Good conversation! 🫂 Europeans definitely see the world differently than Americans (especially those from the south)!

The future will be bright because #Bitcoin will allow each locality to operate as they please and give people the ability to exit and go where the situation suits them best!

#Peace bro!

It's an enjoyable conversation! (Forgive my use of numerous hashtags, this will help me find some of these arguments later!)

I think it was Jeff Booth who explained how the current financial system requires theft at the base layer ( #InflationIsTheft ) to operate. #BitcoinFixesThis , right? #RulesNotRulers is also a mantra in Bitcoin. I say this because the state is defined as and exists through a monopoly on violence in a geographic region. This coercion by a group of individual actors (wearing special costumes) is unacceptable and exists because the state can take your property from you, threaten to or actually lock you in a cage, and it can even steal your time (through taxation of your labor #TaxationIsTheft ). All of this is morally corrupt and wouldn't be allowed by any individual against another individual, right?

But what is really happening here? Most services provided by the state are valid - protection (police), justice (courts), transportation (roads), and defense (military). Since these are simply services, why is coercion and violence needed to fund them? It's not! It's just that the state gives itself a monopoly and threatens any potential competitors. What if these services were voluntarily funded? What if these were private companies focused on serving their customers instead of a monopoly that operates under the threat of violence? There are lots of objections people still raise here, but Bob Murphy's booklet 'Chaos Theory' explains the nuance of how this system could operate... private security, courts, roads, and even national defense. It's an excellent, free, and short read (available at Mises Institute).

So, people organizing is great, the monopoly on the use of violence is not!

With #Bitcoin, the state's ability to steal your wealth is greatly decreased compared to any physical/centralized form of wealth (gold, fiat, real estate). Leaving with your wealth is a real option now. This will incentivize the state to be customer focused, instead of threatening. This is discussed in the book "The Sovereign Individual" and is really a thought provoking read!

Bitcoin will also reduce the state's ability to fight wars significantly, because it will have to get funds through #voluntary contributions instead of violence. #AntiWar Also, conscription of their populace (read: slave labor by the state for war) is much less of an option when the people can leave with their wealth in their head!

At the end of the day, a small minority of people use violence to conduct their business... thieves and the state. This is unnecessary and there are real options that Bitcoin will (hopefully) help humans achieve (eventually)! #voluntaryism #liberty #libertarian #peace

Yeah, yeah, of course: relays are a crucial part of #nostr.

A caching layer/database will allow to not ask again and again for the same information to the relays, imo.

That's why I mentioned it.

Thanks again!

🫂

Most clients don't have a disk database. And followers can easily get into the GB of information for more visible accounts.

So many stores and restaurants say they can't hire enough help, and at the same time I've never seen this many homeless people panhandling at highway exits and intersections where I live.

Some important aspects of our culture are fundamentally broken.

Here's a quote I saw recently that really spells it out. 😁

“In short, the difference between Communism, fascism, and democracy and all other statist systems, are of degree, not principle. The principle is that the state owns everything (including you), and you can use property only if the state allows it.”

- Alan Burris

TLDR: more freedom!

I will try to publish new IPs on NNS (Nostr name system) for the relay that serves currently at address wss://e.nos.lol. Its just another way to discover where e.nos.lol IP is.

Here is a sample NNS note that was signed by an NSD (Nostr signing device):

{"id": "a5c234eda701518192656667eb710e39e745a7a14c7420f5fdb410738bd52d1a", "pubkey": "1ec6810f1ae144be134b9f34ab09336ab2cd2027294aaf26ea069303687eb097", "created_at": 1690383291, "kind": 30053, "tags": [["d", "e.nos.lol.nns."], ["ip4", "5.161.158.164"], ["version", "1"]], "content": "", "sig": "54f1291dfcb37528e586dac9475c8059c1addbc8150f1fb24fbad31721dec24746ae312777b707524242bf14560ec94db086ea047befb2fdcef704a0f3d404d5"}

I don't do this for nos.lol yet because NNS is still experimental.

I used an NSD because we need to keep the secret key safe for any NNS.

Sorry for using very similar acronyms!

e.nos.lol is running strfry 0.9.3.7 (latest version) and testing whether there are too much disk reads when the db is bigger than ram.

Relays will still be needed. The local database seems more of a caching layer from what know about it.

Privatize everything. Decentralize everything.

Problems solved! 😆

Only the worst kinds of people seek to rule others. Very few exceptions.

# Relayable Updates from July 2023

## Donations and Overhead Costs

**For July 1st-31st**

Average of **89,323** unique users per relay location

Transferred an average of **2TB** per relay location (see attached image)

Operating Costs **$1123.32**

Donations **194,182 sats ($57.14 USD)**

We currently have 3 relays donated to us which helps but we continue to scale to meet demands.

We have added the `zbd.gg` relay to list we stream from.

Blocked additional airdrop spam accounts and pleased with the spam filtering efficiency.

Our LMDB database (sync'd at each relay location) has passed the 40GB mark in size

We are continuing to improve the service.

Thanks to everyone for their support!

Great song! I'd only ask that he change the lyrics slightly...

🎵 "Cause all this damn c̶o̶u̶n̶t̶r̶y̶ government does is keep on kicking them down" 🎶

I think people will start sharing nostr profiles as btc receive addresses.

Lo importante es ser consciente de que lo has aceptado y podías no hacerlo

There’s just something exhilarating about going from a rough idea to a working proof of concept with real world data in a few hours… nostr:note1tu0mputxg9fa0uxn6fsjm6rwey8lfldls4kcwdcddd36rp0ku6jq82qpmt

Maybe someday every phone hosts a relay:

nostr:note1wfcdmftt90rlj2qswal8k4f579wt4lpyzxpxwm4zpedgrhkv0hfs2rtlep

I see three major *currency* blocks by 2033:

1. The US #dollar: fiat currency; backed by the US military

2. The #BRICS note: backed (at least partially) by #gold

3. #Bitcoin: the people's money

Most other fiat currencies that currently exist will be irrelevant or nonexistent.

Nadie te impone nada. Ni una ideología, ni un político, ni un sistema.

Tú aceptas o no aceptas. Tú bajas la cabeza y aplaudes o no la bajas ni aplaudes.

Tú decides.