Probably an unpopular opinion - but we need to get Bitcoiners actively involved in the World Economic Forum đđđ
My experience in Davos this year made it evidently clear that Bitcoin remains misunderstood and undervalued as hard money.
Naturally, itâs also the antithesis of how a globalist institution like the WEF wants the world to operate.
Getting the right people speaking inside the forum is crucial to changing the perception of Bitcoin and informing politicians and heads of industry to change their thinking.
Iâd love to see nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m nostr:npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak and others talking on an exclusively Bitcoin focused panel next year
Can look into it.
Gm nostriches.
Jan 3, âchancellor on brink of second bailout for banksâ is great for the headlines and all (no offence nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a , love your work), but today actually represents #bitcoinâs 16th birthday, when it actually used proof of work to create a chain of blocks providing a reward that could actually be spent. Happy Jan 9th everyone, next big milestone coming in soon freaks. đ
#bitcoin #firstblockday Lfg raising a #coffeechain with the #catstr to that.
January 3rd and 9th are both important dates!
Almost a God Candle today.
Being an anarchist I'm very reserved about government organization's stacking sats, but nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a changed my mind. They will come for our money if they go broke, so better to let them mine their own instead of coming for ours.
Or at least introduce them to the ethos of Bitcoin in hopes of them becoming Bitcoiners.
Give a collectivist some sats and they will come to you for more. Convert a collectivist to Bitcoin and they will respect your sovereignty forever.
đ𧥠Thanks nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a for the shout-out! Hope you had fun building! đ§Ąđ
Thanks for the gift!
A wise rabbit gave me this. đ
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Other than the last 10 minutes, I actually thought the documentary did a pretty good job of being accurate and bitcoin-positive. Potentially a good onboarding tool.
But Iâm left with the questionâwhat were nostr:npub1qg8j6gdwpxlntlxlkew7eu283wzx7hmj32esch42hntdpqdgrslqv024kw and nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a thinking in contributing so much to this? Why not work with someone who has Bitcoinâs best interest at heart in film, like nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx
Adam answered this on Twitter.
Yes.
We can work on that. Itâs always hard to empty a LN wallet without channel close. I had the same problem with others before and just had to leave a few sats in there. With AQUA though, it is a Liquid balance, so you can always swap that out to BTC or just withdraw the L-BTC itself.
AquaWallet is shitcoin-filled mobile wallet, created by an individual who dislikes Nostr, initially launched as closed-source and with concerning privacy policies and terms of service... is now pushing app updates on Google Play without the release of source code on Github or any commits on their repo.
Stop trusting nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a.
AQUAâs target market is LATAM, which uses USDt mainly.
Pushing Nostr protocol dev to be more resilient does not mean I dislike it.
Many projects launch closed and open later. IIRC Samourai was closed source for months. We were only closed for 10 days to clean up the repo and the open sourced.
Privacy Policy and TOS parts you dislike refer to using third party services within AQUA which we have no control over.
We always push to the public repo when there are new releases. We had an urgent fix because wallets are not launching due to a port change in GDP. Our dev was up late making the fix and then went to bed. He pushed to public repo in the morning.
Donât Trust. Verify.
Thanks for the gift all the way from Brazil! nostr:npub1vwcy6na4rcx6r43fqyxkhzzdvqufctnx06ywvrnajmq9p3mu27yqxy04ch #BitcoinTokyo2024 
Working on reproducible builds. We need it for F-Droid anyhow. Small team and limited resources.
Good post. đ
Your analysis though is missing a dive into the centralization gravity of the tech architecture itself.
I understand your point that there will always be a psychopath willing to subsidize freedom. Maybe thatâs true and continues. Itâs been true so far.
But psychopaths are not enough to keep nostr decentralized.
Relays are NOT equivalent. A relay with 100k users is not the same as a relay with two users.
Relays equal reach. Everyone wants the greatest audience for their posts and to never miss a post from someone they follow. This creates a natural incentive to connect to the largest relays.
The problem with the architecture is that nostr clients limit the number of relays you can have. For example, nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 recommends ten or less.
This means that when youâre limited to the number of relays, you want to connect to the largest (greatest cache of content and most connected users). Nobody wants to connect to the smallest.
This creates a centralizing gravity where relays get larger and more concentrated. Eventually we could end up with 10 massive relays. There would be no need for the 11th so few people would connect to it.
As you know from your analysis on shitcoin blockchains, they have a natural centralizing gravity. They need to be faster and cheaper than their competitors. This forces them to go POS and run fewer, larger nodes to increase throughput.
Nostrâs architecture has this same centralizing gravity.
This needs to be discussed, verified, and if confirmed⌠then fixed.
Ultimately, weâre not on team nostr v1. Weâre all on team freedom and privacy.
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It worries me that the answer to this is always âdonât worry.â
It doesnât even have to. Relays can self sensor if thereâs a threat. Just look at Phoenix pulling out of the US.
Either Nostr evolves to have every client being a relay, or it will fail. The risk is the same as that of LSPs.
Think adversarially and think far into the future. Imagine Nostr running at Telegram scale with 1B users, not the tight knit community is now.
I started out with 9 relays when I created my profile here. 4 are dead now and Nostr is a lot bigger. I donât think itâs fair to say that there will be more relays as it grows and not have a clear incentive you can point to for why people will suddenly run more.
I think all the recent events with Telegram and Samourai should be a clear indicator of where things are going.
Having many relays doesnât help if they all have nice URLs and the operators can be easily identified.