I almost feel like I want my pseudonimus (Tek) to be better that me (real person), because Tek do not have a past, I have. So I can reaaly be someone I will never be in meat space.
A low cost interaction can have incredible value, that is correct.
Most notes are not zap worthy, that is also correct.
But it is also true that an interaction can have different weights in different conditions (or different markets). A word by Trump has bigger value then a mine, a note its the same. He can reach more eyeballs than me thanks to reputation and/or following. Are his words more useful than mine? Maybe, but what if they are not? He still have the power to continue to say unuseful things, I have not.
So how can I get more power? I change method or technology, I find another way to increase the reach of my words by channeling energy in a different way. That's way a premium in the costs of the interactions is a way to change the market where I'm playing at.
With a premium, I would be able to speak in the table of the "adults" even If I have no reputation or friends in that table. That is a very powerful thing.
Advertisers are "wasting" money every day to try to get my attention, the more they spend, the more probable is they get it. If they spend it wisely, and I buy their product, that's a win/win. It is the same concept.
I would like to have someone spend sats in order to comment my notes, in this way, they have something to lose, and if they do it, it means they really think their comment is worth the sats.
Absolutely a feature, interactions have to have some weight in order to express quality. Broadcasting data should cost as much as the energy and tools required for the relays to work, so I would add a cost to every interaction that leaves a footprint on nostr.
I would also add a premium to filter "low cost" interactions.
For examples, If I post something I can decide whether to see or not to see comments posted under a 5 sats commission in order to bypass bot or other low signal comments.
I would also have the possibility to broadcast to specific relays with higher costs if they assure high quality content and specific content.
I would also have the possibility to boost post in order to make them more visible, or to avoid relays to delete them if they need to clean space for new or different things.
I'm wrapping my head too around that idea and every time I came back to think that we are pretty much the same as humans, so wealth difference can't be that big between us.
I think the middle class is just the class where everybody should be in, I can give 2x, 3x, maybe 5x the value somebody else is giving, you can get 100k and I can maybe get 500k, if I am good and lucky enough but more means there is something broken in the system.
Everybody today is dreaming for the stars but the reality is that things to work need to be done step by step, no free lunch, staying humble.
If I'm really 10x better than someone else today, it is not going to last, if I found a shortcut, somebody else will find it tomorrow, if I know something others do not now, that information will be leaked or discovered sooner or later. I'm not going to be more successful and valuable than other people everyday of my life without giving 100% to it.
Capital is key, I'm going to help my kids in every way possible but they need to be teached also every possible lesson. I just want people to understand that we need to first "give" and than we should "get", nothing is gifted, there are no right, only concessions.
Yes, I understand. I just think that the second speed is unachievable for 99.99% of people and so, set is as a goal is not going to give you the results you think. As you said, "I believe that I have responsibilities to the next generations", your biggest responsibility is to teach values to them and it takes time, and that time is better spent on teaching than gaining wealth.
We already know how people that are born with everything behave. And if it is not the next generation, it will be the one after.
Everybody will take the second speed but is it possible? That's something that is bothering me, how many can achieve it? How can you create enough wealth in a fair world, where meritocracy is the base layer and rent seeking is no more possible?
So yes, I would take the second speed but I do not want it if it means stealing other peoples work for my own greed.
Nostr Series # 5 “The Night Is Darkest Just Before The Dawn”
https://blossom.primal.net/378dfb3333ba92263be27b5ddf31a6636b350e8d80b010aca63d90a87fb8c9f5.mov
Something on the importance of attention
Anything that ask money and you can not verify is legit, is a risk and unuseful waste of resources. Best to put your money closest to you, better to fix your surroundings before anything far away.
Sure but NGU is true also with weights, its easier to be motivated when you see that you are getting stronger and "number go up" on weights is one of the most effective way for most people.
Only later you'll understand that weights is not the ultimate form of movement and "healty"
Like working out, it is hard to do it until you start to realize that the effort is necessary to have result that matters in both short and long time.
I think one day I will start to finally post something useful, not today, still learning.
GM
Bro remade his own video. fuckin legend. #bitcoin #nostr
https://video.nostr.build/7c900e375422f6ddb989d822b38b8aee4690d0930f2931e44533af9c05e860fd.mp4
Bro did aged like fine wine during this ride, f*cking legend
Even more as per my math:
21,000,000 / 2,200,000,000 * 100,000,000 = 954,545 sats
I mean, great news, but they are still using stolen tax and inflated money to buy up the reserve almost as 1971.
Anybody who agrees with Saylor perspective on interest rates?
I think too, as Saifedeen, that interest rates should tend to 0, because of free market. There will be many people who'll be willing to lend money, and you'll get as low as the people who lend will get. More people, more information, more competition, lower interest rates.
What do you think?
Absolutely no mate
Yeah, Primal got much much better both on web and android in the last months!
I'm looking to find the right compromise too. I live in the pre-alps and I think that's one of the most beautiful place to be.
Changing depends in what your hope is, too be a free and happy individual or to help build your community.
It will always look like the grass is greener where you are not, reality is both (1) the grass is greener where you water it and (2) you still have not to be in the middle of the desert.
If a place is good enough, no need to stress, do the best you can, until you can.
In the end I think that if you are following the principles above, and still feel like you are not ok where you are, find something else, there is time to comeback.
Not sure. The target it to be useful, the compensation type is less relevant (but still important).
For me, work to create a product you value with people you respect. Both things are missing for me atm, looking to fix it asap.
Never thought at it like that. If just one friend of mine would suggest a film I would watch it even if the score in some site is low, because I trust his suggestion more then the ones made by others I do not know.
The system you suggest is like the one on Instagram at the moment. So we know it could work.
But here we are daily looking at profiles that maybe nobody follows, so you still need something for them too. Maybe you'll get different algos give different scores.
I have a new target for 2024, reach a 1 mil total zap sent. Actually at 46% of the target. I'm gonna make it. Pura vida 🤙
Share some example pictures you have in mind and we can suggest something. Also portability and video necessity are important points to know for suggestions.
Like a Bitcoiner *Litany Against Fear*, “Bitcoin is trustless” is a mantra soulfully and sincerely recited by acolytes of the technology. And it is true – Bitcoin is trustless. No single entity can control or force changes onto the Bitcoin network. With enough intension, insomuch as you can access to the necessary tools, no intermediary can prevent you from buying, selling, spending, holding, or otherwise using bitcoin, even under the most repressive of circumstances.
Bitcoin is trustless, but bitcoining...bitcoining is all about trust! Across self, family, friends, and community, bitcoining forces trust dynamics to the surface and forms a lived experience of reimagined and rebuilt interpersonal and social trust structures that extend far beyond the timechain.
### Developing Trust in Self
Bitcoining is, first and foremost, a practice of radical self-trust. As a bearer money, any and all mistakes resulting in loss of bitcoin rest squarely at the feet of the individual holder and, after the fact, can only be worn like a heavy iron dunce cap by the same. As such, bitcoiners must first conquer their inner doubts and develop an unshakeable internal trust in self. This is the foundation of personal responsibility required to take full control of one’s financial life and to shoulder, without fear or doubt, the sobering awareness that the wealth (and perhaps freedom) of one’s self, family, and future progeny may well hinge entirely on the “rightness” of one’s decisions around bitcoin today.
### Rebuilding Trust in Family
A few months ago, I found myself explaining the nature of bitcoin self-custody for inheritance to a senior private wealth management executive. As the implications became clear to her, in a moment of unfiltered horror, she exclaimed “you mean as I get older, I would have to trust *my children* with this?” My response, of course, “Who else *but* your own children should you trust to secure your bitcoin wealth as you age?” Confronted with my rebuttal, she did not have an answer, but I could tell that it was being digested as food for thought.
The sad truth is that the fiat world orchestrates a pervasive and never-ending psyop to estrange us from family – and to thus divorce us from the powerful benefits of intergenerational family economics. Bitcoin fixes this. Bitcoining with a focus on long-term and generational wealth is a strong catalyst for us to reject the unbalanced, scorched-earth consumerist "individualism" that now increasingly pits young against old. With our new bearings as bitcoiners, we realize that it is time to heal generational rifts in our families and that many priceless things are regained from rebuilding lost bi-directional familial ties of economic support and care. Bitcoin wealth being “stacked” today will mean very little unless there are associated immediate and extended family units with strong bonds of shared trust and trust-distributed risk in place to shepherd keys far into the future.
### Deepening Trust in Friends
While bitcoin’s monetary network might make us “free” (at least from time-theft), it is parallel human networks that must ultimately make us happy and give our lives meaning. It is best that we understand that happiness, more than anything else, is the opposite of loneliness – and that this is one of the few things that money truly cannot buy. The double-edge sword of bitcoining is that without strong supporting bitcoiner friendships, bitcoin’s promise of extreme future wealth threatens to bring an even more extreme isolation along with it for many. And humans die in insolation...It’s dangerous to go alone, as they say. Who will you be able to turn to when the world sees you as little more than a walking sat symbol?
The preemptive remedy here is seeking out and cultivating meaningful friendships with other bitcoiners and, like Noah before the flood, working to get your most important nocoiner friends on the boat before it’s too late. Bitcoiner friendships form the social layer of bitcoin wealth protection and can provide a broad range of “social insurance” against catastrophe – economic or otherwise. As such, bitcoiner friendships are integral to one’s wider “real-world” bitcoin security model and must not be overlooked. Ask yourself – what’s the point of having nice things if you have no one to share them with?
### Leveraging Trust in Pseudonymous Community
Scenario: You arrive in a foreign country. An anon that you “know from the internet" suggests you to reach out to another anon who supposedly lives in city you’re visiting. Upon making contact, you receive GPS coordinates – I repeat, *coordinates*, ***not*** an address – via an encrypted chat set to “burn after reading” mode as an invite to come hang out with a group of local bitcoiners.
Totally normal stuff, right? 😅 Well, this is essentially the situation I stumbled into not long ago whilst traveling in Asia. Ultimately, I felt comfortable joining this meetup because of the nature of the larger bitcoiner community. All of us in the room might have been nyms to each other but we shared mutual friends who could cross-verify us without divulging unnecessary private information, of course. In bitcoin, and a few other very [strange communities](https://habla.news/moon/1707588577213) that I count myself a member of, meetings like these serve a critical function for broader, distributed reputation and trust building within what is otherwise a semi-transient, geographically dispersed, pseudonymous community.
In such situations, good behavior confers all parties with important trust-based social capital. The mutual friend gains reputation as someone who “does not associate with or recommend shitcoiners / bad actors.” The meetup attendees, if they behave, are more likely to be recommended by both the mutual friend and by each other the next time around. Thus, a positive social feedback loop emerges, with bitcoiners going around saying nice things about each other and having those things largely proven to be true in subsequent real world interactions. The implications here are far-reaching – as these positive vibrations flow through bitcoin’s living human terrain, they amplify and accelerate the chance meetings and serendipitous exchange of ideas from which the future household names of bitcoin tools, enterprises, and communities will certainly be born.
### Conclusion
For most, certainly myself included, engaging with bitcoin forces a dramatic and comprehensive reshaping of both one’s understanding of and relationship with trust. Ironically, bitcoining, which starts out as an individual endeavor to harness the transformative power of trustless money in one’s life, all but requires the establishment of both internal and social trust models that are more robust and more meaningful, than anything our fiat-minded precoiner selves could have ever imagined. Bitcoin is trustless. ***But bitcoining is nothing without trust***.
Well said, hope to live in a world like that one day!
Agree. Better to help someone with their work if you like it then to start something completely new pretending to have a market. Not every investment have a return.
Not raw, surely modificated (sun is not this big even with a 200mm lens), possibly AI.
Do not even matter, anything can be fake in these days. Better to live it than to see a picture.
The meme "there is no second best" is not some fancy bullshit to degrade other projects, it just to know that there is no necessity to have other units of measure for time/energy, it is really just noise to have many things that have the same purpose.
So it is important to take the one that at the base is the most reliable, an then build on top.
Would be interested to know why you think having others "crypto" is useful
Would say no, if we are not the ones, someone else will
So you never really retire, you are just getting some time off for the family, but two parents are not needed to be constantly in the life of a child, so you can really continue to "work" (as per doing something for the society) but giving priority to the family.
I get what you say, I just don't like the idea that people get with the work your ass of and then live as a rent-seeker.
I know you do not mean it like that, but this is what the normal people understand.
Good suggestions but the retirement bit I don not get very well. Thinking about gaining so much money that you do not have to work no more, feels so fiat and kinda impossible in a bitcoin world. Maybe I'm missing something.
Reading this article from nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc again today, found this:
"As of this writing, Bitcoin’s market cap is around $137 billion."
As of now, Bitcoin's market cap is around $1370 billions, exactly 10x from 4 years ago. Simply amazing.
dergigi.com/2020/04/27/dear-family-dear-friends/