The government supposedly derives its power from the consent of the governed. But when did anyone consent to any of these clowns? If consent is necessary, then we could withdraw it at anytime. But since we can’t, then it isn’t about consent at all. We were never a serious country.

Centralized or federated parties cannot be a part of the equation. What ever happened to atomic swaps?

Let’s be clear, if no one steps up and decides to run LSPs because everyone is worried about regulatory concerns, every bitcoin L2 system is toast - every one that has a reasonable security model relies on some kind of centralized or federated party that has similar concerns, even if they can’t seize funds.

Without any L2 systems everyone using bitcoin will simply use custodial platforms because that’s the only way to get reasonable fees and payment latency.

And don’t go yelling at ACINQ for deciding not to operate Phoenix in the US, the software required to run an LSP is open source, with only relatively minimal liquidity allocation logic required to get started. We need new entrants, and that means new companies who think the risk is manageable (I’m confident it is, but I can’t fault anyone for not wanting to take that risk).

If you see someone suggesting ACINQ should just keep running, the correct response is “well why aren’t you running an LSP”.

"onchain will not be for everyone"

Suppose I have a friend named Jimmy who is one of the people for whom "onchain is not for them." How should Jimmy use bitcoin? It seems that lightning requires the ability to force close i.e. do an onchain transaction. If onchain is not for Jimmy, how can Jimmy, how can Jimmy force close? And if Jimmy cannot force close, how can he use lightning?

What is the killer incentive? Making money. Free commerce is the keystone of prosperity. Free global commerce that is also convenient in today’s society requires a decentralized protocol. A decentralized alternative to Amazon should be a priority, in my opinion.

nostr is still mainly used alongside twitter. in the best rare case, as a replacement. and only because people are running away from something about twitter they don't like.

there is nothing that people want to run to nostr for yet. zaps were promising, but bitcoin is still a hurdle (one that primal is doing the best at overcoming), and it's doubtful lightning could scale to a massive adoption moment.

nostr needs a feature or experience that's unique and sets it apart. i *think* that is the ecosystem of microapps over the long term...but it's definitely not in the short term. and that might be ok.

for twitter the initial draw was the simplicity and weirdness of 140 characters (we started with zero network effect, facebook had it all...that's built over time). later it became the conversation which lead to the "public square" (owned by a private corporation ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). and then as it grew, it had a single point of control/failure people could attack.

nostr doesn't have to worry about that last bit. it's an incredible feature. but not one the average person cares about (no matter how much they yell "FREE SPEECH!"...if people actually cared about free speech, bitcoin and nostr would be all they used...they don't).

all this to say, we're not doomed. but what we think is the killer feature isn't right now. who's going to discover the one that is?

So Iran likely spent over $100M attacking Israel and Israel spent over $1B shooting down nearly all of Iran's drones and missiles.

What a fucking waste.

I just had an idea why don’t you reply to this note introducing yourself

saying a couple things about yourself as short or as detailed as you want it to be

in the hopes of meeting someone new, possibly a new fren, a likeminded individual, idk let’s see what happens

Could add simple logic for discovery using followed of those the individual follows, ranked by count?

GOOD MORNING NOSTR, IT IS IMPORTANT TO RENOTE GOOD NOTES AND FOLLOW MORE PEOPLE ON NOSTR SINCE WE DO NOT HAVE A SLAVE TECH ALGO FOR DISCOVERY 🫡

Who’s funding this dude? There’s no way he’s draining himself just to rack up L’s.

Also, what bigger proof is there that he’s not satoshi that he’s willing to wage lawsuit after lawsuit in pursuit of nothing while satoshi created bitcoin and walked away.

He couldn’t be more of a foil if he tried

Craig on the stand, explaining exactly why he needs to be crushed into oblivion. He won't stop until he's forced.

WE ARE WITNESSING A SLOW MOTION GLOBAL BANK RUN INTO BITCOIN.

#SATSQUEEZE

This is what my dilema is. What freaking shoes do i wear? I don't want to get LeBroned.