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David Caseria

sovereign.app

CEO sovereign.app

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npub1dvdcmtp5llrp63jdlmhspe9gffsyu9ew7cu3ld3f9y7k79nxzjxqf4d4rm

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dvdc@sovereign.app

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dvdc@svrgn.app

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2024-11-27 10:50:25

Who should control the money?
The liberal state gives us a false dichotomy to organize society: something is either a sacred right of the individual or entirely controlled by the state. But the Church, in her wisdom, sketches out an alternative way to handle our affairs: subsidiarity. Broadly, subsidiarity breaks down rights and duties into the following categories:
- Individual
- Family
- Community
- State
In this context, it becomes evident that Bitcoin opposes state money management yet cannot scale to individuals either. It will be a tool to help us reorganize our society away from the poles of the spectrum towards the center of families and communities, which will be healthy for our political order overall.

2024-11-27 00:18:51

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You can even mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper: http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html?m=1

2024-11-24 18:03:42

Domini Nostri Iesu Christi universorum Regis https://image.nostr.build/814245b535b1bb95001fb9926dfd0185b3b21a03b6e283204698042b20f8c303.jpg

2024-11-24 00:55:40

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🤔

2024-11-23 23:45:48

I wish this weren't true, but X is still where all the interesting Bitcoin discussions happen.

2024-11-10 21:35:24

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To be fair, the US has been shitcoining since at least 1971 😅

2024-11-09 12:09:38

Some people don’t know how to win.

2024-11-07 19:09:25

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💯 an underappreciated aspect of the two-party system
Unfortunately, sometimes the two choices are a part of the same uniparty, but that's a different issue.

2024-11-06 12:15:07

The fight has just begun, but thank God we have the opportunity to fight.
https://m.primal.net/LuWu.mov

2024-11-06 01:40:59

Thank God https://image.nostr.build/49769edcedd40efca5464637f5b71c8aac05061b0147c5962b75bd46a2b08a94.jpg

2024-11-05 22:49:36

https://image.nostr.build/bc4b0ab494dc2b6b1f4433a26d038f8d30fd95262b08be612ea662a9a43b4852.jpg

2024-10-30 09:21:46

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Good news. We’re working on a blind auth scheme. More details will be released soon. 🙂

2024-10-29 21:15:00

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I'm working on it! https://sovereign.app/
We need auth in the cashu protocol, which we are working on now, to ensure only the people you want to use your mint can use it.

2024-10-29 17:51:44

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Genuinely curious question: How do you validate that the machine runs the open-source software?

2024-10-28 19:35:57

Real zappers zap in powers of 2

2024-10-27 18:34:29

Many Bitcoiners would benefit from listening to this section of Ben Shapiro's Sunday Special about the tension of virtue and freedom: https://youtu.be/JW-jmlLc3A8?t=21m3s

2024-10-26 16:37:22

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Apologies for the issue! DM me with details, and I’ll try to help you recover the sats.

2024-10-26 12:59:24

Does your Bitcoin wallet greet you like a true Bitcoiner?
https://m.primal.net/LioJ.jpg

2024-10-25 20:40:30

What would you say to a proud American who just came back from a European trip and is disenchanted with the American lifestyle of driving everywhere and eating poison and wants to go back to safe, walkable town centers with restaurants that serve edible food that won't make you a recurring customer for Big Pharma?
Asking for a friend. 😅

2024-10-20 17:23:55

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Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.

2024-10-18 07:07:40

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Any institutions that have access to children (churches, public schools, Boy Scouts, etc) will draw predators. Like any human organization, the Church is full of sinners, and likely, all will not be saved, but if you take salvation and God’s revelation seriously, the Church still is what it says it is despite these scandalizers.

2024-10-14 18:01:12

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GB-month is typically what AWS uses https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/pricing/

2024-10-09 11:13:38

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All layer-2 protocols (including Ark and LN with channel factories) require unilateral exit to remain 'trustless.' However, as more people use them, there are fewer opportunities to perform that exit among untrusting parties, thus bringing us back to the same problem: trust is introduced.
For example, if we use channel factories to scale so that individuals use an on-chain transaction once every 6 months on average, we can get many more people on-chain. But that means, on average, each person can't make another transaction for the next 6 months, including exiting the channel factory if a peer goes offline or maliciously force-closes, which most will find unacceptable to hold their money. So, the implication is that each person needs to trust the rest of the peers, which we can facilitate better outside of layer-2 protocols.

2024-10-08 19:54:35

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Welcome to Democracy

2024-10-08 14:23:51

Not everyone can self-custody. When you run the numbers, only a few people will be able to hold the keys to their own Bitcoin.
https://sovereign.app/blog/only-1-million-people-will-hold-bitcoin

2024-10-06 16:08:43

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I did tell you. Again, this isn't a “god of the gaps” argument. You clearly didn't listen to or read any of the content I provided. There can be good theistic and atheistic dialogue, but you're not representing your side well. Now, respond to my arguments, or you will lose my attention.

2024-10-06 15:29:15

“The fundamental building block of society is not the individual but the family.” https://youtu.be/nwIRsAjlX78

2024-10-06 14:59:39

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So you don't know why we exist, but you know it's not God?
What you're saying isn't entirely wrong, but you're asserting God doesn't exist without arguments.
I’ve tried to show you that our existence is contingent and infinite contingency is a contradiction; therefore, there must be something that is existence itself. In a goodwill, rational discussion, go after the arguments.
You don't have to assent to belief in God, but at least make good arguments against it.

2024-10-06 12:43:45

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@npub1mhc…c226 do you need any help with payment requests? I think your PR is a good start.

2024-10-06 09:44:58

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NWC for cashu would be 🔥

2024-10-06 00:20:41

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Yes, exactly: the train's motion is caused by the locomotive. We are the train, and God is the locomotive. There needs to be a locomotive to move the train. The train cars by themselves can't move. Yet it is an error to look at the moving train cars linked together and ask what car is causing the locomotive to move.
Similarly, we don't cause our existence. We are contingent on our parents, on the oxygen we breathe, and on the food we eat. All those things are contingent on other things. There can't be infinite contingent things because nothing would have sufficient reason to exist; therefore, nothing would exist. But we do exist, so there must be something that exists necessarily, which does not depend on anything else for its existence. That's God.
By definition, God is not contingent on people creating gods. God would still exist if there were no people because he is sheer existence itself.
I tried to adapt St. Thomas Aquinas’s third-way argument to our context. Still, these classical arguments probably have better standalone explanations elsewhere than I can summarize here if you want to understand the rationale for believing in God.

2024-10-05 21:55:06

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I'm not sure if you're trying to make an argument or if you're still confused by what I'm saying.
“What made god” is nonsensical. It’s like asking which car on the train pulls the locomotive. It misunderstands the subject.
I'm not making a gap in knowledge argument. I’m making a philosophical argument based on contingency.
If you're interested in better understanding the arguments, this is a good video: https://youtu.be/t2VbTvZfKXw

2024-10-05 18:43:49

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I am partially agreeing with you, but you omitted or seem confused about the nature of God (”the Maker”).
> People have created gods everywhere there have been people.
Yes, some people create gods, that is, idols: pagan gods and goddesses, money, power, pleasure, fame, the self, the state, etc.
> The makers are people that have created thousands of gods.
The makers can't be the people because they were made. Who is the ultimate maker of the makers? That is what is meant by God: the uncreated creator or unmoved mover.

2024-10-05 15:18:48

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Some people create gods, but God is uncreated

2024-10-05 14:50:32

“When the freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God, as the image of God at the core of his being. The defence of the family is about man himself. And it becomes clear that when God is denied, human dignity also disappears. Whoever defends God is defending man.”
https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2012/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20121221_auguri-curia.html

2024-10-05 10:16:53

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Would the discovery process be the apocalypse (i.e., revelation or unveiling)?

2024-10-03 22:45:50

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Before we make NIP-60 the standard, I would love to work with @npub1l2v…ajft to simplify the current spec in a couple of ways

2024-10-03 18:07:12

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Only a few people will use self-custody lightning. Even fewer understand this.

2024-10-03 12:54:29

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It’s still a draft: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1369

2024-10-02 20:11:24

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Saying you have enough kids is like saying you have enough health. It’s a blessing that can never be depleted.

2024-10-02 16:12:23

@npub1l2v…ajft ‘s NIP-61 will be a significant UX improvement to zapping

2024-10-02 13:19:54

A point missed in the e-cash vs. custodial lightning debate is that a business running a custodial lightning service depends on the state for its existence. States “incorporate” businesses; they form them under their rule.
An individual exists before the state. An individual is part of a family, community, and body politic, which make up the state.
Individuals have a reputation to uphold. Companies live and die by the dictates of the state. Which one would you rather hold your money?

2024-09-28 14:01:27

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The propaganda machine is powerful to keep a large part of the population unaware of what is happening. Most are too bought in to come to terms with the lies they believe in, but hopefully there's enough that can escape from their hypnosis to withstand the coming tyranny.

2024-09-27 22:41:52

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I'll add it to my list to investigate, but the app requires a lot of key operations since all the events are encrypted from derived keys (via ECDH). The app is already a little slower than I would like to make NWS requests, so I would guess remote signing would make the performance unacceptable.

2024-09-27 19:05:02

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The benefit of using your existing nsec is the app can import your contact list and, if you run a mint, allow your followers to join it.
If you'd like to test out the app, you can create another nsec first, then decide to transfer over your sats later if you want to move to your existing identity.
The cashu proofs are encrypted with your nsec. The app further protects your privacy and security by deriving a dedicated wallet nsec from your personal nsec so it’s deterministically generated for ease of backup but not associated with your identity npub. Additionally, you can use a password in the derivation scheme to add another layer of security or plausible deniability.

2024-09-27 18:41:44

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Hey Rod, I'm considering it, but currently, it is not. I'm unsure about the benefit of open-sourcing an app that is intended to be downloaded via the app stores since it's trivial to have a private fork from where the releases are built.
I have an open-source tool in the works that can validate the encrypted proofs stored on Nostr relays, and I plan to implement finer-grain relay controls for additional security. Additionally, if you have a de-Googled phone, I started publishing an APK, which you can download: https://sovereign-app-apk.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/app-release.apk
Let me know if that addresses any of your concerns about open-source.

2024-09-27 15:19:39

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Very grateful to @npub12rv…85vg @npub1qjg…lgjw and @npub1l2v…ajft for all the work they've done to get us here! Excited to build more! 🚀

2024-09-27 14:05:40

Cashu 🤝 Nostr
Onboard friends and family to your mint in less than 60 seconds through the power of Nostr. It's the easiest way to use Bitcoin. https://sovereign.app https://video.nostr.build/17841c8cc3597467e869ba40aa48eeb73607e606e5dfc14455296e8f875357aa.mp4

2024-09-24 13:36:33

I am continually reminded how wicked and weak most of the boomer generation is. The worst part of their legacy by far is the millennials they raised.

2024-09-23 17:22:30

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Interesting. But isn't this also applicable to all technologies, not just AI?

2024-09-21 23:12:03

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I'm sorry, but that's a stretch. Not defending the Church was 100% in the right in this situation, but that's a bit of an exaggeration.
https://youtu.be/U152bD5W7AU

2024-09-19 23:17:27

“How the universe works is, in my mind, one of the biggest questions that humans can ask.” - @npub12rv…85vg
https://btcpp.substack.com/p/bitcoin-news-edition-theoretical

2024-09-14 02:29:07

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Did God organize a religion?

2024-09-10 13:51:41

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With the community leaders running a cashu mint

2024-09-09 00:08:27

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The ancients knew this https://image.nostr.build/bfcdcf0ed8c03c204ac13691728866d74ca550379520390a5f533ae3a7304eef.jpg

2024-09-07 10:27:41

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If you're willing to, I’m interested to hear more about being harmed by Catholic guilt as a child. I'm also happy to have a private conversation. Please reach out, brother; the Church wants you back. 🙂
Also, I'm not sure if this will help build a personal relationship with Jesus, but you may find it interesting: #note1cmz…u8us

2024-09-06 21:55:22

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On the contrary, I'm open to arguments against my views, but I prefer to contemplate good ones.
Aside from the fact that there are candidates for the Holy Grail—not that one is bound to believe there is—the premise that because we don't have it, we don't know what happened at the Last Supper is not a serious argument.
The author seems to be baiting a weak religious argument to talk about their theory on drugs. That's not that interesting.

2024-09-06 21:44:05

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If the Eucharist is a bridge too far, try praying the rosary daily.
I'm unsure of your theology, but even the most ardent Protestant can pray the rosary by saying only the first half of the Hail Mary.

2024-09-06 21:37:48

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I read the description, and it made no sense, so that doesn't portend an enticing read

2024-09-06 21:18:52

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That author sounds like he has no idea what he's talking about.

2024-09-06 20:02:53

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The Eucharist.
I have a lot of love for non-Catholic Christians, but being a Christian or going to church without the Eucharist is like watching a movie and skipping the climax. You're missing the whole point.

2024-09-05 19:28:42

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This is interesting. Have you thought about a legal system (or an arbitration system) based on Nostr?

2024-09-05 19:05:12

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It just uses HTTP. There is a .nostr domain resolver though.

2024-09-05 17:35:07

Is anyone working on Nostr polls?

2024-09-05 15:54:31

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This book has a lot of good essays about the paradox: https://bookstore.wordonfire.org/products/vibrant-paradoxes

2024-09-05 15:15:13

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Right, but “you” don't need a million sats

2024-09-05 15:12:08

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Not with e-cash 🙂

2024-09-04 00:32:53

Come for the notes, stay for the identity

2024-09-02 21:55:13

Why free speech is essential to protect: #note1vjv…v7qy

2024-09-02 14:56:54

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You only do that in the shower? 😅

2024-09-02 00:00:25

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Wen Premier League?

2024-09-01 20:04:38

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Be careful with #2. A husband is called to die for his wife if necessary (Ephesians 5:25), so his self-preservation can't be above his family. For this reason, I have my priorities arranged as God, then family, and lastly, self. However, to live out the servant leadership we are called to for others, you first have to rightly order yourself; in that sense, the self is higher.

2024-08-31 18:47:46

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Life priorities:
1. Faith
2. Family
3. Health
4. Work
5. Hobby

2024-08-30 21:52:24

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Maybe that factors into people's decisions, but the data suggest it's mainly a personal opinion rather than economic: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/07/25/the-experiences-of-u-s-adults-who-dont-have-children/.
Given that most people's opinions are shaped by their culture, we should do as much as we can to promote a culture of strong families. But it's also fair to say the government is a terrible allocator of resources.

2024-08-30 20:55:28

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💯 completely agree

2024-08-30 20:14:00

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I'm not sure if I follow the logic. So if couple A starts a family and receives a tax credit, the state gets less money, which causes it to raise taxes on everyone. Now, couple B is taxed more with no kids, so they don't start a family? But you're saying they would’ve otherwise if there were no subsidies because taxes would be lower? But hypothetically, if they did start a family and receive the subsidy, wouldn't they be in the same position as if there were no subsidy with lower taxes?
It seems to me if everyone has a family, the outcome will be the same, so I don't see the disincentive. Obviously, there can be a big difference between people who choose to have a family and those who don't, but isn't that the point?
I'm not arguing from a position that the government can create an effective tax policy. However, I think people generally underestimate how dire the birth rate situation is. Even if we had the perfect policy to turn it around, I'm not sure if we have enough time, so anything is better than nothing, it seems—just my 2 sats.

2024-08-30 18:47:35

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How do tax incentives discourage having children?

2024-08-29 18:40:42

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Is it possible to have zaps go towards dev funding?

2024-08-29 10:10:12

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Generally no. As a father, I have dominion over my family. Still, if my kids were to do something illegal in public or to someone from a different family, the local authorities would have dominion over justice.
However, for justice (and many other things like education/moral formation) within my family, I can exclude a father from another family from intervening in our affairs or, more importantly, excluding the state from teaching things I disapprove of. So, in that sense, I have a monopoly in my position of authority in the family.
This nuance is articulated as subsidiarity in the Catholic tradition: the principle that decisions should be made at the most local level possible, with higher authorities intervening only when necessary. The concept goes back to at least the 13th century with St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, but Pope Pius XI used it specifically in his papal encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, which is an important document in the history of Catholic Social Teaching.

2024-08-28 21:03:04

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The just use of corrosion in authority is if it is used to will the good of the other for his own sake: what Christians call love or charity. That is to say, the “common good.”

2024-08-28 19:57:53

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https://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-3.htm#lexicon
To understand the true meaning of scripture, it's best to go to the source and study the etymology of the words.
In this case, it seems to mean to have dominion over justice, which traditionally means giving each his due.

2024-08-28 09:31:51

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A good analogy is getting a loan. When a lender makes a loan with the faith that the borrower will pay him back, it is not that he is blindly handing money out because we can't objectively agree that the money will be paid back. Instead, the lender's limited reason points to trust that the borrower will repay the money. Faith in the action is not below reason by being contrary to it, but it is above reason: the lender can't know the future, but he commits to an action based on his reason from the past.

2024-08-28 00:58:22

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The most popular religion explicitly teaches the opposite: “But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.” (Matthew 5:39)
I'm glad you agree religious people aren't the only ones that can be disagreeable. It's undeniable the atheistic communist governments have resorted to extreme violence against their political opponents.
I could respond to much of what you said about religion, faith, and reason; however, many well-established sources exist for good arguments. Pope St. John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason) is a good starting point.
I want to focus on “independently verifiable objective truth” because you made an excellent point, except, in its essence, religion is a description of truth.
Now, I think understanding truth requires deeper thought. Take the question: does the universe have a beginning? Some people take both sides of that question, neither of which is independently verifiable because (a) we can't go back in time to see if the universe began, and (b) if it's infinite even if we could go back in time, we would never know if there is no beginning or we just haven't gone back far enough. So what do we do? Say, because it's not independently verifiable, we can't know anything about the creation of the universe from our reason. Some modern skeptics take that position, saying we can only trust our senses to derive objective truth. But why should we trust only our senses and not our reason? We know our senses are deceived all the time. So how do we find the truth?
(Aside: I'll make one point about faith and reason. Properly understood faith is not infrarational like you and many others suggest. Instead, authentic faith is suprarational. Faith never contradicts natural reason; it points our reason towards things beyond our limited understanding of reality.)
Your commitment to truth is admirable, and even though you may disagree, it is actually at the heart of Christianity: “What is truth?” (John 18:38). I hope that in your pursuit of truth, you take the time to read the preceding passage in the Gospel of John and contemplate what it means to seek the truth.

2024-08-27 14:59:19

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I don't know why you think I'm not serious. My first question is a philosophical question. I'm curious if you actually believe the goal you state. If you want to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number, we should definitely give 9 million people great lives instead of 10 million mediocre ones.
For the second question, I'm curious about what this video is leaving out: https://youtu.be/1FE0HgS01do

2024-08-27 13:01:17

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When trying to maximize the greatest good for the greatest number, how can you justify leaving 10 million people with mediocre lives when you can give 9 million great lives?
Can you share some of the religious genocides? I'd like to learn about them.

2024-08-26 17:47:36

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Prioritizing the greatest good for the greatest number of people is the path to genocide.
Is it better to kill 1 million people to help 9 million have great lives or let 10 million have mediocre lives?
Believing in God and that humans are made in his image requires respecting the individual's dignity. Yet, our purpose is toward communion with God and each other. Both extremes of individualism and collectivism fail to see this distinction.

2024-08-26 12:36:47

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But we aren't lone individuals. We were made unique in God's image: unified in our ends but granted freedom to pursue them.
Identifying with a subordinate racial or cultural group introduces competition, but there is no competition in the group of the children of God.
We are born into a family with unbreakable bonds; God willing, we die surrounded by the new family we create. These bonds allow us to become who we are meant to be.

2024-08-26 00:11:52

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One idea is to have a tag reference the root public key. The client verifies the event is authentically published by querying for the attested public keys from the event published by the root key

2024-08-25 23:39:42

Evangelizing is planting seeds, not bearing the fruit.

2024-08-24 15:15:18

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What are your thoughts on a chain of trust structure for nsecs? A user would have a root nsec stored on a hardware device. When a Nostr app wants to authenticate a user, it can request a signed event from the root nsec to attest for the newly generated client-specific nsec. The root nsec stays secure and can revoke the client nsec later, and the client doesn't need to deal with any remote signing.

2024-08-20 21:00:21

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What is epoch?

2024-08-20 20:35:03

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The tax code never taxes the rich; it taxes before you can become rich.

2024-08-20 20:32:28

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Assuming it's base64 encoded, what is the data structure and internal encoding?

2024-08-19 17:17:52

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And maybe couples track the woman's cycle to know when it's optimal to try to conceive

2024-08-19 14:43:48

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Another way I've heard it described is that once you view harm as more than physical (e.g., discrimination), there is nothing stopping liberalism from becoming what it is today.
This is also a good explainer: https://youtu.be/ot8Eul-nDU4

2024-08-19 10:32:35

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Good point. It probably makes more sense to keep this focused on your original idea

2024-08-19 00:54:08

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It's also a common misquotation of the Bible. The actual quote is, “For the love of money is the root of all evils.” (1 Timothy 6:10).
*Love* of money is the key phrase.

2024-08-19 00:48:24

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Pope St. John Paul II had a name for this almost 30 years ago: “culture of death.”
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html

2024-08-18 23:50:43

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I'm a little confused about the intended use case for kind 30078 events. Is it meant for end-user applications? If so, would it be better to have a dedicated event kind for this instead?
What do you think about events for each operation: mint, melt, and swap? It would publicly announce the mint's liabilities and determine when a proof was claimed. I'm unsure if that's ideal or if it's expanding the scope too much. I'm also unsure how best to handle proof of assets and liabilities for a mint, but it may be best to figure out a comprehensive solution.
@npub12rv…85vg do you have any thoughts?

2024-08-18 22:25:46

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A WebSocket stream would quickly get out of hand on the server for a large mint. The Nostr integration is interesting as it effectively outsources the horizontal scaling of the WebSocket stream idea to relays. I can help if you want to collaborate.