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2024-08-22 14:24:25

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Lord Malacath

2024-08-18 16:41:18

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

2024-07-24 16:20:04

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We are Bitcoin Nation. There is no State. There is no body. We each choose the protocol we enforce at our node. The resulting consensus is downstream of the individuals. In a State, helpers are directed and their actions downstream of State interests.

2024-07-24 12:22:00

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

2024-07-24 12:21:02

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Nooooooo ...

2024-07-20 13:10:15

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fail

2024-07-14 12:56:24

gm ☕ 🌞

2024-07-11 14:20:27

@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

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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.

2024-06-30 15:50:31

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Outlands is a player run free-shard. They've basically remade the game to be actually good

2024-06-30 14:15:45

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https://uooutlands.com

2024-06-30 14:14:48

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

2024-06-15 12:34:24

gm you fantastic ungovernable madlads, you

2024-06-06 12:39:41

GM PV #coffeechain #zapmebaby

2024-02-03 13:04:17

gm nostr, who still follows me!?

2023-06-11 16:45:40

Is #RocketLeague here yet? I'm pumped for the final 2 matches in Europe

2023-06-11 16:43:23

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"but mah cholesterol" - lol
realizing the pharmacy and doctor monopoly via regulation and force is just as bad as the money monopoly is when I realized the whole fiat world is a lie, every damn piece of it, even the profession of healing and helping, and especially food. In cultures where food is sacred and unchanged by industry, they're far far healthier, wonder what thats about.

2023-06-11 14:29:24

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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

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

2023-06-11 14:20:52

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360 v8 - dodge/chrysler

2023-05-15 13:13:28

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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 13:19:47

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In this game of 'art', even in the real physical art world, higher costs just mean higher pay. This isn't going anywhere. They will pay. Hopefully, one day, it's not dong jpegs, but it's titles and marriage contracts, etc.
Embrace BRC-20 - Bitcoin has the most unassailable property rights regime in the history of mankind. Money was never going to be the only application for writing upon that monolith.

2023-05-10 13:03:39

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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 14:08:21

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Thanks for this

2023-05-05 13:58:48

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You're not doing the same thing. There's paying and there's working.

2023-05-05 13:39:43

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Why not both?

2023-05-03 12:45:45

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

2023-05-03 12:44:21

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Great work!

2023-04-24 13:49:52

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That was my favorite part too.

2023-04-18 13:38:15

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#plebchain

2023-04-18 13:27:33

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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

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I feel attacked

2023-04-18 13:20:13

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This.
Debt is a history book that tears down the idea of a barter economy in economic antiquity. It doesn't really say much of any meaning about Debt or modern economics, etc.
It's a fun read, though.

2023-04-16 13:29:52

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pictures of feet are apparently very popular

2023-04-16 13:27:42

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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

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

2023-04-16 13:08:27

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

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welcome, sir

2023-04-12 13:46:14

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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

GM I've been away too long, Nostr

2023-04-12 13:02:59

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Looking great. Let me in! THanks.

2023-03-31 15:23:28

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You deserve a break.

2023-03-31 14:02:09

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

2023-03-31 13:53:47

#[0]
This is so great.

2023-03-30 14:40:49

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I don't think there is a right size.
The problem is that Iris is a website and its fully implementing the protocol.
The local data issue is due to a scaling problem in the protocol. If you query as you want to view, you're potentially querying a relay you don't typically connect to or you're querying a relay thats very busy. You have overhead to connect to it perhaps or you're waiting on your turn. This is worse because everyone has 7+ relays and at least they're gonna query more than one to get a fastest return.
The amount of work the relays do in responding to client requests scales poorly. They rate limit these requests to keep from being DDoS.
I think we'll see that the websites/phone apps need to use a middle layer service and index that scales better and pulls notes only as you need them, and not just every note seen for only a few hours or days.
Fully implementing the protocol, a global protocol for every message basically, is going to need some hardware resources. It doesn't seem to work great in a light phone or web app.
Alternatively, you can limit things to only the last 1-3 hours, some small set of friends of friends, instead of friends of friends of friends or more, which is what it seems like it's doing if you close and reopen #[3]. It doesn't get slow or unresponsive, but it only has a few hours of the global feed. It seems to have no follower feed until global has synced those notes, and then you return to the follower feed.
The problem is that the relays don't respond promptly to queries so we need to sync and save every message seen, for viewing it later on demand. If the relays were fast like professional cloud services with indexed databases, etc. then we might be able to dump the sync data and just query as we go, which is how a web app is supposed to work.
The data needs to be removed from the web site/browser cache. That will never work well enough for the amount of data used in a day or week, from 5-10 relays. It needs to be put into a real database, a real cache, a real index and that would only be possible for a service style client like #[5] and Nostragram, or a full database backed desktop client like #[6]

2023-03-28 15:53:03

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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

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Calyx Institute
https://calyxinstitute.org/

2023-03-28 04:05:46

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 13:19:16

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 19:20:15

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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

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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 18:39:15

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Thats a good question:
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_a980476b49ff66c9807468cfcbe64262502f614ba540933901d30d2d9037539d.png

2023-03-26 16:17:55

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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

#[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 16:01:14

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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.

2023-03-25 14:56:26

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Populations are pretty easy to model. Individuals not so much.

2023-03-25 14:54:08

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meant to reply:
#[1]

2023-03-25 14:52:57

Humans are lazy. We want to shed responsibility. That's the natural part. Water flows downhilll; humans seek less responsibility, more leisure.
We will always choose, in some degree, to give over some power if it relieves us of a responsibility that makes room in our mind and lives to focus more accutely on the responsibilities we choose. Work, family, etc.
Removing the friction of turnover is the most important bit. Governments, Massive and central, are entirely too hard to turn-over. To turn-over a bad policy about schools would require violent revolution against the military, the courts, the police, the roads, the power plants, etc. all.
We need micro-government such that we can turn over the schools without disrupting the police. Turn over the militia without turning over the money we have saved our whole lives in. Turn over the power plant administration without losing the court of law.

2023-03-25 14:34:20

#[1]

2023-03-25 14:30:53

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I presume there's a way to use my nos2x extension on this notabot thing, but it doesn't work for me. Am I doing something wrong?

2023-03-25 14:26:20

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There is also a 'nonce' in the tags array that has a '16' value at the end of the nonce array. I think thats what gossip is using because 16 bits is only 2 characters, I think, while I have 4 or 5 zeros on some of these posts, so it's not counting the zeros, I don't think.

2023-03-25 14:18:51

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It seems the "id" has leading zeros if work has been done. At least the way gossip has implemented it.
#[1] would probably have a technical description for you.
Just a little icon somewhere would be my recommendation, and maybe a number of zero bits next to it.
Thanks

2023-03-25 14:13:56

POW=16 is basically unnoticable on my laptop, using gossip client.
I really think the clients should at least render if POW has been done. Then worry about how to use the fact later. #[4] #[3] #[1] #[2]

2023-03-25 13:45:42

#[1]

2023-03-25 13:43:57

#[0]

2023-03-24 23:13:17

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I think it may be valuable for the relay configuration to permit a 'block' flag?

2023-03-24 15:37:28

The thing about military history and the nature of power is that you don't get the benefit of a weapon/technology advantage, socially or economically, without demonstrating your power. This typically involves bloodshed. It may yet require that, as far as history tells us. If you're not willing to suffer the consequences of violence to defend yourself, you will be conquered. You'll have to demonstrate the consequences to get the benefit. (See: NK missle tests, nuclear blast tests)
Bitcoin is a power, an agency in the world independent of all others. As if my own body acts or my engine burns, my missle fly, my miner hash, my node verify. Sovereign. It doesn't matter the mathematics of the monetary policy, if people don't see its power demonstrated they will continue to fear the reprisals or capture and control. We need to demonstrate our ability to evade capture or reprisals.
We should welcome all attacks. Attacking Bitcoin is improving Bitcoin. When we demonstrate ourselves invincible, they will have a choice to make. Stop money printing or die.
https://nvlupin.blob.core.windows.net/images/van/TSM/TSMGP/1/55678/images/GP_Bitcoin_StickerDesign_3x3_Skull-Photo_0323_V2.png

2023-03-24 14:19:32

Why is this a thing:
https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip/commit/d61acc2dd6f86e6a9d7df247567740ef3bb8c6e4
"Setting to block mostr"
#[0]

2023-03-24 14:14:36

#[0]

2023-03-24 14:10:54

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Not exactly. That scheme has the work verification happen at the clients, allowing a filtering by users for what has sufficient work. I'm not all that excited about that kind of scheme. The relays need the help with spam, not the clients, if we're going to avoid the mistakes of SMTP.

2023-03-24 14:04:53

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There are a few. I think Amethyst on android has channels.
https://garnet.nostrian.net/ is the one I've played with a bit.

2023-03-24 13:53:55

#[0]

2023-03-24 13:45:34

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NIPS-28 - chat channels

2023-03-24 13:42:14

#[0]

2023-03-24 13:37:42

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Same

2023-03-24 13:36:26

#[0]
Saving this for later.

2023-03-24 13:33:35

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2023-03-24 13:32:45

#[0]

2023-03-24 13:29:13

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Silver lost its monetary utility to gold a century ago. It's not money. Gold is still money for now, but you want to skate to where the puck will be, not where the puck is.

2023-03-24 13:21:11

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2023-03-24 13:18:34

#[0]

2023-03-23 15:54:52

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The middle ground is that you require proof of work for free users, allowing paid users to bypass the work.
I agree that making a relay operator do spam prevention, basically as a full time job, is a great way to repeat the mistakes of SMTP.
But our focus, as a community, on mobile clients at this time makes it difficult to pursue without alot of pain in the UX. I think we need to get serious about spam, though. Before natural protocol ossification happens.

2023-03-22 14:24:21

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I can fix it in 2 hours. With your help I can fix it in 2 days.

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I think the best solution to this is to use a hybrid cloud, phone and brain/hardware wallet. Fully self-custodial but with less stress on a person to always remember the seed phrase that may be loaded onto a hardware wallet if needed (if the phone+cloud is unavailable)
A service that is sorta like this is https://nunchuk.io/, also I think @#[0] is building something like this at Block with their own hardware wallet development, last I heard.