That has to change as the firehouse grows in size as relays will take considerable resources to run but you have a good point that the nostr architecture allows you to access as much of the total raw feed as you want while incentivizing relay operators to monetize their retrieval services at commodity cost. Gatekeeping is not automatically encouraged like it is in twitter land.
Are you talking about BTC wallet key pair? Boot an air gapped laptop from tails/Linux USB, use electrum to generate seed phrase, write down on paper, and sign txs on air gapped laptop. Create master public key and write to USB then sneaker net to non air gapped laptop. Create unsigned txs on non air gapped laptop using electrum plus master public key.
Loved your point about "credit ledgers" (how the left likes to think of money) versus "natural / commodity ledgers" ( how the right likes to think of money).
I can't imagine how frustrating it must be to be restricted like that. Hope we find a way to put an end to restrictions like that soon.
I often visit family in one m.e. country and would guess that's what it feels like to try to do open source dev there. I am guessed by that the AI doomers, if they get their way, will reduce the U.S. and Europe to that same experience by establishing CompAuth.
A focus on building new skills, products and services tends to foster the growth of networks of good faith engagement, while a focus on winning arguments tends to foster (faster?) the growth of networks of bad faith engagement. Builders versus bickerers.
Even in the domain of argumentation, good faith networks win over the long term, because bad faith thought leaders turn on each other as they reach the scaling limits of inconsistency.
Changing the question to: what problems might the transition to Bitcoin bring that could be very challenging to solve?
A country with a fiat currency can wage war for much longer than a country that didn't print it's own money. It has the ability to gather more wealth and resources from the population during times of crisis.
I think the solution to this will require more willing shouldering of responsibility for keeping society safe by the bulk of the citizenry. I don't really know what form it will take.
Try moving the time of your last drink before 6:00pm. It made a big difference to me. I can see it in the Fitbit heart rate sleep chart.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer hodler and the sunshine maxi will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of honest money; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Fiat, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is proof of work only that gives every thing its value"
Paine on the recent crash to $20k.
THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated
What time of day did you drink the cocktail?
I don't understand why people think chat gpt and other "AI" tools are game changing. In fairness, I have not spent a lot of time with them but when I ask people who are raving about them to explain who they are going to put out of work, their answers don't withstand my cross examination for very long.
I thought you had to be trolling. I like to answer troll Q's just to sharpen my argumentation.
Because networks of lies can only be maintained for so long before they collapse of their own weight. The longer they go on, the heavier the consequences of putting off the day of reckoning. So better to face the music early and tell the truth as you go.
Why do people talk about second order logic? Doesn't it make more sense to talk about second order arguments?
What do you think about goedels strong realism position?
What's yellow and equivalent to the axiom of choice?
Money is a mysterious human hypersocial coordination capacity, as deep as language itself. Even Bitcoin has only scratched the surface of it so far.