Ok, I'm logged into Flotilla, very nice. Alby extension on Brave got me through the gates without a problem.

We've been here on Nostr the whole time. 😉

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I'm ok with having to host something, but if it's more complicated than logging in with my npub/nsec, then even if I'm able to figure it out I'm not going to be able to get anyone in my discord groups to follow the same witches road. Which means it won't work as real competition for Discord.

What is being built to #grownostr and compete with Discord?

I'm actually impressed with it. Better than I hoped.

Oh, I don't object to the idea of fees being paid in BTC, although that would be a twister challenge since the assets are not on a Bitcoin basechain. I just don't like the idea of capital assets like Bitcoin being put into a wallet and stored. I consider it stupid and wasteful.

F no. What they should do is launch mining rigs and use the transaction fees and released Bitcoin from the block rewards to supplement the general fund and replace tax revenue.

My take is that most people who are loudly advocating for the SBR don't have a good understanding of what a real Bitcoin Standard will consist of. I don't want tax dollars to go to Bitcoin any more than I want it to go to buying stocks, bonds, gold or anything else. I can understand reserves of oil, grain and other things where supply shock disruption needs to be avoided, but we do NOT have a shortage of Bitcoin, what we have a shortage of is BRAINS.

The only thing that tax dollars need to go to in the Bitcoin space is hashpower. Build a revenue stream from miners that can supplement tax revenue into the general fund. Buying Bitcoin and stashing it into a wallet is the height of stupid.

How about this. No taxes on Bitcoin, but start taxing Treasury and Municipal Bonds, Bills and Notes.

Teach them what real money is, the hard way.

"Show me the feed from this neighborhood, what are people saying?"

Instead of individual follows, categories in columns like in the old Tweetdeck app. When you add a profile or a neighborhood or a search topic, it becomes a new feed that you can save for later, edit as desired, or discard when it stops being interesting enough to keep.

Ads that zap us to thank us for our time, AND a way to zap back to say "I really loved the creativity and the message". Make it a two way street so we can get away from the Advertising model and move to the Appreciation model.

Could we use a network map and see profiles and nodes and hubs connected to each other so we can see the popular profiles with many following/followers?

WHO HACKED ODELL'S NPUB?!

The IMF can jump into a volcano.

Yo, Ho haul together, hoist the colours high

Heave ho, patriots, never shall we die

I don't think they exist. I know they're in a test phase on the BSV blockchain, but I doubt that they have been implemented on top of the real Bitcoin blockchain. If they had been, there would be a LOT more noise. So it's just a future dream.

Actually there is a better way. Instead of collecting in a wallet, they could be focused on hash and building the mining industry so they can supplement and then replace taxes as the source for government revenue. then pay off the IMF debt entirely with sufficient revenue to never be subject to the IMF slavery again.

Destroy, rip, tear, roar!!!

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The Bitcoin Strategic Reserve as it is being described is stupid. Bitcoin is not going to back our currency, we know it won't. And Gold won't back our currency either, in case that isn't obvious.

It makes sense to have a strategic reserve of physical resources and commodities, like oil, iron or hell even cheese. And we do, or at least in the case of cheese we did. But Bitcoin? Doesn't make sense.

Money has value because it moves. It is used in exchanges between people, between businesses, between governments, and any combination. It has no value if it does not move, and putting Bitcoin into a wallet and leaving it there does nothing. It might boost the price by reducing the supply, but it violates the very purpose that it was designed for.

I'll argue the value of Bitcoin is or could be the foundation of a wealth-based monetary system far better than the current debt-based system. But if you think I'm going to say that the Strategic Reserve is a good idea, you're wrong.

If we're going to do anything at the Federal Government level with Bitcoin, it should be to invest in mining rigs, and then use the Bitcoin generated to replace tax revenue. Keep investing and growing the hashrate owned by the US Treasury, and we could do a lot of things. Reduce the deficit, easy. Eliminate the deficit, possible. Pay down the National Debt, possible. Pay OFF the National Debt, also possible if we think large enough.

But just sticking it into a wallet and crowing? Just stupid.