Cyber Seagull

Tiramisu. God. Bitcoin. Drivechain. In that order.

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2024-07-11 19:12:49

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Early on in conversations about the design of email, anti spam techniques such as having each send incur a cost was, suggested.
This was rebuffed and lead to the surveilance capitalist distopia we see today.
Nostr is resistant to this by virtue of its early integration of V4V. Zaps. I
It's an "easy" horizontal leap to paid or subsidized relays (that offer non-abusive advertising schemes).
It's another "easy" horizontal leap to I tegrate non-btc zaps (such as Monero)
Another interesting Question to ask is: is NOSTR more resistant to the type of protocol attack suffered on XMPP.
SMTP kind of blew up with the popularity of the internet and was only one of many competing standards.
Nostr's, like XMPP is more "elemental".Its simplicity taps into "fundamental particle" level of design.

2024-07-11 18:02:53

"Nostr" means Nerds Online Shitposting The Revolution

2024-07-10 15:13:45

What if Max Keiser is being held hostage and hence explains his obvious recent inconsistency on economic principals.
Has anyone checked his posts for secret "Help Me" Messages?

2024-07-09 16:21:59

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Today I learned stores sell your yogurt.
https://image.nostr.build/5d909c68705436ccc8d1d179d59ae8119590748682d02ebbfcdab0d13ed425de.jpg

2024-07-07 10:06:08

"No Politics Summer" going strong.
Some mentions still getting past my filters but one whole day without a mention of the November Turd Selection.
Water sports, biking, Some old DOS gaming too !

2024-07-03 21:28:17

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A sufficiently oppressed citizenry will revolt. Ruler and subject are always in a power balance.
The universal law preceeds written law and is what all other laws are derived from.

2024-07-03 13:34:47

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False, The Law is apriori to the state.

2024-06-30 03:23:51

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Fantastic awareness, nonetheless, most books on or about Islam written for an academic or histiographic understanding are written by orientalist, itself a culturally biased and political interpretation of Islam.
Hence the apparent complexity.
In reality, Islam is very simple.
Please indulge me, guess.

2024-06-29 21:48:40

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If you understand Islam so well, what is the one thing that differentiates it from any other religion, its unique claim ?

2024-06-29 21:27:41

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Lololo , yeah...just ignore Algeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, on and on...

2024-06-29 21:25:50

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Christians have killed around 20 million muslims in the last 50 years. Cry more

2024-06-26 22:18:12

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Physical violence is really bad, it breaks the NAP, especially towards friends and family nice enough to play hand games with you.

2024-06-26 20:50:19

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To be honest, whatvi think happpened was, when i replied, your avatar was slow to load. It just looked like a random robot and npub. It's been happening a lot lately. So to me, it appeares in a feed along with other peoples serious posts. So it was not obvious to me. I usually get your sarcasm, dead babies ect, but all comedians have bad landings.

2024-06-26 20:02:15

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Have you considered that you are not funny and that's why? 😂

2024-06-20 04:36:47

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Those are bill notices. Pls stop.

2024-06-19 12:56:39

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You think that, because you are in a cult.
Ecash is not a solution for freemarkets, it's an invitation to get rugged and for mints to get captured by the state.
Please don't be offended, it's just that, what you've said is very silly.
It reminds me of non technicaly inclined people who intend to send large amounts of Bitcoin via Lightning, with very little education on the risks.

2024-06-12 20:05:36

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Low test hands typed those words

2024-06-11 21:40:17

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Monero can scale. Even higher than bitcoin base, lightning or ecash. As long as there are many DEX's.
Because it is fungible, getting into and out of high transaction speed second layers is easy.

2024-06-11 21:35:00

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Yeah, it's called a Freedom (French) Press.

2024-06-07 23:27:53

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They will not see this and i am not familiar with their opinions, but all this reasoning does is validate the anti-natalist and suggest that without enslaving other beings into life, there is no meaning for either men or women.
Condeming other beings, your children no less, to sickness old age and death, all for the sake of your own biological mental health is... horror.
It's a type life trap.

2024-06-07 13:48:56

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Darth, You are the kind of person that a person wants on their team in an apocalypse, but would never leave alone with the children because at some point your would tell them parental authority is false and santa clause is not real.

2024-06-05 13:20:09

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Nope. In the austrian school from which you are borrowing the term "praxeology" demand also known as "human needs" and "wants" knows no end. It is not a scarce thing. Human action *are* limited
"Meeting demand" and all the steps leading up to it, are human action.
Even in the gaussian flavor economic analysis (purchase and sale patterns as rivers of activity) the upper bound for demand is necessarily open ended. It uses transforms based on historical data, but in reality the demand for any given good is infinite.
Attempting to say demand is limited by production or potential production or even the finite amount of resources on earth, is to at once run up against the economic calculation problem aswell as to place a limit on something that is not limited. Human wants.

2024-06-05 04:46:59

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If several of those hops are attackers, they can coordinate timing.

2024-06-05 04:20:32

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Praxeology is literally the study of human action, not ideas or thoughts. If anything stupid ideas are not a scarce resource, with limited use.
Over time the market can dicipline bad ideas, but i hope you can appreciate the difference between a product or commodity in a market and bad ideas which can thrive based on psycological, political and even biological factors.

2024-06-04 04:09:50

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Did you see Bitcoin Paine's-in-the-ass new narrative ? Block space scarecity is as important as supply scarecity in what gives bitcoin value.
BTC has evolved into something completely different.

2024-06-01 23:20:27

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Yes

2024-06-01 01:58:39

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Will you be open sourcing your server side key/payment address setup ?

2024-05-31 23:37:40

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This is hilarious and true. Everytime some new solution is proposed, even the anti-dc people say "but that will enable drivechains"
Because drivechains tech is primordial. It's made from the very same fabric as bitcoin itself.
They keep running into the problem it solves and trying to fix it with something else.

2024-05-31 01:14:49

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I will look.

2024-05-31 01:10:21

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And

2024-05-30 19:55:01

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Great Note on this topic. Calle is being way too sensitive about anyone shitting on his passion project that is going nowhere for obvious reasons.
This is why profit motivated projects with budget contraints have Business managers (sheperds really) and left brain design types.
Engineers will persue technically interesting dead ends with the most painful end product.

2024-05-30 19:41:39

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🍉

2024-05-29 13:34:29

@npub1gcx…nj5z i love you in a platonic way. #nostr only.
It's going to be a great summer
https://nostpic.com/media/77953b3a63bcf1c748dbdeef109bd56de48c30edcd27d2092440c3adca31c975/2c9750848b8b88b6459047f3b962cda15a840862363b06797b892fc81205f1e7.webp

2024-05-27 00:11:17

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When he gets released, what freedom tech project that wasn't around before, will he be excited about ?

2024-05-26 21:29:53

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Memecoins. I meant to write memecoins. No innovation in : SHIBAinu- "wrapped eth" coin number 300

2024-05-26 13:55:35

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Eww

2024-05-26 00:04:33

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Does he have a nostr ?

2024-05-24 17:43:35

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Meanwhile in Star trek Discovery:
"Need to move 7 feet, be right back"
TAP

2024-05-20 17:14:39

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Cool. Very solar punk. I remember looking into a monitor set up a few year back and the cheapest at the time was 10k$
How Hackable will this be ? Custom Os ? https://void.cat/nostr/b53eda937807f47303f7b8770e9806f35908c4dc5b40ae950ea52ead21215160.jpg

2024-05-19 18:44:04

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Still listening to this dicussion, but i will highlight some key points in replies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksFndK4BZME

2024-05-18 01:38:46

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Toxic maxi's will spit on the hand extended to them as they drown.

2024-05-17 13:28:21

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The earliest way we would know is by repeated reports on forums of issues. Then we run into more problems:
How long has this been going on ? How can we even check ?
Are these reports trustworthy or an attack ?
For instance, certain users are less likely to report anything in the first place; persecuted substance users and sellers, small holders.
The reporting venues themselves are numerous and i've noticed we rely on certain people to crosspost news (such as about haveno) from simplex, matrix, reddit, nostr, monero, twitter.
Several fresh accounts with few followers could post a complaint on each of those platforms every day for months and no one would notice. The sub-Reddit is censoring unfavorable posts about Monero, and so its "news" is skewed. Monero town and Matrix a are a pain to sign up for.
So a sub-group of a sub-group will even know.
What if everyone was looking at the Black marble flood attack but ignoring the frequency of reorgs during that attack?
Something like moneroinflation .com having a reorg tracker, with report inputs from accross the network to account for local signal decay bias might be useful, but still, even with active pattern seeking, it's the type of attack that majority hash can carry out in very very small doses, say, only on purchases of a few cents, that in the aggregate amount to thousands.
Then at some juncture of weakness for the network, like a network upgrade or contentious fork: Bam: and in the chaos no one knows whats going on long enough to lose maket cap and users that will never return.
Again, i'm looking for a technical reason majority hash could not be held by a single entity right now accross the several trusted pools, and what they could do if they did , and how we would even know.
I'm looking through historical posts with similar questions but not finding good ansers, maybe i will eventually.
Any standard reply, such as : it is unlikely, why would they, or we would find a way to fight it, while possibly true, is cope as far as i'm concerned.
Btw P2pool solves the custodial payout issue of trad-pools, but as far as i can tell, it does not prevent the coordination of individual nodes behind p2pool.

2024-05-17 11:39:12

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@npub14a6…z6rn check out the new Bitcoin Takeover episode by @npub12qz…pdx8 interviewing Pete Rizzo.
Does an amazing job articulating why Toxics don't make sense and the corner this new narrative has painted themselves into, based on the history and nature of Bitcoin.

2024-05-16 23:03:57

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It's easier to fight back against those miners in Bitcoin though. The anonymous nature on xmr means something like stratum v2 is not possible.
With Bitcoin the bad history is noticed way quicker and whatever addresses benefited from it can be traced with meticulous scrutiny all the way back. Even if they are behind tor or a vpn, their spend and miner reward is public and the bad history could be forked from by users.
With Monero, a low amount double spend attack could go on for months, with everyone accepting the history and without an easy or possible way to go back and check/fork from. Is the rate source and timings of reorgs being tracked by the average operator ? or anyone ?

2024-05-15 19:57:15

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How ? How would a miner profit from a reorg ? Give an explicit scenerio.
(Yes, this has been answered many times)

2024-05-15 08:02:28

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How can they get kicked out ? You as a user or even a mining operator do notnknow who to sensor. They can't use their Asics, but they can use a huge farm of regular cpu's.

2024-05-15 02:18:31

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Did you see shinobi new article ?

2024-05-14 20:36:21

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This is a good reply, finally, i've been asking around for days.
The main counter you have made here is something like: "Undermining Monero is possible, but would not achieve much, or would only do so for a short time before a solution would be deployed."
If it is possible and it does undermine Monero, then the goal (much) was achieved. We are talking about something they perceive to be, by the point they do this, an existential risk, perhaps on the level of a Hitler or Communist Russia. Think about that, and the war of attrition they would fight.
Knocking the price down 100$ in confidence in monetary terms would be the war equivalent of an air raid bombing on an enemies industrial sector.
Two huge assumptions are embedded in your scenario where we know an attack is taking place, that is, we have somehow confirmed that a state controls majority hash, and is fucking with tx's;
1. That a solution will and
1.2 can be implemented, and
2. that the price and project will recover.
The second strikes me as the "manifest destiny" level of confidence Bitcoin toxics have and the first is just as hopefull. While i agree that in general attacks can make a project stronger, this one anonymous hash providers, might not.
Advocating for or defending Monero at that point would be given no quarter or discussion. They would frame privacy coins as dangerous to a much higher level than even now.
Think of prohibition where they poisoned and allowed the sale of Alchohol, that in turn killed tons of people. There is no law so petty the state will not kill you over it. The state has and can do almost anything, credibility is established at the barrel end of a gun. No one would care if they run over your pet coin. They'll just say you are all drug dealers or something.
Another part of your repky relies on something others have said to me, a reliance on their past actions and behavior towards crypto. Seizing funds, legal games, regulations, ect. This still does not answer the question : How do we know hash is not captured/coordinated by the major pools right now ?
As far as attacks go, it's true, targeted censorship is not possible, but random censorship is. In addition to the other methods you mention, are all now tools they could use to undermine confidence in the network, if they did have hash dominance, and for cheap !
Not only that, this could be used in such a way and in a manner combined with an astroturf campaign to divert attention away from what is actually happening. For example, posting comments and starting rumors about it being a type of encryption or CT ring break or bug none of the devs can find, but it's actually just them controlling the hash the entire time.
As far as solutions, i like Nano's (xno) removal of fees and mining entirely and their special version of POS which is not a POS at all because nothing is staked, and is more akin to congressional voting, wherein how much weight a representative has is known to all and can be rebalanced if it gets too concentrated. But the reps, could still all be the same entity.
I need to study it more and of course it's core design is only pseudonymous like Bitcoi with no community ambition for privacy, which sucks but a fork of nano is working on Camo, a privacy tool like coinjoin.
Another is of course Worldcoin, with intrusive KYC and centralized development, so not really a solution.
Ultimately i don't think there is an obvious solution. What i'm describing is not a Sybil attack, i'm not saying they use bots or overwhelm the network with fake users.
There not being a readily obvious solution, does not remove the potential problem though.
POW or POS both just push the "Who watches the Watcher" problem up a level.

2024-05-14 15:57:24

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Oh. I'm not defending ASIC's as a more resilient structure, just that CPU's are not either.
Yes the community could respond, but you have once again ignored my question and other Monerans do this too. I'm not being mean here, just pointing out a common short circuit in logic:
How would you even know ?
For all we know the hash at this moment relies on several pools that appear to be decentralized, but are actually the same actor.
I want you to try this:
-Estimate how many Xmr users there are, -Double that to = x
-Now give each of them four cpu's, yhe cost of which is = y
-Make the cost of running 4 cpu's per year = z
- (x y z) = R
Now i want you to compare R with it's nearest comparable governmental agency or department or commitee. If it's too small for federal agencies, bring it to the state level.
- Let's = that to D.
When you have that i want you to read the following sentence outloud and tell me if you believe it, example:
The united states government is incapable of running a server farm with a cost of R which is comparable to the yearly budget of D, the Idaho potato Tourism department.

2024-05-14 15:00:34

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What stops the U.S government from having equal CPU hash power, right now?
How would you know they don't control 60% net, right now....
Monerans never answer these questions.

2024-05-14 14:19:00

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And the answer would be: no
Sufficient trust in a mint would be centralization. This applies even to trust in several large mints.
I agree with your second point and Monerans have been avoiding my query on this, but i disagree with your first point about frequent hard forks. It's "how" it's done that is important, not how often. The HF's that take place are years in the making, focused on improving the single value proposition for XMR. They go through rigourous testing by skilled devs. The community can reject it, but rarely do because, and it bares repeating, they only have one goal. Privacy. No ETF's or corporate/state actors to appease, no mining conglomerates or electricity infra, no layer 2 scaling or smart contracts to integrate, no ordinals or Script externalities like BitVm.
This means only a handful of experts need to work on a given fork, itself trying to fix a potential problem, push the fix and move on with their lives, like with RandomX. Whereas with other projects you need to pass on the torch, audit Interoperability, and consult with veterans and stake holders.
Scheduled Hard forks in Monero are way less dramatic than in politics based Bitcoin and even less than in centralized upgrades like Windows going from one version to another.
Monero is so simple, it eliminates entire classes of issues that would make frequent hard forks "scary", whereas Bitcoin preserves old problems to keep legacy devs employed.

2024-05-14 11:03:57

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Mints can steal, not comparable at all.

2024-05-14 10:49:55

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In regards to Monero, It's very cheap to buy CPU's that could appear to be different decentralized pools, but are actually co-operating. These colluding pools could each have only 10-20% hash each , but a combined +60%. While that has can't be used to censor, it can be used undermine the confidence in the network at a time when alternatives such as bitcoin are cut off. So far Monerans have intentionaly misunderstood the point i'm making or ignored and censored my comment.

2024-05-12 15:05:51

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Appeal to authority. Yeah and Shaw hits Gear. Who Cares. Countless other "doctors" also looks "healthy" and can back up their claims with scientific studies and professional opinions too. The covid Vaccine has studies backing it too.
It is absolutely true that for short and long term health you need head to toe animal nutrition. All the blue zones eat some form of raw organ meat, especially for pregnent women, all traditional hunting societies, as featured in Weston A. Price studies, went right to splitting up the organs after a hunt, eating it before it bsgan to rot. The diets of pre-sedentary societies with optimal health and physique, did not just eat a grilled out steak. Certain hormones and other nutrients are found in greater available quantities in organ meats. Raw organic egg yolks were also sought out, fish ect.
Many people have abandoned the standard "carnivore" diet after years because it suffers from a nutrient difficiency similar to veganism, despite it being better than carb and SAD based diets. They often go back to eating plant foods, not realizing that what was missing was organs.

2024-05-11 06:00:18

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Downsides might be congestion and i think @npub180c…h6w6 would likely have a "fit to purpose" argument, where using nostr for this and ( possibly expanding the protocol parameters in the future if this gets popular) overextends the censorship routing and message delivery focus of the relay structure (the way the lightning project and its advocates did to Bitcoin)
But i don't want to speak for fiatjaf.
It's great to innovate but it's also great to be vigilant that certain things are building their own path to eventually forking.

2024-05-08 04:42:53

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Amazon does many things well, don't waste energy on hate. There will always be a giant compliant and nosy elephant in the market. Stepping on your rights with its giant feet.
They build Ring doorbells
we build Camera disrupting LED's.
They KYC,
we dead drop mail.
This is the Tao. The way of nature.
We are lucky to live in an age when i can have goji berries from halfway around the world delivered to my door in minutes !
It's practically magic.
Trade is a kind of miracle.
Instead focus on building and using private and user respecting hacks or alternatives.
Have you read about Agorism ?
The state and corporations pushing extreme edges just opens up the middle, like a pie crust.
With so much information and so many people awake now working on alternatives, not taking your turn at rest helps "them".
Take Rest,
black out windows,
turn off devices,
un plug cords
and find the solution that is bound to be out there, tomorrow.

2024-05-06 23:31:43

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What what ?

2024-05-04 05:24:01

Well...it was fun,
https://nostpic.com/media/77953b3a63bcf1c748dbdeef109bd56de48c30edcd27d2092440c3adca31c975/3415bb605fba62d6d8e9940d40a631a632b55683e76cee0ee4cd21025548b312.webp

2024-04-28 03:11:40

https://nostpic.com/media/77953b3a63bcf1c748dbdeef109bd56de48c30edcd27d2092440c3adca31c975/7c8d60d8d92ec2a670bf9a0ffb1dae4b96672a1be5f700a21af2e727ddeda63c.webp
>a 2017 book by James C. Scott that sets out to undermine what he calls the "standard civilizational narrative" that suggests humans chose to live settled lives based on intensive agriculture because this made people safer and more prosperous.[1] Instead, he argues, people had to be forced to live in the early states, which were hierarchical, beset by malnutrition and disease, and often based on slavery.
@npub1508…twu3

2024-04-26 17:17:14

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Hey, is there anywork that has been done on psoriasis ?

2024-04-19 08:00:15

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Nos2x by fiatjaf

2024-04-18 19:49:43

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Holy fuck

2024-04-18 13:53:29

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It's not a real USD peg though is it ? It just displays sats in more Normie friendly denomination.

2024-04-18 11:45:11

Why does no one talk about ICANN centralization and alternatives like #OpenNic?
or email self hosting.
Freedom Money, Freedom Social, Freedom Hardware, yes. But all these relays and nodes run on .com's
Privacy technologies get a lot of attention, but the step after ones ISP gets very little. With anonymous mesh networks not taking off and with inherent infrastructure limitations, registering a real I.D with an ISP beholden to a state will remain for the forseable future. But after that step in the internet stack ? We should support as libre as possible right ?
@npub1tr4…2y5g
@npub1gcx…nj5z
@npub1der…xzpc
Thoughts ?
For instance, if i want to set up a nostr relay i have to trust a third party at some point, for the TLD. Identity with them is reliant on an email instead of an npub assosiation.
It would be nice to have a server app market like in Umbrel where i can spin up my own Domain after some sort of anti spam measure like a crypto escrow or nostr vouching system.
ICANN appears to have a monopoly, whereas with nostr we can support and promote an alternative default system.

2024-04-17 08:37:26

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Take the charging stand pill anon

2024-03-12 15:58:10

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What do you mean by "background in math"?

2024-03-05 16:04:07

Test note for editing

2024-03-05 15:36:07

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Can't the latest version be recreated by a going through past Pr and issue bearing Notes ? Combine with a fork of the "centralized" github repo to other self hosted solutions .
This seems like a valid de-centralization and redundancy step for sure.

2024-02-20 21:06:50

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"People who have your number saved in their phone’s contacts will still see your phone number since they already know it."
Lol.

2023-12-31 10:24:45

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BS has been pushing holes only they can fill on to bitcoin, for years. #Drivechain & Bip399 fixes this.

2023-12-23 12:00:12

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I want those who build it to learn from open source, but to open source it is to invite a bug with the type of failure that ends nations.
There are alternative ways to build resilient software. Domain appropriateness.

2023-12-23 11:56:10

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No. It did come out of la leche de tu madre, though.

2023-12-22 11:40:19

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What might a successor to Bitcoin look like ? (I don't do twitter, pls let me know of this is answered.)

2023-12-16 22:50:14

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Fedimints are racist. The arguments and references to them for use in the developing world often assume an exotic behavior about these societies that is unsubstantiated. Yes...Fedimints and chaumian mints, as described by countless poverty porn pushers in the bitcoin space, are a type of colonialism. It's the digital equivalent of bringing democracy and womens rights to Afghanistan by America. The reality on the ground does not match the fiction in your head, and it kills more of the women than are saved.
The on the ground reality is 7 of 7 influential community leaders are just as likely to steal from the local people and get away with it through various means and social mechanism, as have "consequences" applied to them. All the quixotic arguments for pushing fuckmints and ecrap on the developing world, i have seen, come from people aware of the economic principals and game theory of Bitcoin, but who also simultaneously make the "other" an exception to them.
"Those other people over there" use money differently. "Those noble savages are closer to the land, more communal, more holistic" implies the wording. The reality is grannies and children hoarding small amounts by wrapping it in their clothing , or sewing it in beds, burrying it in the ground, anything they can do to keep it AWAY from others. You know... like bitcoin was once trying to do.
A type of ignorant colonialism, Fedimints and ecash, as presented don't even work in the developed world, yet will work for the "underdeveloped" for some reason, a reason always alluded to in unfounded social science based on some unique and exotic charachteristic of those societies.
The real life behavior, hoarding and limited sharing of physical CASH by community leaders assumes qualities of Bitcoin that are no longer even popularly sought. Privacy, fungibility, low transaction cost.
Families, tribes, groups, hoard cash FROM eachother and share limited amounts for specific reasons. This behavior can be replicated with Bitcoin using simple wallets, truer digital stand-ins than complicated multisigs and over engineered collateralized trust networks or custodial "banks", Lightning.
The developed world and its voice, having the majority of Bitcoin, now want to, in the style classic sociopathic narcisism, push a watered down and hyper controlled Bitcoin on the poor, while also passing it off as "Freedom" money.
These contradictions will not resolve in their favor.

2023-12-16 21:50:51

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It's crazy knowing about Monero and watching:
-old school bitcoiners say Bitcoin has lost or is losing its original purpose
-devs and influencers argue about problems solved years ago
-nuBitcoiners support Kyc and censorship

2023-12-09 19:33:08

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By the way, apparently the 42 limit standard is his version, not cores. The standard he's talking about is his series of patches he has been advocating for merging to core for several years.
Not so much lying, as being zealous.
This distinction might be damage control though.

2023-12-09 16:37:53

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That's just a reflection of your own follow thread. Add a new account and add people from global who are not bitcoiners. There are tons. Artists, creatives, writters, religious, cranks. It's all there.
Freedom entails responsibility, if you are not adjusting the signal you are receiving in a constructive way, such as subcribing to people you disagree with. That's on you.

2023-12-09 07:58:09

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Luke has answered this elsewhere. It's unfortunate his positions on specific topics aren't indexed somewhere that he can just reference by code.
His position is that from inception the field was standardized at 40 bytes, intentionally to limit spam. So reliance on and design around an expanded field size is a mistake on their end, for non-conforming to the "spec".
Things like this in protocols tend to be worked out by representative bodies and industry boards such as w3c, iso, among others over time. These standards also tend to compete for adoption.
Bitcoin being money, a new project and a philosophical or religious paradigm shift for participants, with enourmous social consequences, it will take a while to smooth out the standard.

2023-12-08 19:59:46

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Reading vague inside jokes and quips by fiatjaf that they will never expand on again is mentally overwhelming for ME.

2023-12-07 23:21:04

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Imagine not seeing how this is the same argument certain environmentalist used against bitcoin, about electricity usage.

2023-12-06 21:53:15

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Its sad, but this is actually the best way to debunk Peter.
Everything in one image.
This way we can refer to cartesian coordinates for each argument instead of offering links to articles written in 2015 no one bothers to read.

2023-12-06 16:04:17

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Choosing not to use open source is still a choice made in the free market. Forcing everyone to only use open source is not freedom.
Is it a bad choice ?
In most cases yes, terrible.
In some niche cases, without me approving of OCEAN, it makes sense. Like in house softwate for a competitive business.
I'm not sure i want my national electricity regulation software to be open source...

2023-12-06 15:42:56

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Plot twist. I was missing something. Fix is good.
#nevent1q…0lca

2023-12-06 14:36:39

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Nano is interesting. Last i checked though its trusted. It relies on Ethereum like POS, Judiciator whales.

2023-12-06 14:23:49

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Unless i'm missing something however, what you are trying to get core to adopt is not an optional toggle, but a hard size limit, where legacy or non-complient nodes cannot participate or are shunned going forward ? Thus the blocking of "spam" network wide.
The wording leads me to believe that's your intention. Or would it still be optional to inscribe if you want ?
It's one thing to run Knots/Ocean and gather/market support for it. It's another to frame it as a bug and push it to core as a new defacto standard.
By the way, unlike the blocksize debate, this change affects proven profits by motivated network participants. Since adoption and use appear to be increasing unabated despite the "spam", are you fully cognizant of the down stream impact such a change would have ? The second order effects and blowback ?

2023-12-06 02:59:01

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yes. It comes down to what one person or faction feel is a bug and what others do not. These opinions hampered by the limits to that one individual or groups values and life experience, attempting to speak for millions of others.
The real bug is in how we arrive at the definition of what a bug is, in the first place.
On a private project, a team lead decides.
On a public project, it becomes political.
There is a third option, market choice.
People who subscribe to Luke's worldview and vision for Bitcoin can download and run Knots.
Another way to let the market decide is to reduce the scope and importance of core, and move features to a layer 2, where consumers choose.
Some bugs and upgrades are not political of course. Things such as a flaw in SHA that requires emergency fork. Other bugs are maintenance or efficiency types, as languages and procedures backing the project improve. These can keep being pushed to core, but the surface area can be further reduced, along with ossification.
The history of projects shows that when political and technical become confused, the project will eventually alienate so many people, despite the best of intentions and logic, it dies.

2023-12-03 15:25:30

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Facebook and gmail is not the internet, no.

2023-11-27 13:09:13

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These are app specific sore points, and not nostr.

2023-11-27 07:53:13

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Ok, but what does conspiracy mean.🤣

2023-11-27 07:10:38

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Relays can get posts from eachother, how else would the propagation of messages even work otherwise ?
You post to x and y relays. z and a relays can read and repost your post like anyother user client.
There is nothing preventing another relay from reading a JSON file like any other client.

2023-11-26 00:18:27

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El salvador fixes this.

2023-11-25 10:28:37

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Is this running over tor ?

2023-11-19 19:42:51

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LBRY is not dead. This is more a test of the community, than anything. The lawsuite is kinda dumb, because you can't really stop a protocol. Lbry inc, the company was aunctioned off a few days ago, but lbry files can live on to be served on odysee or elsewhere.
Nostr is not designed to host large files. For instance, The entire "Hobbit" movie was "uploaded" to nostr, but all it was, was a link to a file on a private server. Relays push that text link around. The client can play the embeded files and some clients host images for you, for ease of use or automagically host it on third party providers. I doubt client servers would allow large multi megabite videos though. If it did, it would face centralization and legal pressure like any other server. Something Lbry is resistant to.
The holy grail of file hosting is easy, redundant, and nostr like censorship resistance. Even Odysee hosts most of the content on its own servers for ease of access, and still does, having moved them to areweave servers apparently. A centralization weakness, but not true closure.
Some other proposed solutions such as Sia, and Ipfs also have shitcoins attached to them, all holdovers from the "buzz" and funding around ipo's and alt coins, over the last few years. Many genuinly felt an altcoin contributed to the game theory of making defi work. If they had all used zaps instead of trying to run their own money currency AND technology company (seems really dumb in retrospect), they would have likely been spared legal issues, while benefiting from adoption.
Not sure why i write big long replies to your posts, but the questions are good.

2023-11-19 07:51:15

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Did you know they got bought out by ADL aligned groups ad they are doxxing Alt right people on there based on records held by it. LBRY INC, the company. Pretty sure lbry the protocol is not stoppable.

2023-11-12 07:41:09

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@npub1nev…jmve Am i accurate ? Etf's will be able to "onboard" millions of people "into" bitcoin in a custodial way. Share splits will be able to mirror bitcoin subunits increasing the available pool of investors. Actual collateral purchases can be in large chunks at low time preference fee rates.
All this activity could have happened at the individual level in a non or less custodial way with the smaller fees going directly to the network through a sidechain, in a less clumsy way than lightning.
Or perhaps the market that will buy Etf's and exposure to bitcoin from BR and others alongside legacy products, would never have invested in a sidechain solution ?

2023-11-11 17:50:36

Bitcoin ETF's are Layer 2's that don't pay fees.
This makes bitcoin less secure then it could be.
Drivechain and BMM could have fixed this through scalling solutions.
Toxics are Toxic to Bitcoin.

2023-11-08 21:12:24

@npub1nev…jmve Organic proof of horizontal transfer out of Ethereum in to Bitcoin.
It proves people and devs would rather be in Bitcoin.
Toxics will ignore this because they don't like the underlying product, NFT's, and miss the point.
Drivechain and Bip300 will do this for everything, anywhere else , benefiting everyone on the network.
https://image.nostr.build/f22ed01d5bf1a6ef434aad3718f2a565ef20d291f4815f7d8f2ccb1a5a956a48.jpg

2023-11-06 00:21:11

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https://image.nostr.build/2ed11be2b12a70cc75adcb22a7eb28df470af317ee6a5e1671e59d2fa003d66b.jpg

2023-11-06 00:09:58

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But Adam Back says the future of bitcoin is to trust your friends with a multisig, timelock or vault op. What we really need is another trusted protocol from blockstream with legal counter party risk.

2023-11-03 00:20:28

Peter Todd will be the first against the wall when the revolution happens. (not meant as a threat by me)
People will be scrambling for Bitcoin to save their lifes work and he will be taking the worst possible position on any issue.
Someone damaged him.