TheGuySwann
Guy Swann

“The Guy who has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know.”
Host of Bitcoin Audible, Shitcoin Insider, & Ai Unchained 🔥

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theguyswann@getalby.com

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2024-09-19 12:36:13

BREAKING!! 🚨
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT from Gavin Newsom about illegal memes and the upcoming most important election of your lifetime! Early access brought to us from the Babylon Bee.
https://v.nostr.build/ykVfRTZsKfKi7qto.mp4
#note1k65…4w2w

2024-09-18 21:34:00

He makes an excellent point...
https://i.nostr.build/MeDr0mfRYmdFPI3Z.png

2024-09-18 18:05:22

Since this meme was just made illegal in California, I feel it would be an injustice not to post it on #nostr where ti can breathe the free internet air.
This is a perfect example of pure, unstoppable Streisand Effect 🤣
By MrReagan on X
https://v.nostr.build/PMV1ixx1gjMCJ6YD.mp4

2024-09-18 17:43:49

I've decided I'm going to keep engaging on Twitter, BUT I'm going to screenshot their post, respond to it here on #nostr, and then link them to the response 🤣
Yes it's a little clunky and slow. But I have chosen to only engage on #nostr where the response belongs to me. And it forces them to come over here to continue our conversation.

2024-09-18 16:10:40

A short story on why ETH is dying and will continue to do so:
First, why on earth does the ETH crowd work so hard to be the cringiest thing in the world?
Second, ETH is stagnant because they sold their token on a bunch of "revolutionary hullabaloo" and literally the only thing with a meaningful market turned out to just be token gambling during the hype cycles. The growth was always on the "next thing" that was gonna "break open the floodgates" of the whole world running on the ethereum VM, but it never came and there was never a use case that really mattered.
The value case for Bitcoin was always just fixing the money. ETH thought it was literally going to replace the entire internet with a giant, slow AF, expensive, poorly secured and completely unnecessary consensus system because the whole world would financialize everything arbitrarily, and literally sold people on that idea. Apparently all of the same things, "BuT WiTh tOkENs!" that inject pointless volatility, liquidity problems, and that were all centralized anyway, was somehow a "groundbreaking" idea.
-- Bitcoin realized that the problem was the gross OVER financialization of the world, and the pointless gambling of the fiat financial and political apparatus that had caused staggering imbalances and trillions in misallocated and wasted resources. All resulting from shitty, cheap, endlessly manipulated money. It sought to END it.
-- While ETH didn't even understand that as a problem. To the contrary, it sought to EXPAND the over financialization of everything into every last corner of the world and into every market that it hadn't yet ruined.
It only hung on for as long as it did because it had a "roadmap" and everyone could just point to a date in the future where it would suddenly get better and fix all the problems. It was the iceberg build, then the avalanche merge, then the deep freeze, or whatever stupid name they came up with for the15 stages of their 1 year plan that stretched out a decade, that finally culminated into the conversion to a PERMISSIONED proof of stake system... and it was all just a giant "meh."
It's now even more convoluted and less secure, and essentially for the sole purpose of appealing to the "cult of fixing the weather." And still to this day, they survive on the last vestiges of token gambling, but increasingly people are finding out that theres no long term market to gamble on stuff that has no purpose to begin with, except to simply gamble with money. Adding arbitrary tokens just makes it worse. Slot machines are far simpler and serve the purpose perfectly. And if the tokens aren't going anywhere, then there is no way up, and if the token gambling isn't going anywhere, then what does ETH even do except suck at the one thing #Bitcoin has done since the beginning? Be reliable, trustworthy, open, and incorruptible money.
#Bitcoin sught to undo the destructive disincentives of the fiat world. While ETH tried to "technify" all of those bad incentives by tokenizing it all on the blockchain, without ever understanding what any of it actually meant.
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Financialization for the sake of financialization is so completely missing the point. That is always what "crypto," with ETH as the cringe father of it all, really represented.
The slow, drawn out fall of ethereum was easily predicted.
#note1txf…a5ej

2024-09-18 15:33:55

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That's not me, but it is super dope!

2024-09-17 19:28:38

For real tho
If you’re going to be on Twitter to find content or something then at LEAST have the decency to just screenshot, or download and post here. Don’t make people click a link to that place #note1crz…e5st

2024-09-16 19:23:44

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Oh shit did they really! 🤣

2024-09-16 19:23:16

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Get it off the exchange. Take the time you need to feel comfortable, but if it’s a life changing amount of money, learn how to secure it yourself without question.
My advice is get Nunchuk and a hardware wallet. Coldcard is solid, I also love tapsigners as a second key.

2024-09-16 19:19:35

The only thing I miss about Twitter was my favorite way to make morons and lunatics quietly go away:
Block them, and then immediately unblock them.
This would make them unfollow you without them knowing. So they wouldn’t see your content anymore. It was a wonderful tool.

2024-09-16 13:43:20

I wasted a whole hour on Twitter by accident this morning and the entire place is just disgusting vitriol and politics.
I’m coming here to apologize for what I did to myself and know that I will do better. Worst possible way to start the day honestly.
(It appears either my current Brazil ISP has stopped blocking Twitter IP or that Twitter has gotten around it maybe, but it was connected and isn’t currently blocking anything)

2024-09-15 21:17:11

[Sets VPN to Brazil]
Twitter: doesn’t load
#Nostr: works the same as always
I actually did this to keep myself off of Twitter and to give more Brazil VPN traffic for their govt to sort through, but it also just kinda hit me how important of a difference that single thing implies.
I also realize that Nostr could be even better, more resilient, and more censorship resistant. I think it will be, and I hope to have something one day to meaningfully contribute to that.

2024-09-15 16:29:20

I’ll literally pay them to you if you want to take a look at the @npub1xnf…lpr5 repo and figure it out 😆 #note19jc…6t3z

2024-09-13 18:07:20

Where were you during the “Penis Butter” incident? #note1whj…wrq8

2024-09-13 16:39:37

I really wish my #nostr client knew which posts I had seen already.
It would allow me to search through only posts that I’ve seen to find things I liked, and also to refresh my main feed to only posts I have *not* seen.
I spend quite a large amount of time now scrolling through just to get past stuff I’ve already looked at, and many times it will accidentally reset and launch me way up or even back to the top.

2024-09-12 14:13:17

The surest way to turn a difficult social and cultural conflict into one of violence and hatred, is to try to fix it with politics.

2024-09-11 18:33:00

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Demanding of both someone else's time and their money and acting entitled about it is not a "failing" of those being demanded of.
And of course it is their right to say whatever they think, but in my opinion it is of extremely poor character and will only reflect on them, not OpenSats.
Nobody is owed anything, not an explanation, not a thorough analysis of their project. Nothing. Do you even comprehend how much time and energy it would take to do that?

2024-09-11 18:12:16

New profile pic
From the BTC trading cards...
https://i.nostr.build/GZd3CdZZ7kR1SNS1.png

2024-09-11 17:42:49

Skill level: 100
https://v.nostr.build/fCUAt5TSoFrikgmE.mp4

2024-09-11 16:29:48

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I've not made a claim one way or the other, I'm just pointing out a simple thing we can observe about it's history. I didn't even bring up a security budget issue in the positive or the negative.
That said, the point you make is an interesting way to think about it.

2024-09-11 14:48:44

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Oh god did you actually put yourself through that?

2024-09-11 14:46:16

This was something Steve pointed out to me that I found super interesting.
On chain fees, DENOMINATED IN SATS, are actually extremely consistent across time. And by the same measure are right now the lowest in 12 years... kinda crazy to think about with all the insanity around discussion of fees and how often its THE talking point when 99% of the rhetoric around it literally has nothing to do with the simple facts of the network and what we have seen.
#note1e42…68nr

2024-09-10 14:15:31

I increasingly think (especially with how completely ignorant we have been of our gut biome and the parasites in our systems affect us until *very* recently) that these things have a vastly greater affect on our world, the collective conscious, and our decisions than we want to admit.
I always think about the zombie stories where everyone is infected with some fungus or parasite that turns them into mindless demons… and all I can think is that this *literally* could be happening in some form across our society and we wouldn’t even know it.
Just look around at the mental and physical state of most people. Hard to dismiss outright, imo. #note1e5s…ch7z

2024-09-09 17:39:19

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Yeah and it could also be another element of skill vs cost thing. Where you have skills for repairing that you could build up and it would make you able to repair them yourself at your home or something. Might be getting too complicated, but anything that lets you level up a stat and the cost drops, would be a super rewarding metric in gameplay. I think that should happen for recipes and cooking too, then more you do it, the more likely you are to get good results or something.
At this point I’m just inventing a bunch of game mechanics when really all that’s needed is a great story, but considering it against what they added, I think something like that would’ve been way more fun. It also would’ve allowed you to buy stuff for your home/property that wasn’t pointless. You could save up to buy a forge and repair your own swords for free, buy a kitchen to cook recipes more potent, etc.
It would’ve improved known elements to be more engaging and rewarding, instead of adding that stupid “stick stuff together!” which was completely unrewarding, basically useless, and honestly just irritating.

2024-09-09 17:30:08

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Yeah you should be able to repair every weapon. I’m actually ok with them degrading over time, but then they should also be repairable. If they are going for realistic, that’s far closer to how it actually works.
It would also reinforce the basic idea of taking care of your stuff. It’s not a bad element to add, but I agree the *way* they added it kinda sucked in some ways.

2024-09-09 17:21:12

Gaming break:
I loved Breath of the Wild, but have to admit that I have no attachment to Tears of the Kingdom whatsoever.
The sequel feels like the same game, with all of the same basic functions and enemies, and the entire “building and connecting things” mechanic is terrible, imo. I have zero desire to use it ever, and they have these stupid piles of stuff to build a cart with all over the place like it’s something useful, but it’s so annoying to build them, and then you can’t steer worth crap and it almost never gets you anywhere far enough to justify trying to put it together. It seems completely useless other than there are little quests or puzzles that purposefully add elements where you need it to complete a task… but even that feels forced and arbitrary.
And the “sky world” element just kinda feels like somebody said “man we should do something different this time… what if we had a bunch of floating islands in the sky!” And then that was it. Theres no reason for it. It doesn’t matter to the story. It doesn’t seem attached to anything of consequence or have even a mystery around it to solve… it just… is.
Also, despite trying to start it back up multiple times in my “spare time” (as if I have any of that), and still in this moment I have no idea what the story is. There’s literally no hook, or engrossing question to answer, so every element just feels like something arbitrary that I’m watching without even knowing why any of it matters.
Just really sad considering BoTW felt like a revival of the Zelda franchise, and I think they spent too much time wondering how they could capitalize on it as quick as possible, rather than thinking about how to make another really engaging story & game for the sequel.
Important caveat: had the game and all the mechanics been the same still, but the story had been super engrossing, none of that other stuff would’ve mattered.
Anyway, that’s my 2 sats on why the new Zelda game hasn’t been able to convince me to charge my Nintendo Switch for like 6 months.

2024-09-09 02:52:53

Do you run your own personal relay and connect to it?
Like/zap1sat for “yes,” repost for “no”

2024-09-09 00:32:45

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Gotta get TF out of that city

2024-09-09 00:26:35

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It took muting 3 different phrases so far but I haven’t seen one since. I only encounter a “one off” that sneaks through then I add the new phrasing. Hasn’t been that big of a deal so far. [knocks on wood]

2024-09-08 18:12:42

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As a massive film buff from a rather early age, this was one movie I had never even seen. One of those “everybody knows it obviously and I’ve watched random scenes from it numerous times,” yet I had never really watched the movie.
Then, as a bit Tim Burton fan, I decided to do a thorough analysis of his films and themes that stretched across his work in film school, and so I went through and watched all of his movies. Sat down with a crew and watched it for the first time in my 3rd year in college… could not believe how great it was. Instant classic. Now we watch it every Christmas.

2024-09-08 18:10:16

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Low hanging fruit, extremely short term attention span for playing. Mobile gaming seems built around playing something for 3 minute spans that try to get people addicted to *actually* play for like 2 hours. So everything is built with fast, cheap “thrills” combined in short bursts of play.
The popular Battle Royale game is a great example. I got stuck on that for a few months way back when. Individual rounds are like a minute, but it gives you rewards and incentivizes to keep doing another, and another, and another. Roping you in with “I’ve only got 2 minutes to play model,” but trapping you with “instant rewards.”
Seems to be the way the platform has evolved. Kind of a terrible recipe for the quality of games, imo.

2024-09-08 17:29:33

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I had Scissorhands in my top 5 🤣

2024-09-08 17:21:35

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My first thinking was there was some sort of huge tank sticking into the trees, but there’s no spot on the ground with dead grass to back that up, lol

2024-09-08 16:45:01

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Wait is this a real picture? And if it is, how in the hell does that happen?

2024-09-08 15:35:36

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I disagree, it sounds complicated but it would really be 3 things:
• did someone in your WoT mute/mark as spam?
-1
• does someone in your WoT follow?
+1
• did someone in your WoT repost, like, or zap?
+1
Could literally be that simple. And all this info is basically being pulled together anyway. Spammers will naturally end up with negative scores very quickly.
Likes or shares could defend against someone just being a tool and calling someone a spammer because they disagree with them.
And new accounts/posts with no connection to your WoT won’t be hidden by default, they will simply have a score of 0/neutral.

2024-09-08 15:09:16

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I think a “weighting” system needs to be developed. Where a trust score is aggregated, and specifically a “mute” and “spammer” tag are taken as negative scores. Then basically anything neutral or above 0 is shown to the user. This would mean you still see new people as long as your WoT doesn’t label them as spammers or mute them. Then obviously if someone you follow reposts them or likes something, then you see it as well. Maybe engagement of some sorts should be considered a positive to the scoring? 🤔
Obviously easier said than done, but I think a combination of things will be the best result in the end. Testing to see which has the optimum of “still sees new things, but sees extremely few spammers” will just take time.
Best thing would be to have a spammer tagging system so that the WoT shares a defensive spam pool. Because I know we ALL spent time muting and reporting the same “reply guys,” probably 1000s of times.

2024-09-07 19:21:32

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Ooooooh, lol. Yeah NEVER risk other people’s money unless you are ready to cover every cent/sat… and if that’s the case then just use your own money anyway.
You could put it out there and tell your fantasy football team that they should do this with half the money if they actually want to make a gain on it and split the earnings though.

2024-09-07 19:06:26

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Never too late. For fantasy football money I’d absolutely do it. But I’d use all of it personally 😆
But in terms of probability of return, the comparison isn’t really even a contest. #Bitcoin wins hands down.

2024-09-07 17:05:01

Sometimes shit happens and it makes you feel like an idiot, and a failure. And you realize just how much you wasted and how much you promised that wasn't even close to where/what you thought it was.
Sometimes you put enormous amounts of personal capital and work into something and the results end up being "fuck all" and all you can feel is embarrassed, stupid, and angry.
I guess what I'm getting at is that's its ok ,and at some point that's just how shit is going to unfold if you try to do something useful.
Doesn't mean you will end up with what you hoped for, and that's really just part of the process most of the time.
"get back on the horse..." feels trite, but it's really all there is. Give up, or keep going are the options on the table.
I'm not fucking giving up so...

2024-09-07 15:03:44

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“I know Bitcoin is a low-float scam” says the guy who holds the most utter trash money from an integrity standpoint that humanity has ever used…

2024-09-07 14:34:47

Just a heads up for anyone who posts media and especially for those who want to be nice to @npub1nxy…avr7 servers:
This video started as 184 MB, but I did the quick conversion I always do for web media, and the mp4 version was 3.9 MB.
That’s a 97.9% reduction in size!
Handbrake is a free tool that I use constantly, and you can use ffmpeg CLI if that works better for you (or you want to build an auto-tool with Ai to do it with a simple drag and drop function). But you can convert video to vastly more efficient formats without even being able to see the difference in quality, *especially* if you did a screen capture.
Many don’t realize how important that step is, so it’s good to remind people who don’t think about it. #note1xxx…e382

2024-09-07 13:06:11

This guy just kills me 🤣 🤣
https://video.nostr.build/7fcb2acad4ec5c39853751e6775f824d34623c912eb1ad845ba9b62a55ba167e.mp4

2024-09-06 23:51:29

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Gotta walk right up to her and introduce yourself. Tell her it’s because you could tell she thought you were cute and you wanted to save her from having to ask for your number 😆

2024-09-06 16:41:17

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She is generally on board. She has always trusted in buying the dip. Although we have another kid in the way and pausing construction could be a huge pain due to a short span available to work around things.

2024-09-06 16:39:30

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I’ve been using Hushed for a couple of years

2024-09-06 16:39:07

I’m seriously considering just pausing our home construction so I can buy sats then starting it back in a few months… how foolish is that? #Bitcoin
https://media3.giphy.com/media/MBUgdMxZL4nK0zSXSE/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe912oetdzlth3zwqrg3hrjc9rrteyhj6lkr7th0vblc&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2024-09-06 14:34:59

These companies think they can make billions without having to learn anything or take any responsibility... they will learn the very, VERY hard way that this isn't the fiat world.
#Bitcoin will always punish the fiat mind.
https://m.primal.net/KgsZ.png

2024-09-05 20:45:32

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Paying them nothing comes attached to removing their power. The problem is the power to just pay out trillions of dollars to any arbitrary program. If there is no power to buy, then it won’t be corrupt. And if there’s extremely little power to buy, and it IS corrupt, who cares?
End govt subsidies entirely. End govt programs. Require any program that still has to happen to have a 80%+ LOCAL vote in the area to actually get through. Make the politicians irrelevant, not rich.

2024-09-05 20:10:38

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JoinMarket, which has been running since like 2013 without trouble, would like a word…

2024-09-05 20:09:23

The US needs this so bad it isn’t even funny. You could literally delete 80% of govt and no one but their employees would even feel it. But then we still need to cut 80% of what’s left so people *can* feel it and THEN we actually have a shot at stopping the govt from destroying our gd country. #note1pqx…hvc6

2024-09-05 13:43:03

Btw, this is a form of capitulation if it isn’t obvious.
The position has to shift from “Nobody uses Nostr, it doesn’t even work,” to “Sure I like Nostr, but…”
I remember as this same thing began happening with bitcoin. We are going to win. It feels too similar, imo. #note14ch…m5m9

2024-09-05 13:39:41

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I love Parker but this argument makes no sense at all. Thats like saying you can censor individual miners, and thus Wyoming is better than Bitcoin because they are actively trying to make a reliable, freedom focused legal system.

2024-09-05 03:47:15

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Welcome Johnny Solo 🫡

2024-09-04 21:40:06

When everyone is like, “THE PRICE IS LITERALLY 58K FoREVER!”
OH REALLY!? HAVE YOU EVEN LOOKED AT THE PRICE LATELY?
Checkmate 58K gang 😎🖕🏻 https://i.nostr.build/38Yy6jNZcVVuaVKG.jpg

2024-09-04 19:55:52

Half of the comments think I'm talking about apps, and the other half understand what I'm really talking about because they've had to buy a washing machine post 2015.
That said, I do also despise the "subscription everything" bullshit. Ran into that today. I'm just about sick of paying for ridiculous subscriptions just to use an app one fucking time. Or having to sign up and remember to cancel when I'm done, which inevitably means they take two months of pay from me before it registers that i forgot to go back and cancel it.
The pirate bay is coming back
#note17p5…lg09

2024-09-04 19:50:54

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I wasn't even meaning applications or software, I was meaning truly simple fucking tools and devices that used to be common like washing machines, dryers, cars, etc. A dryer is the dumbest machine in the world, and they've made it into the most pointlessly complicated bullshit that could even be conceptualized. And a basic option literally *doesn't even exist anymore.*
Its like they outlawed common sense.

2024-09-04 17:56:46

WTF happened to simple shit that just works?

2024-09-03 14:54:12

GM,
When people say "Ai will be more intelligent than humans," this doesn't mean that they will be able to predict what humans like, or know what will be highly valuable or worthless, which memes will go viral, or what the future will actually look like.
Those problems aren't "intelligence" problems.
It may very well be a complete waste of capital to make "vastly smarter than human" Ai, for the simple reason is that people won't care and won't even be able to judge how good it even is. Think about it, when ChatGPT 5-8 and Claude 5 and Llama 6.2 all get so good that you can't tell the difference, and where you can't tell which output is better than the other, why would you pay 3x as much for the "super intelligence" model than the "gets me the results I want" model?
I increasingly think model intelligence will act more like computer graphics in video games. For about 15 years "better graphics" was literally everything. If you had better graphics you had the better gaming console. But then one day it just stopped mattering becuase graphics got good enough where the cost to make it better outweighed the fact that people just wanted good games. It simply looked "good enough."
What if this same thing happens to the "smarter models" in LLMs? 🧐
https://fountain.fm/episode/98UjiXJsa1b2VusbQQur

2024-09-03 13:32:58

GM
[SYN flag. GM sent]

2024-09-03 13:22:51

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They think they are gonna make it hard, and then we are just gonna roll over and give up.

2024-09-02 22:08:08

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I feel like this is a trick 😂

2024-09-02 21:42:48

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Mutiny had other problems mostly because it was a browser based wallet and was always on the struggle bus, Phoenix and Breez (and those I’ve used with Breez SDK) have worked fantastically. Phoenix was better than basically any of the custodial options I used. Would have never switched away or even used anything different had Lightning address not been an issue, and then of course them leaving the US App Store so I can’t recommend them anymore.

2024-09-02 21:39:36

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“Do you really believe that bitcoiners are using custodial nostr apps only because the interactive push payments?”
Yes, absolutely. When we started out over here, lots of people were using non-custodial but trying to explain to people how to receive payments was frustrating, and you couldn’t just post an address and have it work. Even most of the people who were using non-custodial ended up switching over to get a Lightning address, myself included.
I watched it migrate in real time. The inability to post an “address” and receive a zap was THE reason the overwhelming majority went custodial.

2024-09-02 20:44:14

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• never said there was an existential scaling crisis
• my goal isn’t to fix future problems, but current ones. Most bitcoiners are using custodial lightning for #nostr not because they don’t care, but because you can’t do non-interactive push payments over lightning. With CTV you could. That solves an immediate problem for the very people who DO want to be on a bitcoin standard… to be blunt, I honestly don’t care about normies who want centralized services.
• ossification isnt about whether there is c++ code or not. It’s just a point we get to where the barrier to consensus is too great. (example IPv6) We may have literally already reached it if merely judging by the conversations around these things.
• devs aren’t trying to force anything from what I’ve seen. To the contrary they are afraid to make any moves at all. Which is why I felt a specific CTV client for noderunners would be the reasonable path.

2024-09-02 16:12:04

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But that’s actually one of the reasons I think CTV would be so valuable. I think I could feel like the trade off to ossification after CTV isn’t that bad. Right now the risk of ossification is a net negative, imo. And plenty of people think we need far more than just CTV, while some argue we should ossify now.
I fall in the middle. I don’t hate the idea of ossification because of what I just mentioned, however I know that CTV opens up a lot of possibilities and we could still be figuring out really awesome constructions for things even a decade down the line if we had that primitive.
In other words, I’d feel like we have a much easier path to the future we want even if we ONLY got CTV before it ossified, and it would be low risk enough that I wouldn’t have to worry about having gone too far either.

2024-09-02 16:08:07

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Yeah for sure, I think we’ve also barely scratched the surface with what we can do regarding the tools we already have and there is certainly a focus on “with this next thing we can do X” instead of working with what we have. It’s easy to get caught up in the “next thing.”

2024-09-02 15:17:41

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We already have the proof of use-case, imo. It’s custodial Lightning. Wallet of Satoshi could offer the exact same service with just a CTV pool in the most naive sense. And then if WOS ever vanished, literally everyone could redeem their coins still.
All we need to prove this viable is demand for people to use custodial wallets and assume they don’t want to be rug pulled.
Also, I’m not trying to make a sense of urgency here, just to explain. I don’t even think there is a rush, I just think CTV is basically just waiting for there to be a clear line in the sand for people to decide about.

2024-09-02 14:52:00

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I think coracle and satlantis are the only clients/tools I know explicitly utilizing this so far. Spam isn’t bad enough for it to be a necessity, but it will be soon, for better or worse.

2024-09-02 14:46:06

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Web of trust.
You could auto-mute anyone who is completely outside your web of trust without any one step connection to accounts you know. And the ability to see it in the list so you can expand, versus completely hiding it could also be based on degrees of separation. ie. More than 6 degrees? Hide completely. 5 degrees or less, leave a “show post” option for muted comments.
Leveraging the web of trust is a massively underappreciated tool, imo.

2024-09-02 14:17:21

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“critical primitives for scaling sovereignty”
Basically anything that allows non-interactive (and private) splitting up of UTXO ownership.
Basically it’s inevitable in the future that every single UTXO is not a single address with a single owner, but that every single UTXO is its own network with many hundreds or thousands of owners.
If we are thinking about design with that in mind, I think we are making a mistake.

2024-09-02 14:12:49

PSA
This place will likely be overwhelmed with trolls, morons, and angry and bitter people one day soon like all the rest. Muting will be a very necessary tool in your toolbox (and it even helps other with your web of trust), don’t forget to use it before getting angry and fighting with people trying to trigger you.
This is also how you can keep the vibe up indefinitely, curate your graph deliberately. Use the network, don’t let the network use you.
GM 😁

2024-09-02 13:53:25

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Thanks for the article link. I don’t agree with the concept that we should have some goal to “never add any risk to bitcoin” because there’s no such thing.
Not having critical primitives for scaling sovereignty is absolutely a risk. Not enabling ways to create more expressive layers is a risk. Adding additional locking types and designs is a risk. Adding introspection is a risk. Everything has risk.
There are no solutions, there are only trade offs. The day we forget that, we lose our ability to make an honest assessment of anything. Bitcoin is not perfect, it’s simply the best we have.

2024-09-01 23:23:43

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BeCAuSE iT ViOlAtEs PoLiCiES oF AbuSe aNd UnAuThoRiZeD DePiCTiOn oF OtHErs

2024-09-01 22:40:27

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This is also something that many dont understand about art. But I remember there was a day in film school with one of my favorite professors and we spent the entire class talking about it.
Freedom in creativity leads to indecision and feeling overwhelmed. When you leave yourself too many options, you don't have direction. Which is why its often best to be given a very restrictive prompt, or to just start writing **something,** because as soon as you put down any idea, you've constrained your world, you introduce a problem and an environment, and now you have to find your way out of it.
In other words., restriction and limitation are actually the mother of creativity.

2024-09-01 22:35:20

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All the pieces still haven't been put together into a cohesive experience, but we are very close to it. I don't think people appreciate how fucking fast the world can change when all the right tools fall into place at exactly the right time.

2024-09-01 22:27:37

WHAT IF... when Github or Google or App Store or whatever public index was hosting a developer's or author's content/files/code/etc decided to remove it due to "regulations" or "reasons"... what if you could still follow the key of the creator and get it directly from them, or from any other host who insisted on keeping it available?
This future is much, much closer than you think
#nostr #pear #bitcoin #lightning
#note1f53…mf6a

2024-09-01 22:24:07

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You'd be surprised how quickly your taste/conditioning for it fades if you just cut it out. And you1000% CAN cut sugar. The only reason you "cant" is because you say and believe that you can't, but literally anyone can. I bet you've done vastly more difficult things in life. If you legit want to be healthy and cut sugar there's literally nothing at all stopping you. It's just a choice.
If you don't want to then that's fine too. But don't gaslight yourself and say you "can't," because you can. Just choose to do so, or don't. Then accept whatever that decision is.
(I probably brought way too much seriousness to this simple and lighthearted post 😆, but I think it's an important issue and all of us lie to ourselves a lot and we dismiss how powerful it is to be genuinely honest with ourselves, and just accept that we are in control and be ok with whatever our decisions are rather than hiding behind "I can't" -- there's a lot of power in that, imo)

2024-09-01 22:05:10

It appears that DeepFakeLabs and its dozens of forks and other projects have all been removed from Github... which ruins a meme I am working on because there are shockingly few alternatives to this.
Does anyone know how to get ahold of the linux installer still? The torrent only has the EXE.

2024-09-01 20:09:15

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Did you type this in Fountain? Because I am seeing this in Damus and am responding in my normal notifications.

2024-09-01 17:48:38

I can understand people not abandoning traditional social networks where they’ve made big investments of time & energy to build an audience…
BUT I cannot understand refusing to invest ANY time and energy into a protocol that can’t be shut down.
It’s like buying a huge, expensive house, filling it with your favorite things, then putting candles in every room, but refusing to add a smoke detector or buy insurance. You’re just begging to lose everything.
Any investment made into a centralized service, ESPECIALLY one that is known for censoring people and shutting down accounts for no reason, should at MINIMUM require an equal investment into a decentralized alternative.
If everyone who was aware of the problem did this, #Nostr wins.

2024-09-01 17:37:14

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Vegeta!? 😆

2024-09-01 17:31:46

Have you ever read the original Wired magazine from 1993 that revealed the Cypherpunks to the world?
Well now you can listen to it:
https://fountain.fm/episode/FExVWCrHTGsH3WfTasSt

2024-09-01 16:48:44

This sounds like a perfectly reasonable approach honestly. I think you should be able to commit armed recovery of your assets. An even slightly sane society would support and defend it. #note1rnp…j8v5

2024-09-01 16:29:33

Imagine if you had all your savings in this bank and this just happened to you. #note1mnl…2h7q

2024-09-01 14:55:58

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I have 57 anon accounts and they are all my biggest fans 😂

2024-09-01 14:39:32

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This is what the app does, btw 🤣 https://i.nostr.build/wM0xlkNFL5QJLPOE.jpg

2024-09-01 14:27:42

Found a new way to stay off of Twitter.
Set your VPN to Brazil 😆

2024-09-01 13:23:52

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“Smart contract” is a buzzword. Lightning and multisig can do what you explain above. It’s just more annoying and requires more interactions. Are we getting rid of those things because of “smart contracts”?
CTV is not a “framework”, Sapio is. It’s a coding language to work with bitcoin script, CTV is not the problem here and I also think you misunderstand MEV on top of this. There are already options contracts in Bitcoin, it’s already financialized. Also something that you can’t stop. There have been futures contracts for years.
It’s completely impossible to stop practically everything you listed and maybe I’m wrong, but you don’t seem to understand what the *actual* problems with those things are, rather than thinking there’s some concrete line where it does/doesn’t exist and thinking that CTV leaps over it.

2024-08-31 18:45:21

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https://media1.giphy.com/media/28GHfhGFWpFgsQB4wR/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe91wu914yb0vpb3ovyqdll0m0b8hl644fxkl21417an&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2024-08-31 16:32:53

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lol, good luck Jonny! 😆

2024-08-31 16:04:10

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“You’re not going to respond? Once I brought receipts and then you suddenly “didn’t have the time”? Disappointed. I thought we cared about what’s best for bitcoin rather than our established positions.”
I was literally just trying to find the time because I am insanely busy and also out of town at the moment, but you beating your chest like you are the only one who cares about anything and this sort of attitude is what makes me not want to. If you want me to respond this isn’t how to do it.
And no, Sapio doesn’t change anything, as I said I knew about it and I’m pretty sure I did an episode on it a couple years back.

2024-08-31 14:20:40

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I already left this convo and don’t have time to read all that, I have been well aware of Sapir for years and I’m guessing you’ve never heard of BitVM if you think this is something new.

2024-08-31 01:38:31

🔥🔥 #note13zk…9vr7

2024-08-31 01:11:05

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I can’t believe I have allowed this to happen!
https://media1.giphy.com/media/1L5YuA6wpKkNO/giphy.gif?cid=9b38fe91aqk5lyd3fpwb4cj03y4r9hiexeyvnj79u75xeuao&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

2024-08-31 01:09:35

Being able to boost and comment on Fountain as a post on Nostr is just cool.
https://fountain.fm/episode/Y8tfjIkOcPCU8BiysVrS
#nevent1q…353n

2024-08-31 01:04:02

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
https://fountain.fm/track/FFv57RY7RYYpSNbfUk0e
#nevent1q…yqvn

2024-08-30 23:05:03

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Thank you, I tried to search for “Bitcoin Mechanic” like 10 different ways and I was getting annoyed 😂

2024-08-30 22:51:53

BOOM 🔥🫡
INTRODUCING the first episode of Guy’s Roundtable 🟠
Join me, Bitcoin Mechanic, @npub1pld…5nc9, and @npub1ajv…tppj breaking down all of the latest news and events to recap the month in #Bitcoin.
We’ve seen more bear markets panic and more bull market insanity than any other roundtable you know.😎
What do you get when you mix knowledge, intuition, experience, sarcasm, and the most humble of the humblest?
Guy’s Roundtable
YouTube: [https://youtu.be/Wdh2ryDGKW0%5D(https://youtu.be/Wdh2ryDGKW0)
Fountain: [https://fountain.fm/episode/ZPN0IjyENUODoDx585ak%5D(https://fountain.fm/episode/ZPN0IjyENUODoDx585ak) #note10x5…9hh2

2024-08-30 22:31:21

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I don’t see why that wouldn’t be possible, but I think that takes a lot more work. It’s easier to just have a node that can be reached with one of those URI links that simply watches relays for any of your follows or notes, and then saves them, then you connect to it with the link from whatever client you like and you just load from your personal node.

2024-08-30 22:29:22

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I suspect it will naturally start with 1 and then end up at a combined 2 and 3 depending on whether the client in web based or an app.