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The below-referenced video discusses the current health crisis with obesity, metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes. I mention Ancel Keys and his contribution to dietary guidelines. I discuss the departure of the 1977 dietary guidelines from our prior way of eating. I discuss Dr. Osler and his treatment of diabetes with carbohydrate dietary restriction. I discuss the invention of insulin and how this changed the practice of the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes. I admit that we may have access to limited study in the nutritional area, but the recent Virta Health study has shown promise in treating patients with metabolic disease with low carbohydrate, high-fat diet.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/0dBbXw7wFWE

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The below-referenced video introduces low carbohydrate high fat diet. In this video I cover who stands to benefit from such intervention. I briefly discuss how a high carbohydrate diet is a departure from normal eating patterns from the past. I discuss the major macronutrients and how carbohydrate intake is not necessary for survival. I discuss some of the symptoms that can occur when initiating this way of eating. I discuss some average carbohydrate diet intake recommendations. I discuss symptom mitigation techniques. I discuss low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet in athletes and special concerns regarding athletic performance.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/jF4CiHBlJ7A

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Discussion of the underlying mechanism of stress. Brief discussion of the parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system. Importance of the mind, body, spirit connection. Deeper discussion of the power of the mind in stress mitigation. Patient-centered stress reduction techniques without medications.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/PGYjMeRAWCA

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The below-referenced video introduces the hormone testosterone. I include discussion of the importance of this hormone for both men and women. I discuss some of the symptoms related to low testosterone level. I review some of the medical conditions that are impacted by testosterone level. I include some of the common treatments to replace testosterone. I discuss the safety of testosterone replacement. I briefly discuss testosterone pellet therapy.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/YUDse2GztCc

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Discuss theoretical causes of autism and the rapidly growing incidence of this disorder. Revelation that women with PCOS have a high incidence of birthing a child that will be diagnosed with Autism. PCOS is a condition that is commonly associated with high carbohydrate diet and hyperinsulinemia. Discuss possible use of low carbohydrate high fat diet for autism prevention and treatment.

Here is the link: https://youtu.be/TZ815nTL1Mw

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This does not constitute personal medical advice or establish a physician-patient relationship. See your own physician to discuss your particular diagnosis and treatment For your thought and reflection, here is a list of tricks that can help some patients to prevent or treat diabetes, hypertension, fatty liver disease, and obesity. These tricks work because they decrease insulin levels.

No added sugar Severely limit artificial sweeteners Avoid fructose No sugar-containing drinks No processed grains Limit carbohydrate intake (avoid bread, pasta, cereal, potatoes, rice) Moderate protein intake Add fiber and vinegar Increase fat intake No snacks Okay to skip breakfast if not hungry Intermittent fasting Decrease stress Get plenty of sleep

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Most sane people will agree that if you want to be healthy you should avoid sugar. The food industry, "BIG FOOD", would love to continue to sell their products. Of course, if BIG FOOD can disguise the ingredients in their products, then it is easier to sell their products. One technique that the food industry uses is cloaking sugar by giving it an alternate name on food labels. I have a list below taken from the Virta Health website that can help you cut through their "sugar mind tricks" FYI.

Alternate names for SUGAR on nutritional labels

Dextrose, fructose, galactose, glucose, lactose, maltose, sucrose, beet sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, castor sugar, coconut sugar, confectioner’s sugar, powdered sugar, corn syrup solids, crystalline fructose, date sugar, demerara sugar, dextran, diastatic malt, ethyl maltol, Florida crystals, golden sugar, glucose syrup solids, grape sugar, icing sugar, maltodextran, muscovado sugar, panela sugar, raw sugar, Sucanat, turbinado sugar, yellow sugar, agave nectar, barley malt, blackstrap molasses, brown rice cereal, blood syrup, Carmel, carob syrup, corn syrup, evaporated cane juice, fruit juice, fruit juice concentrate, golden syrup, high fructose corn syrup, honey, inverted sugar, malt syrup, maple syrup, rice syrup, refiner’s syrup, sorghum syrup, treacle

Source: Virta Health Website

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Ashwagandha

Important herb in alternative medicine that comes from an African or Middle eastern shrub. Many of our common medications originated from herbs, plants, and barks.

Benefits: Decrease stress, increase athletic performance, decrease mental health conditions, increased testosterone, increase fertility, decrease blood sugar levels, decrease inflammation, improve memory and mental functioning, improve sleep. Side effects: Upper GI discomfort, diarrhea, drowsiness

Dosing 250 to 1250 mg/day

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Asthma Asthma affects tons of people. Difficulty breathing can interfere with school and work. Asthma can result in emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Severe asthma can result in death. The use of steroid inhaled medications, while commonly used, can also unfortunately cause side effects such as oral yeast infections and even early onset cataracts. The incidence of asthma is rising rapidly. This increased incidence is not related to improved detection. It would be very difficult to connect this increased asthma incidence with pollution or other environmental factors also. Asthma is often seen in poor metabolic health. Since, metabolic health disorders such as obesity and diabetes mellitus type 2 are on the rise, it is not surprising that asthma is also increasing.

Link between metabolic disease and asthma. Obesity does increase risk for asthma. Obesity increases inflammation, airway hyperreactivity, and the mechanical load of adiposity also contributes to asthma. Irrespective of obesity, metabolic syndrome increases incidence of asthma by 50%. Insulin resistance results in increased inflammation, airway remodeling, and airway hyperreactivity which are all components of asthma. Metabolic disease results in energy deficits. This can contribute to skeletal muscle weakness, including the respiratory musculature. Oxidative stress seems to have a significant role in asthma pathophysiology and lung damage. The influence of the micro biome on asthma pathogenesis is very interesting, especially considering the role of oxidative stress and inflammation.

Treatment: Inhaled corticosteroids, long-acting beta-2 agonists, leukotriene inhibitors, antiimmunoglobulin E antibodies

Low-carb high-fat lifestyle, metformin, exercise, and weight loss can all improve asthma severity, while improving metabolic health. Treatment of gut micro biome health with probiotics, decreased stress, adequate sleep, and avoiding unnecessary antibiotics also offers promise for improved asthma.

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Attention deficit disorder has been increasing in incidence. The Standard American Diet was drastically changed when the US government published the 1977 Nutritional Guidelines that recommended an excessive amount of carbohydrates in our diet (grains were stressed as an important component of this plan). Since this change, attention deficit disorder diagnoses have skyrocketed. I would argue strongly that this is not due to increased detection and diagnosis.

Attention Deficit Disorder Intervention Omega 3 fatty acids (DHA and EPA): mackerel, salmon, sardines, anchovies, cod liver oil, herring, eggs, walnuts, chia seed, brussels sprout. Supports nerve cell function. Low-carbohydrate, high fat diet. This diet can result in production of ketone bodies to use for fuel. -Ketones are more efficient energy than glucose. Ketones increase mitochondrial efficiency and production. -Ketones increase GABAergic tone and decrease Glutamateric tone. Increasing GABAergic tone results in inhibition of neurotransmission, improves sleep, improves anxiety, “calming effect”. Glutamate can damage or kill nerve cells if overactive. Excessive glutamate has also been associated with the following conditions: ALS, MS, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, stroke, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Mental health conditions associated with a glutamate disorder include: Anxiety, autism, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. -Ketones increase the release of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), promotes survival and maintenance of nerve cells. -Ketones have been shown to improve mitochondrial dysfunction which affects energy production and nerve cell functioning. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Gut micro biome health appears to be linked to neurologic functioning, including attention deficit disorder. Research has shown that there are more neurotransmitters present in the intestines than in the brain. You can use Prebiotics to improve the beneficial bacteria in your gut. Some examples include: Artichoke, garlic, onions, leeks, and asparagus. Probiotics help to restore gut bacteria with fermented foods. Some examples include: Yogurt, Kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, apple cider vinegar, and certain cheeses. Keep in mind that if these products are not refrigerated, then they are likely preserved and not as beneficial for your health. It is important to prevent these products from being light exposed for extended time periods. Ensure adequate sleep-adequate sleep is not present, attention will be very challenging. Attention to congestion, oral health, and mouth breathing-deficiencies in these areas leads to poor sleep and children often compensate with attention and concentration disorders.

Focus technique-use focus refocusing technique for 13 minutes. Focus on spot 1 cm behind your forehead above your nose with her eyes closed. If you start to drift, come back and refocus to this area. Do not perform this near bedtime as it improves focus and wakefulness for some period

Binaural 40 Hz beats-use free app the generates these beats to help improve focus before and activity that requires concentration.

White and pink noise-use of free apps that generates this noise to help improve focus before an activity that requires concentration.

NSDR (nonsleep deep rest), hypnosis. Andrew Huberman has spoken of the importance of these techniques on the Huberman Podcast. Improves neuroplasticity, decreases stress, improved cognitive function, improves memory, improved focus and mental clarity, feel more energized, can allow you to have better sleep at night.

Supplements to consider (adults)-phenylethylamine, alpha GPC, creatine, L-Tyrosine Mental health provider can help with behavior and organizational tools and at times medications

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Autism Definition: A developmental disorder that includes difficulty with social interaction, communication and restricted repetitive patterns of thought and behavior. Incidence: Per the CDC in 2021, 1 and 44 children in the US is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. To break this down, 1 and 27 boys and 1 in 116 girls are affected. Some of the first autism prevalence studies conducted in the 1960s and 70s in Europe and United States reported 2-4 cases per 10,000 children. Incidence has markedly increased. One might argue that recognition of the disorder is responsible for the increased incidence, however, other environmental factors such as diet, nutrition, and toxins likely are responsible for the increased incidence, especially noting the link with PCOS in mothers.

Cause: GABAergic purkinje neuron death, mitochondrial dysfunction-excessive glutamate, massive action potentials, hormonal modulation(4x more prevalent in boys, ?protection with estrogen), link between mother’s with PCOS and autistic boys (35% increased incidence), possible role of apoptosisAn area of ongoing continued research

No clinical evidence that vaccinations cause autism.

Treatments: Omega 3 fatty acids (docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA)): mackerel, salmon, sardines, anchovies, cod liver oil, herring, eggs, walnuts, chia seed, brussels sprout. Mechanism of action is unknown. Neural tissue contains high concentrations of DHA. Studies suggest this helps to assist with growth and development of the brain and neuron signaling by improving membrane stability. Omega-3 fatty acids also exert an anti-inflammatory effect. Low-carbohydrate, high fat diet. This diet can result in production of ketone bodies to use for fuel. -Ketones are more efficient energy than glucose. Ketones increase mitochondrial efficiency and production. -Ketones increase GABAergic (Gamma-aminobutyric acid) tone and decrease Glutamateric tone. Increasing GABAergic tone results in inhibition of neurotransmission, improves sleep, improves anxiety, “calming effect”. Glutamate can damage or kill nerve cells if overactive. Excessive glutamate has also been associated with the following conditions: ALS, MS, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, stroke, fibromyalgia, and chronic fatigue syndrome. Mental health conditions associated with a glutamate disorder include: Anxiety, autism, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and schizophrenia. -Ketones increase the release of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor), promotes survival and maintenance of nerve cells. Gut micro biome health appears to be linked to neurologic functioning. You can use Prebiotics to improve the beneficial bacteria in your gut. Some examples include: Artichoke, garlic, onions, leeks, and asparagus. Probiotics help to restore gut bacteria with fermented foods. Some examples include: Yogurt, Kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, apple cider vinegar, and certain cheeses (Swiss, provolone, Gouda, cheddar, cottage cheese). Keep in mind that if these products are not refrigerated, then they are likely preserved and not as beneficial for your health. It is important to prevent these products from being light exposed for extended time periods.

Vitamin and mineral deficiency correction-possible deficiencies include: zinc, iron, magnesium, and iodine. Folic acid-conflicting study results, higher than normal levels double autism risk Vitamin B12-higher than normal levels triples the autism risk

Mental health provider can help with behavior and organizational tools and at times medications

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B Vitamins Consider methylation defects. Methylation is a biochemical reaction where CH3 is transferred from one substance to another. Methylation is important for hormone metabolism, cardiovascular risk, cancer risk, cognitive function, neurotransmitter production, and bone health. Methylation can involve 100s of biochemical reactions in the body. Consider conversion of food to ATP (energy production), oxidative phosphorylation, mitochondrial function, DNA production, genetic expression, neurotransmitter production, detoxification, and blood vessel health.

Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) Iron absorption, prevents oxidative stress, prevents cataracts, lowers homocysteine levels, supports methylation, decreases blood pressure, improved energy during exercise, improves migraines. Sources of riboflavin include: Eggs, organ meats, lean meats, milks, some vegetables, fortified grains. Notable factors: Losing weight increases need for riboflavin by 60%. 20 to 50 minutes of cardio exercise 6 days a week increases need for riboflavin by 60%.

Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxamine) Converts, amino acids into neurotransmitters balances the number of amino acids, converts amino acids and glucose, helps release stored carbohydrate, helps to produce hemoglobin, regulates homocysteine levels, decreases levels of circulating histamine, helps present excessive levels of oxalates. Sources of B6 include: Fish, beef liver, organ meats, potatoes, starchy vegetables, some non-citrus fruit.

Vitamin B3 (Niacin) Niacin is also known as nicotinic acid, nicotinamide. Tissues in the body convert niacin into nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). NAD and NADP are required in metabolic redox processes in which cells are oxidized or reduced. This can involve potential energy transfer in carbohydrates, fats, and proteins to form ATP. NAD is required for gene expression, cellular communication, and cellular function. NADP is also important in the synthesis of cholesterol and fatty acids. Signs of deficiency might include: Indigestion, fatigue, canker sores, glossitis, vomiting, poor circulation, and depression. Severe deficiency can cause pellagra. Pellagra is characterized by: Cracked scaly skin, dementia, and diarrhea. Dietary sources: Beets, Brewer’s yeast, beef liver, beef kidney, fish, sunflower seeds, peanuts

Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin) Vitamin B12 is needed to form red blood cells and synthesize DNA. It is important in functioning nerve cells. Lab work often does not reflect clinical level of deficiency accurately. Vague symptoms of deficiency can include: Anxiety, nausea, headaches, paresthesia, memory deficit, depression, weight loss, sore mouth, and fatigue. Medications that contribute to low vitamin B12 level: Metformin, proton pump inhibitors, H2 blockers, and oral contraceptives. Sources of vitamin B-12 in diet: Animal food products, fortified foods, and supplements. Normal vitamin B12 level greater than 550 Deficient vitamin B12 level less than 550 Effective vitamin B12 level 4 elderly greater than 1000 Diagnoses associated with low vitamin B12 level: Pernicious anemia, alcohol use disorder, gastritis, dementia, neuropathy, vegan diet, post gastric bypass surgery, celiac disease, and Crohn's disease. Vitamin B12 injections: 1 mg, often given monthly. *Evidence suggests that 1 mg can be given daily for severe conditions such as: Pernicious anemia and dementia Vitamin B12 oral dosage 500 mcg daily.

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) Deficiency can cause weight loss, anorexia, confusion, muscle weakness, and cardiomegaly. Beriberi is characterized by peripheral neuropathy and wasting with congestive heart failure. Developing countries can experience this condition due to poor nutrition. Alcoholism can cause Wernicke Korsakoff syndrome. This involves neuropathy that can progress to psychosis, disorientation. Sources include: Whole grains, meat, fish

Vitamin B7 (Biotin) Deficiency can cause thinning hair, hair loss, red rash, conjunctivitis, seizures, skin infection, brittle nails, depression, hallucinations, neuropathy, and developmental delay. Sources include: Beef liver, eggs, salmon, avocados, pork, sweet potato, nuts, seeds.

Vitamin B9 (folic acid) Folic acid functions as a coenzyme in the synthesis of DNA and RNA. This is important in the metabolism of amino acids. Also, folic acid assists in the conversion of homocysteine to methionine. **Deficiency can cause anemia, weakness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, palpitations, shortness of breath. Also, deficiency can cause changes in the tongue, oral mucosa, hair, skin, and gastrointestinal symptoms. *** Women with insufficient folate intake or increased risk for giving birth to infants with neural tube defects. *** Recommend 400-800 mcg daily folic acid. People who drink alcohol commonly have low folic acid levels. People that have the MTHFR genetic change can have elevated homocysteine levels if they do not have proper folic acid intake. Sources include dark green leafy vegetables, fruits and fruit juices, nuts, beans, peas, seafood, eggs, dairy, meat, grains.

Vitamin B 5 (pantothenic acid) Pantothenic acid is a precursor in the synthesis of CoA. CoA has a role in 100s of biochemical reactions that affects cell growth, metabolism, and neurotransmitter synthesis. Sources include: Eggs, milk, vegetables, beef, whole grains.

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Brown adipose tissue (Brown Fat)

Brown adipose tissue (brown fat) looks different than other fat because it is dense with mitochondria. Beige adipose tissue is not as dense. White adipose tissue has very few mitochondria in comparison. Mitochondria are the energy-producing organelles in your cells.

Activation of brown adipose tissue increases thermogenesis, increasing energy expenditure, consuming triglycerides, and decreasing overall fat tissue.

Brown adipose tissue interacts with secretin to manage satiety (control hunger).

Brown adipose tissue is generated by irisin, a hormone that is triggered by exercise.

The more brown adipose tissue you have, the more metabolically healthy you are.

There is research ongoing to see if brown adipose tissue can be triggered by beta adrenergic activation through medication such as mirabegron.

Foods that might stimulate brown adipose tissue include: Coffee, curcumin, resveratrol (blueberries, cranberries, dark chocolate, pistachios, grapes, red wine), omega-3 fatty acids, capsaicin (poblano, cayenne, and jalapeno pepper), green tea, menthol, exercise, and cold temperatures.

Healthy lifestyle such as proper diet and exercise not only makes you feel better due to endorphin release, but also improves your metabolic health, longevity, and quality of life.

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Coenzyme Q10 (Ubiquinol)

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a substance synthesized in the body that serves as a cofactor for mitochondrial enzyme complexes and oxidative phosphorylation and the production of ATP that helps convert food into energy.

CoQ10 functions as an antioxidant, something that protects your cells against damage that can lead to inflammation, atherosclerosis, and even cancer.

CoQ10 can be used after heart attack, and congestive heart failure, with hypertension, with hyperlipidemia, with statin treatment, with diabetes, with periodontal disease.

CoQ10 may also help with Parkinson's disease, prevent migraines, improve male fertility, and improve immune function in people with HIV.

Sources of CoQ10: Oily fish, organ meats, and whole grains. Supplement: 30 to 200 mg BID. CoQ10 medication Interactions: Can enhance antihypertensive effect, may make warfarin and clopidogrel less effective. Medications that lower CoQ10 levels in the body include: Statins, gemfibrozil, beta-blockers, tricyclic antidepressants to name a few.

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COLD THERAPY

Deliberate safe cold exposure has health benefits. Think cold shower, cold pool plunge, cold ocean swim.

Varied cold therapy protocols exist. General recommendations are to gradually expose yourself to cold temperatures for longer time durations. If you can submerge yourself in water at least to the neck, you benefit more. Covering your head for warmth will often assist in increasing exposure time.

Brown fat is increased with deliberate cold exposure. Brown fat refers to fat that is very dense with mitochondria. Mitochondria are responsible for cellular energy production. Activation of brown fat increases thermogenesis, energy expenditure, consumes triglycerides, and decreases overall fat.

Other benefits of cold therapy might include: increased metabolism, improved insulin sensitivity, decreased heart rate, improved blood pressure, decreased inflammation, increased release of norepinephrine and dopamine (feel good substances).

Think dress down when winter is approaching. In fact, in Scandinavian countries, they let their children sleep in the cold to help improve brown fat production and derive immune system benefits.

To review studies and particular cold therapy protocol recommendations, see Dr. Susanna Soberg-University of Copenhagen.

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Concussion Head injury with changes in mental functioning. The consequences of concussion can be life-changing.

Post-concussion syndrome: Symptoms that persist past 3 months after traumatic brain injury.

Some symptoms after concussion: Depression, photophobia, headache, fatigue, disequilibrium, confusion, insomnia, anxiety, difficulty concentrating.

Pathophysiology: Metabolic, physiologic, and micro structural injury to the brain. Autonomic nervous system dysregulation occurs. The autonomic nervous system regulates cerebral blood flow, blood pressure, and heart rate. Heart rate variability post injury due to damage in the vagal nerve tracks can result in early fatigue, and inappropriate increases in blood pressure and heart rate during activity.

Concussion treatments that address the pathophysiology derangements:

Limited rest, then low level activity as tolerated.

Preventing blood sugar and insulin excursions with low carb, high fat diet and intermittent fasting.

Stimulate the endocannabinoid system with gradually increasing exercise, meditation, and foods such as: Truffles, dark chocolate, coffee, oregano, curcumin, cinnamon, Chia seeds, hemp, walnuts, sardines, eggs, anchovies. Some evidence that CBD oil is helpful also.

Meditation and non-sleep deep rest protocols.

Cold Thermogenesis therapy. Stimulates dopamine and adrenaline.

Stress reduction techniques including: Singing, cold exposure, and abdominal belly breathing increase parasympathetic tone.

Low-dose naltrexone decreases inflammation, increases endorphins, and improves immune function.

Other medications to stimulate serotonin, dopamine, etc. such as amitriptyline and SSRIs.

Use a red light and low light conditions at home. When red light is used within 3 hours of wakening, you have decreased free radicals in the mitochondria, improved cellular ATP production, and improved cell function.

Use blue blocker glasses or other sunglasses to decrease glare and headache.

Consider greater occipital nerve block for headache pain.

Propranolol and indomethacin medications offer benefit to some.

Optimize vitamin D levels.

Optimize sleep. Address mouth breathing, allergies, sleep apnea, sleep hygiene, and use white noise.

Elevate heels by 12 degrees when sleeping. Improves glymphatic system washout-processing of cellular debris from the brain.

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If you are reading this and personally feel unsafe or out of control, seek medical help immediately!!

Connections between metabolic disease and mental health DEEP DIVE.

Social disconnection and loneliness lead to increased hypothalamic adrenal axis activity. This results in increased corticotropin releasing hormone that affects the pituitary gland to increase ACTH which in turn increases glucocorticoid levels. As glucocorticoid levels go up, cortisol levels go up. Cortisol directly causes damage to mitochondria and decreases their function. Mitochondrial dysfunction has been linked to increased risk for major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, substance use disorder, and schizophrenia. Mitochondrial function has a central role in cellular metabolism. Chronic elevated blood glucose is also associated with accumulation of mitochondrial damage.

Cortisol also unfortunately will elevate insulin level which leads to worsening metabolic syndrome, fatty liver disease, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes.

Loneliness also leads to decreased oxytocin signaling. Normally, oxytocin is released within the hypothalamus during positive social interactions. Oxytocin acts as a neurotransmitter and a hormone. Oxytocin usually suppresses hypothalamic adrenal axis activity by inhibiting the release of corticotropin releasing hormone. When social interactions are absent, oxytocin levels will be decreased, and the hypothalamic adrenal axis activity will be increased, resulting in increased cortisol levels. Oxytocin also has direct cardioprotective and neuroprotective effects with decreased inflammation and decreased oxidation.

Loneliness is not only a cause, but a consequence of mental health and metabolic disorders. This creates a vicious cycle. Efforts to break the cycle might include identifying social disconnection, building mental resilience, employing emotional regulation techniques, and even journaling. Cohabitation with others, sex, pets, massage all have found to have benefit with increasing oxytocin release. Practicing your faith in a community of other believers also helps establish connections. Exercise and stretching induce positive changes in mitochondria, as well as increase the release of beneficial neurotransmitters. Of course, avoiding glucose, fructose, and overfeeding can also help to prevent mitochondrial damage.

Citation: Ahmed M, Cerda I and Maloof M (2023) Breaking the vicious cycle: The interplay between loneliness, metabolic illness, and mental health. Front. Psychiatry 14:1134865. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1134865 Received: 31 December 2022; Accepted: 24 February 2023; Published: 08 March 2023.

Previously, I have discussed the endocannabinoid system. The endocannabinoid system is a widespread neuro-modulatory system that plays important roles in central nervous system development, synaptic plasticity, and response to endogenous and environmental insults. The endocannabinoid system is intimately linked to neurotransmitter release. It appears that a properly functioning endocannabinoid system also has anti-inflammatory effects. Please reference my Williams Family Medicine Channel YouTube video for more detailed review of the system and how it functions. In that video, I mention how a dysfunctional endocannabinoid system can result in mitochondrial dysfunction as well.

Stress can promote (i) inflammatory diseases such as asthma, eczema or urticaria, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, and sickness syndrome; (ii) pain disorders such as headaches and abdominal, pelvic, and lower back pain; (iii) gastrointestinal dysfunction such as diarrhea, constipation, and peptic ulcers; (iv) mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, psychosis, cognitive dysfunction, and insomnia; (v) metabolic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, visceral obesity, and sarcopenia; (vi) ischemic heart disease; (vii) neurodegenerative diseases; and (viii) osteopenia and osteoporosis. Please be aware of the intimate connection with these health problems and mental health disorders.

Please reference Chris Palmer, MD and his videos. He is a psychiatrist from Harvard who strongly believes in the link with metabolic health, nutrition, and possible mitochondrial dysfunction and mental health disorders. He is very active in promoting ketogenic diet for the treatment of many mental health disorders. He has had countless dramatic success stories with his patients that he has treated in this fashion.

When I consider root cause thinking as an approach to medicine, I know that medications, while may be necessary, should be implemented with intent to correct underlying cause instead of treat blindly as a band-aid. Medications are only a part of this treatment. As you can see from above, many other lifestyle enhancements offer promise for recovery from mental health disorders.

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"Early and medieval Chinese texts on sexual body techniques frame sexual pleasure in a gendered way. The texts display a psychodynamic scenario for sexual encounters between men and women wherein the woman is staged in her full potency, as emitting fluids and ejaculating, as experiencing uncontrolled muscular spasms and having immense pleasure (kuài 快) during the enfolding events. Male ejaculation is seen as a short-time pleasure (zàn kuài 暫快); it is considered better to avoid it, and instead attempt to stay in an intermediate state of bliss, and eventually to experience illumination, by way of controlled counter-measures and by being fully focused to female bodily signs, to which the male partner should be prepared to react adequately. Keywords Sexual body techniques, gendered conception of sexual pleasure, male and female ejaculation, textual study, early and medieval China"

"Pfister, Rudolf (2012). Gendering Sexual Pleasures in Early and Medieval China. Asian Medicine, 7(1), 34–64. doi:10.1163/15734218-12341243 "

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“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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While I am a fully licensed physician in Kansas, this communication does not constitute personal medical advice or establish a physician-patient relationship. See your own physician to discuss your particular diagnosis and treatment

The traditional model of medical treatment does not account for many factors. I am not opposed to traditional medicine. I do believe in add-on treatments (complementary medicine) that have convincing evidence of physiologic benefit. Naysayers will argue that the evidence is not strong enough to support some of these treatments. Often, these naysayers will request proof in the form of large randomized controlled trial studies (RCT’s) to support complementary medicine treatment approaches. Large RCT’s are expensive and must be somehow funded. If such studies do not provide a patentable reward for an industry (such as big profits), they will likely never happen. This does not mean that a particular intervention is not successful, only that you are forced to rely on observational or even anecdotal evidence in decision-making. If you are reading this and are blessed with abundant financial resources and have an interest in furthering research in this area of medicine, your contribution would certainly be appreciated.

I am deeply interested in metabolic health and wellness. I read and learn from many different sources to further my education. During my investigation, I stumbled across the Metabolic Terrain Institute of Health. I perused their website. This is a non-profit organization that seeks to improve cancer care. This organization strongly supports the use of complementary medicine in cancer treatment. They also communicate that many patients using this treatment approach are doing better than expected with regards to longevity and quality of life. Below are some of their recommendations for cancer.

COMPREHENSIVE CANCER TREATMENT APPROACH

Terrain Ten 1. Genetic, epigenetic, and nutrigenomic modifications 2. Blood sugar balance 3. Toxic burden management 4. Repopulating and balancing the microbiome 5. Immune system maximization 6. Modulating inflammation and oxidative stress 7. Enhancing blood circulation while inhibiting angiogenesis and metastasis 8. Establishing hormone balance 9. Recalibrating stress levels and biorhythms 10. Enhancing mental and emotional well-being

Chronic metabolic diseases need to be addressed and treated. Some of these diseases include: nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, obesity and inflammation, polycystic ovarian syndrome, hypertension, heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, cancer.

Testing Lab work, metabolic markers, tissue biopsy, epigenetic markers, metabolomics, pharmacogenomics, heart rate variability, functional testing, nutritional analysis, and toxic burden evaluation.

Some additional treatments used in specific cases include: IV therapy, metronomic and chronobiology focused chemotherapy, radiation with hyperthermia, hyperthermia stand-alone, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, ozone therapy, therapeutic diet, restricted feeding windows, mistletoe and other supplements, herbal therapies, pulsed electromagnetic frequency therapy, hydrotherapy, and cryotherapy.

Warburg theory. If you are interested, read about Otto Warburg. Here is his theory: cancer growth is caused by tumor cells generating energy mainly by anaerobic breakdown of glucose, bypassing the mitochondria for energy production. In contrast, healthy cells generate energy from the oxidative breakdown of pyruvate and utilize mitochondria for energy production. Therefore, cancer should be interpreted as a mitochondrial dysfunction. The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen and normal body cells by fermentation of sugar. If you eliminate sugar from the system, cancer cells cannot easily grow and thrive.

I hope this information helps you and your loved ones!

Jason Williams, D.O.

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Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Sonnet 106 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares

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All The Same

Life feels so full under this angel's eye, Delving her svelt and sensuous figure, Hands and hair that extravagantly fly, And her splendid mood which heavens augure. 4

The music with her walk keeps beckoning, And her sweet mouth always flirts with my name, As I must leave, time I keep reckoning, But for her I might just stay all the same...

Very quickly today my mind I made, Who would not?, Her looks are orders to stay... "I would not fall fast next time," I had said For love, though, we can always change our way...

And if she made such fires with a sight, "Why not?", I meant, touching lips with a sigh. *** 4-. augure= to fortell.

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Analysis "All The Same"

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Introduction

"Sonnet 106" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a beautiful exploration of love and desire, with a strong emphasis on the physical and emotional allure of the beloved. The sonnet follows the traditional structure of a sonnet with 14 lines, but it does not strictly adhere to the iambic pentameter or the traditional rhyme scheme.

Thematic Analysis

The first quatrain (lines 1-4) introduces the beloved, painting her as an angelic figure with a "svelt and sensuous figure" and "hands and hair that extravagantly fly." The speaker is captivated by her beauty and the "splendid mood" she brings, which he believes is a good omen ("heavens augur").

The second quatrain (lines 5-8) continues to describe the beloved's allure, focusing on her walk and the sound of her voice. The speaker is so entranced that he contemplates staying with her, despite the fact that he must leave. This suggests a conflict between duty and desire.

The third quatrain (lines 9-12) reveals the speaker's internal struggle. He had previously decided not to fall in love too quickly ("I would not fall fast next time,"), but he finds himself unable to resist the beloved's charm. This highlights the unpredictable and overpowering nature of love.

The final couplet (lines 13-14) concludes the sonnet with a rhetorical question, suggesting that the speaker has succumbed to his desire. The act of "touching lips with a sigh" implies a kiss, symbolizing the speaker's surrender to his feelings.

Overall, "Sonnet 106" is a passionate and evocative portrayal of love's power to captivate and transform. It explores the tension between reason and emotion, ultimately suggesting that love can override rational thought and decision-making.

Rhyme Scheme

The rhyme scheme of "Sonnet 106" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares does not strictly follow the traditional English or Italian sonnet forms. Instead, it seems to follow a more unconventional pattern. Let's break it down:

1. Life feels so full under this angel's eye, (A)
2. Delving her svelt and sensuous figure, (B)
3. Hands and hair that extravagantly fly, (A)

4. And her splendid mood which heavens augure. (B)

5. The music with her walk keeps beckoning, (C)

6. And her sweet mouth always flirts with my name, (D)
7. As I must leave, time I keep reckoning, (C)

8. But for her I might just stay all the same... (D)

9. Very quickly today my mind I made, (E)

10. Who would not?, Her looks are orders to stay... (F)
11. "I would not fall fast next time," I had said (E)

12. For love, though, we can always change our way... (F)

13. And if she made such fires with a sight, (G)

14. "Why not?", I meant, touching lips with a sigh. (G)

The rhyme scheme can be represented as ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This is a variation of the Shakespearean sonnet form, which typically follows the ABAB CDCD EFEF GG pattern. However, the sonnet does not strictly adhere to iambic pentameter, which is another characteristic of traditional sonnets. This suggests that the poet is experimenting with the sonnet form, blending traditional and modern elements to create a unique poetic expression.

Additional Aspects to Analyze

While we've covered the rhyme scheme and general thematic analysis of "Sonnet 106" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares, there are still several aspects that can be further explored, including its use of imagery, tone, and language.

1. Imagery: The sonnet is rich in vivid and sensual imagery that brings the beloved to life. The speaker describes her physical attributes ("svelt and sensuous figure", "hands and hair that extravagantly fly") and her effect on him ("The music with her walk keeps beckoning", "Her looks are orders to stay"). This creates a vivid picture of the beloved and helps the reader understand the speaker's attraction.

2. Tone: The tone of the sonnet is passionate and contemplative. The speaker is deeply moved by the beloved's beauty and struggles with his feelings for her. His tone shifts from admiration ("Life feels so full under this angel's eye") to conflict ("As I must leave, time I keep reckoning") and finally to surrender ("Why not?", I meant, touching lips with a sigh").

3. Language: The language used in the sonnet is both descriptive and emotive. The speaker uses a combination of concrete descriptions and abstract concepts to express his feelings. For example, he describes the beloved's physical beauty and the effect it has on him, but also contemplates the nature of love and desire ("For love, though, we can always change our way").

4. Metaphor: The sonnet uses metaphor to convey the speaker's feelings. The beloved is compared to an angel, suggesting her ethereal beauty and the speaker's reverence for her. Her mood is said to "augur" the heavens, implying that her presence is a good omen.

5. Structure: While the sonnet does not strictly adhere to the traditional sonnet form, it maintains the 14-line structure and the turn (or volta) typically found in sonnets. The turn occurs in the final couplet, where the speaker resolves his internal conflict and surrenders to his feelings for the beloved.

6. Symbolism: The act of "touching lips with a sigh" in the final line symbolizes a kiss, which represents the speaker's surrender to his feelings. This is a powerful symbol of love and desire, and it provides a fitting conclusion to the sonnet.

In conclusion, "Sonnet 106" is a complex and evocative exploration of love and desire. It uses vivid imagery, emotive language, and symbolic gestures to convey the speaker's feelings, creating a rich and engaging poetic experience.

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(GPT4)

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Count the syllables of each line of the Sonnet

(www.howmanysyllables.com)

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All The Same

10 Life feels so full under this angel's eye, 10 Delving her svelt and sensuous figure, 10 Hands and hair that extravagantly fly, 10 And her splendid mood which heavens augure.

10 The music with her walk keeps beckoning, 10 And her sweet mouth always flirts with my name, 10 As I must leave, time I keep reckoning, 10 But for her I might just stay all the same...

10 Very quickly today my mind I made, 10 Who would not?, Her looks are orders to stay... 10 "I would not fall fast next time," I had said 10 For love, though, we can always change our way...

9 And if she made such fires with a sight, 10 "Why not?", I meant, touching lips with a sigh. ***

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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I've written two other posts in regard to the ICANN problem, the first was suggesting Nostr as the solution, and the second suggested having Bitcoin as the solution. Both of these ideation attempts to provide a solution to the ICANN problem had their own criticism, discussions, and suggestions of already existing solutions, and I'd like to dive into those suggestions and end it with what seems to be the most optimal solution.

Namecoin, BitDNS, DriveChains, SpaceChains

It seemed like, at the time, BitDNS was the solution everyone had in regard to solving the centralization problem of domain names, and Satoshi Nakamoto was involved in its discussion as well. Sometime after, a new network with its own blockchain and token called Namecoin emerged to be the very application that was discussed.

The Problem with Namecoin

1. It's a different blockchain that isn't Bitcoin, which by itself would not make it reliable and untrustworthy as others would be able to mess with it, whereas, in comparison, it doesn't have the proper security that Bitcoin has built up and continues to get stronger.
2. Dealing with secondary storage of a different blockchain.
3. Drivechains and Spacechains, aside from having the same issues of the two points above, while interesting, aren't reliable in a consistent manner and may indirectly affect Bitcoin in a negative manner when it comes to the behavior of miners, from what I understood.

Unstoppable Domains

This one got a lot of hype and marketing behind it, as well as some browser support as well. It's also utilizing other EVM chains like Polygon. It seems like there's a set price for whatever name you'd want to register/record, and that's outside of the transaction fee that you'd have to pay to obtain a name.

The Problem with Unstoppable Domains

1. This solution is running on the Ethereum blockchain, one that is not decentralized, at least not anywhere near the level of Bitcoin.
2. Similar to Namecoin, you'll have to deal with a chain and its storage that's not even focused on domain names.
3. From personal usage from a while back, it was (may still be) very slow.
4. Considering what Ethereum has gone through, fees can get ridiculously high, which would affect updates to those domain names.
5. It's complex. Having to deal with multiple chains leads to confusion.

Ordinals: Inscriptions

This is the first attempt, while not being the main reason for its creation, at releasing a solution to the ICANN problem directly in Bitcoin. It's not a separate blockchain. This basically inscribes data, a name in our case, onto a single Sat (or multiple Sats depending on how you go about it), recording that data forever in Bitcoin, and having an address in that inscribed sat.

The Problem with Ordinals: Inscriptions

1. There's a size limitation, and it is costly to update data and its records.
2. Transforms Sats from money to assets in an ideological sense, and gives money ID, resulting in a potential danger of having Sats being fungible.
3. Stores undesirable and/or problematic data that Bitcoin miners and node operators don't want to hold, and such data cannot be removed.

Nomen

This solution is the second attempt that tries to solve the centralization of domain names, where the name registration is recorded in Bitcoin directly, however, another piece of technology is used to handle ownership and data management, Nostr.

What's interesting about Nomen is that you don't have to create a new Bitcoin transaction every time you want to update the data under the registered name, aside from changing the ownership, as everything is handled on Nostr's side. What's happening on Bitcoin is just registering the name and who the owner is (a Nostr key pair).

I gave it a shot and it's simple enough (not in a UX sense yet of course). I used Bluewallet, where I created a PSBT with a bit higher fee than usual to account for the extra data, added my desired name and my Nostr address as the owner, using the tool provided in Nomen Explorer, broadcasted the modified PSBT, updated my record at the same tool site, and that was it.

The Problem with Nomen

1. It doesn't rely on Bitcoin only, however, it seems like, having Nostr involved in this solution, is a necessary action to move past the issues of what Ordinals: Inscriptions has.

Conclusion

Unless another solution pops up that is similar to Nomen but only relies on Bitcoin, then my vote seems to be going toward having Nomen as the solution here, especially when various apps are created that provide both a Bitcoin wallet and Nostr accounts services and make a seamless UX experience.

Keys to Nomen's Success

Assuming that Nomen is the way to go, here are my thoughts on how to have it succeed as it climbs to stand next to ICANN and hopefully overtake it in the future. These steps are in order of quick deployment and usage (I'd say point 2 and 3 are interchangeable): 1. The first immediate step would be to utilize it with Nostr as it replaces the system under (or completely replaces it with a new NIP) NIP-05, along with utilizing other methods to set up the necessary details via setting up your website on Nostr and connect everything together. 2. The second step would be to have Bitcoin and crypto wallets to integrate Nomen so that people can start sending each other BTC (normally or through LN) using those registered/recorded names. Human-readable Bitcoin addresses. 3. We then have a browser extension so that people can install it into their browsers, like any Chromium-based browser like Google Chrome 4. Considering that ICANN and Nomen domains shouldn't conflict with one other, the method of accessing a Nomen website should be easy, in regards to entering the domain name in the browser URL. Something along the lines of, as an example, "bd:freakoverse" (Bitcoin Domain : Domain Name). Entering that in the browser URL field will trigger the browser to see it as a Nomen domain, fetching the appropriate data and loading the in page. 5. Small and major browsers would start integrating Nomen natively into their browsers, allowing people to access these new domains/websites without having the need to install an extension. 6. For those who care about decentralized domains and freedom tech, you'd aim to create exclusive content on your Nomen website, and/or provide such content to others for their own websites, or support others in some way to achieve this. When such content is established, you'd set up a traditional website and provide context that the content people are looking for is accessible on a Nomen site and that they'd have to install a browser extension to reach it or use a browser that has Nomen natively. All the while, if you have a website already with people visiting it each month or so, start advertising your Nomen website on it with proper guidance for those who'd hit that CTA.

Thanks For Reading

What are your thoughts on all of this? Do you think Ordinals: Inscriptions and/or Nomen will succeed as the system/protocol of solving the ICANN problem, or have we yet to reach a good solution to this problem?

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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.. :)

ปล. |--

• มนุษย์มีวุ้นแปลภาษาจริงๆ แล้วนะครับ ก็ Google translate นั่นยังไง อย่าให้ภาษากลายเป็นกำแพงแห่งการเรียนรู้.. จงใช้มัน ไม่ต้องขวยเขิลกันหรอกครับ (เพราะผมเองก็ใช้)

• บทความต่อไปผมจะมาลองแนะนำว่า มีแอคเคานต์ไหนบ้างที่น่าสนใจกดติดตามสัก 10-20 บัญชี เอาคนไทยเราก่อนเลย ไว้คอยติดตามกันนะครับ

@ 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.

@ 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.

@ 134743ca:46019ee7

We have reached 1000🎉🎉🎉 We can't believe it but we have arrived here💜

We are very happy and we want to share it with you, we have been working hard to be able to launch all these new features all at once, today, for you:

New design

https://nostrcheck.me/media/quentin/nostrcheck.me_c7971bf984d68e661ad19740b6116d9b788a3e91ed35f90b.mp4

Nostrcheck.me was born as a small project with the aim of offering nostr address to anyone who did not have their own domain. Over time it grew and we have been very focused on making our backend solid and technologically powerful. It was time to give some love to our visible face, we hope you like it!

https://nostrcheck.me/media/quentin/nostrcheck.me_da527cea258f21f20bdaf31dbf27899169331020a4370813.webp

Visit us to see it in action!

Lightning redirection

https://nostrcheck.me/media/quentin/nostrcheck.me_810d951385157e0fefc43ee0b52ed2ebc6571c38279f98b0.webp

One of the most requested features by our users is the lightning redirects. With this new feature we offer more flexibility to our community by giving them the possibility to choose their own lightning address.

You can use your nostr address as your only address for nostr and lightning, you can try this one for example 😉

quentin@nostrcheck.me

Smoother image upload

https://nostrcheck.me/media/quentin/nostrcheck.me_4eff5bd176146728cbaf70498d4e8d33273ab4e8dc32cd9b.mp4

We have adapted our multimedia upload process to our powerful backend, so we process each upload, we remove all metadata and we compress the uploaded files to improve your sharing experience.

New domain name, nostrverse.net

https://nostrcheck.me/media/quentin/nostrcheck.me_6221aefece0a2b67e7ecf8486b272ce6e53ea7a3fa6e20de.webp

The aim of nostrcheck.me is to offer the widest range of possibilities for everyone. Nostrverse.net joins our family as a private domain like its siblings. Only the first 100 members will be able to get it directly, after that it will only be available by invitation from another member.

If you don't want to stay without your nostr address @nostrverse.net sign up here.

Magnets!! 🧲

http://nostrcheck.me/media/quentin/nostrcheck.me_5ca2e846754cbf91bace34330d2f7fd48ef8e1b50a0c8ba6.webp

Our spirit is as free as the wind, we don't like you to depend on us for the survival of your multimedia files. Every upload to nostrcheck is automatically shared on the bittorrent network, so if you want, you can download all your files using the magnet link and share them with whoever you want!

Improved public gallery

https://nostrcheck.me/media/quentin/nostrcheck.me_1ef64dcd7cf50ee2a4848fbd76d916a42d2aa08b60a77087.mp4

We have made profound improvements to the public gallery, now everything flows fast and beautifully. Our heart is your nostr address, but we know that multimedia uploads are a very important part of your nostr experience.

We have improved our public gallery so you can use it without being registered, with the same limits as a nostrcheck member. We like freedom, and that's why we offer it all to you.

Our passion is nostr and this is how we celebrate it 💜

We will give out 100,000 sats to all the people who follow us and send us a little thank you message on this note.

555 sats to each message of love and affection that we receive, one per pubkey.

We hope to celebrate 10,000 very soon. Thanks for being there 🤗

@ 9be0be0e:c3cbb81e

Enable the freedom to communicate.

Reach should be the result of how many people want or don’t want to listen to your message, there is no reason for a third party or algorithm to be required in this equation.

You should be in control of what you can or cannot see. Who you block should be up to you.

Ideally Nostur tries to reduce the need to require or trust any third party in order to communicate, unless there is no other way.

BUT

Nostur is built for iPhone, iPad and Mac users. In one way this is a limitation, (e.g., zap restrictions by Apple) but if we are using the Apple ecosystem already, we might as well use it to our advantage.

Nostur's target audience already trusts Apple with their data, their messages, photos, calendar, reminders, security cameras, etc.

We don’t need to store our data on random relays, and hope our contact list doesn’t get lost, or leak metadata to the public. We can store everything on our device, and sync using iCloud, it is reliable, and we already use it for far more important data anyway. Converting Apple users to Android or GrapheneOS is an uphill battle, I applaud people who take that route, but it’s not for Nostur users, we have people saying don't trust the media, don't use twitter, don't use iPhone, if we keep going, we end up sending smoke signals in a circle. As for interoperability, we can still publish or export using nostr native formats so you can use your data in another nostr app.

Nostur will publish to relays, but our data is on our device first, iCloud second, and third-party relays third. And you can still use a personal private relay for yourself if you want.

With this in mind, Nostur tries to let relays just be relays, not personal storage. Using relays for storage might end up centralising nostr, in the same way email, which used to be decentralised, is now mostly hosted by google and microsoft.

If you disagree with this mission or direction, Nostur's source is released under GPL-3.0 license, so feel free to fork and create a different version.

Ultimately, the goal of Nostur is not to get more people to use Nostur, but to get more people to use nostr.

@ d5d25ac9:65ea8ded

📝 Summary: [TEST-J] An extension to BOLT-11 is proposed for invoices to contain two bundled payments for non-custodial exchanges. Boltz is distributing a submarine swap client separate from the user's lightning wallet, enabling competition and increasing potential user base. However, dedicated logic is required for a trust-minimized swap. 👥 Authors: • Olaoluwa Osuntokun ( nostr:npub1p032kpesmmlcwqcexuglqwxug3flxa2ayuhdd8utpw896k7x99gs37dh8h ) • Thomas Voegtlin ( nostr:npub1ghyhf8fhfkysttrhqkq3cjr4c4jaf70ug8chcczh88lpptx26ggs785w2q ) 📅 Messages Date Range: 2023-06-13 to 2023-06-15 ✉️ Message Count: 3 📚 Total Characters in Messages: 17494

@ c5fb6ecc:e58c38bb

https://ln.tips is a great wallet. It's an extremely easy to use, custodial Lightning wallet for the masses. Each telegram account has it's own @ln.tips LN Address, but sometimes you want to use your own domain.

In this guide I will teach you how to setup LN Address redirection with your own domain using Cloudflare's Redirection Rules.

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Prerequisites

• A Web Domain that's has Cloudflare setup on it.
• https://ln.tips setup and ready to go.
  • Using ln.tips is optional. This guide will work with any other custodial wallet that provides you with an LN Address will work too.

Setup

Getting your destructured LN Address

ln.tips

Since ln.tips provides two LN addresses to everybody, you have two options. 1. Use your Telegram username LN address (Not Recommended) 1. This isn't recommended because anyone can see your Telegram username with this method and use it to message you. It's the best choice for anonymity from other users. 2. ex: nym@ln.tips 2. Use your anonymous LN address (Recommended) 1. This is recommended because the address is random, nobody can look this up back to your Telegram account. 2. Can be obtained by running /advanced to the bot, and finding it under "Anonymous Lightning address" 3. ex: 0x84e6b3ea699ab309@ln.tips

What option you pick doesn't matter to your next step, you're going to want to take the username portion of the address (everything before the @, like an email address) add https://ln.tips/.well-known/lnurlp/<username> username goes at the end.

The final url should look something like https://ln.tips/.well-known/lnurlp/0x84e6b3ea699ab309 (depending on the method you chose)

Other platforms

Custodial Wallets that provide you with a Lightning address work similarly to this. Apps like Wallet of Satoshi provide you with a completely random address when you sign up, so a Wallet of Satoshi destructured address would look like: https://walletofsatoshi.com/.well-known/lnurlp/LawyerCicanery69

Setting up Cloudflare Redirects

Assuming that you have Cloudflare hooked up and ready to go, you're going to want to follow a few steps. 1. Open your site on the panel 2. On the sidebar, click the dropdown arrow next to Rules 3. Click "Redirect Rules" 4. Press the button that says "Create Rule" 5. Configure your new rule 1. Give it a name. ex: "lnaddr" 2. Configure the first condition 1. Set "Field" to URI Path 2. Set "Operator" to starts with 3. Set "Value" to /.well-known/lnurlp/ 3. Configure the "then" 1. Set "Type" to Static 2. Set "URL" to your destructured Lightning address from earlier 3. Set "Status Code" to 307 4. Check "Preserve query string" 6. Click Save

All done! Now whenever someone goes to pay your new Lightning address, it should automatically redirect to your custodial wallet. Have fun!

@ 52b4a076:e7fad8bd

What is NIP-05 really?

If you look at the spec, it's a way to map Nostr public keys to DNS-based internet identifiers, such as name@example.com.

If you look at Nostr Plebs:

It's a human readable identifier for your public key. It makes finding your profile on Nostr easier. It makes identifying your account easier.

If you look at basically any client, you see a checkmark, which you assume means verification.

If you ask someone, they probably will call it verification.

How did we get here?

Initially, there was only one client, which was (kind of) the reference implementation: Branle.

When it added support for NIP-05 identifiers, it used to replace the display name with the NIP-05 identifier, and it had to distinguish a NIP-05 from someone setting their display name to a NIP-05. So they added a checkmark...

Then there was astral.ninja and Damus: The former was a fork of Branle, and therefore inherited the checkmark. Damus didn't implement NIP-05 until a while later, and they added a checkmark because Astral and other clients were doing it.

And then came new clients, all copying what the previous ones did... (Snort originally did not have a checkmark, but that changed later.)

The first NIP-05 provider

Long story short, people were wondering what NIP-05 is and wanted it, and that's how Nostr Plebs came to be.

They initially called their service verification. Somewhere between January and February, they removed all mentions to verification except one (because people were searching for it), and publicly said that NIP-05 is not verification. But that didn't work.

Then, there were the new NIP-05 providers, some understood perfectly what a NIP-05 identifier is and applied the correct nomenclature. Others misnamed it as verification, adding confusion to users. This made the problem worse on top of the popular clients showing checkmarks.

(from this point in the article we'll refer to it as a Nostr address)

And so, the scams begin

Spammers and scammers started to abuse Nostr addresses to scam people: - Some providers has been used by fake crypto airdrop bots. - A few Nostr address providers have terminated multitude of impersonating and scam identifiers over the past weeks.

This goes to show that Nostr addresses don't verify anything, they are just providers of human readable handles.

Nostr addresses can be proof of association

Nostr addresses can be a proof of association. The easiest analogy to understand is email:

jack@cash.app -> You could assume this is the Jack that works at Cash App.

jack@nostr-address-provider.example.com -> This could be any Jack.

What now?

We urge that clients stop showing a checkmark for all Nostr addresses, as they are not useful for verification.

We also urge that clients hide checkmarks for all domain names, without exception in the same way we do not show checkmarks for emails.

Lastly, NIP-05 is a nostr address and that is why we urge all clients to use the proper nomenclature.

Signed:

• Semisol, Nostr Plebs (semisol@nostrplebs.com)
• Quentin, nostrcheck.me (quentin@nostrcheck.me)
• Derek Ross, Nostr Plebs (derekross@nostrplebs.com)
• Bitcoin Nostrich, Bitcoin Nostr (BitcoinNostrich@BitcoinNostr.com)
• Remina, zaps.lol (remina@zaps.lol)
• Harry Hodler, nostr-check.com (harryhodler@nostr-check.com)

@ c9dccd5f:dce00d9a

I am an aspiring physicist, interested in atomic, particle and gravitational physics. In 2021 I became interested in Bitcoin and have been fascinated by it and its impact on the world ever since. Like probably most of you, in December 2022 Nostr happened to me, which kept me hooked throughout.

I always wanted to write something, like a blog, but I never knew what to write about and where to publish it. I never got used to sites like Substack, but now with Nostr I know where to publish. What remains is the question: What should I write about?

My plan is to document what I learn and to help me learn. So it's not a typical blog, which is why I put blog in quotes in the first paragraph. Most likely the topics will be physics, Bitcoin and Nostr related. But anything is possible.

I will not have a publishing schedule, at least at the beginning. I will post as things come to me.

The posts are mainly for me to learn, so I'm planning to write my posts in the style of the Feynman technique and you are my audience. You probably already know what it is, but if not, my next post will explain it to you 😜

My hope is that you will find my posts useful and that we can have a learning experience together. I look forward to your comments. Surely it will happen that I get something wrong and I hope you will correct me.

PV 🤙

@ 1f52b16e:0ab23c84

Originally posted May 2023 at 1f52b.xyz. Read there for sidenotes & references.

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Ledger, the leading Bitcoin & Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer launched their new Recover product last week. It's a subscription backup service that offers users a different way to protect against lost funds in the event that their Ledger hardware signing device is lost, stolen or destroyed. Ledger Recover does this by splitting up their key into three shares which are uploaded to and stored by Ledger and two other custodians. Rather than having a Seed Word as backup in a disaster, with Recover you upload proof of ID to the custodians, to convince them to send your shares back to you.

This announcement... didn't exactly go down well on Twitter. People started freaking out, having previously understood that their private key was permanently locked within their Ledger -- yet here was Ledger themselves proudly announcing a feature that'd extract it and upload it to the internet. Ledger has been forced into damage-control mode, and has paused the roll-out for Recover while the atmosphere is hot.

Let's back up for a second.

Seed Words

The industry has standardised around seed words as the way to back up Bitcoin and crypto wallets. These are usually 12 or 24 words that you write down and hide safely, to be able to load them into a new wallet if you ever lose access to the original. When you set up basically any new wallet, it'll prompt you to write down these words as a backup.

Yet many people have fallen victim to lost or wrong seed phrases: forgetting where they put the backup; realising they wrote it down wrong years ago, or having their mum run it through the wash. New users can struggle to grasp the significance of the seed words, not understanding that the backup is literally the same thing as their wallet's private key, and having the seed is the same as having their coins -- so they set everything up correctly, doing everything right up until the moment they type the seed into a Google Doc; not understanding how that last step has just irreparably compromised the wallet.

Met a new bitcoiner today:

• Proud they bought a whole coin
• Proud they bought a hardware device
• Proud they moved coin to device
• Proud they secured device
• Proud they backed up seed phrase in a Google Doc

Where did they go wrong?

Peter McCormack 🏴‍☠️ on Twitter

Ledger believes Recover fixes this. Instead of a user taking the responsibility upon themselves to safely and securely store a seed phrase, all they have to do is be able to identify themselves to the Recover custodians, who handle the hard part of storing a seed for them. As Ledger puts it, "you become the key to your wallet".

The seed is split into three pieces, or shares, where each of these on its own not enough to know what the original is. At-least two shares are required to recover it, and Recover splits all the shares up geographically and jurisdictionally between three custodians: themselves in France, CoinCover in the UK and EscrowTech in the USA.

So, none of the custodians on their own are able to access the private key, meaning they are unable to see or steal any of a user's funds without colluding with another.

The tech underpinning this is a 2-of-3 Shamir's Secret Share of the private key, which isn't something Ledger have just invented, and has already been used extensively by cryptographers since its invention in 1979. Each of the shares are also encrypted as a protection against loss or theft, but with encryption keys known to the custodians not the Recover user.

When you initiate a wallet recovery, you first authenticate yourself to the custodians using a Passport or National ID through a 'KYC' process, then each sends the share they have to your new Ledger device where they are recombined, revealing the private key and reconstructing the wallet on the device itself.

Maybe it's just not for you?

Depending on who you are, you might absolutely hate this idea; or you might quite like it and be wondering what all the drama is about.

I'll be honest, I don't like it at all, but here's the thing: there a number of different Hardware Signing Devices (aka Wallets) available, and each is trying to be the best to a different user. This necessitates making different design choices, and making different trade-offs, and these choices aren't for me. But maybe they are for you?

What matters is whether adding this feature inherently makes Ledger's devices less secure for those that don't want to use Recover.

We've seen similar controversy before, four years ago when Ledger launched the Nano X adding Bluetooth connectivity. Many then were worried about this broadcasting that there was a Ledger nearby to any other devices with Bluetooth, or thinking that the private key would leave the device over the connection whilst signing transactions (it doesn't). Today this controversy has largely been forgotten, and the Nano X has gone on to be a popular device.

Sure, there are Signing Device puritans for whom Ledger's design choices are unacceptable, and only the ColdCard and those with similar principles like the Passport and SeedSigner will do. And they're right, Bluetooth is an attack vector, as is ever conncting it to a computer via USB as you do with all Ledger models, as well as the Trezor, BitBox02 and others -- even the ColdCard can be used over USB, though this is discouraged.

Above: The ColdCard Hardware wallet, by Coinkite

The ColdCard is perhaps the high-water mark for key security, though that's not a universally held opinion. It does many things right -- it uses dual multi-vendor Secure Elements (SEs); encourages airgapped-use with disabled USB and NFC, only passing transactions to and from the device by physically moving a SD card around. It comes in a tamper-proof bag; you have to get it direct from Coinkite; focussing on Bitcoin-only keeps it simpler; the firmware is on GitHub for anyone to view and verify; there are half a dozen or so decoy and trap security features you can use. Basically, there's a laundry list of security features that add complexity, but bring with them extra protection.

But then, the ColdCard is also not for everyone. Its no-compromise approach to security does make it less forgiving, and easier to mess-up for yourself. A super-paranoid maximally secure ColdCard setup guide runs to around thirty separate steps.

Maybe it is for you?

Fundamentally, Ledger Recover is an opt-in feature. If you don't want to use it, you're not going to be forced to, and your Ledger will never create these backup seed shares and export them without you initiating it on the device. This is the same level of trust you've already had in your Ledger that it isn't going to approve a transaction and sign it until you've pressed the buttons to do so.

Nevertheless, the security trade-offs are substantially different between a classic Seed Word backup and this.

But, lots of people struggle with storing Seed Words safely and responsibly. According to Ledger's CEO, lots of customers and potential customers they've talked to want this.

People online are saying our customers don't want this.

A lot of our customers actually want it. A lot of future customers want it, and most of the people that saysay "I don’t want to use a ledger" are saying that because "I don’t trust myself with the 24 words."

So actually we're trying to solve one of the biggest pain points to onboard the next generation of users into self-custody. Self-custody is much safer than any other form of custody that you have in the market.

Pascal Gauthier, Ledger Chairman & CEO on the What Bitcoin Did Podcast - Ep.661

If you choose to use Recover, it's important to recognise that you're extending your trust beyond just Ledger and placing it in their two co-custodians too. The issue is not only that Ledger-the-company may turn out to be a malicious actor -- that's highly unlikely -- but more whether a rogue employee, hostile state infiltrator (a spy) or more-generally another adversary (a court) can force Ledger into revealing your private key or circumvent their security, against both your and Ledger's wishes. This too is improbable, but it can and has happened in the past.

Again, the backup is split between three different companies, which can't individually access your private key -- so this isn't just as bad as leaving your coins on an exchange.

But you may lose some privacy. Recover uses KYC to authenticate you when restoring a backup, so your face and ID are going to be stored alongside the Recover backup to make that possible. If you already accept KYC risk by buying coins from KYC exchanges like Kraken, Coinbase or Binance, then maybe this isn't a concern for you. You'll also have to be guarded against phishing and social-engineering attempts looking to get you to give an attacker KYC data so they can pretend to be you and steal your backups, an attack that doesn't really apply to Seed Words.

Are you concerned about legal risk? If one or more of these backup companies is subpoenaed, Ledger acknowledge that they would have to comply and turn-over your backups, giving the authorities access to your funds and on-chain transaction history. Ledger's CEO, Pascal Gauthier, thinks this is highly unlikely to happen, and not a concern for the vast majority of Ledger's customers.

It's true that should be the case, but we only have to look a few years back to the Canadian Trucker protests of 2022 where the government of an ostensibly free country invoked an Emergencies Act and rapidly seized and froze the cryptoassets of protesters, as well as other financial assets. I'm sure most of them never thought that would happen to them.

Long before the crackdown on the Canadian protests, the IRS in the United States has used broad 'John Doe' summonses to force the Coinbase exchange to hand them the identities of "U.S. Taxpayers who have used virtual currency". Your financial data may have already been requested and duly received by your Government. In fairness, Ledger's CEO is correct to point out that they are distinct from Coinbase in that they are not an Exchange, so the IRS does not have the same 'legitimate' interest in whatever data they may have.

The three backup custodians for Recover are based in France (Ledger), the UK (CoinCover) and the USA (EscrowTech). It's fair to say these three have a good relationship, and frequently co-operate on enforcement matters and foreign policy. If you're lucky enough to get put on the OFAC list, is it not likely that the French and British custodians will also comply with that American sanction?

Both Ledger Recover and Trezor's new CoinJoin implementation that also recently attracted anger after announcing that it would be gated by Chain Analysis suggest a trend amongst some hardware manufacturers -- they have a diminishing willingness to build products that could work for criminals. If you're an ordinary Joe, don't worry -- but don't expect your wallet manufacturer to take any heat to protect you.

Again, here's a trade-off that manufactures make: Ledger have their companion software Ledger Live that provides an easy oven-ready setup with everything you need; whereas Coinkite doesn't talk user numbers, deletes sales data as soon as they can, and doesn't have a companion app with hosted Bitcoin Nodes to avoid the liability of knowing who you are or ever seeing your public key. You have to pick a wallet app like Sparrow made by someone else for yourself. Not as easy, but safer.

At the end of the day, the decision is yours, whether you prefer the risks and trade-offs of sticking with seed words as backup, or if you'd prefer to use Ledger Recover.

Should I worry about my Ledger?

Is this new feature a concern even if you don't want to use Recover? Is the security of a Ledger inherently reduced by this feature?

Unfortunately, it seems many people have misunderstood how Signing Devices work. Whether they use Secure Element chips or not, they are basically all capable of extracting your private key from their enclave into the main microprocessor, with varying caveats. Ledger can, even a ColdCard can! And if that's possible, and the main microprocessor is also responsible for the display and interfaces like USB, then it follows that it's possible to write malicious firmware for all of them that would extract the private key or seed, and hand it to an attacker over USB.

Don't believe me? With a ColdCard, you can view the seed words on the device's screen once it's unlocked. Advanced Menu → Danger Zone → Seed Functions → View Seed Words. If they're on the screen, they're not just in the Secure Element. The difference between writing them to the screen and writing them out over USB is just a difference of software.

So, while it seems to come as an unwelcome surprise to many, yes, it has always been possible to write firmware that facilitates key extraction. You've always trusted Ledger not to deploy such firmware whether you knew it or not.

Moving to a different signing device is not going to change that fact -- although, using a device that can be airgapped -- that is, used without ever being directly connected to a computer does immediately allay most of this fear. Even if your device has been poisoned with private key extracting firmware, getting that key off the device over an airgap is really hard to do.

So, ditch Ledger if you want to -- but please understand that the other devices aren't different in this fundamental aspect.

The Recover code in the firmware is not a malicious code nor does it open a way to arbitrary extract the seed.

If you trust the device to sign a transaction only when you press a button, then you can trust the device to compute a SSS (a shard of the seed) only if you press a button.

Éric Larchevêque, Ledger co-founder an CEO of the company from 2014 to 2019 on Reddit

Messaging Matters

The crux of this whole fiasco may then just be a matter of messed-up messaging. Ledger have previously claimed that it was impossible to issue a firmware update that could extract the private key, which as we've seen now is clearly incorrect:

Hi - your private keys never leave the Secure Element chip, which has never been hacked. The Secure Element is 3rd party certified, and is the same technology as used in passports and credit cards. A firmware update cannot extract the private keys from the Secure Element.

Ledger on Twitter

Contrast this with the reality that hit in this tweet that's since been deleted by Ledger Support:

(1/2) technically speaking it is and has always been possible to write firmware that facilitates key extraction. You have always trusted Ledger not to deploy such firmware whether you knew it or not.

Ledger Support on Twitter

This kind of sloppiness with detail has clearly led many people to believe their relationship with Ledger is trustless, as Éric Larchevêque, Ledger co-founder phrased it on Reddit. That trust has been broken as Ledger users realise their relationship to the company isn't as secure as they believed it to be. It doesn't matter that the trust was misguided, it matters that it was broken.

My mistake as a CEO during my tenure was probably not be relentless enough about explaining the security model, but at some point you just give up as people don't care at all. Until they care again, like now.

The hard truth, which has been confirmed by many experts who took the time to actually deep dive on the subject, is that nothing changed. Absolutely nothing happened. The security model is the same than before you knew Ledger Recover existed.

What changed is the perspective some of you had on the trustlessness, which appeared to be much more nuanced than you thought, and as this is a very sensible subject, many became extremely angered because they felt lied to.

Éric Larchevêque on Reddit

This is a sequencing and communication fuckup, not a technical one. Just enough info to freak people out was pushed out on Twitter, but not enough to understand what was actually happening, what the risks and protections were.

Naturally the reaction to this is negative, with confused and angry users posting about their concerns and many others including big names in the space dogpiling on to accelerate the fire. A Twitter search for "bye ledger" yields a stream of images of new wallets from other makers and even some Ledgers being smashed and binned.

Yo @Ledger, does this mean you can access my #BTC?

OR

Does it mean you can access my #BTC only if I subscribe to your Ledger Recover service?> Which one is true? Or are they both? 👀

Duo Nine ⚡ on Twitter

The concern above isn't valid, but how was the poster supposed to know?

You have to wonder how this new feature went down when internally circulated. To their credit, Ledger's DonJon security research program has spent millions supporting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency custody relentlessly, and has made Ledger's own devices and many of their competitors' safer as a result. So, surely that team might've had a similar initial scepticism (or "ick") towards the idea before seeing detail?

As a result of this self-inflicted hailstorm, Ledger have damaged their reputation and handed their competitors free marketing and users.

So, can Ledger recover?

In the end, this is about trust. Treating the manufacturer of your hardware signing device as an adversary in every way is a non-sequitur. You have to have a degree of trust in them to produce and deliver to you a product that does what it says.

Ledger have acknowledged the mess and the miscommunication, and are taking steps to be more transparent in the future -- open-sourcing more of their code, responding to criticism and apologising for the upset.

Despite the controversy, I think Ledger will be fine, and even that Recover will be a successful product. But rebuilding lost trust and reputation is going to take them a while.

If you have been using a Ledger and it's worked well for you, I don't think this is a reason to drop it and switch to a new wallet. It's not for me, but it might be for you -- it's a great piece of hardware, and one I think I'll still recommend to people that might have a hard time with a ColdCard.

We believe wholeheartedly in the need for a service like Ledger Recover—those of us who have been in the space for a long time, over a decade in my case, have a responsibility to ensure everyone can be self-sovereign and can have self-custody over their digital value. This is the ethos of crypto. The main pain point for crypto self-custody adoption is precisely the problem of seed phrase recovery. The majority of users in crypto today either don’t own their private keys and/or are putting their private keys at risk using less secure forms of self-custody, and hard-to-use forms of storing and securing their seed phrase.

Ledger Recover: A Message From Pascal Gauthier

@ 6e468422:15deee93

Not too long ago, I tried to paint a picture of what a vision for a value-enabled web could look like. Now, only a couple of months later, all this stuff is being built. On nostr, and on lightning. Orange and purple, a match made in heaven.

It goes without saying that I'm beyond delighted. What a time to be alive!

nostr

Here's the thing that nostr got right, and it's the same thing that Bitcoin got right: information is easy to spread and hard to stifle.[^fn-stifle] Information can be copied quickly and perfectly, which is, I believe, the underlying reason for its desire to be free.

[^fn-stifle]: That's a Satoshi quote, of course: "Bitcoin's solution is to use a peer-to-peer network to check for double-spending. In a nutshell, the network works like a distributed timestamp server, stamping the first transaction to spend a coin. It takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but hard to stifle."

Easy to spread, hard to stifle. That's the base reality of the nature of information. As always, the smart thing is to work with nature, not against it.[^1] That's what's beautiful about the orange coin and the purple ostrich: both manage to work with the peculiarities of information, not against them. Both realize that information can and should be copied, as it can be perfectly read and easily spread, always. Both understand that resistance to censorship comes from writing to many places, making the cost of deletion prohibitive.

Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto

Nostr is quickly establishing itself as a base layer for information exchange, one that is identity-native and value-enabled. It is distinctly different from systems that came before it, just like Bitcoin is distinctly different from monies that came before it.

As of today, the focus of nostr is mostly on short text notes, the so-called "type 1" events more commonly known as tweets.[^fn-kinds] However, as you should be aware by now, nostr is way more than just an alternative to twitter. It is a new paradigm. Change the note kind from 1 to 30023 and you don't have an alternative to Twitter, but a replacement for Medium, Substack, and all the other long-form platforms. I believe that special-purpose clients that focus on certain content types will emerge over time, just like we have seen the emergence of special-purpose platforms in the Web 2.0 era. This time, however, the network effects are cumulative, not separate. A new paradigm.

Let me now turn to one such special-purpose client, a nostr-based reading app.

[^fn-kinds]: Refer to the various NIPs to discover the multitude of event kinds defined by the protocol.

Reading

I'm constantly surprised that, even though most people do read a lot online, very few people seem to have a reading workflow or reading tools.

Why that is is anyone's guess, but maybe the added value of such tools is not readily apparent. You can just read the stuff right there, on the ad-ridden, dead-ugly site, right? Why should you sign up for another site, use another app, or bind yourself to another closed platform?

That's a fair point, but the success of Medium and Substack shows that there is an appetite for clean reading and writing, as well as providing avenues for authors to get paid for their writing (and a willingness of readers to support said authors, just because).

The problem is, of course, that all of these platforms are platforms, which is to say, walled gardens that imprison readers and writers alike. Worse than that: they are fiat platforms, which means that permissionless value-flows are not only absent from their DNA, they are outright impossible.[^2]

Nostr fixes this.

The beauty of nostr is that it is not a platform. It's a protocol, which means that you don't have to sign up for it---you can create an identity yourself. You don't have to ask for permission; you just do, without having to rely on the benevolence of whatever dictator is in charge of the platform right now.

Nostr is not a platform, and yet, powerful tools and services can be built and monetized on top of it. This is good for users, good for service providers, and good for the network(s) at large. Win-win-win.

So what am I talking about, exactly? How can nostr improve everyone's reading (and writing) experience?

Allow me to paint a (rough) picture of what I have in mind. Nostr already supports private and public bookmarks, so let's start from there.

Imagine a special-purpose client that scans all your bookmarks for long-form content.[^fn-urls] Everything that you marked to be read later is shown in an orderly fashion, which is to say searchable, sortable, filterable, and displayed without distractions. Voilà, you have yourself a reading app. That's, in essence, how Pocket, Readwise, and other reading apps work. But all these apps are walled gardens without much interoperability and without direct monetization.

[^fn-urls]: In the nostr world long-form content is simply markdown as defined in NIP-23, but it could also be a link to an article or PDF, which in turn could get converted into markdown and posted as an event to a special relay.

Bitcoin fixes the direct monetization part.[^fn-v4v] Nostr fixes the interoperability part.

[^fn-v4v]: ...because Bitcoin makes V4V practical. (Paywalls are not the way.)

Alright, we got ourselves a boring reading app. Great. Now, imagine that users are able to highlight passages. These highlights, just like bookmarks now, could be private or public. When shared publicly, something interesting emerges: an overlay on existing content, a lens on the written Web. In other words: swarm highlights.

Imagine a visual overlay of all public highlights, automatically shining a light on what the swarm of readers found most useful, insightful, funny, etc.

Further, imagine the possibility of sharing these highlights as a "type 1" event with one click, automatically tagging the highlighter(s)---as well as the author, of course---so that eventual sat-flows can be split and forwarded automatically.

Voilà, you have a system that allows for value to flow back to those who provide it, be it authors, editors, curators, or readers that willingly slog through the information jungle to share and highlight the best stuff (which is a form of curation, of course).

Zaps make nostr a defacto address book[^fn-pp] of payment information, which is to say lightning addresses, as of now. Thanks to nostr wallet connect (among other developments), sending sats ~~will soon be~~ is already as frictionless as leaving a like.

[^fn-pp]: The Yellow Pages are dead, long live The Purple Pages!

Value-for-value and participatory payment flows are something that traditional reading apps desperately lack, be it Pocket, Instapaper, Readwise, or the simple reading mode that is part of every browser.

A neat side-effect of a more structured way to share passages of text is that it enables semi-structured discussions around said passages---which could be another useful overlay inside special-purpose clients, providing context and further insights.[^5]

Further, imagine the option of seamlessly switching from text-on-screen to text-to-speech, allowing the user to stream sats if desired, as Podcasting 2.0 clients already do.[^3]

Imagine user-built curations of the best articles of the week, bundled neatly for your reading pleasure, incentivized by a small value split that allows the curator to participate in the flow of sats.

You get the idea.

I'm sure that the various implementation details will be hashed out, but as I see it, 90% of the stuff is already there. Maybe we'll need another NIP or two, but I don't see a reason why this can't be built---and, more importantly: I don't see a reason why it wouldn't be sustainable for everyone involved.

Most puzzle pieces are already there, and the rest of them can probably be implemented by custom event types. From the point of view of nostr, most everything is an event: bookmarks are events, highlights are events, marking something as read is an event, and sharing an excerpt or a highlight is an event. Public actions are out in the open, private actions are encrypted, the data is not in a silo, and everyone wins. Especially the users, those who are at the edge of the network and usually lose out on the value generated.

In this case, the reading case, the users are mostly "consumers" of content. What changes from the producing perspective, the perspective of the writer?

Writing

Back to the one thing that nostr got right: information is easy to spread but hard to stifle. In addition to that, digital information can be copied perfectly, which is why it shouldn't matter where stuff is published in the first place.

Allow me to repeat this point in all caps, for emphasis: IT SHOULD NOT MATTER WHERE INFORMATION IS PUBLISHED, and, maybe even more importantly, it shouldn't matter if it is published in a hundred different places at once.[^fn-torrents]

What matters is trust and accuracy, which is to say, digital signatures and reputation. To translate this to nostr speak: because every event is signed by default, as long as you trust the person behind the signature, it doesn't matter from which relay the information is fetched.

This is already true (or mostly true) on the regular web. Whether you read the internet archive version of an article or the version that is published by an online magazine, the version on the author's website, or the version read by some guy that has read more about Bitcoin than anyone else you know[^fn-guy]---it's all the same, essentially. What matters is the information itself.

[^fn-guy]: There is only one such guy, as we all know, and it's this Guy: nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev

Practically speaking, the source of truth in a hypernostrized world is---you guessed it---an event. An event signed by the author, which allows for the information to be wrapped in a tamper-proof manner, which in turn allows the information to spread far and wide---without it being hosted in one place.

The first clients that focus on long-form content already exist, and I expect more clients to pop up over time.[^4] As mentioned before, one could easily imagine prism-like value splits seamlessly integrated into these clients, splitting zaps automatically to compensate writers, editors, proofreaders, and illustrators in a V4V fashion. Further, one could imagine various compute-intensive services built into these special-purpose clients, such as GPT Ghostwriters, or writing aids such as Grammarly and the like. All these services could be seamlessly paid for in sats, without the requirement of any sign-ups or the gathering of any user data. That's the beauty of money proper.

Plagiarism is one issue that needs to be dealt with, of course. Humans are greedy, and some humans are assholes. Neither bitcoin nor nostr fixes this. However, while plagiarism detection is not necessarily trivial, it is also not impossible, especially if most texts are published on nostr first. Nostr-based publishing tools allow for OpenTimestamp attestations thanks to NIP-03, which in turn allows for plagiarism detection based on "first seen" lookups.

That's just one way to deal with the problem, of course. In any case, I'm confident that we'll figure it out.

Value

I believe that in the open ~~attention~~ information economy we find ourselves in, value will mostly derive from effective curation, dissemination, and transmission of information, not the exclusive ownership of it.

Although it is still early days, the statistics around Podcasting 2.0 and nostr zaps clearly show that (a) people are willing to monetarily reward content they care about, and (b) the willingness to send sats increases as friction decreases.

The ingenious thing about boostagrams and zaps is that they are direct and visible, which is to say, public and interactive. They are neither regular transactions nor simple donations---they are something else entirely. An unforgable value signal, a special form of gratitude and appreciation.

Contrast that with a link to Paypal or Patreon: impersonal, slow, indirect, and friction-laden. It's the opposite of a super-charged interaction.

While today's information jungle increasingly presents itself in the form of (short) videos and (long-form) audio, I believe that we will see a renaissance of the written word, especially if we manage to move away from an economy built around attention, towards an economy built upon value and insight.

The orange future now has a purple hue, and I believe that it will be as bright as ever. We just have a lot of building to do.

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Further Reading

• A Vision for a Value-Enabled Web
• The Freedom of Value
• The Rediscovery of Money
• Lightning Prisms

NIPs and Resources

• Nostr Resources
• value4value.info
• nips.be
• NIP-23: Long-form content
• NIP-57: Event-specific zap markers
• NIP-47: Nostr Wallet Connect
• NIP-03: OpenTimestamps attestations for events

Originally published on dergigi.com

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[^1]: Paywalls work against this nature, which is why I consider them misguided at best and incredibly retarded at worst.

[^2]: Fiat doesn't work for the value-enabled web, as fiat rails can never be open and permissionless. Digital fiat is never money. It is---and always will be---credit.

[^3]: Whether the recipient is a text-to-speech service provider or a human narrator doesn't even matter too much, sats will flow just the same.

[^4]: BlogStack and Habla being two of them.

[^5]: Use a URI as the discussion base (instead of a highlight), and you got yourself a Disqus in purple feathers!

[^fn-torrents]: That's what torrents got right, and ipfs for that matter.

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The financial landscape is changing at an unprecedented rate in an era of tremendous technological advancement. Central Bank Digital Currencies, or CBDCs, have emerged as a significant innovation in the realm of money and banking. In this post, we'll provide you with a thorough introduction to CBDCs, explaining what they are and how they differ from conventional forms of currency.

What Are CBDCs?

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), created and regulated by a nation's central bank, are digital representations of that nation's official currency. They exist solely in digital form and are commonly referred to as the electronic version of fiat currency, which is the traditional currency issued by a government. CBDCs are centralized and backed by the full faith and credit of the issuing government, in contrast to decentralized cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum, which often operate without central authority.

How Do CBDCs Differ from Traditional Forms of Money?

The primary distinction between CBDCs and conventional currency lies in their digital nature. Unlike the latter, CBDCs do not have a physical counterpart such as coins or paper money. Storage and exchange of CBDCs occur exclusively in electronic form, typically through digital platforms or wallets.

Traditional forms of money, such as physical currency or bank deposits, are controlled by various entities, including commercial banks and the central bank. In contrast, CBDCs are issued and directly governed by a nation's central bank. This centralized control allows the government to easily track and adjust the value and supply of CBDCs, ensuring their stability.

CBDC transactions are recorded on a secure and transparent blockchain. This technology significantly reduces the likelihood of fraud or counterfeiting. Moreover, the transparency of CBDCs enables regulators to closely monitor these transactions, enhancing oversight and accountability.

CBDCs have the potential to enhance financial inclusion by providing a digital payment option accessible to a broader population. They can serve as a bridge between traditional banking and the digital economy, potentially reducing barriers to entry for individuals who may not have access to regular financial services.

CBDCs have the capacity to streamline international trade and cross-border transactions by reducing transaction costs and diminishing the need for currency conversion, thereby enhancing the efficiency of international commerce.

Central banks can utilize CBDCs as a tool for implementing monetary policy. For example, they can control the interest rates offered on CBDC assets, influencing consumer spending and saving behavior.

Unlike physical currency, CBDC transactions can be tracked and monitored to some extent, raising concerns about user privacy and data security. Central banks and governments will need to carefully consider these concerns during the design and implementation of CBDCs.

In conclusion, CBDCs represent a significant shift in how we perceive and use money in the modern world. They offer the potential for greater efficiency, financial inclusion, and enhanced oversight. However, they also raise critical issues such as privacy, security, and the role of central banks in our evolving digital financial system. It is crucial for individuals to stay informed about this emerging form of money and its potential impact on their financial lives as central banks worldwide continue to research and develop CBDCs.

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You may remember a documentary on Netflix that discussed the negative effects of social media - Social Dilemma. It sparked many discussions in various circles, but nothing came of it.

Well, today I want to talk about making social media healthier, if not for ourselves, but for our kids.

We have a once in a lifetime opportunity with Nostr to reshape social media clients from scratch. Let us not blindly copy existing social media behavior. After all, the definition of stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. Let’s not be stupid and make social media just as, if not more addicting than before.

The big TLDR; is that social media addictive mechanisms harm self image in kids. At the time where they should be building confidence, the mechanics of social media make them feel insecure. I can only imagine the downstream effects into adulthood, but on society level it can’t be good.

Some organizations even exist to supposedly move this subject forward, but after reviewing their content, I see nothing substantial put forward. One such organization “Center for Human Technology” seems to say the right things but puts no effort into offering any actual solutions.

Strategies to make social media healthier

Let’s brainstorm some actual things we can do to limit social media addictiveness, reduce social influence and manipulation.

Boost self-esteem

Vanity metrics can play a positive role but the wrong kind of metric is more harmful than not. Follower count immediately comes to mind. You see people obsessing with their follower count, and even those not realizing they are obsessed are constantly comparing themselves to one another. You are probably one of those people. If you don’t believe me, go ahead and close down your account right now, and create a fresh one to start over. I’ll wait.

Still here? I thought so. Short of constantly deleting our accounts, we can do something else - not showing a follower metric at all.

Remove followers metrics

As drastic as this sounds, removing followers is a huge step forward to better mental health. We don’t need to see how many people follow us. As long as you can see who you follow, it shouldn’t matter who is following you.

This goes beyond Twitter-like apps. Subscriber counts on YouTube channels, on email lists, none of these things need to exist. The number of people you send something to should be irrelevant. Think about it - how does it impact the content of your message whether you have 100 followers or 10,000? It doesn’t.

Avoid algorithms at all costs

Algos are excellent at hijacking attention. They know what you like and keep feeding off you to keep you hooked. Let’s end this stupidity once and for all and say no to algorithms.

I also came to a realization that “algorithmic choice” is an illusion. The “best” algorithm will by definition be the winner and the most popular. Clients will implement the thing that people crave most until “better” algorithms get more users hooked on a client. Who doesn’t want that for their platform? Everyone. Attention is money. Attention is harm.

If we want to create a better future for our children, we’ll say no to algorithms. This means we have to accept that people will gravitate towards “cheaters” who do include “useful” algorithms in their clients. It also means we have to be willing to forgo larger profits.

Perhaps well-thought out policy can be introduced in the future that limits the harm of algorithms, but in the meantime we can take matters into our own hands and simply say no.

Improve happiness levels

Avoid news feeds

Thanks to nostr we can create clients that only handle news feeds, so we don’t really need to include them in social clients.

News keeps people down because negative news gets most clicks. We can avoid this whole issue just by not including news feeds in social applications. Less clickbaity headlines, less rage, more productive conversations.

If you still crave news, go ahead and use that nostr client designed specifically for news consumption.

Of course, we can’t stop people from sharing the news, but we can avoid algos that surface it, and avoid creating feeds specifically designed for news consumption.

News also consumed a lot of time and spreads misinformation. You get scenarios where neither of the arguers read the article in full and are arguing about something that’s not even reported. It’s painful to watch.

Then you have situations where the news is actually a narrative spun by some organization or individual who wants to influence social behavior. They may report correct information or completely misrepresent facts.

News is “bad news”. Just don’t build it into social clients intentionally.

Create happiness clients

One thing I have not seen any social media do is ask whether a piece of content makes you feel positive, neutral or negative.

In theory, we should be able to create clients that prioritize positive content. I know I said avoid algorithms at all costs, but if you wanted to create a happiness portal, you could cheat a little and ask people to market content as positive, neutral or negative, and then surface only the positive.

In my opinion this is not an ideal way to go about it, because you’re creating a different type of bubble, one where people ignore the reality of things. Yet, it is a possibility if we want to alter our mood by putting algos to work for us. At the very least it would be a fun experiment!

Reduce addiction / Save time

Disable notifications by default

You hear countless stories of people feeling better in their lives after disabling notifications. Why not make this the default behavior? “But, people won’t know if the app works!” Yeah.. it has to start some place. If we want change, we need to make tough decisions. If you want to be less extreme about it, you could disable most notifications by default, while not touching the “critical” ones. Personally, I don’t think any notification is critical, you should be completely in control over your attention and that any notification is a major intrusion into your consciousness.

With notifications disabled, we can regain time and attention. Society as a whole might think more clearly and be in the moment. I think it would be a huge step forward.

Delay notifications

Nothing sucks more time than notifications. That tiny red dot begging to be tapped. One solution to make notification less addicting short of turning them off is to delay them. We can purposely set a timer to show notifications in a delayed fashion rather than right away. This way people or kids don’t need to constantly check to see who replied or messaged you. Something as simple as a 3 minute notification delay may be sufficient to curb the constant checking behavior.

Delay reactions

Dopamine is fun, but constant dopamine in real time is unhealthy. Real time reactions force us to stare at our screens waiting for the next reaction.

We can lessen this addictive behavior by introducing delayed reactions to notes. Instead of reactions coming in real time, introduce a delay of 1-5 minutes. If you know that you won’t see any responses to your post for at least 5 minutes, it makes it easier to put down the phone and not have to constantly look to see who liked your note.

Improve Transparency

Once media organizations get on nostr, I think there’s a lot we can do to make them more transparent, accountable, and less manipulative.

One thing we can do is to create meta data for media accounts to indicate their funding sources. Everyone should be able to see who funds a certain organization (as discovered by anyone in the community and voted on by the community in terms of accuracy).

The idea is that someone could dig up funding sources for an organization and add them as meta notes to the account. The community can then collectively decide if this is accurate or inaccurate, giving others an idea if there is a certain bias involved.

Think about the Greenpeace ordeal currently happening. A meta note to indicate that Ripple, a “competing” cryptocurrency is funding them would add a lot of transparency to their claims. I think people would be less likely to believe the nonsense they are spewing.

Create a record of accuracy

Fueled entirely by the community, people could verify the accuracy of claims and indicate that in meta data. Other members can then review those claims and vote on them as well. With enough people involved, you could see if there is a sufficient sample size to indicate whether a media organization has been accurate or inaccurate in the past.

One thing we’d need to watch out here is bot manipulation. Said organizations could hire out malicious services to make it seem they are more accurate than they are typically. We’d have to think of some ways of preventing that.

The sheer lack of ratings on a claim should raise an eyebrow and whether something is to be believed or not.

The right to be forgotten

I know I will catch a lot of heat for this one. “The internet never forgets!” This is what the vast majority of people will say right away. That’s fine… but hear me out…

As builders and developers, we can form a consensus that social media data should be forgotten after x amount of time. Yes, anyone can screenshot it, mirror, put it on their own relay, rebroadcast it, yada yada yada… I get it. But that doesn’t mean we can’t create a consensus by which many builders, relay operators can voluntarily abide. It may not be a bulletproof solution, but it’s an effort that counts.

When we speak in the real world, unless recorded, our words are forgotten. A person should not be judged by a stupid thing they said yesterday, a week ago, a year ago. We can’t be in the right all the time - all people make mistakes and say and do stupid things. However, online, your word remains forever. Various servers cache, duplicate, at zero cost. I totally get that. Yet, we can still design an experience where that information disappears from our feeds, unless actively surfaced with some specific intent to surface it. I think this is a worthwhile effort that developers should consider today.

In cases where information should be saved for good reasons, someone will save it. Entire clients can and will exist to index everything, but that doesn’t mean every single client should surface every single note. People have a right to be wrong and to not be constantly harassed for what they said or did if they no longer feel or act that way.

Let’s have this conversation because no one else will

This article is meant to be a conversation starter. I really think we should weave it into the Nostr conferences as a crucial segment worth exploring and discussing. If we don’t do this, no one will. The world will continue to get gamified, attention hijacked and kids will continue suffering, depressed, lacking confidence and the tools needed to create a better world for their own kids. Let’s not fall sleep at the wheel and actually do something about it.

What other ideas do you have? Share the article and attach your own ideas.

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With the constant dramas all around the crypto world and seeing thousands of people losing their savings to custodians and "crypto banks", I've decided to make this short video. Making this video took me less than 20 minutes so if you don't manage your own private keys yet, this shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes to reach peace of mind with your HODL coins.

Before we start let me however clear up some very common misconception we encounter every time when people talk about this topic.

There is no assets in your wallet

People always talk about taking self-custody of their assets by taking them off-chain. There is no such thing as moving coins TO your wallet.

Wait, what?

Correct, ALL coins and other tokens only exist ON their respective blockchain. Thus you cannot move coins TO a wallet or store coins "off-chain". Having said that, you can move your coins, tokens, NFTs to an address for which you control the private key giving you access to your assets ON the blockchain.

Once you understand this you'll also understand that your wallet cannot get hacked, you cannot lose coins and if you lose your phone or your HD crashes the only thing you'll ever need to regain control over your assets ON-CHAIN is the private key controlling access to those assets.

In other words, your wallet is a signing device and your private key identifies you as the owner of any asset "associated" ON the blockchain with that address.

So let's do this!

https://cdn.satellite.earth/5e6f90617da834668219c5f16ad0c306964f3c50b26a99a83630386eb0fcd91a.mp4 (Note: The wallet used in this example is deemed compromised. Do not send tips to any address, do not use these keys or seed in any form whatsoever!!!)

You see? I've created a fresh wallet in less than 10 minutes, backed up the seed (of the entire wallet) and I backed up the private key of the wallet I (demo wise) planned to use. 10 minutes of my time to protect myself from Counterparty failure, insolvency or rug pulls FOREVER.

Now that you understand the beauty of private keys, did you know that you can import the same key into various wallets to access your coins from any device you like? That's because your coins are on the blockchain and you can "sign" accessing them from ANY device or numerous devices. Again, that's why you cannot lose coins even if your device gets lost or breaks down.

Thanks for taking the time to read/watch. I hope this will take the so called "self-custody fear" away from some of you.

References:

Wallet used: https://electrum.org/
Managing private keys: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/private-key.asp

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Table Of Content

• The Nikkei 225: A Comprehensive Overview

• Bitcoin's Meteoric Rise: A Journey of Peaks and Valleys

• Drawing Parallels: Bitcoin and Nikkei's Path of Resilience

• Conclusions

• FAQ

The financial world is vast and diverse, with assets ranging from traditional stocks to the more recent phenomenon of cryptocurrencies. Among these, Bitcoin stands out as the pioneering digital currency, often drawing comparisons with various stock indices. One such intriguing comparison is with Japan's Nikkei 225.

The Nikkei 225: A Comprehensive Overview

The Nikkei 225, commonly known as the Nikkei, stands as one of the primary stock market indices representing the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Established in 1950, it comprises 225 of the most prominent companies listed on the exchange, making it a significant barometer of the Japanese economy's overall health.

Over the decades, the Nikkei has witnessed various economic cycles, from booms to recessions. Its performance often mirrors the broader economic and business trends in Japan. The recent achievement in June, where the Nikkei touched a 33-year high, is not just a numerical milestone. It symbolizes the enduring nature of the Japanese market, its ability to recover from setbacks, and the confidence of investors in the country's economic prospects.

Bitcoin's Meteoric Rise: A Journey of Peaks and Valleys

Bitcoin, introduced in 2009 by an anonymous entity known as Satoshi Nakamoto, revolutionized the concept of currency. As the world's first decentralized digital currency, Bitcoin operates without a central authority, making it inherently resistant to government interference or manipulation.

Over the years, Bitcoin's journey has been nothing short of a roller coaster. From being an obscure digital asset to becoming a household name, its value has seen dramatic surges and equally sharp declines. This volatility often becomes a hotbed for speculations, predictions, and intense debates among financial experts. A recent statement by an analyst, suggesting that Bitcoin's trajectory might align with that of the Nikkei, has added fuel to these discussions. The implication here is that Bitcoin, despite its volatile nature, has the potential to reach unprecedented highs, much like the Nikkei did after its long journey.

Drawing Parallels: Bitcoin and Nikkei's Path of Resilience

At an initial glance, comparing a traditional stock market index like the Nikkei to a modern digital asset like Bitcoin might seem like comparing apples to oranges. However, when delving deeper, certain similarities emerge.

Both Bitcoin and the Nikkei have demonstrated remarkable resilience. The Nikkei, representing Japan's economic might, has bounced back from economic crises, natural disasters, and global downturns. Similarly, Bitcoin, despite facing regulatory challenges, technological hurdles, and market skepticism, has managed to not only survive but thrive.

The adaptability of both these assets is noteworthy. While the Nikkei reflects the evolving nature of the Japanese economy and its industries, Bitcoin showcases the world's shifting attitude towards decentralized finance and digital assets. The recent prediction by the analyst, suggesting a potential parallel growth pattern, underscores the idea that both traditional and modern financial instruments can coexist, learn from each other, and potentially follow similar trajectories of success.

Conclusion

A Convergence of Old and New The financial landscape is ever-evolving, with traditional and modern assets often intersecting in unexpected ways. The comparison between Bitcoin and the Nikkei 225 serves as a testament to this. As Bitcoin continues its journey in the financial realm, only time will tell if it truly follows the path of the Nikkei to new record highs.

FAQ

What is the Nikkei 225? The Nikkei 225 is a primary stock market index representing the Tokyo Stock Exchange, showcasing the health of the Japanese economy.

How is Bitcoin related to the Nikkei 225? An analyst recently predicted that Bitcoin's growth trajectory might align with that of the Nikkei, hinting at potential record highs for the cryptocurrency.

Has the Nikkei 225 reached any significant milestones recently? Yes, in June, the Nikkei achieved a 33-year high, reflecting the resilience of the Japanese market.

Why is Bitcoin's growth compared to the Nikkei's? Both Bitcoin and the Nikkei have shown adaptability and resilience in changing market dynamics, leading to speculations of similar growth patterns.

Is Bitcoin expected to reach new highs? While predictions vary, some analysts believe Bitcoin might emulate the Nikkei's success and reach new record highs.

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This is an excerpt from our response to the Bank of England's consultation on the "Digital Pound", a proposed CBDC in the UK.

Originally posted June 2023 at 1f52b.xyz. Read there for the full piece, sidenotes & references.

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INTRODUCTION ⇝

Physical cash in the form of banknotes and coinage is a bearer instrument.

If you hold it you own it, and have the responsibility upon yourself to custody it. You can spend and receive it privately and anonymously without record. In the United Kingdom, cash is also central bank money, representing a claim that can be redeemed against the Bank of England. Central bank money is, as the Bank puts it "financially risk-free in the sense that there is no credit, market or liquidity risk."

For a digital asset to deserve to be called both cash and central bank money, it must have all of these properties: bearer instrument, privately holdable, anonymously spendable, liquid, fungible, divisible, and a direct liability of the central bank.

In their consultation paper of 2023 and earlier discussion papers of 2020 and 2021, the Bank of England and HM Treasury set out a policy and architecture proposal for a "Digital Pound", a central bank digital currency (CBDC) to provide a digital solution to the decline of physical cash and to maintain public access to central bank money.

While not opposed to this in principle, we find the Bank's Digital Pound proposal deficient on two fronts:

1. The proposed Digital Pound is not a digital cash-equivalent: it is not privately transactable nor a bearer instrument, as physical cash is.
2. The Platform Model does not actually provide retail access to central bank (public) money as the public will not have direct access to the Bank’s CBDC system and ledger. It requires custodial intermediaries which adds counterparty risk.

These objections are pertinent because they address the Bank's motivations and intentions for developing the Digital Pound:

• To sustain access to UK central bank money -- ensuring its role as an anchor for confidence and safety in our monetary system, and to underpin monetary and financial stability and sovereignty.
• Uniformity and safety could be threatened by [...] lower [physical] cash use.
• That the Digital Pound will not be remunerated (bear interest) and that this is not a motivation for issuing the Digital Pound.
• To promote innovation, choice and efficiency in domestic payments as our lifestyles and economy become ever more digital.
• That the Bank proposes the Digital Pound should be designed following a platform model.

Consultation Paper, pp.11,24,27,48

And further they are relevant because the Consultation paper requests:

• Views on the proposed approach to privacy.
• Views on the proposal re. efficiencies in payments.
• Views on the key features of the model we intend to take forward in the next phase.

The Digital Pound will not and should not accrue interest, in the same way that cash does not. Remuneration has implications for monetary policy as it would affect inflows and outflows into the Digital Pound from commercial bank deposits and other stores of value, and would alter the effective-lower-bound of interest rates. This lack of remuneration makes it clear to consumers what the Digital Pound is, and avoids cannibalising other cash-equivalents such as bonds and other money-market instruments. It will be a means of exchange with no expected nominal return, not an investment instrument.

The Bank does not give "provide a digital cash-equivalent" as an explicit goal, but in its reasoning for the Digital Pound makes reference to the shift in "the balance of public and private money used to make payments", citing the decline in use of physical cash meaning the same as a decline in the use of public money. "If current trends continue, the public's access to, or use of, central bank money will diminish and the monetary system could become fragmented, posing a risk to monetary and financial stability" In its Discussion Paper of 2020 the Bank also cited "Addressing the consequences of a decline in cash" as a motivation for exploring a CBDC.

The decline in use-of and access-to physical cash does not only mean reduced access to central bank money, but also the elimination of a highly private and anonymous method of payment and storing value. The Bank's 2020 Discussion Paper did make reference to this, albeit absent from later papers:

Physical cash has certain unique characteristics that would be lost if it were to fall out of general use. For example, cash offers a level of privacy in transactions that is not always available with existing electronic payment systems. Cash also has an important role in financial inclusion.

2020 Discussion Paper, p.18

Rightfully, the Bank seeks to maintain public access to cash, and its concern that the decline of physical cash presents a hazard is legitimate.

We are exploring a digital pound because money and payments are changing

Cash, of course, remains vital for many. Around 1.2 million UK adults do not have a bank account and around one fifth of people name cash as their preferred payment method. Cash remains important to a large cross-section of society. Even those who do not use it regularly consider it an important back up form of payment. For those reasons, UK authorities are committed to ensuring continued access to cash.

Consultation paper, Part A, p.10

What the Bank of England currently proposes with its Platform Model for the Digital Pound is unfortunately something that will look and behave much more like a bank deposit than cash, dependent on an unavoidable layer of new bank-like intermediaries to handle it for the public.

To suppose that intermediated access thru "pass-through" platform providers qualifies as "public access to retail central bank money" is not that far from claiming that the public already have access to central bank money intermediated through commercial bank deposit accounts — that is, not true in any useful sense.

If you cannot custody 'your' money yourself directly, it is not really yours.

This would, in practice, make the Digital Pound more of a wholesale CBDC, rather than a retail CBDC. Then, the utility of such a wholesale CBDC is doubtable, as the Bank of England's existing interbank settlement networks (RTGS and CHAPS) are functional and have an upgrade roadmap already in-progress; Commercial banks already have access to central bank money which is how they store their reserves; and they already use digital central bank payment systems to perform interbank settlement and other large payments; and consumers are already able to make quick and easy digital payments using banks and other payment systems.

Our position is that instead of this Platform Model, the remedy is to provide a digital equivalent to physical cash, and that this ought to be an explicit design goal of the Digital Pound.

Of-course, if the Digital Pound fails to replicate the properties of physical cash then it cannot claim to be equivalent to cash. If a Digital Pound is to be worth developing further, it must focus on providing a digital cash equivalent bearer instrument, with direct public access, as this is the only condition in which we find any CBDC to be compelling. If the Digital Pound is not actually cash, then we contend that it is largely pointless and unwarranted, as it will do nothing to help "maintain public access to cash", with the Bank of England needlessly attempting to build a public competitor to existing payment platforms that already meet public demand. The one thing that the Bank of England can actually do that no-one else can, is provide a digital cash equivalent for the pound.

Cynically, the Digital Pound as currently proposed could be labelled as no more than an affinity scam, deploying buzzwords that make it seem to be a government response to cryptocurrencies and emerging novel payment and money technologies, without being substantially distinct from existing digital fiat payment networks and functionally inferior to cash.

It is not a novel opinion that the system the Bank proposes for the Digital Pound does not qualify as cash -- cryptographer Hal Finney made this observation in 1996:

On-line electronic money, [where] the merchant must [authenticate the spender's identity and ownership] with the bank for each transaction [...] does not deserve to be called cash, though, because it lacks the distinguishing characteristic of digital cash: it is not anonymous. When the bank sees serial number 123456 being deposited, the bank recognizes that this was the same bill that Alice withdrew. The bank can therefore deduce that Alice spent the money at Bob's.

Hal Finney, Detecting Double Spending 15th October 1993

Many respondents to the Bank's Discussion paper of 2020 placed great emphasis on the importance of privacy and anonymity, supporting our claim that these are both desireable and widely held to be necessary for cash-equivalence:

Feedback from respondents has [...] emphasised the importance that users place on having privacy in their transactions.

Security and privacy were often cited as aspects on which there should be little or no room for compromise.

The imperative to protect privacy was also regularly cited by respondents as potentially having implications for transparency and financial inclusion.

Views varied on the degree of privacy that would be necessary or desirable for a CBDC system. Of those who felt that CBDC should be highly private or even anonymous, some respondents grounded their privacy expectations in the example of cash. Others pointed to the principles and technologies underlying decentralised cryptocurrencies as benchmarks for privacy for CBDC.

Responses to the Bank of England’s March 2020 Discussion Paper on CBDC, 7th June 2021

CBDCs have only recently emerged as a central bank and government infatuation. While over a hundred countries are in varying stages of exploration or development, thus-far only The Bahamas, Eastern-Caribbean currency union, Nigeria and Jamaica have actually deployed one.

However, none of the CBDCs that have launched demonstrate strong public support or adoption. The Bahamian Sand Dollar makes up less than 0.2% of currency in circulation, only US$1.1 million in value -- while incurring nearly US$7.5 million in costs by 2022, two years after introduction. Jamaica's JAM-DEX facilitated transaction activity equivalent to no more than US$2.3 million in 2022, 0.01% of that year's ABM and PoS volume. Fewer than 1% of Nigerians have adopted the e-Naira, according to the IMF.

It does not feel unfair to say that these early CBDC projects are not going well.

By contrast, a staggering 32% of Nigerians have adopted Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This, despite the Nigerian central bank having banned banks and other financial institutions from dealing with or facilitating payments to cryptocurrency exchanges. Bitcoin is not the same thing as a CBDC, and in many respects is superior, but this demonstrates that a public that has already adopted one digital currency will not automatically embrace a CBDC if its design and properties are not compelling.

The technical means to achieve a digital cash-like instrument are well known, most notably the Chaumian eCash construct introduced in 1983. Chaumian eCash is a cryptographic digital token system that operates without a distributed ledger and without requiring a Byzantine fault tolerant consensus mechanism such as Bitcoin's proof of work, because it operates using centralised consensus.

eCash successfully implements a digital equivalent for the salient properties of physical cash. It is private, self-custodial and can be transacted anonymously. It cannot be counterfeited, yet the issuing bank (or mint) is blind to the holders identity. With extensions, it can also be transacted offline. The Swiss National Bank, and other central banks and government bodies have already evaluated the suitability of eCash for a CBDC and found it to be compelling, though the SNB have not yet committed to building a CBDC of any form.

In our view, the architecture of the Digital Pound should be Chaumian eCash.

We acknowledge that the Bank does not currently believe that a bearer instrument model is appropriate, and we contest this assessment.

Another approach [for a CBDC] is a bearer instrument model, where ownership of digital pounds is recorded on individual user devices, and transactions take place between users, with no interaction with the central bank. This is close to the way cash works at present. Such an approach presents several challenges. While hardware devices (for example, phones, wearables, cards) are difficult to hack, if that happens it is difficult to detect and to fix.

Consultation Paper, Box G, p.61

The Bank is presumably concerned about theft of the bearer instrument from end-user's custody. This is of-course a risk, but one that is understood and tolerated by the public when using physical cash, and is an inherent property of cash.

This risk is surely tolerable. People have been content with not being able to un-lose and un-have-stolen physical bank notes and currency for millennia. This risk is also precisely one of the earliest reasons banks came in to being, providing safe custody (and the amusing risk of that not always being true). This downside for bearer instruments can also provide a balancing incentive for people to not ape their entire liquid wealth out of banks and into the Digital Pound, and use it predominantly as a payment technology not a long-term store of value.

Further, there is no trusted intermediary involved in transactions. That could give rise to 'double spend risk', where a user attempts to copy and spend the same digital pound multiple times.

Consultation Paper, Box G, p.61

eCash is not vulnerable to double-spending for online transactions because the bank (mint) intermediates each payment. It can be extended to detect and mitigate offline double-spending by de-anonymising double-spenders, though this extension does not necessarily need to be implemented, because an eCash requiring the recipient to be online is sufficient for most use-cases -- in the same way that very few merchants accept offline card payments.

Also, a bearer instrument approach, where users never have to check back in with a central ledger, would lead to completely anonymous payments.

Consultation Paper, Box G, p.61

This is a misapprehension as it is not true that transaction anonymity derives from not checking in with a ledger. Bitcoin, eCash and some other cryptoassets like Monero enable anonymous payments despite every payment requiring interaction with a ledger for settlement -- although it would be true that a system where no check-in at all is required would inherently be anonymous -- though we are unaware of any such system that exists, but would be very interested to hear more if the Bank knows of such a construct.

This would go against our design principles for privacy and data protection, as well as laws to prevent financial crime (see Section D.2). There is additional complexity for conducting transactions between two individuals over distance as both hardware devices would need to be updated accurately. For these reasons, bearer instrument models are not appropriate as the only operating model for the digital pound, but they may have uses as part of other use cases: bearer instruments may be the best approach for offline payments, for example.

Consultation Paper, Box G, p.61

Again, that there is "complexity for conducting transactions between two individuals over distance" is not a true characterisation of eCash nor most other digital payment technologies, as their transaction mechanics do not depend on user proximity, in eCash's case merely that the receiver be able to contact the mint to redeem the received tokens for new ones.

The Bank may wish to surveil and have powers to observe, intercept and censor Digital Pound transactions and users for AML/CFT purposes, and subject users to invasive and arbitrary KYC checks just to be 'allowed' to hold the asset -- but notably it does not have this ability for current physical cash beyond what law enforcement can achieve in physical space. The Bank commits to maintaining consumer access to physical cash "as long as there is demand" and therefore implicitly accepts this limitation on the Government's enforcement capability going forward.

It seems that the Bank must either accept this inability and so could tolerate it for a novel payment/money system, or must declare that under its current expectations for the prevention of financial crime, it would not find physical cash sufficient and so would not allow for its issuance. This latter stance, we're sure, would not be supported by the public.

SUMMARY ⇝

The Digital Pound will be most beneficial and best-placed to be a digital substitute for physical cash if it simply inherits cash’s properties: a bearer-instrument with robust transaction anonymity and ownership privacy, directly claimable against the central bank by the public. If it does not have these properties, we do not believe it will be compelling and thus that the public will not be inclined to use it in lieu of existing digital payment systems, as disinterest in the e-Naira and other already launched CBDCs has demonstrated.

Further, we don't believe that the Bank’s currently proposed design has sufficient grounds to be implemented and presents a threat to civil liberties and unduly extends beyond the Bank’s constitutional and statutory obligations.

We propose that the Bank instead adopt a Chaumian eCash design for the Digital Pound, as this construct has all the desirable properties of physical cash and is private, secure, resilient, performant, simple and energy efficient.

Responses to the Bank's previous consultation papers support this view.

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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Genesis 3:1

Bitcoin has NFTs now. They're called Ordinal Inscriptions, but what the heck is an Ordinal and what's an Inscription? And why should you care? The arrival of NFTs in the Bitcoin universe has caused a fair amount of drama. Ordinal enjoyers welcome the shiny new hotness, while many others see a serious attack on Bitcoin -- guzzling up blockspace that should have been used by normal financial transactions, miners ripping massive four-meg'er blocks full of spam; and an attack on the very fungibility of Bitcoin.

Ord, wallet software that runs alongside Bitcoin Core was released to the world in January 2023. Its creator, Casey Rodarmor, the inventor of Inscriptions and Ordinal theory has conceived of a way to use, or exploit Bitcoin's Taproot script, enabling co-conspirators to store a large amount of arbitrary data within otherwise normal transactions created using ord. It uses a construction called an envelope -- a piece of code within the Taproot witness part of a transaction that all the nodes of the network will skip over when validating it, but which contains stuff -- arbitrary data that can be extracted by anyone who knows where to look. As this simply uses existing opcodes and an otherwise standard Taproot transaction, Inscriptions have debuted onto the Bitcoin mainnet with zero code changes to Bitcoin Core required. No developer consensus nor permission was needed nor asked to unleash ord.

Ordinal theory does not require a sidechain or token aside from Bitcoin, and can be used without any changes to the Bitcoin network. It works right now.

Ordinals.com

This is the first piece of genius. The envelope construct is really simple, one of those things that in hindsight should have been obvious. There's nothing really new or hard to wrap your head-around about it. And there's not really anything that can be done to stop it. The consensus rules allow it, so it is.

While there are many things one could use near-arbitrary, permanent, globally distributed & censorship-resistant storage for, it probably isn't shocking to hear that much of the content already inscribed on-chain are the same endearing monkey JPEGs and dickbutts we've know and love from the shitcoin NFT craze.

Storing stuff on the Bitcoin blockchain that isn't merely a financial transaction is nothing new. Famously, the Bitcoin Genesis block carries the headline "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" in its coinbase transaction. Since the inclusion of that piece of text in the very first transaction in the very first block, thousands upon thousands of other non-financial pieces of data have been permanently stored on the chain.

The methods for achieving this have evolved over the years, and some of them really weren't great -- causing problems for nodes by consuming precious UTXO set storage, and some using fake unspendable addresses as the storage mechanism, resulting in permanently burned coins. This mess was addressed by Bitcoin-Core begrudgingly introducing the OP_RETURN construction, and that seemingly resolved the question of storage on chain. Prior to the conception of Ordinal Inscriptions, using OP_RETURN has been by-far the most common way to store stuff -- at times, contributing a significant share of all transaction volume and fees, though in recent years usage has steadily declined as the main volume drivers Omni and Veriblock have lost adoption.

Above: OP_RETURN usage statistics by block, showing sharp peak then decline. Via opreturn.org

But, OP_RETURN is limited to 80 bytes of data. That's workable for short snippets of text, but you can't cram much else in there. That limit also gives a pretty clear indication of the core dev’s feelings about storing data on chain -- don’t. Alas, because of a minor rule change introduced without much fanfare as part of the Taproot upgrade, the limit to script sizes that applied to SegWit was removed. This means Inscriptions are only capped in size by the blocksize limit of 4MB itself (or 4 million weight units, to be exact). An Inscription can be the only non-coinbase transaction in a block, filling the entire thing up itself. That's a big deal -- and yes, this has already happened (well, nearly).

Average blocks in an Ordinal world are indeed bigger than the ~1.4MB we'd grown accustomed to since the SegWit upgrade raised the limit from a hard 1MB. Bigger blocks increase the rate at which network nodes fill up their storage, and the fallout of the 2017 blocksize wars should be all that was needed to demonstrate how thermonuclear the question of block size is. Nevertheless, those mad at Ordinals for increasing the blockchain's growth rate are in truth angry that the possible-in-theory since SegWit and Taproot activated has now become reality. The block-size limit was increased to 4MB back then, not in January 2023 when Casey released ord to the world. Blocks are meant to be full. If you hate Ordinals because they are filling juicy 4MB blocks, look to Taproot and SegWit for original sin. In a weird quirk, Inscriptions actually make blocks smaller for anyone running a pre-SegWit node, as the non-witness portion of the block is much smaller.

What’s more, in many ways it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks about Inscriptions. These are valid Bitcoin transactions so there’s next to nothing that can be done to stop them -- that is after-all the point of Bitcoin. You can run a node with core-dev Luke Dashjr’s 'ordisrespector' patch that will filter unconfirmed Inscriptions out of your mempool, but unless the vast majority of Bitcoin node runners do this (spoiler: they haven't), it’s a pointless exercise as Inscription transactions will still find their way to willing miners.

Bitcoin node patch (HACKY, UNTESTED) to filter out "ord" spam.

NOT a protocol change or softfork/hardfork, just a harmless (if it works right) spam filter.

(Also a quick hack and NOT suitable for opening a PR to Core -- please write a proper fix for that)

Luke Dashjr on Twitter

More drastic action than changing nodes' mempool policy could be taken, such as a fork that tightened the rules back down again to limit the max script size for Taproot. Or, make any script that contains unreachable code (as envelopes do) invalid. But forking Bitcoin just to censor a specific use of it would be an act of self-defeat nearly as stupid and catastrophically damaging to Bitcoin's core tenets as Ethereum's DAO fork and bailout of 2016. It would betray the fundamental ideals that underpin Bitcoin and make a mockery of its philosophy. Mostly for this reason, because such an effort would likely meet fierce resistance and result in a permanent chain split; and presumably also because someone had a 'sanctioned' use of large tapscripts in mind, there have been no serious proposals to do this.

This is a second piece of perhaps unwitting genius -- Ordinal Inscriptions are again proof that no single group, including the core developers, control the protocol. They prove that Bitcoin is nearly impossible to censor; that it is money for enemies. Miners are incentivised to mine blocks containing Inscriptions given they pay a fee just as any other transaction does. Users make these transactions. So, Inscriptions continue to make it into blocks. This is nice little lesson on one of the strengths of Bitcoin -- incentive-aligned systems are stable and resist attack.

It goes without saying that Inscription transactions are big -- that's kinda the whole point. This also means that they're not economically dense at all. A normal SegWit transaction can move hundreds of bitcoin worth billions of dollars in under 200 bytes, paying a fairly small fee. For Inscriptions, the value moving through transactions is much less contained in the quantity of sats moving, and more in the subjective and speculative value of the artwork in the kilobyte or megabyte sized witness data -- but the Bitcoin network doesn't care, and so artists and buyers must pay fees for what they use and can only hope to later make a return on their investment.

So it follows that the criticism of Inscriptions claiming that they are crowding other economic activity out of blocks is unfounded. Put it this way -- a Lightning channel open transaction between two large nodes is the on chain footprint of a fast payments network that is expected to scale to processing thousands of transactions per second and moving mountains of value every minute. That kind of economic actor can afford a fee of hundreds or thousands of sats per byte and outcompete practically everyone else in the fee market, a rate still way higher than current next-block rates. Rates that high would make even a modestly sized Inscription cost more than a whole bitcoin in fees. Inscriptions are setting a fee floor and avoiding unfilled blocks, but by no means are they crowding everyone else out -- and when Lightning really takes off, the opposite will be true.

I don't subscribe to the argument that Inscriptions will particularly help to solve the long-term Bitcoin security budget -- that miners will need to make the entirely of their profit from fees once the block reward reduces to zero. Yes, any kind of adoption helps, but Inscriptions probably don't help any more than that. What really matters for the security budget is that the sum total of the fees paid to miners can purchase a large amount of energy, not that the fee rate needs to rise. There are only ever going to be 2.1 quadrillion satoshis in existence, which in a hyperbitcoinised world could mean a fee of 1 sat/vByte is not nothing in monetary terms. By comparison, there are currently around 2.1 quadrillion US¢ in existence. But that's a tangent for another time.

I think we’re going to see things like Inscriptions and Ordinals be the next biggest thing that happens in Bitcoin, there is a massive amount of demand for that stuff. Me liking or not liking it is irrelevant. The shitcoiners are running now Bitcoin nodes and full nodes cos they want their Inscriptions there. That’s an interesting funnel for Bitcoin.

NVK on the Stephan Livera Podcast - SLP459

"you can't stop them" well ofc! bitcoin is designed to be censor resistant. doesn't stop us mildly commenting on the sheer waste and stupidity of an encoding. at least do something efficient. otherwise it's another proof of consumption of block-space thingy.

Adam Back on Twitter

In spite of all this controversy and squabbling amongst friendly bitcoiners, I hope we all can take a moment to appreciate a certain deliciousness here: Bitcoin accidentally has a NFT scheme that’s just better than the incumbent NFTs of the shitcoin world. Do you actually understand how smart-contract based NFTs work? The contract code is highly complex, written in a Turing-complete language that's much harder to reason about than Bitcoin script's simple stack, and often unaudited by buyers, with various standards in use across different collections and mints. To boot, you also need to understand the workings of which ever shitcoin chain it transacted on, and what their patron 'foundation' and VCs are up to. In truth, I don't fully understand how it all works despite putting in some effort. In contrast, it took about two minutes to grok how envelopes work, and another two to see how Ordinals facilitate the transfer of Inscriptions between current and new owner. I'm sure someone could argue existing NFTs are fine or even great, but the comparative simplicity of Inscriptions speaks for itself.

My primary goal is protecting our community. If it has a token that isn’t bitcoin, it is not bitcoin.

Shitcoiners have been trying to rip normal people off with rube goldberg machines that don’t work and nobody understands.

Casey Rodarmor on Twitter

Worse still, the majority of NFTs are merely a claim to a small piece of on-chain metadata that contains a URL as an indirect reference to an image that lives elsewhere on the internet, somewhere much less permanent; like IPFS or an Amazon S3 bucket. If your Monkey JPEG isn’t on chain, do you really own it? What do you actually own? Ordinal Inscriptions are permanently burned onto the oldest, most secure chain there is. This is just better.

Ordinals aim to provide a farer, safer system for creating and trading digital artifacts where the system is simple enough to be understood so that all buyers and artists know exactly what they're doing and dealing with. These are NFTs, but more ethical. No rugpulls with Ordinals.

Some of the crypto bros have already realised the big upgrade that Inscriptions present.

I want the shitcoiners to come to us and assimilate into our culture

Casey on the Bitcoin Review Podcast BR024

Enter the "Teleburn". NFTs from other chains can be inscribed onto Bitcoin, and then destroyed, burned permanently from the old chain. You can see the appeal -- an NFT on Bitcoin is better than one on Ethereum or Solana or wherever. Burning a Bored Ape attracts attention and headlines. There's the allure of being first.

I have to admire the sheer audacity of the Teleburn. The upstart alternative to altcoin NFTs goes straight for the jugular with Teleburns, not seeking to join the NFT ecosystem but supplant it. While fears that Ordinals are an attack on Bitcoin are overblown if not entirely FUD, Teleburns are an attack on the entire shitcoin NFT ecosystem.

"Essentially throwing a Lamborghini into a trash compactor–It’s kind of fun," Williams told Decrypt. "Whether putting bloated JPEGs on Bitcoin’s base chain is smart or not is a whole ‘nother discussion, but I think it’s going to be a lot of fun seeing how it plays out."

Bored Ape Owner Burns $169K NFT to Move It From Ethereum to Bitcoin (Decrypt)

Prima-facie, Inscriptions might merely be the new fun thing to mess with for the crypto and web3 inclined, a new goldrush where some of them might make a ton of money while it lasts. But what Casey has done with ord is trick a bunch of crypto bros into running full, synced Bitcoin nodes. You have to, if you want to use ord and inscribe something, a piece of genius design rather than a compromise limitation of some new and unpolished software.

How may of them were already running a full Ethereum node? Given you kinda need a stonking 30TB or more of free disk space to do so, I'd guess literally none of them.

There’s a chance that some of them might get it and catch the Bitcoiner bug.

It really is like a needle exchange program for degens. We bring them over to like a safer place and give them a dime bag of sats to get them hooked. Like, it’s hilarious!

Rijndaael, Ord contributor on the Bitcoin Review Podcast BR024

You may notice we've spent most of our time so far talking about Inscriptions, but Ordinal sats, or more exactly "Ordinal Theory" has courted its own controversy. (A quick clarification -- Inscriptions attach a digital artefact, like a JPEG to a sat, and then Ordinals are how we track ownership. Despite this technicality, the whole thing lumped together is usually just called "Ordinals".)

Part of this backlash might be confusion. Ordinal theory is entirely opt-in, and is literally just a convenient schema, or lens to view Bitcoin through. We socially agree on this theory that allows us to give every satoshi a unique number, just as banknotes have serials. It's a lens through which you get an interesting and useful view of the Bitcoin system, but nothing more profound than that. If you hate it, cool, just ignore it.

The reason that Ordinal Theory arrived at the same time as Inscriptions is that it answers the follow-up question "how do I transfer ownership of an Inscription?" The answer is straightforward if we agree on Ordinal Theory, which then allows us to track satoshis from their genesis in the block that first produced them, through every transaction they are involved in. Doing this, it is then easy to see who the current owner of a sat that was used in an Inscription transaction -- an 'inscribed sat' -- is.

Ordinal Theory imbues satoshis with numismatic value, allowing them to be collected and traded as curios.

Ordinals.com

Predictably, the notion that sats can be uniquely identified, tracked through transactions, and made 'special' by being Inscribed triggered a hostile reaction from many Bitcoiners. It is critical to the functioning of money that it is fungible -- one bitcoin over here needs to have precisely the same exchange value as another over there.

This is probably a healthy response -- a concern that fungibility has in some real sense been damaged. But all that Ordinal Theory is doing is following the existing rules of Bitcoin, where everything in the ledger and supply schedule has a strict order, and adding a few conventions to complete the missing pieces of the picture. If that is all it takes to break the fungibility of Bitcoin, then it was never really fungible.

Ordinal Theory does not at all reduce the privacy of coinjoins. I'm not sure how else to argue against that claim other than to say its proponents have simply misunderstood Ordinal Theory, or misunderstood coinjoins. A chain analysis company or government agency could easily have come up with a similar scheme themselves, and might already have done so -- but you still can't tell who was on the input nor output side of a transaction any more than you previously could.

All this does bring, in addition to the ability to trade Inscriptions like NFTs, is numismatism. That is, within Ordinal Theory, some sats are more interesting than others. Sats from Satoshi blocks, and rare & important events in Bitcoin's history like halvings, difficulty adjustments, fork activation blocks and Exchange hacks can be all identified and then collected by people that value such things.

So now we have numismatism on Bitcoin. Coin and stamp collectors do not threaten the fungibility nor utility of Fiat monies, and nor will they now that they’re here. The additional value that collectors may ascribe to a specific sat doesn't stop someone that doesn't care from using it to buy coffee, in the some way that your Barista probably won't notice or care if you pay for coffee with a dollar bill that has a nice round serial number, and certainly won't offer you a discount.

This also doesn't mean that "bad" satoshis are any more encumbered than they already were. OFAC and the FBI don't need Ordinal Theory to track transactions and blacklist addresses and UTXOs. That this was already possible is the reason conjoins and other privacy enhancing tech has been available for many years.

Big and controversial moves in Bitcoin increasingly lead to calls for 'ossification' -- a growing conservatism against any change to consensus. Very clever upgrades like Taproot always promise great new things and fixes for nagging problems. But that latest upgrade to Bitcoin unintentionally enabled Inscriptions, something many Taproot proponents thoroughly dislike. It's reasonable to wonder if there are other unanticipated uses for it or earlier upgrades still lingering and waiting to be discovered. Some of these could genuinely be harmful to Bitcoin, and there's always a risk that making a change that has catastrophic unrecoverable consequences, however unlikely. Taproot is very clever, but it is also very complicated and hard to fully understand -- the club of people who do is small. What we have now works well, change can be dangerous. It should become increasingly onerous to introduce new things into Bitcoin, to the point that eventually the only changes to core will be non-consensus changes, like bug fixes and performance enhancements that make Bitcoin as currently instantiated stronger.

It can take a lot of time to come up with the best solution to an extant problem. Much of the argument in favour of big blocks in the 2015-2017 blocksize war was that there was no other way to scale Bitcoin into a global payments system that would be capable of VISA and Mastercard volumes. Then, Lightning happened, presenting a much better alternative to dumb big blocks.

The next thing in the pipeline is Vaults & Covenants. In the wake of Taproot's unintentional enabling of Inscriptions, it would be healthy for us to take our time ensuring these new features behave as intended and don't bring any surprises. Not to say that these proposals don't already receive intense scrutiny and testing, yet Inscriptions gifted us a safe 'failure' case for perhaps 'too clever' changes to consensus that have been merged. It is incredibly difficult to think of something no-one has yet though of. Once we’ve activated a consensus change, it’s nearly impossible to put the cat back in the bag and walk back. We should be increasingly sceptical of any consensus rule change and be increasingly rigourous in evaluating it for unintended consequences and unintended use-cases. The burden of "do we really need this" should continue to get higher and higher.

The final piece that Inscriptions bring to Bitcoin is the thing we may come to be most thankful for. There are those that argue "code is speech", and thus Bitcoin and its network are protected under the First Amendment of the US Constitution. That argument is perhaps contestable, but that literal art and words are speech is not -- and now those are being etched directly into Bitcoin's blocks.

Bitcoin is how more clearly than ever a venue for freedom of expression as protected by the First Amendment. Attempts to censor or restrict the use of Bitcoin by the US government could be legally challenged as a violation of this right, perhaps leaning on Inscriptions to make this case. Of course other countries have different rights & weaker freedoms of speech, with illiberal codes where the freedom to say what you wish could make Bitcoin more of a pariah not less -- but it is perhaps in the United States were Bitcoin's continuing success is most important, as it is the hegemony of the US dollar that it seeks to supersede.

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Don't think about making art just get it done.

Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it.

While they are deciding, make even more art.

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"Are you asking the right questions of your Bitcoin qualified custodian?"

— River

Welcome to the latest issue of the Bitcoin For Families newsletter. This issue talks about the right way to save with Bitcoin in your IRA.

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IRAs and Roth IRAs are a great way to save for retirement and several Bitcoin companies allow you to create IRAs that hold Bitcoin as opposed to the traditional stocks and ETFs.

But as we have learned with the recent developments, not all Bitcoin IRAs are born equal and it's time to look at what's the right way to save with Bitcoin in your IRA.

In the past, I've recommended two companies for your IRAs: Swan and River and I've used Swan myself to buy Bitcoin.

From now on, I am only recommending River.

In-House vs Outsource

Both Swan and River are Bitcoin only companies that encourage their customers to self-custody.

There is a market for Bitcoin held in custody and this includes IRAs, corporate treasuries, family offices and other entities that hold large amounts of Bitcoin and need a setup that is more advanced than my Coldcard tucked in a drawer.

Both Swan and River offer custody services for this market and the main difference between them is that River has built the custody infrastructure in-house while Swan outsources it to different partners.

River

River runs its own custody infrastructure and uses multisig cold storage so that you have direct visibility over your assets while preventing accidental or malicious transfers by a rogue employee (yours or theirs).

Simple and effective.

Swan

Swan outsources its custody infrastructure to two separate companies: - Fortress (now Ripple): a crypto focused trust company (not Bitcoin only) that manages the legal and regulatory aspects of holding the Bitcoin from Swan customers - BitGo: a crypto company (not Bitcoin only) that provides the cold storage

Swan users don't have a multisig option and therefore don't have direct visibility of their assets.

Swan has been on the defensive with the Bitcoin community for the last few months due to their partner choices.

First, they had to rush out of their previous trust partner, Prime Trust, before this partner collapsed. Prime Trust lost the keys to the wallets of some of their customers but Swan was able to move its assets from Prime Trust to a new partner, Fortress, just before Prime Trust collapsed.

Now Fortress is also under duress after being hacked and losing $15M USD from its customers. As a result, they've been bailed out and acquired by the shitcoin company Ripple.

Swan is understandably taking action and it recently announced plans to create a new trust company, in partnership with BitGo, that will be Bitcoin only and will provide the legal and regulatory support plus also be responsible for the actual cold storage.

This new trust company will be used by Swan and will also provide its services to other entities.

Maybe, once the new trust company is live, Swan will offer multisig cold storage for your IRA funds. Until then, I can only recommend River for your Bitcoin IRA.

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Recommendations

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He just launched a calendar running on Nostr! Check it out here

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Check it out here.

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In the shadows of the modern cityscape, where technology buzzed with life and the digital realm was as tangible as the air one breathed, there existed legends. One such legend was Satoshi Nakamoto. Neither entirely myth nor wholly reality, Satoshi was the ghost in the machine, a name whispered in the hushed corridors of power and revered in the dimly lit rooms of coders and hackers.

A rain-soaked evening found Adrian, a journalist with a penchant for chasing shadows, in a small, nearly-forgotten pub in Tokyo. Faded lanterns threw a dim glow over worn-out wooden tables and old men nursing their drinks. The air was thick with the scent of rice wine and decades of secrets. Adrian had received a cryptic message earlier that day: "If Satoshi's truth you seek, come to where spirits speak."

He waited, nursing a glass of aged sake, when a soft voice spoke from behind, "You're chasing a specter, Westerner."

Turning, Adrian faced a woman, not older than thirty, her eyes sharp and intelligent, face partially obscured by a hood. Her name was Yuki, and she claimed to be a descendant of a long line of crypto-guardians, protectors of ancient and modern secrets.

"Satoshi is not a person, but an idea," Yuki whispered, glancing around to ensure their privacy. "A vision of a world where control returns to the people, where chains are not just digital but symbolic of breaking free."

Adrian, intrigued, leaned in. "And yet, the world wants to know. Is Satoshi one or many? Man or myth?"

Yuki smiled, her face illuminated by the flickering lanterns. "Does it matter? Satoshi is a beacon, a challenge to the world to think, to break free. But if it's the person you seek, then you're looking in the wrong era."

Before Adrian could press further, a group of men in sleek suits entered the pub. Their demeanor was predatory, their eyes scanning, searching. Yuki swiftly penned a series of numbers on a napkin, pushing it towards Adrian. "Meet me where the old world bridges with the new."

As Adrian left the pub, the weight of the digital age pressed upon him. The rain-soaked streets reflected the neon glow of Tokyo, but his mind was racing. The coordinates pointed towards Kyoto, the ancient heart of Japan.

In Kyoto, amidst the serene beauty of the temples, Adrian met Yuki again. She led him to an underground chamber, where walls inscribed with ancient texts met servers humming with modern-day data.

"This," Yuki whispered reverently, "is where Satoshi was born. Not the person, but the idea. An amalgamation of ancient wisdom and modern ideology."

The chamber was a fusion of eras. Scrolls bearing ancestral wisdom lay next to blueprints of blockchain technology. "Centuries ago, our forefathers envisioned a world of balance, of equitable power. Satoshi took inspiration from here, crafting a digital world based on ancient principles."

Adrian, awestruck, realized the enormity of his discovery. Satoshi wasn't just a technological marvel but a philosophical revolution. But the danger was real. Forces that felt threatened by Satoshi's vision would stop at nothing to keep the status quo.

The duo's time in the chamber was short-lived. The same men from the pub, symbols of the corporate world's might, had followed Adrian. A chase ensued, from the echoing chambers to the bamboo forests of Kyoto.

Yuki, with grace and agility, led Adrian through a labyrinth of paths, their pursuers always a breath away. They finally reached a clearing, where an old shrine stood, a beacon in the encroaching darkness.

Drawing a deep breath, Yuki turned to face their pursuers. Her stance was defiant, the weight of centuries of guardianship behind her. "You may chase the shadow of Satoshi, but the idea is free, beyond chains, beyond control."

A standoff ensued, tension palpable, until a coded message, a series of beeps and tones, echoed through the forest. Backup had arrived for Yuki and Adrian, fellow guardians of the crypto-secret.

The corporate men, realizing they were outnumbered, retreated, but the war was far from over.

As dawn broke, Yuki and Adrian stood amidst the serene beauty of Kyoto, the weight of Satoshi's legacy heavy upon them. They had touched the soul of a revolution, and the journey had just begun.

The world might never know who Satoshi truly was, but the spirit, the idea, was unstoppable. In the confluence of the ancient and modern, a legend was born, and its guardians would ensure it remained an enigma, a beacon for generations to come.

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ในยุคปัจจุบันนี้ Docker เป็นเทคโนโลยีที่มีความนิยมอย่างแพร่หลายในการจัดการและการเปิดใช้งานแอปพลิเคชัน ในบทความนี้เราจะสำรวจการใช้งาน PHP-FPM ผ่าน Docker เพื่อเริ่มต้นกับการพัฒนาและรันโปรแกรม PHP ในสภาพแวดล้อมที่เป็นอิสระและทดสอบง่าย.

เนื้อหา

1. ทำความรู้จักกับ Docker
2. ติดตั้ง Docker
3. สร้าง Dockerfile สำหรับ PHP-FPM
4. สร้าง Docker Compose สำหรับการใช้งาน PHP-FPM
5. ทดสอบแอปพลิเคชัน PHP ผ่าน Docker

1. ทำความรู้จักกับ Docker

   Docker เป็นแพลตฟอร์มที่ช่วยในการสร้างและรันแอปพลิเคชันในสภาพแวดล้อมเรียบง่ายโดยใช้คอนเทนเนอร์. คอนเทนเนอร์ Docker มีความพร้อมใช้งานทันทีและสามารถถูกย้ายไปยังสภาพแวดล้อมอื่น ๆ ได้อย่างง่ายดาย.

2. ติดตั้ง Docker

   ถ้าคุณยังไม่ได้ติดตั้ง Docker ให้ไปที่เว็บไซต์ Docker และดาวน์โหลด Docker Desktop สำหรับระบบปฏิบัติที่คุณใช้งาน (Windows, macOS, หรือ Linux) แล้วติดตั้งในเครื่องของคุณ.

3. สร้าง Dockerfile สำหรับ PHP-FPM

   สร้างไฟล์ Dockerfile เพื่อกำหนด image: Docker สำหรับ PHP-FPM:

```

ใช้ image: PHP-FPM ที่มาจาก Docker Hub

FROM php:7.4-fpm

ติดตั้งส่วนเสริมที่จำเป็น

RUN docker-php-ext-install mysqli pdo pdo_mysql

ระบุไดเรกทอรีที่เราจะใช้ในการเก็บโค้ดของแอปพลิเคชัน

WORKDIR /var/www/html

คัดลอกโค้ดของแอปพลิเคชันเข้าไปในคอนเทนเนอร์

COPY . .

กำหนดค่า PHP-FPM

CMD ["php-fpm"]

```

ใน Dockerfile นี้:

• เราใช้ image PHP-FPM จาก Docker Hub เป็น image หลัก
• เราติดตั้งส่วนเสริมที่จำเป็นเพื่อรองรับการทำงานของแอปพลิเคชัน PHP ของเรา
• กำหนดไดเรกทอรีที่จะใช้ในการเก็บโค้ดของแอปพลิเคชัน
• คัดลอกโค้ดของแอปพลิเคชันเข้าไปในคอนเทนเนอร์ Docker

• กำหนดค่า PHP-FPM เพื่อให้รันแอปพลิเคชัน PHP ของเรา

• สร้าง Docker Compose สำหรับการใช้งาน PHP-FPM

  สร้างไฟล์ docker-compose.yml เพื่อกำหนดการใช้งาน PHP-FPM และฐานข้อมูล MySQL (หากมีความจำเป็น):

``` version: '3' services: php-fpm: build: context: . dockerfile: Dockerfile volumes: - ./app:/var/www/html ports: - "9000:9000"

mysql: image: mysql:5.7 environment: MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root_password MYSQL_DATABASE: app_db ports: - "3306:3306" ```

ในไฟล์ docker-compose.yml นี้:

• เราสร้าง service: php-fpm ที่ใช้ Dockerfile เพื่อสร้าง image: Docker สำหรับ PHP-FPM
• เรากำหนดโฟลเดอร์โค้ดของแอปพลิเคชันในเครื่องหลัก (host machine) ที่จะถูกแชร์กับคอนเทนเนอร์ PHP-FPM
• กำหนดพอร์ต 9000 เพื่อให้สามารถเชื่อมต่อกับ PHP-FPM ได้ผ่านเครือข่าย
• เราสร้าง service: mysql ซึ่งใช้ image: Docker ของ MySQL เพื่อเป็นฐานข้อมูลของแอปพลิเคชันของเรา

• เรากำหนดตัวแปรสภาพแวดล้อมสำหรับ MySQL เช่นรหัสผ่าน root และชื่อฐานข้อมูล

• ทดสอบแอปพลิเคชัน PHP ผ่าน Docker

  เมื่อคุณสร้าง Docker Compose สำหรับ PHP-FPM และ MySQL ให้ทำตามนี้: ในโฟลเดอร์ของโค้ดของคุณ (ในตัวอย่างนี้คือ ./app) สร้างไฟล์ PHP อย่างเช่น index.php และเขียนโค้ด PHP ตัวอย่าง:

```

``` 1. เปิดหน้าเทอมินัล (Terminal) และเข้าไปในโฟลเดอร์ที่มีไฟล์ docker-compose.yml 2. ใช้คำสั่งต่อไปนี้เพื่อสร้างและรันคอนเทนเนอร์ Docker สำหรับ PHP-FPM และ MySQL:

docker-compose up -d คำสั่งนี้จะสร้างและเริ่มต้นคอนเทนเนอร์ในพื้นหลัง

1. เมื่อทุกอย่างพร้อมแล้ว คุณสามารถเข้าถึงแอปพลิเคชัน PHP ที่กำหนดไว้ใน index.php ได้โดยเข้า URL http://localhost:9000/index.php ในเบราว์เซอร์ของคุณ
2. หากคุณได้สร้างฐานข้อมูล MySQL คุณสามารถเชื่อมต่อกับ MySQL ผ่านพอร์ต 3306 และข้อมูลการเข้าสู่ระบบที่คุณกำหนดใน Docker Compose

สรุป

ในบทความนี้เราได้ทำความรู้จักกับการใช้งาน PHP-FPM ผ่าน Docker และ Docker Compose เราได้สร้าง image: Docker สำหรับ PHP-FPM และ MySQL ซึ่งทำให้สามารถพัฒนาและทดสอบแอปพลิเคชัน PHP ในสภาพแวดล้อมที่เป็นอิสระและมีความสะดวกสบาย Docker เป็นเครื่องมือที่มีประโยชน์ในการจัดการและปรับปรุงการพัฒนาแอปพลิเคชันของคุณในรูปแบบคอนเทนเนอร์อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ

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Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Sonnet 105 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares

```

Sweet Encounter

Come today and have a sweet encounter With this traveler who believes in you As my lone soul has become a hunter And my illusions in a cold night flew.

In your mind, I found a secret beauty Through which I guessed the measures of your heart To become its wit is now my duty And to bring you new scents I use my art.

With many sunsets written on my eyes And passion's fever growing in the dusk I believe that Nature never belies 11 If dressed with petals we look for its musk.

This is why you can have my persuasion 13 That follows your kind insinuation. ***

11-. belies= proves mistaken. 13-. persuation= that in which we believe.

```

Analysis "Sweet Encounter"

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Introduction

Sonnet 105 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares, titled "Sweet Encounter," is a beautiful piece of poetry that employs traditional sonnet structure and themes of love, nature, and self-discovery.

The sonnet is composed in the English sonnet or Shakespearean sonnet form, consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

Thematic Analysis

The first quatrain introduces the speaker as a traveler, a seeker, who is in search of a sweet encounter with the person to whom the poem is addressed. The speaker's soul is described as a hunter, suggesting a sense of longing and pursuit. The speaker's illusions are said to have flown away in a cold night, indicating a sense of loss or disillusionment.

In the second quatrain, the speaker delves into the mind of the person they are addressing, finding a "secret beauty" there. This suggests a deep connection and understanding between the speaker and the addressee. The speaker feels it's their duty to understand the addressee's heart and to bring new experiences ("new scents") to them.

The third quatrain uses vivid imagery of sunsets and dusk to convey the passage of time and the growth of passion. The speaker asserts their belief in the truth of nature, suggesting that if we approach it with appreciation and respect ("dressed with petals"), we can discover its essence ("musk").

The concluding couplet offers a resolution: the speaker is persuaded by the addressee's "kind insinuation," suggesting a mutual understanding and connection. The speaker is willing to follow the addressee's lead, indicating trust and affection.

Overall, "Sweet Encounter" is a sonnet that explores themes of longing, connection, understanding, and the beauty of nature. It uses vivid imagery and metaphor to convey the speaker's emotions and beliefs.

Rhyme Scheme

Sonnet 105 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares follows the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet, which consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a final couplet (two-line stanza). The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

Let's break down the rhyme scheme of this sonnet:

``` 1. Come today and have a sweet encounter (A) 2. With this traveler who believes in you (B) 3. As my lone soul has become a hunter (A) 4. And my illusions in a cold night flew. (B)

1. In your mind, I found a secret beauty (C)
2. Through which I guessed the measures of your heart (D)
3. To become its wit is now my duty (C)

4. And to bring you new scents I use my art. (D)

5. With many sunsets written on my eyes (E)

6. And passion's fever growing in the dusk (F)
7. I believe that Nature never belies (E)

8. If dressed with petals we look for its musk. (F)

9. This is why you can have my persuasion (G)

10. That follows your kind insinuation. (G) ```

As you can see, the end words of each line follow the ABAB CDCD EFEF GG pattern, which is characteristic of a Shakespearean sonnet. This pattern creates a pleasing rhythm and musicality to the poem, while also helping to structure the poet's thoughts and ideas.

Additional Aspects to Analyze

While we've discussed the structure and rhyme scheme of Sonnet 105 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares, there are still several aspects that can be further analyzed, including its use of metaphor, imagery, and tone.

1. Metaphor: The speaker uses metaphors to express their feelings and experiences. For instance, the speaker's soul is described as a "hunter," suggesting a sense of longing and pursuit. The speaker's illusions are said to have "flown away in a cold night," indicating a sense of loss or disillusionment. The speaker's eyes are described as having "many sunsets written" on them, suggesting the passage of time and the accumulation of experiences.

2. Imagery: The sonnet is rich in vivid and evocative imagery. The "sweet encounter," the "secret beauty" in the addressee's mind, the "new scents" the speaker brings with their art, the "sunsets written on my eyes," and the "passion's fever growing in the dusk" all serve to create a sensory and emotional landscape that draws the reader into the speaker's world.

3. Tone: The tone of the sonnet is one of longing, passion, and deep connection. The speaker expresses a strong desire for a meaningful encounter with the addressee, a longing to understand and connect with them on a deep level. The speaker's tone is also one of reverence for nature and its truths, as expressed in the third quatrain.

4. Theme: The sonnet explores themes of longing, connection, understanding, and the beauty of nature. It suggests that true understanding and connection come from a deep exploration of the other's mind and heart, and from a shared appreciation of the beauty and truths of nature.

5. Language and Diction: The language used in the sonnet is formal and poetic, with a rich vocabulary that adds depth and complexity to the poem. The use of words like "persuasion," "insinuation," "belies," and "musk" contribute to the sonnet's sophisticated and evocative language.

6. Symbolism: The sonnet uses symbols to convey deeper meanings. For instance, the "hunter" symbolizes the speaker's pursuit of understanding and connection, while the "sunsets" symbolize the passage of time and the accumulation of experiences. The "petals" and "musk" symbolize the beauty and essence of nature, respectively.

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(GPT4)

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Count the syllables of each line of the Sonnet

(www.howmanysyllables.com)

```

Sweet Encounter

10 Come today and have a sweet encounter 10 With this traveler who believes in you 10 As my lone soul has become a hunter 10 And my illusions in a cold night flew.

10 In your mind, I found a secret beauty 10 Through which I guessed the measures of your heart 10 To become its wit is now my duty 10 And to bring you new scents I use my art.

10 With many sunsets written on my eyes 10 And passion's fever growing in the dusk 10 I believe that Nature never belies
10 If dressed with petals we look for its musk.

10 This is why you can have my persuasion
10 That follows your kind insinuation. ***

```

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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Analyzed by GPT4 and www.howmanysyllables.com; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com

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The main goal of the European Digital Services Act is to elevate online safety for both consumers and businesses. To achieve this objective, the DSA establishes strict requirements that online service providers and platforms must adhere to. These requirements encompass several crucial topics, including:

Fighting Disinformation and Unlawful Content:

One of the main goals of the DSA is to combat disinformation and unlawful content within the European Union (EU). The DSA aims to hold digital service providers responsible for the content circulating on their networks during a time when incorrect information can spread rapidly.

Recommendation Services:

The DSA also mandates online platforms to modify their recommendation services. This is particularly significant since recommendation algorithms have a substantial influence on user behavior and content consumption.

Transparency in Online Advertising:

Another essential component of the DSA is transparency in online advertising. To prevent consumers from being deceived by misleading marketing techniques, digital service providers are obligated to be open and honest about the advertisements displayed on their services.

Annual Risk Assessments:

The DSA mandates digital service providers to conduct annual risk assessments to effectively address harmful online practices. This includes identifying and mitigating risks associated with the sale of illegal goods, the distribution of dangerous content, and the spread of misinformation.

Measures Against Harmful Practices:

In addition to assessments, online service providers must proactively counter harmful behavior on their platforms. This may involve removing illegal content or implementing security measures to prevent the spread of misinformation.

A substantial change in how online platforms and service providers are governed may be seen in the DSA. The European Commission will closely monitor the 19 certified Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs). The DSA's regulations must be followed by these digital juggernauts, which include Apple, Google, Meta (Facebook and Instagram), X (previously Twitter), and websites like AliExpress and Booking.com.

Importantly, if these VLOPs and VLOSEs do not comply with the DSA's rules, the European Commission has the authority to impose penalties. The level of enforcement underscores the seriousness with which the EU is approaching the regulation of the digital sector.

Conclusion

A significant advancement in the regulation of online services within the European Union is the European Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA aims to safeguard the interests of consumers and businesses, promote transparency, and combat harmful online practices by establishing clear rules and rigorous oversight. Digital giants will need to adapt to these new laws as the DSA is implemented, or they risk facing serious repercussions. Ultimately, the DSA represents a turning point in the digital era, shaping the future of online services in Europe and potentially serving as a model for global digital governance.

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A presidente da Comissão Europeia (CE), Ursula von der Leyen, destacou que a União Europeia (UE) está a incutir os valores europeus no espaço digital com as novas regras para plataformas digitais, que terão de remover conteúdos ilegais.

“Estamos a trazer os nossos valores europeus para o mundo digital. Com regras rigorosas em matéria de transparência e responsabilidade, a nossa Lei dos Serviços Digitais visa proteger as nossas crianças, sociedades e democracias”, reagiu a líder do executivo comunitário, numa publicação na rede social X (anterior Twitter).

Após alguns meses de adaptação, plataformas de grande dimensão como X (anteriormente designada Twitter) e Facebook (do grupo Meta) têm de começar agora a cumprir as obrigações impostas pela nova Lei dos Serviços Digitais da UE.

Em novembro passado, foi oficialmente adotada a nova Lei dos Serviços Digitais, criada para proteger os direitos fundamentais dos utilizadores ‘online’ e tornando-se numa legislação inédita para o espaço digital que responsabiliza plataformas por conteúdos ilegais e prejudiciais.

Notícia completa: CNNPortugal.

Quem somos nós para impor os “nossos valores europeus”?

Quem decide quais são os “nossos valores”?

Um valor para um húngaro, pode não ser um valor para um português. Nisto tudo, onde fica a verdadeira riqueza europeia, a diversidade dos seus povos.

É democrático impor os “nossos valores”?

Qual a diferença entre a União Europeia impor os valores europeus e o Partido Comunista Chinês impor os valores chineses?

E os Aiatolás ou Talibans imporem os valores deles?

Se os regimes da China, Irão e do Afeganistão são anti-democrático, será a União Europeia democrática?

Quem decide quais são os valores “corretos”?

Se concordo com os valores dos Aiatolás, claro que na maioria dos casos, não. Por isso sou a favor de valores democráticos, onde exista liberdade individual, onde a minha liberdade termina onde começa a liberdade de outro.

Eu não tenho o direito de impor os meus valores a terceiros, cada um siga os seus valores.

É claro que aqui estamos a falar de valores de liberdade individual e de expressão.

Eu levei a vacina contra a covid, mas as pessoas que não querem têm o direito de não querer. Se eu tenho a liberdade de querer a vacina, os outros também têm a liberdade de não querer. A imposição da vacina é uma violação das liberdades individuais.

Eu posso dizer nas redes sociais que as vacinas têm eficácia, mas se alguém diz o oposto é censurado ou mesmo banido.

É apenas uma opinião pessoal, a liberdade de expressão é um direito humano, por que razão as redes sociais tem que fazer censura.

Qual a diferença entre estas leis que censuram e a censura que existem nos regimes autoritários?

O que é fake news? Quem define o que é fake news?

Quem é que decide se aquele tweet é ou não fake news?

A União Europeia quer que as redes sociais sejam “juízes” e que façam “julgamentos”.

A justiça é feita nos tribunais, por juízes.  Só um juiz, num tribunal, pode declarar se algo é legal ou ilegal, onde temos direito à defensa. Algo quase inexistente nas redes sociais.

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Fica excluído da sociedade. Será que não temos direito ao anonimato e à privacidade.

Poderá ser o fim das denúncias, de whistleblower e do jornalismo de investigação, quando o alvo é um governo ou um político ligado ao governo. Os políticos podem alegar que é fake news e essas notícias nunca serão publicadas.

Houve inúmeros casos de crimes envolvendo políticos, denunciados/investigados por denúncias públicas. Inicialmente eram negadas pelos envolvidos/governos, mas o tempo provou que eram verdade. Como o caso de Watergate, Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, etc.

Não existem democracias sem liberdade de imprensa, esta lei tem um único objetivo: provocar o medo de falar.

Depois vem sempre o mesmo bla-bla-bla dos políticos, dizem eles, esta lei é para combater o financiamento ao terrorismo.

Ok, eu concordo que o terrorismo tem que ser combatido, mas coloquem isso especificamente na lei. 

Se a União Europeia criar uma lei que limita a liberdade de expressão, a população vai protestar e essa lei nunca entrará em vigor.

Em vez disso, dizem que vão criar uma lei com objetivo de combater o terrorismo, todos concordam, não há protestos.

No final o resultado é o mesmo, os políticos utilizam a desculpa do terrorismo, aprovam uma lei muito genérica, abrangente, onde se pode encaixar tudo, incluindo a limitação da liberdade de expressão e liberdade individuais.

Seguindo este modus operandi, a União Europeia deveria proibir as facas, todos os anos algumas pessoas utilizam as facas para cometer crimes. Esta premissa é estúpida, igualmente estúpida são estas leis que foram aprovadas na União Europeia, não faz sentido prejudicar milhões de pessoas, só porque algumas pessoas fazem mau uso dessa ferramenta. A lei deve apenas penalizar quem faz mau uso e que prejudique terceiros.

Todos nós sabemos quais serão as consequências destas leis. Como é lógico, as redes sociais não vão querer ter problemas com autoridades, vão ser exageradamente rigorosos no cumprimento da lei. 

Até é lógico, porque é impossível, humanamente, que elas verifiquem todas as informações colocadas pelos seus milhões de utilizadores. As redes sociais vão colocar bots que bloqueiam tudo previamente, sem ler, sem interpretar o contexto, basta a utilização de certas palavras para ser censurado.

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1) Show how you can easily memorize a 12 or 24 seed word using only pen and paper. Total practice time should take less than 20 minutes if done right. If this is all you are interested in, skip ahead to the Method section below.

2) Demonstrate some general principles of learning that you can apply to almost any skill. My approach is based on a field called Precision Teaching, which is applicable to more than just memorization. I have put some articles at the bottom if you would like to learn more.

Some General Principles of Learning

Spaced practice. Daily practice should be less than 5 minutes. Cramming is inefficient and results in poor retention.

Training in chunks. It is much easier to learn if you break down your learning target into smaller unit. Chunk size is the variable that I have manipulated in the experiments below.

Fluency. Aim for accuracy plus speed – not just accuracy. A person that knows all the words in, say, French is not fluent in French if he can only speak 1 word per minute. In this case, accuracy is perfect, but fluency is abysmal. Here I will define seed word fluency as being able to accurately remember a seed phrase at the same speed as you are able to read it. This will be measured as words per minute (always 24 / minutes).

Proportional growth. If the teaching method is held constant, fluency will grow at a constant proportional rate. Change in proportional growth is a better gauge of learning than mere repetition or time spent. It doesn’t matter whether you are dealing with a cognitive or motor skill. An easy way to visually analyze changes in proportional growth is to plot the data using a logarithmic y-axis.

Method

I wanted to achieve the highest level of fluency (words per minute) with the least amount of practice time. The method also had to be simple enough to easily be done with pen and paper. The following method allowed me to memorize a seed in less than 15 minutes of practice. This was achieved by breaking up the seed into smaller chunks, like this:

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Instructions. Cover up all words with a paper and move it to the right, revealing one chunk of 4 words each time. Work with groups of 8 words at the time, as indicated by the vertical lines. Try saying the next 4 words before revealing them. If you can’t, reveal them anyway by moving the paper, say them, and then cover up all words in the group of 8 again. You will likely have to move the paper back and fourth a lot during the first practice round. Only do 3 trials a day, not more – cramming is a waste of time. One trial means that you have worked with each group of 8 until you have recalled the words just once when covered up by the paper. The first trial should take less than 3 minutes if done right. Fluency will grow proportionally from that. You want to be able to remember the words at least as fast as you are able to read them. Focus on accuracy first however, and let the speed come naturally as remembering begin to require less effort.

Experiments

I carried out three experiments that show how training with smaller chunks allows for fluency to develop with less effort. In each experiment, two new seeds were memorized. One seed was always memorized using the method above as a baseline, while the other was memorized using larger chunks. Each experiment ran for a total of 9 days.

Experiment 1

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Experiment 2

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Experiment 3

This was a hybrid where I trained with the same seed using differently sized chunks every three days. For the first three, I trained exactly the same as with the baseline method. Then for another three days, I used the chunk size shown in experiment 2. Finally, with no vertical boarders so that a single mistake would require me to redo the entire seed.

Results

Below are the daily means of 3 trials per day. Black dots is always the same method, where I work with the words in chunks of 4 and groups of 8. Red shows the comparison. The baseline method was clearly superior.

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Here are the same results summarized in a table.

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Retention

You will need to rehearse your seed occasionally. Rehearsing every day is unnecessary. Once or twice a month is more than enough. An even better strategy is to base the decision on when, and how much, to rehearse based on your level of fluency. Simply wait a while and then train your fluency to the same level as before. It will become easier every time, and you will be able to wait longer and longer between rehearsals.

Wrapping Up

You can achieve something with very little effort if you have a low time preference. This method is "slow" in the sense that you can't cram everything in a day. It's "fast" in the sense that fluency can be obtained with less than 20 of minutes practice. Retention also needs to be taken into account, but that should only take a few extra minutes every month if done right. You don't have to measure everything like I did. Fluency is something that you can feel developing. Simply ask if you were able to remember the words roughly as fast as you are able to read them.

Links for learning more about Precision Teaching

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_teaching

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Table Of Content

• A Leap Towards Financial Inclusion

• Boosting E-Commerce Growth

• Reducing Transaction Costs

• Enhancing Security and Privacy

• Challenges and Concerns

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Chile, the economic powerhouse of Latin America, has recently expanded its e-commerce landscape by allowing Bitcoin trading on its largest e-commerce platform. This bold move signifies a significant milestone for the Latin American e-commerce industry, offering new opportunities for both merchants and consumers. This article will explore the benefits and implications of incorporating Bitcoin trading into the Chilean e-commerce market, and discuss how this development is expected to revolutionize the region's digital economy.

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Bitcoin's decentralized nature and secure encryption make it an appealing payment method for consumers who value their privacy and security. By adopting Bitcoin, Chile's largest e-commerce platform is offering users an additional layer of protection against fraud and identity theft. This move can potentially build trust among users and increase the platform's credibility in the eyes of consumers.

Challenges and Concerns

Despite the numerous benefits of integrating Bitcoin trading into Chile's e-commerce platform, there are several challenges and concerns that need to be addressed. These include regulatory issues, price volatility, and the environmental impact of cryptocurrency mining. It is crucial for governments, regulators, and industry stakeholders to work together to create a supportive framework that addresses these concerns while fostering innovation and growth.

Conclusion

Chile's decision to welcome Bitcoin trading on its largest e-commerce platform demonstrates the country's commitment to fostering innovation and expanding financial inclusion. As the Latin American e-commerce market continues to grow, embracing Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can provide a competitive advantage for businesses and consumers alike. By addressing the challenges and concerns associated with this new form of payment, Chile has the potential to become a leader in the global digital economy.

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How does Bitcoin trading benefit consumers and merchants? Consumers benefit from increased privacy and security, while merchants can save on transaction fees, cater to a wider audience, and enjoy higher sales volumes.

How can Chile address these challenges and concerns? Governments, regulators, and industry stakeholders must work together to create a supportive framework that addresses concerns while fostering innovation and growth.

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The narrative has the power to capture people's imagination. The Fairy and her friend were hooked to the story. They wanted to know how people reacted to see Matsya back in the town. Did they recognize her even though her smell was gone? Did she see the same version of reality that she lived in that village couple years back; or did she see a new version - may be an "anti-version" of her previous world - her "tiny box".

As if the Angel read their minds - you always see something new when you return to your home town - he said - that is kinda true for any place where you made some memories, but home is something that flows in your blood. You readily notice the diffs that you had otherwise ignored, for the change is unnoticeable to a boxed observer - like a frog in a boiling pot. A "return" spotlights the change. But that is NOT how you see the anti-Yellow!

The Angel continued talking to a rather surprised Fairy and her friend - to be able to see the inverse of your reality - the other side - you must change your persona inside-out. No one must recognize you in your own home - he said - No one even looking for your return. And you must be exact opposite of what you were - a beggar if you were a king, rich if you were poor, handsome if you didn't have the looks, a singer if you were a thinker, and fragrant if you smelled like a fish. Such an internal shift ain't easily accessible, that's the reason, we never see the other side [^otherSide]. Buddha did it when he returned back to Kapilvastu. Despite being on invitation from the king, he went out alone to get food for himself - as a beggar. He wandered alone in darkness the streets and squares that used to be lit up even on expectation of his visit.

Buddha being enlightened knew it doesn't matter if the new vantage is good or bad - the purpose really is to see the "other side". As you become observant of both sides of your tiny box - your reality - of the color and the anti-color, you have a chance to realize approach the "knowledge" held with in - and only a "chance" it is - there is no guarantee that you would spin towards "white" at any moment of the quest. An opposite spin towards "darkness" is as much probable - it is a coin toss unless you have the tools to keep you steadfast on your quest - to find who you are!

The Angel thought for a while, looking at his watch as he didn't expect this conversation to go this long - returning to your home with anonymity, and with exactly opposite persona is a powerful experience. It is like going to your office after many years of retirement - as "a nobody" where you served as a Deputy or a Boss. You feel as if the walls and the chairs are mocking you for you never cared to notice them. You thought office was made of the "people" and now realization that the people were the most fungible in that confine - all your peers are gone long back, and all your subs are probably transferred. Same thing happens when you go back to your school after say twenty years of graduation.

It proves to you that the "knowledge" held "with-in" is always complete. What changes is how you see it. It appears the way you view it. Beauty, in fact, lies in the eyes of the beholder and so is misery - the Angel thought this was a good point to stop!

Tell us more of her return O, good Angel - insisted the friend fully hyped at the way Matsya blossomed as a character - now that you have kindled the interest you can't hold the narrative back. As she said it, the mid night bell rang. The club was about to close.

May be some other time - said the Angel, but he quickly changed his mind - On the second thought, how about you see it yourself ?

How ? - asked the Fairy - last I checked we still can't travel back in time - she smiled.

Yup, we can't travel back in time, but you can see it in your head sets - replied the Angel - How about you come with us - he pointed to the friend - both of you may get into virtual reality at the back seat while I keep my hands on the wheel (and eyes on the road). He didn't miss the opportunity to curse the traffic controllers - what is the point of self driving chariots if at least one must sit on the steering - he raised his hands in frustration :-)

Yes sure - said the friend - my car can follow yours. There is no need for someone to be on the steering if there is no one in the car - strange rules (of the Wizland) - she laughed - A chariot may drive itself without living beings but if there is even a dog inside, someone must be on the wheel - They even track the eye balls to make sure the driver is awake!

After clearing the bills, the Fairy summoned her old Model X. The friend had the latest iteration - they call it Model ∑ - for it could drive in three modes - on roads, water and air. The Angel hopped on to the driver seat while the two friends entered the headsets on the back - "Vision Pro 14" the latest combined product from Apple, Google and Meta. It is the height of centralization but it works :-) , unlike the one from the "decentralized resistance" that has no sense of smell or real touch.

From the driver seat, the Angel navigated them to a new locale built at the dawn of the civilization. He asked Siri to tune in to the chapter 10 - the "Identity" - the sequence of separation. They could see Matsya riding her boat as she waved good bye to Maharishi, and her two year old. She had tears in her eyes. And once again, she had no clue what to expect! What is it that she is going to see in her "Knowledge", if she got lucky or would she fail Maharishi and her son! She felt pressure of separation building as if it was a test destiny so carefully planned for her. Tears roll up when we don't understand what we are feeling!

Maharishi's eyes moistened too. He wished her luck for the reality is fickle. Things may go insanely wrong at the flutter of a butterfly. The business of prediction is risky - he thought. And "Identity" definition is a matter of absolute chance despite all the wisdom that he had at his disposal, it had taken him better part of his early life to really figure out what he himself stood for.

In Sanskrit, Identity is called Swaroopa - the shape of self .. And it is a mirror image of the "Knowledge". It is also the begonning of Karma ..

Swaroopa ..

The village was in a state of shock when Satyawati made it to the docks. Maharishi had fixed her boat that it looked like a new built. Matsya was long gone from the memory of that village. She docked her boat and turned to a group of fishermen who were looking at her in disbelief — Is there a place to stay in this village and also who is the village head here? I wanted to seek permission to moor my boat on this dock — she acted as if she didn't know the docks she grew on! She had practiced this opening line of her new act many times, but in real, it felt different. And she felt a tinge of excitement!

The fishermen were speechless. They had never seen a more beautiful woman and her fragrance was driving them crazy. One of them offered her his seat standing up. Other offered her food that his wife had packed. Yet another offered to take her to the village head.

The village head — Dashraaj in mid seventies, had seen the life long enough to be enchanted with anything glittering. Or at least that was what he thought. His ideas were forcefully changed by Maharishi but at the core, he still thought he had a role to play. His week eyes couldn't see Satyawati well enough, but he couldn't resist the smell. It was as if some goddess stepped into his home. He too stood up to offer a seat and water . When she sought his permission to dock the boat, he didn't think twice. Satyawati saw the power of fragrance first-hand. She was happy. She kept on — Is there a place I could rent to stay. I have some gold.

The word “gold” rang a pleasant bell in Dashraaj's ears — you are village's responsibility. You don't need to spend a penny here. You are like a daughter to me, why don't you stay with us? Matsya could see the greed painted on his face, yet his words sounded pleasant. On the other hand, Satyawati was getting used to privileges of the rich and the beautiful!

He continued - I have three daughters who could help you on the boat. She nodded her acceptance and said thanks in Sanskrit to make sure she was considered not only beautiful (and rich) but educated too. She had her moves fully planned!

10.1

The news of arrival of a beautiful 'noblewoman' had already spread in the village. Men and women stopped at whatever they were doing and flocked to village head's home. Every man was eager to help a "single" beautiful woman. Some applauded her for navigating rough Yamuna alone. Matsya was stunned at the double standards but then she smiled at the duality. Yet she reasoned - how could same set of people ignore poor Matsyagandha? It felt like Matsya actually died. Something in her told her she needed more power. Power to rule the entire world. She will never be as exposed and as needy as Matsya was. She must build on her gifts. She however, was not sure if the desires were taking over her. What is the right thing to do - she questioned herself - let go the opportunity at hand or to capitalize this lucky break? May be Krishna would answer that one day! — she thought. For now, her focus was as clear as the brightness of that summer day.

After few days of rest and cooked meals served on demand, Satyawati returned to her boat. Along with her, three Dashraaj girls. The older one slightly older than her and youngest slightly younger. Middle one was her age. She was back in the business as she saw a line of commuters growing to board her boat. She smiled and a song came to her lips. Life is gracious for the rich and beautiful — she thought. The thought was soon replaced by the memory of Krishna. Every success must be paid in some form, some pain. She reminded herself that Krishna was with Maharishi. He couldn't have asked for a better father.

Time took the wings again. Every evening she reminded herself what Maharishi told her - don't get lost in your new reality for the only way to see the truth is to find who you are. You must try to actively engage in self discovery. The ability to see your tiny box from both sides is just a tool , it is not a guarantee. And when you start getting lucky on this path - you must embrace light - not darkness! Self realization is NOT about giving up. It is about doing the righteous!

The insights that Maharishi gave to Satyawati helped her bear the truth. The truth that the reality that we are willing to die for is fickle - as if an image in the mirror that appears different from different angles. Exposed to this fact, a normal mind would completely lose the faith - life would appear meaningless. And the journey from losing faith in "reality" to realizing Swaroopa may be long. Satyawati was determined to put on the battle for Maharishi told him that the her next assignment was hidden in her Identity. She would know her actions when she found who she was!

Her boat got popular — like a tourist attraction. People started pouring over just to see her and to listen to her sing. And of course the fragrance. She got rich but she was still waiting for the next season of Maharishi's prediction. Dashraaj declared her as his daughter. There were many suitors who would happily surrender their lives' worth for Satyawati, but none of them could make her “rule the world” - as prophesied. More importantly, she was curious of the bigger cause that Maharishi said she was a part of. For now, she was okay with the respect (and recognition) that she knew not existed. And she kept on sharpening her skills — music, singing, looking good and of course smelling good.

10.2

The village accepted Satyawati, though it was still hard for her to accept her new version. Sometimes she would wake up early to walk past her old home. She even went inside. The door was totally gone. The holes in the roof had widened. She wondered if she should get it fixed but then the dilemma - what if her cover got compromised. Sometimes she would take her boat to Yamuna in the middle of the night, and spend hours on the haunted island. Sometimes she would lock herself up in her room without water and food. On one hand there were aspirations - she could get whatever she wanted, on the other hand there were doubts and fears - what if she lost her fragrance - what if someone recognized her. The mind like a pendulum and the heart like a wave. Sometimes she wanted time to skip the years of wait, other times she wanted the time to stop. It was as if she had the answer stuck in her mind but unable to verbalize it. What exactly is the life and why is this game being played?

One fine morning she found herself - it dawned upon her all of a sudden. As she let her boat into the waves of Yamuna, she saw the water flowing right under her boat. What exactly is the river ? - she asked herself. Is it the two banks or is it the water that flows with in? An obvious answer was "both" - the banks as well as the water - that is a rational description of the river !

But she reasoned further - what if there is no water, would it still be a river? Would she be able to sail through a waterless river? And if there was water, it would somehow find the banks. It might spread into a flood but sooner or later, it would cut through the soil to make the banks. Banks are made by the flow, not the other way around. And all her life she kept chasing the banks - from one side to another. She thought the flow was the cause of her pains for she had to row harder in the rainy days when Yamuna peaked. And turned out it was the flow - the source of her livelihood and life.

She recalled Maharishi said the reality is a Yantra - a configurable machine. But now she understood what he meant. Just the way water in the river shapes the banks, the thing that flows in us shapes us - our reality. That thing is important. That thing is "knowledge"!

Freedom from the fears and the desires is normally simultaneous - no different for her but she didn't have time to even notice this freedom for her vision was now fixated on the ever flowing self. That one that is bound with in the two banks of her being - beautiful her and ugly her - poor her and rich her - fragrant and the one who smelled life fish. She realized the taste of her Atma - her knowledge - herself.

It was like entering a new home that you built with utmost care. When you get to sit in there first time, you just wanna feel that moment. As if her body was the home and her inner-self wanted to rejoice just being in the safety of her body. Calm and peace. There was no hurry to do things. No actions urgent but not doing them either was no fun. She recalled again the words of Maharishi - when you will see it, you will know you have seen it. There was no other way to explain the experience.

Not only herself, she also realized the name that Maharishi gave her. Satyawati means who bears this truth ..

10.3

Things were not as good on the other side of Yamuna. Back to his Ashrama, there was a welcome celebration for Maharishi and Krishna. No one asked about the mother for they were all busy checking out the toddler who could already speak broken Sanskrit. He had the Gaytri Mantra by heart.

The apparent joy in Ashrama appeared a bit subdued to Maharishi. At the very first chance, he asked Maitreya if things were fine. When he found Maitreya quiet, Maharishi dug deeper.

The momentary waves of anger arose in Maharishi as he heard about house arrests of his friends — Ugrasen and Vasudev. No one could ever imagine that a political thug of yesterday would have the audacity to chain the very hands he grew in. And to tax eternal congregation of Vasishtha. It was both ridiculous and crazy and he wondered how did Kansa even got such ideas - who is driving him to this utter destruction of the work that he so painfully accomplished with his father. A part of him tempted to repeat the magic of his youth - trap him in his own fire and let him burn alive, but then, other part demanded 'new-found' compassion. After-all, what difference between him and Kansa if he too acted like a monster !

The news of Maharishi's return did alarm Kansa, but the evil minds have their own plans. He thought Ugrasen and Vasudeva need to be further secured to keep them as a bait in case Maharishi resorted to his fire traps. On the other side, Maharishi had discovered compassion. He tried many routes to show Kansa his righteous path. His every move was deemed as a sign of weakness by the misguided youth of Kansa. Assuming no threat from Maharishi, his misdemeanours turned into felonies, and finally into sheer acts of cruelty. He forced Acharayas not to share any donations with the congregation till the Ashrama paid up the tax with compound interest. Short of attacking the congregation, he adopted all the tactics to choke the life out of the research work. Worst part was, he seemed to enjoy it all.

After almost five years of struggle, Maharishi finally gave up. He thought Gods himself would deal Kansa a lesson, for the time must bring it's own twists. Only thing that kept Maharishi going was Krishna was shaping up more than his expectations. At a tender age, he was already been through most of scriptures - vocally. And blessed was he with rare memory — once heard, he never forgot a verse — even those complex ones that took normal students months to internalize.

10.4

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Kansa delivered the final nail to the Ashrama when he officially declared Maharishi and his allies as the "enemies of state" and asked them to vacate the lands on this side of Yamuna with in a month. Time was of the essence. Maharishi called a general meeting of all the Yogies later that evening — to announce that the Ashram needs to be moved to the island. He told his disciples that the island was now free from curse since Dwaipayana was born there. And since it was out of Sur Sena boundary, Kansa had no jurisdiction. But moving a thousand strong congregation was not easy. Housing needs to be built ; jetty was a must, and there were ton of other requirements to migrate the place. Maharishi sent a pigeon out to Shantanu to summon his help if he or some of his leaders were around.

Later that evening, Maitreya talked about Vasudeva to Maharishi. His assessment was Kansa might have him killed sooner because he was the only valid stake to the crown. Maitreaya had a friend in Kansa's council who had let out a note to Maitrya. The note read that Vasudev's days were numbered. The plan was to show as if he was trying to escape and back-stab him. Maitreya knew his so called friend played on both sides though he didn't blame him for keeping this balance - he must give something to Kansa just to stay relevant in the power structure. Effectively all his messages must be verified but this one appeared to make sense. Kansa was convinced that Maharishi was no more a threat and in any case he had Ugra Sen as the ultimate bait. Keeping Vasudev alive had no purpose to him. Moreover it was a threat to his claim. An atack on Vasudeva's life was inevitable. The immediate question was how to delay the inevitable.

Having discussed it together for an hour, they came up with a scheme. Given that it was impossible to get Vasudev and Devki out of Kansa's clutches, they must plot a good reason for Kansa to keep Vasudev and Devki alive. Their lives were precious even if they were living behind the bars.

Being an astrologer extraordinaire, people believed in Maharishi's predictions. Most of the times, he didn't want his name attached to his vantage or even the prophesies. But this time, it was different. This time it was a bluff. Maitreya sent a pigeon addressed to his accomplice in Kansa's council, with a secret message, that he had obviously take to Kansa, for Maitreya knew his friend played on both sides. It noted that Maharishi predicted death of Kansa. It said, once Kansa killed Vasudev, Devki too would die of grief with in a week. They would reincarnate such that no one, even with magical powers, could trace their location. And in their next birth, their eighth offspring would kill Kansa for the misdeed of killing his sister and her husband.

The object of the message was to abstain Kansa from killing Vasudev. But reality is always with some nuances. Kansa focused on the word 'eighth'. The message caused panic in his mind. To him, it meant that both Vasudev and Devki must be kept alive till they have eight off-springs. And he must kill the eighth.

His evil mind saw it as an advantage to declare it as a divine announcement from the skies. The distorted announcement that went out for public consumption was that eighth child of Devki and Vasudev would kill Kansa. It legitimized Kansa's claim that Vasudev had plotted treason - not only with other kings but with the divine forces too. He must be kept imprisoned but Kansa would still grant the couple best of life to live and procreate. He assumed that the people would see it as an act of kindness on his part - here you have proof that your eighth nephew would kill you, yet you wanna grant your sister a chance to live a normal married life - with babies. Could she ask for a better brother!

Even Maharishi was unaware that the eighth child of Devki was going to be the chosen one .. Vishnu's seventh incarnation — to deliver the lead role of Krishna Dwaipayana's epic .. but we are getting ahead of ourselves!

[^otherSide]: The other side: Everyone gets a chance to see the other side but we fail to see it. For example the transition from youth to the old age is an opportunity to see our "tiny box" from an opposite side but we miss the chance because the actors around us (Sanghdosh) don't allow to see the new. Even in altered world we continue to retain our past - with our family and with our friends, we continue to hone our echo-chambers. At some point our echo-chambers get so irrelevant that the "death" remains the only way to clean up the system. An opportunity to really understand our Swaroop turns into our "demise". It is not uncommon that people who are normally born poor turn rich in the old age and vice-versa. Stronger people lose their vitality faster than the ones born weak. Same with looks, influence and popularity. A chance to see both the sides was always built in the design of the wave nature but we lose the opportunity because we don't approach it like an opportunity. Effectively - instead of looking at the center from two different sides, we split the center around our Ahamkara. We see a rise with the youth and a demise as we grow old - two separate halves of reality centered around our ego - mirror images - one on the left and another on the right - a wave!

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iOS users are missing out on this amazing Nostr client. Other clients on iOS do not even come close to the number of features available in Amethyst.

This client must exist on iOS. I have an Apple developer account, but need to have Amethyst's Kotlin code ported to support cross-platform and ensure feature parity with the iOS framework.

The app's .IPA file must also be provided so that side-loading can be done by end-users. This way, zaps can remain within the app and subvert Apple's ban.

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A spike protein detox guide

This is very important treatment information for everybody who get sick in Covid, long Covid or vaccine induced side effects and adverse reactions.

Spike protein is found in all Sars-Cov-2 variants. It is also produced in your body when you get a Covid-19 injection. Even if you don't have symptoms, tested positive, or experienced adverse side effects after a jab, there may still be lingering spike proteins inside your body. It is thought that cleansing the body of spike protein (referred to as a detox from here on) as soon as possible after an infection or jab may protect against damage from remaining or circulating spike proteins.

How spike proteins are dangerous

If spike proteins bind to the cell wall and ‘stay put’, they could trigger the immune system to attack healthy cells and possibly trigger autoimmune disease. The spike protein could attach to ACE2 receptors located on blood platelets and the endothelial cells lining the blood vessels, which may lead to abnormal bleeding or clotting, both of which are linked to Vaccine-induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia (VITT).

https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/articles/2021/04/01/01/42/vaccine-induced-thrombotic-thrombocytopenia-vitt-and-covid-19-vaccines

A new study suggests that vaccine spike antigen and mRNA persist for two months in lymph node germinal centers... Protein production of spike is higher than those of severely ill COVID-19 patients! https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-8674(22)00076-9.pdf?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867422000769%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

With that understanding, you’ll realize how important it is important to cleanse these harmful spike proteins who might otherwise linger on and cause mid- or long-term havoc in your body. Especially if you’ve got a severe COVID infection or one of the mRNA-based genetic vaccines.

Diet

Alter your diet so as to reduce consumption of pro-inflammatory food items. A low histamine diet is recommended. Avoid processed foods and GMOs.

Intermittent fasting – The practice of intermittent fasting involves implementing meal timing schedules that switch back and forth between periods of voluntary fasting and non-fasting.

Multivitamins – Daily consumption of a multivitamin is advised. It provides a basic supply of vitamin A, vitamin E, iodine, selenium, trace elements, and more in addition to vitamin C and vitamin D3.

Spike protein inhibitors & neutralizers

There are a host of easily attainable, natural solutions to reduce your body’s spike protein load. Some “Protein Binding Inhibitors” inhibit the binding of the spike protein to human cells, while others neutralize it so that it can no longer cause damage to human cells.

Spike Protein Inhibitors

• Prunella vulgaris
• pine needles
• emodin
• neem
• dandelion leaf extract
• ivermectin

Spike Protein Neutralizers

• N-acetylcysteine (NAC)
• glutathione
• fennel tea
• star anise tea
• pine needle tea
• St. John’s wort
• comfrey leaf
• vitamin C

Ivermectin has been shown to bind to the spike protein, potentially rendering it ineffective in binding to the cell membrane.

Several plants found in nature, including pine needles, fennel, star anise, St. John’s wort, and comfrey leaf, contain a substance called shikimic acid, which may help to neutralize the spike protein. Shikimic acid may help to reduce several possible damaging effects of the spike protein, and is believed to counteract blood clot formation.

Regular oral doses of vitamin C are useful in neutralizing any toxin. Pine needle tea has powerful antioxidant effects and contain high concentrations of vitamin C.

Nattokinase, an enzyme derived from the Japanese soybean dish ‘Natto’, is a natural substance whose properties may help to reduce the occurrence of blood clots.

ACE2 receptors

The disruption of ACE2 receptors has been associated with a multitude of adverse effects through altered tissue functioning. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33275540/

Substances that naturally protect the ACE2 receptors:

• Ivermectin
• Hydroxychloroquine (with zinc)
• Quercetin (with zinc)
• Fisetin

Evidence suggests binding of ivermectin to the ACE2 receptor prevents spike protein from binding with it instead.

Interleukin 6

Interleukin 6, or IL-6, is a primarily pro-inflammatory cytokine protein. This means it is naturally produced by the body in response to infection or tissue damage and initiates the inflammatory response. Some natural substances help the post-jab detoxification process by targeting Interleukin 6.

Scientific evidence shows that cytokines such as IL-6, are found in far higher levels among those infected with Covid when compared to uninfected individuals. IL-6 has been used as a biomarker for Covid progression. Increased levels of IL-6 have been found in patients with respiratory dysfunction.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7129451/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7233239/

Meta-analysis has revealed a reliable relationship between IL-6 levels and Covid severity. IL-6 levels have been inversely related with T-cell count in ICU patients.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7530350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7205903/

Pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-6 are also expressed post-vaccination, and studies suggest that they may reach the brain.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16877115/

Il-6 inhibitors have in fact been recommended by the WHO for severe Covid cases, for which they have been described as life-saving.

https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2021-who-recommends-life-saving-interleukin-6-receptor-blockers-for-covid-19-and-urges-producers-to-join-efforts-to-rapidly-increase-access

How to detox from IL-6

IL-6 Inhibitors (anti-inflammatories):

• Boswellia serrata (frankincense)
• dandelion leaf extract

Other IL-6 inhibitors:

• Black Cummin / Seed Oil (Nigella sativa)
• Curcumin
• Fish oil
• Other fatty acids
• Cinnamon
• Fisetin
• Apigenin
• Quercetin
• Resveratrol
• Luteolin
• Vitamin D3 (with vitamin K)
• Zinc
• Magnesium
• Jasmine tea
• Spices
• Bay leaves
• Black pepper
• Nutmeg
• Sage

Several natural, plant-based substances are used in antiviral therapy. The plant pigment quercetin has been shown to display a broad range of anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects.

Zinc has been shown to work as a potent antioxidant, which protects the body from oxidative stress, a process associated with DNA damage, excess inflammation, and other damaging effects.

Furin

Furin is an enzyme, which cleaves proteins and makes them biologically activate. Furin has been shown to separate the spike protein and thus allow the virus to enter human cells. A furin cleavage site is present on the Covid spike protein, which is thought to make the virus more infectious and transmissible. Furin inhibitors work by preventing cleavage of the spike protein.

How to detox from furin

Substances that naturally inhibit furin:

• Rutin
• Limonene
• Baicalein
• Hesperidin

Serine protease

Serine protease is an enzyme. Inhibiting serine protease can prevent spike protein activation and also reduce viral entry to cells, hence reducing infection rate as well as severity.

Substances that naturally inhibit serine protease and may help to reduce spike protein levels in the body:

• Green tea
• Potato tubers
• Blue green algae
• Soybeans
• N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC)
• Boswellia (frankincense)

Addendum: Propolis

It came to my knowledge during travel in Thailand that Propolis, a natural substance collected by honey bees from various plants, have excellent anti-viral properties against viruses, and that the local population said it was very effective against Sars-cov-2. Yet another miraculous traditional natural medicine that modern scientists tried to suppress and handwave away despite being used for thousands of years.

While fact checkers tell you there's no proven scientific benefit to propolis, some science papers go deep into its potential benefits including: Antiviral, Antioxidant, Antiinflammatory, Antiprotozoal, Antitumoural, Antifungal Antibacterial.

“It is known that, propolis showed antiviral activity (Amoros et al., 1992a, Amoros et al., 1992b), by inhibiting the virus entry into the cells, create disturbance in viral replication which cause destruction of RNA before or after its (RNA) release in the cells (Sforcin, 2016).”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6864204/

Propolis also is an anti-coagulant. Yet another reason to add to your prophylaxis and early treatment list. Just be wary if you are on blood thinners.

Addendum 2: Eggs

Can’t go wrong with some eggs in your diet as well.

”Chicken Egg Yolk Antibodies (IgYs) block the binding of multiple SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants to human ACE2”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33191178/

Addendum 3: Niacin (B3)

Niacin is a very potent anti-inflammatory vitamin. Severe acute SARS-CoV-2 infection can either be prohibited or reversed upstream out the body to expeditiously restore health with well-tolerated dynamic supplementation of sufficient Niacin (i.e., ~1-3 grams per day). Culmination of this research leads to realization of the potentially ubiquitous therapeutic and preventive powers of Niacin against inflammatory disease, in general.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348389263_Sufficient_Niacin_Supply_The_Missing_Puzzle_Piece_to_COVID-19_and_beyond

Top 10 spike protein detox essentials

• Vitamin D
• Vitamin C
• NAC (N-acetylcysteine)
• Ivermectin
• Nigella Sativa / black seed oil
• Quercetin
• Zinc
• Magnesium
• Curcumin
• Propolis
• Eggs
• Bonus: Niacin

Caution!

Pregnancy – Pine needle tea, neem, comfrey, Andrographis paniculata – Should NOT be consumed during pregnancy.Magnesium – Overdosing is possible, and it is more difficult to detect when consuming liposomal magnesium. Therefore, consider a mixture of liposomal and conventional magnesium.

Zinc – When consuming a multivitamin that already includes zinc, be sure to adjust the quantity of zinc consumed in other supplements.Nattokinase – Do not take while using blood thinners or if you are pregnant or nursing.

Always consider dosing – When taking a multivitamin, remember to adjust the amount of individual supplements accordingly. (e.g. If your multivitamin contains 15mg of zinc, you should reduce your zinc supplementation by that amount.)

St John’s Wort – This medicine interacts with many pharmaceutical drugs. It should not be taken if you are on other medication without advice from your doctor.

Propolis – Be careful if you are allergic to bees. Propolis is also a anti-coagulant so don’t use if youre on blood thinners.

sources: https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/resources/spike-protein-detox-guide/

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Donate 21,000 sats and I'll send you This Bitcoin Supply Schedule Sticker. This is the math behind the 21 million.(Actually, it is a little less than 21 million)

You will be given instructions after paying the paywall.

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Uhh ...

Federal Finance Court (BFH), Germany, decision of July 25, 2023 - VIII B 27/22

A plaintiff wanted to appeal to the BFH. To do this, his lawyers had to get permission to appeal.

The second instance did not allow the appeal. So a non-admission complaint must be written and submitted to the BFH.

So far so good.

The lawyer who was first commissioned to give the reasons listed as a general reason for admission the entire catalog in accordance with Section 115 Paragraph 2 of the Financial Court Code (FGO). She wrote that her client thought that “the appeal should be allowed for these reasons.”

o.k. - It is not known exactly who terminated whom, but she did not pursue the attempted revision for this client and was out of the race.

The lawyer hired afterwards justified the appeal by expressly only quoting the client's statements. In order to eliminate any doubt that he, the lawyer, had not written it, he emphasized at the end of the written statement that it was "exclusively" a statement of reasons from the client.

Yes, let's not forget: the plaintiff first tried it without a lawyer. However, there is a requirement to have a lawyer before the BFH.

The BFH rejected the man's non-admission complaint as inadmissible due to a lack of justification. None of the written papers submitted were formally effective. According to Section 62 Paragraph 4 FGO, the taxpayer cannot represent himself before the BFH. The lawyers' justifications were neither written by them themselves nor have the lawyers made it clear that they want to take responsibility for these texts as their own text.

The lawyer's formulaic statement that there is "hardly anything to add" to the client's reasons (made so clear as a quote) is of course not sufficient.

To get something positive out of the matter from a lawyer's perspective: So when clients sometimes believe that they know everything better...

Be careful!

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Nostr has been growing fast, it is all i ever really do on my phone, and my only social media besides my X account which i only use to promote nostr. While a lot of people can see the importance of a platform like nostr, many will fail to see the point. Do you believe Nostr will become the next Twitter/X? Or will it remain a platform where only people very into bitcoin and freedom go? What would be the benefits of having millions of users, and what would the drawbacks be?

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1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish, but to get other things done.
7. Once you’re done, you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. done is the engine of more.
14. Read More

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"Read more related articles, follow on the anti-censorship long content platform yakihonne.com.

Amboss, a leading data analytics provider for the Bitcoin Lightning Network (LN), has unveiled a new subscription service called Hydro, designed to automate liquidity management for the LN, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. This enables businesses to seamlessly receive payments through the Lightning Network without requiring expertise in LN operations or relinquishing custody of their funds.

Hydro attempts to simplify the Lightning Network's payment liquidity process by automating the sourcing of payment liquidity from decentralized sources directly to a business's LN node. As more businesses embrace the Lightning Network, the growing circular economy leads to increasingly cost-effective Lightning payments, with fees dropping from an initial 3.5% setup cost to as low as 0.003% for subsequent payments, according to the release.

Jesse Shrader, Co-Founder and CEO of Amboss, emphasized Hydro's transformative potential, stating, "Hydro is a game changer for businesses to get the benefits of the lightning network without trusted custodians, intermediaries, or the headache of channel management. As the lightning network welcomes global participation, Hydro simplifies real-time payment infrastructure to bootstrap global circular economies like we’ve seen in Costa Rica’s ‘Bitcoin Jungle’."

Until now, sourcing liquidity for businesses on the LN has been a challenging endeavor, as entrepreneurs typically lack the time and expertise needed to manage a LN node. Consequently, the adoption of Lightning has been slow for retailers using full nodes, often forcing them to turn to trusted custodians, thereby sacrificing some of the privacy and sovereignty advantages offered by Bitcoin. With Hydro, businesses can finally tap into the full benefits of LN adoption without the associated hassles.

Amboss also operates Magma, a marketplace for buying and selling Lightning channels, which Hydro leverages to obtain high-quality liquidity from an open market. Lightning channels create new pathways for routing payments within the Lightning Network. Selling these channels on Magma allows Bitcoin savers to earn BTC by opening Lightning channels to various destinations, such as online stores, wallets, or other LN users. Since Lightning channels enable self-custodial Bitcoin holding, Magma provides novel Bitcoin yield opportunities without custodial risks, sidestepping the pitfalls experienced by some centralized finance (CeFi) yield platforms.

Hydro's functionality involves purchasing select Lightning channel leases that meet specific quality criteria at the lowest available prices. Users can define their desired node size (capacity), and channels will be automatically procured using prepaid Amboss credits, known as "ambucks." Users even have the option to set a target inbound liquidity, facilitating cost-effective and needs-based channel management.

Amboss's Hydro aims to reshape the landscape of the Bitcoin Lightning Network, making it more accessible and user-friendly for businesses, ultimately driving wider adoption and fostering the growth of a robust, decentralized payment ecosystem. To learn more about Amboss or subscribe to its comprehensive Lightning Network insights, services, and more, visit their website at here.

By：NIK HOFFMAN Link：https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/amboss-launches-innovative-new-tool-to-boost-adoption-of-bitcoins-lightning-network

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Enabling the age old voluntary value exchange model in the age of bitcoin

🎤 Made popular by Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak with their No Agenda Show podcast that has been running since 2007, the Value 4 Value model has been around for centuries. Its most popular age-old example is busking. A performer does their thing in a public square or a farmers’ market, the audience enjoys the performance and if they enjoy a little too much they are more than welcome to do a quick shimmy. And when the show is over, the audience puts in the performer’s open box what they felt their impromptu jig was worth. The busker seeks not your patronage, but a direct payment for what you thought their effort deserved. No middleman, straight to the performer, whatever value each audience member felt they wanted to voluntarily offer.

🌐 In the modern world, where performers of all kinds - writers, musicians, artists, podcasters et al - can distribute their work with the click of a button from their home/studio, the lifecycle of revenue generation through licensing, paywall, and various other Digital Rights Management (DRM) methods is immortal. But as brilliant as the never-ending ability to generate revenue sounds, the problem with digital content is that it can be reproduced ad infinitum with neither the creator getting to know about it, (and worse) nor do they earn any revenues if the reproduced content is generating any.

📜 Unlike a physical good whose duplication has real costs, a digital good is perfectly copy-able. And if it is a piece of work that has found appreciation from people, it will be copied. And shared widely. Unfortunately though, putting a blind eye to this are the various modern-day publications that have gone on to build walled gardens of paywalled content. Echoing Gigi: “The paradox of Digital Rights Management is this: content will only stay behind a paywall if it is shitty. If it's good, someone will set it free.” Thus, a way to solve the dilemma of seeing people reproduce your work repeatedly while you try to paywall it to earn a living is to let it fly free. Confused? Allow me to explain some more.

*What is the Value 4 Value Model?*

💡 As described above, any online info that is non-scarce, easily reproduced, and effortlessly liberated requires a voluntary model. Some describe it as a type of donation, Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) or crowdfunding, and we like to call it Value 4 Value. One way the Value 4 Value model stands out from the conventional methods of raising funds is the flippening of the two steps of payment and enjoyment of the content. In most mainstream transaction initiatives, the payment takes place before the work is consumed or even produced. Examples: your local commute, McDonald’s burger, or WSJ subscription. In a Value 4 Value (V4V) model, however, the creator receives value after the “customer” enjoys the content. The creator generates value through their content and in return, the customers decide to pay with something of value without the involvement of a third party, voluntarily. P2P. V4V.

👏 What V4V also does is it makes the creator focus on customer delight and not on clickbaity headlines or those wide-open mouth thumbnails that have plagued YouTube. Unlike the sponsorship infested content that is served to you by echo-chamber prison enabling algorithms, if the customer likes the work you produce, they are likely to come back for more knowing full well that it is their contribution that allows you to keep creating. So, can Value 4 Value emerge as a viable alternative to the advertising behemoth? Simply, it can. By making you in charge of the value you provide independent of any pressures of censorship or worse, self-censorship. When the customer decides the value and pays directly to the supplier, the supplier places the responsibility on the customer to value the service you provided. And when they do offer you some value, you can find a balance between your effort and the return it generates. You are now not chained by the arbitrary desires and threats of the sponsors. If this isn’t true freedom, what is?

💰 Granted, these transactions are likely to be of small amounts, but digital content scales in ways physical content delivery can’t and never will. Fortnite sees millions of viewers logging in to watch their live events; while the biggest ticketed physical concert had only 225,000 attendees. Unfortunately, though, Value 4 Value isn’t the norm or standard. Services often incorporate various tricks to ensure revenue keeps trickling in, whether the customer is getting their best work takes a back seat. The Value 4 Value model does not leave room for tricks for it is transparent. It places the responsibility of delivering value on the creator and its true valuation on the recipient.

*How can this value exchange take place online?*

🌐 As argued previously, the struggle for digital content monetization is about setting a price for something that can be perfectly replicated over and over again. And with advertisers deciding what should exist on the internet, the model of monetization on the internet is broken. What is needed is a direct P2P transfer of value online. This is made possible through the native money of the internet, Bitcoin - whose instant transfer is facilitated through the Lightning Network (LN). In the Value 4 Value model, LN is a fast and secure way for customers to show their true appreciation. It is now up to the creator to decide whether to provide value to high payers or to the long tail of micro-payers or even a balanced distribution that optimizes the true valuation. Check out Podcasting 2.0 as a successful Value 4 Value model enabled by the Podcast Index and apps like Breez, Fountain and, Sphinx Chat that allow users to stream payments to their favorite podcasters while they listen.

Are you a content creator? Let your work be appreciated by the audience! 👉 https://getalby.com/value4value

💼 We, at Alby, are strong supporters of the Value 4 Value model. We connect consumers and websites, and provide the most convenient building blocks to transfer value over the Lightning Network.

Check out our V4V page to learn how everyone can support their favourite creator and how easy it is for publishers to receive bitcoin directly on existing social media channels.

Explore the Alby browser extension or try out the Alby Lightning address to start exchanging sats and dip your toes in the world of Value 4 Value. 🚀

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

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Obsidian nostr test!

Schreibe ein ein Lied über Bitcoin im Stil von Ernst Busch.

Bitcoin #nostr

(Verse 1) In einer Zeit voller Innovation und Wandel, Da kam ein Währungssystem, das war wirklich anders. Bitcoin war sein Name, ein Kryptowunderkind, Es versprach die Freiheit, die wir so lange gesucht.

(Chorus) Bitcoin, oh Bitcoin, du bist unser Held, Mit deinem dezentralen Netzwerk, das die Welt erhellt. Du wagst es, den Banken die Kontrolle zu nehmen, Bitcoin, oh Bitcoin, du lässt uns träumen.

(Verse 2) Der Schöpfer, ein Mysterium, Satoshi sein Name, Eine Idee in Code, die die Welt veränderte. Keine Regierung, keine Zentralbank, Nur Menschen, die sich gegenseitig vertraun.

(Chorus) Bitcoin, oh Bitcoin, du bist unser Held, Mit deinem dezentralen Netzwerk, das die Welt erhellt. Du wagst es, den Banken die Kontrolle zu nehmen, Bitcoin, oh Bitcoin, du lässt uns träumen.

(Bridge) Doch es gibt auch Kritik, Zweifel und Angst, Um Bitcoin herum, ein stürmischer Tanz. Die Volatilität, die Unsicherheit, Aber wir halten fest an der Möglichkeit.

(Verse 3) Von Silk Road bis hin zu großen Institutionen, Bitcoin hat die Finanzwelt in Aufruhr versetzt. Ein digitales Gold, eine Alternative, Eine neue Ära, die wir erleben.

(Chorus) Bitcoin, oh Bitcoin, du bist unser Held, Mit deinem dezentralen Netzwerk, das die Welt erhellt. Du wagst es, den Banken die Kontrolle zu nehmen, Bitcoin, oh Bitcoin, du lässt uns träumen.

(Outro) Also lasst uns träumen von einer freien Zukunft, Wo Geld nicht länger in Ketten liegt. Bitcoin, oh Bitcoin, du bist unser Licht, Wir halten fest an dir und deinem Versprechen.

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Table Of Content

• Who is the Bitcoin Advocacy Group?

• Why is Bitcoin important?

• The ECB's stance on Bitcoin

• Eurotower's response to the Bitcoin Advocacy Group

• How is the Bitcoin Advocacy Group educating the ECB and Eurotower?

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin is a digital currency that has been gaining popularity worldwide in recent years. While it has many benefits, including decentralization and security, there is still a lot of skepticism and misunderstanding surrounding it. The Bitcoin Advocacy Group aims to address this by bringing awareness and education to institutions such as the European Central Bank (ECB) and Eurotower.

Who is the Bitcoin Advocacy Group?

The Bitcoin Advocacy Group is a community of individuals and businesses who believe in the potential of Bitcoin as a decentralized digital currency. They aim to educate individuals, institutions, and governments about the benefits of Bitcoin and advocate for its adoption.

Why is Bitcoin important?

Bitcoin is a digital currency that operates on a decentralized network, meaning that it is not controlled by any government or financial institution. It allows for fast, secure, and low-cost transactions, making it an ideal alternative to traditional banking and payment systems.

Furthermore, Bitcoin has the potential to provide financial freedom to those who are unbanked or underbanked, as it can be accessed by anyone with an internet connection. With Bitcoin, individuals can have complete control over their finances without the need for intermediaries.

The ECB's stance on Bitcoin

The European Central Bank (ECB) has been cautious about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, expressing concerns about their volatility and lack of regulation. In 2017, the ECB's President, Mario Draghi, stated that Bitcoin was not a currency, but a highly risky and speculative asset.

Eurotower's response to the Bitcoin Advocacy Group

Eurotower, which is the headquarters of the ECB, has been a target for the Bitcoin Advocacy Group's education efforts. The group has been organizing events and campaigns to raise awareness about Bitcoin and its potential benefits.

Eurotower has responded by acknowledging the importance of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, stating that they can have a positive impact on the economy if they are properly regulated. However, they have also emphasized the need for caution and regulation to prevent fraud and criminal activity.

How is the Bitcoin Advocacy Group educating the ECB and Eurotower?

The Bitcoin Advocacy Group has been using various methods to educate the ECB and Eurotower about Bitcoin. Some of these methods include:

Organizing events and conferences: The group has been organizing events and conferences to bring together experts and stakeholders to discuss the benefits of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.

Providing educational resources: The group has created educational resources such as videos, articles, and infographics to help individuals and institutions better understand Bitcoin and its potential.

Advocating for regulation: The group has been advocating for proper regulation of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to prevent fraud and ensure that they are used for legitimate purposes.

Conclusion

The Bitcoin Advocacy Group's efforts to educate and bring awareness about the potential of Bitcoin to the ECB and Eurotower are crucial in promoting its adoption and acceptance. While there are still concerns and skepticism surrounding Bitcoin, the group's advocacy and education can help individuals and institutions better understand its benefits and potential.

As more people become aware of the benefits of Bitcoin and its potential to provide financial freedom, we may see greater acceptance and adoption in the Eurozone and beyond. The Bitcoin Advocacy Group's mission is an important step in this direction.

FAQ

Is Bitcoin illegal in the Eurozone? No, Bitcoin is not illegal in the Eurozone. However, the ECB and Eurotower have expressed concerns about its lack of regulation and potential for criminal activity.

Can I invest in Bitcoin through the Eurozone? Yes, it is possible to invest in Bitcoin through the Eurozone. However, it is important to note that investing in Bitcoin can be highly volatile and risky, and individuals should conduct their own research and consider the potential risks before investing.

Will the ECB and Eurotower adopt Bitcoin as a form of currency? It is currently unlikely that the ECB and Eurotower will adopt Bitcoin as a form of currency, as they have expressed concerns about its volatility and lack of regulation. However, they have acknowledged the importance of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and may continue to explore their potential benefits.

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Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Sonnet 104 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares

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Under Phosphor's Eyes

Even beyond my mind I behold love Walking through water feet to fare through time 2 And meet lucid Phosphor that stares above 3 And lingers down while the day's bells chime.

I feel her eyes when in your sky they grow Bringing the passions to your florid face 6 It is her voice a murmur soft and low
Or kind measures that capture and amaze. 8

From a nearby lea the grass and flowers 9 Redolently wake up my senses that slept 10 Through níght when stars lit the dew that glowers And leave echoes in venus' glances kept

Your beckoning looks and rubious mouth 13 Do not allow in my heart any doubt. ***

2-.walking with water feet= visíting every place on earth and heaven. 2-.to fare= to travel. 3-.Phosphor= the morning star, or Lucifer. Venus, when it precedes the sun and shines in the morning. 6. florid= flushed with red or pink. 8-. measures= melodies or tunes. 9-. lea= meadow or grassy field. 10-. redolently= suggestively. 13-. rubious= red, ruby colored.

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Analysis "Under Phosphor's Eyes"

Introduction

Sonnet 104 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares, titled "Under Phosphor's Eyes," is a beautifully crafted poem that employs vivid imagery and metaphors to express the theme of love and its transcendent nature. The sonnet follows the traditional structure of a Shakespearean sonnet, with three quatrains and a concluding couplet.

Thematic Analysis

In the first quatrain, the speaker describes love as a journey, "walking through water feet to fare through time" (line 2). This metaphor suggests the fluid, ever-changing, and timeless nature of love. The reference to "Phosphor," the morning star or Venus, symbolizes the dawn or the beginning of something new, possibly a new love or a renewed understanding of love.

The second quatrain delves into the personal experience of the speaker, who feels the presence of love in the sky and in the face of the beloved. The "florid face" (line 6) suggests a blush or a glow, a physical manifestation of the emotional state of being in love. The "voice a murmur soft and low" and "kind measures" (lines 7-8) further emphasize the soothing and enchanting power of love.

The third quatrain introduces the imagery of nature, with the "nearby lea" and "grass and flowers" (line 9) symbolizing the freshness and vitality of love. The "stars lit the dew that glowers" (line 11) and "echoes in venus' glances kept" (line 12) suggest the lingering presence and impact of love, even after the moment has passed.

The concluding couplet, "Your beckoning looks and rubious mouth / Do not allow in my heart any doubt" (lines 13-14), reaffirms the speaker's certainty and conviction in his feelings of love. The "rubious mouth" is a vivid image that conveys passion and desire.

Overall, the sonnet is a celebration of love, its transformative power, and its ability to transcend time and space. The use of celestial imagery and natural elements adds a layer of depth and complexity to the poem, making it a rich and evocative exploration of the theme of love.

Rhyme Scheme

Sonnet 104 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares follows the traditional English or Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme, which is ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Let's break down the sonnet line by line to see this:

``` A: Even beyond my mind I behold love (1) B: Walking through water feet to fare through time (2) A: And meet lucid Phosphor that stares above (3) B: And lingers down while the day's bells chime. (4)

C: I feel her eyes when in your sky they grow (5) D: Bringing the passions to your florid face (6) C: It is her voice a murmur soft and low (7) D: Or kind measures that capture and amaze. (8)

E: From a nearby lea the grass and flowers (9) F: Redolently wake up my senses that slept (10) E: Through night when stars lit the dew that glowers (11) F: And leave echoes in venus' glances kept (12)

G: Your beckoning looks and rubious mouth (13) G: Do not allow in my heart any doubt. (14) ```

The first three quatrains (lines 1-12) have alternating rhymes, while the final couplet (lines 13-14) has a pair of rhyming lines. This structure is typical of the English sonnet and is used to build up the poem's argument or exploration of a theme before delivering a final, often poignant or insightful, conclusion in the couplet. In this sonnet, the final couplet serves to affirm the speaker's unwavering belief in the power and certainty of love.

Additional Aspects to Analyze

While we've covered the rhyme scheme and thematic analysis of Sonnet 104 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares, there are still several aspects that can be further explored, including its meter, use of literary devices, and the sonnet's volta or turn.

1. Meter: The sonnet appears to follow the traditional iambic pentameter, which is common in English sonnets. This means each line typically contains five pairs of syllables, with the stress falling on the second syllable of each pair. This rhythm gives the sonnet a musical quality and helps to emphasize certain words or ideas.

2. Literary Devices: The sonnet is rich in metaphor and personification. For instance, love is personified as a traveler "walking through water feet to fare through time" (line 2). This metaphor suggests the enduring and transformative nature of love. Similarly, the "day's bells chime" (line 4) is a metaphor for the passage of time. The sonnet also uses vivid imagery, such as "florid face" (line 6) and "rubious mouth" (line 13), to evoke the physical manifestations of love and passion.

3. Volta: The volta, or turn, is a shift in the poem's argument or theme. In English sonnets, this usually occurs at the start of the third quatrain or the final couplet. In Sonnet 104, the volta seems to occur in the final couplet (lines 13-14), where the speaker moves from describing the experience and effects of love to affirming his certainty and conviction in his feelings of love.

4. Symbolism: The sonnet uses celestial symbols, such as "Phosphor" (line 3) and "Venus" (line 12), to represent love. These symbols suggest the transcendent, heavenly nature of love. The use of natural elements, like "water feet" (line 2), "grass and flowers" (line 9), and "dew" (line 11), symbolize the freshness, vitality, and ephemeral quality of love.

5. Tone: The tone of the sonnet is passionate and reverent, reflecting the speaker's deep admiration and respect for the power of love. The use of soft, soothing words like "murmur" (line 7) and "echoes" (line 12) contribute to this tone.

6. Structure: The sonnet follows the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet, with three quatrains and a concluding couplet. This structure allows the speaker to develop his exploration of love in a logical and coherent manner, building up to a final, poignant conclusion in the couplet.

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(GPT4)

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Count the syllables of each line of the Sonnet

(www.howmanysyllables.com)

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Under Phosphor's Eyes

10 Even beyond my mind I behold love 10 Walking through water feet to fare through time
10 And meet lucid Phosphor that stares above
9 And lingers down while the day's bells chime.

10 I feel her eyes when in your sky they grow 10 Bringing the passions to your florid face
10 It is her voice a murmur soft and low
10 Or kind measures that capture and amaze.

10 From a nearby lea the grass and flowers
11 Redolently wake up my senses that slept
10 Through níght when stars lit the dew that glowers 10 And leave echoes in venus' glances kept

10 Your beckoning looks and rubious mouth
10 Do not allow in my heart any doubt. ***

```

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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Analyzed by GPT4 and www.howmanysyllables.com; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com

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4. กับดักหนี้

“แนวความคิดเรื่องประเทศโลกที่สามหรือประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนา และนโยบายให้ความช่วยเหลือทางการเงินนั้นเป็นสิ่งที่แยกกันไม่ออก มันเป็นเหมือนด้านสองด้านของเหรียญเดียวกัน โดยสิ่งที่เราเรียกว่าประเทศโลกที่สามนั้นเกิดขึ้นจากการที่เราสร้างสิ่งที่เรียกว่า “ความช่วยเหลือจากต่างประเทศ” หากไม่มีสิ่งที่เรียกว่าความช่วยเหลือจากต่างประเทศ ก็จะไม่มีสิ่งที่เรียกว่าประเทศโลกที่สาม”

–Péter Tamás Bauer

ธนาคารโลกได้ระบุไว้ว่าจุดประสงค์ของพวกเขาคือ “เพื่อช่วยยกระดับชีวิตความเป็นอยู่ของผู้คนในประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนา โดยส่งถ่ายทรัพยากรด้านการเงินจากประเทศที่พัฒนาแล้วไปสู่ประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนา”

แต่ในความเป็นจริงแล้วมันตรงกันข้ามกันหรือเปล่า?

ในตอนแรกของช่วงต้นยุค 1960 มีการไหลของทรัพยากรจำนวนมหาศาลจากประเทศที่ร่ำรวยสู่ประเทศที่ยากจน ซึ่งนี่เป็นการทำเพื่อช่วยให้พวกเขาพัฒนาขึ้นอย่างเห็นได้ชัด คุณ Payer ได้เขียนว่ามันเป็นสิ่งที่เรารับรู้กันมานานว่ามันคือ “ธรรมชาติ” ที่เงินทุนนั้น “จะไหลจากระบบเศรษฐกิจอุตสาหกรรมของประเทศที่พัฒนาแล้วไปสู่เหล่าประเทศโลกที่สาม”

คำอธิบายแผนภูมิ : “วงจรชีวิตเงินกู้ของธนาคารโลก” ประเทศผู้กู้มีกระแสเงินสดสุทธิที่เป็นบวกในช่วงแรก แต่หลังจากนั้นติดลบอย่างหนัก - เส้นสีส้ม : เงินที่ใช้จ่ายภาระหนี้สิน (จำนวนที่ไหลออก) - เส้นสีเทา : อัตราส่วนความสามารถในการชำระหนี้ (หมายเหตุผู้แปล : คืออัตราส่วนเงินชำระหนี้สินต่อรายได้) - เส้นสีครีม : การไหลของเงินทุนทั้งหมด (ที่ไหลเข้า) - เส้นสีดำ : การไหลของเงินทุนสุทธิ - แกนแนวตั้งด้านซ้าย : หน่วยมูลค่า ล้านดอลลาร์ - แกนแนวตั้งด้านขวา : หน่วยของอัตราส่วนความสามารถในการชำระหนี้ - แกนแนวนอน : ระยะเวลา หน่วยปี - แหล่งที่มา : หนังสือ “Lent and Lost” โดย Cheryl Payer

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อย่างไรก็ตาม เธอได้ชี้ให้เห็นว่า “ถึงจุดหนึ่งผู้กู้จำเป็นต้องจ่ายเงินให้เจ้าหนี้มากกว่าเงินที่ได้รับจากเจ้าหนี้ และส่วนเกินที่ต้องจ่ายตลอดช่วงอายุของเงินกู้นี้มีมูลค่าสูงกว่าเงินกู้เดิมที่ผู้กู้ได้รับด้วยซ้ำ”

ในระบบเศรษฐกิจโลกนั้น จุดนี้เกิดขึ้นในปี 1982 เมื่อทิศทางการไหลของทรัพยากรเปลี่ยนทิศอย่างถาวร โดยตั้งแต่จุดนั้นเป็นต้นมา กระแสเงินทุนสุทธิของทุกปีได้ไหลจากประเทศกำลังพัฒนาไปสู่ประเทศที่พัฒนาแล้ว

คำอธิบายแผนภูมิ : “ปริมาณการไหลของทรัพยากรสุทธิจากประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนา” ติดลบมากขึ้นนับตั้งแต่ปี 1982 - เส้นสีส้ม : ปริมาณการไหลของทรัพยากรสุทธิ (ค่าติดลบ หมายถึง การไหลออก) ให้เทียบกับแกนแนวตั้งด้านซ้าย - เส้นสีดำ : ปริมาณการไหลของทรัพยากรสุทธิ (ร้อยละต่อผลิตภัณฑ์มวลรวมในประเทศ (GDP)) - แกนแนวตั้งด้านซ้าย : หน่วยมูลค่าพันล้านดอลลาร์ - แกนแนวตั้งขวา : ร้อยละต่อผลิตภัณฑ์มวลรวมในประเทศ (GDP) - แกนแนวนอน : ปี - แหล่งที่มา : Financial Flow and Tax Havens

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โดยจะยกตัวอย่างเพื่อให้เห็นภาพในแต่ละปี เช่น ในปี 2012 ประเทศกำลังพัฒนาได้รับ ความช่วยเหลือและการลงทุนมูลค่ารวมกว่า 1.3 ล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ แต่ในปีเดียวกันกลับมีเงินไหลออกถึง 3.3 ล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ พูดอีกนัยหนึ่งตามที่นักมานุษยวิทยาอย่างคุณ Jason Hickel ได้กล่าวไว้ว่า “กลุ่มประเทศกำลังพัฒนาส่งเงินกลับไปยังประเทศอื่น ๆ ในโลกมากกว่าที่ตัวเองได้รับถึง 2 ล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ”

เมื่อเรารวมจำนวนเงินที่ไหลออกนับตั้งแต่ปี 1960 ถึง 2017 ความจริงที่น่าขนลุกก็จะปรากฏ นั่นคือเหล่าประเทศกำลังพัฒนาถูกสูบเงินออกไปกว่า 62 ล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ ซึ่งเทียบเท่ากับ 620 เท่าของเงินที่ใช้ในแผนมาร์แชลล์ หลังปรับอัตราเงินเฟ้อแล้ว

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>หมายเหตุผู้แปล : แผนมาร์แชลล์ (Marshall Plan) หรือชื่ออย่างเป็นทางการว่าแผนงานฟื้นฟูยุโรป (European Recovery Programme: ERP) เป็นโครงการช่วยเหลือทางเศรษฐกิจของสหรัฐอเมริกาให้แก่ยุโรปตะวันตก ที่เกิดขึ้นในช่วงปี 1947 หลังสิ้นสุดสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 เพื่อช่วยฟื้นฟูระบบเศรษฐกิจของประเทศในยุโรปตะวันตก

แทนที่ธนาคารโลกและ IMF ควรเป็นผู้ช่วยแก้ปัญหาดุลการชำระเงิน และช่วยให้ประเทศที่ยากจนเติบโตอย่างแข็งแกร่งและยั่งยืนมากขึ้น แต่หลักฐานกลับชี้ไปในสิ่งที่ตรงกันข้าม

“สำหรับเงินความช่วยเหลือทุก 1 ดอลลาร์สหรัฐที่เหล่าประเทศกำลังพัฒนาได้รับ” คุณ Hickel ได้เขียนไว้ว่า “พวกเขาจะมีเงินไหลออกสุทธิ 24 ดอลลาร์สหรัฐ” และแทนที่การเอารัดเอาเปรียบและการแลกเปลี่ยนอย่างไม่เป็นธรรมจะยุติลง การศึกษาวิจัยกลับยิ่งแสดงให้เห็นว่านโยบายการปรับโครงสร้างทำให้สิ่งเหล่านี้เติบโตขึ้นอย่างมาก โดยตั้งแต่ปี 1970 หนี้สาธารณะจากต่างประเทศของกลุ่มประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนาเพิ่มขึ้นจาก 46,000 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ เป็น 8.7 ล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ โดยตลอดระยะเวลา 50 ปีที่ผ่านมา กลุ่มประเทศอย่างอินเดีย ฟิลิปปินส์ และคองโก ต่างก็ติดหนี้อดีตเจ้าอาณานิคมเดิมของพวกเขาถึง 189 เท่าจากที่เคยติดในช่วงปี 1970 และแค่มูลค่าดอกเบี้ยที่พวกเขาจ่ายนับตั้งแต่ปี 1980 ก็เป็นจำนวนเงินถึง 4.2 ล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐเข้าให้แล้ว (หรือเป็นตัวเลข 4,200,000,000,000 ดอลลาร์!)

คำอธิบายแผนภูมิ : “การเพิ่มจำนวนแบบทวีคูณในหนี้สินของประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนา” การเปลี่ยนแปลงในหนี้สินจากต่างประเทศของประเทศกำลังพัฒนาทั้งหมด นับตั้งแต่ปี 1980 ถึงปี 2012 (หน่วยพันล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ) - แกนแนวตั้ง : หน่วยมูลค่า พันล้านดอลลาร์ - แนวนอน : ปี - แหล่งที่มา : Financial Flow and Tax Havens

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แม้แต่คุณ Payer ผู้ซึ่งเขียนหนังสือกับดักหนี้ (The Debt Trap) ในปี 1974 ที่เคยใช้ข้อมูลการไหลเวียนของระบบเศรษฐกิจเพื่อแสดงให้เห็นว่า "IMF ทำให้ประเทศที่ยากจนติดกับดัก โดยยุยงให้พวกเขากู้ยืมเงินมากกว่าที่พวกเขาจะสามารถใช้คืนได้" เธอก็คงจะช็อกกับขนาดอันมหึมาของกับดักที่เรียกว่า "หนี้สิน" ในทุกวันนี้

ข้อสังเกตของเธอที่ว่า “ประชากรโดยทั่วไปของสหรัฐฯ หรือยุโรป อาจจะไม่เคยได้รับรู้ถึงมหกรรมการสูบเงินทุนขนาดใหญ่จากดินแดนที่พวกเขาคิดว่าเต็มไปด้วยผู้คนยากจนที่น่าสงสาร” นั้นก็ยังคงเป็นจริงจนถึงทุกวันนี้ โดยถือเป็นเรื่องน่าละอายสำหรับทางผู้เขียนเช่นกัน โดยก่อนที่จะได้ทำการค้นคว้าสำหรับงานวิจัยในครั้งนี้ ผู้เขียนเองก็ไม่เคยรับรู้ถึงสภาพความเป็นจริงเกี่ยวกับการไหลของเงินทุนบนโลก และคิดเอาเองว่าชาติที่ร่ำรวยต่างก็คอยช่วยเหลือชาติที่ยากจน ทั้งที่ผลลัพธ์สุดท้ายของเรื่องนี้ช่างไม่ต่างอะไรกับ "แชร์ลูกโซ่" ประเภทหนึ่งเลยจริง ๆ ซึ่งก็คือนับตั้งแต่ช่วงยุค 1970 เป็นต้นมา หนี้สินของเหล่าประเทศโลกที่สามนั้นมหาศาลมาก.. มากเสียจนหนทางเดียวที่พวกเขาจะมีปัญญาหาเงินมาจ่ายคืนได้คือการสร้างหนี้ก้อนใหม่เพื่อมาใช้หนี้ก้อนเก่า

และน่าเศร้าที่มันก็ยังคงเป็นเช่นนั้นตลอดมา

ผู้วิพากษ์วิจารณ์เกี่ยวกับธนาคารโลกและ IMF หลายท่านสันนิษฐานว่าสถาบันการเงินเหล่านี้ทำงานโดยมีความตั้งใจที่ดี ถ้าพวกเขาล้มเหลวก็เป็นเพราะมีสิ่งที่ผิดพลาด หรือเกิดสิ่งที่ไร้ประโยชน์บางอย่างในระบบ หรือไม่ก็เป็นเพราะการบริหารที่ผิดพลาด

ซึ่งบทความนี้ตั้งสมมติฐานว่าข้ออ้างเหล่านั้นไม่ใช่ความจริง และจริง ๆ แล้วเป้าหมายพื้นฐานของธนาคารโลกและ IMF นั้นไม่ใช่การแก้ปัญหาความยากจน แต่เป็นการทำให้ชาติเจ้าหนี้ร่ำรวยขึ้นด้วยการกดขี่ให้ชาติที่ยากจนต้องรับภาระ ทางผู้เขียนเองก็ไม่อาจเชื่อว่าการไหลของเงินทุนจากประเทศที่ยากจนไปสู่ประเทศที่ร่ำรวยอย่างถาวรนับตั้งแต่ปี 1982 นั้นจะเป็นเพียงแค่ “ความผิดพลาด” ซึ่งผู้อ่านอาจจะโต้แย้งได้ในประเด็นที่ว่าผลลัพธ์เหล่านี้เกิดจากความจงใจ และอาจจะยังเชื่อว่าผลลัพธ์เหล่านี้ไม่ได้เป็นสิ่งที่ตั้งใจให้เกิดขึ้น

อย่างไรก็ตาม ความแตกต่างเหล่านี้แทบจะไม่สำคัญอะไรเลย เมื่อพิจารณาถึงคนนับพันล้านคนที่ธนาคารโลกและ IMF ทำให้พวกเขามีชีวิตที่ยากจนข้นแค้นกว่าในอดีต..

⚡️ กด Zap ที่ลิงก์นี้ เพื่อเป็นกำลังใจทีมงานผู้เรียบเรียงบทความ

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

@ a2402d49:8361a787

This note is for nostr newbies. I hope after reading this note, you are a little better equipped to optimise your experience on nostr. And I also hope you will stick around to make nostr a more interesting place.

At the time of writing, I have been using nostr for a little over two weeks. So you can say I am still a newbie. I tried nostr a long time ago when Damus launched in iOS TestFlight. I left after a while. Not Damus's fault in any way. But if this note was available to me back then, I may have stayed.

We will discuss a few topics. 1. Basic principles 2. Onboarding 3. User name / user handle 4. Password 5. Password management 6. User discovery

Basic principles

• "nostr" is an abbreviation - NOSTR: "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay".
• nostr is a protocol. It is not a company, platform, or app. In nostr ecosystem, apps and servers communicate with each other using the protocol.
• You join nostr through nostr apps. In nostr jargon, these are the nostr clients. You can use mobile apps or web apps.
• The apps / nostr clients connect to many servers at the same time. In nostr jargon, these servers are the nostr relays, as in the "relay" in "transmitted by relay" above.
• User identification and authentication is self-managed. You say who you are as you want to.
• Compare nostr with other networks. The identification and authentication at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc are centralised. They are the gatekeepers. They check if you match your identity. If yes, they let you into their network. The identification and authentication at Mastodon, Pleroma, etc are federated. The server / community you join are the gatekeepers. In nostr, you are the gatekeeper to your own identity.
• Three different approaches and each has its own benefits and concerns. The more you use nostr, the more you can get a feel for the benefits and concerns for your unique circumstances.

Welcome to nostr / onboarding

• You will need to use a nostr client or nostr app. Type "nostr app" in your favourite search engine and there are many pages that list them.
• Setting up a new account in nostr app is very easy. There is no need to enter email nor phone number nor even name. Completely anonymous.
• Instead, a new user gets a "public key" - usually visible in the user interface - and a "private key" - usually protected. But you always have access to this.
• Your nostr app generates both the public key and the private key using white magic. Eh sorry, I mean mathematical method.
• The nostr protocol is open source. Most nostr apps / clients and relays are also open source. If you are not familiar with what "open source" means, then worry not; you can ignore it. But if you are curious to learn, search "open source" in Wikipedia.
• The list of nostr apps is getting longer and developers are coming up with interesting takes.
• Unlike centralised social media platforms, there is no vendor lock-in. If I am not happy with one app, I can log in to another app with my private key and still use / manage the same account.
• It is easy to switch apps while retaining your same nostr account. It is as easy as trying out different email apps on your phone for your personal email. And like email, you can even use more than one app for the same nostr account.

User handle / user name = Public key

• "Public key" is a public user identifier. Somewhat like a user name or a social media handle (in other platforms).
• The public key is system-generated. It is long and cryptic and almost impossible to remember.
• You cannot change this long and cryptic key.
• If you do not like your public key, you need to create a new account to get a new public key. But it will still be as long and cryptic. So no point to worry about it.
• In your nostr app, you can set your display name to anything you fancy. And you can change it anytime.
• Public key is not the same as display name. Public key is unique. Display name is not.
• People can find you using your public key, but not your display name. For example, if I use Iris nostr app, then the address is iris.to/npub123_cooluser_key. (Not a real key.) This is akin to twitter.com/npub123_cooluser_key.
• The public key also works in other nostr apps, as long as you adjust to their scheme. E.g. the same user public key above is also valid at satellite.earth/@npub123_cooluser_key. Or primal.net/p/npub123_cooluser_key. Different apps, but same public key / same user.

Password = Private key

• "Private key" is secret. It is like the password to your nostr account.
• Like public key, the private key is system-generated. It is long and cryptic and almost impossible to remember.
• Like public key, you cannot change this long and cryptic key.
• You use your private key to log in to any nostr platform. They all honour your public key and your private key.
• There are nostr-specific secret managers. At the moment, they only exist as browser extension. There is one for Apple Safari that you can get from the App Store: "Nostore". It is available for iOS and macOS. For Chrome-based browsers, there are a couple extensions in the Chrome store: nos2x and Alby.
• These nostr-specific secret managers work for nostr keys only, not for typical passwords. If you can tolerate having yet another app, it might be worth your while to use it. Especially if you need to use several nostr accounts (e.g. for business and for personal) and/or several apps.

Danger zone - password management

• You should protect your private key very well. And do not share it.
• If other people have access to your private key, they can log in and post as you.
• Nobody can reset your account and give you a new private key that will work for your existing public key. The only way out is to create a new account (with new public key and new private key). But whoever got your private key, can still post to your old account as you. 😳
• In nostr, you cannot delete your account. The keys existence cannot be undone. Once public key and private key are in use, anyone who has access to the private key can use it.
• If you lose your private key, it is not recoverable.
• Make well-guarded backup of your private key somewhere else other than your device. For example, someone steals your device or your device falls into the sea. When you get a new device, you will need your private key to log in and post to your existing nostr account.

User discovery / nostr address

• If you want to tell your friends that you are on nostr, you need to give them your public key. And they can search your public key in the nostr app of their choice.
• The only way to do this is by copying and pasting your long and cryptic public key. Be careful that you do not copy and paste your private key!
• Or you can also get a nostr "address". The nostr jargon is NIP-05 identifier / address. The benefit is that you and your friends can remember this easier than the long and cryptic public key. This helps discovery. But only if you want this.
• The format looks like email address. For example, name@example.com.
• You cannot change your long and cryptic public key, but you can change your NIP-05 identifier.
• You can get NIP-05 identifier from some nostr apps. If your nostr app does not provide this service, you can get it from third party provider.
• If you own and manage your own web domain and you have the technical skill and access, there is an alternative. You can create the NIP-05 identifier on your web server. It has something to do with serving a JSON file at a specific location at your domain. The benefit is that you can have the same domain for your email and your NIP-05 identifier.

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I hope this note is useful. Please let other newbies find this note, so they can enjoy nostr better. And let us make nostr enjoyable.

@ cd408a69:797e8162

Nostrasia Hackathon

Welcome FOSS hackers and creatives who care deeply about freedom technology!

自由のテクノロジーに深い関わりたい FOSS ハッカーとクリエイター、あつまれ！

We're joining forces with Bolt.Fun for a month-long hackathon bridging Bitcoin and NOSTR (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays), culminating with a special three day sprint and live event in Tokyo at the Nostrasia Conference.

私たちは、Bolt.Fun と協力して、ビットコインと Nostrを橋渡しする ハッカソンを、1 か月間かけて開催します。 クライマックスは東京で開催されるNostrasia Tokyo が舞台。3日間の特別なスプリントとライブ イベントで最高潮に達します。

Be a Part of the Early Days of Nostr

Nostr の創成期を共に作り上げましょう

Help build the future of Nostr! Like the early days of Bitcoin or of the Internet, Nostr is nascent open technology shaping new types of social experiences to connect people across the globe. It carries a foundation of principles similar to Bitcoin, like decentralization, simplicity, and censorship-resistance.

Nostr の未来を築くのに協力してください！ビットコインやインターネットの初期と同じように、Nostr は世界中の人々をつなぐ新しいソーシャル体験を形成するオープン テクノロジーの初期段階にあります。 Nostr には「分散化」「シンプルさ」「検閲耐性」など、ビットコインと同様の原則が組み込まれています。

Orange-Pill people through the Purple-Nostr-Pill

オレンジピル（ビットコイン）から紫の Nostr のピルへ

Bitcoin and Nostr communities are in synergy. What started as a social protocol is quickly transforming into a space for exploration on ways to support content creators through bitcoin lightning micro payments, often referred to as zaps. Bitcoin integration to the nostr protocol strengthens Bitcoin's use case as a currency of exchange. It carves new paths to a culture of value4value.

ビットコインと Nostr のコミュニティは相乗効果を発揮します。 Nostr はソーシャルプロトコルとしてはじまりましたが、今では Zap （ビットコイン の ライトニング マイクロペイメント）を通じてコンテンツ クリエイターをサポートする方法を模索する空間へと急速に進化しています。 Nostr プロトコルにビットコインが組み合わさることで、交換通貨としてのビットコインの働きが強化されます。 それは、"value4value" の文化への新しい道を切り開くでしょう。

Help People HODL their Keys (Social+Monetary)

人々が自分のキーを HODL （長期保有）できるように支援します （ソーシャル + 金銭的に）

Nostr exists outside of the rule of platforms and those who seek to control them. HODLing your nostr keys is hodling your identity and social graph, outside of KYC. By helping develop and educate on NOSTR, you are helping people escape walled gardens & gain control and choice over their identities & their money. The Internet, over time, has become centralized, help Nostr stay decentralized by supporting the growth of an ecosystem of apps, websites, microapps, relay services...

Nostr はプラットフォームやそれを制御しようとする人々の支配の外にあります。 Nostr keys を持つことは、KYC （本人確認）以外であなたのアイデンティティとソーシャル グラフを保持することになります。 Nostr の開発や教育に貢献することは、人々が束縛から解放され、アイデンティティやお金に対する主導権を得られるよう支援することにもなるのです。 時間の経過とともに集中化されてきたインターネットですが、Nostr のアプリ／Web サイト／マイクロアプリ／リレー サービスのエコシステムの成長をサポートすることで、Nostr の分散化を維持できるようになります。

Permissionless Building

許可を必要としない構築

Opportunities abound in an environment ripe for innovation:

• Develop & design new nostr white label clients, middleware, microapps...
• Help improve existing Nostr FOSS projects
• Contribute directly to protocol development through NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities)
• Encourage nostr and bitcoin adoption through art, education, and any way you like

イノベーションの機が熟した環境には、チャンスが溢れています。

• Nostr の真新しい クライアント、ミドルウェア、マイクロアプリを開発したりデザインする
• 既存の Nostr FOSS プロジェクトの改善に寄与する
• NIP (Nostr Implementation Possibilities) を通じたプロトコル開発に直接貢献する
• 芸術、教育、その他好きな方法を通じて Nostr とビットコインの普及を推進する

Hack in a Supportive Environment

サポートされた環境でハックしよう

We have a growing list of knowledgeable people with skin-in-the-game to mentor and support your journey. Once your project matures, you may also have 1-on-1 guidance to help you reach your vision and discover ways of growing and funding it.

私たちは、あなたの道のりを指導しサポートしてくれる知識豊富なメンターを増やしています。 プロジェクトが成熟した暁には、1対1のガイダンスを受けられる可能性もあります。それは、あなたのビジョンを達成し、成長させて資金を得る方法を発見するのに役立つでしょう。

Nostr has a blossoming community open to innovation. It is also a great testing ground, as people in the community are open to giving and receiving feedback. It is an environment encouraging conversation on feature ideas as well as possible solutions to social media issues and product bugs.

Nostr には、イノベーションに対してオープンで、発展しているコミュニティがあります。 コミュニティの人々はフィードバックの授受にオープンであるため、優れた実験の場にもなります。 機能のアイデアや、ソーシャル メディアの課題や製品のバグの解決策についての会話を促進する環境です。

NostrHack Tracks

You have 3 options

NostrHack Tracks には3つのオプションがあります

Track 1: Builder's Track - Reimagine Nostr

トラック1 : ビルダーのトラック - Nostr を再考しよう

If you can think of it, it can be engineered! Nostr encourages permissionless building while staying mindful of interoperability and network support. Help BUIDL, design, and improve an area you are passionate about. Reimagine and BUIDL features, tools, clients... Help solve issues and create new experiences in social media.

思いつくことができれば、エンジニアリングできる！ Nostr は、相互運用性とネットワーク サポートに留意しながら、パーミッションレスな構築 (BUIDL) を奨励しています。 あなたが情熱を注いでいる分野での構築、設計、改善に貢献してください。 機能やツール、クライアントを再考して構築 (BUIDL) し、ソーシャル メディアでの課題を解決して新しい体験を生み出すのに協力してください。

Possibilities...

これを踏まえて…

BUILD on the NOSTR Protocol

The Nostr Implementation Possibilities (NIPs) are optional protocol features anyone can add to their clients. Improve and strengthen existing NIPs or build on new ones. NOSTR is a balance of simplicity, interoperability, backward-compatibility and innovation.

NIPs は、誰でもクライアントに追加できるオプションのプロトコル機能です。 既存の NIP を改善および強化するか、新しい NIP を構築してください。 Nostr は、シンプルさ、相互運用性、下位互換性、革新性のバランスを保っています。

Focus on UX

Nostr is made up of a wide range of clients and tools. To make NOSTR scalable, you can help improve its user experience and education.

Nostr は幅広いクライアントとツールで形成されています。 Nostr をスケーラブルにするために、UX と教育の改善に協力してください。

Help shape a Web of Trust

Nostr cares about removing the KYC tied to our identities. To use Nostr you do not need to give up your phone number, email, financial information, or any metadata tied to your real world identity to be later harvested and sold. You are not the product. What are ways that trust can be earned to prevent impersonation, spam...?

Nostr は、私たちの身元に関連付けられた KYC （個人情報）を取り除けるようにしています。 Nostr を使用しても、電話番号、電子メール、財務情報、または現実世界のアイデンティティに関連付けられたメタデータを、収集されたり販売されたりして手放すことになる心配がありません。 あなたは商品ではないのです。 その中で、なりすましやスパムを防ぐために、信頼を獲得するにはどうすればよいでしょうか...?

NIP05/Nostr address

One of the solutions to build a web of trust used today, is to tie your nostr hex public key to a domain. Although this makes it harder for bots to have nostr addresses, it is not a perfect solution. Domains are centralized through DNS. To help people who do not have their own domains or cannot easily add a NIP05 on their sites, your nostr address can be hosted as a service along with other people's. At this moment, you can highlight just one nostr address per profile. In the future, could it include your website, where you work, and other identifiers... What are other possible solutions?

現在使用されている信頼獲得のための解決策の 1 つは、Nostr の HEX 公開鍵をドメインに結び付けることです。 これにより、完璧な解決策ではないものの、bot などが Nostr アドレスを持つことが難しくなります。 ドメインは DNS を通じて一元化されています。 独自のドメインを持っていない人や、自分では NIP-05 を簡単に追加できない人のために、あなたの Nostr アドレスをサービスとして他の人のものと一緒にホストすることも可能です。 現時点では、プロフィールごとに1つの Nostr アドレスのみを強調表示できますが、将来的には、Web サイト、勤務先、その他の識別情報も含められるようになる可能性があります...この他にも考えられる解決策は何かありますか？

On Decentralization & Discoverability

分散化と発見可能性について

Your identity in NOSTR is tied to your keys, but your information needs to be shared and found across a network of relays. To promote decentralization and censorship resistance, relays need to be easy to setup, lightweight, and sustainable. Relays get to choose what information passes through them, so they are also a form of spam prevention that could potentially also become censoring, so both the relay-runners and the individuals connecting to relays need to have choice and policies cannot be homogenous one-size-fits-all. What are possible solutions to make setting up relays easier, to make running a relay sustainable, to have new ways of discovering information...

Nostr での ID はキーに関連付けられていますが、その情報はリレーのネットワーク全体で共有され、検索できる必要があります。 分散化と検閲耐性を促進するために、リレーはセットアップが簡単で、軽量で、持続可能である必要があります。 リレーは通過する情報を選択できるため、スパム防止の一形態である一方で検閲にもなり得ます。そのため、リレー管理者とリレーに接続する個人の両方に選択権が必要で、ポリシーが全てに対し画一的になってはいけません。 リレーのセットアップを容易にし、リレーの実行を持続可能にし、情報を発見する新しい方法を実現するには、どのような解決策が考えられるでしょうか...？

Buidl tools to connect to Git, as a decentralized alternative to GitHub

GitHub の分散型代替手段として、Git に接続するための BUIDL ツール

Media Uploads

To keep relays lightweight, images are hosted by uploading them to the web, and keeping only the links to them in the data within individual nostr notes. This has led to developing image uploading services specific to nostr, but they carry the risk of centralization or censorship. Some product makers and relay runners are looking into direct uploads to Cloud services. What are possible solutions to the handling of media (images, videos, music...)?

リレーを軽量に保つために、画像は Web にアップロードしてホストされ、各投稿のデータには画像へのリンクのみが保持されます。そんな中で、Nostr に特化した画像アップロード サービスが開発されましたが、集中化や検閲のリスクが伴います。 一部のプロダクト開発者やリレー管理者は、クラウド サービスへの直接アップロードを検討しています。 メディア（画像、ビデオ、音楽など）の処理について、考えられるよい解決策はありますか？

Social Signals

People have the choice to block and mute others, this gives signals to relays, which can reenact policies based on those and other signals. Relays need to be able to differentiate real signals from those wanting to game the system for censorship. Relay runners need to have the capacity to make decisions on what to allow or reject.

ユーザーは他のユーザーをブロックしたりミュートできます。ユーザーの設定内容はリレーに送信され、リレーはその設定に基づいてそれぞれのポリシーを再現できます。 リレーは、実際の設定と、検閲のためにシステムを操作しようとする設定を区別する必要があります。 リレーの管理者には、何を許可し、何を拒否するかを決定する能力が必要です。

Track 2 : Marketplaces & Value4Value

Make freedom of exchange fun again! Nostr extends beyond social. It is integrating ways for content creators to be supported through lightning micropayments, called zaps, for their creations. The possibilities of building niche value4value economies through the exchange of products, services, and ideas, is growing through various avenues: Marketplaces, fundraising, blogs, music, streaming... devise new robust ways of integrating NOSTR and Bitcoin of monetary and skill exchange. Seek to explore distributed, digital reciprocity and free trade. Encourage a culture of value4value.

自由な交流を再び楽しく！ Nostr はソーシャルを超えて広がります。 Zap と呼ばれるマイクロペイメントを通じて、コンテンツクリエイターの作品をサポートできる方法を兼ね備えています。 製品、サービス、アイデアの交換を通じてニッチな価値と価値（value4value）の経済を構築する可能性は、さまざまな手段を通じて拡大しています : マーケットプレイス、資金調達、ブログ、音楽、ストリーミングなど... Nostr とビットコインを組み合わせて、金銭とスキルの交換を行う新しい堅牢な方法を考案します。分散型、デジタル相互主義、自由貿易を探究してください。 価値対価値（value4value）の文化を促進してください。

A value4value culture is not only about the individuals using NOSTR products and services, but also about the developers and creatives building sustainable projects. What are ways of sustaining NOSTR through Bitcoin that do NOT make the individual user the product and that are privacy mindful?

value4value の文化は、Nostr の製品やサービスを使用する個人だけでなく、持続可能なプロジェクトを構築する開発者やクリエイターにも関係します。 個人ユーザーを製品にすることなくプライバシーに配慮しながら、ビットコインを通じて Nostr を持続させる方法は何ですか？

Possibilities...

On Social and Economic Signals

Zaps

Many nostr clients have implemented lightning zap payments. Imagine instead of liking a nostr note, you can zap someone's note and they can receive bits/sats in appreciation for their content. It is a strong signal to creators of the kind of content their audiences are looking for. The Apple App Store has recently banned the zapping of specific notes, per Apple's policy that makes the sale of digital content prohibited except when paid through their services. Fortunately, Nostr exists in many decentralized forms outside of app stores and the community is creating new and innovative ways to send bitcoin and free speech from relay to relay, circumventing barriers as they appear. What are solutions that can make NOSTR and zaps ubiquitous?

多くの Nostr クライアントが Zap を導入しています。Nostr での投稿を「いいね」する代わりに Zap すると、その内容に対する感謝としてビットコイン（サトシ）を受け取ることができるイメージです。 これは、フォロワーがどのような種類のコンテンツを求めているかをクリエイターに伝える強力なシグナルになります。 Apple App Storeは最近、サービスを通じて支払われる場合を除きデジタルコンテンツの販売を禁止するというAppleのポリシーに従い、特定の投稿への Zap を禁止しました。 幸い、Nostr は多くが App Store の外で分散型で存在しているため、コミュニティは障壁を回避しながら、ビットコインと言論の自由をリレーからリレーに送信するための革新的な方法を生み出しています。 Nostr と Zaps をユビキタスにするソリューションとは何ですか？

Track 3 : Empower Communities

Give choice and control back to the individual! Create paths forward to help onboard millions of new users and restore free and uncensored speech to the world

選択とコントロールを個人に返そう。 何百万人もの新規ユーザーの参加を支援し、自由で検閲されていない言論を世界に取り戻すための道筋を作り出してください。

Possibilities...

On Security, Privacy & Self-Custody

Private Communication

Direct Messages on NOSTR are encrypted, but metadata is leaked. If someone's key is compromised, whoever has access to that account can read those messages. Integrating secure and reliable encrypted communication protocols, like the SimpleX messaging protocol, is especially desired by the community, as many in Nostr are aware of the risks of surveillance, authoritarianism, government and Big Tech overreach... Private communication is important for individual rights, in particular for activists and journalists across the globe.

Nostr のダイレクト メッセージは暗号化されていますが、メタデータは漏洩します。 誰かのキーが侵害された場合、そのアカウントにアクセスできる人は誰でもそれらのメッセージを読むことができてしまうのです。Nostr の多くの人が監視、権威主義、政府とビッグテックの行き過ぎのリスクを認識しているため、 SimpleX メッセージング プロトコルのような安全で信頼性の高い暗号化通信プロトコルの統合が、コミュニティによって特に望まれています...プライベート通信は個人の権利にとって重要です 、特に世界中の活動家やジャーナリストにとって。

Zaps & Privacy

Current lightning zap payments tend to be custodial and not mindful of privacy, though they are helping onboard people unto lightning. What are ways that people can grow into non-custodial solutions? A wider adoption of Bolt-12 would improve zap payment privacy, what are ways to encourage that development? What are other possible solutions?

現在のザップの支払いは、ライトニングペイメントに出会うのに役立っているものの、カストディアル（管理的）でプライバシーに配慮していない傾向にあります。 ノンカストディアル（非監護的）なものになるよう解決する方法はありませんか？ Bolt-12 が広く採用されれば、Zap 支払いのプライバシーが向上しますが、その開発を促進するにはどのような方法がありますか？また、他に考えられる解決策はありませんか？

Closing Live 3-Day Sprint at the Nostrasia Conference

Nostrasia Tokyo 3日間のライブスプリントによる締めくくり

Tokyo | Nov 1-3 (you can also join virtually)

If you heard of the Nostrica unconference, which happened in Costa Rica in March of this year, Nostrasia is the second Nostr World conference, bringing NOSTR and Bitcoin awareness to the heart of Asia, where freedom communication and freedom money are direly needed.

今年の3月にコスタリカで開催された Nostrica のことをご存知の方もいると思いますが、ノストラジアは2回目の Nostr 世界カンファレンスです。自由なコミュニケーションと自由なお金が切実に必要とされているアジアの中心にNostr とビットコインの認識をもたらします。

Tokyo and Hong Kong are beautiful cultural hubs with budding Nostr and thriving Bitcoin communities of their own. We are eager to spread NOSTR education and development in those regions and beyond. We will close this Nostrasia month-long hackathon with a 3-day sprint at the Nostrasia Conference in Tokyo.

東京と香港は、新進気鋭のNostrと繁栄する独自のビットコインコミュニティを持つ美しい文化の中心地です。 私たちは、Nostr の教育と開発をこれらの地域やその他の地域に広めることに熱心に取り組んでいます。 この Nostrasia の 1 か月にわたるハッカソンは、Nostrasia Tokyo での 3 日間のスプリントをもって終了します。

We will have a dedicated workshop area and food for you to hack away on the final details of your projects. On the last day of the conference, the most robust projects will get time on stage to present. We will close the Nostrasia Hackathon with a special presentation.

プロジェクトの最終的な詳細を検討するための専用のワークショップ エリアと食事をご用意します。 カンファレンスの最終日には、最も強力なプロジェクトがステージ上でプレゼンテーションを行う時間が与えられます。 Nostrasia Hackathon は特別なプレゼンテーションで締めくくられます。

We cannot wait to see what new and exciting projects are proposed for the Nostrasia Hackathon. We’re eager to welcome devs and non-devs alike to contribute to this space and help #grownostr in any small way to help onboard Asia, and the rest of the world to this robust open communication protocol and decentralized freedom of speech tool.

Nostrasia Hackathon ではどんな斬新でエキサイティングなプロジェクトが提案されるのか楽しみです。 私たちは、開発者も非開発者も同様にこの分野に貢献し、アジアやその他の世界をこの堅牢なオープン通信プロトコルと分散型言論の自由ツールに参加させるために、どんな小さな方法でも #grownostr を支援してくれることを心から歓迎しています。

@ 5ada3677:7c21c9db

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厲家菜 X 金殿堂 🎉

厲曉麟先生容貌華贍，美風儀，舉手投足溫文爾雅，輕言軟語，像學者遠遠多過像廚師。前一天夜裡，與厲先生一起在酒吧小飲，厲先生跟我聊的閒天，是《紅樓夢》，一口雍容老派的北京話，好聽得不得了。我注意到，沒有人稱呼厲先生厲大師或者厲師傅，不約而同都是稱厲先生。後來聽容太講給我聽，厲先生確實是有根有底的學者。你看你看，人生裡讀過的書，永遠不會是白讀。

厲先生嫡傳的厲家菜，很像他的人，一派雍容爾雅，天家氣象。

芙蓉帝王蟹蒸雪蛤膏，輕渺如雲朵，雅麗非凡。芙蓉蛋、帝王蟹與雪蛤膏，在各自繽紛的柔潤裡，一盤之中，提供著層次分明的清與柔，食來無限滿足。雪蛤膏入饌，尤其曼妙，口感接近大閘蟹的蟹膏，而更為清遠高華。厲先生說，其實宮廷菜大多比較簡單，做不了那麼複雜，這個碟子，是厲先生揉合了幾種思路做法於一起。

厲先生另一道海參燒鹿筋，亦是宮廷菜裡的典範作品。可惜，由於澳門禁止鹿筋，厲先生當晚是拿的鱘龍魚筋替代的。遼參與鹿筋，一山珍一海錯，陰陽平衡，相輔相成。古人的配伍，多麼高明優秀。厲先生說，那個醬汁功夫深深，費了不少好東西下去。

食到厲先生親治的厲家菜，至為感動 🎉

金殿堂主廚徐偉豪師傅，年輕俊彥，主持這間澳門著名的富豪飯堂，深得食家追捧。當晚的松茸黃耳燉角螺、嶺南魚香脆皮百花雞，都功力深湛，手段了得。金殿堂招牌的脆皮百花雞，食雞不見雞，徐師傅於古法森然之餘，有更上一層樓的漂亮昇華，冷凍的梅香鹹魚，刨屑灑落於百花雞上，滋味跳舞，令人驚艷 🎉

當晚的金殿堂，四手聯彈精彩絕倫，滿座老前輩，論劍論道，隽語四射，真真難得。

聽得最深沉，是強哥講的一段，講他與恩師林自然的往事，亦師亦友亦父子的那種深情厚誼，聽到後來，我有點淚目。人人站起來碰杯合影，我卻一個人枯坐著拚命嚥眼淚。

非常驚人的是，各位七旬老前輩，飯後發朋友圈，比我們後輩迅捷得多。我們還在回酒店的路上，各位前輩的圈圈和小紅薯已經發佈好了。這是不是多年廚房功夫練就的快速手段？🎉


美獅美高梅內，有一間水準驚人的劇院，問耗資多少建的，笑答我，不詳，巨資啦 🎊
 

這間劇院，目前在做一個感人肺腑的展覽，《超元·萬象：蕭勤的藝術》，調動各種現代展覽手段，盡現蕭勤藝術的氣韻與邏輯 🎊
   我是第一次與蕭勤先生的原作面對面，大飽眼福之下，嘆服不已 🎊

澳門的美高梅集團擁有一支二十多人的藝術團隊，讓人足不出美高梅，可以看到這麼多驚人的藝術作品，我這種貪美分之，實在太享受了 🎊

順便說一句，蕭勤先生是上海人，生於1935年，2023年6月故世。這個展覽，今天看來，尤顯珍貴 🎊

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What I always liked about twitter was that it was never one place. You had all these sub-communities, yes, but the open nature of it allowed for wild interactions and the breaking of bubbles.

It was public square, dive bar, office water cooler, nightclub, and philosophy department all rolled into one. And you never knew who you were dealing with, and when those various "places" would interact.

My approach to twitter was always to never take things too seriously, and that's my approach for #nostr still. There is wisdom to "it's just a tweet bro" and I still believe that the secret to life is to send it, whether it be note, tweet, or in general.

Because you never know who you're dealing with, a great strategy is to assume that the other person is fourteen, or drunk, or really high, or senile, or all of the above. You wouldn't be mad if a stoned 14yr old would say something stupid to your face, so why be mad online?

I hope that we can rebuild what twitter used to be and what it was supposed to be, and transcend it. I believe that we're halfway there already. Given enough time and attention, I'm confident that we'll manage to build what so many on #nostr dream and hope for.

Zaps are already transcendent in that sense. As are cryptographic identities. Putting the user in control (as opposed to platforms) will be key to all of it, and I'm beyond excited to what is coming down the line with DVMs and even more exotic things.

The responsibility is on us to build it right, and to educate users as well as encourage them to take matters in their own hands. Nothing in life is free, not even freedom. We'll have to fight for it, and we'll have to take responsibility for ourselves and our actions.

Much needs to be built, much education needs to be done, much rektucation still needs to happen. But I remain optimistic, because the building blocks are there. Bitcoin works. Lightning works. Nostr works. Not perfectly, but it works.

I can't wait to see where we'll be in 5 years from now. It's wild to see where we are already. This is happening, and it's all happening because of you guys: focusing on the good that freedom tech can bring, pouring your time, money, effort, and attention into it.

I'm very grateful for that and to be part of it all. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I've said it before and I'll say it again: the future is bright, we just have a lot of building to do.

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Re-posting it here as long-form because threads on nostr still kinda suck, unfortunately.

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If you want to help fund and/or build the future I'm alluding to, check out nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f & nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5

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炙烤夜宴，於盛焰餐廳，一餐揉合了美式燒烤和日式鐵板燒的魚肉饗宴，葡萄牙籍的主廚Tiago Reis貢獻了一堂精彩的巧炙夜宴。

煙燻魚白醬湯

牛油蒜蓉與酢醋的大連鮑魚

7日乾式熟成真鯛魚

A4鹿兒島牛板腱

高朋滿座的一餐飯，我們的話題也花團錦簇，比如，關於食河豚。原來潮州人也食河豚魚，食法跟長江沿岸完全不同。潮州人愛食初春的小河豚，一點點大，這個時刻的河豚魚是無毒的，還來不及在體內積累毒素。很好奇，這樣一點點大的河豚魚，好吃嗎？潮州人張新民老師七情上面地回答我，好吃，一口一個。嘖嘖嘖。

潮州人與長江沿岸人都喜歡食河豚魚乾，河豚魚的毒，在220度的時候，就化解了，不毒了，而炭火可以達到1200度的高點。河豚魚製成魚乾之後，潮州人擅長拿來燉肉，或者燉蘿蔔湯，據說燉得的湯，濃白迷人，非常美味。

江浙人愛食烏狼鮝燉紅燒肉，烏狼鮝就是河豚魚乾。記得我童年時候，上海的南貨店裡，是經常可以買到烏狼鮝的。如今本埠南貨店只剩下邵萬生之類的碩果，不過我們還有阿寶和阿多多，愁是不用愁的。

飯後，我們移步百話廊酒吧小坐，天才橫溢、獲獎無數的調酒師張子瑜，調了一杯美豔非凡的酒給我，問這杯酒叫什麼，答我，貴妃。

我們還吃了容太攜來的純手工的純蓮蓉月餅，容月。那種久違的娟秀、久違的細軟，充滿了蓮子溫存的香氣，於飽得不能再飽的盛宴之後，我竟然連連食了一塊又一塊。

容太說，這個月餅是請小村莊裡的老人們做的，去年有四位老人，今年只有三位了。

蓮子天賦君子品格，不搶不奪不沖，要是攙別的雜質進去，蓮子的本香，就給蓋掉了。只有百分百純蓮子做成，才吃得到那種蓮子的香。

容太的月餅，以水保持潤度，不用大量的油，缺點是容易發霉。容太說，該發霉就發霉吧，放冰箱短期保存就好。

天下所有的美味，背後都是無盡的心力和手工，心到手到，才會好吃。古往今來，莫不如是。

晚宴開始前一刻，管家先生終於風塵僕僕趕到了。天天看管家寫的日子，今晚終於看見管家本人了。布衣公子，翩翩走進來，像他的文字一樣舒服。

晚餐時我們並肩坐，飯桌上一度的話題是剛剛病癒的蔡瀾先生，管家斷斷續續跟我講了很多蔡先生如何幫助他、蔡先生如何引導他、蔡先生是恩人，聽得我，好幾次，放下刀叉，感慨默默萬千。

一個人的文字舒服，一個人的容貌舒服，一定是有原因的。真善美三個字的順序，也絕對是一種真理，先有真和善，然後才會有美。

今晚另一位初見的友人，是容太。晚餐時，我們坐在長餐桌的對角線上，天各一方的樣子，完全沒有辦法聊天。容太一邊吃飯一邊在微信上隔了千山萬水靜靜告訴我，你的文章，伴我渡過兩年多的疫情。這一句，讓我感動至深。

感恩文字，感恩遇見。

美獅美高梅的室內公共空間裡，陳列著這組《瓦爾基麗迪奧小姐》Valkyrie Miss Dior，視覺效果非常獨特，作品由葡萄牙藝術家Joana Vasconcelos創作。

今年3月於 Dior 2023 秋冬系列巴黎秀場首度亮相，之後就移陣澳門美高梅此地。

整堂作品全部用Dior過往的衣料製成，觀者甚至可以撫摸作品，感受Dior衣料驚人的手工。由於衣料中包含各種材質，這個作品，於不同的時間、不同的光線下，呈現不同的精神，十分耐看。曾經在身上的衣料，如今以這樣的方式，沉甸甸地垂在人間，繼續璀璨繼續明媚，另一種意義的鳳凰涅槃，真是大有滋味的一件裝置。

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@ 5ada3677:7c21c9db

飛機落地澳門機場時，看見停機坪上泊著的澳門航空的飛機，機身上，寫了八粒字：創意城市，美食之都🌿

都市轉型是全世界的共同課題，這動人肺腑的八粒字，從踏進美獅美高梅的大堂開始領略🌿
   藝術之美，飲食之精，古老的澳門令人驚艷不已🌿


這幾年出門少了很多，出門時候的自我管理水準也大打折扣，常常發生丟三落四的糟糕事故，這次也是。到了美獅美高梅大堂辦入住手續，才沉痛發現，居然一分錢現金也沒有帶，不僅澳門幣沒有帶，連人民幣也沒有帶。如此窘境，當然心都虛透了。跟Suzie一說，要怎麼辦呢？澳門的提款機裡，是不是跟東京一樣，也能用上海的銀行卡，提出現金來？Suzie聽完，面不改色地回我一句，姐姐，你放心，這幾天，你一沒有機會出門，二沒有機會花錢。

Suzie沒有夸張，整趟旅程，果然全部消耗於美高梅的好看與好吃上，真的沒有機會出門半步。

下飛機第一餐，一放下行李，五分鐘內，Suzie帶我到一位難求的Chun淳餐廳，結果一頓午餐，變成一堂精彩無比的大師班，四十年廚齡的譚炎燦師傅和張新民老師，給我講了整整一頓飯的閒話，太補啦🎈

新民老師說，名廚開菜單，宛如良醫開藥方，君臣佐使，一一佈局到家才好🎈

新民老師還說，名店、名廚、名菜、名客人，四個名，造就一家名館子🎈

譚師傅的菜，功力深厚，鮮松茸竹笙燉法國鷓鴣，湯清而味濃，巧妙避開了鷓鴣容易味淡的陷阱；傳統琵琶燒鵝伴生炒糯米飯，規規矩矩古法菜，好正好正；甜物是鮮黃耳燉桃膠，溫潤的甜，參差柔膩，美得不得了。跟譚師傅說，甜物真好吃，甜入黃耳與桃膠的軟糯輕滑裡，如果甜在外面，就沒意思了。譚師傅頷首不已。今天譚師傅是休息日，特地趕來看我們，真令人於心不安🎈

本來，這餐午飯，還有管家先生的，我們應該同一班飛機從上海飛澳門的，可惜，管家很蒼茫地走錯了機場並且帶錯了通行證，不得不改簽了傍晚的航班。Suzie告訴我這些，我想想自己前幾天去蘇州，也是跑錯火車站，東倒西歪的樣子，唉唉唉。希望管家順順利利，趕得上今晚的宴會🎈

美獅美高梅大堂裡，那28幅清宮古地毯，每次來，都喜歡到心軟。這是何超瓊小姐的私人收藏，任人瀏覽，沒有玻璃遮擋，可以看到非常多的細節，真真美不勝收，感人肺腑🌿

文化和藝術的水準，常常是因為單獨的某個個人得到大幅提昇的，古今中外這樣的例子不勝枚舉🌿

這幾日，我是早早晚晚，進進出出，不斷停步駐足於這些地毯跟前，最後連服務員見了我都笑，又來看地毯啦🌿

到澳門，一定不要錯過這28幅古地毯🌿

待續

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This note is for nostr newbies. I hope after reading this note, you are a little better equipped to optimise your experience on nostr. And I also hope you will stick around to make nostr a more interesting place.

At the time of writing, I have been using nostr for a little over two weeks. So you can say I am still a newbie. I tried nostr a long time ago when Damus launched in iOS TestFlight. I left after a while. Not Damus's fault in any way. But if this note was available to me back then, I may have stayed.

We will discuss a few topics. 1. Basic principles 2. Onboarding 3. User name / user handle 4. Password 5. Password management 6. User discovery

Basic principles

• "nostr" is an abbreviation - NOSTR: "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay".
• nostr is a protocol. It is not a company, platform, or app. In nostr ecosystem, apps and servers communicate with each other using the protocol.
• You join nostr through nostr apps. In nostr jargon, these are the nostr clients. You can use mobile apps or web apps.
• The apps / nostr clients connect to many servers at the same time. In nostr jargon, these servers are the nostr relays, as in the "relay" in "transmitted by relay" above.
• User identification and authentication is self-managed. You say who you are as you want to.
• Compare nostr with other networks. The identification and authentication at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc are centralised. They are the gatekeepers. They check if you match your identity. If yes, they let you into their network. The identification and authentication at Mastodon, Pleroma, etc are federated. The server / community you join are the gatekeepers. In nostr, you are the gatekeeper to your own identity.
• Three different approaches and each has its own benefits and concerns. The more you use nostr, the more you can get a feel for the benefits and concerns for your unique circumstances.

Welcome to nostr / onboarding

• You will need to use a nostr client or nostr app. Type "nostr app" in your favourite search engine and there are many pages that list them.
• Setting up a new account in nostr app is very easy. There is no need to enter email nor phone number nor even name. Completely anonymous.
• Instead, a new user gets a "public key" - usually visible in the user interface - and a "private key" - usually protected. But you always have access to this.
• Your nostr app generates both the public key and the private key using white magic. Eh sorry, I mean mathematical method.
• The nostr protocol is open source. Most nostr apps / clients and relays are also open source. If you are not familiar with what "open source" means, then worry not; you can ignore it. But if you are curious to learn, search "open source" in Wikipedia.
• The list of nostr apps is getting longer and developers are coming up with interesting takes.
• Unlike centralised social media platforms, there is no vendor lock-in. If I am not happy with one app, I can log in to another app with my private key and still use / manage the same account.
• It is easy to switch apps while retaining your same nostr account. It is as easy as trying out different email apps on your phone for your personal email. And like email, you can even use more than one app for the same nostr account.

User handle / user name = Public key

• "Public key" is a public user identifier. Somewhat like a user name or a social media handle (in other platforms).
• The public key is system-generated. It is long and cryptic and almost impossible to remember.
• You cannot change this long and cryptic key.
• If you do not like your public key, you need to create a new account to get a new public key. But it will still be as long and cryptic. So no point to worry about it.
• In your nostr app, you can set your display name to anything you fancy. And you can change it anytime.
• Public key is not the same as display name. Public key is unique. Display name is not.
• People can find you using your public key, but not your display name. For example, if I use Iris nostr app, then the address is iris.to/npub123_cooluser_key. (Not a real key.) This is akin to twitter.com/npub123_cooluser_key.
• The public key also works in other nostr apps, as long as you adjust to their scheme. E.g. the same user public key above is also valid at satellite.earth/@npub123_cooluser_key. Or primal.net/p/npub123_cooluser_key. Different apps, but same public key / same user.

Password = Private key

• "Private key" is secret. It is like the password to your nostr account.
• Like public key, the private key is system-generated. It is long and cryptic and almost impossible to remember.
• Like public key, you cannot change this long and cryptic key.
• You use your private key to log in to any nostr platform. They all honour your public key and your private key.
• There are nostr-specific secret managers. At the moment, they only exist as browser extension. There is one for Apple Safari that you can get from the App Store: "Nostore". It is available for iOS and macOS. For Chrome-based browsers, there are a couple extensions in the Chrome store: nos2x and Alby.
• These nostr-specific secret managers work for nostr keys only, not for typical passwords. If you can tolerate having yet another app, it might be worth your while to use it. Especially if you need to use several nostr accounts (e.g. for business and for personal) and/or several apps.

Danger zone - password management

• You should protect your private key very well. And do not share it.
• If other people have access to your private key, they can log in and post as you.
• Nobody can reset your account and give you a new private key that will work for your existing public key. The only way out is to create a new account (with new public key and new private key). But whoever got your private key, can still post to your old account as you. 😳
• In nostr, you cannot delete your account. The keys existence cannot be undone. Once public key and private key are in use, anyone who has access to the private key can use it.
• If you lose your private key, it is not recoverable.
• Make well-guarded backup of your private key somewhere else other than your device. For example, someone steals your device or your device falls into the sea. When you get a new device, you will need your private key to log in and post to your existing nostr account.

User discovery / nostr address

• If you want to tell your friends that you are on nostr, you need to give them your public key. And they can search your public key in the nostr app of their choice.
• The only way to do this is by copying and pasting your long and cryptic public key. Be careful that you do not copy and paste your private key!
• Or you can also get a nostr "address". The nostr jargon is NIP-05 identifier / address. The benefit is that you and your friends can remember this easier than the long and cryptic public key. This helps discovery. But only if you want this.
• The format looks like email address. For example, name@example.com.
• You cannot change your long and cryptic public key, but you can change your NIP-05 identifier.
• You can get NIP-05 identifier from some nostr apps. If your nostr app does not provide this service, you can get it from third party provider.
• If you own and manage your own web domain and you have the technical skill and access, there is an alternative. You can create the NIP-05 identifier on your web server. It has something to do with serving a JSON file at a specific location at your domain. The benefit is that you can have the same domain for your email and your NIP-05 identifier.

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I hope this note is useful. Please let other newbies find this note, so they can enjoy nostr better. And let us make nostr enjoyable.

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Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Sonnet 103 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares

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Ballerina

Lingering angel of the old motet 1 That effortlessly surges and on stage goes Conquering dreams of music with he toes In the sacred trance of each pirouette. 4

Sublime echo of kind marionette 5 That with flying feet erases my foes Which become leisure when encores she does 7 And holds my mind with divine silhouette.

She has lyrical grandeur and glamour While with her love for crowds she must advance Overcoming with Terpsichore's ardour. 11 A ballerína's life is more than dance And tutus twirl in rainbows of demur 13 When with a holy smile she gives a glance. *** 1-.motet a polyphonic song of a sacred nature. 4-.pirouette= whirling around on one foot or point of the toe in ballet. 5-. marionette= little puppet or jointed doll, usually on a miniature stage. 7-.encore= demand by the audience, showed by continued applause for the repetition of a piece of music etc., or for another appearance of the performer. 11-.Terpsichore= the muse of dancing 13-. tutu= very short proyecting skirt worn by ballerinas.

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Analysis "Ballerina"

Introduction

"Sonnet 103" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares can indeed be analyzed as a Petrarchan or Italian sonnet, The poem has an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the final six lines), which is a key characteristic of Petrarchan sonnets. The Petrarchan sonnet traditionally explores a thematic shift or contrast between the octave and sestet. Let's analyze the poem in this context:

Thematic Analysis

Octave (Lines 1-8): In the octave, the poet describes the ballerina's performance and the impact it has on him. He addresses her as an "angel of the old motet," emphasizing her ethereal and divine presence on stage. The use of "old motet" suggests a timeless quality to her performance. She effortlessly captivates the audience, conquering their dreams with her graceful movements, especially her toes in the sacred trance of each pirouette. The octave highlights her beauty, skill, and the enchanting power of her art.

Sestet (Lines 9-14): In the sestet, there is a thematic shift. The poet reflects on the ballerina's life beyond the stage. He acknowledges her "lyrical grandeur and glamour," recognizing her elegance and charm. However, he also notes that she must advance with love for the crowds, invoking Terpsichore, the muse of dancing, to overcome challenges. This shift suggests a contrast between the external grace and glamour of her performances and the dedication and hard work required behind the scenes.

The concluding lines emphasize that a ballerina's life encompasses more than just dance. The "tutus" represent the outward display of her artistry, twirling in "rainbows of demur." However, beneath the surface, there is a deeper, almost spiritual aspect to her character, symbolized by the "holy smile" she shares with the audience.

In this analysis, the octave focuses on the ballerina's performance and its enchantment, while the sestet delves into the complexity of her life and the deeper qualities that define her as an artist. This thematic shift is characteristic of Petrarchan sonnets, where the sestet often provides a contrasting perspective or resolution to the theme introduced in the octave.

Rhyme Scheme

The poem adheres to a Petrarchan or Italian sonnet structure, which consists of an octave (the first eight lines) followed by a sestet (the final six lines). The rhyme scheme in this sonnet is as follows:

``` Octave (ABBAABBA):

1. motet (A)
2. goes (B)
3. toes (B)

4. pirouette (A)

5. marionette (A)

6. foes (B)
7. does (B)
8. silhouette (A)

Sestet (CDCDCD):

1. glamour (C)
2. advance (D)

3. ardour (C)

4. dance (D)

5. demur (C)
6. glance (D) ```

Additional Aspects to Analyze

Let's delve into some additional aspects of "Sonnet 103" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares that have not been fully analyzed yet:

Imagery: The sonnet is rich in imagery that enhances the reader's understanding of the ballerina's performance. Imagery related to dance and the stage includes "pirouette," "flying feet," "divine silhouette," and "tutus twirl," all of which paint a vivid picture of the ballerina's movements and presence.

Allusions: The sonnet contains several allusions, which are references to other literary or cultural elements: "Terpsichore" is an allusion to the Greek muse of dancing. By invoking Terpsichore, the poet adds a layer of classical and mythological significance to the ballerina's art. The mention of a "holy smile" in the final line could allude to the idea of the ballerina as a kind of angelic or transcendent figure, reinforcing the spiritual dimension of her performance.

Tone and Mood: The tone of the sonnet is one of admiration and celebration. The poet is clearly in awe of the ballerina's talent and beauty. However, there is also a sense of reverence and respect for the dedication and hard work that go into her performances. The mood shifts from enchantment in the octave to a more contemplative and appreciative tone in the sestet.

Symbolism: The use of the "motet" in the first line as a symbol of the ballerina's performance can be seen as a symbol of the divine or the sacred, emphasizing the spiritual aspect of her art. The "tutus" symbolize not just the physical costumes but also the outward display of the ballerina's talent and artistry, suggesting that her true beauty goes beyond what is seen on the surface.

Structure and Form: While we have discussed the rhyme scheme and the division into an octave and a sestet, it's worth noting that the sonnet's structure and form are carefully crafted to reflect the thematic shifts within the poem. The octave sets up the enchantment of the ballerina's performance, while the sestet explores the complexities of her life and art.

Religious Undertones: There are subtle religious undertones in the poem, particularly in the use of words like "sacred trance," "holy smile," and "divine silhouette." These suggest a sense of reverence and sanctity associated with the ballerina's performance, elevating it to a higher plane.

In summary, "Sonnet 103" is a multi-layered poem that combines vivid imagery, allusions, tone, symbolism, and careful structural elements to celebrate the artistry of the ballerina while also acknowledging the dedication and depth behind her performances.

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(GPT4)

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Count the syllables of each line of the Sonnet

(www.howmanysyllables.com)

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Ballerina

10 Lingering angel of the old motet
10 That effortlessly surges and on stage goes 10 Conquering dreams of music with he toes 10 In the sacred trance of each pirouette.

10 Sublime echo of kind marionette
10 That with flying feet erases my foes 10 Which become leisure when encores she does
10 And holds my mind with divine silhouette.

10 She has lyrical grandeur and glamour 10 While with her love for crowds she must advance 10 Overcoming with Terpsichore's ardour.
10 A ballerína's life is more than dance 10 And tutus twirl in rainbows of demur
10 When with a holy smile she gives a glance. ***

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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Analyzed by GPT4 and www.howmanysyllables.com; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com

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It was late morning when Fairy woke up. Angel was still sleeping though he was expected to be at work by noon. She came down to grab a coffee to find her Friend grinding the beans. Waking up to the smell of ground coffee always brought unique pleasure to Fairy.

When did you wake up? - asked Fairy. She had insisted her Friend to stay back last night. It was well past midnight when they reached home and thereafter both of them kept talking about Matsya. Angel had almost passed out on the steering wheel, but for the constant reminders to keep his eyes open - that included mist spray on the face. And as soon as the car announced the arrival, he quietly slipped into his bedroom. The Friend could have gone back to her place. It was only a ten minutes flight for her new flying machine, but flights were on hold from one am to four am - some random offline air traffic update.

Before the friend could respond they heard Angel stepping in - Good morning everyone - hope you two slept well last night !

Fairy responded "huh" with a smile - I was dreaming about Matsya. Send us the link to the next episode. Can't wait to find what was her mission!

If we had the link, we had watched the next episode last night itself - laughed the Friend pouring over black coffee in three mugs - we were anyway chatting about our heroine till 2 am !

Um - we don't have the next episode up yet - said the Angel - and before you figure out next of Matsya, you need to check out the story of Ganga and Shantnu. He waited for a bit looking for a facial response - and I know only outline - half the story - the "Wikipedia" stuff!

That is such a bummer - complained the Friend. There must be a way to get hold of the complete narrative - with story as it happened, and the context.

To really understand the context, you will need to see my Mentor - Angel said with an apology in his eyes and smile on his lips - he was an encryption expert and now he is trying to create these visuals - and that too without using any graphics AI!

Wow , can we Zoom in with him ? - asked the Friend - she was genuinely intrigued on Mentor's profile, as much as she was keen on the narrative.

Unfortunately no! - In Summer, he lives off the grid. It is only 20 mins flight though - I can schedule you guys if you wanna go see him at Lake Tahoe - said the Angel and waited for their response.

I wish I could join you guys; but I am gone for a week - he continued - not hiding at all that he hated his work! The worst part - he was not allowed to share his work with his partner - much less with her friends.

How could he tell that he was the lead on "engineered bees" program! They took care to hive them in deep forests where no man had ever gone - at least in last ten years - zero human footprint, as they say in the IGS [^igs] community, yet the project was turned hush hush. The big idea, with all the internal pomp, was to resolve the growing demand of honey for humans stopped consuming cane sugars. The new bees did make 5x honey but in third generative cycle they turned 10x poisonous - a consequence that was never considered in the design. The nature demanded - if you have more, you must equip yourself even more to protect . If the woke media got a hint, his career was on the line, but he was more worrisome of the hate he was sure to get from his own circle - The "Fairy", in particular.

To his good luck, the last episode (with the bees) didn't get much attention even though Fairy, unaware of the situation, posted about it. How could he save the man? The rescue attempt, he was sure, had the Fairy killed at a single sting. She didn't have the patched genes active - a protection against the poison. Even though he knew, a program that killed a single human, was likely to be shut down - pursue only till "one human death" - yet he let a human die just to save the Fairy.

The lost life was attributed to the forest fire. The identification was impossible for the there was hardly anything left in over-burnt ashes - even the bees had died. The first thing he did after the incident was to remove the spot location from department database. Fortunately there was no entry on the public ledger - he thought - an anomaly but a regular practice in cutting edge biotech. The argument was to save the life altering technology from the bad actors. Somewhat like the conundrum that Parasara faced and resolved in favor of freedom. The Angel understood the argument on both the sides but what is the right way? - he still didn't know !

At the end of it, he was happy that he prioritized love over success - and probably that was the good Karma that her best Friend too was focused on Matsya. The narrative came in handy - he thought - not only at the time of the incident when he could convince the Fairy for an exit, but even her best friend was keen on the story. He wished she never asked questions about the real incident. Lying was not his strong suite! And he did try to rescue the man - at least gave him an offer that the man disrespectfully declined. He wasn't sure if the argument absolved him from the sin but it afforded him comfort to live with himself.

Can we go today ? - his morning train of thoughts was interrupted by Fairy - It's been a while I went to the lake - she said after mulling over her calendar, and also looking at her Friend if she was fine to fly at no notice! And she saw a "yes" in her eyes - I am pretty open today till an evening dinner - the Friend said peeking over her watch and I don't need to file a request if I am flying away from San Francisco. She never missed sharing unnecessary details when it came to the flying cars!

Sure, let me check and I will drop a note from my commute. Do check with him his theory on Prime Numbers. He is a Guru on public key cryptography. I too want to understand that piece - Angel was gone with a mug of coffee in his hand and toast in his mouth - busy life of the affluent!

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The flight to the lake was pleasant. There was still some snow on the peaks but otherwise the green sheet of trees circling white water looked pretty from five thousand feet. They got the first feel of cold air when they stepped out of the chariot. 63 degrees felt like 53. They had landed in front of a small house and they found an old man open the door as they were about to knock.

He must have seen the notification of an unknown car landing on his porch - they assumed, though the old man had no security cams. Angel had called him on his landline that Fairy had landed on his driveway. Location trackers were a privacy concern but they do have some benefits - he thought . Angel probably wanted to make sure the Mentor weren't asleep because he loved to have an after meal nap from before the times Angel met him - almost twenty years back. Some people don't change - he smiled - as he waited for him to pick up the chorded land line - who uses the chord these days of star linked communication! - he wondered not knowing that the resistance had secured a chorded peer to peer network beyond the "watch" of central intelligence in lieu of acceding to unspoken agreement - "till one human death". The angel was not sure if the Mentor was active member of the "Resistance" but he was aware that he had spread on both sides of the fence. He had friends in the "dark" and the "white" and many times he had brokered high value agreements.

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Would you like some tea - Mentor asked - pointing them to the chairs in front of his table in rather large study room just by the entrance.

The room had a big table almost eight feet wide - fully covered with at least two layers of books. There was an old desktop station touching the wall behind his chair. And his chair seemed like a century old. There was smell of old books oozing from the side shelves that went as high as the high ceiling.

The Angel said you two want to create a scene from Ganga's story in the new machines - he looked at his old desktop that was probably a 32 bit computer from late nineties incapable of running even the slightest of graphics. The dark terminal was reminiscent of Fortran era.

The friend was surprised. She did have the creative skills but she didn't know she was being recruited. She looked at the Fairy. The look on Fairy's face told her she didn't read the full note from Angel. Apparently, she just noted the location (and time) to pass on the coordinates to the flying machine.

The Fairy looked at her phone again as the Mentor disappeared to a small kitchenette in the living room - to get them the tea. And she handed over the phone to the Friend. The message clearly read that the Mentor was willing to see them if they were okay doing a small animated sequence. To Angel's mind, it was a win win.

Talk about communication! - the Friend spoke with a whim on her face, as she handed the phone back to the Fairy - Okay but I don't know how long would it take. And I have never done a historical narrative before!

Yes - they both said as they found the Mentor carrying back a kettle of tea with freshly baked cookies. The aroma of cookies mixed with the smell of old books just felt right for a "yes". And of course the view of the snow covered peaks from the large window at their back - btw Angel said to start from your theory on the Prime Numbers if that is relevant to the narrative ..

Oh sure - it is actually not a theory - some people try to give undue credit - humility reflected in his voice - and it is not that hard either - said the mentor as he poured them tea and settled in his old chair, but I do need to know how much you two know about the "Primes" - He was courteous and his intent was to not waste their time in the basics.

The prime numbers, as you know are something that can't be divided by anything other than themselves - and of course by the number "1" - said the Fairy - and that is all I know about them except that they keep on finding new primes almost every day. And btw she read all about asymmetric cryptography while I was looking at the beautiful snow covered peaks - she looked at her friend with a cunning smile!

There are billions of them already known and they say there exist infinite Primes - added the Friend - their biggest use is in crypto - to hide the things or to make them truly public - and I am nowhere close to being even a novice in this area. She knew she was thrown under the bus - first by Angel and now by Fairy but she also knew they both loved her.

Mentor was pleased that he was spared from the definitions - Don't worry. We are not talking crypto here. And that was long time back when I wrote few libraries - he paused to clear up the crypto smoke - So what is "1", is it a Prime ? He asked to get the conversation started.

Well technically yes - replied the Friend - though it is not counted as one because of some theorem I forgot the name - She was already getting comfortable in this conversation.

You are right. The good reason for "1" not being considered prime is the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, which states that every number can be written as a product of primes in exactly one way. If "1" were prime, we would lose that uniqueness. We could write 2 as 1×2, or 1×1×2, or 1^594827×2. Excluding "1" from the primes smooths that out. If you want to know more I will have you read this article. May I have your email Ids - He asked turning back to his terminal to send the link to both of them and took a break for dogs' treat-time.

He had two big white huskies that looked like wolves but behaved like cats. They hadn't even moved from their sofa in the living room since they both arrived - so unlike dogs - the Friend told Fairy. But she was more surprised that people still sent emails from the command line - she always thought terminal was just a nerdy way to install packages!

Walking back in about ten minutes later - The strangest thing about "1" is it looks exactly what we want it to be - for example - "1" book is a book , "1" meter is a meter , "1" home is a home but we can never know what "1" is ! We can never understand the "1" without association to a worldly thing - an "Identity". As for "2", we can at least say it is twice the "1" - " 1 + 1 = 2" - He smiled.

Other thing that we all know about "1" - it free from multiplier effect. No matter how many times you multiply "1" with itself, it still remains "1"; but same is not true for addition. "1" gets added to the things and it increases the count. Only "0" is free from material additive property.

Since "Unity" is free from multiplier effect you can have infinite instances of "1" without altering the universe even a tiny bit. It however dictates one rule - no addition is allowed - a universe with singular operation - of multiplication. It also means if you must have addition then all things made with additions must add together to "zero" - they must cancel each other out to zero because "zero" is free from the additive property.

In a multiplicative universe of "one" infinite instances exist - in an additive world there must be a mirror image - an anti particle to balance it out to just "zero". The multiplicative world is beyond perception simply because it is infinite - the additive world is perceivable only if mirror images are separated or else there is simply "nothing" - a zero sum game!

The mentor got his flow - Now that we are comfortable with the idea of "zero" and "one", let's talk about the primes. The way I like to think about prime numbers is they are the only numbers that exist independently - rest every number is their product. In essence, primes are like scaffoldings that carry "unity" to every other number - including themselves because they are also divisible by "one".

Both Fairy and the Friend were trying to wrap their minds around what just passed through their ears. They were getting the sense of it - that Mentor was leading them to a better appreciation of "unity" - but how!

As if Mentor read their expression - Let me explain it with a simple example. Let's take a small composite number - say "8". He thought for a bit - let me draw it for you ...

He said while looking for a pen and paper - the number "8" has prime factors 2 x 2 x 2. We can display it as say the boats docked on a wharf.

Mathematically, you may say that the prime factors of eight are only 2 x 2 x 2 - as such it has nothing to do with number five or number seven - but in order for every single boat to be bear an independent identity on this dock, we used all the primes less than 8. If you consider each prime as a unique prop, the number "8" has all the pre-existing scaffolds - for lack of a better word! - smiled the Mentor.

Very interesting - said the Fairy - I never thought it in this light but it makes sense!

In my field, I had say that it is a multilayered "one way function" - responded the Mentor - if "unity" was a text message , every one of those eight boats encrypt that message in a unique way. In that every leaf on a tree is uniquely identifiable but it hold with in it the same one knowledge.

Wow, that was quite a punch line - thought the Friend but out loud she spoke - But then how this number theory related to the story of Ganga and Shantanu?

Good that you didn't ask me how to decrypt this natural "trapdoor [^trap] " - for no one knows that - the Mentor smiled - as for Ganga, I think she understood the significance of Eight. Though she probably didn't think it in terms of numbers. She learnt it through real experience of rivers. She noticed four rivers tied up eight frozen lakes (glaciers) - he paused for a second - it will be easy if you see this map. He removed many layers of books from the table to spread a big old map of Gangotri region - the birth place of Ganges.

In a way, the identity of Ganges was the entire glacial region that she could access as eight frozen water falls (glaciers) and the purpose of Ganges - she thought - was to unite the knowledge of their existence into one. Ganges brought mountains (her home) to the plains through a primal scheme and to Ganga that schema was auspicious. Later, modern geologists marvel at this scheme in the sense such a vast glacier system ultimately manifests into just "one" perennial mega-river. Just like the locals, they too see the magic of God's gift.

Keep in mind the glacier is retreating almost two miles per century. I spent quite some time in this place - the locals told me every few years a new stream is formed and others vanish because of glacial motion. That is the reason you see many more tributaries now spread around the main rivers in 100 to 150 miles range.

The lunch was a light chit chat. During the discussion, he fired a print command - old dot matrix printer sitting by the desktop started whirring. He grabbed two copies of printed pages. Handing over one to each, he said - here, I wrote down the story of Ganga and Shantanu thinking you will need some sort of document to build your scenes.

They both quickly glanced at the sheets, chewing their Pizzas.

You can read it on your flight back. For now I suggest you two go around the lake for this beautiful day is not to be wasted listening to an old-man. I have given quite a bit of geography to let you better visualize the locale. Rest is your creativity - he smiled.

Ashtdha - Eight Fold ..

The other side of the river Yamuna belonged to the empire. Shantanu — A king known for his justice, wealth and valor in the lineage of even bigger names. His empire was primarily spread between rivers Yamuna, Sarswati and Ganges. On the north it reached the peaks of Himalayas that protected it's border like a wall of snow, and also a perennial source of fresh water to all the rivers and hundreds of tributaries that joined them to form a complex mesh of Ganges-Yamuna river system.

In the absence of freeways, most big cities shaped up along the rivers, including Hastinapur — the capital city of Shantanu. In addition to pure water, the river system served as the primary transport layer. Wood, Weapons, and Produce, moved through the rivers. In other words, the river system was the lifeline of this empire. King had built large wooden floaters that were used to carry rice and wheat downstream, and were taken over for moving military supplies during the war-times. It was easy to move the things down-stream but upstream traffic was still a mystery. Many times they used elephants to move the cargo upstream but in deeper stretches it was hard. Nevertheless, the elephants and their owners were important part of lumber and grain movement.

And there was another problem. Rampant floods made living near the rivers a major risk. There was a need to make sure water stayed in the rivers. While there were many rituals designed to appease the Gods of rain, people were figuring out means to deepen the rivers, particularly in stretches where the depth was shallow and thus rivers used to spread in miles. Though most of their efforts lacked the top down planning and also innovation of tools. No one had made it a mission of their lives.

As the king circled right of the middle age, he got interested in music, religion and philosophy. Expansion of his kingdom dropped off the priority. He wanted his people safe, well-fed and well taken care. Luckily, his son, Devvrata was even more prudent in managing the vast province. In addition to being a warrior par excellence, he brought primal understanding of the water ways. He developed the signalling system with pigeon points located along the river banks — to serve as early warning system for the floods. He had his large teams of soldiers and craftsmen build the wooden bridges, transport jetties, docks, dams and water locks.

This deep knowledge of the rivers made him popular. People started calling him Ganga-putra — the son of Ganges! The ancient Vaidik system was a matriarchy where able offspring bore the name of their mothers though in this case it was quite appropriate. His work brought prosperity and security to the kingdom never seen before. People said that the skills that Devvrata had, were natural to him because he was son of Ganga (Hindi name for the river Ganges). That was true because name of his 'human' mother was Ganga too; though the hyperbole is Ganga (the mother) was a true incarnation of the river itself - literally.

Even the scripture noted that river Ganges manifested into a beautiful woman called Ganga to bear Devvrata and seven other Vasus - the elemental deities. In Mahabharata, Vasus are considered as eight identities of the manifestation ..

| Vasu | Meaning | |:-------------------|:------------------| | Dhara | Earth | | Aapa | Water | | Anala | Fire | | Anila | Wind | | Pratyusha | Sun | | Prabhasa | Sky | | Dhruva | North Star |

It was believed that the Vasus, long before Kalmashpada, wanted to steal Kaamdhenu - the knowledge of Vasishtha's congregation and were thus cursed to be born as humans.

11.1

Just like the pious river, Dev's real mother was born on the peaks of Himalayas — near the birth place of river Ganges — a place called Gangotri. She grew up navigating the rivers in her small kayak — playing and moving fast through the dangerous rapids of Ganges in tall mountains of it's decent. Her fascination for the water and that for river Ganges, was such that she used to spend all her time on the river. The local villagers started calling her Ganga — after the name of the river in local dialect. People forgot her real name — not that it mattered anymore, for she was a true embodiment of Ganges — through her actions (Karma)

As she got into her teens, she and her friends would go on longer voyages in Ganges. Many times for days and weeks. They designed two person Kayaks. They would kayak downstream through rapids and falls, and then carry them back on their shoulders — two persons supporting one Kayak. Climbing the mountains with Kayaks on their backs, used to be painfully long, and arduous — sometimes through the thick uncharted forests. Her dream was to design a boat that could sail upstream. Or something that could sail the boats up without depending on elephants. She didn't know yet that she was imagining "water-locks" in her teen mind.

Even more cherished dream was to find out how and where 'Ganges' ended? She had heard (from travelers) that the mighty river finally met into a vast ocean that could retain water of a thousand rivers! Ganga used to wonder why couldn't they make an ocean right here in Himalayas, to store the water for irrigation and boating. Little did the young girl know that stopping the water is like stopping the circle of life. And she learnt it as she entered her early youth. In a way Ganges was a definition of time for her. Her childhood in Gangotri — the origin of the river ; her teens in the upper rapids ; her youth in the flat stretch where the mighty river walked like a gorgeous woman of reason, action, and pride. And she wanted to see the endless sea to mark the completion of her time!

Longer voyages, and turn to adulthood, made it clear to Ganga that the floods were the biggest problems for common people downstream. In one of her trips, she saw the devastation firsthand, when she and her crew, narrowly escaped the swelling river. The legend says that the real Ganga was born out of that massive swell. They probably meant that the resolve, and the dedication to a singular focus in her life, incarnated out of that flood. Without saying out loud, she started a mission to deepen Ganges wherever it was flattish. She wanted to bound the river with in two banks. Bondage is a prerequisite to manifest - she must have thought.

Good deeds gain support from the masses. Her crew grew in size and skills. Starting from the very top near the origins, she and her team finally reached the plains — working through one gorge to the next. It was as if she (and her team) shaped a new Ganges. They were welcomed by the local people as they brought skills to deepen a running river. They had designed tools to form a constellation of Kayaks tied to each other with ropes, and then lower a heavy metal harvester to scour the bottom. Many times they recovered valuables, but the business was not risk free. Many died in these pursuits. True to her name, Ganga committed her life to this cause that turned into a long series of semi-engineering projects. The work, however, was not conflict free. Deeper river meant that elephants had even harder time moving the floaters upstream.

Her work, along with the negative politics of rich cargo movers, got her so popular that the news reached the king Shantanu. He was happy to see people taking on the public works in their hands rather than depending solely on the high priests or the king, but the elephant owners were important for the movement of goods, and they were a major revenue stream for the kingdom. He wanted to settle the disputes himself. In addition, he wanted to see if the tools and boats her team designed could be used to anchor his army, mid-stream, in a fast running river. A definite advantage in war-times.

He also wanted to lend the official support to the project(s) for the public opinion was with her, NOT the cargo movers. But most importantly he wanted to see Ganga — the woman every one talked about for her courage, charisma and dedication.

11.2

It was love at first sight.

Being of the age when passion knows no bounds, the King admired Ganga for her altruism and engineering prowess, and she admired the king for his zest to make people's life better. They talked for hours. She was never tired of detailing her expeditions and he was never tired of listening to her. One fine evening, Shantanu proposed to Ganga. He offered her the first (and the only) queen of the vast empire.

She had her heart out for the king, but she was dedicated to the cause. Being a queen meant to be stationed at the capital with thousands of chores that come with the crown. Like the river, her flow was unstoppable. She was free, and she wanted to stay that way.

I don't want to give up my mission that brought you to me in the first place — she told Shanatnu with love in her eyes and passion in her words — we may meet here as long as you are willing to see me at Ganges !

But I can't stay here for ever. I must attend to my people — said Shantanu, bit confused with Ganga's proposal.

You may leave as you need to. Your duties as a king, to your people are ever more than our obligations to each other — said Ganga — and come back when you crave for me.

Such an arrangement was not new — there was even a name for it — Gandhrva Vivah — A marriage among equals with no strings attached.

The counter proposal seemed fair to Shantanu for he was hardly stationed at his capital. And most of the times he was anyway sailing through Ganges or Yamuna - I do need an heir for this vast empire. Someone who has your passion and love for my people - he told Ganga holding both her hands.

Ganga thought for a while - I will give you one and it will be the eighth of our union. An "Identity" for our love. Like the seven colors of the rainbow, the first seven will combine their skills into the youngest. One that would make you proud. And also have a life long commitment to our people. But we will need to go to Bramh-rishi Vasishtha to forge this union. He can ordain a wedding for us such that our bond not only manifest what we want but also sets us free from previous bondages.

11.3

Bramh-rishi welcomed both Ganga and Shantanu with his grand son Parasara. He had rebuilt his congregation after attack on kaam-dhenu that took his son Sakti Muni though this was not the first attempt to steal the wealth of people. He recalled eight Vasus (Deities of the fist order) had tried to steal from the congregation whom he had cursed a life of mediocrity. On their pleading guilty and humble appeal for repentance, he blessed them an exit from the curse. They would still take birth like men but their life would be for a purpose bigger than what they could do as Wizards. An attempt to steal knowledge, must be repaid with a lifetime of service to the common man - to whom "knowledge" truly belonged. Bramh-rishi saw Shantanu and Ganga as the best couple to parent the cursed Wizards - to offer them a superior chance at the public service.

Bramh-rishi if I have permission to speak - asked Ganga. Seeing the bearer of primordial knowledge nod, she submitted - we want one of our children to truly represent our bond. And one of them such who could serve the people as much as the King does, and I care. "Able progeny" is the biggest gift a couple could ask - in this case the ask was for the greater good.

Vasishtha was pleased at the good will of the young girl - seven verses to bless your bond into an identity that you seek Ganga. Seven verses - each to serve as a primal joint for this union. Seven of your sons will shine as as seven colors of the rainbow. Together they would blossom into eighth who would be oriented from the very first breath as you seek. One who would make both of you proud. His name shall be the centerpiece of the history [^history]

Bramh-rishi asked Parasara to light up a Vaidik fire. All the Yogies and their families stood around the holy fire as Ganga and Shantnu took seven circles of the fire. One with each verse:

First verse

The ceremony started with a Swastivachan - a good wish from all the present - all the witnesses of the union.

Ihemavindra Samnudam Chakravakev Dampati;

Prajyouno Swastikou Viswamayurvya Ashnutaam.

O Lord, may you bring this couple together, like a pair of Charavaka ducks. They may bear auspicious children. Their union is for such progeny that set an example for entire world to follow!

second verse

Bramh-rishi pointed towards Ganga to invoke this second verse in herself ..

Dhairham Prithvitvam;

Raitoham, raitobritvam;

Manohamsmi Vaaktvam;

Saamhasmi Rikarvam;

Sa Mam, Anuvrata bhav.

I am the sky, you are the earth;

I radiate energy and you hold it to manifest things in this physical world;

I am the thought (Mana) and you are the words.

I am Saama the music, and you are Rika the song

I and you follow each other.

Third verse

This is bride's expression of Trust in this union - said Bramh-rishi as he recited one of his own verse ..

Tat Chakshuh Devhitam, Shukram Uccharta;

Pashyema Shardah Shatam, Jeevema Shardah Shatam.

Your foresight favours the work of Deities. Your auspicious vision is bright and rising. It may pan out for next hundred years. May we live to see it taking shape.

Fourth Verse

Having moved with Ganga's expression of Trust, Shantanu made worldly commitments. In the fourth verse he said ..

Dharmecha Arthecha Kaamecha, Imam Naticharami;

Dharmecha Arthecha Kaamecha, Imum Naticharami.

In my Duties (Dharmecha), In my financial responsibilities (Arthecha) and in my physical needs (Kaamecha), I will always consult you. I will actively seek and act per consensus.

Fifth verse

And also moved with bride's expression of spiritual love, Shantanu thanked the Gods for this good fortune. He praised the deities for bringing Ganga to his life. He said ..

Gribhnami te Soubhagstvay, Hastam Maya Patya Jardishtirysthasa;

Bhago Aryama Savita Purandhir Mayama Tva Durgahptyay Devah.

I thank the deities of enjoyment (Bhaga) , deity of wisdom (Aryama) and the deity of the creative force (Savitaru) for bringing you in my life. Not only these deities , I thank the entire universe Purandhir a name of Bramha , for the good fortune of being together.

Sixth verse

The sixth verse was the celebration of companionship. They wished not to lose this friendship even if they lose everything else.

Sakha Saptpada Bhav;

Sakhayou Saptpada Babhoove;

Sakhyam Te Gameyam

Sakyat te Mayosham

Sakhyanme Mayoshthah

O friend we are taking seven steps together.

Having gotten the taste of your company, I am enchanted with the magic of your companionship.

It's you who I always talk about. Your conversations are always on my lips.

Seventh verse

Saha Naav[au]-Avatu | Saha Nau Bhunaktu | Saha Veeryam Karava Vahai |

Tejasvi Naav[au]-Adhiitam-Astu Maa Vidvissaavahai |

May we two Move Together,

May we two Relish Together ;

May we indulge in our objectives with Vigor ,

May we never doubt or be jealous of each other.

11.4

Dev was a divine gift from river Ganga. At an early age he understood the intricacies of motion of water. The last of eight brothers, all of whom dedicated their lives to improve peoples' lives. Two of them were sent to the North by Ganga to create a map of Ganges and source glaciers. Other two went South East where Ganges meets the ocean. They too had the similar goal — charter Ganges path to the ocean. Ganga wanted complete picture of the Ganges — from the mountains of her birth to the ocean of it's salvage. Brothers coordinated their work through pigeons to draw one comprehensive map of river system that makes the most fertile plains of North India.

The hyperbole is that Ganga threw her first seven kids back into the Ganges, which is not entirely wrong because they did serve their lives to the cause of the mighty river.

Fifth brother worked on setting up bridges on Ganges. Sixth worked on techniques to move the boats and tree logs upstream through a system of water locks. Seventh on making levies for low-lying villages where floods caused havoc in rainy seasons.

Having learnt from all his brothers, who had dedicated their lives to Ganges, the youngest Dev pulled the biggest of all engineering feats at a young age. He built a dam and changed the direction of Ganges such that more people could get help from the waters. During rainy seasons, the dam could be opened to let the water flow in two streams. People thought he was the water bender. They named him Ganga-putra — Son of Ganges — the river. Dev's life mission was to stay true to the kingdom and it's people. A vow that he carried till his last breath.

Good times go fast. Ganga had to move South East, towards the point where Yamuna met Ganges. King and Dev were left behind. Busy in serving the river and people, she wanted to continue to follow her dream. She wanted to see the grand unified river merge into the vast ocean. And she thought meeting the ocean was her final destination, just like it was for the river.

[^igs]: Intelligent GPS systems were - IGS were set up in late 90s , inspired by the Hollywood movie "Minority Report". Early break through in Google Maps led to the idea if GPS based AI models could predict the near future location of a crime or an accident. The public face of the effort was "Traffic Prediction". Not that the technology was still early alpha, soon they realized that predicting the present (the next action) was almost impossible. The project was abandoned in 2020. Google did share the map history of everyone. They acknowledged that they did keep track of everyone's geographical location but for most it was not a bad thing. They thought it was an additional free service Google is providing. Even those with inner knowledge of the project, didn't see any issue in this. The project data was archived and it found it's use in obscure things such as "Zero Footprint locations" - pockets of land where humans have never gone. Such locations need not be things like North or South poles. These locations may exist in your backyard.

[^trap]: in Mathematics, a trapdoor function is one that we may compute very easily in one direction but finding the inverse is almost impossible. More here on wikipedia. In mathematical terms, if f is a trapdoor function, then there exists some secret information t, such that given f(x) and t, it is easy to compute x. Consider a padlock and its key. It is trivial to change the padlock from open to closed without using the key, by pushing the shackle into the lock mechanism. Opening the padlock easily, however, requires the key to be used. Here the key t is the trapdoor and the padlock is the trapdoor function. Philosophically speaking, our observable universe is a padlock and we are searching for the keys - the trapdoor to unlock the mysterious that upholds this experience.

[^history]: The eighth son of Ganga and Shantanu was Devvrata, commonly known as Bheeshma. The biggest and central chapter of Mahabharata is called Bheeshma Parv. As the name suggests the entire chapter is centered around Bheeshma. Srimadbhagvad Gita the most potent piece of knowledge in human history is at the center of Bheeshma Parva.

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A week flew by and the Friend didn't get any "creative inspiration". She did research on Prime Numbers aka watched many Youtube videos. And then Youtube started feeding her with more and more on Prime numbers. How can the AI algos be so dumb - she thought - not even basic decency to hide the raw intent - desire to get a click ! A pressure was building in her to get going with the scene but something was amiss that she couldn't verbalize to herself. It became clear when she saw her boyfriend.

Whats up ? - he asked - you seem to be lost - said the Boyfriend - they were early to their regular club. Their usual weekend watering hole with Fairy and Angel.

Well ! - I signed up for doing this small historical narrative but somehow, I am not getting the hook. Where should I start. And she passed on the printed story to the Boyfriend.

Wow - you have a print out - must be very important - he said!

It's not an ordinary printout. It is done on a dot matrix printer - she laughed.

Seems like someone trying to glorify a river - he said after a quick read in couple of minutes - not bad though - you can get some good visuals of the rapids and the mountains on "Unity" stock library. In fact, you can simply text prompt "Unreal AI" to render this scene for you in immersive video - said the Boyfriend - this looks pretty straightforward.

That is least of my problems. I can figure out the tool set - she looked at the Boyfriend as if he was preaching to the choir - the reason we went to see this guy - all the way to Lake Tahoe - was to understand what happened to Matsya and he gave us a download on Ganga - a completely different character.

Suddenly she realized what was missing! There was no connection! She was not emotionally invested in Shantanu or Ganga as she was in Matsya.

Who is Matsya anyways - the Boyfriend played along - wait, you went to Tahoe to get this scene? Is it a big client!

Umm - No ! That is a long story - are you on Fairy's social relay?

Yes, I am but lately I didn't check up - been busy for the rules are changing. Whales are trying to force us out of the work - he tried to share his boring life but she didn't appear interested. Creatives don't get the tech - a fleeting thought he didn't feel necessary to verbalize though he had this thing with the studios - mostly his clients - what exactly these people do! I mean anyone could have AI render a 3D immersive video with realistic audio. What value these so called "creatives" bring to the table? Yet, the world seems to be obsessed with designers of spaces and sequences and what not in the unreal world. He still had some respect for the original writers, particularly those with the writers' guild who pledged never to use AI prompts to write long texts. They were the ones - he thought - still had a chance at saving human ingenuity - all other art forms were almost dead. But what could anyone do? - he wondered - for virtual worlds were the primary stage of communication these days. Long gone were the days when people went to a live concert or a circus as he used to go with his parents. Things changed so fast. Kids these days may never get a chance to know what real fun was!

She picked up his phone - showed it to his face to unlock; and opened the post - read this while I get you a drink. Yes he still used cell phones (like many in his generation) for most of the younger ones were opting for implants these days. Even parents were keen to request implants for the newborns - parenting was so much easier with implanted infants. They started talking as early as six months - walking by eight. And experiments showed that early implanted kids would be exponentially better adapt at letting their brains be used by AI during sleep - the best way to get nine hours of refreshing vivid dreams while implants used real neural networks to solve the real world problems - the modern way to contribute and get paid as well!

Holy crap - I heard a man was burnt alive in the forest fire but I didn't know Fairy had tried to rescue him - he said as the Friend got back holding two IPAs back to the table - their usual ones.

Oh - that is not the point. We were talking about the story in the post - Parāśara and Matsya. She was about to dig a little deeper when she felt a pat on her shoulder. She saw Fairy as she turned around - think of the devil - she smiled at her - where is your Mister Angel!

He should be here any minute. He said he would fly in direct from work - said Fairy - remember he was gone for a week - Did you guys order some food - I got to eat just one wild berry all day long ! I am more hungry than Matsya was - she smiled ! The reference made "Boyfriend" cringe if he was missing something really important.

They were in the middle of ordering food when Angel joined in - 16 oz of hazy IPA for me. I had a big lunch late in the afternoon - he looked at everyone.

How was your meet up with Mentor? - he asked sitting down - no greetings. Angel was always quick to the business particularly with those he knew.

First of all I was not told that I was signing up for a job - she gave Fairy a "look" while responding to Angel - and second, the Mentor gave us something that we were not even looking for. I feel like you were gaming us!

Oh ya - added Fairy - I was like what happened to Matsya! And why is it so important to dig deep into Shantanu. Seemed totally unconnected to be fair!

The Boyfriend passed on the printed sheet to the Angel - can someone bring me to speed whats going on! - His voice lost in the growing chatter with in the joint.

Let me call him on his landline right away - said the mentor as he finished reading the sheet - he wanted to make sure the Fairy and her Friend were fully plugged into the story (instead of the actual incident). Unlike the "Boyfriend" he read it couple of times as if he was trying to find some connections to defend his position. But none.

Couple minutes into the call - even before he laid out the concern to the Mentor - he looked at the Friend - after putting his phone on mute - he is saying he emailed the next part to you the very next day. He couldn't finish the entire piece before you reached there, so he wrote it up after you left and emailed the same night or probably the next day. Did you get it ? And he is asking if he could see it sometime next week - may be a draft version.

Now it was the turn for the Friend for look down. Fairy didn't lose the chance to reciprocate with a "LOOK" - Talk about communication ! - Fairy said with a whimsical face; raising both her hands.

Who checks emails these days! - The Friend was furious as she looked through her personal inbox. It was there - unopened and unread! She giggled at herself - at least he should have sent it to all so that we could remind each other if one missed.

The first thing she did was to forward the email to all without even opening the attachment. Everyone on the table - including her Boyfriend - he too was part of the project now. She looked at him with a smile - you are also recruited now :-)

Her Boyfriend ran a small payments firm that helped independent creatives (like her) process micro payment for their creative work. Despite public payment rails in virtual worlds, whales were charging a hefty fee - even on the tips. He helped small shops set up their own payment nodes and relays to save a better part of their earnings. He was delighted when he read the second part. He couldn't believe that Shantanu was in the roots of his business - Payments or Currency. He was the first who used "King's stamp" to turn a wooden block into an "IOU". They called it Mudra - the stamp.

The literal meaning of the Sanskrit word Mudra is the stamp. But since the earlier currencies were nothing but king's stamp on piece of wood or leather, the currency itself was called Mudra.

Mudra

Shantanu was left alone. More he tried to stop Ganga more quickly she wanted to leave. She pointed to the king that he can't stop the flow of water, and time. But the life did stop pulsing for Shantanu. He lost faith in reality. If he, despite being a king, couldn't retain his love, what was the point of all the wealth and the armies. At times, he wanted to renounce the world but Dev was still not old enough to handle the politics. He didn't want his son to pay the price of his messed up love life.

Ganga didn't see this change as a "break-up". Her point being - marriage was for a purpose - to bear the children. And more importantly to find a suitable heir for the most prosperous kingdom on the face of Earth. She was glad their union brought Dev to life who was unanimously agreed upon as a worthy successor despite being the youngest in all the princes. (The convention was the crown went to the oldest prince).

Not only the youngest, he was born out of an unconventional wed lock. She was in fact relieved off of a big responsibility. It was one thing to convince a lover for an unorthodox wedding but it was a tremendous weight to live the life under microscope. Everything had changed. And the expectation that she must give the kingdom its prince swept her normal life as if Ganges would sweep away an empty boat. Though she was still waterborne and on her projects, her mind was always preoccupied in safety and education of Dev. Now that he was old enough, she wanted to resume the life that she had always envisioned for herself. Shantanu, however, didn't see the things with same eyes. Ganga felt her purpose as a mother fulfilled the day Dev was anointed the "Prince" of the land. Shantanu thought it was a mere beginning to the long and arduous journey to become a real King.

Even the decision to "move on" was not conflict free - people talk. The public opinion was the king had to pay the price for his recklessness. They said it was the result of not following the laid down rituals of 'High Priests'. A king's wedding should have happened as per the protocol. The politics with in his circles got trickier as many big houses wanted their girls wedded into the monarchy. They had many lobbyists, trying to pursue in merits of never keeping the crown without a queen. Saying a ‘no’, to a proposal, was always a ‘lose-lose’ situation. But no one felt like Ganga to Shantanu. Nothing clicked like she did.

What Shantanu didn't realize - he was given an opportunity to see the life from a different vantage - an exact opposite one. His life was steady with Ganga's love anchoring him and now he felt rudderless. His council who were so appreciative of him for going out of the norms of wedding were now doubting his actions. He felt cheated at times - an emotion he was never even exposed to as a king. He didn't know a thing that he couldn't get and now the most important part of his life was gone and he couldn't do anything about it. Suddenly he felt old and helpless. Destiny was trying to show him both sides of the coin. There was no way to run away from this reality unless he knew how to run away from his own being - his existence was on question in his own mind. How can someone dump a king and yet he was not over her. How should he face his people or his court. What must they be thinking of a man whose love let him down! He was not even sure if he should continue to love her or hate her publicly.

He also didn't realize probably Ganga wanted him to feel scarcity

12.1

He tried to get out of grief in hunting and drinking but nothing worked. The only thing that made him lose himself was the work. Work turned into passion for him. He didn't understand that it was the Karm Yoga that was pulling him out of separation anxiety, and plugging him back to the real world, but he could feel the presence of something magical. More he focused on work, more interesting it became. People slowly forgot his marriage debacle and they started appreciating the tireless efforts he had put in getting the complex balance of power into an absolute equilibrium.

The opportunity to see his life from an opposite perspective brought compassion to his life. He found himself much fuller and appreciative of the gifts of the nature. Many doors opened up into his own being. The desires were to work for work's sake; not for the outcomes. Such a dispassionate view brought objectivity to his decisions. For example he handled the problem of Asuras not as a king but as someone who understood their point of view — he offered them their own land and allowed autonomy to practice whatever faith they wanted in their own dedicated kingdom. All without using a single arrow — through endless negotiations and diplomacy. For the first time in known history, peace was restored through compassion, not through war.

He took the works started by Ganga to fruition. Every city and village was connected through bridges. A vast irrigation system was set up. Dev led all these developmental efforts. He made sure no one in his kingdom slept hungry, without a roof or without proper clothes. The three basics were the responsibility of the state. As the prince turned into a flawless statesman, the king, finally thought taking time off for himself. He wanted to spend more time visiting regions around Yamuna, for he thought he spent more time on Ganges. And he wanted to meet grass root people — to understand their lives — live like them — face the pleasures and pains of life like a commoner.

Ganga's absence did to him what she always wanted him to do when they were together. May be she understood that the only way to have Shantanu live and mix with his own people was to leave a big hole in his life. Something that he couldn't fill up even with the privileges of a king. He must have something that was beyond his means - like a common man who wouldn't get the things he and his family craved for. King must feel scarcity himself to be able to appreciate the plight of lesser ones.

12.2

Living with ordinary people in villages inland off the banks of rivers, Shantanu realized the next big problem in his peoples' life - after floods - was also related to the water - the lack of clean drinking water. People who could afford to live on or near banks of Ganges felt blessed because the water was sparkling clean. As if transported directly from the glaciers. But living on the bank of Ganges was costly and it was getting more unaffordable as the cities expanded along the length of Ganges. The water in ponds and even smaller tributaries was muddy. Some people ventured inland by digging up the wells but getting to a depth where water was as clean as Ganges was tough. That meant the vast expanse of land stayed unused. Shantanu understood he would never have realized the pain of people had Ganga not left him. Some simple problems are hard to understand through think-tanks and focus groups. You need to live them to know! And the solutions appear rather trivial in the beginning ..

The King started a new public service - to supply water from Ganges to those with in a day long walk - say from five to ten miles. People closer than five miles could walk to get their own water but it was lot harder for the farther distances - particularly for older populations. He recruited young men to carry Gangajal (Ganges water) to villages and sometimes even to the door steps. The program became a success but soon accountability became an issue. How to make sure that every home got the drinking water and carriers were paid their dues on daily basis. Dev came up with a brilliant idea.

Dev thought why not distribute King's seal stamped on a piece of wood to all the villages. Village head would return the wooden seal in exchange of the water from Ganges. Wooden seals were easy to distribute and village heads could collect them whenever they ran out of them. On the other hand, the water carriers would deposit the seals back to the King's exchequer and receive a copper coin for the service. He already had carpenters and his accountants along the length of Ganges to implement this service.

Starting as a small project with in the capital, the program got expanded to the entire kingdom and allowed villages to move further inland. King was happy that Ganges' water was reaching everyone. In essence the Ganges water become a gift of the King. He was satisfied that he did what even Ganga couldn't think of and he wished someone would let her know. Would she be proud of him? Would she return to see the villages deep inland getting the source of life. As the time passed, villages started exchanging the king's seal within themselves for say grain, milk or fruits; in case they didn't need water on a specific day. Accounting system to track the distributed seals was put in place.

This was probably the beginning of sovereign tokens backed by precious metals though we have no proof for it. What we know for sure is even today millions of Hindus walk hundreds of miles to get Ganges water twice an year. Known as Kanwariays, they deliver Ganges water to almost every home in India. The common belief is every Hindu home must have Gangajal for the rituals. At the very least for administering few drops to ones on the death bed. It is believed that a drop of Gangajal just before the death makes sure one reincarnates in better conditions than current.

Carrying Gangajal for ten miles was the "proof of work" that made a piece of wood equivalent to a copper coin. An equal weight of copper was set aside to balance a state issued wooden currency. Stamping wooden currency was lot easier than forging metal. We have obviously degraded from first principles - "one on one backing". Sovereigns these days issue paper currency helter skelter though the tradition of carrying Ganges water still survived; and thrives in North India - particularly in the area of Kuru Kingdom.

One innovation leads to another. Many water carriers started using two wheel carriages to move buckets of water. This led to construction of in lands roads. One silver coin was equated to ten copper coins and so was one Gold coin to ten Silvers. Gold and Silver were treated as the store of value while copper coins and wooden seals became the transaction currencies. A new way to value creation was unleashed through road work, carpentry and mining activities.

Having made sure that the kingdom was on auto-pilot, and Dev was fully plugged in, Shantanu handed over the reins to the prince and took on this long journey to the farthest reaches of his state. Part of his motivation was to see if Dev could run the kingdom in his absence. And the other part was obviously to let go the responsibilities and live his own life for whatever was left of it after Ganga. As part of his journey, he paid visits to many Ashramas and Gurukuls to earn good will as well to find the deeper meaning of life and it's purpose.

Many months into the journey, king felt most of his local representatives were spending enormous time (and effort), on rituals rather than putting in hard work to resolve the problems of common people. There was a ritual designed to address every type of problem - be it a flood, or no rain or even famine. He was not sure how to handle this problem. What is the right path? He had heard that Maharishi Parāśara advocated another path to peace. A path focused more on Karma than investing time and resources in pleasing the deities. And it had been a while he visited Madhu forest. A part of his kingdom, that still had infiltration of Asuras. It had to be a clandestine visit — he didn't want to shake up the power structure of Naad Yogies around the monarchy without first having good connect with Maharishi and a deeper look at his ideology.

As the king was mulling over theses plans, a pigeon brought the message of Maharishi. The plans precipitated into actions. King must rally the help that Maharishi needed, but first he must meet the Yogi face to face — to understand the situation on the ground.

12.3

King and his chosen men, set up a camp many miles before Yamuna in a part of the forest that was rarely visited by locals. Forest was dense, such that even the fire smoke was beyond anyone's easy notice. Ashrama of Maharishi Parāśara was across the river. He had heard about the philosophy of Maharishi, and his tacit support for scribing. The other side of Yamuna was beyond his official territory - claimed by variety of Asura lords since his last visit almost twenty years back.

He had heard that Ugrasen brought peace to this part of the frontiers with help from Maharishi though he had never personally seen Ugrasen. He didn't know that Kansa had put his father and siblings into house arrest though being out of his jurisdiction, it wasn't on his political radar anyways.

No one objected to people crossing state boundaries but for a king, it could be deemed as an act of aggression - it could trigger a political situation. To avoid unnecessary conflict, Shantanu decided to dress up like a commoner and cross the river with normal commuters. Not even his body guards.

He tied his horse a mile before the docks and walked like a peasant to the docks. It was not uncommon for Shantanu to visit parts of his state dressed like a farmer or a blacksmith. It was a common practice for kings (and ministers) to mix with masses to get a pulse on the "state of the union". The only difference here was he was heading to an uncharted territory. In a way, it was exciting for Shantanu for he was tired of the security cordon that came with a position of power. He wanted to feel unsecured, and unhinged.

As the luck would have it, Satyawati's boat reached this side of the bank as soon as Shantanu arrived there. A sandalwood fragrance captured the bank. Deers and peacocks flocked to the bank along with waiting commuters to get a chance on Satyawati's magical boat. King was mesmerized by the scene. Being dressed like a commoner, he too got into the line to get on the boat.

The ride took more than an hour but for Shantanu, the time stood still. He was almost staring at Satyawati and when she started singing, with the waves of Yamuna, he was teleported to another world. First time in years, he wanted to fall in love. He wanted to keep listening to Satyawati's folk songs rooted in morning raagas. He had never thought music could be so evoking.

The boat reached the village wharf, commuters started disembarking. Shantanu kept sitting in the boat. Someone nudged him that it was time to get down. People were throwing the fare in a bucket tied to the mast, expressing their thanks to the crew for a beautiful morning ride and hurried to their daily chores. Shantanu got up and without a word, he dropped all the gold coins he was carrying in the bucket.

He hadn't even walked few yards that he heard Satyawati. As he turned back, she was getting off the boat — Sir, looks like you left all your wealth for us! She had gold coins in her hand and she wanted to return them back.

These pieces of metal are nothing for the experience I had this morning ! — said the disguised king — maybe you can give me a ride back in the evening for I have nothing left on me. And he turned and walked away from the bank. Another minute there, and he thought he would fall for the beautiful woman. She is definitely not of this village - he thought, maybe not even an earthling.

Where are you heading to? — asked Satyawati — still not sure if she should take so much Gold. She was sure Dashraaj would be pleased, but something in her felt that this wasn't a common commuter.

I am going to see Maharishi Parāśara. Would you be kind enough to point me the direction. I heard he lives nearby — said Shantanu.

The Ashram is half a mile to the North — Satyawati quickly added — and I will be here waiting for you to get you back across Yamuna. And she raised her hand. She felt as if Maharishi's prophecy was taking shape. This is the man that she was waiting for. Despite his middle age, he had an aura of a statesman. Satyawati was drawn to him. The fact that he was rich and he left everything he had for her was a sign that she was looking for.

As for king, a desire took birth. A feeling he had lost after Ganga, and the one he thought he forgot after years of being obsessed with his work. He wanted to live this new desire. After a long time, he asked something for himself. He might get that from Yamuna what he lost in Ganges - he thought, as he walked to the Ashrama ... but how? Is it destiny playing another trick with him? One thing he was sure — it was real and he could see that in Satyawati's eyes. She wanted something more than all the gold he could give!

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Table Of Content

• Factors behind the Rise in Bitcoin's Hash Rate

• Implications of the Rise in Bitcoin's Hash Rate

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin's hash rate has been skyrocketing lately, with the mining difficulty hitting all-time highs. This surge in hash rate has left many wondering about the reasons behind it and its implications for the cryptocurrency industry. In this article, we will explore the factors contributing to the rise in Bitcoin's hash rate and the implications of this development.

Factors behind the Rise in Bitcoin's Hash Rate:

Increase in the number of miners One of the primary factors behind the rise in Bitcoin's hash rate is the increase in the number of miners. As the price of Bitcoin continues to surge, more and more people are entering the mining space, trying to capitalize on the opportunity to earn profits. This has led to an increase in the number of miners, which, in turn, has resulted in a surge in hash rate.

Improved Mining Hardware Another reason for the increase in hash rate is the improvement in mining hardware. As the demand for Bitcoin continues to rise, mining hardware manufacturers are constantly innovating and improving their products to meet the demand. This has resulted in more efficient and powerful mining hardware that can process more transactions in less time, leading to an increase in hash rate.

Increase in Institutional Investment

Institutional investors are increasingly investing in Bitcoin, resulting in an increase in the overall hash rate. These investors have more resources and can afford to purchase high-end mining equipment, which leads to an increase in hash rate.

Halving

Bitcoin undergoes a halving event every four years, which reduces the reward for miners. This event is designed to control the supply of Bitcoin and maintain its value. However, it also has the effect of reducing the number of miners, which results in a drop in hash rate. After each halving event, it takes some time for the hash rate to recover, and this could be a contributing factor to the recent surge in hash rate.

Implications of the Rise in Bitcoin's Hash Rate:

Increased Security: The rise in hash rate means that the Bitcoin network is becoming more secure. The higher the hash rate, the more difficult it becomes to launch a 51% attack, where an attacker gains control of the network. This increased security is good news for Bitcoin investors as it reduces the risk of a security breach.

Reduced Mining Rewards As the hash rate increases, mining rewards become more difficult to obtain. This means that smaller mining operations may be forced to shut down, resulting in a more centralized mining ecosystem. This could be seen as a negative development as it goes against the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies.

More Transactions The increase in hash rate means that more transactions can be processed on the Bitcoin network. This is good news for Bitcoin users as it reduces transaction times and fees. With the rise in hash rate, Bitcoin is becoming a more practical payment method, which could lead to increased adoption.

Conclusion

The rise in Bitcoin's hash rate is a result of several factors, including an increase in the number of miners, improved mining hardware, institutional investment, and the halving event. While there are some potential drawbacks to the increase in hash rate, such as reduced mining rewards and a more centralized mining ecosystem, the benefits of increased security and faster transaction processing make it a positive development for the cryptocurrency industry. As Bitcoin continues to gain mainstream acceptance, it is likely that the hash rate will continue to increase, leading to further innovation and improvements in the network.

FAQ

What is Bitcoin's hash rate? Hash rate is the measure of the computational power of the Bitcoin network. It is the number of calculations that the network can perform per second.

Why is the hash rate important? The hash rate is important because it determines the security of the Bitcoin network. The higher the hash rate, the more secure the network becomes.

How is the hash rate calculated? The hash rate is calculated by counting the number of calculations that the network can perform per second.

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It's been a busy month for the ZapStream developers and it's a good time to post a small update on all the new features and toys we've received from nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49, nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac and nostr:npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg (and all the other contributors). So let's get to it.

New stream option!

ZapStream now has three different streaming options for creators. * Basic: 2.5 sat/min offers only source encoding * Good: 10 sats/min offers source, 720, 480 or 240 * Best 21 sats/min offers all of the above encoding plus VOD storage

Widgets & Zap Alerts

Earlier this month the team added the first iteration of widgets to ZapStream. Those can be found at zap.stream/widgets.

To add any of the widgets to your stream simply copy the code above the desired widget and add it to OBS as a browser source. Pro tip: set the browser source to refresh when it becomes active and tick the box to disable the source when it's not showing.

verbiricha also released an update for zap alerts adding TTS (text to speech) to the alerts. TTS currently supports English, German and Spanish.

The setup is pretty straight forward. Enable TTS, set the minimum zap amount to trigger TTS, select language and speaker and then copy the link into a new browser source in OBS. You can also test the alert on the widget page or change the voice volume. Values are 0-1 in 0.1 increments.

NIP-75 for goals

NIP-75 was recently written by verbiricha and is replacing the previous metadata kind event used for zap goals on ZapStream. NIP-75 is now fully implemented in ZapStream. With this creators may now create new goals, reuse previous goals or use long-term goals during their streams.

Goals were also moved to the STREAM settings, accessed from the top-right of website.

To create a new goal simply click on add stream goal.

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Settings Page

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New login design allowing for NIP-07 authentication. In addition ZapStream now also supports authentication via nsec (prompts a warning). WebLN functionality has been added too allowing viewers to zap creators without having to switch apps.

Languages

ZapStream now also supports 17 different display languages. Thanks to a long list of Nostriches who've contributed to the ZapStream translation project.

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Known issues

• popped out chat doesn't display direct GOAL chats
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Introduction

Stablecoins are a category of cryptocurrencies that aim to solve the issue of price volatility associated with traditional cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. They are specifically designed to maintain a stable value relative to a particular asset or a basket of assets, like a fiat currency or commodity. This characteristic makes stablecoins a promising alternative for those seeking a more reliable means of conducting transactions or storing value.

Stablecoins have the potential to be utilized in a wide range of scenarios, including everyday payments and remittances, commerce, and trading. They offer a secure and convenient way to transact without the volatility that is commonly associated with other cryptocurrencies. Additionally, institutional investors have been drawn to stablecoins as a more dependable store of value and a means of conducting cross-border transactions.

Despite their potential advantages, stablecoins face unique challenges that could undermine their stability and hinder their adoption. These challenges include the need to comply with regulations, liquidity risks, and cybersecurity threats. This article will delve into the different types of stablecoins, their potential benefits, and the obstacles they face. Furthermore, we will assess the future of stablecoins and their potential impact on the financial industry.

types of stablecoin architectures : Stablecoins come in various architectures, each designed to maintain a stable price in its own way. It’s essential to understand the differences between the architectures to choose the right stablecoin for a particular use case. There are four main types of stablecoin architectures:

Fiat-collateralized stablecoins: These stablecoins are backed by a reserve of fiat currency, such as the US dollar, with a 1:1 ratio. Examples of fiat-collateralized stablecoins are Tether, USD Coin, and TrueUSD. Crypto-collateralized stablecoins: These stablecoins are backed by a reserve of cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, and are pegged to the value of a fiat currency or a commodity. Examples of crypto-collateralized stablecoins include Dai and BitUSD. Algorithmic stablecoins: These stablecoins do not rely on reserves of fiat currency or cryptocurrencies but use mathematical algorithms to adjust the supply of stablecoins to maintain price stability. Examples of algorithmic stablecoins include Basis Cash and Frax. Commodity-backed stablecoins: These stablecoins are backed by a reserve of commodities, such as gold or silver, and are pegged to their value. Examples of commodity-backed stablecoins include Digix Gold and Tiberius Coin. 1.1 Fiat-collateralized stablecoins:

Fiat-collateralized stablecoins are a popular choice for many cryptocurrency users and investors, as they offer a sense of stability and predictability that is often lacking in other cryptocurrencies. With a reserve of collateral, which can be fiat currency or even cryptocurrencies, the stablecoin issuer can ensure a 1:1 ratio between the value of the reserve and the stablecoins in circulation.

For instance, if the issuer holds $1 million worth of fiat currency, they can issue $1 million worth of stablecoins, which helps to maintain the stablecoin’s value in line with the underlying collateral. This approach provides a more stable and predictable value than traditional cryptocurrencies, making them suitable for transactions and as a store of value.

However, there are some potential risks associated with fiat-collateralized stablecoins. For example, the stability of the underlying collateral is a key concern, as a sharp decline in the value of the collateral can threaten the stablecoin’s value. Additionally, the trustworthiness of the issuer is critical, as the issuer could potentially engage in fraudulent behavior or mismanagement of the collateral.

Despite these risks, the popularity of stablecoins continues to grow, with the total market capitalization of stablecoins reaching over $100 billion in 2021, according to CoinGecko. This significant growth indicates that users are increasingly seeking stability and predictability in their cryptocurrency investments.

1.1.1 popular Fiat-collateralized stablecoins

Tether (USDT): Tether is one of the most popular stablecoins and is backed 1:1 by the US dollar. It is issued by Tether Limited, a company that claims to hold an equivalent amount of US dollars in reserve to the number of USDT in circulation. USD Coin (USDC): USD Coin is another fiat-collateralized stablecoin that is backed 1:1 by the US dollar. It is issued by Circle, a financial technology company. TrueUSD (TUSD): TrueUSD is also a fiat-collateralized stablecoin that is backed 1:1 by US dollars held in escrow accounts. It is issued by TrustToken, a company that provides a platform for tokenizing real-world assets. Paxos Standard (PAX): Paxos Standard is a fiat-collateralized stablecoin that is also backed 1:1 by US dollars. It is issued by Paxos, a company that provides blockchain-based infrastructure for financial services. Gemini Dollar (GUSD): Gemini Dollar is a fiat-collateralized stablecoin that is backed 1:1 by US dollars held in a State Street Bank account. It is issued by Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian. 1.1.2 fiat-collateralized stablecoins risks:

Before using or investing in fiat-collateralized stablecoins, it is crucial for users to consider the potential risks and evaluate the stability and reliability of the stablecoin issuer. Although these stablecoins offer simplicity and stability, they also face several risks:

Counterparty risk: These stablecoins rely on the issuer holding adequate reserves of the underlying fiat currency. If the issuer fails to meet its obligation to redeem stablecoins for the fiat currency, the stablecoin’s value could be affected. Regulatory risk: The stability and liquidity of fiat-collateralized stablecoins are subject to changes in regulations and legal status of the issuer, making them vulnerable to regulatory risk. Liquidity risk: In case of a sudden demand for stablecoin redemption, the issuer may not have sufficient reserves to fulfill the demand, leading to a drop in the stablecoin’s value. Centralization risk: These stablecoins are issued by centralized entities, which can create a single point of failure and raise concerns about security, privacy, and censorship. Price risk: Despite aiming to maintain a 1:1 peg with the underlying fiat currency, fluctuations in the fiat currency’s value can affect the stablecoin’s value. In extreme cases, the fiat currency may experience hyperinflation or currency devaluation, leading to a loss of value for the stablecoin. 1.1.3 USDC use case :

In March 2023, the depegging of USDC sent shockwaves through the cryptocurrency market. The collapse of SVB Bank, the institution backing the USDC bank account, was the primary catalyst for the destabilization of the stablecoin. The lack of transparency regarding the balance of the account and the uncertain future of the bank’s operations led to a loss of trust in the stability of USDC.

As a result, the price of USDC plummeted, falling below $1 and causing panic among investors who had relied on the stablecoin’s stability. The situation was exacerbated by the fact that major cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance and Coinbase continued to allow trading of USDC, potentially exposing users to significant losses.

The fallout from the USDC depegging could have far-reaching consequences for the broader cryptocurrency market. If investors lose faith in the stability of stablecoins, this could lead to a decline in demand for cryptocurrencies overall. This could be particularly damaging for smaller, less established cryptocurrencies that rely on stablecoins to provide liquidity and facilitate trading.

The recovery of USDC from this setback remains uncertain. The stablecoin may be able to regain the confidence of investors over time, but it will need to address the issues that led to its depegging in the first place. In the meantime, the cryptocurrency market will need to grapple with the implications of the USDC depegging and find ways to restore trust in stablecoins as a reliable alternative to traditional fiat currencies.

1.2 Crypto-collateralized stablecoins

Crypto-collateralized stablecoins are a fascinating development in the world of cryptocurrencies. These stablecoins offer a way for individuals to safely hold and transact with cryptocurrencies without worrying about the market’s volatility. With traditional cryptocurrencies, users face the risk of losing significant value in a matter of hours due to sudden price fluctuations. Stablecoins, on the other hand, are pegged to the value of a specific fiat currency, such as the US dollar, making them much less risky to hold and transact with.

The process of generating crypto-collateralized stablecoins is unique. Users deposit a specified amount of cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum, into a smart contract system specifically designed to issue stablecoins. The system then generates a corresponding amount of stablecoins, which are pegged to the value of the fiat currency. This allows users to utilize the stablecoins for transactions without the risk of price volatility. It’s an innovative solution that solves the problem of cryptocurrency volatility.

One potential drawback of crypto-collateralized stablecoins is the requirement for over-collateralization. To ensure the stablecoin’s value remains stable, the smart contract system may require that the value of the collateral exceeds the value of the stablecoins in circulation. This means users have to deposit more cryptocurrency than the amount of stablecoins they receive, which can be a limiting factor for some users.

Despite this limitation, crypto-collateralized stablecoins have seen significant growth in adoption. As of September 2021, the market capitalization of crypto-collateralized stablecoins was over $20 billion. This growth in adoption is a testament to the stability and predictability that stablecoins offer, making them an attractive option for individuals and businesses alike.

1.2.1 popular Crypto-collateralized stablecoins:

Dai (DAI) — Dai is a decentralized stablecoin that is backed by Ethereum, which is used as collateral. It is pegged to the US dollar and is created and managed by MakerDAO. sUSD (sUSD) — sUSD is a decentralized stablecoin that is backed by a basket of cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Chainlink. It is pegged to the US dollar and is created and managed by Synthetix. 1.2.2 risks of Crypto-collateralized stablecoins:

Although crypto-collateralized stablecoins have several benefits, such as reducing exposure to market volatility, they also come with risks that should be carefully considered. These potential risks include:

Collateral risk: The value of the collateral used to back the stablecoin may fluctuate, which can result in instability or loss of value in the stablecoin. A decline in the value of the collateral can cause the stablecoin to become under-collateralized and result in a loss of value for the stablecoin holders. Smart contract risk: The smart contract used to manage the stablecoin issuance and redemption may have bugs or security vulnerabilities, making it susceptible to hacking and causing a loss of funds or other negative consequences. Market risk: The demand for the stablecoin may decrease, or the value of the collateral backing the stablecoin may decrease significantly, which can cause market risk for the stablecoin. Regulatory risk: As stablecoins are a relatively new asset class, regulatory frameworks around them are still developing, and uncertainty regarding how stablecoins will be regulated could pose risks to their long-term viability. Liquidity risk: The regulatory system can take time to stabilize prices and create sufficient liquidity for the stablecoin market, which can pose risks to investors. 1.2.3 DAI use case:

The depegging of DAI in 2018 was a significant event that had many people worried about the future of stablecoins. It was a stark reminder that even algorithmic stablecoins, which are designed to be resistant to market fluctuations, are still subject to risks and vulnerabilities.

The depegging event caused the value of DAI to drop well below $1 USD, with some estimates putting the value at around $0.60 USD at its lowest point. This was a significant blow to those who had invested in DAI, as well as to the reputation of MakerDAO, which had been seen as a pioneer in the world of stablecoins.

The main cause of the depegging was a lack of collateral to back the supply of DAI tokens. MakerDAO had allowed too many tokens to be minted without increasing the amount of collateral held to back them. This resulted in a decrease in the collateralization ratio, which made the system more vulnerable to fluctuations in the cryptocurrency market.

The algorithmic system used to maintain the peg also played a role in the depegging event. It relied on market forces to automatically adjust the supply of DAI based on demand, but during the 2018 event, this system failed to operate as intended. This failure was a clear demonstration that even the most sophisticated algorithms can still have weaknesses and vulnerabilities.

Despite the challenges faced by DAI in 2018, the stablecoin has since rebounded and is now trading close to its $1 USD peg. This rebound was due in part to the efforts of MakerDAO to increase the collateralization ratio and improve the stability of the algorithmic system used to maintain the peg.

1.3 Algorithmic stablecoins

Algorithmic stablecoins are an intriguing development in the world of cryptocurrency, providing a novel method of maintaining stable values. A significant advantage of algorithmic stablecoins is that they do not rely on collateral, which can be appealing to investors who are hesitant to invest in traditional stablecoins that depend on fiat currency or other collateral. In 2023, we can expect to witness continued growth in the use and development of algorithmic stablecoins, as more investors seek to lessen the risks associated with cryptocurrency volatility. The current market cap of algorithmic stablecoins is approximately $5.5 billion, which is a fraction of the total cryptocurrency market, but it is anticipated to increase in the years to come.

However, algorithmic stablecoins are not without risks. Cryptocurrency prices can be highly volatile, and demand for algorithmic stablecoins may fluctuate depending on market conditions. The algorithms that manage the supply of tokens can also be complex and require ongoing monitoring and adjustment to ensure they function correctly.

Despite these challenges, algorithmic stablecoins have the potential to revolutionize the cryptocurrency market. By using automated systems to adjust supply based on demand, algorithmic stablecoins could provide a more stable and predictable value than traditional cryptocurrencies, making them ideal for transactions and as a store of value. As this technology continues to evolve and develop, we can anticipate further adoption and innovation in the algorithmic stablecoin space.

1.3.1 popular Algorithmic stablecoins

Ampleforth (AMPL): AMPL is an algorithmic stablecoin that is not pegged to any fiat currency, but instead adjusts its supply in response to changes in demand to maintain its price at around $1. It uses a unique algorithm that expands or contracts the supply of tokens based on the price of the token relative to a target price. FRAX: FRAX is a stablecoin that is pegged to the US dollar and backed by a combination of collateral and an algorithmic stability mechanism. The supply of FRAX is adjusted by a smart contract system that uses market data and algorithms to maintain its price stability. Basis Cash (BAC): Basis Cash is a decentralized stablecoin that is designed to be self-stabilizing, meaning it automatically adjusts its supply to maintain a stable value. It is not pegged to any fiat currency, but instead uses a unique mechanism that expands or contracts the supply of tokens based on demand. These are just a few examples of popular algorithmic stablecoins, but there are many others in development as the technology continues to evolve.

1.3.2 risks of Algorithmic stablecoins

Algorithmic stablecoins, like any technology, carry risks that investors should be aware of before investing. Here are some of the key risks associated with algorithmic stablecoins:

Market Risks: Algorithmic stablecoins are subject to market risks, including fluctuations in demand and changes in market conditions. For example, if the market demand for a particular algorithmic stablecoin decreases, the algorithm may reduce the supply of tokens, which could result in a drop in value. On the other hand, if the market demand increases rapidly, the algorithm may struggle to maintain the stability of the price. Technical Risks: The algorithms used to manage the supply of tokens can be complex and require ongoing monitoring and adjustment to ensure they are functioning correctly. Technical issues, such as bugs in the code or errors in the algorithms, could potentially lead to instability and a loss of value. Regulatory Risks: The regulatory environment around cryptocurrency is still evolving, and changes in regulations could impact the value and usage of algorithmic stablecoins. For example, a government ban on cryptocurrency could make it difficult or impossible to use algorithmic stablecoins in certain countries. Black Swan Events: Algorithmic stablecoins are vulnerable to so-called black swan events, which are rare and unpredictable events that can have a significant impact on the value of a cryptocurrency. Examples of black swan events in the cryptocurrency market include the Mt. Gox hack in 2014 and the DAO hack in 2016. 1.3.3 UST use case:

Certainly. Another recent example of a potential risk associated with algorithmic stablecoins is the collapse of the UST stablecoin in 2022, which is pegged to the value of the US dollar. UST is built on the Terra blockchain platform and utilizes a collateralized debt position (CDP) system to maintain its peg to the US dollar.

However, in January 2022, the price of the Terra (LUNA) token, which is used as collateral to support the UST stablecoin, experienced a significant decline due to market conditions and a large sell-off. This caused the UST stablecoin to lose its peg to the US dollar and its value plummeted by more than 20% in just a few hours.

This event highlights the potential risks associated with algorithmic stablecoins that rely on collateralized systems, as they are still subject to market risks and fluctuations. It also emphasizes the importance of ongoing monitoring and adjustment of the algorithms used to manage the supply of tokens to ensure they are functioning correctly.

Opinions on the risks associated with algorithmic stablecoins vary, with some experts cautioning against investing in them due to their potential volatility and complexity, while others view them as a promising solution for offering stability in the cryptocurrency market. Ultimately, it is important for investors to carefully evaluate the risks and benefits of algorithmic stablecoins before making any investment decisions.

References:

“What is UST? Understanding the Terra stablecoin and its ecosystem”, Brave New Coin, February 2022, https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/what-is-ust-understanding-the-terra-stablecoin-and-its-ecosystem “The DeFi disaster: Terra’s UST loses 20% peg in sudden collapse”, Cointelegraph, January 2022, https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-defi-disaster-terra-s-ust-loses-20-peg-in-sudden-collapse 1.4 Commodity-backed stablecoins:

Commodity-backed stablecoins are a type of stablecoin that is backed by a reserve of physical commodities, such as precious metals, oil, or agricultural products, instead of a fiat currency or cryptocurrency. These stablecoins aim to provide stability in the value of the stablecoin by pegging it to the value of a specific commodity.

Commodity-backed stablecoins work by using a smart contract system that manages the reserve of the physical commodity and the issuance and redemption of the stablecoin. The issuer of the stablecoin holds the reserve of the physical commodity and issues an equivalent amount of stablecoins, which are pegged to the value of the commodity.

For example, if a commodity-backed stablecoin is pegged to the value of gold, the issuer would hold a reserve of physical gold and issue an equivalent amount of stablecoins. The stablecoins would then be tradable on cryptocurrency exchanges or used for transactions, such as buying and selling goods and services.

To maintain the stability of the stablecoin’s value, the smart contract system may require over-collateralization, which means that the value of the reserve of the physical commodity must exceed the value of the stablecoins in circulation. This is to ensure that there is always enough reserve to cover the value of the stablecoins.

Commodity-backed stablecoins provide a way for users to hold and transact with a stable digital asset that is backed by a physical commodity, which can offer a level of stability and security that is not available with fiat currencies or cryptocurrencies alone.

Commodity-backed stablecoins can indeed utilize a variety of physical commodities as their underlying asset, including real estate and forest lands or trees. These innovative types of stablecoins aim to provide a more diversified and potentially sustainable backing for the stablecoin, which can mitigate the risks associated with price volatility and fluctuations.

For example, a stablecoin backed by real estate could use the value of the underlying properties to determine the value of the stablecoin. The issuer of the stablecoin would hold a reserve of physical real estate properties and issue an equivalent amount of stablecoins. The stablecoins would then be pegged to the value of the real estate properties, which can provide a stable and reliable backing for the stablecoin.

Similarly, a stablecoin backed by forest lands or trees could use the value of the underlying timber or other resources to determine the value of the stablecoin. The issuer of the stablecoin would hold a reserve of physical forest lands or trees and issue an equivalent amount of stablecoins. The stablecoins would then be pegged to the value of the forest lands or trees, which can provide a stable and sustainable backing for the stablecoin.

Overall, these innovative types of commodity-backed stablecoins can offer a unique way to provide stability and security in the value of the stablecoin, while also promoting sustainability and diversification in the backing assets.

1.4.1 popular Commodity-backed stablecoins

Tether Gold (XAUT): Backed by physical gold held in a Swiss vault, Tether Gold is one of the most popular commodity-backed stablecoins. Digix (DGX): Backed by physical gold, each DGX token represents 1 gram of 99.99% fine gold that is stored in a vault in Singapore. Paxos Gold (PAXG): Backed by physical gold, each PAXG token represents one fine troy ounce of a London Good Delivery gold bar. Carbon (CRBN): Backed by a portfolio of carbon credits, Carbon is a stablecoin that is designed to help fight climate change. Helix (HLX): Backed by timber assets, Helix is a stablecoin that is designed to provide a stable and sustainable investment option. Creal :is a Commodity-backed stablecoin that is backed by a basket of commodities, including gold, silver, platinum, and palladium. It was launched in 2021 and aims to provide a stable and decentralized alternative to traditional stablecoins that are backed by fiat currencies 1.4.2 risks Commodity-backed stablecoins

Commodity-backed stablecoins come with various risks that should be considered before investing in them. One of the significant risks is commodity price risk. As these stablecoins are pegged to the value of a specific physical commodity, fluctuations in the commodity’s price could affect the stablecoin’s value, potentially leading to a loss for holders.

Another risk is liquidity risk, which could arise if there is insufficient demand for the stablecoin or a lack of buyers or sellers on cryptocurrency exchanges. This could affect the stablecoin’s ability to be converted into the underlying physical commodity or another digital asset.

Commodity-backed stablecoins also have counterparty risk as they rely on a third-party issuer to manage the reserve of the physical commodity and the issuance and redemption of the stablecoin. The issuer’s insolvency or fraudulent behavior could lead to a loss of funds for stablecoin holders.

Additionally, regulatory risk exists as the regulatory frameworks surrounding commodity-backed stablecoins are still developing, and there is uncertainty about how they will be regulated in the future. Lastly, custodial risk is present as the physical commodity backing the stablecoin needs to be stored and secured, and there is a risk of storage and security breaches that could lead to a loss of the underlying physical commodity and, consequently, the stablecoin’s value.

1.4.3 Use Cases / XAUT DGD :

Commodity-backed stablecoins, such as Tether Gold (XAUT) and DigixDAO (DGD), have faced significant depegging events, causing a drop in their value. One example is XAUT, which fell from its pegged value of $1,800 to a low of $1,400 in March 2021, representing a decline of around 22%. This drop was attributed to a combination of factors, including a decline in the price of gold, which fell from $1,900 to $1,700 during the same period, and a lack of transparency regarding the amount of gold backing the stablecoin. Investors also raised concerns around the solvency of the custodian bank responsible for holding the gold reserves, which added to the instability of the asset.

Similarly, DGD, which was pegged to the price of gold, experienced a significant depegging event in 2019, with its value dropping from $40 to as low as $5 within a few months. This represented a decline of 87.5%, which was primarily caused by issues with the algorithmic system used to maintain the peg. The system failed to adapt to market conditions, and the lack of transparency around the amount of gold backing the stablecoin further eroded investor confidence.

The depegging events of commodity-backed stablecoins highlight the need for greater transparency and accountability in the stablecoin ecosystem. Investors should conduct thorough due diligence before investing in these assets, and issuers must ensure adequate collateralization and transparency to maintain the stability of their stablecoins.

Conclusion:

Stablecoins have emerged as a crucial element of the cryptocurrency ecosystem, offering users a reliable method of transacting and preserving value without being exposed to the volatility of other cryptocurrencies. While each type of stablecoin has its own benefits and risks, they have continued to garner increasing popularity and acceptance.

In addition to providing stability and predictability in the crypto market, stablecoins offer numerous advantages for investors. However, as with any investment, it is crucial to evaluate the reliability and stability of the stablecoin issuer before using or investing in stablecoins.

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Ride the lightning

The Lightning Network is not a product or company; it is a set of open standards that define a baseline for interoperability. As such, Lightning node software has been built by a variety of companies and community groups. The vast majority of Lightning software is open source, meaning that the source code is open and licensed in such a way as to enable collaboration, sharing, and community participation in the development process.

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There is a growing number of apps that support posting and reading long form content on nostr, Habla is just one of them. The beauty of nostr is that users are free to choose clients but the content is available everywhere.

Have you tried any of the following? What do you like about them?

nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3exvcnyv338ymnjv3cqgsrx4k7vxeev3unrn5ty9qt9w4cxlsgzrqw752mh6fduqjgqs9chhgrqsqqql8kyvnx8n

nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3cx5unvwfhxvmrjwfcqgsyt3qly8su7u2l5mvu5g9cuqp22axm0w6fa9hw3xp5cek6c4zxk7srqsqqql8ks48u9w

nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3cx5unvwps8yenvwfsqgsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgsrqsqqql8kylym66

nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3exgur2wphxycnqvp5qgsrx4k7vxeev3unrn5ty9qt9w4cxlsgzrqw752mh6fduqjgqs9chhgrqsqqql8klmznh9

nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3exgurzvpjxsurwv3hqgsypwwgtll74lqu4huvxzjwtjyxvrlkujt35rw8y026ke6ttesmg5grqsqqql8kjwp3ul

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Building a Community

Bluesky has successfully built a thriving community on its initial test server, complete with its own norms, culture, and even inside jokes like "sexy alf." Far from being just a test server, it has become an entity of its own, boasting a community of 600,000 users.

Facing Conflict

However, not everything has been smooth sailing. The server has also been a battleground for significant conflicts. A fundamental difference exists between those who advocate for an open, decentralized protocol and those who prefer a more actively managed social space. This gap between the driving vision of the project and the evolving values of its community has led to tensions within the Bluesky team.

Addressing the Challenge

The merits of both a federated social media protocol and a rigorous stance on policing bigotry are clear, but these two goals are not entirely compatible. What if they didn't need to be? The current Bluesky server could continue to operate as a standalone entity with updated software, while the company also launches the atproto network using the same software.

Accommodating Users

Users could then choose whether to stay on the existing server or use key migration technology to move their accounts to another server that is part of the open network. This would enable users to maintain the same identity across both platforms, offering them a choice in their user experience.

Managing Speech

On a fully open, decentralized social media protocol, managing speech the way many early Bluesky adopters would like is challenging. Although you can block or mute undesirable users and content, you can't entirely prevent them from using the protocol. This underscores the inherent tension between what early adopters want and the open-source, open-protocol direction the company is taking.

Examples of Exclusivity

Case in point: some fediverse servers either don't federate at all or only do so on a very limited basis, like certain Japanese servers. This shows that exclusivity is possible, and the current server, with its 600,000 users, could continue as its own standalone entity.

Empowering Users

What if the current server were handed over to its users for management? Bluesky the company would continue to develop software that could be used both for this specific instance and for the larger network. Digital democracy tools could be employed to allow users to vote and select a management team responsible for both technical and trust and safety issues. This would provide the community a direct voice in shaping their online environment.

Funding the Transition

Operating Bluesky isn't without costs, so funding is crucial. Potential sources could include Bluesky LLC, crowdfunding, or foundation donations. Once operational, the community could explore sustainable business models to continue financing trust and safety measures.

Conclusion

This proposal aligns with Bluesky's original vision of empowering communities to manage themselves. By giving control of the current server to its users and continuing to develop software that can be used both by this standalone instance and the larger network, we can create diverse digital spaces that meet the needs of all users while maintaining the vision of an open social media protocol.

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การใช้งาน SharedPreferences ใน Flutter เพื่อเก็บข้อมูลในแคชเป็นวิธีที่ง่ายและมีประสิทธิภาพสำหรับการเก็บข้อมูลชั่วคราว แต่อาจไม่เหมาะสมสำหรับการเก็บข้อมูลการตอบสนองของ API โดยเฉพาะเมื่อมีข้อมูลมากหรือซับซ้อน คุณสามารถใช้ SharedPreferences เพื่อเก็บข้อมูลแคชและดึงข้อมูลนั้นเมื่อไม่มีการเชื่อมต่ออินเทอร์เน็ต ต่อไปนี้คือตัวอย่าง: 1. เพิ่มแพ็คเกจ shared_preferences ลงในไฟล์ pubspec.yaml ของคุณ:

dependencies: flutter: sdk: flutter shared_preferences: ^2.0.8 # ใช้เวอร์ชันล่าสุด 2. นำเข้าแพ็คเกจในไฟล์ Dart ของคุณ:

import 'package:shared_preferences/shared_preferences.dart'; 3. เพื่อเก็บข้อมูลในแคช บันทึกข้อมูลเมื่อคุณดึงมาจาก API: ``` import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;

Future fetchAndCacheData(String apiUrl) async { try { final response = await http.get(Uri.parse(apiUrl)); if (response.statusCode == 200) { final responseData = response.body; // บันทึกข้อมูลตอบสนองจาก API ไว้ใน SharedPreferences final prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance(); prefs.setString('cachedData', responseData); } else { throw Exception('การดึงข้อมูลล้มเหลว'); } } catch (e) { print('ข้อผิดพลาด: $e'); } } 4. เพื่อดึงข้อมูลแคชเมื่อไม่มีการเชื่อมต่ออินเทอร์เน็ต คุณสามารถทำดังนี้: Future getCachedData() async { final prefs = await SharedPreferences.getInstance(); return prefs.getString('cachedData'); } 5. เมื่อดึงข้อมูล คุณสามารถตรวจสอบว่ามีการเชื่อมต่ออินเทอร์เน็ตโดยใช้แพ็คเกจ connectivity และตัดสินใจว่าจะดึงจาก API หรือใช้ข้อมูลแคช: import 'package:connectivity/connectivity.dart';

Future fetchData() async { final connectivityResult = await Connectivity().checkConnectivity();

if (connectivityResult == ConnectivityResult.none) { // ไม่มีการเชื่อมต่ออินเทอร์เน็ต ดึงข้อมูลจากแคช final cachedData = await getCachedData(); if (cachedData != null) { // ใช้ข้อมูลแคช print('ใช้ข้อมูลแคช: $cachedData'); } else { print('ไม่มีข้อมูลแคช'); } } else { // มีการเชื่อมต่ออินเทอร์เน็ต ดึงข้อมูลจาก API final apiUrl = 'URL_API_ของคุณ_ที่นี่'; await fetchAndCacheData(apiUrl); } } ``` วิธีนี้ช่วยให้คุณสามารถเก็บข้อมูลใน SharedPreferences และดึงข้อมูลเมื่อไม่มีการเชื่อมต่ออินเทอร์เน็ต อย่างไรก็ตาม โปรดทราบว่า SharedPreferences อาจไม่เหมาะสมสำหรับกรณีการแคชที่ซับซ้อนหรือมีข้อมูลมาก สำหรับการแคชที่ซับซ้อนมากขึ้นคุณควรพิจารณาใช้แพ็คเกจแคชอื่นหรือวิธีการแคชที่มีประสิทธิภาพมากขึ้นแทน.

🧡⚡️คลิก zap บทความนี้

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proofofwork: 15 minutes preparation, overnight marinate and 2 hour roast time.

YEILD: 1 roast duck, enough for 3 to 4 people

INGREDIENTS: 1 whole Pekin ducks about 2.8-3 kilograms

STUFFING:

1 stick of lemongrass, rough chopped

25 grams ginger, rough chopped

25 grams galangal, rough chopped

3 ea cloves garlic, chopped

2 ea shallots, chopped

DRY SPICE RUB:

1 tablespoons Sichuan peppercorns

1 tablespoons white peppercorns

1 cinnamon sticks

1 teaspoon star anise

1 tablespoons salt flakes

METHOD:

1. Start the recipe a day before cooking the ducks. Rough chop all the stuffing ingredients and place them in the cavity of the bird. Seal the cavity. Do this by stretching the excess skin flaps by the cavity, bringing them together and piercing them with a couple of bamboo skewers.
2. To make the dry spice rub, toast all the spices together in a pan until the mix becomes aromatic. Once cooled, grind the spices in a coffee grinder until they are a fine powder. If you want to go old school then you can use a mortar and pestle.
3. Cover the outside of the ducks with the spice rub. Place ducks in the refrigerator uncovered over night so the skin dries out.
4. The next day pre heat the fan forced oven to 200 C, place the ducks on a wire rack with a roasting tray underneath and roast for 25 minutes.
5. Turn down the oven to 190c and keep roasting for another 25 minutes, then turn down to 160c for another 30 minutes. Probe the internal temperature of the duck in the crease of the thigh making sure it has reached an internal temperature of at least 70 C (160 Fahrenheit). The legs should be soft and tender with crispy skin, the juices running out of the thigh should be clear.
6. Rest the duck for a minimum of 20 minutes after the cooking is complete. Serve and enjoy.

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1. สร้าง Dockerfile ``` FROM golang:1.18.0 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y unzip pkg-config curl

RUN cd /tmp && \ curl -o instantclient-basiclite.zip https://download.oracle.com/otn_software/linux/instantclient/instantclient-basiclite-linuxx64.zip -SL && \ unzip instantclient-basiclite.zip && \ mv instantclient*/ /usr/lib/instantclient && \ rm instantclient-basiclite.zip && \ ln -s /usr/lib/instantclient/libclntsh.so.19.1 /usr/lib/libclntsh.so && \ ln -s /usr/lib/instantclient/libocci.so.19.1 /usr/lib/libocci.so && \ ln -s /usr/lib/instantclient/libociicus.so /usr/lib/libociicus.so && \ ln -s /usr/lib/instantclient/libnnz19.so /usr/lib/libnnz19.so && \ ln -s /usr/lib/libnsl.so.2 /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1 && \ ln -s /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2 && \ ln -s /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 /usr/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2

ENV ORACLE_BASE=/usr/lib/instantclient ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/instantclient ENV TNS_ADMIN=/usr/lib/instantclient ENV ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/instantclient

WORKDIR /app

COPY go.mod ./ COPY go.sum ./ RUN go mod download

RUN go install github.com/cespare/reflex@latest ```

1. สร้าง Image จากไฟล์ Dockerfile docker build -t golang-dev-oracle . คลิก zap บทความนี้

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(Last updated on August 29, 2023)

I've received a few questions from other creators about streaming on ZapStream so I've decided to write this short introduction to ZapStream and, for those who don't have a nostr account yet, a simple 3-step guide to get started on nostr.

What is ZapStream?

ZapStream is a live streaming platform built on the nostr protocol allowing creators to stream and instantly monetize their content on a true and circular value4value social media network. On ZapStream there is no “road to affiliate” grind, no perks and no revenue share with the platform.

What is nostr?

Nostr - notes and other stuff transported by relays

Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media. When creating an account for nostr you’re able to access any app, website or platform through one account. No user names, password or two-factor authentication. Your nostr account is your key to everything nostr. Guard it well!

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Creating a nostr account

There are many ways to join the nostr network but for the purpose of this tutorial I’ve decided to focus on guiding you through three simple steps.

GetAlby

This browser extension is your authenticator for the nostr network and doubles as a Bitcoin lightning wallet. Head to GetAlby and add the extension to your browser to create a GetAlby account. After installing and creating your Alby account, open the extension and click on go to "manage your web account" via the dropdown menu in the top-right of the app and set your desired lightening address handle as shown in the screenshot below.

Snort

Snort is one of many social media sites on the nostr network. You could compare it to platforms like Twitter. Once you’ve created your GetAlby account, head over to Snort.social and authenticate with your brand new extension. WELCOME TO NOSTR!

Setting up your profile

On Snort browse to your profile settings and create your nostr profile. Avatar, banner, user name, display name, about (bio) website. NIP-5? Don’t worry about it just yet or click here to learn more about NIP-5. Now that you’ve joined the nostr network and created your profile it’s time to send your first note. Go back to the home page and say hi to the world.

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ZapStream

Go to zap.stream and click the login button on the top right. Authenticate with your GetAlby extension and you’re almost ready to stream.

OBS Configuration

OBS tutorials

Configuring OBS depends very much on the users hardware components and bandwidth. Thus there is no “one guide fits all”. When installing OBS you’ll be prompted to run the setup wizard, run it. The wizard will identify your hardware and configure your OBS. Once OBS has auto-configured you can go into settings and customize the bitrate, output resolution and frame rate.

There are plenty of OBS tutorials on the internet for NVIDA, AMD and software encoding. Therefore we won't address this further in this guide. Google loves you.

Going Live

To go live on ZapStream click again on the top-right to grab the streaming URL and stream key. Select your desired stream option and add your stream info, cover and tags. Click save and hit start streaming in OBS. You're live!

Hosted

Connecting OBS to ZapStream is no different than connecting to any other site but you can choose from several options. Pick your desired option, copy the stream URL and stream key, add both to OBS and you’re ready to go.

Best

This option charges 10sats/min and offers server side encoding for your streams output (source, 720, 480, etc). ZapStream might add more features to this plan in the future but for now it’s only the guaranteed encoding for your viewers.

Basic

This option charges only 2.5sats/min but doesn’t offer server side output encoding. If you use this option consider setting your video settings in OBS to 30 FPS and rescale your output to 720 for best viewing quality. Viewers with a slower connection may experience blurry video. Thus using the Best solution is recommended in particular for gaming.

Self hosted

Creators with a server or Cloudflare account may stream directly to ZapStream through applications such as Owncast or others. Please refer to Cloudflare streaming or Owncast’s website for details on how-to setup your own streaming server.

Features / Options

OBS overlays

ZapStream offers a variety of native chat overalys also known as widgets. Those include zap alerts, top zappers, viewers and a chat overlay. To add widgets to your overlay go do zap.stream/widgets, copy the link for a widget and add the link to a new browser source in OBS. Then rescale the widget to your needs and voila, you're set.

OBS Docks

You can also add your chat as a custom dock to OBS. Use the same link as above when you create the dock allowing you to have your chat inside OBS rather than popping it out on your desktop.

Chat features

On nostr all content has unique event identifiers also known as nostr events. ZapStream supports embedding of almost any nostr event directly into your chat. This can be a note, emoji pack, goal or any other supported nostr event. To add an event add the tag nostr: before the event ID.

Chat moderation

Nostr is a censorship resistant and free speech centric protocol self-moderating the content users want to see or not see is the way to go. However, ZapStream supports muting of users (NIP-28, kind 10_000 events). This means that users can mute other users and anyone muted by the host will be muted in the creators chat for everyone else (host mute list).

Emote packs

As creator you can add your own emote packs to chat or use packs created by other nostr users. Head over to https://emojis-iota.vercel.app/ to create or add emotes to your account. Viewers may also use their own emotes and you can link emote packs in chat so viewers can add them to their own account.

Cards

Cards are the widgets you see below your stream. Cards support most nostr events, images, links and text. You can add your schedule, chat rules, referrals, partners or anything else you like by editing the cards.

Goals

Creators can create goals for their stream. The option to create a goal for the current stream scan be found above the chat. Add a goal name and the amount to be raised and click save. The goal will appear above your chat and it will be removed at the end of your stream or when starting a new stream. Goals can be also added to cards. To add a custom goal to a card head over to https://goals-silk.vercel.app/, create a custom url and then copy/paste the event ID of the goal into the text field of a card. Goals also work in chat.

Dedicated yourname@zap.stream handle

Creators may also secure a unique ZapStream identifier through Snort.social. To secure your handle head over to https://snort.social/settings/handle, add your channel name and pay the invoice. One you’ve secured your handle you’ll be able to use https://zap.stream/YOURHANDLE for your ZapStream.

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Reference links for ZapStream and nostr:

• ZapStream ToS
• Emote packs
• Nostr goals
• Nostr - Get started

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Zakat is a religious obligation mostly and it's very different from any "tax" system in the modern world.

Main characters: 1. Most of the time you only pay %2.5 yearly of your holdings (not income) if it exceeds 85 grams of gold or 595 grams of silver. 2. Pay %10 on agricultural products that could be dried and saved (excluding fresh fruits and vegetables) if it's watered by rain water and %5 if effort is put to water it. 3. There are also Zakat on cattle but very limited. Example you give one sheep yearly if you have 40 to 120 sheep and only if they are fed in pasture (excluding ones that are fed by animal feed) 4. Zakat collectors can only collect things that are obvious to eye. like cattle and trees. (أموال ظاهرة) they shouldn't investigate your holding in Gold or goods for sale (أموال باطنة). You pay that your self. 5. You pay 2.5% on gold that you extract from earth. Few scholars says 1/5. 6. Zakat is limited in it's beneficiaries. Zakat expenditures are only for the poor and for the needy and for those employed to collect Zakat and for bringing hearts together [for Islam] and for freeing slaves [or captives] and for those in debt and for defense and for the traveler 7. Zakat is not taken to build mosque or school or public infrastructure. You can establish a Waqf which is a voluntarily charity. ( drilling a well and donating it to people) 8. It's forbidden to collect any extra money from people than the ones specified in Zakat, tax collectors are worse than adulterers. 9. In many cases if there is a dispute between collectors and givers, the final saying is to the giver assuming good in people contrary to modern surveillance and spying by Tax authorities. 10. Sure as any religion or legal law some people diverted the original text and tried to extend amount and type of money taken from people to other things using minority scholars opinion and such. The rules above from majority of scholars of the four Islamic schools of thought

Further read regarding to Zakat and other Islamic law issues: https://jamelakbar.medium.com/property-rights-h%CC%A3uquq-and-civilizations-c59a6d38152f

End of Capitalism, Access to resources & sustainability - Jamel Akbar

@ 1e52c554:21771908

Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Sonnet 102 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares

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Hestia And Hathor

A spray of fantasies is shining through Making me think all things are possible Because in my heart your love somehow grew And heaven is somewhere now visible.

Time is a fair butterfly with harmless Glides on soft winds that in your mouth are born Different from those days of murkiness When each grim minute was a prickly thorn.

Hestia and Hathor have come around 9 Giving to our home a new air and look While you restrain me to your confine bound With your eyes bondage that mine undertook.

The stars will rendezvous in our body And heat our blood with passions melody. *** 9-. Hestia= goddess of the hearth either of the home or city, đaughter of Cronos and Rhea. 9-. Hathor= the goddess of love, mirth and social joy, often represented with a cow's head, and one of the seven fairies or genie who made their appearance at the birth of a child and fortold its future.

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Analysis "Hestia And Hathor"

Introduction

Sonnet 102 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares, titled "Hestia And Hathor," is a beautiful piece of poetry that explores themes of love, time, transformation, and the divine. The sonnet follows the traditional Shakespearean sonnet structure, consisting of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

Thematic Analysis

The first quatrain introduces the theme of love and possibility, with the speaker expressing how the beloved's love has opened up a world of possibilities and made heaven visible. This could be interpreted as the transformative power of love, which can change one's perspective and make the impossible seem possible.

The second quatrain introduces the theme of time, personified as a "fair butterfly" that glides on soft winds. This is a stark contrast to the past, described as "days of murkiness" when time felt like a "prickly thorn." This suggests a transformation in the speaker's life, possibly due to the presence of love.

The third quatrain introduces the goddesses Hestia and Hathor, representing the hearth and love, mirth, and social joy, respectively. Their presence signifies a transformation in the speaker's home, making it more welcoming and joyful. The speaker also mentions being bound by the beloved's eyes, suggesting a deep, captivating love.

The concluding couplet speaks of a passionate union, with stars rendezvousing in their bodies and heating their blood with passion's melody. This could be interpreted as the culmination of their love, a passionate and intimate connection that transcends the physical and reaches the divine.

Overall, this sonnet is a celebration of love's transformative power, its ability to change one's perception of time, to bring joy and warmth into a home, and to create a deep, passionate connection that transcends the physical realm. The use of mythological references adds a layer of depth to the poem, connecting the personal experience of love to universal themes and divine entities.

Rhyme Scheme

Sonnet 102 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares follows the traditional Shakespearean sonnet structure, which consists of three quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a concluding couplet (two-line stanza). The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

Let's break down the rhyme scheme of this sonnet:

``` Quatrain 1: A: A spray of fantasies is shining through (A) B: Making me think all things are possible (B) A: Because in my heart your love somehow grew (A) B: And heaven is somewhere now visible. (B)

Quatrain 2: C: Time is a fair butterfly with harmless (C) D: Glides on soft winds that in your mouth are born (D) C: Different from those days of murkiness (C) D: When each grim minute was a prickly thorn. (D)

Quatrain 3: E: Hestia and Hathor have come around (E) F: Giving to our home a new air and look (F) E: While you restrain me to your confine bound (E) F: With your eyes bondage that mine undertook. (F)

Couplet: G: The stars will rendezvous in our body (G) G: And heat our blood with passions melody. (G) ```

Each letter represents the end rhyme of the line. Lines with the same letter rhyme with each other. For example, in the first quatrain, "through" (A) rhymes with "grew" (A), and "possible" (B) rhymes with "visible" (B). This pattern continues throughout the sonnet, creating a rhythmic and harmonic structure that enhances the poem's thematic content.

Additional Aspects to Analyze

While we've covered the rhyme scheme, structure, and some thematic elements of Sonnet 102 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares, there are still several aspects that can be further analyzed, including the use of imagery, metaphor, and allusion, as well as the sonnet's meter and rhythm.

1. Imagery and Metaphor: The sonnet is rich in vivid imagery and metaphor. For instance, "Time is a fair butterfly" is a metaphor that personifies time, suggesting its fleeting and delicate nature. The "spray of fantasies" and the "stars will rendezvous in our body" are examples of vivid imagery that stimulate the reader's senses and imagination.

2. Allusion: The sonnet makes allusions to Greek and Egyptian mythology through the figures of Hestia and Hathor. These allusions serve to elevate the speaker's love and domestic life to a divine level, suggesting that their love is as powerful and transformative as the gods themselves.

3. Meter and Rhythm: The sonnet likely follows the traditional iambic pentameter of Shakespearean sonnets, which means each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables. This creates a rhythmic flow that enhances the sonnet's musicality and emotional impact.

4. Tone and Mood: The tone of the sonnet is one of awe and reverence towards the transformative power of love. The mood is uplifting and hopeful, reflecting the speaker's positive transformation due to love.

5. Symbolism: The sonnet uses symbols to convey deeper meanings. For example, the "butterfly" could symbolize transformation, reflecting the speaker's personal growth due to love. The "stars" could symbolize destiny or the divine, suggesting that their love is fated or blessed by the gods.

6. Language and Diction: The sonnet uses formal and poetic language, which is typical of sonnets. The choice of words (diction) reflects the sonnet's themes of love, transformation, and the divine. For example, words like "fantasies," "heaven," "butterfly," "Hestia," "Hathor," and "stars" all contribute to the sonnet's romantic and mythical atmosphere.

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Count the syllables of each line of the Sonnet

(www.howmanysyllables.com)

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Hestia And Hathor

10 A spray of fantasies is shining through 10 Making me think all things are possible 10 Because in my heart your love somehow grew 10 And heaven is somewhere now visible.

10 Time is a fair butterfly with harmless 10 Glides on soft winds that in your mouth are born 10 Different from those days of murkiness 10 When each grim minute was a prickly thorn.

10 Hestia and Hathor have come around
10 Giving to our home a new air and look 10 While you restrain me to your confine bound 10 With your eyes bondage that mine undertook.

10 The stars will rendezvous in our body 10 And heat our blood with passions melody. ***

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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Analyzed by GPT4 and www.howmanysyllables.com; Image by CBS News; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com

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David Marcus, currently the CEO of Lightspark, proposed a somewhat unconventional vision for Bitcoin (BTC) in a CNBC interview on Monday, Sept. 11.

Known for his past roles as president of PayPal and as a leader in Facebook’s cryptocurrency initiatives, Marcus shared a vision for Bitcoin that diverges from its common perception as a store of value. Instead, he sees Bitcoin’s architecture as a foundation for a global payment network, a role his new venture Lightspark aims to facilitate.

This viewpoint diverges from the predominant narrative surrounding Bitcoin, which usually emphasizes its role as ‘digital gold.’ Marcus advocates for building an overlay network on top of Bitcoin’s existing blockchain to facilitate more efficient transactions, thus leveraging its core attributes of decentralization and security.

The goal isn’t necessarily to replace traditional currencies but to provide a universally applicable protocol for financial transactions on the internet—a space Marcus argues is currently lacking in such standards.

While the idea sounds promising, it’s essential to note the technical challenges involved. Bitcoin’s current architecture has limitations that hinder its use for quick, small-scale transactions. The platform often suffers from slow transaction speeds and high fees, issues that several ‘layer 2’ solutions like Lightning Network are trying to resolve. Therefore, Marcus’s vision isn’t without its obstacles.

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Marcus’s newest venture, Lightspark, aims to build an overlay network on top of Bitcoin’s existing blockchain, a technical endeavor designed to make transactions more efficient. This idea is rooted in Marcus’s belief that the internet lacks a universal protocol for financial transactions, a void that Bitcoin’s technology could potentially fill. However, building an overlay network on Bitcoin’s blockchain to serve this purpose is a multifaceted challenge, both technically and from a regulatory standpoint.

At PayPal, Marcus focused on broadening the platform’s reach and enhancing user experience. Marcus then moved to Facebook, where he headed the company’s ambitious Diem project (originally known as Libra). The initiative aimed to create a stablecoin that would make financial transactions as straightforward as sending a text message. Despite its initial hype, the project faced significant regulatory setbacks, particularly in the realm of global financial compliance.

By：Bralon Hill Link：https://crypto.news/former-paypal-president-explores-vision-for-bitcoin-as-global-payment-network/

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If you have been following my articles, you know I am a big fan of social blockchain projects. I have written about projects such as Tangled, Uhive, Torum, and DeSo.

These projects are amazing and worth checking out, but I have recently encountered a social blockchain project that might be the king of social blockchain projects. This project is called Nostr.

What is Nostr?

In 2019, the ingenious minds of Fiatjaf and Ben Arc collaborated to give birth to Nostr, a creation with a profound purpose. Short for “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay,” Nostr is not just a network protocol, it’s an open-source marvel that has reshaped the landscape of social networking.

The first Nostr Protocol and Relay was created at the end of 2020. In 2022 Nostr got the attention of Jack Dorsey who donated 14 Bitcoin directly to Fiatjaf. In 2022 that was worth roughly $245,000 but today that would be worth roughly $350,000. Imagine what that will be worth in the next 5 to 10 years. — Info Source

Its creation can be traced back to the non-profit offshoot of Zebedee (to learn more about ZEBEDEE click here) known as No Big Deal (NBD). NBD has been a huge advocate for the development of open-source Bitcoin technology, and it served as the fertile ground where the seeds of the Nostr protocol were first planted.

At its core, Nostr is a protocol that empowers individuals by returning authority and control to the hands of the people. Nostr protocols start a new era in social networking.

As Nostr took shape, it became clear that it had the potential to revolutionize the way we interact, communicate, and share information. Its evolution grows the strength of collective creativity and the drive to create technologies that genuinely serve the greater good. Nostr uses the Bitcoin Lightning Network.

What is the Bitcoin Lightning Network?

Imagine the Lightning Network as a turbocharger for Bitcoin — it is a second layer of the Bitcoin blockchain that grows Bitcoin's potential. The Lightning Network allows users to fly through transactions instantly and with pocket-change fees. The original Bitcoin Blockchain can take up to 10 minutes per transaction but can be widely different based on things such as transaction fees, hash rate, and how many people are using the Blockchain. The fees for each transaction can be anywhere from $1 to $8 depending on the same factors as transaction speed. This can change depending on different circumstances and the amount you are trying to send or exchange.

To learn more about Bitcoin transaction speeds and gas fees check out the links below.

How Long Do Bitcoin Transactions Take?

What are Crypto gas fees?

Something needed to happen for wider adoption and to make Bitcoin easier to use for the average user. I think the majority of people who use Bitcoin and other Crypto projects are like me. We only have a small amount that we have been accumulating over the past couple of years. The average user can not afford such high gas fees.

Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja were the first to formally propose the Lightning Network in a 2016 paper. — Source

In 2016, a solution emerged to tackle Bitcoin’s growing pains — the Lightning Network. This clever network was born out of the need for Bitcoin to catch up in terms of transaction speed and affordability.

Picture the Lightning Network as your direct highway for transactions. It allows personalized payments between Bitcoin users. These payments let two parties engage in transactions without waiting for the traditional blockchain green light — no more holding your breath for confirmations. Traditional Bitcoin transaction confirmations take an average time of 10 minutes. The Lightning Network takes anywhere from 1 to 5 seconds!

The Lightning Network is a game-changer, making money transfers lightning-fast. There are some aspects of the lightning network that not everyone is happy about though. Bitcoin was all about self-custody, as they say, “Not your keys, not your Crypto.” So, while the Lightning Network is lightning fast, it comes with a trade-off, convenience or control, you decide.

How Does Nostr Work?

Nostr is resilient because it doesn’t rely on a small number of large servers for moving or storing data. Users can connect and publish to a growing number of “relays” that can change over time.

Nostr is a groundbreaking decentralized social media protocol that allows users to exchange messages with a unique twist, no central server is needed. How’s that for putting the power back in your hands? Everything is broadcasted and stored using Relays.

Relays

Nostr uses something called relays. Anyone can run these relays. You will need a little know-how (well quite a bit) but anyone with some free time can start the process. I am planning on learning more about relays in the future. I am still learning but plan to be as involved as possible with the Bitcoin Lightning Network and Blockchain technology as a whole.

What are relays? Relays are like the backend servers for Nostr. They allow Nostr clients to send them messages, and they may (or may not) store those messages and broadcast those messages to all other connected clients. The world of relays is changing fast so expect many changes here in the future. - Source

Relays are not just passageways for information but message hotspots, storage units, and the digital hubs that power Nostr’s engine. So when you hit “send,” it’s these relays that make sure your message reaches its intended recipient.

If you would like to know more about Nostr relays then check out these in-depth articles.

How To Run A Private Nostr Relay

5 Types Of Nostr Relays

What is a Nostr Relay?

Cryptographic Keys & Pseudonymous Identities

Rather than depending on centralized entities such as Google or Facebook for user authentication, Nostr employs the use of cryptographic keys. In this system, every user possesses a set of keys: a confidential private key and a public key that they readily share with others. To log in, individuals wishing to confirm their identity simply demonstrate their authenticity by signing a message using their private key. — Source

So what are cryptographic keys and signatures? They’re like the locks and keys to your virtual thoughts, ensuring only you can unlock and send them. These keys also leave an electronic signature — a trail that verifies your authenticity and marks your digital footprint.

Nostr allows you to be who you want to be in the digital world. You can embrace an alter ego, an online persona, or just be you — all while staying hidden under the cloak of pseudonymity. Your posts, authorized by your cryptographic keys, are your digital masterpieces and invincible to censorship attempts.

In a world where every character typed and every thought shared can be scrutinized, Nostr is a rebel with a cause. It stands tall as a defender of free expression and individuality, ensuring external forces don’t muffle your voice.

The Best Nostr Applications

When I first started using Nostr applications (also known as Clients) I was overwhelmed by the amount available. I searched for a way to get a detailed list of all of the apps available. There are multiple websites you can choose from but the best website I have come across so far is called “Nostr Apps”, a directory created by the creative mind of Karnage. Nostr Apps is a neatly packaged online hub.

Kudos are in order to the brain behind this fantastic resource. With “Nostr Apps,” the search for a comprehensive list ends, and the journey into the heart of Nostr’s applications begins. Sure, other websites attempt to map out the Nostr landscape, but let’s be real — this one takes the cake.

Nostr has a lot to offer, and it is open source which means anyone can build on it. This means that the number of Apps will always be growing and evolving.

The best way to find the apps/clients that work for you is by trying each one. Each platform is good in its own way. So some platforms might be better to use on your phone while others might be better to use on your computer. The sky is the limit when it comes to Nostr clients and this is just the beginning of what is to come.

Social ZEBEDEE — ZEBEDEE is a great resource for people interested in learning about the Bitcoin Lightning Network. It allows you to earn Crypto by playing games, and taking surveys, and connects you directly to Nostr by having its own built-in Social Platform.

Damus — A popular social client for iOS

Primal — Primal is a great way to enjoy Nostr using your browser.

Tools Nostr Band — Nostr data and statistics advanced search.

Nostrends — See what’s trending on Nostr

Zaplife — See who zaps who on Nostr

Music Stemstr — Music collaboration and sharing client for producers and artists.

Wavman — Fun nostr music player

Fountain — The podcast app that pays

Streaming Zap.Stream — Live stream and zap

Writing Habla — A long-form content client for nostr notes

Blogstack — Decentralized blogs over relay using nostr w/ ⚡ lightning tips

Flycat — Explore Nostr universe and long-form content

What I shared above is barely touching the surface of Nostr. Check out Nostr Apps for a full list and an easy-to-use directory.

But the real magic lies in what’s to come. With Nostr’s doors wide open to the world's creative minds, the possibilities are as boundless as the digital realm itself. Picture a future brimming with platforms that stretch the limits of imagination, all powered by Nostr’s foundation. The potential is sky-high, from apps that redefine how we socialize to platforms that reinvent how we shop or exchange ideas.

As the world catches on to the significance of this technology, brace yourself for a surge of interest that could rival a digital gold rush. Imagine a rush of curious minds and passionate explorers meeting to witness The Lightning Network in all its glory. It’s like being front-row spectators to the birth of a digital revolution.

As platforms continue to flourish and innovations continue to unfold, the Nostr ecosystem is poised to redefine how we interact, create, and envision the digital landscape. The age of Nostr has dawned, with it, a future that has the potential to rewrite the rules and reshape our digital identities.

What are Zaps?

Another amazing aspect of Nostr is being able to be “monetized” pretty much right when you start using the Nostr Protocol. This is done by Zaps. A “Zap” is the term for when someone sends you anywhere from 1 satoshi all the way up to 1,000,000 satoshis.

This allows for the average Joe to start earning from their content right away. You do not have to wait until you reach a certain amount of followers or anything along those lines. If someone likes your post or the information you share they can Zap you accordingly. Anyone has the chance to earn from posting and interacting. If someone likes your comment on their post they can Zap you. The more interactive you are and the more people align with you what have to say the more Zaps (Sats) you can earn.

The Future of Nostr

Gone are the days of corporate giants calling the shots on our digital existence. Cryptocurrency and Blockchain technology are the game-changers that are turning the tables on the status quo. People do not realize that their digital freedom is right around the corner, you just have to know where to look. Platforms such as Nostr, Tangled, Uhive(VD4R7R), Torum, and many more are showing us that we have the power to take back our digital selves. Imagine not having to reach a certain following count to start monetizing your content. Imagine being able to earn from your first post. It is possible thanks to platforms such as Nostr.

Imagine a world where big platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and their kin suddenly find themselves with a formidable rival. A wave of replacement platforms, spearheaded by Nostr, Tangled, DeSo, Uhive, Torum, and more have come knocking. These platforms aren’t just alternatives, they’re a digital revolution, offering a fresh take on sharing, expressing, and monetizing our online lives.

Brace yourself for a reality where the sky is the only limit. Thanks to Nostr’s ingenious open protocol and the power of decentralized relays, the future isn’t just bright — it’s an open canvas. Each platform is born from the passion and ingenuity of creators from all corners of the globe.

So, let’s raise our digital glasses to Nostr, the catalyst that sparked this seismic shift. We’re standing on the brink of a new era, where the digital world isn’t a playground for the select few but a canvas where anyone can paint their masterpiece. As the days unfold, as relays fire up, and as dreamers set their sights high, one thing’s certain, the future of technology just got a lot more exciting.

To get an idea of updates and information about the Nostr network check out nostr.report.

Final Thoughts

Since Bitcoin first came onto the scene in 2009, the buzz has been unstoppable. With each passing day, it’s as if a new page of history is being created. As more people begin to realize its significance, it becomes clearer that Bitcoin and its crypto companions are here to stay. It’s a tech evolution that’s not taking a back seat anytime soon.

Now, let’s set the record straight — not every crypto-project is cut out for the long haul. Among the gems, there are plenty of duds too. These imitators are clones crafted to cash in on the craze while leaving the genuine spirit of innovation behind. It’s a reminder that not every coin glittering in the crypto cosmos is worth its weight in code.

But let’s take a step back. Cryptocurrency? It’s not just changing the currency game, it’s flipping the script entirely. How we spend, save, and invest money has seen an irreversible shift. For some of us, it’s a revelation, a glimpse into what Bitcoin and its pioneering siblings are bound to become.

Consider this article your gateway to understanding that Bitcoin isn’t fading into obscurity — it’s powering up, growing mightier by the day, and forging a path that others can only follow.

I hope this has provided you with valuable insights into the world of Bitcoin, Nostr, and the Lightning Network. While I wouldn’t claim to be an expert in Bitcoin, I have eagerly pursued knowledge and noticed the potential Bitcoin holds. Each day, I am dedicated to deepening my understanding of this transformative technology, convinced that it is reshaping our world in a huge way.

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