@ c631e267:c2b78d3e

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum dritten Geburtstag, liebe Denk Bar! Wieso zum dritten? Das war doch 2022 und jetzt sind wir im Jahr 2024, oder? Ja, das ist schon richtig, aber bei Geburtstagen erinnere ich mich immer auch an meinen Vater, und der behauptete oft, der erste sei ja schließlich der Tag der Geburt selber und den müsse man natürlich mitzählen. Wo er recht hat, hat er nunmal recht. Konsequenterweise wird also heute dieser Blog an seinem dritten Geburtstag zwei Jahre alt.

Das ist ein Grund zum Feiern, wie ich finde. Einerseits ganz einfach, weil es dafür gar nicht genug Gründe geben kann. «Das Leben sind zwei Tage», lautet ein gängiger Ausdruck hier in Andalusien. In der Tat könnte es so sein, auch wenn wir uns im Alltag oft genug von der Routine vereinnahmen lassen.

Seit dem Start der Denk Bar vor zwei Jahren ist unglaublich viel passiert. Ebenso wie die zweieinhalb Jahre davor, und all jenes war letztlich auch der Auslöser dafür, dass ich begann, öffentlich zu schreiben. Damals notierte ich:

«Seit einigen Jahren erscheint unser öffentliches Umfeld immer fragwürdiger, widersprüchlicher und manchmal schier unglaublich - jede Menge Anlass für eigene Recherchen und Gedanken, ganz einfach mit einer Portion gesundem Menschenverstand.»

Wir erleben den sogenannten «großen Umbruch», einen globalen Coup, den skrupellose Egoisten clever eingefädelt haben und seit ein paar Jahren knallhart – aber nett verpackt – durchziehen, um buchstäblich alles nach ihrem Gusto umzukrempeln. Die Gelegenheit ist ja angeblich günstig und muss genutzt werden.

Nie hätte ich mir träumen lassen, dass ich so etwas jemals miterleben müsste. Die Bosheit, mit der ganz offensichtlich gegen die eigene Bevölkerung gearbeitet wird, war früher für mich unvorstellbar. Mein (Rest-) Vertrauen in alle möglichen Bereiche wie Politik, Wissenschaft, Justiz, Medien oder Kirche ist praktisch komplett zerstört. Einen «inneren Totalschaden» hatte ich mal für unsere Gesellschaften diagnostiziert.

Was mich vielleicht am meisten erschreckt, ist zum einen das Niveau der Gleichschaltung, das weltweit erreicht werden konnte, und zum anderen die praktisch totale Spaltung der Gesellschaft. Haben wir das tatsächlich mit uns machen lassen?? Unfassbar! Aber das Werkzeug «Angst» ist sehr mächtig und funktioniert bis heute.

Zum Glück passieren auch positive Dinge und neue Perspektiven öffnen sich. Für viele Menschen waren und sind die Entwicklungen der letzten Jahre ein Augenöffner. Sie sehen «Querdenken» als das, was es ist: eine Tugend.

Auch die immer ernsteren Zensurbemühungen sind letztlich nur ein Zeichen der Schwäche, wo Argumente fehlen. Sie werden nicht verhindern, dass wir unsere Meinung äußern, unbequeme Fragen stellen und dass die Wahrheit peu à peu ans Licht kommt. Es gibt immer Mittel und Wege, auch für uns.

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Danke, dass du diesen Weg mit mir weitergehst!

@ 3589ce32:ef4269ad

Bitcoin y la Descentralización:

Bitcoin se centra en la soberanía individual, la libertad financiera y la descentralización. Su filosofía se basa en la confianza en un sistema sin intermediarios, donde cada individuo tiene control sobre sus recursos. La descentralización de Bitcoin refleja un despertar hacia la autonomía personal, la autosuficiencia y la búsqueda de la verdad fuera de estructuras de poder tradicionales.

UCDM enseña la no-dualidad, el perdón y la percepción correcta, destacando que el amor es lo único real y que todo lo demás es una ilusión. La idea es la de liberarse de la mentalidad de escasez (tan presente en el dinero tradicional) y fomentar una mentalidad de abundancia, confianza y cooperación.

El Vedanta Advaita es una filosofía no dualista que enseña que solo hay una realidad última, y que todo es una manifestación de esa unidad. La dualidad es una ilusión. Guardando ciertas distancia, podríamos decir que la unidad subyacente del Advaita se refleja en la idea de una red descentralizada y sin fronteras, como Bitcoin, la cual conecta a las personas sin intermediarios. También ¿Cómo superar la ilusión del ego y la dualidad para alcanzar una verdadera libertad? Hablaremos de esto en otra ocasión …

@ 06639a38:655f8f71

Project Name

Nostr

Project Description

Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open, censorship-resistant, and decentralized communication protocol designed for simplicity and resilience. Unlike traditional platforms, Nostr doesn’t rely on centralized servers. It already supports various use cases with free, open-source clients—offering alternatives to platforms like Twitter/X, Meetup.com, Excel 365, healthcare system and more. We will help you get started with Nostr.

Nostr has seen remarkable adoption and growth within the open-source community, evidenced by over 12,500 GitHub stars, 500+ forks, and contributions from more than 350 developers. The protocol has catalyzed the creation of an impressive ecosystem of over 390 projects, including mobile and web clients, relays, tools, and services that further enhance Nostr’s functionality. With over 70 tools and 48 libraries, developers can integrate Nostr into a wide array of applications—ranging from chat platforms to file storage and even decentralized marketplaces. These resources help to build decentralized, censorship-resistant systems without the need for centralized servers. Whether you’re working on peer-to-peer markets, privacy-focused messaging apps, or decentralized social media, Nostr’s ecosystem offers the tools.

Project website

https://github.com/nostr-protocol 

Source code

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips 

Project Theme

World Wide Web

Do you want a stand for the entire event or just for one day?

Entire event

Why do you want to be at FOSDEM?

We want to be at FOSDEM because it’s the perfect place to connect with like-minded developers and open-source enthusiasts who share our passion for decentralization, innovation, and building open permissionless technologies. FOSDEM fosters collaboration and the growth of community-driven projects and Nostr is a natural fit as a real grassroots project with its open protocol and commitment to build communication technology with resilience and simplicity in mind.
By being at FOSDEM, we aim to raise awareness, share knowledge and inspire others to explore the potential of decentralized communication systems. We also want to engage with the FOSS community and gain feedback to help Nostr grow. If people are really interested in how they can use Nostr we will show the possibilities, demo existing clients and provide in-depth explanations of how the protocol can replace the social layer (with user accounts in living a database) in existing software.

What is the relation between the project and the primary contact?

Jurjen works with the community to promote its development, onboard new developers, and contribute to its open-source ecosystem. My role includes helping to raise awareness of Nostr's potential, organizing events, and supporting adoption by providing educational resources and technical guidance.

What is the relation between the project and the secondary contact?

Sebastian (37) is an independent creative / fullstack web developer who is the maintainer of a PHP helper library supported by OpenSats. Besides this project he is also making contributions with developing Nostr modules for Drupal.
“Since I've been online on the internet (1998), I'm highly interested in online communities, social networking and new ways of digital interactions. The internet has changed radically in the last decade and that change is not serving our interests. It's fair to say the web is broken in many ways. With Nostr we can fix this.”

Social media links

npub1l77twp5l02jadkcjn6eeulv2j7y5vmf9tf3hhtq7h7rp0vzhgpzqz0swft (Jurjen)
npub1qe3e5wrvnsgpggtkytxteaqfprz0rgxr8c3l34kk3a9t7e2l3acslezefe (Sebastian)
npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa (Tanja)
npub1nkmta4dmsa7pj25762qxa6yqxvrhzn7ug0gz5frp9g7p3jdscnhsu049fn (Kevin)

Anything else you like to add?

We’d also like to highlight that Nostr was created by Fiatjaf, an anonymous founder, which aligns with its principles of openness and decentralization. As an open protocol, Nostr is designed to evolve and find its own way, just like the foundational protocols of the internet. Importantly, Nostr is not a blockchain project—there are no tokens, no costs, and no barriers. It’s also not a platform nor a NFT. It’s purely decentralized, built for resilience and simplicity. While payment solutions like Bitcoin can be integrated, they are optional, not intrinsic to the protocol. This makes Nostr accessible and flexible, truly embodying the spirit of the open internet.

Nostr is more than just a technological protocol; it’s about the energy, problem-solving, and sense of hope that draws people in. Even newcomers can play a significant role in the ecosystem, gaining insight from the outside while discovering the protocol’s potential. Tanja, for example, isn’t from a tech background, yet after just three months, she’s taken on a major organizational role. She’s been spreading the message of freedom of speech and is leading the Nostr Booth LATAM tour, where volunteers, entrepreneurs, and Nostr-based businesses come together, supported by the entire community, to raise awareness about Nostr. Her passion for decentralization and open collaboration also drives her efforts to bring Nostr to FOSDEM, where she will help connect the project with like-minded developers and open-source advocates.

Please reach out to us if there are any questions. We’re really looking forward to presenting Nostr as a protocol at one of the best places where free and open-source software is flourishing.

This content will be used for a FOSDEM stand submission via https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025-call-for-stands/

@ a95c6243:d345522c

Ein Lämmchen löschte an einem Bache seinen Durst. Fern von ihm, aber näher der Quelle, tat ein Wolf das gleiche. Kaum erblickte er das Lämmchen, so schrie er:

"Warum trübst du mir das Wasser, das ich trinken will?"

"Wie wäre das möglich", erwiderte schüchtern das Lämmchen, "ich stehe hier unten und du so weit oben; das Wasser fließt ja von dir zu mir; glaube mir, es kam mir nie in den Sinn, dir etwas Böses zu tun!"

"Ei, sieh doch! Du machst es gerade, wie dein Vater vor sechs Monaten; ich erinnere mich noch sehr wohl, daß auch du dabei warst, aber glücklich entkamst, als ich ihm für sein Schmähen das Fell abzog!"

"Ach, Herr!" flehte das zitternde Lämmchen, "ich bin ja erst vier Wochen alt und kannte meinen Vater gar nicht, so lange ist er schon tot; wie soll ich denn für ihn büßen."

"Du Unverschämter!" so endigt der Wolf mit erheuchelter Wut, indem er die Zähne fletschte. "Tot oder nicht tot, weiß ich doch, daß euer ganzes Geschlecht mich hasset, und dafür muß ich mich rächen."

Ohne weitere Umstände zu machen, zerriß er das Lämmchen und verschlang es.

Das Gewissen regt sich selbst bei dem größten Bösewichte; er sucht doch nach Vorwand, um dasselbe damit bei Begehung seiner Schlechtigkeiten zu beschwichtigen.

Quelle: https://eden.one/fabeln-aesop-das-lamm-und-der-wolf

@ bd32f268:22b33966

A atualidade acostumou-nos a uma lânguida linguagem devido à cultura do politicamente correto e ao crescente relativismo em que vivemos. A confusão é tanta que já não se chamam os bois pelos nomes e este ambiente faz com que inclusive desconheçamos o significado das palavras. A este respeito temos visto cada vez mais indefinição sobre o que são os vícios e sobre o que são as virtudes. Tal é a confusão que por vezes trocamos o significado de uns pelos outros.

A coragem e a convicção facilmente passam por orgulho e arrogância, a castidade passa por beatice e por aí segue a confusão com muitos outros termos.

A inversão de valores é tão disseminada que atrocidades como a pornografia, o aborto, o adultério entre outras atrocidades são celebrados como conquistas civilizacionais. A sua disseminação é de tal forma que hoje a pessoa média já banalizou e normalizou completamente estes aspectos.

“Primeiro estranha-se depois entranha-se.”

Fernando Pessoa

Enquanto isto acontece por um lado, por outro a defesa da família, da identidade e da tradição são abertamente atacadas como se se tratassem de produtos de uma cultura opressora que deve ser combatida por todos os meios. Por agora a perseguição destas ideias é ainda maioritariamente realizada através da exclusão social e económica, no entanto, não são escassos os exemplos da história em que essa perseguição assume uma outra dimensão.

Desta forma, está criado um paradigma e um sistema de incentivos que premeia a pessoa que colabora com o sistema vigente. Tanto é assim que se multiplicam cada vez mais os exemplos de programas de quotas e subvenções que permitem, a quem possui um grau mais avançado de assimilação ideológica progredir socialmente atalhando o caminho para o fazer.

“Assim, toda a árvore boa produz bons frutos, porém a árvore má produz frutos maus. Não pode a árvore boa produzir frutos maus, nem a árvore má produzir frutos bons (…)”

Mateus 7:17-18“Assim, toda a árvore boa produz bons frutos, porém a árvore má produz frutos maus. Não pode a árvore boa produzir frutos maus, nem a árvore má produzir frutos bons (…)”

> Mateus 7:17-18*

Desengane-se quem pensa que no paradigma pos-moderno não há moralização, sacerdotes e uma matriz religiosa, tudo isso existe.

Os psicólogos, para mal da nossa sociedade, são crescentemente os sacerdotes desta religião pagã, aquela que baseada numa filosofia e antropologia erradas vai corrompendo intelecto e coração.

Nesta nova ordem social, que em abono da verdade é já antiga, a inversão de valores é tal que já a própria vida humana é sacrificada no altar do clima em abono da “mãe” natureza. Regredimos ao tribalismo que nos sugere que a natureza vale mais que a vida humana.

Este é apenas um exemplo dos rituais de sacrifício proporcionados pela “nova” religião. Um outro exemplo que podemos dar é o da castração química e física de crianças e jovens no altar da falsa compaixão e empatia. Ainda um outro exemplo que podemos dar é o da promoção do homossexualismo, do transexualismo e da não-monogamia como caminhos saudáveis a seguir, sacrificando a vida de muitos jovens confusos no altar da inclusão. Muitos mais exemplos poderiam ser dados, porque à medida que esta “nova” religião aumenta a sua ortodoxia os rituais vão ficando cada vez mais assombrosos.

Estes rituais têm por base uma apologia ao anti logos, quer isto dizer que procuram negar tudo o que é conhecimento básico sobre a realidade e sobre a verdade. A própria razão e lógica não se sustentam quando vemos situações como a de homens a competir em desportos femininos. As leis desta nova ordem são: “procura a felicidade (aqui muitas vezes entendida como o prazer) como fim último da vida “; “todas as opiniões são certas e não há uma verdade”; “Não servirás a nenhuma autoridade”; “não seguir o vício é opressão e seguir o vício é liberdade”.

Neste ambiente inóspito, quem quiser preservar a honra e a virtude terá cada vez mais dificuldade uma vez que a dissidência desta nova religião não é aplaudida, pelo contrário é anatematizada. Porém, importa dizer que independentemente da época há sempre espaço para o heroísmo e para a transformação destas dificuldades em degraus para que o indivíduo se possa distinguir dos demais pelas suas virtudes. Onde o vício abunda também maior o destaque será em relação à graça, como uma pedra preciosa reluzente no meio da lama que aparenta brilhar mais intensamente aos nossos olhos tal é o contraste, ou como uma luz na escuridão que se distingue facilmente.

###### Casper David Friedrich - dreaming man in church ruins

@ e968e50b:db2a803a

https://whosaidit.vercel.app/

I made a quiz for you. Let me know if you have any feedback. Please don't share your results or any spoilers here. I've already had some...uh...let's call if fun...sharing with friends and family. Much to @DarthCoin and many other stackers' chagrin, the purpose of this is not to convince people not to vote, although that may be the affect for some. I'm just trying to challenge people's thinking.

Also, it would be really easy for me to change any of the content. Let me know if you have feedback. I want to make this as effective and accurate as possible.

https://whosaidit.vercel.app/

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/738766

@ ff1a68c4:ec9831cf

Año 2147. La misión de la nave Odisea VII tenía como objetivo estudiar las lunas de Júpiter. Nadie esperaba que se encontraran con lo que estaba a punto de revelar el gigante gaseoso. A bordo, cinco astronautas, expertos en astrobiología y física cuántica, orbitaban el coloso, maravillados por sus tormentas eternas y sus mares de hidrógeno líquido.

Durante meses, la tripulación había lanzado sondas y drones a través de la atmósfera turbulenta, recogiendo datos imposibles de descifrar. Era como si el planeta se resistiera a la intrusión, ocultando secretos detrás de las franjas de nubes y la Gran Mancha Roja.

El comandante Foster, junto con la doctora Elena Ivankov, detectaron una anomalía: un patrón en las corrientes eléctricas de Júpiter que parecía regular, como un latido. Al principio, lo atribuyeron a fenómenos naturales, pero la regularidad era inquietante. Eran pulsaciones precisas, organizadas, como los de un corazón titánico, aunque tan lentas que requerían equipo especializado para percibirlas.

“Esto no es solo una tormenta más”, murmuró Elena frente a la pantalla holográfica. “Es… es un ciclo controlado.”

El equipo empezó a conectar las piezas. Las corrientes de viento y los campos magnéticos de Júpiter no se movían al azar; parecían responder a la posición de otros planetas en el sistema solar. Cada vez que la gravedad de Saturno o Marte interactuaba con Júpiter, las pulsaciones cambiaban, como si ajustara su frecuencia para estabilizar las órbitas.

Foster frunció el ceño, ajustando sus datos en el simulador gravitacional. “Si estos latidos controlan la dinámica del sistema solar, ¿qué pasaría si se detuvieran?”

“Ningún planeta sobreviviría”, respondió Ivankov, con los ojos fijos en la pantalla.

Fue entonces cuando tomaron la decisión más osada de la misión: enviar una sonda mucho más profunda de lo que cualquier nave había llegado antes, para penetrar en las capas interiores de Júpiter. Las sondas anteriores habían sido destruidas, pero esta nueva, equipada con inteligencia cuántica adaptativa, podía reaccionar a los cambios a una velocidad inimaginable. La llamaron Ecos.

Cuando Ecos descendió, las lecturas empezaron a volverse más extrañas. Júpiter parecía estar "sintiendo" la presencia de la sonda. Las pulsaciones aumentaron, y el campo magnético se distorsionó. Ecos transmitió imágenes de lo que se encontró en el núcleo del planeta: una estructura titánica, más grande que cualquier ciudad humana, compuesta de una sustancia orgánica fusionada con energía pura.

"¿Estás viendo lo mismo que yo?", susurró Foster, incapaz de procesar lo que estaba ante sus ojos.

Ivankov asintió en silencio, sus dedos temblando sobre el teclado. "Júpiter… no es solo un planeta. Es un organismo vivo."

La tripulación permaneció en silencio mientras la sonda transmitía imágenes y datos. Era como si el planeta mismo estuviera compuesto de órganos que regulaban la estabilidad gravitacional del sistema solar. Un ser inconcebible, de una escala tan vasta que su única función era equilibrar fuerzas cósmicas. Cada tormenta, cada rayo, cada pulso magnético, todo formaba parte de su regulación.

"Este 'ser' mantiene el equilibrio", reflexionó el comandante, su voz era apenas un susurro entre el zumbido de los sistemas de la nave. "Si interfiéramos demasiado, podría romper la frágil danza de los planetas."

La doctora Ivankov, profundamente impactada, sugirió la teoría más radical: "Júpiter no solo es consciente… sino que actúa como una especie de guardián del sistema solar. Un ser con un propósito tan simple como vasto: mantener el equilibrio entre los cuerpos celestes. Si alguna anomalía cósmica amenazara el equilibrio, Júpiter respondería, ajustando las órbitas, corrigiendo las trayectorias."

Entonces llegó la transmisión final de Ecos: "Interferencia detectada. Estructura orgánica ha reconocido nuestra presencia. Cambios en los latidos. Aumento de la presión. Reacción… inminente."

El corazón de Júpiter había comenzado a acelerarse.

"No deberíamos haber venido tan lejos", dijo Foster, tomando el mando de la nave. "Es un ser que no entiende nuestras intenciones. Lo único que sabe es que estamos perturbando el equilibrio."

Con los latidos de Júpiter resonando en sus oídos, la tripulación inició una retirada rápida, temiendo que cualquier alteración en ese organismo colosal pudiera desestabilizar el sistema solar entero.

Mientras se alejaban, observaron cómo las tormentas del gigante gaseoso volvieron a la calma, y el pulso volvió a estabilizarse.

"Júpiter sigue latiendo", susurró Ivankov, mirando la vasta esfera a lo lejos.

Quizás, pensó la tripulación, no era el momento para que la humanidad supiera demasiado sobre su lugar en la delicada danza del cosmos.

@ 1bda7e1f:bb97c4d9

Tldr

• Nostr relays help users post and read notes on the network
• Relay operators have launched a variety of relays for you to use
• You too can launch your own relay for any reason you like
• Launching your own relay gives you a lot of power in how you use Nostr
• Many relay softwares exist for you to use
• I launched a personal relay using HAVEN relay software on my VPS
• I am now more in control of saving notes, cutting spam, and protecting my privacy
• My personal relay is now hosted at relay.rodbishop.nz

What are Nostr Relays Anyway?

When you're a user of a social network, you post and read notes from other users on the network. In a centralised network like Twitter or Instagram the company's servers receive all user's notes and relay them to other users. On Nostr, there is no single company's servers to relay messages, so instead the task is taken up by relay operators.

Anyone can be a relay operator and they can run a relay for any purpose. When you start using Nostr you will usually be connected to any one of a number of "public" relays, and be able to post and receive notes from users on the network via these.

Configuring these relays can tailor your experience somewhat–for example the client Nostrudel allows you to select from Western or Japanese relay set.

It is also possible to set up your own relay to use for your own purposes. All kinds of people have launched relays for all kinds of purposes. For example, to:

• Power your own client
• Support your community
• Run a for-profit relay business
• Relay a certain a type of content you need
• Back up your own notes, decrease spam, or increase privacy
• Curate your own social feed with your own algorithm

Relay instances available to connect with

Today is an interesting time in relay-ops. The evolution of the technology has inspired users to experiment with diverse types of relays tailored to various needs. As a result there are very many relay instances in operation and available to connect with.

A few sites try to collate which relays are in operation, like nostr.info and xport.top and sesseor's relay list . These lists are long (Sessor's list counted 2,500+ relays) and it's not clear to me whether it's even possible to be comprehensive as relays may join or leave the network all the time.

Broadly speaking, relays might be available for different users to use in different ways:

• A relay where anyone can post, like relay.damus.io
• A paid relay where anyone can post after payment, to cut spam, like nostr.wine
• A "web of trust" relay where anyone can post if they are related to the owner's social graph, to cut spam, like nostrelites.org
• A speciality relay where a particular community can post, like nostr.com.au for #austriches (Australians)
• A relay where anyone can post just specific content, like purplepag.es for user profiles only
• A team relay for your company or organisation only
• A personal relay for your own personal use

Nostr.Band shows which of these available relays are most popular, such as relay.damus.io and nos.lol and eden.nostr.land

Relay softwares for you to launch your own

You may decide to launch you own relays, and if you do there are many different relay softwares to choose from:

• Simple, like Bucket (<100 lines of code)
• Widely used, like Nostream (top ranked on Github)
• Customisable, like Khatru (a framework for customised relays)
• Specialised, like HAVEN or Team Relay (for personal or teams relays, based on Khartu)

You can run these on your own server, or local machine, or phone or with a third-party host.

Aljaz provides a great resource with 45+ relay softwares to choose from.

In summary, at a high level,

• Anyone can connect to any of the relay instances that are available for them to use
• Anyone who wants to launch their own can select the relay software that best suit their needs, launch an instance, and have it used by whichever users they like

Reasons to Run Your Own Relay

As a normal user of a Nostr client there's no obligation to run a relay. But having your own relay does give you more power.

For my own journey down the #nostr rabbit hole, I was looking for a relay to:

• back up my notes
• decrease spam
• increase my privacy
• learn skills I could later use for running a community or team or paid relay

Backing up notes – When you post notes to a public relay there's no guarantee that the relay is going to keep them long-term. It's job is relaying your notes to other clients, not storing them. Running your own relay allows you to keep your notes online.

Decrease spam – To first spam we can use a "Web of Trust" model–in which users endorse other users as trustworthy. A "Web of Trust" relay will reject notes from parties too far removed from your network. Running your own relay makes you more difficult to spam.

Increasing privacy – When you connect to a public relay, they can determine personal information about you, such as your IP address. Running your own relay keeps things more private.

For communities and teams and paid relays – Many opportunities exist to tailor relays to certain users needs, be they businesses or communities or as a for-profit business. For me, I am hoping that running my own relay helps me learn skills I can use in these kinds of further ventures.

To start I decided to focus on a personal relay. However, when I really got under the hood, it turned out I would need multiple relays not just one.

The outbox model

Mike Dilger proposed the outbox model (originally called the gossip model) as a way for users to engage with the wider Nostr network. It's a great model that is helpful to understand, as it suggests to establish different relays for different purposes.

Many clients and relay softwares have now adopted and continued to elaborate on this model. An example is to run specialised relays for Outbox, Inbox, Chat and Private needs.

Outbox Relay (also called Home Relay)

• This relay is for notes you have written, so that everyone knows where to find your notes
• In a set up where you are running your own, this relay is restricted so that only you can post to it, and you should set up your clients to post your notes to it
• An advanced version may take any notes received to this relay and "blast" them to other public relays so that your notes get wider reach

Inbox Relay (also called Public Relay)

• This relay is for public notes that other users want you to see, so that you always find notes that are relevant to you, including all replies, comments, likes, and zap payments
• In a set up where you are running your own, this relay is where you should look for notes relevant to you, and you should set up your clients to read from it
• An advanced version may search other public relays for notes that tag you, and import them into this relay so that you never miss a relevant note

Chat Relay (also called Direct Message Relay)

• This relay is for private direct message notes from other users, so that you always find your direct messages and so that they stay private
• In a set up where you are running your own, this relay is restricted so that only you can read from it, and you should set up your clients to read from it
• An advanced version may cut spam by only accepting direct messages from other users within your Web of Trust

Private Relay

• This relay is for your private use only, so that you can store private drafts or thoughts
• Only you can write to it and only you can read from it (and so, it is a bit mis-named as it does not actually relay anything to anywhere at all)
• In a set up where you are running your own, it gives you true privacy for these notes

In summary as a user

• I post my notes to my outbox relay. Network users can read them there, and if the relay is advanced it will also blast the notes out to other relays on the network
• I read from my inbox relay. Network users know to reach me there, and if the relay is advanced it will also bring me notes from the wider network
• I can have private direct message conversations with others in my chat relay.
• I can save private notes in my private relay

For me, this model has a lot of appeal and I went looking for a personal relay which adopted this model and contained all of these features.

HAVEN as a personal relay

I decided to go with HAVEN relay software.

HAVEN is all four of the above relays in one–outbox, inbox, chat and private. It contains advanced features like blasting your notes from outbox to other relays, importing notes from other relays to your inbox, and preventing spam with Web of Trust.

HAVEN is written by Utxo the Webmaster . It is based upon the Khatru relay framework by Fiatjaf

Setting up HAVEN as a Personal Relay

I am mostly non-technical, but on my #Nostr journey I have been having success with technology set ups that use Docker.

• I have a cheap VPS which currently runs Albyhub and Phoneixd with Docker,
• My objective was to set up HAVEN to run alongside it, in a separate Docker on the same server. HAVEN does not include Docker by default, but Sebastix published a fork with Docker support.

To get HAVEN up and running in Docker on your VPS:

1. Clone and configure HAVEN with the right variables
2. Launch it in Docker on your VPS
3. Check the URLs and logs to see your HAVEN running
4. Configure a subdomain to point to the VPS
5. Configure the VPS to reverse proxy to the Docker port
6. Configure the relays in your favourite Nostr client
7. Post a note to your outbox and see if it blasts!

Running HAVEN

I cloned Sebastix fork to start.

git clone -b docker_compose_support https://github.com/nostrver-se/haven.git cd haven

The software sets up all environment variables in the .env file, and comes with an .env.example file. Duplicate and rename the file to .env. Within the .env file you need to set up the environment variables. The file is long but it contains lots of repetition and for the most part defaults can be retained–only a few changes are required:

• Replace all instances of the default user npub with your own (for me, npub1r0d8...)
• Change the default relay URL to your own (for me, relay.rodbishop.nz)
• Replace all instances of the default name in the relay names (for me, "Rod's ...")
• Replace all instances of the default profile image with your own

To enable automatic blasting from your outbox, and importing to your inbox, the software comes with an example list of relays to blast and import from. See relays_blastr.example.json and relays_import.example.json. To use these features simply duplicate and rename these files to relays_blastr.json and relays_import.json respectively. Within these files you can specify the public relays of your choice. I simply used the default list.

There are other features available, such as backups and initial imports, but I decided to handle these later. To start with I wanted to launch the relay and test it.

To launch the relay run Docker Compose.

docker-compose up -d docker logs haven-relay

Then you should explore the logs in the command line and the ports in your browser to see if it launched successfully. The logs should show your web of trust has been built successfully and the browser should show simple landing pages.

The logs should show that the relay has queried the network and built a web of trust from your followers. Mine looked as follows.

2024/10/14 12:02:08 🌐 building web of trust graph 2024/10/14 12:02:16 🫂 total network size: 13296 2024/10/14 12:02:16 🔗 relays discovered: 335 2024/10/14 12:02:17 🌐 pubkeys with minimum followers: 9394 keys

Your browser should show you have four relays in operation, for example as follows.

• your_IP_address:3355 (your outbox or home relay)
• your_IP_address:3355/private (your private relay)
• your_IP_address:3355/chat (your direct message relay)
• your_IP_address:3355/inbox (your inbox relay)

That's it. Your relay is online.

Connecting HAVEN

Now all that remains is the plumbing to connect your domain, relay, and Nostr clients together.

Configure DNS

First, configure your domain. At a high level –

1. Get your domain (buy one if you need to)
2. Get the IP address of your VPS
3. In your domain's DNS settings add those records as an A record to the subdomain of your choice, e.g. relay as in relay.your_domain_name.com, or in my case relay.rodbishop.nz

Your subdomain now points to your server.

Configure reverse proxy

Next, you need to redirect traffic from your subdomain to your relay at port 3355.

On my VPS I use Caddy as a reverse proxy for a few projects, I have it sitting in a separate Docker network. To use it for my HAVEN Relay required two steps. I am sure that the way I do this is not very elegant, but it worked. If you prefer a different method, the HAVEN readme also comes with instructions on how to perform a similar setup using nginx.

For my method, my steps were as follows:

1. Add configuration to Caddy's Caddyfile to tell it what to do with requests for the relay.rodbishop.nz subdomain
2. Add the Caddy Docker network to the HAVEN docker-compose.yml to make it be part of the Caddy network

For the addition to the Caddyfile, I used as follows:

relay.rodbishop.nz { reverse_proxy haven-relay:3355 { header_up X-Forwarded-For {remote} header_up X-Forwarded-Proto {scheme} header_up X-Forwarded-Port {server_port} } }

For the addition to the docker-compose.yml, I used as follows:

``` networks: - caddy # Added this line to services to connect to the Caddy network

networks: caddy: external: true # Added this to section specify the Caddy network ```

Once your DNS configuration and reverse proxy setup are completed, you should now be able to access your Nostr client at relay.your_domain_name.com. For my set up, this was relay.rodbishop.nz.

Connecting your Nostr client

Most Nostr clients allow you to specify any relay you choose. My go-to client at the moment is Amethyst on Android. Amethyst allows you to specify discrete relays for each role in the outbox model which ties up very neatly with HAVEN.

• In the sidebar, select Relays
• For "Public Outbox/Home Relays" enter relay.your_domain_name.com
• For "Public Inbox Relays" enter relay.your_domain_name.com/inbox
• For "DM Inbox Relays" enter relay.your_domain_name.com/chat
• For "Private Home Relays" enter relay.your_domain_name.com/private
• Click Save to broadcast your new relays to the Nostr network.

Your new relay configuration is now live.

Testing your relay

Lastly, it's time to test. Amethyst provides a simple method to test this as it allows you to configure the relays used on each post.

• Create a test note, and then before you post it, edit your relays using the icon at the top
• Turn off all relays except your own outbox relay, and post the note
• Access your HAVEN docker logs with docker logs haven-relay and see if there is a log to indicate if the note was received and blasted to other public relays
• Copy the nevent of the note, and attempt to find it in another client

If you're in luck, you may see something like this (the blasted note, and then users on the network responding to the note in turn).

2024/10/22 00:12:23 🔫 blasted 95c477af7e6b612bf5d1d94309d2d57377a0a67d2181cfbb42a2e3fbc0feeaaf to 26 relays 2024/10/22 00:13:50 🤙 new reaction in your inbox 2024/10/22 00:14:42 🫂 new reaction in your inbox 2024/10/22 00:14:45 ✅ new reaction in your inbox 2024/10/22 00:15:12 💜 new reaction in your inbox 2024/10/22 00:17:03 ✅ new reaction in your inbox 2024/10/22 00:17:03 🫂 new reaction in your inbox 2024/10/22 00:17:55 🫂 new reaction in your inbox 2024/10/22 00:19:02 📰 new note in your inbox

That's it. If you followed this successfully your personal relay is up and running.

What I did wrong so you don't have to

My first relay was too public

This blog comes after much trial and error. The first error I made was I set up a relay to use as a personal relay, but without any restrictions on use. I very quickly found other people discovered and started using my relay to save their own notes! This was unintended and I had to take it down.

Unfamiliar with Go language

I am mostly non-technical, and completely unfamiliar with Go. I got the project up and running with Go on my localhost–with a lot of help from my AI–but I then completely failed in migrating this to my VPS. Moving to Docker made the difference for me here.

I failed a few times due to a messy folder

After messing with Go, I moved to the Docker setup, but I started my work from a messy folder which contained remnants of the Go build, which caused various failures. Deleting the folder and cloning again from scratch solved the issue.

Trouble with Nostr.wine

I subscribe to the Nostr.wine paid relay, and I initially added it to the list of relays in my blaster. However, it didn't work, and the logs showed an error as follows

CLOSED from wss://nostr.wine: 'auth-required: this relay only serves private notes to authenticated users'

It seems my npub's subscription to Nostr.wine is not enough for it to permit my relay to blast notes to it. In the end, I removed Nostr.wine from my relay config, and kept Nostr.wine as a separate entry in my Client's outbox settings.

Failed to create web of trust graph

When I first launched the relay on my VPS, HAVEN failed to complete the Web of Trust graph, with a log that looked as follows (note the zeroes). As a result, no one would have been able to send me DM's to my Chat relay (it would flag every message as spam).

2024/10/14 12:02:08 🌐 building web of trust graph 2024/10/14 12:02:16 🫂 total network size: 0 2024/10/14 12:02:16 🔗 relays discovered: 0 2024/10/14 12:02:17 🌐 pubkeys with minimum followers: 0 keys

I never got to the bottom of why this was. In the process of trying to fix it I rebuild the container, and on the rebuild it spontaneously worked. Accordingly my lesson learned is "if in doubt, turn if off and on again".

Failed to run --import function

HAVEN comes with a function to import all your old notes from other public relays to your own outbox relay. When I run it I get an error as follows:

panic: Cannot acquire directory lock on "db/private". Another process is using this Badger database. error: resource temporarily unavailable

I have yet to work out the solution for this, and will update this note when I do so!

What's Next?

Over the past four blogs I have

• Mined a Nostr pubkey and backed up the mnemonic
• Set up Nostr payments with a Lightning wallet plus all the bells and whistles
• Set up NIP-05 and Lighting Address at my own domain
• Set up a Personal Relay at my own domain

This feels like a very comprehensive personal set up now. Also, I have uncovered some new rabbit holes and feel like I have some projects to tackle. Perhaps one of these?

• Set up a personal homepage with my Nostr feed to round-out my rodbishop.nz domain
• Experiment with different signers like Amber and Nsec.app and NFC cards
• Set up a paid relay for #austriches (Australians and Kiwis on Nostr)
• Set up a team relay to experiment with Nostr for business or community projects
• Or something else ... ?

Please be sure to let me know if you think there's another Nostr topic you'd like to see me tackle.

Pura vida Nostr.

@ ff1a68c4:ec9831cf

En un mundo en constante evolución, la ciencia nos ofrece valiosas herramientas para mejorar nuestra calidad de vida y prevenir enfermedades neurodegenerativas como la demencia. A partir de los consejos de especialistas y datos de estudios recientes, he reunido una síntesis de enfoques clave que coinciden en varios puntos esenciales. Aquí te presento un resumen práctico:

El modelo MEDALS: Los pilares del bienestar

El acrónimo MEDALS nos recuerda los aspectos fundamentales que pueden ayudar a mantener una buena calidad de vida:

• Meditación: La práctica regular de la meditación reduce el estrés, mejora la concentración y contribuye a un mayor bienestar emocional.
• Ejercicio: El movimiento es vital para la salud física y mental. Mantener una rutina de ejercicio regular no solo fortalece el cuerpo, sino también el cerebro.
• Dieta: Una alimentación equilibrada es clave. Optar por una dieta rica en nutrientes, como la mediterránea, promueve un cerebro saludable.
• Apreciación: Practicar la gratitud y el aprecio por las pequeñas cosas de la vida puede elevar nuestro bienestar emocional y mental.
• Love (amor) y Learning (aprendizaje): Mantener vínculos afectivos y relaciones cercanas fortalece la mente. El aprendizaje continuo mantiene el cerebro activo y en constante crecimiento.
• Sueño: Dormir lo suficiente y de forma reparadora es crucial para la regeneración cerebral y la memoria.

Manantiales de la fuerza interior: Una guía integral para el bienestar

Otra perspectiva ofrece una visión holística de cómo cuidar cuerpo y mente. Estos son los cinco manantiales de energía interior que contribuyen a un estado óptimo de bienestar:

1. Sueño profundo y reparador: Un buen descanso nocturno es el pilar del equilibrio físico y mental.
2. Alimentación sana e hidratación: Mantener una dieta nutritiva y una adecuada hidratación es esencial para el buen funcionamiento del cerebro y del cuerpo.
3. Respiración consciente: Practicar ejercicios de respiración ayuda a reducir el estrés y aumenta la claridad mental.
4. Ejercicio y relajación: Alternar entre actividad física y momentos de descanso es fundamental para evitar el agotamiento.
5. Actitud mental positiva: Mantener una mentalidad optimista y enfocada en el crecimiento nos ayuda a enfrentar mejor los retos de la vida.

6 Reglas anti-demencia: Proteger el cerebro a largo plazo

Algunos expertos proponen un enfoque más específico para la prevención de la demencia:

1. Vínculos sociales: El cerebro es un órgano social. Mantener relaciones cercanas y participar en actividades grupales es clave para su salud.
2. Ejercicio físico: El cuerpo y la mente están conectados. La actividad física regular mejora el rendimiento cerebral.
3. Curiosidad y aprendizaje continuo: Mantener el cerebro activo con nuevos intereses y aprendizajes es crucial para prevenir su deterioro.
4. Buena alimentación: Optar por alimentos ricos en Omega-3 y seguir una dieta mediterránea favorece la salud cerebral.
5. Manejo del estrés: El estrés crónico es un enemigo del cerebro. Aprender a relativizar las situaciones y ver los desafíos como oportunidades puede reducir su impacto.
6. Dormir bien: Un sueño adecuado es esencial para la reparación y el funcionamiento óptimo del cerebro.

Hallazgos de The Lancet: Factores modificables y no modificables en la prevención de la demencia

Uno de los estudios más importantes sobre la prevención de la demencia, publicado en The Lancet, destaca los factores modificables que pueden influir en nuestro futuro cognitivo:

• Formación continua: Aprender y mantenerse intelectualmente activo durante toda la vida puede retrasar el deterioro cognitivo.
• Cuidado de la audición: Proteger la audición desde la juventud es crucial. En la vejez, el uso de audífonos puede ayudar a mantener el estímulo auditivo.
• Salud emocional: El estrés crónico, la ansiedad y la depresión son factores de riesgo importantes para el desarrollo de la demencia.
• Ejercicio físico y salud metabólica: Evitar el sedentarismo, el sobrepeso, la diabetes y los niveles elevados de colesterol LDL reduce el riesgo de enfermedades neurodegenerativas.
• Protección contra golpes en la cabeza: Los traumatismos craneales aumentan el riesgo de demencia. Protegerse es fundamental.
• Reducción de tóxicos: Evitar el tabaco, el consumo excesivo de alcohol y la exposición a contaminantes ayuda a preservar la salud cerebral (ej. filtros para el aire o en la llave del agua)
• Vida social activa: El aislamiento social es un factor de riesgo para la demencia. Mantenerse involucrado en grupos y actividades sociales es clave.
• Suplementos: Aunque no son esenciales, algunos suplementos como arándanos, vitamina D, Omega-3, y magnesio pueden ser beneficiosos en casos de deficiencia.

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Implementar estos principios no solo mejorará la calidad de vida en el presente, sino que también reducirá significativamente el riesgo de desarrollar demencia en el futuro. Vivir de manera consciente, cuidar el cuerpo y nutrir la mente son las claves para una vida larga y saludable.

@ d5c3d063:4d1159b3

ปรัชญา อาวุธแห่งเหตุผลและเสรีภาพในโลกแห่งความขัดแย้ง

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โลกที่เราอาศัยอยู่เปรียบเสมือนสมรภูมิแห่งความคิด แนวคิดต่างๆ ถูกนำมาถกเถียงและท้าทายอยู่เสมอเพื่อค้นหาและพิสูจน์ความจริง ความขัดแย้งนี้ปรากฏชัดในหลายมิติ เช่น การปะทะกันระหว่างเหตุผลกับความงมงาย เสรีภาพกับการถูกบังคับ ปัจเจกนิยม (Individualism) กับลัทธิรวมหมู่ (Collectivism) และทุนนิยมกับสังคมนิยม ท่ามกลางความสับสนวุ่นวายนี้ ปรัชญาทำหน้าที่เสมือนป้อมปราการแห่งเหตุผลและเสรีภาพ เป็นเครื่องมือสำคัญที่ช่วยให้เราเข้าใจและวิเคราะห์โลกที่เต็มไปด้วยความขัดแย้ง พร้อมกับนำทางชีวิตของเราอีกด้วย .

ปรัชญาในบริบทนี้ มิใช่เพียงแสงเทียนริบหรี่ในห้องสมุด หากแต่เป็นอาวุธแห่งเหตุผล ที่ใช้ในการต่อสู้กับความคิดที่บิดเบือนและการใช้อำนาจในทางที่ผิด เพื่อปกป้องและส่งเสริมเสรีภาพของมนุษย์ มันคือดาบเพลิงที่ลุกโชนในสนามรบแห่งความคิดที่ช่วยให้เรามองทะลุผ่านมายาคติ ความเชื่อที่ไร้เหตุผล และการโฆษณาชวนเชื่อ ทั้งยังช่วยให้วิเคราะห์ข้อมูลอย่างมีวิจารณญาณและตัดสินใจบนพื้นฐานของหลักฐานและตรรกะ นำไปสู่การเข้าถึงความจริง ตัวอย่างที่เห็นได้ชัดคือการเซ็นเซอร์ข้อมูลข่าวสาร ซึ่งถูกใช้เป็นเครื่องมือในการบิดเบือนข้อมูล ปลุกปั่นอารมณ์ เป็นการใช้อำนาจในทางที่ผิด ปิดกั้นการเข้าถึงความจริง เพื่อควบคุมความคิดของประชาชน .

หัวใจสำคัญของปรัชญาคือ การใช้เหตุผล หลักฐาน และตรรกะ ในการแสวงหาความจริง เพื่อนำไปสู่ การตัดสินใจที่ถูกต้อง ปรัชญาฝึกฝนให้เรามีวิจารณญาณ ไม่หลงเชื่ออะไรง่ายๆ และไม่ยอมรับความคิดเห็นใดๆ โดยปราศจากการตรวจสอบอย่างถี่ถ้วน ปรัชญาสอนให้เราตั้งคำถาม เช่น ใครเป็นคนพูด ? มีหลักฐานอะไรสนับสนุน ? มีมุมมองอื่น ๆ อีกหรือไม่ ? ข้อสรุปนี้ขัดแย้งกับข้อเท็จจริงหรือหลักการพื้นฐานใด ๆ หรือไม่ ? ก่อนที่จะตัดสินใจเชื่อหรือยอมรับความคิดเห็นใด ๆ เพราะการยอมรับความคิดเห็นโดยไม่ผ่านการไตร่ตรอง อาจนำเราไปสู่การตัดสินใจที่ผิดพลาดและตกเป็นเหยื่อของการบิดเบือน .

ปรัชญายังส่งเสริมความเข้าใจในคุณค่าของเสรีภาพและความสำคัญของปัจเจกบุคคล เสรีภาพในการคิดการแสดงออกและการใช้ชีวิต เป็นสิ่งจำเป็นสำหรับการพัฒนาศักยภาพของมนุษย์ เพื่อการสร้างสรรค์สังคมที่เจริญรุ่งเรือง ปรัชญาช่วยให้เราตระหนักถึงสิทธิและหน้าที่ของตนเองในฐานะปัจเจกบุคคลและเพื่อปกป้องเสรีภาพเหล่านี้จากการถูกคุกคามจากอำนาจรัฐหรือแนวคิดแบบคติรวมหมู่ สังคมที่มีความยุติธรรมมีเสรีภาพและมีความเจริญรุ่งเรือง คือสังคมที่เคารพในสิทธิและเสรีภาพของปัจเจกบุคคลที่ส่งเสริมการใช้เหตุผลนั้น ล้วนมีรากฐานอยู่บนระบบเศรษฐกิจแบบทุนนิยม เพราะทุนนิยมเป็นระบบที่สอดคล้องกับหลักการเหล่านี้ โดยเปิดโอกาสให้ทุกคนมีส่วนร่วมในการสร้างความมั่งคั่งและเติบโตอย่างอิสระ .

ในโลกที่ความขัดแย้งทางความคิดทวีความรุนแรงและข้อมูลข่าวสารแพร่กระจายอย่างรวดเร็ว ปรัชญามิใช่เพียงทางเลือก แต่เป็นเกราะป้องกันที่ขาดไม่ได้ การศึกษาปรัชญา การฝึกฝนการใช้เหตุผลและการตั้งคำถาม คือการลงทุนที่คุ้มค่าที่สุดสำหรับอนาคต เพราะมันจะช่วยให้เรามีภูมิคุ้มกันต่อการถูกชักจูง การหลอกลวงและการใช้อำนาจในทางมิชอบ เป็นก้าวสำคัญในการสร้างสังคมที่เสรี มีความยุติธรรมและการเจริญรุ่งเรืองอย่างแท้จริง ดังนั้น เวลามีค่า…ศึกษาปรัชญา ฝึกฝนการใช้เหตุผล และอย่าปล่อยให้ความงมงายและอคติครอบงำจิตใจ เพื่อที่เราจะสามารถเป็นผู้กำหนดชีวิตของตนเองได้และใช้ชีวิตอย่างมีอิสระ มีเหตุผล และสร้างสรรค์คุณค่าตามที่เราเลือก เพื่อบรรลุศักยภาพสูงสุดของเราในฐานะปัจเจกบุคคล

Siamstr #Philosophy #ปรัชญา

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Chef's notes

Cocoa powder: You can use 100% natural unsweetened cocoa powder or Dutch-processed cocoa powder – both work well.

Gluten free flour: There are many different gluten free flours on the market. I tested this recipe using White Wings All Purpose Gluten Free flour. I recommend choosing a gluten free flour that says it can be subbed 1:1 for regular plain or all purpose flour.

*Chocolate chips: Double check your chocolate chips are gluten free if you are making this brownie for someone who is celiac.

Cook times: Cook times will vary depending on your oven, but you’ll know these brownies are done when they firm up around the edges and no longer wobble in the middle. Keep in mind they will continue to cook slightly as they cool. You can also check they’re done by inserting a skewer into the middle of the brownie. If the skewer emerges with only a few crumbs on it, they’re ready. If it is covered in wet, gooey batter, keep baking the brownies and check them in another 5 minutes.

Storage: Brownies will keep well in an airtight container at room temperature or in the fridge for up to 5 days. To serve warm, microwave each brownie for 20 seconds. You can also freeze these brownies to enjoy at a later date. Simply thaw at room temperature and then microwave if you prefer them warm.

Serving Size: 1 brownie Calories: 278 Sugar: 26.4 g Sodium: 22.9 mg Fat: 15.5 g Carbohydrates: 34.1 g Protein: 3 g Cholesterol: 77.3 mg Nutrition information is a guide only.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 20 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 35 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 12

Ingredients

• 170 grams (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, melted
• 200 grams (1 cup) caster sugar or granulated sugar
• 90 grams (1/2 cup) brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 large eggs
• 40 grams (1/2 cup) cocoa powder
• 70 grams (1/2 cup) gluten free plain or all purpose flour
• 75 grams milk or dark chocolate chips*

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F) standard / 160 C (320 F) fan-forced. Grease and line an 8-inch square pan with baking or parchment paper, ensuring two sides overhang.
2. In a large mixing bowl, add melted butter and sugars and gently whisk together. Add vanilla extract and stir.
3. Add the eggs, one at a time, stirring in-between, then sift in the cocoa powder and flour. Stir until just combined. Add chocolate chips.
4. Pour the brownie batter in the prepared pan and place in the oven. Bake brownies for approximately 30-35 minutes or until they no longer wobble in the middle.
5. Leave brownie in pan and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. These brownies are quite fragile so if you can, transfer to the fridge for an hour before cutting into squares to serve.

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Pequenos problemas que o Estado cria para a sociedade e que não são sempre lembrados

- **vale-transporte**: transferir o custo com o transporte do funcionário para um terceiro o estimula a morar longe de onde trabalha, já que morar perto é normalmente mais caro e a economia com transporte é inexistente.
- **atestado médico**: o direito a faltar o trabalho com atestado médico cria a exigência desse atestado para todas as situações, substituindo o livre acordo entre patrão e empregado e sobrecarregando os médicos e postos de saúde com visitas desnecessárias de assalariados resfriados.
- **prisões**: com dinheiro mal-administrado, burocracia e péssima alocação de recursos -- problemas que empresas privadas em competição (ou mesmo sem qualquer competição) saberiam resolver muito melhor -- o Estado fica sem presídios, com os poucos existentes entupidos, muito acima de sua alocação máxima, e com isto, segundo a bizarra corrente de responsabilidades que culpa o juiz que condenou o criminoso por sua morte na cadeia, juízes deixam de condenar à prisão os bandidos, soltando-os na rua.
- **justiça**: entrar com processos é grátis e isto faz proliferar a atividade dos advogados que se dedicam a criar problemas judiciais onde não seria necessário e a entupir os tribunais, impedindo-os de fazer o que mais deveriam fazer.
- **justiça**: como a justiça só obedece às leis e ignora acordos pessoais, escritos ou não, as pessoas não fazem acordos, recorrem sempre à justiça estatal, e entopem-na de assuntos que seriam muito melhor resolvidos entre vizinhos.
- **leis civis**: as leis criadas pelos parlamentares ignoram os costumes da sociedade e são um incentivo a que as pessoas não respeitem nem criem normas sociais -- que seriam maneiras mais rápidas, baratas e satisfatórias de resolver problemas.
- **leis de trãnsito**: quanto mais leis de trânsito, mais serviço de fiscalização são delegados aos policiais, que deixam de combater crimes por isto (afinal de contas, eles não querem de fato arriscar suas vidas combatendo o crime, a fiscalização é uma excelente desculpa para se esquivarem a esta responsabilidade).
- **financiamento educacional**: é uma espécie de subsídio às faculdades privadas que faz com que se criem cursos e mais cursos que são cada vez menos recheados de algum conhecimento ou técnica útil e cada vez mais inúteis.
- **leis de tombamento**: são um incentivo a que o dono de qualquer área ou construção "histórica" destrua todo e qualquer vestígio de história que houver nele antes que as autoridades descubram, o que poderia não acontecer se ele pudesse, por exemplo, usar, mostrar e se beneficiar da história daquele local sem correr o risco de perder, de fato, a sua propriedade.
- **zoneamento urbano**: torna as cidades mais espalhadas, criando uma necessidade gigantesca de carros, ônibus e outros meios de transporte para as pessoas se locomoverem das zonas de moradia para as zonas de trabalho.
- **zoneamento urbano**: faz com que as pessoas percam horas no trânsito todos os dias, o que é, além de um desperdício, um atentado contra a sua saúde, que estaria muito melhor servida numa caminhada diária entre a casa e o trabalho.
- **zoneamento urbano**: torna ruas e as casas menos seguras criando zonas enormes, tanto de residências quanto de indústrias, onde não há movimento de gente alguma.
- **escola obrigatória + currículo escolar nacional**: emburrece todas as crianças.
- **leis contra trabalho infantil**: tira das crianças a oportunidade de aprender ofícios úteis e levar um dinheiro para ajudar a família.
- **licitações**: como não existem os critérios do mercado para decidir qual é o melhor prestador de serviço, criam-se comissões de pessoas que vão decidir coisas. isto incentiva os prestadores de serviço que estão concorrendo na licitação a tentar comprar os membros dessas comissões. isto, fora a corrupção, gera problemas reais: __(i)__ a escolha dos serviços acaba sendo a pior possível, já que a empresa prestadora que vence está claramente mais dedicada a comprar comissões do que a fazer um bom trabalho (este problema afeta tantas áreas, desde a construção de estradas até a qualidade da merenda escolar, que é impossível listar aqui); __(ii)__ o processo corruptor acaba, no longo prazo, eliminando as empresas que prestavam e deixando para competir apenas as corruptas, e a qualidade tende a piorar progressivamente.
- **cartéis**: o Estado em geral cria e depois fica refém de vários grupos de interesse. o caso dos taxistas contra o Uber é o que está na moda hoje (e o que mostra como os Estados se comportam da mesma forma no mundo todo).
- **multas**: quando algum indivíduo ou empresa comete uma fraude financeira, ou causa algum dano material involuntário, as vítimas do caso são as pessoas que sofreram o dano ou perderam dinheiro, mas o Estado tem sempre leis que prevêem multas para os responsáveis. A justiça estatal é sempre muito rígida e rápida na aplicação dessas multas, mas relapsa e vaga no que diz respeito à indenização das vítimas. O que em geral acontece é que o Estado aplica uma enorme multa ao responsável pelo mal, retirando deste os recursos que dispunha para indenizar as vítimas, e se retira do caso, deixando estas desamparadas.
- **desapropriação**: o Estado pode pegar qualquer propriedade de qualquer pessoa mediante uma indenização que é necessariamente inferior ao valor da propriedade para o seu presente dono (caso contrário ele a teria vendido voluntariamente).
- **seguro-desemprego**: se há, por exemplo, um prazo mínimo de 1 ano para o sujeito ter direito a receber seguro-desemprego, isto o incentiva a planejar ficar apenas 1 ano em cada emprego (ano este que será sucedido por um período de desemprego remunerado), matando todas as possibilidades de aprendizado ou aquisição de experiência naquela empresa específica ou ascensão hierárquica.
- **previdência**: a previdência social tem todos os defeitos de cálculo do mundo, e não importa muito ela ser uma forma horrível de poupar dinheiro, porque ela tem garantias bizarras de longevidade fornecidas pelo Estado, além de ser compulsória. Isso serve para criar no imaginário geral a idéia da __aposentadoria__, uma época mágica em que todos os dias serão finais de semana. A idéia da aposentadoria influencia o sujeito a não se preocupar em ter um emprego que faça sentido, mas sim em ter um trabalho qualquer, que o permita se aposentar.
- **regulamentação impossível**: milhares de coisas são proibidas, há regulamentações sobre os aspectos mais mínimos de cada empreendimento ou construção ou espaço. se todas essas regulamentações fossem exigidas não haveria condições de produção e todos morreriam. portanto, elas não são exigidas. porém, o Estado, ou um agente individual imbuído do poder estatal pode, se desejar, exigi-las todas de um cidadão inimigo seu. qualquer pessoa pode viver a vida inteira sem cumprir nem 10% das regulamentações estatais, mas viverá também todo esse tempo com medo de se tornar um alvo de sua exigência, num estado de terror psicológico.
- **perversão de critérios**: para muitas coisas sobre as quais a sociedade normalmente chegaria a um valor ou comportamento "razoável" espontaneamente, o Estado dita regras. estas regras muitas vezes não são obrigatórias, são mais "sugestões" ou limites, como o salário mínimo, ou as 44 horas semanais de trabalho. a sociedade, porém, passa a usar esses valores como se fossem o normal. são raras, por exemplo, as ofertas de emprego que fogem à regra das 44h semanais.
- **inflação**: subir os preços é difícil e constrangedor para as empresas, pedir aumento de salário é difícil e constrangedor para o funcionário. a inflação força as pessoas a fazer isso, mas o aumento não é automático, como alguns economistas podem pensar (enquanto alguns outros ficam muito satisfeitos de que esse processo seja demorado e difícil).
- **inflação**: a inflação destrói a capacidade das pessoas de julgar preços entre concorrentes usando a própria memória.
- **inflação**: a inflação destrói os cálculos de lucro/prejuízo das empresas e prejudica enormemente as decisões empresariais que seriam baseadas neles.
- **inflação**: a inflação redistribui a riqueza dos mais pobres e mais afastados do sistema financeiro para os mais ricos, os bancos e as megaempresas.
- **inflação**: a inflação estimula o endividamento e o consumismo.
- **lixo:** ao prover coleta e armazenamento de lixo "grátis para todos" o Estado incentiva a criação de lixo. se tivessem que pagar para que recolhessem o seu lixo, as pessoas (e conseqüentemente as empresas) se empenhariam mais em produzir coisas usando menos plástico, menos embalagens, menos sacolas.
- **leis contra crimes financeiros:** ao criar legislação para dificultar acesso ao sistema financeiro por parte de criminosos a dificuldade e os custos para acesso a esse mesmo sistema pelas pessoas de bem cresce absurdamente, levando a um percentual enorme de gente incapaz de usá-lo, para detrimento de todos -- e no final das contas os grandes criminosos ainda conseguem burlar tudo.

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Chef's notes

Ingredients

4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter 2 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto, cut into thin strips 1 1/4 cups orzo (about 8 ounces) 3 cups low-salt chicken broth 1/2 teaspoon (loosely packed) saffron threads, crushed 1 pound slender asparagus, trimmed, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese Parmesan cheese shavings

Preparation

Melt 2 tablespoons butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add prosciutto and sauté until almost crisp, about 3 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer to paper towels to drain. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in same skillet over high heat. Add orzo; stir 1 minute. Add broth and saffron; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until orzo begins to soften, stirring occasionally, about 8 minutes. Add asparagus; cover and simmer until tender, about 5 minutes. Uncover; simmer until almost all liquid is absorbed, about 1 minute. Remove from heat. Mix in prosciutto and 1/2 cup grated cheese. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to large bowl. Garnish with Parmesan shavings. Makes 6 servings.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 30
• 🍳 Cook time: 30

Ingredients

• See Chef’s Notes

Directions

1. See Chef’s Notes

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Chef's notes

A childhood favorite of mine! Just don't go too crazy with the scallions as you don't want to overpower the pork flavor.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 15
• 🍳 Cook time: 15-20 mins
• 🍽️ Servings: 3-5

Ingredients

• 1 pound of lean ground pork
• 1 tablespoon of diced scallions
• Ground black pepper (optional)

Directions

1. Lightly coat your palms with olive oil to prevent the meat from sticking to you and to assist in keeping its ball form
2. Mix the ground pork and diced scallions in a large bowl
3. Roll the pork into the preferred portion size until it feels like it won't fall apart
4. Cook in a skillet for 15-20 mins

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Músicas grudentas e conversas

Uma vez que você ouviu uma música grudenta e ela volta, inteira, com toda a melodia e a harmonia, muitos dias depois, contra a sua vontade. Mas uma conversa é impossível de lembrar. Por quê?

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Bitcoin doesn’t get too much love from the media. The tune seems to have slightly changed since the launch of the ETF, now that there’s money to be made. I don’t see many discussions about the humans pushing this decentralized technology forward. Bitcoin has no CEO, sales, marketing, product, or support team. Its source code is open for anyone, to inspect, copy and propose changes. 15 years after its inception, the network grows stronger every day due to the efforts of individuals worldwide. They build products, share stories, educate, mine, and more.

Here are some people who have directly impacted our journey, especially in Africa:

• Two early adopters who have consistently organized meetups for nearly 8 years
• A young graduate creating a circular economy, while also boot strapping his tourism business
• An artist making bitcoin approachable to the masses through his love of music
• A family of five who opened their doors and showed us their way of living on a Bitcoin-standard
• A father who built a product that doesn't require the internet to use bitcoin
• An ex-military who is educating the community through the local languages
• An engineer who is setting the record straight on bitcoin mining

This is just a small sample of the thousands that continue to build using this open technology, one that is deeply misunderstood. As literacy and adoption increase more and more humans will jump on board. Are you ready?

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Bluesky is a scam

Bluesky advertises itself as an open network, they say people won't lose followers or their identity, they advertise themselves as a protocol ("atproto") and because of that they are tricking a lot of people into using them. These three claims are false.

protocolness

Bluesky is a company. "atproto" is the protocol. Supposedly they are two different things, right? Bluesky just releases software that implements the protocol, but others can also do that, it's open!

And yet, the protocol has an official webpage with a waitlist and a private beta? Why is the protocol advertised as a company product? Because it is. The "protocol" is just a description of whatever the Bluesky app and servers do, it can and does change anytime the Bluesky developers decide they want to change it, and it will keep changing for as long as Bluesky apps and servers control the biggest part of the network.

Oh, so there is the possibility of other players stepping in and then it becomes an actual interoperable open protocol? Yes, but what is the likelihood of that happening? It is very low. No serious competitor is likely to step in and build serious apps using a protocol that is directly controlled by Bluesky. All we will ever see are small "community" apps made by users and small satellite small businesses -- not unlike the people and companies that write plugins, addons and alternative clients for popular third-party centralized platforms.

And last, even if it happens that someone makes an app so good that it displaces the canonical official Bluesky app, then that company may overtake the protocol itself -- not because they're evil, but because there is no way it cannot be like this.

identity

According to their own documentation, the Bluesky people were looking for an identity system that provided global ids, key rotation and human-readable names.

They must have realized that such properties are not possible in an open and decentralized system, but instead of accepting a tradeoff they decided they wanted all their desired features and threw away the "decentralized" part, quite literally and explicitly (although they make sure to hide that piece in the middle of a bunch of code and text that very few will read).

The "DID Placeholder" method they decided to use for their global identities is nothing more than a normal old boring trusted server controlled by Bluesky that keeps track of who is who and can, at all times, decide to ban a person and deprive them from their identity (they dismissively call a "denial of service attack").

They decided to adopt this method as a placeholder until someone else doesn't invent the impossible alternative that would provide all their desired properties in a decentralized manner -- which is nothing more than a very good excuse: "yes, it's not great now, but it will improve!".

openness

Months after launching their product with an aura of decentralization and openness and getting a bunch of people inside that believed, falsely, they were joining an actually open network, Bluesky has decided to publish a part of their idea of how other people will be able to join their open network.

When I first saw their app and how they were very prominently things like follower counts, like counts and other things that are typical of centralized networks and can't be reliable or exact on truly open networks (like Nostr), I asked myself how were they going to do that once they became and open "federated" network as they were expected to be.

Turns out their decentralization plan is to just allow you, as a writer, to host your own posts on "personal data stores", but not really have any control over the distribution of the posts. All posts go through the Bluesky central server, called BGS, and they decide what to do with it. And you, as a reader, doesn't have any control of what you're reading from either, all you can do is connect to the BGS and ask for posts. If the BGS decides to ban, shadow ban, reorder, miscount, hide, deprioritize, trick or maybe even to serve ads, then you are out of luck.

Oh, but anyone can run their own BGS!, they will say. Even in their own blog post announcing the architecture they assert that "it’s a fairly resource-demanding service" and "there may be a few large full-network providers". But I fail to see why even more than one network provider will exist, if Bluesky is already doing that job, and considering the fact there are very little incentives for anyone to switch providers -- because the app does not seem to be at all made to talk to multiple providers, one would have to stop using the reliable, fast and beefy official BGS and start using some half-baked alternative and risk losing access to things.

When asked about the possibility of switching, one of Bluesky overlords said: "it would look something like this: bluesky has gone evil. there's a new alternative called freesky that people are rushing to. I'm switching to freesky".

The quote is very naïve and sounds like something that could be said about Twitter itself: "if Twitter is evil you can just run your own social network". Both are fallacies because they ignore the network-effect and the fact that people will never fully agree that something is "evil". In fact these two are the fundamental reasons why -- for social networks specifically (and not for other things like commerce) -- we need truly open protocols with no owners and no committees.

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Jofer

Jofer era um jogador diferente. À primeira vista não, parecia igual, um volante combativo, perseguia os atacantes adversários implacavelmente, um bom jogador. Mas não era essa a característica que diferenciava Jofer. Jofer era, digamos, um chutador.

Começou numa semifinal de um torneio de juniores. O time de Jofer precisava do empate e estava sofrendo uma baita pressão do adversário, mas o jogo estava 1 a 1 e parecia que ia ficar assim mesmo, daquele jeito futebolístico que parece, parece mesmo. Só que aos 46 do segundo tempo tomaram um gol espírita, Ruizinho do outro time saiu correndo pela esquerda e, mesmo sendo canhoto, foi cortando para o meio, os zagueiros meio que achando que já tinha acabado mesmo, devia ter só mais aquele lance, o árbitro tinha dado dois minutos, Ruizinho chutou, marcou e o goleiro, que só pulou depois que já tinha visto que não ia ter jeito, ficou xingando.

A bola saiu do meio e tocaram para Jofer, ninguém nem veio marcá-lo, o outro time já estava comemorando, e com razão, o juiz estava de sacanagem em fazer o jogo continuar, já estava tudo acabado mesmo. Mas não, estava certo, mais um minuto de acréscimo, justo. Em um minuto dá pra fazer um gol. Mas como? Jofer pensou nas partidas da NBA em que com alguns centésimos de segundo faltando o armador jogava de qualquer jeito para a cesta e às vezes acertava. De trás do meio de campo, será? Não vou ter nem força pra fazer chegar no gol. Vou virar piada, melhor tocar pro Fumaça ali do lado e a gente perde sem essa humilhação no final. Mas, poxa, e daí? Vou tentar mesmo assim, qualquer coisa eu falo que foi um lançamento e daqui a uns dias todo mundo esquece. Olhou para o próprio pé, virou ele de ladinho, pra fora e depois pra dentro (bom, se eu pegar daqui, direitinho, quem sabe?), jogou a bola pro lado e bateu. A bola subiu escandalosamente, muito alta mesmo, deve ter subido uns 200 metros. Jofer não tinha como ter a menor noção. Depois foi descendo, o goleirão voltando correndo para debaixo da trave e olhando pra bola, foi chegando e pulando já só pra acompanhar, para ver, dependurado no travessão, a bola sair ainda bem alta, ela bateu na rede lateral interna antes de bater no chão, quicar violentamente e estufar a rede no alto do lado direito de quem olhava.

Mas isso tudo foi sonho do Jofer. Sonhou acordado, numa noite em que demorou pra dormir, deitado na sua cama. Ficou pensando se não seria fácil, se ele treinasse bastante, acertar o gol bem de longe, tipo no sonho, e se não dava pra fazer gol assim. No dia seguinte perguntou a Brunildinho, o treinador de goleiros. Era difícil defender essas bolas, ainda mais se elas subissem muito, o goleiro ficava sem perspectiva, o vento alterava a trajetória a cada instante, tinha efeito, ela cairia rápido, mas claro que não valia à pena treinar isso, a chance de acertar o gol era minúscula. Mas Jofer só ia tentar depois que treinasse bastante e comprovasse o que na sua imaginação parecia uma excelente idéia.

Começou a treinar todos os dias. Primeiro escondido, por vergonha dos colegas, chegava um pouco antes e ficava lá, chutando do círculo central. Ao menor sinal de gente se aproximando, parava e ia catar as bolas. Depois, quando começou a acertar, perdeu a vergonha. O pessoal do clube todo achava engraçado quando via Jofer treinando e depois ouvia a explicação da boca de alguém, ninguém levava muito a sério, mas também não achava de todo ridículo. O pessoal ria, mas no fundo torcia praquilo dar certo, mesmo.

Aconteceu que num jogo que não valia muita coisa, empatezinho feio, aos 40 do segundo tempo, a marcação dos adversários já não estava mais pressionando, todo mundo contente com o empate e com vontade de parar de jogar já, o Henrique, meia-esquerdo, humilde, mas ainda assim um pouco intimidante para Jofer (jogava demais), tocou pra ele. Vai lá, tenta sua loucura aí. Assumiu a responsabilidade do nosso volante introspectivo. Seria mais verossímil se Jofer tivesse errado, primeira vez que tentou, restava muito tempo ainda pra ele ter a chance de ser herói, ninguém acerta de primeira, mas ele acertou. Quase como no sonho, Lucas, o goleiro, não esperava, depois que viu o lance, riu-se, adiantou-se para pegar a bola que ele julgava que quicaria na área, mas ela foi mais pra frente, mais e mais, daí Lucas já estava correndo, só que começou a pensar que ela ia pra fora, e ele ia só se dependurar no travessão e fazer seu papel de estar na bola. Acabou que por conta daquele gol eles terminaram em segundo no grupo daquele torneiozinho, ao invés de terceiro, e não fez diferença nenhuma.

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O caso da Grêmio TV

enquanto vinha se conduzindo pela plataforma superior daquela arena que se pensava totalmente preenchida por adeptos da famosa equipe do Grêmio de Porto Alegre, viu-se, como por obra de algum nigromante - dos muitos que existem e estão a todo momento a fazer más obras e a colocar-se no caminhos dos que procuram, se não fazer o bem acima de todas as coisas, a pelo menos não fazer o mal no curso da realização dos seus interesses -, o discretíssimo jornalista a ser xingado e moído em palavras por uma horda de malandrinos a cinco ou seis passos dele surgida que cantavam e moviam seus braços em movimentos que não se pode classificar senão como bárbaros, e assim cantavam:

Grêmio TV pior que o SBT !

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Replacing the web with something saner

This is a simplification, but let's say that basically there are just 3 kinds of websites:

1. Websites with content: text, images, videos;
2. Websites that run full apps that do a ton of interactive stuff;
3. Websites with some interactive content that uses JavaScript, or "mini-apps";

In a saner world we would have 3 different ways of serving and using these. 1 would be "the web" (and it was for a while, although I'm not claiming here that the past is always better and wanting to get back to the glorious old days).

1 would stay as "the web", just static sites, styled with CSS, no JavaScript whatsoever, but designers can still thrive and make they look pretty. Or it could also be something like Gemini. Maybe the two protocols could coexist.

2 would be downloadable native apps, much easier to write and maintain for developers (considering that multi-platform and cross-compilation is easy today and getting easier), faster, more polished experience for users, more powerful, integrates better with the computer.

(Remember that since no one would be striving to make the same app run both on browsers and natively no one would have any need for Electron or other inefficient bloated solutions, just pure native UI, like the Telegram app, have you seen that? It's fast.)

But 2 is mostly for apps that people use every day, something like Google Docs, email (although email is also broken technology), Netflix, Twitter, Trello and so on, and all those hundreds of niche SaaS that people pay monthly fees to use, each tailored to a different industry (although most of functions they all implement are the same everywhere). What do we do with dynamic open websites like StackOverflow, for example, where one needs to not only read, but also search and interact in multiple ways? What about that website that asks you a bunch of questions and then discovers the name of the person you're thinking about? What about that mini-app that calculates the hash of your provided content or shrinks your video, or that one that hosts your image without asking any questions?

All these and tons of others would fall into category 3, that of instantly loaded apps that you don't have to install, and yet they run in a sandbox.

The key for making category 3 worth investing time into is coming up with some solid grounds, simple enough that anyone can implement in multiple different ways, but not giving the app too much choices.

Telegram or Discord bots are super powerful platforms that can accomodate most kinds of app in them. They can't beat a native app specifically made with one purpose, but they allow anyone to provide instantly usable apps with very low overhead, and since the experience is so simple, intuitive and fast, users tend to like it and sometimes even pay for their services. There could exist a protocol that brings apps like that to the open world of (I won't say "web") domains and the websockets protocol -- with multiple different clients, each making their own decisions on how to display the content sent by the servers that are powering these apps.

Another idea is that of Alan Kay: to design a nice little OS/virtual machine that can load these apps and run them. Kinda like browsers are today, but providing a more well-thought, native-like experience and framework, but still sandboxed. And I add: abstracting away details about design, content disposition and so on.

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These 3 kinds of programs could coexist peacefully. 2 are just standalone programs, they can do anything and each will be its own thing. 1 and 3, however, are still similar to browsers of today in the sense that you need clients to interact with servers and show to the user what they are asking. But by simplifying everything and separating the scopes properly these clients would be easy to write, efficient, small, the environment would be open and the internet would be saved.

See also

• On the state of programs and browsers

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IPFS problems: General confusion

Most IPFS open-source projects, libraries and apps (excluding Ethereum stuff) are things that rely heavily on dynamic data and temporary links. The most common projects you'll see when following the IPFS communities are chat rooms and similar things. I've seen dozens of these chat-rooms. There's also a famous IPFS-powered database. How can you do these things with content-addressing is a mistery. Of course they probably rely on IPNS or other external address system.

There's also a bunch of "file-sharing" on IPFS. The kind of thing people use for temporary making a file available for a third-party. There's image sharing on IPFS, pastebins on IPFS and so on. People don't seem to share the preoccupation with broken links here.

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Scala is such a great language

Scala is amazing. The type system has the perfect balance between flexibility and powerfulness. match statements are great. You can write imperative code that looks very nice and expressive (and I haven't tried writing purely functional things yet). Everything is easy to write and cheap and neovim integration works great.

But Java is not great. And the fact that Scala is a JVM language doesn't help because over the years people have written stuff that depends on Java libraries -- and these Java libraries are not as safe as the Scala libraries, they contain reflection, slowness, runtime errors, all kinds of horrors.

Scala is also very tightly associated with Akka, the actor framework, and Akka is a giant collection of anti-patterns. Untyped stuff, reflection, dependency on JVM, basically a lot of javisms. I just arrived and I don't know anything about the Scala history or ecosystem or community, but I have the impression that Akka has prevent more adoption of Scala from decent people that aren't Java programmers.

But luckily there is a solution -- or two solutions: ScalaJS is a great thing that exists. It transpiles Scala code into JavaScript and it runs on NodeJS or in a browser!

Scala Native is a much better deal, though, it compiles to LLVM and then to binary code and you can have single binaries that run directly without a JVM -- not that the single JARs are that bad though, they are great and everybody has Java so I'll take that anytime over C libraries or NPM-distributed software, but direct executables even better. Scala Native just needs a little more love and some libraries and it will be the greatest thing in a couple of years.

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Que vença o melhor

Nos esportes e jogos em geral, existe uma constante preocupação em balancear os incentivos e atributos do jogo, as regras do esporte em si e as regras das competições para que o melhor vença, ou, em outras palavras, para que sejam minimizados os outros fatores exceto a habilidade mais pura quanto possível no jogo em questão.

O mundo fora dos jogos, porém, nem sempre pode ter suas regras mudadas por um ente que as controla e está imbuído da vontade e dos meios para escolher as melhores regras possíveis para a obtenção dos resultados acima. Aliás, é muitas vezes essa possibilidade é até impensável. Mesmo quando ela é pensável e levada em conta os fatores que operam no mundo real não são facilmente identificáveis, eles são muitos, e mudam o tempo todo.

Mais do que isso, ao contrário de um jogo em que o objetivo é praticamente o mesmo para todo mundo, os objetivos de cada agente no mundo real são diferentes e incontáveis, e as "competições" que cada um está disputando são diferentes e muitas, cada minúsculo ato de suas vidas compreendendo várias delas simultaneamente.

Da mesma forma, é impossível conceber até mesmo o conceito de "melhor" para que se deseje que ele vença.

Mesmo assim é comum encontrarmos em várias situações gente que parte do princípio de que se Fulano está num certo lugar (por exemplo, um emprego muito bom) e Beltrano não isso se deve ao fato de Fulano ter sido melhor que Beltrano.

Está aí uma crítica à idéia da meritocracia (eu tinha me esquecido que essa palavra existia).

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Token-Curated Registries

So you want to build a TCR?

TCRs (Token Curated Registries) are a construct for maintaining registries on Ethereum. Imagine you have lots of scissor brands and you want a list with only the good scissors. You want to make sure only the good scissors make into that list and not the bad scissors. For that, people will tell you, you can just create a TCR of the best scissors!

It works like this: some people have the token, let's call it Scissor Token. Some other person, let's say it's a scissor manufacturer, wants to put his scissor on the list, this guy must acquire some Scissor Tokens and "stake" it. Holders of the Scissor Tokens are allowed to vote on "yes" or "no". If "no", the manufactures loses his tokens to the holders, if "yes" then its tokens are kept in deposit, but his scissor brand gets accepted into the registry.

Such a simple process, they say, have strong incentives for being the best possible way of curating a registry of scissors: consumers have the incentive to consult the list because of its high quality; manufacturers have the incentive to buy tokens and apply to join the list because the list is so well-curated and consumers always consult it; token holders want the registry to accept good and reject bad scissors because that good decisions will make the list good for consumers and thus their tokens more valuable, bad decisions will do the contrary. It doesn't make sense, to reject everybody just to grab their tokens, because that would create an incentive against people trying to enter the list.

Amazing! How come such a simple system of voting has such enourmous features? Now we can have lists of everything so well-curated, and for that we just need Ethereum tokens!

Now let's imagine a different proposal, of my own creation: SPCR, Single-person curated registries.

Single-person Curated Registries are equal to TCR, except they don't use Ethereum tokens, it's just a list in a text file kept by a single person. People can apply to join, and they will have to give the single person some amount of money, the single person can reject or accept the proposal and so on.

Now let's look at the incentives of SPCR: people will want to consult the registry because it is so well curated; vendors will want to enter the registry because people are consulting it; the single person will want to accept the good and reject the bad applicants because these good decisions are what will make the list valuable.

Amazing! How such a single proposal has such enourmous features! SPCR are going to take over the internet!

What TCR enthusiasts get wrong?

TCR people think they can just list a set of incentives for something to work and assume that something will work. Mix that with Ethereum hype and they think theyve found something unique and revolutionary, while in fact they're just making a poor implementation of "democracy" systems that fail almost everywhere.

The life is not about listing a set of "incentives" and then considering the problems solved. Almost everybody on the Earth has the incentive for being rich: being rich has a lot of advantages over being poor, however not all people get rich! Why are the incentives failing?

Curating lists is a hard problem, it involves a lot of knowledge about the problem that just holding a token won't give you, it involves personal preferences, politics, it involves knowing where is the real limit between "good" and "bad". The Single Person list may have a good result if the single person doing the curation is knowledgeable and honest (yes, you can game the system to accept your uncle's scissors and not their competitor that is much better, for example, without losing the entire list reputation), same thing for TCRs, but it can also fail miserably, and it can appear to be good but be in fact not so good. In all cases, the list entries will reflect the preferences of people choosing and other things that aren't taken into the incentives equation of TCR enthusiasts.

We don't need lists

The most important point to be made, although unrelated to the incentive story, is that we don't need lists. Imagine you're looking for a scissor. You don't want someone to tell if scissor A or B are "good" or "bad", or if A is "better" than B. You want to know if, for your specific situation, or for a class of situations, A will serve well, and do that considering A's price and if A is being sold near you and all that.

Scissors are the worst example ever to make this point, but I hope you get it. If you don't, try imagining the same example with schools, doctors, plumbers, food, whatever.

Recommendation systems are badly needed in our world, and TCRs don't solve these at all.

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It was recently reported that Sweden's Minister for Culture, Parisa Liljestrand, wishes to put an end to anonymous accounts on social media. The issue has been at the forefront following revelations of political parties using pseudonymous accounts on social media platforms earlier this year.

The importance of the internet is also well-known. As early as 2015, Roberta Alenius, who was then the press secretary for Fredrik Reinfeldt (Moderate Party), openly spoke about her experiences with the Social Democrats' and Moderates' internet activists: Twitter actually set the agenda for journalism at the time.

The Minister for Culture now claims, amongst other things, that anonymous accounts pose a threat to democracy, that they deceive people, and that they can be used to mislead, etc. It is indeed easy to find arguments against anonymity; perhaps the most common one is the 'nothing to hide, nothing to fear' argument.

One of the many problems with this argument is that it assumes that abuse of power never occurs. History has much to teach us here. Sometimes, authorities can act in an arbitrary, discriminatory, or even oppressive manner, at least in hindsight. Take, for instance, the struggles of the homosexual community, the courageous dissidents who defied communist regimes, or the women who fought for their right to vote in the suffragette movement.

It was difficult for homosexuals to be open about their sexuality in Sweden in the 1970s. Many risked losing their jobs, being ostracised, or harassed. Anonymity was therefore a necessity for many. Homosexuality was actually classified as a mental illness in Sweden until 1979.

A couple of decades earlier, dissidents in communist regimes in Europe used pseudonyms when publishing samizdat magazines. The Czech author and dissident Václav Havel, who later became the President of the Czech Republic, used a pseudonym when publishing his texts. The same was true for the Russian author and literary prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Indeed, in Central and Eastern Europe, anonymity was of the utmost importance.

One hundred years ago, women all over the world fought for the right to vote and to be treated as equals. Many were open in their struggle, but for others, anonymity was a necessity as they risked being socially ostracised, losing their jobs, or even being arrested.

Full transparency is not always possible or desirable. Anonymity can promote creativity and innovation as it gives people the opportunity to experiment and try out new ideas without fear of being judged or criticised. This applies not only to individuals but also to our society, in terms of ideas, laws, norms, and culture.

It is also a strange paradox that those who wish to limit freedom of speech and abolish anonymity simultaneously claim to be concerned about the possible return of fascism. The solutions they advocate are, in fact, precisely what would make it easier for a tyrannical regime to maintain its power. To advocate for the abolition of anonymity, one must also be of the (absurd) opinion that the development of history has now reached its definitive end.

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** I published this article on 3/26/2020. I'm back in Puerto now and just re-read this to fire myself up for some potential tubes. Now, I want it to live on Nostr.

“When in doubt, don’t go out” is a well-known aphorism among surfers. I think it’s bs. Let me explain.

**I speak from my experiences as a regular surfer and with my close group of regular surfers in mind.

In surfing, there’s a comfort zone, an adrenaline zone, an aw crap zone (doubt), and a hell no zone.

Comfort zone —It is in this place where it is safe and fun to try new maneuvers. The heart rate is low and the stoke rate high.

Adrenaline zone- This is personally my favorite zone. The surf is big or good enough to get the heart rate up and the juices flowing. Each movement matters and this is where some of the best surfing goes down.

Aw crap zone — This is the land of the I don’t know, the doubt. It’s always damn near impossible to sleep before an aw crap day of surfing. This is the place where limits are tested. Maybe you’re surfing in a new place with new risks such as shallow reef, a difficult takeoff, or it’s just huge. This aw crap zone will test and define your limits.

Hell no zone — When you know, you know. This is beyond doubt. You’re totally satisfied (yet still curious) from watching from afar. Maybe one day!

These zones are bound to change as the surfer progresses. One day there may be no “hell no zone” as the surf master has pushed his or her limits to the extreme.

Pushing

Pros are only as good as their home breaks. NOT. Tell that to Kelly Slater and the Hopgood brothers who grew up surfing Florida slop. Although, perhaps their garbage wave situation lit a fire underneath them which inspired them to seek out better waves and progress rapidly. Anyways, a surfer grows up surfing their home breaks often. Some people grow up on the North Shore or in Tahiti, others grow up in Huntington. A surfer’s perspective on waves and danger is influenced by their exposure.

I finally got bored with myself surfing my home waves. Sure, there were days that were outside of my comfort zone and epic, but it was time to go find waves that I had only seen in videos. I decided to pack my backpack and head to those famed Indonesian reefs that I’ve mind surfed for hours, but always had the question mark in my head as to whether or not I could conquer them.

Surfing over shallow reef is something that I was not used to and it terrified me, but I also knew that every surfer does it including five-year-olds so I had to send it. I escaped the first mission unscathed and with some of the best waves in my life.

In order to find those best waves of my life, I had to enter the ‘aw crap zone’. The I don’t know land. The unknown. When in doubt, I went out.

And Now I’m Here

I blew this wave, but wow pretty.

Current forecast looks like it will be right at my edge.. again. We'll see.

I’m surfing the famous Playa Zicatela every day with the whole world shut down due to Co-Vid19. I’ve always been curious to know what it’s like to be inside massive barrels, so I’m slowly making it happen. This is a battle that I chose. I’m learning how to sleep with surf anxiety. The first couple of nights were rough, but I’m starting to accept it now.

This very morning inspired this article. I got up, went to the roof, and checked out the waves. It looked pretty mellow despite the fact that I knew there was a lot of swell in the water. I just thought, eh, maybe it’s not big like it was forecasted. I got in the water, took my first wave, wiped out, but whatever. I’ve been here for a week and I still wipeout on just about every first wave. But, I quickly found out that this was not the real set. The next set was enormous, and it sent adrenaline shrieking through my spine and filled my brain with the aw craps. The questioning of my life and why I’m out here quickly followed. Am I good enough for this? (maybe). Could I survive a wipeout that size?(probably). Is my board right for this? (definitely not). The second wave I took was bigger and I pulled the eject cord and jumped from what felt like the top of a cliff all the way to the bottom and got creamed (my perspective). After a couple of flips, I popped up the back laughing and was ready for another. I survived, therefore, I can keep pushing.

Not gonna lie, surfing almost feels like work lately. Almost every day here is just about in my personal aw crap zone.

However, it’s worth it for me. This is a journey that I deem worthy of my time. It does it for me. It’s those little moments inside the barrel and gosh-dang-golly hopefully soon getting shot out of the barrel that keep me stoked and looking forward to tomorrow. It’s proving to myself that I can do things I didn’t know for sure were possible.

The Process to Progress

Progression sometimes feels like a snail crawling up Mt. Everest. But when you zoom out, those incremental small improvements compound over time. Each wipeout is a little victory. Each wave that is ridden is a little victory. Your brain is learning from every experience that you choose to give it. Confidence slowly builds as we continue to learn from the masters and even develop our own style. Next thing you know you’re drinking a beer in a barrel that can kill a normal man like Mr. Slater did here.

Freakin Goat

Stagnation leads to burnout, depression, and boredom (Not scientific facts but I’m right I know it). 

The great danger is that we give in to feelings of boredom, impatience, fear, and confusion. We stop observing and learning. The process comes to a halt. — Farnam Street Blog 

I’ve seen a few buddies give up surfing or digress. It happened to me while I was focusing on baseball. It’s sad because surfing is fun and the better you get the more fun it is. It’s even more fun with a core group of guys who are at a similar level pushing each other. It can get boring if you don’t push yourself, and it gets scary real quick if you aren’t in surf shape.

“Whenever we learn a skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration — what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up.” FS Blog

Progression takes effort. Effort takes a conscious decision to expend your limited energy. It’s the only way to get gains in whatever game you are playing. Also, progression takes humility.

I got the pleasure of surfing Kelly Slater’s Wave Ranch. I knew I was going to have fun, but the night before I was damn nervous. Why? Well, I knew there’d be cameras and that I didn't want to blow it. I’d be surfing with pros and I was going to look horrible compared to them. Sure enough, the one right the camera got, I blew. Oh well. No 30-second barrels for the boys. Life moves on.

Full vid here https://vimeo.com/367128298

Can't wait to go back here one day

You’re bound to fail, especially when you take risks. If you’re a prideful person, the setbacks will be greater. It’s how you deal with the failure that determines if you will become a master.

So if in doubt, go out. Your hell no zone is going to start to shrink. This applies any skill that you are sharpening. You’re only going to get the big clients if you go after them, a piano player will improve by practicing harder songs, a black belt gains nothing from fighting a white belt, etc.

Pick your battles wisely. Then…SEND IT, SURVIVE, LEARN, APPLY, REPEAT.

10/19 - Even though I'm a much more experienced surfer now, I'm still terrified. On my way to go get a board now and get ready for some swell! I'm on my honeymoon, so we'll see how hard I push. I have quite a few more responsibilities now then I did back in Covid times... But if in doubt, I will go out. PV.

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O Collabora Office é uma suíte de escritório baseada em código aberto que oferece uma alternativa viável e de qualidade ao popular pacote Office da Microsoft. Desenvolvido pela Collabora, uma empresa líder em serviços de consultoria e desenvolvimento de software de código aberto, o Collabora Office oferece uma gama completa de aplicativos de produtividade para a plataforma Android, incluindo processador de texto, planilha, apresentação e muito mais.

Recursos e Funcionalidades.

O Collabora Office oferece uma ampla gama de recursos e funcionalidades para dispositivos Android, comparáveis aos encontrados em outras suítes de escritório populares. Além das funcionalidades básicas, como criação e edição de documentos de texto, planilhas e apresentações, o Collabora Office suporta formatos de arquivo comuns, como o formato OpenDocument (ODF) e o formato do Microsoft Office (OOXML). Isso significa que você pode facilmente compartilhar e colaborar em documentos com usuários de outras suítes de escritório.

Uma característica notável do Collabora Office para Android é a capacidade de edição colaborativa em tempo real. Vários usuários podem trabalhar simultaneamente em um documento, visualizando as alterações em tempo real. Isso torna a colaboração em equipe mais eficiente, permitindo que os membros trabalhem juntos em projetos sem a necessidade de trocar arquivos várias vezes.

O Collabora Office para Android possui uma interface intuitiva e fácil de usar, projetada especificamente para dispositivos móveis. Isso garante uma experiência de usuário fluida e permite que os usuários aproveitem ao máximo os recursos e funcionalidades do aplicativo em seus smartphones ou tablets.

Uma das principais vantagens do Collabora Office para Android é o fato de ser baseado em código aberto. Isso significa que o software é desenvolvido de forma transparente e está disponível para qualquer pessoa utilizar, estudar, modificar e distribuir. A natureza de código aberto do Collabora Office traz vários benefícios, incluindo:

1. Custos reduzidos: O Collabora Office para Android é gratuito para download e uso, eliminando a necessidade de licenças caras. Isso é particularmente atraente para pequenas empresas e usuários domésticos que buscam uma alternativa acessível ao pacote Office tradicional.

2. Personalização e flexibilidade: Como o código-fonte está disponível, desenvolvedores e usuários avançados podem personalizar e adaptar o Collabora Office para Android às suas necessidades específicas. Isso permite criar soluções personalizadas e integrar o software a outros sistemas e fluxos de trabalho existentes.

3. Segurança: Com a comunidade de código aberto constantemente analisando e auditando o software, eventuais vulnerabilidades de segurança são identificadas e corrigidas rapidamente. Além disso, os usuários podem ter maior confiança na privacidade de seus dados, uma vez que podem verificar como o software lida com as informações.

O Collabora Office para Android é uma alternativa sólida e de código aberto ao pacote Office da Microsoft. Com recursos abrangentes, capacidade de edição colaborativa em tempo real e uma interface otimizada para dispositivos móveis, ele se tornou uma escolha popular entre empresas e usuários individuais que desejam uma solução de produtividade acessível e personalizável para seus dispositivos Android. Além disso, a natureza de código aberto do Collabora Office traz vantagens significativas, como custos reduzidos, flexibilidade e segurança aprimorada. Se você está em busca de uma alternativa confiável e gratuita ao pacote Office tradicional para Android, vale a pena considerar o Collabora Office como uma opção viável.

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/

https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online

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Chef's notes

1. DO NOT add too much Peppermint Extract! It’s extremely strong and it will make your milkshake way too strong if you add more than a few drops.
2. Feel free to be creative with your toppings. We used Caramel Flavored Whipped Topping and it turned out great!

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 5 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 2 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 1

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup Milk
• 2 drops Peppermint Extract
• 2 packets Stevia
• 1 cup Ice
• 2 drops Green Food Coloring
• Green Sprinkles
• 1 Crushed Peppermint Candy
• 2 Mint Leaves

Directions

1. 1. Blend together until smooth and frothy
2. 1. Pour into a tall glass
3. 1. Top with listed toppings
4. 1. Add straw and enjoy

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Joe Biden and Senator Lindsey Graham about securing a U.S.-Saudi defense treaty, as revealed in Bob Woodward's new book "War".

The Proposed "Megadeal"

The conversation took place in the context of Biden's attempts to negotiate a "megadeal" between the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Israel[1]. The goal was to create a permanent, U.S.-led security alliance in the Middle East[1].

Bipartisan Collaboration

Graham reportedly told Biden that only a Democratic president could convince Democrats to "vote to go to war for Saudi Arabia," to which Biden responded, "Let's do it"[1]. This exchange highlights the bipartisan willingness to consider military commitments in the Middle East[2].

Political Calculations

Graham suggested that: - A Republican administration wouldn't be able to secure such a deal - Democrats wouldn't support it if introduced by Trump - Republicans could provide 45 votes if Israel encouraged it Biden assured Graham he could secure the remaining Democratic votes[1].

Saudi Arabia's Perspective

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was reportedly interested in the deal to gain protection under the U.S. nuclear umbrella[1]. However, after the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, bin Salman became hesitant, fearing potential assassination if he didn't stand up for Palestinian rights[1].

Current Status

The deal is currently in suspended animation due to bin Salman's concerns and changing regional dynamics. The Biden administration continues to pursue negotiations, urging Israel to make concessions on Palestinian rights to facilitate the agreement.

The article concludes by noting that if Woodward's reporting is accurate, both Biden and Graham seemed willing to commit American troops to potential conflict with relative ease.

Sauce: https://reason.com/2024/10/18/biden-and-graham-reportedly-schemed-on-how-to-go-to-war-for-saudi-arabia/

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Tecnologia de escalonamento #Bitcoin Layer-2 baseada no conceito de statechains, que permite que chaves privadas para depósitos BTC (UTXOs) sejam transferidas com segurança entre proprietários fora da cadeia.

Mercury Layer é uma implementação de um protocolo statechain de camada 2 que permite a transferência e liquidação fora da cadeia de saídas de Bitcoin que permanecem sob a custódia total do proprietário o tempo todo, enquanto se beneficia de transações instantâneas e de custo zero. A capacidade de realizar esta transferência sem exigir a confirmação (mineração) de transações em cadeia tem vantagens em uma variedade de aplicações diferentes.

um sistema de transferência e controle de propriedade do Bitcoin, especificamente focado em saídas de transações não gastas (UTXOs),

um resumo detalhado dos principais elementos e procedimentos do sistema:

1. Saída de Transação Não Gasta (UTXO): UTXO é a unidade fundamental que representa valor e propriedade no Bitcoin. Cada UTXO é identificado por um ID de transação (TxID) e um número de índice de saída (n) e possui duas propriedades essenciais: valor em BTC e condições de gasto, definidas em um Script. As condições de gasto geralmente envolvem uma chave pública que requer uma transação assinada com a chave correspondente.

2. Transferência de Propriedade sem Transação On-Chain: O sistema permite a transferência de propriedade de UTXOs controlados por uma única chave pública (P) de uma parte para outra sem a necessidade de executar transações na cadeia (on-chain) do Bitcoin ou alterar as condições de gasto. Isso é facilitado por um mecanismo chamado "Statechain Entity" (SE).

3. Compartilhamento de Chave Privada: A chave privada (s) para a chave pública P é compartilhada entre o SE e o proprietário. No entanto, nenhuma das partes conhece a chave privada completa. Isso requer cooperação entre o proprietário e o SE para gastar o UTXO.

4. Atualização/Transferência de Chave: A propriedade do UTXO pode ser transferida para um novo proprietário através de um processo de atualização de chave. Isso envolve a substituição do compartilhamento de chave privada do SE para que corresponda ao compartilhamento de chave do novo proprietário, tudo sem revelar compartilhamentos de chave ou a chave privada completa.

5. Transações de Backup: Além da transferência de propriedade, o sistema inclui transações de backup que podem ser usadas para reivindicar o valor do UTXO pelo atual proprietário, caso o SE não coopere ou desapareça. Essas transações são assinadas cooperativamente pelo proprietário atual e pelo SE e possuem um bloqueio de tempo (nLocktime) que permite a recuperação dos fundos em uma altura de bloco futura especificada.

6. Mecanismo de Redução do Backup de Timelock: Para limitar o número de transferências possíveis durante um período de tempo, o sistema utiliza um mecanismo de decremento do nLocktime. O usuário é responsável por enviar as transações de backup no momento adequado.

7. Cadeias Estaduais (Statechains): O sistema opera usando cadeias estaduais, que são uma camada adicional que permite a transferência de propriedade de UTXOs. O SE precisa seguir o protocolo, mas não armazena informações sobre compartilhamentos de chave anteriores.

8. Cegagem (Blinding): O servidor da camada Mercury (SE) é cego, o que significa que não tem conhecimento das moedas que está assinando. Isso é alcançado através do uso de criptografia de chave pública para ocultar informações de chave privada compartilhada entre as partes.

9. Protocolo de Camada Mercury: O protocolo detalha os procedimentos desde o depósito inicial até a transferência de propriedade, atualizações de chave, retiradas ordenadas e recuperação de backup.

10. Recuperação de Backup: Caso o SE não coopere ou desapareça, o proprietário atual pode recuperar os fundos, enviando a transação de backup quando o nLocktime for atingido.

11. Publicação de Compartilhamento de Chaves: O SE não tem acesso aos IDs de transação individuais das moedas, mas publica compartilhamentos de chaves públicas para cada moeda na lista de ativos. Essa lista é comprometida com a blockchain para provar a exclusividade da propriedade.

Este sistema é projetado para fornecer uma maneira segura e eficiente de transferir e controlar a propriedade do Bitcoin, permitindo a recuperação de fundos em caso de problemas com o servidor.

No sistema de controle de propriedade de saídas de transações não gastas (UTXOs), cada UTXO é uma chave compartilhada composta por duas partes: o proprietário e o servidor de compartilhamento. Juntos, eles colaboram para criar transações de backup com bloqueio de tempo, que transferem a propriedade da UTXO para o novo proprietário. Durante essa transferência, a chave pública compartilhada permanece inalterada, mas o compartilhamento da chave do servidor é atualizado por meio de um Protocolo de Computação Multifuncional (MPC) para se alinhar apenas com o novo proprietário. Essa atualização resulta na criação de uma nova transação de backup, direcionada à chave pública do novo proprietário, com um tempo de bloqueio mais curto.

A confiabilidade do servidor é essencial, pois ele é responsável por excluir o compartilhamento de chave anterior. Isso garante que não seja possível conspirar com os proprietários anteriores. O proprietário atual pode gastar a UTXO a qualquer momento, desde que o faça em cooperação com o servidor. No entanto, se o servidor for desligado ou desaparecer, o proprietário atual deve aguardar até que o tempo de bloqueio expire antes de enviar sua transação de backup.

É importante ressaltar que o remetente nunca possui a chave privada completa; ele possui apenas uma parte do compartilhamento. Assim, todas as transações requerem a assinatura conjunta do servidor. Quando a UTXO é transferida para um novo proprietário, o compartilhamento do servidor é atualizado para que ele não possa mais assinar em nome do proprietário anterior, apenas em nome do novo proprietário. Esse sistema de transações de backup com bloqueio de tempo é projetado para proteger contra cenários de não cooperação ou apreensão do servidor, garantindo a segurança das UTXOs e a integridade da rede.

https://github.com/layer2tech/mercury-wallet

https://mercurylayer.com/

https://twitter.com/TTrevethan/status/1689929527420387328?t=0f5oF6w_ZRjWRYGah3HX8Q&s=19

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Kamala Harris delivered a sharp critique of Donald Trump, comparing him to Adolf Hitler during a recent speech. She referenced comments made by former Chief of Staff John Kelly, who disclosed that Trump expressed admiration for Hitler while in office.

![Kamala Harris] (https://i.nostr.build/iyRm5cJo9YuRgh3M.png)

Harris stated, "It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler."

She warned that if re-elected, Trump could seek unchecked power and compare him to a dictator. Harris emphasized the importance of understanding Trump's intentions and the implications for America’s future. Her remarks coincided with the fast-approaching election, intensifying her campaign's rhetoric against Trump.

Sauce

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Happy Halloween

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TL;DR: The mathematics of trust says that news reporting will fall flat when the population becomes suspicious of the media. Which is now the case for growing subgroups in the U.S. as well as in Sweden.

A recent wedding celebration for Sweden Democrats leader Jimmie Åkesson resulted in controversy, as one of the guests in attendance was reportedly linked to organized crime. Following this “wedding scandal”, a columnist noted that the party’s voters had not been significantly affected. Instead of a decrease in trust - which one might have expected - 10% of them stated that their confidence in the party had actually increased. “Over the years, the Sweden Democrats have surprisingly emerged unscathed from their numerous scandals,” she wrote. But is this really so surprising?

In mathematics, a probability is expressed as the likelihood of something occurring given one or more conditions. For example, one can express a probability as “the likelihood that a certain stock will rise in price, given that the company has presented a positive quarterly report.” In this case, the company’s quarterly report is the basis for the assessment. If we add more information, such as the company’s strong market position and a large order from an important customer, the probability increases further. The more information we have to go on, the more precise we can be in our assessment.

From this perspective, the Sweden Democrats’ “numerous scandals” should lead to a more negative assessment of the party. But this perspective omits something important.

A couple of years ago, the term “gaslighting” was chosen as the word of the year in the US. The term comes from a 1944 film of the same name and refers to a type of psychological manipulation, as applied to the lovely Ingrid Bergman. Today, the term is used in politics, for example, when a large group of people is misled to achieve political goals. The techniques used can be very effective but have a limitation. When the target becomes aware of what is happening, everything changes. Then the target becomes vigilant and views all new information with great suspicion.

The Sweden Democrats’ “numerous scandals” should lead to a more negative assessment of the party. But if SD voters to a greater extent than others believe that the source of the information is unreliable, for example, by omitting information or adding unnecessary information, the conclusion is different. The Swedish SOM survey shows that these voters have lower trust in journalists and also lower confidence in the objectivity of the news. Like a victim of gaslighting, they view negative reporting with suspicion. The arguments can no longer get through. A kind of immunity has developed.

In the US, trust in the media is at an all-time low. So when American media writes that “Trump speaks like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini,” that his idea of deporting illegal immigrants would cost hundreds of billions of dollars, or gets worked up over his soda consumption, the consequence is likely to be similar to here at home.

The mathematics of trust says that reporting will fall flat when the population becomes suspicious of the media. Or as the Swedish columnist put it: like water off a duck’s back.

Cover image: Ingrid Bergman 1946. RKO Radio Pictures - eBay, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons

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Precautionary Principle

The precautionary principle that people, including Nassim Nicholas Taleb, love and treat as some form of wisdom, is actually just a justification for arbitrary acts.

In a given situation for which there's no sufficient knowledge, either A or B can be seen as risky or precautionary measures, there's no way to know except if you have sufficient knowledge.

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Someone could reply saying, for example, that the known risk of A is tolerable to the unknown, probably magnitudes bigger, risk of B. Unless you know better or at least have a logical explanation for the risks of B (a thing "scientists" don't have because they notoriously dislike making logical claims), in which case you do know something and is not invoking the precautionary principle anymore, just relying on your logical reasoning – and that can be discussed and questioned by others, undermining your intended usage of the label "precautionary principle" as a magic cover for your actions.

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Dr. Johanna Olson-Kennedy, a leading advocate for trans youth care, withheld a $10 million study funded by taxpayers on the effects of puberty blockers, which found no improvement in mental health among participants.

She feared the findings would be "weaponized" against transgender care. Critics argue that her decision violates research standards and denies vital information to the public. The study tracked 95 children, revealing that 25% had mental health issues prior to treatment, contradicting Olson-Kennedy's claims of good overall mental health. Experts stress the importance of publishing research regardless of outcomes.

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2024/10/23/us-news/doctor-refused-to-publish-trans-kids-study-that-showed-puberty-blockers-didnt-help-mental-health/

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Revelation Chapter 2:17

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.”

Revelations is a mysterious book with some verses that seems to make very little sense.

Q: Why do we need names? A: To identify ourselves.

Same reason nature opted for us to have uniquely identifiable faces. But a name no one knows except him who receives it? Why would you need that?

When you are born you have very little in the way of personality and character. Doctor exclaims, “It’s a boy!” First verifiable identifier is recognised. One newborn baby looks very similar to another. For that reason they can accidentally be mixed up and given to the wrong mother at the hospital. But if the mother knows that she birthed a boy she would immediately know something is amiss if she gets handed a newborn girl. Gender is important as the first verifiable, unique identifier of the new being.

The newly confirmed male child gets issued a verbally spoken and symbolically scripted identifier. This identifier is known as a name. Name and surname please. These identifiers are of little consequence to the being who knows only feelings of pain and sensations of comfort. The survival of the biological spawn is dependant on the instinct to suckle and the tendency to cry at slight discomfort. This is the language of human instinct to cry and suck. As the toddler develops it starts to respond to the vocally repeated identifier (known as a name) to the point where it has been sufficiently trained to respond to the verbal enunciation of it. When you call for someone you are evoking hope that the entity being called to will respond by coming to your physical location so that you can share or enquire information. When the summons is answered by presence you maintain connection not by repetition of the name but by eye contact and directing conversation to the face of the person. The face being the most accurate point with which to verifiably establish identity.

In the book of Genesis Jacob is able to fool Isaac (His father) by exploiting his bad eyesight to steal an inheritance blessing from his older brother Esau. The face of Jacob was obscured through Isaac’s blindness which gave a false signal to the issuer of a blessing.

As our proverbial John Doe grows up he develops a personality and character which allows for people to gauge the levels of trust they are willing to risk on him. Character and personality are also unique identifiers. Mother knows best at who will be diligent when keeping their rooms clean and whose rooms she will have to clean for them. She can through experience predict outcomes using knowledge of character and personality as a reference. This information is valuable and can only be established or measured when there is an ongoing relationship where trust and responsibility are continuously tested and stressed.

We all have identifiers that are publicly displayed wherever we go.

: Physical appearance, Wedding ring, Tatoo

We have identifiers that represent or address us verbally and textually.

: Names, titles, seals, signatures, handwriting et cetera.

Ambiguous identifiers

: Left handed, smoker, married, divorced, affiliations, church, political views, phone number, address, favourite colour, drivers license ad infinitum.

In this digital world our identifiers are all exploitable by a large number of unidentifiable bad actors. This is weakness. If you are a man of character and strength but have no control over your identity. You are weak and defenceless in the eyes of these virtually indistinguishable, androgynous scammers, fraudsters, monopolies and governments.

We have to take digital sovereignty over our digital identities. That means we have to train our minds in the establishment of truth. The truth being...

Be true to thine self and let the truth about you be established by you. That means abandoning trust in third parties and know that no one is coming to save you and protect your personal data. Like there is no spoon in the matrix, there is also no institution who loves you enough to protect your identity in a digitally encrypted world. In some cases they might be legally obligated to, but who will take responsibility and how do you quantify and reverse the damage of leaked information. You don’t. No justice for the slave.

The spoon is a lie. It simply does not exist.

Revelation Chapter 2 verse 17

“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.”

If you have an identifier that only you know about then you have a private key. You can verify your holdings of assets. You can prove your identity on nostr. You can own not only the data but prove you are the source of it.

Anything that a trusted third party is currently doing for you, analog or digital is systemically being open sourced and you could do it for yourself with the press of a button. All you need is a white stone with a name on it no one else knows and be willing to carry the responsibility. You could then selectively reveal yourself to the world and prove it is you without exposing the you that is private. I will give an example to help you understand the power.

John 19:31–42

31 Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away. 32 Then the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who was crucified with Him. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

One thing is certain, Jesus was verifiably dead. The Romans, Jews and disciples who were present at the execution and burial all concurred. He is dead. Deceased. Gone from the realm of the living. Roman soldiers were veritable experts at death and declaring the dead so.

A few days later some disciples were proclaiming excitedly about Jesus being alive. A certain guy named Thomas would not be had. You guys are crazy, trying to establish some weird cult by pretending a fantastic impossibility. Nope. They were adamant. He lives. They claimed, like a bunch of fanatics. Thomas, being the voice of reason says the following.

John 21:25

25 The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord.” So he said to them, “Unless I see in His hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”

Thomas was a real Bitcoiner. He does not trust, he verifies.

Verification in progress.

The body of Jesus, should he have been alive will have been littered with scar tissue all across his back and legs. It would have been easy for Him to selectively reveal his identity to whoever he chose by exposing his body and letting them verify the proof of his identity without doubt. No one in world history has ever committed suicide by flogging and crucifixion so you cannot even fake or repeat it if you wanted to commit identity theft and pretend to be the Christ.

A proof of work hash in history so profound that civilisations collapsed on the realisation of its profundity. Another consequential exposition of identity verification is also expounded on by the gospel accounts.

Matthew 24:5

“For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.

Eric Cason on the "What Bitcoin Did" podcast said that he thinks Bitcoin is a messianic event. I agree with him. Liberation from economic tyranny is messianic if a figure initiates the salvation process.

That would suggest that there will be messianic implications, namely identity fraud of messiah with the intent to deceive and extort.

Matthew 24:23

23 “Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ Do not believe it.

We have ourselves an example of this in Craig Wright who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. Yet he refuses to verify it by transferring Genesis bits. Like Thomas demands to see the scars of crucifixion so too must we demand to see on chain movement of Genesis coinbase block reward as proof of identity and proof of work from anyone who publicly makes a claim to the person of Satoshi Nakamoto. Historic records in the future might mark this dispensation, BWP (Before white paper) and ASN (After Satoshi Nakamoto) or something of this nature could stand in the annals of history, marking a era of mankind similar to BC, Before Christ and AD, anno domini, the year of our Lord.

Jesus is yet to give me a secret name like Satoshi already did.

Which leaves me wondering…

The simulacral spectre created by Satoshi is an ongoing rabbit hole,

I have no doubt.

...

bitbib

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ตอนที่แล้วได้กล่าวถึงการตั้งบริษัท Holding Company เพื่อนำมาถือหุ้นในบริษัทลูก จุดประสงค์นอกจากจะเป็นการประหยัดภาษีแล้ว ยังง่ายต่อการควบคุม เนื่องจากแบ่งสัดส่วนการถือหุ้นกันตั้งแต่ต้น ซึ่งหากถือในนามบุคคลธรรมดาย่อมปกปิดตัวตนที่แท้จริงไม่ได้ ดังนั้นหลายๆบริษัทจึงนิยมตั้ง Offshore Holding (Holding ที่ตั้งในต่างประเทศ) เข้ามาถือหุ้นบริษัท Holding ในประเทศอีกทีหนึ่ง

นั่นแปลว่าวุ่นวายกับการตั้งบริษัท Offshore Holding แค่ครั้งเดียว หลังจากนั้นก็นำมาถือหุ้นใน Holding ในประเทศเพื่อเป็นเจ้าของทุกๆบริษัทในเครือ ซึ่งมีอำนาจควบคุม บังคับบัญชา และสั่งการโดยไม่จำเป็นต้องเปิดเผยตัวตนที่แท้จริง

ส่วนถ้าจะถามว่าไปตั้ง Offshore ประเทศไหนดี อันนี้ขึ้นกับวัตถุประสงค์ของแต่ละท่าน ซึ่งไม่มี One Size fits all บางคนตั้ง Offshore มาเพื่อรับเงินก้อนใหญ่จากการขายหุ้น และไม่ได้ต้องการปกปิดตัวตนอะไรมากมายก็อาจจะไปตั้ง Offshore ที่ Hong Kong หรือ Singapore

แต่ถ้าวัตถุประสงค์ต้องการที่จะปกปิดตัวตน อาจจะไปตั้งในประเทศอย่าง Seychells, Vanuatu, Mauritius หรือ BVI เป็นต้น ซึ่งประเทศเหล่านี้มักมีนโยบายไม่เปิดเผยตัวตนของบุคคลที่เป็นเจ้าของหุ้นในบริษัท และที่สำคัญ ประเทศเหล่านี้บางทียอมให้นิติบุคคลต่างประเทศเข้ามาเป็นผู้ถือหุ้นได้ 100% (กฎหมายไทยในการตั้งบริษัทต้องมีผู้ถือหุ้น 2 คนขึ้นไป และหากไม่มีโรงงานในไทย หรือได้รับสิทธิ BOI ต่างชาติสามารถถือหุ้นได้ไม่เกิน 49%)

ดังนั้นหาก Offshore Company 1 ชั้นยังไม่พอ คุณก็ตั้ง Offshore ไปเลย 2 ประเทศเช่น ผมอาจจะตั้ง Offshore แรกที่ Vanuatu ซึ่งผมถือหุ้น 100% (ในนามบุคคล) แล้วจึงไปก่อตั้งอีก 1 บริษัทอีกแห่งที่ Seychells โดยให้ Vanuatu Offshore เข้าไปถือหุ้น 100% ในนามบริษัท แล้วผมจะนำ Seychells Offshore มาถือหุ้นใน Thailand Holding อีกทีหนึ่ง ซึ่งหาก Thailand Holding ไม่ได้มีโรงงาน หรือได้รับสิทธิ BOI แปลว่า Seychells Offshore จะเข้าไปถือหุ้นได้ไม่เกิน 49% ส่วนอีก 51% คุณควรหานอมินี หรือคนในครอบครัวที่ไม่ได้กังวลเรื่องความเป็นส่วนตัวเข้ามาถือหุ้นแทน และอาจจะจำกัดสิทธิออกเสียงผ่านกลไกการถือหุ้นบุริมสิทธิ์แทน เอาเป็นว่าเดี๋ยวจะงง แต่ให้เข้าใจไว้ว่า 51% ที่ถือหุ้นแทนมีช่องทางที่ทำให้เสียง Vote หรือสิทธิในการรับเงินปันผลน้อยกว่าฝั่ง 49% ซึ่งเดี๋ยวจะหาเวลาอธิบายเรื่องนี้โดยละเอียดอีกครั้งหนึ่ง

แปลว่าหากทางรัฐบาลไทยตรวจสอบรายชื่อผู้ถือหุ้นหรือทรัพย์สินของคุณ หากใช้การถือทรัพย์สินแบบนี้ย่อมไม่มีทางที่รัฐจะรู้เลยว่าคุณเป็นเจ้าของทรัพย์สิน หรือกิจการอะไรกันแน่ และหากรัฐบาลไทยต้องการตรวจสอบจริงๆ การจะไปตรวจพิสูจน์ว่าใครถือหุ้น หรือมีสิทธิในการครอบงำบริษัทจะเป็นเรื่องยากมาก

ซึ่งหากคุณคิดว่านี่ยังเป็นส่วนตัวไม่พอละก็… แน่นอนมีวิธีที่จะเพิ่มความเป็นส่วนตัวมากขึ้นกว่าเดิม ซึ่งมีอีก 2 วิธี และสามารถนำมาใช้ร่วมกับวิธีนี้ได้ ส่วนจะเป็นวิธีอะไรนั้น รอติดตามตอนต่อไป

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Software Setup Links:

DC-1 as a monitor:

• SuperDisplay Setup | Best for Windows
• SpaceDesk Wireless and Wired Display Setup | Windows PC Users
• Chrome Remote Desktop Setup | Anyone

APK Installation guide

Purchase and setup links:

Keyboards:

• Keys-To-Go 2 White Keyboard | Logitech
• Keys-To-Go 2 Bluetooth Setup
• Magic Keyboard White | Apple through Amazon.com
• Magic Keyboard Bluetooth Setup
• Air 60 V2 with Blue Switches | Nuphy
• Air 60 V2 Keyboard Folio | Nuphy
• Air 60 V2 Bluetooth and Folio Setup
• Magic Keyboard Case | Fintie through Amazon.com

Pens:

• Premium White Pen
• Ultra Premium Lamy Pen | Amazon.com
• Samsung S Pens (Multiple):
• Small (Galaxy Note Series Style)
• Cheaper Alternative (ZERO Quality Guarantees)
• Medium (Galaxy Fold Style with smooth tip)
• Cheaper Alternative (ZERO Quality Guarantees)
• Larger (Galaxy Tab Style)
• Cheaper Alternative (ZERO Quality Guarantees)

Pen Setup: Just touch the screen and it works, no pairing or charging needed.

Others:

• Bluelight Free Light Bulb | Amazon.com
• Light Bulb Setup
• Comfy Green Sleeve | Amazon.com

Keys-To-Go 2 Bluetooth Setup:

• Step 1: Unbox keyboard from box
• Step 2: Open keyboard and pull tab to enable batteries and keyboard function
• Step 3: Ensure Switch on back of product is in the position where green is showing, not off where red is showing
• Step 4: Hold the key labeled ‘fn’ meanwhile you hold the ‘g’ key for 3 seconds to put the keyboard into android mode, since this is an android tablet
• Step 5: Hold the key labeled ‘fn’ meanwhile you hold the key labeled ‘F1 with the image of the laptop and phone for 3 seconds to put profile 1 into bluetooth pairing mode
• Step 6: On your Daylight DC-1, swipe down on the top of the screen, swipe down again, click on the settings icon that looks like a gear in the bottom right corner
• Step 7: In settings, click the second from the top menu item on the left called ‘Connected devices’ (it says Bluetooth, pairing underneath it)
• Step 8: Click on the button labeled ‘Pair new device’
• Step 9: Under available devices tap on Keys-To-Go 2
• Step 10: It will ask you to type some numbers and hit return/ enter, once you do so the device will show up as connected under ‘Saved Devices’
• Step 11: Turn off the keyboard with the switch on the back if you desire, this will disconnect it from the device

Appendix: Keys-To-Go 2 Documentation:

Apple Magic Keyboard Setup:

• Step 1: Unbox keyboard from box
• Step 2: Ensure Switch on back of product is in the position where green is showing
• Step 3: On your Daylight DC-1, swipe down on the top of the screen, swipe down again, click on the settings icon that looks like a gear in the bottom right corner
• Step 4: In settings, click the second from the top menu item on the left called ‘Connected devices’ (it says Bluetooth, pairing underneath it)
• Step 5: Click on the button labeled ‘Pair new device’
• Step 6: Under available devices tap on Magic Keyboard
• Step 7: It will ask you to type some numbers and hit return/ enter, once you do so the device will show up as connected under ‘Saved Devices’
• Step 8: Turn off the keyboard with the switch on the back if you desire, this will disconnect it from the device

Spacedesk Setup:

THIS IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE USING A WINDOWS PC

• Step 1: Open the Google Play Store: On your device, slide in from the side until and move till you get to the letter ‘P’ and tap ‘Play Store’
• Step 2: Search for SpaceDesk: In the Google Play Store, tap on the search bar at the top and type "SpaceDesk". As you type, suggestions will appear below the search bar. Tap on "SpaceDesk - USB Display for PC" when it appears.
• Step 3: Download and Install the Driver: Visit the

official Spacedesk website and download

the ‘Windows 10/11 (64-bit)’ Spacedesk driver for Windows. Follow the on-screen instructions to install it on your PC. - Step 4: Launch Spacedesk Server: After installation, open the Spacedesk Driver Console application on your Windows PC.

- Step 5: Click the ‘USB Cable Driver Android’ button, then enable the ‘USB Cable Android’ option and let it apply.

- Step 6: Open Spacedesk App: On your Android device, open the Spacedesk app you installed earlier. - Step 7: Improve Quality: Click on the ‘3 lines’ icon and then settings.

- Under ‘Rotation’ enable ‘Auto-Rotation’ and under ‘Quality/Performance’ slide ‘Image Quality’ to max (the right) and set ‘Custom FPS Rate’ to 60. - Step 7A (for wired use): Plug the tablet into your PC - Step 7B (for wired use): Enable USB File Transfer: Swipe down on status bar (the bar at the top of the screen with wifi and notification icons etc. There will be a notification under the ‘Silent’ category named ‘Charging this device via USB’, tap on it to expand it, then tap once more time when it says ‘Tap for more options’. This will open up a menu, all you need to do is click ‘File Transfer’ under the section called ‘Use USB for’ - Step 8: Connect: Reopen the Spacedesk app (use the back arrow or button to leave the settings menu should you need). The app should now detect your Windows PC through USB OR wireless. Tap the listing under your computer's name for wireless connection, or tap the little trident USB icon at the bottom middle of the screen for wired connection, which is recommended.

SuperDisplay Setup:

THIS IS ONLY FOR PEOPLE USING A WINDOWS PC

• Step 1: Open the Google Play Store on the tablet: On your device, slide in from the side until and move till you get to the letter ‘P’ and tap ‘Play Store’
• Step 2: Search for SuperDisplay: In the Google Play Store, tap on the search bar at the top and type "SuperDisplay". As you type, suggestions will appear below the search bar. Tap on "SuperDisplay - Virtual Monitor" when it appears.
• Step 3: Download and Install the Driver on your Windows PC: Visit the

official SuperDisplay website and download

the Windows driver. Follow the on-screen instructions to install it on your PC. - Step 4: Launch SuperDisplay : After installation, open the SuperDisplay Settings application on your Windows PC by hitting the ‘Windows’ Key and typing ‘SuperDisplay Settings’ - Step 5: Launch the application on your tablet. - Step 6: Go into SuperDisplay settings by clicking the settings gear icon in the top right corner. Under ‘Advanced settings’ click ‘Quality’ and slide it to 100. - Step 7 (Wireless): IP Address: Back out of the settings and input the IP address into the desktop program. (Both devices need to be on the same wifi) - Step 7 (Wired): Plug the tablet into the PC - Step 8: Start the connection on the tablet by clicking the central button! - Step 9: In Windows, hit the ‘Windows’ key, type display and hit enter. This will take you to display settings. In display settings set the displays to ‘extend’ and then confirm the change. Select the DC-1 display by clicking the square it is associated with, then set the display to 1584 x 1184 resolution, confirm this by hitting ‘keep changes’, then set to 125% scale.

Chrome Remote Desktop Setup:

Note: This prefers Chrome itself on the tablet and REQUIRES a chromium based browser to be installed on your computer, examples of chromium based browsers are Chrome, Edge, Arc, Opera etc. Basically anything but Safari or Firefox will do. This is because a chrome extension needs to be installed. Both devices need to be signed in to the same Google account to see each other.

• Step 1:

Go to this website

and click the download button here:

- Step 2: Get the extension in the window that pops up:

- Step 3: Once installed, click the download button AGAIN and it will show what is shown below, a program called ‘chromeremotedesktophost’ will download, install it.

- Step 4: In the play store, install the ‘Chrome Remote Desktop’ app and open it, the app's name will be just ‘remote desktop’ as a heads up. - Step 5: On the computer, go to

https://g.co/crd/headless

and click set up remote access under the ‘Remote Access’ tab. Then set a computer name and pin. Accept whatever permissions pop up on your computer

- Step 6: If you have Chrome itself installed on the tablet it will open a page, click the ‘Access my computer’ button, then under remote Access click your device.

APK Installation Guide:

• Note on APK’s: These are apps from outside official sources, they might not update from the play store and in rare cases can have different functionality. Apply extra caution and source these app files from good sources like

https://www.apkmirror.com/

. Just like through the play store or other sources, malicious files can be spread, use common sense and generally avoid downloading any ‘hack’ apps that claim to unlock features. - Step 1: One the home screen, swipe down from the top of the screen, also called the status bar - Step 2: Swipe down again till the settings tiles fill the screen, then click the gear icon in the bottom right hand corner of the screen which will take you to the settings application - Step 3: In settings, tap ‘Apps’, then ‘Special app access’, then ‘Install unknown apps’ - Step 4: Tap your preferred browser application then enable the ‘Allow from this source’ toggle - Step 5: Open your browser of choice, and search ‘apkmirror’ and navigate to

apkmirror.com

, or just type

https://apkmirror.com/ - Step 6: On the apkmirror website, search your application name in the search bat at the top of the apkmirror website. After you search find your app in the results and tap the most recent version. Dismiss any ads you might see. - Step 7: Under the text ‘Verified safe to install (read more)’ tap the button called ‘SCROLL TO AVAILABLE DOWNLOADS’ - Step 8: Find a file tagged ‘APK’ not ‘BUNDLE’ - Step 9: Click on the Download Arrow and line icon that looks like this ⬇️ - Step 10: Under ‘Verified safe to install (read more)’ tap ‘DOWNLOAD APK’ - Step 11: If it appears, dismiss the warning for ‘File might be harmful’ by tapping ‘Download anyway’ - Step 12: After your apk downloads, either - Tap ‘Open’ on the ‘File Download’ Pop-Up - Go to the home screen and open the files app, navigate to the downloads folder and tap on the downloaded apk - Step 13: Tap ‘INSTALL’ on the popup that appears. After it installs tap ‘OPEN’ - Step 14: The app will now be on your device and you can search and open it like every other app

Touch grass,

Daylight Team

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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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มนุษย์ไม่ใช่หุ่นยนต์ เรา 'กระทำ' ด้วยเหตุผลและ 'คุณค่า' แต่ถูกจำกัดด้วย 'เวลา' - นี่คือหัวใจของเศรษฐกิจที่แท้จริง 🧡

3 EP ที่ผ่านมาของ JUST Economics เราได้ปูพื้นฐานเศรษฐศาสตร์สำนักออสเตรียนจากบทที่ 1-3 ของหนังสือ Principles of Economics โดย Saifedean Ammous

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..เริ่มจาก EP ที่ 1 การกระทำของมนุษย์ (Human Action)

เราได้เข้าใจว่า.. การกระทำของมนุษย์ (Human Action) คือหัวใจสำคัญ ตามที่ลุดวิก ฟอน มิเซส (Ludwig von Mises) ได้อธิบายไว้ในหนังสือ Human Action ของเขา

มิเซสบอกว่า.. การกระทำคือการแสดงออกถึงเจตจำนงของเรา เราตั้งใจทำอะไรสักอย่างเพื่อให้บรรลุเป้าหมาย เป็นการตอบสนองต่อสิ่งเร้าและสภาพแวดล้อม และเป็นการปรับตัวของเราต่อโลกใบนี้

มนุษย์ไม่ใช่หุ่นยนต์ที่ถูกโปรแกรมไว้ หรือสัตว์ที่ทำตามสัญชาตญาณ เราคิด เราเลือก และมีเหตุผล แม้ว่าผลลัพธ์ที่ออกมาดีหรือไม่ก็ตาม เราได้เรียนรู้ว่าการกระทำของมนุษย์เกิดจาก ความต้องการที่ยังไม่บรรลุผล

ซึ่งเป็นเหมือนเชื้อเพลิงที่ผลักดันให้เราไม่หยุดนิ่ง ไม่ว่าจะเป็นความหิว ความอยากได้อยากมี หรือความอยากรู้อยากเห็น สิ่งเหล่านี้ล้วนเป็น แรงจูงใจ ที่ทำให้เราคิด วางแผน และ ลงมือทำ

..การวิเคราะห์ทางเศรษฐศาสตร์ (Economic Analysis) เป็นอีกหัวข้อสำคัญที่เราได้เรียนรู้

ฮานส์-เฮอร์มันน์ ฮ็อปเป่ (Hans-Hermann Hoppe) บอกว่า.. การวิเคราะห์เศรษฐกิจ มันเหมือนกับการไขคดีเลยล่ะ เราต้องแกะรอย หาหลักฐานและเชื่อมโยงทุกอย่างเข้าด้วยกัน

เศรษฐศาสตร์ไม่สามารถทดลองแบบวิทยาศาสตร์ได้ เพราะมนุษย์ ไม่ใช่ลูกตุ้ม แต่ละคนคิดไม่เหมือนกัน ตัดสินใจไม่เหมือนกัน การวิเคราะห์เศรษฐกิจแค่ตัวเลขอย่างเดียว อาจทำให้เราเข้าใจผิดได้

เพราะตัวเลขมันเหมือนเปลือกนอก.. เราต้องมองให้ลึกกว่านั้น ถึงจะเห็นแก่นแท้ของปัญหา ทีนี้แล้วอะไรล่ะที่เป็นตัวกำหนดการกระทำของมนุษย์?

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..คำตอบอยู่ใน EP 2 คุณค่า (Value) ของสิ่งต่างๆ ไม่ได้ตายตัว แต่ขึ้นอยู่กับว่าแต่ละคนมองว่ามันมีค่าแค่ไหน

ตามที่ คาร์ล เมงเงอร์ (Carl Menger) ได้อธิบายไว้ในหนังสือ Principles of Economics ของเขา เมงเงอร์บอกว่า.. มูลค่าไม่มีอยู่นอกเหนือจิตสำนึกของมนุษย์

ใน EP นี้เรายังได้เรียนรู้ 'ทฤษฎีส่วนเพิ่ม' (Marginalism) ที่บอกว่า ความสุขที่เราได้จากการบริโภคของจะลดลงเรื่อยๆ ตามกฎของอรรถประโยชน์ส่วนเพิ่มที่ลดลง (Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility)

เพราะยิ่งเรามีอะไรมากขึ้น.. ความสุขที่ได้รับจากสิ่งนั้นก็จะลดลงเรื่อยๆ

ดังนั้น.. การเลือกใช้ทรัพยากรอย่างชาญฉลาด จึงเป็นสิ่งสำคัญ นอกจากนี้เรายังได้เรียนรู้ว่า "มูลค่า" เกิดจากหลายปัจจัย เช่น ความชอบ สถานการณ์ และ ความขาดแคลน

ส่วน "ราคา" เป็นเพียง "ตัวเลข" ที่สะท้อนถึงการตกลงกันระหว่างผู้ซื้อและผู้ขาย ไม่ได้เป็นการวัดมูลค่าโดยตรง

เหมือนกับที่บางคนยอมจ่ายแพงเพื่อซื้อกาแฟแบรนด์ดัง ทั้งๆ ที่กาแฟโบราณก็ให้รสชาติที่คล้ายคลึงกัน หรือบางคนเลือกซื้อเสื้อผ้ามือสอง ทั้งๆ ที่เสื้อผ้าใหม่ก็มีให้เลือกมากมาย

เพราะ "มูลค่า" มันไม่ได้อยู่ที่ตัวสินค้าเอง แต่มันอยู่ที่ว่าเราคิดว่ามันมีค่าแค่ไหนต่างหากล่ะ..

แล้วทรัพยากรที่สำคัญที่สุดของมนุษย์คืออะไร?

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คำตอบอยู่ใน EP 3 นั้นก็คือ เวลา (Time)

ในหนังสือ The Ultimate Resource ของไซมอน เขาได้บอกว่า.. เวลา เป็นทรัพยากรที่ล้ำค่าที่สุด เพราะมันมีจำกัดและใช้ไปแล้วก็เรียกคืนไม่ได้

ดังนั้นทุกการตัดสินใจของเรา จึงมี "ต้นทุนค่าเสียโอกาส" แฝงอยู่ เนื่องจากเวลาเป็นสิ่งมีค่าและมีจำกัด เราจึงต้องหาวิธีใช้เวลาให้คุ้มค่า โดยอาศัยเทคโนโลยี การแบ่งงานกันทำ การลงทุน และการออมเพื่อความมั่นคงในอนาคต

ระดับความเห็นแก่เวลา (Time Preference) ก็เป็นอีกหนึ่งปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อการตัดสินใจของเรา มนุษย์มักจะให้คุณค่ากับความสุขในปัจจุบันมากกว่าความสุขในอนาคต

เหมือนกับที่หลายคนเลือกที่จะรูดบัตรเครดิต ทั้งที่รู้ว่าต้องจ่ายดอกเบี้ยแพง เพราะความต้องการได้ของ ณ ตอนนั้น มันมีค่ามากกว่าภาระหนี้ที่จะเกิดขึ้นในอนาคต

เศรษฐศาสตร์สำนักออสเตรียนมองว่า.. การทำความเข้าใจระบบเศรษฐกิจต้องเริ่มต้นจากการศึกษาการกระทำของมนุษย์ ซึ่งเป็นสิ่งที่ขับเคลื่อนการทำงานของระบบเศรษฐกิจ ที่เกิดจากเหตุผลและมูลค่าที่แต่ละคนให้กับสิ่งต่างๆ

ในขณะที่เศรษฐศาสตร์กระแสหลัก.. มักจะใช้แบบจำลองทางคณิตศาสตร์และมองว่ารัฐควรมีบทบาทสำคัญในการควบคุมเศรษฐกิจ

ซึ่งการแทรกแซงของรัฐในระบบเศรษฐกิจ มักจะนำไปสู่ปัญหาต่างๆ

เช่น การกำหนดราคาสินค้ามักจะนำไปสู่การขาดแคลนของสินค้าจึงทำให้เกิดตลาดมืดขึ้น

ส่วนการขึ้นค่าแรงขั้นต่ำอาจทำให้คนงานตกงาน และการอุดหนุนโดยรัฐอาจทำให้เกิดการผลิตและบริโภคที่มากเกินความจำเป็น

เศรษฐศาสตร์สำนักออสเตรียนจึงมองว่ารัฐควรมีบทบาทจำกัด

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เห็นไหมครับว่าทั้ง 3 EP มันเชื่อมโยงกัน..

เริ่มจากการกระทำที่ถูกขับเคลื่อนด้วยมูลค่าและถูกจำกัดด้วยเวลา ทั้งหมดนี้คือพื้นฐานสำคัญของเศรษฐศาสตร์ ที่ช่วยให้เรามองเห็นความลับเบื้องหลังของตัวเลขและทฤษฎี และสามารถนำไปประยุกต์ใช้ในชีวิตประจำวันได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพ

ฝากติดตาม JUST Economics ใน EP ต่อไปกันด้วยนะครับ รับรองว่า สนุก เข้าใจง่าย และได้ความรู้แน่นปึก!!

@ 9e69e420:d12360c2

Your first NOSTR note.

Some of you may be lurking wondering how why or what for your first note here on nostr. Here's some advice from an pseudonymous douchebag. To start with, your first note should be to come out swinging. Make lots of friends maybe even some enemies. Most people get a lot of love with their first introductions post.

Make it short.

Your first note will probably (and probably should) be a kind one event. The note you're reading is a 30023 event for long form notes. (More on this some other time). Keep it short and concise. You probably could publish a book in a kind one note. But I really don't think anyone believes you should and I'm sure many relays would reject it. It will also appear without formatting which just looks ugly for anything other than a microblog.

Introduce yourself.

Just as you would in an IRL interaction. What's your name? But more importantly what do you want us to call you? What brought you here? What are your interests? It's important to be real here even if you decide to be pseudonymous. Chances are your tribe is already here. If you're the first then that makes you king of your little corner of the nostr. Which will likely pay dividends in and of itself.

Make it a banger.

Here's my first note (I should disclose this is just the first note from this npub And I have already been here for over a year at this point):

note1pnufmzwy2gj4p5qza6jk7k40nns0p3k2w0fsrqq568utjlnyphdqyg8cpq

Have fun

Don't take this or anything else too seriously. We are all the same here because we are just as unique as each other. Be as weird as you want.

** & Don't forget to use the "#indroductions" hashtag **

@ a828c9af:ea95c44c

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Check this infographic to learn more about consumer trends in the Philippines and how to take advantage of them to tap into this lucrative market.

@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3

Last year, I devised a sports betting strategy that I believed had demonstrably positive expected returns, based on the particular betting mechanism at freebitcoin (details here https://stacker.news/items/342765/r/Undisciplined).

After one year and over 500 wagers, I'm up almost 40k with this approach, despite still having about 40k in outstanding bets. Assuming those outstanding bets only break even, that's about 80k in winnings. I realize that may not sound like much for a year's worth of effort, but I started small until I was confident in the methodology.

For those interested in following this approach, I'll start making entries with the RBOA suggested wager distributions. Here are today's:

| Outcome 1 | Outcome 2 | Outcome 3 | Bet Share 1 | Bet Share 2 | Bet Share 3 | |--------------|--------------|-------------|--------------|--------------|--------------| | Bournemouth | Man City | Draw | 17% | 61% | 22% | | Liverpool| Brighton | Draw | 68% | 14% | 18% | | Man United| Chelsea| Draw | 38% | 37% | 25% | | Newcastle| Arsenal| Draw | 27% | 49% | 24% | | Valencia| Real Madrid| Draw | 15% | 63% | 22% | | Sevilla| Real Sociedad| Draw | 34% | 35% | 31% | | Barcelona| Espanyol| Draw | 83% | 8% | 9% | | Atletico Madrid| Las Palmas| Draw | 79% | 6% | 15% |

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/738522

@ 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

@ d5c3d063:4d1159b3

เคยสงสัยไหมว่า ทำไมเศรษฐกิจถึงเป็นเรื่องซับซ้อนนัก? มาร่วมไขปริศนาเศรษฐศาสตร์ผ่านมุมมองที่แตกต่างระหว่างสำนักออสเตรียนและกระแสหลักกันครับ

ตลอด 3 EP ที่ผ่านมา JUST Economics ได้พาคุณดำดิ่งสู่โลกเศรษฐศาสตร์ที่น่าตื่นเต้น เราได้สัมผัสกับมุมมองที่หลากหลาย

โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งมุมมองที่น่าสนใจและแตกต่างจากเศรษฐศาสตร์กระแสหลัก ซึ่งสำนักออสเตรียนให้ความสำคัญกับ "การกระทำของมนุษย์" และตั้งคำถามถึงบทบาทของรัฐ

https://image.nostr.build/3faa50be55e5241640223811f1ad9e14b3437ae7f2eeaf4cf5d257eceb71d709.jpg

ในโพสนี้.. เราจะพาคุณไปสำรวจความแตกต่างที่น่าสนใจระหว่างเศรษฐศาสตร์สำนักออสเตรียนและเศรษฐศาสตร์กระแสหลัก (หรือแนวคิดเคนเซียน) โดยอ้างอิงจากหนังสือ Principles of Economics ของ Saifedean Ammous

หัวใจหลักของเศรษฐศาสตร์สำนักออสเตรียน คือ การมองว่าระบบเศรษฐกิจเปรียบเสมือนละครเวทีขนาดใหญ่ที่ขับเคลื่อนด้วย "การกระทำของมนุษย์" ไม่ใช่เพียงแค่สมการหรือแบบจำลองทางคณิตศาสตร์ที่เย็นชา

สำนักคิดนี้เชื่อว่าการจะเข้าใจระบบเศรษฐกิจอย่างแท้จริง เราต้องเริ่มต้นจากการทำความเข้าใจ "เหตุผล" และ "มูลค่า" ที่ซ่อนอยู่เบื้องหลังการตัดสินใจของแต่ละบุคคล

ลองนึกภาพตามนะครับ.. เวลาที่เราเลือกซื้อสินค้าสักชิ้น การตัดสินใจของเราไม่ได้ขึ้นอยู่กับราคาเพียงอย่างเดียว แต่ขึ้นอยู่กับ "มูลค่า" ที่เราให้กับสินค้านั้นๆ ซึ่งได้รับอิทธิพลจากความชอบส่วนตัว สถานการณ์ในขณะนั้น และแม้กระทั่งความขาดแคลนของสินค้า

นี่คือสิ่งที่เรียกว่า "มูลค่าอัตวิสัย (Subjective Value)"

ดังที่ Carl Menger นักเศรษฐศาสตร์ผู้ยิ่งใหญ่เคยกล่าวไว้ว่า "มูลค่าไม่มีอยู่นอกเหนือจิตสำนึกของมนุษย์"

ในทางกลับกัน.. เศรษฐศาสตร์กระแสหลัก มักจะพยายามอธิบายระบบเศรษฐกิจด้วยแบบจำลองทางคณิตศาสตร์และสมการ โดยมองว่า "มูลค่า" เป็นสิ่งที่วัดได้ สามารถกำหนดเป็นตัวเลขได้อย่างแม่นยำ

อย่างไรก็ตาม Saifedean Ammous มองว่าแนวทางนี้อาจเป็นการ "Scientism" หรือการยึดติดกับวิธีการทางวิทยาศาสตร์มากเกินไป จนมองข้ามความซับซ้อนของการกระทำของมนุษย์

การใช้แบบจำลองทางคณิตศาสตร์ในทางเศรษฐศาสตร์ มักจะมาพร้อมกับสมการที่ไม่คงที่และถือเป็นการพยายามลดทอนความซับซ้อนของการกระทำของมนุษย์ให้เหลือเพียงตัวแปรที่วัดได้ ซึ่งอาจทำให้เกิดความเข้าใจผิดเกี่ยวกับการทำงานของระบบเศรษฐกิจ

เพราะในความเป็นจริงมนุษย์ไม่ได้ตัดสินใจตามแบบจำลอง แต่ตัดสินใจตาม "เหตุผล" และ "มูลค่า" ที่ตนเองให้

อีกหนึ่งจุดที่แตกต่าง.. คือมุมมองเกี่ยวกับบทบาทของรัฐ เศรษฐศาสตร์กระแสหลัก มักจะมองว่ารัฐควรมีบทบาทสำคัญในการแก้ไขปัญหาในระบบเศรษฐกิจ

เช่น การควบคุมราคา การขึ้นค่าแรงขั้นต่ำ และการอุดหนุนราคา ซึ่งสอดคล้องกับแนวคิดของ John Maynard Keynes ที่เชื่อว่ารัฐบาลควรเข้ามาแทรกแซงเศรษฐกิจเพื่อกระตุ้นการใช้จ่ายและสร้างงาน

แต่เศรษฐศาสตร์สำนักออสเตรียนมองว่า.. การแทรกแซงของรัฐในระบบตลาดเสรีมักจะนำไปสู่ผลลัพธ์ที่ไม่พึงประสงค์

ตัวอย่างเช่น การกำหนดราคาสินค้าโดยรัฐอาจนำไปสู่การขาดแคลนสินค้า การขึ้นค่าแรงขั้นต่ำอาจทำให้คนงานตกงาน และการอุดหนุนโดยรัฐอาจทำให้เกิดการผลิตและบริโภคที่มากเกินความจำเป็น

ตัวอย่างผลกระทบจากการแทรกแซงของรัฐที่สำนักออสเตรียนมองว่าไม่พึงประสงค์ เช่น..

การควบคุมราคา - หากรัฐเข้ามาควบคุมราคาสินค้า เช่น การกำหนดเพดานราคา อาจทำให้เกิดภาวะสินค้าขาดแคลนได้ เพราะผู้ผลิตจะไม่มีแรงจูงใจในการผลิตสินค้าออกมาขายในราคาที่ต่ำกว่าต้นทุน

Robert Schuettinger และ Eamonn Butler ได้บันทึกไว้ในหนังสือ Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Control: How Not to Fight Inflation ว่าการควบคุมราคามักจะนำไปสู่ตลาดมืด ที่ผู้คนยอมจ่ายแพงกว่าเพื่อให้ได้สินค้าที่ขาดแคลน

การขึ้นค่าแรงขั้นต่ำ - การที่รัฐกำหนดค่าแรงขั้นต่ำ อาจส่งผลให้นายจ้างบางรายไม่สามารถจ่ายค่าแรงที่สูงขึ้นได้ ซึ่งอาจนำไปสู่การลดการจ้างงาน

โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งกลุ่มแรงงานไร้ฝีมือ หรือผู้ที่เพิ่งเริ่มต้นทำงาน อาจได้รับผลกระทบมากที่สุด

การอุดหนุนสินค้า - การอุดหนุนของรัฐบาล เช่น การอุดหนุนสินค้าเกษตร อาจทำให้เกิดการผลิตและบริโภคสินค้ามากเกินความจำเป็น เพราะทั้งผู้ผลิตและผู้บริโภคไม่ได้ตัดสินใจตาม "มูลค่า" ที่แท้จริงของสินค้า

ผลที่ตามมาคือ ทรัพยากรของประเทศอาจถูกจัดสรรไปอย่างไม่มีประสิทธิภาพ

เศรษฐศาสตร์สำนักออสเตรียน เน้นย้ำถึงความสำคัญของ "เสรีภาพ" และ "ตลาดเสรี" ในการขับเคลื่อนระบบเศรษฐกิจ โดยมองว่าการแทรกแซงของรัฐมักจะนำไปสู่ผลลัพธ์ที่ไม่พึงประสงค์

ในขณะที่เศรษฐศาสตร์กระแสหลัก มองว่ารัฐมีบทบาทสำคัญในการแก้ไขปัญหาตลาดและสร้างความมั่นคงทางเศรษฐกิจ

การทำความเข้าใจมุมมองที่แตกต่างของทั้งสองสำนักคิด จะช่วยให้เรามองเห็นภาพรวมของระบบเศรษฐกิจได้อย่างรอบด้าน และสามารถวิเคราะห์ปัญหาเศรษฐกิจได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพมากขึ้น

อย่าลืมติดตาม JUST Economics EP ต่อไปกันนะครับ เราจะพาคุณไปสำรวจโลกเศรษฐศาสตร์ที่น่าตื่นเต้น รับรองว่า สนุก เข้าใจง่าย และได้ความรู้แน่นปึ๊กอย่างแน่นอนครับ

Economics

@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1

(Please note that this is not official financial or business advice, but rather a description of something we have done, on an informal basis.)

A long, long time ago

It's been nearly a year, since nostr:nprofile1qydhwumn8ghj7argv4nx7un9wd6zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7qpqs3ht77dq4zqnya8vjun5jp3p44pr794ru36d0ltxu65chljw8xjqv5atj2 came into being, mostly as a lark, involving a couple of members of our private chat group. Our initial plan was to work toward bounties, but Nostr bounties are a bit of a biased, uncertain thing, and our enthusiasm for that quickly waned.

So, what to do? Here we are, we three (nostr:npub1ecdlntvjzexlyfale2egzvvncc8tgqsaxkl5hw7xlgjv2cxs705s9qs735, nostr:npub1wqfzz2p880wq0tumuae9lfwyhs8uz35xd0kr34zrvrwyh3kvrzuskcqsyn, and I): IT professionals with little time, but plenty of intellectual energy, a Slack chat, a GitHub repo, and lots of frustration with the Nostr status quo.

We were, you see, Nostr end-users. We loved the idea of the protocol, but we were being regularly stymied by the poor quality of many implementations.

• Why can I not login? Oh, they fixed the login! Nope, still can't login.
• If I press this button, it says it sent, but it didn't send. Where note?
• They announced a new feature, but I tried it and it didn't work. Oh well.
• I noticed a bug in the client, reported it, and the issue is just rotting away in the project repo. Ignored.
• The website/relay/repo was here... yesterday. Today it has disappeared, and taken my zaps with it.

It was enough to make us want to tear our hair out. We decided that what Nostr needed... what it really needed... was a Nostr Stable Version. Nothing glamorous. Nothing exotic. Nothing busy or excitable. Just something that stayed where you initially found it, ran, and actually worked. Something where you could report a bug and receive a prompt response. Maybe even something, where you could pay a reasonable fee and be allowed to have expectations of some particular service being returned. And who better to build such a version, than people who want to use it, themselves?

Things working is an underrated concept

I know that the very idea of software running as expected and websites not appearing and disappearing suddenly, based upon what some particular developer had for lunch, tends to be met with little but scorn, from hardened, seasoned Nostriches (who are convinced that bugs are all features), but I think the majority of potential users would see it differently.

I'm with the majority, on this one.

I like to click "save" buttons and have them save. If I publish something, I want it to appear under my list of published somethings. I like to type in the website address I always type in, and have it magically appear on my screen, as if there were a little man sitting at controls in my laptop, just waiting for me to write H-T-T-P-S... and then jump to attention.

My unreasonable expectations have no bounds, it is true. But unreasonable people are also people, so we would also like to have our own unreasonable things to play with. Scorn away. My save button will save, and my published something will publish, and my website will load every damn time, just to spite you.

In the larger scheme of things, you see, we win even if we fail, if we at least increase the competition enough, that things working becomes the new standard. We can simply prove, definitively, that it is possible for Nostr things to work, if they are built by people who care if they work. If we also have fun together, learn something new, and come up with some cool, novel use cases, then that's pure profit.

We can only win, at this endeavor.

Where to start?

Name that brand

So, we had a team, we had a business idea, and we had a heck of a lot of motivation. What we didn't have, is a name. (Never underestimate the importance of naming things.)

We decided to name ourselves "GitCitadel" because "git" sounds techy, hints at our GitRepublic project, and is reminiscent of open-source development, and "citadel" reminds us of Bitcoin. The republic is at home in the citadel, naturally. All other products also live in the same citadel, hence the naming-convention of prefacing everything with "GC" (i.e. "GC Alexandria", "GC Sybil", "GC Aedile", etc.).

Brand yourself

The next thing we did, was rent a domain and run a webserver on it. This is an important step because it gives you an Internet presence, allows you to have company NIP-05 and email addresses (a form of promotion), and it's simply exciting to have one. Feels so much more "official" and it helps increase the name-recognition of your company.

Define yourself

We then sat down, together, over the Internet, and figured out who we are. Not who we individually are, but who we are, as a company. A company, after all, (according to the Cambridge Dictionary) is "an organization that produces or sells goods or services in order to make a profit". Now, a company's profits don't have to be monetary, but they should be something tangible. A company, in other words, is a team of people working toward some defined goal.

What is our goal? Well, we decided to think it over, sat down with the newer additions to the company (you can see who they are, on our project wiki page, and came up with a Vision and a Mission:

The vision is what the overall goals of the company are, whereas the mission describes how those goals shall be achieved. Now, this is a sort of lofty, abstract statement, so it was important that we posted it someplace publicly (to keep ourselves accountable) and look at it regularly, so that we can ponder it and realign whatever we are currently working on, with this statement. We know the statement is well-designed, if considering it helps us make decisions about what to do next.

Pay yourselves

(I'm going to switch from "we" to "you", here, as it's easier to write this part, but let's just pretend I didn't.)

The next thing on the list, is to arrange the finances, usually by setting up a Geyserfund, with an associated wallet, and then deciding how the funds from the wallet will be dispersed or stored. (I won't tell you how we are handling that, as that's internal company business, but I'm sure you'll think of something clever, yourselves. Or just google it.)

I would encourage you to arrange to pay yourselves profits. Not merely because your idea is going to make you all fabulously wealthy and internationally famous (although, that is obviously true), but because profits are the most pure form of communication that consumers in the market have with its producers, and one of the best ways to make decisions and measure increases in efficiency (increasing profits and/or output, while keeping prices steady or falling).

Cutting off this signal, in order to look pious to outsiders, is to shoot yourself in your free-market foot. Nobody says that you have to spend your profits on the proverbial lambo and a bimbo. You could donate them to charity, reinvest them, or store them for your nephews to inherit, but pay them out, you should. You don't have to love money, to value it as a tool and use it shrewdly. Money is a measure, and companies should regularly measure themselves: against their previous state, against their potential state, and against their competition.

(Also, you can use money to buy a lambo and a bimbo, but you didn't hear that from me.)

Organize yourselves

Once you've been working together, for a while, you'll find that you need to figure out how to organize yourselves. The first step is to...

Form a board of directors.

Stop laughing. I'm serious.

Any company has at least two roles (President and Secretary), ideally held by two different people, so any single-proprietor company is a man down. Find a different person, to be your Second, even if they're just your confident, who lets you cry on your shoulder on The Bad Days, when your code refuses to compile, and can tell people that you've become a Bitcoin millionaire and have gone on a sabbatical to hike the Himalayas and will be back in 3 months on The Very Good Days. Because business man was not meant to be alone.

If, like us, you're a small herd of people and have already been working together for a while, then this step is actually really, really fun. Just think about what people are already doing, and put a label on it. That role is now defined and it is clear who is in charge of what.

Scientists become "Chief Science Officer" or "Scientific Advisor". The person who always writes the okay, so this is what we've decided comment in the thread becomes the Secretary, the one managing the Lightning wallet and worrying over paying for the servers is the CFO, the person running the remote server becomes the CTO, and so on and etc.

And everyone knows who the CEO is. Everyone always knows. They do. Just write it down.

Agree how to disagree

Now, have the secretary write up a Member's Agreement. It's a contract between the members, about whatever the group thinks is important concerning the way the company will operate. According to Investopedia, common topics are:

Is this legally binding? Probably not. Maybe. I don't know and wouldn't tell you, even if I did. But it's emotionally binding, which is arguably more important.

Writing things down is an advanced form of naming things and it provides clarity, helps to manage expectations, and allows you to define a working agreement before Real Money shows up and taints your interaction. You're just accepting tips, at the moment. Everyone is calm and cheerful, so now is your best time to negotiate.

Keep it very simple and only address the most basic things. If you wish to incorporate, at a later date, then you just take this to a registered agent, or other experienced person, and have them tidy up any loose ends and add the fine print.

Go forth, together

This has probably taken you weeks, or even months, but you're now a company. Get a logo and a company npub, start dropping the company name into your notes, and get on with the business of being in business.

@ 460c25e6:ef85065c

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- ======