Silver is about to explode

#bitcoin

you don't actually know how much compute the government controls and how easy it would be for them to bring it on the monero blockchain.

they just have to send a letter to Bitcoin miners to exert pressure on them.

neither of us knows which of these is an easier task.

its trade-offs.

we can have a second thread about monetary policy and why a fixed number of monetary units is stupid if you like.

you don't actually know how much compute the government controls and how easy it would be for them to bring it on the monero blockchain.

they just have to send a letter to Bitcoin miners to exert pressure on them.

neither of us knows which of these is an easier task.

its trade-offs.

we can have a second thread about monetary policy and why a fixed number of monetary units is stupid if you like.

The problem with fiat supply inflation is that it's arbitrarily controlled from a centralized group. this is not true for Monero, which has a constant and immutable monetary policy.

its pretty strange to assert that mining is LESS centralized when you have to have a huge upfront initial investment and specialized hardware to do it,

and MORE centralized when anyone can do it with off the shelf hardware.

The US government can pressure large centralized mining companies. they can't threaten monero miners.

but I concede the fact that there are large data centers with lots of CPU power available. these *could be deployed to attack Monero if anybody cared to.

everything is trade-offs.

it does still seem obvious that in practice, Bitcoin mining is more centralized.

there is no problem running nodes. if Monero was scaling to do bitcoins transaction throughput there *may be a problem. but right now we good 👍

how does CPU usage preclude decentralization? doesn't using off the shelf hardware make it more decentralized?

also you can set up a node just as easily as you can with Bitcoin. if anything it's easier.

also also, tail emission is good. a hard cap is just bad monetary policy.

Yes, no more war please.

Uncomfortable truths learned in this cycle:

- The price target was 120k, which was stated here in 2023, but once again everyone believed the charlatans who predicted 200k/300k and 1M.

- We underestimated silver and gold, myself included, despite being a former gold bug.

- Trump has deceived you all; there is no crypto revolution as such, nor is there a strategic bitcoin reserve. What there is is a stablecoin revolution, or in other words, growing demand for dollars and financing for the United States.

- For years it was said that tether was a scam, and now it turns out that tether is the key to everything and is financing the US government. Tether is not going to fall; it is the new form of financing for the US and, incidentally, tether is the most profitable company in the world.

- Monero grows stronger every time it is rejected by the system. It is a clear message, but Bitcoiners are happier with ETFs and the price suppressed through paper Bitcoin.

Bitcoiners are not as smart as you think. This year has been a good lesson in humility.

Saw a clip about a new un-redacted file about Epstein and Southern Air Transport (CIA front) in Columbus Ohio, (Wexner, Epstein, Iran-Contra, etc) something she covered extensively. Granted, there was documentation for when she wrote her book about it, but now hopefully information like that will go more mainstream because it’s in these files.

I expect this trend to continue as more files are analyzed and popularized, giving Whitney even more credit and attention.

What did I miss?

Can you even verify it's real gold? Haha

This is incorrect. Local coin shops widen buy spreads at all-time highs because of volatility and shallow retail market depth, not because of a freeze or a shortage. An LCS is a retailer, not a trading desk. When someone walks in with thousands of ounces at an ATH, the shop is being asked to absorb directional risk into a balance sheet that clears locally, not globally. Local demand may be weak even while global demand is strong, which means the dealer cannot immediately recycle that metal without taking exposure.

The dealer cannot simply take silver at spot and pass it straight through. He has to hold inventory through volatility and then find a wholesaler whose own bids are widened for the same reasons. That risk compounds at each layer, so buy prices move far under spot as a defensive measure. This is normal retail metals behavior during price extremes, and the video is mischaracterizing volatility-driven inventory management as a systemic failure of the silver market.

your premise is incorrect, time is not discrete

The entire mathematical formalism collapses because it depends on taking derivatives (on breaking time into infinitesimal pieces). You simply cannot do that if time is quantized and discrete. Once that assumption fails, everything built atop of the assumption fails as well.

This fundamentally changes the meaning of superposition and decoherence. In a quantized-time model, superposition is no longer a physically coexisting computational substrate; it is a potential state that exists between discrete ticks of time. Decoherence is no longer a gradual dynamical process, it is the unavoidable result of a time tick itself: a measurement. Under those conditions, the current mathematical framework is not incomplete; it is invalid if time is discrete.

That would imply physics is misidentifying what it is observing. What is being called a “logical qubit” is not a stable substrate existing across time, but a description of unresolved potential under an assumed continuous-time model. The substrate itself is not physically real in the sense required for computation, it is inferred.

If you genuinely believe computation can be performed on unresolved states across time, then go do it on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin already gives you everything a “logical qubit” is supposed to provide: a globally defined state space, unresolved states that persist across discrete ticks of time, strict non-contradiction rules, and a clear measurement event that collapses possibilities into a single outcome. The mempool is full of fully specified, mutually exclusive state transitions that remain unresolved across blocks. They are public, conserved, and enforced by consensus.

So if superposition is a real computational substrate, stop theorizing about it in sealed labs and error models. Compute on Bitcoin. Use UTXOs. Use the mempool. Demonstrate interference, phase manipulation, or speedup in a system where the states are observable and the rules are fixed.

Only then does the problem become obvious: nothing “computes” in the way quantum computing claims, because unresolved states across discrete time do not form a substrate, they form potential. Resolution only occurs at measurement, and measurement is irreversible. That’s not a limitation of Bitcoin; it’s a property of time itself. If you don’t understand Bitcoin physically, you don’t understand time at all.

Bitcoin doesn’t just meet the criteria for a “logical qubit”, it exposes why the concept collapses once you demand an open, verifiable system.

So is Bitcoin not evidence of quantized time to you? If not, what exactly is a block?

If continuous time were fundamental, why do non-contradiction (no double spend), state validity, and finality require discrete blocks? Why does Bitcoins fundamentals collapse unless time advances in indivisible steps?

Either discrete time is essential to preserving consistency, or continuous time is doing no real work here. Which is it?

That is literally the axiom you are relying on here.

This is inaccurate. The Pfizer Covid vaccines underwent a fairly large double blind placebo controlled trial. The original polio vaccine was a massive trial where the control group got saline and got sick/died and the vaccinated group did not.

The irony of this comment is that the studies of vaccine injury are always retrospectives. There are no double blind placebo controlled studies that the antivaxers can use to prove injury or lack of effectiveness or secret 5g brain control or whatever.

A broad retrospective study cannot refute a randomized, placebo controlled trial. And its the exact sort of study that is very easy to manipulate.

There are actually companies that do this as a marketing tool. They literally design retrospectives to give or present certain results from the outset.

If you think you have proven something by pointing to a retrospective study and think this means we can just never do the actual placebo controlled trails (or ignore their results). Then you are explicitly rejecting good science because bad science justifies your bias.

They all say that, until they don’t

In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance. You must research this well.

Miyamoto Musashi

What’s the Musashi combat stance, anyone want to demonstrate?

#asknostr

I wonder if he thinks about how many reached the same fate because they initially took his advice on taking the jab

Did you see a lot of fish?

The inability for boomers and a lot of Gen X to completely miss the mark as to why Groypers are on the rise is the epitome of irony

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.

Does the debate come down to: which will be a bigger node constraint over time, RAM or disk storage?

critical thinking takes a lot of energy and brain capacity. If you say complicated then it is. Power is nor bad nor good. How it is use and who wields it that matters.

It works so-so? You must either live under rock or dare I say privalaged. How did you find NOSTR?

WTF?!!! What does it mean "Buy Satoshi Nakamoto"??!

Is the price correct?? #asknostr

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The count seems to be done only on the red square.

I have an econ question for nostr.

In Bretton Woods the dollar was pegged to gold and all other currencies pegged to the dollar because other countries aka. Germany, France and Britain did not have enough Gold for Mark, Franc and Pound to be backed by Gold. At least thats what I think I understood.

Why is the amount important? - lower Gold reserves lead to lower prices in poor countries. Trade advantages will rush the gold in. Naturally inflation will do the trick.

Or is it a lack of capital. I can't wrap my head around this.

#asknostr #macro #economics

I have an econ question for nostr.

In Bretton Woods the dollar was pegged to gold and all other currencies pegged to the dollar because other countries aka. Germany, France and Britain did not have enough Gold for Mark, Franc and Pound to be backed by Gold. At least thats what I think I understood.

Why is the amount important? - lower Gold reserves lead to lower prices in poor countries. Trade advantages will rush the gold in. Naturally inflation will do the trick.

Or is it a lack of capital. I can't wrap my head around this.

#asknostr #macro #economics

Not really. If the US banned bitcoin there are plenty of other digital or fiat coins that could take its place, especially if the US introduced a CBDC. How many people would be talking about it as viable if it lost 99.99% of its value

Yeah that matters because?

Ive been thinking about the next Awakening period, and what about society my grandkids will reject because they see it as mundane and soulless.. im currently thinking itll be AI and robotics.. people will have robots and computers doing things for them and making them rich but there will be mindlessness and many things will become empty and remove peoples usefulness in society.. I think it'll be a push for humanity and a call for people to use people and human-made goods.. probably another push for communism a la 1960s or 1970s... maybe people throwing out their computers and phones en masses. I'll be interesting to look back and see if this plays out or if something else comes up that I can't see now... any thoughts?

#nostr #nostriches #asknostr #plebs #plebchain #grownostr #thefourthturning #famiky #history #homeschooling #4thturning

He said he will send them back to the country they came from. So yes he mean that it's the illegals that being paid to go to this protests.

He also said the American students who are at these protests will be expelled depending on which crime they commit at the protests. Since many of them are breaking and bruning down things that's a crime.

The universe also allowing these type of things on the campus and they are receiving government money. If the universities don't clean up their act they will stop getting money.