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2025-05-20 11:32:15

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Enter Lightning and msats

2025-05-14 15:38:28

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Sure, I get that these two points of view exists and I think that ultimately the debate can only be resolved at the consensus level.
I find it however pretty disingenuous to claim that no objective statement can be made about the nature of Bitcoin, it muddies the waters without really benefiting anyone IMO.

2025-05-04 09:52:22

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How is this is a problem?

2025-05-01 20:12:00

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Very interesting to see how the various kinds of notes changed throughout the decades in very subtle but meaningful ways. Thanks for the article!

2025-04-20 20:38:11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m84CG5iRf4

2025-04-12 07:37:30

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Is UPI a somewhat open standard?

2025-03-26 19:25:58

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Nice! How loud is the fan?

2025-03-23 10:19:32

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Mr. Charles Boycott. what a peculiar surname

2025-03-19 21:08:05

Is mainstream physicalism the fiat of philosophy and science?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbnfnveWUh0

2025-03-19 19:38:14

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Lightning is simply a protocol built on top of Bitcoin , and as such has no blockchain of its own and relies entirely on transactions confirming on the Bitcoin blockchain.
It's therefore not a "sidechain" if that's your question, but rather a network of payment channels anchored on Bitcoin transactions, performing ideally all but the open and close channel payments on chain

2025-03-19 19:29:26

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The only thing that would make sense is using lightning in order to allow for millisats transfers off-chain, but when it comes to on-chain there is absolutely no way that 1BTC != 100_000_000 sats

2025-03-16 00:53:35

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Could this be a limiting factor though? I'm thinking about content creators and their incentives on other platforms as things stand today. I guess we could also argue that we might not want to encourage a certain kind of content on Nostr anyway

2025-02-21 17:35:37

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Interesting, I was thinking about some of this today and I'd say this is the number one reason why I've not allowed myself to embrace the use of these models.
The main question for me at this point is: what is knowledge and what is it for? If we imagine a model which is 1000x better than the current ones, which literally knows everything with incredible detail and precision, then how do we deal with it? Not using it would be inefficient, why write a report or design a software system or plan a holiday using our brains only?
But as you point out, the less we use our brain and the less we're left with a brain to use in the first place. It's frankly confusing

2025-02-21 17:24:11

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Concerned as in people won't have jobs anymore or something more like a doomsday scenario where AI takes over the world?

2025-02-19 22:22:56

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The problem is if there's very little overlap between these two groups, as it would mean that those with student loans get progressively more fucked

2025-02-19 22:13:56

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In case it's in article form, I think it would be great if you shared some of the questions

2025-02-18 19:42:31

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If you don't want zaps from me, why should I want them from you?

2025-02-17 20:16:48

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Interesting! Made me immediately think of Bernardo Kastrup and his analytic idealism

2025-02-17 17:02:51

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Problem is one is forced into it, so it's not great having to accept t that part of what should be your future income is most probably going to be worthless

2025-02-17 15:53:04

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I see what you mean, I think a version of it could happen on a local level, such that government entities close to the citizen can be held accountable in better ways, but I fail to see how there could be a sort of voluntary individual share that goes to either the pentagon or the infrastructure budget let's say

2025-02-17 15:41:49

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I think it will work exactly as it does now. The vast majority of people work, they get paid in sats, part of their earnings are withheld before they even reach their addresses.
Why and how would it be different in your opinion?

2025-02-17 15:28:44

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Mediterranean for cultural/geographic reasons

2025-02-17 15:10:15

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Yet a lot of people don't seem think this is particularly important

2025-02-15 12:31:52

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Who are the dumb idiots buying this shit?

2025-02-14 20:21:07

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I understand the need for absolute clarity when it comes to treasury operations, not sure what an immutable decentralized ledger can do for it though. As you correctly point out, who's going to maintain the system and why?

2025-02-14 15:58:30

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I don't think developments in USDT hurt Bitcoin long term to be honest. Even if the dollar strengthens its role as the dominant fiat currency, it still remains a fiat currency
I'm interested in seeing what's gonna happen with USDT on Lightning via Taproot Assets though

2025-02-13 14:48:14

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Which is why I run outside

2025-02-13 13:23:40

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I've stopped trying to convince people quite some time ago, I think it inevitably comes across as "please come join our cult" in most cases.
What I do nowadays is simply wait until someone approaches me in real life and asks for something which might somehow be connected to Bitcoin, and then I quietly present an initial case that Bitcoin "might" be interesting and continue the conversation from there without any sort of pressure.
I fail miserably if I try to orange pill people the hardcore way

2025-02-13 13:17:28

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I'm with you on the fundamental analysis, I wouldn't be so quick to conclude that this bull market is the objectively the worst ever, not yet at least!
Thanks for you input

2025-02-13 12:50:22

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I mean we're now dealing with a ~2$T market, would you expect the price to move as it did in 2016/2017?

2025-02-12 15:18:03

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A bit late: Sats Hoarding Association

2025-02-09 18:23:30

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What are some of the main points?

2025-02-06 19:33:48

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https://image.nostr.build/bd13b2bea06cf37e24c45b9483973650a9f24971fa0082801d7801a8c2f53a08.jpg
Nixon approves

2025-02-06 16:45:38

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holy shit indeed

2025-02-06 08:17:19

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How to even begin to explain this to normies?

2025-02-04 19:16:32

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Made me think of this:
https://youtu.be/PgktRt2MTKs?si=i1dzuuDNylTvc3Pz

2025-02-04 12:56:48

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"Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail."
Lao Tzu

2025-01-31 14:58:14

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I fail to see how the second scenario would work, could you elaborate?

2025-01-30 11:05:04

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It can be only as good as the average opinion out there 😐

2025-01-29 20:29:16

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Also interested in knowing why this might be useful 🤔

2025-01-29 15:54:43

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I am blown away by the fact the most people simply don't understand money, yet most of their time and energy goes towards obtaining it. Most of their material worries stem from the lack of it, yet they couldn't describe in simple terms what's wrong with it.
How can something so central be so misunderstood? It's honestly quite depressing at times

2025-01-28 14:36:08

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Here's everything you need to know: nothing. We need to know absolutely nothing about an airdropped token.

2025-01-27 14:48:23

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Isn't UTXO selection almost always aimed at selecting UTXOs that are as large as necessary, but not more? I might be wrong

2024-12-21 19:50:25

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Interesting, but how do we know it? Not claiming it is not true, just genuinely interested in what analysis is used to come up with these sorts of results

2024-12-08 00:43:22

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I view it vertically, where older blocks are buried beneath newer blocks, constituting the foundation over which new blocks are added. It's a tower-structure for me

2024-11-08 11:22:28

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A great book overall! It also caught my attention as I read it, but it became even more interesting when I stumbled upon the following quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson around the same time:
"When simplicity of character and the sovereignty
of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of
riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise, — and duplicity and falsehood
take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of
the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words
are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed,
when there is no bullion in the vaults."

2024-08-28 19:56:02

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Anatomy of the state, what a great little book going straight to the point

2024-08-27 16:19:27

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How do/would mint audits work via nostr?

2024-08-21 16:35:49

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You can try BitRefill, although that means that you are not strictly speaking purchasing the ticket using sats

2024-08-21 16:31:02

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Interesting, but whenever I see cool applications built on top of Nostr I always end up asking myself: what's the incentive to maintain relays up and running (other than generosity ofc)?

2024-08-19 17:57:15

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What are the replies like?

2024-08-19 17:51:19

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Free as in freedom, not as beer I guess (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre?wprov=sfla1)

2024-08-07 18:44:21

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Are you talking about (BOLT13) watchtowers?

2024-08-06 10:45:51

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Ever heard of https://mostro.network/ ?