plebeian

Hodler, node runner, coffee drinker, book reader, coder, painter

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2024-10-27 15:16:57

Few days later @npub1v5u…n0v5 still wont let me create wallet
Might stop using it at all since the wallet is the only point pf using it
#note10p9…ljel

2024-10-24 09:51:25

What happened to @npub1v5u…n0v5
I opened it today and my profile is gone, wallet gone, subscriptions gone. It’s like I just installed it but I have been using it for a year. Also when I try to create new wallet I get “Something went wrong…” error

2024-10-01 14:05:53

Julian Assange's full testimony to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg today:
"Mr. Chairman, esteemed members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, ladies and gentlemen.
The transition from years of confinement in a maximum-security prison to standing here before the representatives of 46 nations and 700 million people is a profound and surreal shift.
The experience of isolation for years in a small cell is difficult to convey; it strips away one's sense of self, leaving only the raw essence of existence.
I am not yet fully equipped to speak about what I have endured - the relentless struggle to stay alive, both physically and mentally, nor can i speak yet about the deaths by hanging, murder, and medical neglect of my fellow prisoners.
I apologise in advance if my words falter or if my presentation lacks the polish you might expect in such a distinguished forum.
Isolation has taken its toll, which I am trying to unwind, and expressing myself in this setting is a challenge.
However, the gravity of this occasion and the weight of the issues at hand compel me to set aside my reservations and speak to you directly.
I have traveled a long way, literally and figuratively, to be before you today.
Before our discussion or answering any questions you might have, I wish to thank PACE for its 2020 resolution (2317), [pace.coe.int/en/files/28508…], which stated that my imprisonment set a dangerous precedent for journalists and noted that the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture called for my release.
I'm also grateful for PACE's 2021 statement [pace.coe.int/en/news/8446/p…] expressing concern over credible reports that US officials discussed my assassination, again calling for my prompt release.
And I commend the Legal Affairs and Human Rights Committee for commissioning a renowned rapporteur, Sunna Ævarsdóttir, to investigate the circumstances surrounding my detention and conviction and the consequent implications for human rights.
However, like so many of the efforts made in my case - whether they were from parliamentarians, presidents, prime ministers, the Pope, UN officials and diplomats, unions, legal and medical professionals, academics, activists, or citizens - none of them should have been necessary.
None of the statements, resolutions, reports, films, articles, events, fundraisers, protests, and letters over the last 14 years should have been necessary.
But all of them were necessary because without them I never would have seen the light of day.
This unprecedented global effort was needed because of the legal protections that did exist, many existed only on paper or were not effective in any remotely reasonable time frame.
I eventually chose freedom over unrealisable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175 year sentence with no effective remedy. Justice for me is now precluded, as the US government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a freedom of information act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request.
I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration because I plead guilty to journalism. I plead guilty to seeking information from a source. I plead guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I plead guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else. I hope my testimony today can serve to highlight the weaknesses of the existing safeguards and to help those whose cases are less visible but who are equally vulnerable.
As I emerge from the dungeon of Belmarsh, the truth now seems less discernible, and I regret how much ground has been lost during that time period when expressing the truth has been undermined, attacked, weakened, and diminished.
I see more impunity, more secrecy, more retaliation for telling the truth and more self censorship. It is hard not to draw a line from the US government's prosecution of me - its crossing the rubicon by internationally criminalising journalism - to the chilled climate for freedom of expression now.
When I founded WikiLeaks, it was driven by a simple dream: to educate people about how the world works so that, through understanding, we might bring about something better.
Having a map of where we are lets us understand where we might go.
Knowledge empowers us to hold power to account and to demand justice where there is none.
We obtained and published truths about tens of thousands of hidden casualties of war and other unseen horrors, about programs of assassination, rendition, torture, and mass surveillance.
We revealed not just when and where these things happened but frequently the policies, the agreements, and structures behind them.
When we published Collateral Murder, the infamous gun camera footage of a US Apache helicopter crew eagerly blowing to pieces Iraqi journalists and their rescuers, the visual reality of modern warfare shocked the world.
But we also used interest in this video to direct people to the classified policies for when the US military could deploy lethal force in Iraq and how many civilians could be killed before gaining higher approval.
In fact, 40 years of my potential 175-year sentence was for obtaining and releasing these policies.
The practical political vision I was left with after being immersed in the world's dirty wars and secret operations is simple: Let us stop gagging, torturing, and killing each other for a change. Get these fundamentals right and other political, economic, and scientific processes will have space to take care of the rest.
WikiLeaks' work was deeply rooted in the principles that this Assembly stands for.
Journalism that elevated freedom of information and the public's right to know found its natural operational home in Europe.
I lived in Paris and we had formal corporate registrations in France and in Iceland. Our journalistic and technical staff were spread throughout Europe.
We published to the world from servers in based in France, Germany, and Norway.
But 14 years ago the United States military arrested one of our alleged whistleblowers, PFC Manning, a US intelligence analyst based in Iraq.
The US government concurrently launched an investigation against me and my colleagues.
The US government illicitly sent planes of agents to Iceland, paid bribes to an informer to steal our legal and journalistic work product, and without formal process pressured banks and financial services to block our subscriptions and freeze our accounts.
The UK government took part in some of this retribution. It admitted at the European Court of Human Rights that it had unlawfully spied on my UK lawyers during this time.
Ultimately this harassment was legally groundless. President Obama's Justice Department chose not to indict me, recognizing that no crime had been committed.
The United States had never before prosecuted a publisher for publishing or obtaining government information.
To do so would require a radical and ominous reinterpretation of the US Constitution.
In January 2017, Obama also commuted the sentence of Manning, who had been convicted of being one of my sources.
However, in February 2017, the landscape changed dramatically.
President Trump had been elected. He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats: Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as CIA Director, and William Barr, a former CIA officer, as US Attorney General.
By March 2017, WikiLeaks had exposed the CIA's infiltration of French political parties, its spying on French and German leaders, its spying on the European Central Bank, European economics ministries, and its standing orders to spy on French industry as a whole.
We revealed the CIA's vast production of malware and viruses, its subversion of supply chains, its subversion of antivirus software, cars, smart TVs and iPhones.
CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution.
It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo's explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information.
My wife and my infant son were also targeted. A CIA asset was permanently assigned to track my wife and instructions were given to obtain DNA from my six month old son's nappy.
This is the testimony of more than 30 current and former US intelligence officials speaking to the US press, which has been additionally corroborated by records seized in a prosecution brought against some of the CIA agents involved.
The CIA's targeting of myself, my family and my associates through aggressive extrajudicial and extraterritorial means provides a rare insight into how powerful intelligence organisations engage in transnational repression. Such repressions are not unique. What is unique is that we know so much about this one due to numerous whistleblowers and to judicial investigations in Spain.
This Assembly is no stranger to extraterritorial abuses by the CIA.
PACE's groundbreaking report on CIA renditions in Europe exposed how the CIA operated secret detention centres and conducted unlawful renditions on European soil, violating human rights and international law.
In February this year, the alleged source of some of our CIA revelations, former CIA officer Joshua Schulte, was sentenced to forty years in prison under conditions of extreme isolation.
His windows are blacked out, and a white noise machine plays 24 hours a day over his door so that he cannot even shout through it.
These conditions are more severe than those found in Guantanamo Bay.
Transnational repression is also conducted by abusing legal processes.
The lack of effective safeguards against this means that Europe is vulnerable to having its mutual legal assistance and extradition treaties hijacked by foreign powers to go after dissenting voices in Europe.
In Mike Pompeo's memoirs, which I read in my prison cell, the former CIA Director bragged about how he pressured the US Attorney General to bring an extradition case against me in response to our publications about the CIA.
Indeed, acceding to Pompeo's efforts, the US Attorney General reopened the investigation against me that Obama had closed and re-arrested Manning, this time as a witness.
Manning was held in prison for over a year and fined a thousand dollars a day in a formal attempt to coerce her into providing secret testimony against me.
She ended up attempting to take her own life.
We usually think of attempts to force journalists to testify against their sources.
But Manning was now a source being forced to testify against their journalist.
By December 2017, CIA Director Pompeo had got his way, and the US government issued a warrant to the UK for my extradition.
The UK government kept the warrant secret from the public for two more years, while it, the US government, and the new president of Ecuador moved to shape the political, legal, and diplomatic ground for my arrest.
When powerful nations feel entitled to target individuals beyond their borders, those individuals do not stand a chance unless there are strong safeguards in place and a state willing to enforce them. Without them no individual has a hope of defending themselves against the vast resources that a state aggressor can deploy.
If the situation were not already bad enough in my case, the US government asserted a dangerous new global legal position. Only US citizens have free speech rights. Europeans and other nationalities do not have free speech rights. But the US claims its Espionage Act still applies to them regardless of where they are. So Europeans in Europe must obey US secrecy law with no defences at all as far as the US government is concerned. An American in Paris can talk about what the US government is up to - perhaps. But for a Frenchman in Paris, to do so is a crime without any defence and he may be extradited just like me.
Now that one foreign government has formally asserted that Europeans have no free speech rights, a dangerous precedent has been set.
Other powerful states will inevitably follow suit.
The war in Ukraine has already seen the criminalisation of journalists in Russia, but based on the precedent set in my extradition, there is nothing to stop Russia, or indeed any other state, from targeting European journalists, publishers, or even social media users, by claiming that their secrecy laws have been violated.
The rights of journalists and publishers within the European space are seriously threatened.
Transnational repression cannot become the norm here.
As one of the world's two great norm-setting institutions, PACE must act.
The criminalisation of newsgathering activities is a threat to investigative journalism everywhere.
I was formally convicted, by a foreign power, for asking for, receiving, and publishing truthful information about that power while I was in Europe.
The fundamental issue is simple: Journalists should not be prosecuted for doing their jobs.
Journalism is not a crime; it is a pillar of a free and informed society.
Mr Chairman, distinguished delegates, if Europe is to have a future where the freedom to speak and the freedom to publish the truth are not privileges enjoyed by a few but rights guaranteed to all then it must act so that what has happened in my case never happens to anyone else.
I wish to express my deepest gratitude to this assembly, to the conservatives, social democrats, liberals, leftists, greens, and independents - who have supported me throughout this ordeal and to the countless individuals who have advocated tirelessly for my release.
It is heartening to know that in a world often divided by ideology and interests, there remains a shared commitment to the protection of essential human liberties.
Freedom of expression and all that flows from it is at a dark crossroad. I fear that unless norm setting institutions like PACE wake up to the gravity of the situation it will be too late.
Let us all commit to doing our part to ensure that the light of freedom never dims, that the pursuit of truth will live on, and that the voices of the many are not silenced by the interests of the few."
Watch the entire hearing here (includes introductions and following Q&A session) 👉 youtube.com/live/Mq85IZMei…

2024-09-28 15:13:29

Since ancient times the political leaders have most often achieved the exact opposite of what they intended.
That is the mental model I use whenever I try to assess the long term consequences of actions of our leaders.

2024-09-27 08:28:25

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Pomp is such a sleazy larper I could not stomach him even if he had Satoshi himself as a guest

2024-09-27 08:26:11

You haven’t been real busy util you get kids
#note195x…x40h

2024-09-26 13:01:39

Who the fuck eats plant based substitute for meat?

2024-09-17 19:42:39

If you want to DM me - just give me your pager number I’ll contact you

2024-09-17 19:40:37

Wishing we have these kind of idiots here on #nostr
https://m.primal.net/KtDv.jpg

2024-09-08 15:25:22

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Imagine how much top notch work you would be able to do and all the incredible findings and results that come along, if you did not have to waste time and energy producing quantity.
That’s the most beautiful manifestation of everything that is wrong with fiat mentality, when all the focus is on quantity instead of quality

2024-09-08 11:01:11

Why is Tesla so much more expensive in Europe than in US?
https://m.primal.net/KjUN.png
https://m.primal.net/KjUP.png

2024-09-08 08:40:05

GM #nostr how ya’ll going?
Just a reminder that Nostr is still small community but it’s evolving rapidly
https://m.primal.net/KjNt.jpg

2024-09-08 08:30:22

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Starlink I guess would be a necessity

2024-09-08 08:13:52

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We know even a sci fi novel would have a great financial aspect and lessons

2024-09-08 08:10:45

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Trust the science 😉

2024-09-07 18:34:05

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Way to go brother. Real proof of work there 💪

2024-09-05 15:45:54

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You gotta put a subtitle so we know it’s you. Something like “the memories of green man” 👨

2024-09-05 15:15:01

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It’s actually very easy to decentralize apps. With open protocol anyone can make their own app and when anyone with basic coding skills can make their own app using open source packages that exist then you have unstoppable decentralized apps. Parker is a smart guy but even smart guys sometimes show the ignorance when they don’t invest time to understand things

2024-09-01 17:41:12

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So they need to trust someone else’s node?

2024-09-01 13:44:56

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Been running Umbrel and MyNode for years but seeing many people I respect migrating to Start9 I am starting to consider it seriously.
The only thing I don’t like on Start9 is pretty poor marketplace although the only thing that I actually need that is not there is PublicPool for solo mining which Umbrel does have.
I know there was discussion before that Umbrel is not really privacy focused and they’ve put many apps on it which are I don’t really need but I don’t know where they stand now since they have upgraded a lot in past year

2024-09-01 13:15:00

Lets start a discussion.
For #Bitcoin only self sovereign use case - meaning running Bitcoin node with Lighting. Specter and Mempool which one is better from security and privacy point of view and why?
Umbrel or Start9
#asknostr

2024-08-31 05:30:01

Don’t believe in anything you read anywhere. Even history books are full of false facts and someone else’s opinions.
Learn to critically think about anything you see or read anywhere and you will progress tremendously
#note12z0…2ztr

2024-08-31 05:25:08

Expectation that government should protect one group of people from the opinions of another group of people is pure insanity

2024-08-31 05:09:31

Get up at 5AM just to enjoy a morning coffee and meditate before kids wake up

2024-08-30 17:44:04

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I might disagree with you but I’m willing to defend your right to speak whatever you might find peace with because I value freedom of speech. So, don’t shut up but feel free to show your ignorance as much as you like

2024-08-30 16:55:57

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There is no such thing as legitimate engagement on this topic but I understand and appreciate your effort to fix broken minds. I just lack patience I guess

2024-08-30 16:49:56

I know insulting is wrong and I also know I can speak truly freely here on nostr so my brain is struggling in painful moments because some people really deserve to be insulted for the stupidity of their own minds
So, I sit and meditate and think about - how would @npub1a2c…w83a respond to something really stupid without insulting the owner of stupidity - because she is so good at it

2024-08-30 16:44:31

While you enjoy your freedom there are people busy taking your rights and figuring out what is it that you speak that they don’t like so they can balance you
#note1f5h…jjfl

2024-08-30 10:19:31

Many think #Bitcoin is risky but few think about the risk of not taking risk

2024-08-30 10:07:16

https://media.tenor.com/kO9BVW4b2-oAAAAC/awesome.gif
#note1emq…9ywj

2024-08-29 20:24:06

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Sound and unforgeable money

2024-08-27 20:03:32

These days Nostr looks like USA in the 18th and 19th century. People coming from the old world into the new world looking for freedom and new beginning

2024-08-27 20:01:29

Let us welcome new arrivals #note1ftm…8qfs

2024-08-27 14:53:41

I watched @npub1cn4…3vle interview on WBD pod and I finally got confirmation that I am not the only lunatic on the internet who has experienced #Bitcoin religiously

2024-08-27 14:48:36

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That’s the whole point of enslaving people with jobs.

2024-08-27 14:45:13

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Yeah you need to be persistent and stubborn for a long time to get much less compared to Bitcoin

2024-08-27 14:40:43

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I believe Estonia has included internet access as basic human right into its constitution

2024-08-27 14:39:42

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Beacuse you can not simply connect to internet. You need to connect to someone’s infrastructure. There is no plug you and I can just connect to unless we build our own infrastructure

2024-08-27 14:34:49

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Here is gold but "only" 10k simulations
https://m.primal.net/KPsg.png

2024-08-27 14:31:02

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Everything except 3,4,5,6

2024-08-27 14:22:05

The world is healing one shitcoin at a time #note1yk8…mjuj

2024-08-27 14:12:06

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Disregard rebalancing statistics on second image it is for some additional simulations I made but the ROI distributions on second image shows in how many cases ROI is less than 1 (meaning still in loss) and in how many cases ROI is higher than 1, 2 and 5

2024-08-27 14:06:31

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Yeah, great exercise for us introverts

2024-08-27 13:57:20

So, lets say you want to DCA into #Bitcoin but would like to know what to expect based on the history. Yes, yes I know. History does not repeat and we can't make reliable predictions about the future based on the past - but what else do we have?
Anyway I have made a simulation, actually 100k simulations to see what is the distribution of results if one starts DCAing into Bitcoin at a random point in the past and what is the result after random number of days.
And this is the result
https://m.primal.net/KPoL.png
X axis shows how many days you DCA and Y axis show what is the return on invested capital.
Remember there is 100.000 simulations or dots on this image and the distribution is truly amazing.
I have so many questions about this.
Why are there orderly empty spaces in the graph that do not have any dots?
Why does it look like a wave a surfer would kill for?
WHY DOES IT NOT LOOK LIKE ANYTHING RANDOM
Anyway if you are interested in numerical statistical results here it is
https://m.primal.net/KPop.png

2024-08-27 13:43:39

In the 1890s on gold standard young people also wondered what exactly is this money we have, and why does it have value? They might then have asked: how can we be on the gold standard when I almost never see a gold coin, only paper money, copper pennies and silver dimes. What would happen if I walked into a bank and tried to demand my gold? Most people in the 1890s never tried to do that, and they might have been rebuffed if they did, because banks satisfied their obligations when they gave depositors paper dollars. So, even in the 1890s the gold standard was a tantilizing mystery.

2024-08-27 13:35:46

Little known facts about gold standard.
US basically went onto the gold standard with the Coinage Act of 1873. You might wander what was before 1873? Well, US was unofficially on bimetallic standard (with gold and silver being used as money). The Coinage Act specified the ratio of silver to gold at 16 to 1.
But, what is rarely discussed are the consequences of adopting the gold standard. After 1873 US was struck by two decades of deflation. Some people even labeled 1873 Coinage Act as a crime because deflation destroyed many debtors, especially farmers who bought their farms with mortgage because deflation lowered the price at which they could sell their crops and raised the real value of their debt.
However, in the 1890s the actual market price of gold and silver implied a ratio of 30 to 1 (not 16 to 1 as set by the Coinage Act) so there were many people that wanted to establish bimetallic standard and use both gold and silver since people would be able to cut their debt in half in case they were repaid in silver. But, in reality the consequence would be a default on half the value of all debts denominated in US dollars.
What is interesting is that the term "gold standard" has not appeared very often in books and newspapers except in two decades that where the decades of the two biggest depressions in US history (1890s and 1930s).
https://m.primal.net/KPkx.jpg
Because the gold standard was talked about very much during these depressions people like to think that gold standard narrative is a cause of severe depressions. But, in both cases the talk was about complaining that ending the gold standard meant ending something traditional and honest. People seem to have natural respect for ideas that they perceive as coming from the wisdom of the past and that reflect true and important values.
On the other hand the term "devaluation" started to be popular in the 1930s. There were no such word in the 1890s during the first depression.
https://m.primal.net/KPll.png
Source: Rober Shiller - Narative Economics

2024-08-27 12:25:07

I am yet to find a bloody paper sticker that actually sticks to something

2024-08-26 17:33:09

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Platforms are the thing of the past and protocols are the future.

2024-08-26 17:30:40

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Here’s the link it’s quite interesting story
https://www.gastro.news/magazin/bitcoin-ist-das-die-bezahlung-der-zukunft/?utm_source=Gastro+News+Newsletter&utm_campaign=39cbff4e6e-NL_MO_240826&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4e9a51acaa-39cbff4e6e-80698343&ct=t(NL_MO_240826)&mc_cid=39cbff4e6e&mc_eid=99bf3d4346

2024-08-26 17:30:07

When even gastro websites start to pay attention it must be a sign 😉 https://image.nostr.build/39b72acf0d8809c75c6c0a6ffc14e5be409b38e52dfc48314846b05aead4dd83.jpg

2024-08-26 15:23:37

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Just listened to Jack and Odell interview you are referring to. Snowden has an issues with connecting to relays via Tor and it sucks that some big relays have an issues with this. It’s not a nostr issue per se, it is more of how relays are setup.

2024-08-26 14:31:51

This tells a lot #note1sqs…xsw6

2024-08-26 14:30:18

I heard Vitalik is figuring out why proof of work actually matters

2024-08-25 19:22:52

Today I tried Keet for a video call and it worked flawlessly
The more I think about it the more curious I become as to why nobody tried this before
In a world of censorship and cancel culture, encrypted P2P communication is really the only way to protect privacy since there’s no middle man to fuck
But to survive governmental pressures open source is a necessity

2024-08-25 19:07:41

Nostr is censorship resistant only as much relays are censorship resistant
A time will come when governmental mafia will start focusing on relay operators to control them
It is inevitable if Nostr succeeds to attract millions of users
Relays are Achilles heel of Nostr

2024-08-25 09:45:54

NO !
But, in case you really underestimate the stupidity of such an
idea you are free to implement it. Nostr is open protocol and anyone can build anything on it.
#note1x3s…rygc

2024-08-25 09:43:54

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Nostr is a protocol and basically just set of rules around which people build different apps. No one can stop nostr but you are right about apps and relays. In future I am sure we're gonna see many such cases.
If I run a relay which propagates illegal content and the government decides to fuck me - I am fucked. Before locking me up they might try to put a pressure on me to reveal the IP of the users who distribute illegal content and if I am unable or unwilling to do so - I am fucked.
From the users perspective the only way to use nostr absolutely privately and anonymously is though tor as all relays are aware of users IP addresses.
But the thing is - anyone can run relay and the most important thing is to decentralize relays as much as possible so that there is really no "one head to cut off". And I am sure they will try to intimidate replay owners buy fucking up some people as an example eventually.

2024-08-24 19:38:52

Spot on #note19y9…y7zr

2024-08-24 19:14:01

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Off course not. If we could vote our way out of stupidity I’m sure we would have done it a long time ago. Or maybe every generation has to fight with it’s own stupidity over and over again

2024-08-24 19:04:41

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Since I find to-do lists extremely useful and use it every day I ended up building my own custom webapp to manage all my tasks which I can host my self and access from anywhere. All the apps out there are either too simple or too complicated for what I need.

2024-08-24 18:58:31

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Dandelion

2024-08-24 18:50:14

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Probably some shit hole none ever heard about

2024-08-24 18:48:16

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Maybe it’s just a business philosophy to give users access to freedom money since they want to be regarded as freedom email. On the way they might even get few users who know

2024-08-24 18:34:00

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Probably nothing 💪

2024-08-23 13:40:25

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We all do, that’s why we’re here

2024-08-22 21:09:13

Last day on 3 week vacation and I can’t wait to go home to my productive state of mind and continue building things
This vacation thing is boring as hell

2024-08-21 20:56:21

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When you mention the word Burgundy the taste of miraculous wine overwhelms my senses

2024-08-21 09:26:39

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I am using my own relay to have backup of all my data so no relay can rug me but in general it is quite a challenge to onboard millions of users and not use some level of relay centralization

2024-08-21 08:24:16

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I guess Primal offers the best onboarding experience with integrated lightning wallet

2024-08-20 15:40:53

Game theory:
If the governments continue their irresponsible fiscal and monetary policies all assets will continue to surge in perpetuity. Hard assets will moon and the hardest of them all will gain velocity to go beyond solar system
On the other hand if they decide to adopt financial responsibility the only way is to anchor the value of money through hard assets and they will have to reprice all hard assets in fiat terms ridiculously which will make all hard assets go to moon in fiat terms and the hardest of them all will again gain highest velocity
Everything is good for #Bitcoin

2024-08-20 11:55:54

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😁

2024-08-20 11:29:11

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If that would be the case we would never progress. The only way to learn and understand things is to invest your time and energy.

2024-08-20 10:17:34

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The expected answer would be no but to respect the reality this is not the first time civilization embarked on this road. Although we might give slightly different explanation this has happened few times in history and probably the most destructive was the collapse of Roman Empire for very similar reasons. After all it lead to 500 years of dark ages where we as humanity lost so much.

2024-08-20 10:12:57

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Good luck and don’t be scared. The world is full of great opportunities we just need to embrace the uncertainty 💪

2024-08-20 09:19:46

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But man have you tried Belgian?

2024-08-20 08:39:38

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If itnneeds USB it’s a no no for me. Only air gapped HW is what I usually recommend. Coldcard os a good choice but I like Seedsigner also

2024-08-20 08:23:20

I understand that taxes are theft but capital gains taxes are pure plunder.

2024-08-20 08:18:18

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Sure, and there is nothing wrong in expecting benefits for the time and energy people invest into open source projects.

2024-08-20 08:15:49

If your project depends on grants and you don’t even start working on it because you can not get funding maybe it is simply not very useful project

2024-08-20 08:09:18

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I’m making contributions without any financial benefits and I am sure there are many people like me out there. Sticking labels to groups of people based on few examples we find wrong is not the way

2024-08-20 07:26:31

We tend to think that our leaders are evil and that they consciously want to enslave us. But, very often their actions are just a product of ignorance and wrong incentives.
If we would truly understand incentives, apply assertive approach and educate them we might be surprised by results

2024-08-19 19:55:28

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Influencer or not I personally don’t trust anyone. That’s what Bitcoin has taught me. If the truth is not obvious invest time and energy to understand whatever you are intrigued by and come to your own conclusions.

2024-08-19 17:31:04

Price controls are not meant to help you. They are meant to help incompetent socialists get the votes they need so they can continue stealing

2024-08-19 17:18:52

#Bitcoin wallet that automatically buys Bitcoin every time you spend from it
Would use it every day

2024-08-19 17:15:33

This gonna be a shit show because some people never learn. #note18j0…3u6z

2024-08-19 17:12:05

Now imagine how do normies feel without Bitcoin #note15t8…m7qs

2024-08-19 13:54:05

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Welcome

2024-08-19 10:56:15

When ETFs launched Goldman Sachs said their clients had little interest in #Bitcoin ETFs
Last week they bought more than $400M Bitcoin ETF shares
Don’t listen to what they say - look at what they do

2024-08-19 10:15:47

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What I can tell you from similar experience is that whatever your goals are now they will change dramatically if/when you get kids. Been contemplating about living in rural area most of my life but that’s quite a challenge if you want to give your kids wide opportunities.

2024-08-19 05:48:13

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Try Laravel Filament - it’s so easy to build whatever you want

2024-08-18 19:48:22

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Build and we’ll come

2024-08-18 19:47:21

#Nostr
https://m.primal.net/KDdV.jpg

2024-08-18 19:43:06

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You can literally ask chatgpt for instructions on how to make the script and how to run it bacause it’s really simple script. If you don’t trust or use chatgpt I believe there is a code for that in Mastering Bitcoin book you can find online for free

2024-08-18 19:14:24

Everything is hate speech to someone who doesn’t agree with what you are saying

2024-08-18 19:02:04

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Nostr is useless in a society where freedom of speech is truly respected but, since the world is going mad I am grateful we have nostr. In time freedom loving people around the world will turn to nostr not because it’s great technology or tool but because they will have no other choice

2024-08-18 18:53:54

Today you you can learn anything on the internet but unfortunately most of what you learn is not true

2024-08-18 18:43:35

I don’t care about elections because whatever stupidity wins it can’t fuck me because I live on unfuckable money standard

2024-08-18 18:37:17

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Price controls are signals of collapsing society

2024-08-18 18:35:59

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You can use simple python script to generate private keys and then get addresses from them. Few years ago on my old mac I was able to generate more than100 addresses per second.

2024-08-18 13:16:45

Most of the people like to vote for socialists because their propaganda and narrative is easy to swallow and, masses love those ideas and free stuff.
As they don’t understand that there is no such thing as free lunch we will be fucked by incompetent socialists until something huge happens
Sad but true