Hmm. Maybe we could use our private keys to prove identity to a relay, and then relays could use reputation to rate limit
It is better to build than to receive
An engineer's work isn't done until the job doesn't exist anymore.
This happens a lot when working on hard problems. People have different understandings of where things are, how they used to be, what was encountered, what was overcome, what remains, who is working on what, how likely they are to succeed, how long it will take, what comes after that, and when it will be useful in a particular case. Newcomers have fresh energy and naive expectations, the old guard has endurance and knowledge but is jaded by lingering issues.
The trouble is when people who understand the situation lose hope that progress will be made. Their criticisms are public and genuine, but the understanding that similar problems have been encountered and overcome isn't part of them. This turns away the newcomers who see impassable obstacles, and they go off to attempt a different solution that drains energy from the original attempt, but eventually ends up running into other, similar issues.
The best approach seems to be to openly acknowledge the criticisms, and invite people to be part of the solution. Acknowledging your current flaws is harder when you have shiny, confident marketing, but easier when your brand is a weird, trippy, animated cube.
Embrace the weird and build the hard things. No one is bothered that Apple came from blue boxing, or that Google's original servers sat in Lego racks. Haters gonna hate, but history doesn't remember them...
Hack the Planet
From what I've seen it increases the treatment of custodial services as financial providers. It doesn't expand the definition of financial providers, and there isn't any new regulation on the self-custody wallets themselves. I think it creates a KYC'd classification of "verified" self-custody wallets, which suggests that there are powerful people who want to use Bitcoin for high value transactions without being asked questions, which sounds like Bitcoin winning to me. Note that they say "verified" and not "identified".
Even people's problems are often imaginary. It ain't easy
Is there a relay that's also a relay proxy? Like, I throw the relay some sats and it opens those 100 websockets with appropriate filters. Maybe also a blastr? fan in: left hand. fan out: right hand. Fan in... fan out... fan in...
The only real problem is getting people to care
It's true when you use it to make a hypothesis, run an experiment, and get confirming results.
It’s a high profile eminent domain case, so you’ll probably need more representation than usual: https://truthout.org/articles/this-rural-black-community-is-at-war-with-a-private-railroad-company/
Come for the BTC, stay for the ImageGen #SnowCrash 
i can’t believe i’m agreeing with pmarca https://www.wsj.com/articles/should-ai-be-open-source-behind-the-tweetstorm-over-its-dangers-65aa5c97
"Even a stopped clock". And there's nothing *forcing* him to make poor choices.
They're *never* around. Who's running this circus
Not as easy as it sounds
Because you'll be billed on the 29th of every February
SOS all morning... A reminder to look into Ham radio.