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2023-08-08 17:48:34

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Yeah, it turns out that people who actually care about free speech tend to get the most support. They also tend to be better developers. Funny how that works, isn't it?

2023-08-08 04:35:56

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So I guess nobody can explain why bitcoin doesn't have major deflation or privacy problems? Cool. Enjoy your little circlejerk with "positive vibes" and keep wondering why people in the real world aren't using it for anything other than investing in it for its dollar value alone.

2023-08-08 04:09:11

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And yet you still don't tell me how I'm wrong. I'm beginning to think you're not capable of it. You certainly haven't been in previous discussions.

2023-08-08 03:19:12

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And yet you don't tell me how I'm wrong.

2023-08-08 03:11:58

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Retards here think that means they will be able to see billionaires' transaction histories, but those types would never acquiesce to such a system.

2023-08-08 02:58:24

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https://m.primal.net/HGeY.jpg
Bitcoin is indeed the future they want

2023-08-08 01:22:31

WOW I REALLY LOVE MONEY, BITCOIN IS GOING TO MAKE ME SO RICH--I mean, pura vida, fellow plebs! Freedom, y'all! Down with those greedy bankers, right guys?!

2023-08-04 19:05:13

The feature I miss most
- A reply post has a "reply to" note to say which post this post is replying to
- You can hover over "reply to", and it previews the post being replied to in a little box
- If you click on "reply to" it takes you to the post being replied to.
https://m.primal.net/HHnG.png

2023-08-04 17:02:12

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(but don't actually)

2023-08-04 16:30:11

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I really need to work on that tool I started for finding keywords posted by people so I can follow them. Feels a little glowy doing that sort of thing, though.

2023-08-04 16:25:17

nostr talk about something other than bitcoin challenge: impossible

2023-08-04 05:07:36

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Hello, testing
My relay situation is all kinds of retarded.

2023-08-04 04:29:48

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Once the IRS starts cracking down we'll see how much they really care about "freedom" or if that's just their mental gymnastics to play the stock market while trying to feel altruistic about it.

2023-08-04 04:20:35

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It's fun for the worshipers of mammon, because they get to feel rich without actually being rich. They get to convince themselves they're being selfless and helping the poor without actually lifting a finger, all the while they look at the almighty stock chart, drooling, under complete control of those little green and red bars, fantasizing about owning a mansion one day after producing nothing of value in the real world...All while they criticize today's rich of the very same thing.
Hypocrites.

2023-08-04 04:14:15

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My favorite conspiracy theory is the one where the government cares about its citizens and wants them to be happy and healthy.

2023-08-04 04:03:01

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You people scream freedom all day while doing nothing more than looking at the value of bitcoin against the dollar you claim to hate so much. Bitcoin is nothing more than a fancy investment toy.

2023-08-04 03:51:58

Nostr users: "I really hate the banks! They're so greedy!"
Also Nostr users: "I'm HODLing so much Bitcoin, I'm going to be rich!"

2023-08-02 19:30:18

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> I prefer to remain factual. I completely disagree. Bitcoin should no longer be associated with fiat at all
You "prefer to remain factual" but can't come to terms with the fact that bitcoin's value derives solely from its price on the stock market, and nobody in the real world, aside from a few novelty cases that you people like to tout nonstop, uses it for anything other than investment.
And another snide "I can't explain it but trust me bro!"
And then you appeal to the "price of bitcoin" once again without realizing that such a phrase makes so sense without bringing dollars into the picture for comparison (i.e., price of bitcoin in WHAT?).
Pathetic.

2023-08-02 19:10:41

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And you once again deflect from the deflation problem, ironically mentioning "reality" while failing to realize that, aside from fun little novelties, bitcoin has precisely ZERO use in the real world before converting it into dollars or whatever other currency that real people use.
Every time someone dies and their key is lost, or they send money to the wrong address, or they permanently lock out their hardware key because they tried the wrong password too many times, that bitcoin is PERMANENTLY DESTROYED, making the rest of it even more scarce. It deflates over time.
Anyone who decides to "adopt bitcoin" is already at a massive disadvantage, as the people who got bitcoin a decade ago have disproportionate control over the economy without actually producing anything in said economy.
Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Bitcoiners just want to be the new banking class who speculate and do nothing of real value while holding sway over everyone else. You call it "freedom" and hold massive amounts of bitcoins while encouraging others to join, who can only get tiny amounts--you effectively have control over them financially and can out-compete them in buying power simply by being in the system first and not by actually producing more.

2023-08-02 18:45:26

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This screams that it was written by ChatGPT, but I'll bite anyway.
1. Oh, so my "money" becomes more valuable over time no matter what? I guess there's no reason to spend it! I'll HODL it just like everyone else, and nobody will ever use it in the real world.
2. Inflation means I have to spend my money or it becomes worthless. Deflation means I better not spend my money, because it becomes more and more valuable, until newcomers/outsiders just don't even bother with it since the rich people who hold the currency (in this case bitcoin) only get richer while the little guy has to fight for increasingly tiny amounts.
3. Bitcoin's value rises and falls based on the almighty dollar. It is a fancy, fun investment toy. It is nothing more than another ticker on the stock exchange. This is a fact that bitcoin nerds ABSOLUTELY CANNOT come to grips with. Nobody who does bitcoin things actually produces anything of value in the real world; they just buy bitcoin and HODL it because "it just keeps getting more valuable," when in reality the value is only based on speculation and rich investors pumping and dumping it. So yes, not a "Ponzi Scheme" in the classical sense, but still a system that only benefits those on the ground floor.
4. Irrelevant to my question. I know it's transparent. Transparency doesn't make the deflation problem any better. (And, while we're on things irrelevant to my question, the transparency is a double-edged sword resulting in a privacy nightmare that lets bad actors track everything you purchase).
And of course you finish off with a subtly condescending, underhanded "you're too dumb, it would take too long to explain" style comment.
Typical.

2023-07-25 20:24:53

watching all these retards talk about the "bitcoin rabbithole" as if it's a good thing is like watching the q boomers in 2020 saying to trust the plan

2023-07-25 03:39:03

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

2023-07-25 03:37:51

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

2023-07-24 03:16:15

https://m.primal.net/HGgq.jpg
everything you see, every news fed to you, is a carefully constructed lie to make you think a certain way

2023-07-24 03:13:39

https://m.primal.net/HGgo.png
from a "communist country with no free speech"

2023-07-24 03:05:52

people here have little watches that tell them what block number bitcoin is on, totally normal

2023-07-23 06:06:14

oh no way, color me shocked, what a surprising factoid
https://m.primal.net/HGex.jpg

2023-07-23 05:52:59

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Shoving a pre-made board into a case and popping in a MicroSD card is not "diy"

2023-07-23 05:23:46

nostrbros be like
"well if the 11-year-old boy wants to order black market troonshine then that's his choice, he's not harming anyone so it's okay"
https://m.primal.net/HGev.jpg

2023-07-23 05:19:43

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degenerate

2023-07-23 05:04:49

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no no, nostr is full of life
some e-whore just did a strip show for nostr the other day and everyone was super supportive
a vibrant, healthy community

2023-07-23 05:01:24

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Are you actually a tranny, or is bot just being weird?

2023-07-23 04:35:55

This is worth the read if you can stretch your goldfish-level attention span juuust a bit.
https://m.primal.net/HGet.png

2023-07-23 04:21:00

Promises made, promises kept!
https://m.primal.net/HGep.png

2023-07-23 04:12:03

https://m.primal.net/HGel.png
funny, my history classes never taught this, I wonder why not

2023-07-23 04:04:19

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Sure, if you could tell me how I'm wrong.
But so far you've done nothing to show me how you're free and independent of the central banking system, because you can't.

2023-07-23 03:59:49

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I'll take that as an admission that you can't refute my points.
Your bitcoin is nothing more than an investment toy with no real-world value until you convert it to dollars.

2023-07-22 23:18:57

guys we just have to give them a chance, stop keeping them down, get rid of that hatred, you bigots
https://m.primal.net/HGeM.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HGeN.jpg

2023-07-22 23:01:19

https://m.primal.net/HGeD.jpg
would you try them?

2023-07-22 22:58:50

https://m.primal.net/HGeB.jpg
*alien shows up*
"hey man we need your help, we had to leave our planet because it was overrun with pedophiles controlling everything and turning everyone into tranny faggots, can you help"
"...oh, your planet too, huh"

2023-07-22 17:15:30

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Cheap little computer that's a step up from Raspberry Pi. They have laptop-grade Intel or AMD processors. Think like Intel NUC but better.

2023-07-22 04:06:20

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For all that cost you should have just gotten a Beelink.

2023-07-22 02:56:07

Looks like a lot of e-whores are joining Nostr (makes sense since the only "real" value of zaps is tipping them, they don't understand it's worthless)
https://m.primal.net/HGcB.jpg

2023-07-22 02:28:16

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

2023-07-22 02:25:34

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

2023-04-26 03:31:59

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Nah, I got it working again. I think it just took a while to federate again. I'll probably still check on Nostr from time to time just to see if it's gotten any better, but this place is pretty well dead at the moment.

2023-04-26 03:02:20

Looks like my fedi instance is broken.

2023-04-25 12:43:44

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> I don’t see what the issue is
Lol. I'll let the statistics speak for themselves.
https://stats.nostr.band/

2023-04-25 05:06:45

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The only way to form communities is to make relays different from one another.
The only way to make relays different from one another is for them to accept and/or forward some messages to some clients while rejecting and/or not forwarding some messages to other clients.
And the only way for THAT to happen is some kind of user persistence on relays, which kinda sorta exists already with profiles, but it's going to have to be more of a community thing.
Clients will need to have views for single ("primary"?) relays instead of just global and following.
And by that point, you've reinvented fedi to some extent, except the user has his own key instead of his identity belonging to a node.
All that to say that yeah, Nostr by its nature encourages an amorphous blob of pseudo-culture that really isn't interesting at all, kind of like a world where everyone is part of the same, amorphous blob of mixed race (coming soon!)

2023-04-25 04:38:50

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And they spell it out even more explicitly here:
https://atproto.com/guides/overview#speech-reach-and-moderation
You're free to say it, but if it's wrongthink, it won't reach anyone.

2023-04-25 04:36:20

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Yep, here's where the problem will occur.
https://atproto.com/guides/overview#algorithmic-choice
The indexers will be the gatekeepers, and only large companies will have the means to efficiently and continuously crawl the instances.

2023-04-25 04:27:18

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I heard something about centralized "code of conduct" or something like that, which would apply to ALL bluesky instances, and I immediately lost interest.
Long live fedi, I guess. 🤷🏼‍♂️

2023-04-25 04:21:20

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For me the Nostr protocol *was* the evidence, but it turns out this thing is being run by soydevs who can't say no to retarded new features instead of letting a good thing live bloat-free.

2023-04-25 04:16:00

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Yep, I see you, #[5], and occasionally #[6]'s Nostr pubkey but usually it's her fedi profile through the bridge. That's pretty much it. I guess there's an occasional post by #[7] too. The rest might as well be ChatGPT bots programmed to spew pro-Bitcoin propaganda to each other all day.
I am beginning to conclude that Nostr is not going in a direction that suits my interests, though it sure did come close for a little while.

2023-04-25 04:10:59

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It's pretty much solely fedi users. The Nostr crowd have little appreciation for my perspective. "Good vibes only" and such, they don't like hearing about Bitcoin's inherent deflation and privacy problems, or, y'know, the rapid collapse of society and the need for everyone to learn real skills that don't involve computers in any way.

2023-04-25 04:06:54

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Yeah, this is silly. I originally wanted to stick it out because I like the simplicity of the protocol, but they keep adding new "NIPs" it seems like every other day, so that's becoming a moot point rapidly. Might be time to pack it up and head back to fedi.

2023-04-25 04:04:32

Iris: "Oh sorry, were you reading that? Here's something else I just loaded, read this instead, also that other thing is long gone, don't try to find it"

2023-04-25 03:40:02

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I can't see the thread, but the late Michael Heiser has a pretty good overview of gnosticism here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45BoAFKWqVg (he starts getting into it around 2:55)

2023-04-25 02:48:01

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I've had it explained to me like this...A woman (any woman) keeps, in her mind, a record of every negative thing she can think of about you. Shameful things you've said and done, things she didn't approve of, or even just times when you were mostly okay but (she thought) you should have been stellar instead. It's like a database.
At the right moment, usually during an argument or when she's trying to make you feel small, she lays it all out on a table in her mind, and she picks and chooses which things she thinks will damage you the most.
A woman who can keep herself from acting that way is rare, but they do exist.

2023-04-24 23:28:33

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Is that the "check out my new gay protocol for faggots" account? I blocked it but I think that's the one

2023-04-21 22:10:05

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I remember hearing about them trying to make mRNA grow in lettuce so that "the lettuce is the vaccine" but there's no telling how far they are with that, whether it's a theoretical possibility or been going on for years.
The nice thing about lettuce is that it's easy to grow it yourself (a very great first plant to start with for the newcomer) and usually a ton healthier that way, too.
I listened to the weekly Geoenglneering Watch recently, and yeah...This planet is pretty much toast, and we're all dead men walking. Even if they were to stop spraying chemicals in the sky today, the damage has apparently been done, and it's only a matter of time before there's a cascading collapse of ecosystems.
On the other hand, the earth is quite good at protecting itself from the evil parts of humanity, so maybe the situation isn't quite as dire as it seems.

2023-04-21 21:59:39

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I have no doubt they've been doing it for years tbh. Between all the chemicals being sprayed in the sky, the weird things done to our food and other things like toothpaste/deodorant/detergents, the shots most of us took unwittingly, and a million other things, it's a wonder any of us are still alive.

2023-04-21 21:57:38

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Yeah, there was one state that was trying to make it a law that meat manufacturers must label their packaging if the meat has been treated with mRNA vaccines.
The usual suspects came out screeching and shouting to put a stop to that.

2023-04-13 16:43:39

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I'm not a doctor, not even and internet one, but I hear coenzyme-q10 helps with that sort of thing (but maybe that's just for older people, I don't know, did I mention I'm not a doctor?)

2023-04-12 19:28:08

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Correct, one relay is basically the same as every other relay right now.
In the future, I'm hoping that relays start to actually have communities formed around them, but for right now they are primarily for redundancy.

2023-04-11 19:21:04

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Profile pictures and direct media sharing were a huge mistake, return to IRC

2023-04-11 16:36:43

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It's absurd that this is legal and even encouraged by the pharma industry

2023-04-11 03:06:59

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The Bitcoin fan club is a pointless waste of time.
How many posts are about learning to actually be self-sufficient? Farming methods, preservation, self-defense, case studies from collapsed nations throughout history, etc.? How many posts really dig in to the demonic underpinnings of the system we're in right now?
None of them. But if you want to see some nonstop Bitcoin cheerleading, you've certainly come to the right place.
Internet money is not a personality. Money is the root of all kinds of evil. Seek God. Enhance the portfolio of your mind by filling it with thoughts of God, not thoughts of money (no matter what form it takes), or you will be spiritually no different from the people who own the current system.
If this post helps just one person to break out of the hypnosis they're in from talking about crypto all day, then it's worth the effort to type. Otherwise I'm just casting pearls before swine...But I don't think that's the case. People just need to snap out of it.

2023-04-11 02:41:18

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Because nearly everyone on Nostr is retarded, but I have faith that one day it will have a critical mass of non-retards.
One can dream.

2023-04-06 18:08:50

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It gets bonus points for being the first semi-usable-ish client for desktops, but I think it won't be long before it's overtaken by another project that actually worked on design for a while before slapping code into a repo.

2023-04-05 19:29:03

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I think it also only does pubkey viewing, not posting...Or maybe I'm missing something and could paste my private key there? I already feel weird about just pasting my private key in Iris.

2023-04-05 19:20:28

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_0aecd81dcf620907554df2160ce9ce5a7865f8572095c76e95e46d1829d966c3.png
I'm trying to be better about trashing Iris and the other clients, since I know it's hard to write even just a relatively static web app, but it seems to just repeat messages a lot. Thread views are broken, I get follow notifications for people who didn't actually follow me, my relay list gets reset often, the global feed seems to scroll in a loop, etc.
It's very impressive for the short amount of time it took for it to get to this point, but it's also a buggy mess, and the primary emphasis for the Nostr people seems to still be zaps instead of rock-solid clients.

2023-04-05 19:07:10

Was wondering why nobody on fedi was replying to anything I wrote, only to find that Iris has once again wiped my custom relay list and replaced it with the default.

2023-04-05 04:25:24

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You posted a comment in an open forum, and I will respond in said open forum how I like.
You're free to mute me.

2023-04-05 04:21:18

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Yet another sign of the California collapse, which is just the forerunner to the national collapse.

2023-04-04 18:57:02

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I get very annoyed when I see vitamin/mineral supplements or other ostensibly-healthy products that contain sodium benzoate. It combines with vitamin C to form cancerous benzene.
...But hey, the shelf life gets extended by like a year!

2023-03-21 15:18:04

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It really goes to show that you can make a network as "censorship resistant" as you like, but in the end, it's always just a different brand of censorship with different mental gymnastics to justify it.

2023-03-21 06:01:09

How much of that "21 million (potential) bitcoin in the world" has already been lost due to keys being lost over time? More than anyone around here is willing to admit, I would guess, and that amount is increasing permanently.
Bitcoin is inherently deflationary.

2023-03-21 02:43:20

What is the current state of clients for desktop users? Is there anything better than Iris yet?

2023-03-21 02:19:02

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Mentally ill people can form communities; it's how they try to convince one another that they're not mentally ill. Just look at nudist colonies of the past or any cult.

2023-03-21 02:15:10

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Did you just censor the word transgender? How bigoted, you're literally trying to genocide them.

2023-03-21 02:08:29

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Wow, that's not very inclusive. Not a very diverse crowd out there, huh?

2023-03-19 13:41:28

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Thanks. I may reconsider and start off with Postgres. I want to make a command line tool that anyone can download/run to get metadata and statistics about relays and interactions, hence wanting Sqlite for ease of use. It should give info that's more in-depth than a normal client would show, but not a monstrous Hadoop thing. I want it to be able to answer questions like, "Is such-and-such relay dropping my events specifically, or is it broken?" or "Which relays are filtering such-and-such words?" But I also want it to be able to reconstruct conversations, social graphs, and trends eventually to prove that Nostr is one big circlejerk or to find the pockets of people who don't just talk about zaps.
Sounds like Postgres is probably the way to go. It supports arrays semi-natively, too, which may help solve the nip01 tags problem a little more easily.

2023-03-19 03:54:50

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I was hoping to use Sqlite3 and avoid JSON in the database itself. I don't plan to have messages be easily reconstructable, since this is mostly for storing and analyzing things, but I guess I could store raw messages as blobs for future use/relaying.
The big problem I'm having is how to deal with tags in nip01 events. I want them in separate tables for easier indexing/lookup but think join tables (e.g. for the many-to-many relationship between public keys and events) might be making the solution too complex.
I'm sure plenty of people have already whiteboarded this and am wondering what the general consensus is so far.

2023-03-18 20:00:23

Anyone have a good example of SQL schema for Nostr events? I'm debating how to lay out the tables.

2023-03-18 00:05:10

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Against my better judgment, I will cast pearls before swine.
Bitcoin is set to deflate, permanently. Every time someone dies or drops their phone in the toilet or sends money to an inactive address, etc., that currency is DESTROYED. Gone forever, impossible to recover.
Over time, more and more people will destroy more and more bitcoin. It may be fast or slow, but the trend is permanent deflation.
So newcomers are stuck fighting over less and less bitcoin in circulation (assuming they fall for the scam and start buying into it in the first place).
Meanwhile the early adopters hoard the majority of it. The HODLers here. Before you know it, you, the early adopter, have disproportionate control over the bitcoin economy. Your current amount used to buy a book; now it buys a house; later it buys a yacht or whatever.
The newcomers will never have a chance, even if they are as smart as you and more motivated, to earn that kind of wealth, because you will keep it close-hold and invest it and leverage it in ways that ensure you never actually lose it.
Does this sound familiar yet?
Bitcoin bros just want to be the new banking class.
I await your response, in which you will surely tell me I'm wrong without actually proving anything. Good luck.
(And if I REALLY feel like banging my head on a wall, I might come back with a "suppose 100 people have 1 coin each" scenario, but you're probably not worth the effort.)

2023-03-17 01:46:39

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_974a571cc1292e472db4c818498c21d978320863bb011db4263e35d7e013e57f.jpg
I hear it's pretty darn good for you.

2023-03-17 01:44:42

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You basically described America though (minus the drainage, most places at least had good hydrologists involved at some point who set sewers and stormwater drains up well enough

2023-03-16 19:16:21

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Yeah, I imagine Sodom and Gomorrah didn't happen overnight either, but there was likely an acceleration to greater degeneracy toward the end. Maybe that's what we're seeing the beginning of now.

2023-03-16 19:12:39

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I guarantee that's not a trend and is actually just propaganda trying to astroturf a trend, and those kids (rightfully) get called faggots all day in school

2023-03-16 19:09:22

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Is that the trend? Or is that what you're going to do because you found the trend?
Or both

2023-03-16 18:16:49

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I don't think Mona is being serious.

2023-03-16 18:13:54

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_294176978910fff4e055e6f87c7c408e6e2bc9d7430bc64648dba53e4acfd254.webp

2023-03-16 17:44:48

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Well that's just like, your opinion, man