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Nostr is not the problem.

OUR STENCH IS THE PROBLEM 😭

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And promoting shitcoins as well!

Nostr is a forcing function on creativity. nostr:note1zfzcwk9sac56sy582q22nl8te8ama7f5tpycxdj24yqdwek3h6xspjgh33

One area of confusion for new users is understanding what keys are. In user testing practically nobody could figure out what they mean.

One way I think we can make this concept less difficult is just by assigning old terminology next to the new terms.

Instead of just saying "Public key" we can say "Public key (acts as username) or "Public key / username"

Likewise: "Private key / password"

This allows for display names and keeps things on familiar terms although not technically accurate.

Then, as the user signs up, we can slowly introduce concepts to them and educate them on these things to explain how keys actually work.

We can also do a better job of explaining why the user did not need to enter an email or set their own password. For this, we can experiment with micro copy "No emails or passwords, just magic" or some variation that quickly gets to the point that the user will not have to specify either, and briefly explains why, with an option to learn more.

If you have other ideas / better ones, please let me know.

Bare Multisig Outputs

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Blocks are getting filled with bare multisig outputs and it's an obvious troll from people that hate Bitcoin. Let me explain.

Multisig currently can be done in many ways, but before p2sh (BIP0013), the only way to do multisig was through putting the many pubkeys on-chain. As ECDSA doesn't really let you aggregate keys, outputs had to specify something like "3-of-5 of these pubkeys." The normal UTXOs have the following number of bytes:

p2pkh:25

p2sh:23

p2wpkh:22

p2wsh:34

p2tr:34

By contrast the n in the k-of-n bare multisig determines the number of bytes and it's 5 + 34 * n (my math might be off, but around there). So for 3-of-5, it's upwards of 170 bytes. But that's using compressed keys. For uncompressed keys, you it's 5 + 66 * n or 335 bytes+, and worse, you can put in illegitimate uncompressed keys (keys that are provably have no private key) to add data to the chain

Why does this matter? Because these bytes stay in the UTXO set, which is what Bitcoin software optimizes for because that's how you validate that a transaction is a not double spend and satisfies the conditions of the smart contract that locked it.

What's worse, if the pubkeys are unspendable (uncompressed keys that are not real points on the secp256k1 curve), then they'll *never* be pruned. So the UTXO set grows larger and requires more resources for your typical node runner.

Interestingly, this was how the whitepaper was embedded into the Bitcoin blockchain by putting pieces of the whitepaper pdf in 64 byte chunks through uncompressed pubkeys. Luke's Eligius pool was one of the first to ban such transactions because they were clearly bloating not just the blockchain, but the UTXO set.

That's what these trolls are doing. They're adding to the UTXO set that's not easily prunable, though now, I'm guessing some people will add pruning for UTXOs with multisig outputs that don't have any legitimate keys.

the customer is the insurance company.

the goal is to make health care as expensive as possible so insurance companies have higher revenues.

the way to do that is to make sure every "cure" only hides symptoms without curing anything and while creating 10 other real conditions as "side effects"

these "side effects" are actually the goal while masking of the symptoms is only an excuse to get you to accept the drug.

oh look our drug lowered your blood pressure ! ( which you could have accomplished simply by eating less ) too bad now half your organs are failing, but we have drugs for those too !

From a healthcare company perspective:

Doctors are the customers. Companies compete with each other for doctors who provide the volume to expand margins.

Patients are a commodity to be profited off of. This is why we have sick-care instead of healthcare. There’s no cash flows in cures.

The government and insurance entities engage in a racket to prevent true price discovery, allowing the pharmaceutical and medical device companies to price gouge the taxpayers indirectly through:

-Medicare subsidies and reimbursement, predatory insurance premiums, and regulatory capture of the FDA.

Crony Capitalism at its finest. The best way to disrupt this system is to exercise, and only eat whole foods. The less ingredients the better. The best foods have no nutrition label. Meat, fish, eggs, dairy, fruits, vegetables, nuts.

In fiat world, doctors have become shameless salespeople for pharma.

This makes sense when you realize the patient is not the customer—The state-mandated, monopolistic, “health” insurance provider is.

#Bitcoin will restore the medical profession to what it was before fiat corrupted it.

If you hate “lefties” or “right wing”, I’m sorry, but you don’t get it yet.

That’s basically admitting this is not based on all the data available but selectively screened for “trusted” sources.

Imagine being the most censored person on the internet and yet you launch an exclusive show on the platform that deplatformed you for years. we’re still early.

ELON WILL NEVER IMPLEMENT THIS BUT FORTUNATELY NOSTR FIXES THIS.

Government fiat currency is the primary cause of poverty.

#Bitcoin is the only viable, long lasting solution.

We’re moving into a world with borderless money.

Let that sink in. What are borders for exactly?

What does the imaginary line in the sand mean? How can people on one side of a river be Americans, and on the other side they’re Mexicans? They share the same river.

Borders are how nation states define their taxable jurisdiction. The jurisdiction within which they deploy their monopoly on violence.

If American is to remain what it set out in principle to be (The bastion of freedom where the individual reigns supreme due to inalienable rights bestowed by God… our concepts of “borders” may have to change. We have to embrace freedom of movement. It is clear the state must be diminished in its influence in the lives of the individual, the constitution and Declaration of Independence make this clear.

We must evolve. Americans and Mexicans are all individuals, and within this jurisdiction, individuals have inalienable rights bestowed by God.