Satoshi's stash should remain where it is. As incredibly tempting as it would be to just go ham, it's not mine.

Break it. Before I can change my mind.

Currently making a transition from the initial setup for logins/zaps I've been using to a more current arrangement. Figured I'd share some thoughts.

I like nsec.app. Smart design, love what it does. As is common, not a fan of the inconsistent support that exists for nostr-connect. Wish I could log in to Amythest and Primal on mobile with nsec.app instead, but so it is.

Love how efficient cashu.me is so far. Come a long ways. Long term we're gonna want some strict standards for mint operators, but for now it's doing great.

If it's free, then the rule is "You don't like it, leave!" If it's paid (or funded by donations), then the rule is "If you stop making something I like, I leave and take my money with me." Paying audience feedback is worth more.

Assuming that I know nothing about modern coding, what's the fastest way to learn everything required to start building nostr-based PWAs? #asknostr #nostrdevs

I'm 12 years out of date on current development methods, and what i do know has never extended beyond building for CLI at a hobbyist level. I simply have too many ideas for things I want to see built here to not learn to build them anymore.

I think we need bitcoin futures contracts on Nostr. I don't mean "I'll buy bitcoin with fiat at x price on y date" I mean "I'll buy z loaves of bread for x bitcoin on y date."

With capital controls coming fast or already implemented, such contracts are likely the best way to both enable a black market and resist the financial repression.

Being a distributor of criminal goods has always been lucrative, and this time the only victim will be thieving governments.

There is no second best with money. There is best, and there is ineffective and worse. That most people in Monero own both only further reinforces it's failure.

Monero enthusiasts don't understand that money is winner takes all, or they see both as investment vehicles for acquiring more fiat, or they aren't willing to commit to Monero out of fear that it's not the ultimate winner, or they're hoping they can successfully pump and dump. If they were actually clear on how money works, and really believed in Monero, they would use Bitcoin only as much as I use Monero: only when there's no other choice. Anyone like that I can respect, not fence sitters.

When Christians talk about Christ, we often talk about the love He has shown us, His sacrifice and what it means, etc. We don't talk often enough about what happens to those who refuse His gift. I think most of us don't really believe that what awaits is Hell, even if we say to ourselves we do.

I had an out of body experience 10 years ago, when having absolutely no reason to continue living I tried to end it. I was deeply gnostic at the time, figured there was no downside and plenty upside. I met a woman, and she told me the horror of my error. I spent maybe 1-2 real world seconds, beginning the journey of entering Hell.

There is no horror, that has ever been inflicted in this world by man, that I would not happily endure a 1000x over to never experience that again. The event seared itself on my soul, and as is potent and visceral in memory as it has ever been. A brief instant of that, no pain in this world is comparable. And I knew, that that would last for eternity if I died fully. I was lucky enough to claw myself back to flesh, get emergency care, and stay alive. It took me years to find a reason to live, but going back to that is not an option my mind can handle.

The Catholics were right when they used severe physical punishment in an attempt to convince those sentenced to death to repent. Not always in who and why they made such sentences, but it was utterly sensible to inflict one horror in hopes of preventing worse beyond death. Something I think we would be wise to remember as this peaceful period of history draws to a close, and war returns in fury.

Intersex is an abnormality. It is not a valid form of sex identity, but a biological error.

This should not be treated as a slight against those who suffer from this condition. Their body failed them, it's not their fault any more than someone with down syndrome, dwarfism, or other abnormal (epi-)genetic conditions.

However, sacrificing the idea that there is a standard template that human beings are fit to, merely because some encounter errors that cause a failure in that process, is a modern insanity.

As a side note, the water supply contains chemicals known to interfere in proper sexual maturation. Given that, if there is an increase in intersex people, the link should be examined.

If there are only 1.5-2 billion humans, that does have the minor bonus of a smaller death toll when the world starts breaking.

On so many levels. Also posted this before I found out about what's happening in Aurora. Government can't do anything, so it says. Honestly surprised it took this long.

Gonna take several incidents like this before people realize that no one is coming to save them.

A human who's body does not exterminate foreign lifeforms that go where not permitted, dies. The same is true of a nation. A difficult truth that all nations must come to terms with: all of the foreign peoples who will not integrate, must be excised for our nations to survive. Access to our lands must be controlled. Most nations that are not the west understand this truth well. The west is suicidal, and so it commits suicide by immigration.

Any nation unwilling to stand by and wait while those not given entry starve to death with their children, and gun them down if they ignore that law, is doomed.

And here I am hoping that in a few years, Nostr itself can host web pages.

You're correct on that. If every relay you connect to censors Bob, then you won't see anything from him.

Bob and his followers have a lot of options other networks don't have to check this is happening. For one, Bob can spin up a new npub, DM a lot of his followers to tell them the censorship is happening, signed so they know for sure. Some will verify, and once the word is out new relays get spun up and old dies. Bob's regular buddies can track it too. And security focused groups can regularly audit relays, and easily sound alarms.

So long as some people are vigilant against abuse, and the rest are willing to change their relay setting when the alarm is raised, bad relays are easily abandoned because none of the data they host is exclusive or under their control.

Apologies, I meant that the value of a fully self-custodied scalable solution is worth 100k bitcoin, not one to solve at 100k fiat price. It's a rabbit hole of a problem.

Ultimately, mainnet as it currently exists cannot serve humanity long term, though BTC can and should. Simple proof: Mars is never closer than 6 light-minutes round trip. No Martian colony will ever be able to mine bitcoin in a viable manner. And that's our backyard. Other stars is a joke.

This is why I believe in the transmutation protocol through sidechain. Scale via L2, verify everything. You can't necessarily stop abuse at the transition point, but if you can guarantee it's caught and execute violators, that's not bad. If a sidechain performs an important enough task that being a layer 1 is necessary, then plan and execute a burn of all the custodied BTC after allowing exits. The layer 2 token goes from being backed by BTC to made from BTC. Like smelting Spanish coins to make French coins. No violation of absolute scarcity.

Maybe we get better, but if not, seems the best option.

Had a realization. As much as the monero shills can be annoying, their actions really reinforce how great nostr is.

We're effectively in bitcoin central. It's practically an echo chamber a lot of the time. And yet, none of us Bitcoiners can do a damn thing to stop these guys from building alternate clients and relays and systems on their darling shitcoin, and they could very easily use all of the same tech and development, go onto entirely different relays with little to no connections between, and it would all still work.

This protocol doesn't care if everyone's in the same group. And there's no way within it to stop people from building anything they decide to, even if it's moronic. And that's fucking awesome.

I can actually talk about the appropriate scale and use of violence required to deal with ongoing crisis. Might still get me killed, but at least i can talk about it.

What you want to do only makes sense when you don't understand what the protocol is doing. Relays aren't single point servers. They're more like download mirrors, except you download the file from all of them simultaneously, verify that the file is the same for all, and just keep one of the copies.

There is a cost to adding a relay, in that there's more copies to download and discard and more to upload, but the advantage is that a single uncensored relay can overcome millions of censored ones. And since your relay list is public info by default (including read/write status) anyone who wants to hear from you can just check the same relays you use.

Maintaining a copy of all of your own notes through a self-hosted relay is a great idea, but only using that relay would cause significant problems with zero benefits. You don't even gain enhanced privacy.

Sometimes I wish this was what happened at riots

https://youtube.com/shorts/Qfswhyuhxso

The "We" here is the app itself. Your options are going to depend on the amount of sats onchain.

If you have less than 5k onchain, it's effectively lost. Even in the current low fee environment, you'll spend it all on recovery.

Above 20k, here's what I would do:

1. Set up the Aqua wallet. It won't KYC me, is self-custody + Liquid, and I can swap on-chain to lightning.

2. Send all Mutiny funds directly to an address in Aqua.

3. Swap the on-chain funds to lightning.

The entire process will likely cost you between 2k and 5k sats estimate. From there, whatever is desired. If reliable small payments on Nostr is the goal, cashu is king. https://cashu.space/ Aqua works great. Etc etc.

Hope it helps.