Dude you need to get out more if you think even 1% of people you run into on the street will consider Bitcoin their favorite conversation topic.
The subtlety here is that the purchasing power change of money (as a result of inflating it's supply) does not happen uniformly. The first recipients have access to dollars at a purchasing power before those dollars have permeated the market, devaluing all of the dollars. This means that real resources are pulled from later-recipients to these earlier-recipients.
In other words, inflation is an honest-to-goodness wealth transfer. Moreover, since every inflationary institution is part of the state in some respect, this amounts to taxation without appropriate legislation authorizing it. In the United States, all taxation must come from legislation originating in the House of Representatives.
I wonder, has the Fed or member banks ever asked the House of Representatives before is made a loan?
People will say that this means she doesn't believe in anything. More likely, it means she will say what she needs to get elected, but she has zero intention of moderating on the positions she's held her whole career. https://www.axios.com/2024/08/27/kamala-harris-flip-flops-border-wall
No. Finding crypto culture tacky and annoying doesn't mean I support fiat money. It means my personality isn't tied up in this one thing to such a degree that it's the only thing I know how to talk about. Like, literally, go outside of your house to some public place, grab some random person, and ask them what they like to talk about. How many of them do you honestly think will be like "HODL ALL DAY BRUH."
Not just Macron, but plenty of European citizens more broadly fully endorse censorship of themselves and others. Macron is, if anything, representing his constuents.
We could also have someone create an account for Donald Trump and tell him to post here, then you'll definitely get more eyeballs lol.
Not gonna lie, I really don't care about crypto culture. It is clearly the main topic on this platform.
I like the idea of a decentralized messaging protocol because I think it's extremely important that people be able to communicate. Crypto is cool and all, but it really doesn't have to be the only topic (fwiw, I do own some, even if it isn't my life).
I've seen a lot of posts on here about how to help nostr overcome the networking effects of Twitter, Facebook, etc. One thing that can help is if the most followed accounts aren't only talking about Bitcoin or the lightning network or whatever.
Obviously, this is extremely similar to how it works with cryptocurrencies, but the fact that there isn't a requirement that everyone must agree on what the chain looks like should make this process much simpler. You can just sort posts by timestamp and if some people don't have it, then so what. That's the trade-off for true decentralization.
You could broadcast to some sunset of your peers and then wait for another subset to show the post to ensure that your message proliferated the network.
Why not have everyone hold a copy of some arbitrarily old section of the history of posts (in their client, as a separate program on their device, whatever) with a choice to hold the entire history.
Then, you connect to some peers, add a post by communicating it with them, and they communicate with others and so on, adding it to their local copy, until everyone has the message? Essentially, everyone is a relay.
The only solution to control by governments is outpacing their means of exercising control. Centralized communication will inevitably be captured by the state and without an alternative, the free exchange of ideas online will die.
I am excited that nostr offers the alternative we all need to remain free to express ourselves. The ingenuity of man always comes through, sooner or later. One day, we will all look back at Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc, the same as we look at Netscape Navigator, MySpace, and all of the other stepping stones to the modern era.