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If you want to see how many Zapp’d sats are associated with your posts (NIP57), Vida will provide that if you have it set as your LNURL address. #[0] is always out front leading the charge!

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Lyn Alden

As a value investor, I find Charlie Munger's recent WSJ-published arguments to ban bitcoin/crypto and thank the leader of the Chinese Communist Party to be embarrassing and sad.

I'm currently writing a research note to 10,000 retail and institutional subscribers on why it's dumb.

Munger has a history of arguing that someone should be able to "steelman" their opposing view if they are going to have an opinion on something, which means being able to articulate an opponent's viewpoint more convincingly than even they can. Recently on CNBC, Munger was quoted on his historical claim and then asked by the anchor to steelman bitcoin/crypto after his WSJ op-ed, and he was unable to and didn't even try to.

He doesn't know anything about Segwit, Taproot, block size limits, whether a base layer should be Turing complete or not, anything about power dynamics between nodes, developers, and miners, etc. Absolutely no clue, and no attempt at a clue.

Such a bad viewpoint doesn't only reflect his old age, but also reflects his inherent ethics at a structural level from inception as a banker. It undermines his entire legacy.

Even on the history of money and its problems in developing countries, Munger would be schooled in a Twitter Spaces by any random above-average bitcoin twitter anonymous account.

It's sad to see.

preston 2y ago

I love it when Lyn is relentless. She’s always so MaYsured and prudent.

preston 2y ago

Ummm…why can’t I zap you, Sir?

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brugeman

Could this be useful?

https://spam.nostr.band/spam_api?method=get_current_spam

I collect events from all relays for the last hour, group events w/ common words/ngrams, find clusters of >100 events.

This API prints the stop-words for big clusters - if event contains all of words, it's most likely spam. Relays/clients could proactively match new events against these words, or periodically delete specific events/pubkeys.

Was playing with this today, will be using in my relay. It's updated close to real-time.

Also

https://spam.nostr.band/spam_api?method=get_current_spam&view=pubkeys

https://spam.nostr.band/spam_api?method=get_current_spam&view=events - BIG!

preston 2y ago

When you get everyone involved in solving spam, through free speech and free and open money, some really smart and interesting things emerge.

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