Israel literally assassinated the man with whom they were negotiating. These are extremely malevolent people.

bitcoin is the perfect technical solution for preventing spam in anonymous systems like bitchat (or tor etc). ironically, many bitcoiners these days don't seem to understand that satoshi's big achievement was to tokenize proof of work and literally put it in a coin.

bitcoin can't protect itself with firewalls, IP filters, sign up pages, captchas, or even arbitrary transaction filters. the only thing that keeps bitcoin alive is the fact that it is costly to make a transaction and that cost has previously been tokenized into a sat using energy and proof of work.

tokenizing proof of work as transaction fees is the innovation that protects bitcoin. that's why we can harness bitcoin to protect other systems in the first place. if you ever were confused about why I hate spam but still don't think that filters are a solution, I hope this clarifies it. my thinking has always been consistent on this.

our enemies are much stronger than degens and we need to think much bigger than jpgs.

I will never use a CBDC

oh sweet. they fixed the thing where if I clicked on an image I then had to quit the app 😂

If I ever use Twitter again, feel free to slap me.

#[1]​ please inform them. I’m heading to bed 😂

Yes Szabo talks about this - might have been one of the first, actually. Bunkercoin is a nickname - looks like there’s an actual shitcoin with the same name as well

I’m not sure if Google is going to show too much, but it’s the idea that Bitcoin transactions can be sent over radio waves rather than the internet. NVK did a simple experiment a few years back on this but it’s gone nowhere since then

No point in being there and writing into the void.

PS: it was like my impressions/engagement was turned off with a switch pretty much immediately after I had a couple of tweets about nostr 🤷‍♂️