LukeParker
luke

Bitcoin class of 2011.
He who dies with the most Bitcoins wins.

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2024-09-18 22:20:37

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Reminds me of CashApp for some reason...

2024-09-15 11:56:35

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Looking very much forward to it, sir.
But the world's most popular clients will be a version of email, so whomever copies Gmail the closest in UX should win that race.

2024-09-06 17:46:26

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(Y) I am not a robot.

2024-09-03 12:56:38

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2024-09-02 16:17:37

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Someone needs to do a spreadsheet on how many unrealized children one would need to report in order to offset X bitcoin unrealized gains...

2024-09-01 10:49:54

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Hope you like liberals and people who hate privacy!

2024-08-31 15:41:56

#Brazil banning X has the potential to launch a huge migration to Nostr... But are we ready for it? Their population is larger than the USA's!
Reminds me of that time Satoshi told Assange: 'No, DON'T take bitcoin at Wikileaks, we're not ready for that hornet's nest yet!'

2024-08-26 12:22:47

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Now do their time until censorship made them unusable...

2024-08-14 19:37:17

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Commies always give themselves away by saying something like 'you're wasting your time building rockets while people are starving...' It's pretty pathetic.
I hope one day he realizes that he has a panic attack when he realizes that spaceX rockets could, very easily, "accidentally" crash into his house.

2024-08-07 13:17:39

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Did you leave off a couple of zeros? I'm connected to more relays than you seem to think exist.

2024-08-07 13:10:43

This is actually very interesting considering that Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for basically doing what Bitcoin does, bringing financial innovation to everyone. Here's hoping he spreads the mindset and they remove that ban on bitcoin in the country.
#note139r…c6lw

2024-07-29 16:05:47

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Mine is definitely not riskier than a bank box. You claimed that "It happens to as many people hoarding gold as those keeping it in a bank" but I couldn't disagree more. I'd say it happens once or twice a year to people at home (who aren't as careful as I am) but hundreds of times every month for various reasons to safety deposit boxes somewhere. If for no other reason than simple bank robberies.
Do you have stats to back up your claim?
I'm not a voter, by the way.

2024-07-28 21:37:35

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Vitalik's home wifi network name?

2024-07-28 21:33:50

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I don't have a clue how much she makes but quoting a mainstream media Fact Check isn't going to win any hearts or minds around here. Those fools told us to wear our masks & that Ivermectin was horse dewormer.

2024-07-28 21:25:12

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Ah, so you imagine that this happens to all the people around the world that hoard gold, Jewelry, and other valuables at home? All 2 BILLION of them?
The difference between a criminal that will take no risk to pilfer through boxes and one that will risk his life breaking into a home that may be armed is extremely different.
You really should think through carefully what your actual risk profile is. Everyone should, but you more than most.

2024-07-28 20:50:23

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So you just missed the roughly 10,000 various stories of bank failures, Fed safety deposit box raids, and bank employees stealing from their customers' boxes?
Why not just wear a Tshirt that says 'Trust, don't verify?'

2024-07-28 20:48:15

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Send him some links... Not just the bank failures but the actual banks stealing from their customers' safety deposit box stories. I've seen at least 3 since I've become a bitcoiner.

2024-07-16 12:47:37

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Wow, I thought only the Japanese used the swastika symbol outside of Nazism. What does it mean in Indonesia?

2024-07-13 15:03:00

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I've felt this way for a while too. -Particularly because likes still exist in most clients.
If we remove likes from nostr & basically force people to zap then it'll scare the noobs and sat-pinchers away though, so I'd say let's keep likes where they are and move zaps away from the reaction bar completely... Maybe to a drop-down menu or when clicking on the post...

2024-07-13 15:00:02

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Oh man, how can KYC & AML laws survive this going mainstream...

2024-07-12 12:26:07

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Bitcoiners are obviously weird too. None of what you said is "against bitcoin ethos" but there does happen to be a high correlation among the non-binary & neurodiverse with socialism.
It would be pretty ignorant to claim that socialism is within the ethos of bitcoin. Bitcoin's very nature is to destroy it.

2024-07-07 21:42:02

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Only the girls can see the boy's nutsacks. Unless the guy is gay, so I hear.

2024-07-04 23:21:49

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So lemme get this straight: I can attach a domain to it so the non-purple-pilled can link directly to my nostr feed, displayed all on a nice website layout served up by the Nostr network?
& there's no cost for this?

2024-06-30 18:03:45

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OMG... Does he, in fact, smell like tacos?
I sincerely hope senior Trejo is getting a cut of this action, it's just too funny to go nowhere...

2024-06-29 17:10:25

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Sure, provide the game for free but charge sats for something inside the game from your storefront in there. Skins/weapons/whatever: Simply become a merchant.

2024-06-28 18:47:03

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Sorry about the delay, yesterday was a madhouse around here.
I tried to watch your video but honestly my eyes just kept glazing over from all his Jargon. FEers are going to have to make their explanations more palatable if they want to be heard.
> A 24 hour sun in Antarctica would be a big problem for FE.
I've been to Juneau, Alaska where the sun was only down for about 2 hours at night, at the height of summer, and locals there say they've been up to Barrow where there is literally no nighttime between May & August! Like this chart says: https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/@5880054
As you know, globe earth easily explains that phenomenon and says the opposite is happening in Antartica. How could that be true with FE?
> there would be no reason to edit and lie about the footage.
I have no idea which footage you're talking about, but I'm quite sure footage of the midnight sun is available from thousands of sources over many decades.
Your Eratosthenes meme is funny, but that source of light obviously isn't 94 million miles away, like the sun is. Those shadows would be very similar if done with sunlight.
A proper Eratosthenes experiment is very easy to do yourself, like this highschool teacher did on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_P0kbGsMrY
He saw the obvious angle change only 300 kilometers away. Maybe this would be an easy experiment for you to try yourself to reproduce.
It's funny that you said "Private citizens cannot explore the outer regions, only guided tours are allowed" because the number of tours to Anatartica, both cruises around and hikes to the mountains and polar station are becoming more and more common. Why would they take thousands of normies a year to a place that they are trying to hide?
I've been following a Youtube Travel volgger for years before she climbed Antartica's highest mountain. Eva Zu Beck did plenty of vlog episodes down there and she was an absolute nobody, without 1/10th the YT following she has today. This page should have all those Antartica videos: https://www.youtube.com/@evazubeck/search?query=Antartica
Are you suggesting that's not Antartica? Or that this polish chick who lives in her car is in on the conspiracy? Seems like it has to be one or the other.

2024-06-28 13:58:57

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You left out Oprah's other habits, like helping pedophiles get children and burning down cities to steal their real estate...

2024-06-28 13:54:45

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I've been thinking the exact same thing, but I have to admit the uncensorable usefulness of nostr to freedom & political activists is off-the-charts obvious. I'd be surprised if it doesn't catch on as a social media where all 'dangerous talk' is done. That ain't peanuts.

2024-06-27 16:41:39

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Hmm... Can we get Wikileaks to become Nostr-native by then?

2024-06-27 13:04:28

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I have to give you credit, you've studied down this rabbit hole so far that you make convincing arguments. I just want to give up at this point and let you suffer the consequences of all that misdirection from the truth, but there are so many other fun phenomena that prove the world is a globe that I just can't seem to stop thinking about them...
Like how about the way Eratosthenes calculated the earth's size waaaay back in 240 BC by measuring how shadows fell at different latitudes? Why are shadow lengths different if we're on a FE?
Or how about the simple way nighttime works? My family in Bangkok often sees the sun rise as I see it set and wouldn't the easiest way to cast that huge shadow be us living on a globe?
Or network propagation times? We can all measure distances around the planet in milliseconds by using a simple ping command... And no one seems to notice any pings that take longer than pinging the far side of the globe from themselves.
One thing you were right about though, I don't have a firm grasp on your model of FE. I know some think it's a simple disc & there is a huge boundary wall in Antartica instead of a pole. Others think it goes on forever. Some believe space exists and others don't. Some think other planets are spheres and only we don't have one. What exactly is your chosen model?

2024-06-26 16:53:55

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Talk
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Keep it super generic but try for the meaning of 'free speech' as much as possible.

2024-06-26 16:39:48

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> So there are pictures which shows us seeing further than we should be able to, and your response is nahuh?
No, my response to that particular claim would be:
A. How do we know how far that ship really was?
B. How do we know the video wasn't doctored?
C. Look at those waves! They lift your ship up and down but if the ship was really as big as it looks, they'd just be lapping upon the hull. That ship simply can't be what & where it appears to be, and that should be obvious.
> Surface tension on a water droplet isn't curvature dude
You didn't specify what the force creating the curve was. Going forward I'll assume you mean gravity-specific curvature.
Of course that brings me to one of the root reasons I strongly believe that everything large in the solar system is a sphere... The explanation of mass as a basis for gravity simply makes tons of sense. It's easy to conceive mass clumping together in the weightless vacuum of space and creating objects like planets. It's not so easy to conceive a bigass flat disk that somehow has mass pointed downwards. What's causing gravity to flow in that direction? It doesn't make any sense. Nor do orbits, the fact that water balls up when dropped, and a thousands other observed phenomena!
So many mathematical formulas wouldn't work either, like good ol' e=mc^2. We literally would be set back to the absolute stone ages if flat earthers' ideas of how the universe worked were accepted in mathematics. Suddenly, nothing would work anymore as you change the formulas to reflect that 'reality.'
> You claimed the flight goes over Antarctica, which it objectively doesn't
Dude, you realize that weather causes pilots to change all flightpaths drastically, right? Check again some other time. I've seen a different path take that same flight very close to the pole.
> you ignored my question about how you establish airspeed vs ground speed
No, I told you why that line of reasoning is stupid. Stop trying to measure apples to oranges when you should be thinking about how many miles away the orchards are.
> now you're demonstrating that you don't even know tail winds exist
Lol, same again. A cross-pacific flight gains or loses about 2 hours depending on the direction... So a 1 hours average in, let's say, a 7,000 mile flight path is simply not enough to account for the massive, massive, MASSIVE distances (100,000 miles?!?) that flights around the south pole would take in a flat earth!
Modern airlines simply do not have the fuel capacity to get anywhere near it if you flatten the globe. Tailwind arguments are just bikeshedding.
> Ah yes, political boundaries. I didn't realize the sun subscribes to those
Oh boy. You were the one that brought up the lack of time zones that exist in the south. No one brought up Lattitudes, just time zones, which are inherently political boundaries.
> 1 hour sections would necessitate that they are all equal, above and below the equator
Those are lattitude lines. Politicians didn't care for them very much.
> yet they somehow have to reduce the number of timezones in exactly the way that would be expected on a plane.
I have no idea what you're referring to here.
> can you define gravity in your own model? Can you elaborate on the fine tuning problem? How about the anisotropic measurements of the CMBR, how do you reconcile those? What about the fact that the tychonian model has less epicycles
Typical unnecessary technobabble employed only when you're being backed into a corner. There is no good reason to use these words in this context.
In Florence there is a great museum to Galileo showcasing things like his telescope and all kinds of gravity experiments he conducted. I think they said for every experiment on display there were 50 more back in storage. When I was in my late 20's I went backpacking around europe and spent a few weeks in Florence, absolutely in love with that museum and the town. I'll never forget all the different ways he found to measure & affect a ball rolling down a track. That was true science.
I honestly don't know what half the words you just used mean but I do feel I understand gravity better than most after seeing those experiments. A bunch of wooden tracks and metal balls that tell us plenty about the nature of this existence of ours.
Calibrate it then point it at Jupiter. Now note the claimed distance. Now, without refocusing, send your telescope to the moon. Now, explain to me how it's in focus.
Easy. Focal points in a telescope are not linear, they are exponential.
That means it takes less turning of the knob to focus from the moon to jupiter than it does from someone standing 10 feet away to someone 100 feet away. I find myself refocusing wildly between all terrestrial objects but objects inside the solar system are pretty much the same focal distance, and interstellar objects are just pinpricks of light anyway so it's impossible to say how much you need to refocus for those.

2024-06-26 15:56:54

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Remind me again who it was that delivered video of US helicopters mowing down crowds of innocents? Was that the JBS or some militia group? I forget...

2024-06-26 13:08:38

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A guy going by the name of "Freedom Tech" has never heard of Wikileaks?

2024-06-26 12:38:35

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> Let me guess, you were unsuccessful in finding photos of that pesky curve?
Of course I can't find photos of something that you think should exist but does not. What a silly concept.
> Water doesn't curve
Damn, drops of water and waves must not exist then. I've been so blind!
> You can literally go and verify those sources and calculations yourself.
That's my line.
> this is how it always goes. First it was bouncing lasers off the moon, then you moved the next thing
This is what must happen when you refuse to accept the evidence for the previous thing. Either that or we stop talking.
> Now you're rehashing the fabled flights
That's it? Your entire rebuttal to the subject of those flights that absolutely do exist is simply smearing them as "fabled?"
If they're mere fables then the millions of people that flew them must be in on the conspiracy?
> Can you tell me how you verify ground speed over water when you're in a plane?
You just divide the miles by the time. Each jet has it's own top speed rating. None of those commercial jets have one fast enough to make up the difference of an extra 10,000 miles or whatever it would take to make the antarctic flight on a flat earth.
> it's just a coincidence that there are not an equal amount of times zone in the north and south
Why in the world would the southern hemisphere need an equal amount??? No one lives down there! Time zones are a political boundary and there are far fewer countries in the southern hemisphere.
> Do you have any exclusive evidence the earth moves around the sun?
Nah, Galileo made some great points and I've never heard them properly rebutted. What I've observed of the nature of the solar system (and yes I have a nice telescope) lines up perfectly with Galileo's model.

2024-06-26 02:04:34

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I see we just aren't getting anywhere because we don't trust each other's sources. Fine. How about we trust the commercial viability of an entire pair of flights that fly right over the south pole daily, each way, and has been doing so for decades?
Qantas QF 64 & it's return are daily flights that couldn't possibly be commerically viable if they flew over a flat earth. No matter if you beleive that the south pole is a perimeter wall or not, with no globe the huge distance between Sydney & Johannesburg would require more fuel than you could fill up the entire inside of the plane with!
Have any flat earthers explained (credibly) how the hundreds of people each day that take that flight were not really going over antartica like they thought they were, and didn't really arrive just a few hours (instead of days) like their tickets said they did?
For that matter, a flat earth would have flights over the north pole, like JL41 from Tokyo to London, go a lot faster than the curved path that they say they take. What are those flights doing up there for so long? Circling iceburgs to fool us all about the nature of the planet instead of commercially competing against rival flights?

2024-06-25 19:32:30

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The video shows nothing like what I'm talking about, only a few waves lapping the tiniest bit of the bottom.
The big ship in this video is like what I'm talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UySV0UeGfjU
That's the top 1/3rd of a ship.
I saw huge cargo ships with their hulls clearly visible and then hours later as they move out you can just see the cargo containers and then eventually just the very top level of containers as they disappear 10-15 miles away. (On a clear day.)
I saw the same effect in Bangkok and Oslo as well, very different conditions.
As for the laser tests, I've seen them done myself and they definitely get blocked. Period.

2024-06-25 17:05:17

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Now how do we get him active on Nostr?

2024-06-25 17:01:09

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> "You can recreate the effect you are talking about over a small body of water"
Um, no, you can't. If there's no curvature, then there's no hiding the bottom of the boat before the top. It's just that simple. I see nothing in your video that is evidence otherwise. (Not to mention the scale would be wrong.)
I can't shift any goalposts on a single claim. A claim that I am confident making, by the way, because I used to live near Long Beach and saw ships pulling out of LA's largest harbor daily. They always went 'over a hill' on the horizon, and never, ever, just kept shrinking until gone.
I won't try to 'steel man flat earth and geocentric positions.' It's not worth my time... But I can stand by a statement I've made and encourage you to verify, not trust, like I would to any would-be bitcoiner.

2024-06-25 16:53:02

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Can't we all just agree that slowly feeding him into a chipper-shredder, feet first, is the only just way to deal with him while keeping taxpayer funding low?

2024-06-25 16:43:11

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Until the day all the powerful organizations are disbanded, that's a sure way to put him back where he is now.

2024-06-25 16:38:53

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That depends greatly on what he had to sign to stay free.

2024-06-24 21:32:29

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Except that you can test for yourself how the universe works, and you haven't.
Are you anywhere near a port or busy beach town? It's SUPER easy to see what Columbus saw with boats disappearing bottom-first over the horizon as they travel away.
How does a geocentric world model explain boats looking like they are sinking rather than just getting smaller as they move away from a port?

2024-06-24 21:27:54

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Ah, good. It sounded kinda like you though arresting was too harsh. ;)
The problem with your plan is that most of the world is clueless. So few would even show up to mock him. :( Meanwhile there would be plenty of his loyal toadies (like the WEF & WHO) who are trying to free him.
Unfortunately, people like this need to be unalived before they are rescued from justice.

2024-06-23 13:52:26

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If we're going to be civil about it, yes.
What he deserves is a lynch mob to draw & quarter him without any due process.

2024-06-21 23:40:16

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Oh boy have you fallen in with a bunch of liars seeking attention. I don't know what to tell you bro, those tests do show a curved planet and these people are lying about the results they got.
There's only one way you'll ever know for yourself if they are liars though; and that's by doing the tests yourself. Only you have the power to find out if the world is flat, and if space exists or not.
It's good that you keep an open mind to conspiracies in this day and age, otherwise you wouldn't have found bitcoin and become far more wealthy than you would have otherwise... But as the old adage goes, 'be careful not to open your mind too much lest your brain roll out of your ear.'
In bitcoiner-ese that is better stated: "Don't trust, verify."

2024-06-21 16:55:57

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You're hearing what you want to hear with that "evidence." It doesn't disprove a thing that I said... Not even close. It just shows that in 1962 a MASER (microwaves) would reflect off the moon. Whoop whoop.
I know scientists who have done the lunar laser bounce themselves. In our modern times. They used a photometer, like photographers use, to count the amount of photos coming back from the moon.
When their beam wobbles a micromillimeter to the left of right of the mirror, they got zero photons back. But directly on it gets a measurable trickle. Regular ol' light.
Today you can buy lasers yourself that are far more powerful than they had in the apollo era. $200 can get you 2 Giga watts(!) of wood-burning laser that would be great to bounce off the moon yourself and see hit your photometer. I double-dog dare you.

2024-06-21 16:00:03

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Nah, here's where you're jumping the shark. Govt agencies have nearly infinite reasons to lie. Take the number of reasons you can think of and multiply that by every last person who works for the government and you're starting to get the idea of how many lies they make up or try to hide daily. It's their full time job. That's the only way they gain power and hide their immoral actions.
So no, releasing faked footage of activities they did doesn't mean "space is fake." That's a huge, huge mental jump. What it means is that there are things that they didn't want you to see. Or specifically around the Apollo missions, there are things they didn't want Russia to see.
If you want to prove to yourself that man has been to the moon, get a laser and bounce it off the mirror they left on moon for yourself. Plenty of nerds have done so already, like these: https://wtop.com/science/2019/07/the-experiment-still-running-on-the-moon-and-tv-re-runs-50-years-later/
If you don't want to prove it to yourself and blindly believe that the lies govt tells are so grandiose that every scientist on the planet must be wrong about the basics of how the universe works then I'd say you're more a part of the problem than of the solution.

2024-06-21 12:27:23

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Awesome. Let me know how you are enjoying it when you've finished Season 1. (If you can call these 10-epsode runs 'seasons' anymore.)

2024-06-21 12:19:31

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Man, what a blast from the past... I still remember waaaaay back in 2012/2013 when half the bitcoin community was constantly talking about how to use bitcoin payments in pay-for-wifi-service that we could all install on a small router appliance and place in malls and starbucks to generate an income with. We eventually learned about the issues making that impractical, but that didn't stop every shitcoin under the sun from marketing their coin as the one to offer paid wifi hotspots.
What exactly has Nodogsplash solved to make this practical finally?

2024-06-16 12:56:11

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It's not enough to "Defund" these rougue organizations... We must fund their assasins.

2024-06-16 12:54:06

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The thing about woke movies & series is that they are very director-dependent. Look at the Star Wars franchise since it got disneyfied. Rouge One, perhaps the best movie of the whole franchise was made and nobody hates the Mandalorian series... But Some of the new stuff is truly awful. You just gotta know which ones.
Give Star Trek: Strange New Worlds a chance. I'm actually loving it, despite it being a spin-off of the horrible franchise I just told you to avoid.

2024-06-05 14:51:43

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Username doesn't check out. ;)
I hate this woke-ass trend too. It's gotta end sometime.
Oh yeah, and stay TF away from Star Trek Diversity. (Discovery) It's the mother of all woke series.

2024-05-12 16:53:03

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BT devving could pay out if someone clever came up with the right incentive model in their client...

2024-05-12 16:36:40

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He talked about that here:
https://gist.github.com/callebtc/67da3f586ef273df80bf679e464bc3f3#offline-ecash

2024-05-12 16:35:06

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I've literally never met anyone who is using bluesky, nor have I even heard of activitypub. Is that like a bar where they do arts & crafts?
These aren't serious competitors, and even if they were, the serious privacy advocates are all working on Nostr, so it's the only one that activists are going to use.
...And the more authoritarian govts become, the more everyone becomes an activist.

2024-05-12 16:31:22

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Yep, it's an authoritarian shithole everywhere now. (But I can argue that in the US it really started when our own govt shot JFK.)

2024-05-11 16:06:03

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Like with bitcoin adoption, I see nostr adoption as slow going but assured because there will always be people out there that desperately need an uncensorable speech platform.
Bitcoin will make it all the way to a global money used by everyone someday because of the network effects of money. They won't have a choice. However Nostr's future isn't as assured. Like you said the average person isn't likely to worry about being banned, and payments over social isn't as appealing to them as we like to think it is.
But Nostr, like Linux, has that awesome usefulness in solving techie problems behind the scenes that will keep it growing regardless, even if the mainstream keeps using their microsoft and apple products forever. I think we need to be prepared to accept this future for it.

2024-05-11 15:16:42

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Can't tell where exactly you've gone wrong here... Are you calling cashu tokens altcoins? Or are you saying that bitcoin is becoming too complex for people to use anymore?

2024-05-10 20:57:59

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Damn, good show, man!
This looks like we're close to a perfect bitcoin wallet finally... One that few critics will find fault with. (Just have to build the exchanges & abstract away a few things like mint selection first.)
What else am I missing that this thing can't do yet but still needs for full mainstream adoption?

2024-05-09 14:39:23

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It's about damn time someone wrote a NIP for torrent incentivization! Countless projects in the past tried and failed to use some kind of shitcoin for torrent seeding... Even a few on-chain bitcoin projects like Frostwire were attempted, back in the days when fees were always zero sats.
Nostr as a comms channel beside zaps as a monetary incentive finally fulfills the promise of torrenting we all wanted since around the year 2000.

2024-05-09 14:26:39

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Rachel's boyfriend from "Friends," obvious.

2024-05-09 12:42:54

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Well no clients are using any form of key revocation as far as I can tell. Maybe key-control ID management would be better done on a new layer above (or below?) Nostr.

2024-05-09 12:39:54

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I don't think using the world "clown world" is helping anything. It makes these disgustingly brutal acts seem too jocular.
We left clown world around covid hit. We live in a complete authoritarian dystopian shithole world now.

2024-05-09 12:35:44

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That's so bold that I won't even make a joke about your penis size.
Followed.

2024-05-09 12:31:20

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Do your clients both use the same relay list?

2024-05-09 12:25:02

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People mean 2 different things when they refer to their social 'accounts.'
1. Their identity, specifically the credentials, but also the settings of the attached environment. (i.e. retaining their mute list & dark mode.) We can simply refer to this as our "npubs" or the less-geeky "nostr number."
2. Their presence, which includes their followers but is really the idea of themselves that they've marketed to the world. This is the part they really don't want stolen, and they could care less if it is protected by their identity. I don't think referring to this as part of your npub does is good enough... Once we have revocable npubs it literally doesn't fit anymore.
So far we've only referred to the latter as an 'account', but it does deserve a name of its' own. Perhaps something like their 'social soul' or the more obvious 'social presence.'

2024-05-06 18:30:34

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TOR is the best they have in that scenario but would you literally bet your life on it? They need Nostr to do more.

2024-05-06 18:17:02

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Nostr Wallet Connect - Calle writes a lot about it here.

2024-05-06 18:12:51

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The two tools often overlap... Speech in oppressive countries isn't ever free.

2024-05-06 16:32:23

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These would be awesome options on some kind of key management client. Something that (at the time of posting) allows you to choose your npub and revoke compromised npubs.

2024-05-06 16:25:40

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Key control is something that has many solutions but none agreed on yet... One approach would be for an individual software to manage all your keys... Offering a Revoke function.
Maybe bitcoin wallets could offer this add-on. They are key management software at heart, afterall.

2024-05-06 14:29:44

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We would have to take more responsibility for our own protection/enforcement, at least initially. So when a society first transitions to anarchy it would be hard on retirees/idiots, etc. Not impossible though.
However, there are already some great writings about how we could form a fully decentralized legal system and how regular folk could simply subscribe to an "Assurance Agency" to protect them from most problems in life. (From a mugging to foreign invaders) It's a multi-prong full solution & a whole new way of structuring society. Worth looking into if you're curious.

2024-05-06 14:15:53

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Make privacy even better, & transparently so.
I don't think hardly anyone knows exactly where Nostr is completely private and where it's sorta private. It may be the best private communications network mankind has ever made, but it seems there has been zero public education on what it's limits are.
At the very least I'd like to see apps give you a link at the time of posting explaining exactly what these limits are... So you know if the fedcoats are going to show up at your door or not when you say something risky, for instance.

2024-05-06 12:24:41

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Are there really people on Nostr that want to let Google back up all their nostr notes?
It's great to see experimentation, of course, but this feels like a Werewolf experimenting in silver bullets...

2024-05-03 21:51:34

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Engineers who have worked on larger projects like video codecs, mainframes, or the web itself all see protocols like bitcoin is something that must be scaled in layers. The nature of Blockchains in general is to fight against scaling so bitcoin's a natural fit.
I realize satoshi never sold anyone on the idea of waiting a couple of decades and using some other software that only stores value on his software, but that's what is practical and likely to work. We've gotten used to it (bitcoiners) and normies won't have to think about it when the wallets on layers 2 & 3 are finally where they should be. They'll just work and fees will be minimal.

2024-05-02 12:25:27

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You must me new around here.
Any talk about a blocksize Increase is full-on insurrectionist talk.
We're more likely to make it smaller, but hopefully there are no more changes.

2024-04-30 19:22:16

Roger Ver Arrested in Spain for $50m tax evasion charges. Awaits extradition to US:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/early-bitcoin-investor-charged-tax-fraud
Don't like the guy but it's not the punishment he deserves.

2024-04-30 15:36:43

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The bitcoin whitepaper is literally the 1st thing everyone should read in this space: http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Then there are millions of great essays and youtube vids to choose from, it's quite overwhelming. I suggest skipping most of it and picking up the book by Saifedean Ammous called "The Bitcoin Standard." It's by far the best thing to read in terms of understanding bitcoin's potential, past, present and future.
If you find yourself searching on Youtube, there are two things to specifically avoid: Videos where they talk about "Crypto" (as opposed to bitcoin) and videos where the guy on the image has his mouth open. You will always go wrong with those two types of video.
Hope that helps!

2024-04-30 15:17:54

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Aliens, bro. Aliens.

2024-04-29 14:01:43

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You do realize that making us Android users, who still have no idea when we can download your entire product, drool excessively like this is cruel & might be against some Geneva conventions.

2024-04-27 14:31:35

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Taking him down to El Salvador to see the volcano mining up close, eh?

2024-04-27 14:25:31

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OTOH, they certainly weren't commies. Gen Z is shaping up to become total commie fodder and that probably won't end too well.

2024-04-27 14:17:10

GM/PV Nostr frens!
Today the privacy wars scale up with another self-censorship, this time from my favorite privacy wallet, Wasabi!
https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-now-blocking-u-s-residents-and-citizens
The good news here is that this wallet bakes in TOR usage and that is not optional, so the actual usage of the wallet doesn't appear to be hindered in the US in any way. This announcement was likely just a fed-facing statement to appear that they are compliant.
Still, I'm thinking of moving to JAM inside my umbrel node for any future coinjoins. How about you guys?

2024-04-27 14:08:55

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Wasabi next:
https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-now-blocking-u-s-residents-and-citizens/
My take: Also completely unnecessary, but since TOR use is not optional inside Wasabi wallet, I don't see how this changes anything during actual usage. This announcement was likely just for assuring the fedcoats that Wasabi is being compliant.

2024-04-27 14:01:52

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That was so nice of her to tell her fellow child molesters how they can easily pay for their habit...

2024-04-27 14:01:23

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That was so nice of her to tell her fellow child molesters how they can easily pay for their habit...

2024-04-26 20:05:06

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The sad thing is that these MSB warnings from uncle sam are not new... Not by a longshot. We've been seeing them since 2015 at least from various govt agencies. Pure sword rattling.
Why do the French always surrender so easily?

2024-04-26 18:37:58

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Ouch. As a citizen of the USSA I'm honestly hurt. Your wife has a razor-sharp tongue, man.

2024-04-26 18:32:23

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I guess it could seem that way if you don't notice the fighting we do on other fronts.

2024-04-26 12:34:44

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Which decentralized protocols have been captured again? Was it key-pair encryption? Torrents? Onion Routing? I2P?
Tell me you don't understand what protocols look like without telling me...

2024-04-26 01:51:49

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I became an Anarchist, Seasteader, & Bitcoiner (in that order) for these very reasons, over a decade ago. They were all excellent choices still.

2024-04-26 01:48:46

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You mean other than the native crowd funding feature called zaps that we've been using so much already?

2024-04-26 00:01:26

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No, you're just not very smart, that's all.
Bitcoin is well on track to becoming the alternative system that takes over all financial systems.

2024-04-25 23:48:29

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Crypto Open Patent Alliance, just sued faketoshi & won.

2024-04-25 12:15:58

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Adding that kind of complexity to the base code is 1001 headaches waiting to happen... I doubt any serious devs would undertake such an upgrade. Not to mention, how many node runners would download that frankencore version? Not all bitcoin node runners are privacy advocates; some just want to earn more dollars.
The proper way to decentralize this is joinmarket's approach. Joinmarket is a P2P network, with no central point of failure that I have seen. It's based on the Coinjoin protocol, which is, like bitcoin, truly open source & distributed.
Both Samourai and Wasabi have implemented the coinjoin protocol in their products too, so some were very surprised to see that the fedcoats would come after a company that just implemented open source code... But honestly I'm not surprised that they did. They don't care about what you use, only that they can find someone to stick in a cage. Neanderthals.
Joinmarket doesn't (appear to, so far) have anyone to stick in a cage. Just 61 volunteer contributors on github.
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver

2024-04-24 19:33:02

There goes Samourai wallet! Head devs both arrested today:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering

2024-04-24 19:21:00

There goes Samourai wallet! Head devs both arrested today:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-and-ceo-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-arrested-and-charged-money-laundering

2024-04-20 20:29:30

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Century of the Self (BBC, 4 hours)
It shows how Sigmund Freud's nephew created Public Relations and the commercialistic society we live in today. This effected everything from politics to corn flakes, even inventing santa claus & all kinds of odd marketing tricks.

2024-04-20 20:11:41

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*Except CSW