Implementing an email-based recovery flow right now, and it's incredibly prone to very bad security-related errors. Nostr makes everything so easy, the threat model is incredibly simple when the user holds their key. Having keys even makes email based recovery more secure, because I can use them to guarantee that the person who initiates the recovery process is the one who completes it, completely eliminating a whole class of MITM attacks.

How the death toll compares to privately owned roads in the past and in the present? There are still plenty of privat toll roads at least around where I live, do they show a lower death toll? Do they have any different trafic rules?

if you still think that 1 btc = 1 btc than why are you convererging and thinking in fiat or metal 🫂

i expect bitcoin to hit new all time highs in gold, silver, and dollars in 2026.

lets come back to this note next year.

stay humble and stack sats 🫡

In 2000, Saddam Hussein did something very few people paid attention to.

He announced Iraq would start selling oil in euros, not U.S. dollars.

Three years later, the United States invaded Iraq.

No weapons of mass destruction were ever found.

But something else happened quietly.

Iraqi oil went right back to being priced in dollars.

Most people call that a coincidence.

I call it a lesson.

In 2009, Muammar Gaddafi proposed something even more dangerous.

A gold-backed African currency — the gold dinar.

It would have allowed African nations to buy oil without using dollars.

In 2011, NATO intervened in Libya for “humanitarian reasons.”

Gaddafi was killed.

The gold dinar disappeared.

Libyan oil? Back to dollars.

Another coincidence.

I’m noticing a pattern.

Go back further.

In 1971, President Nixon took the U.S. dollar off the gold standard.

The dollar was no longer backed by gold — only a promise.

By all historical logic, the dollar should have collapsed.

It didn’t.

Why?

Because three years later, Henry Kissinger cut a deal with Saudi Arabia.

The deal was simple:

Sell oil only in U.S. dollars, and the U.S. military will protect the regime.

From that moment on, every country on earth needed dollars to buy energy.

That wasn’t free-market economics.

That was force-backed monetary policy.

Or, more honestly, a protection racket.

And it works — as long as the military can enforce it.

Watch what happens when countries challenge it.

Russia demands rubles for natural gas?

Sanctions. Escalation.

Syria discusses pipelines priced outside the dollar system?

Civil war intensifies. Pipeline never happens.

Iran tries to sell oil outside the dollar?

Decades of sanctions.

I’m not saying these are good governments or bad governments.

I’m saying watch what happens when anyone threatens the petrodollar system.

Once you see it, the pattern isn’t subtle.

SWIFT is not a neutral payment system.

It’s a weapon.

Get cut off from SWIFT, and you’re locked out of global trade.

Russia.

Iran.

Cuba.

Venezuela.

Different politics. Same outcome.

They don’t teach this in school because it’s uncomfortable.

We don’t send 18-year-olds to die for “freedom.”

We send them to protect reserve currency status.

Currency funds the military.

The military protects the currency.

That’s how empires work.

Britain learned this the hard way.

The British pound was the world’s reserve currency for nearly 200 years.

After World War II, Britain lost reserve status.

Within two decades, the British Empire collapsed.

Same cycle.

Dutch guilder.

British pound.

Now the U.S. dollar.

Ray Dalio has been warning about this for years.

Late-stage empire looks like this:

• Military overextension

• Rising debt

• Currency weakening

• Rivals building alternatives

China’s Belt and Road isn’t charity.

It’s about creating debt relationships denominated in yuan.

BRICS aren’t talking about alternatives because they’re friends.

They’re building an exit ramp from dollar dependence.

When the dollar loses reserve status — not if, when — the ability to print money without consequences disappears.

- Then the military contracts.

- Then the empire ends.

- You can call this cynical.

I call it financial history.

Every war in my lifetime had a currency angle — if you knew where to look.

“Freedom and democracy” is the marketing.

The actual policy documents talk about

“maintaining dollar liquidity in global energy markets.”

I’m not anti-military.

I’m anti-bullshit.

If we’re sending people to fight…

We should at least be honest about why.

Why? What nutrition does milk give you that other sources don’t ? It’s mostly cultural at this point

"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Rev. William Wright 1888

Zeus is amazing. I use it for satscoffee when I'm mobile and to quickly check liquidity/channels. Not good for most normies to easily set up though.

It's gotta be something that simply works right out the box. That leaves WoS if you eliminate coinos. Even wos shut down at the first sight of a possible challenge....

Again need an easy plug and play wallet with training wheels.

Theory: I have this theory of probabilistic influence where i think it might be possible to turn up the temperature on a person algorithmically.

In the old days intelligence agencies had to have direct contact with a would be shooter if they were going to groom someone for an assassination, today I believe it’s possible via algorithms, targeting, online groups etc… to do all of that remotely with no direct engagement.

The new thing isn’t digital grooming. That’s been happening.

It’s more like an algorithmic volume knob where you can increase the probability that something happens to someone.

We already know that modern algorithmic environments can increase baseline risk factors in a population the speculative leap I’m making is something like… you can take someone from >1% risk of assassination to 20% risk of assassination and your hands are never anywhere near the murder weapon so to speak.

I have no proof this theory is real. I have no proof that power has shifted from direct coercion to probability shaping, this is just something I think might be happening.

Well fuck. Pretty simple, thanks

How much is your lake house worth in the new decentralised system vs 2 months ago ?

I just like palindromes

I wrote "Happy NovemBULL" on all the wine orders I shipped out last week.

At this point I’ve come to the unfortunate conclusion that every brave man who gave his life fighting for America died for nothing.

you could even smuggle it inside your body

So now which is better? This or nostr:nprofile1qqs8msutuusu385l6wpdzf2473d2zlh750yfayfseqwryr6mfazqvmgpy4mhxue69uhkvet9v3ejumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtm0d4hxjh6lwejkuar4wfjhxqfswaehxw309a5hgcmg0ykkwmmvv3jkuun0vskkvatjvdhkuargdacxsct8w4ejuumrv9exzc3wd9kj7qfpwaehxw309ahx7um5wgkhyetvv9ujuar90pshx6r9v3nk2tnc09az7em0qzz or can they be combined? 👀

yeah I need to focus more on proper usage of hashtags.

Does engagement on Nostr work better with using proper hashtags?

Is it necessary to use hashtags for better engagement?

Is it frownd upon?

#asknostr #question