Not really. So far the race is on. Despite influencers promoting white noise it’s not any better than Keychat. Maybe the opposite.

Agree with your second paragraph. I definitely don't _want_ to control Bitcoin.

No idea why you think that's at all related to the screenshot, though

I have no problems whatsoever, but the counter party has to use Keychat too. Any relay I think even though why not use theirs

signal is not perfect but offers a pretty awesome tradeoff balance: great ux, reliable, strong privacy guarantees

matrix does not have auto delete messages and the apps are shit

simplex is solid but reliability and ux could be better

keet is not open source

whitenoise is promising but early

I generally despise politics and am neither a Republican or Democrat, but somebody needs to lay it out:

A Revolution--likely violent--is coming soon.

Income inequality in the US--and around the world--is reaching catastrophic proportions.

History says that this discrepancy in income and living standards is strongly correlated with Revolutions... usually bloody.

If the Ruling Elite and Billionaire Class don't address this developing situation with practical solutions in the near-term, then (I predict, based on historical precedent) that this will NOT end well for said Elites.

The current monetary and financial system has reached a breaking point and, if it is not proactively fixed, it will eventually be overthrown.

One clear example of the obnoxious and increasingly intolerable inequality is in the CEO-to-Worker compensation ratio (see graph).

Hope in the future of America is fading... and many lower income Americans are growing desperate.

In light of this and many other large (and widening) discrepancies, here are Five Fixes for the Ruling Elite and Billionaire Class to strongly consider (and quickly implement):

1. C-suite executives at all public and private US companies should immediately institute policies to lower their compensation packages and/or raise their Workers' compensation packages, in order to reach a CEO-to-Worker ratio of 30-to-1, or less.

2. Though long considered "untouchable," Social Security needs to be intelligently adjusted. I know many wealthy American seniors who neither need nor even want to receive Social Security payments, and would actually be relieved if their payments went instead to their fellow Americans who are suffering financially. -- SOLUTION: Immediately phase-out Social Security payments to senior Americans in the highest income deciles and transfer these same payments to younger Americans in the lowest income deciles.

3. A progressive (income-based) student debt jubilee. -- While I believe strongly in general debt repayment obligations, many recent college graduates are straddled with large levels of debt while available jobs are vanishing. Negative income and a negative net worth cannot be survived for long, as even basic food and shelter needs become out of reach. This becomes an impossible situation to navigate... eventually leading to desperate (likely violent) actions. -- Such hopelessness and aggression are already manifest in high and rising rates of drug and alcohol usage, riots, suicide, and homicide.

4. Disincentivize ownership of multiple homes. -- Many younger Americans are simply priced out of home ownership, while many older Americans own two or more homes. This discrepancy is increasingly insufferable to younger Americans. -- SOLUTION: Americans can easily be disincentivized to own more than one home through tax policy. Doing so would cause many older Americans to try to sell their additional homes, increasing market supply, and decreasing prices to a reasonable level.

5. Increase the progressive Death Tax for the ultra-wealthy. -- Allow entrepreneurial Billionaires and (soon) Trillionaires to enjoy the fruits of their labors while they are alive, but then let the living standards of all Americans be raised upon their passing. Multi-generational family dynasties are over-rated and generally unproductive. -- SOLUTION: Directly transfer progressive Death Tax proceeds to lower income Americans. Make these transfer payments open-source, so everyone can watch the benefits of the inventive and industrious citizens accrue to all Americans.

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Finally, I believe that the coming Age of AI and Robotics will only accelerate the above-mentioned trends and accentuate the need for shrewd and well-timed solutions.

It is time for the Ruling Elite and Billionaire Class to act while they still can, or (as history shows) the Worker Class will rise up and do the dirty work for them.

Is Luke the average noderunner? I don’t think so.

👇 Sounds about right for the average Knots noderunner.

Now if you profiled the average pro-Core v30 person, here’s what you’ll find:

- blue hair

- fagg

- socially retarded

- no kids

- doesn’t even run a node

- brokie

- never learned economics

- severely lacking in Sats

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When a regulated exchange gets an inquiry like that, the default and sensible answer is: No.

You could be a fed after all.

Have you had your exchange or bank account frozen for using privacy services? Email me via lola@therage.co (no DMs here)

imagine being margin called then waking up to this lmfao

20 years ago, the US Government tried to make the contents of this book illegal.

Today, it inspired the development of almost every encrypted app we use, from Signal to email and VPNs.

They lost then, and they will lose again now.

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A Pixel phone vs your HWW

Which is more secure?

(in terms of before-first-unlock state)

other than bolts.exchange, are there tools to send sats onchain and receive them in lightning?

other than bolts.exchange, are there tools to send sats onchain and receive them in lightning?

And zaps are gone again... sigh

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I doubt it code hasn't changed. It's baked in the protocol 516 days before the having is the bottom 516 days after the having is the top, it doesn't matter what happens. Look at all. The money sailor is putting in the price isn't moving because it's baked in the protocol.

On **average**, drivers are involved in about 3 to 4 accidents throughout their driving years.

Self-driving systems will save lives.

Elon resorting to overt censorship and algo manipulation because he was getting ratio’d will be looked at as the mask off moment.

21 and has 36 million from Bitcoin? nah i'm calling bs on early investor, bro probably sim swapped and rugged someone!

This hyper-modern mosque design.

David Bailey just posted the draft for an executive order for the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve under Trump – and it's an absolute nightmare for anyone using bitcoin as money.

First, the draft order defines Bitcoin as "a finite store-of-value asset, akin to digital gold."

As someone who has lived on Bitcoin for a fairly long time, I can say that Bitcoin is not merely a "store-of-value asset", but a money for payment and day to day purchases.

Defining Bitcoin as a "store-of-value asset" reinforces the ossification narrative (who needs to move a stonk several times in a day?) which may put developers at risk when prioritizing changes to btc to make it more usable as money (think scaling for example).

With this definition, a softfork to activate covenants may become an issue of US national security that goes against the US' definition of its primary goals - directly putting developers in the firing line of the United States Government.

The draft states that federal agencies, such as the US Marshall's Service, may not auction seized Bitcoin off, but must contribute them to the strategic reserve.

This not only reduces the Bitcoin in circulation available to the public, but additionally sets the incentive for the US to increase its seizing efforts – think increased AML/KYC.

While I'm no fan of the strategic reserve in general, this draft is an even bigger disappointment than Sen. Lummis' proposed Bitcoin Act.

To compare this to how El Salvador has implemented Bitcoin, which I admit I initially wasn't a fan of either, ES directly gives citizens rights to use Bitcoin as money - which is a huge upside to benefit the people, and not just the national security state.

No offense, but letting a couple of children that just graduated college and a guy who runs a magazine draft US policy is a scene straight out of idiocracy.

Next time, maybe try speaking to the people actually building and using bitcoin, not just to the boomers and national security goons that sit on the money like a fat kid at the cake buffet.

Incredibly unprofessional conduct here by BPI, a huge risk to anyone using Bitcoin for anything other than an investment, and a testament to the people involved being more interested in furthering their own importance than to empower people with a money without state.

Sincerely hope that this EO is drastically challenged on all levels and hopefully somehow deemed unconstitutional to protect btc and the people developing it.