I’d love to volunteer on Damus. Let me know if you need help. #[0]
Does Bitcoin have any sort of DeFi angle that I’m not aware of?
I onboarded like 10 people to Nostr today. 😂
It’s alarming how many people don’t understand that hyperinflation is managed by increasing unemployment.
I’ve been in this world as a high level engineer for a long, long time and I’m starting to see the opening salvo of a war on Bitcoin coming from the US Gov’t… likely to be picked up by the Five Eyes gov’ts.
I wonder what it takes… I really, really do. The idea of real freedom is almost too much for conditioned humans to comprehend at this point.
It is kind of tough to watch.
I feel as if the United States government is in the midst of a huge war on blockchain, be it Bitcoin or crypto as a whole, and they’re winning.
It’s kind of scary, TBH.
Genuinely thrilled to follow the process. God's work, man. It genuinely is. Hell of a time to be alive.
I mean, it's kind of a lame assumption to make... but I imagine the both of you are in your forties. It makes sense. I'd also bet you're both American, and obviously attached in middle age tech bro-ism.
I am, in fact, a DeFi developer who has just recently moved to Nostr. I do have a few followers, and almost less time to curate that list... but honestly, I couldn't care less.
Frankly, while Mike was shaking hands with Paxos and CashApp executives after his planes across the United States... I've probably built, tested, and deployed more legitimate infrastructure to both decentralized and centralized exchanges across the world in a year than most do in their lives.
Your deep liquidity... it's accessible because of people like me. Your derivatives markets and options are accessible because of people like me. The audits of your Bitcoin wallets, or Bisq, are done by people like me.
Nick could probably make an introduction... but I genuinely think you're too self-righteous to allow it. Yes, THAT Nick.
I wish you the best, mate. Night.
Dude. You're under the impression that this is some personal attack. It's not. Congratulations, and a thank you is in order, but that's hardly going to earn you the right to NOT get some constructive criticism... or a lesson in humility.
The Paxos x CashApp deal was a good one, and technically speaking... is elementary. It's a great "optic solution" and we all appreciate your flights across the US.
Nevertheless, how does any of that change that you've been responding to things as if the United States is the only country in the world? The core issue is you're overconfident, rude, and lack the ability to think critically about anything outside of your own biased bubble, mate.
I'll leave you be... I forget how moist some people can be when faced with a decent debate, discussion, or God forbid an intellectual challenge.
For the record... I never meant any harm.
I’ve worked on DID and EMR systems before that… but this doesn’t quite work, IMO.
The concept can be beautiful, but it feels rushed and the infrastructure to share, own, access, analyze aren’t in place just yet.
It’s an amazing accomplishment, but what makes it necessary? I’m a big believer in “develop only what’s needed” and I’m wondering what pain points this solves without a real deal DID or medical ecosystem that utilizes what you’ve built?
I could be missing so much. Not at all an attack, just some questions from a nerd, man.
Holy God, your entire personality is centered around arguing moot points incorrectly.
Hell of life you live, mate.
Yeah, you belong on Twitter, mate.
That was about the opposite of someone thinking Russia or China was their ticket to the moon. Not to mention, financially, the last thing I care about is Bitcoin going to to moon. I’m e been stacking sats for 8 years now.
The point was obviously missed, but it’s not one that’s broken down must simpler. I’ll try…
The world can not use a fiat standard forever. In terms of the overall global economy, that means the globe - not just the US - any mass adoption, Bitcoin peg, standard, etc. is a net positive for Bitcoin.
If the Russian or Chinese economies peg any export or currency to BTC… things change for Bitcoiners immediately. It wasn’t about politics, it was about the global financial use case.
Of course, it’s a bit premature, but it’s an interesting thought considering Russia was just talking about gold and Bitcoin as possible options for oil exports.
Remember, lad, America isn’t the entire world. Even if the flat Earther movement tells you so… I promise it’s not.
Anyone have an alternative to buying a 3D printer to simple print one thing?
I want to print a cluster case for Rock R5 boards + NVMe SSDs (x6 combos) and make sure I can add in the little extras.
I want a single power supply, but control over power individually, as well as access to the I/O and all pins.
I’m thinking of adding a single oLED panel and the ability to swap between boards.
Ideas?
The point isn’t politics or culture. If massive chunks of the global economy begin to move towards Bitcoin, that’s a net positive for our goal, and will facilitate the dollar squeeze.
I’m not at all saying that it will happen in one fell swoop; but I can assure you culturally it makes no difference.
I’d say 1 generation, but this isn’t my strong suit, either.
Bitcoin does need a massive amount of work to get to the point where it’s a realistic option.
I was simply saying that geography or cultural differences don’t matter on on-chain economics. If a huge chunk of the global economy supports a BTC store of value or - dare I say, standard - that precipitates the fall of the dollar as the crutch or finance.
I’m excited to see what happens.
Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. No one said anything about the CCP controlling their currency. Again, you’re thinking una very binary way. The world is grey, not black or white.
China’s economy is massive, and if Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc. decide to join in the non-legacy finance… all of a sudden there is a real world use case for Bitcoin.
This isn’t about anyone controlling anything - you know, as well as everyone else, that no one country will ever control Bitcoin.
If world economies, regardless of their - or your - political belief systems begin to use Bitcoin it facilitates the US’s control over currency.
This moves into Europe via UAE or The Kingdom. Australia gets involved with China; etc.
We’d be lucky if those economies adopted BTC as a store of ANYTHING.
Think it through, mate.