The sad part is that most of big pictures of Foss promoters like stallman don't understand bitcoin.

My two sats: we’ve been confusing the protocol for the product. This is true for nostr as well as bitcoin.

Regarding use cases: they are in the places where there is a valuable, but an unmet job to be done for a group of people or businesses.

The combination of the interconnectedness of nostr, bitcoin and AI give us a toolkit that can be combined together to approach old problems in new and interesting ways. You just have to keep your ear to the ground and pay close attention to the needs of friends, family, colleagues, etc.

It’s in those new and interesting ways that we’ll attract people to come and give the tools we’re building a shot.

it’s very difficult to acknowledge alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine as poisons

Ever since around 2013/2014, bitcoin’s price has closely followed the rate of change in the growth of global broad money supply (M2) in USD terms.

In other words, from the perspective of macro investors (which are generally different than network users), it is the asset that best serves as a pure-play on changes in global liquidity. It’s a hedge against monetary inflation, not CPI inflation.

Notably, the dollar index relative to other major currencies strongly affects global monetary inflation.

So in order to have a view on price within any intermediate term timeframe (eg the people calling for new ATH prior to the next halving), it’s important to have a view on global monetary inflation and liquidity, because that is primarily where new external demand comes from.

Right now, bitcoin is a coiled spring on the supply side (fast money is out, coins have rotated towards strong illiquid hands), but the demand side (and thus the price) is largely a question of global liquidity.

Clone yourself digitally

"I don't know where I'm going, but I do know why. I want to be free."

10 years ago I made this prototype board by hand before sending it off for mass production.

There are about 300 individual parts soldered onto on this board, the smallest of them are so tiny that I had to build a DIY pic and place thing using an aquarium pump and an insulin syringe.

I reversed the diaphragm in the aquarium pump so it sucked air in instead of pushing it out, and ran a tube through a sealed box so I can turn the pressure on/off with my toe. The negative pressure makes the tiny component stick to the tip of the syringe and when I lift my toe up the negative pressure drops and the syringe lets go of the component.

The trick is to have all 300 parts layed out in some logical sequence so that you can rapidly pick them up and place them on the right spot on the board, if you take longer than about 2 hours the solder paste goes kind of stale, which is fine for simple circuits but not something as sensitive as this board which is RF.

What's the finished device? It's a software defined radio, giving you arbitrary access to send and receive radio from 0-6GHz.

This means that you can prototype new radio protocols and devices in software instead of hardware, making the iteration time an order of magnitude faster.

The most fun I had with this particular board was opening and closing random people's garage doors and watching their reaction, I wrote a script that automagically did replay attacks whenever someone nearby opened a garage door. Most automatic garage door openers become vulnerable to replay attacks after about 6 years when the memory on their rolling code thing starts to overflow. Cars from before 2010 are usually pretty vulnerable too.

Actually scratch that, the most fun I had was setting off all the meal beeper things in a crowded food court and watching 30 people try to collect their meal at the same time. I guess manufactureres should really just stop being lazy and put at least basic security.

Oh wait, actually the most fun I had with this was something related to commercial aircraft that STILL hasn't been patched after 6 years and I'm not going to post publicly.

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Mathematics & code fixes this.

It's what the cypherpunks taught & have given to us.

Why seek legal recognition of these rights? To do so, you'd need to take risks in meatspace by proposing & supporting them.

I'm asking earnestly & in good faith. Have you registered your intentions regarding this?

I feel the Truth in your words.

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It's so unnecessary.

Neither the payment nor the identity require trust.

The p2p opportunities that this will open up will be huge.

It's happening, maybe.

10000ed and 1984ed

FEW

But we're you being chased by dinosaurs 🦖?

Apparently I walked 100km in May.

Take our money #[3]

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