Algis / is on Nostr

Co-founder of Liberate Life.
Also, studying Bitcoin like a maniac.

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2025-02-21 12:33:55

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And here I am, trying to buzz with Albi... installed Albi Hub, opened a channel, connected with Albi Extension, connected with Primal, transferred some Sats to my Albi Hub wallet. Now I'm trying to Zap your post... and it doesn't work! 😳
I have a Love-Hate relationship with everything Lightning.

2025-02-18 11:21:22

Propaganda Filter for Search Engines.
I noticed that I barely use Search Engines nowadays because whatever results are being shown on the first pages are typically coming from some organisations that I don't trust - cnn, bbc, reuters, wikipedia. It's all distorted propaganda, so why even use a Search Engine?
But then on my last @nprofile…cpzw an idea crystallized in my mind:
A Propaganda Filter for all searches based on funding sources.
Here's how it would work...
We use LLM's to scan the websites of all known media outlets with an objective to find their source of funding. As was recently revealed, many of them are being funded either directly by organisations like USAID or by secondary NGO's who receive their funding from USAID first and then fund the media outlets second.
So there will be a list of known funding organisations worldwide forming. There will also be a list of media outlets who received the funding from the known Propaganda pushers.
These two lists are the basis for the Propaganda filter for the search engines.
Every news outlet that is or was funded by known propaganda pushing organisations (USAID for example) gets categorized as Propaganda Media.
Every news outlet which is NOT funded by such organisations gets categorized as an Independent Media. Basically - all the rest of the search results.
It's a rudimentary filter and perhaps more thought has to be put into it to polish the idea, but so far it seems like an objective criteria. Whoever pays, drives the narrative. So why not categorize the known propaganda sources in advance and filter out their articles from our Search results by default?
Use Cases:
1. Optional Propaganda filter for all searches. The individual can effectively shadow ban the lizard people media outlets in their own individual searches and enjoy original content created by Independent media sources.
2. AI summary of Propaganda narratives VS AI summary of Independent narratives. Perhaps, presented side by side on the screen for a clear comparison. Any trending subject will be easier to understand when you get a clear Propaganda funded narrative separated from the Independent narratives.
3. Identifying research and academic papers tainted with Propaganda funding. Comparison between Propaganda and Independent Research papers, like in point 2.
4. The Independent Media, Creators and Researchers will finally get the proper search ranking and the attention they deserve.
5. Ironically, the lack of Privacy regarding the source of funding or association/affiliation with the known NGO's will finally bite them in the ass, highlighting that all this radical transparency will eventually be used against them. Maybe the tide will start turning once they themselves suffer from the lack of Privacy online.
Developers among you, what do you think? Is this doable?
In any case, I'm summarizing my ideas inspired by walks in nature with fellow Bitcoiners. If you haven't joined your local Bitcoin Walk yet, what are you waiting for? Start building your web of trust in real life with your local Bitcoiners. Till next time.
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2025-02-05 13:35:26

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Rebranding CBDCs into Stablecoins is a GENIUS act!

2025-02-05 11:28:35

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Fiction sparks the imagination. The trick in the boring mundane life is to keep the imagination running wild. That's how the impossible and the supernatural is being achieved.

2025-02-03 15:53:07

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2025-01-31 21:11:46

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No, we are not fucked. We are in a better position, in fact.
People who don't understand bitcoin are not touching bitcoin anyway. But they do use dollars or dollar proxies.
So now they will use usdt within a bitcoin native wallet. They will see spending balance (usdt) and saving balance (btc) within their smartphones. In one click they will be able to exchange usdt into btc, WHEN THEY ARE READY.

2025-01-31 21:06:16

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As far as I understand, Tether so far is not allowed to offer its services directly to the consumers, ie to receive euros from EU clients and to give them usdt tokens in return.
But usdt tokens themselves are not banned on the secondary markets. They still can be traded on exchanges, EU citizens still can hold them and exchange them anywhere, on cexes, on dexes, etc.
Is that correct, from your reading of the situation?

2025-01-10 18:56:10

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You can tell her that it's good that it happened now. Because it will happen also when she's already big. It happens to all of us and then we discover wonderful friends who play ponies and baloons with us... completely unplanned and unexpected.