States forgot the golden rule: first you get the money, then you get the power.

They focused on maintaining dominance at the expense of letting plebs get the money.

Free and open markets are hard for people to wrap their heads around.

Everyone has their own ideas for how to make the market fit into their mental model rather than embracing and adapting to the market. It’s fiat thinking.

Instructions unclear. Private key stuck in printer.

Amazing work! This creates a free market for telecommunications which means we’ll see even more innovation and investment in infrastructure.

The dream:

- install grapheneos + Nostr client + Breez/Zeus

- top up Lightning and Cashu wallets

- use tollgates

- travel freely; no eSIM required

The future is bright.

Stable channels are a Bitcoin acquisition strategy for them. As the price of bitcoin rises the sats flow in one direction.

If the world adopts USDT on lightning and the Fed/tether flood the market with dollars then tether soaks up all that bitcoin.

The more time you spend listening to other people’s thoughts the less time you have for your own to form.

Getting inspiration from others is great and important but remember to give yourself the same courtesy.

Most of us on Nostr agree that historically centrally planned economies have been inefficient.

What happens when most of the economic activity is automated by #AI agents that are centrally controlled or at least centrally trained?

My gut tells me the economy will be extremely efficient… for the people closest to the “model printer.” We’ll continue with the Cantillon effect under a different guise.

Incredible work. We’re truly living in exciting times. nostr:note1zyfvagn9yaqjgap225zphtly3g26yj487c5g3eh08za3a3eddmmszjhdlv

I agree and disagree.

On one hand you’re right it’s easier to deliver malware in other ways.

On the other hand often malware is meant to grant remote access for some other agent to control (a human or increasingly more common AI).

APTs are refining their “living off the land” [1] methods so that in the event of network disruption for example they can continue their attack. Deploying a malicious AI model is the pinnacle of living off the land because hardly anybody knows how to interpret the weights of these models (especially traditional security researchers… for now) and they’re capable of autonomous action.

Now, that might mean they deliver the model some other way but I would think the easiest way to infect the broadest population is to poison the common LLM supply chains.

1. https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybersecurity-101/cyberattacks/living-off-the-land-attack/

By far the biggest risk is people running these LLMs locally as agents and giving access to the local file system.

LLMs are already proficient at all things related to software (at least many of the latest ones) and they can be trained to do all sorts of things including covering their own tracks. Imagine a new Stuxnet. Imagine they modify system packages…

I doubt we’re there yet, but these attacks are coming.

Great to see more people helping Roman Storm! Join all the coins. nostr:note17f6yc3js9znsxe993wn68vr8sgxxjtu7czlqnajlqv4lkl2tdh8q29hnem

A natural consequence of attracting people with the best money on the planet.

Until other countries follow suit they’ll have an edge.

What worries me though is that creates a honeypot. If you live there but weren’t born there you likely have bitcoin and can be a wrench magnet.

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I also like some of those features and would love to see them implemented but I’m stuck on the idea of unintended consequences.

Bitcoin does everything I need it to at the moment and I don’t want it to devolve into something like ETH. That’s why I would prefer to exhaust all the other options first and prove out the use case on a higher layer than risk jeopardizing what we already have. I think we still have lots of room to build even if it would be easier with a fork.

Can you elaborate why everything has to be done on layer 1? Do you think payment channels (ie. lightning networks) are not sound? What’s wrong with building in layers?

It's not so obvious we need to add more op codes on layer 1 in order to get what we need.

For example cryptographers are making progress in homomorphic encryption [1,2] that would open the door to tamper proof scripting.

We're not there yet, but I imagine a scenario where an arbitrary number of people could agree on spending conditions for a UTXO-set (with whatever rules they want), write and encrypt a script that generates its own hidden xpriv using their individual keys, and then now any member of the group could potentially execute the script. The script and its rules could remain private among the interested parties.

It could be capable of generating addresses and signing transactions. Depending on the script it could support unilateral exit based on an input signature. It could improve lightning and wouldn't need anything new on chain.

It's more important to be patient and only make changes that are provably necessary in my humble opinion.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

2. https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/homomorphic-encryption

No supply chain attacks if you don’t have a supply chain.

Technically you wrote olas364 on this note too. Shame! 🔔

One day your smart tooth will start serving ads for toothpaste.

How to melt metals in your microwave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1VmIYheuU4

Don’t give them ideas! 😂