and satoshi the most powerful man

bitcoin is the most powerful force

satoshi, you make me feel safe in a way i can’t explain

bitcoin is the strongest army

knowing that our family is safe and secure if he is in charge

knowing that he would kill for me if someone tried to hurt me

secure

protected

feeling safe

knowing nothing will happen to me if i am with him

maturity

courage

bravery

responsibility

commitment

what does "level up" mean anyway?

WECAN instead of ICANN?

LOOK: nobody is building billion-dollar paper mills in Somalia or Venezuela. it’s NOT SAFE

is stupid to invest that much money in those countries

we at least keep things safe.

AMERICA is SAFE

we have a court system

we have the rule of law

we have police

we have fire

leak

bitcoin is a love language

pls vote

1) bitchat without Tor (privacy danger): 3 MB

2) bitchat with old Tor (slower): 40 MB

3) bitchat with modern Tor (faster): 140 MB

#21m

A network is either permissionless or authoritarian. Open or closed. Censorship-resistant or censored.

Open networks inevitably run into the issue of spam and impersonation. Sybill attacks, DDoS attacks, resource exhaustion, and worse.

It's tempting to solve these issues in a centralized (read: authoritarian) way. But this just introduces new problems, turning the open network into a closed one.

These issues can't be solved perfectly. However, a clever combination of PoW + WoT will solve most of them, and yes, I include sats in this equation implicitly, because sats are just difficulty-adjusted PoW.

Identity has to be cryptographic, which means taken and defended, as opposed to given. Keys, not accounts.

Money has to be money proper, which means a bearer instrument as opposed to credit linked to an account. Cash, not credit.

Keys and sats have the power to usher in a new era of the internet. We must be careful to not repeat the mistakes of the past, however. It will take time. But it's fundamentally possible, and we're slowly but surely getting there. Key by key. Sat by sat. Npub by npub.

The Web is dead. Long live the web 🤙

how is it broken?

Running bitchat on a personal relay for a group chat would be dope. Whitelist npub to remove spam. Kind of a pain to do but no different than a sign up or invite code for other things.

SF and NZ on fire