This already exists exactly as described

#AUStriches help me grock relays. How many do I need? What is considered a good relay? How to optimise relays for best user experience?

that notes are permanent is going to ward off many. yet i think it’s needed.

Could we not have a NIP asking relays to delete or not rebroadcast notes that have been marked as "deleted" ?

I hope you learned your lesson to never leave home again.

I’m on TestFlight too… just had no idea until now that I had the power to rewind 🤯

I’m on Test Flight so I do it there, but there is another way, I just can’t remember it…halp, #asknostr!

Just downgraded 👀

Coal black.

I spoke at a big bitcoin-adjacent company this week and one of the best questions was from someone who asked what the downsides of bitcoin adoption might be.

I always do appreciate these steelman questions, the skeptical questions, the ones where we challenge ourselves. Only when we can answer those types of questions do we understand the concept that we are promoting.

So the classic example is that in modern economic literature, "deflation is bad". This, however, is only the case in a highly indebted system. Normally, deflation is good. Money appreciates, technology improves, and goods and services get cheaper over time as they should. Price of Tomorrow covers this well. My book touches on this too, etc. The "deflation is bad" meme is still alive in modern economic discourse and thus is worth countering, but I think in the bitcoin spectrum of communities, people get that deflation is fine and good.

My answer to the question was in two parts.

The first part was technological determinism. In other words, if we were to re-run humanity multiple times, there are certain rare accidents that might not replicate, and other commonalities that probably would. Much like steam engines, internal combustion engines, electricity, and nuclear power, I think a decentralized network of money is something we would eventually come across. In our case, Bitcoin came into existence as soon as the bandwidth and encryption tech allowed it to. In other universes or simulations it might look a bit different (e.g. might not be 21 million or ten minute block times exactly), but I think decentralized real-time settlement would become apparent as readily as electricity does, for any civilization that reaches this point. So ethics aside, it just is what it is. It exists, and thus we must deal with it.

The second part was that in my view, transparency and individual empowerment is rarely a bad thing. Half of the world is autocratic. And half of the world (not quite the same half) deals with massive structural inflation. A decentralized spreadsheet that allows individuals to store and send value can't possibly be a bad thing, unless humanity itself is totally corrupted. I then went into more detail with examples about historical war financing, and all sorts of tangible stuff. In other words, a whole chapter full of stuff. I've addressed this in some articles to.

In your view, if you had to steelman the argument as best as you could, what are the scenarios where bitcoin is *BAD* for humanity rather than good for it, on net?

Which cloud do you think is more based and less likely to ban a Bitcoin business?

Google or Microsoft?

The Dirty South . . . now in the Inland Northwest!

After a preliminary skim, my first thought is:

As well as branches, GitHub also reveals tags. They are similar but differentiated both in the git protocol and in GitHub.

Hum.. I thought Damus had implemented a viewer for blog posts.. maybe they don't do quotes yet?

Very cool! What happens when people don't post commits to nostr and go directly to the server? Does it create a broken history?

Habla should implement a suggestion/review event kind. A simple copy-paste from the Highlight kind.

We could post and people could review and offer suggestions to improve the text. This would be great to port all NIP discussions to Nostr, away from GitHub.

Let's use more social features of this social protocol. We are still too Web 2.0-centric.