Lucky Kite

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2024-08-21 16:39:14

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What is this in layman's terms please?

2024-08-21 15:32:41

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The president of the US was banned on at LEAST 5 differnt social media platforms. Thats the litmus test for censorship: Can Donald Trump post there.

2024-08-21 14:04:17

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I feel like this could become a bit like the 51% bitcoin problem only much easier: if we have even as many as 100 relay operators used by most people it wouldn't take much for all of them to agree to ban someone by sharing the same ban list - which already happens with spam lists - even if not intentionally its likely that censored people will just get added to a 'censor list' without much thought.

2024-08-21 14:01:07

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If its trivial to go somewhere else after being kicked of a relay, then why would any relay operator ever bother kicking anyone off for any reason. Either kicking someone off solves a problem or it doesn't. Either they can post or they cannot. It makes zero sense that a relay operator would waste time banning anyone or anything if its trivial to carry on posting on a different relay.

2024-07-25 15:41:55

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what does this have to do with my question? poor avoidance.

2024-07-25 13:06:01

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Not true. That is a myth peddled by capitalists. Everyone is susceptible to bad behavior, that does not mean everyone is choosing to behave badly. People are also highly keen on sharing. Capitalists spend an enormous amounts of energy trying to beat that instinct out of us through schooling and propaganda.

2024-07-25 13:02:47

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Bitcoin won't harden. Monero is the only viable solution for crypto privacy,

2024-07-25 12:32:26

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If children are going hungry and shoeless (as millions around the world do) , is that because THEY are lazy bums?
Capitalism fails when it fails children. It fails humanity. I don't care about your financial arguments, Children shouldn't go hungry because of a system they were born into that selfish adults obsessed with wealth have failed to address.

2024-07-25 11:00:08

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Yes there are no greedy wealthy people.

2024-07-25 10:51:07

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Great, but if nobody uses the small relays that choose not to ban its not much practical use. In the end we just have to trust the big servers to not censor. Nostr becomes centralised around the big well funded well known servers.
Saying ' well its not censorship because you can always take your freespeech somehwere else' is neither a technical or philosophical solution to platform censorship,. Every other platform uses this clause - of course anyone can put their posts elsewhere eg on Mastadon or Nostr or twitter if censored by one platform. But that has its limitations, and those limitations aren't solved with Nostr anymore than they are with Mastadon.

2024-07-25 10:30:14

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Bitcoin will never get decent privacy. The core devs have and will continue to work hard to prevent that ever happening. Bitcoin is a state backed currency that requires you to use business owned custodial off chain wallets to give you the feeling of privacy that still does not yet exist.

2024-06-26 13:38:56

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Telling the world what to do and succeeding is a strength. You capitalists are full of contradictions because you can't think beyond step 1, maybe 2.

2024-06-26 13:37:08

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Capitalists determne how much value people can have. Have you looked at the world today? Can I have all your money? Its a value I want.

2024-06-26 13:35:45

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Because greed is a sin. Look around the slums of the world. And ask yourself if they deserve it.

2024-06-26 13:34:19

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It sounds like that to you because you are reductive and can't think properly. I blame propaganda.

2024-06-26 13:12:22

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Not shadow banning is a low bar by which Nostr should set its censorship standards As every day passes I can see Nostr is becoming Mastadon. Really has little going for it once relays are given the power to censor. Actually activitypub offers better and more reliable comms in most instances. We are all going to have to chose relays like we chose mastodon servers. Nostr has lost its was.

2024-06-26 13:09:22

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I'm thinking, what was the point in Nostr if things can get blocked , taken down by relay hosts. For which most people use the same few big ones. Its better than twitter but only on par with mastadon (which is also more reliable )

2024-06-20 15:47:30

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Good. Porn is a scurge on society, and especially children. I oppose the ID. An outright ban on profiteering from porn would be better.

2024-06-20 15:41:48

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If I put a gun to your head and say work for me for free for the rest of your life you are free to say no.
Is your defense of freedom under capitalism?

2024-06-20 15:38:52

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Nobody should have a billion dollars. That would make everyones standard of living extremely high. Only the very greedy ignorant, and selfish would opposes such a redistribution of billionaire wealth.

2024-06-20 15:32:09

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cringe

2024-06-20 15:31:20

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Capitalists zapping capitlaists while class hard working people lose their jobs, become homeless and go hungry because the billionaire capitlaists own everything. You can't just chose to be rich. Its rigged. A short walk down any street in any city in the world would help you know that.

2024-06-20 15:28:23

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I'm not free to just go work where I want. I can't just rock up to a beach selling buckets of sand. I can't believe how delusional capitalists are. I CAN just quit my job, but I lose my home and go hungry. I can do some slave wage work, but I lose my time , energy and dignity, and my home. Its such a asanine thoughtless thing to say you can just become anything and get rich by choice. I am 100% sure you make lots of money by exploiting others. Its the only way you would be able to believe such a thing.

2024-06-20 15:24:21

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But who owns what? where does the ownership begin? Also Socialists own their labour but Capitalists own other peoples labour. But materials and land are owned by everyone! Most capitalists inherit their wealth which means ownership is indefinite , and why rules made by 13c lords in England means their families own most of the land (real wealth) today. Its rediculous.
Inequality is grwoing, that is the whole point of
capitalism. To grow your share indefinitely. Its the
law for companies to maximise shareholder profit. Illegal if they don't. Endless expansion is the law of capitalism. And they are doing
very well at it.The rest are not. They can't play, they have no chips, no land, no resources. Its rigged. Socialism fixes this.

2024-06-20 15:18:16

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By nobody I mean 99.9999999% of the worlds population , I rounded by 0.00000001%. its an even small er value when matched by total dollars in existence. So I think its more than fair to say almost exactly nobody holds bitcoin.

2024-06-20 15:12:27

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No capitalists own other people's labour. Workers labour time is owned. You'd know this by comparing pay packets and noticing the discrepancy in reward or by seeing that unions exist, or that musk isn't actuall yworth billions more than you. If people were rewarded hard work and hard labour, most women in africa would be billionaires. But they arent, because thats how capitalism works: it exploits everyone downward forever until there is on gazillionaire left.

2024-06-20 15:06:01

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What does my nostr key being private have to do with capitlaism or socialism. For a start a key, a number, it isn't property. Its information. Marx was never against privacy. Capitalism often is tho.

2024-06-20 15:02:49

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The fruits of anothers labour more like. You act like Elon musk works harder than his factory workers

2024-06-19 16:52:35

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No it doesn't. AT best it accepts a bitcoin-fiat payment mechanism like bitpay. The merchant doesnt even see the bitcoin, they don't even have their own address.

2024-06-19 16:40:28

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Look up Human Economies. Also 'Debt - a 5000 year history' by David Graeber Your history, with respect, is simply incorrect.

2024-06-19 16:38:09

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Capitalism is just getting capital. Corruption gets you capital. Theft gets you capital. Guns get you capital. Its all capitalism. Screwing over other people to exploit them is the basis of any kind of capitalism. There is no capitalism that does not exploit. Read Marx, he explains what capitalism is, he coined the phrase. And every wealthy banker in the city understands Marx, Das Capital thats how they know how to make money.

2024-06-19 16:34:42

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I don't read every reply to you. That would be tedious. But it is funny how badly your retard comment backfired! We agree.

2024-06-19 16:31:41

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But also the dollar nation is the richest in the world. Flawed, a lot, but the dollar has definitley worked for America. It depends on the time period, the 50s and 60s were great for middle class. OR they wouldnt BE middle class.

2024-06-19 16:20:51

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Saving bitcoin for what? To cash out into fiat and put in a checking account because you know you can't purchase anything in bitcoin except drugs? If you can't buy food or cars for bitcoin without it being imediately cashed out through a thrid party fiat exchange mechanism than its falied to be what it was supposed to be. Its just a token for fiat with a volatile exchange rate. It isn't money in itself. Nobody wants to hold it, your supermarket isnt going to take your bitcoin, ever.

2024-06-19 16:14:05

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(for privacy )

2024-06-19 16:13:42

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Even a bank account is better than bitcoin, since your transactions are only known to the banks, not the entire world.

2024-06-19 16:12:30

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Its just an illusion. Bitcoins are a token for fiat. You got paid in fiat tokens. Bitcoin is just like USDT only less stable. You are welcome.

2024-06-19 16:09:59

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But they did. For thousands of years. People traded goods accross large regions in large groups long before money was invented.

2024-06-19 16:07:54

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Clearly people find illegal goods useful or it wouldnt exist. But for buying anything else, well it is useless because it DOESN'T really exist- you have to cash out first via some exchange, which makes it nothing more than fiat gambling device.

2024-06-19 12:44:28

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rustdesk

2024-06-19 12:43:36

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Its easy to work out: Are the number of Nostr users engaged with the platform growing or falling? There must be a way to get this info.

2024-06-19 12:42:16

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Well, the dollar system has been working pretty well for several decades. Debt has always been rising in every country, money is debt. What matters is distribution not volume.

2024-06-19 12:40:08

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You are writing a post on a computer. Or is it a phone?

2024-06-19 12:34:16

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You can be a CEO and socialist or left wing. He's a capitalist of the highest order. He's gotten very rich our of exploiting people. Thats what capitalism does.

2024-06-19 12:29:36

If nostr was truly censorship resistant it would be the easiest place to host Torrent links. Why doesn't it?

2024-06-19 12:14:17

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Its fake. There is no newspaper called the Grauniad. What is retarded is you believing it.
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/british-mps-guardian-opinion-piece-palestinian-territories-is-fake-2024-05-03/

2024-06-19 11:05:23

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Indeed. The sum of all money adds up to zero. No debt no money exists. Money IS debt.

2024-06-19 11:03:32

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Now read Modern Monetary Theory. Its basically the same logic but it describes how the system actually works, and crucially (not mentioned in this video) you have to talk about the role of taxes in this, as well as real world resource constraints. Printing money CAN be useful for producing actual stuff. After all every Bitcoin is 'printed' at some point even if that is limited and regulated. The real question is what are the limits of money creation: why 21 million bitcoins and not 1000 million or 2 million? Why every 10 mins and not every 60 mins? It doesn't actually matter, because all that matters is the belief in its value, and because you have to pay taxes in dollars under threat of violence/prison, everyone believes in the dollar, even bitcoiners are convinced they can buy a sandwhich if they have some dollars. Taxes give money value They don't pay for things. Taxes are money destroyed. Printing money is what drives people to create things, the only constraints are resources. And no country in the world is at full productive capacity. Govnt can print money any time it likes. Inflation only hapens when productive capcity is reached. And is reduced with higher taxes. That capacity is a long way off.

2024-06-19 10:24:44

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Apart from helping coding (with problems) and creating great images there is no major use case. AI hasn't yet produced a single new idea or discovery, let alone a world changing one. It most certainly is a fad. Its best use case is for grifting, trickery, manipulation of peoples minds, producing guff websites, manipulative advertising, and best of for spying on the public. There is currently only one actually good one: its fun to play with, like a toy, but it gets boring quick, because it is incapable of doing any new tricks. This is exactly what happened with Alexa/Siri its just the same gimmick, but a little bit better , sometimes.

2024-06-19 10:05:39

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Nothing to disagree with here except the last point because you are not living on bitcoin. You are just holding bitcoin. Then cashing out more and more.

2024-06-19 09:53:17

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This is why Bitcoin is useless. You can't really buy anything in Bitcoin except fiat. And when you do its full KYC or you are not going home with anything except illegal goods on the darkweb.

2024-06-19 09:30:01

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You lose privacy, anonymity and soverignty. Almost everything Bitcoin exists for.

2024-06-19 09:27:59

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Doesn't opago just convert bitcoin to fiat? If so this isn't the bitcoin economy. In fact its the opposite. Exchanging bitcoin for fiat isn't a bitcoin exchange for goods. Its a fiat exchange for goods.

2024-06-19 09:22:00

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Nobody wants to work for low wages when so many are sitting on their unproductive butts making passive incomes as landlords and bitcoin traders

2024-06-12 14:50:17

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If true then open source isn't needed. A FEW hackers isn't enough eyes.

2024-06-12 14:11:41

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AI assistant will be a short lived gimmick, in the sense that if you don't mind it being completely inaccurate for all the integrated tasks you give it, then it will SORT OF work. But when it makes mistakes, it will move beyond just annoying (like when alexa doesn't understand your words) to destructive and catastrophic. Apple doesn't want to use its own AI because it doesn't want that responisibility. It informs you that you are using OpenAI. Because its an unreliable toy.

2024-06-12 14:07:07

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Only if you ignore the unsolved and persistent MAJOR, high risk,problem: It doesn't actually work. No AI model is accurate enough to avoid disaster: there will be countless stories of AI telling your boss something you didn't want said, or making purchases you didn't want, telling you to add glue to pasta sauce. These problems aren't going away, and the only way to stop such risks is to make AI a less useful assistant, which is what a standard computer is.

2024-06-12 13:54:32

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People will crave traditional computers that don't spy on you all day long, the way people crave Monero or Tor - none of which will and should never ever be integrated into AI. I'm not sure I would even read a newspaper on an AI chipped machine.

2024-06-12 13:51:48

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OpenWebUI is a start

2024-06-12 13:46:37

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And then there is this (which frankly ought to end the discussion, it PROVES they can't be trusted with privacy)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/

2024-06-12 13:43:33

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Apple chose to use google as their default search engine, because they don't care about your privacy anymore than Google does.

2024-06-12 13:42:02

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-secretly-giving-governments-push-notification-data/
Yes it is.

2024-06-12 13:33:06

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How do you know they aren't collecting your personal data ? Apple have lied before and they will lie again.

2024-06-12 13:24:10

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OpenAI are lobbying US govnt to force GPU manufacturrers to put chips in to prevent them running 'unnaproved' models for 'safety' . ie to block open source and privacy.

2024-06-05 14:07:49

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I'm just pointing out that if Bitcoin is governed and monitored just like the fiat banking system, then what is its advantage over visa or paypal? The reason its is a valuable asset is because (some people think) it can be used privately - like cash - sometimes for criminal activity some not (privacy isn't a crime) . It can't be used privately though, and when eneough people eventually realism this it will lose its value. I don't promote rich people doing tax evasion, and I actually agree with you - I think Bitcoin is better than fiat for cracking down on it. I think it was invented for that purpose. But that IS NOT what most people (esp libertarians) who own bitcoin thought they were buying it for. And I suspect you already know that, because you'd be a fool to think people got into bitcoin so they can pay their taxes more efficiently.

2024-06-05 13:11:15

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The govnt only has this power because it is privately owned, because they aren't actually govenring in the interests of anyone except capitalists. Corporations and govnts are one and the same thing. Just as security guards at nightclub are part of the business of the nightclub.

2024-06-05 13:07:29

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No its corporations, and greed. They don't need govnts to exploit people, it might help, then again it might not (depends on the govnt) but they absolutely can and will (and have) in govnt free societies.

2024-06-05 13:05:40

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No. If the cost of my rent goes up I just pay it. I have nowhere else to go. Same with utilities and basic foodstuff. I cut back on luxury items. If wages rose in line with inflation things would carry on as they did (all else being equal in markets - which it usually isn't)

2024-05-30 16:20:05

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But not being able to spend your currency for a few days is VERY bad. Its not a small thing. Even if you only use it for speculation : if the price drops 50% in those days it can be a financial disaster. As a currency its even worse. Its a joke how Bitcoin bros brush this insane transaction fees off because they only last a 'few days'. And they also continue long after a few days to be very high. Bitcoin as it is today is a failure. It fails at everything it was supposed to thwart fiat with.

2024-05-23 14:01:55

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So its more like mastodon. With all the same limitations. Since anyone can run a mastadon server also. And it seems that both Nostr and Mastadon will require you to do so if you don't want to be censored. I though Nostr was doing something different to mastodon in terms of censorship. I guess not.

2024-05-22 14:13:07

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If satoshi is alive and moved any of his bitcoins we would all see it. And from there, it would be possible for someone to eventually track down his IP address or the IP address of the the sent address holder (once they spend it, and if not them, the next person in the chain). And there would be a lot of motivation for block chain analysis experts to do this too. To avoid this, statoshi would (and perhaps is) going to have to censor himself.

2024-05-22 13:48:46

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Sure you can do that but the immutable public Blockchain is not yours and it is not private. Govnts can see every transaction. And in many countries in Europe you must declare your bitcoin (even zaps) for capital gains. So that private no KYC transaction you just used is only private if you break the law and refuse to pay taxes. Good luck in prison if you go that route

2024-05-22 13:43:13

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The govnt can and does monitor all transactions via KYC and capital gains tax laws. Of course you can break the law, but Bitcoin isn't goign to help you do that easier than fiat cash does. The govnt has made laws that require Bitcoin transactions to be transparent, and its very very difficult (and also illegal) to prevent that transparency without risk of jail (at least in UK) or doing something radical like move to El Salvador. Max Keiser moved to El Salvador because he knows Bitcoin is not lawfully private in UK and US (he lived in both). He knew the writing was on the wall and got out with his fortune before the govnt comes for it. And it will.

2024-05-22 13:27:57

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Lightning doesn't scale. Bitcoin doesn't scale. The scaling problem of blockchains is an issue for all cryptocurrency.

2024-05-22 10:31:48

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What is the advantage of Nostr over Twitter? Nostr is a public forum, if it's relays are censored and controlled by unknown entities then it isn't really much different to a centralised platform like Twitter. More precisely it becomes another mastodon, with all its limitations.

2024-05-22 09:30:28

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Would it be possible to make any nostr (web) app also (optionally) a relay? A similar to the Veilid network model? So you could have remote relays also (for when using a phone to avoid p2p issues/ battery drains)

2024-05-16 13:44:18

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If Bitcoin ever gets the privacy innovations that Monero has, it will become illegal. So you might as well switch to monero now and stop waiting. Bitcoin is only NOT illegal because it is super easy for govnts to control, trace transactions and taxes and (most importantly) takes the focus away from actual private permissionless cryptocurrency like monero.

2024-05-15 13:29:13

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No it isn't because the bitcoin is too complex and difficult to use for 90% of people. And if you have to use a custodial lightning wallet (which itself still has usability limitations) what exactly is the point in using Bitcoin at all? Might as well use paypal/visa.

2024-05-15 13:03:34

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This is the right way, but it also shows that Bitcoin is a failure . Its nothing more than a gambling asset, a hot potato on which some will make money and others will not. Its not a currency and has no other use. And its certainly is not 'freedom tech'.

2024-05-15 12:53:23

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Oh ! Well, if they can only jail you, nothing to worry about! Jail is basically the same as freedom. *eyeroll* Bitcoin bros in denial. And if what you say is true, why not just use fiat, they gonna get you anyway right?

2024-05-09 15:23:04

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ok, then why not just use twitter? Trust the system. Free speech is inextricably linked to privacy. You can't have one without the other. You need to be free to speak in private.

2024-05-09 15:19:08

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if it is not private it is not permission-less. Your coins can be watched, and if you don't have permission from the state to spend them, you can be arrested and charged.

2024-05-09 13:53:56

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Why is Monero privacy only for people who use darknet? Its such a silly logic to say you prefer Bitcoin as it has weaker privacy/darkenet associations. kind of begs the question, why not use something even LESS private and LESS darknet asociated like paypal or visa. Either you want good privacy or you don't. Privacy isn't only for darknet users, its for law abiding citizens too . If you don't want privacy what IS the point in bitcoin? Just to profiteer at rising prices? Because that is its only remaining utility if privacy is not.

2024-05-09 13:08:19

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Vapoware. Last update was Feb.

2024-04-25 14:04:22

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SAFE/MAIDSAFE network has been trying to solve this problem for over 10 years and still we don't have a working implementation of a truly private/immutable internet

2024-04-17 17:29:31

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the lightning network and setting up nodes are even harder to understand and set up than bitcoin and bitcoin nodes. the idea that this is going to improve bitcoin usage among normal people is a farce, the only way it *might* is with custodial garbage like WoS and alby. And even that isnt likely as you still have to get bitcoin before you can get sats/ via LN. LN network is devolving bitcoin, not evolving it. It is lamer than paypal, that has less cons.

2024-04-17 17:21:01

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'LN rube goldberg network'
thats a perfect description. Hilarious because its true. thanks!

2024-04-17 15:48:36

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++++nosie!!++++

2024-04-12 13:26:16

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Is ODELL 8 years old?

2024-04-11 08:54:52

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The payment processo also leaves ID trace and IP leaks, eg alby.
Email is IP aware and hard to secure, even with VPN. Throw away ones are not useful long term.

2024-04-10 14:00:43

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They don't want you to do that. Or they wouldn't ask for your email.

2024-04-10 14:00:00

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No it isn't. With a private browser you can use duckduckgo and even google without logging in. Kagi is the ONLY search engine I know of where you have to register and log in to use.

2024-04-10 13:58:12

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I'd rather do a private (tor or vpn) not logged in search on google/duckgo than a non private registered search anywhere else.
Feel free to trust Kagi not to use your data or profile yoy, I see no reason why you would trust that more than duckduckgo.

2024-04-10 13:34:26

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Whatever happened to 'Don't trust, verify' that used to be the rallying cry of open source/ privacy advocates.

2024-04-10 13:33:04

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So why don't you trust the Orion browser?

2024-04-10 11:00:15

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Its laughable that a search engine requires personal data about you before you can use it. And a pinky promise they won't associate the data with your account. I find it odd that decentralised nostr bitcoin types are supportive of these kinds of closed projects with same data gathering capabilities as google et al?

2024-04-10 10:56:36

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They pinky promise 'We will be good stewards of any personal information you share with us. We do not log or associate searches with an account.'
How is that much better than trusting a closed source browser?
Its laughable that a search engine requires personal data about you before you can use it. I'm sure it works well, but then again so does gmail.

2024-04-10 10:38:28

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Lets face it, govnts can ban anything on the internet easily , without effort. Decentralization alone isn't going to help one iota. If you need an IP address to access information, its easy for govnts to kill it. NOSTR is not censorship resistant with online clients. The ONLY way around around this is Tor (and less securely, and only in some instances, VPN). The internet 'dark web' will be needed by most people to do lots of basic stuff that's legal today. All decentralised open source projects need to focus heavily on Onion and Veilid clients if they are serious about decentralizing anything.

2024-03-27 14:51:59

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This sounds a like a good compromise solution. Also, I kinda like community notes on Twitter, wish that could be implemented in a similar way.

2024-03-27 12:23:10

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Does this prohibit the possibility of being able to delete (or edit) notes on Nostr in the foreseeable future. Also won't relays need vast amounts of storage to hold copies of every post on Nostr. Rather like a blockchain