I did, but overall I think many of the shortcomings of democracy are more-so shortcomings of soft money.

I suspect hard money would make democracies better than their current form, and I think many people who favor non-democratic forms of government do so because they themselves expect to be part of the small elite that runs things or they otherwise have power in those non-democratic systems.

Some people have grown cynical with democracy (and various types of representative government broadly, e.g. including constitutional democratic republics that enshrine certain rights to protect liberty against the masses), viewing this method as promoting short-term leadership with bad incentives.

I have a different take.

Prior to the printing press and then the telegraph and radio, running a democratic society over long distances wasn’t even feasible. The concept of having people democratically participate in their government relies on people being relatively connected information-wise so that they can use their access to information to know what’s happening and to then select between different options, which you couldn’t do across the entirety of a country before people were literate and election materials or other publications could be mass produced. In the pre-press age of handwritten books, making written documents was expensive, and so literacy was a niche skill.

So, that era was ruled by kings and queens, council oligopolies, and so forth. Representative government, to the extent that it existed, only applied to small city states where people could literally gather in a town square, or to “elites” in a capital. There was literally no way to run an election over very broad distances on a regular basis. The printing press helped change that, and then the telegraph, radio, and other tech further reinforced it.

But ironically, as I discuss in Broken Money, those technologies also started to break our money. The printing press and telegraph allowed the transaction layer (the movement of IOUs between individuals and entities) to grow exponentially more efficient both domestically and globally, while our settlement layer (gold) remained basically unchanged. This broadening gap between fast transactions and slow settlements was increasingly bridged with centralization and credit, and the gap eventually became so wide that every nation dropped the settlement layer of gold almost entirely, except as a reserve asset.

So the same technologies that enabled widespread representative government also enabled the proliferation of softer money. Prior to these technologies, broad democracy wasn’t possible. And after these technologies, sound money was too slow to keep up. Oof.

But over a long enough timeframe, our technology became good enough that we finally figured out how to do fast settlements as well. Bitcoin. People can send value to each other quickly over long distances, in ways that no central entity can prevent or reverse, and with a unit that no central entity can debase. The first sound money of the Information Age.

If Bitcoin is successful over the coming decades and becomes a much larger and less volatile money, than it is now, fully entrenched in society, then that would be the first era where technology is at such a state where broad democracy and fast sound money can coexist. Or put more universally, it will be the first era where information spreads quickly without breaking the money, and thus both fast information and good money could coexist.

I, for one, would be curious to see how that develops.

Pretendo realizar vídeos autorais ocasionais aqui no Nostr. Preciso apenas configurar um Relay para vídeo maiores e um local apropriado para gravação. No início vou gravar vídeos sobre diversos temas sobre Bitcoins e afins. Mas não pretendo me tornar o Ancap.

The main difference between SimpleX/Session and XMPP/Matrix is that:

SimpleX/Session hide metadata even through you're using other people's servers.

While as XMPP/Matrix don't hide the metadata at all, but expect & empower the end user to run their own server.

So something like self-hosted XMPP, with a Tor Onion, is a higher level of privacy than trusting random SimpleX/Session servers, but also a higher barrier to entry, as most are not willing to read docs and pay for a VPS.

Side note: You can configure an XMPP client like Gajim to force Tor, even if it's not system-wide.

SimpleX does have a self-host, but if you just use your own server, then it labels/identities these accounts as you. So you'd have to have a popular server, and even then the other person in your conversations picks the other server.

Ok, let's pause here and resume tomorrow.

Até em nome de cristo já houveram guerras, algumas justas, como as cruzadas, mas ainda assim guerras eais guerras.

Você não pode evitar a inevitabilidade da guerra, você não tem como saber se o seu vizinho vai ser tão pacifico quanto voce.

Tá sendo assim nos ultimos 12 mil anos

A condição natural do ser humano é a guerra

A guerra é um evento inevitável entre os seres humanos, nem que seja guerras privadas

Nós podemos conversar sobre como o Anarcocapitalismo pode prevenir guerras devido ao aumento exponencial da eficiencia economica e do comercio global e tudo mais

Mas isso não quer dizer que os seres humanos vão parar de se desentender, e quando isso acontecer isso vai ser resolvido no sangue e o evento majestoso da morte vai acontecer

Normal tudo isso

Quando Alexandre estava prestes a morrer de febre na babilonia, os generais dele perguntou com quem deve ficar o imperio

Ele respondeu "com o mais forte"

I'm the only one at the airport and in the airplane movin and grooving with a big smile on my face

Good Mental States Makes Life So Much More Enjoyable And Fun

So, russian warships now in line of sight of Miami. Damn

My toxic trait is being convinced that banks shouldn't be allowed to collect any information from you to let you open an account, GM 💅

agree with you, ubports was the only available for my phone but I dream to daily drive a phone with mainline kernel and pmOS. I actually have a nokia n900 like this, but it have strong hardware limitations, it takes like 5 seconds just to run neofetch....

I managed to install ubports on my old device, but basically today use only one with graphene... I think we need linux phones to happen, android is a giant pile of things where you can have little control.

Still, today, graphene os is by far the best we can have on mobile...

epiphany on mobile? Are you on a "linux phone"???

It's crazy to think that you can have 20x more followers on Twitter and still have less engagement, but more importantly, less interesting discussion.

I think I'll go Nostr only soon

what web browsers do you use?

Even if mozilla is a parody of itself and firefox is a goofy project, I still use basically only firefox (or firefox-based) browsers;

on android is the only decent browser capable of running ublock origin, and on linux it is better integrated and light to build than chromium.

Also tor is the only option for some usages (like see your tx in mempool...) and it is firefox in the end.

Whats your take?

#asknostr

ok pezzo #trap su #BITCOIN E #NOSTR cercasi producer per beat e mixing

mi chiamano estremista

solo perchè voglio un po' di pace

nella vita

chiuso il mio carapace

ho abbracciato l'anarchia

fanculo le guardie ma non sono di sinistra

in politica son chiari gli incentivi

lo statalismo

è il fondamento di tutti i partiti

crisi, clima, elettrico, evasione

tu saresti il problema e loro hanno la soluzione

non possederai nulla...

e non parlo di soldi, btc

son spicci

sarai destinato dalla culla

a vivere senza libero arbitrio e principi

se a te sta bene ben venga

sperimenterai il "wrong side of history"

sarai rinnegato dai tuoi figli

se avrai figli

c'era da combattere ma eri senza coscienza

io sono nato e non ho capito un cazzo

per quanto? Per tanto..

a scuola non mel'hanno insegnato

i miei genitori si sfiancavano

e pagavano le tasse come fosse sacrosanto

io non voglio una vita da schiavo come gli altri

cosí tanti bitcoin, puoi chiamarmi kilostrategy

euro della trap

p2p per strada diventano sats

niente kyc, non mi servono alibi

pubblico su NOSTR senza chiedere consenso

chatcontrol l'europa vorrebbe sbattermi dentro

ma io sono giá dentro

un virus nel sistema dell'intrattenimento

in tasca la nsec, giro senza documento

vedo la realtá

e la documento

come fece Assange

causando un certo scontento

se ti sta bene sei complice del governo

ma stai pur certo che ti tornerá tutto indietro...