Trumps a narcissist. He’ll pardon Ross just for the congratulations he’ll receive.

Men like to talk about how some male behavior like being kind, protective, doting, and generous is "beta", but look at which men have wives and kids.

Turns out, evolution favors those "betas".

Thinking a out the web of trust idea...not that it'd be an answer for everyone, but on the same lines as some people's profiles there is a "recommends" feature where they list certain apps, how about something similar for people?

There are at least 4 people I know on here irl who knows me. When it comes to trading and exchanging, I'd be a lot more confident in an exchange with someone who one of those four knew and could vouch for.

It’s crazy to think we have to worry about the government and how they react to what we build instead of being able to focus on building the future without fear of possibly being thrown in a cage. For building freedom technology that levels the playing field and brings about the equal opportunity politicians LARP about.

No coins were premined; the newspaper headline in the genesis block serves the purpose of proving that.

As to the oft-stated-as-fact 1 million, it's not a fact, it's a theory, one that was hotly debated when sergio lerner came up with it. People should be a bit more cautious about spreading it as fact, because of the danger it brings to whoever the real Satoshi is. But, people being people, it has spread everywhere.

The anonymity overhead is multiple orders of magnitude higher in 2024 than it was in 2008.

Hiding like rats under the floorboards is no longer an effective strategy.

Human freedom is now dependent on cypherpunks becoming more powerful than the State.

I'm one of those sad people where the whole household is on Apple and while I have an Android device, most of my time is spent on iOS, where Tor is basically unusable and for some reason none of the iOS nostr apps have Tor built in, despite their being some decent Tor libs for mobile devs.

Nice I discovered nostr.wine since posting that, will check the others. And use any sats zapped to me to pay relay fees.

I've gone full Satoshi opsec since this shit went down and I'm using a dual hop VPN now.

1) private relays

2) the wine filter (WoT, broadcasting, mailboxes)

3) mile-long mute list and lots of reports

4) DVM relay queries #[4]

5) #[5] friendstr and followstr and graveyard

6) Sometimes use #Coracle, with WoT turned up.

But then, on top of running a free open relay, you are running a free moderation engine. Who will pay this?

I see this as an identity problem in general rather than a Nostr relay problem. If you can ban an npub, that person can create another one. We need to ban the person or an AI that's posting.

Worldcoin offers a solution to scan all the unique humans on Earth to solve this problem along with the human vs AI problem. But there are 8 billion people on earth. And Worldcoin accounts are as cheap as $20. It doesn't solve the identity problem in my opinion. Plus, not everyone will scan their eyeballs.

I think we should identify people based on the most scarce possession on Earth. Bitcoin.

I want to propose "Proof of Bitcoin". If you ban a Bitcoin balance, its much much harder for a scammer or an illegal content poster to save enough bitcoin to post again.

What do you guys think?

I've curated the heck out of my feed with all of the dark arts of filtering, muting, DVMing, and relaying I could find.

It's a beautiful thing.

It's a good feed. Best feed.

Some people aren’t willing to become cypherpunk martyrs, and that’s perfectly fine.

First they came for Tornado cash

and I said nothing

because they were shitcoiners

…

Its a play in this:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller

Drivechains

Some circuits are slow. Ctrl-shift-L to build a new circuit, in the Browser Bundle. "signal newnym" from the command line.

What annoys me more is the number of script-kiddie crooks setting up exit nodes in places that don't GAF, and trying to Peek'n'splice HTTPS connections to corporate websites. Certificate errors are the only result, but its a nuisance, and can disrupt automated updates.

Normalise Tor Hidden Services for everything. Then we wont need exit nodes.

Ew no. Let's normalize reverse proxies and VPN tunneling instead.

This samourai take down will be the begging of a million decentralized alternatives.

Information wants to be free, bitcoin is just information.