/ oldphone is on Nostr

nostr all the things

Last Notes

2024-04-22 19:46:36

- reply

⚡

2024-04-22 17:52:11

- reply

$20 trillion ... meh

2024-02-18 19:39:09

- reply

What I heard was that Navalny was a fun guy who just wanted freedom and fun for everyone and that he wanted to become supreme leader of Russia for fun, for goodness, and for truth (kinda like Zelensky). I also heard that everyone in Russian politics is pure and wonderful except for Putin and anyone who doesn't condemn him.

2024-02-18 19:39:09

- reply

2024-02-18 19:32:03

- reply

Moved and lost by whom? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

2024-02-18 19:31:25

- reply

Perfect reason for CIA supported "opposition" to assassinate Navalny.

2024-02-18 19:25:19

- reply

Why would Putin kill Navalny? Why wouldn't the CIA kill Navalny? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

2023-12-15 23:22:15

- reply

Translation: "Our plan to use AI to dominate humans. Please bio-identify yourself to the eyeball scanner oracle atop the pyramid in order to receive your computed portion of life points".

2023-09-20 14:57:59

- reply

It almost seems that Twitter is easy to hack.

2023-09-20 14:53:41

- reply

It's a cool protocol, and decentralization is an important tool to have available - for certain business models, for anonymity/security/privacy, etc. Nostr makes developing resilient, censorship resistant kinds of applications and services so much easier than the current web. But for most *users* the underlying protocol is secondary to the service offering. Is there a Nostr equivalent of Fiverr? Amazon? EBay?
Maybe. But the easy way for centralized web platforms (Fiverr/Ebay/Amazon) to compete against decentralized Nostr services right now woukd be to simply accept BTC as payment. Likewise zaps, Lightning & BTC seem to be the main drivers of Nostr user adoption for the time being just as, once upon a time, "graphic images" (ahem) drove HTTP adoption.
¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

2023-09-20 14:21:38

- reply

They don't even know what CO² is but they are going to control it by taking your money to use for their own special putatively "carbon neutral" lifestyle. They will do the same thing with meat.

2023-09-20 04:54:05

- reply

How do you sell a Lightning channel?

2023-09-19 18:26:14

- reply

Quality post! 😯

2023-09-19 18:19:40

- reply

True, but to be fair they probably mean risk of "catastrophic loss of access" or something ... To me if you're not spending your stack, it's better to keep it offline & in totally cold storage - multisigs in stamped steel in various vaults or something. It's also good to keep a small amount in a poem in your head.

2023-09-03 18:45:31

- reply

It would be strange to think of the USD as reflecting the "energy spent" on producing it, since this would make it simultaneously nearly valueless in one sense (money just mouse click away), and highly valued in another (the electricity, the labor, social capital, education, technical knowledge infrastructure, markets & networks that support the "full faith & credit of the US Treasury" don't come cheap).
The way some people describe it, hashrate and levels of energy expenditure are more a representation of the security, resilience, & technical capacity of BTC network infrastructure: (i.e. network health) than anything else.
The real cost of hashrate (computational & electrical power) needed to run a technically elegant & super efficient market for commodity money, seems like an emergent (or latent) derivative market of some kind - with BTC's difficulty adjustment auto-arbitraging the whole thing through code 🍄🤯
Or not 🤷

2023-09-03 18:14:26

- reply

Try it. At least to start, your BTC2 nodes/network won't have the same hashrate, so the coins won't be very difficult to mine. But it won't be easy for BTC2 to resist the «privilège exorbitant» of BTC, its "network effect", & first mover advantage.
Just my 2 sats worth.

2023-09-02 04:32:07

- reply

Can we buy "Broken Money" on nostr using zaps⚡? I hope by the time the second or third printing (or even a second or a "post hyperbitcoinization" edition) comes out it'll be trivial to do. Great work👍🏻