Counterpoint: DNS… DNS and domain-wide blacklisting (or, even worse, domain whitelisting behind registration). This is one fragile aspect of Mastodon that I’d rather not see become a thing on Nostr. As long as relay operators resist the temptation to issue domain-level bans, I have no issue with it.

Sometimes, when I notice I have persistent trolls over months, I take a couple tries to reach out and talk to them.

I try to directly address their issues, and ask what their problem is, or who hurt them.

Like someone who is clearly a human but posts anti-Bitcoin stuff on my threads 193 times. Or who makes fun of my voice 65 times.

Thus far, it has almost never worked out. They just keep going until they burn out. Their views and comments tend to be near-zero anyway. It’s a mental illness issue. And I’m not equipped to handle it.

Kind of like how people throw poop in certain cities, there are people who digitally just parasitically can’t stop clutching to others negatively.

I invite them to do better, hope they recover, but I increasingly learn that dealing with them rationally doesn’t work and I’m not the right one to help with that sort of mental illness.

It’s generous of you to show empathy. It’s tough to be in a spot where unwell individuals relentlessly target you online.

I often think about the amazing things those kinds of people could achieve if they channeled their energy into something positive instead of fixating on someone in a harmful way.

Hasbro to trying to save 3 cents by selling monopoly board games without paper currency instead having kids use a banking app.

Hopefully it’s connected to their Hasbro Digital ID so the banker can de-bank them and seize all their property for the true dystopian experience.

The SBR discussion is complex

A) We should want American citizens, families, communities, and businesses to hold BTC, not the state

But…

B) It is unrealistic to expect that Bitcoin grows into a global currency without government adoption

Government interest (as opposed to ignorance or dismissal or attacks) is absolutely a signal that Bitcoin is evolving, growing, and succeeding

If Bitcoin was dying no one would be talking about an SBR (obviously)

SBR advocacy *will probably* hasten the transition to the Bitcoin standard

But such advocacy is also fraught with traps of centralization and government shitcoining (as we are watching play out)

IMO it’s ok to not have a black and white take on this

Probably more important than SBR advocacy (which will happen anyway if NGU continues) is civil liberties advocacy to ensure Americans can use Bitcoin privately, self-custodially, and p2p and to ensure American companies and developers can build tools that enable this reality

I don't see this on any of the progress sites yet. Is this the final step yet?

BITCOIN ACCEPTANCE IS AWESOME? BABY STEPS.

Namecheap and 1984, take Bitcoin. You will have to fill out your who is information, but I think both parties don't give a shit what you put in there. I have a lot of domains registered under Hank Hill.

Started a new #bookstr today after completing another unreviewable book.

This one I selected on the basis that I really liked a quote from the author, so much so that I wanted to understand how his brain came up with it.

In 1980, Buckminster Fuller was 85 years old when he wrote Critical Path. I’m only in the Introduction but can already tell this guy was incredibly prescient.

Read what he had to say about computers and gold 45 years ago:

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512gb unified memory 🫠

A few dusin commits later

Peak fiat.

Dawg I wasn’t bashing Elon, chill