On iPad, on Damus, lack of zap-ability is hurting my experience.
But iPad is my internet interface.
I thought I’d slide thru under the radar because I joined during Testflight, but no.
Just want to complain. That’s all. Thx for being a shoulder.
I’ll leave corporate interfaces w/ interwebs first chance I get.
Ok ya’ll. Masterpiece complete. Can you guess the stories? Also there’s a gem on there for nostr:npub1hu3hdctm5nkzd8gslnyedfr5ddz3z547jqcl5j88g4fame2jd08qh6h8nh and nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u 💜 
Don’t care but, I mean this is Nostr, so dox it..?
I believe…Bitcoin will offer humanity a better future.
I believe…Bitcoin is ideal, and idealistic.
I believe…Bitcoin will underestimate its opponents.
I believe…Bitcoin will compete with other monetary options.
I believe…Bitcoin will shed it’s first generation for a less idealistic generation.
I believe…Bitcoin will suffer, yet abide, and emerge mature.
I believe…Bitcoin will find its place as simple money.
Tough crowd, judging by the speakers, so let me say I respect that you’re trying to focus on Bitcoin. Respect. What you do matters, Lyn.
My 2 sats: Don’t try to win anyone over intellectually to Bitcoin. They’re either there, or buttressed against the narrative.
I think your instincts are right to approach it from the Bitcoin Network aspect.
Not the token. The network is where the value lies, and I suspect it wouldn’t hurt to allude to how every investment institution has recognized this.
Also, I believe you’ve spotted the right wedge - the important bridge between fiat money and (sound money) Bitcoin is, imo, the cypherpunks. I sincerely believe that becoming disillusioned with fiat is first base, and understanding the cypherpunks is second. Absent that, modern investment professionals get very lost. Most can’t make the stretch between the disillusionment w/ fiat and the long, intellectual reaction/response to fiat that is the cypherpunk movement. Its key, imo.
Personally, I wouldn’t speak at a conference like this and bring my ego, expecting to Orange-Pill. I’d throw myself to the imagined wolves…be authentic, enthusiastic about Bitcoin, have Fun! and be humble that I know who I am, I’m valued by my tribe, it’s not my worry that they get me. Not saying I’d go Max Keiser, just that I’d decide that I’m making the presentation the best and most fulfilling experience for myself. Let what happens happen after that.
So tl;dr: I approve your tack, I guess I’d only add as someone with decades of experience before crowds: If you genuinely enjoy what you’re presenting, prepare, and shamelessly offer whatever lights a fire in you, then that enjoyment and dedication will find its rightful home and your time will be well spent and you’ll experience no shame. Sometimes it fails, ngl, but more often you’ll hit a home run.
Am I talking down? nevermind I won’t edit, I sincerely only wanted to give you something to work with. Cheers!
I’d point out that the $US is being firmly held above 100 on the DXY…which has a myriad of influences, doesn’t affect but does reflect on BTC, and seems imo to echo BTC/$US price action the past couple months.
Keep It Simple Stupid is something I advise, but don’t do.
Too late to answer, but panic is best.
You prolly already know the things you CAN’T get after you leave.
Everything else, you can get.
Sleep. Wake. Frantic. You can do this.
Holy shit! Mercola is a long-time educator in alternative/traditional health medicine, and yes, very ‘fringy’, but also widely respected. Most so-called “real food” Bitcoiners naturally don’t recognize the connection they have to people like Dr. Mercola or the Weston A. Price Foundation. These were very modern pioneers of tradition-based nutrition.
Canceled my fancy blue check on the X, though I will greatly miss the ability to edit my tweets. 😂
Hoping to devote more time here on the true bird app.
Thanks to nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe for the encouragement to help build a better (and freer) world.
Onwards.
The people holding ground here are tribe.
Unlike TwitX, here you will be appreciated, honored & remembered.
Also, you may need to GFY.
No srsly.
But that other stuff is also sacred.
That’s assured.
Great points, thank you!
I agree with you that the Proof of Stake changes would have to happen slowly. That’s a good point.
Getting miners to abandon Proof of Work for Proof of Stake would be difficult, since the miners would become unnecessary. But all the Gov’t needs to do is to get them to approve the “BetterBTC” fork…and they could create strong incentives & disincentives to do this. Maybe larger ‘fee-based’ transactions. Remember, the Gov’t doesn’t actually care about BTC. They just want to convince people that it is dead, and a new, better one has emerged. This is paramount.
Large miners are businesses, they aren’t Maxis (mostly). And the miners who are maxis will watch their revenues plummet.
I don’t believe Western institutions would actually care or worry about the transition - it would only need to be a move from traditional Bitcoin to a new Bitcoin: without miners needed to verify the transactions. They would have wonderful short-term profits (which is all they pursue anyway).
Even nodes would be shut-out, if they don’t adopt the fork.
Reward the miners for their loss of business - WHICH IS THE POINT of the new ‘BetterBTC’ token - and the majority will give in, going broke, worldwide.
And YES you’re right, Western institutions would be less secure under the new token…but they don’t have a choice if the Gov’t tells them they must adopt it.
And again, YES, many nations will probably not adopt it…but I think most will, because the largest, most influential nations will put pressure on them to do so.
I’m just trying to work this out in my mind, so I really appreciate your contributions!!
‘Topped with soft-boilded egg’ is really burying the lead, lady.
Looks amazing!
Many people don’t remember that Uber-Chad Danni Aiello played the father in fiat-icon Madonna’s video “Papa Don’t Preach”.
Then decided he didn’t approve of her message that fathers should be disregarded by millions of girls listening to the ‘material girl’s’ message.
He countered with his own.
Yes, it’s loveably laughable, he went toe-to-toe with a musical icon.
But he knew that. Yet spent his own money to man-up anyway.
I feel the doom-porn about Blackrock introducing a hard-fork of Bitcoin is dismissed far too casually. We need to have far more imagination about this.
Here’s my elevator pitch for how this thriller plays out:
BTC ETFs get approved across almost every large investment institution, become massively funded as the coming bull market ensues. None allow self-custody.
A narrative-friendly hard-fork of BTC is rolled out, Proof of Stake, ESG-friendly, yadda yadda.
Western/WTF Gov’ts worldwide pass legislation that all financial institutions must convert BTC holdings to this new fork.
To backstop any disruptive market-responses, Central Banks guarantee to support the price of the new offering at par w/ BTC, even provide new inflows as they announce programs to take the new & better BTC into gov’t treasuries.
Of course, trading in old BTC is banned, and miners receive massive incentives/subsidies to support the new protocol, essentially becoming public utilities.
Retail/Service businesses of all sizes are incentivized to accept BetterBTC, led by Amazon - most banks now gladly accept it as collateral for mortgages, loans, etc.
China leads an influx of non-Western countries along this same path. BTC was a threat to them as well, and they fomo to gain influence in the new Proof of Stake BTC.
Normies throughout the richest countries of the world notice nothing other than that Gov’ts ‘solved’ BTCs problems they’d been hearing about for years, and their net worth has soared.
The maxis of today flee to their respective El Salvadors, but find that even Bukele’s successor begrudgingly adopts BetterBTC alongside BTC & $US as currency because “market forces should decide which is best”.
Maxis continue to play “Don’t Stop Believin’” over the next couple decades, waiting for the great rug-pull the new Proof of Stake BetterBTC must eventually become, but secretly harbor fears their children have come to think of them as old tin-foil crazies like the gold-hoarder generations before them.
ANYWHOOO - my only point in spinning the above narrative is that I genuinely think if you’re going to doom-porn, you should throw yourself into it wholeheartedly.
Don’t care, not selling.
omg, Is Silo out now? Shit I might need to sub to Apple TV.
I remember when “Wool” blew up on Amazon, I read it and it was one of the most perfectly written stories I’d ever come across. Obsessed on the whole series. Been waiting for a tv/film treatment for years!
Thx for posting. Can’t zap on iPad anymore. So, just thx.
So nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx gave an absolute masterclass on the problems with Musk's current Twitter approach on WBD, starting at the 17m mark. It's a great advertisement for Nostr and I recommend everyone watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ms-dE6aasA
I've been retweeting or reposting Odell's various observations on this topic for a while and so I'm happy to share this too, including on Twitter today, even as a filthy blue-check myself.
Where I disagree with Odell (slightly) is on tactics. He thinks people should give up blue checks in protest. And that's a very fair position. I don't disagree, especially for someone like Odell with a purist position and a generally cypherpunk audience.
But I think there are multiple successful paths on this. I have always been a Twitter fan, and my normie audience is there. I wanted to be able to pay for better UX and anti-impersonation defenses for years before they became available. Just because Musk is running it doesn't mean I won't pay for helpful services, especially if they protect my audience. Real people lose money to Lyn Alden impersonation scams if they can't tell my account from others, and I directly hear from them when it happens. It's always heartbreaking.
So, I'm on the offensive, not the defensive. The way I view it, unless or until someone censors me on Twitter, they're locked in there with me, rather than me being locked in there with them. If having a blue check reduces the success rate of impersonation scams and amplifies my reach at calling out Twitter's problems, I'll have the blue check. What I absolutely *won't* do is change what I say based on a blue check. If anything, I purposely overdo it to the opposite and exaggerate my criticisms on purpose to push back against platform incentives.
Two simultaneous approaches:
1) Call out the problem on Twitter. Don't give Musk a pass. Point out that a pro-freedom, pro-anonymity view doesn't match with what is going on there. Don't let his rhetoric disguise his inaction. If Twitter cares about freedom and anonymity then they will offer a paid option that doesn't require identity (e.g. the "orange check" bitcoin payment.) Until something like that, they are LARPing and are fair to criticize as such.
2) Have your foot here on Nostr and on decentralization technologies generally. In the long run, I think this is the future. And more importantly, I hope it is.
I believe the issue comes down to: how do I maintain my integrity communicating with people I wish to, and whose own integrity is verified?
In my little brain, I can’t see how this is possible without making the communication tied to private keys.
The whole idea of kyc/identity verification is ridiculous to me. Just a cumbersome workaround, and open to irl exploits.
Your private key is your key. Keep it secret, keep it safe. You lose, you lose.
If you wish to master any aspect of Life, you need to know very little.
But to know that very little, you must first know a great deal.
This is Truth.
Learning how to separate signal from noise, then, is everything.
It takes time and experience to separate signal from noise. In what you wish to master.
Focusing on who you are, and what you want, you can both enjoy and accelerate your journey. But always keep in mind that every moment of Time is working to distract you from the signal. This is ok, but be wary.
Notice when the Time in your life feeds you, versus when Time feeds on you.
Recognizing this, and signal, you will learn what you must know to find peace.
Update from bitcoin privacy dev Chris Belcher: https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/ca5051285c6f8d38693fd127575be44d#update
FWIW the update includes a picture of himself, which is strange because he has always had particularly strong opsec. Personally would like to see a PGP signed message from him stating this is authentic.
ok, here’s an account on Long Covid from a youtuber who was young, active and had 2.5million subs when she was struck down to nothing.
You can imagine what you want, this is a real person’s life that I subscribed to and saw her life ended:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vydgkCCXbTA
Maybe it was the vaccine, but many other accounts link these symptoms to the lab-leaked virus itself.
Update from bitcoin privacy dev Chris Belcher: https://gist.github.com/chris-belcher/ca5051285c6f8d38693fd127575be44d#update
FWIW the update includes a picture of himself, which is strange because he has always had particularly strong opsec. Personally would like to see a PGP signed message from him stating this is authentic.
I don’t know Chris, but this account tracks with other people’s experiences with ‘long covid’.
It has a range of symptoms, but it can get so bad that it’s basically, ‘you’re dead, but have fun living’.
It’s not bs, it’s verifiable, it has stricken young people and debilitated them.