user21952

Public Key

npub18nyjdwkcraqj3d796z8ynggztcqjp5et0y59l5leku86yszfjtjsndnfys

NIP-05 Address

user21952@merak-4.bitid.nz

Profile Code

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relay.nostr.band

relay.primal.net

Author Public Key

npub18nyjdwkcraqj3d796z8ynggztcqjp5et0y59l5leku86yszfjtjsndnfys

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2023-02-23 23:35:06

Grace does more than currency.
https://cryptopanic.com/news/17717319/Bitcoins-Future-Hinges-on-Donations-and-Thats-Got-People-Worried#c305725

2023-02-23 04:35:54

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Nothing at all. It's good to know the way you regard developments.

2023-02-23 04:01:57

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Are we talking about nip-19 and hex?

2023-02-22 01:45:01

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Nonsense. It's open, Freedom Zero.
If you wanted to control its use, it would necessarily have failed.
As for anthropomorphising it and becoming the arbiter of the desires of a piece of code, in fact not even code, a protocol described in English, is typical of the censorship one thought this project was designed to elude.

2023-02-14 19:36:36

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So this is another form of Nostr client. The relays can be specific, and dynamic messaging and responding to queries while the client caches results and receives notification.
The messaging and notification by Nostr, Identity by public key, Lightning payment, de rigeur. Plenty of verifiable claims to go around. Anonymity, pseudonymity, polynymity, for all the digital purposes and roles well play.

2023-02-12 04:13:11

Discussion about increasing default mempool size limit in Bitcoin Core
Article (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27079), Comments (https://stacker.news/items/134779)

2023-02-12 04:10:13

wss://nproxy.zerologin.co

2023-02-12 01:45:56

----BEGIN SAT API MSG----
LocalBitcoins service is discontinued
Dear Valued Customer,
Originally LocalBitcoins was established to Bring Bitcoin Everywhere and drive global financial inclusion. We have honored that mission for over 10 years and we are proud of what we have achieved together with all of you, our loyal community.
We are therefore sad to share, that regardless of our efforts to overcome challenges during the ongoing very cold crypto-winter, we have regretfully concluded that LocalBitcoins can no longer provide its Bitcoin trading service.
😢
----END SAT API MSG----
https://t.me/blockstream_satellite_feed/18435

2023-02-12 01:24:42

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Would definitely like to see it continue to be available, mostly as a CLI publishing tool, for which the stdin PR was a godsend. But presently noscl publishes, but doesn't return to the command line, just waits. https://github.com/fiatjaf/noscl/issues/19#issuecomment-1383257766

2022-11-26 01:42:07

What all the entrenched insiders in America's parasitic, predatory elites and institutions don't dare admit is that to protect themselves from consequence, we've had to sacrifice everything else. Having stripped the nation of the essential foundation of a just, enduring social order--accountability, consequence, rule of law and a grasp of the difference between good and evil--there's nothing left but sound and fury, as if they're hoping the endless political circuses and trails of bread crumbs will forever distract us from their plunder and the injustices of the irredeemably corrupt America they've fashioned to protect their wealth and power.
To paraphrase Lao Tzu, if one insists on an extreme of corruption and injustice, that extreme will not dwell long.

2022-04-10 05:56:17

The problem is this: the more that “safety” means lowering the bar for accusation-bringing, then the more of a magnet the process becomes, and has become, for anyone with an agenda, a grudge, a neurosis, and sometimes financial ambitions—payouts can be huge for a well-timed claim—and there’s no adequate method for sorting legitimate from specious claims (as we’ll see).

2022-04-04 04:42:16

‘Respect’, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden. The word seems to span a spectrum from simply not interfering, passing by on the other side, through admiration, right up to reverence and deference. This makes it uniquely well-placed for ideological purposes. People may start out by insisting on respect in the minimal sense, and in a generally liberal world they may not find it too difficult to obtain it. But then what we might call respect creep sets in, where the request for minimal toleration turns into a demand for more substantial respect, such as fellow feeling, or esteem, and finally deference and reverence. In the limit, unless you let me take over your mind and your life, you are not showing proper respect for my religious or ideological convictions

2022-04-04 04:42:01

‘Respect’, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden. The word seems to span a spectrum from simply not interfering, passing by on the other side, through admiration, right up to reverence and deference. This makes it uniquely well-placed for ideological purposes. People may start out by insisting on respect in the minimal sense, and in a generally liberal world they may not find it too difficult to obtain it. But then what we might call respect creep sets in, where the request for minimal toleration turns into a demand for more substantial respect, such as fellowfeeling, or esteem, and finally deference and reverence. In the limit, unless you let me take over your mind and your life, you are not showing proper respect for my religious or ideological convictions

2022-03-29 21:39:47

It is going to exist, but there may be someone that says, “Hey, I absolutely love this album, and its attachment to this particular rarity or scarcity of this NFT of art. It is connected to this emotion that I feel when I listen to this song, and I want to be the person that owns one of those few hundred pieces of that.” Why not allow that conversation or dialogue to exist? It is up to the person buying it, the market that dictates what the value is, and the artist to actually allow it to happen. https://www.theverge.com/22999333/decoder-steve-aoki-crypto-web3-aokiverse-metaverse-music-industry-business-nft#:~:text=It%20is%20going%20to%20exist,actually%20allow%20it%20to%20happen.

2022-03-06 03:50:57

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https://i.imgur.com/86pTGgY.png

2022-02-28 05:16:48

My friends, I had not intended to discuss this controversial subject at this particular time. However, I want you to know that I do not shun controversy. On the contrary, I will take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might be. You have asked me how I feel about whiskey. All right, here is how I feel about whiskey:
If when you say whiskey you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it.

2022-02-28 05:03:34

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Agreed Simplicity is the foundation for more complex elaboration. #Composability

2022-02-27 04:07:58

https://i.imgur.com/kmwEg52.png

2022-02-27 04:04:59

https://imgur.com/a/TxFxNnQ

2022-02-27 00:11:29

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Yes, Twitter replacement is an undersell, like Bitcoin for currency. It's got a lot more, some times because it's got a lot less.

2022-02-20 05:48:41

"ConocoPhillips has endorsed the World Bank Zero Routine Flaring by 2030 initiative" 🤣 Bitcoin supporting World Bank initiative… Excellent. https://cryptopanic.com/user234/comments/233902#c233902

2022-02-16 04:55:17

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See you

2022-02-16 04:38:52

In the past twenty years over 110,000 studies of women, gender and sex differences have appeared in academic journals. When we can open up new opportunities for expression, enjoyment, and achievement for women, we should do it because it is morally right. But that is very different from saying that gender has no biological basis and that the nature of men and women is wholly constructed by society. The problem with such a position is that it fails to address the issue of why sex differences take the particular form that they do. Social constructionist and environmental theories explain the transmission of the status quo — but without asking where it came from. Evolutionary theory addresses this very question, while evolutionary psychology is the application of evolutionary principles to the study of the evolution of mind. This chapter discusses some of the objections to evolutionary psychology and examines three questions: Are there inequities between women and men in society? Where did they come from? How shall we change them?

2022-02-16 04:04:21

At the Reserve Bank we use the legend of Tāne Māhuta to tell the story of our role. Te toto, the sap of Tāne Māhuta, represents money, cash and foreign reserves. It is the lifeblood of Tāne Māhuta and supporting the health of te toto is critical to our role as Kaitiaki of New Zealand’s financial system, and in supporting a thriving economy and inclusive society.
https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/research-and-publications/speeches/2022/speech2022-02-08

2022-02-13 19:15:18

"I believe that market prices are always wrong in the sense that they present a biased view of the future. But distortion works in both directions: not only do market participants operate with a bias, but their bias can also influence the course of events.
For instance, the stock market is generally believed to anticipate recessions, it would be more correct to say that it can help to precipitate them. Thus I replace the assertion that markets are always right with two others: I) Markets are always biased in one direction or another; II) Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.
As long as the bias is self-reinforcing, expectations rise even faster than stock prices.
Nowhere is the role of expectations more clearly visible than in financial markets. Buy and sell decisions are based on expectations about future prices, and future prices, in turn are contingent on present buy and sell decisions."

2022-02-11 20:42:23

I was dumbstruck. There, in a few pages, I read a startlingly concise summary of everything I’d seen in twenty-one years as a reporter, editor, bureau chief, and columnist for my newspaper. The idea that business, at bottom, is fundamentally human. That engineering remains second-rate without aesthetics. That natural, human conversation is the true language of commerce. That corporations work best when the people on the inside have the fullest contact possible with the people on the outside.
https://www.cluetrain.com/book/foreword.html#:~:text=I%20was%20dumbstruck,on%20the%20outside.

2022-02-11 20:20:40

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Awesome

2022-02-07 06:41:10

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.813382618.7218/st,small,507x507-pad,600x600,f8f8f8.jpg

2022-02-02 22:43:39

Your comment is awaiting moderation.

2022-02-01 20:32:23

Yes!

2022-02-01 20:29:56

✅?

2022-01-30 04:49:27

"this is why a heavy-duty core will always lose...by definition, it must offer services which are of interest to only a subset of its users and yet all users are impacted by them... /mtr"

2022-01-30 03:44:57

"this is why a heavy-duty core will always lose...by definition, it must offer services which are of interest to only a subset of its users and yet all users are impacted by them... /mtr"

2022-01-30 02:15:00

My NIP-05 fails... user21952@merak-4.bitid.nz AKA https://merak-4.bitid.nz/.well-known/nostr.json?name=user21952 Hmmm.

2022-01-27 21:21:41

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"pubkey": "3cc926bad81f4128b7c5d08e49a1025e0120d32b79285fd3f9b70fa2404992e5",
"created_at": 1643318460,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [],
"content": "From changes made in development it would seem SQLite

2022-01-27 21:21:00

From changes made in development it would seem SQLite was the bottle neck... but what limits that might imply I can't advise.

2022-01-26 18:32:00

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Yes. The branle client advises where events have been seen or not seen and offers a publish button to those where it has not been seen.
What adverse effect do you anticipate from misbehaving relays, apart from censorship which you can route around.

2022-01-26 05:14:22

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Happy to help. I'll do my best to keep it up and up to date.

2022-01-25 01:27:41

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2022-01-23 20:34:22

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"A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others. Relays don't have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side."

2022-01-21 23:18:36

A. E. Waite wrote that the Hierophant:
...symbolizes also all things that are righteous and sacred on the manifest side. As such, he is the channel of grace belonging to the world of institution as distinct from that of Nature, and he is the leader of salvation for humanity

2022-01-21 08:54:10

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The idea of keeping the core simple, is an old one, and I saw it mentioned here: https://t.me/nostr_protocol/10821 But in peer to peer, relays, servers, clients all blur a little.

2022-01-21 08:51:11

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It looks like tampering with client messages is prevented by cryptographic signatures, wss://rsslay.fiatjaf.com services, we trust.

2022-01-21 08:40:25

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A simple client and a trusted smart relay or a smart client that doesn't need to trust any particular relay, gives choices and that seems popular.

2022-01-21 08:35:15

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The Internet is made of dumb pipes, and it seems to flourish. Thinking about it, it does mean, while clients can choose and anyone can create an optional relay, that a lot of extensibility arises.

2022-01-20 18:53:00

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Aren't relays starting to assume a greater role in service definition than is desirable in a peer-to-peer system. Rather than getting simpler, they appear to be shouldering an enormous amount of state maintenance.

2022-01-19 18:20:56

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Polynymity is a good way to manage it.

2022-01-17 07:40:36

One could say that the Stand Alone Complex is mass hysteria over nothing - yet causing an overall change in social structure.

2022-01-17 07:40:17

In other words, a potential copycat just has to believe the copied behavior happened from an originator - when it really did not. The result is an epidemic of copied behavior having a net effect of purpose.

2022-01-17 07:39:58

There may be real people who are labeled as the originator, but in reality, no one started the original behavior. Furthermore, in Stand Alone Complex, the facade just has to exist in the minds of the public.

2022-01-17 07:39:31

What separates the Stand Alone Complex from normal copycat behavior is that there is no real originator of the copied action, but merely a rumor or an illusion that supposedly performed the copied action.

2022-01-16 07:46:34

Last year the music labels successfully lobbied to insert in unrelated legislation a clause that prevents copyrights from reverting to their authors. Now, they've agreed with artists to recommend rescinding the change to copyright law.
https://www.wired.com/2000/08/rule-reversal

2022-01-16 05:12:24

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Reply to https://nitter.net/adam3us/status/1482120999420276740#m

2022-01-15 02:58:56

Our Two Sats: The recovery in hash rate this year was truly astounding and one that we think demonstrates several issues that will be important to keep in mind for 2022 and beyond.

2022-01-15 02:58:44

Our Two Sats: The recovery in hash rate this year was truly astounding and one that we think demonstrates several issues that will be important to keep in mind for 2022 and beyond. First, this demonstrated another real-world risk to bitcoins core network: what happens if a huge p

2022-01-15 02:58:31

2022-01-15 00:33:08

Something.