Lysander Spooner

Nostrich conservationist - Slavery abolishionist#Nostr #nocoiner

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2024-01-14 21:44:10

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Merchant-generated and backed credit notes are how we traded before 'money'. We go back to that.
The premise and etymology of 'money' gets us stuck thinking There Can Be Only One. When there's only One Money in a system, you have a massive single point of failure. It's an awful design. When Bitcoin's price changes, ideally (in your view) billions of people would be affected all at once.
Not so in a system where everyone holds credit with dozens of merchants. When one merchant goes under their own credit hyperinflates - and nobody else's. This whole idea we need to yolk all of society together under One Money so they can sink or float all at once has to go.
Massive decentralization is the way forward. It isn't difficult to run a traceless credit system. That's how the world worked and survived tyrants; when you 'break even' the ledger is smashed into a million pieces. Bitcoin is the opposite of 'traceless', it forces your transaction into a permanent ledger.
Pear Credit had the right approach (no blockchain, no permanent ledger, no transaction costs) but the project was announced by the Tether team in Nov 2022 and immediately memory holed. I am Jack's lack of surprise. cashu seemed to have hit on the same approach but couldn't help chaining itself to the block (or he's just rebranded to appeal to maxis, I can't figure out of it's still usable without the blockchain).

2023-11-28 18:28:33

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Handy! Thanks for sharing. Will be using this one.

2023-06-22 15:24:10

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Great job on https://nodeless.io BTW @npub1utx…50e8 looks fantastic, neat API docs, too.
I can appreciate as a developer what I disagree with in principle (massively centralized, eternal immutable ledgers aka blockchains masquerading as decentralized and somehow freedom enhancing). To measure is to manage. ;-)

2023-06-22 15:15:53

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This is Nostr. Bitcoin is a centralized, distributed database calling itself 'decentralized' when it's about as decentralized as Netflix or Facebook. Distributed nodes do not a thing decentralized make. As long as they constantly attempt to sync up to one authoritative global state, however determined, you got yourself a centralized database. In my view, all the Bitcoin ads flooding everyone's feed ended this akshully decentralized protocol (Nostr's) growth in popularity.

2023-06-15 10:53:56

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Ah yes, you need to replace the One False System with the One True System.
Bitcoin maxis are monopolists who forsee a mono-polar solution to all the issues of finance: The Almighty BTC. Everything else is a 'shitcoin', even physical options that, you know, can work offline and without electricity. Maxis hate decentralization, which literally means a plurality of solutions to choose from, not One True Coin to shill.

2023-06-06 09:24:53

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Yeah, like the implementation of a digital surveillance grid ushered in as temporary emergency measures.

2023-05-03 20:01:57

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Every 3rd post is a Bitcoin ad. That's probably why Nostr failed and growth is now negative. https://stats.nostr.band/

2023-05-03 19:54:37

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This is in direct opposition to the Austrian school, which realizes prosperity excretes only from win-win exchanges.
If you expect your 'money' to be worth more next month, you are less likely to hire Johnny to mow your lawn this month, costing Johnny his income and costing you the opportunity cost of mowing your own lawn.
Deflation discourages exchanges and encouraging HODLing, which is a completely opposing theory.

2023-05-03 19:51:18

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Failed to reach critical mass due to every 3rd post being a Bitcoin ad.
Growth went sideways then negative months ago.
https://stats.nostr.band/
Saddest one is the "Retention of all users, 30 days after signup, %"

2023-04-25 18:23:43

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Like any fixed pie betting pool.

2023-04-25 18:22:44

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Lots. cents are 14x scarcer than sats.

2023-04-12 10:35:08

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There are 2,100 trillion sats and only 150 trillion cents in global circulation.

2023-03-22 08:45:01

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Must be glad I offered you that out, then. Buttcoiners don't respond to anything of substance.

2023-03-22 08:29:01

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https://saylortracker.com is down huge.
https://nayibtracker.com is down huge.
Buttcoiners still celebrate people "putting their retirement money" into their fixed pie gambling pool.
You believe Aunt Suzie is gonna outperform Bukele and Saylor, or you just a degenerate gambler who will is happy as long as she's pumping your bags?

2023-03-22 08:20:46

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https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_b624cfba12ea503875844a931716faad1a96cdbcb4ba71d1703a12cadd6c0e3a.jpg

2023-03-22 08:17:17

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The reason I don't post/explore and spend more time here is that every 2nd post is a Bitcoin ad and every 3rd profile picture an animated Bitcoin ad.

2023-03-19 12:58:06

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Distributed is not decentralized

2023-03-19 11:17:24

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Wait til they realize there are 14X more fundamental utility units of BTC than USD.
2,100 trillion sats vs 150 trillion cents in circulation. The Fed can keep expanding the supply as it has since its founding for another 1,540 years before sats are scarcer than cents.

2023-03-19 10:05:19

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Awkward when you realize those 2 quadrillion 100 trillion sats are an arbitrary decree (fiat) and means there are 14x more sats than cents (only 150 trillion) in the world.

2023-03-15 23:49:55

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There are 14 X more sats than cents for everybody in the world to share.
The basic utility unit of BTC is 14 X LESS scarce than the basic utility unit of USD.

2023-03-15 23:48:45

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Bitcoin sats in 15 years: 2,100 trillion
Fed cents in 110 years: 150 trillion
Scarcity is a psyop. The fundamental unit is the indivisible unit.
USD is a collective noun for 100 individual units.
BTC is a collective noun for 100,000,000 individual units.

2023-03-15 23:41:43

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You mean like Bitcoiners have?

2023-03-15 00:53:48

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You found one! #[1] "we know where it's going long-term" is that based on the "21M limit" psyop?
There will be 14 X more sats than we have cents in circulation.
The sat is the indivisible, fundamental unit of BTC.
The cent is the indivisible, fundamental unit of USD.
BTC is simply a collective noun for "100 million sats".
USD is simply a collective noun for "100 cents".
There will be 21 million BTC aka "2,100 trillion sats" in total circulation.
There are 1.5 trillion USD aka "150 trillion cents" in total circulation.
There will be 14 X more sats than we have cents in circulation.

2023-03-15 00:47:51

The cent is the indivisible, fundamental unit of USD.
USD is then simply a collective noun for "100 cents".
There are 1.5 trillion USD aka "150 trillion cents" in total circulation.
The sat is the indivisible, fundamental unit of BTC.
BTC is then simply a collective noun for "100 million sats".
There will be 21 million BTC aka "2100 trillion sats" in total circulation.
There will be 14 X more sats than we have cents in circulation.

2023-03-15 00:46:15

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Never said you did. You maxis are so economically astute you can't tell the difference between utility and valuation.
The cent is the indivisible, fundamental unit of USD.
USD is then simply a collective noun for "100 cents".
There are 1.5 trillion USD aka "150 trillion cents" in total circulation.
The sat is the indivisible, fundamental unit of BTC.
BTC is then simply a collective noun for "100 million sats".
There will be 21 million BTC aka "2100 trillion sats" in total circulation.
There will be 14 X more sats than we have cents in circulation.

2023-03-15 00:41:27

There are 14 X more sats than cents in circulation.

2023-03-15 00:39:41

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As in, total amount of USD in circulation is estimated at 1.5 trillion dollars
x 100 cents per dollar = 150 trillion cents, the fundamental indivisible unit of USD.
There are 14 X more fundamental units of BTC than USD.

2023-03-15 00:37:53

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2,100 trillion fundamental units of BTC.
Know how many USD cents there are in circulation? 150 trillion

2023-03-15 00:35:30

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Your example is so obviously flawed, it's no wonder you have trouble with these concepts. When you say "making it $2,000" you switch from talking about utility to valuation.
I never claimed the valuation of a sat is the same as the valuation of a BTC. I said the utility of a sat is the same as the utility of a BTC.
Which makes the SAT the fundamental "unit" of Bitcoin, and the BTC simply a collective noun for 100,000,000 units.
The number of units is not 21M but 2 quadrillion 100 trillion.

2023-03-14 01:02:39

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CBDCs are the bogeyman, the globalist's new digital global currency has always been Bitcoin. AMA.

2023-03-14 00:57:53

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No you won't, you can't zap a nocoiner. ;-)

2023-03-10 22:13:14

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In terms of what... use cases?
Lol.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_5d501f5f285b5b1357fb9ed7c674ed30032deeb46ea6907d8a4b5f0bdecded41.png

2023-03-10 21:54:47

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MFer did you just throw every Keynesian argument against Austrian economics at me in one go?
Where does prosperity excrete from? If you said 'resources' or 'labour' or 'the printing press' or 'a Bitcoin mining rig' you are nowhere near the Austrian model.
Prosperity excretes from the felt improvement in standard of living for all parties to a voluntary transaction.
"I just know that you can't grow an economic system forever on a finite planet" -- what exactly are you going to run out of? Mutually beneficial agreements? Because that's THE ONLY THING that grows an economy on net.
This finite thinking leads to "them immgrants r takin are jarbs", as if there's a limited number of agreements people can make. A job is not a thing, it's not a physical object, nor is a voluntary interaction. You can't run out of them. A job pops into existence the moment you convince anyone on the planet you will earn them more than you cost them.

2023-03-10 18:20:50

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How much freedom do you allow yourself to have wild, expensive experiences in the now? Don't forget to do that.
I worry about anyone who has taken the vow of poverty implicit in the Internet's largest prosperity cult. As they say in the superchurches, 'planting a seed today' for prophecies of future prosperity (and not in a business providing desired goods and services).
The present is all we are guaranteed. It's worth splashin' out a bit on. ;-)

2023-03-10 18:14:37

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I'm against Bitcoin because of the grand unified centralized ledger, selling itself as decentralized when it's really just distributed. Every resilient centralized database out there is hosted on dozens, hundreds or thousands of nodes. What makes a data layer 'centralized' is that each node tries to sync up to the same, single authoritative global state, like Twitter or Facebook or Bitcoin's CDN.
What makes a data layer 'decentralized' like Nostr is that there are dozens or hundreds of unique databases, with no conception of a single authoritative global state, and no requirement in the protocol to sync up to the same version.
In short, I think CBDC's are the bogeyman and BTC is their plan. You can't solve the Byzantine Generals problem without centralizing something, and Bitcoin centralized the most dangerous thing to economic freedom: The ledger.

2023-03-10 17:57:15

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#[5] I'm very glad to hear about your productive endeavours and wish you'd post about those more than the net unproductive passive speculation habit. I'm sorry you put your money in the wrong place, but you're in good company, Isaac Newton lost $3M of his own money in the South Sea Bubble.
"Back in the spring of 1720, Sir Isaac Newton owned shares in the South Sea Company, the hottest stock in England. Sensing that the market was getting out of hand, the great physicist muttered that he ‘could calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of the people.’ Newton dumped his South Sea shares, pocketing a 100% profit totaling £7,000. But just months later, swept up in the wild enthusiasm of the market, Newton jumped back in at a much higher price — and lost £20,000 (or more than $3 million in [2002-2003’s] money. For the rest of his life, he forbade anyone to speak the words ‘South Sea’ in his presence."

2023-03-10 17:53:23

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Is Saylor better or worse off for being $1.3BN down vs. holding USD until March 2023?
Is Nayib (well, his poor serfs he stole the money from) better or worse off for being 50% down vs. buying 50% more BTC today?
So all you have is prophecy, not even a trend diagram.

2023-03-10 17:42:15

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I would never lock my money up in a fixed pie gambling pool, hoping to "10-20x in the next 2-3 years" out the pockets of my, uh, fellow community. Cos that's the only place you get gainz from. You ain't getting a sat or a cent from me, because I'm not in the net unproductive, net unprofitable fixed pie gambling pool.
I'll be over here focusing on providing desired goods and services to market, instead, like a good little Austrian. Even if you 10x your $1k or whatever you have in Bitcoin, you are back to square one without any marketable skills or networking built up alongside those gains, unlike if you were doing something net productive.

2023-03-09 23:23:41

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Do you know what the maximum number of transactions the Bitcoin blockchain can handle globally? 7 per second. Hahahah!! It's literally the most inefficient infrastructure imaginable and you're calling it "more efficient" -- no computer scientist will tell you blockchian is "more efficient" than a centralized database, we're deep in propaganda land here.
"Look at what zap is doing." Indeed, because it doesn't rely on an inefficient blockchain. In fact, it doesn't need an inefficient blockchain. I'm all for Cashu or Pear Credit payments, which use Lightning style p2p channels but without the grand unified centralized ledger logging your every transaction -- but only at 7 per second.
Lightning shows us how bloody inefficient blockchains are, and how much better and more efficient things can be without one. Pear Credit and Cashu are 100% feeless, too, since you don't need to maintain a unified global state for every copy of the centralized + distributed (not decentralized) database, like you do with Bitcoin.
I fat-fingered the Post button early. Was Saylor prophecying the price would be 32% lower than his average buy price in March 2023? Or was he prophecying $100k+ by now? Be honest.

2023-03-07 14:07:51

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Was Saylor saying we'd be at $100k by now or not?

2023-03-07 14:06:35

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Yes, when prophecy fails, true believers double down.
Was Saylor pro

2023-03-07 11:53:54

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https://saylortracker.com 1bn down
https://nayibtracker.com 50% down
But I'm sure your friends and aunt Jenny are gonna outperform Saylor and Nayib.
Either you genuinely believe they will, or don't care about their finances as long as they let you evangelize your prosperity doctrine and pump your bags.

2023-03-04 09:42:52

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Yes, and the banking system uses L3 traceless cash for beer and condoms.
By having an L1 at all, you ape their pyramid structure with a monopolar base layer and base ledger, not the vendor generated, decentrally issued and diversely named currencies that humans actually used throughout history.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBqhed9UDNTzRF538_Y33t59opndPqPJf

2023-03-04 09:22:51

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Yeah I don't think my beer purchase in West Samoa should be in the same fucking ledger as your condom purchase in Mexico.
I'm decentralized like that. #[4]

2023-03-04 09:20:42

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Sounds to me like a blockchain enthusiast. "YoU jUsT dOnT UnDeRsTaNd ThE tEcHnOlOgy" lol you guys can't help yourselves and seem to think you made an argument.

2023-03-04 09:09:33

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Well they dont even understand the difference between a singular, grand unified distributed ledger (blockchain) and a plurality of decentralized ledgers (Nostr, Cashu).
Lifelong dev here, hate grand unified surveillance chains, love Nostr (except relays that ignore delete kinds) and Cashu with lightning env off.

2023-03-04 08:49:59

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Bitcoin devs are a bit of an oxymoron tho, right. No amazing devs I know are infatuated with 'blockchain technology'.

2023-03-01 23:27:27

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Does that sound like Nostr protocol standards being followed, to you? Authentication requires a public Note post rather than invisible Nostr private key validation?

2023-03-01 21:14:55

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Live performances have nothing to do with Nostr.
NostrNests is a git clone of https://jam.systems/ with a pop-up form asking for anybody's pubkey and to upload any image. It doesn't even do any Nostr key pair verification, there is no actual integration with Nostr.
You can impersonate anybody there. Upload Jack's avatar and paste in his pubkey, whamo. Indistinguishable, because there is no actual Nostr integration, just a form asking for anybody's Nostr info. No authentication even.
Not that it matters, logging in at all is pointless unless you're a presenter, since you can't interact with each other, anyway.

2023-03-01 19:35:04

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You're busy missing a live piano concert, I'm not sure how Nostr is involved apart from the login tho - https://nostrnests.com/vv7kka

2023-03-01 17:51:56

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Bitcoin's grand unified, eternal immutable surveillance blockchain is centralized and distributed... not decentralized like Nostr.
Bitcoin has a centrally planned rate of supply, artificially fixed in advance, by it's unknown central planner(s). If Bitcoin had a market-determined rate of supply, supply could fluctuate in response to changes in market demand. This is *the* price stabilizing mechanism with any non-fiat good with supply left to market forces.
Bitcoin is a fiat good (by decree - not made up of existing components - 42M could have been decreed just as cheaply as 21M, which doesn't even appear in the whitepaper -- it's an arbitrary number selected by it's central planner).

2023-03-01 17:38:41

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Are you a monopolist promoting one grand solution, a single asset, to all monetary issues and use cases, or are you open to a decentralized plurality of solutions, e.g. ones that can work when the Internet doesn't?

2023-02-24 15:37:14

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Notice how not a single blockchain enthusiast has been able to avoid the ad hominem personal attack? That's how you know you're dealing with cognitive dissonance.
Nostr has laid bare just how centralized Bitcoin Core with it's ~5 core developers + the grand unified Bitcoin blockchain with a singular authoritative version, distributed not decentralized, really are.

2023-02-24 15:33:24

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I've have read swaths of it. I saw nothing 'sovereign' about what's now better called 'the network state'. I see it along the lines of The Zeitgeist who were openly pushing post-state blockchain based Communism.
- There's nothing 'sovereign' about taking the choice of ledger (or none at all) out of the hands of the trading parties themselves and logging it all in one grand unified public blockchain.
- There's nothing 'sovereign' about depending on a centrally issued fiat (yes, 21M is an arbitrary number, proving it's fiat nature -- could have just as easily been 42M cos it was decreed into existence) token.
- There's nothing 'sovereign' about being unable to buy or sell bananas without a electricity and an Internet connection.
Here's a book I highly recommend for you -- "Debt: The First 5000 Years" by David Graeber is a study of actually decentralized currency; how people traded before centrally issued fiat wannabe-monopoly brands like USD and BTC:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/64160
Free audiobook version. The 2nd chapter is called "The Myth of Barter". It wasn't that. Each merchant generated their own credit, on their own private ledger, which was destroyed without a trace when they 'broke even'. Your grand unified global public ledger knows nothing of decentralization.

2023-02-24 15:15:45

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Except, you know, that a thing's volatility retards it's use case as a dispassionate means of exchange. Worst of all, expecting a unit to be worth more next month makes you less likely to hire Johnny to mow your lawn this month, making everyone poorer on net. Since, as the Austrian school shows, prosperity does not excrete from a printing press, a mining rig, or a fixed-pie token gambling pool.
Prosperity excretes from the felt improvement in standard of living for each party to a voluntary exchange. This is where seeing 'medium of exchange' as 'fantastic investment opportunity' work at cross-purposes. One facilitates exchanging. The other penalizes exchanging and rewards declining to exchange (hoarding aka hodling aka the opposite of making a voluntary, prosperity-generating exchange).
Maximalism is a synonym for monopolistic fanaticism, right or wrong. Nothing to do with a plurality of decentralized solutions. One grand unified eternal immutable global ledger or bust.

2023-02-24 15:09:33

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Yeah, the perfectly mysterious Creation myth! :p I bet the 'who' is behind Bitcoin looks like a large cube in the desert covered in black glass.
No-fucking-body? Who arbitrarily chose the 21M in digital fiat tokens? It's nowhere in the whitepaper.
Who centrally planned and artificially fixed the rate of supply in advance, removing the price stabilizing Austrian mechanism of a market-determined rate of supply which can naturally adapt to counterbalance price swings due to changes in demand? Guaranteeing volatility into perpetuity.
Who was that central planner? No-fucking-body? You sure about that? Of all the weird things blockheads say, calling a human agent or a human agency 'No-fucking-body' is right up there with calling a grand unified blockchain 'decentralized' instead of distributed.

2023-02-24 13:00:08

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Check out https://habla.news/

2023-02-24 12:54:02

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We're here for the decentralization and you guys keep shilling your grand unified massively centralized blockchain. It's horrid, every 3rd post is a Bitcoin ad.
Blockchains have a single authoritative version of all-the-data, so are properly described as centralized and distributed -- not decentralized like Nostr.

2023-02-24 12:45:14

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Nope. I am against all grand unified ledgers (blockchains), since they are all centralized (one authoritative version of all-the-data) and distributed -- not decentralized.

2023-02-24 00:32:50

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What a load of bull. Historically, merchant-issued credit was the primary solution. Each merchant generated their own currency and maintained their own ledger. You know, decentralized, not a central issuer with a central ledger like Bitcoin.

2023-02-23 23:05:57

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Only the `message` value is encrypted. All metadata is public, and your public IP's are logged at the relays. And the `message` value is decrypted by *any* party to the conversation's nsec, so even that obfuscation (not privacy, just obfuscation of a public record) can be undone without any fault of your own, by some other party leaking their key.
To see just how bad DMs are, login using jb55 or someone else's npub and take a look at the Messages. You can see who, when, how often, who sends more messages, what time of night, etc.

2023-02-23 23:00:54

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Bitcoin maxipads are monopolists. You want a mono-polar financial instrument. Just one instrument that is also one Store of Value that is also one Medium of Exchange that is also one Fantastic Investment Opportunity. You also want One Grand Unified Ledger, not multiple ledgers.

2023-02-21 21:13:15

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The irony of stating others "don't care about decentralization" while pushing just 1 solution will never not be lost on you.

2023-02-17 00:53:04

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You can write a bot to follow them and repost ;)

2023-02-16 21:39:59

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"Nostr aims to decentralize private communications" ... wtf lol.
Private and Nostr do not belong in the same sentence.

2023-02-14 22:32:01

School is dead. Not a single student can do math at grade level at 52 Illinois schools. English not much better.
"Take Spry, for example. Just 2 of the school’s 127 students in 2019 could read at grade level before the pandemic. In math, zero students were proficient.
The failure isn’t about money, either. Data from the Illinois State Board of Education shows spending at Spry was already at $20,000 per student before the pandemic. Today it spends $35,600."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-single-student-can-do-math-grade-level-53-illinois-schools

2023-02-06 20:13:19

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I believe in just 1 less sh*tcoin than you do. There is no need for a blockchain or to maintain a global state. Bitcoin's ledger and code is centralized in every way that counts, and distributed over an ad-hoc CDN like Facebook, not decentralized like Nostr.

2023-02-04 01:06:12

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Can you put an asterisk next to those that won't populate your feed with Bitcoin ads?

2023-01-21 15:06:02

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Dude. Wot. You're making no sense and talking backwards.
1 Big Mac = 1 Big Mac. If the supply goes up, 1 still = 1.
"everything else can be produced if market demands. Try producing more bitcoin."
More Bitcoin is being produced as we speak. It pretends to be produced by, but its fiat creation is only conditioned on, breaking encryption for god knows who. Literally, no one even knows who developed the code for the largest distributed supercomputer ever dedicated to breaking encryption.
But I digress. Really its Bitcoin that is created out of thin air, and the Big Mac that is assembled from preexisting physical matter.
And other goods can have a fixed rate of supply. Land, for example, I hear they're not making any more. Unlike Bitcoin, which is being created while I read you saying it "can't be" lol. Its the only type of "thing/nothing" that IS created out of thin air: Fiat.
Oh, that 21M? Its not even in the Satoshi whitepaper. Its not sacred text. Its just an arbitrary limit that you pretend can't be raised. Unlike Nostr, there's a central code base with core developers, 6 (now 5) guys with write access to the Bitcoin core.
Fork, shmork. That's a different question entirely. I'm talking about Bitcoin core here, and what it really is and isn't. That there's something to fork tells you its centralized at the protocol layer. Centralized at the ledger (distributed, not decentralized). Created out of thin air (as a reward doesnt mean its not out of thin air).
Keep your digital reward tokens and your fixed pie betting pool.

2023-01-20 16:46:11

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The most stable in exchange for what? Itself? So is everything else, idiot.
To claim its stable is to claim its stable in relation to something. In relation to what?
Huge claim to give zero examples c goods other than itself it is so stable against.

2023-01-20 12:02:11

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When that something is volatile, engineered to be so, you don't have a viable exchange currency. Duh.

2023-01-20 12:01:21

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Exchange currency by definition is exchanged for something that isnt itself.

2023-01-20 09:24:08

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No it can't, because it swings 20% in a week. Currency function requires stability and ability to perform accurate calculations in advance.
Bitcoin is engineered to be volatile because, while demand is market determined, rate of supply is centrally planned and artificially fixed in advance.

2023-01-18 11:15:42

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Oh yeah #3 please

2023-01-18 11:14:24

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You got me. Guess you can add me to your tune list =)

2023-01-18 11:11:40

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There are no human rights. The State peddles in rights like the Church peddles in blessings.
Asking if the Internet should be a human right is like asking if Uncle Pete should be Santa Klaus.
The conversation doesnt tell me anything except that you believe in Santa Klaus (that free stuff isn't always stolen or on the backs of slaves).

2023-01-18 10:56:24

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I was gonna participate be a use of your username. Then I saw your note on internet being a human right lol

2023-01-12 20:05:53

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