I think it would saturate the bandwidth of any/all relays that are trying to serve it. And fill their drives if there are many streams. That and I doubt there is a video streaming protocol on top of nostr yet. But I mean even if there were. I suppose you're right that a paywall would help pay for the bandwidth. Then again, https://zap.stream/, how does that one work?

I think it means that if you're a target, they can get it. None of the mobile baseband software is free/libre. They probably attacked his phone rather than breaking Signal or its protocols directly. At least that is what I hope: active target (screwed) vs passive collection (secured). Another explanation could be that Signal is a US company and is therefore subject to National Security Letters. Not much Signal could do about those, I imagine. So it could be completely compromised. I hope not.

I know you meant it rhetorically. But it is probably too much data, right?

It is also confusing to say "store of value" because value cannot be stored in a thing. Value is exclusively in the mind of the valuer. On the other hand, LvM argued that there is objective purchasing power of money, so I might be picking nits.

This is going to be so 2023, sharing my conversation with an LLM. The follow-up is an important point, I think.

I said "Bravo. But Ludwig von Mises points out that the commonly quoted "store of value" function of money is superfluous. Store of value is already present in medium of exchange. In order to use a medium of exchange, there must be one exchange followed by the passage of time followed by another exchange. In order for the medium of exchange to work as one would expect, the medium must be valuable at the moment of the earlier exchange and at the moment of the latter exchange. Thus, to say "store of value" is unnecessary and distracting. Money is simply a medium of exchange, right?"

Answered dolphin-mixtral dutifully:

> You're correct that Ludwig von Mises argued that the "store of value" function of money is superfluous when you consider that a medium of exchange must already possess this property to be effective. The reasoning behind this is that for money to serve as a medium of exchange, it must hold its value over time between transactions. If people were unable to reliably use their money in the future, they would not accept it as payment, rendering it an ineffective medium of exchange.

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> So yes, while money does indeed have a "store of value" function, this can be seen more as a necessary consequence of its role as a medium of exchange rather than a distinct function. In summary, according to Mises' viewpoint, money is primarily a medium of exchange that inherently possesses the property of being a store of value.

I got a pleasantly surprising answer from dolphin-mixtral. I was expecting it to follow the IRS or ETF crowd and say "stock."

> Bitcoin is more like money than stocks because it functions as a medium of exchange and a store of value, similar to traditional currencies. While there are some similarities with stocks (such as being subject to market fluctuations), the primary purpose of Bitcoin is not for investment or ownership in a company but rather for use as digital cash.

Is Bitcoin more like a stock or more like money?

If the use for a second protocol is non-browser non-JavaScript non-JSON then there is no need to support JavaScript. If the goal is to fully replace WebSockets/JSON, then yes, it would need to be something with wide support such as gRPC.

Stack whatever you regularly use.

You can lower the bar to such systems if you want. When can I use it as money?

At first I thought gRPC/protobuf is not a transport protocol. Then I see that WebSockets has data framing and messaging. Is gRPC/protobuf light weight, though? What about Cap'n Proto? Or what about plain old UDP? I already see the bulk of relays have <50% connection success, so we're not expecting reliable transport are we? I guess UDP would mean reinventing some stuff. Again, I am speculating as an aloof user.

I mean do you know of anybody who received this or a similar letter, lawyered up, and fought it in the courts?

These are not all eSIM, but I found some SMS services here: https://kycnot.me/?t=&q=sms

Do you know anyone who has fought this? This is too much.

Fair. Or the Tax Courts might recommend bringing back the firing squads or something.

A growing movement to go to prison? I suppose if a large enough proportion did it, they couldn't build prisons fast enough.

TIL I need to use a new git alias: pushf = push --force-with-lease

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I see. Yes, I can be among those cynics, too. Especially when it comes to placing hope in politicians. The silver lining is that regardless of who is in authority, it is ultimately public opinion that enables (and disables) those authorities.