Excellent coverage of the assassination attempt.
I had Trump Derangement Syndrome, back from late 2015 through early 2021.
I knew that some of what I was seeing coming from liberals and the government was insane, but I believed he was in many ways worse. I listened when the media showed him as a fascist tyrant. I even voted for the dementia patient (red state overrode me, thank God) because I chose to risk that over Trump.
Middle of 2021, seeing lie after lie bombard through the covid machine, I did a thorough accounting of where I was getting my information. I determined to verify for myself what news organizations and individuals were liars, and I decided that any who proved to be liars through their own actions, were to be dismissed as valid sources of any information whatsoever. Not lies or truth, but useless noise.
Once the liars had been removed, all of the evidence I had once accepted of Trump's fascist character was gone. Not a single shred remained. He was still an asshole, but all remaining evidence was that he cared about America and was truly fighting for it. That's only been reinforced since.
It is not an ongoing failure to have been wrong. It is to stay wrong when the choice presents itself. There are a number of rather smart people with TDS who, if they were to do the kind of self-assessment I put myself through, would likely recover from it.
I hope this in some small way helps someone wake up.
They trade effectiveness for the smoke screen. If they send a professional, he's gone, but they couldn't hide that in this environment.
To be seen whether the next attempt is professional or not.
Brainwashed NPC psychos are one of the main weapons the deep state uses. So much plausible deniability.
Politics is just abstracted force projection. And all living beings have no choice but to participate in force projection.
It's wild how few understand this fundamental truth.
It would be awesome if the central planners and deep state could be stopped with bitcoin only.
It would be lovely if this were a true bloodless revolution.
It can't, and it isnt.
The leviathan will not go peacefully. The amount of violence that will have to be used to save ourselves from them is not zero.
I only hope that whatever moves are ultimately taken, that they are surgical and precise.
The assassination attempt last night means many things, but an unexpected one is a test on #nostr as a place of true discussion.
Will the lack of a hate driving algorithm plus a generally truth-motivated user base mean that we actually listen across the divide? Even as it turns into a hot war? I pray it does.
I for one am not blocking anyone. Even if I find most of their views on this deranged or reprehensible. I hope you all do the same.
Unfortunately, if "they" are not fought against, everyone else loses. I feel pity for the mentally ill foot soldiers of "them". I'll protect myself and mine from those souls as I must but they are not the enemy.
"They": the deep state officials, the agencies, the central planners. They are parasites. They must be burned out and purged completely if health is to return to the world.
Anyone who prevents the parasites' destruction, whether it be deliberate or through ignorance, must be removed as an obstacle. Reason is nice, but if this means they burn with the parasites, so be it.
Wake up whoever you can nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka. Get anyone who can be reached clear of the monsters. Help those of us who will fight be more precise in our aim. But when we come for them, Do Not get in the way.
The political conflict in the USA will not be solved at the ballot box.
It will not be solved in the halls of Congress.
It will not be solved with rallies or debate or town halls or YouTube videos. It will not be solved with Fiat or Gold or Bitcoin.
It will ONLY be solved after all but one of the sides unconditionally surrenders.
And that will only happen on top a mountain of corpses.
Future historians will debate where the last exit was; what moment was the point of no return. Today was the final confirmation that it has indeed been crossed.
If your plans depend on peace, make new plans.
Could someone give me an update on using Nostr as a marketplace? I'm trying to see if this would be a good place for my Mom to sell baby blankets. Zaps for answers.
Watched Kyle Hill's vid on the Dead Internet Theory. Watching leftists precisely identify a problem, then fail to properly consider that they are vulnerable to the flaw and create a "solution" to the problem which is nearly certain to exacerbate it is always bizarre.
I think we need to start a movement where we tell everyone in our lives that we will only trust cryptographically signed digital information. Tell friends, family, and coworkers to their face that if it isn't said in person or signed and verified, we will always consider it fake, then follow through. Providing a forged email or deepfake to employers will be helpful in making the point clear. And making sure the tools are available to have all communications be signed is going to be important.
Absolutely. If I had the time I'd write it myself. A practiced nostr coder could do it in a day or two, would take me a few weeks or more due to research.
It needs to do 3 things:
1. Handle bip-32 derivations using nsec/npub formatting.
2. Handle signing via derivation.
3. Be modular so that any client can implement it.
Most of this code exists, it just requires adaptation. Primary reason I haven't done it over the last year is that without also making a client I couldn't test it. I also didn't know about NAK.
Things Many Bitcoiners Get Wrong Pt 1
Myth: Bitcoin increases in value forever
Reality: Bitcoin is subject to the same value law behind all monetary assets. Here's a formula that can help conceptualize that:
V(mx, t) = [mx / m(t)] * [m(t) / Gm(t)] * W(t)
Where:
V(mx, t) = Value (purchasing power) of a specific amount of a monetary asset at time t
mx = Specific amount of a monetary asset (assumed constant for simplicity)
m(t) = Total amount of the specific monetary asset at time t
Gm(t) = Global Money (all monetary assets) at time t
W(t) = Wealth (all purchasable goods and services) at time t
t = Time
This cannot actually be calculated, since you would need to know all of the monetary assets in the world and all the wealth and that's impossible. It's also a lagging effect, where the current value is chasing this equation. But I am confident this is close enough to Reality to be useful.
The purchasing power of 1 BTC goes up if the total Wealth increases, if the ratio of economic energy in bitcoin compared to the total goes up, or if the amount of accessible bitcoin goes down. The inverse is also true.
Bitcoin could go down to $6,000 per coin and still have the same purchasing power it did at $60,000, if the amount of dollars and dollar derivatives dropped by 10x. Bitcoin could go to $1m per coin and be able to buy less per coin, if the production of goods and services fell by 90% and USD heavily inflated. Both of these are entirely possible, and the latter is currently likely.
The best way by far to increase the value of held bitcoin is to go produce wealth that trades directly with BTC. The best way to decrease it, is to borrow fiat against bitcoin and live on the fiat while you produce nothing. The former directly enhances the purchasing power of BTC. The latter is a parasitic transaction that pressures the sale of bitcoin to make up the imbalance.
So a client sets up one or more cashu wallets on relay for the user. Cashu zaps can be received to that wallet, and this all works because cashu nuts work as backed bearer assets themselves and the control key is made the nsec. Ingenious.
Please correct me where I'm wrong, but remaining steps to a fully integrated system are:
1. Clients need to implement cashu wallet support (relay wallet) and support for cashu zaps (relay nuts) between said wallet(s).
2. Implement transfer of nuts in and out of the relay wallet.
3. Implement sending of relay nuts to a lightning address, such that receipt of the sats does not require the recipient to have setup a relay wallet.
4. Implement receive of relay nuts from a lightning transaction, such that the sender does not need to be aware of the wallet being on relay.
I have barely touched cashu, so for all I know most of this is already done or is unnecessary.
Wow noStrudel is killing it. I tried it back when it was first going and wasn't impressed, but I pulled it up now and I'm switching off Primal as my main client, at least when on desktop.
I feel like I was blind and can now see. So much information that this network is running that I wasn't aware of, now I can see it. And so cleanly organized and displayed. It's amazing.
Strongly recommend anyone who's not checked it for awhile to give it another go.
>A person says I'm hurting them.
>I ask them how.
>They say that they're trans, and my comments are offensive to trans people.
>I say that it is impossible to be trans, and they are the sex they are whether they are comfortable with it or not.
>They are extremely hurt that I insist on reality over subjectivity
If you or anyone else tried to stop me from doing this, I would refuse. I would escalate my refusal to the point of lethal force.
My reason is very simple: a human being cannot change their sex, and there is no category more fundamental to humans than the sex binary. A person who rejects the sex binary rejects all of reality, and embraces insanity. I will die before I allow the insane to control my speech.
You can think that's an asshole position, but truth is far more important than being polite.
I tried working with it through Sparrow, and tracking some of the developments around it.
If the only thing you're doing is a basic hold, it's slightly more expensive to send than standard SegWit due to the larger footprint. If you're doing more complex scripts, than taproot rapidly becomes king of both potential complexity and price. Miniscript also helps considerably, though it's still very technical.
Unfortunately, almost no wallet software supports the advanced features that makes taproot so useful, even now. Various lightning implementations are as good as it gets.
So, unless you're willing to try to figure out Miniscript for yourself, you're better off sticking with P2WSH for your wallets.
Amazing. All of this low level development feels like the beginning of a legitimate Web 3.0.
If we could get an interface that would let a traditional web or app developer to build their site once, and then deploy it to the traditional web, on Nostr rails, on Reticulum, etc. THAT would be the true killer app.
Let's not let the name get in the way.
We've needed a master/slave system for npubs for a while now. This just further reinforces it.
In case you don't know what I mean, you have your daily use npub(s) the nsec(s) of which will often be on hot devices, and then you have an npub the nsec of which is a cold key treated with the same security as cold storage. The hot keys post a metadata note that identifies the cold npub as a master. Then should the cold npub post a note that declares one of the hot npubs burned, the participating relays reject all notes from that npub. The relays/clients could also assist in redirecting follows to a replacement npub identified by a note from the master.
Such a system could drastically increase redundancy as well as allow hierarchical structures , but might have holes I haven't thought of.
What would you think about a dating app where you talked to an AI dating assistant about who you are and what you are looking for in a partner, and it would go out and find other AI assistants and work out with each other the caliber of the match, only getting the human they work for involved when both assistants have very high confidence that the match is excellent.
We're not at the point where it's that black mirror episode, but it's a lot like agreeing to go on a blind date setup by a less intelligent version of you.
#dating #relationships #ai