if i listened to every person on the internet who told me not to do shit i would never get anything done

With verification, we can recognize them as memories of The Other 🤔

So long as they're useful, isn't detrimental to us having vivid fake memories + awareness that they aren't __yours__ through verification, would there be a problem?

The utxoset size is *permanent* it can’t be pruned like other block data unless you consolidate the spend into a smaller set of utxos

basically think of them as a coin purse where if you put two coins in, the only way to shrink the bag is to spend to coins with no change.

JPEGs in witness data means that they will likely be unspendable, meaning that there is a permanent storage increase requirement on all nodes. But they are no provably unspendable so you can’t discard them from the coin purse. This is really bad.

OP_RETURNs are *provably* unspendable, meaning they can be ignored from the utxoset perspective (never goes in the coin purse)

By trying to stop both witness jpegs and large OP_RETURN pushes, it will push people to do even worse things like large multisigs that stores data in the signatures. This is how the whitepaper is permanently stored in the utxoset. This is even worse for utxo bloat.

At this point the censor proponents would say well thats not economically viable… but none of these methods really is. Some are cheaper than others, sure, but overall it’s still the most expensive data storage out there. People have to burn the hardest money on the planet if they want to play stupid games.

The point is people are going to store data anyway, the *least bad* is OP_RETURN, because it minimizes the *permanent* storage burden on pruned nodes.

Which way, Western man? Lolbertarians would prefer to allow degens to poop in the park bc "muh cOnsTiTooshun" and "muh hUmAn rights". We live in a society (for now)

Launch Lancaster 2025 Post Mortem.

At the recent Launch Music Festival, a volunteer initiative successfully introduced musicians to Bitcoin, Nostr, and #value4value resulting in participating artists earning almost 1M sats over three days. Musicians enthusiastically embraced these decentralized technologies, recognizing them as a solution to the failings of the current digital music industry. However, the on-boarding process highlighted significant UX issues with our apps of choice. Resolving these app issues is essential for effective on-boarding, with an ideal future event involving sponsors providing vouchers to all attendees to encourage hands-on Bitcoin transactions and demonstrate V4V, especially as the Launch conference plans to integrate V4V more broadly, presenting a large opportunity for further adoption.

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Check it out!

It creates actual keys and publishes the intro note

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Sometimes, as a man, you just need to bore some holes.

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"Critics are correct that there is no ironclad guarantee that every piece of data will always be available. Unlike bitcoin where data permanence is baked into the system at a steep cost, nostr does not promise that every random note or meme will be preserved forever. That said, in practice, any data perceived as valuable by someone will likely be stored and distributed by multiple entities. If something matters to someone, they will keep a signed copy."

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Hearing lots of stories from post-graduate Brazilians having their social media scrutinized during the tourist VISA interview (to come for conferences and such) and being questioned on the use of words like "vaccines", "black community" or that previously criticized this administration, and getting eventually rejected.

Similarly, US researchers applying for grants have received guidance to replace words commonly associated with the left with abbreviations or alternative spellings to avoid triggering keyword search and immediate rejection.

"It looks like the [brazilian, 1960-1984] dictatorship all over again. What they don't know is that we spent 20 years communicating what could not be said out loud. Controlling speech doesn't work."