Spent the past 2 weeks fixing bugs related to relative filepaths.

Relative filepaths were a mistake.

God made all filepaths absolute and we humans had to ruin it.

Fair point on the technically competent piece but I point back to wifi. That seemed unobtainable to many for a number of years and is now ubiquitous. You now longer have to get some external card to slide into a slot on your laptop to get wifi. It just works ™️

You point presupposes that humans won’t learn and adapt to using new technology over time. I disagree. The motivation to learn the tech or to abstract the tech to simpler UX exists and grows with time.

Look at bitcoin itself. You used to have to run CLI commands to interact with the network. Now…

Why can't ecash be for payments? I personally wouldn't want large amounts of long-lived amounts stored in a fedimint. The former reducing overall rug risk and the latter reduces the chance of inflationary practices (aside from running a client that validates the version of fedimint run by guardians).

Fedimint doesn't explicitly have to be a "bank", although, admittedly, that's been a advertised use case from louder voices than mine own.

Laying out an example:

I'm visiting LA. I somewhat know people in the area, maybe I'm visiting them. There's a smaller network of merchants that participate in a fedimint. Similar to handling cash, they don't keep large amounts in the drawer (in the fedimint). Just enough to do business of the day. When i arrive, I can peg-in (on-chain or with LN) to the fedimint and now have ecash to spend. Each merchant and myself don't have to mange LN nodes and the complexity inherent to it.

Another:

Remove the ecash/BTC/LN modules and insert a password manger or any other arbitrary data. Since the data is validated via consensus among fedimint nodes, the risk and access is distributed. It enables the syncing and validity across disaggregate nodes.

I personally would love to auto-sync my bitwarden instance between home and office servers. I understand there are solutions to that with some automation, but fedimint could offer this out of the box for the less technically inclined.

Myriad of solutions and fedimint could be one. Definitely not the end all be all, but i have to pick something to focus on with my limited time. 🫠

Unpopular opinion:

The mRNA vaccine platform has the potential to be an incredible breakthrough in fighting disease. Done correctly, it would tell your body to use its own natural immunity to produce resistance to infection agents, and would cause no damage to the body.

Its really kind of amazing when you get into the science of it.

The problem is not mRNA. The problem is Pfizer. To put it plainly, they are.... evil.

What is being discovered now, is that the side effects are likely the result of the manufacturing process. Or more specifically, it looks like Pfizer used a different manufacturing process for the mass distributed vaccines than it used for its submitted test vaccines. And hid it.

All over the world now, different researchers are discovering plasma dna contamination in the vaccines. The current hypothesis for why this is present is:

Pfizer used bacteria as a rapid growth medium for the dna used to produce the rna. In the test vaccines they took care to remove the residual plasma dna from the process. But in mass production, they let that slide. And as a result, sent out large batches of vaccine with varying levels of residual plasma dna contamination. The side effects of that will vary widely. But in some cases, its likely some people have had their dna altered. That genomic change would be permanent, and hereditary.

Additionally there is strong evidence they used e-coli in the bacterial process because of its rapid reproduction. The membranes of the bacteria used to produce the dna which is used for rna production, is an endotoxin, and results in massive levels of inflammation in the body if not removed after the vaccine production process. It looks like Pfizer also cut corners here.

Basically, it looks like Pfizer hid the fact that their vaccine mass production process was different from their test vaccine process, and cut corners on mass production process, resulting in vaccine batches filled with potentially dna altering material, and endotoxins which produce massive inflammation.

This would be consistent with many of the strange side effects seen all over the world.

So. While the mRNA platform seems to have a great deal of potential, seems like Pfizer is not the company to do it. Besides..their entire corporate board should be in prison.

Are you aware of the Hawala network?

GM #coffechain

need to open 1 or 2 LN channels, preferably to something with good routing that will not (hopefully) spy too much on me. what are my best options?

1. And now most of the world trusts banks with their "money" (currency really). I don't think this paradigm will go away and making people comfortable with the personal responsibility of holding all of your wealth yourself will take a long time. In the meantime, custodians are going to exist. Giving people a privacy preserving trade off for a custodian seems a good way to move toward a better future, while we educate the masses on self-custody and personal responsibility.

2. Agree with all of this. Trade offs always. There is going to be complexity with any technology until there's not. It used to be super complex and require lots of people to run mainframes, and now we have super computer in our pockets. The more time passed, the more abstracted away from electrons on a motherboard we get. Even 10 years ago, managing a single bitcoin wallet was a super technical task, but today I can download an app to my phone and hold the keys to some coin.

3. I get your point here and don't disagree. This is why I dedicate my free time to working on a solution that I think will help adoption of bitcoin. The "coin" with the best tools will capture more economic share. I hope you're building your ideal future as well. (Personally, I think ETH will be what they build the CBDCs on. All the code and infrastructure is there for the State to scoop up.)

likewise, thanks to you for the reply.

When you say "most people feel this way", what part of the world are you referring to?

What downsides are you referring to? please elaborate. There are plenty of trade offs in all things, but if you're more specific, I can better address the concern.

In your last paragraph, are you referring to another "coin" aside from bitcoin? It reads like you are but you're unspecific. Also, the ad hominem attack doesn't help convince anyone. Give me real arguments. What coin are we waiting for network effect to increase? The market has been pretty clear on what it values the most at the moment.

Correct. Don't trust complete strangers. Don't use a fedimint run by complete strangers.

Well first I try to stay healthy and fit, do combat sports training for personal self defense (worst case scenario) I'm well connected to local farmers, make connections to people who understand the gravity of the situation.

Talk about it, show the people the official documents, they are not in secret but rather public, people just don't know where to look.

Exposing them, calling out to obvious dangers.

Stack Sats in Cold Storage, get basic medication, vitamin supplements, use Cash instead of Card Payments.

But they are far from succeding, rather they are panicking right now but they won't go down easy and quiet, rather we already put them into a downward death spiral where they expose themselfs more and more by becomming more radical over time.

Identify the enemy and it's progamm(Ideology/Religion)

Push them to make mistakes which you use against them and drag them into courts, it leads to the public loosing trust in them when they become aware of for example their shameless profiting.

Stay on high frequency thoughts, love and positivity, I use Bitcoin,Nostr and Jesus Christus as an Anchor Point to stay sane.

Laugh at them, make memes, riducule them in every way possible.

Inform yourself about legal implications of the pandemic Treaty (US won't have elections in 2024)

Get connected to key players who played along the first time and talk to them in a human and sane manner, show them sources, documents.

There is also an emergency backup plan in case everything goes in a horrible bad direction. Which foots on a legal basis but I don't want to disclose as of now.

Most important have fun, it's the most interesting time to be alive for sure, and never be afraid! 😉

We had a local meetup, talked to her about Bitcoin and Nostr. 😉😋

It was important to to me to give an alternative as we spoke about the comming global vaccine passport(Digital Identity and CBDC wallet ^aka Social Credit System) in combination with the Digital Service Act of the EU.

All of it comes into effect in may 2024, it makes Tedros the de-facto Dictator of the World (Rev 6:7)

He will be able to control every member state down to the smallest Regions and States, every country gives up their sovereignity fully.

@/30 Todd totally misses the jab at equivalence in impact with opentimestamps(his pet project). In fencing that's called "touché". At this point he's already lined up his next counter, based on his poor mental model of the idea, and hasn't integrated ANY of his previous complete misses.

Stick to cock rings Todd ( What i call single use seals for his BDSM fetish)

@/30 Todd totally misses the jab at equivalence in impact with opentimestamps(his pet project). In fencing that's called "touché". At this point he's already lined up his next counter, based on his poor mental model of the idea, and hasn't integrated ANY of his previous complete misses.

Stick to cock rings Todd ( What i call single use seals for his BDSM fetish)

The math checks out for small zaps being more rewarding than an impression, do you know what amount you are getting per impression of Twitter content advertisement?

So you're basically saying, they got us good because they have 1000x the userbase.. correct. I don't think zap shaming people to pay 1000x to make up for it is gonna get us there.

You are missing the point. We all know what, but it doesn't mater. Ppl dont care. Having better incentives needs to win economically not morally.

I am 100% coinjoined and/or no KYC

You're hesitant because you wanna make sure you can sell for fiat anon