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David Caseria

CEO sovereign.app | Empowering Financially Sovereign Families

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2024-09-19 23:17:27

“How the universe works is, in my mind, one of the biggest questions that humans can ask.” - @npub12rv…85vg
https://btcpp.substack.com/p/bitcoin-news-edition-theoretical

2024-09-06 22:49:04

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Not every day, but often!
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2024-09-06 20:02:53

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The Eucharist.
I have a lot of love for non-Catholic Christians, but being a Christian or going to church without the Eucharist is like watching a movie and skipping the climax. You're missing the whole point.

2024-09-05 15:15:13

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Right, but “you” don't need a million sats

2024-09-05 15:12:08

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Not with e-cash 🙂

2024-09-04 00:32:53

Come for the notes, stay for the identity

2024-09-02 21:55:13

Why free speech is essential to protect: #note1vjv…v7qy

2024-09-01 20:04:38

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Be careful with #2. A husband is called to die for his wife if necessary (Ephesians 5:25), so his self-preservation can't be above his family. For this reason, I have my priorities arranged as God, then family, and lastly, self. However, to live out the servant leadership we are called to for others, you first have to rightly order yourself; in that sense, the self is higher.

2024-08-31 20:52:37

Trying to figure out why @npub1mgn…meyt can't follow me

2024-08-31 18:47:46

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Life priorities:
1. Faith
2. Family
3. Health
4. Work
5. Hobby

2024-08-30 20:55:28

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💯 completely agree

2024-08-30 20:14:00

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I'm not sure if I follow the logic. So if couple A starts a family and receives a tax credit, the state gets less money, which causes it to raise taxes on everyone. Now, couple B is taxed more with no kids, so they don't start a family? But you're saying they would’ve otherwise if there were no subsidies because taxes would be lower? But hypothetically, if they did start a family and receive the subsidy, wouldn't they be in the same position as if there were no subsidy with lower taxes?
It seems to me if everyone has a family, the outcome will be the same, so I don't see the disincentive. Obviously, there can be a big difference between people who choose to have a family and those who don't, but isn't that the point?
I'm not arguing from a position that the government can create an effective tax policy. However, I think people generally underestimate how dire the birth rate situation is. Even if we had the perfect policy to turn it around, I'm not sure if we have enough time, so anything is better than nothing, it seems—just my 2 sats.

2024-08-30 18:47:35

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How do tax incentives discourage having children?

2024-08-29 19:32:59

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https://cashu.space/

2024-08-29 10:10:12

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Generally no. As a father, I have dominion over my family. Still, if my kids were to do something illegal in public or to someone from a different family, the local authorities would have dominion over justice.
However, for justice (and many other things like education/moral formation) within my family, I can exclude a father from another family from intervening in our affairs or, more importantly, excluding the state from teaching things I disapprove of. So, in that sense, I have a monopoly in my position of authority in the family.
This nuance is articulated as subsidiarity in the Catholic tradition: the principle that decisions should be made at the most local level possible, with higher authorities intervening only when necessary. The concept goes back to at least the 13th century with St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica, but Pope Pius XI used it specifically in his papal encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, which is an important document in the history of Catholic Social Teaching.

2024-08-28 19:57:53

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https://biblehub.com/2_samuel/23-3.htm#lexicon
To understand the true meaning of scripture, it's best to go to the source and study the etymology of the words.
In this case, it seems to mean to have dominion over justice, which traditionally means giving each his due.

2024-08-24 19:19:52

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It's easy to be cynical (I am as well), but reversing decades of decline will take more than one term and probably multiple presidents.

2024-08-24 15:19:03

Low expectations, high aspirations

2024-08-24 15:15:18

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What are your thoughts on a chain of trust structure for nsecs? A user would have a root nsec stored on a hardware device. When a Nostr app wants to authenticate a user, it can request a signed event from the root nsec to attest for the newly generated client-specific nsec. The root nsec stays secure and can revoke the client nsec later, and the client doesn't need to deal with any remote signing.

2024-08-24 01:22:49

Lightning Network forced-closes = not fun

2024-08-23 01:15:49

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Pray the Rosary on Hallow.
https://hallow.com/

2024-08-20 21:00:21

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What is epoch?

2024-08-20 20:35:03

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The tax code never taxes the rich; it taxes before you can become rich.

2024-08-20 20:32:28

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Assuming it's base64 encoded, what is the data structure and internal encoding?

2024-08-19 00:54:08

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It's also a common misquotation of the Bible. The actual quote is, “For the love of money is the root of all evils.” (1 Timothy 6:10).
*Love* of money is the key phrase.

2024-08-19 00:48:24

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Pope St. John Paul II had a name for this almost 30 years ago: “culture of death.”
https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html

2024-08-18 23:50:43

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I'm a little confused about the intended use case for kind 30078 events. Is it meant for end-user applications? If so, would it be better to have a dedicated event kind for this instead?
What do you think about events for each operation: mint, melt, and swap? It would publicly announce the mint's liabilities and determine when a proof was claimed. I'm unsure if that's ideal or if it's expanding the scope too much. I'm also unsure how best to handle proof of assets and liabilities for a mint, but it may be best to figure out a comprehensive solution.
@npub12rv…85vg do you have any thoughts?

2024-08-18 22:25:46

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A WebSocket stream would quickly get out of hand on the server for a large mint. The Nostr integration is interesting as it effectively outsources the horizontal scaling of the WebSocket stream idea to relays. I can help if you want to collaborate.

2024-08-18 17:07:51

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You're conflating childless people in general with those in authority, as my original post states, and taking issue with a qualifying statement, not the original argument.

2024-08-18 16:55:42

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2024-08-18 16:36:12

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1. A person without children has no personal authority (like a parent has over a child) yet tries to wield it publicly.
2. Raising children changes your perspective on reality, both of yourself and your relationships with others.
3. You experience how growth happens and how to plan and prepare for the future.
This is not to say childless people can't contribute positively, but someone raising children has objectively experienced more about life in this world and opportunities to practice virtue.

2024-08-17 21:36:04

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And anyone exercising authority over people (either in companies or governments) who don't have children should be viewed with a healthy degree of skepticism.

2024-08-13 19:59:16

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Have you looked into NIP-60 yet? Your idea sounds more general purpose, but we are working on a cashu-specific one: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1369

2024-08-13 00:55:04

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The follow-up book, Regime Change, offers some alternatives: https://www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Toward-Postliberal-Future/dp/0593086902
Maybe our liberal culture will accept some form of pluralism. Still, I think it will be hard for people in a liberal framework to accept less liberalism, so I don't know how realistic an alternative this is.
A post-liberal alternative is, in many ways, a pre-liberal political system dating back to ideas from Plato’s Republic. Liberals trying to equalize the few and many is, at best, a fiction and, at worst, a nefarious, systematic way for the few to exploit the many by shunning responsibility in the name of liberty. Post-liberalism tries to reassert that difference constructively: the “aristo” use their place of privilege to serve the common good for the many.
You're right. Much work must be done to make post-liberal thought practical, but I think it starts from a stronger philosophical foundation than liberalism.

2024-08-13 00:06:17

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Yes, but I'm not convinced that liberalism can be saved. Liberalism's chief virtue is tolerance, which aims to ‘liberate’ people from any sources of intolerance (i.e., authority outside the state, cultural norms, family structures, religion, etc.). Pluralistic liberalism is a contradiction because liberalism demands totality.
We see society at the logical conclusion of liberalism, which is inherently unstable because of the egalitarian veil it tries to put over the differences between the few and the many. I think the post-liberals make better analyses of current affairs and arguments for where we should go via classical mixed constitutions between the few and the many.

2024-08-09 16:54:17

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The actual number is 100%. L1 can only handle 0.5% of credit card transactions.

2024-08-08 16:28:04

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Everyone is made with a God-shaped heart. If you don't let God fill it, the government will.

2024-08-03 15:57:52

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If you are interested in political philosophy, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future by Patrick Deneen https://www.amazon.com/Regime-Change-Toward-Postliberal-Future/dp/0593086902

2024-08-03 14:23:05

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What genre/topics?

2024-08-03 10:47:50

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2024-07-27 21:26:41

Political leaders don't need to be knowledgeable about everything. They must capably protect the homeland, allow citizens the freedom to pursue good, and not impose evil.
It’s obvious what the choice is in the US this year.

2024-07-25 12:10:27

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I just realized the “nuts and bolts” pun 😂

2024-07-24 13:21:22

https://www.thenakamotoproject.org/report
I appreciate the effort put into this report; it has excellent information. However, a statement that stuck out to me that we should do our best to avoid is: "Bitcoin ownership is apolitical."
Bitcoin ownership is political. Owning Bitcoin is a statement about who controls the money in a polity. It's possible the authors meant Bitcoin is not partisan, which their data supports, but that is a very different meaning than "political."
I fear framing Bitcoin as apolitical is naively walking into a bear trap. There are undoubtedly political opponents to Bitcoin owners, and we should take note of that.
Instead of viewing Bitcoin as "apolitical" to explain the non-partisan support, I hypothesize that Bitcoin ownership ranges across party lines because our "conservative" and "liberal" political parties are just different flavors of liberalism. People are growing dissatisfied with the current political order because they are dissatisfied with what liberalism has produced: rampant inequality, an authoritative ruling class, and increasing social isolation. I would guess people who are harmed by the current liberal order support Bitcoin in way more proportion than those who benefit from it, which doesn't break down cleanly between party lines.
Furthermore, I suggest that Bitcoin is not only a political tool; it has the potential to re-orient our political parties into liberals, those satisfied with the status quo, and "post-liberals," those trying to effect change. Expect Bitcoin to become even more prominent in the political discourse.

2024-07-23 23:41:47

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#nevent1q…mfq3

2024-07-21 13:32:13

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The ancients knew more than we do today. Most moderns view freedom as “the ability to do whatever I want whenever I want.” Yet through his dialogues in The Republic, Plato describes the Tyrant, the person with the power to do whatever he wants, as a slave, unable to escape his base desires.
As a Christian, I don't wholly agree with the Stoics, but there is a lot of overlap. Stoicism was the predominant philosophy during the Roman Empire's conversion, and I appreciate the philosophical foundation they built for virtue ethics.

2024-07-20 18:35:03

“When powerful people use their power for self-interest, as a master over slaves, this has the social consequence of transforming the people, over time, into people who are servile.”
Good read: https://newpolity.com/blog/capitalism-produces-socialism

2024-07-19 14:59:58

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Well said!

2024-07-19 12:36:23

Political: “of or pertaining to a polity, civil affairs, or government.”
Humans are political animals. What we support is a political statement. Bitcoin is a political tool.

2024-07-15 12:21:26

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Your response is indistinguishable from a bot, but in case you aren't one:
1. You obviously didn't watch the video.
2. Science can't answer philosophical questions like “Why is there something rather than nothing?”
3. The bedrock of science is an orderly, intelligible universe, which an atheistic materialist worldview cannot provide.
4. You must reconcile how believers, e.g., Georges Lemaître, have influenced modern science.

2024-07-14 13:59:51

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https://youtu.be/LkgU2UJvq78

2024-07-14 10:26:52

“He summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. They drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.” (Mark 6:7, 13)
There are still demons in the world, and the Church has been commissioned to the front lines of the spiritual battlefield.

2024-07-14 10:00:55

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https://www.youtube.com/live/-QcGRzLiuKg?t=20m45s

2024-07-13 17:34:24

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What risk does e-cash have that custodial LSPs don't?
E-cash mints are custodial LSPs with more privacy.

2024-07-08 23:37:37

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It’s always been a spiritual battle…

2024-07-07 18:29:31

Is he not the τέκτων?
In today's Gospel reading, we learn about Jesus’s profession before his ministry. The evangelists tell us little about Jesus’s life between the age of 12, when he was lost in the temple, and 30, when he started his ministry, except that he was a “carpenter.”
However, I think there is more to this word than the traditional translation portrays.
The etymology of tektōn (Latinized) derives from the root techn-, meaning art or skill. It's where we get the modern English words architect or technology. It's believed that Jesus worked as a builder in Sepphoris, a new town within walking distance of his hometown of Nazareth. His work could have inspired the basis of his parables: observing the strained relations between a landowner and the tenants (Mark 12:1-12), customers running out of money (Luke 14:28-30), building a foundation for a house (Matthew 7:24-27), hiring assistants who complained about pay (Matthew 20:1-16).
However, I want to propose a deeper meaning to explore. As Pope Francis explained in a homily on work, “[God] created the world, He created man, and He gave man and woman a mission: to manage, to work with, and bring forward creation. […] work is none other than the continuation of God’s work: human work is man’s vocation received from God at the end of the creation of the universe.” Jesus came to align his creation back to the Father’s plan. He did this not only through his preaching but also through his daily work.
Undoubtedly, the Gospel captures the essential aspects of Jesus’s teachings necessary for salvation. But it’s worth meditating on Jesus’s three decades of life outside his public ministry, where, as an adult, he worked to continue the creation of the world aligned with his Father’s will. He planned, created, and built seemingly in mundane ways but always oriented back to the divine. In a secular society obsessed with building technology, it's easy to fall into the trap that everything we do in the material world is contrary to God’s plan, but it's not. Instead, we should work as tektōn, building new things while applying our modern scientific knowledge to continue divine creation, for this is the true purpose of work and technology.
It is also worth noting, as providence would have it, the adjacent Greek root of Jesus’s earthly vocation was given to Our Lady, the Θεοτόκος, Mother of God, to remind us of her Son in our daily lives.

2024-07-04 19:43:58

“Fourth of July” is the “Happy Holidays” of Independence Day 🇺🇸 🗽

2024-06-28 12:53:53

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Trump shouldn't go after Joe for his corruption; he should promise to prosecute Jill for elder abuse.

2024-06-25 14:57:11

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I'm working on making Lightning usable for groups of friends and family. I hope Catholics rally around adopting Bitcoin to help their communities. It is undoubtedly the world's best money and I think it can help ordinary Catholics live a more moral life compared to the alternatives.
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2024-06-25 14:51:10

I published a project I am working on to help "Uncle Jims" manage Lightning payments for friends and family.
Huge shoutout to @npub1qjg…lgjw for his contributions to the rust cashu libraries.
Let a million mints bloom @npub12rv…85vg!
https://github.com/sovereign-app/chamberlain

2024-06-24 01:30:11

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What tax regime would be detrimental to Bitcoin and not any other asset? I can't think of one. Bitcoin in self-custody (or family-custody) significantly raises the effort necessary for the government to seize your property way beyond anything else you can hold to store value

2024-06-23 21:06:36

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If Bitcoin becomes the standard, what do governments use to buy it? The point is we've stopped accepting their currency.
Also, most Bitcoin has already been mined, and governments don't hold much of it.

2024-06-23 16:31:41

Catholics Should be Bitcoiners
Catholics face many challenges living the faith together in an increasingly secular age. However, Catholic communities can uphold their faith in the modern world with a simple action: adopt Bitcoin.
Freedom Money
Pope St. John Paul II famously told his American audience, “Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” Bitcoin gained early notoriety for its permissionless nature to enable criminals. However, just because a man can undermine his freedom does not diminish its inalienability. As a man can freely speak so others may come to know the truth, he can also use speech for harm. Similarly, the freedom to transact is necessary to provide for the common good, even if a man can use money for personal destruction. Bitcoin enables the freedom needed for the expression of public morality. As Pope Benedict XVI wrote, "It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral — and not simply economic — act. Hence the consumer has a specific social responsibility, which goes hand-in-hand with the social responsibility of the enterprise." (Caritas in Veritate 66) As a large portion of the population is unbanked because of their social status and governments de-bank political opponents, protecting the freedom to transact is more crucial than ever to maintain the right to support what we ought.
Sound Monetary Policy
Regarding wealth concentration in 1931, Pope Pius XI wrote, “This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money. Hence they regulate the flow, so to speak, of the life-blood whereby the entire economic system lives, and have so firmly in their grasp the soul, as it were, of economic life that no one can breathe against their will.” (Quadragesimo Anno 106) The Federal Reserve, which creates US Dollars by fiat, is the single controller of the world economy because it controls the ‘life-blood’ of the world reserve currency. This arbitrary power undermines a family’s ability to save for the future and rewards cronies of the central bank by the Cantillon effect, cementing an unjust economic order.
Contrary to the Federal Reserve, whose monetary policy is at the whims of politicians, the creator of Bitcoin established an immutable and predictable monetary policy at its inception to issue all 21 million Bitcoins. Although Bitcoin may experience volatility, its sound monetary policy enables families to securely store their resources, safeguard their future, and empower them to contribute to the common good. Before Bitcoin, no one could resist the unjust exercise of power demonstrated by the central bank of the most powerful nation. However, now we can resist and are obligated to do so.
Practical Distributism
G. K. Chesterton once quipped, “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.” After the Industrial Revolution, while affirming the market economy, the Church has always warned against the centralizing forces of unbridled capitalism. It has sought to create a new economic framework: Distributism. “Economic development must remain under man's determination and must not be left to the judgment of a few men or groups possessing too much economic power or of the political community alone or of certain more powerful nations.” (Gaudium et Spes 65) In Bitcoin, monetary policy is decentralized to the point that any changes need unanimous consent, which means it is practically impossible to change. A prosperous nation-state has no more power than an individual running a Bitcoin server. Decentralized money is the first step toward a Distributist future from which distributed economic activity can flow. With further technological advancements, the Bitcoin network will be able to support dense local economic activity and allow a community to organize around the common good while removing the unjust influence of the central bank.
Lastly, Pope St. John Paul II left us invaluable wisdom about the post-World World II attempt to create a just economic order: “In general, such attempts endeavour to preserve free market mechanisms, ensuring, by means of a stable currency and the harmony of social relations, the conditions for steady and healthy economic growth in which people through their own work can build a better future for themselves and their families.” (Centesimus Annus 19) Let us heed his wisdom and adopt Bitcoin to create a more just future for families and communities.

2024-06-18 22:42:09

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I appreciate you taking the time to analyze the arguments thoroughly.
Is there a denomination with a better claim to being the one true church than the Catholic Church?
If the answer is no church can claim that, it seems to me that you have a position that contradicts scripture because there is no church we can point to that is being guarded from the gates of hell. Unless you think the community of believers is the church with authority resting in the individual to make declarations on faith and morals, however, that seems contrary to Jesus's prayer for unity since there is no way individuals will all agree. It appears to me there is no escaping recognizing authority for the sake of unity. For this reason, the Catholic Church claims it has the authority to safeguard the deposit of faith (Scripture and Tradition) for Christian unity.
FWIW, even though the pope has authority, that doesn't mean he's above criticism. I am certainly critical of the pope at times. This is an example of criticism from a *cardinal* showing even very sharp public criticism is appropriate: https://newdailycompass.com/en/a-profile-of-the-next-pope-writes-cardinal

2024-06-13 14:11:51

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I appreciate your willingness to examine your faith.
To answer a previous question, the reason why you should always show goodwill towards everyone is to accept them where they are and try to convert them to the truth while keeping your heart open to recognizing the truth as well, wherever it may be (the Church doesn’t claim to be the only place of truth, just the fullness of truth).
Joe Heschmeyer posted a video recently titled The Biblical Case for Infallibility. Since you don’t claim goodwill towards Catholics, and you seem to have a strong resentment for anything a Catholic has to say about the Church, I don’t expect you to be open to his arguments. However, since you seem dedicated to Scripture, which is admirable, I hope you review the Bible passages he references and reflect on what God is trying to tell us.
https://youtu.be/2djx9lESGgA?si=zncj1SehMeYL5sfZ

2024-06-12 10:17:47

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Protestant: “a member of any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone, the priesthood of all believers, and the primacy of the Bible as the only source of revealed truth.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/protestant
Protestantism is, by definition, a *protest* against the Catholic faith. I suggest you do a little more research into your faith, and then we can have a more fruitful discussion.

2024-06-12 00:55:12

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Because there aren't any “Christians” who claim no one has authority over them because they're under the guidance of the Holy Spirit who aren't a “mouthpiece of the satanic pedo death cult”? I can't believe Protestants can't bother to see what has happened to Christianity outside the Church.
It's shocking how weak the arguments are against Catholicism and how intransigent its opponents are. I've yet to see a Biblical reference or evidence to refute my claims, only opinions written authoritatively. I'm all for conversations between different denominations to figure out the truth, but many like this lack essential goodwill.

2024-06-11 23:22:28

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Because Jesus instituted a physical church which needs a leader…
I can’t tell if you’re trolling or genuinely curious. Joe Heshmeyer has done good work on early Christianity. He wrote the books Pope Peter and The Early Church Was the Catholic.
I think all Christians believe the Holy Spirit guides “the church,” even if they believe “the church” to be an informal community of believers. As the early Christians did, Catholics believe the Church is a physical presence on earth, which is to say, a real community with real leaders. Just like the apostles replaced Judas with Matthias, succession is essential to continue the mission of the Church.
Also, for the sake of clarity, papal infallibility is extremely narrowly defined. It exists because the (head of the) Church can’t officially teach error, which is a pretty obvious dogma if you already accept that the Holy Spirit is guiding it.

2024-06-11 21:19:14

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I guess the church died with Peter! 😂

2024-06-10 22:20:17

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“And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:18-19)

2024-06-10 18:20:37

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To recap the conversation: anyone who believes in papal infallibility is incapable of reason, yet when provided with evidence supporting the guidance of the Church, it is rejected out of hand with baseless claims. Is belief in an infallible Church the issue? Or is it the belief that the Church contradicts your infallible opinions that is the issue? I hope you reflect on whether you accept Christ on his terms or your terms.

2024-06-10 15:03:37

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If you think Pope Francis is bad, you should look back at some of the popes over the past 1000+ years. Yet the Church still stands and seems to be the only institution capable of repelling corrupt forces. There must be something there!
“Your majesty, we Catholic clergy have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.” - Cardinal Consalvi to Napoleon Bonaparte

2024-06-10 12:54:36

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Completely agree! Naive Bitcoiners take “don't trust, verify” at face value and apply it everywhere, even though that's obviously false.

2024-06-10 12:46:40

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Definitely not! However, principles are a good starting point for exploring theological concepts in depth.

2024-06-10 12:40:29

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“This is why the Church is so strict on [abortion] because accepting this is kind of like accepting daily murder.”
“The path to peace calls for respect for life, for every human life, starting with the life of the unborn child in the mother’s womb, which cannot be suppressed or turned into an object of trafficking. In this regard, I deem deplorable the practice of so-called surrogate motherhood, which represents a grave violation of the dignity of the woman and the child, based on the exploitation of situations of the mother’s material needs. A child is always a gift and never the basis of a commercial contract.”
“Gender ideology, today, is one of the most dangerous ideological colonizations. Today children — children — are taught in school that everyone can choose his or her sex. Why are they teaching this? Because the books are provided by the people and institutions that give you money. These forms of ideological colonization are also supported by influential countries. And this is terrible!”
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If we believe the scripture that the gates of hell will not prevail and the Holy Spirit is guiding the Church, the pope speaking infallibly about faith and morals ex-cathedra makes sense. Pray never to lose hope!

2024-06-10 01:16:30

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Go to the gym or for a run. Completing a successful workout when you don't want to has a domino effect on helping you achieve other things you don't want to but know you should.

2024-06-10 01:08:14

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Believing you can know objective truth is the first point in my argument for why Bitcoiners should be Catholic.
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2024-06-09 10:11:26

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I'm not sure about another order of magnitude. Yes, 5 lightning TXs for an individual is a lot, but this is an average, so for an exchange (”Bitcoin bank”), that's nothing.
Shared UTXOs may be able to help. I'd love to see more development going toward channel factories. However, if unilateral exit and constant communication are required while fees are high, it seems that a shared UTXO has a high trust threshold, which will make it impractical.
I'd love for you to be right that >100,000,000 entities will regularly transact on-chain, but I fear Saylor’s estimation of 100,000 is closer to the current trajectory. I'm working on an e-cash solution for close friends and family to share a lightning node to get closer to my optimistic 10,000,000 estimates. If trust is required, it's better to be at a lower/smaller organizational level than a company or government.

2024-06-08 20:58:59

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Great post. How many entities (individuals, families, communities, businesses, and governments) do you think will regularly transact on-chain?
An average of 6,000 TXs per block with two parties per TX leads to ~50,000,000 possible entities per month. If each entity participates in an average of 5 monthly TXs, that’s 10,000,000 entities. I think it is an optimistic scenario, but I'm interested to hear other opinions.

2024-06-05 15:04:44

I wrote a blog post about The Sovereign Family: Why The Sovereign Individual is only a half-great book.
“Bitcoiners underestimate the technical difficulty of mundane tasks in Bitcoin and overestimate the technical aptitude of the population. Focusing solely on individuals threatens to undermine the entire Bitcoin experiment.”
https://sovereign.app/blog/the-sovereign-family

2024-05-19 16:51:57

Bitcoiners Should Be Catholic
With skepticism and moral relativism more prevalent than ever, it's unsurprising that people are inclined to think one's religion has the same level of importance as a favorite sports team. However, everything in life is ordered toward a highest intrinsic good. It is vital to acknowledge what that good is. The Catholic deposit of faith supports principles Bitcoiners cherish, agreeing on what is truly good.
We believe in objective truth.
A signature is valid, or it's not; a transaction is confirmed or not; a block is accepted or not. These are the fundamental objective truths that form the basis of Bitcoin. These truths are not subjective to personal judgment or the whims of politicians. Grounded in mathematics, Bitcoin takes its form in the objective reality of the universe. Yet, many people today don't believe there are objective truths, or at least, if there are objective truths, they think we can't know what they are. However, it is contradictory to say it is true that there is no truth. Objective truth describes reality, so it is true or false for everyone. Since religion, properly understood, describes reality, its central claims are objective and can be investigated. Any religion worth pursuing puts objective truth in the middle of its dogmas. Catholics believe “Man tends by nature toward the truth.” (CCC 2467) Central to the Christian claim is that God is the truth: “I am the way and the truth and the life” (John 14:6). Bitcoiners are some of the only people in our secular world who understand objective truth.
We believe in solidarity.
A society maintains a proper monetary order when the hardest money becomes the only money (Copernicus-Gresham's Law). Furthermore, Bitcoin is a consensus protocol. The network rules bind every participant together, and we all share in the fruits of the network. Users, miners, and developers depend on each other to maintain the network's health. Similarly, the Church teaches all creation orders toward solidarity: "Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity, based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all." (Sollicitudo rei Socialis 39) Humans are social animals who flourish in a community bound together toward common objectives. Bitcoiners intuitively grasp this fundamental Catholic social teaching.
We believe in subsidiarity.
While the Bitcoin network is a shared resource for the common good, it is not a collectivist enterprise. Not your keys, not your coins, flows from the ethic of subsidiarity: “A community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to coordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.” (Centesimus annus 48) Fiat currencies have perverted this principle by introducing the unnatural institution of the central bank. Bitcoin rightly reorders money management back to the lowest level of society: the family, who can hold their keys to save, earn, spend, and invest their own money with sovereignty. Finally, “the principle of subsidiarity is opposed to all forms of collectivism. It sets limits for state intervention. It aims at harmonizing the relationships between individuals and societies. It tends toward the establishment of true international order.” (CCC 1885) Bitcoiners understand the proper international order Catholics have been discussing for centuries and are working toward making it a reality.
Bitcoiners should discern the Catholic faith to deepen their understanding of these principles that resonate deeply with the ethos of Bitcoin. Catholicism offers more than a belief system. It provides a path to spiritual fulfillment and a community grounded in timeless truths, with teachings that will always be true, like the immutable ledgers we keep on our full nodes. Joining the Catholic Church means embracing a tradition that stands the test of time and offers profound purpose and social cohesion in accordance with the eternal law. Join our journey to seek the truth.

2024-05-18 21:48:42

Bitcoin is the narthex to our cathedral: it's just the start.
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2024-05-18 14:48:16

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It is a natural result of a liberal world order focused on individual will and power.
We will only resolve to do any better if we return to a society focused on human dignity, the common good, and God.

2024-05-16 20:57:05

A short explainer of how our vaults work at https://sovereign.app
https://m.primal.net/IHVd.mov

2024-05-03 17:53:53

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sovereign.app launched a public beta
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2024-05-03 17:14:59

Join our public beta! https://sovereign.app https://video.nostr.build/28b6513af055ae0846488512a865320b2774a3e5fae132844332bce4b078c04b.mp4

2024-05-01 14:41:27

I'm excited to launch my company today for public beta testing! Sign up and let me know what you think https://sovereign.app/blog/introducing-sovereign-app