who is going to influence ppl, so that they are ready to get educated? or even ready to being educated ?
"It’s not an uncommon opinion that “the masses” likely won’t self-custody. But without self-custody, what’s even the point of something like Bitcoin?"
We should measure the probability (whether and when there will be widespread acceptance of self-custody) not by what we know how it can and should be, but by what consumers are used to in their banking transactions today.
Consumers (I can say this for the EU) have been hit hard in this respect in recent years; they have had to give up some of their cherished habits and get used to completely new processes. And: they have done so.
Measured against this, the requirements for self-custody are not excessively high. tmho
I have been using it for years now
that's really good news
big fan
At the Oslo Freedom Forum, Nick Anthony from Cato presented HRF’s CBDC tracker (created by nostr:npub1d3g6ytfp8ne6ryapr6e26zaz6fklxs0nw9dpu2w2yammytc3rucsl5pr09, Nick, and Matthew Mezinskis) in interactive form where attendees could use a giant touchscreen to explore the world of governments trying to transform cash into surveillance money
He talked to hundreds of human rights activists and policy experts from dozens of countries
The biggest takeaway?
Most of them, in general, had no idea what CBDCs were or what kind of dire threat they constitute
Very proud of this program and hope we can grow it in the future - folks need to wake up!
Nick wrote about his experience here:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cbdcs-threat-freedom-under-microscope-oslo-freedom-forum 
"They're sitting on 10 to $12 trillion of critical minerals in- in Ukraine. They could be the richest country in all of Europe. I don't want to give that money and those assets to Putin to share with China."
People of Nostr (and the Fediverse), I have just released the first version of Ditto! 🎉
Take a look here: https://soapbox.pub/blog/announcing-ditto/
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this is news of the week, if not month !
huge
for sure - I will give it a try.
Must read on Samourai Wallet pointing out the DOJ's inconsistencies in argumentation and the dangers of the case for all Bitcoin businesses. 👇
https://blog.ronindojo.io/freesamourai/
that´s what it is all about:
"Additionally both OXT and CipherTrace, Sterlingov's main expert witness and a direct competitor to Chainalysis, were effectively barred from review of Chainalysis proprietary blackbox heuristics. CipherTrace was set to testify against Chainalysis heuristics and application of block chain forensics use as a primary attribution methodology in criminal prosecution. However one week before trial, CipherTrace was pulled from the case by their wholly owned subsidiary, MasterCard.
This meant that blackbox software, heuristics, and forensic methodology went completely unchallenged during trial allowing the government to railroad Roman Sterlingov and obtain their desired guilty verdict for a crime he did not commit.
This affects all Bitcoin related legal cases from that point on, until an appeal overturns the validity of this "expert witness". Whatever statement this unchecked third party makes on any activity on Bitcoin's blockchain, is now admissible evidence in a trial case. And as was demonstrated in Roman Sterlingov's case, you are likely not allowed to provide an expert witness of your own on the same subject matter."
difference between Bitcoin and an volcano ?
there is none !
Both break out from time to time.
The force from within makes its way.
Is Anja Hirschel (Top candidate for the Piraten - Partei in the European election campaign) also a civil servant? As Patrick Breyer is ? Does she also return after her terms of office in Brussels to a bench as judge that has been kept open for her by the State all her terms in Brussels ? As it is the case for Patrick Breyer ?
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All I see here is a supply mentality on the part of these people involved.
How can a judge / civil servant even begin to question the state or even the EU?
Even in partial aspects ?
He doesn't do it and he can't do it.
"Niemand sägt den Ast ab, auf dem er sitzt."
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"No one cuts the bough he is sitting on."
Instututionalized protest is harmless for the system.
How can it be that a wannabe fighter for digital freedom hangs around on mastodon, but has never mentioned nostr in his numerous articles, nor does he have an account here himself?
Piratenpartei - ngm
ngm ...
0,5 %
imho - for the modern homo sapiens bitcoin is counter intuitive
https://www.healthline.com/health/yerkes-dodson-law#how-the-law-works
for the everage citizen - too often too little arousal - for him the time intervals are too long - he does not put it in relation to his own lifespan - no stage on which sings Taylor Swift -
increase attention and interest until the sweet spot is reached ...
uff
welcome in the rabbit hole, pastor Gary !
https://bitescrow.dev/resources/intro
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Some challenges with the current model:
The escrow agent has the ability to censor members of a contract by ignoring their statements. While the use of receipts forces the agent to censor in real-time, this is still an issue.
In the future, we will be leveraging the Nostr network in order to provide a proof-of-delivery system that will force to escrow agent to censor everyone, or no-one.
Even with the covenant restrictions and fraud-proofs, the escrow agent may still act malicious and settle the contract unfairly. This is a risk inhereit with any escrow system.
While the protocol attempts to both disincentivize and marginalize this risk as much as possible, it is still an issue in certain cases (for example, if the escrow agent is hacked or coerced).
In the future, we plan to mitigate these risks even further, using two mechanisms:
Splitting the escrow agent role into a federation, using threshold signatures (FROST).
Using a proof-of-stake system to punish agents if proof of fraud is presented."
will be interesting to see this evolving
Is this the start oft the
"Good bye DNS - day" story. ?
Rheinmetall to sponsor Borussia Dortmund in sign of shifting German attitudes to defence
Europe’s largest ammunition maker agrees deal with Bundesliga club #press
https://www.ft.com/content/3098807c-4fe4-4e7b-8ad2-22c38be21ec8?utm_source=press.coop
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FY BVB !
Der #BVB wirbt aus Profitgier für den Düsseldorfer Rüstungskonzern #Rheinmetall. Klubchef Hans-Joachim #Watzke rechtfertigt sich folgendermaßen: »Sicherheit und Verteidigung sind elementare Eckpfeiler unserer Demokratie.« 👉 https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1182539.fussball-sponsor-rheinmetall-borussia-dortmund-spielt-fuer-den-krieg.html
this is hilarious
this is hilarious
this is hilarious
this is hilarious