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Bitcoin & šŸ«‚ Oh and dimly trying to think through interesting issues. I think that I don’t have a right to force you to do anything other than not harm me or others. Seems like most people I interact with in the real world disagree with this statement. To be fair.. the devil is in definition of ā€œharmā€.

Lmk if you’d like a more detailed response, but pressed for time at the moment, it sounds like we are feeling out the tension between social regulation / correlation of thought as a good and a bad thing. I think both parts are there. I just think (maybe too optimistically given the number of Q followers) that we will get used to the fact that nyms haven’t supplied the proof of willingness to get negatively affected by their opinions and therefore should value them more when they say edgy stuff. šŸ«‚

I do think the rise of LLMs wil bring this question to a head. I don’t want to talk to an LLM all day, my mind gradually bending to its hidden agenda. Only real humans please. Preferably respectable ones.

Address reuse is rampant haha. I suppose we could post as a new one each time..

#meme #memes #applewatcb

Open app to receive dopamine. Er.. I mean zaps. Same thing anyway lol. Dang. Can’t wait for it to be available.

ā€œWe assume that the Bitcoin community has agreed on and deployed a quantum-resistant signature scheme, either as a measure of precaution or as a reaction to the appearance of a (fast) QCA. Independent of quantum computing, our protocol can be generally applied to react to the appearance of vulnerabilities rooted in Bitcoin’s public key cryptography. The transition can be implemented as a soft fork using a similar approach as, for example, SegWit ā€œ

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180410

Interesting… my understanding was that quantum computers should be able to reverse the elliptic curve signature, so the existence of a signed transaction (and maybe an address) on the chain would make it possible to find the secret key, and therefore find and move all the UTXOs controlled by that private key. Or at least have the information needed to claim to own if we were to see miners reacting by stopping all new transactions other than coinbase ones until it was sorted out.

I’ll have to read some more.

What you’re saying makes sense now, that the P2PKH ones would be first. I was going to say that we’d see Satoshi addresses move first, but maybe they’d avoid those to avoid at

reducing how much they can convert to some other asset (atomic swap?) before people start reacting.

Fascinating to think what their strategy might be… move 1B all at once? Do it slowly over time? Design their work to look like traditional hacking instead?

Some great comments here. Allow me to blather a bit.

"By only voicing your dissent anonymously you are reinforcing the frame of the censor"

- by discouraging anonymity you reinforce the power of the censor, not just directly, but also indirectly by causing people to mindlessly self-censor and never realize they might actually believe the forbidden stance if they entertained it.

"So what to make of the fact that the world's first decentralized, peer-to-peer content protocol is filled with anonymous handles? The optimistic view is it's just a remnant of centralized media where someone really could throttle your reach or de-platform you for wrong-think, and anonymity were more necessary."

- Bitcoin is pseudonymous. Nostr is less so. I think humans have a flaw, and that is that we have a hard time loving people in the real world that we know think differently than us. Sometimes we kill them. Sometimes we simply don't hire them. That's why we have laws to protect freedom of speech. Laws that don't prevent people from being hired by a private company because of wrong think. A lawsuit is so much more messy than just being a nym and not having to deal with it at all. Anonymity tempers those weakness.

"creativity-killing self-censorship resulting therefrom"

- yeah once the net effect on creativity is 50/50 maybe we start discouraging nym use. For now, it doesn't even close. Anecdotally, a while ago I said something to a friend that could easily have gotten me cancelled in the recent environment. For 24 hours I stressed over whether he would go to the presses. I watch as my mind convinced myself I didn't mean it. No wait, i did! I couldn't have.. In the end I had no idea whether the gears of social pressure and possible exile had changed my mind, or whether I had actually discovered my error.

What data could we use to inform whether we should be discouraging or encouraging nym use?

When you copied the answers, but changed them a little so the teacher wouldn’t know

It’s pretty. Wonder what it feels like. Other than feeling like freedom ofc

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Alternate: this is what Kiev would look like if Russia had air dominance