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Financial industry that we know today will shrink as we enter the bitcoin standard. Ordinary people finally don't need to desperately look for a saving vehicle.

希望很快会有基于Nostr的写作平台,比如Nostrized Medium, Nostrized Substack.

I'm the author of gossip, a desktop client not a mobile app, but I have someting to say on this. Gossip downloads only about 4MB when I start it in the morning and run it for an hour. Since that is several orders of magnitude less than some other clients, I thought I'd make a list as to why:

1. Duplicate Events - many clients subscribe to the same filters on all of the "read" relays. So if a person has 10 read relays, they get each event 10 times. They could subscribe in a way that only gets N copies, where N is set in some setting somewhere (gossip defaults to 2 or 3).

2. Not Dynamically Connecting to Relays - when clients don't dynamically connect to the 'write' relays of whoever you follow, users are incentivized to add lots and lots of relays as a hack to try to get that content, aggrevating issue 1. If clients smartly went to the write relays (based on relay lists), all of the content a user has subscribed to would arrive (in best case scenario) and users would no longer feel the need to add massive numbers of read relays.

3. Counting how many followers you have is expensive. Kind-3 contact lists are long, and you need to pull one for each follower to make such a count. Especially if done across many relays (where the same ones are pulled multiple times, once per relay), this could be 10-20 MB on it's own. Then how often is the client triggered to recount?

4. Downloading of avatars: gossip caches these so it doesn't have to re-download them. Any client that uses an IMG tag and doesn't have a browser caching is probably downloading these over and over, at worst case every time a post scrolls into view.

5. Content images and content web page pre-rendering: This can be very expensive, but is probably unavoidable on rich UI clients. Gossip is a "poor" UI client, without any images or prerendered links (it just shows links that you can click on to open your browser). But with caching, repeated downloading of the same thing can be avoided.

6. Re-checking of NIP-05 could be done periodically, perhaps daily if it failed or every 2 weeks if it passed, probably the worst strategy is every time a post scrolls into view.

There are probably others.

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很清爽的一篇,讲述为什么比特币是人造的生命 -- 《Hello, I Am Bitcoin》

https://tomerstrolight.medium.com/hello-i-am-bitcoin-a1f804617fab

噢噢哈哈误解了,看上去很值得一读!

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《暴力的非对称性》序章

一、资本不使人异化,暴力使人异化

1、资本不使资本家和工人异化。

2、当暴力被垄断,就产生了权力;“垄断性暴力”的使用者被称为“当权者”;“垄断性暴力“使“当权者”异化。

3、与“垄断性暴力”勾结的资本家被暴力异化,两者共同组成“官商勾结complex体”,压迫工人,使工人异化。

4、人本质上是被暴力所异化,而非资本。

5、若要为马克思主义打上补丁,可以得出:与暴力所勾结的资本使人异化。

二、当权者的“面纱”(veils/personae)——当权者在历史上曾表现为:

1、前宗教化原始cult的萨满祭司

2、君权神授的王

3、政教合一政体

4、霍布斯式的利维坦,具体表现为state、nationstate、政府

三、当权者的合法性来源——契约

1、当权者与神签订契约,成为神的代理者:萨满祭司、王、天子、教宗(e.g.天主教教皇、邪教教主)

2、人与人之间签订契约,所有人让渡权力成立state和政府,state和政府的权力来源于人民,被人民和契约所限制

四、契约的积极意义——把人从暴力当中解放出来

1、宗教(此处指基督教)在历史上的积极意义,在于把人从暴力当中解放了出来。

但这种解放并不彻底,在教会和政教合一政体成立之后,这种积极意义就消失了,反而促成了更多暴力(e.g.宗教战争、十字军东征)

2、利维坦在历史上的积极意义,在于把人从宗教的暴力当中解放了出来。利维坦的主要贡献在于剥夺了教会的权力,实现了政教分离。

但这种解放并不彻底,当利维坦获得了印钞权,这种积极意义就消失了,反而促成了更多的暴力(e.g.第一次世界大战、第二次世界大战)

五、“限制利维坦”——这是古典自由主义的基本主张,这种主张在美联储诞生之后宣告破产。

六、现代国家的唯一权力来源就是印钞机,社会契约已经无法限制其权力,标志着古典自由主义的失败,现在只有政币分离,才能把人类从暴力当中彻底解放出来。

七、加密朋克运动和技术自由主义路线,创造了使暴力无效化的工具,调动暴力需要资源(货币、能源),当发动暴力的收益不足以涵盖其所付出的资源(货币、能源),暴力行为被遏止,这就是“暴力的非对称性”。

P.S.如果各位有对于马克思主义的任何疑惑和问题,推荐我一个专门研究马克思主义的老哥 @npub1cs3fu247vshlvnq7zkxx85c3y3hnykcwcdnhfhef894fx30arwls0ec8mu

有书的链接吗?

权威的保障或许来自于暴力机关。但比特币给个人的不是权威,而是权利。正是因为比特币不能被暴力获取,才激励国与国之间的和平。试想国C侵占了国A,但拿不到也破解不出密匙,就减弱了掠夺的动机。黄金则不是这样。

比特币和以太坊表面上相似,实际上差别不能再大。以太坊是伪装起来的法币系统,它或许有别的投资(投机)价值,但它不能取代比特币,它做不到比特币想要做到的。

比特币是一次尝试,它可能最终分离国家和金钱,赋予每个个体以主权,进而造福整个人类文明。这次失败了就很难再有第二次机会。Hayek曾经说过:I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop。

在最根本的原则上,比特币是不能作出妥协的,否则它不可能达到它的目标。 这或许是每个看清楚的人都本能地厌恶以太坊。就像黑白不能颠倒,黑的不能被说成是白的。 这是底线问题,不可论好恶。

不是每个Bitcoiner都是“神经病”,以太坊也不会立马归零。

P.S, node 和 miner 两个概念,每个比特币node都可以验证而不需要信赖任何人,这是去中心化的由来,因为PoW机制下没有人可以违背物理定律和数学规则,没有人可以钻漏洞。归根结底是node主宰协议而不是miner。

Signal to noise ratio > twitter