#asknostr

I have friends who think that bitcoin is a psyop, something created by the global elites as a precursor to CBDC's. How does one address these concerns?

I’m an idiot. Didn’t bring my Satoshi shirt on this trip.

Why's it under heavy load? too many users? How many users do you have. Is there anywhere we can see the statistics of your relay?

Why do you allow anyone to simply connect to it instead of charging a tiny fee.

There's value to be had from any situation even if the situation itself was undesirable.

You can't find all the value in a situation if you are judging it & yourself though.

You have to have at least have a neutral (preferably positive) mindset to find most of the value in a situation. From there, you either get back on the horse or find yourself a new horse to ride.

There are no coincidences, why did the universe show me this?

For your contemplation... 👀

Green vertical lines marking September 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 (current) on the monthly #bitcoin chart.

This is the point of the cycle where the bears are seemingly victorious and increasingly insufferable.

This is your last chance to bail before upside volatility (likely) begins to take hold in earnest.

It is your last chance to fill the next four years of your financial life with serious regret.

IF YOU DON'T SELL YOUR BITCOIN IN SEPTEMBER 2024, YOU MAY BE FORCED TO RIDE THE ROCKET HIGHER OVER THE COMING 12-15 MONTHS. 🚀

You have been warned.

Christians,

Help me out here.

How does one feel strongly about Jesus? How does one have a personal relationship with Christ?

In general I feel very little or nothing when I think about god and he exists to me more as a vague concept.

Any advice?

Peter Schiff: “#Bitcoin needs a bailout.”

While #Gold is just a fucking flat line compared.

Bitcoin Twitter RIP 🪦

Generally tough but sometimes succulent & juicy?

He's correct in saying that Isa has a bigger platform because of her physical appearance. She is beautiful & has a vibrancy to her that's very attractive. That's not to say that she doesn't deserve the love & attention that she gets though. We are all deserving of love & attention.

I think that people should be more careful with their words & let go their judgement. If someone's message doesn't resonate with you, right at this moment, just move your attention elsewhere.

Can you give me an example of something that is harmful and efficient?

No, because our knowledge doesn’t disappear. Maybe it would as a result of a global cataclysm, or a mad leader that destroys a couple of generations like Pll Pot, but even if some tech goes out of use it still exists and can still be integrated in to new advances.

YES! Does anyone think humans would have evolved this far had the difficulty of surviving been removed? We’d still be archaea!

Marx’s great mistake was thinking that capitalism (as in free market exchange) was responsible for the inherent contradictions in the system of exchange and not seeing how dirigisme (your vocabulary word of the day) was the real culprit.

The creative destruction of capitalism, as Weber pointed out, is evolutionary. With any degree of state intervention, this evolution of capitalism devolves into a form of economic eugenics designed to create an economic depend on the state for all things.

Pattern matching is a game of wack a mole. The spammers are already evolving. Eventually this will be AI spam on a freshly minted npub. It will look like any new user. Nostr apps will either be forced to block new users or implement something radical.

Solutions are:

1) trust graph (accounts followed by people i follow and they people they follow, all the way up)

2) some significant cost for new users (which could be proof of bitcoin paid or owned, or proof of work in creating an account or for posting a message) nostr:note1zfhwgmkwtx48jtmzyrs9jaq82tm58grp45slxcvlc2n5atq8u07s80cdwx

share the note with normies instead

A very common comment on bird.