How do I know it isn't the hacker posting this and telling people to follow _his_ new npub instead?

Step one: let the American people keep more of their paychecks.

Step two: initiate tariffs to cover the lost tax revenue, but only after eliminating waste spending

Step three: companies raise prices on imported goods due to tariffs or choose to manufacture in America.

Step four: Americans have more money because of tax elimination, but spend more money because of increased pricing downstream of tariffs.

Step five: because of lower taxes, companies can hire more people and/or lower prices, which means greater value added to the economy and balancing down the tariff price increases

Step six: more people in the workforce and lower taxes means local economies see a big boost since more value, and thus more money, is made but doesn't have to leave via taxation.

Step seven: the greater opportunity gives young people hope, and they enter the workforce with greater zeal, further increasing the economy

Step eight: the greater economy makes the tariff price hikes not feel too bad.

Step nine: people marry and make more babies because hope is restored, and the cycle of prosperity continues.

Does Nostr have a good number of crunchy, traditional, and/or Christian/Catholic SAHMs here?

If we don't, what can Nostr offer them that Facebook and Insta don't? For one thing, no censorship of "vaccine hesitancy" posts.

Thinking about scaling again.

Side chains with their Merkle tree roots entangled with on-chain settlements. The whole side chain doesn't need to be stored on any node, only that incoming side chain transactions come with proof of funds with a root-branch-leaf of that particular source. The node will then incorporate that transaction and relay to other nodes, continually pruning the tree as leaves go empty. It makes for a heavier transmitted transaction message, but a basically zero storage footprint. Downside is needing to re-sign transactions that don't go through if it doesn't get propagated quickly between root publishes. The actual transaction can get thrown away once the tree is updated, so the node only needs Bitcoin and the side chain's root. Haven't thought through cross-tree and L1-L2 transactions, yet.

#scaling #Bitcoin #L2 #sideChain

Time to dismantle the healthcare, insurance, big food, big pharma, CDC, FDA industrial complex! Make America healthy again!

#doge #maga

Finishing up the #blockSizeWar, and dang! This history is fascinating!

This clarified a bunch of things, and I am not terribly hopeful anymore that a block size hard fork will ever be possible on Bitcoin. It seems more and more that the only scaling route that doesn't get rid of self-custody is drive chains and lightning combined.

Is it… normal to be showing full nsec keys on the right of your screenshot? 😅

Love the game! 🔥

Hear me out: Nostr Minecraft integration

Noticing the login asks for your NSEC and password. Isn’t the NSEC the password?

The big blockers sock puppet attacked the forums. You can call self defence censorship if you want… but like you say, you weren’t there.

Whoever told you this seems to have a very one-sided view of history. I suggest you read the book The Blocksize War.

In any case, Bitcoin has built-in conflict resolution. Those who wanted to scale an exponential network in a linear way lost, both technically and in the market.

If Nostr was around during the block size wars, would the bitcoin software have changed direction?

I learned recently that, while I was still new to bitcoin, the big blockers were kicked from the forums. No wonder I didn't really header much about it. Censorship hurt the community and caused a split on the network.

Unity is deeply important, and that was a bad call by the Core devs and forum mods. I think it's also bad that those two sets had such overlap.