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Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
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Husband, Father, Agorist. I distaste violence but I am not against one defending themselves. I used to have a podcast, and I used to livestream. I may do those things again.

NIP-05 configured, what now?

Still around for what it's worth. Recently had quadruple bypass surgery. Yikes.

I finally bought the last of the Kendrick Brothers' movies. I need to find the others (Facing the Giants, Fireproof, and Courageous).

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Most people who I know that think the CIA invented bitcoin, are not very familiar with the pre-history of Bitcoin including work by Back, Szabo, Finney, etc.

I'm not saying that certainly no intelligence agency created Bitcoin, but rather, I'm very skeptical of the certainty that many people have around that topic.

Because, when you are somewhat familiar with that pre-history and look at it from an engineering perspective, you can clearly see the pieces gradually falling into place. In the1980s there was work by Chaum about how to build a database run by mutually suspicious entities. In the 1990s there was work by Back for proof-of-work. As things moved into the 2000s, there was Szabo's Bit Gold, which is very similar to what Bitcoin ended up being, and Finney's Reusable Proof of Work "RPOW" tokens. Finney hadn't solved the centralization issue, and Szabo hadn't solved the issue of better computation causing supply inflation over time, but they were collectively within shooting range of the solution. Others as well. Meanwhile global bandwidth was getting better, encryption in general was getting better (and there we've got an actual intelligence agency contribution), etc.

And then Satoshi added to that work, including the difficulty adjustment in particular and many other details, with a full implementation.

Basically, if someone thinks that Bitcoin just kind of magically came out of nowhere, then it's pretty easy to see how they'd be inclined toward a conspiratorial assumption.

However, if one sees that, just like any other industry, there was a series of engineers building on each others' work until someone finally got it over the line, then it looks a lot more organic.

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I would submit that the psychiatry industry only has women convinced that they are mentally ill because women are more trusting, especially when confronted with confirmation of their own belief that "something must be wrong with me".

There is a woman with whom I'm in love

Her voice sounds to me as a dove

When I think of where we are now

I think to myself and wonder, "How?"

In the heat of my emotion from my eyes

Comes the indication of emotion undisguised

The tears drip down my face

From the heat of emotion they race

My glasses get foggy

As my face gets soggy

I reach out to my love

And ask, "Where is my dove?"

Only silence returns

My love now spurned

This is a work in progress. I just needed to get this down somewhere I could come back to it later while I swap my computer over to Debian Linux.

This is my flag.

The gray and black represent the Agora, the free and open market of goods and ideas, where justly acquired goods are freely bought, sold, and bartered for without interference from agents not directly involved in the transaction.

The red represents humanity as a whole, and how we are, if you go back far enough, all related. It's time to let the jingoism die. The only real patriots are those who are for us as a whole, ignoring ethnicity and only caring about character.

The sun-rise cross represents faith in G-d above. Jesus isn't on it because He is risen, never to be crucified again. One perfect sacrifice for the forgiveness of all sins.

This is my flag, and I'd like to share it with you.

https://imgur.com/gHiicwF