Nah, nobody else would get arrested. The point is to demoralize everyone into realizing that everything is unfair now and that the justice system is a completely, totally broken and multi-tiered mess at all levels.

Iris: "What can I do to make this client even worse today?"

"I know, I'll just make it stop showing things altogether!"

Me getting people to realize that the HODLers are no different from today's bankers

I follow 60 people but only like 5 of them actually post semi-regularly. Nice network turnover you've got there.

This is the sort of thing I'm working on Nostrlyzer for (https://git.poster.place/victor/nostrlyzer/wiki) but I can't seem the find the motivation when the whole site is just zaps.

This is true. At one point there were serious discussions about the meaning of life, the problem of evil, salvation, real history, crazy conspiracy theories that are probably true after all, and other stuff that actually matters.

I guess I just need to get used to reading books and storing the knowledge for a time when people are ready to talk again.

Iris: "Remember when you first made a key and started posting things? I'm going to show you all of that instead of whatever is going on right now!"

I started writing some code to find interesting trends/statistics on Nostr relays last night, as a way to help build something useful instead of just trashing it all the time, but then when I view the feeds I have a hard time convincing myself that it isn't just a huge waste of time.

The only trends around here are "hodl" and "zap."

You don't understand how Nostr works. He said, "No," so your point is thereby invalidated.

You have no recourse at this point, according to the Nostr rules, but to reply, "No," in kind, thereby invalidating his original "No" and restoring your position.

As long as people who can't call a man a man and a woman a woman are allowed to be in charge, we're going to go nowhere good.

> Your main argument is regarding how power will be disseminated

False.

You completely missed the part where bitcoin is PERMANENTLY DESTROYED over time. Some will pass on their "wealth," and others will drop their phones in the toilet or send money to the wrong address or do other retarded things, because people are retarded, and you can't fix that.

> The current system

Deflecting away from bitcoin, never seen this tactic before! I don't like the current system, but that doesn't mean we have to jump from one awful system to another awful system.

> incentive creating value, sustainable based products, to require spending

Buzzwords

> I’m not sure how power will be disseminated

It seems my initial assessment was correct. You did not prove me wrong about the new banking class that you aspire to be a part of.

> betting a world on a Bitcoin standard

"I know you're right and choose to instead selectively ignore it"

Thanks for playing, maybe someone will have a halfway-decent response someday. It certainly isn't going to come from you.

Against my better judgment, I will cast pearls before swine.

Bitcoin is set to deflate, permanently. Every time someone dies or drops their phone in the toilet or sends money to an inactive address, etc., that currency is DESTROYED. Gone forever, impossible to recover.

Over time, more and more people will destroy more and more bitcoin. It may be fast or slow, but the trend is permanent deflation.

So newcomers are stuck fighting over less and less bitcoin in circulation (assuming they fall for the scam and start buying into it in the first place).

Meanwhile the early adopters hoard the majority of it. The HODLers here. Before you know it, you, the early adopter, have disproportionate control over the bitcoin economy. Your current amount used to buy a book; now it buys a house; later it buys a yacht or whatever.

The newcomers will never have a chance, even if they are as smart as you and more motivated, to earn that kind of wealth, because you will keep it close-hold and invest it and leverage it in ways that ensure you never actually lose it.

Does this sound familiar yet?

Bitcoin bros just want to be the new banking class.

I await your response, in which you will surely tell me I'm wrong without actually proving anything. Good luck.

(And if I REALLY feel like banging my head on a wall, I might come back with a "suppose 100 people have 1 coin each" scenario, but you're probably not worth the effort.)

You just used a lot of words without saying anything, congrats

Still waiting for an explanation on how the bitcoin deflation problem isn't actually a problem

Iris has been doing a lot of weird things lately. Hoping for a good desktop client soon. I refuse to use my phone.