Bayer then

No bro lol I meant like a physical game of SKATE like HORSE but with skateboards

That video game is tight though

I could beat any user on Nostr in a game of SKATE and that’s a fact

Yeah really. I saw Samson Mow and such doing this, but I just read it as basically a bunch of bitcoiners jokingly daring Vitalik to just end the suspense and kill ethereum with a rollback.

Yep they were moving them, they laundered billions so hardly surprising they’ve ‘lost’ these coins too. We’ve just witnessed the largest transfer of wealth in history over the last 4 years 🤷‍♂️ nostr:note1lmydednrjtupqwu67tr48mr0uuwxlcfpxzm0les83fsgqhrfxlts5lq8h4

I've no idea. I'm new to bitcoin. Though I do observe that bitcoin people view bitcoin as very different than other coins/crypto. There is only one bitcoin, as it were. But there are very many decentralised social networking protocols, and I could see someone asking on what basis Nostr gets to be the "bitcoin of them all" (and not the "eth of them all" or the "ripple of them all" or whatever). Architecturally they're all quite similar, just different sets of trade-offs.

That's fair, though I'd argue that asking someone who *already has* a lot of reach to trade in that reach for censorship resistance would rightfully lead that someone to ask "what's the point?". It's essentially asking them to retire and then spend their days shooting the breeze with their pals in a bar.

Nostr is the Church of Bitcoin. And as a bitcoin unbeliever, I'd like to probe the understandings and beliefs of those who are really into bitcoin.

These false dichotomy questions are meant to spur discussion, of course I don't think anyone can simply choose one over the other, but I wonder what people are thinking.

Which of the following is true:

1. If government went away, the people would be free of the oppression of taxes, all interactions would be voluntary, and anarcho-capitalism can finally bring in a utopia.

2. if government went away, the infrastructure would erode (roads, the internet, power distribution, sewage, etc) and people would be living in fear of violent gangs that would have bloody and terrible battles for power.

Which of the following is true:

1. Bitcoin will grow to the point of being the world currency, at which point government won't have any reliable way to collect taxes and government will shrink away.

2. Bitcoin won't get much larger than it already is today because if it gets much bigger governments will shut it down, seeing it as an existential threat.

I could ask more but I think you get the point.

My belief is that small governments are good and necessary things, and governments will not allow themselves to lose revenue in any significant amount, so bitcoin can't grow much larger unless it embraces KYC (which the Church of Bitcoin clearly doesn't). And therefore IMHO there is no bitcoin endgame other than where we currently are. I believe we are living in an abnormal period of laxity.

I"m about to run off and I won't see the replies to this for hours, so don't expect me to participate in the discussion right away.

BTW: I am libertarian, I believe in free markets, I like power in the hands of the people, I hate the fact that governments are necessary, and I love free speech. But also I think I'm pragmatic and realistic.

To be fair censorship resistance without reach is meaningless. Everyone in the world has more or less immediate access to censorship resistance without reach. I can stick a note on my window and nobody can come in to my house and take my "window account" away. Or I can get a tattoo. Or I can write anything I want on my computer and save it as my screensaver. What's the reach though?

Basically you need a certain level of reach before you can make censorship resistance an attractive selling point.

February 23rd 1836 - the first day of the siege of the Alamo. The Texans were completely unprepared. Almost no food in storage, lots of guns but very little gun powder. By the end of the day, they knew what the odds were. No one other than official messengers and those sent to scavenge left.

Summer days on the lake and the Colorado river are awesome. The others… they’re just way too hot. We go to the mountains for a break.

GM nostr. Winter in AZ does not suck. 😁

Yes. I’m not saying he’s wrong. I’m saying that he clearly has an axe to grind with Nostr as evidenced by this and numerous other posts.

Boating Accident 🤔