The investigation and analysis of written information and audiovisual content will be the human profession that will shine.

#AI will be the reason.

The reputation of the professional will be key, since artificial intelligence cannot be blindly trusted.

So you mean the years where Lightning was being built, along with Ark & Fedimints & Hedgehog channels, & now that there is a standard for integrating silent payments you think "the market" has chosen something other than Bitcoin?

Sorry, but monero does not solve the problem, it moves it from the privacy side to the auditability (and possibly scalability) side.

Bitcoin sidechains make way more sense than adding exchange & price volatility risk to make a private transaction. It doesn't really make sense to use Monero at all.

Monetary network effects are very unforgiving & I think this will beasically be a "winner takes all" sort of competition.

Unquestionable supply auditablity is more important than perfect privacy.

Stealth addresses & sidechains networked via lightning & other minor improvements will continue to compound bitcoin's privacy potential a little bit at a time. Something like CISA that improves efficiency in terms of on chain footprint while also improving privacy would be ideal.

Artificial intelligence is the biggest psyop of the 21st century.

Until now google showed you the results they wanted, but in the end, it is critical thinking who has to discern between the different results and opinions.

Now with artificial intelligence, they only show you a single result, a single opinion, total and absolute opinion manipulation.

It's pre-dawn in Transverazina, a small agricultural nation ruled by an iron handed dictator and kleptocracy in eastern europe.

I'm crouching in a culvert next to a rural road covered in a blanket bought for some sats yesterday on my hurried flight out town.

Thank you Pavlo, for the warning about the ministry of internal services sudden change of heart about my article on potato yields.

Thank you unknown peasant woman for the few moments of warmth and dew laden rest i'm taking now.

I spare a few hours before making the run accross the border.

The sun will be up after that, the unseen warmth and freedom rekindles The tinder of my inner motivation.

I tap my chest pocket, it's there, by hardware wallet.

"Everything will go as planned. Pavlov's sister will be waiting for me with tea and sugar on the other side." I reasure myself in air chilled bursts of mist. I relax a littke more.

Headlights, light up the trees hanging far and away, above the road.

A car, slow rolling, as though looking for something...no

It creaks to a stop above me...no..

"Antonella Vipastia ? Ish that you ?"

It was a friendly sounding voice, not authorutarian at all. I dare look up.

It was an authoritiatairian. The assistant to the sargent assigned to me infact, i've have had several "tea" sessions in his office but i've never actually heard him speak before. Damn.

"How?" I let out, intending to be dignified, but it escapes as a scream.

In full leather uniform the adjutant interegator tips his hat almost embarrassed, and slicks his hair with the other hand.

"Ve noticed a donation from a human rights organization address, right around the time of your nomination, und kept a gentle eye on it for a few years. Later a purchase from it to a...Vilma Kotchenko, for one very large pink "Hello Kitty" blanket caught the notice of our software , which informed us of a 78.66% chance you would flee."

I buried my head into the dirt, wishing i could just dig through it a few miles.

"You are not fleeing though are you miss ? You...just have an odd taste in hobbies yes ? Come along now... be a good girl... let's get you warmed up with some good office tea...und perhaps review some of your other bitcoin purchases on the public ledger yes ?"

#Monero

Is there a tool that makes it easy to pull your kind 0 events from every known relay to figure out which ones are serving out-of-date profile data?

When has this ever happened for any technology ? Microwaves, cellphones... heck even literacy. We have become, in modern capitalist social democracies with armed and educated citizens, very good at closing the gap between expensive early adopters and distributing those advances.

You need to read more Austrian and adjacent works. A good start is

The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom

Ai and biotech both work on similar game theory as Bitcoin. For example, miners building electricity infrastruture drives second order industry demand, this in turn benefits residential customers near this.

By driving demand for biotech and A.i, consumers will also drive demand for free and open source versions.

I only write all this because i've noticed a recent change in your tone towards warranted concern, and gope you aren't losing sleep over this.

Will humans really become useless in the future?

Technocrats will seek to evolve humanity through AI and biotechnology: transhumanism.

Creative or more sophisticated jobs will require human involvement, but these people will exist as a small number of the elite class.

They will enjoy unprecedented creativity, and will make crucial decisions.

Most humans will become part of a lower caste, dominated by both computer algorithms and the new superhumans.

The future is multi-chain.

Litecoin will always be around to try features that are too reckless for Bitcoin and to do fast payments.

Monero will always be around to offer privacy & experiment with avant-garde cryptography.

Ethereum (or something similar) will always be around to allow devs to build financial apps & create tokens.

It doesn’t matter that they don’t scale – they scale Bitcoin + provide features that Bitcoin doesn’t have. All of them can work as Bitcoin L2s – Ethereum already does with WBTC.

They also add monetary inflation, meaning that we won’t have everything divided by 21 million coins. But that’s the price we pay for rejecting true maximalism (one coin to rule them all, with all the features integrated in sidechains + layer 2s).

Finally forced the carrier to unlock my old Pixel 5 so I now can test some stuff on graphene

No fucking way, is this real??

excited for the future of technology

Let's be honest, you are going to hell if you take cold showers regularly.

That's amazing. Some people said they wish this diagram was animated. But it's the first time I've seen it actually animated.

I think being able to see the data flowing from a bird's-eye view is useful for beginners to get an overall image of the Nostr protocol. I think it's very good if you decide the target (the person you want to show this to and the understanding that the viewer will gain from this animation) and then decide the level of abstraction and content of the image before creating it.

What I find difficult is...

Technical people can fully understand Nostr with this bird's-eye view and the NIPs repository and other technical information, but non-technical people can't understand it if we explain too much detail, and they don't need to understand it.

So I think it's important to decide the target and create it.