#Bitcoin mining has the potential to be a catalyst for innovation in the energy industry. With this in mind, I had a recent discussion with my cousin, who is a logistics engineer at a energy company, specializing in waste reclamation technology. He's interested in exploring the synergies between #Bitcoin mining and renewable energy sources. He plans to bring this up to the company president as an additional revenue stream option. This may not have been a full Christmas orange pill, but I view this as a tiny bud that could flourish into a beautiful understanding of Bitcoin.

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Huxley’s 1943 foreword to Brave New World.

The 3rd alternative between Utopia and Primitive horns.

The pursuit of sanity is #bitcoin and #nostr

Awesome Christmas present from the missus.

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Shitcoinets are excited for upcoming Bitcoin ETFs, hoping that a rising tide will rise all ships.

Here's why there are deep incentives for a Bitcoin fork with the Ordinals people.

Ordinals/BRC-20/Inscriptions are now VC funded. And they're going to be pressured to keep growing, no matter what. Yet the hype around their stuff will inevitably fade. And whatever profits they had will dry up. So what will they do?

There are two paths. One is to increase revenue, the other is to reduce costs. The first will be very difficult to do without some new narrative. And they might try that, but it's going to be very difficult on Bitcoin... At least as it currently stands. They could move to another chain, but then, their whole reason for existence, being built on Bitcoin will be no more. Hence the incentive to create new narratives around their stuff and to add "features" to generate interest means some sort of fork.

The other path is to reduce costs. The most obvious cost is the fees being sent to miners. And to reduce that, you need to increase block size or make the blocks more frequent. Either way, this is incentivizing a fork.

The point is that once VC funding entered the picture, the path was set. There will be a conflict of visions and a "peaceful coexistence" was never going to be the outcome.

It may well be that 2024 will be the year of Nostr as the turmoil of geopolitics begins to roil.

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When it comes to analysis, design, or management, a critical and recurring challenge is to be able to:

1) hold two or more competing thoughts in your head,

2) but then not get stuck with decision paralysis,

3) and thus to be able to form a view and take action.

It's easy to fail in either of the first two steps.

For the first step, many people can't steel-man their opponent's view, don't take time to seriously consider competing arguments. This represents tribalism and insufficient critical thought, and has a high likelihood of being wrong. People become easy to manipulate, and where their views end up largely depends on luck of their surroundings and who managed to convince them of something earlier.

For the second step, a smaller subset of people get past the first step but then get stuck in decision paralysis or cynicism. There are too many paths, too many compelling and contradictory points. It then becomes a problem of overthinking and thus inaction. It's easier to identify problems than to build solutions, so this valley of inaction is an enticing trap that feels intellectually stimulating but leads nowhere.

The narrow path beyond those two, and what we should strive for, is to be able to do enough critical thought to the point where it starts to venture into the realm of decision paralysis, but then find a way to weigh the probabilities and form a conclusion to start taking action on, with the willingness to pivot if evidence/probabilities mount toward a different direction.

Anyway, happy Christmas Eve.

Can we build a Nostr-native onion routing for private events using DVMs?

Each onion hop is a GiftWrap using an Ephemeral event kind encrypted to the next onion DVM. The client assembles all hops and sends the private message to the first DVM via the user's main relay. That DVM decrypts the ephemeral event and sends it to the next DVM. The last DVM will send it to the user.

This minimizes the user's IP leakage to the set of trusted relays that user likes while sustaining the relay decentralization properties of NIP-65.

User's would never connect directly to the read relays of other users because they might not be trusted.

Since the relay knows your Nostr filters, it does know which pubkeys you are interested in (including your own key). Decoupling sending an event to a pubkey and filtering events for your pubkey in the same connection/IP is key to reducing the power that the relay has over you.

This would be akin to using several Tor sessions, a new session for every new message you send, while giving the Client the power to choose different "exit" nodes (DVMs) at each new message.

Am I crazy or is this actually better?

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Everybody must "do their own research." There is no alternative.

No matter how dumb you think you are, you still have to make your own decisions. Even if your "research" is just to figure out who you choose to trust, that decision itself is 100% yours.

Trusting the authorities on non-controversial stuff is usually ok, but society goes mad from time to time and trusting the authorities where there is widespread disagreement turns out to more often than not (in my 53 years of experience) to be the wrong decision. Authorities don't act from a drive to find the truth regardless of consequences, they act from other drives, for other reasons, that are complicated and complex (fitting in themselves, pleasing the people with the most money, etc) but generally are NOT scientifically driven towards the truth (and do not speak for science no matter how much they claim to). Anyone who says "I want to reassure you" is immediately untrustworthy. Reassurance is the biggest give-away that they are a running a confidence game.