Uuuuugggg its socializing with regular people season

How to deal with smart people that don't know about Bitcoin

It can be intimidating to talk to someone that's smart that spouts nonsense about Bitcoin. Arguing with them is going to be difficult because they likely have flawed economic thinking that is at the core of their beliefs.

If you're arguing with a socialist, for example, they're likely to have some form of class struggle or oppressor/oppressed paradigms that guide all their thinking. If you're arguing with a mainstream economist, they're likely to view centralized monetary control as a good thing. If you're arguing with a gold bug, they're likely to deny the value of digital things.

It's a pretty heavy lift to argue with these people, because, most likely, they haven't studied Bitcoin in any depth. But if you want engagement, start with their assumptions about the current system. Do they know how it works? Do they understand that all money comes from loans? Do they get that inflation destroys savings and that it's a stealth taxation? At the very least, this should get them on a field that's a little more neutral and fact based. But it's also possible that they may understand all these things and still be against Bitcoin. What then?

You can move from there to whether freedom, particularly property rights are a good thing. Even the most ardent socialists don't like having property taken away from them. And really, this is a moral issue that's very intuitive. Usually, you can make headway that property rights, especially over savings is a good thing.

Finally, you can move to Bitcoin. Do they understand that it's decentralized? That it's digital and that digital things can have value? This is where you need to avoid the stupid economics of the mainstream, who like talking about velocity and unemployment and so on. Those are all irrelevant to the fact that Bitcoin is good money.

Nostr-based team sharing when?

I really need some non-google and non-MS based collaborative platforms to be able to plan stuff without needing BS logins. I have stuff to plan with other nostriches and it would be insulting to the spirit of the nostr protocol to involve draconian Spyware in the process.

Here's what I envision: tying a local install of Libre office together via a relay with controlled access via nsec, with file sharing portal and different permissions based on npub/nsec.

Is this possible? No, I can't code. If it is possible, is it feasible?

#asknostr #collaboration #toolsforplebs #plebchain #grownostr

LOL at least you made it out. That had to be tough

How can a dude meet plebs around here #introductions

The talking points have gone out...

Ok, I think it’s time for me to shut up and be productive. 🐶🐾🫡💪🏻

If you look at the public lightning stats, it says everything is shrinking, but the self custody wallets like Zeus, Mutiny and Phoenix are all using private channels, so they don't show up on the stats right?

Did the lightning network actually grow and improve privacy in 2023?

🔥 you got it.....

Microstrategy will blow up this cycle. And well deserved, too.

What'll be really fun is when other companies copy their strategy to get the same returns.

We don't need an ETF, the entire stock market will soon be a Bitcoin ETF.

Pay attention to the fud. It tells you what they fear.

Bitcoin is used for money laundering. (It is semi anonymous and they might not always know whom is paying who and what for.)

Bitcoin is used to fund criminals and terrorists. (They are unable to control or censor transactions.)

Bitcoin will boil the oceans, will take all of the energy, and consumes swimming pools with every transaction. (Proof of Work means that they cannot capture and control it with laws and regulations. It would require actual tangible assets and energy that cannot just be printed.)

Bitcoin offers anonymity, uncensorable transactions, and cannot be stopped just by writing a new law. Everything that absolutely terrifies those who want to control you and everyone else.

The fud is becoming ever more ridiculous and easily dismissed. It reeks of desperation and means that bitcoin is winning.

- GHOST