James Lewis

https://fresheyesinc.com

Husband, father, #Catholic #Christian, #businessOwner, Bitcoiner, freedom lover, word nerd, mechanical engineer #dadstr

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npub1etrvvjyl6tllrhxakezj3rkxftkh3yv8m998fvlqpt87dtdngkzqhl3zeq

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james@fresheyesinc.com

NIP-57 Address

proudglade76339@getalby.com

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2025-05-28 23:09:01

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I'm a man of principle. I participate as little as possible in the debt-first financial paradigm.

2025-05-25 17:17:38

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The trick is a simple system of verifiability and ignoring those who work against the rules.
(I call it "simple" because, relative to the conventional system, it is extraordinarily simple and elegant."

2025-05-24 14:24:15

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🤢

2025-05-24 14:11:53

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That's just cinnamon and sugar, maybe molasses, and maybe bread crumbs. That's not the weird part. The weird part is marketing it by relating it to a childhood memory, but rather that it works, not that they'd do it.

2025-05-24 14:06:41

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Milisat is typically reserved for node operators, but once the average person needs to be conscious of it, will it keep that name? Maybe we'll see slang, like "buck" for "dollar", for different denominations or bitcoin, such as "bit" for "milisat". I kinda like the sound of it.

2025-05-12 19:08:57

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Actual refugees. All those "but what about the vegetable pickers" type lib racists will eat their words as these refugees actually become farmers here because they're not getting raped and murdered on their SA plots of land by roving gangs.

2025-05-11 02:37:36

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My wife grew up on the same large plot of land as some extended family, including my wife's grandparents and two sets of cousins, aunt, and uncle. I was hoping to do so, too, but money was never good enough to get it, but then my children are older by too much to have the same arrangement of growing up surrounded by cousins. Might not happen.

2025-05-10 14:03:11

The day of the election, I was at first very excited to have our first pontiff born in the United States, thinking this is a sign of the end of the animosity from Rome.
Yesterday, I was more apprehensive as I learned of some of His stances and pay record.
Today, I am hopeful. He delivered an actually decent homily! I am sorry to say the bar was set very low, but I more now that through Leo XIV we are able to heal the divide in our Church.
I am hopeful that he is young enough and being a native English speaker he will be able to dialogue with us in the English speaking world--especially in his home, the United States--to learn of our love and need for Tradition; that we might see that the "migrant" problem that we in the US and in Europe have is not an issue of a lack of charity toward distant neighbors but one of a right and responsibility to self-protection; that we would again become a missionary Church that converts the heretics and pagans to the one, true Faith, rather than repeat the free-Masonic mantras of equality of religions; and that we would cease the pandering to the media, trying to be nice and not offend the world, especially in regards to sexual issues.
These are my hopes and prayers.

2025-05-10 03:22:46

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Interesting!

2025-05-09 00:20:33

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Not cool. Not even funny satire. Be better.

2025-05-09 00:17:55

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Especially popes named Leo

2025-05-06 19:14:46

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There is *some* argument for other data, specifically hash proofs. This will be indirectly momentary data.
I think 1:1 backed side-chains are a good idea, and we can prove and secure balances within that chain via the root of a Merkel tree on L1, and a small payload (32kb or less) from the other client.

2025-05-03 15:18:08

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Why store the actual data on-chain, though? Why ought it not be just a proof of the data, and another distributed storage system (like blossom) does and shares the data?

2025-04-30 23:09:16

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Islam being a mid-early Christian heresy (rejection of Christ's divinity, death, resurrection, and of the Trinity), it feels like Doge to BTC to me, since Doge and Bitcoin are based on the same concept (at least Islam has monotheism), but Doge is a joke and a caricature of Bitcoin.
On the other hand, Mormonism is moralistic pluratheism (maybe pluriautotheism) and is thus actually more theologically foreign. Likewise, ETH is a little less foreign prima facie due to superficial features like adoption, aesthetic, ecosystem, and valuation, but is under the hood more foreign than Doge.
I take this very seriously.

2025-04-30 03:49:37

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BTC is Catholicism
Bitcoin XT is Arianism
BCH is Eastern Orthodoxy
BSV is Anglicanism
LTC is the Baptists
XMR is non-denom Christianity
Doge is Islam
ETH is Mormonism
CBDCs are atheism
Fiat currencies are paganism
Gold is third temple Judaism
Gold backs that you can no longer redeem is Rabbinic Judaism

2025-04-30 03:42:09

Bitcoin got hijacked in 2017 in exactly the same way that the Apostolic Christian Church was hijacked back in the 4th century by Constantine; that is to say that it didn't, and in fact the offshoots are those that are hijacked.

2025-04-29 01:30:41

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I do whenever I'm reminded about his lapse from the Faith.

2025-04-28 17:17:01

Based and Christ-pilled
https://youtu.be/mzcPS8cVLiE

2025-04-23 00:03:47

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N/A. I try to not have to pay the Apple tax. I'd just make a PWA for iOS users.

2025-04-21 14:50:24

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Requiam in pace

2025-04-21 14:47:58

Requiam in pace, papa Francisco. Miserere, Domine.
Out of respect of his office and death, I shall not be publicly commenting my opinion of his person and actions until his funeral.

2025-04-20 15:09:56

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Christus resurexit!

2025-04-20 15:05:23

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100%. I was an early adopter.
Christus resurexit, et Rex Christi est >> Deus vult, ergo fiat voluntis Dei

2025-04-19 13:11:47

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Trying out Pit Master competition blend for our turkey this Easter. I'm amazed how much cheaper it is than chunk wood! Just dumping some pellets on top is pretty convenient, too.

2025-04-19 13:00:54

Smells amazing already!
https://image.nostr.build/3e916f9c8c5c1cd522cc4a6ea50ba89d9306ee6ff761e94c4fef9b10d817424f.jpg

2025-04-08 11:05:28

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Is that not a valid one?!? 😵

2025-04-08 11:04:31

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Singing about something increases its perceived import. Our brains are lazy, so it prioritizes data storage, and song puts things at higher priority. This is how oral tradition is kept so well in ancient times. That's right: education used to be largely singing!

2025-04-08 11:00:42

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🎵 Bacon bacon! O bacon's so bacon 🎶
🎵 Bacon, o bacon! Where art thou bacon? Bacon! 🎵
🎶 My bacon is bacon, and I bacon to my bacon! 🎵🎶
You're right! That does make it easier to remember!

2025-04-07 23:20:41

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Just don't use your real keys in a vibe coded client.

2025-04-07 01:58:24

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I'm glad it went a little lower just after I got taxes filed.
I am the dip!

2025-04-07 01:55:26

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Keep your eye on the dip. Be the dip.

2025-04-07 01:54:05

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I remember trying to time 0.06-0.08. It's not getting better for eth holders.

2025-04-05 18:03:28

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Four Roses later tonight

2025-04-05 16:21:16

Let's go!
#note1a39…xamx

2025-04-05 16:11:38

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It's a good question. The thing thats killing adoption in the US is tax on "capital gains" when spending Bitcoin. The majority of US citizens don't want to pay tax on their Bitcoin while also not wanting to be on the government's bad side, and the only way they get both is is simply to not spend it. If capital gains on Bitcoin was to be eliminated, mass adoption would be right around the corner.

2025-04-05 16:07:15

Trying out Notedeck. Pretty sweet!

2025-04-05 16:06:44

"...from each according to his ability..."
(Yes, I am calling all feminists and gender equalists Marxists)
#note1csr…4k6l

2025-04-03 00:58:38

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Given a bouquet of cotton to pick, huh?

2025-03-30 02:23:26

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If I wasn't doing keto, I'd love to put pineapple on meats. Haven't tried it on meatloaf, but it's excellent in the classic soy and garlic chicken.
Soy and garlic chicken, for those interested:
Just toss a quarter cup of soy and a tablespoon of minced garlic in a gallon bag with a couple pounds of boneless chicken (thighs are best), *optionally adding a bit of pineapple*, and let marinade for at least an hour or overnight. Grilled is best 👌 I bet pan fried or baked is great, too.

2025-03-28 14:12:10

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30 freaking percent! 😵 our 25% is already asinine.

2025-03-26 19:16:19

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Without grains, you and I do, too. #carnivore #🍖

2025-03-26 18:23:01

Now that I've joined #Nostr.wine, does that mean I get more engagement?

2025-03-26 18:20:21

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This is more a commentary on the poor modern diet than genetic difference. I bet that young woman has a significantly better diet. True, some of us win the genetic lottery, but we all need to be careful with what goes into our bodies and take ancestry into account.

2025-03-26 03:39:09

I want to spite the IRS. I think we should create some app to gather the requisite data on zaps and just destroy the IRS filing system with bloated sub-penny transactions that total less than a dollar "profit". Also, it should be sent as PDF-wrapped JPGs with too much white space and heavy compression artifacts that make it easily readable to the human eye but hard for OCR.

2025-03-24 03:17:07

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This, plus transaction fees is what Orange pilled me. I realized that the credit card companies get half t of all the money that goes through them after about 20 transactions, depending on flat rates and such. No way their business adds *that* much value to the economy. Why can't we find a more efficient way to move money? Especially one that might not actually give you your money after 6mo.

2025-03-23 00:43:27

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I've started fasting all Friday, so roughly 36hrs (th pm to sat am). Yesterday was a little harder than the previous two Fridays, for some reason, but I always feel really good when I wake on Saturdays.

2025-03-18 15:51:08

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It's like the EU just literally doesn't understand supply and demand. By putting savings back into circulation, they literally inflate their currency in exactly the same way fractional reserve lending does. It makes lending cheaper, and that makes those things for which loans are made more expensive.

2025-03-18 11:53:39

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What am I looking at?

2025-03-17 12:44:21

This is a huge development
https://image.nostr.build/7ca6947a3a62a6570bd6ccf47a6de09957d572fa20e2d1d8399bd636dbf301af.jpg

2025-03-16 23:56:28

The manliest game of pick-up sticks. Shout out to the other volunteerswho helped clean up.
https://image.nostr.build/fdd692ddd2fe9d76f843777dba65eb120b0d29c1a6d12ead71b8f1eac36528ff.jpg
#nevent1q…7a2n

2025-03-15 18:28:28

Our city got hit pretty bad. Prayers appreciated.
Lots of property damage, but only a few injuries, no serious injuries.
I'll be heading out with a chainsaw and a strong back to help out.
https://image.nostr.build/feb4fd48ca60e04a298313bb0aca21d79fae674ff15e08a37cea0cb52f0c9323.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/c79407230b905c735131777a15fd2c7dc66d55ba0efc67f18933b92515b9e5c1.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3c5532710fd036a6e065b371cdea588859fe8902b14d45e574512578c7b8e30b.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/32c94b067d88204a314c0d6a0835e91a0363c0a0bde5afdb2a91393ddbdb4d4b.jpg

2025-03-15 18:06:38

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In looking forward to nGit becoming a thing. Copilot is really, really useful, though...

2025-03-11 16:46:52

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It should be a silent crusade. Just go live there, pray, go to church, and keep the beautiful, old churches clean and totally packed full of faithful people, singing beautiful Gregorian chant that shakes the earth.
Also, eventually take back the all churches the the Muhammadans had stolen.

2025-03-09 21:27:31

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We fortunately have very little medical need, so it's not been a problem, and I don't anticipate to be so. We've been fully red pilled on all the FDA/CDC/big pharma/big food/insurance industrial complex.

2025-03-09 02:54:31

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History of vaccine injury in the family. We decided to delay ... Indefinitely.

2025-03-08 13:07:44

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On my Windows 11 work PC, I used to have to close them all to free up enough RAM to properly run my CAD. Now that I have 64GB I don't have to do that so much anymore, but still... Before the upgrade, between Windows caching every system file in-RAM and chrome being the terrible RAM hog we all know it to be, that otherwise top-of-the-line laptop performed as poorly as my 2017 personal laptop.

2025-03-05 02:10:18

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That's another ~$25/taxpayer saved! +10% to what DOGE has already saved us 🚀

2025-03-05 00:38:50

Tell me again how our new tariffs are a bad idea.
#nevent1q…3l7g

2025-03-05 00:36:09

#askNostr, best value commuter car by cost of ownership for the American Midwest?
I bet someone has a calculator. If not, I kinda want to build it.
Region: Missouri
Usage, rate: sub-10k mi/yr
Usage, type: 50% Hwy

2025-03-04 16:07:34

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Gotcha. Clients != users.
I approve 👍

2025-03-04 12:53:23

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That definitely qualifies as public nuisancy.

2025-03-04 12:51:12

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Why 20x more relays than clients? Or do you mean client to mean app, not users?

2025-03-04 12:47:21

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🤷

2025-03-04 12:46:21

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Maybe illegals protesting, rather than illegal protests.

2025-02-28 04:05:18

You know you're a computer nerd when you need to use your desktop for updating banking passwords so you can use the browser dev console and inject JavaScript into the banks website to get around the 'prevent-copy-pasting' flag on the passwords fields.
I like my Base64 encoded SHA256 hash as a password, thank you very much!
Now to get that into my phone...

2025-02-28 02:04:31

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I don't know anything about this "dip" you're all talking about. All I see is that 1BTC = 1 Bitcoin.
https://image.nostr.build/5b6952d0b11053675b9b0f372cc3b918ce9625df75f940bf8beb790058efaef3.jpg

2025-02-26 01:31:54

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The whole "the user is in the driver's seat" paradigm of bitcoin does make it a whole lot better. The ability to cancel at any time is a game changer. Just revoke permissions and it stops! No hassle with the crapy website full of dark patterns. It'll finally make the market competitive, again.

2025-02-26 01:24:57

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Yeah, way better! How many subscriptions just make it impossible to get them to stop. So frustrating... This will make the market competitive again!

2025-02-26 01:20:23

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Let's stay in touch, then.
I am a Catholic convert, and the current pontiff might have been an obstacle if I were paying him attention during my conversion. It was really early in his pontificate (I converted the fall following hits election), so his faults didn't really show themselves to me at the time.
He's not an obstacle to my staying Catholic, but I do understand those for whom he is.

2025-02-26 01:12:31

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Subscription payments, however, are a net negative, I think. It encourages the business model of getting people to signup but them forget they have the service. Bad business.

2025-02-26 01:08:53

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The best reason is that Jesus Christ is the second person of the Trinity, He founded the Church, and He wants all to be part of His mystical Body.

2025-02-26 01:04:49

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A better priest would help one find a better reason.

2025-02-26 01:04:00

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Honestly or in jest?

2025-02-24 01:12:18

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I thought that happened awhile ago

2025-02-22 17:58:02

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I'm pretty sure a simple parabolic formula that still results in the same macro level output would be a very fast calculation. Plus, proof of work makes that tiny amount of calculation seem trivial and basically negligible.

2025-02-22 16:01:55

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You're right. Edited.

2025-02-22 15:50:49

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There's always that possibility. My NIP05 has been updated, so the hacker must have got into my web hosting account, too, or else I am whom I say I am.

2025-02-22 15:50:19

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There's always that possibility. My NIP05 has been updated, so the hacker must have got into my web hosting account, too, or else I am whom I say I am.

2025-02-22 15:14:32

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I don't know about that, however. The steps make bitcoin "newsworthy", but smoother might have made it "safer" and attract people who are still nervous now 🤔

2025-02-22 15:06:42

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The four year cycle was initially caused by supply shock of the mining reward halvings, but the subsidy is slowly being overtaken by transaction fees. Over the next cycle, the fees might overtake the subsidy in the macro, and then the cycle is nearly only due to the memory of the investors and not a real market mechanism.
I wonder if bitcoin had a steadily reducing subsidy, and the rate of decrease itself decreased, producing a continuous rather than step function over time, if that would have been better or worse.

2025-02-22 14:57:38

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As more people hold, that lower bound where there's always someone to buy goes up, and the same for the tops and someone ready to sell goes down. It's not just supply and demand of bitcoin versus dollars, but also sellers and buyers of the two. More people means less volatility and a tighter top and bottom.

2025-02-22 14:42:07

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Right. If what that graph suggests continues, calmer highs, milder lows, and more steady growth that no longer excites the crypto bros. Good riddance! DCA becomes the best strategy.

2025-02-22 14:35:02

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The trend in 4-cycles is diminishing. I'm not expecting a repeat of the 2012-2016, nor exactly of the 2016-2020 cycle, but I will say the 2020-2024 cycle was weird because of global politics, so *maybe* somewhere between the last two cycles.

2025-02-22 14:21:02

Step one: let the American people keep more of their paychecks.
Step two: initiate tariffs to cover the lost tax revenue, but only after eliminating waste spending
Step three: companies raise prices on imported goods due to tariffs or choose to manufacture in America.
Step four: Americans have more money because of tax elimination, but spend more money because of increased pricing downstream of tariffs.
Step five: because of lower taxes, companies can hire more people and/or lower prices, which means greater value added to the economy and balancing down the tariff price increases
Step six: more people in the workforce and lower taxes means local economies see a big boost since more value, and thus more money, is made but doesn't have to leave via taxation.
Step seven: the greater opportunity gives young people hope, and they enter the workforce with greater zeal, further increasing the economy
Step eight: the greater economy makes the tariff price hikes not feel too bad.
Step nine: people marry and make more babies because hope is restored, and the cycle of prosperity continues.

2025-02-22 01:41:20

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The recording on YT is silent, now. Copyright strike?

2025-02-21 15:39:46

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Need open source hardware that has inherent security. Not this centralized, back-doored hardware that some tech oligarch can just open up so a government can violate the rights of it's citizenry.

2025-02-20 00:49:08

Does Nostr have a good number of crunchy, traditional, and/or Christian/Catholic SAHMs here?
If we don't, what can Nostr offer them that Facebook and Insta don't? For one thing, no censorship of "vaccine hesitancy" posts.

2025-02-19 23:52:13

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Along the time scale of centuries, yeah, the Roman empire began to decline awhile after Christianity became "mainstream," but that's not to say that Christianity isn't responsible for the peak of the good that was accomplished in culture via the Roman empire. Before the Roman decline, Christianity spread throughout Europe, to French and Germanic lands first, and started a centuries long process of increasing cultural and academic boom that climaxed in the Renaissance. Only after the protestant revolt and during the French revolution, which were rejections of Traditional Authority and Christianity respectively, did the West really struggle. The Muslim invasions of the Middle East and the West were a definite hiccup in Western culture, but that's why we had Crusades.
Not to say corruption didn't seep into things time to time, but by and large, it is thanks to Christianity that we have our culture today, even the parts that were not robbed of us by modernists.

2025-02-19 02:54:18

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Well, they definitely had a hand in it. You should really say Christianity built the west. Each of the most influential early European populations who helped shape Western Civilization were Christian at the height of their power and influence, including Greco-Roman, Germanic, French, English, etc.

2025-02-19 01:50:55

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Many of them. There are some legitimate life coaching training programs. The biggest difference is people who think they're experts and will just tell you how to live your life versus people who will actually help you figure things out for yourself.

2025-02-19 01:09:37

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NVM. Has to be hex, not npub format 🤷

2025-02-19 00:45:44

Why is my nip05 broken? When I manually go to the /.well-known/nostr.json, it's correct 🤔
#askNostr #Nostrdev

2025-02-18 04:36:39

Thinking about scaling again.
Side chains with their Merkle tree roots entangled with on-chain settlements. The whole side chain doesn't need to be stored on any node, only that incoming side chain transactions come with proof of funds with a root-branch-leaf of that particular source. The node will then incorporate that transaction and relay to other nodes, continually pruning the tree as leaves go empty. It makes for a heavier transmitted transaction message, but a basically zero storage footprint. Downside is needing to re-sign transactions that don't go through if it doesn't get propagated quickly between root publishes. The actual transaction can get thrown away once the tree is updated, so the node only needs Bitcoin and the side chain's root. Haven't thought through cross-tree and L1-L2 transactions, yet.
#scaling #Bitcoin #L2 #sideChain

2025-02-17 12:41:01

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Philosophy, theology, and religion. It's all about placing the highest good as ones aim in life, and consistently pursuing via all areas in life.
He who is Truth, Goodness, and Beauty created all, and in love allows us to be rational participants and continue that work.
All labor and trade ought to be aimed to increase each other in truth, goodness, and beauty. A farmer increases his neighbor by providing sustenance. A plumber increases his neighbor by restoring the neighbor's home to right order or expanding its functions in support of the residents. An employee and employer increase each other by one finding and organizing work that can be done and the other by fulfilling it, profiting them both.
Money being a token of this exchange ought to be very difficult to forge, liquid, and stable in value. Money in its essence is a record of goods exchanged and service rendered, or rather the tokens of thanks offered in return of it.
This is really a religious work, religion being one's ultimate aim in life.

2025-02-17 04:28:08

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The basis for their power is the ability to print money. Without this basic power, all the rest of their power evaporates.

2025-02-16 23:05:40

Hmm... looks like nostr-sdk 0.39.0 conflicts with yew. Just having the crate loaded in the Cargo.toml keeps prevents the counter app from compiling. Any fixes, or should I try another wasm framework?
PS: I am still new to #Rust, so maybe there's something else I'm doing wrong.
#askNostr #nostrdevs

2025-02-16 22:07:03

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Authentic and truly good marketing is about communicating something good to others. It's about offering something that will make their lives better.
Sure, paying to become viral won't be much of a thing anymore, but that means more budget to making the product something people want to share rather than bribing the middle man to let others see it.

2025-02-16 21:27:26

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Any "Bitcoin 2" will only have to be a response to an exploit and a hard fork upgrade of the existing network in which the old chain would necessarily become unused because it is exploitable. Anything short of a near complete switch of 95% of miners and clients, like a SHA2 to SHA3 upgrade when and if SHA2 ever gets cracked (big IF) will result in a precarious balance that will cost millions their life savings.
The only way I think a hard fork would ever work is compound soft forks that combine into a hard fork only when the overwhelming majority have switched.
All the alt coins were started because they thought they were better, and even if it's true that they're technologically better, they aren't philosophically better because the genius of Bitcoin lay in the supply cap and mining rate, which are undermined by creating a new chain and a new coin.
True market disruptors will build on Bitoin, not try and make a better coin, just like car manufacturers didn't reinvent the wheel but found new ways to drive it.

2025-02-16 19:05:09

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3:1 minimum. I don't think anything more than 10:1.

2025-02-16 19:03:42

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Doesn't fix the life story and needing to scroll and scroll just to get the ingredients list