Long term, we need private money or it just gets traced / taxed / seized by the state anyway.

But truly private money makes for a bad store of value. You can’t audit the ledger, so a bug could create unlimited inflation that would be hard to detect.

So privacy is how you move money, not necessarily store it.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol "SMTP" ended up being rather captured/centralized toward an oligopoly over time in an effort to manage spam.

Here's another #asknostr for today:

What aspects of Nostr's design will make it more resistant to that fate? The social graph web of trust element?

People who are anti-likes don't realize that likes act as social proof. They are heard-motivating behavior that encourage people to acknowledge a note as a read / or show some form of approval.

Remove the likes and your client / notes / protocol will look like nobody is using it.

Sure, zaps send better signal, but zap usage is something like 7% on nostr. To remove likes is to exclude the other 93% of people here.

Don't believe me? Go ahead and remove likes and see what happens.

if you see an ostrich, you’re nostr-brained

On-boarding people to Nostr now is like: Well, you can use Amethyst, which by now is so complicated only devs can enjoy it but still you won't be able to tag a profile in a note and have to copy the npub over from another app, like Primal! ...which can't do the most basic things like blocking accounts on this bot infested protocol of ours. Oryou get an iPhone to install Damus which they say is slick but that's of course only to be loved by the guys locked in the Apple panopticon but with just some hacky workarounds you get the cool functions too. Then there are web clients that require browser extensions for the login, which of course don't work on your smartphone. Sometimes you see NIP or other Lingua Nostr on options and buttons, then you just have to research on github & wiki do learn what it is or better not click it.... But yeah. Welcome to

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I think it is here. I have a list of hot girls on my DM.

An annoying guy told me that Monero is already quantum resistant and that Bitcoin has no possibility of quantum resistance via soft fork, which could force the community to start everything from scratch again.

I have my doubts about this, all the experts who talk about Bitcoin say that it would be possible to save the blockchain from quantum computing.

Among private cryptocurrencies, I think ZCash and Dash are much better than Monero because they have scheduled scarcity and Dash is even more scarce than Bitcoin.

Not to mention that the doors are closing to trading with Monero, few exchanges offer Monero and the number tends to fall. Soon people will only be able to trade p2p, maybe this will increase the value of the currency or maybe it will be their death sentence.

Rolling out our first billboard campaign!

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When I was 18 my grandfather was put on hospice care.

I was in college about two hours away.

So I would take the train out and visit with him as often as I could during those final few months.

One day it snowed. The first snow of the winter. I took a photo of it and came in the house to show him.

He was laying in his hospital bed staring out the window.

“Illinois… the armpit of the nation” he said.

I could tell he was reflecting on his life and regretting many of his choices.

Layer that night he grabbed me by the arm and said…

“you know Hodl, out there are a couple of guys on a beach somewhere with pretty girls sitting in their laps… and the only difference between us and them is that they have balls.”

I never forgot it. The message was clear.

I’m old and dying. It’s too late for me, but not for you kid. Be a goddamn man in this life. Have some balls.

A few years later I put everything I had into bitcoin.