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You can read his responses for yourself

https://tinyurl.com/msduxfn2

eye opening, inspiring and highly instructive.

This, my dear readers, is exactly how all CEOs should approach any attack from the State, or its infiltrating Apratchicks who have snuck on to the staff.

If all CEOs behaved like Mircea Popescu, then many of the problems you as users of Bitcoin experience would vanish in a puff of smoke.

All the users complaining and posting screenshots showing Gemini asking weird questions that make absolutely no sense in reference to how they use "their" Bitcoin, that in this or any other universe are considered insane, and all the other "power over" abuses you've seen would not be happening.

And Bitcoin would have spread further into the world than it has today as a result.

The role of the CEO is not to Virtue Signal by patting the needy on their heads and other showy things that whilst good in a normal world are absolutely bizarre in the real world, where users are under attack and their rights are daily abused and the Bitcoin ecosystem itself is under constant pressure from enemies.

If we had more Mircea Popescu types, the Bitcoin ecosystem would be far better off than it is today; more resilient, more widespread and more useful at any scale, since it would not be mediated by cowards and weaklings.

Mircea Popescu cannot be a model for anyone I'm afraid, and there is no factory that can produce more of them.

Why is that?

The reason why, is that what I'm talking about in Mircea Popescu is a man of character. A man who understands what power is, and how to wield it justly.

Mircea bailed out OpenBSD

https://tinyurl.com/2xfn7j7h

and did many other things in secret that have changed the course of history for the better; that is what everyone should expect, not Virtue Signalling, pandering and being a willing cowering prisoner in a gaol of your own making as a way of life.

It should be obvious to everyone now that when the right man is in charge of something, amazing things can happen that can change the world rapidly.

Elon, for all his many faults, has radically shifted the overton window in the matter of free speech, and caused millions of users to breathe easier by having the threat of their speech cut off removed.

Imagine if this happened in Bitcoin services!

Imagine for a moment, that Bitcoin has no restrictions on how it can be used, and that you can use many services in whatever way you want without any fear that anything can go wrong.

Using Bitcoin like using an iPhone to browse the web at will.

This is unimaginable for anyone inured to the cancerous adversarial culture that has metastasized in "The Bitcoin Community", but for those not infected, the very idea of this makes goosebumps break out all over your skin.

In order for this to come to pass, well designed tools and services that can touch the public are an absolute prerequisite. This is what has been missing for many years for different reasons, but now there is no longer any excuse, and it is a matter of character and will.

You've seen how paradigm shifting services have been launched before from different companies run by fearless mavericks. The world is better off when CEOs are fearless mavericks like Mircea Popescu and Steve Jobs; they are the ones that make the great leaps, and they're sorely needed and will always be needed.

And in case you can't understand this, this is not about starting a very successful company after the groundwork has been done by mavericks; this is about being a groundbreaking maverick.

It's easy to pivot to a keyboardless phone design after Apple have broken the hypnotic Emperor's New Clothes spell of "ALL PHONES NEED KEYBOARDS".

Someone had to do it first.

Someone had to show some guts.

Someone had to reject bad advice.

Someone chose not to run away from imaginary problems.

Someone chose to take the commercial risk.

Bitcoin is going to win. It is a question of when and not if.

We know from the death of the AOL era, that all business models that don't conform to reality are destroyed in the end, and that it doesn't matter how big you are now; you will be destroyed by the market and by entrepreneurs with guts and character.

Bitcoin is no different. The people who are willfully and ignorantly choosing to serve people in ways that are sub optimal, because some pig ignorant Ambulance Chaser told them to, are going to lose in the end.

Losing in this scenario doesn't mean not making money; in 1999, AOL’s market capitalization soared to around $222 billion.

But look at them now. Not only is AOL no longer a standalone entity with its own market capitalization; it is now a mere element in a portfolio managed by Apollo Global Management.

It's dead.

This is the fate of all businesses that are not run by mavericks who embrace risk. Apple is what it is today precisely because Jobs was a risk taker.

If you think Apple is big, just wait till the "Final FinTech Unicorn" emerges that will be built on Bitcoin. Nothing like it has been possible in the past, because Bitcoin did not exist.

In the "Final FinTech Unicorn" future, Bitcoin regulation will be a thing of the past, just as regulation of the web today is a fantasy of EU witches with short haircuts. The web is an unstoppable force for good. Most people know it and nothing can stop it.

The same will be true for Bitcoin, only the changes it will unleash will be far greater than many people can begin to imagine.

"Do you want to be remembered as one of the people who helped make it happen, or not?"

That is the question everyone needs to ask themselves.

I asked ChatGPT to, "List ten of the most revered and beloved tech CEOs of the last 40 years".

It returned...

1. Steve Jobs (Apple Inc.)

2. Tim Cook (Apple Inc.)

3. Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, X)

4. Reed Hastings (Netflix)

5. Jack Ma (Alibaba Group)

6. Shantanu Narayen (Adobe)

7. Marc Benioff (Salesforce)

8. Meg Whitman (HP, eBay)

9. Jensen Huang (NVIDIA)

10. Daniel Zhang (Alibaba Group)

Yikes. That's quite the list isn't it?

And you can't buy your way on to that list by Virtue Signalling. You've got to earn your place on it by doing real things that serve other people, without fear or favor.

Quite the task, isn't it?!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjheekkLh8s

If you're looking for more Spanish material, here is the full playlist that I will continue to add to over time.

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- Adds support for NIP-90, data vending machines by nostr:npub1nxa4tywfz9nqp7z9zp7nr7d4nchhclsf58lcqt5y782rmf2hefjquaa6q8

- Adds support for discovery content DVMs in the discovery tab by nostr:npub1nxa4tywfz9nqp7z9zp7nr7d4nchhclsf58lcqt5y782rmf2hefjquaa6q8

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- Adds support for NIP-06 seed word key derivation (bip32 and bip39) when logging in

- Adds support for NIP-65 relay lists

- Adds support for NIP-17 private DM relay lists

- Adds support for private relay lists to save Draft events

- Adds support for local relays as a separate relay set, saving locally only.

- Adds message + dialog to setup Search relays when searching

- Adds message + dialog to setup DM relays when messaging

- Adds signString method for Amber by nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5

- Prefers NIP-65 relays for zap request relay tags

- Prepares for NIP-96 server list integration

- Adds paste from clipboard button to NWC screen by nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5

- Moves video compressing quality to medium instead of low

- Adds recommended amounts for the Zap the Devs

- Reduces default zap amounts due to the change of Bitcoin price

- Allows the new post's relay selection dialog to pick any relays (instead of just writing relays) by nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h

- Improves Zap efficiency for large zap splits

- Adds a queue of commands while the relay connects

- Makes sure only one connection per URL is made when doing splits

- Removes unnecessary Amber calls when decrypting private zaps

- Improves Zap error messages to include the lnaddress of the error

- Displays Zap Split error messages in sequence instead of in multiple popups.

Bug Fixes:

- Waits 500ms before restarting all connections when saving new relays

- Automatically deactivate writes for search relays (they are read-only)

- Overrides pubkey to avoid impersonators on seals.

- Fixes the rendering of replies on wikipages.

- Fixes duplicated imeta tags when uploading the same image twice

- Removes reposts from the Dot Notification in the home's bottom bar icon

- Fixes a white space when including an image url after a new line

- Fixes alignment of the like icons after the like event

- Fixes wrong display of original and forked notes

- Improves the rendering of Channels and Communities when quoted

- Slightly better rendering Drafts in the thread

- DecimalFormats are not thread safe, moving them to thread objects

- Block error messages from closing the Zap split payment screen

- Better formats zap amounts (don't show .0 if the previous numbers are large)

- Fixes the offset position of the payment amounts on the Zap the Devs message

- Fixes Copy Text function of DraftEvents

- Fixes top bar lists not updating when following communities and hashtags.

- Show toast error if unable to hide words by nostr:npub10ug9xs24ay5339agakaqk556t6zvq9qn5vm0vlhc4pu25cx0l32qxhrm9e

- Adds Autofocus when entering the search screen by nostr:npub10ug9xs24ay5339agakaqk556t6zvq9qn5vm0vlhc4pu25cx0l32qxhrm9e

- Fixes the use of Global-active relays in the Global Feed

- Fixes special chars on URL previews by nostr:npub1e2yuky03caw4ke3zy68lg0fz3r4gkt94hx4fjmlelacyljgyk79svn3eef

- Fixes the lack of refresh when adding hidden words in the Security filters

- Makes sure only one buffering action is run for each video view

- Increases timeout to Tor connections

- Fixes a bug with `signature-null` in the sig of events from Amber

Updated translations:

- Czech, German, Swedish and Portuguese by nostr:npub1e2yuky03caw4ke3zy68lg0fz3r4gkt94hx4fjmlelacyljgyk79svn3eef

- French by nostr:npub106efcyntxc5qwl3w8krrhyt626m59ya2nk9f40px5s968u5xdwhsjsr8fz

- Polish by nostr:npub16gjyljum0ksrrm28zzvejydgxwfm7xse98zwc4hlgq8epxeuggushqwyrm

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- Hungarian by nostr:npub1ww8kjxz2akn82qptdpl7glywnchhkx3x04hez3d3rye397turrhssenvtp

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- Spanish by nostr:npub1luhyzgce7qtcs6r6v00ryjxza8av8u4dzh3avg0zks38tjktnmxspxq903

Performance Improvements:

- Optimizes Blurhash generation (4x gains)

- Speeds up the URL finder in the new post edit text (8x gains).

- Reduces the use of background colors to improve rendering speeds (15% gains).

- Refactors Giftwrap caching to delete encrypted text and reload the wrap if necessary (20x savings in memory use).

- Changes message wrap host to a host stub to reduce memory use

- Only download GiftWraps form 2 days past the last EOSE

- Moves the thread formatter and calculator out of Note to avoid memory use

- Slight improvement on the thread view for badges

- Unifies NIP01 Serialization with SHA-256 procedures to reduce the creation of several byte arrays at every verification

- Minimizes costs of keeping track of the number of events received per subscription

- Moves ClientController executor to a thread

- Speeds up ID calculations for Amber's Intent call

Code Quality Improvements:

- Major refactoring of the Relay List screens

- Refactors Relay URL formatter to Quartz

- Adds new observer structure for the LocalCache

- Moves Blurhash code to the commons module

- Updates UnifiedPush by nostr:npub1a3tx8wcrt789skl6gg7rqwj4wey0j53eesr4z6asd4h4jwrd62jq0wkq4k

- Migrates to the latest Kotlin, Compose, and AGP 8.4.1 and several other dependencies

Download:

- [Play Edition](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.87.0/amethyst-googleplay-universal-v0.87.0.apk )

- [FOSS Edition - No translations](https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/releases/download/v0.87.0/amethyst-fdroid-universal-v0.87.0.apk )

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In general we prefer to use open source, bitcoin only, air gapped options for signing. Currently only nostr:npub17tyke9lkgxd98ruyeul6wt3pj3s9uxzgp9hxu5tsenjmweue6sqq4y3mgl nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j Passport and nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n Jade are options in that respect.

It depends on who you’re helping with the setup and to what extent they should go with this. It would actually be nice to share our work we did with bitsave and bitcoinvoorbedrijven on this. If you want more info I can get you in touch with our group.

I have become such a poor man that I have reduced the amount of smashed to their rice. But I live these kittens. I feel helpless for poverty. https://video.nostr.build/3cdffc119b4bb57a4dd25baae27c3bf6e6d84e7f78f55b02f4ca4ac87efc8031.mp4 #cat #kitten #meow