The guy who founded Palantir helped the government obtain information? 🤯

> I can still ask the same question. Why do I need functions on #Bitcoin?

I don't know what *your* needs are but let me share one of my "wants." I want tornado cash on bitcoin. I want to park some funds in a non-custodial bitcoin address where a bunch of other people have money too, knowing I can take out the same amount later, but now in a different, anonymized utxo.

I want to see if I can build a tornado cash with bitvm, and if I can, I think a tornado cash clone is (in theory) better than a coinjoin. That's because everyone involved in a coinjoin needs to cosign the same psbt, and in tornado cash, they don't. To *use* a coinjoin, you either need everyone involved to be online (i.e. you can't do it without an always-on device) or you need to wait for them to *come* online (which slows down your transaction). In tornado cash, you can use your cell phone to deposit money on Monday, and come back Friday to get it (but now anonymized), without ever giving anyone custody of your money.

Tornado cash is one example. I also think bitvm might bring me better sidechains and more advanced covenants than the kinds I know how to do today. Like I said, I don't know what your needs are. Maybe you don't need bitvm, and if that's the case, great! You don't need to use it, you can just ignore it, I'm not asking you to do anything. But me and the people who want these new functions can build and use them with bitvm, and that makes me happy.

We need less relays and more p2p

Means its soon time for a new platform.

Yes, a step in the right direction. It's kind of a Web of Trust, which can be very useful for fighting spam etc...

"Global" is nostr Achilles' heel. A major turn off, IMHO.

Nostr giving off Twitter vibes... 🚫

You haven't made any arguments, you're a literal retard. Both of you deserve less attention from me than you got, you have both obviously put near zero effort into considering your positions.

I'm not an academic, and I am leagues ahead of both of you in terms of familiarity with the history, the academia, and your own dogma.

You both conveniently glossed over the fact that Rome's officially endorsed Biblical commentary endorses gay sex btw.

gm

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What or who to read here?? Can somebody share a good profiles??

Bitcoin is. Bitcoiners, maybe not.

GM

Can someone recommend relays for dis tard?? Everytime I add one my feed becomes Chinese and I don’t know Chinese.

Nobody was willing to spend their sats in quantities sufficient to sustain a viable decentralized economy on the network. KYC’d fiat payment methods and ad-supported revenue models crept in and the economies of scale led to centralization of relays/servers until users realized they were now just using a shittier version of the major social networks with a smaller user base so they went back where their friends are.

Nostr taught me to appreciate hardcoding in production.

I am now ready to lead Satan's computer science army when I inevitably end up in hell.

GM.