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Jim Chou

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jimdmac@getalby.com

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2024-09-24 22:11:28

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Just used some Monero for commerce for the first time. 🥳

2024-08-25 23:20:10

Rumors that Apple is going to deplatform Telegram. If that happens I can’t imagine #nostr clients like #damus don’t get deplatformed if Nostr gains traction.

2024-08-20 22:37:25

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Can’t wait for your review!

2024-08-20 22:34:12

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On one side people typically don’t appreciate how hard good performance and on the other side how important good performance is.

2024-08-20 13:30:03

Klaus Schwab says we should “accept total transparency.” And that “if you have nothing to hide ... you shouldn't be afraid.” Do you agree? #WEF #privacy https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1822144233634951169/pu/pl/ck7e3tLa_Sw8VhPS.m3u8?tag=12

2024-08-18 13:37:04

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Ok. I know what a NIPs is now.

2024-08-18 00:27:22

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What does NIPS stand for? So you don’t like Session. I tried it and it was quite flaky. Their new initiative seems a bit more organized than the last but starting to wonder if they have the horsepower to succeed. I see you like 0xchat? It looks interesting. Hard to find something I’m confident is not an intelligence agency honeypot.

2024-08-16 10:45:13

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You’re scary!

2024-08-12 10:42:20

Hand cut organic black tea from a mountain in China. Fragrant, subtly sweet, and smooth with no bitterness. Truly good tea - hao cha (好茶)! https://image.nostr.build/4132323b401faaf8e7ad1e459718cb1d69191e735f6752b7eff3355959b4adb9.jpg

2024-08-09 10:56:06

Like guns, privacy gives people the ability to resist a tyrannical government. Gun rights advocates should equally be privacy advocates.

2024-08-05 12:19:13

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That’s good to know. Thanks! Does Monero do this?

2024-08-05 01:35:04

It’s ugly out there.

2024-08-05 00:45:20

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Users being what attracts miners.

2024-08-05 00:43:32

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If there is not a lot of interest in the coin from users and miners the network is vulnerable.

2024-08-05 00:40:48

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Well scale is important for PoS coins because you need LOTS of miners/hash rate to avoid a 51% attack by a private or government entity.

2024-08-05 00:36:46

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Funny we are talking about this now. I just learned about Goldbacks on Twitter. https://x.com/jimchoumobile/status/1820255679724048411?s=46&t=QyIsKeZkGWc6spSSxm2iKw which is as easy to understand if not easier than crypto with a little training. But yes, I like digital for the convenience and agree that L2s are a usability nightmare.

2024-08-04 23:07:16

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Nvm I see in your profile you are a Monero fan.

2024-08-04 23:06:05

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Seems like we agree so do you have a preferred privacy coin? Or do you think small denomination gold and ammo is the way to go?

2024-08-04 21:55:10

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Huh?

2024-08-04 21:54:07

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Thanks.

2024-08-04 21:51:41

While privacy coins are important I have a hard time believing they will ever be more popular than say VPNs are in China - used by a small minority. Governments will make them illegal so only hard core will use them. Therefore privacy coins need to be secure without large scale adoption. #xmr #zcash

2024-08-04 21:47:48

Just like I suspect the pandemic movies were preparing people for the planned COVID lockdowns and associated increase in authoritarianism I fear that the movie about a coming civil war in the U.S. is likely preparing people for civil war that is planned for the U.S. with associated increase in authoritarianism.

2024-08-04 21:35:28

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How many Satoshis to a Bitcoin again?

2024-07-31 02:49:51

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Why don’t people add to it then? Are there moderators pushing back?

2024-07-19 10:47:28

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As a user, I like multi-step but I want to know it’s multi-step before I start and how far there is to go before and as I’m doing it.

2024-07-10 19:37:13

#POET Wins “Best Optical AI Solution” in 2024 AI Breakthrough Awards Program #AI https://finance.yahoo.com/news/poet-wins-best-optical-ai-140500265.html

2024-07-06 15:59:25

I put my food waste in here to keep the trash from stinking up the kitchen. https://image.nostr.build/dd8b75de63b19ba907509cbaf1d080365ba5abe12e8f8f732779ca0d152c385a.jpg

2024-07-05 18:32:50

#PSA - If you are ever lost while hiking, get stranded with a broken down car, etc and you notice your cell phone is either low on juice or has no signal, here is a tip that very well may
save your life. Change the voicemail on your phone to a message that gives your approximate location, the time, the date, your situation (lost, out of gas, car broken down, injured, etc) and any special instructions such as you are staying with the car, you are walking toward a town, etc.... The best part of this is that even if your cell phone dies or stops working, voicemail still works, so anyone calling your phone looking for you will hear the message and know where
to find you or where to send help.

2024-07-04 19:43:18

https://image.nostr.build/62229d8a366540ca2f05272de439aefbc497f6789f9bc20f26d5a6f0c6608392.jpg

2024-07-02 00:47:36

I’m quite enthusiastic about Silent payments for #BTC ease of use (just advertise a single wallet address) with improved privacy (creates transaction unique addresses under the hood) I hope more wallets add support (only 2 now) https://silentpayments.xyz

2024-07-02 00:38:54

Live map of reachable Bitcoin nodes. #btc Very cool! #btc https://bitnodes.io/nodes/live-map/

2024-07-01 12:30:42

@npub12qz…pdx8 Really interesting podcast with the founder of social network aggregator Mask. Still absorbing but worth a listen if you aren’t familiar with him. The Defiant - DeFi Podcast - Bridging Web2 and Web3: Suji Yan on Mask Network's Vision https://share.podcastguru.io/cMEz

2024-06-27 01:47:28

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Yet he keeps getting voted into office. Something is not adding up.

2024-06-16 14:34:46

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https://image.nostr.build/cfc4e63c90aee63a312150d0fac77b56c0628a617ede9cf6fe0ebe175270bf9b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4cf024de1f431d12964ab802ba25845e77776eadcbf659e2505e462baa523392.jpg

2024-06-16 14:33:48

Livin the boba life. Delish!

2024-06-11 02:56:14

On my to do list to setup a nostr relay.

2024-06-01 22:05:31

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Without police powers you will have a lot of people evading / not paying the taxes. Is your idea that the government set the taxes to a level where it can get by from those that pay? If it’s voluntary why not just have a system where the government has to convince people to donate what it says it needs and set aside the complexity and economic distortions and likely corruption of all the various taxes on different things?

2024-05-31 23:02:11

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I prefer sales taxes (b2b and b2c) to income and asset taxes. A lot easier IMO.

2024-05-21 22:53:47

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A Supra?

2024-05-21 22:37:38

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Worked for me.

2024-05-18 11:09:23

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Are we doing this? Maybe if we followed where he led we would be.

2024-05-17 02:17:09

Tried using a nostr desktop client with my current “credentials” it’s very confusing. I can’t figure out how to do it.

2024-05-16 19:54:13

The cost of living “crisis” is real. This is driven by the US trying to maintain hegemony and deglobalizing - in part out of fear of China. Why don’t we (the US) instead try to de-escalate by asking to make reciprocal concessions with China on our military competition and begin re-allowing China to be our workshop. Good jobs for US workers should come from innovation and tackling monopoly power - more businesses competing means both lower prices but also more jobs. A multipolar world is inevitable. Bankrupting ourselves, impoverishing our people, or getting into WW3 is not worth a few more years of hegemony. #economy #peace #inflation #china

2024-05-16 12:50:42

“Does #nostr need more silly #memes?” I was tempted to post some but then I asked my this question.

2024-05-16 12:49:19

https://image.nostr.build/81b212bef515c128a010b13a8c8cfb69ad539b05d9f69edaf1843ccb3b73f3ad.jpg

2024-05-16 12:47:37

If you want to learn how the powers that be are using the media then the No Agenda Show #podcast is a great listen. Hosts are @npub13ql…qcg7 the founder of podcasting, and John Dvorak.

2024-05-16 12:44:51

No Agenda Show 1659 “ungreen” #podcast https://www.noagendashow.net/listen/1659

2024-05-16 12:39:09

I use Damus but there isn’t a way to do a general search. You can only search for hashtags. Is there a client with a good content search capability? #nostr

2024-05-16 12:37:31

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I do wish there were more finance content on Nostr. I’ll do my part by trying to post more.

2024-05-16 12:30:45

Is it time for #palladium to make a run? #metals #commodities #finance #investing

2024-05-16 10:01:16

Kaspa #KAS is a very fast POS fair launched distributed ledger. No smart contracts yet but they expect to support in about a year.

2024-05-16 09:57:37

Inscriptions for Kaspa #KAS. Kaspa is getting even more exciting! https://www.kasplex.org

2024-05-07 23:49:10

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I don’t trust Signal. How about Session?

2024-05-07 22:19:07

The recent news about Proton Mail highlights the need for a new private and distributed solution that can replace email. Suggestions? #privacy #blockchain #email

2024-05-07 22:18:12

The recent news about proton highlights the need for a new private and distributed solution that can replace email. Suggestions? #privacy #blockchain #email

2024-05-01 11:45:21

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What do you mean?

2024-04-28 21:01:40

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Move to where?

2024-04-26 15:09:10

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You’re not paranoid. Only reason they would allow the ETFs and Blackrock would be pushing it is if they are confident it’s in their control and it benefits them. While it may serve as an alternative to gold, they are confident BTC will never be a medium exchange that is private and uncensorable except maybe for a tiny fringe.

2024-04-25 12:49:56

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What I find overbearing is how the US Govt asserts that it’s laws should apply to the whole world and that they can enforce their laws on everyone. Interesting that so many people simply accept it saying “they knowingly fascilitated money laundering”

2024-04-25 12:46:30

Fascinating long discussion on #btc #ecash and more. #note16f2…t7qn

2024-04-25 12:44:40

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So great. Loved the discussion!

2024-04-20 19:15:13

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Not government of the people.

2024-04-19 18:09:18

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Cool

2024-03-26 23:58:46

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Them’s fightin’ words!

2024-03-26 23:56:27

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Beauties! Dungeons & Dragons!

2024-03-18 15:52:56

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With Bitcoin, always.

2024-02-26 12:33:50

@npub12qz…pdx8 Are you familiar with podcasting 2.0? You might want to see if you can interview Adam Curry, founder of podcasting and who is behind podcasting 2.0 which seeks to prevent censorship.

2024-02-25 23:38:26

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Ooh! Sounds fun.

2023-07-15 13:47:54

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/what-is-the-essence-of-iridescence-ask-a-hummingbird/

2023-06-23 10:46:42

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I wonder if Venmo or PayPal have to pay the tithe.

2023-06-23 10:46:06

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Time to move to graphene OS?

2023-06-13 12:07:42

Apple threatening to take Damus down because of lightning payments. This is the power of Apple. At least we can use a browser based client. https://twitter.com/bitcoinmagazine/status/1668546407647641608?s=46&t=QyIsKeZkGWc6spSSxm2iKw

2023-06-10 12:09:35

I like the Reddit model for creating content-specific communities but disliked Reddit's centralized censoring nature. Reddit just banned the subreddit for an opensource decentralized reddit alternative called Kbin https://kbin.pub/en which looks really interesting. I'm going to check it out! #fediverse Ref https://sakurajima.moe/@chikorita157/110517156242412322 on the banning.

2023-05-27 14:24:21

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I think I will substitute green tea for the coffee.

2023-05-25 10:04:00

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Interesting! Thanks for sharing. I will give it a try too. My sleep has been pretty poor - wake up early all the time. Hopefully it will help.

2023-05-24 14:21:18

InTheMorning!

2023-05-24 14:19:30

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https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

2023-05-24 14:18:57

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Yes. Answered my own question.

2023-05-24 14:16:23

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Ah so this? https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

2023-05-24 14:12:36

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Are you are talking Gossip protocol?

2023-05-24 14:06:53

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A State needs intelligence. The challenge is how to keep such an agency accountable. I’m sure someone must have written about this.

2023-05-24 14:03:17

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Do you feel better?

2023-05-10 18:52:31

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Good to create opportunity in ooorer countries. However unintended. Like the Russian sanctions.

2023-05-10 13:05:30

Have you ever looked at the complexity, order, and majesty of the universe and said this couldn't have come from nothing? Terrific podcast episode on why your intuition is right, Well Read Christian - Cosmological Arguments for the Existence of God (Part 1) https://share.podcastguru.io/ivSU

2023-04-26 12:24:01

To be competitive kids will need to learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT and Auto-GPT the way the learn to use spreadsheets today. Actually, quite a few of them already are. #AI

2023-04-26 11:59:24

While I’m not worried AI will be sentient anytime soon, with Auto GPT I’m now worried AI will be smart enough to be extremely harmful if directed to do harmful things - and they certainly will be. Not sure how you put the genie back in the bottle.

2023-04-20 17:39:09

Why networks like nostr are so important https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/tiktok-censor-content-challenges-global-warming-dogma

2023-04-20 14:38:35

Does Bluesky relate to nostr? If not why not?

2023-04-17 23:46:56

I had a wonderful confabulation with my daughter the other evening. #words #charlatansofsocrates #vocab

2023-04-12 10:37:31

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Yes

2023-04-10 16:06:36

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Taking to friends it’s sad to see how much the Govt FUD has influenced people - from Crypto enables money laundering to Crypto = SBF / con artists - pick your group there is a narrative to turn them off.

2023-04-07 22:29:49

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Is there a good list of crypto or finance people to follow on nostr?

2023-03-29 12:11:25

How do I find people to follow on nostr?

2023-03-04 03:11:45

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What is CSW?

2023-03-04 03:10:52

I think it is likely they will kick Damus off the App Store when the activists complain about some content on nostr they don’t like. The problem is the duopoly that market power that Google and Apple vis their App Stores.

2023-03-02 22:17:24

Images uploading slowly. I wonder if nostr needs some sort of economy to compensate people for providing capacity. I saw this other crypto social network where you pay per tweet and you get rewarded for the number of likes. That funding stream I imagine can be used to pay for the bandwidth.

2023-03-02 22:11:44

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I get the feeling people like him and Soros saw China’s mix of authoritarianism and capitalism and want to see more of it in the West. Money people get rich while State and corporations control via social credit score and state money what the peons can do.