Uncensorable money or data storage. Pick one
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979873800268525653#m
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/BitcoinMotorist/status/1980539650637984167#m
Two thirds of welfare recipients in Germany are foreigners.
What exactly is the point of a welfare state incentivizing people from other countries to move there? Does it make sense to you?
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/MichaelAArouet/status/1980524087924650252#m
My understanding is that OP_RETURN is specifically meant for arbitrary data and thus its willful expansion, to me, suggests enabling a safe haven for illegal content.
Legal questions aside, it would be a publicity nightmare should OP_RETURN be abused in that way.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/JohnStacksCorn/status/1980521513926492524#m
LoTR is the trippy afterglow of WWI and WWII propaganda. "Little Britainers" (hobbits, complete with British imperial tea, tobacco, and "china" ) need to get off their fat little seven-meals-per-day asses and go fight wars in distant foreign lands they don't understand, because muh good wizards and good kings and muh bad wizards and demonic dictators. Just like in the newspapers and on BBC radio.
GoT is just ruthlessly disturbing. Propaganda for brutalist nihilism.
Both good reasons to just steer clear of fantasy if you want to retain your sanity.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1980150728246350102#m
Experience without embodiment is entertainment. Television was the first proto-metaverse. Before the internet dissolved reality, television did. Most of these “old people” aren’t witnesses - they’re inheritors of propaganda. The sacred act of witnessing was industrialized. Civilization’s memory is now algorithmic.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/Gaurav1105/status/1905623138119135463
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/Gaurav1105/status/1980140277047447740#m
It seems like Nick is proposing what I have been thinking lately, so let me write it up as a thread to see if he and others agree. Not worried about method here, just want to have a goal we can agree on.
1. 80 or some reasonable OPRETURN enforced by consensus.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979723076985393517#m
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/CaminaDrummer4/status/1979743106083025031#m
This is such utter, illogical bullshit. You fool fewer people with it every time you spew it. Stop already.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979684180171890838#m
AG PAM BONDI CLEARED THE WAY FOR ISRAEL’S FOREIGN INFLUENCE OPERATION
On her 1st day, newly appointed AG Pam Bondi, disbanded the Foreign Influence Task Force, the DOJ office responsible for enforcing FARA. The change specifically limits DOJ prosecutors from criminally charging those involved in public-relations work & policy advocacy on behalf of foreign businesses & nonprofits.
This is key to understanding how Israel’s current foreign influence campaign is structured. The Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) states a Foreign Agent is "an individual who agrees to operate within the US subject to the direction of a foreign gov or official." The penalty for unregistered Foreign Agents is 10yrs in prison.
FARA documents show money and direction flow from Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Havas Media Group to entities operating in the US (Clock Tower X, Bridges Partners & Show Faith By Works). Employees of the entities are also registered under FARA but what’s not registered are independent contractors (also known as 1099 Contractors) and subcontractors.
Since Pam Bondi has directed the DOJ to only prosecute individuals who fall under the definition of the Espionage Act from 1917 (123 years ago), FARA violations involving PR firms and nonprofits engaged in Israeli influence campaigns online and via social media & media have free reign to propagandize Americans. That also means, unregistered 1099 contractors and subcontractors will also not be prosecuted. Furthermore, the penalty for not registering (should this become an issue) is no longer criminal charges leading to 10 year prison sentences. It is a simple slap on the wrist and a reminder to register.
This deliberate incapacitation of DOJ’s enforcement mechanism gives a green light to foreign influence operatives, ensuring that the Knesset's 2018 plan to skirt FARA can proceed with minimal risk of prosecution.
I will do a separate thread to show how this memo was also used to dismiss one of the biggest FARA cases of our lifetime, NYC Mayor, Eric Adams.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/GenXGirl1994/status/1979598739913195527#m
Only shmucks like Elon hand over the big bucks without a way to enforce the deal.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979404142520287362#m
You should sell your bitcoin and buy more ethereum if you think that you are right about the use of the chain for nonmonetary purposes, ethereum can scale to way more users for that activity, and if you are right that that activity is good then ethereum will be worth morethan btc
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/FlyTheElephant1/status/1979402935907029221#m
Thank Core for allowing inscriptions. Now we have to fight to keep crap away in the network. The hardest asset tainted with scribbles and what not.
Use the other "currencies", indeed!
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979386063987839364#m
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/jeevsthecurious/status/1979395522319253815#m
Front-page headline: "No U.S. troops will be deployed to Israel." Later back-page clarification: "because they are already in the Middle East."
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979394144100577437#m
Not a safe place to put your assets.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1979007995003510890#m
Many contributions, but a core one was Gutenberg's phonetic alphabet printing press, which created a new kind of mind:
unenumerated.blogspot.com/20…
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1978360369669087456#m
The instability was clueless mobs buying shitcoins on robo-trigger margin.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/_RN03xx_/status/1977755115533553746#m
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977933837528359234#m
Smelly but efficient. Very green.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977921351190270350#m
Migration nullifies liberals' consumer & privacy rules:
"Chinese https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/search?q=%23H1Bs
have become such a major problem at banks ...[b/c they] would go home ... and access the bank's systems---including sensitive financial info on Americans---from Chinese networks."
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/realmattforney/status/1977535076423421962#m
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NeilMunroDC/status/1977565294764921107#m
In honor of the man returning to Twitter… if you’ve never listened to this podcast episode take the time. Can’t tell you how many times I have listened to this. https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/BitcoinPilot21/status/1977453376251265179#m
He means the ability for corporations to access and cross-reference your voting, banking, and health records. You can already do that.
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/NickSzabo4/status/1977399881141719496#m
Here’s a TLDR:
- reduces block space for inscriptions and complex transactions to 1MB
- blocks with normal transactions can still occupy up to 4MB
- uses Satoshi’s double-hash method to enable pruning of OP_RETURNs without breaking the ability to reverify the block’s Merkle Tree
https://nitter.privacyredirect.com/colbyserpa/status/1974839702793675104#m