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2025-12-14 17:43:27 UTC

Your local government would rather tax your Bitcoin at 18% than see you die with it, and get nothing. Or worse, to see you flee with it and pay another country's taxes with it.
They're not going to kill you for it. The criminals will kill you for it. Protect yourself from the criminals.
Privacy is only one means of protecting yourself. Be hard to attack in all ways. Be dangerous, not just hidden (be hidden too). Be physically secure, keys divided and distributed, be unassailable. Privacy is security theater. You exist, it will be known if you keep doing it.

2025-12-14 17:20:11 UTC

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I will admit though, that you can't go backwards and un-leak your identity and so you should protect it now, when it's not something that is a threat to you.
It's just alot of work and the threats are so very fuzzy and hypothetical.
Use all the tools you can to protect your privacy, but really, that goes for everything. Use every tool you can to protect yourself from an uncertain future. Guns, Farms, Solar/Off-grid, non-kYC Bitcoin, Bitcoin in general, encrypt everything.

2025-12-14 17:03:32 UTC

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As for your idea that they could just kill all Bitcoiners...
That very much depends on where you are and who it is that might be coming for you. I think most of us already know if we live in a place where a gang might roll through and round us all up.
If they're not rounding up whole neighborhoods, if they're actually trying to identify Bitcoin wealth and bury it, prevent it from being used, they will have a very hard time.
A Bitcoin wallet can be accessed by multiple people across the globe from one another. Kill one, there's a backup key and person too. It doesn't work as game-theory to fix Bitcoin undermining the fiat printer. Its is very difficult to prevent Bitcoin slipping through your fingers if you squeeze it. This lack of friction is why it's better than gold shipments as payments, even though gold is more private and just as scarce for now.
China banned Bitcoin and they're not shy about forcing their citizens to behave a certain way. They would like to ban holding Bitcoin, I'm sure. It's not feasible to enforce it, and doing so without enforcement would betray their weakness in this regard.
If your local government is just performing a genocide, then Bitcoin and privacy is irrelevant.

2025-12-14 16:40:54 UTC

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You're not wrong, but that's not for Bitcoin to solve. Different tools for different threats. You don't resist the government with a pistol. But you can protect yourself from specific and real immediate threats. Bitcoin protects you from real and immediate monetary fuckery.
But if your community is at war with you, if you're at odds with the political reality of your tribe or local mafia, you need much more than Bitcoin or private communication. You need to leave. You need to find allies. Private communication is a very important tool for resistance fighters and refugees and such.
I was mostly arguing with Monero bots who think privacy is important enough to sacrifice some of Bitcoin's monetary foundations, auditability and scarcity, so we can bundle privacy ideology and sound money ideology at once. They're trying to get their private money on our sound money so they blend in better, and their privacy is improved. That use case is not the general one and it would make Bitcoin worse to bundle it with Bitcoin.
I've learned as a long time software architect, you should not try to do 2 things at once, you'll do them both poorly and introduce many issues and ultimately you'll have to start over and do both things separately.

2025-12-14 14:42:14 UTC

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Signal is PGP over texts and now its simply a good UI on end to end encryption with PGP basically.
We still have to build privacy tools, yes, but there's no friction to using Signal vs Messages. It's just people don't really care.
That's the thing.... people don't care about privacy. They care about sound money. They care about having the power to decide, even if you know I have Bitcoin, try and get it from me. You won't be able to. Even the strongest government in the world will have to convince me to help them acquire that.
Privacy is useful and some people want it. Sound money is essential and one is a slave if you don't have it. Priorities.

2025-12-12 17:11:33 UTC

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Privacy is everything you do. Your phone/device from the raw chip up to the OS. Privacy is a spectrum from Ted Kaczynski up to Samsung Google phone.
If you never interact with anything or anyone, ever, you have perfect digital privacy.
You'll notice quickly that you don't care about privacy when you have Trust. You only want privacy from those entities you don't trust. Those who run the networks or build the phones or who monitor your financial records and who threaten you for tax income or to enforce other laws.
I don't know if I recommend going through all the trouble for non-KYC Bitcoin, especially meet-ups with strangers. I don't trust them. non-KYC Bitcoin still has privacy leaks if your ISP knows your name or if you're using the non-KYC bitcoin to pay someone, that someone likely knows your name and if they get spied on or captured or corrupted, you're still boned.
If you want privacy from the tax authority trying to implement a wealth-tax, a confiscation of your Bitcoin, non-KYC Bitcoin helps tremendously.
If your local government or criminal affiliates are likely to literally steal from you or kidnap you and disappear you, then non-KYC Bitcoin is important for you.
However, If you want to THEN spend your Bitcoin without leaking your identity to a 3rd party, that's still almost impossible. Any spending to anyone betrays your identity and links it to this Bitcoin, unless its paying for a VPN service or some online only or digital service or product. You'll likely be giving them an address at least, if its not digital/online only.
The best privacy you can have in Bitcoin is both non-KYC Bitcoin and good UTXO management in order keep differently sourced Bitcoin in separate outputs so anytime you link yourself to these UTXO, by spending and receiving real physical goods or services at your actual location in real life, you're only linking a small amount of Bitcoin to your identity.
However, its really not possible to spend Bitcoin and remain anonymous. Even if the exchanges didn't need KYC. Someone would still know something and good ol' fashioned police work and parsing through logs and testimonies, would reveal you in some chain of transactions.

2025-12-12 16:13:01 UTC

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Privacy is your job. Bitcoin can be used privately.
Bitcoin needs to be transparently and auditable non-fiat.
It can't do that privately. We need to see how many sats are there, in all UTXOs, at any time.
Lightning is quite private or could be very private without this problem impacting the base layer.

2025-12-10 19:29:31 UTC

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Perhaps not 100 years ago, but during the post-Roman Empire times in Europe, there was a lot of decentralization and many people were left to live their lives without large and funded authorities to bother them, to a large degree 'authority' was just a local ethnic chief or a general or noble/land-owner.
Evaluating our freedom from the perspective of how many and how powerful of authorities exist to force your compliance. How much choice do you have in compliance? In purely technical terms, there were many fewer authorities enforcing anything upon people's of the past just because governments had fewer resources in the past because the GDP of the people was smaller and less effective.

2025-10-25 13:37:45 UTC

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Ok, there ya go.
We've arrived together at the Truth. It is censorship, and that's the point of it. Thank you.
I don't disagree that we need to adjust things. A discount for witness data doesn't seem appropriate anymore. However, you do want the censorship, you don't just want to keep the transaction propagation costs away from your personal node. You want the dominant implementation to be on your filtering configuration to effectuate censorship.
You want to effectuate censorship of some 'bad' transactions. That's a bit awkward for anarchists to swallow, to say the least. It's not inaccurate to say this, as established.
There's no threat to Bitcoin from these transactions. It's about costs and paying them for things you don't approve of. You don't want the network to pay, for your node to cost more for things that you don't approve of.
Bitcoin isn't what you approve of it being. It is what it is. It is what we make it. It isn't only what it was intended to be. It isn't a Constitution. It's alive. It becomes what we make it. I look forward to a world where it eats everything. Every title, every payment, every major legal document or contract.
Why not? Technically, not morally. Why, technically, could we not? Are we not preparing for millions of tx per sec on lightning? Oh are we afraid of the little government man who wants to hassle us for some garbage data on our nodes?
Defend yourself. Bitcoin shouldn't have to shapeshift to protect you.

2025-10-23 13:54:43 UTC

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If the result wasn't censorship of these transactions, then you wouldn't want to do it.

2025-10-23 13:43:18 UTC

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You're setting up a straw man, do you realize?
There's no such thing as censorship within a decentralized network. Every node does what it wants to do and doesn't by itself have power.
The RESULT is very similar, if there are defaults set up in a reference implementation or if enough nodes do this. So the people who maintain that reference implementation have to think about the result of their filters in aggregate. Not simply on that one node that's running the software. You are just running a node, but they have to consider the aggregate.
Because it results in censoring these transactions when enough nodes don't propagate them. Back channels are required to get around that emergent censorship of these valid transactions.
If the RESULT of these filters, given enough nodes implementing them, is a censoring of them from the mem-pool, other than using a black-market for transactions, then where would we say this censoring is coming from?
It's obviously right that it's not censorship for you to do this in your node configuration, but it also is very similar in result to censorship in the end. If the major implementation of our nodes is maintaining a feature that results in censorship, that is similar enough to a government managing policies about what we can do on Bitcoin, for me. I don't like it.

2025-10-20 13:44:15 UTC

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Did you read my post? You're free to do what you want, you don't get to make CORE write the code to do it.

2025-10-17 16:51:58 UTC

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I was under the assumption that they were always going to need this to dollarize and it's a huge win to actually get it without giving up something, like in an agreement with the IMF who would want assurances about x, y, z. Which is always an anchor on the economy and the country which ultimately dooms these nations to repeat bankruptcy.

2025-10-17 15:06:21 UTC

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It's more about the default. Defaults matter. You can roll your own node software with a small change to the main repo, in your own repository, no one is even trying to stop you.
What people are trying to stop is the DEFAULT being relaxed because defaults matter and make up a large amount of the market.
Pressuring Core who are also free and independent and not working for you or your specific interests, to maintain a default because you like it, even when there are externalities and costs and long term downsides for Bitcoin because you disapprove of the content that would be permitted once the defaults are relaxed is kind of censorship isn't it?
Wanting a governing body to maintain a definition of what is spam and what isn't is exactly the type of thing Bitcoiners should be digusted by and fight against.

2025-09-28 12:38:26 UTC

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It's a bug fix. It's not a big change. We have created two different mem-pools. This is a bad outcome and needs a bug fix. It forces developers to hack around and find private and privileged access to the mem-pools they need.
Users will have to go through centralized companies to get this access for themselves, to use these apps. Instead of these apps being decentralized and serving the politics of Bitcoin they will be centralized and serve standard politics.
You've stopped nothing, you've only made things harder for everyone. Present and future node operators and developers and users.

2025-09-27 14:56:35 UTC

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Why is discrimination necessary? If it was necessary I would presume we need a fork to make this consensus. This is the same type of thing you would have heard from the State if we gave them an option to help design the new system. "We need to have the authority to stop bad TX."
However, here, you're just putting bad TX on a more exploitable and longer-term more costly location, UTXO set. Costly for yourself, as a node operator.
There is no option on the table to make Bitcoin purely monetary, you get that right? That's gone. We already added features, changed consensus.

2025-09-15 12:53:08 UTC

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WASPy fuckers aren't helping the common man out, either.

2025-09-12 14:13:48 UTC

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My values are simply to keep your promises. We have two different definitions of marriage, and that's fine, but we don't have to hate each other over it, like you're trying to.
Charlie Kirk wasn't trying to enslave 50% of the population to their male guardians, you nob. You know it. He simply considered marriage to be a different thing than your secular government certificate. He is saying the joining of two families and two individuals, before God and on God's terms, as defined in the Bible; well it has these terms. Take them or leave them.
You don't get to define marriage from your perspective and ignore other people's culture and what they mean when they speak the word. Just like the woke mob don't get to tell me what to call a biological female when I refer to them.
You purposefully reject other people's points of view and then accuse them of hate! You're in the same camp as the murderer of Charlie Kirk. There's no way to have a discussion about anything if you define it so that you get to hate Charlie Kirk for 'wanting to enslave 50% of everyone'. It's so absurd that I shouldn't even give you the time of day but since you seem to be a legit person and not a bot, maybe you can hear this and learn.

2025-09-11 13:22:11 UTC

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Doesn't he hold you to your vows? Or does he let you act like a child and betray your promises?
That's what we're talking about, not a King making the rules. Vows, before god.

2025-09-10 21:16:02 UTC

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Don't get married if you're not into it.

2025-05-28 17:27:25 UTC

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Inheritance is hard. People we love, technically speaking, aren't going to be as comfortable with using software at all. to knowing what is important or not. they use the app as an individual who helps socially secure recoverability as well as be defined as the heir. the ease of this and the security of a hardware source of entropy makes it very attractive for even tech folks. all of the hard power benefits of self custody direction of funds and control and also providing corporate service for recoverability and inheritance both, at the cost of privacy for your utxos. thats fair enough for non dissidents, i think.

2025-05-15 14:24:34 UTC

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outline and planning.
chatgpt needs all your requirements well documented, you can't just start asking for shit, its gonna make up what it hasn't been told is your goal. Typically devs don't plan because they have to learn the plan as they develop the real requirements as they go along.
llms work best with too much input and if you already know 99% of the tech stack and patterns and deployment env. you'll use.
they save you the typing, not the knowing what is needed.

2025-05-02 17:52:17 UTC

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What stops them today is this default. What stops them after is desire and incentives and sunk costs. The more apps that build around this, the worse it is to get them to fix it.

2025-02-04 13:52:25 UTC

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I don't disagree with a very legal and open drug policy, but that's not the problem. The problem is that on the Mexican side of the border, the criminal organizations are in power and no amount of legal competition in the drug trade is going to fix that without the Mexican government having the incentives to secure that area.
It is mostly impacting Americans and their streets, so Mexico looks the other way. It costs too much pain at home to fix. America should have declared these criminal armies a threat many many decades ago. Like other non-national threats, if the local government isn't going to do anything about it, America will just walk right in and do something about it.
Also, no one wants Fentanyl. It is used to dilute the real drugs. It's fake chinese drugs, like other fake chinese products. Why do we want these in America, even if you want legal drugs? We want American drugs, good ones, legal ones.

2025-02-02 23:03:38 UTC

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Indeed. They are taxes that raise revenue the same as the other taxes but they unavoidably benefit the workers of America who will see additional jobs and local value-add industry creation.
All things being equal, less taxes is better but after 50 years of globalism and hollowing out of America's middle class and middle fly-over country, I'm into taxes that benefit America against a world of nationalist populists who took advantage of the US in globalism's name to benefit their own workers and industry.
This game exists, we need to play it instead of pretending we're above it to our own disadvantage.

2025-01-26 14:45:55 UTC

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While a 'progressive' tax system sounds like an enlightened thing it is ultimately a way to give someone power to manage outcomes.
The power enable tax policy to choose winners and even punish political opponents with disruptive audits, as we've seen this very election cycle is the great evil of this system.
While it sounds like the poor people get ripped off here, the rich people actually have less power in a national sales tax. With a complex administrative tax regime, wealthy people can afford to find and arrange their assets to avoid the taxes. Poor people cannot, even if the tax code is structured to be kinder to them, they don't have the means to work that system, when they don't have the resources or expertise to do so.
A national sales tax would be difficult to game, if done correctly, and placed on all goods, not just retail goods, but also homes and other investments and high frequency trading, etc.
If it was truly universal, it would give rich people no real options. Pay the tax or don't buy assets/don't cash out gains. There's no way to trick a system that's that simple and universal.
There will be some people who are not immediately better off. We should consider all time ahead of us, and not specific individuals alive today. Of course, I don't have to get elected, so....

2025-01-04 14:46:54 UTC

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You're not wrong, but Bitcoin is like a gun. It's not really super useful as an individual, alone, if your threat model is the massive government you live under.
It's about cost-benefit, and we win this calculation.
So what, if they know where we all live. They have to come confiscate it. If they want to spend their resources confiscating, they will take from Blackrock and Coinbase and real sovereign Bitcoin owners will be far too expensive to attack in aggregate.
Be expensive to steal from! It's so easy. Make an exit plan, like if you were living in Syria or something. Guess what, they can't stop you. That's why they won't come for you.
Like trying to squeeze water, it will escape through your fingers. They'd rather have your sales taxes and none of your Bitcoin than to see you escape entirely.
Don't stick your head out, and be the first target, but there is no hope for the State in your proposed scenario. Let them come. They make it obvious their weak position when they do. This isn't 1933 where the only people who understand money and gold and realpolitik of international political and banking relationships were insiders and experts.
If you prepare for conflict, you prevent it. Bitcoin is maximum preparation. Come what may, I have the options.

2024-12-19 15:37:40 UTC

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50m per BTC in my lifetime means the dollar system has collapsed and so option 1 fails due to hyperinflation of the things you value, healthcare and food and energy, priced in your fixed income.

2024-12-10 15:10:05 UTC

jury nullification is a thing. Tell a friend

2024-11-01 13:43:47 UTC

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I wrote in Ron Paul in 2016. I voted for Trump in 2020.
As the other comment said, 'They' were so obviously bothered by Trump, there must be something about him I should like.

2024-10-18 14:11:50 UTC

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I think you haven't gone far enough down the rabbit hole. Bitcoin is ONLY it's people, it's consensus among the nodes run by users.
Bitcoin is nothing but those individuals choosing software and running the code that is Bitcoin. If you're not doing it, if you're apathetic about it, you're relying on others and trusting their notion of the rules and the existing consensus.
Bitcoin is us. Run by us.
I agree with Lopp on this. The greatest threat to Bitcoin is a future of mainstream acceptance and capture of the ideology and changing what people think Bitcoin is and how it does it. If enough minds are changed and enough of them are running nodes, Bitcoin can be whatever we/they want.

2024-10-14 13:30:59 UTC

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Most people want to think their Doctors are this ethically pure, like wonderful life saving, selfless person.
Man, they became a Doctor to get money and status. They're monkeys, like us. They're meeting Mommy and Daddy's expectations.
Doctors are people too. They've just spent alot more time studying and doing what the 'establishment' tell them to do. They are in bubbles, like everyone, and have their own interests and incentives and bias. That bias is dangerously predetermined by schooling and insurance policies. (They like to get paid.)
They go along to get along with poisoning and farming the public for healthcare income.

2024-10-02 13:15:17 UTC

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"Hey hungry, want me to make you a sandwhich?"
Yes, I do.

2024-09-21 13:51:32 UTC

GM☕

2024-09-18 13:06:06 UTC

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Yes, proof of work could fix this, easily. But it is a coordination problem. Clients add work but relays don't care. Relays wanna get paid because they cost money to run and maintain, your work didn't pay them. Other clients don't really care about work, until most of the messages have work and individuals filter out messages without work.
Chick or egg problem.
The better way to use 'work' is to mine Bitcoin.
I agree with your supposition that pay per post is better than pay for relay access. Relay software doesn't support this yet but I imagine it's going toeventually. Again, a client has to support the relay that supports this. You need an integrated wallet and a NIP for this standard type of pay to post event so that any client and any relay that supports this will get along.
We're in the first 3 years. It'll get there.

2024-09-16 12:50:08 UTC

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I think it's both. We want good clients that can use dumb relays, if we're locked out of the powerful, centralized, popular and easy to target relays.
We want powerful relays with caching and searching and spam fighting, when we're not under attack and we want a better experience for our normie friends.

2024-08-29 13:02:16 UTC

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Nope, I was wrong, you had me by 2 months.

2024-08-29 12:56:53 UTC

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I think I posted the first Roll Tide on NOSTR, last year.

2024-08-18 16:41:18 UTC

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You're not describing a State, you're describing a culture. One that respects the property rights of others. The protocol to enforce this requires neighbors and militia, self interested in mutual protection. A State can enforce this protocol, draft its citizens, tax and spend, but it doesn't have exclusive ability to accomplish this.
We do all want such a community to exist within, but assuming a State as the only technological means of collective organization assumes there must be something, ie the State, ABOVE the individuals. This permits it to prioritize itself. It's existence must be, before peace can be. This is not so. This prioritizes the State over the people and the individuals. This inevitably corrupts every state, everywhere.
The argument, as I read it, is this. 'State' as a word, as a concept, is dated. It assumes itself, technologically, in order to organize people into peaceful coexistence. That is a lie. We organized before we made a State. The State is a technology, nothing more. It was the best we had and so it has been seared into our minds as foundational. It is not. The Nations of peoples, our tribal allegiances, and our mutual interests are foundational. The State is just tech we use and it does so much harm with this idea that it must always be, that we solved this problem 500 years ago with modern nation states and to ever be without an authority over us, is impossible.
We must strive to be Nations, not States. People before and above any organizational principle or protocol, adopted with Consensus, with liberty to divide, to fork off, to be free of capture and enslavement to a secular majority or oligarchy of the State.

2024-08-18 14:13:31 UTC

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and Google has said they will stop making Chromecasts, also. The best 'tv' device IMO

2024-08-16 19:20:46 UTC

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of course not, you still need to make yourself dangerous and costly to attack, the same way Bitcoin must do that.
but that is also something individuals can do. It is only our modern world that would have you believe that it is natural for individuals to depend on others for such critical defense.
A few individuals with nuclear weapons can keep even the greatest army in the world at bay. North Korea is no shining example of freedom for its citizens, but geopolitically, it is the most free nation on earth. It can hack, steal, launder, and organize itself and its society as its leaders see fit. It can do anything it wants because its too costly to attack.
Bitcoin does that. You can do that, too. Many insurgents around the world do this quite easily, and they prove very difficult to destroy.
Being free is uncomfortable, but it is possible. Will the masses choose this? Never. But that is only to say that most people don't want freedom, most people want safe slavery.
What do you want?

2024-08-16 13:57:46 UTC

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The arbiter will be protocols, not coercion through violence.
You don't need a violent monopoly to do enforcement of a protocol. Violent monopolies take over the things people were doing anyway, to give themselves legitimacy. People do the things they want, without coercion, even governing our society. Yes, people like and want governance. They don't want governments.
Bitcoin has shown us how to develop a consensus and enforce it, without any empowered agency or government. We can see with languages, that we naturally participate and adapt to protocols, without a central arbiter of what is 'English', etc.
The only functional difference between current forms of government will be the centralization of it. Instead of every government function being held by the same small group of powerful people, each protocol will run on the nodes or brains of people actually using it. There would be decentralized governance, divided among many protocols.
I do agree, that we shouldn't tear down what we have. The protocols to replace them don't exist. We don't want chaos. We want anarchy.
Anarchy is simply being free to try alternatives, and if they work, being free of the coercion of the existing government. That last part is the trick. How do we try things and keep them, if they work, when the existing governments claim that the only functional system must involve centralization of power in their hands?
At that point, when we have our alternative, like Bitcoin, we must reject them and fight them. It is inevitable.

2024-08-12 13:09:58 UTC

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Oh my. That looks like the legit, never frozen, fried okra. You can't get that shit at any restaurant. Proof of Work, here, folks.

2024-07-25 13:19:10 UTC

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Anarchists build things that don't rely on Authority. Non-anarchists build things like Facebook and AWS and Azure.
Anarchists build NOSTR and Bitcoin.
In order to engineer a system that rejects Authority, you must be a person who can imagine a functional and peaceful world without Authority. That's an Anarchist.

2024-07-25 13:05:05 UTC

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Anarchy isn't chaos. Anarchy is the market. Is the market (in it's totally free form) anti-social?
Does the anarchy of a free market produce chaos? It produces innovation and it allocates wealth to the best among us, and it does all this without empowering any individual to a privileged position. It permits radical reorganization. It's anarchy, but it's not chaos.
It's order that is natural and that survives on its merits, not because order is enforced. It's still order, but it's righteous unlike authority, which is the alternative.
The question for you, do you want an authority in your life, or do you want Anarchy?

2024-07-25 12:21:08 UTC

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Retarded anarchists built Bitcoin and NOSTR and TCP/IP. What have Libertarians ever done?

2024-07-24 12:22:00 UTC

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Weekly works for me - You can't quit, sorry.

2024-07-22 12:36:12 UTC

Does anyone know of another 'single provider signal booster' regulated by the FCC other than Nextivity's CEL-FI GO X?
There's 20 of the cheap broad spectrum weak ass boosters, but only one actually effective booster available?
Hurray for our "free market' FCC regulated capitalism.

2024-07-20 13:10:15 UTC

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fail

2024-07-18 12:55:29 UTC

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This will not scale but not because the technology has failed. This won't scale because many people want to fight and rage. We few that are here now are not rageful, but hopeful. We're building, not burning.
Once it's built, it will serve the rageful and the hopeful alike. They will each find their people, and find each other too.
Treat the rageful with patience and they may eventually see there is hope, if they decide to look forward instead of back.

2024-07-14 12:56:24 UTC

gm ☕ 🌞

2024-07-12 17:56:48 UTC

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Exactly. That would be epic. thanks

2024-07-11 14:20:27 UTC

@npub1sd3…vwne - Hey, love your content. Any chance on a jig for using a hand-router (not table router) to make shaker style cabinet doors? (to cut the groove, mostly, for the panel)
Thanks.

2024-07-11 12:45:10 UTC

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Who cares what they tell centralized spot markets?
Bring it on. All of it. I seriously want them to be at all out war with Bitcoin. There must be a demonstration of Power, in order for most people to accept that it is immune to the laws of Nations
It is inevitable, lets get on with it.
The people crying about what happens in Washington D.C. are in business serving Bitcoiners and their business is at risk.
The question is, how many of them are willing to fight for this Revolution in Liberty? Like Shapeshift did, discarding years of effort to reengineer the whole business in order to reject KYC/AML regulations. Stop crying about Washington politicians.
Prepare your businesses to reject the State, if they reject Bitcoin.

2024-07-10 12:48:53 UTC

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I can't find this anywhere else.
#note1mu2…jf50

2024-07-07 12:18:57 UTC

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roll tide

2024-06-30 14:15:45 UTC

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https://uooutlands.com

2024-06-30 14:14:48 UTC

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Outlands? or Retail? Don't waste your time playing anything but https://uooutlands.com

2024-06-15 12:34:24 UTC

gm you fantastic ungovernable madlads, you

2024-06-06 12:39:41 UTC

GM PV #coffeechain #zapmebaby

2024-02-03 13:04:17 UTC

gm nostr, who still follows me!?

2023-06-20 03:12:19 UTC

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BBQ

2023-06-11 14:29:24 UTC

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weird, seems fixed now that I've turned it off and on again a few times.

2023-06-11 14:26:14 UTC

@npub1wnw…95l8 why do i have to revoke and re-authorize every like/post now with nos2x?

2023-06-11 14:20:52 UTC

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360 v8 - dodge/chrysler

2023-05-15 13:13:28 UTC

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We've been painting on cave walls for 50,000 years. Accept that Bitcoin is the most useful and permanent cave wall that we've ever found or developed. People will be writing 'I is here' on it, until people are no more.

2023-05-10 13:03:39 UTC

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They won't though, not ever. The entire value proposition of their tokens, vs the marketplace of garbage like it, is that it's on the rare block space and nation state resistant Bitcoin chain.

2023-05-05 13:39:43 UTC

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Why not both?

2023-05-03 12:45:45 UTC

@npub1wnw…95l8 I am much disappoint. USD is the default currency? lol

2023-04-26 13:52:27 UTC

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was already watching this!

2023-04-22 15:58:39 UTC

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This is exactly it. This banking crisis isn't over.

2023-04-18 13:27:33 UTC

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I want them to try.
Even someone like yourself can't believe fully until the work is proved.
Until they come at us with all of their might, many will still say "wait until they decide they want you dead".
Fuck around, find out.

2023-04-18 13:23:59 UTC

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I feel attacked

2023-04-16 13:29:52 UTC

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pictures of feet are apparently very popular

2023-04-16 13:27:42 UTC

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There's coffee/good morning posts, there's good night posts, there's Bitcoin posts/macro economic stufff, and posts about Nostr.

2023-04-16 13:24:33 UTC

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Have you ever read Wendell Berry?
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_cd011e018361ea432fcb6ebdef8982d9ae27539323caecf8a4b8dd0d79b0a134.png

2023-04-16 13:08:27 UTC

The greatest thing about Nostr is coming back after a week and finding it 100% better. #[0] #[1] #[2] #[3]

2023-04-16 13:01:36 UTC

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welcome, sir

2023-04-14 14:26:38 UTC

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Nice. Thanks.

2023-04-12 13:46:14 UTC

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Brain wallet is for travelling with enough funds needed for getting home/getting out of trouble or for any purchases you'll expect to make while abroad.
True cold storage, distributed keys or multi-sig, is for long term protection from violence. A brain wallet (or a loaded HW wallet, etc) can be taken from you by torture. Anything you have immediate physical access to is at risk to violence or kidnapping. The wrench attack. You are not trained to resist torture, you will fail.

2023-04-12 13:10:55 UTC

GM I've been away too long, Nostr

2023-03-31 14:02:09 UTC

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Banks are closed Saturday, that's the joke. Lets do it right now! =)

2023-03-31 13:53:47 UTC

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#[0]
This is so great.

2023-03-28 15:53:03 UTC

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Well, they have to mail you the hardware but the ISP doesn't know your address, only Calyx who would hopefully require a warrant as a 'Privacy' focused non-profit.

2023-03-28 13:35:43 UTC

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Calyx Institute
https://calyxinstitute.org/

2023-03-28 04:05:46 UTC

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It's like an email. You don't say anything in an email, you wouldn't want the whole company to see. Because emails get forwarded, cause thats how email works.

2023-03-28 04:00:10 UTC

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The problem isn't that people shouldn't share the note with other relays, it's that they could and inevitably would. The note is self-authenticating, if it's valid, if it's Nostr. The server isn't the database of record, or anything. If it's read by someone other than you, it can be shared and instead of it being someone just claiming you said this, it would be as if you said it yourself, and all of Nostr would accept it as valid and authored by a public key.

2023-03-28 03:38:40 UTC

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Totally absurd. Nostream is not in possession of any data that can be considered personal or private, it's literally the point of all the data that is sent to the nostream service, to be shared openly.
I don't live in California, but I wouldn't worry much, if I were.

2023-03-28 03:33:40 UTC

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There's no such thing as a private relay, only a secured relay. Someone will have access to the notes, and since any user/client can verify that you signed the note, any of those people or their clients can republish the note, and often do, to any relays they might want.

2023-03-28 03:13:47 UTC

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The insurance is in the operational security. There's no need for further insurance. Except life insurance and perhaps physical security guards.

2023-03-27 13:38:46 UTC

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The real issue, for me, is that Microsoft Defender is producing a false positive for
Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml
I should just build from source, I guess. I'm lazy.

2023-03-27 13:24:31 UTC

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100%
Consensus is hard as fuck, but if there's an existential issue, like the bug from 2010 that created infinite Bitcoin, everybody is aligned and consensus is automatic.

2023-03-27 13:19:16 UTC

Coinbase wants an 'inflation tracking stablecoin - flatcoin' on its new chain ...
Since someone would have to manage the inflation measure, this is nothing more than another managed fiat trick.
Bitcoin is the inflation tracking stablecoin.

2023-03-26 19:21:26 UTC

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https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b690bba2121e1bcbd3533a503424a4705fbf649167902d940446dfafbb664381?nocache=1
Virus Total says its clean

2023-03-26 19:20:15 UTC

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I have the 0.5.2/gossip.0.5.2.msi
I don't think it's a virus, I think the build config is putting 0.5.3 in there when it's really 0.5.2. I didn't get updated but Windows thinks there's a virus in here, for some reason, when I don't think there is, given the SHA 256 checks out. It's the installer you produced.
the 256-SHA hash is correct but it says this:
Subject: Gossip 0.5.3 Installer
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_0bfe508f63faaaf762aea82538b06fe50dae5a484d5de64759e8b6b867cd5a93.png

2023-03-26 18:45:26 UTC

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It works for me when I run the MSI manually and tell it to go ahead anyway, but I presume it has an update feature because occasionally it stops launching because the binary has changed.
Because the 'new version' wasn't on github, I checked the installed programs list and see its 0.5.3 so something did update the program and change the binary.
Perhaps the auto-update feature can be disabled on Windows, if it's not going to be signed because it stops working if the binary changes.
I don't know where this 0.5.3 version came from, if there is no 0.5.3 release or auto-updater.
I haven't run it successfully or decrypted my key with it, so I'm probably ok, but something changed the install on Windows without my input.

2023-03-26 16:17:55 UTC

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Fighting is a waste of time. This is market/anarchic forces in a nutshell.
We don't make them pay by validating and strugging to win the game they define. We make them pay by the exit option. If we don't exercise this option, as a culture/community, it might as well not exist.
We can do this with local ad-hoc circular and/or digital economy, but this will be hard in an unfriendly jurisdiction, and risky to a variety of levels. It's possible to do this, but the level of knowledge of operational security required to do so successfully grows exponentially large and means that as your advesary is more capable, your ability to use Bitcoin requires more and more capability to avoid severe consequences of confiscation, prosecution and death.
The 100% sure-fire way to avoid those consequences, regardless of your technical capability, is to physically leave, and remove your body from their direct authority.

2023-03-26 13:41:56 UTC

#[0] My windows install of gossip was updated to 0.5.3 but won't launch because you're not signing the releases, but the 0.5.3 release isn't up on github.

2023-03-25 17:54:53 UTC

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I'd say that we're stuck with our past. We're not likely to throw off our governments. We're building infrastructure out into the wild so people can escape, but we'll never be rid of them. Like with biological systems, when the environment gets tough and resources thin, creatures get smaller. Governments will get smaller.
Ideally we remove from them all responsibilities, that we can. Anything thats really just a protocol, desirable coordination systems, easily voluntary. Titling Real Estate and cars, smart property, Marriage, Money, Digital Rights, Decentralized Identity, Financial contracts/products, decentralized smart grid/power systems, decentralized spectrum management. Whatever we can make a protocol for, that doesn't require violence in some degree, like police, courts, security. Deal with the rest with existing governments to minimize bloodshed.
If your money and real estate titles and other protocols and grids wouldn't be impacted, you're more likely to choose to revolt against an authority who is being oppressive, but that will merely put some other group in charge of physical security with a different ideology. The devil you know is typically preferrable to the devil you don't.

2023-03-25 16:01:14 UTC

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I do agree with 'fix the money, fix the world', but I think the tendency to desire government to take responsibility will not be fixed.
What will be fixed is merely the government's ability to have power too far beyond what is required to execute the responsibility it takes on.
To truly be rid of government is cultural and there's no environmental pressure that would disincentivize government, even if money is fixed.
We've had governments for 6000-8000 years now, long before fiat banking 500 years ago. My hope is that once we fix the money the world will be free to organize local communities around any culture, religious or secular, corporate or cooperative, anarchist and self sufficient or communist.
However, heirarchical states and their militiaries and corporations are just too good at managing resources and directing effort. I don't currently see a realistic alternative. It's really not feasible to do what I previously suggest, to take all the responsibilities back and do the work as an individual.
You'd never 'gain' in the market, competing with the big corporate/national machines, so you'd run out of resources and then go bankrupt. You have to coordinate and organize as a union, cooperative or government around your cultural identity, and then you're back to the same old games.