It’s your account I’m talking about 🤣

Lol, this also.

This happens in the doldrums of literally every bear market. Don’t worry, it’s nothing new. nostr:note1kquhetcdgumuuctl238d3mgkxehaewucpvstg3ld86lc76reyq7qrzwven

Is there a way to downgrade the frequency of certain posters in my feed?

I want to keep them in my feed, but they post SO much that it drowns everything else out. I’d love it if they posted 1/3rd as often 😆

Agree, except the hate for Richard feels misplaced. He’s always been a nice guy and has really good arguments for his positions. I might call him a troll sometimes because he pokes fun, but I certainly wouldn’t describe him as “bad faith.” 🤔

Woot! Let’s go! 🔥

10k sent, keep us updated on the progress. 🫡

Shit, I’m gonna have to update Damus I think. The text box moves on me when I do a long post and it literally stuck a section into a completely different paragraph from where I was typing it. It’s frustrating as hell. And then scrolling doesn’t work so I can’t even find it.

I’m gonna lost my Damus zaps 😢

It might not be so simple as “because people can still be violent, Bitcoin doesn’t fix state theft of income and wealth.”

It’s important to remember that the govt racket doesn’t work because they go one-by-one and steal from everyone. That’s economically impossible. It works because of the economics of violence at scale. All they need is to sell a half decent story and violently attack just a piece of a percent of those who openly defy them, and everyone else “voluntarily” accepts it because they feel it’s impossible not to.

If the problem was merely the cost of one-on-one violence multiplied by millions of people, then the state would never be functional as a system. It would cost more in lives and enforcement than they would get in “profit” from the plundering.

But it isn’t. Instead, there is a negative feedback loop on the scaling of violence, because our wealth is physically trapped (our home, our community, our businesses, our belongings, etc). And then so much more of our wealth and income comes from other large, trapped institutions and systems that are centralized and even *easier* to control.

In other words, the bigger they are, the less violence they *actually* have to commit in order to obtain the proceeds of what would otherwise be an enormous amount of individual violence.

The two biggest ways to undermine this economic reality is to dematerialize wealth, and hyper individualize ownership.

Remove the ability to cheat the money, Turn the negative feedback loop into a positive one, and literally everything we think about how society is structured will have to change on a long enough time scale. Wand you’ve taken the single most potent means of wealth confiscation.

Remove the limitation of a vast portion of our wealth to be geographically trapped, locked into a particular set of map lines, and you’ve taken a most important element for trapping wealth inside their system.

Remove the large, centralized, public, and geographically trapped custodians and institutions for service provision/income/trade/etc, and you’ve cut the strings they hold over the individual’s livelihoods and savings.

And the cumulative outcome doesn’t need to be that violence is non eixtstent, which is obviously absurd. But merely that the cost of violence *increases* - even if only by a fraction of a percent - as the state gets larger and more distant from the citizen.

All we have to do is break the negative feedback loop of returns to violence at scale, and it will force everything we think of as “government” across the world to change irreversibly. It won’t be a choice, it’ll be an economic certainty.

Anyone ever just stop and think for a bit, about the fact that #Bitcoin fucking works?

Seriously appreciate it for a second from the view of those trying to think it up when this was literal science fiction. What an absolutely insane long shot. The very notion that practically a handful of nerdy anarchists & dissidents on the internet could create a global monetary network who’s rules would supersede governments across the planet… it’s almost idiotic it sounds so improbable.

And for everyone squealing about what the price did last week or how in 10 years we will have X problem or whatever… it’s easy to forget that it’s just there. That it’s working. That it’s half a trillion dollars worth. That it’s monetary policy hasn’t changed since block 0. And despite the ire of countless authoritarians… it persists.

What a wild fucking timeline.

If I can get this stupid machine done… 😖😫

I can’t believe men did this.

On the way…

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Is there a way to automate this right now?

I kinda feel like boost and quote should include this by default. Seems weird that this is a separate thing. I mean if I boost, am I not doing this already?

The consumer debt for those sorts of expenses only got normalized in the 70s, it wasn’t nearly as common then as it is today. Debt is the norm because both the debt itself is being incentivized (price controls) and those things are more expensive than they would be on a sound money standard. Which is obvious because the high prices are a result of the former, debt is literally newly created money, so it has massive upward pressure on prices.

In other words, the reason everyone needs debt to pay for everyday things, is because debt drives up the prices of everyday things.

Doesn’t at all mean it all goes away, credit is a fundamental part of economic activity. But it won’t be anywhere near the prevalence that it has today. Don’t even need to go very far back in history to see examples of a far less debt ridden society and how people pay for things.

Who’s Vlad?

This hype cycle didn’t last very long if it’s already caving in. Interesting if this has broader implications for fiat driven tech bubbles.

Lightning summit is in Nashville too?

I have just done 5 episodes in a row about this actually, lol.

Read 757 - 761

The classy-ness cannot be matched 🤣

I at least think stablecoins are a useful bridge for a lot of people and specifically in certain areas in the world. CrYpTO on the other hand…

Lol, all things aside, wireless charging has been a thing for a long time, it’s just super lossy and inefficient, or at least always has been. Even now you have to be super specific of where/how you place the device. But wirelessly powered devices have been a thing for almost a century if I’m not mistaken. Just with insanely low power loads. There was soy devices at least in the 50s & 60s era that were totally passive until you shot focused radio waves at it, it would have enough power to run through a prebuilt circuit and could be used to broadcast audio from the room. In a way this is what NFC is, it takes just enough energy from the radio waves to run a tiny circuit and produce a computation.

The simplest explanation is that electromagnetic waves are just a form of energy.

We are like 5 episodes deep on this topic right now on @bitcoinaudible 😆

It’s not necessarily about growing an audience, simply that the point of social networks is to be social. But this is a solid frame that I wish more people had.

Yeah I'm thinking it might purely be that, and centralized socials simply amplify this to counter it potentially?

I would also add that I think the LN Address things isn’t a “custodial gimmick” but is actually a crucial feature that *will be* native to Lightning (probably with Bolt12 or similar) but that right now only has quick, easy solutions via custodial. I think it’s actually more of a DNS problem and lack of native LN standard for that purpose. But free flowing, instant onboard zapping with the user not needing to have the app open is a critical goal for Lightning that we just figure out in some form or fashion.

Thank you guys 🧡💜 nostr:note1j38zg2gu7wlh2sdtd5l0vyuya3urfyyy8fvwmn985h7538mwmyhs36ytex

😳

By your (lack of) definition, literally any commodity or asset that is scarce and ever grows in value is a “Ponzi scheme.” And/or it’s also a pyramid scheme because you’ve called it both despite the fact that these have very explicit definitions that apply exactly 0% to #Bitcoin

Its being uploaded. YT just takes a bit. If you don't mind holding off I'd appreciate the views. The channel is still brand new basically, lol

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And they literally HIDE the login button. Its always like some fine print link somewhere.

Trying to guide someone who isn't super tech literate on a phone call to where they need to go is absolutely infuriating. This trend makes absolutely no sense to me.

Correct. I mean he is actually a good singer, the song is really catchy, & importantly, he sings with a lot of passion, but those are mostly just reinforcement factors that made the recipe just right so when his message hit everyone in the feels it was able to break through and cause a storm.

The reason is the message was delivered in a way you can *feel* it. He said what an incredible number of people have been thinking for a long time.

No makes meaningful change if they believe change is not possible.

Belief is a prerequisite to the motivation to take action at all.

Politics has every incentive to convince you that you are powerless and there’s nothing you can do except vote for them. It gives them incredible power to hold a mental monopoly on the very notion of making things better.

It’s a lie, it does not serve you. It is not to make your life better. Just the opposite, it is purposefully sacrificing your well being & hope for your future to create an opening so they can claim more control.

You CAN improve the world. You are free. You are responsible for your own life & no one else will care for it as much as you.

I'm somehow missing a ton of these zaps that are coming in. Not sure if they are through my profile or what, but there have been some major zaps that I only now noticed while cleaning out my emails because i was sent notifications.

Just wanted to say THANK YOU! Seriously if means a lot. All of the sats go to either #Bitcoin media, education content, or development. And I am particularly careful to get the most value out of what you guys donate. So thank you 🙏🏻💜

your homework:

• If you want to share and explore anything together let me know

• If you have any questions DM me

• If you find anything really cool you better let me know.

Whitney is a Chad.

Damn, nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8 beat me to it 🤣

#3 by a good margin, imo

Next one is a banger

I *very* rarely endings in any joy when I see someone else hurt, even people I don’t like for various reasons. But unapologetic thieves and tyrants have a special place where sympathy is really hard to come by.

Richard Heart is a genuine piece of trash. I won’t lose any sleep over this.

Not yet. Gonna work to actually get Obsidian connected more easily to Nostr is what I’m hoping now.

Just had an awesome long conversation with #[2]​ and we specifically discuss that a few times throughout. Hoping it’s published maybe tomorrow. 🤞🏻

This next cycle is going to get nuts

This one was just super fun to make. 100% I took on way more project than I was ready for with Davinci. But it was worth it 🤣

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I write all my notes in markdown, and use chatGPT to convert it to HTML for publishing the podcast. Saves me a few minutes it took every time to manually format. Was a pain in the ass.

Haha reads exactly like my email spam. They always telling me how great they would be as a guest because they wrote a book about crypto and have been a professional investor in Web3 and understand the incredible potential of blockchain technology.

I always respond that there’s zero chance they have ever listened to my show if they actually thought this would appeal to me 🤣

This is a great point regarding the piece by #[1]​ - start NOW with tipping and onboarding others because it will be heavily reinforced by the next bull market.

🙏🏻 thanks for the sats, btw

Made even more relevant with the AppStore debacle.

Platforms of control cannot allow uncontrollable money.

Don't I owe somebody a million sats for something?

(in other words, how can we better keep up with bounty promises? I can't remember them all but I'd love to have a list so i could remember to pay out to those that came to fruition.)

Check the Bitcoin Audible Feed!

Chat_80 - Building the Ark with nostr:npub18aq8s3z9xl87e74twfk93mljxq6alv4a79yheadx33t9np4g2wkqrtmask

Diving into the big picture & a bunch of edge cases to understand the ownership & trust dynamics of Ark, a new #privacy & #payment L2

If you've been curious, don't miss this...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinaudible/episodes/Chat_80---Building-the-Ark-with-Burak-e250o99

Lol, honestly I won’t be bothered.🤣

This one was MidJourney. I always seem to be on my phone when I want to generate some random thing like this, so MidJourney is my only option. Stable Diffusion has largely been used for trying to build out a style, sets, and characters for the animation so I haven’t been sharing anything from that side. I might put this same prompt into a few SD models just to see what I get.

Was that dude that asked me about that thing, was that conversation in email to the Bitcoin Audible address, or maybe my personal email, that could be the one in my twitter DMs for Bitcoin Audible, don't think it was AI Unchained, but it definitely could've been to TheGuySwann account too... or maybe it was a Nostr DM to the Bitcoin Audible pubkey, more likely my pubkey actually, but wasn't that the one in the Discord group?! Totally wrong, it had to be Telegram, I can see it now. It was a small Telegram group with 2 people sitting among the 1,000s of groups I have and I didn't save it or pin it anywhere... great.

I forgot we had DM'd to... no wait, that was the guy who wanted to schedule a podcast together... was that for Bitcoin Audible or Shitcoin Insider, or AI Unchained... 🤔

But yes that would be a cool idea 🤣

This is the way