@ ece127e2:745bab9c

Cuando ya no

estés,habrá

alguien que

mirará en esos

cajones a los

cuales se

accedía

conociendo

artimañas que

solo sabías tu.

Ese ladrón te

espió, te siguió

hasta tus más

íntimos rincones.

Sorpresa se llevará al leer:

"aquí,no estás

solo ...yo te acompaño"

Álvaro González Novoa diciembre 2019

@ ece127e2:745bab9c

tirarse al piso ,rodar , ensuciarse , transpirar de tanto correr a ningún lado ,hacer equilibrio en un tronco , mirar como las olas vuelven al mar por encima de tus pies , marearse …marearse para el otro lado pensando que se va arreglar la primer mareada

….. correr las palomas intentando agarrarlas ,esconderse en el ropero y ver el polvo en el rayo de luz que entra por la rendija , tomar agua de la canilla sin poner las manos , hacer globitos con la saliva, tragarla y atorarse de tanto reir …..

eso, tan simple y tan complejo, ser niño

Álvaro González Novoa Nov 2015

@ ece127e2:745bab9c

Quedarme hasta las mil sirviendo grappa con limón... Escuchando veteranos que ya están de vuelta...

Con un camisaco celeste manchado de grasa de las milangas que frité toda la tarde para poner en esa vitrina... que hace años no enfría. Nadie las compra... pero me gusta picarlas tarde en la noche, para que los últimos beodos no se vayan a sus camas con el estómago vacío.

Di vuelta las sillas, apagué las luces , llegué a la puerta y medio de reojo, sin ganas y hasta por costumbre miré el bar vacío.

Cerré la cortina

Álvaro González Novoa JULIO 2018

@ ece127e2:745bab9c

Entramos y el olor a aceite de la máquina de coser y las mermeladas nos dan la bienvenida. Mis padres y los tíos ya habían arreglado todo, pero había que desvestirla.

Cada uno de nosotros tenia una historia escrita en alguna parte de esa casa.

Detrás del bargueño, estaba el agujero por donde se veían las capas de papel hasta llegar a la pared, me llevé un pedazo de cada uno, no pude llevarme la última capa, esa que yo solo conocía; algunos primos, los más chicos no pudieron llevar nada de ese pequeño tesoro.

En el fondo estaba la escalera construida por él, sobre el muro lindero, esa escalera que nos daba como premio los nisperos del vecino, ahora solo llegaba a un muro blanco alto, muy alto. La bajé y la dejé acostada en el piso, eso fue mi despedida

Álvaro González Novoa

@ 03742c20:2df9aa5d

Zap.stream​ : วิธีไลฟ์สตรีมบน Nostr

ผมได้รับคำถามจากหลายคนว่า Zap.stream คืออะไรและใช้งานอย่างไร ผมเลยเขียนคำแนะนำเบื้องต้นเกี่ยวกับการเริ่มใช้งาน​ Zap.stream​ ชิ้นนี้ขึ้นมา

เอาล่ะ เรามาทำความรู้จัก​ Zap.stream​ กันดีกว่า

Zap.stream​ คืออะไร?

Zap.stream​ เป็นแพลตฟอร์มไลฟ์สตรีมที่สร้างขึ้นบนโปรโตคอล Nostr เป็นไคลเอ็นต์​อีกตัวที่ช่วยให้เหล่าสตรีมเมอร์​ได้แสดงออกอย่างเต็มที่ และยังได้รับ​ Sats​ โดยตรงผ่าน​การ​ Zap⚡เพราะบน Zap.stream ไม่มีการเซ็นเซอร์ ​ไม่มีสิทธิพิเศษ และไม่มีการหัก Sats​ ให้กับแพลตฟอร์ม

“Road to affiliate”​

ผมได้ลองเล่นตั้งแต่ช่วงแรก ๆ ตอนที่เหล่าสตรี​มเมอร์​ยังน้อยอยู่ ในช่วงนั้น​ไลฟ์​ที่พบบ่อยคือเหล่านักพัฒนา​ ไม่ว่าจะไลท์นิง ไคลเอ็นต์​ของ Nostr รวม​ไปถึงนักพัฒนา​ของ​ Zap.stream​ เองด้วย​

พอเวลาผ่านไปไม่นาน แพลตฟอร์ม​ก็พัฒนา​เร็วมากจนถึงปัจจุบัน​ที่มีฟังชั่น​การ์ดสำหรับไว้ตกแต่งหน้าสตรีมเรา มีการกำหนด​ Goal ไว้สำหรับตั้งเป้าหมาย มี​ Emoji​ ที่เราสามารถ​สร้างเองได้และแอดของคนอื่นมาใช้ได้เช่นกัน

ผมก็ได้รับคำแนะนำจากผู้พัฒนา​แพลตฟอร์ม​และเหล่าเพื่อนสตรีมเมอร์​ด้วยกันมาพอสมควร เลยพอจะรู้วิธี​การใช้งานและตกแต่งหน้าโปรไฟล์​สตรีมแล้ว

เข้าเรื่องกันดีกว่า ว่าจะเริ่มใช้งาน Zap.stream อย่างไร

เริ่มต้นใช้งาน​ Zap.stream​

Zap.stream​ ​เป็นไคลเอ็นต์ที่ทำงานบนเว็บเบราว์เซอร์​ แต่ก่อนจะใช้งานอย่างแรกคุณ​ต้องมีบัญชี​ Nostr เสียก่อน (​หาก​คุณ​ยังไม่รู้จัก Nostr ลองอ่านบทความนี้​ครับ “Nostr: โซเชียล​มีเดีย​เสรีไร้ศูนย์กลาง​”)

สร้างบัญชี​ Nostr​

มีหลายวีธีมากเลยที่จะใช้งานนอส​เตอร์​ แต่ในการใช้งาน​ Zap.stream​ ผมแนะนำให้ใช้​ Getalby​ ในการผูก​ Private ​Key​ นอส​เตอร์​ไว้เพื่อใช้ล็อกอินและใช้เป็นไลท์นิ่งวอลเล็ต​

Getalby​

Getalby เป็นส่วนขยาย​บนเบราว์เซอร์ที่เป็นไลท์นิงวอลเล็ท และใช้งาน​ล็อกอินบัญชี Nostr ในไคลเอ็น​ต​์​ต่าง ๆ ที่ทำงานบนเบราว์เซอร์ผ่านมาตรฐาน​ Nip-07

วิธีสมัครใช้งาน​ Getalby​ : YouTube

ไคลเอ็นต์ของ Nostr​

เมื่อคุณมีบัญชี​ Getalby​ แล้ว จากนั้นก็เลือกไคลเอ็นต์ของ Nostr ​สักตัวเพื่อทำการใส่ข้อมูล​ของคุณ​ และใส่ไลท์นิงแอดเด​รส​เพื่อที่จะรับ​ Zap​⚡ได้

หรือถ้าหากคุณ​บัญชี​ Nostr ​อยู่แล้ว คุณสามารถเอา​ Private​ Key​ มาผูกกับ​ Getalby​ ได้เลย โดยทำตามนี้​ :

1. คลิกที่ส่วนขยาย​ Getalby​ จากนั้นคลิกตรงชื่อที่คุณตั้ง แล้วเลือก​ “Account​ setting​s”

1. จากนั้นกดที่​ “Nostr​ Setting​s”​ แล้วคุณ​นำ​ Private​ Key​ มาวางเลย จากนั้นคลิก​ “Save”​

Zap.stream​

ไปที่​เว็บไซต์ Zap.stream​ คลิกปุ่ม​ “Login​” มุมขวาบน แล้วให้คุณ​เลือก​ “Nostr​ Extension​” คลิกเข้าไปเลย แค่นี้ก็จะขึ้นบัญชี​คุณแล้ว​

• คลิกปุ่ม​ “Stream​” เพื่อตั้งค่า​ก่อนจะไลฟ์​
• เลือก​ Endpoint​ ที่ต้องการ
• ก็อบ​ปี้​ Stream​ URL/Stream​ Key​ ไปใส่โปรแกรม​สตรีมของคุณ​ที่สามารถ​ยิงไลฟ์​แบบ​ RTMP ได้
• ตั้งชื่อไลฟ์​ของคุณ​ตรง​ “Title”​
• ใส่คำอธิบายไลฟ์เพิ่มเติ​มตรง​ Summary​
• ใส่รูปปกไลฟ์​ของคุณ​เพียงเอา​ URL​ รูปภาพ​มาใส่ตรง​ “Cover​ images”​
• อย่าลืมตั้ง​ Tag​s​ ด้วยล่ะ จากนั้นคลิก​ “Save”​ ได้เลย

กดเติม “Top​up”​ ก่อนไลฟ์​ด้วยนะครับ และอย่างที่คุณเห็นจะมี​ Endpoint​ อยู่ 2 แบบที่เสียค่าใช้บริการไม่เท่ากัน งั้นเรามาดูกันสิว่ามันต่างกันอย่างไร

BEST

Best​ จะคิดค่าบริการ 10 sats/นาที และเสนอการเข้ารหัสฝั่งเซิร์ฟเวอร์สำหรับเอาต์พุตสตรีมของคุณ (source, 720P, 480P เป็นต้น) Zap.stream อาจเพิ่มคุณสมบัติใหม่ ๆ เพิ่มเติมในอนาคต เป็นแผนที่ผมแนะนำ​เพื่อให้ผู้ที่มาชมไลฟ์ได้รับประสบการณ์​ที่ดี

Basic

Basic​ จะคิดค่าบริการเพียง 2.5 sats/นาที แต่ไม่มีการเข้ารหัสเอาต์พุตฝั่งเซิร์ฟเวอร์ หากคุณใช้​ Basic ให้ลองตั้งค่าวิดีโอในโปรแกรม​สตรีมเป็น 30 FPS และปรับขนาดเอาต์พุตเป็น 720P เพื่อคุณภาพการรับชมที่ดีที่สุด แต่ผู้ชมไลฟ์ที่มีการเชื่อมต่อที่ช้าอาจพบปัญหาวิดีโอที่ไม่ชัด

เมื่อคุณเลือก​แผนได้แล้วก็เริ่มไลฟ์ได้เลย ลุย!!

คุณต้องมีโปรแกรม​ที่ไว้จัดการไลฟ์ตรีมของคุณ​ ในปัจจุบั​นมีหลายโปรแกรมให้คุณเลือกที่รองรับสตรีมแบบ​ RTMP​ แต่ผมแนะนำ​ OBS Studio อาจต้องตั้งค่าจัดการเองเยอะหน่อย แต่คุณ​สามารถ​ใช้งานได้ฟรี

การตั้งค่า​ OBS​ Studio​ ไลฟ์สตรีมไปยัง​ Zap.stream​

การตั้งค่า​ OBS​ Studio​ มีให้คุณเรียนรู้มากมายตาม​ยูทูบหรือเว็บไซต์​ทั่วไปเลย ถ้าคุณอยากออกแบบไลฟ์​ของคุณได้หลาย ๆ ​แบบต้องลองศึกษากันดู แต่เรามาดูกันในส่วนที่เราจะยิงไลฟ์​สตรีมของเราขึ้น Zap.stream​ กันก่อนครับ

มาเริ่มกันเลย

เมื่อจัดรูปแบบหน้าจอไลฟ์คุณ​พร้อม ให้กดที่​ “Setting​s” จากนั้นไปที่เมนู​ “Stream”​ เลือก​ “Custom​” คุณ​ก็เอา​ Stream​ URL/Stream​ Key​​ มาใส่แล้วกด "ตกลง" ได้เลยครับ

เมื่อคุณ​พร้อมไลฟ์แล้วกด​ LiveStream ได้ทาง​ OBS​ Studio​ โดยมันจะยิงสัญญาณ​เข้า​ Zap.stream​ ไลฟ์ของคุณ​ก็จะขึ้นหน้า​ Zap.stream​ แล้วอย่าลืมกดแชร์ให้เพื่อนคุณได้เห็นด้วยล่ะ

ไคลเอ็น​ต์สำหรับดูไลฟ์​บน Nostr​

ผมคิดว่าอาจมีคนสงสัยว่าถ้าอยากดูไลฟ์สตรีมบน Nostr ​ต้องทำยังไง และดูได้ที่ไหนบ้าง ไคลเอ็น​ต์ที่สามารถ​ดูไลฟ์​ได้ในปัจจุ​บัน​ยังมีน้อย แต่เท่าที่เห็นคือ :

1. Zap.stream​ : ไคลเอ็นค์ที่เราใช้ไลฟ์นั่นเอง ร่วมสนุกกับการแชตและ​ Zap⚡ เห็นการ์ด​ต่าง ๆ บนโปร​ไฟล์ของ​ผู้สตรีม แถมยังมีอิโมจิของผู้สตรีมให้เราได้ใช้อีก​ แต่ก็มีปัญหา​บ้างที่พบบ่อยคือไลฟ์​ขึ้นสถานะ Offline วีธีแก้ปัญหา​เบื้องต้นให้คุณ​กดรี​เฟรช​ หรือ​ F5​ ไลฟ์ก็จะกลับมาปกติ ปัญหานี้อาจเป็นที่รีเลย์​หรือ​สัญญาณ​อินเทอร์​เน็ตของคุณ

1. Nostr​udel : เป็นไคลเอ็นอีกตัวบนเว็บเบราว์เซอร์​สามารถ​ Login​ ด้วย​ Nip-07 หรือจะใช้​ Private​ Key​ ก็ได้เช่นกัน ไคลเอ็นต์​ตัวนี้ดูไลฟ์ค่อนข้างลื่นเลยทีเดียว โดยเราสามารถทั้งแชตและ​ Zap⚡ได้เหมือนกัน แต่ที่พิเศษ​ไปกว่านั้น มันสามารถ​ Custom​​ จำนวนแซตที่เราอยาก​ Zap⚡ได้อีก​ด้วย แต่ตอนนี้​ UI​ อาจไม่สวยเท่าไหร่นัก

1. Amethyst​ : เป็นไคลเอ็น​ต​์บนแอน​ดรอย​ด์ ดูไลฟ์ค่อยข้างลื่นไหล พิมพ์​แชตคุยกันสนุก แต่น่าเสียที่กด​ Zap⚡ให้คนสตรีมไม่ได้ หวังว่าในอนาคต​จะมีการพัฒนา​เพิ่ม

*หมายเหตุ​ : ทั้งสามไคลเอ็นต์มีช่องแชตเชื่อมต่อกันหมด ไม่ว่าจะใช้อันไหนก็แชตกันได้อย่างสนุก

เรามาเติมสีสันให้กับโฟร​ไฟล์​ไลฟ์ และแชตของคุณ​กัน

เรามาทำความเข้าใจอีกสักหน่อยก่อนเริ่มไลฟ์กันครับ โดยเราจะเติมสีสันให้ไลฟ์ดูสนุกขึ้น และสามารถ​ปรับใช้ในโพส​ต์ธรรมดา​หรือในแชตของคุณได้อีกด้วย บน Nostr นั้นเนื้อหาทั้งหมด​มีการระบุเหตุการณ์​เฉพาะที่เรียกว่า​ “Nostr​ events”​ หากคุณ​ต้องการอ้างอิง​ถึง​ even​ts ใด ๆ ก็ตาม สามารถทำได้เพียงเพิ่มแท็ก​ “nostr:even​t_id”​ โดยอาจเป็นโน้ต​ ชุดอิโมจิ​ หรือเป้าหมายลงในช่องแชตหรือการ์ดได้ ตัวอย่างเช่น​ :

nostr:note1dacxa2nsy86659hehvz6c88z8p8dezjeg4nkvpuwc9x6q37l4keqaprfxq

วิธีสร้างหรือเลือก Emojis​ (อิโมจิ)

คุณ​สามารถ​สร้างอิโมจิของคุณ​เองได้ หรือจะใช้อิโมจิของคนอื่นก็ทำได้เช่นกัน

• โดยคุณไปที่ลิงก์​นี้ https://emojis-iota.vercel.app/
• แล้วทำการ Login​ ด้วย Extension ของ Nostr ของคุณ (เช่น Get Alby)
• แล้วเลือก​อิโมจิที่คุณอยากได้
• จากนั้นกดที่ขีดสามขีดทางขวาบนของอิโมจินั้น แล้วเลือก​ “Add​ to​ my​ emoji​”

หากอยากสร้างอิโมจิเอง ให้คุณกดที่โปรไฟล์​คุณ​ทางมุมขวาบน แล้วเลือก​ “New ​emoji pack”

ตั้งชื่อแพ็กนำ​ URL​ รูป​อิโมจิมาวางพร้อมตั้งชื่อ จากนั้นกด​ “Add Emoji” ​คุณสามารถเพิ่มอิโมจิได้จนกว่า​จะพอใจ ขั้นตอน​นี้อาจใช้เวลานานหน่อย เพราะต้องทำทีละตัว แต่เมื่อเสร็จ​สิ้นแล้วให้กด​ “Save”​ ได้เลย​ เพียงแค่นี้ก็จะขึ้นอิโมจิให้คุณใช้ในไลฟ์แล้วครับ

การตั้งเป้าหมาย Goals ของไลฟ์

คุณ​สามารถ​ตั้ง​ Goals ได้ในขณะไลฟ์อยู่ เพียงคุณคลิกที่​ “Add​ Goal​” ตรงด้านบนช่องแชทต ใส่สิ่งที่ต้องการจะสื่อสารถึงคนที่มาดูไลฟ์ ตั้งค่าเป้าหมาย​จำนวน​ Sats​ จากนั้นกด​ “Save”​ ได้เลย​ คุณจะเห็น Goal ปรากฎขึ้นอยู่ข้างบนช่องแชต หากไลฟ์จบแล้วยังไม่ถึงเป้าหมายที่ตั้งใจไว้ หรือคุณ​อยากสร้างเป้าหมายพิเศษ​แต่งบน​การ์ด​ เข้าไปที่​ Zap⚡Goals​ คลิกที่เป้าหมาย​ที่คุณต้องการ แล้วก็อบปี้​ nevent จาก​ URL ข้างบนมาวางในแชตหรือในการ์ด โดยใส่แท็ก​ nostr: ตามด้วย nevent​ นั้น ๆ

Cards หรือการ์ดคืออะไร?

การ์ดเป็นเหมือน Widget ใต้สตรีมของคุณ​ คุณสามารถใส่โน้ต​ รูปภาพ​ ลิงก์​ หรือสิ่งที่คุณอยากประชาสัมพันธ์​ได้ ตัวอย่างเช่น​ กำหนด​การไลฟ์​ กฎการแชต​ รูปภาพที่อยากอวด​ แสดงอิโมจิที่ใช้ได้​ เป้าหมาย​ที่อยากได้​ รวมถึงโฆษณา​ต่าง ๆ

วิธีสร้างการ์ด

ให้สังเกต​มุมซ้ายล่างของจอ จะเห็นที่คำว่า​ “Edit cards”​ จะขึ้นเครื่องหมายบวก ให้คลิกเข้าไปเลย จากนั้นใส่ข้อมูล​ตามที่คุณต้องการ แล้วกด​ “Save”

และหากคุณ​ต้องการใส่ Event ต่าง ๆ เช่น :

• บัญชี​ Nostr ของ​คนอื่น ​ให้พิมพ์​ nostr: ตามด้วย nup
• เป้าหมาย Goal ​ที่อยากได้ ให้พิมพ์​ nostr: ตามด้วย nevent ของเป้าหมาย
• อิโมจิที่อยากอวด ให้พิมพ์​ nostr: ตามด้วย naddr ของอิโมจิ
• ข้อความที่คุณโพสต์ ให้พิมพ์​ nostr: ตามด้วย note​ id​ ที่คุณต้องการ

หากคุณ​ยังไม่เคยไลฟ์เลย จะไม่สามารถแต่งการ์ดได้ คุณ​อาจกดไลฟ์​สัก​ 2-5​ นาที แล้วปิดไลฟ์ ​แค่นี้คุณก็สามารถใช้เวลาแต่งให้หนำใจได้เลย

หากคุณ​อ่านมาถึงตรงนี้ ผมเดาว่าคุณ​น่าจะพร้อมไลฟ์สตรีมอะไรบางอย่าง​แล้วล่ะ ขอให้มีความสุขในการไลฟ์ อย่าลืมแชร์​ไลฟ์มาให้เพื่อน ๆ ได้ดูกันด้วย​นะ

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Michael Saylor likes to say this and over the last few years I've come to understand a little bit more about what he means when he says it. When voices like his first started coming into the space I had to do some soul searching about whether there was still room for me here. I'm much more comfortable on a picket line than in a boardroom. I've come to believe he genuinely wants to give people hope but not the empty sort that comes from unrealistic expectations. I think he wants to give them the tools they need to become strong and resilient so that if they do the right things, put in the work, they can believe that better days are possible. He created a website called hope.com devoted to giving people the tools to build lives full of potential. He created an entire free online school for people who are willing to hone those skills and focus them on creating a brighter future. I think that kind of hope, the kind that comes from knowing that there is something beyond your struggle, something worth fighting for, is a good thing. I know that there are irrational merchants of Hope, scammers, who prey on desperate people who feel trapped in hopeless situations. There are lots of people who see the whole Bitcoin community that way. I don't. I believe Michael Saylor created these things and made them freely available because he believes in Hope and knows how hard it can be to find and how easy it can be to lose.

I understand those who are skeptical. In fact, I have not always been the biggest fan of Hope myself. There was a decade of my life, ironically leading right up to the creation of bitcoin, that I was starting to feel a little bit beaten down. Over that period both of my parents died far too young and far too soon, our house burned down, and a business that I had run for many years was bankrupted in the Great Financial Crisis, costing us well……a lot of money and turning what I once thought would be our legacy to our children into a smoldering pile of debt. At the end of that time I'm not certain that I had the courage to Hope. My mom used to say that hope is what bridges the gap between Faith and Grace. When the second decade of the 21st century began, I really didn't have much Faith and I wasn't sure that I was worthy of any Grace, so to me Hope felt like a bridge to nowhere.

Now I want to admit something that no HODLer is ever proud to admit.

I have sold Bitcoin.

Did we sell it because we lost hope? Well, I guess that really is the point of this little commentary.

We have not sold all of it, but we’ve sold bits and pieces along the way that were meaningful to us at the time. We sold some in 2015 because, coming on the heels of a decade full of nothing good, I just needed to book a win. My son and I had originally gotten into Bitcoin mining together when he started college. Our goal for that all along was for him to buy a house after he graduated so we sold some to make his down payment. (This was by far our biggest dollar denominated sale ever). I sorta regret selling some in 2018 to buy a beat-up old Volvo that I now realize was the most expensive car I’ve ever owned. (I know how to spin a wrench so I’ve never paid more than $10,000 for a car. I’ve bought several for under $500 that lasted for years). We sold some in 2021 because I'm getting to be an old guy and….life. But all together these sales (other than the down payment) have been a small piece of what we have. We would be perfectly happy if someday our children spent the majority of our Bitcoin.

Now that Bitcoin is in the middle of another Bear market I’ve been having these discussions with other Bitcoiners about when and why we have sold or might sell. No one can know the future but when we look back on the past few years, the money has certainly mattered. My wife and I are both in public education and of moderate means. Our kids did without a lot of things when they were young, especially right after our house fire, that a lot of their friends did not go without. I think we’ve passed along our relatively frugal ways to them. We may also have unintentionally passed along a certain sense of insecurity that many of their peers do not have. It is entirely possible that we have far too many canned goods in our pantry and I’m certain my kids wondered why none of their friends had stockpiles of powdered dry milk. We didn’t do this entirely as a result of a single house fire and a few bad business decisions or because we were starting to feel desperate and hopeless. It's not pessimists who plan for hard times, it's optimists. Pessimists assume that they will simply crumble in hard times and that will be the end of it. Optimists know there is something beyond the hard times, something to get through them for.

During the 10 years after High School that I spent partly in the Army Reserves and occasionally trying to earn a 4 year degree, I traveled to other countries that did not enjoy our American Standard of Living. I saw suffering that I had not seen growing up in rural Minnesota. I saw places that once had hope and lost it, and were struggling to find it again.

My wife and I met in the Peace Corps in West Africa and we watched a country unraveling as it descended into Civil War. I lived in a cinderblock house with a tin pan roof that was plumbed for water and wired for electricity. The people who built that house had the hope that it takes to create things. The people who diverted the water supply to the house of a “Big Man” and rolled up the copper wires to sell on the black market knew only the desperation that comes from destruction.

For the last 27 years I’ve worked with Refugees from all across the world who have just arrived here and are beginning to put their lives back together. Every day I listen to stories of people who have either recently lost every material thing they owned or may fear losing what they hold most dear. But they didn't just give up, instead they came here because they still have one thing. They came because they still have hope.

When I’m telling my other rural Minnesotan friends, the ones who have not seen a country dissolve in the blink of an eye, about the people I work with and the horrific circumstances that caused them to leave their homelands, my local friends often ask, “If things were so bad, why they didn’t leave sooner?”. Nobody plans to stay until it’s too late. They stay too late because they don’t know what time it is. I know a woman whose mother sat in a school board meeting one night with the mother of a soldier who would come to their street two days later to remove them from their home at gunpoint and send them to the camps. For years I shared my office with two people whose close relatives had killed each other back home and most likely, given the chance, would have tried to kill them as well. I work with a man who guided hundreds of people through the landmine checkered rice paddies of SE Asia into Refugee camps where he knew assassins with his picture would be waiting for him. So when I tell people that I think it's a good idea to have 3 - 6 months of expenses available for emergencies, I’m not just repeating something I read in one of my Certified Financial Planning courses. We know people who have survived tremendous hardships they could not have expected. We have needed those emergency funds for actual emergencies that we could not have avoided because, just like the people I work with, we simply didn’t see them coming. So we stocked our pantry to get through hard times that we knew we would also not see coming. And because, like the Refugees I’ve met over the years, we know that on the other side of an unexpected crisis there can still be hope.

I was raised by generations of people who read these words of Rudyard Kipling and took them to heart.

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

Our parents and grandparents also came here with nothing and stopped to build a new life in a land that for three months out of the year is a frozen hellscape where the air sometimes hurts your face. They may also have left their homes out of fear and desperation but they stopped here because every Spring the ice melts to uncover bountiful rolling hills and vast fields with fertile topsoil that reaches down over 15 feet deep. There are some who say that the essential characteristics of these people were Stoicism or Bravery but I personally believe it was hope. Hope that somewhere in that 15 feet of topsoil there lay the potential for rich fruits and vegetables for their families and ample grain for their livestock. Every spring they were surrounded by reminders that hard times pass and good things are still possible.

And now we find ourselves in another Bitcoin winter, one that many of us thought might already be over, fearful about whether that topsoil has survived underneath the blowing snow. Every spring seems to bring one last snowfall long after you’ve worked up the courage to put away the boots and hats. Winter gives you one last opportunity to stand in an icy puddle in your flip flops looking like a fool. One last chance to wonder….should I sell…more?

These are the times that I truly appreciate every other Bitcoiner who has the courage to dream of a brighter future. I never bought Bitcoin to someday simply own a better car or “sell the top” and walk back into the world that beat me down a decade ago with a few more dollars in my pocket. I bought Bitcoin because I believed a better world was possible, an abundant world full of the boundless optimism of builders and planters, a world that produced steamer ships and Golden Gates, railroads and Saturn Rockets. There have been times, during that dark decade, that I needed that bridge, that I stood alone and shivering in a parking lot and I needed more than just a set of jumper cables.

More than money, I needed Hope.

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A robotic "dog" has been used to carry out surveys of two Cold War weapons testing facilities, in a first for the National Trust.

Drones and a mobile robot surveyed the off-limits buildings at Orford Ness, Suffolk, a national nature reserve which was once a military testing site.

The laboratories are closed to the public and staff for safety reasons.

Colin Evison, from the robot's operator BAM Nuttall, said the aim is to capture the buildings' "size and geometry".

It was Aimee's first time operating the robot, called Spot, outside the BAM depot, which she does using touch-screen technology Russell Clement, the National Trust's general manager for Suffolk and Essex Coastal, said accessing the area was "a bit of a headscratcher".

"These buildings are completely inaccessible but really really important. They're going to be lost to the sea eventually," he said.

"We want to know how to record them and here we are we had this amazing, cutting-edge technological solution."

Russell Clement said the buildings were in curated decay so the National Trust monitors and records them

Constructed in 1960, the buildings, known as pagodas, were two of six laboratories used as test cells to carry out environmental tests on the atomic bomb.

The tests were designed to mimic the rigours to which a weapon might be subjected before detonation, including vibration, extremes of temperature, shocks and G forces.

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No nuclear material was involved, but a test failure could have resulted in a catastrophic explosion, so the laboratories were designed and constructed with a shingle top to absorb and dissipate if an explosion occurred.

As the concrete decays, it has become too risky to allow people inside the pagodas

The drones and robotic "dog", nicknamed Spot, were designed by Boston Dynamics and the survey is the first stage of a long-term project, which includes Historic England, civil engineering contractors BAM Nuttall and University College London.

Mr Evison, who is BAM Nuttall's innovations and technical lead, said the charity spotted the company's robotics work in the Shetlands.

"We can survey buildings too hazardous to put people in so we can get a detailed survey without putting people in harm's way," he said.

"We want to capture the size and the geometry of the building, because they are under managed decay at the moment, but we also wanted to create some content so visitors can have a look inside - there's no other means we can do that."

The National Trust acquired Orford Ness from the Ministry of Defence in 1993 and the buildings are scheduled monuments, with the same protection as Stonehenge

The trust said it was the first time it had used this kind of technology.

Mr Clement said it had two aims with the project: "One is recording in really great detail these extraordinary buildings and secondly is allowing people to access them.

"With the data, we'll be able to recrate them virtually and people will be able to experience the interiors of these incredible buildings."

The shingle spit was used as a secret military test site from 1913 to the mid-1980s

By：Katy Prickett and Alex Dunlop Link：https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-66743327

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The deadline for project applications is October 15th, so make sure to register and submit your projects before then.

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The future is in your hands. Let your creativity shine!

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2. ส่องไส้ในธนาคารโลกและ IMF

“ขอให้พวกเราอย่าลืมว่าจุดประสงค์หลักของการให้ความช่วยเหลือนั้น ไม่ใช่เพื่อช่วยประเทศอื่น แต่เป็นไปเพื่อช่วยพวกเราเอง”

–Richard Nixon

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>หมายเหตุผู้แปล : ริชาร์ด นิกสัน (Richard Nixon) ประธานาธิบดีคนที่ 37 แห่งสหรัฐ ดำรงตำแหน่งตั้งแต่ ค.ศ. 1969 จนถึง ค.ศ. 1974

IMF นั้นถือเป็นผู้ให้กู้ยืมแหล่งสุดท้าย (Lender of Last Resort) และธนาคารโลกก็คือธนาคารเพื่อการพัฒนาที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก ทั้งสององค์กรนี้ทำหน้าที่ภายใต้นามของบรรดาเจ้าหนี้รายใหญ่ของพวกเขา ซึ่งตามประวัติศาสตร์แล้วเจ้าหนี้พวกนี้ก็คือสหรัฐอเมริกา สหราชอาณาจักร ฝรั่งเศส เยอรมนี และญี่ปุ่น

สำนักงานของ IMF และธนาคารโลก ณ กรุงวอชิงตัน ดีซี

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องค์กรพี่น้องเหล่านี้ (ซึ่งในทางปฏิบัติแล้วพวกเขาทำงานด้วยกัน และใช้สำนักงานใหญ่ร่วมกันที่กรุงวอชิงตัน ดีซี) ถือกำเนิดขึ้นจากการประชุมเบรนตันวูด ในรัฐนิวแฮมป์เชียร์ เมื่อปี 1944 ในฐานะ "สองเสาหลัก" ของระเบียบการเงินโลกใหม่ที่นำโดยสหรัฐอเมริกา ซึ่งโดยตามธรรมเนียมแล้วธนาคารโลกจะนำโดยชาวอเมริกัน ส่วน IMF นั้นจะนำโดยชาวยุโรป

จุดประสงค์แรกในการก่อตั้ง 2 องค์กรนี้ขึ้นมาก็เพื่อช่วยฟื้นฟูกลุ่มประเทศในยุโรปและญี่ปุ่นที่เสียหายจากสงคราม - ธนาคารโลกจะมุ่งเน้นในการปล่อยกู้โครงการที่เกี่ยวกับการฟื้นฟูและพัฒนาเป็นรายโครงการไป - กองทุน IMF จะรับมือในส่วนของปัญหาด้านดุลการชำระเงิน (บัญชีรายรับรายจ่าย) ของประเทศต่าง ๆ ผ่าน "เงินให้กู้เพื่อการช่วยเหลือ" เพื่อให้การค้าขายยังสามารถดำเนินต่อไปได้ถึงแม้ว่าบางประเทศจะไม่มีเงินเพื่อนำเข้าสินค้าก็ตาม

ชาติต่าง ๆ จำเป็นที่จะต้องเข้าร่วมกับ IMF เพื่อเข้าถึงสิ่งที่พวกเขาเรียกว่า “สิทธิพิเศษ” จากธนาคารโลก ซึ่งทุกวันนี้มีชาติสมาชิกกว่า 190 ประเทศ เมื่อแต่ละประเทศเข้าร่วมเป็นสมาชิกแล้วก็จะต้องทำการฝากเงินสกุลท้องถิ่นของตนและสกุลเงินที่มีความมั่นคงที่สูงไว้ (โดยปกติก็จะเป็นดอลลาร์สหรัฐ เงินสกุลประเทศในยุโรป หรือทองคำ) ซึ่งจะกลายเป็นแหล่งเงินทุนสำรองของเหล่าบรรดาประเทศสมาชิก

เมื่อมีประเทศสมาชิกเผชิญปัญหาด้านดุลการชำระเงินอย่างต่อเนื่องจนไม่สามารถจ่ายหนี้คืนได้ กองทุน IMF จะมอบวงเงินให้กู้ที่มาจากแหล่งเงินทุนสำรอง โดยคำนวณปริมาณจากเงินที่พวกเขาฝากเข้ามาในตอนต้น และคูณตัวเลขเพื่อให้ทวีคูณขึ้นไป บนเงื่อนไขที่มีต้นทุนที่แพงมากขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ

ในทางปฏิบัติแล้ว กองทุน IMF ทำหน้าที่เป็นเสมือนธนาคารกลางของโลกที่มีอำนาจอยู่เหนือทุกประเทศ เพราะนับตั้งแต่ปี 1969 กองทุน IMF ได้ออกเงินสกุลของตัวเองที่เรียกว่า “สิทธิพิเศษถอนเงิน” (Special Drawing Rights: SDR) โดยคำนวณมูลค่าจากตะกร้าเงินที่มีสกุลเงินชั้นนำของโลกสำรองอยู่ โดยทุกวันนี้สกุลเงิน SDR ถูกหนุนหลังด้วย : - เงินดอลลาร์สหรัฐ ร้อยละ 45 - เงินยูโร ร้อยละ 29 - เงินหยวน ร้อยละ 12 - เงินเยน ร้อยละ 7 - เงินปอนด์ ร้อยละ 7

โดยในปัจจุบัน IMF มีความสามารถในการปล่อยกู้ได้ทั้งหมด 1 ล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ (หรือเป็นตัวเลข 1,000,000,000,000 ดอลลาร์ฯ)

ในช่วงระหว่างปี 1960 - 2008 กองทุน IMF ให้ความสำคัญกับการช่วยเหลือประเทศกำลังพัฒนาเป็นหลัก ด้วยเงินกู้ยืมระยะสั้นดอกเบี้ยสูง และด้วยความที่สกุลเงินของประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนาเหล่านี้ไม่ได้เป็นที่ต้องการในตลาดโลก ทำให้ไม่สามารถใช้สกุลเงินประจำชาติซื้อสินค้าและบริการจากต่างประเทศได้ ประเทศกำลังพัฒนาจึงจำเป็นต้องหาเงินสกุลต่างประเทศที่แข็งแกร่งผ่านการส่งออกสินค้า

โดยมีหลายประเทศ (เช่น ศรีลังกา และโมซัมบิค) ที่มักประสบปัญหาในการหาเงินไม่ทัน ส่งผลให้เงินหมดคลังบ่อยครั้ง แตกต่างจากสหรัฐอเมริกาที่สามารถเสกเงินสกุลของตัวเองมาใช้เป็นสกุลเงินสำรองหลักของโลกได้ โดยเมื่อถึงจุดที่เงินหมดคลังนั้น รัฐบาลส่วนใหญ่ โดยเฉพาะรัฐบาลเผด็จการ มักจะใช้วิธีแก้ปัญหาแบบง่าย ๆ ที่ต้องแลกมากับอนาคตของประเทศตัวเอง นั่นก็คือการเลือกที่จะกู้เงินจากกองทุน IMF

ในส่วนของธนาคารโลกนั้น ทางธนาคารได้แถลงไว้ว่างานของพวกเขาคือการมอบวงเงินกู้ให้แก่ประเทศกำลังพัฒนาเพื่อ “ลดความยากจน เพิ่มความเจริญรุ่งเรือง และส่งเสริมการพัฒนาอย่างยั่งยืน” โดยมีการแบ่งโครงสร้างธนาคารออกเป็นหลายส่วน ตั้งแต่ : - ธนาคารระหว่างประเทศเพื่อการบูรณะและพัฒนา (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development: IBRD) ที่มุ่งเน้นการปล่อยเงินกู้ก้อนใหญ่แบบดอกเบี้ยสูงให้กับประเทศกำลังพัฒนา เช่น บราซิล หรือ อินเดีย - สมาคมการพัฒนาระหว่างประเทศ (International Development Association: IDA) ที่มุ่งเน้นการปล่อยเงินกู้ดอกเบี้ยต่ำและมีระยะเวลาปลอดดอกเบี้ยระยะยาวให้กับกลุ่มประเทศที่ยากจน

โดยวิธีที่ IBRD ใช้กอบโกยเงินให้ตนเองและพวกพ้องนั้น ส่วนหนึ่งเป็นเพราะปรากฏการณ์แคนทิลอน (Cantillon Effect) จากการที่ IBRD สามารถได้รับวงเงินกู้ยืมที่มีเงื่อนไขแสนเป็นมิตรจากเจ้าหนี้ของพวกเขา และจากนักลงทุนในตลาดเอกชนที่สามารถเข้าถึงเงินกู้ต้นทุนต่ำได้ จากนั้น IBRD จะนำเงินเหล่านี้ไปปล่อยกู้ต่อ ในอัตราดอกเบี้ยที่สูงขึ้น ให้กับกลุ่มประเทศยากจนที่ไม่มีช่องทางเข้าถึงเงินกู้ดอกเบี้ยต่ำดังกล่าว

โดยปกติธนาคารโลกจะปล่อยกู้เป็นเฉพาะโครงการหรือเฉพาะกลุ่มอุตสาหกรรม และมุ่งเน้นไปยังการอำนวยความสะดวกในการส่งออกทรัพยากร (เช่น การให้เงินทุนสนับสนุนการสร้างถนน อุโมงค์ เขื่อน และท่าเรือที่จำเป็นสำหรับการขุดแร่ เพื่อส่งออกไปยังตลาดระหว่างประเทศ) และมีการปรับเปลี่ยนการทำการเกษตรเพื่อการบริโภคแบบดั้งเดิม ไปสู่การเกษตรเชิงอุตสาหกรรม หรือไม่ก็อุตสาหกรรมที่เกี่ยวกับการเพาะเลี้ยงสัตว์น้ำ เพื่อให้ประเทศเหล่านั้นสามารถส่งออกสินค้าและอาหารให้กับประเทศทางตะวันตกได้มากขึ้น

สิทธิในการโหวตของเหล่าสมาชิกธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF นั้นไม่ได้ขึ้นอยู่กับจำนวนประชากรของแต่ละประเทศ แต่กลับมีอิทธิพลมาจากสิ่งที่ถูกกำหนดขึ้นตั้งแต่เมื่อ 7 ทศวรรษก่อน เพื่อเอื้อประโยชน์ให้กับสหรัฐอเมริกา ยุโรป และญี่ปุ่นได้มีสิทธิ์เหนือประเทศอื่น ๆ ในโลก ซึ่งการครอบงำเหล่านี้เพิ่งจะเริ่มเสื่อมถอยในช่วงไม่กี่ปีที่ผ่านมานี่เอง

ทุกวันนี้สหรัฐอเมริกามีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตในธนาคารโลกร้อยละ 15.6 และร้อยละ 16.5 ในกองทุน IMF ซึ่งถือว่าเยอะกว่าหลายประเทศเป็นอย่างมาก..

มันมากพอที่จะใช้ลงมติยับยั้งการตัดสินใจในเรื่องใด ๆ ที่สำคัญมาก ๆ ได้โดยไม่ต้องพึ่งพาเสียงจากประเทศอื่นแต่อย่างใด เพราะการตัดสินใจในระดับใหญ่ ๆ ได้ถูกกำหนดทั้งในธนาคารและในกองทุนเอาไว้แล้วว่าจะต้องได้รับคะแนนเสียงร้อยละ 85 โดยในกลุ่มประเทศชั้นนำนั้น : - ญี่ปุ่นมีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตในธนาคารโลกร้อยละ 7.35 และร้อยละ 6.14 ในกองทุน IMF - เยอรมนีนั้นมีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตในธนาคารโลกร้อยละ 4.21 และร้อยละ 5.31 ในกองทุน IMF - ฝรั่งเศสและสหราชอาณาจักรนั้นมีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตของในธนาคารโลกประเทศร้อยละ 4.21 และร้อยละ 5.31 ในกองทุน IMF เท่ากัน

แต่ในอีกด้านหนึ่ง ประเทศอินเดียซี่งมีประชากรกว่า 1.4 พันล้านคน กลับมีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตในธนาคารโลกเพียงร้อยละ 3.04 และร้อยละ 2.63 ในกองทุน IMF ซึ่งน้อยกว่าประเทศที่เคยเป็นเจ้าอาณานิคมของพวกเขาด้วยซ้ำ ทั้งที่อินเดียมีประชากรมากกว่าถึง 20 เท่าก็ตาม

ในขณะที่ประเทศจีนที่มีประชากรถึง 1.4 พันล้านคนนั้น มีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตในธนาคารโลกร้อยละ 5.70 และร้อยละ 6.08 ในกองทุน IMF ซึ่งมีสัดส่วนใกล้เคียงกับเนเธอร์แลนด์ แคนาดา และออสเตรเลียรวมกัน

ประเทศที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในภูมิภาคลาตินอเมริกาและภูมิภาคแอฟริกา เช่น บราซิลและไนจีเรีย กลับมีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตพอ ๆ กับอดีตจักรวรรดิที่เข้าสู่ยุคเสื่อมถอยเต็มตัวอย่างประเทศอิตาลี

ส่วนประเทศเล็กจิ๋วอย่างสวิตเซอร์แลนด์ที่มีประชากรเพียง 8.6 ล้านคนนั้น มีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตในธนาคารโลกร้อยละ 1.47 และร้อยละ 1.17 ในกองทุน IMF ซึ่งใกล้เคียง กับประเทศปากีสถาน อินโดนีเซีย บังกลาเทศ และเอธิโอเปียรวมกัน ถึงแม้ว่าสวิตเซอร์แลนด์จะมีประชากรน้อยกว่าถึง 90 เท่าก็ตาม

คำอธิบายชาร์ต : จำนวนประชากรเมื่อเทียบกับสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตในกองทุนการเงินระหว่างประเทศ - แถวซ้ายสีดำ : จำนวนประชากรในปี 2022 หน่วยหลักล้านคน - แถวขวาสีส้ม : สัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตใน IMF เป็นหน่วยร้อยละ - แหล่งที่มาของข้อมูล : IMF

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สัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตเหล่านี้สมควรที่จะใกล้เคียงกับสัดส่วนของประชากรบนโลกที่แต่ละประเทศมีกัน แต่ด้วยโครงสร้างที่เหมือนยกมาจากยุคระบอบจักรวรรดิ ทำให้เห็นได้ชัดว่าการตัดสินใจต่าง ๆ นั้นกระทำกันอย่างไร ซึ่งถึงแม้การยกเลิกอาณานิคมจะผ่านมานานกว่า 65 ปีแล้วก็ตาม

แต่ชาติอุตสาหกรรมที่ทรงพลัง ซึ่งนำโดยสหรัฐอเมริกา ก็ยังสามารถควบคุมการค้าและการปล่อยกู้ของโลกได้เกือบจะเบ็ดเสร็จ ในขณะที่ประเทศยากจนแทบจะไม่มีสิทธิ์มีเสียงอะไรเลย

นอกจากนี้กลุ่มจี 5 (สหรัฐฯ ญี่ปุ่น เยอรมนี สหราชอาณาจักร และฝรั่งเศส) ได้ควบคุมคณะกรรมการบริหารของ IMF ไว้ทั้งหมด แม้ว่าสัดส่วนประชากรประเทศเหล่านี้จะถือเป็นส่วนน้อยของประชากรโลกก็ตาม ส่วนกลุ่มจี 10 รวมกับประเทศไอร์แลนด์ ออสเตรเลีย และเกาหลีนั้น มีสัดส่วนคะแนนโหวตรวมกันมากกว่าร้อยละ 50 ซึ่งหมายความว่าเพียงสหรัฐอเมริกากดดันชาติพันธมิตรแค่นิดเดียวก็สามารถกำหนดผลการตัดสินใจได้ แม้กระทั่งเรื่องการอนุมัติปล่อยเงินกู้เป็นราย ๆ ที่ซึ่งต้องใช้เสียงข้างมากในการตัดสินใจ

และเพื่อเป็นการเสริมอำนาจของ IMF ที่มีวงเงินในการปล่อยกู้กว่าหนึ่งล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐอยู่แล้วนั้น ทางธนาคารโลกเองก็อ้างอีกว่าได้ให้เงินกู้มากกว่า 350,000 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐแก่ประเทศมากกว่า 150 ประเทศ ซึ่งมูลค่าการปล่อยกู้เหล่านี้ได้พุ่งขึ้นสูงมากในช่วง 2 ปีที่ผ่านมา เนื่องจากองค์กรในเครือได้ปล่อยเงินกู้มูลค่านับแสนล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐให้แก่รัฐบาลประเทศต่าง ๆ ที่ทำการล็อกดาวน์เศรษฐกิจของตัวเองเพื่อรับมือกับโรคระบาด COVID-19

ในช่วงไม่กี่เดือนที่ผ่านมา ธนาคารและกองทุน IMF ได้วางแผนและเตรียมการทำข้อตกลงเพื่อที่จะให้ “ความช่วยเหลือ” แก่รัฐบาลที่ตกอยู่ในความเสี่ยงจากการที่ธนาคารกลางสหรัฐปรับขึ้นอัตราดอกเบี้ยอย่างดุดันและต่อเนื่อง โดยบรรดาลูกหนี้เหล่านี้มักจะเป็นพวกละเมิดสิทธิมนุษยชนที่กู้เงินตามอำเภอใจและไม่ฟังเสียงของประชาชน..ประชาชนซึ่งสุดท้ายจะกลายเป็นผู้ที่ต้องรับภาระในการใช้คืนเงินกู้ทั้งเงินต้นและดอกเบี้ย

ตัวอย่างเช่น ณ ตอนนี้ IMF กำลังให้ความช่วยเหลือทางการเงินต่อผู้นำเผด็จการของประเทศอียิปต์อย่าง อับเดล ฟัตตอห์ เอล-ซิซี (ซึ่งเป็นผู้สั่งการสังหารหมู่ผู้ประท้วงครั้งใหญ่ที่สุดนับตั้งแต่จัตุรัสเทียนอันเหมิน) เป็นมูลค่า 3,000 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ และในช่วงปีที่ผ่านมาทางธนาคารโลกก็ได้ปล่อยเงินกู้มูลค่า 300 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐให้แก่รัฐบาลประเทศเอธิโอเปียที่กำลังทำการฆ่าล้างเผ่าพันธุ์ในเขต Tigray

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>หมายเหตุผู้แปล : อับเดล ฟัตตอห์ เอล-ซิซี (Abdel Fattah El-Sisi) เป็นประธานาธิบดีคนที่ 6 และคนปัจจุบันของสาธารณรัฐอาหรับอียิปต์ โดยดำรงตำแหน่งตั้งแต่ปี 2014

ผลกระทบสะสมที่เพิ่มขึ้นมาจากการปล่อยกู้ของทั้งธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF นั้นมหาศาลกว่าตัวเลขที่ระบุอยู่ในเอกสารการกู้เงินมาก เนื่องจากการปล่อยกู้ขององค์กรเหล่านี้จะผลักดันให้เกิดความช่วยเหลือแบบทวิภาคี (ความช่วยเหลือจากทั้งภาครัฐและเอกชน) โดยมีการประมาณการว่า “จากเงินทุก ๆ 1 ดอลลาร์ที่ IMF ได้ปล่อยกู้ให้กับประเทศโลกที่สามนั้น จะช่วยให้ประเทศเหล่านี้สามารถกู้เงินได้เพิ่มและสามารถปรับเงื่อนไขโครงสร้างของเงินกู้เดิมได้รวมกันอีก 4-7 ดอลลาร์จากธนาคารพาณิชย์และจากรัฐบาลของประเทศที่ร่ำรวย”

และเช่นเดียวกัน หากธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF ปฏิเสธที่จะให้บางประเทศกู้เงิน ทั้งโลกก็จะปฏิบัติตามทันที

มันเป็นการยากที่จะพูดให้เกินจริงถึงผลกระทบในวงกว้างที่ธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF กระทำต่อเหล่าประเทศกำลังพัฒนา โดยเฉพาะในช่วงเวลาหลายทศวรรษนับตั้งแต่การก่อตั้งองค์กรขึ้นมาหลังช่วงสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 ซึ่งพอถึงช่วงปี 1990 และหลังจากสงครามเย็นยุติลง IMF ก็ได้ปล่อยเงินกู้ให้ประเทศในทวีปแอฟริกาไปถึง 41 ประเทศ ในแถบลาตินอเมริกา 28 ประเทศ ในเอเชีย 20 ประเทศ ในภูมิภาคตะวันออกกลาง 8 ประเทศ และในยุโรปอีก 5 ประเทศ ซึ่งกระทบต่อผู้คนมากกว่า 3 พันล้านคน หรือประชากรถึง 2 ใน 3 ของทั้งโลก ส่วนธนาคารโลกนั้นปล่อยเงินกู้ให้แก่ประเทศมากกว่า 160 ประเทศ

และน่าเศร้าที่องค์กรเหล่านี้ยังคงสถานะเป็นสถาบันการเงินระหว่างประเทศที่มีความสำคัญที่สุดในโลกอีกด้วย..

⚡️ กด Zap ที่ลิงก์นี้ เพื่อเป็นกำลังใจทีมงานผู้เรียบเรียงบทความ

(ทุกยอด zap จะถูกแบ่งอัตโนมัติเข้าวอลเล็ทของผู้เขียนบทความต้นฉบับภาษาอังกฤษ, ผู้แปลดราฟต์ 1, ผู้เรียบเรียงดราฟต์ 2-3, กองบรรณาธิการและพิสูจน์อักษรจากไรท์ชิฟต์ พร้อมกันบางส่วนไว้เพื่อเป็นค่าธรรมเนียมธุรกรรม)

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Implementing a Self-Hosted Infrastructure with pfSense, Librem Mini, and VLAN Switch

Transitioning to a self-hosted infrastructure provides several key advantages for organizations and individuals looking to take control of their technology stack:

Network Infrastructure:

pfSense Router:

Model: Protectli Vault FW4B - 4 Port, Firewall Micro Appliance/Mini PC

CPU: Intel Celeron

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Storage: 32GB SSD

Network Interfaces: 4 x Gigabit Ethernet

Additional Features: VPN support, IDS/IPS capabilities

VLAN Managed Switch:

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Number of Ports: 8

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Server Infrastructure:

Librem Mini:

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RAM: 64GB

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Operating System: PureOS (Linux-based)

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Dedicated Management Machine:

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CPU: Intel Core i7-9700

RAM: 32GB

Storage: 1TB SSD

Operating System: Windows 10 Pro

Connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi (optional)

Security Measures:

Firewall Protection:

Utilize the built-in firewall capabilities of the pfSense Router for network security.

Intrusion Detection and Prevention:

Implement Suricata or Snort as an IDS/IPS on the pfSense Router to detect and mitigate potential threats.

Secure VLAN Configuration:

Configure VLANs on the managed switch to segregate and secure network traffic.

Regular Updates and Patching:

Ensure that all devices, including the Librem Mini and dedicated management machine, receive regular updates and security patches to protect against vulnerabilities.

Access Control and Authentication:

Implement strong access control measures, such as secure passwords and multi-factor authentication, for all network devices.

Additional Considerations:

Backup and Disaster Recovery:

Implement regular backups of critical data and establish a disaster recovery plan to ensure data safety and availability.

Monitoring and Logging:

Set up monitoring and logging systems to track network performance, detect anomalies, and investigate security incidents.

Physical Security:

Implement physical security measures, such as secure server rooms and restricted access to network infrastructure.

Redundancy and High Availability:

Increased Privacy and Security:

• With on-premises servers and network gear, you control access to your data and systems. No reliance on third-party providers.

• Advanced firewall, IDS/IPS, and VLAN capabilities allow tight control over network traffic.

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• Choose your own server hardware, OS, apps - build the perfect environment for your needs.

• Configure to meet specific performance, redundancy, and high availability requirements.

• Scale resources up or down as needed, no vendor lock-in.

Cost Savings 💰

• Avoid recurring public cloud fees by using own hardware.

• Open source software like pfSense and PureOS cuts down on licensing costs.

• Consolidate workloads on high-performance servers like Librem Mini.

Educational Benefits 🎓

• Hands-on experience running real enterprise-grade infrastructure.

• Opportunity to learn powerful on-prem solutions like pfSense routing.

• Develop Linux, networking, security, and systems administration skills.

Community Driven 🤝

• Contribute to open source projects like PureOS.

• Foster relationships through forums and user groups.

• Share knowledge and collaborate on best practices.

While transitioning to self-hosted infrastructure has upfront costs and a learning curve, the long-term payoff in privacy, security, control, and customizability make it an appealing choice for many organizations and power users. With careful planning and solid foundational hardware, it can be implemented successfully.

Implementing a Self-Hosted Infrastructure for Censorship Resistance

The self-hosted infrastructure outlined provides a strong foundation for building censorship-resistant connectivity that aligns with local laws:

Secure Encrypted Traffic Flow 🛡️

• The pfSense router offers robust VPN capabilities for encrypting traffic between nodes.

• VLANs isolate access to censorship circumvention tools.

• Librem Mini servers run VPN clients to access global internet.

Failover and Redundancy ♻️

• With multiple Librem Mini nodes, connectivity persists if one node goes down.

• The pfSense router provides firewall failover capabilities.

• Load balancing distributes traffic across nodes.

Following Just Laws 👮

• Education, not illegal circumvention, is the goal.

• Systems allow access to legal materials and tools only.

• Valid takedown requests treated seriously per local laws.

• Community standards enforced.

Empowering Local Voices 🗣️

• Infrastructure run by local community members.

• Nodes provide platform for sharing local content.

• Systems designed to meet local needs and context.

Open and Transparent 🏛️

• Free and open source software used throughout promotes transparency.

• Community involvement in all aspects.

• Public reports detail usage, requests received, content moderation policies.

By leveraging strong technology alongside fair policies and local control, this infrastructure promotes empowerment through information while respecting just laws. The result is censorship resistance that upholds ethics and community values.

Here are some ways the self-hosted infrastructure could be leveraged to also function as a payments processor:

Integrate Lightning Network Nodes

• Run LND or c-lightning software on the Librem Mini servers to enable Lightning Network payments.

• Use the high bandwidth capacity for fast payment channels.

• VLAN isolation keeps payments communication secure.

Build a Local Exchange

• Develop a web portal on the servers for buying/selling local currency using Lightning.

• Allows fast, low-fee exchange between local currency and bitcoin.

• pfSense router provides DDoS protection for the exchange.

Enable Merchant Payments

• Provide an API and libraries for merchants to easily accept Lightning payments.

• Low fees compared to traditional payment gateways.

• Merchants can convert bitcoin to local currency via the exchange.

Focus On Usability

• Create easy-to-use wallets and merchant apps with a focus on user experience.

• Support local languages.

• Integrate with any existing mobile money/payment apps.

By integrating Lightning and exchange functionality into the on-prem infrastructure, it could offer fast, low-cost payments tailored to local needs, while ensuring regulatory compliance.

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Table Of Content

• What is the new policy?

• What are the benefits of paying taxes with cryptocurrency?

• How will this affect the cryptocurrency market?

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Cryptocurrency has been a hot topic in Brazil for a while now, with more and more people investing in digital assets. Now, the Brazilian government has taken a step forward by allowing citizens to pay taxes with cryptocurrency. This is a significant move for Brazil and the wider cryptocurrency world, as it shows that digital assets are becoming increasingly accepted by governments and financial institutions. In this article, we will explore what this means for Brazilians and the cryptocurrency market as a whole.

What is the new policy?

As of now, Brazilian taxpayers can use Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT to pay their taxes. The payments will be processed by the Federal Revenue Service of Brazil, which will convert the cryptocurrency into Brazilian reals. This means that taxpayers will no longer have to go through banks or other financial institutions to pay their taxes.

What are the benefits of paying taxes with cryptocurrency?

Cryptocurrency has become increasingly popular in recent years, with more and more people investing in digital assets. Now, the Brazilian government has taken a significant step forward by allowing citizens to pay taxes with cryptocurrency. Here are some of the benefits of paying taxes with cryptocurrency:

Security Cryptocurrency transactions are recorded on a blockchain that cannot be altered, making them highly secure. This reduces the risk of fraud and hacking, providing taxpayers with greater peace of mind when making payments. Additionally, cryptocurrency wallets are encrypted and require a private key to access, further increasing security.

Speed Cryptocurrency transactions are processed much faster than traditional payment methods, such as bank transfers or credit card payments. This means that taxpayers can avoid long wait times and receive confirmation of payment almost instantly.

Cost-effectiveness Cryptocurrency transactions are often cheaper than traditional payment methods, as they don't involve intermediaries like banks. This means that taxpayers can save money on fees and charges when making payments, which is especially beneficial for those who make frequent or large payments.

Transparency Cryptocurrency transactions are transparent, as they are recorded on a public blockchain that can be accessed by anyone. This reduces the risk of corruption and ensures that taxes are being paid fairly. Additionally, taxpayers can easily track their payments and ensure that they have been processed correctly.

Accessibility Paying taxes with cryptocurrency is accessible to anyone who has a cryptocurrency wallet and the relevant digital assets. This means that taxpayers no longer have to rely on banks or other financial institutions to make their payments, making the process more streamlined and convenient.

How will this affect the cryptocurrency market?

The decision to allow taxpayers to pay their taxes with cryptocurrency is a significant move for the cryptocurrency market. It shows that governments and financial institutions are becoming increasingly accepting of digital assets, which could lead to increased adoption and investment in the future. Additionally, it could lead to other countries following suit and allowing taxpayers to pay their taxes with cryptocurrency.

Conclusion

The decision to allow Brazilians to pay their taxes with cryptocurrency is a significant move for both Brazil and the cryptocurrency market as a whole. It shows that governments and financial institutions are becoming increasingly accepting of digital assets, which could lead to increased adoption and investment in the future. While there are still some challenges to overcome, such as volatility and regulation, the future of cryptocurrency looks promising in Brazil and beyond.

FAQ

What cryptocurrencies can be used to pay taxes in Brazil? Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT can be used to pay taxes in Brazil.

How will the payments be processed? The payments will be processed by the Federal Revenue Service of Brazil, which will convert the cryptocurrency into Brazilian reals.

Are there any benefits to paying taxes with cryptocurrency? Yes, there are several benefits, including security, speed, cost-effectiveness, and transparency.

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O Brasil de hoje, após as eleições de 2022 tem mudado. Assumiu um governo gastador, marcado pela falta de respeito à constituição federal e tem mantido um "Caça às bruxas" à todos os que pensam diferentemente dele. Sim. Estamos numa ditadura velada, maquiada com assistencialismo pregado na propaganda eleitoral, mas que agora, este também está sendo retirado.

O judiciário, esquecendo-se de seus atributos, tornou-se o braço todo poderoso do governo, punindo jornalistas, youtubers, manifestantes, mantendo pessoas ilegalmente na cadeia sem nenhum processo legal para julgá-las e apenas por manifestarem o descontentamento com o projeto de governo em curso.

Em nome da “democracia” distorcem fatos, acontecimentos e palavras para enganar àqueles que lhes deram voto usando canais de tv muito bem remunerados e assim obter credibilidade dos incautos.

Aproximamo-nos de uma ditadura socialista. O déficit com os gastos para o projeto de poder já se agiganta e será difícil pará-lo. Emfim, resta-nos pedir à Deus que tenha misericórdia do Brasil, um país lindo, rico e com pessoas geniais para fazê-lo crescer e tornar-se uma potência.

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Empowering the World with PiVPN on Hardware Donations 🌍

By leveraging donated used workstations, we can make powerful impacts enhancing privacy and access globally.

💻Fast Freedom Portals

• Setup Optiplex/Thinkcentre nodes with PiVPN in censored lands for high-speed internet

• Leverage remaining RAM/CPU for applications like full Bitcoin nodes

💾Massive Data Syncing

• Connect globespanning PiVPN mesh for rapid syncing of censorship resistant data

• Nodes help seed everything from Linux ISOs to TBs of shows/movies for communities

🧑‍💻Education at Scale

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• Students can access lessons, virtual labs and complete coursework remotely without restrictions

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• Install full Bitcoin/joinedmarket/lightning nodes helping validate/route transactions worldwide

• Convert portion of earned satoshis into sustainable initiatives for served communities

By repurposing retired enterprise gear, score one for privacy and put left over hardwarehorsepower to work in meaningful ways. Exciting potential for impact!

Optimizing your PiVPN setup and using it effectively:

Hardware Considerations

• For best performance, use a Pi 4 with at least 2GB RAM. Overclock if needed.

• Consider a large capacity microSD card rated for good read/write speeds.

• Add a case and heat sinks to help dissipate heat from overclocking.

Network Optimization

• Reserve a static IP for your Pi either via DHCP reservation or manually set static IP.

• Port forward UDP port 51820 on your router for remote access.

• Test network speeds when connected - use Ethernet if possible for max throughput.

Multiple Device Support

• Use pivpn -a to add different devices like phones, laptops easily.

• Generate unique QR codes with pivpn -qr for easy mobile app configuration.

• Add filters like domain blocking directly in the WireGuard config file as needed.

Backups and Updates

• Periodically backup configs to external storage using pivpn -bk command.

• Keep PiVPN updated regularly with pivpn -up to get latest fixes and improvements.

With these tips, your PiVPN should provide reliable wired/wireless access from anywhere! Let me know if any other questions come up.

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1. ฟาร์มกุ้งวิปโยค

“ทุกอย่างล้วนหายไปหมดแล้ว”

–Kolyani Mondal

เมื่อ 52 ปีก่อน พายุไซโคลนโบลาฆ่าผู้คนในแถบชายฝั่งของบังกลาเทศไปมากกว่า 1 ล้านคน ถือเป็นพายุไซโคลนที่ร้ายแรงที่สุดที่มีการบันทึกไว้ในประวัติศาสตร์

หน่วยงานท้องถิ่นและองค์กรนานาชาติรู้ถึงความเสี่ยงที่จะเกิดความเสียหายร้ายแรงจากพายุลักษณะนี้เป็นอย่างดี ดังนั้นในช่วงปี 1960 หน่วยงานภูมิภาคจึงสร้างแนวกันคลื่นขนาดใหญ่เพื่อป้องกันแนวชายฝั่ง ซึ่งเปิดโอกาสให้มีการใช้พื้นที่สำหรับการเกษตรได้มากขึ้น

แต่หลังจากการลอบสังหารผู้นำอย่าง ชีค มูจิบูร์ เราะห์มาน ในการประกาศอิสรภาพ ก็ได้เกิดการเปลี่ยนแปลงแนวทางภายใต้ระบอบเผด็จการของบังกลาเทศด้วยการผลักดันของอิทธิพลจากต่างประเทศ ชีวิตของผู้คนถูกลดความสำคัญ และแนวป้องกันพายุสำหรับประชาชนถูกทำให้อ่อนแอลง

หมายเหตุผู้แปล : ชีค มูจิบูร์ เราะห์มาน (Sheikh Mujibur Rahman) เป็นผู้ก่อตั้งประเทศบังกลาเทศ โดยดำรงตำแหน่งประธานาธิบดีและนายกรัฐมนตรีระหว่างปี 1971 จนถูกลอบสังหารในปี 1975

ทั้งหมดก็เพื่อเร่งอัตราการส่งออกและเพื่อนำเงินมาชดใช้หนี้

โดยแทนที่จะส่งเสริมการปลูกป่าชายเลน ซึ่งสามารถเป็นแนวป้องกันพายุตามธรรมชาติ เพื่อประโยชน์สำหรับประชาชนมากกว่า 1 ใน 3 ของประเทศที่อาศัยอยู่ตามแนวชายฝั่ง หรือแม้แต่ลงทุนในการผลิตอาหารให้เพียงพอต่อการบริโภคภายในประเทศที่กำลังเติบโตอย่างรวดเร็ว แต่รัฐบาลกลับเลือกที่จะกู้เงินจากธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF เพื่อที่จะขยายฟาร์มกุ้ง ซึ่งกระบวนการเพาะเลี้ยงสัตว์น้ำในประเทศนั้นถูกควบคุมโดยเครือข่ายชนชั้นปกครองที่ร่ำรวยอีกด้วย

พวกคนรวยรวมหัวกันผลักดันบรรดาเหล่าชาวไร่ให้กู้ยืมเงินเพื่อทำสิ่งที่เรียกว่าการ “อัปเกรดกระบวนการเพาะเลี้ยง” โดยทำการขุดหลุมตามแนวกันคลื่นซึ่งป้องกันที่ดินของพวกเขาจากทะเล ทำให้ที่ดินที่เคยอุดมสมบูรณ์ของพวกเขาเต็มไปด้วยน้ำเกลือ หลังจากนั้นพวกเขาก็ต้องทำงานอย่างหลังขดหลังแข็ง เพื่อจับตัวอ่อนของกุ้งจากทะเลด้วยมือเปล่า เพื่อนำมันกลับมาเลี้ยงในบ่อพัก ก่อนจะขายกุ้งตัวโตเต็มวัยให้กับผู้รับซื้อกุ้ง ซึ่งมักจะเป็นผู้มีอิทธิพลในพื้นที่

เงินทุนที่กู้จากธนาคารโลกและ IMF ทำให้ไร่นาสวน ที่ดินลุ่มน้ำ และป่าชายเลนนับไม่ถ้วน ถูกดัดแปลงให้กลายเป็นบ่อกุ้งที่เรียกว่า “ghers”

พื้นที่บริเวณสามเหลี่ยมปากแม่น้ำคงคานั้นถือเป็นพื้นที่ที่มีความอุดมสมบูรณ์อย่างน่าทึ่ง โดยเป็นที่ตั้งของ “ป่าสุนทรพนา” ป่าชายเลนที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในโลก แต่หลังจากที่การทำฟาร์มกุ้งเชิงพาณิชย์ได้กลายเป็นธุรกิจหลักในท้องถิ่น ต้นโกงกางมากกว่าร้อยละ 45 ได้ถูกตัดออกไปเกลี้ยง ทิ้งให้ผู้คนเผชิญกับคลื่นสูงกว่า 10 เมตรที่พุ่งเข้าชนแนวชายหาดเวลาเกิดพายุไซโคลน พื้นที่ทำกินที่อุดมสมบูรณ์และสิ่งมีชีวิตตามริมแม่น้ำค่อย ๆ ถูกทำลายไปจากความเค็มที่เพิ่มขึ้นจากน้ำทะเล

จนสุดท้ายป่าทั้งป่าก็ได้อันตรธานหายไป เพราะฟาร์มกุ้งนั้นทำลายพืชพรรณท้องถิ่นทั้งหมด กลุ่มความร่วมมือพัฒนาชายฝั่ง (Coastal Development Partnership) ได้กล่าวถึงผลกระทบที่เกิดขึ้นนี้ว่า “การกระทำนี้ทำให้ดินแดนที่เคยอุดมสมบูรณ์กลายเป็น ‘ทะเลทรายที่เต็มไปด้วยน้ำเค็ม' ”

พื้นที่ไร่นาที่ปล่อยน้ำทะเลเข้ามาเพื่อทำฟาร์มกุ้งในจังหวัด Khuna

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อย่างไรก็ตาม ผู้มีอิทธิพลที่รับซื้อกุ้งเหล่านี้กลับร่ำรวยขึ้นอย่างมาก และกุ้ง (ซึ่งถูกเรียกว่าเป็น “ทองคำสีขาว”) ก็กลายเป็นสินค้าส่งออกอันดับ 2 ของประเทศ

โดยนับตั้งแต่ปี 2014 เป็นต้นมา ชาวบังกลาเทศมากกว่า 1.2 ล้านคนทำงานในอุตสาหกรรมกุ้ง และผู้คนอีกกว่า 4.8 ล้านคนที่ต้องพึ่งพิงอุตสาหกรรมนี้ในทางอ้อม ซึ่งตัวเลขนี้ถือเป็นครึ่งหนึ่งของจำนวนคนยากจนที่อาศัยอยู่ตามชายฝั่ง คนเก็บกุ้งเป็นผู้ที่ทำงานหนักที่สุด (ซึ่งถือเป็นร้อยละ 50 ของแรงงานในอุตสาหกรรม) แต่ได้รับส่วนแบ่งเพียงร้อยละ 6 ของผลกำไร โดยร้อยละ 30 ของแรงงานนั้นเป็นแรงงานเด็กที่มีทั้งเด็กผู้ชายและเด็กผู้หญิง ซึ่งทำงานในน้ำเค็มมากถึง 9 ชั่วโมงต่อวันด้วยค่าจ้างรายวันน้อยกว่า 1 ดอลลาร์สหรัฐ เด็กเหล่านี้ส่วนมากไม่รู้หนังสือและไม่ได้เรียนต่อ

ผู้คนเคยมีการลุกฮือขึ้นประท้วงต่อต้านการขยายตัวของฟาร์มกุ้ง แต่แล้วก็ถูกปราบปรามอย่างรุนแรง โดยในเหตุปราบปรามที่เลื่องลือครั้งหนึ่่งนั้น ขบวนผู้ประท้วงถูกทำร้ายด้วยระเบิดจากผู้มีอิทธิพลที่รับซื้อกุ้งและกลุ่มลูกน้อง และมีผู้หญิงรายหนึ่งชื่อ Kuranamoyee Sardar ถูกตัดศีรษะจากเหตุปราบปรามดังกล่าว

ในงานวิจัยปี 2007 ซึ่งสำรวจฟาร์มกุ้งของชาวบังกลาเทศกว่า 102 แห่ง พบว่าแม้ค่าใช้จ่ายในการผลิตทั้งหมดจะอยู่ที่ 1,084 ดอลลาร์สหรัฐต่อเฮกตาร์ แต่รายได้สุทธิกลับอยู่ที่ 689 ดอลลาร์สหรัฐ นั่นหมายถึงกำไรที่ประเทศได้จากการส่งออกนั้น แลกมาด้วยการที่แรงงานในอุตสาหกรรมกุ้งต้องรับเคราะห์จากค่าจ้างที่ถูกกดและสภาพแวดล้อมของพวกเขาที่ถูกทำลายจนหมดสิ้น

ในรายงานที่จัดทำโดยมูลนิธิความยุติธรรมด้านสิ่งแวดล้อม (Environmental Justice Foundation) ชาวไร่ที่อยู่ริมชายฝั่งอย่างคุณ Kolyani Mondal ได้กล่าวว่า “เธอเคยปลูกข้าว พร้อมเลี้ยงปศุสัตว์และสัตว์ปีก” แต่หลังจากที่ได้มีการทำเกษตรฟาร์มกุ้ง “วัว ควาย และแพะของเธอก็เริ่มเป็นโรคท้องร่วงไปพร้อม ๆ กับเหล่าแม่ไก่และเป็ดซึ่งเป็นสัตว์ของเธอ พวกมันล้วนตายทั้งหมด”

ตอนนี้ทุ่งของเธอเต็มไปด้วยน้ำเกลือ และที่ดินที่ยังเหลืออยู่ก็เพาะปลูกอะไรแทบไม่ขึ้น ในอดีตนั้นครอบครัวของเธอสามารถปลูกข้าวได้ 18-19 มอนต่อเฮกตาร์ แต่ตอนนี้เหลือแค่ 1 มอนต่อเฮกตาร์ เธอยังจำช่วงเวลาในปี 1980 ที่เพิ่งเริ่มมีการทำฟาร์มกุ้งได้ ในตอนนั้น ชาวบ้านได้รับการสัญญาว่าสิ่งนี้จะสร้างรายได้เพิ่มขึ้น รวมทั้งมอบอาหารและพืชผลให้พวกเขามากขึ้น

แต่ตอนนี้ “ทุกอย่างล้วนหายไปหมดแล้ว” ชาวไร่ผู้เลี้ยงกุ้งขอเช่าที่ดินของเธอ โดยตกลงจะจ่ายเงินเธอ 140 ดอลลาร์สหรัฐต่อปี แต่ตอนนี้อย่างดีที่สุดที่เธอได้รับคือเงินผ่อนจ่ายแปลงละ 8 ดอลลาร์สหรัฐบ้างเป็นครั้งคราว โดยเธอกล่าวว่า “ในอดีตครอบครัวของเธอสามารถหาเลี้ยงตัวเองได้อย่างดีจากบนผืนดินแห่งนี้ แต่ตอนนี้ไม่เหลือทางเลือกใด ๆ นอกจากการไปซื้ออาหารที่ตลาด”

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หมายเหตุผู้แปล : - มอน (Muand) เป็นหน่วยวัดน้ำหนักดั้งเดิมที่ใช้กันในเอเชียใต้ โดย 1 มอนมีค่าเทียบเท่าที่หลากหลายตั้งแต่ 11 กิโลกรัม จนถึง 72 กิโลกรัม - เฮกตาร์ (Hectare) เป็นหน่วยวัดพื้นที่ในมาตราเมตริกโดย 1 เฮกตาร์ เท่ากับ 10,000 ตารางเมตร หรือประมาณ 6 ไร่ 1 งาน.

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ในบังกลาเทศนั้นเงินกู้เพื่อการปรับโครงสร้างจากธนาคารโลกและ IMF ปริมาณนับพันล้านดอลลาร์ (ที่มาของชื่อ “เงินกู้เพื่อการปรับโครงสร้าง” ได้มาจากการที่ผู้ปล่อยกู้จะบังคับให้ประเทศผู้กู้ต้องปรับโครงสร้างทางเศรษฐกิจเพื่อให้เอื้อกับการส่งออก ซึ่งต้องแลกมาด้วยการบริโภคภายในประเทศ) ได้ทำให้กำไรในการส่งออกกุ้งของประเทศเพิ่มขึ้นจาก 2.9 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐในปี 1973 - เพิ่มเป็น 90 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐในปี 1986 - และเพิ่มเป็น 590 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐในปี 2012

ซึ่งรายได้ดังกล่าวถูกนำมาใช้จ่ายหนี้ต่างประเทศและใช้ในการพัฒนากองทัพ แต่เงินบางส่วนก็ไหลเข้ากระเป๋าเจ้าหน้าที่รัฐ (ซึ่งก็ไม่ได้แตกต่างอะไรกับกรณีส่วนใหญ่ของประเทศกำลังพัฒนา) ในขณะที่เหล่าแรงงานทาสในอุตสาหกรรมกุ้งต้องถูกกดขี่ให้ยากจน ถูกลิดรอนอิสรภาพ ต้องพึ่งพิงผู้อื่น และมีความสามารถในการหาเลี้ยงตัวเองได้น้อยลงกว่าแต่ก่อน

โดยที่แย่ไปกว่านั้นคือผลวิจัยยังแสดงให้เห็นว่า “หมู่บ้านที่มีป่าชายเลนไว้เป็นแนวป้องกันตัวจากคลื่นพายุซัดฝั่งจะมีผู้เสียชีวิตน้อยลงมาก เมื่อเทียบกับหมู่บ้านที่ป่าชายเลนเสียหายหรือถูกทำลาย”

ภายใต้แรงกดดันของสาธารณชน ในปี 2013 ธนาคารโลกจึงได้ปล่อยเงินกู้ 400 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐให้แก่บังกลาเทศเพื่อใช้ในการพยายามแก้ไขความเสียหายของระบบนิเวศที่เกิดขึ้น ซึ่งพูดในอีกแง่หนึ่งก็คือธนาคารโลกจะได้รับค่าตอบแทนในรูปแบบของดอกเบี้ยจากการพยายามแก้ปัญหาที่ตัวเองเป็นผู้ก่อขึ้นตั้งแต่แรก ในขณะเดียวกันธนาคารโลกยังได้ปล่อยเงินกู้นับพันล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐไปยังทุกประเทศ ไล่ตั้งแต่เอกวาดอร์ ไปยันโมร็อกโก จนถึงอินเดีย เพื่อเปลี่ยนฟาร์มดั้งเดิมในท้องถิ่นให้กลายเป็นฟาร์มกุ้ง

ธนาคารโลกได้อ้างว่าบังกลาเทศนั้นคือ “เรื่องราวที่น่าทึ่งของการลดความยากจนและการพัฒนาประเทศ” หากยึดจากในข้อมูลตามเอกสารที่ว่าแล้ว นี่ถือเป็นชัยชนะ เพราะเศรษฐกิจของประเทศอย่างบังกลาเทศมีแนวโน้มที่จะเติบโตต่อไป ในขณะเดียวกับที่มูลค่าการส่งออกนั้นเติบโตขึ้นเพื่อชดเชยมูลค่าจากการนำเข้า แต่แท้จริงแล้วรายได้จากการส่งออกส่วนใหญ่กลับไหลเข้าสู่กระเป๋าของชนชั้นนำและเจ้าหนี้ต่างประเทศ และหลังจากได้รับเงินกู้เพื่อการปรับโครงสร้างมาถึง 10 ครั้ง หนี้ของบังกลาเทศเติบโตขึ้นอย่างมหาศาล โดยเพิ่มจาก 145 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐในปี 1972 กลายเป็น 95,900 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐในปี 2022 ซึ่ง ณ ตอนนี้ประเทศบังกลาเทศเองก็กำลังเผชิญกับวิกฤตด้านดุลการชำระเงิน (Balance of Payments) จากหนี้สินอีกครั้ง และในเดือนพฤศจิกายน 2022 รัฐบาลก็ตกลงที่จะกู้เงินปรับโครงสร้างครั้งที่ 11 จาก IMF โดยมีการอัดฉีดเงินช่วยเหลือมูลค่า 4,500 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐเข้ามาในระบบ โดยแลกกับการถูกแทรกแซงในการปรับโครงสร้างที่เพิ่มขึ้นไปอีก

ธนาคารโลกและ IMF นั้นก็ต่างอ้างว่าพวกเขาต้องการช่วยเหลือประเทศที่ยากจน แต่ตลอด 50 ปีที่ผ่านมา ผลลัพธ์จากนโยบายของพวกเขาก็ได้แสดงให้เห็นอย่างชัดเจนว่า ประเทศอย่างบังกลาเทศกลับกลายเป็นประเทศที่ต้องพึ่งพาผู้อื่นมากขึ้น และเต็มไปด้วยหนี้สินอย่างที่ไม่เคยเป็นมาก่อน

ในระหว่างวิกฤตหนี้ของประเทศโลกที่สามในช่วงทศวรรษ 1990 การวิพากษ์วิจารณ์จากสาธารณชนทั่วโลกที่ต้องการจะตรวจสอบข้อเท็จจริงของธนาคารโลกและ IMF ได้ค่อย ๆ สะสมจนปะทุขึ้น เริ่มมีการศึกษาวิจัยเพื่อสืบค้นข้อมูลอย่างจริงจัง ผู้คนออกมาประท้วงตามท้องถนน และมีความเชื่อที่แพร่กระจายไปยังทุกฝั่งการเมือง (แม้กระทั้งในรัฐสภาของสหรัฐฯ เอง) ว่าองค์กรเหล่านี้ไร้ซึ่งประโยชน์ หรือกระทั่งเป็นพิษภัยด้วยซ้ำ แต่ความรู้สึกและความสนใจในองค์กรเหล่านี้ได้จางหายไปเกือบหมดแล้ว และถึงแม้ความรู้สึกและความสนใจเหล่านี้จะกลับมาอีกครั้ง มันกลับถูกมองว่าเป็นสิ่งที่ไม่สำคัญ หรือแม้จะมีการยอมรับว่าองค์กรพวกนี้มีปัญหาแต่ก็ยังมีความจำเป็นอยู่ หรือกระทั่งยังมีความเชื่อว่าองค์กรพวกนี้มีประโยชน์และยังได้รับการต้อนรับเหมือนเดิม

ความเป็นจริงแล้วองค์กรเหล่านี้ทำให้ผู้คนนับล้านยากจนลงและชีวิตเสี่ยงอันตรายมากกว่าในอดีต ในขณะเดียวกันกลับทำให้เหล่าผู้นำเผด็จการและเครือข่ายที่ยักยอกความมั่งคั่งของประเทศนั้นร่ำรวยขึ้น และยอมละทิ้งสิทธิมนุษยชนเพื่อทำให้อาหาร ทรัพยากรธรรมชาติ และแรงงานราคาถูกไหลออกจากประเทศที่ยากจนไปสู่ประเทศที่ร่ำรวย พฤติกรรมของพวกเขาที่กระทำในบังกลาเทศนั้นไม่ใช่เรื่องผิดพลาดหรือเป็นกรณียกเว้นแต่อย่างใด

แต่นั่นเป็นวิธีการดำเนินธุรกิจตามปกติของพวกเขา..

⚡️กด Zap บทความนี้เป็นกำลังใจทีมงาน

(ทุกยอด zap จะถูกแบ่งอัตโนมัติเข้าวอลเล็ทของผู้เขียนบทความต้นฉบับภาษาอังกฤษ, ผู้แปลดราฟต์ 1, ผู้เรียบเรียงดราฟต์ 2-3, กองบรรณาธิการและพิสูจน์อักษรจากไรท์ชิฟต์ พร้อมกันบางส่วนไว้เพื่อเป็นค่าธรรมเนียมธุรกรรม)

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>แปลและเรียบเรียงจากบทความต้นฉบับเรื่อง : STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR RESOURCES TO RICH ONES ซึ่งเผยแพร่ครั้งแรกเมื่อวันที่ 22 พ.ย. ปี ค.ศ. 2022

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I feel like a lot of people have an inherent problem with this vague concept of “THE ALGORITHM” (which henceforth will receive the all caps & scary quote treatment) and their nostr feed that is entirely misplaced from the real problem of centralized social media, so I thought it would be good to address it directly.

First, “THE ALGORITHM” is just a set of rules that determines how you see your feed. There is no necromancy or joining of the dark side involved, and it has nothing to do with whether "THE ALGORITHM" is “good” or “bad.” The very idea of “not having an algorithm,” just means you want the algorithm to list the posts of who you follow in chronological order. It in no way means you are “algorithm free,” it just means that the rules of your feed are "take only the posts from the people I follow and order them chronologically," and that’s basically it.

Everything about the concept of a social network and the incredible potential and beauty of #nostr as a protocol is in controlling your experience, what content you see, and how you see it. This is literally the entire point of having follows, followers, and reposts in the first place. It's at the core of the very notion of what social media is. This is literally “an algorithm” in the same way as prioritizing new posts over old would be, or limiting those who post more, or amplifying those who post less in your feed. They are exactly the same kind of rules, they are different only in specificity.

So what’s the problem with “THE ALGORITHM” then? It’s nothing to do with some vague notion of an “unnatural” feed or whatever it might seem like since we seem to have developed this distaste for the very concept. The problem is purely that someone else has been specifically manipulating your feed against your best interests.

It’s the same issue as censorship. My blocking a dickhead who won’t shut up about their shitcoin or who squeals at me under every single post with demands to read some communist propaganda on my podcast, isn’t censorship, it’s me choosing who I interact with. Censorship is when an external participant, someone not involved in the conversation at all, decides that I should not see some idea or should not communicate with some person despite my explicit desire to do so, and is able to remove my access from it without my permission.

The same goes for “THE ALGORITHM.” It’s not a problem if I’m controlling it for my own feed, this is a basic and fundamental tool of digital filtering that absolutely must be embraced, not feared or run away from, because it’ll make a huge difference in the user experience. It’s simply that someone else shouldn’t be controlling it to be at odds with the content and experience that the user specifically wants and is trying to create. Only THEN it is a very bad "algorithm" and a dangerous relationship.

The problem with all of these things has nothing to do with what they actually are, its about who has control.

The user is always supposed to be in control of who they follow, the content and ideas they want to see, and the people they want to associate with. Only then is it truly a free market and open space guided and created by its users. The problem has always been about central points of control forcing information asymmetries that aren't real, censoring ideas that are beneficial to you and inconvenient to them, etc.

I always like to try to analogize these sorts of things to the IRL world to understand what makes them bad and why a good one is actually incredible important. In the real world, if you go to a party and decide to converse with your friend, while ignoring all others you are weighing their interaction higher than the others at the party. If you decide to play a game of beer pong with your friend, you are creating a very specific set of rules by which your interaction will fall into. Not because you enjoy the evils of "THE ALGORITHM," but because you want to get drunk and have a lot of fun. Censorship would be if some external govt or other party was able to mute your conversation from thousands of miles away, while you were standing in front of your friend talking to them. THEY interrupted your conversation and shut off your communication channel despite both of you explicitly agreeing to the interaction. Or you were having a conversation with your friend and the second they began telling you about how your mutual acquaintence in in the hospital with myocarditis, they vanish from the party and a person you don't even know immediately walks up to explain to you how safe and effective the Pfizer products are.

An IRL "evil algorithm" would be this external institution or person making a particular group at the party invisible to you without your knowledge, it would be forcing a beer pong table in front of you no matter where you went or what else you wanted to do. Constantly enticing you to get drunk and play a game you were doing everything to avoid. Even adding arbitrary obstacles to all other activities and dropping NLP messaging of "drink up" and "solo cup" into all of your conversations without your knowledge. As crazy as it sounds, this is essentially the norm. This is how our online environment has evolved. So it makes sense that when we broke free of that, we would have a horrible taste in our mouths for the very idea of "THE ALGORITHM." It certainly isn't irrational, despite being misplaced.

Being part of the digital world is a weird thing when comparing it to real life. There is never a situation in meatspace where one has to filter how they will talk to a million people all at once. The very notion is comically absurd. But this IS a consideration in the digital world. Its like being dropped into a seemingly unlimited ocean of content and people, which is to the individual, genuinely infinite, as more content and interactions are being added to it by the minute so fast that it would take a lifetime to even manually sort through it all. Blocking, filtering, information rules, value weights and yes, "THE ALGORITHM" aren't things that are nice to have, these things are critical, inescapable tools for navigating the endless ocean of the digital world. These are not things to be afraid of or label broadly as "evil" and avoided at all costs. To the contrary, they are basic pieces of the puzzle that I think we need to understand. We need to put them in the hands of the user, so we can do incredible things with them.

The one core concern, is quite simple: How do we enable the user to set the rules, and not a third party? In my opinion, this is all that distinguishes the ultimately good from the bad.

We must remember not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Creating "THE ALGORITHM" is not accepting an invitation from Darth Vader to join the dark side. It's just a means of curating your feed so you get the best experience you can, and you find the content, ideas, and community that you came to #nostr looking for.

When we realize the importance of custom controls and modes of interaction, then we realize what all of these clients really are. Every one of them is really just a different "algorithm" that the user can select from. One that shows only images, one that filters everything but a certain community or topic, one that organizes based on most zapped, or by the number of likes specifically from those in your network, and on and on. The potential of #nostr isn't an algorithm-free experience, it's in an ecosystem with an unlimited number of experiences to choose from so that each person can either choose or build the community that they want, in a global square with no rulers.

An important step to getting to the future we want is to understand, with specificity and nuance, the exact sources of the problems we are trying to fix, rather than painting broad strokes and just carrying around a bunch of baggage about a tool we should be using for ourselves. The promise of nostr, and Bitcoin, and so many other tools we are building on and embracing is to create at the communication layer, a foundation of freedom that can be accessed by every single user no matter where they are in the world.

So in short, there is no such thing as "THE ALGORITHM." The problem has always been about who has control over your digital world? Is it you, or is it someone else? In the fight to prevent that control from finding its way back into the hands of someone else, it would be foolish to let our PTSD over the past have us avoid the very tools that would let us build a future specifically tuned to give us the very value and and autonomy that we all seek.

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Being a writer is delving into a universe where words become the brush with which the canvas of imagination is painted. Famous names like Shakespeare, Jane Austen, and Gabriel García Márquez have illuminated this path with their timeless works. But, is a writer made or born? The answer is a blend of both. While some have an innate talent, writing is an art perfected over time with dedication. A writer's goal goes beyond putting stories on paper; it's about communicating emotions, provoking reflections, and connecting deeply with the reader. Therefore, it's essential to develop good habits as a writer to channel creativity and make an impact on the audience.

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What's the Best Part of Being a Writer?

The best part of being a writer lies in the ability to create entire worlds with words and emotions. Writing is a window to imagination, where you can breathe life into unique characters, places, and situations. Furthermore, it offers an unparalleled form of personal expression, allowing you to share your thoughts, dreams, and perspectives with the world.

The most positive aspect is the satisfaction of seeing your ideas transformed into printed words, influencing readers and leaving a lasting impression on their lives. Writing also provides creative freedom and the opportunity to explore various genres and styles. Additionally, it can be a source of self-discovery and personal growth.

Another advantage is the flexibility that writing offers as a career, allowing you to work from anywhere at any time. It can also serve as a form of therapy, helping you process emotions and experiences.

Being a writer is an exciting and enriching journey that allows you to unleash your creativity, share your voice with the world, and experience a unique form of self-realization.

What's the Downside?

The downside of being a writer involves significant challenges. One of the most complex aspects is the self-demand and constant self-critique that often accompanies writing. Writers can be their harshest critics, leading to insecurity and creative blocks.

Additionally, writing can be a solitary profession, resulting in social isolation and a lack of human interaction. Financial uncertainty is another factor, as economic stability is not always guaranteed, especially for novice authors.

Constant rejection by publishers or readers can also be discouraging. The lack of recognition and the difficulty of standing out in a saturated market are additional challenges that writers face.

The negative side of being a writer includes emotional pressures, isolation, financial instability, and the constant confrontation with criticism and rejection.

How to Prevent These Challenges From Affecting You?

To prevent these challenges, which sometimes accompany the profession of a writer, from affecting you significantly, it's crucial to develop a resilient mindset and adopt healthy practices. This includes managing expectations, understanding that excessive self-critique can be counterproductive, and seeking support in writer communities. It's also essential to diversify daily activities to avoid isolation and take care of both physical and mental health. Writing is a unique and enriching journey, and adopting positive strategies can make this journey more rewarding and sustainable in the long run.

Physical and Mental Health Care

The physical and mental health of a writer is a crucial aspect to maintain a sustainable and rewarding creative career. Writing often involves long hours of immersion in stories and characters, which can lead to social isolation and physical strain. To stay in top shape, writers should pay attention to ergonomics, take regular breaks, and maintain a balanced diet. Furthermore, mental health is equally important. Stress management, seeking emotional support, and setting boundaries are essential practices to maintain a positive balance between the passion for writing and personal well-being.

Optimizing Your Day

Optimizing your day is crucial for a writer because it can make the difference between productivity and creative stagnation. A writer needs to make the most of every moment to dedicate time to writing, revising, and planning. A well-structured routine provides a framework that helps prevent procrastination and ensures that words flow consistently. Additionally, optimizing your day also includes efficient time management for research, editing, and promoting your work. Maintaining a balance between writing and other essential activities, such as exercise and rest, is fundamental to sustaining creativity and energy over time. In summary, optimizing your day is the foundation for a writer to achieve goals and maximize creative potential.

"The craft of a writer is like weaving an infinite tapestry of words, where each row is a story, a world, a life. It's an act of love and obsession, an endless quest for truth and beauty in the labyrinth of imagination."

Ultimately, the profession of a writer, despite its challenges, is an endless source of gratification. While it may involve moments of difficulty and self-critique, the passion for writing and the potential to touch readers' hearts with authentic stories make every effort worthwhile. Sometimes, instead of suffering in the pursuit of perfection, it's essential to remember that writing flows best when done from the heart, when you share your experiences and emotions with the world. It's in these moments that the true magic of being a writer unfolds, reminding us that, ultimately, it's the love for words that guides us on this exciting creative journey.

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Test Bounty Note

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Getting Started

Tools

The use of any tools is not required and may be helpful in getting a hands-on understanding of Nostr events, queries, and interacting with relays.

Here are the tools I will be using in this guide:

NodeJS - The code snippets in this guide will be using javascript. Most of this code will not be specific to Node and may be convenient to use if not writing our javascript for a web browser.

Google Chrome\Chromium - For web scripting, most modern web browsers should be fine. The requirement is that it supports websockets and CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS). The Chrome dev tools will be used for viewing code output.

Nostril - Nostril is a utility to create events from the command-line. This will help quickly create new events for testing and it can be downloaded here. I also have a utility written in NodeJS that can be used as a substitute here (Link to Github).

Websocat - Websocat allows a convenient CLI interface to sending data over websockets, which is what relays use for communication. In conjunction with Nostril, you can pipe events and requests to relays and get output.

Postman - Postman supports websockets and can be used as an alternative for sending events to relays.

Relays

This guide will be utilizing a relay that supports most of the NIP standards. The only requirement for this guide is that you use a relay you are allowed to write events to. You can also spin up your own relay to test and the setup of a relay is out of scope. You can find a list of relays here.

Note: As a matter of courtesy, if using someone else’s relay, is to be respectful of the amount of data sent to the relay. Relays provide an important function and house a lot of nostr events. Spamming, even for testing purposes may result in rate limiting or banning.

As different event kinds are explored the supported NIPs will be highlighted to ensure that a suitable one is used and behavior is as intended in the exercise.

Test keypair

It’s strongly recommended that any testing of events is done using a throwaway public\private keypair. This will ensure any npub you are using day-to-day doesn’t result in unintended behavior (i.e. spamming of messages to anyone following you) or private keys getting leaked.

Hello World

Exercise 1

Let’s start with an obligatory “Hello World” event to get things going. In the next section we will go over Nostr architecture and the anatomy of an event and loop back to this event.

Ingredients:

• Nostril
• Websocat

Steps:

Step 1: Build an event with a Nostril using the following commandline (You can autogenerate a new private key or use one you generated already)

./nostril --envelope --content "Hello World" --sec SECRET_KEY

Step 2: View the event in standard output

Step 3: Rerun the command and pipe it out to a relay

Step 4: Check for the output from the relay. If successful, copy and paste the ID of the event for later (we will come back to this)

Congrats you just generated and published an event in the most manual way possible!

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Intro

This short tutorial will help you set up your own Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) on your own LND Node that is not using Umbrel. If you are a user of Umbrel, you should use their version of NWC.

Requirements

You need to have a working installation of LND with established channels and connectivity to the internet. NWC in itself is fairly light and will not consume a lot of resources. You will also want to ensure that you have a working installation of Docker, since we will use a docker image to run NWC.

• Working installation of LND (and all of its required components)
• Docker (with Docker compose)

Installation

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will assume that you have your lnd/bitcoind running under user bitcoin with home directory /home/bitcoin. We will also assume that you already have a running installation of Docker (or docker.io).

Prepare and verify

git version - we will need git to get the latest version of NWC. docker version - should execute successfully and show the currently installed version of Docker. docker compose version - same as before, but the version will be different. ss -tupln | grep 10009- should produce the following output: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 0.0.0.0:10009 0.0.0.0: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 [::]:10009 [::]:**

For things to work correctly, your Docker should be version 20.10.0 or later. If you have an older version, consider installing a new one using instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Create folders & download NWC

In the home directory of your LND/bitcoind user, create a new folder, e.g., "nwc" mkdir /home/bitcoin/nwc. Change to that directory cd /home/bitcoin/nwc and clone the NWC repository: git clone https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect.git

Creating the Docker image

In this step, we will create a Docker image that you will use to run NWC.

• Change directory to nostr-wallet-connect: cd nostr-wallet-connect
• Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
• The last line of the output (after a few minutes) should look like => => naming to docker.io/library/nwc:latest
• nwc:latest is the name of the Docker image with a tag which you should note for use later.

Creating docker-compose.yml and necessary data directories

• Let's create a directory that will hold your non-volatile data (DB): mkdir data
• Indocker-compose.ymlfile, there are fields that you want to replace (<> comments) and port “4321” that you want to make sure is open (check with ss -tupln | grep 4321which should return nothing).
• Create docker-compose.ymlfile with the following content, and make sure to update fields that have <> comment:

version: "3.8" services: nwc: image: nwc:latest volumes: - ./data:/data - ~/.lnd:/lnd:ro ports: - "4321:8080" extra_hosts: - "localhost:host-gateway" environment: NOSTR_PRIVKEY: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate a fresh key and place it inside ""> LN_BACKEND_TYPE: "LND" LND_ADDRESS: localhost:10009 LND_CERT_FILE: "/lnd/tls.cert" LND_MACAROON_FILE: "/lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/admin.macaroon" DATABASE_URI: "/data/nostr-wallet-connect.db" COOKIE_SECRET: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate fresh secret and place it inside ""> PORT: 8080 restart: always stop_grace_period: 1m

Starting and testing

Now that you have everything ready, it is time to start the container and test.

• While you are in the nwcdirectory (important), execute the following command and check the log output, docker compose up
• You should see container logs while it is starting, and it should not exit if everything went well.
• At this point, you should be able to go to http://<ip of the host where nwc is running>:4321 and get to the interface of NWC
• To stop the test run of NWC, simply press Ctrl-C , and it will shut the container down.
• To start NWC permanently, you should execute docker compose up -d , “-d” tells Docker to detach from the session.
• To check currently running NWC logs, execute docker compose logs to run it in tail mode add -f to the end.
• To stop the container, execute docker compose down

That's all, just follow the instructions in the web interface to get started.

Updating

As with any software, you should expect fixes and updates that you would need to perform periodically. You could automate this, but it falls outside of the scope of this tutorial. Since we already have all of the necessary configuration in place, the update execution is fairly simple.

• Change directory to the clone of the git repository, cd /home/bitcoin/nwc/nostr-wallet-connect
• Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
• Change directory back one level cd ..
• Restart (stop and start) the docker compose config docker compose down && docker compose up -d
• Done! Optionally you may want to check the logs: docker compose logs

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There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.

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The most common route into Ukraine is from Warsaw via the train. Downtown Warsaw is a modern European city where shared lodging can be found in the $20/night range, and private lodging/bathroom around $50. I've arrived to Warsaw but the train was full for weeks so I've bought a Flixbus ticket to Kyiv for $45 online. Was supposed to depart at 7:40AM but the company notified me via email last night that the bus was cancelled. There was a very simple online option for rescheduling to the 4PM bus. This 13-hour bus leaves from the West Bus Station, right next to the West Rail Station, which can be found on the map as "Dworzec Zachodni". The journey now begins as I leave my Warsaw lodging.

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🌐Upgrading Your Internet for Censorship Resistance and P2P Connectivity 🚀

With some funding and community help, you can all build infrastructure to improve decentralization and privacy worldwide. Not everyone needs this level of communication, a simple simplex or Keet client paired with a lightning wallet to fund your project, whether it be around providing utilities like gas ,lights and data, electricity .So here is a proposed plan:

Lightning Nodes⚡

• Setup a high capacity Lightning node using Umbrel (https://youtu.be/KahRH_u2UMA?feature=shared) ↗)

• Goal is 0.292 BTC capacity for good uptime and connectivity

Nostr Relays🧑‍💻

• Build out Raspberry Pi relays running Keet and Nostr relays via Umbrel or Start9

Also take this into consideration

• Place them in strategic locations globally/regionally, taking into account scaling and maintenance savings then cost.

P2P Chat🤝

They can be used for keet relays if you do have any - Install Keet on a Pi as a personal relay for events/meetups (https://docs.holepunch.to/guides/personal-keet-p2p-chat-relay) ↗)

• Offer bursting capacity through Tor for increased privacy

🌐Expanding our P2P Horizon with PiVPN 🌐

By leveraging Raspberry Pis and VPN technology, we can enhance privacy and strengthen decentralization in exciting new ways. Considerable advantages of PiVPN deployment:

🥝Internet Freedom Portals

• Set up Pi nodes running PiVPN in censorious regions to provide access to open web for locals

• Custom firmware ensures stability and maximizes limited bandwidth resources

💿Private Peering Points

• Connect Raspberry Pis globally so they can sync/share data like torrents, IPFS, Bitcoin nodes privately

• Use WireGuard or OpenVPN for rapid, secure tunneling between p2p devices

💸Running Full Nodes Everywhere

• Install Bitcoin/Electrum wallets to full nodes on Pis on trustworthy VPN

• Extra bandwidth unused can be donated to help sync other full nodes worldwide

⚙️Infrastructure for Innovation

• Additional resources enable experimentation with new p2p protocols and services

• Future projects may include decentralized cloud services, live streaming and more!

Harnessing the power of portable Pis increases privacy and takes peer-powered systems beyond what's possible today. Exciting potential for distributed collaboration!

Funding Round💰

• 4587195.4693226265 SATs needed for 1st month of your hosting costs

• You should reach out to other contributors in the community to fund your project

By upgrading your internet infrastructure with lightning, Nostr and Keet, we can all better enable censorship resistance and promote peer-to-peer connectivity globally. Exciting times ahead!

⚖️Leveraging Bitcoin for Positive Change🌎

There is an opportunity to use the rise of digital hard money in a purposeful way to advance human rights in a compliant manner. Here are some suggestions:

💰Generating Resources Responsibly

• Guide individuals and charities on ethically acquiring Bitcoin through approved platforms

• Provide education on best practices for securely storing Bitcoin long-term without third party risks

🏦Pairing Philanthropy with Progress

• Suggest fundraisers pair traditional donations with a voluntary Bitcoin component

• Link donors with experts who ensure all transactions adhere to regulations for full transparency

✊Empowering Underserved Communities

• Establish programs to convert percentage of generated wealth into initiatives like food/water projects

• Partner organizations focus on creating sustainable solutions pairing local skills/resources with Bitcoin opportunities

🌐A More Just System Through Innovation

• Advocate cross-border micropayment networks to facilitate global access to education and opportunity

• Support pairing all property titles with a Bitcoin component to foster financial inclusion for all

By guiding ethical Bitcoin adoption, we have a chance not only to empower individuals, but align new technologies with building a more just world for future generations.

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Introduction

Nostr is a new and exciting protocol that many people have taken to building and incorporating into applications like Social Media. There are countless Nostr guides oriented toward new users looking to dive into an alternative to Twitter, Instagram, Mastodon, etc.

This guide looks to take a different approach, focusing on the technical features of the Nostr protocol and get anyone up to speed on wanting to build applications and utilities with the protocol. It will also look to serve as a guide on resources and limitations of the protocol.

The focus will be less on the philosophical nature of a decentralized, censorship-resistant, communication layer or the common social media layer that the many have gravitated toward. Instead this will look at how the protocol works, the anatomy of events and requests, as well as things to consider when building and working with Nostr.

Audience assumptions

This guide is geared toward technical users who are already familiar with Nostr from a user standpoint. Exposure to the main clients such as Damus, Amethyst, and Primal will be assumed. Some scripting or programming knowledge will also be assumed.

For anyone who needs a review of what Nostr is and a user guide please see the below links:

• https://nostr.how/en/what-is-nostr
• https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr/
• https://nostr.com/get-started

The NIP reference and development speed

Nostr moves fast, very fast! There are going to be some aspects of Nostr that will be deprecated in favor of more efficient and agreed upon standards.

As of now this guide will draw upon the NIP guidelines from September 5th, 2023 found here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/tree/9879e90ad987609fb12f348520b62146c6a01aa5

This guide will be subject to change and you can reference the change log.

Format

I will be breaking this guide out into different Long Form posts. These can be viewed like chapters across different aspects of Nostr. I will also be updating and adding different posts for different areas as I get to them and I encourage you to come back and check for updates.

Corrections

This guide as provided as-is and may contain some errors. Please reach out to me via nostr on wolfbearclaw@nostr.messagepush.io (npub: nostr:npub1pwtrrydty95q5ces0tkm2r7hkqfe9jwxhmmee5xwke6g4lz70l7sd8pf5t) if you spot any errors or incorrect information.

Table of contents

TBD

Next Sections

Next: Getting Started

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This tweet from @Prinsu777 led me down a few rabbit holes, to say the least. What are Kali and Kalki Yugas?

Kali and Kalki are two of the yuga cycles (yuga - “an age of the world”), from a total of four cycles as per ancient Hindu text. A detailed description of these cycles can be found in the Surya Siddhanta

According to the records, Krishna's death signals the end of the Dwapara Yuga and the beginning of the Kali Yuga, which began on February 17/18, 3102 BCE, Hence as of 2023 CE, the Kali Yuga, which started 5,124 years ago and will last 432,000 years (1,200 divine years), has 426,876 years left. The end of the Kali Yuga will occur in 428,899 CE.

That means it's going to be a long, long time till Kali is destroyed. Hence to gauge the trajectory of our species, I decided to examine the ‘technology’ we are creating.

Technology Today

Apple Vision Pro: Apparently, you can have them on all day.

Introducing Apple Vision Pro

Neuralink: “Implant. Our brain-computer interface is fully implantable, cosmetically invisible, and designed to let you control a computer or mobile device anywhere you go.” Get your brain plugged to the cloud. You don't need an external device anymore.

Synthetic Human Embryo; Just the other day we created a “Synthetic human embryo” These Synthetic human embryos have been produced in the lab for the first time, without any need for the usual natural ingredients of eggs and sperm. Soon it will be marketed as a painless and stress-free way to have/grow babies.

Bioweapons - Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), a member of the House Committee on Armed Services and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence expressed his opinions during a Friday appearance at the Aspen Security Forum. According to Axios, Rep. Jason Crow warned that DNA-based Bio-weapons, designed to "target specific people" on a battlefield, are on the horizon. He suggested that companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe may be aiding the development of these weapons by selling genetic info. Whew. Who would have guessed this would be possible :)

mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccines: The widely popular mRNA lipid nanoparticle vaccines. A variety of materials have been developed for mRNA delivery, including lipids, lipid-like materials, polymers and protein derivatives, yup the popular Covid vaccines have artificial nanoparticle vaccines.

Technology in the Future

Another 100 years in the future we will have advertisements like these, streamed/feed to us via our brain chips; “Knee pain? Replace it with Boston Dynamics’ robotic knee and get 50% off on your 2nd knee. Now walk the moon like MJ or be a ninja like Bruce Lee (or the MJ, Bruce Lee equivalent of that time) Another Advertisement. “end-of-year sale - upgrade your digestive system to < insert GMO company's name here> latest ‘quick digest pro’ eliminate post-meal lethargy” Now reduce your downtime and you can help ‘big-brother’ (1984 reference) achieve his goals.

And going down the path, as we keep losing touch of what it means to be human, we’ll go from Orwell’s 1984 to Huxley’s Brave New World and beyond.

What's Beyond? - Dimensional Worlds

What lies beyond? Where does this path take us?

It takes us from being 3-dimensional beings to 2-dimensional beings. Firstly, let us understand the relevance of living in a 3-dimensional universe. Let's understand the significance of ‘3’ in our 3-dimensional world Our universe is made up of 3 aspects; space, time and matter. (3) Space splinters into 3 dimensions; height, length, and width (3) Time is fractured into 3 intervals; past, present, and future. (3) Similarly, Matter splits into 3 states: solid, liquid and gaseous (3)

I guess Nikola Tesla was on to something when he said, “If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have a key to the universe.”

We also know that computers process information and that the information is 1s and 0s. Also known as binary, 2 states, 2-dimensional. As computers only need a 2-dimensional universe to exist, that means there is no need for ‘matter’. Computers deal only in past and future, hence we lose the ‘present’ moment from time, and in the world of 1s and 0s lack depth hence no more width in space. A 2D universe will look like this; Space - height, length (2) Time - past, future (2)

I would assume a step down from the 2-dimensional world we will end up in the state of ‘singularity’.

Pyramids

Coming back to our present-day 3D world, all across our world, we find and discover structures with unfathomable amounts of ‘proof-of-work’. Structures like the Pyramids, in Egypt, South America and Asia

Further, captured in these structures are hidden secrets. For example, the Pyramids of Giza are aligned to the stars with an accuracy of up to 0.05 degrees. There are numerous other secrets hidden in plain sight only if we have the ability to see them. Additional reading here, it gets evident really quickly that builders of the Pyramids and these ancient structures around the world knew more about our universe than us.

Might be a good time to look at some of Graham Hancock's work, where he showcases numerous sites around the earth with these structures of unknown/assumed origin.

Graham Hancook, makes a case for lost civilisations, What if it was not a lost civilisation but a lost dimension?

Also checkout @MichaelDunwort1’s work which compares bitcoin to pyramids

What if 4D beings were leaving us a message by building these awe-inspiring structures that stand the test of time in our 3-dimensional world?

Pyramids have enormous proof of work, have blocks, have hidden messages, stand the test of time, unknown origins. Soon this starts to sound like bitcoin to me.

Maybe the pyramids across the earth are related to each other or part of the same network. Or the pyramids were like nodes maintaining a record of their timechain.

If that logic applies, then the bitcoin protocol is a digital pyramid for our 2-dimensional descendants.

That means someday in the remaining Kali cycle, 2-dimensional beings will be starting at our megastructure (the bitcoin timechain) they will be pondering on the details (hidden secrets) etched in the numbers that make up the bitcoin protocol

What are the hidden secrets of bitcoin you ask?

Here check out the work of @level39, where he breaks the significance of ‘3, 6 and 9’, in the bitcoin protocol.

Also check out this bitcoin magazine piece by Ella Hough.

Viewing the works of Level39 and Ella, you start to see 3. 6 and 9 everywhere in bitcoin. The relevance of numerology in bitcoin is not truly known, and one can not deny it’s existence.

In fact Ella’ work is titled ‘bitcoin is mathematically perfect with patterns of the universe’

May be these numbers will help future 2-dimensional beings recognise that bitcoin was created in a 3-dimensional universe

Furthermore, If you have been in the bitcoin space for a while you have witnessed some theories and myths around Sataoshi Nakamoto, there are also claims that he was/is the messiah. I can only imagine the tales and fiction written about him in the next thousands of years from now. Just take a look at the legends written about our current-day Gods.

However, it could also be that with the marching of time, Satashio's legend will be long forgotten with only some fragments remaining. In the same way that most of us today have forgotten the ancient Egyptian God Thoth

Mind and Body dualism

Here’s another interesting theory - mind and body dualism. This theory states that the mind and body are two separate entities with distinct properties. The theory can be traced back to ancient Greek philosophy. Plato believed in the existence of a non-physical realm of forms, separate from the physical world we experience with our senses.

The mind and body dualism theory has been explored by many prominent philosophers throughout history, notably Rene Descartes, who famously argued that the mind and body interact through the pineal gland in the brain.

Pineal Gland is starting to look like the neuralink (computer chips in the brain)

Back to our downward path

I foresee us having the ability to downgrade or we will be forced into morphing from 3D beings to 2D beings.

AI generated Human evolution Art by Fabio Comparelli using Midjourney #aiart #midjourney

This begs the question: can we transcend from 3D beings to 4D beings?

Maybe that's what enlightenment is.

Oh, that was wild! If, for some insane reason, this turns out to be true. All I can say is that I am glad to be putting my time toward building the 2-dimensional pyramid with my fellow warriors of truth.

Level39’s work on FractalEncrypt art.

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Table Of Content

• The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin's Price in 2021

• Why Experts are Optimistic About Bitcoin's Future in 2023

• Factors Influencing Bitcoin's Growth in 2023

• What to Expect for Bitcoin Investors in the Coming Years

• Conclusion

• FAQ

The year 2021 was an eventful one for the world of cryptocurrency, with Bitcoin's price reaching an all-time high of over $60,000 in April before plunging to nearly half its value by May. The volatility of the digital currency market was a wake-up call for investors, especially those new to the game. However, despite these hiccups, experts are predicting that Bitcoin's price will continue to increase in 2023.

This article will explore the reasons why Bitcoin's price is predicted to increase despite the challenges it faced in 2021. We will also take a look at the factors that will influence its growth and what investors can expect in the coming years.

The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin's Price in 2021:

Bitcoin's price saw a rapid rise in early 2021, hitting an all-time high of over $60,000 in April. However, this was followed by a sharp decline, with the price falling to below $30,000 by July. This volatility can be attributed to several factors, including the following:

Elon Musk's tweets: Tesla CEO Elon Musk's tweets about Bitcoin, including his decision to stop accepting Bitcoin as payment for Tesla cars, had a significant impact on the digital currency market.

China's crackdown: The Chinese government's decision to crack down on cryptocurrency mining and trading had a ripple effect on the global market.

Regulatory concerns: Governments worldwide are still grappling with how to regulate cryptocurrencies, which has led to uncertainty in the market.

Why Experts are Optimistic About Bitcoin's Future in 2023: Despite the challenges faced in 2021, experts remain optimistic about Bitcoin's future in 2023. Here are some of the reasons why:

Institutional adoption: Large institutions such as MicroStrategy, Square, and Tesla have invested heavily in Bitcoin, signaling a growing acceptance of cryptocurrencies.

Limited supply: Bitcoin's supply is limited to 21 million coins, which means that as demand increases, so will the price.

Increasing demand: As more people become familiar with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, demand for them is expected to increase, driving up prices.

Factors Influencing Bitcoin's Growth in 2023:

Several factors will influence Bitcoin's growth in 2023, including the following:

Institutional adoption: As more large institutions invest in Bitcoin, it is expected to become more mainstream, leading to a further increase in demand.

Government regulation: The regulatory environment around cryptocurrencies is still uncertain, but as governments worldwide develop clearer guidelines, it will provide a more stable market for investors.

Technological advancements: Improvements in the underlying technology behind Bitcoin, such as faster transaction speeds and lower transaction fees, will increase its usability and drive up demand.

What to Expect for Bitcoin Investors in the Coming Years:

Bitcoin investors can expect continued volatility in the market, but experts predict that the price will continue to rise in the long term. Here are some tips for investors:

Invest for the long term: Bitcoin's price is likely to be volatile in the short term, but investing for the long term can help mitigate some of the risks associated with volatility.

Diversify your portfolio: As with any investment, it's important to diversify your portfolio to manage risk. Consider investing in other cryptocurrencies or traditional assets.

Stay informed: Stay up to date with the latest news and developments in the cryptocurrency market, including regulatory changes and technological advancements.

Conclusion

Despite the challenges faced by Bitcoin in 2021, experts remain optimistic about its future in 2023. Factors such as institutional adoption, limited supply, and increasing demand are expected to drive up its price in the long term. However, investors should remain cautious and be prepared for continued volatility in the short term. By diversifying their portfolios, staying informed, and investing for the long term, investors can potentially reap the benefits of Bitcoin's predicted growth in the coming years. Despite hiccups, Bitcoin price is predicted to increase in 2023, making it an exciting investment opportunity for those willing to take on the risks.

FAQ

Will Bitcoin's price continue to be volatile in 2023? While Bitcoin's price is expected to increase in the long term, it is likely to continue to be volatile in the short term.

Is Bitcoin a good investment for the long term? Bitcoin can be a good investment for the long term, but it's important to remember that it's a high-risk investment and should only be considered as part of a diversified portfolio.

What factors will influence Bitcoin's growth in 2023? Factors that will influence Bitcoin's growth in 2023 include institutional adoption, government regulation, and technological advancements.

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In the ever-evolving landscape of blockchain technology, innovation knows no bounds. The marriage of technology and entertainment has given rise to a groundbreaking concept: the The Game of Satoshi, a Mystery Box Treasure Hunt Game, with a coveted prize of Bitcoin. But what sets this game apart from others? It's the unwavering commitment to transparency, fairness, and the fusion of bitcoin blockchain with gaming.

The Game Changer: Provably Fairness

One of the biggest concerns in online gaming and treasure hunt games is fairness. Participants often worry that the organizers might have an unfair advantage or that the game is rigged. To address these concerns head-on, The Game of Satoshi have been engineered with a revolutionary approach that leaves no room for doubt.

Public Randomization Mechanism:

In the world of traditional treasure hunts, organizers typically determine clues, addresses, and valuable locations behind closed doors, which can lead to questions about fairness. In contrast, we'll utilize a public randomization mechanisms to ensure transparency and eliminate any suspicion of bias.

Specifically, the game employs public APIs or oracles for randomization. These public services generate random numbers, which are then used to create clues, addresses, and determine valuable locations. This process is conducted transparently, and anyone can verify the fairness of the game by inspecting the randomization mechanism.

Code Linked to the Public Randomizer:

To further bolster fairness and transparency, the game's code is intricately linked to the public randomization mechanism. This means that no one, not even the organizers or development team, has prior knowledge of the addresses or clues generated in advance. Everything is generated in real-time as the game unfolds, eliminating any potential biases or manipulation.

The Proof of Fairness:

The Game of Satoshi goes a step further in demonstrating their commitment to fairness. Before the game commences, a cryptographic fingerprint of the game's code is created using a secure hashing algorithm like SHA256. This fingerprint is publicly uploaded, serving as a verifiable record of the game's code at the start.

When the game concludes, the actual code used to run the game is again hashed using the same algorithm and compared to the initially uploaded fingerprint. This process is easily verifiable, as the cryptographic fingerprint will only match if the code has remained unchanged throughout the entire game.

Embracing the Future:

We want The Game of Satoshi to represent a groundbreaking convergence of blockchain technology, cryptographic proof, and entertainment. These games offer participants not only the thrill of treasure hunting but also the confidence that the game is unbiased and fair.

In an age where transparency and fairness are paramount, this innovative approach to treasure hunts redefines the gaming landscape. It demonstrates the limitless possibilities that blockchain technology can bring to the world of entertainment, guaranteeing a level playing field for all participants.

So, are you ready to embark on a journey where the thrill of the hunt is matched only by the assurance of fairness? Join the The Game of Satoshi and be part of a gaming revolution where transparency is the name of the game!

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In the world of blockchain wars, one name stands above all, shrouded in mystery and intrigue—the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto. The mysterious creator of Bitcoin, whose true identity remains unknown, left behind a legacy that revolutionized the financial landscape. And now, a thrilling adventure awaits for all Bitcoin enthusiasts, puzzle solvers, and treasure hunters alike – 'The Game of Satoshi.' Get ready to embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of the Bitcoin revolution, with a chance to claim the ultimate treasure: 1 BTC!

The Game of Satoshi is more than just a game; it's a captivating quest to unravel the mysteries that surround Satoshi Nakamoto's identity and the birth of Bitcoin. Starting on January 3, 2024, this interactive and immersive experience will challenge your wits, creativity, and determination as you navigate through a series of mind-bending puzzles and secrets concealed by Satoshi himself. Your goal? To claim the coveted Bitcoin treasure and bask in the glory of unlocking the secrets of the most influential figure in the world of cryptocurrencies.

🗝️ What Awaits You in 'The Game of Satoshi'?

A Journey of Discovery: Dive deep into the world of Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin. Immerse yourself in a captivating narrative that unveils the history and significance of this revolutionary cryptocurrency.

Mind-Bending Puzzles: Prepare to put your problem-solving skills to the test with an array of challenging puzzles and riddles. Each clue you decipher brings you one step closer to the treasure.

Community Collaboration: Engage with a vibrant community of like-minded individuals, Bitcoin enthusiasts, and fellow treasure hunters. Share insights, seek help, and collaborate to overcome the game's intricate challenges.

The Ultimate Prize: The grand prize awaits the most dedicated and astute participants – 1 BTC! The closer you get to unveiling the mysteries of Satoshi, the better your chances of claiming this coveted treasure.

Satoshi's Legacy: As you progress through the game, gain a deeper understanding of the philosophy, vision, and impact of Satoshi Nakamoto's creation on the world of finance.

Real-Time Updates: Stay up-to-date with real-time announcements, hints, and clues to keep your adventure on track. The Game of Satoshi team is here to guide and support you throughout your journey.

'The Game of Satoshi' will kick off soon, and we are inviting you to embark on an unforgettable quest to unlock the mysteries of Satoshi Nakamoto and claim the ultimate Bitcoin treasure. Join us in celebrating the legacy of Satoshi Nakamoto, the genius behind Bitcoin, and experience the thrill of solving puzzles, revealing secrets, and pursuing 1 BTC. Are you up for the challenge? Get ready to dive into 'The Game of Satoshi' and become a part of bitcoin history!

Stay tuned for updates, and be prepared to make history on January 3, 2024. The treasure hunt of a lifetime awaits – are you ready to play? 🔍🔓💰

📆 Mark Your Calendar - January 3, 2024

Get your Mistery box before January 3, 2024

Read our WhitePaper.pdf

Visit our Website TheGameOfSatoshi.com

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Moderation will happen on Discord

We are looking forward to share this journey with the community and we'll appreciate any feedback you might have.

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"Do I think it’s possible that China’s Xi trusts Russia’s Putin who trusts Brazil’s da Silva, and so on and that they can work together and trust each other enough to establish a gold-backed BRICS currency that eventually includes half of the G20 economic giants?

Possible, yes

Probable? Still a heavy no

— James Lavish

Welcome to the latest issue of the Bitcoin For Families newsletter. This issue covers the expansion of the BRICS economic bloc and the implications for Bitcoin.

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Slightly over a week ago, the BRICS economic block, composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, formally accepted six new countries into their organization: Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.

The mainstream media barely covered the news because it's not good news for the Western world.

But no, the expanded BRICS+ will not bring Bitcoin to the world.

I was wrong. BRICS+ won't bring hyperbitcoinization

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The BRICS countries have been very vocal about their desire to stop using US dollars for international trade among themselves and logically Bitcoin is the best choice for them to replace the US dollar.

But these countries are not ruled by logical people. They are ruled by politicians.

And no politician wants to give up the power of their own fiat currency. Not even Argentina, after going through multiple episodes of hyperinflation, will give up the power of printing money at will.

Brazil's president endorsed the creation of a common currency at the beginning of the summit that formalized the expansion but has also endorsed the idea of trading in their respective currencies.

Russia's Putin wants to use their respective local currencies.

India is skeptical of the practicality of not using the US dollar given that all the financial infrastructure that exists today is built with the US dollar in mind but they support using the rupee for trade among BRICS countries.

China is also vocal about reforming the financial systems to move away from the US dollar with the stated goal of using the yuan as the new global currency. Never mind the lack of liquidity of a currency that you're not allowed to freely trade.

And finally, South Africa, also supports using their respective local currencies.

So what's going to happen?

They won't create their own currency. They don't trust each other that much.

They will increase their trade using their respective currencies. This will be a fundamental tenet of the BRICS+ block.

It's the oil

The current five BRICS countries represent 26% of the global GDP and the addition of six new countries only expands that number to 29%. So why did they go through the trouble of more than doubling the size of the block in terms of countries? And why did they leave unanswered requests from other 20 countries to join?

Oil, gas and minerals.

The expanded BRICS+ block controls 43% of the global crude oil production and China and India, two of the original BRICS countries happen to be the 1st and 3rd biggest crude oil importers respectively.

Now, China and India will be able to buy the majority of their oil using their local currencies instead of US dollars.

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates will sell their oil in a currency other than the US dollar. The petrodollar is no more.

What will Saudi Arabia do with the yuans it receives from selling oil to China? They will use them to trade with China or with other BRICS+ countries. That is the REAL reason why the BRICS has doubled the number of countries. The BRICS+ is creating a circular economy of local currencies.

No more US debt for me, thanks

That is in a nutshell what all members of the BRICS+ block want. They want to stop buying US debt. They don't want to continue paying the bill for the US lifestyle and US government excesses.

Because every time the US economy hits a new rock, the US government solution is to devaluate the existing debt holders, either by printing more money or by increasing rates dramatically. And one way or another, their existing debt assets end up being worth much less.

The BRICS+ countries will little by little expand the intra-block trade in local currencies and the international demand for US debt will go down dramatically now that the petrodollar is no more.

This will be the real impact. The foreign demand for US debt will plummet, forcing the US Treasury to maintain interest rates high to attract demand from other sectors.

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Notable notes

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As Nostr continues to grow, we need to consider the reality of content moderation on such a radically open network at scale. Anyone is able to post anything to Nostr. Anyone is able to build anything on Nostr, which includes running bots basically for free. There is no central arbiter of truth. So how do we navigate all of this? How do we find signal and avoid the stuff we don’t want to see? But most importantly, how do we avoid the nightmare of centralized content moderation and censorship that plagues the legacy social media?

At Primal, we were motivated by the feedback from our users to build a new content moderation system for Nostr. We now offer moderation tools based on the wisdom of the crowd, combined with Primal’s open source spam detection algorithm. Every part of our content filtering system is now optional. We provide perfect transparency over what is being filtered and give complete control to the user. Read on to learn about how our system works.

Wisdom of the Crowd

Every Nostr user is able to define their personal mute list: accounts whose content they don’t wish to see. This simple tool is effective but laborious because the user needs to mute each non-wanted account individually. However, everyone’s mute list is public on Nostr, so we can leverage the work of other users. Primal’s content moderation system enables you to subscribe to any number of mute lists. You can select a group of people you respect and rely on their collective judgment to hide irrelevant or offensive content.

Outsourcing the moderation work to a group of people you personally selected is much better than having to do all the work yourself, but unfortunately it won’t always be sufficient. Spam bots are capable of creating millions of Nostr accounts that can infiltrate your threads faster than your network of humans is able to mute them. This is why we built a spam detection algorithm, which Primal users can subscribe to.

There Will Be Algorithms

Nostr users have a natural aversion to algorithms. Many of us are here in part because we can’t stand the manipulated feeds by the legacy social media. One of the most insidious examples of manipulation is shadowbanning: secretly reducing the visibility of an account throughout the entire site, where their posts are hidden from their followers and their replies don’t show up in conversation threads. It is understandable that many Nostr users are suspicious of algorithms to such extent that they don’t want any algorithms in their feeds. Those users will enjoy Primal’s default “Latest” feed, which simply shows the chronological list of notes by the accounts they follow. We even support viewing another user’s “Latest” feed, which enables consuming Nostr content from that person’s point of view, without any algorithmic intervention.

But algorithms are just tools, and obviously not all algorithms are bad. For example, we can use them to detect spam or not-safe-for-work content:

In our view, algos will play an important role in Nostr content moderation and discovery. We envision a future in which there is an open marketplace for algorithms, giving a range of choices to the user. At this early stage of Nostr development, it is important to consider the guiding principles for responsible and ethical use of algorithms. At Primal, we are thinking about it as follows:

1. All algorithms should be optional;
2. The user should be able to choose which algorithm will be used;
3. Algorithms should be open sourced and verifiable by anyone independently;
4. The output of each algorithm should be perfectly transparent to the user.

Perfect Transparency

Our new content moderation system enables users to easily check whether a Nostr account is included on any of the filter lists they subscribe to:

This simple search provides complete transparency regarding the inclusion of a given account in any of the active filter lists. Beyond that, it would be helpful to provide all filter lists in their entirety. Note that this is not trivial to do because these lists can get quite large. Our goal is to provide them in the most efficient way possible. We are working on exposing them via Nostr Data Vending Machines; stay tuned for more information on this in the coming days.

Complete Control

The user should always have the final word on filtering. If after configuring all the filtering settings to your liking, you find that some legitimate accounts are being filtered, you can specify your “never filter” allowlist, which will override all filtering. We are persisting this allowlist as a standard Nostr categorized people list (kind: 30000), so that other Nostr clients can leverage it as well. In addition, everyone you follow will automatically be excluded from all filtering.

Open Source FTW

At Primal, we do two things:

1. We build open source software for Nostr
2. We run a service for Nostr users, powered by our software

Every part of Primal’s technology stack is open sourced under the most-permissive MIT license. Anyone is free to stand up a service based on our software, fork it, make modifications to it, and add new features to it.

We run our service based on the policies we established as appropriate for Primal. Others can stand up services powered by our software and choose a different set of policies. Users are free to choose the service that best suits their needs. They can move between clients and services without any friction. This unprecedented level of user empowerment is what attracted most of us to Nostr. At Primal, we think that Nostr will change everything. We will continue to work tirelessly every day to keep making it better. 🤙💜

Please note: The entire Primal technology stack is still in preview. Just like everything else, the content moderation system is a work in progress. Thank you for helping us test it. Please keep the feedback coming. Let us know what’s not working and what we can improve.

@ 475226d4:ccf56e26

In the world of blockchain wars, one name stands above all, shrouded in mystery and intrigue—the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto. The mysterious creator of Bitcoin, whose true identity remains unknown, left behind a legacy that revolutionized the financial landscape. And now, a thrilling adventure awaits for all Bitcoin enthusiasts, puzzle solvers, and treasure hunters alike – 'The Game of Satoshi.' Get ready to embark on an extraordinary journey into the heart of the Bitcoin revolution, with a chance to claim the ultimate treasure: 1 BTC!

The Game of Satoshi is more than just a game; it's a captivating quest to unravel the mysteries that surround Satoshi Nakamoto's identity and the birth of Bitcoin. Starting on January 3, 2024, this interactive and immersive experience will challenge your wits, creativity, and determination as you navigate through a series of mind-bending puzzles and secrets concealed by Satoshi himself. Your goal? To claim the coveted Bitcoin treasure and bask in the glory of unlocking the secrets of the most influential figure in the world of cryptocurrencies.

🗝️ What Awaits You in 'The Game of Satoshi'?

A Journey of Discovery: Dive deep into the world of Satoshi Nakamoto and Bitcoin. Immerse yourself in a captivating narrative that unveils the history and significance of this revolutionary cryptocurrency.

Mind-Bending Puzzles: Prepare to put your problem-solving skills to the test with an array of challenging puzzles and riddles. Each clue you decipher brings you one step closer to the treasure.

Community Collaboration: Engage with a vibrant community of like-minded individuals, Bitcoin enthusiasts, and fellow treasure hunters. Share insights, seek help, and collaborate to overcome the game's intricate challenges.

The Ultimate Prize: The grand prize awaits the most dedicated and astute participants – 1 BTC! The closer you get to unveiling the mysteries of Satoshi, the better your chances of claiming this coveted treasure.

Satoshi's Legacy: As you progress through the game, gain a deeper understanding of the philosophy, vision, and impact of Satoshi Nakamoto's creation on the world of finance.

Real-Time Updates: Stay up-to-date with real-time announcements, hints, and clues to keep your adventure on track. The Game of Satoshi team is here to guide and support you throughout your journey.

'The Game of Satoshi' will kick off soon, and we are inviting you to embark on an unforgettable quest to unlock the mysteries of Satoshi Nakamoto and claim the ultimate Bitcoin treasure. Join us in celebrating the legacy of Satoshi Nakamoto, the genius behind Bitcoin, and experience the thrill of solving puzzles, revealing secrets, and pursuing 1 BTC. Are you up for the challenge? Get ready to dive into 'The Game of Satoshi' and become a part of bitcoin history!

Stay tuned for updates, and be prepared to make history on January 3, 2024. The treasure hunt of a lifetime awaits – are you ready to play? 🔍🔓💰

📆 Mark Your Calendar - January 3, 2024

Get your Mistery box before January 3, 2024

Read our WhitePaper.pdf

Visit our Website TheGameOfSatoshi.com

Follow us on Twitter (X) @theGameOfSatoshi

Follow us on Nostr

Join our community on Telegram

Moderation will happen on Discord

We are looking forward to share this journey with the community and we'll appreciate any feedback you might have.

@ d408b55a:7ea8e70a

Parenting is often a challenging endeavor, but it can also be a rewarding one. Especially when we explore innovative approaches that benefit both children and parents. Listening to Patrick Bet-David's podcast I heard him mention a win-win parenting philosophy, centered around incentivizing learning through books as a currency to unlock playtime and toys. 

What an incredible way for parents to nurture lifelong skills and create mutually fulfilling parent-child relationships. This psot will explore the power of this parenting approach and its parallels with concepts like Nostr, Bitcoin, and Value 4 Value, which emphasize control over one's digital identity/assets/&more. At the heart of Bet-David's parenting philosophy is a straightforward system: children must read books to earn time with new toys, with the amount of reading required varying based on the desirability of the toy. In this system, books become a form of currency in the Bet-David household, transforming reading from a chore to a prerequisite for playtime. This approach encourages consistent reading, promotes delayed gratification, and instills the value of working for rewards. I can imagine children raised in this environment don't feel deprived when they earn their playtime through reading. 

As a parent interested in adopting this method, I must commit to reading more. Engaging in informed discussions about books is essential to fostering a child's love of reading and providing a meaningful context for the rewards-based system. My hope is that Sloan learns to balance entertainment and education while strengthening her relationship with books. I'm excited about my child reading classics like Atlas Shrugged, The Bitcoin Standard, 1984, Erasure, and other valuable works one day. To me these books are an integral part of a well-rounded education. 

What makes Bet-David's approach so effective, in my view, is its focus on imparting lifelong skills. By nurturing a genuine love of reading rather than treating books as a means to an end, this philosophy instills the idea that learning is a lifelong pursuit, not merely a series of assigned tasks. It also teaches the virtues of patience and hard work, qualities that are often overshadowed by instant gratification in today's culture. Reading, as opposed to passive consumption through screens, fosters communication and shared purpose between parent and child as they set and track reading goals together. Hell I'm already reading to my daughter but she does not pay much attention unless the book is Good Night Moon. (Good Night Moon is 🐐ed so I can't blame her)

Anyways, win-win situations, like Bet-David's parenting philosophy, are powerful because they encourage collaboration over confrontation. Instead of imposing top-down directives, Bet-David collaborates with his children to set reading goals that earn them playtime. This approach promotes open communication and eliminates adversarial tension. Children feel heard and challenged to expand their skills, while parents achieve compliance without sacrificing joy. In such scenarios, both sides can recognize their shared interest in achieving mutually beneficial outcomes, reinforcing trust and respect.

The concept of win-win thinking extends beyond parenting and can be applied to various aspects of life. This is where the connection to Nostr, Bitcoin, and Value 4 Value becomes relevant. Just as win-win parenting emphasizes collaboration and shared goals, these concepts revolve around control and value exchange. Nostr, for instance, allows individuals to take control of their data and online interactions, creating a digital environment where users can trust their data is secured with their own private key. Bitcoin, as a decentralized digital currency, provides individuals with control over their money, free from the influence of central authorities. Value 4 Value is enabled when we combine bitcoin & Nostr. Instead of an ad subsidized internet we can have a value 4 value based one where individuals exchange value directly, further promoting the idea of mutually beneficial transactions. Seriously you can just zap people sats for quality content. Sending money at the speed of light over social media controlling your data, your money, and your identity with public/private key technologies.

The power of win-win thinking extends beyond parenting and can positively impact every aspect of our lives. Personally, I want to live in a world where cooperation and shared interests prevail. Smart clients & dumb servers > smart servers & dumb clients when in cyberspace. Kindness & mutual value transfer > rent-seeking when in meat space. 

9/6/23

Binmucker

@ 20d29810:6fe4ad2f

🚀 The Future of Finance: Why Bitcoin is My Top Pick! 🚀

Hey Crypto Fam! 👋 Today, let's talk about the incredible journey of #Bitcoin and what the future holds for the king of cryptocurrencies! 🌟

💰 Bitcoin as Digital Gold: In a world where trust in traditional financial systems is waning, Bitcoin has emerged as a digital haven for preserving wealth. It's like GOLD in the digital realm! 🪙💎

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🌍 Financial Inclusion: Bitcoin is empowering the unbanked and underbanked, offering financial freedom to millions globally. That's a game-changer! 🌍💪

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📚 Educate & Elevate: Remember, knowledge is power. Learn how to securely buy, store, and use Bitcoin. It's an investment in your financial future! 📚💰

So, what's your take on Bitcoin's future? Are you bullish on the OG crypto? 🐂 Or do you have concerns? Let's chat in the comments! 💬👇

Remember, this isn't financial advice, just an influencer's take on the exciting world of Bitcoin! Stay informed, stay curious, and stay crypto-savvy, my friends! 🚀💯 #CryptoLife #BitcoinFuture 🌐🚀

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Nostr é um protocolo de comunicação que está ganhando visibilidade e sendo usado em vários softwares. O que parece promissor é a solução para descentralização do login na comunicação.

O que ganha força neste protocolo é a falta de registro, contas, e-mails ou senhas. Em vez disso, a autenticação é baseada inteiramente em chaves criptográficas, fornecendo privacidade automática, criptografia e assinaturas incorporadas diretamente ao protocolo subjacente.

Basicamente, os desenvolvedores de aplicativos têm agora uma tecnologia centrada na privacidade. Podem se concentrar na construção do software sem a dor de cabeça com processos de login, banco de dados, etc.

Cada usuário gera uma chave criptografada pública que serve para divulgar aos amigos e funciona como um tipo de identidade digital, e também, uma chave criptografada privada que serve como um tipo de login universal.

A chave privada equivale a senha e a pública serve como nome de usuário. Como o usuário é o único proprietário da chave privada, não existe a necessidade de cadastrar dados para efetuar login.

Um bom exemplo de uso desta forma de protocolo é o Astral.ninja. Ao acessar a página do Astral vai aparecer um formulário perguntando se o usuário deseja adicionar sua chave privada ou se deseja criar uma nova criptografia de login.

Se você já possui sua chave, insira ela e o login será executado. Caso ainda não tenha uma chave privada e uma pública, clique no botão gerar chaves e ele vai criar a criptografia para você. Produzindo assim sua identidade sem coletar nenhum dado.

Minha chave pública no protocolo NOSTR ficou assim:

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Se você quiser entrar em contato é só adicionar minha chave pública acima e enviar sua mensagem.

Minha experiência usando o Nostr Estou testando o protocolo Nostr já faz alguns meses e gostei dos fundamentos desta tecnologia. No entanto, ao trocar mensagens com alguns colegas ocorreu atrasos no recebimento e em outros casos a mensagem simplesmente não chegou.

O interessante é que esses problemas não foram ocasionados pelo protocolo, mas por estarmos desatentos aos relés de conexão.O Nostr funciona conectando o aplicativo em diversos servidores que irão espelhar a mensagem e manter ela na rede. No entanto, os relés não conversam entre si.

Dependendo do aplicativo que você estiver usando ela vai enviar sua postagem para um ou mais relés e esses relés vão mostrar o conteúdo para aquelas pessoas que estiverem conectadas nele.

Essa simplicidade traz uma vantagem importante, em vez de depender de sua identidade vinculada a um único servidor, sua identidade é apenas uma chave privada. Você apenas publica mensagens, assinadas com sua chave, para 5 ou 6 ou 10 ou 100 retransmissores. Esses retransmissores são burros e apenas aceitam mensagens de qualquer tipo, assinadas por pessoas diferentes. Dessa forma, você não corre o risco de ser banido de nenhum servidor individual, porque se alguém o banir ou o servidor for impedido de operar, suas mensagens estarão em outros 6 retransmissores e você poderá seguir em frente. É muito fácil transferir suas mensagens apenas copiando-as de um relé para outro. É uma ideia muito simples de construir um banco de dados descentralizado resistente à censura.

Mas para que tudo funcione adequadamente é aconselhável ter um mínimo de 8 servidores (relays) conectados e avisar seus contatos em quais relés você está transmitindo. Assim uma pessoa pode acompanhar suas postagens sem problemas.

No entanto, se você se conecta no relé X e a outra pessoa se conecta no relé Y, ela não achará suas postagens.

Usar entre 8 e 10 relays se mostrou bem eficiente nos testes. Os erros que comentemos no início foi conectar em apenas um servidor e em alguns casos usando um servidor diferente em cada aplicativo de mensagem. Dificultando a propagação das mesmas.

Se você for testar o Nostr e quiser me enviar mensagem por lá, adicione esses servidores abaixo no seu aplicativo Nostr.

wss://nostr-01.yakihonne.com

wss://nostr-02.dorafactory.org

wss://nos.lol

wss://relay.nostr.band

wss://relayable.org

wss://nostr.wine

wss://purplepag.es

wss://eden.nostr.land

wss://relay.damus.io

wss://nostr3.actn.io

Assim você garante que estaremos na mesma rede de conexões e espelhamento, facilitando a propagação das mensagens e a velocidade de transmissão .Testei vários aplicativos que usam o protocolo Nostr e em todos eles a única questão sensível foi a configuração dos relés (relays).

Se você inserir uma quantidade acima de 4 servidores, mesmo que algum fique indisponível, o sistema funciona bem com a cobertura dos demais, nos nossos testes 8 foi o numero de melhor eficiência.

Essa forma de transmissão por relés, que não se comunicam entre si, é o que torna o Nostr algo minimalista e eficiente. Se você entender o minimo de configurações, é possível configurar e manter seu próprio relé diretamente no seu computador. saiba mais clicando aqui! Outro ótimo conteúdo para se aprofundar está aqui!

Inserir apenas um ou dois servidores (relays), pode ocorrer instabilidades e nenhuma propagação das mensagens.

@ 00000001:a21169a7

The annals of photography history are dotted with names that have profoundly transformed both the medium and the way we perceive our surroundings. Foremost among these luminaries is Garry Winogrand, whose legacy endures as one of the most defining exponents of street photography. But what underpins his style, and what renders his work perennially iconic?

Nurturing Influences and Pedagogy

Before delving into Winogrand's aesthetic realm, it's crucial to comprehend the milieu that nourished his vision. Educated in the wisdom of Alexey Brodovitch and drawing from the legacies of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and significantly, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Winogrand nurtured a distinctive approach to photography. While Cartier-Bresson championed the notion of "The Decisive Moment", Winogrand immersed himself deeper in immediacy, spontaneity, and sheer authenticity.

The Aesthetics of Turbulence and Daily Life

What is notably salient in Winogrand's oeuvre is his abdication of traditionally "pretty" aesthetics. He reveled instead in the tumult, chaos, and freneticism of daily life. His snapshots, often taken in haste and with a tilted horizon, convey a tangible energy, thrusting the viewer into the heart of the action. This skewed horizon, though disorienting to some, is a hallmark that lends dynamism and challenges convention.

His choice of apparatus—a Leica M4 paired with a prefocused wide-angle lens—speaks to his intent to seize fleeting moments, those that dissipate as swiftly as they manifest. He was not ensnared by technical perfection but was ensorcelled by raw emotion and underlying narrative.

A Panoramic View of North America

Winogrand's craft is essentially a tapestry of North America during the 60s and 70s. Much like Robert Frank before him, Winogrand encapsulated the essence, contradictions, and complexities of a transitioning nation. Beyond mere documentation, he pondered the role of mass media in sculpting perceptions and attitudes.

Immediacy as the Essence

Much of Winogrand's allure lies in his ability to be profoundly present. His "shoot from the hip" style, paired with his astute anticipatory prowess, ensures his photographs resonate with a refreshing authenticity, even decades on.

Moreover, his ventures, whether "The Animals" or "The Fort Worth Fat Stock Show and Rodeo", aren't mere assortments of images. They are profound commentaries on society and the human state, testimonials to his ability to peer beyond the veneer and unearth profound significance in the mundane.

In Summation

Winogrand's adage, "I photograph to see what the world looks like in photographs," encapsulates his philosophy toward the art form. He wasn’t endeavoring to craft a reality but to uncover how that reality unveils itself through the lens.

Garry Winogrand, with his renunciation of traditional perfection and his ardor for spontaneity, reshapes our understanding of what it means to be a photographer. His legacy serves as a poignant reminder that beauty often emerges from the unlikeliest of places, and authenticity invariably eclipses contrivance.

@ de496884:72617b81

Últimamente en las redes se ven muchos mensajes de desprecio, ridiculización y burla, bajo estandartes de «humor» o «humor negro», donde sus defensores esgrimen que no tiene límites. Hoy les traigo una reflexión sobre el tema, así que sigue leyendo y descubre qué es el humor hipermediático.

Concepto

La definición de humor negro varía según la cultura y el contexto. De manera general se le identifica como ese tipo de humor que promueve lo risible en temas que deberían suscitar tristeza, terror o lástima, de ahí su carácter polémico.

El humor negro se compone de un enunciador en una situación penosa, una operación reflexiva que lo convierte en objeto de ridiculización, un distanciamiento de sí mismo que le permite reírse, y una identificación del público con el enunciador que lo suma al blanco de la burla.

Esto ocurre desde la literatura, pero en el sentido común se define por su temática, no existe operación reflexiva, y por tanto, se le pasa a llamar «lo cómico negro» porque llega a ser una burla a un otro sin ninguna identificación con él ni compasión en una relación asimétrica.

Básicamente se trata aquí de una alianza entre el enunciador y el público para degradar a un tercero. Por tanto esta burla se diferencia del humor en tanto no existe por accidente ni posee la reflexión.

Desde el punto de vista sociológico, la burla a un blanco exterior permite construir una identidad colectiva en tanto afianza la cohesión grupal, y si lo hace a lo interno del grupo, fortalece lazos y deja implícitas ciertas normas y jerarquías bajo la censura a x conductas.

Un poco de historia

Desde la antigüedad y dado el proceso de civilización, la burla pasó de ocupar un lugar central en la época medieval, a pasar a ser regulada con el cristianismo al considerarla denigrante, aunque posteriormente se flexibilizó mientras respetara ciertos requisitos estilísticos.

¿Qué pasa en la actualidad? ¿Por qué la burla y lo «cómico negro» forman parte de nuestros días? Hoy asistimos a la mayor producción mediática risible de la historia. Desde la institucionalización de los medios masivos en el siglo XIX nace el humor mediático. Se ve en la producción de periódicos, revistas, filmes, programas radiales y televisivos, etc. En ella se distingue lo real social y su representación en los medios masivos, quienes controlan la demanda en horarios, temáticas y tal.

En este período lo reidero se genera mediante la prensa satírica, la caricatura, el sainete, etc., que nacieron con una clara división entre los productores y receptores, pues toma como blanco a las instancias superiores de la vida política.

Con la llegada de la TV por cable, la transmisión satelital, el VHS y luego con internet, la producción mediática fue creciendo y los modos de hacer reír se multiplicaron. Las instituciones mediáticas se debilitaron y con ellas su papel regulatorio en lo risible.

Este es el humor mediatizado, que ahora se caracteriza por su carácter reflexivo. Si antes se reía de lo representado, ahora se ríe de la representación misma y sus condiciones. Con la posmodernidad lo risible se expande a la sociedad y sus límites con lo serio se disuelven. Este humor mediatizado instaló un estilo risible improvisado, de mala factura y bizarro, donde lo gracioso estaba en la representación fallida, la pretensión frustrada.

Con la crisis de los medios masivos y el auge de internet, surgió el humor hipermediático. Aquí cualquiera con una cuenta en una red social puede hacer un chiste, un meme, etc., en el que se pierde la figura del autor, pero que los demás se apropien de su producción discursiva.

Debido a ello ocurre que lo que anteriormente era censurado, ahora se mediatiza porque no hay regulación ninguna ni forma efectiva de hacerlo dada la rapidez de expansión de un producto en las redes. Así se retoma lo cómico negro, nace el cyberbullying, los discursos de odio.

Un poco de reflexión

¿Cuáles a mi entender son dos de los aspectos fundamentales que distinguen este humor hipermediático?: La falta de empatía y la asimetría de poder, en tanto deja de existir una identificación con el otro al que va dirigida la burla. Lo cómico es reírse del otro que no pertenece al grupo de uno, para dejar clara una postura de hegemonía y rechazo a lo diferente. Así vemos cómo las víctimas de este humor generalmente son las minorías, los grupos históricamente oprimidos y excluidos de oa sociedad. Se rompe con la reflexión del humor para dar paso a una burla desmedida y despiadada que afiance la posición de poder de quien se burla. Es necesario ser críticos a la hora de compartir y dar alcance a este tipo de publicaciones, que solo demuestra nuestra crisis de valores y conocimientos.

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Backstory

Written in the late 300s near the end of Gregory's life, this treatise is a response to the question 'What is the perfect life?' from Caesarius who is assumed to be a young monk.¹

Gregory is one of the three 'Cappadocian Fathers', named for their Roman province which is located in modern day central to eastern Turkey.² Notably, Gregory of Nyssa was highly influenced by Origen which, in part, was due to the tutoring of his grandparents and their family by one of Origen's students, Gregory Thaumaturgus.¹

Structure

There is a brief introduction and conclusion. The main body is divided into two parts: the history of Moses and a corresponding spiritual understanding of this history. The spiritual understanding is about four times longer than the historical outline.

Introduction

Gregory, while accepting the question from Caesarius, does not promise that he will be able to answer it. Either way, he hopes that with his reputation and age, his choice to answer the young monk's question will set a good example of "ready obedience". He goes on to emphasize that he believes the perfect life is a 'way of being' and not a destination to reach, thing to be grasped, nor feat to be achieved. He suggests that this perfect life might best be learned through the examples recorded in the Hebrew scriptures. And finally he chooses Moses as the example through which to answer the question.

Body

Coming soon.

Conclusion

Coming soon.

Opinion

Coming soon.

¹ https://jesusandtheancientpaths.com/2022/07/28/an-intro-to-saint-gregory-of-nyssa-and-his-last-work-the-life-of-moses

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Nyssa

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Tenho forte convicção de que o segredo para dar o primeiro passo é simplesmente não pensar em como fazer, apenas executar.

Eu sei, eu sei. A frase acima é extremamente óbvia e genérica mas venha comigo que vamos pensar um pouco sobre este tema juntos.

Você, que está lendo do outro lado, já parou pra pensar como foram suas primeiras experiências em algo? Lembra do primeiro dia que andou de bicicleta? E do primeiro beijo? Consegue lembrar o nervosismo que sentiu no primeiro dia de seu primeiro emprego?

Começar algo novo é sempre desconfortável, dá medo, nossa mente se enche de incertezas e somos bombardeados por pensamentos de que devemos desistir, voltar, ou nem mesmo tentar.

Tudo que é novo incomoda, tudo que é diferente nos causa estranheza, mas se queremos nos tornar alguém diferente de quem somos hoje, este processo é obrigatório.

Calma, meu querido leitor, não quero te causar nenhum desconforto mas sim te lembrar dos sentimentos positivos que vieram do triunfo de cada uma dessas conquistas. Por mais esquisito que possa ter sido seu primeiro beijo, talvez a troca de olhares e sorrisos possa ser uma lembrança amorosa até hoje. E a bicicleta? Você pode ter caído, se machucado, mas quando andou sozinho tenho certeza que comemorou.

Mais forte que o incomodo de começar algo é o prazer que a nova situação lhe causará quando já estiver confortável.

E como transpor essa barreira? Bem, uma das coisas que busco praticar é o hábito da visualização. Eu sempre penso: “Como será o Régis daqui 10 anos? Como eu quero que esse Régis seja?” O foco aqui é pensar qual aura você deseja emanar ao mundo e não necessariamente quais conquistas você já gostaria de ter realizado. (Isso deixemos para outra visualização).

A principal pergunta que você deve fazer neste momento é: “Se eu quebrar meu objetivo em milhares que pequenos pedaços, qual pedacinho eu devo fazer hoje para somar ao meu “eu” do amanhã?”

Cuidado com as cobranças excessivas, sempre que se ver na situação de dizer: “Eu deveria estar fazendo ‘X’”, substitua por: “Beleza, o que eu posso fazer agora?” Cobrar seus resultados não é se culpar pelos fracassos ou se condenar por não ter feito algo.

Seja enérgico, mas não se puna, há uma forte diferença entre se dar um “banho de realidade” e se condenar. Sempre que nos condenamos acabamos bloqueando a ação ainda mais.

Uma forte recomendação que deixo aqui é o livro: O Poder do Hábito de Charles Duhigg. Nele o autor mostra que é possível criar hábitos sem sofrimento e que estes hábitos podem fazer com quê caminhe para o sucesso quase que em “modo automático”. Caso você não tenha o hábito da leitura, recomendo o app 12 minutos.

Bem, este foi um assunto introdutório, pois mesmo eu, a partir desta publicação estou dando um primeiro passo para trabalhar de forma mais focada na criação de conteúdo.

Muito obrigado por ler até aqui!

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I'm learning as I go, so take the text below for what it is: my notes on the process. These steps could become outdated quickly, and I may have some wrong assumptions at places. Either way, I have had success, and would like to share my experience for anyone new to the process. If I have made any errors, please reply with corrections so that others may avoid potential pitfalls.

!!! If you have "KYC Bitcoin", keep it in separate wallets from your "Anonymous Bitcoin". Any Anonymous Bitcoin in a wallet with KYC Bitcoin becomes 100% KYC Bitcoin.

!!! It took me several days to get all the right pieces set up before I could even start an exchange with someone.

!!! Using a VPN is highly recommended. If you're not already using one, take the time to find one that suits you and get it running.

!!! If you don't normally buy Amazon Gift Cards, start doing so now, and just send them to yourself, or friends that will give you cash in return, etc. For my first trade, Amazon locked me out of my account for about 22 hours, while I was in the middle of an exchange. All because I had never purchased an Amazon Gift Card before. It was quite nerve wracking. My second trade was for $300, and although my Amazon account wasn't shut down, that order had a status of "Sending" for about 22 hours, due to the large amount. In each of these cases I had multiple phone calls with their customer support, all of whom gave me false expectations. Had I already been sending gift cards to the anonymous email address that I created in the steps below, and maybe other anonymous email addresses that I could make, then I might not have been stalled so much.

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1. Install Tor Browser for your OS. The RoboSats.com website issues a warning if you are not using Tor Browser. If you don't know what Tor is, I won't explain it all here, but trust me, it's cool and helps keep you anonymous. If you use Firefox, the interface will look very familiar to you.

2. Create a KYC-free e-mail address. I used tutanota.com in Firefox, as it would not allow me to create an account using Tor Browser. After the account was created, using Tor Browser to login, check emails, etc. has been working perfectly. Tutanota requires a 48 hour (or less) waiting period to prevent bots from using their system. You'll be able to login, and even draft an email, but you won't be able to send. After you've been approved, you should be able to login and send an email to your new address. It should show up in your Inbox almost instantly if it's working.

3. Have, or create, at least one Lightning wallet that is compatible with RoboSats.com and has no KYC Bitcoin in it. The RoboSats website has a compatibility chart available to find the best wallet for you. During an exchange on RoboSats, you will need to put up an escrow payment, or bond, in Satoshis. This amount is usually 3% of the total amount being exchanged. If the exchange is successful, the bond payment is canceled, leaving that amount in your wallet untouched, and with no record of it having been used as escrow. If you don't hold up your end of the trade, the bond amount will be transfered from your wallet. I created a wallet, using my new email address, with the Alby extension in the Tor Browser. This anonymous wallet was empty, so I used a separate wallet for the bond payment of my first trade. This wallet had KYC Bitcoin, but since it is being used for a bond payment, and no transaction will be recorded if everything goes okay, I don't mind taking the minuscule risk. After the first trade, I don't need to use the "KYC wallet", and I will use only my anonymous Lightning wallet for transactions related to performing a trade.

4. Create a new Robot Token by going to RoboSats using the Tor Browser. Copy the Token (Robot ID) to a text file as a temporary backup. It is recommended to create a new robot-token for every session of exchanges you make.

5. Select "Offers" to browse what others are presenting. "Create" is for when you want to create an offer of your own. You may need to create your own offer if none of the existing offers match your criteria.

6. Select "Buy" at the top of the page.

7. Select your currency (USD).

8. Select your payment methods by typing "amazon" and selecting (Amazon Gift Card). Repeat this process and select (Amazon USA Gift Card).

9. Determine Priorities - If you prefer to trade quickly, and don't care as much about premiums, look for users with a green dot on the upper-right of their robot icon. If you're not in a hurry, sort users by premium and select the best deal, even if they are inactive. They may become active once they are notified that their offer has activity from you.

10. The Definition of Price = the price with the premium added, but not the bond

11. A. Find A Compatible Offer - Select the row of the desired offer and enter the amount you would like to buy. i.e. $100 If you do not find a compatible offer, you will have to create your own offer.

    B.  **Create An Offer** - First, take a look at "Sell" offers for your same currency and payment method(s) that you will be using.  Take note of the premium those buyers are willing to pay.  If your premium is drastically less than theirs, your offer may get ignored.  Select "Create" at the bottom of the screen.  There is a slider at the top of the screen, select it to see all the options. Select "Buy". Enter the minimum and maximum amount that you wish to spend.  Type "amazon" to select the methods that you would like to use (Amazon Gift Card, Amazon USA Gift Card).  For "Premium Over Market", enter an amount that is competitive with premiums you saw at the start of this step and do not use the % sign!  You can adjust the duration, timer, and bond amount, but I leave those at their default settings.  Select the "Create Order" button, and follow the instructions for making a bond payment.
    

12. Pay the Bond - Copy the invoice that is presented. From your wallet that contains bond funds, select "Send", and paste the invoice as the recipient. This money will never leave your account if the exchange completes without issue. No transaction will be recorded. If there is a complication with the exchange, it is possible that this transaction will complete.

13. Create and Submit Your Invoice for Their Bitcoin Payment To You - Select "Lightning", if not selected by default.* Select the Copy Icon to copy the correct amount of Satoshis. This amount already has the premium deducted. From your anonymous Lightning Wallet, select "Receive", and paste the Satoshi amount. If you enter a description, it's probably best to keep it cryptic. Copy the invoice and paste it into RoboSats; then select "Submit".

    * If you plan on "mixing" your Bitcoin after purchase, it may be better to select "On Chain" and pay the necessary fees swap and mining fees. In the example this comes from, Sparrow wallet is used and has whirlpool ability in its interface.

14. Connect With Seller and Send Funds - Greet the seller in the chat window. The seller has now provided RoboSats with the Bitcoin to transfer to you. Your move is to buy an Amazon eGift Card for the amount of the trade. Log in to your Amazon account and start the process of buying an eGift card. For delivery there is the option of email or txt message. Ask the seller what their preference is, and get their address, or phone number, to enter into Amazon's form. Complete the purchase process on Amazon, and check the status of your order. Once you see the status of "Sent", go back to RoboSats in your Tor Browser.

15. Confirm Your Payment - Select the "Confirm ___ USD Sent" button and notify the seller to check their e-mail/txt messages.

16. Seller Confirmation - Once the seller select their "Confirm" button, the trade will immediately end with a confirmation screen.

17. Verify - If you check the anonymous wallet, the new amount should be presented.

@ 78733875:4eb851f2

After announcing our first wave of grants for bitcoin[^fn-btc] and nostr[^fn-nostr] projects, we are pleased to announce an additional wave of grants for open-source projects in the space:

[^fn-btc]: First Wave of Bitcoin Grants [^fn-nostr]: First Wave of Nostr Grants

• BDK
• LNbits
• Watchdescriptor
• Stratum V2 Testing \& Benchmarking Tool
• Fedimint Modules and Resources
• Amber: Nostr Event Signer
• Nostr UI/UX Development
• Nostr Use-Case Exploration \& Education

The first five grants are sourced from our General Fund, the last three—being nostr projects—from our Nostr Fund. This brings the total number of OpenSats grants to 41, adding to the grants we previously announced in July.

Once again, let's take a closer look at each of the projects to see how they align with the OpenSats mission.

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BDK

Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) is a set of libraries and tools that allows you to seamlessly build cross-platform on-chain bitcoin wallets without having to re-implement standard bitcoin data structures, algorithms, and protocols. BDK is built on top of the powerful rust-bitcoin and rust-miniscript libraries and adds features for managing descriptor-based wallets, syncing wallets to the bitcoin blockchain, viewing transaction histories, managing and selecting UTXOs to create new transactions, signing, and more. The core BDK components are written in Rust, but the team also maintains Kotlin and Swift language bindings for use in mobile projects. There are also Python bindings, and React Native and Flutter support is being actively developed.

Repository: bitcoindevkit/bdk
License: Apache 2.0 / MIT

LNbits

LNbits is used by a multitude of projects in the bitcoin space, especially as part of their lightning payments stack. Being easy to build on through its extension framework, LNbits has been pioneering various cutting-edge solutions and experiments in the world of bitcoin, lightning, and nostr.

The project has a thriving maker community building various hardware devices such as Lightning ATMs, point-of-sale devices, DIY hardware wallets, and nostr signing devices. The modular design of LNbits makes it attractive to users and tinkerers alike, as its plugin architecture makes it easy to extend and understand.

Repository: lnbits/lnbits
License: MIT

Watchdescriptor

watchdescriptor is a CLN plugin written in Rust that connects a business's treasury wallet to its CLN node. It utilizes cln-plugin and the BDK library to track coin movements in registered wallets and report this information to the bookkeeper plugin.

The plugin enables businesses to design a complete treasury using Miniscript and import the resulting descriptor into CLN. Since bookkeeper already accounts for all coin movements internal to CLN, this plugin is the last piece businesses need in order to unify all their bitcoin accounting in one place. This enables businesses to account for all inflows and outflows from their operations, streamlining tax reporting and financial analysis.

The watchdescriptor project is part of a broader vision to transform the lightning node (particularly CLN) into a financial hub for businesses, enabling them to conduct operations without reliance on any third parties.

Repository: chrisguida/watchdescriptor
License: MIT

Stratum V2 Testing & Benchmarking Tool

The Stratum V2 Testing & Benchmarking Tool allows the bitcoin mining industry to test and benchmark Stratum V2 performance against Stratum V1. The tool supports different mining scenarios to help miners make informed decisions and evaluate their profitability. The goal of the project is to motivate miners to upgrade to Stratum V2, increasing their individual profits and making the Bitcoin network more resilient in the process.

Repository: stratum-mining/stratum @GitGab19
License: Apache 2.0 / MIT

Fedimint Modules and Resources

Fedimint is a federated Chaumian e-cash mint backed by sats with deposits and withdrawals that can occur on-chain or via lightning. It can be understood as a scaling and privacy layer as well as an adoption accelerator for Bitcoin.

The goal of this particular project is to improve the Fedimint UI and develop free and open resources for developers and "Guardians" to enable more people to run and develop on Fedimint.

Repository: fedimint/ui @EthnTuttle
License: MIT

Amber: Nostr Event Signer

Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to keep their nsec segregated in a single, dedicated app. The goal of Amber is to have your smartphone act as a NIP-46 signing device without any need for servers or additional hardware. "Private keys should be exposed to as few systems as possible as each system adds to the attack surface," as the rationale of said NIP states. In addition to native apps, Amber aims to support all current nostr web applications without requiring any extensions or web servers.

Repository: greenart7c3/Amber
License: MIT

Nostr UI/UX Development

The goal of this project is to help improve the UI/UX of major nostr clients, starting with Gossip and Coracle, emphasizing the onboarding process as well as usability and accessibility. One part of onboarding is solving the discoverability problem that nostr has in the first place. Solving the problem of jumping in and out of the nostr world is what motivated the development of njump, which was redesigned as part of these efforts and is now live at nostr.com.

In addition to client-specific improvements, generic design modules and learnings will be incorporated into the Nostr Design project for others to use.

Activity: github.com/dtonon @dtonon
License: MIT

Nostr Use-Case Exploration & Education

As of today, most nostr clients implement social media applications on top of the nostr protocol. However, nostr allows for various use cases, many of which go beyond social media. Two examples are Listr and Ostrich, a list management tool and job board, respectively.

In addition to use-case exploration, this project will continue to educate users and developers alike, be it via Nostr How or various video series, e.g., explaining how to build upon NDK.

Activity: github.com/erskingardner @jeffg
License: MIT / GPL-3.0 / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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We have more grants in the pipeline and will provide funding for many more projects in the future. Note that we can only fund those projects which reach out and apply. If you are an open-source developer who is aligned with our mission, don't hesitate to apply for funding.

@ e6817453:b0ac3c39

The Zooko’s Triangle is a concept in the realm of naming systems, specifically for decentralized or distributed networks. It was named after Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, a computer scientist and cypherpunk known for his work on the Zcash cryptocurrency. The triangle illustrates a trade-off between three desirable properties in a naming system:

1. Human-meaningful: Names are easily understood and remembered by humans.
2. Decentralized: No central authority controls the allocation or management of names.
3. Secure: Names are unique and cannot be easily taken or manipulated by others.

Zooko’s Triangle posits that achieving all three properties in a single system is difficult. Traditionally, a system could have only two of the three properties, leading to various combinations of naming systems with their respective advantages and disadvantages.

However, recent developments in cryptographic and distributed systems have led to solutions that challenge the traditional constraints of Zooko’s Triangle. One such system is the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs).

DIDs

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new identifier for verifiable, decentralized digital identity. DIDs are designed to be self-sovereign, meaning that individuals or organizations control their identifiers without relying on a central authority. DID systems are built on top of decentralized networks, such as blockchain or distributed ledgers, providing a secure and tamper-proof infrastructure for identity management.

DIDs aim to achieve the three properties of Zooko’s Triangle:

1. Human-meaningful: While DIDs may not be human-meaningful due to their cryptographic nature, they can be associated with human-readable names or aliases.
2. Decentralized: DIDs are managed on decentralized networks, removing the need for a central authority.
3. Secure: The decentralized nature of DIDs, combined with cryptographic techniques, ensures that identifiers are unique, secure, and resistant to tampering.

In summary, Zooko’s Triangle presents a trade-off between human-meaningful, decentralized, and secure properties in naming systems. Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are an example of a system that seeks to overcome the traditional limitations of the triangle by leveraging decentralized networks and cryptographic techniques to provide a more comprehensive solution for digital identity management.

@ d830ee7b:4e61cd62

ผมมองออกไปไกลๆ ยังนอกหน้าต่าง...

หลังจากรายการ #สภายาส้ม ตอนที่ 14 พึ่งจบลงไป มันชวนให้ผมอยากร่วมวงสนทนาในหัวข้อ #ExitTheMatrix หรือ #EscapeTheMatrix อะไรนั่นเหลือเกิน.. พยายามคิดว่าผมจะมีเรื่องอะไรมาเล่าได้บ้างนะ..

ไม่.. ผมไม่อยากได้แก้วรางวัลของเทนโด้ มันควรเป็นเพื่อนๆ คนอื่นๆ ในคอมมูนิตี้ #Siamstr ของเราที่ได้ไปครอง แต่ผมเห็นคุณค่าของกิจกรรมนี้อย่างลึกซึ้ง ผมอยากเห็นหลายคนลุกขึ้นมาถ่ายทอดเรื่องราวของตัวเอง.. นั่นก็รวมถึงตัวผมเองด้วย

นั่นสินะ.. เราไม่เคยเล่าเรื่องของเราให้ใครฟังมาก่อนเลย

เรามีเรื่องอะไรน่าสนใจอย่างงั้นเหรอ? Matrix ของเราจะมีหน้าตาคล้ายคลึงกับ Matrix ของคนอื่นๆ หรือเปล่านะ?

ผมพยายามตีความคำๆ นี้ในแบบของตัวเอง จนพบว่า "Matrix" ในแบบของผม มันคือ "บางอย่างที่อยู่ในหัว" ของผมนี่เอง มันไม่ใช่สิ่งของ วัตถุ คำสั่ง หรือสังคมอะไรทั้งนั้น สำหรับผมมันคือ "ชุดความคิด" ที่ทำให้เรามองโลกใบนี้ในแบบที่ต่างออกไป

ทำไมผมคิดแบบนั้นน่ะเหรอ?

ก็เพราะเมื่อตอนที่เรายังอยู่ท่ามกลาง Matrix และตอนที่เราได้พบว่าตัวเองหลุดออกจากมันมาแล้ว แท้จริงแล้วเรายังคงยืนอยู่บนโลกใบเดิม สังคมเดิมๆ ผู้คนรอบกายหน้าเดิมๆ วัตถุสิ่งของรอบตัวล้วนเหมือนเดิมทุกประการ แต่มันเป็น มุมมอง-ความคิด ของเราต่างหากที่เปลี่ยนไป..

ผมเคยคิดว่าตัวเองหลุดออกมาจาก "Matrix" ได้เมื่อ 10 กว่าปีก่อน

เมื่อครั้งที่ผมกำลังลุ่มหลงกับการลงทุนใน Traditional Investment ผมกลายเป็นนักวิเคราะห์ธุรกิจมือฉกาจ เป็นนักวางแผนคาดการณ์ที่หาตัวจับยากในยุคนั้น (ในแวดวงของตัวเอง) ผมมีโอกาสได้สอนคนดังๆ คนรวยๆ ในเรื่อง "การลงทุนหุ้น", เป็นที่ปรึกษาการลงทุนในโครงการอสังหาริมทรัพย์ขนาดใหญ่, การจัดตั้งและบริหารบริษัทต่างๆ ฯลฯ สารพัดเต็มไปหมด

ผมพบว่าตัวเองมีตำราแทบทุกเล่มเกี่ยวกับศาสตร์ในด้านนี้ ผมอ่านเยอะ แตกฉาน และพยายามเผื่อแผ่ ..ซึ่งมันน่าอนาถยิ่งนัก

ถ้าเราเรียกอาการของคนที่กำลังหลงอยู่ในโพรงกระต่ายบิตคอยน์ว่า "Down the Rabbit hole" ตัวผมเองในตอนนั้นก็คงจะเรียกได้ว่า "Deep-down the Fucking (Hell) hole" เลยกระมัง..

ณ ขณะที่เรากำลังคิดว่า "เราเจ๋ง" เหลือเกินนั้น เราไม่เคยรู้ตัวเลยสักนิดว่าเรากำลังดำดิ่งลงไปใน "โพรงแห่งกับดักนรกของโลก Fiat" เรากำลังฆ่าตัวเองอย่างช้าๆ และกำลังผ่องถ่ายพลังงานของเราเพื่อนำไปหล่อเลี้ยงระบบสามานย์นี้ทีละเล็กทีนะน้อย เราที่คิดว่าตัวเองเก่งเสียเต็มประดา กำลังถูกหัวเราะเย้ยหยันจากใครสักคนในมุมมืด

เรามันก็แค่ "หนูตัวใหญ่" ในระบบที่ถูกออกแบบเอาไว้ให้ทุกคนต้องกลายเป็น "เหาในขวดโหล" เพียงเท่านั้น

ความขยะแขยงในภาพอดีตของตัวเอง ทำให้ผมไม่เคยเปิดเผยเรื่องนี้กับใครเลย แม้กับน้องๆ ในทีม Right Shift ก็คงได้ฟังแค่เพียงผ่านๆ ไปคร่าวๆ เท่านั้น ผมเลือกจะลืมเรื่องพวกนี้ให้สิ้น ลบมันออกจากอดีต และทำราวกับว่า.. ผมคือคนที่ไม่ได้เชี่ยวชาญอะไรในเรื่องพรรค์นี้สักเท่าไหร่..

มันไม่ง่ายที่จะทำแบบนั้น เพราะตัวเราเองก็รู้อยู่เสมอว่าเราเคยผ่านประสบการณ์อะไรมา

ผมเคย "เกลียดงานประจำ" อย่างเข้าไส้ในตอนนั้น ผมแช่งและชังระบบราชการที่ตัวผมเองก็ฝังหนอกอยู่กับมัน ผมมักวิจารณ์ทุกเรื่องรอบๆ ตัว อะไรก็ตามที่ไม่ค่อยเข้าตา ผมไม่เคยรู้สึกว่าระบบราชการจะพัฒนาไปได้ไกลกว่าที่เป็นอยู่

ผมเกลียดชังเพื่อนร่วมงานเกือบจะทุกคน ทั้งที่พวกเขาก็ไม่ได้ประพฤติอะไรต่างไปจากตัวผมนัก ผมเองก็ไม่ได้มีอะไรดีไปกว่าพวกเขา เพราะผมได้ก็เอาเงินจากอนาคตมาใช้จ่ายอย่างสุรุ่ยสุร่าย สนองความต้องการต่างๆ นานาของตัวเองจนสาแก่ใจเหมือนพวกเขาเช่นกัน.. เราพยายามจะเกลียดทุกๆ อย่างรอบๆ ตัวเรา.. เราไม่เคยคิดว่าโลกนี้จะมีอะไรดีเลย

แต่สิ่งเดียวที่เราไม่เคยอยากเกลียด คือ ตัวเราเอง และนั่นแหละคือ "The Matrix" ที่แม่งเหี้ยมโหดและทารุณอย่างที่สุด

เพราะสิ่งเหล่านี้มันทำให้เราต้อง "จมอยู่กับความทุกข์" อย่างแสนสาหัส ทุกข์ที่ไม่ได้มีใครก่อขึ้นมาเลย ก็นอกเสียจากตัวเราเอง

เรานี่เอง คือ ต้นตอของปัญหาทั้งหมดทั้งมวล ที่กำลังรุมสกรัมชีวิตของเราเองอย่างบ้าคลั่ง

เราขยันเติม "พลังลบๆ" เข้ามาในชีวิตแต่ละวัน เราเติมมันด้วยตัวเราเอง และมันถาโถมทำลายจิตใจด้านบวก กัดกร่อนความสุขในการมองโลกของเราลงในทุกเมื่อเชื่อวัน

เรานี่เอง คือ คนที่วาดภาพของโลกอันเสื่อมทรามขึ้นมาในจินตนาการของตัวเอง

เกือบ 10 ปี ที่ชีวิตผมต้องจมอยู่ใน "The Matrix in mind"

ผมเริ่มรู้สึกอ่อนล้า.. ผมผละออกมาจากตลาดหุ้น หนีความวุ่นวายของผู้คน และเริ่มเฟดตัวเองออกจากคนรอบตัว ผมเริ่มหันมาคุยกับตัวเองมากขึ้น นั่งอยู่คนเดียวในแต่ละวัน และไม่พยายามยินดียินร้ายไปกับใคร ผมมีเพื่อนลดลงไปเรื่อยๆ จนกระทั่งผมพบว่าผมเหลือเพียงตัวคนเดียว..

ฟังดูราวกับว่า.. การเหลือตัวคนเดียว ไม่น่าจะใช่ทางออกที่ดี

แต่สำหรับผมมันช่างดีเหลือเกิน พลังลบๆ รอบตัวมันเริ่มลดน้อยถอยลงจนในที่สุดมันก็หายไป ผมพบว่า "มันเป็นตัวเรา" นี่เอง ที่พยายามเอาตัวเองไปผูกไว้กับเรื่องของคนอื่น เราเอาตัวเองไปผูกโยงกับทุกเรื่องจนเกินความจำเป็น ทั้งที่เมื่อทำไปแล้วมันก็ไม่เคยจะให้พลังบวกหรือให้ประโยชน์อะไรกับตัวเองสักเท่าไหร่..

ผมได้ "เวลาชีวิต" กลับคืนมามากโข ได้เวลาว่างๆ กลับมาในแบบที่ไม่เคยเป็นมาก่อน มันทำให้ผมมองหาสิ่งใหม่ๆ "หลุมกระต่าย" ใหม่ๆ เพื่อพาตัวเองกลับไปหาพลังบวกอีกสักครั้ง..

ผมพบว่าการเลิกบ่นให้กับเรื่องรอบๆ ตัว แล้วพยายามอยู่กับมันให้ได้อย่างคนที่เข้าใจความเป็นไป มันช่วยให้ผม "หัวโล่ง" และมีเวลาไปหาความสุขใส่ตัวในเรื่องอื่นๆ ได้มากขึ้นเยอะเลย

จนกระทั่งผมได้หลงจับพลัดจับผลูเข้าไปในเกมมือถือที่มีชื่อว่า "EVE ECHOES" เกมดังที่พอร์ทมาจากสุดยอดเกมไซไฟอมตะอย่าง "EVE Online" ที่แห่งนี้เอง คือ จุดเปลี่ยนของชีวิตผมอย่างแท้จริง

ประตูบานแรกที่ได้พาผมออกจาก "The Matrix"

มันฟังดูแปลกๆ ที่เกมอย่าง EVE ECHO คือสิ่งที่ให้มุมมองใหม่ ๆ กับผมอย่างมหาศาล

ในวันเริ่มต้น.. ผมพบว่าตัวเองเป็นเพียงนักบินอวกาศตัวเล็กๆ เป็นฝุ่นจางๆ ในจักรวาลอันกว้างใหญ่ของตัวเกม แต่ในวันสุดท้ายที่ผมจากเกมนี้มา ผมได้พาตัวเองไปอยู่บนจุดสูงสุดของจักรวาลเกม สูงที่สุดเท่าที่เกมเมอร์ไทยสักคน (ในเกมตอนนั้น) จะทำได้.. ผมถูกทาบทามให้เป็น Director ของ Corporation ที่ยิ่งใหญ่ที่สุดในเซิฟเวอร์เกม ณ จุดนั้นเองที่ทำให้ผมได้ตระหนักว่าผมเป็นใคร และผมควรพาตัวเองไปทำอะไรต่อจากนี้

แต่นี่ไม่ใช่เรื่องที่ผมจะนำมาเล่าอวดอ้าง มันมีบางอย่างที่ได้กลายมาเป็นไอเดียตั้งต้นของคอมมูนิตี้บิตคอยน์ของเราที่แฝงมากับประสบการณ์เกมของผมในตอนนั้น..

อย่างแรกเลยคือ..

ผมได้ค้นพบในพลังของแพลตฟอร์มอย่าง "Discord" ผมได้อยู่ร่วมกับชาวต่างชาติหลาย Corporation ที่ Role play การเล่น และสร้างคอมมูนิตี้ของพวกเขาขึ้นมาโดยรีดเค้นเอาศักยภาพของ Discord ออกมาได้อย่างเต็มเม็ดเต็มหน่วยแบบสุดๆ

พวกเราลองนึกถึงการวางแผนและการจัดการกองทัพอวกาศในสงครามที่มีหลายฝั่งเข้าห้ำหั่นกันออนไลน์ และแต่ละฝั่งก็มีคนเข้าร่วมมากเป็นหลักพันคนดูสิครับ การจัดการกลยุทธ์การรบแบบเรียลไทม์เพื่อให้ทัพของตัวเองมีประสิทธิภาพมากที่สุดแทบจะเป็นไปไม่ได้เลย และ Discord ได้เข้ามาทำให้ผมได้เห็นทางออกในเรื่องนี้ และผมก็นำเอา Discord มาใช้จนถึงปัจจุบัน

อย่างที่สอง...

ความหมกมุ่นและเอาจริงเอาจังของเกมเมอร์ชาวต่างชาติ มันทำให้ผมได้สติว่า ผมที่เคยคิดว่าตัวเองเก่งกาจในอดีตช่างเทียบอะไรไม่ได้เลยกับความลุ่มหลงในบางสิ่งบางอย่างแบบที่พวกเกมเมอร์ชาวต่างชาติเขามีกัน ผมได้เรียนรู้หลักการกระจายอำนาจมาอย่างไม่รู้ตัว (ก่อนจะรู้จักลงลึกกับบิตคอยน์เสียอีก) ผมได้เห็นวิธีการ "เชื่อใจ" และทำงานกันเป็นทีม ความมุ่งมั่นและความรับผิดชอบที่เห็นแล้วก็รู้สึกอายตัวเองเหลือเกิน ผมเห็นถึงวิธีการสร้างชุมชนให้เข้มแข็งและเติบโตได้อย่างยั่งยืน

นี่มันแค่เกมเองนะ!! มันทำให้ผมอินและมองเห็นอะไรได้ขนาดนั้นเลยเหรอ?

ใช่ครับ.. มันเป็นไปแล้ว พฤติกรรมมุ่งสู่ความสำเร็จในภาพใหญ่ และยืนอยู่บนกลยุทธ์ที่นำไปสู่ความยั่งยืนของคนเหล่านี้ ได้สอนให้ผมเข้าใจว่าตัวเราเล็กเกินกว่าจะคิดว่าเราใหญ่ เราไม่สามารถทำงานใหญ่ได้ด้วยตัวคนเดียว และชีวิตมันมีอะไรให้เราได้ค้นหาอีกมากมายเกินกว่าที่เราจะเคยจินตนาการกันได้

พวกเขาแทบไม่มีใครทำเพื่อตัวเอง พวกเขาวางแผนการทุกอย่างกันจริงจังเพื่อไปสู่จุดมุ่งหมายเดียวกันของส่วนร่วม พวกเขาไม่เคยหยุดพยายาม และไม่เคยย่อท้อต่ออุปสรรคขวากหนามตามรายทาง ..มันสุดยอดจริงๆ ผมก็ไม่เคยคิดมาก่อนเหมือนกันว่าชีวิตจะได้เจอกับอะไรแบบนี้

และนั่นคือหลักการแนวคิดที่เริ่มติดตัวผมมาจนกระทั่งถึงทุกวันนี้ เป็นที่มาของวิธีการทำงานบนความสุขเต็มเปี่ยมแบบทีม Right Shift และเป็นส่วนหนึ่งในแนวทางการผลักดันคอมมูนิตี้บิตคอยน์ในแบบที่พวกเราได้เห็นกัน ลากยาวมาจนถึง Nostr ในตอนนี้

อย่างที่สาม..

ผมได้เจอกับ "ผู้ที่ป้ายยาส้มผมคนแรก" ในเกม EVE ECHOES นั่นคือ พี่เป็ด (ped66@rightshift.tp) บิตคอยเนอร์รุ่น OG (ปัจจุบันคือพี่ใหญ่ที่อยู่เบื้องหลังของทีมงาน Right Shift) พี่เป็ด คือคนที่ค่อยๆ สอนสอดแทรกหลักสัจธรรมเข้ามาในหัวผมเป็นระยะๆ จนกระทั่งเมื่อเขารู้สึกว่าผมพร้อม พี่เป็ดก็เริ่มปฏิบัติการป้ายยาส้มผมมาทีละนิดๆ

แม้ต้องใช้เวลานานถึง 2-3 ปี กว่าจะ Orange pill ผมได้สำเร็จ กว่าที่ผมซึ่งเต็มไปด้วยแนวคิดเฟียตๆ ในตอนนั้นจะตื่นรู้ แต่ก็นับว่าเป็นความทรงจำล้ำค่าที่ผมคงไม่มีวันลืมไปทั้งชีวิต

The Matrix exit door ถูกเปิดออกนับแต่นาทีนั้น.. นั่นคือจุดเริ่มต้นเรื่องราวของ Jakk Goodday

Exit เมื่อสายไป?

การก้าวออกจาก Matrix ในวัยเกือบๆ 37 (ในตอนนั้น) ผมเองก็เคยต้องกลับมาตั้งคำถามกับตัวเองบ่อยๆ อยู่เหมือนกัน - เรารู้จักเรื่องนี้ช้าไปหรือเปล่า? - เรา Exit ช้าไปไหม? - มันจะดีกว่านี้ไหมถ้าเราได้ออกมาจากระบบความคิดเน่าๆ ได้ไวกว่านี้?

อย่ากระนั้นเลย..

ผมพบว่ามันป่วยกาล ที่เราจะมานั่งหาคำตอบเพื่อแก้ไขอดีตที่เราไม่เคยพึงพอใจ อดีตมันมีคุณค่ากับเราเสมอไม่ว่ามันจะดีหรือร้าย อดีตช่วยสร้างและหลอมเราให้เราได้กลายเป็นตัวเราในวันนี้ อดีตที่เลวร้ายทำให้เรามองเห็นอนาคตที่เราจะไม่มีวันยอมให้ตัวเองเป็นเช่นนั้นอีก อดีตอันสดใสจะคอยตอกย้ำให้เราระมัดระวังในการใช้ชีวิต เตือนสติให้เราไม่ลุ่มหลง ระเริงไปกับความสำเร็จจนหยุดพัฒนาตัวเองหรือเรียนรู้

สิ่งใดเกิดขึ้นแล้ว สิ่งนั้นงดงามเสมอ

หลักการและแนวคิดในทุกแง่มุมที่อยู่เบื้องหลังการทำงานของบิตคอยน์ มันช่วยให้ผมค้นพบหนทางแห่งการดับทุกข์บนโลกเฟียต มันพาให้ผมออกมาจาก The Matrix ได้เพียงแค่เปลี่ยนความคิดและพฤติการณ์ของตัวเองเท่านั้น

ทุกอย่างรอบกายยังคงเหมือนเดิม..

มันคือสิ่งที่ครั้งหนึ่งเราเคยเรียกมันว่า "The Matrix" มันไม่มีอะไรที่ต่างออกไปจากที่เคยเป็น.. ทุกสิ่งบนโลกยังคงหมุนรอบตัวเราอยู่เสมอ.. สิ่งเดียวที่ทำให้เรารู้สึกว่าเราหลุดออกมาจากมันได้แล้ว ก็คือ "ชุดความคิด" และ "มุมมอง" ของเราที่เริ่มเปลี่ยนไป..

แค่เปลี่ยนความคิด โลกก็เปลี่ยน..

บิตคอยน์ได้มอบอะไรให้ผมมากกว่าแค่เรื่อง "Wealth"

ถ้าคุณได้รู้จักหรือใกล้ชิดกับผมมากกว่านี้ คุณคงจะพอเข้าใจได้ว่าทำไมผมจึงแทบไม่พูดถึงการลงทุน วิธีหรือแนวทางการลงทุน แม้กระทั่งราคา หรือเทคโนโลยีของตัวบิตคอยน์เลย

เพราะสิ่งเหล่านั้นจะมีความหมายอะไรเล่า.. ถ้าวิธีคิดของเรายังไม่เคยหลุดพ้นจาก Matrix และ เรายังคงถูกครอบงำอย่างเบ็ดเสร็จโดยระบบเฟียต

วันนี้ผมกลายเป็นคนที่ทำตัวติดดินจนหญ้ามาเลย์ยังต้องอาย

• ผมพูดน้อยกับคนรอบตัวในเรื่องไร้สาระ (ที่ผมคิดว่ามันไม่เกิดประโยชน์กับใคร) แต่พูดมากเฉพาะในสิ่งที่จะเป็นประโยชน์ต่อคนอื่น
• ผมชวนให้ทุกคนนึกคนรุ่นหลังมากกว่าตัวเอง ชวนให้ทุกคนสร้าง Legacy บางอย่างทางความคิดเพื่อส่งต่อให้พวกเขามีชีวิตในสังคมที่ดีกว่า
• ผมปัดตกทุกความคิดที่มุ่งสู่ผลกำไรโดยไม่ได้มอบคุณค่าอะไรให้กับผู้จ่ายเลย ทุกความคิดที่ทำเพื่อประโยชน์ส่วนตนไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ผมเทิดทูน
• ผมเก็บตำราเก่าๆ ทุกเล่มที่เคยอ่านเข้ากรุไป ต่อหนูเยี่ยวใส่ผมก็ไม่แคร์ ผมกด Delete ทุกความเชื่อที่เคยมีออกจากไขสมอง ถ้าจะมีบ้างที่ผมหยิบเอาหนังสือพวกนั้นออกมา ก็คงเพราะเอามาวางเป็น Prop ในการ LIVE เพียงเท่านั้น
• ผมไม่เคยทำเก่งอีกเลย ถ้าจะต้องทำตัวให้โง่ผมก็ยอมทำ และคอยย้ำเตือนตัวเองเสมอว่าเราก็แค่เพียงคนธรรมดาที่ไม่ได้มีความวิเศษวิโสไปกว่าใคร ผมพยายามทำตัวเองให้เล็กที่สุดเพื่อให้ทำการณ์ใหญ่ได้สำเร็จ
• ผมหยุดหลอกตัวเองว่าเรากำลังมีความสุข ถ้าผมไม่ได้กำลังทำในสิ่งที่จะช่วยให้ผมมีความสุขกับมันได้จริงๆ ผมถามตัวเองทุกครั้งเมื่อต้องลงมือทำบางอย่าง ว่าสิ่งนั้นจะมอบพลังบวกหรือให้พลังลบเข้ามาบั่นทอนเรา
• ผมบอกตัวเองว่าชีวิตมันก็คงหนีไม่พ้นการต้องกด Restart อยู่บ่อยๆ การทำสิ่งใดเพื่ออนาคตที่ดีกว่านั้นไม่เคยสาย มันจะสายก็ต่อเมื่อเราพึ่งคิดได้ในห้วงลมหายใจสุดท้ายของชีวิต..
• ฯลฯ

ผมได้ฉายาจากน้องๆ ในทีมว่า Jakk 8-hour ก็เพราะผมเป็นคนประเภทที่พ่นออกมาได้เรื่อยๆ หาที่ลงไม่เคยได้ และตอนนี้ผมก็เริ่มได้สติแล้วว่า บทความนี้ชักจะยาวเกินไปแล้ว ผมคงต้องขมวดและปิดท้ายมันได้สักที...

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คุณแค่หลับตาลง แล้วนึกถึงความย่ำแย่ของตัวเองในอดีต หาให้เจอว่าอะไรทำให้คุณรู้สึกเป็นทุกข์ เมื่อคุณค้นพบสาเหตุ คุณจะเริ่มบอกตัวเองว่าคุณจะจัดการกับมันอย่างไร เมื่อเข้าใจแล้วจงลืมตาขึ้นมา..

สิ่งที่คุณมองเห็นนับจากนี้จะไม่ใช่ The Matrix อีกต่อไป

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อย่าลืมเขียนเรื่องราว #ExitTheMatrix #EscapeTheMatrix ของคุณออกมาแบ่งปันให้เพื่อนๆ ได้รับรู้ บอกพวกเราว่า Bitcoin ช่วยให้คุณหลุดพ้นได้ยังไง..

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Many people choose Bitcoin for self-sovereignty or for tactical reasons, such as Bitcoin enabling them to easily send cross-border payments with low fees. However, it’s important to understand the best way to acquire, hold and send bitcoin in order to minimize the fees being paid. Bitcoin fees can vary widely depending on circumstances. This section applies to Bitcoin “on-chain” fees. Lightning fees are lower, and you will usually want to prefer to use Lightning when possible.

Each Bitcoin on-chain transaction uses multiple UTXOs. UTXOs are unspent transaction outputs. River Financial recently wrote a good introduction to UTXOs. You can think of UTXOs as monetary denominations used for transactions. For example, if you were charged a fee based on the number of currency bills you used, what denominations would you hold and use? It depends, right? We will try to help you answer that question. Here are a few example Bitcoin transactions (transaction sizes taken from this transaction size calculator):

| Address Type and UTXOs | Size (sats) | vbytes | Fee (sats/vbyte) | Total Fee | Percentage lost to fees | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | P2WPKH (1 in -> 2 out) | 100,000 | 140.5 | 15 | 2108 | 2.1% | | P2WPKH (1 in -> 2 out) | 1,000,000 | 140.5 | 15 | 2108 | 0.2% | | P2WPKH (1 in -> 2 out) | 100,000 | 140.5 | 150* | 21825 | 21.8% | | P2HS 2-of-3 multisig (2 in -> 2 out) | 1,000,000 | 668 | 15 | 10020 | 1% |

• fees like this, and higher, were seen during the “ordinal craze” of early 2023.

As you can see, the smaller the UTXO, the greater the percentage of bitcoin is consumed by fees. But, not all goods are 1M or 100K sats, so what happens to the “change” from a UTXO? Again, thinking of Bitcoin UTXOs as monetary denominations, let’s say you have two (2) 1,000,000-sat UTXOs. Furthermore, you’d like to buy something for 1,100,000 sats. You’ll need both UTXOs as inputs and you’ll get “change” of 900,000 sats as a new UTXO (less fees, of course). Imagine that you have only 100,000-sat UTXOs. You’d need eleven (11) of those UTXOs, including fees, to pay for a 1,000,000-sat purchase. The vbytes would be 3309, and it would cost you 49,635 sats at 15 sats/vbyte fee. With the Lightning Network, fees are much lower, and you do not create new UTXOs with the “change”. But, the Lightning Network may not accommodate your larger transactions at this time.

Can you consolidate smaller UTXOs into a large one? Yes. Using the desktop Sparrow wallet application (or other Bitcoin software with UTXO management), select multiple UTXOs to send bitcoin to yourself using a new Bitcoin address. A new UTXO is created using your smaller ones. Here is a demonstration. Look for a low-fee market (e.g. weekends) using Mempool or within the Sparrow app, and do the consolidation. As of the time of this writing, you may get fees as low as 6 sats/vbyte. The smallest UTXO that I personally recommend is 1M satoshis, 1/100th of a bitcoin, preferring to use the Lightning Network for smaller transactions. Beyond the scope of this article, you should also consider using Bitcoin address types that use less space on the Bitcoin blockchain. For example, native Segwit addresses (bc1) are smaller than legacy addresses.

(Note: the demonstration above also shows how to do a Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction (PSBT) using Sparrow and the ColdCard. It is the safest way to use a Bitcoin wallet.)

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Organizational identifiers

Organizational identifiers have different sets of requirements and functions. It is not enough to have per-to-peer private communications. Organizations are more public, so we need publicly resolvable identifiers. DID:key satisfy this condition entirely but fails to fulfill the organization's needs.

• Organizations quite often act as issuers of credentials or attestations. For issuance, it is critical to have the possibility to rotate signing keys or even deactivate or delete identifiers if keys or issuer get compromised or to comply with security company policies.
• Organizations often require a split between the Controller of the identifier and the Identifier subject or even a transfer of the identifier subject.
• Organizations must have complete control of infrastructure and effectively manage resources and costs. The price of a single identifier should be fixed, and the method of creating new identifiers should be scalable.
• One of the essential requirements is trust and governance and transparent mechanics of proving and binding an identifier to an organizational entity and creating trust relations.
• Access to Identifier management is quite often controlled by a group of users

Nonfunctional requirements

• portability
• interoperability
• scalability
• Autonomous and control
• security

In my previous articles, we talk about Autonomous identifiers and how they differ from regular DIDs.

To recap

Autonomous identifiers (AIDs) are DIDs generated algorithmically from a crypto- graphic key pair in such a way that they are self-certifying, i.e. the binding with the public key can be verified without the need to consult any external blockchain or third party. KERI is an example of a decentralized identity technology based entirely on AIDs. © https://trustoverip.org/blog/2023/01/05/the-toip-trust-spanning-protocol/

In a previous article, I show how to create and use a did:key as an Autonomous identifier that feet well to private person-to-person secure communication.

Architectures and protocols that build on top of AIDs have few critical properties

• self-hosting and self-contained
• self-certified and Autonomous
• portable
• interoperable
• full control of infrastructure
• cost management

Nowadays, I discovered a few AIDs methods

• did:key — self-contained and public
• did:peer — self-certified, upgradable but private
• KERI based did — we waiting for did:keri method to be announced soon, but KERI infrastructure could be used to build internals of did:peer or similar methods.
• did:web — public, self-certified, and self-hosted method, but still, we have active community discussion and critics as far as it fully relays to ownership of domain name that could be stolen or re-assigned.

So we have to choose from did:key did:web and I hope in a future from did:keri.

To move forward, we need to understand the DID architecture better and how all parts are connected.

In many cases of personal or sovereign entities Subject and the Controller are the same, but for Organisations, it could have a crucial difference.

DID Subject

The DID subject is the entity that the DID represents. It can be a person, organization, device, or other identifiable entity. The DID subject is associated with a unique DID that serves as a persistent, resolvable, and cryptographically verifiable identifier. The subject is the primary focus of the identity management process and typically has one or more DIDs associated with it.

DID Controller

The DID controller is the entity (person, organization, or device) that has the authority to manage the DID Document associated with a particular DID. The DID controller can update, revoke, or delegate control of the DID Document, which contains the public keys, service endpoints, and other information required for interacting with the DID subject.

In many cases, the DID subject and DID controller can be the same entity, especially for individual users who create and manage their DIDs. However, in some situations, the DID controller may differ from the DID subject, such as when an organization manages the DIDs on behalf of its employees or when an administrator manages a device.

In summary, the DID subject is the entity the DID represents, while the DID controller is the entity with authority to manage the associated DID Document. Depending on the specific use case and requirements, these roles can be held by the same or different entities.

Key Pair

It is simple from the first point of view. Key-Pair is an asymmetric public and private key. One of the main DID functions is the distribution of public keys. DIDDoccument could contain multiple public keys with authorization rules and key roles.

Identifier

Representation of did itself. is a part of DID URI.

DID:Key

did:key identifier

DID web

did:web

Relations

Relations between all parts of DID identifier can be illustrated in the following diagram. DID method dictate how DID identifier gets created, updated, deactivated, and resolved.

Focusing on the relations of the controller, key pairs, and the identifier is more interesting for us.

The most significant power and benefit of DID are decoupling a key pair from a controller and identifier. It allows the rotation of keys and changes the ownership of the identifier and its subject and controller. It is the main competitive advantage of DID and SSI over web3 wallets and raw keys.

The ideal case is KERI infrastructure that decouples all parties via cryptographic binding and protocols.

To discover more, read the paper.

We used did: keys as AID in the previous article. DID:key is a cryptographically bound identifier to the public key but cannot change the binding. As a result, keys couldn't be rotated in the future. The controller has no binding except to prove private key ownership via the signature-based protocol.

On the other side, DID:web does not have a cryptographic binding of an identifier to a key pair from one side. It gives an easy possibility to rotate keys but loses the verifiability of the identifier.

The most interesting part is the Controller to identifier binding in a did: web. It is based on proof of domain name ownership and website resource. As I mention, it has some security considerations and critics in a community. Still, at the same time, we get a critical mechanism that settles trust and connects identifiers to the organization entity.

The mechanism of web domain ownership is well-defined and easy to explain to other users, even outside of SSI and web5 domain. It is getting wider adoption and creating a lot of use cases for organizations. So it helps to create a trust relationship between an identifier and organizational entity in a very transparent, human-readable, and self-explained way — the identifier hosted on the corporate domain belongs to the organization. On another side, it makes the transfer of the controller almost impossible. That's why it is critical to differentiate between a subject and a controller.

I believe that did:web still covers a lot of organizational cases and is suitable for issuing Verifiable Credentials and attestations on behalf of organizations.

Step-by-step guide on how to create and manage did:web you could find in my article

More detailed step-by-step coding guide with the live example you could find in my SSI notebooks book

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Gondlir Notes on Internet Censorship resistant lighting economy

💡Lightning Up the Internet: Economic Activity Around Bitcoin's Lightning Network

The development of the Lightning Network has brought a new level of scalability to Bitcoin that is fueling greater economic activity. Here are some key aspects of this growing second layer solution:

💰Microtransactions Made Easy

• Lightning allows for near-instant, low-fee transactions making bitcoin useful forthings liketipping content creators, gamingmicropayments and recurring subscriptions.

🏧Payment Channels

• Bidirectional payment channels allow users/businesses to transact privately off-chain as needed and then settle on Bitcoin blockchain periodically.

⚡Nodes and Liquidity

• Anyone can run a Lightning node and provide liquidity by opening channels. Node operators earn fees paid in bitcoin as routing payments.

📈Increased Usability

• Wallet apps now support Lightning, removing friction for merchant adoption. Services can easily accept bitcoin and watch revenue stream in without block confirmation delays.

🚀Growing Adoption

• Major exchanges/wallets adding Lightning support. More merchants integrating everyday. Economic activity, channels and node counts all rising fast!

The future is looking bright as mainstream use cases emerge to take bitcoin to the next level through scalable off-chain solutions. Exciting times ahead! 🤩

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Hello, fellow Nostrich!

Nostr is a brand new phenomenon and there are a few steps that will make your onboarding much smoother and your experience much richer.

👋 Welcome

Since you are reading this, it’s safe to assume that you already joined Nostr by downloading an app (e.g. Damus, Amethyst, Plebstr) for your mobile device or opening a Nostr web client (e.g. snort.social, Nostrgram, Iris). It is important for a newcomer to follow the steps suggested by the app of your choice – the welcoming procedure provides all the basics, and you won’t have to do much more tuning unless you really want to. If you’ve stumbled upon this post, but don’t have a Nostr “account” yet, you can follow this simple step-by-step guide by nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz.

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🤙 Have fun

Nostr is built to ensure people can connect, get heard, and have fun along the way. This is the whole point (obviously, there is a plethora of serious use cases, such as being a tool for freedom fighters and whistleblowers, but that deserves a separate article), so if you feel like anything feels burdensome, please reach out to the more experienced nostriches and we will be happy to help. Interacting with Nostr is not hard at all, but it has a few peculiarities when compared to traditional platforms, so it’s ok (and encouraged) to ask questions.

Here’s an unofficial list of Nostr ambassadors who will be happy to help you get onboard:

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All the nostriches on the list were also awarded a Nostr Ambassador badge that will make it easy for you to find, verify and follow them

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⚡️ Enable Zaps

Zaps are one of the first differences one may notice after joining Nostr. They allow Nostr users to instantly send value and support creation of useful and fun content. This is possible thanks to Bitcoin and Lightning Network. These decentralized payment protocols let you instantly send some sats (the smallest unit on the Bitcoin network) just as easily as liking someone’s post on traditional social media platforms. We call this model Value-4-Value and you can find more about this ultimate monetization model here: https://dergigi.com/value/

Check out this note by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 that is a great intro to what zaps are.

You should enable Zaps even if you do not consider yourself a content creator – people will find some of your notes valuable and might want to send you some sats. The easiest way to start receiving value on Nostr onley takes a couple steps:

1. Download Wallet of Satoshi - probably the best choice for those who are new to Bitcoin and Lightning for your mobile device.[^1] Note that there are many more wallets and you are welcome to choose the one that suits you best. Also, don't forget to come back and back up your wallet.
2. Tap “Receive”
3. Tap the Lightning Address you see on the screen (the string which looks like an email address) to copy it to the clipboard.
4. Paste the copied address into the corresponding field in your Nostr client (the field may say “Bitcoin Lightning Address”, “LN Address” or anything along those lines depending on the app you are using).

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📫 Get a Nostr address

Nostr address, often referred to as a “NIP-05 identifier” by the Nostr OGs, looks like an email and:

🔍 Helps you make your account easy to discover and share
✔️ Serves as a verification you are a human

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Here's an example of a Nostr address: Tony@nostr.21ideas.org It's easy to memorize and later paste into any Nostr app to find the corresponding user.

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To get a Nostr address you can use a free service like Nostr Check (by nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) or a paid one like Nostr Plebs (by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424). Both offer different perks, and it's up to you to decide which one to use. Another way of getting a Nostr address is using a browser extension. Find out more about this approach here) .

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🙇‍♀️ Learn the basics

Under the hood Nostr is very different from traditional social platforms, so getting a basic understanding of what it is about will be beneficial for any newcomer. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting you should learn a programming language or technical details of the protocol. I’m implying that seeing a bigger picture and understanding the difference between Nostr and Twitter / Medium / Reddit will help a lot. For example, there are no passwords and logins, you have private and public keys instead. I won’t go deep into that, ‘cause there is a handful of exhaustive resources that will help you grokk Nostr. All of the ones worthy your attention are gathered on this neatly organized landing page prepared by nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 with 💜

Info provided by the mentioned resources will also help you secure your Nostr keys (i.e. your account), so it’s important to have a look.

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🤝 Connect

Ability to connect with brilliant [^3] people is what makes Nostr special. Here everyone can get heard and no one can get excluded. There are a few simple ways to find interesting people on Nostr:

• Find people you follow on Twitter: https://www.nostr.directory/ is a great tool for that.
• Follow people followed by people you trust: Visit a profile of a person who shares your interests, check the list of people they follow and connect with them.

• Visit Global Feed: Every Nostr client (a Nostr app, if you will) has a tab that lets you switch to the Global Feed, which aggregates all the notes from all Nostr users. Simply follow people you find interesting (be patient though – you might run into a decent amount of spam).

• Use #hashtags: Hashtags are a great way to concentrate on the topics you like. Simply tap on a #hashtag you find interesting and you’ll see more notes related to the topic. You can also search for hashtags in the app you are using. Do not forget to use hashtags when composing notes to increase discoverability.

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg Screenshot of https://nostrgraph.net/ dashboard by nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ Explore

The mentioned 5 steps are a great start that will massively improve your experience, but there’s so much more to discover and enjoy! Nostr is not a Twitter replacement, its possibilities are only limited by imagination.

Have a look at the list of fun and useful Nostr projects:

• https://nostrapps.com/ a list of Nostr apps
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – get your NIP-05 and other Nostr perks (paid)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – Nostr address, media uploads, relay
• https://nostr.build/ – upload and manage media (and more)
• https://nostr.band/ – Nostr network and user info
• https://zaplife.lol/ – zapping stats
• https://nostrit.com/ – schedule notes
• https://nostrnests.com/ – Twitter Spaces 2.0
• https://nostryfied.online/ - back up your Nostr info
• https://www.wavman.app/ - Nostr music player

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📻 Relays

After getting acquainted with Nostr make sure to check out my quick guide on Nostr relays: https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays. It’s not the topic to worry about at the very beginning of your journey, but is definitely important to dive into later on.

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📱 Nostr on mobile

Smooth Nostr experience on mobile devices is feasible. This guide will help you seamlessly log in, post, zap, and more within Nostr web applications on your smartphone: https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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Thanks for reading and see you on the other side of the rabbit hole.

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[^1]: Do not forget

@ aa8e5554:071fd9fc

How will Dora Factory's token split revolutionize the landscape of decentralized governance?

Dora Factory has successfully completed the highly anticipated token split, paving the way for the launch of Dora Vota, a dedicated app chain focused on voting and decentralized governance.

DORA Token Split Details

The split converts the total supply of DORA tokens from 10 million to 1 billion, with token holders receiving 100 new DORA tokens for each existing token held.

This strategic move allows users to access the cost-effective utilities and services offered by Dora Vota, ensuring broader accessibility and encouraging wider adoption.

Exchanges will soon resume trading the new DORA tokens, following the completion of the token swap.

The new DORA token smart contract address is: 0x70b790d0948a760e80bc3f892b142F7779b538B2.

@ 5ada3677:7c21c9db

繼續昨日讀書，梁章鉅先生的晚年筆記。

寫吃酒，高粱燒酒，梁先生得高人指點，有個秘法。

吃燒酒，須每夜亥與子之間，也就是夜裡九點到凌晨一點那段時間，從朦朧睡夢中起，飲酒一杯，佐以薄餚，飲完仍復睡去，大有補益。梁先生是做大官的，講，他以仕宦勞碌之身，亥子之間未必都能就枕，而且半夜裡溫酒、備下酒菜，起居扶持，亦難得此恰當之人，似乎難以執行，雖然聽起來真的很補的樣子。

高人來了，指點梁先生，儂啊，製個小銀瓶，像鼻煙壺那種，口用螺絲轉蓋。銀瓶裡裝上暖酒，懷在汗衫肚兜之間，酒可通夜不涼。再製個小銀盒子，裝點薄餚下酒菜，置於枕側，夜裡隨起隨服，隨服隨寢，不煩人力，恬適自如，最為簡易。梁先生講，自從得了高人此法，他至今執行了二十年有餘，不僅自己受益良多，而且遍告知己好友，兄弟們一起養生。每當寒宵長夜，服此尤有風趣。

我對飲酒養生，不是那麼有興趣，這段筆記，讓我覺得好看的，是那個銀瓶和銀盒子，古人真能審美，事事講究，這個兩件套的袖珍銀器，聽起來非常地侘び寂び，米其林餐廳可以挪來做開胃酒；居家的話，可以用來吃點心，想來十分稱心。

這段筆記最好的中心思想，是老男人們自己開動腦筋解決困難，不給女人添麻煩。通常這類床前夜半服侍起居的重活累活，都依賴年輕苦難的姨奶奶。這樣體恤女人的老男人，是老男人裡的紳士，這樣的老男人才會福壽雙全。

圖是Francois- Emile Barraud 作品，來自網絡

昨天的兄弟篇在這裡
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@ 82341f88:fbfbe6a2

There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.

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禮拜六讀夜書，清人梁章鉅晚年寫的筆記，《浪跡》。梁先生福建長樂人，一輩子做官，做到江蘇巡撫，而且兼理兩江總督，實在是很不小的官。因為做官，跑過很多地方，見識亦就的的不凡。這位老前輩很能寫，很健筆，人生最後四年，寫了《浪跡》三本書，都是雜談，這位退休老幹部，談的水平很穩很高，寫得極好看，無比適合禮拜六夜晚慢慢翻閱。

一篇《老饕》，開首就講自己，酒戶不大，而好為豪飲。酒量一般般，偏偏喜歡吃大酒。家本貧儉，而好講精饌。家裡沒多少銅鈿，卻喜歡講求吃得好吃得精。梁先生如此大官，敢直言自己家貧家儉，讀來彈眼落睛。烏七八糟的晚清官場，還有如此兩袖清風，不是靠廉政公署嚴刑峻法，是靠個人的道德力量吧，我猜。

然後筆鋒一宕，講古往今來，大概沒有幾個人，是不喜歡吃的。比如大前輩蘇東坡就寫過，我生涉世本為口。梁先生講，自己比較不喜歡殺生，半生做官，所到之處，比如蘇州的滄浪亭、桂林的五詠堂，都做放生會。晚年時候，不食腳魚水雞黃鱔白鱔，但是忍不住還是要食雞食豚的。這些都寫得老實，不虛巧，跟董橋先生不太一樣。老年人寫字，很怕雕琢扭捏，弄得讀者，讀法讀法，讀出一身雞肉痱子來。董橋先生寫得一筆好文章，如今年紀大了，越寫越花團錦簇，柔膩滴答，我有點不是那麼習慣。

有句古話，眉毫不如耳毫，耳毫不如老饕。眉上長壽眉、耳畔長耳毛，都是長壽的喜樂相貌，不過呢，壽眉耳毫，都不如健飲健啖，就是能吃能喝，人老了，能吃能喝健飲健啖，才是真正的長壽樣子。

緊接下來一篇《精饌》，講他的祖父，如何以食得好食得精，而獲天年長壽，梁祖父是到八十歲的時候，仍能健飲健飯，那是十八世紀的事情，相當厲害的。梁先生講，連孔夫子都講過，食不厭精，膾不厭細。朱子寫的註釋，食精則能養人，膾粗則能害人。梁祖父七十多歲時，每頓飯後，都要稍稍寫點毛筆字，說，飽食終日，無所用心，最不養生了，所以飯後寫寫字，助消化的。再往後，梁祖父眼力和腕力都越來越差，每頓飯後，必讓人扶掖著，慢慢走個一百步。最後，連腳力也弱了，飯後就與人下一局棋。梁祖父說的，飯餘必脾倦，縱不能勞力以疏通之，亦必須勞心以運動之。你看，長壽還是有很多原因可以找的。

梁先生接著寫，家雖貧，而烹飪必致精。梁家幾個兒子，紛紛精心侍奉老父親的飲食。聽聞親戚中有特別會煮飯做菜的外甥，還專門去請了來，為祖父下廚。

梁祖父每食，旁無陪侍，清酒不過三巡，嘉肴亦不過三簋。老太爺不喜歡隔頓菜，吃不完的菜餚，立刻分賜給孫子們。梁先生當年幼童，深得祖父寵愛，寫了八個字：最承慈愛，沾賜獨多。漂亮。

我家本寒素，而講求飲饌者惟祖父一人。親戚一百多人中，享高壽的，亦只有祖父一人。這句也有意思，想想如今上海人家裡，吃得最好、喝得最好的那個人，會是八旬祖父祖母嗎？以下省略200字。

再來一個轉彎，梁先生寫，世言"三世仕宦，方解著衣吃飯"，三代做官，才剛剛懂得吃飯穿衣，這句話，出典到底在哪裡？據梁先生考證，這句話來自魏文帝。魏文帝講過：三世長者知被服，五世長者知飲食。

格麼，魏文帝是誰？魏文帝是曹操的兒子，這句鹹話，講了1800年了。

圖來自網絡

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於飯局上遇見"生生米舖"的劉強先生，看到他在做的小品種大米，科爾沁的沙漠米，貴州高原上的油沙大粒香，黑龍江松嫩平原的稻花香，小圓滿的珍珠米，等等，非常可喜。

茶米油鹽醬醋柴，中國人於茶，講究得不得了，一擲千金萬金，完全不在話下。於米，卻很少講究。市面上好茶不知凡幾，喝都喝不過來的樣子。而覓款稱心好米，簡直跟大海撈針一樣辛苦，全靠親密友人私底下暗暗交流，比如我師兄陳躍先生給過我難得一見的天津小站米，滋味殊難忘懷。

劉先生表示同意，說，因為茶跟咖啡類似，有社交屬性，所以價錢也可以賣得貴、講究也就多。

想想劉先生說得有道理，請客人來家裡吃杯好茶，從古至今，都是體面事情，古人還有專門名詞叫做啜茗，雅得一唱三嘆。請客人來家裡吃飯，其實一向是吃菜吃酒，不能光禿禿端碗白米飯出來敬客人的。

說起來中國人是吃稻米的絕對大佬了，我們吃得到的好米，可惜可嘆，竟如此微末。

今年六月，曾經在東京的黑木，吃到過一款極美的米，於整套懷石接近尾聲的時刻，小廚師端了一口米飯給我，我捧著飯碗，左看右看看了久久，那個米，油亮到不可思議的地步，小廚師告訴我，是黑木特別訂製的一款米，米粒比一般的米，大了一倍半，這個米叫龍の瞳，一對夫婦種的，龍是丈夫，瞳是愛妻，當時聽得我心潮澎湃不已。

我們是有過很多很多魚米之鄉的，如今魚也不見了米也不見了，都成了高樓和高鐵，想想很心驚。

劉先生說，很少遇見像我這樣對米興趣濃厚的人。我想，這個話，應該倒過來講，很少遇見像劉先生這樣，肯做小品種米的年輕人。

支持有為青年。

午飯後，偷閒喝杯茶，看了化學家 Sam Afoullouss 的一個演講，講他如何在愛爾蘭深達3000米的海谷裡，那種原始的、沒有人跡到達過的海域裡，研究海洋生物。那麼辛苦的研究，目的是什麼呢？是為人類的未來，尋找良藥。

比如，一種海螺，行動遲緩到幾乎不動的海螺，它靠什麼捕食？Sam科學家說，一旦有魚從它面前經過，它會放出一種麻痹神經的液體，把魚弄暈，然後它就能飽餐一頓了。Sam說，科學家研究了這種麻痹神經的液體，發現它的鎮痛能力，是嗎啡的1000倍。

再比如，愛爾蘭的深海裡，有豐富的原始珊瑚群，不亞於大堡礁和亞馬遜。Sam說，他研究發現，珊瑚為了吃飯，寄生在水母身上，水母當然不高興，想摔掉珊瑚分它的羹，水母和珊瑚就打架，它們打架的水平很高，是生化戰，互相噴射毒素，很毒很毒的毒素，科學家把這種毒素找來，在實驗室中研究，是不是可以殺死癌症，是不是可以殺死下一個新冠，等等。

問題來了，如果這類毒素真的可以治癒肺癌肝癌乳腺癌，難道科學家要把水母和珊瑚都毀滅、來取毒嗎？Sam說，謝天謝地，老天自有安排，我們現在完全不需要破壞深海的生態，我們可以提取基因，在實驗室裡用基因培養毒素。

聽起來，人類以後真的有救了的樣子。Sam 做的，真的是大海撈針的工作。

奧本海默先生這個禮拜很紅，IMAX電影票貴到158元，依然一搶而空。我們突然那麼尊敬科學家、那麼尊敬歷史了，讓我有點悲欣交集。

圖是英國女畫家 Alison Watt的作品

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Hey guys,

I spent some time this weekend fixing a bunch of the bugs that were introduced in the latest nostrdb refactor. See the changelog below for the full list of changes in the latest build!

Planned this week

I have a big list of things I'm planning on adding to Damus this week:

• Lists!
• Zap improvements: Bringing back top zap comments in threads, profile zap comments in notifications, Private DM Zaps
• Video player improvements
• Sharing improvements (share to damus, etc)

Make sure to come back in a week to see how much I could get done!

Changelog

Added

• Add close button to custom reactions (Suhail Saqan)
• Add ability to change order of custom reactions (Suhail Saqan)
• Adjustable font size (William Casarin)

Changed

• Show renotes in Notes timeline (William Casarin)

Fixed

• Ensure the person you're replying to is the first entry in the reply description (William Casarin)
• Don't cutoff text in notifications (William Casarin)
• Fix wikipedia url detection with parenthesis (William Casarin)
• Fixed old notifications always appearing on first start (William Casarin)
• Fix issue with slashes on relay urls causing relay connection problems (William Casarin)
• Fix rare crash triggered by local notifications (William Casarin)
• Fix crash when long-pressing reactions (William Casarin)
• Fixed nostr reporting decoding (William Casarin)
• Dismiss qr screen on scan (Suhail Saqan)
• Show QRCameraView regardless of same user (Suhail Saqan)
• Fix wiggle when long press reactions (Suhail Saqan)
• Fix reaction button breaking scrolling (Suhail Saqan)
• Fix crash when muting threads (Bryan Montz)

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The article below was written by one of our users and creators in the bitcoin sphere, Jacobo Fasja. It shares our vision on positive disruption of quality content, made by value 4 value monetization model. Which is possible thanks to many technologies that Alby uses and supports. We, like author, believe that removing friction from micropayments in the web, will incentivize better qualiy of the content and relationships between digital artists/creators and consumers. Thus, let us share with you guest article "Breaking the Chains: Liberating Content and Privacy with Micropayments".

Let us know in #Nostrcomments, if you agree with its thesis and share your ideas on how can we make the revolution happen...smoother :)

What's in it? (tl;dr):

🌟 Unlocking the Internet's Hidden Potential

In the early days of the internet, banner ads seemed promising, but they led to clickbait and quality decline. The internet's potential for superior content monetization was obscured.

🚫 The Clickbait Dilemma

Clickbait thrived as websites chased clicks at any cost, stifling quality content. Advertisers held sway over decisions, causing self-censorship and stifling diverse viewpoints.

🌐 A Digital Cargo Cult

The content industry clung to outdated models, but change is on the horizon. Bitcoin Lightning Network's micropayments promise privacy, creative freedom, and quality.

💰 The Rise of the Intermediary

Intermediaries extract staggering value from digital content. Parallels with financial institutions highlight inflated prices despite minimal value addition.

💥 Restoring Content's Reign

The current system yields diminishing returns for advertisers. It's time to restore content's rightful reign and explore better monetization models empowering creators and respecting user privacy. Join the conversation to reimagine online content monetization.

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by Jacobo Fasja:

A brief intro:

In the early days of the internet, banner ads served as the primary method of monetization for online content. At the time, online payments, let alone micropayments, were neither safe nor functional. These ads, typically displayed by a third party known as an 'ad network', functioned as a form of micropayment for the content users consumed. This model essentially transformed the consumer or reader into the product by capturing their attention and selling it to the highest bidder.

This concept wasn't new. Traditional media, especially the television industry, had thrived for years using a similar model. However, the internet's approach involved a greater level of intrusion into consumer privacy. Despite this, the internet was hailed as a 'revolution' that should have offered a superior method of monetizing valuable content."

"Pay peanuts, get monkeys.”

However, as the internet evolved, it became clear that banner ads had created a number of negative incentives. One of the biggest problems was the rise of clickbait. Because advertisers were paying for each click on their banner ad, websites had an incentive to create sensational headlines and misleading content in order to drive more traffic and generate more ad revenue. Without having to care about if the end user found the content valuable after reading it, all it mattered was to grab his attention for a brief moment.

This focus on clicks also had a negative impact on editorial decision-making. In order to drive traffic and generate revenue, websites began prioritizing content that was more likely to attract clicks, regardless of its quality or relevance. This led to the proliferation of low-quality content and the suppression of more meaningful or nuanced discussions.

"The one who pays the piper, calls the tune.”

In addition to these problems, banner ads also created a significant influence of advertisers on editorial decision-making. Because websites were reliant on ad revenue to survive, they were often unwilling to publish content that might offend or alienate their advertisers or “brand safety standards”. This led to a significant amount of self-censorship and a lack of diverse viewpoints on the internet.

“That's how my mother did it”

A girl once asked her mom why she cuts off the ends of a roast before cooking. The mom replied, "That's how my mom did it." The girl asked her grandmother, who said, "That's how my mom did it." When the girl asked her great-grandmother, she laughed, "I did it because my pot was too small. I guess nobody thought to stop once we got a bigger pot.” Looks like we have the same “cargo cult” in the content / media industry.

“You won’t believe what happens next”

Leveraging the Bitcoin Lightning Network for direct micropayments can liberate content creators from ad-reliance and give users control over their support. This method offers five benefits:

Privacy: Users aren't exposed to targeted ads, preserving their privacy. Freedom: Creators can produce content without advertiser restrictions. No Middlemen: Direct payments mean no intermediary deductions or payment delays. Feedback: Creators learn what content is truly appreciated, beyond misleading clickbait metrics. Quality: This reward system discourages low-quality content, incentivizing valuable work and disincentivizing deceitful clickbait.

While there are certainly challenges to be addressed in massive adoption of micropayments using the Bitcoin Lightning Network (mostly a case of UX), it is clear that this technology has the potential to fix many of the problems that have plagued the online media industry.

“Behind every great fortune, there's a ~~crime~~ intermediary extracting more value than they're adding”

In a 'Value for Attention' (VFA) model, the intermediary often extracts the lion's share of value from both the creator and the consumer. They do this by levying a substantial fee (~30%), holding onto the money for an extended period, and collecting data from both parties, which they may then sell to others.

While there is undeniable value in the platform (intermediary) that brings both parties together, it should not be the chief beneficiary, especially when the exchange involves digital products from both sides. This situation requires no substantial logistics, and the marginal cost of distributing each piece of content or ad is virtually zero.

Consider how much value has been captured by intermediaries like Google, Facebook, and ad networks. This value could have improved content quality or fostered profitable business models for creators focusing on small, high-value niches. I estimate that around 50 billion USD was lost to intermediaries just in 2022, a year when banner ads generated a massive 155 billion USD.

The roast doesn’t need cutting anymore

It is hard not to compare this situation to how financial institutions have exploited customer savings through fees and many other strategies by positioning themselves as “necessary” intermediaries, they extract substantial profits while offering comparatively minimal value.

This analogy holds up as both industries are primarily information-based (money is nothing more than information), and with the advent of the internet and Bitcoin, the cost of transmitting information has trended towards zero. Yet, these monopolies have managed to keep the price inflated.

“If you don't believe it or don't get it, I don't have the time to try to convince you, sorry.”

Now, this is not just a one sided issue for creators, if you have any idea on how much money has been extracted from advertisers due to placing their ads programmatically in “relevant” content which was actually just made to precisely attract those ads without delivering actual value content, you’ll understand that this industry created a lose-lose “solution” in which the intermediary is the main winer and the advertiser has only been seeing diminishing quality engagement rates on their ads.

For those who still hold that 'content is king,' let us now restore its rightful reign.

Jacobo F

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Reportage and opinion photography is a complex and multifaceted art form that encompasses a broad range of approaches and styles. It can be understood as a statement or a suggestion, an interpretation of the world around us through the lens of a camera.

If we consider that any photograph is a selected and parcelled snapshot of the photographable universe, then it's reasonable to think of photography as a mirror, a reflection of ourselves in relation to the world around us. The captured image can reveal as much about the photographed subject as it does about the photographer, unveiling their perceptions and feelings about reality.

Within documentary photography, there are two predominant ways of selecting what will be photographed, two attitudes that reflect different world views. The first is the "decisive statement," where the photographer clearly points out certain moments considered decisive for their interpretation of the facts. This attitude focuses on significant moments and events, selected for their relevance and their potential to convey an opinion about life.

The second attitude is one of "suggestion" or insinuation. Here, the photographer leans towards moments and situations that seem inconsequential, with the intention of conveying to the viewer a suggestion rather than a clear statement of reality. Rather than highlighting decisive moments, this approach seeks to capture the essence of everyday life, the details that often go unnoticed but can reveal much about human nature and the world in which we live.

Robert Frank, The Americans.

A notable example of this approach is Robert Frank, who in the 1950s distinguished himself by rejecting the concept of the decisive moment in reportage. Frank criticized Cartier Bresson, claiming that the latter was more interested in formal beauty and composition than in the true emotional impact. Frank defended the idea that any moment could be decisive, a revolutionary idea that contradicted the traditional notion of the decisive moment.

Cartier-Bresson

Authors who practice the reportage of suggestion focus on inconsequential and non-central moments of a situation. Their choice of what to capture and how to do it differs significantly from those photographers who seek the decisive moment. Instead of focusing on the main events of a story, these photographers give prominence to scenes and moments that others might discard due to their apparent argumentative banality and formal inconsistency.

These photographers often seek an existential experience rather than an audience. They are not interested in popular acceptance, but in exploring and understanding their own experience of life. Many of them photographed from "within," using their own biography as raw material for their images.

The use of artifacts, such as grain, blur, moving images, use of poor cameras, disjointed frames, etc., not only does not pose a problem, but is sometimes desired. These artifacts function as poetic imprints on the image, suggesting that if life can be confusing, it can also be represented that way. Nan Goldin

Some contemporary photographers who follow this approach include Nan Goldin, Corinne Day, and Natacha Merritt. Like their predecessors, these photographers explore personal and private topics with relentless honesty, bringing taboo topics to light and seeking themselves through photography. Although their approach is personal, their ultimate goal is to capture universal feelings of love, friendship, pain, and sadness. Their work stands in opposition to traditional journalistic reportage, offering a unique and deeply personal vision of life.

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[originally posted on Substack in December 2022]

Knowledge is like fire - when you spread it, it becomes stronger. When something has been invented it most often cannot be disinvented or uninvented - historians may know a few exceptions - innovations that were lost when societies disappeared.

The leading protocols for digital information exchange are TCP and UDP over IP. Since their inventions in 1974 and 1980, these protocols have become the basis for the internet. The internet protocols are maintained by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, the standards development organization (SDO) for the Internet - on the basis of the RFC process.

To participate in the IP world, one needs an IP address. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocates IP addresses. The IP, TCP and UDP protocols are a public infrastructure. Governments do not dictate the construction of the protocol - although they may regulate its use, for example internet neutrality - non-discrimination of IP packets by internet providers - is a typical element that has been debated in terms of regulation. That regulation applies to internet service providers.

The (only?) decentralised p2p currency protocol has been published as open source code in 2009. The protocol is public infrastructure for the digital transfer of value without trusted intermediaries. The p2p currency protocol is maintained by a decentralised group of developers who interact through the bitcoin-dev mailing list and contribute code to a GitHub repository on the basis of Bitcoin Improvement Proposals - BIPs.

Similar to requiring an IP address and an HTML page to be able to participate to the internet TCP/IP protocol, one needs the ability to sign transactions with the value equalling the value one looks to transfer. That implies that there is some digital asset that represents the value that is transferred.

In the ideal world, that asset can be easily converted on both sides of the value transfer - in the same way as a browser or printer can reproduce the information that was transferred over TCP/IP.

Beyond acting as “transfer value” - solely used for transferring value - the digital asset has also obtained value in itself, based on consensus of many users. Not everyone recognises the value of that digital asset, and that is fine.

The bitcoin protocol is indeed what it is - a protocol - public infrastructure for the digital transfer of value, like the TCP/IP protocol is public infrastructure for the digital transfer of information. Both protocols are public infrastructure at the service of humanity.

In that context, it is maybe time to change the narrative from “blockchain not bitcoin” to “the protocol not the asset”.

[addition September 6, 2023] Adding to the point on "bitcoin not blockchain" - blockchain is the worst part of the bitcoin protocol - and active efforts are being made to take blockchain out of the bitcoin protocol, as Maxim Orlovsky explained at the Baltic Honeybadger conference - video here.

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This is an interesting case - highlightning Brexit consequences in legal assistance / extradition law in Europe

Court: OLG Karlsruhe 1st Criminal Senate / Decision date: March 10, 2023 / File number: 301 OAus 1/23

"1. The extradition of the person being pursued to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the purpose of criminal prosecution on the basis of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement arrest warrant issued by Westminster District Court on September 21, 2022 is currently declared inadmissible."

"...of the Westminster District Court of September 21, 2022, from which it emerges that a national arrest warrant was issued against the person being pursued by the Westminster District Court of September 16, 2022 on the charge of conspiracy to supply a controlled Class A drug in two cases, which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and four counts of conspiracy to conceal, convert, transfer or remove criminal property under Section 1(1) of the Criminal Law"

"...The Senate pointed out that the factual clarification with regard to the CPT report of July 7, 2021 cited by the legal advisor (see “Report to the United Kingdom Government on the periodic visit to the United Kingdom carried out by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) from 8 to 21 June 2021” from July 7th, 2022) in which overcrowding and sometimes inadequate general prison conditions in British prisons ..."

"In order to justify the factual clarification required - despite the improvements shown in the United Kingdom's response from May 2022 - the Senate points out that overcrowding in prisons in England and Wales continues (on November 25, 2022 the British Ministry of Justice [NOMS] issued a Overcrowding of 106.5% was found, i.e. 82,176 prisoners in 77,753 places, see World Prison Brief data ..."

"Only after providing the required guarantees and answering the questions set out below will the Senate be able to prepare its own risk forecast in order to assess the robustness of the assurances from the United Kingdom authorities ..."

"In this respect, the Karlsruhe Public Prosecutor's Office is asked

to request the following additional guarantees and notifications from the judicial authorities of the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 604 paragraphs a) and c) TCA:

(1) Guarantee that the spatial accommodation and the other design of the prison conditions specifically affecting the persecuted person in all prisons receiving the persecuted person comply with the European minimum throughout the entire period of his imprisonment..."

"In an email from IP Manchester received by the Karlsruhe Attorney General's Office on March 1st, 2023 before 11:00 a.m., answers from the judicial authorities of the United Kingdom to questions 1-3 of March 1st, 2023 were given in English, with the announcement that the German translation would be available by March 2nd, 2023 will be presented, and the answer to question 1 will be presented in the English original dated February 27, 2023 and in a German translation."

"With the documents submitted on March 1, 2023, “the judicial authorities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland only partially answered the Senate's questions from the resolution of January 19, 2023. On this basis, it cannot - yet - be assumed with sufficient certainty that the persecuted person will receive humane prison conditions if he is extradited to the United Kingdom ..."

"With reference to Article 615 ....., the judicial authorities of the United Kingdom must be informed immediately that if the order of January 19, 2023, the necessary additional information requested by March 10, 2023, 12:00 p.m. - which includes the guarantees requested under paragraphs 1 and 4 as well as the specific answer to the questions under paragraph 2 (i.e. the information about the name of the specific detention center ...) and all those listed under point 3 questions - the Senate will decide on the release of the persecuted person. ..."

"In an email dated March 10, 2023, 12:18 p.m., the Karlsruhe Public Prosecutor's Office announced that the Federal Criminal Police Office had just announced by telephone that no further statements had been received from the United Kingdom authorities."

decision:

„The extradition is currently proving to be inadmissible because the judicial authorities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have based on the decisions of January 19, 2023 and March 1, 2023 - given by the Senate in accordance with Art. 604 - with detailed reasons for their relevance to the decision the case law of the ECtHR and the German Federal Constitutional Court - did not respond comprehensively to the guarantees and communications requested.

Since there are valid reasons to believe that there is a real threat to the protection of the fundamental rights of the person being persecuted if he were to be extradited to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland without appropriate guarantees and information about the conditions of detention, the Senate could, in accordance with Article 604 c. ) TCA require additional guarantees for the treatment of the person being pursued after surrender before deciding on the execution of the TCA arrest warrant.

Furthermore, the extradition is currently inadmissible because the judicial authorities of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have not provided the guarantees requested in the Senate resolution of January 19, 2023 according to Art. 604 …. and the questions about the specific person being persecuted are to be expected after his extradition to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in a detention center that is likely to receive him have not been answered specifically… It cannot currently be assumed with sufficient certainty that the persecuted person would receive humane prison conditions there if he were extradited to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”

The Albanian drug dealer apparently got lucky.

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“There is no denying that the Bitcoin network consumes a substantial amount of energy, but this energy consumption is what makes the Bitcoin network so robust and secure.”

Conclusion

This report took a quantitative approach, comparing Bitcoin’s energy usage to that of other industries. In the interest of an honest conversation, we also discussed why the value of Bitcoin is not just quantitative.

Subjective views on the Bitcoin network’s importance vary, but Bitcoin’s properties do not. Anyone can use Bitcoin. Anyone can hold bitcoins for themselves. And Bitcoin transactions can provide probabilistically final settlement in an hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

These features can offer financial freedom to people around the world without the luxury of stable and accessible financial infrastructure. The network can benefit the energy sector by creating perfect use cases for intermittent and excess energy. And the network will only scale further if network adoption warrants it.

Energy utilization is not necessarily a bad thing. As Smil writes, energy is the only universal currency. Humans will continue to find new technologies that require more energy that challenge the status quo. Bitcoin is yet another example.

So, if we return one last time to the original question:

"Is the Bitcoin network’s electricity consumption an acceptable use of energy?"

Our answer is definitive: yes.

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At the time of writing, the Bitcoin network consumes an estimated ~113.89 TWh/yr in total. To help contextualize this number, here are a few comparisons:

• The global annual energy supply is ~166,071 TWh/yr, 1,458.2x that of the Bitcoin network • The global annual electricity generation is ~26,730 TWh/yr, 234.7x that of the Bitcoin network • The amount of electricity lost in transmission and distribution each year is ~2,205 TWh/yr, 19.4x that of the Bitcoin network (based on World Bank and IEA estimates) • The energy footprint of “always-on” electrical devices in American households is ~1,375 TWh/yr, 12.1x that of the Bitcoin network

These comparisons highlight an important point: with basic assumptions, it is straightforward to estimate Bitcoin’s energy consumption in real-time.
Bitcoin’s energy usage has become an easy target for criticism. But this criticism raises the question: Bitcoin uses “a lot” of energy compared to what?

Bitcoin is most often compared to the traditional banking system (for payments, savings, and settlement) and gold (as a non-sovereign store of value). But Bitcoin is a fundamentally novel technology that is not a precise substitute for any one legacy system.

Bitcoin is not solely a settlement layer, not solely a store of value, and not solely a medium of exchange. Unlike Bitcoin, the energy footprints of these industries are opaque.
To have an honest conversation about Bitcoin’s energy use, a comparison to the most analogous incumbents—the gold industry and the banking system—is appropriate. Unfortunately, gauging the energy use of these two industries is not as easy as auditing Bitcoin.

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What follows is a good faith effort to estimate the energy footprint of both the gold industry and the banking system. Since public data on the energy usage of these sectors is scarce, the methodology created for this research has been open-sourced and can be found here—we encourage others to review.

Summary of the Banking System Energy Usage

Electricity data for the banking industry is scarce. With the publicly available information that we could find, we estimate the banking system uses 263.72 TWh of energy each year. Deriving a comprehensive number for this sector’s energy consumption would require individual banks to self-report.

Even in aggregate, a comparison between Bitcoin and the layers of the banking system is inherently flawed. The traditional financial stack is a complicated hierarchy of ounterparties and intermediate settlement. Credit card networks are great for exchanging fast payments and IOUs, but they depend on the banking system for settlement, and the banking system in turn depends on central banks for final settlement, which in turn depends on the dollar system as a whole.

In the interest of scope, we have excluded central banks, clearinghouses (like the DTCC), and other aspects of the traditional financial system from the above analysis. It is important to note that this audit is only a slice of the entire system - the overall energy usage of the banking system is unknown and externalities are excluded.

Defining the banking system’s utility by its energy usage is reductive - overlooking the benefits of transferring large quantities of money. While it may seem practical to compare the banking system and Bitcoin on the number of transactions they process, the two have different scaling properties. The banking system scales with transaction count, requiring additional infrastructure as it grows. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s energy consumption scales not by transaction count, but by network economics.

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Sources

On Bitcoin's Energy Consumption: A Quantitative Approach to a Subjective Question https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/on-bitcoins-energy-consumption/ https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/on-bitcoins-energy-consumption-a-quantitative-approach-to-a-subjective-question/

Financial Industry Electricity Balance https://github.com/GalaxyDigitalLLC/Financial-Industry-Electricity-Balance

Bitcoin network power demand updated every 24 hours https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

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Table Of Content

• Hong Kong's Regulatory Environment

• Mainland China's Crypto Crackdown

• The Rise of Crypto Exchanges and Institutions

• Growing Interest from Institutional Investors

• Hong Kong's Role in the Global Crypto Market

• Conclusion

• FAQ

The world of cryptocurrencies has experienced numerous ups and downs, with Bitcoin being the poster child for massive price surges and sharp declines. Recently, Hong Kong has emerged as a potential catalyst for a new crypto bull run. In this article, we will explore the factors that could propel the cryptocurrency markets forward in the near future.

Hong Kong's Regulatory Environment

Hong Kong has long been known for its business-friendly environment and relatively lenient financial regulations. With the government actively working to create a clear and comprehensive regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, market participants are optimistic about the potential growth of the crypto ecosystem in Hong Kong.

Mainland China's Crypto Crackdown

The Chinese government's ongoing crackdown on cryptocurrency activities has led to many businesses, investors, and miners looking for new opportunities elsewhere. Hong Kong has emerged as a popular destination for these players, as its proximity to mainland China and its established financial infrastructure offer a conducive environment for the crypto industry to thrive.

The Rise of Crypto Exchanges and Institutions

The influx of mainland Chinese businesses and investors has led to a surge in demand for digital asset trading platforms and services. This has resulted in the establishment of several cryptocurrency exchanges and institutions in Hong Kong, further bolstering the growth of the crypto market in the region.

Growing Interest from Institutional Investors

As the global economy continues to recover, institutional investors are actively seeking alternative asset classes to diversify their portfolios. Hong Kong's well-regulated crypto market has attracted significant interest from these investors, providing additional liquidity and stability to the market.

Hong Kong's Role in the Global Crypto Market Hong Kong's growing prominence in the global cryptocurrency market could serve as a catalyst for a new bull run. As more businesses, investors, and institutions flock to the city, the positive sentiment surrounding the crypto ecosystem is likely to spread, potentially spurring increased global adoption and demand for digital assets.

Conclusion

The combination of a favorable regulatory environment, an influx of market participants from mainland China, and growing interest from institutional investors has positioned Hong Kong as a key player in the global cryptocurrency market. While it is impossible to predict with certainty when or if a bull run will occur, the factors discussed in this article suggest that Hong Kong could play a pivotal role in pushing the crypto markets to new heights.

FAQ

Could Hong Kong potentially push the crypto market into a bull run? Yes, Hong Kong could play a pivotal role in pushing the crypto market into a bull run, thanks to its favorable regulatory environment, an influx of market participants from mainland China, and growing interest from institutional investors.

Why is Hong Kong's regulatory environment attractive for the crypto market? Hong Kong's regulatory environment is attractive for the crypto market because of its business-friendly nature and the government's ongoing efforts to create a clear and comprehensive regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies.

What makes Hong Kong an attractive destination for crypto miners? Hong Kong's proximity to mainland China, its established financial infrastructure, and relatively lenient regulations make it an attractive destination for crypto miners seeking new opportunities in the wake of China's crackdown on cryptocurrency activities.

Is it possible to predict when a bull run will occur in the crypto market? It is impossible to predict with certainty when or if a bull run will occur in the crypto market. However, factors such as Hong Kong's regulatory environment, the influx of market participants from mainland China, and growing interest from institutional investors suggest that the region could play a pivotal role in pushing the crypto markets to new heights.

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```

Edit this configuration file to define what should be installed on your system. Help is available in the configuration.nix(5) man page and in the

NixOS manual (accessible by running ‘nixos-help’).

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

{ imports = [ # Include the results of the hardware scan. ./hardware-configuration.nix ];

System boot.

boot.loader.grub.enable = true; boot.loader.grub.version = 2; # Use the GRUB 2 boot loader.Good for old system. Newer ones use efi. Refer to nixos-help boot.loader.grub.device = "/dev/sda"; # hard drive you want to install Grub.

# Select internationalisation properties. i18n.defaultLocale = "en_US.UTF-8"; console = { font = "Lat2-Terminus22"; keyMap = "us"; };

Environment variables

environment.etc.current-nixos-config.source = ./.; environment.variables = { NIXOS_CONFIG = "/etc/nixos/configuration.nix"; NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE = "1"; EDITOR = "vim"; VISUAL = "vim"; BROWSER = "w3m"; RTV_BROWSER = "w3m"; RTV_EDITOR = "vim"; RTV_URLVIEWER = "urlview"; };

Time

time.timeZone = "America/Los_Angeles";

Network - Let networkmanager handle this shit.

networking = { hostName = "desko"; networkmanager.enable = true;

# Open ports in the firewall.
# firewall.allowedTCPPorts = [ ... ];
# firewall.allowedUDPPorts = [ ... ];
# Or disable the firewall altogether.
# firewall.enable = false;

};

System Services

services.openssh.enable = true; # ssh services.printing.enable = true; # Print - Do I need it ?

Enable sound.

sound.enable = true; sound.mediaKeys.enable = true; hardware.pulseaudio.enable = true;

Extra Outputs for all the packages. For example corutils offer info.

environment.extraOutputsToInstall = [ "man" "doc" "info" "devdoc" ];

Enable Flakes from unstable

nix.package = pkgs.nixUnstable; nix.extraOptions = '' experimental-features = nix-command flakes '';

Configurable modules. If enabled here, They dont need to be installed via pkgs.

NixOS automatically creates a config file in /etc for these programs.

Not sure as of now if this is the way to configure packages cuz I beleive in collabaratively built config by people who know these packages well enough and update the config regularly.

vim , tmux xmonad etc for example have nice config repos on github. Others can go here ?

programs = { bash.enableCompletion = true; bash.shellInit = '' set -o vi;

       if command -v fzf-share >/dev/null; then
           source "$(fzf-share)/key-bindings.bash"
           source "$(fzf-share)/completion.bash"
       fi  
      '';
less.enable = true;
sway.enable = true; #Implements sway wm with sandard config and Wayland - a new replacement for X. If you somwhow dont like Wayland you can uncomment the X option below. 
sway.extraPackages = with pkgs; [
                                  xwayland     # To Support X applications
                                  dmenu        # Program search in Swaybar
                                  wl-clipboard # Wayland clipboard
                                  swaylock     # Screen lock in Wayland world
                                  swayidle     # Lock sceen afer say 30 minutes of inacivity
                                  termite      # Nice terminal. I bind it to Mod+enter in sawy config
                                  light        # To control the brighness - works in tty as well as Wayland
                                  mako         # Wayland Notifications
                                  waybar       # Make sway look like a Desktop with configurable top bar
                                  grim         # Wayland compatible screenshots
                                  xdg_utils    # Open applicaions with "xdg_open" in wayland too.
                                 ];
waybar.enable= true;
tmux = {
   enable = true;
   aggressiveResize = true;
   baseIndex = 1;
   keyMode = "vi";
   customPaneNavigationAndResize = true;
   terminal = "screen-256color";
   escapeTime = 1000;
   newSession = true;
   }; 
thefuck.enable = true;

};

documentation.man.enable = true; documentation.man.generateCaches = true; documentation.nixos.includeAllModules = true;

Define a user account. Don't forget to set a password with ‘passwd’.

users.users.amj = { isNormalUser = true; extraGroups = [ "root" "wheel" "networkmanager" "video" "sudo" ]; shell = pkgs.bash; };

automatically discover usb devices and mount them.

services.udisks2.enable = true; # Enable udisks2. services.devmon.enable = true; # Enable external device automounting. boot.kernelModules = [ "fuse" ]; # Need to figure this out.

X with only Xmonad - No Plasma, xfce or oher desktop , Uncomment these if you don' intend to use Sway (Wih Wayland.

In my experience, sway with wayland is around the same speed but feels much better.Highly recommend with proper config.

services.xserver = {

enable = true;

layout = "us";

autorun = false;

xkbOptions = "ctrl:nocaps";

displayManager.defaultSession = "none+xmonad";

windowManager.xmonad = {

enable = true;

enableContribAndExtras = true;

extraPackages = haskellPackages: [

haskellPackages.xmonad-contrib

haskellPackages.xmonad-extras

haskellPackages.xmonad

];

};

};

services.xserver.videoDrivers = [ "intel" ]; # To support my old dell display. took me 3 days of back breaking to figure out though it was there in the manual. Its hard to accept that you are old :-).

services.xserver.deviceSection = ''

Option "DRI" "2"

Option "TearFree" "true"

'';

Install any additional fonts that I require to be used with xmonad

fonts.fonts = with pkgs; [ opensans-ttf # Used in in my xmobar configuration ];

Instal apps - Primarily command line; few for graphical.

nixpkgs.config.allowUnfree = true; #For latest firefox. God knows why its unfree.

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ # CLI Apps or rather apps without the need of X or Wayland. # System Tools / Utilities git lazygit neofetch fbterm man htop kbd wget xsel tree unzip ripgrep tldr vifm megacmd #is free as in free "beer". Other wise not free. scrot cozette pywal cava catimg bashburn nmap usbutils pciutils fzf # Write and Research w3m (import ./vim.nix) ddgr googler netsurf.browser newsboat dict sc-im # topydo #didnt build on i386 tmate # pandoc #didnt build on 32 bit linux # Communicate aerc dante scdoc signal-cli qrencode # dbus #not needed as this installs a client for dbus. # Media cmus beets sox lame youtube-viewer youtube-dl mplayer # mpv-unwrapped #didn't build on i386 vlc feh fim imagemagick # Publishing Platforms github-cli rtv # urlscan # Didnt build on i386 urlview urlwatch rainbowstream # Fun Stuff fortune figlet lolcat # GUI Apps or the apps that need Wayland (or X) firefox-bin qutebrowser audacity zeal zathura # signal-desktop # package is only for 64 bits tdesktop ];

nixpkgs.config.permittedInsecurePackages = [ "libsixel-1.8.6" ];

nix = { autoOptimiseStore = true; }; # This value determines the NixOS release with which your system is to be # compatible, in order to avoid breaking some software such as database # servers. You should change this only after NixOS release notes say you # should. system.stateVersion = "20.09"; # Did you read the comment? } ```

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ผมเจอหลายคนเริ่มต้นกับ Nostr มานาน แต่กลับยังไม่สามารถ “อิน” กับการอยู่ในสังคมแห่งใหม่นี้ได้เท่าไหร่นัก บางคนยังมีเพื่อนใหม่เพียงหลักสิบคน และหลายคนยังแทบไม่รู้จักหรือกดตามใครเลย บางคนมีคนติดตามเพียง 3-5 คน เท่านั้น แล้วมันจะไปมีคนเห็นสิ่งที่เราสื่อสารออกไปได้มากพอได้อย่างไรล่ะคับ?

ก็คนที่ไม่ได้ติดตามเราเค้าก็จะมองไม่เห็นสิ่งที่เราโน๊ตไปนั่นเอง

นี่แหละครับ Nostr

ผมไม่ชอบใช้คำว่า “เล่น Nostr” เท่าไหร่นัก สำหรับผมแล้ว.. Nostr คือ สถานที่ใหม่ สังคมใหม่ที่ทุกคนต้องเริ่มนับใหม่จากศูนย์ ผมขอใช้คำว่ามันเป็นการ “ใช้ชีวิตบน Nostr” ก็แล้วกัน เชื่อไหมครับว่าในแต่ละวัน ผมยังรู้สึกว่าตัวเองมีเวลาไม่มากพอจะใช้ชีวิตบน Nostr ให้สมใจอยากได้เลย.. ในขณะที่บางคนกลับรู้สึกว่า 5 นาทีมันก็นานเกินไปแล้ว..

เราลองมาพิจารณากันดูไหมว่าเพราะอะไร?

มันไม่ค่อยมีอะไรให้อ่าน ไม่ค่อยมีเรื่องให้ทำ

สำหรับข้อโต้แย้งนี้ผมคงต้องบอกว่ามัน “ผิดถนัด” เลยล่ะ.. บน Nostr นี่มีอะไรให้เราทำมากกว่าบนทุกแพลตฟอร์มเก่าๆ มาขยำรวมกันเสียอีกนะ

ผมคิดว่า.. ผมคงต้องเริ่มเล่าเรื่องในจินตนการให้พวกเราเห็นภาพนี้ได้ง่ายขึ้น ผมขอพาพวกเรากลับไปสู่จุดเริ่มต้นของการก่อร่างสร้างสังคม

อันดับแรก ผมอยากให้พวกเราลืม “สังคมแบบเดิม” ไปเสียก่อน ทั้งในชีวิตจริง หรือในโลกออนไลน์ที่เราเคยประสบพบเจอมา ที่ Nostr นี่มันต่างออกไปอย่างสิ้นเชิงครับ

จินตการว่าเราได้ลงจากเรือโนอาห์ที่เกาะขนาดใหญ่แห่งหนึ่ง กองเรือจัดตั้งอาณานิคมใหม่หลายลำที่พาผู้คนหลักแสนมาปล่อยไว้ ณ สถานที่เดียวกัน เกาะอันเวิ้งว้างว่างเปล่าที่อุดมไปด้วยทรัพยากรธรรมชาติ เต็มไปด้วยสิ่งเร้นลับและแปลกใหม่ ที่รอให้เหล่านักสำรวจได้ออกไปทำการค้นพบ

Nostr ก็คือสถานที่แบบเดียวกันนั้น..

เราต่างคนต่างมา ณ ที่แห่งนี้ เรามีสถานะภาพเท่าเทียมกันทุกประการ ทุกคนเริ่มนับหนึ่งใหม่ที่นี่ เริ่มทำความรู้จักกัน รวมกลุ่มกัน สร้างสังคมขนาดย่อมจนผ่านเวลาไปถึงขนาดกลางและกลายเป็นใหญ่ได้ในที่สุด

สิ่งนี้จะเกิดขึ้นไม่ได้เลย ถ้าผู้คนเหล่านี้ไม่พยายาม “Engage” เข้าหากัน ไม่มีปฏิสัมพันธ์ต่อกัน ไม่ยอมแลกเปลี่ยนหรือทำกิจกรรมบางอย่างร่วมกัน นี่คือกลไกการสร้างสังคมโดยธรรมชาติที่จะไม่มีใครมีคอยชี้นำ บังคับ หรือออกกฏเกณฑ์ชี้นิ้วสั่งใครให้ต้องทำอะไรทั้งนั้น.. มันคือสังคมแห่งเสรีชนโดยแท้จริง ทุกคนจะประพฤติอย่างเสรีภายใต้ทัศนวิสัยของปัจเจกชน

โฆษณาชวนเชื่อ หรือการทำเท่ห์ด้วยคอนเท้นต์โก้หรู ศิลปะในการหลอกล่ออัลกอริทึมเหมือนที่เคยทำๆ กันมา มันใช้ไม่ได้กับที่แห่งนี้

ที่นี่พวกเราให้ค่ากับ “คุณค่า” ที่เราจะได้รับมันมาจริงๆ และคุณค่าของแต่ละคนก็ไม่มีวันเหมือนกันเสียด้วย นี่คือความท้าทายที่พวกเราต้องเริ่มออกไปค้นหา ‘คุณค่า’ ที่ว่านั้น ด้วยตัวเองหรือจะทำกันเป็นหมู่คณะก็ย่อมให้ผลดีกว่าอย่างแน่นอนครับ

ไม่มีใครต้องการ “ฮีโร่” ที่นี่ ทุกคนแค่ต้องการ “เพื่อน” เพื่อนที่จะคอย 'ให้' เราก่อนและ 'ขอ' เราทีหลัง

ผมร่ายมายาวก็เพียงแค่ต้องการจะบอกว่า..

ที่เราไม่เห็นคอนเทนต์อะไรน่าสนใจเลย อาจเป็นเพราะเรายังทำความรู้จักกับ “คนที่น่าสนใจ” ยังไม่มากพอก็เป็นได้

แล้วมันเพราะอะไรได้อีกบ้าง?

เรายังกดติดตามคนอื่นน้อยเกินไป

ทำให้เราไม่เจอโน๊ตหรือคอนเทนต์ที่ดึงดูดใจเราได้มากพอ เราก็จะเห็นแต่โน๊ตของคนที่เราติดตามไว้อย่างน้อยนิดนั่นแหละครับ เว้นแต่เราจะไปกดดูแบบ Global ที่จะเห็นผู้คนทั้งเกาะเป็นหมื่นๆ แสนๆ ต่างคนต่างคนโน๊ตกันรัวๆ ซึ่งมันคงเต็มไปด้วยสิ่งที่เราไม่ได้ให้ความสนใจหรือคัดสรรมา

เรามีคนติดตามเราน้อยเกินไป

ทำให้เหงาและเงียบกริบทุกรอบที่เราโน๊ต มันก็แน่อยู่แล้ว ถ้าทั้งเกาะมีคนที่รู้จักเราอยู่แค่ 2-3 คน มันก็คงมีคนแค่จำนวนนี้แหละครับที่จะได้ยินสิ่งที่เราพูด ได้เห็นสิ่งที่เราทำ เราแค่ต้องออกไปทำความรู้จักหรือมีปฏิสัมพันธ์กับคนอื่นๆ ให้มากกว่านี้ มันไม่เหมือนกันนะครับ ระหว่างการโพสต์สิ่งที่อยากพูดออกไป เน้นเอาเท่ เอาเจ๋ง ไว้ก่อน กับการเดินไปหาคนอื่นเพื่อแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดและสร้างมิตรภาพกับเขาอย่างจริงใจ ผมคิดว่ามันให้ผลลัพธ์ไม่เหมือนกันบน Nostr

เรายังไม่เจอ Hashtag หรือกลุ่มสนทนาที่ตรงกับจริต

ทำให้เราไม่รู้สึกอินกับอะไรที่นี่เลย คนชอบฟุตบอลก็ชอบเสวนากับคนดูบอลฉันใด บิตคอยเนอร์ก็อยากจะคุยถูกคอกับบิตคอยเนอร์ฉันนั้น คนรักแมวก็มองหาคนรักแมว ฯลฯ ที่นี่มันพาเราย้อนกลับไปที่ยังยุคแรกๆ ของสังคมโซเชียลมีเดีย ที่คนจะเชื่อมโยงหากันโดยใช้ “Hashtag” ที่ต่างก็สนใจร่วมกัน มันเหมือนการชูป้ายไฟโลกให้รู้ว่า “ฉันรักแมว” (#Catstr) เพื่อดึงดูดคนประเภทเดียวกัน นั่นแหละครับ เราแค่ต้องหาป้ายไฟที่ว่านั่นให้เจอ

เราไม่เห็นได้ “Earn Zap” อย่างที่หลายคนป้ายยาเราไว้เลย

ก็ถ้าวันนี้เราเองยังไม่ค่อยอยาก Zap ให้ใครเท่าไหร่ แน่นอนว่ามันก็จะไม่มีใครอยาก Zap ให้เราด้วยเช่นกัน ป๋ามา-ป๋ากลับ คนที่นี่เป็นกันแบบนั้น มันประหลาดดี ทำลายความเชื่อแบบเดิมๆ ของเราไปเลยทีเดียว

จริงๆ แล้วมันไม่มีใครอยากได้ Sats เพิ่มบน Nostr เพราะมันไม่ง่ายขนาดนั้น พวกเขาก็แค่อยากหาเรื่อง Zap ให้คนอื่นๆ พวกเขาแสวงหาโน๊ต ข้อความ หรือคอนเทนต์ แม้กระทั่งมีมที่โดนใจ ไม่มีใครมาคอยนั่งคิดคำนวนว่า "วันนี้ฉัน Earn ไปเท่าไหร่” (คอนเซ็ปต์แบบนี้มัน Fiat สิ้นดี) สังคมบน Nostr นั้นเน้นการให้และการมีส่วนร่วม ช่วยเหลือกัน เมื่อคุณให้มา เราจะให้กลับ มันแฟร์ๆ แมนๆ ครับ

ในสังคมที่ไม่มีใครคอยมาทำหน้าที่กำกับดูแลพฤติกรรมหรือการกระทำของเรา ความสัมพันธ์จะเกิดขึ้นอย่างเป็นธรรมชาติสุดๆ เป็นเรื่องของปัจเจกชนที่จะเลือกว่าพวกเขาจะให้คุณค่ากับอะไร ดังนั้น.. เราจึงแทบไม่มีทางรู้ได้เลยว่าใครจะชอบ หรือคิดอะไรยังไง นอกเสียจากว่า.. เราจะใช้เวลาไปกับการทำความรู้จักความคิดและจิตใจของพวกเขา ออกไปพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนกับพวกเขาเพื่อให้เราเข้าใจคนอื่นได้มากขึ้นนั่นเอง

เมื่อคุณเข้าใจผู้อื่น มันก็ไม่ยากที่คุณจะรู้ว่า “คุณค่า” ที่พวกเขาตามหานั้นคืออะไร?

บก. จิงโจ้ ผู้มีปฎิสัมพันธ์และคอย Make friend กับคนไปทั่ว นั่นทำให้เขามีคนติดตาม และติดตามคนอื่นจำนวนมากทีเดียว เขาทำไปเพื่อ Sats หรือเปล่า? ผมคิดว่าไม่นะ.. Just make friend

เราไม่รู้ว่ามันใช้งานยังไง ทำอะไรได้บ้าง เลยไม่รู้จะไปต่อยังไง

ประเด็นนี้ก็ต้องย้อนกลับไปที่หัวข้อต่างๆ ด้านบน ก็ในเมื่อเรายังไม่เคยเจอคนที่จะคอยตอบคำถาม หรือสอนการใช้งานเราให้กับเราได้ หรือจริงๆ แล้วเราก็อาจแค่ถูกสอนให้ “รอรับ” มากกว่าที่จะ “ค้นหา” จนเคยตัว เราเลยไม่ชินกับการต้องออกไปไขว่คว้ามันด้วยตัวเอง?

ไม่ว่าอย่างไร.. เรามาเริ่มกันใหม่ที่นี่ เชื่อไหมครับว่าหลายคนบน Nostr นั้นเป็นระดับพระกาฬแทบทั้งสิ้น แถมพวกเขายังเต็มใจที่จะให้ความช่วยเหลือหรือคอยตอบคำถามให้กับพวกเราด้วย เราต้องหาเค้าให้เจอและเปลี่ยนตัวเองให้เป็นคนที่จะ “กล้า” ถาม กล้าแสดงออก และกล้าที่จะยอมรับว่าเราไม่รู้ ก่อนที่จะเราจะกลายเป็นผู้เชี่ยวชาญได้ในภายหลัง

นี่เป็นโอกาสที่เราจะได้ใกล้ชิดกับคนที่เราอยากคุยด้วยมานานแล้ว คนที่เราเคยชื่นชม หรือคนที่เราเคยเห็นบนโลกเฟียตๆ แต่ไม่เคยหาเหลี่ยมได้สักทีว่าจะเข้าหาหรือเข้าถึงพวกเขาได้ยังไง

แค่เริ่มทำความรู้จัก โลกก็เปลี่ยน

เอาล่ะ.. ผมจะลองแนะนำวิธีว่าเราจะเพิ่มผู้ติดตามหรือเลือกเฟ้นยังไงในการติดตามผู้อื่น ผมมีแนวทางของผมเอง คงไม่ใช่สูตรสำเร็จ แต่ถ้าเพื่อนๆ จะลองนำไปประยุกต์ก็ไม่ว่ากันครับ

ตามคนดัง

วิธีที่ง่าย และตรงไปตรงมาที่สุด ซึ่งมันก็ถูกแล้ว เพราะคนเหล่านี้การที่เค้าจะดังได้ต่างก็มี proof-of-work และความน่าสนใจในแบบของตัวเองด้วยกันทั้งนั้น แอคเคาต์แรกๆ ที่พวกเราคงนึกถึงก็คงเป็น อ.ตั๊ม พิริยะ และ Right Shift ทั้งแอคเคาต์ทางการ และทีมงานทั้งทีม ก็แหง๋ล่ะ เพราะพวกเขาป้ายยาพาคุณมาอยู่บน Nostr แต่อย่าตามแค่พวกเขาไม่กี่คนเท่านั้นนะครับ คุณควรจะ...

ตามคนอื่นๆ เลียนแบบคนดัง

เราสามารถกดดูได้ว่าใครกดติดตามใครเอาไว้บ้าง คนดังก็มักจะตามกลุ่มคนที่น่าสนใจแหละส่วนหนึ่ง ส่วนที่เหลือเขาก็คงตามคนที่ถูกจริตกับตัวเอง นอกจากนี่คนที่กดติดตามพวกเขาก็จะเป็นคนที่ชอบอะไรคล้ายๆ กับเขา มันก็เป็นไปตามกฎแห่งแรงดึงดูดทางด้านความสัมพันธ์ เราค่อยๆ กดไปดูโปรไฟล์ของแต่ละคนได้ว่าเขามีความน่าสนใจยังไง ชอบโน๊ตหรือการสื่อสารแบบไหน เขามีวิธีคิดหรือนิสัยใจคอ มีเคมีแบบเดียวกันกับเราหรือเปล่า?

ถ้าใช่.. คุณก็แค่กดปุ่ม Follow แล้วกระโจนเข้าไปตอบโต้กับเขาได้เลย ไม่ว่าจะในโน๊ตใหม่ หรือ โน๊ตเก่าๆ คอมเม้นให้มันได้เพื่อนนะครับ อย่าไปเม้นให้ได้ศัตรู

เราจะเห็นแอคฯ น่าสนใจให้เพียบ แค่ลองกดไปดูว่าคนดังๆ เขามีวงสังคมบน Nostr เป็นใครกันบ้าง แล้วตอบตัวเองว่าเราอยากพาตัวเองเข้าไปอยู่ในนั้นบ้างไหม?

ตาม Hashtag

ตามหา “ป้ายไฟ” สีที่เราชอบ หรือก็คือกด ‘#’ นำในช่องค้นหา ตามด้วยคำที่เราสนใจ แล้วลองไล่หาดูได้เลย คุณอาจเจอเข้ากับกระทู้ที่ตรงกับสิ่งที่ตามหา เรื่องที่อยากอ่าน หรือมุมมองที่อยากเห็น รวมไปถึงคนที่.. เอ้อ มันเจ๋งดีว่ะ อะไรแบบนี้ได้ง่ายๆ เลยล่ะ

เมื่อเราชอบแฮ็ชแท็กไหน เรายังสามารถกดติดตามตัวแฮชแท็กนั้นได้อีกด้วย และอย่าลืมกดติดตาม หรือติดแฮ็ชแท็ก #ThaiNostrich กับ #Siamstr เอาไว้ด้วยนะครับ มันคือป้ายไฟสามัญประจำบ้านของคนไทยบน Nostr คุณสามารถตามหาเพื่อนคนไทยได้ง่ายๆ ด้วยแฮชแท็ก 2 ตัวนี้นี่แหละ

Swarmstr เป็นตัวอย่างไคลเอนต์ที่จะรวบรวมข้อมูลบน Nostr ที่เราสามารถค้นหา หรือศึกษา Nostr ได้จากหัวข้อต่างๆ ตามแฮชแท็คที่แสดงเป็นตัวอย่างได้ (หรือค้นหาด้วยตัวเอง)

ตามประเด็นที่สนใจไปจนเจอตัวพ่อ

มันต้องมีบางโอกาสที่เราไปเจอเข้ากับกระทู้น่าสนใจ มีการสนทนากันอย่างเผ็ดร้อนหรือรื่นเริงจนคุณก็อดเข้าไปแจมด้วยไม่ได้ ที่แบบนี้แหละที่คุณจะเจอกับคนเก่งๆ ในด้านนั้นๆ หรือผู้เชี่ยวชาญเฉพาะด้าน หรือกระทั่งเป็นผู้ก่อตั้ง หรือนักพัฒนาไคลเอนต์เลยทีเดียว และคนเหล่านี้เขาก็มาที่เกาะแห่งนี้ด้วยจุดประสงค์คล้ายๆ เรา คือ "หนีความวุ่นวายและโสมมบนโลกเก่าเพื่อแสวงหาเสรีภาพและมิตรภาพ ณ สังคมใหม่"

ดังนั้น เขาเต็มใจที่จะได้ทำความรู้จักกับเราอย่างแน่นอนครับ

แต่คนนิสัยไม่ดี หรือมีพฤติกรรมไม่เป็นมิตรเราก็จะดูออกได้ในทันที และมันก็เป็นสิทธิ์ของเราล้านเปอร์เซ็นต์ที่จะเลือกว่า จะสนใจติดตามคนๆ นี้ หรือแค่ปล่อยผ่าน หรือไม่ก็ บล็อกแม่ง ให้มันจบๆ ไป

Nostrends เป็นตัวอย่างไคลเอ็นต์ที่คอยรวบรวมและแสดงโน๊ต หรือหัวข้อที่กำลังได้รับความนิยมบน Nostr ตามช่วงเวลาหรือตัวกรองที่เราเลือก

พยายามอย่าทำพฤติกรรมแบบเดิมๆ บน Nostr

ผมเชื่อว่ามีพวกเราส่วนใหญ่ (ชาวไทย) จะคุ้นเคยกับการใช้งานและวัฒนธรรมบน Facebook แต่ชาวต่างชาติหรือผู้ใช้งานส่วนใหญ่ที่นี่จะเคยชินกับวัฒนธรรมแบบ Twitter กันมากกว่านะครับ ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการโพสต์ การคอมเมนต์ หรือการกดตอบโต้ด้วยอีโมจิ (Discord cult) ก็ถือว่าเป็นวัฒนธรรมในแบบที่เราอาจยังไม่คุ้นเคยกันมากนักและคงต้องใช้เวลาเรียนรู้กันพอสมควร

ขอให้พวกเราทิ้งวิธีคิดแบบเดิมๆ ในการใช้งานโซเชียลมีเดียไปได้เลยครับ เราควรอยู่บน Nostr โดยใช้แนวคิดแบบเดียวกับการอยู่ในสังคมจริงๆ ทักทาย ตอบโต้ เห็นอกเห็นใจ ช่วยเหลือ แลกเปลี่ยน คอนทริบิ้วท์และมีส่วนร่วมให้มากกว่าที่เคย ฯลฯ เราจึงจะมีตัวตนและรู้สึกเหมือนเป็นส่วนหนึ่งในสังคมแห่งนี้ได้จริงๆ (ไม่งั้นเราก็เป็นได้เพียง "ผู้สังเกตการณ์เหงาๆ" เท่านั้นเอง)

ที่นี่.. ไม่ให้คุณค่ากับ การอวดรู้ หรือ โชว์พาว ทุกคนดูออกได้ง่ายๆ ว่าเจตนาของแต่ละคนคืออะไร คนเหล่านี้ล้วนเคยขยะแขยง Fiat Social Media Cult มาแทบทั้งนั้น ถ้าต้องมาเจออะไรแบบนี้บน Nostr ก็จะ ยี้ ได้ทันที และทุกคนก็พร้อม และ มีสิทธิ์ที่จะบล็อกเราได้ตลอดเวลา

เราจะกดติดตามคนนั้น-คนนี้ให้มากมายไปทำไมกัน ถ้าเราจะแค่ไถๆๆ ฟีดวืดๆๆ ไปวันๆ เราจะไม่ได้เพื่อนเลยสักคนกับการทำแบบนั้น และอาจพลาดโอกาสดีๆ ที่จะได้เรียนรู้อะไรบางอย่าง

เราไม่ควรทำแค่อ่านผ่านๆ เหมือนกับตอนที่เราเบื่อโลกเมื่อต้องใช้ Facebook และเห็นแต่อะไรที่ไม่ต้องการเห็น ที่นี่.. เราจะเลิกติดตามไปเลยก็ได้ถ้าแอคฯ นั้นเอาแต่โพสต์อะไรที่ดูไม่เข้าตา หรือไม่สามารถดึงดูดเราได้ (ถ้าเกรงใจก็กด Mute ไว้ก่อนก็ได้)

การอ่านอย่างตั้งใจในสิ่งที่เค้าโพสต์มา และตอบโต้ตามสมควร ก็เปรียบเสมือน การรับฟังผู้พูดอย่างตั้งอกตั้งใจ นั่นเอง นั่นคือหนทางเดียวที่เราจะเรียนรู้ได้ว่าเราควรตอบโต้อย่างไร เพราะเราเข้าใจ สาส์น ที่เขาได้สื่อออกมาอย่างถ่องแท้นั่นเองครับ

ถ้าไม่ว่าง คุณก็ปัดทิ้งได้ แล้วค่อยตามไปอ่านทีหลัง มันไม่มีการลบหรือปิดกั้นเรา ไม่มีโฆษณามาให้รกหูรกตา ถ้าเจอพวก แสกม/แสปม ก็บล็อกมันซะ อย่าให้พวกน่ารังเกียจได้มีที่ยืนบนสังคมที่คุณอยากให้เป็น

และขอให้ทุกคนระลึกไว้เสมอว่า การพูดคุยและมีปฎิสัมพันธ์ต่อกัน เท่านั้น ที่จะทำให้มนุษย์ได้มีความสัมพันธ์ต่อกัน

ผมขอทิ้งท้ายด้วยเคล็ดลับตกผลึกสั้นๆ ว่า..

• ติดตามผู้อื่น
• Zap ให้คนอื่นๆ
• เริ่มสร้าง Note ของตัวเอง (โพสต์) สักครั้ง หรือบ่อยครั้ง
• คุยกับคนอื่นให้มากกว่าที่เคย (มากกว่าแค่อ่านๆ ไปเรื่อยเหมือนตอนใช้ Facebook)
• ได้ Zap กลับมาจากคนอื่น
• สำรวจแฮชแท็กต่างๆ ลองใช้งานมันไปเรื่อยๆ

เหนือสิ่งอื่นใด จงใช้ชีวิตบน Nostr และแค่สนุกไปกับมันให้ได้ก็พอ.. :)

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• มนุษย์มีวุ้นแปลภาษาจริงๆ แล้วนะครับ ก็ Google translate นั่นยังไง อย่าให้ภาษากลายเป็นกำแพงแห่งการเรียนรู้.. จงใช้มัน ไม่ต้องขวยเขิลกันหรอกครับ (เพราะผมเองก็ใช้)

• บทความต่อไปผมจะมาลองแนะนำว่า มีแอคเคานต์ไหนบ้างที่น่าสนใจกดติดตามสัก 10-20 บัญชี เอาคนไทยเราก่อนเลย ไว้คอยติดตามกันนะครับ

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Most clients, if not all, on Nostr have a list of accounts to follow during their onboarding process, however, those they showcase fall under the categories of either Bitcoin or Nostr. I want to make a list of individuals from different interest categories so that others can check out, as well as help clients update their recommended list.

This list is obviously biased as I'm writing it, however, please help me grow this list by mentioning accounts in the comments, mentioning what that account is about or talks about (even if the interest category isn't mentioned here, I'd add new ones), and I'd update this list every now and then.

Hit me up if there are any mistakes as well.

Food

Sports

Technology

Video Games

- Stitch (Gaming news & tests)

Vtubers

• Freakoverse (English)
• Amane Natsuko (Japanese)

Anime

• Makano Michi (into anime and ai generated wolf women)

Music

Art

• Aheahead

Bitcoin

• Jack (Advocate, advisor, and investor)
• Odell (Freedom tech influencer, content creator, investor)
• Gigi (Developer)
• Jack mallers (Developer)

Nostr

• Will (Developer)
• Zack (Developer)
• Karnage (Designer)
• Water (Developer)
• fiatjaf (Developer)
• Ryan (Developer)
• PABLOF7z (Developer)
• Derek Ross (Developer)
• Miljan (Developer)
• verbiricha (Developer)

Cryptocurrency

Finance

• Lyn Alden (Investor)

Nature

Space

Movies

Series (TV)

Politics

• Edward Snowden (Exposes governments?)

Realestate

Memes

• placeholder (Bitcoin memes)
• placeholder (Gaming memes)
• placeholder (Anime memes)
• placeholder (Life memes)
• placeholder (Political memes)
• placeholder (Dating memes)

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“There is no denying that the Bitcoin network consumes a substantial amount of energy, but this energy consumption is what makes the Bitcoin network so robust and secure.”

Conclusion

This report took a quantitative approach, comparing Bitcoin’s energy usage to that of other industries. In the interest of an honest conversation, we also discussed why the value of Bitcoin is not just quantitative.

Subjective views on the Bitcoin network’s importance vary, but Bitcoin’s properties do not. Anyone can use Bitcoin. Anyone can hold bitcoins for themselves. And Bitcoin transactions can provide probabilistically final settlement in an hour, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year.

These features can offer financial freedom to people around the world without the luxury of stable and accessible financial infrastructure. The network can benefit the energy sector by creating perfect use cases for intermittent and excess energy. And the network will only scale further if network adoption warrants it.

Energy utilization is not necessarily a bad thing. As Smil writes, energy is the only universal currency. Humans will continue to find new technologies that require more energy that challenge the status quo. Bitcoin is yet another example.

So, if we return one last time to the original question:

"Is the Bitcoin network’s electricity consumption an acceptable use of energy?"

Our answer is definitive: yes.

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At the time of writing, the Bitcoin network consumes an estimated ~113.89 TWh/yr in total. To help contextualize this number, here are a few comparisons:

• The global annual energy supply is ~166,071 TWh/yr, 1,458.2x that of the Bitcoin network • The global annual electricity generation is ~26,730 TWh/yr, 234.7x that of the Bitcoin network • The amount of electricity lost in transmission and distribution each year is ~2,205 TWh/yr, 19.4x that of the Bitcoin network (based on World Bank and IEA estimates) • The energy footprint of “always-on” electrical devices in American households is ~1,375 TWh/yr, 12.1x that of the Bitcoin network

These comparisons highlight an important point: with basic assumptions, it is straightforward to estimate Bitcoin’s energy consumption in real-time.
Bitcoin’s energy usage has become an easy target for criticism. But this criticism raises the question: Bitcoin uses “a lot” of energy compared to what?

Bitcoin is most often compared to the traditional banking system (for payments, savings, and settlement) and gold (as a non-sovereign store of value). But Bitcoin is a fundamentally novel technology that is not a precise substitute for any one legacy system.

Bitcoin is not solely a settlement layer, not solely a store of value, and not solely a medium of exchange. Unlike Bitcoin, the energy footprints of these industries are opaque.
To have an honest conversation about Bitcoin’s energy use, a comparison to the most analogous incumbents—the gold industry and the banking system—is appropriate. Unfortunately, gauging the energy use of these two industries is not as easy as auditing Bitcoin.

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What follows is a good faith effort to estimate the energy footprint of both the gold industry and the banking system. Since public data on the energy usage of these sectors is scarce, the methodology created for this research has been open-sourced and can be found here—we encourage others to review.

Summary of the Banking System Energy Usage

Electricity data for the banking industry is scarce. With the publicly available information that we could find, we estimate the banking system uses 263.72 TWh of energy each year. Deriving a comprehensive number for this sector’s energy consumption would require individual banks to self-report.

Even in aggregate, a comparison between Bitcoin and the layers of the banking system is inherently flawed. The traditional financial stack is a complicated hierarchy of ounterparties and intermediate settlement. Credit card networks are great for exchanging fast payments and IOUs, but they depend on the banking system for settlement, and the banking system in turn depends on central banks for final settlement, which in turn depends on the dollar system as a whole.

In the interest of scope, we have excluded central banks, clearinghouses (like the DTCC), and other aspects of the traditional financial system from the above analysis. It is important to note that this audit is only a slice of the entire system - the overall energy usage of the banking system is unknown and externalities are excluded.

Defining the banking system’s utility by its energy usage is reductive - overlooking the benefits of transferring large quantities of money. While it may seem practical to compare the banking system and Bitcoin on the number of transactions they process, the two have different scaling properties. The banking system scales with transaction count, requiring additional infrastructure as it grows. Meanwhile, Bitcoin’s energy consumption scales not by transaction count, but by network economics.

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Sources

On Bitcoin's Energy Consumption: A Quantitative Approach to a Subjective Question https://www.galaxy.com/insights/research/on-bitcoins-energy-consumption/ https://www.ourenergypolicy.org/resources/on-bitcoins-energy-consumption-a-quantitative-approach-to-a-subjective-question/

Financial Industry Electricity Balance

https://github.com/GalaxyDigitalLLC/Financial-Industry-Electricity-Balance

Bitcoin network power demand updated every 24 hours

https://ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

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• Japanese: nostr:naddr1qqf8wetvvdhk6efdw3hj6mn0wd6z66nsqgs87hptfey2p607ef36g6cnekuzfz05qgpe34s2ypc2j6x24qvdwhgrqsqqqa28z85v8z by nostr:npub1wh69w45awqnlsxw7jt5tkymets87h6t4phplkx6ug2ht2qkssswswntjk0
• Russian: nostr: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 by nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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سلام، دوست ناستریچ من!

ناستر یک پدیده جدید است و چند گام برای آسان تر کردن ورود به آن و غنی تر کردن تجربه آن هست.

👋 خوش آمدید

از آنجا که دارید این متن را می خوانید پس احتمالا پیش از این با بارگیری یک اپ موبایل (مثلا داموس، اماتیست یا پلبستر) یا باز کردن یک کلاینت وب ناستر (مثلا اسنورت سوشال، ناسترگرام یا آیریس) به آن پیوسته اید. مهم است که تازه واردین گام های پیشنهادی اپ مورد نظر را پیروی کنند - مراحل آغازین تمام اطلاعات پایه را ارائه می کنند، لازم تنظیمات خاصی انجام دهید مگر آنکه تمایل داشته باشید. اگر به این یادداشت برخورده اید و هنوز "حساب کاربری" ناستر ندارید، میتوانید از این راهنمای گام به گام تهیه شده توسط nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz پیروی کنید.

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🤙 خوش بگذره

ناستر ساخته شده تا مردم بتوانند وصل شوند، شنیده شوند، و خوش بگذرانند. هدف کلی همین است (مسلما کاربردهای جدی زیادی از جمله ابزار آزادی بیان برای مبارزان راه آزادی و افشاگران هم وجود دارد اما این بخش درخور یک مقاله جدا است)، پس اگر احساس می کنید چیزی مشکل است به هریک از ناستریچ های با سابقه مراجعه کنید و ماخوشحال می شویم که کمک کنیم. تعامل با ناستر اصلا سخت نیست، ولی در مقایسه با پلتفرم های سنتی کمی پیچیدگی دارد، پس پرسیدن سؤال کاملا طبیعی است (و توصیه می شود).

لیست غیررسمی از سفیران ناستر که با کمال میل کمک می کنند تا در ناستر جا بیفتید:

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به همه ناستریچ های این لیست نشان سفیر ناستر داده شده تا یافتن و دنبال کردن آنان آسان تر باشد

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⚡️ روشن کردن زپ

زپ یکی از تفاوت هایی است که ممکن است پس از پیوستن به ناستر متوجه آن شده باشید. زپ به کاربران امکان می دهد تا با ارسال ارزش بی درنگ، از تولید محتوی مفید و جالب حمایت کنند. این امکان از طریق بیتکوین و شبکه لایتنینگ فراهم شده است. این پروتکل های پرداخت به شما امکان می دهند که به‌طور آنی مقداری ساتوشی (کوچکترین واحد شبکه بیتکوین) بفرستید، درست به راحتی لایک کردن پست کسی در پلتفرم های سنتی رسانه اجتماعی. ما به این مدل می گوییم ارزش-برای-ارزش و می توانید درباره این مدل عالی کسب درامد اینجا بیشتر بخوانید: https://dergigi.com/value/

این یادداشت tr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 که زپ را به خوبی معرفی کرده است را نیز ببینید.

بهتر است زپ را فعال کنید حتی اگر خود را تولید کننده محتوی به شمار نمی آورید - مردم احتمالا برخی یادداشت های شما را ارزشمند خواهند یافت و می خواهند مقداری ساتوشی به شما بفرستند. آسان ترین راه دریافت ارزش در ناستر فقط در چند مرحله است:

1. کیف پول ساتوشی را بارگیری کنید - احتمالا برای کسانی که در بیتکوین و لایتنینگ تازه‌کار هستند بهترین انتخاب مناسب دستگاه موبایل است. توجه کنید که کیف پول های بسیاری وجود دارند و می توانید از هر کدام که می پسندید استفاده کنید. ضمنا، فراموش نکنید که برگردید و از کیف پول خود بکاپ بگیرید.
2. "دریافت" را بزنید
3. روی آدرس لایتنینگی (رشته ای که شبیه آدرس ایمیل است) که در صفحه می بینید بزنید تا در کلیپبورد کپی شود.
4. آدرس کپی شده را در جای مربوطه در کلاینت ناستر وارد کنید. (همان جایی که می گوید "آدرس لایتنینگ بیتکوین"، "آدرسLN" یا عباراتی مشابه این).

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📫 یک آدرس ناستر بگیرید

آدرس ناستر، که اغلب به آن "شناسه " می گویند، شبیه آدرس ایمیل است:

🔍 کمک می کند حساب کاربریتان به راحتی شناخته و به اشتراک گذاشته شود
✔️ به عنوان تایید کاربر انسانی عمل می کند

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مثالی از آدرس ناستر: Tony@nostr.21ideas.org _ این برای به یاد سپاری و سپس وارد کردن در اپ ناستر جهت یافتن کاربر مورد نظر آسانتر است._

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برای دریافت آدرس ناستر می توانید از خدمات پولی مثل ناسترچک (ارائه شده توسط nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) یا خدمات رایگان مانند ناسترپلبز ارائه شده توسط (nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424) استفاده کنید. هر دو مزایای خود را دارند و انتخاب هریک به تصمیم شما بستگی دارد. راه دیگر دریافت آدرس ناستر استفاده از افزونه مرورگر است. در این باره اینجا بیشتر یاد بگیرید.

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🙇‍♀️ یادگیری مقدمات

در پشت صحنه، ناستر با پلتفرم های اجتماعی سنتی بسیار متفاوت است، بنابر این درک مقدماتی از اینکه ناستر چگونه کار می کند برای تازه واردان مفید است. اشتباه نکنید، من نمی گویم باید یک زبان برنامه نویسی یا جزئیات فنی پروتکل را یاد بگیرید. منظور من این است که داشتن دید کلی تر و درک تفاوت بین ناستر با توییتر/مدیوم/ریدیت بسیار کمک خواهد کرد. برای مثال، هیچ گذرواژه و ورود به حسابی وجود ندارد، به جای آن شما کلیدهای خصوصی عمومی دارید. من وارد جزئیات نمی شوم زیرا منابع مفصلی برای درک کامل ناستر وجود دارند. تمام منابع قابل توجه در این صفحه راه‌اندازی توسط nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 با 💜 به دقت گردآوری شده اند.

اطلاعاتی که در منابع یاد شده موجود است به امن نگه داشتن کلیدها یا به عبارتی حساب کاربری تان هم کمک می کنند، پس مهم است که نگاهی به آن ها بیندازید.

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🤝 اتصال

امکان اتصال به افراد بااستعداد[^3] ناستر را خاص کرده است. اینجا همه می توانند شنیده شوند و نمی توان کسی را اخراج کرد. چند راه ساده برای یافتن افراد جالب در ناستر وجود دارد:

• برای یافتن کسانی که در توییتر دنبال می کنید:https://www.nostr.directory/ ابزاری عالی است.
• برای دنبال کردن افرادی که معتمدین شما دنبال می کنند: نمایه کسی را که با او علایق مشترک دارید ببینید، و لیست کسانی را که او دنبال می کند بررسی کرده و با آن ها ارتباط بگیرید.

• خبرنامه عمومی را ببینید: تمام کلاینت های ناستر (اپ ناستر به بیان دیگر) سربرگی دارند که خبرنامه عمومی یا همگانی را نمایش می دهد، که تمام یادداشت ها را از همه کاربران ناستر نشان می دهند. یا اینکه کسانی را به نظرتان جالب می آیند دنبال کنید (البته باید شکیبا باشید زیرا ممکن است به مقداری مطالب اسپم بربخورید).

• از #هشتگ استفاده کنید: هشتگ ها روشی عالی برای تمرکز روی مطالب مورد علاقه هستند. به سادگی روی یک #هشتگ بزنید و یادداشت های بیشتری در ارتباط با موضوع خواهید دید. و نیز می توانید هشتگ ها را در اپی که استفاده می کنید جستجو کنید. فراموش نکنید هنگام نوشتن یادداشت از هشتگ استفاده کنید تا احتمال دیده شدن آن را بیشتر کنید.

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg تصویری از داشبورد https://nostrgraph.net/ ساخت nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ کاوش

پنج گامی که برشمرده شد شروع عالی برای بهبود تجربه شما در ناستر است، اما هنوز امکانات بیشتری برای یافتن و لذت بردن هست! ناستر صرفا جایگزین توییتر نیست، بلکه امکانات آن نامحدود است.

نگاهی به چند پروژه جالب و مفید ناستر بیاندازید:

• https://nostrapps.com لیستی از اپ های ناستر
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – NIP-05 و سایر مزایای ناستر را بگیرید (پولی)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – آدرس ناستر، بارگذاری رسانه، رله
• https://nostr.build/ – بارگذاری و مدیریت رسانه و بیشتر
• https://nostr.band/ – اطلاعات شبکه ناستر و کاربران
• https://zaplife.lol/ –آمار زپ ها
• https://nostrit.com/ – یادداشت زمانبندی شده
• https://nostrnests.com/ – مشابه اسپیس توییتر
• https://nostryfied.online/ - بکاپ اطلاعات ناستر شما
• https://www.wavman.app/ - پخش کننده موسیقی ناستر

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📻 رله ها

پس از آشنایی با ناستر حتما به راهنمایی که درباره رله های ناستر نوشته ام سربزنید: https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays. البته این موضوعی نیست که در ابتدای راه فکر شما را مشغول کند، ولی برای مطالعات بعدی مهم است.

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📱 ناستر در موبایل

تجربه خوشایند ناستر در دستگاه موبایل نیز ممکن است. این راهنما کمک می کند بدون هیچ مشکلی به اپلیکیشن های ناستر در گوشی هوشمند خود وارد شوید، یادداشت ارسال کنید، زپ بزنید، و غیره: https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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ممنون که خواندید و شما را در سرزمین ناستر می بینم.

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Gunkanjima ou ilha Hashima é uma local interessante que parece um barco quando olhado de cima. A cidade apareceu no filme 007 operação skyfall. Basicamente é uma ilha com prédios e várias moradias agora abandonadas. Um senário sombrio que produz uma sensação de vazio, assim relatam aqueles que já visitaram a ilha. A ilha tinha uma população de 5.259 moradores em 1959 sendo propriedade da empresa mineradora Mitsubishi Mining Company.

Todos os moradores eram funcionários envolvidos com a mineração de carvão que ocorria nos túneis subterrâneos que iam até o fundo do mar. A produção atingia uma média de 400 mil toneladas de carvão por ano. Com o crescimento do petróleo em 1974 o negócio de mineração de carvão perdeu força e a ilha foi abandonada intacta. As construções e muitos pertences simplesmente foram deixados ali.

Desde 1974 a ilha está largada ao tempo e sem manutenção pouco a pouco os prédios vão se tornando ruínas. É possível passear pela ilha através do Google Maps em: https://maps.google.com.br/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=pt-BR&geocode=&q=Hashima+Island&sll=-14.179186,-50.449219&sspn=108.096722,228.339844&ie=UTF8&t=k&ll=32.627313,129.739738&spn=0.006777,0.013937&z=17 e acessar uma galeria de fotos sobre a cidade em https://photos.app.goo.gl/7LY38SnvnQvARAFA6

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Pensar não é uma tarefa fácil, principalmente devido ao forte apelo emocional que nossa constituição física e mental proporciona. Somos seres de emoção antes de qualquer coisa. O filósofo David Hume defendeu certa vez que a razão é um tipo de fenômeno escravo do sentimento. Para Hume a razão poderia ser entendida como uma ferramenta usada para justificar nossas emoções. Nesse sentido, a arte de iludir pode ser dotada de uma técnica eficiente quando apela para nossos sentimentos e desejos.

Com o desenvolvimento das ciências e dos estudos cognitivos, as afirmações de Hume parecem em certa medida adequadas. Sabemos que o raciocínio é influenciado em grande parte pelo sentimento que produz em nós. Neste sentido o ato de pensar, quando contraria nossos sentimentos, pode ser angustiante, motivando muitas pessoas a evitar tal prática. Existe uma diferença entre pensar e se deixar levar. No cotidiano chamamos de influenciáveis aquelas que se deixam conduzir sem questionar o que é afirmado. Facilitando a prática da arte de enganar.

Não é por acaso que os sistemas de publicidade apelam para as emoções na hora de tentar vender um produto ou serviço. É conhecimento geral que a porta de acesso para influenciar uma pessoa é o sentimento.

Os meios de comunicação de massa também adotam uma linguagem dramatizada uma vez que esta é a mais eficiente na hora de influenciar e garantir resultados para os patrocinadores. Promovendo sua arte de iludir através de notícias dramáticas a imprensa consegue manipular em algum grau o sentimento das pessoas.

Isso não significa que os meios de comunicação precisam ser excluídos ou condenados, o que parece adequado é que as pessoas possam detectar as inconsistências das afirmações e do próprio pensamento, confrontando seus sentimentos. Evitando dessa forma se transformarem em vítimas da arte de enganar.

O filósofo Wittgenstein defendeu que a diferença entre pensar e se deixar levar estaria no uso inadequado da linguagem, onde em geral as pessoas usam a linguagem de maneira superficial, sem prestar atenção na lógica do discursos, ignorando assim, possíveis conseqüências do que é afirmado.

O que identifica se uma afirmação é pensada ou negligenciada é a coerência e a conexão concreta com o mundo, neste sentido, quanto mais conectada com o mundo é uma afirmação, menor é a exigência de acreditarmos e maior é a possibilidade de comprovação. Acreditar e comprovar são os agentes que validam o pensamento.

A principal diferença entre uma crença e uma comprovação consiste no fato da comprovação exigir uma seqüência de fatos contextualizados enquanto uma crença pode negligenciar as evidências.

Um termo muito usado para identificar erros do pensamento é chamado de falácia. Uma Falácia é uma afirmação pensada de maneira superficial, negligenciando as evidências, sendo fundamentada por crenças.

Muitas pessoas e instituições fazem um grande esforço para produzir erros de raciocínio aceitáveis, seja para vender um produto ou vencer uma discussão.

Fazer com que as pessoas sejam influenciadas por falsas verdades é uma arte cada vez mais estudada e praticada no cotidiano. Hoje é consenso que a responsabilidade de não acreditar em afirmações propositadamente equivocadas é individual. Alguns entendem que a responsabilidade não é de quem produz o engano e sim da pessoa que acredita.

Com tantas tentativas de influenciar as pessoas, torna-se importante ficar atento para identificar as falácias.

As áreas das ciências cognitivas afirmam que muito da capacidade de percepção é uma questão de prática, sendo aconselhável para quem deseja ficar mais atento treinar a identificação de inconsistência no que é dito. A melhor maneira de se proteger é sempre perguntando pelo conjunto de evidências e não aceitar apenas uma evidência como verdade.

Como as crenças estão intimamente associadas aos sentimentos e estes são porta de entrada para influenciar uma pessoa, geralmente os truques para criar uma ilusão na arte de enganar usam do desejo e vontade da vítima em acreditar, seguido de algumas das técnicas de persuasão.

Uma das maneiras de convencer alguém é através do seu sentimento por outra pessoa ou pela autoridade no qual tenha adquirido confiança. Neste sentido, ao receber a informação de alguém que você gosta ou que acredita, é possível que ocorra menor questionamento sem o exercício de identificação de possíveis inconsistências.

É por isso que propagandas usam de atores admirados pelo público ou de pesquisas ditas científicas. A ideia aqui é conseguir influenciar eliminando o senso crítico através do sentimento de uma pessoa por outra, ignorando desta forma a perguntar pelo conjunto de evidências.

Isso ocorre toda hora nas propagandas e nos resultados de pesquisas pseudocientíficas onde somente o que interessa é publicado.

Outra forma de influenciar é através da crença relativista, esta serve muitas vezes como justificação na tentativa de se escapar das conseqüências. Em geral ocorre através da ideia que uma crença é sempre verdadeira para a pessoa que acredita. Você já deve ter escutado alguém dizer: “Isso pode ser errado para você, mas para mim é correto.” Ou ainda “Eu acredito e ponto final”.

Não é aconselhável esquecer que uma crença geralmente é manifestação de um sentimento e em certa medida de um desejo. Neste sentido uma crença não precisa estar relacionada com fatos verdadeiros.

O segredo de influenciar consiste na habilidade de produzir crenças.

No entanto, é aconselhável ficar atento para o fato das crenças não estarem conectadas diretamente com os fatos no mundo e sim com os desejos e sentimentos.

Quando alguém acredita em algo, está provavelmente manifestando um sentimento que não é baseado em um conjunto contextualizado de evidências.

Tentar fazer você acreditar em algo, consiste em motivar sentimentos e criar uma ilusão onde a pessoa terá dificuldades em ficar atenta para as inconsistências e não conseguirá questionar adequadamente certas afirmações.

Para se proteger deste tipo de influência é aconselhável perguntar sobre suas emoções frente alguma afirmação. Observe se é necessário confiar/acreditar no que é afirmado ou existem e são demonstradas evidências concretas.

É importante observar a diferença sobre evidência concreta e falsa evidência.

A técnica do falso dilema é largamente usada para promover crenças com falsa evidência e confundir assim a percepção. É possível fazer uma coisa parecer outra, basta omitir certas informações. Nossos governantes sabem muito bem como fazer isso.

No trabalho é muito comum pessoas se sentirem perseguidas quando de fato o que ocorre é uma simples mudança de regras ou de objetivos. Na comunicação de massa, falsos dilemas vendem e geram muito lucro.

Recentemente uma rádio local apresentou uma pesquisa que apontava para o fato do comportamento humano ser determinado somente pela genética. A rádio perguntava aos ouvintes se eles concordavam com o fato do comportamento ser totalmente genético.

O falso dilema aqui, consiste no fato de não existir pesquisa que afirme tal coisa, uma pesquisa científica não possui meios de afirmar se uma pessoa vai agir de uma determinada forma frente uma situação qualquer.

Em geral, o que a ciência afirma não é sobre o comportamento humano e sim sobre o comportamento do corpo humano e suas tendências. Isso significa que geneticamente uma pessoa pode ser mais propensa a se irritar, no entanto o que ela vai fazer com essa irritação é impossível determinar. Por exemplo, é possível canalizar tal irritação para tornar-se uma pessoa mais determinada, sendo um profissional mais eficiente.

Existem muitas técnicas de manipulação do pensamento para influenciar as pessoas, basicamente a maioria delas atua no sentimento, na distração para impedir a detecção da ilusão e na ocultação e distorção dos fatos.

Para evitar certas ilusões procure:

1 – O conjunto de evidências. Poucas evidências permitem facilmente distorcer os fatos e montar um cenário que promova o falso como sendo verdadeiro. Busque sempre o conjunto das várias evidências. Não acredite, comprove.

2 – Atenção aos seus sentimentos. Para influenciar você a porta de entrada é seu sentimento, sempre avalie se você está pensando no campo da crença ou se existem diversas evidências. Se é uma crença, então fique atento. Não esqueça que acreditar é simplesmente confiar.

3 – Veja o quanto lhe estão distraindo. Para influenciar é importante criar distrações. Normalmente se insere falácias dentro de polêmicas e dramatizações. Isso ocorre devido ao fato da pessoa acabar prestando mais atenção ao que é polêmico ou dramático e desta forma não percebe algumas inconsistências do que é afirmado.

Não se deixe influenciar, busque pelo conjunto de evidências e observe atentamente o contexto das afirmações. Não seja manipulado pela arte de iludir.

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Basicamente, a Web3 visa descentralizar a internet, permitindo que os usuários tenham controle sobre seus dados e interajam diretamente com outros usuários, sem intermediários. Essa nova abordagem da internet busca proporcionar maior autonomia aos usuários, garantindo a segurança e a privacidade de suas informações.

Os primeiros passos que culminaram no surgimento do Web3 ocorreram entre 1998 e 2015, com a busca pela solução do gasto duplo e do problema dos generais bizantinos.

O problema do gasto duplo (double spending) é um desafio fundamental em sistemas digitais de pagamento e moedas digitais. Ele se refere à possibilidade de gastar a mesma quantia de dinheiro digital mais de uma vez antes que a transação seja efetivamente confirmada e registrada de forma imutável.

Em transações com moedas físicas, como dinheiro em papel ou moedas metálicas, o gasto duplo não é um problema, pois a moeda física é transferida fisicamente de uma pessoa para outra, impossibilitando que a mesma moeda seja usada para outra transação simultaneamente.

No entanto, em sistemas digitais, como transferências eletrônicas ou moedas digitais, é fácil copiar e replicar informações digitais. Isso cria a possibilidade de que uma pessoa mal-intencionada envie a mesma unidade de moeda digital para mais de uma pessoa, ou até para si mesma, antes que a rede consiga confirmar a autenticidade da transação.

Para os entusiastas do dinheiro digital, até 1998 não existia uma proposta consistente sobre como resolver de forma segura o problema do gasto duplo.

Foi em 1998 que Wei Dai, um cientista da computação de origem chinesa, apresentou o B-money, uma proposta consistente sobre a possibilidade de resolver o problema do gasto duplo, colaborando para os fundamentos que posteriormente sustentariam o surgimento da moeda digital.

Em 2005, Nick Szabo, um jurista e criptógrafo pesquisador sobre contratos digitais e moeda digital, estudioso sobre o tema desde 1995, também apresentou uma proposta chamada de Bit Gold. O Bit Gold foi uma tentativa de criar uma forma descentralizada de dinheiro eletrônico.

Os modelos teóricos propostos por Wei Dai e Nick Szabo, ao tentar resolver o problema do gasto duplo, deram uma possível resposta ao problema dos generais bizantinos, algo fundamental para o desenvolvimento do conceito de Web3.

O problema dos generais bizantinos, também conhecido como "Byzantine Generals Problem", é um conceito teórico na ciência da computação e teoria dos sistemas distribuídos que aborda a coordenação de ações em um ambiente onde a comunicação entre máquinas é sujeita a falhas ou mensagens maliciosas.

O cenário hipotético do problema envolve um grupo de generais bizantinos que estão acampados com suas tropas ao redor de uma cidade inimiga. Eles precisam tomar uma decisão conjunta sobre atacar ou recuar, e essa decisão deve ser a mesma entre todos os generais para que o ataque ou recuo tenha sucesso.

No entanto, alguns dos generais podem ser traidores ou estarem sob a influência do inimigo, e eles podem enviar mensagens falsas ou enganosas para os outros generais, levando-os a tomar decisões diferentes. O desafio é encontrar um algoritmo ou protocolo que permita que os generais cheguem a um consenso confiável, mesmo com a ocorrência de intenções maliciosas ou falhas na comunicação.

O problema dos generais bizantinos foi proposto por Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak e Marshall Pease em um artigo intitulado "The Byzantine Generals Problem" publicado em 1982. Neste trabalho, eles apresentaram o conceito do problema e discutiram sua relevância em sistemas distribuídos e redes de computadores.

Esse problema é uma metáfora para os desafios enfrentados em sistemas distribuídos, como redes de computadores, onde as máquinas (generais) precisam tomar decisões baseadas em informações compartilhadas, mas podem haver falhas na rede, mensagens corrompidas ou informações maliciosas que podem enganar os outros.

No mundo real, assim como na internet, essa metáfora coloca o problema da necessidade em se eliminar a confiança nos acordos sociais, incluindo transações financeiras, produzindo algum tipo de garantia da ação.

A confiança entre estranhos é uma questão crucial, pois a inibição em estabelecer novas relações dificulta ações entre desconhecidos, demandando mediadores, como agências de namoro, para garantir a segurança dos envolvidos, ou bancos, para garantir a segurança financeira.

Entretanto, a Web3 surge como uma solução inovadora para esses problemas. Implementada inicialmente com a criação da blockchain do Bitcoin entre 2008 e 2009, a Web3 possibilitou uma solução centrada na moeda digital, permitindo transações seguras e confiáveis sem a necessidade de intermediários.

Em 2015, a blockchain da rede Ethereum foi lançada, trazendo uma evolução ainda maior para a Web3 ao introduzir os contratos inteligentes. Com eles, além do uso de moeda digital, tornou-se possível o desenvolvimento de diversos aplicativos descentralizados, eliminando a necessidade de intermediários e permitindo a relação direta entre pessoas sem que estas tenham que confiar cegamente nas ações umas das outras.

Com base no uso da blockchain e das criptografias computacionais, os sistemas baseados em Web3 oferecem uma nova perspectiva para um ambiente digital mais seguro, confiável e autônomo.

Dessa forma, a Web3 emerge como uma promissora evolução da internet, trazendo consigo o potencial para revolucionar a forma como interagimos e conduzimos transações no mundo digital, ao eliminar a dependência de terceiros e proporcionar relações sem a necessidade de uma confiança maior entre desconhecidos.

Atualmente, existem diversos aplicativos rodando no modelo Web3, descentralizados e sustentados por criptografia. Entretanto, nessa fase inicial de consolidação, esses aplicativos enfrentam algumas dificuldades.

As duas principais dificuldades estão associadas à popularização do uso, uma vez que ocorre um estranhamento das pessoas ao manusearem sistemas digitais baseados em criptografia, e, em segundo lugar, pelo choque cultural que a proposta causa ao romper com a cultura tradicional da mediação ou centralização.

No entanto, mesmo com algumas dificuldades a tecnologia Web3 parece estar encontrando seu lugar, apresentando uma tendência de crescimento acelerado e oferecendo novas oportunidades para aqueles que estiverem preparados. Experimentar, conhecer as fragilidades e adquirir habilidades nesta nova forma de interagir pela internet prepara você para o futuro que está batendo à porta.

Web3 e suas fragilidades

Personalidades como Tim Berners-Lee, criador do protocolo World Wide Web (www), Elon Musk, conhecido bilionário da área tecnológica, e Jack Dorsey, fundador do Twitter, são alguns dos críticos da tecnologia chamada de Web3.

Para Berners-Lee, é inadequado considerar a tecnologia Web3 como a próxima geração da internet, já que o armazenamento de dados precisa ser privado, rápido e barato, o oposto do sistema Web3 que, segundo Berners-Lee, é lento, caro e público. Elon Musk e Jack Dorsey também expressaram sua visão, considerando que a Web3 parece mais uma jogada de marketing do que uma tecnologia viável para uma nova internet 100% descentralizada.

É comum ocorrerem alguns exageros motivados pelo entusiasmo quando do surgimento de uma novidade tecnológica, e parece ser o caso da Web3, principalmente diante da afirmação categórica de que a descentralização será a nova forma de interação na internet, sugerindo que a centralização é algo ultrapassado.

Pode ser relevante não esquecermos que desde nossa migração de caçadores-coletores para uma sociedade assentada na agricultura e na formação de comunidades fundamentadas em cidades, nos concentramos na centralização como caminho para o desenvolvimento social.

Olhando para a história da internet, percebemos que, de fato, ela surgiu como um fenômeno descentralizador. Quando a internet foi criada nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, ela era projetada como uma rede descentralizada. A origem da internet remonta ao projeto ARPANET, financiado pelo Departamento de Defesa dos Estados Unidos, com o objetivo de criar uma rede de comunicação robusta e resistente a falhas, que pudesse manter a conectividade mesmo em caso de ataques militares.

Essa natureza descentralizada da internet foi fundamental para seu crescimento exponencial e disseminação global. No entanto, ao longo do tempo, algumas formas de centralização surgiram em certos aspectos da internet, como em plataformas de mídia social, provedores de serviços de internet (ISPs) e empresas que controlam infraestruturas críticas.

Assim como nosso desenvolvimento social evoluiu de ações descentralizadas de caçadores-coletores para a centralização na agricultura e o surgimento de grandes centros urbanos, na internet nos organizamos de tal forma que alimentamos e mantemos grandes plataformas com alguma centralização de poder, como o Google, a Apple, entre outras. Passamos para o algoritmo dessas plataformas o poder de mediar as relações e ações humanas.

No entanto, parece pouco provável que nossos instintos sociais optem pela total descentralização da internet, contrariando nossa tradição evolutiva que emergiu de escolhas centralizadoras. O esperado é que, passada a euforia e os exageros dos mais entusiasmados, a proposta da Web3 enquanto descentralização ocupe seu lugar em um mundo centralizado como forma de mitigar abusos.

Não se trata de superar a centralização mas de mitigar abusos produzidos por esta, como dificultar a corrupção política, a censura indiscriminada, ou ainda, diminuir o poder em certos setores como a invasão de privacidade e o uso inadequado dos dados dos usuários. Estas são algumas possibilidades que a consolidação da Web3 tem potencial de melhorar.

Mesmo os mais críticos da Web3 admitem que existe lugar para esta tecnologia, não como fenômeno soberano de superação da internet centralizada, mas como ferramenta de apoio para uma centralização mais justa aos interesses da sociedade.

Neste momento é importante uma maior atenção sobre:

Caráter experimental: A tecnologia por ser experimental provavelmente vai atrair uma gama significativa de desenvolvedores e investidores, gerando o surgimento de propostas inovadoras que em sua maioria podem se mostrar insatisfatórias deixando de existir. Apostar em projetos inovadores é assumir riscos.

Centralização disfarçada: Embora a Web3 prometa descentralização, muitos críticos apontam que ainda existem elementos de centralização, especialmente nas plataformas e aplicativos populares. Alguns afirmam que grandes empresas e consórcios podem dominar o espaço, controlando protocolos e definindo regras, o que pode minar o princípio da descentralização.

Complexidade e acessibilidade: A Web3 ainda é relativamente complexa para a maioria dos usuários comuns, o que pode dificultar a adoção em massa. Além disso, a falta de acessibilidade pode excluir certos grupos de participar plenamente da web3, criando potencialmente mais desigualdades.

Perda de controle e recuperação de dados: Como a Web3 é baseada em tecnologias descentralizadas, a recuperação de dados perdidos ou a correção de erros pode ser um desafio, pois não há uma entidade central para intervir.

Regulação e conformidade: A natureza descentralizada da Web3 pode criar desafios para a aplicação de regulamentações e leis. Isso pode levar a cenários em que atividades ilegais ou prejudiciais são mais difíceis de serem controladas e punidas.

Especulação e bolhas: Algumas críticas apontam para a presença de especulação exagerada no mercado de criptomoedas e ativos digitais na Web3, levando a bolhas e riscos significativos para os investidores.

No entanto, ao mesmo tempo que existem riscos, também é possível mensurar benefícios na implementação de sistemas baseados em Web3, entre eles:

Maior Segurança Cibernética: Em sistemas descentralizados, os dados e as operações não estão concentrados em um único ponto central, tornando-os menos vulneráveis a ataques cibernéticos direcionados a um único ponto de falha. Isso aumenta a resistência da rede e melhora a segurança dos dados.

Resistência a falhas: A descentralização permite que a rede continue operando mesmo que algumas partes dela enfrentam problemas ou falhas. Isso torna a infraestrutura mais robusta e confiável, reduzindo o risco de interrupções generalizadas.

Autonomia do Usuário: Em sistemas descentralizados, os usuários têm maior controle sobre seus dados e identidade. Eles não precisam confiar em uma autoridade central para gerenciar suas informações pessoais e financeiras.

Redução do Risco de Censura: A descentralização dificulta a censura e a manipulação de informações, pois não há uma única entidade com controle sobre a rede. Isso é especialmente importante em ambientes onde a liberdade de expressão e o acesso à informação são fundamentais.

Inclusão Financeira: A descentralização pode democratizar o acesso a serviços financeiros, permitindo que pessoas sem acesso a instituições financeiras tradicionais participem da economia global através de criptomoedas e finanças descentralizadas (DeFi).

Transparência e Imutabilidade: A tecnologia blockchain, frequentemente usada em sistemas descentralizados, oferece um registro transparente e imutável de transações e atividades. Isso aumenta a confiança e a prestação de contas dentro da rede.

Inovação Aberta e Colaborativa: A descentralização pode fomentar a inovação aberta e a colaboração entre diferentes partes interessadas. Isso permite que projetos e plataformas se desenvolvam com base nas contribuições de uma comunidade diversificada de desenvolvedores e usuários.

Propriedade dos Ativos Digitais: Em sistemas descentralizados baseados em blockchain, os usuários têm controle direto sobre seus ativos digitais, como criptomoedas e tokens não fungíveis (NFTs), sem a necessidade de intermediários.

Menos Dependência de Terceiros: A descentralização reduz a dependência de empresas e instituições centralizadas, proporcionando uma estrutura mais resiliente e independente.

Flexibilidade e Adaptabilidade: Sistemas descentralizados são geralmente mais flexíveis e adaptáveis a mudanças e evoluções, pois não precisam passar por processos burocráticos complexos para implementar atualizações e melhorias.

Compreender a proposta e como está se desenvolvendo o modelo Web3 pode ser decisivo para que você aproveite as oportunidades que são próprias das tecnologias emergentes.

Na medida do possível, não deixe de observar como e para qual direção a Web3 está se direcionando, especialmente projetos baseados em Blockchain do Bitcoin, como o Nostr, ou ainda, a rede lightning.

Iniciar pelo conceito de descentralização presente nos fundamentos do Bitcoin pode ser uma boa forma de entender tudo que emergiu depois, distinguindo o marketing das propostas efetivas.

Web3 e os limites da liberdade de expressão

A Web3 é um modelo de organização social e tecnológica que está em constante desenvolvimento para entregar aos usuários um tipo de liberdade polêmica quando o assunto é bem-estar social e limites de expressão.

No modelo atual de organização social e tecnológica, as pessoas possuem seus impulsos de comunicação regulados pelas instituições, as postagens são moderadas e as empresas podem ser responsabilizadas juridicamente. Esse modelo de regulação gera algum bem-estar social ao conter impulsos negativos por meio da centralização dos dados e garantir uma correta identificação das pessoas.

Preconceitos, ofensas, discursos de ódio e outras ações danosas são amenizadas pela moderação e, em alguns casos, punição. No modelo atual, que é centralizado, as pessoas são facilmente identificadas e responsabilizadas. Por outro lado, abusos institucionais, calando protestos legítimos e forçando uma narrativa de quem está no controle, são um efeito colateral indesejado que ocorre com frequência nesse tipo de organização.

No modelo da Web3, a proposta é passar o controle dos dados aos seus usuários, sem mediação institucional, além de descentralizar os servidores, dificultando a censura. Como não existe um servidor central, é difícil retirar do ar um dado conteúdo. Sendo os dados não legitimados por uma empresa, a identidade da pessoa pode ser falsa ou ocultada, ficando anônima.

Uma tecnologia experimental (mas centralizada) bem-sucedida apontando nesta direção foi o fórum 4chan, fundado em 2003 e ativo até hoje, com mais de doze milhões de visitantes por mês, sendo considerado o fórum online mais acessado do mundo.

O fórum 4chan é de postagem anônima, não possui cadastro e a consequência é uma grande propagação de informações falsas, teorias da conspiração e pessoas não identificadas.

Outra experiência (também centralizada) foi a rede social GAB, lançada em 2016 como uma alternativa ao Twitter, capaz de proporcionar e garantir liberdade de expressão. Essa rede social enfrentou diversos problemas, perda de parcerias e muita confusão com postagens de discursos de ódio, entre outras expressões danosas para a nossa sociedade.

O projeto da Web3 tenta resolver os problemas de censura abusiva das instituições centralizadas, proporcionando meios para uma liberdade saudável e necessária, que pode ser alcançada pela descentralização e controle dos dados gerenciado pelo próprio usuário.

Na prática, ainda é cedo para saber se o esforço dos desenvolvedores da Web3 é uma utopia ou algo tangível de ser realizado.

Uma grande dificuldade que encontrei ao experimentar tecnologias Web3 foi a falta de usabilidade para não tecnólogos. Em geral, as tecnologias Web3 exigem conhecimento técnico prévio, afastando a maioria das pessoas.

Outro desafio para os desenvolvedores Web3 é a falta de propagação e entendimento da proposta que norteia esse modelo. A maioria das pessoas está interessada no uso prático e não no modelo social que fundamenta uma dada solução tecnológica.

A ausência de conhecimento da fundamentação social-tecnológica gera muita confusão e problemas de mau uso das tecnologias. O Bitcoin é um bom exemplo, é uma tecnologia experimental focada na liberdade econômica ao dispensar intermediários como bancos e instituições regulatórias. No entanto, acumulou uma grande quantidade de pessoas especulando pela possibilidade de ficarem ricos, tornando-se alvos fáceis de golpistas que aproveitam do impulso ganancioso da vítima para enganar e roubar.

Tecnologias experimentais são, em certa medida, experimentos sociais. Compreender a fundamentação de tais experimentos e seus resultados é importante para uma transformação saudável das relações sociais e uma forma de melhor orientar as pessoas em seu entorno.

Pais, professores e educadores em geral, podem ficar melhor preprados ao compreender os modelos sociais que estão em disputa na produção tecnológica.

Para entender os aplicativos, protocolos e soluções baseadas na web3 é aconselhavél conhecer o problema fundamental da liberdade de expressão e organização dos modelos sociais que essa proposta busca aperfeiçoar.

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A palavra "blog" é uma abreviação de "weblog", que significa "registro na web". Os blogs são geralmente mantidos por indivíduos, grupos ou empresas com o objetivo de compartilhar informações, opiniões, histórias, conhecimento ou qualquer outro tipo de conteúdo com seu público-alvo.

Ao criar o seu próprio blog, você exercitará não apenas a escrita, mas também a lógica do planejamento. Basicamente, os conteúdos são organizados em formato de postagens individuais, que representam as unidades básicas de conteúdo em um blog. Essas postagens frequentemente incluem texto, imagens, vídeos, links e outros elementos multimídia.

Planejar a pauta do blog, organizar os temas, pesquisar sobre o assunto que você vai abordar e planejar a forma de apresentar o conteúdo são exercícios que ampliam uma variedade de habilidades, beneficiando você intelectualmente. Além de ser divertido, manter um blog é uma forma eficaz de aprendizado e crescimento pessoal.

No entanto, esse crescimento intelectual só ocorre se você realmente se envolver, escrever o texto e administrar seu blog. Copiar conteúdo de outros e republicá-lo não contribui de forma eficaz para o seu desenvolvimento. É necessário realmente praticar o planejamento e a escrita para se beneficiar.

Principais benefícios

Clareza de Pensamento: A escrita envolve organizar e estruturar seus pensamentos de forma coerente. Escrever ajuda a clarificar ideias e a expressá-las de maneira mais precisa, o que, por sua vez, melhora a clareza de pensamento.

Habilidades de Comunicação: Escrever regularmente aprimora as habilidades de comunicação escrita. Isso é fundamental em muitos aspectos da vida, desde a comunicação no trabalho até a interação social e a resolução de problemas.

Raciocínio Crítico: A escrita envolve análise, argumentação e avaliação. Ao escrever, você é incentivado a pensar criticamente sobre um tópico, apresentar argumentos lógicos e considerar diferentes perspectivas.

Memória e Retenção de Informações: Escrever sobre um tópico exige que você organize informações e conceitos em sua mente. Esse processo de estruturação ajuda na retenção de informações, tornando mais fácil lembrar e compreender conceitos complexos.

Resolução de Problemas: Ao enfrentar desafios na escrita, como encontrar as palavras certas, resolver problemas de lógica ou superar bloqueios criativos, você está constantemente exercitando suas habilidades de resolução de problemas.

Desenvolvimento de Vocabulário: A escrita frequentemente envolve a exploração de novas palavras e frases. Quanto mais você escreve, mais expansivo se torna seu vocabulário, o que pode melhorar a qualidade da sua comunicação em geral.

Criatividade: A escrita criativa estimula a criatividade e a imaginação. Ao criar histórias, poesia ou ficção, você está exercitando sua mente de maneiras que podem promover a criatividade em outros aspectos da vida.

Autoconsciência e Autorreflexão: A escrita diária, como manter um diário pessoal, pode promover a autorreflexão. Isso ajuda a aumentar a autoconsciência, a compreensão emocional e a resolução de problemas pessoais.

Pensamento Crítico e Argumentação: Escrever ensaios, artigos ou posts de blog requer a capacidade de construir argumentos sólidos e sustentá-los com evidências. Isso melhora o pensamento crítico e a capacidade de argumentação.

Aprendizado Contínuo: Quando você escreve sobre um tópico específico, muitas vezes precisa pesquisar e aprender mais sobre ele. Isso promove o aprendizado contínuo e o desenvolvimento intelectual.

Em resumo, o exercício da escrita não apenas melhora as habilidades de comunicação, mas também fortalece a mente, promovendo o pensamento crítico, a criatividade, a resolução de problemas e o desenvolvimento cognitivo de maneira geral. Portanto, manter o hábito da escrita pode ser uma ferramenta valiosa para o crescimento pessoal e intelectual.

Desafios

Embora criar e manter um blog seja benéfico para seu desenvolvimento cognitivo e intelectual, todos os blogueiros em algum momento precisam enfrentar desafios, por exemplo:

Falta de Tempo: Manter um blog requer um compromisso de tempo substancial. A criação de conteúdo de qualidade, promoção nas redes sociais, gerenciamento de comentários e interação com os leitores podem ser tarefas demoradas.

Bloqueio Criativo: Às vezes, os blogueiros podem ficar sem ideias ou enfrentar bloqueios criativos, tornando difícil produzir conteúdo regularmente.

Desenvolvimento de Audiência: Construir uma base de leitores fiel leva tempo e esforço. Muitos blogueiros iniciantes enfrentam a dificuldade de atrair tráfego para seus blogs.

Manter a Consistência: Manter uma programação regular de publicação é importante para manter o interesse dos leitores. Manter a consistência pode ser difícil quando há outras demandas em sua vida.

Pressão para Performar: Às vezes, os blogueiros podem sentir pressão para produzir conteúdo popular ou viral, o que pode ser estressante e levar à perda de autenticidade.

Isolamento: Escrever pode ser uma atividade solitária. Alguns blogueiros podem sentir-se isolados, especialmente se não têm muita interação social offline.

Apesar desses desafios, muitos blogueiros acham a experiência recompensadora e gratificante. Superar essas dificuldades é justamente o que resulta no crescimento pessoal, profissional e criativo. É importante estar ciente que existem desafios e estar disposto a enfrentá-los ao iniciar e manter um blog.

Por Onde Começar

Uma maneira recomendada de iniciar seu blog é mitigar desafios técnicos, como preocupações com otimização para mecanismos de busca, como o Google, Bing, e outros. Também é aconselhável evitar preocupações técnicas relacionadas ao desenvolvimento de algoritmos de hospedagem e segurança digital. Nesse sentido, montar seu blog em uma plataforma já consolidada ajuda a evitar uma sobrecarga de tarefas técnicas, permitindo que você se concentre em dominar a arte do planejamento e da escrita.

Existem boas plataformas gratuitas disponíveis para hospedar seu blog.

Medium.com:

O Medium é uma plataforma de publicação de conteúdo online lançada em agosto de 2012 por Evan Williams, co-fundador do Twitter. Ele oferece a oportunidade para escritores, jornalistas, blogueiros e outros criadores de conteúdo compartilharem seus artigos, histórias e ideias com uma audiência global. O Medium foi projetado com simplicidade e facilidade de uso em mente, destacando a qualidade do conteúdo e promovendo interações civilizadas entre os leitores.

Recentemente, a empresa responsável pelo Medium optou por focar exclusivamente no mercado de língua inglesa, encerrando suas operações em vários países, incluindo o Brasil. No entanto, ainda é uma excelente opção para postagem de conteúdo. Aqui estão alguns motivos pelos quais o Medium pode ser uma escolha valiosa:

SEO Amigável: O Medium é altamente compatível com os algoritmos de busca do Google, o que pode aumentar a visibilidade do seu conteúdo online.

Sem Preocupações com SEO: Você não precisa se preocupar em configurar SEO, pois a plataforma cuida disso para você, simplificando o processo de publicação.

Comunidade Ativa: Apesar da redução no número de autores brasileiros, ainda existe uma comunidade ativa no Medium que valoriza qualidade e civilidade.

Ampliação de Visibilidade: Mesmo com as mudanças na plataforma, o Medium continua oferecendo recursos que podem melhorar a visibilidade do seu conteúdo na internet.

Mirror.xyz:

O Mirror é uma plataforma de escrita da web 3.0 que permite aos escritores publicarem conteúdo e lançarem projetos de financiamento coletivo por meio da plataforma. Criado por Denis Nazarov em 2020, ele opera com um modelo de negócios descentralizado e é baseado na blockchain do Ethereum.

Essa plataforma concentra-se no empreendedorismo digital, permitindo que escritores vendam assinaturas e conteúdo na forma de NFTs. É frequentemente comparado ao Medium, compartilhando algumas das vantagens mencionadas anteriormente, como facilidade de uso e credibilidade nos mecanismos de busca.

Linkedin.com:

O LinkedIn, fundado por Reid Hoffman e lançado publicamente em 2003, é uma rede social direcionada para profissionais. Ela é amplamente utilizada para fins de networking, busca de emprego, recrutamento e compartilhamento de conteúdo relacionado a negócios e carreiras. Ao longo dos anos, o LinkedIn cresceu consideravelmente e se estabeleceu como uma das principais plataformas de networking online no mundo empresarial.

Apesar dos desafios e mudanças na plataforma ao longo do tempo, o LinkedIn melhorou seu sistema de publicação de artigos, tornando-se mais amigável para mecanismos de busca e se aproximando das vantagens encontradas no Medium.

Portanto, publicar conteúdo no LinkedIn, Medium ou Mirror pode aumentar significativamente sua presença na internet e tornar seu conteúdo mais acessível aos motores de busca e ao público em geral. Além de proporcionar uma forma de ampliar, pelo exercício da escrita, uma gama variada de habilidades.

Quais Assuntos Abordar

Existem diversos tipos de blogs, cada um com seu propósito e estilo exclusivos. Não há limites para os temas que você pode explorar em um blog; o seu interesse por determinado assunto é o que orienta a direção do conteúdo. Aqui estão alguns exemplos:

Curadoria (Temático): Um blog de curadoria, também conhecido como blog temático, é focado em selecionar, resumir e compartilhar conteúdo de alta qualidade relacionado a um tópico específico. Os blogueiros geralmente atuam como curadores de informações, reunindo recursos relevantes para seu público.

Estilo de Vida (Diário): Um blog de estilo de vida é pessoal e abrange uma variedade de tópicos que refletem o estilo de vida do autor, como moda, viagens, culinária, família e bem-estar. Esses blogs frequentemente incluem histórias pessoais e experiências do autor.

Profissional (Portfólio): Um blog profissional é usado para destacar o trabalho e as conquistas de um indivíduo ou profissional. Pode funcionar como um portfólio online que exibe exemplos de projetos, habilidades e realizações.

Ensino (Tutoriais): Blogs de ensino ou tutoriais são criados para educar os leitores sobre um tópico específico. Eles geralmente oferecem passo a passo, dicas e recursos para ajudar os leitores a aprenderem algo novo, como programação, culinária, artesanato, etc.

Viagens: Um blog de viagens documenta as experiências de viagens de um autor, incluindo destinos, dicas de viagem, itinerários, avaliações de hotéis e restaurantes. É uma maneira de compartilhar aventuras e inspirar outros viajantes.

Opinião (Editorial): Um blog de opinião é usado pelo autor para expressar suas visões e opiniões sobre uma ampla gama de tópicos, como política, cultura, tecnologia ou qualquer outro assunto. Esses blogs frequentemente incentivam discussões e debates.

Notícias e Atualidades: Este tipo de blog concentra-se em fornecer notícias e informações atualizadas sobre um setor específico, eventos, políticas, ou notícias em geral. Os autores atuam como jornalistas independentes.

Alimentação e Culinária: Blogueiros de comida e culinária compartilham receitas, dicas de culinária, críticas de restaurantes, e experiências gastronômicas. Fotos atraentes geralmente fazem parte do conteúdo.

Finanças Pessoais: Esses blogs fornecem conselhos, dicas e estratégias para gerenciar finanças pessoais, investir, economizar dinheiro e alcançar objetivos financeiros.

Saúde e Bem-Estar: Blogueiros de saúde e bem-estar compartilham informações sobre dieta, exercícios, saúde mental, bem-estar geral e dicas para um estilo de vida mais saudável.

Moda e Beleza: Esses blogs se concentram em tendências de moda, dicas de beleza, resenhas de produtos e conselhos de estilo.

Maternidade/Paternidade: Blogueiros que são pais compartilham suas experiências, dicas de criação de filhos, conselhos sobre gravidez e histórias relacionadas à maternidade/paternidade.

Arte e Cultura: Esses blogs exploram tópicos relacionados a arte, música, cinema, literatura, teatro e cultura em geral. Eles podem incluir análises de obras, entrevistas com artistas e muito mais.

Ciência e Tecnologia: Blogs de ciência e tecnologia abordam avanços científicos, inovações tecnológicas, análises de gadgets e discussões sobre os últimos desenvolvimentos nesses campos.

Anime e Cultura Pop: Esses blogs são dedicados a análises, notícias e discussões sobre anime, filmes, séries de TV, videogames e outros aspectos da cultura pop.

História e Patrimônio Cultural: Blogs desse tipo exploram eventos históricos, patrimônio cultural, arqueologia, curiosidades históricas e muito mais.

Sustentabilidade e Meio Ambiente: Blogs focados em sustentabilidade discutem questões ambientais, dicas para um estilo de vida sustentável e notícias relacionadas ao meio ambiente.

Esses são apenas alguns exemplos de tipos de blogs. A escolha do tipo de blog depende dos interesses e objetivos do autor. Cada tipo de blog tem seu próprio público, mas todos oferecem uma oportunidade de compartilhar informações, histórias e paixões com uma audiência global.

Planeje e mantenha seu próprio blog, sozinho ou com amigos, aproveite os benefícios do exercício de escrita.

Inicie ainda hoje!

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A Duino-coin foi fundada em 2019 por estudantes de graduação em ciência da computação, é um projeto de criptografia que permite minerar e aprender sobre esta prática em qualquer dispositivo de baixa potência.

Geralmente minerar criptomoedas exige equipamento potente e de alto custo. O que pode dificultar o aprendizado sobre os princípios e técnicas desta prática.

Pensando nisso, o projeto Duino-coin proporciona aprender e realizar a mineração de uma criptomoeda chamada Duco. O algoritmo roda no Raspberry pi, Arduino, ESP8266/ESP32, CPU antiga, Smartphone e SmarthTV, roteadores, etc.

Se você deseja aprender sobre criptografia e coletar algumas criptomoedas Duco, pode ser uma boa ideia estudar este projeto em: https://duinocoin.com

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Artesanato é uma atividade que requer atenção, sendo excelente para pessoas que precisam deixar de pensar em seus problemas por algum tempo. Nesse sentido, o artesanato é altamente recomendado para pessoas que desejam aliviar o estresse.

Daniel Shankalonian monta com peças de sucatas uma série de representações que vão desde insetos até naves espaciais dos filmes de ficção.

Iniciando em 2010 com esta prática de transformar peças em objetos interessantes, Daniel somou uma grande variedade de montagens. Confira algumas das fotos em nosso álbum https://photos.app.goo.gl/6jP9fXQfaySqqFJa6

Se você quer começar a fazer artesanato, pode fazê-lo de diferentes formas, entre elas, manuseando materiais recicláveis como fez Daniel. Além de ajudar na preservação da natureza com a reciclagem, você pode se beneficiar do efeito terapêutico desta atividade.

Embora o artesanato seja uma atividade relaxante para qualquer idade, diveros estudos sinalizam a importância desta práxis no envelhecimento ativo,sendo algo indicado também para idosos.

Leia um estudo sobre esse fato no https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dmg-1kNnU5SRTLoYMZaFfpb5xXjzTM02/view?usp=sharing

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O fotógrafo Babycakes Romero é principalmente um fotógrafo de rua dedicado a documentar o mundo ao seu redor, ele teve a ideia de registrar imagens de pessoas reunidas em bares, parques, empresas e ruas de sua cidade, capturando através da lente um silêncio revelador.

Romero afirma que não tem problemas com tecnologia portátil especificamente, porque nossos dispositivos facilitam nossas vidas, mas ele acredita que o celular está deixando as pessoas seriamente chatas.

O fotógrafo esclarece que passou a fotografar pessoas em companhia em seus telefones, pois havia uma certa simetria nelas e isso atraía visualmente, no entanto, Romero salienta que, à medida que continuou percebeu uma tristeza inerente aos procedimentos.

Antes da invenção dos telefones celulares, as pessoas não tinham escolha a não ser interagir. No entanto, isso não é mais necessário, pois agora todos podemos “fingir” que estamos fazendo algo “importante” em nossos dispositivos, em vez de pensar em algo para dizer. Isso está matando a conversa. Acredito que está aumentando a dor social.

A maioria das pessoas costumava usar cigarros como um suporte social. É certo que eles fazem mal à saúde, mas pelo menos não transformam as pessoas em chatos 'plugados'. Juntos devemos ser fortes e nos libertar das amarras dos smartphones e trazer de volta o bate-papo cara a cara!

Veja em nosso álbum, uma série de momentos fortografados por Babycakes Romero, capturando um silêncio evidente.

Acesse: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mju5mstC3EZMQNL59

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O telegra.ph é um ambiente mantido pelo Telegram desde 2016 e tem como proposta garantir a liberdade de expressão. Cada internauta pode postar o que desejar sem a necessidade de se identificar.

Se você deseja manter seu conteúdo gravado na internet por longos períodos, sem precisar investir com custo de hospedagem ou manutenção de um blog fixo. O telegra.ph pode ser uma solução interessante.

Embora seja mantido pelo Telegram, não é necessário abrir uma conta se a postagem não será alterada com o tempo. Sem a necessidade de editar o conteúdo, você pode simplesmente abrir a página do telegra.ph e postar seu conteúdo. Ele ficará gravado na internet até algum dia o Telegram descontinuar o serviço.

Postar seu conteúdo é muito simples. Basta abrir o endereço telegra.ph em qualquer navegador, seja no PC ou no celular, e preencher com título, nome do autor e conteúdo do texto. É possível inserir imagens e incorporar vídeos do YouTube e Vimeo colando links diretamente no canvas. Além disso, é possível embedar publicações do Twitter.

No entanto é importante lembrar que, se você postar sem efetuar login no Telegram, não será possível editar o conteúdo no futuro. Sem login, a postagem fica registrada mas sem possibilidade de mudanças. Sua postagem pode ser encontrada facilmente pelo buscador google.

Para quem está buscando uma forma simples de postar conteúdo na internet, o Telegra.ph pode ser uma solução interessante. As pessoas podem encontrar seu texto pelo buscador google ou com a sua divulgação do link da postagem.

Faça sua postagem em: https://telegra.ph

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• オランダ語：nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1equrmqway3qxw3dkssymusxkwgwrqypfgeqx0lx9pgjam7gnj4ysaqhkj6
• アラビア語：nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1nje4ghpkjsxe5thcd4gdt3agl2usxyxv3xxyx39ul3xgytl5009q87l02j
• ドイツ語：nostr: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 thanks to nostr:npub1eseajvcuqgk6dy98zndje76hcd485zwmhjx4ztgnw4yruq68lhxq45cqvg
• ロシア語：nostr: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 by nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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こんにちは、親愛なるノストリッチさん！

Nostrは全く新しいムーブメントです。はじめの一歩をよりスムーズに、より豊かにするためのいくつかの手順をご紹介しましょう。

👋 ようこそ

これを読んでいるあなたは、すでにモバイルアプリをダウンロードしてNostrに参加しているはずです (例：Damus, Amethyst, Plebstr)。もしくは以下のウェブクライアントかもしれません (例：snort.social, Nostrgram, Iris)。初心者の方であれば、選んだアプリに合った手順に従うことが重要です。ただし、最低限必要な手順はどのアプリにおいても基本は同じですので、ベーシック以上のことを知る必要はありません（もちろん、知りたければトライしてみましょう）。もしあなたが、この記事を偶然見つけて、まだNostr【アカウント】を取得していない場合は、以下のリンクをご覧ください：いちばん簡単なステップリスト by nostr:npub1cly0v30agkcfq40mdsndzjrn0tt76ykaan0q6ny80wy034qedpjsqwamhz.

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🤙 楽しもう

Nostrは、人々が確実につながれ、意見を聞いてもらえ、そして、その過程を楽しむことができるように設計されています。これが重要なのです（もちろん、自由の戦士や内部告発者のためのツールであるなど、深刻な使用例もたくさんありますが、それは別の記事で書くことにしましょう）。ですから、何か難しい感じることがあれば、経験豊富なノストリッチたちに声をかけてください。私たちは歓迎します。Nostrでの交流は決して難しいものではありませんが、従来のプラットフォームと比べるといくつか特殊な点があります（でも何も心配することはありません）。

非公式 Nostrアンバサダーリストはこちら：

nostr:naddr1qqg5ummnw3ezqstdvfshxumpv3hhyuczypl4c26wfzswnlk2vwjxky7dhqjgnaqzqwvdvz3qwz5k3j4grrt46qcyqqq82vgwv96yu

リストに掲載されたすべてのノストリッチには、Nostrアンバサダー バッジが授与されていますので、簡単に彼らを見つけることができ、また、フォローすることができます。

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⚡️ ザップしよう

Zap（ザップ）は、Nostrに参加したら最初に気づく違いの1つです。ザップはNostrユーザーが即座に価値を送ることを可能にし、便利で楽しいコンテンツの作成をサポートします。これはビットコインとライトニングネットワークによって実現しました。これらの分散型決済プロトコルにより、従来のソーシャルメディアプラットフォームで誰かの投稿に「いいね！」をするのと同じくらい簡単に、satoshi / sats（ビットコインネットワークの最小単位）を即座に送ることができます。私たちはこのモデルをValue-4-Value（バリューフォーバリュー）と呼んでいて、この究極のマネタイズモデルについての詳細は以下をご覧ください：https://dergigi.com/value/

おすすめ記事 by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 では【ザップとは何か？】詳しく書かれてます。

あなたがコンテンツクリエイターでないとしても、ザップを有効にすべきです - 人々はあなたの投稿のいくつかに価値を見いだし、あなたにsatoshiを送りたいと思うかもしれません。Nostrで価値を受け取る最も簡単な方法は、以下の2ステップです：

1. Wallet of Satoshiをダウンロードする - ビットコインとライトニングを、スマホで初めて使うなら、おそらくベストチョイスのはずです[^1] なお、他にもたくさんのウォレットがありますので、ご自分に合ったものをお選びください。また、ウォレットはバックアップを必ずお忘れなく。
2. 【Receive / 受信】をタップする。
3. 画面に表示されているライトニングアドレス（メールアドレスのように見える文字列）をタップして、クリップボードにコピーします。
4. コピーしたアドレスをNostrクライアント内にある、対応箇所に貼り付けます（対応箇所には【Bitcoin Lightning Address / ビットコイン・ライトニングアドレス】や、【LN Address / LNアドレス】などのような記載があり、使用しているアプリによって異なります）。

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📫 Nostrアドレスを取得しよう

Nostrのアドレスは、Nostrの諸先輩たちによってしばしば【NIP-05 identifier / NIP-05識別子】と呼ばれているもので、電子メールのように見え：

🔍 アカウントの発見と共有を簡単にします ✔️ あなたが人間であることの証明に役立ちます

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以下がNostrのアドレスの例です：Tony@nostr.21ideas.org Nostrアドレスがあれば、どのNostrアプリであろうが、対応するユーザーを簡単に見つけることができます。

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Nostrアドレスを取得するには、次のような無料サービスを利用できますNostr Check (by nostr:npub138s5hey76qrnm2pmv7p8nnffhfddsm8sqzm285dyc0wy4f8a6qkqtzx624) または有料サービスですがNostr Plebs (by nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424) もおすすめです。どちらも異なる特典を提供していて、どちらを選ぶかはあなた次第です。また、Nostrアドレスを取得するもう1つの方法は、ブラウザの拡張機能を活用することです。この方法の詳細はこちらをご覧ください。

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🙇‍♀️ 基本を知ろう

Nostrは、従来のソーシャル・プラットフォームとは大きく異なるため、基本的なことを理解しておくことは、あなたのような新しいユーザーにとって有益です。誤解しないでほしいのは、プログラミング言語やプロトコルの技術的な詳細を学べと言っているのではありません。私が言いたいのは、NostrとTwitter / Medium / Redditの違いを理解し、より大きな視野を持つことはとてもためになるということです。例えば、パスワードやログイン機能はなく、代わりに秘密鍵と公開鍵が使われています。でも、難しくはありません。Nostrを理解するのに役立つ膨大なリソースがありますのでご安心を。このきちんと整理されたランディングページ by nostr:npub12gu8c6uee3p243gez6cgk76362admlqe72aq3kp2fppjsjwmm7eqj9fle6 には、💜とともにあなたが知るべきすべての情報が載っています。

これらのリソースが提供する情報は、あなたのNostrキー（つまりあなたのアカウント）を保護するのにも役立ちます。

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🤝 つながろう

優秀な [^3] 人たちとつながる能力こそが、Nostrを特別なものにしています。ここでは誰もが話を聞いてもらうことができ、誰も排除されることはありません。Nostrで面白い人を見つける簡単な方法はいくつかあります：

• ツイッターでフォローしている人を探す：https://www.nostr.directory/はそのための素晴らしいツールです。
• 信頼できる人がフォローしている人をフォローする：同じ興味を持つ人のプロフィールを見て、その人がフォローしている人のリストをチェックし、その人とつながろう。

• グローバルフィードを見てみる：すべてのNostrクライアント（Nostrアプリ）には、すべてのNostrユーザーの投稿を集約したグローバルフィードに切り替えるタブがあります。興味のある人をただフォローしてみましょう（我慢してください - グローバルフィードでは大量のスパムを見ることになるかもしれません）。

• ハッシュタグ # を活用しよう：ハッシュタグは好きなトピックに集中するのに最適な方法です。気になる # ハッシュタグをタップするだけで、そのトピックに関連する投稿がさらに表示されます。また、使っているアプリでハッシュタグを検索することもできます。発見力を高めるために、あなたが投稿する際も、ハッシュタグを使うことをお忘れなく。

https://nostr.build/i/0df18c4a9b38f1d9dcb49a5df3e552963156927632458390a9393d6fee286631.jpg スクリーンショット https://nostrgraph.net/ ダッシュボード by nostr:npub1ktw5qzt7f5ztrft0kwm9lsw34tef9xknplvy936ddzuepp6yf9dsjrmrvj

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🗺️ 探検しよう

ご紹介した5つのステップは、あなたの経験を大幅に向上させる素晴らしいスタートになったはずです。ですが、もっと新しい発見をサポートし、楽しむためのさらに多くのツールがあります！NostrはTwitterの代用品ではなく、その可能性は無限大です。

楽しくて便利なNostrプロジェクト・リストをご覧ください：

• https://nostrapps.com/ Nostrアプリ・リスト
• https://nostrplebs.com/ – NIP-05の取得とその他のNostr特典 (有料)
• https://nostrcheck.me/ – Nostrアドレス、メディアアップロード、リレー
• https://nostr.build/ – メディアアップロード管理 (などなど)
• https://nostr.band/ – Nostrネットワークとユーザー情報
• https://zaplife.lol/ – ザップ統計
• https://nostrit.com/ – 予約投稿
• https://nostrnests.com/ – Twitterスペース 2.0
• https://nostryfied.online/ - Nostr投稿のバックアップ
• https://www.wavman.app/ - Nostrミュージックプレイヤー

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📻 リレー

Nostrに慣れたら、Nostrリレーに関するクイックガイドをぜひご覧ください：https://lnshort.it/nostr-relays 最初のうちは特に心配するようなテーマではありませんが、あとになればなるほど、間違いなく重要なテーマとなります。

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📱 モバイル版Nostr

スマホでも、スムーズなNostr体験ができます。このガイドでは、スマートフォンでNostrウェブアプリケーションにシームレスにログイン、投稿、ザップなどを行う方法を説明します：https://lnshort.it/nostr-mobile

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読んでくれてありがとう、そしてラビットホールの向こう側でお会いしましょう

nostr:npub10awzknjg5r5lajnr53438ndcyjylgqsrnrtq5grs495v42qc6awsj45ys7

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[^1]： 忘れずにチェックしよう

@ d830ee7b:4e61cd62

"Bitcoin isn't real money until you can buy coffee at the street corner with it."

I've heard this frustrating argument many times. I don’t have exact numbers to confirm the current global adoption rate, but I believe over 90% of the world still doesn't know about it. That's why many still mockingly view Bitcoin as play money, stemming from their own misunderstandings.

Indeed, most general businesses don't accept it as a 'Unit of Account' yet. No governments globally have allowed Bitcoin to be a 'Medium of Exchange.' And why would they? Who would willingly relinquish financial control and power?

For over a decade, Bitcoin has proven itself as a 'Store of Value'. No other form of currency can preserve and enhance wealth like it. The HODLers have witnessed Bitcoin's value appreciation over time, surpassing fiat's fickle nature.

This phenomenon makes most Bitcoin enthusiasts reluctant to spend their stash. It's understandable and beyond criticism. After all, it's a natural right of an individual. We can't force someone to frivolously spend their saved Bitcoin, can we?

Then came Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja, who jointly developed the Lightning Network in 2015. Bitcoin's world was never the same.

In 2018, the Lightning Network was introduced to the public. Starting with about 4 BTC and 1,000 nodes in March 2018, it has grown to 4,797.48 BTC (+119,837%) and 15,448 nodes (+1,444.8%). No other payment system has witnessed such astounding growth.

Bitcoin enthusiasts, then, face a personal dilemma (especially from my experiences in Thailand). They must choose between hoarding fervently or using a fraction of their Bitcoins. Whichever path they choose, both essentially promote Bitcoin adoption. Both are pushing Bitcoin to become genuine money and gain global acceptance.

A new case study emerges for Bitcoin adoption following the advent of the Lightning Network. Instead of beginning with a laborious and time-consuming study of Bitcoin, this new generation can immediately adopt it through learning and experimenting with Bitcoin Lightning. Once they experience its convenience and instantly recognize its benefits, they willingly dive deeper, venturing down their own rabbit holes.

I have an example to illustrate this. The excitement of numerous people who tried the Lightning Payment at the Bitcoin Thailand Conference 2023 (#BTC2023).

https://youtu.be/-wVuD9QUe5U?si=2e7mfhhkVsbJrPU0

We at Right Shift saw this phenomenon coming from the outset, and have played a pioneering role in pushing Lightning Network Adoption in Thailand consistently throughout 2022-2023. The impact has been overwhelmingly positive.

I can confidently state that its momentum is truly powerful. The only thing that could possibly hinder its growth is governments that don't wish to see it succeed. I believe they will either find a way to regulate it or, more likely, resist it vehemently with their lackluster CBDCs. Ironically, they're only driving more interest towards Bitcoin.

Today, I'd like to extend my gratitude to fiatjaf, the developer behind this human protocol, and Jack Dorsey, the force behind Nostr which you are using right now. Although it lacks any algorithm, I'm naturally addicted to it. I feel like a kid who has just received a Playstation5 after waiting for 3 years.

Nostr is the next evolutionary step for humanity, working hand in hand with the stories I've mentioned above to further Bitcoin adoption. In a world currently heading towards severe inflation and mainstream social media acting like power-hungry tyrants, these elements will serve as perfect catalysts to accelerate the inevitable adoption.

I have endured the mainstream media and those overwhelming apps for so long. As soon as I encountered Nostr and its constant developments, I instantly foresaw the victory of the side I chose, which will surely happen in the near future.

My team, Right Shift, and I spent less than an hour discussing the campaign to promote Nostr in Thailand. Believe it or not, after that, hundreds of Thais started exploring Nostr, some of whom had never heard of the Lightning Network before!

They grew tired of the overbearing rules of mainstream social media platforms and quickly embraced Nostr (as evidenced by #ThaiNostrich, #Siamstr, and specific events like #ThailandZapathon, as well as what’s happening on Zap.stream).

Nostr, which has captured their hearts, introduced them to Lightning and Bitcoin. This realization hit me immediately.

I believe it's a brilliant idea to show people the deterioration of this world, starting with the online community and then expanding to the real society under the control of governments that shouldn't exist and play their current roles. Eventually, they will see that Bitcoin and Nostr are solutions to these distortions.

For this reason, Nostr is paving the way for more Bitcoin adoption options through use cases that resonate more with contemporary society.

Bitcoin is no longer a challenging or rocky subject to study. Nostr is one of the easiest and most fun ways to adopt Bitcoin right now.

I'm confident that when hosting the Bitcoin Thailand Conference 2024 (#BTC2024) next year, Nostr will surely be a major highlight.

If you are a developer, expert, or enthusiast on Nostr, let me know if you'd like to be in Bangkok next year.

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Com apenas seis caracteres na linha de comando você pode publicar gratuitamente seu site em HTML.

Testamos o Surge e ele realmente funciona muito bem, veja nossa postagem em https://ajuda.surge.sh. Você cria seu site num diretório dentro do computador e com um comando envia os arquivos para o servidor web.

O serviço é indicado para usuários Linux que estudam a construção de sites em html. O uso do Surge é por linha de comando, muito fácil de usar e permite criar sites ou fazer testes de programação.

Para publicar o seu site, só precisa dar um comando e todo o diretório com os arquivos em html são enviados para o servidor gratuito e ficam online instantaneamente.

Inicialmente o Surge cria uma sugestão aleatória de endereço web, mas você pode alterar para um nome de seu gosto. Pode também, se você possuir um domínio, apontar ele gratuitamente para seu endereço no Surge.

Para instalar o Surge é necessário usar o gerenciador de pacotes NPM em https://nodejs.org. Depois de instalar esse gerenciador é só usar o comando: npm install --global surge

Após instalado é só digitar surge no terminal e aparece as instruções de uso.

Acesse mais informações diretamente no site do servidor em http://Surge.sh

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"Don't sell your Bitcoin to Blackrock."

— Robin Seyr

Welcome to the latest issue of the Bitcoin For Families newsletter. This issue is a reminder not to panic.

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The price of Bitcoin has been down lately. It has spent the whole summer hovering around $29,000 USD and in mid August it suddenly dropped to $26,000, where it has stayed since.

If you're panicking and selling Bitcoin because of this 10% drop, then shame on you.

For reference, here is the price action for the whole year:

Does this look panicky to you?

Institutions are coming for your Bitcoin

That's right. All those ETFs that the SEC is about to approve, because the SEC can't say no to Blackrock, will need to buy Bitcoin for their clients and they want to take it off your hands.

Institutions need to buy from exchanges and the amount of Bitcoin available on exchanges just reached a 5-years low according to Bitcoin Magazine...

...so where is it going to come from?

The halving is coming

We're 83% percent into the current halving cycle. Sometime around April 2024, the Bitcoin network will halve the block reward for miners from 6.25 BTC per block to 3.125 BTC per block.

What can you expect based on past halvings?

The supply reduction causes a price increase, which creates more demand and higher prices. This positive feedback loop is triggered by the halving but takes some time to get started if there is enough people willing to sell to mitigate the reduction in new coins but eventually this positive feedback loop takes over and triggers a bull market.

After some time, the demand slows down, you see a pullback and the bear market starts. My take is that the time it takes for the slow down to begin depends on the maturity of Bitcoin and its understanding by the buyers.

So far bear markets have always bottomed higher than the previous, thus creating a volatile yet upward trend. But who knows, we might see something different in 2024. The chart below shows the Bitcoin price in USD and the halving events as red lines.

Keep those hands steady and hodl

Hodl. Stay cash flow positive so that you don't need to sell your sats.

Bitcoin is the most scarce asset in the world and soon it will become even more scarce.

What do you think will happen?

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Nesta pintura em óleo sobre tela, o artista alemão Schenck em 1876, deu a sua ovelha perturbada uma expressão sugestiva de desespero misturada com determinação. Reconhecendo essas respostas decididamente humanas, pode-se esperar que o espectador se identifique imediatamente com a situação sombria do animal. A bravura da ovelha diante da ameaça representada pelo círculo assassino de corvos é uma postura desafiadora frente ao inevitável. Há pouca sutileza evidente neste trabalho.

A pintura angústia foi uma das primeiras aquisições da Galeria Nacional de Victoria e os altos ideais expressos na pintura não foram perdidos pelos visitantes da Galeria. Em 1906, essa foto foi votada entre as cinco mais populares da coleção de Melbourne e novamente em 2011, durante o 150º aniversário da Galeria Nacional do Victoria, Anguish apareceu entre as 10 obras mais populares do público.

Angústia é uma condição psicológica bem complexa nos humanos. Tradicionalmente em algumas culturas a angústia é considerada como um fenômeno negativo e prejudicial, algo que deve ser evitado. No entanto, sendo uma manifestação psicológica, a angústia sinaliza em sua positividade um momento de parada, de atenção, que escapa aos limites da consciência e do familiarismo para induzir ação, criar sentidos. Em outras palavras, na manifestação da angústia o humano tem a oportunidade de se reinventar.

Para Sartre, o indivíduo possui liberdade de escolha para fazer opções em sua vida e, em contrapartida, esta consciência de liberdade suscita no sujeito o aterrorizante sentimento de angústia. Acesse um artigo acadêmico sobre o tema da angústia e aprofunde seu conhecimento. https://drive.google.com/file/d/16rYMb2RJ100Ho4TDC_sI2FW7jJYW-qQX/view?usp=sharing

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Broth, stock, fond, or caldo. No matter what it is called in cooking it is all the same thing: animal bones cooked in water with some vegetables and herbs/aromatics added for additional flavour. The French, the ones that standardized the modern kitchen in the 1800s, used terms to describe two of these components and you will see these terms used in many recipes. 'Mirepoix' refers to the mix of vegetables used and 'bouquet garni' is the bundle of herbs/aromatics used. Stocks, however, have been made in all cultures for centuries.

The ability to make a good stock is essential in any professional kitchen as it is the base of many things. I encourage any home cook to learn the basics as they are ridiculously simple to make. DON'T buy that fake shit they sell you at the grocery store, put in the #proofofwork.

Stocks will come in two styles, roasted or not roasted. By roasting your bones and mirepoix prior you naturally get more colour to the stock, the longer you roast, the more colour and deeper flavour you get.

Each component in stocks can be changed. I have made stock from the following bones: beef, chicken, lamb, duck, turkey, fish, pork, and veal. I don't mess with the mirepoix much, keeping it fairly classic but I do remove the carrot and add fresh fennel bulb when making fish stock (to keep the colour clear). The bouquet garni can be changed freely and whole spices added. Toast the spices first. Mix it up depending on the bones you use and what cuisine you are cooking.

The following recipe is for a classic roasted beef stock. If you roast the bones there will be some fat that accumulates, save this. I make all my stocks with a slow cooker and increase the cook time to 36 hours for beef, lamb and veal. 24 hours for poultry and 12 hours for fish.

You can make a stock with just vegetables but I don't know why you would! 🤣

enjoy and as always DM if you have any questions.

INGREDIENTS

1.5 kg Beef marrow bones

1.5 kg Beef chuck bones

1 ea Carrots, unpeeled and diced

1 ea Brown onion, unpeeled cut in ½ horizontally

1 ea Celery stalks, washed and large diced with leaves removed

1/2 ea Leeks washed and large diced with the dark green tops removed

1 ea Garlic bulb, unpeeled and cut in half horizontally

1 ea Bay leaves, fresh if possible

1/4 teaspoon Black peppercorns whole

4 ea Thyme sprigs, fresh

3 ea Parsley stalks, fresh

2 ea Rosemary stalks, fresh

5 L Water

proofofwork: 20 minutes prep for unroasted, 1 hour for the roasted. 8 hours cook time.

YEILD: 5 litres

METHOD:

1. Preheat the oven to 200c
2. Place the bones and vegetables on separate roasting trays and roast the bones in the oven for about 45-50 minutes or until they are a deep brown roasted colour. Roast the veg for about 20-30 minutes.
3. Remove bones from the roasting trays and place them into a large stock pot, avoid adding any fat from the trays. Don't discard the fat, keep it!
4. Heat the trays on a stovetop and deglaze them with water (or red wine) and using a wooden spoon scrape off any residual deposits. Pour this over your bones in the pot and cover with the water.
5. Place the stock on high heat and bring it to a boil. Once your stock is boiling turn it down to a simmer and skim any of the scum and oil that will rise to the top. Again, KEEP the oil. Leave on a low heat overnight.
6. Next day skim any fat and scum that is on the surface of the stock and add your roasted vegetables, herbs, garlic & pepper.
7. You should simmer your stock, not rapidly boil it, for a further 2 hours. Make sure you skim the scum and fat off your stock every 30 minutes at least. I'll say it again, KEEP THE FAT.
8. When finished strain the stock removing the bones, mirepoix and bouquet garni. Keep the liquid.
9. Allow the stock to cool and then store, label and date. Stock freezes very well and I break it down into 500ml containers.

enjoy #chefstr #foodstr #yumstr #grownostr #bitcoin

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Introduction: Crypto.com Exchange for European Traders

Reside in Europe, including non-EUR countries? Frustrated with the exorbitant spreads on the Crypto.com App (up to 5%) and high credit card fees (up to 3%) when you're eager to buy or sell cryptocurrency? This guide is tailored for you!

Quick Transfer with SEPA Instant

Did you know that you can transfer EUR to your Crypto.com Exchange account within minutes, and sometimes even seconds, including weekends and bank holidays? Yes, you absolutely can, thanks to SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst).

Supported Banks

To avail of fast EUR to Crypto.com Exchange transfers, ensure that your bank supports the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme. If your bank, or FinTech apps like Wise, is on this list, you're good to go.

My Recommendation: I vouch for Wise due to its flawless functionality and favorable exchange rates. If your bank doesn't support SCT Inst and you're unwilling to wait, you can swiftly load your account with any currency using a bank card for a rather small fee (~1.2%). My Wise Referral Code: andreya54

24/7 Transfer Availability

SCT Inst is incredibly flexible:

• 24/7/365 availability, including weekends and bank holidays
• Immediate receipt and availability of funds
• €100,000 transaction limit (unless previously agreed otherwise between PSPs)

For more details, you can read this document by the European Central Bank.

TL;DR

To Buy crypto: - EUR => BTC/EUR => ANY/BTC => ANY
- Use Limit order at the Lowest offer (aka "ask") (red order book)

To Sell crypto: - ANY => ANY/BTC => BTC/EUR => EUR
- Use Limit order at the Highest bid (green order book)

How to Buy Cryptocurrency with EUR

Here's how to save up to 8% on spreads and fees when buying/selling crypto compared to the Crypto.com App.

1. Log in to Crypto.com Exchange: Go to the Dashboard or Wallet in the top right, and navigate to Bank Transfer on the left sidebar.  

2. Deposit via SEPA: Choose EUR -> SEPA -> Deposit and use the displayed IBAN for transferring EUR to your Crypto.com Exchange account.

Trading Interface Tips

Intimidated by the professional trading interface? Don't be. Here's how to read the order book:

• Offers (Red): These are the prices at which people are willing to sell the asset. The lowest offer is often called the "Ask."
• Bids (Green): These are the prices at which people are willing to buy the asset. The highest bid is often called the "Bid."

Trading occurs when a buyer's bid meets a seller's offer. In market terms, this is often at the point where the highest bid and the lowest offer intersect. This intersection is frequently referred to as the "market price" for that particular asset at that specific time.

On trading pairs

Crypto.com Exchange offers only two EUR trading pairs: BTC/EUR and ETH/EUR. This is logical given that these assets have the highest liquidity in terms of market capitalization. While we hope for the addition of more pairs, the existing options still serve as useful proxies for purchasing other cryptocurrencies.

"highest liquidity" means that an asset like a cryptocurrency or stock can be easily bought or sold without causing a significant impact on its price. For a trader, this is good because it means they can quickly enter or exit positions without worrying about huge price changes.

Steps to Buy BTC with EUR

1. Navigate to the BTC/EUR Spot trading pair.
2. Choose "Buy" on the right-hand menu.
3. Stay on the "Limit" tab.
4. Specify your order value (how much EUR you want to spend to buy BTC)
5. Select the lowest offered (aka "ask") price (bottom of the red order book).
6. Click "Buy BTC" to confirm.

Diversifying: How to Buy ATOM Token?

First, buy BTC as previously explained. Then:

1. Navigate to the ATOM/BTC Spot trading pair.
2. Choose "Buy" on the right-hand menu.
3. Stay on the "Limit" tab.
4. Specify your order value (how much BTC you want to spend to buy ATOM)
5. Select the lowest offered (aka "ask") price (bottom of the red order book).
6. Click "Buy ATOM" to confirm.

Selling Your Assets

The process is the same but in reverse. Sell at the highest bid (top of the green order book).

Selling ATOM for BTC

1. Navigate to the ATOM/BTC Spot trading pair.
2. Choose "Sell" on the right-hand menu.
3. Stay on the "Limit" tab.
4. Specify your quantity value (how much ATOM you want to sell to buy BTC)
5. Select the highest bid (top of the green order book).
6. Click "Sell ATOM" to confirm.

Selling BTC for EUR

1. Navigate to the BTC/EUR Spot trading pair.
2. Choose "Sell" on the right-hand menu.
3. Stay on the "Limit" tab.
4. Specify your quantity value (how much BTC you want to sell to buy EUR)
5. Select the highest bid (top of the green order book).
6. Click "Sell BTC" to confirm.

You can then withdraw EUR back to your bank directly from the Crypto.Com Exchange.

Additionally

After you click "Buy" or "Sell," you will see your order in the "Open Orders" tab in the bottom menu. Once your order is 100% filled, it will disappear, and you will be able to see it in the "Trade History" tab.

Sometimes you might miss the opportunity as the price moves, and someone else's order could get filled faster than yours. Don't worry; you can either wait a little longer in hopes that someone will make an offer at this price or simply cancel your order and submit it again at the next lowest price if you are in a hurry.

Maker/Taker Fees Explained

When you open Buy/Sell orders on the Crypto.com exchange, you may incur small Maker/Taker fees of less than 0.0728%, or even no fees at all, depending on the amount of CRO you have staked on the platform.

• Maker Fee: When you place an order that adds liquidity to the market, you are a "Maker". This usually happens when you set a "limit" order that does not execute immediately and sits on the order book waiting for someone to match against it. Since you are "making" liquidity available for others, you pay a Maker fee.
• Taker Fee: When you place an order that removes liquidity from the market, you are a "Taker". This generally occurs when you place a "market" order that executes immediately against a pre-existing order on the order book. Because you are "taking" liquidity away, you pay a Taker fee.

Typically, Taker fees are higher than Maker fees as an incentive for traders to add liquidity to the market.

Read more on Maker/Taker fees on the Crypto.Com Exchange platform.

Conclusion

Thanks for reading this guide! It's lengthy, but every detail is crucial for optimal trading on Crypto.com Exchange.

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A pesquisadora Marie Curie, juntamente com seu marido Pierre, foi merecidamente premiada com o Prêmio Nobel em 1903 pela descoberta da radioatividade. O casal Curie trabalhou na investigação da radioatividade e descobriu, em julho de 1898, um novo elemento químico chamado polônio. No mesmo ano, eles descobriram o elemento rádio. Marie Curie posteriormente assumiu o cargo de professora, tornando-se a primeira mulher a ensinar na Sorbonne, em Paris. Ela faleceu em 1934 devido a uma leucemia, provavelmente uma consequência do contato direto e constante com materiais radioativos. Os estudos de Marie proporcionaram o surgimento do raio-X, entre outros avanços científicos.

No entanto, quando a radiação foi descoberta, as pessoas geralmente não faziam ideia de seus efeitos prejudiciais e a consideravam uma substância altamente benéfica para a saúde. Na ocasião, médicos e empresas aplicavam materiais radioativos em tudo, desde a água até a pasta de dente, com a intenção de criar produtos mais saudáveis. Também foi atribuída à radioatividade uma maior libido para quem usasse produtos radioativos.

O primeiro alerta de que algo não estava bem ocorreu quando um homem que estava tomando o pó de Thor-Rádio, indicado para aumentar habilidades sexuais, simplesmente viu sua mandíbula inferior cair do rosto, vindo a falecer dias depois. Foi nesse ponto que as pessoas começaram a perder a ingenuidade e a perceber os efeitos prejudiciais da radioatividade. A ciência como um todo aprendeu bastante com esse evento, em especial a importância de estudos rigorosos e prolongados testes antes de liberar o consumo em massa de novos produtos.

Não existe um registro preciso de quantas pessoas morreram por conta do consumo de produtos radioativos, mas sabe-se que foram muitas. A ingenuidade da época foi precursora do amadurecimento científico, mas acarretou sérios prejuízos para a saúde das pessoas e sofrimento para algumas famílias.

Em 1950, o entusiasmo pela radiação tomou a forma de um kit educacional que tinha como objetivo estimular o interesse dos jovens pela ciência. Chamado de "Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab", o kit incluía minérios de urânio beta-alfa (Pb-210), beta puro (Ru-106), gama (Zn-65) e alfa (Po-210), um eletroscópio, um contador Geiger, um manual de instruções e um livro em quadrinhos sobre como dividir o átomo. Além disso, o kit continha instruções do governo sobre prospecção de urânio.

Embora o kit não oferecesse riscos se manuseado corretamente, o manual de instruções alertava para a importância de seguir as orientações com cuidado e destacava a frase "Não coloque PO-210 na boca". O kit educacional foi comercializado entre 1950 e 1951.

O desenvolvimento científico ocorre num processo de superação da ingenuidade, em especial, diante do desconhecido. Vários são os exemplos de equívocos científicos históricamente registrados, como o uso de cigarros para terapia com gestantes, entre tantos outros.

Cada época tem um e outro equívoco frente ao desconhecido. Qual será nossa ingenuidade atual em relação aos efeitos do progresso tecnológico, com o surgimento das criptomoedas, o aperfeiçoamento da inteligência artificial e o efeito das redes sociais como forma de propagação de informações sem a necessidade de adequado processo de verificação?

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GPT-3 (abreviação de "Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3") é um modelo de linguagem de inteligência artificial de última geração desenvolvido pela OpenAI. É um dos maiores e mais avançados modelos de linguagem atualmente disponíveis, com mais de 175 bilhões de parâmetros.

Um dos principais usos do GPT-3 é gerar texto humano. Dado um prompt, o modelo pode gerar uma resposta coerente, fluente e muitas vezes difícil de distinguir do texto escrito por um ser humano. Esse recurso tem uma ampla gama de aplicações potenciais, incluindo chatbots, geração de conteúdo e atendimento ao cliente automatizado.

O GPT-3 foi treinado em um enorme conjunto de dados de texto gerado por humanos, o que permite entender a estrutura e o contexto da linguagem de maneira semelhante à forma como o cérebro humano processa a linguagem. Como resultado, é capaz de gerar um texto que muitas vezes é mais natural e coerente do que o texto gerado por outros modelos de linguagem.

Um dos desafios do uso do GPT-3 é que às vezes ele pode gerar texto tendencioso ou ofensivo. Isso ocorre porque o modelo aprendeu com os vieses presentes nos dados de treinamento e cabe ao usuário garantir que a saída do modelo seja adequada, no mais das vezes editando o conteúdo gerado pela inteligência artificial.

No geral, o GPT-3 é uma ferramenta poderosa para processamento de linguagem e está sendo usado em uma variedade de aplicativos, incluindo chatbots, geração de conteúdo e tradução automática. É um desenvolvimento empolgante no campo da IA ​​e provavelmente terá um impacto significativo na forma como usamos e interagimos com os computadores no futuro.

A inovação e avanço tecnológico geralmente produzem algum desconforto, principalmente em tecnologias que subvertem a forma como a sociedade se organiza. Este é o caso da Inteligência Artificial que vem agitando a vida nas escolas e universidades, colocando em cheque formas de avaliação e a própria dinâmica da educação.

Escolas de New York estão trabalhando para banir o acesso ao GPT-3. O motivo é que os alunos estão colocando a inteligência artificial para fazer o trabalho por eles.

A primeira notícia em forma de denùncia ocorreu sob o titulo: "Professor flagra aluna colando com ChatGPT: bem-vindo à nova era da desonestidade acadêmica” matéria publicada no New York Post em 26 dezembro de 2022.

Resumidamente, Darren Hick, professor na Furman University, EUA, desconfiou da autenticidade de um texto de um de seus alunos pelo uso de termos mais apropriados a uma criança inteligente de 12 anos. A desconfiança foi confirmada pelo software "GPT-2 Output Detector Demo”: havia 99,9% de probabilidade de o texto ter sido escrito por um sistema de inteligência artificial (IA); diante da evidência, o aluno admitiu e foi reprovado.

No Brasil não é diferente, alguns professores descobriram que o trabalho entregue foi terceirizado para um robô.

Com uma breve busca no Google é possivel encontrar diversas notícias sobre os desafios que o avanço tecnológico da inteligência artificial pode impor aos atuais métodos de ensino e avaliação.

Ao que parece, o futuro da inteligência artificial promete uma boa dor de cabeça na direção da criatividade e da inovação em diversos setores da sociedade.

Para testar o GPT-3 acesse: https://openai.com

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Do not fight back, do not complain, do not protest: “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu suggests as much. You do not confront a stronger opponent. By engaging them, you play their game. Opt out instead.

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O IPFS (Sistema de Arquivo Interplanetário) permite que as pessoas tenham um site totalmente seguro e distribuído, hospedado na rede e sem a necessidade de um servidor central.

Basicamente o sistema IPFS funciona criptografando o arquivo e fragmentando ele em vários pedaços, depois cada pedacinho é enviado para computadores conectados nesta rede. Quando alguém digita o endereço do arquivo, conhecido como Hash, os pedaços são agrupados e apresentados na tela do dispositivo.

Existe uma série de vantagens nesse sistema, entre elas está a segurança e a velocidade de acesso. A descentralização também é algo interessante, já que o seu site não vai depender de uma empresa para ser publicado.

Atualmente usamos a rede http:// para distribuição de sites, a rede IPFS opera em outro formato ipfs:// e precisa de um navegador que consiga se comunicar com esta rede. O navegador Brave foi um dos primeiros a implantar este sistema de comunicação em seu navegador.

No entanto é possível abrir o site ipfs:// em um formato http:// usando serviços intermediários, que traduzem o IPFS para o HTTP. Usando diretamente a rede ipfs:// a velocidade é boa, já o processo de conversão para o http:// depende da qualidade do serviço oferecido pelas empresas.

A rede IPFS já conta com vários dispositivos conectados que funcionam como um servidor descentralizado distribuído. É usada principalmente para nuvem de arquivos. A hospedagem de sites ainda tem um caminho de evolução pela frente.

No momento, em 2022, só é possível hospedar sites estáticos, em html simples.

Se você é um entusiasta das tecnologias da informação e gosta de interagir com elas, vai conseguir se divertir criando e publicando sua página web na rede IPFS.

Eu e alguns colegas testamos a rede IPFS e tem sido interessante acompanhar a evolução desta tecnologia. Para postar um site de teste, experimentamos três métodos diferentes, usamos um raspiberry pi 4 com linux em linha de comando, depois experimentamos no windows o software de compartilhamento e por último testamos o serviço online e gratuito da empresa Pinata.

O objetivo foi testar o grau de dificuldade de cada método. Ainda que o resultado final fosse o mesmo, publicar uma página na rede IPFS.

Para quem é iniciante o caminho mais fácil foi da empresa Pinata, já que basta subir o arquivo e eles disponibilizam na rede. O uso do software ipfs-desktop foi relativamente fácil, tanto no linux como windows, mas foi necessário abrir portas no roteador e configurar alguns aspectos de rede. Já o método por linha de comando diretamente aplicado no raspiberry pi, demanda um conhecimento técnico maior sobre redes, Linux e comandos via terminal.

Do ponto de vista técnico, a rede IPFS oferece uma ótima solução tecnológica para distribuição de arquivos. É eficiente, acessível, rápida e segura.

No entanto, quem publica um site para ser acessado por pessoas leigas em redes, vai enfrentar alguns desafios que podem ser superados com o uso da criatividade técnica, permitindo que qualquer pessoa acesse seu conteúdo publicado em html.

Disponibilizamos uma página online para que o leitor possa avaliar o desempenho da rede IPFS convertida para o HTTP. No entanto é importante lembrar que, como ocorre uma conversão de protocolo, pode ser lento a abertura do site na primeira vez. Caso ocorra erro 504, basta insistir um pouco.

Veja uma página html hospedada na rede IPFS e traduzida para o HTTP em https://bafybeigq4pidjl63g7uircvhs2po4yfsxuhldtai5msvppw3nexxdrlhmq.ipfs.dweb.link/

Compartilhe seus arquivos

O IPFS (Sistema de Arquivo Interplanetário) é considerado um método de melhorar a Internet e o armazenamento, que funciona com um Rede P2P e tecnologia blockchain para criar um site totalmente seguro e distribuído. Atualmente, a web usa um protocolo chamado HTTP que, além de realizar todas as operações e enviar todas as informações para a nuvem, é conhecido por ser um servidor centralizado com várias desvantagens de segurança e acesso restrito ao conteúdo.

Uma das principais vantagens que podemos encontrar em IPFS é que esta é uma rede descentralizada, composta de vários pontos de conexão. Isso garante o sistema e suas funções, além de evitar a comercialização dos nossos dados pessoais e ampliar as opções de navegação. Por não depender de um único nó, torna a rede muito mais eficiente. Como as redes centralizadas dependem de um único ponto de conexão e, se houver uma falha de comunicação, isso afetará imediatamente o sistema.

Neste formato de comunicação cada arquivo tem um hash exclusivo, que pode ser comparado a uma impressão digital. Quando você quiser baixar um determinado arquivo, você insere o Hash do arquivo e o sistema vasculha na rede IPFS e entrega o arquivo para você.

Outro recurso interessante em usar hashes para endereçar conteúdo é 'deduplicação'. Quando várias pessoas publicam o mesmo arquivo no IPFS, ele será criado apenas uma vez e isso torna a rede muito eficiente.

O IPFS é uma ótima maneira de compartilhar arquivos pela web, incluindo publicar seu próṕrio site HTML, sem servidor, diretamente no seu computador ou pelo repositório Pinata.

Para distribuir arquivos facilmente pelo seu computador, você pode baixa o IPFS-Desktop em https://docs.ipfs.io

Outra alternativa é usar o site Pinata, nele você pode subir até 1 GB de arquivos e distribuir online pela rede IPFS. O repositório Pinata está em https://app.pinata.cloud Basta cadastrar login e subir seus arquivos.

Se você é profissional ou estudante sobre redes digitais, pode ser interessante acessar este projeto de uma rede com protocolo IPFS e blockchain Stellar. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lfG-RIpwWnRwLfMp7nQYbLCaA2saqIeh/view?usp=sharing

Web Server IPFS na rede Onion

O meu fornecedor de internet não permite que as portas do roteador sejam abertas para que eu possa configurar um servidor doméstico. Conseguir acesso ao roteador só é possível contratando um plano de internet empresarial, algo que não vale o preço apenas para deixar ativo um servidor de uso pessoal.

Neste caso, uma alternativa que atendeu bem a minha necessidade em manter um servidor doméstico funcionando, com segurança e eficiência, consistiu na implementação do sistema de arquivos IPFS conectado pela rede Onion.

No sistema IPFS é possível criar sites estáticos, bem como, manter um repositório de arquivos. É uma forma segura e sem complicações para manter sua própria nuvem privada e um servidor web.

A rede Onion é bem conhecida por aqueles que trabalham ou estudam redes computacionais. Alguns chamam de Deep Web ou Dark Web. Basicamente, é uma rede composta em sua maioria por servidores domésticos rodando de forma anônima. Para trafegar dentro da rede Onon é preciso usar um navegador exclusivo chamado de TOR Browser.

Como é uma rede criptografada e baseada em camadas, a velocidade de navegação é lenta quando comparada com a internet convencional. Não é algo que inviabiliza o uso, funciona bem, mas causa um certo estranhamento em relação a velocidade nas primeiras vezes que você acessa.

Manter um servidor doméstico de baixo custo é bem simples. Um microcomputador como o Raspberry Pi, por exemplo, custa aproximadamente 35 dólares e possui um consumo de energia semelhante ao smartphone de baixa potência. Nesse sentido, é barato possuir seu próprio servidor web usando IPFS na rede Onion rodando num Raspberry Pi.

Além da velocidade, também causa algum estranhamento a forma como o endereço web é gerado. Diferente dos domínios convencionais, tanto o IPFS como na rede Onion os endereços são uma combinação de letras e números, gerando uma criptografia.

Este é a identificação Hash de um arquivo em IPFS: QmNQK9meN1SqH6XURd9tadPU2EBAdPyzvgKqxsvp3Z6Z41

Para acessar o arquivo do Hash acima em um navegador comum, você precisa de um interpretador chamado “gateway IPFS”, os mais conhecidos são: https://dweb.link e https://ipfs.io

No navegador basta inserir o gateway seguido do termo /ipfs/ e o Hash do arquivo. O endereço facará conforme o exemplo abaixo:

dweb.link/ipfs/QmNQK9meN1SqH6XURd9tadPU2EBAdPyzvgKqxsvp3Z6Z41

ipfs.io/ipfs/QmNQK9meN1SqH6XURd9tadPU2EBAdPyzvgKqxsvp3Z6Z41

gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmNQK9meN1SqH6XURd9tadPU2EBAdPyzvgKqxsvp3Z6Z41

Copie um dos endereços acima e cole no navegador para acessar o conteúdo.

Quanto ao meu servidor doméstico, essas são as duas questões que mais estranhei, o link gigante e o tempo que leva para abrir a página. Mas já estou usando meu servidor IPFS com Onion há alguns meses e fiquei satisfeito com o resultado. Atende bem minha necessidade.

Se você gosta de fazer testes e possui algum computador que possa usar para brincar com redes, pode ser divertido montar seu próprio servidor de arquivos na rede Onion. É uma experiência interessante!

No meu caso, uso a rede Onion para acessar e efetuar manutenção no servidor remotamente. Já o IPFS permite publicar um site na internet convencional de forma descentralizada, bem como, distribuir arquivos.

Se você pretende se divertir com IPFS é aconselhável visitar o site do projeto em https://ipfs.tech Sobre a rede Onion é interessante visitar https://www.torproject.org

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Hey guys,

I've been quiet lately... I've been working on something big. In the past 2 weeks there have been 9539 new lines of code added to damus, 2928 removed, 279 files changed. I've rewritten much of the codebase in preparation for the nostrdb integration.

nostrdb

What is nostrdb? nostrdb is an integrated relay within damus, with the same design as strfry, but slightly different to support embedding into nostr apps. This will be the heart of Damus apps going forward, including notedeck and other future microapps. Think of it as a kind of development kit but with an embedded database and query capabilities. I didn't want to have to recreate all of the same querying, caching, and parsing code when building new apps, nostrdb will solve all of the painful and slow parts. nostr seems simple but if you want a fully working app it is pretty complicated, especially if you want it to be fast and sync efficiently.

Goals

• be the best and most efficient at querying, syncing and storing nostr notes
• enable direct mapping of notes into application code without any serialization overhead
• provide advanced syncing capabilities such as negentropy, which allows us to only query stuff we don't have
• be as portable as possible. nostrdb is a C library that you can embed into basically anything.
• full relay filter support
• full text search

Benefits

• full note verification
• more efficient de-duplication before we begin processing events off the wire
• set-reconciliation based syncing (negentropy) drastically reduces bandwidth usage and latency
• iteration on future nostr apps will be quicker (android, desktop, etc)
• features like ghost mode, account switching, etc will be much more efficient as you will be able to quickly switch between notes that are cached locally
• much smaller memory footprint due to optimized in-memory note format, which in turn improves cpu-cache efficiency
• much better profile and note searching

So that's what I've been working on in the past two weeks. On to what else is new in this release:

Multi reactions!

Suhail did an amazing job at adding multiple reaction support. All you need to do is long-press the Shaka button to show different options. You can customize these in settings as well

New onboarding features

Damus will now suggest people to follow when you first enter the app, this is the first of many onboarding improvements coming soon. Thank Klabo for this one!

That's all for now! Please test thoroughly and let me know if you run into any issues. You likely will since the entire codebase has been changed, and I probably broke something.

Until next time 🫡

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Basicamente o Briar possui todos os recursos essenciais ao exercício do jornalismo investigativo. É realmente a prova de hackers e censura.

O Briar é um aplicativo de mensagens projetado para ativistas, jornalistas e qualquer pessoa que precise de uma maneira segura, fácil e robusta de se comunicar. Ao contrário dos aplicativos de mensagens tradicionais, o Briar não depende de um servidor central, as mensagens são sincronizadas diretamente entre os dispositivos dos usuários.

Se a internet estiver inoperante, o Briar poderá sincronizar via Bluetooth ou Wi-Fi, mantendo as informações fluindo em uma crise. Se a internet estiver aberta, o Briar poderá sincronizar através da rede Tor, protegendo os usuários e seus relacionamentos da vigilância.

O aplicativo funciona muito bem e realmente possui uma segurança praticamente inviolável. Ele possui uma interface simples com a possibilidade de fórum, grupos privados, além de um leitor de Feed/RSS embutido.

Em nossos testes o Briar foi rápido e muito fácil de manusear, cada usuário cadastra em seu aparelho o contado uns dos outros e a conexão entre os dispositivos ocorre automaticamente.

Como os arquivos são criptografados e guardados somente nos aparelhos, sem um servidor, é muito difícil sua conversa ser hackeada.

Gostamos muito do Briar, no entanto, como a proposta é de alta segurança, o Briar não permite até o momento da escrita deste texto, a construção de uma identidade de contato. Não é possível criar uma conta e sair por aí divulgando um ID de contato, a conexão só ocorre se ambos os celulares possuírem o link um do outro.

Basicamente funciona assim, ao instalar o Briar ele gera um link de conexão aleatório que você fornece para seus colegas. Como o link é aleatório a cada nova instalação ele é modificado. Isso impede que você possua uma identidade de contato rastreável. É altamente seguro, mas inviabiliza a construção de uma lista de contatos permanente. As pessoas trocam constantemente o link de conexão.

A proposta do Briar não é servir como mensageiro convencional, ele é virtualmente descartável. Cada conta pode ser usada enquanto você não trocar de dispositivo ou precisar formatar ele. É um App ideal para situações específicas, em grupos que possuem proximidade suficiente para trocar constantemente os links de conexão.

Tem outras funcionalidades bem interessantes no Briar, pode ser uma boa ideia você testar este aplicativo. Para um mensageiro da família ou grupos de amigos, ele é perfeito. É seguro, inviolável e entre pessoas próximas é fácil atualizar os links quando seu ID de contato muda.

Baixe o manual do Briar em: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WRc2TeHclSJxkqCXQ_G31G9iZ2tMLA9_/view?usp=sharing

Para instalar o App acesse: https://briarproject.org/download-briar

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A ideia é bem interessante e propõe que a gravidade da terra seja usada como possível fonte de energia. É fácil montar seu proprio dispositivo em casa.

Em geral, nas áreas rurais a energia elétrica ainda não chega e os agricultores usam lâmpadas baseadas em combustão, como a querosene ou óleo. Estes produtos são tóxicos e casas iluminadas desta forma podem produzir efeitos negativos na saúde destas pessoas.

Uma idéia capaz de substituir as lâmpadas de combustão é a lâmpada GravityLight. Este produto usa um pequeno dínamo e na medida em que o peso vai caindo lentamente o dínamo gira e a energia é gerada para alimentar uma lâmpada.

Veja alguns vídeos demonstrando a técnica empregada https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=energia+pela+gravidade

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A Finney attack, a specific kind of double-spend attack in the Bitcoin network, requires certain specific conditions within the network topology. Here's how it works:

1. Pre-mined Block: The attacker must mine a block containing a transaction that pays the coins to themselves. This block is not immediately broadcast to the network.

2. Direct Connection to Victim: Ideally, the attacker must make a direct connection to the victim's node or ensure network latency to the victim, to minimize the chance that the victim learns about the pre-mined block before the attack transaction is accepted.

3. Second Transaction to Victim: The attacker sends a transaction to the victim (e.g., the merchant), who delivers goods or services once the transaction appears in the victim's mempool but before it is confirmed in a block.

4. Release of Pre-mined Block: Once the victim accepts the unconfirmed transaction, the attacker broadcasts the previously mined block, thereby invalidating the transaction to the victim since the block contains a conflicting transaction that spends the same output.

5. Sufficient Mining Power: The attacker must have sufficient mining power to successfully mine the conflicting block. While they don't need to have more power than the rest of the network, a higher hash rate increases the success probability.

6. Timing: The timing must be carefully orchestrated to ensure that the victim accepts the unconfirmed transaction before learning about the conflicting block.

7. No Network Propagation of Mined Block: The pre-mined block must not be propagated through the network before the victim accepts the unconfirmed transaction.

8. Merchant's Policy: The attack exploits merchants who accept unconfirmed transactions, a practice that might be found in face-to-face transactions where fast settlement is required.

A Finney attack is complex and requires a specific set of conditions to be met. It has become increasingly unlikely with the growing security in the network. The theoretical possibility still leads to discussions about the need for confirmations and caution in accepting unconfirmed transactions.

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Its tough to figure out where to start when you’re someone who’s naturally full of doubt… but the white rabbit said ‘follow me’… I have written down pages of incohesive thoughts, ideas, and observations about many aspects nostr over the last several months, and this is my first attempt to organize some of that into something resembling order… Pretty sure I picked a dead horse topic… maybe because its safe… but if this doesn’t send me into hiding then maybe its groundwork for more if it’s not poorly received. Here goes:

I generated my keys at the end of January, haphazardly experimenting with something that had come on my radar (thank you) like so many things before, pushed by curiosity and a feeling that it was right. I had no idea I was stumbling into a whirlwind of clever minds and amazing talent scrambling to build the tools to change the course of online communication as we know it. That sounds overdramatic but anyone who has spent a bit of time here or worked on things understands that it is not. I showed up wildly unprepared and definitely out of my element. I live my life in movement, I rarely sit still for longer than 10 minutes, and I’m quiet. My technical know-how stretches only as far as I need it to for the situations that life brings my way. I’ll admit, I am pretty clever, but this was going to require much more knowledge than I had in my toolbox. Clients? Relays? Keys? NIPs? Microapps? Each worthy of its own assessment at some point and all critical to understanding nostr. After figuring out that this is more than a “social network”, things clicked. I started noticing what was actually happening in this space. It was and remains incredible. I figured out how to experiment with some of the many awesome new tools. Devs wanted ideas, input, and suggestions… I have no shortage of ideas, so I started engaging a bit… more than I ever have anywhere aside from maybe FB where life keeps me beholden. Much to my surprise, my suggestions were met with welcoming arms. I was sold. Months have passed since my nostr epiphany moment but I still find myself floored on a nearly daily basis by the kindness, passion, unexpected interaction, incredible advancements, and the elusive mystery of the missing note. I’m still trying new stuff and marveling at how far all of this has come in such a short amount of time.

I’ve never been one of the cool kids, so the weirdness of nostr is a perfect fit. A lot of what draws me back every day isn’t what the average person may be looking for in their social media experience, but I think it might be what they need to lead a more fulfilling life, they just don’t realize it yet. It is true, the masses want simple UX with pretty colors and lots of features that they don’t understand but are able to use. They want, as it’s been so nicely put recently, handholding, not just through onboarding but through every action they take, whether it be posting a note, finding people, seeing content, NOT seeing content, or simply keeping track of their stuff. But do they really? I question whether people really ‘want’ those things or if they have just been conditioned to expect them. I watch the people around me scroll mindlessly through short form vertical content set to the same tired audio tracks in hopes of finding one that brings them some joy. When they do, they share it with those around them. I watch them shuffle through hot topics in hopes of finding a cause to defend or one to demolish so they may feel that they are part of something. Everyone is just searching for a meaningful connection. Recently, I have gotten to watch what happens when I “real-world” some of my nostr moments, like making chimichurri, rattling on needlessly about tea bottles, or walking away from a conversation to get a picture of a train car that says “SNORT” on the side. It simultaneously bothers and inspires me to see the squinty-eyed reaction from those around me when I tell them about these things. These examples are barely the surface of the personal meaning I have found by engaging on nostr and there is very little I could ever do to get anyone to understand that. I’ve been brought to tears, I’ve dropped my phone in surprise, and I’ve spent hours thinking about how to solve problems that someone like me has no place trying to solve. It’s been profound and personal. It makes me want to be better and do better. It’s very difficult to convince anyone that social media can be something so different than what they are accustomed to. It sounds like snake oil. I know a lot of this has to do with the type of person I am, and a lot of this has to do with timing, community size, and the shared broader mindset of that community. Eventually, meaningful interaction for the individual will likely wain as the tools are built that provide ease of use, when content exists in a searchable format, and as larger numbers of people find reason to leave their current chosen environments adding to the overall volume of the space. In it though, there is a seedling worth fostering for as long as possible. Genuine connection is an evasive little thing in modern society and people are longing to be seen, heard, and to feel like they are part of something larger than themselves. I see it every day in their eyes and hear it in their stories. That delicate flower has laid some roots here and it would be a sad day to see that wither away.

I don’t think I would have assigned such meaning to my interactions without the effort required to engage in them. Right now, it takes some effort to find new people on nostr that entertain, educate, or inspire you but finding a specific person has become fairly easy. Basic content discovery is not nearly as difficult as it was a few months ago, with clients & apps supporting communities, hashtag movements, and trending models but it still requires some level of time investment to make use of those things. I think it’s in a great spot, at least for now. Keeping some level of personal responsibility in the forefront of discovery may have a greater benefit on the ecosystem than building towards a replication of the hollowness that so many people don’t even realize they want to escape. I’m not suggesting that it should remain difficult to find things that match an individual’s interests. Every idea should be considered and tried. I just hope that the social side of nostr lands in the sweet spot between conscientious effort & ease of use so that people can find some meaning in their communications again. This precarious balance between too much and not enough personal responsibility for the average user might be a lofty dream but I do believe it is one worth pursuing along side the freedom & censorship resistance that nostr builders aspire to achieve. Much of the freedom that has been lost is due to the willingness to sacrifice personal responsibility in exchange for safety and convenience. Along with it has gone the meaning that comes from effort and achievement that can only practicing accountability for one’s self can provide. I have so many more thoughts on personal responsibility for another time... maybe.

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Segundo a perspectiva de vários cientistas o impacto de um asteroide com a terra é apenas uma questão de tempo. O problema é tratado com seriedade e alguns países possuem sistema de vigilância espacial onde a principal função é tentar detectar potenciais riscos de impactos com a terra.

Um site desenvolvido na universidade de Purdue entrou no clima e disponibilizou um simulador de impacto. É possível informar o tamanho, velocidade e ângulo de entrada do objeto na atmosfera. O aplicativo de posse dos dados apresenta uma série de outras informação. Os calculo são reais, pautados no conhecimento atual que a ciência possui sobre o fenômeno.

Para quem deseja entender melhor oos efeitos de um impacto de asteroides com a terra, pode ser interessante brincar com este simulador.

Acesse o site em https://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/ImpactEffectsMap/

Alem da ferramenta online, é possível encontrar no site informações detalhadas sobre os cálculos necessários para estimar os danos e demais consequencias em caso de impacto.

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"It is truly heartbreaking to see people in pain, not understanding why everything keeps getting more expensive… not understanding why, no matter how hard they work, they can never seem to get ahead… not understanding why $100 can fill their fridge one year, and barely buy a couple days worth of food the next…"

— Walker

Welcome to the latest issue of the Bitcoin For Families newsletter. This issue is a wake up call for all who are struggling to make ends meet and don't know why.

Do you know anyone who doesn't understand why he/she can't move forward no matter what? Do them a favor and forward them this article.

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The last two weeks have featured many posts on Nostr with videos of people who are desperate; they work hard and yet can barely make ends meet between rent, bills and groceries. Like Walker said, their desperation is heartbreaking and what's even more heartbreaking for me is the fact that they don't understand why.

The fiat experiment that we're living in has turned out to be the biggest transfer of wealth from the low and middle class to the upper class and this same upper class has very cleverly managed to hide it from everyone, blaming this human disaster on anything and everything else except the real culprit.

How do they get away with it? Why is it that most people do not know who is causing their financial misfortune and how?

It's the inflation, stupid

Inflation is the reason why everything is so expensive.

One of my first articles on the Bitcoin for Families newsletter explains how inflation works, why housing is so expensive and why consumer prices only have skyrocketed now.

Check it out to understand why, no matter how hard you try, you can't save for a house, can't afford the rent and things getting more and more expensive.

It's the politicians that keep printing money out of thin air to pay for things that we can't afford.

It all started with Nixon lying

"Your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as it is today." — Richard Nixon, 1971

On August 15, 1971 Nixon announced to the American people that he was temporarily suspending the dollar convertibility to gold, effectively starting the experiment of a fiat economy. During his speech, he promised Americans that your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as it is today.

Since then, and according to the official figures of the Federal Reserve, the US dollar has lost 87% of its value. One dollar on August 1971 is now worth 13 cents.

Have salaries gone up 87% since? Nooooooooo! But the rich people have gotten richer thanks to the constant printing of money out of thin air.

Nixon sacrificed the future savings of Americans to continue paying for the Vietnam War.

And all presidents since have kept robbing you.

ALL OF THEM.

The media hides the truth

Imagine if, that night, Nixon had announced that we're going to start a new national economy rooted on trusting that the politicians will do the right thing at all times when it comes to how much new money to insert into the economy.

Everyone would had immediately said thanks but no, thanks.

The media is not dumb. It was not dumb then and it is not dumb now. They could have easily called Nixon out. But they didn't. And they continue to hide the truth from the people.

Why? Because the media is owned by the very same people who benefit from the wealth transfer that the fiat economy represents.

Below is a chart from the fantastic website https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ that shows the extent of the wealth transfer.

Politicians love hating the 1 percenters and constantly talk about how they will end the income inequality, but they NEVER tell you why it is happening. Why is that?

They don't want you to know. That's why inflation is not taught at school. That's why the concept of money, and how it works, is not taught at school.

And that is why the media tries very hard to blame inflation on anything else but the real culprits:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/11/us-inflation-market-power-america-antitrust-robert-reich

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/business/inflation-russia-ukraine-explainer/index.html

This article on CNN takes the crown: inflation is actually good for you 👏👏👏 https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/economy/inflation-good-bad-winners-losers/index.html

Educate yourself about inflation

This speech by Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman explains inflation in a very accessible way. He even predicts the headlines that I pointed out above.

Learn Bitcoin

Now you know what is pushing you down. It's the politicians that keep printing money out of thin air to pay for things that we can't afford.

What can you do? How do you protect your savings? The answer is Bitcoin.

You can start learning about Bitcoin.

Go to my archive of newsletters: https://newsletter.bitcoinforfamilies.com. And here are some interesting books to check out:

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And to continuously learn more about Bitcoin, join Nostr and follow some Bitcoiners there.

Here is a note to get you started:

nostr:note1k4vplcen8cp4eymhrmyqd098n38gpyx3p386hh436u29d245dpfs7lqfgg

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Notable notes

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nostr:note17lt0essdq7yzp4kgwyfq6j92axty5hrmzqswaea75vqzy6aja25q23jz86

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Pode parecer estranho, mas apagar partes da memória humana é uma prática que ocorre já faz muitos anos. O tratamento efetuado com choques elétricos surgiu por volta de 1930 para tratar depressão aguda entre outras patologias de ordem psiquiátrica. Um dos efeitos desta terapia é a perda de memória. Perder algumas lembranças no caso de algum trauma pode ser uma consequência com bom resultado terapêutico. No caso das terapias por choque elétrico a perda de memória é um efeito colateral.

No entanto, pesquisadores acreditam ter encontrado um meio de fazer isso de forma controlada, através da ingestão de medicamento.

Bastaria tomar o fármaco ao ir dormir e pela manhã algumas coisas seriam apagadas de suas lembranças. Alguns compostos químicos foram testados em ratos medrosos que não conseguiam enfrentar certos desafios e estes pareceram esquecer seus medos.

Um dos testes foi efetuado provocando dor nos bichinhos sob certas condições, por exemplo, ao lançar um odor específico no ambiente os ratos recebiam um estímulo doloroso. Assim, sempre que o perfume era lançado, os bichinhos entravam em comportamento de estresse.

Uma vez assimilado pelo animal o medo quando o odor era lançado no ambiente, pesquisadores administraram a droga e no dia seguinte o rato não lembrava mais a experiência traumática. A ideia é que em um futuro próximo seja possível administrar um fármaco capaz de eliminar ou diluir as lembranças que causam os traumas humanos, fobias e pânicos em geral.

Embora seja um avanço científico notável, é uma questão polêmica, em especial ao se considerar que a memória humana, mesmo aquelas dolorosas, são parte constituinte da identidade de um indivíduo.

Existem diversos caminhos para se considerar esta questão da funcionalidade da memória e manutenção seletiva sobre o que se deve lembrar ou esquecer com auxílio químico, farmacológico.

Se você se interessa por esse assunto, vale dar uma lida no artigo acadêmico que indica um filme sobre o tema e faz algumas ponderações interessantes sobre a possibilidade de manipulação da memória e suas consequências.

Para acessar o artigo com a sugestão do filme https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tgiPmt0RBn4jsOHLf6lfZ2TAKP9QzhQb/view?usp=sharing

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Shawarma is typically made from lamb or chicken that has been marinated, cut into thin strips, and then placed on a rotisserie spit. It is what you would typically see in any number of kabab shops around the world. Originating in the Ottoman Empire it is a popular street food in the middle east.

This recipe is perhaps not a classic version, as it has been tweaked by me, none the less it is delicious. I have used it for lamb and chicken, but a sturdy fish (like mackerel) would hold up to the strong flavor in the marinade. It could be used for a beef roast too!

The marinade will be enough for a 2-3 kg lamb leg roast with a little marinade to spare.

proofofwork: 20 minutes (recommended marinade time overnight)

YIELD: 1 1/2 cups of marinade

INGREDIENTS 2 Tblsp black peppercorns 5 ea cloves ½ tsp cardamom pods ½ tsp fenugreek seeds 1 Tblsp fennel seeds 1 Tblsp cumin seeds 1 ea star anise ½ ea cinnamon stick ½ tsp nutmeg grated ¼ tsp ground ginger 1 Tblsp smoked paprika 1 Tblsp sumac ¾ Tblsp sea salt 25g ginger, fresh grated 3 ea garlic cloves crushed 40g coriander chopped- stems & leaves 60ml lemon juice, fresh 120ml olive oil 1 lamb leg (about 2.5-3 kg bone in)

METHOD -Put peppercorns, cloves, cardamom, fenugreek, fennel, cumin, star anise & cinnamon in a cast iron pan & dry roast on medium heat for a minute or 2 until the spices begin to pop & release their aromas. TAKE CARE NOT TO BURN THEM! -Add the ground spices, nutmeg, ginger & paprika, toss for a few more seconds, just to heat them, then transfer to a spice grinder. -Process the spices to a uniform powder, I use an electric coffee grinder or you can go old school with a mortar and pestle. -Transfer to a medium bowl & stir in all the remaining ingredients (except the lamb) -Use a small knife to score through the leg of the lamb in a few places making 1.5cm deep slits through the fat & meat to allow the marinade to seep in. -Place in a large roasting tin & rub the marinade all over the lamb; use your hands to massage the meat well. -Cover the tin with foil & leave aside for at least a couple of hours or preferably chill overnight. -Roast the lamb at 200C for about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Probe with a thermometer and check the internal temperature. 54-60C for a pink centre. -Rest the lamb for a good 20 mins.

enjoy #chefstr #foodstr #yumstr #grownostr #yumstr

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Gottlieb Daimler em novembro de 1885 teve a ideia de instalar um motor de baixa potência em uma bicicleta de madeira, criando a primeira moto.

Daimler chamou a bicicleta adaptada de Reitwagen e seu protótipo chegou a uma velocidade de 12 quilômetros por hora. Adaptar um motor em uma bicicleta de madeira foi uma consequência natural já que Gottlieb Daimler era um engenheiro mecânico e foi pioneiro no estudo e invenção de motores a combustão interna.

Entre 1885 e 1886 depois da bicicleta de madeira, uma carruagem e um barco receberam um motor. Mas foi só em 1892 que Gottlieb Daimler e seu sócio também inventor Wilhelm Maybach fundaram a empresa Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft e venderam o primeiro carro a gasolina na Alemanha. Os veículos motorizados que você conhece hoje são uma evolução da primeira bicicleta motorizada.

Veja aqui a imagem da primeira bicicleta motorizada https://photos.app.goo.gl/s5TrpmtAgWGPTbEV8 e aqui o esquema de fabricação https://photos.app.goo.gl/eGu5zVNUgui9Jvru5

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Dentro da área de ensino sobre desenvolvimento de softwares existem aqueles que defendem o uso no ensino de lógica através do português estruturado. Particularmente sou favorável a esta técnica, por experiência própria.

Quando iniciei a faculdade de ciência da computação aprendíamos lógica diretamente em Pascal, lembro de como foi difícil assimilar a matéria e adquirir o domínio dos comandos.

Na época, em uma tentativa de superar o problema exercitei através do português estruturado e ficou tangível o mistério da lógica de programação. No meu caso a maior dificuldade era absorver as funções dos comandos e o raciocínio empregado sem conhecer a linguagem.

No uso do português estruturado, parte da minha insegurança desaparecia já que eu sabia o significado dos comandos que escrevia em português.

Hoje observo que na maioria dos bloqueios para entender uma determinada matéria está presente certo grau de insegurança sentido sobre o objeto estudado. Sempre que tenho alguma dificuldade ou vejo algum aluno na mesma situação, observo que uma parte do motivo é a insegurança.

O cérebro tende a rejeitar uma informação quando não estamos certos da veracidade do conteúdo ou da nossa capacidade de compreensão, é ai que o aluno ao ficar inseguro sobre sua compreensão da matéria, bloqueia e impede o raciocínio do aprendizado.

Não acredito em soluções milagrosas, mas tenho observado que os alunos que participam de treinamentos que estimulam a segurança e autoconfiança possuem melhor desempenho.

Sempre que alguém me pergunta por onde deve iniciar o aprendizado de programação, indico o português estruturado. Naturalmente existem pessoas com maior ou menor grau de insegurança e o uso direto de uma linguagem de programação pode ser aplicado sem nenhuma dificuldade para alguns alunos.

É importante lembrar que a dificuldade se encontra associada à insegurança do estudante, por este motivo não existe uma forma generalizada, melhor ou pior de ensino, mas certamente para o aluno existem caminhos mais fáceis ou difíceis, conforme a característica individual do estudante.

Se o estudante está encontrando dificuldades em alguma matéria é aconselhável que o instrutor oriente a busca por caminhos alternativos que possibilitem diminuir a insegurança e melhorar a autoconfiança.

Por este motivo acredito no uso do português estruturado para o ensino da lógica de desenvolvimento de softwares.

Se você está iniciando na compreensão sobre a lógica de programação, buscando dar os primeiros passos, pode ser interessante praticar inicialmente em simuladores com português estruturado.