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2024-09-27 08:20:16Best viewed on Habla, YakiHonne or Highlighter.
TL;DR
This article explores the links between public, community-driven data sources (such as OpenStreetMap) and private, cryptographically-owned data found on networks such as Nostr.
The following concepts are explored:
- Attestations: Users signalling to their social graph that they believe something to be true by publishing Attestations. These social proofs act as a decentralised verification system that leverages your web-of-trust.
- Proof of Place: An oracle-based system where physical letters are sent to real-world locations, confirming the corresponding digital ownership via cryptographic proofs. This binds physical locations in meatspace with their digital representations in the Nostrverse.
- Check-ins: Foursquare-style check-ins that can be verified using attestations from place owners, ensuring authenticity. This approach uses web-of-trust to validate check-ins and location ownership over time.
The goal is to leverage cryptographic ownership where necessary while preserving the open, collaborative nature of public data systems.
Open Data in a public commons has a place and should not be thrown out with the Web 2.0 bathwater.
Cognitive Dissonance
Ever since discovering Nostr in August of 2022 I've been grappling with how BTC Map - a project that helps bitcoiners find places to spend sats - should most appropriately use this new protocol.
I am assuming, dear reader, that you are somewhat familiar with Nostr - a relatively new protocol for decentralised identity and communication. If you don’t know your nsec from your npub, please take some time to read these excellent posts: Nostr is Identity for the Internet and The Power of Nostr by @max and @lyn, respectively. Nostr is so much more than a short-form social media replacement.
The social features (check-ins, reviews, etc.) that Nostr unlocks for BTC Map are clear and exciting - all your silos are indeed broken - however, something fundamental has been bothering me for a while and I think it comes down to data ownership.
For those unfamiliar, BTC Map uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) as its main geographic database. OSM is centred on the concept of a commons of objectively verifiable data that is maintained by a global community of volunteer editors; a Wikipedia for maps. There is no data ownership; the data is free (as in freedom) and anyone can edit anything. It is the data equivalent of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) - FOSD if you will, but more commonly referred to as Open Data.
In contrast, Notes and Other Stuff on Nostr (Places in this cartographic context) are explicitly owned by the controller of the private key. These notes are free to propagate, but they are owned.
How do we reconcile the decentralised nature of Nostr, where data is cryptographically owned by individuals, with the community-managed data commons of OpenStreetMap, where no one owns the data?
Self-sovereign Identity
Before I address this coexistence question, I want to talk a little about identity as it pertains to ownership. If something is to be owned, it has to be owned by someone or something - an identity.
All identities that are not self-sovereign are, by definition, leased to you by a 3rd party. You rent your Facebook identity from Meta in exchange for your data. You rent your web domain from your DNS provider in exchange for your money.
Taken to the extreme, you rent your passport from your Government in exchange for your compliance. You are you at the pleasure of others. Where Bitcoin separates money from the state; Nostr separates identity from the state.
Or, as @nvk said recently: "Don't build your house on someone else's land.".
https://i.nostr.build/xpcCSkDg3uVw0yku.png
While we’ve had the tools for self-sovereign digital identity for decades (think PGP keys or WebAuthN), we haven't had the necessary social use cases nor the corresponding social graph to elevate these identities to the mainstream. Nostr fixes this.
Nostr is PGP for the masses and will take cryptographic identities mainstream.
Full NOSTARD?
Returning to the coexistence question: the data on OpenStreetMap isn’t directly owned by anyone, even though the physical entities the data represents might be privately owned. OSM is a data commons.
We can objectively agree on the location of a tree or a fire hydrant without needing permission to observe and record it. Sure, you could place a tree ‘on Nostr’, but why should you? Just because something can be ‘on Nostr’ doesn’t mean it should be.
https://i.nostr.build/s3So2JVAqoY4E1dI.png
There might be a dystopian future where we can't agree on what a tree is nor where it's located, but I hope we never get there. It's at this point we'll need a Wikifreedia variant of OpenStreetMap.
While integrating Nostr identities into OpenStreetMap would be valuable, the current OSM infrastructure, tools, and community already provide substantial benefits in managing this data commons without needing to go NOSTR-native - there's no need to go Full NOSTARD. H/T to @princeySOV for the original meme.
https://i.nostr.build/ot9jtM5cZtDHNKWc.png
So, how do we appropriately blend cryptographically owned data with the commons?
If a location is owned in meatspace and it's useful to signal that ownership, it should also be owned in cyberspace. Our efforts should therefore focus on entities like businesses, while allowing the commons to manage public data for as long as it can successfully mitigate the tragedy of the commons.
The remainder of this article explores how we can:
- Verify ownership of a physical place in the real world;
- Link that ownership to the corresponding digital place in cyberspace.
As a side note, I don't see private key custodianship - or, even worse, permissioned use of Places signed by another identity's key - as any more viable than the rented identities of Web 2.0.
And as we all know, the Second Law of Infodynamics (no citation!) states that:
"The total amount of sensitive information leaked will always increase over time."
This especially holds true if that data is centralised.
Not your keys, not your notes. Not your keys, not your identity.
Places and Web-of-Trust
@Arkinox has been leading the charge on the Places NIP, introducing Nostr notes (kind 37515) that represent physical locations. The draft is well-crafted, with bonus points for linking back to OSM (and other location repositories) via NIP-73 - External Content IDs (championed by @oscar of @fountain).
However, as Nostr is permissionless, authenticity poses a challenge. Just because someone claims to own a physical location on the Internet doesn’t necessarily mean they have ownership or control of that location in the real world.
Ultimately, this problem can only be solved in a decentralised way by using Web-of-Trust - using your social graph and the perspectives of trusted peers to inform your own perspective. In the context of Places, this requires your network to form a view on which digital identity (public key / npub) is truly the owner of a physical place like your local coffee shop.
This requires users to:
- Verify the owner of a Place in cyberspace is the owner of a place in meatspace.
- Signal this verification to their social graph.
Let's look at the latter idea first with the concept of Attestations ...
Attestations
A way to signal to your social graph that you believe something to be true (or false for that matter) would be by publishing an Attestation note. An Attestation note would signify to your social graph that you think something is either true or false.
Imagine you're a regular at a local coffee shop. You publish an Attestation that says the shop is real and the owner behind the Nostr public key is who they claim to be. Your friends trust you, so they start trusting the shop's digital identity too.
However, attestations applied to Places are just a single use case. The attestation concept could be more widely applied across Nostr in a variety of ways (key rotation, identity linking, etc).
Here is a recent example from @lyn that would carry more signal if it were an Attestation:
https://i.nostr.build/lZAXOEwvRIghgFY4.png
Parallels can be drawn between Attestations and transaction confirmations on the Bitcoin timechain; however, their importance to you would be weighted by clients and/or Data Vending Machines in accordance with:
- Your social graph;
- The type or subject of the content being attested and by whom;
- Your personal preferences.
They could also have a validity duration to be temporally bound, which would be particularly useful in the case of Places.
NIP-25 (Reactions) do allow for users to up/downvote notes with optional content (e.g., emojis) and could work for Attestations, but I think we need something less ambiguous and more definitive.
‘This is true’ resonates more strongly than ‘I like this.’.
https://i.nostr.build/s8NIG2kXzUCLcoax.jpg
There are similar concepts in the Web 3 / Web 5 world such as Verified Credentials by tdb. However, Nostr is the Web 3 now and so wen Attestation NIP?
https://i.nostr.build/Cb047NWyHdJ7h5Ka.jpg
That said, I have seen @utxo has been exploring ‘smart contracts’ on nostr and Attestations may just be a relatively ‘dumb’ subset of the wider concept Nostr-native scripting combined with web-of-trust.
Proof of Place
Attestations handle the signalling of your truth, but what about the initial verification itself?
We already covered how this ultimately has to be derived from your social graph, but what if there was a way to help bootstrap this web-of-trust through the use of oracles? For those unfamiliar with oracles in the digital realm, they are simply trusted purveyors of truth.
Introducing Proof of Place, an out–of-band process where an oracle (such as BTC Map) would mail - yes physically mail- a shared secret to the address of the location being claimed in cyberspace. This shared secret would be locked to the public key (npub) making the claim, which, if unlocked, would prove that the associated private key (nsec) has physical access to the location in meatspace.
One way of doing this would be to mint a 1 sat cashu ecash token locked to the npub of the claimant and mail it to them. If they are able to redeem the token then they have cryptographically proven that they have physical access to the location.
Proof of Place is really nothing more than a weighted Attestation. In a web-of-trust Nostrverse, an oracle is simply a npub (say BTC Map) that you weigh heavily for its opinion on a given topic (say Places).
In the Bitcoin world, Proof of Work anchors digital scarcity in cyberspace to physical scarcity (energy and time) in meatspace and as @Gigi says in PoW is Essential:
"A failure to understand Proof of Work, is a failure to understand Bitcoin."
In the Nostrverse, Proof of Place helps bridge the digital and physical worlds.
@Gigi also observes in Memes vs The World that:
"In Bitcoin, the map is the territory. We can infer everything we care about by looking at the map alone."
https://i.nostr.build/dOnpxfI4u7EL2v4e.png
This isn’t true for Nostr.
In the Nostrverse, the map IS NOT the territory. However, Proof of Place enables us to send cryptographic drones down into the physical territory to help us interpret our digital maps. 🤯
Check-ins
Although not a draft NIP yet, @Arkinox has also been exploring the familiar concept of Foursquare-style Check-ins on Nostr (with kind 13811 notes).
For the uninitiated, Check-ins are simply notes that signal the publisher is at a given location. These locations could be Places (in the Nostr sense) or any other given digital representation of a location for that matter (such as OSM elements) if NIP-73 - External Content IDs are used.
Of course, not everyone will be a Check-in enjoyooor as the concept will not sit well with some people’s threat models and OpSec practices.
Bringing Check-ins to Nostr is possible (as @sebastix capably shows here), but they suffer the same authenticity issues as Places. Just because I say I'm at a given location doesn't mean that I am.
Back in the Web 2.0 days, Foursquare mitigated this by relying on the GPS position of the phone running their app, but this is of course spoofable.
How should we approach Check-in verifiability in the Nostrverse? Well, just like with Places, we can use Attestations and WoT. In the context of Check-ins, an Attestation from the identity (npub) of the Place being checked-in to would be a particularly strong signal. An NFC device could be placed in a coffee shop and attest to check-ins without requiring the owner to manually intervene - I’m sure @blackcoffee and @Ben Arc could hack something together over a weekend!
Check-ins could also be used as a signal for bonafide Place ownership over time.
Summary: Trust Your Bros
So, to recap, we have:
Places: Digital representations of physical locations on Nostr.
Check-ins: Users signalling their presence at a location.
Attestations: Verifiable social proofs used to confirm ownership or the truth of a claim.
You can visualise how these three concepts combine in the diagram below:
https://i.nostr.build/Uv2Jhx5BBfA51y0K.jpg
And, as always, top right trumps bottom left! We have:
Level 0 - Trust Me Bro: Anyone can check-in anywhere. The Place might not exist or might be impersonating the real place in meatspace. The person behind the npub may not have even been there at all.
Level 1 - Definitely Maybe Somewhere: This category covers the middle-ground of ‘Maybe at a Place’ and ‘Definitely Somewhere’. In these examples, you are either self-certifying that you have checked-in at an Attested Place or you are having others attest that you have checked-in at a Place that might not even exist IRL.
Level 2 - Trust Your Bros: An Attested Check-in at an Attested Place. Your individual level of trust would be a function of the number of Attestations and how you weigh them within your own social graph.
https://i.nostr.build/HtLAiJH1uQSTmdxf.jpg
Perhaps the gold standard (or should that be the Bitcoin standard?) would be a Check-in attested by the owner of the Place, which in itself was attested by BTC Map?
Or perhaps not. Ultimately, it’s the users responsibility to determine what they trust by forming their own perspective within the Nostrverse powered by web-of-trust algorithms they control. ‘Trust Me Bro’ or ‘Trust Your Bros’ - you decide.
As we navigate the frontier of cryptographic ownership and decentralised data, it’s up to us to find the balance between preserving the Open Data commons and embracing self-sovereign digital identities.
Thanks
With thanks to Arkinox, Avi, Ben Gunn, Kieran, Blackcoffee, Sebastix, Tomek, Calle, Short Fiat, Ben Weeks and Bitcoms for helping shape my thoughts and refine content, whether you know it or not!
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@ 09fbf8f3:fa3d60f0
2024-09-10 13:21:23由于gmail在中国被防火墙拦截了,无法打开,不想错过邮件通知。
通过自建ntfy接受gmail邮件通知。 怎么自建ntfy,后面再写。
2024年08月13日更新:
修改不通过添加邮件标签来标记已经发送的通知,通过Google Sheets来记录已经发送的通知。
为了不让Google Sheets文档的内容很多,导致文件变大,用脚本自动清理一个星期以前的数据。
准备工具
- Ntfy服务
- Google Script
- Google Sheets
操作步骤
- 在Ntfy后台账号,设置访问令牌。
- 添加订阅主题。
- 进入Google Sheets创建一个表格.记住id,如下图:
- 进入Google Script创建项目。填入以下代码(注意填入之前的ntfy地址和令牌):
```javascript function checkEmail() { var sheetId = "你的Google Sheets id"; // 替换为你的 Google Sheets ID var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(sheetId).getActiveSheet();
// 清理一星期以前的数据 cleanOldData(sheet, 7 * 24 * 60); // 保留7天(即一周)内的数据
var sentEmails = getSentEmails(sheet);
var threads = GmailApp.search('is:unread'); Logger.log("Found threads: " + threads.length);
if (threads.length === 0) return;
threads.forEach(function(thread) { var threadId = thread.getId();
if (!sentEmails.includes(threadId)) { thread.getMessages().forEach(sendNtfyNotification); recordSentEmail(sheet, threadId); }
}); }
function sendNtfyNotification(email) { if (!email) { Logger.log("Email object is undefined or null."); return; }
var message = `发件人: ${email.getFrom() || "未知发件人"} 主题: ${email.getSubject() || "无主题"}
内容: ${email.getPlainBody() || "无内容"}`;
var url = "https://你的ntfy地址/Gmail"; var options = { method: "post", payload: message, headers: { Authorization: "Bearer Ntfy的令牌" }, muteHttpExceptions: true };
try { var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options); Logger.log("Response: " + response.getContentText()); } catch (e) { Logger.log("Error: " + e.message); } }
function getSentEmails(sheet) { var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues(); return data.map(row => row[0]); // Assuming email IDs are stored in the first column }
function recordSentEmail(sheet, threadId) { sheet.appendRow([threadId, new Date()]); }
function cleanOldData(sheet, minutes) { var now = new Date(); var thresholdDate = new Date(now.getTime() - minutes * 60 * 1000); // 获取X分钟前的时间
var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues(); var rowsToDelete = [];
data.forEach(function(row, index) { var date = new Date(row[1]); // 假设日期保存在第二列 if (date < thresholdDate) { rowsToDelete.push(index + 1); // 存储要删除的行号 } });
// 逆序删除(从最后一行开始删除,以避免行号改变) rowsToDelete.reverse().forEach(function(row) { sheet.deleteRow(row); }); }
```
5.Google Script是有限制的不能频繁调用,可以设置五分钟调用一次。如图:
结尾
本人不会代码,以上代码都是通过chatgpt生成的。经过多次修改,刚开始会一直发送通知,后面修改后将已发送的通知放到一个“通知”的标签里。后续不会再次发送通知。
如需要发送通知后自动标记已读,可以把代码复制到chatgpt给你写。
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@ 7460b7fd:4fc4e74b
2024-09-05 08:37:48请看2014年王兴的一场思维碰撞,视频27分钟开始
最后,一个当时无法解决的点:丢失
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2024-03-19 14:01:01Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant
Peter Todd has been saying this for a long time and all the time I've been thinking he is misunderstanding everything, but I guess a more charitable interpretation is that he is right.
Nostr today is indeed centralized.
Yesterday I published two harmless notes with the exact same content at the same time. In two minutes the notes had a noticeable difference in responses:
The top one was published to
wss://nostr.wine
,wss://nos.lol
,wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com
. The second was published to the relay where I generally publish all my notes to,wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com
, and that is announced on my NIP-05 file and on my NIP-65 relay list.A few minutes later I published that screenshot again in two identical notes to the same sets of relays, asking if people understood the implications. The difference in quantity of responses can still be seen today:
These results are skewed now by the fact that the two notes got rebroadcasted to multiple relays after some time, but the fundamental point remains.
What happened was that a huge lot more of people saw the first note compared to the second, and if Nostr was really censorship-resistant that shouldn't have happened at all.
Some people implied in the comments, with an air of obviousness, that publishing the note to "more relays" should have predictably resulted in more replies, which, again, shouldn't be the case if Nostr is really censorship-resistant.
What happens is that most people who engaged with the note are following me, in the sense that they have instructed their clients to fetch my notes on their behalf and present them in the UI, and clients are failing to do that despite me making it clear in multiple ways that my notes are to be found on
wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com
.If we were talking not about me, but about some public figure that was being censored by the State and got banned (or shadowbanned) by the 3 biggest public relays, the sad reality would be that the person would immediately get his reach reduced to ~10% of what they had before. This is not at all unlike what happened to dozens of personalities that were banned from the corporate social media platforms and then moved to other platforms -- how many of their original followers switched to these other platforms? Probably some small percentage close to 10%. In that sense Nostr today is similar to what we had before.
Peter Todd is right that if the way Nostr works is that you just subscribe to a small set of relays and expect to get everything from them then it tends to get very centralized very fast, and this is the reality today.
Peter Todd is wrong that Nostr is inherently centralized or that it needs a protocol change to become what it has always purported to be. He is in fact wrong today, because what is written above is not valid for all clients of today, and if we drive in the right direction we can successfully make Peter Todd be more and more wrong as time passes, instead of the contrary.
See also:
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2024-09-06 12:49:46Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #2
Nostr doesn't subscribe to any ideals of "free speech" as these belong to the realm of politics and assume a big powerful government that enforces a common ruleupon everybody else.
Nostr instead is much simpler, it simply says that servers are private property and establishes a generalized framework for people to connect to all these servers, creating a true free market in the process. In other words, Nostr is the public road that each market participant can use to build their own store or visit others and use their services.
(Of course a road is never truly public, in normal cases it's ran by the government, in this case it relies upon the previous existence of the internet with all its quirks and chaos plus a hand of government control, but none of that matters for this explanation).
More concretely speaking, Nostr is just a set of definitions of the formats of the data that can be passed between participants and their expected order, i.e. messages between clients (i.e. the program that runs on a user computer) and relays (i.e. the program that runs on a publicly accessible computer, a "server", generally with a domain-name associated) over a type of TCP connection (WebSocket) with cryptographic signatures. This is what is called a "protocol" in this context, and upon that simple base multiple kinds of sub-protocols can be added, like a protocol for "public-square style microblogging", "semi-closed group chat" or, I don't know, "recipe sharing and feedback".
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2024-10-15 12:06:04Lusaka was a short stop as we headed towards Victoria Falls. Its infrastructure caught us off guard. Good roads, accessible amenities, and many malls. A stark contrast to Malawi, a neighboring country we had just visited. Entering one such mall in Lusaksa felt like we were back in Toronto. Driven by government, private, and foreign investment, Lusaka seemed to be miles ahead of other landlocked countries we had visited.
During our time in the city, we visited a restaurant that accepts bitcoin and hosts local bitcoin meet-ups. While interacting with the owner it was clear he viewed bitcoin as a competitive differentiator and an efficient easier form of payment acceptance. Since our meeting, he has increased his marketing efforts to raise awareness and inform his customers about bitcoin.
Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya) is a major tourist attraction in Zambia, stretching nearly 1.7km! Due to recent droughts, the falls were no longer a blanket of water. Only certain sections had a steady flow, exposing the rock formations behind the water, an uncommon sight for visitors.
The waterfalls aside, we were invited to speak at the Bitcoin community meetup, Bitcoin Victoria Falls. The founder of this community is American, who decided to kickstart the project during a recent visit to the area. It was the first time we had encountered a community founded by a foreigner who didn't live in the region. It shows that anyone can bring forth change regardless of where they live! Can't forget his co-founder and running mate, Humprey, a local who has helped progress their mission!
Our presentation topic? Bitcoin for Businesses. We discussed the basics of bitcoin, how it works, how to earn it, and most importantly, how to onboard merchants. It's great interacting with the local community to understand their challenges. Fortunately, this community has decent bitcoin penetration. The lodge where the meetup was held accepts bitcoin, including a taxi service, a tour operator, and a stationary provider. During our stay, we onboarded the bar and its servers within the lodge premises. The owners appreciated the speed at which they could settle payments and easily accept money from foreigners who may not have cash.
Did you know, that the Zambezi River which runs below Victoria Falls is world renowned for its white water rafting? We had the chance to experience it ourselves and pay with bitcoin!
Botswana here we come.
Sources: Victoria Falls. Britannia. https://www.britannica.com/place/Victoria-Falls-waterfall-Zambia-Zimbabwe
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2024-10-15 12:49:55NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities) are technical specifications that Nostr developers create to define how specific event types and tags are used. These can be written before or after the feature is implemented and often go through multiple revisions before becoming stable enough to matter. Once two or more clients fully implement the proposal, it is merged into the main repository. This process ensures that while new ideas are encouraged, they are also rigorously reviewed and tested.
There are generally two paths for NIPs: 1. New Ideas, when developers just have a hunch on a new solution and want to quickly write something up to gather feedback from the community. These are my favorite NIPs because they generally introduce a new way of thinking about a problem we are all having. And because they are not just a general solution, but a specific proposal, it allows us to see the entire picture in just a few paragraphs. Even though they are my favorite, they are quite "green" and usually spur 2-3 separate solutions in following PRs by different authors. 2. Existing implementations that need to explain what they are doing. These happen when a client is already running the code in production and simply wants to explain to the rest of the community how to generate and interpret the events the client is creating. These NIPs start much more stable than the former and allow for fewer changes, but because there is already an implementation available, it's a market-tested solution that might just need a few adjustments before others start implementing it.
Well-written specs ensure clarity, reduce ambiguity, and help developers implement the proposal consistently. The text should be VERY short, precise, prescriptive, and actionable by other devs. Start by introducing the new kind or tag in the first sentence and jump straight into a mockup of how the event looks like. The mockup should be self-explanatory and provide clues to what the remaining of the document will talk about. Some folks like to add long/verbose introductions, conclusions, and discussions of the reasons why the NIP is needed or why certain features are there. But those are largely unnecessary and are more appropriate to be placed in the body of the Pull Request descriptor.
Start your NIP with the following template:
``` NIP-
====== draft
optional
Event kind
defines . Tags . As an example: `jsonc { "kind": <your kind>, "tags": [ <your tags> ], "content": "", //... }
`Relays MUST...
Clients MUST...
```
Your number for the NIP is irrelevant. Just pick a random number that is available so that you can fork the repo, create a file with that name, and start writing. This number will likely change once the NIP is merged.
The NIPs title must be self-explanatory and short. If it helps, try to imagine which name would be best to add to the list of NIPs on the readme.md file. Same for event type names. Picture something that is short, unique and that devs can just remove the space to have a class name.
The
draft
optional
tags are there because unless you are working on NIP-01, everything is draft and everything is optional. If you want to write a mandatory NIP, you better make sure your text is so good that it can be added to01.md
directly without overcomplicating the protocol.Start by describing the new event type, what it does and its main tags. Show the mockup and then start introducing all the other tags and how clients and relays should behave when implementing it. Use the words MUST, SHOULD, MAY, SHOULD NOT, and MUST NOT to define the mandatory behaviors of those declaring compliance with the NIP.
Keep it simple. The specification should be designed to ensure that different clients, relays, and services can implement it without requiring substantial changes to their existing infrastructure. Ideally, devs should be able to implement the entire NIP from near scratch in just a few hours. Don't use jargon. Don't declare a vocabulary of words. Use simple words that anyone can understand and quickly code a demo of all the features in the NIP. They can learn about your reasons as they develop their implementation.
Write expecting buggy implementations. The protocol must be resilient to varying implementations and network conditions, and gracefully handle coding errors or random gibberish. You want to promote a defensive design that anticipates misguided implementations, avoids breaking changes, and maximizes compatibility across the ecosystem. What happens if there are two tags with the same name? What happens if events that have missing tags are found? Buggy implementations will exist. The writing and reading clients are generally different and must be ready for anything that shows up on each side.
Avoid abstractions, extensible and modular designs. Yes, they can be hidden underneath your text, but writing for them is a mistake and just overcomplicates things. Write for a specific use case and close all possible options to the items/features declared in the text. Make sure you are implementing those. There is no point in declaring things that are not going to be used in the short term. We can always add more in the future and we don't need a recipe on how to add more later.
Label your relay hosts, setting kinds, and other data management necessities. Every NIP has a way to find out the user's preferred relay associated with the use case. Sometimes it's through a relay hint others through a separate event kind that just lists the user's home relays or contains a list of "following" events designed for the use case. Each NIP can create their own way of finding events.
You cannot add new root fields. Use tags instead. Root fields are special and require changes to the core protocol everyone implements. Any new field will take years to come to reality.
Once you propose an idea, try not to change too much. It will take time for other devs to wrap their minds around it. If you keep changing it, even if those changes reflect the request of the reviewers in the PR, it just confuses everyone. Sometimes things change so much that it is worth doing two PRs with separate specifications that solve the same problem. That allows devs to analyze the two propositions side by side and decide which one is better.
Always add a test case or an example. This is an absolute requirement if the NIP is complex, like a new encryption scheme. But even for simpler NIPs, test cases help devs to quickly verify if their implementations meet the minimum standard for compliance. They not only add peace of mind, but they also provide some welcoming dopamine when a new dev is trying to implement your NIP.
Managing state is hard. Doing it with different implementations and hosting them in separate relays is even harder. If your NIP has multiple events to manage state, like group administration actions (add/remove member, change names/icons, invite/reporting events) try to structure them in a way that devs can quickly see the state machine of all possible state changes.
Specify data formats explicitly. Clearly define the format of all data fields, including type (e.g., string, integer), encoding (e.g., base64, hex), and structure (e.g., array, object). Specify constraints like length limits, valid characters, and optional/required fields. Tags are case-sensitive. Avoid having to specify new encodings, but if you do, make sure to include test cases that encompass all potential cases.
It's ok to not propose the most efficient way of solving the problem. A simple but slightly less efficient design is preferred over a complex but more efficient one. We already use hex and base64 codes to represent binary bytes in JSON, which wastes 25-50% of space. That level of waste is ok if the solution becomes simpler to code.
It's not about you. You may think you must convince everyone that your particular way of solving the problem is the best and get some ego points with yourself. While some of that is beneficial to the debate, be open-minded to the other possible solutions. Once merged, the NIP is not yours anymore. Anyone can change in any way they see fit. If your work is great, people will remember your name. If it just got the conversation started to become something completely different from what you proposed, they will also remember you.
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2024-07-28 15:31:13Objavte, ako avatari a pseudonymné identity ovplyvňujú riadenie kryptokomunít a decentralizovaných organizácií (DAOs). V tejto prednáške sa zameriame na praktické fungovanie decentralizovaného rozhodovania, vytváranie a správu avatarových profilov, a ich rolu v online reputačných systémoch. Naučíte sa, ako si vytvoriť efektívny pseudonymný profil, zapojiť sa do rôznych krypto projektov a využiť svoje aktivity na zarábanie kryptomien. Preskúmame aj príklady úspešných projektov a stratégie, ktoré vám pomôžu zorientovať sa a uspieť v dynamickom svete decentralizovaných komunít.
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2024-09-02 02:10:27O cálculo lambda, nomeado comumente de lambda calculus, formalizado por Alonzo Church na década de 1930, é uma das fundações teóricas da ciência da computação e da lógica matemática.
Seguem os princípios básicos do cálculo lambda:
Abstração
A abstração é a principal característica do cálculo lambda e se refere à definição de funções anônimas. No cálculo lambda, uma função é definida pela notação λx.E, onde:
- λ é o símbolo lambda.
- x é o parâmetro da função.
- E é a expressão que define o corpo da função.Por exemplo, a expressão λx.x + 1 representa uma função que adiciona 1 a seu argumento.
Aplicação
A aplicação é o processo de chamar uma função com um argumento. No cálculo lambda, a aplicação de uma função a um argumento é representada pela justaposição de duas expressões. Por exemplo, se temos a função: λx.x + 1 e queremos aplicá-la ao argumento 2, escrevemos (λx.x + 1)2
Redução
Redução é o processo de simplificação de expressões no cálculo lambda. Existem várias formas de redução, mas as mais comuns são:
Redução β (Beta): Substitui a variável vinculada na expressão da função pelo argumento fornecido, i.e, (λx.x + 1)2 se reduz a 2 + 1, que é 3.
Redução α (Alpha): Renomeia as variáveis vinculadas para evitar conflitos de nomes, i.e, λx.λx.x pode ser renomeado para λx.λy.y.Variáveis Livres e Vinculadas
Uma variável é considerada vinculada se está definida dentro do escopo de uma abstração lambda. Caso contrário, é considerada uma variável livre. Por exemplo, na expressão λx.x+y, x é uma variável vinculada e y é uma variável livre.
Substituição
Substituição é o processo de substituir uma variável livre por uma expressão. Se temos uma expressão E e substituímos uma variável x por uma expressão N, representamos isso como E[x := N].
Funções Anônimas
No cálculo lambda, todas as funções são anônimas, o que significa que elas não têm um nome explícito. Isso contrasta com a programação tradicional, onde funções geralmente têm nomes.
Expressividade
O cálculo lambda é extremamente expressivo e pode representar qualquer função computável. Ele é Turing-completo, o que significa que qualquer coisa que pode ser computada por uma máquina de Turing também pode ser computada usando cálculo lambda.
Exemplo de Redução
Considere a função identidade λx.x. Aplicando essa função a um argumento a, temos:
(λx.x)a
Para reduzir isso, substituímos x por a no corpo da função:
a
Este é um exemplo simples de como a aplicação e a redução funcionam no cálculo lambda.
Notação e Como Usar:
Abstração
A notação λx.E define uma função anônima onde x é o parâmetro e E é o corpo da função. É importante notar que:
- O ponto (.) separa o parâmetro do corpo da função.
- As variáveis são case-sensitive.Por exemplo, λx.x define uma função identidade que retorna o próprio argumento.
Aplicação
Para aplicar uma função a um argumento, simplesmente colocamos a função e o argumento lado a lado. Por exemplo, a aplicação da função identidade λx.x ao argumento a é escrita como (λx.x)a.
Redução β (Beta)
A redução β envolve substituir o parâmetro formal pelo argumento fornecido na aplicação. Considere a função λx.x + 1 aplicada a 2:
(λx.x + 1)2⇒ 2 + 1⇒ 3
Redução α
A redução α é usada para evitar conflitos de nomes, renomeando variáveis vinculadas. Por exemplo, λx.λx.x pode ser renomeado para λx.λy.y para evitar ambiguidades.
Variáveis Livres e Vinculadas
Na expressão λx.x + y, x é vinculado pelo λ enquanto y é livre. Isso significa que y não tem uma definição dentro da expressão e pode ser substituído por outro valor.
Substituição
Se temos uma expressão E e queremos substituir uma variável x por uma expressão N, representamos isso como E[x := N]. Por exemplo, se E = x + y e N = 2, então E[x := 2] resulta em 2 + y.
Exemplo Prático
Vamos considerar a função λx.λy.x + y e aplicá-la aos argumentos 3 e 4:
(λx.λy.x + y)3 ⇒ λy.3 + y(λy.3 + y)4 ⇒ 3 + 4 ⇒ 7
Neste exemplo, primeiro aplicamos o 3 ao parâmetro x, resultando em uma nova função λy.3 + y. Depois aplicamos o 4 ao parâmetro y, resultando na expressão final 3 + 4, que se reduz a 7.
Fim.
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2024-06-28 21:46:01_Prologue: this is a prose adaptation of a talk I gave to a private audience in Dubai and then tweaked slightly for a small conference in Sofia. I'm increasingly thinking it deserves a more general audience, and may be better suited to text anyway. This is probably not its final form, as the desired audience is tradfi capital allocators, hence a PDF is likely on the cards in the near future. For the time being, consider this a first draft, practising what it might look like as prose, and soliciting feedback from the good people of Nostr. Enjoy! _
The title of this essay means absolutely nothing. There is no such thing as “Web π” because there is no such thing as “Web 3”. It’s bullshit. It’s a scam.
Unfortunately, it has turned out to be extremely powerful bullshit and an extremely profitable scam, and so my goal in writing this essay is to give the reader the tools to navigate all of this and come out the other side without having been scammed or bullshat. In the spirit of not scamming and not bullshitting, I should be clear upfront about the intended readership of this essay, who I am to write it, and who it’s really about.
Who Are You?
I assume the reader is not a shadowy super-coder, but rather is a financial professional. This essay isn’t really for Bitcoiners, although if any read it, I hope they still find it interesting. Who I am really writing for are people coming to the space for the first time. Hopefully in your mind you are coming to the _Bitcoin _space, but if you think you are coming to the “crypto” space then this may be even more useful.
Who Am I?
I am the founder of a company that makes me not only highly biased but also flagrantly self-interested in the content I am promoting. I run a firm that invests in the Bitcoin ecosystem through a variety of different vehicles. I am not going to mislead you in the slightest in that my primary motivation is for you to allocate capital to us rather than to people I would call scammers and bullshitters. You should listen to them too and make up your own mind, or else what’s the point, really? How do you know I’m not scamming or bullshitting you? Exactly. Don’t trust. Verify.
In any case, that’s all assuming you want to “allocate capital” at all rather than just buy Bitcoin without a management fee. I’d like to think the primary difference is that I will be honest about that, and I’ll encourage you to understand as much as you can about what is going on and what you are doing (and if you are at all unsure, I would suggest you aren’t ready and you should just buy Bitcoin and learn) rather than bamboozle you with complete nonsense like “Web 3”.
Who Is This About?
It’s not at all about people working in crypto. Bitcoiners amongst the readership may be mildly irritated by me going on to give about as charitable an explanation of the role of these people as they have probably ever heard from somebody like me. This is really about financiers. It’s about the people who have used the mostly unrewarded efforts of developers, academics, entrepreneurs, and so on to siphon money from you to themselves, leaving a trail of useless tech and defrauded retail investors in their wake – and who will continue to do so if you continue to empower them.
Why This Essay?
We are at an interesting point in the development of the entirety of the “crypto” industry and I strongly suggest that people like you are going to be pitched all kinds of scams and bullshit in the coming months and years. If you have a little more background on what these people are really talking about, you will hopefully be able to avoid it.
My plan to help with that is presenting a short version and a long version of what blockchains are and are for, how they have historically been deployed in service of scams and bullshit, a high-level theory explaining the narrative evolution behind this sorry history, and a prediction for the near-term future of such shenanigans.
What is a Blockchain For?
A Blockchain is for sound, censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer digital money. It is not for anything else. If a blockchain is functional as money, it may be possible to also _use it _for other things. Some people find that interesting, some people find it infuriating, but don’t let that subtlety confuse you. It is not _for _arbitrary computation and storage or “decentralizing the internet” or running illegal securities rackets.
It is for money, plain and simple.
How does it achieve that? Proof of work and the difficulty adjustment. These are the innovations from which every other desirable property or feature flows. Proof of work enables censorship resistance. If somebody is trying to sell you on “proof of stake”: bullshit. The difficulty adjustment enables precise, predetermined, and _fair _issuance. If somebody is trying to sell you on a token they issue for free and without restriction: scam.
The problem Bitcoin solves is both economic and technical and the solution has material technical and economic merit. And it’s for this very specific and irreplicable reason the Bitcoin token has value. If this all sounds extreme to you, then I would suggest that your understanding of the topic is _extremely _misguided, that you are going to be _extremely bullshat and extremely scammed, _and you need to read this essay. That’s the short version.
The Long Version
I am sensitive to how extreme this all sounds. After all, hundreds of billions of dollars have been pumped into crypto, not Bitcoin – a huge amount of it is widely used, and many capable, honest, and brilliant people work in the industry. The reader will recall just above I said those people are not the target of my criticism. I’m not claiming they are all scammers and bullshitters. Sadly, I think it’s more likely they have been scammed and bullshat to some degree also.
I think I have some credibility in pointing this out because, as a VC in the Bitcoin space, I have increasingly seen founders telling me this themselves: that they originally bought into the hype in crypto and ended up wasting an enormous amount of time realizing their idea made no technical or economic sense in that context, so then they came to Bitcoin instead. You hear this one time and it’s an anecdote, but you hear it as many times as I have and it feels more like a representative sample.
What I want to cover next is as charitable a summary of the state of ex-Bitcoin crypto as I possibly can: my contention is that crypto has evolved into 4 rough categories: stablecoins, cryptography R&D, gambling, and scams. And these aren’t exclusive, to be clear; there is a lot of overlap, and, in fact, the overlap is arguably the key.
Scams
Scams are tokens, plain and simple. If somebody is trying to profit from the speculative price action of a token they have issued, they are scamming somebody. Maybe they are scamming you, maybe they are scamming retail investors, maybe they are scamming customers or suppliers – if such parties even exist in their cargo cult “business model”. There’s a scam in there somewhere.
However, it is rarely _just _a scam. There will almost always be components of stablecoins, R&D or gambling too. Hence these are worth really grappling with, taking seriously, giving credit to the extent it is due, but also analyzing critically.
My rough and high-level assessment of this breakdown of crypto is as follows, and I’ll explain what I mean by this below: stablecoins have economic merit but dubious technical merit; R&D has technical merit but no economic merit; and gambling sort of has merit but it depends how you interpret it. Obviously, scams have neither.
Stablecoins
By “sort of technical merit” I mean that stablecoins have central issuers. You can issue them as tokens on a blockchain but there’s not really much of a point. The issuer could just run a database connected to the internet with some straightforward signature schemes for transfers and it would make minimal operational difference. In fact, it would be cheaper and faster. _In fact, _you may as well run a Chaumian eCash mint (a decades-old innovation recently resurrected firmly within the _Bitcoin _space) such that your cheaper-and-faster-than-a-blockchain database also grants users transience and privacy rather than the public permanence of a blockchain.
The fact Tron is the most heavily used for stablecoins, in terms of settling the most value, is a testament to this point: it is barely even pretending not to be a database. This works as regulatory arbitrage given regulators think this is “innovation” because they are stupid.
That said, it is worth giving some credit here given the abject awfulness of fiat banking and payment rails with which stablecoins arguably most directly compete. Stablecoins are significantly more permissionless in their transfer than any fiat bank liability. And to attest to what seems like their most significant use case, they are permissionless in their _usership _in that only an internet connection and the right software is required rather than various discriminatory jurisdictional and compliance criteria.
However, what “sort of technical merit” ultimately boils down to, especially in comparison to Bitcoin, is: highly censorable in their exogenous links and, therefore, their value. The assets supposedly backing stablecoins are (by definition) still within the fiat system, even if this novel transfer mechanism of the rights to withdraw them is not. There is frankly a bit of theatre involved in the so-called “decentralization” of stablecoins given shutting down the central issuer is all that is required to make the permissionlessly tradeable decentralized tokens go to zero and be technically unimpeded but functionally useless. The technical innovation of Bitcoin, in contrast, is easily understood in one sense as it being totally indifferent to this kind of attack.
On the other hand, by “economic merit” I mean that they are extremely widely used and valued as a means of providing dollar shadow banking and often superior payment rails. Those in crypto often love pointing to this and many Bitcoiners tie themselves in knots trying to explain it away, whereas I see it as essentially unrelated to Bitcoin. Clearly there is a superficial connection, but you could create any superficial connection by “tokenizing” things for no particularly good technical _reason. I think it’s a different industry entirely. It’s more like a subindustry within _fintech – part banking, part payments – that for the time being relies on bamboozling regulators with all the nonsense I’m drawing attention to.
And good for them, frankly. If fiat banking isn’t going to be backed by real money anyway, then it _at least _ought to be permissionless. It should really be Chaumian eCash if it isn’t just Bitcoin, and it is regulation alone that makes it so awful in the first place. Making money usable and not a tool of dystopian control is, at this point, a political problem, not a technical one. Stablecoins are frankly a step in the right direction, especially insofar as they acclimatize users to digital assets. But I would still caution that they arguably don’t have sufficient technical merit to withstand what feels like an inevitable political attack …
Cryptography R&D
“Technical merit” for R&D is more or less self-explanatory, but the context is worth appreciating. It’s only really in crypto and mostly in Ethereum more specifically that people can permissionlessly experiment with arbitrarily complex cryptographic schemes that operate on real, enormous value. There are a lot of people who understandably find this attractive given their projects are essentially academic and trying out their ideas in the wild is more interesting, arguably more worthwhile, and certainly more fun than putting research essays on ArXiv or submitting them to a journal.
But … the value being manipulated is at best stablecoins and at worst baseless hype. If it isn’t a stablecoin then it probably exists in the first place because of either gambling or scams – and even there the line is very blurry.
Gambling
Gambling is an interesting lens to adopt on all this because it’s literally a trillion-dollar industry. And it’s real. It’s consensual; it’s not criminal; it’s legitimate economic activity that generates enormous profits for those who facilitate it well.
So, gambling has economic merit in that sense. But it’s tricky in this context how to characterize it because you could also argue it’s deeply dishonest gambling in that the gamblers don’t realize they are playing a negative sum game against the house. They think they are doing something akin to speculating on securities, which may be just as stupid depending on how it’s done, but at least has real economic utility and contributes to capital formation.
The difference here is that what is being speculated on _has no economic merit. _So, if that’s your gauge of merit, then here there is none. And it’s a very blurry line between this and an outright scam. Maybe the people involved _think _of what they are doing as amazing R&D, and maybe it’s inadvertently just a scam; maybe they know it’s all nonsense, but they think they can profit within the negative sum game because there are greater fools. In any case, I think gambling is a very helpful characterization of a lot of the behavior of the users and the real economic function of the industry.
There’s an interesting social component to all this because crypto people will often get mad at Bitcoiners because Bitcoiners tend not to care about either stablecoins or crypto R&D: they’ll say, why don’t you like stablecoins, they have clear economic merit? And the answer is they have dubious technical merit. Or, why don’t you like our next-gen Zero Knowledge scaling protocol, it has clear technical merit? And the answer is it has no economic merit.
If you’re happy with one but not the other, it’s easy to think of Bitcoiners as being closed-minded or dogmatic or whatever, but, ultimately, I think it’s just about discipline. What’s the point in being excited by something that half works, and that you know why will never fully work? So to be frank, a lot of this may be well-intentioned, but it’s kinda’ bullshit. It very probably ultimately rests on gambling and not at all whatever its stated purpose is … or it’s just a scam.
How Did We Get Here?
The following is by no means exhaustive and the framing is deliberately a little tongue-in-cheek. As well as being accurate enough (if unavoidably biased), my goal here is primarily to set up my prediction for what is coming next.
2015 reality: Ethereum launches narrative: “the world computer”
In 2015, Ethereum launched. The narrative here was that we are building “the world computer” and we can now have decentralized uncensorable computation. Never mind that anybody with a laptop has an uncensorable and decentralized computing device. And keep in mind this question of, “_what data might it ever be relevant to compute over in this manner (whatever that means in the first place)?” _The answer will become clearer and clearer …
2016-17 reality: ICO bubble narrative: “Web 3” / “DApps”
Regardless, at the end of 2015 we get the proposal and adoption of ERC20: a standard for issuing fungible tokens within Ethereum contracts, which is why in 2016 _but especially in 2017 _we get the ICO bubble. The narrative changes. Now we are concerned with “Web 2” companies being huge, powerful, and centralized. What if, instead, users could cooperatively own the application, control their own data, and participate in the economic upside that their usage is creating?
2018-19 reality: crypto winter narrative: “mistakes were made”
In 2018 this all falls apart, so don’t worry about it, moving on …
2020-21 reality: defi summer narrative: “decentralized finance”
By 2020 the narrative was different once again. It is more or less realized by this point that utility tokens make no technical or economic sense. You can’t introduce artificial scarcity in capital goods where there should be abundance and deflation and expect anybody to care, never mind to value your concoction. On the other hand, “securities” ought to be scarce and in some sense ought to function as tradeable ledger entries. Maybe they could be tokenized and computed on in a censorship-resistant and decentralized manner?
So, we get a boom in “defi” which, for what it’s worth, fellow Axiom co-founder Anders Larson and I predicted in our essay Only The Strong Survive, in September 2021, would be a complete disaster because, amongst a myriad of other illiterate insanities, there was approximately zero grounding of these securities in productive capital. The ecosystem was entirely self-referential – grounded _not even _in the questionable economic merit of stablecoins but firmly in gambling and scams; in leverage, rehypothecation, and securitization of precisely nothing whatsoever productive.
2022 reality: shitcoinpocalypse narrative: “mistakes were made”
And we were absolutely right because in 2022 everything collapsed. First Terra/Luna imploded – a “defi” project which essentially presented to the world the argument that a fractional reserve bank issuing fiduciary media can literally never go bankrupt because it can always cover a deposit shortfall by issuing more equity. While briefly flirting with a capitalization of around fifty f***ing billion dollars, and endorsed and fawned over by all manner of illiterate charlatans with gigantic and unsuspecting audiences, this argument was eventually rejected by the market as utterly imbecilic, as analyzed by myself and Nic Carter in All Falls Down.
This triggered a credit contagion that soon after took down 3 Arrows Capital, Celsius, Voyager, BlockFi, and others. FTX limped along by what we now understand to be something like defrauding their way out of debt, but eventually also collapsed later that year. If _Only The Strong Survive _was a pre-mortem of all of this, then the reader may want to read Green Eggs And Ham, also by myself and Anders Larson, as a kind of post-mortem.
2023-today reality: Bitcoin multisigs narrative: “Bitcoin renaissance”
And now a lot of this stuff is moving to Bitcoin. It is outside the scope of this essay to explain this in much detail but there have been a handful of developments in Bitcoin recently which, regardless of their intended purpose, seem to have as a collective side effect that a lot of these same shenanigans can now be implemented (or can _pretend _to be implemented) in a more Bitcoin-native context.
So, the new narrative is something like:
“these things didn’t work, not because they are terrible ideas that collapse to moon math wrappers around gambling and scams under any remotely critical analysis, but rather because they weren’t on Bitcoin. But also, since it has only recently become possible to (at least pretend to) implement them on Bitcoin, they are now worthwhile. We have wandered in the wilderness but learned our lessons and found the promised land.”
Technical and Economic Merit
Let’s consider all this through the lens of technical and economic merit once again. Or rather, the alleged merit given the stated goal. Ignore for now whether there is any merit:
2015 technical goal: new computing paradigm economic goal: x% of GDP?
The original idea of “crypto” allegedly has the merit of the next revolution in computing. Goodness knows how big that market is; probably a decent chunk of global GDP – if it meant anything, which it doesn’t.
2016-17 technical goal: disrupting company formation economic goal: y% of S&P?
ICOs then become a little bit more specific. Now they are merely disrupting how we organize companies. What’s that worth? Some portion of the value of the companies that can now be decentralized and tokenized I guess? Who knows …
2018-19 nothing to see here
Nothing happened then, don’t worry about it.
2020-21 technical goal: decentralize finance economic goal: z% of NYSE, CME, ISDA?
Defi becomes more specific again. Now we are merely tokenizing financial contracts, expanding access, removing middlemen, and so on. So that should probably be worth some percentage of capital markets activity?
2022 nothing to see here
Oops, never mind …
2023-today technical goal: now it’s on Bitcoin! economic goal: i% of … Bitcoin?
… and now it’s on Bitcoin apparently.
In Hindsight ...
I think the most amusing analysis of all this is as follows: it starts off completely insane, it gets more and more restrained each time – you could cheekily argue it starts to make more and more sense – but it also gets closer to Bitcoin every time. It’s clearly narrowing in on just: Bitcoin.
This is people realizing, painfully, over decades, what blockchains are for! They are not for “decentralizing everything” They are for censorship-resistant, sound, peer-to-peer digital money.
And I think this is _also _why we get the current state of crypto from earlier in the essay. As it starts to make more and more sense (by getting closer and closer to Bitcoin) you have realizations like the following: digital gift vouchers for artificially scarce and extremely expensive computation aren’t money, so we need “real money” in here for it to have economic merit, so you get stablecoins. Also, well we have a rich programming environment that seems technically interesting but also the severe technical handicap of being unable to do even a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of all the computations in the world, so you get crypto R&D. These emerge as a kind of patch, and they have _some _merit in isolation, whereas the long-term trajectory is actually just to converge on Bitcoin.
It’s an open and fascinating question if there are any learnings from these that can still be transplanted to Bitcoin. For stablecoins, this strikes me as less clear, given the dubious technical merit is introduced by using a blockchain at all, not just a blockchain other than Bitcoin. However, efforts to create Bitcoin balances (tokenized or otherwise) that are stable relative to some external price are to be applauded, if still heavily scrutinized for what technical merit they _really _have.
It seems far more likely that crypto R&D will prove useful in a Bitcoin context to some or other degree, and in this case the economic merit is in fact solved by moving to Bitcoin, provided the necessary technical merit can be mimicked. At the time of writing, this is a source of both hope and dread: hope given the possibility of viable avenues of development (although still highly uncertain); dread given how early steps in this direction are already being misrepresented in the pursuit of bullshit and scams. I will return to both shortly.
Narrative Evolution
Back to the table just above, I want to make three quick observations that tie together my entire argument and get us to the end of the essay:
Firstly, the bubbles always follow the price of Bitcoin. Hopefully I don’t need to include a price chart for the reader to grasp this immediately.
Secondly, it’s important that the narrative always changes. Absolutely ungodly amounts of money were raised for this crap following the_ Bitcoin bull runs of 2017 and 2021. The people doing this couldn’t point to the previous absolute disaster, so they had to spin something along the lines of: “_we learned our lessons and we’ve refined the use case.” This should sound familiar from just above.
Thirdly, however, regardless of whatever refinement they’ve come up with, the consequence of the new “narrative” is always, “buy my token”.
Always.
It doesn’t matter what buzzword salad is in the middle. It’s always “Bitcoin is cool, xyz, fughayzi fughahzi, buy my token.”
This is why I am very much tempted to not care so much about developers, academics, entrepreneurs, and so on, and in fact for my null hypothesis to be that they are more likely to have been victims than perpetrators. I don’t think they even end up in a position to contribute without the key group whom I do blame. When you put all these pieces together, what I think falls out of this analysis is as follows:
The entire cycle of shitcoinery can be traced to unscrupulous financiers convincing capital allocators who don’t know any better, in a bull market that, yes, Bitcoin is cool, but what they are doing is related, cooler, and that they deserve a fee.
Let us label this the Capital Cycle Theory of Shitcoinery. I think that everything else about which one might want to complain is downstream of this core realization.
Avoiding It
Given everything I’ve covered this is simple and this is pretty much the end of the essay.
You need to be aware of why this is happening now. If it hasn’t happened to you already (intended readership in the capital allocation business, that is) I guarantee it’s about to: with ETFs and the halving just past, we seem to be starting a Bitcoin bull run, these people have already raised ridiculous amounts of money on scams and bullshit that have mostly imploded. They may have lost a lot of money, or they may even have dumped on retail and got an excellent “return”. But in any case, they need a new narrative.
It's _possible _they have a viable narrative around stablecoins, R&D, both, and that they are as wary of scams as I have suggested here that they should be. I don’t want to insult anybody who merely has a different investment thesis to me if they are otherwise reasonable in their outlook and honest in their dealings.
However, if they are only now realizing how pointless and disingenuous every preceding crypto narrative has been after 7 years and hundreds of billions of dollars – or if they still don’t realize it at all; if their track record shows they were deeply involved, handsomely rewarded, and yet created nothing of lasting value; if they say things like “the builders are coming back to Bitcoin”: be very, very suspicious. Be on the lookout for tokens, which is to say, be on the lookout for scams.
What is especially frustrating is that the technical spin of the "layer twos" that are all the rage at the time of writing, that "the builders are coming back to Bitcoin" to build, and that you, the capital-allocating reader, will almost certainly be pitched, is in and of itself pretty reasonable. They just don't require tokens and they don't require gambling to support the token prices. What they do require is _sound adherence to Bitcoin's technical and economic merit. _At the very least, they require honest communication about the design trade-offs so far and planned for, and what, if any, economic and technical merit is left over after these trade-offs have been made.
Narrative aside, the _reality _of 99% of these projects is that they are private execution environments tied to multisigs custodying user deposits. Which is to say, on the one hand, that they are cargo culting "crypto R&D" from Ethereum that isn't technically possible in Bitcoin in order to feign technical merit, and on the other, that _they aren't layer twos at all. _Once again, they may as well be Chaumian eCash mints, except for the fact that this would make the intended token scam all but impossible to pull off.
Casey Rodarmor, creator of the Ordinals protocol, recently joked on the Hell Money _podcast he co-hosts, responding to the idea that "_everybody is building an L2 now":
"It's the same sad sack playbook as on Ethereum being recapitulated on Bitcoin. That's how you get a VC check on Ethereum. They are all glorified multisigs, so they are like, "hey let's port our glorified multisig to Bitcoin and get a VC check." I was talking to a friend of mine who is working on an interesting project, an open-source analyzer that does transaction clustering, and I was like, "maybe you could do this in this way and raise some VC money," and he said, "yeah, okay, but what's the point in raising VC money?" And I said, "no, no, no, this is the end! This is the goal! You raise VC money and then you cut yourself checks from that VC money until it runs out and then you raise more at a 10x valuation. This is the new economy, guys!"
The 1% that are legitimately trying to bring the learnings from crypto R&D to Bitcoin in a technically and economically sound manner will hopefully win in the long run (and even this is somewhat speculative at the time of writing) but will likely get little to no attention amidst this bull market flurry of scams and bullshit.
Axiom will do its best to source and invest in these companies (we already have!) but we are resigned to it being a much more difficult sell to capital allocators in light of the Capital Cycle Theory of Shitcoinery. To be brutally honest, this entire essay can fairly be considered cope on my part in light of having lost this battle in the past and facing up to the very real prospect of losing it in the near future too. Oh well, at least I tried.
Wrapping Up
The essence of the Capital Cycle Theory of Shitcoinery is that the problems I’ve described ultimately come from bamboozling people just like you with technical sounding nonsense like “Web 3” so you think it’s all a lot more complicated than it really is. Just buy Bitcoin. That’s certainly the first thing you should do anyway, and it might be the only thing you ever need to do.
If you really, really want to take the extra risk of investing in the Bitcoin ecosystem, the team at Axiom would be happy to speak with you. But we are never going to talk you out of buying Bitcoin. There is no world in which Bitcoin does poorly and we do well, or in which we promise something “better than Bitcoin,” and there’s no point in engaging with us at all if you don’t already believe most of this.
If that’s of interest to you, we’d love to talk. If not, just buy Bitcoin. In any case: fair warning, we are heading into a Bitcoin bull market and the scams and the bullshit are coming. Good luck avoiding them.
Allen Farrington, June 2024
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@ 4523be58:ba1facd0
2024-05-28 11:05:17NIP-116
Event paths
Description
Event kind
30079
denotes an event defined by its event path rather than its event kind.The event directory path is included in the event path, specified in the event's
d
tag. For example, an event path might beuser/profile/name
, whereuser/profile
is the directory path.Relays should parse the event directory from the event path
d
tag and index the event by it. Relays should support "directory listing" of kind30079
events using the#f
filter, such as{"#f": ["user/profile"]}
.For backward compatibility, the event directory should also be saved in the event's
f
tag (for "folder"), which is already indexed by some relay implementations, and can be queried using the#f
filter.Event content should be a JSON-encoded value. An empty object
{}
signifies that the entry at the event path is itself a directory. For example, when savinguser/profile/name
:Bob
, you should also saveuser/profile
:{}
so the subdirectory can be listed underuser
.In directory names, slashes should be escaped with a double slash.
Example
Event
json { "tags": [ ["d", "user/profile/name"], ["f", "user/profile"] ], "content": "\"Bob\"", "kind": 30079, ... }
Query
json { "#f": ["user/profile"], "authors": ["[pubkey]"] }
Motivation
To make Nostr an "everything app," we need a sustainable way to support new kinds of applications. Browsing Nostr data by human-readable nested directories and paths rather than obscure event kind numbers makes the data more manageable.
Numeric event kinds are not sustainable for the infinite number of potential applications. With numeric event kinds, developers need to find an unused number for each new application and announce it somewhere, which is cumbersome and not scalable.
Directories can also replace monolithic list events like follow lists or profile details. You can update a single directory entry such as
user/profile/name
orgroups/follows/[pubkey]
without causing an overwrite of the whole profile or follow list when your client is out-of-sync with the most recent list version, as often happens on Nostr.Using
d
-tagged replaceable events for reactions, such as{tags: [["d", "reactions/[eventId]"]], content: "\"👍\"", kind: 30079, ...}
would make un-reacting trivial: just publish a new event with the samed
tag and an empty content. Toggling a reaction on and off would not cause a flurry of new reaction & delete events that all need to be persisted.Implementations
- Relays that support tag-replaceable events and indexing by arbitrary tags (in this case
f
) already support this feature. - IrisDB client side library: treelike data structure with subscribable nodes.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1266
- Relays that support tag-replaceable events and indexing by arbitrary tags (in this case
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@ df8f0a64:057d87a5
2024-10-10 15:18:39書き散らす動機
残暑続きからの急な気温低下で鼻炎がひどくなる今日この頃、皆様お元気でしょうか
株主への抗議のために退職してから2ヶ月半、流石に暇を持て余してきました 時間がある上に能動的に働く気も起きず、ひたすらボーッとしたりうねうね考え事をする日々です 幸いにして人生も折り返しにさしかかる頃になり、時折「今、人生が終わって構わないのでは?」というようなことも考えたりします (鬱病既往歴ありますが私は元気です)
子どものお迎えを終えて、いつもどおり夕食をとり、またうねうねしているうちに ふと、6年前の年末に急死された、仕事でお世話になったTさんのことを思い出しました
子を寝かしつけてもまだ頭の中をぐるぐるしていたので、ここに吐き出してすっきりしようという魂胆です
Tさんとの出会い
私のキャリアの(ほぼ)スタートはVC(ベンチャーキャピタル)でした 誰のせいでもないとある経緯もあり、周囲からは警戒され避けられ、わずか6年ではありますが、 インナーサークルに入り込めない時期を過ごし、当時の上司と二人、とにかくやれることをやり続ける毎日でした
いつものようにピッチイベントに参加しているとき、近くの席にいたスーツ姿の3人組と目が一瞬合います
「事業会社の人だ」
協調投資やファンド出資のきっかけを掴むべく、その3人に話かけます
「よろしければ弊社投資先のご紹介や御社の...」
ひととおりの挨拶を済ませ、この人たちにも避けられるんだろうと思いながらも要件を切り出します
「是非やりましょう」
いつもとは違う嬉しい返事をくれたのがTさんでした
面倒見の良い他社の先輩
そのときの3人組であるMさん・Iさん・Tさんには、私の仕事人生の中で最もお世話になったと言っても過言ではありません
ファンドの営業を受けていただき、協調投資を行い、VCからの転職後にも協業相手として他部署のキーマンをご紹介いただき...
社会人になったばかりの私の、今思い返せば恥ずかしい(部下がこんな提案したら卒倒する)レベルの提案を、 誰もが知る一流企業の多忙な役職持ちであるにも関わらず、毎回一時間も割いて丁寧に対応してくださる心の広い方でした
当時、VCと接点をもつような事業会社の対スタートアップ部隊は、本業でご活躍されている方が兼任で取り組むパターンが多く、Mさん・Iさん・Tさんももちろんそう
その後も昇進され、最後には本社の取締役に。今年遂に退任され、所謂「あがり」でしょうか、子会社の取締役に異動 長い社会人人生をほぼ走りきり、有終の美を飾ろうとする時期にさしかかっています
でもTさんはそこにはいません
残される側
冒頭触れたとおり、Tさんは6年前のこの時期に急死されました 死因については、Tさんのご友人がFBに投稿していた文章を読んでも、Iさんに聞いてもわからない
悲しいかな、四十年近く生きていると、死因が明かされない理由がわかるようになる機会が一度や二度はあります Tさんもおそらくそうだったのでしょう
直前まで、Iさんと一緒にベイエリアに出張され、楽しそうなコメントと共に写真を投稿されていたのに 晩婚なのか再婚なのか、とにかくご結婚されて一年ちょっと。お子様も生まれたばかりだったのに Tさんは近い人間に心中を隠して、静かにこの世を去りました
あなたの快い返事に、どれほど私が救われたのか 転職後の提案のとき、受付で顔を出してすぐ「元気?」と声をかけてくださったことがどれほど私を安心させてくれたか あなたが声をかけてくれる度、私の社会人としての成果が生まれたことに、私は十分に感謝を伝えられていません
まだしばらく残る理由
振り返って、Tさんのように誰かの人生をenhanceできたのか?と自分に問うと、まだできたとは思えません。残念ですが
今ここで死んでも私は構わないけど、まだもうちょっと頑張るべきかな、老いてから誰かに感謝をしてもらうまで生きてみてもいいかな
そうふと思い直しているうちに日付が変わりました
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@ d3f06d83:7ff53dc3
2024-10-15 00:30:10Chef's notes
This is the beginning of a great pizza.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 15 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 0
- 🍽️ Servings: 0
Ingredients
- 1 cup of pizza flour or bakery flour (00 flour)
- 1 zatchet of yeast (7g)
- 1 cup of water
- 1 spoon of honey (or sugar)
- 2 Litre container with a lid
Directions
- Pour the water in a 2L container
- Add honey/sugar and stir
- Add the yeast and stir. Wait 15 minutes or until the yeast is active (bubbling)
- Slowly mix the flour avoiding clumps
- Close the lid and leave in the fridge overnight
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@ 460c25e6:ef85065c
2024-08-29 01:07:22If you don't know where your posts are, you might as well just stay in the centralized Twitter. You either take control of your relay lists, or they will control you. Amethyst offers several lists of relays for our users. We are going to go one by one to help clarify what they are and which options are best for each one.
Public Home/Outbox Relays
Home relays store all YOUR content: all your posts, likes, replies, lists, etc. It's your home. Amethyst will send your posts here first. Your followers will use these relays to get new posts from you. So, if you don't have anything there, they will not receive your updates.
Home relays must allow queries from anyone, ideally without the need to authenticate. They can limit writes to paid users without affecting anyone's experience.
This list should have a maximum of 3 relays. More than that will only make your followers waste their mobile data getting your posts. Keep it simple. Out of the 3 relays, I recommend: - 1 large public, international relay: nos.lol, nostr.mom, relay.damus.io, etc. - 1 personal relay to store a copy of all your content in a place no one can delete. Go to relay.tools and never be censored again. - 1 really fast relay located in your country: paid options like http://nostr.wine are great
Do not include relays that block users from seeing posts in this list. If you do, no one will see your posts.
Public Inbox Relays
This relay type receives all replies, comments, likes, and zaps to your posts. If you are not getting notifications or you don't see replies from your friends, it is likely because you don't have the right setup here. If you are getting too much spam in your replies, it's probably because your inbox relays are not protecting you enough. Paid relays can filter inbox spam out.
Inbox relays must allow anyone to write into them. It's the opposite of the outbox relay. They can limit who can download the posts to their paid subscribers without affecting anyone's experience.
This list should have a maximum of 3 relays as well. Again, keep it small. More than that will just make you spend more of your data plan downloading the same notifications from all these different servers. Out of the 3 relays, I recommend: - 1 large public, international relay: nos.lol, nostr.mom, relay.damus.io, etc. - 1 personal relay to store a copy of your notifications, invites, cashu tokens and zaps. - 1 really fast relay located in your country: go to nostr.watch and find relays in your country
Terrible options include: - nostr.wine should not be here. - filter.nostr.wine should not be here. - inbox.nostr.wine should not be here.
DM Inbox Relays
These are the relays used to receive DMs and private content. Others will use these relays to send DMs to you. If you don't have it setup, you will miss DMs. DM Inbox relays should accept any message from anyone, but only allow you to download them.
Generally speaking, you only need 3 for reliability. One of them should be a personal relay to make sure you have a copy of all your messages. The others can be open if you want push notifications or closed if you want full privacy.
Good options are: - inbox.nostr.wine and auth.nostr1.com: anyone can send messages and only you can download. Not even our push notification server has access to them to notify you. - a personal relay to make sure no one can censor you. Advanced settings on personal relays can also store your DMs privately. Talk to your relay operator for more details. - a hidden, but public relay if you want DM notifications from our servers.
Make sure to add at least one public relay if you want to see DM notifications.
Private Home Relays
Private Relays are for things no one should see, like your drafts, lists, app settings, bookmarks etc. Ideally, these relays are either local or require authentication before posting AND downloading each user\'s content. There are no dedicated relays for this category yet, so I would use a local relay like Citrine on Android and a personal relay on relay.tools.
Keep in mind that if you choose a local relay only, a client on the desktop might not be able to see the drafts from clients on mobile and vice versa.
Search relays:
This is the list of relays to use on Amethyst's search and user tagging with @. Tagging and searching will not work if there is nothing here.. This option requires NIP-50 compliance from each relay. Hit the Default button to use all available options on existence today: - nostr.wine - relay.nostr.band - relay.noswhere.com
Local Relays:
This is your local storage. Everything will load faster if it comes from this relay. You should install Citrine on Android and write ws://localhost:4869 in this option.
General Relays:
This section contains the default relays used to download content from your follows. Notice how you can activate and deactivate the Home, Messages (old-style DMs), Chat (public chats), and Global options in each.
Keep 5-6 large relays on this list and activate them for as many categories (Home, Messages (old-style DMs), Chat, and Global) as possible.
Amethyst will provide additional recommendations to this list from your follows with information on which of your follows might need the additional relay in your list. Add them if you feel like you are missing their posts or if it is just taking too long to load them.
My setup
Here's what I use: 1. Go to relay.tools and create a relay for yourself. 2. Go to nostr.wine and pay for their subscription. 3. Go to inbox.nostr.wine and pay for their subscription. 4. Go to nostr.watch and find a good relay in your country. 5. Download Citrine to your phone.
Then, on your relay lists, put:
Public Home/Outbox Relays: - nostr.wine - nos.lol or an in-country relay. -
.nostr1.com Public Inbox Relays - nos.lol or an in-country relay -
.nostr1.com DM Inbox Relays - inbox.nostr.wine -
.nostr1.com Private Home Relays - ws://localhost:4869 (Citrine) -
.nostr1.com (if you want) Search Relays - nostr.wine - relay.nostr.band - relay.noswhere.com
Local Relays - ws://localhost:4869 (Citrine)
General Relays - nos.lol - relay.damus.io - relay.primal.net - nostr.mom
And a few of the recommended relays from Amethyst.
Final Considerations
Remember, relays can see what your Nostr client is requesting and downloading at all times. They can track what you see and see what you like. They can sell that information to the highest bidder, they can delete your content or content that a sponsor asked them to delete (like a negative review for instance) and they can censor you in any way they see fit. Before using any random free relay out there, make sure you trust its operator and you know its terms of service and privacy policies.
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-15 00:28:32Chef's notes
Serve with bread, and side salad
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 5 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 2-4
Ingredients
- 1 Can (10 ½ ounces) condensed chicken gumbo soup
- ½ Soup can tomato juice
- ½ Soup can water
- Croutons
Directions
- Add soup, juice, and water.
- Heat through, stirring often.
- Serve with croutons
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-15 00:20:20Chef's notes
Serve with bread, and side salad.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 5 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 2-4
Ingredients
- 1 Can (10 ½ ounces) condensed chicken noodle soup
- ½ Soup can V8 juice
- ½ Soup can water
- Croutons
Directions
- Add soup, V8, and water.
- Heat through, stirring often.
- Serve with croutons
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@ dfedf503:02288a26
2024-10-15 03:39:46The concept and significance of dew point In meteorology, the dew point is the temperature at which the gaseous water in the air becomes saturated and condenses into liquid water at a fixed pressure. At this temperature, condensed water floating in the air is called fog, and when it sticks to a solid surface, it is called dew, hence the name dew point. The relationship between dew point and relative humidity
In the compressor industry, the concepts of pressure dew point (PDP) and atmospheric dew point (ADP) are often used. The result of compression is that there is more water per unit volume of air, resulting in condensation. Ambient air contains water vapor, which is high in high temperature and low in low temperature. We use relative humidity (RH) to express the ratio of the actual water content in the air to the maximum water content. Because relative humidity is related to temperature, we prefer to use the term dew point, which is independent of any other parameter and can easily express the temperature when condensation occurs.
Measurement and application of dew point In industry, the measurement of dew point is very important. For example, in winter, because the outdoor temperature is lower and the indoor humidity is hotter, the air will condensation on the window glass, making the window glass blurred. If the dehumidifier is turned on indoors and the indoor moisture is gradually removed, then although the outdoor temperature is still the same, we will find that the dew on the window glass will slowly disappear. Dew point measurements can help us understand the moisture content of the air, which is critical for many industrial processes.
The relationship between dew point and weather phenomena In nature, dew points are associated with many weather phenomena. For example, dew forms during the warm season when ground objects are cooled by intense radiation at night. The temperature at which the air becomes saturated by cooling is called the dew point temperature. After it drops to the dew point, excess water vapor escapes. Because the temperature is above 0°C, this excess water vapor condenses into water droplets and sticks to surface objects.
To sum up, dew point is an important meteorological parameter, which is not only related to our daily life, such as weather forecast and dressing index, but also has a profound impact on industrial production and scientific research. Through the measurement and analysis of dew point, we can better understand and predict weather changes, as well as optimize industrial production processes.
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@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1
2024-10-09 12:27:53Why waste time, looking at other people's stuff?
I get this question a lot, on Nostr, and it feeds immediately back to the next question: Why don't you just build your own client, if you're so smart?
This was a completely new question for me, as I'm used to collaborating with at least one other person, even when doing FOSS stuff. (No, this isn't my first such project; we just used to call it "volunteering" and "sharing the code", which sounds way less glamorous.) It never occurred to me, that a habit of collaboration and interaction was some sign of my ignorance and incompetence, or somehow proof that I can't vomit up "Hello World!" in 5 different programming languages.
I also made the deadly political mistake, when I entered the Nostrsphere, of refusing to call myself a "dev". For me, "dev" is a special title, given to someone doing a specific type of programming (fiddling with GUIs, mostly, which I've only done occasionally, as a sub), whereas the types I've done are "test automation", "development operations", "database management and data curation", "requirements engineering", and "application administration". Because it's so much easier to find someone interested in building a GUI, rather than building AnythingElse, I tend to slide into AnythingElse and it eventually became my professional specialty to be the Girl Friday of every project.
But, in Nostr, there is no AnythingElse category. There are only (GUI) client devs and AllOfTheIdiotsWhoMustBowDownToTheDevs. Which merely doubled my instinct to distance myself from the term. I do not want to join some cargo cult and be pedestalized and regarded as some sort of superhuman everyone owes fealty to, in return for raining GUI presents down on my loyal subjects.
Software engineers are simply people who are skilled craftsman, not gods, and it is fair to point out that some are more skilled than others. It is also completely fair to criticize their products, report bugs, and wonder aloud at endemic low-quality.
Which brings me back to the initial question:
What does the inquisitive dev know, that the others don't?
1) You learn an awful lot about an awful lot, by looking at specs, reviewing code, and trying out various implementations of concepts you are already familiar with. There are, in fact, n number of use cases for every event type, and I've seen so many of them, that I can conjure them up, or invent new ones, on the fly, rather than wasting time inventing similar events. 2) They don't have to explain their concept to you, later, when you interact. Each interaction brings you closer to parallel-levels of knowledge, which raises the signal-strength of the interaction, and widens your own knowledge base, for interacting with third parties. 3) You are increasingly-likely to contribute code or perform some other more-advanced task, for other people, as you don't face the hurdle of adjusting to a new repo or unfamiliar language, while being less-likely to merely fork-and-ignore because you have a standing business relationship with the other developer. 4) If the other dev stops maintaining the repo, you'll be inclined to continue on your own. You may even eventually receive administrative access, rather than needing to fork, as they trust you with their stuff. This means that the risk of the repo becoming abandoned falls, with each active dev snooping around it, even if that is not their primary project. 5) It helps you determine who to focus your energy on interacting with, further. Is this person new to software development, perhaps, but has some interesting transfer-knowledge from some other branch, that has resulted in a surprisingly novel concept? Is this person able to write very clean code, so that merely reading their code feels like mental training for your own craftsman's toolbox?
...and many more reasons, but this is getting too long, so, let's just cut to the chase.
What does a craftswoman want?
But, this still doesn't answer the question of my private motivation. Why do I want to gather all of this knowledge, from those further ahead, than I?
I think Nostr has long moved past the initial stage, where mere speed was of the essence, so that one npub could finally post a note and have it appear on the other npubs' client. That must have felt like a miracle, but it increasingly feels like a disaster, as the steadily-rising complexity of the Nostr ecosystem causes haphazardly-structured and largely-unexamined code bases to begin to atrophy, or result in developers running around at an exhausting speed, with their bug-extinguishers, to put out fire after fire.
I think the time has arrived, for a different kind of development. Maybe even for a different kind of developer. Not replacing the experimentalism that made Nostr fun, but adding the realm of production-quality software engineering. The sort of software development that requires relay administration, testing, support... collaboration, interaction, maybe even someone who does AnythingElse.
I want to build useful, elegant products people enjoy using and feel comfortable relying on. I want them to use them, naturally and happily, to accomplish tasks they consider worthwhile. I don't want them thinking about me, while they use it. The craftswoman should never be greater than her work.
I want them to feel free -- nay, be eager! -- to give me both positive and negative feedback. My assumption is always that our production is imperfect because we are imperfect, so you do us a favor, by pointing out where we can improve. That's why we wish to integrate a feedback form that produces ngit issue events, putting your questions and comments straight on our board.
And there will be an AnythingElse person, reading that board, and responding promptly, rest assured.
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@ b60c3e76:c9d0f46e
2024-05-15 10:08:47KRIS menjamin semua golongan masyarakat mendapatkan perlakuan sama dari rumah sakit, baik pelayanan medis maupun nonmedis.
Demi memberikan peningkatan kualitas layanan kesehatan kepada masyarakat, pemerintah baru saja mengeluarkan Peraturan Presiden (Perpres) nomor 59 tahun 2024 tentang Jaminan Kesehatan. Melalui perpres itu, Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) telah menghapus perbedaan kelas layanan 1, 2, dan 3 dalam Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial atau BPJS Kesehatan.
Layanan berbasis kelas itu diganti dengan KRIS (Kelas Rawat Inap Standar). Berkaitan dengan lahirnya Perpres 59/2024 tentang Perubahan Ketiga atas Perpres 82/2018 tentang Jaminan Kesehatan, Presiden Joko Widodo telah memerintahkan seluruh rumah sakit yang bekerja sama dengan BPJS Kesehatan melaksanakannya.
Kebijakan baru itu mulai berlaku per 8 Mei 2024 dan paling lambat 30 Juni 2025. Dalam jangka waktu tersebut, rumah sakit dapat menyelenggarakan sebagian atau seluruh pelayanan rawat inap berdasarkan KRIS sesuai dengan kemampuan rumah sakit.
Lantas apa yang menjadi pembeda dari sisi layanan dengan layanan rawat inap sesuai Perpres 59/2024? Dahulu sistem layanan rawat BPJS Kesehatan dibagi berdasarkan kelas yang dibagi masing-masing kelas 1, 2, dan 3. Namun, melalui perpres, layanan kepada masyarakat tidak dibedakan lagi.
Pelayanan rawat inap yang diatur dalam perpres itu--dikenal dengan nama KRIS—menjadi sistem baru yang digunakan dalam pelayanan rawat inap BPJS Kesehatan di rumah sakit-rumah sakit. Dengan KRIS, semua golongan masyarakat akan mendapatkan perlakuan yang sama dari rumah sakit, baik dalam hal pelayanan medis maupun nonmedis.
Dengan lahirnya Perpres 59/2024, tarif iuran BPJS Kesehatan pun juga akan berubah. Hanya saja, dalam Perpres itu belum dicantumkan secara rinci ihwal besar iuran yang baru. Besaran iuran baru BPJS Kesehatan itu sesuai rencana baru ditetapkan pada 1 Juli 2025.
“Penetapan manfaat, tarif, dan iuran sebagaimana dimaksud ditetapkan paling lambat tanggal 1 Juli 2025,” tulis aturan tersebut, dikutip Senin (13/5/2024).
Itu artinya, iuran BPJS Kesehatan saat ini masih sama seperti sebelumnya, yakni sesuai dengan kelas yang dipilih. Namun perpres itu tetap berlaku sembari menanti lahirnya peraturan lanjutan dari perpres tersebut.
Kesiapan Rumah Sakit
Berkaitan dengan lahirnya kebijakan layanan kesehatan tanpa dibedakan kelas lagi, Kementerian Kesehatan (Kemenkes) menegaskan mayoritas rumah sakit di Indonesia siap untuk menjalankan layanan KRIS untuk pasien BPJS Kesehatan.
Kesiapan itu diungkapkan oleh Dirjen Pelayanan Kesehatan Kemenkes Azhar Jaya. “Survei kesiapan RS terkait KRIS sudah dilakukan pada 2.988 rumah sakit dan yang sudah siap menjawab isian 12 kriteria ada sebanyak 2.233 rumah sakit,” ujar Azhar.
Sebagai informasi, KRIS adalah pengganti layanan Kelas 1, 2, dan 3 BPJS Kesehatan yang bertujuan untuk memberikan layanan kesehatan secara merata tanpa melihat besaran iurannya.
Melalui KRIS, rumah sakit perlu menyiapkan sarana dan prasarana sesuai dengan 12 kriteria kelas rawat inap standar secara bertahap. Apa saja ke-12 kriteria KRIS itu?
Sesuai bunyi Pasal 46A Perpres 59/2024, disyaratkan kriteria fasilitas perawatan dan pelayanan rawat inap KRIS meliputi komponen bangunan yang digunakan tidak boleh memiliki tingkat porositas yang tinggi serta terdapat ventilasi udara dan kelengkapan tidur.
Demikian pula soal pencahayaan ruangan. Perpres itu juga mengatur pencahayaan ruangan buatan mengikuti kriteria standar 250 lux untuk penerangan dan 50 lux untuk pencahayaan tidur, temperature ruangan 20--26 derajat celcius.
Tidak hanya itu, layanan rawat inap berdasarkan perpres itu mensyaratkan fasilitas layanan yang membagi ruang rawat berdasarkan jenis kelamin pasien, anak atau dewasa, serta penyakit infeksi atau noninfeksi.
Selain itu, kriteria lainnya adalah keharusan bagi penyedia layanan untuk mempertimbangkan kepadatan ruang rawat dan kualitas tempat tidur, penyediaan tirai atau partisi antartempat tidur, kamar mandi dalam ruangan rawat inap yang memenuhi standar aksesibilitas, dan menyediakan outlet oksigen.
Selain itu, kelengkapan tempat tidur berupa adanya dua kotak kontak dan nurse call pada setiap tempat tidur dan adanya nakas per tempat tidur. Kepadatan ruang rawat inap maksimal empat tempat tidur dengan jarak antara tepi tempat tidur minimal 1,5 meter.
Tirai/partisi dengan rel dibenamkan menempel di plafon atau menggantung. Kamar mandi dalam ruang rawat inap serta kamar mandi sesuai dengan standar aksesibilitas dan outlet oksigen.
Azhar menjamin, Kemenkes akan menjalankan hal tersebut sesuai dengan tupoksi yang ada. “Tentu saja kami akan bekerja sama dengan BPJS Kesehatan dalam implementasi dan pengawasannya di lapangan,” ujar Azhar.
Berkaitan dengan perpres jaminan kesehatan itu, Direktur Utama BPJS Kesehatan Ghufron Mukti menilai, perpres tersebut berorientasi pada penyeragaman kelas rawat inap yang mengacu pada 12 kriteria. "Bahwa perawatan ada kelas rawat inap standar dengan 12 kriteria, untuk peserta BPJS, maka sebagaimana sumpah dokter tidak boleh dibedakan pemberian pelayan medis atas dasar suku, agama, status sosial atau beda iurannya," ujarnya.
Jika ada peserta ingin dirawat pada kelas yang lebih tinggi, kata Ghufron, maka diperbolehkan selama hal itu dipengaruhi situasi nonmedis. Hal itu disebutkan dalam Pasal 51 Perpres Jaminan Kesehatan diatur ketentuan naik kelas perawatan.
Menurut pasal tersebut, naik kelas perawatan dilakukan dengan cara mengikuti asuransi kesehatan tambahan atau membayar selisih antara biaya yang dijamin oleh BPJS Kesehatan dengan biaya yang harus dibayar akibat peningkatan pelayanan.
Selisih antara biaya yang dijamin oleh BPJS Kesehatan dengan biaya pelayanan dapat dibayar oleh peserta bersangkutan, pemberi kerja, atau asuransi kesehatan tambahan.
Ghufron Mukti juga mengimbau pengelola rumah sakit tidak mengurangi jumlah tempat tidur perawatan pasien dalam upaya memenuhi kriteria KRIS. "Pesan saya jangan dikurangi akses dengan mengurangi jumlah tempat tidur. Pertahankan jumlah tempat tidur dan penuhi persyaratannya dengan 12 kriteria tersebut," tegas Ghufron.
Penulis: Firman Hidranto Redaktur: Ratna Nuraini/Elvira Inda Sari Sumber: Indonesia.go.id
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2024-10-15 01:18:43A história do Kali Linux se inicia em 2006, quando uma distribuição Linux chamada BackTrack foi lançada. O BackTrack foi uma distro baseada em Ubuntu e possuía o mesmo intuito do Kali Linux, auxiliar profissionais de segurança da informação. Em 2013, a Offensive Security, empresa que mantém o Kali Linux, anunciou o fim do suporte ao BackTrack, apresentando o Kali Linux que, diferente do BackTrack, tem como base o Debian. E assim nasceu a distribuição mais popular da área de segurança da informação. Principais ferramentas do Kali Linux A distribuição possui um arsenal com mais de 300 ferramentas nativas exclusivas para atividades de segurança e pentests. O Kali Linux inclui por padrão ferramentas como:
Nmap: Uma das ferramentas mais populares do Kali Linux, o Nmap é um scanner de rede que permite a descoberta de dispositivos na rede, além de fornecer informações detalhadas sobre portas abertas, serviços em execução e sistema operacional dos dispositivos.
Metasploit Framework: Uma poderosa estrutura de testes de penetração, o Metasploit Framework oferece um conjunto abrangente de ferramentas e recursos para realizar ataques simulados em sistemas e redes, com o objetivo de identificar vulnerabilidades e melhorar a segurança.
Wireshark: Uma ferramenta de análise de tráfego de rede, o Wireshark permite capturar e examinar pacotes de dados em uma rede. Com ele, os profissionais de segurança podem identificar possíveis ameaças, analisar o tráfego de rede e realizar investigações forenses.
John the Ripper: Uma ferramenta de quebra de senhas, o John the Ripper é amplamente utilizado para testar a segurança de senhas em sistemas. Ele pode realizar ataques de força bruta e ataques de dicionário para recuperar senhas de arquivos criptografados.
Aircrack-ng: Essa ferramenta é voltada para auditoria de segurança em redes sem fio. O Aircrack-ng permite capturar pacotes de rede e realizar testes de penetração em redes Wi-Fi, além de fornecer recursos para quebrar senhas de redes sem fio protegidas.
Burp Suite: Uma suíte de ferramentas para testes de segurança em aplicativos da web, o Burp Suite é amplamente utilizado para encontrar vulnerabilidades e realizar testes de penetração em aplicações da web. Ele oferece recursos avançados, como a interceptação de requisições e respostas HTTP, varredura de vulnerabilidades e manipulação de dados.
Essas são apenas algumas das principais ferramentas incluídas no Kali Linux. A distribuição também conta com ferramentas para forense digital, análise de malware, engenharia reversa, entre outras áreas de segurança da informação.
Além das ferramentas, o Kali Linux também oferece uma interface gráfica amigável, bem como documentação detalhada e uma comunidade ativa, o que facilita o aprendizado e o suporte para os usuários.
O Kali NetHunter é uma plataforma de teste de penetração móvel desenvolvida para dispositivos Android e baseada no Kali Linux. Ele permite que os profissionais de segurança da informação realizem testes de penetração em dispositivos móveis de forma eficiente e conveniente.
O Kali NetHunter consiste em vários componentes principais:
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App Kali NetHunter: É um aplicativo Android que fornece uma interface amigável para acessar e executar as ferramentas de teste de penetração do Kali Linux diretamente em dispositivos móveis. Ele oferece uma ampla variedade de ferramentas nativas do Kali Linux, como scanners de rede, exploradores de vulnerabilidades, ferramentas de quebra de senhas, entre outras.
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App Store do Kali NetHunter: É uma loja de aplicativos integrada ao Kali NetHunter, que oferece uma seleção de aplicativos de segurança de terceiros específicos para testes de penetração em dispositivos móveis. Esses aplicativos são verificados e aprovados pela equipe do Kali NetHunter para garantir sua qualidade e segurança.
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Kali Container: É um ambiente contêiner baseado no Linux que permite executar o Kali Linux em um dispositivo Android sem a necessidade de enraizamento (root). O Kali Container é isolado do sistema operacional host, fornecendo um ambiente seguro para realizar testes de penetração. Ele permite que os usuários executem comandos do Kali Linux e acessem suas ferramentas a partir do dispositivo Android.
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KeX: É um recurso do Kali NetHunter que permite a execução do ambiente de desktop do Kali Linux em um dispositivo Android. Com o KeX, os usuários podem ter uma experiência de desktop completa, com uma interface gráfica, acesso a aplicativos e recursos do Kali Linux, e a possibilidade de executar várias ferramentas simultaneamente.
O Kali NetHunter oferece uma solução abrangente para testes de penetração em dispositivos móveis, permitindo que os profissionais de segurança realizem avaliações de segurança em smartphones e tablets Android de forma eficiente e controlada. Com sua ampla gama de ferramentas e recursos, o Kali NetHunter facilita a identificação de vulnerabilidades, a realização de testes de segurança e a proteção da segurança dos dispositivos móveis.
Mas informações abaixo. https://www.kali.org/docs/nethunter/
Kali Linux oferece diversas outras características e recursos que contribuem para sua popularidade e eficiência na área de segurança da informação:
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Personalização e flexibilidade: O Kali Linux é altamente personalizável, permitindo que os usuários ajustem o sistema de acordo com suas necessidades específicas. É possível adicionar ou remover ferramentas, configurar ambientes de trabalho e ajustar as configurações para atender às preferências individuais.
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Compatibilidade com hardware: O Kali Linux possui amplo suporte para diferentes dispositivos e hardware, permitindo que seja instalado e executado em uma variedade de máquinas, desde laptops e desktops até dispositivos embarcados e plataformas de nuvem. Isso garante que os profissionais de segurança possam utilizar a distribuição em diferentes cenários e ambientes.
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Atualizações regulares e suporte: A equipe por trás do Kali Linux está em constante desenvolvimento e aprimoramento da distribuição. São lançadas regularmente atualizações de segurança, correções de bugs e novos recursos, garantindo que os usuários tenham acesso às versões mais recentes das ferramentas e aplicativos. Além disso, a comunidade Kali Linux fornece suporte ativo por meio de fóruns, documentação abrangente e recursos educacionais.
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Ética e legalidade: O Kali Linux enfatiza a importância da ética e legalidade nas atividades de segurança da informação. A distribuição é projetada para ser usada como uma ferramenta educacional e profissional, incentivando os usuários a realizar testes e avaliações de segurança dentro dos limites legais e de maneira responsável.
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Comunidade e recursos educacionais: O Kali Linux possui uma comunidade ativa e engajada de usuários, profissionais e entusiastas de segurança da informação. Essa comunidade oferece suporte, compartilha conhecimentos, discute tópicos relevantes e promove a troca de informações. Além disso, o Kali Linux disponibiliza uma vasta gama de recursos educacionais, como tutoriais, documentação detalhada e vídeos instrucionais, que ajudam os usuários a aprender e aprimorar suas habilidades em segurança da informação.
O Kali Linux se destaca como a distribuição líder em segurança da informação, oferecendo uma ampla variedade de ferramentas e recursos especializados para testes de invasão, pentest, forense digital e outras áreas. Sua personalização, compatibilidade com hardware, atualizações regulares, ênfase na ética e legalidade, comunidade ativa e recursos educacionais tornam-no uma escolha preferida tanto por estudantes quanto por profissionais em busca de uma plataforma confiável e eficiente para aprimorar suas habilidades e proteger a segurança da informação.
https://www.kali.org/
https://www.kali.org/docs/
https://gitlab.com/kalilinux
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2024-10-15 07:04:17長期投資家であり、100年の歴史を持つ資産運用機関であるベイリー・ギフォードは最近、調査レポートや社内対話で中国に関する議論に焦点を当てている。
グローバルアルファチームの投資マネージャー、ヘレン・シオン氏は9月に「中国における新たな成長点の発見」と題するレポートを執筆し、「中国は経済指標だけでなく、技術力や先進的な製造能力においても成長を続けると予想している」と述べた。
ヘレンは、中国への投資は複雑性を伴うが、世界的な投資家としてはそれを無視することはできないと述べた。
彼女はそれを説明するために非常に興味深い比喩を使いました。
「この国の潜在力を理解するには、自然現象を見る必要があります。竹は芽生えた後、強い根を張るため、何年もの間、目立った成長を示さないかもしれません。
その後、いまだに謎に包まれた生物学的メカニズムにより、1日1メートル以上のスピードで急速に成長し、最終的には成人の身長の15倍を超え、硬度はオーク材をも上回ります。」
ヘレン・シオンは中国生まれで、10年間を南アフリカで過ごし、その後ヨーロッパに移住しました。2008年にベイリー・ギフォードに入社し、現在はパートナーとして、Global AlphaやMonksなどのポートフォリオの管理に携わっています。
彼女は多文化生活の経験により、非常にオープンな視点を持つことができました。
最近、社内対話の中で、ヘレンは同僚と中国の先進製造業と過剰生産能力の問題について議論したほか、なぜ中国がすべての長期投資家にとって極めて重要なのかという幅広い議論も行いました。
ベイリー・ギフォードが昨年末に中国への投資に関して強硬な姿勢を示したことも、国内投資家から大きな注目を集めている。
賢明な投資家は主要なコンテンツを翻訳して皆と共有します。
中国を理解しなければ、世界を理解することはできません。 まず、LKさん、簡単に自己紹介をお願いします。特に、中国で成長の機会を探す際にあなたが持つ独自の視点について教えてください。
ヘレン:私は中国で生まれました。両親はどちらも中国人ですが、中国に住んだのは人生の最初の6年間だけでした。6歳のとき、南アフリカに引っ越しました。1990年代初頭、南アフリカはアパルトヘイトから民主主義への歴史的移行期にありました。16歳で南アフリカを離れ、それ以来ヨーロッパに住んでいます。
あなたが尋ねた視点の問題に関して言えば、ヨーロッパ、アフリカ、中国の混合背景を持つ人間であることの利点があるとすれば、それは文化的背景をよりよく理解できることだと信じています。
私たちは、自分とは異なるものを見るとき、自分の思考パターンや枠組みを使うことが多いのですが、こうした思考パターンや枠組みが、時には特定の偏見を伴う文化的背景によってどのように影響を受けているかを常に認識しているわけではありません。
私も他の人と同じように偏見を持っていると思いますが、その偏見についてはもっと自覚しているかもしれません。
LK 比較的弱い経済データが続いていることを受けて、中国における投資機会をどのように見ていますか?
ヘレン 経済データを検討するにはさまざまな視点がありますが、循環的要因と構造的要因を区別するように注意する必要があります。
景気循環の観点から見ると、中国の経済回復は多くの西側諸国ほど強力ではない。不動産価格がその理由の1つである。
中国消費者の富の70%は不動産に関係しているため、不動産価格が10%または20%下落すると、人々の認識や富の認識に影響を及ぼします。
構造的な観点から見ると、中国は不動産中心の経済から高度な製造業経済へと移行しつつあり、これは慎重に計画されたプロセスです。
彼らは長年このことに取り組んできましたが、このような変革は短期的には何らかの影響をもたらすでしょう。過渡的な変革は必ずしもスムーズに進むとは限りませんが、過去にも同様のプロセスを経験しています。
1990年代、中国の経済は主に輸出製造業が中心でした。2010年代になると、経済は住宅や不動産建設に大きく依存するようになりました。現在、中国は高度な製造業の基盤を築こうとしています。
そのため、中国は株価の低い不動産業界から、より価値が高く、より高い収益を生む業界へと移行する努力をしています。
LKさん、ベイリー・ギフォードのグローバル・アルファとモンクスに焦点を当てていますが、あなたが管理する多角的な投資ポートフォリオの中で中国株はほんの一部しか占めていません。なぜ中国に焦点を当てているのですか?
ヘレンさん、おっしゃる通りです。私は世界的に分散した投資ポートフォリオを管理していますが、中国企業はほんの一部にすぎません。しかし、私たちは中国と密接に結びついた世界に住んでいると思います。私たちの世界的なサプライチェーンは中国に依存しています。
中国なしではグリーンエネルギーへの移行は不可能だ。
当社が保有する欧米企業のほとんどは、中国を最大の市場の一つとして頼りにしています。中国は経済的影響力だけでなく、特にアジアにおいて大きな外交的影響力も持っています。
さらに、中国には世界有数のテクノロジー企業がいくつか拠点を置いています。
グローバル投資家として、たとえ中国企業に直接投資しないことを選択したとしても、中国を無視することはできません。中国を理解しなければ、世界を理解することはできません。
中国国外の企業にのみ投資する場合でも、中国で起きた出来事が企業に影響を及ぼす可能性はありますか?
ヘレン そうですね、たとえあなたが米国の投資家であっても、中国には非常に強い関心を持っているでしょう。
電気自動車の過剰供給をどう見るか LK あなたは最近、「中国における新たな成長点を探る」という記事を発表し、その中で、中国における電気自動車やその他の先進製造業の過剰生産能力は「欠点」ではなく「特徴」であると述べています。どういう意味か説明していただけますか?
ヘレン はい、私は中国のいくつかの産業分野について多くの投資家と話し合ってきましたが、彼らは過剰生産能力を懸念しているため、これらの産業を見落としがちです。
しかし、これは主にいくつかの誤解、特に時間枠の違いによるものだと私は思います。
過剰生産能力を懸念する人々は短期的なことだけに焦点を当てていますが、中国の意思決定者は短期的なことだけを考慮するのではなく、今後5年から10年におけるこの業界の需要をより懸念し、それに応じて計画を立てていると私は信じています。
2 点目は、過剰生産能力は多くの成熟産業にとってリスクとなるが、電気自動車のような新興産業では状況が異なるということです。
生産量の増加に伴い、非常に予測可能な学習曲線に従って製造コストが減少することが比較的にわかります。したがって、需要の増加が予測できるため、過剰生産能力のリスクは小さくなります。生産量の増加、コストの削減、価格の低下により、需要は自然に増加します。
実際、これはむしろチャンスのようなものです。生産規模を拡大する最初の企業であれば、学習曲線と知的財産権のメリットをすべて得ることができ、競争上の優位性を築くのに役立ちます。
LK 中国の自動車メーカーは生産を拡大することで効率性を高め、コストを削減できると想定していますが、この拡大は明らかに無期限に続くことはできません。過剰生産能力にはいずれ期限があるのではないでしょうか。
ヘレン はい、結局のところ、市場は適者生存になるでしょう。
中国は世界で最も競争の激しい市場の一つです。当初は、これらの新しい電気自動車企業は多くの支援を受けるでしょうが、最終的には、効率が高く、革新能力が強い企業が勝ち、業績の悪い企業は淘汰され、市場は統合され始めるでしょう。
長距離電気自動車に最適な選択肢であり、他の方法よりもコストと資本効率に優れています。 LK あなたは Ideal Auto のような自動車メーカーに投資しました。この会社は特別です。私の知る限り、世界で利益を上げている電気自動車メーカーは 3 社しかなく、そのうちの 1 社です。競合他社との違いは何ですか?
ヘレン 5年前を振り返ると、中国における電気自動車の普及率は非常に低く、わずか5%程度でした。これは、10年以上にわたる非常に好ましい供給側政策支援の結果です。そして5年後の今日、普及率はほぼ50%です。
成長は非常に急速です。
5年前の普及率が低かった理由は、「航続距離不安」と価格によるものでした。当時、多くの電気自動車メーカーはこの問題をうまく解決できなかったか、解決を試みなかったか、バッテリー交換で解決していました。
つまり、オーナーはステーションまで車で行き、3分でバッテリーを交換できるのです。バッテリー交換ソリューションの問題点は、非常に高価であることです。バッテリーは車両の中で最も高価な部品であり、販売される車両ごとに複数のバッテリーを装備する必要がある場合、車両のコストが大幅に増加し、市場規模が非常に限られてしまいます。
Li Auto Inc は、まさに新しいソリューションである長距離電気自動車 (EREV) の先駆者です。同社は、バッテリーを充電するためだけの小型の内燃エンジンを車両に搭載しました。
ガソリンタンクを搭載することで、バッテリーが切れた際に燃料を使ってバッテリーを充電することができ、航続距離不安の問題を解決します。同時に、バッテリーの使用量が少なくなるため、車両の航続距離が大幅に増加しました。
その結果、自動車の製造コストが削減され、実際に内燃機関車と同じ価格で電気自動車を購入できるようになりました。
第二に、新興の電気自動車企業の多くはソフトウェアのバックグラウンドを持っており、コスト効率や製造に真剣に取り組んでいないと思います。結局のところ、これは産業であり、製造業の利益率は通常低いのです。
Li Auto Inc.の創業者、Li Xiang氏は、これが初めての起業ではない。彼の最初の会社(これも上場企業)では、事業がほぼ倒産し、救済が必要になった。彼の株式は希薄化され、彼は会社から追い出されるところだった。彼は、そのようなことが再び起こることを望まなかったため、資金調達を最小限にとどめ、コスト効率に重点を置いた。
同社は、ビジネスモデルに長距離走行可能な電気自動車を選択することで、コストと資本効率を高め、他社に比べて小規模でも収益性を実現した。
LKさん、李翔さんに直接会ったことはありますか?彼はどんな人ですか?
ヘレン、私は彼に会ったことがあります。李翔の注目すべき特徴は、細部への極度の注意力です。
これは多くの優れた創業者に共通する特徴の一つだと思います。彼らは、各部分の詳細なコストを含め、なぜ特定の決定を下したのかを明確に説明することができます。
例えば、彼らは車に急加速機能を搭載しないことに決めました。これにより、車1台あたり約30万人民元を節約できるからです。彼らは、理想的な消費者の大半が家庭ユーザーであり、彼らにとって急加速は重要ではないことを理解しています。
LKさん、3,500ポンドくらいです。このタイプの車はここにはありませんが、あなたが試乗したことは知っています。運転した時の感覚を教えてください。車内に座るとかなり高級感があると言われていますよね?
ヘレンさん、これは確かに高級品で、中国ではテスラ モデル Y に比べて値段が高いです。
とても興味深いですね。私は多くの電気自動車メーカーとその製品について話し合ってきましたが、現在、中国の電気自動車メーカーは皆、いわゆる「iPhoneの瞬間」について語っています。
彼らの考えは、iPhoneが携帯電話業界に与えた影響と同じような影響をこれらの自動車が自動車業界に与えるだろうというものだ。
私自身が一度車に座って試乗するまで、この点を完全に理解していなかったと思います。
これは言葉では言い表せない体験、驚きの瞬間です。車両全体が音声制御されています。車に背中のマッサージをオンにするように指示すると、車は音源を認識し、私の座席の背中のマッサージのみをオンにします。
LK すごい!
ヘレン 後部座席にはエンターテイメント設備があります。下げることができる大きなスクリーンがあり、音声またはジェスチャーで操作できます。たとえば、腕を振ったり、拳を開いたり閉じたりして操作できます。また、車の後部にはミニ冷蔵庫があります。
車は単なる移動手段から、娯楽やリラクゼーションの空間へと徐々に進化しています。
貿易障壁による投資リスクは排除することはできませんが、管理することは可能です。 LK 最近、米国は中国製電気自動車の輸入関税を100%に引き上げ、また、中国が依存しているリチウムイオン電池の関税も約25%に引き上げました。これは明らかに、これらの自動車の購入に大きな抑制効果をもたらすでしょう。この動向を投資の検討にどのように取り入れますか?
ヘレンさん、貿易障壁の増大は避けられないと私は思います。ですから、このリスクを排除することはできず、管理することしかできません。中国企業を避けることでこのリスクを管理できると考える人が多いですが、これは誤解です。
まず、ヨーロッパは中国に高級車や贅沢品を大量に輸出しており、アメリカの企業も中国市場に大量の製品を販売しているため、報復措置(つまり中国も贅沢品に関税を課す可能性)のリスクがある。
次に、多くの中国企業は実際には西側市場への製品販売に依存していません。たとえば、最近話題になったLi Auto Incは主に国内市場で事業を展開しています。現在、電気自動車の分野では、中国は世界市場シェアの約60%を占めており、最大の市場となっています。
次に、世界最大のバッテリー製造会社で、世界市場シェア 37% を誇る Contemporary Amperex Technology のような企業があります。同社は確かにヨーロッパに販売していますが、ヨーロッパに生産施設も持っています。同社はハンガリーとドイツに工場を持つヨーロッパ最大のバッテリー製造会社であるため、多くの輸入規制は適用されません。
しかし、結局のところ、ヨーロッパでの生産コストの方が高いと私は考えています。ヨーロッパでの自動車製造コストは中国よりも約40%高くなっています。
社会全体として、グリーンエネルギーへの移行を遅らせるコストとリスクを負うか、それとも中国の役割を受け入れるかを決める必要があるのは事実だ。
LKさん、あなたは西側諸国の企業が受けるかもしれない報復について言及しました。これはあなたの企業への投資決定や売却決定に影響を与えましたか?売却決定の例はありますか?
ヘレンさん、例を挙げるのはあまり都合がよくありません。しかし、投資ポートフォリオにおける地政学的リスクと規制リスクの管理方法について議論することはできますが、そこには 2 つの側面があります。
まず、国境を越えた貿易が主な投資原動力となっている企業を削減しています。たとえば、エスティ・ローダー、アディダス、ペルノ・リカール(フランス企業、世界第2位のワインおよびスピリッツ製造会社)などの企業を削減または売却し、生産を現地化する企業を選択する傾向があります。
第二に、中国に投資する際、当社は中国のより広範な戦略的優先事項に合致する産業に投資する傾向があります。したがって、当社は電池や電気自動車などの先進的な製造業に重点を置き、銀行や不動産など、規制リスクが高いと考えられる分野への投資を減らしています。
LK これは興味深いですね。数年前、中国の規制当局が大手インターネット企業に規制を課していたのを目にしました。先進的な製造業の企業が同様の規制を受ける可能性は低いと思いますか?
ヘレン 全くリスクがないとは言いませんが、先端製造業の企業が適切な行動をとり、規制を遵守し、社会に貢献している限り、規制を受ける可能性は低いと思います。
また、多くのインターネット企業が不適切な行為を理由に規制を受けていることも忘れてはなりません。たとえば、規制では消費者データを保護し、サプライヤーとの独占契約を強制しないことが求められています。これらは、優れた政府であれば必ず実施するであろう、優れた規制措置だと思います。
中国の景気刺激策では、株主利益の増大に重点が置かれている。 LK 中国はここ数週間、金利の引き下げ、企業による自社株買いの容易化、合併・買収の奨励など、広範囲にわたる景気刺激策を発表しており、さらなる財政刺激策が導入されるかもしれないという噂もあります。長期投資家として、これはあなたの投資ポートフォリオ内の企業や、将来購入を検討している企業にどのような影響を与えると思いますか?
ヘレン そうですね、不動産セクターを支援する財政刺激策と成長策、そして消費者への補助金の提供に誰もが期待していると思います。
これは中国の市場心理にとってプラスであり、多くの中国企業の株価は力強く回復している。しかし、これらはすべて短期的なものであり、企業の基礎を変えるものではない。
私がもっと興味を持っているのは、あらゆる景気刺激策の中に埋もれているいくつかの発表、特に合併や買収を奨励したり、企業が株主にもっと現金を還元するよう奨励する措置です。
LK 日本では、コーポレートガバナンス改革の目標は、企業経営陣が株主の利益をより重視するようにすることですよね?
ヘレン 過去 4 年間、日本は一連のコーポレート ガバナンス改革を実施してきました。歴史的に、日本企業はバランスシートに多額の現金を保有しており、株主への利益還元にはあまり注意を払っていませんでした。
そして、これらのコーポレートガバナンス改革の焦点は、基準を引き上げ、株主利益にもっと注意を払うように強制することにあります。そのため、多くの日本企業の評価額は大幅に上昇しました。
LK あなたが示唆したように、中国で同様の状況が発生した場合、それは非常に興味深い観察になるでしょう。終了する前に、ゲストの皆さんに最近読んだ本やお勧めの本についてお聞きしたいと思います。最近読んでいる本は何ですか?
ヘレン 私は現在、ジョナサン・ハイト著の『The Righteous Mind』という道徳心理学に関する本を読んでいます。
彼は、私たちの道徳的判断は合理性ではなく直感に基づいており、合理性は直感を説明するためにのみ使用されていると信じています。
彼はまた、異なる社会間の道徳的直感の違いは非常に大きいと指摘した。
道徳的推論は、たとえ私たちがそれに気づいていなくても、直感から生まれるという点についてLK。投資においても同様の状況があると思いますか?どの企業を調査したり購入したりするかを決めるときに、直感は役割を果たしますか?
ヘレン 私の理性は「ノー」と言いたいのですが、これは単に私の理性が私の直感を守っているだけなのかもしれません。
道徳的判断に関しては、直感には進化論的な理由がたくさんあると思います。
企業を分析するときは、常に初心者の心構えで問題に取り組む必要があります。明白に思えることに対しても「なぜ」と疑問を持ち、決して自明だと思い込まないでください。
時間が経つにつれて、私たちの仕事の多くはパターン認識を伴うようになり、直感は確かに役割を果たします。私はそれが合理性によるものだと信じたいのですが、これが単に私の直感を擁護しているだけなのかどうかはわかりません。
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@ 266815e0:6cd408a5
2024-05-09 17:23:28Lot of people are starting to talk about building a web-of-trust and how nostr can or is already being used as such
We all know about using the kind:3 following lists as a simple WoT that can be used to filter out spam. but as we all know it does not really signal "trust", its mostly just "I find your content interesting"
But what about real "trust"... well its kind of multi-denominational, I could trust that your a good developer or a good journalist but still not trust you enough to invite you over to my house. There are some interesting and clever solutions proposed for quantifying "trust" in a digital sense but I'm not going to get into that here. I want to talk about something that I have not see anyone discuss yet.
How is the web-of-trust maintained? or more precisely how do you expect users to update the digital representation of the "trust" of other users?
Its all well and good to think of how a user would create that "trust" of another user when discovering them for the first time. They would click the "follow" button, or maybe even rate them on a few topics with a 1/5 star system But how will a user remove that trust? how will they update it if things change and they trust them less?
If our goal is to model "trust" in a digital sense then we NEED a way for the data to stay up-to-date and as accurate as possible. otherwise whats the use? If we don't have a friction-less way to update or remove the digital representation of "trust" then we will end up with a WoT that continuously grows and everyone is rated 10/10
In the case of nostr kind:3 following lists. its pretty easy to see how these would get updated. If someone posts something I dislike or I notice I'm getting board of their content. then I just unfollow them. An important part here is that I'm not thinking "I should update my trust score of this user" but instead "I'm no longer interested, I don't want to see this anymore"
But that is probably the easiest "trust" to update. because most of us on social media spend some time curating our feed and we are used to doing it. But what about the more obscure "trust" scores? whats the regular mechanism by which a user would update the "honestly" score of another user?
In the real world its easy, when I stop trusting someone I simply stop associating with them. there isn't any button or switch I need to update. I simply don't talk to them anymore, its friction-less But in the digital realm I would have to remove or update that trust. in other words its an action I need to take instead of an action I'm not doing. and actions take energy.
So how do we reflect something in the digital world that takes no-energy and is almost subconscious in the real world?
TLDR; webs-of-trust are not just about scoring other users once. you must keep the score up-to-date
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-15 00:16:16Chef's notes
Serve with bread, and side salad.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 5 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 2-4
Ingredients
- 1 can (10.5 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1 Can (10 ½ ounces) condensed chicken noodle soup
- 1 can (10.5 ounces) condensed vegetable soup.
- 3 Soup cans water
- Croutons
Directions
- Add soups, and water.
- Heat through, stirring often.
- Serve with croutons
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-28 09:16:10Jan Kolčák pochádza zo stredného Slovenska a vystupuje pod umeleckým menom Deepologic. Hudbe sa venuje už viac než 10 rokov. Začínal ako DJ, ktorý s obľubou mixoval klubovú hudbu v štýloch deep-tech a afrohouse. Stále ho ťahalo tvoriť vlastnú hudbu, a preto sa začal vzdelávať v oblasti tvorby elektronickej hudby. Nakoniec vydal svoje prvé EP s názvom "Rezonancie". Učenie je pre neho celoživotný proces, a preto sa neustále zdokonaľuje v oblasti zvuku a kompozície, aby jeho skladby boli kvalitné na posluch aj v klube.
V roku 2023 si založil vlastnú značku EarsDeep Records, kde dáva príležitosť začínajúcim producentom. Jeho značku podporujú aj etablované mená slovenskej alternatívnej elektronickej scény. Jeho prioritou je sloboda a neškatulkovanie. Ako sa hovorí v jednej klasickej deephouseovej skladbe: "We are all equal in the house of deep." So slobodou ide ruka v ruke aj láska k novým technológiám, Bitcoinu a schopnosť udržať si v digitálnom svete prehľad, odstup a anonymitu.
V súčasnosti ďalej produkuje vlastnú hudbu, venuje sa DJingu a vedie podcast, kde zverejňuje svoje mixované sety. Na Lunarpunk festivale bude hrať DJ set tvorený vlastnou produkciou, ale aj skladby, ktoré sú blízke jeho srdcu.
Podcast Bandcamp Punk Nostr website alebo nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3xamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvhsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qpqguvns4ld8k2f3sugel055w7eq8zeewq7mp6w2stpnt6j75z60z3swy7h05
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-27 11:10:06Workshop je zameraný pre všetkých, ktorí sa potýkajú s vysvetľovaním Bitcoinu svojej rodine, kamarátom, partnerom alebo kolegom. Pri námietkach z druhej strany väčšinou ideme do protiútoku a snažíme sa vytiahnuť tie najlepšie argumenty. Na tomto workshope vás naučím nový prístup k zvládaniu námietok a vyskúšate si ho aj v praxi. Know-how je aplikovateľné nie len na komunikáciu Bitcoinu ale aj pre zlepšenie vzťahov, pri výchove detí a celkovo pre lepší osobný život.
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@ e6ce6154:275e3444
2023-07-27 14:12:49Este artigo foi censurado pelo estado e fomos obrigados a deletá-lo após ameaça de homens armados virem nos visitar e agredir nossa vida e propriedade.
Isto é mais uma prova que os autoproclamados antirracistas são piores que os racistas.
https://rothbardbrasil.com/pelo-direito-de-ser-racista-fascista-machista-e-homofobico
Segue artigo na íntegra. 👇
Sem dúvida, a escalada autoritária do totalitarismo cultural progressista nos últimos anos tem sido sumariamente deletéria e prejudicial para a liberdade de expressão. Como seria de se esperar, a cada dia que passa o autoritarismo progressista continua a se expandir de maneira irrefreável, prejudicando a liberdade dos indivíduos de formas cada vez mais deploráveis e contundentes.
Com a ascensão da tirania politicamente correta e sua invasão a todos os terrenos culturais, o autoritarismo progressista foi se alastrando e consolidando sua hegemonia em determinados segmentos. Com a eventual eclosão e a expansão da opressiva e despótica cultura do cancelamento — uma progênie inevitável do totalitarismo progressista —, todas as pessoas que manifestam opiniões, crenças ou posicionamentos que não estão alinhados com as pautas universitárias da moda tornam-se um alvo.
Há algumas semanas, vimos a enorme repercussão causada pelo caso envolvendo o jogador profissional de vôlei Maurício Sousa, que foi cancelado pelo simples fato de ter emitido sua opinião pessoal sobre um personagem de história em quadrinhos, Jon Kent, o novo Superman, que é bissexual. Maurício Sousa reprovou a conduta sexual do personagem, o que é um direito pessoal inalienável que ele tem. Ele não é obrigado a gostar ou aprovar a bissexualidade. Como qualquer pessoa, ele tem o direito pleno de criticar tudo aquilo que ele não gosta. No entanto, pelo simples fato de emitir a sua opinião pessoal, Maurício Sousa foi acusado de homofobia e teve seu contrato rescindido, sendo desligado do Minas Tênis Clube.
Lamentavelmente, Maurício Sousa não foi o primeiro e nem será o último indivíduo a sofrer com a opressiva e autoritária cultura do cancelamento. Como uma tirania cultural que está em plena ascensão e usufrui de um amplo apoio do establishment, essa nova forma de totalitarismo cultural colorido e festivo está se impondo de formas e maneiras bastante contundentes em praticamente todas as esferas da sociedade contemporânea. Sua intenção é relegar ao ostracismo todos aqueles que não se curvam ao totalitarismo progressista, criminalizando opiniões e crenças que divergem do culto à libertinagem hedonista pós-moderna. Oculto por trás de todo esse ativismo autoritário, o que temos de fato é uma profunda hostilidade por padrões morais tradicionalistas, cristãos e conservadores.
No entanto, é fundamental entendermos uma questão imperativa, que explica em partes o conflito aqui criado — todos os progressistas contemporâneos são crias oriundas do direito positivo. Por essa razão, eles jamais entenderão de forma pragmática e objetiva conceitos como criminalidade, direitos de propriedade, agressão e liberdade de expressão pela perspectiva do jusnaturalismo, que é manifestamente o direito em seu estado mais puro, correto, ético e equilibrado.
Pela ótica jusnaturalista, uma opinião é uma opinião. Ponto final. E absolutamente ninguém deve ser preso, cancelado, sabotado ou boicotado por expressar uma opinião particular sobre qualquer assunto. Palavras não agridem ninguém, portanto jamais poderiam ser consideradas um crime em si. Apenas deveriam ser tipificados como crimes agressões de caráter objetivo, como roubo, sequestro, fraude, extorsão, estupro e infrações similares, que representam uma ameaça direta à integridade física da vítima, ou que busquem subtrair alguma posse empregando a violência.
Infelizmente, a geração floquinho de neve — terrivelmente histérica, egocêntrica e sensível — fica profundamente ofendida e consternada sempre que alguém defende posicionamentos contrários à religião progressista. Por essa razão, os guerreiros da justiça social sinceramente acreditam que o papai-estado deve censurar todas as opiniões que eles não gostam de ouvir, assim como deve também criar leis para encarcerar todos aqueles que falam ou escrevem coisas que desagradam a militância.
Como a geração floquinho de neve foi criada para acreditar que todas as suas vontades pessoais e disposições ideológicas devem ser sumariamente atendidas pelo papai-estado, eles embarcaram em uma cruzada moral que pretende erradicar todas as coisas que são ofensivas à ideologia progressista; só assim eles poderão deflagrar na Terra o seu tão sonhado paraíso hedonista e igualitário, de inimaginável esplendor e felicidade.
Em virtude do seu comportamento intrinsecamente despótico, autoritário e egocêntrico, acaba sendo inevitável que militantes progressistas problematizem tudo aquilo que os desagrada.
Como são criaturas inúteis destituídas de ocupação real e verdadeiro sentido na vida, sendo oprimidas unicamente na sua própria imaginação, militantes progressistas precisam constantemente inventar novos vilões para serem combatidos.
Partindo dessa perspectiva, é natural para a militância que absolutamente tudo que exista no mundo e que não se enquadra com as regras autoritárias e restritivas da religião progressista seja encarado como um problema. Para a geração floquinho de neve, o capitalismo é um problema. O fascismo é um problema. A iniciativa privada é um problema. O homem branco, tradicionalista, conservador e heterossexual é um problema. A desigualdade é um problema. A liberdade é um problema. Monteiro Lobato é um problema (sim, até mesmo o renomado ícone da literatura brasileira, autor — entre outros títulos — de Urupês, foi vítima da cultura do cancelamento, acusado de ser racista e eugenista).
Para a esquerda, praticamente tudo é um problema. Na mentalidade da militância progressista, tudo é motivo para reclamação. Foi em função desse comportamento histérico, histriônico e infantil que o famoso pensador conservador-libertário americano P. J. O’Rourke afirmou que “o esquerdismo é uma filosofia de pirralhos chorões”. O que é uma verdade absoluta e irrefutável em todos os sentidos.
De fato, todas as filosofias de esquerda de forma geral são idealizações utópicas e infantis de um mundo perfeito. Enquanto o mundo não se transformar naquela colorida e vibrante utopia que é apresentada pela cartilha socialista padrão, militantes continuarão a reclamar contra tudo o que existe no mundo de forma agressiva, visceral e beligerante. Evidentemente, eles não vão fazer absolutamente nada de positivo ou construtivo para que o mundo se transforme no gracioso paraíso que eles tanto desejam ver consolidado, mas eles continuarão a berrar e vociferar muito em sua busca incessante pela utopia, marcando presença em passeatas inúteis ou combatendo o fascismo imaginário nas redes sociais.
Sem dúvida, estamos muito perto de ver leis absurdas e estúpidas sendo implementadas, para agradar a militância da terra colorida do assistencialismo eterno onde nada é escasso e tudo cai do céu. Em breve, você não poderá usar calças pretas, pois elas serão consideradas peças de vestuário excessivamente heterossexuais. Apenas calças amarelas ou coloridas serão permitidas. Você também terá que tingir de cor-de-rosa uma mecha do seu cabelo; pois preservar o seu cabelo na sua cor natural é heteronormativo demais da sua parte, sendo portanto um componente demasiadamente opressor da sociedade.
Você também não poderá ver filmes de guerra ou de ação, apenas comédias românticas, pois certos gêneros de filmes exaltam a violência do patriarcado e isso impede o mundo de se tornar uma graciosa festa colorida de fraternidades universitárias ungidas por pôneis resplandecentes, hedonismo infinito, vadiagem universitária e autogratificação psicodélica, que certamente são elementos indispensáveis para se produzir o paraíso na Terra.
Sabemos perfeitamente, no entanto, que dentre as atitudes “opressivas” que a militância progressista mais se empenha em combater, estão o racismo, o fascismo, o machismo e a homofobia. No entanto, é fundamental entender que ser racista, fascista, machista ou homofóbico não são crimes em si. Na prática, todos esses elementos são apenas traços de personalidade; e eles não podem ser pura e simplesmente criminalizados porque ideólogos e militantes progressistas iluminados não gostam deles.
Tanto pela ética quanto pela ótica jusnaturalista, é facilmente compreensível entender que esses traços de personalidade não podem ser criminalizados ou proibidos simplesmente porque integrantes de uma ideologia não tem nenhuma apreciação ou simpatia por eles. Da mesma forma, nenhum desses traços de personalidade representa em si um perigo para a sociedade, pelo simples fato de existir. Por incrível que pareça, até mesmo o machismo, o racismo, o fascismo e a homofobia merecem a devida apologia.
Mas vamos analisar cada um desses tópicos separadamente para entender isso melhor.
Racismo
Quando falamos no Japão, normalmente não fazemos nenhuma associação da sociedade japonesa com o racismo. No entanto, é incontestável o fato de que a sociedade japonesa pode ser considerada uma das sociedades mais racistas do mundo. E a verdade é que não há absolutamente nada de errado com isso.
Aproximadamente 97% da população do Japão é nativa; apenas 3% do componente populacional é constituído por estrangeiros (a população do Japão é estimada em aproximadamente 126 milhões de habitantes). Isso faz a sociedade japonesa ser uma das mais homogêneas do mundo. As autoridades japonesas reconhecidamente dificultam processos de seleção e aplicação a estrangeiros que desejam se tornar residentes. E a maioria dos japoneses aprova essa decisão.
Diversos estabelecimentos comerciais como hotéis, bares e restaurantes por todo o país tem placas na entrada que dizem “somente para japoneses” e a maioria destes estabelecimentos se recusa ostensivamente a atender ou aceitar clientes estrangeiros, não importa quão ricos ou abastados sejam.
Na Terra do Sol Nascente, a hostilidade e a desconfiança natural para com estrangeiros é tão grande que até mesmo indivíduos que nascem em algum outro país, mas são filhos de pais japoneses, não são considerados cidadãos plenamente japoneses.
Se estes indivíduos decidem sair do seu país de origem para se estabelecer no Japão — mesmo tendo descendência nipônica legítima e inquestionável —, eles enfrentarão uma discriminação social considerável, especialmente se não dominarem o idioma japonês de forma impecável. Esse fato mostra que a discriminação é uma parte tão indissociável quanto elementar da sociedade japonesa, e ela está tão profundamente arraigada à cultura nipônica que é praticamente impossível alterá-la ou atenuá-la por qualquer motivo.
A verdade é que — quando falamos de um país como o Japão — nem todos os discursos politicamente corretos do mundo, nem a histeria progressista ocidental mais inflamada poderão algum dia modificar, extirpar ou sequer atenuar o componente racista da cultura nipônica. E isso é consequência de uma questão tão simples quanto primordial: discriminar faz parte da natureza humana, sendo tanto um direito individual quanto um elemento cultural inerente à muitas nações do mundo. Os japoneses não tem problema algum em admitir ou institucionalizar o seu preconceito, justamente pelo fato de que a ideologia politicamente correta não tem no oriente a força e a presença que tem no ocidente.
E é fundamental enfatizar que, sendo de natureza pacífica — ou seja, não violando nem agredindo terceiros —, a discriminação é um recurso natural dos seres humanos, que está diretamente associada a questões como familiaridade e segurança.
Absolutamente ninguém deve ser forçado a apreciar ou integrar-se a raças, etnias, pessoas ou tribos que não lhe transmitem sentimentos de segurança ou familiaridade. Integração forçada é o verdadeiro crime, e isso diversos países europeus — principalmente os escandinavos (países que lideram o ranking de submissão à ideologia politicamente correta) — aprenderam da pior forma possível.
A integração forçada com imigrantes islâmicos resultou em ondas de assassinato, estupro e violência inimagináveis para diversos países europeus, até então civilizados, que a imprensa ocidental politicamente correta e a militância progressista estão permanentemente tentando esconder, porque não desejam que o ocidente descubra como a agenda “humanitária” de integração forçada dos povos muçulmanos em países do Velho Mundo resultou em algumas das piores chacinas e tragédias na história recente da Europa.
Ou seja, ao discriminarem estrangeiros, os japoneses estão apenas se protegendo e lutando para preservar sua nação como um ambiente cultural, étnico e social que lhe é seguro e familiar, assim se opondo a mudanças bruscas, indesejadas e antinaturais, que poderiam comprometer a estabilidade social do país.
A discriminação — sendo de natureza pacífica —, é benévola, salutar e indubitavelmente ajuda a manter a estabilidade social da comunidade. Toda e qualquer forma de integração forçada deve ser repudiada com veemência, pois, mais cedo ou mais tarde, ela irá subverter a ordem social vigente, e sempre será acompanhada de deploráveis e dramáticos resultados.
Para citar novamente os países escandinavos, a Suécia é um excelente exemplo do que não fazer. Tendo seguido o caminho contrário ao da discriminação racional praticada pela sociedade japonesa, atualmente a sociedade sueca — além de afundar de forma consistente na lama da libertinagem, da decadência e da deterioração progressista — sofre em demasia com os imigrantes muçulmanos, que foram deixados praticamente livres para matar, saquear, esquartejar e estuprar quem eles quiserem. Hoje, eles são praticamente intocáveis, visto que denunciá-los, desmoralizá-los ou acusá-los de qualquer crime é uma atitude politicamente incorreta e altamente reprovada pelo establishment progressista. A elite socialista sueca jamais se atreve a acusá-los de qualquer crime, pois temem ser classificados como xenófobos e intolerantes. Ou seja, a desgraça da Europa, sobretudo dos países escandinavos, foi não ter oferecido nenhuma resistência à ideologia progressista politicamente correta. Hoje, eles são totalmente submissos a ela.
O exemplo do Japão mostra, portanto — para além de qualquer dúvida —, a importância ética e prática da discriminação, que é perfeitamente aceitável e natural, sendo uma tendência inerente aos seres humanos, e portanto intrínseca a determinados comportamentos, sociedades e culturas.
Indo ainda mais longe nessa questão, devemos entender que na verdade todos nós discriminamos, e não existe absolutamente nada de errado nisso. Discriminar pessoas faz parte da natureza humana e quem se recusa a admitir esse fato é um hipócrita. Mulheres discriminam homens na hora de selecionar um parceiro; elas avaliam diversos quesitos, como altura, aparência, status social, condição financeira e carisma. E dentre suas opções, elas sempre escolherão o homem mais atraente, másculo e viril, em detrimento de todos os baixinhos, calvos, carentes, frágeis e inibidos que possam estar disponíveis. Da mesma forma, homens sempre terão preferência por mulheres jovens, atraentes e delicadas, em detrimento de todas as feministas de meia-idade, acima do peso, de cabelo pintado, que são mães solteiras e militantes socialistas. A própria militância progressista discrimina pessoas de forma virulenta e intransigente, como fica evidente no tratamento que dispensam a mulheres bolsonaristas e a negros de direita.
A verdade é que — não importa o nível de histeria da militância progressista — a discriminação é inerente à condição humana e um direito natural inalienável de todos. É parte indissociável da natureza humana e qualquer pessoa pode e deve exercer esse direito sempre que desejar. Não existe absolutamente nada de errado em discriminar pessoas. O problema real é a ideologia progressista e o autoritarismo politicamente correto, movimentos tirânicos que não respeitam o direito das pessoas de discriminar.
Fascismo
Quando falamos de fascismo, precisamos entender que, para a esquerda política, o fascismo é compreendido como um conceito completamente divorciado do seu significado original. Para um militante de esquerda, fascista é todo aquele que defende posicionamentos contrários ao progressismo, não se referindo necessariamente a um fascista clássico.
Mas, seja como for, é necessário entender que — como qualquer ideologia política — até mesmo o fascismo clássico tem o direito de existir e ocupar o seu devido lugar; portanto, fascistas não devem ser arbitrariamente censurados, apesar de defenderem conceitos que representam uma completa antítese de tudo aquilo que é valioso para os entusiastas da liberdade.
Em um país como o Brasil, onde socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, defender suas ideologias e até mesmo formar partidos políticos, não faz absolutamente o menor sentido que fascistas — e até mesmo nazistas assumidos — sofram qualquer tipo de discriminação. Embora socialistas e comunistas se sintam moralmente superiores aos fascistas (ou a qualquer outra filosofia política ou escola de pensamento), sabemos perfeitamente que o seu senso de superioridade é fruto de uma pueril romantização universitária da sua própria ideologia. A história mostra efetivamente que o socialismo clássico e o comunismo causaram muito mais destruição do que o fascismo.
Portanto, se socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, não existe a menor razão para que fascistas não usufruam dessa mesma liberdade.
É claro, nesse ponto, seremos invariavelmente confrontados por um oportuno dilema — o famoso paradoxo da intolerância, de Karl Popper. Até que ponto uma sociedade livre e tolerante deve tolerar a intolerância (inerente a ideologias totalitárias)?
As leis de propriedade privada resolveriam isso em uma sociedade livre. O mais importante a levarmos em consideração no atual contexto, no entanto — ao defender ou criticar uma determinada ideologia, filosofia ou escola de pensamento —, é entender que, seja ela qual for, ela tem o direito de existir. E todas as pessoas que a defendem tem o direito de defendê-la, da mesma maneira que todos os seus detratores tem o direito de criticá-la.
Essa é uma forte razão para jamais apoiarmos a censura. Muito pelo contrário, devemos repudiar com veemência e intransigência toda e qualquer forma de censura, especialmente a estatal.
Existem duas fortes razões para isso:
A primeira delas é a volatilidade da censura (especialmente a estatal). A censura oficial do governo, depois que é implementada, torna-se absolutamente incontrolável. Hoje, ela pode estar apontada para um grupo de pessoas cujas ideias divergem das suas. Mas amanhã, ela pode estar apontada justamente para as ideias que você defende. É fundamental, portanto, compreendermos que a censura estatal é incontrolável. Sob qualquer ponto de vista, é muito mais vantajoso que exista uma vasta pluralidade de ideias conflitantes na sociedade competindo entre si, do que o estado decidir que ideias podem ser difundidas ou não.
Além do mais, libertários e anarcocapitalistas não podem nunca esperar qualquer tipo de simpatia por parte das autoridades governamentais. Para o estado, seria infinitamente mais prático e vantajoso criminalizar o libertarianismo e o anarcocapitalismo — sob a alegação de que são filosofias perigosas difundidas por extremistas radicais que ameaçam o estado democrático de direito — do que o fascismo ou qualquer outra ideologia centralizada em governos burocráticos e onipotentes. Portanto, defender a censura, especialmente a estatal, representa sempre um perigo para o próprio indivíduo, que mais cedo ou mais tarde poderá ver a censura oficial do sistema se voltar contra ele.
Outra razão pela qual libertários jamais devem defender a censura, é porque — ao contrário dos estatistas — não é coerente que defensores da liberdade se comportem como se o estado fosse o seu papai e o governo fosse a sua mamãe. Não devemos terceirizar nossas próprias responsabilidades, tampouco devemos nos comportar como adultos infantilizados. Assumimos a responsabilidade de combater todas as ideologias e filosofias que agridem a liberdade e os seres humanos. Não procuramos políticos ou burocratas para executar essa tarefa por nós.
Portanto, se você ver um fascista sendo censurado nas redes sociais ou em qualquer outro lugar, assuma suas dores. Sinta-se compelido a defendê-lo, mostre aos seus detratores que ele tem todo direito de se expressar, como qualquer pessoa. Você não tem obrigação de concordar com ele ou apreciar as ideias que ele defende. Mas silenciar arbitrariamente qualquer pessoa não é uma pauta que honra a liberdade.
Se você não gosta de estado, planejamento central, burocracia, impostos, tarifas, políticas coletivistas, nacionalistas e desenvolvimentistas, mostre com argumentos coesos e convincentes porque a liberdade e o livre mercado são superiores a todos esses conceitos. Mas repudie a censura com intransigência e mordacidade.
Em primeiro lugar, porque você aprecia e defende a liberdade de expressão para todas as pessoas. E em segundo lugar, por entender perfeitamente que — se a censura eventualmente se tornar uma política de estado vigente entre a sociedade — é mais provável que ela atinja primeiro os defensores da liberdade do que os defensores do estado.
Machismo
Muitos elementos do comportamento masculino que hoje são atacados com virulência e considerados machistas pelo movimento progressista são na verdade manifestações naturais intrínsecas ao homem, que nossos avôs cultivaram ao longo de suas vidas sem serem recriminados por isso. Com a ascensão do feminismo, do progressismo e a eventual problematização do sexo masculino, o antagonismo militante dos principais líderes da revolução sexual da contracultura passou a naturalmente condenar todos os atributos genuinamente masculinos, por considerá-los símbolos de opressão e dominação social.
Apesar do Brasil ser uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista, onde o estado protege mais as mulheres do que as crianças — afinal, a cada semana novas leis são implementadas concedendo inúmeros privilégios e benefícios às mulheres, aos quais elas jamais teriam direito em uma sociedade genuinamente machista e patriarcal —, a esquerda política persiste em tentar difundir a fantasia da opressão masculina e o mito de que vivemos em uma sociedade machista e patriarcal.
Como sempre, a realidade mostra um cenário muito diferente daquilo que é pregado pela militância da terra da fantasia. O Brasil atual não tem absolutamente nada de machista ou patriarcal. No Brasil, mulheres podem votar, podem ocupar posições de poder e autoridade tanto na esfera pública quanto em companhias privadas, podem se candidatar a cargos políticos, podem ser vereadoras, deputadas, governadoras, podem ser proprietárias do próprio negócio, podem se divorciar, podem dirigir, podem comprar armas, podem andar de biquíni nas praias, podem usar saias extremamente curtas, podem ver programas de televisão sobre sexo voltados única e exclusivamente para o público feminino, podem se casar com outras mulheres, podem ser promíscuas, podem consumir bebidas alcoólicas ao ponto da embriaguez, e podem fazer praticamente tudo aquilo que elas desejarem. No Brasil do século XXI, as mulheres são genuinamente livres para fazer as próprias escolhas em praticamente todos os aspectos de suas vidas. O que mostra efetivamente que a tal opressão do patriarcado não existe.
O liberalismo social extremo do qual as mulheres usufruem no Brasil atual — e que poderíamos estender a toda a sociedade contemporânea ocidental — é suficiente para desmantelar completamente a fábula feminista da sociedade patriarcal machista e opressora, que existe única e exclusivamente no mundinho de fantasias ideológicas da esquerda progressista.
Tão importante quanto, é fundamental compreender que nenhum homem é obrigado a levar o feminismo a sério ou considerá-lo um movimento social e político legítimo. Para um homem, ser considerado machista ou até mesmo assumir-se como um não deveria ser um problema. O progressismo e o feminismo — com o seu nefasto hábito de demonizar os homens, bem como todos os elementos inerentes ao comportamento e a cultura masculina — é que são o verdadeiro problema, conforme tentam modificar o homem para transformá-lo em algo que ele não é nem deveria ser: uma criatura dócil, passiva e submissa, que é comandada por ideologias hostis e antinaturais, que não respeitam a hierarquia de uma ordem social milenar e condições inerentes à própria natureza humana. Com o seu hábito de tentar modificar tudo através de leis e decretos, o feminismo e o progressismo mostram efetivamente que o seu real objetivo é criminalizar a masculinidade.
A verdade é que — usufruindo de um nível elevado de liberdades — não existe praticamente nada que a mulher brasileira do século XXI não possa fazer. Adicionalmente, o governo dá as mulheres uma quantidade tão avassaladora de vantagens, privilégios e benefícios, que está ficando cada vez mais difícil para elas encontrarem razões válidas para reclamarem da vida. Se o projeto de lei que pretende fornecer um auxílio mensal de mil e duzentos reais para mães solteiras for aprovado pelo senado, muitas mulheres que tem filhos não precisarão nem mesmo trabalhar para ter sustento. E tantas outras procurarão engravidar, para ter direito a receber uma mesada mensal do governo até o seu filho completar a maioridade.
O que a militância colorida da terra da fantasia convenientemente ignora — pois a realidade nunca corresponde ao seu conto de fadas ideológico — é que o mundo de uma forma geral continua sendo muito mais implacável com os homens do que é com as mulheres. No Brasil, a esmagadora maioria dos suicídios é praticada por homens, a maioria das vítimas de homicídio são homens e de cada quatro moradores de rua, três são homens. Mas é evidente que uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista não se importa com os homens, pois ela não é influenciada por fatos concretos ou pela realidade. Seu objetivo é simplesmente atender as disposições de uma agenda ideológica, não importa quão divorciadas da realidade elas são.
O nível exacerbado de liberdades sociais e privilégios governamentais dos quais as mulheres brasileiras usufruem é suficiente para destruir a fantasiosa fábula da sociedade machista, opressora e patriarcal. Se as mulheres brasileiras não estão felizes, a culpa definitivamente não é dos homens. Se a vasta profusão de liberdades, privilégios e benefícios da sociedade ocidental não as deixa plenamente saciadas e satisfeitas, elas podem sempre mudar de ares e tentar uma vida mais abnegada e espartana em países como Irã, Paquistão ou Afeganistão. Quem sabe assim elas não se sentirão melhores e mais realizadas?
Homofobia
Quando falamos em homofobia, entramos em uma categoria muito parecida com a do racismo: o direito de discriminação é totalmente válido. Absolutamente ninguém deve ser obrigado a aceitar homossexuais ou considerar o homossexualismo como algo normal. Sendo cristão, não existe nem sequer a mais vaga possibilidade de que algum dia eu venha a aceitar o homossexualismo como algo natural. O homossexualismo se qualifica como um grave desvio de conduta e um pecado contra o Criador.
A Bíblia proíbe terminantemente conduta sexual imoral, o que — além do homossexualismo — inclui adultério, fornicação, incesto e bestialidade, entre outras formas igualmente pérfidas de degradação.
Segue abaixo três passagens bíblicas que proíbem terminantemente a conduta homossexual:
“Não te deitarás com um homem como se deita com uma mulher. Isso é abominável!” (Levítico 18:22 — King James Atualizada)
“Se um homem se deitar com outro homem, como se deita com mulher, ambos terão praticado abominação; certamente serão mortos; o seu sangue estará sobre eles.” (Levítico 20:13 — João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada)
“O quê! Não sabeis que os injustos não herdarão o reino de Deus? Não sejais desencaminhados. Nem fornicadores, nem idólatras, nem adúlteros, nem homens mantidos para propósitos desnaturais, nem homens que se deitam com homens, nem ladrões, nem gananciosos, nem beberrões, nem injuriadores, nem extorsores herdarão o reino de Deus.” (1 Coríntios 6:9,10 —Tradução do Novo Mundo das Escrituras Sagradas com Referências)
Se você não é religioso, pode simplesmente levar em consideração o argumento do respeito pela ordem natural. A ordem natural é incondicional e incisiva com relação a uma questão: o complemento de tudo o que existe é o seu oposto, não o seu igual. O complemento do dia é a noite, o complemento da luz é a escuridão, o complemento da água, que é líquida, é a terra, que é sólida. E como sabemos o complemento do macho — de sua respectiva espécie — é a fêmea.
Portanto, o complemento do homem, o macho da espécie humana, é naturalmente a mulher, a fêmea da espécie humana. Um homem e uma mulher podem naturalmente se reproduzir, porque são um complemento biológico natural. Por outro lado, um homem e outro homem são incapazes de se reproduzir, assim como uma mulher e outra mulher.
Infelizmente, o mundo atual está longe de aceitar como plenamente estabelecida a ordem natural pelo simples fato dela existir, visto que tentam subvertê-la a qualquer custo, não importa o malabarismo intelectual que tenham que fazer para justificar os seus pontos de vista distorcidos e antinaturais. A libertinagem irrefreável e a imoralidade bestial do mundo contemporâneo pós-moderno não reconhecem nenhum tipo de limite. Quem tenta restabelecer princípios morais salutares é imediatamente considerado um vilão retrógrado e repressivo, sendo ativamente demonizado pela militância do hedonismo, da luxúria e da licenciosidade desenfreada e sem limites.
Definitivamente, fazer a apologia da moralidade, do autocontrole e do autodomínio não faz nenhum sucesso na Sodoma e Gomorra global dos dias atuais. O que faz sucesso é lacração, devassidão, promiscuidade e prazeres carnais vazios. O famoso escritor e filósofo francês Albert Camus expressou uma verdade contundente quando disse: “Uma só frase lhe bastará para definir o homem moderno — fornicava e lia jornais”.
Qualquer indivíduo tem o direito inalienável de discriminar ativamente homossexuais, pelo direito que ele julgar mais pertinente no seu caso. A objeção de consciência para qualquer situação é um direito natural dos indivíduos. Há alguns anos, um caso que aconteceu nos Estados Unidos ganhou enorme repercussão internacional, quando o confeiteiro Jack Phillips se recusou a fazer um bolo de casamento para o “casal” homossexual Dave Mullins e Charlie Craig.
Uma representação dos direitos civis do estado do Colorado abriu um inquérito contra o confeiteiro, alegando que ele deveria ser obrigado a atender todos os clientes, independente da orientação sexual, raça ou crença. Preste atenção nas palavras usadas — ele deveria ser obrigado a atender.
Como se recusou bravamente a ceder, o caso foi parar invariavelmente na Suprema Corte, que decidiu por sete a dois em favor de Jack Phillips, sob a alegação de que obrigar o confeiteiro a atender o “casal” homossexual era uma violação nefasta dos seus princípios religiosos. Felizmente, esse foi um caso em que a liberdade prevaleceu sobre a tirania progressista.
Evidentemente, homossexuais não devem ser agredidos, ofendidos, internados em clínicas contra a sua vontade, nem devem ser constrangidos em suas liberdades pelo fato de serem homossexuais. O que eles precisam entender é que a liberdade é uma via de mão dupla. Eles podem ter liberdade para adotar a conduta que desejarem e fazer o que quiserem (contanto que não agridam ninguém), mas da mesma forma, é fundamental respeitar e preservar a liberdade de terceiros que desejam rejeitá-los pacificamente, pelo motivo que for.
Afinal, ninguém tem a menor obrigação de aceitá-los, atendê-los ou sequer pensar que uma união estável entre duas pessoas do mesmo sexo — incapaz de gerar descendentes, e, portanto, antinatural — deva ser considerado um matrimônio de verdade. Absolutamente nenhuma pessoa, ideia, movimento, crença ou ideologia usufrui de plena unanimidade no mundo. Por que o homossexualismo deveria ter tal privilégio?
Homossexuais não são portadores de uma verdade definitiva, absoluta e indiscutível, que está acima da humanidade. São seres humanos comuns que — na melhor das hipóteses —, levam um estilo de vida que pode ser considerado “alternativo”, e absolutamente ninguém tem a obrigação de considerar esse estilo de vida normal ou aceitável. A única obrigação das pessoas é não interferir, e isso não implica uma obrigação em aceitar.
Discriminar homossexuais (assim como pessoas de qualquer outro grupo, raça, religião, nacionalidade ou etnia) é um direito natural por parte de todos aqueles que desejam exercer esse direito. E isso nem o direito positivo nem a militância progressista poderão algum dia alterar ou subverter. O direito natural e a inclinação inerente dos seres humanos em atender às suas próprias disposições é simplesmente imutável e faz parte do seu conjunto de necessidades.
Conclusão
A militância progressista é absurdamente autoritária, e todas as suas estratégias e disposições ideológicas mostram que ela está em uma guerra permanente contra a ordem natural, contra a liberdade e principalmente contra o homem branco, cristão, conservador e tradicionalista — possivelmente, aquilo que ela mais odeia e despreza.
Nós não podemos, no entanto, ceder ou dar espaço para a agenda progressista, tampouco pensar em considerar como sendo normais todas as pautas abusivas e tirânicas que a militância pretende estabelecer como sendo perfeitamente razoáveis e aceitáveis, quer a sociedade aceite isso ou não. Afinal, conforme formos cedendo, o progressismo tirânico e totalitário tende a ganhar cada vez mais espaço.
Quanto mais espaço o progressismo conquistar, mais corroída será a liberdade e mais impulso ganhará o totalitarismo. Com isso, a cultura do cancelamento vai acabar com carreiras, profissões e com o sustento de muitas pessoas, pelo simples fato de que elas discordam das pautas universitárias da moda.
A história mostra perfeitamente que quanto mais liberdade uma sociedade tem, mais progresso ela atinge. Por outro lado, quanto mais autoritária ela for, mais retrocessos ela sofrerá. O autoritarismo se combate com liberdade, desafiando as pautas de todos aqueles que persistem em implementar a tirania na sociedade. O politicamente correto é o nazismo dos costumes, que pretende subverter a moral através de uma cultura de vigilância policial despótica e autoritária, para que toda a sociedade seja subjugada pela agenda totalitária progressista.
Pois quanto a nós, precisamos continuar travando o bom combate em nome da liberdade. E isso inclui reconhecer que ideologias, hábitos e costumes de que não gostamos tem o direito de existir e até mesmo de serem defendidos.
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@ 266815e0:6cd408a5
2024-04-22 22:20:47While 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:
- All the existing solutions have one thing in common. A universal ID of some kind for files
- HTTP is still good. we don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water
- 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 IDThese 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 eventDELETE /<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 metadataAn 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 - ansec
unprotected private key (please don't) - bunker:// URI from nsecbunker3. 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-server4. 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
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-15 00:11:19Chef's notes
Serve with crackers, or croutons, and side salad. Fiesta Nacho cheese soup gives a pleasant kick of flavor
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 5 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 2-4
Ingredients
- 1 Can (10.5 ounces) condensed Cheddar cheese soup
- 1 Cans (10 ½ ounces) condensed tomato soup
- 2 Soup cans water
- Bacon, fried and crumbled.
Directions
- Combine soups, and water.
- Heat through, stirring often.
- Garnish with bacon.
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@ 97c70a44:ad98e322
2024-08-29 00:50:27Nostr is a mess. It always has been and will always be. That's part of the appeal! But it's important that users be able to navigate the rolling seas of this highly partition-tolerant network of kaleidoscopically-interwoven people, bots, topics, relays, clients, events, recommendations, lists, feeds, micro-apps, macro-apps, Chinese spam, and "GM"s.
In order to do this, users must be able to articulate "what" they are looking for, and clients must be able to articulate "how" to find that thing. This "how" is divided into two parts: building a request that will match the desired content (very easy), and selecting a relay that is able to serve that content to the user requesting it (very very hard).
Why guessing isn't good enough
As a concrete example, let's say the user wants to find everyone in their "network" who is using a particular topic. The process would look something like this:
- The user clicks the "network" tab and types in the topic they want to browse. This is the "what".
- The client then translates the term "network" to a list of public keys using whatever definition they prefer (Follows? WoT? Grapevine?), and builds a filter that might look something like this:
[{"authors": pubkeys, "#t": ["mytopic"]}]
. Any relay will happily accept, understand, and respond to that filter. - The client then has to decide which relays it should send that filter to. This is the
???
stage of the outbox model, which immediately precedes: - Profit
It may not be immediately obvious why selecting the correct relays might be difficult. Most people post to relay.damus.io, and most people read from relay.damus.io, so in most cases you should be good, right?
This approach to relay selection has historically worked "well enough", but it depends on a flawed definition of success. If you only want to find 90% of the content that matches your query, using the top 10 relays will suffice. But nostr is intended to be censorship-resistant. What if those 10 hubs have banned a particular public key? Nostr clients should (at least in theory) be 100% successful in retrieving requested content. Even if someone only posts to their self-hosted relay, you should be able to find their notes if their account is set up properly.
A naive solution to fixing the FOMO
A 90% hit rate results in a feeling of flakiness, even if users aren't completely aware of what isn't working. Feeds will be incomplete, quoted notes will be missing, replies will be orphaned, user profiles won't load. The natural response to the FOMO this creates is for users to "try harder" by adding more relays.
On the read side, this means clients open more connections, resulting in much higher data transfer requirements, with massively diminishing returns, since there's no reason to expect that a randomly chosen relay will have a substantially different data set.
One the publish side, this means that clients end up publishing more copies of their data to more relays. This approach has been automated in the past by services like Blastr, which don't store a copy of events published to the relay, but instead forward events to the top 300 relays in the network. This results in a two-orders-of-magnitude increase in storage required, and only makes the read side of the problem worse, since it reduces the uniqueness of the data set each relay stores. This in turn means that more duplicates are retrieved when querying relays.
Both halves of this approach are equivalent to guessing. On the read side, users are guessing which relays will have any arbitrary content they might ask for in the future. On the write side, users are guessing which relays other people might use to find their notes. It is a brute-force method for finding content.
Randomness results in centralization
In theory, random relay selection would result in a perfect distribution of content across all relays in the network. But in practice, this method of selection isn't random at all, but is strongly influenced by user bias in what constitutes a "good" relay. While some users may check nostr.watch for ping times, geographical proximity, or uptime, most will choose relays based on familiar names or other people's recommendations.
In either case, these biases are entirely orthogonal to achieving a higher content retrieval hit rate, except when bias in relay selection results in clustering — i.e., centralization. In other words, the kind of randomness exhibited by users when selecting relays actually results in pretty much everyone picking the same few relays. We see this same effect when people try to come up with passwords or seed phrases — human-provided randomness is anything but random.
Clustering improves the hit rate when requesting events (slightly), but it results in nearly as much centralization as if only a single relay was used — and a lot more duplicate events.
Something (anything) other than randomness
In early 2023, Mike Dilger introduced NIP 65 (now known as the "Outbox Model") with a problem statement in the spirit of the original description of nostr: "Nostr should scale better. People should be able to find what they want."
Historical note: NIP 65 was formerly known as the "Gossip Model", derived from the name of Mike's desktop nostr client, called "Gossip". This unfortunately created a lot of confusion, since gossip protocols work very differently from how nostr tends to work, hence the re-brand.
Before NIP 65, an informal standard existed in which
kind 3
user contact lists also included a list of relays that clients could use as something similar to Mastodon's "home servers". This list included the option to only read or write from a given relay. Unfortunately, it wasn't really clear what the semantics of this relay list were, so different clients handled them differently (and many clients ignored them). Usually this amounted to user-provided static relay configurations, which resulted in the naive relay selection approach described above.NIP 65 used a very similar format (a list of relay urls with optional "read" or "write" directives), but with a very important semantic difference: relays listed in a user's
kind 10002
were intended to "advertise to others, not for configuring one's client." In other words, these relay selections were intended as a signal to other users that they should use certain relays when attempting to communicate with the author of the relay list.I highly recommend reading the entire NIP, which is very short and easy to read. But the mechanics of the spec are very simple:
When seeking events from a user, Clients SHOULD use the WRITE relays of the user's
kind:10002
.When seeking events about a user, where the user was tagged, Clients SHOULD use the READ relays of the user's
kind:10002
.When broadcasting an event, Clients SHOULD:
- Broadcast the event to the WRITE relays of the author
- Broadcast the event to all READ relays of each tagged user
For the first time, we had a way to differentiate relays in terms of what content could be found where.
When looking for a note by a particular user, a client could now look up the author's
write
relays according to theirkind 10002
event, and send its query there. The result is a much higher hit rate with much lower data transfer requirements, and fewer connections per query.Making Outbox Work
There are of course some assumptions required to make this work.
First, the user must know which author they're looking for. This isn't always true when looking up a quote or parent note, but context and pubkey hints solve this difficulty in most cases.
The author must also publish a
kind 10002
event. This may not always be the case, but clients should prompt users to set up their relay list correctly. This isn't really a flaw in the Outbox Model, just in implementations of it.Additionally, the user's client must be able to find the author's
kind 10002
event. This is the "bootstrapping" phase of the Outbox Model, during which the mechanisms the system provides for finding events aren't available. This requires us to fall back to randomly guessing which relays have the content we're looking for, which as we saw above doesn't work very well.Other than guessing, there are a few different ways a client might find the relay selection event in question, each of which is applicable in different circumstances. In most cases, using one of a handful of indexer relays like purplepag.es or relay.nostr.band is a simple and efficient way to find user profiles and relay selections.
However, if an author's content has been aggressively purged from these indexers due to censorship, they obviously can't be relied upon. Even though the author in question hasn't been deplatformed from nostr itself (since he can always self-host a publicly accessible relay to store his content), he has been effectively shadow-banned.
To get around this, relay selections have to be communicated in some other way. Nostr has a few different mechanisms for this:
- If the author's NIP 05 address is known and properly configured (it may not be), clients can look up the author's NIP 05 endpoint to find some reasonable relay hints. Unfortunately, these are often neglected, and usually custodial, so they can run into the same problems.
- If the author's pubkey is found in another signed event found on nostr, relay hints can be a way to propagate relay selections through the network. This relies on implementations picking reliable relay hints which can be difficult, and hints do tend to become less reliable over time. However, this strategy is very effective in resisting censorship because it makes banning viral — if a relay wants to completely purge a particular pubkey from their database, they have to purge every event that references it, since events are tamper-proof.
- In extremis, relay recommendations can always be communicated out-of-band. This can be done using manual input, QR codes, DHTs, jsonl torrents full of
kind 10002
events, or any other mechanism client developers choose to resort to.
Another, more technical assumption is that any given query can be fulfilled by few enough relays that a client can actually make all the connections needed, without running into resource limits. If you're trying to request content from 10,000 users across 1,000 relays, you're going to have a bad time. This was pointed out to me by Mazin of nostr.wine. He makes a good point, and it's definitely something to keep in mind. There are some mitigating factors though.
The first is that the current topology of the network probably won't persist forever. Because nostr is largely populated by self-hosting enthusiasts, the number of "tiny" relays is proportionally much higher than it will be if adoption picks up, even if the total number of relays grows. The trajectory is that nostr will drift toward fewer, larger relays, reducing the number of connections needed to fulfill any given query.
This is "centralizing", but it's important to understand that this isn't necessarily a bad thing. As long as there are more than one or two large hubs, there is user choice. And as long as it's possible to run a new relay, there is always an escape hatch. Nostr, like bitcoin, has no hard dependency on the biggest player in the network.
The other thing to consider is that there are lots of other techniques we can use to overcome the limits of the lowest-common denominator's limitations (mobile browser clients), including self hosted or third-party relay proxies. The trade-off here is that a little trust (aka centralization) can go a long way to reducing resource requirements needed to fulfill queries using the Outbox model.
If you're interested in more details on this topic, see this blog post.
That was a long digression, but there is one other thing that the Outbox model assumes to be the case. Even if the correct relays are found and connected to, they still may not return all desired content, either because they don't have it, or because they refuse to return it to the user requesting it.
This can happen if the publishing client isn't following the Outbox Model, if the author had migrated from one relay set to another without copying their notes over, or if the relay in question chose not to retain the author's content for some reason.
The first two issues can be fixed by improving implementations, but the question of policy is a little more interesting.
Relativistic relays
The Outbox Model is a mechanical process; it's only as useful as user relay selections are. In order for it to work, users have to be able to make intelligent relay selections.
Every relay has trade-offs, depending on its policy. 140.f7z.io would not be useful for long-form content, for example. Some relays might have a content retention policy that changes depending on whether you're a paying user. If you don't pay, you might find out too late that your content has been deleted from the relay.
So what makes a relay "good" for a particular use case? Well, it's complicated. Here are a few factors that go into that calculus:
- Is the relay in the same geographical as the user? Proximity reduces latency, but jurisdictional arbitrage might be desired. Users should probably have a variety of relays that fit different profiles.
- Will the relay ban the user? Do the operators have a history of good behavior? Is the relay focused on particular types of content? Is the relay's focus consistent with the user's goal in adding that relay to their list?
- What are the relay's retention policies? A user might want to set up an archival relay for her old content, or a multi-availability-zone relay so her notes are immediately accessible to the rest of the network.
- Does the relay require payment? Paid relays are more aligned with their users, but obviously come at a financial cost.
- Does the relay have policies for read-protecting content? If so, other users might not be able to find your posts published to that relay. On the other hand, some relays are configured to work as inboxes for direct messages, which can help preserve privacy.
- Does the relay request that users authenticate? Authentication can help manage spam, but it also allows relays to correlate content requests with users, reducing user privacy.
- Is the relay you use hosted by your client's developer? If so, you're in danger of getting banned from your client and your relay at the same time.
- Is the relay a hub? Using hubs can help smooth out rough areas in Outbox Model implementations, at the cost of centralization.
- Is the relay used by anyone else? One-off relays can be useful for archival purposes, but often won't be used by clients following the Outbox Model, depending on how they optimize requests.
There are lots of ways to approach the problem of helping users select relays, but it's an inherently complex problem which very few people will have the patience to properly address on their own. Relay selection is a multi-dimensional problem, and requires satisfying multiple constraints with a limited number of relay selections.
In the future, special-purpose clients might be used to help people build relay sets. Clients also might provide curated "relay kits" that users can choose and customize. Or, we might see an increase in hybrid solutions, like smarter relay proxies or client-local relays that synchronize using other protocols or platforms.
The Limitations of Outbox
Outbox is not a complete solution, not because of any of the caveats listed above, but because NIP 65 per se only addresses the question of how to index content by pubkey in a broadcast social media context. But there are many other scenarios for relay selection that Outbox does not solve:
- Community, chat, and group posts might be best posted to relays dedicated to that context.
- Direct messages shouldn't follow the same contours as public social media content.
- Topic-oriented relays, or relays serving a custom feed might be useful independent of who uses them.
- Relays focused on serving a particular kind of event, like music, long-form content, or relay selections, are useful independent of who reads from or writes to them.
- Certain clients might need to fulfill particular use cases by using relays that support certain protocol features, like search, count, or sync commands.
- Some events might not make sense to publish to relays, but should instead be shared only directly, out of band.
Some of these use cases might be solved by new specifications similar to Outbox that prescribe where certain data belongs — for example, NIP 17 requires users to publish a different relay list before they can receive direct messages, while NIP 72 places community relay recommendations directly into the group's metadata object. A reasonably complete list of different relay types can be found in this PR, very few of which have a canonical way to manage selections.
Other use cases might be supported more informally, either by relays advertising their own value proposition, or via third-party NIP 66 metadata. Still others might be supported by scoping the network down to only certain relays through explicit relay selection — this is how white-labeled Coracle instances work.
The basic idea here is that there are categories of events that don't have anything to do with where a particular person puts his or her "tweets". For every "what" on nostr, there should be a "how".
Keep nostr weird
Whatever additional systems we end up adopting for helping with relay selection, one thing is certain — people will continue to discover new, creative uses for relays, and we will always be playing catch up. This is one of the coolest things about nostr!
But it does mean that users will have to adapt their expectations to a network that partitions, re-configures, and evolves over time. Nostr is not a "worse" experience than legacy social media, but it is a version of social media that has itself been set free from the stagnant walled-garden model. Nostr is in many ways a living organism — we should be careful not to impose our expectations prematurely, leaving room to discover what this thing actually is, or can be.
If you enjoyed this post but want more take a look at the talk I gave at Nostrasia last year. I also wrote up a blog post at about the same time that addresses some of the same issues, but focuses more on privacy concerns around relays and nostr groups. Finally, I recently wrote this comment, which includes some details about challenges I've faced putting Outbox into Coracle.
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-15 00:05:38Chef's notes
Trim down bread to fit serving bowl, if necessary, prior to broiling. Top with Parmesan cheese.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 2-4
Ingredients
- 1 Can (10.5 ounce) condensed onion soup
- ½ Soup can water
- ½ Soup can V8 juice
- 4 Ounces sliced roast beef
- 2-3 slices French, or Italian bread, or Texas Toast
- Butter
- Parmesan cheese
Directions
- Combine soup, water, and V8 juice.
- Heat to simmer.
- Add roast beef, heat throug
- Ladle soup in bowl
- Top soup with bread
- Top bread with roast beef
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@ 4ba8e86d:89d32de4
2024-10-15 01:11:15Lançado em 2016 como uma versão atualizada e aprimorada do KeePassX, o KeePassXC (Cross-Platform Community Edition) foi desenvolvido por um grupo de desenvolvedores com o objetivo de melhorar a experiência do usuário, adicionar recursos, corrigir bugs e fortalecer a segurança do gerenciador de senhas.
Uma das principais melhorias introduzidas pelo KeePassXC foi a implementação de recursos de segurança avançados. O programa utiliza criptografia AES-256 para proteger o banco de dados, tornando-se um padrão de criptografia amplamente reconhecido. Além disso, foram adicionados recursos como autenticação de dois fatores, suporte a chave de arquivo e melhorias no gerador de senhas. A interface também passou por atualizações, incluindo novos ícones, layouts e melhorias de usabilidade, como recursos de pesquisa avançada, filtragem personalizada e a capacidade de criar entradas personalizadas.
O KeePassXC funciona como um gerenciador de senhas, permitindo que você armazene, organize e acesse suas senhas de forma segura. Aqui está uma explicação simplificada de como ele funciona:
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Criação do banco de dados: Ao iniciar o KeePassXC, você pode criar um banco de dados onde todas as suas senhas serão armazenadas. Esse banco de dados é um arquivo criptografado e protegido por uma senha mestra.
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Armazenamento das senhas: Você pode adicionar suas senhas ao banco de dados do KeePassXC. Isso pode ser feito manualmente, inserindo as informações da senha (como nome do site, nome de usuário e senha) em uma entrada específica. O KeePassXC também possui um gerador de senhas que pode criar senhas fortes e únicas para você.
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Acesso às senhas: Para acessar suas senhas armazenadas, você precisa fornecer a senha mestra. Essa senha é usada para desbloquear o banco de dados criptografado e permitir o acesso às senhas. Certifique-se de escolher uma senha forte e exclusiva para garantir a segurança do seu banco de dados.
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Preenchimento automático: Uma das principais vantagens do KeePassXC é o recurso de preenchimento automático de senhas. Quando você visita um site ou aplicativo que requer uma senha, o KeePassXC pode preencher automaticamente as informações de login para você, tornando o processo mais conveniente e seguro.
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Sincronização e backup: O KeePassXC permite que você sincronize seu banco de dados de senhas entre diferentes dispositivos. Isso pode ser feito através de serviços de armazenamento em nuvem seguros, como Dropbox ou Google Drive. Além disso, é recomendado fazer backup regularmente do seu banco de dados para evitar a perda de suas senhas.
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Segurança avançada: O KeePassXC utiliza criptografia avançada para proteger suas senhas. O algoritmo AES-256 é usado para criptografar o banco de dados, garantindo que apenas você possa acessar as senhas. Além disso, o KeePassXC suporta recursos de segurança adicionais, como autenticação de dois fatores e chave de arquivo.
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Integração com navegadores: O KeePassXC pode ser integrado aos navegadores da web, permitindo que você acesse suas senhas diretamente dos formulários de login dos sites. Isso facilita o preenchimento automático e evita a necessidade de copiar e colar manualmente as senhas.
O KeePassXC resolve vários problemas relacionados à segurança de senhas e oferece benefícios significativos para os usuários:
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Gerenciamento de senhas seguro: O KeePassXC permite que você armazene todas as suas senhas em um único local seguro. Você não precisa mais se preocupar em lembrar várias senhas diferentes para diferentes serviços. Todas as suas senhas são armazenadas no banco de dados criptografado do KeePassXC, protegido por uma senha mestra.
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Criptografia avançada: O KeePassXC utiliza criptografia de nível avançado para proteger suas senhas. O algoritmo AES-256, amplamente reconhecido como um dos mais seguros, é usado para criptografar o banco de dados do KeePassXC.
Isso garante que suas senhas permaneçam seguras e não sejam acessíveis a pessoas não autorizadas.
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Senhas fortes e únicas: O KeePassXC possui um gerador de senhas integrado que pode criar senhas fortes e únicas para você. Isso ajuda a evitar o uso de senhas fracas e fáceis de adivinhar, tornando suas contas mais seguras contra ataques de hackers.
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Autenticação de dois fatores: O KeePassXC suporta autenticação de dois fatores, o que significa que você pode adicionar uma camada adicional de segurança ao fazer login no gerenciador de senhas. Isso pode ser feito por meio de um aplicativo de autenticação no seu smartphone ou utilizando dispositivos de segurança como chaves USB.
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Segurança offline: O KeePassXC é uma solução offline, o que significa que todas as suas senhas são armazenadas localmente no seu dispositivo. Isso reduz o risco de exposição de dados sensíveis em ataques online e violações de segurança em serviços baseados na nuvem.
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Portabilidade: O KeePassXC é um programa de código aberto e multiplataforma. Isso significa que você pode instalá-lo e utilizá-lo em diferentes sistemas operacionais, como Windows, macOS e Linux. Você pode até mesmo transferir seu banco de dados de senhas entre diferentes dispositivos, permitindo acesso fácil e seguro às suas senhas em qualquer lugar.
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Auditoria e transparência: Sendo um projeto de código aberto, o KeePassXC permite que qualquer pessoa examine seu código-fonte e verifique sua segurança. Isso garante uma maior transparência e confiança na integridade do gerenciador de senhas.
É importante ressaltar que o KeePassXC é uma solução offline, o que significa que suas senhas são armazenadas localmente no seu dispositivo, em vez de serem enviadas para a nuvem. Isso ajuda a proteger suas informações contra ataques cibernéticos e violações de segurança.
O KeePassXC funciona como um cofre seguro para suas senhas. Ele armazena e protege suas senhas com criptografia avançada, permitindo o acesso conveniente através do preenchimento automático. Com recursos de segurança adicionais e a capacidade de sincronizar e fazer backup do banco de dados, o KeePassXC oferece uma solução confiável para o gerenciamento de senhas.
https://keepassxc.org/
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc
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@ 4ba8e86d:89d32de4
2024-10-15 01:06:52Ele usa uma abordagem única de virtualização baseada em compartimentos para isolar diferentes aplicativos e atividades em máquinas virtuais independentes. Isso significa que cada atividade, desde navegar na web , é isolada em seu próprio compartimento virtual, fornecendo um ambiente altamente seguro.
O Qubes OS foi criado em 2010 pelo pesquisador de segurança polonês Joanna Rutkowska. Ela se inspirou na ideia de "security by compartmentalization" (segurança por compartimentalização) e começou a desenvolver um sistema operacional baseado em compartimentos para atender às suas necessidades de segurança. Em 2012, a primeira versão do Qubes OS foi lançada e desde então tem evoluído continuamente.
O Qubes OS usa o conceito de máquinas virtuais (VMs) para criar uma abordagem de segurança baseada em compartimentos. Ele executa diferentes aplicativos e atividades em máquinas virtuais independentes, cada uma das quais é isolada do resto do sistema. Cada VM é atribuída a uma categoria de segurança e é configurada de acordo com as políticas de segurança necessárias para aquela categoria. Por exemplo, uma VM de navegação na web pode ser configurada com políticas de segurança para limitar o acesso à rede e restringir o acesso aos arquivos do sistema.
O Qubes OS usa um recurso chamado "dom0" para gerenciar as VMs. O dom0 é uma VM privilegiada que é responsável por gerenciar as outras VMs e dispositivos de hardware do sistema. Ele é isolado do resto do sistema e é executado com permissões limitadas para reduzir o risco de ataques de software malicioso.
O Qubes OS resolve vários problemas de segurança, especialmente para usuários que precisam lidar com informações confidenciais ou sensíveis. Alguns dos principais problemas que o Qubes OS resolve são:
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Ataques de malware: A abordagem baseada em compartimentos do Qubes OS reduz significativamente o risco de ataques de malware. Se um aplicativo ou atividade for comprometido, o dano será limitado ao compartimento virtual onde está sendo executado.
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Rastreamento de atividades: O Qubes OS protege a privacidade do usuário ao evitar que atividades diferentes sejam correlacionadas. Cada atividade é executada em um compartimento virtual separado, impedindo que os dados de atividade sejam compartilhados entre os aplicativos.
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Proteção de dados confidenciais: O Qubes OS isola diferentes tipos de dados em VMs separadas, proporcionando um alto nível de proteção aos dados confidenciais. As VMs são configuradas com políticas de segurança adequadas para cada tipo de dados, protegendo-os contra acesso não autorizado.
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Proteção contra ataques de rede: O Qubes OS utiliza técnicas de isolamento de rede para proteger contra ataques de rede, como ataques de escuta, interceptação de tráfego ou ataques de injeção de pacotes. Cada VM pode ter uma interface de rede dedicada e isolada, garantindo que o tráfego de rede seja controlado e limitado a apenas o que é necessário para cada VM.
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Compartilhamento seguro de arquivos: O Qubes OS oferece a opção de compartilhar arquivos entre VMs de forma segura, sem comprometer a segurança do sistema. Isso é feito por meio do recurso de "transferência de arquivos segura", que permite que os usuários movam arquivos entre as VMs com segurança e sem o risco de contaminação por malware.
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Proteção de hardware: O Qubes OS também fornece recursos de segurança de hardware, como a possibilidade de bloquear portas USB ou desativar o microfone ou a webcam quando não estão em uso. Isso ajuda a evitar a exploração de vulnerabilidades de hardware e aumenta a segurança do sistema como um todo.
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Sistema operacional confiável: O Qubes OS é baseado em uma distribuição Linux confiável e de código aberto, o que significa que os usuários podem verificar o código fonte do sistema operacional e garantir que não haja backdoors ou vulnerabilidades ocultas.
https://github.com/QubesOS
https://www.qubes-os.org/
https://www.youtube.com/live/DpnSFhWEEXk?feature=share
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@ 81870f53:29bef6a6
2024-10-15 02:48:45銀への投資には、いくつかの魅力的な利点があります。
手頃な価格
銀は金やプラチナなどの他の貴金属と比べて、はるかに安価で購入しやすいのが特徴です。1グラムあたり50円から100円程度で取引されており、少額から投資を始めることができます。これは、初心者投資家や小規模な投資を検討している人にとって大きな魅力となっています。
高い価格変動性
銀相場は金相場と比較して価格変動が大きい傾向にあります。この特性は、短期的な売買を通じて利益を得たい投資家にとって魅力的です。タイミングよく売買を行えば、大きな利益を上げる可能性があります。
インフレ対策
銀は物価と連動する傾向があるため、インフレのリスクに強い資産として知られています。物価上昇時に銀の価値も上がる傾向があるため、通貨の価値下落から資産を守る手段として銀を保有する投資家も少なくありません。
**産業需要 ** 銀は工業分野、特に太陽光パネルや電子機器の半導体製造などで広く使用されています。この産業需要は、長期的な価値の安定性を支える要因となっています。
銀への投資は、これらの利点を考慮しつつ、リスクも十分に理解した上で検討することが重要です。価格変動のリスクや景気の影響を受けやすい点にも注意が必要ですが、適切に管理すれば、ポートフォリオの多様化と潜在的な利益獲得の機会を提供する魅力的な投資対象となり得ます。
BitCap は、現物の銀に投資する新しい独自の機会を提供しますメタルキューブ
実物シルバーメタルキューブ 10 オンス
純度 ≥99.99%
最小注文数 10 個
価格: 1 個あたり 385 米ドル/pcs
製品の特徴。
99.99% 純度の銀金属で作られた 1.1 インチの密度のキューブ
各キューブは高純度の金属で作られ、魅力的な研磨面とレーザーエッチングされたラベルが特徴です
理論密度に非常に近い超平坦な面と 0.1 mm の許容差を実現する精密機械加工
各キューブは鋭いエッジと角でバリがなく完璧に仕上げられています
今すぐこの機会を活用してください
https://app.hel.io/pay/670dce90cc50d45bfb84dfb1
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@ f977c464:32fcbe00
2024-01-30 20:06:18Güneşin kaybolmasının üçüncü günü, saat öğlen on ikiyi yirmi geçiyordu. Trenin kalkmasına yaklaşık iki saat vardı. Hepimiz perondaydık. Valizlerimiz, kolilerimiz, renk renk ve biçimsiz çantalarımızla yan yana dizilmiş, kısa aralıklarla tepemizdeki devasa saati kontrol ediyorduk.
Ama ne kadar dik bakarsak bakalım zaman bir türlü istediğimiz hızla ilerlemiyordu. Herkes birkaç dakika sürmesi gereken alelade bir doğa olayına sıkışıp kalmış, karanlıktan sürünerek çıkmayı deniyordu.
Bekleme salonuna doğru döndüm. Nefesimden çıkan buharın arkasında, kalın taş duvarları ve camlarıyla morg kadar güvenli ve soğuk duruyordu. Cesetleri o yüzden bunun gibi yerlere taşımaya başlamışlardı. Demek insanların bütün iyiliği başkaları onları gördüğü içindi ki gündüzleri gecelerden daha karanlık olduğunda hemen birbirlerinin gırtlağına çökmüş, böğürlerinde delikler açmış, gözlerini oyup kafataslarını parçalamışlardı.
İstasyonun ışığı titrediğinde karanlığın enseme saplandığını hissettim. Eğer şimdi, böyle kalabalık bir yerde elektrik kesilse başımıza ne gelirdi?
İçerideki askerlerden biri bakışlarımı yakalayınca yeniden saate odaklanmış gibi yaptım. Sadece birkaç dakika geçmişti.
“Tarlalarım gitti. Böyle boyum kadar ayçiçeği doluydu. Ah, hepsi ölüp gidiyor. Afitap’ın çiçekleri de gi-”
“Dayı, Allah’ını seversen sus. Hepimizi yakacaksın şimdi.”
Karanlıkta durduğunda, görünmez olmayı istemeye başlıyordun. Kimse seni görmemeli, nefesini bile duymamalıydı. Kimsenin de ayağının altında dolaşmamalıydın; gelip kazayla sana çarpmamalılar, takılıp sendelememeliydiler. Yoksa aslında hedefi sen olmadığın bir öfke gürlemeye başlar, yaşadığın ilk şoku ve acıyı silerek üstünden geçerdi.
İlk konuşan, yaşlıca bir adam, kafasında kasketi, nasırlı ellerine hohluyordu. Gözleri ve burnu kızarmıştı. Güneşin kaybolması onun için kendi başına bir felaket değildi. Hayatına olan pratik yansımalarından korkuyordu olsa olsa. Bir anının kaybolması, bu yüzden çoktan kaybettiği birinin biraz daha eksilmesi. Hayatta kalmasını gerektiren sebepler azalırken, hayatta kalmasını sağlayacak kaynaklarını da kaybediyordu.
Onu susturan delikanlıysa atkısını bütün kafasına sarmış, sakalı ve yüzünün derinliklerine kaçmış gözleri dışında bedeninin bütün parçalarını gizlemeye çalışıyordu. İşte o, güneşin kaybolmasının tam olarak ne anlama geldiğini anlamamış olsa bile, dehşetini olduğu gibi hissedebilenlerdendi.
Güneşin onlardan alındıktan sonra kime verileceğini sormuyorlardı. En başta onlara verildiğinde de hiçbir soru sormamışlardı zaten.
İki saat ne zaman geçer?
Midemin üstünde, sağ tarafıma doğru keskin bir acı hissettim. Karaciğerim. Gözlerimi yumdum. Yanımda biri metal bir nesneyi yere bıraktı. Bir kafesti. İçerisindeki kartalın ıslak kokusu burnuma ulaşmadan önce bile biliyordum bunu.
“Yeniden mi?” diye sordu bana kartal. Kanatları kanlı. Zamanın her bir parçası tüylerinin üstüne çöreklenmişti. Gagası bir şey, tahminen et parçası geveliyor gibi hareket ediyordu. Eski anılar kolay unutulmazmış. Şu anda kafesinin kalın parmaklıklarının ardında olsa da bunun bir aldatmaca olduğunu bir tek ben biliyordum. Her an kanatlarını iki yana uzatıverebilir, hava bu hareketiyle dalgalanarak kafesi esneterek hepimizi içine alacak kadar genişleyebilir, parmaklıklar önce ayaklarımızın altına serilir gibi gözükebilir ama aslında hepimizin üstünde yükselerek tepemize çökebilirdi.
Aşağıya baktım. Tahtalarla zapt edilmiş, hiçbir yere gidemeyen ama her yere uzanan tren rayları. Atlayıp koşsam… Çantam çok ağırdı. Daha birkaç adım atamadan, kartal, suratını bedenime gömerdi.
“Bu sefer farklı,” diye yanıtladım onu. “Yeniden diyemezsin. Tekrarladığım bir şey değil bu. Hatta bir hata yapıyormuşum gibi tonlayamazsın da. Bu sefer, insanların hak etmediğini biliyorum.”
“O zaman daha vahim. Süzme salaksın demektir.”
“İnsanların hak etmemesi, insanlığın hak etmediği anlamına gelmez ki.”
Az önce göz göze geldiğim genççe ama çökük asker hâlâ bana bakıyordu. Bir kartalla konuştuğumu anlamamıştı şüphesiz. Yanımdakilerden biriyle konuştuğumu sanmış olmalıydı. Ama konuştuğum kişiye bakmıyordum ona göre. Çekingence kafamı eğmiştim. Bir kez daha göz göze geldiğimizde içerideki diğer iki askere bir şeyler söyledi, onlar dönüp beni süzerken dışarı çıktı.
Yanımızdaki, az önce konuşan iki adam da şaşkınlıkla bir bana bir kartala bakıyordu.
“Yalnız bu sefer kalbin de kırılacak, Prometheus,” dedi kartal, bana. “Belki son olur. Biliyorsun, bir sürü soruna neden oluyor bu yaptıkların.”
Beni koruyordu sözde. En çok kanıma dokunan buydu. Kasıklarımın üstüne oturmuş, kanlı suratının ardında gözleri parlarken attığı çığlık kulaklarımda titremeye devam ediyordu. Bu tabloda kimsenin kimseyi düşündüğü yoktu. Kartalın, yanımızdaki adamların, artık arkama kadar gelmiş olması gereken askerin, tren raylarının, geçmeyen saatlerin…
Arkamı döndüğümde, asker sahiden oradaydı. Zaten öyle olması gerekiyordu; görmüştüm bunu, biliyordum. Kehanetler… Bir şeyler söylüyordu ama ağzı oynarken sesi çıkmıyordu. Yavaşlamış, kendisini saatin akışına uydurmuştu. Havada donan tükürüğünden anlaşılıyordu, sinirliydi. Korktuğu için olduğunu biliyordum. Her seferinde korkmuşlardı. Beni unutmuş olmaları işlerini kolaylaştırmıyordu. Sadece yeni bir isim vermelerine neden oluyordu. Bu seferkiyle beni lanetleyecekleri kesinleşmişti.
Olması gerekenle olanların farklı olması ne kadar acınasıydı. Olması gerekenlerin doğasının kötücül olmasıysa bir yerde buna dayanıyordu.
“Salaksın,” dedi kartal bana. Zamanı aşan bir çığlık. Hepimizin önüne geçmişti ama kimseyi durduramıyordu.
Sonsuzluğa kaç tane iki saat sıkıştırabilirsiniz?
Ben bir tane bile sıkıştıramadım.
Çantama uzanıyordum. Asker de sırtındaki tüfeğini indiriyordu. Benim acelem yoktu, onunsa eli ayağı birbirine dolaşıyordu. Oysaki her şey tam olması gerektiği anda olacaktı. Kehanet başkasının parmaklarının ucundaydı.
Güneş, bir tüfeğin patlamasıyla yeryüzüne doğdu.
Rayların üzerine serilmiş göğsümün ortasından, bir çantanın içinden.
Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2021 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-26 17:45:08Ak ste v Bitcoine už nejaký ten rok, možno máte pocit, že už všetkému rozumiete a že vás nič neprekvapí. Viete čo je to peňaženka, čo je to seed a čo adresa, možno dokonca aj čo je to sha256. Ste si istí? Táto prednáška sa vám to pokúsi vyvrátiť. 🙂
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-14 23:58:32Chef's notes
Serve with side salad.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 10 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 2-4
Ingredients
- 3 sausage links cut into penny sized slices, or two patties crumbled
- 2 Cans (10 ½ ounces) condensed minestrone soup
- 1 can (10.5 ounces) condensed tomato soup.
- 3 Soup cans water
- Croutons
Directions
- Brown sausage in saucepan
- Add soups, and water
- Heat through, stirring often.
- Garnish with croutons
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@ 23202132:eab3af30
2024-10-15 01:00:46A máscara associada ao grupo Anonymous tem origem no personagem Guy Fawkes, que foi um conspirador inglês envolvido na "Conspiração da Pólvora" de 1605. A conspiração visava explodir o Parlamento Britânico para assassinar o rei Jaime I e restaurar um governo católico. Guy Fawkes foi capturado e executado por sua participação.
A imagem de Guy Fawkes foi popularizada pela graphic novel e filme "V de Vingança" ("V for Vendetta"), criado por Alan Moore e David Lloyd. No filme, o personagem principal usa uma máscara de Guy Fawkes enquanto luta contra um governo autoritário. Desde o lançamento do filme em 2005, a máscara foi adotada por ativistas, incluindo o grupo Anonymous, como um símbolo de resistência contra a opressão e a vigilância estatal.
A máscara é usada em protestos e manifestações, simbolizando a luta contra a injustiça, ao mesmo tempo que permite o anonimato.
Quem foi Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes foi um soldado inglês que viveu entre 1570 e 1606, conhecido por seu envolvimento na Conspiração da Pólvora de 1605. A conspiração tinha como plano principal explodir a Casa dos Lordes durante uma sessão parlamentar em 5 de novembro de 1605. Guy Fawkes foi designado para cuidar dos barris de pólvora escondidos no porão do Parlamento. No entanto, a conspiração foi descoberta na noite anterior, e Fawkes foi capturado enquanto guardava os explosivos.
Após sua captura, ele foi torturado e revelou os nomes de outros conspiradores. Guy Fawkes foi condenado à execução por traição e acabou enforcado e esquartejado em janeiro de 1606.
O fracasso da conspiração é lembrado na Inglaterra todo ano em 5 de novembro, no evento chamado "Guy Fawkes Night" ou "Bonfire Night", quando fogueiras e fogos de artifício são acesos para marcar a ocasião. Guy Fawkes tornou-se um símbolo histórico, representando rebelião e resistência contra a tirania, mesmo que sua ação tenha sido condenada à época.
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@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d
2024-01-14 13:55:28O Planetinha
Fumaça verde me entrando pelas narinas e um coro desafinado fazia uma base melódica.
nos confins da galáxia havia um planetinha isolado. Era um planeta feliz.
O homem vestido de mago começava a aparecer por detrás da fumaça verde.
O planetinha recebeu três presentes, mas o seu habitante, o homem, estava num estado de confusão tão grande que ameaçava estragá-los. Os homens já havia escravizado o primeiro presente, a vida; lutavam contra o segundo presente, a morte; e havia alguns que achavam que deviam destruir totalmente o terceiro, o amor, e com isto levar a desordem total ao pobre planetinha perdido, que se chamava Terra.
O coro desafinado entrou antes do "Terra" cantando várias vezes, como se imitasse um eco, "terra-terra-terraaa". Depois de uma pausa dramática, o homem vestido de mago voltou a falar.
Terra, nossa nave mãe.
Neste momento eu me afastei. À frente do palco onde o mago e seu coral faziam apelos à multidão havia vários estandes cobertos com a tradicional armação de quatro pernas e lona branca. Em todos os cantos da praça havia gente, gente dos mais variados tipos. Visitantes curiosos que se aproximavam atraídos pela fumaça verde e as barraquinhas, gente que aproveitava o movimento para vender doces sem pagar imposto, casais que se abraçavam de pé para espantar o frio, os tradicionais corredores que faziam seu cooper, gente cheia de barba e vestida para imitar os hippies dos anos 60 e vender colares estendidos no chão, transeuntes novos e velhos, vestidos como baladeiros ou como ativistas do ônibus grátis, grupos de ciclistas entusiastas.
O mago fazia agora apelos para que nós, os homens, habitantes do isolado planetinha, passássemos a ver o planetinha, nossa nave mãe, como um todo, e adquiríssemos a consciência de que ele estava entrando em maus lençóis. A idéia, reforçada pela logomarca do evento, era que parássemos de olhar só para a nossa vida e pensássemos no planeta.
A logomarca do evento, um desenho estilizado do planeta Terra, nada tinha a ver com seu nome: "Festival Andando de Bem com a Vida", mas havia sido ali colocada estrategicamente pelos organizadores, de quem parecia justamente sair a mensagem dita pelo mago.
Aquela multidão de pessoas que, assim como eu, tinham suas próprias preocupações, não podiam ver o quadro caótico que formavam, cada uma com seus atos isolados, ali naquela praça isolada, naquele planeta isolado. Quando o hippie barbudo, quase um Osho, assustava um casal para tentar vender-lhes um colar, a quantidade de caos que isto acrescentava à cena era gigantesca. Por um segundo, pude ver, como se estivesse de longe e acima, com toda a pretensão que este estado imaginativo carrega, a cena completa do caos.
Uma nave-mãe, dessas de ficção científica, habitada por milhões de pessoas, seguia no espaço sem rumo, e sem saber que logo à frente um longo precipício espacial a esperava, para a desgraça completa sua e de seus habitantes.
Acostumados àquela nave tanto quanto outrora estiveram acostumados à sua terra natal, os homens viviam as próprias vidas sem nem se lembrar que estavam vagando pelo espaço. Ninguém sabia quem estava conduzindo a nave, e ninguém se importava.
No final do filme descobre-se que era a soma completa do caos que cada habitante produzia, com seus gestos egoístas e incapazes de levar em conta a totalidade, é que determinava a direção da nave-mãe. O efeito, no entanto, não era imediato, como nunca é. Havia gente de verdade encarregada de conduzir a nave, mas era uma gente bêbada, mau-caráter, que vivia brigando pelo controle da nave e o poder que isto lhes dava. Poder, status, dinheiro!
Essa gente bêbada era atraída até ali pela corrupção das instituições e da moral comum que, no fundo no fundo, era causada pelo egoísmo da população, através de um complexo -- mas que no filme aparece simplificado pela ação individual de um magnata do divertimento público -- processo social.
O homem vestido de mago era mais um agente causador de caos, com sua cena cheia de fumaça e sua roupa estroboscópica, ele achava que estava fazendo o bem ao alertar sua platéia, todos as sextas-feiras, de que havia algo que precisava ser feito, que cada um que estava ali ouvindo era responsável pelo planeta. A sua incapacidade, porém, de explicar o que precisava ser feito só aumentava a angústia geral; a culpa que ele jogava sobre seu público, e que era prontamente aceita e passada em frente, aos familiares e amigos de cada um, atormentava-os diariamente e os impedia de ter uma vida decente no trabalho e em casa. As famílias, estressadas, estavam constantemente brigando e os motivos mais insignificantes eram responsáveis pelas mais horrendas conseqüências.
O mago, que após o show tirava o chapéu entortado e ia tomar cerveja num boteco, era responsável por uma parcela considerável do caos que levava a nave na direção do seu desgraçado fim. No filme, porém, um dos transeuntes que de passagem ouviu um pedaço do discurso do mago despertou em si mesmo uma consiência transformadora e, com poderes sobre-humanos que lhe foram então concedidos por uma ordem iniciática do bem ou não, usando só os seus poderes humanos mesmo, o transeunte -- na primeira versão do filme um homem, na segunda uma mulher -- consegue consertar as instituições e retirar os bêbados da condução da máquina. A questão da moral pública é ignorada para abreviar a trama, já com duas horas e quarenta de duração, mas subentende-se que ela também fora resolvida.
No planeta Terra real, que não está indo em direção alguma, preso pela gravidade ao Sol, e onde as pessoas vivem a própria vida porque lhes é impossível viver a dos outros, não têm uma consciência global de nada porque só é possível mesmo ter a consciência delas mesmas, e onde a maioria, de uma maneira ou de outra, está tentando como pode, fazer as coisas direito, o filme é exibido.
Para a maioria dos espectadores, é um filme que evoca reflexões, um filme forte. Por um segundo elas têm o mesmo vislumbre do caos generalizado que eu tive ali naquela praça. Para uma pequena parcela dos espectadores -- entre eles alguns dos que estavam na platéia do mago, o próprio mago, o seguidor do Osho, o casal de duas mulheres e o vendedor de brigadeiros, mas aos quais se somam também críticos de televisão e jornal e gente que fala pelos cotovelos na internet -- o filme é um horror, o filme é uma vulgarização de um problema real e sério, o filme apela para a figura do herói salvador e passa uma mensagem totalmente errada, de que a maioria da população pode continuar vivendo as suas própria vidinhas miseráveis enquanto espera por um herói que vem do Olimpo e os salva da mixórdia que eles mesmos causaram, é um filme que presta um enorme desserviço à causa.
No dia seguinte ao lançamento, num bar meio caro ali perto da praça, numa mesa com oito pessoas, entre elas seis do primeiro grupo e oito do segundo, discute-se se o filme levará ou não o Oscar. Eu estou em casa dormindo e não escuto nada.
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-26 12:15:35Bojovať s rakovinou metabolickou metódou znamená použiť metabolizmus tela proti rakovine. Riadenie cukru a ketónov v krvi stravou a pohybom, časovanie rôznych typov cvičení, včasná kombinácia klasickej onko-liečby a hladovania. Ktoré vitamíny a suplementy prijímam a ktorým sa napríklad vyhýbam dajúc na rady mojej dietologičky z USA Miriam (ktorá sa špecializuje na rakovinu).
Hovori sa, že čo nemeriame, neriadime ... Ja som meral, veľa a dlho ... aj grafy budú ... aj sranda bude, hádam ... 😉
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-14 23:48:00Chef's notes
Serve over baked potato, cooked white rice, or drop biscuits.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 15 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 2-4
Ingredients
- 2 - 4 Hotdogs, sliced thin
- 1 TBSP Butter
- 1 Can (10.5 oz) bean & bacon soup
- 1 Can (10.5 oz) condensed pea soup
- 1 Soup can of milk
- 1 Soup can of water
Directions
- Lightly brown hotdogs in butter.
- Mix soups, milk, and water in a bowl.
- Add soup mix to hotdogs, heat through but do not boil.
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@ 4ba8e86d:89d32de4
2024-10-15 01:00:47Principais casos de uso do Shelter:
- Instalação de aplicativos dentro de um perfil de trabalho para isolamento.
- "Congelar" aplicativos dentro do perfil de trabalho para evitar que sejam executados ou ativados quando você não os estiver usando ativamente.
- Instalação de duas cópias do mesmo aplicativo no mesmo dispositivo.
No entanto, é importante notar que o Shelter não oferece proteção contra:
- Vulnerabilidades do sistema Android ou do kernel do Linux.
- Backdoors presentes no sistema Android (recomenda-se usar ROMs de código aberto para preocupações desse tipo).
- Backdoors presentes em firmwares (esta é uma limitação incontornável).
- Outros bugs ou limitações do sistema Android.
Adicionalmente, o Shelter não permite a criação de múltiplos perfis de trabalho em um dispositivo e não pode coexistir com outros aplicativos de gerenciamento de perfil de trabalho, devido a restrições do sistema Android.
Para desinstalar o Shelter:
- Acesse Configurações -> Contas para remover o perfil de trabalho.
- Acesse Configurações -> Segurança -> Avançado -> Aplicativos de administração de dispositivos para remover o Shelter dos apps de administração.
- Desinstale o Shelter normalmente.
https://gitea.angry.im/PeterCxy/Shelter
https://f-droid.org/pt_BR/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/
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@ f977c464:32fcbe00
2024-01-11 18:47:47Kendisini 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.
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2024-07-26 09:50:53Predikčné trhy predstavujú praktický spôsob, ako môžeme nahliadnuť do budúcnosti bez nutnosti spoliehať sa na tradičné, často nepresné metódy, ako je veštenie z kávových zrniek. V prezentácii sa ponoríme do histórie a vývoja predikčných trhov, a popíšeme aký vplyv mali a majú na dostupnosť a kvalitu informácií pre širokú verejnosť, a ako menia trh s týmito informáciami. Pozrieme sa aj na to, ako tieto trhy umožňujú obyčajným ľuďom prístup k spoľahlivým predpovediam a ako môžu prispieť k lepšiemu rozhodovaniu v rôznych oblastiach života.
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2023-12-06 15:29:43I’m going to be on an ordinals panels as one of the people who is counter arguing the claim that they are good for bitcoin. I decided to brush up on the technicals on how inscriptions work. I am starting to see luke’s perspective on how it is exploiting a loophole in bitcoin’s anti-data-spam mechanisms.
Storing data in Bitcoin, the “standard” way
The standard way you add “data” to bitcoin is by calling the OP_RETURN opcode. Bitcoin devs noticed that people were storing data (like the bitcoin whitepaper) in the utxo set via large multisig transactions. The problem with this is that this set is unprunable and could grow over time. OP_RETURN outputs on the other-hand are provably prunable and don’t add to utxo bloat.
Here’s an excerpt from the march 2014 0.9.0 release notes that talks about this:
On OP_RETURN: There was been some confusion and misunderstanding in the community, regarding the OP_RETURN feature in 0.9 and data in the blockchain. This change is not an endorsement of storing data in the blockchain. The OP_RETURN change creates a provably-prunable output, to avoid data storage schemes – some of which were already deployed – that were storing arbitrary data such as images as forever-unspendable TX outputs, bloating bitcoin’s UTXO database. Storing arbitrary data in the blockchain is still a bad idea; it is less costly and far more efficient to store non-currency data elsewhere.
Much of the work on bitcoin core has been focused on making sure the system continues to function in a decentralized way for its intended purpose in the presence of people trying to abuse it for things like storing data. Bitcoin core has always discouraged this, as it is not designed for storage of images and data, it is meant for moving digital coins around in cyberspace.
To help incentive-align people to not do stupid things, OP_RETURN transactions were not made non-standard, so that they are relayable by peers and miners, but with the caveat:
- They can only push 40 bytes (later increased to 80,83, I’m guessing to support larger root merkle hashes since that is the only sane usecase for op_return)
Bitcoin also added an option called -datacarriersize which limits the total number of bytes from these outputs that you will relay or mine.
Why inscriptions are technically an exploit
Inscriptions get around the datacarriersize limit by disguising data as bitcoin script program data via OP_PUSH inside OP_IF blocks. Ordinals do not use OP_RETURN and are not subjected to datacarriersize limits, so noderunners and miners currently have limited control over the total size of this data that they wish to relay and include in blocks. Luke’s fork of bitcoin-core has some options to fight this spam, so hopefully we will see this in core sometime soon as well.
Inscriptions are also taking advantage of features in segwit v1 (witness discount) and v2/taproot (no arbitrary script size limit). Each of these features have interesting and well-justified reasons why they were introduced.
The purpose of the witness discount was to make it cheaper to spend many outputs which helps the reduction of the utxo set size. Inscriptions took advantage of this discount to store monke jpegs disguised as bitcoin scripts. Remember, bitcoin is not for storing data, so anytime bitcoin-devs accidentally make it cheap and easy to relay data then this should be viewed as an exploit. Expect it to be fixed, or at least provide tools to noderunners for fighting this spam.
Where do we go from here
The interesting part of this story is that people seem to attach value to images stored on the bitcoin blockchain, and they are willing to pay the fee to get it in the block, so non-ideologic miners and people who don’t care about the health and decentralization of bitcoin are happy to pay or collect the fee and move on.
Data should not get a discount, people should pay full price if they want to store data. They should just use op_return and hashes like opentimestamps or any other reasonable protocol storing data in bitcoin.
After going through this analysis I’ve come to the opinion that this is a pretty bad data-spam exploit and bitcoin devs should be working on solutions. Ideological devs like luke who actually care about the health and decentralization of the network are and I’m glad to see it.
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2024-10-08 16:34:23This is the AI-generated full transcript of Bitcoin Infinity Show #129 with Max Hillebrand!
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Luke: Max, welcome for the first time to the Bitcoin Infinity Show.
The Lodging of Wayfaring Men
Knut: Yeah, so one of the first things, you have made the best book recommendations to me that I've ever gotten from anyone. And one was The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard, and the other one was Economic Science and the Austrian Method by Hans Hermann Hoppe. And now you recommended another book, which I haven't read yet, called The Lodging of Wayfaring Men.
what is that book about and why do you recommend it so much?
Max: It's a beautiful book. it's incredible. And it's written for us and for Bitcoiners, but it's over 20 years old. it was written in like 1997 to 2002 and that time period. And it's loosely based on real events, which is fascinating. the book is crazy. it goes about a group of cypherpunks who are, Building an anonymous marketplace, and the first attempts of an anonymous digital currency.
And again, this shit really happened. the story is quite wild. With, the freedom tech being built for very good reasons. people who understood the philosophical impact. and the deep reasons for why freedom is important. So they were very motivated, and, dedicated to make the world a better place in their lifetime.
And so they got their shit together and got organized and built something incredible, right? And it took them a couple attempts. and eventually they rolled it out and enabled people to trade right, to do their business, online in cyberspace, and encrypt it. And so that made a lot of people very happy because, you know, you get to live life free and undisturbed, so it got adopted by many users.
So much so that eventually the government started to notice that somehow they're making less tax revenue than before. And something's a bit fishy, you know. And then they started to investigate and You know, the NSA and FBI put a decent amount of people on the topic and tried to de anonymize the users of these services and infiltrate them.
And yeah, so the story is about this whole clash between the first and second realm, you know, people who built FreedomTag. And people who enslave others and how those two worlds kind of clash. it's a book that's very inspiring.
Knut: What was the website called?
Max: So, the author's name is Paul Rosenberg.
originally this book was published anonymously, years later, when it was safe to, associate their actual name with this, he did. he was, a teacher, an electrical engineer's teacher. He wrote 30 books on that subject, and is a very eloquent and practiced writer, but also a hardcore cypherpunk and freedom lover, and very well read,
So he has the freemansperspective. com. This is a newsletter. You can go back. It's going for, I don't know, 10, 20 years or something. And every week there's one or two short pieces of articles that he writes. And this book is actually also includes some writings that he did in the past and published. so it's somewhat a collection of his thought.
The Lodging of Wayfaring Men is a fiction book, right? It's basically a fictionalized story with, character arcs and such. the author is very technical, and he understands cryptography and how to apply it. He understands distributed networks and laying fiber optic cables and stuff like this.
So there's a lot of real computer science in this fictional world. And that makes it quite applicable to today where we're surrounded with cryptography much more than at the time when this book was written.
Knut: So, all right.
Taxes
Knut: bit of a jump here, but why is, avoiding paying taxes the most altruistic thing you can do in life?
Max: this is actually one thing that gets covered in the book, right, where,
Knut: that was the case.
Max: because this is also why this book is so interesting to recommend to newcomers, to this philosophy, because at the beginning, not everyone is convinced that this is a good idea. Even the creators of this technology don't know the end result and how other people will use this tech.
There's a lot of ambiguity there. And so this book follows characters who reason through these very difficult questions. For example, I'm going to spoil this book a bit, but everyone should read it anyway. So, there's one character who was a lawyer, right? He works together with an ex FBI agent, who both of them share this common, seeking of justice, like real justice, to stop bad guys from doing bad things, to good people.
the ex FBI guy is somewhat disillusioned. With the institution of the FBI to actually provide and establish justice. so now he is somewhat like walking this line in between the institution and, the actual free realm, vigilant justice basically.
and here then when thinking of. this case. is there a wrong being done by the FBI trying to stop this project? Or is this project actually good? Do they have justice in doing what they do? then, he, reasoned of, is the avoidance of tax, of, of taxation evil.
And, and, of course then walks through the reasonable steps of thinking. No, if, two people transact voluntarily. both people are better off after the trade than before, right? Both people are happy, both say thank you and shake hands. that's trade. That's the market, right? and then you have coercion,
Where one guy says, give me that, and the other says, no, actually, I don't want to give you that, but the guy hits him and takes it anyway. And so that means afterwards that the guy who stole it is obviously better off. He's happy, right? He got the thing, but the guy who was the victim was being stolen from is worse off.
And so humans have the capacity to do mutually beneficial things, right? To literally create value, make both of us better off than we were before. And we also have the potential to destroy value and take from others. and one is beneficial and fosters the growth of civilization and the other destroys it.
Knut: And so, you know, avoiding being stolen from is a good thing. Reminds me of one thing we go into in the new book, about the difference between lawful and illegal. I don't remember the name of the guy now, but some Dutch libertarian thinker, who emphasized on the terms, made the point that something being lawful is like lawful in an ethical sense, like the basis in Don't Steal, whereas legal is the top down government imposed legal framework, and how the two don't always align, or rather, they almost never align.
Natural vs Man Made Law
Max: Yeah, this is the difference between natural law and man made law. A natural law is one that is universal across time and space. It's always present, and it's immutable. It cannot be changed, at least not by us. And, you know, physics, for example, is a natural law. And arguably there is a natural law to ethics as well.
Specifically, as morality increases, freedom increases. And as morality decreases, freedom decreases. That's the law of gravity in the ethical realm. and, that man didn't make it, right? We just realize it because it is what it is. And then we have man made law on the other hand. this is depends on a certain territory, right?
The law in the U. S. is different from the law in Russia. And it also depends on time. I think the American law in the 1700s is very different from what it is today. and so there are these imaginary lines where these rules apply and there's Other places or times where they do not apply. So they're arbitrary, right?
And so they can be designed, to the benefit of some and at the expense of others. And that is ultimately what, politics is about.
Knut: Yeah, I think this is one of the key points that that quote unquote normies have such a hard time wrapping their head around. Natural law and like what, what makes don't steal a natural law? Like what, what is the very foundation of, libertarianism or anarcho capitalism or absolute property rights or whatever you may call it, consensualism?
And to my understanding, it has to do with homesteading. If you're the first person that acquired something, then no other person has a right to take that away from you. And you can logically deduct your way to that being true. Like, what's your view on that? And what's your understanding of that? And how would you explain that to a layman?
Max: Well, the reality is such that we have limited scarce resources. If we have one piece of steak on the table and three guys who are hungry, like some are gonna go home on an empty stomach, right? We literally don't have enough food to feed us all, right? And one piece of something can only be used by one person at one time, right?
We cannot duplicate one piece of steak into many and satisfy everyone. So this is a natural form part of reality, right? That's just how things are, you know? So there's a potential of conflict over who gets to allocate these scarce resources. And there's a couple solutions to it, right, that have been proposed.
Like one would be like, nobody owns it, right? Nobody gets to eat it because it's natural and it's not part of your body, so don't touch it, right? But then we die, you know, all
Knut: that's the problem with that.
Max: That's kind of a problem.
Knut: Yeah.
Max: so
Knut: Yeah.
Resource Allocation
Max: So let's rule that option out. another solution is, of course, we all own it. Right?
And we all, get to use it. But, that doesn't really work either, right? Because, sure, we all own it, but who actually gets to eat it? Because there's three different mouths and the food only goes into one of them. we can't all actually own something if we cannot all use it.
It is limited and only a few can use it. So, everyone owns it isn't the solution to the problem. Because everyone cannot own it, there's not enough for everyone. So again, that's an issue. Ultimately, we all starve. And another option would be, we vote.
We somehow pick who gets to allocate these resources. But then, I mean, we're 8 billion people. How are we all going to vote on who gets to stake? Right? Like That's, that's going to be impractical. Like, how are we even going to communicate, all 8 billion of us, to get together in a vote? So again, until we have the result of the vote, nobody eats the steak, so we all starve again.
It's not really a good solution either. And then we have one option that, like, a small subset of the people gets to make the choice of, you know, how to allocate these resources. And we can just pick them, vote for them, for example. But here again, now other people are allocating the resources for others, right?
Like, and some bureaucrat, a hundred kilometers away, is not gonna know, like, who of us is vegetarian and doesn't want the meat. Right? and that just means that someone who's far off doesn't have the knowledge to actually allocate the resources in a proper manner. And that leads to misallocations, right?
We starve, again. Because the guy who doesn't want the meat gets it and then it rots. And the guys who would actually like it never get access to it and they starve. So that's the fundamental problem of socialism, basically, of some priest class allocating the resources for others. So again, the solution doesn't work either.
So we're not left with much. But one thing that seems to work is private property rights. Again, as you said, the person who creates something, the butcher, or the farmer who raised the cow, can now decide what to do with it. Does he butcher it himself? Does he sell it to a butcher? So the person who created something gets to own it, and gets to decide how to allocate this, and then he has the right to either consume it himself, or to abdicate the consumption of this good.
So to say, I won't use it, I will trade it, I will give it to you, right? And he can make it a gift. Just say here, half the entire cow, like, I like you, I like your family, you, like, I'm happy that you're happy, right? Great, that's possible, right? Or, of course, he would want something from you in return, like, give me a bar of gold, or, a bushel of wheat, or something else.
we now have a way that we can allocate resources in a clear, simple rule set, the person who created it. can decide what to do and have a contractual agreement to transfer this ownership to someone else. the people who actually have the problem now have the power to allocate the resources to solve those problems and not some guy far away, but just you and me who created stuff.
Ownership of Information
Knut: And as you said, this only applies to scarce resources. So what, would be an example of a resource where you could eat the steak, but I could have it too. And, the thing that comes to mind, is information, of course. So, can you own information?
Max: No, like, because that, that doesn't really make sense, right? To own means to allocate, how to allocate these, to decide how to allocate these resources. All right. And then, that's a solution to a problem of a lack of resource allocation, right? or for a lack of resources that need to be allocated rather.
But with information, there is no lack. Like if I have a PDF, I can copy it to you and I can send it to you, and I can send it to a hundred other people, and I still have the exact same high fidelity version. Of the information that I shared with others, and of course it's the same with words, right? The words that I speak, they're not lost on me, right?
I still retain them and the information that they represent. and that means we don't need to be, stingy with information. We can give it to everyone. and it doesn't degrade the quality quite on the contrary, right? without information there is no production.
imagine yourself on an island, and you have all the raw materials, all the machinery, like everything there, but you don't know anything about physics, or material science, or just production stages of how to build things. If you don't know any of that, the raw material is worth nothing to you.
Nothing. Because you don't know how to allocate, how to shape this raw material into other things so that it actually solves your problems in the end. we need information in order to produce things. That's the theory behind it. The blueprints, so to say. the cool thing is, we don't have to be stingy with the blueprints.
We can give every human on this planet Equal access to all of the information that we as humans have accumulated, and now all of a sudden you will never be stranded on an island not knowing how to do something, because you can just look it up. In the grand database of accumulated human knowledge, of course, technology has made that much more possible and low cost.
Back in the day, in order to share an information, you needed to speak verbally to it, right? So you're limited to time and space, or you need to scratch it on some stone or clay or write it on a piece of paper, And then still, you have the scarcity of the paper, right? There's only one book.
And there's a hundred people who want to read it. So again, information is limited. Not because the information itself is limited, but because the medium of the information is scarce. And that was a big tragedy that we were never able to communicate at a large scale, and remember these conversations and easily access them.
Until the cypherpunks who came up with computers, right? And realized that we can build this realm of information That is so cheap to transfer and store information, that we can just basically do it for free, for anybody, for 8 billion people. And all they need is a rather cheap form of silicon, and like, nicely arranged.
but of course people try to hold on to the protection schemes that extract money from others, and capital from others, and You know, nation states have enforced intellectual property rights and patents and such, and that just harms people. It doesn't bring forward the best out of humanity. And that's a big shame.
Knut: Now, very well put. this has been Praxeology 101 with Max Hillebrand.
Bitcoin and Praxeology
Knut: where I want to follow on, follow up here is, how does this apply to Bitcoin? Because Bitcoin is only information, so how can anyone theoretically ever own a Satoshi? Do you really own it, or what is it?
Max: What is actually a Satoshi? Look into the Bitcoin code base. There is no such thing as Satoshi, right? The transaction has a field that is an integer. But it's just an integer. It doesn't even have a unit associated to it, right? So, it's just a number. Satoshis are just numbers in a database.
And you don't own the number 270, 000 just because you have 270, 000 bitcoin. The actual number of satoshis, no, you don't control them. You don't own them. But information has another interesting thing that cypherpunks realized, right? That, once, like, when you have a secret, then you can choose to share it with others.
And then once you've shared it with one person, however, you cannot control what that person does with the information. He can keep it secret for himself, or he can tell it to the entire world. And so, there is such a thing as giving access rights to information. And this is an important part in Bitcoin, of course, right?
Our secret keys should be secret, privately kept just for us, because if you do share your secret key publicly, then all of a sudden anyone can, Signed messages, with this private key and therefore spent Bitcoin in the transaction chain of Bitcoin. and well, that's a critical part of it.
So Bitcoin basically relies on keeping information, hidden from others, in order to ensure that we, solve, like, basically Bitcoin. It's just a piece of software, right? So it is non scarce information, but it wants to be money. And money needs to be scarce, right? Because if I can spend a bar of gold first to you, and then the same bar of gold later to you, we have infinite inflation, right?
The money system just dies. so scarcity is required. It's a required feature for money and digital money therefore requires digital scarcity. And so what Bitcoin does is it establishes a set of computer code that defines the access, right? Two certain chunks of money, so to say, right? And the chunks of money are Bitcoin UTXOs, unspent transaction outputs, and the spending condition, so to say, or like the rule how to allocate this money, who gets to decide it.
Where this money goes next is defined by a script and a small computer program that evaluates either to true or to false, depending what input you provide. And so the script is the lock, and usually it's a single public key. And then the way to prove that You're actually authorized to spend this coin is by creating a valid witness.
You know, the input to the script, to the program that returns it to true rather than to false. And usually, again, that's a signature of a single private key over the transaction structure that you're actually spending the money. Bitcoin's genius realization is that. We just all have to check every transaction of everyone else.
And when we do that, we can be sure that, nobody's being stolen from, That nobody is, losing access to his money, that someone is spending the money with a wrong signature. he doesn't have the private key. He cannot produce a valid signature. So we have to make sure that such a transaction does never make it into the blockchain, right?
that's the first important aspect. And the second is we want to ensure that there's no inflation. that's Because if we can just create as many tokens as we want, then the value of the token goes to the marginal cost of production. If we can produce a token with the click of a button, then the marginal cost of that token, or the value of that token, will be zero, right?
So we need to make it, Difficult, or in fact, in Bitcoin, impossible to create additional units, you know, there's 21 million and that's it, right? That's the set of rules. And therefore, when we check each transactions, we also ensure that there is no transaction that has one Bitcoin on the input side and 10 Bitcoin on the output side, therefore increasing the total supply of Bitcoin.
And so Bitcoin is a massive verification machine to ensure that this computer system is this way of speaking to each other, actually balances the books of the system. of how many units of money are there, and who has the right to allocate these, and so it's basically a system that creates a natural resource, and then also manages the allocation of this natural resource.
Knut: so Bitcoin is almost a parallel universe where, in fact, you do own the Bitcoin, basically, but the ownership is not defined by you as a person. It's defined by the knowledge of a secret. so you prove that you have access to it by having access to the private key, which unlocks it.
Ownership of Bitcoin
Knut: On earth that can prove that you own a Bitcoin except you, the holder of the private key.
Max: If the holder of the private key reveals information to others that indicates such, one very common way that this would be is you have a mobile wallet, that does not run a Bitcoin full node, That connects to someone else's full node to check if you have Bitcoin,
You don't use Tor, so there's an IP address linked from you to the server, and so the server operator knows that this IP address just asked how much money is on this address, and so we have, a very strong indication, that this IP address owner owns
Knut: It can be a very strong indication, but in my mind it can never be proof. Because you need to sign with the actual private key to prove. Otherwise it's boating accident time.
Max: guy with the gun doesn't need proof, right, he just needs a good enough guess. For him, he needs, like, there is a praxeology to violence. thieves are actors. They live in a state of uneasiness, they have problems, and they try to find a solution to that problem. They don't have ethics, they don't have morals, and so their solution to the problem harms other people.
But nevertheless, they are still actors. And so they think that they will be better off after the action of theft than before. That's a value judgment. And it's an entrepreneurial one. So they might be correct, they might not. They break into a house, hoping that there is a bar of gold hidden under the couch, right?
Turns out there's not, right? So, if they spend a lot of money breaking into the house, and there's no loot, they're not profitable thieves. And this means that they destroyed their capital, right? They spent 10 Bitcoin on getting the equipment, and they got 0 Bitcoin back. So, that means they're 10 Bitcoin poorer, and eventually they will run out of money and starve.
So, thieves need to be profitable in order to do their thieving, and that's the genius that cypherpunks realized. If we exponentially increase the cost of attack, and exponentially decrease the cost of defense, then we make thievery unprofitable. And that's the genius of private public key cryptography and encryption, right?
It's trivial to generate a private key and then generate a public key or a signature, right? But to brute force a private key or to forge a signature without it, like, requires more energy that would collapse into a black hole, you know? So that's kind of a problem.
And for thieves, right? It's really good for the people who want to defend themselves. Because they can very cheaply do it, and it just doesn't make sense to attempt to break the encryption. But nevertheless, computer systems are very complex, and there's a lot of metadata associated with, computing and communicating between computers.
And so, there are, microphones and radio frequency scanners that you can point on computers and see the computation happening in the machine because there's a lot of radiation outside of the computer that can be correlated to which bits are being flipped you can have all types of side channel attacks to extract secrets from a computer while it's running the problem is that the holistic technology stack we have is quite susceptible to revealing information that should have been kept secret.
And again, that is a critical part, of course, to communication encryption, but even more so for Bitcoin. If we lose the assurance that only we know the private key, the money system is broken. And that's why Bitcoiners were so paranoid and started this whole thing of hardware wallets and secure elements to Really ensure that we don't leak private key material, but it's an extremely difficult task, because, well, this reality is very observable, and the cards are, to some extent, quite in favor of surveillance, unfortunately.
the guy with the gun in this case could be the government, Yeah, exactly, it can just be like a poor guy who needs to provide for his children, you know, and, he sees a way for feeding his family for the next two years, and that's a good trade off for him.
Knut: Yeah, momentarily.
Max: right?
Bitcoin and World Peace
Knut: So, if we manage to do this, on a grand scale, and if people in general manage To exponentially increase the cost of the attack while simultaneously decreasing the cost of defense. Does that lead to world peace at one point? Is that the end goal?
Max: Yeah, I think so. Oh, I mean, that makes sense. If every economically rational thief will realize that he is worse off if he does this stealing, right? Like, actually, because he needs to spend much more money in an attempted theft, and most likely he's not going to succeed. And, I mean, this exponential difference has to be huge, though, right?
Because, like, we had castles, you know? Like, castles are quite, like, quite extreme asymmetric protection. Like, if you're behind castle walls, with a well staffed militia that actually defends the walls, It's quite difficult to get to you if you just have, you know, like, humans and swords and ladders. that's, like, sieges are, in the favor of the defender.
But still, they happened a lot, right? And people were able to overcome these defenses. Because, I guess they weren't never holistically secure, you know? There was always some backdoor that enabled the attacker to go through, to get through, right? and that might just be brute force, right? You just bring a huge army and You're fine with tens of thousands of your own guys getting killed, but eventually, you know, after you throw a couple hundred thousand people at the problem, someone will succeed to break through.
Quite a brutal tactic, obviously, but it worked.
Knut: you get in.
Max: But then cryptographers came around and were like, well, but there's math.
Luke: Yeah, we can use RAM in another way. 1 plus 1 is 2. What? Are you sure?
Knut: that might be offensive.
Luke: That's a different kind of worms.
Knut: Yeah. . Yeah. So, the,
Bitcoin For Attack
Knut: so Bitcoin being this perfect defense mechanism, because all it does is increase the cost of the attack, can Bitcoin ever be used for attack in your opinion? Like, can it be used in an aggressive way?
Max: I think directly not, because again, it is just, speech and such, but on the other hand, maybe yes. Because, let's say, if someone hacked your machine, and got access to your private key, and spends the Bitcoin, like, in the context of Bitcoin itself, it's a valid signature, it's a valid transaction, and it will be included.
So, in the legalities of Bitcoin, it is no theft, right? It is a valid transaction. but, On the ethical realm, you worked hard to get these Bitcoin and you didn't want to send them to the attacker, so he is definitely stealing them from you. So, Bitcoin can be stolen, certainly, in the human analysis.
Not on a technical level, we've never seen a transaction confirmed with an invalid signature, but on the human level, There have been a lot of people that got separated from their Bitcoin against their will, right, against their consent. and, and that is theft. So, thieves can use Bitcoin, thieves can get paid in Bitcoin, thieves can take your Bitcoin and pay them to themselves, right?
that's a fact of reality too.
Aggression and Spam
Knut: Could that be used in an aggressive way?
Max: it is just the writing of bits and bytes, right? So there's, however, again, a limited amount of resources that are available specifically in Bitcoin. And not just do we have 21 million Bitcoin, we also have like, Two and a half slash four megabyte blocks, right?
And so this means there's only a certain number of transactions that can be fit into a single block. that means we have, again, a scarce resource and we need to allocate it. this is why there is a price for Bitcoin transactions, because that's how we solve the scarcity problem, right?
by whoever pays the most gets in. that's a, or it's not even whoever pays the most. It's like. You can choose who goes in by mining a block, right? You have full freedom of choice of which transaction do you include into your block. And if you don't mine, then you can propose to someone else, say, please include my transaction into a block.
But again, there's a large demand and a limited supply. so most likely people will start bribing each other and it's like, yeah, if you include my transaction in your block, I'll give you sats. And in fact, Bitcoin, the Bitcoin software launched with a anonymous peer to peer marketplace for the scarce good, which is Blockspace.
Satoshi didn't have to do that, right? Bitcoin would have totally worked, if, if you could not, like, if every input sum has to be exactly equal to every output sum, right?
There cannot be that outputs are smaller than inputs and the leftover goes to the miners, but that could have been a consensus rule, right? But then most likely we would have seen some third party external marketplace. Where people would do the bidding on please include my transaction into the block.
And then of course they would have to figure out how do we actually pay the miner to get our transaction in the block. So Satoshi had the genius to embed an anonymous marketplace. Into the core essence of the protocol, right, with the rule that outputs can be smaller than inputs, and the rule that we have this gossip peer to peer network, which like the whole peer to peer network is kind of optional, by the way, but it's just there to kind of make it easier so that we have this anonymous marketplace for Blockspace that we can propagate offers, right, and one person sends the offer and gets spread to the entire network.
So the demand side is no monopoly. Anyone can broadcast a message to the peer to peer network hoping to be included. And then on the supply side, the actual miners, there's also no monopoly. Anyone can spin up his computer and start SHA 256 hashing. On the most recent chain, right, with his own candidate block.
And nobody can stop you, right? That's the definition of no monopoly. New market participants are not hindered to enter the system. And so this is the most radical free market that we've seen probably ever. And it's been kind of hidden inside Bitcoin since the very beginning.
Mining vs Hashing
Knut: Yeah, you can of course also pay the miner in something else than sats to get included into a block. And if a mining pool does this, the individual miners doesn't necessarily have a claim to a piece of the pie of whatever money was paid to the mining pool owner under the table and not on the system, right?
They can't even see it. So how big of a problem is that, and can you really call yourself a miner if you're just selling hash power to a pool and the pool isn't transparent?
Max: I mean, it's actually true that we, like, there could be in the future, A alternative marketplace for block space that's not inside the Bitcoin Core client. And by the way, arguably that's better, because we have a piece of software that does one thing really well, and then, you know, we just specialize and put the two modules together.
architecturally speaking, this might be better. we see things like, for example, the mempool. space explorer, or accelerator, right, is one. Marketplace that is now establishing that that seems to work now quite well. Of course, it has the issue of there's a central, like, order book, so to say, and probably custodian for the money as well.
And so, I'm not sure, but it's one approach of doing such an alternative marketplace and there can be downsides. it's not really public of how much Volume is going through here, right? how much are people speeding up their transactions, And I guess the same goes to much earlier where we just had mining pools offering this in their own API, or a webpage.
so at least now, like we, we have a dedicated service provider. That's not a mining pool doing this, which I think is an improvement. but we could also, you know, build. A, like, off chain peer to peer network, so to say, that's not related to Bitcoin per se, but that has all of the aspects that we want just dedicated for an optimized market book for this resource.
And Bitcoin should still work, I think. Like, the marketplace inside Bitcoin Core is not essential in the long run. It was just very convenient to bootstrap it. But, you know, in 50, 100 years, I wouldn't be surprised if we have Dedicated systems for, for these things that potentially are in different repositories and such different softwares.
Knut: So, in your opinion, how damaging is a temporary fee spike over a weekend or something where it goes up to like, 2000 SATs per transaction. what impact does it have on lightning channels and lightning providers and so on? Like do you consider it an attack or what is it?
Max: it's an inevitability almost, right? If you have a hard, extremely limited supply, right? there is only two and a half megabytes in the usual block, and you have extremely fluctuating demand, and there is no way to speed up production of the good. there is bound to be extreme, differences of we have way more demand than supply or way less, right?
But it will be very rare that we will fill just exactly everyone who wanted to gets in. So to actually clean out every transaction that wanted to be made is quite rare already now and in the future, if Bitcoin continues to be used, this is even more unlikely, right?
So then the question is just how, like, do you get into the top, like, the top payers to get included in the block still? And this is where just the technology is quite difficult, because this is like, you're, you're, you're, it's an order book, right? You're trading, basically, and you don't know if the price goes up or price goes down.
And this is all at least supposed to be automated. Bitcoin wallet developers are building trading bots, block space accountants charged to purchase block space on behalf of the user. the user just clicks send and that's it. the software does all of the complexities of constructing a transaction that is of a size acceptable, right?
Because if fees are super high, you don't want to build a transaction with a hundred inputs and one output, right? You would want to have a transaction with one input, one output. It would be way cheaper if the fee spike is currently high. a smart robot should build a different structured transaction with more or fewer inputs and outputs to accommodate the current fluctuation of the market.
And of course, the fee rate is another, like what's actually your bid that you put into this marketplace? And that's trading like. How much are you going to pay for the stock? Nobody really knows, right? And so it's kind of good luck and you don't know if it goes up or goes down. And sometimes you overpay, right?
And you pay way more than was actually needed to get into that block. And so you lose money, you lose capital. And sometimes you don't pay enough and you don't get included for months, right? but there's better software that can alleviate a lot of these problems.
Spam Making Bitcoin Worse as Money
Luke: Well, so I guess another side to this question, because everything you're saying makes makes total sense from the perspective of that this stuff is definitely going to happen from from hyperbitcoinization side. There's just going to be more demand than there is supply of block space. But I think the issue that we've been exploring a lot.
Lately, is, is that when there are transactions that aren't really being made for the purpose of moving value from one person to another in the form of Satoshis, they're, they're another form of value, subjective value that is communicated through arbitrary data, or at least some other type of, of data.
Does that change the property of Bitcoin as money? That's essentially, I think the, the root of the, the argument any, anyone talking
Knut: Yeah, exactly.
Luke: the functionality of Bitcoin is
Max: Well, I think. There's a couple aspects to this, right? We have again a scarce resource block space, and there's the problem of how do we allocate this block space. And there are very stringent rules on this, right? You cannot have arbitrary data in blocks, right? There needs to be, for example, the transaction structure.
There needs to be inputs that point to previous outputs, and there need to be outputs, the sum of the inputs, sum of outputs, hashes, transaction headers, all of the stuff needs to be followed in order for this to be considered a valid block. So the Bitcoin developers have, from the very beginning, had a very, I guess, authoritarian regime to allocating these resources, which makes sense.
If you don't put stringent, like, structure in a protocol, then people just fill it with garbage and every software breaks, right? So it's like a practicality thing that we need to have a very opinionated, kind of thing. Set of rules and we need to pick one of them and like just do it because if we don't pick any then it won't work and also if we pick the wrong one it won't work either.
imagine the rules would have been like a broken hashing algorithm, for example, not SHA 256 but SHA 1 or something that's broken. People can create collisions, right? So there could be two transactions that have the exact same transaction ID. breaks the system, right? So if that would have been the set of rules, Bitcoin would have broken, right?
And now also, again, if we allow arbitrary things to be built, then people will just use it as data storage, for example, and just fill it up with megabytes of images. And again, limited amount of resources. If all of it is used for, for pictures, then none of it can be used for money transfer, right? So this is again, an inherent conflict.
the tricky thing though is, now we have this. established set of rules in the Bitcoin consensus and how do we change it, right? And that's the really tricky part of, making up man made rules. Bitcoin is not Natural in the sense, right? Like, humans came up with this shit.
Like, this is our creativity that made this happen. and so, it's not nature made, right? It's man made. Of course, men are part of nature and such. So it's a bit, wishy washy here, but ultimately, we made it, we can change it, we can make it better, and we can break it. And that's a really scary position, because I think we all realize that this is quite an important project, and we definitely have it in our power to break this thing.
I hope we do our best effort.
Caution When Changing Bitcoin
Luke: my interpretation of that is, is that, caution when making changes to Bitcoin is paramount. Would you agree with that?
Max: Well, inaction is an action too, right? And that might be even more dangerous. So, there might be critical bugs in the protocol that if not addressed will break the system and potentially they are currently being exploited, right? And so, in such a case, we should do our best to fix it as soon as possible.
Satoshi knew that from the very beginning, right? So, how exactly we do that? Who knows?
Knut: Well, if it's up to the individual miners, which it is, what blocks they want to mine, what transactions they want to include in a block. And it can be fixed that way, a sly roundabout way, if you will.
Max: Well, if we could trust the miners with stuff like this, then we could trust the miners with enforcing the 21 million, right? But we can't, right? We don't rely on anyone. We verify it ourselves, right? And so the reason why we don't have actual JPEGs in Bitcoin blocks is because your node says no to any block that actually has a JPEG in it, right?
Blocks have to have transaction in it. If not, you kick them out, right? So even if there's valid proof of work Proof of Work doesn't solve the problem of integrity of the block, right? This has nothing to do with Proof of Work. In fact, Proof of Work is one part of the rules of the integrity of the block that is defined, enforced, and verified by the full nodes itself, right?
Specifically, if you want to get rid of inscriptions, that's certainly a hard fork. Like, taproot transactions are currently valid, and if we make these taproot transactions in the future invalid, that's a hard fork, right?
It would be great to hard fork Bitcoin. We could clean so much stuff. It's just a practical reality that breaking the hard fork use of a running protocol is extremely difficult and arguably, unethical. Because people have signed up to the previous system, built businesses and, stored their money in these types of scripts.
If we now make them unspendable, what is that? No?
Mining Incentives
Knut: so, when it comes to mining, there's, minor incentives, like, the thing we talked about before, about, under the table payments to big mining pools, To me, the obvious fix to this problem is to get it into the brains of the hash salesmen, that they ought not be mere hash salesmen, but actual miners and know what block they're mining on.
Because I think the ethos among the individual miners is, better than, these bigger pools that might not be, as, concerned with the longevity of the Bitcoin experiment, but, more fiat minded and wanting a quick buck now rather than save the system in the long run.
So, right now it feels like we're trusting these bigger entities to have as much of a disincentive to destroy Bitcoin so that they won't, it's tricky. Like it's a gray zone, right? What's your thoughts?
Max: I think Satoshi's genius in designing the Bitcoin protocol was that he did his best to separate different tasks that need to be done in the system into different like conceptual entities, and then to ensure that each of these aspects is distributed as widely as possible. And this is ultimately what it means that Bitcoin is decentralized, right?
There is not one person that defines the set of rules, for example, or one person that writes the candidate block, Or one person that provides the proof of work for the candidate block, or one person that provides the signature for each transaction, right? Each of these things is distributed. And in the ideal case, in the original Bitcoin client, to every user, right?
Like, the Bitcoin software in 2009 was mining by default for everyone, right? So, literally the entire stack of the operation was at 100 percent of the users, right? There was no non validating, non mining users. In the beginning, right? We had perfect decentralization, so to say, right? And then if efficiencies kick in and economies of scale and division of labor, and we start to optimize each of these things kind of on its own and split it out into different branches of government.
Yeah, specialized entities, so to say. And if you specialize on being the best hasher that you could possibly be, you just give up on being the best block candidate creator that you could possibly be. Because if you do the one thing that you're marginally better at and focus all your attention on that, you will be the most profitable.
so, yes, it is. It is an issue. and we, Bitcoin would be better off if we further distribute the risk and responsibility of each of these tasks to as many people as possible. And I think we've done a really good job, for example, of distributing the ownership of private keys.
And like, there's, I don't know, many millions of private key holders on the Bitcoin blockchain, right? So that's, that's great. but, and we have. Probably done this as well with hashers, right? There's a decent amount of quite large independent hashing institutions, right? Not so well with mining pools and actual block candidate creation, like, that's pretty bad.
Like, there's two or three of them, so that's scary as fuck. Right there we've utterly failed and we've made Bitcoin way worse than it was before. in this one metric of resilience, of decentralization, of distribution of risks, we made it a lot more efficient, but we made it much more vulnerable to attack.
that is a problem. Thankfully, a lot of people are working on fixing it. It's a really difficult problem, right? It's not that there's some malicious, attempt of trying to break it. I mean, maybe there is, but the more likely answer is just bloody difficult computer science. it just needs an insane amount of research and development before we will have tools that are even coming close to being actually adequate.
Right? I'm not praising Satoshi's 2009 code as being perfect, because it was a pile of shit, right? And you could break it in a million ways. so we've improved a lot, but we're very far from done because to some extent the realities of the difficulty of the situation have caught on much faster than our ability to solve these.
Yeah, I mean, the problems that are currently existent in Bitcoin and that now we're at Nostriga today and talking about Nostr, this sort of related communication layer in relation to Bitcoin, you mentioned at the very beginning, Freedom Tech.
Freedom Tech and Nostr
Luke: So, we, when we last talked to you, you were focusing on Wasabi Wallet and now obviously that project has just been made open source, essentially, and so my question to you on that is, what are you focusing on in terms of Freedom Tech now?
Max: Nostr is definitely a highlight, right? Nostr is just incredibly cool. And it's so wild to think that Nostr is like two years old. it's not old, but look at the amount of stuff that we've built. In this short time frame, how powerful are we? It's incredible, right? If we get our act together and actually build on, such an open protocol and get people excited about it and people using it, it doesn't take us long to fundamentally change the pattern of speech on this planet.
Wow, that's incredible. Like, we did that. And we're just getting started. think about where Nostr is going to be in five years. It will be wild. Absolutely insane. that's very bullish and very encouraging. And it's super exciting to work at such an early stage in the protocol, because there's so many obvious improvements.
There's so many obvious use cases. There's so many low hanging fruits of how we can make it even better than it currently is. Alright, so we have something that's already great, and we know a million ways on how we can make it even better. and you can be part of making a meaningful improvement in getting this to like an exponential blow off of awesomeness.
Knut: Meaningful improvement of humanity, really.
Max: Yeah. Yeah, that's the other thing, like, that's why Freedom Tech is so exhilarating to work at, because we're ending slavery. That's kind of a big deal, you know,
Knut: Yeah, it should have been done at least 300 years ago.
Max: Yeah.
Luke: No, it's, it's amazing. And well, and actually, so a couple of things here. First of all, we've talked about this a little bit, how Nostr seems like it's the playground that people wanted as an alternative to Bitcoin. In other words, people who went and started making shitcoins were basically just wanting a playground to do all this stuff.
But now is, is, is Nostr basically the place where people can do that and channel their energies in a way that isn't going to break money?
Max: Yeah. I absolutely agree. So I'm very bullish on a lot of these use cases and one other area that currently interests me a lot, is just zero knowledge cryptography. it's wild what's possible. it's absolutely wild. Within the last five years or so. The theory has developed.
And again, a lot of shitcoin projects putting zero knowledge proofs on blockchains and such, and I'm not quite convinced that we actually need a blockchain for that. I think relays are just fine. And so I'm quite bullish on having actual zero knowledge proofs much more integrated in Nostr clients. Like, you can do amazing things with this.
Like, for example, anonymous web of trust, right? You could prove to me under an ephemeral anonymous identity, right, that you are in fact, On my follower list. Like, I'm following you, but I don't know who you are. Right? So, these types of things are trivial with zero knowledge stuff. And we don't have any size constraints or computation constraints in Nostr.
Because it is not a global consensus system. Only the people who are interested in this proof actually have to, like, download it and verify it and such. so, it's, I think we can do a lot of amazing stuff here. it seems pretty obvious wins here.
Knut: driving these 180 IQ young developers into Nostr instead of shitcoin development is, is like moving them? To do, to think more of what they should rather than what they could, because I think that's, that's sort of the main problem with this nerdy set of shitcoin developers is that they, oh, I could do this if I just do this and they, they focus on what they can do rather than what they should do.
And it's Nostr, Changing the direction of that, are people thinking more of ethical things while developing on this than
Max: it's a big claim, right? That like a piece of tech can
Knut: it's hopium
Max: improve the morality of people. it's definitely a big claim, but it seems true. Like, if you think about it in Bitcoin, like probably each of us, our level of morality before we discovered Bitcoin and what it is now.
And our understanding of morality has substantially, improved, right? And I'm not sure if it would have happened, at least to this extent, without being exposed to the Bitcoin technology. and Bitcoin is just money, you know, like, humans do a lot more than buy stuff, sure, money is incredibly important, but it's far from everything of the human experience.
And I think Nostr. We'll do a lot of the other stuff and Nostr has this freedom mindset embedded into the protocol just as Bitcoin has. And so I'm extremely bullish on seeing the people who get exposed to Nostr and what it does to them in the long run.
Hyperbitcoinization vs Hypernostrification
Max: So what happens first? Hyper ossification or hyper ization both at the same time.
Knut: does one lead to the other?
Max: there's definitely synergies here, right? and, yes, one leads to the other. there's, I met a bunch of people who got interested into Nostr first, and then used Bitcoin for the first time. It's a very common theme, actually. again, because Like, social, like, think of the, think of the, like, average screen time of people, right?
it, for sure.
I think Nostr is going to be way bigger than Bitcoin in the improvement of the human condition.
Knut: Then again, every time you press the like button or the retweet button or whatever on your social media app, even the legacy system, you are providing someone with some value. That's why your account is valuable to, Facebook's and the Twitters of the world. There is a value thing embedded into everything you do on the internet.
Max: It's just, you don't get a tradable good.
Knut: No, no,
Max: sell the like to someone else.
Knut: not at this point.
Max: They have now a star emoji. If you send the star emoji, you can send the star emoji back to the company, and they will give you money. So, voila. It's basically a shitcoin, but it's a star.
Luke: is it more important to fix money or the other stuff?
Max: Well, that's a big one. Both again, because money is only half of every transaction, right? And so maybe the earlier example of the marketplace for Bitcoin block space is perfect because why did Satoshi include the marketplace, the other stuff together with the money? Because it was kind of essential, right?
you need to have both at the same time in order to live, right? You need to speak, you need to advertise your products, you need to negotiate with the customers, right? You need to convince them of the value that you will provide to them, and then you need to receive the money and tell them that you've received it, and ultimately hand over the goods, right?
So there's a lot of human interaction into every trade, and the money aspect is just Like, one small part of this long interactive chain of protocol, basically. I think we need both at the same time. And we're just discovering upgrades to each of them as we move along. But this has always been in synergy.
Like, the internet is way older than Bitcoin, right? So arguably, we need the other stuff first, right? We needed like 20, 30 years of other stuff before we could actually come up with the money.
Knut: so fix the money, fix the world then fix the world and you fix the money.
Luke: No, but seriously, we actually talked about this. in that, maybe an analogy to, that the internet needed to develop in a centralized way because the, literally the hardware and everything, the architecture, the client server model was literally a centralized and centralizing system. Model and that needed to exist first.
And then the analogy is that gold was centralized naturally in the sense that physically the physical constraints of gold made it so that it naturally centralized into banks and then fiat solved that problem to sort of decentralize it, but it broke everything. So now the mechanism of fixing the money and decentralizing the money was gold.
Bitcoin, but the corollary for decentralizing the communication is Nostr. So both things have kind of happened in a parallel. That's, what we were discussing.
Wrapping Up
Luke: That is the alarm Oh,
Knut: Oh, okay.
Max: so we'll wrap it up.
Knut: Well, I'm
Max: Nostr for sure. Max at TowardsLiberty. com. You can send me mail, notes and sats to that, which is, by the way, crazy, right? That we can have like this unique identifier to get, like, all of your needs settled is wild. Check out, lodging of Wayfaring Men. That's, the main shill of this video.
And I made the audiobook for it. it's on a podcast. The podcast is by the author, Paul Rosenberg. And, it's called Parallel Society, right? So check that out. right now we've released the first episode. the others will come shortly thereafter. the other book recommendation I should highlight, which we haven't mentioned yet, is Cryptoeconomics by Eric Voskuhl.
Most of what I said here was very much inspired by that book. He has the most rigorous understanding of Bitcoin. It's by far the best Bitcoin book. So I also did the audiobook for that. Just search for Cryptoeconomics in your
Knut: audio book though.
Max: when you have to read tables of math formulas, it's starting to fall apart.
But there's a lot of verbal logic in the book that goes very well. Just get the free PDF for the actual graphs and
Knut: And keep using Wasabi and fire up your own coordinators and whatnot, right?
Luke: Now get on stage, Max. Don't want to make you late.
Max: Bye
the book, that's not what I said.
Luke: right, that's it.
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2023-11-21 21:37:48Embarking on the journey of operating your own Lightning node on the Bitcoin Layer 2 network is more than just a tech-savvy endeavor; it's a step into a realm of financial autonomy and cutting-edge innovation. By running a node, you become a vital part of a revolutionary movement that's reshaping how we think about money and digital transactions. This role not only offers a unique perspective on blockchain technology but also places you at the heart of a community dedicated to decentralization and network resilience. Beyond the technicalities, it's about embracing a new era of digital finance, where you contribute directly to the network's security, efficiency, and growth, all while gaining personal satisfaction and potentially lucrative rewards.
In essence, running your own Lightning node is a powerful way to engage with the forefront of blockchain technology, assert financial independence, and contribute to a more decentralized and efficient Bitcoin network. It's an adventure that offers both personal and communal benefits, from gaining in-depth tech knowledge to earning a place in the evolving landscape of cryptocurrency.
Running your own Lightning node for the Bitcoin Layer 2 network can be an empowering and beneficial endeavor. Here are 10 reasons why you might consider taking on this task:
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2024-10-14 09:15:50Chef's notes
Some say beat the cream as hard as you can but I find I have much better success when I take my time. So take it easy and be patient and that magic butter moment will arrive.
Details
- 🍳 Cook time: 15 min
- 🍽️ Servings: Approx 250g butter
Ingredients
- Pure fresh cream
- Salt
Directions
- Keep cream in the fridge until ready to start.
- Pour cream into a bowl.
- Beat with hand mixer or kitchen betchtop mixer with the balloon whisk.
- Maintain a medium power level in the mixer throughout. Note that it can get messy with lots of splatter and you might like to have a tea towel over the operation to limit clean up.
- After 5 min the cream will be whipped this is a great sign! Keep going.
- After 10 -15 min you’ll see the cream start to separate into solids and buttermilk.
- Keep whisking until you see the bright yellow butter solids start to clump together in the mixer.
- Pour off the buttermilk and save for later (bonus side product that makes the best pancakes and is actually really great in scrabbled eggs)
- Rinse in butter solid with cold water to remove all the buttermilk. This is an important step and the buttermilk increases the rate of spoil.
- Mix in salt and shape the butter into a block.
- Wrap and store in the fridge.
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2024-10-14 22:21:23We're excited to launch our new company, NosFabrica! Our mission is to empower sovereign healthcare by building tools for peer-to-peer healthcare interactions, giving individuals and providers the keys to their own health data. We are building a healthcare application factory, shipping health clients built on Nostr and Bitcoin and bootstrapping a decentralized ecosystem of health tools. We want to onboard thousands of people to Nostr and Bitcoin and enable people to live healthy lives. By utilizing Nostr for identity resolution and bitcoin for payments, we're paving the way for interoperable healthcare applications to exchange health information, and individuals to track and own data that matters to them, connecting to healthcare providers on their health journey.
The Problem:
The fiat healthcare system has led to a dangerous centralization of healthcare records in the US and globally, where companies ultimately own health data, not individuals. Current protocols of oAuths and APIs have led to bloated and expensive walled gardens (eg, Epic, Cerner) and a honeypot for healthcare hackers, most notably the recent Change Healthcare hack, owned by United Healthcare - affecting Avi's work. In 2023, more than 115 million health records were compromised across 655 data breaches.
High cost and poor outcomes are the current product of fiat healthcare. Of the $4.5 trillion annual US healthcare spend, 25% is administrative cost, and half of that is waste. 6-10% of every healthcare transaction goes to a medical billing middleman. Meanwhile, 6 in 10 Americans has a chronic health condition.
A decentralized healthcare application ecosystem would give the healthy sovereign individual the opportunity to take back ownership of their healthcare data, and their health, too.
The Solution:
NosFabrica means "our factory" in Latin, with of course the nod to Nostr. We aim to build a new, parallel health system on top of open source protocols Nostr and bitcoin. This decentralized healthcare ecosystem will be driven by peer-to-peer interactions between patients and providers. We will move healthcare onto a bitcoin and Nostr standard, giving independent healthcare providers the tools to integrate bitcoin deeper into their practice while maintaining practice sovereignty.
By establishing an open-source protocol for the private exchange of health data on Nostr, NosFabrica will set a foundation for a decentralized healthcare system and enable bitcoin-native electronic medical record (EMR) software clients to be built on top of Nostr.
We will cut out middlemen in healthcare and build tools that put the individual at the center of the solution. The benefits to patients include owning their own medical data, care discovery at competitive prices, portability of health data, and ultimately improve health outcomes. Doctors will also have the ability to reach a much broader population, reduce their administrative cost, and own their key demographic data such as licenses, credentials, and board certifications. Ultimately, we envision a more robust ecosystem of independent providers, combatting the trend of M&A and centralization we see under the current fiat healthcare regime.
There are several impacts for the broader free and open-source community, as it gives tools for individuals with different healthcare use cases to bring solutions to sorely needed applications such as medical consent, data sharing, clinical trials, and public health.
Nostr enables the NosFabrica future in three primary ways.
Identity and Access:
- User identity exists at the protocol layer via your npub/nsec, instead of the application layer.
- Users can sign into any application connected to the protocol
- Users can sign and certify events with their key pair, verifiably demonstrating ownership
Data Standardization
- We can develop specific Nostr event "kinds" created for medical data. Vitor has already started by building NIP-82 for medical data.
- Existing international data standards and formats such as FHIR/HL7 can be "wrapped" within Nostr events"
- This structure provides seamless data portability and interoperability across applications.
Persistence and Availability:
- HIPAA compliant, encrypted healthcare data is stored on relays
- Only the owner of the data and those authorized by the owner can decrypt or view the data - in other words, selective disclosure, which is a cornerstone of privacy.
Boosting the Nostr network effect and flywheel will continue, as there are already 40,000 weekly active users. By building healthcare applications on Nostr, we can onboard more people to the ecosystem, who may not be interested in social media.
Call to Action:
Of course, Nostr and Bitcoin are global protocols and networks that anyone can opt into. While the US gets a lot of the focus due to its expensive and complex healthcare system, there are many challenges globally including healthcare access, affordability, and timely care that we can address with open source tools and permissionless, sound money. We'd love to hear from you if you're interested in joining our mission.
About the team:
Avi Burra is an experienced healthcare veteran, working as senior director of product management at Optum. He is also the host of PlebChain Radio, a leading bitcoin and nostr podcast. With masters in electrical engineering and financial engineering, Avi brings a wealth of healthcare software product experience to NosFabrica.
Jon Gordon has worked across the healthcare industry, including in provider strategy, payers and suppliers. Jon has been helping healthcare providers integrate a bitcoin strategy with his consulting business, Satoshi Health Advisors. He also has a double masters in health economics and policy.
Vitor Pamplona is the creator of Amethyst, the top Android client for Nostr. Vitor previously led a company spun out of the MIT lab utilizing VR for eye exams at EyeNetra. Vitor has a PhD in computer science from MIT.
Go to nosfabrica.com to learn more and follow us along on Nostr!
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2024-10-15 00:30:33背景
Junさんが山形県在住で、車で色々案内いただけることになりました。
メンバー (敬称略)
- Jun (nostr:npub1nlnjcakw6xfkpuhx9kym3d20sr774pm6rue5kk93uj7lrca9lypqgqj7fd)
- りら (nostr:npub1tuqsl6l8xzly95vv80um7wsnt7gxy8w9wgt4khp4wyv4xwhfw44slm93e9)
- あめ (nostr:npub1eqw8nx0hya3cwvtc0rje6lpjzzf6gvuh0mngz898dhp6juuwrp5s5uzduw)
- Don (nostr:npub1dv9xpnlnajj69vjstn9n7ufnmppzq3wtaaq085kxrz0mpw2jul2qjy6uhz)
- 横谷加奈子 (nostr:npub1sd2zns7qsfster7vcyjcqkert4cev2rzfeuus0d8hnfdh74t6g7su0p4c6)
- 発火大根 (nostr:npub1zqdnpm5gcfap8hngha7gcp3k363786phvs2etsvxw4nh6x9ydfzsuyk6mn)
スケジュール
10/12
11:00 - 11:30 霞城セントラル 日本酒めぐりツアー
500円で3コインもらえて、1コインでカップ1杯分の試飲ができるシステムのようです。
山形はフルーツも有名で、日本酒だけでなくワインなども試飲できました。個人的には、梨ベースのお酒が飲み口すっきりしていておいしかったです。
名前は忘れました ()霞城公園セントラル
https://yamagatakanko.com/attractions/detail_13443.html
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11:30 - 12:30 霞城公園散策
東北屈指の戦国大名・最上義光(もがみよしあき)公 (1546-1614)が礎を築いた「山形城」を復原整備した都市公園らしいです。
Junさんに聞いたところ、最上義光の妹が伊達政宗の母・義姫 (よしひめ)で、息子の伊達政宗を毒殺しようとしたことで有名らしいです。
後で調べたところ、毒殺事件が捏造だったとする記事もあり、真偽はいかに。また、これもJunさんに聞いたのですが山形藩は幕府重役から失脚した左遷の地と呼ばれているようです。
ちょっと悲しい。
後に調べたところ、山形藩は計12家が収めており、入れ替わりも激しかったようです。
まぁ、左遷だったとしても自然豊かな地でスローライフを過ごすのもアリかもしれない。個人的には、最上義光像が精巧に出来ているなぁと感動しました。
構図がナポレオンに似ていたので、もしかして身長が低かった?と思いましたが
後で調べたところ、180cm以上の長身だったとする文献があるようです。山形藩
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%BD%A2%E8%97%A9
義姫の毒殺事件について
https://bushoojapan.com/bushoo/date/2024/08/12/76725
最上義明の身長
http://iiwarui.blog90.fc2.com/blog-entry-13581.html
霞城公園セントラル
https://yamagatakanko.com/attractions/detail_2304.html
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12:30 - 13:30 旧済生館
済生館は1878年(明治11年)に山形県立病院として建設され、東北地方で最も早く西洋医学を取り入れたことで有名のようです。
建物内部の展示物の写真撮影は禁じられていたので写真は取れていませんが、あの有名な杉田玄白の訳書「解体新書」や、明治時代の医療器具などが展示されていました。私は工業高校出身で電気科だったので、昔の医療電気機器の展示などは見ていて飽きないものがありました。
旧済生館
https://www100.pref.yamagata.jp/110001/sangyo/sangyoushinkou/him_top/him_maincat1/him_15.html
13:30 - 14:30 山寺付近に移動・ランチ
山寺付近に車で移動後、玉こんにゃくを食べながら山寺方面に徒歩移動。
玉こんにゃくは名産らしく、山形のいたるところで売っていました。途中で近場のお店でランチ(蕎麦)を食べました。
ランチを食べながら映画 (オッペンハイマー)の話とかビットコインの話をしてました。
ちなみに私はオッペンハイマー見れてません。
あめさんはオッペンハイマーを見に県外 (奈良 -> 大阪)まで行ったらしい。
行動力すげぇ。nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqyqmxrhg3sn6z00x30mu3srrdr4ru05rweq4jhqcvat805v2g6j9qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwdehkkmm5v9ex7tnrdakj7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0ykk5upwwd5xjmn0xvhxuet59uqzpgqwakh6t2vm0ufy82rmwjqa2ld2z9jdl9l90v0ds7afwe6n5myl5uf5p7 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpjqu0xvlwfmrsuchs789n47ryyyn5seewlhxsyw2wmwr49ecuxrfqyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxd46zuamf0ghxy6t69uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qpqq570ak2p9wx9q09xafjnlnulshwg2wc5c66q37z884m0pselu36sz5k7jk nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqyqmxrhg3sn6z00x30mu3srrdr4ru05rweq4jhqcvat805v2g6j9qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwdehkkmm5v9ex7tnrdakj7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0ykk5upwwd5xjmn0xvhxuet59uqzpp8xy7nktvyq87d676pkh6hjpftm5s703fq8e8c52l2l9xupe55wyhfc0p nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq6c2vr8l8m9952e9qhxt8acn8kzzypzuhm6q70fvvxylkzu49e75qyshwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtt2wqhxummnw3ezuamfwfjkgmn9wshx5up0qy08wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wwa5hyetydejhgtn2wqhsqgqthnr72cp92yqv9upzg2fyplvt6eazf6kxe24h6ea6syg3mthsl5tc3r26
14:30 - 16:00 山寺 (宝珠山立石寺)
宝珠山立石寺 (愛称:山寺)は山形屈指の観光スポットで、松尾芭蕉が「閑さや岩にしみ入る蝉の声」の名句を紀行文「おくのほそ道」に残したことでも知られているそうです。
展望台付近まで登りましたが、前日2時間程度しか寝れてなかった からか、途中で何回か力尽きました。
何気にずっと階段だったのが厳しかった。w
展望台から見る景色が超綺麗でした。達成感あった。途中でDonさんが「松尾芭蕉も山寺登ってますよ!」と励ましてくれましたが、松尾芭蕉は服部半蔵だったのでは、といわれる説が頻繁に出るくらい、体力おばけです ()
#### 山寺・宝珠山立石寺 https://yamagatakanko.com/attractions/detail_2352.html
松尾芭蕉が忍者服部半蔵ではないかと言われる都市伝説の理由5つ
https://spirituabreath.com/matuobasyou-hattorihannzou-5207.html
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16:00 - 18:30 山形駅でりらさん合流・産業科学館
車で山形駅まで戻り、りらさんと合流。
山形駅内の産業科学館を見て回りました。産業科学館は子供向けの知育ブースや山形県民向けの各種企業ブースもあり、見ていて飽きないものが沢山展示されていました。
発電機を回してミニカーを動かすゼネコンレーシングが楽しかった。
また、各種企業ブースを回りながら、Junさんに山形県民憧れの就職先などを聞いていました。産業科学館
http://y-sunka.org/
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18:30 - 20:40 旅館チェックイン、夕食
私 / あめさん / りらさんで、喜三郎という温泉旅館に泊まりました。
ここの温泉の泉質は芒硝泉(リウマチ・高血圧・切り傷・婦人病に効くとのこと)で、保養温泉として親しまれているそうです。
夕食のしゃぶしゃぶ、サザエ、釜めし、芋煮、... 全部旨かった!!!
夕食を食べていたら意外と時間ギリギリになり、露天風呂は朝入ることにして爆速で風呂に入りました。温泉旅館 (喜三郎)
https://kisaburo.jp/
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20:40 - 23:00 二次会
二次会の居酒屋でJunさん、Donさんと再度合流。
Junさんの奥さんで漫画家をされている、横谷先生も来てくれました。山形の地酒を飲みながら、Nostrasia 2024での思い出 / 山形の特産品 / Junさん夫妻が東京にくるタイミングはいつか など話していました。
横谷先生はM3やコミティアなど東京に来られるタイミングがいくつかありそうでしたが、Junさんが東京に来るタイミングはなかなか無さそう。
山形にまた会いにいくか、東京で面白いイベントをやって呼ぶしかない!また、山形には「ほや」と呼ばれる海産物が有名という話を聞きました。
ほや、結局食べ損ねてしまった。山形うまいものと地酒 母家
https://r.gnavi.co.jp/t846900/?sc_lid=smp_top_01
横谷先生の読み切り : 遠い日の陽
https://comic-days.com/episode/14079602755391426482
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23:00 - 旅館に戻る・就寝
旅館まで車で送ってもらい、旅館で就寝。
翌日も朝早いので、恒例(?)の枕投げやトランプをして遊ぶこともなく、12時に消灯しました。10/13
6:00 - 起床・露天風呂 ~ 7:30 朝食 ~ 8:30 チェックアウト
前日に入れなかった露天風呂に入るため、早めに起きて露天風呂に入りました。
旅館の窓を開けると須川が流れていて、天然のASMRを感じられました。nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqyqmxrhg3sn6z00x30mu3srrdr4ru05rweq4jhqcvat805v2g6j9qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwdehkkmm5v9ex7tnrdakj7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0ykk5upwwd5xjmn0xvhxuet59uqzpz260lg35sg06h758y7eppvrwzypv5kc3yj4n0t8jyx5q4f82mse3ung9s nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpjqu0xvlwfmrsuchs789n47ryyyn5seewlhxsyw2wmwr49ecuxrfqyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxd46zuamf0ghxy6t69uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qpqt6cyt5hmatsuct2plneae7t0apnkkrxm38hvee3auhu0h3hljjgs943h27 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqyqmxrhg3sn6z00x30mu3srrdr4ru05rweq4jhqcvat805v2g6j9qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwdehkkmm5v9ex7tnrdakj7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0ykk5upwwd5xjmn0xvhxuet59uqzp2qq9lv0d3umyxprne6xpjj70af6flzcfs2qpgsx2r347q7ukpdm2rwml4 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqyqmxrhg3sn6z00x30mu3srrdr4ru05rweq4jhqcvat805v2g6j9qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwdehkkmm5v9ex7tnrdakj7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0ykk5upwwd5xjmn0xvhxuet59uqzqgaugf683lhlww8ynlgd7qfhgj2d3zlkecm72td35lfw6m4tkvhke4k8jt nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqhcppl47wv97gtgccwlehuapxhusvgwu2ushtdwr2uge2vawjattqyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpy9mhxue69uhhyetvv9uj66ns9ehx7um5wgh8w6tjv4jxuet59e48qtcqyz750rwdqdk0x8r08m96fcyf5l4wp9pmc0rz8mle02ygtrdzdhf0gjwc823 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqyqmxrhg3sn6z00x30mu3srrdr4ru05rweq4jhqcvat805v2g6j9qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwdehkkmm5v9ex7tnrdakj7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0ykk5upwwd5xjmn0xvhxuet59uqzqq36wgay36wz58kmjvsucple6whamvd28pqrhu082wsdkkpvxzht34tq02
8:30 - 移動・買い物 ~ 9:40 Junさんの家に移動・芋煮会開始
近隣のスーパーで芋煮会用の買い物を済ませたあと、Junさんの家に移動して芋煮会を始めました。 あめさんが帰宅の関係上、山形駅を11:11に出ねばならず、芋をよく煮るために爆速で芋煮を作る必要がありました。
皆で協力して爆速で芋煮を作り、しっかり煮えた状態の芋煮をあめさんに持って帰ってもらうことができました!nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqyqmxrhg3sn6z00x30mu3srrdr4ru05rweq4jhqcvat805v2g6j9qy0hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwdehkkmm5v9ex7tnrdakj7qg6waehxw309aex2mrp0ykk5upwwd5xjmn0xvhxuet59uqzqe03zqdcpjzakz3u7jjs07crz05y024lvgmjuvh0zysf4zal9q0la8772q nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpjqu0xvlwfmrsuchs789n47ryyyn5seewlhxsyw2wmwr49ecuxrfqyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxd46zuamf0ghxy6t69uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qpq6xaa2etzypq7hlm8zs3rkrjsc0wh5c29huupe9mfxqqeu5uanttq39l9w6 nostr:nevent1qqs0zkh2t2crsv8ljxzvmy3ndwzncyl6wwz67hfy4p09tacem3pjzwg2h4ac8 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpjqu0xvlwfmrsuchs789n47ryyyn5seewlhxsyw2wmwr49ecuxrfqyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxd46zuamf0ghxy6t69uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qpq3ugypvt2fw886375nzltef4fzlasvk7nzj5n9tpuunwrr4p9etasskzqd6 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpjqu0xvlwfmrsuchs789n47ryyyn5seewlhxsyw2wmwr49ecuxrfqyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxd46zuamf0ghxy6t69uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qpq9u5559ucupe755xnlm00vm5wcj7rpu3wwc3wvrdjxxdcadcwumzqjg8e6r
芋煮ビルド過程
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11:20 - 14:30 Junさんの家でまったり・ねるねるねるね
Junさんにあめさんを駅に送ってもらった後は、残ったメンバーでテレビを見たり、ねるねるねるねを作って皆で食べたりしていました。
りらさんが仙台に行くため、14:30で帰っていきました。nostr:nevent1qqsya6u4r9amxs32m4k45s9203ph3kwmtlyddq283zrtyufk3z7tk9gaw3dyv nostr:nevent1qqs0nr6xznhxr4hfrczatlgy26lcrlup3zg8ey6j6ldthxnu9fy3mfq7tauam
14:30 - 16:30 伺かレクチャーを受ける
Junさんにりらさんを送ってもらっている途中、せっかく伺かベテランのDonさんがいるので
伺かを始めました。
※元々伺かやSSTPには興味があった
Donさんに伺かの基礎や「Nostr x 伺か」のOSSの機能などをレクチャーしてもらいながら、
Nostrと伺かで出来ることを話し合っていました。個人的に驚いたのは、一方通行で喋らせるだけだと思っていた伺かが、SSTPを通じてデスクトップマスコットとシーケンシャルに「やりとりができる」ことです。
非常に拡張性が高く、Nostrと同じで無限に遊べそうな雰囲気を感じました。伺か (うかがか) とは
2000年5月25日に初公開されたデスクトップ常駐型のフリーウェアで、24年間色んな人が発展・メンテナンスしています。
SSTP (Sakura Script Transfer Protocol) と呼ばれるプロトコルで指定のポート番号 (9801番)あてにメッセージを送ると、デスクトップマスコットを喋らせたり色んなことができます。
プロトコル仕様が公開されており、SSTPクライアントやサーバー、ベースウェアまで自作することが可能です。詳細 https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E4%BC%BA%E3%81%8B
伺か参考 (ばぐとら研究所)
現在デファクトスタンダードとなっているベースウェア、SSPがここからダウンロードできます。 https://ssp.shillest.net/
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16:30 - 17:30 四谷ラボの配信アーカイブを見る・帰宅
Nostrasia 2024やBluesky meetup、Nostr勉強会の配信アーカイブを見ながら、当時の思い出やNostrの未来について語っていました。
こういうのを忘年会や新年会でやっても面白いかもしれない。
18時の山形駅発の新幹線を取っていたので、18時にJunさんに駅まで送ってもらい、山形を去りました。四谷ラボの配信アーカイブ
https://www.youtube.com/@428-lab
終わりに
私は1泊2日でしたが、山形を味わい尽くしてリフレッシュすることが出来ました!
今回、Junさんには企画だけでなく車で色々連れて行ってもらったりと、本当にお世話になりました。
次に直接お会いしたら、何かしらもてなしたい。また、Donさんに直接会えて色々話せたのは本当に貴重でした。聞くところによると、Nostrのオフ会だけでなく、歴の長い伺か仲間とのオフ会も出たことがないらしいです。
また山形に行きたい!と思えるようなオフ会でした。
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@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1
2024-10-08 13:37:28There was once a man, who missed an important meeting because his alarm clock didn't ring. He was a bit upset, and wished for it to be corrected, so he promptly got up, got dressed, and took the alarm clock back to the store, where he'd gotten it from.
He stood in line, patiently, at the service counter, and waited his turn. When he got to the front, the clerk asked, "How may I help you?"
"Oh, I'm having trouble with this alarm clock. You see, it doesn't ring, when the time is reached. I was wondering if that could be fixed."
"Why should we fix that? We're actually very busy building the new model. Should be out in a few weeks. Just wait for that one. Goodbye."
"What? Wait! You can't just leave it broken, like this."
"Why not? What right do you have, to demand an alarm clock that rings? Besides, how many alarm clocks have you built?"
The customer was now quite flustered and a bit ashamed of his self, "Well, none. I admit that, but..."
"Well, there you go! Outrageous, that you should criticize something someone else has accomplished, that you have not. Besides, you are incompetent to tell if anything is even wrong. Maybe this is some sort of non-ringing alarm clock. Perhaps it has lights or wave sounds..."
The second customer in line suddenly piped up, "Ahem. I'm sorry to interrupt. I must admit, I've also never built an alarm clock, but I'm a jeweler, who sells and repairs watches, and I must agree with you, sir," nods to first customer, "This is most definitely a ringing alarm clock and... See here? This bit of the bell arm has rusted through and broken off. Shoddy craftmanship, I'd say."
"Oh, Mr High-n-Mighty jeweler, claims to know how a good alarm clock is to be made, while having zero experience. I've had enough of this outrage. I'm getting the vapors and need at least a two-week sabbatical, to recover from such gross mistreatment. The store is closing immediately. Everyone out!"
"But my clock, sir!"
The door slams in his face, and he heads home, dumping his clock in the garbage bin down the street. Next time, he will simply use the alarm on his cell phone. That always rings.
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@ c0e0c427:a1f63a16
2024-10-14 09:00:51Chef's notes
I reuse my basic pickle brine at least once. Pickle brine is all about your preference. Make it as sweet as you like with extra sugar, spicy as heck so you are remembering you had them the morning after or a little extra zesty by changing the ratio of water to vinegar to 1:1. Note that the ratio is by weights and I use metric instead of freedom units because that is how I work but imperial will work if for keep the ratio the same by WEIGHT.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 0 min
Ingredients
- 50mls apple cider vinegar
- 100mls water
- 50grams sugar
- Fresh dill
- Chilli
- 5-10 cucumbers
Directions
- Mix vinegar water together in a pot and bring to a simmer
- Turn off the heat and stir in the sugar until dissolved.
- Add into the brine fresh dill and chilli to your preferred taste.
- Allow brine to cool.
- Chop cucumbers into rounds or julienne and place into a clean and sterilised jar.
- Pour brine into jar so cucumbers are fully covered.
- Can enjoy in 2 days. Keeps up to 2 months.
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@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1
2024-10-08 11:51:50The 4P's
Remember the Four "P"s of Marketing? Let's look at them, in relation to digital creative work on Nostr.
Product
The product needs to be designed to fulfill a need or desire in the market. If you are writing things nobody wants to read, singing songs nobody wants to hear, or posting pictures that nobody wants to see, then you need to reevaluate your product choices because you are spam.
You are wasting your time, which means you bear a cost for the production of these goods. Is it really worth it? Maybe, maybe not. Maybe you could do something else, or do something in addition, to make the product more appealing.
On the other hand, if you are producing something valuable to a niche audience, you might want to think more about specifically aiming for and catering to that audience, rather than wasting your energy trying to appeal to a larger, indifferent group. It is better to be loved by a few and hated by many, than to be uninteresting to nearly everyone and ignore those who love you.
Price
People should have some anchor for the price, even if you have not explicitly named a price, so that they can know what such effort is "normally" worth and orient your value-provided up or down from there. It should also be clear what they are paying for, so that they know what the scope of the payment covers.
If there is no such anchor available, you can help create one by coming up with your own personal scale for other people's works and discussing it, in public. Any listeners will react positively or negatively, but they will all now have a mental "price point" to orient their own prices around.
If you have fixed and/or variable costs, the price you name should at least cover them, otherwise you need to lower the costs or raise the price. If you name no price, expect to get nothing, and you will never be disappointed. But you may also occasionally get a lot, and have it nearly knock you off your feet, so be prepared for that, too.
Generally, things that are free are of lower quality because producers have no incentive to expend great effort to produce things nobody values enough to pay for. The only major exceptions to this are cross-financing, such as freemium or preview models (typical for things like Substack or OnlyFans), or production funded by third parties (as is the case with Linux and GitHub). In both these cases, the payment exists, but is deferred or distanced.
Many products or services therefore start off "free", during an introductory period, but if they aren't getting enough income from it, they'll eventually give up and wander off. We pay creatives for their continued efforts and continued presence.
Placement
It is of vital importance that you place your products efficiently. Things you should consider:
- What relays will this work be accessible from? Large relays will extend your reach, but your product will appear within a sea of spam, so its relative value will decline, the same way the perceived worth of the nicest house on the block is dragged down by the houses around it.
- Writing to large relays also destroys the perceived exclusivity of the offer, although this can be partially mitigated by encryption. A mix of wide/exclusive is probably best, since exclusive access to someone unknown is less valuable than to someone well-known.
- Remember that the people paying for exclusive access, aren't necessarily paying for access to "better" material, they're paying for access to you, as a person, and/or they are trying to encourage you to continue your work. Rather than having your blockbusters behind a paywall, have the more personal items there and spend more time responding to the people who actually care about you and your art.
- Do you even want the work directly accessible over Nostr? Perhaps you prefer to store the work off-Nostr and simply expand access to that, to npubs.
- Something that covers price and placement is what sort of payment rails the hosting platform provides and/or you will accept. Some people only want to accept Lightning zaps, but others might be okay with fiat transactions of some sort, on-chain Bitcoin, gift cards, badge or NIP-05 sales, or some other method. Generally, the more payment options available, the less friction preventing payment. Lightning is arguably the payment method with the least friction, so it should go first in the list.
Promotion
Get Noticed
Who is your target audience and how can you get their attention, so that they find out which product you are offering? This one is extremely difficult, on Nostr. Mostly, everyone just screams things into the void, and people with more followers scream louder and are more-likely to be heard. So, I'd say:
- try to have more followers,
- find someone with lots of followers to help you with marketing, or
- join a "boost cooperative", where you join forces with other smaller accounts, to promote each other's notes.
Find your tribe
Use hashtags, but limit yourself to those that are truly relevant, and never have more than 3 in a note. Post to communities/topic-relays or groups, or write an article or wiki page or etc. and then cross-post to your kind 01 feed, with a hyperlink to a website that displays your work properly.
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@ 09fbf8f3:fa3d60f0
2024-10-14 15:42:04我搭建了一个网盘,国内访问速度还可以。
我买的是每月5刀的无限存储计划,只要还在使用,每天会增加1G的存储。(需要通过面板重启后赠送。)
官网
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不要使用VPN注册,会提示欺诈风险,有可能会砍单。
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@ 09fbf8f3:fa3d60f0
2024-10-14 15:41:08既然说是一款Web版的软件,也就是对应客户端版而开发的,如果你的歌曲都保存在NAS上,那么这款软件就非常适合你;如果你的歌曲都保存在电脑本地,那么可以直接使用客户端版的同名软件。
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MusicTagWeb的特色 这款软件刚开始在 Github 上开源的时候,笔者就注意到了,不过当时功能还刚有个雏形、不太完善,就没有推荐给大家。经过开发者一段时间的辛勤付出,现在看来功能和管理能力基本上都已经完成了,具体的功能点和特性如下:
支持批量自动修改音乐标签 支持音乐指纹识别,即使没有元数据也可以识别音乐 支持整理音乐文件,按艺术家,专辑分组 支持文件排序,按照文件名,文件大小,更新时间排序 支持plex专辑类型,新增配置显示/隐藏字段 修复不同类型音频文件的专辑类型 新增歌曲语言整理文件 优化自动打标签匹配算法 新增智能刮削标签源,集成多个平台的标签源,按匹配度排序 支持繁体匹配,新增消息中心展示自动刮削不匹配的数据 支持保存专辑封面文件,支持自定义上传专辑封面 简单适配H5端,支持手机端访问 支持wma,wmv格式, 修复自动刮削报错停止的问题 音轨号,光盘号 格式优化,优化匹配规则 对新增的音乐文件后台自动刮削,无感知刮削。修复.ape文件读取报错的问题 新增自定义层数的整理文件,新增根据刮削状态排序,修复大写的音乐后缀名识别不到 新增数据库挂载映射
其实上面没有提到,这款软件支持从6个音乐平台刮削歌曲信息,安全起见,具体是哪6个平台笔者就不说了,感兴趣的朋友可以接着往下看,自己跑起来就知道了。
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安装MusicTagWeb MusicTagWeb目前仅支持Docker部署,在你的NAS上,可以使用Docker和Docker Compose两种方式来部署,任选一种即可。
1、Docker方式
docker run -d \ --restart=unless-stopped \ -p 8001:8001 \ -v /path/to/your/music:/app/media \ -v /path/to/your/config:/app/data \ xhongc/music_tag_web:latest
2、Docker Compose方式
version: '3' services: music-tag: image: xhongc/music_tag_web:latest container_name: music-tag-web restart: unless-stopped ports: - "8001:8001" volumes: - /path/to/your/music:/app/media:rw - /path/to/your/config:/app/data
以上两种方式中,/path/to/your/music改成你的音乐文件夹路径,/path/to/your/config改为MusicTagWeb的配置文件路径。
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使用MusicTagWeb 使用Docker启动MusicTagWeb后,在浏览器中使用IP+端口号打开系统,然后输入用户名和密码即可登录,默认的用户名和密码均为admin,建议登录后进行修改。
1、登录系统 Username 和 Password 均输入admin,邀请码不需要填。
2、首页主屏
主屏分成两栏(实际是三栏,还有一栏在操作的时候会显示出来),左边是音乐文件目录,右边默认是一张占位图片。
3、单个编辑/刮削歌曲信息
选择一个歌曲文件,这时候界面就是三屏了,右侧一栏变成两栏,分别显示歌曲元数据和音源搜索结果。搜索和设置完成后,点击保存信息按钮,即可完成对歌曲元数据的编辑。
最后
详细教程去官网: https://xiers-organization.gitbook.io/music-tag-web V1版够用了,V2收费的,68一个激活码。
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-25 20:53:07AI hype vnímame asi všetci okolo nás — už takmer každá appka ponúka nejakú “AI fíčuru”, AI startupy raisujú stovky miliónov a Európa ako obvykle pracuje na regulovaní a našej ochrane pred nebezpečím umelej inteligencie. Pomaly sa ale ukazuje “ovocie” spojenia umelej inteligencie a človeka, kedy mnohí ľudia reportujú signifikantné zvýšenie produktivity v práci ako aj kreatívnych aktivitách (aj napriek tomu, že mnohí hardcore kreatívci by každého pri spomenutí skratky “AI” najradšej upálili). V prvej polovici prednášky sa pozrieme na to, akými rôznymi spôsobmi nám vie byť AI nápomocná, či už v práci alebo osobnom živote.
Umelé neuróny nám už vyskakujú pomaly aj z ovsených vločiek, no to ako sa k nám dostávajú sa veľmi líši. Hlavne v tom, či ich poskytujú firmy v zatvorených alebo open-source modeloch. V druhej polovici prednášky sa pozrieme na boom okolo otvorených AI modelov a ako ich vieme využiť.
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@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1
2024-10-02 05:04:55I entered STEM in the late 90s and women weren't discouraged (much), but we also weren't actively encouraged. Neither were the guys. The head of our IT department was a woman, and that was actually not that rare, back then. In fact, the % of women getting comp sci or IT majors has been steadily falling, as this article by Texas Tech University magazine notes.
I've long been puzzled by the big "Girls Coding" push, that the corporations have been engaging in. It accomplished nothing in my workspace, except causing potential colleagues to view me with increasing suspicion. Entering IT teams in the 90s, everyone assumed I must be a genius because everyone there was some sort of genius. Now, they assume that I'm there to fix their "lack of diversity". This starts me off on the wrong foot, every time.
People went into IT because they cared about the subject matter. There wasn't much money in it, so the work atmosphere wasn't cutthroat or dominated by venture capitalistic intentions. We were just a bunch of middle class mathematicians and engineers, basically, hiding out in the computer room with our nerdy friends, building stuff we thought would be useful and cracking our dorky jokes.
Destroying this wholesome atmosphere with divisive company politics, turning it into a high-stakes game for gamblers, and the constant economic precariousness of software projects, is what made women leave IT and it is what is keeping women away.
We've managed to recreate that familial atmosphere, in our nostr:npub1s3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqd975wz team, and that's probably why we girls like being there. Turns out, the people who are best at recognizing your talents and accomodating your personal responsibilities, are your friends on the team, who are simply happy that you're there and want you to keep showing up.
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
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@ de496884:72617b81
2023-11-20 13:54:02Hola nostriches. Hoy quiero hacer una publicación a modo de acercamiento al surgimiento de las categorías de género y feminismo. Así que si te interesa el tema haz un esfuerzo, quédate y lee hasta el final.
El «nuevo» feminismo surge en los años 60 en aquellos países desarrollados que acordaron el reconocimiento a los derechos humanos contenidos en la declaración respectiva de la ONU. Entonces, como extensión a dicho reconocimiento es que se gesta el movimiento feminista. A partir de entonces, se vuelve a plantear la relación entre naturaleza y cultura y se llega a la conclusión de que las diferencias sociales van más allá de las diferencias biológicas, lo cual tiene que ver con que hasta la satisfacción de las necesidades elementales como son la alimentación, la vivienda o el vestuario, están condicionadas por construcciones sociales.
Pues resulta que una de las primeras propuestas identificó la subordinación femenina producto de una organización patriarcal, tomando la categoría patriarcado de Max Weber. Es así como la visión de patriarcado se extendió al discurso político y académico. Sin embargo, no existía información acerca del desarrollo histórico de dicha categoría, sistematización, variaciones, etc., debido a que era algo que recién se percibía en sociedad.
Sin embargo, la misma categoría de patriarcado junto a la de relaciones de poder para explicar fenómenos sociales contemporáneos, constituye uno de los principales aportes del feminismo. Es así como han logrado primero visibilizar y luego deconstruir y desmontar una serie de patrones existentes en la cultura que hacían a la mujer subordinarse al hombre, y que estaban presentes en el sistema sexo/género.
Imagen relativa a la lucha contra el patriarcado
Hasta ese momento, en las investigaciones de corte sociológico se podía observar un androcentrismo excesivo al dar cuenta de que el discurso científico giraba en torno al hombre como sujeto y objeto de la investigación. Incluso para muchos positivistas como el mismo Weber, los problemas relativos a las mujeres quedaban en un segundo plano y eran achacados a una supuesta pasividad en el ámbito doméstico-familiar. Dicha pasividad partía de la supuesta inferioridad biológica del género femenino.
El patriarcado entonces era una categoría vacía en sí misma, sin valor explicativo. Desde el punto de vista político pudo ser útil para la movilización pero no resistió la polémica de los críticos del feminismo ni problematizó los conflictos a ser resueltos. Pero por otro lado, un grupo de mujeres -académicas principalmente- se puso manos a la obra en una tarea más pequeña pero con mayores resultados a la larga. Se propusieron generar conocimientos sobre las condiciones de vida de la mujer, buscar en el pasado y el presente los aportes de las mujeres a la sociedad, hacerlas visibles en la historia. Es así como surgen centros académicos, ONG, proyectos, centros de estudios sobre la mujer, etc.
Convendría distinguir entonces dos posturas que acompañaron a la investigación sobre las mujeres: uno que toma como objeto de estudio a la mujer; condiciones de vida, trabajo, cultura, y otra que privilegia a la sociedad como generadora de la subordinación de las mujeres. Mientras la primera perspectiva generaba conocimiento sobre las mujeres en el estudio de las relaciones mujer-hombre y mujer-mujer, la segunda tenía una visión más holística ya que planteaba que hay que estudiar la sociedad ya que la subordinación de las mujeres es producto de la organización de esta, y que no se avanzará solamente estudiando a las mujeres, pues el estudio debe ser más amplio y en diferentes niveles, ámbitos y tiempos.
Es en esta búsqueda donde nace y se desarrolla el concepto de género como categoría social. Es así que los sistemas de género/sexo fueron entendidos como conjuntos de prácticas, símbolos, representaciones, normas y valores sociales que las sociedades construyen a partir de la diferencia anatomofisiológica y que dotan de sentido a los impulsos sexuales, la reproducción y en general a las relaciones de las personas. Por tanto, este sistema pasó a ser el objeto de estudio para comprender la subordinación de la mujer al hombre. Al ser el reconocimiento de una dimensión de la desigualdad social hasta entonces desconocida, se considera la ruptura epistemológica más importante de la segunda mitad del siglo pasado.
Imagen representativa del binarismo de género
Hay que decir que los fenómenos sociales se definen por la relación que guardan entre sí. Es así que la contextualización adquiere gran importancia. Varones y hembras tenemos la capacidad de producir con el cuerpo, pero solo los cuerpos de las hembras pueden gestar y por tanto asegurar la especie humana. Todo grupo humano que pretenda sobrevivir debe asegurarse cierto número de hembras que lo hagan posible. De ahí un poder particular del cuerpo de las hembras que además es económicamente útil. Dicho poder no es en tanto entidad biológica, sino que es la sociedad la que le otorga este poder. En este punto es importante preguntarnos históricamente ¿quiénes han controlado la capacidad reproductiva de las mujeres?, ¿quiénes han tenido la preferencia en el acceso sexual? Para asegurar un control efectivo sobre la reproducción es necesario asegurar el acceso a la sexualidad.
Ello también lleva a dirigir el trabajo que hacen porque de lo contrario, las mujeres pudieran tener espacio para representar una amenaza al dominio de los hombres. Es importante atender a las etapas del desarrollo de las mujeres, que permitirá ver cómo se moldean para aceptar la desigualdad y las jerarquías según el género en las distintas sociedades y culturas.
Otro contexto a delimitar es el ámbito doméstico donde históricamente ha estado ubicada la subordinación femenina. Se ha puesto al descubierto que en mujeres que comparten la misma posición de clase y raza, la condición femenina se redefine a lo largo de la vida y que algunas mujeres gozan de poder sobre otras aún en contextos de alta dominación masculina, donde se les inviste de autoridad, creando el sistema zonas de incertidumbre que las divide como género e impide alianzas y se legitima la dominación. Foucault decía que «el poder se ejerce, no se posee», siempre está en peligro de perderse y no basta con normas, leyes, amenazas o castigos. De ahí que los espacios de subordinación sean también espacios de poder de las mujeres. Es en estos espacios donde aparece la inseguridad, la tensión, la confrontación y por ejemplo, las mujeres pueden reclamar la anticoncepción.
Para terminar, es importante tener en cuenta que el género es una forma de desigualdad social que siempre está articulado con otras formas de desigualdad ya sea clase, raza, grupo etario, etc. Hay que pensar la dominación masculina con un comienzo vago en el tiempo, pero que permite desligar la subordinación de las mujeres de la evolución «natural» de la humanidad y entenderla como un proceso histórico. En ese sentido es necesario destacar que, respecto a la raza, en sociedades plurales hay que atender al contexto étnico-cultural ya que en dependencia de las relaciones entre personas de razas distintas, estarán condicionadas las relaciones entre los géneros.
Imagen de mujeres de distintas razas
Por otro lado, si bien es sabido que históricamente el sistema de género social imperante ha contribuido a invisibilizar a la mujer, asociar necesariamente dicha categoría únicamente a ella, lo que hace es nuevamente recrear el absolutismo histórico que tanto daño ha hecho, ahora como lo antagónico al hombre. En la construcción social participan todos los individuos presentes en el sistema género.
Hasta aquí la publicación de hoy, de la cual aun se puede ahondar mucho más, sobre todo en lo referido al origen de la dominación o de la jerarquización del binomio «hombre/mujer» desde un punto de vista antropológico, pero eso quedará pendiente para otro momento. ¡Así que hasta la próxima!, ¡nos vemos en Nostr!
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English version
Hello nostriches. Today I want to make a post by way of an approach to the emergence of the categories of gender and feminism. So if you are interested in the topic make an effort, stay and read to the end.
The "new" feminism emerged in the 60's in those developed countries that agreed to recognize the human rights contained in the respective UN declaration. Then, as an extension of that recognition, the feminist movement was born. From then on, the relationship between nature and culture was raised again and the conclusion was reached that social differences go beyond biological differences, which has to do with the fact that even the satisfaction of elementary needs such as food, housing or clothing are conditioned by social constructions.
It turns out that one of the first proposals identified female subordination as a product of a patriarchal organization, taking Max Weber's category of patriarchy. This is how the vision of patriarchy was extended to political and academic discourse. However, there was no information about the historical development of this category, systematization, variations, etc., because it was something that was only recently perceived in society.
However, the same category of patriarchy, together with that of power relations to explain contemporary social phenomena, constitutes one of the main contributions of feminism. This is how they have first made visible and then deconstructed and dismantled a series of existing patterns in the culture that made women subordinate to men, and that were present in the sex/gender system.
Image relating to the fight against patriarchy
Up to that time, in sociological research, an excessive androcentrism could be observed as scientific discourse revolved around men as the subject and object of research. Even for many positivists such as Weber himself, the problems related to women remained in the background and were blamed on a supposed passivity in the domestic-family sphere. This passivity was based on the supposed biological inferiority of the female gender.
Patriarchy was then an empty category in itself, with no explanatory value. From the political point of view, it could be useful for mobilization, but it did not resist the polemic of feminism's critics, nor did it problematize the conflicts to be resolved. But on the other hand, a group of women - mainly academics - set to work on a smaller task but with greater results in the long run. They set out to generate knowledge about women's living conditions, to search in the past and present for women's contributions to society, to make them visible in history. This is how academic centers, NGOs, projects, women's studies centers, etc., came into being.
It would be convenient to distinguish then two postures that accompanied the research on women: one that takes women as the object of study; living conditions, work, culture, and the other that privileges society as the generator of women's subordination. While the first perspective generated knowledge about women in the study of woman-man and woman-woman relations, the second had a more holistic vision, since it proposed that society must be studied, since the subordination of women is a product of its organization, and that progress will not be made only by studying women, since the study must be broader and at different levels, spheres and times.
It is in this search that the concept of gender as a social category was born and developed. Thus, gender/sex systems were understood as a set of practices, symbols, representations, norms and social values that societies construct on the basis of anatomophysiological differences and that give meaning to sexual impulses, reproduction and, in general, to people's relationships. Therefore, this system became the object of study to understand the subordination of women to men. As the recognition of a hitherto unknown dimension of social inequality, it is considered the most important epistemological breakthrough of the second half of the last century.
Representative image of gender binarism
It must be said that social phenomena are defined by their relationship with each other. Thus, contextualization acquires great importance. Males and females have the capacity to produce with their bodies, but only the bodies of females can gestate and therefore ensure the human species. Any human group that intends to survive must ensure a certain number of females to make it possible. Hence a particular power of the female body, which is also economically useful. This power is not as a biological entity, but it is society that gives it this power. At this point it is important to ask ourselves historically, who has controlled the reproductive capacity of women, who has had the preference in sexual access? To ensure effective control over reproduction, it is necessary to ensure access to sexuality.
Allegorical image of pregnancy
This also leads to directing the work they do because otherwise, women may have room to pose a threat to men's dominance. It is important to pay attention to the stages of women's development, which will allow us to see how they are shaped to accept inequality and gender hierarchies in different societies and cultures.
Another context to delimit is the domestic sphere where female subordination has historically been located. It has been discovered that in women who share the same class and race position, the feminine condition is redefined throughout life and that some women enjoy power over others even in contexts of high male domination, where they are invested with authority, creating the system of uncertainty zones that divide them as a gender and prevent alliances and legitimize domination. Foucault said that "power is exercised, not possessed", it is always in danger of being lost and norms, laws, threats or punishments are not enough. Hence, the spaces of subordination are also spaces of women's power. It is in these spaces where insecurity, tension, confrontation appear and where, for example, women can demand contraception.
To conclude, it is important to keep in mind that gender is a form of social inequality that is always articulated with other forms of inequality, be it class, race, age group, etc. It is necessary to think of male domination with a vague beginning in time, but which allows us to separate the subordination of women from the "natural" evolution of humanity and to understand it as a historical process. In this sense, it is necessary to emphasize that, with respect to race, in plural societies it is necessary to pay attention to the ethno-cultural context since, depending on the relations between people of different races, the relations between genders will be conditioned.
Image of women of different races
On the other hand, although it is known that historically the prevailing social gender system has contributed to make women invisible, to necessarily associate this category only to women is to recreate the historical absolutism that has done so much damage, this time as antagonistic to men. All individuals present in the gender system participate in the social construction.
So much for today's publication, of which we can still go much deeper, especially with regard to the origin of domination or the hierarchization of the binomial "man/woman" from an anthropological point of view, but that will be left for another time. So until next time, see you in Nostr!
Créditos | Credits
Bibliografía consultada | Consulted bibliography:
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Barbieri, T. (1993). Sobre la categoría género. Una introducción teórico-metodológica. Debates en Sociología. (18). 1-19. https://doi.org/10.18800/debatesensociologia.199301.006
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Echevarría, D. (2020). Desigualdades de género e interseccionalidad. Análisis del contexto cubano 2008-2018. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Programa-Cuba). https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_libro=2346&campo=cm&texto=248
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@ 8fb140b4:f948000c
2023-11-18 23:28:31Chef's notes
Serving these two dishes together will create a delightful centerpiece for your Thanksgiving meal, offering a perfect blend of traditional flavors with a homemade touch.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 1 - 2 hours
- 🍽️ Servings: 4-6
Ingredients
- 1 whole turkey (about 12-14 lbs), thawed and ready to cook
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 2 tablespoons fresh thyme, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh sage, chopped
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 onion, quartered
- 1 lemon, halved
- 2-3 cloves of garlic
- Apple and Sage Stuffing
- 1 loaf of crusty bread, cut into cubes
- 2 apples, cored and chopped
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 stalks celery, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 cup fresh sage, chopped
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 2 cups chicken broth
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Directions
- Preheat the Oven: Set your oven to 325°F (165°C).
- Prepare the Herb Butter: Mix the softened butter with the chopped thyme, rosemary, and sage. Season with salt and pepper.
- Prepare the Turkey: Remove any giblets from the turkey and pat it dry. Loosen the skin and spread a generous amount of herb butter under and over the skin.
- Add Aromatics: Inside the turkey cavity, place the quartered onion, lemon halves, and garlic cloves.
- Roast: Place the turkey in a roasting pan. Tent with aluminum foil and roast. A general guideline is about 15 minutes per pound, or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F (74°C) at the thickest part of the thigh.
- Rest and Serve: Let the turkey rest for at least 20 minutes before carving.
- Next: Apple and Sage Stuffing
- Dry the Bread: Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet and let them dry overnight, or toast them in the oven.
- Cook the Vegetables: In a large skillet, melt the butter and cook the onion, celery, and garlic until soft.
- Combine Ingredients: Add the apples, sage, and bread cubes to the skillet. Stir in the chicken broth until the mixture is moist. Season with salt and pepper.
- Bake: Transfer the stuffing to a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 30-40 minutes, until golden brown on top.
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-14 02:23:59Chef's notes
Cook pancakes ahead of time and freeze. Move to refrigerator the night before serving.
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2024-10-01 13:30:18This is the full AI-generated transcript of Bitcoin Infinity Show #127 featuring George Manolov!
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BIS128 - Ben Perrin - Transcript
Knut: Ben, welcome to the Bitcoin Infinity Show. Thanks for having me, guys. Yeah, this is where we first met, in Riga, five years ago.
Yeah, that's wild. Yeah, and our lives took a turn.
Ben: Yeah. I mean, it's amazing what can happen in a seemingly short period of time. Everything is markedly different, I think, on both ends.
Knut: Yeah, but I mean, I can't believe how you do what you do, like, you do like the double amount of conferences that I do.
Ben: I think I need to slow myself down a bit.
Knut: but you've been traveling around a lot, like, with the family as well.
Ben: Yeah, we try to strike a balance. Sometimes I go solo, sometimes it's the full family. Sometimes it's, me and the missus. It really depends, but, a little bit of both all through the year.
how's it been, like, what's your, well, Yeah. I mean, the travel aspect of it is fantastic. I love seeing all these places and it's kind of cool. To be honest, seeing all the Bitcoiners just in different parts of the globe all through the year, it's like every time it's a quasi family reunion, right? In cool locations.
Knut: Who was that that called us a traveling circus? Joe, yeah, it's Joe Hall.
Ben: Yeah. Yeah. That's, I mean, accurate. I think it's based, I was just saying outside that we should just collectively, you know, buy a jet, put all the necessary stuff in it and just hop around the globe and host a bunch of events and then get it all done in a couple of months and then
Luke: It's not a bad strategy.
Knut: no, it's a low time preference
Ben: are we going to start a geyser fund for the jet,
Knut: yeah, what private jet wanted, like,
Luke: If anything, it would be a good meme anyway, right?
Ben: How many bitcoin do you think we need for a jet? Sats.
Knut: Yeah, well, it'll take a while to gather the funds and we'll call that a jet lag.
Ben: I all enjoy seeing the exorbitant amount of Bitcoin required. And then like, you know, 5, 000 sats raised so far.
Knut: Yeah, and then five years later, 5, 000 sats is enough for a jet.
Luke: there we go. Oh, absolutely.
The Origins of BTC Sessions
Luke: So can you give us a little bit of, your story, how this all started? how did you get into Bitcoin and how did you become a, cause you're not actually Mr. Sessions, but you are, you get confused for that all the
Ben: Yeah. so, prior to Bitcoin, I actually, taught kids how to breakdance for years.
Knut: Australian ladies,
Ben: Yeah, non Australian ladies, no, no, I, I taught, I was basically doing in school residencies. So, like, in, in phys ed, instead of the phys ed teacher, you know, helming the, the dance unit, I would come in as a novelty and, You know, teach the kids a routine over the course of a week and then they'd perform at the end of the week.
And, so it was a fun job, but it didn't particularly, pay the bills. So I needed a side hustle. And that side hustle for a while was, I went on a bunch of tech blogs and I just kind of learned how to tear, tear apart a MacBook and like swap out the hard drive and the RAM and things like that.
And then, so I would flip MacBooks because everybody wanted a MacBook, but you could get it used. And so I would upgrade it and then sell it and earn a few hundred bucks in an afternoon. And that felt pretty decent. But because I was on those tech blogs, the Bitcoin articles would be in front of me from time to time.
it took about a year of saying, ah, crap, I missed the boat over and over again, to finally say, maybe I should actually read into this and figure out what it was. And, I spent the better part of two years trying to learn how to use it. And searching desperately for video tutorials because I'm a very visual learner.
It was always like, Oh, go to this blog and, or, or go to this forum and halfway down in the comments, some dude described in point form how to do this. And I was like, I, I can't learn like this, but I had to. And so the channel was more like a response to the itch I couldn't scratch for myself.
And I figured if, if I wanted that, somebody might find Bitcoin tutorials useful, and, that was eight years ago. And so now, yeah, eight, eight years worth of, doing tutorials.
Knut: So, do you have any other, educational background? university studies or anything like
Ben: this was just like, it was a com, so the skills that kind of came together were, even though I was teaching dance, like, teaching a concept that can be complex to like a school kid. As long as you can break it down in a simple manner, like I had to get used to sometimes five year olds trying to learn and memorize a routine.
With very foreign movements to them. regardless of subject matter, it translates if you can break something down. And the tech aspect of it, like I was not technical whatsoever before Git. Other than like, I mean, yeah I said I tore up Macbooks, but like, if you can, put in a Nintendo cartridge.
That's like the skillset that you needed to do that. and so that was just like trial and error, you know, tearing your hair out, doing it again, trying again, learning what not to do. and then just the being comfortable, like in front of a camera, I guess, over time.
Knut: So, the stripe from tearing your hair out?
Luke: Yeah, it grew back eventually, but turned color. Yes. did you realize that you're never allowed to change your hairstyle ever again?
Ben: The first time going to a conference and, somebody coming up and saying like, Oh, I saw you from across the parking lot. And I was like, Oh crap, I'm stuck with this forever. Yeah, now it's like, I literally, but this is going to be the OPSEC thing. Cause when it's time to disappear, I just have to die this back.
And I, I'm a ghost.
Luke: Yeah, Nobody will know who I am. It's like if Knut shaves his
Ben: Yeah,
Knut: yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ben: Yeah.
Luke: Although actually the beard hasn't even been going that long, but now you're used to it.
Ben: Yeah, yeah.
What Has Changed in Bitcoin?
Luke: So, what's changed over this eight years? Because I imagine early days that you're teaching vastly different things from now in the space.
Ben: Yes and no. there's a lot more to teach now than there ever was. like the early days, I was more or less confined to whatever phone app happened to be out as a wallet, there was very limited option for hardware, like it just kind of started to pop up as I was early days. and then like Bitcoin ATMs or online exchanges, that was kind of the crop of what I could do.
And now, the list of things I would like to cover is growing faster than I can cover it. It's an impossible task to teach everything. And so, that's a great thing, because there's so much optionality out there for people. I think because of that now, we're seeing a lot more people do tutorial videos, which is fantastic.
every time I see a new person throw their hat in the ring and start making video tutorials, I'm like a mini victory. I've treated the opposite of. Competition because you can never have too much education, just as everybody should have a Bitcoin podcast.
Neutrality
Knut: Yeah, so speaking of podcasts and video tutorials, like, how do you stay neutral in terms of the products? I mean, you must be getting offers from everyone here and there, like, can you promote this for me? Can you do that for me?
Ben: so there's two aspects to it. I mean, number one, obviously the only way that I can do this full-time is to have sponsors on the show. But the sponsors that I usually have, it's typically not them coming to me. Not to say there isn't people coming to me, but the ones that come to me typically are like shitcoin casinos and stuff like that.
And saying it's a default. No. but the sponsors that I tend to have typically it's me saying, Oh, I use this and it's great. And then I reach out to that entity and say, would you like to sponsor the show? But that comes with a caveat of no matter what, The whole point of the channel is to educate people how to use things, so I will be covering your competitors and teaching people how to use them as well.
So, it's just, you gotta just be forthcoming with, like, the pros and cons of everything, and be realistic about how things work, and, yeah.
Knut: yeah, yeah. Oh, can I have that water? Sorry. yeah, this is a tricky thing, like, especially for consumers, like, how can you trust the content you're consuming, but I think, the essence of that is that, authenticity is the currency of the future, whoever said that, but, it's such a great.
Like your reputation is everything. if you're discovered to be a sellout or if people discover you're a sellout, you lose, or your sponsors too, at certain point, right. So,
Ben: It's, especially in Bitcoin, I feel like, Bitcoiners hold each other to a higher standard than fiat world does. and, Bitcoiners it's not so easy to forget, somebody. not that you can't, redeem yourself when you make a mistake as long as you own it.
I think the worst thing that you can do is just double down instead of being like, you know, fucked up kind of thing. So, yeah.
Early Days
Luke: No, exactly, and I mean, I was actually curious about this. Did you ever go to, like, when you're getting into Bitcoin, were you ever curious about some of the, checkcoins and
Ben: Oh yeah, like, especially early on, because, there was no good resources, that succinctly described the difference between Bitcoin and everything else. It wasn't until, I spent most of my time learning about Bitcoin specifically, and then, I heard little things about other shitcoins but I never gained any conviction with any of the other ones, and to me it was always considered gambling, if I had anything like that.
And so it took working at an OTC desk in 2017, like a physical walk in with cash and buy Bitcoin or shitcoins to open my eyes to just how degenerate all of that stuff was. like my experience at the peak of the 2017 bull run. Was being in a room probably about double or triple the size of this.
we had three desks, with money counters on them, and it was shoulder to shoulder people in this room, all standing with stacks of cash, Ready to buy whatever coin had gone up the most that day. Ripple hit 3. 50. I'd love 10, 000 worth of Ripple, please. and it was just that day after day after day.
And people convinced that like, oh, this is the future. This is how it's gonna be. And after going through all that and seeing the ICO craze and everything, it just put such a bad taste in my mouth witnessing that and in a way being party to it, like working and being on the other side of the desk from that, that, discussions with and working with Francis Pouliot, with BullBitcoin.
He actually poached me from that company that I was at and it was a breath of fresh air to get somewhere and focus on Bitcoin. And so that was the formation of where I'm at now.
Bull Bitcoin
Knut: In 2019, you were here with the bull Bitcoin
Ben: Mm hmm.
how many of you were here? was a lot of us. 15 Yeah, there was, there was a lot. it was like they brought a bunch of the Debs and like Madex was here. 'cause he did the shirts and everything. Yeah. Francis Dave, like, yeah.
We were all out here and it was a good time.
Knut: Bull Bitcoin is definitely the most based exchange in the world, I think. think there are exchanges nowadays that are on par with them, but if you take the historical perspective, there is no second
Ben: Yeah, well it was such a departure for Francis to come out and be like, his announcement of what BullBitcoin was going to be and to say, we are actively Bitcoin only I remember people in the room as he announced it being like, Seriously, you guys are only doing Bitcoin.
You're actively choosing not to do anything else. And, it seemed like a crazy move to a number of people that watched that announcement and it was the best thing that they could have done.
Knut: Of course. I mean, I love that before and after picture of Francis, you know, when he's in his corporate suit and everything. The before picture and the second picture, it looks like something out of Commando or
Yeah. Rolled out of the jungle. No, it's great.
Ben: Yeah, that was a formative time for sure.
Calgary Community Building
Luke: Yeah, and I mean, those were my first touch points with crypto, the 2017 run, and I mean, in the offices in Calgary, because I'm just starting my career, just out of school, and I'm working at an oil and gas company, and it's like, everyone's talking about Ethereum or Ripple,
Yeah, and so that was the only thing that I got off my ass and went and bought a little bit for a little while with some Ethereum, and as soon as everything crashed in 2017, it's just like, I'm like, Yeah, I forgot about it for four years until things started to climb again.
And so no, no regrets, like, what ifs or anything like that. But, but yeah, that, that was, that was the culture at the time though, is, is, is what I'm saying. and this, this was all like, I had no idea this was all going on around me, the Bitcoin community, in, in Calgary. Right. and so this is, this is now where.
You're active in building the community in Calgary, right?
Ben: yeah, so, we're now kind of, you know, I've reached a point where, you know, it's great using Bitcoin as a savings mechanism and all that, but, I think it was late last year. there was some announcement in and around like exchanges, basically sending out the warnings to everybody, like, Hey, if you coin join and then send to the exchange, we'll have to shut your account.
Like you've got to at least add a hop and every, and people were. We're getting angry and almost like shooting the messenger, like, Oh, like, why don't you just not comply? And it's like, well, then the business doesn't exist. So I, like, I kind of get it. But at the end of the day, I got annoyed because people were, again, shooting the messenger rather than like just trying to do something about it.
And, and so that kind of, spurred me into. You know, recognizing that the only way around that is to actively use Bitcoin peer to peer, right? Like, not just save it. Cause like, if you're, if you're saving your Bitcoin and you're putting it away and everything, and then all of a sudden, every on and off ramp, it just Disappears overnight because of regulatory overreach.
What the hell do you do? Like, yeah, you can find your, your, your peer to peer exchanges and stuff like that, but like, isn't it so much better if you can just know the place where you can get beef or, you know, your barber, if you, if you can just use your money for everything that you need and then also just save it.
Like, isn't that a far better world than having to rely on somebody somewhere to exchange for a worse money?
Vexl
Knut: Are you familiar with Vexl? Yes. looks really promising, I think. yeah, we had Grafton on. Weeks ago. And, it's great. most of the users are in Prague at the moment, but still, if we can get that going, it's like, I view it as VL being is to local Bitcoins what B2C pay server is to BitPay you're taking these centralized models and.
making them peer to peer and more decentralized.
Ben: it, yeah, it's needed, whatever the, I really like the idea of what Vexel's doing, again, like, it's thin in my area for people listing stuff on there, but, again, at the end of the day, I think in, however we can do it to kind of build out, starting from the Bitcoiners themselves, ways to meet our daily needs, just using Bitcoin, like, I've been, I've been basically living on a Bitcoin standard since 2020.
Now, 90 something percent of my income is all Bitcoin. and I use it, like I, by default, don't have dollars beyond, like, exactly what needs to come out of a bank account each month for some specific payments that I can't do externally.
Knut: So what is your reaction when people say that Bitcoin isn't money?
Ben: So you can say it, but you're fucking wrong. it's puzzling when somebody says that to me because my entire life is a refutation of that statement. Like,
Knut: that's a clip right
Ben: Yeah.
Sats Market
Luke: that's fantastic. I had no idea any of this stuff existed. I literally got into Bitcoin as I was leaving Canada and I haven't been back to Calgary in three years now. I'm super looking forward to next summer.
I'll make it to your sats market and the Bitcoin rodeo and everything. So can you tell us a little bit about the sats market
Ben: Yeah, so, I guess I kinda went off the rails when I was about to dive into that, but that knee jerk of me getting angry that people weren't doing anything about it, that spurred me into doing the first sat market, and So I was like, guys, the only way around this is to just start using Bitcoin.
And so I put out the word online and said let's do this in three weeks, let's do a market. And we got 35 merchants together in that period of time, put on a big, Christmas market. And it was great. I was surprised how many people got together and made that happen. And so now we've done three of them.
we did a spring one as kind of like a dry run, to prep for the Bitcoin rodeo one that we did in July. but now I think we're going to do two per year so that it's kind of more of an event. but then we want to actually form relationships with each other so that, you don't need the market to get the things that you want.
So like, you know, my kid shoved something in the toilet, I called the Bitcoin plumber. And he came and I paid him in sats for sorting out my shit coin problem. and I think a big part of the market was, yes, it's great having, Bitcoin related merch and goodies and stuff like that.
But like, It shouldn't be all that. It needs to be stuff that people actually need. So we have local farmers come in, and you know, they've got beef and eggs and chickens and all that. We have a lot of tradesmen, like roofers, people doing flooring, people doing all kinds of different stuff.
We've got a guy who, one of the services he's offering is teaching people how to homestead. so like there's, there's a wide variety, there's a children's author, there's a whole bunch of different stuff. and it's a very eclectic mix of a lot of different things. but also like the useful, like, oh, I need food, you know, I need my haircut.
Canada and Alberta
Knut: so, do you expect, I mean, if you look up government overreach during the early 2020s in the dictionary, you'll get a picture of a Castro's bastard doing, do you expect some kind of clamp down or like problems with this from a government side in Canada?
Ben: Well, the nice thing about it is that it's the hardest thing to prevent when I know the guy I get my eggs from. When, you know, what are you going to say? you guys can't be friends anymore. Go fuck yourself. like if I happen to go visit my buddy at his house And he happens to give me some eggs, and I happen to slip and scan a QR code then like I was to stop that Yeah
Luke: would go, Well, I mean, some calibration on this as well. I think for people who aren't familiar with how Canada is basically, Alberta and Calgary is like the heart of freedom country in Canada. Quebec is also a little bit, it's got its own flavor of that essentially, but Alberta has been going through some really interesting times in the last decade.
Ben: so It's very different from the US in that the individual states have so much more, free reign to set things how they like, and you can freely move around between states. But in Canada, the federal government has a lot more power over each individual province than I would like.
But Alberta, as of late, has been really pushing back against federal overreach, in particular, and around energy, health, and education. so there's been all of these things that have culminated in, we created the Alberta Sovereignty Act, which Gives us a conduit to any time the federal government tries to do something where they're stepping out of their wheelhouse, we basically can now refer to that and flip them the bird and say, tough.
We saw that province next to us, Saskatchewan, when they tried to impose a carbon tax, the entire province, the government just said, we're not collecting it. And so like, you're starting to see, and it's very interesting because The sovereign individual, the book, when they were discussing, the idea of local governance and the breakdown of larger nation states, when they were talking about Canada, it was written in the 90s when Quebec was voting whether it wanted to remain part of Canada.
And so one would have assumed at the time they would have said Quebec will be the first to separate from Canada. But they said no, it's more likely to be Alberta because it's so energy heavy. and we get kind of screwed by the rest of Canada, so there's what's known as equalization payments, if we produce and have a lot of industry, rather than using that as a mechanism to incentivize people to move away from areas where industry may not justify so many people living towards where the good jobs and the resources are.
they just say, Oh, you guys are doing pretty well. We're going to take, however many billions of dollars of that, and we're going to pepper it over here.
Knut: Yeah.
Ben: when you look at say Quebec versus Alberta, Alberta, I can't remember what this is. Very recently, in the past few years, there was a year where I think Alberta paid 10 billion dollars in equalization payments, and, Quebec received 11.
And, and, and so basically we just gave Quebec all the money, and that's like 40 percent of their GDP.
Knut: yeah, it's socialism. That's how socialism works. The problem with socialism is that eventually you'll run out of other people's money.
Ben: Yeah. and so, but I mean, what would have happened if that wasn't in place is there wouldn't be as many jobs in Quebec and a number of people might have said, Oh, there's more jobs over here. We're going to move to where the industry is.
Luke: Yeah. Free market. It's natural. It's what happens when you leave things be and let people cooperate and collaborate the way they want. but instead we're incentivizing people to stay put Well, and I mean, the other thing, not just the equalization, right, is that the energy is literally landlocked in Alberta, and to get the oil to market, you have to take it to a coast, that's how this stuff gets sold, and there's just been fights over building pipelines within Canada or into the United States, Barack Obama cancelled the Keystone pipeline, the Keystone XL pipeline the first time, Then Trump re approved it, and then Biden finally cancelled it, and I think they're actually giving up on it now.
But even within Canada, that's the problem, is that Quebec, who gets all of this money from Alberta, says they will not let a pipeline through their province.
Knut: yeah, it's, in the book.
yeah. yeah,
Luke: your feeling on just the political situation in general in Alberta and Canada as a whole?
Ben: it's interesting because I don't put Too much or really any trust in politicians, but the political pendulum making it's I feel like it already peaked to one side and it's about to swing back and they'll be that degree of What seems like normalcy for a while and then it'll swing too far the other direction again in the 90s growing up I felt as if These conservatives are gonna censor everything and, it was always like, Oh, we need to take this off TV and off the radio and we don't want anybody to see this In my head, I was always like, well, just don't watch it.
Don't listen to it. If you don't like Like, why are you telling others what they can or can't do or watch? And so I always grew up thinking that's where the pressure's gonna come from. But as that political pendulum swung to the left, it doesn't matter who's in power, it's just what are they censoring, right?
And so I think I leaned left, politically speaking, early in my life because it was just like a knee jerk. Against whoever was telling me not to do things, and so I felt like I swung left, and then it got to a point where I was just insufferable, like, actively, trumpeting whatever the leftist politicians would say, and it wasn't until a friend of mine actually said to me, I asked him about the election when Trudeau got elected for the first time, which I voted for, and,
Luke: Sorry.
Ben: The thing that opened my eyes to how insane I had gotten was, a friend of mine that I would have assumed for like the, who he was and kind of his lifestyle and everything like that would have, definitely been voting for Trudeau. So I asked him what he thought of the election. And he said, you made me vote conservative. And I was like, I stepped away from that conversation and took a long hard look in the mirror and realized the person that I thought I was helping by voting this way voted the opposite because I was such a loud mouth. what I ended up doing is I started searching for the exact opposite of what I would have searched for on like YouTube and all that.
And it was my first peek into how bad the algorithms get you. And because all of a sudden I was getting served inside of a couple of weeks, I was getting served the polar opposite end of the spectrum and nothing but that, and like rage bait. it made me realize like.
There's, there's no winner in that scenario.
Pendulum
Knut: it's so funny that they use the word pendulum because that's one of the chapter names from the new book. And we describe exactly that process of left and right, but also how this dynamic happens in smaller communities as well. And the danger we see in the Bitcoin community here is that, I've noticed this effect that Whenever people discover Bitcoin and realize that the government is lying to them.
The lazy thing to do is just to buy the opposite narrative and buy into all the conspiracy theories, and all of a sudden Alex Jones is not a liar, have you noticed that too, and like, are you worried about the Bitcoin community, that we're getting sloppy, buying into stuff?
Ben: Yeah, I think it's inevitable that people have that reaction in that we're at that point in time where people are deeply distrustful of every single institution. And I think it's exactly what you're saying, is that the knee jerk reaction is, so everything's a conspiracy, or everything's a scam. And, you know, kudos to the people that are a little bit more nuanced with the thinking. I can fall into that trap too. And, I think it's also, to go back to one of the other formative moments in Bitcoin for me was, as I first started getting involved. Seeing the coverage of Mt.
Gox, on the news because I had, I still knew very, very little about Bitcoin at that point. I had just started learning, but even with, a month or two of reading, I knew that all of the reporting was completely wrong. where they were saying Bitcoin got hacked. And I knew it was just a bad company, lost people's money.
And, to see every news outlet report it the same and all be wrong, and know that I've done effectively the minimal viable research, and I know that you're incorrect. It made me step back and say, well, God, like, what if other things that I know even less about are being reported incorrectly?
Knut: I know exactly what I reacted to the most, that they describe Bitcoin ma mining as solving this super complex
Ben: Yes.
Knut: Yes. When it's really just guessing a number over and over again. so it's portrayed as something that's absolutely isn't
Ben: Yeah. it's blindly throwing a dart at a dart board somewhere.
Knut: I had experiences with this earlier on where, you know, being interviewed for smaller things and just reading the interview afterwards and seeing how much they got wrong. this is so often everything.
Ben: Yeah. Cause I mean, there's people in society that are tasked with trying to distill information and present it in a friendly public facing manner. And, when you're trying to do that, it's difficult to do that accurately and also in an entertaining way that drives clicks and views and all that kind of stuff.
so I think a lot of people by default just use some of those bad habits and, you know, go for the clicks, I suppose.
Nostr
Luke: Well, and how do you feel about an antidote to this in Nostr, decentralizing communication?
Ben: Yeah, I think. With this, it definitely puts us in the right direction in that, you know, previously, the way, we've seen dissenting opinions dealt with is just shutting them down. you know, now, I still very much think that the entire world has not yet grappled with the fact that you can instantly communicate with anybody, anywhere, and get a megaphone to tell the world whatever you think.
and people have not been great at learning how to distill information and decide if the information is right and true. we're still as a species not great at that, but I think having Absolute censorship resistance puts us towards that because then the only tool you have to fight against bad information is better information.
And so people need to stop being babysat and actually be forced into a space where they have to distill information and think critically. and that's a muscle that most people haven't exercised and even myself, at times just, you know, it's easy to go the lazy way. But I think, yeah, with something like Nostr where, you can say whatever you want.
Nobody can remove it afterwards. it forces hard conversations to be had rather than trying to silence them. So I think it's a slow process and it's not gonna happen anytime soon. But it gets us stepping in the right direction.
Knut: I think communication is the thing that elevates us from barbarism to civilization, really. Because if you go down to first principles and what this is all about, it's like humans have two ways of resolving conflict, and the one is violence, And the other is communication. You agree and you argue and you come up with a solution.
And the latter is obviously preferable to the former, because we don't want violence. seeing things that way makes everything so much clearer, you realize that even without the internet communication would have won out in the long run, because it's more efficient than violence.
Violence is costly. so, and it did sort of like there were fewer wars, like in, Early 90s when the internet wasn't a thing than ever before. So like, fewer people were killed in wars. So the internet has just sped up the process. And right now you can communicate with anyone in the entire world at an instant.
And it's not only text, it's video, like without a lag. And on top of that you have bitcoin, which is, part of that, because it is communication. What bitcoin pointed out was that money doesn't have to be anything but communication. That's why I'm so extremely optimistic about it, because it is the cure all, in that sense, because it's so damn powerful,
Why Are You Bullish?
Knut: so Ben Sessions, why are you bullish?
Ben: am I bullish? in this moment, I think I'm most bullish because people haven't stopped building and they're doing so at such a breakneck pace that I guess alluding to earlier in the conversation, how that list of things for me to teach people about is growing faster than I can teach it.
And, and that's a great place to be in, given that when I started, the most common question I got from people hearing, Oh, you're doing a Bitcoin tutorial channel. I mean, you're going to run out of stuff to do, aren't you? And it's the exact opposite. and so I, when there's that much of a brain drain and, and there's so many people Interested in somehow being involved and contributing and seeing this as the seismic shift that it is.
how can you not be bullish about that? I mean, we started a company a few months ago called Bitcoin Mentor. Educators, one on ones and all that. But we put out the word that we were looking for people that wanted to be Bitcoin educators. We had 350 applicants. Isn't that insane?
Luke: It's amazing.
Knut: Yeah,
Ben: Obviously we couldn't take all 350, but we built a solid team from the people that were there and there was some really talented people there.
The Bitcoin Mentor
Ben: So can you talk us through what this is? what is the Bitcoin? It's the Bitcoin Mentors. Yeah, Bitcoin Mentor. I, have previously for a number of years done, Private one on ones with people, typically, you know, Zoom or whatever, video call. those were usually people that had gone to the free tutorials on YouTube, but they need a little bit of extra hand holding.
Maybe, like, it's either just their confidence in doing it themselves, and they just want somebody to kind of walk them through it the first time, or they hit a snag and I didn't cover it as in depth as I should have or, there's a lot of moving parts. I got to the point where I was so busy with these sessions, these one on ones, that I wasn't having time to make the tutorials anymore.
And, you know, I can't not have that. You know, that's like, it's such an important thing to have the free resource out there as well. So, I met, my co founder now, Mike, and, we just kind of formulated an idea of building a team and, yeah, so it's basically for anybody that's either like brand new and is just trying to wrap their head around, key management or hardware or whatever, or for the, you know, What I would refer to as the Bitcoin luddites, the ones that have, and this isn't at all a dig because this happens to everybody, but.
Where you come in, you learn the few things you're comfortable with, and then you stand still for a long time and you begin wondering like, is my setup still as good as I thought it was when I originally did it? Should I add to it? Should I learn something new? Or I just wanna level up and learn some new things?
We get a lot of people coming in like that, being like. Yo, I, I don't know, I got a ledger like five years ago and I set it up and I haven't done anything since. And now I think I want to try a cold card or whatever else, or now I want to run a node or now I want to, you know, I want to learn again.
Luke: And so we get a lot of those people coming in the door saying, help walk me through this. And once they've done it once, then, okay, that's a skill they've attained and they can do it themselves without any assistance after that. Oh, awesome initiative. And I mean, yeah, like obviously there's a need there for people to get involved in this stuff. And I mean, the user experience in Bitcoin is still very much, you have to do the things or else it's not quite going to work. And I mean, do you think it's ever going to be?
So simple that anyone can just quickly get on to Bitcoin in a self sovereign way. I don't, I don't think that there's ever going to
Knut: always a trade
Luke: there's
always a trade off. do you think about that?
Ben: there's always a trade off. I think, and it also depends on what our interactions with Bitcoin look like in the future, like in terms of what is the average person's experience using Bitcoin. Bitcoin, I would venture to say that their initial interaction with Bitcoin inside of Five years or less is not going to be on chain.
Like people aren't going to be onboarded directly to on chain. They're going to, I think the way that we teach needs to be completely inverted because the way I used to teach was, okay, let's attack a regular on chain Bitcoin wallet first. here's how you set it up. Here's your seed phrase on chain transactions work like this, you know, every 10 minutes, all like, here's how the fees work.
That was typically the first thing you wrapped your head around and then you would say, Oh, and now there's this thing called lightning. And this allows you, you know, for more day to day, smaller trends. And so you'd, you'd start at the base and you'd build the knowledge to the upper layers. But that's not going to be how people interact with Bitcoin because, economically speaking, that's not going to make sense.
They're going to come in from a top layer first with their first few sats.
custodial lightning. exactly. But what will be the goal is working your way down through the self sovereignty stack to hopefully get as close to the base as you can for that person. And so it's gonna be like, oh, I came in through a Fediment, or I came in through a Cashument, or I came in through a Custodial Lightning Wallet.
Knut: You'd be like, okay, great. Transactionally, you now know what you're doing, but let's see if we can give you more control. And move that direction. had a thought about the 350 applicants, because they all want to be Bitcoin mentors. I think they probably all are, just on a smaller scale. Like, all of those people are teaching their friends and family how to use things.
It's already amazing. Because you're right, all of those applicants were vying to be part of a specific group but nothing precludes them from continuing to be the bitcoin person in their group of friends that people come to for advice and help. beautiful.
What is Ben Most Excited About - Fedi(Mint)
Luke: And so you mentioned a couple of things like, Fedimint and Cashew as one example, like just new stuff that's been coming up. What are you most excited about that's, like projects that look really exciting to you right now?
Ben: I'm very interested in the Fediment stuff. I think it's really cool. Now, again, you gotta recognize that it's a trade off. But, I tend to look at things from the perspective of What is available to us right now? No, I recognize that things can change and maybe you have the ability to have shared, you know, UTXO custody in a way,
But with how Bitcoin works right now and the tools that are available to us, I think FedAmends are pretty damn good trade off, to enable a number of things that are very attractive. So like, instant, peer to peer free and perfectly private transactions within a mint. Gaining the privacy of the crowd if you spend to another mint.
and what I mean by that is, maybe you have a mint that has a thousand people in it, and another mint that has a thousand people in it. When you go to send money to somebody in the other mint, it's a lightning transaction between the two. federations, but nobody knows which person in this mint initiated the transaction and nobody knows which person in that mint received it.
yeah, it's beautiful.
so I love that. there's things like you can do offline payments. there's a lot of really cool things. and Feddy app is doing is something that I think it would be super. Useful in the context of what we're doing with the sat market in Calgary is if we had, you know, within, if we had everybody sound like a mint.
And within the Feddy app, we could have a community that in that same app with their wallet management, they also see all of the resources needed to use said Bitcoin locally. So maybe it, it, by default, we have built in there, the btcmap. org that will center in on Calgary when you tap on it within the app, maybe it has bit refill or whatever to get your gift cards.
Maybe it has whatever other, because It's like a whole ecosystem in a singular app that you can tailor for your specific community, which is, so useful, and I didn't know exactly what it was going to be until I actually physically saw it.
Yeah, Yeah, so I love it.
Now, yeah, we still have some questions about it, but we'll talk to Obi one of these, like, tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. So we're looking forward to interrogate him about the nooks and crannies about Fede. But, yeah, it's very, very promising. yeah, it's, I think that particular ecosystem is gonna make leaps and bounds in the coming years and it'll be very interesting to see how it's used and how resilient it is, in the way that they're trying to flesh out that ecosystem because at this point anybody can make a mint. And so, and that's a double edged sword, because anybody will make a mint, and some will be, they won't all be created equally.
Some will rug, for sure, some will rug pull, but others will, you know, It'll likely be done well and stand the test of time and kind of, it'll be more of a reputation based thing rather than,
Knut: that's reputation based is, is, is based. I mean it's, that's what we're excited about, about Nostr, a lot of the You know, web of trust things so that you get all the, the reputation score is basically your, you own your social graph and your friends and your connections and your posts and everything.
And that's where you get your recommendation is from. So I think that ends up, you know, killing woke disney one day because there won't be a discrepancy between user scores and critics
Ben: yes,
Knut: like so
Ben: yeah,
Knut: much going on
Ben: yeah, that's fantastic.
Luke: It's fantastic to get your perspective on this because you're probably one of the people who really actually gets in there and tries the most things
Amplifying, right? like that
Ben: I tend to tinker around with pretty much everything that I can get my hands on. there's more people that are starting to be that as well. if you were to look at my apps on my phone, it's just like a disgusting amount of different Bitcoin wallets and everything.
and those are just the ones that I have put in a folder. If you go through the entire app drawer, it's just, I don't remember when I downloaded this
Outlook for Canada and Alberta
Luke: No, it's funny, but, you're clearly bullish on Bitcoin. And what about Canada? What's your feelings on Canada, Alberta as well?
Ben: I hope Alberta secedes. So that's that would be, I'm, I'm, I'm very pro, smaller and more local governance. I, you know, I, I think that you become disconnected from, your constituents when you try to govern too many of them all at once, it's very difficult when you have. a large group of people in very, very different conditions and trying to say, you guys are all gonna live by the exact same rules.
I think more local governance is great. I feel like Trudeau will be gone next year. everybody's sick of him, including his own party, but at the same time, if I had to guess, I would say that, he'll be stubborn enough to run again. And that Polyev will probably win he's a bitcoiner but at the same time, I don't think that he'll do anything, in terms of regulatory that would be super favorable.
Luke: I think it'll just kind of be status quo. if anything, it'll at least buy some time. To build out things that make Bitcoin more resilient in the face of the next tyrant. I've still got all my family in Canada, tons of friends in Canada, I hope for the best in Canada, I'm the coward, sort of, and left, but no, no, it was more of a pull than a push, I mean, as much as things were difficult a few years ago in Alberta, I mean, like, yeah, it was other reasons, but still, of course, close to my
Knut: voted with your feet. It's good. you made a freedom footprint. That's what you
Luke: Well, yeah, awesome to have you and other great people in, in Calgary and, and Canada, you know, still bearing the torch and everything. So,
Ben: Yeah, there's a good, there's a solid group there, and yeah, the Calgary, the Alberta, generally, like all the Alberta Bitcoiners, there's something there, and I can't wait to see that blossom into what it seems to be becoming.
Luke: well, sign us up for the sats market, in June, July, next year. Cause, yeah, well, a hundred percent
Knut: We need Knut to come stampeding I can do the stampeding. yeah, apparently it's not optional.
Wrapping Up
Knut: anyway, where do you want to send our listeners? Like with btc sessions. com? Is that a thing now? Dot ca,
Ben: flair on there. if somebody's listening or watching this that is unfamiliar, and you need to learn anything, just search BTC Sessions on YouTube. you'll find it there. I'm on, Nostr, I'm on X still. you gotta be where the normies are at when you're trying to orange pill and educate, I suppose, too.
the Bitcoin Mentor stuff, you can check out at bitcoinmentor. io if you need some more hand holding on anything. There's a solid group of educators there.
Luke: fantastic. And I'm going to look at this camera now to my friends from Calgary, who I've been telling you to go attend the sats market. Get to it, talk to this guy, you won't regret it, and you know who you are.
Thanks for everything you do, and thanks for being on the show.
thanks for having me, guys. Appreciate it. Ben, thanks again. This has been the Bitcoin Infinity Show.
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-22 19:57:47Co se nomádská rodina již 3 roky utíkající před kontrolou naučila o kontrole samotné? Co je to vlastně svoboda? Může koexistovat se strachem? S konfliktem? Zkusme na chvíli zapomenout na daně, policii a stát a pohlédnout na svobodu i mimo hranice společenských ideologií. Zkusme namísto hledání dalších odpovědí zjistit, zda se ještě někde neukrývají nové otázky. Možná to bude trochu ezo.
Karel provozuje již přes 3 roky se svou ženou, dvěmi dětmi a jedním psem minimalistický život v obytné dodávce. Na cestách spolu začali tvořit youtubový kanál "Karel od Martiny" o svobodě, nomádství, anarchii, rodičovství, drogách a dalších normálních věcech.
Nájdete ho aj na nostr.
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-14 02:05:51Chef's notes
Try Fiesta Cheese soup for a little flavor kick. Omit lemon juice and pepper.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 15 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 8 Strips bacon
- 1 Can Cheddar cheese soup
- ½ Cup milk
- 1TSP Lemon juice
- Cayenne pepper to taste
- 2 Medium tomatoes, sliced
- 4 Slices toast
Directions
- Cook bacon. Set drippings aside.
- Add soup to skillet
- Heat to simmer
- Add milk, lemon juice, and pepper
- Blend till smooth
- Heat slowly so as not to scorch milk.
- Plate toast, and lay tomato and bacon on each slice.
- Ladle soup over toast.
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-14 01:57:16Chef's notes
Serving with Texas Toast is a great option.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 15 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2 TBSP butter, melted
- 1 Can (10.5 ounce) condensed cream of celery soup
- ½ Cup milk
- ¼ Cup chopped onion
- 1 Package (4 ounces) sliced beef
- Toast
Directions
- Melt butter in heavy skillet.
- Brown beef and onion in butter.
- Mix soup and milk.
- Add soup to skillet.
- Heat; stirring often.
- Serve on hot toast.
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@ c73818cc:ccd5c890
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📱 XForge: il primo smartphone DePIN al mondo
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📱 Confronto tra XForge e Seeker: chi dominerà?
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@ 8fb140b4:f948000c
2023-11-02 01:13:01Testing a brand new YakiHonne native client for iOS. Smooth as butter (not penis butter 🤣🍆🧈) with great visual experience and intuitive navigation. Amazing work by the team behind it! * lists * work
Bold text work!
Images could have used nostr.build instead of raw S3 from us-east-1 region.
Very impressive! You can even save the draft and continue later, before posting the long-form note!
🐶🐾🤯🤯🤯🫂💜
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-14 01:52:01Chef's notes
Garnish with chopped green onions, mushrooms, or serve with a side of carrots for variety.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 10 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2 cans condensed beef broth
- 2 soup cans of water
- ½ bay leaf
- 1 egg
Directions
- Add soup, water, and bay leaf in pot.
- Bring soup to boil, reduce heat
- Simmer 5 minutes
- Remove bay leaf and discard.
- Beat egg slightly.
- Pour thin stream of egg into soup while stirring.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve with toast.
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@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1
2024-09-27 11:32:25A fortnight of being real on Nostr
It's been over two weeks, since I announced that I would primarily be noting from my lesser-known Silberengel npub, and it's been an interesting experience. As with anything I ever do, I clicked around a lot, tested out a lot, and tried out a lot. Mostly, I observed.
Let me share, what I've learned
- Nostr-related products are increasingly useless, if you don't follow anyone, or only follow a handful of people. Everything is geared to follows and you usually really do need to follow gobs of people, to have an interesting feed, by capturing the most-active people (about 10% of the people you follow). Those people tend to quote and boost other people's notes into your stream, allowing you to follow those additional people and so on, like a snowball scheme. This means that follows are actually a feed-management mechanism, rather than any indication of a relationship between npubs. It also means that 10% of the npubs decide what everyone will look at.
- Many people collect followers, by being active for a very short time, following lots and lots of people and getting follow-backs, then they unfollow the smaller npubs or abruptly change their tone or the content (this is common with spammers and scammers). Then they have a high WoT score. What, precisely, is being trusted here? (Also, centering WoT on follows is influencer-maxxing for plebs, KWIM?)
- Why are individuals never unfollowing these npubs? Because nobody unfollows anyone who hasn't seriously upset them. Follow-inertia is rampant and the follow lists are so long that most people don't even know who they are following. So long as the "bad npub" doesn't spam the people who are following them directly, they don't notice anything. That means following spam can inadvertently protect you from spam, whilst the same spammers throw crap at your own frens, all damned day.
- Most relay owners/operators don't ever look directly at the feed from their own relay, so it's usually full of enormous amounts of garbage. Your clients and personal/private relays are often downloading and broadcasting all of that garbage indiscriminately, so the garbage gets passed around, like a social media virus. Many of you just haven't noticed, because you also don't look at the feed from your relays (see 1).
- Almost all business logic (the controls, in the classic model-view-controller setup) has been placed on the client-side. This is great, if you're a client developer, as it makes relays superfluous and traps your customers in your app, by making moving to a different app more onerous. Every move requires a period of readjustment and fiddling, before they can see their feed the way that they are used to seeing it. This is less great, if you're a user and are interested in trying out a different app.
- When I began, two weeks ago, the concept of topical, private, and personal relays interacting were mostly a pipe dream (pun intended), but I've been pleased to see, that some other people are beginning to catch on to the appeal of decentralizing and specializing the model layer. A diverse, sprawling network of relays, connected through the outbox model and negentropy syncing, is really next-generation communication, and essential for ensuring censorship-resistance, while supporting smooth interaction.
- Once you get above a few hundred followers (which I already have, That went fast!), additional followers are increasingly spam or inactive/bot npubs, and once you get a few thousand followers, that Bot Effect goes parabolic, as your notes are spread more widely onto spammy relays. You won't notice, yourself, as anything over a few hundred becomes Some Big Number and you'll eventually stop even looking to see who they are, or caring about them, at all. Which leads directly to my next point...
- The number of followers a person has, correlates with an increase in their disdain for people who care about follower counts, likes, reactions, or even zaps. This noblesse oblige says nothing about the usefulness or information any of these signals carry. You will please also notice that they never change npubs and rarely change profile pics because of reasons I don't need to elaborate on, further.
- On-boarding is a lonely experience because nobody looks at the feed, and you initially have no followers. Even if you reply to people, they often can't see what you wrote because of your low WoT score. That is, unless you already know someone there, who can vouch for you. Or are lucky to get discovered by the Nostr Welcoming Committee and end up one of the biggest npubs overnight, which is like winning the follower lottery. For most new npubs, the experience is terrible and they eventually give up, for a handful the experience is absolutely fantastic and they are hooked. Obvious lesson: nobody should onboard, who doesn't know at least 1 other person: so invites only. Unlike Those Other Protocols, Nostr doesn't need a centrally-determined invite, as every client or relay can offer their own version, geared to a different audience. The goal simply needs to be: get off 1.
- I don't get many zaps or reactions, anymore, but I still have interesting conversations, and I no longer face the surreal situation of every cough, hiccup, or sneeze I emit being front-page news. Nostr feels more like Nostr, again, and less like Twitter, and now I want communities and forums even harder.
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@ 0e501ec7:de5ef3a4
2024-10-14 21:36:26blog van Tim: https://timscyclethoughts.blogspot.com
We zijn nu al bijna een week in het Abtshof! Wat een drukke week is het geweest. Je denkt dan, we zijn op reis, we zijn op vakantie, op het gemak. Helemaal niet waar! We hebben heel veel mee gewerkt aan het project. Vorige keer las je al dat we de namiddag dat we toekwamen hier al bij het verwijderen van plaaster hadden gehad geholpen.
Dat hebben we de dag erna ook gedaan, in de ochtend. Ging allemaal goed, tot ik op een bepaald moment op een bepaald moment een stukje plaatster in mijn oog kreeg, dat pikte enorm! Ik kreeg het er ook niet uit, en toen na wat gegoogle, besloot ik om het zo grondig mogelijk uit te spoelen. Een half uur heb ik toen mijn oog onder de kraan gehouden, ik ben nu officieel expert in het oog uitspoelen met water. Het was er toen wel uit en deed geen zeer meer. Maar ik had toch geen zin meer om plaaster uit te breken. Daarom ben ik Jakob gaan helpen met de afwerking van de unit waar Ivan naartoe ging verhuizen. In de namiddag hebben we pieter zijn parket geschaafd: die had een koopje gedaan op het internet, maar het was nogal donker behandeld. We hebben er dus het bovenste laagje van gehaalt, met een groot schaafmachien. Een heel gemakkelijk en handig apparaat, maar wel een beetje eng. Heel goed oppassen wanneer je het hout erin steekt!
Er is hier ook een andere wwoof'er, die Teo noemt. Hij komt uit Canada, en maakt een grote reis van België tot naar Spanje, een beetje gelijk ons, maar dan zonder fiets! Echt een leuke jongen, mijn Frans is eventjes niet top genoeg om echt te kunnen babbelen, maar we hebben wel veel fun samen, zeker de laatste dagen. Tim en hij kunnen helemaal opgaan in hun muziek en filmbesprekingen, en morgen doen we zelfs een filmavondje om hem een goeie Belgische film te tonen.
Vrijdag heb ik weer bij de afwerking van Ivan's unit geholpen. ik heb de rand van een velux helpen isoleren, en plinten opgemeten en gezaagd. Dat was zo moeilijk, om juist te meten en te zagen! Uiteindelijk had ik er maar 2 van de 8 juist, de anderen waren allemaal 3 mm te lang :( dju toch, volgende keer beter! Gelukkig konden ze makkelijk bijgewerkt worden. Tim en Teo waren ondertussen nog aan het uitbreken, ook leuk, maar ik was blij dat ik daar even aan kon ontlopen.
Daarna kregen we onze eerste les van de gloednieuw geimproviseerde houtbewerkingsxursus, gegeven door de meestermeubelmaker-schrijnwerker Jakob! Hij legde ons uit hoe we hout verbindingen kunnen maken, toonde er een heleboel en ging meer in detail bij een redelijk simpele: de half-hout verbinding. Hij legde uit hoe we een beitel moeten hanteren en hoe we zeer recht kunnen zagen (belangrijk als je een verbinding maakt!). Na de uitleg gingen we direct aan de slag: we zouden een rek gaan bouwen voor in de voorraadkamer. Er staan langs 2 muren al rekken, en ons rek zou de stijl van de anderen een beetje volgen de de derde muur helemaal bedekken. Nog niet zo gemakkelijk: de muur en de vloer zijn er nogal ruw en hobbelig, hoe begin je daar te meten? In het rek kunnen we elk 10 keer een halfhout verbinding maken, goeie oefening!
Je merkt dat ik vooral heel veel vertel over wat we allemaal gedaan hebben. Niet zo heel veel mijmeringen en emotie. Dat is eigenlijk ook logisch, we zijn vooral heel de tijd bezig. En als je bezig bent mijmer je niet en worden je emoties ook niet zo groot. Ik vind het fantastisch om bezig te zijn. Ik miste dat ook echt de laatste maand, maar nu mis ik ook wel weer het mijmeren. Denk ik? Alleszins, ik wou dat ik ook andere dingen had om op te schrijven.
Ik ben wel ook veel bezig geweest met het Bos, het Wondelbos, O Wondelbos, en hoe om te gaan met het verdriet en de boosheid die geboren wordt uit het verlies, hoe te rouwen. Dat is niet zo gemakkelijk. Ik denk dat het belangrijkste is dat ik graag die gevoelens wil eren. Het Bos eren, ook al is die er niet meer. Bien schreef erover, en ik vond het zo mooi, dat ik het heel graag hier zou quoteren. Maar ik weet niet of dat oké is, dus zal het voor later houden.
Vetrouw je lichaam, vertrouw je gevoel, ik probeer het zo te zeggen tegen mezelf. Ik vertrouw mijn lichaam. Ik denk dat we veel kunnen vinden in onszelf, als we maar het lef hebben om te luistern. Nu en simpel: ik voel me uitgeput, ik vertrouw erop dat het een goede keuze is om nu te gaan slapen.
De dagen na vrijdag zal ik later wel vertellen, of niet. Liefs!
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@ 43bcf56d:e08365f0
2024-10-14 12:30:02Vamos continuar a análise feita no texto anterior, considerando agora os dados de 1971 até 2023. A tabela abaixo mostra o time campeão de cada uma das edições e indica se o artilheiro fez parte da campanha do referido time.
Desta forma, temos 11 edições de um total de 53, nas quais o artilheiro do campeonato jogava no time campeão. Isso resulta em uma proporção de aproximadamente 21%, muito próxima do valor de 22% calculado na Parte 1, que considerou apenas as edições entre 2006 e 2023 (18 edições).
Vamos validar nossa análise por meio de um teste de hipótese. Esse teste tem o objetivo de tirar conclusões ou tomar decisões sobre uma população com base em uma amostra. Trata-se de um método que avalia as evidências observadas e decide se devemos rejeitar ou não uma determinada hipótese.
O teste de hipótese pode ser explicitado em seis etapas:
- Formulação das Hipóteses: Definição da hipótese nula, que será testada, e definição da hipótese alternativa.
- Definição do Nível de Significância: É a probabilidade máxima aceitável de rejeitar a hipótese nula.
- Definição do Teste Estatístico: Z-teste, teste t de Student, teste binomial, entre outros.
- Cálculo do p-value.
- Análise dos Resultados.
- Conclusão.
1. Formulação das Hipóteses:
Hipótese Nula (H0): A proporção em que o artilheiro joga no time campeão é igual ou menor que 20% das edições.
Hipótese Alternativa (H1): A proporção em que o artilheiro joga no time campeão é superior a 20% das edições.
2. Definição do Nível de Significância:
Vamos escolher um nível de significância de 0.05, o qual reflete uma chance de 5% de rejeitar a hipótese nula.
3. Definição do Teste Estatístico:
Nessa análise, escolheu-se o teste binomial.
4. Cálculo do p-value:
O cálculo foi feito totalmente utilizando Python.
Um valor de p-value inferior a 0.05 indica que é improvável que o resultado tenha acontecido por acaso, desta forma a hipótese nula seria rejeitada. Já no caso de um p-value com um valor superior a 0.05, indica que é provável que a situação tenha ocorrido e a hipóse nula não deve ser rejeitada.
Edições: 1971 - 2023 -> p-value = 0.4997.
Edições: 2006 - 2023 -> p-value = 0.4989.
5. Análise dos Resultados:
Em ambos os casos, o p-value é maior que o nível de significância adotado, que é 0.05.
6. Conclusão:
Os resultados apresentados mostram que os testes realizados para as edições de 1971 a 2023 e 2006 a 2023 apresentaram p-values de 0.4997 e 0.4989, respectivamente. Esses valores foram superiores ao nível de significância adotado de 0.05, sugerindo que não existem evidências estatísticas suficientes para rejeitar a hipótese nula.
Desta forma, os resultados sugerem que não se espera a presença do artilheiro nos times campeões em mais que 20% das edições do campeonato. Isso significa que ter o artilheiro no time campeão não é uma característica recorrente ou relevante ao longo das edições analisadas.
Espero que vocês tenham gostado. Qualquer sugestão ou dúvida, entrem em contato pelo e-mail data.soccer.09@gmail.com.
(Dados retirados do https://www.sofascore.com/ e do https://www.ogol.com.br/)
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@ 83794dfe:e46c6636
2024-10-14 19:40:37BRM 200 km – Samstag, 28.09.2024 05:30 – 09:30 Uhr
We left on Saturday morning and enjoyed a great day on the bike, meeting some friends along the way and dropped some.
with an average speed of 26.5 we needed around 7.3 hours to complete the track.
It was a sunny but windy day at the end we even ended up with some cold shower at the end.
A Brevet is not a race along the way we had to pick up some proof that we visited certain points like gas stations.
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@ fa0165a0:03397073
2023-10-06 19:25:08I just tested building a browser plugin, it was easier than I thought. Here I'll walk you through the steps of creating a minimal working example of a browser plugin, a.k.a. the "Hello World" of browser plugins.
First of all there are two main browser platforms out there, Chromium and Mozilla. They do some things a little differently, but similar enough that we can build a plugin that works on both. This plugin will work in both, I'll describe the firefox version, but the chromium version is very similar.
What is a browser plugin?
Simply put, a browser plugin is a program that runs in the browser. It can do things like modify the content of a webpage, or add new functionality to the browser. It's a way to extend the browser with custom functionality. Common examples are ad blockers, password managers, and video downloaders.
In technical terms, they are plugins that can insert html-css-js into your browser experience.
How to build a browser plugin
Step 0: Basics
You'll need a computer, a text editor and a browser. For testing and development I personally think that the firefox developer edition is the easiest to work with. But any Chrome based browser will also do.
Create a working directory on your computer, name it anything you like. I'll call mine
hello-world-browser-plugin
. Open the directory and create a file calledmanifest.json
. This is the most important file of your plugin, and it must be named exactly right.Step 1: manifest.json
After creation open your file
manifest.json
in your text editor and paste the following code:json { "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Hello World", "version": "1.0", "description": "A simple 'Hello World' browser extension", "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["<all_urls>"], "js": ["hello.js"] //The name of your script file. // "css": ["hello.css"] //The name of your css file. } ] }
If you wonder what the
json
file format is, it's a normal text file with a special syntax such that a computer can easily read it. It's thejson
syntax you see in the code above. Let's go through what's being said here. (If you are not interested, just skip to the next step after pasting this we are done here.)manifest_version
: This is the version of the manifest file format. It's currently at version 3, and it's the latest version. It's important that you set this to 3, otherwise your plugin won't work.name
: This is the name of your plugin. It can be anything you like.version
: This is the version of your plugin. It can be anything you like.description
: This is the description of your plugin. It can be anything you like.content_scripts
: This is where you define what your plugin does. It's a list of scripts that will be executed when the browser loads a webpage. In this case we have one script, calledhello.js
. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.matches
: This is a list of urls that the script will be executed on. In this case we have<all_urls>
, which means that the script will be executed on all urls. You can also specify a specific url, likehttps://brave.com/*
, which means that the script will only be executed on urls that start withhttps://brave.com/
.js
: This is a list of javascript files that will be executed. In this case we have one file, calledhello.js
. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.css
: This is where you can add a list of css files that will be executed. In this case we have none, but you can add css files here if you want to.//
: Text following these two characters are comments. They are ignored by the computer, You can add comments anywhere you like, and they are a good way to document your code.
Step 2: hello.js
Now it's time to create another file in your project folder. This time we'll call it
hello.js
. When created, open it in your text editor and paste the following code:js console.log("Hello World!");
That's javascript code, and it's what will be executed when you run your plugin. It's a simpleconsole.log
statement, which will print the text "Hello World!" to the console. The console is a place where the browser prints out messages, and it's a good place to start when debugging your plugin.Step 3: Load and launch your plugin
Firefox
Now it's time to load your plugin into your browser. Open your browser and go to the url
about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox
. You should see a page that looks something like this:Click the button that says "Load Temporary Add-on...". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the file
manifest.json
. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!
Chrome
Open your browser and go to the url
chrome://extensions/
. Click the button that says "Load unpacked". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the folderhello-world-browser-plugin
. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.Note the difference, of selecting the file
manifest.json
in firefox, and selecting the folderhello-world-browser-plugin
in chrome. Otherwise, the process is the same. So I'll repeat the same text as above: (for those who skipped ahead..)Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!
As you can see this isn't as complicated as one might think. Having preformed a "Hello-World!"-project is a very useful and valuable first step. These setup steps are the basics for any browser plugin, and you can build on this to create more advanced plugins.
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@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1
2024-09-27 07:10:40Let's talk about baking bread
I've mentioned a few times, how large-scale central planning leads inevitably to artificial scarcity and rising prices. Allow me to illustrate -- using a completely invented allegory about bread -- that has absolutely no parallels to any economy you may already be familiar with.
We start with 20
Let us say, there is a group of 20 people in a village doing something that requires some niche skill and interest, but not inordinate amounts of talent or uncommon knowledge, such as baking loaves of bread containing emmer wheat. This is not an easy thing to do, and you'd have to read up on it and practice, to begin with, but it's not an insurmountably-high barrier for anyone who already knows how to bake.
Now, they're not baking all that much of this bread, as the market for people who want to eat it, is still rather small. But, they're happy to bake the bread, and sell it below cost (at $10), as they can see that the market is steadily growing and they know that there is a possibility of recuperating their investments, and maybe even turning some profit. They hope to eventually profit either directly (through the selling of the bread), or indirectly (as A Person Who Helped Invent Emmer Bread), or ideally some combination of the two.
They are baking away, and honing their baking skills, and scrounging up the money for bigger and better ovens or cleverly-arranging discounted contracts for slightly-larger deliveries of wheat, and more and more bakers see this activity and wander over to their village, to see how this bread is made. Well, the current bakers are starting to sink under all of the bread orders they are receiving, and customers are complaining of late deliveries, so they start to ask the 10 visiting bakers, if they would like to also set up a bakery and take some of the production off of their hands.
We now have 25 bakers
The visiting bakers consider it and 5 agree and the rest wander off again, as they already are quite busy baking the bread they've always baked, and they aren't as certain of the possibility of growth, for this new type of bread.
The 5 additional bakers take a while to setup shop and assemble staff and place wheat orders and etc., but after a few weeks or months, they are also adding to the bread supply. There are now 25 bakers, all completely booked-out, producing bread. The price of bread has fallen, to $8/loaf.
And the bread they produced! All of the bakers competing for orders and expanding their product lines and customer base quickly lead to the white emmer bread being followed by whole-grain emmer bread, emmer dinner rolls, emmer-raisin bread, and even one rebel daring to bake spelt-emmer pretzels because... Well, why not? The customer, (who, at this point, is the person eating the bread), gets to decide which bread will be baked, and the pretzels sell like hotcakes.
The emmer hotcakes also sell like hotcakes.
No baker is making much (or any) money off of the baking, but they all can see where this will end up, so they are still highly motivated and continue to invest and innovate at breathtaking speed. We now have emmer baking mixes, "We luv emmer" t-shirts, emmer baking crowd-sourcing, all-about-emmer recipe books and blogs, etc. The bakers see this all as an investment, and cross-finance their fledgling businesses through selling other bread types, their spouse's day job, burning through their savings, or working Saturday night, stocking shelves at the grocery.
Everyone can be a winner! Everyone can find their niche-in-niche! Everyone can specialize! Private enterprise for every baker, who rises and falls on his own efforts alone! And although everyone was competing with everyone else, there was no bitterness, as everyone could clearly see that effort and reward were in some sort of balance.
We are now short 3
But, alas, that was not meant to be. The joy and harmony is short-lived.
A gigantic, wealthy foundation, who is dedicated to "ensuring much emmer bread will be baked, by financially supporting emmer bakers" enters the chat.
"We have seen that there is much baking going on, here, but just think how much better and more baking could be done, if we financed your baking! Isn't that clever? Then you could really concentrate on baking, instead of having to worry about financing your business or marketing your products. All you have to do, is apply to receive our baker's grant, by signing this form, acknowledging that you will only bake products containing nothing but emmer and you will otherwise support our mission. We promise to pay you $100/loaf."
The 2 people making spelt-emmer pretzels, and the 1 person making spelt-emmer cookies, refuse to sign on, and slink off, as they are very convinced of the rightness of including spelt. One emmer-purist baker refuses on some economic principle that nobody comprehends, and immediately turns around and goes back to work in their bakery, with their shoulders hunched. But the remaining 21 bakers happily apply for a baker's grant. The mixed-grain bakers are upset about the breakup of the emmer market, and spend some time sulking, before wandering off to the new, much-smaller, spelt bread market, that is setting up, down the street. Where they sell their bread for $6 and slowly go bankrupt.
And then there were 10
2 weeks go by. 4 weeks go by. Baking has slowed. The grant hopefuls hold a meeting, where they discuss the joys of baking. Baking slows further.
Everyone is too excited, to find out if their new Universal Customer will be paying for the bread they bake. $100 a loaf! Just think of it! All of the bakers quickly do the math and realize that they not only will turn a profit, they can buy themselves a nice house and a new car and...
Nobody listens to the complaints from The Old Customers, who are the useless individual people only paying $8, despite them slaving away, all day, in front of a hot oven. They should be happy that they are getting bread, at all! Instead they complain that the bread is dry, that the delivery is late, that the bottoms are burnt. Ingrates.
And, then, the big day arrives, and the foundation happily announces that they will be giving 10 lucky bakers a grant.
The bakers are stunned. It had seemed that all of the bakers would be getting the grants, not only part of them. But, of course, the Universal Customer looked through the applications and tried to spend its money wisely. Why give grants to 5 bakers, who all produce the same type of olive-emmer bread? Give it to one, and then tell him to produce 5 times as much bread. He is then the olive-emmer bread expert and they will simply keep loose tabs on him, to nudge him to bake the bread in a sensible manner. And, of course, he shall always focus on baking olive bread, as that is what the grant is for.
The bakers stroll off, to their bakeries. Those who baked olive bread and received no grant, close up shop, as they can see which way the wind is blowing. The other grantless bakers reformulate their bakery plans, to see if they can somehow market themselves as "grant-free bakers" and wonder at how long they can stand the humiliation of selling to demanding, fickle customers at $8/loaf, when others are selling at $100/loaf, to an indifferent customer who doesn't even eat it.
The happiest 10 bakers leave for another conference, and while they are gone, their bakeries burn down. Their grants continue to flow, regardless, and the actual bread eaters are now standing in line at the last few bakeries, paying $20/loaf.
The End.
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@ a012dc82:6458a70d
2024-10-14 04:09:42Table Of Content
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Historical July Performance
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Predictions for July 2023
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Other Perspectives
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The Role of Macro Factors
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Conclusion
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FAQ
Bitcoin, the world's leading cryptocurrency, has had a stellar performance in June 2023, gaining 12%. Despite a last-minute dive due to a macro news event, Bitcoin managed to close the month in a solid position. The monthly close came in at $30,465 on Bitstamp, marking Bitcoin’s best June performance since 2019.
Historical July Performance
Historically, July has been a favorable month for Bitcoin. Throughout its history, Bitcoin's price action has never lost more than 10% during the month of July. This consistent performance has led many investors and traders to look forward to July with optimism.
Predictions for July 2023
However, not everyone is convinced that the bullish trend will continue into July 2023. Popular trader CryptoBullet has expressed skepticism about Bitcoin's potential price upside in July.
CryptoBullet's Analysis
According to CryptoBullet, "common sense" dictates that BTC/USD should fall below some key moving averages. He believes that Bitcoin can go to $35,000 to "hunt liquidity", but the mid-term bullish rally is likely to end in July.
The Concept of Liquidity Hunting
The concept of liquidity hunting in the low $30,000 zone is a popular theory for price continuation. This theory suggests that Bitcoin's price might continue to rise as it seeks liquidity, but the rally might not last beyond July.
Other Perspectives On the other hand, Rekt Capital, another analyst, is optimistic about Bitcoin's prospects. He anticipates a "healthy technical retest" of levels below $30,000 for Bitcoin, despite the monthly close.
Rekt Capital's Optimism
Rekt Capital suggests that even if the BTC price were to snap below that downside target, it would not be "out of the ordinary." He believes that Bitcoin is well-positioned for upside overall, which could mean a positive outlook for the rest of 2023.
The Role of Macro Factors
The performance of Bitcoin is not only influenced by its own market dynamics but also by macroeconomic factors. These include global economic trends, regulatory developments, and technological advancements. These factors can have a significant impact on investor sentiment and market dynamics.
Conclusion As we move into the second half of 2023, the question remains: Will this year prove to be an exceptional one for Bitcoin? The answer largely depends on market dynamics, investor sentiment, and macroeconomic factors.
Investors and traders are advised to conduct their own research and consider multiple perspectives before making any investment decisions. After all, every investment and trading move involves risk. The performance of Bitcoin in July 2023 and the rest of the year will undoubtedly be closely watched by the global crypto community.
FAQ
How did Bitcoin perform in June 2023? Bitcoin gained 12% in June 2023, closing the month at a solid position of $30,465 on Bitstamp.
What is Bitcoin's historical performance in July? Historically, Bitcoin's price action has never lost more than 10% during the month of July.
Will 2023 prove to be an exceptional year for Bitcoin? The answer largely depends on market dynamics, investor sentiment, and macroeconomic factors. Some analysts predict a slowdown in Bitcoin's price rally, while others remain optimistic about its prospects.
What is liquidity hunting? Liquidity hunting is a theory suggesting that Bitcoin's price might continue to rise as it seeks liquidity. However, this rally might not last beyond a certain period.
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@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1
2024-09-27 07:09:57Young people, in Europe and America, started moving out at the turn of the last century. It wasn't a tradition, in those countries. Housing was formerly multigenerational, but people became steadily more transient, with industrialization and the following rise of office work and the concentration closer to cities.
Prior to then, housing (including rents) was prohibitively expensive, so everyone tried to stay in their parents' or employers' home, for as long, as possible. Both the "Go west!" and "Lebensraum!" slogans hint at that crowded past. People risked their lives, en mass, trying to find enough cheap land, to build their own home. Many people left Germany, and similarly crowded countries, to move to places like Texas, where you could own your own home and therefore marry without your employers' or parents' permission.
It is still common to have inheritance fueds, here, in Bavaria, with the children squabbling over who gets to "keep" the house and how much "payout" the other children will receive, as compensation. Because you cannot always simply move to a different home in the same area (there is little available land for building and nothing to rent), leaving the ancestral home can result in de facto banishment from the entire region.
Wages increased, after WWI created a tighter labor market, and governments and large corporations (receiving government subsidies) began building or subsidizing massive amounts of homes, while the size of each home shrank dramatically. Those factors combined to lower the relative cost of housing, to the individual purchaser.
But the resulting Baby Boom construction explosion so overwhelmed the housing and mortgage markets, that housing is a very unappealing long-term investment, now, as there is hardly anyone around, to move into those many homes, when the Boomers pass. Their children and grandchildren (if they have any) are much poorer than they are, and much fewer in number, which guarantees that the housing market in most areas will eventually begin to collapse, in real terms, as Boomers pass away, or attempt to downsize.
To stabilize prices and prevent fires or delinquency, governments will begin demolishing empty houses, as they already sometimes do, in the former East Germany. Former West Germany dealt with steadily-falling house prices by mass-importing foreigners and paying for their rent at above-market prices, to artificially reinflate the housing market, but it appears that the easterners had a more politically- and economically- sustainable model for ridding themselves of excess homes.
But the era of cheap housing is over, and will continue to be so, for the next 10-15 years, so young people increasingly stay home, well into adulthood. As some cultures now have "moving out", as a prerequisite to dating, their childrens' marriage rate has plummeted and, consequently, so has the birth rate.
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-14 01:15:00Chef's notes
Serve with a breakfast meat, and toast.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 2 TBSP butter, melted
- 1 can (10.5 ounce) condensed Cheddar cheese, cream of celery, chicken, or mushroom soup
- 8 eggs
- Pepper to taste
Directions
- Melt butter in heavy skillet.
- Mix in soup, eggs and pepper in bowl or measuring cup.
- Add soup to skillet.
- Cook over low heat until eggs are set, stirring gently.
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@ 599f67f7:21fb3ea9
2024-10-14 19:36:50Inoiz pentsatu al duzu norbaiti satoshiak modu originalean oparitzea, Bitcoin mundura hurbiltzeko? LNbits zorro batekin NFC opari txartel bat erraz sor dezakezu. Honek LNURLw esteka bat NFC txartelean idatziz funtzionatzen du, eta jasotzaileak bere satoshiak erabili ditzake LNURL gaitutako zorro batekin.
Zer behar dut?
- LNbits zorroa
- Android telefono bat
- NTAG2* gaitasunak dituen NFC txartela, adibidez NTAG216.
💡 NTAG2 txartelek esteka bat* idazteko aukera ematen dute. Adibidez, enpresaren webgunerako URLa duen bisita-txartel gisa joka dezakete. NTAG424 txartelek ez dute memoria handiagoa bakarrik, baizik eta SUN parametro deitzen den zerbait ere badute, zerbitzariaren autentifikazioa ahalbidetzen duena, eta horrek segurtasun gehiago ematen die zure ordainketei. Azkenean txartel mota hau BoltCard bat bihur daiteke.
1. Hedapena aktibatu
Ireki zure LNbits zorroa. Tresna-barran, aktibatu
Withdraw Links
hedapena eta ondoren joan hedapenera.2. Erretiratzeko esteka sortu
Withdraw Links
hedapen orrian, aukeratuAdvanced Withdraw Link(s)
aukera.Ondoren, aukeratu satoshiak ateratzeko erabiliko duzun zorroa. Ziurrenik, hori zure LNbits zorro nagusitik bereizi nahi izango duzu. Horretarako, LNbits zorro berri bat sor dezakezu tresna-barratik,
+ Add a new wallet
aukera hautatuz. Behin zorro berria sortuta, sartu satoshi batzuk bertan.Eman izenburu bat erretiratzeko estekari.
Ezarri erreskatatu daitezkeen gutxieneko eta gehienezko zenbatekoak.
Ezarri esteka zenbat aldiz erabil daitekeen eta erretiratze saiakeren arteko denbora.
Aukeran, argazki pertsonalizatu bat gehi dezakezu
Use a custom voucher design
laukitxoa markatuz, eta .png irudi baten URL-a sartuz.Gogoan izan “assmilking” laukitxoa ez markatzea.
Konfigurazioa amaitu ondoren, jarraitu erretiratzeko esteka sortzera.
3. Idatzi esteka NFC txartelean
Zure erretiratzeko esteka berrian, klikatu
View LNURL
estekan. Ondoren, sakatuWrite to NFC
botoia eta eutsi NFC txartela telefonoaren aurrean idazketa-prozesua burutzeko.✔️ EGINDA
💡 Esan txartelaren jasotzaileari satoshi saldoari buruz, denbora ez dezan galdu azkeneko satoshia lortzen saiatzeko.
💡 Jasotzaileak txartelaren satoshiak atera ondoren, bere zorroan berridatzi dezake eta berrerabili. Gainera, eman diozun txartela NTAG424 bada, aurreko gidako (nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3e8qcr2wfn8qcrgwf4qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2q3qtx0k0a7lw62vvqax6p3ku90tccgdka7ul4radews2wrdsg0m865sxpqqqp65whwqrr5) bezala Lightning "zor txartela" bihur dezake. Baina txartela NTAG2* bakarrik bada, beste opari txartel bat bihur dezake soilik.
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@ 18bdb66e:82eb5e5d
2024-10-14 01:12:56Chef's notes
Crack one egg at a time into small bowl, then ease into soup mixture before cracking the next egg. Use a slotted spoon to remove egg from soup mixture.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 mins
- 🍳 Cook time: 10 mins
- 🍽️ Servings: 3
Ingredients
- 2 TBSP butter
- 1 can (10.5 ounce) condensed cream of celery, chicken, or mushroom soup
- ½ cup milk
- 6 eggs
- 3 English muffins (split, toasted, buttered)
Directions
- Melt butter in heavy skillet.
- Mix in soup and milk in bowl or measuring cup.
- Add soup to skillet, heat to boiling
- Gently ease eggs into soup mixture.
- Reduce to simmer. Cook over low heat until whites are firm.
- Place one egg each on a muffin half.
- Spoon soup mixture over egg and muffin.
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@ 81870f53:29bef6a6
2024-10-14 00:10:38中国政府が一連の強気政策を導入した後、中国株は「全力で上昇」している。$CSI 300指数(000300.SH)$は先週、累計15.7%上昇し、2008年11月以来の週間最高値となった。香港のハンセンH株指数は11営業日連続で上昇し、2018年以来最長の上昇トレンド記録を樹立した。
今週は国慶節の祝日を迎え、A株は取引を終えたものの、香港株式市場は依然として「沸騰」している。火曜日の取引終了時点で、香港ハンセン指数(800000.HK)は6.2%上昇。ハンセンテック指数(800700.HK)は8.53%上昇。中国系証券会社と中国本土の不動産株はすべて急騰し、RONSHINECHINA(03301.HK)は397%以上上昇、AGILE GROUP(03383.HK)は160%以上上昇、SHIMAO GROUP(00813.HK)は153%以上上昇した。$CMSC (06099.HK)$ は81%以上上昇、$CITIC SEC (06030.HK)$ は39%以上上昇、$SWHY (06806.HK)$ は33%以上上昇。
中国株の上昇の波は、ウォール街の多くの大物投資家の注目を集めただけでなく、日本の株式市場では珍しい現象、つまり中国資産の買収ラッシュを目撃した。日本の取引所に上場されているA株、$One ETF Southern China A-Share CSI 500 (2553.JP)$は、本日、77.8%上昇の6399ポイントで取引を終えたと報じられている。
また、香港証券取引所に上場されている$CSOP CSI 300 Index Daily (2x) Leveraged Product (07233.HK)$は35%以上上昇し、$CSOP Hang Seng Index Daily (2x) Leveraged Product (07200.HK)$は12.3%以上上昇しました。
一方、日本株は大幅に下落した。日経平均株価(.N225.JP)は水曜日、2.18%下落して37,808.76ポイントで取引を終えた。東京証券取引所の株価指数は1.4%下落して2651.96ポイントで取引を終えた。一部のアナリストは、日本と韓国の市場の投資家がA株のパフォーマンスに不安を感じ、株式保有を減らして代わりに中国資産に投資することを選択したのではないかと指摘している。
一方、「スマートマネー」とも呼ばれるヘッジファンドは狂ったように中国に資金を流入させている。
ゴールドマン・サックスの最新レポートによると、中国政府の景気刺激策が予想をはるかに上回ったことで、世界中のヘッジファンドが中国株式市場に殺到し、先週(9月23日~27日)の週間売買高は過去最高を記録した。
ゴールドマン・サックスの報告書によると、ヘッジファンドは中国資産への配分を「急激に」加速させており、9月23日から27日までの中国株の週間購入額は同行が記録した2016年以来の最高水準に達した。
上記のレポートによると、資金流入は主にロングポジション、特に個別株のロングポジションであり、入札は主に消費者、工業、金融、情報技術セクターに集中しています。エネルギーセクターは、ヘッジファンドがポジションをわずかに減らした唯一のセクターです。
さらに、中国株式市場の急回復により、中国市場に重点を置く銘柄選択型ヘッジファンドは先週6%の収益率を達成し、ゴールドマン・サックスの過去最高の1週間のパフォーマンスを記録した。これらのヘッジファンドの今年これまでの推定収益率は12.8%である。
ヘッジファンドや投機筋だけでなく、多くの長期外国人投資家が今やチャンスを逃すことを懸念していることは注目に値する。LSEGのデータによると、中国株に重点を置く外国株上場投資信託(ETF)には、9月最後の3営業日で24億ドルの資金流入があり、年初から9月25日までの27億ドルの流出とは対照的である。
投資家やアナリストらは、景気の先行き不透明と地政学的緊張が高まる中、近年は中国株の保有を減らすことが最大のコンセンサス取引となっていたが、今や潮目が変わりつつあると述べている。
バンク・オブ・ニューヨーク・メロンのアジア太平洋地域シニア市場ストラテジスト、ウィー・クーン・チョン氏は、「中国の長い国慶節休暇が近づくにつれ、中国株の購入への関心が大幅に高まっている」と述べた。これは心強いもので、長期にわたる資本流出の後、世界の投資家の間で中国に対する感情が変化する可能性があることを示している。
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@ 81870f53:29bef6a6
2024-10-13 21:52:088月5日の「ブラックマンデー」以降、アジア太平洋地域の主要株価指数は大幅に反発し、特に東南アジアの株式市場のパフォーマンスは目を見張るものでした。FRBの政策転換の中でファンドマネージャーが最も好む投資対象の一つとして、東南アジアの株式市場は期待に応え、地位を固めました。
今月のアジア株価指数上位5位のうち4つは東南アジアのもので、タイが先頭を走っています。昨日の終値時点で、タイのSET指数(SETI)は8月6日から累計で11%以上上昇し、インドネシアのジャカルタ総合指数(JKSE)は約10%上昇しました。今日は天気が良いです。今日は天気が良いです。9%以上上昇し、フィリピン証券取引所指数(PSI)は約8%上昇し、FTSEマレーシア証券取引所KLCI指数(.KLSE.MY)$は7%近く上昇しました。一方、東南アジア諸国の株式市場を追跡するいくつかのETFも好調です。
この買い狂いの中、海外資金は5週連続で流入しており、モルガン・スタンレー・キャピタル・インターナショナルのASEAN指数(MSCI Asean Index)は現在、2022年4月以来の高値に近づいています。
インドネシアやマレーシアなどの市場に対する投資家の熱狂を刺激した要因には、外国人投資家の保有ポジションが比較的低いこと、地元の支援政策、魅力的なバリュエーションなどがあります。これらの利点により、アジアは、より大きな経済から移行する世界の投資家を取り込む機会が生まれています。
外国ファンドはこの市場で比較的小さなポジションを占めており、拡大の余地があります。バリュエーションも非常に魅力的で、モルガン・スタンレーのMSCIアセアン指数は、12か月の予想株価収益率13.6倍で、5年間の平均14.7倍を上回っています。
2024年第2四半期、東南アジアの経済は回復力と安定した経済パフォーマンスを示しています。世界的な経営コンサルティング会社であるマッキンゼーのレポートによると、ベトナム、マレーシア、フィリピン、タイは過去4四半期で最高の年間成長率を記録しています。ベトナムとフィリピンは、それぞれ6.9%と6.3%の成長率で、引き続きこの地域で最も急速に成長している2つの経済であり、マレーシアは5.9%の成長率で3位にランクされています。
さらに、米国大統領選挙が近づくにつれ、世界の株式市場は不安定に直面する可能性があり、投資家は伝統的な市場から新興市場へとシフトするだろう。マッコーリーの調査によると、マレーシアとシンガポールの株式は、市場の下落に対する耐性があるため、東南アジア市場で好意的に評価されている。
マッコーリーのASEAN株式調査責任者ジェイデン・ヴァンダーギースト氏は、明確な改革の実施と市場流動性の向上による後押しにより、マレーシアの株式市場は市場の不安定さに耐えられると予想されると報告書で指摘した。シンガポールの株式市場については、過去2回の米国大統領選挙期間中、シンガポール証券取引所のデリバティブと株式は安定した成長を示しており、市場の変動から利益を得る耐性と能力を示している。
東南アジアの株式市場の上昇は、9月の連邦準備制度理事会による利下げへの期待にも支えられている。近年、東南アジア諸国は世界的なインフレと米ドル高に悩まされている。インフレは内需を圧迫し、通貨安は米ドル建て債務の負担を増大させた。経済減速と通貨安は同地域からの資本流出を招いたが、インフレが安定し、地域通貨が上昇するにつれて状況は変わり始めている。
現在、米国と東南アジア諸国の金利差は縮小し、同地域の通貨は米ドルに対して上昇している。株価上昇と東南アジア通貨高の複合的な影響により、米ドル建てのMSCI ASEAN指数は8月以降7%以上上昇しているが、S&P500指数は2%未満しか上昇していない。
新安資産管理のポートフォリオマネージャー、チュン・ホン・リー氏は、「景気後退なしに金利引き下げが続けば、この一連の回復は2025年末まで続く可能性がある」と述べた。
東南アジア市場への投資方法
東南アジアの株式市場は全体として高い成長の可能性を秘めています。しかし、投資家にとって、現地の株式市場への直接投資には一定の障壁があります。相対的に言えば、対応する地域または国のETFを選択する方が便利な投資方法です。
$Global X Funds Global X Southeast Asia Etf (ASEA.US)$シンガポール、マレーシア、インドネシア、タイ、フィリピンなど、東南アジアの幅広い投資機会を投資家に提供するETF。このETFは8月以降、継続的に上昇しており、11%以上の上昇を記録しています。年初から16%以上上昇しています。
市場環境とリスク要因は国によって異なります。投資家は自分の好みに基づいて、対応する国または地域のETFを選択できます。
過去2か月間、東南アジア諸国のETFのいくつかのパフォーマンスは良好で、タイETFの上昇率が最も高かった。$iShares MSCI Thailand ETF (THD.US)$は8月以来、累計で約14%上昇。フィリピンETF$Ishares Trust Msci Philippines Etf (EPHE.US)$とインドネシアETF$Ishares Trust Msci Indonesia Etf (EIDO.US)$もそれに続き、約10%上昇。シンガポールETF$iShares MSCI Singapore ETF (EWS.US)$は約8%上昇。マレーシアETF $iShares MSCI Malaysia ETF (EWM.US)$は成長率では下位にランクされているものの、今年のパフォーマンスは目覚ましく、年初から現在までの累計で22%上昇。ベトナムETFのパフォーマンスは振るわず、年初から3%未満の増加か、下落さえしている。 $GLOBAL X MSCI VIETNAM ETF (VNAM.US)$ 増加率は3%未満であり、年初からは減少しています。
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@ 01d0bbf9:91130d4c
2024-09-26 17:58:10Chef's notes
Amazingly tangy, firey hot, but still mellow and bright.
I use this on everything– Use it to dress salads, dip (honey mustard) for fried chicken, elevate your taco nights, heck a spoonful first thing in the morning will wake you up better than coffee!
Don't forget to use up those delicious chilis and garlic, they are so good!
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 20 min
- 🍳 Cook time: 1-2 weeks
- 🍽️ Servings: (12x) 8oz jars
Ingredients
- 16oz fresh chili peppers
- 8oz red onion
- 8oz garlic
- 96oz honey
- Fresh thyme
Directions
- Thinly slice peppers, garlic, shallots and fresh thyme
- Add chopped ingredients to the honey
- Leave to ferment (loosely covered) for 1-2 weeks
- Drizzle that amazing pungent firey gold liquid over EVERYTHING. (Don't forget to use up those amazing chilis and garlic too.)
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@ 8fb140b4:f948000c
2023-08-22 12:14:34As the title states, scratch behind my ear and you get it. 🐶🐾🫡
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-21 15:48:56Lístky na festival Lunarpunku sú už v predaji na našom crowdfunding portáli. V predaji sú dva typy lístkov - štandardný vstup a špeciálny vstup spolu s workshopom oranžového leta.
Neváhajte a zabezpečte si lístok, čím skôr to urobíte, tým bude festival lepší.
Platiť môžete Bitcoinom - Lightningom aj on-chain. Vaša vstupenka je e-mail adresa (neposielame potvrdzujúce e-maily, ak platba prešla, ste in).
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@ 8fb140b4:f948000c
2023-07-30 00:35:01Test Bounty Note
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@ 0176967e:1e6f471e
2024-07-21 11:28:18Čo nám prinášajú exotické protokoly ako Nostr, Cashu alebo Reticulum? Šifrovanie, podpisovanie, peer to peer komunikáciu, nové spôsoby šírenia a odmeňovania obsahu.
Ukážeme si kúl appky, ako sa dajú jednotlivé siete prepájať a ako spolu súvisia.
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@ f196850e:79178e07
2024-10-13 14:55:23https://forex-strategy.com/2024/10/13/bill-gates-confession-casts-doubt-on-climate-change/ Bill Gates' confession casts doubt on climate change
billgates #usa #politics #climatechange #nwo
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@ a9434ee1:d5c885be
2024-09-26 10:42:521. Relay = Community?
If spinning up a relay is getting easier and cheaper by the day, why can't the relays literally be the group/community?
Then: * Any relay is by default a public community. The more restricted read- or write-access is, the more it becomes a private group. * Any publication targeted at (h-tag) and stored, and thus accepted, by a relay can be seen as a publication in that community. * All-in-1 hosting solutions (integrated blossom servers, lightning nodes, ...) are made easier.
2. Why invent new kinds?
Why can't Kind 1 posts that are targeted and accepted by a relay (i.e. community) just be the forum-posts of that community? Why create new kinds for this? And even weirder, why create a new kind with that exclusively serves as a reply to that new kind? Why not just use generic replies (kind 1111) and take the #otherstuff (event kinds and apps) as an opportunity to introduce those?
For chat messages, however, I get it. You need a kind + reply-kind for those.
3. Community VS Private group
It seems like the only distinction you really need, both for the user and the apps implementing all this, is:
1. Public Community: anyone can read and follow this community but for writing the admins can set limits (pricing, white listings, ...) 2. Private group: only the profiles that even know this relay (i.e. group) exists can interact with it. Read-access has to be granted (invite, pricing, ...) and admins can set limits for writing too. Beyond this distinction it's a bit naive to try to categorize them. Open vs Closed doesn't really mean much for example, since technically all groups/communities set limits and are thus closed. It's more interesting to look the ways in which they can be closed and build on the simplest distinctions you can make there.The difference between Public communities and private groups is the most important one because they both have very different UX and specification requirements:
Memberlist
Communities: None existent
Anyone can read and follow. It just has limits on who can publish what, when. So the most interesting thing to surface is probable something like a list of most active members or a highlighted set of profiles that have special characteristics within this community (top supporter, god-mode, resident artist, ...).
Private Groups: Necessary for it's existence
The whitelisted npubs for read-access are the members.Moderation actions
Both types of groups need a way for the admin(s) to:
* Block/remove users * Remove events * Edit metadata (name, description, guidelines...) * Specify who can write publish what, under what conditionOnly private groups need a way for the admin(s) to:
* Add/approve new members → specify who has read-access, under what conditionGeneralizing too many actions like
add member
,join request
, etc... that are only applicable to one of these categories just creates bad UX for the other one. You don't "add a member" to a public community. People can follow it without asking anyone's permission (ok yes, some will AUTH for reading but that's besides the point). Some of its followers will then just choose to publish something there and the admin either allows them or not.Having a common protocol for specifying the conditions for this write-access interoperably (as mentioned above) is what I would like to see instead: * Both Communities and Private groups need it anyway * You have to assume admins need granularity in the conditions they set for publishing in their group/community: Who, what, under what condition, ... * You don't want to link out to custom websites (or similar) explaining their allowance schemes
Sidenote: we need a similar kind of spec for the services that allow you to spin up your hosting solution (relay, server, node, ...) so that, when you click "Create new community" in an app, those services can be surfaced. With their business models (including options to self-host parts of it) just there, in the app, without linking out. Same for the lines of communication and payments that are needed to make those business models work from within any app.
Publication and Discovery
Only Communities allow for the exciting possibility of publishing something in multiple overlapping communities at once. Someone writing about how Bees are Capitalists can target their article at the communities that most overlap with its content (and with the author's means and write-access of course). Members of a community around beekeeping can organically discover content and communities on Austrian economics relevant to them.
With Private groups publication happens only in the group and discovery is blocked on purpose.
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@ c80b5248:6b30d720
2024-10-13 18:14:34Using tools like Continue in your vault
As the capabilities of artificial intelligence continue to expand, integrating AI into our workflows has become an increasingly attractive option. One of the most exciting applications of AI is its potential to enhance the way we manage and organize information. Obsidian, a powerful knowledge management tool, provides a robust platform for building a personal knowledge base. By layering AI tools like Continue over your Obsidian vault, you can unlock new levels of efficiency, creativity, and insight. This article will start to explore how to effectively use AI tools within Obsidian to enhance your note-taking, information management, and productivity.
An Explosion of AI Tools
Over the past few years, I have tinkered with ChatGPT and other chat interfaces, but I only recently stumbled upon the rapidly growing space of AI tools for coding. In such a short time, some amazing tools have emerged, most notably:
- Aider: A command line interface tool to iteratively generate, edit, and refactor code.
- Cursor: A fork of Visual Studio Code (VS Code) with integrated AI functionality.
- Cline: A plug-in for command line and code editor built to work with Antropic's Claude 3.5.
- Continue: A customizable VS Code plug-in with chat and code editing abilities.
These tools are designed to assist developers in writing, debugging, and even generating code from natural language prompts. They are powered by large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 and Llama 3, which are trained on vast amounts of text data and can produce human-like responses to a wide range of prompts.
In this article, I will focus on Continue, a VS Code plug-in that offers multiple ways to interact with AI. It features autocomplete powered by an LLM of your choice, as well as the ability to generate new code blocks directly in the editor. It can also incorporate context from external sources or the local codebase. Additionally, it includes a standard chat window for interacting with the LLM.
The new twist is that I won't be using Continue to write code, but rather to write notes in Obsidian. I will be using the chat window to generate notes, and the autocomplete feature to assist me in writing them. By leveraging the context feature, I can bring in information from my Obsidian vault, allowing me to create more complete, accurate, and better-organized notes. I can also use the vault as context to ask for summaries or retrieve information from my notes, even as the vault continues to grow.
It's worth mentioning that while I am focusing on Continue, there are likely other tools that can be used in a similar way or provide better features. One example is the text-generator plug-in for Obsidian. This plug-in allows you to generate text using an LLM of your choice, and it can be used to generate notes, summaries, or even entire documents. It can also generate code, but I was unable to get the plug-in working with my LLM provider. Using Continue is a bit of a hack, as it requires working through an IDE like VS Code, but it's a good way to get started with AI tools in Obsidian. I will assume that you already have an Obsidian vault set up. If you don't, you can ask your assistant to help you organize it once you have it up and running.
The system I am going to describe here relies on two primary components:
- Continue (installed in an IDE like VS Code)
- An LLM provider to power Continue
Let's start by talking about LLM Providers. If you already know how these work, feel free to skip to the next section.
LLM Providers
LLM providers are services that offer access to large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 or Llama 3.1, typically via an API (application programming interface). These providers usually charge by the token, which is the number of words processed by the model. You can go directly to a provider like OpenAI or Anthropic, or you can use an aggregation site like OpenRouter that provides a single API to access multiple models. Each provider has its own data privacy policies, so it's important to review them carefully. For this reason, I have been using DeepInfra. They run their own models and offer a clear privacy policy - even better, they tend to have the lowest costs.
h/t nostr:npub17vhnjkt04m6thytr8dna67v2pa4tjk7uh3ut40eq9wy8d28u0kvq7qnhkq nostr:note1qfckzxm687peaddwjpmms92kj3v59wrrx0cs2fcxlkm6pm9lyu3squscxa
Another option is to use Ollama to run some of these models locally. However, the hardware requirements for achieving good results quickly are quite demanding. For example, the smaller chat model I use in my configuration, which has 72 billion parameters, requires a 48 GB GPU to run efficiently—something that is not within my budget. This is why I am using DeepInfra.
Note: If you are setting this up for the first time, consider adding a small amount (less than $5) to a provider like DeepInfra and testing it out before you invest time in setting up a local Ollama instance. I have also had some issues with shutting down Ollama on Windows, so your mileage may vary.
If you choose to use a provider like DeepInfra, you are ready to move to the next section. If you prefer to set up Ollama, you can refer to their documentation for installation instructions. I prefer to run it in Docker, which can be done in Linux by running
bash docker run -d -v ollama:/root/.ollama -p 11434:11434 --name ollama ollama/ollama
or if you want to have an interface like ChatGPT, you can even run Open WebUI in the same command with
bash docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main
Once Ollama is running in docker you can start up the models you want to use by running the following in your terminal.
docker exec ollama ollama run model_name
See the Ollama model library to choose which models you want to run locally.
Getting Started with Continue
Continue is installed as a plug-in for VS Code or JetBrains. I personally use it with VS Code, so my instructions will be based on that. If you are using a JetBrains IDE, you should refer to the Continue documentation for installation instructions.
After installing the plug-in, continue will prompt you to set up your LLM provider. In my experience, once this initial GUI goes away, you can't get it back. Instead, you will do most of the configuration within the
config.json
file for Continue, which you can access by clicking in the lower right corner of the Chat box. In VS Code, if you ever can't find anything,F1
is your friend and will launch a searchable menu.Continue provides recommended settings from each provider, which you can find here. For my coding and writing, I chose the very new Qwen2.5 72B Instruct due to its high benchmark scores and relatively low costs. This model costs $0.35-0.40 USD per million tokens, compared to the best available on DeepInfra, the Llama3.1 405B Instruct, which costs $1.78 per million tokens. The results may be slightly worse, but I prefer cheaper and faster for my purposes. For autocomplete, I am using a faster and code-specific model, Qwen2.5-Coder-7B. I have not yet tried changing the autocomplete model for usage with Obsidian, but that is on my to-do list. Lastly, by the time you read this article, these models may be out of date. One nice thing about having a provider API is that you can easily switch and test different models to see how they work. Aider has one of many model leaderboards that will show you some benchmarks.
After working through the configuration, your
config.json
file will have a list of chat models and a tab for the autocomplete model. It will look something like this:```json "models": [ { "title": "DeepInfra Qwen2.5 72B Instruct", "provider": "deepinfra", "model": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct", "apiKey": "your-api-key" }, { "title": "DeepInfra Llama3.1 405B Instruct", "provider": "deepinfra", "model": "meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct", "apiKey": "your-api-key" }, ],
"tabAutocompleteModel": { "title": "DeepInfra Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B", "provider": "deepinfra", "model": "Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B", "apiKey": "your-api-key" } ```
Trying it Out
The Chat UI
Once you have Continue configured, you can open your Obsidian Vault in VS Code. You will want to add a
.continueignore
file in your folder that lists.obsidian
and any other files or folders you want Continue to ignore for context purposes.Click the three dots in the bottom of the chat bar and check that your vault (@codebase) index is complete. You can now chat with the LLM and ask it questions using your vault as a reference.
@codebase what are some common themes from this vault?
Continue provides a docs page that lists some types of questions that an LLM will be able to help with. Naturally, I asked the LLM to put these in the context of an Obsidian Vault and here is what it told me:
```md
Useful Questions
- High-Level Questions About Your Notes:
- "What are the main themes in my notes on personal development?"
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"How do I incorporate agile methodologies into my project management?"
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Specific Information:
- "What are the key points in my notes about productivity hacks?"
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"Can you find any references to neuropsychology in my notes on cognitive science?"
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Generating Content:
- "Write a new note on the benefits of meditation, using the same structure as my other wellness notes."
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"Draft a summary of my recent project retrospective, following the format of my previous summaries."
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Contextual Questions About a Specific Folder:
- "What is the main purpose of the 'Research' folder?"
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"How do we use the concept of 'flow' in the 'Psychology' folder?"
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Relationships and Connections:
- "What are the connections between my notes on 'Time Management' and 'Goal Setting'?"
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"How do my notes on 'Digital Marketing' relate to 'SEO'?"
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Task and Project Management:
- "What are the next steps I should take based on my notes for the 'Personal Finance' project?"
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"Can you list the tasks I need to complete for my 'Career Development' plan?"
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Deep Dives and Analysis:
- "Can you provide a detailed explanation of the concept of 'reflective practice' found in my notes?"
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"What insights can you derive from my notes on 'Project Management'?"
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Insight and Reflection:
- "What have I learned from my notes on 'Mindfulness'?"
- "Can you help me reflect on my progress based on my notes for the 'Health and Wellness' topic?"
Not Useful Questions
- Literal Review of All Files:
- "Find everywhere where the term 'mindfulness' is mentioned in my entire vault."
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"Review all my notes and find any spelling mistakes."
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Comprehensive Tasks that Require Literal Access:
- "Add a new section to all notes that discuss 'productivity' and summarize the main points."
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"Rewrite all my notes on 'Digital Marketing' to include the latest industry trends."
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Refactoring and Detailed Edits:
- "Update all references to 'Scrum' to 'Kanban' in my 'Agile' folder."
- "Add a new parameter to the function
calculate_score
and update all usages in my 'Programming' notes."
Summary
- Useful Questions: Focus on high-level insights, specific information, generating new content, contextual questions about specific folders, and reflecting on your notes.
- Not Useful Questions: Require the LLM to see and edit every file, perform comprehensive reviews, or make detailed edits across multiple notes. ```
Text Generation
Continue also offers in-editor code generation with the hotkey
Ctrl+I
and an entered prompt. I have only tried a few things with this, but it was able to successfully review a set of meeting notes I had written and summarize all of the outstanding questions. I expect you could also use this to autogenerate backlinks on a note where a follow-up note might be helpful, or quickly generate templates to be used in Obsidian. I ended up editing this entire article by selecting sections and prompting the AI with the following: "You are a proficient writer. Please edit this text for style, typos, spelling, and grammar."Autocomplete
Continue will also attempt to autocomplete unless you turn it off in the bottom right bar in VS Code. While writing this article, the autocomplete feature was somewhat helpful even though it is not code. Further configuration may optimize this even more. Keep in mind that autocomplete triggers frequently and will burn through a lot of tokens, so you will want to keep an eye on your usage. With the cheaper models I am using, I have only spent 10 cents over the past four days of moderate usage at work and at home. A bulk of that cost is due to autocomplete, and I sometimes turn it off to keep costs down. You may be able to limit these costs effectively by configuring the number of input tokens that can be sent to the API, but I am not sure how that will impact the results.
## Conclusion - Brought to You by Qwen 72B
In conclusion, integrating AI tools like Continue into your Obsidian vault opens up a multitude of possibilities for enhancing your note-taking, information management, and productivity. By leveraging the chat window, text generation, and autocomplete features, you can create more comprehensive and accurate notes, generate summaries, and automate routine tasks. The integration of LLMs into your workflow not only streamlines your processes but also provides deeper insights and connections within your knowledge base. While there are initial setup steps and some considerations around cost and configuration, the benefits of AI-assisted note-taking in Obsidian are well worth the effort. As AI tools continue to evolve, the potential for further enhancements and optimizations is immense, making this an exciting and valuable addition to any knowledge management system.
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@ 8fb140b4:f948000c
2023-07-22 09:39:48Intro
This short tutorial will help you set up your own Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) on your own LND Node that is not using Umbrel. If you are a user of Umbrel, you should use their version of NWC.
Requirements
You need to have a working installation of LND with established channels and connectivity to the internet. NWC in itself is fairly light and will not consume a lot of resources. You will also want to ensure that you have a working installation of Docker, since we will use a docker image to run NWC.
- Working installation of LND (and all of its required components)
- Docker (with Docker compose)
Installation
For the purpose of this tutorial, we will assume that you have your lnd/bitcoind running under user bitcoin with home directory /home/bitcoin. We will also assume that you already have a running installation of Docker (or docker.io).
Prepare and verify
git version - we will need git to get the latest version of NWC. docker version - should execute successfully and show the currently installed version of Docker. docker compose version - same as before, but the version will be different. ss -tupln | grep 10009- should produce the following output: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 0.0.0.0:10009 0.0.0.0: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 [::]:10009 [::]:**
For things to work correctly, your Docker should be version 20.10.0 or later. If you have an older version, consider installing a new one using instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/
Create folders & download NWC
In the home directory of your LND/bitcoind user, create a new folder, e.g., "nwc" mkdir /home/bitcoin/nwc. Change to that directory cd /home/bitcoin/nwc and clone the NWC repository: git clone https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect.git
Creating the Docker image
In this step, we will create a Docker image that you will use to run NWC.
- Change directory to
nostr-wallet-connect
:cd nostr-wallet-connect
- Run command to build Docker image:
docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest .
(there is a dot at the end) - The last line of the output (after a few minutes) should look like
=> => naming to docker.io/library/nwc:latest
nwc:latest
is the name of the Docker image with a tag which you should note for use later.
Creating docker-compose.yml and necessary data directories
- Let's create a directory that will hold your non-volatile data (DB):
mkdir data
- In
docker-compose.yml
file, there are fields that you want to replace (<> comments) and port “4321” that you want to make sure is open (check withss -tupln | grep 4321
which should return nothing). - Create
docker-compose.yml
file with the following content, and make sure to update fields that have <> comment:
version: "3.8" services: nwc: image: nwc:latest volumes: - ./data:/data - ~/.lnd:/lnd:ro ports: - "4321:8080" extra_hosts: - "localhost:host-gateway" environment: NOSTR_PRIVKEY: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate a fresh key and place it inside ""> LN_BACKEND_TYPE: "LND" LND_ADDRESS: localhost:10009 LND_CERT_FILE: "/lnd/tls.cert" LND_MACAROON_FILE: "/lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/admin.macaroon" DATABASE_URI: "/data/nostr-wallet-connect.db" COOKIE_SECRET: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate fresh secret and place it inside ""> PORT: 8080 restart: always stop_grace_period: 1m
Starting and testing
Now that you have everything ready, it is time to start the container and test.
- While you are in the
nwc
directory (important), execute the following command and check the log output,docker compose up
- You should see container logs while it is starting, and it should not exit if everything went well.
- At this point, you should be able to go to
http://<ip of the host where nwc is running>:4321
and get to the interface of NWC - To stop the test run of NWC, simply press
Ctrl-C
, and it will shut the container down. - To start NWC permanently, you should execute
docker compose up -d
, “-d” tells Docker to detach from the session. - To check currently running NWC logs, execute
docker compose logs
to run it in tail mode add-f
to the end. - To stop the container, execute
docker compose down
That's all, just follow the instructions in the web interface to get started.
Updating
As with any software, you should expect fixes and updates that you would need to perform periodically. You could automate this, but it falls outside of the scope of this tutorial. Since we already have all of the necessary configuration in place, the update execution is fairly simple.
- Change directory to the clone of the git repository,
cd /home/bitcoin/nwc/nostr-wallet-connect
- Run command to build Docker image:
docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest .
(there is a dot at the end) - Change directory back one level
cd ..
- Restart (stop and start) the docker compose config
docker compose down && docker compose up -d
- Done! Optionally you may want to check the logs:
docker compose logs
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@ 1d5357bf:1bdf0a52
2024-09-24 15:49:11If Bitcoin Is in Its Infancy, Nostr Is Still in Its Nursing Stage Skepticism is healthy, especially within the Bitcoin community. At the moment, Nostr users are predominantly Bitcoiners, and it's understandable that people are cautious about adopting new technologies. However, based on my limited experience over the last few months, Nostr has shown immense potential and is evolving at a breakneck pace.
The Speed of Development: A Double-Edged Sword The rate at which new functionality is being rolled out on Nostr is staggering. On the one hand, this rapid development brings constant innovation and new tools for users to explore. On the other hand, it often means that many implementations still need refinement, or at the very least, better documentation. It's exciting, but there are still bumps in the road that need to be ironed out. Censorship Resistance and Relay-Based Architecture One of Nostr’s most appealing features is its decentralized architecture, which revolves around relays. This design ensures that the protocol is censorship-resistant. If you’re tech-savvy enough, you can even run your own relay, allowing you to retain full control of your notes. This distributed system empowers users by giving them the tools to protect their content and stay independent of centralized entities.
A Protocol, Not a Platform Nostr is not a platform—it's a protocol. This distinction is crucial because it enables a high degree of interoperability, which can pave the way for a diverse ecosystem of applications. This opens up a world of possibilities and allows for network effects to take hold as more people and applications begin to interact with the protocol.
Privacy and Control Another advantage is the ability to manage your privacy more effectively. With Nostr, you can use multiple nsec/npub keys, giving you more control over your identity and interactions. This flexibility is a game-changer in a world where privacy is often compromised by centralized platforms.
Areas for Improvement Of course, Nostr is not without its challenges. Many of the available applications feel unpolished, and spam is a growing issue (the infamous "reply guy" problem). The ephemeral nature of the content also presents a challenge—once you post something, you can't "put the toothpaste back in the tube," sort to speak.
Enjoying the Ride Despite its growing pains, I’ve found Nostr to be an enjoyable experience so far. There are no algorithms dictating what you see, which results in a signal-rich environment with minimal toxicity—for now, at least. It’s refreshing to engage in conversations that aren’t manipulated by unseen forces, and I look forward to seeing where Nostr goes from here.
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@ e7211c22:e87afeee
2024-10-12 02:46:09Chef's notes
If you do one thing to improve your health in the kitchen, ditch the industrial seed oils and make your own mayonnaise. Make sure to use virgin coconut oil and extra virgin olive oil, not light or refined olive oil. That being said, use extra virgin olive oil from a lighter tasting olive variety, such as Arbequina, or mayonnaise will have a strong olive oil taste. Where do you get extra virgin olive oil from you may ask? Ugly olives, of course. The addition of yogurt and whey greatly extend the shelf life of your mayonnaise from 1-2 weeks to 1-2 months in the refrigerator, while adding beneficial probiotics. To spice up you mayonnaise, see end of directions.
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 15 minutes
- 🍳 Cook time: 0 minutes
- 🍽️ Servings: lots
Ingredients
- 1 whole egg
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 Tbsp Grey Poupon
- 1 Tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp salt
- dash white pepper
- 1/2 cup virgin coconut oil, warmed to liquid
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil, from a lighter tasting olive variety, such as Arbequina
- 1 Tbsp plain yogurt
- 1 Tbsp whey
Directions
- Mix first six ingredients in a bowl with an immersion blender or food processor.
- Combine oils in pourable measuring cup.
- Slowly, drip by drip, begin to add oil to first six ingredients while running immersion blender or food processor. If oil is added too quickly at first, emulsification will not occur and mayonnaise will be ruined.
- Continue adding oil to first six ingredients drip by drip, increasing to slow drizzle, then thin stream, then steady stream. Take breaks pouring oil if necessary to completely blend in oils.
- Add yogurt and whey. Refrigerate.
- To spice up your mayonnaise: Sriracha mayonnaise - with first six ingredients add 1 clove garlic, mashed, 2 Tbsp sriracha, 2 Tbsp lime juice, and an additional 1/4 tsp salt. Chipotle lime mayonnaise - replace 1 Tbsp lemon juice with 1 Tbsp lime juice, with first six ingredients add 1 clove garlic, mashed, 1/4-1/2 can chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, 2 limes juiced and zested, and an additional 1/4 tsp salt.
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@ c69b71dc:426ba763
2024-10-10 09:05:29Chef's notes
This cashew blue cheese is a true plant-based delight, delivering the rich, tangy flavours you’d expect from traditional blue cheeses like Roquefort or Gorgonzola. The fermentation process, with the help of «Penicillium Roqueforti», creates a beautifully marbled, creamy cheese that’s both bold and complex. It’s a labor of love that rewards your patience with an unforgettable vegan cheese experience! Whether enjoyed on crackers, in salads, or simply on its own, this cheese will elevate any dish with its unique flavour profile.
Note 1: For this recipe you need parchment paper, a potent blender, glass jars with lid and two cheesecloths.
Note 2: Always use very clean tools, and avoid touching with your fingers or tasting with them while working on the cheese!
Details
- ⏲️ Prep time: 4-5 weeks
- 🍳 Cook time: 0
- 🍽️ Servings: Two small cheese loaves (2x 10-12 cm diameter)
Ingredients
- 300g raw cashews
- 3 tbsp water
- 3 tbsp kefir, kombucha or rejuvelac
- 2 tbsp coconut oil (raw, unrefined)
- 1-4 capsules vegan probiotics
- 1/2 tsp Himalayan salt (iodine-free, no additives)
- 1/16 tsp «Penicillium Roqueforti» (blue cheese mold culture)
Directions
- Day 1: Soak 300g of cashews overnight in water.
- Day 2: Rinse the soaked cashews thoroughly and let them drain well.
- In a high-speed blender, combine the cashews, 3 tbsp of water, 3 tbsp kefir or rejuvelac, and 2 tbsp coconut oil. Blend until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
- Add 1-4 capsules of vegan probiotics, 1/2 tsp Himalayan salt (free of iodine and additives), and blend again briefly.
- Add a pinch (about 1/16 tsp) of «Penicillium Roqueforti» powder (blue cheese culture) and give it another quick mix.
- Transfer the cashew mixture to a glass container, leaving the lid lightly on top (do not seal it completely) and store in a warm place, ideally in your kitchen, for 24 hours to ferment.
- Day 3: Divide the fermented cashew mixture into two smaller glass containers lined with cheesecloth. Press the mixture down firmly to eliminate air pockets.
- Store in a cool place (12-14°C / 53-57°F), ideally in a wine fridge.
- Day 4: Remove the cheese from the containers, take off the cheesecloth, and turn the cheese onto parchment paper.
- Sprinkle salt all over the cheese, ensuring it is evenly coated.
- Cover the cheese with larger glass bowls, ensuring that air can flow from underneath, and return to the wine fridge or the cool storage area.
- Days 4-7: Turn the cheese daily onto fresh parchment paper to maintain its texture.
- Day 7 or 8: Pierce the cheese with a thicker wooden skewer to create holes, allowing oxygen to reach the center, encouraging the blue mold to grow throughout the cheese, not just on the surface.
- Alternatively, crumble the cheese completely and then press it back into shape to ensure oxygen distribution.
- Days 8 toaround 12 or 15: Once the blue mold has fully developed around and inside the cheese, wrap the cheese in parchment paper, place it in a wooden cheese box, and then wrap it in a cloth bag.
- Transfer to a regular fridge to age for another 2-3 weeks or even several months, depending on your desired strength of flavour.
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@ d2e97f73:ea9a4d1b
2023-04-11 19:36:53There’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:
- Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
- Only the original author may remove content they produce.
- Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.
The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.
The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690
I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.
Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.
I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.
Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.
The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.
I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.
Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.
I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.
As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.
💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.
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@ 6bf975a0:65de1244
2024-10-13 14:16:56Площадки для размещения контента СМИ
Условно их можно разделить на две группы: свои и не свои. Свои медиа полностью контролирует. В не своих медиа арендуют чужие технологии для доставки контента аудитории, выполняя только производственную роль и рассматривая доставку контента как аутсорс.
Исследования 2020-ых годов показывают, что значительная часть аудитории теперь полагается на социальные сети для получения новостей. Например, исследование 2021 года показало, что 42% американцев используют социальные сети в качестве источника новостей, и эта цифра выросла по сравнению с предыдущими годами. Среди молодых людей эта зависимость еще более выражена: например, 38% людей в возрасте 18-24 лет в первую очередь получают новости через социальные сети.
Платформы корректируют свои стратегии в свете генеративного ИИ, а также ориентируются на меняющееся поведение потребителей и растущую обеспокоенность регулирующих органов по поводу дезинформации и других вопросов. В частности, Meta* пытается снизить роль новостей на своих площадках и ограничивает алгоритмическое продвижение политического контента. Компания также сокращает поддержку новостной индустрии, не продлевает сделки на миллионы долларов и удаляет вкладку новостей в ряде стран.
Ленивая аудитория
Ей сложно выходить за пределы привычных пространств.
Исследование, проведенное компанией Orca Online в 2022 году, показало, что посты в социальных сетях без внешних ссылок имеют значительно более высокий уровень вовлеченности. Посты без ссылок в среднем набирали 352,3 взаимодействия, в то время как посты с внешними ссылками - только 139,1 взаимодействия. Это говорит о том, что пользователи с большей вероятностью будут взаимодействовать с контентом, который удерживает их в рамках платформы. Исследование, проведенное Институтом Рейтер, показало, что 47% британских респондентов просматривают и читают новости в социальных сетях, не переходя по ссылкам, чтобы получить доступ к полным текстам статей.
Источник: Использование новостей на онлайн-платформах фрагментировано: в настоящее время шесть сетей охватывают не менее 10% респондентов Reuters по сравнению с двумя десять лет назад. YouTube используется для новостей почти третью (31%) глобальной выборки каждую неделю, WhatsApp* примерно на пятую часть (21%), в то время как TikTok (13%) обогнал Twitter (10%), который теперь переименован в X, в первый раз.
Популярность аудио и видеоформатов
В связи с этими изменениями видео становится более важным источником онлайн-новостей, особенно среди более молодых групп. Каждую неделю доступ к коротким новостным видеороликам получают две трети (66%) аудитории СМИ, а более длинные форматы привлекают около половины (51%). Основным источником потребления новостного видео являются онлайн-платформы (72%), а не веб-сайты издателей (22%), что увеличивает проблемы, связанные с монетизацией и подключением.
Подкастинг новостей остается светлым пятном для издателей, привлекая более молодую, хорошо образованную аудиторию, но в целом является деятельностью меньшинства. В корзине из 20 стран чуть более трети (35%) ежемесячно посещают подкасты, а 13% получают доступ к шоу, посвященному новостям и текущим событиям. Многие из самых популярных подкастов сейчас снимаются и распространяются через видеоплатформы, такие как YouTube и TikTok
Популярность коротких видео
Насколько актуальны сегодня сайты?
На всех рынках только около пятой части респондентов исследования Reuters 2024 (22%) называют новостные сайты или приложения своим основным источником онлайн-новостей –, что на 10 процентных пунктов ниже, чем в 2018 году. Издателям на некоторых рынках Северной Европы удалось противостоять этой тенденции, но более молодые группы во всем мире демонстрируют более слабую связь с новостными брендами, чем в прошлом.
Пожилые зрители по-прежнему предпочитают смотреть видео через новостные сайты, хотя большинство из них говорят, что в основном получают доступ к видео через сторонние платформы. Только в таких странах, как Норвегия, половина пользователей (45%) говорят, что в основном потребляют видео через веб-сайты, что свидетельствует о силе брендов на этом рынке, стремлении обеспечить хороший пользовательский опыт и стратегии, ограничивающей количество видео, размещаемых издателями на таких платформах, как Facebook и YouTube.
Важно отметить, что на всех рынках поиск и агрегаторы, вместе взятые (33 %), являются более важным способом получения новостей, чем социальные сети (29 %) и прямой доступ (22 %). Значительная часть мобильных оповещений (9 %) также генерируется агрегаторами и порталами, что усиливает беспокойство о том, что может произойти дальше.
Поисковые машины и нейросети против создателей контента
Поиск: с одной стороны, Google хочет выдавать саммари по запросам через Gemini на страницах с результатам поиска.
Источник: Google запускает — пока в тестовом режиме и для отдельных групп пользователей — новую функцию Supercharging Search with generative AI (SGE). После ее активации вместо привычного поискового движка наш запрос будет обрабатывать ИИ Gemini, который в ответ сформулирует некое резюме из 272 слов, предваряющее поисковую выдачу.
С другой, появляются Perplexity, Copylot, которые выдают ссылки на источники.
Голосовые помощники: не дают ссылок для перехода, но озвучивают информацию с сайтов.
Общий тренд нейросетей: большие корпорации обучают свои технологии на данных создателей контента, но далеко не всегда дают трафик самим создателям контента.
Экономика онлайн-СМИ в мире
2024, издание Politico об экономическом состоянии американских изданий
Патрик Сун-Шионг, миллиардер-издатель газеты Los Angeles Times, уволил 20 процентов сотрудников своего отдела новостей. В журнале Time владельцы-миллиардеры Марк и Линн Бениофф сделали то же самое в отношении 15 % сотрудников редакции, состоящих в профсоюзе. Последний пожар разгорелся в Sports Illustrated на предыдущей неделе, когда катастрофические увольнения были разосланы по электронной почте большинству сотрудников. Business Insider (чья материнская компания Axel Springer также владеет POLITICO) сократил 8 % своего штата, а сотрудники Condé Nast, Forbes, New York Daily News и других изданий вышли на улицу в знак протеста против предстоящих сокращений в своих магазинах.
Новостной бизнес всегда был цикличным: он падал во время экономического спада, а затем улучшался на подъеме. Но теперь это не так, поскольку наша экономика в последнее время удивительно сильна. Почти везде, куда бы вы ни посмотрели - Washington Post, NPR, Vice, Vox, NBC News, Texas Tribune, WNYC, Barstool Sports, - компании сократили огромное количество сотрудников. С 2008 года занятость в новостных отделах сократилась более чем на 26 процентов. Buzzfeed News мертв. Журнальный бизнес тоже атрофировался: доходы газетных киосков упали с 6,8 миллиарда долларов в 2006 году до 1 миллиарда долларов в 2022 году. Наблюдая за тем, как медиабизнес истекает кровью, профессор журналистики Джефф Джарвис, человек, когда-то ратовавший за электронное будущее отрасли, сложил руки на коленях, как гробовщик, и спросил в своем блоге, не пора ли отказаться от старых новостей. Ссылаясь на мрачные новости об увольнениях, Джарвис привел в порядок труп в процессе его создания. Он отметил, что доверие к журналистике тает, а частные инвестиционные компании, такие как Alden Global Capital, занимаются каннибализмом своих газет.
Некогда здоровые газеты закрылись в таких городах, как Нью-Йорк, Сан-Франциско, Бостон и Миннеаполис; приостановили печать в таких городах, как Вашингтон; стали выходить раз в две недели, как в Чикаго и Сиэтле; или иным образом сократили количество страниц по сравнению с временами бума начала XXI века. Неужели нет никакого оптимизма? Уж точно не в гарвардском журнале Nieman Reports, который в октябре опубликовал некролог Кэтрин Рейнольдс Льюис под заголовком «Эй, журналисты, никто не придет нас спасать».
Кроме рекламы есть и другие источники доходов онлайн-медиа, но с ними тоже не все так однозначно.
Reuters: Наши данные показывают незначительный рост подписки на новости: всего 17% заявили, что заплатили за любые онлайн-новости в прошлом году в корзине из 20 более богатых стран. В странах Северной Европы, таких как Норвегия (40%) и Швеция (31%), самая высокая доля платящих, среди самых низких - Япония (9%) и Великобритания (8%). Как и в предыдущие годы, мы обнаружили, что большая часть цифровых подписок достается лишь нескольким элитным национальным брендам, что усиливает тренд победитель получает все.
Топ мировых изданий по объемам доходов от платной подписки (paywall)
Эфирные радио и телевидение
Прогнозируемый рост радио: Ожидается, что к 2029 году радио будут слушать более 3,2 миллиарда человек по всему миру, что составляет около 40 % населения планеты. Это говорит о том, что радио остается важным средством массовой информации, несмотря на рост цифровых альтернатив.
Источник, 2022 год: Большинство россиян (57%) с той или иной периодичностью слушают радио, при этом каждый пятый делает это ежедневно. Наиболее характерна эта привычка для мужчин старше 35 лет, имеющих высшее образование. Доля женской и молодежной аудитории значительно меньше (71% и 81% соответственно не слушают радиостанции совсем или включают их от силы пару раз в месяц).
Нейросети и достоверность контента
Обеспокоенность по поводу того, что реально, а что фальшиво в Интернете, когда дело доходит до онлайн-новостей, выросла на 3 процентных пункта за последний год: примерно шесть из десяти человек из аудитории СМИ в исследовании Reuters 2024 года (59%) заявили, что они обеспокоены. Этот показатель значительно выше в Южной Африке (81%) и США (72%), обеих странах, которые в этом году проводят выборы.
Доля респондентов, которые говорят, что их беспокоит вопрос о том, что в интернете настоящее, а что фальшивое, выросла на 3 процентных пункта с 56 до 59 %. Этот показатель наиболее высок в некоторых странах, проводящих опросы в этом году, включая Южную Африку (81 %), США (72 %) и Великобританию (70 %). Если рассматривать ситуацию в региональном разрезе, то самый высокий уровень обеспокоенности наблюдается в Африке (75 %), а более низкий - в большинстве стран Северной и Западной Европы (например, в Норвегии - 45 % и Германии - 42 %).
Интерес аудитории к СМИ как таковым
Согласно отчету Reuters Institute Digital News Report за 2024 год, интерес к новостям снизился с 66 % в 2018 году до 49 % в 2024 году на 12 основных рынках. Этот спад особенно заметен среди более молодой аудитории: только 31,9 % людей в возрасте от 16 до 24 лет проявляют интерес к новостям.
Исследование GWI показывает, что глобальный интерес к новостям упал примерно на 8 процентных пунктов в период с 1 квартала 2019 года по 1 квартал 2023 года, а по состоянию на 1 квартал 2024 года только 41,6 % респондентов заявили о своем интересе к новостям.
Выборы повысили интерес к новостям в нескольких странах, включая США (+3), но общая тенденция остается нисходящей. Интерес к новостям в Аргентине, например, упал с 77% в 2017 году до 45% сегодня. В Великобритании интерес к новостям снизился почти вдвое с 2015 года. В обеих странах это изменение отражается в аналогичном снижении интереса к политике.
*Упомянутые в тексте поста и на скриншотах Facebook, WhatsApp и Instagram принадлежат компании Meta, которую в РФ признали экстремистской
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2024-10-13 09:22:21Das SNAFU-Prinzip sagt das Kommunikation nur unter gleichen möglich ist:
Adäquate Kommunikation fliesst nur zwischen Gleichen ungehindert. Kommunikation zwischen Nicht-Gleichen ist missverständlich und von Dominaz- und Unterwerfungsritualen gefärbt, die immer wieder zum Zusammenbruch der Kommunikation führen und zu einem Spiel ohne Ende. [1]
So ist z.B. das Peter Prinzip [2] eine einfache Folge des SNAFU-Prinzips. Bezieht es sich in erster Linie auf Hierarchie lässt es sich hervorragend ausweiten auf den ökonomischen Bereich. Auch hier gilt, dass Kommunikation nur unter gleichen möglich ist, hier ist die Hierarchie das ökonomische Ungleichgewicht.
Kommunikation ist auch hier nur unter gleichen möglich, ungefähr gleich reich müssen sie sein. Ein zu großer Unterschied in den Ökonomischen Verhältnissen verhindert den Aufbau einer menschlichen Beziehung. Hier ist das einfache Beispiel: Wäre ich Reich, würde ich mich Fragen ob die Freunde da, nur kommen weil ich ihnen dir Drinks ausgebe. Jeder, der nicht so viel Geld wie ich hat, will vielleicht nur mein Geld. So kann ein Bill Gates nur einen Jeff Besos als Freund haben oder treffender ein Elon Musk nur einen Mark Zuckerberg.
Auch umgekehrt funktioniert diese Selektion: Wenn ich ein richtig cooler Typ bin würde ich mich fragen ob ich den Reichen eigentlich gut finde, oder nur mit ihm rumhänge weil er die Drinks bezahlt und weil ich zurecht unsicher darüber sein kann, kann ich mich nur entziehen. Die die wirklich freundschaftlich sind sind die die sich einer solchen Situation nicht aussetzen.
Und was bleibt dem Reichen? Nur die Gesellschaft der Reichen. Hier trifft der Reichtum auf eine totale Armut. Die Auswahl der Freunde ist sehr klein.
Hier ist tatsächlich der Reichtum das Problem, bzw. das ökonomische Ungleichgewicht und es gibt eine einfache Lösung, der Unterschied muss kleiner werden, denn je kleiner der Unterschied desto mehr Auswahl an Freunden gibt es. Wie in der “Aufgeklärten Ökonomie” dargestellt ist die Ungleichheit eine gesellschaftliche Entscheidung und eine konkrete Steuerung möglich. Wir können also den Reichen helfen und mehr Freiheit und Freunde schenken.
Patologisch wird dieses Phänomen wenn sich der innere Antrieb um den Reichtum dreht. Was durch die momentane Verfasstheit der gesellschaftlichen Praktiken sogar unterstützt und gefördert wird und damit viele Menschen objektiv unglücklich macht. Dieses Patologische der Gesellschaft wirkt dann auf das Individuum zurück und macht es ebenfalls Krank. Wir haben einen ähnlichen Mechanismus in der Gewalt kennenlernen dürfen. Vgl. “Gewalt ist eine ansteckende Krankrankheit”Wenn sie sich leer fühlen, Erfolg ihnen kein Glück schenkt, keine Befriedigung. Wenn sie mehr brauchen und mehr, dann leiden sie wahrscheinlich auch an einer Dysfunktion der Belohnungssysteme, an Habsucht.
Auch ihnen kann und muss geholfen werden, denn Gier ist heilbar. Und ihrer Gier betrifft nicht nur sie. Ihre liebsten Menschen in Ihrer Umgebung, Menschen mit denen sie niemals direkt in Berührung kommen, sie alle leiden unter ihrer Krankheit.
Auch für sie kann es ein erfülltes Leben geben, einen Weg zurück in die Gesellschaft, die Gesellschaft von Menschen. Machen sie Psychotherapie, nehmen sie Pharmaka.
[1] Robert Anton Wilson, Der Neue Prometheus. Die Evolution unserer Intelligenz. - Volksausgabe/ Raubdruck., 1983. Seite 245-246
[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter-Prinzip
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2024-09-24 13:40:45This is the full AI-generated transcript of Bitcoin Infinity Show #127 featuring George Manolov!
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Welcoming George Manolov
Luke: George, welcome to the Bitcoin Infinity Show, thank you for joining us.
George: Thank you, Knut.
Knut: Good to have you here, George.
George: to be here, yeah.
you're here to tell us about the city that I was most surprised by ever. Like, I've never heard of the city before I went to Bulgaria, Yeah, time flies.
Knut: So Plovdiv, Bulgaria, which was amazing, this rich, Thousands of years of history plays with a lot of different eras and different styles of architecture and stuff, really enjoyed Plovdiv, and you have a football team there.
George: yeah, indeed.
George Manolov and Botev Plovdiv
George: Please give us the story about George and Plovdiv Yeah, sure.
Knut: Plovdiv.
George: Sure, sure. So, Plovdiv is, well, I would say it's the oldest living city in Europe, so continuously inhabited. Like you say, not many people know it. I guess, like, we don't have good enough marketing, but, that's probably part of my job right now, right? To spread the word about it. so it's, like the second largest city in the country.
And, yeah, it's just this, it's very, like, I love how you put it because almost nobody has really heard of Plovdiv, right? Most people, when they hear of Bulgaria, they've probably heard of Sofia but Sofia is, okay, but Plovdiv is kind of the chill place, Plovdiv is the place that is actually worth visiting, the place where, people just enjoy going there.
I was born there, right? and, grew up there till 18 or so, then, Studied, lived in Sofia most of the time. And, last year, in kind of summer, I was already kind of way deeper into Bitcoin. I decided I'm going to go full time into Bitcoin, just commit all my time in Bitcoin at the time, educating, publishing books in Bulgarian about Bitcoin, creating my own educational platform.
And then I got, reached out and connected really to the owner of the football club in the city, which is also the oldest football club in the country, Botev Plovdiv, who was, well, he got introduced into Bitcoin himself and he realized it's going to be a very big, project. You know, going to play a central role in where the world is going.
Knut: What is this the owner of the club?
George: That's right. The owner of the club. was like, Hey, I think we can do something unique with Bitcoin because, you know, the club is really a company, right? It's a business on the one hand, but it's a special type of business, it's not where just you produce a certain product or service.
It's really a living organism where people are involved into it, for very emotional reasons. people feel like it's their own and it's not like a small group of people. It's a very large group of people. In our case, we have tens of thousands, arguably more than a hundred, 200, 000 people who care, who watch, who follow the club.
And so on the one hand, like there's many different ways in which we can look into this, but on the one hand. It's for me, what really inspired me and what got me like, Oh my God, like, is this really happening is that we can bring the conversation about Bitcoin from a completely different angle into society to a group of people who for the most part would never really They would like this, they would never listen to podcasts like this, they would never get to any of the kind of places and things we listen to, watch, consume, right?
and people go, You know, people go kind of for bread and circus, right,
Knut: yeah, yeah.
George: for the games. That's what really football is, right? It's fun and it's emotion, it's enjoyment, but then we push them censorship resistance and hard money, right?
And we don't really push it, you know, that's the thing, right? Because are like consistently, progressively, gradually over time, introducing it and finding the best way and the most appropriate way to, yeah, plant that seed. To the minds of the people, into the views of the people and so on and so forth.
so it's really like, you know, what we're trying to build is, we feel we're in a very privileged position, right? because we've been, the first really professional sports club globally, I would say, to have, uh, crypto Bitcoin, you know, people, departments, who is actually full time employed to, you know, think of a way to grow the business, to think of a way to integrate Bitcoin natively, within the various aspects of, of, of the organization, which obviously initially includes like accepting payments and so on and so forth.
But, um, but there's so much more you can do exactly with this type of, Like organization, again, like not, not, not just a business in a traditional sense.
Knut: Yeah. And, uh, won the league, right? Is that, is that right?
George: Yeah, man, like it's, uh, yeah, so we, um, when I started last year, things were super bad. Like exactly one year ago, I was there for the, for one of the first games. It was horrible. Like, I was like, okay, this is a great idea, but if the team is doing so bad and if, uh, if they keep losing and if the fans keep getting, you know, being unhappy, Um, it's not gonna go anywhere, but still, I gave it a, I gave it a go, right, because I was like, okay, I just hope that the sports side guys are going to do their, their part, and I have my opportunity here, um, to, to just like push, to educate, to, To do what, what, what life is giving me an opportunity to do.
And, uh, very fortunately, as we started working, the team started performing better and better and better. We got a completely new coach. We got a new sports director. We, we had a lot of key staff changes across the organization, which, Um, relatively quickly started showing results. So, uh, yeah, like, 10 months later in May, we won the Bulgarian Cup.
Luke: Is that the cup or the league? Like, uh,
George: it's the cup, it's the cup. So, so, I was saying, like, we started very bad in the league. And so, we were doing better and better, but still, like, we finished 9th in the league out of 16 clubs at the end of the day. But which was still okay, because, like, when I joined, like, we were, like,
Luke: Worried about relegation or something like that?
George: there. I mean,
Knut: We're complete, uh, like I've tried to take an interest to football, but like, uh, my ADD just, the brain just wanders away after five minutes and I can't concentrate anymore. So I don't
Luke: a basketball fan.
Knut: Am I now?
Football for Noobs
Knut: Uh, so, uh, what's the difference between the cup and the league? Let's begin there. That's, that's how much of a football noob I
George: So, so pretty much in every country is the same, right? You have a league or a championship where you have, in our case, 16 teams, and every team plays twice against every other team. So home game, away game, and then, you know, you either win three points when you win, or you lose, or you draw, and you, you, you win one point.
And then, so after you play, after you play, in our case, this, what is it, games? You know,
Luke: 30.
George: yeah, about 30. Yeah, right. You're better than Matt, it's obvious. So, um, so once you play these 30 games, um, you, um, yeah, like the team with the most points wins, right? Whereas, uh, the cup is direct elimination
Knut: So quarterfinals, semifinals, all that.
George: exactly. So it's the easier way. So this was the way for us to due to the bad start of the season. This was the way for us to, to achieve something in this season and to achieve something important because what the Cubs gives us as an opportunity and gave us was to play in the European Leagues.
So UEFA Leagues. And we just did that. We played six games. Uh, for the Europe, uh, Europe League and the Europe Conference League.
Knut: Okay. But to, to be in the champions league, that's a totally, you have to, yeah, yeah. You have to win the league and you have to win all sorts of stuff. Like how does that work?
George: yeah. You have to win the league. And then in our case, so in every country it's different, but in our case, we have to win, like we go to qualifications for the Champions League. So it's like, I mean, three to four games. And if we win that, we go to the Champions League.
Knut: Alright,
George: That's the current state of affairs, although that can change over the years.
Knut: alright, uh, it all makes sense to me now, that's a lie, but anyway.
Luke: No, uh, I'll definitely, we'll acknowledge here that I'm more of the, the sports fan, uh, generally here, and I, I follow football, I like, uh, I like European, uh, football, uh, well, and obviously I'm using the correct, uh, term despite my, um, my pseudo American accent, uh. Yeah, anyway, um, uh, no, it's fantastic to see, and I mean, yeah, for the non sports fans, uh, listening to this, I get that
Knut: Well, I am a sports fan, it's just that Starcraft 2 is my sport, and yeah, yeah,
Luke: yeah,
George: eSports.
Knut: yeah, yeah, so I watch, watch Starcraft 2 games. That's what I do for procrastination sometimes.
Luke: valid sports, I'm not going to compare it to other things that aren't
Knut: breakdancing? Is that a valid sport?
Luke: Breakdancing is, um, hmm, interesting. I think anything with points, that judges give points, is kind of not a sport, it's an activity.
Knut: yeah.
Luke: but, yeah, anyway,
Knut: thing to do.
Luke: is a thing to do, yes, definitely, but back to, back to, um, um, Botev Plod, is it Botev, Botev, what's, what's, Botev, Botev Plod, yeah, so, so, um, yeah, yeah, like, the, the, the achievement, winning, winning the cup, I mean, the, The cups are sort of more difficult.
They're both difficult in their own way, right? Like, the cup, you lose one game, you're out, basically, right? But, I mean, the league is like this endurance, achievement, right? You have to perform well over the course of the whole season. But the cheat code, so to say, and I probably subconsciously used the other football team's terminology, who's in the space, Real Bedford, um,
Botev Plovdiv's Bitcoin Strategy
Luke: The, the idea right, if, if I'm getting it, is that you guys would, would keep the Bitcoin in the, in the, the treasury, the, the company, and then over the course of time it's just gonna do the number go up thing and, and the, the club will have more resources.
Right. Is that, is that the idea you're thinking with the, the bitcoin strategy?
George: There's actually many, many things to it. And this is kind of the most, let's say, vanilla type of approach. Yeah, like just buy Bitcoin and hold it on the balance sheet, which is, which is great. But there's actually so many other things you can do. And that's where, because if you just do that, frankly, like, I mean, you don't need me involved, right, much.
I mean, just call Coinbase, whatever, wire the money, crack in and, buy. but with us it's like, really, uh, we see a huge opportunity to, first of all, align our brand with the Bitcoin brand, which is a royalty free, uh, The biggest brand in finance, for sure. One, uh, like it's going to be the biggest brand in the world for sure at some point.
Right. So that's, that's one play. And to do this, it's not enough for you to just buy Bitcoin and hold it on a balance sheet. It's what you need to do is proof of work, right? You need to do things that nobody has ever done. You need to really kind of be creative. Uh, and, and, um, to push the boundaries of what anyone has ever done before, right?
So, so that is, uh, that is my kind of job and it's a lot of, um, a lot of just like, let's, let's think of what, what new things we can do with Bitcoin and sports and football that nobody has ever done. Just because others are focused on the short term things, they're focused on, hitting those, those quick wins, those quick goals, which is why, for example, like a lot of the sports and, and that have, you know, interact, they haven't really interacted outside of Bedford with Bitcoin, right?
It's mostly been crypto because it's just, okay, let's make some quick money. Um,
Luke: usually, it's usually just sponsorships, right?
Knut: yeah,
George: yes. Um, and for us, because on the one hand, like, we're not like Manchester United, right? We're not Chelsea. So we don't have that much to monetize immediately. Like we're a large club, but.
Luke: You're a large club in a local league, which is, which is different from the, it's not one of the leagues that is internationally positioned like that. But, but, I mean, the, the difference between you guys and Bedford that I, that I think is, is really interesting. Like, McCormack, what he, Peter McCormack, what he's doing, I mean, he's, he's taking a club from the bottom and aiming for the top.
But who knows how long that's going to take him to get there, right? But you guys are already in the top of your league, right? Like, in the top league.
George: right, yeah, and also there's, there's different in this, we're in the top of our league. My goal, personally, is to go to Champions League, but this is very hard, right? Because, like, okay, when you start from Peter's ground, like, it's easy, okay, every year you level up, you level up, or, I mean, I'm not gonna say it's easy, but it's easier than, uh, than once you're, you know, at our level.
For us, it's important to play currently every year in European leagues like we've done so far and to every year consistently, like, increase the level of the sports, level of the business department bit by bit, and, but like breaking that point where we, you know, win the league, Where we win several more games and enter the Champions League, that, that's really hard.
I mean, because you're already at that stage where everybody, like, so many teams are so strong, right? So it's um, it takes just a lot of ingredients for you to, to, to hit, uh, in order to win. But we're gonna get there.
Knut: and does the club self custody it's bitcoin? And if so, is it a something out of 11 multisig, that sounds like a football thing?
George: Why so? Ah, yeah, an 11? Nah, nah, fuck that. I mean Nah, even, even 7 Motosick is a, is a killer, but no. Um, yeah, I can't really speak too much about this at this point. Yeah. Um, but, um, but yeah, I mean, we do, of course we do self custody. So that's, that's the approach that we've chosen with kind of a lot of, um, we've chosen to go really pure, pure Bitcoin in terms of the strategy.
And that's how we set ourselves apart. That's how we believe we win the long game because for instance, like we Bitcoin with BTC pay server. Which in my mind they don't even have competition. It's the only like, real, solid, autonomous, sovereign way to accept payments. And it's also the way which makes sense for like, Frankly, any standard business, because like, man, we're selling scarves, we're selling, um, membership boat cards, we're selling jerseys, we're selling basic merch, and if we are to sell it with basically any other service out there, outside of BTC Pay Server, we have to basically, uh, indirectly do KYC, right?
Like, we have to go through KYC, we have to go through KYB, which is ridiculous, um, in my mind. And so, um, so that's why we're exceptionally thankful to B2C Pay Server guys, uh, for what they've built. Uh, it's been like an absolute pleasure to, um, to use their product, to use their service. Uh, we have, you know, outside of B2C Pay, we, uh, we are the first, uh, sports club on Nostr.
Where, uh, we have, uh, actively been posting, exploring, you know, meeting people here. Kind of thinking of what we could do from our angle again, like first, first time on Nostr.
Aqua WAllet
George: Um, we have partnered with, uh, Aqua, JAN3's Aqua wallet, which has a, a Botive skin mode now. So if you go to settings, you can turn Botive mode and then it turns into the colors of the club and, you know, have the picture of the stadium there.
Um,
Luke: I'm using Aqua right now because, uh, uh, usually I like to use Aqua as like a sort of a middle wallet, uh, uh, because it's still slightly slower than other lightning wallets because they, they, the, everything actually lives on, on liquid and then they, they, uh, go out via bolts. Uh, so it's slightly slower than a faster, um, like, like than other, um, more direct lightning wallets.
And so usually when I come to a conference, I'm going to load up a, like a temporary. I don't know, Blink or something like that, but I forgot to do that, so I'm just using my Aqua wallet, and you know what, it's been great here, it's been working, uh, so yeah, we're big fans of Aqua wallet and what
Knut: Yeah, and a BTC pay server. I mean, uh, we can echo everything you said that we, BitcoinInfinity. com, like, and the store here We just fired up. Everything is powered by a BTC pay server, and we just love it. Yes.
Luke: So what was your question about, uh, Aqua?
George: If yours is on BOTEV mode.
Luke: Uh, I don't think I've gone into the settings and changed it to Vaudev mode, I'll have to do that, maybe we'll take
George: It's dark mode,
but cooler.
Luke: Doc dark mode, but cooler. Okay. Okay. Actually that's a, that's a, that's a good point. That's a good point. Yeah. We'll take a, we'll take a picture after, uh, after the episode and we'll de proof, bot, uh, bot e mode, and, uh, uh, post that on Nostr.
How does that sound?
George: Let's go.
Knut: Yeah. Nostr. Um, is there a connection there between both a plot and Nostr while you're doing Nostr stuff as well?
History and Freedom
George: Yeah. Well, look, um, a lot of these things is like, so What Botev Plovdiv stands for, um, very importantly, so the club was named after Hristo Botev, who's, uh, like, one of the most Bulgarians, if the most famous Bulgarian revolutionaries, like, historical figure, uh, he was a poet, he was a revolutionary, he fought for Bulgaria's freedom back in the day,
Luke: Which, which day, which, what day did you
George: uh, 110, uh, what is it, like, 50 years ago or so?
Yeah.
Knut: Mm-Hmm?
Luke: Okay. So, so
Knut: before the Commes.
Luke: ottoman, uh,
George: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He, he, he, he fought for the, for the liberation of Bulgaria from, from the Ottoman Empire. And a lot of what he stands for is this fight for freedom, his fight for liberty. Um, and this, this lives until this very day into the identity of the club and to what we stand for into the songs, into the, into the music.
Um, you know, um, the kind of like what, what our fans also resonate with, um, and, and what they sing like in many, in many ways. Right. So, um, Freedom of speech, freedom of, uh, of like freedom in general is, is a value that is deeply ingrained into kind of like what the club stands for. Um, and, uh, you know, that's why I'm into Bitcoin.
That's why I believe. And that's, that's why I saw this even bigger opportunity. Oh my God, like, how is this happening? There's so many, sometimes, you know, some like weird things happen in life and you have no explanation why and how all these things align. But, but for me, it's like this club was made really to.
to be aligned with BOTEF and to be, uh, to, to, to be aligned with Bitcoin and with Nostr. If I look at all the other clubs in Bulgaria, right, like just in Bulgaria, none of the others, like, there's no this contextual historical background that you can make these connections. But with us, we have it, and what a chance that, like, we have this owner, and he got, like, introduced to it, and then we got connected.
Like, how the hell does this happen, man? I don't know,
Luke: We like to say this, the surreal doesn't end, you know, and like, uh, my, my whole story, I've been talking about this, uh, at the, the conference here is like two years ago was the first time I ever met Bitcoiners here in Baltic Honeybadger. We, we met for the, for the first time, uh, all three of us, uh, met for the first time two years ago, I've been in Baltic Honeybadger and it's like, things, things happen so fast.
Uh, I've, I've, uh, I've thought it was been awesome just following, uh, what you've been doing with the, the club and the story. So great to, Great to get to talk about it, but, uh,
Bitcoin in Football
George: Yeah. No, for, for me, like really the, the most exciting part is really even coming forward. So, uh, because, so now it's been, so we, a long, we announced, uh, publicly that we're doing this, uh, 31st October last year. So the anniversary of the, of the, uh, Bitcoin White paper, um, we've built a lot right. And very, very importantly, I'm super proud, like, I don't know if you saw this, but like a month ago, we played on European League, the UEFA League with Bitcoin straight on our jerseys, which was like, like, when I saw this, I'm like, dude, it's crazy that this is happening.
But, but the best is really yet to come, like, like we like to say. Um, so I, I think we, we're, we have, um, we have still so much more to do. So for me, the next big part, which I'm super excited about literally in the coming month as, uh, as I go back. So is to finally get some of our. Players or at least one or two to get to do something publicly about this, because at the end of the day, that's why for me, the more I do, the more I, uh, play in this arena, I realized this is really a Trojan horse for us to bring Bitcoin into the conversation, into the minds, like I said, of people who otherwise wouldn't and, and our players, you know, especially a few of them, they're really influencers, right?
Um, a lot of people follow them. A lot of people respect them. And, um, and if they do, uh, you know, something meaningful, something cool, something impactful, this is going to have a huge impact onto our forwards. This could very well have impact onto, um, other sportsmen, other football people, other football clubs, right?
Uh, so that's why I'm doing it, right? Really?
Luke: No, this is fantastic, and actually this was exactly where I was hoping to go next, so thank you for queuing that up. But, no, no, the game theory of all this, right? Like, one club getting, Positioning as the, as the Bitcoin club in a league, uh, really means that eventually all the other clubs are going to need to adopt Bitcoin.
If they're going to be able to compete, because if play playing out the game theory, number go up, whatever it is, Bitcoin strategy plays out, you guys are going to be the most financially capable club. Financially sustainable in not very long, you know, assuming everything plays out the way we're thinking it will, right?
So, so other, other clubs then would become incentivized to also adopt Bitcoin. So what, what do you, what do you think about that? Like you, do you, do you see that, uh, happening as well?
George: Yeah, I'm not really sure if it would happen to me. That fast, to be fair. Like, I think it's inevitable, right, obviously, but I think it, yeah, like, I think this definitely takes at least three, four years, maybe more. Um,
Luke: That's, that's still pretty fast.
George: yeah, I guess. I mean, I mean, like, okay, let me define it better. It takes three, four years.
So, for other clubs within our league to start doing something like this, uh, maybe it takes less time for other clubs to realize it, but I think for them to do it, it also depends on our actions, right? So because like, we don't have like a treasury of microstrategy or something, so it's not, and we're not doing like a
Luke: you don't?
George: monthly like leverage on top of leverage on top of another leverage, you know, uh, we're not in, in Michael's privileged position. but we can do other cool things, right? Uh, one of the, um, so this is not yet live and this is not yet happening, but one of the, like two, two projects, let's say, I'm gonna briefly, like, tease here that, that I'm working on that I hope to have very large impact is first, uh, building this, uh, simple tool Uh, called like a Bitcoin, uh, football salary calculator that, uh, it's like really a DCA tool, but like looking back and like tailoring it to our niche where I want to, for us to visually and emotionally Show, um, to players, but also to fans of ours, like what Bitcoin could have done for their remuneration, if you look one year back in time, two years back in time, three years back in time, four years back in time, and for them to really realize, Oh my God, this is a no brainer.
Right? I want to make this mess. And this is hard, right? Um, because like, there's so many tools and like, but I want to be, because the audience is very wide, very different types of audience. I want to make this so that you can consume it in like two, three, four minutes. And you're like, okay, I need to learn more about this.
This actually is interesting. There's like, that's so much dense and emotional and compact information that you're like, Whoa. Why am I not doing this? How did I miss this?
Knut: What, what, what was the name of that website? I, I don't know if it's still up, but bitcoin or shit.com or something like that. So, so it lists if you bought this item when it came out, an iPhone five or whatever, uh, and if you had bought b bitcoin instead.com, I think that that's the, that's the name. So if you bought, uh, if you bought Bitcoin instead, it shows you how much, how much more money you'd have now and how many iPhones you
George: Yeah. Yeah. And of course there's many of these tools, obviously like we've all see them and we all like like them and retweet them and repost them. And it's all great. But I think, at least I hope that we can do something impactful with this. If we really tailor it, compact it to a specific type of niche audience with a specific message designed for them.
And because this audience is also like. A type of audience who can also like, um, you know, bring it to other bubbles that we ourselves are not part of, right? So that's, for example, one like, uh, one like project I'm very, very excited about and I hope we can, um, yeah, we'll bring forward relatively soon.
There's a few moving elements, but definitely in the coming month or two, uh, at most. And then, uh, and then, you know, speaking of the other clubs, what, what I want us to do is what we're working is next year, we're targeting to do, I hope we could do the world's first, uh, Bitcoin, uh, Cup tournament. Uh, for youth players, 70 year old boys who are, you know, right there before they sign their first professional contract, start earning money, for them, first of all, like, it's a Bitcoin football cup, like, it's the first time this, this could potentially ever happen And then it's, it's a football first tournament, right?
This is the, we want to make it like top quality, like really the highest quality when it comes to sports, but then you have Bitcoin involved all over the place, right? In terms of brand, in terms of rewards, in terms of, um, in terms of like plays, um, like, like games and, and interactions, activations, uh, throughout, before, throughout, and after the, And after the event, and for this, I'm targeting to get really like, like big clubs.
I mean, because it's academies, right? I mean, I cannot get the Manchester United first team, just maybe we could get the Manchester United 17 year old team or, you know, another big club. We get some of these, and then like we get their brands, we get them on the focus of Bitcoin. And we drive the conversation faster, you know, not three, four years from now, but Less
Knut: what about, um, like right now there's you and there's, um, you guys and there's a real bed for it, right? Those are the two I know of in Europe. Are you aware of any other clubs that are doing a Bitcoin strategy? I mean, is this virus spreading? Like, have you heard anything like,
George: Um, Oh, there's, uh, there's the Austrian Admira Vakir who have done some integration. So it's a second tier, uh, second league, uh, second league, uh, club that have, uh, that have, uh, you know, they've also had Bitcoin on the, their second team jersey. And, um, and they, they also accept Bitcoin payments, uh, here and there, but you know, the thing is, there's some other clubs, um, there's a Miami, um, not Miami, um, a Hawaiian club that, that is doing, uh, that is doing like their Bitcoin gig,
Knut: yeah, there are other, other sports, right, other sports team and sports teams in other sports that are doing it. But, but for football specifically,
George: which ones?
Knut: Uh, I'm so bad with sports, but wasn't there like a hockey team or a basketball team or
Luke: I'm not aware of any others, actually. Yeah, like, uh, there's been some attempts at
Knut: it's
Luke: an orange colored team or something like
Knut: more the individual athletes,
Luke: Yeah, yeah, there have been individual
Knut: for instance, a
Luke: have been individual
Knut: player, and there was some American football player.
George: There's been individual athletes, a lot of them. There's been, I was asking if you know, but there's been a baseball club in Australia, the Port Heat. Uh, who did kind of a Bitcoin strategy. Uh, but very unfortunately that didn't work out. They kind of started this at the peak of the last bull cycle. And, um, and as I understand, uh, there wasn't like a strong alignment between the owners and the management in terms of like understanding that this is a long game.
So that's why this kind of flopped. Um, but yeah, like I, I think the reason why it's not happening in more, unfortunately, and, and, and I see this even, even within our club, uh, you know, but, but definitely no other clubs because Fiat has permitted sports as well. Right. So all the sports club, uh, clubs or the vast majority in football, for sure.
They're like, you know, on the hamster wheel themselves.
Knut: They're indebted,
George: They're indebted.
Knut: to an extreme level,
George: yeah, like, like fighting for every dollar for every income. So it's, it's hard for you to like, Oh yeah, we're going to have this long term Bitcoin strategy that's going to take like two, three, four, five years to play out.
And we can benefit a lot from it. It's very, very hard in, you know, unfortunately for a large organizations, sports club in particular to To have this realization, to map this out, to get others on board. That's why it's not so popular and uh, and that's why I'm grateful and keep pushing that we have this chance.
Luke: I mean, you make a great point here about essentially the, it's the organizational alignment, right? Like the, the, these are companies, sports clubs are companies. They just have this large, the business is involved around getting fans to come in and consume this sort of marketing. Product, essentially. So it's, it's a certain kind of company that's run a certain way, but just like any other company, you need, you need alignment from the management.
So it's, it's fantastic that, uh, Boteb Plovdiv has, has the, uh, alignment and is, is putting their, their trust in you to, to move this thing forward. And I mean, from the, from the perspective of this thing, Playing out, right? The, the best part that, uh, I think one of the best parts that you, you mentioned again was the, the influencers.
Like you get, you get some players, there's, there's so many angles to, to reach people through this. I think it's, I think it's fantastic. The, uh, orange pilling a player and then they move to another club, but they, they, maybe they don't get to get paid in Bitcoin, but maybe they still put, put their money in, in Bitcoin.
Maybe they even ask their club to, to, uh, pay them in Bitcoin, something like that. And then the, the Questions start getting, uh, asked and all this.
5 Year Goals
Luke: So what, what is the, the goal in, in five years, for example, where, where do you see the club in the five year mark?
George: Oh man. Yeah, in five years, I think we definitely have to be in Champions League. Like in my mind, you know, like people around me like, oh, you're too ambitious. I'm like, man, yeah, like in five years, we definitely have to be in Champions League. Uh, that's, that's my personal goal. On our internal Slack, I have the Champions League icon there.
That's why I'm there, right? Um, so, uh, it's a lot of hard work. Like, it's really a lot of hard work. And it's also not completely dependent on me and my work, to be fair. Like, because, at all. I mean, really, like, uh, I mean, at the end of the day, the most important part is the sports department, right? Uh, in the club.
Um, so that has to continue going well. But, but I think We're going in a good direction there too, because we have the, they're the long term view as well, right. We have our academy internally, which is, yeah, it's one of the best academies. It's the best really academy in terms of infrastructure in the country.
That's why we're also can't afford to think of this Bitcoin Cup tournament, because we have the infrastructure, we have like a super cool stadium, that's crazy. If we can, if we can do a final for, for such a tournament there. Um, so, so we have all the things in place in terms of In terms of assets, I would say, uh, it's just a lot of moving parts.
a lot of work, consistency, and a bit of luck. Always it comes, you know, when, when it comes to, when it comes to football and sports, but, but five years from now, I want us to be in the champions league. I want us to be the absolute, you know, international professional level, uh, Bitcoin level, Bitcoin sports club.
and, uh, and I want for this tournament that I start to be like a, like, like to have the fourth edition by then. Uh, and, and I want to have clubs, but five years is a lot of time, you know, as you say, like, I also want to have other clubs following us by then. I think that's absolutely, absolutely is going to be doable.
Knut: What, what are the, what are the tax laws around Bitcoin in Bulgaria? Like what, are there any issues there? Or like what, is it easy enough,
George: It's kind of okay. Uh, it's kind of okay. So if you just buy Bitcoin and hold it, like you don't, uh, you don't, uh, incur taxes, uh, until you sell it, if you accept Bitcoin for payments, um, and if you don't sell it, you can just, uh, keep it as inventory on your balance sheet. So again, no,
Knut: but there's a capital gains tax or something if you sell it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright.
George: 10%. So it's, it's, uh,
Knut: Pretty good.
George: Yeah, I mean, it's not like El Salvador. Okay. Uh, but, but it's, uh, it's, it's way better than many other places. Um, and, uh, yeah, so we've been looking, looking actually, so I was in El Salvador a couple of months ago, because we've been looking very much to do stuff there.
And we've been, uh, yeah. Um, because we've been, we've been thinking of what to do more with Bitcoin, right? So that's why I said, like, it's not just about buying and accepting Bitcoin. It's about corporate strategies, about branding strategies, about how to make money. Um, it's about education strategies. It's, there's so much around it.
So in terms of corporate strategy, I was, uh, we're very attracted by El Salvador, um, and their, uh, capital markets regulation, because they're basically striving to build capital markets on top of Bitcoin. Bitcoin is legal tender there. They have all kinds of, tax incentives for companies to issue debt or to sell equity.
on their capital, on their, um, well, let's say nascent upcoming capital markets, because it's not like it's, you know, hustling and bustling yet. Um, but, but they're, they've put a lot of the rails, uh, um, or they're building a lot of the rails to, um, to really enable the, the, the creation of Bitcoin based capital markets.
So, um, we've had great talks there. We have meetings with, uh, um, we have. Yeah, with the Bitcoin office, right? Um, so, ideally, like, we're striving to build some connection there and to do something, interesting and world first again from a corporate perspective. It's just that, as many things, it's a little harder than you would expect it to be, or it takes a little more time than, Then you would hope to do it.
But my idea or long term vision, frankly, like what we want to do with Bitcoin, uh, and with the club is to enable our current fans and global fans to become co owners of the club. And that's why, you know, I have big hopes for, uh, for us being able to do this out of El Salvador and through El Salvador, because this would, like from a tax perspective, from a branding perspective, from legal security perspective would be, would be ideal.
It's just that, again, um, my enthusiasm is a little over, uh, ahead of kind of like how, uh, how, how advanced and set up everything there is, but, uh, but we're, we're very actively talking to them. We're working with many parties there, so. Just maybe we can have big news there too.
International and Local Effects
Luke: Well, no, and, and you actually said something great about global fans. I think this is a, a fantastic thing, right? A a again, Bedford is, is similar. They've, they've got, they've got fans all over the world and, and I think for you guys it's like who is going to tune into the Bulgarian football league outside of Bulgaria before, well, not too many people, but now a bunch of Bitcoiners.
If they're into, if they're into football or, or not even, because this is the funny thing. There were, there were a lot of people posting about that. They, they've got, they, they don't usually follow, follow sports at all, but, but they'll follow the Bitcoin team. So the, the funny thing is, I think, I think the first, the first club to adopt Bitcoin in every league is going to get all of these global fans.
And maybe the, maybe the, the second one, the third one, maybe can get some kind of other support, but it's really the first one in every
George: really.
Luke: That, that
George: Not
Luke: That's that. I, I completely agree with you there. It's the, it's the first one
Knut: first mover advantage.
Luke: mover advantage. It's gonna get, it is gonna get all of the, all of the Bitcoiners are gonna now be, be supporting and, uh, uh, yeah.
I mean, have, have you seen, uh, some, some uptick in, uh, kind of international
George: yeah, yeah. So, international but also local. Like, local is very important. Like, we have, like, so many people in the country who's like, just what you say, like, I didn't care about sports or football, like, forever, or at all, ever, but now I follow, now I buy merch, now I come, you know, every now and then they come to games, so
Luke: Well, because there's the bread and circuses thing that you said, it gets tossed around in the Bitcoin world and also some other places on kind of the Twitter sphere and whatever, it's like it's a distraction, that sports is sort of a distraction from clown world basically and it's a way of people to sort of Uh, forget about what's going on around them, but I think that's also missing the, the positives, which it, it's a, it's a community builder, it brings people together, there's a, there's a sense of, of pride in, in something local succeeding, everyone, everyone's happy, there's, there's real economic, uh, effects usually when a, when a local sports team wins, and so, so from, from my perspective, I, I, I think, I think sport is a good thing, and it's, and it's, it's something that, that people can rally around, and so,
George: an amazing thing.
Luke: Yeah.
And, and so what, what are, what are you looking at locally? Like what, what do you hope to have the effect, uh, uh, locally in, in piv?
George: Yeah. Um, yeah, no, look, uh, for me, sports, like, for us, the, the, the, the, about Plovdiv, for me, that's what I realized, like, we're kind of very much into Bitcoin and stuff, obviously, that's our interest, but I think when we go on a Bitcoin standard, Right. And, uh, in general, people start feeling wealthier, opposed to, like, being in the grind.
You're just going to have more time for fun stuff, right? Like playing football, I mean, or volleyball, or whatever your sport is, or, like, going and cheering your team, and, uh, and being part of such a community. And I think that's really what, you know, even Nostr is about. Like it's, Being part of these communities, because that's fun, and like, we as humans, at the end of the day, we are living to be part of communities, right?
And you find your community, you're an active part of it, you contribute to it, you evolve it, right? You build it in one way or another. And unfortunately, you know, today in the fiat world, this is just like A stress valve in many ways, or like you say, like Brothers and Sisters, whatever. Um, but, uh, but I think it can be so much more, right?
It is, but it can be so much more for a larger amount of people and so on and so forth. uh, but yeah, well, back in Plovdiv, man, like, I have big hopes. I really have big, big ambitions there. I want to get Bitcoin into the wallets of, uh, of like tens of thousands of people. I want people to wake up. I want people to see.
Luke: big is piv? How many
George: It's like three, four hundred thousand people. So it's a lot. Uh, our stadium is, uh, 21, 000 seats stadium. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. It's, it's 19. I wish it was 21.
Luke: Yeah. You'll have to add 2000 more
George: Maybe, yeah, we'll, we'll think of some additional construction.
Luke: the, make the infinity stand when
George: Right. Right. But, uh, but yeah, like the setting was super cool. Like, it's really cool.
Like when it's feel like, man, the atmosphere is amazing. Um, and so it's, and it's really this community that you can feel that people are involved. So it's, it's like consistency and it's social engineering in one way or another, right?
Knut: one of our favorite words,
George: but in a positive way.
Knut: in a positive way, okay.
George: So it's social engineering for us to ingrain Bitcoin and make it part of kind of what people see, do, have, own, interact with, right?
So, uh, I think exactly because of this community element, exactly because, Because, you know, football is a football club and there's this unique living organism we can, we can create this and, you know, it's fascinating. I'm so much into this and there's other people who are so much into this. Oh my god, like, we can make such a big difference.
And, and like in the country. You know, on a political and economic level, they don't get it. Like, they don't see it. They just are in their, you know, like, oh, are we going to accept the euro? Oh, what's happening with the war? I'm like, who cares? Let's build.
Bulgarian Currency Situation
Knut: Yeah, Bulgaria has its own shitcoin, I almost forgot about that, but uh, what's it called again?
George: Kinda. Um, but not quite, to be fair. It's, it's a good coin, uh, not for investing, but, but for medium of exchange is actually decent. Uh, Lev, Lev
Knut: Lev, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah,
George: and I recently got educated about this. So, uh, the lev is pegged to the euro. So, um, uh, so, so that, that is super cool for, for us, for me as a consumer, for businesses, because like the fixed rate.
So for trade is, um, It's, it's good, right? As the world would be in the future. You have one currency, Bitcoin, you don't have the currency exchange risk, right? We don't have it only with the European Union. And the good part with this, so, we got, we got hyperinflation back in 1997. Was really bad. People lost almost everything, everything, in many cases.
Um, and then we got this so called currency board introduced and the currency board is like we have the left, but the left has to be backed up by other currencies. So it's like a stable coin, kind of like how Tether is backed by, by dollars. You know, the levy is backed by euro and like a basket of, I think they have some other currencies and assets, which is cool because the local politicians, they cannot print, they cannot, you know, so, so it's been, it's been, I think, way better than Hungary, Sweden, uh, Finland, you have your, oh
but Sweden I've heard it's kind of bad,
Knut: It's kinda bad, Norway too, like, both Swedish and Norwegian crown, and the crown in Czechia, like the Czech Republic, it's also
George: Yeah.
Knut: I mean, they're all going to shit the smaller
George: So, so for us, it's like, I would say we're better than, than the Corona, the, and, and all these like local currencies, because we kind of just are there to the, peg to the Euro. The local politicians don't have the opportunity to print. So it's, it's a very good position for us to be.
Luke: You, you get the, the negatives of the, the euro. But, but still, I mean, I mean the, the realistically, the dollar at the Euro and maybe the, the Chinese currency are the only, are the only ones that are in the, sort of within our own, within our own lifetimes are, are going to be not as terribly bad against Bitcoin.
But all the other ones are just, are. All the other ones are
Knut: Yeah, I think it's just a matter of time before both, uh, at least Sweden, uh, switches to Euro standard. If not switching to Bitcoin standard happens first, but well, we'll see, we'll see what happens.
George: man. I'm very bearish about the Euro.
Knut: yeah, yeah, it's like,
Luke: It'll be the second last to fall or third last but but yeah it's it's it's it's not going to be the the last and so it's yeah.
Knut: So that is what it is. I mean, speaking of Bulgaria and currencies and stuff,
Bitcoin Adoption in Bulgaria
Knut: like, how is the rest of, how is Bitcoin adoption in general in Bulgaria? What's happening in other places? Like, Plamen opened a bar, I saw, and like, what are the connections? What's happening?
George: It's actually quite cool. I'm, I'm, I'm quite happy with, with how the ecosystem is evolving. There's, there's Plamen, um, with his whole community, like content creation, the conferences he's been doing, which has been like a very, I think he's responsible for like, I don't know, probably like, 000, maybe several 10, 000s of people who have opened their eyes and even if they're not hard bitcoiners, they now own bitcoin.
Uh, so that's huge. We have other content creators also who've had an impact. We have now once or twice per, yeah, about twice per year we have like, uh, A small, uh, merchant, uh, like, conference events, so for merchants to accept Bitcoin. we have these people who are active and who are doing things. Now, actually, yeah, there's something new that's coming up here, uh, literally in Plovdiv is we have this, um, this, uh, great dudes who have this, um, um, it's an application for, uh, ordering food, like takeaway and, uh, what is it, like,
Knut: like Glovo or
George: yeah, yeah, like Glovo, um, but, um, but, um, But it's not like this big corporate thing that, but, but still, it's a very good product and they've integrated accepting Bitcoin there for quite some time now they've made it even easier and they've introduced.
So we have like about, I think it's 15 restaurants in Sofia and like five or so in Plovdiv where through their system, you can order food. And pay with Bitcoin online, or you can also go in the restaurant and pay in Bitcoin online, and they just, um, they just won a, uh, grant from, uh, Bitcoin Beach, uh, and, uh, they're going to use the grant, uh, to, well, the attempt is really to start like a small circular economy, if you would Um, where, so if you go, uh, to one of those restaurants and pay with Bitcoin, you're going to get sats back 10%, and then, um, the restaurant is also going to get 10 percent sats back.
And if you order food, um, through their app, also the driver is going to get, uh, some sats back. And, uh, we've just been discussing, because obviously we're partnering with them, with the football club, so we'll push this out, because some of the restaurants that are there are our, I mean, basically, like, we have two restaurants locally that are partners, we got them in, right, obviously, in the deal, um, So, so that is also like, for me, it's like super cool because now for so far, the club has been pushing Bitcoin.
Now we have two of our restaurant partners who are themselves like hard Botevists, Botefans, and like they're popular. Now they're starting to accept Bitcoin in their, in their two restaurants, right? And they're going to have their campaigns. We're going to push them more. So, um, so I'm really excited about this and fingers crossed this goes well.
We have good metrics because if we have good metrics. Yeah, we'll look for ways to grow this. So there's a lot of grassroots things happening, which I love. On the top, nothing.
Knut: It's the way it's supposed to be.
George: But it's the way it is. Yeah, it's a better
Luke: Yeah it really seems like that you get one or two of these big anchors like like for example you you guys have had that had that conference last couple of years but now with both of Plavdev now Bulgaria is really got a couple of big anchors. Big relative in relative terms, uh, and all of this other stuff can, can start coming up around it.
And, uh, love, love to see it. I mean, he, I mean here, here with Rega, there's Honey Budger has been going for a really long time, and I, and I even think that they are honest about, we, we would, we just talked to, to Max, uh, about this, uh, from Defi and like yeah, there's not much other adoption in, in Lavia and this conference has been going on for a long time.
Exactly. And so it's just like, uh, it's, it's, it's great to see, uh, in, in your case, in Bulgaria's case, that there's, there's more of this, uh, picking up. So, yeah,
George: Well, I think it's really, in our case, I don't know, like it's grassroots, like I said, and I really believe grassroots and then Rio or for the vast majority, Rio adoption comes permissionless life. It comes like it's not forced. You know, there is this point where, okay, there's Plamen, like, he got the inspiration, he makes his content, he does the conferences, Like, our owner, he sees this opportunity for Bitcoin, for the club. He takes the action, right? So it's, it's not like, so it's individuals, right? Taking actions and then, as you have, you know, several of them, maybe others get inspired or get ideas going and that's how the magic happens. And, uh, yeah. Excited about it.
Wrapping Up
Luke: it's awesome, man. Great hear your story. So, was, uh, was there anything else that you wanted to discuss or bring up on this topic?
George: no, I mean, what I would say is absolutely, uh, Please, uh, you know, Knut, you've been, but please, you're absolutely welcome, Luke, join as well, like, both of you should come
Knut: Absolutely. Highly recommend it. I had a great time in Bulgaria, and it's such a fascinating country, it's such a rich history and such a beautiful place, and the food is great, and it's very affordable, it's very, yeah, very
George: like, I have people who come in Plogis specifically to, like, nomads, spend, like, a or a month. So, so please enjoy, visit the game. come spend in the restaurants where they accept Bitcoin, follow us on social media for sure, so, X and Nostr,
Luke: Yes, all the details, please.
Knut: And also like one of the eras, uh, infamous eras of Bulgaria is the commie era, right? Where you can see the impact that system had on the country and how horrid it is. Uh, so it's, it's, uh, that might not be a good pitch for, uh, but that's
Luke: Let him, let him share his social medias, Knut.
George: wait, do you have, do you have something
Knut: no, no, I think like the, The point I was getting to is, if you get to Bulgaria, don't only go to Sofia, go around the rest of the country, because it's not as raped as that town was by, as that city was by communism, all this concrete, yeah, yeah,
George: yeah, the,
Knut: you can really see the impact there. I'm not, um, yeah, this came out totally wrong, but I'm trying to, I'm trying to, To hype Bulgaria here, but also there's a historical lesson to be learned in the country, for sure,
George: sure. It's really like, there's so many different things there. So there's the communist part, there's like fucking amazing nature, there's like
Knut: is everything, yeah.
George: if you're into hiking, there's like, just like from Sofia, what I love about Sofia, like just last week, twice, end of the day, I'm like fucked up, like tired of computer.
40 minutes up and I'm up in the mountains, hiking, in like 2000 meters altitude. Uh, so, so there's all these like super cool things, but on the socials, yeah, we're on Twitter. we're on Nostr, uh, so Twitter is, um, botif underscore, uh, en, on Nostr, uh, we are just botif. Yeah, you can find us.
Luke: going say you're NPUB? No, no, no,
George: I'm still learning it, okay?
Luke: we'll post, you're still learning, we'll post all the details in the show
George: Yes. Yes. And feel free to also check out our website. We have, due to our El Salvadorian, um, kind of project, we already have a Salvadorian website, which is very easy to remember, botif. sv. So you can go there and from there you'll find all the links and information.
Luke: Absolutely fantastic.
Knut: Great! Get the inverse of Clown World. This is a shill. BitcoinInfinityStore. com And thank you very much for coming on,
George: was great having
Knut: Great to have
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