There’s a growing contingent of members who are plotting movie nights at nostr:npub1theparkprcs70dcs437ke9zzwsr6u60f8flu7rg28m30438aep9sd94dha. What would be on your list of must-watch films for a #Bitcoin-er crowd?
Fight Club
Correct. But countries have effectively delegated their policy creation to FATF.
The incentives were never (and arguably still aren't) there. And there are some major companies building their own walled-gardens for 20+ years now...so, not an easy fight. Let alone a state or the federal government. These things take time.
Open protocols are basically a free stack for a credential issuer to empower their customers / end-users. It only takes 1state, trade association, social network, etc. Maybe I'm naive / hopelessly hopeful.
Just need one legit credential issuer to kick it off, no?
What are the key / unresolved problems in your mind?
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Trust vs portability
Identity is broken
DID is the way
Another Saturday morning hanging in our Bitcoin-heated pool with the family. Life is good.
Ah, the name of this song is Uncle Sam Goddamn
It's a show tune, but the show ain't been written for it yet
We're gonna see if-
Tony Jerome and the band can maybe work this shit out for me
And straighten me out right quick
I like it so far man
Yeah
Come on, lets go
Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief, home of the slave
Grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred and-
Let's do this shit for real, come on now
Smoke and mirrors, stripes and stars
Stolen for the cross in the name of God
Bloodshed, genocide, rape and fraud
Writ' into the pages of the law, good Lord
The Cold Continent latch key child
Ran away one day and started acting foul
King of where the wild things are daddy's proud
Because the Roman Empire done passed it down
Imported and tortured a work force
And never healed the wounds or shook the curse off
Now the grown up Goliath nation
Holding open auditions for the part of David, can you feel it?
Nothing can save you, you question the reign
You get rushed in and chained up
Fist raised but I must be insane
'Cause I can't figure a single goddamn way to change it
Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief, home of the slave
The grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred, and power is God
All must bow to the fat and lazy
The fuck you, obey me, and why do they hate me? (Who me?)
Only two generations away
From the world's most despicable slavery trade
Pioneered so many ways to degrade a human being
That it can't be changed to this day
Legacy so ingrained in the way that we think
We no longer need chains to be slaves
Lord it's a shameful display
The overseers even got raped along the way
'Cause the children can't escape from the pain
And they're born with the poisonous hatred in their veins
Try and separate a man from his soul
You only strengthen him, and lose your own
But shoot that fucker if he walk near the throne
Remind him that this is my home, now I'm gone
Welcome to the United Snakes
Land of the thief, home of the slave
The grand imperial guard where the dollar is sacred, and power is God
Hold up, give me one right here
Hold on
You don't give money to the bums
On a corner with a sign bleeding from their gums
Talking about you don't support a crackhead?
What you think happens to the money from your taxes?
Shit, the Government's an addict
With a billion dollar a week kill brown people habit
And even if you ain't on the front line
When massah yell crunch time, you right back at it
Plain look at how you hustling backwards
At the end of the year, add up what they subtracted
Three outta 12 months, your salary pays for that madness
Man, that's sadness
What's left? Get a big ass plasma
To see where they made Dan Rather point the damn camera
Only approved questions get answered
Now stand your ass up for that national anthem
Data has to live somewhere. No perfect choices. To your point, we learn as we build.
I get it for sure, 80/20 rule is universally applicable.
I didn't know you were in the DID space! Would love to learn more about your perspectives on that.
I see. And I agree, I don't know why anyone would dismiss it outright.
I also don't know Bob, but I have worked with large-scale distributed systems enough to moderately follow the input submitted by Adam Back and CSUWildcat (Daniel) and concur about the nature of the problem given the architecture.
That doesn't take anything away from what Nostr is right now. But as an objective, grounded answer to the question that was asked, I don't think there's a better one.
https://twitter.com/csuwildcat/status/1652840602571005953?t=pGaANIg5Tq3F5inhdvp0Dg&s=19
Nostr is great but there do appear to be fundamental architecture issues that will need to be addressed.
I don't think all criticisms should be dismissed as "you must not like freedom..."
I think there are people who care deeply about freedom who are very informed and have valid, grounded perspectives on scaling limitations of the tech.
https://twitter.com/BobMcElrath/status/1652682830550368257?t=ZSSnt_pA4fvUhV415Z3t2A&s=19
Nostr is great but there do appear to be fundamental architecture issues that will need to be addressed.
I don't think all criticisms should be dismissed as "you must not like freedom..."
I think there are people who care deeply about freedom who are very informed and have valid, grounded perspectives on scaling limitations of the tech.
https://twitter.com/BobMcElrath/status/1652682830550368257?t=ZSSnt_pA4fvUhV415Z3t2A&s=19
it links to a hamas telegram channel with 185k people in it - https://t.me/qassambrigades/27035 - with a post there that translates to the above quote
it is clearly not a "Bitcoin is for Terrorists" piece since it claims that bitcoin is not useful for them
this reminds me of how putin pressured binance to go after navalny donors - https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-crypto-giant-binance-built-ties-russian-fsb-linked-agency-2022-04-22/ - just instead of putin it is Israel and the US
Exactly. Regardless of true motives or source, the headline (and story overall) is actually a powerful piece of ammo in the "only terrorists use it" conversation.
"No, terrorists actively say to NOT use it because it is not as private as other existing legacy payment systems."
