Not really a fair comparison because Canada has a fraction of the population of the US (40 million vs 337 million). It also ignores the fact that computers are infinitely superior at quick and accurate tabulation. Hand counting introduces unacceptable human error to the tally process. Humans will never be faster or more accurate than computers. Finally, our voting machines, which are fully audited and certified, produce a paper ballot receipt that's used in the post-election audit process. There's always room for improvement, but you should at least be intellectually honest about your perspective, and the actual reality of what you're talking about.

TBH I’m really excited to go down to the local coffee shop tomorrow and have a big ol’ cup of schadenfreude over coastal liberal tears.

A real deliciously.

Please share what clients/business models you think will have highest rate of success

It'd say so yes, but to me the opportunity is too vast; its like saying in 1999 "they'll be too many websites in 20 years", or cloud storage; can always use more.

I'd pay not just for pictures and video stuff, but for a good refined agent to;

- build me an MVP of a Nostr client

- do deep research on a topic I asked, fed with my data I provide

- learn a new language

Many more I'm sure.

AI DVM's are it IMO

Run AI Nostr bot

Zap to use

Get product/service desired

Everyone will be using them without thought in due time.

So.... make bitcoin Monero? 🤣

His choice, but how many no coiners listen to Bitcoin Twitter says?

Just had an exciting moment that my normie friends will never appreciate.

I bought a couple beers.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers with Bitcoin.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers in Lugano Switzerland with lightning, through Zeus wallet with my own lightning channel, connected to Alby Hub, running on my Start9 node, on my shelf in my office back home in Canada.

So yes, I just bought a couple beers. But it was fucking exciting.

They think we are a meme away or a decentralized protocol away from finally defeating the government and living in a libertarian fantasy world where people don’t initiate violence and everyone is high IQ and moral.

That’s never gonna happen of course, so we gotta engage with politics if we want to win. OPs would be like “save yourself” “no one is coming to save you” nah I don’t want to just save myself, I want to wield political power to make my community, city, and country great. Because if we don’t someone else will nostr:note1afxwcwaz84m4y0cptvgavql9qf55s4seyupht876p7s7vzzwj6ts57ygs6

#memes

In a recent talk, nostr:npub1s33sw6y2p8kpz2t8avz5feu2n6yvfr6swykrnm2frletd7spnt5qew252p makes the case correctly that we should stop using the term “custodial,” as this is the language that helps the legacy system define self-custody or their term “unhosted” to suggest that owing your own property is somehow not normal or acceptable.

He goes on to say that we should simply call anything where we don’t hold our own keys an account, the same as a bank. But what should we call a “wallet” (also an inaccurate word) where we directly own the asset? I still haven’t found the best way to say it.

the media itself does encourage a particular distribution between consumption and production. old media, like broadcast TV, is an example extreme example of the consumer heavy model

Good morning good frens 🐸

It's weird to see external people that are aligned with Nostr's goals and even the overall design to complain about petty bugs or small details -- well, even big issues.

"Oh, I like the idea of Nostr, but it's so bad because I tried a random client and the search button doesn't work, therefore I will assert that Nostr is retarded and will never succeed."

The thing is: to whom are you complaining? Nostr isn't an organization trying to sell you anything, and if you are aligned with the goals then that supposed "Nostr problem" is also your problem so start trying to solve it. Or maybe you have a better alternative?, otherwise the tone of the complaint doesn't make sense.

1. Core's plan was always to roll out 80 byte OP_RETURN incrementally by starting with 40 to see if it broke anything and then ramping shortly up to the intended 80.

2. #Bitcoin Core, having finished that project, has had 80 byte OP_RETURN for nearly a decade now. 85%+ miners have been set to 80 bytes for the same amount of time. Read the commit log. Read the bitcoin-dev mailing list.

3. You admitted on Shitter/X that you went along with the Core team because you had your own fork where you can make any changes you'd like.

4. Now that Jack has invested in you to decentralize mining, you've cast a shadow over the launch by revolting against the implicit op_return contract in #Bitcoin Core which has been standardized by the network over the last decade.

5. Whirlpool transactions are trivial to detect and you could whitelist them no problem. This is about you kneecapping #Bitcoin fungibility while gaslighting the space about decentralization.

6. What's more centralized? The development process in bitcoin:master with a decade+ track record, ~1000 developers, and 20,000+ code reviews, or Knots, where one dude makes god commits daily, breaking critical aspects of #Bitcoin?

7. Until Ocean.xyz launches #StratumV2, you're just another gatekeeper. Ordinals ia going to run out of customers like every other shitcoin. We don't need to compromise Core just because you didn't get your way 10 years ago.

8. GFY.