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Replying to Avatar miljan

nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev reported some issues with the Primal web client. Are other people running into these issues too? We need more info so that we can reproduce and fix them. Thanks!

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I started writing a reply, then Primal suddenly refreshed the page and now my message is gone.

So I'll make it short this time: your client is asking me to sign a "Sync app settings" event every 30 seconds or so. I will not give your client a blank cheque.

Replying to Avatar Dylan LeClair

Bitcoin Accelerationism.

Bicoin Accelerationism embodies all that Effective Accelerationism (e/acc) represents, yet it posits that Bitcoin is crucial in ushering in this future. Let’s explore:

First, let’s break down what e/acc stands for, and why bitcoin is inevitably intertwined in this technological movement.

Effective Accelerationism posits that the universe inherently aims to optimize itself, constantly expanding and evolving. This expansion is seen as an unstoppable force, with the future always building upon and surpassing the present, and the main driver of this is ‘techno-capital’. Said more simply, ‘techno-capital’ is the force which will change/fix the world.

Now, let’s turn to bitcoin:

Similar to AI, bitcoin mining faces never ending scrutiny regarding its “energy use”. In reality, mining serves as a pivotal tool for energy grid load-balancing and waste energy mitigation. It's one of the only consumers of energy that can power off on a moments notice entirely subject to market demand.

By empowering location agnostic energy monetization while enforcing ever increasing efficiency through the difficulty adjustment, bitcoin mining doesn't waste energy, but rather consumes energy waste. With the brutal reality of continuously rising network hash rate subsequently increasing mining difficulty, inefficient operators are driven out via market forces, while the increased difficulty simultaneously reinforces the asset’s supply inelasticity and programmatically increasing marginal cost of production.

The significance? There is now a global opportunity cost for energy waste that exists anywhere found by satellite signal, thereby directly incentivizing and quantifying the chase of Moore's Law AND the ascent of the Kardashev scale.

Bitcoin adheres to e/acc principles, and metaphorically aligns with the natural order and thermodynamic laws, by adeptly transforming forms of energy into an immutable ledger of subjective value.

Its 21,000,000 capped supply mirrors the finite energy in closed systems, a nod to the conservation law. Bitcoin mining, which channels raw energy into computation, goes to securing and extending property rights to $800b of pseudonymous global wealth. The process of elegantly converting energy in any form into an immutable ledger of absolute monetary scarcity brings about order from entropy.

Do not shy away from energy production nor energy consumption. Bitcoin's Proof of Work is not a weakness, but an absolute source of strength. Lean in.

As a store of value, bitcoin epitomizes a free market for capital, underpinned by the energy securing it, SHA-256 cryptography, and a global consensus of distributed nodes, each user acting in their own self-interest. The key principle is that value is not derived by decree, but rather subjectively by self preserving individuals through economic incentives.

As a unit of account, bitcoin is the ruler against which the vast technological gains of past and future decades will be quantified and measured against most accurately, given its attributes and free market emergence.

In contrast, political currency, issued by increasingly corrupted institutions, will continue to devalue against everything we hold dear; fundamentally incompatible with a future where AI brings about abundance through the reduction in the cost of everyday services.

This contrast between two opposing forces has never been more evident, with tech advances accelerating by day while the issuance of additional political currency aims to offset said deflationary gains to keep an evermore fragile and faltering system of debt and IOUs from collapsing under its own weight.

As censorship-resistant money, bitcoin is pivotal for a future where censorship and surveillance by the state and/or techno-monopolies are more powerful and potentially oppressive than ever.

As a bearer asset, bitcoin stands out as one of the few possessions that can be truly owned in a digital native world riddled with third party custodians and counterparties. Possession can be custodied literally in one's mind, not as the liability of a captured and corrupted institution operating under the long-reach of the state.

Lastly, it is an inevitable reality that all monetary mediums compete in perpetuity, and the Darwinian process of a free market monetary medium monetizing from scratch, not by decree but by free market forces, has only occurred successfully a rare few times in human history, and never with the speed or global scale currently underway.

Bitcoin Accelerationism is an acknowledgment of this all; the growing surveillance apparatus of the state, the attempt to restrict and reduce global energy production/consumption, and the precarious position of the global political currency experiment that threatens to undermine the past and present gains brought about by technological innovation. In e/acc terms, bitcoin is THE capital in ‘techno-capital’.

In a world where the very medium in which we store our time, labor, and value is led by individuals more interested in looting the coffers than in the long-term health or vitality of our society, it’s time to lean in.

Bitcoin Accelerationism is about embracing this reality. No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.

We will not apologize, reconsider, slow down, or reverse course. Instead,

ACCELERATE.

In relation to this, I have a project that might interest you.

How can we get in contact?

The transition will be more gradual than you think.

Replying to Avatar Russo

Já não tenho paciência sequer para ficar calado depois desta, se alguém me fizer mal tou me a cagar, que vou mais cedo ter com o meu verdadeiro pai que é Deus, porque o que me pos no mundo só é meu Progenitor até corrigir o erro de merda que ele fez no dia 23/08/2022 que foi quando me internou por uma coisa que eu não tinha para controlar os ativos da minha mãe através da minha irmã, mas eu vou pa Madeira e quando eu tiver o meu negócio lá montado eu levo a minha mãe para a minha beira e abdico da merda da herança que a minha irmã tanto quer toda para ela, eu tou me a cagar para dinheiro porque eu nasci na família mais poderosa de Guimarães, e dinheiro nunca me faltou.

Mas eu sou o único da família que se safa sozinho mesmo com a minha imagem queimada, porque naquilo que eu faço não há ninguém melhor do que eu.

Puta que pariu a merda do dinheiro, eu nunca tive ganância e é isso que me dá apetência para ir buscar o meu sozinho, e quem faz 50000€ aos 21 sozinho não precisa de dinheiro de ninguém para fazer a sua vida, eu só me arrependo de não ter enfiado os 50k no Bitcoin porque a esta hora eu tinha 5 Milhões na conta e já estava a passear o mundo com a minha mãe.

Eu devo tudo o que sei aos meus pais mas só a minha mãe acreditou em mim desde o primeiro dia, e o passatempo preferido da minha irmã é me foder a vida para não curar a minha mãe.

Desculpem o desabafo, mas esta merda tem que ficar escrita aqui, que assim quem descobrir isto vai saber em quem não votar quando ouvir o mesmo sobrenome do que eu a concorrer ao quer com alguém a dar uma mãozinha.

Sinto muito.

Força, tu vais te dar bem.

Oh, of course, impossible to disagree with your comment. I was just adding on top of it, that maybe people should leave the core of the protocol as it is, stop innovating on it, except for critical issues, and then everything else happens on higher level layers.

For example Primal's cache service, that's a good example.

Bunch of nerds. Count me in.

Yes, the shirt doesn't matter. The point is that people like the tech. And that's OK.

I assume Pablo doesn't like it. And neither do I. That's OK too.

And probably this is not the moment to tell people in their face "excuse me, sir, but your tech sucks", but in the future it may happen.

Better tech means a better life for everyone, and the obsolescence of popular bad tech will be worth it.

And I'm not talking of Docker as "a problem" here, rather it's a symptom. It solves a problem that shouldn't exist in the first place. It is a consequence of many decades of bad tech.

I don't have funds to keep development going at this moment. Maybe in the future.

Yes, one nsec does all the initial job but it gives you admin rights and you can then remove the bot's key from the admin list.

So, for example, if you now tag me (this account) on a note that says "#!mirror https://some-podcast.url/feed" my instance of rsstr will create a community for that podcast and make you admin.

You can then exclude me as admin.

Not sure if satellite.earth implemented that yet, but in theory that's how it should work.

NIP-72 is the solution to so many problems!

Replying to Avatar rabble

How can we get more long form content on to Nostr? This seems like a great place for blog posts, substack style newsletters, medium like posts, etc… But it’s not so easy. The wordpress plugins for nostr do unformatted short posts with links.

We added long form markdown support to rsslay, https://github.com/planetary-social/rsslay , but rsslay has some pretty big design flaws which can’t be fixed. It doesn’t act like a normal relay, it doesn’t store anything, instead each time you request an npub it goes and redownloads the rss feed associated, creates NEW events, and provides them once to that client that requested them, and then deletes the events from memory. So if multiple people follow a feed, they’re all slowly getting different versions of the event.

I want it to be easy, nicely formatted markdown, ideally with support for the paid subscription content stuff nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft is working on.

Thoughts? Has somebody built something? RSS is probably the easiest way although lots of formatted content in rss is a mess. It needs to be something that can push to multiple relays the way mostr does. It needs to import once, and then scale with the nostr network. Users who comment on the post need to be commenting on the SAME event, not multiple versions of the event.

We’re SO SO SO close to this working, yet somehow it doesn’t.

Please take a look at https://codeberg.org/nostrdev/RSSTR

The central idea is to turn feeds into "communities".

See communities (you can take a peek at https://satellite.earth ) as decentralized "websites" with a comment section included.

It replaces youtube/reddit/etc. It all depends on the client and how you want to present that content to the user, but ultimately the "backend" is the same -- Nostr.

Docker is a nice hack, it helps in development process, etc. But it is a hack, it's not real tech. Just like most every other hyped product around.

In other words, it doesn't make me proud that I'm proficient at docker.

I don't understand, man. This is beautiful, truly beautiful.

As a musician myself, this is hard to accomplish. You got it naturally among your people.

Happy people don't get duped by war scams.

Don't let anything distract you from the beauty of life.

Or maybe he never was, idk. He gives advice to Ethereum/crypto people in general. Makes a living out of it, it seems.

Let's wait and see what his new book says when it's released.