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Writing notes and comments about #Bitcoin, #Nostr, #Freedom and software development

We’ve known at least for 5,000 years that mass spying on one’s own people is ALWAYS aimed at grabbing power and crushing dissent, not protecting us from bad guys.

#privacy #freedom #masssurveillance

He's my childhood friend. I want him to understand Bitcoin, freedom and why government is not always the best solution.

Friendly reminder that taxation is theft and there's no law requiring Americans to pay income tax!

Bitcoin fixes this. Few.

#bitcoin #taxation #theft

https://video.nostr.build/a34081f49afdd2a77ba2c078c061613f656b378e743948d769c96deeccbce85f.mp4

On friday The German Parliament approved the implementation to ensure that customers overpay at least 15% for their products and services.

I finally Orange pilled my communist/marxist friend. I thought it was impossible.

It took years and countless of small little conversations about fiat, goverment, central banks, freedom and bitcoin.

Today I got a message from him, asking about the best wallets for holding bitcoin

#Bitcoin #OrangePill

Thanks. I would've zapped you some sats but couldn't 😕

They're welcome to do so, in fact that kind pf thing has happened before. Network "spam" will raise the fees and more miners will join the network, and eventually "attacker" will run out of money. And as a result, #bitcoin will end up to even more hands and the network will be even more resilient, robust and decentralized.

Twitter is now trying to be everything app and offer even payments and shit, but they'll never reach the potential which #Nostr already have achieved, in just few years.

As time goes on, this will only become more obvious to everyone.

Fiat mindset.

Bitcoin doesn't make or generate any money. #Bitcoin is the money. Hardest f*cking money on the planet!

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It's not true. There's countless of them that ended without collapse.

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How to reply to a PoS shitcoiner:

PoS has been around for thousands of years, it's nothing new. Government money is proof of stake, as are company shares.

Egyptians, Romans, and Chinese were using this 2000+ years ago. Italian city states perfected it 800 years ago. Stake based systems are not new.

Using stake to solve the Byzantine General's Problem is also not new. Cypherpunks have been working on this shit since the late 80s.

The cypherpunks on the mailing list (that Satoshi sent the white paper to for peer review) are literally the people who created the *entire body cryptographic of work* used by proof of stake coins today (stake based byzantine fault tolerance). They are well aware of the fundamental limitations of stake based BFT because they are ones who came up with it in the first place...

If Bitcoin was proof of stake *you would never have heared of it* because it wouldn't have survived 5 minutes of peer review by any real cryptographers.

Time-based difficulty-adjusted PoW *is* the breakthrough and is the *only* reason you and anyone has ever heard of a "blockchain".

The failure modes of stake based BFT are well known, and it fails *every time* for a number of reasons, but if you are betting on a shitcoin to increase in value then the failure mode will probably involve the fact that stakeholders have an incentive to increase the supply to benefit from the cantillion effect.

Mathematical fact: you cannot deploy external capital to defend a system that is secured by internal history (stake). This is why stake based BFT does *not* secure against attack by a state or central bank, which means *anything* secured by PoS MUST comply with governments.

Bitcoin's value proposition is that Bitcoin let's you do things that bankers and governments *don't want you to do*. If bankers and governmensts can nuke your shitcoin, then you do what they say or they nuke it.

What's the value proposition beyond CBDCs if your shitcoin ultimately has to comply with governments and bankers?

You cannot out-stake a bad actor who has aquired sufficient stake to fuck with the system, your only option is to fork them out. Then it becomes a competition between charismatic personalities convincing the market to follow their authority (their fork) instead of the other guy.

So how do you solve the problem of removing a bad actor without requiring some form of authority? Read the Bitcoin white paper. Satoshi knew exactly how stake based systems fail, that's *exactly* why he used proof of work instead.

Bitcoin has literal Proof of Stake also, it's called the Lightning Network.

You should check it out!