Mandibles then bitcoin standard
Gradually then suddenly!
My nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq68euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzqf35lee ran out of time. Topping up with Lightning literally took me 2 seconds and payment was processed instantly. Why can't all online payments look like this?
what did you use? can't see the lightning option natively..
Why not take a whole column? 😀
Not an expert but here goes.
Suppose you have a wallet - actually a lightning wallet makes this very real - with 2000 sats.
You are going to become a mint by running some software to convert these sats into "ecash" and giving them to people who are going to use your system.
Ecash is some cryptographic magic which packages the sats up into chunks or "notes" of eg 5 sats each - i.e. "minting". These are the equivalent of dollar bills or coins (tho any denomination is possible). Any user can get you to authenticate a note with 100% confidence, so they know it is legit part of the 2000 and represents actual satoshis - but crucially they can do this while staying completely anonymous to you.
This means the sats can be sent around between users, with you validating the transactions, but you cannot know anything about who is sending them to who. The transations system are essentially instant and extremely cheap - because there's no blockchain or distributed network, it's just you.
The trade of iss that its a centralized system, which depends entirely on you not to steal all the funds.
Importantly, from the outside it looks and behaves just like any lighthing wallet. So your users can also send and receive outside of the network and it just looks like a regular lightning payment going through your wallet - all the privacy within your network is preserved.
To me its obvious this is the future of hot wallets and scaling bitcoin. You have to trust the operator (though there are mitigations to this, eg through federations where multiple people have to collude to steal - and most people do this anyway) but beyond that it is essentially perfect money: maximally private, instant and cheap.
i take it as an opportunity to disconnect for a bit
i am fickle af tho tbf 😀
Sounds like an attack vector..
He must have known he was risking his career but did the right thing anyway!
I'm old enough to remember when the CIA wanted clearance to murder Julian Assange for doing this
It's literally not your money once you have given it to them. They can do what they want with it
Fun fact (I'm sure you know already): if they paid it off there would literally be no dollars 😁
"People demonstrate against Israel’s genocidal atrocities? That’s antisemitism — those protesters need to be silenced, arrested, and deported. People object to blatant Zionist influence in their governments? Antisemitic conspiracy theories; we need more hate speech laws and internet censorship. Palestinians take up armed resistance against their oppressors? Israel is the victim of unprovoked attacks from Jew-hating Arabs.
Even real anti-Jewish prejudice benefits the Zionists, because it strengthens the narrative about an urgent crisis of antisemitism which must be crushed by any amount of force necessary, as well as the narrative that Jews need a nation of their own where they can feel safe. So Israel can openly mass murder children while Israeli officials make overt statements of genocidal intent, and if someone blames all Jews for this because they see a state committing atrocities under the banner of the Star of David while claiming to represent all Jews, it only benefits Israel and its supporters.
(As an aside, this is why it’s so important not to blame this on “the Jews”. It’s not just that it’s inaccurate — not all Jews are Zionists, the majority of Zionists are non-Jews, and some of the most effective anti-Zionists in the world happen to be Jewish — it’s that you’re doing exactly what the Zionists and the empire propagandists want you to do. You’re doing their job for them. Don’t be a pro bono Israel propagandist. Make them work for that shit.)"
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-exists-simultaneously-as-the
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #HumanRights #Genocide #Zionism #Antisemitism
It's so obvious now that the rest of the deep state has gone, ish, that USA is completely controlled by Israel
I think it is too obvious, and can't last now. I've spoken to Americans who were totally brainwashed before and even they are saying something is not right
I dunno, I think this a step on the path.
Previously there was so much deep state bs going on, the Israel influence could kinda hide. But now it's just ridiculously obvious and I think people will start copping on. This bs can't survive in the internet era, tho its not clear how long before it crashes.
Eg a lot of ppl will wake up if eg Epstein stuff still gets covered up.
Its becoming hilariously obvious that USA is a puppet for Israel.
Stop giving USA money to foreign countries (except Israel)
Stop wars (except Israels)
Free speech is precious (unless criticize Israel)
We will blow the lid on Epstein (uh....)
He's carrying out the instructions of a recently elected president with a huge mandate.
What are you looking for here, a suspension of democracy?
nope, i think basically all human progress (culture, technology) stopped in 1990s
it seemed back then like we had a major new genre every 6 months
if you played a song from 1955 in 1990 it would be an 'oldie' from a completely different period
go anywhere in 2025 and you will hear tunes from 1990 that are still current
some speculation as to why: https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-big-thaw-thursday-february-6
basically the deep state
Yep they're both *literally* and explicitly socialism.
Fascism = National Socialism
Communication = International Socialism
One of the great magic tricks of the modern era is to get people to think they're different
