Could you automate a report on this? It would be great to have a countdown to zero / near-zero. For nostr:npub1cjw49ftnxene9wdxujz3tp7zspp0kf862cjud4nm3j2usag6eg2smwj2rh

Parker is deceiving *someone*. Either the bitcoin community, or the X community. All in the name of profit/influencoor-power.

Add him to the ever-growing list of people not to be trusted.

In fact, don’t trust - verify. nostr:note14ch4hz8gfkyesaj8nll7z7dvyuxpp04454pl74aq6l5zwmuq46dqttm5m9

LOLOL… what a shit take.

By that logic, fiat is MUCHO superior to bitcoin, because they have an infinite amount of money to manifest into “power”.

“Founders”? It’s literally one of the biggest things that makes bitcoin unique.

This is a giant red flag against Parker. He either doesn’t get it, or he doesn’t give a shit about how/why bitcoin leads to freedom. Either way, avoid.

For the record, I’ve had a couple of conversations with him. He’s no dummy - but a HELL of a marketer. We talked over strategies for him to sell his book.

There are no heroes.

Man, this sparks a feature idea - mute by number of replies/notes over time.

Example: auto-mute any nsec encountered that has > 100 notes in the last 10 minutes.

If someone is spamming, they can fuck right off. Even if they’re not a bot, what is the quality of that much stuff spewed over a short time?

Everyone buys in at the price they deserve. There is no free lunch.

I’ve met a lot of people who identify as Christian. Interestingly, the most Christian people I’ve met do not, tho they believe, and don’t feel worthy of such a title.

I’ll never be a Job. I’m more of the thief or tax assessor. I know who and what I am. I know my faith is insufficient. I think most people should start there than aspiring to Job.

I am prepared for either outcome. Majority out of fiat, where it’s safe. But I’ve got a smal hoard of dollar shitcoins in case it goes the other way, ready to BTFD.

What other methods are there to hedge the coming months?

Nice. Source?

How did people even LIVE before influencoors?

Like, how did you find out the latest trends or a slick way of tying your shoes?

Dark ages.

So glad to be alive in this Age of “Information”.

Yep. This one seems obvious to me, tho. Maybe I should work on a NIP, myself…

What, then, differentiates real estate from other forms of property?

The whole thing may be illegal. But the laws are not immutable.

Really just comes down to how close the needle is to people NOPEing the fuck out of the US with their money.

Way ahead of them.

I don’t think they care. I am convinced each subsequent generation views the previous gens oversteps as normal - and thus they push the envelope ever forward.

“[new policy here] isn’t that big of a deal - it’s just *one more step* in a long history of steps! It’s tradition!”

This ends in slavery or a revolt.

“Macron posted on X that his country "is deeply committed" to freedom of expression but "freedoms are upheld within a legal framework”

No, freedoms are self-evident. That legal framework is to protect those freedoms from government. Full stop. Fuck you, Macron.

100%. But then you’re limited in your choice of clients. If you decide to try out another client, you could be inundated. Worse, this could be used for griefing in the worst kind of way. In short, the network could easily be used against you by those who could pay.

And creating a new npub is just relief from targeted griefing. The ad bots wont be slowed. Signal will be lost.

Nah, this needs to be some kind of opt-in feature at the protocol level. Send a zap? Fine. Add some text? Maybe… Bundling media with it? Starts to become problematic.

Maybe this needs to be a relay-level of control rather than protocol. I’ll gladly run my own version of a relay that says “ you can zap me, but each additional byte of data accompanying the zap requires X more sats to make it through”, where I can configure X.

This could be waaaay worse. I need a way to opt out, set a minimal zap requirement, etc. Does muting work on zaps? We’d need a whitelist for zaps - but then that really limits the potential for zaps.

Advertisers are ruthless. They’ll create accounts, zap, and abandon them all to your doorstep faster than you can blink - there is nothing to stop them. They can zap you 1 sat, and it’s a home run in terms of conversions. They’ll play this game until the number of sats they need to send is no longer profitable - and that should be our primary way to control our experience with advertisers.

Just a matter of time before there is a massive security breach at Coinbase, too.

- shrinking population

- 123% debt/gdp

- $35.2T and growing by $3T/ year, and accelerating

- main export is the devalued $$$

- spending more on public debt interest than our military

- most manufacturing still outside of the country

- technical expertise advantage eroding faster and faster

- dead middle class

- weakening upper class

- growing homelessness in all major cities

- rampant obesity and declining health (check out boomer obituaries - getting younger and younger!)

-communes coming back “in style” as neither gen z nor millenials can afford housing

- marriages on the decline

The US is already dead. Everyone is just in denial.

It’s optional, obviously. DRM is how you properly secure. Because the content is segmented, you can pay-to-play, pay-as-you-go, whatever. DRM is how you get secured, distributed hosting. Only the license server has to be controlled (or trusted with a 3rd party), and can easily sit on top of a btc pay server or lightning (or zap, etc etc). This is a solved problem.

I am in video. And, to do it right, is a tall order.

I’ve been working on something in my spare time. It will make use of blossom and nostr for the distribution of content and discover ability, but that’s really where nostr’s reach ends.

Video needs to be adaptive to best ensure it can be watched. A lot of people will throw mp4s up and call it a day, but the content really needs to be segmented with sane, adaptive variants.

To aid/incentivize creators, as well as for security reasons, a kind of drm where they can maintain some ownership and/or proof of origin needs to exist. I’ve implemented (from scratch) all of the big DRM protocols, and they are all so close be Ming a great *open* platform - they just need to make use of a creator-owned key pair for identification purposes. What gets harder is trying to tie that with someone who pays for content, and having the option of that content being encrypted specifically for that viewer - this is resource intensive.

Finally, an open license server is needed to manage the collection of streams in a place the creator can control. I am working on this, too. I believe a creator should have the option to take down their content or move it to a different identity if they want. They can’t influence others ability to duplicate it (unless encrypted) nor block those who’ve paid for it from keeping their own local copy.

That’s just for serving the content.

You need a player, which is non-trivial. I think HLS (vs DASH) is more universal (and a shit ton simpler), and is supported by every mobile platform, TVs, and most major browsers (given a JS implementation). So I think a universal format can be achieved.

Then there’s the encoding. To have mass compatibility, you really need to narrow the options to a known “ladder” of quality variants everyone can then follow. If you’re new to video, this is non-trivial. But, existing streaming providers have already settled on a good subset (which we could reduce further - need to optimize for storage!).

It’s a thing. It’s being worked on, silently and anonymously. Security and proof of origin are, I believe, paramount to help reduce distrust.

For me, I’m looking way beyond TikTok clones. I want disrupt the fucking *media* the way websites did to newspapers. And it needs to be open and permissionless. And it needs to be *10x better* than the incumbents (YouTube, media corps). I think it’s not only possible, but likely to organically converge to a medium like nostr. It’s a race to the bottom, cost-wise, right now. We can out-perform all of these companies. But careful thought and planning is needed.

Do you ever reflect on just how much time the world is losing by ignoring bitcoin?

I mean, we know that’s the way it is - adoption curves are a thing…

But the longer it takes to reach the 50% inflection on adoption, the more the world suffers. The opportunity cost is so, so much more than lost wealth - it’s literal loss of life. Heartbeats. Slaves to working, oppressive regimes in all forms, a lack of hope.

We have the “legend” memes describing what our future generations will think of those of us who saw, recognized, learned, and adopted early. But the opportunity cost that most will endure means we are not going to be spending much time taking about us early adopters, but the woe the world endured by not adopting. It will be, at best, the way we think of oppressive monarchies in a time of democracy.

Sometimes it just hits you. I guess this thought of yours, Lyn, triggered it.