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#Bitcoin #LightningNetwork ecologist and builder of tools at https://sparkseer.space formerly https://lnnodeinsight.com

Working on a manuscript submission to a scientific journal recently. Their website is full of statements about how submissions must adhere to "their principles" of open acces, open source, transparency in funding and conflicts of interest, and on and on.

At the end of all that, they're happy to charge me $4000 USD just for the privilege of hosting my paper and telling me it's "quality research published in their prestigious journal". They do none of the funding, none of the research, none of the peer review, none of the advocacy. They pidgeon-hole me into using expensive, closed-source, soul-sucking software for writing such that institutions literally have no choice but to be captured. They display my work in ways that are no more innovative than print.

The parasitic monopoly of scientific publishing is overripe for disruption by something superior like #nostr.

Strange that Ripple didn't say anything about this sooner? Seems to me like they would have loved the PR to shit on a bitcoin company.

Tried to read this article but had an 'subscribe by email' pop-up shoved in my face preventing me from reading.

Just turn on 'Reader' mode in Firefox or something and you can just bypass it.

Many living things have evolved together in deep relationships over time. I'm interested in how those relationships have changed their DNA.

Everyone is telling me price is down and not to check.

I'm just going to check it now and get it out of the way.

#nostr is where you find people screaming at the top of their lungs about the risks--and how to manage those risks--of using a mint, be it #cashu or other.

Contrast that with the cryptocurrency industry where the rugpull is meant to be a secret.