AHWhite

Author of "Walking Banks", a bitcoin novel.
https://www.walkingbanks.com/

Listen to it for free on Fountain: https://fountain.fm/album/JYWZOPSrol8fvWpjNt8q

Neurobiologist, scientist, bitcoiner.

Public Key

npub1c2rvx6ue9uewl452kczcfxz9w242sfzn64ul8dv2afd3t5dpktzs0kmmvf

NIP-05 Address

ahwhite@nostrplebs.com

NIP-57 Address

lilactiger1@primal.net

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsv9pkrdwvj7vh0669tvpvynpzh924gy3fa270nkk9w5kc46xsm93gpzdmhxue69uhhwmm59e6hg7r09ehkuef07w8c5j

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wot.utxo.one

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2025-05-19 15:42:47

Giveaway 1,000 sats for the next 20 reposts, 500 for the next 15!
I'm doing a Zapvertising experiment to promote my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ / https://www.walkingbanks.com on Nostr and test if one can broaden an audience this way .
In addition to the Zapvertisment Zaps you can unlock 800000 sats:
If your up for a treasure hunt, the book contains a real Bitcoin seed phrase hidden within the story. So if you can piece the right string of words together, it leads to a wallet with 800000 sats in it. No funny business, all real. The first one to figure it out gets the bitcoin.
The book is out as on audiobook, e-book and print on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Banks-Mystery-Novel-White/dp/B0DCNZLV6H) so go and check it out.
Also, if you're using Nostr you can listen to the audiobook for free on Fountain (fountain.fm/album/JYWZOPSrol8fvWpjNt8q) or search for „Walking Banks“ in the music section.
Otherwise the audiobook is also available now on Spotify, Apple Books, Google play, Kobo, and pretty much everywhere else too.
#bitcoin #books #novel #story #art #zapvertising #nostr

2024-11-10 08:18:19

ok,this is just beautiful
#sun #universe #science
https://m.primal.net/LyZU.mp4

2024-10-24 12:52:00

There is „Broken Money“, there is "The Bitcoin Standard“ but the most interesting I've so far read about the monetary system is „The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve“ by G. Edward Griffin.
I can only encourage every bitcoiner to read it. It is excellently written, very engaging & goes in many ways to the core of what the problem with current fiscal policies and banking system is about.
For example, right from the 1st chapter:
"The purpose ... was to come to an agreement on the structure and operation of a banking cartel. The goal, as is true with all cartels, was to maximize profits by minimizing competition between members, to make it difficult for new competitors to enter the field, and to utilize the police power of government to enforce the cartel agreement. In more specific terms, it was to create a blueprint for the Federal Reserve System.
Here were representatives of the world's leading banking consortia... driven together by one overriding desire to fight their common enemy. The enemy was competition.
Competition also was coming from a new trend in industry to finance future growth out of profits rather than from borrowed capital…between 1900 and 1910, seventy per cent of the funding for American corporate growth was generated internally, making industry increasingly independent of the banks.... What the bankers wanted … was to intervene in the free market and tip the balance of interest rates downward, to favor debt over thrift. To accomplish this, the money supply simply had to be disconnected from gold and made more plentiful … ."
This is just from the 1st chapter and it continues to be enlightning and revealing. In my view it shows even better than Lyn's or Saif's books how the creation of the debt-based money supply system, the creation of the FED and the move away from the gold-standard was not a natural development that simply had to occur for a modern society to function but was instead driven by the influence of a few conspiratory bankers.
#nostr #bitcoin #books #bookstr #money
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/66499.The_Creature_from_Jekyll_Island

2024-10-22 19:41:25

quite interesting and promising results for a potential new therapy for diabetes 2 patients.
"Remarkably, at the 6- and 12-month follow-up, 86% of participants (12 out of 14) no longer required insulin therapy, and this success continued through the 24-month follow-up. In these cases, all patients maintained glycaemic control, with HbA1c levels remaining below 7.5%."
https://ueg.eu/a/360?origin=serp_auto
#science #diabetes

2024-10-19 11:02:51

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thanks! fyi , I uploaded the PDF of my book to Nostr if you want to get it for free, hosted on nostr.build:
https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf

2024-10-19 08:38:00

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Both were mandatory reading when I was in high school a while ago. Guess the school did something right back then.

2024-10-07 10:57:10

Am I officially old if the only acceptable breakfast #music is a Playlist with oldies like Aretha Franklin's "I say a little prayer" or "Happy Together" from The Turtles?
Music on modern breakfast playlist grinds my nerves and the typical breakfast/morning coffee shop music makes me want to go back to bed.
#asknostr #oldies #morning #breakfast

2024-10-05 18:54:51

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100% correct. There are many reasons why bitcoin is unique and successful and one of them is being the first of its kind and always leading the pack in terms of network effect. Like it or not bit Nostr does not have this advantage but instead plays the role of altcoin no.1000 vs ethereum/twitter. A superior selling point or technology alone is not sufficient. you need the network effect to work with a more rapid acceleration to work for you compared to more established alternatives.

2024-09-25 08:13:17

If anybody is looking for an interesting read, give "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business a try"
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-habit
I was expecting yet another boring "marketing book" when I picked it up but it goes surprisingly deep into #cognition, #psychology and #society in general. I enjoyed it.
#books #science #brain #neurobiology #psychology #reading

2024-09-19 17:24:18

I was listening to @npub14mc…frlx 's recent podcast with Matthew Pines and their discussion about consciousness as an underlying component of the universe. Interesting on many levels.
The philosophy he described from Philipp Goff about the meaning of life that Matthew mostly seems to follow (with some modifications), reminded me a lot about the philosophy described in Gregory Roberts 2003 novel Shantaram that he expresses in the person of Khader Khan which can be summarized maybe as "everything that contributes to the complexity and richness of existence is meaningful" and that the "the universe is driven by the need to evolve, grow, and expand its possibilities"
In his words, the whole point of everything in the universe is that the universe becomes more interesting. If one leads a life that maximizes the probability to make the universe more complex, one has lead a good life. Every act of goodness or evil, every choice we make, adds to the complexity and interest of the universe which is how he justifies his role as a mafia leader, as he sees even crime and violence as part of the greater purpose of making the universe more complex.
I have not read Goff's book "Why" yet but I wonder if there is some overlap and references to these viewpoints. Would be interesting as Robert's book predates this by 2 decades and comes from a spiritual/religious viewpoint whereas Matthew Pines seems to come more from a rationalistic approach.
#books #philosophy #consciousness #universe #purpose #podcast #religion #spirituality

2024-09-19 14:22:53

What happened a couple days ago on September 14th that Nostr saw such a spike in new users? Was there an announcement of someone famous that they switch to Nostr?
https://m.primal.net/KuqQ.jpg
#asknostr #nostr #stats

2024-09-19 07:26:09

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I would laugh if it weren't so frustrating. Just as bitcoin was starting to distinguish itself from 'crypto' and all the worthless shitcoins in mainstream discussions, we have grifters like Trump lumping them together again, confusing the narrative for anyone who isn't well-informed. This is a setback for establishing bitcoin as an honest and alternative option to fiat.

2024-09-18 17:16:32

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True. As a side note, I really need to proofread my posts when typing on mobile. So many typos in my text. Autocorrect and typing while moving is a bad combo.

2024-09-18 13:53:49

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I've finished the podcast today and I am not sure were really the controversy is.
In Saylor's view, the yield clearly comes from lending the money to an individual/entity that will amplify the value of the original loan amount. His comment ton the 65y old that wants his money to receive a yield and so he lends it out a 22year old with a great business plan etc. On an individual level, this is associated with high risk and uncertainty but once you bundle multiple of these events, the risk becomes more easy to manage and basically a bank is born. The alternative would be a VC that forms and instead of expecting a yield, they want equity. Both forms are well established principles and will continue to be so even with a fixed, deflationary money. This is a simple concept and will forever be a valid argument to loan out money to another party with the expectation to receive a yield on this loan.
And I think Saifadean's view is actually not that different, it's mostly were he sets the baseline. He argues that a "yield" will be 0 when you lend your bitcoin will be zero. But then he argues that this is better then the alternative because zero is better than a negative yield (which would occur due to cost of keeping this capital as he said over and over again).
So Saifadean's argues from a scenario where with a loan you get zero % yield but keep the value of your capital fixed but without a loan you get a negative yield (say -0.5%). How is this conceptually different from saying with a loan you get 0.5% yield and without a loan you have 0% yield? it's just moving the baseline by 0.5% one direction or the other and in a scenario that Saifadean envisions keeping your 1 bitcoin buying power constant if you loan it to someone is still better and an incentive than not loaning it out and slowly have your buying power eroded. Saylor's argument that there will always be benefits from a credit/loan system no matter the underlying monetary system is still valid either way.

2024-09-15 10:41:13

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I don't understand the technical details so sorry if this is a dumb question: if all the data for this is transmitted via relays, how does it allow for privacy?

2024-09-15 10:18:11

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is (f) for real?

2024-09-13 06:22:39

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I never really looked into farcaster and how it stacks up to Nostr. Would this be an accurate objective weighing of the pros & cons: https://denostr.medium.com/a-comparison-of-decentralized-social-protocols-nostr-and-farcaster-836dfaa0b231
if yes, I'll stick with Nostr.

2024-09-12 10:40:19

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Welcome to Nostr. Thanks for sharing your photography here!

2024-09-11 19:42:34

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- Android, newest version
- I had the issue that my own new posts and replies to it would not show for about 10h while other posts seemed to load fine a couple of days ago (independent whether I posted via phone or PC)
- right now, things seem to be back to normal

2024-09-11 13:24:35

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Interesting way to look at this.I have never thought about that way. However, I would throw one consideration in the ring: When they talk about the slowness of human behavior being slow at 10bits/s, they are only using conscious perception examples. The speed of data processing that we are all doing all the time subconsciously - interpreting the thousands/millions of visual stimuli, smells and sounds when racing down a hill with unknown terrain on a bicycle and adjusting posture, direction and steering within split seconds for example - far exceeds this throughput capacity greatly. It's still human behavior but it's just that this happens subconsciously.

2024-09-11 07:37:14

A recent paper discussing the framework to understand wjether or not LLMs can be conscious:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-024-03553-w
I don't believe a LLM can ever be considered conscious for many reasons and only other AI approaches could get there but still an interesting read.
#ai #llm #chatgtp #consciousness #neuroscience #science #philosophy

2024-09-10 11:00:07

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I had the same revelation a decade ago when cooking with some Italian friends. They also didn't rinse the soap off. Don't know if this was just a peculiarity from then.

2024-09-09 16:55:41

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I agree. I knew about bitcoin since 2014 and even had some back then. But I did not get it's uniqueness, I did not get how it is fundamentally different from all other shitcoins, I did not get "money". So I played around with other coins, traded and lost most of it. I credit Saylor's thoughts and hours and hours of explaining bitcoin from a more philosophical and economical standpoint and the fundamental importance of proof of work that it clicked.

2024-09-09 13:07:40

Quite impressive phase 3 data from Summit's new lung cancer drug:
https://www.biopharmadive.com/news/summit-wclc-ivonescimab-keytruda-full-results-lung-cancer/726376/
For context, "Keytruda" has been pretty much the gold-standard for a decade now for this indication and has back then revolutionized the immune-oncology field. To now have a new potential drug that performs "twice as good" is really something.
A drawback is that this is based on clinical data from China and there have been some problems in the past with reliability here. But on the other hand, this effect is so huge, they would have really needed to mess up the trial or tinker with the data for this to be not true.
#science #cancer #oncology #drugs

2024-09-09 10:47:19

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Thanks for giving it a shot.I hope you enjoy it!

2024-09-09 08:38:40

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can your old meter run backwards (e.g. when you are feeding own solar into the grid)? If yes and you have the option to generate your own electricity, even just with a small 800w solar setup, I'd keep the old one as I've yet to see a new one that goes into negatives.

2024-09-08 19:50:26

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welcome home!

2024-09-07 18:28:33

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov, 1980

2024-09-07 15:38:12

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Interesting. I did install the nos2x extension yesterday for the first time and thought maybe it had something to do with it. But seemed to have been a more general issue then.

2024-09-07 13:20:06

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I had the case yesterday that Primus didn't load or show my own post or replies to them for ~10h. everything else loaded fine.No idea what happened but today it works normally again.

2024-09-07 10:48:03

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Hi Adrian, I saw your DM and replied today (weirdly I did not see my own post or your message here in my primal app until just now)

2024-09-07 10:47:05

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not sure what happened with my primal account yesterday but interestingly this post did not pop-up on my profile as posted and I also didn't see any replies to it until just now? (which is why I reposted it today which seems was unnecessary). I wonder what happened, can there be synchronization errors/delays in the relays for something like this to happen?

2024-09-07 10:18:36

Sorry for the repost but I'm still learning how to use muliple Nostr-apps correctly, so one more try hoping the link and the tags are correct this time:
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Here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ for everyone to download (hosted on nostr.build):
https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf
It is a murder mystery thriller with Bitcoin as a key plot element without being the focus of the story itself. Please feel free to share it with fellow Nostriches if you like.
I wrote this book for two reasons:
a) To provide a couple of hours of enjoyment. „Walking Banks“ does not aim to be high literature, but rather an entertaining read.
b) To contribute in my own small way to the growth of the Bitcoin community and network. Bitcoin has become well integrated into the lives of those interested in finance and freedom, but discussions about it often remain confined to those bubbles, reaching only a select niche. I believe the next important step for Bitcoin is to become a common topic in everyday pop culture - whether in art, music, films, books, or other media. This book is thus my attempt to "orange pill" a broader audience by weaving Bitcoin into a fictional story. My hope is that it sparks curiosity about it in the reader in a natural way, without being too forceful or preachy, for readers who might not usually consider these topics but enjoy a good murder mystery.
I believe Bitcoin and Nostr are joined at the hip, as both stand for freedom, sovereignty, and independence in an increasingly controlled and surveilled world. Everything that helps Nostr also helps Bitcoin, and vice versa, so I hope I can contribute a bit this way to Nostr's exclusivity and value content proposition.
Thanks to @npub1qny…95gx whose advocacy for Nostr brought me here, @npub1trr…hdpu whose work at the HRF is inspirational, @npub1r0r…q9ac who told me about @npub1nxy…avr7 so that I can host the file and to @npub1smr…xn8w, who first put the idea of sharing the book on Nostr into my head!
I hope you enjoy the read.
AH White
#nostr #bitcoin #books #grownostr #literature #artstr #nostrplebs #btc #freedom #artonnostr #bookstr

2024-09-07 09:00:13

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it is a bit deflating. I sometimes feel the same way. But seeing for how long you've already been invested, you've been through worse. It's all a matter of perspective. I have a friend who is just in the middle of his first 4-year tour...he is ~2x up on his investment, yet he is pessimistic about his investment since "everyone is selling".

2024-09-06 21:20:02

Still learning how to use muliple Nostr-apps correctly, so one more try hoping the link and the tags are correct this time:
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Here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ for everyone to download (hosted on nostr.build):
https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf
It is a murder mystery thriller with Bitcoin as a key plot element without being the focus of the story itself. Please feel free to share it with fellow Nostriches if you like.
I wrote this book for two reasons:
a) To provide a couple of hours of enjoyment. „Walking Banks“ does not aim to be high literature, but rather an entertaining read.
b) To contribute in my own small way to the growth of the Bitcoin community and network. Bitcoin has become well integrated into the lives of those interested in finance and freedom, but discussions about it often remain confined to those bubbles, reaching only a select niche. I believe the next important step for Bitcoin is to become a common topic in everyday pop culture - whether in art, music, films, books, or other media. This book is thus my attempt to "orange pill" a broader audience by weaving Bitcoin into a fictional story. My hope is that it sparks curiosity about it in the reader in a natural way, without being too forceful or preachy, for readers who might not usually consider these topics but enjoy a good murder mystery.
I believe Bitcoin and Nostr are joined at the hip, as both stand for freedom, sovereignty, and independence in an increasingly controlled and surveilled world. Everything that helps Nostr also helps Bitcoin, and vice versa, so I hope I can contribute a bit this way to Nostr's exclusivity and value content proposition.
Thanks to @npub1qny…95gx, whose advocacy for Nostr brought me here, @npub1trr…hdpu whose work at the HRF is inspirational, @npub1r0r…q9ac who told me about @npub1nxy…avr7 so that I can host the file and to @npub1smr…xn8w, who first put the idea of sharing the book on Nostr into my head!
I hope you enjoy the read.
AH White
#nostr #bitcoin #books #grownostr #literature #artstr #nostrplebs #btc #freedom #artonnostr #bookstr

2024-09-06 21:02:17

Hi everyone!
here is the free PDF of my bitcoin novel „Walking Banks“ for everyone to download (hosted on nostr.build):
https://d.nostr.build/UlE0X93faO1XxD9l.pdf
It is a murder mystery thriller with Bitcoin as a key plot element without being the focus of the story itself. Please feel free to share it with fellow Nostriches if you like.
I wrote this book for two reasons:
a) To provide a couple of hours of enjoyment. „Walking Banks“ does not aim to be high literature, but rather an entertaining read.
b) To contribute in my own small way to the growth of the Bitcoin community and network. Bitcoin has become well integrated into the lives of those interested in finance and freedom, but discussions about it often remain confined to those bubbles, reaching only a select niche. I believe the next important step for Bitcoin is to become a common topic in everyday pop culture - whether in art, music, films, books, or other media. This book is thus my attempt to "orange pill" a broader audience by weaving Bitcoin into a fictional story. My hope is that it sparks curiosity about it in the reader in a natural way, without being too forceful or preachy, for readers who might not usually consider these topics but enjoy a good murder mystery.
I believe Bitcoin and Nostr are joined at the hip, as both stand for freedom, sovereignty, and independence in an increasingly controlled and surveilled world. Everything that helps Nostr also helps Bitcoin, and vice versa, so I hope I can contribute a bit this way to Nostr's exclusivity and value content proposition.
Thanks to @npub1qny…95gx, whose advocacy for Nostr brought me here, @npub1trr…hdpu whose work at the HRF is inspirational, @npub1r0r…q9ac who told me about @npub1nxy…avr7 so that I can host the file and to @npub1smr…xn8w, who first put the idea of sharing the book on Nostr into my head!
I hope you enjoy the read.
AH White
https://m.primal.net/KBZO.jpg
#nostr #bitcoin #books #grownostr #literature #artstr #nostrplebs #btc #freedom #artonnostr #bookstr

2024-09-06 08:42:37

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a suggestion:
include the donation link that only pops up for a small duration in the video in your post in the future for easier access. Or something like "any zaps to this post will directly transferred and donated to strengthen the efforts of the Venezuelan opposition cause"? (or even link the zaps to their bitcoin address if that is possible)

2024-09-06 06:40:44

Interesting small Nature paper on how LLMs "perceive" the user based on the dialect used. Given how LLMs will be more and more commonplace going forward - often without the user knowing that they are interacting with a LLM - this might have relevant implications for how the user is treated by the LLM (e.g. imagine a LLM that filters out applicant suitability for a loan in a first pass black box filter based on dialect assumptions).
"LLMs produce racist output when prompted in African American English"
https://media.nature.com/original/magazine-assets/d41586-024-02527-x/d41586-024-02527-x.pdf
#AI #LLM #chatgtp #future #science

2024-09-04 18:10:29

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thanks. I'll have a look at it.

2024-09-04 11:08:16

Is there a way I can share a PDF on Nostr?
I'd like to share the PDF of my book for free to every Nostr user as a tiny contribution to grow the network and add some exclusive content to Nostr but so far I am not sure how to do this.
Maybe some Nostr experts can show me if&how this is possible?
@npub1l2v…ajft @npub18am…p424 @npub1r0r…q9ac @npub180c…h6w6
#asknostr #nostr #grownostr #artonnostr #literature #bookstr #books

2024-08-28 07:23:59

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I agree, it is a good analysis and definitely supports the main point that this is a problem that needs more attention.
In general, woman's health and just generally considering the differences in man's vs. woman's clinical realities is unfortunately still underappreciated in medical research and physician's training (classical example: knowing the differences in heart attack symptoms). The good news is that it does get better these days and is getting on people's radar more and more.

2024-08-27 18:09:21

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this is an important issue and the suicide rate and risk is definitely increased for PMDD sufferers (for systematic review and meta-analysis see e.g.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721500/) but your absolute numbers are way of. Probably by a factor of 50-100x.
There are not ~700k American women dying of PMDD related suicide every year. That would imply that almost half of all women that die in the US each year die because of PMDD related suicide (see e.g.https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db492.htm). Still a very important issue!

2024-08-27 11:14:32

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About the dopamine fix:
I am not the biggest fan of dismissing this as something negative and without value. As Paracelsus said "The dose makes the poison". There is something incredible important about regular dopamine fixes for staying engaged and motivated. Having too much dopamine fixes (=twitter) is just as bad as not getting enough (=potentially Nostr). A healthy middle.-ground would be nice.
We (Nostr-advocates) like to point out that Nostr is different from all other social medias in that the user is the algorithm and kind of responsible for making sure he sees the content that interests him/her. Imo, this is not the best way forward and is self-serving but does not lead to the biggest Nostr-gowth. There is a reason why products that offer the best convenience mostly win in the marketplace of ideas.
I thus believe that we actually do need content algorithms for Nostr. But make their rules transparent, make them free to opt-in or out and switch between different algorithms. What I would like to see is a Nostr client like Primal or Damus giving me a menu option to activate "Content algorithm A vs. B. vs C" with each of them providing a different experience (e.g. A=wide net based on all recent posts that have similar content/topics as the posts I liked the most in the last month, B=net based on all the followers that overlap between the people I also follow and have posted the most in the last week, and so on ) . If one is inclined to so so, maybe even provide a checklist of aspects a Nostr-user can activate that then result in a user-specific algorithm that the client software generates.
#damus #primal #nostr #algorithm #engagement

2024-08-21 07:20:58

Thank God....I always thought I am just too stupid to understand "lawyernese":
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819
#science #law #psychology #lawyers #legal

2024-08-19 14:55:53

A meaningful, insightful stand against the lunacy that is happening in the UK by Rowan Atkinson:
https://youtu.be/xxWMhB4Cfm0?si=vm9A2fVJkPBGxQ3r
#freespeech #uk #england #section5 #freedom #nostr #mrbean

2024-08-17 18:46:32

New study reports on massive amounts on water within Mars' crust. Hard to get to but if their models are right this would be good news for future Mars missions and a potential long term settlement independent from the water at the poles.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2409983121
#science #mars #space #spacex

2024-08-17 18:25:57

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I think with Elon's takeover of twitter and the continuing alienation of people, Nostr is at the right place at the right time but I agree that it would be great if it could capitalize on this opportunity more rapidly. The "gradually then suddenly" mantra is not wrong but maybe it is too idealistic.
Apart from the no-brainer to capture as much of the bitcoin crowd as possible and - for lack of a better term - better marketing, two aspects could also be considered:
a) similar to bitcoin's value proposition, not looking at it from a western perspective but thinking about the long term appeal of Nostr to people living under authoritarian regimes. It should be immediately obvious to anyone living under such a regime how Nostr differentiates from Twitter & co in many regards (e.g. doxxing risk from the central authority, shutting down their account because the government said so etc.). Make Nostr better known to those people and maybe we see a rapid rise in participation. I realize many good people like @npub1trr…hdpu are working that angle already but could we do more in that direction?
b) that might be controversial but I strongly believe if one could convince a major celebrity to switch to Nostr exclusively from twitter, you will have a big portion of their following joining along. Imagine if Taylor Swift tomorrow declares that she quits twitter and will continue on Nostr! Nostr would immediately gain millions of users. Question is, if/how to convince a celebrity with a strong following to become exclusive? Apart from idealistic arguments, maybe purely financial motivation is needed? I realize this is going to rub a lot of people the wrong way but what if instead of @npub1sg6…f63m supporting Nostr development work with the next round of money, Swift gets paid $5M to become Nostr exclusive for 3 months? This might have a bigger impact on Nostr' popularity and uptake than anything else.
Not the morally best way to do it and the numbers might be off but I'm more playing devils advocate a bit here for brainstorming reasons.

2024-08-17 09:48:53

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thanks! I hope it can entertain for a couple of hours.

2024-08-16 11:34:43

My bitcoin book "Walking Banks" is now available for free for everyone to download. It's a murder mystery story with bitcoin as a key plot element that follows US agent Jack Decker on his way to Beijing to catch a serial killer that has targeted an old friend.
It would make my day if you could give it a try for free, provide some feedback or review and connect with me here on Nostr.
https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Banks-Mystery-Novel-White-ebook/dp/B0DCP6BCDL/
#bitcoin #writing #books #CBDC #author #stories #fiction #mystery #novel

2024-08-13 18:41:40

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Very good read! I already forwarded it to some people.

2024-08-05 14:07:10

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I think they will get it in check rapidly. Besides,even for the stock market and the major tech players...zoom out just 1y and this is just a minor blip on the radar. We are only back to april/may levels. Nothing really major happening so far other than correcting some AI driven hype over the past months.

2024-08-04 19:39:55

MDMA/ecstasy treatment against PTSD recommended for rejection by FDA.
https://slate.com/technology/2024/06/fda-panel-mdma-therapy-lykos-therapeutics-rejection.html
A pity that a bad trial design from Lykos doesn't allow to really answer this interesting question and offee a potential treatment opportunity for people that suffer.
#science #mdma #psychedelics

2024-08-02 17:16:45

Interesting pre-print how Chat GTP & LLMs are changing the way scientific publications are written:
https://arxiv.org/html/2406.07016v2
Kind of understandable that especially non-English-native speakers make use of it to polish their articles. But words matter, especially when trying to describe a new finding as scientifically accurate as possible. I wonder to what extend this verbose and flowery language is then really understood by the authors themselves and whether or not those words really correctly describe their findings or not.
#science #writing #ai

2024-07-31 20:06:14

Is it just me or does there seem to be an influx of bots and scammers arriving to #Nostr lately? It looks like more and more of "DM me for my cool financial trick" or "join my newsletter on how to earn money with #bitcoin mining" replies are popping up in more and more posts.

2024-07-30 17:42:17

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Fantastic run! looking forward to your next steps.

2024-07-29 20:07:44

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I agree with some other comments here that it could help where your friends are coming from? Are they financially literate? Are the concerned about government overreach or censorship? Do they worry about climate change? Do they want to make a quick buck, etc. etc.?
Depending on their starting points you could gear the slides,info and discussion in different ways. They worry about climate change? Show them examples about how bitcoin mining can make transitory renewable energy cheaper and accelerate its spread. Are they concerned about social justice? Show them some slides from Alex Gladstein or what Gridless does in Africa. Do they want to learn the monetary aspect of it? Michael Saylor's talks and slides or e.g. https://learn.saylor.org/course/PRDV151 might be most useful.

2024-07-28 20:45:47

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It's a little bit an indirect variant of the the "proof-of-work to prevent spam" principle. When hate, provocation and antagonistic statements are free, a platform will be spammed with it as this triggers people. When there is a mechanism that shows the real appreciation of a post that is connected to real proof of work value (and not a free "thumbs up"), the valuable posts and topics will shine more.

2024-07-26 20:01:22

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Thanks for all your important work!

2024-07-26 12:58:36

Europe's EMEA recommends to refuse Leqembi, Eisai's "anti-Alzheimer's" antibody. It's approved by the FDA in the US. I think the EMEA is making the right call. The clinical data and modest improvements (if any) are really not convincing imo.
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/leqembi
#science
#neuroscience

2024-07-25 21:22:29

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True words. Thanks for pointing me to his channel!

2024-07-24 10:06:57

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Thanks for all the interesting content over the past years. Good luck for your future endeavors!

2024-07-23 20:33:44

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there are many more economic systems and philosophies than capitalism and communism.
And there is no axiomic overlap of progressive social or political views with the economic system of communism. Just because bitcoin's characteristics do not fit with communism a) does not logically infer that it's characteristics are therefore best fitting with capitalism and b) it cannot align wth a social or political progressive world view which can exist completely independent from the desire to adhere to a communistic economic system.

2024-07-23 19:54:45

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That's provocative but simplistic and not true. Bitcoin is money. With a specific set of characteristics that differentiates it from other money. But these characteristics are not connected to capitalism or any other economic philosophy/system.

2024-07-22 15:38:59

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incredible indeed. but at least it wasn't announced with a fax.

2024-07-21 20:15:22

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I think this quick dip and spike was more a result of computer trading and not really emotion. They are programmed to sell on any "shock news" no matter the asset or content of the actual news itself (would have looked the same for the stock market had it been open). The quick recovery is then the opposite more rationale reaction as in "Meh,it doesn't really matter in the end "
Doesn't change the fact that bitcoin is a 24/7 pulsemeter to the news though.

2024-07-20 18:22:12

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Couldn't people use a BIP-85 child seed from one of their existing bitcoin wallets (where they normally already have very good safety and storage options established) and use this child seed as their Nostr identity?

2024-07-20 18:18:52

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with BIP85 I mean

2024-07-20 18:13:02

Question to Nostr and bitcoiners:
is it correct that I can generate a child seed from a bitcoin wallet and then use it as my Nostr identity so to speak? If yes - given that many have a good storage option for their bitcoin wallet already established - wouldn't this solve the problem that some people see when tying their whole digital social identity to one Nostr key (and fearing to easily lose it)?
#nostr
#bitcoin
#asknostr

2024-07-19 16:09:54

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A key problem that the US has is thediminant power of the Fourth Estate. The media is too monopolized , polarized on purpose and actively working to dumb the populace down. This is not unique to the US but it is very pronounced in the US. As long as this is not addressed it will ultimately not matter who is in charge in the long run as the path down idiocracy-lane is clearly paved and an easy path to walk down for the people in the years to come.

2024-07-18 20:54:31

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there is a nostr elite?

2024-07-13 11:30:45

ask your favorite AI LLM:
"You have a 5 gallon bucket and a 2 gallon bucket. How do you measure 7 gallons?"
#ai

2024-07-01 11:19:22

Interesting new method for gene editing described:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2437237-bridge-editing-could-be-even-better-at-altering-dna-than-crispr/
Original paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07552-4

2024-06-05 15:06:54

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PXQAVGR1YFs&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fixthemoney.net%2F&feature=emb_logo
an important step in bitcoin adaption
#bitcoin

2024-05-22 17:56:02

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who would have thought? quantum effects in microtubules habe been measured for the first time. Maybe Penrose was right about the nature of consciousness after all?
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07936
#science #brain #consciousness

2024-05-03 16:24:31

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the inmates ate running the asylum

2024-05-03 14:43:36

The inmates are running the asylum...Jared Bernstein is the chair of the United States Council of Economic Advisers. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1cj5dan/this_has_to_be_satire_right/
#bitcoin

2024-04-06 09:27:19

Question to all the macro economists and freedom minded people out there:
Order 6102 is for many reasons an important topic for bitcoin. Most recently I read this article about the legal aspects leading up to it:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/national-emergency-executive-order-6102-and-the-heist-of-the-century-?mc_cid=6986670da3&mc_eid=UNIQID
I feel I conceptually understand both the rational and the criticism around Order 6102. What I don't understand and cannot find a lot of information about is if there were alternative solutions discussed back then to fix the problem that go beyond "let it blow up and it'll fix itself ". because even if this is a workable solution, it is not an "electable" solution.
what would have been alternative ways to tackle the problem back then that did not lead to confiscation? Were any of these alternatives tried out successfully in other nations in history?
I think the best way to avoid a similar future for bitcoin in the U.S. would be to present and lobby for those alternative solutions right now so that when shit hits the fan in terms of US debt and waning influence of the dollar (which it will), the alternative solutions have widespread support in congress.
#bitcoin #order6102 @LynAlden @preston @Odell @saifedean

2024-04-05 18:32:45

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If you feel your coffee consumption impacts your well being, it's good to reset but otherwise coffee is actually one of the few "addictions" that are generally agreed to be beneficial:
Coffee consumption and health: umbrella review of meta-analyses of multiple health outcomes
https://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5024.long

2024-03-28 10:01:37

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to Leni Riefenstahl?

2024-03-28 05:55:59

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thank you!! finally someone says it. it's cliché, full of plot holes and tries so hard to impress with visuals that are just corny and stupid. It's more like a modern Leni Riefenstahl movie than anything else.

2024-03-19 19:34:24

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I see it the same way.
I assume it depends in the end what bitcoin represents for you. I believe numbers 1-3 are at the core for someone who views bitcoin through the monetary lense and probably also for someone approaching it more from the philosophical and societal aspect of it (because the impact of bitcoin in those realms are primarily derived from its properties as sound money as well, so secondary or layer 2 properties derived from its core layer 1 monetary bedrock).
If you view bitcoin more from the technical and protocol site, the "thing" you want bitcoin to be could be different. I can understand that...I just hope we don't break bitcoin along the way.

2024-03-19 12:31:03

#bitcoin #meme
https://m.primal.net/HmQJ.jpg

2024-03-15 19:39:14

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Done,donated a bit.go and make them all purple !

2024-03-15 17:21:06

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good for them!

2024-03-14 18:09:56

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welcome!

2024-03-14 08:01:17

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Are you referring to IIT with your Bayesian comment?

2024-03-14 07:57:08

Really interesting new paper exploring how GTP-generated sentences can drive brain region specific responses in humans reading those sentences. Could be a first glimpse into better understanding how LLMs-AI models "interact" with human language as perceived by the brain (in simplified terms). It's with restricted access on Nature but the preprint can be downloaded under https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.16.537080v1
#science #neuroscience #neurology #AI #LLM

2024-03-12 14:42:14

Just a reminder to always keep a level of scepticism when reading about scientific breakthroughs in the main press.
Unfortunately, the main press loves to run with these kind of initial scientific reports/breakthroughs but when the science community then corrects itself, as it so often does as part of the regular scientific process, these retractions and correcting articles pretty much never make it into the everyday press.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00716-2

2024-03-10 07:50:56

Ok,so I have just learned about BIP85 and its use case for "child seeds". This seems to me like a really convenient way, even without multisig, to provide/generate multiple wallets for friends or relatives that don't have much bitcoin knowledge and alleviate the fear of losing their seed. Am I missing any disadvantages here? (I never hear BIP85 discussed as a strategy for long term storage or distribution within a defined number of peers when this question is discussed (
#Bitcoin #asknostr

2024-03-07 15:29:46

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All to get more money from the IMF ... and the sad cycle continues

2024-03-07 14:18:42

New study shows another possible reason why&how sleep is important for a well functioning brain. Baseline assumption is not new but the group has identified the neurons responsible for this phenomenon.
https://www.genengnews.com/topics/translational-medicine/alzheimers-linked-neuronal-waste-expelled-in-coordinated-waves-during-sleep/
#neurology #science #sleep

2024-03-06 19:42:11

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that's fantastic.

2024-03-06 08:23:31

#memes
https://m.primal.net/HiGm.png

2024-03-05 19:12:30

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That's a really nice lineup. cannot make it this year but hope I can attend some time in the future (in case you are planning to make this an annual event!)

2024-03-05 17:43:48

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thank you!

2024-03-05 16:47:50

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people are jumping off a moving train on its way to its destination. their loss.

2024-03-05 08:27:33

An interesting short article about two conflicting theories about consciousness: https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/current/thought-leadership/2023/10/consciousness-why-a-leading-theory-has-been-branded-pseudoscience/

2024-03-04 20:01:52

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I agree, it's somehow very energy-draining. I'd rather spent 8h in a train than going on a 3h flight (which takes in the end also like 6-7h given all the logistics you mentioned anyway)

2024-03-04 11:32:04

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Is the guy on the left from the Bulgarian Football club that also adopted bitcoin?

2024-03-04 10:20:48

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07095-8
"On the genetic basis of tail-loss evolution in humans and apes"
bring back tails, damit!