Ben Eng

https://www.jetpen.com/

I try to contribute substantive content to advance dialectical conversations.

Fewer words. More punch.
Become unstoppable and ungovernable.

Public Key

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NIP-05 Address

ben@www.jetpen.com

NIP-57 Address

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relay.damus.io

relay.noswhere.com

Author Public Key

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Last Notes

2024-09-01 20:53:28

This is an interesting perspective: "Is illegal Bitcoin a good thing?" Legitimization of Bitcoin allows tentacles of regulatory capture and state involvement to infiltrate the ecosystem. When BTC is illegal, state influence is excluded, and BTC participant are properly incentivized to build resilience and protect the network.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1knFLL9TPuLtGVdSRtDEF7?si=xPM_jnwIRUqZ4du4cWIdqQ&t=3839&pi=-VAnffLERDa94

2024-06-30 17:23:43

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I'm guessing, as fees rise due to increased demand for settling on chain and due to the reward disappearing for miners, the fee for spending might exceed the value of the UTXO.

2024-06-09 22:36:36

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"far right" is only used as an epithet by those among the far wrong.

2024-05-26 13:47:29

I google-searched "holesail peer to peer" and it found nothing relevant. Using brave search found it as the first result along with holepunch-related pages. Looks like Google is down-ranking or censoring this.

2023-11-24 01:41:04

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If the app gets deleted, do the keys get lost along with the Bitcoin? I don't see a way of exporting a recovery phrase from the app.

2023-09-04 19:21:23

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Do you drown them in ketchup?

2023-09-02 16:58:38

@npub1h8n…rpev appreciating Bitcoin Audible for teaching so much. I wonder if maybe on the Bitcoin security topic, you could explore the threat analysis of the attack vectors that authoritarians will use against "fix the money, fix the world". You've touched on it before in episodes (ie., ordinals) where you remind us that provable ownership a digital token does not protect you from physical force against your person and your property. Therefore, what Bitcoin actually can fix is inflation (fiat counterfeiting, theft of purchasing power), but it cannot fix the state stealing income and wealth.

2023-09-01 00:33:51

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Wikipedia censorship comes in the form of competing edits, where ideologically opposed individuals engage in narrative combat. How would such disagreement be resolved? My rough thought on this topic is to enable content to be composable by users based on competing sources using whatever client-side filtering and whitelisting desired by the user. (Same as the Primal content moderation model for Nostr.)

2023-08-25 14:57:38

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What is the mechanism used by the Browser for the user to authenticate without relinquishing custody of the user's nsec private key to server-side custody? Is a browser extension needed to implement a challenge-response using the nsec kept on the user's local file system?

2023-06-05 00:14:19

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Abandoning Twitter altogether, or still using it from a browser?