Bitcoin will make fiat money look ridiculous.
Nostr will make fiat communication look ridiculous.
We need to build tools on Bitcoin and Nostr that make fiat governance look ridiculous too. Voluntary tools for contact enforcement, property rights, and justice.
It's been an honor to work with such awesome, motivated, and passionate people on such a cool project. Super proud of what we were able to put together. nostr:note1w3emtj7h6z8eh3qftjm2pp3nfg4vvmf89hfjjpa5g7clzfrw879szqwxpu
Build tools that replace the state. nostr:npub16zxfxy5ltnp992gp006jlyy9qc93qanzpfvv66fznvc7xul0ej0suk5dzc has done some amazing work on this front. See his paper on replacing state courts: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O7BlWJKdNNyjorkaoCS7dY_6k6Y1lvdp0B4EH60JC08/edit?usp=drivesdk, I found it extremely uplifting.
What's the difference between civilization-destroying software and a former vice president playing guitar at a talent show?
One's an algorithm and one's an Al Gore rhythm
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4344366-al-gore-calls-social-media-algorithms-digital-ar-15s/
As someone who has run a lightning node for almost 2 years now, my opinion on average Bitcoiners running their own node has changed from "it's a great learning experience" to "it's a big time sink and a nontrivial risk and probably isn't worth the effort".
Lightning is centralizing! And I don't think that's a bad thing. It just makes more sense to have a handful of very large nodes that handle most transactions. It is, and will always be, permissionless and non-custodial at the protocol level. There's no barrier to entry if someone wants to start a routing node other than liquidity and good capital management.
I disagree - you could just as easily argue that by NOT soft forking to CTV, you are censoring my CTV transactions that I want to publish.
The difference between soft forking and censoring is similar to plugging your ears in an auditorium vs forcibly silencing the speaker. One is voluntary and peaceful, the other is violent and prevents others from listening.
Unchosen federations are the problem. Voluntary opt-in federations are _part of_ the solution.
sorry not sorry sharing some absolute cuteness courtesy of nostr:npub1ahxjq4v0zlvexf7cg8j9stumqp3nrtzqzzqxa7szpmcdgqrcumdq0h5ech 🥹 be still my hodlin’ heart!! 🧡 
My wife loves the moon one! Where can we buy one? 👀
There are people alive today who were born before this. How on earth have they not looked back through the tunnel of time and realized something is catastropically wrong?
In a fiat system, complaining and manipulation can get you resources. It's like being able to get fruit from a tree just by telling it you're hungry. As the money dries up and the free stuff goes away, I'm seeing the complaining and manipulation ramp up. Is anyone else noticing this trend? I hope people are able to course correct and figure out that we're headed for a world where you must provide value to receive value.
If that's the case, they're basically scapegoating him right?
WorldCoin dude loses his gig leading world’s most invogue corporation.
sama fired?!
Did not see that one coming.
https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition
From OpenAI's website. Definitely more going on here than meets the eye... 
Did you know that, near the fall of the Roman Empire, Rome had debased its silver Denarius so heavily that it actually stopped accepting it as a payment for taxes? The government stopped accepting its own currency! Instead they demanded payment in commodities such as grain, oil, and gold. Imagine if the US government required that taxes be paid in commodities. Bitcoin and gold would likely be the most commonly used, rather than food. At the surface it sounds like a Bitcoiner's dream to be able to pay your taxes in Bitcoin! But in Rome, it wasn't a move to a free and open monetary system. It was an admission of defeat which coincided with increased economic control, restrictions on movement, increased social and occupational rigidity, and military & bureaucratic expansion.
Asked ChatGPT to "Make a meme about Bitcoin mempools being full and transaction fees being high, and Bitcoiners pretending to be fine with it but secretly being concerned" 
Yep that's true, but for situations where you just want two computers that both have potentially nonstatic IP addresses to be able to talk to each other and perfect security isn't needed, this could still be a great protocol to have
Is there an implementation for gRPC over NIP04? And if not, would anyone else be interested in this? Using Nostr DMs as a transport layer for sending and receiving Protocol Buffer messages would allow for computers to find each other based on their nPub rather than a static IP address.
#asknostr
Does anyone know if a Protobuf-over-NIP04 implementation exists yet? Using relays for serverless communication would be super cool!
