yes it's his npub.

ots is simply a cryographic approach to proof something happened after a specific time.

for example when an event published.

someone did an ots for ross post and nostr:nprofile1qqsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7ysp3f3 is wondering is that him or someone else.

afaik, ross is using primal and primal won't let him to do it. so, i believe its someone else probably using amey. not hard to find out who is him.

i hope it be clear for you.

i mean ross is not who signed the ots timestamp. :writinghand:

its not ross. since ross uses primal, he can't.

you can fetch the ots event from relays and check who published that event. :eyes:

This reply is more thoughtful and I appreciate the words of kindness. Some of your points are spot on, but some are still off, however.

> Fostering a community that expresses value in zaps: Absolutely. Zaps are revolutionary. Anyone ignoring them is a fool.

> Talking about zaps explicitly comes off as dicey: That’s a you problem, not a me problem. Your feelings and misinterpretations are not my responsibility. Monetizing digital content is a multi billion dollar industry, and nostr + bitcoin removes nearly all barriers imposed by centralized systems. Why should we pretend that this space is anything less than revolutionary for creators? Why should I act like zaps don’t exist, or that monetizing digital content isn’t a thing? It obviously is. Anyone offended by this is stupid.

> All forms of engagement seem valuable in their own way: Not likes. They’re worthless. Replies, reposts, zaps, quotes, are all meaningful interactions in their own way, and I didn’t discourage them in this meme, nor have I ever discouraged them that I am aware of. Likes, however, provide zero benefit/value to creators and ought to have never been added to the protocol.

If you want to show someone posting digital content on nostr that you appreciate their work, a zap is the most potent and “tangible” way of doing so, but of course other interactions have meaning too.

Call ‘em groupers.

Collectivism/Socialism etc seems downstream of those susceptible to Groupthink. Very few people have courage to avoid groupthink comfort.

Groupers get confidence from the group identification of a higher morality. It’s their only path to their entitlements or getting free shit without working. It’s hard to blame them- who wouldn’t want free shit for nothing?

There are those that are allergic to groupthink and call it out right away but sadly it’s not the majority. And who could blame someone for not wanting to speak up and think for yourself - it’s scary?

The biggest or loudest groupers on both sides will have successfully found the most insidious way to trigger the largest groupthink entitlement topic for that time. It’s insidious because it has to be undetectable or banal at first or it won’t grow. It’s insidious because there’s some faint hint of truth on an issue for groupers that’s just enough to make them feel like they’ve done some level of effort to make a connection that’s not obvious. They convince themselves they are smart for making a connection. So being introspective enough to even consider that they might be susceptible to groupthink is just not possible - their thinking is just the right and only way of thinking. And they found a large group that also feels that way so anyone else who thinks differently is just so unimaginably dumb.

They’ll go as far as cutting off friends and family because it threatens their long held belief that they are smart enough not to have to work for truth or a solution. A conversation or kind debate with simple questions is so beneath them. Sadly there’s a strong correlation with physiognomy here as well that shows a physical manifestation of this thinking where they can outsmart calorie accumulation.

You can see how communism killed 100m people. Groupers slowly gain more confidence that violence is the answer instead of considering they might be lazy, unoriginal or incorrect on an assumption. They have to be right so their solution must take a physical form instead of a solution oriented way of thinking and communicating.

There is zero humility in groupers, individuality, or introspection and it’s all downstream of being afraid to think for yourself. It’s fear. They’re just so terrified of their own shadow deep down. They need to outsource their thinking in the same way they need to have others do the work for them. They’re positively reinforced by the larger the group and feel protected by other groupers.

Awful awful group of people the Groupers. And they’ll turn on themselves in a heartbeat if you don’t align with the shared brain of the group. Anything that might be hard or represents work is a hard no for them.

7 days ban for this shit - in response to a meme about calculating how much money to put into bitcoin and still being able to eat. WTF?

Appealing the suspension takes the same amount of time (5-7 days)

Fuck.

#asknostr

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Surprising to see someone like nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpzdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un8qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hst62ahh representing the other side of this.

It feels like we should be shouting from the mountains that stable coins are the real Trojan horse to be concerned about.

What am I missing?

Mind expounding on that thought a bit for a meat head like myself?

Another cool thing about Michael Levins work as i read more about it:

the genome gives you a hardware toolkit, but it doesn’t specify the final form. Morphogenesis—what form cells take, what behavior they express—is influenced by higher-order control systems like bioelectric circuits.

They went even as far as to create “xenobots” using this theory:

They created them by:

1. Taking frog skin and cardiac cells

2. Using a computer to design body plans for novel “organisms”

3. Sculpting these cells into new shapes—and then letting them self-organize

These living machines:

- Move autonomously

- Exhibit emergent behaviors (like swarm dynamics or self-healing)

- Can perform basic tasks like cargo transport

- Do things their cells were never “meant” to do, according to traditional developmental biology

So “biohacking” new organisms will be more like coaxing out new behaviours and forms by reprogramming these bioelectric networks (morphogenetic software) without actually needing to hack the hardware schematic (genome).

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Satoshi did not consult economists. He sat down and implemented something that is still considered impossible by most economists: electronic money with no counterparty risk that monetizes naturally.

#Bitcoin is natural money.

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I've got 21k zaps to give away.

500 sats to the next 42 new followers.

Comment below.

There's this completely unfounded cypherpunk nostalgia (*) among some bitcoiners.

(*) Nostalgia: we had a glorious past full of ideals and now the present is corrupt, we have relaxed on the ideals, we wish we went back to the good old times

I think it's completely unfounded. We could not even imagine in our wildest dreams that we would arrive at the current moment. We had crampy slow mixmasters, command line encryption that no one used and fiat in envelopes and later centralized electronic gold custodians.

You say that there are some services that require KYC, got corrupt by VCs and compliant, not really punk. That is true, but also these corrupted services did not exist at all in the before times you are so nostalgic about.

Do we have more options or less? Definitely more. We are participating in an open decentralized project that emerged into sixth largest reserve currency in the world. And we are only beginning.

Pissed about grandmas with ETFs? Even if you remove them, we are more than 1000x of what anyone expected. We thought we are going to be fringe like the 0.001% PGP users.

We don't need everyone to be cypherpunk. Let others do what they want, we're already winning our game. Their game? Not playing, sorry, too boring.