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lol giving her way too much credit, she’s still broke

it’s hilarious that these people will claim they’re building a “credibly neutral” protocol, and then accept seed funding for a “business”.

How do they not see that trying to monetize the development of the protocol itself contrasts with the goal of neutrality?

Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Some of y’all need to accept the following:

Many people in developed countries will never accept that they are wrong about bitcoin. Hyperbitcoinization and the death of fiat is not coming in the next decade.

NGU will continue, and yet, the people around you will continue to repeat mindless FUD. Bitcoin went from $0 to $60,000, and very few people changed their tune. When it hits $500k, nothing will change. Be at peace with this, for your own sanity.

chad schizophrenic vs virgin sociopath

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Nostr is a far more robust protocol than Farcaster.

Here are a few simple metrics:

Github contributers: Farcaster: 20, Nostr: 132

Open Pull requests: Farcaster: 3, Nostr: 199

Social clients: Farcaster: 2 (but really Warpcast has 90%+ of users), Nostr: Too many to count 😂 (https://www.nostrapps.com/)

From a technical standpoint, Farcaster requires a global consensus amounst all hubs (the servers that store the data). This means that in the case of a hostile regeime pressuing a hub operator to remove certain posts, they would be force to complelty fork off of the network. (Global consensus also means that at scale, hub operation will get very expensive and out of reach for all but the largest clients). Nostr on the other hand operates through relays that store and serve posts and events. You can have a small relay that only stores the events from you and your followers, or a larger relay that anyone can write to. There is no "global state" so the network can never be out of consensus, you just query the relays that your friends post to to retreive their events.

And lastly, requiring users to pay a centralized entity to sign up (the cost of which is subject to change on the whim of the founder) is not a free and open protocol.

And to add to this excellent critique:

Shitcoiners like farcaster, ergo it sucks. Q.E.D.

I appreciate the thoughtful reply :)

I didn’t intend it as a serious post -I was actually trolling a bit poking fun at the fitness influencers and course sellers.

I don’t think quantum computing is necessary for abundant AI or cheap energy and goods. We’ve been making advancements in those areas so far, and I see no reason for this to cease.

The connection between bitcoin and cheap energy is simply that it incentives the production of energy that would otherwise go uncaptured. So in certain areas you’ll have an energy surplus that drives prices lower. But I’m not hanging my hat on that bringing prices down in densely populated areas