i definitely left twitter, aka X. my account has been deleted. there’s an incentive for spam, manipulation, and validation farming on that platform. if that wasn’t enough, it was clear the game was rigged.
i’m done with that, specially when it comes to discussing publicly about bitcoin.
here on nostr, the audience is so niche that it only makes sense to be present if you are interested in that specific niche. i believe algorithmic autonomy and decentralization are becoming increasingly desirable for regular people, which means in the long term this will eventually cease to be a niche. we will then encounter spam, manipulation, and validation farming. i suppose i will cross that bridge when i get there.
the good thing is nostr is an open protocol, so there will always be more social sovereignty to seize.
energy is the apex abstraction for all human activity.
you can think what you want about digital technology, the internet, computers, ai, et al. — the truth is electricity is its only means of existence, so it's simply inevitable they will shift towards whatever unit of value that abstracts energy and electricity into a unit of account.
over the last few weeks, it has been proven that lightning, in the most practical, real-world terms, is not censorship-resistant.
"you can use lightning in a self-custodial manner" is just as true as "nobody does."
the ux is flawed from its root—the inbound liquidity problem is unacceptable, sorry—so we accepted the compromise of centralization by relinquishing self-custody and made all the mainstream ways of using lightning vulnerable to state-backed DoS attacks.
before you jump out of your chair: fuck big blocks and fuck changing the base layer. bitcoin's limited block size and allowing fees to float based on demand on a true free market not only favors decentralization but also makes it prohibitively expensive to spam the network and to perform DoS attacks against it.
but we need to do something about lightning. we either need to re-think it from the ground up, or we must find new alternatives.
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layer 1 smart contract for proof of stake and airdrop of nfts and cross chain atomic swap for rollups and iot and ai utility token for decentralized finance defi and decentralized autonomous organization dao for decentralized exchanges dex and liquidity pools for yield farming and stablecoins and wrapped tokens and zero-knowledge proofs zk-snarks for sharding and sidechains and state channels for off-chain computation and interoperability and decentralized storage and decentralized identity solutions for multi-chain ecosystems and layer 2 scaling solutions for decentralized lending and borrowing and flash loans for automated market makers amms and governance tokens for non-fungible token nft marketplaces and fractional nft ownership and decentralized insurance and prediction markets for decentralized social networks and privacy coins for decentralized cloud computing and decentralized virtual reality vr and augmented reality ar applications for tokenized real-world assets and decentralized supply chain management solutions and decentralized advertising platforms for decentralized gaming ecosystems
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sold the ATH and upgraded my home gym, time for a better squat rack
we are not the sam, fuck lambos
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I just randomly came across your profile while scrolling through someone else’s followers. I’m a fellow Ayn Rand fan and recently wrote my first substack post on a Fountainhead related topic: https://open.substack.com/pub/soirbleu/p/djokovic-roark?r=o7r8l&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I’m obviously still learning but in case it peaks your interest, I’d love your feedback!
Thanks so much for sharing this. I’ll give it a read!
