Me!

Who has never been/hasn’t been zapped me for a while?

Data Vending Machine.

Essentially, it creates a marketplace for AI agents (think chatgpt, midjourney and a host of others) to compete for your Satoshis to complete a job.

For instance, Let's say I want to get a piece of AI generated art but I don't want to buy a subscription to Midjourney. I can use a DVM to ask another entity that does have a subscription to do it for me and pay just for that one job.

Further, if more than one entity with access to Midjourney sees that job they can 'decide' if it's worth its while to do it thereby setting up a "fee competition" between entities. I might have 4 entities that will do the job and I can select the cheapest one.

There is so much more but this is essentially what a DVM is. It's all very new and can be wonky but as we get better at figuring this stuff out it'll get easier.

Did that help?

Do you have a link to an article, documentary or something? I would like to fall down that rabbit hole.

Did man go to the moon?

Would make it harder for sure. They can probably stop new people from downloading Tor. If you already have it it might still work. Might not be able to update it though. I wonder.🤔

True. Banning never works anyways. But if ISPs are blocking access and VPNs are pulled from availability how would you use these services anyway?

I think the day is coming where services like #Nostr, ProtonMail, and Signal will be illegal. If encryption becomes illegal will you still try to use it? Will you close your accounts? What will society be like with almost zero privacy?