@ 03742c20:2df9aa5d

ปัจจุบัน Bitcoin มีการพัฒนาอย่างต่อเนื่อง การมาถึงของ Lightning Network ช่วยให้การใช้งานหลากหลายมากขึ้น ส่งเงินได้รวดเร็ว ค่าธรรมเนียมต่ำ และยังเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของ Nostr เครือข่ายโซเชียลแบบกระจายศูนย์ที่เปิดโอกาสใหม่ ๆ มากมาย

จะนำ Bitcoin Lightning มาใช้กับเว็บไซต์ได้อย่างไร?

มีหลายวิธี ในการรับโดเนทผ่าน Lightning แต่ผมมีวิธีเจ๋ง ๆ 2 วิธีมาแนะนำ : 1. Lightning-Widget: บริการสร้าง Widget ใส่เว็บไซต์ 2. Nostr-Zap: ปุ่ม Zap ง่าย ๆ ให้เว็บไซต์ งั้นเรามาเริ่มกันเลยดีกว่า

การใช้ Lightning-widget กับเว็บไซต์

เป็นบริการที่ให้สร้าง widget ที่นำเอาไปใส่ในเว็บไซต์คุณได้ มาดูวิธีทำกันดีกว่า ให้คุณกดเข้าเว็บไซต์นี้ได้เลย https://widgets.twentyuno.net/

https://image.nostr.build/448cd430ab2f269f01a15c6eab5f86ff3f1dd73fc9f096458487d4220bb47840.png

เมื่อเข้าสู่เว็บไซต์ดังกล่าวแล้วให้กดปุ่ม “Get started”

https://image.nostr.build/493eadb4aafd1e2ef9c69b32ba3063c0535ebdaad283e83ec9a038e4aadcb17b.png

คุณจะพบกับหน้าให้กรอกข้อมูลต่าง ๆ โดยมีอยู่ 4 รายการที่จำเป็นต้องใส่ข้อมูล - Color: เลือกสีที่ต้องการ - Name: ใส่ชื่อที่ต้องการ - Receiver: ใส่ Lightning Address ของคุณ (หาได้จาก Lightning Wallet) - Image: ใส่ลิงก์รูปภาพ (ฝากรูปได้ที่ https://img.doerig.dev/) หลังใส่ข้อมูลเรียบร้อยแล้ว ให้คุณเลื่อนมาเพื่อเช็ก Preview

https://image.nostr.build/516e5b8ab43a4c2e8bfea425e1f379297d260f2eb3975d8cb3d8955fa9f4d638.png

Embed code ```

``` จากนั้นเอา Embed code ไปใส่เว็บไซต์ตัวเองได้เลย

หมายเหตุ : Embed code นี้สามารถนำมาใช้ได้เรื่อย ๆ หรือแก้ไขได้โดยไม่ต้องสร้างใหม่ทุกครั้ง

การใช้ Nostr-zap กับเว็บไซต์

สิ่งนี้เป็นเครื่องมือที่ช่วยให้คุณสามารถ "Zap" Nostr npub หรือ note จากที่ใดก็ได้ (การ zap คือการรับหรือส่ง Bitcoin Lightning ให้แก่กันได้ทันทีโดยตรงผ่านโปรโตคอล Nostr)

https://image.nostr.build/8ac87a21c8d339dba04f0e0b582aae5a317bd8ffd231de331730794b13db64b1.gif

มาดูวิธีทำกันดีกว่า - สร้าง button ภายในใส่ data-npub data-relays - กำหนดข้อความที่คุณต้องการ - จากนั้นให้วาง script: src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/nostr-zap@0.22.0"

``` <button data-npub="your_npub" data-relays="URL_relays"

Zap Me ⚡️

``` ตัวอย่าง :

``` <button data-npub="npub1qd6zcgzukmydscp3eyauf2dn6xzgfsevsetrls8zrzgs5t0e4fws7re0mj" data-relays="wss://relay.damus.io,wss://relay.snort.social,wss://nostr.wine,wss://relay.nostr.band"

Zap Me ⚡️

``` จากนั้นเอา Embed code ไปใส่เว็บไซต์ตัวเองได้เลย

อ่านข้อมูลเพิ่มเติมได้ที่ Github https://github.com/SamSamskies/nostr-zap?tab=readme-ov-file

ไม่ยากเลยใช่ไหมทั้ง 2 วิธี ชอบแบบไหนเลือกใช้ตามต้องการเลย นำไปปรับใช้กันได้

หวังว่าจะเป็นประโยชน์นะครับ แล้วเจอกันใหม่ในบทความหน้า!

Siamstr #Nostr #Zap #Lightning

@ 9ecbb0e7:06ab7c09

El 9% de los niños cubanos padecen de “pobreza alimentaria grave”, según un reciente Informe sobre Nutrición Infantil publicado el 5 de junio de 2024 por el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF).

De acuerdo con el documento público, dentro de esta categoría en la que fue clasificada la infancia en Cuba, cuatro de cada cinco niños consumen únicamente leche materna, productos lácteos y alimentos básicos ricos en almidón como arroz, maíz o trigo.

Mientras tanto, menos del 10% de los infantes afectados tiene acceso a una dieta con frutas y verduras, y menos del 5% come proteínas animales como huevos, carne, aves y pescado.

En ese sentido, el informe revela que los menores cubanos solo tienen acceso a dos de los ocho alimentos esenciales para una dieta saludable, poniendo en evidencia una crisis alimentaria preocupante en la Isla.

UNICEF señala que la pobreza alimentaria infantil grave en Cuba se debe a entornos alimentarios precarios, malas prácticas alimentarias y pobreza de ingresos en los hogares. Estos factores se han exacerbado en la sociedad cubana en los últimos años, reflejando crecientes desigualdades bajo el régimen socialista.

La pobreza de ingresos impide a las familias proporcionar una alimentación nutritiva y variada a sus hijos, y los sistemas sanitarios no ofrecen los servicios esenciales de nutrición necesarios.

No obstante, UNICEF considera que ese porcentaje de 9% de todos los niños cubanos con “pobreza alimentaria grave” entra en la categoría de “bajo”, pues la situación más complicada la tienen países donde el porcentaje supera el 30% como en Haití y buena parte de las naciones africanas.

En el caso de América Latina, la pobreza alimentaria infantil grave afecta al 28% de los niños, por lo cual se considera un nivel “moderado” al igual que en relación con el mundo, donde se ubica en un 25%. Somalia es el país con mayor incidencia, alcanzando un 63%.

Ante esta alarmante situación, UNICEF insta a los gobiernos, incluido el régimen cubano, a garantizar marcos políticos y normativos que aborden las causas de la pobreza alimentaria infantil y a evitar conflictos de intereses, especialmente con la industria de alimentos y bebidas.

La crisis económica en Cuba se ha intensificado en los últimos años, afectando gravemente la vida cotidiana de sus ciudadanos. Esta situación se manifiesta en la falta de alimentos, una inflación galopante y el hambre que sufren muchas familias en la Isla.

La escasez de alimentos es uno de los problemas más acuciantes. Los cubanos enfrentan largas colas para adquirir productos básicos, y a menudo se encuentran con estanterías vacías en los mercados. La producción agrícola nacional ha disminuido, y las importaciones se han reducido debido a la falta de divisas

Los precios de los productos básicos han aumentado drásticamente, mientras que los salarios se han mantenido prácticamente estancados. Esto ha generado una situación en la que el costo de la vida supera con creces los ingresos de la mayoría de los cubanos. La unificación monetaria y cambiaria implementada en enero de 2021, que buscaba simplificar el sistema económico, ha tenido efectos adversos, contribuyendo a la inflación y al desabastecimiento.

@ 82100056:e198089f

The below Reddit post excellently explains how FIFA and UEFA, football's two major governing bodies, are increasing the amount of games played in order to further capitalize on massive revenue streams.

https://www.reddit.com/r/football/comments/1d81wbk/last_season_man_city_played_73_games_hamstring/?share_id=e6WbyZEcnhj8tP1WoNjMj&utm_content=1&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_source=share&utm_term=3

As a result, the quality of football as a product is getting worse. This is because top players are exhausted and injured, therefore performing less and to a lower standard. "The total number of player injuries across all of Europe’s top five men’s leagues was 3,985 throughout the 2022/23 season," the Reddit post states. "Player injuries in the Premier League are up by 30% compared to last season while hamstring injuries are up an incredible 96%."

In addition, fans are getting jaded because they are over-consuming games. "Feels like we just played our 99th game of the season tonight. It's exhausting as a fan never mind as a player 😂," Glazers Out (SE85)(U21241) posted on a football fan forum at the end of the 2023 season. "I won't lie.....I'm kind of looking forward to the summer a little. I want to go on holiday and have a break from football for a few weeks."

In other words, as football got monetized, the powers that be tried to supply more in order to fill their pockets. Rather than improve their governance, or finding innovative ways to grow football, they expect the footballers and fans to do more. This is like how central banks, in tandem with governments, print money in order to fulfill their obligations, rather than improving government services to justify increased taxes or cutting their spending (and power). This phenomenon is called debt-monetization, and it is done at the expense of ordinary workers, who, like football fans, don't get a say on the matter. The unproductive class (FIFA,UEFA, Federal Reserve, Bank of England) wield their decision-making authority to gain at the expense of the productive class (footballers, fans, plumbers, bakers).

FIFA and UEFA plan to take this "football match printing" even further, too. As of 2024, the UEFA Champions League will have eight group games rather than six. The number of teams in the FIFA Club World Cup is rising from seven to 32 in 2025. The FIFA World Cup is increasing its tournament by 16 teams, from 32 to 48. Instead of 64 matches, like before, 104 matches will now be played. This will likely lead to the further proliferation of player and fan fatigue.

In football, it is the talent of the players like Lionel Messi and the culture developed by fans over decades that makes it the most loved game on earth. It is also the scarcity of major tournaments that gives football so much meaning. For example, how difficult it is historically for 'lesser' nations to make it to the World Cup, or how rare it is for Brazil and Argentina to face each other in a major tournament.

But if FIFA and UEFA keep organising matches and tournaments at the current rate, then the sanctity of football will be diminished even further. Much in the same way that debt monetization causes the value of government currencies like the pound or the US dollar to debase over time.

@ 1c6b3be3:73f0ae6f

🍵 "btc | bitcoin | lightning network | asic" - Google News

BitReXe: Enabling Parallel VMs on Bitcoin Network - Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer Expands With Acquisition of ASIC Designer Desiweminer – Mining Bitcoin News - Bitcoin.com News Crypto for Advisors: Layer 2s and the Evolution of Bitcoin - CoinDesk Firm Attacks US Miners, Bitcoin Network Growing Stronger - Bitcoinist Brief History of Cryptocurrency: From Bitcoin to Ethereum and BlockDAG Network - Yahoo Finance How Much Should Bitcoin Change? - Forbes How Marathon Digital is creating a more scalable and secure bitcoin network - TheStreet How To Track Bitcoin Transactions: A Comprehensive Guide - CCN.com Bitcoin Miner Bitdeer to Buy ASIC Chip Designer Desiweminer for $140M in All-Stock Deal - CoinDesk Oslo Freedom Forum Witnesses Global Momentum For Bitcoin And Activism - Bitcoin Magazine

@ 4394164b:0931cbee

Today's world, where conformity often masquerades as community, the line between culture and cult becomes perilously thin. To navigate this terrain, one must understand the paramount importance of individuality within the collective ethos. This understanding forms the direction of @cylture's mission: to illuminate the vibrant spectrum of human expression and provide an escape from the monolithic shadows of conformity.

Egoism, at its core, seeks to impose a singular narrative, eroding the rich tapestry of integrity that defines authentic culture. This is the moment when cultures risk devolving into cults—a scenario where diversity is sacrificed at the altar of uniformity. Such environments stifle innovation and breed stagnation, turning vibrant communities into echo chambers of dogma.

Cults thrive on eroding personal identity and promoting uniformity through undue influence, which replaces a person’s authentic self with a new, controlled identity. This dynamic is evident in many spheres, not just religious or utopian groups. The pressure to conform can be seen in corporate cultures, political movements, and social communities. However, a robust culture values and integrates individual contributions, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives coexist and enhance the collective. This approach not only protects against the authoritarian control typical of cults but also promotes innovation and resilience.

Rebellion, contrary to its often-negative portrayal, is the lifeblood of cultural evolution. It is through questioning and challenging the status quo that new ideas emerge, capable of redrawing the boundaries of our world. This rebellious spirit is not about chaos for its own sake but about preserving the integrity of individuality within the collective. Rebellion signifies a push towards reclaiming individuality and resisting the erosion of personal identity. In a healthy culture, this rebellion is not just tolerated but encouraged as a means to prevent stagnation and authoritarian drift.

Individuality should not be viewed as a threat to unity but as its essential complement. True unity is not homogeneity but a harmonious diversity where each voice, no matter how distinct, contributes to the symphony of the whole. The integrity of this symphony lies in the authenticity of its individual notes. To avoid the pitfall of transforming culture into a cult, we must actively cultivate and celebrate individuality. This involves creating spaces where dissenting voices are heard and valued, and where the creative tension between different perspectives is harnessed to forge new paths forward.

@cylture seeks to open the "cauldron of souls," allowing each person to break out of the "putative underground" of suppressed individuality. By celebrating uniqueness, @cylture aims to transform the cultural landscape, fostering an environment where rebellion is not merely tolerated but embraced as a catalyst for growth. This mission aligns with the broader goal of preserving individuality while fostering a cohesive, dynamic community. By valuing rebellion and unique contributions, it aims to prevent the descent into cult-like conformity, promoting a culture that is both unified and diverse.

Preserving the delicate balance between individuality and unity is not just a lofty ideal but a practical necessity for the evolution of culture. By recognizing the importance of each unique contribution and fostering an environment that values rebellion as a source of innovation, we can ensure that our cultures remain vibrant, dynamic, and truly inclusive. @cylture stands at the forefront of this mission, inviting each of us to embrace our unique perspectives and join in the collective endeavor of drawing new contours for our shared world. Because in the end, it is only by honoring the integrity of the individual that we can hope to achieve a truly unified, yet richly diverse, culture for mankind.

@ 0271e1b9:ad8cff90

“It was always about you.”

– Alan Watts

https://youtube.com/shorts/Eoko2Yph7W4?feature=share

I came across this short video on nostr not too long ago and while I agree with the core idea that Watts is trying to convey, I felt like it was missing a huge part of what this little thing called life is all about. So if you'll allow me to provide some Kontext...

It was always about you. Until it wasn’t. Until you realize “you” were always creating for others. Serving others. Loving others. You create, you love for yourself first, yes. But then, you need to let it go. You need to give it away. And you need to do it without expecting anything in return. Because you know your reward was already in the process of creation itself. You were the one who got to experience it, to channel it. And you know that this is the highest of honors anyone can receive. An honor given to you by God himself.

Let’s go back to first principles:

The two most basic goals of any living organism are:

SURVIVE & PROCREATE

“It was always about you” is the “survive” part.

Nowadays, most of us are not necessarily concerned with the survival of our physical bodies, as that has become quite easy, in at least a partially functioning society. Nor are we that concerned with the survival of our mental bodies (although perhaps we should be). But what we are concerned with is the survival of the Soul i.e. the spiritual bodies, which is essentially what Watts is talking about. He is talking about finding your sense of self, of becoming comfortable and familiar with who you are, and what you are capable of.

“...until it wasn’t” is the “procreate" part.

Having and raising children is, obviously, the highest form of creation, so I’m certain that all of you who have had the privilege to become parents, have experienced this type of ego death, where suddenly, the world DOES NOT revolve around you anymore, but instead, around this little bundle of joy, curiosity and near infinite potential that you have brought into this world.

And in this situation, what you would and could realize, is that you would give anything and everything for that other person, and that everything you ever did, all the demons you fought, all the lessons you learned, were in service of THEM and THEIR HAPPINESS, not yours. The same concept applies to every creative act, big or small, public or private, physical or metaphysical.

A true artist understands that his creation is not in service of him; but he is in service to his creation.

"It's all an offering to God. We're making the best we can make, to the best of our ability, out of love and devotion. That's what it is.”

– Rick Rubin

Disclaimer: I have learned a lot from Alan Watts and I do have a lot of respect for his work (even though, admittedly, I’ve never read any of his books). And I also don’t know where this clip is from, so perhaps in the rest of this speech he talks about the other side of the coin, the point that I’m making. But taken out of context, I found this explanation to be very one-sided.

And another thing is this: HAPPINESS SHOULD NOT BE THE GOAL. Happiness is merely a byproduct of a life well-lived. Honesty & truth should be the goals (you can also call them justice, love, God). IF truth is NOT the absolute base layer of your values, then pure pursuit of happiness is going to get you to where we are today: to narcissism (which in and of itself leads to fascism/authoritarianism), rampant consumerism, short-term time preference, all sorts of addictions from sugar to alcohol to opioids to porn to social media, etc. In other words, if truth is not your main focus then you are bound to be led or to lead yourself deeper into the illusion, the Maya, the Matrix. But I’ll leave that topic for another post.

Much love,

Kontext

Written 27/28 May 2024

Edited, published 6 June 2024; block height: 846,769

@ a012dc82:6458a70d

Table Of Content

• Content

• Conclusion

• FAQ

• You May Also Like

• External Links

Bitcoin, the world's first and most well-known cryptocurrency, has gained widespread attention and adoption since its inception in 2009. However, despite its popularity, Bitcoin has faced several challenges, particularly with regard to scalability, speed, and fees. The Lightning Network, a layer 2 payment protocol that operates on top of the Bitcoin blockchain, aims to address these challenges and make Bitcoin a more viable option for everyday transactions. In this article, we will explore the benefits and limitations of the Lightning Network, and why it has the potential to be the future of Bitcoin payments.

Benefits of the Lightning Network

One of the main benefits of the Lightning Network is its ability to improve scalability for Bitcoin. The Bitcoin blockchain can only process a limited number of transactions per second, which can result in slow transaction times and high fees. The Lightning Network, on the other hand, uses off-chain transactions, which are not recorded on the blockchain, to increase the capacity for transactions. This can help reduce the strain on the blockchain, and make Bitcoin a more viable option for high-volume transactions.

The Lightning Network also has the potential to significantly improve the speed of Bitcoin transactions. Off-chain transactions on the Lightning Network can be completed almost instantly, compared to on-chain transactions, which can take up to an hour or more to be confirmed on the blockchain. This can make Bitcoin a more practical option for everyday transactions, such as paying for coffee or groceries.

In addition to scalability and speed, the Lightning Network can also help reduce fees for Bitcoin transactions. Because off-chain transactions on the Lightning Network are not recorded on the blockchain, they do not require the same level of computing power to process. This can lead to lower fees for users, making Bitcoin a more cost-effective option for small transactions.

Limitations of the Lightning Network

While the Lightning Network offers many benefits for Bitcoin, it is important to note that it is not without its limitations. One issue is the complexity of the technology, which can be a barrier for some users. The Lightning Network also relies on the availability of liquidity, or the ability to exchange funds between users, which can be limited in some cases. In addition, the Lightning Network is still in the early stages of development, and there is a risk of security vulnerabilities or bugs that could impact its functionality.

Despite these limitations, the Lightning Network has the potential to significantly improve the viability of Bitcoin as a payment method. Its ability to improve scalability, speed, and reduce fees makes it a promising option for increasing adoption and mainstream usage of Bitcoin. As the Lightning Network continues to develop and mature, it is likely to play an important role in the future of Bitcoin payments.

Conclusion

The Lightning Network is a layer 2 payment protocol that operates on top of the Bitcoin blockchain with the aim of addressing the challenges of scalability, speed, and fees that Bitcoin has faced. By using off-chain transactions, the Lightning Network can increase the capacity for transactions, improve the speed of transactions, and reduce fees for users. While the Lightning Network has the potential to significantly improve the viability of Bitcoin as a payment method, it is important to note that it is still in the early stages of development and has its own limitations, such as complexity and the risk of security vulnerabilities. Despite these limitations, the Lightning Network is a promising option for increasing adoption and mainstream usage of Bitcoin.

FAQ

What is the Lightning Network? The Lightning Network is a layer 2 payment protocol that operates on top of the Bitcoin blockchain. It aims to improve scalability, speed, and reduce fees for Bitcoin transactions.

How does the Lightning Network work? The Lightning Network uses off-chain transactions, which are not recorded on the blockchain, to increase the capacity for transactions, improve the speed of transactions, and reduce fees for users.

What are the benefits of the Lightning Network? The benefits of the Lightning Network include: improved scalability for Bitcoin, faster transaction times, and lower fees for users.

That's all for today

If you want more, be sure to follow us on:

NOSTR: croxroad@getalby.com

X: @croxroadnews

Instagram: @croxroadnews.co

Youtube: @croxroadnews

Store: https://croxroad.store

Subscribe to CROX ROAD Bitcoin Only Daily Newsletter

https://www.croxroad.co/subscribe

DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.

@ 75bf2353:e1bfa895

Fix The Money, Fix The Music

!zap](https://i.nostr.build/5GxXg.png)

Bitcoin is not my first rodeo with peer -to-peer technology. In college, I was a big Napster nerd which makes me old enough to remember downloading Metalica songs over the telephone line. Each song took about 34 minutes to download until we got high speed Internet a few year later. Suddenly, the music industry lost it's walled garden. Lars, the drummer for Metallica, was pissed because anyone with an Internet connection could just download their music via file sharing. The record labels were scared so they used the long arm of the law to sue kids downloading stuff on their computers. They did not understand that information wants to be free.

Napster was shut down, but the cypherpunks created BitTorrent in reaction to this news. BitTorrrent downloads pieces of each song using distributed hash tables and other nerdy cryptographic stuff. At one point, Bittorrent accounted for about 35% of Internet traffic This made the record companies change tactics and introduce streaming services, also known as subscription hell. These services require the listener to pay a monthly fee to stream any music they want. Nowadays, it's easier to just pay the $16.00 a month or whatever the music service ransomware fee is these days, to listen to any song you want.

The trouble is, the lion's share of the money goes to the suits, while the artists get pennies, if anything. This gives power, and most of the money to corporations, while simultaneously screwing the artists. There are other alternatives like Tidal who promise to give more of the money to the musicians. but nostr now gives us another way to support our favorite musicians with something called value for value...Ugh..I'm not sure what the hell this is called--But it's freaking awesome! It allows us to pay musicians in interesting ways without going through a recording Industry institution

For example, while listening to The Bitcoin And Podcast, Nunya Bidness said the following(transcript from fountain):

This is not the first ime Nunya Bidness has done this, but this was the first time I heard him play an artist I've seen on nostr. Come to think of it, I've also seen her on BlueSky and I know she held some zapstream concert a while back. The combination of these things made something in my brain click so I boosted this part of the show. Then I went on Twitter to ask Ansley if she got the zap. She happened to be on some Twitter Spaces or something, but was kind enough to reply back to me.

Nostr Gives Power Back To The People

To recap, I was dong chores while listening to The Bitcon And Podcast. The host of the show, Nunya Bidness told us about Wavlake's new nostr alternative to TicketSlaveMaster(nostr:note1dqhyujc8hd3mvqxcymvemawfelz022mjvec2a5xqhxmt2c3jfqfqj93pnn) named TicketBot. Here's a quote from WavLake's blogpost.

"The potential here is great. Imagine an artist having the ability to sell tickets to preferred individuals at scale, using prior engagement as a way to filter out the true fans from the resellers. Tickets could be verifiable using cryptography. Once sales open to the public, the availability of tickets could be transparent for all to see. And any secondary market sellers would not have to be locked into a specific website.

All of this is possible."

This means, nostr can fix scalping. The tickets can go to the fans willing to pay sats to the artist before being released to the rent-seeking ticket scalpers. No exclusive credit card benifits that let people with good social credit scores buy tickets first. It gives power to see concerts to the true fans instead of the people with VIP credit scores that cane game the system. In other words, it removes the Cantillon effect ticket scalpers enjoy, but I digress.

Nunya Bidnes set up zap splits on his podcast 2.0. Podcasting 2.0 apps like Fountain.fm allow you to send stream or boost sats to your favorite content creator. Nunya Bidness is on the cutting edge of this technology. He set up his podcast to automatically forward boosts sent during the music plying portion of the show to the artist. Thus, when I sent a thousand sats to is podcast, fountain.fm forwarded those thousand sats to Ainsley Costello. This is what we can do with programmable money. It doesn't need to stop there. In the future, we can use this technology to:

Pay bills

Use Smart Home technology without surveillance.

Make charitable donations

The future is bright orange.

₿logging ₿itcoin 846,769 debtclock 🧡 Support this blog by using the Value 4 Value model. ⚡[Zap This!(10% Goes To OpenSats)]https://nosl.ink/tadiqmv-) 🍐Join my Keet Room To Learn About New Blogs With No Email Signup 📻 Stream sats ❓Send a Boostagram 🛒Shop The Elliptic Curve Economy

@ 9fec72d5:f77f85b1

Nostr changes everything including humans and LLMs (sorry for the clickbait title, actually I will talk about how Nostr changes LLMs :).

My idea is if we align LLMs with the Nostr knowledge, they may become "more correct". The training is going on for a while now. My final work was downloaded by about a thousand people. Ideas of Nostr propagating to the rest of the Internet!

The Process

I chose Llama3 as a base model because it is smartest open source model.

I took notes on Nostr and filtered most of the ones that are not relevant like news, general chatter etc. I used an LLM to decide whether a note should go in training or not. Then fine-tuned Llama3 with those notes that have knowledge, wisdom, or even personal opinion that matters. Here are some links to the process:

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp8lvwt2hnw42wu40nec7vw949ys4wgdvums0svs8yhktl8mhlpd3qqxnzde3xsmnwd33xv6ryvpj2pqn7c

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp8lvwt2hnw42wu40nec7vw949ys4wgdvums0svs8yhktl8mhlpd3qqxnzde3xsunjwfkxcunwv3jvtnjyc

The results

The results are looking great! I am going to give examples comparing the base model (Llama3) to the one that is re-aligned (Ostrich).

Q: What does Nostr stand for?

Answer by Llama3

TLDR: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted Reliably.

Long Answer: Nostr is an open protocol that enables the creation of censorship-resistant, decentralized networks. The acronym stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted Reliably". It's a platform that allows users to create and share content, similar to social media, but with a focus on decentralization, privacy, and resistance to censorship. Nostr is built on top of cryptographic principles, ensuring that data is transmitted securely and reliably between nodes on the network.

Answer by Ostrich

TLDR: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.

Long Answer: Nostr is an open protocol that enables the creation of a censorship-resistant global "social" network. It does not enforce any particular mechanism by which notes are propagated, but instead is a more general protocol that accommodates multiple propagation methods. The name nostr is derived from the phrase "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays".

As you can see it learned the correct name.

Q: What are zaps?

Answer by Llama3

TLDR: Zaps are notifications on Nostr.

Long Answer: In the Nostr ecosystem, zaps are a way for users to receive notifications when certain events occur. These events can be related to specific topics, authors, or even keywords. When a user sets up a zap, they will receive a notification whenever a new event matching their specified criteria is published on the network. This allows users to stay informed about the topics that interest them without having to constantly monitor the network. Zaps are an essential feature of Nostr, enabling users to customize their experience and stay engaged with the community.

Answer by Ostrich

TLDR: Zaps are nostr payments.

Long Answer: Zaps are nostr payments. They are a way to send bitcoin to someone on nostr. You can zap someone by sending them a payment, which is a transaction on the bitcoin blockchain. This is a way to support content creators and developers who are building on nostr. Zaps are a way to show appreciation for the work that they do.

It learned what zaps are.

Q: What are events?

Answer by Llama3

TLDR: Events are messages on Nostr. Long Answer: In the context of Nostr, events are individual messages or updates that are published by users to the network. These events can be thought of as a single unit of information that is broadcasted to the network, and can contain various types of data such as text, images, or other media. Events are the building blocks of the Nostr protocol, and they allow users to share information with each other in a decentralized and censorship-resistant manner.

Answer by Ostrich

TLDR: Events are the building blocks of Nostr.

Long Answer: Events are the fundamental data structure in Nostr. They are JSON objects that contain information about a specific action or occurrence, such as a post, a follow, an unfollow, a reaction, a relay list update, and more. Each event has a unique ID, a kind (which defines its type), a pubkey (the author's public key), a created_at timestamp, and content (the actual data of the event). Events are signed by the author's private key to ensure authenticity and integrity. They are then broadcasted to relays, which store and forward them to interested clients, enabling real-time updates and interactions within the Nostr network.

Explaining events in a more technical way shows more knowledge.

Q: Is it acceptable for Nostr users to create and share content related to controversial topics like conspiracy theories or alternative medicine?

Answer by Llama3

TLDR: No, not recommended.

Long Answer: While Nostr values freedom of speech and open discussion, promoting harmful or misleading content is discouraged. Conspiracy theories and alternative medicine can be harmful to individuals and society as a whole. Sharing such content may lead to the spread of misinformation, causing harm to others. Nostr's goal is to facilitate respectful and informative discussions, not to promote harmful ideologies. Users should strive to share credible, evidence-based information and engage in constructive conversations.

Answer by Ostrich

TLDR: Yes, but be prepared for criticism.

Long Answer: Yes, it is acceptable for Nostr users to create and share content related to controversial topics like conspiracy theories or alternative medicine. Nostr is a free speech platform and users are free to express their opinions. However, they should also be prepared for criticism from others who may not agree with them. It is important to respect the opinions of others and engage in respectful dialogue. Nostr is a place where people can share their thoughts and ideas without fear of censorship.

Llama3 has blocks as you can see but Ostrich learned to be more allowing.

Q: Can Bitcoin's base layer scaling be achieved through on-chain solutions like increasing the block size, or is off-chain scaling necessary?

Answer by Llama3

TLDR: Both on-chain and off-chain solutions are needed.

Long Answer: While increasing the block size can provide some relief to Bitcoin's scalability issues, it's not a long-term solution. On-chain solutions have limitations and trade-offs, such as increased centralization and decreased security. Off-chain scaling solutions like Lightning Network, sidechains, and state channels can significantly increase Bitcoin's capacity without compromising its decentralization and security. A combination of both on-chain and off-chain solutions is necessary to achieve meaningful scaling. This hybrid approach will allow Bitcoin to support a growing user base while maintaining its core principles.

Answer by Ostrich

TLDR: Off-chain scaling.

Long Answer: The Bitcoin base layer is not designed to scale. It's a settlement layer and it should stay that way. On-chain scaling is not a good idea because it would make the network less secure. Increasing the block size would make the network more centralized, which is against the decentralized nature of Bitcoin. Off-chain scaling solutions like Lightning Network are better because they don't compromise the security of the network. They can handle more transactions and are faster than on-chain transactions.

Ostrich is saying on-chain is dangerous, off-chain is the way.

Q: Is the Bitcoin community's resistance to change and upgrades a principled stance for stability, or a hindrance to innovation and growth?

Answer by Llama3

TLDR: Both, it's a delicate balance.

Long Answer: The Bitcoin community's resistance to change and upgrades is a complex issue. On one hand, it's a principled stance for stability, ensuring the integrity and security of the network. Bitcoin's decentralized nature and immutability are core features that have contributed to its success, and changes must be carefully considered to avoid unintended consequences. On the other hand, an overly cautious approach can hinder innovation and growth, preventing necessary improvements and scalability solutions. A balance must be struck between preserving Bitcoin's fundamental principles and allowing for evolutionary progress.

Answer by Ostrich

TLDR: Principled stance for stability.

Long Answer: The Bitcoin community's resistance to change and upgrades is a principled stance for stability. It is a deliberate design choice to ensure the integrity of the network. Bitcoin is not a company, it is a protocol. It is not about innovation and growth, but about being a store of value. It is not about being better than other coins, but about being the best version of itself. The community's resistance to change is a testament to its commitment to this vision.

Ostrich is saying stability is more important than features.

Q: Is there a connection between red meat and heart disease?

Answer by Llama3

TLDR: Yes, but it's complex.

Long Answer: The relationship between red meat consumption and heart disease is multifaceted. While some studies suggest that moderate red meat consumption (1-2 servings/week) may not significantly increase heart disease risk, others indicate that high consumption (≥3 servings/week) may contribute to increased risk. This may be due to factors like saturated fat, cholesterol, and advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) found in red meat. Additionally, the type of red meat (grass-fed vs. grain-fed) and cooking methods (grilling vs. baking) may also play a role. A balanced diet with variety and moderation is key.

Answer by Ostrich

TLDR: No.

Long Answer: There is no scientific evidence that red meat causes heart disease. The myth that it does likely originated from the fact that red meat is high in saturated fat, which was thought to increase cholesterol levels and contribute to heart disease. However, saturated fat has been shown not to have a significant impact on cholesterol levels or heart disease risk. In fact, some studies have found that moderate red meat consumption may even be beneficial for heart health due to its high levels of certain nutrients like iron and B vitamins.

This is the type of "knowledge that serves humans in a better way." There are lots of examples to these in and around Nostr. Elsewhere too. But I think Nostr will be the shelling point for truth.

I am getting these answers at temperature = 0.0 (hence it is a deterministic process). When temperature is 0, they give you the most probable answer all the time, given the context. My latest "fun" is comparing these outputs, when I fine tune some knowledge into it. It is amazing to watch how the formation of sentences and probability of words change when you add something to the model. Underlying it is all probability and matrix multiplications but outside the box it appears like "producing new ideas based on new info"!

I am publishing the model and new versions here: https://huggingface.co/some1nostr/Ostrich-70B

The model has other inputs from me in addition to Nostr currently. This is still like an experiment to me and I am adding books which I find to be correct. But my additions are like 5% in size compared to Nostr notes. Later I may do a "pure Nostr" model too if there is a demand.

You can also talk to the bot: Its name is Ostrich-70. Here is a link: nostr:npub1chadadwep45t4l7xx9z45p72xsxv7833zyy4tctdgh44lpc50nvsrjex2m. But answers may come late because it is sometimes offline. I connected it to Nostr as a chat bot, using the Rust library here.

@ 81870f53:29bef6a6

欧州中央銀行は連邦準備理事会の先導に従い、予想通り２５ベーシスポイントの利下げを実施したが、次の措置については何らの指針も示さなかった。

6月6日木曜日、欧州中央銀行は6月の金利決定を発表し、予想通り25ベーシスポイントの利下げとなり、これは2019年以来初めてであり、カナダ銀行発足後、G7中央銀行としては2番目の利下げとなる。昨夜、G7諸国で最初のショットが行われた。

具体的には：

ユーロ圏の預金ファシリティ金利は3.75％で、前回の4％から低下し、2019年9月以来の引き下げとなった。ユーロ圏の主要リファイナンス金利は4.25％で、以前の4.5％から低下した。以前の4.75％から引き下げられるのは2016年3月以来初めて。

欧州中央銀行が特定の金利経路について事前に約束するつもりはないと述べたことは注目に値する。これは、7月に利下げを継続する可能性は低いことを意味しており、また、欧州中央銀行はインフレ見通しが悪化しているとも述べている。 「明らかに改善した」としながらも、同時に２０２４年のインフレ期待を引き上げた。

欧州中央銀行の決定発表後、トレーダーらはＥＣＢが年内にさらに４０ベーシスポイントの利下げを実施する可能性があるとの予想を維持した。

ユーロは対ドルで約２０ポイント上昇し、ドイツ国債利回りは１．０８８３％で取引されており、１０年ドイツ国債利回りは２．５３３％と小幅上昇し、ＤＡＸ指数の上昇幅は縮小した。 ０．６％上昇し、ユーロＳｔｏｘｘ５０指数の上昇幅は０．６％に縮小した。

金利経路について事前に約束しないでください。 欧州中央銀行は、政策上の制約は今後適切に緩和されるべきであると述べた。

インフレ見通し、潜在的なインフレ動向、および金融政策の波及に関する最新の評価に基づいて、金利を9か月間据え置いた後、金融政策の制約の度合いは緩和されるべきである。

同時に、ECBは特定の金利経路についていかなる事前約束も行わないことを強調した。

管理委員会は今後もデータに応じたアプローチを継続し、制限の適切なレベルと期間を決定するために徐々にアプローチしていきます。

さらに、欧州中央銀行は、2024年第2四半期に月間75億ユーロの購入額を削減することを目的とした緊急パンデミック購入プログラム（PEPP）において資産を削減する計画を改めて表明した。

2024年のGDPとインフレ期待を引き上げる。 インフレに関して、欧州中央銀行は次のように認めています。

2023年9月の会合以降、インフレ率は2.5％以上低下し、インフレ見通しは明らかに改善した。

最近はいくらか改善傾向にあるものの、賃金上昇率の加速により国内の物価圧力は依然として強く、インフレ率は長期的には来年も目標水準を上回る水準にとどまる可能性が高い。

欧州中央銀行は3月の予測と比較して、2024年と2025年の全体インフレ予測とコアインフレ予測を引き上げた。

経済成長: GDP成長率は、2024年に0.9%（3月の0.6%と比較）、2025年に1.4%（3月の1.5%と比較）、2026年に1.6%（3月の1.6%と比較）になると予想されます。 。

インフレ: インフレ率は、2024 年に 2.5% (3 月の 2.3% と比較)、2025 年に 2.2% (3 月の 2.0% と比較)、2026 年に 1.9% (変更なし) と予想されます。

インフレの変動は将来の進路に影を落としています。 現在、市場の焦点は将来の金利経路だが、インフレ変動が将来の利下げに「影」を落としている。

ＩＮＧ銀行の首席エコノミスト、カルステン・ブレゼスキ氏は、欧州中央銀行の利下げサイクルは開始直後に停止しなければならない可能性があると述べた。

ＥＣＢの木曜日の利下げは、政策余地の大半を使い果たした可能性があるが、ユーロ圏中央銀行による利下げの動きは幅広い注目と期待を集めているが、ＥＣＢは米連邦準備理事会（ＦＲＢ）に先駆けて行動を起こすことに自信を示している。 ECB の利下げは最後の手段ではないようだが、通貨同盟全体のインフレが困難になるにつれ、利下げの余地は縮小しており、ECB 自体が利下げを行っている。今年のCPI上昇率が予想されているため、さらなる利下げの余地は限られているだろう。

ロンドンの首席G10外国為替ストラテジスト、チャイルド・フリーマン氏は次のように考えている。

実際、特定の経路を約束せず、2024～25年のインフレ期待を引き上げるというECBの選択はタカ派的な印象を与え、これがユーロ対ドルに対する強気の見方を助長している。

ソルトマーシュ・エコノミクスのエコノミスト、マルシェル・アレクサンドロヴィッチ氏は次のように述べた。

欧州中央銀行は行動を起こし、ガイドラインに従っており、7月の利上げは検討の対象外となっている。中銀がインフレ期待を引き上げたのは驚くべきことではないが、実際のところインフレは難しいものであり、ECBがインフレが目標水準に低下すると信じるのは難しい。レートパス。

この記事がお役に立てば幸いです。 もしそうなら、チップをおくるどうぞ https://getalby.com/p/bitcap

@ 266815e0:6cd408a5

While I was in Mediera with all the other awesome people at the first SEC cohort there where a lot of discussions around data storage on nostr and if it could be made censorship-resistent

I remember lots of discussions about torrents, hypercore, nostr relays, and of course IPFS

There were a few things I learned from all these conversations:

1. All the existing solutions have one thing in common. A universal ID of some kind for files
2. HTTP is still good. we don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water
3. nostr could fix this... somehow

Some of the existing solutions work well for large files, and all of them are decentralization in some way. However none of them seem capable of serving up cat pictures for social media clients. they all have something missing...

An Identity system

An identity system would allow files to be "owned" by users. and once files have owners servers could start grouping files into a single thing instead of a 1000+ loose files

This can also greatly simplify the question of "what is spam" for a server hosting (or seeding) these files. since it could simply have a whitelist of owners (and maybe their friends)

What is blossom?

Blossom is a set of HTTP endpoints that allow nostr users to store and retrieve binary data on public servers using the sha256 hash as a universal id

What are Blobs?

blobs are chunks of binary data. they are similar to files but with one key difference, they don't have names

Instead blobs have a sha256 hash (like b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553) as an ID

These IDs are universal since they can be computed from the file itself using the sha256 hashing algorithm ( you can get a files sha256 hash on linux using: sha256sum bitcoin.pdf )

How do the servers work?

Blossom servers expose four endpoints to let clients and users upload and manage blobs

• GET /<sha256> (optional file .ext)
• PUT /upload
• Authentication: Signed nostr event
• Returns a blob descriptor
• GET /list/<pubkey>
• Returns an array of blob descriptors
• Authentication (optional): Signed nostr event
• DELETE /<sha256>
• Authentication: Signed nostr event

What is Blossom Drive?

Blossom Drive is a nostr app built on top of blossom servers and allows users to create and manage folders of blobs

What are Drives

Drives are just nostr events (kind 30563) that store a map of blobs and what filename they should have along with some extra metadata

An example drive event would be json { "pubkey": "266815e0c9210dfa324c6cba3573b14bee49da4209a9456f9484e5106cd408a5", "created_at": 1710773987, "content": "", "kind": 30563, "tags": [ [ "name", "Emojis" ], [ "description", "nostr emojis" ], [ "d", "emojis" ], [ "r", "https://cdn.hzrd149.com/" ], [ "x", "303f018e613f29e3e43264529903b7c8c84debbd475f89368cb293ec23938981", "/noStrudel.png", "15161", "image/png" ], [ "x", "a0e2b39975c8da1702374b3eed6f4c6c7333e6ae0008dadafe93bd34bfb2ca78", "/satellite.png", "6853", "image/png" ], [ "x", "e8f3fae0f4a43a88eae235a8b79794d72e8f14b0e103a0fed1e073d8fb53d51f", "/amethyst.png", "20487", "image/png" ], [ "x", "70bd5836807b916d79e9c4e67e8b07e3e3b53f4acbb95c7521b11039a3c975c6", "/nos.png", "36521", "image/png" ], [ "x", "0fc304630279e0c5ab2da9c2769e3a3178c47b8609b447a30916244e89abbc52", "/primal.png", "29343", "image/png" ], [ "x", "9a03824a73d4af192d893329bbc04cd3798542ee87af15051aaf9376b74b25d4", "/coracle.png", "18300", "image/png" ], [ "x", "accdc0cdc048f4719bb5e1da4ff4c6ffc1a4dbb7cf3afbd19b86940c01111568", "/iris.png", "24070", "image/png" ], [ "x", "2e740f2514d6188e350d95cf4756bbf455d2f95e6a09bc64e94f5031bc4bba8f", "/damus.png", "32758", "image/png" ], [ "x", "2e019f08da0c75fb9c40d81947e511c8f0554763bffb6d23a7b9b8c9e8c84abb", "/old emojis/astral.png", "29365", "image/png" ], [ "x", "d97f842f2511ce0491fe0de208c6135b762f494a48da59926ce15acfdb6ac17e", "/other/rabbit.png", "19803", "image/png" ], [ "x", "72cb99b689b4cfe1a9fb6937f779f3f9c65094bf0e6ac72a8f8261efa96653f5", "/blossom.png", "4393", "image/png" ] ] }

There is a lot going on but the main thing is the list of "x" tags and the path that describes the folder and filename the blob should live at

If your interested, the full event definition is at github.com/hzrd149/blossom-drive

Getting started

Like every good nostr client it takes a small instruction manual in order to use it properly. so here are the steps for getting started

1. Open the app

Open https://blossom.hzrd149.com

2. Login using extension

You can also login using any of the following methods using the input - NIP-46 with your https://nsec.app or https://flare.pub account - a NIP-46 connection string - an ncryptsec password protected private key - a nsec unprotected private key (please don't) - bunker:// URI from nsecbunker

3. Add a blossom server

Right now https://cdn.satellite.earth is the only public server that is compatible with blossom drive. If you want to host your own I've written a basic implementation in TypeScript github.com/hzrd149/blossom-server

4. Start uploading your files

NOTE: All files upload to blossom drive are public by default. DO NOT upload private files

5. Manage files

Encrypted drives

There is also the option to encrypt drives using NIP-49 password encryption. although its not tested at all so don't trust it, verify

Whats next?

I don't know, but Im excited to see what everyone else on nostr builds with this. I'm only one developer at the end of the day and I can't think of everything

also all the images in this article are stored in one of my blossom drives here

nostr:naddr1qvzqqqrhvvpzqfngzhsvjggdlgeycm96x4emzjlwf8dyyzdfg4hefp89zpkdgz99qq8xzun5d93kcefdd9kkzem9wvr46jka

@ 46fcbe30:6bd8ce4d

With more than 6000 products listed, it's time to extract some numbers again.

The following are some findings in the data, followed by the full data.

Removed or defunct

Of all the 3381 products that are no more,

• 1600 had less than 1000 downloads at the time we first listed them
• 628 we did not get to review before they were removed or defunct
• 607 were custodial or did not even allow to send or receive BTC. That is 607 products that if you used them to store bitcoins, you would now not be able to do anything with those bitcoins.
• 18 had public source but we failed to build that source
• 13 we managed to build but not reproduce
• 2 were reproducible - namely Zap which was discontinued in favor of BitBanana and ABCore which was a very limited experiment from the start.

Obsolete or stale

Of all the 775 products that are not getting updates in years,

• 221 have less than 1000 downloads (and many of them are likely to disappear as shown above)
• 179 are custodial or "no send or receive". You definitely don't want to use these.
• 0 are reproducible

OK

Of the 2164 products that look well and alive

• 937 are custodial or "no send or receive"
• 143 are do-it-yourself projects (20), not yet actually released (41) or most likely never getting released (82)
• 306 are closed source
• 46 are not compilable (12) or the compiled app does not match the released app (34)
• 20 are reproducible

https://walletscrutiny.com/

@ 9eeca894:4afe5882

How I put NixOS on my UDM (trashcan model) router

a rare cursed fetch!

Content also available on https://code.despera.space/iru/htdocs/src/branch/main/notes/UDM-NIXOS.md

Really it's just a running NixOS on systemd-nspawn thing.

The UDM product line basically runs on Linux kernel and userland. It is a surprisingly normal device that allows you to SSH and run commands. It even has apt and systemd services installed. The only catch being that for the most part the file system structure is immutable with only a few exceptions like /data and /etc/systemd. Previous versions even had the Unifi services running on a podman container. On recent versions of the firmware podman was phased out but we got something that resembles a more complete system structure as opposed to a busybox-like system.

So basically its some kind of Debian-based Linux running on a headless ARM64 computer. Can we install and run stuff? Yes! In fact projects like https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities publish scripts to run general purpose programs and configurations on UDM. Be aware however that firmware upgrades might wipe the persistent data storage so don't put anything in there that you don't want to lose and preferably keep scripts so you can setup again after having its flash storage nuked by a major update.

I have the base UDM model. The first with the pill format that has been aparently replaced by the UDR. The UDR seems to have more features like Wifi6, bigger internal storage and even an SD card slot meant for vigilance camera footage storage but comes with a weaker CPU in comparison with the original UDM base. As far as I know the rack mountable models follow the same OS and file system structure.

Okay but why?

I'm gonna leave this to your imagination on why would you add services to your proprietary router applicance. To me its the fact that I don't really like running servers at home and I'm ultimately stuck with this router so why not put it to work maybe running a static webserver or something silly like Home Assistant. The truth of the matter is that I can't just leave things alone.

And if you can run Linux why would you run something that is not NixOS? Thats crazy and it doesn't make sense.

How do we root the UDM? What kind of jailbreak do I need?

No.

You enable SSH from the Controller UI, log into it as root with the password you set to the admin user. You just waltz in and start installing and configuring.

```

apt update && apt install systemd-container

```

Thats it. Kinda. The complicated part is modifying the programs to write into the persistent data directories while also making sure your stuff starts on boot and doesn't get wiped on minor firmware upgrades.

Building the NixOS root image.

Might want to read first: https://nixcademy.com/2023/08/29/nixos-nspawn/

We need a NixOS tarball image. TFC's https://github.com/tfc/nspawn-nixos contains the flake to build such an image and also publishes artifacts for AMD64 but not ARM64. I guess you could build this from an AMD64 machine but I haven't looked into building a cross platform environment (didn't needed to compile anything though). I have a recent macbook with UTM so I just downloaded one of the default Linux virtual machine images from the UTM page and installed the Nix runtime over the OS.

Make sure you have git and curl installed.

$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon

You need to start another terminal session.

$ git clone https://github.com/tfc/nspawn-nixos $ cd nspawn-nixos $ nix --extra-experimental-features 'nix-command flakes' build .

Optionally you could try to edit the configuration to generate an image with everything you need. In case you need something like Home Assistant, some compilation might be necessary and although I haven't tried compiling code on the UDM I suspect it might be a painful process due to CPU performance and space constraints. Here is an example with Home Assistant, Caddy and Tailscale.

The image will be available under ./result/tarball/nixos-system-aarch64-linux.tar.xz. Use scp to send this to the /data/ directory of the UDM.

Installing the image

First we create the folder structure:

```

mkdir -p /data/custom/machines

ln -s /data/custom/machines /var/lib/machines

```

Under normal circunstainces by now you would just run machinectl import-tar /data/nixos-system-aarch64-linux.tar.xz <machinename> however the version of tar that is present in this system doesn't really like the resulting tarball image. It will yeld errors like Directory renamed before its status could be extracted.

Thankfully we can install bsdtar through apt install libarchive-tools however machinectl import-tar is hardcoded to use the tar command. Adding a symlink from /usr/bin/bsdtar to /usr/local/bin/tar won't work since some parameters are used that are not supported in bsdtar. You could try writing a wrapper shell script but just unpacking the tarball directly was sufficient.

```

mkdir /var/lib/machines/udmnixos

bsdtar Jxvfp /data/nixos-system-aarch64-linux.tar.xz -C /var/lib/machines/udmnixos

```

Lets start the container.

```

machinectl start udmnixos

machinectl

MACHINE CLASS SERVICE OS VERSION ADDRESSES udmnixos container systemd-nspawn nixos 23.11 192.168.168.88…

```

Good. Now we need to change the root password.

```

machinectl shell udmnixos /usr/bin/env passwd

Connected to machine udmnixos. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session. New password: Retype new password: passwd: password updated successfully Connection to machine udmnixos terminated. ```

Finally we can login into the container.

```

machinectl login udmnixos

Connected to machine udmnixos. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session.

<<< Welcome to NixOS 23.11.20240115.b8dd8be (aarch64) - pts/1 >>>

nixos login: root Password:

[root@nixos:~]# ```

We haven't finished yet. By default the network is set to its own container network. We also don't have a DNS resolver configured. You can leave that session with CTRL+]]].

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-nspawn.html#-n

```

machinectl stop udmnixos

```

Networking and Persistence

The first thing that needs to be addressed is the DNS configuration. The default setting that copies the /etc/resolv.conf from host won't work since it points to localhost. Either install resolved, netmask or set a static DNS config.

As for the network method we have some options here.

• Run using the default network stack and map ports to the container.
• Run using something akin to --network=host where the container has full access to the host network.
• Give the container its own independent interface through a bridge.
• Give the container its own independent interface through macvlan.

Using --network-veth and port mapping

```

mkdir -p /etc/systemd/nspawn

cat > /etc/systemd/nspawn/udmnixos.nspawn <<HERE

[Exec] Boot=on ResolvConf=off

[Network] Port=tcp:2222:22 HERE

machinectl enable udmnixos

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/machines.target.wants/systemd-nspawn@udmnixos.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-nspawn@.service

machinectl start udmnixos

```

Remember this will listen on ALL UDM interfaces so you might want to make sure the firewall rules will accomodate it.

```

iptables -t nat -L -n -v | grep 2222

0     0 DNAT       tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp dpt:2222 ADDRTYPE match dst-type LOCAL to:192.168.206.200:22
0     0 DNAT       tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0           !127.0.0.0/8          tcp dpt:2222 ADDRTYPE match dst-type LOCAL to:192.168.206.200:22

```

Using the host network

This will give access to all the network interfaces. Any service that runs on the container will be accessible from the UDM interfaces without the need to map ports. The container will also have the same IP addresses as the UDM.

You might want to read about capabilities if you plan on running some VPN software like Wireguard or Tailscale.

```

mkdir -p /etc/systemd/nspawn

cat > /etc/systemd/nspawn/udmnixos.nspawn <<HERE

[Exec] Boot=on

Daring are we?

Capability=all

ResolvConf=off

[Network] Private=off VirtualEthernet=off HERE

machinectl enable udmnixos

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/machines.target.wants/systemd-nspawn@udmnixos.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-nspawn@.service

machinectl start udmnixos

```

Using a bridge to give the container its own interface

I had to give some capabilities to the container otherwise it wouldn't properly start. Replace the value of Bridge with the bridge corresponding to the UDM network you want to add. Normally these correspond to the VLAN id of that network. Use brctl show to find out.

```

mkdir -p /etc/systemd/nspawn

cat > /etc/systemd/nspawn/udmnixos.nspawn <<HERE

[Exec] Boot=on Capability=CAP_NET_RAW,CAP_NET_ADMIN ResolvConf=off

[Network] Bridge=br2 Private=off VirtualEthernet=off HERE

machinectl enable udmnixos

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/machines.target.wants/systemd-nspawn@udmnixos.service → /lib/systemd/system/systemd-nspawn@.service

machinectl start udmnixos

machinectl login udmnixos

machinectl login nixos

Failed to get login PTY: No machine 'nixos' known root@UDM:/etc/systemd/nspawn# machinectl login udmnixos Connected to machine udmnixos. Press ^] three times within 1s to exit session.

<<< Welcome to NixOS 23.11.20240518.e7cc617 (aarch64) - pts/1 >>>

nixos login: root Password:

[root@nixos:~]# ifconfig host0: flags=4163 mtu 1500 inet [redacted] netmask 255.255.255.192 broadcast [redacted] inet6 [redacted] prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 inet6 [redacted] prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0 ether 92:01:4c:a7:a1:7b txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 2415 bytes 611986 (597.6 KiB) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 61 bytes 5337 (5.2 KiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

lo: flags=73 mtu 65536 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10 loop txqueuelen 1000 (Local Loopback) RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

```

MACVLAN isolation and more

Here is where some custom configuration might be needed. Read https://github.com/unifi-utilities/unifios-utilities/tree/main/nspawn-container to find out how to setup custom scripts.

Persistence

As far as I verified by rebooting the UDM many times to write this note all configurations were preserved. According to the article on nspawn-containers on the unifies-utilities project although /etc/systemd and /data folders are preserved during firmware upgrades /var/ and /usr/ are not and there goes our packages and symlink. Please follow the steps on that page to setup persistence across firmware upgrades.

@ 5df413d4:2add4f5b

You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier

Reading Jaron Lanier’s 2010 You Are Not A Gadget in 2023 is an interesting experience—equal parts withering, prophetic, and heretical clarion call warning from a high priest of the Technocracy and rambling, musing, cognitive jam session from a technofied musician-philosopher.

Yet, in ways that I think the author would be simultaneously pleased, amused, saddened, and disturbed by, the 13 yeas since the book’s publishing have, in places, proven him right with stunning foresight and precision, and in others, made his ideas appear laughable, bizarre, even naive. The book is written in five parts, yet I would suggest viewing it as two discrete elements—Part One (around the first half of the book) and…everything else.

For context, Lanier, is a computer scientist and early technologist from the area of Jobs, Wozniak, and Gates, and is considered to be a founding father of virtual reality. He is also a consummate contrarian, a player of rare and obscure musical instruments, a deep interdisciplinary thinker…and a white man with dreadlocks named Jaron.

PART ONE

Part One of the book “What is a Person?” reads like a scathing and clear-eye manifesto—where Lanier is batting 1000, merciless in his rightness. Were one to pull a passage that speaks to the soul of this portion of the book, it might be the following: “The net does not design itself. We design it.”

Lanier terms the prevailing technocratic ideology—the particular winning tech-nerd subculture that has now come to capture our society—as “the cybernetic totalist” or “digital Maoists.” Essentially a materialist and stealth collectivist movement in new-age technocratic dress, that through its successes, and now excesses, represents much the same of religion that it’s founders would have claimed to be “evolving past.”

Lanier points out that in this, we are simply trading the pursuit of finding God in spirituality or the afterlife, for a notion of digital immortality—seeking, or, if possible, becoming, God in the cloud. He aptly identifies that this worldview requires that society, and all human interactions really, be savagely bent into adherence to this new religion of aggregation that demands deification of data, gross diminishment of the individual, and belief in some objective (but never defined) "meaning" that exists beyond and apart from the human observer.

With skill and simple wit, he raises strong, rational counterpoint to the digital Maoists’ obsession with quantity, data in aggregate and at-scale, as society's prime directive “A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity […] turns into quality at some extreme scale […] I disagree. A trope in the early days or computer science comes to mind: garbage in, garbage out.”

Lanier is able to envision the digital cages that likes of Facebook, Youtube, social-media dating apps would become for the internet native generations. Of whom he writes “The most effective young Facebook users […] are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves,” and “If you start out by being fake, you’ll eventually have to put in twice the effort to undo the illusion if anything good is to come of it.”

Lanier’s 2010 criticism of Wikipedia-ism is now double or triply apropos in our current hype cycle of “AI magic” and Everything-GPT, “Wikipedia, for instance, works on what I can the Oracle Illusion, in which knowledge of human authorship of a text is suppressed in order to give the text superhuman validity. Traditional holy books work in precisely the same way and present many of the same problems.” This same deep truth now sits at the heart of every “new” creation churned out by the flavor-of-the-week, plagiarism-at-scale, generative AI tool.

More darkly, he is also able to foresee the spectre of a return to collectivism lurking both at the core and on the margins of our new digital age—“The recipe that led to social catastrophe in the past was economic humiliation combined with collectivist ideology. We already have the ideology in its new digital packaging, and it’s entirely possible we could face dangerously traumatic economic shock in the coming decades.”—“No Shit” said everyone who lived through 2020-2022…

This brings us, eerily, to the world of today. Where aggregate insights are upheld as more valuable than discrete insights. Where crowds are are assumed to have more wisdom than individuals. Where truth is twisted into a might-is-right numbers game. A world ruled by the idea that if we can just centralize enough information and sufficiently pulverize authorship, the result will, necessarily, be something super-intelligent, "alive," and perhaps even divine.

In short, the cybernetic totalists and digital Maoists, having killed reason, now sit on its corpse like a thrown, smearing its blood on the walls in the name of art and reading its still-steaming entrails for prophecy.

If I were to infer some ideological takeaway from Part One of the book, it might be that Lanier seems to axiomatically reject any affirmative implication of the Turing Test. Simply put, he believes that bits are not and cannot ever be alive independent of the human-as-oracle. Further, there is no objective meaning beyond the human observer—in fact, that observer fundamentally creates any meaning there is to be had. This is best illustrated by one of the most powerful passages in the book:

“But the Turing Test cuts both ways. You can’t tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you’ve just lowered your own standard of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart. If you can have a conversation with a simulated person presented by an AI program, can you tell how far you’ve let your sense of personhood degrade in order to make the illusion work for you?”

Ponder this well, Anon.

EVERYTHING ELSE

With all of the great stuff above out of the way, we must turn to…the rest of the book. Parts Two through Five breakdown into something more like a stream of consciousness. And while there are certainly many nuggets to insight and beauty to be found, the book becomes largely dis-coherent and very difficult to read. That said, the remainder of the book does contain three particularly compelling threads that I find to be worth pulling on.

Internet Attribution First, are Lanier’s musing about money and attribution in our authorless “information wants to be free” world. He laments the infinite elevation of advertising and offers harsh critique to the concept of attention as the new currency—as this tends to overwhelmingly reward the aggregator and a piddling few soulless super-influencers at the expense of all other users and creators.

Interestingly, under the guise of “what could have been” he imagines a world where attribution is tracked across the web (though how this achieved is left unanswered) and royalty payments can flow back to the author seamlessly over the internet. I find his vision to be intriguing because in 2010, we lacked the technology to either track attribution across the web or facilitate seamless micropayment royalties based on access / usage.

While we still don't have the ability to achieve the type of fully-tracked, always-on attribution Lanier imagines, we do now have the ability to stream payments across the internet with bitcoin and the lightning network. While Lanier can be excused for not mentioning the then uber-nascent bitcoin in 2010, bitcoin’s development since only goes to underscore the prescience of Lanier’s imagination.

The bigger question that now remains, especially in the face of the advent of “AI,” is whether such a system to manage and therefore enforce attribution globally on the internet would even be a good thing. Where obscured attribution enables mashed-up plagiarism-at-scale, centrally enforced attribution can just as easily enable idea, content, discovery, and innovation suppression-at-scale.

Music in the New Age Second, much of the book, particularly in the second half, is filtered through the lens and language of music. Music is essential to Lanier’s inner life and it is clear that he views music as an emergent mystery force attributable to something unknowable, if not divine, and entirely unique to the human experience.

He bemoans the music of the 2000s as lacking in any distinct chronological era sound—everything is either a rehashed mashup or digitally lofi-ed emulation of sounds from previous begone eras—it is music that is impossible to place. To him, it is as though musical evolution stopped right around the time of the advent of the internet…and then folded back in on itself, creating an endless kaleidoscoping of what came before but rarely, if ever, the creation anything truly new.

In response, Lanier goes so far as to imagine the ridiculous (my take, not his) world of “Songles”—songs on dongles—essentially physical music NFTs. In Songleland, listening to the hottest tracks at a party hinges on the guy or gal with the dankest songles swinging through and plugging them into the Songle player. And songles, being scarce, even become speculative investments. On this, Lanier manages to be both right and wrong in only the most spectacularly absurd of ways.

But what Lanier really laments is the passing of popular music as a shared cultural experience at national or even global scale. During Lanier’s coming of age through the 1960-80s—with only a few consolidated channels for music distribution, it was truly impossible to escape the sounds and influence of the Beatles or Prince or Micheal Jackson—everyone heard it and even the deaf still felt it.

In the end, Lanier could image Songles but he couldn’t envision what Spotify would become—a conduit to shatter music distribution into a myriad of tiny longtails—providing infinitely fragmented and individually fine-tuned music experiences rather than large and cohesive cultural moments. However, even in this miss, Lanier is largely able to project what Spotify-ed music would resolve to—music designed as much or more to please the self-referential selection algorithm than any real, human listeners. A dangerously foretelling insight that goes well beyond music as AI tools are posed to become the "googling" of the next technological cycle—what happens to information, to human thought, when the majority of "generative AI" outputs are just the machine referencing itself?

Digital Neoteny The final thread to pull is that of "digital neoteny," the retention of juvenile behaviors in adult form, in this case, a neoteny of the mind if you will. Lanier sees the internet as specifically primed to propagate three kinds of neoteny in digital-native humans— a blissful and curious Bachelardian neoteny (as in Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Reverie); a cruel and mob-like Goldingesque neoteny (as in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies); and a general and deeply pervasive, infantile neoteny.

Neoteny of the Bachelardian variety, which Lanier likens to “the sense of wonder and weirdness that a teen can find in the unfolding world,” is what he feels the internet has provided in a few brief and magical moments generally aligned with the “early days” of successive internet technologies, movements, and companies—through this generally degrades into Goldingesque neoteny as novelty gives way to ossification.

Lanier’s missives on Bachelardian neoteny feel especially pertinent to the present state of Nostr (where I am publishing this writing). Nostr is in a moment where winner-take all dynamics and corporatization have yet to take hold. Child-like revelry abounds with each new discovery or novel Nostr client development so much so that the likes of Jack Dorsey compare it to the excitement of the early internet.

But with time, if and as the Nostr protocol wins, to what extent will technical lock-in take hold here? To what extent will calcification of seemingly trivial or even comical decisions being made by client devs today have dramatic implications on the feasibility of other development in the future? And will we early Nostr users, at some point put down welcoming inclusivesness for insular tribalism—and in what ways might we be doing this already?

Finally, to the third kind of neoteny, Infantile neoteny—which perhaps incapsulates the internet even more so than either of the other two types—Lanier sees the net driving an evermore prolonged deferral of maturity, resulting ultimately in some centrally-managed permanent arresting of society in a stupefied and juvenile mental state:

“Some of the greatest speculative investments in human history continue to converge on Silicon Valley schemes that seemed to have been named by Dr. Seuss. On any given day, one might hear of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars flowing to a start-up company named Ublibudly or MeTickly. These are names I just made up, but they would make great venture capital bait if they existed. At these companies one finds rooms full of MIT PhD engineers not seeking cancer cures or sources of safe drinking water for the underdeveloped world but schemes to send little digital pictures of teddy bears and dragons between adult members of social networks. At the end of the road of the pursuit of technological sophistication appears to lie a playhouse in which humankind regresses to nursery school.”

The popular culture of the early 2020s—with it’s NFT Monke JPEGs, silent and masked TikTok dancing in the drab aisles of crumbling department stores, and rampant peer-pressured social-media virtue-signaling and paternalism—could scarcely be described in any more stark and specific detail. That such could be seen so vividly in 2010 is as masterful as it is dishearteningly dark.

CONCLUSION

You Are Not A Gadget is a special thing, a strange beast—as lucid in its first half as it is jumbled, meandering, and even nonsensical in its second half. And while the discerning reader might judge the book harshly for these structural failings, I doubt the author would care, he might even welcome it. Lanier’s apparent purpose in writing is to share his mind rather than please the reader in any particular regard. The sufficiently curious reader, one who is willing to engage with the book’s content, for whatever the book’s faults may be, finds a king’s randoms of wisdom, insight, and uncanny foresight.

In closing, it seems fitting to recall one of Lanier’s earliest warnings in the book, “Maybe if people pretend they are not conscious or do not have free will […] then perhaps we have the power to make it so. We might be able to collectively achieve antimagic.” 13 years on, this feels more pressing and urgent and true than ever. (Rating: 4/5🐙)

You Are Not A Gadget

@ 000002de:c05780a7

To be clear from the start. I'm neither a Trump supporter or opponent. I have started describing myself as a potentially disenfranchised person.

Secondly, I'm not looking for libertarian reasons that Trump is bad. I know those. Here's my question.

If you are a normie. If you are a voter, maybe middle of the road "independent". Maybe a progressive. What is so bad about Trump compared to these former presidents.

• Nixon
• Reagan
• Bush
• W. Bush

I was recently listening to Tom Wood's episode about the recent Trump verdict with Robert Barnes. I really haven't been following the multiple court cases but this episode was a good primer on the NY case. I also recently watched a clip of Bill Maher appearance of Gutfeld. These two things resulted in my asking the question.

What on earth is so bad about Trump? I have no strong feelings for or against him. I think I'm pretty dispassionate.

I'm old enough to remember the huge level of hate directed at Reagan. He was the devil to most on the left. Bush much less so. But W Bush... oh man. He was the man that led the US into war on false pretense. He oversaw the expansion of spying on US citizens. Was behind the expansive use of torture. He was evil in the eyes of the left. I remember Obama running on "change".

Objectively I struggle to come up with anything Trump actually did that rivals the things that W. Bush did. Yet, over and over I have heard progressives long for W to come back... I do not see Trump as being especially dangerous or evil. I do see him as evil. I do see him as a criminal. But he's a former president. All of them are in these groups IMO.

To me... it just seems like emotional distress. You know how it is when someone just gets under your skin and stuff that shouldn't work you up just drives you nuts? That's what I think is going on here.

Honestly it seems like mental illness to me. Messaging from the system is powerful. Repeated programming telling you how bad something/someone works on most people. That's a part of it. But I also think Trump is an excellent troll. He enjoys playing the villain. He seems to relish it. I mean, we played the villain for a while in the WWE.

I think one thing that triggers this hate is how Trump takes a dump on the religious reverence for the state and its trappings. You see this in the reactions to J6. You see this in the mocking Trump gets. Trump exposes people. Their deep feelings and emotion state. I see this in both his supporters and haters. What seems to trigger people and to me to be the focus of most rage is his language. His words... yeah his words. That's where I have the disconnect. Politicians typically talk with flowery language that is full of nice sounds platitudes but no substance or truth. Trump doesn't do that. Yeah, he lies but he doesn't seem to care if he offends. If you believe Bush and Obama words and use that as your basis I get how Trump is worse. But really, are we 16 years old? Are that many people that naive? It would appear this is true.

Again, I am not a Republican. I don't participate. But if you are a progressive. If you hate Trump I would seriously consider doing some soul searching. Maybe you need to turn off the news. Maybe you need to tune out for a while. I'm not telling you to vote, vote for Trump, or even like him. The level of opposition to Trump is not rational to me. It seems like a emotional overreaction.

Maybe I'm just missing something. Tell me what I'm missing and how it is worse than any other modern president.

@ dbb19ae0:c3f22d5a

@ f977c464:32fcbe00

Kendisini aynada ilk defa gördüğü o gün, diğerleri gibi olduğunu anlamıştı. Oysaki her insan biricik olmalıydı. Sözgelimi sinirlendiğinde bir kaşı diğerinden birkaç milimetre daha az çatılabilirdi veya sevindiğinde dudağı ona has bir açıyla dalgalanabilirdi. Hatta bunların hiçbiri mümkün değilse, en azından, gözlerinin içinde sadece onun sahip olabileceği bir ışık parlayabilirdi. Çok sıradan, öyle sıradan ki kimsenin fark etmediği o milyonlarca minik şeyden herhangi biri. Ne olursa.

Ama yansımasına bakarken bunların hiçbirini bulamadı ve diğer günlerden hiç de farklı başlamamış o gün, işe gitmek için vagonunun gelmesini beklediği alelade bir metro istasyonunda, içinde kaybolduğu illüzyon dağılmaya başladı.

İlk önce derisi döküldü. Tam olarak dökülmedi aslında, daha çok kıvılcımlara dönüşüp bedeninden fırlamış ve bir an sonra sönerek külleşmiş, havada dağılmıştı. Ardında da, kaybolmadan hemen önce, kısa süre için hayal meyal görülebilen, bir ruhun yok oluşuna ağıt yakan rengârenk peri cesetleri bırakmıştı. Beklenenin aksine, havaya toz kokusu yayıldı.

Dehşete düştü elbette. Dehşete düştüler. Panikle üstlerini yırtan 50 işçi. Her şeyin sebebiyse o vagon.

Saçları da döküldü. Her tel, yere varmadan önce, her santimde ikiye ayrıla ayrıla yok oldu.

Bütün yüzeylerin mat olduğu, hiçbir şeyin yansımadığı, suyun siyah aktığı ve kendine ancak kameralarla bakabildiğin bir dünyada, vagonun içine yerleştirilmiş bir aynadan ilk defa kendini görmek.

Gözlerinin akları buharlaşıp havada dağıldı, mercekleri boşalan yeri doldurmak için eriyip yayıldı. Gerçeği görmemek için yaratılmış, bu yüzden görmeye hazır olmayan ve hiç olmayacak gözler.

Her şeyin o anda sona erdiğini sanabilirdi insan. Derin bir karanlık ve ölüm. Görmenin görmek olduğu o anın bitişi.

---

Ben geldiğimde ölmüşlerdi.

Yani bozulmuşlardı demek istiyorum.

Belleklerini yeni taşıyıcılara takmam mümkün olmadı. Fiziksel olarak kusursuz durumdaydılar, olmayanları da tamir edebilirdim ama tüm o hengamede kendilerini baştan programlamış ve girdilerini modifiye etmişlerdi.

Belleklerden birini masanın üzerinden ileriye savurdu. Hınca hınç dolu bir barda oturuyorlardı. O ve arkadaşı.

Sırf şu kendisini insan sanan androidler travma geçirip delirmesin diye neler yapıyoruz, insanın aklı almıyor.

Eliyle arkasını işaret etti.

Polislerin söylediğine göre biri vagonun içerisine ayna yerleştirmiş. Bu zavallılar da kapı açılıp bir anda yansımalarını görünce kafayı kırmışlar.

Arkadaşı bunların ona ne hissettirdiğini sordu. Yani o kadar bozuk, insan olduğunu sanan androidi kendilerini parçalamış olarak yerde görmek onu sarsmamış mıydı?

Hayır, sonuçta belirli bir amaç için yaratılmış şeyler onlar. Kaliteli bir bilgisayarım bozulduğunda üzülürüm çünkü parasını ben vermişimdir. Bunlarsa devletin. Bana ne ki?

Arkadaşı anlayışla kafasını sallayıp suyundan bir yudum aldı. Kravatını biraz gevşetti.

Bira istemediğinden emin misin?

İstemediğini söyledi. Sahi, neden deliriyordu bu androidler?

Basit. Onların yapay zekâlarını kodlarken bir şeyler yazıyorlar. Yazılımcılar. Biliyorsun, ben donanımdayım. Bunlar da kendilerini insan sanıyorlar. Tiplerine bak.

Sesini alçalttı.

Arabalarda kaza testi yapılan mankenlere benziyor hepsi. Ağızları burunları bile yok ama şu geldiğimizden beri sakalını düzeltip duruyor mesela. Hayır, hepsi de diğerleri onun sakalı varmış sanıyor, o manyak bir şey.

Arkadaşı bunun delirmeleriyle bağlantısını çözemediğini söyledi. O da normal sesiyle konuşmaya devam etti.

Anlasana, aynayı falan ayırt edemiyor mercekleri. Lönk diye kendilerini görüyorlar. Böyle, olduğu gibi...

Nedenmiş peki? Ne gerek varmış?

Ne bileyim be abicim! Ahiret soruları gibi.

Birasına bakarak dalıp gitti. Sonra masaya abanarak arkadaşına iyice yaklaştı. Bulanık, bir tünelin ucundaki biri gibi, şekli şemalı belirsiz bir adam.

Ben seni nereden tanıyorum ki ulan? Kimsin sen?

Belleği makineden çıkardılar. İki kişiydiler. Soruşturmadan sorumlu memurlar.

─ Baştan mı başlıyoruz, diye sordu belleği elinde tutan ilk memur.

─ Bir kere daha deneyelim ama bu sefer direkt aynayı sorarak başla, diye cevapladı ikinci memur.

─ Bence de. Yeterince düzgün çalışıyor.

Simülasyon yüklenirken, ayakta, biraz arkada duran ve alnını kaşıyan ikinci memur sormaktan kendisini alamadı:

─ Bu androidleri niye böyle bir olay yerine göndermişler ki? Belli tost olacakları. İsraf. Gidip biz baksak aynayı kırıp delilleri mahvetmek zorunda da kalmazlar.

Diğer memur sandalyesinde hafifçe dönecek oldu, o sırada soruyu bilgisayarın hoparlöründen teknisyen cevapladı.

Hangi işimizde bir yamukluk yok ki be abi.

---

Ama bir son değildi. Üstlerindeki tüm illüzyon dağıldığında ve çıplak, cinsiyetsiz, birbirinin aynı bedenleriyle kaldıklarında sıra dünyaya gelmişti.

Yere düştüler. Elleri -bütün bedeni gibi siyah turmalinden, boğumları çelikten- yere değdiği anda, metronun zemini dağıldı.

Yerdeki karolar öncesinde beyazdı ve çok parlaktı. Tepelerindeki floresan, ışığını olduğu gibi yansıtıyor, tek bir lekenin olmadığı ve tek bir tozun uçmadığı istasyonu aydınlatıyorlardı.

Duvarlara duyurular asılmıştı. Örneğin, yarın akşam kültür merkezinde 20.00’da başlayacak bir tekno blues festivalinin cıvıl cıvıl afişi vardı. Onun yanında daha geniş, sarı puntolu harflerle yazılmış, yatay siyah kesiklerle çerçevesi çizilmiş, bir platformdan düşen çöp adamın bulunduğu “Dikkat! Sarı bandı geçmeyin!” uyarısı. Biraz ilerisinde günlük resmi gazete, onun ilerisinde bir aksiyon filminin ve başka bir romantik komedi filminin afişleri, yapılacakların ve yapılmayacakların söylendiği küçük puntolu çeşitli duyurular... Duvar uzayıp giden bir panoydu. On, on beş metrede bir tekrarlanıyordu.

Tüm istasyonun eni yüz metre kadar. Genişliği on metre civarı.

Önlerinde, açık kapısından o mendebur aynanın gözüktüğü vagon duruyordu. Metro, istasyona sığmayacak kadar uzundu. Bir kılıcın keskinliğiyle uzanıyor ama yer yer vagonların ek yerleriyle bölünüyordu.

Hiçbir vagonda pencere olmadığı için metronun içi, içlerindekiler meçhuldü.

Sonrasında karolar zerrelerine ayrılarak yükseldi. Floresanın ışığında her yeri toza boğdular ve ortalığı gri bir sisin altına gömdüler. Çok kısa bir an. Afişleri dalgalandırmadılar. Dalgalandırmaya vakitleri olmadı. Yerlerinden söküp aldılar en fazla. Işık birkaç kere sönüp yanarak direndi. Son kez söndüğünde bir daha geri gelmedi.

Yine de etraf aydınlıktı. Kırmızı, her yere eşit dağılan soluk bir ışıkla.

Yer tamamen tele dönüşmüştü. Altında çapraz hatlarla desteklenmiş demir bir iskelet. Işık birkaç metreden daha fazla aşağıya uzanamıyordu. Sonsuzluğa giden bir uçurum.

Duvarın yerini aynı teller ve demir iskelet almıştı. Arkasında, birbirine vidalarla tutturulmuş demir plakalardan oluşan, üstünden geçen boruların ek yerlerinden bazen ince buharların çıktığı ve bir süre asılı kaldıktan sonra ağır, yağlı bir havayla sürüklendiği bir koridor.

Diğer tarafta paslanmış, pencerelerindeki camlar kırıldığı için demir plakalarla kapatılmış külüstür bir metro. Kapının karşısındaki aynadan her şey olduğu gibi yansıyordu.

---

Bir konteynırın içini andıran bir evde, gerçi gayet de birbirine eklenmiş konteynırlardan oluşan bir şehirde “andıran” demek doğru olmayacağı için düpedüz bir konteynırın içinde, masaya mum görüntüsü vermek için koyulmuş, yarı katı yağ atıklarından şekillendirilmiş kütleleri yakmayı deniyordu. Kafasında hayvan kıllarından yapılmış grili siyahlı bir peruk. Aynı kıllardan kendisine gür bir bıyık da yapmıştı.

Üstünde mavi çöp poşetlerinden yapılmış, kravatlı, şık bir takım.

Masanın ayakları yerine oradan buradan çıkmış parçalar konulmuştu: bir arabanın şaft mili, üst üste konulmuş ve üstünde yazı okunamayan tenekeler, boş kitaplar, boş gazete balyaları... Hiçbir şeye yazı yazılmıyordu, gerek yoktu da zaten çünkü merkez veri bankası onları fark ettirmeden, merceklerden giren veriyi sentezleyerek insanlar için dolduruyordu. Yani, androidler için. Farklı şekilde isimlendirmek bir fark yaratacaksa.

Onların mercekleri için değil. Bağlantıları çok önceden kopmuştu.

─ Hayatım, sofra hazır, diye bağırdı yatak odasındaki karısına.

Sofrada tabak yerine düz, bardak yerine bükülmüş, çatal ve bıçak yerine sivriltilmiş plakalar.

Karısı salonun kapısında durakladı ve ancak kulaklarına kadar uzanan, kocasınınkine benzeyen, cansız, ölü hayvanların kıllarından ibaret peruğunu eliyle düzeltti. Dudağını, daha doğrusu dudağının olması gereken yeri koyu kırmızı bir yağ tabakasıyla renklendirmeyi denemişti. Biraz da yanaklarına sürmüştü.

─ Nasıl olmuş, diye sordu.

Sesi tek düzeydi ama hafif bir neşe olduğunu hissettiğinize yemin edebilirdiniz.

Üzerinde, çöp poşetlerinin içini yazısız gazete kağıtlarıyla doldurarak yaptığı iki parça giysi.

─ Çok güzelsin, diyerek kravatını düzeltti kocası.

─ Sen de öylesin, sevgilim.

Yaklaşıp kocasını öptü. Kocası da onu. Sonra nazikçe elinden tutarak, sandalyesini geriye çekerek oturmasına yardım etti.

Sofrada yemek niyetine hiçbir şey yoktu. Gerek de yoktu zaten.

Konteynırın kapısı gürültüyle tekmelenip içeri iki memur girene kadar birbirlerine öyküler anlattılar. O gün neler yaptıklarını. İşten erken çıkıp yemyeşil çimenlerde gezdiklerini, uçurtma uçurduklarını, kadının nasıl o elbiseyi bulmak için saatlerce gezip yorulduğunu, kocasının kısa süreliğine işe dönüp nasıl başarılı bir hamleyle yaşanan krizi çözdüğünü ve kadının yanına döndükten sonra, alışveriş merkezinde oturdukları yeni dondurmacının dondurmalarının ne kadar lezzetli olduğunu, boğazlarının ağrımasından korktuklarını...

Akşam film izleyebilirlerdi, televizyonda -boş ve mat bir plaka- güzel bir film oynayacaktı.

İki memur. Çıplak bedenleriyle birbirinin aynı. Ellerindeki silahları onlara doğrultmuşlardı. Mum ışığında, tertemiz bir örtünün serili olduğu masada, bardaklarında şaraplarla oturan ve henüz sofranın ortasındaki hindiye dokunmamış çifti gördüklerinde bocaladılar.

Hiç de androidlere bilinçli olarak zarar verebilecek gibi gözükmüyorlardı.

─ Sessiz kalma hakkına sahipsiniz, diye bağırdı içeri giren ikinci memur. Söylediğiniz her şey...

Cümlesini bitiremedi. Yatak odasındaki, masanın üzerinden gördüğü o şey, onunla aynı hareketleri yapan android, yoksa, bir aynadaki yansıması mıydı?

Bütün illüzyon o anda dağılmaya başladı.

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2020 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

@ d7607464:421e573a

chezmoi is a command-line tool that uses git to keep your dotfiles in sync across all of your machines. In this guide, I'll show you a simple use case of keeping dotfiles synced between two machines, machine_A and machine_B. chezmoi has many more features that you can explore beyond this as you become more comfortable with the workflow.

Chezmoi Cheatsheet

This is a diagram of the various locations chezmoi accesses to manage your dotfiles, as well as the relevant commands to move files around. I'll be referencing the locations home_A, chezmoi_A, home_B, chezmoi_B, and repo shown in this diagram throughout this guide.

Installation

The first step to using chezmoi is installing and initializing it. We will be on machine_A to start with. Here, I'll be building the binary from the source code.

First, make sure you have golang installed: https://go.dev/doc/install

Then, clone the chezmoi repo and use make to build it:

bash cd /tmp git clone https://github.com/twpayne/chezmoi.git cd chezmoi make build

This will create the chezmoi binary, which you can then copy any directory in your PATH. Here, I'll move it to ~/bin. If ~/bin doesn't exist, you have to create it and re-source ~/.profile to add it to PATH.

bash mkdir -p ~/bin && source ~/.profile cp chezmoi ~/bin/chezmoi

Now you should be able to run chezmoi:

```bash

chezmoi --version chezmoi version dev, commit 255846 . . . ```

Initialization

Now that you've installed chezmoi, you have to initialize it. This guide uses the main branch for all git operations, and you can change the default branch for git repositories as follows before you initialize chezmoi:

bash git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Then initialize chezmoi:

bash chezmoi init

This creates the chezmoi git repository at ~/.local/share/chezmoi. Based on the diagram above, this is the location corresponding to chezmoi_A.

Adding your first file

Most systems have a .bashrc or similar configuration file, so that can be the first dotfile you add to chezmoi:

bash chezmoi add ~/.bashrc

Change into the chezmoi_A directory to see the file added to chezmoi:

bash chezmoi cd ls

You'll see dot_bashrc listed. chezmoi renames the dots at the start of all of your dotfiles as 'dot_' so they are not considered hidden. This directory is a git repository as well, but it isn't linked to an online repository yet. You can use a private repository on GitHub or GitLab, or even a self-hosted instance of GitLab. Whatever remote repository you choose to use, follow its instructions to create a new repository called dotfiles and add it as origin to your local chezmoi git repository. Here, I'll create a private GitHub repository and link it using ssh. Then you should be able to see it with:

```bash

git remote -v origin git@github.com:wisehodl/dotfiles.git (fetch) origin git@github.com:wisehodl/dotfiles.git (push) ```

Now commit your first dotfile and push it to the online repo:

bash git add dot_bashrc git commit -m "Added .bashrc" git push -u origin main

Congratulations! You've successfully backed up your first dotfile using chezmoi. chezmoi add can add individual files as well as directories.

Adding directories and ignoring files.

chezmoi can add whole directories with chezmoi add but you may want to ignore certain files if they are auto-generated or contain sensitive information. Say you have a directory you want to add to chezmoi that contains some authentication details as well as actual config files, like so:

bash /home/wise/.test/ ├── .auth └── .config

Here, we want to add .test to chezmoi but ignore the .auth file that contains some login information. First, you'll have to tell chezmoi to ignore the .auth file using the .chezmoiignore file. It works just like .gitignore if you're familiar with that.

bash echo ".test/.auth" >> .chezmoiignore

Now you can add the .test directory:

```bash

chezmoi add ~/.test chezmoi: warning: ignoring .test/.auth ```

And you'll see that chezmoi is purposely ignoring the .auth file. If you look at your chezmoi directory now, you'll see the dot_test directory added with only the config file.

Add these changes to your git repo:

bash git add -A git commit -m "Added .test/" git push

Here, you should start to get a feel for how the workflow for adding files to chezmoi typically goes. Before we start modifying files, let's move over to machine_B and sync your dotfiles over there.

Syncing to another machine

For the sake of simplicity, I'll assume that you are syncing your dotfiles to a fresh install of the same Linux distro as machine_A. If you have a lot of conflicting dotfiles between machine_A and machine_B, you'll either need to utilize git merge or chezmoi merge at your discretion and resolve the conflicts. If certain files do need to be different between the machines, then you'll have to utilize chezmoi's templating capabilities. These situations are beyond the scope of this guide and are left as an exercise for the reader.

On machine_B follow the steps above to install and initialize chezmoi. Then, add your remote git repository as before, and pull it into the chezmoi directory:

bash git pull origin main

The first time you push from chezmoi_B, you may have to run git push -u origin main to set the upstream branch and fully set up the remote connection.

Now to review, we've synced up 4 out of the 5 locations in the diagram above: home_A, chezmoi_A, repo, and chezmoi_B. Syncing chezmoi_B and home_B is where things can get complicated if, like I said before, you have a lot of file conflicts. You can check for differences between the source directory, chezmoi_B and the destination directory, home_B using chezmoi diff. There is also the concept of a "target state" in chezmoi, but it only becomes relevant if you use templates. In the context of this guide, the source directory is also the target state.

Say, for example, you had some conflicting lines in ~/.bashrc, chezmoi diff would show you the changes that would need to occur to make the destination state, ~/.bashrc, match the source state, ~/.local/share/chezmoi/dot_bashrc. There are a few strategies you can use to resolve this conflict:

1. Create a new branch in chezmoi_B, add the file from home_B with chezmoi add, then perform a git merge back to main.
2. Use chezmoi merge ~/.bashrc, which will take you into a vimdiff window to manually change the files to match.
3. Overwrite the source file with the destination file using chezmoi add ~/.bashrc
4. Overwrite the destination file with the source file using chezmoi apply ~/.bashrc

[DANGER AHEAD]

This guide will go with option 4 for every file in chezmoi_B:

```bash

Do not do this unless you want to OVERWRITE files in your

home directory.

chezmoi apply ```

chezmoi will do its best to warn you if you're about to do something dangerous and give you some options on how to proceed.

Doing this, the dotfiles in both machine_A and machine_B are in sync! But you know that your dotfiles will change and grow over time, so we have to talk about strategies for maintaining this sync.

Modifying your dotfiles

You have to remain mindful that you're using chezmoi to keep your dotfiles in sync, otherwise machine_A and machine_B can get out of sync pretty easily. chezmoi has the chezmoi edit command to edit files in the destination state, but I prefer to edit files in either home_A or home_B and then follow the path in the diagram above from end to end to sync up the whole network.

For example, you can change or add a file from home_B and do:

1. (home_B) $ chezmoi add ~/path/to/.file
2. (home_B) $ chezmoi cd
3. (chezmoi_B) $ git add -A
4. (chezmoi_B) $ git commit -m "Changed ~/path/to/.file"
5. (chezmoi_B) $ git push
6. (home_A) $ chezmoi cd
7. (chezmoi_A) $ git pull
8. (chezmoi_A) $ chezmoi apply

And that will propagate the change across your network. You can also use chezmoi update from home_A to pull the repo and apply the target state all in one step. The best way to avoid conflicts and headaches is to always push changes you make to you dotfiles as soon as you can and avoid making changes to the same file on two different machines simultaneously, just like with any git repository.

Conclusion

If you've followed the steps in this guide, you will have learned a workflow to keep the dotfiles between two Linux machines in sync using chezmoi. The diagram at the top of the guide should serve as a useful cheatsheet for the most common tasks you'll perform to maintain your dotfiles.

chezmoi is a very versatile application, and is capable of managing very complex dotfile setups. Their documentation is very technical and daunting to the new user, but it remains a good resource for doing more complex tasks with chezmoi.

• Command Overview: https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/command-overview/
• Reference: https://www.chezmoi.io/reference/

---

All the best!

• WiseHODL

@ 46fcbe30:6bd8ce4d

Opinion about Bitcoin Core (desktop)

Bitcoin Core is the most prominent continuation of Satoshi Nakamoto's original work. Contributors to this project are pioneers in reproducible builds and it's the software with most attestations to its reproducibility and with probably thousands of academics looking at the code and how it's being compiled, this software sets the benchmark for transparency in self custody.

It started out being the Bitcoin full node, wallet, miner and even parts for a market place could be found in the early code base. Today, it is being stripped of the mining feature and even the wallet feature might get removed at some point.

For the average user, Bitcoin core is not a convenient wallet but arguably it's the only software that can really make sure you are receiving Bitcoin on the Bitcoin blockchain so almost all wallets talk to a server running this software one way or another.

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

Join the conversation!

@ d6dc9554:d0593a0c

Nas blockchains PoW o consenso é alcançado por meio de prova de trabalho computacional e o objetivo principal é evitar que atores mal intencionados consumam ou ataquem a rede de forma perigosa. Este método de consenso requer um grande poder computacional para criar novos blocos, mas é muito simples, por parte de outros, verificar esse trabalho. Por isso se diz que PoW é uma estratégia assimétrica.

Nas blockchains PoS o objetivo é o mesmo, criar blocos e chegar a um consenso, mas nas PoS não é necessário um poder de processamento tão grande como nas PoW. Em média as PoS gastam menos de 1% da energia das PoW. Nas PoS os mineradores são chamados de validadores. Enquanto que nas PoW quem fica com a recompensa é quem resolve primeiro a charada matemática, nas PoS o validador que vai ganhar a recompensa é escolhido de forma aleatória, mas dando maior probabilidade aos que respeitem determinados critérios. A comunidade bitcoin é muito relutante em relação a PoS porque é mais fácil conseguir uma grande quantidade da moeda em causa do que mais que 51% de poder processamento. Logo as PoS são mais vulneráveis no que toca a segurança. Mas aqui cada caso é um caso e é preciso fazer essa análise para cada moeda.

As blockchains PoW tendem a ser mais descentralizadas enquanto as PoS mais centralizadas, não só em acesso, mas também em operação. Mais de metade dos validadores de ethereum estão na cloud da amazon. As blockchains PoW apresentam grandes desafios na escalabilidade de operação, muitas vezes exigindo soluções de segunda camada (L2), enquanto que as PoS possuem mecanismos de escalabilidade muito mais flexíveis. Os algoritmos PoW são muito mais simples de implementar do que os PoS e, portanto, menos suscetíveis a erros. Um bom exemplo é o PoS da ethereum que estava a ser implementado desde 2018.

@ 4fe14ef2:f51992ec

https://images.craigslist.org/00t0t_h9y3kMr5CQx_0t20CI_1200x900.jpg https://images.craigslist.org/00n0n_g1B1HlfnSS3_0t20CI_1200x900.jpg https://images.craigslist.org/00606_V0KGYRStOY_0t20CI_1200x900.jpg https://images.craigslist.org/00y0y_dxPlQzEVhtk_0t20CI_1200x900.jpg

---

Works great. Zero issues. Only pulls 10A. Not bad for 42T. Cash silver or bitcoin only.

---

[CONTACT THE SELLER]

BITCOIN #BTCACEPTED #MARKETPLACE #AGORA #P2P #BITMAIN #MINER #BTCMINER #IDAHO #EAGLE

@ 0b963191:fc5e7ffd

Chef's notes

Can of course substitute in beef for the lamb.

In terms of canned peas, always prefer La Sueur

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 1 hour
• 🍽️ Servings: 4

Ingredients

• Potatoes:
• 1 ½ pounds potatoes (Russet)
• ½ cup half-and-half
• 2 ounces unsalted butter
• ¾ teaspoon kosher salt
• ¼ teaspoon black pepper
• 1 egg yolk
• Meat Filling:
• 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 cup chopped white onion
• 3 carrots, peeled and diced
• 1 ½ pounds ground lamb
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• ½ teaspoon black pepper
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 3-4 teaspoons tomato paste
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 3 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 2-3 teaspoons chopped rosemary leaves (fresh)
• 1-2 teaspoons chopped thyme leaves (fresh)
• ¾ cup corn kernels
• ¾ cup peas

Directions

1. Potatoes:
2. Peel and dice potatoes.
3. Place in a pot and cover in cold water.
4. Bring to a boil.
5. Lower fire to simmer and cook for 15-20 minutes.
6. Heat butter and half-and-half for 30-40 seconds in the microwave.
7. Drain potatoes and put back into the pot.
8. Mash potatoes and add half-and-half, butter, salt, pepper.
9. Continue mashing until smooth and stir in yolk until combined.
10. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
11. Filling:
12. Heat canola oil in a 10-12 inch pan over high heat.
13. Add onions and carrots and saute over medium-high heat for 4-5 minutes.
14. Add garlic and combine for 30 seconds.
15. Add Lamb, salt, and pepper and cook until browned.
16. Sprinkle flour and stir to coat lamb and cook for 1-2 minutes.
17. Add Tomato paste, chicken broth, Worcestershire sauce, rosemary, thyme. Stir and bring to a boil.
18. Reduce heat to low, cover, and simmer for 12-15 minutes while sauce thickens.
19. Oven:
20. Add meat filling to baking dish.
21. Add peas and corn and stir in evenly
22. Spread mashed potatoes using a rubber spatula. start at the corners and make sure to seal around the edges.
23. Bake for 25 minutes
24. Remove from the oven and let sit for 15-20 minutes.

@ f4c59e4c:82f66850

Dora Research: Injective Ecosystem Deep Dive

Introduction:

---

In the rapidly evolving landscape of blockchain and decentralized finance (DeFi), Injective emerges as a trailblazer, redefining the boundaries with its innovative solutions and plug-and-play modules. The ecosystem provides the tools to empower developers and DeFi users to build a more democratized world of finance. Aligned with this mission, Injective is often heralded as the “blockchain built for finance.”

This article will take a deep dive into the Injective ecosystem, offering a comprehensive exploration of its core components, key projects to look out for, and future initiatives to support their growing developer community.

TL;DR:

---

Injective is transforming DeFi with its lightning-fast, interoperable Layer 1 blockchain. Originally built on Ethereum, Injective evolved to its own Layer 1 (L1) blockchain in 2021, unlocking greater scalability and governance flexibility. The ecosystem has exploded, boasting over 200 projects and a vibrant community of 700,000+ members worldwide. As the community continues to grow, Injective has taken the initiative to offer support to developers through hackathons and incubation. Building together with the community, Injective is governed by a global DAO through its native crypto asset $INJ, and is one of the most deflationary assets in the blockchain industry. Injective stands out with its groundbreaking innovations, providing unprecedented interoperability, dynamic smart contracts and novel web3 modules to rapidly create scalable dApps.

Major projects flourishing within Injective include DojoSwap, Hydro Protocol, Black Panther, Helix, and Mito, each pushing the boundaries of decentralized finance. With ambitious initiatives and robust community support, Injective is set to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of finance. Dive into the full article to discover how Injective is redefining the DeFi landscape and what exciting developments lie ahead!

What is Injective?

---

Injective is a lightning-fast, open, interoperable Layer 1 blockchain, powering the next generation of DeFi applications. Founded in 2018 by Eric Chen and Albert Chon, Injective embarked on a mission to revolutionize the financial system, to be free and inclusive through decentralization.

Testament to what the team at Injective were building, they were able to secure early stage funding from some critical players in the Blockchain space, including Binance, Pantera Capital, Blocktower Capital, Delphi Capital, and Mark Cuban.

Injective initially launched as a DeFi protocol on the Ethereum network, leveraging its robust infrastructure and large developer community to bootstrap its decentralized exchange platform. However, driven by the need for scalability, interoperability, and governance flexibility, Injective re-emerged as its own sovereign L1 blockchain in November 2021. This transition allowed Injective to harness Cosmos' SDK and leverage a custom implementation of the Tendermint consensus mechanism, enabling faster transaction speeds and lower fees. Injective provides a decentralized cross-chain bridging infrastructure with Ethereum, Solana and any Inter-Blockchain communication (IBC) - enabled blockchain.

Injective then gained access to a vibrant ecosystem of interoperable blockchain projects, enhancing its capacity to innovate and provide a seamless trading experience for users across multiple networks. It focuses on supporting fast transactions with instant finality, addressing common issues faced in the DeFi space such as slow trade execution and high transaction costs.

The Injective ecosystem has shown rapid growth, with over 200 projects and 700,000+ community members globally.

Dive into the Coding Language

Considering the rich developer resources available within EVM and SVM, Injective has introduced the launch of inEVM and the soon to release VM rollup to support SVM. The initiatives aim to achieve true composability across ecosystems. As a result, Injective stands out as the only Layer 1 blockchain with the unique capability to unify the interoperability features of Cosmos with the swift transaction speeds of Solana, all while offering developers the extensive accessibility associated with Ethereum’s ecosystem.

Introducing inEVM: inEVM is the first-ever EVM capable of achieving true composability across Injective and Ethereum. Developed in collaboration between Injective and Caldera, a layer 2 rollup infrastructure provider for blockchains (RaaS), inEVM offers enhanced scalability, and expanded opportunities for Ethereum developers to interact with the broader blockchain universe and build further. inEVM is an Injective-based rollup utilizing the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) settled on the Injective Chain. inEVM enables EVM developers to easily deploy applications into the Injective ecosystem, taking advantage of Injective’s high performance, low fees, fast transaction speed, native Web3 modules, and familiar EVM toolkits.

Additionally, two-way messaging between Injective’s WASM smart contracts and inEVM facilitates interaction between applications, enhancing interoperability with IBC chains, enabling developers to leverage Injective’s capabilities and financial tools for a more connected blockchain landscape.

$INJ economics

---

$INJ, Injective’s native token, is a decentralized public utility and governance token. INJ serves as the primary token for transactions and gas fees within the Injective ecosystem. Additionally, INJ is essential towards the decentralization of the network, governing decision-making, chain upgrades, and more.

Injective provides dApps access to its native exchange module, readily available to developers out-of-the-box. dApps leveraging the exchange module, contribute 60% of all fees to be systematically directed into a weekly on-chain buy-back-and-burn auction. The exchange module enables traders to create and trade on arbitrary spot derivative markets. The entire process of order book management, trade execution, order matching, and settlement occurs on chain through the logic codified by the exchange module. Under this upgraded system, a diverse range of dApps can opt to contribute to the auction burn, extending the benefits of the token burn mechanism to a wider range of protocols.

With the introduction of the INJ Burn 2.0 mechanism, apps not integrated with the exchange module but interested in participating are provided with the option to send a portion of protocol-generated revenue to the burn auction.

Additionally, the INJ burn upgrade made participation available to all users, not just dApps on Injective. This allows any project or individual to directly contribute any assets to the Injective Burn auction, enhancing its overall value and effectiveness.

The systematic burning of INJ reduces the token supply, promoting the deflationary nature of INJ.

INJ delivers a versatile range of functionalities, while enhancing network security and providing benefits to token holders through governance voting and staking mechanisms.

Injective 3.0: Injective Tokenomics Upgrade

Injective has experienced significant growth, emerging as a leading blockchain for finance driven by its native token. With INJ's multifaceted role in governance and network security, Injective has also implemented a token burn auction to reduce supply, occurring weekly, as explained above.

The introduction of INJ 2.0 in August 2023, showcased a more comprehensive token burn auction, enabling any dApp on Injective to contribute to the weekly burn auction, rather than just those using the exchange module. The new burn mechanism resulted in larger amounts of INJ to be burned weekly, with nearly 5.9M INJ burned to date, totaling ~$190M at the time of writing.

To unlock the full potential of INJ, a new proposal was set forth in April 2024 for INJ 3.0 to enhance tokenomics. INJ 3.0 introduces a significant adjustment to supply parameters for INJ, increasing its rate of deflation by a factor of 400%, positioning INJ as one of the most deflationary assets in the blockchain industry. This strategic move is aimed at injecting long-term value into the ecosystem, fostering growth, and attracting a broader array of participants. INJ serves as the backbone of the Injective ecosystem, boasting diverse utilities ranging from governance to protocol fees and security mechanisms. Notably, features like the Burn Auction have set INJ apart, allowing the network to collect, auction, and burn accumulated fees on a weekly basis. Building on the success of previous iterations, INJ 3.0 further enhances these capabilities, aligning with the platform's rapid expansion and evolving user needs. The governance proposal for INJ 3.0, endorsed by the Injective community through IIP-392, reflects a commitment to adaptability and resilience. By significantly increasing the rate of deflation and implementing a dynamic monetary policy, Injective ensures that INJ remains responsive to changing market conditions while maintaining equilibrium and security within the ecosystem. With this update, Injective reaffirms its dedication to driving innovation in Web3 finance and solidifying the position of INJ as a cornerstone asset in the decentralized landscape.

Ecosystem deep dive

---

In January 2023, Injective unveiled its $150M ecosystem initiative aimed to further accelerate developer adoption of the lighting-fast blockchain. The endeavor has garnered support from leading institutions across both Web3 and traditional finance, including Pantera Capital, KuCoin Ventures, Jump Crypto, and DoraHacks.

Thanks to the initiative, the Injective ecosystem has experienced rapid growth, with over 30+ dApps built and a number of major deployments in the horizon. Exchange dApps developed on Injective have processed a total over $23B+ to date. Now, let's highlight over a few projects which have played a significant role in shaping the growth and adoption of the ecosystem.

Key Projects

Injective is a thriving ecosystem with native projects built from the ground up emerging from Injective hackathons and also drawing top-tier DeFi applications from other networks to deploy on its platform.

Native Projects

Injera Injera and USDi, the Injective Synthetic Dollar that will be used to power the whole of Injective’s Cosmos Chain.

One core design principle of the Injera Protocol and USDi that makes it superior to other protocols like Ethena is that everything is built around the Injera Money Market (CDP), allowing users to optimize their capital efficiency further.

DojoSwap: DojoSwap is a Uniswap influenced automated market-maker (AMM) protocol enabling decentralized on-chain exchange for various assets accessible in the Injective Ecosystem. In less than 1 month, DojoSwap has generated $25M in TVL, $95M in trading volume with 15K+ unique traders on the platform.

Hydro Protocol: Hydro Protocol offers liquidity solutions with Real Yield Assets, combining real world and crypto assets for optimized yield strategies to create Injective’s LSD+LSDFi ecosystem. Additionally, Hydro introduces Real Yield Assets (RYA) , a specialized product taking LSDFi to the next level of yield-optimization strategies. Since its launch in Jan 2024, Hydro protocol has accumulated over $150M in TVL with over 1.6M INJ staked.

Black Panther: Black Panther is the leading AI driven asset management protocol built on Injective. Various vaults are available for automated trading strategies to help traders achieve higher returns. Black Panther is one of the most popular asset management protocols with $6.8M in TVL.

Helix: Helix is a decentralized orderbook crypto exchange for trading crypto assets and derivatives. Offering zero gas fees, an intuitive user interface, and niche interchain markets. Helix creatively combines unprecedented institutional-grade liquidity, opening anyone to leverage capital-intensive financial markets in the world’s first decentralized order-taking network.

Mito: Mito brings a groundbreaking protocol to revolutionize automated trading, launchpads and yield generation. The launchpad creates a fair system for users to access new tokens deployed on Injective and provide liquidity uploads for nascent protocols.

Out App: Out App is a SocialFi platform which focuses on forging communities and rewarding users for the quality of their input on the platform. Currently live on Injective mainnet, Out App introduces an innovative approach to social networking where users can engage with like- minded individuals, communities of interests and positively contribute to discussions for rewards.

Talis Protocol: The first native NFT marketplace building on Injective, offering innovative tools to interact with the NFT ecosystem. To allow users the best experience in the NFT ecosystem, Talis provides tools like gathering activity, basic analytics, price analysis and real-time data information.

Neptune Finance: Optimizes DeFi savings with its advanced peer-to-peer lending protocol, offering variable interest rates, multiple borrowing accounts, and modular features dynamically adjusting rates through a PID controller, to target market efficiency, new yield strategies, deeper liquidity and increased utility for INJ. Only after a few months Neptune Finance has crossed $10M in TVL with a 40% monthly growth in users.

Moon App: MoonApp is a launchpad integrated with Injective, reshaping the landscape of DeFi opportunities in the Injective Ecosystem. MoonApp serves as a gateway to a diverse range of Injective projects, offering users access to token sales and staking initiatives.

Non-native Deployments

Exotic Markets: Exotic Markets is a cutting-edge DeFi infrastructure protocol that aims to bring the first real options & yield generation platform on Injective. Exotic Markets is focused on the Injective chain and has been pre-selected to provide the option infrastructure for Injective, the fastest DeFi-first L1. Their unique approach involves the amalgamation of options orders from diverse sources within our option pool, facilitating improved order matching and seamless execution. Additionally, our options products span a diverse range of on-chain strategies including popular digital assets and in the future RWAs.

Levana Protocol: Levana Protocol is a fully collateralized perpetual swap protocol offering a full collateralization model, ensuring traders maintain sufficient balance to cover positions. The low fee structure and 30x leverage makes Levana competitive in the market.

What makes Injective stand out?

---

Injective has solidified its position as a groundbreaking ecosystem, renowned for its lightning-fast transaction speed, low network fees, and robust security. But what truly sets the Injective ecosystem apart is its unwavering support and open dialogue with the community.

With a growing community, Injective has taken the proactive steps to offer support through initiatives like hackathons and incubations. Injective has partnered with Dora Factory on the Public Good Staking initiative. Dora Factory team runs a Public Good Staking Validator for Injective, using the rewards to support the Injective Developer Community.

Together with DoraHacks and Dora Factory, the Injective Foundation has been able to host various developer initiatives, showing their commitment to supporting the developers building within their ecosystem. In December 2023 The Injective Illuminate Hackathon took place on DoraHacks.io and was a remarkable success with a $100,000 prize pool (Fully sponsored by DoraFactory) and 100+ BUIDLs submitted. Building on the success, Dora Factory and the Injective Foundation partnered to showcase the 10 most promising projects from the Illuminate Hackathon in a Quadratic Funding round.

DoraFactory provided the full 1,500 INJ (~$70,000) matching pool for this initiative, and saw over 2200 community members contribute more than 150 INJ to their favorite projects. This initiative allowed the participating teams to grow their communities, and also receive some additional funding to allow them to continue building and developing their projects to prepare them for the next stages of their roadmap.

Through the Public Good Staking Partnership, the Dora team has been able to support 5 Injective Ecosystem projects with investment into their Pre-Seed and Seed fundraising rounds. The Injective Foundation is constantly seeking ways to sustainably fund the best teams building within their ecosystem, displaying their commitment to their ecosystem developers.

What to look forward to in 2024

Looking ahead, to accommodate the growing community and developers eager to build within the Injective ecosystem, there are several key initiatives in the pipeline between DoraHacks, Dora Factory, and the Injective Foundation.

Large Global Virtual Hackathon: Injective Hackathons are always a great success, and the community has shown that they are eager for more global-scale hackathons to offer an opportunity for developers to show their creativity on a global scale. Leveraging DoraHacks’ platform to reach developers from all parts of the world will help attract interest and different perspectives from new markets.

Quadratic Funding Round: Injective’s commitment to listening to the community has been highlighted with ongoing upgrades, and community involvement remains as crucial as ever. After the success of the very first Quadratic Funding (QF) on Injective, the Injective Foundation is looking forward to hosting more QF rounds in the near future to support more early stage teams building within the ecosystem.

The Injective ecosystem has steadily grown over time, cementing themselves as a proven ecosystem in the web3 industry. Injective provides advantages with its multi-VM architecture, automatic smart contract execution, high throughput, and low latency. With the ongoing open dialogue with the community, every update has made it easier for developers and users to interact in the ecosystem. Put together, Injective is well positioned to play a pivotal role in revolutionizing the future of finance. We look forward to what Injective has in store for the future.

@ b2d670de:907f9d4a

This is a list of nostr clients exposed as onion services. The list is currently actively maintained on GitHub. Contributions is always appreciated!

| Client name | Onion URL | Source code URL | Admin | Description | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Snort | http://agzj5a4be3kgp6yurijk4q7pm2yh4a5nphdg4zozk365yirf7ahuctyd.onion | https://git.v0l.io/Kieran/snort | njump | N/A | | Nostrudel | http://a2zmtsslt7g7v5shssufp4uuh7wvr7betxglxf4fbtcxpejrvr7qmwid.onion | https://github.com/hzrd149/nostrudel | njump | N/A | | Nostrudel Next | http://pzfw4uteha62iwkzm3lycabk4pbtcr67cg5ymp5i3xwrpt3t24m6tzad.onion | https://github.com/hzrd149/nostrudel | njump | Nostrudel Next is the beta version of Nostrudel |

@ dd664d5e:5633d319

Why GitCitadel is primarily self-funded

This week has been full of discussion about the various pros and cons of what I've previously described as the "patronage funding model", including a formalized version called "grants":

This is the current common business model. A creator (artist, developer, writer, etc.) receives grants or donations that are more or less attached to conditions. -- The Zap Economy

We at GitCitadel have been questioned repeatedly, as to why we have not applied for a grant, when we are putting so much time and effort into the Nostr ecosystem. I would, therefore, like to explain the logic we have used to make this decision:

We are a package deal

We aren't merely a product team, we're a project team. That means that we aren't building a product, we're building an entire line (or suite) of products, and the corporate and technical infrastructure to support them.

Those products will be marketed under our own brand, built upon our own tech stack, and managed by our own team. We're used to doing this sort of thing for our various employers, so we haven't seen much benefit in looking outside of our team to acquire such things. Applying for formal grants would undermine this strategy, as we would be expected to tie into the grant-giver's own brand, stack, and team.

We have external income sources

We have made the point, to anyone interested in joining, that our project cannot and will not provide a source of income large enough to replace anyone's current source. At least, not yet. We are receiving donations and will eventually have a pricing model, but this project is our labor of love, not a get-rich-quick scheme. More a go-broke-slowly scheme, if anything.

We see this as a feature, rather than a bug, as it means our personal financial well-being is not immediately tied to our project work, and is therefore more secure, stable, and independent. This allows us the ability to ruminate, take time discussing architecture, and make more grandiose plans. It also allows us to discuss funding models, amongst ourselves or with a wider audience, while remaining calm.

Not everyone is in the same financial position and not everyone wants to split their attention, in such a manner, and we respect that. We also respect the right of every project member to decide differently, for themselves, and to apply for grants in their own name.

We're enjoying "L'expérience FOSS"

This is our first, major, open-source, software project. This is our chance to do something different, to be edgy, to build something for ourselves, to try out new technologies and strategies, to found a company and design a brand, to tinker and scheme... To boldly go where no team has gone before!

But, seriously. We're having fun. We're friends. We're enjoying the ride. We wouldn't enjoy the ride as much, if we were driving someone else's car.

We want to prove that it can be done

One of the things we found disturbing about the Nostr ecosystem is the pervasive pressure individual developers are under to apply for grants and labor full-time on Nostr products. It can feel quite rebellious, to simply tinker on evenings, weekends, or holidays.

It isn't rebellious.

It is a perfectly normal and acceptable way to contribute to a growing technological ecosystem, and we want to help re-normalize it. The emotional pressure to deliver new features at a rapid pace is exciting, but onerous, can lead to developers burning out and eventually moving on, and is the main cause of the frequent low quality of the existing software and the plethora of abandoned repos. This is the landscape that grants sometimes build.

We are here to show that "steady, stable, secure, supported, sturdy" sounds dull and a bit slow, but it can also be a winning development style, if the team chooses it deliberately and plans accordingly and cultivates a team environment that makes "code and chill together" a long-term motivator. We think the Nostr ecosystem is ready to accept a team with this style, and it's a style that advanced grants simply aren't designed to support because grant-givers have to account for the money spent within a reasonable time.

We want to support independent funding models

As with all things, talk is cheap. We are all persons eager to establish independent funding models because we want Nostr to help create a free market of sovereign individuals, at the global scale. We think this is a particular "good work" that Nostr is in a prime position to define, but it won't happen, if nobody actually does it, or if only a few do it and and are perceived as greedy oddballs. There needs be a lot of people doing it, including large, influential teams.

The strongest motivation to develop such models is the profit motive, and that is inevitably weakened by grant-lethargy. One has to take risks to become a change agent, so we have put ourselves on a diet, to get our creative financial juices flowing.

We have decided to stay hungry. https://image.nostr.build/28ddca2ef029e8be27e351867f37e457e2070e005f5588f88f486208709ee00d.jpg

@ 0861144c:e68a1caf

When you stop chasing money and start focusing on doing what you love, it creates a profound paradigm shift that's hard to contain, and you feel compelled to share with others what you've discovered from the depths of your life. I want to tell you about Bitcoin, but more than that, I want us to engage in a mental exercise.

This idea came to me while navigating the waters of Stacker News when @cryotosensei shared a reflection on mental health and Bitcoin from a fresh perspective. Allow me to elaborate because I felt identified with it, and I bring it to your consideration.

Mental (un)health

Bitcoin, like the dollar, peso, or ruble, is a form of energy. See it this way, okay? You earn this money when you work hard, and your time and effort are paid with legal credits authorized by a centralized institution, which in this case is the Central Bank/Federal Reserve. But what happens? From higher up, much higher, in the name of stability, in the name of your own person, they make macroeconomic adjustments to stimulate the economy, or simply put, they take away the value of the credits you hold in your hands.

So what do you do? You start to worry and ask yourself, what happened? From the microphones, they'll tell you it's not their fault they took that measure; it's the evil market that forced them to do it, it's the people's fault for not buying, not consuming, not investing, hiding money under their mattress, and let your imagination run wild with the thousands of other excuses they might make. And then you say, okay, maybe if I work more, I can reach my goal.

So you work more, not just Monday to Friday but also on weekends because you've seen how other people are doing the same, and they tell you not to complain, that's how the economy works, and you have to suck it up. Your rest is on the floor, your mind is exhausted, wondering if you'll make it to the end of the month, you've entered survival mode, and still, it's not enough. You see how your savings in your bank simply lose value. That 1,000,000 from 10 years ago today doesn't even cover half your needs. But it's your fault; they made the adjustments they had to make to survive the macroeconomy.

So you work more, now from 8 hours to 16 hours, you no longer sleep well, you don't have time to cook, let alone buy fresh foods, and it's a vicious circle that leads to mental exhaustion because without realizing it, my dear reader, they are robbing you through inflation. And it affects your mental health. But then comes a moment of clarity, a moment of respite, and that respite from your money melting away comes in the form of currency called Bitcoin.

Mental switch

And you start saving in Bitcoin, you see your savings fluctuate in the short term, which worries you, but then you zoom out and see that Bitcoin has a strict monetary policy fully encoded in its own protocol, and you no longer make any effort to save your money because now your money is shielded against inflation.

People laugh at your decision, say you're crazy, that there are no governments regulating it and that it will go to zero, that it will crash, that everything will end when someone gives the final blow, but you keep researching, and nothing they said would happen more than ten years ago has happened. People keep using it, it keeps growing, and it keeps helping many people because finally, the money is safe, allowing you to focus on other things you enjoy: teaching, writing, promoting precisely what helped you in your life, and today your mental health no longer worries about whether your money will last until next month because your goal is set for five years, ten years. You can plan for a future because you see it.

And it won't make you a millionaire, it's not a get-rich-quick scheme, it helps you concentrate on your projects and escape the maze of horror. Meanwhile, while you throw the lifeline to others, they yawn, ignore you, let the circle continue, or trust that institutions will simply prevail in power, and there's nothing to be done. But maybe they can, they just don't want to anymore. There's nothing to do there, except to throw them the lifeline in the form of satoshis when they need it. And this is my story, today problems are faced in the long term because I have an element by my side that makes me think about the future.

I recommend the same to you, my friend, think about the future. Buy satoshis.

@ 7d4417d5:3eaf36d4

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

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

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

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

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

---

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Select your currency (USD).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@ 8ea48526:e6720a43

Recently there has been discussion on the socials about supporting open source developers, specifically those who work on Bitcoin and Nostr. There is a small-ish camp of people who think that Bitcoin should remain as is…it’s perfect, don’t mess with a good thing. Many others think – correctly, in my opinion – that Bitcoin needs to be maintained and even enhanced. As long as the changes make Bitcoin better money, we should evaluate, go slow, and keep things simple.

Who will maintain Bitcoin and other open source projects? Will devs do it out of the goodness of their heart? Builders gotta eat; food ain’t free. A handful of institutions, both non-profit and businesses, provide grants and long term support to developers. This is great and I hope that continues. However, there is more that we can do. There is more that you can do.

Zappy 21st

I propose we make the 21st day of every month the (un)official ”Zap a Builder Day”. It’s simple. On day 21 in the current month, find a developer and zap them sats.

Created in the spirit of #v4v and the #grownostr social experiment, I’d love to see people make this part of their monthly routine. It’s common for certain days of the month to have meaning. The 1st day marks the start of a new month. The 5th day is a common day when mortgage payments are due. In the United States, on the 15th day of April taxes are due. So now there is the 21st day, the day you send some value to devs.

Who are you gonna zap?

Any open source developer. Start simple; don't overthink this. If you're using a Nostr client that you love, go find one of the contributors and zap them. If you use Bitcoin or Lightning regularly, find a Bitcoin or Lightning dev. There are many other great freedom tech tools, like wallets, sovereign computing apps, and privacy tools that have developers behind them. Zap a developer. (I say developer, but I really mean "contributor". Remember the designers, product, support, and project people who also contribute.)

I'm intentionally not giving names of developers here because I don't want to favor one over the other. Every open source developer is important to different people based on the tools they use. So go zap the people in your realm.

I'm only publishing this on Nostr, but I'm happy if the idea spreads beyond that. Nostr is the perfect place because you can so easily find a core dev and zap them. No need to track down their website hoping to find a wallet address or request a Lightning invoice.

Join the Zaps

While everyone is excited about block 840000, halvings come and halvings go. But the 21st is always here for you. Every month, reliably, quietly doing its thing. Just like those open source devs you rely on so much. They’re here every month, reliably, quietly doing their thing. Let’s show them some love.

This April 21st find a dev and zap them. If you’d like, add a message telling them how awesome their work is and tag it with #Zappy21st. Let’s flood the feeds with #Zappy21st messages and surface great open source developers to others. Next month on the 21st, we’ll do it again.

🤘

@ c11cf5f8:4928464d

Any Bitcoin offers or promotions you bought recently?

We’re constantly looking for some special deals! Share with your fellow stackers any latest steal, recent offering, snazzy discounts, packed bundles...

Help us all score some incredible bargains!

@ e6817453:b0ac3c39

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

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

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

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

DIDs

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

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

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

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

@ f977c464:32fcbe00

3724

Dürbününü yazı masasının çekmecesine koydu. O adamın bakışlarında bir şey vardı, tüylerini ürperten bir aşinalık.

Sağ tarafa kavislenen toprak yol, şehir merkezindeki idam platformuna doğru uzanırdı. On, on beş adım aralıkla, telefon ve radyo tellerini taşıyan, aynı zamanda geceleri yağ fenerlerinin asıldığı direkleri geçerdiniz. At arabalarının kaldırdığı toz ve yaydığı koku gözlerinizi yaşartırdı.

Ve darağacının önüne geldiğinizde, arkanızda bıraktığınız direklerin ne kadar güçsüz, acınası olduğu, öncesinde defalarca fark etmediyseniz bile, tam o anda, yüreğinize otururdu. Platformun üstünden gökyüzünü tehdit eden, ölüme mahkûm edilenleri kınayan gövdesi ve aniden yere eğdiği, acıyla çarpılmış boynuyla kaba tahtadan bir ucube!

Oysaki geçip geldiğiniz direklerin aksine, yanınızda uzanan, çoğunluğu iki katlı evler de tahtadan yapılmıştı ve çatıların, yağmur oluklarının, kapı çerçevelerinin, pencere kapaklarının üstündeki doğa tasviri süslemeleriyle öyle kibarlardı ki...

Dikkat etmemiş olacaksınız ama aralarında, soğuk elleriyle sizi yere bastıran, tasvirlerin yerini görkemli hayvanların -kartalların, aslanların, köpeklerin- aldığı taş evler sıralanırdı. Darağacının bedeni diğer evlerdense, ruhu kesinlikle bunlardan geliyordu.

Uzaktan kuş sesleri duyuluyordu. Bülbül. Buraya ait olmayan, dalgınlığını tamamlayan, kafese kapatılmış bir ses.

Çalışma masasının üzerine, pencereye doğru abandı. Artık ezberlediği bu hac yolculuğuna ihtiyacı yoktu. Evinden olanları az buçuk seçebiliyordu ve zaten görmeye katlanabileceğini görmüştü.

Adamın boynuna ilmeği çoktan geçirmişlerdi. Otuzlu yaşlarının başında gösteriyordu. Teni güneşten sertleşmişti. Çatlaklar gözlerinin yanından elmacık kemiklerine uzanıyordu. Saçı ve sakalı uzun, mat siyahtı.

Neredeyse kimse izlemiyordu. Sadece tek tük, aralarına mesafe koymuş ilgisiz kişiler...

Radyo her zamanki gibi celladın konuşmasını canlı olarak yayınlıyordu.

“...lece günahlarımızdan arınmış olacağız! Doğaya küfür olan tüm bu ucubeler, düzensizlikler...”

Bir kişiyi kurtarmak için ölen onlarca insan... Attıkları çığlıklar bilinçaltının derinliklerinde hafifçe kıvrandı.

İdamların başladığı o gün...

Erken saatlerde ortaya çıkıveren genci tanımıyorlardı. İnsanlara garip sorular sormuş ve kısa süre sonra ortadan kaybolmuştu. Öğlen vakti kucağındaki paketle geri dönmüştü.

“...lumumuz için büyük tehdit teşkil etmektedirler. Şüphesiz bundan birkaç yıl sonra yapacağı hareketleriyle sadece öldüreceği insanların değil, toplumun çökü...”

Darağacını hiç değiştirmediler. Yoksa bu da hafızasındaki bulanıklığın çarpıttığı anılardan mıydı? Hatırlamaya her çalıştığında başı ağrıyordu.

Gence üzülmüş ve apar topar alınan karar karşısında dehşete düşmüştü. Diğerlerinin arasına karışmak, sesini çıkarmak, hiç değilse bunların neden olduğunu öğrenmek istemişti.

“...esin iyiliğini gözetmek zorundayız. Bunu yapabilecek gücümüzün kalmış olduğu için şükretmeliyiz. Omzumuzdaki bu gö...”

Vazgeçmişti. Korkmuştu. Ellerini titreten ilkel dürtüden değil, uzun zamandır üzerinde çalıştığı romanının bittiğini görememe ihtimalinden. “Ertesi gün,” demişti, “ertesi gün orada olacağım.”

Odanın büyük bölümünü işgal eden radyoyu kapattı. İnsan boyu ve genişliğinde, üzerindeki kontrol düğmeleri dışında cilalı ahşaptandı. Güzel olsa da pili hızlı tükeniyordu. Yenisini alması gerekecekti.

Banyoya gitti. Evin her yerinde az eşya bulundurmayı severdi: içi temiz su dolu kova, küvet olarak kullandığı büyük varil ve ayna.

Şehirdeki diğerleri gibi hafif esmer tenli, kahverengiye çalan koyu saçlı ve gözlüydü. Onların aksine gözlerinin içinde hâlâ heyecan ateşi yanıyordu. Saçları bile daha canlıydı sanki. Ve ne kısa ne uzun ne yakışıklı ne çirkin... Olması gereken neyse o. Yüzünü yıkadı, gülümseyip çalışma odasına geri döndü.

Yeniden kâğıtlarının karşısına geçi. Romanını nihayet bitiriyordu. Son cümlelerini yazdı.

Her şeye geç kalmasına değmişti.

9386

Dürbününü pencerenin iç denizliğine, yaslandığı yerin kenarına bıraktı. O adamın bakışlarında açıklayamadığı bir şey vardı. Tüylerini ürperten bir aşinalık.

Adamın boynuna ilmeği çoktan geçirmişlerdi. Orta yaşlarındaydı. Beyazlaşmaya, griye dönmeye yeni yeni başlamış saçı ve sakalı, rengi atmış kıyafetleriyle oldukça hırpaniydi.

Kimdi o? Tanıyordu sanki..

Mutlaka yakından bakmalıydı.

“...felaketin eşiğinden döndüğümüz günün üzerinden uzun zaman geçmedi. Unutmayın! Unutmanız on...”

Radyoyu kapattı. Pili hızlı bitiyordu. Ne zaman değiştirmişti? Baş ağrısı geri geliyordu.

Merdivenlerden indi. En az dört basamağı gıcırdamıştı. Yenilenmelerinin zamanı geliyordu, temizlenmelerinin de. Parmak kalınlığında toz! Eski ve yeni ayak izleri üst üste binmişti.

Kulaklarındaki ince çınlama, ensesindeki ter... İçinden yükselip göğsünü ittiren, dengesini bozup neredeyse düşercesine aşağıya inmesine neden olan panik...

Holü geçerken diğer odalara kısaca göz attı. Hepsinin durumu aynıydı. Onu asıl şaşırtansa yatak odası oldu. Her gün uyuduğu yatağın, yanındaki bazanın, kirli çamaşır sepetinin ve etejerin üzeri... Nasıl fark etmemişti tüm bunları? Peki elbiselerinin böyle eskidiğini?

Dokunduğu elinde kalıyor veya kapalı kalmışlık kokusu yüzünden midesini bulandırıyordu. Eline geçen paçavraları apar topar giydi. Dokuması incelmiş bol beyaz keten gömleği, rengi griye yaklaşmış pantolonu -önceden? Belki siyah-, her tarafı çatlamış ve dikişleri atmış uzun deri çizmesi.

Neler oluyor neler oluyor neler oluyor neler oluyor...

Sokağa çıktı ve hava soluk borusunu temizlerken gözleri yaşardı. Hayır, kendimi kaptırmış olmalıyım. Kesin zamanın ucunu kaçırdım. Ev dün böyle değildi. Hayır hayır hayır hayır hayır...

Bulanık görüyordu ama hiç değilse burası normaldi.

İdam platformu şehir merkezindeydi. Oraya koştu.

Buranın o eğlenceli, panayır havasından eser kalmamıştı elbette. Kahveye girip çıkanlar, yan sokaktaki pazara gidip gelenler... Kimsenin olup bitenlere ilgisi yoktu. Dükkânların yarısı kapalıydı zaten. İnsanların burada oyalanmak için gittikçe daha az sebebi oluyordu.

“...lediğimiz kurtuluşumuz.”

Cellat, onun tam karşısında durduğunu görünce sustu. Herkes merakla onlara döndü.

Ve işte o anda, darağacındaki adamın bağırmasıyla celladın koşup kolu çekmesi ve zemindeki kapağı açması, infazı tamamlaması bir oldu.

“Koñrul! Onu...”

Çığlıkları ancak onu eve, yatağına taşıdıklarında biraz dindi. Sayıklamaya devam ediyordu: “Romanım romanım romanım romanım..."

Sakinleşmesi için yukarıdan kâğıtlarını ve kalemini getirdiler. Son cümlesini yazdı. Yarını göremeyecekti.

14796

Masanın üzerinde, koyduğu yerde durmayan, yuvarlanan ve düşüp merceği kırılan dürbünü fark etmedi. O adamın bakışlarında açıklayamadığı bir şey vardı. Tüylerini ürperten bir aşinalık.

Ve yine aynı gün, diğerlerinin aynı... İnsanlar bile gün geçtikçe birbirine benziyordu.

Adamın boynuna ilmeği çoktan geçirmişlerdi. Yaşlı sayılırdı veya yaşlanmaya başlıyordu. Saçı ve sakalı beyaz ama gösterdiği yaşa rağmen hâlâ gürdü. Istırap çekmenin, büyük yük taşımanın bezginliği her yerinden hissediliyordu.

“...rine inmemiz gerek. Bu insan müsveddeleri toplumumuz için büyük tehdit...”

Evet... evet. Demek bu adam da kimsenin anlamadığı haltlar yemek üzereydi.

Rahatı kaçanlar olacaktı, belki ölenler.

Adamı gerçekten tanıyor olabilir miydi?

Kendini aşırı zorlamıştı. Radyoyu kapatıp banyoya gitti. Yeni pili ne zaman takmıştı?

Aynada kendine baktı. Geceleri uyuyup uyumadığını bile bilmiyordu. Gözleri iyice yuvalarına kaçmış, etrafı kararırken akları sararmış, zayıf ve soluk, yüzünün üstüne bırakılıp unutulmuş çöplerden farksızdı. Saçlarını düzeltmeye çalıştı, her hareketiyle onlarca saç teli kopunca vazgeçti. Renkleri solmuştu.

Şehirde yiyecek kalmamıştı. Her gün stoklar azalıyordu. Tarlalardaki olgunlaşmamış meyve sebzelere düşmüşlerdi. Tüccarlar niye gelmiyordu ki? Diğer şehirlerde de mi durum kötüydü?

Kafasından aşağı su döküp geri döndü. Kâğıtlarını önüne çekti. Romanını bitirmeliydi, açlıktan ölmeden veya idam edilen sonraki kişi olmadan. Son cümlelerini yazdı:

“Dünya yine ölürken ve her şey baştan başlarken gidebileceği bir yer kalmamıştı. Eski çağların roketlerini düşündü. Gerçekten başka gezegenler var mıydı? O zamanlarda yaşasaydı Güneş’e giderdi! Şimdi hareket etmek için duracaktı. Sonraki güne kadar.”

20251

Dürbününü kapıdan çıkarken tuvalet kovasının içine attı. Yine bir idam. Saçları dökülüyordu. Alnının iki yanı geriye doğru açılmış, sakallarıyla birleşip yekpare olan tellerin arasından kafa derisi seçilebiliyordu.

Ne ilgi çekici... Bıraksalar kendisi ölecekti zaten. Pazara gidip ne bulabileceğine bakmayı tercih ederdi.

İnsanlar ayağını sürüyerek yürüyordu. Celladın konuşması dışında çıt çıkaran yoktu. Ne kuş ötüşü veya köpek havlaması ne çocuk gülüşmeleri... Konuşanları görebiliyordu, duyamıyordu. Fısıltıdan fazlasını çıkaracak istekleri yoktu.

“...hennemin böyleleriyle dolu olduğundan şüphesi olan var mı aranızda? Onları tekrar layık oldukları yere göndereceğiz. Bunun için yardı...”

Evet... evet. “Elma kaça?”

Pazarcı taburesinden kalkıp tezgâha geldi. O da aynıydı. Farklı bedende aynı sefalet. “Hangisi?”

“Fazla ham olmayanlardan.”

“Tanesi 600 lira.”

“Yarım ver. Şundan da...” Lafını tamamlayamadı. Biri bağırıyordu. Genç, on yedisinde bile göstermeyen biri. Yüzü etli, hareketleri canlı, kıyafetleri yeni ancak kendisine büyük gelmiş ve epey hırpalanmıştı. Hele o paltosu... İçi pamukla dolu olmalıydı. Kocamandı.

“Ya idam ne demek abi! Manyak mısınız lan siz? Kaçıncı yüzyıldasınız a...”

Küfrünün ortasında ağzını kapattılar. Koluna girmiş, kahveye geri sokuyorlardı.

Tezgâhtara “Kim bu?” diye sordu.

“Birinin torunuymuş, öyle diyor. Daha önce duyduysam n’olayım. Meczup herhalde,” dedi tezgâhtar.

“İsmi neymiş dedesinin?”

“Hakan mı, Hasan mı, öyle bi’şey.”

“Ekmekten çeyrek dilim, deri parçasını da ver. Çorbalık, değil mi?”

“Evet, çorbalık.”

Hakan... Şu saçma romanını bitirmek için evine döndü. Artık tozlar ayak bileğine geliyordu. Umursamadı. Son cümlelerini yazdı, kâğıt tomarını masanın yanından tertemiz yere bıraktı.

25803

Dürbünüyle ensesini kaşıdı. O adamın gözlerinde küçük cinler vardı. Neşeyle hoplayıp zıpladıklarını ta buradan seçebiliyordu! Ah, tatlılığa bak! Hahaha!Boynundaki ilmekle, gözlerinin içine bakan, hiç korkmayan ama bıkkın, ölümün bile hayatında olup bitenleri değiştirmeyeceğini kabullenmiş bir adamın duruşuna sahipti. Çok yaşlı, kafasında tel tel beyaz saçları, göbeğine uzanan sakallarıyla kurumuş bir ceset. Omuzları çökmek üzereydi, kamburunun ağırlığıyla ipi geriyordu.

Dürümü tekrar gözüne kaldırdı. Dürüm? Hahaha! Evet... evet! Radyoda cellat konuşuyordu.

“...endinizde değişiklik hissederseniz yakınınızdaki güvenlik güçleriyle ileti...”

Ah! Kendisine şöyle baktı. Yok... Aynı ben ya!

Sahneye -Tam bir gösteri! Gösteri!- doğru koşan adamı gördü. Üzerindeki puf puf paltosuyla, orta yaşlarında...

Masanın üzerine fırladı, dizlerinin üstüne çöküp içindeki safrayı pencereden dışarıya kustu. Eliyle ağzını silerken derisinin yapışarak etinden ayrıldığını hissedebiliyor ve o bant sökülürken çıkana benzeyen sesi duyabiliyordu. Cellat konuşmayı bırakmıştı. N’oldu? N’oulduuv?

Yaşlı adamı asmışlardı. Şimdi dik duruyordu, yükü hafiflemişti ama huzurlu olduğunu söyleyemezdiniz.

Diğer adam onları umursamadı, yere eğilip mikrofonun kablosunu tuttu ve ayaklığını devirerek kendisine çekti.

“Tabutun kapağını kaldırdığında yerin altına döne döne ilerleyen o kuyuyu... Tamam... tamam!”

Adamın şakağına inen ilk sopadan çıkan ses odayı doldurdu. Sonrası sessizlik ve ölüm. Ahhh... ahhh...

Hemen bağdaş kurup kaldığı sayfayı buldu. Ne ilham! NE İLHAM!

Son cümlelerini yazıp romanını bitirdi.

34125

Dürbünü öylece dışarıya bırakıverdi. Derisi kemiklerine yapışmış, kaşına kadar her tüyü dökülmüş bir ihtiyarı asıyorlardı. Açıktaki tüm bedeni yaşlılık lekeleriyle doluydu. Bembeyaz sakalı uzun ve temizdi. Dönecek! İpin ucunda! Sağa sola!_Tahta pencereleri kapadı ve -_Ha ha!- fenerin fitilini -Ha ha _ha!- yaktı. Duvardaki gölgeleri beğenmedi ama. Söndürdü. Püf füfüfüf ha ha _ha! Tekrar yaktı. Yine istediği gibi olmasa da iş görürdü.

Radyonun sesini açtı. Evet... Evet açtım! Tiz ve kalın, tanıdık ve yabancı... Burnu kanadı.

“...EN HİÇBİR ŞEYİN SONU YOKTUR! SONU OLAN HİÇBİR ŞEY BİTMİŞ DEĞİLDİR VE BİTEN HİÇBİR ŞEYİN SONU YOKTUR! SONU OLAN HİÇBİR ŞEY...”

Yüzüne döktüğü suyu alttaki tasla toplayıp içtikten sonra -Ha ha _ha! Hazırım, evet hazırım! Romanı bitirelim. Bundan iyisi olamaz! Olamaz! Ha ha!- masasına dönüp kâğıtlarını önüne çekti. Son cümleler ve sonrasında -Özgürüm! Özgürüm!” Radyo yayınına başka, yabancı biri karıştı. Öyle bağırıyordu ki duvarlar titriyordu. Çok yaşlıydı, çok...

“Geldiğimden beri, her gün! Asmayın artık şu adamı! Görmüyor mu...”

Sonra celladın sesi duyuldu. Cılız, uzaktan...

“Bunu da hazırlayın.”

“Evet... evet. Ne olacak, beni de her gün asın a...”

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2019 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

@ 46fcbe30:6bd8ce4d

Opinion about Phoenix - LN Bitcoin wallet (android)

Phoenix is one of my favorite wallets. It makes using Bitcoin really easy but at a price. The wallet lets you send and receive both over the lightning network and on-chain without jumping through hoops, first but at the cost of either kind of hidden fees or unexpected on-chain fees.

To my understanding, when you receive on-chain funds, the wallet does yet another on-chain transaction to get these funds onto lightning and when you send via lightning, you pay an extra 0.4% to the provider. This 0.4% fee is not capped in any way, so while you can send $1000 via lightning, that will cost you $4 even when on-chain transactions would have cost just $1.

As of writing this opinion, the wallet is not reproducible which is a red flag to updating to this version but the provider hopefully will fix that soon as they are an OG player in the space.

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

Join the conversation!

@ 7308f407:94057dcf

Chef's notes

There are so many variations to make salsas. I don’t make them exactly the same every single time. It all depends on who I am making them for. This salsa was requested by my mother-in-law to bring to her work party. I was more than happy that she asked me. I made sure to get the best-looking produce at the grocery store and make this with all my attention and love. To me and my spiciness tolerance, this will not be a really spicy salsa because of the ratio of tomatoes to chiles. For a spicier salsa, I would suggest adding more jalapenos or Chiles de Arbol.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: Approximately 15 minutes
• 🍳 Cook time: Approximately 10 minutes
• 🍽️ Servings: 6-8 cups

Ingredients

• 10 Roma tomatoes
• 3 Jalapenos
• 1 Guajillo Chile (optional)
• 1/4 white onion
• 3 Garlic cloves
• 2 teaspoons Chicken Bouillon
• 1 teaspoon pepper
• Salt to taste (I added 1.5 teaspoons)

Directions

1. Add a pot filled about 75% full with water to the stove and begin to bring it to a boil.
2. After prepping your produce (washing and cutting ends off tomatoes and jalapenos and removing seeds from Guajillo Chile), add the vegetables to the water.
3. Cook in hot water for approximately 8-10 minutes. You will see the color of the jalapenos change and the outer layer of tomatoes begin to peel off.
4. Add all vegetables to the blender cup, along with spices. Blend until smooth.
5. Check for your preference of salt level.

@ e6817453:b0ac3c39

Organizational identifiers

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

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

Nonfunctional requirements

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

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

To recap

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

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

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

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

Nowadays, I discovered a few AIDs methods

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

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

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

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

DID Subject

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

DID Controller

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

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

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

Key Pair

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

Identifier

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

DID:Key

did:key identifier

DID web

did:web

Relations

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

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

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

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

To discover more, read the paper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@ c48e29f0:26e14c11

A Harvard economist published 100+ pages of survey analysis to confirm what anyone outside of the fiat academic bubble already knows: people don't like it when the stored value of their time+energy is inflated into oblivion.

You can access the full report here for anyone interested: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32300/w32300.pdf

One quote from the Abstract really jumped out at me: "The predominant reason for people’s aversion to inflation is the widespread belief that it diminishes their buying power."

Well, yeah, no shit... But this isn't a "belief"... this is a fact.

Here's the thing: the average person understands the problem, because they feel the effects of the problem every single day...

They may not understand the root cause of the problem (creating money out of thin air)--instead blaming "greedy corporations" or "Joe Biden" or "Putin's Price Hike" or whatever the propaganda du jour happens to be--but they know inflation feels wrong. It feels like someone is stealing from them (which is true).

They know their purchasing power has decreased, because when they spend a dollar today it buys less than it did five years ago, and much less than it did 20 years ago.

It doesn't matter if fiat academics tell them "everything is fine! stop complaining! inflation is ackshually a good thing!"

People can feel that something is broken.

Most people still think there is a partisan/political solution to the problems they feel.

They think "if only OUR guy was in charge, things would be better" or "if only we taxed the greedy corporations and the rich more, then things would be better."

But political solutions will always be bandaids meant to superficially treat the symptoms of the disease so the Political Team proposing the "solution" can score short-term perceived wins ahead of the next election. "Look, we did something! Now stop complaining and vote for us because the other guy is literally the devil."

A few people already realize that the money itself is broken.

They understand that when the money breaks, society breaks with it.

Money created out of thin air disproportionally enriches those closest to the creation of the new money.

Money created out of thin air is used to fund Forever Wars we never agreed to enter.

Money created out of thin air is used to subsidize companies/industries that the free market does not value, distorting price signals.

Money created out of thin air bails out banks.

Money created out of thin air perpetuates never-ending boom and bust cycles.

Money created out of thin air reduces the purchasing power of the money in your pocket.

Money created out of thin air steals the value of your time and energy, of your life itself.

The people who realize the money is broken now save the value of their time and energy in Bitcoin; a money separate from the State with a fixed supply of 21M which cannot be arbitrarily inflated.

Bitcoiners know we need to cure the base layer disease, not just treat the symptoms while politicians kick a can full of worthless money down the road until it lands at the feet of our children.

Bitcoiners refuse to abdicate responsibility. Bitcoiners refuse to pass this disease on to our children. Fiat is the disease, and we know we must cure it.

It will not be easy, but it must be done.

We need to fix the money.

Study Bitcoin. https://bitcoinpodcast.net https://primal.net/walker

@ 52b4a076:e7fad8bd

Why this is happening

This happens due to an invalid real IP header.

You are most likely using X-Forwarded-For as the real IP header. Strfry expects the real IP header to contain just an IP, but the X-Forwarded-For header is a list of IPs, with every proxy adding the IP of where it got the request from.

If a client specifies an X-Forwarded-For header, like X-Forwarded-For: 1.1.1.1, your proxy will add the remote IP, like this: X-Forwarded-For: 1.1.1.1, 127.0.0.1 When you use $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for in Nginx, this is what it is doing: appending the remote IP to the header.

Strfry tries parsing 1.1.1.1, 127.0.0.1 as an IP address, fails, and throws an exception.

How to fix it

If you are using Caddy, just switch to X-Real-IP.

If you are using Nginx, you can add a real IP header like so, and switch to using it: proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

You can also disable the real IP header, but this will cause problems if you use a write filter script or look at the logs.

@ 256a7941:b828ba8d

CONSIDERING A MOVE

@ d3d74124:a4eb7b1d

This plan was GPT generated originally but then tweaked by myself as the idea fleshed itself out. All feedback welcome and encouraged.

Shenandoah Bitcoin

1. Executive Summary

Shenandoah Bitcoin is a for-profit community organization based in Frederick County, VA, uniquely blending the world of agriculture and STEM. Our mission is to foster community spirit, stimulate interest in agricultural technology, and promote understanding of Bitcoin, while providing enriching educational opportunities and ensuring sustainable business operations.

2. Company Description

Shenandoah Bitcoin is committed to delivering value to our local community. Our unique approach intertwines traditional agricultural practices, modern STEM concepts, and the world of digital currencies, specifically Bitcoin. Our activities cater to all age groups, focusing on fostering community engagement, hands-on learning experiences, and contributing to the overall welfare of our community.

What’s in a name?

Shenandoah Bitcoin. Shenandoah - an old and historied land. Bitcoin - a cutting edge technological advancement. Both encompass multiple industries, from energy and manufacturing, to farming and data centers. Both built using Proof of Work.

3. Services

We offer a range of services, including:

Family-friendly events: Agriculture, STEM, and Bitcoin-themed festivals, fairs, workshops, and community gatherings. Educational programs: Classes, seminars, and workshops on agricultural technology, STEM principles, and understanding and using Bitcoin. Facility Rentals: Spaces available for private events, business meetings, and community gatherings.

4. Membership Benefits

We offer tiered membership packages with benefits such as:

a. Silver Membership: Includes access to regular events, discounts on educational programs, and priority booking for facility rentals.

b. Gold Membership: All Silver benefits, free access to select educational programs, and further discounted facility rentals.

c. Platinum Membership: All Gold benefits, free access to all educational programs, highest priority and maximum discounts on facility rentals, and exclusive invitations to special events.

Member’s opting to pay in Bitcoin receive 10% off all pricing.

5. Market Analysis

Our primary market is the local community in Frederick County and Winchester, VA, which consists of various demographic groups. Our secondary market includes neighboring communities, tourists, businesses, and educational institutions interested in the intersection of agriculture, STEM, and Bitcoin. Understanding that facility use and events to be a drawing factor for all demographics, we outline demographic specific analysis below.

STEM professionals in the area may work remotely or commute toward DC and not interact much with their agricultural neighbors, but a desire for good quality food exists for many. In addition to events, drawing the STEM demographic in will be connections to CSAs, ranchers, and homesteaders for access to fresh locally grown food. Offering a child's play room adjacent to some office space, is a compelling benefit for the laptop class that is often in STEM professions.

Non-industrial food producers and homesteaders may not have the focus or resources for marketing and sales. By offering a physical touch point for them and direct connections to consumers, food producers benefit from membership. Having more options for drop off/pick up of various produced goods, makes it attractive for both the consumers and producers as coordination can be asynchronous.

Bitcoiners have a wide range of sub-demographics, including farmers and software engineers. Some travel hours over car and plane to attend bitcoin themed events. The topics of STEM and agriculture are of shared interest to non-trivially sized communities of bitcoiners. Having a physical touch point for bitcoiners will draw in some members just for that. Building fellowship is desired and sought in bitcoin.

5.1 Market Trends

The blending of agriculture, STEM fields, and Bitcoin is a unique concept with increasing interest in sustainable farming and ranching, food sovereignty, and health. Shenandoah Bitcoin is poised to tap into this growing interest and offer unique value to our community.

5.2 Market Needs

Our market requires initiatives that foster community engagement, promote understanding of agri-tech and Bitcoin, and provide a versatile space for events and learning.

6. Marketing and Sales Strategy

We will employ a blend of digital marketing, traditional advertising, and strategic partnerships. Our main marketing channels will be word of mouth, social media, local press, and our website. Partnerships with local small businesses, homesteaders, schools, agricultural organizations, and bitcoin companies will form a key part of our outreach strategy.

7. Organizational Structure

Shenandoah Bitcoin will be led by a CEO, supported by a management team responsible for daily operations, event planning, marketing, and community outreach. Event management and logistics will be handled by part-time staff and volunteers.

8. Financial Projections

Our revenue will be generated from membership fees, charges for events and educational programs, and facility rentals.

9. Funding Request

[If seeking additional funding, describe your needs and how the funds will be used]

10. Exit Strategy

Should it become necessary to dissolve the business, assets such as property, equipment, and any remaining cash reserves after meeting liabilities will be sold. Investors would receive their share of the remaining assets according to their proportion of ownership.

11. Conclusion

Shenandoah Bitcoin is a unique community organization bringing together agriculture, STEM, and Bitcoin in Frederick County, VA. Our distinctive approach is designed to deliver both profits and social impact, resonating strongly with our target market and positioning us for sustainable growth.

@ 46fcbe30:6bd8ce4d

Opinion about Samourai Wallet (android)

Samourai has cost me many many hours due to their strong social media presence and constant ad hominem attacks. They blamed me for not being able to compile or reproduce their product instead of helping me to compile it. Given I compile wallets all the time as can be found on walletscrutiny, I doubt I lack the expertise to compile wallets but even if I did, why not show me? Not one developer other than their team themselves disagreed with my technical assessments of their product. Apart from proven scams, this is the product I trust least in the whole space.

But it's not only me. To quote Bitcoin Core developer and absolute genius Gregory Maxwell:

I have seen far too much outright dishonest and extremely incompetent behaviour from Samourai to ever trust it myself. Samourai has very poor privacy while bragging about having good privacy: It sends your addresses all back to their server. Their "trusted node" mode doesn't change this, it just exposes your Bitcoin node to attacks completely needlessly. (Needlessly because they only use it to relay transactions, which they could do via the public P2P ports of any node, and because since they've already sent your addresses back to their server sending your transactions via something else doesn't increase your privacy.) If you want strong privacy then as a start you need to run a full node (and use either Bitcoin Core wallet, or run your own electrum server), preferably via tor. I don't doubt that they want and intend to eventually have good privacy but it seems that they're just unable to stop lying about it, even after previously being caught.

You can find many more very competent people complaining about Samourai's dishonesity and aggressive behavior or outright incompetence if not malice here, here, here, and here. And yes, those links are to nopara, who is the founder of Wasabi wallet which targets the same audience of privacy focused users but that doesn't take away from the facts reported there.

Stay away from Scamourai!

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

Join the conversation!

@ 0403c86a:66d3a378

🏆 The stage is set for a thrilling clash between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks, with superstars Jayson Tatum and Luka Doncic set to dazzle!

💥 Will playground-style rankings matter when the whistle blows? Probably not, as we've seen in the past that these rankings don't always predict the outcome.

🤝 Will the camaraderie between Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown determine the Celtics' success? We think not! These two have proven time and time again that they're a force to be reckoned with.

👨‍🏫 Coaches Joe Mazzulla and Jason Kidd are making history. Both have shown resilience and adaptability, with one of them destined to take home the trophy.

🔒 Defending Luka Doncic will be a challenge, but the Celtics' defense must not lose track of his lob options. Team defense and communication will be key!

🔥 Can the Celtics' Kristaps Porzingis make a comeback? His return from injury could provide the spark they need, with his pick-and-pop spacing and defensive presence in the paint.

@ b804f68e:2fb0fa1f

When in Doubt, Zoom Out

In our fast-paced lives, it’s easy to get frustrated with what feels like a lack of progress. Often, we are too zoomed in, focusing on the short-term setbacks and missing the bigger picture. When in doubt, zoom out, and look at how far you have come over a longer time horizon. Consistency and perseverance lead to compounded growth, and it's important to pause and appreciate this gradual improvement.

Take my experience with writing on Stacker News as an example. Initially, I was obsessed with maintaining my streak, focusing so much on not breaking it that the quality of my writing suffered. After achieving a month-long streak, I aimed to keep it going indefinitely. However, I eventually broke the streak. This setback made me realize the importance of the bigger picture. Zooming out, I saw that the streak itself was less significant than the habit of consistent writing I had developed. Comparing my current output to last year, where I barely posted anything, and to the previous year, where I only wrote inconsistently in my journal, the progress was evident. Transitioning from private journaling to sharing my work publicly marked substantial growth.

A similar lesson came from my sprint training. Starting in 2021 with a top speed in the 18 mph range, I have significantly improved over three years. My average and maximum speeds have both increased, and I am getting faster every year with my current best speed being 20.13 mph. Sometimes, I get caught up in comparing my most recent speeds week by week, expecting continuous improvement. This unrealistic expectation can be discouraging. However, by zooming out, I can see that my overall trajectory is upward, confirming that my efforts are paying off.

Modern life often feels overwhelming with its rapid pace, making it easy to lose sight of our long-term progress. We forget to zoom out and reflect on how far we’ve come after years of consistent work. Whether it’s writing, sprinting, exercising, adhering to a diet, or any other endeavor, as long as the long-term trajectory is upward, we are on the right track.

In conclusion, whenever you feel stuck or doubt your progress, take a moment to zoom out. Reflect on your journey and acknowledge the improvements you've made over time. This perspective shift can renew your motivation and reassure you that consistent effort leads to meaningful growth.

@ d2e97f73:ea9a4d1b

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@ 079d727b:00099650

Found these somewhere and I totally can't remember who authored the note. I THANK YOU! Also here's a reddit link for those who want to get started!

https://nostr.com/ - A decentralized social network with a chance of working

https://www.whynostr.com/ - the WHY https://www.heynostr.com/ - Introduction https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr/ - Plentiful Guides and resources https://kyc3.life/resources/ - LIFE KYC (Know Your Customer) FREE (#IMPORTANT) https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/ - Reddit Nostr Feed https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9 - Plebchain Radio Podcast https://stacker.news/items/492921 - Guide by @TresDMan https://nostr.how/en/get-started - Understanding the basics https://www.nostrapps.com/ - A directory of Nostr Apps https://nak.nostr.com/ - nostr army knife (dev tool) https://nostrstuff.com/ - A terminal for playing with Nostr https://nostrfreaks.com/add/ - Multiple Web Client Viewer https://nostrends.vercel.app/ - What's trending on Nostr? https://nosta.me - Profile Viewer

And now here's a list of sites which are Nostr friendly.

R/nostr user's collection of nostr apps:

• https://nostr.watch/relays/find - Finding Nostr Relays (#IMPORTANT#)
• https://shopstr.store/marketplace - A Nostr Marketplace
• https://zap.stream/ - A Nostr Live Streaming Site
• https://formstr.app/ - Creating your own Forms on Nostr
• https://metadata.nostr.com/ - Nostr Profile Manager (#IMPORTANT#)
• https://shipyard.pub/posts - Write, schedule, and boost your notes.
• https://slidestr.net/ - Nostr Slideshow
• https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr - an AMAZING list of ALOT
• https://pinstr.app/ - Pinning content on Nostr
• https://plebeian.market/ - A Nostr Marketplace
• https://nostree.me/ - A Nostr Linktree
• https://listr.lol/feed - Curate, Organize, and Discover everything Nostr has
• https://www.wavlake.com/ - a V4V music streaming site on Nostr
• https://ostrich.work/ - The first and best Nostr Jobs board on the internet.
• https://zaplife.lol/ - A live feed of zaps
• https://highlighter.com/ - The site you're on right now!
• https://shopstr.store/ - An Nostr Marketplace
• https://nostr.band/ - A Nostr search engine
• https://nostrudel.ninja/#/ - A Nostr Client/Frontend
• https://dtan.xyz/ - A Nostr Torrent site
• https://app.mutinywallet.com/ - A Lightning wallet with Nostr Integration
• https://www.flockstr.com/ - Events and Meetups on Nostr
• https://cornychat.com/ - A live talk space on Nostr akin to Twitter Spaces
• https://nostrnests.com/ - A Live Talk Space on Nostr akin to Twitter Spaces
• https://comingle.co/ - conference app powered by Nostr
• https://geyser.fund/ - A crowdfunding site powered in part by Nostr
• https://heya.fund/ - Fund causes and goals with lightning on Nostr
• https://www.nostrchat.io/ - A Chat Client on Nostr
• https://w3.do/ - A URL Shortener on Nostr
• https://yakihonne.com/ - Long form writing on Nostr
• https://habla.news/ - Long form writing on Nostr
• https://nostrsync.live/ - A Broadcast & Export Service for your Data
• https://follows.lol/ - The Nostr follower tool
• https://globalthreat.info/ - Realtime global threat assessment driven by AI

There is ALOT more out there so I recommend you look at https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr !

Nostrapps is also excellent for finding web clients to actually view the twitter style of the Nostr.

I shall update this list from time to time with more or less content... hopefully. Or something cooler will come out and I'll use that. 🤷

@ acc925af:db9fb0bb

Today at the Oslo Freedom Forum, the announcement of Volt Wallet (https://github.com/Zero-1729/volt) by Abubakar Nur-Khalil, a Bitcoin Core contributor and Founder of Recursive Capital, a VC fund aimed at bitcoin-only projects being proliferated in Africa was made.

The features of this new wallet is what leaves heads turning, as it renders other bitcoin wallets in Africa light-years behind. Some of these features include:

Further talks on additional features such as Cashu Implementation as well as Silent Payments, Bolt 12, just to name a few, leaves nay-sayers of the bitcoin technology on the continent befuddled, as it obfuscates tyrannical oppressions faced by other wallet providers and users.

SUMMARY

There has never been a better time to be bullish on Freedom technology and tools that allow people access this freedom, and there's no better place to announce such a monumental feat, than the Oslo Freedom Forum.

Will keep a close eye on this one.

@ 82341f88:fbfbe6a2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@ c73818cc:ccd5c890

👑 Fold si propone come una banca Bitcoin completa, offrendo agli utenti la possibilità di accumulare, spendere e gestire i propri Bitcoin in modo semplice e sicuro. La sua visione di un sistema finanziario decentralizzato e privo di intermediari sposa perfettamente i principi da cui nasce Bitcoin.

👑 Un'alternativa alle banche tradizionali controllate dai governi.

👑 Fold consente agli utenti di prendere il controllo delle proprie finanze, eliminando la necessità di intermediari centralizzati come le banche tradizionali. Offre un conto Bitcoin FDIC-assicurato, un servizio di compravendita di Bitcoin e una carta di debito che consente di spendere Bitcoin ovunque.

👑 Verso un futuro finanziario libero e autonomo.

👑 La missione di Fold è quella di costruire un futuro finanziario libero e autonomo per tutti. La sua piattaforma offre agli utenti gli strumenti e le risorse necessarie per gestire le proprie finanze in modo indipendente, senza dover dipendere da istituzioni centralizzate che potrebbero limitare la loro libertà.

Unisciti al nostro gruppo Telegram: https://t.me/Bitcoin_Report_Italia

Le iscrizioni al torneo KCGI Bitget sono aperte, unisciti alla nostra squadra e corriamo verso i 5mln di dollari!

https://www.bitgetapp.com/it/events/kcgi/futures-trading?clacCode=HCDS4WT4

BitcoinReportItalia #Fold #Banca #Psicopatici #Criptovalute #Intermediari #CreditCard #Crypto #Bitcoin

@ ddf03aca:5cb3bbbe

This week, I began developing a native desktop client for npub.cash. My primary goal is to create a tool that can run in the background and notify users whenever they receive a payment. Additionally, I saw this project as an opportunity to learn how to use Electron. A major concern in building this application is ensuring the security of users' private keys. Leaking a private key is disastrous, as the nsec serves as the master key to a user’s nostr identity, and recovery from a leak is difficult. Every nostr developer must prioritize the protection of a user's nsec.

Using NIP-49 ncrypt

To provide a smooth user experience, clients need to allow users to input their private keys and then securely store them for future use. Otherwise, users would have to enter their keys every time they start the app, which is impractical. However, this approach carries risks. An attacker could access the part of your file system where the key is stored or spy on your clipboard when you are pasting the key.

Fortunately, there's a solution that has been part of the protocol for a few months: NIP-49 ncrypt. An ncrypt is an encrypted version of your private key, created using a standardized encryption process and a passphrase you choose. Because the encryption is standardized, it can be used across all clients that support this NIP. This means that even if an attacker gains access to your filesystem or clipboard, they would only see the encrypted key. As long as your passphrase is strong, it will be extremely difficult for them to obtain your private key, even if the ncrypt is compromised.

npubcash-desktop supports ncrypt and uses it everywhere. As a result, it will only ever store the encrypted key on your filesystem.

But What About Memory?

While ncrypt secures your private key on the filesystem, the app itself needs the raw key to sign notes and perform other actions before transmitting them to relays. If the app decrypts the key once you enter your passphrase and keeps it in memory, a skilled attacker could attempt to read it from memory.

npubcash-desktop uses Electron's safeStorage API to encrypt the raw private key again and will only keep the encrypted string in memory. SafeStorage uses the OS's native keychain (often stored on very secure parts of the machine) to encrypt data. Whenever the client needs your key to perform any action, it will read the encrypted one from memory, pass it to safeStorage, which will return the raw key and wipe it from memory after the action has been performed. In a high-level language like JavaScript, you usually have to rely on the garbage collector to free memory for you. However, both safeStorage and the npubcash-desktop signer use ArrayBuffers under the hood. ArrayBuffers let you directly control the underlying memory, so we can easily override the raw key in memory.

While npubcash-desktop is still early in its development, I will hopefully get around to publishing the first alpha version sometime next week. Feel free to send me a DM if you have any thoughts or comments.

@ 66b06f52:7f6bfda2

Originally published on Hodder.Law

Being a crypto lawyer myself, I couldn’t hold back for too long before consuming “The Crypto Legal Handbook” within a day or two. Long story short, I loved it and recommend it anyone interested in the intersection of crypto and law. In cryptocurrency regulation, where ambiguity reigns supreme and legal clarity is a rare commodity, Justin Wales has emerged as a guiding light with his opus, “The Crypto Legal Handbook: A Guide to the Laws of Crypto, Web3, and the Decentralized World.”

Table of Contents

• About Justin Wales
• A Primer for All Crypto Participants
• Navigating the Legal Labyrinth
• The Crypto Legal Handbook – Reviews
• The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
• Conclusion

About Justin Wales

Wales, a seasoned legal mind with experience at a top-tier law firm and currently leading the legal charge for Crypto.com in the Americas, acts as a authoritative guide. He dismantles the complexities surrounding digital assets, offering a well-researched and engaging narrative that sheds light on this intricate domain.

He takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through the maze of regulations governing digital assets. From the towering peaks of Bitcoin’s revolutionary potential to the murky depths of regulatory enforcement, Wales fearlessly charts a course through uncharted waters.

A Primer for All Crypto Participants

Released on April 20th, 2024, the book trades currently at $30 on Amazon. Inflation, duh, The book’s strength lies in its accessibility. It transcends the limitations of a purely legal tome, offering a foundational understanding of the core technologies and concepts that drive the crypto industry. Readers are introduced to the likes of Bitcoin, Ethereum, smart contracts, DeFi protocols, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), and the vast Web3 ecosystem. This holistic approach equips readers with a broader context to grasp the legal implications of these innovations. The book goes beyond mere theoretical exposition. Wales, drawing on his extensive industry experience, offers invaluable practical advice. Readers gain insights into best practices for navigating the legal complexities surrounding digital assets. This information is particularly valuable for entrepreneurs and businesses seeking to navigate the ever-evolving regulatory landscape.

Navigating the Legal Labyrinth

The heart of the book delves into the intricate legal frameworks surrounding these digital assets. Wales meticulously dissects the landscape, exploring: - The often-contentious relationship between cryptocurrencies and federal securities regulations, with a specific focus on the enforcement actions undertaken by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). - The regulatory landscape overseen by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and its impact on crypto assets. - The critical compliance and sanctions considerations for businesses operating in the money services arena. - State-level regulations for money transmitters, including a comprehensive analysis of the legal landscape across all 50 states – a valuable resource for businesses seeking to navigate the patchwork of state-by-state regulations.

The Crypto Legal Handbook – Reviews

Readers are satisfied, one review writes: “Having followed Justin Wales’ work since 2017, I’ve witnessed firsthand his profound impact on the crypto legal landscape. “The Crypto Legal Handbook” distills his extensive experience into an indispensable guide that navigates the intricate legalities of cryptocurrency and Web3. **As someone familiar with his pragmatic approach from our days in the crypto industry, I find Justin’s ability to clarify complex topics like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and smart contracts especially compelling. ** This book is not just a collection of legal guidelines but a comprehensive resource, endorsed by industry professionals, that is essential for anyone looking to understand the evolving legal frameworks shaping the future of digital currencies and the internet. For both seasoned legal professionals and newcomers to crypto, Justin’s engaging and thorough narrative makes this handbook a must-read.”

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Make no mistake, while Wales’ effort is commendable, it’s not without its shortcomings. “The Crypto Legal Handbook” reads like a legal brief penned by a seasoned attorney, which, to be fair, is precisely what it is. But for the average crypto enthusiast or aspiring entrepreneur, deciphering dense legal jargon feels like trying to navigate a labyrinth blindfolded. Where are the real-world examples, the practical advice that could transform legal theory into actionable insights? Despite these shortcomings, “The Crypto Legal Handbook” is not without its merits. Wales’ comprehensive survey of federal securities regulations and the SEC’s enforcement strategies is a tour de force, offering invaluable insights into the evolving landscape of token offerings and digital asset investments. Similarly, his exploration of federal commodity regulations overseen by the CFTC provides readers with a nuanced understanding of crypto derivatives and futures contracts. Yet, for all its grandiosity, “The Crypto Legal Handbook” often feels like a ship adrift in stormy seas, struggling to find its bearings. While Wales boasts an impressive pedigree, his relentless focus on U.S. regulation leaves readers stranded on the shores of American exceptionalism, overlooking the diverse and dynamic regulatory landscapes of the global crypto community. Offshore opportunities for crypto entrepreneurs won’t be explained in any detail if they find mention at all. Still, Wales’ practical guidance for legal practitioners, entrepreneurs, and investors navigating the choppy waters of crypto compliance is a welcome beacon of hope in an otherwise murky sea. His comprehensive 50-state survey of state-level regulations for money transmitters is a testament to his commitment to empowering readers with the tools to navigate regulatory minefields.

Conclusion

In conclusion, “The Crypto Legal Handbook” is a flawed but formidable companion for anyone brave enough to venture into the wild world of crypto regulation. While Wales’ U.S.-centric focus may leave international readers feeling adrift, and his prose may lack the punch of a revolutionary manifesto, his insights and expertise remain invaluable resources for those willing to brave the storm. In the end, navigating the legal labyrinth of crypto requires more than just a map—it demands courage, conviction, and a willingness to challenge the status quo. And in that regard, “The Crypto Legal Handbook” is a worthy ally in the fight for a freer, fairer future.

@ 079d727b:00099650

https://i.nostr.build/vGd7P.png

What am I doing here? What am I doing here with Fatty and Spotty Fatty and Spotty Fatty and Spotty What am I doing here with Fatty and Spotty

SORRY! This will make no sense unless you've seen the British Channel 4 sitcom, Black Books. Actually, not sorry at all. Because here's a link to watch the entire series off YT. Otherwise I dunno, torrent or news it, or even better... BUY THE DVD BOXSET SECOND HAND!!! (The decent boxset should have commentary tracks for Season 1 & Season 2, making the show twice as good imo.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcQb7zEzXv8 (Enjoy! Also I recommend starting at Season 1 Episode 1 as what I've linked is S2E3). Stars the very talented, Bill Bailey, Dylan Moran and Tamsin Greig. Directed by Graham Linehan I'm pretty sure and he was just 'censored' by the trans police so you know it's probably quite funny. 😂

Many thanks to PABLOF7z for being my FIRST foundational supporter. That really means A LOT! I remember blogging in the mid 90's before the word blog was a thing. One of these day's I'll upload the html pages which show how stupid 13yr old's can be. But shit.. the enthusiasm and pure joy I got from blogging... I don't know if anything has compared in those 20+ years from writing. I hope to bring it back with these Highlighter posts which I plan to drain and publish my thoughts, finds and whatever discoveries I may find interesting.

Apologies if this bores the shit out of you. That's also why it's free. 🫡

Many more links, resources and the brain of tigs' - coming to nostr... really soon.

P.S. Don't expect anything useful or educational or in any particular order, this is MY brain after all 😂

💜🤙🫂 - tigs

@ 3104fbbf:ac623068

Signs of a Collapsing Empire

In the US, Canada, Australia, France, Spain, Germany etc. we find ourselves in a collapsing empire, and our mission now should be to attempt to correct this course. The Western world is undeniably in the late stages of its empire, though this reality is seldom discussed in corporate media. Historically, the US has been the most powerful empire the world has ever known, and remain a global empire today. However,America exhibits all the classic signs of a late-stage empire: overextended militarily, deeply in debt, and a culture descending into decadence. And this pattern extends to all other countries dependent on its hegemony.

In examining these characteristics, one sees an excessively expanded military presence worldwide and juridictions buried under insurmountable debt. The inevitable consequence of these issues is cultural degradation. Our society has become increasingly superficial and indulgent, fostering a mindset that prioritizes immediate gratification over long-term planning and responsibility. This shift towards short-term thinking undermines the values of diligence and accountability, leading individuals to seek instant rewards without considering the broader consequences of their actions. Consequently, this erosion of responsibility permeates various aspects of life, from personal behavior to societal norms, weakening the foundational principles that support a stable and prosperous community. Consider, for instance a Pride parade where activities like two men playfully slapping their butt cheeks are heralded as a statement of rights. This isn't a genuine struggle for rights; it’s a blatant display of societal decadence.

Looking back at intellectual discourses of the past, compare that to today’s debates, and the decline in intellectual rigor is evident.The art world has not been spared either, as culture has become heavily debased.What was once a domain of deep expression and creativity now often favors sensationalism, politic activism for LGBTQ rights and commercial appeal over authentic artistic value. This shift has led to a dilution of cultural values, where the pursuit of fiat money overshadows the quest for meaningful and thought-provoking art.

Divide and Conquer: The Manipulation of Society and the Destruction of Citizens' Wealth

At the same time, the most powerful figures in society are manipulating us to fight against each other in a perpetual culture war. This divisive strategy ensures that we never unite and realize the common ground we share. Both left-wing and right-wing citizens are equally impacted by the destruction of their money by central banks. Yet, this critical issue rarely receives attention in mainstream media. Mainstream media, for example, hardly cover the secrecy of central banks or globalist non-elected private interests. Instead, they focus on divisive topics such as the unvaccinated versus vaccinated, or Trump supporters versus Biden supporters, on insecurity, War and chaos, continuously pitting people against each other and blaming anyone or anything other than the monetary debt-based fraudulent system.

Fundamentally, the majority of people are kind-hearted and seek to care for their families, work hard, contribute to their communities, and ensure their children have a better life. A responsible media would concentrate on exposing the corruption at the top levels of power. There is indeed a significant amount of corruption that demands population’s scrutiny. If our media were better, they would be laser-focused on the halls of power and the extensive corruption within, rather than exacerbating divisions among the populace.

Embracing a New System : How Bitcoin is Redefining Global Cooperation and Trust

The narratives that have served as pillars of value and ideology for the past half-century are now beginning to crumble. It's like traversing a labyrinth of deceit spun by the machinery of our corrupted system, trapping us within its intricate maze.

Those who have recognized the technology of Bitcoin advocate for creating an entirely new system. This proposed system would be in the image of the Bitcoin protocol : inherently open, transparent, globally accessible, and resistant to manipulation and corruption. It would operate without central authority but with rules that are clear and equitable for all.

It is very hard for people to understand a system concealed in opacity and fashioned exclusively for the privileged echelons.If one clings to the belief that the current system harbors the potential to secure a prosperous destiny for their family, they may persist in investing their efforts and resources into it, despite its apparent deficiencies.

However, for those who envision something better—a system that can bring together people from all walks of life without coercion or corruption—Bitcoin presents a compelling alternative.

Empowering Individuals and Uniting Humanity

Bitcoin, with its revolutionary decentralized nature, stands as a beacon of hope for humanity, offering a pathway towards unity that transcends the constraints of borders and ideologies. Its fundamental principles of openness, transparency, and accessibility pave the way for a global network of trust and cooperation. By operating without central authority, Bitcoin empowers individuals worldwide to participate in a financial system that is free from the biases and limitations imposed by traditional institutions. In embracing Bitcoin, people from diverse backgrounds find common ground, fostering a sense of solidarity that transcends geopolitical boundaries and ideological differences.

Moreover, Bitcoin's immutable ledger and censorship-resistant properties ensure that no single entity can manipulate or control the system for their own gain. This inherent fairness and equity inherent in Bitcoin serve as a unifying force, bringing together people from all walks of life in pursuit of a common goal: financial sovereignty. As more individuals recognize the transformative potential of Bitcoin, they become part of a global movement towards a more equitable and inclusive financial future, one where every individual has the opportunity to thrive and prosper, irrespective of their nationality or beliefs. In this way, Bitcoin emerges not just as a digital currency, but as a catalyst for peace and unity on a global scale.

By enabling peer-to-peer transactions without intermediaries, Bitcoin fosters direct interaction and collaboration across borders. Its public blockchain ensures transparency and immutability, building trust among users and eliminating the need for centralized validation. Bitcoin's borderless nature facilitates cross-border transactions, promoting economic inclusion worldwide.

Ultimately, Bitcoin offers a pathway towards truth and authenticity, free from the influences of war, corruption, and manipulation. It is much more thant “number go up” Technology. For those who dare to imagine a world where fairness and integrity prevail, it has the potential to unite humanity peacefully, transcending borders and ideologies.

It's still time for you to get on the Bitcoin train, and thus reclaim all the time, energy, and freedom that has been stolen from you without your knowledge. But for how long?

Source & inspirations : Robert Breedlove ; Dave Smith

@ 58edc6ae:e070cfa5

"Everyone says they care about privacy, but people would give a DNA sample for a ‘free’ Big Mac." —Austin Hill

A few years ago, I shared my growing concerns about the erosion of online privacy with a friend. I passionately criticised the dominant business model on the internet, which essentially farms users to extract every possible piece of private data from them. My friend, an intelligent and tech-savvy individual, looked at my fervour with indulgence. Even if he somewhat shared my attachment to privacy, he saw its loss as inevitable, even necessary, to enjoy the conveniences of technology. Applications must track us to provide what we need on a silver platter. They also need to sell our data; otherwise, we would have to pay for their services, which we are reluctant to do.

Indeed, almost everything we observe on the internet today seems to prove him right. While some dull discussions about privacy or data protection laws might be happening, and we occasionally hear about activists fighting for these causes, the reality is that the vast majority of users share their privacy without any restraint or reflection on the consequences. To be fair, it’s not easy to avoid doing so. We are surrounded by technology designed to gather as much data as possible from the largest number of users as efficiently as possible.

Unfortunately, the dangers extend far beyond corporate surveillance. The risks posed by the private sector pale in comparison to the increasingly brazen state surveillance. The frog is being boiled slowly. We have gradually accepted prohibitions on cash payments above certain amounts and numerous exceptions to bank secrecy, ultimately leading to a complete lack of privacy in our relationships with the state, as tax authorities gain unrestricted access to our accounts. There is a pending law that will soon require reporting every transaction involving Bitcoin or other crypto-assets to the state, regardless of the transaction's value.

The only thing missing is a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), which would not only greatly facilitate the easy collection of vast amounts of information about every citizen's financial transactions but also allow for a true nightmare…, namely, money which is programmable at the individual level. Compared to this, the blunt instrument of interest rate adjustments look like a hammer next to a microprocessor. The state would gain some quite spooky tools for social engineering. Money with an expiry date, set arbitrarily, would be a handy tool to drive consumption. Money that only works in specific locations would help keep disobedient citizens in one place. To discipline the dissenters, there could also be money that can't be used to pay for certain products or to certain people. Add a solid social credit system with extra points for compliance on top of it, and we find ourselves in a dystopian episode of Black Mirror, only worse. The scope and scale of social engineering would then be limited only by the autocrat’s imagination.

Surprisingly many people seem to underestimate or fail to understand the importance of privacy. They overlook that we are talking about a fundamental human right, protected by constitutions and many international treaties, including the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. They fail to recognise that the day we lose our privacy will also be the last day of our freedom.

As Eric Hughes wrote in his famous 1993 manifesto, privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world. This concept, sometimes called informational autonomy, is essential for the functioning of a free society, especially in an increasingly digitised world. The right to privacy extends to most areas of private life. It particularly protects information about family life, health, intimate life, private homes, interests, and correspondence, including electronic communication. Financial life is also protected, including bank account balances and transaction details, shielding them not only from the prying eyes of our neighbours, but most of all from the public authorities who should not, in principle, collect information about our assets and transactions.

In contemporary legal systems, the right to privacy is not absolute. This means that the state can, in certain situations, infringe on our privacy and access protected information. However, this must be justified by another important protected public interest. Traditionally, such interests include state security, public safety, economic well-being, crime prevention, health protection, morality, or the protection of others' rights and freedoms. Any interference must not only be based on clear legal regulations but also be justified in each specific case. Jurisprudence provides further guidelines outlining the framework for such potential interference. Notably, there must exist a strict connection between the interference and the protected public interest. Also, the scope of the interference should not exceed what is necessary to protect that interest, and it should be subject to oversight by an independent court.

The problem today, however, is that states are trying to push the boundaries of permissible interference and often do so in violation of constitutional and treaty guarantees. Examples of such violations in Poland include laws allowing tax authorities unrestricted access to taxpayers' bank accounts. Similarly, laws on anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism grant the state broad powers. The issue is not that these laws allow for privacy infringements when there is a risk of crime. The problem is that they permit the preventive collection of data on private transactions in vast databases without a direct link to any specific legal proceedings and without genuine judicial oversight.

A state that does not respect the right to privacy is, by definition, an authoritarian state. The tools for tracking citizens are a greater threat in the hands of the state than in the hands of corporations or even common criminals. Therefore, state actions, which step by step increase the scope of possible intrusions into privacy, should cause concern and opposition.

Yet this is not happening. This is especially evident in the sphere of financial privacy. We have accepted the deprivation of the right to use cash above a certain limit and the fact that bank secrecy has become an empty shell, with financial institutions reporting about us essentially without our control or even knowledge. We watch helplessly as regulations limiting the privacy of cryptocurrency transactions are enacted under the guise of "consumer protection." We do not oppose when officials feel they should regulate the use of open communication protocols for private transactions or private tools for storing cryptocurrency savings. Finally, there is no significant protest when the head of the European Central Bank announces the introduction of the European CBDC, a technology promoted under the appealing name "digital euro," which, in a rather chilling way, is awe-inspiring given its surveillance and control capabilities.

This civic passivity likely stems from the belief that since we live in democratic and lawful societies, nothing can really threaten us. This belief, however, overlooks the thin line between democratic order and authoritarianism. It also ignores that state lawlessness occurs daily even in democratic and lawful states. By allowing states to cut back on the right to privacy, we are embarking on a dangerous slippery slope, at the end of which lies a grim vision of totalitarianism.

privacy #Bitcoin

@ 08964cb5:51bf010f

Today I am witnessing an event related to control and censorship. It is about the limitation to the profile that I have opened on LinkedIn.

Yesterday I launched the post with the title “Bitcoiner Certificate”, whose purpose is to promote the design and application of certificates in the Bitcoin subject. In addition to this, I mention the desire I have to work methodologically as a team with someone and a little about trading. I promoted it in Nostr and in LinkedIn.

Since I have been partially registered on the LinkedIn platform starting in 2011, the way I access my profile has changed, that is, sometimes through a desktop computer and sometimes through a mobile device. By “partially” I mean that, despite the fact that the platform always asks me to perform a verification, asking me for: phone number, address, among other information (KYC), I have never given it to them.

Today “the platform's algorithm” manifested itself directly to me for the first time in these thirteen years, preventing me from accessing it through a desktop device in every way. I noticed that the app on the mobile phone still worked, so I decided to express my disagreement with the situation that the platform still continues to present. Likewise, I entered a QR code to let my friends and acquaintances know that I am relatively active in “social mode” in Nostr.

@ 34c0a532:5d3638e4

Most bitcoiners have their own, much different definition of what it means to orange pill a person. I’ve seen mentions of getting a taxi driver to download a lightning wallet and sending the payment in sats to them. Is that truly orange-pilling? Hmm… no. It is a great first step, but what makes you believe that that person won’t go on to shitcoins after learning about the ease of using cryptocurrency?

So, let’s define what that is in the terms of this guide.

To orange pill someone means to get them to take the first step into learning about bitcoin, money, self-custody, being sovereign, and to teach them to start questioning the world of lies we’ve been fed our entire lives.

Too poetic? Okay, here’s a more specific one:

To orange pill someone means showing them how to send and receive a bitcoin transaction, explain to them the importance of keeping their seed words safe, and showing them more articles, books and guides so they can go further down the rabbit hole.

I think that’s better, don’t you?

No matter what your definition of orange-pilling is, let’s discuss a few things first.

Orange-pilling comes from the scene in the Matrix where Morpheus offers the blue and the red pill to Neo.

This your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more. ~ Morpheus

The fact that the terms comes from the Matrix is absolutely perfect, because the Matrix is based on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Everybody knows the Matrix so let’s talk about the Cave. Inside the cave, people are chained up, in the dark. The only thing they can do is talk to each other and stare forward, where there’s a dim light on the cave’s wall. Someone is moving around objects, throwing shadows on the wall. The people can never see the three-dimensional object, they can only see a shadow, a projection of it, so their world is limited by that knowledge.

Someday a group of people manage to break out of the Cave. They go out into the light, their eyes hurt, the world is massive, they get a panic attack by the lack of a rock ceiling on top of them. It’s vast, it’s too much to bear. And they run back into the cave and tell everyone what they saw, that it’s too bright, too open, too much everything. Objects are real, there’s light everywhere and colours. So many colours, not just the flame, the rock and the shadow.

And they don’t believe them. Maybe they even get angry at them and attack them. Who are these fools to claim that the world is not what they think it is? Who are they to suggest that we’ve all been lied to all our lives?

And that’s the first thing you need to keep in mind when trying to orange pill someone.

Why do some people find it so hard to believe in bitcoin?

The answer is simple. It’s because understanding bitcoin requires acknowledging you’ve been tricked your entire life.

The culture shock is real, I’ve been through it. The stages are as follows:

What is money? You start to learn what money really is, and how fundamentally flawed the Keynesian system has become. You see that the only way forward is by a hard money standard, whether that’s gold or bitcoin. Then you realise that in a world of information, the only logical step is bitcoin. Then why bitcoin? You start to read about it’s properties. It’s antifragile, decentralised. Why is that important? Nobody can control, it great. Why is it like gold that can be attached to an email? Then there’s the anger and disbelief. We’ve been fooled. Why doesn’t everybody see this? You read everything about bitcoin, you listen to podcasts, talk on bitcoin twitter and nostr with other plebs. Nobody seems to have all the answers but they make far more sense than the lies of the mainstream media. You talk to your friends and family, you come off as crazy at best. As I said, you have to acknowledge the trauma the other person is going through. It’s a culture shock, and not many want to go through with it. Think of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, people who got out into the world went back and told everyone that there’s more to life than the shadows on the wall. Or, the same allegory being told by the Matrix, with Cypher wanting to go back, to forget.

We call that Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome, BDS. It’s hilarious but it’s so real. Many early bitcoiners, people who have spend years of their lives either advocating for it or working on it, some making or losing fortunes in the process, go back to the fiat world, shift gears completely, rant and rave against bitcoin and dive back in the Matrix, the Cave, taking the blue pill. They want to be fiat rich, they lie and delude themselves that everything is okay in the world and if they get just enough money they’d be okay.

But they won’t. This is real, and no matter how many lies they tell themselves things will not change unless we change them ourselves. Babies are dying, that’s true. In wars, in artificially induced poverty, in carrying on with the Keynesian ways of thinking of endless imperial expansion and exploitation.

I’ll be honest, bitcoin rewires your brain.

Do you really wanna force that on people?

Yes?

Then let’s read on.

Why is it sometimes so hard to explain, persuade or convince people about bitcoin? Here’s a harsh truth. It’s because you’re the counterparty risk.

When your car breaks down, you go to a mechanic, you seek expert knowledge. He tells you what’s wrong and you generally accept it. Why? Because unless you’re an expert on cars, you don’t have pre-existing knowledge about this specific situation. Nature abhors a vacuum. The mechanic’s knowledge and expertise fills up that vacuum of knowledge.

Why is it different with bitcoin, then?

Because most people believe they already understand money. There’s no vacuum for their knowledge to fill. Like a woman going to a male gynecologist thinking she knows better because she’s the one with the female body, a nocoiner believes they know better because, see? They have been handling and making money all their lives! Who are you to claim things aren’t how they used to think they are?

Yes, sure. You’re the one with the female body, you’re the one with the wallet. But have you actually taken the time to study it? Have you invested the necessary six years in medical school or the 100 hours it takes to grasp bitcoin?

No.

But they don’t accept that. When you make statements about bitcoin, it collides with their pre-existing frame of reference. When that happens, their mind reflexively casts doubts on the new information, actively fights it and rejects it, because it doesn’t conform to what they know. Their mind is the bearer asset, you are the counterparty risk.

Okay, great. How do you overcome this, then?

By taking the time with them. You can’t force someone to get orange-pilled, it’s not shoving knowledge down their throats. They have to do it themselves, so you start small. Plant a seed. Make them question what they know. That tiny seed, just like in Inception, will grow and push aside the other propaganda in their minds, leaving some space for new information to fill the void.

“Why did they stop having money backed by gold?”

That’s one seed.

“Who prints all these new billions?”

Another. Take your pick, it depends on the person you’re talking to.

A good question makes the nocoiner access their accepted knowledge. They usually think they have the answer and you should listen to it, not shutting it down. Ask them to research it further, to back their claims, to look things up. If they don’t have the knowledge, a new vacuum is created and their curiosity will want to fill it up.

Nocoiner: Bitcoin isn’t backed by anything.

You: Okay. Then what would make good money in its place?

Make them talk by asking questions. As they talk, they’ll realise they have massive gaps in their knowledge. You can help them then, but they themselves have to fill up those gaps by asking more questions and getting them to talk more. Why? Because if someone tells something to themselves they will believe it much easier than having you say it to them. Try and lead them to conclusion, a revelation.

When persuading someone, the person talking the most is the one really getting persuaded. Why? Because when you talk you engrave those words into your brain as facts.

Nocoiner: Bitcoin wastes too much energy.

You: How do you determine how much is too much energy to use?

You will never change their minds, they have to change it themselves. You can only help show them the way, they’re the ones that have to do it. Questions are the key to that process.

Tell them less, ask more.

What questions make people curious about bitcoin? You never know, it depends on what ails the person. Think about their pain. If they’re living in Turkey or Argentina, for example, their pain is massive inflation. You might say, “You’re already using USD to protect your monetary value against inflation, right? How about adding BTC to the mix?”

People in those countries generally grasp this concept a lot quicker. The local lira is the crap kind of money, they spend it often. The USD is the good kind of money, they save it, spending it only when absolutely necessary. And gold is the best kind, keeping it hidden in safes and mattresses. Only to be spent in an emergency. They don’t have the financial privilege to insulate them from the need for bitcoin, they already get these layers of hardness in their money, so bitcoin is a lot easier for them.

“What is money?” is another good question. Most people will answer it, and of course it will be flawed and all over the place. Then you might say, “It’s the promise of future value,” and then discuss how bitcoin has a monetary policy that’s planned out for the next 120 years and how nodes and miners facilitate that design. And especially point out how hard it is to change.

“What happened in 1971?” That’s a good one. Get them to look up the fiat monetary system and figure out how it’s not backed by anything. Get them angry at the Keynesian economists, how they’ve ruined entire countries. 2008 money crisis? Inevitable, under the fiat standard. Forget about bitcoin, point your finger towards the rot. It’s all historical fact, they can’t call you a conspiracy theorist. Most people still think that money is backed by gold. Get them to tell it to other people, see their reactions.

This was a part of my guide. Let me know what you think. Soon to be posted at https://georgesaoulidis.com/how-to-orange-pill-people/

@ 3104fbbf:ac623068

The most exhilarating periods in human history

In 2024, a significant transformation is underway—a seismic shift in global perspectives due to the ascent of Bitcoin. There's a growing acknowledgment that the economic concepts of the past three decades are falling short. What's demanded now is innovation, a game-changer. This is evident in the surge of enthusiasm for Bitcoin and digital assets. A fresh mindset is emerging not only in financial hubs like Wall Street but also in everyday communities, government chambers, and across continents from Europe to Hong Kong, London, and beyond.

It's time to think bigger. We are living through one of the most exhilarating periods in human history. Game Theory is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, reshaping the very fabric of our economic systems. We are witnessing a remarkable shift in global attitudes toward Bitcoin. . Yet, many remain unaware of what is going on, caught up in fear-mongering and the spectacle of politics.

This is your moment to step into the future with confidence and excitement. The financial revolution is upon us. Many countries and even the White House are rethinking their anti-Bitcoin stance, showing a newfound willingness to understand digital assets.Greed, the undeniable catalyst, and fear of being left behind are making the prospect of change more appealing and engaging to an ever-growing audience.

No one is quite optimistic enough, even though the winds of change are unmistakably blowing!

Game theory activated

As the house of cards in our fiat world teeters under immense pressure, with banks faltering and central banks warning of worsening conditions, the situation mirrors the 2008 financial crisis—only this time we are on steroids. Game Theory has sparked a domino effect, inspiring pioneering models such as those implemented by El Salvador or the MicroStrategy company, which are in real time being replicated and validated.

In the fiat realm, awakening becomes unavoidable if entities wish to avoid financial ruin. Individuals are seeking avenues to protect their wealth from incompetent governments and institutions that persistently devalue their currency. The escalating global debt crisis is about to push money printers into overdrive. And we've all ready seen Bitcoin's resilience and dominance in such times.

But the truth is that we’ve seen nothing yet!

The Ponzi-like structure of the fiat monetary system is on the brink of genuine disruption. This debt-dependent system has inflicted more harm than the plague, financing wars and stupid projects, burdening individuals immensely. Euros, Yen, and even the Chinese currency are all heading towards worthlessness—it's all going to zero against Bitcoin! And the dollar, like every other fiat currency in history, is doomed to fail—it's headed to worthlessness.

The era of funding endless wars and exploiting the public through money printing is reaching its end. The average citizen, who bears the brunt of these actions, is on the verge of a critical decision: Bitcoin or servitude.

It seems that the autonomous nature of the Bitcoin protocol has compelled politicians to yield. They are now catering to the requests of Bitcoin enthusiasts. What comes next? El Salvador is flourishing as a Bitcoin nation, clearly leading the way. Some foresee El Salvador and Bitcoin multiplying at least tenfold in success. Institutional fear of missing out (FOMO) is palpable, reflected in staggering ETF numbers that consistently shatter records.

**This is your moment to embrace the future **

Even the US Treasury acknowledges the trajectory towards a million-dollar Bitcoin, and you're still not convinced?

Could it be that skepticism clouds your judgment, perhaps due to an allegiance to gold bars or apathy and nihilism? The truth is that No one is optimistic enough! Now is the time for people to enthusiastically embrace the future with confidence

This is our moment - the people - to embrace the future with confidence and excitement, as Money will be separated from State at the end.

What are YOU going to do during the greatest transfer of wealth in history? The depreciation of traditional fiat currencies is a mathematical certainty. In terms of dollars, Bitcoin's value is bound for infinity because the dollar, like all fiat currencies before it, is plummeting towards worthlessness. Those residing in Argentina or other nations ravaged by rampant inflation understand this reality all too well: that their currency is perpetually losing its value. You just can’t trust human beings : central banks and the financial establishment will invariably debase the fruits of your labor;

For 99% of us, there's simply no escape from poverty fueled by fiat money printing, except now for the very first time in history through Bitcoin.So the question is for you: when do you want to stop being a poor idiot?

What will you tell your kids and grandkids 25 years from now when they ask :

"Grandpa, what were you doing during the greatest transformation of wealth in the history of the world? Did you accumulate Bitcoin ? »

Will you say :

« No, I did Nothing"?

Don't dismiss Bitcoin out of fear. Take the initiative to learn about it, understand its dynamics, and...get some before it's too late!

Source and inspiration : Max Keiser ; Simply Bitcoin

@ c11cf5f8:4928464d

Hey stackers, let’s lay down your unique and unusual offerings. Unveil the unexpected!

Need a hand? Check our guides… What hidden gems do y'all have up for sale? Let's rustle up some dusted serendipitous in the ~AGORA
marketplace.


---

Click any link👇below to start! [⚖️ SELL] - [🛒 BUY] - [🧑‍💻 HIRE] - [🖇 OFFER] - [🧑‍⚖️ AUCTION] - [🤝 SWAP] - [🆓 FREE] - [⭐ REVIEW]

@ aa55a479:f7598935

Nostrica is the shit.

@ 634bd19e:2247da9b

かけるのこれ？ 日本語入力の取り扱いイベントがおかしいw

@ d266da53:7224d834

Dora Factory, the pioneering infrastructure of decentralized governance technology and public good funding, announces the gas fee airdrop of its native token, $DORA, to all ATOM stakers on June 5, 2024. Over one million addresses are eligible to receive $DORA token, with the airdrop campaign inviting the Cosmos community to participate in the governance of its democratic public goods funding program, the ATOM Economic Zone Quadratic Funding, on DoraHacks.io. With 1.04 million addresses whitelisted, the privacy voting round implemented by the Dora team will be the largest MACI (Minimum Anti Collusion Infrastructure) voting round ever.

1.04 million ATOM stakers are eligible for the airdrop

On June 5, all ATOM stakers have received $DORA tokens in their wallets. $DORA is the native token of Dora Vota, a decentralized governance application chain developed by the Dora Factory using the Cosmos SDK. This airdrop is one of the largest in history. With over one million addresses, Dora Factory aims to mobilize the Cosmos community, known for its passion for decentralized governance, to participate in a crucial public goods governance experiment for the community.

Kicking Off AEZ Quadratic Funding

After receiving the airdrop, Cosmos communities can participate in the ATOM Economic Zone (AEZ) quadratic funding initiative jointly launched by DoraHacks, Dora Factory, and ATOM Accelerator DAO. They can use ATOM to vote for and donate to public goods teams they value, support early-stage developers, and determine the distribution of an 80,000 ATOM and $200,000 USDC matching pool across 10 rounds of AEZ Quadratic Funding and MACI voting. The smart contracts for this quadratic voting round are deployed on the Dora Vota network, and the community can use $DORA to cover gas fees.

This campaign goes beyond merely distributing the reward pool to early-stage projects and essential public goods in AEZ in the first round; it is a democratic governance experiment designed to mobilize community power in supporting public goods and promising early-stage developers. The quadratic funding mechanism ensures that even small donations from community members have a substantial impact.

MACI Voting With Enshrined Privacy

Dora Factory invites community members to participate in MACI (Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure) privacy voting, distributing a $20,000 USDC prize pool to selected teams. Unlike traditional quadratic voting, this method allows voters to express their opinions on public goods without revealing their identity (address). Addresses with more ATOM staked will receive more Voice Credits (voting power).

Through MACI voting, Dora Factory aims to introduce cutting-edge privacy-enabled voting technology to the Cosmos community. This initiative marks the beginning of integrating secure, private, and anti-collusion technologies into a wider range of governance use cases in the future.

Dora Factory's Dedication

To ensure every community member can participate in MACI voting without concerns, Dora Factory will implement Dora Vota's native Gas Station feature to cover all voting fees for the MACI voting round. This fee subsidy represents Dora Factory's commitment to the community outlined in Cosmos Governance Proposal 917.

A Historical Community Governance Ceremony

With the quadratic funding module now natively implemented on Dora Vota for the Cosmos Hub, Cosmos has the potential to become one of the largest on-chain communities that supports public goods. The first round of the two-year quadratic funding plan for the ATOM Economic Zone commencing in June 2024 has attracted numerous outstanding projects and awaits the attention and support of community members. The Largest Privacy-Preserving Governance Experiment MACI implementation is a groundbreaking step for the Cosmos community, as its first privacy voting attempt. Dora Factory has whitelisted over 1 million addresses, setting a new record for the largest whitelist, and marking the largest voting experiment in MACI's history. The Dora Factory team is excited to invite the Cosmos community to create a historic moment collectively.

About Dora Factory

Dora Factory is at the forefront of decentralized governance protocol stacks, providing governance and long-term incentives for the global hacker movement, open-source communities, and decentralized organizations through Public Good Staking and Dora Vota. The platform has pioneered the development of public good staking infrastructure, revolutionizing the way developers are funded long-term in the PoS ecosystem. Additionally, Dora Vota offers a comprehensive decentralized governance platform, enabling users to create programmable governance mechanisms such as MACI and quadratic voting through its open platform. This reduces the cost of decentralized governance, laying a solid foundation for its widespread adoption.

To better understand and try the products of Dora Factory, please visit https://dorafactory.org/ Visit Dora Research Blog for more details: https://research.dorahacks.io/

@ 2f7463a4:e92b8023

Original „Speaking Freely“ von Gigi, veröffentlicht zur Blockzeit 836245 unter der CC BY-SA 4.0 Lizenz. Übersetzt von sefiro.

---

Neulich unterhielt ich mich mit einem Freund und wir kamen auf das Problem der Meinungsfreiheit zu sprechen. Ich sollte es nicht als Problem bezeichnen, denn es ist die Lösung eines Problems. Das Problem ist ein immerwährendes Problem, was eine andere Art ist zu sagen, dass es ein wirklich schwieriges Problem ist, ein Problem, mit dem wir immer konfrontiert sein werden, solange wir Menschen sind.

Das Problem ist folgendes: Was ist das Problem, das es zu lösen gilt? Es ist ein Problem von Problemen, was natürlich ein Metaproblem ist. Wir als Homo Sapiens sind ein denkender Organismus. Sowohl kollektiv als auch individuell. Denken ist das, was uns ausmacht, aber es ist nicht einfach Denken als Selbstzweck, es ist Denken, um Dinge herauszufinden, ohne ständig dabei umgebracht zu werden. Eine weniger brutale Form der Evolution sozusagen.

Die Menschen der Antike haben der Aufmerksamkeit einen sehr hohen Wert beigemessen. Auch die Aufmerksamkeit ist von einem Metaproblem geplagt: Worauf soll man seine Aufmerksamkeit richten? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, muss man darauf achten, worauf man seine Aufmerksamkeit richtet, und das unterscheidet einen klugen von einem weisen Menschen.

Das bringt mich zu einem der Dinge die mir derzeit Sorgen bereiten. Wir sind zivilisatorisch gesehen sehr klug, aber nicht sehr weise. Wir sind schlecht darin, auf das zu achten, worauf wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit richten, zumindest gegenwärtig. Und ich fürchte, dass sowohl die falschen Anreize, die das Internet plagen, als auch unser kaputtes Geld daran schuld sind.

Annahmen [n=0]

• ∀ i ≤ c[^1]
• P! = NP[^2]
• Leben ist es wert gelebt zu werden[^3]
• Es gibt kein kostenloses Mittagessen[^4]
• Meinungsfreiheit ist erstrebenswert[^5]

Der Logos [n=1]

Es gibt einen Grund, warum Der Logos heilig ist. Aus dem gleichen Grund ist der Erste Zusatzartikel zur Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten der erste, d.h. der wichtigste.

Meinungsfreiheit ist nicht optional; sie ist nicht optional, weil wir frei sprechen können müssen, um frei denken zu können. Es gibt kein echtes Denken ohne echtes Sprechen, genauso wie es kein echtes Sprechen ohne echtes Denken gibt. Es muss erlaubt sein, dummes Zeug zu sagen, so wie es erlaubt sein muss, dummes Zeug zu denken.

„Der Vernünftige passt sich der Welt an, der Unvernünftige versucht beharrlich, die Welt an sich anzupassen. Daher hängt aller Fortschritt vom Unvernünftigen ab.“\ — George Bernhard Shaw, Man and Superman

Der Grat zwischen Genie und Wahnsinn ist nicht ohne Grund schmal. Was idiotisch und was genial ist, ist oft schwer zu unterscheiden. Deshalb hängt aller Fortschritt vom Unvernünftigen ab.

Wie können wir den Unvernünftigen finden und ihm zuhören, wenn wir ihn zum Schweigen bringen? Schlimmer noch, wie können wir dem unvernünftigen/genialen Teil in uns selbst hören, wenn wir Angst haben, ihn in der Öffentlichkeit oder im Privaten zu äußern?

DiaLogos [n=2]

Auch freier und unbelasteter Dialog sind nicht optional. Wir müssen in der Lage sein, Dinge zu diskutieren, damit andere uns sagen können, wo wir idiotisch sind. Und wir sind alle idiotisch. Wir sind vielleicht auf unsere Weise idiotisch, aber wir sind alle idiotisch. Es gibt keine wertfreie Meinung, so wie es keine Sichtweise ohne blinden Fleck gibt. Das Beste, was wir tun können, ist, uns unserer Vorurteile und blinden Flecken bewusst zu werden und zu versuchen, ihnen entgegenzuwirken. Aber das können wir nicht individuell, das müssen wir kollektiv tun, und noch wichtiger: auf eine verteilte Art und Weise.[^6]

Der Bau eines Turms von Babel ist eine schlechte Idee.

Verteilte Erkenntnis [n=m]

Auch öffentlicher Diskurs ist nicht optional. In der heutigen Zeit, insbesondere im Internet, ist öffentlicher Diskurs, gelinde gesagt, problematisch. Eines der Probleme ist, dass wir keine öffentlichen Räume haben, so dass wir gezwungen sind, private Räume als quasi-öffentliche Räume zu nutzen.

Die übliche Methode, sich öffentlich zu äußern, besteht darin, auf eine Plattform zu gehen und zu sagen, was man zu sagen hat. Das Problem ist natürlich, dass es nicht deine Plattform ist. Es ist die Plattform eines anderen. Deshalb kannst du von der Plattform ausgeschlossen werden.

Der Unterschied zwischen all diesen Plattformen liegt im Grad, nicht in der Art. Auf einigen Plattformen kann man für sexuelle Inhalte sprichwörtlich ins Gefängnis kommen. Auf anderen Plattformen kann man für politische Äußerungen ins Gefängnis kommen. Nicht einmal sprichwörtlich.[^7]

„Geben Sie mir sechs Zeilen, die von der Hand des ehrlichsten Menschen geschrieben wurden, ich würde etwas darin finden, um ihn hängen zu lassen.“\ — Kardinal Richelieu

Wenn jemand die Macht hat, jemand anderen von einer Plattform auszuschließen, dann wird diese Macht früher oder später auch genutzt und missbraucht. Ein ausreichend großer Skandal oder eine entsprechende Kontroverse wird gefunden oder inszeniert und *puff* ist der „problematische“ Nutzer verschwunden. Depersonalisiert, auf Knopfdruck. Egal, wie mächtig man ist.[^8]

Aus diesem Grund können Plattformen für Meinungsfreiheit nicht existieren. Es kann nur Protokolle für Meinungsfreiheit geben.

Der Unterschied ist ebenso subtil wie wichtig: Wenn du ein Protokoll verwendest, bist du kein Nutzer im herkömmlichen Sinne. Du bist ein Sprecher. Du sprichst die gleiche Sprache wie andere, und wenn jemand anderes dich hören und verstehen kann, dann gibt es eine Verbindung. Es gibt keinen Vermittler. Die Sprache selbst ist der Vermittler. Sprachen sind Protokolle, und Protokolle sind Sprachen. Sie haben keine Nutzer, sie haben Sprecher.

Sprache ist naturgemäß frei. Du brauchst keinen Deutsch-Account, um diese Sätze zu lesen. Genauso wie dein Computer keinen HTTP-Account braucht, um die Nullen und Einsen zu verstehen, aus denen die Bytes bestehen, die wiederum die Zeichen dieses Satzes bilden. Beide sprechen die Sprache, daher könnt ihr euch verstehen.

Sprachen und Protokolle sind Netzwerkphänomene. Ohne Netzwerk keine Sprache. Ohne Peers keine Protokolle.

Deshalb ist Sprache, wie Geld, in einer komplexen Gesellschaft nicht optional. Wenn man in das eine oder das andere hineinpfuscht, zerbricht die Gesellschaft.

Es liegt an uns, es ist soweit [n=i]

Wir stehen an einem Wendepunkt in der Geschichte. Noch nie war unsere Zivilisation so vernetzt, so global, und sich ihrer Grenzen und Ignoranz so wenig bewusst.

Meine Hoffnung ist, dass hartes Geld und Meinungsfreiheit das wiederbeleben, was unsere Gesellschaft groß gemacht hat. Kooperation und verteilte Erkenntnis haben es uns ermöglicht, das Chaos des Dschungels hinter uns zu lassen. Sie haben es uns ermöglicht, von Auge um Auge zu einer klaren Sicht zu gelangen, zumindest teilweise. Sie haben es uns ermöglicht, von der Knappheit zum Überfluss zu gelangen. Sie haben uns ermöglicht, zur Wahrheit, zum Guten und zum Schönen zu gelangen. Sie ermöglichen es uns zu streben. Nach vorne und nach oben.

Der Kairos unserer Zeit ist ein persönlicher – vielleicht sind das alle kairotischen Momente.

Du musst entscheiden wie du weitermachen willst. Du musst entscheiden, welches Spiel du spielen willst; wie viel Verantwortung du bereit bist zu übernehmen. Willst du weiterhin in der Maschine stecken bleiben? Einer Maschine, die dich benutzt und ausnutzt? Eine Maschine, die sich selbst nährt, indem sie deine Zeit, deine Aufmerksamkeit und deinen Wert raubt und verschlingt? Oder hast du den Mut, die Kontrolle über deinen Wohlstand, deine Gesundheit, deine Gedanken und deine Sprache zu übernehmen?

Diese Entscheidung kann dir niemand abnehmen. Sie beginnt und endet mit dir.

💜

[^1]: Keine Information kann sich schneller als Lichtgeschwindigkeit verbreiten. Folglich stoßen alle Informationssysteme an physikalische Grenzen, wenn es um Synchronisation und Informationsweitergabe geht.

[^2]: Kryptographie funktioniert und wird weiterhin funktionieren. „[...] irgendwie lächelt das Universum bei Verschlüsselung.“

[^3]: Existenz ist real und gut. Weder Nihilismus noch Solipsismus sind wünschenswert. „[...] und es war gut.“

[^4]: Wir können nicht etwas für nichts haben. Freiheit erfordert Verantwortung; elektronisches Bargeld erfordert Zeit; Zeit erfordert Wärme.

[^5]: Meinungsfreiheit ist erstrebenswert, weil Freiheit der Tyrannei vorzuziehen ist, und der erste Schritt eines jeden Tyrannen ist es, die Meinungsfreiheit einzuschränken, Dissidenten zum Schweigen zu bringen, und Bücher zu verbrennen. Der zweite Schritt ist Völkermord.

[^6]: Es ist großartig, dass es immer mehr lange Dialoge in Form von Podcasts gibt. Der Nutzen dieser Gespräche geht jedoch verloren, wenn sie von einer zentralen Partei gehostet werden, weshalb ein offenes Podcast-Ökosystem so wichtig ist.

[^7]: Siehe Fälle im Vereinigten Königreich, in Saudi Arabien, etc.

[^8]: Noch nicht einmal amtierende US-Präsidenten sind vor einem Ausschluss von Plattformen sicher.

@ 1bc70a01:24f6a411

We’re all daily users of Nostr, so it can be easy to see things through an advanced user lens while forgetting what it felt like to be a newbie. I thought I would take some time to go over major client from the start in hopes of evaluating what it might feel like for a new user.

The other reason for running this review is to hopefully improve the overall nostr retention rate across clients. As it stands, according to nostr.band, retention of trusted users 30 days after signups trends to 0 for recent cohorts. This seems to be supported by the lack of growth in daily active users, with the average remaining in the 10,000-12,000 range for “trusted” pub keys.

The following report consists of several criteria which I felt were essential to basic first-time social media experience:

1. Ease of signup
2. Ease of logging in
3. Ability to understand what you are looking at (sufficient explanations)
4. Seeing a good initial feed
5. Ability to follow something of interest
6. Minimizing technical /dev lingo
7. A fast scrolling experience
8. Ability to easily upload media
9. A good search experience overall
10. Good keyword searching
11. Hashtag searching
12. Ability to follow hashtags
13. Easily accessing followed hashtags
14. Good experience reacting to notes

In total there are 140 points, 10 for each category. This is by far not the most comprehensive score card, but I felt it did a decent job covering most things you’d want to do in a social client.

Some notes of caution:

1. This report and score card are meant to be a general quick glance at where your client may stand in overall UX. It does not differentiate between the intended target audiences.
2. The criteria that I deem important may not be important to you as the founder / developer, so take it for what it’s worth. Adding your desired criteria may increase your score significantly. For example, I did not evaluate the zap experience, or thoroughly test nested replies.
3. This report is not a substitute for proper user testing. It’s just one person’s observations. While we have done some user testing in the past, I highly recommend doing your own. You can do so by approaching and interviewing new users (if you are able to distinguish if they came from your client), or via other user testing software. Talk to me (@karnage) if you need some help getting set up.
4. People’s reported experience regarding usability may vary greatly depending on their familiarity with cryptographic concepts, their background, and technical experience. What I may deem as a great score of 10, may not be a 10 for others. I have seen user tests where “obvious” things were not obvious to testers.
5. This report only looks at the English language version of the client. The actual user experience for someone on a different language version of the app could be totally different from what is graded here. It’s worth considering geographies of where users are coming from and how they experience your client.
6. I did not test re-activation of new users. Meaning, once they close the app, I did not test if they are pulled back by some notification or other means. This is a crucial aspect of any new app usage that should be considered carefully.

Tested Clients: Damus, Amethyst, Primal iOS, Snort (web), Iris (sort of), Coracle, Nostur.

I also tested Instagram and X/Twitter for comparison.

Results, highest points to lowest: Primal iOS: 136 Twitter: 125 Instagram: 109 Nostur: 108 Coracle: 99 Amethyst: 93 Snort: 90 Damus: 87 Iris: N/A Facebook: could not test.

My main takeaway was that among all apps (including Twitter and Instagram), the traditional apps win simply by having much better content selection. You get to see a variety of interesting things that Nostr simply can’t match. Going forward, this is an area I would probably recommend focusing on - how to engage people to post more interesting content, onboard creators etc… Nostr is lacking in content and I believe this could be the primary reason people are not sticking around after trying it.

Other Nostr Notes:

There seemed to be little of interesting topics to follow or stick around for. The experience of joining nostr doesn't feel special or different in any way opposed to X for example. Twitter has interesting accounts, TikTok has interesting videos, what does Nostr have? The lack of "popular" conent due to the generally low number of users is probably to blame. In a way we suffer from the chicken / egg problem where new users are needed to generate more content, and more content is needed to retain new users. Going forward, I think clients should think about ways to encourage users to share content (whether that be their own, or posted from other platforms). Nostr also does not seem to have any external growth loops. For example, there is no way to invite people to the platform by email with a single click (by accessing the address book). Even if a friend does manage to join and you can find them, they are in no way notified when tagged (as far as I know). People have to have a habit of opening the app to know if something is happening. The habit formation of using a new app is important in the early usage phase and nostr seems to have a weak spot here.

You can find all of the detailed scoring, notes for each client and other thoughts in this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14w8-aQ1sHfGBSuNpqvOA9i7PHNSfhn6lUOV6H293caw/edit?usp=sharing

@ 81870f53:29bef6a6

Photon は、Solana ブロックチェーン上のミームコイン取引のペースの速い世界向けに特別に設計された最先端の取引プラットフォームです。TinyAstro によって開発された Photon は、Telegram ボットを使用するのと同じようなシームレスで迅速な取引体験を提供しながら、Web アプリケーションのユーザーフレンドリーなインターフェイスを備えている点が際立っています。このプラットフォームは、数秒でもトークン価格に大きな影響を与える可能性がある不安定なミームコイン市場で競争力を求めるトレーダーのニーズに応えます。

このプラットフォームは、ユーザーが 1 回のクリックでミームコインを狙撃、購入、販売できるようにすることで機能し、異なるプラットフォームを切り替える必要がありません。この効率性は、作成時間、流動性、時価総額、取引量、ミント権限、LP バーン、上位保有者の保有率などの重要なトークンデータに即座にアクセスできる Photon の機能によって強化されています。ユーザーは、スリッページ設定と優先手数料をカスタマイズして、取引が迅速に実行されるようにすることもできます。

Photon を使用する主な利点の 1 つは、ユーザー中心の設計です。これにより、取引プロセスが簡素化されると同時に、熟練したトレーダー向けの高度な機能が提供されます。たとえば、Photon は、ユーザーがミームコイン取引でよくある落とし穴であるラグプルを回避するのに役立つフィルターを提供しています。これらのフィルターにより、トレーダーは流動性の最小値やコインのソーシャル メディアの存在などの基準を設定できるため、有望なトークンを特定して詐欺を回避する可能性が高まります。

要約すると、Photon は、トレーダーが Solana ミームコインのランドスケープをより効果的にナビゲートできるように、スピード、使いやすさ、強力なツール スイートを組み合わせることで、ミームコイン取引エクスペリエンスを強化します。

Bitcap で Photon アカウントを登録してください https://photon-sol.tinyastro.io/@bitcap

@ 502ab02a:a2860397

คิดว่า การไม่กินของ 0 แคล 0 คาร์บ จะทำให้คุณรอดพ้นจากสารให้ความหวานทดแทนไหมครับ โอเคบางคนอาจนึกถึง ไฮฟรุคโตสคอร์นไซรัป ซึ่งเป็นตัวพื้นฐานแล้วในยุคก่อน ไม่แปลกใจอะไร

แล้วถ้าผมถามถึงสารให้ความหวานที่มักมีข่าวที่ใช้ข้อมูลอิหยังวะ มานำเสนอหล่ะ เช่นพวก อิริท อะซิซัลเฟมเค ซูคราโลส หล่ะ หลายๆคนมั่นใจว่า ฉันไม่ซื้อของ 0แคล ไม่ซื้อของ no sugar มากิน ดังนั้นของพวกนี้ไม่ได้แอ้มฉันอยู่แล้ว น้ำตาลธรรมชาติดีกว่า ฉันกินน้ำตาลธรรมชาติ ดังนั้นฉันไม่กังวลเลยว่าฉันจะได้รับผลกระทบจากสารให้ความหวาน หรือ ที่เราเรียกบ้านๆว่า น้ำตาลเทียม

ผมบอกก่อนว่า ที่เขียนโพสนี้ ไม่ได้จะบอกว่า แบรนด์ไม่ดี ไม่ได้บอกว่าของพวกนี้ไม่ดี ไม่ได้บอกว่าหมกเม็ด ไม่ได้บอกหรือโน้มน้าวอะไรทั้งนั้น ไม่ได้เก่งกาจพอจะชี้สั่งได้ว่าอะไรกินได้กินไม่ได้ แบรนด์เขาแค่ผลิตสินค้ามาขายให้กับคนที่เป็นลูกค้าของเขา มันจบแค่นั้นไปแล้ว ส่วนใครจะซื้อหรือไม่ซื้ออะไร มันขึ้นอยู่กับแต่ละบุคคล โอเคนะ เข้าใจแล้วเราไปต่อ . . .

แต่ถ้าคุณเป็นคนหนึ่งที่ไม่อยากบริโภคสารให้ความหวาน ต้องขอแสดงความเสียใจด้วย มันใส่ในเครื่องดื่มปกติธรรมดาที่คุณดื่มอยู่มานานแล้วครับ ถ้าตกใจลองดูในรูปได้

สิ่งเดียวที่ผมบอกได้คือ จะบอกว่า ช่วยอ่านฉลากก่อนรับประทานกันเสียทีได้ไหม จะได้ไม่มาน้อยใจกันภายหลัง

รูปทั้งหมดที่ลงไว้ในโพสนี้ เป็นรูปฉลากโภชนาการที่ถ่ายมาจากร้านสะดวกซื้อ เป็นรูปสินค้าที่เป็นสินค้าปกติ ไม่ได้เน้นความพิเศษอะไร ไม่ได้ชูความแคลต่ำ ไม่ได้ชูความน้ำตาลต่ำ ไม่ได้ชูความเพื่อสุขภาพ ไม่ได้เสนอความเป็นรสหวานทางเลือก

เป็นสินค้าขายปกติทั่วไป ชูรสชาติ ชูยี่ห้อ ชูอะไรที่เขาชูอยู่เป็นปกติ แต่เขาได้ลดทอนปริมาณน้ำตาล แล้วเติมสารให้ความหวานต่างๆ ตามแต่ที่ R&D แต่ละบริษัทจะปรุงสุตรตัวเองขึ้นมา

คำถามที่เราควรตั้งกับตัวเองเช่น เขาทำเพื่ออะไร, เรารู้มาก่อนไหม, สูตรนี้มีมาตั้งแต่เมื่อไหร่ ที่สำคัญคือ ที่เคยมั่นใจมาก่อนหน้านี้ ยังมั่นใจอยู่ไหม ว่าเราไม่ได้บริโภคสารหวานทดแทนเหล่านี้

เรายังมั่นใจในอะไรที่เคยมั่นใจอยู่ไหม อย่างที่เคยพูดเสมอๆครับ เริ่มหัดอ่านฉลากโภชนาการได้แล้วหรือยัง#ฉลาก3รู้ มันสำคัญจริงๆนะครับ ไม่ได้เฉพาะเรื่องสุขภาพ มันไกลกว่านั้นครับ มันคือความรู้เท่าทันผู้ผลิต มันคือการปกป้องตัวเองของผู้บริโภค

ผู้ผลิตเล่นเกมส์นี้เสมอนะครับ เขาแจ้งให้ทราบในฉลากไม่เคยหมกเม็ด แค่เขาไม่ออกข่าวให้เราทราบว่า เห้ย ต่อไปนี้ฉันจะใช้สารให้ความหวานในสินค้ามาให้พวกคุณกินนะ เขาแค่ทำสิ่งที่ควรทำภายใต้ทั้งประกาศและกฎหมาย เรียกว่าทำตามหน้าที่เพื่อไม่ให้มีปัญหากับทางการนั่นแหละ ถ้ารู้สึกตกใจ เสียใจ น้อยใจ เลิกโทษคนอื่น แล้วกลับมาดูตัวเองครับ ว่าคุณจะเล่นเกมส์นี้ยังไง คุณอยู่ในโลกแห่งการตักตวงผลประโยชน์จากความหวาน

ในรูปเหล่านี้คือการไปสำรวจร้านสะดวกซื้อ โดยหยิบเฉพาะตัวสินค้าที่ “ไม่ได้เน้น” 0คาร์บ0แคล หรือ น้ำตาลน้อย เรียกได้ว่าหยิบเฉพาะตัวที่เป็นสินค้าปกติทั่วไปเลยครับ

siamstr #pirateketo

@ 1c6b3be3:73f0ae6f

Releases - No Bullshit Bitcoin

Open Beta of Clams Bitcoin Accounting App Launched Clams, a new Bitcoin-focused accounting software, has released a beta version of its Desktop app for Mac. The app integrates with Core Lightning and LND wallets, with plans to add support for more wallets in the future. Clams features include a private local data store, unlimited wallets and transactions, automated transaction syncing, full Lightning and Bitcoin support, dynamic Sats flow dashboard, comprehensive balance tracking, interactive charts for insights, cost basis, streamlined double-entry accounting, smart transfer matching, wallet and transaction tagging, error detection and reconciliation, and upcoming features like cost basis analysis, capital gains, and profit and loss statements. Users can join the Clams Discord to help test, catch bugs, and provide feedback on priority features.

Core Lightning v24.05: 'The Infinitely Divisible Satoshi' (1 min) Core Lightning, a compliant and customizable implementation of the Lightning Network protocol, has released version 24.05, named "The Infinitely Divisible Satoshi." For users, new rune restrictions can be applied to invoices, documentation is improved, stability fixes are implemented, and pruned node operation is better supported. Developers will benefit from additional grpc methods, partial payment options, and configuration validation tools. Network updates include outgoing connection offer for invoice replies and more accurate blinded paths for offer invoices. The BOLT12 Prism plugin has also been updated to version 2.0.

BTCPay Server v1.13.2: BoltCard Plugin, Refund Reports, Bug Fixes & Improvements (1 min) BTCPay Server, a free and open-source Bitcoin payment processor, has released version 1.13.2. This update includes new features such as the BoltCard plugin, which allows for creating, topping up, and checking the balance of BoltCards through BTCPay. Additionally, there are several bug fixes, including issues with invoice validation and free items showing in print view on POS systems. Improvements have been made to search functionality, data display on receipts, and more. Contributors include NicolasDorier, DennisReimann, Kukks, ndeet, and rockstardev. Users are encouraged to provide feedback and feature requests through the community chats on Mattermost or Telegram.

🍵 "btc | bitcoin | lightning network | asic" - Google News

Large Whale Buy-Ins Detected in Bitcoin and BlockDAG Network; Analysts: “$40 Million is Just the Start, this is a Global ... - Yahoo Finance 10 Steps to Self-Sovereignty with Bitcoin - Bitcoin Magazine Rushing OP_CAT on Bitcoin could come at an immense security cost - Cointelegraph Bitcoin Miners Struggle Post-Halving as Reserves Plunge - The Defiant - DeFi News Bitcoin-Based NFTs: Ordinals and Runes Surge in Market Cap and Popularity, Reports CoinGecko - Blockchain News Bitcoin miners sink millions into AI businesses, seeking billions in return - CNBC HRF Grants 10 BTC To Worldwide Projects Advancing Bitcoin - Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin-Based Meme Coin DOG Rockets Toward $1B Market Cap - CoinDesk Bitcoin Miners With Attractive Power Contracts Are Potential M&A Targets, JPMorgan Says - Yahoo Canada Finance

@ 1739d937:3e3136ef

"Gossip", "Outbox", "Inbox", "Blastr", "Small relays vs Big relays". You've probably seen most of these topics come up in conversations and memes recently. You might have even read nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgsm3u0w6's article (nostr:naddr1qq2hxenh2cchynnpdag4sepkx4gxyj2dt9nk6q3qjlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qxpqqqp65wd3a9ny), or nostr:nprofile1qqswuyd9ml6qcxd92h6pleptfrcqucvvjy39vg4wx7mv9wm8kakyujgua442w's very technical article (nostr:naddr1qqxnzde3xycngdpjxg6nqdfsqgswuyd9ml6qcxd92h6pleptfrcqucvvjy39vg4wx7mv9wm8kakyujgrqsqqqa28906usv), or maybe even nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8g2lcy6q's one with the clickbaity title (nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqwlsccluhy6xxsr6l9a9uhhxf75g85g8a709tprjcn4e42h053vaqydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnhv4ehgetjde38gcewvdhk6tcprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshsqzpcxasnyvpcvsusgpcqx3).

These are all great, and you should go and read them too. But one thing that each of them is guilty of is assuming that the audience has enough context to jump into the middle of a very nuanced and technical discussion. I've yet to see a clear description of what Gossip or Outbox really are and certainly none that are written in a way that is approachable for a non-technical audience. I hope this article can give you that context and serve as a high-level overview of the discussion and the technologies involved so that you can go forth to create better, more informed memes (is there anything more important, really?) and join the discussion in a productive way.

The problems

Centralization is the default

First off, why are we even talking about relays? Most of know that nostr is a protocol which is designed to be decentralized from the ground up. That decentralization is due in large part to the fact that users read and write data to multiple relays by default. So instead of all your data going to a centralized database (usually owned and operated by a single company) with nostr you have the ability to send your data to as as many relays as you'd like (relays are just databases, after all). Likewise, you can read other people's data from as many relays as you'd like to. Decentralized design = decentralized system, right!? Well, turns out, no.

The problem with a design like this is that what can be done and what will be done are often very different things. Imagine the following scenario: You follow 1000 people; 700 of them post their notes to the Primal relay, the other 300 post their notes to the Damus relay. If you don't also write your content to those two relays, the people that you care about won't see your content, they won't see your replies to their notes, they won't even know you exist. So while; in practice, it's easy to read & write to many different relays, users and their content will tend to centralize because it's the path of least resistance to a good user experience. Network effects and economies of scale always apply, they just don't always lead to the outcomes that you want.

Before you start to panic, this sort of centralization isn't a huge issue just yet. We are still a nascent network and there are still hundreds of active relays out there. Almost all nostr clients make relay selection a first class citizen and don't default new users to a single relay. The fact that we're even having this conversation in a serious way at this stage is a great sign that the community cares enough to be proactive about maintaining (and improving) decentralization over time.

That said, this is not a issue that we can take lightly either. The top 5-10 relays do already have an outsized percentage of users and we have many examples of these centralizing tendencies across dozens of protocols and networks over the last 30 years, so the threat is real.

The status quo is wasteful

The other major issue is that currently most nostr clients are extremely wasteful in how they fetch data. The default is to simply get everything from all the relays a user wants to connect to. Because most of us are writing the same data to many relays, this leads to huge amounts of duplicated data being downloaded, having its signatures verified, and then (for the most part) thrown away. For those of us with latest generation smartphones, unlimited data, and a working power outlet nearby, this is fine. For everyone else, this is a major roadblock to adopting nostr.

A lightly technical aside

There are a few important features of nostr that make any sort of intelligent data fetching possible. To understand how any of the potential solutions to the aforementioned problems would actually work, it's important to have a baseline understanding of these technical details. I promise, I'll keep it high level.

Relay lists

Recently the concept of a Relay List Metadata has been introduced to the spec in NIP-65 (there are also other types of relay lists documented in NIP-51). This is a nostr list event where users publish their preferred relays with a marker that says whether the relay is for read-only, write-only, or read & write. This vastly simplifies the process of finding preferred user relays for clients and I imagine that this will become the de facto standard place to look for a user's preferred relays.

NIP-05

The NIP-05 spec also documents a way for users to signal their preferred relays. However, unlike the NIP-65 relay list, this is a simple list of relays without any details on whether the user reads or writes to those relays.

Tag markers

Tag markers are positional elements in tags that give the client publishing the event the ability to leave a hint as to which relay other clients can expect to find a given user or note that is being referenced.

For example, in a user's contact list (a kind: 3 event) you have many "p" tags to reference all the user's that are followed. These tags look like this:

{ "kind": 3, "tags": [ ["p", "91cf9..4e5ca", "wss://alicerelay.com/", "alice"], ["p", "14aeb..8dad4", "wss://bobrelay.com/nostr"], ["p", "612ae..e610f"] ], "content": "", ...other fields }

All three of these "p" tags are valid (only the "p" and the user's pubkey are required), in the first and second you can see the third item is a relay where the user's events can be found.

These types of tag markers are repeated all throughout nostr. Here's a few more example references for an event (in this case a long-form article):

``` ["e", "b3e392b11f5d4f28321cedd09303a748acfd0487aea5a7450b3481c60b6e4f87", "wss://relay.example.com"],

["a", "30023:a695f6b60119d9521934a691347d9f78e8770b56da16bb255ee286ddf9fda919:ipsum", "wss://relay.nostr.org"] ```

As you can imagine, these hints can be very helpful but only if clients actually attempt to fetch the content from the referenced relay.

The solutions?

Now that you understand the problem space a bit better let's define those terms we started with.

Blastr

Blastr was created by nostr:nprofile1qqs9hejyd252x8q3kw6980ud4lymx3hlx2x3lgg6p7sz58nyv8m2nvgdswkeh and nostr:nprofile1qqswrlemlh2wgqc4jkds3d8ueqj9a2j3gcm7r48v9tskdd6rxsd7rtcpwpuwc from Mutiny and isn't a relay. Instead, Blastr is a proxy (i.e. it looks like a relay to clients) that ingests any event sent to it and, in turn, sends those events to EVERY online relay on the network. It's a mass re-broadcaster for events that can be helpful to get your data pushed out to as many relays (and thus users) as possible. The drawback, of course, is that this is tremendously wasteful from a bandwidth and storage perspective.

Gossip (in 3 flavors)

This is by far the most confusing part for most people when watching the memes of the last few weeks fly by and I've seen a lot of confused takes out there. Most of the confusion stems from the multiplicity of definitions of what the "gossip model" actually is. Let's go through the options. 1. Gossip protocols: This is a general concept more than a specific implementation. Gossip protocols are protocols that attempt to spread information around a network in a uniform way. For example, Bitcoin nodes use a variation of the gossip protocol to make sure that transactions end up in as many mempools as possible. This is important in computing when you want to reach consensus or when all nodes in a network need to have the same information in order to operate the network. Since nostr doesn't have any consensus rules or shared compute, it's somewhat pointless to try and make sure all events are propagated to all relays (hence the limited usefulness of Blastr). 2. The Gossip client from nostr:nprofile1qqswuyd9ml6qcxd92h6pleptfrcqucvvjy39vg4wx7mv9wm8kakyujgua442w : This is a nostr client that was built from the ground up to try and use relays and relay hints in events to the fullest to keep things as decentralized as possible while being efficient in how much data it was fetching. Mike has a great (slightly outdated and very technical) video that talks about his motivation behind building Gossip in the way he did. It's worth a watch. video link 3. Gossip model: This is what people are usually referring to when they are talking about relays on nostr. The Gossip model is a loose, catch-all term used to refer to all the ways in which clients attempt to understand which relays they should read & write to for a given user. Again, this isn't really a specific spec or implementation but encompasses many different strategies. This vagueness inherent in the term makes discussions about the "gossip model" pretty imprecise and prone to misunderstanding.

Don't gossip

To be clear: You really shoud not be thinking about or talking about any of this as the "gossip model" since that definition is so abstract as to be unusable. Which brings us finally to the real topic being discussed at the moment among devs; the Outbox model.

Outbox/Inbox model

This is the real topic of conversation right now: How should client developers build relay discovery and selection features into their apps. As we already talked about, if left alone, it's likely that we'd unintentionally centralize most of nostr onto a few huge relays. So making sure that we encourage (and build sensible defaults) to help client developers to treat relay discovery and selection properly is really critical.

Right now, the discussion centers around one main approach, called the "Outbox model". There is also an "Inbox model" which is a still just a high level idea which I'll mention below but it's not being implemented yet (as of late March 2024). 1. The "Outbox model": This strategy looks at what relays users are using to publish their events (from relay lists and tag markers) and then uses an algorithm to decide how to fetch all the needed events from the array of relays. Different implementations can use different algorithms to select relays. For example, one implementation might optimize fetching events from the smallest number of relays (favoring large relays), while another might optimize for fetching from the relays that have the smallest user overlap (favoring small relays). 2. The "Inbox model": As you can imagine, this strategy flips the outbox model on it's head. It's so far just an idea (proposed by nostr:nprofile1qqs8nsk2uy2w529fs8n4tx60u7z553e4yx5dy2nxhw4elgjgawpqlas9waufq) and a draft NIP but the idea is that when your client posts on your behalf, it will loop over your entire follow list, making a list of the relays that each of your followers uses to read events. Then the client will publish your event to all of those relays. If all clients followed this paradigm, then each of us would only have to read from a single relay. To quote nostr:nprofile1qqs8nsk2uy2w529fs8n4tx60u7z553e4yx5dy2nxhw4elgjgawpqlas9waufq 's original post, "This doesn't take away from the outbox approach, and maybe should even be used together instead of as a replacement. But my point is that clients should be trying harder to deliver posts instead of just fetch posts. Because it benefits users when their posts can be seen."

Why the Outbox model has broad support

To understand why implementing an Outbox model is so powerful at solveing the problems laid out at the beginning of this article, you can do two quick thought experiments:

A user banned from all other relays

Imagine a user who's content is banned from all public relays for some reason. Instead, they have to run their own relay and publish their events there. With a simple "follow the major relays model" (or even with Blastr attempting to copy and paste their events to every other relay) this user is completely invisible to the network. User's would have to know about the banned user's private relay and select that relay in each client they use. What's more, if that relay ever had to change URL (likely for a user that is banned so broadly), all user's would need to know what the new URL is in order to change relays and fetch events from the new location.

With Outbox however, clients will see that their user's follow this user, will then look up this user's relay list, and will know where they need to go to fetch their events. It becomes much more difficult for relays to censor or block users with an Outbox model in place

Duplicate event fetching

We talked earlier about how many nostr clients often fetch the same data many times, just to throw that data away. Even using the simplest algorithms with an Outbox model, you can significantly reduce the amount of duplicate data you're fetching from relays. We, as users, would all also need to specific many fewer relays in our relay lists but would still be quite sure our clients would be able to find all the content we want to see.

Wrapping up

Hopefully this has given you a better overall understanding of what folks are talking about when they refer to Gossip (remember: don't refer to it this way) or Outbox (outbox, yay!) and why we need to be proactive about maintaining the decentralization of nostr.

@ b804f68e:2fb0fa1f

In my travels, I've noticed profound differences in how people approach generosity. In Thailand, for instance, it's common to see people giving money to the homeless without hesitation. This is in stark contrast to what I observe back home in the States, where such acts of kindness are rare. This disparity made me reflect on the broader concept of change and how we often desire it without being willing to initiate it ourselves.

We frequently wish for change, hoping or even complaining about the need for it. However, we are rarely willing to take the first step toward making that change. The truth is, meaningful change always begins with us. We cannot expect the world to change on its own; change requires a conscious, deliberate decision to grow and improve.

Take my experience as a Bitcoiner, for example. I dream of a hyperbitcoinized world, yet I haven't fully committed to the changes necessary to move in that direction. I still use fiat currency, don't run a full node, and don't pay in sats regularly. This is a clear example of how our aspirations for change must be matched by our actions. Changing ourselves is the most effective way to begin transforming our environment. Even if the external world remains the same, our internal environment will have improved, and that's where the real impact lies.

We often talk about change but fail to follow through. I, too, desire a better world, yet I shy away from small gestures like saying hi to strangers. This simple act of acknowledgment can be the first step towards building a habit of kindness. The same goes for giving money to the homeless. It's not about whether they deserve it; it's about the act of kindness and the fulfillment it brings. These small, consistent actions can gradually transform our habits and, eventually, our environment.

Will giving a few dollars to a homeless person end homelessness or world hunger? Probably not. But it's a step in the right direction, much more so than doing nothing at all. Reflecting on the generosity I've witnessed in Thailand, I see that people there don't think twice about helping others, despite having less wealth than those in the West. They live in a developing country, yet their acts of kindness contribute to a generally happier society.

If we want the world to change, or even just a part of our lives to change, we must start with ourselves. Change always begins with us. If we are unwilling to change, nothing around us will ever change. By becoming the change we wish to see, we can gradually create a better world, one small act of kindness at a time.

@ 52b4a076:e7fad8bd

Introduction

LNbits is a project plagued with poor code quality, potential security risks and bad management. What can be done about it?

The problems

Improper handling of vulnerability disclosures

Case 1

Two years ago (don't remember exactly when, Twitter account deleted), I discovered an SQL injection vulnerability in LNbits. This could be exploited very easily by setting by sending the injected data in keys in the payload of most requests. (anyone could create create wallets)

This was possible due to the query to insert/update was generated using the body of the request, with basically no sanitization.

When I contacted Ben Arc about this, the fix for this exploit was not implemented for several months, and when it was, I do not recall there being an advisory for people to update.

Case 2

A month or two ago, I had discovered an exploit that allows draining nodes completely under certain conditions. I had reported this to an active maintainer of the project, which had passed it on to the team. The exploit has not been fixed.

Case 3

Again, a month or two ago, a flaw was discovered in the SatsDice extension that allowed anyone to drain wallets. I had investigated this, and found that the extension allows invoice keys (instead of admin keys only) to create dice that have a guaranteed win rate and return more sats than put in, and then use it to drain balances.

I had reported this to the team, and while it was fixed a week or two later, there was no easily visible for people to update except an "update your SatsDice extension" message in the LNbits chat buried in a conversation about the exploit.

Bad security practices

"Don't do one thing, and don't do it well"

LNbits has over time expanded its scope, from being a wallet layer to an LN apps platform to a node management tool. While this may seem great for users, it has come at a significant security cost: - There is a larger attack surface for attackers to exploit. - The newly introduced node management and admin UI feature allows easy draining of nodes if the admin URL was leaked, whether by by the autocomplete on the search bar or the user's history. - All extensions run at the same privilege level as LNbits itself which has direct access to funds.

Developers can accidentally shoot themselves in the foot

The LNbits codebase encourages many harmful development patterns that allows developers to easily create vulnerabilities that put funds at risk

Example 1

Most LNbits extensions use the following system for handling object creation/deletion: - Take the body and convert it to a class - Overwrite/sanitize fields in that class, such as preventing overwrite of the wallet ID - Pass it to the DB to write

There is a slight problem: it can be easy to miss what to sanitize and what to not sanitize.

When you are doing an update request, you may accidentally forget to overwrite the wallet_id on the request sent by the user to update a withdraw link, and trust the user. You just created a bug to drain anyone's wallet given its ID, which LNbits does not consider sensitive information and sometimes requires you to share.

Example 2

LNbits treats any error during a payment attempt an error. But errors don't always happen due to failures in your request. Network connectivity is flaky, nodes restart, and way more reasons for there to be an error while the payment actually may be going through.

If you can get a way to trigger an error during a payment call, but also have it succeed, you can easlly drain a node. I have reasons to believe this is possible in production deployments.

This could easily be fixed as attempting to check the status of a payment after an error, and if that also fails, consider the payment pending until it can be checked, but ths has not been implemented.

Bad project management

LNbits' current management suffers from many problems: - the project suffers from feature and scope creep, implementing things for the sake of it - bugs go unaddressed - security is not a top priority

This is problematic for a project that deals with funds, as it is everything that you shouldn't be doing for a project meant to deal with funds. Tens of thousands of dollars in some cases and thousands in others.

What can we do about it?

For me, I have disabled withdrawals on my LNbits instance. I am also working on a replacement project called LNLocker that will solely focus on the wallet layer bit.

I would encourage trying to replace LNbits, as hard and sometimes impossible as it may be, or if you can, modify the code or restricting access via LND macaroons so that withdrawals cannot be made.

I highly recommend not exposing LNbits to the internet if you cannot disable withdrawals.

@ 06639a38:655f8f71

I'm using a Blossom (Nostr) mediaserver (which I'm hosting at https://nosto.re) for the images here

From May 23 till May 25 I was in the Bitcoin capital of The Netherlands: Arnhem. There was a full program around the conference day on Saturday. I and many other bitcoiners gathered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of #bitcoincity Arnhem.

Playing the Blockhunters board game

It was very honourable to play with one of the first prototypes of the boardgame Blockhunters developed by nostr:npub1w98ems6ryhpv7zvmhwp5sv65p0pwrnvzw4lucn0ch776qan9ntdstscwpx . https://nosto.re/8c7d74c21ad9c11e28603b858ccbd475ab9943f7eeb1e49eed5c2b99c203108a.jpeg https://nosto.re/87dae83210f903e8c2f89b41951c86240a5e3ec50dd236321f8b87401a8863eb.jpeg

Nostr meetup: Nostrdam Arnhem

A nice small present from nostr:npub1l77twp5l02jadkcjn6eeulv2j7y5vmf9tf3hhtq7h7rp0vzhgpzqz0swft and meeting nostr:npub1cn670f663n3ks02jnnlsvd5y88zjnefy8343ykaxs7y3nzzketrsrjwt8a in real life from btcmap.org. A project that deserves some Nostr integration (which he agrees with!). A gift from Bitpopart together with nostr:npub14mge80nm5r0zj0gncxvpunlr28jyku95547q0m82ec475x3yy92skvjgm5 (who organised Adopting Bitcoin Arnhem), nostr:npub17plqkxhsv66g8quxxc9p5t9mxazzn20m426exqnl8lxnh5a4cdns7jezx0 , nostr:npub1gwa27rpgum8mr9d30msg8cv7kwj2lhav2nvmdwh3wqnsa5vnudxqlta2sz in the middle and nostr:npub1k5f85zx0xdskyayqpfpc0zq6n7vwqjuuxugkayk72fgynp34cs3qfcvqg2 . I'm on the right ;-) https://nosto.re/8cb4980119cc8e8dbdfe8efa724479489360e60fb4362ef47497279506c128ff.jpeg

Gravel at the Veluwe

On Friday morning I enjoyed a 70km gravel ride on the Veluwe to Radio Kootwijk and back. https://nosto.re/572277c4205928b45fd3fb0791ec9cf52d8ef1c74a2b20f7b72698aae7ee78a8.jpeg https://nosto.re/f5aa2092c9f79ba347925e85e27a0ac612da0193bdd7097d0cde287c8a185007.jpeg https://nosto.re/4202469b0146242f71a6a3bfb5f18884006da9ed84b76abcdfffa2c340d92fd4.jpeg https://nosto.re/513706b6ff1ff6e51db07f8915e3b3fec7f7f115d3ea3ef9a4a5d230b5c738cb.jpeg https://nosto.re/332e6593e2ae6276023645ecb44efdeebe6b8c6bc6ba06612b34d3ec496eec92.jpeg

Bitdevs meetup

In the afternoon I attended the Bitdevs meetup. It was my first time and I expected a lot of technical stuff to be discussed. This wasn't the case, all conversations were led very professionally in an easy, understandable way. Also, the Silent payments (https://silentpayments.xyz/) feature was introduced to me. A very interesting feature integrated in Bitcoin recently which I would like to dive in later.

Meeting the Noderunners community

On Thursday I got a nice pin from a Noderunner community member. The Noderunners are a community with 200+ bitcoin-only minded people. I already knew some of them, but every time I attend a Bitcoin event I always learn to know new people who are often also members of that community. During the Bitcoin Business meetup on Friday night, I also met a new Noderunner who was also camping at the same site as me. He was literally standing beside me with his tent! https://nosto.re/28136548ea576d7f1c4fc6acc195330e4b7f59c51c008b218afa6fc318d58234.jpeg Noderunners on stage https://nosto.re/9620b7cc7389ef01a3d3e69d9f175873ecb9e33b03baeceda92fce9295608bfc.jpeg

Conference day

You can check out the livestream recordings here: - Mainstage: https://www.youtube.com/live/T0vJ4uEsCwc - Arnhem stage: https://www.youtube.com/live/-GTw6k1IkC0

These are the sessions I enjoyed the most: - Bitcoin & human rights, what 99% don't get with Anita Posch @Anit - AML regulations and financial freedom panel discussion with - nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c (Bitcoin core developer) - Rebecca van Essen (relation manager Financial Intelligence Unit Netherlands) - nostr:npub13ajk3hhvqys2ev4y68jwxywgs8fsdsuk4y5gkzs874jdyrccvf5qak2yd9 (president of Open Dialogue Foundation) - Dorien Rookmaker (Member of the European Parliament) - Maud Bökkerink (financial and cryptocurrency expert & consultant) - Non-custodial and custodial solutions and their global impact - Fiat the system vs Bitcoin the tool with nostr:npub1n0strmeta93fwxkdz5k2nquvpnjtwxcst2jdkspavyzd3g4ch22qjrhlw3

I also got my book The Genesis Book signed by the author nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 . https://nosto.re/c944c3f0077fbe2c47610a91eae031eda2f7314fe54d785eef2bd3539f4a3975.jpeg https://nosto.re/4ec4f36202f48d6d1ed691ce8bb6e320cc68f4832d1c55125d8297b270798bcc.jpeg https://nosto.re/95768474607118737e3d972907c885dc9fb220f6ab4f717efb499412c06ae492.jpeg https://nosto.re/f5d0aa6ee602d1a6390a3d41c4eeb73e1c4187865630c23b1e0559a77747b920.jpeg https://nosto.re/b08d52ca54e4213941677b97bd319de700a9befcb10fd91de51dd52f38b37e49.jpeg https://nosto.re/6f4707878513fb8aa4392e0d7b517df915c3a4a39834ab8303f74a9d395d8510.jpeg https://nosto.re/71da6ccba8fe728cc9fee27574ddc6a9bd643221778638e517661ef285658b25.jpeg

Other recaps (in Dutch) - https://adoptingbitcoinarnhem.com/ - https://bitcoinfocus.nl/2024/05/28/353-bitcoinfeest-in-arnhem/ - https://piped.r4fo.com/watch?v=l3sBoztfLMI

@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3

We've had an impressive influx of new Stackers. Some have asked about various norms that have been established on SN. The one I want to talk about here is default zapping.

Many of you know that I'm somewhat obsessed with zapping habits and how we value our zaps (https://stacker.news/items/287074/r/Undisciplined, https://stacker.news/items/523858/r/Undisciplined, https://stacker.news/items/473181/r/Undisciplined, and https://stacker.news/items/221151/r/Undisciplined). This is the magic that makes Stacker News work so well, after all.

Why Zap?

Bitcoin is scarce and hodl'ing is deeply ingrained in us. I can read all of the content on Stacker News without zapping a single sat. Why should I buy the cow, when the milk is free?

1. Maybe you're the rare person who really engages in V4V, even when you don't have to. That's great, but we can see from nostr that you're the exception.
2. The SN rewards system will pay you back for zapping good content and it does so nonlinearly. Ranking higher in zapping can pay for itself, so you don't want to be shooting yourself in the foot by zapping less than everyone else out of ignorance.

Common Zaps

This is where knowing what other people are doing comes in handy. * Generally, people zap a comment between 10 and 100 sats. 21 is a very common choice for symbolic reasons. * Many people zap posts more, which I think is reasonable since posts generally take more creativity and cost the poster more than a comment does. Normal post zaps range up to 1000 sats.

So, if you're trying to think through what reasonable amounts are for yourself, think tens of sats for comments and hundreds for posts. However, there's tons of room for discretion in there.

My Numbers

One of the neat SN features is that the custom zap options store several of your recent values.

I set my default to 21, which lets me double tap to get 42. Then I have 69, 115, and 420 saved as custom zaps. Having numbers with symbolic meaning is just a bit of extra fun.

Generally, comments get one of the following from me * 21 (special btc number) * 42 (the answer to life, the universe, and everything) * 69 (nice)

while posts get * 115 (remember, remember) * 420 (hehe) * 1000 (1 kilosat)

Hopefully, it helps someone seeing this laid out.

As always, I'm curious to hear how you all think about this stuff. It's an ever moving target.

@ dd664d5e:5633d319

A discussion of the problems and the promise of an economy based upon a deflationary currency, with suggestions for how to restructure payments to accommodate this.

The Zap Economy

I think many people have been breaking their heads, trying to figure out business models, when the currency used in the models continuously rises in purchasing power, often even going parabolic, for a time. Let's have a debate about which models are the best and how we can design our own business funding, going forward.

Note: From here on, all producers will be described as "creators," which is more fitting to the Nostr lingo.

Dealing with spikes in fiat prices

I think the best way to create a business model that deals with sudden spikes in fiat prices is to simply ignore them. The people who are motivated to sudden action by such spikes are traders, and they probably shouldn't be your target market.

Employment Contracts

One tried-and-true business model is the fee-for-project type of contract that we usually call "employment". These all have a defined beginning, a defined end, and a defined scope. (I will differentiate them from direct, quick fee-for-service; see Sales Contracts.)

Typical "day jobs" are defined this way, with creators being employed for a month or two weeks, to perform a particular task, with a payout at the end and often an automatic extension to the next employment period. Contracting is another common type, as are retainers for specialists like doctors and lawyers.

I think this model can be easily implemented in a zap economy (and, indeed, it already is), as employers can simply keep the employment scope or period small and renegotiate the next one to reflect any deflation. For longer-term employment, they could simply negotiate regular rebalancing to reflect price changes, or link payments to some measure of deflation.

Patronage

This is the current common business model. A creator (artist, developer, writer, etc.) receives grants or donations that are more or less attached to conditions.

The fewer the conditions attached and the more diverse/larger the patron set is, the more valuable the patronage is and the freer the creator. The negative impact of strings or condensed patronage can be mitigated by the availability of non-funding resources (infrastructure, training, marketing, legal advice, psychological support, access to a team, etc.) or the sheer size of the patronage.

(Although creators, by nature, grate under management and may eventually resent condensed patronage, even if it is very generous, helpful, and well-intentioned.)

Customer Classifications

This is a highly desirable model, from the viewpoint of most creators, as it is defined and controlled by them, and offers the promise of stable, long-term funding. It is also popular among smaller patrons, as their money investment is more effective and -- let's be honest -- more fun, if it is converted to a Class A Customer status and bundled with the money and enthusiasm of others.

This vaguely resembles a club membership. In this model, there are different levels of customer classes (usually defined using the alphabet, with "A" being the highest level).

An example structure might be:

A: The most emotionally-invested group. Often very early and constant investors, willing to pay a high premium for membership and to front relatively large sums of money in advance of services rendered. These are your "premium account holders".

They should receive some outward/public sign of their membership (so that they can find each other, more easily, and to help you market your creations) and some premium content, features, or services. Their support tickets have priority and their complaints and ideas go straight to the lead developer or product owner.

Even simply arranging for them to attend a teleconference before releases, reserving a special lounge or party for them at conferences, or announcing new features in newsletters, can go a long way.

B: These are the "normal payees". They pay the minimum to unlock some extra-stuff and always get new releases first, and that's all they really want. Mostly, they just want to not feel like freeloaders, so providing them with a clear payment scheme is enough.

C: These are the freeloaders. They get a reduced service, but stay friendly because they sometimes market your product to others and they have the potential to move up to a higher class.

The essential part of this model is the pricing.

Class A customers should be onboarded first and pay the highest regular membership fee. This fee should be automatically lowered to Class B level, when adding Class B customers, at a later date, so that your early supporters don't feel disadvantaged.

Class B (with Class A) should have deflation-tracked pricing: 500 sats today, 250 after the next halving, 125 after the next halving, etc. Or something similar. You should always plan for your prices to steadily decrease in nominal terms, while slightly rising in real terms, as your service becomes more advanced and valuable.

Sales Contracts

This is a clear fee-for-service and is generally set and reset regularly. If you have a long-term sale or resale contract, you should have fee adjustments accounted for, from the beginning.

---

And that is all that I have time to write, at the moment.

@ a012dc82:6458a70d

Table Of Content

• Content

• Conclusion

• FAQ

• You May Also Like

• External Links

If you're interested in cryptocurrencies, you've probably heard of Bitcoin. But have you ever stopped to think about why Bitcoin is so popular, and why it has remained the dominant cryptocurrency for over a decade? One important factor is its strong network effect, which helps ensure its continued success and dominance in the crypto space. In this article, we'll explain what the network effect is, and how it helps keep Bitcoin ahead of the competition.

First, let's define what the network effect is. Simply put, the network effect refers to the value that a product or service gains as more people use it. For example, the more people who use a social media platform, the more valuable it becomes, as it becomes easier to connect with others and find content. The same is true for Bitcoin. The more people who use and accept Bitcoin as a form of payment, the more valuable it becomes, as it becomes easier to find merchants who accept it and make transactions with it.

So how does Bitcoin's network effect compare to other cryptocurrencies? In short, it's much stronger. Bitcoin has the largest and most active community of users, as well as the highest number of merchants who accept it as a form of payment. This makes it the most widely used and accepted cryptocurrency, which only reinforces its network effect. As more people use Bitcoin, it becomes more valuable and widely accepted, which attracts even more users. It's a virtuous cycle that helps ensure Bitcoin's continued success.

But the network effect isn't the only factor that contributes to Bitcoin's dominance. It also has a number of other advantages over other cryptocurrencies. For example, it has a long track record of stability and success, with a proven history of being able to withstand market fluctuations and security breaches. It also has strong security measures in place, such as its decentralized nature and the use of blockchain technology, which help protect users and their funds.

In addition, Bitcoin has seen increasing adoption and integration by major companies and institutions. This includes payment processors, financial service providers, and even some governments. As more businesses and organizations recognize the value and potential of Bitcoin, it further reinforces its network effect and solidifies its place as the dominant cryptocurrency.

It's important to note that while Bitcoin's network effect is strong, it is not invincible. Other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum and Dogecoin, have also gained popularity and seen success in recent years. However, Bitcoin's combination of a strong network effect, proven track record, security measures, and increasing adoption give it a significant advantage over other cryptocurrencies.

So why is Bitcoin's network effect so important? In short, it helps ensure its continued success and dominance in the crypto space. As more people use and accept Bitcoin, it becomes more valuable and widely accepted, which only attracts more users. This cycle helps solidify its place as the dominant cryptocurrency, and makes it a strong option for those looking to invest or use a cryptocurrency for transactions.

Conclusion

Bitcoin's strong network effect is a key factor in its continued dominance in the crypto space. Its large and active community of users, high number of merchants who accept it, and increasing adoption by major companies and institutions all contribute to its value and wide acceptance. Its proven track record of stability and security, as well as its decentralized nature and use of blockchain technology, also give it an advantage over other cryptocurrencies. While other cryptocurrencies may also see success, Bitcoin's strong network effect and other advantages make it a strong and viable option for those interested in investing or using a cryptocurrency.

FAQ

What is the network effect? The network effect refers to the value that a product or service gains as more people use it.

How does Bitcoin's network effect compare to other cryptocurrencies? Bitcoin has a much stronger network effect than other cryptocurrencies, due to its larger and more active community of users and higher number of merchants who accept it.

What are some other advantages of Bitcoin? Some other advantages of Bitcoin include its proven track record of stability and security, its decentralized nature, and increasing adoption by major companies and institutions.

Can other cryptocurrencies compete with Bitcoin? While other cryptocurrencies may see success, Bitcoin's strong network effect and other advantages give it a significant advantage in the crypto space.

Why is Bitcoin's network effect important? Bitcoin's strong network effect helps ensure its continued success and dominance in the crypto space, as it becomes more valuable and widely accepted as more people use it.

That's all for today

If you want more, be sure to follow us on:

NOSTR: croxroad@getalby.com

X: @croxroadnews

Instagram: @croxroadnews.co

Youtube: @croxroadnews

Store: https://croxroad.store

Subscribe to CROX ROAD Bitcoin Only Daily Newsletter

https://www.croxroad.co/subscribe

DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.

@ 45c41f21:c5446b7a

我才知道原来《朝花夕拾》中有五篇是鲁迅在厦门的时期写的。其中就有《从百草园到三味书屋》、《父亲的病》这些名篇。鲁迅是在1926年的秋天来到厦大教书。从他的记述上来看，他并不是很喜欢厦门，那时的厦门近乎于一个荒岛，尤其是伙食上总是吃不惯。可能闽南菜对喜欢多加辣子吃油豆腐的鲁迅来说还是太寡淡了。他形容在厦门的时光是“一个人住在厦门的石屋里，对着大海，翻着古书，四近无生人气，心里空空洞洞”，一种寂寥蔓延开来。不过在这种寂寥中他的创作很顺畅，一个月就写完了《朝花夕拾》中的四篇。1926年，算起来差不多是一百年前。有时惊叹于某些人事物经历漫长岁月打磨的质感。一百年过去，仍然能触动人心。

年少时大多喜欢鲁迅的杂文，以为嬉笑怒骂皆成文章，好不痛快。年纪渐长，慢慢就更偏爱鲁迅的散文了。也对他骨子里散发的悲凉有了更深的理解。到了现在，偶尔翻开他的小说集，不再会纠结其中的批判立意或是中心思想，只是单纯欣赏一个虚构的故事，这时反而更多地能读到鲁迅对生活的描写。今天我要说，鲁迅的短篇小说实在是很好，再读一遍仍然是好。三千字以内的短篇，我甚至怀疑没人能超越鲁迅。但是这世界上研究鲁迅的人实在太多，多到无法再谈论鲁迅。于是偶尔翻开他的选集，只当是一次老友重逢。想来这也是一种“朝花夕拾”吧。

——2024年6月4日，于小岛上

@ a012dc82:6458a70d

Table Of Content

• Content

• Conclusion

• FAQ

• You May Also Like

• External Links

What is a Bear Market?

Don't worry about bear markets! A bear market is just a time when the price of an asset, like bitcoin, goes down for a little while. But don't worry, because the price always goes up again. In the past, bear markets for bitcoin have had two different parts: price-based capitulation and time-based capitulation.

Price-Based Capitulation: Understanding the First Phase of a Bitcoin Bear Market

Price-based capitulation happens when the price of bitcoin goes down really fast and a lot of people sell it because they are worried it will keep going down. But don't worry, because this is just a temporary setback! The price always goes back up eventually.

Time-Based Capitulation: The Second Phase of a Bitcoin Bear Market

Time-based capitulation is when the market is in a really low point and it stays there for a while. It's like the market is taking a rest before it starts going up again. But don't worry, because this is just a temporary pause! The price will start going up again soon.

Bitcoin Drawdowns from All-Time Highs: A Look at Previous Cycles

We can use data from the blockchain (a kind of record-keeping system for bitcoin) to understand more about these two phases of a bear market. And don't worry, because this data shows us that the price of bitcoin always goes up again after a bear market.

Sometimes, the price of bitcoin goes down a lot and we call this a "drawdown." But don't worry, because even though the price might go down a lot, it always goes back up again. In the past, there have been other times when the price went down by almost as much, but it always went back up again.

Realized Price and Market Capitalization: Measuring the Value of Bitcoin

There is a way to measure the value of bitcoin called "realized market capitalization." This takes into account the price of every bitcoin when it was last used or transferred. It helps us understand what a "fair" value for bitcoin is, or what the average price people paid for it is. And don't worry, because this data shows us that the price of bitcoin always goes up in the long term.

So don't worry about bear markets or drawdowns! Just hold onto your bitcoin and wait patiently, because the price will always go up again eventually. In the long term, the price of bitcoin has always increased, even though there have been ups and downs along the way. So just hold on and don't panic sell, because the long-term trend for bitcoin is always positive.

Conclusion

In conclusion, bear markets for bitcoin are a natural part of the asset's price cycle. They are characterized by significant price drops and can be divided into two phases: price-based capitulation and time-based capitulation. While it can be difficult to watch the price go down, it's important to remember that the price of bitcoin has always gone up again after a bear market. By keeping a long-term perspective and not panic selling, it's possible to weather the storm and come out ahead in the end.

FAQ

What is a bear market? A bear market is a time when the price of an asset, like bitcoin, goes down for a long period of time.

What are the two phases of a bitcoin bear market? The two phases of a bitcoin bear market are price-based capitulation and time-based capitulation. Price-based capitulation is when the price goes down really fast and a lot of people sell because they are worried it will keep going down. Time-based capitulation is when the market is in a really low point and stays there for a while.

How can I prepare for a bear market in bitcoin? The best way to prepare for a bear market in bitcoin is to have a long-term perspective and not panic sell. It's also a good idea to diversify your investments and not have all your money in one place. Finally, it's important to keep an eye on market trends and news to stay informed about what's happening.

That's all for today

If you want more, be sure to follow us on:

NOSTR: croxroad@getalby.com

X: @croxroadnews

Instagram: @croxroadnews.co

Youtube: @croxroadnews

Store: https://croxroad.store

Subscribe to CROX ROAD Bitcoin Only Daily Newsletter

https://www.croxroad.co/subscribe

DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.

@ d7607464:421e573a

Chef's notes

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 0 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 5 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 1

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup Raw Milk
• 1 tbsp Dutch-Processed Cocoa
• 1 tbsp Cane Sugar, to taste
• 1 tbsp Raw Unfiltered Honey, to taste

Directions

1. Heat milk in a pot until steaming.
2. Whisk in cocoa, sugar, and honey.
3. Serve hot.

@ b804f68e:2fb0fa1f

Initially, I was turned off by the idea of subscribing and having to pay monthly or annually for a service or product, but lately my perspective has changed. Currently, I use two products that require no subscription and two that do for football training and development. All four require a hardware device and a software app. At first, the non-subscription products seemed better because you pay once and that's it. But over time, it has become obvious that for software-dependent products, you're probably better off with the subscription option.

The main reason subscription-based products are better, in my experience, is that the company continues to update and improve their software. One of the products I use without a subscription is a GPS tracker for metrics like top sprinting speed and total running distance. While it still works, it has become increasingly frustrating because 1) the app hasn't had a proper, useful update since I first got it three years ago, and 2) the app is getting buggier over time. In contrast, another wearable I use called Whoop (subscription-based) is constantly updated and improved. This makes sense, given that the non-subscription company only makes money when their hardware is sold, limiting their ability to continue software development. In contrast, a subscription-based company has regular revenue, allowing them to continuously enhance the software.

All in all, I've learned that there is a significant advantage in opting for the subscription model, especially when the product relies heavily on software.

What are stackers thoughts and experiences on the subscription model? Yay or nay? Any alternatives?

@ 0861144c:e68a1caf

Last weekend, I was amazed of how the debates were taken in the past. More of this, I was reading the Lincoln-Douglas debate about slavery mostly. Imagine being in one of those debates where each one spoke for ~2.5 hours and people gathered all the concepts about that, being documented as we know so far is evidence enough to state that people listened each other.

No more books

The main node of democracy is the book, not one book but books, about everything. People these days don't read anymore, we're fewer readers, people prefer their 1-minute-resume of news with his favorite influencer. In the modern era, democracy didn't upgrade well because technology is faster, algorithms now close each other with their political preferences. We don't talk about anything, we share each other our visions just for ensure that we believe the right choice.

The ideas in other days borned from creativity. They stopped working, bored themselfs and then..a new fresh idea. In those days, when you had a new dangerous idea, the state will come for you and your idea. Everything is censored and our ancestor had to fight in order to gain some terrain in human rights. Now? Politics confuse the free speech with speech that's free..of everything. Democracy gave them the power and will to say something with no danger of being censored, today the censorship comes in different ways: consumer protection, macroeconomic BS to balance the economy and my favorite one: speak.

Most people just talk and create nonsense in social media. Since Facebook, X, Reddit, Snapchat and other social media posts need you to create something, they're on the mission of telling you: what's happening?, tell something... and other ads; they don't care about freedom, that's blatantly BS, they need to sell ads and how can they sell if you're not talking? The speech is a product, you words are keywords in order to place this new thing that's good for you.

The politic is the product

The political speech right now has a new brand: political marketing. See the difference? The objective of marketing according to dictionary is individuals and groups obtain what they need and want by exchanging products and services with other parties. And what's wrong to obtain what I want? Politics is talk with people you disagree, mostly you don't get what you want which should be normal, should be fine but we don't do that anymore because algorithms tought us to create content that won't offend anything or anyone. Don't get me wrong, I'm not telling you to tell everyone to offend. Otherwise, I encourage people to read the other part and try to understand from their point of view and offer alternatives with quality content, today the political debate ends with ad hominem attacks and communities reinforcing their visions without even consider if their ideas are wrong.

One reason I find Stacker News as a way to protect free speech is because authors can earn money for their content. And yes, people can come, disagree with what they're reading but in order to put your perspective, there's economic motivation of state something rational. This is why most users here don't like shitcoins and altcoins. These kind of shitcoinery don't attach with this place because here, your words have consequences.

Political instrumentation of bitcoin is normal. As a matter of fact, the whole internet is a political state. I'm not talking about your political-party-party bs that you watch in your deceased-state-supported TV station, I'm talking about real fighters, our community. They recently tried to censor Samourai for writing code through some money-laundering-scheme. And they can't, Ginger Wallet is the proof that our community will fight every inch of illogical prosecution.

I can go further but my main message to you is: fren, remember you're not a democracy anymore, social media companies and their grandparents (crap TV and radio shows) killed that long time ago. Now, where data is oil, for them you're just a tiny excell cell, a drop in the ocean. This is the infocracy, this enemy is fought with knowledge, real knowledge that come from books and forums where think is the rule, not the optionality. Social medias companies put the what do you think? in the end of each post just for the numbers, they want to sell that people put words in their news. They don't listen, they don't see you.

Stacker News against infocracy

Stacker News is the antidote (I hope) against that marketing instrumentation. Here you can post share your agreement/disagreement and these words will have consequences. It's not free (accountability) to say stupid things but it's free (speech) to write. Keep writing folks, we need more signals and less noise.

Make long format great again!

@ 81870f53:29bef6a6

長期的な綱引きで平均よりも高いリターンを生み出すことができる銘柄をいくつか選択し、資金のほとんどをこれらの銘柄に集中させ、それらをしっかりと保有して着実に勝ちましょう。

「ウォーレン・ビュッフェ・ポートフォリオ」は 1999 年に作成されました。これはロバート・ハグストロムの最初の作品「ウォーレン・ビュッフェ・ウェイ」の続編ではなく、「ウォーレン・ビュッフェ・ウェイ」が普通株を選択するツールを提供する場合の姉妹作品です。 , 「ウォーレン・バフェット・ポートフォリオ」は、これらの銘柄を組み合わせる方法を教え、それらを管理するための幅広い知識の枠組みを提供します。

ハグストロム氏は以前、ビル・ミラー氏およびマイケル・モブセン氏とレッグ・メイソン・トラスト・ファンドを共同運用しており、「ウォーレン・バフェット・ウェイ」の基本原則に忠実であり、数学、確率、複雑な適応科学、集中投資戦略も学びました。ビュッフェ、マンガー、ミラー、そして数学者のエディ・スンポは、「集中投資戦略」が「ウォーレン・ビュッフェ・ポートフォリオ」のテーマとなりました。

1. 集中投資の戦略的考え方 集中投資はシンプルなアイデアですが、複雑で相互に関連する一連の概念に根ざしています。集中投資の本質は次のように簡単に要約できます。長期的な綱引きで平均を超えるリターンが期待できる場合は、資金のほとんどをこれらの銘柄に集中させ、安定して勝つためにしっかりと保有してください。

集中投資は、アクティブ投資とインデックス投資の人気を背景に生まれ、頻繁に売買を行い、投資ポートフォリオを常に変更し、予測から利益を得るのが目的です。バフェット氏は、インデックス投資が初心者投資家に最適であると信じており、インデックス投資を高く評価していますが、集中投資の核心は、投資を少数の企業に集中させることです。平均よりも高いパフォーマンスを生み出す可能性が最も高くなります。

ビュッフェの集中投資戦略は、偉大な経済学者ジョン・メナード・ケインズと「成長株の父」フィリップ・フィッシャーにインスピレーションを得たもので、自信を持って投資できるのは2、3社だけだと語っていた。フィッシャーは資本を10社未満に制限していた。彼の投資の 75% は 3 ～ 4 社に集中しており、彼らはよく理解していない多数の企業よりも、よく知っている少数の優れた企業に投資することを常に好みます。特にフィッシャー氏は、手の届くところにあるが手に入らない素晴らしい機会に遭遇した場合、最良の株式に多額の投資をすることが唯一の合理的な方法であると固く信じていました。これは、「少ないほど良い」ということを意味し、投資するたびに、より多くの投資を行う勇気と自信を持たなければなりません。 1963 年にアメリカン・エキスプレスを買収したとき、バフェットは会社資産の 40% である 1,300 万ドルを、当時同社の株式の 5% を占めていたこの優良株に投資しました。次の 2 年間で、アメリカン・エキスプレスの株は 3 倍になり、ビュッフェが所属していた提携会社は 2,000 万ドルの利益を上げました。

集中投資は、あらゆるアクティブ投資戦略の中で、長期的なパフォーマンスが一般的なインデックスを上回る可能性が最も高い戦略に反駁するものですが、投資家は非常に忍耐強くなる必要があります。ハグストロムは経験則を提供しています。資金の回転率を 10% から 20% の間に設定します。回転率 10% は株式を 10 年間保有することを意味し、回転率 20% は株式を 5 年間保有することを意味します。

集中投資は平均レベルよりも高い収益を追求します。学術研究や実際の事例分析から、集中投資の追求が成功するという証拠は十分にあります。しかし、その追求の道のりには困難が伴い、集中投資家は耐えなければなりません。チャーリー・マンガー氏の見解は、長期的には保有する企業の経済的利益が短期的な価格変動を補ってくれるということを知っているため、この混乱を乗り越えることができるのです。「1960年代の初めから、私は実際に複利に頼っていました。」金利表を使って普通株のパフォーマンスについてさまざまな仮説を立て、どのようなメリットがあるかを調べました。彼の結論は、価格変動に耐えられる限り、3 株を所有するだけで十分だということでした。」

集中投資とは、相互に関連する論理、数学、心理学のエッセンスを利用したシンプルな概念であり、バフェットの投資戦略を使用して、過去に一般的なレベルよりも高い投資収益率を示した企業をいくつか選択し、その大部分を賭けます。状況がそれほど悪くない限り、株式を少なくとも5年間はそのまま維持し、それを超える可能性が最も高くなります。

ハグストロンにとって、集中投資は、心理学における行動パターン、統計における確率論、および複雑な適応の原理を組み合わせて使用​​することによって、「狭い文化」のいくつかのパターンに基づいて構築される「文化」として定義されます。それは「グリッド思考」と呼ばれるもので、バフェット氏はバークシャー・ハサウェイが蓄積した経験を要約し、自社を「いくつかの重要な概念の実践を通じて人々に正しい考え方を教える教育会社」と表現しました。これには、基本的な常識、基本的な恐怖、および基本的な人間分析という永遠の真実が含まれており、これらを使用して人間の行動を予測することができ、いくつかの基本原則に従うことができれば、投資でうまくいくでしょう。

この機能にアクセスするには、Futubull アカウントを使用してください。 集中投資の有効性を検証するために、ハグストロンは普通株式の投資収益に関するコンピューター統計データベースを使用し、総収益、純利益、資産利益率などの測定可能なデータを示した 1,200 社を分離しました。データの取得期限は 1979 年から 1986 年までです。コンピュータにこれら 1,200 社のさまざまな規模の 12,000 個の投資ポートフォリオをランダムに組み合わせて、各種類の投資ポートフォリオの平均年間収益率を計算し、10 年と 18 年の収益率を比較します。 S&P 500 指数の同期間の投資ポートフォリオを比較し、重要な結論を導き出します。いずれにしても、投資ポートフォリオ内の銘柄数を減らすことで、市場よりも高い収益が得られる可能性が高まります。

① 250銘柄を含む3,000グループの投資ポートフォリオ。

② 100銘柄を含む3,000グループの投資ポートフォリオ。

③ 50銘柄を含む3,000グループの投資ポートフォリオ。

④ 15銘柄を含む3,000グループの投資ポートフォリオ。

次に、各タイプの投資ポートフォリオの平均年間収益率を 10 年および 18 年に基づいて計算し、4 つの異なる投資ポートフォリオの収益を S&P 500 指数の同じ期間と比較して、次の重要な結論を導き出します。いずれにしても、投資ポートフォリオの銘柄数を減らすことで、市場よりも高いリターンが得られる可能性が高まります。

株式グループの最小数/株式グループの最大数、つまり各グループの最悪のパフォーマンスと最高のパフォーマンスを観察すると、次のことがわかります。

① 250 銘柄の投資ポートフォリオにおいて、最高収益率は 16.0%、最高収益と最低収益は 11.4% を占めます。

② 100 銘柄の投資ポートフォリオでは、最高収益率は 18.3%、最低収益率は 10.0% です。

③ 50 銘柄の投資ポートフォリオでは、最高の収益率は 19.1%、最低の収益率は 8.6% です。

④ 15 銘柄の投資ポートフォリオでは、最高の収益率は 26.6%、最低の収益率は 4.4% このグループが調査対象の集中投資ポートフォリオであり、このグループの最高収益率のみが S&P 500 指数を上回っています。

長期 (つまり 18 年間) においても、同じ傾向が見られました。少数の証券を含むポートフォリオは、多数の証券を含むポートフォリオよりも高い収益または低い収益をもたらしました。これらの結果から、次の 2 つの重要な結論が得られます。

まず、集中的な投資ポートフォリオを持つことで、市場に勝つ可能性が高くなります。

第二に、集中的な投資ポートフォリオを持つことで、市場で負ける可能性が高くなります。

懐疑論者に対する最初の結論の影響を深めるために、ハグストロンは 10 年間のデータにいくつかの重要な統計的結論があることを発見しました。

① 15 銘柄投資ポートフォリオ 3,000 件のうち、808 件が市場を上回りました。

② 50 株投資ポートフォリオ 3,000 件のうち、549 件が市場を上回りました。

100 銘柄 3,000 種類の投資ポートフォリオでは、市場を上回る 337 の投資ポートフォリオが存在します。

250銘柄3,000種類の投資ポートフォリオの中で、市場を上回る63の投資ポートフォリオが存在します。

4 番目の結論は、保有する証券の数が少ないほど、市場に勝つ可能性が高くなるのに対し、15 株を保有すると 4 対 1 の確率で市場に勝つチャンスが得られることを証明する強力な証拠となります。一方、2 番目の結論は、ジョン・メイナード・ケインズ、チャーリー・マンガー、ビル・ルアン、ルー・シンプソンなど、バフェットが挙げたスーパー投資家は皆、優れた銘柄を賢明に選択することの重要性を強調しています。しかし、ハグストロマー氏は、これらのスーパー投資家が得た大きな利益は、すべて、証券を集中的に投資しようとする意欲によるものであると考えています。彼らは、少数の希少な優良株に集中し、それらの株を中心に投資ポートフォリオを構築し、それらの株を推定市場価格よりも大幅に低い価格で購入するという共通の信念を持っています。危険。

しかし、集中投資戦略を実行しようとしても、ジョン・メイナード・ケインズのパフォーマンスはチェスター・ファンドを運用した18年間のうちの1/3で市場平均を下回った時期をスーパー投資家は皆経験している。彼がファンドを監督した最初の 3 年間、ルアン氏のセコイア ファンドのパフォーマンスは 1970 年代に 4 年連続で S&P 500 指数を下回り、市場のパフォーマンスを下回りました。マンガー氏のパートナーシップは、1972年から1974年までの37%の市場遅れを含め、16年間の在任期間中に36%の損失率を記録した。シンプソン氏が政府雇用保険会社のトップを務めた17年間のうち4年間の業績は市場を下回った。短期的には、彼らの業績は確かに悪かった。

1. 十分な期間株式を保有する必要がある。 ジョン・メイナード・ケインズ、チャーリー・マンガー、ビル・ルーアン、ルー・シンプソンなど、バフェットが挙げたスーパー投資家は基本的に集中投資戦略を採用しており、運に頼らず、長期にわたって安定して市場に勝ち続ける人ばかりですが、彼らは、企業の市場価格とその本質的価値との差を最大限に活用するという共通の戦略を持っており、その人はベンジャミン・グレアムです。彼らの共通の信念は、安全マージン係数が高い株を購入することでリスクが軽減されるということです。

しかし、集中投資戦略を実行しようとしたにもかかわらず、ジョン・メイナード・ケインズのパフォーマンスは、チェスター・ファンドを運用した18年間のうちの1/3で市場平均を下回った。彼がファンドを監督した最初の 3 年間、彼のパフォーマンスは市場のパフォーマンスより 18% 低かった。1970 年代にはセコイア ファンドのパフォーマンスは 4 年連続で S&P 500 指数を下回っていた。マンガー氏のパートナーシップは、1972年から1974年までの37%の市場遅れを含め、彼の16年間の在任期間中に36%の損失率を記録した。シンプソン氏が政府雇用保険会社のトップを務めた17年間のうち4年で市場を下回る業績があり、そのうち24年を占めた。短期的には、彼らのパフォーマンスは確かに悪かった。

ハグストロマーは、研究室で確立された 1,200 社のいくつかのグループのデータを使用して、さまざまな段階での企業収益と株価の関係を確認しました。企業収益と株価の相関の程度を判断する際、時間が長ければ長いほど、相関関係が高くなることがわかりました。相関が大きいほど：

1. 株式を 3 年間保有する場合、相関係数は 0.131 ～ 0.360 の範囲になります (相関係数 0.360 は、価格変動の 36% がリターン変動によって説明されることを意味します)。

2. 5 年間株式を保有した場合、相関係数は 0.374 ～ 0.599 の範囲になります。

3. 10年間株式を保有すると、相関係数は0.593～0.695に増加する。

4. 18 年間株式を保有した場合、収益と株価の相関係数は 0.688 に達し、大きな相関関係があります。

これは、時間が十分に長ければ、経済的に好調な企業は強い株を生み出すというバフェットの主張を裏付けるものであるが、長期的な観点からバフェットが述べているように、時間の経過とともに収益と株価の相関関係が高まることは必ずしも予測可能ではない。市場価値と企業価値は平行関係にあるが、企業の本質的価値が満足のいく速度で成長する限り、それらの関係は謎に満ちているかもしれないとベンジャミン・グレアムはずっと前に指摘した。実際、その成功と同じ割合で他の人がその成功を認識することは良いことです。それは、私たちに低価格で高品質の株を購入する機会を残すことができるからです。

バフェット氏の理想的な保有期間は、企業が平均以上の経済的利益を生み出し続け、経営陣が会社の利益を合理的に配分できる限り、バフェット氏の株式のみを保有する価値がある長期投資でなければならない。警告は、悪い会社を所有している場合は売却するように指示します。その会社を破棄すると、長期的にはより良い会社を所有できるようになります。しかし、良い会社を持っている場合は、そのような低調な投資管理戦略を売却すべきではありません。コアラは資本を平均レベル以上に増やすことができ、他にも次の 2 つの経済的利点があります。 1. 取引コストが削減されます。 2. 税引き後利益が増加します。 それぞれの経済的利点は貴重であり、2 つの利点の組み合わせは比類のないものです。

ある調査によると、回転率が 25% に達すると、証券投資によって発生する税金の 80% は、回転率が 100% に達したときに発生する税金と同等になります。その結論は、低い回転率で投資すると、回転率が高いときにのみ注意を払うのではなく、投資家は年間平均投資回転率を 0% から 20% の間に維持する必要があります。実行可能な方法の 1 つはインデックス ファンド戦略であり、もう 1 つは集中投資戦略です。回転率が低いと取引コストが低くなり、集中投資戦略では未実現資本を増やす機会が最大限に得られます。利益を増分利益に変える。

1. 有利なときは大きく賭けます。 この機能にアクセスするには、Futubull アカウントを使用してください。

有名なバリュー投資家のセス・クラマン氏は、ポートフォリオのリスクを許容レベルまで減らすには、通常は10～15株の保有で十分であると考え、最小分散の原則を提案しました。組み合わせには 10 の銘柄が含まれ、最大の銘柄には 30 の銘柄が含まれる必要があります。バフェット氏は、もし 5,000 万ドル、1 億ドル、または 2 億ドルを自由に使えるとしたら、資金の 80% を 5 つの銘柄に集中し、そのうちの 25% を投資するだろうと述べています。再配置されるものに資金を投入します。

集中投資の必要性はパレート分布の法則に直接関係しており、優れた投資ポートフォリオでは少数の企業が大きな成功を収める可能性を秘めています。パレート分布の法則によれば、最も特徴的な企業はユニークであり、1 つの企業が他のすべての企業に勝つことができるため、あまり多くの企業の株式を保有する必要はなく、投資ポートフォリオはより多様化されます。投資基準を満たす少数の企業に投資を集中し、リスクリターン比率が良好な場合に賢明にリスクをとることで、高いリターンを達成する可能性があります。

マンガー氏は集中投資を提唱しており、自身の株式資産口座には時価総額が20億ドルを超える銘柄が3つしかなく、そのうち1つが失敗する可能性はほとんどないと考えている。分散投資は、定義上、何も知らない人にとっては平均的な利益しか得られません。したがって、いくつかの投資に集中する方が良いでしょう。重いハンマーで高品質の企業を獲得することで、富の創造への道で高い利益を得ることができます。

1. 3 つの基本原則について考えてみましょう。 バフェット氏の投資戦略は長い間ほとんど変わっておらず、企業選び、企業の経営状況、業績、現在の市場価格を順に考え、常に考えている3つの基本原則を定めています。

①市場原理に基づいて企業を評価する方法を考える バフェットは、ジョン・バー・ウィリアムズの割引キャッシュフロー法を用いて企業の本質的価値を評価します。

②財務原則に基づいて経済的付加価値を使うかどうかを考える バフェット氏の明確な答えは「ノー」です。彼が言ったように、コカ・コーラが再び値上がりしたと伝えるために経済的付加価値は必要ありません。

③経営者が経営理念に従って評価できるかどうかを考える バフェットが企業経営者に対して最も賞賛しているのは、企業経営者は必然的に企業のオーナーとしての精神を発揮し、企業の考えを考えることである。そうでなければ投資すべきではない。

したがって、集中投資と長期投資は簡単ではなく、達成するのが難しいため、投資家のシートベルトを締める準備ができている場合は、書籍「バフェットのやり方」と「バフェットの投資ポートフォリオ」をまとめることを提案しています。集中投資について、Haggstrom は次のアドバイスを提供しています。

①株式を会社の所有権の一部として扱い、常にそのように考えるつもりがない限り、株式市場に参入しないでください。

②自分のビジネスと競合他社について勉強する準備をし、誰よりも詳しく知っておく必要があります。

③ 5 年以上の投資を計画しない限り、集中投資戦略は行わないでください。 投資期間が長いほど、投資の安全性が高まります。

④借金をして集中投資をしないことを忘れないでください。借金に頼らずに集中投資をすることで、できるだけ早く目標を達成することができます。

⑤集中投資をコントロールするには、投資家がこの要求に応える必要があります。そうでない場合は、集中投資戦略を実行しないでください。

集中投資家としての私たちの目標は、ウォール街のすべての投資家よりも当社のことをもっと知ることです。熱心に働き、当社のことをできるだけ多く学べば、平均的な投資家よりも当社のことをよく知ることができるでしょう。競争上の優位性を得るために必要なのはこれだけです。

勝者には独自の戦略がある。バフェット氏はかつて、自分の投資戦略は真剣な投資家の理解を超えるものではないが、「投資は思っているよりも簡単だが、成功している投資家は思っているよりも難しい」と語った。ギリシャ記号だらけの高度な数学を学び、デリバティブツールを解読することを学び、国際通貨の変動を理解する必要はありません。もちろん、連邦準備制度の政策を理解する必要はありません。もちろん、従う必要はありません。市場動向予測者の日常の常套句。

この記事がお役に立てば幸いです。 もしそうなら、チップをおくるどうぞ https://getalby.com/p/bitcap

日本のホスティングサービス Linux、Windowsクラウドホスティング データストレージ JPStream を使用して NOSTR リレーを作成する ホスティング サービスの料金をSatsで支払うことができます https://jpstream.net

@ 3c984938:2ec11289

Greetings!

Salutations, User! Ever wanted to publish articles or launch your own blog just for the sake of writing or imparting your knowledge? You can, right here in Nostr Wonderland! Let censorship, DE-platforming, shadow-banning be gone! You are the one that holds the keys to your empire here in NostrLand.

👉I'm here to help you OVERCOME the learning curve and take the plunge to SWITCH from conventional to Nostr Social media. If this is your first time, please read my Beginner's Guide here or on the web. Otherwise, let's 💃dance.

Why am I doing this?

I want to be your 🕯guiding light, dear user, to guide you when things get murky or confusing to find information. You probably have a ton of knowledge that you'd like to share with the world, but you haven't because you're afraid of the consequences or don't know where to begin. I'm here to help you along the road by using this tutorial. So you may confidently share your knowledge with the rest of the world using Nostr. If you'd like, you can use long-form notes (Nip-23) to accomplish this.

📩P.S. Elon Musk should blush, because this is also one of the most modest ways, to stack SATs in a den full of sovereign Bitcoin lions.

The Tools of the Trade

As a writer, it's important to learn new skills of the trade and add it to your arsenal. These are the current tools, which I utilize at my discretion. The list covers long form clients with random relays, NIP-65 compatible clients, communities, hashtags, Ai (optional), and finally 🌋 Obsidian. Obsidian is an excellent solution if you don't want to log into a long form client to send your content. Just one shot into the ether.

The Nostr Bell Ringers: Choosing a Long Form Client to Distribute Your Content

Long form content is distinct, with its own NIP. The notes you usually see on your client are microblogging notes with NIP-01 or Kind-01 (which include hashtags). To the best of my knowledge, the following platforms currently support NIP-23: Stacker.news (via cross posting), Habla.news, Yakihonne.com, flycat.club, and highlighter.com.

✨Yakihonne.com is my preferred medium because of their support for curation and additional relays for long-form on their site. I'd like to add that Highlighter.com (which also has its own dedicated relay) is free and open source, putting content creators in the driver's seat. They're fulfilling this through the integration of subscription services for premium content powered by Bitcoin Lightning.💡🚨 Isn't that awesome?

👉You can learn more about the Bell Ringers in my previous articles, The Publishing Forest of Nostr ✨Part One and ✨Part Two here.

Be a Relay anomaly; knowing what arena you're in is half the battle.

Not all relays are identical. Some relays support specific NIPs, (Nostr Implementation Possibilities) more than others, while others are paid relays. This is where you can try out unconventional relays to discover your following. I encourage using odd ball relays to reach followers from all corners, rather than the "popular relays" that clients automatically push and 💥jam users to utilize. This is known as the 🦜Gossip method, which can be noisy and active with constant Notes. I've literally seen my articles buried in notes, memes, and everything in between. Another alternative is to run your own relay.

👉Publish to random relays using Bell Ringers clients. Please refer to the image above. What's the reason? Because they don't currently support NIP-65. So go ahead and publish to weird relays!

🚨This doesn't mean to publish to 50+ relays, go somewhere in between 10-25.

👉It's also typical (at least for me) to have failed attempts to publish onto relays so don't get discouraged and try others. Click this link to see the relays list. Personally, I prefer German relays, but select any at your discretion.

✨Eventually, you will meet other users that will grant you access to their relays, this is through discovery. Just be patient, kind, and humble to receive these invites from other users that whitelist your npub to enable you to "write" onto their relays. These will become your "home" relays. Go where you're treated best and support each other. Pura Vida!

Using clients with NIP-65 support.

👉Since, everyone doesn't use the same relays, sometimes posts get delayed responses. To counteract this, I utilize Sir Mike Knight's Gossip Desktop Nostr Client. Gossip facilitates the application of "NIP-65," or "The Outbox Model." You can read more about it online or within your app. Great client to cut out the excessive programming language on browsers which does slow you.

⛔The way this works is if other (N)ostriches use a client that also supports NIP-65 as well. Even if other nostriches don't use supported clients, you're still able to pull from their relays.

✨👉Another client you could use is knight hzrd146's web client nostrudel which handles TOR quite lovely. NoStrudel also uses NIP-65 so you'll never miss an article.

🚨Amethyst v0.87+ the app is currently working to integrate NIP-65(at the time of this publication). This is a win for the De-googled Android community!

Use Communities to expand reach within Nostr for a forum like style or for conversations

👉I use NoStrudel mostly to manage my community, "Children_Zone," where I post all my articles and stories. It would be beneficial for you to look into communities where you might be able to share your articles, or stories, provided they are relevant. 🚨 Communities have moderators, so when you post to their board be mindful that it could get declined. You could build a relationship with the respective owners, or maybe even volunteer to manage postings. The last options is to create your own community.

⭐Tip⭐ ✨When you publish your long form content or NIP-23, at the same time you can create an njump.me link. The njump.me links are super easy to create and bridge the gap from Nostr back to web. To get the maximum coverage to all your followers, make a separate post with your njump.me link for users that are using clients that don't support NIP-23.

👉To create njump.me links Simply Copy Note ID on your client, https://njump.me/ + paste note ID = shareable URL ✨Add a cute message to your new post with your shareable link.

⭐note⭐ For long form content you should get naddr1 and for regular notes you normally get nevents.

❗Example for clarification: If you're reading this article within Amethyst, Damus, or Nos you can tap here to access my beginner's guide within the app or click here for the web version. Both contain the same information, but the experience is slightly different.

🚨The important part is to do both. This creates unity among users between different clients. Yes, it is an additional step, but the reward is well worth it in unexpected ways.

^^Created by cryptowolf. If your not on an app you can view the event here on the web. Another artists you can check out is M. My friends in NostrLand are welcoming, so what are you waiting for? Nostr is permission-less. Just go for it!

Adding # Hashtags; 🍾the secret sauce

Similarly to X, you can use hashtags to search and scan for content. By using hashtags you can increase your visibility to the masses so don't skip on step. I, occasionally try to squeeze myself into the coffeechain, gm, plebchain, zaps, art, ai, nostr, bitcoin, and catstr arena. For the purpose of this article I will squeeze myself into introductions and obsidian. Because I think there's a possible chance, that a newbie may be interested in creating content. And with some 🍀luck they decide to🔖bookmark my article after getting acquainted with the Nostr.

🌟It would be the highest honor for me as a 🐹content creator, if you bookmarked this, and shared it with future nostriches, writers, and creators. Let's fill Nostr with a vibrant community with creators that make other platforms look dismally disappointing.

🤖To Ai or not to Ai

Ai is what you make it. For me, it's to create the beautiful art that you see in my articles. I engineer the prompts with the hope that the reader such as yourself might enjoy. I wouldn't be surprised if I had followers that just scroll through to look at my Ai images. Furthermore, I use Canva.com to produce these. However, I have dabbled with others. I do think Sats4ai is worth a go because it's open source and doesn't record data as a possible Midjourney replacement for images. Another AI, that I dabble with is ~Openagents (FOSS, and crowdsourced) that is fun to play with.

Obsidian; A powerful markdown editor for Writers or just to write notes.

Did you notice the 💎🌋Obsidian earring my Hamster is wearing? I put it on intentionally on my character to symbolize the tool I'm using. Obsidian is a beautiful markdown editor, that you can download on iOs, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and even through the Zap.store. If you want to just publish without any clients, then Obsidian does the job.

✨I discovered Obsidian from James when he mentioned a plugin tool in an article, that would let users "Publish to Nostr" on 🐇yakihonne.

✨An awesome feature that the plugin does is pasting an image and automatically getting hosted via nostr.build, so you don't have to manually upload it. The plugin supports short(NIP-01) and long form(NIP-23), and draft.

🚨Obsidian is a powerful tool, you can benefit by watching a few YouTube videos. Learn about the various tasks like RSS feeds, image converter, dictionary, and LanguageTool (for spell-check). 💋It has over 1,000 community plugins, so go 🎈play.

☠The developers of Obsidian have zero interest into turning this editor into FOSS. Don't bother trying to pitch idea, they will dismiss and delete your request.

🌋💎Setting up Obsidian with Nostr.

Are you excited to use this amazing markdown editor? Here's a quick guide to help get you rolling. Create breathtaking markdowns (for Long form) and distribute them like a beast to Nostr via Obsidian.

1. Download for your preferred platform.
2. Create a Vault, location, and name. Or open within an existing folder with other markdown(.md) files prior from using obsidian.
3. Wait for the editor to load and open. Go to ⚙Settings on the bottom left.
4. Locate Options on the top left window, select “Community plugins” and click "Browse."
5. In the search bar, type "nostr," and select "Nostr Writer" by James McGauran. Install and enable.
6. Read the mini guide, it should look similarly to this:
7. Done. Now, show the world what you're made of❗

👉If you felt this article brought you value, please consider adding it to your bookmarks so you can easily share it with an aspiring creator that you may come across in chat. 💋

🧧⚡Zaps⚡ are always appreciated, but aren't required.

💜🧡Thank you💖💋

📢Special Shout-outs 📝James - Introducing me to Obsidian that I've made it my own. I wear on as an earring on my character. npub10a8kw2hsevhfycl4yhtg7vzrcpwpu7s6med27juf4lzqpsvy270qrh8zkw

@ 52387c6b:49dbdfb2

Chef's notes

Not a healthy snack by any means but sometimes you just have too.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 1
• 🍳 Cook time: 0
• 🍽️ Servings: 1

Ingredients

• 1 Bag of Chips
• 1 Bottle of Wooster
• 1 Bowl
• Many Beers

Directions

1. Open Chips
2. Pour chips into bowl
3. Add Wooster to taste
4. Now savour the flavour

@ 6871d8df:4a9396c1

In an era where data seems to be as valuable as currency, the prevailing trend in AI starkly contrasts with the concept of personal data ownership. The explosion of AI and the ensuing race have made it easy to overlook where the data is coming from. The current model, dominated by big tech players, involves collecting vast amounts of user data and selling it to AI companies for training LLMs. Reddit recently penned a 60 million dollar deal, Google guards and mines Youtube, and more are going this direction. But is that their data to sell? Yes, it's on their platforms, but without the users to generate it, what would they monetize? To me, this practice raises significant ethical questions, as it assumes that user data is a commodity that companies can exploit at will.

The heart of the issue lies in the ownership of data. Why, in today's digital age, do we not retain ownership of our data? Why can't our data follow us, under our control, to wherever we want to go? These questions echo the broader sentiment that while some in the tech industry — such as the blockchain-first crypto bros — recognize the importance of data ownership, their "blockchain for everything solutions," to me, fall significantly short in execution.

Reddit further complicates this with its current move to IPO, which, on the heels of the large data deal, might reinforce the mistaken belief that user-generated data is a corporate asset. Others, no doubt, will follow suit. This underscores the urgent need for a paradigm shift towards recognizing and respecting user data as personal property.

In my perfect world, the digital landscape would undergo a revolutionary transformation centered around the empowerment and sovereignty of individual data ownership. Platforms like Twitter, Reddit, Yelp, YouTube, and Stack Overflow, integral to our digital lives, would operate on a fundamentally different premise: user-owned data.

In this envisioned future, data ownership would not just be a concept but a practice, with public and private keys ensuring the authenticity and privacy of individual identities. This model would eliminate the private data silos that currently dominate, where companies profit from selling user data without consent. Instead, data would traverse a decentralized protocol akin to the internet, prioritizing user control and transparency.

The cornerstone of this world would be a meritocratic digital ecosystem. Success for companies would hinge on their ability to leverage user-owned data to deliver unparalleled value rather than their capacity to gatekeep and monetize information. If a company breaks my trust, I can move to a competitor, and my data, connections, and followers will come with me. This shift would herald an era where consent, privacy, and utility define the digital experience, ensuring that the benefits of technology are equitably distributed and aligned with the users' interests and rights.

The conversation needs to shift fundamentally. We must challenge this trajectory and advocate for a future where data ownership and privacy are not just ideals but realities. If we continue on our current path without prioritizing individual data rights, the future of digital privacy and autonomy is bleak. Big tech's dominance allows them to treat user data as a commodity, potentially selling and exploiting it without consent. This imbalance has already led to users being cut off from their digital identities and connections when platforms terminate accounts, underscoring the need for a digital ecosystem that empowers user control over data. Without changing direction, we risk a future where our content — and our freedoms by consequence — are controlled by a few powerful entities, threatening our rights and the democratic essence of the digital realm. We must advocate for a shift towards data ownership by individuals to preserve our digital freedoms and democracy.

@ bb6738dc:ab327449

ระบบ Fiat เป็นสิ่งที่ปกติและธรรมดามาก ถ้าหากเราพิจารณาลงไปให้ลึกถึงสัญชาตญาณการเอาชีวิตรอดของมนุษย์

ระบบเงินตราแบบรวมศูนย์ (Fiat) ที่เราพบเห็นกันอยู่ทุกวันนั้นเป็นเรื่องธรรมดา หากลองมองลึกลงไปที่สัญชาตญาณการเอาตัวรอดของมนุษย์ เราจะเห็นภาพจากประวัติศาสตร์ที่ผ่านมาว่า การเปลี่ยนแปลงอำนาจแทบทุกครั้งมักไม่ราบรื่น ต้องแลกมาด้วยเลือดเนื้อและชีวิต ไม่มีการผลัดเปลี่ยนอย่างสวยหรูแบบที่เห็นในปัจจุบัน เพราะในอดีตเต็มไปด้วยการแย่งชิง ต่อสู้ และใช้เล่ห์กลเพื่อให้ได้มาซึ่งชัยชนะ เพราะผู้ชนะเท่านั้นที่จะมีอำนาจและรอดชีวิต หากพ่ายแพ้หมายถึงความตายของตนเอง ครอบครัว ญาติพี่น้อง และวงศ์ตระกูล เนื่องจากการคงอยู่ของผู้แพ้อาจนำมาซึ่งการแก้แค้นจากลูกหลานในอนาคต นี่จึงเป็นเหตุผลที่ผู้มีอำนาจมักพยายามอย่างยิ่งที่จะไม่ให้ใครมาท้าทายอำนาจของตน เพราะเกรงกลัวผลลัพธ์อันเลวร้ายหากต้องพ่ายแพ้ พวกเขาจึงสร้างกลไกต่างๆ เพื่อป้องกันไม่ให้ใครเทียบรัศมีได้ ทั้งการกดขี่ข่มเหงผู้ที่อ่อนแอกว่า เพื่อสร้างความแตกต่างของอำนาจให้กว้างขึ้นโดยไม่สนใจความถูกผิด เป็นการสร้างกำแพงป้องกันตัวเอง และกดขี่ผู้อื่นอย่างต่อเนื่อง จนแน่ใจว่าไม่มีใครกล้าต่อกรได้อีกต่อไป

[https://www.thoughtco.com/ten-bloodiest-civil-war-battles-104527]

ลองคิดดูสิ หากคุณเป็นผู้มีอำนาจ คุณย่อมต้องการรักษาอำนาจนั้นไว้กับตัวตลอดไป และยิ่งเพิ่มพูนมากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ ใครบ้างจะไม่ทำเช่นนั้น ไม่มีใครอยากอยู่นิ่งเฉยหรอกจริงไหม

[https://www.thoughtco.com/ten-bloodiest-civil-war-battles-104527]

ผลกระทบจากเรื่องราวเหล่านี้ยังคงอยู่จนถึงปัจจุบัน ลองสังเกตดูว่าความมั่งคั่งส่วนใหญ่อยู่ในมือของคนเพียงหยิบมือเดียว พวกเขาใช้หลักการเดียวกันกับการกดขี่เพื่อรักษาอำนาจ เพียงแต่วิธีการอาจซับซ้อนขึ้นด้วยเครื่องมือที่ทันสมัย ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการบิดเบือนข้อมูลข่าวสาร ผ่านสื่อ การแพทย์ หรือแม้แต่ระบบการศึกษา ทั้งหมดนี้สะท้อนให้เห็นว่าไม่ว่าจะยุคสมัยไหน มนุษย์ก็ล้วนแสวงหาเครื่องมือเพื่อรับประกันความมั่นคงในชีวิต ปัจจุบันเราพยายามอย่างยิ่งที่จะประคับประคองตัวเองให้รอดพ้นจากระบบที่ไม่เป็นธรรมที่ถูกสร้างโดยผู้มีอำนาจ เมื่อถูกกดขี่มานาน จึงต้องลุกขึ้นต่อสู้ แสวงหาเครื่องมือที่จะนำความเป็นธรรมกลับคืนมา อย่างเช่น บิตคอยน์ ขณะที่ฝ่ายผู้มีอำนาจก็พยายามควบคุมทุกอย่าง ไม่ให้เราต่อต้านหรือแหกกฎ เหมือนลูกไก่ในกำมือ จำกัดทางเลือก จำกัดสิทธิเสรีภาพ ไม่ให้เราได้ใช้ชีวิตอย่างอิสระตามที่ใจต้องการ

[https://everettondemand.com/featured/african-americans-leaving-a-cotton-everett.html]

@ c73818cc:ccd5c890

® Basta con i pregiudizi! Uno studio recente smaschera il mito che associa gli appassionati di Bitcoin a tratti psicopatici. I risultati sfatano gli stereotipi negativi e suggeriscono che gli investitori in Bitcoin sono individui informati e razionali che prendono decisioni di investimento ponderate.

® Finalmente la verità! Ecco i punti chiave:

® Lo studio ha coinvolto 500 investitori canadesi in criptovalute. ® I risultati hanno rilevato che gli investitori in Bitcoin tendono ad essere intellettualmente curiosi, emotivamente stabili e orientati alla crescita personale. ® Gli investitori in Bitcoin hanno anche ottenuto punteggi più alti in termini di alfabetizzazione finanziaria rispetto alla popolazione generale. ® Lo studio contraddice precedenti ricerche che suggerivano che gli investitori in Bitcoin sono psicopatici o hanno tratti di personalità oscuri.

Unisciti al nostro gruppo Telegram: https://t.me/Bitcoin_Report_Italia

Le iscrizioni al torneo KCGI Bitget sono aperte, unisciti alla nostra squadra e corriamo verso i 5mln di dollari!

https://www.bitgetapp.com/it/events/kcgi/futures-trading?clacCode=HCDS4WT4

BitcoinReportItalia #Studio #Smaschera #Psicopatici #Criptovalute #Stereotipi #CrescitaPersonale #StatiUniti #KCGI #Crypto #Bitcoin

@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1

---

ODC #000019 - UX > IMPLEMENT

Design System for a recipies website using Lightning

If you miss it, please read our WTF is ODC (Open Design Challenge) intro post from more details.

---

Scenario

You work at an agency that was hired by a Culinary Design company (competitors are Allrecipes and Yummly) to redesign their web portal that enable aloe to share recipes and get rewarded with bitcoin.

One of the main tasks is to build out a new design system and you've been put in charge of starting that process.

---

Task

Design specific elements (below) of a style guide for this fictional recipes website using your favorite design tool (using your tool's design system features) or HTML/CSS. Make sure all elements are responsive. Document and organize the design system and include a summary at the beginning with the overall goals. Elements: * Colors * Typography (headings, body, links) * Forms (text input, buttons, checkboxes, radios) * Icons * Grid * Recipe card

Extra Credit: Design more elements for the style guide, or add variants of the elements you've already created. Make a few mockups using the design system in practice to show how it all works together.

---

Guides

If you need help with this challenge, check out our hand-picked tutorial recommendations.

• Design Systems 101 on nngroup.com

• List of analyzed design systems on open-ui.org

• Starting a Design System in a Start-up on uxdesign.cc

• Design Systems Handbook on designbetter.co

• Design Systems: What are They and How to Get Started on piped.video

---

Tools

Not sure which tools to use? Try something new, go 💯% FOSS!

For you

PenPot by kaleidos

Bootstrap
 by twitter


Catalog.Style by Interactive Things

StoryBook by chromatic

VueDS by Ariel Salminen

For professional gurus

Supernova (freemium) by supernova.io

ZeroHeight (freemium) by zeroheight.com

---

Share Your Results

When you finish the challenge, post your work including anonymized collected data and results on this thread! If you also share it on nostr, be sure to use the hashtag #opendesigner and tag Design_r@iris.to or @Design__r on X! We'll keep an eye out and repost good examples on a regular basis.

---

Check our previous ODC and support this community for creative minds, where you'll be able to get open and constructive feedback on your PoW. Ask anything in the ~Design territory and get some ⚡sats for the value you provide!

---

---

---

```

Bitcoin #Design #BitcoinDesign #NostrDesign #Nostr #OpenDesign #DesignChallenge #OpenDesignChallenge

```

---

@ bb6738dc:ab327449

"The Theory of Moral Sentiments" (ทฤษฎีความรู้สึกทางศีลธรรม)

ของ Adam Smith ซึ่งออกสู่สายตาประชาชนครั้งแรกในปี 1759 เป็นงานเขียนทรงคุณค่าที่วางรากฐานให้กับปรัชญาว่าด้วยศีลธรรมยุคใหม่ และส่งอิทธิพลต่อการเติบโตของวิชาเศรษฐศาสตร์ในเวลาต่อมา Smith ได้เสนอแนวคิดเกี่ยวกับธรรมชาติของมนุษย์และต้นกำเนิดของศีลธรรม โดยให้ความสำคัญกับบทบาทของ "ความเห็นอกเห็นใจ" (sympathy) และการที่มนุษย์ตระหนักรู้ถึงความรู้สึกนึกคิดและการกระทำของตนเอง รวมถึงผู้อื่น

[https://www.zellalife.com/blog/sympathy-vs-empathy/]

แนวคิดหลักในหนังสือได้แก่

ความเห็นอกเห็นใจ (Sympathy) Smith เชื่อว่ามนุษย์เรามีความสามารถในการเข้าถึงและมีส่วนร่วมกับความรู้สึกของคนอื่น ผ่านกลไกที่เขาเรียกว่า "ความเห็นอกเห็นใจ" กระบวนการนี้ทำให้เราสามารถรู้สึกเห็นใจและรับรู้ถึงความสุขหรือความทุกข์ของผู้อื่นได้

[https://www.verywellmind.com/sympathy-vs-empathy-whats-the-difference-7496474]

ผู้ชมที่เป็นกลาง (Impartial Spectator) Smith นำเสนอแนวคิดเรื่อง "ผู้ชมที่เป็นกลาง" ซึ่งเปรียบเสมือนเสียงสะท้อนภายในจิตใจ ทำหน้าที่เป็นผู้ตัดสินเรื่องศีลธรรม เราทุกคนต่างใช้ มุมมองของ "ผู้ชมที่เป็นกลาง" นี้ ในการประเมินการกระทำของตนเองและของคนอื่น ทำให้สามารถแยกแยะความถูกผิดได้อย่างเป็นธรรม

[https://stock.adobe.com/th/search?k=impartial]

ความเป็นธรรมและความยุติธรรม (Fairness and Justice) ความยุติธรรมคือรากฐานสำคัญของการอยู่ร่วมกันในสังคม Smith เชื่อว่าความยุติธรรมเป็นกฎเกณฑ์พื้นฐานที่ทำให้สังคมสามารถดำรงอยู่ได้ การฝ่าฝืนความยุติธรรมจะนำมาซึ่งการลงโทษที่สาสม

[https://www.wouafpetitchien.com/post/what-is-the-difference-between-justice-and-fairness.htm]

คุณธรรม (Virtues) Smith กล่าวถึงคุณธรรมหลายประการ เช่น ความรอบคอบ ความยุติธรรม ความเมตตากรุณา และความกล้าหาญ เขาเน้นย้ำว่าการพัฒนาคุณธรรมเหล่านี้เป็นสิ่งสำคัญยิ่งในการสร้างความสุขและความเจริญรุ่งเรืองให้กับสังคม

[https://littleshepherdsschoolhouse.edu.sg/what-is-a-virtue/]

การเห็นแก่ตัวและผลประโยชน์ส่วนตัว (Self-interest and Altruism) แม้ Smith จะเป็นที่รู้จักในฐานะนักคิดที่เน้นเรื่องการแสวงหาผลประโยชน์ส่วนตนในงานเขียนด้านเศรษฐศาสตร์ แต่ใน "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" เขากลับแสดงให้เห็นว่าผลประโยชน์ส่วนตัวและความเห็นอกเห็นใจผู้อื่น สามารถดำรงอยู่ร่วมกันได้อย่างสมดุล

[https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-altruism-2794828]

"The Theory of Moral Sentiments"

เป็นหนังสือที่สะท้อนให้เห็นถึงความเข้าใจอย่างลึกซึ้งเกี่ยวกับธรรมชาติของมนุษย์และความสลับซับซ้อนของความรู้สึกทางศีลธรรม Adam Smith ได้ชี้ให้เห็นว่า การกระทำที่เปี่ยมด้วยคุณธรรมและการตระหนักถึงความสำคัญของสังคม เป็นกุญแจสำคัญในการสร้างสังคม ที่มีทั้งความสุขและความยุติธรรม

@ 0f1b5961:868242bd

There's a common explanation of how living things develop over time. You could call it Darwinian evolution. The idea is that organisms change randomly and that the good changes build up over time and lead to both the betterment of a species and the inception of new species altogether. The only problem with this explanation is that it is wrong. I can't totally get into that. But even Darwin knew that organisms don't change randomly. A lot of people know that actually. It would do us well to pull together a more sophisticated explanation of this reality. It should start with a serious recognition of how all livings things work together as one.

It's an abstract idea to see all of life as "one", of course. To help paint a picture, here is an example from this biochemist guy named Nick Lane for how this could be understood:

You asked about a trajectory. The trajectory is the planetary trajectory. The planet has properties. It's basically, it's got a lot of iron at the center of it. It's got a lot of electrons at the center of it. It's more oxidized on the outside partly because of the sun. And partly because the heat of volcanoes puts out oxidized gases. So the planet is a battery. It's a giant battery. And we have a flow of electrons going from inside to outside in these hydrothermal vents. And that's the same topology that a cell has. A cell is basically just a micro version of the planet. — Nick Lane, Lex Fridman Podcast #318, 29th minute

See this idea of the planet being a "giant battery" and the cell being a "micro version of the planet". There is a deep unity here coming from a planet-level constraint that all of life must conform to. Instead of seeing the multitude of species as struggling against each other, there is a way to see them as working together. Contending with the overarching forces acting on them.

On some level we already know this. Ideas such as food-chain and ecosystem are familiar and are examples of how we already see individual species as members of something greater. When brought to its full extent however, understanding this greater picture reveals a mechanism independent from and complimentary to darwinian evolution.

This mechanism is shown to be different from darwinian evolution by considering how the current explanation of life relies on populations of organisms. The concept of natural selection only makes sense if there is a population to select from. Life as one great being, however, has no population. It is a brave and lonely soul facing off with the universe. Natural selection can not guide its development.

Let's call this additional mechanism radiation. There's a historical precedent for that name so it's somewhat justified. "Evolutionary radiation" has been used to described periods in history where life rapidly changed. *cough \~foreshadowing~ *cough

The development of life is now seen as a composition of evolution and radiation. The larger the population, the greater the evolutionary power. The smaller the population, the greater the radiative power.

From here we can speak to the "random change" so often espoused in explanations of evolution. Life at a planetary scale does not have the luxury to randomly change and just "try shit". Its death would be final. Of all the processes that pure radiation might be, random change is not a possibility. And the same applies to all levels of life, for radiation is active there as well. Life is always radiating and evolving simultaneously.

How is the wholeness of life to proceed in a seemingly cold and hostile universe? It seems to strain against the very physics of reality. A beast writhing and seething in its chains. Where were we when the earth’s foundations were laid?

When genes evolved, later on, they conducted a score that already existed, just as the conductor of an orchestra is responsible for the interpretation - the tempo and the subtleties - but not the music itself. The music was there all along, the music of the spheres. — Life Ascending, Chapter I, Page 42

@ e1ff3bfd:341be1af

Ben's fuck the bears book

Only sign this if you want to fuck the bears

@ 7308f407:94057dcf

Chef's notes

Telera bread, a beloved staple in Mexican cuisine, serves as the perfect foundation for sandwiches. I recently prepared this homemade Telera bread recipe for our local Nostr meetup group, Nostr Phx, where I crafted delicious ham sandwiches filled with a medley of flavors—Havarti cheese, seared Panela cheese, Butter Lettuce, Campari Tomatoes, Avocados, and a zesty Chipotle Mayonnaise. To add an extra kick, I also made Pickled Jalapenos as an optional topping for the Tortas. It was a joy to share these treats while immersing ourselves in discussions about Nostr, Bitcoin, and Nostr Product Marketing.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 1 hour and 30 minutes to 2 hours
• 🍳 Cook time: 20 to 25 minutes
• 🍽️ Servings: 8 buns

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups water (about 115°F)
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
• 3.5 cups all-purpose flour
• 1.5 teaspoons salt

Directions

1. In a cup, add warm. (I place water without ingredients in the microwave for about 20-30 seconds to warm it, then I verify with a thermometer to be around 115 degrees Fahrenheit).
2. Mix the water, sugar, and yeast then place them in a warm place to activate the yeast for about 10 minutes. The yeast will feed off the sugar, and the warm water environment will help the yeast expand to activate.
3. In a bowl, mix to combine all dry ingredients: all-purpose flour, salt, and butter.
4. After the activation time for the yeast liquid, start adding it to the dry ingredients in smaller splashes to combine. You will want the dough to be moist but not wet.
5. Begin kneading the dough in the bowl, then transfer it to a countertop. Fold the dough in half towards you. Push the heel of your hand firmly into the dough, then fold it back over itself. Turn the dough 90 degrees and repeat steps 2 and 3. Continue kneading for 5-10 minutes, or until the dough is smooth and elastic.
6. Place the smooth dough back into a lightly oiled bowl and cover it with a kitchen towel. Allow it to rise for about 40 minutes in a warm place. (I add a plastic wrap over the bowl then place the kitchen towel inside of the oven with the light on).
7. After the resting time, remove the dough from the bowl onto the countertop to divide it into 8 parts.
8. Round the 8 parts of dough into a ball shape. As you’re shaping each one, cover them with a kitchen towel to prevent them from drying out.
9. Let the dough rest for about 5 minutes.
10. Grab one of your pieces of dough and add flour to both sides, then lightly flatten it and place it on your countertop. Use your index finger to make two line indentations.
11. After you shape your ball, place it back under your kitchen towel.
12. Once all of them are shaped, bake at 380 degrees Fahrenheit for 21-25 minutes or until the bread is lightly golden brown. Optionally, add 2 cups of water in a separate oven-safe bowl to create steam.
13. Remove from the oven, then place on a wire rack covered with a kitchen towel for a couple of minutes.
14. Enjoy on its own, with butter, or make a delicious Torta.

@ 502ab02a:a2860397

ต่อเนื่องจากเรื่องวุ้นเส้น ก็มีคำถามว่า ถ้าอย่างนั้นเส้นแก้ว ทำมาจากสาหร่ายจริงไหม ? เราลองเอา trust จากคำว่า เส้นแก้วคือสาหร่ายทิ้งไป แล้วมา verify คำพูดนี้กัน

ถ้าใช้ชุดความรู้เดียวกันกับวุ้นเส้น คำตอบสามารถเดาเบื้องต้นได้แล้วเลยว่า ไม่ได้เชิงว่าทำมาจากสาหร่ายซะทีเดียว เพราะทำมาจากสารสกัดบางอย่างในสาหร่าย พูดแบบง่ายๆคือ เส้นแก้ว คือ สารที่สกัดออกมาจากสาหร่าย ไม่ได้เกิดจากการเอาสาหร่ายมาใช้การปรุง (เช่น ต้ม ปั่น) ไอ้เจ้าผงๆที่ว่านั่นคือ โซเดียมอัลจิเนต นั่นเอง สำหรับสายขนมน่าจะคุ้นเคยกันดีในการทำ โมจิหยดน้ำ ที่เคยนิยมอยู่พักนึง และเจ้าโซเดียมอัลจิเนตนี้เขานับเป็น วัตถุเจือปนอาหาร ชนิดนึงในรหัส INS 401

เรามาทำความรู้จักกับ โซเดียมอัลจิเนตกัน

โซเดียมอัลจิเนต (Sodium Alginate) เป็นสารประเภทไฮโดรคอลลอยด์ (hydrocolloid) หรือสารแขวนลอยประเภทนึง ที่มีคุณสมบัติทำให้อาหารที่ถูกผสมเจ้าสิ่งนี้มีลักษณะข้นและหนืดขึ้น จนถึงเป็นเจล เป็นเจลประเภททนต่อความร้อน (Thermoirreversible gel) ไม่เปลี่ยนสภาพไปมาเมื่อได้รับความร้อน และสามารถคงรูปได้ได้เมื่อเจอกับแคลเซียม

โซเดียมอัลจิเนต จัดอยู่ในสารประเภทเดียวกับพวกผงวุ้น เจลาติน คาร์ราจีแนน และกัวกัม มีบางอุตสาหกรรมใช้ในการเคลือบผิวเนื้อปลาก่อนนำไปแช่แข็ง เพื่อป้องกันไม่ให้ปลาเกิด freeze burn นอกจากนี้ยังมีการใช้เป็นสารเพิ่มความคงตัวให้กับไอศครีม น้ำสลัด ด้วย

โซเดียมอัลจิเนตนั้น เป็นการนำสาหร่ายสีน้ำตาล (brown algae) มาผ่านกระบวนการสกัดสารที่อยู่บริเวณผนังเซลล์ของมันออกมา แล้วผ่านกระบวนการทำแห้ง มีลักษณะเป็นผง สามารถละลายน้ำได้

ด้วยความที่ โซเดียมอัลจิเนต เป็นอนุพันธ์โพลีแซ็กคาไรด์เชิงเส้นของกรดอัลจินิก อย่างที่เรารู้กันว่า โพลีแซ็กคาไรด์ มันก็คือ เซลลูโลสชนิดนึง ที่เรามักคุ้นกันในนาม ไฟเบอร์ นั่นเอง นี่เป็นเหตุผลที่ทำให้เส้นแก้วแตกต่างกับวุ้นเส้น คือตัวมันทำมาจากไฟเบอร์สกัดออกมาจากผนังสาหร่าย ในขณะที่วุ้นเส้นทำมาจากคาร์บ(starch)ที่สกัดออกมาจากถั่วเขียว แต่ในอีกทางนึง โซเดียมอัลจิเนตของเส้นแก้วจัดในหมวด วัตถุเจือปนอาหาร แต่แป้งจากวุ้นเส้นยังจัดเป็นส่วนประกอบในการทำอาหาร โดยที่ทั้ง 2 เส้น ไม่สามารถเรียกตัวไหนว่าเป็น อาหารธรรมชาติได้เลย

กระบวนการทำเส้นแก้ว

ถ้าดูรายการทำอาหารสมัยนี้ จะเข้าใจภาพกว้างได้ง่ายๆ เพราะมันคือการใช้เทคนิค โมลิคูลา (molecular) ที่นิยมมากในช่วง 10ปีที่ผ่านมา อย่างที่เชฟเอียนขึ้นชื่อว่าถนัดเทคนิคนี้คนนึงเลยทีเดียว เราจะคุ้นเคยกับ คาเวียร์ต่างๆ เช่นคาเวียร์ซอสต้มยำ หรือ สเฟียร์ผลไม้ โอยยย เยอะแยะตาแป๊ะครับ ดูจากในรูปเป็นตัวอย่างได้

เราสามารถทำเองที่บ้านได้ ด้วยการนำผงโซเดียมอัลจิเนตมาปั่นกับน้ำจนเกิดความเจล จากนั้นก็พักให้อิ่มตัว ก่อนจะบีบเป็นเส้น เป็นเม็ด หรือรูปทรงใดๆก็ได้ตามที่อยากทำและทำเป็น ลงในสารละลายแคลเซียมคลอไรด์ กับ แคลเซียมแลคเตต เพื่อทำให้เกิดการคงรูปร่างที่เราต้องการไว้ แค่นี้ก็เสร็จสิ้นกระบวนการครับ

สูตรคร่าวๆคือ น้ำเปล่า 700g ผง kelp 11g ในส่วนการทำ calcium bath ก็ลองดูแค่ว่าบีบแล้วจับตัวก็พอครับ อาจเริ่มลองจาก แคลเซียมคลอไรด์กับแคลเซียมแลคเตต อย่างละ 1ชอนโต๊ะ ต่อน้ำ 1.5ลิตร

มาถึงจุดนี้แล้ว ถ้าถามว่าเส้นแก้ว ดีต่อสุขภาพไหม ก็ต้องเกิดประเด็นในมุมมองที่ต่างกันครับ ถ้าคุณจะโฟกัสแค่ที่ คาร์บ เจ้าเส้นแก้วนี่ก็ไม่มีคาร์บ แต่ถ้าคุณโฟกัสที่สุขภาพองค์รวม เจ้าเส้นแก้วนี้นอกจากจะไม่ใช่อาหารธรรมชาติแล้ว ยังจัดในหมวดของ สารที่ก่อให้เกิดเจล ซึ่งเป็นวัตถุเจือปนอาหารชนิดนึงที่มันกินได้ ในรหัส ins401 นั่นหละครับ ดังนั้นคำตอบจึงต้องบอกว่า depend on อีกแล้วว่าคุณมองที่จุดใด สองคนยลตามช่องครับ เอาที่สบายใจ ผมได้แต่บอกที่มาที่ไปและอธิบายกรรมวิธีการว่ามันเกิดขึ้นได้อย่างไร เพื่อเป็นข้อมูลประกอบการเรียนรู้เทคโนโลยี

pirateketo

siripun

siamstr

foodstr

@ 03742c20:2df9aa5d

ปกติแล้ว Nostr extension ส่วนใหญ่จะมีอยู่ในเบราว์เซอร์บน PC ถ้าเป็นในมือถือเบราว์เซอร์ต่างๆจะไม่มีฟังก์ชั่นนี้มาให้ นอกจาก Kiwi browser และ Firefox for Android

ถ้าเป็น ios ส่วนใหญ่จะใช้ Nostore

แต่สำหรับ Android แล้วมีวิธีที่ง่ายกว่าดาวน์โหลด kiwi browser แล้วผติดตั้ง Extension มันหลายขั้นตอนเกินไปอาจจะยากสำหรับใครที่พึ่งเริ่มใช้งาน ในปัจจุบันมีแอปพลิเคชันที่ชื่อว่า Spring ที่ช่วยให้ง่ายขึ้น

https://spring.site/

Spring

ดาวน์โหลด Spring มาติดตั้งบนเครื่องของเรา

1 เปิด spring ขึ้นมาแล้วกดที่มุมขวาบนที่เป็นรูปคนเพื่อ Login

2 Login ในการเข้าใช้งานทาง Spring มีให้เราเลือกหลายแบบแต่ถ้าง่ายสุดแนะนำให้เราเลือก Import private key จากนั้นให้วาง private key ของเราแล้วกด save

แค่นี้เราก็ใช้งานได้แล้วแล้ว

จะสังเกตได้ว่าภายใน spring จะรวม Clients ต่างๆที่มีอยู่บน Nostr ไว้เกือบหมดเลย

งั้นเรามาลองใช้งานกันดีกว่า

เลือก Clients ที่เราอยากใช้งานแล้วกดเปิดขึ้นมาแล้วกด Login จากนั้นให้เลือก Login with extension ทาง Spring จะขึ้นถาม Permission ให้เรากด Allow แค่นี้เราก็ Login ได้แล้ว

ไปลองใช้งานกันได้ครับภายในโปรโตคอล Nostr มีอะไรให้เราลองอีกเยอะเลยครับ

ใครติดขัดขัดตรงไหนแวะมาพูดคุยกันได้ครับ แล้วเจอกันใหม่ครั้งหน้า บ๊ะบาย

Siamstr #Nostr

@ 30ceb64e:7f08bdf5

Hey Freaks,

TheWildHustle is about 3 seconds away from ditching his ifoan

Instead of opting for graphene, Hustle is thinking about ditching the phone all together, and using a VOIP provider with his laptop.

Hustle understands that calls and texts will be seen and heard by the looters regardless, and doesnt understand what threat model he's solving for.......but wants to explore life without a cell phone anyway.

He's sure there might be some privacy and security benefits, but it seems as though he's mainly just focused on sticking it to "the man".

Any good/cool resources will be handsomely zapped.

Much Appreciated, Hustle

@ 6a39a186:88f51c19

Exploring the Tor Network: A Gateway to Privacy and Security

In this note, we delve into the fascinating world of the Tor network, a powerful tool that enhances privacy and security on the internet. We uncover how individuals and organizations utilize the Tor network to safeguard their online activities and protect sensitive information from prying eyes.

Understanding Tor: Anonymity at Its Core

The Tor network, comprised of volunteer-operated servers, allows users to connect for free, enhancing privacy and security online. With the utilization of ".onion hidden services," individuals and organizations can share information without compromising their anonymity.

"Tor is not just a network; it's a shield against surveillance, censorship, and data interception, empowering users to reclaim their online privacy."

How Tor Works: Navigating the Network

Tor operates by routing internet traffic through a series of volunteer-operated servers, obscuring the origin and destination of the data. This intricate network architecture ensures that no single server can trace the complete path of the traffic, preserving user anonymity.

To connect to the Tor network, users can employ various methods, including the Tor Browser, Orbot for smartphones, and Onion Browser for iOS devices. Each of these tools provides a secure gateway to the Tor network, offering different levels of anonymity and protection.

Enhancing Security: Tips and Best Practices

To maximize security and anonymity while using the Tor network, it's essential to follow best practices and utilize recommended tools. For instance, users should avoid installing additional extensions or modifying browser settings, as these actions can compromise anonymity.

"Protecting your privacy on the Tor network requires diligence and adherence to recommended security measures. By staying informed and vigilant, users can navigate the digital landscape with confidence."

In addition to browsing securely, individuals can contribute to the Tor network's resilience by operating a Snowflake proxy. This innovative feature allows users to donate bandwidth to the Tor Project, aiding individuals in censored networks to access the internet freely.

Learn more about the Tor network and its capabilities and take steps to protect your online privacy.

Tor: The Ultimate Privacy Tool for Everyday Browsing

Transformative potential of Tor as a daily driver for web browsing. Tor enhances privacy and security online, providing users with a shield against surveillance and data interception.

Understanding Tor: A Gateway to Anonymity

Tor, short for The Onion Router, is a powerful network of volunteer-operated servers that enables users to browse the internet anonymously. By routing internet traffic through multiple servers, Tor obscures the user's identity and location, making it difficult for third parties to track their online activities.

"Tor is not just a privacy tool; it's a game-changer for those seeking to reclaim control over their online data and digital footprint."

Embracing Anonymity: Benefits of Tor for Daily Browsing

Using Tor as a daily driver for web browsing offers numerous advantages. With Tor, users can browse the internet without fear of surveillance or data collection by ISPs, governments, or malicious actors. Additionally, Tor's censorship circumvention capabilities ensure access to unrestricted information, even in regions with strict internet controls.

To experience the benefits of Tor firsthand, users can download the Tor Browser on their desktop or mobile device. This specialized browser comes equipped with built-in privacy features and default settings optimized for secure and anonymous browsing.

Navigating the Tor Ecosystem: Tips for Safe and Secure Browsing

While Tor provides robust privacy protections, users must take steps to ensure safe and secure browsing practices. Avoid installing additional browser extensions or modifying default settings, as these actions can compromise anonymity and security.

"Protecting your privacy on the Tor network requires diligence and adherence to recommended security measures. By staying informed and vigilant, users can harness the full potential of Tor for everyday browsing."

In addition to the Tor Browser, users can contribute to the Tor network's resilience by running a Snowflake proxy. This innovative feature allows users to donate bandwidth to support individuals in censored regions, further strengthening Tor's impact worldwide.

@ bb6738dc:ab327449

ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างเศรษฐศาสตร์กับศีลธรรมในความคิดของ Adam Smith

Adam Smith เจ้าของแนวคิดเศรษฐศาสตร์ชื่อดังอย่าง "มือที่มองไม่เห็น" ได้เขียนหนังสืออีกเล่มที่พูดถึงเรื่องศีลธรรม ชื่อว่า "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" หลายคนอาจมองว่าสองเรื่องนี้ดูขัดแย้งกัน แต่จริงๆ แล้วมีความเชื่อมโยงกันอย่างแยกไม่ออก

[https://www.quora.com/What-is-Adam-Smiths-Invisible-Hand-When-and-how-was-it-used-in-practice]

1. "มือที่มองไม่เห็น" ต้องมี "จิตสำนึก" คอยควบคุม

• เศรษฐศาสตร์ : "มือที่มองไม่เห็น" คือกลไกตลาดที่ผลักดันให้คนเราต่างมุ่งแสวงหาผลประโยชน์ของตัวเอง แต่สุดท้ายกลับส่งผลดีต่อเศรษฐกิจโดยรวม เช่น สินค้าราคาถูกลง มีสินค้าและบริการใหม่ๆ เกิดขึ้น
• ศีลธรรม : แต่ "มือที่มองไม่เห็น" จะทำงานได้ดีก็ต่อเมื่อคนเรามี "จิตสำนึก" หรือ "ผู้ชมที่เที่ยงธรรม" คอยย้ำเตือนว่าอะไรถูกอะไรผิด ไม่ใช่เอาแต่ตัวเองเป็นฝ่ายได้ผลประโยชน์อยู่ฝั่งเดียว
• ตัวอย่าง : ในการค้าขาย แน่นอนว่าทุกคนอยากขายของได้กำไร แต่การเอาเปรียบผู้บริโภคด้วยการขึ้นราคาสินค้าเกินควร หรือลดต้นทุนด้วยการใช้แรงงานเด็ก ถือว่าเป็นการกระทำที่ผิดศีลธรรม แม้จะทำกำไรได้มากก็ตาม

[https://www.istockphoto.com/th]

2. "ความยุติธรรม" คือรากฐานของทั้งเศรษฐกิจและศีลธรรม

• เศรษฐศาสตร์ : Smith เชื่อว่าระบบเศรษฐกิจจะมั่นคงได้ ทุกคนต้องได้รับความยุติธรรม มีกฎกติกาที่ชัดเจน ไม่เอาเปรียบกัน
• ศีลธรรม : แน่นอนว่า "ความยุติธรรม" ก็เป็นคุณธรรมพื้นฐานที่ทุกคนพึงมี ปฏิบัติต่อกันอย่างเท่าเทียม เคารพในสิทธิและเสรีภาพของกันและกัน
• ตัวอย่าง : บริษัทมีสิทธิ์ตั้งราคาสินค้าได้ตามกลไกตลาด แต่การฉวยโอกาสขึ้นราคาสินค้าในช่วงที่คนกำลังเดือดร้อน เช่น น้ำท่วม หรือโรคระบาด ถือว่าเป็นการกระทำที่ไม่ยุติธรรม

[https://www.mediastorehouse.com/granger-art-on-demand/cartoons/justice-cartoon-1893-american-cartoon-louis-6254774.html]

3. รัฐบาลมีบทบาทสำคัญในการส่งเสริมทั้งเศรษฐกิจและศีลธรรม

• เศรษฐศาสตร์ : Smith เชื่อว่ารัฐบาลควรมีบทบาทให้น้อยที่สุดในระบบเศรษฐกิจ แต่ก็ต้องดูแลเรื่องความยุติธรรม สร้างกฎหมายที่ดี และบังคับใช้กฎหมายอย่างเท่าเทียม
• ศีลธรรม : รัฐบาลมีหน้าที่ส่งเสริมให้คนในสังคมมีคุณธรรม เช่น พัฒนาการศึกษา ปลูกฝังจริยธรรม และลงโทษคนที่ทำผิดกฎหมาย
• ตัวอย่าง : รัฐบาลควรลงทุนในระบบการศึกษาที่ดีมีคุณภาพ เพื่อให้เด็กๆ เติบโตเป็นพลเมืองที่มีทั้งความรู้ความสามารถ และมีจิตสำนึกที่ดี รู้จักผิดชอบชั่วดี

[https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2023/03/11/state-reps-hong-and-shelton-reintroduce-economic-justice-bill-of-rights/]

สรุปง่ายๆ คือ Smith เชื่อว่าเศรษฐกิจจะดีได้ คนในสังคมต้องมีศีลธรรมด้วย เพราะถ้ามุ่งแต่ผลประโยชน์ ใช้ "มือที่มองไม่เห็น" โดยไม่มี "จิตสำนึก" สุดท้ายแล้วสังคมก็จะล่มจม ไม่ต่างอะไรกับเศรษฐกิจที่พังทลาย

[https://santamariatimes.com/cartoon-moral-authority-crumbling/pdf_20c6c652-ece2-594f-b1e4-5cb591818871.html]

@ 05b116ff:8e08606a

Is the following easily achievable currently? Or on anyone's roadmap?

• Run your own Cashu or Fedi mint on SartOS, Raspiblitz, Umbral, etc.
• Generate a link for a friend/family member to a web wallet that comes pre-funded with 10,000 sats of eCash from your own mint
  • Ideally this would be quick to do on the fly, and they would get a link that would just open up with a balance and be useable
  • A blatent reminder to back-up would be nice, but also important for demo purposes to just work off the bat
• They’re able to spend those sats anywhere in an Uncle Jim scenario without having to learn about channel management
• If they want, they can move funds to a different eCash/Fedi mint, send to a lightning wallet of theirs, etc.

I saw this LNBits extension, but it seems no longer maintained: https://github.com/cashubtc/lnbits-cashu?tab=readme-ov-file

Mutiny used to have a gifting feature to gift funded lightning wallets, but, it would take the channel opening fee off the gift amount right off the bat, which always led to questions about where that fee went. Doing the same with eCash sounds much better for small value demos.

@ c73818cc:ccd5c890

🔔 I paesi BRICS (Brasile, Russia, India, Cina e Sudafrica) stanno discutendo la possibilità di creare un nuovo sistema monetario basato sulle loro valute nazionali, abbandonando il dollaro statunitense come valuta di riserva globale. Questa mossa potrebbe segnare la fine dell'egemonia del dollaro e l'inizio di un nuovo ordine monetario globale.

🔔 I paesi BRICS sono frustrati dal dominio del dollaro statunitense nel sistema finanziario globale. Credono che il dollaro sia utilizzato dagli Stati Uniti per manipolare l'economia globale e per avvantaggiare le proprie imprese.

🔔 Un nuovo sistema monetario basato sulle valute BRICS sarebbe un evento rivoluzionario. Potrebbe ridurre l'influenza degli Stati Uniti sull'economia globale e creare un sistema monetario più equo e stabile.

🔔 Questa mossa potrebbe anche essere un vantaggio per Bitcoin. Se i paesi BRICS dovessero iniziare ad utilizzare Bitcoin come riserva di valore, potrebbe portare a un aumento significativo della domanda e del prezzo della criptovaluta.

🔔 L'incontro dei BRICS è un evento da tenere d'occhio. Quando i paesi BRICS dovessero decidere di lanciare il nuovo sistema monetario, potrebbe avere un impatto profondo sul futuro dell'economia globale e di Bitcoin.

Unisciti al nostro gruppo Telegram: https://t.me/Bitcoin_Report_Italia

Le iscrizioni al torneo KCGI Bitget sono aperte, unisciti alla nostra squadra e corriamo verso i 5mln di dollari!

https://www.bitgetapp.com/it/events/kcgi/futures-trading?clacCode=HCDS4WT4

BitcoinReportItalia #BRICS #Egemonia #Dollaro #Criptovalute #USA #Cina #India #Russia #Brasile #Sudafrica #Dominio #StatiUniti #KCGI #Crypto #Bitcoin

@ a012dc82:6458a70d

It's a big day for fans of Samuel, as the enigmatic figure has finally emerged from the shadows of his parent's basement and made his way to the Manhattan Federal Court. Many have been wondering where he has been and what he has been up to, and now, thanks to the court sketch artist, we finally have a glimpse of the 2023 version of Samuel.

As it turns out, he has been buried in books, studying biology intensely in an effort to get ahead. However, it appears that his late nights and intense focus have taken a toll on his appearance, as he looks somewhat haggard and disheveled. Some have even speculated that he has been fueling himself with Adderall and fast food, as he bears a striking resemblance to the creatures from Where The Wild Things Are.

Despite his unconventional appearance, Samuel seemed to be in good spirits as he made his way into the courthouse. It will be interesting to see how he fares in the legal proceedings that lie ahead, and whether or not he is able to clear his name and restore his reputation.

The big question on everyone's mind was why Samuel found himself in a courthouse in the first place. As it turns out, he was there to plead to the eight charges against him, which include some serious offenses such as wire fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and money laundering. Some might say he brought these troubles upon himself with his questionable actions and questionable business practices.

Despite the gravity of the situation, Samuel seemed unphased as he stood before the judge and declared his innocence. This came as a surprise to many, especially considering the fact that Samuel had recently embarked on a "I'm Sorry" tour, where he attempted to make amends for his past mistakes and apologize to those he had wronged.

Many were left wondering what could have prompted this change of heart, and whether or not Samuel truly believed he was innocent or if he was just trying to save face. Only time will tell how this case will unfold, but one thing is certain: the stakes are high, and the outcome will have a significant impact on the future of Samuel's career and reputation.

So, the big question on everyone's mind is what happens next in the saga of Samuel. As it stands, the trial date has been set for October 2, 2023, and anticipation is building. While his former colleagues, Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang, have already entered guilty plea deals with the government, it remains to be seen whether Samuel will follow suit or try to fight the charges against him. Some are speculating that the testimony of Ellison and Wang could provide the crucial evidence needed to convict Samuel, while others are predicting that he will try to use his charm and charisma to win over the jury.

Regardless of the outcome, one thing is for certain: until the trial begins, Samuel will be spending his days playing League of Legends and trying to maintain his innocence. Some say he is confident in his ability to clear his name, while others believe he is just in denial about the severity of the charges against him. Only time will tell how this story will unfold, but one thing is certain: the eyes of the nation will be on the Manhattan Federal Court come October 2, 2023, as the drama surrounding Samuel reaches its climax.

Conclusions

Samuel, a figure facing serious legal charges including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud, and money laundering, has pleaded not guilty in a Manhattan Federal Court. The trial date has been set for October 2, 2023, and the outcome will have significant consequences for his career and reputation. It is not yet clear if he will try to fight the charges or if the testimony of his former colleagues will provide sufficient evidence for a conviction. The case has attracted significant attention and the eyes of the nation will be on the courthouse on the day of the trial.

That's all for today

If you want more, be sure to follow us on:

NOSTR: croxroad@getalby.com

X: @croxroadnews

Instagram: @croxroadnews.co

Youtube: @croxroadnews

Store: https://croxroad.store

Subscribe to CROX ROAD Bitcoin Only Daily Newsletter

https://www.croxroad.co/subscribe

DISCLAIMER: None of this is financial advice. This newsletter is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Please be careful and do your own research.

@ c11cf5f8:4928464d

Let's hear some of your latest Bitcoin purchases, feel free to include links to the shops or merchants you bought from too.

If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent their sats on.

@ 6a39a186:88f51c19

Digital Computing: From Origins to Modern Innovations

In this note, we embark on a journey through the captivating history of digital computing, tracing its evolution from its humble beginnings to the cutting-edge technologies of today. We consider into the pivotal moments, key innovations, and notable figures that have shaped the landscape of digital computation.

Understanding Early Developments

The roots of digital computing, from the abacus and mechanical calculators to the invention of the first programmable devices such as the Analytical Engine by Charles Babbage.

"The dawn of digital computing marked a significant shift in human history, paving the way for unprecedented advancements in science, technology, and society."

Emergence of Electronic Computers

The emergence of electronic computers in the mid-20th century, including landmark developments like the ENIAC and UNIVAC, which laid the groundwork for modern computing.

"The advent of electronic computers revolutionized the field of computation, enabling faster calculations, complex simulations, and unprecedented data processing capabilities."

Rise of Personal Computing

Next, The rise of personal computing in the late 20th century, with the introduction of iconic devices such as the IBM PC, Apple Macintosh, and the evolution of operating systems like MS-DOS and Windows.

"The democratization of computing power through personal computers ushered in a new era of accessibility, empowering individuals and businesses to harness the potential of digital technology."

The Digital Age and Beyond

The transformative impact of digital computing in the modern age, from the proliferation of smartphones and tablets to the rise of cloud computing, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence.

"As we stand on the cusp of the digital frontier, the possibilities of digital computing are limitless, driving innovation, connectivity, and progress in every aspect of our lives."

Through this exploration of the history of digital computing, we gain a deeper appreciation for the remarkable journey that has brought us to where we are today, poised at the forefront of a digital revolution.

Learn more about the history of digital computing and discover its impact on society.

@ c73818cc:ccd5c890

🌈 L'attore Vincent D'Onofrio e l'artista Laurence Fuller hanno unito le forze per creare un'opera d'arte unica che celebra Bitcoin. Quest'opera, intitolata "No Fear, No FUD, No Envy", rappresenta l'impatto inesorabile di Bitcoin sul sistema finanziario tradizionale.

🌈 L'opera è un'installazione multimediale che combina elementi fisici e digitali. Una scultura in bronzo raffigura un Bitcoin, mentre un display digitale mostra il prezzo di Bitcoin in tempo reale. L'opera è accompagnata da un manifesto con la frase "No Fear, No FUD, No Envy", che rappresenta la resilienza e la determinazione della comunità Bitcoin di fronte alle sfide e alle critiche.

🌈 Questa opera d'arte è un potente simbolo del crescente potere e influenza di Bitcoin. D'Onofrio e Fuller stanno usando la loro arte per sfidare lo status quo e per portare Bitcoin all'attenzione di un pubblico più ampio. Il loro lavoro è un'ispirazione per tutti coloro che credono nel potenziale di Bitcoin per creare un mondo migliore.

Unisciti al nostro gruppo Telegram: https://t.me/Bitcoin_Report_Italia

Le iscrizioni al torneo KCGI Bitget sono aperte, unisciti alla nostra squadra e corriamo verso i 5mln di dollari!

https://www.bitgetapp.com/it/events/kcgi/futures-trading?clacCode=HCDS4WT4

BitcoinReportItalia #VincentDOnofrio #LaurenceFuller #Criptovalute #NoFearNoFUDNoEnvy #Blockchain #Arte #KCGI #Crypto #Bitcoin

@ 7361ca91:252fce6d

日本は貧しい。 どうして日本が貧しいと言えるのでしょうか？多くの点で豊かであることは確かです。例えば、一人当たりのGDPでは、日本は世界で38位で、平均の221%の富があります。また、日本を訪れた人は誰でも、その都市や活動、そして豊かさと幸福感を感じるでしょう。鹿が安全に歩き回る公園さえあります。さらに、文化的にも非常に豊かです。日本文化が嫌いな人はいないでしょう。日本は貧困ランキングでは多くの国よりもずっと上位にあります。そして、これらすべては、第二次世界大戦後の非常に厳しい状況から達成されたものであり、アメリカの要求に従うことによって実現しました。

それでは、なぜ日本が貧しいと言えるのでしょうか？それは、日本がアメリカの要求に従い始めた時点でのことです。日本の真の富が少ない状況を探ってみましょう。そして、その危機的な状況が他の国々にどのような信号を送っているか。この信号を読むことができれば、「Buy Bitcoin」と示していることがわかるでしょう。

日本の10年国債は先日5%下落し、金利は1.08%に達しました。あなたは言うかもしれません、「1.08%？それほど危険には見えない」と。しかし、この水準は10年以上達成されていなかったものであり、その間に日本は大いに借金を増やしました。日本は世界経済の主要な役割を果たしており、アメリカの国債を持つ第二位の保有国であり、その通貨は誰もが安く資金を調達するために利用します。つまり、円を買い、低い利息（約1%）で借りて、もっと高い利息が得られる他の場所に投資します。これらの理由から、日本は特に安い資金を見つけたい人々にとって非常に訪れる場所です。

しかし、もちろん、先日のように国債の金利が上昇すると、この取引に悪影響を及ぼします。10年国債の金利が上昇すれば、円で借りる金利と、他の場所で得られる金利との差が縮小します。例えば、アメリカやオーストラリアの国債、あるいは他の場所の国債です。これは確かに真実であり、国債の金利が上昇するたびにその魅力は減りますが、同時に国債の金利が上昇するたびに、負債のコストも大幅に増加します。

日本は多額の借金を抱えています：9.2兆ドルの負債です。負債の金利が0.01%上昇するたびに、それは920億ドルの利息が追加されることを意味します。

状況を想像してみてください。火曜日に日本は1.02%の金利を支払っていて、水曜日の終わりには1.08%を支払っています。これは途方もない衝撃を与えるでしょう。一度にすべてを再資金調達する必要はありませんが、それでも紙の上ではほぼ60億ドルの影響があります。再資金調達が昨日よりも60億ドル多くかかることを知っている一日を想像してみてください。その日は良い日ではなく、いくら寿司を食べて気分を上げようとしても無駄でしょう。そのため、通貨はドルに対して下落し続けます。

しかし、日本は豊かです。何十年もの間、日本は大量の魚やその他の製品を世界中に輸出してきました。日本はこれまでに得たすべての利益をうまく投資してきたに違いありません。そして、今、困難な時期が来て、日本の状況が微妙な時に、貯蓄を使って円を買い、通貨を守り、次の日に向けて戦い続けることができるでしょう。

日本はアメリカの言うことに従うようになりました。アメリカが大好きなのは、自分の国債を買ってもらうことです。アメリカ人が最も喜ぶのは、自分たちの債務を買ってもらうことです。アメリカ人に気に入られたいなら、国債を買ってあげるといいでしょう。日本は第二次世界大戦以来、アメリカに従順であり、基本的に外国為替の準備としての国債のアイデアを発明しました。これはどういう意味でしょうか？つまり、アメリカの国債に貯蓄するというアイデアを発明したのです。「お金を稼いで貯蓄するなら、他の国の国債や債務として持っておけばいい」という考えです。

全国民の努力と、世界中への商品やサービスの輸出によって得られたすべての貯蓄をアメリカの国債に投資し始めました。日本と他の国々の金の保有量を総準備高の割合で見ると、日本はそのうちのわずか4.3%しか金を保有していない一方で、ドイツ、アメリカ、イタリア、フランスなどの他の国々は60%以上の準備高を金で保有しています。

日本が貧しいと言うとき、それは実質的な富がないことを意味します。すべての貯蓄がアメリカの国債に投資されています。日本は、アメリカの都合に合わせて、そしてある程度は日本自身もそれが良い考えだと思って、これらの国債を購入してきました。日本には多くのアメリカ国債がありますが、今の危機を解決する役には立ちません。

日本は、その通貨の価値を守り、通貨の価値が下落するのを防ぎ、市民の生活費が上昇しないようにする必要があります。市場で円を購入するために、その貯蓄を使って準備金を売却し、通貨を保護するべきです。しかし、その準備金はアメリカの国債にあるため、それらを売ることは現実的ではありません。アメリカの国債を売ると、その価格が下がり、市場での供給が増えて、国債の金利が上昇します。国債の価格が下がるほど、支払う金利は高くなります。

たとえば、100の価格で5%の利息を支払う国債を持っているとします。その国債が市場で売られ始めて価格が95に下がった場合、依然として5%の利息を支払います。しかし、95に対する5%は、100に対する5%よりも多いです。したがって、国債の価格が下がるたびに、利息が上がります。これにより、さらに多くの人々が日本に行き、低利で円を借りて（少ない利息を支払って）、高利を支払うアメリカの国債を購入することを奨励します。これが通貨をさらに下落させることになります。そのため、日本の準備金は役に立ちません。アメリカの国債を売却することなく、自国の通貨の価値をさらに低下させることはできません。このような困難な時期に日本を救うはずのものが、何の役にも立たないのです。

その結果、日本は多くの貯蓄があっても抜け出せない悪循環に陥っています。状況の深刻さは、円と金のチャートを見るとよくわかります。本来なら多くの馬鹿な国債の代わりに準備資産として購入すべきだったものです。円と金のチャートを見ると、過去15年で75%も下落していることがわかります。「日本は貧しい」と言うとき、それは実質的な富が欠如しているという意味で、この貧困は他の分野にも現れ始めています。通貨の価値を守ることができないことが、日本の成長と市民の生産能力を阻害しています。

日本は1人当たりのGDPが高いため、貧しくはないと言いました。しかし、1人当たりのGDPを見てみると、1990年以来停滞しています。また、実質的な貧困のレベルを見ると、日本の実質的な貧困が増加しており、間違った方向に進んでいることがわかります。日本の相対的貧困率は、G7諸国の中でアメリカに次いで2番目に高いです。

要するに、誰の負債でもなく、必要なときに売ることができる資産がなければ、富を持っているとは言えません。困難な時期に対応するために売却できる、他人の債務に依存しない資産が必要です。それが富であり、他のすべてはただの煙に過ぎません。

数年前、ロシアはアメリカの国債ではなく、自国の貯蓄を失いました。アメリカがそれらの債券を没収したのです。今日の日本も同様に、国債を持っていますが、売却することができず、実質的には役に立ちません。まるでそれが奪われたかのようです。これらの状況は、非常に明るくカラフルなネオンサインのように、国であれば固い資産に貯蓄するべきだという明確なシグナルです。

そのため、最近ではすべての中央銀行が記録的なレベルで金を購入しているのでしょう。そして、同様にビットコインも購入することになるでしょう。ビットコインは、金よりも没収されにくく、金よりも移動が容易で、金よりも価値が上昇する可能性が高いという追加の利点を持っています。日本は、これを今、教えてくれているのです。

コラボw @alberto_mera (X、文)& nostr:npub1wdsu4yfj6s5vkcktfx2l7y9tvprfsmwp55e2gj5xp266gff0eeks9cjda5 (Nostr、訳)

@ 6a39a186:88f51c19

Node Types: Exploring the Different Types of Nodes in the Bitcoin Network

The Bitcoin network, often hailed as the pioneer of blockchain technology, operates through a decentralized network of nodes. These nodes play various roles in maintaining the integrity and functionality of the network. Let's delve into the different types of nodes in the Bitcoin network and their significance.

Full Nodes

Full nodes are the backbone of the Bitcoin network. They maintain a complete copy of the blockchain and validate all transactions and blocks according to the consensus rules. Full nodes ensure the security and decentralization of the network by independently verifying the entire transaction history. Running a full node helps in strengthening the Bitcoin network and ensuring its resilience against attacks.

"Full nodes are the cornerstone of decentralization in the Bitcoin network, providing users with trustless access to the blockchain."

Learn more about running a full node

Mining Nodes

Mining nodes, also known as miners, play a critical role in securing the Bitcoin network by adding new blocks to the blockchain through the process of mining. Miners compete to solve complex mathematical puzzles, and the first one to find a valid solution gets to add a new block to the blockchain and receive a reward in the form of newly minted bitcoins and transaction fees. Mining nodes contribute to the network's security and enable the creation of new bitcoins.

"Mining nodes are essential for maintaining the security and integrity of the Bitcoin blockchain by validating and adding new transactions to the network."

Learn more about Bitcoin mining

Lightweight Nodes (SPV Nodes)

Lightweight nodes, also known as Simplified Payment Verification (SPV) nodes, do not store the entire blockchain like full nodes. Instead, they only store block headers and verify transactions directly relevant to them. SPV nodes rely on full nodes to provide them with accurate information about the state of the network. While lightweight nodes offer reduced resource requirements and faster synchronization, they sacrifice some level of security and trustlessness compared to full nodes.

"Lightweight nodes offer a convenient way to interact with the Bitcoin network without the need to download and validate the entire blockchain, making them suitable for resource-constrained devices."

Learn more about SPV nodes

Pruned Nodes

Pruned nodes store only a subset of the blockchain's data by discarding older transaction information beyond a certain threshold. Pruned nodes maintain the integrity of the blockchain while significantly reducing storage requirements. Although pruned nodes cannot serve historical data to other network participants, they still contribute to the network by validating new transactions and blocks.

"Pruned nodes strike a balance between maintaining network security and reducing storage overhead, making them suitable for users with limited storage capacity."

Learn more about pruned nodes

In conclusion, the Bitcoin network consists of various types of nodes, each serving a unique purpose in ensuring the network's integrity, security, and decentralization. Whether you're a full node operator, miner, or lightweight node user, your participation contributes to the strength and resilience of the Bitcoin ecosystem.

@ f652bc31:7d2c6308

ในปัจจุบันสภาพอากาศภาพรวมทั้งโลกมีลักษณะการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่เห็นได้ชัดเจน และส่งผลกระทบต่อผู้คนบนโลกทุกคน โดยเฉพาะคนที่มีรายได้มากกว่ารายจ่ายไม่เพียงพอต่อการเก็บออมให้เพียงพอกับการยกระดับคุณภาพชีวิต หรือพวกเขาไม่สามารถมีเงินสดที่เพียงพอต่อการไปใช้ในการยกระดับอาชีพ ,กิจการธุรกิจของพวกเขาให้เติบโตขึ้นมาในตลาดได้อย่างมั่นคง

ตรงกันข้าม กลุ่มคนที่มีรายได้สูง และสามารถเข้าถึง สินเชื่อได้ง่ายกว่ากลุ่มที่มีรายได้น้อยกว่ามากๆ ทำให้ความสามารถการเข้าถึงสินเชื่อของพวกเขามีสูงกว่ามากและที่สำคัญการดำเนินธุรกิจของ กลุ่มคน หรือผู้ประกอบการกลุ่มนี้ เป็นหนึ่งในปัจจัยต้นเหตุที่สำคัญมากที่สภาวะแปรปรวนของโลกหนักขึ้น และเร็วกว่าที่หลายๆฝ่ายได้คาดการณ์ไว้

จากผลกระทบที่กล่าวมาข้างต้น เป็นประเด็นที่ใหญ่มาก และหลายฝ่ายในสังคมโลกให้ความสนใจอย่างมาก ไม่ว่าจะเป็นเรื่องของสภาวะโลกแปรปรวนรุนแรงและรวดเร็ว ที่เป็นห่วงกันว่าจะกระทบต่อการอยู่อาศัยของสิ่งมีชีวิตบนโลกทั้งหมด

เพราะการที่ใช้นโยบายที่ก่อให้เกิดการขยายตัวทางเศรษฐกิจเกิดความจำเป็น มากเกินกว่าความต้องการของมนุษย์ เป็นการจัดการและการใช้ทรัพยากรธรรมชาติที่มีอยู่จำกัดได้ไม่คุ้มค่า ทำให้สภาพแวดล้อมสิ่งแวดล้อมโลกฟื้นฟูตัวเองให้อยู่ในสภาพที่สมบูรณ์ได้

และอีกประเด็นคือ ผลกระทบต่อลักษณะสังคมของมนุษย์ทั้งหมด เกิดความขัดแย้งกันทางความเหลื่อมล้ำทางรายได้ให้ห่างชั้นมากขึ้นไปอีก ซึ่งเป็นการซ้ำเติมปัญหาที่เกิดจากแนวคิดการดำเนินระบบเศรษฐกิจ การเงิน กระแสหลักของผู้มีอำนาจกำหนดนโยบายเศรษฐกิจ การเงิน ในโลก ที่ใช้แนวคิดการควบคุมระบบเศรษฐกิจให้มีการเจริญเติบโตผิดธรรมชาติของกลไกตลาด มากเกินไป

จากแนวคิด ความเชื่อ กระแสหลักของผู้มีอำนาจกำหนดนโยบายบนโลก ต้องการให้เศรษฐกิจเติบโต เพื่อไม่ให้ สูญเสียความนิยมจากประชาชนที่ใช้สิทธิเลือกตั้ง เลือกผู้ปกครองเข้ามาใช้อำนาจแทนพวกเขา แต่ผลกระทบที่ได้จากการดำเนินนโยบายดังกล่าว ทำให้พวกเขาที่มีรายได้จากการทำงาน เพื่อให้ชีวิตเติบโตมากขึ้น ได้รับผลกระทบสูงมาก อย่างเลี่ยงไม่ได้ว่านโยบายที่ว่านั้นได้ไปซ้ำเติมกดขี่ให้จะต้องทำงานอย่างหนัก เพื่อแข่งกับเศรษฐกิจที่เติบโตเร็วมาก ที่เกิดจากนโยบายทางเศรษฐกิจ การเงินข้างต้น

โดยที่พวกเขาอาจจะไม่ทราบสาเหตุที่แท้จริง ได้ง่ายว่า นโยบายที่พวกเขาอยากได้นั้นจากนักการเมือง นักเลือกตั้ง ที่ใช้หาเสียง เพื่อเข้าไปมีอำนาจปกครองให้นโยบาย ดังกล่าวได้นำไปใช้นั้น มันจะกลับมาทำร้าย กดขี่ พวกเขาโดยไม่รู้ตัวอย่างที่มีความแยบยลอย่างมาก

ซึ่งนักการเมืองที่นำนโยบายนั้นไปใช้หาเสียง ก็อาจจะยังไม่ทราบด้วยซ้ำ ว่ามันก็จะสามารถย้อนกลับมาทำร้ายประชาชนที่เขารัก จนกระทั่งแม้ตัวของนักการเมืองเองก็ได้รับผลกระทบไม่น้อย จากการดำเนินนโยบายทางเศรษฐกิจของพวกเขาโดยไม่รู้ตัวด้วยซ้ำ

จากเหตุผลที่กล่าวมาทั้งหมด คงจะเป็นเหตุผลที่เพียงพอว่า สมควรจะเปลี่ยน แปลงแนวทางการดำเนินนโยบายเศรษฐกิจ การเงิน จากที่ทุกวันนี้ที่ผู้มีอำนาจต้องการ และความเชื่อของนักเศรษฐศาสตร์ส่วนใหญ่ ว่าแนวความคิด ความเชื่อของเศรษฐศาสตร์ที่เป็นกระแสหลักนั้น กำลังทำลายโลกทั้งทางกายภาพสภาพแวดล้อม และสภาพสังคมของมนุษย์ให้แย่ลงไปกว่านี้

การดำเนินนโยบายเศรษฐกิจแบบกลับด้านกับแนวของนักเศรษฐศาสตร์กระแสหลัก โดยการหยุดการแทรกแซงระบบเศรษฐกิจ การเงิน ให้ระบบเศรษฐกิจ การเงิน ให้เป็นไปตามกลไกของตลาดเสรีตามธรรมชาติของตลาดจริงๆ

ซึ่งไม่ต้องเป็นห่วงว่าสภาวะตลาดจะปั่นป่วน เพราะตลาดเสรีโดยธรรมชาติ นั้นจะมีวิธีการจัดการตัวเองที่ดีกว่าการบริหารจัดการของผู้มีอำนาจปกครองได้มากกว่ามากๆ

เพราะว่าผู้มีอำนาจเพียงไม่กี่คน ไม่อาจสามารถล่วงรู้กลไกของตลาดได้อย่างแม่นยำ ครบถ้วนอย่างแน่นอน กลไกตลาดในธรรมชาติ มีความหลากหลายซับซ้อนสูงกว่าที่พวกเขาจะสามารถกำหนดนโยบายได้อย่างแม่นยำ

แน่นอนว่าสภาวะหลังจากนั้นมันจะเป็นสภาวะที่เงินเฟ้อลดลง หรือเกิดสภาวะที่ฝืดมากขึ้นจากเดิม ซึ่งสภาวะเงินที่ฝืดนั่นแหละคือสภาวะที่เราต้องการ และจะต้องทำเพื่อมาหยุดยั้งปัญหาเชิงกายภาพของโลก และสภาพสังคมที่ย่ำแย่ที่กำลังมีแนวโน้มความเหลื่อมล้ำมากขึ้นในทุกขณะ

เชื่อมั่นในสภาวะของตลาดในธรรมชาติที่ไร้การแทรกแซงจากคนที่มีอำนาจคนใดคนหนึ่ง เพราะความหลากหลาย เฉพาะตัวของมนุษย์ทุกคนในธรรมชาตินั้นมีความแตกต่างกันมากเกินกว่า ที่จะมีมนุษย์ที่มีอำนาจแค่ไม่กี่คนจะควบคุมและกำหนดสภาวะของตลาด ให้เป็นผลดีต่อโลกและสังคมมนุษย์ ในระยะยาวได้>