Like an old country preacher once said: "Eat the hay and spit out the sticks." There is some signal even amidst all of the Bitcoin noise. But the Bitcoiners have been largely the first group to colonize Nostr, it seems. I think others will come eventually, but there are still kinks Nostr has to work out and improvements to be made.
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I don't even hate Bitcoin as a concept, aside from its blatant WEF underpinnings and privacy issues. If it was just one topic among many here, I could tolerate it. But it's nonstop, it's everywhere, and it's not even intelligent discussion. Just idiots spamming memes at each other.
Yeah, the privacy issues concern me too. There are companies and I'm sure intelligence agencies devoted to tracking and figuring out who is doing what with Bitcoin. I have some affinity for Monero (though I don't own any), but I haven't studied it enough and it seems to lack the first mover advantage of Bitcoin. Unfortunately many of the Bitcoin memers and spanners are behaving as NPCs and probably don't even realize it (and I don't like to view people that way).
I'm not here to rain on people's parade, but I'm here to maybe get some neurons activated if it's possible. "Dollar bad" does not imply "Bitcoin good"--they can both be bad. If the people here really care about actual freedom, they'll address the issues directly instead of dodging them with memes. So far I haven't seen any of that, though.
https://youtu.be/ncPyMUfNyVM it doesn't matter who has 51% or more they would need to shut off all electric in the world to take my bitcoin soooooooooo I don't care who mines bitcoin my btc transaction will always be validated and I dont give a fuck about anything else you say your argument is straight trash compared to what I'm saying
We're not talking about a 51% attack. We're talking about the fact that every transaction is public, permanent, and traceable to you. It is a privacy nightmare.
Even tricks like using lightning nodes before committing transactions to the public blockchain can be thwarted by the right internet infrastructure (via packet capture and timing analysis).
I'm not sure how many people actually care about freedom, because on other issues they are most probably statists. It's probably just a variation on the love of money.
I saw this meme in my collection, and if you just replace the flag with the orange Bitcoin symbol...
