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Missed the whole game but just watched the last 10 mins clip on YouTube rn.

Like how does a team that defends so well lose a 9 point lead in the last 3 mins. This is crazy.

Yeah actively doing that is abnormal and unusual.

Certainly establishes a strong precedent for the US.

For other countries though, goodness me Bitcoin is MASSIVE.

Its ends central banking over time by simply existing on the market. No legislation, riots, lobbying, voting, campaigning or theorizing needed.

It's like the indomitable forces of economic laws making the market correct itself. Magnificent.

A Murray Rothbard quote that is incredibly relevant to Bitcoin and Nostr:

'There have been glorious exceptions, however, particularly in the history of Western civilization, where intellectuals have often been trenchant critics and opponents of State power, and have used their intellectual gifts to fashion theoretical systems which could be used in the struggle for liberation from that power. But invariably, these intellectuals have only been able to arise as a significant force when they have been able to operate from an independent power base - an independent property base - separate from the apparatus of the State. For wherever the State controls all property, wealth, and employment, everyone is economically dependent on it, and it becomes difficult, if not impossible, for such independent criticism to arise. It has been in the West, with its decentralized foci of power, its independent sources of property and employment, and therefore of bases from which to criticize the State, where a body of intellectual critics has been able to flourish.'

Would appreciate being fact-checked on this:

The US is the only country in its history to have abolished a central bank more than once.

Now that's something.

The anti-capitalist mentality:

Buying things is irrational

Selling things is deception

Advertising is manipulation

Profit is exploitation

Saving is miserly

Storage is hoarding

Saving is selfish

Investment is gambling

Interest is evil

Property is theft

Contract is slavery

Wealth is immoral

No thanks.

Haven't tried Zapchat yet.

Will look into it!

But the dream of course would be to have an interoperable way to send and receive messages accross clients without compromising on privacy and security.

MLS, Signal protocol, etc. are great but I don't think you can use them across multiple clients.