Yes, but I answered the question. Bluesky is from Jack. Fiatjaf then went to start Nostr, and Jack also funded that. He's sold most (all?) of his X shares, now, tho.
EU wants a CDBC because the Euro is lagging in usage outside of Europe. They want to compete with the US Dollar and China's Remnibi, both of which are heavily tokenized (through Tether, for instance) and used for international trade.
It would make more strategic sense, to use Bitcoin, but they're so obsessed with their 💶, that it won't happen anytime soon.
Is the bounty from almost three years ago, to build a GitHub replacement on Nostr, still active? Since then, several important pieces have been built, and none of it would’ve been possible without nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqguwaehxw309a5xzan9dchxgctwvdhkuamp09jx2a3wvdhk6qpq5qydau2hjma6ngxkl2cyar74wzyjshvl65za5k5rl69264ar2exsweceyk’s work on ngit or nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj76twvfhhstnjv4kxz7tn9ekxzmny9uq35amnwvaz7tms09exzmtfvshxv6tpw34xze3wvdhk6tcqyqalp33lewf5vdq847t6te0wvnags0gs0mu72kz8938tn24wlfze6luf5tq with GRASP. Have you seen https://gittr.space by nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7cn0wd68ytnndphhqtcpzdmhxue69uhkw6t5dehhxarj9e3k7mf0qqsf4qmhne6ssp2kcetdf4qc6q4y6lkmu2y2970xm545s7v7ey63snq23tmpa? It appears to be a fully functioning GitHub alternative. Finally! With the work from all of them, it seems like that bounty might be close to fulfilled.
The bounty requirements were never documented.
I'm weirdly outside of the age verification debate because I pay for everything, so every website I use regularly doesn't ask me for more information because they already have my dental x-rays and have met my personal FBI agent.
I'm not even anonymous on Nostr.
The irony of the whole situation is that many of the people fighting the hardest to protect online anonymity, aren't anonymous, themselves. Same way that many of us promoting Bitcoin enthusiastically, don't actually have much of it.
It's a conundrum.
I don't know if it's masochism or altruism, to fight this hard to protect rights and assets I hardly use. But, maybe, I might want to use them, one day. And, like, on principle. Or something.
Or — more likely — I am just a useful idiot. The world has never had any shortage of them.
I stacked a bunch of Bitcoin, with what I could scrape together in there, and it's already up in $ price, but I look into my empty account and feel mild panic.
There's so much month left... 😧
Am I the only one who immediately divvies-up every pay check to cover bills and investments and withdraw cash, and then gets nervous until the next paycheck because there is so little in the bank?
Feels like I'm broke.
I say subpeona because, obviously, companies have a strong incentive to delay deleting the data. At least, until they have had a chance to use it for their statistics and monitoring and sales programs.
There is no market incentive to either keep or delete a token because it's just a nonsense string.
Yeah, but it could also just supoena the companies for their data.
As far as I know, the token can't be easily decoded, to figure out your bank account or etc.
It is not an accident that this push is coming from English-speaking countries. Those are the countries where the biggest European-language social media companies are based and the leadership of those companies _want_ this legislation. It means that they can now all collect personal data from their users without having to worry about data privacy regulations or lawsuits. It also means that your personal data is being stored by every website you visit, and can be leaked or sold on from there.
The EU has -- differently from those countries -- focused on providing a (possibly, on-device) crypo-token generator, based upon possession of a bank account or government ID, that does not share any personal data with the company requesting the information. It merely confirms that the token-possessor is above some minimum age.
Still a problem, but a different problem. Feel free to discuss which is worse.
You mean this deal? It didn't even include territorial agreements, and Russia started out like:
> One disagreement was over security guarantees. The Istanbul Communiqué said that if Ukraine was attacked and asked for help, the guarantor states would be obliged to help Ukraine militarily. The Russians then demanded this be changed so that the guarantor states would only defend Ukraine from an attack if "all guarantor states" agreed, including Russia. This meant that Russia could veto a military intervention to defend Ukraine from repeated Russian invasion.
🥴
Everyone thought Russians would eventually tire of war.
The Nostr propaganda is that the EU is introducing Internet age checks because it's a "commie union", and that this wouldn't be happening if it went back to being 27 separate states.
The first places to introduce such legislation were the UK, Australia, and Alabama.
Furthermore, 25 US states currently require age checks for accessing adult content online, and all of those states are considering expanding their laws to make the check for all social content.
Boris Johnson was involved because:
1) the UK and the USA are the protectors of Ukraine, according to the Trilateral Agreement
2) UK is a leading NATO power
The US military isn't only over there to protect Ukraine. It's also over there to move into eastern Ukraine and extract resources from the territory. It needs a peace deal, to send in the drills. That was precisely what was in Trump's first attempted "peace deal".
If America reneges on Ukraine defense, they break their Trilateral security guarantees, that they and the UK agreed to, in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes. That would cause the USA to be seen as a fickle partner, and put all other security guarantees in question (Qatar, Taiwan, etc.)
The USA and Russia companies are in talks to resurrect Nordstream 2 without the EU, and then make billions selling the natural gas to Germany. The USA has promised Russia that it can force the EU to purchase Russian gas by cutting Germany off from American gas. Germany doesn't think that is very funny.
The EU (especially Germany) is completely dependent upon the USA for energy and defense, but America becoming such a terrible ally has them rethinking the wisdom of this.
Now, Trump and Elon scream incoherently at them on Twitter and ramble on racist garbage about Europe no longer being European. Which has them rethinking even harder.
The 2014 referendum was held _after_ the Russian military annexed Crimea, and Russia sent the only allowed poll observers. The ballot had only two options (join Russia or go back to the 1992 constitution); the option to remain part of Ukraine was omitted.
The turnout was supposedly 83% and 97% approved the Russian option, which meant nearly all of the ethnic Ukrainians and Tartars would have had to approve. But the Tartars actually boycotted the election.
Typical Russian election. The overwhelming majority of the UN refused to accept the results.
Putin has openly admitted all of this.
Trump is trying to blame Ukraine and the EU for his "peace deal" failing, but Russia has already said that the deal is out of the question.
The whole circus is just a humiliation ritual and medial theatrics to cover up the failure of his campaign privilege: to get a peace deal done within a day of his inauguration.
The 24 hours are up, Mr. President.
Also, there has been a quiet, steady, crippling brain-drain from Russia to NATO and EU countries (Turkey, Germany, USA, Switzerland, etc.).
Those people are not going to return.
Russia has lost hundreds of thousands of young men to a foreign colonization adventure, and almost a million more are casualties, while its economy slowly collapses, it's most-lucrative trade markets melt away, it's energy supplies are dwindling, inflation is stubbornly high, and it turns itself into a national pariah reduced to accepting aid from North Korea and being turned into China's vassal state.
All while it becomes more-rapidly islamicized than even France, but is afraid to do anything about it because so many of its troops are Muslim. The Russian government and the imams (and Orthodox leadership) are in cahoots, encouraging young men to march into battle against the infidels, Nazis, whatever.
If this is winning, is the question. I think Russia has taken a wrong turn and will struggle to ever recover from this. Every day it fights, takes it further down this road.
The EU was demilitarizing and launching massive trade deals with Russia, when Russia first invaded the Krim, but the invasion quickly reversed all of that. I hope it was worth it, for Russia.
We shall see.
It's not a peace deal. It's a capitulation deal that moves the Russian border much closer to the EU.
Ukraine has not been at peace since 2014.
He initially commercialized it and then switched to the new GNU license.
The idea of open-sourcing was really new, at the time, so he had to understand the concept, first.
And don't worry too much about getting it perfect, the first time. It's all replaceable, so you can iterate until it looks the way you want.
Make sure you include an "image" tag, so that we have a nice picture for the cover. And put the title and your name within the image.
Otherwise, it looks dull and bland in the file-folders and e-paper readers.
We also have an Asciidoctor API for downloading the resulting kind 30040 publications in various formats (Asciidoc, HTML, PDF, and EPUB).
Yes, it was tangibly faster.
I only know Bun from our GitRepublic prototype.
I love my hair. The longer it gets, the more I love it. I can't believe it got so nice, now that it's turning gray and I'm at the age where I'm supposed to get a sensible haircut. I'm aiming for Rapunzel. I want to braid it and wrap it around 3 times, like a silver-streaked crown 👸🏻.
Another meter should suffice.
Amen. Amen. Halleluja.
Catholicism is beautiful.
#catholic #christian
USA also has much larger private gold holdings.
And, of course, India has the most gold, when public and private are combined.
I suppose they would say Christian integration is proof of our capitulation, but we have no concept of earthly Utopia. I think this is an essential difference.
#AfD wants to liberalize #Bitcoin regulation, avoid it being legally lumped in with "crypto" and review adding some to the national reserve.
Why are their faces covered?
Oh, I never stopped discussing them, but everyone else was too distracted by the spectacle of Muslim fundamentalists being killed by people who aren't also Muslim fundamentalists.
First feedback: you'll need responsive design, so that I can use it on my phone and manage the relay on the go.
(Pun intended. 😁)
It's the forum-thread kind, like Chachi and Flotilla use. But their forums are limited to particular community events, and mine are just straight to relays. That's why everyone can see them.
I might add in their communukeys-based threads, as well. We'll see.
It's the same basic software as jumble.social, but I forked it and added a Reddit-like forum, public messaging, and some new default relays like wss://nostr.land and wss://orly-relay.imwald.eu
Primal is eating up a lot of my mobile data. I’m not on an unlimited plan. Any tips on how to reduce data use? Tagging nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuurpwfjhgmeww3hhwmspr9mhxue69uhkummnw3exx6r9vd4jumt99aex2mrp0yn7plng to see if there’s a setting or fix for this. #asknostr 😢
Use https://jumble.social, instead.
Yeah, so, watching it for the 1937301th time. Still love it. 🍿
You can tell the Earth is round because things in the distance appear and disappear below the horizon, depending upon how high or low you are standing in a tower, or whether you are standing up or lying down.
But you are a very advanced troll, it's true.
Hear me out...
Greek salad with turkey and cornbread.
#foodstr
#housing #economics #EU
That's military law and it's like that, in most armies. The US will also execute you, for that.