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Last Notes

2024-02-18 15:16:37

Now remains one of the easiest times to be long bitcoin. GBTC outflows are limited while spot ETF inflows are unlimited and slowly coming online from FAs and portfolio managers.
Add in the impending halvening and the supply/demand dynamic is very straightforward for the next few months.

2024-02-07 03:58:29

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Wait what is happening to flight attendants??

2023-12-31 01:15:26

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I feel like each successive bitcoin bull run is scarier than the last, as the global financial system shows more and more signs of unravelling. The sad bit is that bitcoin's ultimate success is gonna be the fiat system's collapse, meaning bitcoin's final mooning will be a terrifying and chaotic time all over the world.

2023-12-24 21:20:20

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We need chain fee futures markets so we can actually buy the dip.

2023-12-12 06:38:56

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What did you post to get banned?

2023-12-09 13:31:53

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We also need to be scalable enough to onboard billions when it happens.

2023-12-02 14:52:23

https://image.nostr.build/e5b3762c0aacc2c719d85c3b96b1d71735abdd29736437bea15f024f6ed79d20.jpg

2023-12-01 00:21:56

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Any studies correlating bitcoin holders with broad critical thinking skills?

2023-11-30 14:38:28

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First it was swimming pools, and now you bitcoin miners are gonna drain the entire ocean!?

2023-11-30 01:49:06

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Can't support anyone pro-genocide, no matter how bitcoin they are. Super disappointed that we don't have any good candidates.
Bitcoin is our best shot at defunding the war machine. I don't think the solution is gonna come from within the system. It has to be dismantled from without.

2023-11-28 15:56:54

"self defense"
https://image.nostr.build/ce1d3b958fef2470b9f93a9ce4af5c656d29ca27d03f067a23a2befecec5064b.jpg

2023-11-27 21:57:33

In case you're wondering what you're missing over on tradsoc.
https://image.nostr.build/2158175b7cbf109457f12801f62a09ef704ac8c9e02b80fe63769e0be2da4018.jpg

2023-11-27 21:06:40

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2023-11-27 00:03:46

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Yeah this would do it and be scalable. However, a user could share the key with a friend to grant access to the content. Dunno how much that would matter in practice.

2023-11-26 23:53:49

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This is a great question. Nostr isn't generally anonymous. Your IP can be logged whenever you communicate with a relay. So I assume as soon as someone starts putting drugs on nostr market, relays will begin getting subpoenas.
What are the ways around this? Use a throwaway nostr identity and route all of your questionably-legal nostr activity through Tor?
Maybe we will see no-log nostr relays pop up. You would still be trusting them though, and a relay could be run by law enforcement trying to catch you. So I don't really see any way except using Tor.

2023-11-26 23:30:27

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I will forevermore remain a softie for pixelated landscape art.

2023-11-26 23:16:36

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Hey there nostr vegans -- shall we have an intro thread?

2023-11-26 23:13:01

Censorship on mainstream social media is out of control rn
https://image.nostr.build/cb672978cc6952cf0fa37d4dce1f28e5611bd2013d6896bd159b7d0a01cf77e6.jpg

2023-11-26 16:53:34

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For this reason, bitcoin should be a much larger allocation in a prudent portfolio -- it takes a chunk of the gold allocation, a chunk of the cash allocation, and a chunk of the equity allocation.

2023-11-26 14:28:46

Gold is a flexible supply asset. Bitcoin is fixed supply.
Gold can act as savings. But investment is still separate.
Bitcoin, by virtue of having a fixed supply, replaces savings *and* much of investment.
With bitcoin, there would still be equity investment but it would be a small industry with participants willing to stomach risk rather than a massive game than everyone has to play.

2023-11-22 14:33:09

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We can both agree on the Bitcoin point! Thanks for the reasonable chat Bauzen. I'm gonna follow you now.

2023-11-21 21:30:18

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I'm aware that Israel is internationally recognized and I think it's legitimate. However that makes it an apartheid state that bombs its own civilians (as long as they are a part of the less desirable class). Also the term should be civil war, but you can immediately see that that isn't realistic because one side has 95% of the power.
You seem to be appealing to futility with "innocent people die in wars". You can use that to justify any and all behavior on the part of Israel, including genocide. I don't think that would be justified, so I don't buy the argument. States should be held accountable to their actions at all times, including during war.

2023-11-21 04:22:15

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A small Linux server, two external HDDs with software RAID. Seriously.
I used to use Synology NAS even though I had to use an NFS mount to run my own install of nextcloud. I eventually threw it out when I had multiple drives fail at once. So much fewer issues, and easier to configure , with a simple Ubuntu box.

2023-11-21 02:07:26

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Ok well the OP is about Israel turning Gaza into a smoldering graveyard for children, which you seemed to be defending. Just because Israel has a right to exist doesn't mean it gets a free pass to obliterate civilians living in its occupied territories.

2023-11-21 01:42:26

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You seem to be saying that Jews are more tolerant and egalitarian in their governance over other religious/ethnic groups, therefore they have the right to round those groups up into a giant concentration camp and then bomb them indiscriminately. Doesn't sound very coherent to me.

2023-11-20 14:35:31

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Hey the US is primarily Christian, does that mean if millions of Christians were being forced off their land somewhere we'd open our doors to the refugees? Taking refugees is a lot more complicated than just having the same religion.
You're implying that Gazans can just leave. I'm sure many would if they could but there is literally a wall that they can't go past and nobody has offered safe passage out.
Regarding Arabs settling in Israel: Palestinians are already there; the occupied territories are under Israeli rule for all practical purposes, but the Arab residents are not given equal treatment under the law. This is the core of the problem.

2023-11-19 22:53:32

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There are a dozen countries where the Palestinian people can run? Pray tell where are these dozen and can you please link to a source showing them saying they welcome 2 million refugees?

2023-11-11 03:45:02

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Ray do you know the bitcoin for Palestine person to be legit? I worry about sending bitcoin to someone I don't know and can't verify that the money is making it's way to help Palestinians.

2023-11-10 06:55:21

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In the long run it seems like there will be some need for scaling, but for now a few bucks is pretty reasonable for registering a name.
I can't believe these brc20 bros keep relentlessly throwing all their sats at the miners. I assume they will run out of sats at some point and fees will relent.

2023-11-10 00:25:04

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How much space does it take to register a name? What's the dollar cost when fees are 100sats/vb?

2023-11-09 22:16:09

5th Ave NYC shut down to Palestine protests.
https://image.nostr.build/139d6de86a2c8df59de939988f76e400261346d7f0711b1d0d7ad1a86531a979.jpg

2023-11-09 22:07:00

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Bitcoin is the only force powerful enough to disintermediate existing power structures, and stop the bullies of the world from abusing their power on the defenseless.

2023-11-08 06:21:28

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Wow some really wacky anti vegan comments here! Food looks amazing.

2023-11-06 21:50:15

If terrorists had taken control of the World Trade Center, and it's estimated that 10 pct of the population of the building is terrorists (90 percent civilians) do you:
A. "Turn it into a parking lot"- these people are human animals
B. Fire rockets randomly into the windows
C. Target the floors known to have civilians bc the terrorists are using human shields
D. All of the above?

2023-11-04 06:08:23

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2023-11-04 05:34:41

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2023-10-17 05:06:38

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myusername2060

2023-10-13 02:55:25

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2023-09-25 15:13:48

When I click "share" a post in amethyst, it produces a web URL to snort.social. This works to share the content to non-nostriches, but what about for people who have a nostr client? Shouldn't we also have a way of sharing a URL that causes the browser to open your nostr client of choice? @npub1gcx…nj5z

2023-09-25 15:00:21

Possible catalysts for bitcoin:
1. Money printer go brr
2. Adoption by individuals in countries with high inflation (negative real interest rates for savers)
3. Adoption for native use cases (e.g. nostr, AI)
4. Institutional bail outs
5. Bank bail ins
6. Increase in global adoption due to improvements in tools and UX
7. Growth of circular economies
8. Increase in financial censorship
9. The halvening
10. US ETF approval
11. Adoption as reserve asset for central banks
12. Adoption by large corporations
What did I miss?

2023-09-23 15:53:07

Bitcoin is a collective delusion, a faith-based system which enables its volunteers to track work and resources contributed to the community across time.

2023-09-23 15:41:24

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Thanks for writing this! We need more nostr guides. I've struggled with understanding how it's working behind the scenes and reading the nips is anything but clear to a lay person.

2023-09-03 01:48:40

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How are nostr relays gonna keep running in the long term? Seems like we have the same problem.

2023-09-01 20:21:27

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I feel the same way

2023-08-24 22:08:28

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I would like to use bitcoin exclusively. No more fiat. But I pay people, and if I were to pay them with bitcoin they wouldn't be able to do much with the Bitcoin other than exchange for fiat.
The stores where they buy gas and food won't accept bitcoin. And why should they? Everyone can pay in fiat and almost nobody can pay in bitcoin.
How can we escape this cycle? What small actions can we take to make our lives more and more bitcoin without requiring a Herculean coordinator to cause the whole community to go bitcoin at once?

2023-08-22 04:39:55

If one of the big issues with Tor is lack of performance due to the "free rider" problem, and one of the issues with lightning is potential deanonymization (solvable with Tor), then shouldn't these two technologies scratch each others backs? Lightning micropayments from Tor browsers to reward Tor node operators for providing high performance?

2023-08-22 02:19:14

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What do local farmers do with the male chicks?

2023-08-19 22:57:42

Has anyone tried forking the Tor network to change it such that clients have to pay a lightning micropayment for every request, and the payment is received by the node operators?

2023-08-19 22:26:30

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Cc @npub1a2c…w83a

2023-08-19 22:25:31

Under a #bitcoin unit of account, a wage worker making 5000 sats/hr (say) will be getting implicit wage increases as the purchasing power of a sat increases over time.
How do you think this plays out? Will employment contracts have built-in wage decreases for deflation? Or will employers have to negotiate with employees regularly to decrease pay? Something else?

2023-08-16 05:43:25

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Not yet. Taking the precursors from Elysium Health. Next step is monthly IV. I wouldn't anticipate feeling great after the infusion, this is a longer term cellular aging thing that may take quite a while to play out.

2023-08-13 21:57:07

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Help us help you by accepting donations over the lightning network!

2023-08-13 20:00:19

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Right, yeah I can add/remove but getting them all synced up is quite tedious. It would be nice if I could copy paste the whole blob into a text box or something at least.

2023-08-13 19:33:28

Is there a way to easily transport my list of relays from client to client? I use a variety of clients and I'd very much like if they all used the same set of relays. But entering my relays one at a time on every client is serious UX tedium. Plus I change the list from time to time, and then I have to go everywhere and do it over again. Help? #nostr #nostrhelp

2023-08-13 15:11:34

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The exact mechanism might matter here. The Fed can conjure up $25T and try to buy all the outstanding bonds on the market. This would have the effect of driving interest rates to 0 (or below, as there's some inelastic demand for treasuries out there). Would this qualify as paying off all external debts? If they theoretically could buy all the public debt, then the Fed would be holding it all but the Treasury would still technically owe it (to the Fed).
If the Treasury is to do it without the fed, then the Treasury would need some kind of special authorization to create money. Assuming they get that, maybe they "mint the coin" (e.g. a series of trillion-dollar coins) in order to pay down debt. Then they have to find a buyer for said trillion dollar coins. Are they going to force bondholders to accept these relatively worthless coins? If so, this sounds almost like just defaulting outright on the debt.
I guess a third option would be for the Fed to use their magic to conjure up money and just wire it directly to the TGA (Treasury's account at the Fed) and then from there the Treasury can just spend that money whenever they need, instead of borrowing more. Once this has been done once, why would anyone ever believe in fiscal restraint anymore? What is the point of the government ever issuing another bond?
I think the real problem is that with any of these options, the credibility of the system is called into question. Predicting the impact of such a loss in confidence is hard. People will still need dollars (to pay debts, use in commerce, etc) so it won't go to zero overnight. If it happened, I personally would expect a sudden move down some double-digit percentage when the news comes out, then accelerated inflation going forward as people increasingly look for alternatives.

2023-08-09 19:54:20

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Much as I am anti anti-homosexuality, I think it's pretty striking how much power the US effectively has over the rest of the world through the dollar. Sovereignty is now possible, you just have to reach out and pick it up.

2023-08-06 22:56:58

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Anyone using Xapo Bank for banking services? How are they? Are you able to use them for general banking or only specific things? What are their pros & cons?

2023-07-11 00:24:12

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Who is the jury?

2023-07-08 01:22:46

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2023-07-06 16:02:20

hello nostr world