Yeah got ya, thanks for the run down, had SEEDXOR on my list of things to read up on one day 🙏🏽
Can you point me to somewhere I can read up on Web of Trust for nostr? I have vague recollections on WoT in relation to PgP or announcing keys at in person events etc.
Nostr newbie here, trying to learn about the relationship between relays & content discover ability
#asknostr
And stack sats
I wonder, how many people say something like ‘the price means nothing to me’ yet still check the price a few times a day when it’s pumping?
Doesn’t matter anyways, I’m numb to the price
Think I’ll light a candle tonight for all the people who will end up losing money by following Raoul Pals advice this cycle
How funny would it be if 85k becomes the new 58k
Yeah ok I got ya. I find the functionality of say the cold card q practically the same level of security for entropy, for me anyways. Dice rolling your own hex then relying on the device to convert that & add on its own additional layer of entropy on top to get to the 24 words.
I can see the attraction though for additional methods / devices / security trade offs in generating separate seeds.
Good entropy should be a given in any set up. I guess in comparing the single sig vs multi sig set up I should have stipulated the entropy better
CBDC’s effectively already here w/ Trump supported USD backed stable coins w/ programability.
Govt already tell stablecoin issuers which coins to freeze etc.
Fed member banks acquire or partner closer w/ a tether or a circle, increased programmability rolls out, there’s your full fledged CBDC.
First I watched ‘Zeitgeist’ & it opened my eyes.
Then I read ‘Creature from Jekyll Island’ & realised we work more than half our life for ‘them’
Then I read ‘The History of Central Banking & the Enslavement of Mankind’ by South African central bank employee Stephen Mitford Goodson & realised small groups of Jewish bankers have controlled the world for thousands of years & the Nazis were humanities best hope at altering the trajectory of the world away from thousands more years of endless wars & the ‘enslavement of mankind’
✔️ History is written by the victors
✔️ All your models will be destroyed
✔️ I’m not trying to make things worse but you’re seeing things in reverse
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Heard of it but haven’t looked into it yet, will suss it out.
As far as geographically distributed while eliminating single point of failure & capture, for me 4 locations is a good number.
When going above that, say creating additional redundancies, it seems to me the chances of something going wrong increase…
ppl / places you trust that much, will they remain there long or be moving soon, can you access without too much trouble or is encrypted/ coded comms required to discuss something, when a bull market pushes price up so much do you feel the need to ask them to check if it’s still there & or let them know the spot at their place you’ve hidden it, has the place / person attack vector for theft increased to a point of actually being less secure etc etc
For me 4 spots w/ the smallest possible circle of ppl who know those spots is the sweet spot.
And single sig being much easier & less error prone compared to multi sig when considering inheritance planning & who might be restoring 24 words into a hww is the real game changer for multi vs single.
The one thing multi sig offers over single sig, as far as additional practical security, is it allows you to spread out your trust in the hww manufacturers security trade-offs chips etc, eg cold card & a Jade in the set up.
Wondering if SEEDXOR adds any additional practical security to that single sig set up?
This boy SAVED the INTERNET… but couldn't save himself.
10 years ago, he was persecuted by his government, and ultimately paid with his life.
Aaron Swartz is a modern hero that most people DO NOT KNOW.
But they should.
Aaron was creative, focused, and brilliant.
At 14, he invented RSS; He dropped out of Stanford; At 19, he was in the first Y Combinator class; He co-founded Reddit.
Most likely, if he were alive today, he would be involved with #Bitcoin.
But that’s not EVEN 1% of what he did for us 🙏
Let’s take a look 👇
From a young age, Aaron believed in an OPEN INTERNET. In computers as a tool for LIBERATION.
"But wait, wasn’t the internet always open?"
No.
Believe it or not, there was a time when they wanted you to REGISTER your ID before you could browse or send an email.
He believed that PUBLIC LEGAL RECORDS and SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH should be accessible to everyone.
But in the U.S.,
• 98% of scientific articles are behind paywalls; and
• ~80% of legal records are too.
Imagine being sued and still having to pay to view the documents?
https://video.nostr.build/2af872c7a7d1b74ce0fb8d42369a87df45a7ee2d23df006d287b58ac60fcfe26.mp4
Aaron's war had 3 major battles.
The first was against PACER.
A legal records database.
PACER is PAID... but it was "free" in 17 public libraries.
With friends, Aaron wrote a script on a USB drive, plugged it into a USB port, downloaded 2.7 million documents... and SET THEM FREE.
https://video.nostr.build/21b565dd1742bc950748be2ac0e0ce2868f4b94c54d1da9321a198c49fe85d1e.mp4
No charges were made against the group.
But the FBI began to take notice.
That had only been the beginning. That boy would still challenge the system.
The following year, Aaron would enter the biggest fight of his life — and the greatest battle in internet history against censorship ✊
"SOPA/PIPA" 👉 if you're over 20, you probably still remember these acronyms.
A bill to "combat piracy"... which was just an excuse for the government to shut down ANY SITE, without warning.
Some companies loved the idea.
But those who loved the internet fought back.
And then, something wonderful happened.
We still knew how to fight against online censorship.
In a coordinated response, the biggest websites on the internet "went on STRIKE."
Wikipedia and Reddit went offline. Google turned black.
Protests also erupted in the STREETS.
But...
... but people have short memories.
This battle was won.
However, the NEXT one would be the LAST for young Aaron.
This MIT security camera was the final straw that ruined his life 👇📹
JSTOR was Swartz's final target: the largest database of academic papers in the world.
Aaron wrote a script to download MILLIONS of papers, over the course of months, using his MIT access, in a small room.
MIT has a rebellious culture.
But the FBI could no longer tolerate the boy's defiance.
With the video evidence, the U.S. prosecution charged Aaron with 13 crimes. Up to 50 years in prison.
In January 2011, he was arrested by undercover agents near the Harvard campus.
From then on, he was legally tortured.
Two years later, he would be found dead at home.
"Aaron would be 38 years old today.
He was accused of 'pirating' scientific papers funded with public money.
Facing up to 50 years in prison, he took his own life.
Those he inspired continue to democratize access to science.
Let us remember him."
*These are the words of Susan, his mother.
After his death, the charges were dropped by the government.
Aaron never considered entering a 'plea deal'. He would have faced millions of dollars in legal costs.
The father of the internet, Tim Berners-Lee, published a short poem at the time that says it all:
“The world was a little worse for his passing,
But a lot better for his being.”
Aaron wasn’t a unanimous figure. You may disagree with his methods.
But he was faithful to his ideal.
He was genuine. Firm in what he believed.
He was a person who used his prodigious skills not to enrich himself, but to make the internet fairer, and the world a better place.
Aaron had worked with Virgil Griffith (former Ethereum, now imprisoned for "teaching about crypto" to North Koreans).
He knew Elizabeth Stark (from Lightning).
He was friends with Zooko.
And he wrote about #Bitcoin — on the DAY he was arrested (1/6/11)! 😢
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
Curious? To learn more about the story, start with this documentary (on YouTube) 👇
[https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ](https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ)
We’ll finish with an excerpt from the "Manifesto for Free Access," by Aaron himself:
"Information is power. But, like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. There is no justice in following unjust laws. It’s time to come to the light, and, in the tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to the private theft of public culture.
We must take information, wherever it is, make our copies, and share them with the world."
RIP, Aaron ✊
He is one of the giants that allows us to see further
IMEI’s could end up being part of a Digital ID system. Australian govt has already passed Digital ID law but it’s not very fleshed out or mandatory at this early stage
😂😂
