You never have "all" the facts, and in fact you have none of them absolutely (except the fact that you exist, and all of Plato's heaven which are disputably not really facts but math). Nonetheless, you should be aware of why you believe what you believe, and you should be capable of reevaluating what you believe when new facts come to the table. But if you can't hold that much self-reflective information about yourself, what you are likely to do instead is make up a story to fill in the gaps, and forget how the story was originally constructed with a bunch of made-up stuff. And so you have no capability to re-evaluate the story when new facts come in because you aren't even aware of which part of the story was factual and which part was just pasted in to make a complete story. It takes more brain power, more sugar (or ketones) to do it right, and I assert that most people don't spend that much sugar/ketones, and then it becomes very difficult to argue with them because they have such (Dunning Krueger) certainty about their pre-conceived falsehoods and no inclination to point you at how they know it... they just "know it" (but they don't).

It has come to our attention that some of you seem to believe that "hiding an unhosted wallet in your brain" will protect you or your Bitcoin from government overreach. That unhosted wallet wont do you any good if you run into a bus or accidently fall out of an aircraft.

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Dumb people, when they don't have all the facts, they make shit up to fill in the gaps. And then they forget that they made it up, they believe it as if it was true, never re-evaluating why they believe what they beileve, never checking to see if that actually is the correct explanation, never reevaluating the parsimony of it all.

Piers Morgan is a good example.

Bond market = Seagulls nostr:note1q4hmt9frm0h5g3vayhp0gfkcrmakpe5dcatse4uz7890xxtht4us3knm72

I think she made her points well

The bond market used to be the smart money, and despite the fact that the era of that is long over, it still rides on that reputation.

And mainly why it is over is that it’s just too damn big. The sheer amount of supply outstanding, and the sheer amount of supply coming to market every month, means that even the smart bond trader hedge funds who can forecast and position for things aren’t big enough to move the market much. Instead the bond market is a titan that moves in real time based on flows. The bond market is a laggard now, not a forecaster.

They’re all seagulls at this point.

What is it for you? If you wanna support crypto and freedom, that's the way forward.

Correct. Being illegal never stopped anyone who wanted drugs or anything else.

Black markets absolutely thrive under that kind of environment. Black markets under iron fisted rule of communist nations, that had the harshest of punishments, are some of the most prolific and well known in history. Yes, let's not hope it gets to that point, but it would make black markets more, not less, popular.

You mean crypto usage? It's the only place aside from maybe private international transfers.

I don't know what you mean by mass adoption, but the black market is already big enough IMO

If the black market grows enough, mass adoption is possible.

At the moment crypto is too hard to use for most people who just wanna order a small amount of bud.

I never said a word about mass adoption...

I agree with you though about your last part. Ironically the better things are the less need there is for crypto. The harder the state squeezes the more transactions spill over to black markets and truly permissionless crypto.

if you could wave a magic wand to help nostr succeed faster, what would you want to see done?