Because of all the zappening the IRS needs more employees to check all transactions, resulting in the people having to pay more tax to pay the new IRS employees.

It’s a vicious circle ⭕️

I use bitcoin, because I fucking can.

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Looks like I brought more followers after all

Nostr is turning into a bit of an echo chamber about Bitcoin and Nostr.

I keep getting sucked back into twitter scrolling.

Would like to see a bit more non-bitcoin and non-Nostr posts over here.

A delivery app for anything is probably a good marketplace app for nostr. Rather than selecting different items, the requests are placed in text format: e.g. [2 lbs ribeyes, 1 lb butter, 1 gallon raw milk, and a Makita impact driver]. Zero collaboration with stores, no browsing for cleaner UI, just know what you want. The note includes geolocation, order parameters, and allows runners to filter for their area. Different bid/ask approaches are possible.

When a contract is agreed upon, the buyer zaps the runner the fee amount (say $10). The runner then purchases the items and physically delivers the items. An image of the receipt could then be posted to Nostr on a thread for the contract. Then upon physical hand-off, the buyer zaps the receipt note with the stated amount (and can include a tip).

In the event the buyer breaches the contract, the runner retains possession of the goods, and may even be able to return the goods, while also keeping the fee that was paid up front. In the event the runner fails to deliver the goods, their reputation will prevent them from continuing in this line of work with that ID, and bootstrapping a new one will require taking a number of much lower profit orders.

Rather than relying on a 3rd party to decide platform or deplatform in a binary way, everyone can chose who to interact with, and it can be done in a ranked way. For instance, you might choose to bid more for people with higher ratings, which then incentivizes people do things continuously better rather than merely acceptably. The images of receipts and some heuristics around those may suffice to have very high Sybil resistance.

The client could have a tool for filtering notes such that it is easy to verify a history of transactions, and you could even have parameters for degrees of trust in a single click. The client would also have a price conversion showing the dollar amount matching the sats sent at that time, and you could even have it hooked up to an image recognition AI service that extracts the total on the receipt to auto-generate an LN invoice.

Since the threshold of trust is lower than the transaction size, and only needs to exceed the value of the fee, it seems relatively easier to bootstrap, and perhaps could be bootstrapped fairly easily with a vouching system that does not need to be overly complex since after a few weeks of history, it no longer needs the vouching of others to remain trustworthy. I think this might fulfill the concept of a fully transferable relational contracting capability.

This allows delivery of restaurant or grocery food or any other IRL item. It also is structured in such a way that it allows the purchase of bitcoin by runners at a negative rate since they can use a credit card when buying. One challenge however is that runners may need to quickly turn their bitcoin back into dollars since the sort of people doing deliveries might not have enough liquidity to cover a day's worth of shopping.

Am I thinking about this correctly, or do I have something off? Is there a good way to monetize this with any amount of defensibility? Maybe a highly reliable client that charges a very small rake on fees? Perhaps partnering with LSPs? Of course, does have some privacy challenges, though you would use a separate keypair from your primary ID as a starting point.

My general view is there is a sweet spot of latency for a good first marketplace product: e-commerce, craigslist, UpWork, or Airbnb and you don't actually need Nostr quite as much; ride-share, and it's hard to have good UX without critical mass and more precision around mapping and dispatching probably harder; it also seems easier to bootstrap than plumbing, painting, electrical, auto repair, or the like, but that would likely be a good follow on.

There could be adjustable toggle in nostr client. Just showing you notes paying enough. Who would get the payment 🤔

Nostr and Bitcoin go together like peanut butter and jelly.

You should always pay with cash. It's the #1 thing we can do to stop CBDCs.

In case anybody outside the UK is unaware of this (which you almost certainly are, which is kind of the point) a journalist named Isabel Oakeshott signed an NDA with with Matt Hunt, who was the UK Health Security during early covid hysteria, to help him write a book, then breached the NDA and leaked ~100k WhatsApp messages to the press. The messages show - entirely unsurprisingly - that the UK government didn’t have a fucking clue what it was doing, then amidst all the lying and smearing to justify lockdowns, started lying and smearing to cover it all up as well.

Not that this in itself should be news to anybody, but two things stand out: i) there’s now undeniable proof in the public record of everything that has been a “conspiracy theory” for 3 years, and ii) the mainstream media is flat out embarrassing itself in a hilariously tone deaf way by giving precisely zero shits about the actual story and pretending that the “news” here is the breach of the NDA.

Absolutely nobody is buying it. It’s all very cathartic. Nature is healing ☺️

But seriously, for a less naive take consider that this all feeds into the increasingly undeniable realisation that state control of information dissemination was key to the catastrophe. The Muskificiation of twitter may be a very slight reprieve - and one that makes the regime shit itself much more than it really ought to because it has no idea how anything actually works - but if they understood nostr even a little the level of self-shitting would be off the charts 🙏

Shill me some Linux distros.

I’ve dual booted Ubuntu for many years, but now I’ve got a thinkpad that will be Linux only and might try something new.

X1 Carbon 16Gb/512Gb/i7

Most of my experience is with Windows for work and MacOS for personal use.

Good night, Nostr. I stayed up way too late making this Nostr Plebs Early Adopter badge. I really, really like the latest iteration. I'll sleep on it and see what I think in the morning. Pura vida!

Super strange, which phone and Android version?

Los que hablan español, cuál sería la palabra correcta para "boost"? republicar?

There is a saying that "everyone is replaceable".

If someone figures out Sybil-resistant proof-of-transaction history to enable relational contracting with participant fungibility over Nostr, replacing people will become far less costly i.e. more competitive, dynamic, economic systems.

Americans, now that lnurl is getting some adoption, if you host your own lnurl server make sure you're blocking Iranian, Cuban, North Korean, Russian, and Syrian IP addresses so that you don't wittingly accept a payment from users in those countries! Not worth jail time or fines.

Just got around to setting it up on mine, luckily nginx makes it easy.

It will not be a problem for most people and best practices will emerge, but it's certainly possible to envision a future in which there are violent gangs that go around extracting people and using advanced exfiltration techniques. There is no true "secure enclave" in biological systems.

Low fidelity now, but it's not about what is possible now. It's about what it can do in 10-20 years. Now also consider how much the technology could advance if you add another 30 years of technological progress well after the death of fiat.

#[4] new problems for you to solve with miniscript ;)

Would need more info on the paper and methods here.

If they asked them to deliberately think of the image. Also the resolution of this for extracting the words or location of the seeds.

It would have to be a pretty big stack and honestly would provably be better accomplished with a $10 wrench attack.

The solution to this is for Bitcoiners to become the intransigent minority and for incentives here to not make sense.

Just my 2 sats…

what makes you think pseudo intellectualism isn’t exciting?

Yes micheal, you find a capital market which will insure your coins with 0 information about your bitcoin. Like you can get car insurance without sharing info on your driving history or what car you drive, home insurance without knowing where the house is located, or life insurance without any data on the health and occupation of the person.

Miniscript, and eventually Trident will be open source so you can do this coordination without my company or anyone else besides your specific parties holding keys for you knowing about your security.