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2024-09-02 12:33:05

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then i will redirect you to the original statement that explicitly speaks about trust-minimization. And i hope we can both agree that custodial sollutions have nothing to do with that because they are trusted.

2024-08-31 16:16:58

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No, the small lighting transactions are not actually ''real'' lightning transactions, but besides that it will always boil down to your ability to close a channel; which is an onchain transaction. Lightning does not reduce that threshold of onchain fee's, but it allows you to distribute those costs over many interactions.
Note, i use lighting (and for small tx's), all the time, to get a shorttime vpn or silly AI pictures.

2024-08-31 14:10:23

The presentation i gave during Nostriga.
Nostr's adoption thesis; the less you define, the more you imply.
According to a review:
''the title you gave was very baity and not very clearly related to the content though, you invited the questions about mass adoption that you got at the end. But your answers to the questions are good and useful, even though completely unrelated to the talk''
https://cdn.satellite.earth/1dc27d3848fbd4cedb084a96719ad6c0914d1ff2d55c2d612fdf56ea91c5dc9c.mp4

2024-08-04 20:07:04

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I use it all the time. sometimes some countries dont work but overall its fine.

2024-08-03 16:55:12

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my IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 did not work anymore eventually, but thats after many many many years of intensive use and abuse, and probably a cable problem anyway.

2024-08-01 13:57:30

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No1 should post anything ever for this exact reason. Social media is a foolish endevour by default.

2024-08-01 08:09:05

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You know by the lack of streetsounds this cant possibly be fiatjaf

2024-07-31 23:56:50

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The unit is not the UTXO, its the keys able to create a valid tx defined within the script of the UTXO (within economic constrains)

2024-07-28 18:28:58

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No idea what this thread is about, but i object to this statement out of principle

2024-07-26 14:45:35

https://blob.satellite.earth/756de1c3a4fe5db9df6804231888f7268e87cbf3f21eaf88f435c4168cc68bad

2024-07-24 23:47:35

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Well , i ran out of ideas you see .
What do people post online, that is currently categorized in some sort of social app ? pictures, tweets, videos...rEciPeS....
....there is this thing where you can track your vacation by posting little updates and then with 1 press of a button compile the whole thing into a book ....
So after 'vacations' , i had no other options to resort to the tits, which, lets be honest, constitutes a large part of the web .
Hence, bobs silly tits were born ;
it was fate, really.

2024-07-24 17:29:09

https://cdn.satellite.earth/3e98960184315fd1ab5cf3b06ba21f077aab206ab58c2fdc4db6804c3bcc6460.mp4

2024-07-22 20:15:02

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well, if, i'd suggest girls in bikinis, not a slideshow with crappy AI pictures an MSpaint edits. Just sayin

2024-07-22 19:52:09

https://cdn.satellite.earth/6806a8ba583c75b8d6ebf10ea501e973a85564c88b810717ef6b635d477753b1.mp4

2024-07-20 09:30:07

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Not sure, unless rockets, EVs, tunnels and w/e else that dude is doing are is hobbies.

2024-07-19 15:41:12

https://cdn.satellite.earth/8fa94766caa6a835b55def45e1ad09d3fce960e6eb57df4abd7ac5604f6a7efe.mp4

2024-07-04 11:33:13

To a large extend people were already transparent in the current paradigm, and remain so in this potential next one. The mask of pseudonymity and the cloak of encryption are but mitigating factors to the piercing eyes of big-data analyses.

2024-07-03 20:24:22

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Aaaaaaaaaand time. How long did it take before Nostr's Chrome was introduced? Fiatjaf had a nice try, but we all knew this was inevitable.
Will, you can claim your bazillion dollars of VC money at the nice young lady at the desk near the end of the hall. Everyone else can go and find a new protocol to LARP on for a few years.

2024-06-17 14:17:57

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To be fair, you say that on most ducttape and tierip protocol imaginable

2024-06-17 11:38:07

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One does not simply walk into Mordor

2024-06-08 17:01:05

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this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ot2FFc_Qq4

2024-06-06 21:07:10

The internet does not forget; an adage that is not precisely true for ‘the internet’ forgets many things all the time. But it serves as a warning before entry: Beware, you are entering a public domain that goes beyond space and time. You can’t control where the data ends up, and you cant control the ever shifting world it exists in. Anything you say can resurface, accessible to everyone everywhere at any moment. This is the trade-off for the fact that you can possibly be exposed to everyone, and everyone can possibly be exposed to you.

2024-06-05 11:11:07

I am doing a thing, and unfortunately I eventually will need attention for that thing.
So from now on I will post very profound things every so often such that you have a reason to follow me.
'Nostr: A meta-data convention that allows for universal context interpretation client side which removes any particular requirements on the server side.'

2024-05-09 12:55:14

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Sir, the point of decentralization is censorship resistance, hence your phrase is wrong.
Nostr, a protocol for decentralized and therefore censorship-resistant sharing of tweets*
-fix

2024-05-07 20:15:24

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its a game from 1998 that was not even demanding for computers at the time.

2024-05-07 10:13:30

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https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/meta-disables-social-media-small-business

2024-05-07 10:09:06

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Its ok, we all post screenshots by accident sometimes. We are not mad, just a bit dissapointed, but please try to do better next time ok?

2024-04-28 22:42:49

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I agree more attention ought to be paid to this. This matters way more than Bitcoin.

2024-04-26 22:20:15

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What if some other thing works for someone else and its both part of the same network🧐

2024-04-06 16:54:54

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It was at this moment, fiatjaf realized that it does not matter what he actually posts; he will get engagement regardless and therefor the effort required to uphold his self-percieved obligation to interact on a daily basis has been reduced to practically zero.
This does not relief him, on the contrary, it innitiated existential dread. Faced with all this meaninglessness, he now considers to continue the rest of his life strapped to a dripfeed of heroine while watching AI generated childrens content on youtube.
Who can blame him.

2024-03-24 16:06:49

Spring.site is worth consideration. Appart from the fact i have to add permissions for each individual app which is terrible and way to much hassle for me to bother;
It by far is the best thing to quickly demonstrate the power and added value of NOSTR as a protocol.
NOSTR is not a better Twitter, its a worse Twitter. Perhaps its a worse everything individually; but a better whole all together. Spring.site is a great way to get that point across

2024-03-21 21:14:34

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Sir, multiple tomatoes yet only a single potato?
Where is the milk btw

2024-03-10 20:03:43

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Jij hier?

2024-03-10 19:36:34

@npub180c…h6w6 heeft mij, naar Itialiaans voorbeeld, opgedragen in het Nederlands te posten. Dus, hierbij;
Waar zijn al mijn medelanders?
Het is patat.

2024-02-22 21:41:48

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There was an error generating a responce

2024-02-20 16:49:48

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Besides putting stuff out there in the world in general(in your case your art). If someone asks/shows interest, engage. But actively trying to 'convert' people is an almost complete waste of energy.
Also account for expectation management and the fact that you might be wrong/incomplete in the narrative you are conveying to others. Prime example is Roger Ver, going around telling Bitcoin is free, instant and private/anonimous. He created a whole bunch of supposed Bitcoiners with wrong expectations and dissapointment, frustration and eventually a fork as a result🤷‍♂️.
The art is more than enough Flo, it really is.

2024-02-20 12:42:35

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if something goes wrong, you can go on-chain to claim your money.
Appearently we are in a situation where the lightning software thinks it is a really good idea to spend way more in fees than what the money you are claiming is worth.
Fiatjaf made a bot that keeps track of when such sillyness happens

2024-02-18 02:29:01

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Forget the relays, its all about the notes. Once one understand notes; relays, clients, everything becomes obvious and a trivial afterthought

2024-02-17 16:15:48

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Stop trying to compensate for the fact you are a midget.

2024-02-13 11:28:40

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All the eggs are already in ICANN's basketball court anyway

2024-02-10 07:59:58

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Lord no pls, no you as well with the all caps.

2024-01-29 13:02:22

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No need to complicate these things:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0

2024-01-28 14:18:59

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Why would my ho capes be hard to weed, that does not make any sense, what does that even mean? And what does a particular type of heat transfer have to do with it?
You appear to raise more confusion than clearity on my end, i give up.

2024-01-28 14:08:51

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Narrator: And it was at this point, Fiatjaf slowely started to reconsider his anarchist beliefs.

2024-01-28 14:05:02

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I am sorry, in cant read you because of the screaming. Could you please try to write clearly.

2024-01-28 13:40:27

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Sir, it appears your capslock is activated, please see to it you remedy this situation.

2024-01-28 13:38:47

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Digital voting is a hard, if not impossible problem due to the fact that attacks have the potential to scale and thats is not the type of risk you want to have when it comes to something so foundational.
Perhaps in smaller/local elections/situations, because there are far less margins to fuck around with, maybe.
In the Netherlands we do everything on paper, and the results are basicly in the same day (with a formal result some days later after it went through all the checks).
I am not aware of the 'because not everyone has a smartphone' argument, and it is definitly not the actual reason (for there are plenty of them) not to do such a thing.

2024-01-26 23:30:04

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Are fake n gay, but i am pro script updates that would, by happenstance, allow you to do such silly things. I am not pro any drivechain specific softfork however; i dont care your silly thing wont be hyper optimized.

2024-01-26 22:06:27

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https://njump.me/npub1l8wk5a39qcnqkw9z60jmgepp8shy073cwapfl60wvrs8rgc6qltsq66m2c

2024-01-26 22:05:09

Reminder to all, that all the fancy contract things we can come up with on Bitcoin (for example Lightning) where the idea is to leverage the trustminimizing properties, will make higher value transactions cheaper, they wont make low value transactions possible; because the trust minimizing guarentees on an interaction rely on onchain transactions.
Plebs get rekt, you only have business onchain if you can afford to bribe a miner.
You will trust and you will be happy.

2024-01-17 23:38:27

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Time will tell if that is in the cards

2024-01-09 10:31:08

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Dont mind @npub180c…h6w6 , he is a drivechain supporter. We tried to seek help and support but docters say its chronic and we have to try to live with it as best as we can.

2024-01-03 05:01:55

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I dont notice anything he says, i just hear slight mumbling among streetsounds and run with it.

2023-12-23 16:34:54

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Its a downgrade in terms of style. Also you waste half my screen with bullshit i never ever use....ever. https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1988164383184050581703349077.webp
Goodluck with the app, but i am switching to something else.

2023-12-23 01:22:36

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Dont get your hopes up, his posts are as random to me as they are to anyone else.

2023-12-21 14:25:00

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You mean so they understand the exact reason why things dont work that they otherwise would expect to work?

2023-11-21 16:06:20

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You forgot to shill BSV at the end of your post

2023-11-21 11:57:28

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@npub180c…h6w6 👀

2023-11-20 02:24:44

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Because humans needed a final cope before they submit to AI facilitated HDL on FPGA's, obviously

2023-11-20 02:12:16

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🤷‍♂️

2023-11-19 07:07:59

This NOSTR stuff is not going to bring a 'better internet'; rather its embracing we passed peak-internet-goldenage already and things are bound to only get worse.
Now to be fair and clear, that internet golden age was a short term fantasy where capital subsidized the server capacity believing they could effectively monetize the platforms eventually, on the one hand; and intrinsicly motivated sincere content creators able to do their thing before getting harrassed by the censorship and noise inducing wrestle for power/controll by political interests, on the other.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_3093180763713125261700377523.webp

2023-11-04 21:39:23

@npub180c…h6w6 made another podcast episode.
https://youtu.be/_1uqk7e31p4?feature=shared

2023-10-28 22:34:17

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Ok....Lets verbally go through the binary encoding of opentimestamps and shame @npub1ej4…ndrm for his lack of documentation instead. Riveting content for sure.

2023-10-28 15:20:07

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Yeah @npub180c…h6w6 , when?

2023-10-28 07:15:00

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Because I believe that deep down there somewhere you are more than just a clown my friend.

2023-10-28 06:32:52

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2023-10-27 19:14:56

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Btw. Is there anything usefull/insightfull you took away from listening to the podcast?

2023-10-23 14:37:21

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Your post is just cope for the fact that your shitty protocol only covers 80% of the sollution to any particular usecase; and that the remaining 20% would undermine the principle behind the protocol.
You are fighting the wind sir.

2023-10-21 01:05:17

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What is wrong is that it does not mention on what basis/expectation these elements are judged. So we have to gues what the writers expectations are; and i get the feeling that there is this assumption of a coherent network in there somewhere.

2023-10-06 11:57:49

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Zapping channels died with digital TV, nothing beats switching between analog channels. On of those things that have gotten worse through InNoVaTiOn

2023-10-02 11:10:22

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Just remember to next time make scarrabs before you put the reaver into the shuttle

2023-10-02 11:03:25

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I personally think you should be put in jail for depriving this nice honest person of their 300 satoshis. Hopefully the SWAT team comes crashing through your ceiling soon to remedy this situation.

2023-09-30 14:15:01

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Yes.
Also, talk about layers is a bit confusing, wich results in the fact that people dont realize that 'L2' only makes trustminimized tx for high value actors more efficient; it does not make trustminimized tx for low value actors possible.
There is some slight nuance here and there, but thats the gist of it

2023-09-21 23:39:17

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Besides, you know....an election

2023-09-21 23:08:03

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Spend it on those models that post pictures of themselves in their underwear, those seem to get plenty of engagement.
Nvm, the simps seem to be picking up that bill already.

2023-09-21 15:37:02

Goodbye summer
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_1838594549304988061695310569.webp

2023-09-19 20:00:20

Fiatjaf just informed me that his sybil attack is working. I will use this moment to inform all the non-bots there wont be a podcast episode this week; I have forrest business to attent to.
https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9967033520858768701695153428.webp

2023-09-19 15:03:08

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https://petertodd.org/2016/opentimestamps-announcement

2023-09-19 02:47:57

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Yes

2023-09-19 02:35:05

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Negative, devs are a bunch of dense autists that will reeeee over the term file system instead of reading what is actually being said.

2023-09-15 15:00:24

@npub180c…h6w6 begged me to come up with this.
NOSTR is a set of agreements on a file system. Everyone indexes their own files using cryptography to describe under whatever name the data is published.
Because these names are random and unique, there is no conflict among the identities so they can all exist next to each other.
This means the data can be gathered and redistributed by anyone, and they don't have to concern themselves with indexing such that others know what to ask for.
You yourself can be such a relay, or use any (multiple of) services out there to transmit your notes and other stuff to anyone who asks for it.
This Notes and Other stuff Transmitted Over Relays (NOSTR) protocol is not special because it uses public private key pair cryptography.
Its method of success among all attempts out there is realizing that the indexing part is not what is ultimately important in becoming an open standard; but the practical, concrete means used in applying the index amongst each other.
Complexity in integrating the protocol into other systems results in centralization of development. The consequence is a limited offer in software resulting in a no longer really open standard that is in the hands of those who facilitate the tools used to speak the protocol.
By being specific on its simple set up, NOSTR can be a new starting point to set up the infrastructure we use on the internet; where we are free to name, share, find and experience.

2023-09-13 12:26:29

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I am sorry you had to witness that. Fiatjad forces me to do it at gunpoint. I keep frantically blinking in morse code but nobody has showed up to safe me thusfar. If you are so inclined, we can be found next to the noisiest street of Brazil. Do make sure you arm yourself with nunchucks, jaf is a notoriously dangerous thumbwrestler.

2023-09-10 14:46:41

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And exactly howmany notes have you posted on starcraft sir?

2023-09-07 22:12:41

@npub180c…h6w6 posts his shit takes on drivechains on twitter instead of nostr because he is wrong, and deep down inside he knows it.

2023-09-05 23:34:40

It appears there are now w4men entering the platform.
Good time to remind everyone there are no girls on the internet; only AI generated spam

2023-08-31 14:57:38

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I dont follow...
Miners tell Bitcoin (if you want to put it like that) what time it is, at each block. The point is that everyone observing can judge whether that time is correct (enough). And it cant be anything other that time, because how else would everyone agree on what the next difficulty target ought to be?

2023-08-31 12:39:11

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How could it be any arbitrary number?

2023-08-31 12:26:28

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Well, then you thought wrong. There is a 2 hour margin in which miners can lie/be wrong/differ in opinion about time.
Bitcoin has its own oracle problem (because anything like this type of system needs an oracle). But Bitcoin uses the one thing that is hard to lie about, time. So it is workable that miners are the oracle, telling us the time of a block.

2023-08-31 12:21:06

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Bonus take:
People who call Bitcoin a clock are stupid. Calling something that needs/uses a clock, itself a clock, seems silly to me.
Its a database bound to time, not a clock.

2023-08-31 12:16:22

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Bitcoin uses/needs time, in order to introduce the notion of '10 minutes'. Otherwise there is no way to judge the significance of PoW/difficulty.
But this artificial work construct (hashing and difficulty adjustment) acts similar.
1: Given enough difficulty and decentralization, no particular actor has the might to alter or dictate things.
2: Acces to this data is trivial because of the internet.
3: intepreting the data is only as difficult as running a node.
The result is a consensus because it is hard to lie effectively about something on which everyone can come to the same conclusion themselves

2023-08-31 12:08:58

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Bitcoin both uses and mimmics the time-consensus.
Our human timekeeping is based on space stuff. Earth spinning around its axis(day), around the sun(year), and if you are trained you know the exact date and time based on the stars.
The point is that this data source is:
1: not under the influence of any particular actor. No King can move the heavens and earth so to speak.
2: easy to acces. One has only to open their eyes and look up.
3: easy to interpret. sun? -> day. No sun? -> night (go be depressed somewhere else pole people).
So everyone has easy acces to a hard to change source of data that is easy to translate into information. So negatively put: Any attempt on (sustained large scale) discord on time futile i.e. unlikely to disagree. Positively put: everyone comes to the same conclusion, so we agree.

2023-08-31 11:52:28

Bitcoin relies on the assumption there is a pre-existing consensus on time.
Something that is barely mentioned anywhere. But mentioned nevertheless.
What i have not found anywhere thusfar is the insight as to why we have a functional consensus on time.

2023-08-31 11:40:00

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There is no such thing as a real Constant

2023-08-30 23:24:04

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I do not

2023-08-24 16:40:15

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It seems we are not his favorite podcast, therefor i will ignore anything he has to say. My heuristics have spoken.

2023-07-24 00:36:31

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No, instead of being targeted by a fancy person, he baited one ;)

2023-07-18 14:46:47

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Probably need a 2 tier system, one filter, and one for prioritization.

2023-07-18 14:45:18

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You could have AI models trained to pick out particular things of interest and feed that to you. I.e. the context of the post is not other posts; the AI bias is the filter of whatever posts it comes across

2023-07-17 22:27:58

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You just realized you would get a whole bunch of shit submissions using words like 'decentralized'; so to safe yourself the cringe you backed out. Too bad, nostr is a piece of shit where you cant delete stuff and you read all replies anyway. Ngmi

2023-07-16 16:00:31

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Do you think they will pay me to talk about global state and how plebs dont matter? I can do that...