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How do you find balance past the horizon? Shadowy Super Coder; #nostr is the internets killer app

When I say something like "a country is retarded"... I'm talking about a country's current state of subdued or hindered societal progress. It makes sense in my mind, and it makes sense linguistically; is there a better phrase that communicates the same meaning in as few words? 🤷‍♂️

I'd rather run backups of a matrix server, with all of their faults, than rely on Discord.

Pay some sats to join the rooms maybe?

Move to 0xchat instead?

I understand the audience, but... bad look

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It's not moving the instance thats a challenge; all of the data is tightly coupled to a given homeserver domain, which AFAIK can't be migrated to a new domain without hacking things 😔

Yeah if onchain isn't an option and we wanna go straight to lightning, we'll have to deal with tradeoffs (or just do the work to run a real node)

Bisq or HodlHodl can help with the fiat bridge in EU for onchain. In the US, Bisq offers the usual interbank services, but also offers US money orders, basically cash in the mail 😉

It's definitely not easy, but it does work.

Lotta folks saying meat, but eggs work just as well too and are a lot more convenient sometimes 👍

The key is: little to no carbs, so no insulin release, so no fat storage, but instead with a caloric deficit you get fat burning.

Closed source + money stuff = Govt/IC scrutiny & unilateral involvement, often done silently

It's a recipe for disaster; it's why we use nostr 😎

If relai provides value, then use it, but don't lose sight of the forward risk you're assuming from those very powerful adversaries going forward 👍

"You can lead a horse to water, but at some point, you'll just need to put it out of its misery"

I also think theres an underappreciated amount of nonverbal communication that happens amongst a developmet team, that AI can't really incorporate (yet?). Tbere's a gap between the rigor of coding & the ambiguity of english which doesn't exist as much with chatbots

The larger the team, the harder it gets to fill that gap IME. AI makes me persinally more efficient when coding, kind of, but that's it so far. I may just not be using it to it's potential

It's an "app store" where you "search" for repos of open source projects you want, and it monitors, grabs, and installs the apk's they bundle into releases for those repo.

Tradeoff: there's no vetting of bad software, it's all on you

Benefit: there's no censorship; it's all on you

If you're a good grandfather who's friends with another good grandfather, you'll understand how trivial this puzzle really is 😉

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It’s not just that… lots of folks largest account is their IRA which generally don’t allow holding BTC directly. Yes they want the exposure- they might also even WANT to hold their own keys, but the barrier is not just responsibility… it’s the huge procedural headache and the TIME is takes to get your IRA funds to someone like Unchained and set up a multi-sig vault. I’m going through it right now… meanwhile the price is rocketing. Luckily, I’m hedging price movement during the transfer with the remainder of my account (which I can actually easily do using these p.o.s. ETFs)- but most people cannot or will not think to do that. From start to finish it takes WEEKS to move these funds with all the bullshit forms and 2+ business day admin steps. Meanwhile, in a couple of clicks or a phone call they can buy the ETF. The level of commitment it takes to not just say “fuck it” requires someone to be truly, deeply, and ideologically orange pilled. This is not most people.

IRAs are a huge market… people check into these accounts very infrequently… the ETFs got approved basically yesterday in the grand scheme of things… we’re only getting started with boomer allocations- most will hear about the new all time high this week and make note to make the initial exploratory call to their broker, then set up a meeting when it’s convenient for them… slow and methodical like turning a fucking oil tanker… and yet they will turn

The flow has only just begun. Buckle the fuck up.

Weeks is a short timeframe to move fiat, and an excellent opportunitiy to study and reinforce your choice in the meantime.

This phenomenon is like mass literacy; it'll take decades & folks over 50 in 2024 will typically never truly grok what's happening today.

The kids who are 10 years old today...they're going to be the ushers of "mass adoption"

Whether someone figured this out in the runup to $12 or the runup to 1k or the runup to 20k or the runup to 69k or today...or 4 more cycles from now... something tells me in ~2045, most economic actors will be acutely aware of bitcoin.

But, 20 more years is a long time to propagandize a generation against it, and the psychological manipulators capable of that are literal professionals with access to many dimensions of social warfare, and with a far lower time preference than most bitcoiners 🤷‍♂️😔

Nah you're right. Better to stare at it, wait for that autorefresh you're waiting for, and then dance like a lunatic when it pops up

At least, thats how we do it 😅