It’s definitely improving. Would like to a see a solution where custodians and beneficiaries don’t know about the time lock and don’t get access to your public key. Perhaps it could be split / sharded and later delivered privately to the beneficiary. 🤷♂️ 
Especially the current inability to do secure self-custody with inheritance in a private way.
I must be missing something though. 🧐 How is censorship even possible if the templates are not created by the pool but rather created by the miners? Wasn’t that the whole point of decentralization? 🤷♂️
So, uh, hate to break it to all those cheering for @npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze so far but it seems they’re already censoring transactions intentionally…
Details here:
https://x.com/checksum0/status/1730004768410493183?s=46
How it started: How it’s going:
“It’s for the greater good”™️
Make sure you also say, “oh, I’m so sorry” when they tell you they’ve had covid a dozen times.
If you’re looking for a quick and dirty way to add fuzzy search and stemming, try tokenizing the lowercase string into character triplets, including spaces:
[ th,e q,uic,k b,row,n f,ox ] and sorting by highest count of matching tokens.
The problem is that most countries have a federal income tax which is the most powerful way to raise revenue.
This makes the states / provinces dependent on the federal govt for handouts. It will be hard for these provinces to stay independent but I hope they can.
If you use nostr:npub168euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzq4s9uaw you can pay with sats to protect your personal information.
That definitely helps, but they will still have your IP address, if they decide to collect it. You’re subject to their privacy policy and whether they can resist govt pressure. You’re forced to trust the VPN provider — which is not how privacy should be.
There are some new VPNs that claim to have no ability to log your IP, but they’re not widespread. My point is only that we can’t expect normies to understand that they need a VPN and moreover which type of VPN to use.
I’m suggesting that it’s better to just bake in privacy into the nostr protocol to benefit everyone, including non-technical folks.
I’m thinking freedom software should have best practices enabled by default.
VPNs may hide your IP address from the nostr relay, but most don’t hide your IP address and traffic from the VPN company, who probably even has your personal payment details 🍯.
At some point, if we’re serious about defensable free speech and freedom to transact, we need to build privacy into the base layer.
thankful for spooks in canada and nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 for reminding me of the importance of non-kyc lightning apps such as #robosats. Decided to ditch shakepay today and will be focusing no-kyc exchanges only. The ux in these apps are pretty rough. Looking forward to contributing to these when I can.
I would love a native client for robosats, bonus with an order book backed by nostr. So much work to be done here.
Nostr should prioritize enabling IP privacy
I lost a bit of faith in Poilievre when he went hard at Christine Anderson. Not sure why that happened and he never backtracked / apologized. So strange.
I travel a lot and I generally try to avoid Canada now. I visited after the pandemic and, honestly, it felt a bit like visiting a hospital. The people I knew there were all suffering from something. Financial problems, health issues, etc. Amazing people but seems like the whole country is far off the path and will have a long hike back to prosperity.
Hopefully Poilievre can turn it around. 🤞
I prefer the libertarian, “do unto others as you would have them do to you”. As I understand those listed schools, the Golden Rule doesn’t fit neatly in any of them.
Get ready for carbon footprint quotas, travel restrictions and an 85% reduction in your living standards... #degrowth #ClimateScam
https://bombthrower.com/coming-soon-your-travel-will-be-restricted-by-personal-carbon-allowances/
Canada seems like a particularly crazy place. A nation founded by people who didn’t want independence and preferred to be ruled by a monarch. I hope freedom-oriented folks living there have a plan B.
In the other hand, I do feel the pendulum peaking and perhaps starting to move the other way, ever so slightly. We’re starting to see the rise of the “far right” in other countries. Perhaps it’s a sign that people are finally getting fed up and willing to do something about it.
Watch this. The car that exploded at the border was traveling at incredible speed. Launched into the air and sailed hundreds of feet??
I’m guessing sudden death. 💉Foot on accelerator. Feel bad for his wife.
BlackRock needs bitcoin for their ETF.
What is the chance the $4.3 billion fine to be paid by Binance is in bitcoin? 🤔
nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev, I dare you to boost me or reply.
Where bitcoiners go wrong with modern health accusations (seed oils, vaccines, etc) is that they are trying to apply praxeology to a field that is not conducive to doing so. Praxeology makes sense in economics: you can deduce so much about the economy just by making a few simple assumptions about human action.
However, you can't make any assumptions in medicine based on the supposed mechanism of how a vaccine works. Unless you have god-like understanding of how ALL the molecules, proteins, genes are going to react to a medicine, food, vaccine , etc, then you have to rely on data in aggregate from studies to inform your thinking. Praxeologists want to believe because a vaccine has a miniscule heavy metal in it that in large amounts causes brain damage, that this must mean it is the cause of the increased rates of autism.
But the funny thing is that the same people then like to quote statistics to help their cause as well. There are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Statistics can easily be molded to fit a narrative and it's been seen over and over again that people will quote correlative studies claiming causation. Are the rates of autism going up? Yes. Is there likely an environmental cause? Yes. But there have been so many more environmental factors happening in the last half century other than just vaccines: pesticides, pollution, PFAS, processed food additives, etc. All those things should be fought against. I'm on your side on that one. But at least vaccines have an intended benefit of preventing childhood illnesses like polio. So please send me your study that definitively links or at the least plausibly correlates vaccines and autism; I'd love to be educated.
Just don't send me the one that got this all started by Andrew Wakefield, who was found to have falsified his data to try and prove a correlation between MMR vaccines and autism.
I'm a bitcoiner through and through, but let's not conflate Bitcoin maximalism and pseudoscience.
The problem is that none of the information on the topic is trustworthy.
The pharma companies themselves are clearly untrustworthy. Criminal fines, etc.
It’s clear that medical journals, regulators and researchers are captured by big pharma. So you cant trust the studies nor the regulators.
The pharma companies even have no liability for the products.
All you know is that some of the ingredients are probably toxic. You don’t know how it will affect you or your family.
The best you can do is to research the harms that might befall you if you get sick with the disease, and do a risk-reward assessment, minimizing your exposure to these medical products only for the worst of the potential diseases. You’re rolling the dice either way.
The currency designer must be a bitcoiner 
