I can neither confirm nor deny this accusation.

It doesn't leverage anything. mostr.pub integrates already, it changes nothing for nostr. The great thing about a truly free protocol like nostr is that anyone can build anything, nobody needs permission, and nobody even needs to care. That makes nostr more powerful, but specific implementations of integrations do not.

As a long time fedizen, hard disagree. The fediverse is a dumpster fire. It is an ongoing flame war between degenerate admins and their acolytes. There is very little value there.

Nostr will win because it's unstoppable. It doesn't need to fold into anything. In fact, its so decentralized that it doesn't even need to win! There's no competition because it has no peers. That's why it will win.

Well it's a bit of a stretch dude ngl lol but the idea is that if distortions caused by fiat could be removed simply by canceling out the denominator then those distortions wouldn't exist. When you remove the denominator you're throwing away information, like a lossy form of compression, you're losing context. And this shows OK the fact that two different commodities have different price changes, part due to their own market forces but partly because the distortions caused by fiat affect different parts of an economy to different degrees, as a result of this, you can't measure inflation across an economy simply by measuring the price change of any one commodity, hence CPI.

What kind of applications do you have in mind?

You're gonna get all kinds of people on this network.

What in the fuck are they talking about? FCMP++ comes with a change in the adaptive block size now? Why?

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

I just got called smart money.

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This is terrible security advice. You literally cannot not connect the phone to the internet; the offline signing wallet app must be updated directly over the internet.

Scanning QR codes is the most secure way to share signed transactions. It is an example of a scoped communication protocol, it can only communicate what you want communicated. You want an offline signed that cannot communicate beyond a narrow scope and only if the device is physically with you.

Jumbling up the order of your words, in any way, has no security benefit and only risk. If you want a portion of your security setup stored in your head, use a bip39 passphrase. General rule: anything you can think up to mess with your cryptography is just added complexity with a larger chance of failure and no security benefit.

A phone with a wallet on it is not a cold vault. A purpose built signing device with no wireless networking capability is.

Torrent MP3s like a chad. I have a 2tb ssd with everything I've ever bought and then some. They sell cheap aftermarket car stereos that take SD cards and USB sticks, I have an SD card with like 60 albums on it, it's like having a 60 CD changer in my car.

Wait... Are you done developing monstr?

Oh I bet lol damn. What's the pond for?

If bitcoin exists only to cure monetary inflation and any guy can spin up an attempt at inflating it, it's not very good at it's only purpose, is it?

Of course, those premises are incorrect. Bitcoin exists to create a peer to peer electronic cash system. Curing monetary inflation is only a part of that. And these other things exist primarily to provide alternative peer to peer electronic cash systems based on peoples idea of what is an improvement. They're not fungible with bitcoin and therefore cannot inflate bitcoin, the only way they devalue bitcoin is by attracting users that like their feature set. The free market at work, for money, competition based on merit, it is natural selection. If bitcoin is the best and the only thing worth using, they'll have little impact I'm the short term and virtually none long term.

Imagine simping for a custodial banking corporation and then calling yourself a bitcoiner.

"Some website showed me a number that looks about right."

And then you shot up to 20 feet tall consistently for the rest of your life.

I'd say definitely a megalomaniac. You have to really think you're the shit to even consider trying to be the president of the US. Psychopaths, definitely overrepresented at that level yes.

I really would love to know though, what in the fuck do these guys find out when they get to that level? We probably can't really imagine. Is it aliens? Secret nukes somewhere? Ancient magic in the religions? Who fucking knows but whatever it is it's probably wild as fuck, beyond my silly imagination. I've read some pretty out there takes, definitely there's some secret technology involved and power game strategies you can only understand when you know about that shit.

Allen Dulles, the first director of the CIA, said "we will know our work is done when everything the american people believe is a lie." I think there's insight in exploring that, I think the reason things increasingly make less sense is because the things factoring into the decisions these people make are completely unknown to us. Think about some things you understand that most people refuse to see and even get emotional about you saying, like "you're not born with rights", a very powerful realization, and imagine your entire worldview being made up of shit like that. That's the environment these people are operating in. I wouldn't want it and I want it all to crumble, I just hope that doesn't mean the end of everything. I really try to figure it out though because I really want to know more about how the world works.

I think he genuinely wants to save the US as a political entity, buy I don't think he has the fortitude to do it, or even knows how to make it happen. However big of a fucking mess it looks to us, it's way worse behind the scenes, and they know many of those details that would probably blow our minds. I doubt anyone can do it honestly, and I doubt most men want to. They seem to go into it thinking they can do it and then at some point they start behaving like they're looting a sinking ship because they see that it can't be fixed. At best they maintain the status quo, which is a government's primary job, no matter how unjust the status quo is.

Lol and you did. Only an honorable man pays a gentleman's agreement to a random stranger on the internet. The most honorable of men. I will always vouch for your character and honesty, you're a man among boys.

I wouldn't bet on trump pumping bitcoin though. It's not that I have some weird faith in trump making all my dreams come true, it's that I had some insight into how he was playing the politics game. People are saying things like the US is going to pump bitcoin to discharge debt, always hand waving how that works exactly. I don't see it.

What all desktop key signers did you compare?

Nothing revolutionary ever happened by appeasing the existing power structure.

That's old fud. Nobody that I know of has been able to trace a monero transaction, I've never heard of a traced transaction used as evidence in court.

There are things that must be done carefully though, sure. You must use trusted remote nodes or your own node. You shouldn't reuse subaddresses. Besides that though the rest of it is automated, it's the default.

Who cares. I don't care how many people use it, only who uses it. If one guy other than me uses it and he has very interesting things to say, I will use it too.

Who cares how many people follow you? Something more interesting would be like a proof of work in your pubkey for relays to respond to your requests or something like that.

It's not good. Big problems incoming. I talked about this a week ago, I expected this kind of thing to begin January. Looks like it's happening faster than I expected.

Because of what I said after that part.

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Transaction fees not going up this cycle is a big indicator that I might be right about this, and that now is when what I'm talking about begins to become apparent.

I'm speculating. But we speculate. If the valuation of MicroStrategy begins to drop they will have to liquidate part of their balance sheet, if you think that's not gonna happen, I mean we are both speculating but I wouldnt take that bet.

People that bought stock are going to begin selling when the price drops. This will cause the stock price to drop faster than the bitcoin price. Investors don't like to see that, they'll spook and expect to get something locked in. Theres 0 chance they don't have some type of guarantee.

Every single exchange failure in the past was bullish for self custody. People still seem to be clamoring to give someone control over their stuff.

So if saylor sells, you don't expect that to cause a massive price drop? I expect that to be this cycle's FTX. Not to say it will cause all the later stuff I talked about, I don't think it has anything to do with that.

Well don't do that. But at least tell me, you expect a bear market soon, right? Maybe not this catastrophe I speak of, but couple year downtrend, what we are used to already?

So who's who in that picture? Are you the clown or the joker?

Everything with AOSP is so tightly integrated. The interface is (largely) the system.

Building a replacement from scratch is not within anyone's ambition. Google have done to it what they did to the browser, to maintain a mobile system from scratch would take a team of hundreds. Add to that, a system runs apps, as opposed to a browser, and so you either have to have a compatibility layer for android apps, or have no apps.

Someone could fork AOSP. The time to have done that would've been 2013, take android K and fork it, do not merge upstream. We could be living the dream right now. Someone could, theoretically, take that old code and go through the tedium of looking through every android update, taking what's needed for device compatibility, security patches, actual improvements like battery management, and porting those. That's a ton of work.

No ROM developer actually maintains an OS, they all just patch the newest AOSP version. And so we get stuck with Google's decisions about how we are supposed to use our property. You haven't been able to change the default DNS for years. I hear LineageOS has gone so far as to stop maintaining it's flagship features, like sliding the status bar to adjust brightness. It's no CyanogenMod.

Or they could, you know, update the outdated do umentation on the site. But priorities I guess. I tried to tell them, to no avail.

The old site looks better IMO.

I'm old enough to remember when bitcoin was supposed to be a new financial system. Now it's just supposed to be a new reserve currency underpinning the existing system. Never trade in your hoodie for a suit.