I will never stop saying this. ALL elections are rigged as far as I’m concerned because of this simple, undeniably fucking retarded fact.

Closed source voting machines have a single purpose, fraud. Period. nostr:note17yxrfrm7fy9zmk6wsnkg26z8mnfc20fgpgan4ln6yrw4hmpl8x7sj500ju

The urge to never post on social media again and disappear online forever

Lol just 250 more years of politics and it will work bro trust me

Lol just 250 more years of politics and it will work bro trust me

I’ve been watching Jon Stewart for 25 years now, and he is still a shockingly good comedian and commentator.

My problem with "stable channels" is not technical, but entirely around incentives.

"A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when it's sunny and asks for it back when it starts raining".

People want downside protection. But you cannot keep enough reserves to give it to them in Bitcoin, you need some other asset like USD, which is much harder to audit.

So in practice you offer some limit on downside protection, hopefully well-documented! But no limit on upside protection. Of course if you hit the downside limit your (broke) customers leave, so your business model is likely "hope Bitcoin goes up".

This can be extremely profitable, of course. But high-risk ventures with this kind of "heads I win tails you lose" property rarely attract the most ethical of players :(

Send zaps so fat, your grandchildren will think you are retarded

So my friends in lisbon who were very and extremely early to ETH are all full send into memecoins.

It’s kinda sad and sobering talking to them as the vibe is glib.

But then I remember they throw the lavish parties and live in villas with pools, expensive art and cleaners. lol.

Anyway. Their initial hope and belief that ethereum might actually provide some financial innovation or help, for example, millennials get a home with some clever on chain mortgage have evaporated.

There’s now Revolut, Wise, Monzo all sorts of neobanking solutions and the stuff they tried on ethereum doesn’t work as well nor have the traction of incumbent solutions.

The idealistic devs are now worn out and jaded. The ones remaining are now trying to secure the bag…Hence meme coins.

They’re a bit older than me, 33 to 41 ish and some of them are chatting kids.

So the focus is now: how we can 100x “popcoin” or some other meme junk so they can buy a restaurant and live quietly in Portugal.

They know it’s all scam bag pumping scheme and there’s a meme coin cabal running the meme space but they don’t care.

Secure the bag and GTFO is the play.

They’re wicked smart it feels a waste of talent.

And no, despite my best attempts they don’t understand bitcoin.

Two of them were hedgies before ethereum. The other two are hardcore devs from Germany who spent time in Silicon Valley.

I guess they’ve been comparatively rich for at least a decade and they don’t really see the separation of money and state part.

It’s sad and a bit funny.

I wish they’d see the orange light but part of me resents the shite they’ve peddled for years.

Ramble over.

Have a good evening Nostr ✌🏻

I’ve been watching Jon Stewart for 25 years now, and he is still a shockingly good comedian and commentator.

I’ve been watching Jon Stewart for 25 years now, and he is still a shockingly good comedian and commentator.

It’s a beautiful day to be alive.

I will trust a random nostr internet fren's opinion or recommendation on any purchase before typical reviews or approvals from media, the general internet, etc.

Is this what 'Web of Trust' is about?