Legit. It's on Tucker's Twitter. I can hardly believe it. Then again... #bigMike could actually be true 😂 truth is truly stranger than fiction.

... Real? I honestly can't tell anymore. This is why we need digital signatures on social media, so we know if a source actually put out something.

The problem: short, easily memorable yet unique naming scheme not dependent on a central database 🤔 a blockchain type solution may be necessary to establish and maintain consensus about who owns what name. However, I'd like to avoid a front-runner race to own the sub 5-letter domains. A strong PoW inversely proportional to the letter count might be necessary. I'll have to think about this more after my upcoming meeting.

The one weakness of Nostr I can see is the domain names/DNS/ICANN system. It's not that it is likely that a crack down on Nostr traffic comes via domain name registrars, but it's just that it's a centralized system that requires some approved actors. One way to get around its ip-host mapping and self-signed SSLs, but that seems like it's opening itself up four a lot of vulnerabilities.

A trusted npub signing an SSL for a specific ip-host pair could be an interesting thing to ponder.

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Thoughts? #askNostr

Very true. Usury will still be a thing, but it reduces the common person's vulnerability to it. It will also reduce the opportunities for the state to rob its citizenry.

Just found this late yesterday 👍 I have other work to do today, and I'll be chomping at the bit to work on this

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YouTube: plays actual video

Me: finally!

YouTube after 4 min and 57s: ad

Me: copies URL and pastes into Invidio.us

Me: finally watches in peace

😲 I was literally just Friday and today trying to reverse engineer another Nostr website login 🙏 this makes me excited!

Plot twist: his wallet was already low 😂

What is the US system of governance? The constitution, the three branches, or the decision-making apparatus? One exists because of the others, and without one the others cease to exist in actuality. The constitution animates the governmental body, and the decision-making apparatus is the collective senses and actions.

What is a human being? The chemical reactions and the mass, or the rational soul? The being only exists as the combination of the two. Remove the soul, the animating force, from the body, and life ceases. The body grows cold and returns to the earth. Even in an empirical standpoint, a body that ceases to move is dead and will return to earth, and this is simply a semantic difference.

The Bitcoin asset is sats, bitcoin, an integer value, etc. It is not otherwise named. The Bitcoin network is a collection of nodes setup by people do have agreed to play by the rules. The Bitcoin ledger is the blockchain, the database of addresses and balances tracked. The asset costs energy to produce and move. Mining costs energy and is rewarded with a credit to the miners' addresses, and in so doing also validate the movement of other previously mined bitcoin.

Cool! I'd like to shake her hand someday.

I have other StL Bitcoiner friends too. We get together on occasion. We'll have to organize joining this meetup.

It's a bit of a drive for me, but this is the closest bitcoin meetup for me. I'll eventually go. Let me know if this is a good group to attend.

It is the ledger, the asset tracked, the network, and the rules of engagement (the software standard).

I think we are narrowing in on something.

I've looked up other definitions of "commodity" and found this:

"A commodity is a basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other goods of the same type."

I like this definition, being both open and clear.

I didn't mean to imply that all phenomena which are systems of behavior not tied to particular groups would defacto be commodities, but I'll think about it more before I fully reject it.

What I meant is that Bitcoin does in fact exist, but not in the sense that water does, and more like in the manner that society and tornados do, as a collective phenomenon of action participants. It is a ledger, rules of engagement, a network of participants, and the unit of exchange within the network, each only existing for and because of the others. The composition of all those things exist for the sake of permissionless, stateless money.

Now, I do believe it to be a commodity. I don't know if it can be justified as the only of its kind, but certainly the first of its kind and only of its class, as all others are imitations or plain copies of it.

They don't exist in the same sense. One exists as material, a chemical composition, with mass and other such properties. The other exists as information. Might you say that YouTube, Google, and Nostr exist? That the New York stock exchange exists? Or that the largest identified prime number exists? (Rather, the record or proof of discovery.) Would you require them to exist in the same sense as water does?

This matters not as to whether Bitcoin is a commodity. What is required is that it is exchangeable, fungible, independent of a specific group of people, and is a basic good (not composed of other goods).

Some things exist as phenomena, like a vortices/tornados, society, or financial systems. These are composed of the motion of other things. Tornados don't exist in and of themselves but are the motion of bodies of air exchanging place, motivated by density differently caused mostly by temperature and gravity. Society is the organization, norms, and interactivity of individuals. Financial systems are mostly formal agreements about how to distribute goods, and the ones that exist are the ones that are enacted. The action of the participants make existent the composition.

Bitcoin is one such phenomenon. The network of free agents agree upon the rules of engagement, and their actions cause Bitcoin to exist.

Basic goods do not depend on other goods to exist as exchangeable items/material. Wheat, gold, bitcoin, water, etc. can be transferred as such, whereas equity in real estate, stocks, etc. are not the basic asset itself but an exchangeable ownership of it, and insurance as an asset or good is a contract, not a basic good but an agreement between parties with a quantifiable value derived by the probability of the need versus the cost of acquisition.

Bitcoin is unique in this respect, however, because it is both the asset and the method of exchange.

When the work is a net negative to the child. Light farm work can be fun and healthy for a child and beneficial to the family. Just don't make the 8y/o chuck bales of hay. Keep him in the garden pulling weeds and harvesting peppers, or throwing flakes of hay to the goats and sheep.

Child acting and fame can be psychologically damaging to a child, even if the casting couch issue is solved (by #millstones?).

Thanks! It's a Filippo Loreti automatic. I like it ⌚

My pipe, actually. I might light up later today to relax on this Labor Day.

#coffeeChain decided on no cream or stevia for my coffee this morning

(espresso style #aeropress)

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