You've given the FCC money. If you're not actively disobeying them with your equipment, asking me to do it with mine doesn't help anything.
You've given the FCC money. Do you cancel that out by actively disobeying them, or are you simply a supporter of centralization? Not complicated
#memestr Left: "everyone and everything should be killed, but let's pretend we're expanding mass shootings to prevent them because we're anti-death"
Right: "everyone and everything should be robbed before being killed, but let's pretend we're increasing taxes to decrease them because we're anti-theft"
Left: "mass shootings are the leading cause of death, but luckily, they will stop happening if we expand the areas they can happen in to include everywhere"
Right: "taxes are the main way my rights are violated, but luckily, I will stop needing to pay taxes if I vote for the biggest possible prison system plus mass deportations"
Fucking retards
Your hamster is more nostr related than the radio one mentioned above
At least yours becomes less centralized by the end of the video
This version of "hamstr" is retarded. Run unlicensed transmitters if you want hamstr. Obeying the FCC isn't decentralized or censorship resistant.
Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail in 2 days.
Yet again, I commend Greta Thunberg and all the others involved, for their bravery.
When Trump said the genocide would end within 3 weeks, while doing nothing to end it himself, maybe he meant he can't stop the surge of global outcry that's coming. We'll see. He was probably simply lying yet again.
Again: imma stand and deliver till I float down the river
And imma spit it like I get it, not as someone I'm not
I'd rather live by what I live by to my very last breath
Cause you know what? A coward dies a thousand deaths
I know you have me muted but adding this anyway:
Also, ideally, go past "fast enough" to actually save data for mobile users, because nostr doesn't have quality settings to let everyone pick between your most HD copy and a more efficient copy
People don't really need to use a full 1% of their monthly data on 1 video of your face talking so you don't have to type
Gotcha ๐ค Don't know much there
Proton chats are never E2E-encrypted, Proton is just software and cloud servers. The main way you can tell they're a honeypot is actually how they gaslight users to believe you can ensure encryption is "end to end" with software and cloud servers
JUST IN: THE LEVEL OF DEVASTATION IN GAZA WAS CAPTURED FROM THE AIR AS THE UAE AIR FORCE DROPPED HUMANITARIAN AID BY PLANE
https://blossom.primal.net/c0bbde33f8949bcc9a132d8af55b59eddf7d40379ef9a437bb0d184d7f3e7ded.mov
Source? I'm not seeing any info online about a new aid drop by the UAE
๐จ BREAKING: United States puts GDP on the Blockchain
The ๐บ๐ธ U.S. Department of Commerce has announced that it will begin publishing official statistics โ including GDP and national budget โ directly on the Blockchain.
๐ This marks the first time a G7 economy will anchor its core economic data on-chain, ensuring immutability, transparency, and trust.
โณ At The British Blockchain Association, we highlighted this in a post a couple of years ago on how national budgets and economic data could be published on the blockchain to strengthen public trust:
This move by the U.S. signals the beginning of a new era in digital governance. Other governments will follow.
#Blockchain #DigitalEconomy #EvidenceBasedBlockchain #Transparency #GDP #BBA
https://blossom.primal.net/dec4f1e2981b0656067c85e2e886453bc45ea43c1ccf36cc1c7b07835e83102f.mp4
What blockchain
Temporary logins only for anything that requires email
Throwaway accounts for confirming email address
Don't use a business npub. Just use individual npubs and mention job titles at the business in your bios.
Avoid "Primal Studio" at all cost
Why lightning? Do they actually accept Bitcoin or just lightning?
Looks like I can at least just download the APK off GitHub. Might try that, thanks for posting
MX Linux and Redmagic's factory Android flavor (possibly malware)
K. I would scroll up to find out what just happened but I don't really care
people using the term "ad hominem" on the internet usually think it's a synonym for "insult" or something
this is what happens when you replace the education system with an indoctrination system
Did you leave out the people who expressed USD price in sats (instead of going along with calling Bitcoin's value a "price")?
Also, what happened to nostr:npub159xrn4zm9mygv7k3e0kwspsawr8q4rwqs0dyrqkg0lueel6tq0msknw02g here? And what about my 69 BTC joke post? Other non-prediction posts show up when using the Primal relay (as a Primal lifetime subscriber). Some non-prediction posts even show above actual predictions when sorting by "closest" - but why are there randomly posts missing too?
I don't care about graphene
Will Redmagic have the balls to sell non "certified" devices? Where will I still be able to get a device with a metal and glass exterior and a 3.5mm jack?
Why are you framing this as if it's already over with? Glowie wording
"Google plans to do this, what are we going to do to stop them" is the correct framing
More 5D chess for ya mi hearty's, after DJT declared that Operation Warp Speed was "one of the greatest achievements ever in politics and in the military because it was almost a military procedure".
Well, that's technically true because the US military, Dept of Homeland Security (DHS), Palantir and of course the beloved National Security Agency (NSA) were the ones running point on OWS, not Health & Human Services, as one would expect. As for it being a success? I agree that it was the most successful mind control and gene therapy experiment in history! Nothing else comes close!
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/strategy-for-distributing-covid-19-vaccine.pdf
https://blossom.primal.net/e9d336b69c9cb9c2be04772f4f778b436db9035644d042b314068945a3d1cabb.mp4
Masks and social distancing work.
Regular non-experimental vaccines should also work. I don't know, I'm not gonna test shit with a deadly virus.
Crazy how this happened instead.
Weird wording where I said "verify if you're human or anon"
I meant "verify anons and identifiable people"
1 tag for npubs you know are human, another tag for npubs you know have posted a picture of themselves (as I've talked about before, also not sure about implementing names)
Imagine a #nostr feed that removes known/tagged bots based on your WoT, where bots still slip through every day.
Then, imagine a nostr feed that removes known/tagged bots ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ unverified anons. Bots might become very rare because they can't pose as anons, but this feed would also probably become a lot more popular than less filtered feeds, which would leave nobody to see posts from new anons that don't have any trusted contacts in the network to vouch for them.
Next, imagine a nostr feed that doesn't care if you're a bot or an anon, it only filters out npubs with behavioral tags you want to avoid. For example, it filters out everyone your web of trust has tagged for refusing to come clean/apologize after lying, and everyone your web of trust has tagged for egregiously ignoring replies. So your feed is only people and bots who can be honest; who actually read and respond to replies on their last post before making their next post.
That's what we really need.
Tags to verify if you're human or anon are just a band-aid we should have by now (easy to implement) while waiting for a more complex tagging system.
Google's folks definitely seem like they want to get away from single-party accountability.
When you search the term itself on Google, you still get some weird explanation about how it would work with political parties and a bunch of search results about political parties instead of actual uses of the phrase "single-party accountability" (like my nostr wiki article explaining it)
Quality issues are so bad these days, that sweet spot doesn't exist anywhere
But Hannaford price to value is better than other stores in my region
There are those who say Bitcoin doesn't scale, and build blockchains with more throughput at the cost of more centralization (generally in the form of it being way harder to run a node), and then also point to Bitcoin as having low fees as a criticism.
The limiter it turns out, 16 years in, is not how many people *can* self-custody bitcoin. It's how many people *want* to.
Not everyone wants to deal with the technicalities of their own car, and not everyone wants to handle the technicalities of their own money. Quite few, in fact. It's always a subset for these types of things. People who are hardcore over their area of knowledge.
I leave my car details to pros down the street who I know the name of, and handle my money myself. There are those who handle their own cars but leave their money details to others.
Bitcoin currently processes about as many transactions per year as Fedwire, which handles $1 quadrillion worth of gross settlement volume per year for the US and for a good chunk of the world (in context, it's approximately 200 million $5 million average-sized transactions). That's actually a crazy stat. Bitcoin is casually this open-source global Fedwire with its own scarce units, and unlike Fedwire anyone can permissionlessly build on it or transact with it, for low fees despite it being a +$2T network. And if it gets clogged there are all sorts of permissionless layers above it with certain trade-offs.
Some people say paper bitcoin holders detract from the network. I say the opposite- their willingness to hold IOUs helps add to price stability and network size without clogging it. That leaves more room for cypherpunks to develop with, and work on. And those who finance them.
This has been foreseen as early as Hal Finney in 2010, when he wrote about bitcoin banks (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2500.msg34211#msg34211).
We live in a sweet spot by most metrics. A golden age. Historically, so few recognize it when they have it so good.
Bitcoin is big enough to be of interest to many, and yet is still niche enough in a global context to have low base-layer fees. Suitcoiners are happy to add to its scale, and yet cypherpunks can also build, and users can transact right on the base layer, and move to Lightning and Ark and BitVM and Liquid and any sort of trade-off they want if fees get high.
And you're bearish, anon?
The real battle, though, is the ongoing government crackdown on privacy.
Bitcoin itself is in a pretty good technical place. It's a great tool. Certain conservative low-risk covenants might make it better, but even the existing design space is great and still expanding.
The US, Europe, and China cracking down on privacy is the threat. The headwind. And they're all expected. They're not surprising, but they're indeed fierce. That's the real battle- for the hearts and minds of people to embrace why privacy and permissionlessness are good traits.
In this ongoing funny contrast between podcasters and developers, that's the ideal role of podcasters- to spread the good news of what developers have built. To educate people. To tell them what's now possible thanks to developers. To articulate why cypherpunk values are good to a broad non-technical audience. That's where the overlap is. In overly-simplistic D&D terms, those with high CHA try to spread the work of those with high INT. It's not so much that "governments" are the problem. Governments often at least partially represent the people. If you convince a lot of people that privacy and sound money are good things, then you defang the problem. And you also challenge them legally in jurisdictions where it makes sense.
The technical foundation is good. The development of the past 16 years has been amazing, and it has brought us here. The scale has reached institutions, which is expected, not a threat. The actual threat is not treasury companies; it's anti-privacy regulations by governments. And more deeply that's a social issue, given how many people accept it. A vast amount of people believe privacy is only important for bad people who have something to hide. There's a ton of education work to do on it. Privacy is good. It's the default. But most people don't realize it when it comes to money.
We're winning. For 16 years ya'll have been amazing. But we'll need another 16 years more. More developers. More podcasters. All of it. We're a $2 trillion in market cap entering into a global fiat network of hundreds of trillions. And as their own institutions melt down from their own failures, their own top-heavy demographics and false promises, they will look for scapegoats. They will look toward those who are winning, and say they are the enemy.
When interviewers ask my price predictions, I tend to be conservative. That's mostly a liquidity assessment, and a rotation from OGs to new buyers. Price growth does take time.
But under that surface, I also have the benefit of being a general partner at among the largest bitcoin-only venture funds. I see what people are building, and I'm bullish. And for those who are working on stuff that doesn't align with profit, entities like the HRF and OpenSats are doing great work. Across all of the options, people are building great things.
I couldn't be more bullish on the ecosystem that's in place. All of you.
Let's go.
Good evening.
Doggie coin and Monero seem to have better throughput without being more centralized
If Bitcoin was real there would be a banner at the top of coinmarketcap saying "ALERT: Bitcoin network currently impacted by an unresolved transaction issue - see asknostr thread for details"
We could stop all the spam from the npub I'm replying to if people would stop rewarding it with likes, reposts, etc.
But the easier way would be if more people would actively pressure nostr devs to fix apps that are maliciously designed to boost spam
If you're using the power for something profitable, great
But if you're selling it, it would be good to reflect on how you can't possibly be making a profit, because if you were, that would be the signal for the authorities to take more of your power or revenue, as I said