It's easy to forget that the machine has been fighting BTC since the beginning.

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More than just hope though, it's active participation. Being the change you want to see.

I think the best thing about Bitcoin is that it makes doing the right thing good for you. There's very little downside.

Same, and in truck form so I can do useful stuff with it.

Haha yeah that's true. Spoken like a true Bitcoiner.

I don't know what you mean. Variety of clients and relays means the censorship regime, if it used to form a dam, can now form only a large stone in a river. Make no mistake, what's being built here is a big deal. #nostr

He should have held out for a Lambo, then people would believe him. Easier said than done though.

How can a technology make the state's monopoly on violence obsolete?

In my opinion the best response I've seen to any state monopoly on violence is the US Second Amendment.

I guess 3d printed guns are a technology built around this same principle of empowering non-state actors to arm themselves. If everyone were armed, no one could have a monopoly on violence.

Is that the kind of freedom tech you had in mind?

Yes but imagine if you could take your email address and just log in using a different provider. Probably you wouldn't even claim to be using "Gmail" or "Hotmail", you would just say you're using "email". Just like we don't say we're on Damus or Amethyst or Primal now, instead we say we're on "Nostr".

Better protocol in that disruptions may not be painless, but they are much less painful.

It would have a huge immediate effect, mostly because people would lose their accounts. But in the long term life wouldn't change at all.

Also Nostr is different from this (better) because you can move your account.

It's more like shutting down Gmail, Hotmail, etc, and expecting it to be the end of email.

Centralized social media is for adolescents who need their content curated for them. Nostr is where the truth will live.

That's good but it's just one of thousands of invader ships. How to stop the rest of the problem?

The first country to print a currency and use it to buy Bitcoin wins. But even the top winners give up their ability to print more currency when they make the switch. So it won't be a 1 to 1 switch, they give up their ability to keep stealing.

It's like English Nostr, except the people are wholesome and they speak Japanese and you can't understand anything they say.

When his jealousy is replaced by humility maybe he'll stop being poor.

I can't believe she said this. Incredible.

Well hang on a second, it's a place for RVers. So let me give you the other perspective on this, since I'm an RVer and not a trucker.

I go down the road hundreds of miles at a time. Sometimes multi-day driving, which requires that I pull over somewhere and stop. But if I stop at a rest stop, even though it's for everyone it's more for truckers and I'm taking a trucker spot. And I've had truckers tell me it makes them mad if they can't get a spot late at night. So where should I go?

Now, before Buccees there was nothing like it, that I know of. So how else would it be possible for them to cater to the RV/travel demographic without becoming another Loves or other "travel stop" station?

Yeah but if your companions are authoritarians and people who trust the government, then your whole life is probably gonna suck by comparison. And you probably won't even be able to figure out why.

You reported me for that, really? Fuck off, I don't talk to mental infants.

If your country was still full of natives it would be fine. But this level of policing is wholly inadequate for the third world rabble they're replacing you with.