GOOD MORNING NOSTR, APPRECIATE YOU ALL 🫡

Bringing back #Bitcoin #SkepticismSundays 😎

One of the things that showed me the intellectual honesty of the Monero community and helped to force the community to stay grounded in reality and always laser focused on their core ethos was their weekly "Skepticism Sunday" Reddit threads. These threads allowed the community to come together, ask hard and skeptical questions about the design of Monero, the privacy provided, the economic approach, and much more.

In my time in Bitcoin I've never seen anything similar, but the nuanced and high-signal crowd on Nostr seems like a perfect fit to fire things up and see how it goes.

The goal of this thread (which I'll post weekly on Sunday's) is for discussing the uncertainties, shortcomings, and concerns some may have about Bitcoin. Things like what makes it difficult for you to use Bitcoin, what pain-points you have, etc.

NOT the positive aspects of it.

Discussing things with a critical thinking approach and level-headed discussion helps us learn where Bitcoin and its community can improve and go from there.

P.S. -- I try to take a break from social media on Sundays so I will follow up and reply whwre I can tomorrow!

You didn't quite get what I was trying to say or I explained it poorly. It's probably the latter.

The problem isn't about the client knowing your location or language. Instead, it's about the other users knowing that information about you.

If you have your browser set to French and the #nostr client uses that information to automatically share your notes with other French users, this reveals your language and country to those users, even if your notes are in English.

It's a #privacy hole that could be exploited by an attacker to help deanonymize the country/language a specific user if they have this knowledge and are willing to put in the effort.

Bloomberg - Syphilis cases rising sharply in USA

Antibiotics and better information availability had reduced cases to ~30,000 p. a. early this century. But incidence started to rise again during the second Obama administration, continued all through Trump's, and then took off near-vertically under Biden.

NOT happening in other Western countries.

I blame aliens.

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Hello world.

#introductions

You guys are amazing. Censor resistant social media , love it

#introductions

#Cartoons #Funny #Chess #Police

This struck me as very funny.