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Chiefmonkey
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Laser cutter bitcoin and freedom tech art… founder of Plebeian

If anyone knows nostr:npub18ehqwddc5t5klr8kv0my6p9mnn4fxxhuc4l4gf7rtwmgt854ez3qv8tdkj outside nostr, can you please drop him a line to get in contact with me 🙏

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About KYC.

From the standpoint of companies, KYC makes a lot of sense. They don't want to accept money that is (potentially) stolen, linked to money laundering by criminals, terrorism or other bad source of origin.

Plus, their owners are under direct or indirect threat of getting sued or having to serve jail time for not applying KYC.

From the standpoint of consumers however, KYC can be perceived as a disproportional measure- even a psychological humiliation ritual -, designed by bureaucrats, to attack the human right to transact freely and preserve privacy.

KYC policies can also be perceived as inherent evil. Because it is reversing the burden of proof, it intentionally makes everyone a criminal by default, unless one can proof otherwise.

KYC actively attacks human rights activists and whistle blowers from receiving funds so they can fight legal battles or survive when states go rogue.

Reality is, only 1-3% of global trade is linked to crime or money laundering, and in many cases it can directly or indirectly linked to corrupt states.

So, this leaves a sobering reality, that 97% of the global population must suffer, because of a few bad actors. This is in direct attack with the proportionality principle.

Why are we still pretending KYC protects consumers or that it is good practice?

KYC stifles innovation, it hinders the speed in which humans can transact.

KYC is based on fear instead of trust. Its even a business model.

KYC is anti human.

From the standpoint of the state, KYC makes totally sense. Because most states embraced the control system, instead of principles of a free society.

1984 bites, many business owners, including myself, are internally conflicted.

At the same time, nobody really seams to really care.

Problem is, all roads from KYC lead to tyranny because everyone can be controlled.

Fuck.

Good morning by the way.

GM 😉

Quality read 👌

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I’ve been using the duct taped banana as my explanation for what NFT’s are since it was originally sold at Art Basel

Obviously it’s not the same banana or tape… they’re copies… he’s just bought the bragging rights, the certificate of authenticity is

But it gets worse (better) there was a copyright lawsuit

https://www.axios.com/local/miami/2023/06/13/art-basel-banana-artist-copyright-lawsuit-miami

Unfortunately the lawsuit didn’t stick:

“the angle at which it is placed, the method by which it is taped to the background” said the Judge

The irony of fiat art… or fart as I like to call it

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/arts/art-basel-banana-artist-mauricio-cattelan-wins-copyright-case-17192244

HUUUUGE THANKYOU Isolabell your testing has been priceless

Please note folks that this is the TESTING environment… we still have a lot of work to do on bugz and UX

The guys are smashing the issues in GitHub and continually making improvements… to say its “impressive to watch” is a massive understatement 😅🙌

We’ll be building one into the new version of Plebeian

It’s on my list of features for the content management system 👍

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“The elders were looking at the planet with the vegetation… no wait… it’s sketchy but I think the vegetables are trying to kill one another… they’re killer vegetables… no wait… they’re not vegetables… they are the humans… that’s us… the humans haven’t learned how to exchange and store value fairly… they don’t have a Timechain of truth… the elders are going to send one of their guys… there’s one sitting around in his garden eating mushrooms not doing a great deal but smiling… they call him Satoshi… they’re going to send Satoshi”

Hello my friends,

Very quick note this week just to keep you in the loop with the progress on Plebeian. Before I go on just got to thank my incredible dream team nostr:npub1gzuushllat7pet0ccv9yuhygvc8ldeyhrgxuwg744dn5khnpk3gs3ea5ds nostr:npub182jczunncwe0jn6frpqwq3e0qjws7yqqnc3auccqv9nte2dnd63scjm4rf nostr:npub1nem740rt03t45cv6kl8zxkean9zrluem3wwcqh4vchkr5w9y39mqrt43h9 I'm a blessed primate

OK so despite fixing lots of bugs the guys have still been really productive with getting some new features and enhancements out too. We’re hoping this will be the last week of testing and we should have cleared the backlog of the main problematic bugz

Anyway this is what the guys achieved last week:

Features

- Nostr deletion [feat: nostr deletion](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/380)

- External links parsing [feat: external links and fix test publishing events](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/364)

- Deploy to production [feat: production](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/358)

- Use node build for deployments [node build for deployments](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/399)

- Email not required [fix: email not required](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/398)

- Better detection of new forbidden words

Fixes

- Handle ill formed nip05 and other validation in urls

- stallId -> stall_id

- Ghost products [fix: stallID -> stall_id, ghost products](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/389)

- Undefined window when visiting `/p/[userId]` [fix: window is undefined when visiting a /p/[userId]](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/373)

- Publishing during tests [fix: publishing during tests](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/369)

Style

- Responsive design improvements [style: responsive and mobile changes](https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/pull/397)

Thats all for now and thank you so much for all your help and support

All the best,

Chiefmonkey

What you did was clever

But you made the user think

And then question themselves because they don’t actually understand the decisions they’re making

You forced them into cognitive dissonance

Never make the user think

(Provide an “Advanced/Developer” button for the Jedi’s)

👌😂

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“Shroom with a View”

You have to peel open the can to release this little creation

I made 21… I gifted some to people who are being the change and creating the cultural and societal momentum

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(and many more)

There are just 9 left and they will be available for sale on my new website

(When I’ve built it 😉) nostr:note15u02etm3way9tjxhm9ndk0wvdv75y9a5p288tl4ax3r0q9kdwf7s7em5me

I hope so… we’ve not tested that… please go ahead and test a slogin with it

Works fine with Alby and Nostr Connect

If it doesn’t work let us know 👍

It’s pretty open for people to fork and play around under the condition they reference where it came from and use the same license

We will move to a MIT or Creative Commons license or the most free one further down the road

# Hello folks,

You may have heard (or not because I’m terrible at communicating) I have been incredibly unproductive with creating laser cut art because I have been busy working with guys more intelligent and skilled than me, building Plebeian.

## What is it?

On the surface Plebeian is a P2P marketplace… but this isn’t quite true… Plebeian.Market is not the destination, it’s just a demonstration of the Plebeian app… it's going to help us move from Globalisation to Localisation in the most peaceful way possible… I will explain more about what this means as time goes by

For now it’s easy to think of Plebeian as a love child of Ebay, Wordpress, Twitter, Shopify and Telegram… it’s not normal

## Eh? What?

Localisation and a Bitcoin Standard promotes self sovereignity at the individual and community level... what is needed in this time is a Circular Economic Community Builder

Like I say, I will explain more about this as time goes by

The project actually started 4 years ago and we’ve pivoted many times as the Bitcoin layers have evolved... This is a world of pure innovation after all and it is not for the faint hearted.

## Last Pivot

6 months ago we pivoted for the very last time to build it from scratch as 100% nostr native.

The demonstration you see at plebeian.market will be sunset into the realms of Bitcoin history

## New Solution

It's Free Open Source Software and we're starting with a GNU General Public License v3.0

You can see the new solution here:

https://staging.plebeian.market/

## Play with it

Please test it and tell us of any issues in the Telegram group here:

https://t.me/PlebeianMarket

Or if your feeling like getting more involved create an issue on GitHub:

https://github.com/PlebeianTech/plebeian.market/issues

## Eating Zee Bugz

Right now we are in the Beta testing phase and are very close to pushing it to the live site... just one last bug ser?

As always we'd love to hear your thoughts... please play with it... create a stall add a product... tinker with the Circular Economic Community Builder... what do you think? what would you like to see?

We will eventually develop our own in app group but for now please do join the Telegram group:

https://t.me/PlebeianMarket

## Follow me on nostr

Because I deleted my twitter account yonks ago ;o)

https://njump.me/npub1a3um269aaf3u5cy37kuykrrrnsg2pyv7za06pxjduv25lq5sdujs2qmdj6

or search for @Chiefmonkey in any nostr client

Come join us… onward!

Chiefmonkey

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👀 niiiice

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Apologies… I didn’t realise they’d popped out

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I’ve gifted away so many copies of this book I’ve lost count… always have a few copies at hand

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GM GA GN 💪💜

Boom

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Smart man like that has no excuse… nostr is also available on desktop 😉

His foresight is uncanny… I wonder if he knows we’ve already achieved them:

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I’m honoured to be presenting the new Plebeian solution (testing stage) at #NOSTRLDN this Friday 1st November @ Cyphermonk house London

Title: Localisation… peace and love and circular economic community building on bitcoin and nostr

Please come and join us and meet the merry band of Bitcoin, nostr and freedom tech lovers

It’s a 4 day festival… you can find out more here https://2140.wtf/

#bitcoin #nostr #freedom #peace

Without knowing that (and pretend I'm a normie) I am inclined to just use the biggest names I recognise like damus and I am also going to include any paid relay because I'm assuming they're going to do a better job than a free service

Lastly (as a normie) I'm inclined to simply copy the same three relays from the outbox list to the inbox list because I don't understand the difference

I'm only half being serious here (playing devils advocate) because I do appreciate what you are trying acheive but as a user the app is really making me think...

I just want to set it and forget it... I'd be happy if this was automated for me

I've paid for nostr.wine so I'm just going to put them in every section of that relay setup page 1st then damus second and another big name 3rd

Not too sure if thus Feedback useful to you but I hope it helps

If the 3 relays actually relayed my data onto many other relays then I’d understand

But if they don’t do that then the people I want to see my posts will have to have these 3 relays in their outbox right?

Sorry I’m not quite understanding it so dont feel the need to reply

What I can see though is that there is a massive incentive to run your own relay (off a node or vps) so that you have true data sovereignty AND you (or major content producers/communitues) can then prompt people to subscribe to your relay