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Are there any decent Nostr Linux desktop clients?

In my opinion UBI basically eradicates the only weapon socialist, social democrats have, the directed printer. UBI makes the printer available **equally** to everyone.

Imagine a UBI that replaces all welfare programs, healthcare, education. Just one single UBI, taken from taxes or from printing, and the free market creating everything else, education, healthcare, etc.

Big capital would benefit from this system immensely because capital would trickle up inevitably AND they would have a much more predictable demand-side estimations, allowing for more stable and long-term investments.

I think billionaires/millionaires would be happy to contribute towards a UBI because of that, because it's very precise demand economics, providing economic demand stability AND of course the direct influence in millions of people's well being.

Everybody wins with this. It brings stability to a completely economically broken world.

#politics #philosophy #economics

bUt ThAt'S bAsIcAlLy ShOrTiNg BiTcOiN

You can just say you bought stuff with bitcoin. It doesn’t need to be a video everytime 🤷‍♀️

Any experience or increase in lucid dreaming relating to this?

There's around 30% of the global bond market that's private and free. Composed of all kinds of private sector entities, hedge funds, some banks, families, individuals, etc, etc.

If these guys get out of bonds because of the inflationary pressure (i.e burning money in a QE environment), and also if there's a stagflation and the equity market doesn't work so well (which is possible), there could be a bond demonetization process. And in that process people could realize that Bitcoin is a secure asset/investment.

Basically a worldwide orange pilling event.

Bitcoin is exploding again!

What if Bitcoin is truly the radical (monetary) reset we're all looking for?

I mean, we all talk about it, but what if the world is really starting to understand that **governments need to be demonetized** and that Bitcoin is the best way to do it?

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Oooo ok

I’m mad you assumed I would know what that means

Is that a thing or just on your feed??

OK but I'm gonna have do my own research on it.. Can I sign in with my alby, nosx some extension or amber signer? Or some email bs required?

In 9 months, my house has depreciated by 50%.

There’s a silent housing crisis that no one is paying attention to!

Treasury Yield = 4.379%

92% premium

4.379% * 1.92 = 8.407%

1000 / 8.407 = $118.94

I value order, efficiency, and reliability. I don't value simplicity or chaos quite so much. My effect on the nostr protocol has mainly been proposals to improve the reliability, efficiency, and orderliness of it, and the pushback has come mostly from people that like the freedom that the chaos gives them.

Some examples

* long ago I proposed that relays remember when an event arrived, and clients could query "all events that arrived after I last asked" to get a perfect next batch.

* long ago I proposed gossip/outbox model which specifies where events are expected to be, while many still choose very different and innovative ways to choose and use relays.

* I've been pushing for DHT usage to be more fully distributed and uncensorable, and to allow people to kickstart/bootstrap without knowing any relays or any nostr people. We get 99% functionality without it and so as you could imagine other devs don't really embrace the idea. I'm the guy who is never satisfied with 99%.

* I've wanted a rigorous standard that doesn't change

* I've wanted a binary protocol to juice up efficiency by avoiding JSON parsing

I feel like the black sheep in this regard (hence my avatar) because I gather that most nostr developers (and users) more highly value chaotic liberty.

Chaotic liberty is a great space to innovate in. But it is not a good space to build a solid user experience which requires a firm standard and compliance for interoperability. Hence I see hundreds of only somewhat compatible half-ass nostr applications that generally scare users off (which one? why are so many of them broken? and so different?).

This is all fine. But it means I'm not seeing nostr as the protocol that becomes the social media framework that the Internet eventually adopts. I see it more and more as a playground. Which is critical and innovative and wonderful. I just don't see how it can also be a stable user experience that draws in lots of users and creates substantial network effect value.

Mosaic is where I scratch my itch for order, efficiency, and reliability, and my attempt to create a solid user experience. I will be working on both Mosaic and nostr. Mosaic risks being too idealistic, the "betamax" of social media, but it is a risk I'm taking. Take joy knowing that I won't be bugging nostr devs as much about the chaos.

Should I post this or edit it more? Fuck it. I saw a meme that said to just post it.

I don't have a particularly strong position on the OP_RETURN, Core vs Knots thing but I'm not a fan at all of top-down anything.

The free-market should be bottom-up and voluntaryist by nature. Every interaction in a real free market has to voluntary. This means options. Freedom of choice basically.

I think this form of thinking (censoring choices) is a slippery slope.

In other words, why not just let the nodes that want to save that info, save that info and then provide services on top of that? And others who don't, leave them alone?

Are you really telling me you need to censor a 1/3 of Bitcoin for your better alternative to work?

And I know Peter Todd is not advocating for this here, he's just saying "how easy it would be".

What am I missing here?

#bitcoin #discussion #asknostr #opreturn

Make wars stupid again.