The idea of Bitcoin as decentralized and pseudonymous is as far from reality as the idea of Trump as an anti-vaxxer even while he brags about Operation Warp Speed and tells everyone to take their jabs. Just no connection to reality, at all. It's amazing to me how attributes can be assigned to things through constant verbal association and nothing else.

There's no 'good' way to buy BTC because 'good' to you implies one of the hallucinated attributes of the world's largest grand unified surveillance chain: anonymity or pseudonymity. It's not for that. It's for tracking and tracing every would-be private human interactionin the same centralized public database (distributed, not decentralized like Nostr).

Ad hominem, par for course from Bitcoin monopolists who can't tell the difference between centralized + distributed and decentralized. Nostr has laid the difference bare, now you understand what decentralized solutions really are.

You would probably prefer One Grand Unified Relay Database that is distributed over all Nostr relays -- not decentralized. That's Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Maxipads are monopolistic elitists who hate the idea of decentralization.

It's their grand unified, centralized (distributed, not decentralized) surveillance chain ONLY that all the world's transactions must be appended to.

Suggest a plurality of solutions and be cursed.

#Bitcoin #Maxipads #monopolists #centralization

Woah :(

Monopolistic fanaticism only creates a new center. That's all Bitcoin bros wanna do. Establish a new center, and intricately log every transaction on Earth in one place -- not move into the multi-polar world that actually frees people.

Notice how not a single blockchain enthusiast has been able to avoid the ad hominem personal attack? That's how you know you're dealing with cognitive dissonance.

Nostr has laid bare just how centralized Bitcoin Core with it's ~5 core developers + the grand unified Bitcoin blockchain with a singular authoritative version, distributed not decentralized, really are.

I've have read swaths of it. I saw nothing 'sovereign' about what's now better called 'the network state'. I see it along the lines of The Zeitgeist who were openly pushing post-state blockchain based Communism.

- There's nothing 'sovereign' about taking the choice of ledger (or none at all) out of the hands of the trading parties themselves and logging it all in one grand unified public blockchain.

- There's nothing 'sovereign' about depending on a centrally issued fiat (yes, 21M is an arbitrary number, proving it's fiat nature -- could have just as easily been 42M cos it was decreed into existence) token.

- There's nothing 'sovereign' about being unable to buy or sell bananas without a electricity and an Internet connection.

Here's a book I highly recommend for you -- "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber is a study of actually decentralized currency; how people traded before centrally issued fiat wannabe-monopoly brands like USD and BTC:

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/64160

Free audiobook version. The 2nd chapter is called "The Myth of Barter". It wasn't that. Each merchant generated their own credit, on their own private ledger, which was destroyed without a trace when they 'broke even'. Your grand unified global public ledger knows nothing of decentralization.

Not inevitable, he's talking about use cases that retard each other. See my response.

Except, you know, that a thing's volatility retards it's use case as a dispassionate means of exchange. Worst of all, expecting a unit to be worth more next month makes you less likely to hire Johnny to mow your lawn this month, making everyone poorer on net. Since, as the Austrian school shows, prosperity does not excrete from a printing press, a mining rig, or a fixed-pie token gambling pool.

Prosperity excretes from the felt improvement in standard of living for each party to a voluntary exchange. This is where seeing 'medium of exchange' as 'fantastic investment opportunity' work at cross-purposes. One facilitates exchanging. The other penalizes exchanging and rewards declining to exchange (hoarding aka hodling aka the opposite of making a voluntary, prosperity-generating exchange).

Maximalism is a synonym for monopolistic fanaticism, right or wrong. Nothing to do with a plurality of decentralized solutions. One grand unified eternal immutable global ledger or bust.

Yeah, the perfectly mysterious Creation myth! :p I bet the 'who' is behind Bitcoin looks like a large cube in the desert covered in black glass.

No-fucking-body? Who arbitrarily chose the 21M in digital fiat tokens? It's nowhere in the whitepaper.

Who centrally planned and artificially fixed the rate of supply in advance, removing the price stabilizing Austrian mechanism of a market-determined rate of supply which can naturally adapt to counterbalance price swings due to changes in demand? Guaranteeing volatility into perpetuity.

Who was that central planner? No-fucking-body? You sure about that? Of all the weird things blockheads say, calling a human agent or a human agency 'No-fucking-body' is right up there with calling a grand unified blockchain 'decentralized' instead of distributed.

Saylor and Nayib Bukele both lost huge on Bitcoin. Saylor could buy $1BN more and Nayib could buy 50% more BTC if they bought their first BTC today, Feb 24, 2023 instead of trying to 'get in early' with promises of 'programmatically ensured deflation' through a centrally planned, artificially fixed rate of supply.

Either you really do think Aunt Jenny and myself seeing your propaganda would akshully outperform a Saylor or a Nayib, OR your financial advice 'stack those sats' might be construed as a confidence man (whence comes the term con-man) maneuver to pump your bags regardless.

On the other hand, telling people to be cautious of grand centralized databases faking decentralization (Nostr relays are decentralized, "a blockchain" is not) cannot be construed as being financially motivated.

Relay selector upon posting enables a key Nostr feature; the ability for posters to respect your relay.

Relays as a profile-level, rather than a note-level setting, really disincentivize relay hosts as it becomes hard for people to abide by a topical (e.g. knitting) or anti-topical (e.g. anything but bitcoin ads) relay.

Does habla.news have an About page? I have no idea how you select for posts (anything with markdown?) or how I can post, and don't see a way of finding out.

This is definitely not the first insult in response to an argument I've seen here ;-). It's kind of a blockchain enthusiast tic. Right up there with HFSP and "you just don't understand the technology".

Hey #[7] your current username "stack those sats.HODL" and profile image is telling me to buy the token you're vested in.

That is at least a *potential* scam amirite? Your Aunt Jenny is not going to outperform saylortracker.com (down $1BN) or nayibtracker.com (down 50%) is she? And you know it. But whatever, tell everyone to pump your bags. That's how scamming Aunt Jenny and everyone who sees your propaganda is an attempt to benefit yourself financially.

Now please do explain to me how suggesting your Aunt Jenny be skeptical of prosperity cults and grand unified, centralized and distributed surveillance chains stealing the name 'decentralized' could possibly benefit me financially?

The guy trying to convince his circles to put their life's savings into his token just called me a scammer.

#AchievementUnlocked

Please explain to me, oh prosperity cult evangelist trying to 'Orange Pill' friends and family, how a nocoiner can ever be a scammer?

HAHAHAH! "Nostr protocols is based on Bitcoin." Not a chance, buddy.

Nostr is a set of plain text files suggesting a single JSON blob structure and a set of implementation possibilities.

Nothing to do with a grand unified centralized ledger, distributed over an ad-hoc CDN, like Bitcoin.

Nothing to do with a token, like BTC.

Nothing to do with anything except the guy who developed it also developed some stuff for Bitcoin. Spin another one. You're just trying to claim Nostr iS BiTCoIN because before Zaps, your 15-year-old grand unified surveillance chain still didn't have a compelling use case.

Yes, the old "you just don't understand the technology". Definitely blockhead badlands here. Zero substance.

Lifelong full stack software developer, server and database admin here. Not that that makes me right, but I saw a blockhead telling the creator of Python what you just did.

It's one of your prosperity cult's signature thought-stopping 'retorts'.

It could be argued colleges are already subsidized by easy loans that students are simply unfit to repay, with the understanding they will be taken care of somehow (by gov stealing from people without kids, if it comes to that).

Standardized learning will always be popular, because people enjoy the illusion of 'security' of a 'path' laid out before them. But I don't see security in having a million people with the same experience as me.

I also don't see security in a single paycheck. Someone who gives you money for your services is your 'client.' What security is there in having only 1 client?

A 'boss' is simply a 'client' who has roped you into signing an exclusivity contract. I have never signed one of those. Say that you still do work on the weekends for some old client so can they just scratch that paragraph, and they usually will. Then keep multiple clients. Who was it that said "Self-care isn't a bubble bath and a spa day. Self-care is multiple income streams."

A unique self-guided education (being interested is a superpower) and experience solving problems or building things, with a small portfolio and 4-6 testimonials, will more easily find you clients and 'security' than stepping out of college with a mortar board on your head, indistinguishable from a sea of other mortar boards, with zero work experience. Then limiting yourself to a single income stream and a solitary client you call 'boss'.

No argument, just an insult. Yep, this is the blockhead badlands. You guys fucking hate decentralization. If you'd like a blockhead to lose his marbles, just propose "segregating" Nostr for anything but a distributed, massively centralized global firehose of all-the-data. You know, try taking advantage of decentralization.

Or try suggesting more than their 1 maximalist monopoly solution to every issue of finance. Blockheads hate decentralization and love massively centralized surveillance chains.

I don't know why they insist on polluting Nostr with their spam and ads. They are chasing away mass adoption, to the degree themselves would be chased by relentless shitcoin shilling on this platform. The rest of the world outside of cryptobros believe in only 1 more shitcoin than you do.