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Martin Lowe
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Argumentation theorist. I write stuff.

I tried to make GPT help me write a program to show charts. We got stuck quite a few times, but it’s not a bad teacher (except it needed constant remining to explain stuff).

Loving the contrast between tradfi and bitcoiners these days.

They’re running around with their hair on fire, nervously watching graphs through late hours and postponing plans.

Bitcoiners are calmly stacking sats, making plans and hanging out, knowing that everything is going according to plan.

I noticed my Coinbase app has a tab called web3, so I had a look at the social dapps.

What a fucking joke. It’s not apps and whatever it is isn’t social. It’s all obvious money-making schemes that reek of hype.

It’s the opposite of Nostr in every way.

Where Nostr is one click and you’re in, Dapps have insanely complicated and expensive barriers to entry.

Where Nostr mostly looks cheap and buggy, dapps have slick designs that ooze of VC money and marketing teams.

Where Nostr is a bubbling cauldron of innovation, dapps make vague promises.

I bet more useful innovation happened here this week alone than the entire altcoin space has produced since inception.

This will be the big one.

Not just in terms of attracting users, but also attention from the federal government.

Anarchists are just libertarians without autism.

To the average person in the year 2500, the brightest minds of our time will seem as well informed as medieval shepherds seem to us.

Bitcoin proves why echo chambers are actually a good, both for the individual and civilization.

👎: "If you don’t understand what makes free markets great, you can’t understand what makes Bitcoin great."

👍: "If you understand what makes Bitcoin great, you’ll also understand what makes free markets great."

Habla.news doesn’t load for me. I just get an error.

My 2 sats:

I’ve often been wondering how much money developers have actually received. Some kind of counter could show people in real time how the finances are going. Seems the best solution.

It may not be feasible to put all your income and expenses out there, but some kind of gauge would be great. Kinda like they do on Twitch?

You pay them to send bitcoin to someone who will give your friend dollars

PoS, while useless for securing a currency, will do for this network. The advantages with PoW become disadvantages here: we actually want maximum speed, not "security" (in this case minimal bad actors). A small fee for relays would probably do nicely. Eg. a massive spam attack would require an equally massive transfer of BTC to the relay operator, which they can then use to fight the bots with a profit.

There is no delete in social life either. Can’t unsay stuff