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The prologue from my forthcoming book on CBDCs: Life in 2023, Monetary Apartheid and a tale of two brothers...
#CBDCs #Bitcoin #degrowth #ClimateScam
GM Nostriches - while you were sleeping we were walking the Dubrovnik wall… 
Not with the visa. We didn’t need a visa to come here from Canada.
"Ok Mr. Mark, we will see you soon."
Me: "Cool, what payment methods do you take?"
"Anything you want. We take it all".
Me: "Oh yeah? Do you take #Bitcoin ?"
*Laughing* "No, not yet, but maybe we should"
Me: "Yes, definitely do that".
"OK!"
(Me: Ordering takeout in Dubrovnik) 
Over 100 years ago, in 1918, my father was born in Dubrovnik.
His family moved to the UK when he was nine, he grew up there, flew a Spitfire in the RAF during WW2 - before marrying a German woman and settling down in small town Canada.
Today I visited his birthplace with my family. Though I don’t speak the language or have any real roots here, it feels somehow fulfilling. 
GM Nostriches
Doing a 4-hour layover in Munich on our way to Croatia.
I swear to god we could have ended the pandemic with Manuka Honey. Miracle stuff.
I'm just reading the #WorldCoin white paper and what I can't figure is this:
Once you run a biometric reading through a zero-knowledge proof to generate the World ID - how is it possible to guarantee that a particular World ID was generated from a human source, and not an AI generated one?
There's no way to do it, that I can see.
nostr:npub1elwpzsul8d9k4tgxqdjuzxp0wa94ysr4zu9xeudrcxe2h3sazqkq5mehan As someone who became very bullish on decentralized DNS alternatives a couple of years back, I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the current state of those solutions. Obviously in order for these alternatives to become widespread, large ISPs and/or browser makers will need to resolve them. Do you see any current solutions being accepted, or something new entirely?
It’s a mixed bag.
ENS has a lot of traction within the Ethereum community - but nothing that bridges the gap to legacy DNS.
Handshake is a shitshow - because it’s all mainly just speculation around scooping up TLDs
Ziliqua I don’t know but seems like ETH, relevant within its own ecosystem
Unstoppable is just a variation of the legacy ICANN style “register your name in these TLDs before somebody else does” grift.
Stacks has promise except for the infighting and that they’re a side chain to an ecosystem that dismisses them as shitcoiners.
There is no naming initiative on Bitcoin that has any momentum, although I believe ordinals provides a pathway to it, but anybody who suggests that will be tarred and feathered.
Such is the state of decentralized naming today.
It’s called “Stakeholder Capitalism”
(…and *you* aren’t a stakeholder 🤡) 
G’night Nostr…
Just did my third ToC for the CBDC book and threw everything I have in the garbage. Aiming for end-of-summer now. Somehow.
Normally I’d expect the actual approval to be the top. If it gets pushed out past the halving, that would be my bet.
I think that’s the main place where we disagree. Because if Nostr is going to succeed big, there will need to be a a human readable abstraction for npubs
Yes - you would have to have resolvers adopt support for it, which I think will happen.
The incentives for that happening are very similar to the incentives propelling a certain digital asset known as #Bitcoin.
nostr:npub1elwpzsul8d9k4tgxqdjuzxp0wa94ysr4zu9xeudrcxe2h3sazqkq5mehan i would love your insights here if you had amin
You're both right from where I'm looking.
I've been saying that DNS is the perfect mechanism to assert NIP-05 identifiers (and Lud-16 lnurls, and even BTC addresses) for quite some time.
In the case of NIP-05/LUD-16 The .well-known/URI scheme is limiting - and I would also argue, less secure than, say, a DNSSEC signed zone.
While true that DNS is "centralized" ultimately at the root level, there is no content or participant level censorship there - the DNS tree is somewhat like a federated namespace AND there will in time be more decentralized namespaces outside of the IANA tree within which one could pin their NIP-05 or LUD-16 ids.
None of these arguments have convinced the people it needs to (*cough* nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 *cough*) - and to his counter-points, I do somewhat get it).
It is possible that somebody, someday could propose another NIP entirely for the assertion of NIP-05-like id's (they would look exactly the same) via DNS TXT recs.
It is not obvious or probable that such a NIP proposal would succeed.
At the risk of sounding repetitive, I'll refer to my previous article on this sort of thing here (and there are a few threads on Github somewhere):
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/simplifying-bitcoin-addresses-dns
My segment about #CBDCs on Steve Bannon’s Warroom is now up: