won’t fully stand behind with their own time and money.
https://fountain.fm/episode/ER3vl1j5r2owMYbmBjRh
#nevent1q…gsv5

2024-09-09 22:15:59

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Cannot recommend the remaining books highly enough. Imho the next part only gets better. Won’t spoil but if you don’t read it, I think you’re missing out.

2024-09-05 15:29:36

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You do not need an app to access Nostr. An internet browser is sufficient. Or if you have an android based phone you can load an apk yourself uncensorably. People are locked in the iPhone mindset to think the only option is an app from the AppStore, this is not true. There are other options.

2024-09-04 02:31:23

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Jerky, fruit, carrots

2024-09-04 02:14:32

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58k gang out here beating us all

2024-09-03 23:55:14

🫡🫡
https://fountain.fm/episode/hbhZHPfr9nqC3qdo4Frs
#nevent1q…u528

2024-09-03 23:10:15

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To be more specific since I phrased poorly and most are misunderstanding my intent:
If you have a raw global feed you get vile insane shit like borderline CSAM, animal torture, etc; stuff that I would bet 99.9999% of people all do not want to see. Unless you are a super freedom oriented person with at least rough knowledge of how nostr works, if that’s the very first thing you see I understand why nostr seems unappealing.
To be specific: I do not see being an echo chamber as an issue at all. That’s just the initial crowd the platform most appeals too.
Luckily I think most people onboard to Primal, learn and then try other clients, and thus don’t have this problem, but it does happen on some other clients.

2024-09-03 15:19:13

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A few Normie friends joined, saw the horrid uncensored chaos that is the global feed and quit immediately. If you aren’t a decentralization, privacy, or BTC maxi before joining it’s a really jarring transition that will immediately repel a lot of normies.

2024-08-30 03:51:56

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Non are TRULY privacy preserving imo, but Whoop is clearly the best tracker with the most ability to toggle info and you can sign up with a burner email and they don’t block one time use debit cards

2024-08-30 03:50:24

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I’m really boring

2024-08-30 03:47:43

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Most bullshit things are shockingly easy to not to comply with. My recent example: if you ask to opt out of facial recognition scanning at US airports literally nothing happens. They just say “okay” and look at you to match you to your ID.

2024-08-30 03:35:54

👍🏻👍🏻
https://fountain.fm/episode/hNrTaiQVWYn4m49fuAMm
#nevent1q…jqz6

2024-08-29 23:05:30

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CTV

2024-08-29 19:02:41

👍🏻👍🏻
https://fountain.fm/episode/kLgSrLljwlEULRFaDHgp
#nevent1q…02tg

2024-08-29 18:55:43

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While cynical and shitty, staying on a message of generic positive vibes and taking no stances on substantive issues is a great way to get elected. Sad tho.

2024-08-29 18:11:30

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Please welcome stupid people. I don’t want to get kicked out…

2024-08-29 16:29:10

GM! Love to daydream about my kids seeing the final Bitcoin halving and hoping they are safe, happy, and prosperous.

2024-08-29 15:19:23

Hal is a legend and greatly missed by the community
https://fountain.fm/episode/49wzYxlOV9QJfYAzSBUW
#nevent1q…dmev

2024-08-28 18:51:27

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Not even taking a side either way, while this of course over time helps with the dollars of taxes you pay(assuming it’s structured reasonably) this creates an absolute nightmare of complex calculations and tracking that you have to do and carry over literally forever, including your descendants. An ever growing number of accountants, lawyers, and bureaucrats would be hired in this scenario for a net overall loss to society.
So in summation, I think this sounds good the the surface, but is actually not a solution.

2024-08-25 20:57:02

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Most folks at Riga conference maybe?

2024-08-21 21:51:21

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Ultimately there’s no fair or freedom oriented way to do it that I can think of. Maybe the closest thing is if you commit a violent crime or a non violent crime of sufficient impact (steal $10B or something) you lose your right to vote as you’ve shown you are a threat to society by a jury of your peers beyond a reasonable doubt.
However, down this path you end up doing some sort of “purity” test to see if people are more long term or short term oriented and that is hugely flawed and problematic at best. Yes kids are a maybe a half decent proxy of more long term orientation, but there’s plenty of shitty parents and honest people without kids. It’s not a strong enough indicator to take away someone’s fundamental natural rights imo.
The problem of too many people being too short term biased is very real but it’s easy to get to a state where the cure is worse than the disease. Everything I’ve seen on this topic falls under that category to me: would just make it worse.

2024-08-21 16:56:06

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I definitely respect your point of view but think for family you need to be more mature than that and do what kids and parents ultimately both want, aka quality time doing games and activities they enjoy, and doing something because it’s what makes you feel better but everyone else dislikes it is just selfish. If your love language makes everyone else miserable that is not an adequate justification imo

2024-08-19 15:41:55

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Know many smart people who lead unhappy and unfulfilling lives stuck in society’s tropes, and lots of left curve folks who accomplish a ton and are happy and hard working.

2024-08-17 18:08:36

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2 years

2024-08-17 18:02:01

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Largely agree. We should be willing to think independently and proceed forward according to our own conscience rather than government dictates, but you also have to be willing to take feedback from others. No one has it all figured out.

2024-08-17 17:59:58

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Most people I know 50+ have the vast majority of their wealth in banks and government bonds. To me that’s insane compared to Bitcoin.

2024-08-16 19:20:19

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Just Stacking and not sweating the details is a 100% reasonable option 🫡🫡

2024-08-16 19:18:01

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Many people loved it. Sad but true.

2024-08-16 19:15:54

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Graciously accept apology, politely decline any future relationship-including friendship.

2024-08-15 13:46:00

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Definitely some truth to this but also it is hard to resist an ideology everyone around you believes. If we are brutally honest we are all social creatures and our peers always influence us to some degree. It’s a hard balance.

2024-08-14 20:43:53

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I would argue being non-KYC is the ultimate security feature. You just go to a tor site to “own” your account. So you cannot be targeted by hackers for sim swap attacks.

2024-08-14 19:38:12

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If it isn’t hot and I do not exercise its every other day, but if it’s hot or I workout then everyday.

2024-08-14 03:44:40

Can we put together a #NSFW bounty? Would happily pay for relays with this option.

2024-08-14 02:25:51

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Dune

2024-08-12 23:32:05

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Privatize it with payments based on actual performance around speed and the rate at which those g eta need visas or immigration commit criminal activity, e.g. give incentives for good and socially beneficial services

2024-08-12 18:38:35

I’ve found just sitting by a big window in my office job helps my mood throughout the day. My old office spot was in the middle of the building with no natural light, it was only harsh blue fluorescent lights. Natural light is the way!
High level lesson: even small changes in habits can have a large impact over time.

2024-08-12 04:43:17

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My experience is that they’re usually good with word problems or when there’s an explanation, but when you just ask it to solve a math problem they struggle. Had more luck with Claude than ChatGPT

2024-08-12 04:37:57

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LLMs are shockingly bad at math

2024-08-12 03:16:29

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Favorite brewing method and coffee roaster?

2024-08-12 02:45:37

Oh my god, please please please try. That would be hilarious. https://image.nostr.build/7a8928c7784f48735fc35a1cc7ee959d8879098d1c7fc9e07baf2b8deb9eee15.jpg

2024-08-11 21:34:00

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Time for another lightning channel

2024-08-11 20:40:14

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Got Covid pre vaccine- not fun but no worse than a nasty flu and recovered fairly quickly, told to stay inside for two years, government printed $10T, state tried to ban most guns and “high capacity” magazines, neighbors threatened to call police for spitting outside when I partially swallowed a bug while jogging, etc. etc.
Covid, as Hodl said, showed most people are a few government scare tactics away from turning into nazis and calling you a nazi for living normally.

2024-08-11 20:33:16

58k gang staying strong af

2024-08-11 20:30:58

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Damus purple is great 👍🏻

2024-08-09 17:02:53

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I get it. Just joking that if say a three letter agency or the police pushed for this they’d purge the emails and come up with a BS excuse.

2024-08-09 16:53:51

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The emails were accidentally deleted during a data migration when all the engineers happened to be struck down with narcolepsy.

2024-08-09 16:51:55

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If anyone wants to know what would happen when she’s off script watch her interview with Charlemagne where she just ignored him and panicked when he asked a reasonable question and he called her out for just ignoring him and pretending she couldn’t hear.
Another example was the 2020 primary debate where Tulsi leveled Kamala simply by point out facts that were on the front page of The NY Times, i.e. should not have been a surprise.
Trump will say WILD shit, but he will at least take the interview and respond to questions asked regardless of ifs scripted. You can hate Trump and his viewpoint but he is able to handle going off script, Kamala cannot.

2024-08-09 16:15:03

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Damn that’s wild. Very very scary. I would call the police immediately, record video the entire time, and not open the door unless police are present. Not a lawyer but this definitely seems illegal. They certainly can ask you to leave as it’s their establishment, but basically everything else feels either unlawful or at least highly problematic.

2024-08-08 20:15:47

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Overall review? How would you compare to other options? Plan to continue using?

2024-08-08 20:14:12

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Governments are really just millions of people who often disagree with and dislike one another. They’re in reality far less powerful and cohesive than they try to portray.

2024-08-08 18:13:00

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Go to your local BitDevs

2024-08-08 04:15:31

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Support paid relays with your sats

2024-08-08 04:13:22

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Hotels are the way for every activity except skiing

2024-08-06 23:24:05

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Start9 currently at least has manual backups that are easy. Umbrel currently has basically no backups unless you go into each app individually on the CLI(not practical).
There isn’t a great automated backup solution right now that I’m aware of, but it’s on Start9’s roadmap.
If you need automated backups as a hard requirement I’d probably use Voltage.

2024-08-06 22:51:13

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People who agree: almost everyone
People who disagree: Boomers

2024-08-06 15:12:20

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*not just a store of value

2024-08-06 15:07:40

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They have a public blog post answering every question you asked minus giving exact dollar amount which isn’t a fair expectation

2024-08-06 15:07:01

Unless your name is Satoshi or Adam Back, then the @npub1mut…23vg guys have probably contributed way more to Bitcoin than you ever will. All Bitcoiners must deeply accept we have collectively chosen shit base layer scalability to strong ensure decentralization and security. This has created the soundest money ever, but it does make Bitcoin RIDICULOUSLY hard to build on in a way only technical folks can truly understand. Shitting on devs for trying hurts us all and reduces the future pipeline of technical talent and startups we desperately need if we want Bitcoin to be money and just a store of value for the rich. It also shows very few folks truly understand the practical implications of Bitcoin’s current scaling trade offs.

2024-08-06 14:53:33

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So much of what people are claiming are Mutiny issues are actually permanent structural issues with Lightning itself for as long as we do not have covenants. (Yes I’m oversimplifying for brevity)
Bitcoin has scaling limitations. Dunking on devs and rooting for their failure just helps ensure we won’t get the apps and companies we need in the future.

2024-08-06 14:09:41

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If both sides fail to pick a VP candidate from a swing state we know they care more about social signaling and what corrupt donors want than actually winning.

2024-08-06 13:12:48

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https://m.primal.net/JpXv.jpg

2024-08-06 13:11:41

GM! If you trade or leverage your Bitcoin you’re probably going to lose it at some point. You have to abandon fiat games.

2024-08-06 02:19:35

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In reality all our private nostr keys (nsec-s) are very hot and if they get compromised you essentially lose your account forever. FROST could help a lot there

2024-08-06 02:18:24

https://m.primal.net/JpXv.jpg

2024-08-06 01:13:50

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Yeah FROST is very exciting, especially for Nostr. I would say though even “basic” Bitcoin multisig with hardware wallets from multiple vendors is still an amazing option.

2024-08-05 23:56:09

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I agree. I would say however since Casa is no KYC and not all tightly integrated under one company the effect is nowhere near as big of a problem. People just need to be sure to signup with a generic protonmail or other private email.

2024-08-05 23:43:32

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When there’s waaaay too much debt and leverage out there even what should be small issues blow everything everywhere tf up all at once

2024-08-05 23:41:08

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FrostSnap sounds like it is close:
https://frostsnap.com/
Hopefully that proves out, at least a very exciting project

2024-08-05 23:07:48

Your laptop is owned. Thinking otherwise unless you’re a very sophisticated person who has perfect execution is laughable.

2024-08-05 23:02:18

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However in the Bitkey model effectively you have two hot keys (phone and key server) which is a big trade off even if it’s source viewable (it is not FOSS), and your hardware wallet has no screen so you could easily approve a transfer to an address other than you intended if someone has hijacked your phone and what appears on its screen. The Bitkey is a $150 glorified yubikey.

2024-08-05 13:56:45

GM! I feel like there's an alternate reality where our American election process isn't openly corrupt and a decade apart we had Ron Paul and Tulsi Gabbard as presidents and America and the world are in a wildly better position. Instead we have corrupt morons running. Kamala and Trump both suck big time!

2024-08-05 04:30:17

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Next paycheck

2024-08-05 00:51:04

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Robosats

2024-08-04 13:32:05

GM! I’m pretty sure late at night my IQ drops by 30+ points(and I don’t have that to spare). When I’m tired I feel like I can barely function. Getting to middle age means you just have to aggressively prioritize sleep. Before it was the smart choice,
Now it’s the mandatory choice.

2024-08-02 17:27:39

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I’m thinking free options are needed for noobs as an on-ramp to Nostr but with significant write limits, and then long term offer up more subscriptions to various paid relays to create long term financial sustainability and as spam prevention. I like the idea of paid relays for specific topics or communities.

2024-08-02 15:21:16

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100% same. I think people are so stuck in the “free” by selling your personal data model, that we do need Nostr noob options that are free with limits and serve as on-ramps to paid relays and subscriptions. If you have to pay to even get in started then it feels like nostr won’t scale until people are aggressively burned by current mainstream options.

2024-08-02 14:41:33

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For sure. I’m not trying to “come at you”, just explain my own personal mental model. Appreciate all Damus subscribers. I assume Purple subscribers will eventually have no or very high limits.

2024-08-02 14:36:19

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Support open source devs by paying for their services

2024-08-02 14:33:01

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Yeah I mean ultimately the flip side is how much bandwidth and storage do you expect Will to pay out of pocket, not even counting his time and headache dealing with these spammers. I’d just flip the framing and ask why do you expect him to work for you for free? Fundamentally folks have to be okay with some sort of fees in nostr if we don’t want to fall down the creepy tracking and selling your data ad model path. If you don’t want to pay a fee to help support the platform and mitigate spam then limits are just a reality.

2024-08-02 14:23:54

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Nostr is open and everyone can do what they want. Personally I think it’s fine to have rate limited public relays for noobs. For folks who have been around a while and want to use Nostr regularly I’m guessing paid relays will be the primary way forward. It’s just not sustainable or a good UX to accept limitless spam from anyone.

2024-08-02 14:19:58

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Requiring a small lightning payment is the ultimate spam prevention

2024-07-31 03:27:17

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Spreadsheets?

2024-07-31 03:24:46

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Flying first class makes your life better for a few hours. A family makes the whole rest of your life better. That’s just such a depressing perspective to prioritize a fancy plane ride.

2024-07-31 03:22:54

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Saying Twitter is all that matters is definitely not sign of positive mental health, really just a crippling attention and social media addiction

2024-07-27 15:28:31

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100%! I’m just saying the end state of who has how much BTC and at what fiat equivalent price is totally a guess and not math.

2024-07-27 14:59:37

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This is not math. It’s an opinion.

2024-07-24 14:19:12

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The Proton Mail Plus subscription is only about $3 a month, well worth it

2024-07-21 19:18:36

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Start9 on a start9 purchased device. If you have a rasberry pi it doesn’t surprise me if lightning doesn’t work well(especially as you add and actively run more and more apps). Would strongly recommend using at least an Intel NUC style device with an SSD, and I think buying an actual start9 device is also a great way to support the project.

2024-07-21 17:20:14

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Hmm weird. I’ve never tried with RTL so I cannot speak to that. I’ve only used the CLN app itself, which to be fair is fairly basic. The default CLN app has never had a hiccup though beyond one freeze, though I think that was a hardware issue.

2024-07-21 17:16:55

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Have you tried on Start9 or Umbrel? Besides one freeze scaring me since CLN uses the hsm secret rather than a typical seed phrase(which imo wasn’t a real issue since it just needed a restart and was never truly in danger), I’ve never had an issue with CLN.

2024-07-21 17:14:39

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They are focused on using Taproot to bring stablecoins and other assets to lightning rather than things that are imo much more important like Bolt12

2024-07-21 13:57:32

GM! There is something emotionally magical about using your own lightning mode to buy something from another nostrich. Decentralization is increasing one humble step at a time.
Oh and Core Lightning forever. LND can take their shitcoins and shove it.

2024-07-10 19:17:37

I know I’ll never win a block solo mining with a Bitaxe, but it’s a very fun learning experience.

2024-06-26 11:59:20

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Great podcast in general that has supported value for value for a long time 👍🏻👍🏻

2024-06-26 03:27:44

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Lmao

2024-06-21 16:34:16

Building ZK (zero knowledge cryptography) into the Bitcoin Core code itself would mean we go from millions of potential app devs being able to understand, audit, and verify the code to only a tiny handful of cryptographers on the entire planet can truly understand and verify the code and count/supply of Bitcoin. A tiny group of people are easy to control. You cannot control every one of the millions of app devs worldwide who can read C++ or Python.
The roughly same mental model applies to most base chain advanced cryptography privacy proposals, eg you lose broad understanding and verification. You risk another Bitcoin Dark type situation (not a perfect comparison but general fuckery with the supply in a covert way by insiders).
Maybe this is a more realistic possibility way in the future. And ZK stuff can be great when built on top of Bitcoin, but putting it into the base chain due to a panic over privacy is short term thinking and wildly misguided.