I vote for no digital ID's and open algorithms, and while we're at it, we might as well end the fed too.
I've tried it, but never got around to updating it.
Ubuntu, but I need a new computer so I want to try a new distro.
What distro do you use?
When did Bitcoiners start giving a damn about banks?
"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts. Their massive overhead costs make micropayments impossible."
Satoshi Nakamoto
Published my take here. We are fighting hard. I think this is a sign of bad things to come from govt. they have been saying it for years. They don’t like “unhosted” wallets and they want to monitor every tx. Now they are using fake news to make it real at the banking layer. https://x.com/skwp/status/1723444038932582414?s=46&t=0SvIPQLG1ahvJgMsn53NMA
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We must continue to educate clients on other options for Bitcoin purchasing, including peer-to-peer options. That said, many clients looking to achieve sizable positions in Bitcoin will not be able to get to size using peer-to-peer exchanges. We must recognize that peer-to-peer exchanges are already regulated by FinCEN, just with very light enforcement. While we recommend Bisq (https://swanbitcoin.com/choose-bitcoin/) as a peer-to-peer option, we expect some headwinds here, especially if FinCEN starts pressing on sellers to enforce the same requirements as banks, as it has been since 2019."
Bisq allows you to sell USD paper money for botcoin over the mail.
Sell that stuff. It's the currency used for more crimes than anything else.
🚨 Today I'm launching Ontolo. 🚀
Ontolo is a super simple micro-app that will hopefully entice everyone spend a bit of time labeling other Nostr events. NIP-32, if you're not familiar, allows anyone to label/review/comment on any nostr post. It's an insanely powerful concept (thanks nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn, who wrote the NIP), but it's still pretty underused in clients.
Why would you want to have labeled events?
1. Discovery: Labeled events can be used directly by social clients–like nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 or nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg when trying to suggest content that users might like.
2. Training data: We're at the gates of the era of AI. Classification algorithms and machine learning have been pretty good to classifying content but with a training dataset they can become WAAAAAY better. Hopefully, labels in Nostr will become a public good that all clients can lean on to create their own AI models for discovery, onboarding, and a hundred other things I've not thought of.
This is an experiment, like all of them, so please hit me with your feedback. Expect more fun social features soon. 🫂 LFG!
Thanks to everyone who helped me think through this over the last few days, from Tokyo until now.
🫂 nostr:npub1t3ggcd843pnwcu6p4tcsesd02t5jx2aelpvusypu5hk0925nhauqjjl5g4 nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub1cd0l3s6qgj0s6690rtkys39mgj5upwxpm4856nhmce0pyqu6xj9qh7xlvx nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w
It's interesting. Any way to filter language?(I see a lot of characters I don't understand)
What's this all about?
Glad to hear it. If this story is half as good as your backyard brawls, I want to read it.
Yeah. Hope you're okay.
"PGP empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There has been a growing social need for it. That's why I wrote it."
- Phil Zimmermann
"Throughout the 1990s, I figured that if we want to resist this unsettling trend in the government to outlaw cryptography, one measure we can apply is to use cryptography as much as we can now while it's still legal. When use of strong cryptography becomes popular, it's harder for the government to criminalize it. Therefore, using PGP is good for preserving democracy. If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy."
- Phil Zimmermann
"The government has a track record that does not inspire confidence that they will never abuse our civil liberties. The FBI's COINTELPRO program targeted groups that opposed government policies. They spied on the antiwar movement and the civil rights movement. They wiretapped the phone of Martin Luther King. Nixon had his enemies list. Then there was the Watergate mess. More recently, Congress has either attempted to or succeeded in passing laws curtailing our civil liberties on the Internet. Some elements of the Clinton White House collected confidential FBI files on Republican civil servants, conceivably for political exploitation. And some overzealous prosecutors have shown a willingness to go to the ends of the Earth in pursuit of exposing sexual indiscretions of political enemies. At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today."
- Phil Zimmerman *Why I Wrote PGP*
"Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut? Do law-abiding citizens have any need to encrypt their email?
What if everyone believed that law-abiding citizens should use postcards for their mail? If a nonconformist tried to assert his privacy by using an envelope for his mail, it would draw suspicion. Perhaps the authorities would open his mail to see what he's hiding. Fortunately, we don't live in that kind of world, because everyone protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting their privacy with an envelope. There's safety in numbers. Analogously, it would be nice if everyone routinely used encryption for all their email, innocent or not, so that no one drew suspicion by asserting their email privacy with encryption. Think of it as a form of solidarity."
- Phil Zimmermann *Why I Wrote PGP*
How do you pay your mortgage and student loan debt? Is it Paypal Bill pay? I've never used this.
My wife harvested our pomegranates.
