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Yeah, I agree, but the CBDC advocates are full-on for 'programmable money' for absolute control.
Has to work in the local coffee shop looking like it is using the local currency.
All those verifiable credential things? They’re just a badge in my pocket. 
This is the seaside conference facility viewed from the top floor of the hotel across the street in Montevideo. Awesome sandy beach to the right (out of view) 
Depends on how you pronounce the last syllable.
That would be my first choice. Excellent conference facility right by the seashore in the middle of the city. Super safe city.
First they came after your monasteries, then your relays.
Agree. South America has my vote. Given politics, Brazil might be too risky. Argentina, too chaotic. Uruguay is a solid choice (been there, feels like Spain/Portugal). Another option might be a special economic zone (SEZ) like Prospera (not quite South America). /cc nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8
“[A]llowing vast swathes of the digital public square to become the sole property of a handful of weird, easily influenced billionaires was a truly terrible idea. spiked”
“Western governments appear to be swapping the carrot and stick for a baseball bat when it comes to encouraging social-media firms to censor.”
Excerpt from a front-page newspaper article today.
“But a lot of the tech bros are just weak-kneed, unprincipled capitalists, terrified of bad PR, keen to protect their mega-wealth, willing to bend to any cultural-elite edict and lacking any discernible principles to stop them.”
How secure is it to enter your Nostr private key (Nsec) into every new Nostr app/ client that pops up?
What are the safeguards that the founders of those apps will not see/ access your private keys?
nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424
#Nostr #Nsec #PrivateKey #Damus #Primal #Fountain
None. You have to trust the builders of the apps.
First they came after their monasteries, then their relays.
