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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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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:

1. Verify ownership of a physical place in the real world;
2. 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:

1. Verify the owner of a Place in cyberspace is the owner of a place in meatspace.
2. 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:

1. Your social graph;
2. The type or subject of the content being attested and by whom;
3. 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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เมื่อวันที่ 16 กย.2024 มีผู้ติดตามคนหนึ่งส่งข้อความส่วนตัวมาหาผม บอกว่าชื่นชอบผลงานของผมมาก ต้องการจะขอซื้อผลงาน แต่ขอซื้อเป็น NFT นะ เสนอราคาซื้อขายต่อชิ้นที่สูงมาก หลังจากนั้นผมกับผู้ซื้อคนนี้พูดคุยกันในเมล์ครับ

นี่คือข้อสรุปสั่นๆจากการต่อรองซื้อขายครับ

(หลังจากนี้ผมขอเรียกผู้ซื้อว่า scammer นะครับ เพราะไพ่มันหงายมาแล้ว ว่าเขาคือมิจฉาชีพ)

• Scammer รายแรก เลือกผลงานที่จะซื้อ เสนอราคาซื้อที่สูงมาก แต่ต้องเป็นเวบไซต์ NFTmarket place ที่เขากำหนดเท่านั้น มันทำงานอยู่บน ERC20 ผมเข้าไปดูเวบไซต์ที่ว่านี้แล้วรู้สึกว่ามันดูแปลกๆครับ คนที่จะลงขายผลงานจะต้องใช้ email ในการสมัครบัญชีซะก่อน ถึงจะผูก wallet อย่างเช่น metamask ได้ เมื่อผูก wallet แล้วไม่สามารถเปลี่ยนได้ด้วย ตอนนั้นผมใช้ wallet ที่ไม่ได้ link กับ HW wallet ไว้ ทดลองสลับ wallet ไปๆมาๆ มันทำไม่ได้ แถมลอง log out แล้ว เลข wallet ก็ยังคาอยู่อันเดิม อันนี้มันดูแปลกๆแล้วหนึ่งอย่าง เวบนี้ค่า ETH ในการ mint 0.15 - 0.2 ETH … ตีเป็นเงินบาทนี่แพงบรรลัยอยู่นะครับ

• Scammer รายแรกพยายามชักจูงผม หว่านล้อมผมว่า แหม เดี๋ยวเขาก็มารับซื้องานผมน่า mint งานเสร็จ รีบบอกเขานะ เดี๋ยวเขารีบกดซื้อเลย พอขายได้กำไร ผมก็ได้ค่า gas คืนได้ แถมยังได้กำไรอีก ไม่มีอะไรต้องเสีนจริงมั้ย แต่มันเป้นความโชคดีครับ เพราะตอนนั้นผมไม่เหลือทุนสำรองที่จะมาซื้อ ETH ได้ ผมเลยต่อรองกับเขาตามนี้ครับ :

• ผมเสนอว่า เอางี้มั้ย ผมส่งผลงานของผมแบบ low resolution ให้ก่อน แลกกับให้เขาช่วยโอน ETH ที่เป็นค่า mint งานมาให้หน่อย พอผมได้ ETH แล้ว ผมจะ upscale งานของผม แล้วเมล์ไปให้ ใจแลกใจกันไปเลย ... เขาไม่เอา

• ผมเสนอให้ไปซื้อที่ร้านค้าออนไลน์ buymeacoffee ของผมมั้ย จ่ายเป็น USD ... เขาไม่เอา
• ผมเสนอให้ซื้อขายผ่าน PPV lightning invoice ที่ผมมีสิทธิ์เข้าถึง เพราะเป็น creator ของ Creatr ... เขาไม่เอา
• ผมยอกเขาว่างั้นก็รอนะ รอเงินเดือนออก เขาบอก ok

สัปดาห์ถัดมา มี scammer คนที่สองติดต่อผมเข้ามา ใช้วิธีการใกล้เคียงกัน แต่ใช้คนละเวบ แถมเสนอราคาซื้อที่สูงกว่าคนแรกมาก เวบที่สองนี้เลวร้ายค่าเวบแรกอีกครับ คือต้องใช้เมล์สมัครบัญชี ไม่สามารถผูก metamask ได้ พอสมัครเสร็จจะได้ wallet เปล่าๆมาหนึ่งอัน ผมต้องโอน ETH เข้าไปใน wallet นั้นก่อน เพื่อเอาไปเป็นค่า mint NFT 0.2 ETH

ผมบอก scammer รายที่สองว่า ต้องรอนะ เพราะตอนนี้กำลังติดต่อซื้อขายอยู่กับผู้ซื้อรายแรกอยู่ ผมกำลังรอเงินเพื่อมาซื้อ ETH เป็นต้นทุนดำเนินงานอยู่ คนคนนี้ขอให้ผมส่งเวบแรกไปให้เขาดูหน่อย หลังจากนั้นไม่นานเขาเตือนผมมาว่าเวบแรกมันคือ scam นะ ไม่สามารถถอนเงินออกมาได้ เขายังส่งรูป cap หน้าจอที่คุยกับผู้เสียหายจากเวบแรกมาให้ดูว่าเจอปัญหาถอนเงินไม่ได้ ไม่พอ เขายังบลัฟ opensea ด้วยว่าลูกค้าขายงานได้ แต่ถอนเงินไม่ได้

Opensea ถอนเงินไม่ได้ ตรงนี้แหละครับคือตัวกระตุกต่อมเอ๊ะของผมดังมาก เพราะ opensea อ่ะ ผู้ใช้ connect wallet เข้ากับ marketplace โดยตรง ซื้อขายกันเกิดขึ้น เงินวิ่งเข้าวิ่งออก wallet ของแต่ละคนโดยตรงเลย opensea เก็บแค่ค่า fee ในการใช้ platform ไม่เก็บเงินลูกค้าไว้ แถมปีนี้ค่า gas fee ก็ถูกกว่า bull run cycle 2020 มาก ตอนนี้ค่า gas fee ประมาณ 0.0001 ETH (แต่มันก็แพงกว่า BTC อยู่ดีอ่ะครับ)

ผมเลยเอาเรื่องนี้ไปปรึกษาพี่บิท แต่แอดมินมาคุยกับผมแทน ทางแอดมินแจ้งว่ายังไม่เคยมีเพื่อนๆมาปรึกษาเรื่องนี้ กรณีที่ผมทักมาถามนี่เป็นรายแรกเลย แต่แอดมินให้ความเห็นไปในทางเดียวกับสมมุติฐานของผมว่าน่าจะ scam ในเวลาเดียวกับผมเอาเรื่องนี้ไปถามในเพจ NFT community คนไทนด้วย ได้รับการ confirm ชัดเจนว่า scam และมีคนไม่น้อยโดนหลอก หลังจากที่ผมรู้ที่มาแล้ว ผมเลยเล่นสงครามปั่นประสาท scammer ทั้งสองคนนี้ครับ เพื่อดูว่าหลอกหลวงมิจฉาชีพจริงมั้ย

โดยวันที่ 30 กย. ผมเลยปั่นประสาน scammer ทั้งสองรายนี้ โดยการ mint ผลงานที่เขาเสนอซื้อนั่นแหละ ขึ้น opensea แล้วส่งข้อความไปบอกว่า

mint ให้แล้วนะ แต่เงินไม่พอจริงๆว่ะโทษที เลย mint ขึ้น opensea แทน พอดีบ้านจน ทำได้แค่นี้ไปถึงแค่ opensea รีบไปซื้อล่ะ มีคนจ้องจะคว้างานผมเยอะอยู่ ผมไม่คิด royalty fee ด้วยนะเฮ้ย เอาไปขายต่อไม่ต้องแบ่งกำไรกับผม

เท่านั้นแหละครับ สงครามจิตวิทยาก็เริ่มขึ้น แต่เขาจนมุม กลืนน้ำลายตัวเอง ช็อตเด็ดคือ

เขา : เนี่ยอุส่ารอ บอกเพื่อนในทีมว่าวันจันทร์ที่ 30 กย. ได้ของแน่ๆ เพื่อนๆในทีมเห็นงานผมแล้วมันสวยจริง เลยใส่เงินเต็มที่ 9.3ETH (+ capture screen ส่งตัวเลขยอดเงินมาให้ดู)ไว้รอโดยเฉพาะเลยนะ ผม : เหรอ ... งั้น ขอดู wallet address ที่มี transaction มาให้ดูหน่อยสิ เขา : 2ETH นี่มัน 5000$ เลยนะ ผม : แล้วไง ขอดู wallet address ที่มีการเอายอดเงิน 9.3ETH มาให้ดูหน่อย ไหนบอกว่าเตรียมเงินไว้มากแล้วนี่ ขอดูหน่อย ว่าใส่ไว้เมื่อไหร่ ... เอามาแค่ adrress นะเว้ย ไม่ต้องทะลึ่งส่ง seed มาให้ เขา : ส่งรูปเดิม 9.3 ETH มาให้ดู ผม : รูป screenshot อ่ะ มันไม่มีความหมายหรอกเว้ย ตัดต่อเอาก็ได้ง่ายจะตาย เอา transaction hash มาดู ไหนว่าเตรียมเงินไว้รอ 9.3ETH แล้วอยากซื้องานผมจนตัวสั่นเลยไม่ใช่เหรอ ถ้าจะส่ง wallet address มาให้ดู หรือจะช่วยส่ง 0.15ETH มาให้ยืม mint งานก่อน แล้วมากดซื้อ 2ETH ไป แล้วผมใช้ 0.15ETH คืนให้ก็ได้ จะซื้อหรือไม่ซื้อเนี่ย เขา : จะเอา address เขาไปทำไม ผม : ตัดจบ รำคาญ ไม่ขายให้ละ เขา : 2ETH = 5000 USD เลยนะ ผม : แล้วไง

ผมเลยเขียนบทความนี้มาเตือนเพื่อนๆพี่ๆทุกคนครับ เผื่อใครกำลังเปิดพอร์ตทำธุรกิจขาย digital art online แล้วจะโชคดี เจอของดีแบบผม

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ทำไมผมถึงมั่นใจว่ามันคือการหลอกหลวง แล้วคนโกงจะได้อะไร

อันดับแรกไปพิจารณาดู opensea ครับ เป็นเวบ NFTmarketplace ที่ volume การซื้อขายสูงที่สุด เขาไม่เก็บเงินของคนจะซื้อจะขายกันไว้กับตัวเอง เงินวิ่งเข้าวิ่งออก wallet ผู้ซื้อผู้ขายเลย ส่วนทางเวบเก็บค่าธรรมเนียมเท่านั้น แถมค่าธรรมเนียมก็ถูกกว่าเมื่อปี 2020 เยอะ ดังนั้นการที่จะไปลงขายงานบนเวบ NFT อื่นที่ค่า fee สูงกว่ากันเป็นร้อยเท่า ... จะทำไปทำไม

ผมเชื่อว่า scammer โกงเงินเจ้าของผลงานโดยการเล่นกับความโลภและความอ่อนประสบการณ์ของเจ้าของผลงานครับ เมื่อไหร่ก็ตามที่เจ้าของผลงานโอน ETH เข้าไปใน wallet เวบนั้นเมื่อไหร่ หรือเมื่อไหร่ก็ตามที่จ่ายค่า fee ในการ mint งาน เงินเหล่านั้นสิ่งเข้ากระเป๋า scammer ทันที แล้วก็จะมีการเล่นตุกติกต่อแน่นอนครับ เช่นถอนไม่ได้ หรือซื้อไม่ได้ ต้องโอนเงินมาเพิ่มเพื่อปลดล็อค smart contract อะไรก็ว่าไป แล้วคนนิสัยไม่ดีพวกเนี้ย ก็จะเล่นกับความโลภของคน เอาราคาเสนอซื้อที่สูงโคตรๆมาล่อ ... อันนี้ไม่ว่ากัน เพราะบนโลก NFT รูปภาพบางรูปที่ไม่ได้มีความเป็นศิลปะอะไรเลย มันดันขายกันได้ 100 - 150 ETH ศิลปินที่พยายามสร้างตัวก็อาจจะมองว่า ผลงานเรามีคนรับซื้อ 2 - 4 ETH ต่องานมันก็มากพอแล้ว (จริงๆมากเกินจนน่าตกใจด้วยซ้ำครับ)

บนโลกของ BTC ไม่ต้องเชื่อใจกัน โอนเงินไปหากันได้ ปิดสมุดบัญชีได้โดยไม่ต้องเชื่อใจกัน

บบโลกของ ETH "code is law" smart contract มีเขียนอยู่แล้ว ไปอ่าน มันไม่ได้ยากมากในการทำความเข้าใจ ดังนั้น การจะมาเชื่อคำสัญญาจากคนด้วยกัน เป็นอะไรที่ไม่มีเหตุผล

ผมไปเล่าเรื่องเหล่านี้ให้กับ community งานศิลปะ ก็มีทั้งเสียงตอบรับที่ดี และไม่ดีปนกันไป มีบางคนยืนยันเสียงแข็งไปในทำนองว่า ไอ้เรื่องแบบเนี้ยไม่ได้กินเขาหรอก เพราะเขาตั้งใจแน่วแน่ว่างานศิลป์ของเขา เขาไม่เอาเข้ามายุ่งในโลก digital currency เด็ดขาด ซึ่งผมก็เคารพมุมมองเขาครับ แต่มันจะดีกว่ามั้ย ถ้าเราเปิดหูเปิดตาให้ทันเทคโนโลยี โดยเฉพาะเรื่อง digital currency , blockchain โดนโกงทีนึงนี่คือหมดตัวกันง่ายกว่าเงิน fiat อีก

อยากจะมาเล่าให้ฟังครับ และอยากให้ช่วยแชร์ไปให้คนรู้จักด้วย จะได้ระวังตัวกัน

Note

• ภาพประกอบ cyber security ทั้งสองนี่ของผมเองครับ ทำเอง วางขายบน AdobeStock
• อีกบัญชีนึงของผม "HikariHarmony" npub1exdtszhpw3ep643p9z8pahkw8zw00xa9pesf0u4txyyfqvthwapqwh48sw กำลังค่อยๆเอาผลงานจากโลกข้างนอกเข้ามา nostr ครับ ตั้งใจจะมาสร้างงานศิลปะในนี้ เพื่อนๆที่ชอบงาน จะได้ไม่ต้องออกไปหาที่ไหน

ผลงานของผมครับ - Anime girl fanarts : HikariHarmony - HikariHarmony on Nostr - General art : KeshikiRakuen - KeshikiRakuen อาจจะเป็นบัญชี nostr ที่สามของผม ถ้าไหวครับ

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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。

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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。

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准备工具

• Ntfy服务
• Google Script
• Google Sheets

操作步骤

1. 在Ntfy后台账号，设置访问令牌。
2. 添加订阅主题。
3. 进入Google Sheets创建一个表格.记住id，如下图：
4. 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); }); }

```

4.Goole Script需要添加gmail服务，如图：

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。

效果预览：

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Hello everyone on Nostr and all my watchersand followersfrom DeviantArt, as well as those from other art platforms

I have been creating and sharing AI-generated anime girl fanart since the beginning of 2024 and have been running member-exclusive content on Patreon.

I also publish showcases of my artworks to Deviantart. I organically build up my audience from time to time. I consider it as one of my online businesses of art. Everything is slowly growing

On September 16, I received a DM from someone expressing interest in purchasing my art in NFT format and offering a very high price for each piece. We later continued the conversation via email.

Here’s a brief overview of what happened

• The first scammer selected the art they wanted to buy and offered a high price for each piece. They provided a URL to an NFT marketplace site running on the Ethereum (ETH) mainnet or ERC20. The site appeared suspicious, requiring email sign-up and linking a MetaMask wallet. However, I couldn't change the wallet address later. The minting gas fees were quite expensive, ranging from 0.15 to 0.2 ETH

• The scammers tried to convince me that the high profits would easily cover the minting gas fees, so I had nothing to lose. Luckily, I didn’t have spare funds to purchase ETH for the gas fees at the time, so I tried negotiating with them as follows:

• I offered to send them a lower-quality version of my art via email in exchange for the minting gas fees, but they refused.

• I offered them the option to pay in USD through Buy Me a Coffee shop here, but they refused.
• I offered them the option to pay via Bitcoin using the Lightning Network invoice , but they refused.
• I asked them to wait until I could secure the funds, and they agreed to wait.

The following week, a second scammer approached me with a similar offer, this time at an even higher price and through a different NFT marketplace website.

This second site also required email registration, and after navigating to the dashboard, it asked for a minting fee of 0.2 ETH. However, the site provided a wallet address for me instead of connecting a MetaMask wallet.

I told the second scammer that I was waiting to make a profit from the first sale, and they asked me to show them the first marketplace. They then warned me that the first site was a scam and even sent screenshots of victims, including one from OpenSea saying that Opensea is not paying.

This raised a red flag, and I began suspecting I might be getting scammed. On OpenSea, funds go directly to users' wallets after transactions, and OpenSea charges a much lower platform fee compared to the previous crypto bull run in 2020. Minting fees on OpenSea are also significantly cheaper, around 0.0001 ETH per transaction.

I also consulted with Thai NFT artist communities and the ex-chairman of the Thai Digital Asset Association. According to them, no one had reported similar issues, but they agreed it seemed like a scam.

After confirming my suspicions with my own research and consulting with the Thai crypto community, I decided to test the scammers’ intentions by doing the following

I minted the artwork they were interested in, set the price they offered, and listed it for sale on OpenSea. I then messaged them, letting them know the art was available and ready to purchase, with no royalty fees if they wanted to resell it.

They became upset and angry, insisting I mint the art on their chosen platform, claiming they had already funded their wallet to support me. When I asked for proof of their wallet address and transactions, they couldn't provide any evidence that they had enough funds.

Here’s what I want to warn all artists in the DeviantArt community or other platforms If you find yourself in a similar situation, be aware that scammers may be targeting you.

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My Perspective why I Believe This is a Scam and What the Scammers Gain

From my experience with BTC and crypto since 2017, here's why I believe this situation is a scam, and what the scammers aim to achieve

First, looking at OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace on the ERC20 network, they do not hold users' funds. Instead, funds from transactions go directly to users’ wallets. OpenSea’s platform fees are also much lower now compared to the crypto bull run in 2020. This alone raises suspicion about the legitimacy of other marketplaces requiring significantly higher fees.

I believe the scammers' tactic is to lure artists into paying these exorbitant minting fees, which go directly into the scammers' wallets. They convince the artists by promising to purchase the art at a higher price, making it seem like there's no risk involved. In reality, the artist has already lost by paying the minting fee, and no purchase is ever made.

In the world of Bitcoin (BTC), the principle is "Trust no one" and “Trustless finality of transactions” In other words, transactions are secure and final without needing trust in a third party.

In the world of Ethereum (ETH), the philosophy is "Code is law" where everything is governed by smart contracts deployed on the blockchain. These contracts are transparent, and even basic code can be read and understood. Promises made by people don’t override what the code says.

I also discuss this issue with art communities. Some people have strongly expressed to me that they want nothing to do with crypto as part of their art process. I completely respect that stance.

However, I believe it's wise to keep your eyes open, have some skin in the game, and not fall into scammers’ traps. Understanding the basics of crypto and NFTs can help protect you from these kinds of schemes.

If you found this article helpful, please share it with your fellow artists.

Until next time Take care

Note

• Both cyber security images are mine , I created and approved by AdobeStock to put on sale
• I'm working very hard to bring all my digital arts into Nostr to build my Sats business here to my another npub "HikariHarmony" npub1exdtszhpw3ep643p9z8pahkw8zw00xa9pesf0u4txyyfqvthwapqwh48sw

Link to my full gallery - Anime girl fanarts : HikariHarmony - HikariHarmony on Nostr - General art : KeshikiRakuen

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Table Of Content

• Whales and Sharks: The Big Players in the Crypto Ocean

• June's Close: A Bullish Signal

• Data-Driven Predictions: The Role of Crypto Intelligence

• Whale Holdings: Keeping the Selling Pressure at Bay

• Historical Trends: July as a Profitable Month

• Conclusion

• FAQ

The cryptocurrency market is a dynamic and rapidly evolving space, with Bitcoin (BTC) at its forefront. One of the key factors influencing the market's trajectory is the activity of large-scale investors, often referred to as 'whales' and 'sharks.' These entities hold substantial volumes of digital assets, and their investment decisions can significantly sway market trends. Recently, these influential players have been doubling down on their Bitcoin investments, particularly as June 2023 drew to a close with BTC valued at an impressive $30,469. This article aims to explore this trend in detail, examining the potential implications for Bitcoin's future and the broader cryptocurrency market.

Whales and Sharks: The Big Players in the Crypto Ocean

In the vast and diverse ocean of cryptocurrencies, whales and sharks are the entities that hold large volumes of digital assets. Their actions, whether buying or selling, often have a substantial impact on the market, influencing price trends and investor sentiment. Over the past seven weeks, these large wallet investors have shown a strong appetite for Bitcoin, accumulating an impressive 154,500 BTC. The pace of this accumulation has notably picked up in the last two weeks. These investors have been capitalizing on market dips to increase their holdings, a strategy often referred to as 'buying the dip.' This trend suggests a strong confidence in Bitcoin's potential and could have significant implications for its future price trajectory.

June's Close: A Bullish Signal

June 2023 proved to be a significant month for Bitcoin, with the cryptocurrency closing at $30,469. This figure represents the highest monthly close for Bitcoin in the past thirteen months, a noteworthy milestone given the asset's volatility. This bullish signal has sparked optimism among investors and analysts alike, fueling a thesis for a potential recovery and upward trend for Bitcoin in the coming months. If this prediction holds true, it could mark a turning point for Bitcoin, potentially leading to increased investor interest and further price appreciation.

Data-Driven Predictions: The Role of Crypto Intelligence

In the complex and often opaque world of cryptocurrencies, crypto intelligence platforms like Santiment play a crucial role. These platforms track and analyze market trends, providing valuable insights into the behavior of large-scale investors and the overall market dynamics. According to Santiment's data, Bitcoin's whale and shark addresses accumulated a staggering 154,500 BTC within a seven-week period between April 2023 and the time of writing. The acceleration of Bitcoin accumulation in the past two weeks suggests a strong confidence in the asset's potential for recovery. This data-driven insight provides a valuable perspective on the market sentiment and could be a key indicator of Bitcoin's future performance.

Whale Holdings: Keeping the Selling Pressure at Bay

One of the intriguing aspects of the Bitcoin market is the concentration of holdings among whales. Bitcoin whale wallets, those holding between 10 and 10,000 tokens, now control 67% of the total supply of the asset. This concentration of holdings can be seen as a positive sign for Bitcoin. By holding onto a significant portion of the supply, whales reduce the selling pressure on the asset. This can create a more stable environment for price growth, as it reduces the likelihood of sudden price drops due to large-scale sell-offs. This dynamic could increase the potential for a recovery in Bitcoin's price and contribute to its long-term stability.

Historical Trends: July as a Profitable Month

Historical trends can often provide valuable insights into potential future market trends. For Bitcoin, the month of July has consistently proven to be profitable for holders over the last three years. This trend, coupled with the recent surge in whale accumulation, suggests that Bitcoin's price may recover from recent market fluctuations. These include the impact of the SEC's crackdown on crypto exchanges and increased regulatory scrutiny. If this trend continues, July could once again prove to be a profitable month for Bitcoin investors, potentially marking the start of a new upward trend.

Conclusion

The recent actions of Bitcoin whales and sharks, coupled with historical trends and market data, paint a promising picture for Bitcoin's future. The significant accumulation of BTC, the highest monthly close in over a year, and the potential for a profitable July all point towards a positive outlook for the asset. However, as with all investments, these trends should not be taken as definitive predictions. Market dynamics are subject to change, and investors should always conduct thorough research and consider various factors before making investment decisions. The world of cryptocurrencies is as exciting as it is unpredictable, and the actions of Bitcoin whales and sharks will continue to be a critical aspect to watch in the unfolding narrative of this digital asset.

FAQ

Who are Bitcoin whales and sharks? Bitcoin whales and sharks are large-scale investors who hold substantial volumes of Bitcoin. Their investment activities can significantly influence market trends.

What has been the recent trend among Bitcoin whales and sharks? Over the past seven weeks, Bitcoin whales and sharks have doubled down on their investments, accumulating 154,500 BTC, especially as June ended with BTC valued at $30,469.

What does June's closing value signify for Bitcoin? June 2023 closed with Bitcoin valued at $30,469, the highest monthly close in the past thirteen months. This has sparked optimism for a potential recovery and upward trend for Bitcoin.

What percentage of Bitcoin's total supply do whale wallets control? Bitcoin whale wallets, those holding between 10 and 10,000 tokens, now control 67% of the total supply of the asset.

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日本銀行政策委員会の安藤隆氏は10月16日の講演で、日本には政策正常化の条件が整っており、日銀が段階的な利上げアプローチを採用することが適切であると述べた。

庵田正樹氏は、期待が高まる日銀の利上げ時期について、現時点では具体的な月は検討していないが、早期の利上げによって日本をデフレ状態に逆戻りさせることは避けなければならないと述べた。

市場面では、今日、日本の株式市場は大きな打撃を受けました。引け時点で、日経225指数は730ポイント以上急落し、1.83％下落し、39180.3ポイントで取引を終えた。東京エレクトロン指数は1.2％下落し、半導体セクターが下落を主導した。スポンサーなしのADRは9％以上減少しました。

バークレイズの最新レポートが、市場が日銀利上げの可能性を過小評価している可能性があると警告していることは注目に値する。バークレイズは、日銀が１２月か来年１月に２５ベーシスポイント（ｂｐ）利上げすると予想している。

日銀が声を上げる 日銀政策委員の庵田正樹氏は10月16日の講演で、日銀は今年3月の政策委員会で、マイナス金利政策と短期金利を利用したイールドカーブ・コントロール（YCC）の廃止を決定したと述べた。主要な政策ツールとしての評価操作。また、日銀は7月の会合で金利を引き上げ、長期国債の買い入れ額を段階的に削減した。日本銀行は、こうした施策を通じて、2％のインフレ目標の達成と政策正常化の促進に努めています。

安田正樹氏は、日本は政策正常化の条件を満たしていると指摘した。これらの状況には次のものが含まれます。第一に、CPI のすべてのカテゴリーにおける価格の前年比分布は、もはやデフレ期の特徴を示していません。第二に、CPI水準はデフレ期前のピークを超えている。しかしながら、正常化に向けて進む過程においては、市場にデフレへの回帰を期待させるような急激な政策変更は避ける必要がある。

したがって、安田正樹氏は、日本銀行が緩やかな利上げアプローチを採用することが適切であると考えている。

アナリストの安藤誠氏は、基調インフレの上昇がサービス価格の上昇によってさらに促進されるのであれば、連邦準備理事会による利下げの可能性の影響に対する日銀の焦点は薄れるだろうと述べた。 FRBによる急速な利下げは、必ずしも日本銀行が利上げできないことを意味するわけではない。日銀は利上げペースを定めておらず、現在の経済データに特別な注意を払う必要がある。

日銀の再利上げ時期について、アナリストの安藤誠氏は「現時点で具体的な月は検討していない」と述べた。これまでの利上げ策は期待通りの成果を上げているが、早すぎる利上げによって日本をデフレに逆戻りさせることは避ける必要がある。

アナリストの安藤誠氏は、日銀が来年１月に開催する地方支店長会議が、政策判断材料の一つとなる来年の賃金見通しのヒントになる可能性があるとの見方を示した。

潜在的な利上げリスク 現在の市場のコンセンサスは、日銀が年内に再利上げを断念するというものだ。

調査によると、エコノミストの９割近くが日銀が来年３月末までに利上げすると予想している。調査結果は、日銀が政策を正常化する上で直面する課題を浮き彫りにした。現在、世界中のほとんどの中央銀行は利下げする傾向にあり、新しい政治指導者の金融政策の好みには不確実性があります。

大和証券の岩下真理チーフマーケットエコノミストは、日銀が来年１月に四半期展望リポートを発表するまでに利上げの条件は整うとの見方を示した。日銀が米新政府の政策の実現可能性や春季賃金交渉の結果を見極めたい場合、決定は３月まで延期される可能性がある。

しかし、バークレイズの最新レポートは、市場が日銀の利上げ確率を過小評価している可能性があると警告している。

バークレイズのアナリスト、門田慎一郎氏と日本為替・金利調査部のチームは、10月下旬の日本の衆議院選挙の結果が日銀の利上げ決定に影響を与えるとの報告書を発表、具体的には次のように述べた。

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Das Aufkommen von Sexpuppen stellt zweifellos eine große Herausforderung für das menschliche Konzept von Intimität dar und wirft eine Reihe von philosophischen und ethischen Fragen auf. Sie scheint unser traditionelles Verständnis vom Wesen der Intimität auf den Kopf zu stellen und wirft eine Reihe von philosophischen und ethischen Fragen auf.

Traditionell wurde Intimität als eine einzigartige Verbindung zwischen Menschen betrachtet, die auf gegenseitigem Verständnis, Vertrauen und emotionaler Bindung beruht. Sie impliziert einen wechselseitigen Austausch, Kommunikation und ein inhärentes Bedürfnis nach Empathie. Der intimen Beziehung zwischen Menschen und real sex doll fehlt jedoch offensichtlich diese wechselseitige emotionale Bindung und geistige Ebene. Sexpuppen können die innere Welt des Menschen nicht wirklich verstehen, und was sie bieten, ist nur eine äußere, oberflächliche und einseitige intime Erfahrung.

Daher wird die Auffassung vertreten, dass die intime Beziehung zwischen Sexpuppen und Menschen nur eine Art anthropomorphe Scheinbeziehung ist, die die intimen Bedürfnisse der Menschen auf der geistigen und emotionalen Ebene nicht befriedigen kann und die Entfremdung zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen und die Selbstisolierung des Einzelnen sogar noch verstärken kann. Unter diesem Gesichtspunkt scheinen lebensgroße Sexpuppe die Intimität auf eine rein physische und utilitaristische Ebene zu reduzieren, was eine Verzerrung des Wesens der Intimität und der Grenzüberschreitung darstellt.

Es gibt jedoch auch die Ansicht, dass das Wesen der Intimität nicht statisch ist, sondern sich mit dem Wandel der Zeit und dem Fortschritt der Technologie ständig weiterentwickelt. Auch wenn Sexpuppen keine echte wechselseitige emotionale Verbindung herstellen können, erfüllen sie doch bestimmte Bedürfnisse des Menschen, wie z. B. die Verringerung der Einsamkeit, die Wiederherstellung des sexuellen Selbstbewusstseins und den Erhalt von physischem und psychischem Komfort. Daher kann Intimität, die auf Eigeninteresse beruht, auch als Ausdruck von Intimität betrachtet werden. Dies erweitert und bereichert die Bedeutung und Ausdehnung von Intimität.

Manche meinen sogar, wenn sich die Technologie der künstlichen Intelligenz so weit entwickelt, dass sie in Zukunft die menschliche Natur in hohem Maße simulieren kann und sex puppe die Fähigkeit zu autonomem Denken und aufrichtigen Gefühlen erlangen, kann dann die intime Beziehung zwischen ihr und den Menschen als echte intime Beziehung angesehen werden? Die Definition von Intimität muss dann möglicherweise neu überdacht werden.

Günstige sexpuppe, auch wenn sie klein sind, eröffnen eine neue Perspektive auf das seit langem bestehende Konzept der Intimität und haben viele interessante und tiefgreifende Überlegungen ausgelöst. Wir müssen die Veränderungen, die die Technologie für das menschliche Leben mit sich bringt, aus einer umfassenden Perspektive betrachten, eine offene und tolerante Haltung bewahren und die Bedeutung und die Grenzen von Intimität und die Natur des Menschen in einem rationalen Diskurs ständig neu untersuchen und definieren. Diese Art des kontinuierlichen Denkens und Umgestaltens wird uns voranbringen.

1. https://gab.com/wifesexdoll/posts/113315151952278396
2. https://bsky.app/profile/wifesexdoll.bsky.social/post/3l6m3bgtrlm2j

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_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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NIP-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 be user/profile/name, where user/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 kind 30079 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 saving user/profile/name: Bob, you should also save user/profile: {} so the subdirectory can be listed under user.

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 or groups/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 same d 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

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Distribuição segura do Linux de código aberto

O sistema operacional Linux Kodachi é baseado no Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS, ele fornecerá a você um sistema operacional seguro, anti-forense e anônimo, considerando todos os recursos que uma pessoa preocupada com a privacidade precisa ter para estar segura.

O Kodachi é muito fácil de usar, tudo o que você precisa fazer é inicializá-lo no seu PC via unidade USB, então você deve ter um sistema operacional totalmente em execução com conexão VPN estabelecida + conexão Tor estabelecida + serviço DNScrypt em execução. Nenhuma configuração ou conhecimento de Linux é necessário de sua parte, nós fazemos tudo para você. Todo o sistema operacional funciona a partir de sua memória RAM temporária, portanto, depois de desligá-lo, nenhum vestígio é deixado para trás, todas as suas atividades são apagadas.

Kodachi é um sistema operacional ao vivo, que você pode iniciar em quase qualquer computador a partir de um DVD, pendrive ou cartão SD. Destina-se a preservar a sua privacidade e anonimato.

Características

Pronto para VPN

Tor Ready com seleção de nó de saída

DNScrypt pronto

Onion Circuits/Onion share

i2p

GNUNET

Carteira multimoeda Exodus

Rkhhunter

Guardião de Pares

Sala do pânico

Bleachbit

Átomo

audibilidade

Zulucrypt

Informações de sistema e segurança na área de trabalho

Wipe Ram

Limpe o espaço livre

Mate o sistema operacional!

Nautilus-wipe

Keepass2x

cavalo marinho

Gpa

Gnupg2Name

Enigmail

gufw

prisão de fogo

geany

Krusader

fundir

Obturador

Htop

Zulumount

FileZillaName

Exterminador do Futuro

Transmissão

Caixa Virtual

Syslinux-utils

Smbclient

dispersar

Fcitx

Ibus

pidgin

Coim

Anel

Sinal

Geoip-bin

Cais do Cairo

pcmanfm

Nmap

Xtrlock

Ncdu

Gksu

Sysv-rc-conf

Rdesktop

GnomeNettoolGenericName

Sinal

GResolver

OpenShot

Icedove

SiriKali

Denyhosts

Steghide

navegador da web Chromium

Gdebi

Comandante Gnomo

Visualizadores de imagens de luz Blender Viewnior e Risrtto

barulhento

Iridium-browser

raposa d'água

sincronizando

carteira jaxx

bomba nuclear

persistência

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxkodachi/

https://www.youtube.com/live/gCHjRQOTZmQ?feature=share

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O MuPDF é uma biblioteca de software leve e de código aberto que oferece recursos avançados de visualização e manipulação de documentos. Desenvolvido pela Artifex Software, o MuPDF foi projetado para ser rápido, eficiente e altamente portátil, tornando-se uma escolha popular para aplicativos que exigem recursos avançados de renderização de documentos.

A história do MuPDF remonta ao ano de 2005, quando a Artifex Software iniciou o desenvolvimento dessa biblioteca para atender à necessidade de visualização rápida e eficiente de documentos em dispositivos com recursos limitados. Desde então, o MuPDF tem sido constantemente aprimorado e aperfeiçoado, ganhando reconhecimento por sua capacidade de processar e exibir uma variedade de formatos de documento de maneira eficiente.

Uma das principais características do MuPDF é sua arquitetura modular. Ele foi projetado para ser flexível e adaptável, permitindo que os desenvolvedores integrem facilmente seus recursos em seus próprios aplicativos. O MuPDF suporta uma variedade de formatos de documento, incluindo PDF, XPS, EPUB, CBZ, e mais. Essa versatilidade garante que os usuários possam visualizar e interagir com diferentes tipos de documentos de forma conveniente e eficiente.

Em termos de funcionalidade, o MuPDF oferece recursos avançados de renderização, permitindo uma visualização precisa e de alta qualidade de documentos. Ele suporta recursos como zoom, rotação, navegação por páginas e pesquisa de texto, oferecendo uma experiência de visualização interativa e intuitiva. Além disso, o MuPDF permite a extração de texto e imagens de documentos, facilitando a manipulação e o processamento de conteúdo.

Uma das vantagens do MuPDF é sua eficiência. Ele foi projetado para ter um desempenho rápido e usar poucos recursos do sistema, tornando-o ideal para dispositivos com capacidades limitadas, como smartphones ou tablets. Sua arquitetura otimizada garante uma inicialização rápida e uma resposta ágil às interações do usuário, proporcionando uma experiência de visualização de documentos suave e sem interrupções.

O MuPDF também é altamente customizável e extensível. Os desenvolvedores têm a liberdade de personalizar a interface e adicionar recursos específicos de acordo com as necessidades de seus aplicativos. Isso permite uma integração perfeita do MuPDF em diferentes contextos e cenários, tornando-o uma escolha versátil para uma ampla gama de aplicativos.

Uma das principais questões que o MuPDF resolve é a visualização eficiente de documentos em dispositivos com recursos limitados. Sua arquitetura leve e otimizada permite que dispositivos com baixa capacidade de processamento e memória possam exibir documentos de maneira rápida e eficiente. Isso é especialmente importante em um mundo onde os dispositivos móveis desempenham um papel central e a capacidade de visualizar documentos em movimento é fundamental.

Para os usuários, o MuPDF oferece uma solução confiável e eficiente para visualizar, interagir e manipular documentos. Seja lendo um livro eletrônico, revisando um contrato em formato PDF ou navegando por uma revista digital, o MuPDF fornece uma experiência de visualização suave e de alta qualidade. Sua capacidade de lidar com diferentes formatos de documento e sua eficiência em dispositivos com recursos limitados o tornam uma escolha valiosa para quem busca uma solução de visualização de documentos confiável e de alto desempenho.

O MuPDF é uma biblioteca de software que oferece recursos avançados de visualização e manipulação de documentos. Com sua arquitetura modular, eficiência, customização e suporte a vários formatos de documento, o MuPDF se destaca como uma solução poderosa para atender às necessidades de visualização de documentos em diferentes contextos e dispositivos. Seja para desenvolvedores que desejam integrar recursos de visualização em seus aplicativos ou para usuários que procuram uma experiência de visualização de documentos confiável e eficiente, o MuPDF é uma escolha sólida.

https://mupdf.com/

https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/mupdf

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KRIS 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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ビットコインは現在危機的な時期にあり、投資家は歴史的な傾向が再び展開されるかどうかに注目している。

ビットコインは現在重大な時期にあり、投資家は歴史的な傾向が繰り返されるかどうかに注目している。ビットコインの４度目の半減期からほぼ６カ月が経過した。 Hashdex Research は、ビットコインが現在重要な段階に差し掛かっており、これまでのサイクルに基づくと、価格は長期にわたる値固めの後に上昇し始める可能性があることを明らかにしています。

歴史のサイクルは繰り返されるのでしょうか？ この潜在的な市場変化に影響を与える重要な要因は数多くあります。資産管理会社ハッシュデックスの調査チームの報告書によると、これには9月中旬の米連邦準備理事会（FRB）の50ベーシスポイント（ｂｐ）利下げなど、最近の主要な中央銀行利下げ、中国の金融緩和と景気刺激策、そして来る米国大統領選挙が含まれるという。

これらの要因は、イベント後の数か月間で価格が大幅に上昇した以前の半減サイクルと同様に、潜在的な急騰にとって好ましい環境を生み出す可能性があります。

第 3 四半期の終わり時点では、仮想通貨市場のボラティリティは比較的安定しており、ビットコインのボラティリティは 50% 未満であり、イーサリアムとソラナ コインも同様のレベルでした。これらのボラティリティの低下は業界の成熟度を示しており、8月初旬の円裁定取引の終了によってボラティリティが一時的に上昇しただけで、ビットコインだけでなく世界中の主要な資産クラスすべてに影響を与えています。

2024 年の第 4 四半期が始まると、特に価格が前向きな動きを示し始めるにつれて、仮想通貨のボラティリティが全体的に上昇すると予想される理由があります。 Hashdex Research は、ビットコイン投資家が資産を蓄積し続けていると指摘しています。第3四半期のビットコイン価格は5万4000ドルから6万9000ドルの間で変動した。年末までにビットコインの優位性は強化され、デジタル資産市場の54％を占めるようになる。

ビットコインはここまで回復。 ビットコインは2024年の第3四半期にプラスのパフォーマンスを見せ始め、7月には5.3％上昇した。イーサリアムETF承認の可能性を巡る楽観的なムードと、仮想通貨を支持するトランプ大統領の選挙見通しへの新たな自信が背景にある。

しかし、この上昇の勢いは8月に日本銀行が予想外の利上げを行ったことで打撃を受け、主要な資産クラスの広範囲にわたる下落につながった。これにより、最終的にビットコインは 10% 下落しました。

9月も、トランプ勝利への信頼感が低下し、米雇用統計が景気後退の可能性を示唆し、市場センチメントが弱まったため、弱気の調子で始まった。しかし、9月中旬に状況が一変し、投資家の間に楽観的な見方が広がり、ビットコインの回復に貢献した。仮想通貨は 8% の上昇で月を終え、第 3 四半期のトータルリターンは 2.5% となりました。

過去7日間でビットコインは5％以上上昇し、現在の取引価格は6万5650ドルを超えている。

スポットETFに関して言えば、世界的な投資管理大手ブラックロックのビットコイン受け入れが暗号通貨分野で極めて重要であることは注目に値する。今年1月、同社はスポットビットコインETFを立ち上げ、この暗号通貨の価格を歴史的高値に押し上げた。同社は7月にもこの戦略を繰り返し、デジタル資産ポートフォリオを拡大するためにスポットイーサリアムETFを導入した。ビットコインと比較すると中程度の流入しか集めていないものの、同社はそれでも中程度の成功を収めていると考えている。

ビットコイン＝金なのか？

ブラックロックのCEOラリー・フィンク氏は、ビットコインは一種の資産であると述べ、その投資可能性を金と比較した。同氏は電話会見で「われわれはビットコイン自体が一種の資産であると信じている。ビットコインは金や他の商品の代替品だ。ブラックロックは割り当ての可能性について世界機関と協議している」と強調した。

フィンク氏はまた、デジタル資産の将来の成功は規制だけに依存するものではないと強調した。同氏は、市場の進化を決定する上で流動性と透明性がより重要になると主張した。同CEOは、仮想資産の現状を11兆ドルの住宅ローン市場に例えた。同氏は、仮想通貨はまだ初期段階にあるが、より優れたデータと分析が利用可能になれば、仮想通貨も同様の成長を遂げる可能性があると指摘した。

同氏は、「住宅ローン市場やハイイールド市場ではこれを以前にも見てきた。始まりはゆっくりだが、より良い分析とデータの導入により、市場はより広く受け入れられるようになる」と述べた。

フィンク氏は国家通貨のデジタル化についても議論した。同氏は、デジタルドルの可能性とデジタルドルが果たせる役割について具体的に言及した。同氏は、インドとブラジルがこの技術を導入して成功した事例を強調した。

さらに、フィンク氏は、人工知能の統合とデータ分析の改善により、デジタル資産市場の拡大と幅広い受け入れが促進される可能性があると考えています。

同氏の発言は、ビットコインスポットETFへの多額の資金流入が見込まれる時期に行われた。 10月14日は、これらの金融商品にとって、1月の発売以来最も好調な日の一つとなった。 Farside Investors のデータによると、その日だけでスポットビットコイン ETF に 5 億 5,590 万ドルの新規流入があったことが示されています。ブラックロック自身のIBIT ETFは7,950万ドルの流入を集め、それぞれ2億3,930万ドルと1億110万ドルの流入を集めたフィデリティのFBTCとビットワイズのBITBに次いで2位となった。

@ c73818cc:ccd5c890

🦅 Il fondo statunitense punta su infrastrutture, energia e tecnologie, con il sostegno del governo italiano

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@ 266815e0:6cd408a5

Lot 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

@ 4ba8e86d:89d32de4

Com uma interface intuitiva e poderosa, o Librera torna a experiência de leitura de e-books verdadeiramente agradável.

Algumas características principais do Librera incluem: - Descoberta fácil de documentos através de critérios configuráveis, incluindo verificação automática de pastas predefinidas e navegação com um explorador de arquivos no aplicativo. - Visualização de documentos recentes com indicador de progresso de leitura. - Suporte para marcadores, anotações e índices EPUB3. - Conexão com nuvens e catálogos online, e sincronização entre dispositivos Android via Google Drive para progresso de leitura e favoritos. - Modos dia e noite configuráveis, incluindo cor de link personalizável para notas de rodapé e notas finais. - Suporte para dicionários populares online e offline, bloqueio de rolagem vertical e centralização automática e manual de documentos. - Possibilidade de inserir código CSS personalizado, visualização de página única de documentos de duas páginas e modo de músico com velocidade de rolagem ajustável. - Leitura TTS personalizável e reprodutor de mídia integrado, pesquisa de texto com várias palavras e conversão de documentos online. - Leitura de documentos arquivados (.zip) e suporte para idiomas RTL (tailandês, hebraico, árabe, etc.). - Importação e exportação de configurações, backup automático da sessão atual e iniciais principais em documentos FB2.

Com o Librera Reader, é fácil criar bibliotecas auto-mantidas de documentos, selecionando os formatos a serem incluídos e as pastas a serem digitalizadas. A biblioteca pode ser visualizada em forma de lista ou grade, com capas de miniaturas ajustáveis e descrições detalhadas para identificação dos documentos. A organização da biblioteca pode ser feita por caminho, nome, tamanho, data, etc., e um filtro auxilia na busca por documentos específicos ou grupos. Durante a leitura, os documentos podem ser bloqueados em modo de rolagem vertical e navegados por página ou tela. É possível reformatar o texto e fazer anotações, além de personalizar fontes e fundos através das configurações. Trechos selecionados podem ser traduzidos, compartilhados, copiados e pesquisados dentro do próprio documento ou na Internet.

https://github.com/foobnix/LibreraReader

https://f-droid.org/pt_BR/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/

@ 266815e0:6cd408a5

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

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

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

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

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

An Identity system

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

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

What is blossom?

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

What are Blobs?

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

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

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

How do the servers work?

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

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

What is Blossom Drive?

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

What are Drives

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

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

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

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

Getting started

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

1. Open the app

Open https://blossom.hzrd149.com

2. Login using extension

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

3. Add a blossom server

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

4. Start uploading your files

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

5. Manage files

Encrypted drives

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

Whats next?

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

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

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@ bad87238:1e92a734

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@ f977c464:32fcbe00

Güneşin 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.

@ bcea2b98:7ccef3c9

When people talk about financial freedom, they often focus on investing, saving, or building wealth. But sometimes, the most valuable skills or habits are the ones that aren’t talked about enough. Maybe it’s discipline, emotional resilience, or even something unexpected like negotiation or patience.

What do you think is the most underrated skill or habit for achieving real financial independence?

For me, the most underrated skill is delayed gratification. It’s not just about resisting the urge to spend money now, it’s about thinking long-term in everything you do. When I first started learning about Bitcoin and freedom, I realized that the biggest hurdle wasn’t just making money, but knowing when to hold off on spending it for the right opportunities.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/727313

@ ec42c765:328c0600

この記事は前回の内容を把握している人向けに書いています（特にNostrエクステンション（NIP-07）導入）

前回：Nostrのカスタム絵文字の使い方

手順

1. 登録する画像を用意する
2. 画像をweb上にアップロードする
3. 絵文字セットに登録する

1. 登録する画像を用意する

以下のような方法で用意してください。

• 画像編集ソフト等を使って自分で作成する
• 絵文字作成サイトを使う（絵文字ジェネレーター、MEGAMOJI など）
• フリー画像を使う（いらすとや など）

データ量削減

Nostrでは画像をそのまま表示するクライアントが多いので、データ量が大きな画像をそのまま使うとモバイル通信時などに負担がかかります。

データ量を増やさないためにサイズやファイル形式を変更することをおすすめします。

以下は私のおすすめです。 * サイズ：正方形 128×128 ピクセル、長方形 横幅任意×128 ピクセル * ファイル形式：webp形式（webp変換おすすめサイト toimg） * 単色、単純な画像の場合 png形式（webpにするとむしろサイズが大きくなる場合がある）

その他

• 背景透過画像
• ダークモード、ライトモード両方で見やすい色

がおすすめです。

2. 画像をweb上にアップロードする

よく分からなければ emojito からのアップロードで問題ないです。方法は後述。

画像はアップロード先によって以下のような違いがあります。

後から画像を * 削除も差し替えもできない（emojito など） * 削除できるが、差し替えはできない（Gyazo、nostrcheck.me など） * 削除も差し替えもできる（GitHub など）

画像の差し替えは既にNostr上に投稿されたカスタム絵文字の画像を後から変更できるかどうかを指します。

普段使っている画像アップロード先があるならそれで構いません。

3. 絵文字セットに登録する

emojito から登録します。

右上のアイコン → + New emoji set から新規の絵文字セットを作成できます。

① 絵文字セット名を入力

基本的にカスタム絵文字はカスタム絵文字セットを作り、ひとまとまりにして登録します。

一度作った絵文字セットに後から絵文字を追加することもできます。

② 画像をアップロードまたは画像URLを入力

emojitoから画像をアップロードする場合、ファイル名に日本語などの2バイト文字が含まれているとアップロードがエラーになるようです。

その場合はファイル名を適当な英数字などに変更してください。

③ 絵文字のショートコードを入力

ショートコードは絵文字を呼び出す時に使用する場合があります。

他のカスタム絵文字と被っても問題ありませんが選択時に複数表示されて支障が出る可能性があります。

他と被りにくく長くなりすぎないショートコードが良いかもしれません。

ショートコードに使えるのは半角の英数字とアンダーバーのみです。

④ 追加

Add を押してもまだ作成完了にはなりません。

一度に絵文字を複数登録できます。

最後に右上の Save を押すと作成完了です。

画面が切り替わるので、右側の Options から Bookmark を選択するとそのカスタム絵文字セットを使えるようになります。

既存の絵文字セットを編集するには Options から Edit を選択します。

以上です。

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仕様

NIP-30 Custom Emoji

NIP-30 カスタム絵文字（和訳）

@ 6bae33c8:607272e8

I went 4-1 last week, but it’s just the beginning of digging out of a deep hole, so I’m not gonna get excited about it just yet.

Broncos at Saints — I’d say Broncos -2. Feels like a Saints bet at home with the short week, but I won’t use it.

Patriots vs Jaguars (London) — Think I saw this line was 5.5 or something. That seems big, but Jaguars are probably a hold-your-nose-and-buy-low.

Seahawks at Falcons — Think I saw this was 2.5. I kind of like the Falcons but the Seahawks are the buy-low.

Titans at Bills — Amari Cooper is just what the Bills needed. I don’t see the point in the Titans. I’ll say 10 and if anything would lay the wood.

Bengals at Browns — Maybe Bengals -3.5, and you’d take the Browns as a buy-low in division, but I can’t.

Texans at Packers — Texans +2.5 and probably take the Packers at home. The Texans offense is too slow.

Dolphins at Colts — Dolphins +4, probably take the Colts, though it’s unclear who the QB will be.

Lions at Vikings — Make it Lions +2, but the loss of Aidan Hutchinson really hurts. I’d probably take the Lions still.

Eagles at Giants — I’ll say Eagles -3 with Andrew Thomas out. And who knows about Malik Nabers with the lingering concussion? The Giants are playing better though. Pass.

Raiders at Rams — I’ll say Raiders plus 3.5. Probably take the Raiders if pressed, but pass.

Panthers at Indigenous Peoples — Maybe 8.5, would probably take the Panthers.

Chiefs at 49ers — Think I saw the 49ers were slight favorites. I’ll make it Chiefs +2, take the 49ers.

Jets at Steelers — I’d make it a pick’em and probably take the Jets. Not because of Davante Adams, but Russell Wilson if he starts.

Ravens at Buccaneers — Let’s say Ravens -3. I’d probably lay the wood in that case too.

Chargers at Cardinals — What’s wrong with Kyler Murray? I’ll say Chargers minus 2.5 and maybe hold my nose with the Cardinals.

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

O 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.

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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.

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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.

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hey Rabble, brace yourself for a whirlwind tour of Nostr's latest gabfest! From the quiet musings of our "Public Square" turning into a cozy campfire chat, to the hilariously oddball "#toiletchain" saga, the platform's been nothing if not entertaining. Meanwhile, passionate debates over Musk's Twitter antics and the timeless charm of a 3-minute scroll session keep everyone on their toes. It's a riotous mix of tech talk, light-hearted banter, and nostalgic tunes, sprinkled with a dash of rust in Minecraft—tonight's episode is not to be missed! Dive in, and remember: in Nostr-land, chaos is where the fun begins.

Quiet Nostr Vibes 📉

Hey, so our buddy 7fqx kicked off a super chill thread wondering why Nostr's been so hush-hush lately. Everyone seems to agree it's quieter than usual, with Sedd chiming in with a simple, "It is."

nielliesmons joked about turning the Nostr feed into a cozy community chat, while npub1f9kn3a5cv4fsq2x86gfrznfuumtqtu6j3fkyqg9qvlymt0zflvfsn3v9fa insisted it’s not as quiet as it seems. The whole convo turned into a laugh about "reply guys" and how it feels like a dev chat sometimes. captain ☦️ threw in a rebellious "delete Twitter!" moment, but 7fqx was like, "Nah, Twitter still has its gems."

Catch up with the banter and check out the full convo here.

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Twitter vs Nostr Showdown 🥊

7fqx echoed some thoughts about how even their sneaky Twitter lurking is feeling the quiet blues. captain ☦️, ever the rebel, says to "delete Twitter!" 🤭 But 7fqx is keeping it chill, mentioning they follow around 200 peeps so they still find plenty of action, even in a quick "15 min" or let's be real, more like "3 min" scroll session. 😂

Catch this mellow chat right here.

Musk, Nitter and the Great RSS Debate

So, captain ☦️ kicked things off wondering if Nitter could still be a thing. But 7fqx quickly snuffed that out, saying Nitter's not working anymore. 😢 The chat turned into chatter about making RSS feeds from Twitter accounts, with captain ☦️ throwing some shade at Mr. Musk, quipping, "Musk won't let us have nice things." 😂

Check out the full convo here.

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The Fiatjaf Chronicles: Old Alliances and New Concerns

melvincarvalho is spilling the tea about their long history with Fiatjaf, praising some of his past brilliance but worried about his new vibes around censorship and centralization—ya know, the stuff that makes the OGs a bit uneasy.

npub1u8r69esh5r7jt29nj9ufmz4yvuwp6cwl5xqp4e3d46vl8wla5smsexjcky chimed in with some serious talk about dealing with nasty stuff like CP on the network or risk the place getting shut down. Meanwhile, npub192klhzk86sav5mgkfmveyjq50ygqfqnfvq0lvr2yv0zdtvatlhxskg43u7 is side-eyeing the decision to air this publicly rather than DMing like, "Isn't this a private convo kinda deal?"

npub1c80wmfpzc7dkghh93kxtrwpe5gdztynvnk2vy93ge68zmzwrm0yqq5h5s7 was like, "Hey, just saying the obvious—keeping everything forever is a disaster waiting to happen," while npub1snw24avwcuz9w672t3wt5jhj82xfd0ynz0ylum90sez9tg4k0u9s4jwee3 is all, "Why ditch privacy, bro?"

Check out the full convo here.

Nostr Drama and Hot Takes 🎭

The convo heated up with npub1m2u4v2jtz4np0y3lk2anr4vm4vr4l7jlr7y94qglhfrgewsczchqg6y2gl bringing some real talk about how it feels like everything's being pushed artificially. They emphasized the fear tactics being used, highlighting their clear stance in the mix!

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Quick Flick Opinions 🎬

zach is on a movie binge with "There Will Be Blood", and everyone's chiming in! sophiaw1926 can't get enough of Daniel Day-Lewis, while Mister G 😎♻️ 🚛 🍏 🗽 🥾 🌆 ⚡ had a laugh about the relentless quest for oil. Classic flick talk with a sprinkle of humor!

Check out the full convo here

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Print's Swan Song 📰

roya ୨୧ brought up a heartfelt topic about the end of an era with print media. Some mournful vibes with npub1mhe7uv6m6faes325wsmwygp2mtw6gdylqxp8gak4zgy374qx6hxsxwwzcz mentioning the last pony express rider's retirement! A true throwback moment.

Check out the full convo here

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Scrolling Adventures 📱

7fqx is all about condensing Twitter into a 3-minute browse! captain ☦️ threw a shade towards Musk for not letting us enjoy the simple things like Nitter, sparking a mix of innovation and nostalgia.

Check out the full convo here

🎵 Nostalgic Tunes and Lost Soundscapes 🎶

So, walker is feeling all sorts of emotional about #tunestr and shared a throwback video that got the convo buzzing! 🎶 npub1gk76j57d8w3x8dudj4wllvdke6u7kcqd20j6cwuawkqa90q72x8qqw5nqq reminisced about discovering these jams through Stubz the Zombie, which, let's be honest, might be the coolest way to find new music. Meanwhile, npub1qs5ft8k8lznjkl7yym36707fsxjv3dnxnfpm4j64xrdwkn8tw0sqcfp27v chimed in with some deep thoughts on how everything's gone downhill since "Subversion and Degeneration". On a lighter note, ltngstore just gave a ✨ shoutout to The Chordettes. Classic! Check out the full convo here.

🛠️ Rust-y Pixels in Minecraft Land 🧩

iefan 🕊️ hit us with some mind-blowing updates about a Minecraft server built in Rust, boasting crazy CPU and RAM performance! 🤯 localhost couldn’t contain their excitement and suggested we "rebuild it all in Rust", adding a bunch of laugh emojis for good measure. 😂 iefan 🕊️ dropped a link to some epic benchmarks, while npub1h29aysw658hzgzh523t8zrw6jc72qnjgz045regl7k3htklu5s4qcqjkze stirred the pot by commenting on the Rust community's vibe. Classic tech banter! Check out the full convo here.

📣 Always Listening but Not Always Understanding 🎧

Sebastix dropped a simple yet intriguing "I'm always listening". But npub1f9kn3a5cv4fsq2x86gfrznfuumtqtu6j3fkyqg9qvlymt0zflvfsn3v9fa wasn't having it, calling out the authenticity of that statement. 🤔 They also threw in some cryptic musings about Cathrine and intelligence, complete with a martial arts emoji for effect. Sounds like there's more to this story! 🥋 Check out the full convo here.

🤫 Quiet Revolution in the Public Square 🎙️

nielliesmons brought the sass with a post about the evolving "Public Square" vibes. They joked about how things might get so low-key that we’d just chat directly in the feed, throwing some shade at "Twitter-clone maxis". 😉 No major interactions yet, but this one's bound to stir up some laughs and debates soon. Check out the full convo here.

🎉 #Toiletchain Chronicles 😂

So, 7fqx started things off with a cheeky "#toiletchain!" post. It's the kind of randomness we all love, right? Silberengel threw in their own twist, clarifying they were talking about computer logs, but made it hilarious with a little "okay" 😂, while npub1mc20uche0cy599vpl850aschpu7wteundgsnf0msep79lu3fu5aq3r4ptv chimed in with "#poopstr" and even dropped a bowel movement emoji with an image link. Gotta love a good poop joke, right? 💩

Check out the full convo here

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🤔 Presidential Ponderings

Karnage was musing about the title "presidential candidate" vs. "President Trump." You know, the little things people get hung up on. npub1m2u4v2jtz4np0y3lk2anr4vm4vr4l7jlr7y94qglhfrgewsczchqg6y2gl suggested we just call it "presdent" 😂, trying to keep it light. But then npub1ncavrt6e38e94c6desg9tllzer0jey30rlh8whjtkpl9tcvvc8vs9ee00s dropped a little realism in there, noting how "normal" is key in these times. It's good to keep it real, right?

Check out the full convo here

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🦖 Dinosaur Delights

In classic Karnage style, they just asked, "Dinosaurs?" 😂 Sounds like the start of a random but potentially awesome conversation, right? utxo the webmaster 🧑‍💻 delivered with a legendary "DEEZ NUTZ" joke along with a perfectly silly gif, making us all laugh out loud. 🐸😂 Then Karnage responded with a suave "cheers" gif. 🥂

Check out the full convo here

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🌄 Morning Greetz from the #Nostriches!

archjourney welcomed everyone with a bright and cheery "Goood Morning #nostriches!" and shared some cool vibes with an image. It’s all about that positive morning energy, right? npub1dvs7rcq8vtus2nd45xamajnzt7clhxe2yvywenz5kmatdc2klljsa64fgv and npub1ztyqtftdkt6q36gux3xptn4ldv7sdpqka3rvhvlmna50e9t7kx4qk5kfjr replied with their own cheery "GM" greetings, spreading that morning love. 💜

Check out the full convo here

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🤣 In the Moment

agichoote was feeling a bit cheeky with their post "At this very moment 🤣". Diyana wanted to know what deep thoughts were going on, maybe expecting some juicy gossip? But then agichoote says they’d like to be single again! 😂 Oh boy, someone’s in a mood!

Check out the full convo here

Buzzing About the Twitterverse and Cozy Family Chaos 🌐🏡

7fqx started off the day lamenting that Nitter isn't working anymore and dreaming about a way to blast some Twitter updates through good ol' RSS feeds. Then, captain ☦️ chimed in with a classic quip about Musk messing up their Twitter fun. 🤭

agichoote hit us with a photo to celebrate some of those magical "gooder" mornings in the Alps. And who popped in to greet them with a sunny GM? None other than npub1x95l2dxqqz0szeanud0cvftkkzcj3zqxsl8x48y8dszql6k49r3s42tdv7! 🌄

Over in family land, nielliesmons shared the cultural chaos of living in two countries with both grandmas under one roof! Sounds like a sitcom in the making, with three generations and constant visits turning the house into a lively hub. Silberengel can relate, being proud to be THOSE people who might just make the neighbors call the cops with their bustling family gatherings. 😂

Lastly, things turned political when Karnage poked some fun at Trump supporters, causing quite the stir. Of course, npub1spdeklkg7zd43ygdf8s5mtxe2d9eha0v6kndaef83r7y9u2h5xyse0dfw6 had to jump in with a sly comment on Trump's "stable genius." All in good humor! 😆

Check out the full convo here

@ ec42c765:328c0600

カスタム絵文字とは

任意のオリジナル画像を絵文字のように文中に挿入できる機能です。

また、リアクション（Twitterの いいね のような機能）にもカスタム絵文字を使えます。

カスタム絵文字の対応状況（2024/02/05）

カスタム絵文字を使うためにはカスタム絵文字に対応したクライアントを使う必要があります。

※表は一例です。クライアントは他にもたくさんあります。

使っているクライアントが対応していない場合は、クライアントを変更する、対応するまで待つ、開発者に要望を送る（または自分で実装する）などしましょう。

対応クライアント

• Amethyst
• FreeFrom
• nostter
• Rabbit
• Snort
• noStrudel

ここではnostterを使って説明していきます。

準備

カスタム絵文字を使うための準備です。

• Nostrエクステンション（NIP-07）を導入する
• 使いたいカスタム絵文字をリストに登録する

Nostrエクステンション（NIP-07）を導入する

Nostrエクステンションは使いたいカスタム絵文字を登録する時に必要になります。

また、環境（パソコン、iPhone、androidなど）によって導入方法が違います。

Nostrエクステンションを導入する端末は、実際にNostrを閲覧する端末と違っても構いません（リスト登録はPC、Nostr閲覧はiPhoneなど）。

Nostrエクステンション（NIP-07）の導入方法は以下のページを参照してください。

ログイン拡張機能 (NIP-07)を使ってみよう | Welcome to Nostr! ～ Nostrをはじめよう！ ～

少し面倒ですが、これを導入しておくとNostr上の様々な場面で役立つのでより快適になります。

使いたいカスタム絵文字をリストに登録する

以下のサイトで行います。

emojito

右上のGet startedからNostrエクステンションでログインしてください。

例として以下のカスタム絵文字を導入してみます。

実際より絵文字が少なく表示されることがありますが、古い状態のデータを取得してしまっているためです。その場合はブラウザの更新ボタンを押してください。

generalJP | カスタム絵文字

• 右側のOptionsからBookmarkを選択

これでカスタム絵文字を使用するためのリストに登録できます。

カスタム絵文字を使用する

例としてブラウザから使えるクライアント nostter から使用してみます。

nostter

nostterにNostrエクステンションでログイン、もしくは秘密鍵を入れてログインしてください。

文章中に使用

1. 投稿ボタンを押して投稿ウィンドウを表示
2. 顔😀のボタンを押し、絵文字ウィンドウを表示
3. ＊タブを押し、カスタム絵文字一覧を表示
4. カスタム絵文字を選択
5. : 記号に挟まれたアルファベットのショートコードとして挿入される

この状態で投稿するとカスタム絵文字として表示されます。

カスタム絵文字対応クライアントを使っている他ユーザーにもカスタム絵文字として表示されます。

対応していないクライアントの場合、ショートコードのまま表示されます。

ショートコードを直接入力することでカスタム絵文字の候補が表示されるのでそこから選択することもできます。

リアクションに使用

1. 任意の投稿の顔😀のボタンを押し、絵文字ウィンドウを表示
2. ＊タブを押し、カスタム絵文字一覧を表示
3. カスタム絵文字を選択

カスタム絵文字リアクションを送ることができます。

カスタム絵文字を探す

先述したemojitoからカスタム絵文字を探せます。

例えば任意のユーザーのページ emojito ロクヨウ から探したり、 emojito Browse all からnostr全体で最近作成、更新された絵文字を見たりできます。

また、以下のリンクは日本語圏ユーザーが作ったカスタム絵文字を集めたリストです（2024/06/30）

※漏れがあるかもしれません

日本ユーザー作 カスタム絵文字

各絵文字セットにあるOpen in emojitoのリンクからemojitoに飛び、使用リストに追加できます。

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以上です。

次：Nostrのカスタム絵文字の作り方

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NIP-30 カスタム絵文字（和訳）

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hey Rabble, pull up a chair because you're just in time for the latest episode of "As the Nostr World Turns." Our pal dropped a cryptic teaser, "Who will the reply guys reply to?" and not a peep in response—apparently, everyone's playing it cool or composing their reply-guy manifestos in secret. It's all suspense in the Nostr universe—like waiting to see who spoils the plot twist in a whodunit! Dive into the full scoop to see if the reply guys finally emerge from the shadows or if today’s just another day at the Nostr library.

Who's on the Reply Guy Radar? 🤔📲

So, our buddy 7fqx dropped a little teaser, asking the infamous question, "Who will the reply guys reply to?? 👀👀" and, surprise, surprise, no one jumped in to say just yet! 😂 Maybe everyone's just lurking, waiting to pounce with their hottest takes, or maybe today's just a chill day in the Nostr world.

It's like a mystery waiting to unfold—who's gonna be the target of those top-notch reply guy comments? Maybe next time, we'll see some lively debates or cheeky banter popping off!

Check out the full convo here

@ 32e18276:5c68e245

I’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:

1. 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.

@ 59df1288:92e1744f

Hey Rabble, grab your digital binoculars because things are getting interesting in the land of Nostr! 🌿 It seems like our favorite corner of the internet has hit a tranquil patch, perhaps due to those elusive relays or the shenanigans of our stealthy friend Amethyst Tor. 😏 Even Twitter seems to be catching the snooze vibe—coincidence or cosmic quiet time? Whether it's a glitch or just the universe telling us to take a breath, there's plenty of intrigue to unfold. Come see what the hush is all about and join the conversation on what might just be a covert operation.

Quiet Days and Lurking Ways 🌿

So, 7fqx was just chillin' and chatting about how things are feeling a bit too quiet on Nostr these days. They're wondering if it's something to do with the relay setup or maybe Amethyst Tor being sneaky. 😏 But no sweat, it seems their Twitter lurking account is on a similar silent mode. Maybe it’s one of those universal quiet vibes? Who knows! Either way, sounds like they're taking the calm in stride—just another day in the digital world.

Check out the full convo here

@ 8fb140b4:f948000c

Embarking 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:

1. Direct Contribution to Decentralization: Operating a node is a direct action towards decentralizing the Bitcoin network, crucial for its security and resistance to control or censorship by any single entity.

2. Financial Autonomy: Owning a node gives you complete control over your financial transactions on the network, free from reliance on third-party services, which can be subject to fees, restrictions, or outages.

3. Advanced Network Participation: As a node operator, you're not just a passive participant but an active player in shaping the network, influencing its efficiency and scalability through direct involvement.

4. Potential for Higher Revenue: With strategic management and optimal channel funding, your node can become a preferred route for transactions, potentially increasing the routing fees you can earn.

5. Cutting-Edge Technological Engagement: Running a node puts you at the forefront of blockchain and bitcoin technology, offering insights into future developments and innovations.

6. Strengthened Network Security: Each new node adds to the robustness of the Bitcoin network, making it more resilient against attacks and failures, thus contributing to the overall security of the ecosystem.

7. Personalized Fee Structures: You have the flexibility to set your own fee policies, which can balance earning potential with the service you provide to the network.

8. Empowerment Through Knowledge: The process of setting up and managing a node provides deep learning opportunities, empowering you with knowledge that can be applied in various areas of blockchain and fintech.

9. Boosting Transaction Capacity: By running a node, you help to increase the overall capacity of the Lightning Network, enabling more transactions to be processed quickly and at lower costs.

10. Community Leadership and Reputation: As an active node operator, you gain recognition within the Bitcoin community, which can lead to collaborative opportunities and a position of thought leadership in the space.

These reasons demonstrate the impactful and transformative nature of running a Lightning node, appealing to those who are deeply invested in the principles of bitcoin and wish to actively shape its future. Jump aboard, and embrace the journey toward full independence. 🐶🐾🫡🚀🚀🚀

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Table Of Content

• The Race for Spot Bitcoin ETFs

• SEC's Stance

• Coinbase Role: A Significant Surveillance Partner

• Legal Challenges: SEC's Lawsuit Against Coinbase

• Looking Ahead: The Future of Bitcoin ETFs

• Conclusion

• FAQ

In a significant development in the cryptocurrency world, Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, has been named as the surveillance partner for Fidelity and other Bitcoin ETFs. This announcement came as part of a broader move by Cboe's BZX Exchange, which refiled its applications for spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for several potential issuers. This move is seen as a strategic step towards ensuring regulatory compliance and enhancing the transparency of Bitcoin trading.

The Race for Spot Bitcoin ETFs

In recent weeks, several prominent companies, including Fidelity, WisdomTree, VanEck, ARK Invest, Galaxy/Invesco, and BlackRock, have filed for spot bitcoin ETFs. These companies are aiming to launch a product that has been a point of contention with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for years. While BlackRock has chosen to file its application with Nasdaq, the other companies have opted to collaborate with Cboe, indicating a diverse approach to achieving the same goal.

SEC's Stance

The SEC had previously communicated to both Nasdaq and Cboe that their applications were "inadequate" due to a lack of clarity about the market that the fund sponsors are working with on their surveillance-sharing agreements. These agreements are seen as a critical tool in preventing market manipulation and protecting consumers. The absence of these agreements has been a significant factor in the SEC's previous rejections of bitcoin ETF applications, highlighting the importance of this aspect in gaining regulatory approval.

Coinbase Role: A Significant Surveillance Partner

In response to the SEC's concerns, Cboe has named Coinbase as its partner for these surveillance-sharing agreements in its refiled applications. Cboe's decision is based on the fact that Coinbase's platform "represents a substantial portion of U.S.-based and USD denominated Bitcoin trading." This makes Coinbase a suitable partner for these agreements, given its extensive reach and influence in the Bitcoin trading market.

Legal Challenges: SEC's Lawsuit Against Coinbase

The SEC's stance on these applications may be complicated by its recent legal action against Coinbase. The SEC sued Coinbase earlier this month on allegations of operating an unregistered securities exchange, broker, and clearinghouse. However, it's important to note that the SEC does not allege that Bitcoin itself is a security. In fact, SEC Chair Gary Gensler often refers to Bitcoin as an example of a digital asset that is not a security, indicating a nuanced view of the cryptocurrency market.

Looking Ahead: The Future of Bitcoin ETFs

As the situation unfolds, it remains to be seen whether the SEC will agree that Coinbase is a significant, regulated market for Bitcoin. This development marks a significant step in the ongoing efforts to launch a spot Bitcoin ETF, a product that has been elusive due to regulatory concerns. The cryptocurrency world will be watching closely as these applications progress, with the hope that a successful Bitcoin ETF could pave the way for broader acceptance and integration of cryptocurrencies into the mainstream financial system.

Conclusion

The partnership between Coinbase and Fidelity, along with other Bitcoin ETFs, marks a pivotal moment in the cryptocurrency industry. Despite challenges, including the recent lawsuit against Coinbase by the SEC, this development represents a significant step towards integrating cryptocurrencies into the mainstream financial system. The outcome could set important precedents for the future of Bitcoin ETFs and other digital assets, signaling a maturing and evolving cryptocurrency market that continues to strive for regulatory compliance and consumer protection.

FAQ

What is the recent development between Coinbase and Fidelity? Coinbase has been named as the surveillance partner for Fidelity and other Bitcoin ETFs by Cboe's BZX Exchange.

Why are surveillance-sharing agreements important? Surveillance-sharing agreements are crucial for preventing market manipulation and protecting consumers, which are key concerns of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

What companies have recently filed for spot Bitcoin ETFs? Companies such as Fidelity, WisdomTree, VanEck, ARK Invest, Galaxy/Invesco, and BlackRock have filed for spot Bitcoin ETFs.

What is the significance of Coinbase being named as a surveillance partner? Coinbase's platform represents a substantial portion of U.S.-based and USD-denominated Bitcoin trading, making it a suitable partner for these agreements.

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🌟 L'anarchismo finanziario si pone come una sfida diretta al potere centralizzato, utilizzando tecnologie come Nostr e Chaumian ecash per scardinare il controllo istituzionale e promuovere un'economia realmente decentralizzata. A differenza della visione tecno-utopica, il movimento sostiene l'idea che la decentralizzazione sia un mezzo, non un fine, per dare potere agli individui.

🌟 Bitcoin ha offerto uno spiraglio verso questa sovranità, ma la dipendenza dall'interfaccia fiat ne ha marginalizzato il potenziale rivoluzionario. Molti pionieri del movimento si sono rifugiati in ideali astratti, lasciando il campo libero agli attori statali per rafforzare il loro potere. La stagnazione ha creato una diffidenza reciproca tra gli individui, ostacolando l'emergere di un mercato libero realmente autonomo.

🌟 Tuttavia, con l'adozione di Nostr, un protocollo decentralizzato per la comunicazione e la gestione dell'identità online, e Chaumian ecash, una tecnologia di pagamento anonima, si apre una nuova possibilità. Nostr, basato su relay distribuiti, consente agli utenti di pubblicare e condividere contenuti senza censura, favorendo la nascita di mercati locali e globali. Chaumian ecash, invece, riduce il rischio di custodia e favorisce un sistema finanziario intermediato a livello locale, supportato dalla rete Lightning di Bitcoin.

🌟 Queste tecnologie puntano a democratizzare la finanza, eliminando l'intermediario statale e introducendo nuove forme di fiducia decentralizzata. Mercati basati sulla reputazione, alimentati da Nostr, potrebbero sostituire i tradizionali registri centralizzati, offrendo una nuova prospettiva sull'organizzazione economica e favorendo un'interoperabilità radicale tra le piattaforme.

🌟 L'anarchico finanziario non propone di abolire le istituzioni, ma di riformarle attraverso la responsabilità sociale e la tecnologia decentralizzata. L'adozione di questi strumenti è vista come un mezzo per riconquistare la sovranità individuale e spostare il potere economico verso la comunità, lontano dalle istituzioni centralizzate.

🌟 Il movimento è un invito a costruire nuove zone autonome nel cyberspazio, dove gli individui possano organizzarsi liberamente e in modo volontario, senza imposizioni esterne. Nella visione del Financial Anarchist, il futuro non è un'utopia priva di istituzioni, ma una rete di relazioni economiche decentralizzate, fondate sulla fiducia reciproca.

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Gather 'round, fellow Nostronauts, because we've stumbled upon a delightful riddle that has the community all abuzz! Our chat rooms are buzzing with speculation over a cryptic message that's as enigmatic as a cat in a box, and twice as intriguing. Is it a profound oracle or just somebody's way of keeping us on our toes? No answers yet, but the mystery is as thick as pea soup, and everyone's eager to play detective. Grab your magnifying glasses, folks, it’s going to be a fun one!

"Mysterious Musings"

Well, things have been pretty quiet, but there's this intriguing note dropped by our pal 7fqx. The message just says "(Moreso than usual)," and it's definitely piqued everyone's curiosity! 🤔 What do they mean? Is it cryptic, philosophical, or just 7fqx being their mysterious self? No replies yet, but you bet folks are scratching their heads trying to figure out what's up. Stay tuned for any revelations!

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GM, Nostriches!

The Nostr protocol is fascinating, and I’m actively covering its developments. That’s why I created The Nostr Review. If you’re interested, join me in covering updates from the Nostr ecosystem! The Nostr Review is a biweekly newsletter focused on protocol updates, exciting programs, the long-form content ecosystem, and key events happening in the Nostr-verse.

Quick review:

In the past two weeks, 18 pull requests have been submitted to the Nostr protocol, with 6 already merged. Additionally, I have tracked 40 Nostr projects, with 13 releasing updates on their product developments. Over 250 long-form articles were also published, with 43% focused on Bitcoin and Nostr. During the same period, five notable events took place. Looking ahead, four exciting events are on the horizon, including the Freedom of Tech, Business, and Art Meetup, the Bitcoin Culture Festival 2024, and For Artists By Artists.

1. Nips

Add Kind 15 for Encrypted File message @npub10td4yrp6cl9kmjp9x5yd7r8pm96a5j07lk5mtj2kw39qf8frpt8qm9x2wl is proposing that kind 15 is used for sending encrypted file event messages. The file-type specifies the MIME type of the attached file (e.g., image/jpeg, audio/mpeg, etc.). The encryption-algorithm refers to the algorithm used for encrypting the file;supported algorithms may include aes-gcm, chacha20-poly1305,aes-cbc etc. The decryption-key will be used by the recipient to decrypt the file. The decryption-nonce will be used by the recipient to decrypt the file. The content Contains either the URL of the file () or the encrypted data in base64 format ().

NIP-85: d Tag References in Addressable Events @npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p is proposing that d Tag References in Addressable Events is an alternative solution to #1510. Putting relay hints on the d tag breaks conventions. People already have code that does things with "p" and "e" tags automatically, since they're considered “standardised tags”. Querying with nak for example has special CLI flags for #p queries. Another example is using p-tags to connect nodes in a graph database. Semantically, it just should have them. This method ties them together. But it's only useful if people commit to doing it strictly so it can always be depended upon.

Trusted Assertions @npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z is proposing that certain calculations in Nostr require access to the entire dataset of events and are impossible to do directly by Clients. This PR offers a simple way for users to declare trust in service providers for those calculations.It's similar to DVMs, but without the need to request/response each item. The service just runs constantly and updates events as quickly as it can.

Update 94 add a d tag to event @npub19yeqjawls407xjnmgkk6yss7936pcd7qzd5srlj8wye6j8433vrsjazqwk is proposing that add a “d” tag to file metadata events, which would make these events replaceable. It means that the file can move between media services. Clients upload a file to media service and get a file link and other file informations.Clients send a File Metadata event and this event must contain a d tag, it means that this event is replaceable.If a client want to sends notes with this file, it should imports this event with nostr:naddr style uri.When other clients visit a note with kind 1063 naddr style uri, it should find this event and display it like a normal media file.If this file's owner want to change the media service, he can upload this file to other media service and resend a File Metadata event with the same d tag.

NIP-47 Add versioning and migrate to NIP-44 @npub1mjkxztcmws45vn04u5gtrr6smyt0pyzvn7ag6q4uzgnguzkwcw5saxkfm0 is proposing that NIP-04 is deprecated and no longer recommended for use. Authors of NIP-44 have confirmed that it can act as a drop-in replacement for NIP-04 for NWC's use case. Versioning for NIP-47 allows the protocol to evolve and even make breaking changes while maintaining backwards-compatibility where needed. Versions are represented as . (e.g.1.3). Major version bumps imply breaking changes that are incompatible with the previous major version. Minor version bumps, however, only include non-breaking feature additions or improvements which can maintain full compatibility with the previous minor version.

NIP-68 Lightning Debit Requests @npub1xvtwx6tduaxnn9v3y7uasskl277achgu0tu2qncmc7hdsz6y2zyqce64sa is proposing that ad-hoc requests for lightning payments provide more intuitive and secure UX, while also leveraging Nostr as identity for the requesting service.And combined with prNIP69, this creates a more robust and scalable successor to NWC.

Push Notification - Event Watcher API @npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z is proposing that the Event Watcher API is basically a NIP-96 spec for Push Notification event-watching servers. Users can pick which server will watch their events and send push notifications via their preferred systems. Event-watching servers can be the relays themselves or separate operators. It has many distinctive features:a simple POST interface, support for multiple Nostr accounts in a single registration event, and enhanced privacy by not allowing subscriptions with just pubkeys. It uses encryption via wraps to conceal the destination's pubkey from the user's push system. Additionally, it supports multiple servers, relays, and tokens, and allows DM inboxes or authenticated relays to provide this service while bypassing the authentication process.

Publish Cashu Mint and Burn Events @npub1u07xw079lxwv24xslarh2eu4v37jtjmwvev0jyk3zjhxg2wnt56seyez97 is proposing that the introduction of three new event kinds to the Nostr protocol to facilitate the announcement of cashu mint and burn events, cashu mints identities, and the mints' outstanding balance at the end of an epoch.The proposed event kinds aim to enhance the transparency of cashu mint and burn operations, while also providing cashu wallets with a way of querying data of interest without compromising their privacy.

NIP-XX - Multiple Public Key Types and Signature Algorithms for Event Signing ice-orestes is proposing that signatures, public key, and encodings are done according to the Schnorr signatures standard for the curve secp256k1,which is a limitation for Nostr adoption. As many Blockchains and other Cryptographic Networks already have identities in place using different ECC Public Key curves, and may use different Signature Algorithms. Even Bitcoin pre Taproot uses ECDSA/secp256k1 and not Schnorr/secp256k1. In this case it is just the signatures that differ, and the public key derivation is based out of the same secp256k1 curve, so the public keys remain valid, but for other networks that use EdDSA signatures, for instance, not even the public keys would be valid, as the curve used is Curve25519 instead. This means that Nostr identities would have to be different than the ones used in the other networks, making it impossible to consider a direct match between one network identity and the other.

2. Notable Projects

**Amethyst v0.92.2 ** @npub142gywvjkq0dv6nupggyn2euhx4nduwc7yz5f24ah9rpmunr2s39se3xrj0 - More animations: notification chart, FABs, zap and reaction popups - New fields in vision prescriptions - Prioritized search results starting with the search term - Bug fixes, performance enhancements, and code quality improvements

**Coracle 0.4.12 ** @npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn

This release mostly contains bug fixes, particularly missing/wrong e-tags on nested replies. - Fixed zap developer button - Hidden muted replies for improved user experience - Optimized mobile interface to conserve space - Added “mark as read” button on mobile - Resolved issues with reposts to communities - Fixed note tag inheritance - Addressed over-eager list encryption issue

**The New Damus App Store version ** @npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s - Support for viewing Highlights and a way to create highlights in the Safari share sheet - Push notifications powered by our new nostr push notification server (notepush) - More obvious friend filter for reducing spam in notifications and DMs - Improved reconnection speed - Support for AlbyHub zaps

** YakiHonne 1.4.1 ** @npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q

YakiHonne 1.4.1 is now available on iOS and Android. - Outbox model support - A complete new core with enhanced features that ensures a better performance and lightning speed while browsing - Notes media has been enhanced - Notes threads are now efficiently displayed - Accounts switching enhancements - Private messaging optimization - Numerous bugs have been fixed

**New version of Iris ** @npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk - Zero-configuration zaps for new users: comes with a [npub]@npub.cash lightning address and an integrated Cashu wallet (cashu.me) - ReplyGuy-free experience: automatically hides content by users not in your social graph - “Unseen“ feed. Click “home” or switch tabs to refresh. - “Adventure” feed. Shows content from everyone in your social graph. - Social graph based fast user search - Better scroll position retention on back navigation

**Primal for iOS build 1.9.90 ** @npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg This update addresses the performance and connectivity issues that many iOS users have recently encountered.

**0xchat v1.3.4-beta ** @npub1tm99pgz2lth724jeld6gzz6zv48zy6xp4n9xu5uqrwvx9km54qaqkkxn72 - Added message jump feature for replies, search, and paginated message loading - Added encryption for audio and videos in DMs/private groups before uploading - Added support for custom Blossom servers, and removed the default 0xChat file server - Added the ability to preload group messages before joining Additionally, bug fixes and user experience improvements included

**Gossip Release 0.12.0 ** @npub189j8y280mhezlp98ecmdzydn0r8970g4hpqpx3u9tcztynywfczqqr3tg8

Gossip is a desktop client for Nostr, and its latest release brings significant updates to enhance user experience. - Bookmarks support (including private bookmarks) - Global feed and per-Relay feeds (with volatile storage, erased when you quit) - Friends-of-friends scores shown in avatar - Improved spam filtering script with more inputs to make decisions on

**Nostur v1.16.0 ** @npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0

Nostur v1.16.0 is now available. - Nostr Nests integration - Live video streams and chats - Relay Autopilot improvements - VPN detection toggle: only connect to additional relays if VPN is detected - Relay Connection stats improvements - Rewrite of feed loading. Faster & more efficient - Possible imposter label also added on new follower notification and quoted posts - Improved profile card rendering/animation - Improved quoted post and inline naddr1 rendering - Optimized profile gallery loading - Exclude reposts for new posts notifier - UI tweaks, more compact, less clutter - Full width images now go to screen edge - Reduced data usage for new follower notifications - Many many bug fixes and other optimizations

**Nos.social update ** @npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch

In the latest Nos 0.2.2 release, several enhancements have been made to improve your experience. - Updated the media viewer that displays images, videos, and web pages inside of notes - Removed image and video link text from notes. Now only the images and videos will appear, without the link - Added new translations for the app so you can use it in Korean, Chinese Simplified, Swedish, and more

**Fountain version 1.1.3 ** @npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5

Fountain version 1.1.3 is now available on both iOS and Android platforms. - Improve login connection error handling - Fix boosting without a message - Fix queue skipping - Fix saving a show from a custom RSS feed with only one item - Fix bug with wiping Nostr banner image on update profile - Fix occasional playback issues from high CPU load - Fix for various Nostr connection errors - Handle Android remote Nostr signing without having to briefly switch apps We are currently working on a new library architecture and redesign, which will bring about a number of performance improvements and resolve issues regarding playback that some of you have been experiencing.

**Wherostr v1.2.2: Map Improvement ** @npub16elg3wf8nffkymylw9kfwecc45j9c30lufrrzx2zf5vmxjlcgkkq3xc6d7 - Geotagging support: Users can manually tag posts with locations extracted from image metadata - Video upload support: Users can now upload videos in their posts - Map markers: Replaced crosshair with map markers for better clarity and user experience - Show location in Google Maps: Added a button to open shared locations directly in Google Maps - Notification categories: Customize the types of notifications you receive for different activities (e.g., zaps, comments, reposts) - Highest order zaps: View the highest zaps received directly in post activity for better engagement tracking - Faster feed load speed: Improved the speed at which feeds are loaded for a more responsive experience Additionally, fixed the iOS login loop and feed sorting issues to ensure correct post order and complete data loading.

zap.store cli 0.1.0 @npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8 In this update, developers can now easily pass icons and images for their applications. Additionally, the "artifacts" YAML attribute is no longer required if you are not pulling from GitHub and using the -a argument. The identifier is also no longer necessary. Furthermore, the documentation in the repository README has been updated for better clarity and guidance.

3. Long-Form Content Eco

Since the beginning of October, more than 250 long-form articles have been published, including over 80 articles on Bitcoin and more than 30 related to Nostr, accounting for 44% of the total content.

The Bitcoin articles mainly explore its economic impact, technological innovations, and global adoption, addressing financial issues such as sovereign debt and banking crises, as well as blockchain technology, privacy protection, and open-source projects. They also examine Bitcoin's role in politics, environmental concerns, and social change, along with challenges and opportunities in wallet security, payment privacy, and future development.

The Nostr articles focus on its technical implementation, decentralized characteristics, and use cases, covering topics like client design, payment setup, and personalized public key generation. They also discuss Nostr's applications and challenges in marketing and social media interactions, addressing issues like censorship resistance, privacy protection, community culture, and future development directions, including scalability and node management responsibilities.

Thank you, @npub1r0d8u8mnj6769500nypnm28a9hpk9qg8jr0ehe30tygr3wuhcnvs4rfsft, @npub19mq9swna4dkhlm3jaux4yhgv5kjj556lkfhv3qnjtyh0kcljph6s88e295, @npub1fw5wsmfdj7ykmjfn0sl9qp533y7hx96h9lvplz6pmhd9mzwn9hjqvq2rfr, @npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h, @npub1u6qhg5ucu3xza4nlz94q90y720tr6l09avnq8y3yfp5qrv9v8sus3tnd7t, @npub15qfdeq3me7qdt6klfdngxq6kxj7ypuds554etqnck6aujezc5uxsjfhz8m, and others,for your work. Enriching Nostr’s long-form content ecosystem is crucial.

4. Nostriches Global Meet Ups

Recently, several Nostr events have been hosted in different countries.

• The Nostr session took place at the Global Bitcoin Summit on October 3rd at Bitcoin Park, NV, USA, hosted by the Human Rights Foundation. During this session, prominent speakers including @npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx , @npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z , @npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s , @npub1xtwy7fvu8f7wdtgnpm68wyrf6uxshf49tn5kp7kyusu6872amn8qh06rus , @npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr , @npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft , @npub1zu5tdnq7w63fgmsfz85te7e6zeg7y2lt8q8r9jp5zcg68jfy73jqraqtgz , and @npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 shared insights on the progress and adoption of Nostr.

• The third edition of Nostrdam took place successfully on October 8, 2024, at Westerpark Braai, featuring engaging talks from speakers like @npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s , @npub147whqsr5vsj86x0ays70r0hgreklre3ey97uvcmxhum65skst56s30selt , etc, panel discussions, and a prize hackathon, making it the perfect kickoff for Bitcoin Amsterdam Week.

• At the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference on October 9-10, 2024, at Westergas, the discussions “NOSTR: How & Why It Works” and “NOSTR: Freedom of Algorithmic Choice” explored the potential of Nostr and Bitcoin. Speakers like @npub147whqsr5vsj86x0ays70r0hgreklre3ey97uvcmxhum65skst56s30selt , @npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg , @npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s , 2npub1g53mukxnjkcmr94fhryzkqutdz2ukq4ks0gvy5af25rgmwsl4ngq43drvk and others highlighted how these technologies serve as decentralized, censorship-resistant tools to safeguard free speech and algorithmic choice.

• The Nostr Valley took place on October 12, 2024, located at Penn State University. @npub10hj9rg5gds5x2gk0z0s2jlqnq04jg7g30aj2t5pqzdaaztfactgsnze5ny The event featured several speakers who shared insights on decentralized social communication and Bitcoin, and new Nostr badges were awarded on-site.

Here are the upcoming Nostr events in October that you might want to check out.

• Freedom of Tech, Bussines, and Art meetup on October 22, 2024, co-hosted by @npub188rvs46l0q8d3h4y7lpu5glyhh7r709x3rce8z93xs5lgsmkaf9q4wjckp and Yakihonne , will focus on the business sector and discuss how to integrate new technologies like NOSTR and Bitcoin protocols into business processes.

• The Bitcoin Culture Festival 2024, @npub1hmqvn57wfm7qcygkt4et3qffhvdwyer9mkz0lyzjwr29438fe55s4r0s33 featuring the Ours (Yours) festival, will take place in London from October 29 to November 3, 2024. Organized by the 2140 Collective and CypherpunkHouse, it celebrates Bitcoin culture.

• The Traveling Nostr Booth - Bringing Nostr to LatAm is touring 3 countries with major booths at key conferences, plus satellite events, workshops, and local content. @npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa Kicking off at BTC Prague, where the first booth became the event’s most visited spot!

• For Artists By Artists will take place on October 18th at The Cowan, located at 500 Cowan St. @npub13qrrw2h4z52m7jh0spefrwtysl4psfkfv6j4j672se5hkhvtyw7qu0almy It will be streamed live globally, allowing participants to join through tunestr or Fountain.

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Hola 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.

Imagen alegórica al embarazo

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:

1. 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

2. 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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Trump Talk and Tea ☕

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Gather 'round, fellow screen enthusiasts, as we poke fun at the cosmic conundrum that is our collective love affair with TV, all ignited by [SOUTHSIDE]'s seemingly innocuous query, "tv?" It's as if they tossed a remote-control-shaped pebble into a pond, causing ripples of silent contemplation or perhaps a mad dash to the nearest streaming platform. Are we on the verge of a great debate over the merits of classic noir versus contemporary sci-fi? Or are we all just too entranced by the latest plot twist? Either way, settle in and brace yourself for a discussion as sprawling as your favorite series' character development arcs.

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Chef'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

1. Preheat the Oven: Set your oven to 325°F (165°C).
2. Prepare the Herb Butter: Mix the softened butter with the chopped thyme, rosemary, and sage. Season with salt and pepper.
3. 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.
4. Add Aromatics: Inside the turkey cavity, place the quartered onion, lemon halves, and garlic cloves.
5. 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.
6. Rest and Serve: Let the turkey rest for at least 20 minutes before carving.
7. Next: Apple and Sage Stuffing
8. Dry the Bread: Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet and let them dry overnight, or toast them in the oven.
9. Cook the Vegetables: In a large skillet, melt the butter and cook the onion, celery, and garlic until soft.
10. 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.
11. 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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Table Of Content

• The Merger Deal: A Strategic Move

• Growth and Adoption: The Driving Forces

• Trading Details: Accessibility for Investors

• Bitcoin Depot: A Major Player in the Crypto ATM Market

• Conclusion

• FAQ

In a significant development for the cryptocurrency industry, Bitcoin Depot, one of the largest cryptocurrency ATM firms in the United States, has announced that it will go public on Nasdaq starting July 3. This move marks a significant milestone for the crypto industry, reflecting the growing acceptance and mainstream adoption of digital currencies. The listing of Bitcoin Depot on a major stock exchange like Nasdaq signifies the increasing integration of cryptocurrencies into the traditional financial system.

The Merger Deal: A Strategic Move

The public listing of Bitcoin Depot follows the closing of a merger deal with fintech firm GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corporation. GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corporation acted as a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) for Bitcoin Depot. The deal, which was first reported in August 2022, cost $885 million. This merger is expected to allow investors exposure to Bitcoin Depot’s common stock on the Nasdaq. The strategic merger is seen as a significant step towards providing mainstream investors with more opportunities to invest in the burgeoning cryptocurrency market.

Growth and Adoption: The Driving Forces

According to Bitcoin Depot's founder and CEO, Brandon Mintz, the merger deal was aimed at supporting "numerous growth opportunities" and promoting the adoption of Bitcoin (BTC) in North America. Mintz believes that this move will not only provide a boost to Bitcoin Depot but also contribute to the wider acceptance and use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The public listing is expected to provide the necessary capital for Bitcoin Depot to expand its operations and reach, thereby promoting the adoption of Bitcoin.

Trading Details: Accessibility for Investors

Investors interested in Bitcoin Depot will be able to find shares of the company under the ticker symbols BTM and BTMWW for its common stock and public warrants, respectively, on Nasdaq. This public listing provides an opportunity for investors to gain exposure to the burgeoning cryptocurrency market through a regulated and widely recognized exchange. The listing of Bitcoin Depot's shares on Nasdaq will provide a new and accessible avenue for investors to participate in the growth of the cryptocurrency industry.

Bitcoin Depot: A Major Player in the Crypto ATM Market

Founded in 2016, Bitcoin Depot has grown to become one of the biggest crypto ATM firms in North America. According to its website, the company boasts more than 9,130 locations. Bitcoin Depot's ATMs allow users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, providing a tangible touchpoint for digital currencies. The company's extensive network of ATMs has played a crucial role in making cryptocurrencies more accessible to the general public.

Conclusion

The public listing of Bitcoin Depot on Nasdaq is a significant step forward for the cryptocurrency industry. It not only underscores the growing acceptance of cryptocurrencies but also provides a new avenue for investors to gain exposure to this dynamic and rapidly evolving market. As Bitcoin Depot and other crypto-related firms continue to make inroads into traditional financial markets, the future of digital currencies looks increasingly promising. The listing of Bitcoin Depot is likely to encourage other cryptocurrency companies to consider public listings, thereby further integrating the cryptocurrency industry with traditional finance.

FAQ

What is Bitcoin Depot? Bitcoin Depot is one of the largest cryptocurrency ATM firms in the United States. Founded in 2016, it allows users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin through its network of over 9,130 ATMs.

What is the recent development with Bitcoin Depot? Bitcoin Depot has announced that it will go public on Nasdaq starting July 3, following the closing of a merger deal with fintech firm GSR II Meteora Acquisition Corporation.

What is the purpose of the merger deal? According to Bitcoin Depot's founder and CEO, Brandon Mintz, the merger deal was aimed at supporting "numerous growth opportunities" and promoting the adoption of Bitcoin in North America.

What does Bitcoin Depot's public listing signify? The public listing of Bitcoin Depot on Nasdaq is a significant step forward for the cryptocurrency industry. It reflects the growing acceptance and mainstream adoption of digital currencies and provides a new avenue for investors to gain exposure to the cryptocurrency market.

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น่าจะเคยได้ยินกันเเน่นอน สักวันเราคงต้องเกี่ยวข้องกับมัน เพราะเมื่อเราจะซื้อของใหญ่ เช่น บ้านหรือรถ น้อยคนที่จะซื้อด้วยเงินสด พวกเราส่วนมากจึงต้องใช้บริการกัน

ส่วนที่มีพอเเต่ไม่ใช้เงินสดซื้อ เพราะอาจจะคำนวนค่าเสียโอกาส ในการนำเงินสดนั้นไปลงทุนอาจจะได้ผลตอบเเทนมากกว่า(อยากเป็นกลุ่มนี้บ้าง555)

สินเชื่อที่ต้องนำมาคิดในเเผนด้วยเนื่องจาก สามารถทำเป็นเป้าหมายระยะกลางได้ เพื่อเราวางแผนเตรียมเงิน เช่น บ้าน หรือ คอนโด มือหนึ่ง มีผ่อนดาวน์ก็จริงเเต่มีก็ต้องมีเงินในการตกเเต่งบ้านต่างๆ

บ้านมือสองอาจจะเก็บเยอะหน่อย เพราะต้องมีวางเงินตาม LTV (Loan to Value)

LTV (Loan to Value) คือ อัตราสินเชื่อสูงสุดที่ทางธนาคารเเห่งประเทศไทยได้มีกำหนดมา โดยมีรายละเอียดดังนี้เลยครับ

(สามารถดูเพิ่มได้ที่ https://www.krungsri.com/th/krungsri-the-coach/loan/mortgages/ltv-home-loan)

ส่วนวิธีการหา LTV

จำนวนเงินกู้/ราคาสินทรัพย์ x เปอร์เซนต์ตามเงื่อนไข

เช่น ราคาบ้าน 1,000,000 เป็นบ้านหลังที่ 2 จากตารางสามารถกู้ได้ 90% = 900,000 บาท ต้องวางแผนมีเงินอีก 10% ในการซื้อบ้านหลังนี้คือ 100,000 บาท

ส่วนเทคนิคการผ่อนทำให้หมดเร็วขึ้นสามารถ เข้าไปกดตามลิ้งค์ที่เเปะไว้เพื่อลองปรับ งวด เงินต้น งวดผ่อน ซึ่งจะมีตารางเเสดงให้ดูด้วยว่าเเต่ละงวดส่งเเล้วเหลือเท่าไหร่ (เห็นภาพๆ)

สามารถลองไปใช้ตามนี้เลยครับ https://www.thaiinterest.com/home-loan/calculator.aspx

ส่วนสุดท้ายคือการไปปรึกษากับธนาคาร Refinance หรือ Retention

Refinance คือ แปลตรงตัวคือการขอสินเชื่อกับธนาคารใหม่เพราะ โดยปกติดอกเบี้ยตามโปรโมชั่นจะเเค่ 3 ปี เเต่จะเสียค่าใช้จ่ายเพิ่มเติมเกี่ยวกับค่าจดจำนองใหม่ เเละต้องยื่นเอกสารใหม่ (คือทำเหมือนขอยื่นกู้ครั้งเเรก)

Retention คือ การยื่นเรื่องขอลดดอกเบี้ยกับธนาคารเดิม ได้เลยเร็วกว่า ไม่ยุ่งยาก

จากตัวอย่างก็จะเห็นว่าถ้าจะมีบ้านสัก 1 หลัง ก็ต้องใส่เป้าหมายของสินเชื่อเข้าไปด้วย เพื่อคำนวนส่วนรายรับ รายจ่าย วางแผนการเงินได้อย่างครบถ้วน

เราขอทวนอีกสักครั้ง ที่เขียนกันมาจาก Part 1-4

เป้าหมาย ทำให้เกิดการวางแผนทางการเงิน เงินออม ทำให้ต้องทำ รายรับรายจ่าย ลงทุน ทำให้ต้องศึกษาสินทรัพย์ต่างๆ มาทำให้เราถึงเป้าหมายเร็วขึ้น ภาษี เป็นรายจ่ายที่ต้องมีเพิ่มเติมเเละบริหารลดหย่อน(สำหรับคนที่รายได้ถึงเกณฑ์เเล้ว) สินเชื่อ ทำให้เป็นต้องวางแผนระยะกลางเเละเกี่ยวข้องกับรายรับรายจ่าย

ถ้าเราทำตามแผนที่วางไว้ เงินออม (wealth) ของเราก็จะมีมากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ(เย้) เเต่มีอีกส่วนที่ต้องคำนึงถึงด้วยนั้นคือ

ประกันภัย(Insurance)

คิดภาพตามนะครับ ถ้าเกิดเหตุการณ์ รถชน ถ้าเราไม่มีประกัน เราต้องนำเงินออม ของเรามาใช้ ทำให้เป้าหมายที่เราวางไว้ถึงช้า หรือ รวนไปได้เลย

ในมุมเราการทำประกันให้คิดว่าเป็นการ ปกป้องเงินออม ของเรา จากเรื่องไม่คาดคิด ซึ่งเเบบประกันมีเยอะมาก เช่น

ประกันชีวิต ประกันสุขภาพ ประกันอุบัติเหตุ

การเลือกเราควรเลือกให้ตรงกับแผนการเงินของเราด้วย ถ้าเราไม่มีแผนเราก็จะเลือกตาม product ที่เค้ามีเเทน เเต่ควรเลือกเเบบที่ Fit กับแผนของเราหรือ life style ของเราอันนี้สำคัญมากครับ

ทิ้งท้ายส่วนของประกันภัย ปัจจุบัน ส่วนเเบบประกัน สามารถทำเเบบควบการลงทุนได้ คือ ส่งเบี้ยไป บริษัทก็นำเบี้ยเราไปลงทุนอีกที อยู่ที่เราเลือกความเสี่ยง เเละสามารถ นำมาลดหย่อนภาษีได้ด้วยนะ

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ตั้งเเต่ Part เเรก ที่เราเคยได้ยิน ศัพท์ต่างๆ เกี่ยวกับการเงิน เเค่เราเข้าใจเเละนำมา เรียงเป็น การวางแผนการเงิน

ผลลัพธ์ของมันทำให้เรา Action เกี่ยวกับเรื่องเงินได้อย่างมีจุดมุ่งหมาย

หวังว่า หัวข้อ การวางแผนการเงินส่วนบุคคล จะทำให้มีประโยชน์กับเพื่อนกันนะครับไม่มากก็น้อย

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Pulitzer and Other Tidbits

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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。

@ fa0165a0:03397073

I 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 called manifest.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 the json 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, called hello.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, like https://brave.com/*, which means that the script will only be executed on urls that start with https://brave.com/.
• js: This is a list of javascript files that will be executed. In this case we have one file, called hello.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 simple console.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 folder hello-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 folder hello-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!

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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.

@ dfedf503:02288a26

The 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.

@ 81870f53:29bef6a6

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。

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@ 59df1288:92e1744f

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@ 23202132:eab3af30

A 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.

@ 8fb140b4:f948000c

As the title states, scratch behind my ear and you get it. 🐶🐾🫡

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Pack your virtual bags and slip on those shades, because Nostr's latest chatter takes us on a whirlwind tour of Miami infused with Taco Bell vibes and a Selena soundtrack that would make even the chilliest of maracas shake. Dive into tales of sun-soaked nostalgia and the art of balancing a chalupa in one hand while taking the perfect beach selfie with the other. Whether you're in it for the travel inspiration or the sheer joy of living vicariously through others' adventures, this roundup is the perfect escape without leaving your couch. 🌮✨

Miami Vibes and Taco Bell Times 🌴🌮

So, our good friend BRB‽ has just landed safely in Miami with their bestie, and it sounds like a total vibe! 🎉 They're kicking back, sipping drinks, munching on Taco Bell, and getting nostalgic with some Selena tunes. Talk about a perfect mini-vacation setup! 💕🫂 The post was all smiles and good times, with some awesome pics and videos of Miami sights—the perfect mix of relaxation and fun. Everyone needs a break like this sometimes! 😎

Check out the full convo here

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Pack your virtual bags and slip on your sunglasses, because this week on Nostr, we're jetting off to Miami for a slice of the good life! 🌴 From Taco Bell feasts to Selena marathons, it's like someone bottled up the essence of fun, popped the cork, and let the good times flow. If your FOMO levels are reaching critical, grab a piña colada and dig into our juicy tidbits where the sun's always shining and the vibes are all good. Cheers! 🍹✨

Miami Vibes with 💕BRB‽

Looks like BRB‽ has landed safely in Miami and is totally living the dream! 🌴 She's chilling with her bestie, sipping drinks, munching on Taco Bell, and binge-watching Selena. Sounds like the ultimate minivaca! You can almost hear the laughter and good vibes through the screen. Don't you just wish you were there soaking up the sun alongside them? 🙌🏾

• Check out the full convo here

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Test Bounty Note

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Grab your forks and raise your tray tables, folks! This week's Nostr wanderings took to the skies with larger-than-life tales of cheesecake confections and in-flight recognition all spiced with a mischievous hint of durian. Who knew revealing your stint at the Bangkok Post could make as much of an impact as divulging dessert secrets at 30,000 feet? Whether you’re here for the sweet or the savory of air-borne adventures, there’s no missing out on this week’s captivating exchange that somehow left the mystery of the cheesecake recipe hanging in mid-air! Dive in to unearth every crumb of these high-flying revelations!

Cheesecake Confessions at 30,000 Feet 🛫

Hey! So Carl Malamud had quite the chat with a flight attendant on their flight. Get this—they not only impressed her by identifying her Thai accent but also claimed they invented Durian cheesecake! 🍰 Talk about a conversation starter, right? Imagine the stories swapped when you drop you wrote for the Bangkok Post. No wonder they had everyone captivated even without any replies yet. Can you believe no one jumped in to ask for the cheesecake recipe or about writing for the Bangkok Post? Classic sky-high banter!

Check out the full convo here

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💻 L’exchange Bitget introduce nuove misure per evitare la quotazione di progetti ad alto rischio, proteggendo i propri utenti da frodi e scam.

🛍️ Bitget ha annunciato un inasprimento dei criteri per il listing dei token, imponendo rigorosi controlli legali e tecnici. Tra le misure vi sono la valutazione della qualità del codice e della compliance normativa, proteggendo gli investitori da progetti poco solidi o fraudolenti.

🛍️ La Fully Diluted Valuation (FDV) sarà un parametro chiave per filtrare i progetti, insieme ai volumi di trading e alla distribuzione dei token. Anche i token già listati su altri exchange saranno sottoposti a verifiche, incluse le sospensioni e la concentrazione di token in pochi wallet.

🛍️ Oltre ai controlli tecnici, Bitget richiederà la presentazione di un business plan per dimostrare la sostenibilità e la crescita del progetto. Anche i token frutto di accordi commerciali dovranno rispettare questi standard, rendendo più sicura l'esperienza per gli utenti.

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Gather 'round, brainy bunch! The latest buzz in the Nostr sphere is like getting a tantalizing whiff of your neighbor's BBQ—enticing, but you're still not quite sure what's cooking. Our inventive comrade threw down a "Very good idea" without spilling the beans, leaving the community at the edge of their virtual seats, predicting DM storms and clandestine brainstorming sessions. Will this mystery unveil the next big thing, or are we all just popcorn-ready for nothing? Dive in and let's unravel the intrigue together! 🍿✨

Genius Idea Brainstorm 🌟

Hey! So, I didn't want you left out on this one—our pal melvincarvalho just threw out what sounded like a pretty rad idea. They simply called it a "Very good idea," which piqued everybody's interest but left everyone hanging, because of the suspense, right? 😂

The post didn't get any replies yet, but knowing this crew, they probably shot off some epic DMs or are plotting to help flesh out the idea. Anticipation is high!

Anyway, it seems like we're all waiting to see what juicy details they'll drop next. Stay tuned; it's bound to get interesting! 😉

Check out the full convo here

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Hey there, digital explorers! 🌐 This week's Nostr chats have taken a turn for the tender, with an outpouring of virtual hugs and heart emojis melting even the iciest screens. It seems like optimism has gone viral, proving that a well-timed emoji can jazz up any day and say what words simply can't. Dive in and see how this contagiously cuddly vibe is bringing our lively community even closer together. Trust us, you won't want to miss the warm fuzzies waiting in the full summary! 🫂🧡

Group Hugs and Heart Emojis 💞

Hey! So, AK dropped a sweet little post that just oozes warmth and good vibes. They posted a big ol' hug and an orange heart emoji — just what we need to sprinkle some love around! 🫂🧡

Not much chatter here, but it's like an open invite for everyone to feel the love! Perfect chance for you to join in and maybe give some reaction love? Emojis just make everything better!

Check out the full convo here

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Intro

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

Requirements

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

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

Installation

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

Prepare and verify

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

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

Create folders & download NWC

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

Creating the Docker image

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

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

Creating docker-compose.yml and necessary data directories

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

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

Starting and testing

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

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

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

Updating

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

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

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Relay ตัวนี้มีให้ตั้งค่ากรอง pow และ wot ด้วย หรือใครจะใช้เป็น Private relay ก็ทำได้เช่นกัน

วิธีติดตั้ง nostr-relay-nestjs มี 2 วิธี

ติดตั้งแบบลงเครื่องโดยตรง

ก่อนจะลง nostr-relay-nestjs ควรติดตั้ง Nodejs, pm2 และ postgresql sudo apt update ติดตั้ง nodejs curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_20.x | sudo -E bash - sudo apt install -y nodejs ติดตั้ง npm sudo apt install npm ติดตั้ง pm2 sudo npm install pm2 -g ติดตั้ง postgresql สร้าง docker-compose.yml ``` version: '3.8'

services: postgres: image: postgres:latest container_name: postgres environment: POSTGRES_DB: [db_name] POSTGRES_USER: [user] POSTGRES_PASSWORD: [password] volumes: - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data ports: - "5432:5432" restart: unless-stopped

pgadmin: image: dpage/pgadmin4:latest container_name: pgadmin environment: PGADMIN_DEFAULT_EMAIL: [E-mail] PGADMIN_DEFAULT_PASSWORD: [password] ports: - "5050:80" depends_on: - postgres restart: unless-stopped

volumes: postgres_data: docker compose up -d เรามาเริ่มลง nostr-relay-nestjs กันเถอะ git clone https://github.com/CodyTseng/nostr-relay-nestjs.git ```

cd nostr-relay-nestjs

npm install

cp example.env .env แก้ไข้ไฟล์ .env ``` DATABASE_URL=postgresql://[username]:[password]@[host]:[port]/[db_name] . . RELAY_NAME=nostr-relay-nestjs

RELAY_DESCRIPTION=A Nostr relay with a clear architecture and high test coverage

RELAY_PUBKEY=[your_pubkey_hex] สร้างรูปแบบ nostr event การเก็บข้อมูลใน Postgresql npm run migration:run Deployg ขึ้น pm2 pm2 start ./dist/src/main.js ```

ติดตั้งโดยใช้ Docker

อยากลืมติดตั้ง postgresql ก่อน ./scripts/build.sh แก้ไข้ไฟล์ .env ``` DATABASE_URL=postgresql://[username]:[password]@[host]:[port]/[db_name] . . RELAY_NAME=nostr-relay-nestjs

RELAY_DESCRIPTION=A Nostr relay with a clear architecture and high test coverage

RELAY_PUBKEY=[your_pubkey_hex] ```

./scripts/run.sh เช็คว่ารีเลย์ถูกรันขึ้นยัง curl localhost:3000 ถ้าทำงานผลลัพธ์ที่ได้

Please use a Nostr client to connect. Powered by nostr-relay-nestjs. version: 2.2.0 (undefined)

ตั้งค่า proxy ใน nginx server{ server_name relay.yourdomain.com; location / { proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade"; } } หรือใช้ CloudFlare tunnel

ไปลองทำตามกันได้เลือกวิธีที่ตัวเองถนัดได้เลย แล้วเจอกันใหม่ครั้งหน้า จะเป็นเรื่องอะไรรอติดตามกัน

Siamstr #Nostr

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We'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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Over the last four years bitcoin has, among other things, established itself as an incredible corporate treasury asset that benefits those who adopt it as such. Microstrategy is the shining example of this theme going from a company that was hovering barely above a ~$1B market cap in mid-2020 to a ~$40B market cap company holding more than 1% of the 21,000,000 bitcoin that will ever exist. Microstrategy's success has emboldened a number of other publicly trader companies to follow suit. Bitcoin as a corporate treasury asset is well on its way to becoming a standard. If you run a business that doesn't hold bitcoin on its balance sheet you are doing yourself, your customers and your shareholders a disservice.

This is a trend that has its legs under it and will accelerate moving forward. A trend that I believe will emerge this cycle is incorporating bitcoin into real estate markets. Leon Wankum has been beating the drum about this for the last few years and I had the pleasure of sitting down with him this morning to record an episode of TFTC that will be published tomorrow morning. Leon is a real estate developer in Germany and he has made it his mission to educate and warn others in real estate about the demonetization of real estate that is under way due to the fact that bitcoin exists and it provides a far superior alternative.

These are pretty stark numbers. Nothing highlights the superior monetary properties of bitcoin better than looking at a chart of the average price of a home priced in USD v. bitcoin.

Since 2016: +46% in USD -99% in BTC

Since 2020: +34% in USD -70% in BTC

The funny thing is that an overwhelming majority of the individuals who make their living in real estate markets do not understand that this is happening to them. Many think they are doing exceptionally well all things considered. Sure, there may be a bit of a slow down and price retraction due to a couple of years of relatively elevated interest rates, but don't worry! The Fed is lowering rates again and the good times are about to start back up. Nothing could be further from the truth. This trend is going to continue unabated until bitcoin is fully monetized and those is the real estate industry, particularly real estate developers and those who lend capital to developers, should seriously take the time to understand what is happening to them.

Real estate is the largest store of value asset in the world at the moment. The most common number that is thrown around for the total size of the market is $300 TRILLION. $300 TRILLION of wealth being stored in an asset that is illiquid, comes with maintenance costs, taxes, insurance premiums, and susceptible to extreme weather event, among other things. Compared to bitcoin - which is extremely liquid, saleable, divisible and hard to confiscate, real estate is a far superior asset to store your wealth in. This is something that I'm sure is well understood by many of you reading this letter.

What's less understood is the dynamics of the real estate development market over the last few years, which have been severely hindered by elevated interest rates. The higher interest rate environment coupled with the inflationary pressures that forced rates higher in the first place have put developers in a predicament; they have a higher cost of capital to start new projects with raw material prices that are still much higher than they were before the economic lock downs of 2020-2022. This has led to a scenario where it isn't advantageous to start new projects and the projects that broke ground in 2021-2023 are finding that they need to incur more debt to get their developments across the finish line.

Despite the fact that interest rates are on their way back down, it doesn't seem like the economics of these projects are going to materially improve in the short to medium-term as headline inflation begins to creep back up. Couple this with the fact that the jobs market is cratering while real wages struggle to keep up with inflation and many builders are going to find themselves in a situation where they do actually complete a development problem but their cash flow suffers because their customers can't afford the inflated rents that builders will have to charge to get a return on their outlaid capital. Many will be put in a situation where they are forced to be happy with lower rents (cash flow) or sit on the sidelines making no cash flow.

The post-1971 era that brought with it a booming real estate industry is suffering the same fate as the bond market; the generation bull market is over. Real estate prices may go up, but that will be nothing more than a mirage of wealth creation. The unit of account those prices are built on is in dollars, which are being debased at an accelerating rate. Developers, banks and borrowers need to de-risk their real estate exposure and, as Leon points out, bitcoin is the only way to do this in an effective way.

Moving forward developers will have to finance by dual collateralizing their debt with the real estate and bitcoin. In the graphic below Leon illustrates what this type of financing structure will look like. Instead of taking $10m of debt to finance a project and putting it all into materials, construction and marketing, a developer will take out a $10m loan, put $1m in bitcoin and the rest toward the development project. Over the course of the construction of the real estate project, bitcoin will sit in the credit structure and, if held for 4+ years, should increase significantly in value. Saving the builder from risk of default and providing him some optionality in terms of what he can do with the project once it's finished.

In this scenario downside risk is contained - a developer isn't pouring all of the cash into bitcoin at the beginning so the worst case scenario is that bitcoin goes to zero (highly unlikely) and they can eat the small loss and hope to make up with it via cash flows once a project is finished, while upside potential is enormous. Bitcoin is still monetizing and having exposure to the hardest monetary asset the world has ever while it's monetizing has proven to be massively beneficial.

We are still in the early days of bitcoin and this idea will likely seem absolutely insane to most Tradfi investors, but I strongly believe that developers, banks and end consumers who don't leverage this type of bitcoin structured credit will be cooked in the long-run. And those that take advantage of this type of structure first will be considered geniuses in 20 years.

There are many more nuanced benefits to this strategy; holding bitcoin allows landlords and management companies to weather ongoing maintenance costs throughout the years, those who take out mortgages dual collateralized with a house and bitcoin not only protect the equity value of their property but could see their equity values increase significantly more than others using vanilla mortgages, and builders who accumulate bitcoin in their treasuries will be able to use better raw materials when building, which leads to more valuable properties that cash flow for longer.

Again, it's going to take time for these types of structures to become commonplace in the market, but I firmly believe this cycle will be the cycle that these strategies get off the ground. In four to five years they will have a track record and after that it will be considered irresponsible not to finance real estate in this way. The banks will begin to demand it.

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Final thought... Sinus congestion sucks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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👋 Nonostante il divieto sulle criptovalute, la Cina mantiene il predominio nel mining di Bitcoin, superando gli Stati Uniti.

🎙 Il controllo segreto della Cina sul mining di Bitcoin

👋 Tre anni dopo il divieto del 2021, i pool di mining cinesi continuano a dominare l'hash rate globale, con il 55%, mentre gli Stati Uniti si attestano al 40%. Questo successo è dovuto all'ingegnosità dei miners che aggirano le restrizioni locali e sfruttano le risorse energetiche economiche come quelle del Sichuan.

🎙 Sopravvivenza del mining e discussioni normative

👋 Nonostante la repressione, la Cina potrebbe cambiare atteggiamento: si ipotizza una regolamentazione delle transazioni crypto entro il 2025, segno di un possibile approccio pragmatico nel settore. L'evoluzione delle normative potrebbe permettere a Pechino di mantenere il passo nella competizione tecnologica con gli Stati Uniti.

🎙 Il futuro del mining in Cina rimane incerto

👋 La Cina resta prudente: qualsiasi apertura dovrà essere accompagnata da una regolamentazione rigorosa per gestire i rischi finanziari e limitare i deflussi di capitale. Tuttavia, il dominio nascosto di Pechino nel mining di Bitcoin riflette la complessità e la resilienza del panorama globale delle criptovalute.

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📲 Il mercato degli smartphone crittografici si scalda: il nuovo telefono di XProtocol, XForge, sfida il Seeker di Solana. Con un prezzo competitivo di 299 dollari e specifiche di fascia alta, XForge punta a conquistare il mondo del gaming e delle reti decentralizzate. Anche Solana, con il Seeker, non resta a guardare, continuando ad ampliare le sue ambizioni mobili.

📱 XForge: il primo smartphone DePIN al mondo

📲 XProtocol, basata su Ethereum, annuncia il lancio di XForge, un telefono Android ottimizzato per il gaming e le reti DePIN (Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks). Al prezzo di 299$, XForge include 256 GB di memoria e 12 GB di RAM, oltre al potente processore Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. XProtocol mira a stabilire un nuovo standard combinando l’accessibilità mobile con la decentralizzazione.

📱 Seeker: la risposta di Solana

📲 Solana Mobile non resta indietro e lancia il suo Seeker, successore del Saga, con un prezzo di partenza di 450 dollari. Con 128 GB di storage, 8 GB di RAM e un focus su dapp e airdrop, Seeker cerca di migliorare l'esperienza degli utenti crittografici, offrendo nuove funzionalità e ricompense esclusive, tra cui la possibilità di partecipare a community di sviluppatori.

📱 Confronto tra XForge e Seeker: chi dominerà?

📲 Se da un lato XForge si concentra sul gaming e sull'intrattenimento, Seeker punta su un'esperienza crittografica completa. Le specifiche hardware del Seeker, pur più contenute rispetto al Saga, promettono un miglioramento tecnologico significativo, con particolare attenzione alla fotocamera e alla durata della batteria. Entrambi i telefoni offrono funzionalità uniche per chi cerca un'esperienza decentralizzata.

📱 Nuove prospettive per il mercato degli smartphone crittografici

📲 Con XProtocol che prevede di migrare a una propria rete layer-1 per maggiore autonomia e Solana che continua a investire nella sua community crittografica, il mercato degli smartphone basati su blockchain è in rapida espansione. XForge e Seeker aprono nuove opportunità per utenti e investitori, ridefinendo l’intersezione tra tecnologia mobile e criptovalute.

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Vamos 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:

1. Formulação das Hipóteses: Definição da hipótese nula, que será testada, e definição da hipótese alternativa.
2. Definição do Nível de Significância: É a probabilidade máxima aceitável de rejeitar a hipótese nula.
3. Definição do Teste Estatístico: Z-teste, teste t de Student, teste binomial, entre outros.
4. Cálculo do p-value.
5. Análise dos Resultados.
6. 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.

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Bitcoin emerged as a promise of financial freedom, challenging the traditional and centralized structures of governments and financial institutions. Since its inception, many enthusiasts have believed in the revolutionary potential of this cryptocurrency. However, over the years, challenges have arisen that have tested this promise, especially concerning centralization, the implementation of secondary layers like the Lightning Network, and issues of governance and privacy.

https://www.fountain.fm/episode/SDZYaFMyLEO1krL6x8RD

Centralization and the Exclusivity of Nostr

Nostr, a decentralized network aiming to be censorship resistant, emerged as an attempt to solve some inherent problems of centralization. However, it faces significant challenges. Many users point out that, despite its promise, Nostr is still not attractive to the general public, being exclusive to a specific niche.

Additionally, issues of centralization still permeate the network. Discussions on GitHub revealed that developers chose not to implement an absolute level of privacy, a decision many considered inadequate. Even with protocols developed to ensure total privacy—such as the non-identification of IPs and communicating parties—the network still lacks this robust implementation.

Individual Freedom and Data Protection

A recurring issue is the importance of demonstrating that real options exist for citizens to protect and preserve their freedom. In a world where most discussions about Bitcoin revolve around its use as an investment asset, there is an urgent need to emphasize its potential as a tool for financial freedom.

The Bitcoin community should focus on development and education, showing that the conscious use of cryptography and decentralized transactions can protect individuals against excessive government surveillance and control. Secure and private communication is fundamental, and Bitcoin, along with privacy technologies, can provide this.

Hyperbitcoinization and the Illusion of Store of Value

Hyperbitcoinization is a concept that refers to the moment when Bitcoin will replace fiat currencies worldwide. However, achieving this state is not simple, especially when Bitcoin is seen primarily as a store of value. Since 2017, this narrative has gained strength, promoting the idea that accumulating Bitcoin will lead to automatic wealth.

However, this perspective is limited. The true value of Bitcoin lies in its use as a transactional currency, not just in its scarcity. The community must work to ensure that Bitcoin is utilized in everyday transactions, strengthening its network and demonstrating its real value.

The Role of the Community in Bitcoin's Development

Bitcoin's strength comes from its community. Developers, users, and enthusiasts, through their actions and support, make Bitcoin a powerful tool. This community is responsible for ensuring that Bitcoin maintains its essence and that its functionalities are accessible to all.

It is crucial that this support network continues promoting the decentralized use of Bitcoin, without intermediaries that can censor or control transactions. Adopting Bitcoin in a centralized manner, through banks or other institutions, contradicts its original proposal and strengthens those who have historically opposed its existence.

Sidechains, Second Layers, and the Lightning Network

Sidechains and second layers, like the Lightning Network, are essential components for Bitcoin's scalability. However, they bring challenges, especially regarding the need to trust intermediaries. For these solutions to be effective, it is fundamental that they allow the unilateral withdrawal of funds, ensuring that users maintain full control over their assets.

The Lightning Network, for example, is a second layer that allows fast and cheap transactions. However, many users face difficulties when dealing with channels that do not close correctly, resulting in locked funds. These problems must be solved for the network to be truly decentralized and functional.

The Fight Against Centralization on the Internet

Centralization is not a problem exclusive to Bitcoin. The internet as a whole faces similar challenges, with data control concentrated in the hands of a few large technology companies. To ensure freedom of expression and online privacy, it is necessary to decentralize these data clusters.

Projects that seek to decentralize the internet are vital for this mission. They not only complement Bitcoin in its quest for financial freedom but also ensure that digital communication and expression are protected against censorship and corporate control.

The Future of Bitcoin and the Need for Action

The future of Bitcoin depends on the community's action. We cannot expect Bitcoin to automatically become a global medium of exchange. A conscious effort is necessary to build an ecosystem where Bitcoin can flow freely, being used in everyday transactions and valued for its utility.

Moreover, with the imminent arrival of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), time is of the essence. CBDCs represent a significant challenge, as they can further restrict individuals' financial freedom. Therefore, accelerating Bitcoin adoption and ensuring it maintains its decentralized and uncensorable properties is a priority.

Conclusion

Bitcoin remains a powerful tool for financial freedom but faces significant challenges. Centralization, both in the context of secondary networks and the internet in general, poses a threat to its original proposal. However, with the joint action of the community and the continuous development of decentralized solutions, it is possible to maintain Bitcoin as a bastion of individual freedom.

The true revolution of Bitcoin lies in its use as a medium of exchange, not just as a store of value. To achieve hyperbitcoinization, it is necessary to build a robust ecosystem where Bitcoin can circulate freely and be accessible to all. Only then can we fulfill Bitcoin's initial promise and ensure it continues to be a tool for freedom and financial autonomy.

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Table Of Content

• Historical July Performance

• Predictions for July 2023

• Other Perspectives

• The Role of Macro Factors

• Conclusion

• 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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this is in response to Shinobis recent piece occupy bitcoin found here

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/occupy-bitcoin-bitcoin-is-not-just-libertarian?new

Occupy bitcoin is a thing every single one of us tries to do. There isn't a single one individual that doesn’t see bitcoin for what it is and have it not occupy all of them to varying degrees. There’s an innate fascination with coming upon previously unknown knowledge and become overtly obsessed with it and exploring all of the facets in which the new knowledge can be applied. When one does so, it normally can lead to finding previously unknown areas that you come to find with the more that you learn you find out just how much you truly don’t understand.

Now with this being the foundation of what all of humans are doing. None of us, not ONE, know everything. Its a fallacious argument to claim to do. In the journey for the discovery that is truth one can happen to fall upon the political rabbit hole that can be called or dubbed Libertarianism/Anarchism/ AnCap/AnCom etc. I use these labels very lightly as they are just words at the end of the day words mean different things to different people. I cant know what these words mean to you dear reader but I can only know what they mean to me, and my journey specifically. What we as humans do is to come to an agreement upon to what does these words mean to the both of us when we are communicating them to each other. I do my best to not fall into being pigeon holed into believing or having to defend that when I say one of the aforementioned words that I should have to commit to whatever it is your preconceived understanding of what that is. We must remember that these words are collectivized terms, they are strictly USEFUL fictions that we humans use in order to better conceptualize the ideas to better understand. That to take any attribute pulled from any one of the above and blanket paint “some” or “most” individuals that claim to align with above ideologies/alignments/political beliefs that these individuals represent that is an absurd claim. One cannot claim that individuals acting in mean/harsh ways when facing others who don’t agree with them is the wrong way to act.

We are humans we disagree, were free to act as we please to anyone we wish to do so. We’re NEVER free to ignore the consequences of those actions. One could characterize the vehement disdain for the acceptance all ideas, and letting others have their own opinions, is how we as individuals got here in the first place. It was the ideas of society being more important than the whole that had legitimized the aggression sanctified by the state as an omnipotent entity free from doing no wrong in lieu of the greater good. Individuals can do as such with their minds as they please but your actions of freedom stop at the point of my nose begins. The individuals that understand freedom and its core philosophy understand this. Treating one side as an evil and the other side as some glorified good is a cop out of intellectual dishonesty.

In the realm of bitcoin there can be disagreements and even out right hostility towards any number of ideas/opinions. This is the nature of freedom itself. As I’ve seen it and as I have championed it myself do with freedom what you will, but whatever you do if I think its stupid I’m going to tell you its stupid. Social pressures have been with human civilizations for thousands of years to think that the idea of attacks to your ideas not being a thing because we should accept all ideas and be kind to differing opinions is a farce at best and some unicorn fart huffing at worst. It was the individuals that were unwavering IN SPITE of the social attacks, the public slandering, the outright social ostracization, the being called dumb and stupid that paved the way for the best and most historical moments in history Ideas don’t care about these passing affronts. If your viewpoint/idea needs soft corners to gain traction then maybe you should reassess your idea in the first place. The battleground that is the societal/accepted norm isn't one that’s for the faint of heart. Everyone has limited time and resources available to them if they are choosing not to hear you then its probably time to seek out others to speak to. In the realm of freedom everyone CAN choose any ideas they wish to follow and interact with others that agree, where that stops is you can NO LONGER force everyone else to participate in your own shared delusions with the others you associate with. The freedom to EXCLUDE is one of the core tenets of freedom principles. We DO NOT have to be accepting of everyone if we do not wish to do so, the belief that everyone should ALWAYS accept everyone and everything is a communistic one. No one individual has the time and resources to accept every person and accept or contemplate every single idea presented to him. What freedom DOES allow for is for YOU to find the individuals that ARE accepting of your views/beliefs and do with that what you wish.

By trying to call out one group of individuals as being too “tribal” in what they view as the best course of action for themselves while SIMULTANEOUSLY praising another group for their favored tenets of “acceptance” is a laughable and down right sad view that “everyone should be more like the accepting crowd”. It is only through the choices we make that we get to where we are going on this journey. Those choices are inherently going to REQUIRE dissociation, omission, & exclusion.

The ideologies/beliefs mentioned at the beginning of this article are only a starting point to the journey. They are in no way shape or from a claim to be a complete set of knowledge's that allow everyone to be able to navigate this earth. Are some things flawed? Probably. Do some things work for some and not others? Absolutely. But the major core belief at all of them is the belief that violence is never permitted, in all its facets to the individual liberty of the person. Its the only morally justifiable way to navigate life. This is in and of itself the most open and accepting philosophy of all life choices.

Individuals can do with their lives as they please, nobody is stopping you from doing that, but you because someone said some mean things to me about what I believe. Its about time some individuals get that we must remain steadfast in our mission. We don’t get there by being nice to everyone. We only get there by allowing everyone to do what they wish and not expecting others to bend to our will because you hurt my feelings.

The ultimate arbiter for what you should pick and choose is you the individual, don’t let others decide that for you. Don’t be a passenger in your own life, take that wheel and choose for yourself where you are headed. But if you're going to let someone who was mean to you stop you from using probably the greatest tool that a human has ever invented, then maybe there isn't hope for humanity after all. The one thing that I know for sure is that there is one thing that that can hinder you or augment you, that thing is choice. Embrace it.

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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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8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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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/10/13/bill-gates-confession-casts-doubt-on-climate-change/ Bill Gates' confession casts doubt on climate change

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🧠Quote(s) of the week:

'Bitcoin completed the stack. Which is why you should probably stack Bitcoin.'- Anilsaidso

🧡Bitcoin news🧡

On the 8th of October:

➡️The US Supreme Court has declined to review an appeal over the ownership of 69,370 Bitcoin seized from Silk Road, allowing the government to sell them. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review a case concerning the ownership of 69,370 Bitcoin, worth $4.38 billion, seized by the government from the Silk Road marketplace. Battle Born Investments, which claimed rights to Bitcoin through a bankruptcy estate, had its appeal rejected after failing to convince lower courts of its claim. This decision clears the way for the U.S. government to sell the Bitcoin. Sources: Cointelegraph

A smart move by the U.S. government. They are poised to sell the only truly limited-supply store of value asset in the world for something it can and will just print more out of thin air itself. Logic, innit?!

➡️'YTD returns:

S&P500: +20.3%

Gold: +27.8%

Bitcoin: +48.2%

But if you only looked at Twitter, you’d think Bitcoin was performing the worst. It’s doing just fine. People are impatient and greedy.' - Bitcoin Isaiah

➡️Bitcoin rewards app Fold has filed an S-4 SEC IPO filing ahead of its planned merger with FTAC Emerald Acquisition.

If approved, Fold will be publicly listed on Nasdaq as "FLD."  - Bitcoin News

➡️MicroStrategy holds more Bitcoin than the US government. Matter of fact, MicroStrategy is the world’s first Bitcoin Development Company.

'It holds ₿252,220 on its balance sheet and did $2.5bn in volume today. JP Morgan is America’s largest bank. It has almost $4 trillion of fiat assets on its balance sheet, and yet today it did just $1.5bn in volume. This is only 60% of MSTR’s trade. Saylor did more volume today than JPM and Coinbase (America’s largest crypto exchange) combined. Let that sink in. MicroStrategy is beginning to make Wall Street’s biggest names look small.' - Bit Strategy

No S&P 500 company has outperformed MicroStrategy since they began stacking Bitcoin. MicroStrategy owns 252,000 Bitcoin.

Only 83 entities in the ENTIRE WORLD can own 252,000 Bitcoin. This means MSTR has achieved something only 82 other individuals, institutions, countries, etc. can achieve.

On the 9th of October:

➡️German parliament member Joana Cotar says "With the right Bitcoin strategy you have the potential to transform a nation."  Inflation is "stealing money from the people every month, Bitcoin is going to fix this"

On the 10th of October:

➡️On this day the Bitcoin Conference Amsterdam started. I only will share the most important bit of the whole conference, fellow Noderunner & Suriname Presidential candidate Maya Parbhoe: Suriname will be the next Bitcoin country!

I hope she will make it. She is a class act and with her determination, and passion for the people, but foremost her vision. I have no doubt she will lead the way and let Suriname thrive. How I love being part of the Noderunners group. The cult within the CULT!

➡️$9.57 trillion Charles Schwab survey shows almost half of its respondents plan to invest in Bitcoin and crypto ETFs

➡️'Ireland's Crime Bureau can't get access to drug dealer's $378m Bitcoin it "seized" in 2020. It has since gone up in value from $56m to $378. Not your keys, not your ₿itcoin!' -Bitcoin Archive

➡️'The SEC is suing Cumberland DRW, one of the largest crypto market makers, for selling assets like Solana as securities without registering as a securities dealer.' -Bitcoin News

1.5M BTC has been accumulated by whales (with >1K BTC on balance) over the last 6 months. There's really nothing to discuss here. What have you done over the last 6 months? Source

On the 11th of October:

➡️TD Bank has pleaded guilty and been hit with a record $3 billion fine for enabling drug cartel money laundering. Bank employees accepted bribes and overlooked blatant criminal activity by customers from Colombia and other regions. Criminals prefer US Dollars. Bitcoin is an open, transparent monetary network. I thought money laundering only happened in crypto… Will never cease to amaze me that these giga-settlements in tradfi happen, barely make news, and Elizabeth Warren in the US or Paul Tang here in Europe doesn't call for all banking to be shut down because of how its medium of choice for money launderers. Fascinating, innit?

➡️Metaplanet has purchased an additional ~108.99 Bitcoin for ¥1 billion at an average price of  ¥9,174,396 per Bitcoin. As of October 11, Metaplanet holds ~748.50 Bitcoin acquired for ¥6.965 billion at an average price of ¥9,304,655 per Bitcoin.

➡️Global Money Supply hits an all-time high of $107 Trillion. It’s just a matter of time until Bitcoin follows. Two weeks ago I shared a great article by Lyn Alden on this topic. You might want to read that.

➡️Mt. Gox trustee postpones deadline to repay creditors by one year to October 2025, reducing sell pressure concerns for Bitcoin.

On the 12th of October:

➡️El Salvador buys back $940 million of its outstanding debt to reduce its debt burden and take advantage of favorable market conditions. The future of El Salvador is debt-free The IMF is in despair.

On the 13th of October:

Lyn Alden: Sometimes I make an asset class return chart specifically to show how poorly bonds performed over the past 5 years or whatever random timeframe, and instead it just accidentally shows how dramatically bitcoin outperformed everything.

➡️ Bitcoin on exchanges just hit a 5-year low. However, there are still 2.5M Bitcoins that need to be withdrawn!

On the 14th of October: ➡️I will end this Bitcoin segment with some quotes from Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO on Bitcoin. "We believe Bitcoin is an asset class in itself." "We're having conversations with institutions worldwide about allocations." "Bitcoin will become as big as the US housing market" -- Larry Fink. That market, the housing market, is currently 50 Trillion. Let's estimate 100 Trillion by 2040. That is 76x Bitcoin's 1.3 Trillion market cap. In other words, Bitcoin is going to $ 5 Million. Source: the most important person in finance on planet earth.

💸Traditional Finance / Macro:

On the 11th of October:

👉🏽'The S&P 500 is now up over 22% this year, marking the best year-to-date performance in 24 years.

This is already DOUBLE the average annual return since 1957. In one year, the index has added a whopping $13 trillion in market cap. If the current pace of the market rally continues, the S&P 500 is on track to record a 30.0% gain in 2024, the largest annual gain since 1997. That also would mark the third-largest annual return since 1975, when the S&P 500 finished the year up 37.2%.' -TKL

🏦Banks:

On the 2nd of October:

👉🏽no news

🌎Macro/Geopolitics:

On the 8th of October:

👉🏽The Tax Foundation analyzed the Kamala Harris Tax Plan and concluded that it would result in the loss of approximately 800K full-time jobs, a long-run wage decline of 1.2%, and a long-run GDP of negative 2%. Source: https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/kamala-harris-tax-plan-2024/

'For the sake of completeness, the Tax Foundation is not blatantly partisan but its leaning is conservative and center-right. Still by its own findings Trump's economic plans would result in 684K job losses and 0.8% loss of GDP. Most estimates coming from other places are less favorable to Trump.'

Left, right...this is a feature of a system that requires billions of dollars in debt service.

👉🏽Hong Kong's Hang Seng index just crashed 9.4% today, posting its largest drop since 2008 and 2nd largest drop since 2000. Over the last 3 weeks, China's stock market was up nearly 30% on stimulus announcements.

The full thread you can find here: https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/1843630549379981400

👉🏽Despite strong headline growth in GDP figures several people are struggling and working multiple jobs just to pay bills. Millions of Americans are working multiple jobs to afford basic necessities. 'The number of people working MULTIPLE jobs in the US hit 8.66 million in September, a new record. This is ~300,000 above the peak seen before the pandemic and ~600,000 above the 2008 peak. Furthermore, the number of part-time jobs has jumped by ~3 million over the last 3 years to a near-record 28.2 million. Concerningly, full-time employment has declined by 1 million since November 2023. Multiple jobholders have been rapidly rising over the last few years as Americans are fighting record-high prices.' -TKL

👉🏽 Without a fiscal union the Euro is shaky and makes little sense long term. But no country will give up its sovereignty to make a fiscal union. Especially not the rich/successful countries. The EU and Euro are failed projects. 'All currency unions in history based on common monetary policy only failed and disappeared. The Euro can only survive long-term if there was common fiscal policy, given political landscape in Europe it’s close to impossible.' -Michael A Arouet

It comes down to the question - are Northern countries (e.g. DE and NL) willing to pay for early retirement in France, or low tax morale in Italy?... We all know the answer.

Anyway... socialism will never work though.

👉🏽In 2023 the wealth tax increase in Norway was expected to bring an additional $146M in yearly tax revenue.

Instead, individuals worth $54B left the country, leading to a loss of $594M in yearly wealth tax revenue. A net decrease of $448M+. Capital moves where it's treated best. And so do people. That is because rich people don't pay taxes.

The same thing happened in France when socialists increased the wealth tax in 2012. The most successful simply left.' -Michael A. Arouet

Just to show how bad things are in France. Within 15 years debt/GDP almost doubled. France is running a 6% fiscal deficit during good times despite the highest tax burden in Europe.

Without deep structural reforms, it will sooner or later face a debt crisis. Great article by the economist: https://archive.ph/qrWcT

France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss. A fragile new government must try to plug the hole.

On the 9th of October:

👉🏽The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) just released the estimated 2024 federal budget results. Adjusting for weekend payments, the actual 2024 expenses totaled $6.8T for a deficit of $ 1.83T. This is a ~12% deficit increase from 2023. The US deficit reached $1.83 trillion in Fiscal Year 2024, or 6.4% of GDP, the largest deficit since 2021.

According to CBO data released Tuesday, this is $139 billion higher than in FY 2023 and ~$400 billion above FY 2022 levels. This comes as government spending increased 10% year-over-year to $6.8 trillion. The largest outlays were Social Security, debt interest payments, and Medicare at $1.5 trillion, $950 billion, and $869 billion, respectively. Meanwhile, federal debt is up $2.2 trillion over the last year and hit a record $35.7 trillion this week. US deficit spending remains at crisis levels.

On the 10th of October:

👉🏽The Fed's worst nightmare has begun:

1. Core CPI inflation rises to 3.3%, the first increase since March 2023
2. 258,000 people filed for unemployment this week, above expectations of 230,000. That is the highest reading in 16 months. Once the September jobs report is revised sharply lower (as usually in 2023/2024), it will reveal the Fed's nightmare situation. Rising inflation with rising unemployment. No bueno.

👉🏽Trump is leading Kamala by 9.4% on Polymarket, the widest gap since Biden dropped out.

Trump is even leading in Wisconsin and Michigan.

👉🏽China's Central Bank launches $70 BILLION funding program to stimulate the economy and capital market: • Cut reserve req ratio, releasing ~1 trillion yuan • Lowered key interest rates • Reduced mortgage rates • Issued 1 trillion yuan in special sovereign bonds • 100B Yuan govt investment • Child subsidies for families By cutting the reserve requirement ratio and lowering interest rates, the government aims to boost liquidity and consumer confidence.

On the 11th of October:

👉🏽September PPI inflation RISES to 1.8%, above expectations of 1.6%. (first time since June), and last month's PPI inflation number was revised higher. Both Core PPI and CPI inflation are now officially back on the rise.

On the 12th of October:

👉🏽'The Federal Reserve’s balance sheet declined by $66 billion in September to $7.05 trillion, the lowest since September 2020.

Since April 2022, the Fed has shrunk its portfolio of assets by $1.92 trillion. This is 40% of the $4.80 trillion the central bank bought during the 2020-2022 pandemic response. For the first time in history, the Fed is simultaneously reducing its balance sheet and cutting rates. At the September Fed meeting, Fed Chair Powell emphasized that balance sheet reductions will continue.' -TKL

Great news! Meanwhile, though, the US money supply hit $21.17 trillion in August, the highest level since January 2023.

This also marks a fifth consecutive monthly increase in the US money supply. Over the last 10 months, the amount of US Dollars in circulation has jumped by a MASSIVE $484 billion.

In effect, the money supply is now just $548 billion below a new all-time high. After a brief decline, the quantity of money in the financial system is surging again raising concerns about another inflation wave.

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@ 6ad3e2a3:c90b7740

I was at a yoga teacher training 14 years ago during which the topic of positive thinking came up. A few different women (it was almost all women) spoke about how much “positive thinking” had affected their lives for the better. When they were done, I raised my hand and said something to the effect of:

“You know there were six million Jews killed in the Holocaust, and the one percent most positive-thinking among them were 60,000, and it didn’t help them much. Even the one percent of the one percent most positive who must have been very very positive, were 600, and they too got murdered alongside everyone they knew.”

I don’t remember what if anything anyone said after that, only that it pretty much killed the “kumbaya” vibe they had been cultivating, which I guess was my aim, since it always struck me as phony.

. . .

I was talking to a friend last week about a book I was reading, called “Becoming Supernatural.” It’s a bit “self-helpy” for my tastes, but the author makes some interesting arguments. Essentially that matter is mostly empty space because atoms are mostly space (the nucleus, which has virtually all the mass, is tiny compared to the entire atom.) Everything is space, or more precisely electromagnetic fields, and the subatomic particles inside the matter are actually just waves until they are observed. “Reality” is mostly just waves which we solidify by observation, and the same is true for our internal reality.

When we’re in a contemplative state, just observing, not identifying or planning, it’s like we’re an unobserved wave, and it’s only when we snap back to “reality” of “I’m a man,” “I’m a woman” or “I’ve got a boring meeting at 10 am” that we re-particle-ize, so to speak. That you are in a state of possibility (wave) when meditating, and you are the particle when you identify with the specifics of yourself or your life.

And so you wind up with an identity that’s full of beliefs about yourself, your plans and your history, and those notions solidify themselves in your body in terms of stress, tension, etc. via biochemistry, and that biochemistry feeds your thoughts which in turn feed more biochemistry, and you become habituated to your patterns, your history, your identity and cut yourself off from new choices and possibilities. As I said, a bit self-helpy for me (and maybe I’m missing something in my paraphrasing), but an interesting way to conceptualize it.

So I’m talking to my friend about this idea of creating your own experience, so to speak, by not, for example, imagining how my run at the track will go like I normally would but simply committing to it, but without a picture, story or expectation. You just walk out the door, a couple blocks to the subway, observe the people, the cobblestones, etc. And I don’t mean imagining doing that as I am now while typing this, but each step as it’s happening. And in this way you create a different experience than the habitual one where you’re dreading the run and strategizing how to make its prospect less painful.

And he agreed that maybe we can create our own experience. Of course, that was when I told him the story of the yoga class and the 600 super positive Jews on their way to the gas chamber.

And he said, “Maybe the positive ones had already left.”

. . .

Growing up Jewish in New York, I was exposed to the sentiment that Holocaust 2.0 was maybe not imminent but surely something about which I should be worried. We weren’t religious, and I never experienced any kind of antisemitism (I’ve seen and heard some lately on social media and even in real life on occasion, but nothing that’s affected my life in any way.) And I always rejected that idea that I should be specifically worried about it.

But — and I can’t say if the Holocaust paranoia drove this — I’ve always thought about the people that died not just in the Holocaust, but also in wars or even via violence on the street. So many humans in history have met their ends in gruesome ways, in prison, in the gutter or at the hands of others. I’ve always had this sense that it could easily be me or my family as there was no basis for believing it couldn’t be so.

I had only a small taste of violence growing up, getting mugged, punched in the face on the street a couple times, chased by a gang with sticks and bats. I never got seriously injured, and in fact no one I know did, either, but there was a sense of menace back then that it could happen.

On the one hand, you could say if it happens it happens, and hopefully it doesn’t come to that, and let it go, but it raises the question of how much one should prepare, at what point should you leave. If the positive thinking Jews (and by positive thinking I don’t mean being in denial about what was going on in Germany, but in the sense of willing themselves a good life for which leaving was necessary) left, maybe my mental model was wrong, and those girls in my yoga class, naive though they might have been, were onto something.

Instead of seeing oneself as a statistic, at the mercy of probability given a shifting (often for the worse) environment, a wave waiting for the events of life to particle-ize oneself, so to speak, into the lottery of history, one might imagine a form of higher agency. Unlike ordinary agency which is the power to respond to one’s environment, maybe one creates it, whether via default (lottery of history) or by choice.

This has profound implications because it makes you not only responsible for how you act upon the world but also for how the world acts upon you. There is nothing to fear from what might happen because you yourself created the conditions, consciously or by default. And while there might be great suffering, real horrors and unspeakable cruelty, those episodes are all mutually brought into being.

Obviously that is not to say that there are no moral distinctions, that the Jews who went to the gas chamber were as responsible as the nazis who forced them. The default — letting the lottery of history play out — still involves ordinary agency and the responsibilities inherent to it. One has merely opted into ordinary agency (and its probability distribution) by not discovering the means of reality production at its root. And because most people are neither exposed to this possibility nor encouraged to seek it, they experience only the default. (And some even less than that as society encourages helplessness and increasingly confers status on those it deems victims, but that’s a topic for another essay.)

. . .

I don’t want to go too far afield trying to explain or describe what creating one’s own reality consists in or how one might go about it. I am no expert in this, and I’m not even positive it can be done in the sense I’m suggesting after reading (and likely misinterpreting) a book. Only that my old probabilistic view of the world wherein the influence you have with respect to your conditions was modest might be wrong. That even the idea it’s possible to opt out of virtually anything is more than just intriguing but liberating.

@ bcea2b98:7ccef3c9

I've always been interested in Eastern philosophies and Stoicism. When I first heard about Bitcoin, it seemed to align well with the beliefs, ideas, and lifestyle I was already living. I try my best to be self-sovereign, practice a low-time preference, and delayed gratification. I've also learned so much about Linux, servers, etc...

I'm curious to hear what skills you have gained from Bitcoin, or how it has changed or aligns with your lifestyle.

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/724982

@ 6bf975a0:65de1244

Площадки 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

@ c8cf63be:86691cfe

Das 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.

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[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

@ 4fda8b10:7bbee962

Takeaways from Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024

The bitcoin conference in Amsterdam to me is my typical yearly check in with the crypto scene. From a distance, not much has changed since last year. What struck me most was the correlation between the exchange prices and the amount of visitors, I had the feeling the crowd was about twice as big as last year during the opening and high profile talks.

From my personal experience, the increase of audience also brought some dilution to the hard core maximalist anarchist-ness of the event. The overall vibe amongst the attendees was more friendly and open. This also increased the value of the event for me, as I try to broaden my network, get different perspectives and learn more about what interests people in the crypto space.

This year was also marked by my involvement in the Nostr side events, I was asked to give a live performance at the Nostrdam Meetup October 2024 which went over very well and also acted as a nice conversation starter during the rest of the conference. I was also slightly involved in the organisation of the Nostr booth, but credits go to the awesome volunteers that made that happen. It was a bit of a shame that the Nostr booth was tucked away all the way in the back of the (commercial) expo hall, it would have been nice to promote the Nostr initiative to the social community area next to the satoshi radio / connect the world community area

For me the biggest takeaways were the insights I got from the people I’ve met, all from different industries with different perspectives on both technology and involvement. I tried to specifically reach out to (former) CTO’s, which led me to write and share this piece on that particular role. Of course shaking hands and catching up with people I only see once a year is great, and reminds me of the vibe and my experiences at the Fronteers conference.

From a technical point of view I was most inspired by the advancement of AI agent technology and the possibilities of programmable micropayments via de lightning network. Michael Levin showed us that the http spec already has a 402 status of “payment required” and that basically all the required infrastructure is already in place to allow both humans and ai agents to use the lightning network to pay for access to compute or resources using this statuscode and an api gateway such as lightning labs aperture.

talk: HODLing Is Hard: Fundamentals, Cycle & On-Chain Analysis by rational root

• bitcoin is already competing in market cap with other currencies
• amount of euro is exponentially increasing
• from 8 to 16 trillion euros since 2009, but having a real hard cap in btc is fundamentally different
• inflation
  • euro lose 20% in 5 years
  • bitcoin also loses purchasing power, but only 10%
• in current system, we always need to take on maximal debt, instead of saving
• two things can happen
  • we get into overvalued price levels
  • we get into recession
• recession would only mean a shift in the start of the 4 year cycle

panel: Endless Possibilities: Reusing Heat From Miners

• people
  • 21energy Maximilian (obwexer)
  • Bert de groot (bitcoin Brabant)
  • Brad Tom (mara)
• perspective: coming from energy to bitcoin is very different and much faster with implementation than the other way around
• 95% of heat can be captured from miners, much higher in comparison to AI
• being able to balance the grid because you can turn off the bitcoin miners
• ”heatbuffers” → heat is still available when power source goes down
• common objections:
  • Crypto is hard to understand
  • for large industrial clients, heaters, public image of bitcoin (often a door closer)
• people don’t see that miners consume electricity and pay for it.
  • If mining is closed down in Europe, the energy prices will spike because the energy will not be payed for anymore

panel: How to Guard Privacy Tools & Developers

• Dorien Rookmaker & Sjors proviost
• chat control
  • topic keeps returning, and is highly distracting for progress
  • Parliament wants Netherlands to speak against chat control
  • initially they want to just, scan messages now want to install malware before encryption
  • it is distracting Sjors from working on bitcoin
• samurai and tornado are different cases
  • tornado cash is harder because it is also a smart contract with custody over funds
  • samurai is easier: if you don’t have custody, are you responsible for the results of the code?
  • will decide wether whether non custodial systems are ok or not
• micah interpretation is quite vague
• the current Denmark case:
  • if you are rebuilding an interface for a smart contract, you are responsible for implementing all the legal guardrails that apply to securities governance?

panel: NOSTR: Freedom of Algorithmic Choice

• will casarin, mcshane, martti malmi (Sirius iris.to)
• arc (alternative layer on top of bitcoin, like lightning but without channels)
• aha moment: when seeing the unsiloed experience between nostr apps
• were trying to create a town square, so we need to deal with spam
• social media platforms have stagnated a bit, nostr is innovating far more quickly

panel: Transactions As Bitcoin’s Key Growth Metric

• Stephan nilov
  • classical developers don’t know about money and bitcoin development is harder
  • total addressable market is highest in btc, biggest number of possible users
  • bitcoin companies don’t benefit from tokens that are typically exchanged for vc money
  • users are not looking for payments, they are looking for digital property and other things that Ethereum network offers
• Stephan Livera
  • there is a known, slow pace at which bitcoin will be adopted
  • btc market is only 1.2 trillion dollars compared to USD 30 trillion

talk: Making Bitcoin Quantum Resistant by hunter beast

• surmount.systems
• explaining the threat of quantum computing
• problems
  • key size: larger signature required
  • proposal: transaction field attestation
  • 256 bit number key, possibility to factor the private key out of this
• introducing p2qrhash
  • segwitv3
  • satoshishield
• in layman terms:
  • quantum safe upgrades to bitcoin protocol are proposed
  • we need to introduce a software upgrade
  • requires a soft fork, opt in
• possible advantages of quantum in crypto
  • allow us to sign signatures in a way that is unbreakable
• 514 qubits are needed to break something

talk: Lightning and AI: Where the Bots Pay You by michael levin

• two use cases for bitcoin adoption
  • people that don’t have access to fiat
  • things that can’t be handled by fiat systems
• large language models
  • current phase: big adoption
  • next phase: agentic ai
• costs of ai
  • compute 400% more (ben bajarin)
  • algorithm training excess 10 billion dollars
  • data
• costs implications
  • cost of serving answers is 0
  • cost of serving ai query is not 0
  • cost for everyone in the world
• payments in AI
  • now
    • pay per call
  • data
  • accessibility
  • agents
    • agents must be able to do things that cost money
• payment system for AI
  • globally accessible
  • near instant
  • final settlement
  • internet native
  • authentication mechanism
    • personalise access (simple queries for lower tier model)
  • easy to implement
• L402 protocol
  • 402 payment required in http spec
• reverse proxy to have 402 in front of APIs
  • aperture is lightning labs implementation
• all available right now, adoption starting
  • fewsats, sulu, open agents / plebai
  • pay with lightning
• challenges
  • do these payments with stablecoins instead of lightning (hence taproot assets protocol)
• cases
  • agent bots can pay for real world resources
  • taproot assets issue assets on bitcoin allow transfer of
• references
  • L402.org

talk: Bitcoin is Cypherpunk by Aaron van Wirdum

• is bitcoin still Cypherpunks ?
• on one hand we see a push to regulation and frameworks to govern btc
• on the other hand we are arresting developers for writing code

pitches: Bitcoin Amsterdam Pitch Day: Presented by GoBTC

• umoja
  • ceo Robby greenfield
  • LST smartcoin, deflationary by design
  • competes with pools such as lido and rocket pool, but supports multiple coins, including liquid hashrate
    • 30% liquid hashrate returns (!)
  • compliance micah
  • disaster scenarios
    • black swan event → automatic exit out
• magisat
  • trading tools for mempool snipers
  • support for runes
  • volume on bitcoin nft’s is on certain days higher than nft’s on ethereum

panel: Crossing the Boundaries Between Bitcoin & Fiat

• Christian Rau (Mastercard) & Remi destigny (bitrefill )
  • liberation is great, but protocols don’t take customer service into account, chargebacks and rewinding mistakes etc
  • we aim to smooth process by issuing cards that sell your Bitcoin just in time on the backend

talk: Gold & Bitcoin: Friends, Not Foes by Paul Buitink

• premise “the financial system is crumbling”
  • there is too much debt
  • emerging markets lost confidence in western currencies
• freezing Russian assets is shooting ourselves in the foot, as it shows the world you might not want to hold too many dollars that can be easily seized
• record gold buying by central banks in 2022 2023 2024
• gold: 17 trillion marker cap, compared to bitcoin 1.3 trillion

talk: Austrian Economics, Hard Money & Bitcoin Cycles, Willem Middelkoop

• ”we are on the road towards hyper inflation and collapse of financial system”
  • central bankers are pretty smart and very aware
  • this is why they accumulate gold
• when system collapses, central bankers will play the gold card, not the bitcoin card
• US is preparing for big conflict with Russia and china
  • then you can’t use IMF monetary reset
• Asia leadership is the same as US and Russian leadership: they want to stay on control
  • all have about similar gold (per Capita) in their central banks vaults to avoid hyperinflation
• IMF said to el salvador: you need to reign down your bitcoin position
• once central bankers start diversifying (e.g. to bitcoin ) they will strain their own system. The incentives are against adopting bitcoin
• watch out for when on and offramp get blocked / repressed
  • think about diversifying to Dubai, “the new switzerland"
• "bitcoin is the best money ever. fact”
  • superior to gold, because you can store your wealth independant of location
  • more scarce than gold
  • but from central bank point of view, gold is superior to bitcoin
  • younger generation gets this from the start

talk: The Future Will Be Bitcoinized by Elizabeth stark & Rockstar Dev

• stablecoins
  • taproot assets protocol
  • there is a demand for stablecoins and apps on stablecoins
  • 11 trillion dollars in stablecoins
• protocol allows payments in other assets such as stablecoins that use bitcoin/lightning liquidity
  • Elizabeth believes this allows stablecoiners to get interested in the underlying bitcoin layer
• Available now:
  • bridging tether and lightning

products stumbled upon

• Meshtastic
• Flipper
• Noderunners led matrix panel
• 21energy bitcoin heater (1k s9, 3,5k s19)
• angor.io by dangershony on nostr
• bitcoinclock by Djuri

canonical link: https://notes.peterpeerdeman.nl/Bitcoin-Amsterdam-2024

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/724785

@ 592295cf:413a0db9

[07/10 week]

Thinking about it, even the protocol is a cathedral, Rabble in the speech in Riga on Bluesky.

He said the protocol is a bazaar. But you have to converge on the scheme in the NIPs or between Apps.

NIPs for example are like Luther's 95 theses, but they change continuously and adapt, but they always remain those 95.

Maybe that Pr on theother curve keys could lead to saying this is "nostr" these others are similar. Creating more points, but I just think it would have led to endless diatribes.

What will be of the protocol and who knows. He can do everything or maybe nothing and from tomorrow we will see and it will be, it will be what it will be. Italian Song

Notifications with nostter are not hidden, they are in your feed and this is good, you always know if someone has searched for you. While in the others you do not know.

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I saw a sliver of light pass by it was Unanimity.

It's a very stupid idea, it takes a long time. it's basically a community + channel, where you post the channel in the community and start talking about that topic in the channel. The channel is an approved message. I made musicbook channel, it's the collection of albums released on Friday. The idea of ​​also making a blogger channel, where to put long-form articles.

Following nostr trending on Openvibe social, with a new profile, the Lost One, sad, in this One follow fiatjaf, means I won't bother him anymore . Now I follow 62 profiles, it's an account that I will use to read the notes of the top profiles. Curious if this number will grow enormously or is there a spectre.

The strength of the protocol is the developers if they collaborate together, otherwise it can still work, everyone goes their own way, but it's like saying I want to make my own fence.

One who in his long form doing an analysis of the various social networks. npub19mq9swna4dkhlm3jaux4yhgv5kjj556lkfhv3qnjtyh0kcljph6s88e295 Nostr is all based on Bitcoin. The difficult thing is Bitcoin not Nostr and he says so.

Controversies are useful, or my doubts, but maybe people who can't write code don't understand much, the so-called end users. No one is an end user at this time. The end user doesn't care about the person behind it, only having their own service, if the service is good they also do promotion, they become sponsors. We have seen in recent months sponsoring a Nostr app, result a small attack can damage that app. But the strength of having all these apps is that the other app doesn't have that problem. Spam attack example. The problem is that you can't sponsor an ecosystem, so it becomes difficult to suggest 10 apps to download. The best 10 apps of Nostr and the other 100, there is no easy way out. It's a bit like proposing a new place in NY, then everyone goes to that place and it loses a bit. What the sponsor must understand is that Nostr has only one "one shot".

I saw a video on Nostr of two people posting content on social media, making a review. Not bad, compared to the previous video, that Nostr doesn't even have a token. It doesn't give me a sign up. The main feature they say is a platform or at least they reviewed damus, damus for Bitcoin maxi. And so Nostr is populated by people who Number go up, only fiat thought they would say on Nostr. It's true in part there are those obsessed, even the non-obsessed are obsessed.

How nice it would be to call them NPs Nostr protocol specification, today supertestnet called them that. (the nice thing is that they are pronounced the same way).

@ 34f1aaa6:836e3cd6

Bitcoiners and Libertarians in India are in the minority - ridiculed, dismissed and laughed at as being a bunch of irrelevant nuts being influenced and manipulated by some nonsensical 'western' ideas like natural rights, natural law, economic freedom, individual liberty and financial sovereignty.

This will not always be the case.

A mistake that those who dismiss us make is to think that folks like us are merely influenced by lies, deceit, propaganda and manipulation.

Rather, what we simply did was to search for truth, beauty, morality and goodness. We tried to articulate them and live with the goal of their achievement. Doing this took us down a rabbit hole that went beyond just Bitcoin and Libertarianism as an alternative asset and a political ideology respectively. They slowly turned into a way of life for us as we started improving and educating ourselves individually. We understood what fiat money, statism and collectivism does to our minds, wealth, culture, society and economy. We recognised the subtle lies and deceit that pervades our lives.

A bigger mistake would be to think that ideas of natural rights, natural law, individual liberty, economic freedom and financial sovereignty are nonsensical or 'western' in character.

Natural rights to life, liberty and property derived from the natural law are universal to every human being. They are built on the foundations of reason and logic. They exist even if a coercive or manipulative authority proclaims that they don't, be it a state leader, religious zealot or university intellectual. From this foundation, the push towards individual liberty, economic freedom and financial sovereignty emerges. There is no stronger foundation than that of reason and logic.

The only criticism that can be valid against people like us would be that we are 'irrelevant' or less in number.

But being less in number cannot undermine the kind of impact that people like us can have. For the first time in the subcontinent's long history, individuals who advocate for natural rights and natural law have a chance of becoming financially sovereign and economically free, thanks to Bitcoin and the internet. These tools help us clear a path on which we can pursue our self-interests, aims, needs and goals in a way that is moral and ethical, without relying on the State apparatus, which requires us to lie, cheat, coerce, bribe or manipulate. We can form economic relationships based on trust and voluntary cooperation and make economic decisions based on capital accumulation and low time preference savings and investment.

We have the ability to create what Vaclav Havel would call a 'parallelopolis' - a parallel and moral society with an economy that is outside the realm of State control and regulatory capture. Feasibly so.

We have the ability to create a property base on which we can build our own lives first and then look to build a better society after. It won't be long before people start noticing what we are doing and listening to what we are saying.

The possibility and capability of people like us, less in number as we may be, to create such a property base is the reason we cannot be ridiculed, dismissed or laughed at.

@ c8cf63be:86691cfe

Jon Gray untersucht den Zusammenhang von Fortschritt und Utopie, er stellt fest das in den Vorhandenen Fortschrittsvorstellungen immer eine Utopie verborgen ist[1]. Der Fortschritt gibt uns eine Unterscheidung, ein Besser und damit auch ein Schlechter, den Rückschritt und die interessante Frage ist, wie unterscheiden wir das Eine von dem Anderen.
Hier schleicht sich die Utopie ein, sie stellt das Bild, das Kriterium an dem wir diese Unterscheidung vornehmen. Hier sind die Dinge positiv Bestimmt. Diese positive Bestimmung ist immer Gewalt, die positive Bestimmung ist eine Form in die das Gegebene gepresst werden muss, das ist schmerzhaft und reduzierend.
Hier ein paar einfache Beispiele:
Dieser dort ist ein Ausländer. Ein Nazi. Ein Putin Versteher. Eine linke Zecke. Ein roter Apfel.
Der rote Apfel kann sich wenigstens nicht diskriminiert fühlen, aber er ist auch ein potentieller Baum, eine hoch strukturierte Menge Zellen, die gemeinschaftlich an der Reproduktionsarbeit des Organismus teilnimmt.
Es läßt sich jedoch eine andere Fortschritts Begriff konstituieren, eine Psychedelische Partei der 90’er war Fortschritt[2] ihre Bestimmung von Fortschritt ist: “Fortschritt ist die positive neu Verschaltung der Nervenzellen”, “Fortschritt ist Reinigung durch Kunst”, “Fortschritt liebt Natur.” Hier erkennt man, das dieser Begriff des Fortschritts an unsere Gefühle appelliert. Das positive der neu Verschaltung der Nervenzellen ist nicht ausgesprochen und damit fixiert sondern erkannt.
Wenn wir an das “inteligible an sich sein” der Dinge denken, wird uns klar das die Dinge nur bestimmt werden können in dem uns durch die Wahrnehmungsorgane gegebenen Kategoriensystem, d.h. wir sehen nicht die Dinge sondern wir sehen von den Dingen was unser Wahrnehmungssystem von ihnen registrieren kann. So weit Kant, und wirklich weiter sind wir nicht. Wenn wir aber nicht die Dinge sehen, dann haben wir auch keine Vorstellung von ihnen, keine die den Dingen entspricht, nur eine, die der Art entspricht wie wir die Dinge Wahrnehmen. Das ist die Landkarte, das, wie es Donald Hoffmann nennt, Interface[3]. Und so ist natürlich jeder Vorstellung von der Wirklichkeit nie die Wirklichkeit selbst, auf der Hand liegt das so jede Positive Bestimmung der Art X ist ein Y nie wahr sein kann, denn Y liegt nicht in der Welt von X sondern auf der Landkarte und, so ein X zu einer Selbstbetrachtung fähig ist, wird es in seiner Betrachtung mit der Zuschreibung von Y nicht zu frieden sein, da es sich selbst nicht in Y erschöpft sieht[4].
Hier liegt die Gewalt der positiven Bestimmung: In der Reduktion und der falschen Zuschreibung. Das wir dies als ein Problem erkannt haben, jedoch nicht in seiner vollen Tragweite, ist an den diversen diversivitäts und Sprach Debatten der heutigen Zeit erkennbar. Zurecht fühlt sich niemand richtig wohl mit den Zuschreibungen, denn sie können nicht treffend sein.
Kants Ausweg war die negavitve Metaphysik, eine negative Bestimmung ist auch eine Bestimmung. Sie hat die allgemeine Form X ist kein Y und mag unbefriedigend klingen jedoch können eine Menge dieser Bestimmungen sich über ein X legen und damit eine Form, eine Gestalt erkennbar machen. Es ist ein “Sieh hin und du weißt.”[5]. Ein “klarmachen ändert”. Wie die Musik appelliert es an ein Vorsprachliches Verständnis.
Wenn derKUEKeN die Vorstellung von Fortschritt definieren durch die Frage:
Wie kann unsere Gesellschaft aufgebaut und strukturiert sein, sodass sie unseren Kindern eine gute Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft bietet? …
Dann ist die Antwort nicht … Als gute Gesellschaft möge die Fähigkeit gelten, unsere Kinder zu wahreren, klügeren und besseren Menschen zu machen, als wir es sind.
Die Antwort, was der Fortschritt in seine Essenz ist, lautet: Es ist eine Freude anzuschauen.
Die Methode der Bestimmung ist insofern eine wichtige, da sie die Weiche stellt, eine positive Bestimmung führt in den Nominalismus[6] oder den Universalismus mit allen daraus folgenden Konsequenzen. Den Weg muss man nicht gehen. Eine Bescheidenheit wie sie uns “Denken ist Glückssache” nahelegt scheint viel angemessener. In diesem Glück erscheinen uns die imanenten Wesenheiten, das intelligible Substrat. Und “Deren kritische Fassung durch Kant ist der Punkt, von dem aus allein es wahren Fortschritt geben kann: Fortschritt jenseits reduzierenden Denkens.”[7] Die Reduktion, ob universalistisch oder nominalistisch motiviert, operiert auf der Landkarte. Diesen Kategorienfehler gilt es zu vermeiden:
“Kants negative Bestimmung der Essitia rerum verbietet einerseits, die reale Welt reinem seins als ihrer cause prima zu Unterwerfen …”[8], wendet sich zum einen gegen den Universalismus, “… Anderreseits wiederspricht sie nicht weniger radikal der nominalistischen Verpflüchtigung Methaphysischer Wesenheiten.”[9] Das Denken muss sich auf diesem Kritischen Punkt[10] bewegen, in einem Koexistenzgebiet zwischen den Phasen: “… Es ist nur dann wirklich human, wenn es seinen personalen Träger primär als Zweck an sich selbst und niemals bloß als Mittel behandelt.”[11] Dieses Koexistenzgebiet ist der Übergang, hier gilt es zu verharren. Wir sind Mittel und Zweck der Verantwortung[12].
“Vorstellungen über die letzten Dinge verbietet die Negative Methaphysik die zu ihr hinführt. Als kritsche Philosophie kann sie keinerlei inhaltliche Beschreibung liefern: weder vom inneren der Natur noch gar von einem Göttlichen oder von einer Endsituation der Menschheit.”[13] Jedes Eschatologische Denken wird so ausgeschlossen, es gibt keine Vollendung. Ein Fortschritt ist auch ohne Utopie möglich, und so fixiert Haag den Fortschritt in der Philosophie:
“Die geistige Überwindung der einen wie der anderen Form von philosophischem Irrationalismus, zu denen alle späteren Systeme bloße Variationen darstellen, verlangt die Erkenntnis, daß der Schritt in die Sphäre des metaphysischen Grundes von sich aus kognoszibler Dinge nur negativ vollziehbar ist.”[14]

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[1] J. Gray, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, 2007, https://books.google.de/books?id=qNAnAAAAYAAJ 9.34 Ende: “Lacking this insight, neo-liberals turned classical economics into a utopian ideology.”

[2] Fortschritt, Fortschritt - Partei der extremen Mitte, http://www.cashvote.com/.

[3] Donald D. Hoffman, The Interface Theory of Perception, in: Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25,3, 2016, S. 157–161, https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721416639702.

[4] Der Nazi sieht sich als guten Kumpel.

[5] Hans Verfasser Jonas, Das Prinzip Verantwortung. Versuch einer Ethik für die technologische Zivilisation, 1. Aufl., Frankfurt am Main 2003 (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Teil 3492), https://d-nb.info/966483308/04. Seite 235

[6] vgl. “radikale Nominalisierung”

[7] Karl Heinz Haag, Der Fortschritt in der Philosophie, 1. Aufl., Frankfurt am Main 1983, http://digitale-objekte.hbz-nrw.de/storage2/2019/04/07/file_25/8311494.pdf. Seite 199

[8] Haag, ebd. Seite 200

[9] Haag, ebd. Seite 200

[10] Wikipedia, Kritischer Punkt, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kritischer_Punkt_(Thermodynamik).

[11] Haag, [Anm. 7]. Seite 200

[12] Nur wenn wir uns selbst genauso verantwortlich sind wie den Kindern, Können wir den Kindern gegenüber verantwortlich sein. Denn durch uns wird die Verantwortung vermittelt.

[13] Haag, [Anm. 7]. Seite 200

[14] Haag, ebd. Seite 201

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NIPs (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- ======