I am at a macro/commodity conference that is very popular among gold investors, and I kid you not the gentleman who runs the details of the conference is named Goldfinger.

Yes, that is part of “regulation” and control versus letting prices fall to society. Robots will be taxed too.

We should ask, why is oxygen not taxed?

All ideas to keep society on a treadmill of ever higher prices and expanding government so that same government and big corporations benefiting from the theft of the productivity gains can pretend to solve them. (And many people will fall for it).

The good news is that the parallel system built on #Bitcoin doesn’t care. It just prices the real market and gets stronger while the other one gets weaker and more chaotic.

Yes, that is part of “regulation” and control versus letting prices fall to society. Robots will be taxed too.

We should ask, why is oxygen not taxed?

All ideas to keep society on a treadmill of ever higher prices and expanding government so that same government and big corporations benefiting from the theft of the productivity gains can pretend to solve them. (And many people will fall for it).

The good news is that the parallel system built on #Bitcoin doesn’t care. It just prices the real market and gets stronger while the other one gets weaker and more chaotic.

is this on their website or something? what is a VASP?

Oh no, they aren’t going to block the exits……. Dear god, this parachute is a napsack!!!!

So y’all got plans tomorrow then?

find me 10 normal people out in the world who even know what PGP stands for, let alone have their own keyset. (non-engineers, nontechnical types)

I'll wait.

The money lost by people in FTX, Celsius, BitBoy, BlockFi and many, many others is on the heads of those that made this scamming normal. Namely, VCs, altcoin founders, marketers/influencers who are all not just rent seekers, but straight up scammers.

As with nearly all things PGP, nobody bothers to use it. Plus, PGP verification isn’t part of any nostr account verification mechanism I’m aware of? See the NIP05 link I posted, good jumping off point to learn more about the protocol.

This is a Nostr specific verification and will show in clients

You don’t “need” to be verified, it’s just nice to be able to prove you’re a real account vs one controlled by an impersonator, bot, etc.