nostr starting to feel like 2022 era nostr again. everyone left except the absolutely insane folks. its great.

now is the time for peace

The loneliest booth

One of the disappointments of being in my late 50s is watching young people having to learn the hard lessons of life all over again, instead of learning from history only a generation or two old.

Especially now, where events before the Internet seemingly never happened, and events after the Internet get endlessly memed or propagandized into whatever currently fashionable ideology benefits the status quo.

There has been a thin thread of rebellion against this that has survived in the form of cypherpunk activism of the 80s and 90s through the invention and proliferation of Bitcoin in the 2010s and now the advent of distributed, uncensorable communication networks such as Nostr.

And yet, it's not clear to me whether this nascent drive towards individual freedom will survive. Too much of the public discourse is consumed by "strategic reserve" this, "legal tender" that, and in general the tying of Bitcoin to its relation to the State. Politicians seek political favor by making noises allying themselves to the Bitcoin community, and to great benefit. The vast majority of Bitcoin movement is between exchanges, not individuals. I won't even go into the absurdities on display at conferences ostensibly about Bitcoin but have turned into promotional grounds for grifters and influencers.

We are at a unique point in history where we have both the technology and the motivation to establish direct, peer-to-peer, mutually beneficial, and most importantly, voluntary, non-coercive relationships among each other that bypass existing systems of surveillance and control.

Let's do this.

The migration to post-quantum cryptography is urgent and important. Many adversaries will use this moment to sabotage security to their advantage. Don’t get caught in the trap: use hybrid post-quantum cryptography that isn’t intentionally sabotaged through standardization capture. Accept no substitute, reject the patent traps!

germany, the land on which even state propaganda is taxed

Möchte jemand mein Ticket für die BTC Prag? #BTCPrague

Hello! My name is:

Ein SRB (Seenotrettungsboot=häufigste/kleinste Einheit der Flotte, von Freiwilligen Gefahren) kostet wohl in der Größenordnung 1 Mio € (Kreuzer dann deutlich teurer). Wobei bei den SRBs auch gerade die nächste Generation entwickelt wird (vlt. Chance das erste Boot zu benennen?) die leicht geänderte Kosten haben könnte. Es gibt wohl keine harten/festen Regeln, aber anscheinend war es in der Vergangenheit so, dass man ca. 2/3 des Bootes spenden müsste um den Namen zu wählen. -> als Bitcoiner könnte man sich ja aber auch zusammentun und braucht keinen Einzelspender.

Könnte mir auch schon schöne Marketing Slogans um das zu flankieren vorstellen (“wir sorgen dafür dass du deine Schlüssel verlierst, nicht dein Leben” u.ä.).

Bitcoin wäre eigentlich ideal für die DGzRS (lange Planungszeitraeume mit großen Summen um die Flotte am laufen zu halten/zu ersetzen -> Inflation ist Gift, Werte sind aligned s.o., mit dem demographischen Wandel sind neue Spendenquellen nötig,…), Sie wissen es nur noch nicht so richtig.

Sehr geil das es noch sowas gibt

Hast du Infos zu den Namen, das wird wahrscheinlich nicht billig sein

Geile Idee, hast da nen link?

Wouldn’t a signed message by the private key for each of the addresses be a nice upgrade to proof you at least are in contact with the owners of these addresses and not just ctrl c+v other peoples’ txs from a block explorer?