Why the fuck would the fee be 0.5%? Try 0.05% for providing a next to costless and automated service but zero economic value.

Stop trying to rebuild an old economic extortion system.

This is the only way you are going to convince anyone to pay with Bitcoin, myself included.

VPNs are centralized.

You should use a VPN.

The more trustless the VPN the better.

What post?

Only if you use primal. You can choose relays in most clients and the client will read from them and verify they are real. Decentralization is achieved via reading from shared relays owned by different people.

gm from primal, a nostr client

those who are comparing cashu to non-custodial lightning: you’re missing the point.

our goal is to improve custodial systems with privacy and censorship resistance. if you don’t want to use custodial systems, that’s fine. just run a node. if you use custodial wallets, cashu is better than anything else you can get:

- many mints run by grass roots communities

- best privacy possible, better than any privacy shitcoin

- many features due to cryptography

- 40 years of chaumian ecash research behind it

bitcoin + ecash is electronic money at its best.

Watching all the blowback against nostr:npub1n03pvydrg9pxay2xy479g9u7ytgh3wmagyrwy37a70js0ductf4sudh0ky today is making me realize that most people have no idea how end-to-end encryption actually works.

Hint: it’s not the same as peer to peer.

well, the shitcoin casinos (coinbase, binance, gemini et al) could be selling paper bitcoin that exceeds the 21M hardcap. we'd never know until/unless there was a run on the bank, which is extremely unlikely given how much of their holdings are institutional which cannot hold for themselves and must use a 'qualified' custodian

Right yet their biggest concern is we don’t have a security budget 💀

No they deliberately do it through derivatives

well, the shitcoin casinos (coinbase, binance, gemini et al) could be selling paper bitcoin that exceeds the 21M hardcap. we'd never know until/unless there was a run on the bank, which is extremely unlikely given how much of their holdings are institutional which cannot hold for themselves and must use a 'qualified' custodian

It's wild that you can learn more about investing from Aldous Huxley than from any of these chumps who follow Powell's every move and record 1 hour podcasts analyzing his body language.

For example, this quote is great.

What Huxley is saying:

- “Abnormally normal” = perfectly compliant to a sick environment.

If a society’s core incentives reward obedience, consumption, and performative virtue over truth and agency, then adjustment is a pathology: you’re healthy-for-the-system, not healthy-for-yourself.

- Silenced “human voice” = the self that resists harmful incentives.

The child’s curiosity, refusal to lie, intolerance for double standards - trained out early via schooling, media norms, and micro-rewards/punishments until dissent feels wrong.

- No symptoms = no alarms.

The “neurotic” at least shows friction with false incentives; the “normal” runs without error messages. That’s efficient for rulers and lethal for authenticity.

Huxley’s core insight isn’t “future dystopia”, it’s cost curves: pleasure is a cheaper control input than pain, defaults govern better than laws, and language (“safety”, “stability”, “community”) edits reality. If you track incentives, defaults, and word swaps - not ideals - you’ll predict human behavior with embarrassing accuracy.