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Hi everyone. Who thinks we will have a growth spurt in the next few years? As people get censored more on mainstream social media, they will find their way here, and other platforms that will be made.

The rate of expansion of all this technology feels like it’s hit another milestone in its exponential expansion.

Happy Tuesday, Sept 19th

A look at what I’m always working on

Oops I don’t think it had uploaded yet when I posted. Note to self wait for full upload… ✌️ https://video.nostr.build/93ef16253273f8b8610c0f7f36fa76518e0163d8c7383ae85c87b8fdf91f1ab4.mov

Just realized I can download videos from the farm page.

Zap Reddit exploring

It always feels like a race to stack up as much as possible before the next run starts.

With BRICS forming and 20+ countries leaving with them. It’s around the corner one way or another. This is global economic currency warfare.

#HODL bitcoin in cold storage wallets in set verifiable amounts. It’s possible to make ‘cash’ payments too…

Takes a lot of time and dedication to build from scratch. I can’t thank nostr:npub1unlcxwrzunxa3qdc52jfk8sqv8tyc46exrxzs4rg4e7vm3ekq48qqw9l79 enough for what’s been accomplished so far. Not quite live yet, but getting there. There is just never enough time, money and cannabis lol

This will be incredible once running, Bitcoin node, relay, hosting…. Big shout to the #Nostr community for opening my eyes into this world of decentralization (already knew) but #Nostr further fuels my fire to succeed!

#TCTstr #Nostr #GrowNostr #PlebChain #Weedstr #BitcoinNode #Zap #Zapp

Glad to see I’m not alone in my interest in cannabis and decentralization.

I agree with this. Humans are not prepared to live like this and be content with life without assistance. This is why they have been talking about creating custom chemical cocktails to cure depression. It’s a step towards plugging into the matrix, just watching it begin to play out in our lifetimes. I hope not. I want to see more Communities of free minded individuals with their feet in the grass nostr:note199mvfzmfga0y5ah72g8nr6aqt0znulatf3mz4l4eqjmdc9y07vms9sym4d

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

“We should change Bitcoin now in a contentious way to fix the security budget” is basically the same tinkering mentality that central bankers have.

It begins with an overconfident assumption that they know fees won’t be sufficient in the future and that a certain “fix” is going to generate more fees. But some “fixes” could even backfire and create less fees, or introduce bugs, or damage the incentive structure.

The Bitcoin fee market a couple decades out will primarily be a function of adoption or lack thereof. In a world of eight billion people, only a couple hundred million can do an on chain transaction per year, or a bit more with maximal batching. The number of people who could do a monthly transaction is 1/12th of that number. In order to be concerned that bitcoin fees will be too low to prevent censorship in the future, we have to start with the assumption that not many people use bitcoin decades out.

Fedwire has about 100x the gross volume that Bitcoin currently does, with a similar number of transactions. What will Bitcoin’s fee market be if volumes go up 5x or 10x, let alone 50x or 100x? Who wants to raise their hand with a confident model of what bitcoin volumes will be in 2040?

What will someone pay to send a ten million dollar equivalent on chain settlement internationally? $100 in fees per million dollar settlement transaction would be .01%. $300 to get it in a quicker block would be 0.03%. That type of environment can generate tens of billions of dollars of fees annually. The fees that people pay to ship millions of dollars of gold long distances, or to perform a real estate transaction worth millions of dollars, are extremely high. Even if bitcoin is a fraction of that, it would be high by today’s standards. And in a world of billions of people, if nobody wants to pay $100 to send a million dollar settlement bearer asset transaction, then that’s a world where not many people use bitcoin period.

In some months the “security budget” concern trends. In other months, the “fees will be so high that only rich people can transact on chain” concern trends. These are so wildly contradictory and the fact that both are common concerns shows how little we know about the long term future.

I don’t think the fee market can be fixed by gimmicks. Either the network is desirable to use in a couple decades or it’s not. If 3 or 4 decades into bitcoin’s life it can’t generate significant settlement volumes, and gets easily censored due to low fees, then it’s just not a very desirable network at that point for one reason or another.

Some soft forks like covenants can be thoughtfully considered for scaling and fee density, and it’s good for smart developers to always be thinking about low risk improvements to the network that the node network and miners might have a high consensus positive view toward over time. But trying to rush VC-backed softforks, and using security budget FUD to push them, is pretty disingenuous imo.

Anyway, good morning.

It's crucial to have a stalwart in the crypto space that understands the balance between fees and transaction volume. While fees are necessary to support the network, they should not discourage transactions excessively. It's encouraging to see the markets slowly realizing this, especially considering the inflationary pressures affecting traditional economies worldwide. Some governments are already ahead of the curve by mining and stockpiling digital assets.

The key point is that increasing transaction volume will take time, but eventually, we will reach a tipping point. It's important for Bitcoin to resist being politicized and used as a tool to advance specific agendas. However, we have already witnessed attempts to tax Bitcoin, citing energy usage, despite it being more energy-efficient than traditional systems. Those in power will fight to maintain control, but the resilience of Bitcoin will be continue to be evident.

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