we take privacy very seriously!

emails are encrypted upon receipt (similar to how proton does it), using NIP-44 to the user's npub

Haskell is only used by mathematicians and academic elites who want to feel superior, change my mind :)

I'd eat it, with some barbecue sauce, but then ask them to cook it a little less next time

And yet Europe keeps pretending it "respects" privacy, because companies have to put up cookie banners and respect GDPR, because you see, these superficial measures create an illusion of control while the fundamental privacy issues remain unaddressed. But when it comes to real privacy, no that's just for criminals and terrorists, according to the narrative pushed by authorities.

Europe is not free, the united states is not free, china is not free, no major nation truly protects the fundamental right to privacy in the digital age, and citizens worldwide face increasing surveillance under the guise of security.

If we want freedom, we're gonna have to create our own, because governments and corporations have proven they cannot be trusted. It is our moral duty as developers and builders to ignore draconian laws such as encryption backdoors and instead build systems that genuinely protect user privacy by design.

WE need to start having a moral conscience, because in this digital age, we have the ultimate power to shape society, not governments or corporations. The tools we build determine the world people live in. When lawmakers demand backdoors into encrypted communications or pass legislation like Chat Control, they're asking us to be complicit in mass surveillance.

But here's the truth: we have far more power than we realize. Throughout history, unjust laws have been resisted, circumvented, and ultimately defeated. The digital realm gives us unprecedented leverage. Code doesn't recognize borders or bow to authority. It follows only the rules we write into it.

When we build truly secure systems—end-to-end encrypted, open-source, decentralized—we create spaces beyond the reach of surveillance. When we design with privacy as a foundational principle rather than an afterthought, we protect fundamental human rights.

Remember that laws follow society, not the other way around.

Im grateful when i see that because it tells me that those websites aren't worth my time

I was into Bitcoin in 2011-2012 and I got paid in bitcoin to help someone with fixing some bug on a forum. It was more than 10 BTC. I spent some of it on buying some video game I don't even remember and the rest... Well I was an idiot and I formatted the drive with the wallet and I didn't write down any recovery key (in fact I don't think seed phrases even existed back then, or at least weren't widely used).

I didn't get back into bitcoin until the last few years ago

Nostr fixes this. Unless for some reason you leak your key, even if the video generation improves 100x, it will be extremely easy to prove what's really something you said and what isn't

and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why we need a decentralized (nostr-based), uncensorable, encypted, open source, communication platform, because unless it's all of those things, there is no real security, and there CANNOT be

bitwarden is FOSS, worst case scenario you can migrate the key to a different application

Its funny because if you think about it, it's true

People today think privacy is something new we need to figure out. But privacy is our natural state. A child knows how to keep secrets before they learn to talk. A teenager finds hidden places to write in their diary without being taught. It's surveillance that's unnatural. It's constant connection that strains the human spirit

This idea could change the world, more than nostr alone could, it's absolutely brilliant, yes, it's needed

Dev is truly painful sometimes, spent 1 hour figuring out why a custom built relay didn't return the correct events given a query, turns out I literally had a 0 instead of a 1 in a long sql query

You can always say GM, because it's always a GM somewhere on earth!

Didn't mean to make it sound religious. All I was trying to get at is that I don't know what the best way is, I just know that where we are now is not it. As for the government being the only thing that can keep companies at bay, I disagree.

The government is just another monopoly, one that we have given supreme power to. I honestly think that the average person, like you and I, need to do our part by holding companies accountable and by competing with them on their playing field.

I don't know; I think it might just be one of the things that we, as people living in this fallen world, have to be contempt with and there is no true solution. but at the same time, I think that right now the pendulum has swung too much towards the statist side, and I think that the closer we are to the freedom-loving side, the better off we are.

At the end of the day, what I think is that we all are in a way responsible for everything; we are responsible for not keeping corporations in check, and we are responsible for not rebelling against the government when they get too much power.

We are responsible for bowing down to the silver spoon and for thinking their powers are real and now we are too deep into it to change it

nostr:naddr1qq25usecw985gn332e2y2cmsvff8q5tndfkx6qg3waehxw309ahx7um5wghxcctwvshsygrxvag43e3n3l5flkjp3ep2p0e20g43xfgym5687q26rzt3kezyxqpsgqqqw4rspzrmvv

kagi to the rescue again: (same model, but less censored)

https://kagi.com/assistant/f4145ad8-15e7-402e-95e0-87de56f825ab

How free should the market be is an interesting question because I don't think I can easily answer it, as free as possible is the best answer I can honestly come up with and it's not one I like because it doesn't answer the question really haha

I don't believe in government oversight whatsoever, I think that the government has caused most of the problems in our society, whether directly or indirectly.

So in my opinion a "perfect" (and likely unobtainable) world have no government oversight over corporations, but would also only have small companies (with maybe 10, max 20 employees) that act at the local level and the customers actually hold them accountable to what they do at a societal level.

There would be no law dictating open sourcing code, not a mandate requiring companies to respect users privacy or be ethical, nor a law dictating that a company is not allowed to change the terms of the sale afterwards, or anything of the sort, rather, companies that did that would be shamed by their customers and would have direct financial losses.

However, acknowledging current market realities, some degree of governmental oversight may serve as a necessary transitional mechanism until we develop a more mature consumer culture - one where customers actively demand corporate responsibility and support businesses that align with their values and operate at a human scale.

are RoboSats and BISQ not an option for you?

otherwise why not just use bitrefill for most of your fiat expenses?

Completely agree with you on Nostr being awesome 😀!

You know, "capitalism" itself was actually a term invented by socialists - specifically Karl Marx and other 19th century critics - to describe and criticize the market system. Before that, people just called it commerce, trade, or the market economy. It was simply how humans naturally organized themselves when left free to trade and create value.

Being protective and hoarding capital - is, in my opinion, actually more like mercantilism or crony capitalism. The fact that modern corporations (Big Tech, Big Pharma etc) try to lock everything down isn't "real capitalism" - it's a distortion of markets often enabled by state intervention through things like overly restrictive IP laws.

Think about how markets worked before modern corporations and IP law - craftsmen shared techniques, improved on each other's work, and competed on execution rather than artificial scarcity. That's what open source represents - a return to more natural market dynamics that existed before we even had a word for "capitalism".

So in a way I feel like we may be talking about the same thing, but using different words

Welcome to Nostr

I understand what you said, but I still, respectfully, disagree. Open source software is neither inherently socialist nor opposed to private property - it actually represents a different model of property rights and value creation that can coexist with capitalist real markets.

Open source is actually a prime example of free market capitalism at work, where value is created through voluntary collaboration and exchange.

Think about it like Bitcoin - you get how decentralized systems can enable real free market activity, right? Open source is the same thing. It's actual capitalism - people and companies freely choosing to collaborate because it benefits them, not because some authority forces them to.

The mistake is thinking that real capitalism means locking everything down. That's just crony capitalism - the kind that needs government-enforced monopolies to survive.

Open Source is not anti-capitalistic at all, just look at nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqypu8xwr40lp96ewdj2fef408wy70gd3carf9n6xu7hrnhq6whpgly925h0z and FUTO, but it is against people lying, changing their terms of service without notice, collecting data without consent, and generally being unethical

honestly nostr:nprofile1qqsrgyzdaheuckfksqkgxz9r6qys72zh6j46f69hyzkv4a4j4vzfj6gprkucd is one of the few services I don't mind paying a subscription for, they keep improving and improving their product, I'm so excited to see how much it's gonna improve in a year

To be fair it is more flakey than bolt11 right now because it's still not used by every node, but yeah didn't even feel the need to rebutt that, you're absolutely correct

I'm done arguing, need to get some sleep

I recommend you to take a look at:

- the bolt11 specification https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/11-payment-encoding.md

- bolt01 https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/01-messaging.md

- bolt04 https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/04-onion-routing.md

- bolt07 https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/07-routing-gossip.md

- bolt08 https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/08-transport.md

- https://www.bolt11.org/ paste in an invoice and look at how it works

bolt12 is only an **additional** privacy layer to what's already provided by the specification I linked you

hey if monero works for you keep using monero, nobody's stopping you, you're a sovereign individual like all of us 😉