I doubt that #Bitcoin and #Nostr will break all cycles. Maybe it will introduce its 4-year cycle into all of humanity, so we only get 1-2 bad years before the next good ones, instead of entire generations having a bad time 😄

It sucks that without adversity to drive us, by default we let stuff go to hell in a handbasket.

The idea of culture is good, but I feel that focusing on individual potential is pretty much what the western world has done, still leading us to where we are today

How can we avoid the "good times create weak men" turning next time around?

#asknostr

I use it to vet a profile, i.e. seeing someone's posts to decide whether I want to follow them or not. I mainly see whether I find their past 10-20 posts interesting, and I check that they don't post too many posts per day.

The "flippening" is unlikely, but promising that it can't happen is a bad strategy. Who knows what prices will do in the future? If I was in charge of discrediting #Bitcoin and had access to an unlimited fiat printer, one strategy that I might consider is buying up loads of ETH to boost the captured chain and make #Bitcoin look bad. We just know that 1 BTC = 1 BTC, stay humble stack sats

Don't think so... I doubt that the "then they fight you" stage has even begun in earnest yet

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"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

Alice is a Bitcoiner, the Red Queen is Chair of the Fed

#Bitcoin #nostrbookclub

I bet more than 50% of people don't know what 'fiat' means. The echo chamber is strong

gm, thanks for 'The Mandibles' recommendation

Have you ever witnessed a kangaroo court proceeding first hand?

#asknostr

The meta-pattern is that noticing patterns tends to get accused of being bigoted or otherwise morally reprehensible.

Since noticing patterns is key in science, I am expecting science itself to soon be branded as an evil instrument.

what, no agile?

LND or CLN?

💀

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I guess this requires buy-in mainly from clients, to handle the two-step logic of notification -> content

Good to know, thanks!

Today's #nostr idea:

Notification-only relays

If we think about the ultimate decentralized version of Nostr, it would be that everyone runs their own relay to host their own notes.

That would pose a scaling issue, because if you follow 1000 npubs, you have to check 1000 relays to stay up to date.

What if we had some shared relays (notification-only relays), containing only notifications that an npub has posted something, but not the content. So it's just a signal that if you are following them you should go get the new stuff from their personal relay. Running such a notification-only shared relay would have a much lower liability than running a "full" shared relay, because you don't host actual content, and you would also have reduced storage requirements because no content.

Apologies if this is a dumb idea, just throwing this out there

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Why not use it now? Why wait until SHA-256 is broken? If we use it now, it feeds into the accumulated PoW.

Right, so they improve your security by doing some vetting of drivers, and they improve the drivers' security by doing kyc on passengers?

Stupid question: why is there no decentralized version of Uber yet?