Joinstr R&D Group (simplex). Wont be active on telegram anymore.

Well, we care about Bitcoin, yes. Seems like, conceptually, there could be a zap tax that funds what’s needed on NOSTR.

The best way to say that Lyn is too bearish, is to go and tell all your friends that the Telegram CEO was just fucking arrested for allowing free encrypted speech, and to forge your new decentralized identity right now.

Anyway, good evening.

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Like the project account said, the Mastodon bridge is done automatically, we don't opt-in to do that nor do we have control of it.

Also Mastodon bridges are likely to miss posts in larger threads, so I post on them here myself just in case.

SimpleX is a real private messaging app with end-to-end encryption, and unlike some other non-Signal E2EE messaging apps has perfect forward secrecy.

Any details? Just to understanding better and beyond "based on personal but untold observations ..."

I am inches away from writing the sentence nobody wants to read.

Thesis: "The rest of the world is wrong, I'm not."

Doesn't seem like a plausible idea.

Holy assumptions Batman!

Without having the details, we simply have no clue on either side so best to just let this lie. Have a good weekend.

That's quite the stretch. He obviously had to trade his skills/time for fiat to then purchase that asset.

And even playing along with your logical fallacy, what skills did the squatters bring to the table?

Only one person in this equation did work here.

"Atlas Shrugged" celebrates people that have skills. You're landowner friend here makes money by ... owning land. 🤔

How so? Any argument in favor of that opinion?

High motivation and average skills > high skills and average motivation.

I am always fascinated about characters and symbols on building. #architecture #riga #art

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If there’s one thing I can’t stand it’s animal cruelty

Under the current system way too much goes to the people whose only contribution is moving/managing money. Under a sound money standard like bitcoin, more people will be incentivized to actually produce goods and services, specialize in a skill and be rewarded for doing so. Bitcoin as a currency is a long process, but I think there will be a day when the government will not be able to acquire stuff for a money that can be created just by the federal reserve pushing a button.

We'll know when we get there, but my eggs are in the bitcoin basket.

Not sure if this is a troll or a misunderstanding of what purpose means. The purpose of a thing is what it does. Bitcoin is a finite amount of information shared over a network. What it does, is allow people to transfer energy and value into the future.

Fiat is a non sequitur to bitcoin. What fiat does is allow people with counterfeiting permissions to steal from those who don't have that permission.

What fiat does and what Bitcoin does have no overlap and thus cannot share a purpose.

Being able to exchance fiat for bitcoin is the equivalent of defrauding people out of the best way to store value for the promise of immediate liquid fraud that they can defraud others with.

TL;DR Bitcoin's reason for existence is not its purpose. One should not conflate the two.