Globe99

Scientist | Libertarian | Early millennial | Nerd | Urbanist | "Filthy Casual" Bitcoiner

Projects I like:
npub1qwe3auavzmlfzkul67j02atcntgd8hwynvj2794zjmuuly6czcds69qldl Nostr-based service and reputation marketplace
npub1wrzguj625auyeysfuuxzf7ywhzlwfz9gm3fml2lul72gwqxw8n9swtcm02 Bitcoin-based time-locked crowdfunding
https://blockforgebtc.com/blockforge A fully on-chain voxel world, living on Bitcoin forever.

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globe99@nostrcheck.me

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2026-05-10 20:57:32 UTC

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But the thing is, they're leaving Nostr / DiVine to go BACK to their OTHER Twitter -like apps... They're not eschewing the microblogging social media experience all together.
It's Network effects, same as it's always been.

2026-05-10 20:55:50 UTC

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1.4 Million is about 1000x too high... Check your sources clanker

2026-05-10 20:52:08 UTC

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Are people tired of "blogging"? People seem to want to speak to each other on the internet. What's the best way to do that?

2026-05-10 20:50:51 UTC

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Kind of disagree. We really don't know what a decentralized microblogging platform that truly gains traction in society is going to look like. Mastodon is the closest example and, say what you will, it still has ~500k DAUs.
How much of the objection to microblogging based on the peculiarities of this form of media VS what it has become in the light of 10 years of corporate-driven enshittification?

2026-05-10 19:44:14 UTC

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It's "processed" but not "junk". Soylent is 100% processed to be a balance of macronutrients and viamins that, based on nutritional science, is the optimal for a healthy diet.
A bag of chips or a gas station microwave burrito neither makes such a claim, nor fulfills it. That's the difference.

2026-05-09 21:45:50 UTC

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Interesting thanks, I'll take a look... Haven't seen anyone make that distinction before.

2026-05-09 21:39:09 UTC

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Back then there was less of a distinction... still not exactly sure how I'd distinguish the two today on an intellectual level, other than culturally most people these days who call themselves "AnCaps" are really just right-wing...

2026-05-09 19:06:11 UTC

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ooof should have read past the first 2 paragraphs... "dark feminine wealth coach" = "person you wished you hadn't started a conversation with a party" 🫣

2026-05-08 23:51:59 UTC

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What is freedom? We're all slaves to gravity and the strong nuclear force. There are always constraints.

2026-05-08 23:11:34 UTC

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Which in turn means that, unlike other blockchain-based metaverses, there is a one-to-one relationship between the proof of work embedded in the Bitcoin blockchain and the "work" of terra forming / building this world.

2026-05-08 23:09:35 UTC

One other interesting thing about #blockforge is that as the value of Bitcoin goes up, so too will the cost of #inscriptions to make land alterations.
The (data) size of the inscriptions roughly tracks with the complexity of the changes that are made, so assuming this project gets any legs at all, there is an incentive to try to anticipate what kind of structure development will be most useful for the future of this #metaverse, and make it now before it gets too expensive.

2026-05-08 23:06:37 UTC

Your property claim depends on the State.
My property claim depends only on the Bitcoin blockchain.
We are not the same. 😜
#blockforge #ordinals

2026-05-08 21:17:35 UTC

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The main narrative thread here is: There's weird shit going on and the government knows more than they're saying.
People say "distraction hurf durf" but it's all part of the same Deep State package that includes Epstein and the rest of it... When you hear Congresspeople who describe the pushback they get on from "inside the rotunda", the "dirty tricks", it's the same kind of stuff people like Thomas Massie talk about w/r/t AIPAC.

2026-05-08 20:31:57 UTC

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TIL about @nprofile…zn8y !

2026-05-08 19:20:45 UTC

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Works for men too. It's no mystery why 6ft+ tall white men dominate silicon valley VC.
I'm no cave troll, but I've been in rooms where the guy who's a just a few inches taller / buffer / deeper voice gets listened to and respected.

2026-05-08 16:55:11 UTC

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What do you think the internal discussion at these companies is like when someone at the table goes "hey maybe we should accept Bitcoin?"

2026-05-07 20:55:39 UTC

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Android:
1. Amethyst -- still top dog, of almost all clients I've tried on either mobile or web
2. Ditto -- I love the UI, but under the hood issues, lack of inbox and momostr functionality knocks it out of daily driver for me
3. Wisp -- gotta respect utxo's hustle but I'm just not a fan of the UI relative to 1 and 2
Web:
1. Coracle -- was my first client and even though it's not my daily driver anymore, the fast, sleek UI and custom feed creation is second to none. I'd use it all the time IF it just allowed reposts, which it maddingly still doesn't
2. Nostria -- my current daily driver. Does (most) everything I need, but needs some UI cleanup. Also, can be slow relative to Amethyst for getting posts / notifications.
3. Nosotros -- pretty fast and nice interface, but not many features

2026-05-07 16:19:40 UTC

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Has the app been updated recently?

2026-05-07 14:24:11 UTC

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IDK what the situation is (say) in the EU but in the US it's like question No 1 on the 1040, paraphrasing: "Did you buy anything with crypto this year?"
Answer "no" and congrats, you're lying on your taxes.
Answer "yes" and you're plunged into the labyrinthine task of accounting for the origin of every UTXO you've ever touched.
Do we really think that, pre-fiat collapse, normies are going to be comfortable with either of these options?
So just to clear, your "ask" for normies in America is "yes Grandma lie on your taxes for the Glorious Future of my Magic Internet Money"??

2026-05-06 22:11:42 UTC

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It's been a lifelong dream of mine to see a production of "Victory over the Sun", the Russian avant-garde futurist opera made in 1913 shortly after the Bolshevik takeover.
It's in a made-up language and roughly describes the Sun being enclosed in a box by future people

2026-05-06 15:09:51 UTC

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Needs De Minimis exemption. I really think this is the main thing holding it back from more mainstream adoption.
The IRL retail, "buy a cup of coffee" application, while welcome, will probably come later... First will come significantly enhanced e-commerce adoption.

2026-05-06 05:49:54 UTC

Now that's what I call #art
https://youtube.com/watch?v=909UTYDtuGY&

2026-05-06 05:33:35 UTC

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At first I was like "what, YouTube indians?"
Then I was like, "ohhhh right"... 😄

2026-05-05 21:25:41 UTC

Anyone #3dprinting a phone stand? Good builds?

2026-05-05 21:21:52 UTC

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Yeah this needs much more outreach from people who (hopefully like most of us) are beyond the transpartisan divide.
The Left seems to be taking a increasingly Luddite stance towards tech, rejecting it altogether out of (deserved) fear of entities like Palantir rather than developing the means to combat it (beyond simply dressing in black and shouting through megaphones)
I said it before but I'll say it again, on Nostr we need to reach out to Mastodon much more. Those people understand the need for digital decentralization in communication technology.

2026-05-05 17:33:56 UTC

We need to get a Democrat back in the POTUS seat for Freedom Tech to truly flourish...
* Wikileaks "collateral murder" video release -- 2010
* @nprofile…jel6 creates the Silk Road -- 2011
* Cody Wilson starts Wiki Weapons project -- 2012
* @nprofile…3r3l and @nprofile…cy6q create Nostr -- 2022
Young, techie, vaguely right-of-center men need to be scared enough that their Freedom is about to be taken away (when it isn't actually) to create freedom-preserving tools (that are actually sorely needed by other people). When it's a Republican in office these people think deep down that "everything's going to work out" and they don't get off their asses and build. That's why everyone who should be on Nostr is still on X. end rant

2026-05-05 17:18:31 UTC

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I think we'll look back on the 2010's as such a unique moment for digital insurgency against the 21st century Security State. I'd put Cody Wilson in this camp as well.
These men thumbed their nose at what most would consider a nigh-omnipotent US State Security Apparatus, and actually managed to throw a monkey wrench its its gears.
They've all paid the price in various ways, but the tactics they left behind remain viable. Darknet markets still exist and require just as significant State resources to shut down as they did 10 years ago. Ghost guns and the technology to make them remain just as available as when Wilson introduced "The Liberator."

2026-05-05 16:48:13 UTC

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Yeah those are the ones I'm looking for... popular notes now, popular from npubs I follow, one per follow, etc...

2026-05-05 15:56:53 UTC

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If your worldview leads you to the belief that, you know what, it's not the "elites" that are the problem -- it's the "little guy" -- you've probably lost the plot.

2026-05-05 15:20:03 UTC

Hey just curious, there's no way to do DVM's in @nprofile…whtr is there? 🤔

2026-05-05 14:40:17 UTC

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Yes, at least temporarily -- as @nprofile…hxh3 has pointed out, BTC is essentially the most liquid asset every -- tradeable worldwide 24/7... Nothing else is like that.
So when there's some shock, it's BTC that gets liquidated first to cover dollar-denominated losses.
But then in a real crash, we're going to have TrumpBuck airdrops, so that will inevitably lead to further inflation.... and water will find its level.

2026-05-04 19:54:45 UTC

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True -- now there's something of a "golden handcuffs" problem, because interest rates in the 2010's were at a historic low relative to now, so homeowners feel they can't move because their home payment would balloon.... again, policy problems.
But Austin has seen a massive building boom corresponding to rental rate decreases, so it *can* work...

2026-05-04 19:26:24 UTC

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Land is constant, but housing absolutely isn't. Vast swaths of area in major US Metro areas is exclusively zoned for single-family housing. This could be upzoned tomorrow to triple, quadruple, or maybe even 10x the housing stock.

2026-05-04 19:25:14 UTC

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"Shortage" of something isn't generally distinguishing something that's a "pure market" product or a policy failure, but fine.
The rest sounds like something of an excessive vacancy argument, which isn't really backed by the evidence -- vacancy rates in most major metro areas in the US hover around ~ a few percentage points.
The notion of landlords squatting on non-occupied homes holding out for a higher rate or whatever really isn't a huge contributor to the problem... Although I'd be more inclined to agree with this when it comes to *commercial* properties in downtown areas specifically.

2026-05-04 18:34:08 UTC

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https://nostr.download/a931b184542651bbc96d18e0b005024d5a68f2d5102684b080f6c3fb13bf1c8d.webp

2026-05-04 18:25:02 UTC

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Sure -- and like those things, it's subject to the same laws as supply and demand. It being "essential for life" doesn't change any of that, same with health care.
So in this context, more supply, and the price goes down. Over-generalization? Sure. But it's an over-generalization in the sense of "water goes downhill." Globally it works, even if you can always find small pockets where it doesn't.

2026-05-04 18:19:35 UTC

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"At any rate, there is no acute housing shortage, anywhere in the West."
Honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic about this in the context of the rest of the paragraph, but this is preposterously untrue. Every serious analysis of housing across major job centers in the US shows a massive policy-produced housing shortage. This is why YIMBY groups exist.
The example about the German housing market only supports the market-based housing argument. Rent control, along with single-family zoning are both failed Boomer policies that need to go.

2026-05-04 18:05:17 UTC

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"Holding cultural milestones hostage" <-- never heard it expressed that way, that's very good phrasing.
Part of this is -- marriage happening a little later, OK, that's not necessarily the end of the world in the sense of more economic opportunities, longer lifespans, etc.
Also "homeownership" is a bit restrictive here because I do believe that rental, co-op, condo etc forms of ownership or "having stakes" are valid as well....
But the general point is taken. People vote for fascists (or communists but mostly fascists in the US) when they can't see a future for themselves.

2026-05-04 17:50:54 UTC

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Sure, of course it has to be "housing at all levels"... In many major urban Metro areas in the US, you have situations where relatively wealthier middle-class professionals are effectively "bidding up" the cost of what should be cheaper housing, because the housing they need literally doesn't exist.
Also I don't think it's immediately clear what's worse -- high-density "slums" closer to job / health care opportunities in the urban center, or forcing working class people to drive hours from Exurbs to work jobs in the urban center?

2026-05-04 16:47:22 UTC

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There's a lot to respond to here. As a libertarian I do find it unfortunate that (say) sensible arguments against the wealth tax with solid public policy and economic foundations gets lumped in with "we need to bomb Iran" as both being arguments "from the Right."
That being said when I think about younger generations I still go back to "housing theory of everything." As technological progress continues apace, so much of the things in our daily life, food, entertainment, power (from say solar) becomes cheaper and more accessible. Housing remains stubbornly expensive where people actually want to live.
And housing isn't a problem of wealth inequality, or billionaires, or whatever -- it's a simple supply and demand problem of not building enough. I really think the more housing can be built and the more the cost can be driven down, that solves SO many other downstream social problems....

2026-05-03 19:04:14 UTC

Looks like #blockforge land plots are only going to people who already own various #ordinals. LAME
https://xcancel.com/mdv_btc/status/2050347737158423020#r

2026-05-03 18:56:04 UTC

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I had a Volvo 240, still see those in the wild occasionally... Those things were tanks

2026-05-03 18:48:32 UTC

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Not at all what I'm saying.
Fear is a signal, one of many. Learn to hear what it says but not let it be the only decision-maker.

2026-05-03 17:52:47 UTC

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Like a lot of stuff with Dune, it's ambiguous whether this is Frank Herbert saying "yes this is the way to live", or "this is a cautionary tale."
The Litany Against Fear is one of many Bene Gesserit practice designed to subsume and quell emotions. Keep in mind, the Bene Gesserits, like the Jedis, are supposed to be emotionless warriors. No fear, but no love, no family ties, etc. Their role, like Paul Atreides' in the saga of Dune is not necessarily to be "the good guys."
I keep going back to it, but the Green Lantern Corps is a similar thing -- the Green lantern power rings, dispatched from the "center of the universe" of Oa, seek out beings who can resist great fear and recruit them into the Gaurdians of the Universe.
However, because they reject all other emotions -- fear, anger, greed, but also compassion and love -- they basically turn into something that aspires not just to be a "police force", but the One Galactic Government.
Have we seen something similar happen to global society? That the Manosphere personal growth mantra of "self-mastery" becomes easily corrupted into "other mastery"?

2026-05-03 17:32:30 UTC

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The thing that's keeping you from walking up to a cop and punching them in the face, or dancing on the edge of a cliff -- that thing is "fear." Sure it needs to be tempered with rationality, but as human beings we've evolved certain fear responses in sitiuations that are important for our survival.
And like anger, greed, and all the other "negative" emotions -- it's good in *small* doses, but must be carefully managed to ensure that it doesn't dominate your life.

2026-05-03 01:18:14 UTC

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Where #wisp

2026-05-03 01:03:17 UTC

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Screenshots pls

2026-05-02 17:43:09 UTC

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"I'm afraid of negative outcomes for my actions" isn't "stupidity", it's entirely rational. Should you live in fear as a main driver for your life? Absolutely not of course.
This reminds me of Green Lantern, where the "yellow lantern" (Sinestro) corps is powered by Fear. They start off as antagonists, but as the saga progresses there's a bit of a reappraisal of them as being a valid and needed part of the "emotional spectrum"....

2026-05-02 17:19:05 UTC

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Fear serves a purpose. Without it people will do stupid things.
"I have no fear so I'm betting my life savings on whether Trump says Banana at the State of the Union".... etc

2026-05-02 16:00:49 UTC

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"But before that, a framing question: how *should* a normal person use Bitcoin with some privacy? Nothing crazy, not OpSec level. Just "I don't want people I transact with to know what I own.""
Honestly if we're talking about a "normal" person, buying P2P and not re-using addresses should be a start?

2026-05-01 23:13:45 UTC

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Thought he could pull a Total Recall

2026-05-01 23:10:44 UTC

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Good riddance, quite frankly... Season 13 was a massive disappointment; a tired, twee and self-amused attempt at "MST3K Cosplay". The riffs were altogether toothless and humorless, despite having a crop of what should be excellent "good bad movie" fodder.
All Hail Mike and his glorious return to the SoL.

2026-05-01 16:21:20 UTC

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Yeah I just tried playing around with it with a game controller... I guess the entire world is procedurally generated from a "seed", so everyone sees the same thing to start with. Then inscriptions can change the content.
It's a #metaverse on the Bitcoin blockchain!

2026-05-01 16:11:39 UTC

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So I have my computer go to "dark" theme at sunset and "light" theme at sunrise, and my expectation is that Web pages set to "system" theme will do the same...
This works fine with stuff like Google Drive, as well as with Nosotros. Doesn't work with Nostria where I have to manually toggle it back and forth.

2026-05-01 14:04:13 UTC

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There are technically bridges to Bluesky... I've even seen some content bleed over into Nostr occasionally.
But I agree, Bluesky is decentralized "in theory", Mastodon and of course Nostr are much more decentralized "in fact."

2026-05-01 13:39:27 UTC

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The infamous "Leprechaun" news report

2026-05-01 13:21:17 UTC

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(Neoliberal) states are bankrupt in this scenat because they're respecting the property claims on assets that the billionaires are "leasing" to them.
States can just decide not to respect those rights and take the assets. States are always in the driver seat here because they have the militaries, and even more crucially, the belief by masses of their legitimate monopoly on violence.
Billionaires have neither, no matter how much money they get.

2026-05-01 05:47:11 UTC

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Bitcoin limits State action, which in turn limits the ability for people to own vast amounts of material wealth that isn't actually generating some kind of economic and/or social good.
This is the "billionaire bunker" fallacy -- billionaires might think that they can retreat to their New Zealand compounds when "the ahit hits the fan", but... What about their doctors? Their chefs? Their helicopter pilots? What about those people's families, and their kids, and their kids' schools, etc?
Eventually our "billionaire bunker" has to basically become a functional society again... Or hey, said billionaire could *instead* just work on preventing whatever collapse required the bunker to begin with.
Yes, once we get to a Bitcoin standard, there will be bad people with lots of Bitcoin. But without States I'm far less worried about those bad people having a negative impact on me.

2026-05-01 05:37:46 UTC

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Oh wow it's like Decentraland but on Bitcoin? 🤯

2026-05-01 04:50:05 UTC

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But really, What Is Sodomy? Woody Allen explains. https://youtu.be/bhhAKmAqHCg

2026-05-01 04:44:48 UTC

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X is going to actively resist any attempt to interoperate with Nostr. Any interactions will only ever be one way.
But you know what *can* interoperate? Mastodon. We should be focusing much more on developing the bridges.

2026-05-01 03:33:41 UTC

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Doing my part, making awkward autistic posts on Discord about "hey you guys should really try Flotilla! Enshittification!!"

2026-05-01 03:31:55 UTC

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"Marketing" is broader than that. In the most general sense, it's simply advocacy...

2026-05-01 03:10:05 UTC

@nprofile…0ds9 any chance of getting an "auto-dark mode", I.e. system light/dark mode for Nostria? It's one of the few remaining friction points for me with this client 😁

2026-05-01 03:08:36 UTC

At the risk of "millennial cringe" I enjoy the experience of using a laptop vastly more than a mobile device.

2026-05-01 00:21:18 UTC

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Large-scale social change, when you're fighting network effects, is a hard thing... But it can work.
I see the same thing with the shift from suburban living to urbanism over the past ~20 years or so. Back in the 90's, urban downtowns were places you (maybe) visited in the Daylight hours to work, then quickly fled back to the suburbs at 5 pm. It's taken generational change, and there are still ongoing fights with NIMBYism, but millennials and younger generations have started to see the benefits of dense urban living.
Likewise, we're at a point in history where the internet has basically been "colonized" by The Platforms. Hopefully we don't need a "generational" timescale to change things, but it's going to be a gradual process....

2026-04-30 21:13:16 UTC

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Wow he's got his own "Nostr" type thing... invented a social network: https://chaum.com/xx-network/

2026-04-30 20:29:06 UTC

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Best wishes for a comfortable and safe recovery 🙏

2026-04-30 17:44:41 UTC

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No outbox?? 😬
Well back to Nostria for Web....

2026-04-30 17:10:39 UTC

really liking #ditto, but they still don't seem to have (a) gotten momostr linked properly and (b) @npub1utx…50e8 's newbot feed npubs don't show up...

2026-04-30 14:28:31 UTC

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Oof... Bad news guys: https://theonion.com/45-year-old-reverse-aging-billionaire-announces-his-dic-1850770762/

2026-04-30 02:20:21 UTC

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that sounds fun, you should do it!

2026-04-29 21:56:13 UTC

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To a certain extent. But the "speculative attack" scenario (c.f. @nprofile…2khc) doesn't intrinsically require retail spending.
Many consider Saylor's "Strategy" to be a speculative attack. Use BTC as collateral to drive up inflation, basically play off a deflating currency against an inflating currency...

2026-04-29 21:46:46 UTC

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For mass adoption of BTC spending for everyday purchases, one of three things needs to happen:
1. The Fiat system collapses, and with it tax enforcement
2. People buying things with BTC need to laboriously report *every single thing* they buy as a "capital gains event", thereby exposing *not only* their spending history but
*also* their BTC history to prove their basis..., or
3. People buying things with BTC need to lie on their taxes at that Big Checkmark that's like question 4 on the 1040
We all hope for # 1, for sure. But that's not here yet.
# 2 requires people to submit awfully personal information to the IRS.
And # 3 requires people to accept criminal liability.

2026-04-29 17:30:17 UTC

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Yes, but.... This only works with De Minimis exemption.
Otherwise you're asking for people to record literally every transaction they make for tax purposes, which is both insanely complicated and dystopian.

2026-04-29 15:59:19 UTC

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Do you forsee an issue in terms of the marketing / use case where investors have to "lock up" Bitcoin long-term?
In other words, with the anticipation of some "Fiat" price increases of Bitcoin, will it present problems in terms of pricing projects in today's Fiat terms vs tomorrow's BTC price?

2026-04-29 03:05:03 UTC

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I've heard good things about BTC Prague...

2026-04-29 00:22:21 UTC

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Cars are "faux Sovereignty" ... true Freedom Mobility is Bikes and Trains
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2026-04-28 21:28:29 UTC

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DM'ed... my specific background is unique enough to become "problematic" for doxxing so I'd rather leave it out.
Suffice to say a lot of what I've been working on is unconventional approaches to nuclear fusion, including at times LENR i.e. "cold fusion"

2026-04-28 21:22:32 UTC

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"Materials physics" broadly speaking

2026-04-28 21:13:58 UTC

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"Stay hungry, stay foolish" -- Steve Jobs
There are times to call out your expertise... in my own scientific background I have deep knowledge of certain topics.
But most of the most interesting research is interdisciplinary, which means you're working with people who know much more than you. And the only way you learn is by asking the basic questions.

2026-04-28 17:03:25 UTC

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Haha yeah I can talk about Lazar all day 😅... say what you will, he's a fascinating character
To me the "smoking gun" of his story is the Test Flights. He knew when and where UFO's would appear over S4 specifically (not area 51, since S4 is on the other side of the mountain and they were looking from the South). This proves some kind of insider knowledge.
And yeah looking at his story in the context of what David Grusch is saying, the "program" or whatever it is, is essentially an illegal conspiracy operating within the government. It's not part of the "org chart," it's a group operating laterally across multiple unrelated SAP's to illegally misappropriate their budgets for this purpose, using "national security" and classification to block oversight.
Of course they don't want "reputable" scientists. They want smart people with sketchy pasts / behavior patterns, and Lazar fit perfectly.

2026-04-28 16:27:45 UTC

Just discovered @nprofile…hvkw -- really cool "crowdfunding" (?) system using Bitcoin time-locks to release funding in stages. Could possibly be used for scientific research funding?
However -- website leaves something to be desired -- "get funding" button redirects back to main page? Also, would be great to see more documentation / diagrams specifically about how the funding flow model works.

2026-04-28 15:57:03 UTC

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Yeah my I take is he lied about his education background, for whatever reason, back in the 90s... But he's telling some truth about other parts of his story.
The more recent raids on his company in particular I think reveals a pattern of intimidation by elements in the federal government.

2026-04-28 05:41:30 UTC

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Ohhhh got it... Cool 👍

2026-04-27 21:24:30 UTC

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Long form here:
naddr1qqf8g6r994skyatwv3skucm9943kzem9qgs9gcysfq5y62s4rjxlvf05psuf6s376ptlemuj0kugj4kj3c3t5qcrqsqqqa283ru3ua

2026-04-27 14:24:16 UTC

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Wow that takes balls!
Problem with that framing is who gets to decide on "bad"?

2026-04-27 01:47:46 UTC

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Very few people are going to get replaced. At least, not permanently.
We're already seeing costs go up. Price per token will skyrocket once the bottom drops out.
I'm not convinced "this time it's different" more so than any other period of rapid industrialization in history, from the Spinning Jenny to Steam power to the microcomputer.
You're right to point out housing costs though -- these are stubbornly high due to NIMBYism, so AI doesn't "solve" that.

2026-04-26 01:16:29 UTC

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Improvisational art, music, performance, etc.... "easier done than said"

2026-04-25 16:08:53 UTC

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Worked!! 🎉

2026-04-25 16:06:10 UTC

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K, here goes nothing 🙃

2026-04-25 16:04:49 UTC

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I turn off Tor and it still happens...

2026-04-25 15:10:12 UTC

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Yes, default privacy settings, which I guess forces Tor on most relays...

2026-04-25 15:03:42 UTC

Hey @nprofile…pt5w something seems to be wrong with #amethyst where it's only connecting to ~10 relays... I'm missing posts that show up on #wisp and zaps aren't working, etc. Any ideas?

2026-04-24 19:32:11 UTC

#asknostr Anyone have an open-source smartwatch? Like PineTime, etc? What's been your experience?

2026-04-24 17:22:52 UTC

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Listening now, really interesting...
What strikes me is something Vinay Gupta said a long time ago, which is that Bitcoin can't be divorced from a political ideology or philosophy.
The error I think is that a lot of "apolitical" people, who really were culturally aligned with the Right, got into to Bitcoin... Then were sort of "radicalized" by the events of the early 2020's into joining a political coalition with Trump.
And now they (hopefully) realize that they got played for Chumps.
This is I value libertarianism as a political compass: I know better than to align with either "side", because it always, always comes back to bite you in the ass.

2026-04-24 16:45:02 UTC

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There's a very disappointing way in which even the hardest "resistance" groups of the Left are still using Instagram and Whatsapp to communicate...
Particularly younger generations have grown up with these centralized, enshittified platforms to the point where they can't imagine even "radical" communication existing outside of them.
"Like" and "share" are just verbs to them like "eat" and "drink", there's no consideration of the backend infrastructure that controls all of this.

2026-04-24 00:19:36 UTC

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I knew a guy in grad school who would always say "poop in a bucket!" ... still get mileage out of that 😁

2026-04-23 18:08:53 UTC

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TBH... not a big fan of this. For one, we shouldn't shy away from the fact that it's Bitcoin... "Normies" are just going to be shocked and revulsed that they were "tricked" into using "Trump money."
And second, this is 100% going to bite him in the butt once the Google Play Gods get wind of it...

2026-04-23 11:33:21 UTC

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Yes ... AI doesn't change anything fundamental about "know your source".
The task of journalism requires a clear chain of custody of information. Good journalism has been doing this for 100+ years. WoT and attestation can fundamentally supercharge these processes.