I must have found the protocol itself flawed in some way, like not censorship resistant enough, but must reconsider

“Bitcoin’s purpose is to be in motion as money or otherwise, or stored by many people for their own purposes not hoarded by psychotic government employing thinking from the 1970s. By this logic, why not store all the Bitcoin for twenty years?”

Increasingly I think the Nostr protocol has more potential to change the world than Bitcoin.

Reading a few takes on different topics around Valencia and flooding, I'm starting to feel like the crazy person in the room. Could be! @Eric Cason do you think I got the wrong end of the stick?

Valencia floods, I don't get it. Those poor people who lost their lives, is all the attention on helping Valencia for them? I sound heartless when I think out loud that it is not for them

It sounds like politics is hard at work, the typical Spanish media looping footage, talking events to death Aren't they diverting attention away from first principle failures ie decades of poor planning and general hubris to keep on reshaping the environment despite knowing the DANA is a regular event.

This isn't just a failure of politicians. Valencianos know how weather works, and land use/ misuse. Go anywhere in Spain and local knowledge of the land is still very alive and well. It's one of the many reasons why I love this country. There's a lot of "real grounded people" here still. If you think the scale of flooding in Valencia is a left field shock? Sorry, I don't believe it.

society has been shitting on it's own doorstep, reworking cityscapes, landscapes, mountains, rivers and is increasingly getting caught short, caught out. Everyone knows water is cleverer than humans, right?

Instead of lamenting collapsed bridges, question why on earth the bridge was even there. But who's asking those questions?

This episode sounds like same old same old media event. Who shouts loudest..

Nostr can raise voices outside the party line.

We also had insane rains. 5 Kms upstream, 450 mm of rain in 24 hours, infrastructure didn't collapse catastrophically, but enough damage to financially set us back and no help. No help expected none asked for.

We are at 600m, land absorbed most of the rain that fell on it. No fancy drainage or govt infrastructure or grants, just groundcover and terracing to slow down water flow. But still, land has water capture limits. Another few hours of storm our place would have been inundated and adding to the water that had been gushing from the first minute straight off bare and eroded land all around down into the overbuilt environment below. In other words, there needn't have been any drama in the populated centres if thousands of hectares of land all around had done it's job. Who's talking about that?

Places in Teruel, a forgotten part of Spain, were completely flooded out, washed away but nobody from anywhere, let alone bitcoin cares.

Another crazy thought. What if I went around to my neighbours with 20 tons of hillside across their track saying I'm from Bitcoin and I'm here to help. How does that actually sound? Phoney as hell. Opportunist? Weird. I earn euros and I'm here to help. Has anyone in history ever said that?

If I'm missing something here, I'll hold my hands up but

A) bitcoin is money tech, a tool to facilitate action. It is not an identity.

B) Valencia draws water from parts of Spain where local supplies were curtailed - 2 year drought going on til last month.

C) Everyone who plays into the material comfort, super convenient lifestyle is playing right into creating more and more local environmental problems. There aren't enough tax dollars to keep up with that cycle and certainly not enough brain cells or backbone in the ruling classes to deal with the direction of travel.

Shakes head and gets on with life. GN.

Have you used any social media that's not owned by big tech before you used nostr? Can you feel the difference?

Senator Lummis proposes a bill for the U.S. to buy 200,000 Bitcoin annually over 5 years 🇺🇸

Switzerland should do 2x this🇨🇭

Now I'm in heck because when I looked into IPFS in the past I thought it seemed worthless and what you're describing sounds way too good to be true, so I wish I could remember what was offputting about it to me before.

I might have to try offering one of my systems to the network for a little while, even though I'll probably stop after that little while and research it more

yup, this seems like a useful service. have you tried making it? the new replit Agent tools are amazing

Wouldn't that require others to have IPFS too?

One of the best ways to grow nostr is to invent a new behavior instead of just cloning existing behaviors. What can we do with nostr that can’t be done without it?

+ bring-your-own-algo

+ bitcoin/ln payments

+ interop experiences

I, for one, am using AI to build a new social app behavior (centralized cuz it’s easier to start), but if it turns out to be useful we should quickly clone it for nostr.

I hope they actually free Ross though.

Ok, here’s my prediction for tomorrow’s presidential election! 😬

Who, or what, made you a bitcoiner?

I’m coming to the sad conclusion that there really isn’t much going on inside of 90% of people. While they have the capacity and capability to self-reflect and creatively engage in the world, they don’t. They desire ease, comfort, and conformity above all else.

Not only that, but they fill themselves with so much garbage, propaganda, and ideals from others around them who are similar; they mute any real voice or agency that does come from within. They are not interested in the dynamic creative possibilities of the world, but the ease of obedience towards those who know what’s best for them. Their motto is ‘don’t rock the boat’.

These people are fucking dangerous, not because they want to hurt you, but because they lack the capacity to truly self-reflect in a meaningful way. They don’t care about what is true, just that the rules are followed. They don’t want to feel uncomfortable within self-reflection, but to flee into the values of others they have been told are theirs as well and is the only right way to be.

It is a valorization of callousness, a celebration of conformity, and a religious respect for authority to such an extent that their own personal responsibility vanishes.

These are NPCs. They are agents of the system and an integral part of how it functions and projects power. They are little more that drones at the subservience of the state, and only a radical awakening that forces them into the existential angst of what their only life is and means is the only thing that can truly awaken beings that are so asleep that they have forgotten their own being.