America is run by people who deny reality and continue to ignore our countries insane debt problems. We're extremely divided and we have worsening inflation that's making things so expensive, along with other problems, therefore the economy is weakening. The rest of the world is ridding themselves of US debt, further weakening the dollar.
America is no longer the world power. Our empire is declining.
I had never heard of this Professor Wolff before, but I found this chunk of this interview to be extremely effective at painting a very large scale picture of what is going on in the US and world economy right now.
If you want more evidence that further solidifies why Bitcoin makes so much sense, watch this video and think about the impact of what is coming.
My Bitcoin hype music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttP3Ij-gHS4
lol just checking back to see if you ever got a response, because I was wondering this myself
I agree with you. It's a safe assumption that they will not find any method or have the capability to manipulate Bitcoin. Therefore, they can only ever manipulate L2 technologies. This is also why I don't plan on owning any alt coins ever for any serious reason. There's always a human in the loop.
I'm still new to all this and actively learning... but so far Lightning does make sense to me to make transactions faster and more efficient. However, if it becomes compromised to that same level you describe, with the state wanting to know everything you do financially, would there be any reason to keep using it? Does it provide something to Bitcoin that's crucial enough that people wouldn't seek a more secure alternative with more privacy?
I don't know for sure. I only have the one.
I just signed up with them last night to set up a wallet via Alby Hub. All I provided was my e-mail address, and then I linked my Nostr account. There was no other KYC aspects (unless I am ignorant of what the term really means, in which case just let me know). The membership does of course have a monthly fee and I think that's where they are going to be getting their income from. As far as setting up the Lightning node/channel (I'm still learning this part), I had to pay to do that initial setup but it didn't seem excessive to me, and now it's working great and I can send and receive and have a nice interface to manage it all from.
Just wanted to try to give my perspective as someone brand new to Nostr and Lightning. So far Alby's process has made everything the most straightforward for me out of other options I've seen.
Thanks!
Now that I am using Alby and set up a Lightning address with them... do I put this on my profile as my NIP-05, or as my LUD16? π€ #asknostr
Thanks for the reminder π
I just signed up and got my @getalby address working last night π
It's... real? π
Aw hell yeah π€
Are there any future plans to bring Damus to Windows?
Oh, I wasn't trying to suggest it's not. I was just saying that meaning that I am still totally ignorant about 99% of the technical aspects of Nostr so I wasn't confident that what I was saying had any merit, haha.
Perhaps you want to check out this discussion of the issue on the Nostr repo page. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/1036
At least superficially I find the idea of replace event tags pointing to a previous ID convincing.
Interesting... based on what the OP wrote in that issue, I think he's saying you'd just keep a history of replacement. Deletion doesn't really seem necessary, but having a per-note history where the newest version replaced the others and being able to review the full history of the note seems like it could be useful. Not even sure how feasible that really is though from the technical standpoint.
One thing that I'm still feeling uncomfortable about when posting on Nostr is the permanence of the notes. Even with something small like a typo, it's weird knowing there's nothing that can be done about it unless somehow every single relay where your note was replicated to honored the delete/edit ( I think this is a technically correct statement, but let me know if not).
Really, this just makes me curious about the psychological aspects of where this feeling stems from and the significance of it. I am still unsure of whether I actually miss the feature, or I am just feeling the effects of realigning my mental framework.
Looks like there's actually ongoing discussion and debate on this, just judging from some quick Googling: https://nos.social/blog/on-deleting-and-editing-notes
Anyway, just some thoughts that I'm processing after being on here for a few days now. Interested to hear others commentary and thoughts on it, if you were confronted by the same observation.
Itβs nuts amirite? π
Since youβre using npub.cash, check out the nostr:npub1tm99pgz2lth724jeld6gzz6zv48zy6xp4n9xu5uqrwvx9km54qaqkkxn72 app. Makes it super easy to redeem your ecash.
Thanks for the recommendation. I actually just went ahead and decided to set up the Alby wallet for now since I got an invite yesterday.
