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The future of physical money is at stake, and the discussion about DREX, the new digital currency planned by the Central Bank of Brazil, is gaining momentum. In a candid and intense conversation, Federal Deputy Julia Zanatta (PL/SC) discussed the challenges and risks of this digital transition, also addressing her Bill No. 3,341/2024, which aims to prevent the extinction of physical currency. This bill emerges as a direct response to legislative initiatives seeking to replace physical money with digital alternatives, limiting citizens' options and potentially compromising individual freedom. Let's delve into the main points of this conversation.

https://www.fountain.fm/episode/i5YGJ9Ors3PkqAIMvNQ0

(PT-BR version here)

What is a CBDC?

Before discussing the specifics of DREX, it’s important to understand what a CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) is. CBDCs are digital currencies issued by central banks, similar to a digital version of physical money. Unlike cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, which operate in a decentralized manner, CBDCs are centralized and regulated by the government. In other words, they are digital currencies created and controlled by the Central Bank, intended to replace physical currency.

A prominent feature of CBDCs is their programmability. This means that the government can theoretically set rules about how, where, and for what this currency can be used. This aspect enables a level of control over citizens' finances that is impossible with physical money. By programming the currency, the government could limit transactions by setting geographical or usage restrictions. In practice, money within a CBDC could be restricted to specific spending or authorized for use in a defined geographical area.

In countries like China, where citizen actions and attitudes are also monitored, a person considered to have a "low score" due to a moral or ideological violation may have their transactions limited to essential purchases, restricting their digital currency use to non-essential activities. This financial control is strengthened because, unlike physical money, digital currency cannot be exchanged anonymously.

Practical Example: The Case of DREX During the Pandemic

To illustrate how DREX could be used, an example was given by Eric Altafim, director of Banco Itaú. He suggested that, if DREX had existed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government could have restricted the currency’s use to a 5-kilometer radius around a person’s residence, limiting their economic mobility. Another proposed use by the executive related to the Bolsa Família welfare program: the government could set up programming that only allows this benefit to be used exclusively for food purchases. Although these examples are presented as control measures for safety or organization, they demonstrate how much a CBDC could restrict citizens' freedom of choice.

To illustrate the potential for state control through a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), such as DREX, it is helpful to look at the example of China. In China, the implementation of a CBDC coincides with the country’s Social Credit System, a governmental surveillance tool that assesses citizens' and companies' behavior. Together, these technologies allow the Chinese government to monitor, reward, and, above all, punish behavior deemed inappropriate or threatening to the government.

How Does China's Social Credit System Work?

Implemented in 2014, China's Social Credit System assigns every citizen and company a "score" based on various factors, including financial behavior, criminal record, social interactions, and even online activities. This score determines the benefits or penalties each individual receives and can affect everything from public transport access to obtaining loans and enrolling in elite schools for their children. Citizens with low scores may face various sanctions, including travel restrictions, fines, and difficulty in securing loans.

With the adoption of the CBDC — or “digital yuan” — the Chinese government now has a new tool to closely monitor citizens' financial transactions, facilitating the application of Social Credit System penalties. China’s CBDC is a programmable digital currency, which means that the government can restrict how, when, and where the money can be spent. Through this level of control, digital currency becomes a powerful mechanism for influencing citizens' behavior.

Imagine, for instance, a citizen who repeatedly posts critical remarks about the government on social media or participates in protests. If the Social Credit System assigns this citizen a low score, the Chinese government could, through the CBDC, restrict their money usage in certain areas or sectors. For example, they could be prevented from buying tickets to travel to other regions, prohibited from purchasing certain consumer goods, or even restricted to making transactions only at stores near their home.

Another example of how the government can use the CBDC to enforce the Social Credit System is by monitoring purchases of products such as alcohol or luxury items. If a citizen uses the CBDC to spend more than the government deems reasonable on such products, this could negatively impact their social score, resulting in additional penalties such as future purchase restrictions or a lowered rating that impacts their personal and professional lives.

In China, this kind of control has already been demonstrated in several cases. Citizens added to Social Credit System “blacklists” have seen their spending and investment capacity severely limited. The combination of digital currency and social scores thus creates a sophisticated and invasive surveillance system, through which the Chinese government controls important aspects of citizens’ financial lives and individual freedoms.

Deputy Julia Zanatta views these examples with great concern. She argues that if the state has full control over digital money, citizens will be exposed to a level of economic control and surveillance never seen before. In a democracy, this control poses a risk, but in an authoritarian regime, it could be used as a powerful tool of repression.

DREX and Bill No. 3,341/2024

Julia Zanatta became aware of a bill by a Workers' Party (PT) deputy (Bill 4068/2020 by Deputy Reginaldo Lopes - PT/MG) that proposes the extinction of physical money within five years, aiming for a complete transition to DREX, the digital currency developed by the Central Bank of Brazil. Concerned about the impact of this measure, Julia drafted her bill, PL No. 3,341/2024, which prohibits the elimination of physical money, ensuring citizens the right to choose physical currency.

“The more I read about DREX, the less I want its implementation,” says the deputy. DREX is a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), similar to other state digital currencies worldwide, but which, according to Julia, carries extreme control risks. She points out that with DREX, the State could closely monitor each citizen’s transactions, eliminating anonymity and potentially restricting freedom of choice. This control would lie in the hands of the Central Bank, which could, in a crisis or government change, “freeze balances or even delete funds directly from user accounts.”

Risks and Individual Freedom

Julia raises concerns about potential abuses of power that complete digitalization could allow. In a democracy, state control over personal finances raises serious questions, and EddieOz warns of an even more problematic future. “Today we are in a democracy, but tomorrow, with a government transition, we don't know if this kind of power will be used properly or abused,” he states. In other words, DREX gives the State the ability to restrict or condition the use of money, opening the door to unprecedented financial surveillance.

EddieOz cites Nigeria as an example, where a CBDC was implemented, and the government imposed severe restrictions on the use of physical money to encourage the use of digital currency, leading to protests and clashes in the country. In practice, the poorest and unbanked — those without regular access to banking services — were harshly affected, as without physical money, many cannot conduct basic transactions. Julia highlights that in Brazil, this situation would be even more severe, given the large number of unbanked individuals and the extent of rural areas where access to technology is limited.

The Relationship Between DREX and Pix

The digital transition has already begun with Pix, which revolutionized instant transfers and payments in Brazil. However, Julia points out that Pix, though popular, is a citizen’s choice, while DREX tends to eliminate that choice. The deputy expresses concern about new rules suggested for Pix, such as daily transaction limits of a thousand reais, justified as anti-fraud measures but which, in her view, represent additional control and a profit opportunity for banks. “How many more rules will banks create to profit from us?” asks Julia, noting that DREX could further enhance control over personal finances.

International Precedents and Resistance to CBDC

The deputy also cites examples from other countries resisting the idea of a centralized digital currency. In the United States, states like New Hampshire have passed laws to prevent the advance of CBDCs, and leaders such as Donald Trump have opposed creating a national digital currency. Trump, addressing the topic, uses a justification similar to Julia’s: in a digitalized system, “with one click, your money could disappear.” She agrees with the warning, emphasizing the control risk that a CBDC represents, especially for countries with disadvantaged populations.

Besides the United States, Canada, Colombia, and Australia have also suspended studies on digital currencies, citing the need for further discussions on population impacts. However, in Brazil, the debate on DREX is still limited, with few parliamentarians and political leaders openly discussing the topic. According to Julia, only she and one or two deputies are truly trying to bring this discussion to the Chamber, making DREX’s advance even more concerning.

Bill No. 3,341/2024 and Popular Pressure

For Julia, her bill is a first step. Although she acknowledges that ideally, it would prevent DREX's implementation entirely, PL 3341/2024 is a measure to ensure citizens' choice to use physical money, preserving a form of individual freedom. “If the future means control, I prefer to live in the past,” Julia asserts, reinforcing that the fight for freedom is at the heart of her bill.

However, the deputy emphasizes that none of this will be possible without popular mobilization. According to her, popular pressure is crucial for other deputies to take notice and support PL 3341. “I am only one deputy, and we need the public’s support to raise the project’s visibility,” she explains, encouraging the public to press other parliamentarians and ask them to “pay attention to PL 3341 and the project that prohibits the end of physical money.” The deputy believes that with a strong awareness and pressure movement, it is possible to advance the debate and ensure Brazilians’ financial freedom.

What’s at Stake?

Julia Zanatta leaves no doubt: DREX represents a profound shift in how money will be used and controlled in Brazil. More than a simple modernization of the financial system, the Central Bank’s CBDC sets precedents for an unprecedented level of citizen surveillance and control in the country. For the deputy, this transition needs to be debated broadly and transparently, and it’s up to the Brazilian people to defend their rights and demand that the National Congress discuss these changes responsibly.

The deputy also emphasizes that, regardless of political or partisan views, this issue affects all Brazilians. “This agenda is something that will affect everyone. We need to be united to ensure people understand the gravity of what could happen.” Julia believes that by sharing information and generating open debate, it is possible to prevent Brazil from following the path of countries that have already implemented a digital currency in an authoritarian way.

A Call to Action

The future of physical money in Brazil is at risk. For those who share Deputy Julia Zanatta’s concerns, the time to act is now. Mobilize, get informed, and press your representatives. PL 3341/2024 is an opportunity to ensure that Brazilian citizens have a choice in how to use their money, without excessive state interference or surveillance.

In the end, as the deputy puts it, the central issue is freedom. “My fear is that this project will pass, and people won’t even understand what is happening.” Therefore, may every citizen at least have the chance to understand what’s at stake and make their voice heard in defense of a Brazil where individual freedom and privacy are respected values.

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Imagine sending a private message to a friend, only to learn that authorities could be scanning its contents without your knowledge. This isn't a scene from a dystopian novel but a potential reality under the European Union's proposed "Chat Control" measures. Aimed at combating serious crimes like child exploitation and terrorism, these proposals could significantly impact the privacy of everyday internet users. As encrypted messaging services become the norm for personal and professional communication, understanding Chat Control is essential. This article delves into what Chat Control entails, why it's being considered, and how it could affect your right to private communication.

https://www.fountain.fm/episode/coOFsst7r7mO1EP1kSzV

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0IZ6kMExfxFm4FHg5DAWT8?si=e139033865e045de

Sections:

• Introduction
• What Is Chat Control?
• Why Is the EU Pushing for Chat Control?
• The Privacy Concerns and Risks
• The Technical Debate: Encryption and Backdoors
• Global Reactions and the Debate in Europe
• Possible Consequences for Messaging Services
• What Happens Next? The Future of Chat Control
• Conclusion

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What Is Chat Control?

"Chat Control" refers to a set of proposed measures by the European Union aimed at monitoring and scanning private communications on messaging platforms. The primary goal is to detect and prevent the spread of illegal content, such as child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to combat terrorism. While the intention is to enhance security and protect vulnerable populations, these proposals have raised significant privacy concerns.

At its core, Chat Control would require messaging services to implement automated scanning technologies that can analyze the content of messages—even those that are end-to-end encrypted. This means that the private messages you send to friends, family, or colleagues could be subject to inspection by algorithms designed to detect prohibited content.

Origins of the Proposal

The initiative for Chat Control emerged from the EU's desire to strengthen its digital security infrastructure. High-profile cases of online abuse and the use of encrypted platforms by criminal organizations have prompted lawmakers to consider more invasive surveillance tactics. The European Commission has been exploring legislation that would make it mandatory for service providers to monitor communications on their platforms.

How Messaging Services Work

Most modern messaging apps, like Signal, Session, SimpleX, Veilid, Protonmail and Tutanota (among others), use end-to-end encryption (E2EE). This encryption ensures that only the sender and the recipient can read the messages being exchanged. Not even the service providers can access the content. This level of security is crucial for maintaining privacy in digital communications, protecting users from hackers, identity thieves, and other malicious actors.

Key Elements of Chat Control

• Automated Content Scanning: Service providers would use algorithms to scan messages for illegal content.
• Circumvention of Encryption: To scan encrypted messages, providers might need to alter their encryption methods, potentially weakening security.
• Mandatory Reporting: If illegal content is detected, providers would be required to report it to authorities.
• Broad Applicability: The measures could apply to all messaging services operating within the EU, affecting both European companies and international platforms.

Why It Matters

Understanding Chat Control is essential because it represents a significant shift in how digital privacy is handled. While combating illegal activities online is crucial, the methods proposed could set a precedent for mass surveillance and the erosion of privacy rights. Everyday users who rely on encrypted messaging for personal and professional communication might find their conversations are no longer as private as they once thought.

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Why Is the EU Pushing for Chat Control?

The European Union's push for Chat Control stems from a pressing concern to protect its citizens, particularly children, from online exploitation and criminal activities. With the digital landscape becoming increasingly integral to daily life, the EU aims to strengthen its ability to combat serious crimes facilitated through online platforms.

Protecting Children and Preventing Crime

One of the primary motivations behind Chat Control is the prevention of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) circulating on the internet. Law enforcement agencies have reported a significant increase in the sharing of illegal content through private messaging services. By implementing Chat Control, the EU believes it can more effectively identify and stop perpetrators, rescue victims, and deter future crimes.

Terrorism is another critical concern. Encrypted messaging apps can be used by terrorist groups to plan and coordinate attacks without detection. The EU argues that accessing these communications could be vital in preventing such threats and ensuring public safety.

Legal Context and Legislative Drivers

The push for Chat Control is rooted in several legislative initiatives:

• ePrivacy Directive: This directive regulates the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in electronic communications. The EU is considering amendments that would allow for the scanning of private messages under specific circumstances.

• Temporary Derogation: In 2021, the EU adopted a temporary regulation permitting voluntary detection of CSAM by communication services. The current proposals aim to make such measures mandatory and more comprehensive.

• Regulation Proposals: The European Commission has proposed regulations that would require service providers to detect, report, and remove illegal content proactively. This would include the use of technologies to scan private communications.

Balancing Security and Privacy

EU officials argue that the proposed measures are a necessary response to evolving digital threats. They emphasize the importance of staying ahead of criminals who exploit technology to harm others. By implementing Chat Control, they believe law enforcement can be more effective without entirely dismantling privacy protections.

However, the EU also acknowledges the need to balance security with fundamental rights. The proposals include provisions intended to limit the scope of surveillance, such as:

• Targeted Scanning: Focusing on specific threats rather than broad, indiscriminate monitoring.

• Judicial Oversight: Requiring court orders or oversight for accessing private communications.

• Data Protection Safeguards: Implementing measures to ensure that data collected is handled securely and deleted when no longer needed.

The Urgency Behind the Push

High-profile cases of online abuse and terrorism have heightened the sense of urgency among EU policymakers. Reports of increasing online grooming and the widespread distribution of illegal content have prompted calls for immediate action. The EU posits that without measures like Chat Control, these problems will continue to escalate unchecked.

Criticism and Controversy

Despite the stated intentions, the push for Chat Control has been met with significant criticism. Opponents argue that the measures could be ineffective against savvy criminals who can find alternative ways to communicate. There is also concern that such surveillance could be misused or extended beyond its original purpose.

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The Privacy Concerns and Risks

While the intentions behind Chat Control focus on enhancing security and protecting vulnerable groups, the proposed measures raise significant privacy concerns. Critics argue that implementing such surveillance could infringe on fundamental rights and set a dangerous precedent for mass monitoring of private communications.

Infringement on Privacy Rights

At the heart of the debate is the right to privacy. By scanning private messages, even with automated tools, the confidentiality of personal communications is compromised. Users may no longer feel secure sharing sensitive information, fearing that their messages could be intercepted or misinterpreted by algorithms.

Erosion of End-to-End Encryption

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a cornerstone of digital security, ensuring that only the sender and recipient can read the messages exchanged. Chat Control could necessitate the introduction of "backdoors" or weaken encryption protocols, making it easier for unauthorized parties to access private data. This not only affects individual privacy but also exposes communications to potential cyber threats.

Concerns from Privacy Advocates

Organizations like Signal and Tutanota, which offer encrypted messaging services, have voiced strong opposition to Chat Control. They warn that undermining encryption could have far-reaching consequences:

• Security Risks: Weakening encryption makes systems more vulnerable to hacking, espionage, and cybercrime.
• Global Implications: Changes in EU regulations could influence policies worldwide, leading to a broader erosion of digital privacy.
• Ineffectiveness Against Crime: Determined criminals might resort to other, less detectable means of communication, rendering the measures ineffective while still compromising the privacy of law-abiding citizens.

Potential for Government Overreach

There is a fear that Chat Control could lead to increased surveillance beyond its original scope. Once the infrastructure for scanning private messages is in place, it could be repurposed or expanded to monitor other types of content, stifling free expression and dissent.

Real-World Implications for Users

• False Positives: Automated scanning technologies are not infallible and could mistakenly flag innocent content, leading to unwarranted scrutiny or legal consequences for users.
• Chilling Effect: Knowing that messages could be monitored might discourage people from expressing themselves freely, impacting personal relationships and societal discourse.
• Data Misuse: Collected data could be vulnerable to leaks or misuse, compromising personal and sensitive information.

Legal and Ethical Concerns

Privacy advocates also highlight potential conflicts with existing laws and ethical standards:

• Violation of Fundamental Rights: The European Convention on Human Rights and other international agreements protect the right to privacy and freedom of expression.
• Questionable Effectiveness: The ethical justification for such invasive measures is challenged if they do not significantly improve safety or if they disproportionately impact innocent users.

Opposition from Member States and Organizations

Countries like Germany and organizations such as the European Digital Rights (EDRi) have expressed opposition to Chat Control. They emphasize the need to protect digital privacy and caution against hasty legislation that could have unintended consequences.

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The Technical Debate: Encryption and Backdoors

The discussion around Chat Control inevitably leads to a complex technical debate centered on encryption and the potential introduction of backdoors into secure communication systems. Understanding these concepts is crucial to grasping the full implications of the proposed measures.

What Is End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)?

End-to-end encryption is a method of secure communication that prevents third parties from accessing data while it's transferred from one end system to another. In simpler terms, only the sender and the recipient can read the messages. Even the service providers operating the messaging platforms cannot decrypt the content.

• Security Assurance: E2EE ensures that sensitive information—be it personal messages, financial details, or confidential business communications—remains private.
• Widespread Use: Popular messaging apps like Signal, Session, SimpleX, Veilid, Protonmail and Tutanota (among others) rely on E2EE to protect user data.

How Chat Control Affects Encryption

Implementing Chat Control as proposed would require messaging services to scan the content of messages for illegal material. To do this on encrypted platforms, providers might have to:

• Introduce Backdoors: Create a means for third parties (including the service provider or authorities) to access encrypted messages.
• Client-Side Scanning: Install software on users' devices that scans messages before they are encrypted and sent, effectively bypassing E2EE.

The Risks of Weakening Encryption

1. Compromised Security for All Users

Introducing backdoors or client-side scanning tools can create vulnerabilities:

• Exploitable Gaps: If a backdoor exists, malicious actors might find and exploit it, leading to data breaches.
• Universal Impact: Weakening encryption doesn't just affect targeted individuals; it potentially exposes all users to increased risk.

2. Undermining Trust in Digital Services

• User Confidence: Knowing that private communications could be accessed might deter people from using digital services or push them toward unregulated platforms.
• Business Implications: Companies relying on secure communications might face increased risks, affecting economic activities.

3. Ineffectiveness Against Skilled Adversaries

• Alternative Methods: Criminals might shift to other encrypted channels or develop new ways to avoid detection.
• False Sense of Security: Weakening encryption could give the impression of increased safety while adversaries adapt and continue their activities undetected.

Signal’s Response and Stance

Signal, a leading encrypted messaging service, has been vocal in its opposition to the EU's proposals:

• Refusal to Weaken Encryption: Signal's CEO Meredith Whittaker has stated that the company would rather cease operations in the EU than compromise its encryption standards.
• Advocacy for Privacy: Signal emphasizes that strong encryption is essential for protecting human rights and freedoms in the digital age.

Understanding Backdoors

A "backdoor" in encryption is an intentional weakness inserted into a system to allow authorized access to encrypted data. While intended for legitimate use by authorities, backdoors pose several problems:

• Security Vulnerabilities: They can be discovered and exploited by unauthorized parties, including hackers and foreign governments.
• Ethical Concerns: The existence of backdoors raises questions about consent and the extent to which governments should be able to access private communications.

The Slippery Slope Argument

Privacy advocates warn that introducing backdoors or mandatory scanning sets a precedent:

• Expanded Surveillance: Once in place, these measures could be extended to monitor other types of content beyond the original scope.
• Erosion of Rights: Gradual acceptance of surveillance can lead to a significant reduction in personal freedoms over time.

Potential Technological Alternatives

Some suggest that it's possible to fight illegal content without undermining encryption:

• Metadata Analysis: Focusing on patterns of communication rather than content.
• Enhanced Reporting Mechanisms: Encouraging users to report illegal content voluntarily.
• Investing in Law Enforcement Capabilities: Strengthening traditional investigative methods without compromising digital security.

The technical community largely agrees that weakening encryption is not the solution:

• Consensus on Security: Strong encryption is essential for the safety and privacy of all internet users.
• Call for Dialogue: Technologists and privacy experts advocate for collaborative approaches that address security concerns without sacrificing fundamental rights.

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Global Reactions and the Debate in Europe

The proposal for Chat Control has ignited a heated debate across Europe and beyond, with various stakeholders weighing in on the potential implications for privacy, security, and fundamental rights. The reactions are mixed, reflecting differing national perspectives, political priorities, and societal values.

Support for Chat Control

Some EU member states and officials support the initiative, emphasizing the need for robust measures to combat online crime and protect citizens, especially children. They argue that:

• Enhanced Security: Mandatory scanning can help law enforcement agencies detect and prevent serious crimes.
• Responsibility of Service Providers: Companies offering communication services should play an active role in preventing their platforms from being used for illegal activities.
• Public Safety Priorities: The protection of vulnerable populations justifies the implementation of such measures, even if it means compromising some aspects of privacy.

Opposition within the EU

Several countries and organizations have voiced strong opposition to Chat Control, citing concerns over privacy rights and the potential for government overreach.

Germany

• Stance: Germany has been one of the most vocal opponents of the proposed measures.
• Reasons:
• Constitutional Concerns: The German government argues that Chat Control could violate constitutional protections of privacy and confidentiality of communications.
• Security Risks: Weakening encryption is seen as a threat to cybersecurity.
• Legal Challenges: Potential conflicts with national laws protecting personal data and communication secrecy.

Netherlands

• Recent Developments: The Dutch government decided against supporting Chat Control, emphasizing the importance of encryption for security and privacy.
• Arguments:
• Effectiveness Doubts: Skepticism about the actual effectiveness of the measures in combating crime.
• Negative Impact on Privacy: Concerns about mass surveillance and the infringement of citizens' rights.

Table reference: Patrick Breyer - Chat Control in 23 September 2024

Privacy Advocacy Groups

European Digital Rights (EDRi)

• Role: A network of civil and human rights organizations working to defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment.
• Position:
• Strong Opposition: EDRi argues that Chat Control is incompatible with fundamental rights.
• Awareness Campaigns: Engaging in public campaigns to inform citizens about the potential risks.
• Policy Engagement: Lobbying policymakers to consider alternative approaches that respect privacy.

Politicians and Activists

Patrick Breyer

• Background: A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany, representing the Pirate Party.
• Actions:
• Advocacy: Actively campaigning against Chat Control through speeches, articles, and legislative efforts.
• Public Outreach: Using social media and public events to raise awareness.
• Legal Expertise: Highlighting the legal inconsistencies and potential violations of EU law.

Global Reactions

International Organizations

• Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International: These organizations have expressed concerns about the implications for human rights, urging the EU to reconsider.

Technology Companies

• Global Tech Firms: Companies like Apple and Microsoft are monitoring the situation, as EU regulations could affect their operations and user trust.
• Industry Associations: Groups representing tech companies have issued statements highlighting the risks to innovation and competitiveness.

The Broader Debate

The controversy over Chat Control reflects a broader struggle between security interests and privacy rights in the digital age. Key points in the debate include:

• Legal Precedents: How the EU's decision might influence laws and regulations in other countries.
• Digital Sovereignty: The desire of nations to control digital spaces within their borders.
• Civil Liberties: The importance of protecting freedoms in the face of technological advancements.

Public Opinion

• Diverse Views: Surveys and public forums show a range of opinions, with some citizens prioritizing security and others valuing privacy above all.
• Awareness Levels: Many people are still unaware of the potential changes, highlighting the need for public education on the issue.

The EU is at a crossroads, facing the challenge of addressing legitimate security concerns without undermining the fundamental rights that are central to its values. The outcome of this debate will have significant implications for the future of digital privacy and the balance between security and freedom in society.

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Possible Consequences for Messaging Services

The implementation of Chat Control could have significant implications for messaging services operating within the European Union. Both large platforms and smaller providers might need to adapt their technologies and policies to comply with the new regulations, potentially altering the landscape of digital communication.

Impact on Encrypted Messaging Services

Signal and Similar Platforms

• Compliance Challenges: Encrypted messaging services like Signal rely on end-to-end encryption to secure user communications. Complying with Chat Control could force them to weaken their encryption protocols or implement client-side scanning, conflicting with their core privacy principles.

• Operational Decisions: Some platforms may choose to limit their services in the EU or cease operations altogether rather than compromise on encryption. Signal, for instance, has indicated that it would prefer to withdraw from European markets than undermine its security features.

Potential Blocking or Limiting of Services

• Regulatory Enforcement: Messaging services that do not comply with Chat Control regulations could face fines, legal action, or even be blocked within the EU.

• Access Restrictions: Users in Europe might find certain services unavailable or limited in functionality if providers decide not to meet the regulatory requirements.

Effects on Smaller Providers

• Resource Constraints: Smaller messaging services and startups may lack the resources to implement the required scanning technologies, leading to increased operational costs or forcing them out of the market.

• Innovation Stifling: The added regulatory burden could deter new entrants, reducing competition and innovation in the messaging service sector.

User Experience and Trust

• Privacy Concerns: Users may lose trust in messaging platforms if they know their communications are subject to scanning, leading to a decline in user engagement.

• Migration to Unregulated Platforms: There is a risk that users might shift to less secure or unregulated services, including those operated outside the EU or on the dark web, potentially exposing them to greater risks.

Technical and Security Implications

• Increased Vulnerabilities: Modifying encryption protocols to comply with Chat Control could introduce security flaws, making platforms more susceptible to hacking and data breaches.

• Global Security Risks: Changes made to accommodate EU regulations might affect the global user base of these services, extending security risks beyond European borders.

Impact on Businesses and Professional Communications

• Confidentiality Issues: Businesses that rely on secure messaging for sensitive communications may face challenges in ensuring confidentiality, affecting sectors like finance, healthcare, and legal services.

• Compliance Complexity: Companies operating internationally will need to navigate a complex landscape of differing regulations, increasing administrative burdens.

Economic Consequences

• Market Fragmentation: Divergent regulations could lead to a fragmented market, with different versions of services for different regions.

• Loss of Revenue: Messaging services might experience reduced revenue due to decreased user trust and engagement or the costs associated with compliance.

Responses from Service Providers

• Legal Challenges: Companies might pursue legal action against the regulations, citing conflicts with privacy laws and user rights.

• Policy Advocacy: Service providers may increase lobbying efforts to influence policy decisions and promote alternatives to Chat Control.

Possible Adaptations

• Technological Innovation: Some providers might invest in developing new technologies that can detect illegal content without compromising encryption, though the feasibility remains uncertain.

• Transparency Measures: To maintain user trust, companies might enhance transparency about how data is handled and what measures are in place to protect privacy.

The potential consequences of Chat Control for messaging services are profound, affecting not only the companies that provide these services but also the users who rely on them daily. The balance between complying with legal requirements and maintaining user privacy and security presents a significant challenge that could reshape the digital communication landscape.

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What Happens Next? The Future of Chat Control

The future of Chat Control remains uncertain as the debate continues among EU member states, policymakers, technology companies, and civil society organizations. Several factors will influence the outcome of this contentious proposal, each carrying significant implications for digital privacy, security, and the regulatory environment within the European Union.

Current Status of Legislation

• Ongoing Negotiations: The proposed Chat Control measures are still under discussion within the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union. Amendments and revisions are being considered in response to the feedback from various stakeholders.

• Timeline: While there is no fixed date for the final decision, the EU aims to reach a consensus to implement effective measures against online crime without undue delay.

Key Influencing Factors

1. Legal Challenges and Compliance with EU Law

• Fundamental Rights Assessment: The proposals must be evaluated against the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, ensuring that any measures comply with rights to privacy, data protection, and freedom of expression.

• Court Scrutiny: Potential legal challenges could arise, leading to scrutiny by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which may impact the feasibility and legality of Chat Control.

2. Technological Feasibility

• Development of Privacy-Preserving Technologies: Research into methods that can detect illegal content without compromising encryption is ongoing. Advances in this area could provide alternative solutions acceptable to both privacy advocates and security agencies.

• Implementation Challenges: The practical aspects of deploying scanning technologies across various platforms and services remain complex, and technical hurdles could delay or alter the proposed measures.

3. Political Dynamics

• Member State Positions: The differing stances of EU countries, such as Germany's opposition, play a significant role in shaping the final outcome. Consensus among member states is crucial for adopting EU-wide regulations.

• Public Opinion and Advocacy: Growing awareness and activism around digital privacy can influence policymakers. Public campaigns and lobbying efforts may sway decisions in favor of stronger privacy protections.

4. Industry Responses

• Negotiations with Service Providers: Ongoing dialogues between EU authorities and technology companies may lead to compromises or collaborative efforts to address concerns without fully implementing Chat Control as initially proposed.

• Potential for Self-Regulation: Messaging services might propose self-regulatory measures to combat illegal content, aiming to demonstrate effectiveness without the need for mandatory scanning.

Possible Scenarios

Optimistic Outcome:

• Balanced Regulation: A revised proposal emerges that effectively addresses security concerns while upholding strong encryption and privacy rights, possibly through innovative technologies or targeted measures with robust oversight.

Pessimistic Outcome:

• Adoption of Strict Measures: Chat Control is implemented as initially proposed, leading to weakened encryption, reduced privacy, and potential withdrawal of services like Signal from the EU market.

Middle Ground:

• Incremental Implementation: Partial measures are adopted, focusing on voluntary cooperation with service providers and emphasizing transparency and user consent, with ongoing evaluations to assess effectiveness and impact.

How to Stay Informed and Protect Your Privacy

• Follow Reputable Sources: Keep up with news from reliable outlets, official EU communications, and statements from privacy organizations to stay informed about developments.

• Engage in the Dialogue: Participate in public consultations, sign petitions, or contact representatives to express your views on Chat Control and digital privacy.

• Utilize Secure Practices: Regardless of legislative outcomes, adopting good digital hygiene—such as using strong passwords and being cautious with personal information—can enhance your online security.

The Global Perspective

• International Implications: The EU's decision may influence global policies on encryption and surveillance, setting precedents that other countries might follow or react against.

• Collaboration Opportunities: International cooperation on developing solutions that protect both security and privacy could emerge, fostering a more unified approach to addressing online threats.

Looking Ahead

The future of Chat Control is a critical issue that underscores the challenges of governing in the digital age. Balancing the need for security with the protection of fundamental rights is a complex task that requires careful consideration, open dialogue, and collaboration among all stakeholders.

As the situation evolves, staying informed and engaged is essential. The decisions made in the coming months will shape the digital landscape for years to come, affecting how we communicate, conduct business, and exercise our rights in an increasingly connected world.

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Conclusion

The debate over Chat Control highlights a fundamental challenge in our increasingly digital world: how to protect society from genuine threats without eroding the very rights and freedoms that define it. While the intention to safeguard children and prevent crime is undeniably important, the means of achieving this through intrusive surveillance measures raise critical concerns.

Privacy is not just a personal preference but a cornerstone of democratic societies. End-to-end encryption has become an essential tool for ensuring that our personal conversations, professional communications, and sensitive data remain secure from unwanted intrusion. Weakening these protections could expose individuals and organizations to risks that far outweigh the proposed benefits.

The potential consequences of implementing Chat Control are far-reaching:

• Erosion of Trust: Users may lose confidence in digital platforms, impacting how we communicate and conduct business online.
• Security Vulnerabilities: Introducing backdoors or weakening encryption can make systems more susceptible to cyberattacks.
• Stifling Innovation: Regulatory burdens may hinder technological advancement and competitiveness in the tech industry.
• Global Implications: The EU's decisions could set precedents that influence digital policies worldwide, for better or worse.

As citizens, it's crucial to stay informed about these developments. Engage in conversations, reach out to your representatives, and advocate for solutions that respect both security needs and fundamental rights. Technology and policy can evolve together to address challenges without compromising core values.

The future of Chat Control is not yet decided, and public input can make a significant difference. By promoting open dialogue, supporting privacy-preserving innovations, and emphasizing the importance of human rights in legislation, we can work towards a digital landscape that is both safe and free.

In a world where digital communication is integral to daily life, striking the right balance between security and privacy is more important than ever. The choices made today will shape the digital environment for generations to come, determining not just how we communicate, but how we live and interact in an interconnected world.

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Thank you for reading this article. We hope it has provided you with a clear understanding of Chat Control and its potential impact on your privacy and digital rights. Stay informed, stay engaged, and let's work together towards a secure and open digital future.

Read more:

• https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/
• https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/new-eu-push-for-chat-control-will-messenger-services-be-blocked-in-europe/
• https://edri.org/our-work/dutch-decision-puts-brakes-on-chat-control/
• https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf
• https://tuta.com/blog/germany-stop-chat-control
• https://cointelegraph.com/news/signal-president-slams-revised-eu-encryption-proposal
• https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters

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Es ist besser, ein Licht zu entzünden, als auf die Dunkelheit zu schimpfen. Konfuzius

Die Bemühungen um Aufarbeitung der sogenannten Corona-Pandemie, um Aufklärung der Hintergründe, Benennung von Verantwortlichkeiten und das Ziehen von Konsequenzen sind durchaus nicht eingeschlafen. Das Interesse daran ist unter den gegebenen Umständen vielleicht nicht sonderlich groß, aber es ist vorhanden.

Der sächsische Landtag hat gestern die Einsetzung eines Untersuchungsausschusses zur Corona-Politik beschlossen. In einer Sondersitzung erhielt ein entsprechender Antrag der AfD-Fraktion die ausreichende Zustimmung, auch von einigen Abgeordneten des BSW.

In den Niederlanden wird Bill Gates vor Gericht erscheinen müssen. Sieben durch die Covid-«Impfstoffe» geschädigte Personen hatten Klage eingereicht. Sie werfen unter anderem Gates, Pfizer-Chef Bourla und dem niederländischen Staat vor, sie hätten gewusst, dass diese Präparate weder sicher noch wirksam sind.

Mit den mRNA-«Impfstoffen» von Pfizer/BioNTech befasst sich auch ein neues Buch. Darin werden die Erkenntnisse von Ärzten und Wissenschaftlern aus der Analyse interner Dokumente über die klinischen Studien der Covid-Injektion präsentiert. Es handelt sich um jene in den USA freigeklagten Papiere, die die Arzneimittelbehörde (Food and Drug Administration, FDA) 75 Jahre unter Verschluss halten wollte.

Ebenfalls Wissenschaftler und Ärzte, aber auch andere Experten organisieren als Verbundnetzwerk Corona-Solution kostenfreie Online-Konferenzen. Ihr Ziel ist es, «wissenschaftlich, demokratisch und friedlich» über Impfstoffe und Behandlungsprotokolle gegen SARS-CoV-2 aufzuklären und die Diskriminierung von Ungeimpften zu stoppen. Gestern fand eine weitere Konferenz statt. Ihr Thema: «Corona und modRNA: Von Toten, Lebenden und Physik lernen».

Aufgrund des Digital Services Acts (DSA) der Europäischen Union sei das Risiko groß, dass ihre Arbeit als «Fake-News» bezeichnet würde, so das Netzwerk. Staatlich unerwünschte wissenschaftliche Aufklärung müsse sich passende Kanäle zur Veröffentlichung suchen. Ihre Live-Streams seien deshalb zum Beispiel nicht auf YouTube zu finden.

Der vielfältige Einsatz für Aufklärung und Aufarbeitung wird sich nicht stummschalten lassen. Nicht einmal der Zensurmeister der EU, Deutschland, wird so etwas erreichen. Die frisch aktivierten «Trusted Flagger» dürften allerdings künftige Siege beim «Denunzianten-Wettbewerb» im Kontext des DSA zusätzlich absichern.

Wo sind die Grenzen der Meinungsfreiheit? Sicher gibt es sie. Aber die ideologische Gleichstellung von illegalen mit unerwünschten Äußerungen verfolgt offensichtlich eher das Ziel, ein derart elementares demokratisches Grundrecht möglichst weitgehend auszuhebeln. Vorwürfe wie «Hassrede», «Delegitimierung des Staates» oder «Volksverhetzung» werden heute inflationär verwendet, um Systemkritik zu unterbinden. Gegen solche Bestrebungen gilt es, sich zu wehren.

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Dieser Beitrag ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.

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LNDhub te permite importar fácilmente una billetera en aplicaciones compatibles. Si bien puedes guardar tu billetera Bitcoin Txoko LNbits en tu teléfono como una aplicación web progresiva (PWA), una aplicación nativa como Zeus o BlueWallet ofrece una mejor experiencia de usuario así como un mayor nivel de seguridad. Con Alby, también puedes importar la billetera a la extensión de tu navegador para facilitar los pagos Lightning en la web y para los zaps de Nostr. Por suerte para nosotros, todas estas billeteras hablan un lenguaje común llamado LNDhub.

En esta guía cubriremos cómo importar la billetera a tu navegador y a tu móvil. Si quieres usar tu billetera tanto en el navegador como en tu móvil, empieza con la configuración de Alby, ya que uno de los pasos te permitirá importar fácilmente tu billetera también a Zeus. Pero si sólo te interesa utilizar la billetera en tu móvil, puedes pasar directamente a la sección de Zeus.

Alby

nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0s8jq7y6 es una extensión de navegador que lleva Lightning y Nostr a tu navegador. Utilizando el protocolo WebLN, esta extensión puede detectar facturas LN en paginas web y pagarlas, así como posibilita iniciar sesión en sitios web con Lightning. También puedes fijar presupuestos para tus sitios favoritos de Lightning. Por otro lado también puedes utilizarla para firmar en Nostr utilizando NIP-07, lo cual es mucho más seguro que ingresar tu clave privada en clientes web.

¿Qué necesito?

• Un navegador web que soporte extensiones Chrome o Firefox
• Acceso a tu billetera LNbits. Si todavía no tienes una billetera LNbits, dirígete a nuestra página de billeteras y crea una
• (Opcional) Un dispositivo móvil para configurar Zeus

1. Habilita la extensión LNDhub en tu LNbits wallet

Dirígete a tu billetera LNbits. Haz clic en Extensiones y habilita la extensión LNDhub. Una vez se haya habilitado, dirígete a la página de extensión de LNDhub.

2. Instala la extensión Alby

Dirígete a getalby.com y instala la extensión desde el store de extensiones del navegador. Configura tu contraseña de desbloqueo y guárdala en un lugar seguro.

3. Importar a Alby

(Esta es una billetera de prueba. No hay fondos en ella. ¡No muestres a nadie tu URI de exportación real!)

En la siguiente pantalla, elige Conectar y luego elige LNDhub. Vuelve a tu extensión LNDhub y copia la URL de conexión. Pégala en el campo URI de exportación de LNDhub. Pulsa continuar. ¡Ahora deberías haber estado conectado a tu billetera de LNbits con LNDhub!

💡 Puedes elegir entre la URL de la factura (Invoice URL) y la URL de administración (Admin URL). Le dan a Alby diferentes permisos para interactuar con tu cartera de LNbits.

• La URL de factura te permite crear facturas y recibir pagos
• La URL de administración también te permite enviar pagos

4. Configurar Zeus con Alby (opcional)

Ahora que ya has conectado tu LNbits con Alby, también puedes importarlo de una manera sencilla a Zeus con Alby. Abre la extensión, haz cilc en el nombre de tu billetera y navega a la configuración de la cuenta. En Wallet Settings > General se encuentra la opción de conectar tu billetera móvil. Al pulsar conectar, se mostrará un código QR para escanear desde Zeus.

Si no tienes instalada Zeus con anterioridad, dirígete a zeusln.app y descarga la aplicación de Zeus para tu sistema operativo móvil.

Una vez tengas descargado Zeus, entra en Configuración > Añadir un nuevo nodo. Aquí puedes escanear el código QR que te muestra Alby para importar la billetera.

Voilà! Ahora tienes el poder de Lightning al alcance de la mano ¿Ya te sientes como un dios?

Zeus

nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9g84ctjf es una formidable aplicación de código abierto que permite conectar tu propio nodo a tu dispositivo movil. Es compatible con todas las principales implementaciones de nodos Lightning, como LND, CLN y Eclair, así como conexiones a través de Tor y clearnet. Recientemente también han anunciado su propio LSP (Lightning Service Provider).

¿Qué necesito?

• Teléfono Android o iOS
• Otro dispositivo en el que puede acceder a tu billetera LNbits (para mostrar el código QR para escanear)
• Acceso a tu billetera LNbits. Si todavía no tienes una billetera LNbits, dirígete a nuestra página de billeteras y crea una

1. Descarga Zeus

Puedes descargar la aplicación Zeus para tu sistema operativo aquí.

2. Habilita la extensión LNDhub en tu billetera LNbits

Dirígete a tu billetera LNbits. Haz clic en Extensiones y habilita la extensión LNDhub. Una vez habilitada, abre la pagina de la extensión LNDhub.

3. Importar a Zeus

Ve a Configuración > Añadir un nuevo nodo en Zeus.

Escanea la cartera que quieras instalar.

💡 Puedes elegir entre la URL de la factura (Invoice URL) y la URL de administración (Admin URL). - La URL de la factura te da permiso para generar facturas y recibir pagos. - La URL de administración también te permite enviar pagos.

Una vez que hayas escaneado el código QR, todos los campos en Zeus deberían rellenarse automáticamente. También puedes añadir un apodo para tu billetera.

¡Ahora puedes guardar la configuración del nodo y controlar la billetera desde tu teléfono!

Extra

Zeus también ofrece funciones interesantes como temas personalizados, conversiones de precios, modo acechador y verificación biométrica. Estos temas están más allá del alcance de esta guía, ¡juega en la aplicación y descubre todas esas características por ti mismo!

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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!

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[07/10 week]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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L'amore per l'umanità è un tema che ha attraversato secoli di pensiero filosofico, etico e politico. Tuttavia, nel contesto contemporaneo, la definizione di questo amore si complica ulteriormente, specialmente quando si considera l'ideologia del globalismo. Chi si definisce "globalista" spesso proclama un amore universale per l'umanità, ma è fondamentale interrogarsi su cosa significhi realmente questo amore e quale tipo di umanità venga abbracciato.

L'umanità del globalista: una massa informe

Il globalismo, nella sua essenza, propone una visione dell'umanità che trascende le specificità culturali, etniche e nazionali. In questo contesto, l'umanità è concepita come un'entità astratta, priva di radici e di identità. Essa diventa una massa informe, un aggregato di individui che si muovono secondo logiche economiche e politiche globali, spesso disconnettendosi dalle tradizioni e dalle peculiarità che caratterizzano i diversi popoli. Questo approccio, sebbene possa apparire inclusivo e progressista, rischia di ridurre l'individuo a un mero ingranaggio di un sistema più grande, sacrificando l'autodeterminazione e l'autenticità culturale sull'altare di un'uguaglianza imposta.

L'uguaglianza come discriminazione

Il concetto di "uguaglianza" promosso dai globalisti, pur essendo nobile in teoria, si traduce spesso in una forma di omologazione che ignora le differenze fondamentali tra le culture. Questa parità, che si presenta come un ideale di giustizia sociale, può assumere il sapore della discriminazione, poiché tende a marginalizzare le microrealtà e le specificità locali. In questo senso, l'amore per l'umanità diventa un'ideologia che, anziché esaltare la diversità, la mortifica, imponendo un modello unico di esistenza che non tiene conto delle storie, delle tradizioni e delle aspirazioni dei singoli popoli.

Amare l'umanità: un atto di rispetto per il "Volksgeist"

Amare veramente l'umanità implica un riconoscimento e un rispetto per ogni popolo nella sua unicità. Significa esaltare il "Volksgeist", lo spirito di ogni nazione, e comprendere che la ricchezza dell'umanità risiede proprio nella sua diversità. Ogni cultura, ogni tradizione, ogni forma d'arte e mestiere rappresenta un contributo unico al patrimonio collettivo dell'umanità. L'amore autentico per l'umanità non può prescindere dal riconoscimento di queste differenze, ma deve piuttosto celebrarle e proteggerle.

La schiavitù moderna: una servitù senza catene

La visione globalista, con la sua tendenza a uniformare e standardizzare, può essere vista come una forma di schiavitù moderna, una servitù senza catene. Questa schiavitù si manifesta nella perdita di identità e nella disconnessione dalle proprie radici culturali. L'individuo, privato della sua storia e della sua cultura, diventa un consumatore passivo in un mercato globale, privo di un senso di appartenenza e di significato. In questo contesto, l'amore per l'umanità si trasforma in una legittimazione di un sistema che, sotto la maschera della libertà e dell'uguaglianza, perpetua forme di oppressione e alienazione.

Conclusione

In conclusione, l'amore per l'umanità, se inteso in modo autentico, deve necessariamente abbracciare la diversità e il particolare. La vera essenza dell'umanità risiede nelle sue molteplici espressioni culturali, nelle tradizioni che la definiscono e nei valori che la sostengono. Solo attraverso il rispetto e la valorizzazione di queste differenze possiamo sperare di costruire un futuro in cui ogni individuo possa sentirsi parte di un tutto, senza dover sacrificare la propria identità. L'amore per l'umanità, quindi, non è un'ideologia astratta, ma un impegno concreto a riconoscere e celebrare la ricchezza della nostra esistenza collettiva.

@ 47750177:8969e41a

28.0 Release Notes

Bitcoin Core version 28.0 is now available from:

• 🌐 https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-28.0/
• 🧲

This release includes new features, various bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations.

Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues

To receive security and update notifications, please subscribe to:

https://bitcoincore.org/en/list/announcements/join/

How to Upgrade

If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely shut down (which might take a few minutes in some cases), then run the installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on macOS) or bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux).

Upgrading directly from a version of Bitcoin Core that has reached its EOL is possible, but it might take some time if the data directory needs to be migrated. Old wallet versions of Bitcoin Core are generally supported.

Running Bitcoin Core binaries on macOS requires self signing. cd /path/to/bitcoin-28.0/bin xattr -d com.apple.quarantine bitcoin-cli bitcoin-qt bitcoin-tx bitcoin-util bitcoin-wallet bitcoind test_bitcoin codesign -s - bitcoin-cli bitcoin-qt bitcoin-tx bitcoin-util bitcoin-wallet bitcoind test_bitcoin

Compatibility

Bitcoin Core is supported and extensively tested on operating systems using the Linux Kernel 3.17+, macOS 11.0+, and Windows 7 and newer. Bitcoin Core should also work on most other UNIX-like systems but is not as frequently tested on them. It is not recommended to use Bitcoin Core on unsupported systems.

Notable changes

Testnet4/BIP94 support

Support for Testnet4 as specified in BIP94 has been added. The network can be selected with the -testnet4 option and the section header is also named [testnet4].

While the intention is to phase out support for Testnet3 in an upcoming version, support for it is still available via the known options in this release. (#29775)

Windows Data Directory

The default data directory on Windows has been moved from C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoin to C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Bitcoin. Bitcoin Core will check the existence of the old directory first and continue to use that directory for backwards compatibility if it is present. (#27064)

JSON-RPC 2.0 Support

The JSON-RPC server now recognizes JSON-RPC 2.0 requests and responds with strict adherence to the specification. See JSON-RPC-interface.md for details. (#27101)

JSON-RPC clients may need to be updated to be compatible with the JSON-RPC server. Please open an issue on GitHub if any compatibility issues are found.

libbitcoinconsensus Removal

The libbitcoin-consensus library was deprecated in 27.0 and is now completely removed. (#29648)

P2P and Network Changes

• Previously if Bitcoin Core was listening for P2P connections, either using default settings or via bind=addr:port it would always also bind to 127.0.0.1:8334 to listen for Tor connections. It was not possible to switch this off, even if the node didn't use Tor. This has been changed and now bind=addr:port results in binding on addr:port only. The default behavior of binding to 0.0.0.0:8333 and 127.0.0.1:8334 has not been changed.

If you are using a bind=... configuration without bind=...=onion and rely on the previous implied behavior to accept incoming Tor connections at 127.0.0.1:8334, you need to now make this explicit by using bind=... bind=127.0.0.1:8334=onion. (#22729)

• Bitcoin Core will now fail to start up if any of its P2P binds fail, rather than the previous behaviour where it would only abort startup if all P2P binds had failed. (#22729)

• UNIX domain sockets can now be used for proxy connections. Set -onion or -proxy to the local socket path with the prefix unix: (e.g. -onion=unix:/home/me/torsocket). (#27375)

• UNIX socket paths are now accepted for -zmqpubrawblock and -zmqpubrawtx with the format -zmqpubrawtx=unix:/path/to/file (#27679)

• Additional "in" and "out" flags have been added to -whitelist to control whether permissions apply to inbound connections and/or manual ones (default: inbound only). (#27114)

• Transactions having a feerate that is too low will be opportunistically paired with their child transactions and submitted as a package, thus enabling the node to download 1-parent-1-child packages using the existing transaction relay protocol. Combined with other mempool policies, this change allows limited "package relay" when a parent transaction is below the mempool minimum feerate. Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation (TRUC) parents are additionally allowed to be below the minimum relay feerate (i.e., pay 0 fees). Use the submitpackage RPC to submit packages directly to the node. Warning: this P2P feature is limited (unlike the submitpackage interface, a child with multiple unconfirmed parents is not supported) and not yet reliable under adversarial conditions. (#28970)

Mempool Policy Changes

• Transactions with version number set to 3 are now treated as standard on all networks (#29496), subject to opt-in Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation (TRUC) transaction policy as described in BIP 431. The policy includes limits on spending unconfirmed outputs (#28948), eviction of a previous descendant if a more incentive-compatible one is submitted (#29306), and a maximum transaction size of 10,000vB (#29873). These restrictions simplify the assessment of incentive compatibility of accepting or replacing TRUC transactions, thus ensuring any replacements are more profitable for the node and making fee-bumping more reliable.

• Pay To Anchor (P2A) is a new standard witness output type for spending, a newly recognised output template. This allows for key-less anchor outputs, with compact spending conditions for additional efficiencies on top of an equivalent sh(OP_TRUE) output, in addition to the txid stability of the spending transaction. N.B. propagation of this output spending on the network will be limited until a sufficient number of nodes on the network adopt this upgrade. (#30352)

• Limited package RBF is now enabled, where the proposed conflicting package would result in a connected component, aka cluster, of size 2 in the mempool. All clusters being conflicted against must be of size 2 or lower. (#28984)

• The default value of the -mempoolfullrbf configuration option has been changed from 0 to 1, i.e. mempoolfullrbf=1. (#30493)

Updated RPCs

• The dumptxoutset RPC now returns the UTXO set dump in a new and improved format. Correspondingly, the loadtxoutset RPC now expects this new format in the dumps it tries to load. Dumps with the old format are no longer supported and need to be recreated using the new format to be usable. (#29612)

• AssumeUTXO mainnet parameters have been added for height 840,000. This means the loadtxoutset RPC can now be used on mainnet with the matching UTXO set from that height. (#28553)

• The warnings field in getblockchaininfo, getmininginfo and getnetworkinfo now returns all the active node warnings as an array of strings, instead of a single warning. The current behaviour can be temporarily restored by running Bitcoin Core with the configuration option -deprecatedrpc=warnings. (#29845)

• Previously when using the sendrawtransaction RPC and specifying outputs that are already in the UTXO set, an RPC error code of -27 with the message "Transaction already in block chain" was returned in response. The error message has been changed to "Transaction outputs already in utxo set" to more accurately describe the source of the issue. (#30212)

• The default mode for the estimatesmartfee RPC has been updated from conservative to economical, which is expected to reduce over-estimation for many users, particularly if Replace-by-Fee is an option. For users that require high confidence in their fee estimates at the cost of potentially over-estimating, the conservative mode remains available. (#30275)

• RPC scantxoutset now returns 2 new fields in the "unspents" JSON array: blockhash and confirmations. See the scantxoutset help for details. (#30515)

• RPC submitpackage now allows 2 new arguments to be passed: maxfeerate and maxburnamount. See the subtmitpackage help for details. (#28950)

Changes to wallet-related RPCs can be found in the Wallet section below.

Updated REST APIs

• Parameter validation for /rest/getutxos has been improved by rejecting truncated or overly large txids and malformed outpoint indices via raising an HTTP_BAD_REQUEST "Parse error". These requests were previously handled silently. (#30482, #30444)

Build System

• GCC 11.1 or later, or Clang 16.0 or later, are now required to compile Bitcoin Core. (#29091, #30263)

• The minimum required glibc to run Bitcoin Core is now 2.31. This means that RHEL 8 and Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) are no-longer supported. (#29987)

• --enable-lcov-branch-coverage has been removed, given incompatibilities between lcov version 1 & 2. LCOV_OPTS should be used to set any options instead. (#30192)

Updated Settings

• When running with -alertnotify, an alert can now be raised multiple times instead of just once. Previously, it was only raised when unknown new consensus rules were activated. Its scope has now been increased to include all kernel warnings. Specifically, alerts will now also be raised when an invalid chain with a large amount of work has been detected. Additional warnings may be added in the future. (#30058)

Changes to GUI or wallet related settings can be found in the GUI or Wallet section below.

Wallet

• The wallet now detects when wallet transactions conflict with the mempool. Mempool-conflicting transactions can be seen in the "mempoolconflicts" field of gettransaction. The inputs of mempool-conflicted transactions can now be respent without manually abandoning the transactions when the parent transaction is dropped from the mempool, which can cause wallet balances to appear higher. (#27307)

• A new max_tx_weight option has been added to the RPCs fundrawtransaction, walletcreatefundedpsbt, and send. It specifies the maximum transaction weight. If the limit is exceeded during funding, the transaction will not be built. The default value is 4,000,000 WU. (#29523)

• A new createwalletdescriptor RPC allows users to add new automatically generated descriptors to their wallet. This can be used to upgrade wallets created prior to the introduction of a new standard descriptor, such as taproot. (#29130)

• A new RPC gethdkeys lists all of the BIP32 HD keys in use by all of the descriptors in the wallet. These keys can be used in conjunction with createwalletdescriptor to create and add single key descriptors to the wallet for a particular key that the wallet already knows. (#29130)

• The sendall RPC can now spend unconfirmed change and will include additional fees as necessary for the resulting transaction to bump the unconfirmed transactions' feerates to the specified feerate. (#28979)

• In RPC bumpfee, if a fee_rate is specified, the feerate is no longer restricted to following the wallet's incremental feerate of 5 sat/vb. The feerate must still be at least the sum of the original fee and the mempool's incremental feerate. (#27969)

GUI Changes

• The "Migrate Wallet" menu allows users to migrate any legacy wallet in their wallet directory, regardless of the wallets loaded. (gui#824)

• The "Information" window now displays the maximum mempool size along with the mempool usage. (gui#825)

Low-level Changes

Tests

• The BIP94 timewarp attack mitigation is now active on the regtest network. (#30681)

• A new -testdatadir option has been added to test_bitcoin to allow specifying the location of unit test data directories. (#26564)

Blockstorage

• Block files are now XOR'd by default with a key stored in the blocksdir. Previous releases of Bitcoin Core or previous external software will not be able to read the blocksdir with a non-zero XOR-key. Refer to the -blocksxor help for more details. (#28052)

Chainstate

• The chainstate database flushes that occur when blocks are pruned will no longer empty the database cache. The cache will remain populated longer, which significantly reduces the time for initial block download to complete. (#28280)

Dependencies

• The dependency on Boost.Process has been replaced with cpp-subprocess, which is contained in source. Builders will no longer need Boost.Process to build with external signer support. (#28981)

Credits

Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to this release: - 0xb10c - Alfonso Roman Zubeldia - Andrew Toth - AngusP - Anthony Towns - Antoine Poinsot - Anton A - Ava Chow - Ayush Singh - Ben Westgate - Brandon Odiwuor - brunoerg - bstin - Charlie - Christopher Bergqvist - Cory Fields - crazeteam - Daniela Brozzoni - David Gumberg - dergoegge - Edil Medeiros - Epic Curious - Fabian Jahr - fanquake - furszy - glozow - Greg Sanders - hanmz - Hennadii Stepanov - Hernan Marino - Hodlinator - ishaanam - ismaelsadeeq - Jadi - Jon Atack - josibake - jrakibi - kevkevin - kevkevinpal - Konstantin Akimov - laanwj - Larry Ruane - Lőrinc - Luis Schwab - Luke Dashjr - MarcoFalke - marcofleon - Marnix - Martin Saposnic - Martin Zumsande - Matt Corallo - Matthew Zipkin - Matt Whitlock - Max Edwards - Michael Dietz - Murch - nanlour - pablomartin4btc - Peter Todd - Pieter Wuille - @RandyMcMillan - RoboSchmied - Roman Zeyde - Ryan Ofsky - Sebastian Falbesoner - Sergi Delgado Segura - Sjors Provoost - spicyzboss - StevenMia - stickies-v - stratospher - Suhas Daftuar - sunerok - tdb3 - TheCharlatan - umiumi - Vasil Dimov - virtu - willcl-ark

As well as to everyone that helped with translations on Transifex.

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Week 30th September

Wiki article on the topic. [sPhil] (https://sphil.xyz/) Religion politics philosophy history are critical. They are not objective things.

Week of updates for protocol apps, including Gossip, coracle app, nostrmo, nostur and many others.

Kind7 Tags: K, emoji,a,others Others threads multi people

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Show likes as kind 1 This person liked this post. Or this post has three likes in your timeline. The likes I don't know in your timeline really interest you.

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The first book is the bible... Word of Alexandria.

I added cyberspace to the difficult things of the protocol ultra brain things. Low brain, middle brain, top brain, ultra.

Some alphaama codes .AA u login .AA q stuff .AA q run b .AA q run f .AA q close f

high things of alphaama nostr:nevent1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyqlqu2vwpwax7dj420e75yws7g7vyua9e245c0x73c056gunxchluey4q99

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Comment: nostr:nevent1qqs8pn0zzhgk5l2raqh736rj3ckm48pfl6r7m72rnz2r2p7lzgmx20gzyqduwzspfzelx9k6x0lrez0j8cl8rtz0lxvqylk8z2ustnfy76jpzqcyqqqqqqgpramhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjsjt5rvu

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You have to get to the point where you have your community relay. But you have to go down the rabbit hole of relays. General, search, local, inbox outbox, cache. Etc until you get to community relay that is being talked about these days because of NIP 29 "Relay-based Groups". In the end you have to have that table with the various types of relays clearly in your mind. If the user doesn't think about it, who should think about it, who? if I choose the relays?

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NIP-100 the world to make community for me. NIP-28 + NIP-72. So you have some structure interoperability with kind1. But the Channel is another kind. You arrange the various channels in the community. No posts need to be approved.

It's useless Protocol users are becoming more reddit users or so. I don't want to deal with these people.

@ f462d21e:1390b6b1

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Week 23th September

It's not your voice anymore if it's available to everyone.

Video Ai Voice

Nostr is psycho pop.

Nostrasia took place today. It all seemed beautiful. A muffled meeting, a bit in the clouds compared to the air you breathe in social media.

It seems there are two types of Nostr the one who doesn't want to grow and the one who wants to grow. 😅

1. There has always been a misconception that kind1 is the discovery layer, but in reality it is the opposite. If someone publishes a long form article there is less audience, it is true, but then it is easier to find quality content, therefore quality profiles to follow in the kind1 client aka twitter clone. And this can be true for all portable data layers, video streaming, audio, long form, ngit, wiki and whatsoever. So you have finally good follow.

2. The fact that in Nostr you don't see who follows you generally, only in a few clients, I only know one where you see who started following you. It's a strange thing, made to avoid seeing masses of bots that follow you and you can want to block, and you increase that list to the point of absurdity. It's strange because there is a lot of focus on the social graph, if you follow me it's an important aspect.

So in Nostr there are - portable data layers (Twitter style and other social) - non-portable, applications that use disposable npub, where the key is ephemeral.

1. 0xchat was becoming a good client, they killed it because it has to focus on chat. I don't use chat, I don't have anyone to chat with, I follow the 0xchat channel and then I read things from Moment. I use it with my second account, because after the nos2x-amber affair with the Odell result, which I had already told you about, I no longer tried to have the first profile even on the mobile. In the end they are all keys that will be burned 😔

Maybe I won't use Nostr anymore in the future just with burn npub, pow and whatsoever. In the end you don't build anything because it's a "stateless" communication.

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Lol Moment

On Nostr the poor answer guy is helping the network 🤣🤣

call the police 911: what is your emergency?

a spam bot is attacking "nostr" relays.

you want some government censorship on those relays that contain spam, yes we can do that.

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-Previous week- 16 09 Machines Like Me was a good book, maybe now it will become reality.

1. The cool thing about Plebchain radio, it's not the guests, it's these two Nostr users that do a podcast. And they focused on Bitcoin and Nostr and lightning, but maybe it's just the beginning, first you have to focus on a niche and then you expand to the whole world. I think the whole world phase is starting, the podcast topics would become too repetitive. The best part is the 15 10 minute intro. Or in the live show part, there could be some interesting clips.

2. • idea White button for activity pub user on voyage (app).

   • People hate Nostr. Don't use it

   • UnNip, now we've seen it all

   • Until the morale improves

3. People think Sync works like this by magic. Unfortunately it doesn't, I think, at least that's what those who are trying to do say, auto-merge, tinybase, evolu. There is an interesting local-first project. Jaguard a collaborative environment for writing empirical research papers.

4. Now I can search by id. I couldn't do it and I didn't understand the mechanism. Everything has to be instantiated. it works. Now I have to create a function maybe note_list_id and note_id. I continued to edit the NIPs page with asciidoc, categorizing this table is very fun.

New wave of Opensats grants.

1. If you haven't heard about WoT this week, you probably live on Mars. There are people who didn't know you could edit on amethyst.

You need to do a podcast of NIPs, features and whatsoever, maybe doing a podcast is not the best solution because it assumes you know something more and something that could change the next day or be no longer valid. maybe you should avoid doing things you don't have full control over, or at least not spread it outside. Maybe because last year at this time I was recording audio.

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09 09 week

The billboard has reached its first goal.

I don't understand anything, too much.

The web is a dangerous place, maybe the couch at home is for you.

Nostr is like being in a public place like a bar and you listen to the radio, and you can decide which radio to choose, you can also talk on the radio, only those who follow you and those who are connected to that frequency can listen to you.

We talk on multiple frequencies so if one is offline they can hear me on the other.

Spam will always be a constant as are fixed costs, personnel costs, taxes things that people in general hate

A lot of talk that will be blown away by the wind.

Jack Dorsey says Nostr will be a protocol for private encrypted chats

1. Open-sats drama

2. Carnivore dietitian

3. Lightning diatribe

4. This is already Twitter 😉

Fiatjaf explained for the umpteenth time what the outbox model is, now those who look at images instead of reading books must have understood it too. My note, Patricia writes in her relays write, including select some in her outbox 10002 kind. it was a dev page of something, so maybe it won't be online for long

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Thinking that with Kamala Harris's victory, the price of Bitcoin would hit a low and holders would be happy to buy. 🤣🤣 Instead with Trump new all time High, holders would be happy. 🤣🤣 Lol Moment.

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I read the article about btcmap maps, there were some notes to make but I didn't, it's beyond my level, it was only for builders.

Satlantis, trustroots, and wherostr were not noted.

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I had this thought that we will not "succeed" in building the openness of type 1, in the following nips, because of the relays and because discovering new things has a cost, and no one wants to discover new things. And then after that the others should use them, but how and after that at least two others appear who are doing a similar thing, but they don't talk to each other because they don't have time.

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If the time horizon is 10 years, those who survive will see.

Keeping calm seems difficult.

I tried nostr-relay-tray works. It works, I would suggest a couple of changes

1. Delete some events.
2. View events
3. Search by npub id or time
4. Delete by time.

These are difficult things but they can be done with a database, so they may as well not be done.

I hope that all the controversies are forgotten and overcome and we are more serene.

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由于gmail在中国被防火墙拦截了，无法打开，不想错过邮件通知。

通过自建ntfy接受gmail邮件通知。 怎么自建ntfy，后面再写。

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2024年08月13日更新：

修改不通过添加邮件标签来标记已经发送的通知，通过Google Sheets来记录已经发送的通知。

为了不让Google Sheets文档的内容很多，导致文件变大，用脚本自动清理一个星期以前的数据。

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准备工具

• Ntfy服务
• Google Script
• Google Sheets

操作步骤

1. 在Ntfy后台账号，设置访问令牌。
2. 添加订阅主题。
3. 进入Google Sheets创建一个表格.记住id，如下图：
4. 进入Google Script创建项目。填入以下代码（注意填入之前的ntfy地址和令牌）：

```javascript function checkEmail() { var sheetId = "你的Google Sheets id"; // 替换为你的 Google Sheets ID var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(sheetId).getActiveSheet();

// 清理一星期以前的数据 cleanOldData(sheet, 7 * 24 * 60); // 保留7天（即一周）内的数据

var sentEmails = getSentEmails(sheet);

var threads = GmailApp.search('is:unread'); Logger.log("Found threads: " + threads.length);

if (threads.length === 0) return;

threads.forEach(function(thread) { var threadId = thread.getId();

if (!sentEmails.includes(threadId)) {
  thread.getMessages().forEach(sendNtfyNotification);
  recordSentEmail(sheet, threadId);
}

}); }

function sendNtfyNotification(email) { if (!email) { Logger.log("Email object is undefined or null."); return; }

var message = `发件人: ${email.getFrom() || "未知发件人"} 主题: ${email.getSubject() || "无主题"}

内容: ${email.getPlainBody() || "无内容"}`;

var url = "https://你的ntfy地址/Gmail"; var options = { method: "post", payload: message, headers: { Authorization: "Bearer Ntfy的令牌" }, muteHttpExceptions: true };

try { var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url, options); Logger.log("Response: " + response.getContentText()); } catch (e) { Logger.log("Error: " + e.message); } }

function getSentEmails(sheet) { var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues(); return data.map(row => row[0]); // Assuming email IDs are stored in the first column }

function recordSentEmail(sheet, threadId) { sheet.appendRow([threadId, new Date()]); }

function cleanOldData(sheet, minutes) { var now = new Date(); var thresholdDate = new Date(now.getTime() - minutes * 60 * 1000); // 获取X分钟前的时间

var data = sheet.getDataRange().getValues(); var rowsToDelete = [];

data.forEach(function(row, index) { var date = new Date(row[1]); // 假设日期保存在第二列 if (date < thresholdDate) { rowsToDelete.push(index + 1); // 存储要删除的行号 } });

// 逆序删除（从最后一行开始删除，以避免行号改变） rowsToDelete.reverse().forEach(function(row) { sheet.deleteRow(row); }); }

```

4.Goole Script需要添加gmail服务，如图：

5.Google Script是有限制的不能频繁调用，可以设置五分钟调用一次。如图：

结尾

本人不会代码，以上代码都是通过chatgpt生成的。经过多次修改，刚开始会一直发送通知，后面修改后将已发送的通知放到一个“通知”的标签里。后续不会再次发送通知。

如需要发送通知后自动标记已读，可以把代码复制到chatgpt给你写。

效果预览：

@ 7460b7fd:4fc4e74b

请看2014年王兴的一场思维碰撞，视频27分钟开始

最后，一个当时无法解决的点：丢失

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A Ux designer has arrived on Nostr. I thought run away while you can. He could get rich, if there was a little economy.

Klout, do you remember that service, which took data from Twitter and made a ~~ WoT~~.

From a note of chip, I understood one thing:

Bitcoin is your "sovereign" currency. Nostr is just third party protocol. If you have a service you can use Nostr to face your customers. "Sovereign" people offer services. They can be bitcoiners or not. So at this stage Nostr is a layer 3 Bitcoin.

So to grow the enveiroment it must be attractive. Let's paraphrase: the protocol is agnostic, the people are fundamentalist Catholics.

So when an atheist person arrives he says ah ok, how do I silence these people and use the protocol If a Protestant Catholic arrives he is laughed at or ignored or at most converted.

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I had a disagreement with Dergigi, in the end he won, but he is not right... (True)

Post more notes, zap more, follow 1000 people update FAQ to the nth degree. We are in the desert of the Tartars and the enemy is coming and there are those who say every day we must be ready, sooner or later, it will happen, ah ok. Everything must be perfect. Push harder. This leads to exhaustion.

New Grant from Opensat to Victor of Amethyst, totally deserved, pushed the envelope. If you are a grapheneos user download Amethyst. It's not just Amethyst it's also orbot, citrine, amber, zap store or obtainium or f-droid.

GitCitadel has raised its first fund I wonder if it was just a test on geyser, I wonder if it is the right project to do on nostrocket, but I think Opensat grant for nostrocket makes it irreconcilable. This opens a pandora's box, as always. We are silent as fish.

I tried not to answer some questions even in one case I knew the answer, I apologize, Nostr is much older than me, so it's okay not to answer sometimes. Tomorrow begins nostRiga, The last unconference of Nostr.

(First day) The morning was so-so, in the evening the situation improved a little. In the evening I played a bit with Nostr and it broke The second day good in the morning bad in the evening. I saw little of the backstage maybe only two panels, Will by Damus, and P2Phash on Nostr.

I don't follow anyone anymore, I did a little bit of a unfollow. I saw that two users had 200 followers in common, and I said to myself ah ok what is this thing, I have to understand how they do it there is something that doesn't work, let's try to be a little more distant.

It's weird, too much reliance on following, you have to go and look, not be stationary.

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• เนื้อหาต่อจากนี้ไม่ใช่คำแนะนำในการลงทุน เป็นเพียงประสบการณ์ส่วนตัวที่ผมใช้เครื่องมือนี้ ทุกท่านที่อ่านบทความของผม แล้วตัดสินใจใช้เครื่องมือตัวนี้ ขอให้ศึกษาด้วยตัวเองให้แน่ใจก่อน

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ผมมีเครื่องมือตัวนึงที่ผมใช้ #stacksat มาประมาณ 1 ปีกว่าๆหลังจากที่ผมมาใช้ชีวิตอยู่บน #ทุ่งม่วง แห่งนี้ครับ ครั้งแรกผมเห็นเครื่องมือตัวนี้จากผู้ใช้ท่านนึง เป็นเพื่อนใหม่ชาวต่างชาติที่ผมพึ่งรู้จักกับเขาบนดินแดนแห่งนี้นี่แหละ เครื่องมือที่ว่านี้ชื่อ Freebitcoin ครับ → Freebico.in

เวบนี้ประกาศตัวเองแบบชัดเจนว่าจะเป็นเวบการพนัน และ casino online โดยเงินรางวัลที่ได้จากการเข้าเล่น จะจ่ายด้วย BTC ทั้งหมด

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ตรงตัวเลยครับ คือเล่นไฮโล แต่ผมเล่นไม่เป็น ผมขอข้ามนะครับ แต่ถ้าใครเล่นเป็นมีฝีมือเชิญได้ครับ

Lottery

เหมือนซื้อหวยครับ ประกาศผลทุกวันอาทิตย์ราคา 1 sat/1 lottery ผมเป็นคนที่ไม่มีดวงด้านนี้ ในชีวิตจริงขนาดได้หวยมาฟรี 3 - 4 ครั้งยังโดนกินเลยครับ ดังนั้นผมขอข้ามนะครับ แต่ถ้าใครมีดวงด้านเล่นหวย เชิญได้ครับ

Free BTC

อันนี้เป็นแหล่งหลักที่ผมทำเงินจากเวบนี้ และผมแนะนำให้ทุกคนทำเช่นกัน เพราะมันไม่มีอะไรต้องเสีย แถมการันตีว่าในชั่วโมงนั้นเพื่อนๆได้ sat แน่ๆ แต่จะได้มากหรือน้อยแล้วแต่ดวง

วิธีการก็คือทุก 1 ชั่วโมง จะมีการทอยลูกเต๋าโดยการกด click

อย่างรูปนี้ผมพึ่งกดไป ก็ต้องรออีก 44 นาทีถึงจะเล่นครั้งต่อไปได้

ทางเวบจะสุ่มตัวเลข lucky number ออกมาให้ เราจะได้ sat ตามตัวเลขที่เราได้ครับ รางวัลสูงสุด มีมูลค่า 200 USD เทียบในหน่วย sat ณ ขณะนั้นครับ เวบนี้อ้างอิงราคากับ bitstamp ครับ

ช่วงปี 2023 ที่ราคา BTC/USD ย่ำอยู่แถวๆ 20,000 ตอนนั้นรางวัลขั้นต่ำคือ 7sat แต่เมื่อราคา BTC/USD สูงขึ้น จำนวนรางวัลก็ลดลงตามสัดส่วน ต่ำสุดก็คือ 1 sat/ชั่วโมง

ลองคิดเล่นๆว่าถ้าเพื่อนๆทำงานอยู่หน้าจออยู่แล้ว ก็มากดเล่นชั่วโมงละครั้ง อย่างต่ำๆก็ได้วันละ 24 sat ครับ

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เป็นอีกวิธีนึงที่ผมแนะนำ วิธีการก็คือถ้าเพื่อนๆมีขั้นต่ำ 30,000 sat อยู่ใน wallet ทางเวบจะจ่ายดอกเบี้ยให้ปีละ 4.08% (APR 4.08%) โดยจะสุ่มจ่ายในเวลาที่แตกต่างกันในแต่ละวัน แต่จ่ายแน่นอน

ทางเวบให้เหตุผลเอาไว้ว่าเพื่อป้องกันไม่ให้มี whale วางเงินก้อนใหญ่เข้ามาเมื่อกินดอกเบี้ยแล้วถอนออก ฝากเงินเข้าๆออกๆ อันนี้ผมเข้าใจได้ว่ามันจะกระเทือนต่อ cashflow ของเขา และอาจจะพังได้ ลามมาไปถึง user คนอื่นๆ

เมื่อวานนี้วันที่ 1 Nov 2024 ผมพึ่งสะสม sat ได้ 68,638 Sat จากการ Betting ผมก็เลยพึ่งได้ดอกเบี้ย 7 sat/วัน เมื่อวานวันแรกครับ

จะเห็นว่าเขาทำตารางคำนวณดอกเบี้ยไว้ให้เรียบร้อย สะดวกดีครับ

ความเห็นของผม ผม ไม่แนะนำ ให้เพื่อนฝาก sat เข้ามานะครับ ถึงแม้ว่าเวบนี้จะดูน่าเชื่อถือ ฝากถอนได้ไม่มีปัญหา แต่ third party risk ก็ยังมี

แต่ถ้าใครรับความเสี่ยงได้ แบ่งเงินไว้แล้ว เชิญได้ครับ

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วิธีการนี้เป็นวิธีการที่ผมปั้น sat ให้งอกได้มากที่สุดครับ มันก็คือการพนันแทงข้างดีๆนั่นแหละครับ กิจกรรมมีให้แทงผลบอล , บาสเกตบอล , เทนนิส , รถแข่ง และกีฬาดังๆแมทช์หยุดโลกทั้งหลายครับ

ง่ายๆก็คือแทงถูกได้ตังค์ แทงผิดเสียตังค์

ตังอย่างครับ

แต่ผมดูกีฬาพวกนี้ไม่เป็นหรอก ผมอาศัยดูข่าวตอนเช้า แล้วเลือกแทงในแมทช์ที่ผมเห็นว่าผมมีโอกาสแทงถูกมากที่สุด แล้วก็เอากำไรไปครับ เวลาลงเงินผมก็ลงเฉพาะในส่วนที่พร้อมที่จะเสียได้ เหมือนการทำ money management ตอนเทรดเก็งกำไรทั่วๆไปครับ

แต่ผมไม่ได้แทงกีฬาเป็นหลักหรอกครับ ผมเลือก predict ช่วงราคาของ BTC/USD ครับ

อันนี้คือรายการแทงล่าสุดที่ผมได้กำไรมา 5 เท่าครับ คาดว่า ราคา BTCUSD จะอยู่ที่เท่าไหร่ในเวลา 23.59 UTC (ราคาปิดของ daily chart ก่อนขึ้นแท่งใหม่เวลา 7.00 ของประเทศไทย GMT+7 นั่นแหละครับ) วันที่ 31 ตค.2024

ผมเลือกแทงช่วงราคา 70,000 - 75,000 โดยวางเงินไว้ 11,699 sat ได้ผลกำไรมา 68,610 sat ครับ คิดเป็นกำไรประมาณ 5.8x ได้

แต่ผมไม่ได้หลับหูหลับตาแทงสุ่มสี่สุ่มแปดนะครับ ผมอาศัยความรู้ technical analysis มาช่วยวิเคราะห์หาความน่าจะเป็น

เริ่มแรกผมเปิด Weekly chart ก่อน ในวันที่ผมทำการแทง มันคือกราฟแท่งที่ผมชี้ลูกศรสีแดง ผมเห็นราคากำลัง rally ขึ้นไป เป็นเทรน ผมเห็นการเคลื่อนที่แบบนี้มันน่าจะเป็น non standard small x wave (ภาษา Elliot wave ใครไม่เข้าใจ ข้ามไปก่อนครับ)

เพื่อ confirm ผม zoom เข้าไปดู daily chart เห็นภาพนี้

ลูกศรสีแดงตำแหน่งเดียวกัน แต่ขยายเข้ามาดู daily chart เป็นการ confirm non standard small x wave อาศัยความน่าจะเป็นและความรู้จาก Elliot wave ผมสรุปว่าช่วงสิ้นเดือนตค. ราคาน่าจะไปอยู่ range 70,000 - 75,000 แถวๆนั้นแหละ

ผมวางเงินแทงตามแผน แล้วก็ปิดจอไปเลยครับ เพราะมันไม่ต้องมาเฝ้าจอเหมือนการเทรดเก็งกำไร อันนั้นปวดหัว มาดูอีกทีตอน วันสิ้นเดือน นี่คือผลลัพธ์ครับ

กราฟ H1 ราคาปิดอยู่แถวๆ 70,700 เข้าเงื่อนไขชนะครับ ผมก็เก็บกำไรมา ทำให้ sat ของผมแตะใน area ที่สามารถได้ APR

ความเห็นของผม ผมมองว่ามันทดแทนการเทรดเก็งกำไรได้ เพราะการเทรดมันต้องมีการวางจุด stop loss และ take profit

สำหรับตัวผมเอง ผมไม่มีปัญหาในการวาง stop loss แต่มีปัญหาในการ take profit ผมชอบ run trend และไปขายที่จุดสูงสุดที่เป็นไปได้

อันนี้เป็นนิสัยเสียของผม ติดกับดักความโลภที่อยากจะกินคำใหญ่ แต่สุดท้ายตลาดก็เอาคืนครับ unrealized profit ค่อยๆหดลงๆ แล้วกลายเป็นเท่าทุน หรือไม่ก็ขาดทุน

แต่เมื่อวิธีนี้ มันทดแทนการเทรดได้ ไม่ต้องกำหนดจุด take profit เป็นราคาเป๊ะ แต่กำหนดเป็นช่วงราคาที่กว้างๆ ถึง 5,000 USD มันเลยง่ายขึ้นสำหรับผมครับ

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The Oakland A's are on the brink of a significant change, and not everyone is happy about it. The team's future is shrouded in uncertainty, and the actions of the owner, John Fisher, have come under intense scrutiny.

https://image.nostr.build/9ecbf15dcbc62ecf6a0bbc6d702678da62a97177994ea39c57b0490f2d72cb06.jpg Recently, a hat, dubbed the "Ass Hat," was briefly available for sale, and it has sparked a heated debate among fans. Some see it as a metaphor for the A's current state, while others view it as a misguided marketing attempt. Regardless, its brief viral fame and subsequent withdrawal have added to the narrative of the A's turbulent decade.

Fisher's recent letter to the public, allegedly written by an employee, has also raised eyebrows. The letter, filled with spelling errors and a tone-deaf approach, has been criticized for its lack of sincerity and understanding of the team's history and fanbase.

The A's potential relocation to West Sacramento or Las Vegas has further fueled the controversy. Critics argue that Fisher's power-carelessness has damaged the franchise's viability, making it a challenge to the imagination. The team's future seems as uncertain in these potential new homes as it did in Oakland.

Fisher's actions have made him a polarizing figure in the sports world. His obstinacy and lack of long-term planning have led to him being labeled as a detestable and least sympathetic sports figure in the nation.

As the A's prepare for their final game in Oakland, the focus is not on the game itself, but on the franchise's bleak future. The A's story is a cautionary tale of ownership, fan engagement, and the future of a historic franchise.

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Week 12-08 a suitable protocol

The knots come to a head, some of you have gray hair, you get older.

Tkinter is better than ws://, more secure, but has limitations, unless you know how to use figma and do some magic. The project of Nabismo.

Maybe Nostr doesn't work for me.

Aspirin moment Nip-17, works with nip-44 and nip-59. Someone said they made the groups encrypted with nip-17. I tried and succeeded, now you can DM me, don't do it. I had sent the link to a conversation of nip-87 closed groups. There's JeffG doing something with MLS. Then there's keychat.io which uses signal Nostr Bitcoin ecash and that's it... But in dart. It's a bit like the Matrix analogue for Nostr.

Final controversy not all nips are mandatory.

Build the foundation. You can't think about selling the house

Yakihonne has a countdown. What can a desktop app be. Community Lists, Nip-29

A birthday on Nostr, no that's not possible, they're all cypherpunks. 🎉🎉 (Except me)

There is a different attitude from Nostr when updates are released compared to Bluesky, everyone there is still enthusiastic, on Nostr ah ok but this is missing oh but this is missing or but support this other one, or but * zap, wait a minute, keep calm 🙇‍♂️, I'm the first to do this. (The revolt of the developers)

Deletetion: Client that have relay paired can do delete, more intelligently, Perhaps you can think of a delete.nrelay subdomain as a filter. This id is deleted. Be careful what you don't want to do. Maybe a session with a psychologist is better, because then you find yourself doing what you said you didn't want to do.

Does it make sense to follow someone on Bluesky? In my opinion no, or better yet yes. There are several algorithms on Bluesky, which do their job well. In the end it's just a matter of arranging them better on the screen. Yes you can have lists to save someone, but then you read everything, so lists with algorithm seems like a next feature. this way they can keep the following small, almost minimal, because there are algorithms that work for the user. People will start writing for SEO algorithm and AI and other things, which tech gurus really like and so on. The fact that it is almost exclusively an app will greatly facilitate this trend, there will be almost no need for moderation, and you can get it all in just a few apps. (Great)

Oh yegorpetrov has abandoned. Pegorpetrov said that he is coming back 😌 It might be an invention but I'm a little heartened by it.

Bankify, a new wallet of super testnet, only for crush testers.

You can't stream on zap stream without reach, maybe it's better audio space. Contact someone maybe an influencer or Nostr elite or whatever. Open Source Justice Foundation streaming

Designer, I wanted to propose comment on wikifreedia nielliesmons article and follow #nostrdesign, but too many answers for today. NVK note is ~~mainstream~~

I think I'm not suited to Nostr.

Nostr-ava bike file geo tag sharing. (NIP-113) Sebastix doesn't respond, I must have done something bad to him, or maybe I'm stressing him too much. Finally he replied 🤙. In the end maybe, I have too much hype about this proposal and it's something I don't know maybe, but maybe if they were already doing something with geo tags it's better to say so.

Another birthday, less cypher more punk 😌

Usdt on Nostr, there must be some error. (freeform app)

USDT on tron ​​is like Money. (Bitcoiner not really)

Privacy issue, deletion motion, or deletion request, go go.

Nip29 hype, i don't have hype at all. I'm tired of words, I record a podcast on Nostr. Let's see if I can do it, at least think it. (It's more of a workflow thing than actually something I would do)

1. Create an npub (easy)
2. Record the audio episode (I think I can do it). Terrible audio
3. Loading on a Nostrhosting, if less than 10 MB it should go smoothly.
4. Publish the video or audio of the episode on some Nostr client, perhaps using blastr relay 😞.
5. Do the nostree link, by putting the episode, and also the npub.pro and put the URL on café-society. 6) Publish all these links on the Main profile, saying that, made a podcast about Nostr in Nostr of nostr. 😂

I thought a client could have poll, form, spreadsheet, collaboration document. It's the kind of otherstuff we want to see. Something that goes beyond a normal feed.

Emoj on bluesky, Eventually also zap 🥜 link emoj Blue

Eventually there will be a developer revolt And they will only do a social network in their downtime, they will call it Nostr.

There is a storm, Nostr does not work in 4g with two bars. Or now 4G is gone too.

Yakihonne Smart widgets, something to try on the weekend.

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Week on Nostr 05-08

List of site for nostriches https://zaplinks.lol/

Fiatjaf web components

Welcome bear market 🧟‍♂️ fear, angry, build It's fine meme

I mutated one on stackernews. Basically I have notifications on Nostr page But someone keeps spamming every single thing, from his point of view it's a shared bookmark, but do it on your site. Maybe it's the heat...

On bluesky they eliminated a "for you" feed, now there is Discovery, not your feed, not your choice. There's actually a label that says my feeds, they're yours... Designed for you is more appropriate.

Mutiny lightning, "get the fuck on board". 😔

You lose your Money, ok

I don't know much about programming languages, but it seems like a jungle of scams

The purple pill help the Orange pill go down, maybe it was wrong. For now it's more people passing pills I have the orange give me the purple, I have the purple give me the orange. 😅

If you don't want no corn content you can go to mastodon and bluesky or whatever.

I thought nostr:relay might be a good solution to be a little more like a mint. It was deprecated, then the Nip-73 was added, rss feed and other devilry.

If you don't like what you see, change the app, this one will perhaps clear your following list and you'll start again from scratch. Not all things come to harm.

Why not Building agregore on Nostr, Nostr pear fedimint cashu mesh and local first. It doesn't seem like a simple application to make, from a local-first perspective, I solve a problem, but it's not a small problem to solve, Sync, database management, database schema, authentication, put everything together, instead I need this to solve this problem. It seems strange.

Aspie96 is making a client of ours, there was a lot of talk about how to increase content not related to bitcoin and things like that, there was one who was anti-bitcoin. I thought: Bitcoin is just a tool. Even guns are just a tool. I hate guns, I hate Bitcoin. It will be difficult, if you know any npub that hates Bitcoin comment below, thanks.

Trying not to use nostter for a while. It has glitches when loading threads and even with zap, I zapped myself even though I was clicking on the post I was replying to.

Voyage separates follow to topic in a new version.

People start arguing, it's allowed, everyone wants to be right, that's not the definition of social 👾.

Monitors watch-only bitcoin wallets https://github.com/sommerfelddev/sentrum

I noticed on Openvibe that in the trending timeline Nostr's notes have more interactions than responses. Maybe it was just that today Fiatjaf was doing universal polls 😅.

Step away from your favorite app, for a week if you can. Detox.

Oh Our founding, rain of money https://github.com/theborakompanioni/nostr-spring-boot-starte https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-grants-august-2024#seer

I'm happy for Vic and Sepher Nostroot exists 😅, note from some time ago. (I can't find it)

Perhaps the list of grant applications should be published, no one wants to open Pandora's box. 🙇‍♂️

Nostrasia 2.0 the Japanese community is a bit at a loss, they are trying to relaunch themselves 🤙, even if I'm seeing less enthusiasm, I'm following less.

I think a month has passed since I said this sentence, every day it was better but the next day something happened that you said maybe 6 months is too long. nostr:nevent1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7te3xsczue3h0ghxjme0qyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxwfskxarpd35h5ety9ehx2ap0qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnnw3skkete9ehx2ap0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qpqf25td2xxgxfu80xpgg47cmfg2zkn6v803kefj3htjss5nvamfmgswf2kcs

Ho iniziato a seguire un po' local-first. https://docnode.dev/local-first I follow a podcast of the same name and dev tools.

When everyone thinks of Nostr they think of their favorite app and think that others see the same, but this is not the case.

I delete some gossip (photo)

Gossip is Nostr or Nostr is gossip.

Communities are difficult, they take time. I don't have this type of problem. People are fine on telegram and on simplex or any app. But maybe a Nostr project should be on Nostr?? Nip-29 can be interesting. Even if you start from scratch or almost. It's true that there are more apps, but this will perhaps only add to the confusion.

They are still talking about paid or non-paid relay, it's not a mature stage. Early stage.. I thought designers liked relays, that's not the case, I thought it was a place of experimentation, that's not the case. Bring more people. Last week I was talking about how I was jealous of bluesky who had an agenda for design, now it's also on Nostr, first hypernote article https://wikifreedia.xyz/hypernote-nip

I might say silly things, I'll go.

Hey Will remember to practice safe nsec always

nostr:nevent1qqsr6x8hduv8ta0g2da4aukrhzdtv6qcekyp5f9z9sxq6sd5peegnxgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wdmksetjv5hxxmmdqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsygr4wku5l2q32tl99xjgn8feq22279pzwu25eezqxm2su2ken4wzvuf2ydnp

nostr:nevent1qqspsm343talkkjnyf3ah0zwy727cwd7phw3xnz49q59q5cfw4uhyngpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnwa5x2un99e3k7mgzyqewrqnkx4zsaweutf739s0cu7et29zrntqs5elw70vlm8zudr3y2j7zajz

Use nsec.app, 😅 Share bunker (smart people will know how to do it)

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One year ago I wrote the article Why Nostr resonates in Dutch and English after I visited the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2023 conference and the Nostrdam event. It got published at bitcoinfocus.nl (translated in Dutch). The main reason why I wrote that piece is that I felt that my gut feeling was tellinng me that Nostr is going to change many things on the web.

After the article was published, one of the first things I did was setting up this page on my website: https://sebastix.nl/nostr-research-and-development. The page contains this section (which I updated on 31-10-2024):

One metric I would like to highlight is the number of repositories on Github. Compared to a year ago, there are already more than 1130 repositories now on Github tagged with Nostr. Let's compare this number to other social media protocols and decentralized platforms (24-10-2024):

• Fediverse: 522
• ATProto: 159
• Scuttlebot: 49
• Farcaster: 202
• Mastodon: 1407
• ActivityPub: 444

Nostr is growing. FYI there are many Nostr repositories not hosted on Github, so the total number of Nostr reposities is higher. I know that many devs are using their own Git servers to host it. We're even capable of setting up Nostr native Git repositories (for example, see https://gitworkshop.dev/repos). Eventually, Nostr will make Github (and other platforms) absolute.

Let me continue summarizing my personal Nostr highlights of last year.

Organising Nostr meetups

This is me playing around with the NostrDebug tool showing how you can query data from Nostr relays. Jurjen is standing behind me. He is one of the people I've met this year who I'm sure I will have a long-term friendship with.

OpenSats grant for Nostr-PHP

In December 2023 I submitted my application for a OpenSats grant for the further development of the Nostr-PHP helper library. After some months I finally got the message that my application was approved... When I got the message I was really stoked and excited. It's a great form of appreciation for the work I had done so far and with this grant I get the opportunity to take the work to another higher level. So please check out the work done for so far:

• https://nostr-php.dev
• https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php

Meeting Dries

One of my goosebumps moments I had in 2022 when I saw that the founder and tech lead of Drupal Dries Buytaert posted 'Nostr, love at first sight' on his blog. These types of moments are very rare moment where two different worlds merge where I wouldn't expect it. Later on I noticed that Dries would come to the yearly Dutch Drupal event. For me this was a perfect opportunity to meet him in person and have some Nostr talks. I admire the work he is doing for Drupal and the community. I hope we can bridge Nostr stuff in some way to Drupal. In general this applies for any FOSS project out there.
Here is my recap of that Drupal event.

Attending Nostriga

A conference where history is made and written. I felt it immediately at the first sessions I attended. I will never forget the days I had at Nostriga. I don't have the words to describe what it brought to me.

I also pushed myself out of my comfort zone by giving a keynote called 'POSSE with Nostr - how we pivot away from API's with one of Nostr superpowers'. I'm not sure if this is something I would do again, but I've learned a lot from it.
You can find the presentation here. It is recorded, but I'm not sure if and when it gets published.

Nostr billboard advertisement

This advertisment was shown on a billboard beside the A58 highway in The Netherlands from September 2nd till September 16th 2024. You can find all the assets and more footage of the billboard ad here: https://gitlab.com/sebastix-group/nostr/nostr-ads. My goal was to set an example of how we could promote Nostr in more traditional ways and inspire others to do the same. In Brazil a fundraiser was achieved to do something similar there: https://geyser.fund/project/nostrifybrazil.

Volunteering at Nostr booths growNostr

This was such a great motivating experience. Attending as a volunteer at the Nostr booth during the Bitcoin Amsterdam 2024 conference. Please read my note with all the lessons I learned here.

The other stuff

• The Nostr related blog articles I wrote past year:
  • Run a Nostr relay with your own policies (02-04-2024)
  • Why social networks should be based on commons (03-01-2024)
  • How could Drupal adopt Nostr? (30-12-2023)
  • Nostr integration for CCHS.social (21-12-2023)
• https://ccns.nostrver.se 
  CCNS stands for Community Curated Nostr Stuff. At the end of 2023 I started to build this project. I forked an existing Drupal project of mine (https://cchs.social) to create a link aggregation website inspired by stacker.news. At the beginning of 2024 I also joined the TopBuilder 2024 contest which was a productive period getting to know new people in the Bitcoin and Nostr space.
• https://nuxstr.nostrver.se 
  PHP is not my only language I use to build stuff. As a fullstack webdeveloper I also work with Javascript. Many Nostr clients are made with Javascript frameworks or other more client-side focused tools. Vuejs is currently my Javascript framework I'm the most convenient with. With Vuejs I started to tinker around with Nuxt combined with NDK and so I created a starter template for Vue / Nuxt developers.
• ZapLamp
  This is a neat DIY package from LNbits. Powered by an Arduino ESP32 dev board it was running a 24/7 livestream on zap.stream at my office. It flashes when you send a zap to the npub of the ZapLamp.
• https://nosto.re 
  Since the beginning when the Blossom spec was published by @hzrd49 and @StuartBowman I immediately took the opportunity to tinker with it. I'm also running a relay for transmitting Blossom Nostr events wss://relay.nosto.re.
• Relays I maintain
  I really enjoy to tinker with different relays implementations. Relays are the fundamental base layer to let Nostr work.

I'm still sharing my contributions on https://nostrver.se/ where I publish my weekly Nostr related stuff I worked on. This website is built with Drupal where I use the Nostr Simple Publish and Nostr long-form content NIP-23 modules to crosspost the notes and long-form content to the Nostr network (like this piece of content you're reading).

The Nostr is the people

Just like the web, the web is people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCgvkslCzTo 

the people on nostr are some of the smartest and coolest i’ve ever got to know. who cares if it doesn’t take over the world. It’s done more than i could ever ask for. - @jb55

Here are some Nostriches who I'm happy to have met and who influenced my journey in Nostr in a positive way.

• Jurjen
• Bitpopart
• Arjen
• Jeroen
• Alex Gleason
• Arnold Lubach
• Nathan Day
• Constant
• fiatjaf
• Sync

Coming year

Generally I will continue doing what I've done last year. Besides the time I spent on Nostr stuff, I'm also very busy with Drupal related work for my customers. I hope I can get the opportunity to work on a paid client project related to Nostr. It will be even better when I can combine my Drupal expertise with Nostr for projects paid by customers.

Building a new Nostr application

When I look at my Nostr backlog where I just put everything in with ideas and notes, there are quite some interesting concepts there for building new Nostr applications. Filtering out, I think these three are the most exciting ones:

• nEcho, a micro app for optimizing your reach via Nostr (NIP-65)
• Nostrides.cc platform where you can share Nostr activity events (NIP-113)
• A child-friendly video web app with parent-curated content (NIP-71)

Nostr & Drupal

When working out a new idea for a Nostr client, I'm trying to combine my expertises into one solution. That's why I also build and maintain some Nostr contrib modules for Drupal.

• Nostr Simple Publish
  Drupal module to cross-post notes from Drupal to Nostr
• Nostr long-form content NIP-23
  Drupal module to cross-post Markdown formatted content from Drupal to Nostr
• Nostr internet identifier NIP-05
  Drupal module to setup Nostr internet identifier addresses with Drupal.
• Nostr NDK
  Includes the Javascript library Nostr Dev Kit (NDK) in a Drupal project.

One of my (very) ambitious goals is to build a Drupal powered Nostr (website) package with the following main features:

• Able to login into Drupal with your Nostr keypair
• Cross-post content to the Nostr network
• Fetch your Nostr content from the Nostr content
• Serve as a content management system (CMS) for your Nostr events
• Serve as a framework to build a hybrid Nostr web application
• Run and maintain a Nostr relay with custom policies
• Usable as a feature rich progressive web app
• Use it as a remote signer

These are just some random ideas as my Nostr + Drupal backlog is way longer than this.

Nostr-PHP

With all the newly added and continues being updated NIPs in the protocol, this helper library will never be finished. As the sole maintainer of this library I would like to invite others to join as a maintainer or just be a contributor to the library. PHP is big on the web, but there are not many PHP developers active yet using Nostr. Also PHP as a programming language is really pushing forward keeping up with the latest innovations. 

Grow Nostr outside the Bitcoin community

We are working out a submission to host a Nostr stand at FOSDEM 2025. If approved, it will be the first time (as far as I know) that Nostr could be present at a conference outside the context of Bitcoin. The audience at FOSDEM is mostly technical oriented, so I'm really curious what type of feedback we will receive.

Let's finish this article with some random Nostr photos from last year. Cheers!

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Nostter muted by kind

Will mute freefrom, hashtag fall

Venezuela riots, after the vote

I was thinking that having a Nostr conference every 6 months doesn't make sense, maybe it's better to focus on something else. If not it becomes a Tour Life. It doesn't increase adoption Produces tons of material It's good for networking It's not sustainable

Readable updates, how important they are. If it's just bugs and fixes it's better.

I hate Pam. As user It writes interesting stuff, but, doesnn't write in long form, because long form are more difficult, less reach and immediacy, and difficulties to share over in the feed,but not write a poem, sorry.

The thing about coracle is that I load the initial feed, but that gets printed, and it doesn't tell me if there are new notes coming in, as if it interrupts the flow, and it's always a fetch. I want to read the future, not always the past. RealTime feeds Like bluesky 🧞

Njump had problems, it keeps the cache and if the user changes something in their data it doesn't update it immediately. Fiatjaf was angry.

It's the month of NostRiga, we can move on to September without thinking about it. No

It's funny when you see a text in Japanese and inside read Nostr, I want to know what it says. He usually says Nostr is great. And the next note I drank too much 🤣

Today I thought that on the other side of the world it is February and that their February is 31 days. Pam said was sick. I see that hate is a virus 😅🙇‍♂️

I decided to publish stronpy when it's ready, maybe in 6 months. I've done the lineup, now I have to do the gantt 😅. Maybe I can post the gantt somewhere.

If it's not encrypted it's public. Amethyst draft 31000 and something like event

Nostr Is great but the amount of time Lost to the same thing because you don't know that exist Is remarkable. Nostr is a redundancy protocol

nostr:nevent1qqsqjqauc34k9k278x6cka5jyf3aq033y4pn5czwaff72l3rwum7llq7ela3x When they do that I can't stand them, then maybe it's a little different 😔😔 Zapper.fun ✅ Because you launch a project, example nostr.band but contain others 100 apps 😅 Nostr.band, nostrapp.link, zapper.fun, Nostr login, nsec.app, Npub.pro, Npub.pro also cli, Nostr universe/ knows as spring site

Even in Coracle it would be great to have a check on the note as root, because when you see the answers, perhaps the distance from another post, is so small, so perhaps a gray line for the mark of another note as root.

I listened to several minutes of plebchain radio episode on nostrnests. Language is an obstacle, but also an excellent justification. Last year I started recording a podcast episode, in which I talked about nostr bookmark update. I didn't even want to listen to it again 🤣.

I sent a video of an explanation of a zap it was 500 MByte of video for 4 minutes.

Nostr doesn't work. In practice, many apps have removed the possibility of logging in with the simple key, be it public or private, because especially the private one you don't want to copy paste in every single clients/apps, increasing the attack surface.

However, by removing this functionality and doing little onboarding, the matter is very difficult, but there is a certain belief that people who arrive at a Twitter like client get to know the network a little and then move on to videos or writing, or similar. But one can open a site by chance and see what it offers without knowing anything.

In the future there will only be one client, that of medical data...

Someone share this nostr:nevent1qqs24qzelpk8xjlk4dthr9tfkqwz8n58dlm04ezyvg9nuztud6jjfhc9mg04n I had in my bookmarks. I see dozen types of this self hosted manners. Maybe captains-log is for nostr-type, good.

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Anyone who thinks that “onboarding new users” is simply a technical challenge of educating people about “how Nostr works”, is grossly mistaken about social networks in general and blind to what makes Nostr so special.

Social Networks are for Friends

Relationship building is why people use social networks. Connecting with friends and loved ones (and colleagues and customers also) is the obvious reason to join, and should be the primary objective in any onboarding endeavor. Everything else “about the technology” only needs to be introduced “as needed” in order for each new user to achieve this goal.

The Nostr Network Requires Trusted Friendships

To thrive at scale, Nostr needs to have established and interconnected “webs of trusted friends” for “verifying” authentic profiles and quality content. This PgP strategy for decentralized trust implemented on Nostr, is the best way to keep bots and bad actors at bay while preserving freedom and sovereignty for every user. Even though Nostr still doesn’t have a standard for determining who “is trusted” for any one user across all clients, we can already build tools to onboard new friends of the highest quality trust. Leveraging existing relationships, “webs of trust” can be strengthened even at this early stage simply by advocates “inviting friends to Nostr”.

Nostr is New and Already Full of Trusted Friends

But it won’t be for long. Bots and bad actors are relatively “easy” to keep at bay today because the Nostr userbase is still small. People who come to Nostr and STAY have mostly been a self selecting group of “freedom tech fans”. We like it this way, and are generally happy to be here. The comraderie is refreshing. But the more people that come to Nostr, the more Nostr will attract different kinds of people.

This is already happening. Nostr is growing at the edges, reaching out beyond the “freedom tech fans” and attracting a number of “less committed” (and some nefarious) individuals here and there. Who sticks around? The “friends of freedom tech fans” stick around longer because they have friends here. WAY BEFORE even considering how “the network effect” will take over, Nostr needs to solve for retention by bringing more “trusted friends” into the network. Social onboarding tools will allow us to share Nostr to “friends of freedom tech fans” and beyond, establishing interconnected “webs of trust” that are increasingly impermeable to bots and bad actors.

Nostr is Freedom Tech that People Want to Share

Creators and influencers of every kind share Nostr (and Nostr content) every day. This phenomenon is a gold mine for onboarding, and can be supported with tools and incentives. Driven by the fact that Nostr is an open protocol, owned by nobody and available for anybody to build upon and profit from, the passion for sharing Nostr will never wane. But our userbase may fall off, if people become disenchanted by undesirable content or lack of good follows. This is why onboarding efforts, to attract more “friends” to the network, are so important. Leveraging the “share worthy” phenomenon of Nostr itself to grow Nostr’s networks of “trusted friends” seems like a no brainer. But for this strategy to work, it needs to be win win win for all parties.

Everybody Wins with More Trusted Users on Nostr

Even as standards for qualifying trust are still being refined, “social onboarding” increases the ratio of “more” trusted over “less” trusted users across the network.

Developers Win

With more trusted users on the network, Nostr developers win by being able to attract an increasingly diverse range of business partners to sponsor their projects.

Sponsors Win

An increase in trusted usership equates to more “real people” perusing “desired content” and more chances for brands to engage “organically” with target audiences. Marketing opportunities increase with trust.

Advocates Win

Simply by sharing Nostr with their friends, Advocates support the sustained growth of trust across the network. Valuable zap reward programs to incentivize high quality onboarding efforts are easily justified and funded by social onboarding clients and their sponsors.

Users Win

More trusted users across the network means more trustworthy content in every feed and more easily discoverable friends and new follows regardless of the client or algorithm used.

Nostr Wins

More trusted users on the network means more “high quality” trust connections between each user. Strong webs of trust is what keeps out bots and bad actors, and is essential for stability as Nostr scales.

Social Onboarding Clients Bring Trust to Nostr

Having more tools for “sharing Nostr with friends” is how Nostr wins. Any client can have capacity for “Social Onboarding”. This may be a dedicated onboarding client or a feature set within a social client. A client that offers “Social Onboarding” will support Nostr advocates and the users that they invite. These should have the following feature set :

• Nostr advocates may create and share any number of customizable “Nostr invites” for different audiences or occasions. Each may have different reccomendations, or access codes, or expiry options. (A NIP is in the works)
• Nostr invite QR codes (and shareable URLs) should resolve to a WEB based interface for prospective (and existing) users who MAY NOT have a client or browser extension already installed.
• Each invite should (within the onboarding client) provide access to low friction profile creation AND advocate reccomended lists of new friends, interest groups, preferred clients, best relays, and other stuff.
• Private key generation and management for new users should be handled entirely within the onboarding client (using NIP standards without a browser extension or external bunker app) to reduce friction at this crucial moment.
• A human readable Nostr address (NIP05 or some future NIP) should be generated automatically for all new users.
• New account creation should result immediately in a direct message or group thread of private “gift wrap” encrypted messages. This thread acts as the new user’s “first contact” with the advocate (possibly others as well) and an anchor for exploring the rest of Nostr.
• Invite “receipt” data (who invited who) should be “gift wrap” encrypted, accessible only to the advocate and new user. Clients wishing to use this data for analytics MAY request access from BOTH parties.
• Top Advocates may be calculated by the client (using data from invite receipts OR from public Nostr usage metrics), and awards may be offered.
• Advocates may also be supported by the client through access to private “advocate support” groups and communities over the Nostr network.

Support Social Onboarding for Nostr

Meet Me On Nostr is an app for sharing Nostr with friends via advocate invites. It is a reference client to demonstrate the power of Social Onboarding for Nostr. The first launch of "feature complete" client is expected in fall 2024.

This is a “bootstrap” funded project in active development. We are not grant funded or VC funded. Instead, we are looking to pay our developers by sponsorships from “Nostr adjacent” businesses who want to increase brand recognition over this new social network.

Is Your Business Nostr Adjacent?

“I’d like to advertise on Nostr but it’s “not quite ready” says our marketing team.”

“It has potential, and we have alignment, but the technology is still a bit rough.”

“Nostr is a perfect fit for our “target audience”, but there simply aren’t enough people using it.”

If your business is aligned with freedom technology, and the people who build and use Nostr, then NOW is the perfect time to sponsor Social Onboarding. Help grow Nostr’s base of trusted users and engage directly with Nostr’s most active advocates and influencers as it scales.

Release Nostr’s Superpower

When Nostr advocates are equipped and incentivized to share Nostr with their friends, nothing can stop this network from growing and growing and growing ever more secure and interconnected networks of trusted users.

Onboarding and retaining trusted users as Nostr scales will require so much more than just pointing people to “how Nostr works” content. Nostr’s true power lies dormant in the existing relationships that Nostr users already have outside of Nostr. Leveraging this power is what Social Onboarding is all about. Social Onboarding is Nostr’s superpower.

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NIP-116

Event paths

Description

Event kind 30079 denotes an event defined by its event path rather than its event kind.

The event directory path is included in the event path, specified in the event's d tag. For example, an event path might be user/profile/name, where user/profile is the directory path.

Relays should parse the event directory from the event path d tag and index the event by it. Relays should support "directory listing" of kind 30079 events using the #f filter, such as {"#f": ["user/profile"]}.

For backward compatibility, the event directory should also be saved in the event's f tag (for "folder"), which is already indexed by some relay implementations, and can be queried using the #f filter.

Event content should be a JSON-encoded value. An empty object {} signifies that the entry at the event path is itself a directory. For example, when saving user/profile/name: Bob, you should also save user/profile: {} so the subdirectory can be listed under user.

In directory names, slashes should be escaped with a double slash.

Example

Event

json { "tags": [ ["d", "user/profile/name"], ["f", "user/profile"] ], "content": "\"Bob\"", "kind": 30079, ... }

Query

json { "#f": ["user/profile"], "authors": ["[pubkey]"] }

Motivation

To make Nostr an "everything app," we need a sustainable way to support new kinds of applications. Browsing Nostr data by human-readable nested directories and paths rather than obscure event kind numbers makes the data more manageable.

Numeric event kinds are not sustainable for the infinite number of potential applications. With numeric event kinds, developers need to find an unused number for each new application and announce it somewhere, which is cumbersome and not scalable.

Directories can also replace monolithic list events like follow lists or profile details. You can update a single directory entry such as user/profile/name or groups/follows/[pubkey] without causing an overwrite of the whole profile or follow list when your client is out-of-sync with the most recent list version, as often happens on Nostr.

Using d-tagged replaceable events for reactions, such as {tags: [["d", "reactions/[eventId]"]], content: "\"👍\"", kind: 30079, ...} would make un-reacting trivial: just publish a new event with the same d tag and an empty content. Toggling a reaction on and off would not cause a flurry of new reaction & delete events that all need to be persisted.

Implementations

• Relays that support tag-replaceable events and indexing by arbitrary tags (in this case f) already support this feature.
• IrisDB client side library: treelike data structure with subscribable nodes.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1266

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https://image.nostr.build/bd90349f0d27124b0932e55baaa298d94ea9a7b655334092c11728f321914059.jpg

Hafa Adai Bitcoiners, Nostr is really amazing. Have you ever ate so much food at a buffet? Did you try all the different types of cake, how could you settle on just one? when there's so many. Each with different favors, frosting and textures. Ugh, now I want cake.

Habla Pac-Man

After departing from the OS green forest where Flycat lives, I must have taken a wrong turn because the forest instantly got darker with each and every step. After some time has passed my eyes started to adjust and now it started to glow. I saw the most yellow fellow. He was being hunted! He ate some kinda fruit, and you can see the ghost 👻 starting to running away.

https://image.nostr.build/cdcce1dcb2da7c4bc4bcc4ff26b45ad7afc76300c59f66bc55e005c035aab94e.jpg

what was it that powered him up? Stories and Content! It was dark and hard to see, as I venture deeper. I almost wanted to turn back. It turns out fiat thugs were hunting him! Thanks to users that voice their stories Habla Pac-Man is empowered. Feel free to report on important issues that matter - have your voice be heard even in the shadows. Habla Pac-man is on your side in the darkest part of the Publishing Forest to be your guiding light!

https://image.nostr.build/ea9625c2279c7a02fd1d42a218594de0d79fcd258ab35b6665e43a02b53cf7e4.jpg

Habla.news is wonderfully open source, so write on! Beware, ICANN still lurks in these shadowed woods. FYI, his original color is white, he just appears yellow at night because of the woods. Blue for meal time. 😂 This hamster is very happy to see mainstream media content getting eaten by users like you and me. As long as we write, Habla will be well fed.

Highlighter

Ever stumble on something by accident? I spotted something emitting light in the distance, as I continue to dive deeper into the Publishing Forest. Oh Look, an almighty highlighter! So any text I want to stand out, I can save it like a digital note on the side and publish it as a note on Nostr. Highlighter.com is content central! Some content creators have significant insight into certain topics and create alpha content. Instead of using third party services like Medium, Substack, and WordPress etc where you're not getting much credit for your content, they now can use this new powerful tool. Will you use this tool dear user? Whatever will you create?

https://image.nostr.build/b70011965aa3c6bfdbfaca404005d5522081c5f0390d324a1f1e1a9b2be69943.jpg

I held onto the highlighter, and I begin to feel powered! With this tool, Content creators can monetize their content! What a wonderful tool! Prehaps, I should start utilizing this? Whatcha think? Would you support a writer like me for 1,000 sats/quarterly?

https://image.nostr.build/4386899dc0fd455b340f0fd433d5a2bf2c865e6030c55dfbba53cbd192bb133d.jpg

It should be noted that highlighter.com is still new, and in development at the time of this publishing. I can't wait until it unveils all it's features. It does work and is usable but it's still in development. I'll wait.

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I'm taking this with me! I'm so happy that I can easily use "Identity by encryption" via Nostr. Just stupendous! It makes me wonder, how could this have not existed for so long? This is freedom, owning your content and not being forced to agree to share its revenue to evil corporate thugs because of "Terms and Conditions" that only care about their platform and not a user like me. I'm taking back my power, will you?

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The Blogstack.io curse on me

Some words about blogstack.io, the entire reason I joined Nostr was when I watched a tutorial video about Nostr as I was trying to learn. The youtuber was explaining it and used blogstack.io as an examples. I was sold within those 3 seconds of seeing blogstack.io and lost interest about blah blah Nostr is this and that. Those 3 seconds motivated me more to use Nostr then the whole 7min tutorial. So, I excitedly downloaded the app(Amethyst), made an account only to be disappointed or cursed that still plagues me today-- to not be able to use blogstack.io for some reason. I've always wanted to start my own blog but hated the idea of medium. I could go to blogstack.io, but I couldn't interact with it. This was my first experience. So the app sat on my phone for like 2 weeks. A friend of mine got a nostr account and told me to follow him, that's when it pique my interest again. One thing led to another, then another. Before I knew it, I had fallen into the rabbit hole. It is a wonderland of its own. I wish for you dear user to have a better first time experience then I did. And I hope you enjoy this content. If blogstack.io works for you- go for it, but I can't judge it's platform because 404 eludes me.

The Shipyard Pub

My journey is at it's end in the Publishing Forest and into a shipyard of sailboats. ⛵ So, I guess it's time for me to sail away! Get it? Time? The sailboats have a schedule for when they head in and out of port. So if you want to schedule a note for example, now, 4 hours, or a day+ out you can do so by using Shipyard. There's no need to feel a constant need to log on to keep publishing a note(or reposting) to stay relevant. Simply, write a note, and put a time when you want your note to be seen so you can capitalize on all time zones. Quite useful tool. If you've visit my profile page, I launched a time series of hamsters recently. I used shipyard to schedule them. Very nice feature.

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Okay, Time for this #Hamstr to Sail away to the next adventure. Wherever will I go, is yet to be seen. Follow as I journey to find Knights of Nostr.

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I know in my heart they're out there, so let's find them! Often unseen, unappreciated and not loved for their code/software that sets us free. Together, we can change hearts, and minds but we need privacy of Identity or we'll all be punished for having a mind. ICANN Plagues the internet. Recently, Samurai Wallet was taken down because of mixing services. The Need for Identity by encryption and websites to move off ICANN's jurisdictional websites to IPFS is evermore important to adopt freedom. Yes, that means we need a Github Nostr style. So developers are never criminalized for restoring financial privacy, and speech to users. All of these platforms are Psyphers to be used against anti-reconnaissance. So speak freely!

Send some love to these specular devs that are helping to shape Nostr.

👉💋💋Kisu for OpenSource

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💋💋 Verbiricha💋 @npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg

Get your NIP-23 (Long-Form-Content) Here, or get it over there, you're bound to get it from somewhere. Until Next time! Wish me smooth sailing? I'll be adopting njump.me style as of this article.

with 🧡 Onigirl

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

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

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

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

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

An Identity system

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

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

What is blossom?

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

What are Blobs?

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

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

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

How do the servers work?

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

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

What is Blossom Drive?

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

What are Drives

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

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

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

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

Getting started

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

1. Open the app

Open https://blossom.hzrd149.com

2. Login using extension

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

3. Add a blossom server

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

4. Start uploading your files

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

5. Manage files

Encrypted drives

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

Whats next?

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

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

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By Dr Farsalinos

A new study was published today in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health by our group, evaluating e-liquids for the presence of tobacco-derived toxins. Additionally, the accuracy of nicotine labelling was assessed. The study is novel because for the first time we assessed tobacco-flavored liquids for the presence of phenols and nitrate (known toxins in tobacco smoke), as well as nitrosamines. Moreover, we assessed a specific group of e-liquids (known as Natural Extracts of Tobacco – NETs), which are made by using cured tobacco leaves to extract the flavor. This is the first time that such liquids are specifically tested.

The study verified that tobacco-derived toxins are lower by orders of magnitude in e-liquids compared to tobacco products. Characteristically, nitrosamines were 146-1447 times lower in e-liquids compared to tobacco products (in 1 mL liquid compared to 1 gram of tobacco), while nitrate was 1360 times lower. NET liquids contained somewhat higher levels of tobacco-derived toxins compared to conventional e-liquids, but the levels were still significantly lower compared to tobacco. Deviation from labelled nicotine content was on average 5.9% for conventional e-liquids and 1.5% for NETs, with maximum deviation being 22.1%. Interestingly, no difference between conventional liquids and NETs were observed, indicating that the flavor extraction process does not lead to extraction of nicotine from the tobacco leaves.

The study adds to current evidence confirming the lower risk potential of e-cigarettes compared to tobacco. NET liquids contained more tobacco-derived toxins, but still much lower compared to tobacco.

In case you want to contact Dr Farsalinos and his team, please send email to:

drfarsalinos@ecigarette-research.org

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You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier

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

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

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

PART ONE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ponder this well, Anon.

EVERYTHING ELSE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONCLUSION

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

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

You Are Not A Gadget

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Questo articolo esplora la complessità dell'esperienza umana attraverso la lente della tristezza e della felicità, proponendo una distinzione tra le persone che si identificano rigidamente come tristi o felici e quelle che abbracciano la loro autenticità, vivendo un'alternanza di emozioni. Attraverso un'analisi filosofica, si indaga il significato di "essere veri" e si discute l'importanza di riconoscere e accettare la gamma completa delle emozioni umane.

Introduzione

La condizione umana è intrinsecamente legata a un ampio spettro di emozioni, tra cui la tristezza e la felicità. Queste due esperienze emotive sono spesso percepite come opposte, ma in realtà coesistono in una dinamica complessa. In questo contesto, è utile considerare non solo le persone che si definiscono rigidamente come tristi o felici, ma anche quelle che si riconoscono come "vere", capaci di navigare tra le diverse sfumature emotive. Questo articolo si propone di esaminare le implicazioni filosofiche di questa distinzione e di riflettere su come essa possa influenzare la nostra comprensione dell'autenticità e della realizzazione personale.

La Tristezza e la Felicità: Due Facce della Stessa Medaglia

La tristezza e la felicità sono spesso considerate come stati emotivi opposti, ma questa visione binaria può risultare limitante. La filosofia esistenzialista, ad esempio, suggerisce che la sofferenza e la gioia sono interconnesse e che la consapevolezza della propria mortalità e delle proprie vulnerabilità può arricchire l'esperienza della vita. In questo senso, la tristezza può essere vista come un elemento necessario per apprezzare la felicità. Le persone che si identificano esclusivamente come tristi o felici possono perdere di vista questa interconnessione, vivendo in una sorta di dualismo emotivo che limita la loro esperienza.

L'Autenticità dell'Essere Vero

Le persone "vere" rappresentano un paradigma alternativo. Queste individui non si limitano a una categorizzazione emotiva, ma abbracciano la complessità della loro esistenza. La filosofia di Søren Kierkegaard, ad esempio, enfatizza l'importanza dell'autenticità e della soggettività. Essere veri implica riconoscere e accettare tutte le emozioni, comprese quelle che possono sembrare negative. Questa accettazione porta a una maggiore comprensione di sé e degli altri, promuovendo una forma di empatia che trascende le etichette di tristezza e felicità.

La Dinamicità delle Emozioni

La vita è caratterizzata da un continuo fluire di emozioni. Le persone vere sperimentano alti e bassi, riconoscendo che la tristezza e la felicità non sono stati permanenti, ma piuttosto momenti transitori. Questa visione dinamica delle emozioni è supportata dalla psicologia positiva, che sottolinea l'importanza di sviluppare resilienza e consapevolezza emotiva. Le persone che abbracciano la loro autenticità tendono a essere più resilienti, poiché non temono di affrontare la tristezza, ma la vedono come parte integrante del loro viaggio.

Conclusione

In conclusione, la distinzione tra persone tristi, felici e quelle vere offre una prospettiva interessante sulla condizione umana. Riconoscere la complessità delle emozioni e abbracciare la propria autenticità può portare a una vita più ricca e significativa. La tristezza e la felicità non devono essere viste come opposti, ma come componenti di un'esperienza umana complessa e interconnessa. Solo attraverso l'accettazione di tutte le sfumature emotive possiamo aspirare a una comprensione più profonda di noi stessi e degli altri, promuovendo una società più empatica e autentica.

Bibliografia
- Kierkegaard, S. (1980). The Sickness Unto Death. Princeton University Press.
- Seligman, M. E. P. (2011). Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being. Free Press.
- Frankl, V. E. (2006). Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press.

Questo articolo si propone di stimolare una riflessione profonda sulla nostra esperienza emotiva e sull'importanza di vivere in modo autentico, accettando la dualità della nostra esistenza.

@ 3ad01248:962d8a07

2024 has been an interesting year, lets put it that way. It couldn't be over soon enough to be honest. One of my New Year's resolution this year was to give up caffeine. To be honest this has been something that I have been putting off for a very long time because I did enjoy caffeine and the energy boost that it would give you in the morning.

I was regularly drinking 2 energy drinks per day at my worst in combination with a few sodas to top it off. Needless to say I was buzzed on caffeine all day everyday for years. You don't really notice that you have a problem because everywhere you look, everything has caffeine in it. It's in our drinks, our foods and in our medication. It is hard to get away from this stuff unless you make a dedicated decision not to ingest the substance. In our society it is perfectly normal to drink and eat caffiene all day long and not think anything of it.

At the end of the day caffeine is still a drug and is classified as a stimulant to your nervous system. Drugs over time obviously becomes addicting over time and your body becomes reliant on the substance to function. I think it is fair to say that people that are hooked on caffeine in the classic sense are drug addicts. I don't mean that to be harsh but if you look at this issue objectively you can see how this fits the definition quite succinctly.

Whenever I didn't have coffee or a energy drink I would get headaches, I would also be in a bad mood or generally just irrigated at little things that people would do. Ironically it made me more tired. My heavy caffeine consumption also made it where it was hard to fall asleep and stay asleep.

At some point you get tired of being on this rollercoaster and want to do something different for the sake of my health and wellness. I want to live as long as possible and I know that in order to do that I have to get rid of some bad habits that I have, caffeine consumption being one of them. So last month I bit the bullet and gave up caffeine cold turkey. It has now been 35 days since I have had caffeine but let me tell you it wasn't easy.

No Wonder Addicts Don't Quit

The first two to three days where probably the worst I've felt in a long time. I would wake up feeling like crap with no energy and a massive headache that would stay with me all day and didn't really get better taking over the counter medication. I thought to myself at one point, "no wonder drug addicts don't quit, this sucks".

To be honest it was hard to function at all, I just wanted to sleep all day and not do anything. It was hard to take my kids to school or really be present for anything because of the way I felt. I also experienced anxiety, had a weird pins and needles sensation all over my body. I felt so bad that I contacted my primary care freaking out because I couldn't figure out what was going on.

I don't know about you but when I don't feel great I on my phone looking up symptoms and trying to diagnose myself, which ultimately makes me feel worse and kicks the anxiety up to a 11.

Around day 20 I started to feel like myself again without the caffeine cravings. When I go to the store and I see the soft drinks, coffees and energy drinks for sale the first thing that comes to mind is these stores are selling drugs to their customers. They are junkies coming to get their fix. Starbucks same way. Peddling drugs via a drive through.

Sure its's only been 35 days but I am feeling pretty confident that I can kick this habit for good because I can see the health benefits from stopping caffeine consumption. Here is what I have experience so far:

• Falling asleep more easily
• Feeling rested in the morning
• More sustained energy
• Leveled out mood
• Mental clarity
• Less on edge
• Feeling of accomplishment and contentment.

Taking my first step towards beating this addiction has given me hope to keep going and continue my journey of self improvement. I'll report back in 30 days to give you an update on how its going at day 60! I'm stoked that I've made it this far and can't wait to make it to 6 months or a full year with out caffeine.

No Time Like The Present

If you want to try to giving up caffeine for good, I would highly recommend it. The first step towards breaking the cycle is to make the decision to stop consuming caffeine. Once you made this sincere decision you can start on your journey towards living a more healthy life.

Once you stop you will notice how much this substance is on our daily lives and make the needed adjustments to avoid it. I find myself drinking way more water than I use to. Whenever I go out to dinner with my family I order a glass of water, thus saving our family a few bucks!

We don't need this dreadful substance in our lives. We have fruits, vegetables and meat to give us all the energy we need during the day.

What kept me accountable was having an app on my phone that would help me track the habit of not consuming caffeine. The app I use is called Onrise

It has helped me keep track of this long term habit change and is super easy to use with smooth user experience. I highly recommend this app to anyone. It is only on iOS unfortunately but any habit tracking app will do the trick.

I really hope that you decide to go on this journey. It is well worth it!! If you have questions please don't hesitate to reach out!

@ f977c464:32fcbe00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ben geldiğimde ölmüşlerdi.

Yani bozulmuşlardı demek istiyorum.

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

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

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

Eliyle arkasını işaret etti.

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

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

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

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

Bira istemediğinden emin misin?

İstemediğini söyledi. Sahi, neden deliriyordu bu androidler?

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

Sesini alçalttı.

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

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

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

Nedenmiş peki? Ne gerek varmış?

Ne bileyim be abicim! Ahiret soruları gibi.

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

Ben seni nereden tanıyorum ki ulan? Kimsin sen?

Belleği makineden çıkardılar. İki kişiydiler. Soruşturmadan sorumlu memurlar.

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

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

─ Bence de. Yeterince düzgün çalışıyor.

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

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

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

Hangi işimizde bir yamukluk yok ki be abi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hiçbir vagonda pencere olmadığı için metronun içi, içlerindekiler meçhuldü.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onların mercekleri için değil. Bağlantıları çok önceden kopmuştu.

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

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

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

─ Nasıl olmuş, diye sordu.

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

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

─ Çok güzelsin, diyerek kravatını düzeltti kocası.

─ Sen de öylesin, sevgilim.

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

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

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

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

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

Hiç de androidlere bilinçli olarak zarar verebilecek gibi gözükmüyorlardı.

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

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

Bütün illüzyon o anda dağılmaya başladı.

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

@ d6dc9554:d0593a0c

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

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

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

@ 319ad3e7:cc01d50a

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NOV 2024 | ISSUE 3 | LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER | FOOD ART | LIFE EXPERIENCE | FEATURED RECIPE | KIDS CORNER | MICROFICTION | FOOD NOTE QUOTES | SOUNDS | UPCOMING EVENTS | ECONOMICS | COMMUNITY PHOTO ALBUM | NEW RECIPES

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LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER 📝

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Hello and welcome back to the cozy autumn days with Zap Cooking! I’m thrilled to bring you another issue of our monthly newsletter, a space where we share our favorite moments and celebrate our vibrant community. Sarah, who does an amazing job curating these updates, has crafted this edition to capture the essence of both real-life gatherings and our shared online experiences on Nostr.

In this issue, we’re excited to revisit highlights from Nostr Valley, where Zap Cooking was proud to sponsor and connect with friends in a truly special celebration. It was an incredible honor to see so many of you make the journey to join us for the first annual event—a milestone in Nostr’s history and a testament to the strength of our community.

As always, thank you for being a part of this journey. Your continued support, contributions, and readership mean everything to us. Here’s to more shared moments, connections, and, of course, great cooking!

Gratefully,

Seth

Founder, Zap Cooking

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FOOD ART 🎨

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Zap.Cooking’s favorite food art of the month is the Banana Bread Costume from Bread and Toast! 😀 https://i.nostr.build/MgihZ6m2bQCv6krD.png Visit Breadandtoast.Com For More! New Single Every Sunday!

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LIFE EXPERIENCE ✈️

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Nostr Valley Adventures

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The adventures of Nostr Valley began when I was invited to speak on a food panel alongside Seth, the founder of Zap.Cooking, at Happy Valley Brewing in State College Park, Pennsylvania.

Over the course of a month before the event, a fellow fun enthusiast known as The Beave organized a weekend filled with activities and accommodations, including a visit to a gun range and a stay at a charming three-bedroom countryside rental nestled among Pennsylvania's most scenic farm hills.

The Nostr Valley weekend had finally arrived, and I was set to drive six and a half hours to a small airport primarily used by skydivers and flying enthusiasts who park their personal planes in rented hangars. I was to meet a pilot who went by the name "Choke This." Despite the somewhat ominous name, my faith in the Nostr web of trust circles provided a sense of safety as I prepared to fly to Pennsylvania. Still, the thought of traveling alone to a remote area did cross my mind a few times. While it may not have been the wisest decision, I had faith in Nostr.

I began my journey at 1 am, getting ready and preparing my car before hitting the highway around 4 am. Driving on the empty roads was a pleasant experience, and I felt even better when I arrived at the well-kept airport on a beautiful sunny morning at 10:30 am, with not a single cloud in the sky. I knew it was a perfect day for skydiving, which alleviated one of the many flying-related nerves swirling in my head. Great weather? Check!

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After a brief introduction to the non-threatening pilot, we loaded our gear into the rear of the plane and settled in for takeoff, complete with those cool headphones. As we patiently waited for all the skydivers to land from their jumps, I received a crash course on plane safety in case of an emergency landing.

We made our way to the small runway, and with a gentle breeze, we were soaring into the blue skies. The view was absolutely breathtaking. Every time I fly, the scenery reminds me of the model city in the Beetlejuice movie.

For the next three hours, the pilot and I got to know each other. We shared our Nostr stories, backgrounds, and family lives. The pilot also gave an impressive presentation on the features of his aircraft, including a lesson on how to read knots—the unit of speed.

We landed in Maryland to pick up another panel speaker, Mr. Scott Churchill, who would be joining the art panel with Dan, the creator of the Nostr-only comic "Bread and Toast." Scott is a loving father with remarkable artistic skills that included drawing and music.

The three of us entered the airport restaurant and took a window seat overlooking the runway to grab a quick bite. This is where I was introduced to Maryland’s love for Old Bay seasoning. The pilot was eager to order crab cakes, and I was initially going to join him, but as soon as I spotted "CRAB SOUP" on the menu board, my food plans changed. Once we ordered, the food arrived fairly quickly. The kind server placed a bowl of soup in front of me, complete with extra crackers and an Old Bay salt shaker. My face lit up as I exclaimed, “What is this!?” Scott explained that Old Bay is a staple in these parts. I poured the seasoning into my soup and took a taste. “I’m going to do this at home,” I declared before even swallowing the first spoonful. I devoured the rest of the soup, sprinkling Old Bay each time I removed a layer of the flavorful creamy broth. I was hooked.

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Once lunch was finished, we boarded the plane. I offered the front seat to Scott since it was his first time flying. He was a mix of emotions about the flight, but he did amazing and even got to fly the plane!

When we landed in State College Park, Pennsylvania, it felt as though we had become a family. There’s nothing quite like trusting strangers with your life for several hours in a flying machine to foster a sense of camaraderie.

We were off to meet our fourth companion—the organizer, the maestro, the one and only, THE BEAVE! He awaited us at the house, and upon our arrival, we felt an immediate sense of comfort.

The house was beautiful, the people were friendly, and it was time to invite other speakers and guests over for a magical steak dinner. Beave started the bonfire while the pilot fired up the grill. Guests began to arrive.

The steaks were so thick and stacked that I dubbed it "Steak Jenga." The guests gathered around the impressive pile of perfectly cooked meat, each grabbing a steak as large as their faces.

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After dinner, I had the opportunity to taste one of the best-flavored vodkas I had ever encountered: Blake’s Limited Edition x Gypsy Spirits’ Apple Pie Vodka, a vodka infused with Apple Cider & Cinnamon.

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I called it an early night due to all the traveling and being awake since 1 am, especially since I would be speaking on my first panel the next day. I wanted to be fresh and alert for the event. As soon as my head touched the pillow, I fell into a deep sleep. When I woke early the next morning, I felt rested and ready to conquer the day.

Beave and I were the only ones awake, so we headed to the nearest country store to see what breakfast supplies they offered. Upon entering the store, we found a convenience section on the left and a sit-down breakfast and lunch area on the right. We made our way to the cold section, where we discovered local dairy farm milk in half-gallon glass containers for only $3! I had to grab a jug. There were also small bottles of flavored milk, including strawberry milk, for less than $1.50.

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Beave and I picked up some eggs and butter, but the real treasure was the donuts. The lady behind the register was an excellent saleswoman, encouraging us to take home a container of these fluffy looking treats. I noticed Beave had already bought some right before I made my way to the register, so I thought, "Why not?" I grabbed a container of smaller individual donuts that would be perfect for sharing with the house.

Once we got to the car, we each took a bite of a donut and immediately began scarfing it down in ecstasy. It was moist, and the bakers hadn’t skimped on the glaze. There was no oily aftertaste—just rich, sweet goodness that I would absolutely recommend.

After returning to the house, we served breakfast and started getting dressed for Nostr Valley.

At this point, I was a bundle of nerves. As we arrived at Happy Valley Brewing, it was heartening to see so many familiar faces from Nostr. Avi Burra, author and host of Plebchain Radio, began hosting the event, introducing all the speakers and panels. Derek Ross, one of the organizers of Nostr Valley, opened the show with a "Nostr 101" speech. Then, the art panel, moderated by Seth—my “boss” from Zap.Cooking—featured Dan and Scott. Avi then demonstrated his Nostr medical application. The food crew, consisting of Seth and me, followed next, moderated by Boston Wine. Next Block made their rounds with Mandana and Ian. The Other Nostr Apps panel featured Derek, Vic, Boston Wine, and Avi. The infamous Open Mike spoke about music with Derek, and the event concluded with closing remarks from the two organizers.

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This was my first time speaking on a panel, and to say I was nervous would be an understatement. I practically clung to Seth the entire time and felt as though I blacked out while speaking. Nevertheless, I was proud to have made it through.

Afterward, a large group of us headed to the American Ale House, where we had a private section of the restaurant reserved. Avi and Derek’s shared dish was particularly notable—a nearly $90 certified angus beef tomahawk steak weighing in at 44 ounces.

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For the afterparty, we invited everyone to a bonfire and podcast session at our VRBO for mini podcast recordings. However, I ended up successfully talking for 45 minutes with the first attendee, and by then, everyone else grew tired of waiting. I was ready for bed after such a long day.

On Sunday morning, the sun streamed through my window as I woke up, and I realized it was shooting range day! Beave and I headed over to the country store for more donuts, but unfortunately, it was closed on Sundays. We took a drive to fill up the car with gas and grabbed a breakfast sandwich or two at the gas station. We gathered the rest of the group and made our way to PGC Scotia Shooting Range, where we spent six hours shooting a variety of guns outdoors.

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When we returned, we were starving and enjoyed a pleasant pheasant dinner filled with lively conversation.

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On Monday, we checked out of the VRBO. The day was cloudy, and the first part of the flight home was bumpy, but the sky cleared after we dropped off the other speaker. Once we landed back at the skydiving airport, I spent the rest of the evening driving home, finally walking in the door at 2 am.

My favorite part of the weekend wasn’t the speaking on stage or all the activities; it was the friendships I gained over those three days. I am truly grateful.

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KIDS CORNER 🐤

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MICROFICTION 📖

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TRICK OR TREAT? | Rustypuppy

“Remember, look into her orange eye, ask for a trick, and say ‘please.’” Janice fluffed the mane of my son’s lion costume and gave him a little push toward the dilapidated barn, decked out in creepy Halloween glory, complete with skeleton graveyard, tree ghosts, and a giant roof spider with glowing eyes.

Henry took two steps forward, then glanced back at me. I smiled and nodded. His brow furrowed, then he got in line with the other kids waiting for their turn at Granny Baba’s front door.

“You’re not traumatizing my five year old for life, are you?” I asked our babysitter.

The teen laughed. “He’s a brave little guy. I didn’t face her until I was seven. Relax, pops. Granny Baba is a rite of passage in this town. He’ll fit in better once he can say he got his trick. Besides, sometimes you gotta go through the scary to get to the good.”

After twelve minutes and eleven seconds, my son ran toward us, his face shining with joy. “I got the trick!” He showed off his jack o’ lantern candy bucket, which had contained the usual assortment of wrapped sugar and artificial ingredients, and now also held a clear plastic bag filled with lumpy darkness.

I side-eyed Janice as she took out the bag, opened it, and ate a handful. Henry did the same before I could stop him.

“This is …. good,” he said, frowning and chewing at the same time. “What’s the trick?”

“It’s healthy,” Janice replied. “All natural, sprouted granola.”

*RECIPE REFERENCE | Sprouted Bliss Granola - Essencial | Vegan | nostr:npub1c6dhrhzkflwr2zkdmlujnujawgp2c9rsep6gscyt6mvcusnt5a3srnzmx3

Follow Rustypuppy | https://rustypuppy.npub.pro/

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FOOD NOTE QUOTES 🗒️

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SOUNDS 🔊

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MUSIC

HONEY | MARTIN GROOMS

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PODCASTS

TFTC

Courtney Swan breaks down how these harmful ingredients are fueling hyperactivity in children. | https://video.nostr.build/49e4c0db7da37748ac04071cab1fdc668b55aa346e08bf8501d6071bd59ab6e6.mp4 These 10 Companies Control The World To POISON YOU! | Marty sat down with Courtney Swan to expose how 10 Companies Control The entire Worlds food supply, and how they're producing food that's poisoning you and your family. | To watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSEiJ6C4MHk

BENPOD

BenPod.com featuring Twitter Co-Founder, Rabble | NOSTR Breaks Every Social Media Paradigm (BWP58) https://video.nostr.build/caaa77bb42bbfa2ddc04017ae45f68a95c162822edaa3084ffefeff4776ce0e0.mp4 | To watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/U-eNYRwyADI

PLEBCHAIN RADIO

Fermenting a Revolution with Ben Justman | Plebchain Radio | QW & Avi discuss the road to plebhood, building Peony Lane Vineyards, running a Bitcoin business, Creed, Nostr and more with Ben Justman. | Peony Lane Vineyard : https://www.peonylanewine.com/ | https://fountain.fm/episode/YMpNVBI3WjDv1Uttl1vd

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UPCOMING EVENTS 🥳

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Submit your Nostr event with @ZapCooking on Nostr

NOVEMBER 1

SoupBox Debut Listening Party| 7pm EST | ONLINE | zap.stream

NOVEMBER 6

The No-Conference Nostr Party at Bitcoin Park | Nashville, Tennessee | https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/303283108

NOVEMBER 8-9

Brazil's Largest 100% Bitcoin Event | São Paulo | https://www.satsconf.com.br/

DECEMBER 15-19

Sats By SW | A V4V Weekend | Austin, Texas | https://media.primal.net/uploads/2/e0/e1/2e0e1258d63c4b758eeeb48cc0892eaf35a99f083d0a1cf7be03d1382fc6b8bd.jpg

JANUARY 30-31

Plan B Forum | El Salvador | https://image.nostr.build/86c3212b3677a0176f1a838ea006bfdf9cc43e778f5c406c641b553436917395.jpg

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ECONOMICS 🍞

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SAUSAGES | Peter McCormack

"...Mistakes, even trivial ones, are amplified in seconds. Look at the recent Labour Party conference, where Keir Starmer’s speech was meant to lay out his grand vision for fixing the country. Instead, a simple slip of the tongue—calling for the release of “sausages,” instead of “hostages”—became the story. Within hours, memes flooded the internet, and his entire message was lost in the noise..."

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Read more: https://www.petermccormack.com/p/sausages

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COMMUNITY PHOTO ALBUM 📷

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Community Photo Album by The Beave, Derek Ross, Seth, Scott, T$, JD, Vic, Adam Toad, The Bitcoin Babe, Open Mike, Silberengel, inyahé, Bread and Toast, Nostr Valley, Atlantic Bitcoin Conference, TABconf, CornyChat, NostrNests | Share your Nostr community photos or videos with @ZapCooking

Nostr Valley

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Atlanta Bitcoin Conference

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TABConf

The critical innovations at @TABConf for a Saturday night. | Oatmeal-raisin, chocolate-chip, and vegan peanut butter cookies have been baked. Leaving for #meetup in Frankfurt with @Purple Konnektiv ❤️ | Silberengel https://image.nostr.build/f4a4d25220ec2b6797d09c68049639dedefc9d3414ad5587a48a6016ede46d81.jpg The Peanut Butter Cookie recipe is available on Zap.Cooking! nostr:npub1l5sga6xg72phsz5422ykujprejwud075ggrr3z2hwyrfgr7eylqstegx9z

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NEW RECIPES 🍲

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Essencial | Vegan | nostr:npub1c6dhrhzkflwr2zkdmlujnujawgp2c9rsep6gscyt6mvcusnt5a3srnzmx3

Lucas M | Pork Meatballs | nostr:npub1whgjzsdrjxv5csrz2q032hpwxnjp4rpulxl0nexh62vz2dzc683qh8wqu9

Kat | Empanadas | nostr:npub10us6l7kvn340s2mw4jhluj0jlpt3zthnqftk8xewy80d64lpj96qa7xew6

Chriso🇺🇸🇦🇺🦘⚡️ | Mexican Grilled Chicken | nostr:npub147wy3decmxy3vs9u4nse80ha7nkcydt7zdge8lc9gk8ddglh4t6qudjwdr

MichZ | Orzo with Asparagus and Prosciutto | nostr:npub1jdyaqyngdj4tgmmtlm7j7npkr3fwzjcumcwdqf68dc9wd5lf39rqwlfwsu

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FIN 🤠

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👋 What's up, stackers & podcasters!
I'm excited to announce a new release for Jamie – our AI-powered podcast assistant (think a virtual Jamie for Joe Rogan fans)!

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TL;DR: Jamie now goes beyond file uploads! With this update, Jamie can access any podcast published on an RSS feed, making it super easy to get transcripts, summaries, blog posts, and more.

Our goal is to make Jamie your go-to tool for everything pre-production, post-production, promotion, and podcast market research.

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🛠️ How to Use the New Jamie

Step 1: Search for Your Podcast on RSS
Find the feed of your choice and select it to start analyzing episodes:

Step 2: Pick the Episode You Want to Analyze
Choose any episode to get started!
analyzing @k00b and @Car on SNL

Step 3: Select Your Content Type
Choose the type of content you want to generate – we have nine default options, or you can create your own Custom Prompt:

✏️ Optional: Customize the Prompt/Give More Context
Adding more context or tweaking the prompt can help tailor the output:

⏳ Step 4: Await Your Results
Within about a minute, Jamie delivers the content you need:

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🚀 Future Plans
- Expand and continually improve on Jamie's capabilities. Our goal is to make Jamie a great assistant for all things media pre-production, post-production and even research! Please hit us with feedback as we pursue that goal. - Teaser: we are the proud owners of pullthatupjamie.ai. We plan to make the most out of that and provide you with great AI enhanced researching tools. This new tool to be announced will provide unparalleled utility, convenience and privacy aligned with our other applications - More language support! Jamie has gotten popular with an international audience! Stay tuned as we make more releases & optimizations related to supporting users worldwide

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🧡 If you made it this far, thanks for tuning in! Check out our bitcoin-payable services and apps at https://cascdr.xyz.

Cheers, and happy podcasting!

originally posted at https://stacker.news/items/749836

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Select your currency (USD).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@ 2348ca50:32a055a8

Keeping a clean and organized home is essential for a healthy lifestyle, yet many people find it challenging to manage household chores alongside their busy schedules. This is where professional house cleaners come in. They offer various services tailored to meet individual needs, ensuring that homes are clean, organized, and welcoming. In this article, we will explore how house cleaners work, the different types of cleaning services available, methods and tools used, the hiring process, and tips for ensuring the best results from professional cleaning services.

Types of House Cleaning Services

House cleaning services can vary widely in scope and focus. Here are some of the most common types:

1. 1. Regular Cleaning

Regular cleaning is often a recurring service, such as weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. It typically includes:

Dusting surfaces

Vacuuming and mopping floors

Cleaning bathrooms (toilets, sinks, showers)

Kitchen cleaning (countertops, sinks, exterior of appliances)

General tidying up

1. 1. Deep Cleaning

Deep cleaning goes beyond regular cleaning and is usually recommended periodically (e.g., quarterly or bi-annually). It involves a thorough cleaning of all areas of the home, including:

Scrubbing baseboards and moldings

Cleaning behind and underneath furniture and appliances

Washing windows and window sills

Detailed cleaning of bathrooms and kitchens

Dusting light fixtures and ceiling fans

1. 1. Move-In/Move-Out Cleaning

This type of cleaning service is designed for individuals moving into or out of a home. It typically includes deep cleaning to prepare the space for new occupants or to leave it spotless for landlords. Tasks may involve:

Cleaning cabinets and drawers

Scrubbing floors and carpets

Washing walls

Removing trash

1. 1. Specialized Cleaning

Some house cleaning services specialize in certain areas or types of cleaning, such as:

Post-construction cleaning

Carpet and upholstery cleaning

Eco-friendly cleaning

Commercial cleaning for offices and businesses

1. 1. Organizational Services

In addition to cleaning, some house cleaners offer organizational services to help clients declutter and arrange their belongings efficiently. This may include:

Closet organization

Kitchen and pantry organization

Home office decluttering

How House Cleaners Work

1. 1. Initial Consultation

Most cleaning companies offer an initial consultation, either in-person or over the phone. During this consultation, clients discuss their cleaning needs, preferences, and any specific areas of concern. This helps the cleaning team prepare a tailored plan for the job.

1. 1. Assessment and Estimate

After understanding the client’s requirements, the cleaning company typically conducts an assessment of the space to determine the time and resources needed. Based on this assessment, they provide an estimate of the cost, which can vary depending on the size of the home, the type of cleaning service, and any additional requests.

1. 1. Scheduling the Service

Once the client agrees to the estimate, the next step is to schedule the cleaning service. Clients can choose a one-time service or set up a recurring schedule based on their preferences and needs.

1. 1. Preparing for the Cleaning Day

Before the cleaning team arrives, clients can prepare their homes by: Decluttering spaces (to make cleaning easier)

Communicating any specific cleaning instructions or areas to focus on

Securing pets in a safe area (if applicable)

1. 1. The Cleaning Process

When the cleaning team arrives, they typically follow a systematic approach to cleaning:

Arrival and Preparation: The team members will introduce themselves and review the cleaning plan with the client (if present). They may also gather their cleaning supplies and equipment.

Dusting and Surface Cleaning: The team starts by dusting high surfaces, such as ceiling fans and shelves, and works downwards to avoid spreading dust onto clean areas.

Vacuuming and Mopping: Floors are vacuumed first, followed by mopping or scrubbing, depending on the type of flooring.

Kitchen and Bathroom Cleaning: These areas often require the most attention. The team will sanitize countertops, sinks, appliances, and fixtures, ensuring that they are thoroughly cleaned.

Final Touches: After completing the main cleaning tasks, the team may do a final walk-through to ensure everything meets the client’s expectations.

1. 1. Post-Cleaning Inspection

After the cleaning is completed, some companies may offer a post-cleaning inspection to ensure that everything has been done to the client’s satisfaction. Clients are encouraged to provide feedback and discuss any areas that may need additional attention.

1. 1. Payment and Scheduling Future Services

Clients typically settle payment after the service is completed. Many cleaning companies offer online payment options for convenience. Clients can also schedule future services at this time if they wish to maintain a regular cleaning schedule.

Tools and Techniques Used by House Cleaners

1. 1. Cleaning Supplies

House cleaners often bring their cleaning supplies and equipment, which may include:

All-Purpose Cleaners: Used for various surfaces, including countertops and appliances.

Disinfectants: Important for sanitizing high-touch areas such as doorknobs, light switches, and bathroom fixtures.

Glass Cleaners: Used for windows and mirrors to achieve a streak-free shine.

Floor Cleaners: Specialized products for hardwood, tile, or carpeted surfaces.

1. 1. Cleaning Equipment

Common cleaning equipment used by professionals includes:

Vacuum Cleaners: High-quality vacuums with attachments for different surfaces.

Mops and Buckets: For mopping hard floors.

Microfiber Cloths: Effective for dusting and cleaning without leaving streaks.

Brooms and Dustpans: For quick clean-ups of dust and debris.

1. 1. Techniques and Best Practices

Professional cleaners often employ techniques to maximize efficiency and effectiveness, including:

Top-to-Bottom Cleaning: Cleaning high areas first to avoid redistributing dirt.

Zone Cleaning: Focusing on one area at a time for thoroughness.

Use of Microfiber: Utilizing microfiber cloths for dusting and cleaning, as they capture dust and dirt effectively without the need for harsh chemicals.

Hiring a House Cleaner: What to Consider When hiring a house cleaner, it’s essential to consider several factors to ensure a positive experience:

1. 1. Reputation and Reviews

Researching the reputation of a cleaning service is crucial. Look for online reviews, testimonials, and ratings on reputable sites to gauge the quality of service provided.

1. 1. Services Offered

Ensure the cleaning service offers the specific type of cleaning you require. Some companies specialize in particular areas, so it’s essential to find one that meets your needs.

1. 1. Pricing Structure

Understand the pricing structure, including any additional fees for specific services or materials. Some companies charge hourly rates, while others offer flat fees based on the size of the home.

1. 1. Insurance and Certifications

Check if the cleaning company is insured and bonded. This protects you in case of accidents or damage during the cleaning process.

1. 1. Flexibility and Availability

Consider the company’s flexibility in scheduling and whether they can accommodate your preferred cleaning times, especially if you need a recurring service.

1. 1. Communication and Trust

It’s essential to hire a cleaning service that communicates effectively and values customer service. Trust is crucial, as cleaners will be in your home, so choose a company that instills confidence.

Tips for Getting the Best Results

To ensure you get the best results from your house cleaning service, consider these tips:

1. 1. Be Clear About Expectations

Communicate your cleaning needs and expectations clearly during the initial consultation. Providing specific instructions will help the cleaning team focus on areas that matter most to you.

1. 1. Keep an Open Line of Communication

If you’re present during the cleaning, feel free to ask questions or make requests. Open communication helps the cleaners understand your preferences better.

1. 1. Maintain a Clutter-Free Space

While professional cleaners will tidy up, maintaining a relatively organized space can make their job easier and allow for more thorough cleaning.

1. 1. Provide Feedback

After the service, share your thoughts with the cleaning company. Positive feedback encourages good practices, while constructive criticism helps improve future services.

1. 1. Consider a Regular Cleaning Schedule

To maintain a clean home, consider setting up a regular cleaning schedule. This prevents dirt and clutter from accumulating, making each cleaning session more manageable.

Conclusion

House cleaners provide a valuable service that helps individuals maintain clean and organized homes. By understanding how house cleaners work, the types of services available, and the processes involved, clients can make informed decisions when hiring cleaning professionals. Whether you opt for regular cleaning, deep cleaning, or specialized services, investing in professional house cleaning can save time, reduce stress, and enhance your living environment. With the right approach and communication, you can enjoy a sparkling clean home without the hassle.

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

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

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

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

DIDs

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

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

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

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

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Organizational identifiers

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

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

Nonfunctional requirements

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

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

To recap

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

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

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

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

Nowadays, I discovered a few AIDs methods

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

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

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

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

DID Subject

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

DID Controller

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

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

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

Key Pair

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

Identifier

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

DID:Key

did:key identifier

DID web

did:web

Relations

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

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

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

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

To discover more, read the paper.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shenandoah Bitcoin

1. Executive Summary

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

2. Company Description

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

What’s in a name?

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

3. Services

We offer a range of services, including:

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

4. Membership Benefits

We offer tiered membership packages with benefits such as:

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

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

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

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

5. Market Analysis

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

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

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

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

5.1 Market Trends

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

5.2 Market Needs

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

6. Marketing and Sales Strategy

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

7. Organizational Structure

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

8. Financial Projections

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

9. Funding Request

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

10. Exit Strategy

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

11. Conclusion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think that’s better, don’t you?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’ll be honest, bitcoin rewires your brain.

Do you really wanna force that on people?

Yes?

Then let’s read on.

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

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

Why is it different with bitcoin, then?

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

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

No.

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

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

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

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

That’s one seed.

“Who prints all these new billions?”

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

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

Nocoiner: Bitcoin isn’t backed by anything.

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

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

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

Nocoiner: Bitcoin wastes too much energy.

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

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

Tell them less, ask more.

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

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

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

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

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

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Sorry, this article went out on Substack, but I forgot to post it on Nostr.

God has made many promises throughout history that are recorded in the Bible. Most of them took centuries, if not millennia to be fulfilled. The God of the Bible is outside of time, so He doesn’t look at time like we do, but His timing is just what it should be.

God never breaks His promises. He fulfills them in full and in all details, but not necessarily in the timing we desire. We’re going to go through some of God’s greatest promises and see what we can learn about God, ourselves, God’s character, and the future. Seeing what God has done should help us to trust God in all things.

Adam & Eve

God’s first promise was given to Adam and Eve after they sinned.

To Eve, He promised:

“I will greatly multiply\ Your pain in childbirth,\ In pain you will bring forth children;\ Yet your desire will be for your husband,\ And he will rule over you.” (Genesis 3:16)

This promised was fulfilled immediately and for all of the women after Eve.

To Adam, He promised:

“Cursed is the ground because of you;\ In toil you will eat of it\ All the days of your life.\ Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;\ And you will eat the plants of the field;\ By the sweat of your face\ You will eat bread,\ Till you return to the ground,\ Because from it you were taken;\ For you are dust,\ And to dust you shall return.” (Genesis 3:17b-19)

This promise was also fulfilled immediately and in all men throughout history.

To the serpent (Satan), it was promised:

“Because you have done this,\ Cursed are you more than all cattle,\ And more than every beast of the field;\ On your belly you will go,\ And dust you will eat\ All the days of your life;\ And I will put enmity\ Between you and the woman,\ And between your seed and her seed;\ **He shall bruise you on the head,\ And you shall bruise him on the heel.” (Genesis 3:14b-15) {emphasis mine}

The initial curse on serpents was fulfilled immediately, but the ultimate curse/promise was partially fulfilled when Jesus died on the cross and will be fulfilled completely in the last battle (Armageddon) at the end of the age when Satan is cast into hell.

“You shall bruise him on the heel” refers to Satan working to have Jesus crucified. A bruised heel is not fatal and Jesus returned from the dead, conquering death and sin.

“He shall bruise you on the head.” A head wound is fatal. Jesus struck the initial blow when He rose from the dead conquering death and sin after paying the price for our sins. The final blow will be His last action on Earth before His believers move to the new heaven and new earth.

According to time calculations by Uscher using the genealogies, Adam and Eve were created about 4004 B.C. How long it took them to sin is not made clear, but what details we get suggests it was very soon after creation, so it took approximately 4,000 years to be partially fulfilled and will be at least another 2,000 years to be fully fulfilled.

But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. (2 Peter 3:8)

Since God is outside time, He doesn’t look at time as we do. We want things now. We don’t want to wait, but we need to understand that God’s timing is always perfect and we often learn from God in the waiting.

Next we will learn from someone who waited faithfully on God’s promises and never gave up, even when logic would say that God’s promises were impossible.

Abraham

God’s first promise to Abraham came when he was 75 years old.

“Go forth from your country,\ And from your relatives\ And from your father’s house,\ To the land which I will show you;\ And I will make you a great nation,\ And I will bless you,\ And make your name great;\ And so you shall be a blessing;\ And I will bless those who bless you,\ And the one who curses you I will curse.\ And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” (Genesis 12:1b-3) {emphasis mine}

God told Abraham to leave his home and go to a land he did not know. What should have been Abraham’s golden years was the beginning of his wandering. Abraham trusted God and obeyed.

Abraham was promised that God would “make you [Abraham] a great nation.” Without faith in an all powerful God, this would have seemed impossible. Abraham was 75 years old and had no children. His wife, Sarah, was only 10 years younger. Both were past the age of having children. They were being told to leave their home and move to an unknown land inhabited by strange people. No betting person would believe this man would become the father of a great nation and definitely no one would think the whole world would be blessed through his family.

Abraham was led to the edge of Canaan (the future site of Israel) and once again God made a promise to Abraham:

“To your descendants I will give this land.” (Genesis 12:7b)

Abraham and Sarah had no children. They were blessed with flocks and servants, but it would have seemed unthinkable that they could conquer Canaan, drive out the nations living there, and father a new nation. Despite this, Abraham believed that God’s promises are true.

When did the land finally belong to the descendants of Abraham? I don’t know the exact number of years, but he was still about 25 years away from fathering Isaac. Then Isaac had to grow up and marry before fathering Jacob. Jacob had to grow up, worked many years to earn his wife Rachael before fathering his twelve sons, including Joseph. Joseph had to grow up and spend years in Egypt before being put in charge in Egypt. The Israelites were then in Egypt for about 400 years before being freed and exiting Egypt to go to the promised land. Because this generation rebelled, they were then forced to wander in the desert for more than 40 years. Looking at this, it was well beyond 500 years before Abraham’s descendants owned any of the land God promised Abraham other than a small burial plot.

Does this mean God was unfaithful? Of course not.

The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)

At first Abraham and Sarah tried to fulfill God’s promise themselves. Sarah followed the local pagan way and gave her maid to her husband to father a child for them and Hagar gave birth to Ishmael when Abraham was 86 years old.

When Abraham was 99 years old God said,

“For I have made you the father of a multitude of nations. I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you. I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you. I will give to you and to your descendants after you, the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” (Genesis 17:5b-8) {emphasis mine}

God once again God promised the land to Abraham and also promised he would be “the father of a multitude of nations.” At last the promise of fathering nations seemed possible because of his son Ishmael, but owning the land of Canaan, in which he was a sojourner, living in a tent, seemed out of reach, but Abraham still did not fully understand God’s plan. God gave a new, more detailed promise to Abraham.

“As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name. I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.” (Genesis 17:15b-16) {emphasis mine}

Abraham couldn’t believe that they could possible have a child of their own. He couldn’t comprehend him, at 100, and Sarah, at 90, producing a child of promise and instead of thanking God said, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You!” God corrected Abraham saying, “No, but Sarah your wife will bear you a son, and you shall call his name Isaac; and I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.” (Genesis 17:19-20)

Now becoming the father of a second son, even in his old age, Abraham began to see the fulfillment of God’s promises almost 25 years earlier.

Eventually, at the age of 100 Abraham had his promised son, Isaac, through whom the promise would be fulfilled.

When Sarah died, Abraham was able to buy the “cave of Machpelah” as a place to bury his wife. This was the first piece of soil that Abraham owned in the promised land and the only piece that he got to see, but God wasn’t done yet.

I always remember the son of promise, Isaac. When I stop and think, I remember that Abraham also had Ishmael. Until recently, although I had read this passage many times, I always forgot Abraham’s sons through Keturah.

Now Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah. She bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah. (Genesis 25:1-2)

God had promised Abraham, at the age of 75, that he would be the father of many nations. He seemed too old to become the father of even one son, but became the father of eight.

Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim. The sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah. Now Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac; but to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east. (Genesis 25:3-6)

All of these sons and their sons became the foundation of many nations throughout the Middle East and beyond just like God had promised, but this was only a partial fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham. Much more was yet to come.

Jacob

God’s promise to Abraham was passed down to Isaac and then to Isaac’s son Jacob (the younger twin). After Jacob betrayed his twin brother Esau, Rebekah sent Jacob to her family to find a wife. On the way, God made a promise directly to him.

“I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, I will give it to you and to your descendants. Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.” (Genesis 28:13-15)

God once again promised the chosen heir the ownership of this land and that he would be returned to it. He also said, “Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth,” reiterating the Abrahamic covenant.

Through two wives and two concubines, that were maids to his two wives, Jacob fathered 12 sons who became the fathers of the 12 tribes of Israel. Although Jacob was returned to the promised land of Canaan after several decades with his mother’s family, he also did not get to see the complete fulfillment of God’s promise that they would be given the land. He saw that God was always with Him; he was returned to the land God had promised Him; but he did not get to see the vast descendants or how his family was a blessing to the whole world. God’s timing was not yet complete.

In Part 2 we will see more promises of God and see how God is faithful.

Trust Jesus.\ \ your sister in Christ,

Christy

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Table Of Content

• The Rise of River: A Game-Changer in the Bitcoin Space

• Factors Influencing Thiel's Decision

• Implications of Thiel's Investment

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Peter Thiel, the renowned venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal, has recently made headlines with his bold move of investing $35 million in a Bitcoin startup called River. Thiel's investment in the cryptocurrency industry has sparked curiosity and debate among investors and industry experts. In this article, we will explore the reasons behind Thiel's decision to back River and delve into the potential implications of this move for the Bitcoin ecosystem.

The Rise of River: A Game-Changer in the Bitcoin Space

Understanding River's Mission

River is a Bitcoin startup founded in 2019 with a mission to make Bitcoin more accessible and user-friendly. The company aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the world of cryptocurrencies by providing institutional-grade Bitcoin financial services. River offers a suite of tools and services designed to simplify the process of buying, selling, and storing Bitcoin for both individual and institutional investors.

Thiel's Confidence in River's Vision

Peter Thiel's investment in River is a testament to his confidence in the startup's vision and potential. Thiel has a track record of backing disruptive and innovative companies, and his support for River indicates his belief in the transformative power of Bitcoin. By investing a substantial amount of capital, Thiel is betting on River's ability to drive mainstream adoption of Bitcoin and revolutionize the way people interact with the digital currency.

Factors Influencing Thiel's Decision

Growing Institutional Interest in Bitcoin

One of the key factors influencing Thiel's decision to invest in River is the increasing institutional interest in Bitcoin. In recent years, major financial institutions, including banks and asset management firms, have started to embrace cryptocurrencies and recognize their potential as an investment asset. Thiel, known for his keen insights into emerging trends, likely sees the institutional adoption of Bitcoin as a significant catalyst for its future growth.

Addressing Bitcoin's Accessibility Challenges

Bitcoin's mainstream adoption has been hindered by various challenges, including its complexity and lack of user-friendly infrastructure. River aims to tackle these hurdles by providing a seamless and secure platform for buying, selling, and storing Bitcoin. Thiel's investment in River indicates his belief that the startup's innovative solutions can address these accessibility challenges and make Bitcoin more user-friendly for a broader audience.

Potential for Bitcoin's Price Appreciation

Thiel's investment in River may also be driven by his belief in the long-term potential for Bitcoin's price appreciation. As an early advocate of Bitcoin, Thiel has consistently expressed his bullish stance on the digital currency. By investing in a Bitcoin startup like River, Thiel is positioning himself to benefit from the potential growth of the cryptocurrency market as a whole.

Implications of Thiel's Investment

Boosting Confidence in the Bitcoin Ecosystem

Thiel's investment in River not only provides the startup with substantial funding but also boosts confidence in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem. Thiel's track record as a successful investor and his reputation in the financial industry lend credibility to the potential of Bitcoin as a disruptive force in the world of finance. His endorsement of River may encourage other investors and institutions to take a closer look at Bitcoin and its underlying technology.

Accelerating Mainstream Adoption

Thiel's investment in River has the potential to accelerate the mainstream adoption of Bitcoin. River's focus on user-friendly financial services can attract a wider audience of investors who were previously hesitant to enter the cryptocurrency space. By providing a seamless and secure platform, River can help overcome the barriers that have prevented mainstream adoption, ultimately driving more people to embrace Bitcoin as a viable investment option.

Fostering Innovation in the Bitcoin Industry

Thiel's investment in River also fuels innovation in the Bitcoin industry. The injection of capital enables River to expand its operations, hire top talent, and further develop its suite of services. This infusion of resources can have a ripple effect, inspiring other entrepreneurs and startups to enter the Bitcoin ecosystem with their own innovative solutions. Thiel's backing of River may spark a wave of creativity and competition, ultimately driving the industry forward.

Conclusion

Peter Thiel's $35 million investment in the Bitcoin startup River is a bold move that highlights his confidence in the future of Bitcoin and the potential of innovative companies within the cryptocurrency space. Thiel's investment not only supports River's mission to make Bitcoin more accessible but also boosts confidence in the broader Bitcoin ecosystem. By addressing Bitcoin's accessibility challenges, River has the potential to drive mainstream adoption and accelerate the growth of the cryptocurrency market. Thiel's backing of River also fosters innovation within the industry, inspiring other entrepreneurs to develop their own groundbreaking solutions. With Thiel's strategic investment, River is well-positioned to make a significant impact on the Bitcoin landscape and shape the future of digital finance.

FAQ

Who is Peter Thiel? Peter Thiel is a renowned venture capitalist and co-founder of PayPal. He is known for his investments in disruptive and innovative companies.

What is River? River is a Bitcoin startup that aims to make Bitcoin more accessible and user-friendly by providing institutional-grade financial services for buying, selling, and storing Bitcoin.

Why did Peter Thiel invest in River? Peter Thiel invested in River because he believes in the startup's vision and potential to drive mainstream adoption of Bitcoin. He also sees the growing institutional interest in Bitcoin and the need to address its accessibility challenges.

What are the implications of Thiel's investment in River? Thiel's investment in River boosts confidence in the Bitcoin ecosystem, accelerates mainstream adoption, and fosters innovation within the industry.

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TheWholeGrain - #October2024

October is the month of Halloween and just like last year the gang wanted to show off their costumes! Bread was even excited to put on the costume this year. Can you believe it?

October also brought us a famous piece of cover art in the comic book industry while also showing us a possible logo for the "Bread Industry" in the world of Bread and Toast. The Bitcoin Art for this past month got to feature all three pieces of bread to show that Bitcoin works for everyone regardless of where they are, and we also got to show off what is obviously a very important political campaign logo for Toast.

The Bakery got to add the Bread and Toast logo to the collection with a new painting by The Bitcoin Painter. Please check out The Bitcoin Painter as this isn't the first time he has contributed to Bread and Toast, and we promise it will not be the last. He also created another art piece this past month of Bread, Toast, and End-Piece preparing for a quest.

Last of all, Bread and Toast went to it's first live event Nostr Valley on October 12th. The gang got to hand out some goodies and even made its first merchandise sales! Ten exclusive metal cut-outs in the shape of a slice of bread were sold at the event and NOSTR Badges were given out to those folks he bought them! Another badge was also given to folks who posted and shared a free exclusive print that was also given out to event attendees. All in all, Bread and Toast got to spread awareness of what they are up to with some fellow Nostriches, and we got to hear some kind feedback from those who are already following our adventures!

October Sunday Singles 2024-10-06 | Sunday Single 060 Roar https://i.nostr.build/Qp9CYnaGOuprxTQ1.png

2024-10-13 | Sunday Single 061 Ruff https://i.nostr.build/v2OsYHVmbyN84q9T.png

2024-10-20 | Sunday Single 062 Banana Bread https://i.nostr.build/MgihZ6m2bQCv6krD.png

2024-10-27 Trick-or-Treat https://i.nostr.build/dfBBgXQXNTcpfUeu.png

Other Content Released in October 2024 2024-10-02 | Toast's Comic Collection WATCHBREAD #6 On Friday night, a piece of toast fried in New York. Somebody knows why. Down there... somebody knows. https://i.nostr.build/4CqkA8GJ47NqAmNu.png

2024-10-08 | Politics Toast Campaign Logo The Official Campaign Logo for Toast2024. https://i.nostr.build/EnBDx.png

2024-10-09 | Concept Art Early Website Logo Design This was an early design for the logo of the bread company in the story of Bread and Toast. https://i.nostr.build/v6B4v68kkqmjygZT.png

2024-10-12 | Nostr Valley Nostr Valley 2024 Promotional A Promotional Art Piece released on the morning of Nostr Valley 2024. https://i.nostr.build/MPYjaZctceimKUm8.png

2024-10-16 | Bitcoin Art All Over Bitcoin can be used by anyone from wherever they are! https://i.nostr.build/BAzdyuf88SPuzkxk.png

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Nostr Valley 2024 Photos The Bread and Toast Merch Table at Nostr Valley https://i.nostr.build/S3UkvSIiClfbB1lt.jpg

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When it comes to education and adoption, it's essential to focus on the foundation, which begins already with the youngsters and their mentors.

If you've already checked out the main page of our Geyser campaign explaining more about the overall mission of Bitcoin Junior Club + our goals, you might remember that organizing short events and meet-ups for kids is one of them.

For this particular point, we hadn’t planned to start this year due to limited funding and resources, but sometimes life has other plans. There was a gift from the stars we couldn’t ignore... 😮💫

Less than a month ago, we were given the opportunity to organize [a dedicated space for children and families at this year’s Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador.

• You can find more details on this in the links shared below(*).
• Huge thanks to the organizers, especially Kiki and Kemal, for their trust and a wonderful collaboration!

Here’s where it gets important, where your role may come in:

Both Adopting Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Junior Club are non-profit projects, built on strong values and integrity, which limits the potential for large-scale funding.

The entire Bitcoin Para Niños space and program are funded by our personal resources.

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✅ Our input also includes countless hours of non-paid preparation and work.

✅ Adopting Bitcoin has covered costs for renting the dedicated venue space, essential equipment, about 40% of our travel costs, one entry ticket to the conference.

✅ While we’ve received support from other projects through hands-on help during the event and donations of unique materials (THANK YOU EVERYONE), still Bitcoin Junior Club is self-funding many other necessary items (books, toys, stickers, decorations, printouts, and creative supplies)—all of which will be used for rewards, keepsakes, and the program itself.

✅ We’re also covering a significant portion of our travel expenses, including the rest of the flight for one person (Europe - El Salvador and back), extra luggage allowance, and accommodations.

This mission is powered by passion and the belief in a better tomorrow, one where sovereign generations lead the way. But passion alone doesn’t pay the bills, and the budget for this project (Bitcoin Junior Club especially now with its part at Bitcoin Para Niños) is coming straight from family savings, which we hope to replenish over time.

If you’d like to support our shared mission to inspire young minds with values like Bitcoin, freedom, creativity, and critical thinking, consider sending us some sats. Every amount counts.

Thank you 🧡 Bitcoin Junior Club

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1. "Bitcoin and El Salvador: Education, Adoption, Freedom!" —
2. https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/ab2024-bitcoin-para-ninos-and-btc-junior-club-for-sovereign-generations/
3. "Empowering the Next Generation: AB2024 with Spotlight on Kids and Families" — https://bitcoinnews.com/press-release/bitcoin-para-ninos-adopting-bitcoin-2024/
4. DJ Valerie B LOVE Show — [LIVE] Adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador - Kemal +Kiki + Sela: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guvnKp_H6-U

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El Día Después ha terminado, y todo sigue igual. Se apagan los lamentos y llega la resignación. Toca trabajar duro y esperar a que venga la ayuda. Pasan los minutos, las horas, y no llega nada. Los políticos se esconden, alguno aparece ataviado con un equipo propio de la serie Top Gun, por supuesto, en el área menos afectada de la denominada ‘zona cero’. Hay que preservar la integridad de nuestros representantes, no vaya a ser que pillen un resfriado por ayudar a los damnificados. Un selfie y de vuelta al coche oficial. No se olvide a darle like, buen ciudadano, eso sí, cuando vuelva Internet, sin prisas.

Hay que seguir adelante, pero afloran los problemas, sobre todo en los pueblos. Allí reina la anarquía, son múltiples las disputas por una pieza de fruta, y esto es sinónimo de pelea. Muchos hacen acaparamiento y se aprovechan de la ayuda vecinal, son los de siempre, los okupas y los egoístas, los que antes actuaban así y mirábamos para otro lado, pero, tras el Día Después, ya no nos podemos permitir ese lujo. Otros se dan cuenta, ellos también quieren comer, y la desesperación entra en juego. Ahora gana el más fuerte, mera supervivencia, como en las películas y series pos-apocalípticas que usted veía tranquilamente por la noche en su casa. Las fuerzas del orden hacen lo que pueden con los pocos medios que tienen, la ‘zona cero’ exige triplicar esfuerzos, y a veces, no es suficiente. Cae la noche, y en algunos pueblos hay un toque de queda auto-impuesto, es hora de dejar la pala, se desmontan los puestos de recogida. Si el día es peligroso, imaginen pasadas las 20:00. Los robos y saqueos aumentan, quedan desvalijadas las farmacias, los supermercados, la mayoría por necesidad.

¿Y ahora qué? Es la hora de los iluminados, de aquellos que se disfrazaron para Halloween, mientras sigue aumentando el número de víctimas. <>, claman algunos. <>, afirman otros con rotundidad. Y ahí está la clave. De todo se aprende, y ahora se buscará la aclamación popular para que el Gobierno esté habilitado para una intervención exagerada e invasiva a costa de nuestros derechos. La inacción crea inseguridad, la inutilidad genera convencimiento y la maldad trae evidencia. Aprendamos de Valencia, de cómo fuimos abandonados. Distingan al lobo que se oculta tras la piel del cordero, pues ellos traerán a los vigilantes para acabar con los robos y los saqueos. Qué bien suena sobre el papel, pero, ¿confiarás tu seguridad en aquellos que generaron estos mismos problemas?, y sobre todo, ¿quién vigilará a los vigilantes?

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It’s our last day at the resort, and Sasha came down with chicken pox. She’s fine, but miserable, and as a result we’re leaving in an hour or so, so I had to watch the five-minute highlights version as I wait for the buffet to open to bring her some fruit.

Suffering kid aside, that game went perfectly for me. I had the Jets ATS in the picking pool — the Texans are smoke and mirrors now on offense, and the defense is only decent.

I also started Aaron Rodgers narrowly over C.J. Stroud and thank God for that. While I briefly considered Dalton Schultz at TE, I decided against it and stuck with Jonnu Smith. And I had Tank Dell in at WR who did his part. Basically after two horrific weeks, it was a perfect game as far as I was concerned and a great start to the week. My only regret is not using the Jets in the Circa contest.

• The Jets tree is the narrowest of all with only Davante Adams, Garrett Wilson and Breece Hall. There is no one else, and Malachi Corley surely won’t be joining that mix after fumbling for no reason on an easy TD.

• Joe Mixon produces whenever he’s healthy. The Texans like to run the ball and play conservatively, so he’s always heavily involved.

• Dell and Schultz were the only ones who got more than three targets. Robert Woods, John Metchie and Xavier Hutchinson were non-factors, and that’s even with Nico Collins still out.

• Stroud is playing under brutal conditions right now, and while Collins’ return should ease those somewhat, the offensive line problems and coaching is here to stay. I regret drafting him in two leagues — I don’t think the Texans will fix it this year.

• Rodgers’ line was nice, but heavily boosted by two tough TD grabs by Garrett Wilson. He’s lucky to have Wilson and Adams, but that offense is still not really in sync, either.

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Trump, Musk, CXDC and the Dept of Governmental Efficiency

This whole essay is an exposition on why I think it's possible that Donald Trump is one of the heads of the beast from the sea and Elon Musk is the beast who rises from the earth as is written and prophesied in Revelation chapter 13 of the Holy Bible New King James Version also alluding to the Koine Greek manuscript. If you are not interested in biblical exposition of scripture I do not blame you. Go look at the charts, see bitcoin number go up, go on polymarket and place a bet on Trumps election win, much more fun. I am not trying to convert anyone to Christianity because I don't care about your soul or the state of your personal relationship with god. I am writing this because I get a narcissistic pleasure from being right about things over and over and over again. I am writing this because I find it fun to point back in time and say, "I knew it." I am not trying to use bitcoin or science fiction stories as bait to trick anyone into reading bible verses and converting them to my supposed faith. In fact I get very annoyed with self righteous preacher types using tropes and gotcha moments to try and guilt trip people into saying a prayer and yippee ki yay, now you get to go to heaven with me. I find it retarded and very insulting to the actual meat and potatoes of what is a very deeply intelligently compiled and mysterious history book. So scrap all the preconceived notions you have about someone quoting bible verses and give me neutral territory as I try to expound on the abstract concepts contained within an ancient text.

Here goes...

My father was visiting us. I woke up early in the morning, laying in bed I habitually took my phone to check the news. I was met with a flurry of online commotion and frantic urgency. The internet was on fire with Donald Trump's assassination attempt. The news was a couple of hours fresh and already every conceivable conspiracy was permeating all the digital town squares. My father is always up early and I called to him "Someone tried to take out Donald Trump!" My dad turned on his laptop and started to follow the story which was a developing current event. No one had yet put together all the pieces. Still wearing my pyjamas I walked into the lounge where my dad was busy catching up with the news. Holding my phone I said to him "Elon Musk is going to endorse Donald Trump." He looked at me with a questioning look and asked me why I would say something like that. It was a totally irrelevant and weird thing to say considering the circumstances. I told him that I know of no other entity who can make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men. My dad thought I was being a bit nutty. To me it felt surreal.

Symbolism is always used in prophecy as a type of meme to condense complex systems often with abstract connotations into an archetype that can communicate the complex idea across time. This archetype allows the memetic symbolism to break through the obstacles of cultural jargon and evolution of language allowing the reader, to in his own time of being, find value or make sense of the text in spite of his modern world views. The books of Revelation and Daniel are especially difficult to understand and to sort the data into a quantifiable or practical structure is a pain. This is by design.

Daniel Chapter 12:4 (circa 530 BC Ancient Babylonia, modern Iraq.)

"But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.

Revelation Chapter 22:10 (95-96 AD Isle of Patmos, a small Greek island in the Aegean sea.)

"And he said to me, Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand."

Revelation and Daniel are keys that unlock and reference back and forth to each other across time but there is a third key which locks the books up leaving humanity always speculating and hypothesising until this third key gradually decrypts the occult of eschatological prophecy. This key is simply time. The chaos of nature and history is recorded by the predictable linearity of time condensing it into the ever present now. It was in that moment of time that the identity of Trump and Elon being figures of import in the annals of history, that realisation and the profundity of it made the moment so surreal to me.

I am going to quote the verses of Revelation Chapter 13 one at a time and give a running commentary of each as I do. There are 18 of them.

John is as a third person looking at the vision from the outside in. He also has a guide standing next to him explaining to him what he is witnessing. Almost like the architect explaining to Neo what is what in the TV screen room or like Morpheus trying to make known to Neo the situation in the real world in the white room using dramatic visual effects to convey his point. John was not in the real world's future but a symbolic projection of it. The Koine Greek differs somewhat to the King James I am also going to attempt a literal translation of phrases.

1: And stood (The Dragon)-stationed upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast rising up, having horns ten and heads seven, and upon the horns of it diadems ten, and upon the heads of it names of blasphemy -slander.

The Dragon is the infamous Satan. The serpent of old. In Greek the word satan translates literally to the word opponent. That is why Satan (the character) does not exist in the Hebrew old testament as satan the definition. In Revelation chapter 12 the woman id est Christianity is attacked by the dragon who is furious that his leverage in heaven has been neutralised and him banished/exiled from it. The dragon is on a rampage to destroy the woman and her offspring. Christianity as an ideology of self sacrifice in service of others is the target of the dragons wrath (this self sacrifice in service of others as primary ethos is the inevitable demise of the dragon as seen through the action and accomplishment of Jesus Christ and Satoshi Nakamoto) and he summons forth the beast from the sea to do his will on earth to the advantage of his wrath. In this case I am going to be ambiguous and say that the dragon is a creature of financial power. Not limited to a specific people or culture but to various groups of people across time who love money and worship it to the point of harming human life to gain more of it. The love of money being the root of all kinds of evil - Timothy 6:10. A so called principality of the air. An intangible enemy animated by the weakness of human greed and lust. This banking force has a Rothschild like proclivity to absorb power through control of wealth. Welcome to the stage - The Dragon! (Applause) The dragon being a force of wealth has no tangible power in and of itself, it's power has to transcend the abstraction of finance into kinetic, it has to summon more efficate abstractions that can channel kinetic energy to achieve it's goals primarily that of eternal incumbency. This beast summoned out of the sea is government. If the finance can control bullet/sword/arrow/bombs then the Dragon can control this oceanic summoned beast. This beast is a chimera of sorts and we will get to defining it in more detail. The sea is mostly a symbol for mankind, the beast is summoned from and compiled of the nations of earth.

2: And the beast which I saw was like a leopard, and the feet of it as of a bear, and the mouth of it as a mouth of a lion. And gave to it the dragon the power of it and the throne of it and authority -right -privilege -freedom great.

Leopard: The leopard is often associated with agility, speed, and deadly force. In Daniel, the leopard represented the Greek Empire, known for its swift conquests under Alexander the Great. For the beast in Revelation, "like a leopard" suggests a similar capacity for rapid expansion or cunning.

Feet of a Bear: Bears are typically associated with strength and endurance. In Daniel 7, the bear represents the Medo-Persian Empire, known for its formidable military power. For the beast, "feet like those of a bear" symbolises an unstoppable or heavy force, capable of trampling or dominating.

Mouth of a Lion: A lion’s mouth represents authority, fearlessness, and perhaps fierceness in speech or command. In Daniel, the lion represented Babylon, an empire with significant authority and grandeur. For the beast in Revelation, a "mouth like a lion" suggests the beast’s capacity to speak with commanding authority and to blaspheme with boldness without being held to account.

This beast has expansionist and empiric type ambition. Let's call it England, no wait 1800's called and said don't blame me for NATO. Okay I concede, USA. The current year seat of power from where the beast bullies all into submission was gained through retaining it's control of finance through war. Be it gold, oil, or international trade, war or threat of it was the prima facie mechanism of enforcement. Babylonia in all it's glory for millennia through the rotations of power. This powerful beast bows only to one master, gold/finance. Even offering it's seat of power to the dragon. Government is physically capable of snubbing the dragon like the founding fathers snubbed England and it's royally decreed gold backed notes, the pound sterling (in the late 1700's). But the dragon is an insidious loathsome reptile, creeping and scheming, finding it's ways through the cracks of human fallibility. Enter the Federal Reserve and United States Treasury.

3: And one of the heads of it as having been slain -wounded to death -mortally, and the wound of the death -mortality of it was healed -cured. And marvelled -wondered the whole earth after the beast.

This is where Trump comes into the picture. As a head of state - head of the beast. The news with regard to his assassination attempt survival brought this verse to mind. I literally saw the entire chapter play out before my eyes as the implications became evident.

4: And they worshipped the dragon who gave the authority to the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying: “Who is like -similar to the beast, and who is able -capable to war -battle against it?”

The whole mainstream media worldwide, alternative media, you name it. Trump was a household discussion on all continents. The united states presidential race and the imminent collapse of the financial system was all brought into the limelight of civilisation. So according to this verse a lot of sabre rattling is about to take place on the geopolitical map as Trump's presidency becomes obvious. Other powers want to divide territory and quickly while a pathetic and moronic Biden is babbling geriatric nonsense from the oval office. The leadership of the world was way calmer when they thought Harris was going to take the presidency, as soon as they realised a strong charismatic leader was once again going to take the reigns in the most powerful seat of military might in the world they scrambled to place their pieces on the chess board so as to have some negotiation leverage when Trump comes to their table.

5: And was given to it a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies -slanders, and was given to it authority to act -work -perform forty-two months.

This alludes to the fact that leadership is rarely held to account for their words because there is no authority above them to hold them accountable. It is hard to stay humble in this position of power. The forty two month implies the active duty of a presidential term in the United States of America.

6: And it opened the mouth of it in blasphemies -slanders against God, to blaspheme -slander the name of Him and the tabernacle -dwelling -sanctuary of Him, those dwelling in heaven.

I cannot tell you how this will play out. Because I honestly do not know and when I try to speculate about it my mind comes up blank. As far as I am concerned America is supposed to be a Christian nation. Maybe the blasphemy is that America does what is heathen and repulsive while claiming to be Christian, I don't know. A religion of science and capitalism seems to have replaced Christianity as a dominant cultural ideology in the seat of Empire.

7: And was given to it to make war against the saints -holy ones, and to overcome -conquer them, and was given to it authority over every tribe and people and language -tongue and nation.

This war is a war of attrition and culture within itself. Politics has humiliated and defeated the power of noble Christian endeavour in the United States. Deuteronomy promises that the country has to be overrun by heathen nations as punishment for this failure. Just look at the border. Through dollar reserve currency dominance the whole world -tribe/people/language is held captive and beholden to the United states.

8: And will worship it all those dwelling upon the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of the life of the Lamb -young sheep having been slain from the foundation of the world.

I do not pretend that everyone who supports the United States as a world power is evil. I don't believe it. But when the damage to life, liberty and property is violated so mercilessly by an Empire, those who harbour disgust and resentment and refuse to bow to it's ambition inevitably are crushed by it. Hating/resisting the dollar never made anyone rich. Until Jan 3rd 2009.

9: If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

If you know or don't know. Does not really matter, it is inevitable.

10: If anyone captivity into captivity he goes; if anyone with a sword kills, it is necessary him with a sword to be killed. Here is the endurance -steadfastness and the faith -belief of the saints -holy ones.

Basically it says to buy out the time, be peaceful and have hope. Bad shit is going to happen. Be content, aware and persevere.

11: And I saw another beast rising out of the earth, and it had horns two like a lamb -young sheep, and it spoke as a dragon.

This my friends, is Elon Musk. Born from free market capitalism with a healthy dose of socialist support. The banks and markets gave him his power. The financial institutions brought him forth. He is not a product of government. To the contrary, government has only inhibited his ability to achieve his goals.

12: And the authority of the first beast all it exercises before -in the presence of it, and it causes the earth and those dwelling in it that they will worship the first beast, whose wound of the death -mortality was healed.

Okay so this is where I came from when I told my dad that Elon was going to endorse Trump he literally endorsed him a couple of hours later on X. Now, as a student of history and having dabbled in eschatology as a hobby for many nihilistic and depressing years. Never before has my assumed prediction come true the next day. But in hindsight it's obvious, I mean who would not endorse Trump. Mark Zuckerface endorsed Trump, right? Elon went the full Monty jumping around on stage chanting USA! Endorsing Trump so hard Trump had to get out of the way. Elon is endorsing Trump so hard Trump could go home. Elon will run the campaign for him, without him. It is amazing to see.

13: And it does great signs -wonders, so that also fire it should make to come down out of heaven to the earth before men -humans.

Now let's put a cherry on this cake. This is the verse that so effortlessly popped into my head as I was looking at the imagery of blood splattered on Trumps face. Pumping his fist into the air. I said. "Elon Musk is going to endorse Donald Trump." He looked at me with a questioning look and asked me why I would say something like that. It was a totally irrelevant and weird thing to say considering the circumstances. I told him that I know of no other entity who can make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men." A couple of months later the super heavy booster gets caught by Mechazilla's chopsticks and the whole world marvelled again. I was so deep into uncanny valley I was Alice falling and falling. In 2017 some prophecies surrounding Revelations chapter 12 became fulfilled and it was meaningful to me. I enjoyed seeing a 2000 year old text consummate a relationship with reality. This was not the same. This was like bam! bam! You want some prophetic fulfillment, do you punk? Bam!

14: And it deceives those dwelling upon the earth through the signs -wonders which it was given to it to do before the beast, telling those dwelling upon the earth to make an image to the beast which has the wound of the sword and has lived -survived.

Okay so now I am back to speculation. Here I am writing this in the now. I have the past behind us. We now look forward into tomorrow. Remember - This is speculation on my part. Elon Musk establishes the department of governmental efficiency. It is a fun app connecting you directly to the upper echelons of governance. Cutting out the bureaucrats and middlemen. This D.O.G.E. makes everything much more convenient and efficient centralising and distributing the functions of government, reducing costs dramatically but also manages to audit and census the populace in real time. The citizens get Grocked by Grock if you will.

15: And it was given to it to give breath -spirit -life to the image of the beast, that also should speak the image of the beast and should cause -make -effect that as many as would not worship the image of the beast would be killed -put to death.

His simulacra of government becomes integrated with AI to the extent that you pledge allegiance to the app of the United States of America. Government becomes you constant companion, search engine, personal assistant. You think FBI exercise apps are creepy. Wait until government bucks you up when you have a down day.

16: And it causes all, the small and the great and the rich and the poor and the free and the slaves, that they should give to them a mark upon the hand of them the right or upon the forehead of them,

Is this simply a phone with an app in your hand. Right hand just suggesting most people are right handed? And does it suggest that the especially devout go get a Neuralink? I dunno.

17: and that no one would be able -capable to buy or to sell, except the one having the mark, the name of the beast or the number of the name of it.

He integrates the dollar and the use of it into X and all avenues of trade and commerce is conveniently migrated onto Starlink as infrastructure. The CXDC instead of a CBDC.

18: Here is the wisdom. The one having understanding, let him calculate -count the number of the beast; for a man’s number it is, and the number of it six hundred sixty-six.

In Gollums voice:

I know what it is. It's probably in your pocketses right now, your precious.

No, no, no, it cannot be my love.

Oh but it is precious, it is.

I know, I know, I hates it, I hates it.

We must serve the precious. The one dollar bill. Lol.

Post Script:

I don't think Elon Musk and Donald Trump are evil. I think they are cool dudes driven by very normal and natural incentives given their position and accomplishments. Just as Trump is about to once again be the head of the great statue that Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream so too was Nebuchadnezzar just a dude doing his thing in his time and position. I have no hate for them, in fact I enjoy seeing them do their thing, it is impressive, entertaining and cool as hell. No pun intended.

I don't fear an apocalyptic future because I have made myself impervious to it by buying and holding Bitcoin. I don't give a fuck because I am possessed by the spirit of the honey badger and the cyber hornet. Which reminds me. Bitcoin is the promised land in cyberspace. But Bitcoiners should stay humble because nothing you did compares to what you got through no effort of your own. You owe your thanks to Satoshi and all the developers who made self custody possible and continue to build a world which maximises freedom, prosperity and personal responsibility.

Joshua 24:12-15

'I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow. I have given you a land for which you did not labour, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.' Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River/Rubicon, and in Egypt. Serve the LORD! And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

Gotcha.

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Después de escribir mi primer artículo en este blog me di cuenta (o mejor dicho, me hicieron darme cuenta) de que, si voy a escribir para no-coiners (término afectivo para referirme a quienes no poseen ni un Satoshi ni ninguna shitcoin), tengo que empezar por el principio. Antes de contarles lo difícil o lo ameno que puede ser su viaje en la red de Bitcoin, necesito contarles al menos qué carajo es, o por qué lo necesitan en sus vidas. Porque claro, este sitio donde escribo funciona con nostr, y tanto quienes escribimos aquí como la mayoría de quienes nos leen somos bitcoiners. Muchos estamos orientados a la tecnología o la criptografía, y todos nosotros hablamos de Bitcoin y su "magia"; nos entendemos entre nosotros y rara vez volvemos a las bases o nos tomamos el tiempo de explicar por qué el mundo necesita Bitcoin y, sobre todo, por qué cada individuo debería tener sus propias llaves. Solemos decir frases hechas como “not your keys, not your Bitcoin”, “have fun staying poor” o la famosa cita del mismísimo Satoshi: “Si no me crees o no lo entiendes, no tengo tiempo para tratar de convencerte, lo siento”.

Satoshi (una persona o grupo de personas) publicó un documento de 9 páginas con el objetivo de crear un sistema de pagos entre personas, sin intermediarios de confianza. Una red P2P (peer-to-peer) o, en español, una red de pares. A diferencia de una red convencional, donde un servidor central controla la información y varios usuarios acceden a él, en una red de pares todos los nodos son iguales, y todos los nodos de Bitcoin guardan la misma información. En el white paper, Satoshi explicó en detalle cómo funcionaría la red y, unos meses después, lanzó oficialmente Bitcoin. Saltando 15 años de historia para tener material para futuros artículos (y también para evitar que te duermas leyendo), llegamos al presente: la red de pagos sin intermediarios es un éxito rotundo.

Resulta que yo no soy Satoshi, pero voy a tratar de convencerte, y hoy sí tengo tiempo para hacerlo.

Un día como hoy se publicó el white paper de Bitcoin. Te recomiendo que, ahora mismo o al terminar de leer esto, le des una mirada. Puede que lo entiendas completamente o que no lo comprendas del todo, pero es necesario que lo intentes. Este "papelito" hermoso cambió la historia.

Ya hablaremos del cómo, pero lo importante es que funciona. Por primera vez en la historia, se ha logrado construir un dinero 100 % digital, que no depende de bancos ni de gobiernos, ni de empresas o personas individuales. Depende únicamente de la red y de las reglas pactadas hace 15 años, que son inamovibles: están escritas en piedra y reforzadas por miles de nodos individuales alrededor del mundo. Es la red más robusta del planeta y cada día crece más en usuarios, nodos y mineros. Bitcoin puede usarse para una infinidad de cosas: desde el propio dinero P2P que Satoshi proponía, hasta aplicaciones mucho más avanzadas, como la verificación de la transparencia en elecciones. Y, por si no ha quedado claro, repito: estamos ante la red más robusta del mundo. No criticaré a las altcoins en este artículo porque no es la intención, pero sepan que la red de Bitcoin deja obsoletas a todas las demás. Todo lo que hacen las altcoins puede hacerse en Bitcoin: más rápido, más barato y, sobre todo, más seguro. Entraremos en detalles de esto en otros artículos.

Volviendo a la pregunta inicial: ¿por qué quiero Bitcoin?

Ahora ya sabemos que Bitcoin es la moneda de la red más segura del mundo y no depende de nadie. Pero por qué querés elegir una moneda que se respalda en una red y un protocolo y no en un gobierno? Puede que nunca te hayan confiscado los ahorros en un corralito, como en Argentina en 2001, o que nunca hayas experimentado la inflación desenfrenada como en Venezuela. Quizás no te importa que millones de personas no tengan acceso a una cuenta bancaria porque para vos los bancos son algo obvio y normal. Puede que estés viviendo con “privilegios financieros” y no te hayas dado cuenta... todavía. Bitcoin, al ser un dinero sin intermediarios ni custodios, y al no depender de ningún gobierno ni banco, puede ser almacenado por el usuario, quien es el único propietario de sus Bitcoin. Es inconfiscable, de ahí la importancia de la custodia y las llaves privadas. Además, la oferta total de Bitcoin en circulación es de 21,000,000 de unidades. Ni una más, ni una menos. Nadie, por más poder o influencia que tenga, puede imprimir más Bitcoin, ni inflacionarlo, ni devaluar tus ahorros. Por si fuera poco, Bitcoin es libre de censura: un cubano puede transferir Bitcoin a un argentino, o viceversa, sin importar las restricciones de capital en sus países. No se puede censurar una transacción de Bitcoin. Entonces, la respuesta corta a la pregunta es la siguiente:
Necesitás Bitcoin para protegerte de la inflación, de las restricciones de capitales y de los problemas bancarios. Y si estás pensando “para eso compro dólares, van abajo del colchón y listo”, te recomiendo que lo reconsideres, pero con este dato en mente: desde su creación hasta hoy, el dólar ha perdido más del 98 % de su poder adquisitivo. Mientras tanto, desde su creación hasta hoy, Bitcoin ha pasado de valer cero a ser una red de más de one trillion dollar. Quizás para ir ahorrando para el futuro sea mejor guargar Bitcoin que guardar Dólares. Mientras el dólar se fue desangrando año a año en cuanto a poder adquisitivo, Bitcoin ha pasado de no existir a ser comprado por individuos con alto patrimonio, fondos de inversión, empresas y hasta algunos países. ¿Todos están comprando Bitcoin menos vos?

Si llegaste hasta acá y no te dió FOMO (miedo de quedarte fuera) el saber que todos compran menos vos, si no pensás que necesitás un sistema monetario libre de restricciones, inflación y estado, si no pensás que es necesario un dinero libre y un individuo soberano o bien pensás que tus dólares están tranquilos y seguros en el banco bueno, entonces si, HAVE FUN STAYING POOR. Si entendiste todo esto pero aún no logré convencerte de que Bitcoin es la única solución podés leer más articulos míos o de otros autores aquí dentro de habla.news y vas a encontrar muchísima información valiosa. Y no te olvides de leer el White Paper!

Gracias por llegar hasta aquí. Ojalá te sea útil. En mi próximo artículo hablaré sobre las diferencias entre comprar acciones, bonos o cualquier inversión tradicional y comprar Bitcoin. Spoiler: todas las acciones valdrán cerca de cero en términos de Bitcoin en 50 años.

Saludos,

El Tío.

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Lightning Node Issues

My nodes been down for a couple of days since I switched routers. It seems like they it connect to the internet, so my lightning node is down. I don't have much on the thing, but I really enjoyed using Albyhub, the budgeted NWC, and having zaps sent directly to my node. I'll get it working eventually; I probably need to look into Start9 customer support, which costs $100 but probably worth every satoshi.

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Exploring E-Cash

I've switched my lightning address to hustle@npub.cash and have started checking out the e-cash stuff more closely. I should probably be using Minibits, but I'm gravitating towards the Cashu.me and Npub.cash combo. I like the idea of logging into a wallet with my extension or signer and seeing my Nostr profile and e-cash. Cashu.me also has NWC functionality (which I haven't tried yet, but look forward to).

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Creating a Run Tracker: RunWild

I've been tinkering with making a run tracker for Nostr called RunWild. I'll play around with it myself a lot before shouting it out to freedomland.

RunWild Features: - Released on zap.store only - Sign in with Amber - NIP60/61 support for the e-cash attached to your Npub - Runstr Chatroom: Similar to Fountains' #tunestr chatroom - Run Controls: Start run/Pause run/Stop run/Run History/Post run to Nostr - Wavlake Support: See and play your Wavlake playlists from the app

Future Plans: - Achievements and Goals - Running groups with Nostr freaks - Competitions and challenges with Nostr freaks - Merch on Shopstr - Sponsored Workout Tracks - E-cash Rewards: E-cash zap and a shoutout after your run - Nostr Badges - Zaps

I'll probably limit the app to 100 users for a long time and give them e-cash as a way to reward them for testing the app and building a community feel. It makes sense to throw a territory fee amount of sats at them. I mainly want to stop using the Nike run app and use a run tracker that I can log into with Nostr and listen to Wavlake stuff while running. It'll be cool if the app catches on, but if not, it'll be a personal freedom tech tool that me and my wife use.

It would be cool to create a new event kind for the runs that I track, so that when someone comes out with a better app than mine, my runs will appear on theirs. This might be how I win.

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Closing Rambles

I saw Pablo come out with an e-cash project today called Honeypot. It has a button stretching across the bottom of the screen that says "I'm ready to lose some money" (with an exclamation mark), and contains language like #reckless and "Aaaaand money gone." I quoted the note saying "I'm ready, where do I sign up?"............. Tinkering is often the antithesis of smooth sailing, and even though my node may be down, and I'm scrambling for e-cash wallets like a pre-coiner scrambling for exchange yield, I'm still excited and motivated to use and build. Maybe running through the shifting terrain is half the fun.

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Table Of Content

• Who is Paul Tudor Jones?

• The Rise of Bitcoin

• Why Bitcoin?

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin has been a hot topic in the financial world, attracting both enthusiasts and skeptics. One prominent figure who has shown unwavering confidence in Bitcoin is billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones. With his vast experience and expertise in the financial markets, Jones has been a vocal advocate for Bitcoin, citing it as the ultimate game-changer. In this article, we explore the reasons behind Jones' belief in Bitcoin and how it has the potential to revolutionize the financial landscape.

Who is Paul Tudor Jones?

Before delving into why Jones believes Bitcoin is a game-changer, it's important to understand who he is. Paul Tudor Jones is a billionaire investor, philanthropist, and founder of the Tudor Investment Corporation. He gained prominence in the 1980s for predicting the stock market crash of 1987, earning him the nickname "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England." Jones has built a successful career by making shrewd investment decisions, and his track record speaks for itself.

The Rise of Bitcoin

Bitcoin, introduced by an anonymous person or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009, is a decentralized digital currency that operates on a peer-to-peer network. It gained significant attention in the last decade, and its value skyrocketed, attracting the interest of investors worldwide. Bitcoin is based on blockchain technology, which ensures transparency, security, and immutability of transactions. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin, free from government regulations and intermediaries, has been both its strength and its source of skepticism.

Why Bitcoin?

Volatility and Inflation Hedge

One of the primary reasons why Jones believes Bitcoin is the ultimate game-changer is its potential as a hedge against inflation. Traditional fiat currencies are subject to inflationary pressures, reducing their purchasing power over time. Jones sees Bitcoin as a viable alternative that can protect investors' wealth from the erosion caused by inflation. Moreover, Bitcoin's limited supply, capped at 21 million coins, ensures scarcity and potentially drives its value higher.

Store of Value

Another aspect that appeals to Jones is Bitcoin's ability to serve as a store of value. Historically, precious metals like gold have been considered reliable stores of value. However, Jones argues that Bitcoin possesses similar qualities to gold and can even surpass it. He sees Bitcoin as a digital store of value that can act as a hedge against economic uncertainties and geopolitical risks.

Digital Gold

Jones has famously compared Bitcoin to gold, stating that Bitcoin will be the "fastest horse" in the race against inflation. He believes that Bitcoin's advantages, such as portability, divisibility, and ease of storage, make it superior to traditional gold. While gold has been a trusted store of value for centuries, Jones sees the potential for Bitcoin to become the preferred choice for investors seeking a safe haven asset.

Technological Innovation

Beyond its monetary properties, Jones recognizes the underlying technology behind Bitcoin, known as blockchain, as a groundbreaking innovation. Blockchain technology enables secure and transparent transactions without the need for intermediaries, revolutionizing industries beyond finance. The potential applications of blockchain are vast, ranging from supply chain management to decentralized governance systems. Jones understands the transformative power of this technology and believes Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg.

Portfolio Diversification

Jones advises investors to include Bitcoin in their portfolios as a means of diversification. He views Bitcoin as an asset class that offers unique properties not found in traditional investments. By adding Bitcoin to their investment mix, investors can potentially mitigate risk and enhance their overall returns.

Conclusion

Paul Tudor Jones' belief in Bitcoin as the ultimate game-changer stems from its potential as an inflation hedge, store of value, and technological innovation. His insights and endorsement have brought mainstream attention to Bitcoin, further solidifying its position as a significant asset class. While the future of Bitcoin remains uncertain, Jones' perspective sheds light on the transformative power of this digital currency and its underlying technology. Whether or not Bitcoin lives up to Jones' expectations, its impact on the financial world cannot be ignored.

FAQ

What made Paul Tudor Jones interested in Bitcoin? Paul Tudor Jones became interested in Bitcoin due to its potential as a hedge against inflation and its similarities to gold as a store of value.

Is Paul Tudor Jones the only billionaire who believes in Bitcoin? No, Paul Tudor Jones is not the only billionaire who believes in Bitcoin. Other prominent figures like Elon Musk and Michael Saylor have also shown support for Bitcoin.

How does Bitcoin protect against inflation? Bitcoin's limited supply and decentralized nature make it resistant to inflationary pressures that affect traditional fiat currencies.

Can Bitcoin replace traditional fiat currencies? While it's unlikely that Bitcoin will completely replace traditional currencies, it has the potential to coexist and provide an alternative form of value storage and transaction medium.

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By MIT Brickman

We win, that’s what now.

Between Governor Jerry Brown signing the controversial tobacco bills into law in California – which opens vaping up to unsustainable regulation, criticism, and taxation in the most vape-active state in the country – and the FDA injecting a slow-acting but definitely fatal poison directly into the jugular of the nation’s vaping industry, it seems that we may have lost the battle to ensure longer lives and better health for millions of cigarette smokers.

If I can interrupt your wailing and gnashing of teeth for a moment, I beg you to consider a different perspective. It’ll be worth it. What I see in the middle of this platter of steaming garbage (that has been served up on both the state and federal levels) is a big, glittering diamond. We have been given a gift.

In making no concessions to the vaping industry, and subsequently raising a tall middle finger to the citizens of this great country who have found improved health, happiness, and quality of life by moving from cigarettes to vaping, the government has guaranteed two things.

One. That the adults will now take over the vapor industry. Millennials, hobbyists, hipsters, and high school kids trying to push the 300 watt barrier just don’t have the intestinal fortitude for what’s coming. Many shops will close, convention centers will sit empty, vape trick competitions will disappear, and there will be the odd hissing sound of wringing hands coming from parents’ basements nationwide. The end of the current vaping industry is at hand. But if you read my post here – then you already know that it’s not a bad thing.

I worked for many years in the air medical industry; those brave folks who fly critically ill and injured people on helicopters. And I can tell you that the only industry more heavily regulated than healthcare is aviation. So why not mix them together and see what happens! I’ll tell you what happens – it becomes a constant (daily) struggle between governmental intrusion (usually fueled by ignorance and/or greed) and trying to make enough money to keep flying. You talk about protracted PR and lobbying battles – the e-cigarette and vaping world actually has had it easy. Well, until now.

So why do people in air medical keep getting up every day and fighting – after all, you can make significantly more money in numerous other industries? Because it’s the right thing to do. Human lives matter and fighting against bureaucracy to keep people alive and with their families is a damn compelling mission.

But it takes adults who can play the game. And I can tell you, those folks only show up when there is a compelling mission endangered by inappropriate, ignorant, and destructive resistance (sound like anything else you know?).

Truly successful people relish ‘unwinnable’ challenges, especially when the outcome is ultimately beneficial to humanity. And two. The eighty-five plus percent of Americans fatigued by continuous governmental intrusion are now primed to come around. Start pushing the messages that I recommended here and hammer the social proof of the benefits associated with vaping over cigarette smoking, and you will find exponential traction in the critical public arena.

If you are depressed or defeated over the massive anti-vaping developments in these past couple of days, I’d suggest you either get over it quickly or get out of the way. The people who are going to win this fight for the benefit of public health worldwide are about to step up, and this is going to get ugly, frustrating, expensive, and amazing from this point on.

In conclusion I will go back to what I said in part 1:

There is good news though. Great news, in fact. Victor Hugo once wrote, On résiste à l’invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l’invasion des idées – commonly paraphrased as no one can resist an idea whose time has come. No government, no politician, and no industry. It just got real.

https://mitbrickman.com/2016/05/05/rise-of-the-adults-in-vaping/

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tobacco harm reduction (THR) is a public health strategy to lower the health risks associated with using nicotine, as an example of the concept of harm reduction, a strategy for dealing with the abuse of other drugs. Smoking tobacco is widely acknowledged as a leading cause of illness and death.[1] However, nicotine itself is not very harmful, as inferred from the long history of use for nicotine replacement therapy products.[2] Thus, THR measures have been focused on reducing or eliminating the use of combustible tobacco by switching to other nicotine products, including:

Cutting down (either long-term or before quitting smoking) Temporary abstinence Switching to non-tobacco nicotine containing products, such as pharmaceutical nicotine replacement therapies or currently (generally) unlicensed products such as electronic cigarettes Switching to smokeless tobacco products such as Swedish snus Switching to non-combustible organic or additive-free tobacco products It is widely acknowledged that discontinuation of all tobacco products confers the greatest lowering of risk. However, approved smoking cessation methods have a 90% failure rate, when used as directed.[1] In addition, there is a considerable population of smokers who are unable or unwilling to achieve abstinence.[3] Harm reduction is likely of substantial benefit to these smokers and public health.[1][2] Providing reduced-harm alternatives to smokers is likely to result in lower total population risk than pursuing abstinence-only policies.[4]

The strategy is controversial: proponents of tobacco harm reduction assert that lessening the health risk for the individual user is worthwhile and manifests over the population in fewer tobacco-related illnesses and deaths.[3][5] Opponents have argued that some aspects of harm reduction interfere with cessation and abstinence and might increase initiation.[6][7] However, surveys carried from 2013 to 2015 in the UK[8] and France [9] suggest that on the contrary, the availability of safer alternatives to smoking is associated with decreased smoking prevalence and increased smoking cessation.

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Nitzkin, J (June 2014). “The Case in Favor of E-Cigarettes for Tobacco Harm Reduction”. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 11 (6): 6459–71.doi:10.3390/ijerph110606459. PMC 4078589. PMID 25003176. A carefully structured Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR) initiative, with e-cigarettes as a prominent THR modality, added to current tobacco control programming, is the most feasible policy option likely to substantially reduce tobacco-attributable illness and death in the United States over the next 20 years. Fagerström, KO, Bridgman, K (March 2014). “Tobacco harm reduction: The need for new products that can compete with cigarettes”.Addictive Behaviors. 39 (3): 507–511. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.002. PMID 24290207. The need for more appealing, licensed nicotine products capable of competing with cigarettes sensorially, pharmacologically and behaviourally is considered by many to be the way forward. Rodu, Brad; Godshall, William T. (2006). “Tobacco harm reduction: An alternative cessation strategy for inveterate smokers”. Harm Reduction Journal. 3: 37. doi:10.1186/1477-7517-3-37. PMC 1779270. PMID 17184539. Phillips, CV (November 2009). “Debunking the claim that abstinence is usually healthier for smokers than switching to a low-risk alternative, and other observations about anti-tobacco-harm-reduction arguments”. Harm Reduct. J. 6: 29. doi:10.1186/1477-7517-6-29. PMC 2776004.PMID 19887003. Hiding THR from smokers, waiting for them to decide to quit entirely or waiting for a new anti-smoking magic bullet, causes the deaths of more smokers every month than a lifetime using low-risk nicotine products ever could. “Harm reduction in nicotine addiction: Helping people who can’t quit” (PDF). Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians. October 2007. Retrieved 21 April 2012. Sumner W, 2005. Permissive nicotine regulation as a complement to traditional tobacco control” BMC Public Health 5:18. Tomar, SL; Fox, BJ; Severson, HH (2009). “Is smokeless tobacco use an appropriate public health strategy for reducing societal harm from cigarette smoking?”. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 6: 10–24. doi:10.3390/ijerph6010010. Action on Smoking and Health, May 2016, Use of electronic cigarettes (vapourisers) among adults in Great Britain http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_891.pdf Résultats de l’enquête cigarette électronique ETINCEL – OFDT, 2014 –

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In my old school oversized spiral bound sketchbook with heavy-weight paper, I spend time off-screen writing with a 0.9 mm Pentel mechanical pencil customized with BB soft lead, where I regularly set and track my periodic goals, life planning, and project conception sketches. My longtime project Architect on my studio team calls this sketchbook the Money Maker. On March 3, 2024, the note at the top of the page read, "Have you bought your Bitcoin today? $72,994".As a Spring Semester BTC class of 2021, I loved to buy some BTC at the top. Thinking about a remedy for this “talent” what followed on the sketchbook were some ideas for shifting money flowing through my business, BTC, every two weeks.

I now had options.

Starting in 2024, I had new options to design my personal business strategy after we reworked our partnership agreement for our established professional architecture firm with the help of our attorney and tax account the year before to mitigate the problems of 50/50 ownership.

The business is established and is a survivor of the dot com crash, 9/11, the 3 years after the crash. We have established clients and make a modest profit, and we enjoy focusing on them to get architecture built for them. Through the grind, we stayed ahead but did not thrive.

We changed our corporate structure to retain our original S-Corp status, which allowed us to pay direct and indirect expenses. My partner and I then transitioned to operating as two separate LLCs, each managing one of our studio tribes. We've also planned for future studios to bring in new disciplines or incubate more experienced staff

who can sell enough architecture to support a studio of their own. To manage our studio profit, we have an operating agreement that allocates 30% of our cash-based studio profit to the firm, with the remaining 70% distributed to the individual studios. The architecture firm pays us its monthly management fee directly into our LLC bank accounts. Once the payment is transferred, we have the flexibility to decide how we're paid by our LLC. From that account, I manage our W2 income through a payroll company and allocate the remaining funds as a distribution among tax savings, studio equity and personal spending.

The result = is a little more autonomy to design the best way to retain the profit from energy spent in my business life.

Capturing the flow

In my Money Maker sketchbook, I brainstormed ideas for both personal and business, seeking to think creatively about leveraging our new entity to capture new cash flow opportunities that I could invest in Bitcoin (BTC). By setting up our LLC business account, I could now organize our equity to let it grow without having to convert our profit to BTC immediately, thereby avoiding capital gains or W2 income taxes. My 2024 strategy consisted of three initial moves, which I will elaborate on in more detail after six months of operation.

Treasury

I set up a business account for my studio's corporate treasury with Unchained Capital, utilizing the new EIN for our management LLC. I had previously retained studio profit from the previous year, anticipating the benefits of the new entity. This process was very satisfying, as I was able to transfer our equity into a business account, eƯectively moving it out of the bank and I can see the scoreboard of the growing equity. However, one of the less enjoyable aspects was that my bank couldn't wire directly to Unchained, requiring me to visit a bank, which involved driving to these empty buildings and filling out some paperwork during the hours they happened to be open. After you have jumped through the flaming hoops and moved your fiat into BTC at Unchained, I don't like the lack of control about when Unchained buys BTC. Although, I do like that I don't have to use an intermediary exchange.

Tax Savings

I pay myself a reasonable W2 income using a Payroll service, and then allocate the remainder of my monthly take-home pay as a distribution. Since the payment is a distribution, I must set aside a percentage of my income taxes. Previously, I would simply transfer money to a Tax Savings bank account. With the new system, I can set up a business account in the name of my LLC at River, and automatically transfer funds from my LLC bank account to the River business account on a monthly basis. This setup allows for a DCA (dollar cost average) strategy with 0 cost. My strategy is to continue buying Bitcoin for next year's taxes. I understand that River will be oƯering business accounts with a 3.8% interest rate, paid in Bitcoin. When the subsequent bear market returns, I will make an educated guess about the ratio of interest-bearing assets to BTC tax savings account to ensure I'm prepared when paying taxes on profit made in a bull year that is taxed in a bear year.

Personal Spending

The move involved switching my monthly spending budget to Fold, which allowed me to earn Bitcoin rewards. I started using Fold at the end of 2022 to earn BTC rewards for my spending. Although Fold isn't as exciting as it used to be (I miss the gamification aspect of spinning up 5,000 Sats for a coƯee purchase!), the math still works out, and I can accumulate a few bucks with my personal spending. A further evolution came from listening to Jack Mallers on Episode 245 of The Bitcoin Standard Podcast. Jack was talking about how he lives on a Bitcoin Standard by paying bills with Strike, a service he can access now, but customers don't. As I thought about how cool it would be to keep my monthly expenses in BTC, a metaphorical 2 x 4 struck my brain. Wait a second - I realized that I can buy Bitcoin on Fold and easily exchange it for fiat in the application. I could start living like Jack, starting this month. With this month's spending money transfer to Fold, I bought Bitcoin! As the month goes on, I convert funds as I need them and use my debit card for expenses. Thank you, Jack, for the thought. I'm sorry to be so slow.

With our personal W2 and distribution side organized, we are now working to create ways to capture a portion of our business income cash flow in Bitcoin (BTC). Accepting BTC payments

As an established business with a shared and overworked bookkeeper, I believe the personnel and accounting workaround to dip our toe into Bitcoin is to accept pre-project consultation and initial payments using Zaprite initially. This will allow us to educate our clients on the benefits of using Strike and Bitcoin for payments, and to showcase how the process is more trustless than traditional payment methods like ACH and credit cards. By doing so, we can encourage clients to adopt this new payment method and reduce our reliance on traditional payment systems. Our goal is to make the transition to Bitcoin as seamless as possible for our clients, while also allowing our internal staƯ to become proficient in handling the process. To achieve this, we will be using the discount strategy on Zaprite invoices and will be directing our limited cash flow of BTC directly into our business treasury account. Status: we have set up the Zaprite integration but have not yet received payment.

BTC payment client education

Once our payment strategy is in place, I plan to update our website with a blog that explains how the payment system works and markets our approach to clients. Specifically, I want to highlight that we accept Bitcoin as a payment method and provide clients with the option to choose this payment option on the first invoice they receive from us. By doing so, I hope to spark interest and enthusiasm among clients who are familiar with the benefits of using Bitcoin and want to learn more. With our payment system up and running, we can begin to make a more significant transition away from traditional fiat payment methods and towards a more decentralized, trustless payment system like Bitcoin. This will be a "Titanic like" shift, but one that we believe is necessary to stay ahead of the curve and capitalize on the growing demand for more innovative and secure payment methods.

Beyond implementing a payment system

I am considering setting up a new studio that operates on a Bitcoin Standard (BTS). This idea combines concepts from other readings, such as value pricing and the principles outlined in "Winning Without Pitching" by Jeffrey Gitomer, with the idea of creating a branded house configuration of services that we can offer through the new studio. To research and develop our service product, I plan to use my existing studio's BTC equity and not debt. I will then create a focused website to highlight the new service product. To support the new studio, I will utilize my existing studio staff on projects, as part of their unitization. I also plan to offer sweat equity profit sharing to interested staff who will contribute to the bootstrapped research and development of the service product. I will work with a separate bookkeeping group to report results to our umbrella company. One of the key goals of this experiment is to track the diƯerence in administration costs between the new studio and our existing operations. This will provide valuable insights into how to make the BTS model work for our business without going all-in. Additionally, the new studio setup will serve as a comparison experiment to help us determine when it's time to fully transition to a BTS for the business. By testing and refining this model, “we” (I will have some ammunition to help the others) can make an informed decision about whether to adopt the BTS for all aspects of our business.

The journey to implementing a Bitcoin Standard (BTS) is like a house renovation, where clients live through the process. In our industry, renovations are often more complex than new builds, and the process of evolving an existing business to a BTS is similar. We must navigate the challenges of not disrupting an established system or overwhelming staƯ with new systems and processes. To avoid disruptions, we need to identify a "temporary roof" - a stable foundation that allows us to continue operating while we refine our BTS model. Most importantly, we must listen and be willing to pivot our process for those interested, whether from within our studio or from outside, on how and what we offer.

HODL on

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The tragic events of September 11, 2001, reshaped the world in profound and unforeseen ways. With thousands of innocent lives lost and countless more injured, the attacks were undeniably devastating. In response, the Bush administration embarked on a warpath—literally—introducing measures aimed at bringing the perpetrators to justice. These included placing a $25 million bounty on Osama bin Laden, initiating the "War on Terror" with the invasion of Afghanistan, and, notably, enacting the draconian PATRIOT Act. Twenty-three years later, while bin Laden is dead and U.S. troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan, the PATRIOT Act remains firmly in place.

Hastily passed six weeks after 9/11 as a preventive measure, the PATRIOT Act effectively neutered the Fourth Amendment and granted federal agencies unprecedented surveillance capabilities. These became the foundation for conducting "sneak and peek" searches, enabling unauthorized access to individuals' online purchases, emails, and browsing histories, and compelling banks to notify the FBI of deposits over $10,000—often sidestepping due process entirely. The irony lies in the fact that this tragedy didn't occur due to insufficient surveillance powers. A Congressional report revealed that intelligence agencies already possessed actionable information to prevent the attacks but failed to coordinate and act on it. Given such findings, one would expect a serious reevaluation of this legislation, but civil liberties have rarely been the state's primary concern, especially when a "good crisis" offers an opportunity to expand control.

Two decades later, we face a bleak reality and unsettling questions: Are we actually safer today? Are there fewer terrorists worldwide? Given the state's shifting definition of "terrorist," what prevents this law from being used against the very citizens it was meant to protect? While pondering these questions, Ben Franklin's famous words come to mind: "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." In an age of emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) and looming threats of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), the PATRIOT Act could become a cornerstone in establishing a totalitarian technocracy where privacy is a relic of the past—if we haven't already reached that point.

Financial Privacy Implications

In free societies, personal and financial privacy form a vital buffer against government interference, surveillance, and control. Financial privacy, in particular, protects individuals' assets from potential governmental overreach or confiscation based on political, ethnic, or religious grounds. The Canadian government's invocation of the Emergencies Act during the 2022 freedom convoy protests—particularly the freezing of bank accounts belonging to truckers and their supporters—serves as a stark example. This action was later ruled "unreasonable and unconstitutional" by a federal court judge.

While the PATRIOT Act's broad surveillance powers often dominate discussions, its substantial encroachment on financial privacy is frequently overlooked. The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) of 1970 initially deputized financial institutions in combating money laundering by requiring them to report suspicious activities. The costly and administratively burdensome regulatory framework introduced by the BSA has not only severely eroded the financial privacy of law-abiding citizens but has hardly made a dent in preventing money laundering.

Before the PATRIOT Act, financial institutions were encouraged to adopt Know Your Customer (KYC) practices but were not legally obligated to do so. The BSA established a framework for reporting suspicious activities and maintaining records but did not specifically mandate customer identity verification processes during account opening. The PATRIOT Act, however, intensified these requirements by legally mandating KYC protocols and enforcing Title III, which established strict Customer Identification Programs (CIP) for verifying customer identities.

These expanded measures deeply compromised financial privacy, forcing banks to build detailed customer profiles by collecting personal data and extensively monitoring transactions. Additionally, financial institutions must file Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) for any transaction over $5,000 that they suspect may be related to illicit funds. The broad definition of "suspicious transactions" compels institutions to err on the side of caution and flag any transaction deemed atypical for a customer, even without clear evidence of wrongdoing. As a result, individuals have almost no control over how their financial data is used and shared with government agencies.

With access to individuals' transactional data and digital metadata from sources like social media, the government can construct an exceptionally precise record of a person's daily activities—what is often called a "pattern of life." This capability allows authorities to surveil and assess a person's actions in real-time, essentially creating a comprehensive view of their life. This level of oversight is particularly troubling in light of former NSA director General Michael Hayden's remark, "we kill people based on metadata," underscoring the potentially lethal implications of unchecked surveillance power.

Thanks to the PATRIOT Act, any money or investments held in a financial institution now essentially function as a conditional permission slip that can be frozen at any time and for any reason. The worst aspect is that, due to the unholy alliance between the state and big business, many of these actions can be carried out by private corporations at the behest of the state. This intertwining of public and corporate power opens the door to unprecedented levels of financial control over individuals, undermining both their financial privacy and personal autonomy.

What Does the Future Hold?

Senate Judiciary Committee hearings following Snowden's revelations highlighted an even more troubling fact: the PATRIOT Act's supposed effectiveness was largely overstated. This stands in sharp contrast to earlier claims in two declassified documents presented to Congress as justification before key surveillance votes in 2009 and 2011, which asserted that mass data collection was essential for detecting terrorist threats.

In 2009, an Al-Qaeda operative nearly succeeded in bombing a Detroit-bound airplane, despite the extensive dragnet surveillance programs that became the norm after the passage of the PATRIOT Act. When Senator Patrick Leahy questioned NSA Deputy Director John Inglis about claims that 54 terrorist plots had been foiled due to the Act, further examination revealed that perhaps only one plot could be loosely attributed to the bulk surveillance program. Given the stated goals of passing this law, it would be an understatement to call it a monumental failure.

This raises a different set of questions: What if this was never really about security but merely an opportunity that the state seized to "legally" establish a surveillance superstructure? Is the "surveillance state" now a permanent feature of our lives? If this reality is to change, it will likely not come from the halls of Congress but from freedom-loving individuals who, in addition to pressuring policymakers, will build new tools. Without new technological solutions that preserve our privacy, it won't be long until we find ourselves living in a dystopian nightmare controlled at every turn by Big Brother.

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Anglicismos estúpidos no português contemporâneo

Palavras e expressões que ninguém deveria usar porque não têm o sentido que as pessoas acham que têm, são apenas aportuguesamentos de palavras inglesas que por nuances da história têm um sentido ligeiramente diferente em inglês.

Cada erro é acompanhado também de uma sugestão de como corrigi-lo.

Palavras que existem em português com sentido diferente

• submissão (de trabalhos): envio, apresentação
• disrupção: perturbação
• assumir: considerar, pressupor, presumir
• realizar: perceber
• endereçar: tratar de
• suporte (ao cliente): atendimento
• suportar (uma idéia, um projeto): apoiar, financiar
• suportar (uma função, recurso, característica): oferecer, ser compatível com
• literacia: instrução, alfabetização
• convoluto: complicado.
• acurácia: precisão.
• resiliência: resistência.

Aportuguesamentos desnecessários

• estartar: iniciar, começar
• treidar: negociar, especular

Expressões

• "não é sobre...": "não se trata de..."

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Ver também

• Algumas expressões e ditados excelentes da língua portuguesa, e outras não tão excelentes assim

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Nostr and its ecosystem present a novel and unique possibility for digital self sorting. Discoverability has long been one of the main issues of the internet, this issue has to this point been solved through centralized entities. These entities or firms collect data and then present “useful” information to the individual user. It is important to note the subjectivity of what is considered “useful”. In today's world, what is useful is determined by large corporations that have their own agendas that are specifically related to you, your behavior, and your purchasing habits. The data collected from us and presented to us is the front line attack in the war in which anyone who uses a digital product or services finds themself. The process of discoverability - data collection and presentation - has become blatantly manipulative and harmful to everyone that interacts with the digital world.

Self-Sorting Thomas Sowell in “Discrimination and Disparities” talks about the importance of individual choice resulting in the formation of groups of people based on similar interests or wants. Governments and regulatory bodies often use the disparity in the outcomes resulting from this self sorting and claim that process to be unfair and harmful. The next step is to intervene and enforce, through threats of violence, rules and regulations to alter the outcomes so they appear to be more similar, or more fair. Self sorting is a natural process and the resulting disparity in outcomes resulting from self sorting is also a natural process. A society built from the natural self sorting of individuals will lead to a more productive, healthier, and happier, collective. Equality of outcome is the result of sovereign interference and thus assumes the subjectivity of the sovereign body responsible for enforcement.

Digital Sovereign The digital world is still very young. Just as past societies in the real world went through (and are still undergoing) a maturation process, that digital world is ruled by the Monarchs of our past. Twitter, Meta, Google, the Kings of the digital realm. Make no mistake the digital world is a feudal world and it does include the ability to self sort and thus form productive and healthy communities.

Self sorting is a result of the application of work to express and represent personal choice and preference. Is it possible to take that work and collect it in an open-sourced and transparent manner and then voluntarily display it to the Nostr network? Can we take control of our own freedom in the digital world and use our very own, very unique preferences and desires to create an identifiable and readable signal allowing us to navigate towards other individuals that share similar values all the while respecting and empowering individuals who have conflicting values. Imagine a self sorted internet. Where individuals share data of their choosing with the network allowing other people to identify a general quality of values and group together. Allowing companies to see this quality and indicate the possible interest in a good, product or service.

Communities or even individuals will create a quiz. The quiz for a community will need maintainers and the questions that it contains should be determined by the community itself. For quizzes created by individuals the process is less complex as it would be decided by the individual alone. Every quiz and every quiz question would be public. Most quizzes would utilize only multiple choice or agree/disagree statements.

For example lets say that the all of the current 7.2 million members of the Bitcoin community on Reddit took a standard and open sourced quiz on specific thoughts or opinions related to Bitcoin

The questions along with each individual response are put through SHA-256 hash and then that hash could be publicly displayed to the community. Seeing as how the questions are included in the hash it should be possible to compare everyone's individual hash to determine the similarity of the responses that were provided. It is likely that these quizzes would need to be paid for. Cost coupled with the actual time and effort required to complete the quiz generates a proof of work for each quiz taken. People would take many different quizzes and each one would be concatenated into a single hash that over time becomes a unique fingerprint of the individual. Hashes could then be compared and based on the quizzes any person chooses to pay for and take coupled with their individual responses it would be possible to see each individuals hash with a certain quality, almost like a color, that could be used to signal to the entire network the quality of personal values that person has.

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Risks and Regulations

Food contact materials (FCMs)

Materials that come into contact with food during processing, packaging, or transport – play a critical role in food safety. However, chemicals can migrate from these materials into food, introducing potential health risks. For instance, chemicals can leach into food from packaging materials, especially during microwaving, pasteurization, or other high-temperature exposures. Even printing inks on the outer packaging, if not well-contained, can migrate into the food or drink. Factors like high temperatures, small package-to-food ratios, fatty foods, and long storage times all increase this risk.

More than 12,200 chemicals have been identified in FCMs, but only about 100 substances are regulated by the European Union, focusing mainly on plastics. The actual composition of many materials is often undisclosed due to proprietary protection, making it challenging to assess risks fully. Even less is known about secondary substances, which may arise from additives breaking down during manufacturing.

In 2016, EU regulation defined publicly that current regulations do not sufficiently protect public health from the harmful impacts of chemicals migrating from food packaging. The current paradigm for evaluating the safety of FCMs is insufficient, as there is a general underestimation of the role of FCMs in food contamination and a lack of information on human exposure. FCMs are a significant source of human exposure to chemicals of concern, including perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) and endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), as well as those linked to neurodevelopmental issues.

Moreover, the legal framework doesn’t account for the cumulative "cocktail effect" of multiple low-level chemical exposures, which can collectively exceed safe limits. Research shows that FCMs can contribute to serious health issues like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, neurological disorders, and cancer. Although packaging is designed to preserve food, maintain quality, and extend shelf life, its chemical impacts remain insufficiently regulated, posing risks that demand greater transparency and robust oversight.

So what can we do?

Be mindful and use less packaged food. Plastic is sometimes even less harmful than paper, as many chemicals and synthetic materials are used in paper production to improve texture and prevent humidity from transferring through the paper packaging. Additionally, the barrier between ink and food in paper packaging is often not very effective. Chemicals are mostly invisible...!

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El terror inundó Valencia. Caos, culpa y resignación. Así fue la noche del día de ayer para los valencianos. Cayó tal cantidad de agua, que dejó a todos patidifusos ante este fenómeno natural. Lo que en un pasado fue conocido como Gota Fría, y hoy denominado Dana por los vividores del cambio climático™, hizo acto de presencia. Su paso fue tan devastador que no se veía tal grado de virulencia desde los años 50 del siglo pasado. Fueron horas críticas y de consecuencias fatales, pero pasada la tormenta llega la calma, o eso es lo que quieren que creas.

El Día Después ha llegado, es la hora de contar los múltiples desperfectos materiales; cómo han caído las estructuras que mantenían las redes de telecomunicación fruto de la tempestad, hacia dónde fueron a parar los incontables coches que fueron desplazados por la riada, y, sobre todo, la parte más crítica y omitida del relato, qué pasó con las personas desaparecidas. Al momento que redacto esta nota, el recuento oficial de muertes se eleva a un centenar, que previsiblemente se elevará dada la confirmación del destino de los desaparecidos. ¿Realmente ha llegado la calma tras la tormenta? Permítanme dudarlo.

El Día Después exige duelo por las víctimas y reparaciones para los damnificados, pero también respuestas. ¿Pudo haberse evitado esta desgracia? Probablemente sí. ¿Qué hubiese sido de nosotros si el aviso de emergencias se hubiera transmitido antes de las 20:00, hora crítica del desastre? ¿Por qué los políticos no movieron un dedo, con un plan de previsión, cuando se sabía, cinco días vista, que las consecuencias podrían ser fatales? ¿Dónde estaban los responsables de desmantelar servicios públicos de emergencias y presas cuya misión es la de prevenir desgracias? ¿Por qué había gente obligada a trabajar con el agua por la cintura?

Son muchas cuestiones las que asolan en el Día Después. Todas ellas quedarán sin responder y sin reparar, el duelo servirá de silencio para expiar la culpa de los responsables. Mientras, parte de la ciudadanía consciente se moviliza para ayudar en todo lo posible a los damnificados, una caridad no correspondida, pues los impuestos sirven para sufragar a quien tiene las competencias para ayudar, pero ante la inacción de la instancia superior, no queda otra que arroparse unos a otros. La otra parte de la ciudad, poblada por okupas y egoístas, solo se limitará a observar, y quien sabe si a rapiñar. Este es el Día Después de la Gota Fría. Espero que sirva para aprender algo.

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/10/31/a-doctor-with-50-50-vaccinated-unvaccinated-children-tells-what-the-difference-is/ A doctor with 50/50 vaccinated unvaccinated children tells what the difference is

usa #vaccine #children #truth #freespeech #paulthomas

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🧡 📄 October 31st, 2008 | The Bitcoin WhitePaper

For many of us, Bitcoin is much more than just a decentralized form of money. I’d even dare to say it’s the best form of money humanity has ever had—and will ever have! But Bitcoin goes beyond just being money, no matter how sound it is.

With respect for the topic, to keep this piece at a reasonable length, I’ll skip other important aspects and instead focus on Bitcoin, art and culture.

Indeed, Creativity Has Many Hands and Faces...

For years, many talented rebels from around the world—yes, artists are the group I mean here—have built a unique ecosystem of works that focus on truth, freedom, and Bitcoin. To honor their creative side and mark today’s special day, let me share some of my favorite pieces from last year’s Bitcoin Whitepaper Day.

by Flo Montoya (nostr:npub1zw0uc6anqjeg0xt5ckwd5cwcd4updt22crecaea8yn053qrquewswctfhf ) https://i.nostr.build/wgj5C4oBDtWtxxuu.png

by 0711_₿itcoin (or actually his father) https://i.nostr.build/qNi7VvpapS6ZAcPa.jpg

by Loꓘo 🦝 BTC https://i.nostr.build/XU1DYNTfOFOLGAn3.png

by MaxisClub (nostr:npub1pazuhetzx5w8yyt59lszeslxlywkeadnq6rncre7nlqv2uxnxuwq8c56r9 ) https://i.nostr.build/ZRyKIviBl0pd9gf2.png

by Bitcoin FilmFest (nostr:npub1rjtrs7xqdvj3588r9njrexh2n750j7jdwx9qs543nutmdsj6ljaqpfmp8a ) https://i.nostr.build/qt8bcr16fDkQfrkQ.jpg

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Got your favorites too? Please share! I’m curious to see what this year brings… We’ll find out soon, starting on October 31st.

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*BTC Your Mind. Let it Beat.

Şelale Malkoçoğlu*

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I’s hard to believe it’s been 16 years already...

THANK YOU, Satoshi Nakamoto! Wherever you are, BE SAFE!

To the man who change the world. And to everyone else, at the end of the day...

"We Are All Satoshi..."

Happy Whitepaper Day!

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Estoy probando un plugin para Obisidian que permite publicar directamente en NOSTR los artículos que has creado en Obsidian.

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Muchas son las maneras de referirse a la compra y mantenimiento de Bitcoin en cartera. Muchas también son las maneras de almacenarlo. Y, aunque en realidad NADIE almacena Bitcoin, sino llaves privadas y llaves públicas, no es de mi interés entrar hoy en esos tecnicismos.

Hoy quiero escribirle a la gente de a pie, los trabajadores, emprendedores, empresarios y todo aquel que se interese por lo menos un poquito en su futuro y el de los suyos. Hay algo que todos los Bitcoiners sabemos pero que muchos de ustedes no lo experimentan hasta llevarse un buen susto en su primer año de inversión (Hablaré en todo el artículo de manera indistinta entre inversión y ahorro en Bitcoin ya que en el largo larguísimo plazo y mirando a Bitcoin como moneda pero también como activo, pueden utilizarse ambos términos). Lo que no saben los que miran desde afuera, es que muy poca gente compró Bitcoin en centavos o pocos dólares (o lo minó en épocas tempranas) y todavía lo mantienen en cartera. Me arriesgaría a decir que este numero de individuos no supera unos pocos miles. Muchos no-coiners creen que los bitcoiners compraron a dos centavos se durmieron 15 años y hoy son todos ricos, pero la mayoría de los early adopters, se hundieron intentando navegar las profundas y peligrosas aguas de la custodia y el HODL.

Para quien todavía esté medio perdido y quizás este sea el primer artículo que lea, HODL es una manera "chistosa" de referirse a mantener Bitcoin en cartera, y se remonta allá por el 2013 donde un usuario quiso decir que estaba Holdeando (manteniendo) Bitcoin en cartera y lo escribió como HODLING. Pasó a la historia y hoy se usan HODL y HOLD de manera indistinta como chiste interno Bitcoiner.

En fin... Las profundas aguas... Holdear Bitcoin no es sencillo para las masas. Imaginate que tenés un activo en tu cartera, o compraste a 100 dólares y ahora vale 1.000. Lo venderías verdad? Y si vale 20.000 dólares? Ahí si lo venderías? Estarías multiplicando tu inversión como nunca. Bueno, a esa decisión se enfrentaron y se enfrentan TODOS los holders de Bitcoin más temprano o más tarde. Incluso aquel loco que compro por el 2017 en un precio de 20.000 hoy puede decidir vender y multiplicar casi por 4 su dinero en unos pocos años. Ni hablar de ese estresante momento que habías comprado en 69.000 dólares y lo viste bajar hasta los 17.000 dólares, unos cuantos meses de sufrimiento y temor... Más de uno se asustó de verdad y vendió todo, solo para verlo unas horas más tarde por arriba de los 20.000 y un año más tarde nuevamente en 70.000 dólares.

Si bien no me gusta poner el foco en el precio, lo que intento ilustrar es lo DIFICIL que puede ser ver tu inversión en máximos o en mínimos y aún así decidir mantenerla unos cuantos años más. Es dificil, aún para los que viven su tercer o cuarto ciclo de mercado. Pero se hace más y más fácil a medida que uno avanza en el famoso "rabbit hole" de Bitcoin y empieza a entenderlo desde las bases, cada vez mejor. Este camino también es arduo, entender de Bitcoin requiere un poco de conocimiento en cada campo, hay que saber un poco de tecnología, un poco de redes, un poco de seguridad informatica, una pizca de teoría de juegos, una apasionante cantidad de macroeconomía, y hasta un interés genuino en lo que Mises llamó "La acción Humana". Y todo esto, uno lo va a prendiendo con ganas y de a poco sólo para llegar a la conclusión, meses o incluso años después, de que Bitcoin tiene que ser un activo por siempre en la cartera de uno, no se vende. Incluso hay quienes llegan al punto (como este humilde ser que escribe) que no poseen otro tipo de ahorro o inversión que no sean sus pocos o muchos satoshis en Billetera Fria.

Mi recomendación siempre será que DYOR, "do your own research", investiguen, lean, pregunten, únanse a #nostr que tiene la mejor comunidad del mundo a la hora de ayudar a otros usuarios, pero si no llegan a tener el tiempo de leer y progresar sólo tómenme estos dos consejos:

• Háganse el tiempo para leer.
• Stay humble y stack sats (De a poco y constante, todo ahorro mensual que uno haga, está mejor guardado en Bitcoin, siempre gastando menos de lo que ingresa esto no debería ser dificil).

Otra dificultad que encontramos además de la parte emocional y humana relacionada con los precios y el desconocimiento, es la custodia. Cientos de personas perdieron TODO su Bitcoin por no saber almacenarlo correctamente. Decenas de maneras de almacenar claves y sin embargo muchos usuarios de Bitcoin no se sienten del todo seguro durante sus primeros años de inversión, y no están el todo equivocados... Por un lado puede ser tan sencillo como guardar 24 palabras. Por otro lado, puede no ser tan fácil, dependiendo del tipo de usuario. Entraremos en detalles de custodia en el próximo artículo.

Saludos!

El Tío.

PD: No es consejo de inversión.

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Understanding the Future of Decentralized Social Media

The Issues with Traditional Social Media

The issues with social media are well-documented. Facebook and Twitter started out as information distribution networks, but through censorship and algorithmic curation, the experience they used to provide continues to be tainted by politics and biases. Certain narratives are suppressed; certain personalities are de-platformed, and all the while, advertisers are in a race to bid for your eyeballs on every scroll.

The Rise of Nostr

Since the decay of legacy social media, many apps have tried to break their network effects with little or no success. Platforms like Gab, Truth Social and Mastodon launched with massive fanfare but have slowed down in recent years. While Nostr is being hailed as the next big alternative to social media apps like Twitter as its first use case for the protocol. While the platforms mentioned above specifically target a certain social media user Nostr doesn’t; it can’t. Nostr is only a protocol for relaying data between different users; how clients display this data is up to them.

How Nostr Works

Nostr relies on relays. There is no Nostr app, there is no Nostr website; there is no Nostr company. Nostr is a protocol that provides censorship-resistant communications on the internet. Nostr uses "dumb" relays to forward messages from one user to another. Anyone can spin up a private and public key pair, connect to a relay via a client of their choice and broadcast their information, in many cases a post, to one or several relays.

Key Features of Nostr

• Decentralized: Nostr is a decentralized network, meaning there is no central authority controlling the flow of information.
• Flexible: Clients can display data in various formats, from short-form content like Twitter to messageboard-style formats like Reddit.
• Censorship-Resistant: Nostr's design makes it difficult for any single entity to censor content.

How Nostr Relays Work

Every user is identified by a public key. Every post is signed. Every client validates these signatures. Clients fetch data from relays of their choice and publish data to other relays of their choice. A relay doesn’t talk to another relay, only directly to users.

The Benefits of Nostr

• Censorship Resistance: Nostr's design makes it difficult to boot someone off the platform completely.
• Flexibility: Users can choose which relays to broadcast on and which to ignore.
• Decentralized: No single entity controls the flow of information.

How is Nostr Different?

Nostr takes another stab at a decentralized social network without the need for a blockchain or the need for you to spin up a subdomain on a server. Unlike Mastodon, where user identities are attached to servers and servers have a degree of control over registered users, Nostr is far more open and fluid thanks to its reliance on relays.

Components of Nostr

There are two components at play on Nostr: Clients and Relays. Each user interacts with a client they prefer; this could be a web app, iOS app, Android app or Desktop application. While anyone can run a relay, think of this as a storage system that you can use or allow others to use to house their posts.

How Nostr Clients Work

Clients can publish data (i.e. create posts, likes, re-shares etc.) on any number of relays and fetch data from other relays to see what accounts they follow are up to online. Each user is assigned a public key. When a user follows someone, the user’s client fetches posts associated with that someone’s public key from the associated relay. This process is repeated on start-up, with the client querying data from all relays it knows for all users it follows.

Censorship Resistance in Nostr

Nostr has built-in censorship resistance. It sounds complicated, but such an implementation solves several flaws, such as the ability to back up your content locally and choosing which relays to broadcast on and which to ignore. That means when a relay rejects your content or shuts down, your data and account are still safely stored on your local or any relays that are still happy to house your content.

Running Your Own Nostr Relay

Platforms like Yakihonne and many other support the use of Nostr and Creation of Relays.

Source: https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/nostr-relay/

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Muchas son las maneras de referirse a la compra y mantenimiento de Bitcoin en cartera. Muchas también son las maneras de almacenarlo. Y, aunque en realidad NADIE almacena Bitcoin, sino llaves privadas y llaves públicas, no es de mi interés entrar hoy en esos tecnicismos.

Hoy quiero escribirle a la gente de a pie, los trabajadores, emprendedores, empresarios y todo aquel que se interese por lo menos un poquito en su futuro y el de los suyos. Hay algo que todos los Bitcoiners sabemos pero que muchos de ustedes no lo experimentan hasta llevarse un buen susto en su primer año de inversión (Hablaré en todo el artículo de manera indistinta entre inversión y ahorro en Bitcoin ya que en el largo larguísimo plazo y mirando a Bitcoin como moneda pero también como activo, pueden utilizarse ambos términos). Lo que no saben los que miran desde afuera, es que muy poca gente compró Bitcoin en centavos o pocos dólares (o lo minó en épocas tempranas) y todavía lo mantienen en cartera. Me arriesgaría a decir que este numero de individuos no supera unos pocos miles. Muchos no-coiners creen que los bitcoiners compraron a dos centavos se durmieron 15 años y hoy son todos ricos, pero la mayoría de los early adopters, se hundieron intentando navegar las profundas y peligrosas aguas de la custodia y el HODL.

Para quien todavía esté medio perdido y quizás este sea el primer artículo que lea, HODL es una manera "chistosa" de referirse a mantener Bitcoin en cartera, y se remonta allá por el 2013 donde un usuario quiso decir que estaba Holdeando (manteniendo) Bitcoin en cartera y lo escribió como HODLING. Pasó a la historia y hoy se usan HODL y HOLD de manera indistinta como chiste interno Bitcoiner.

En fin... Las profundas aguas... Holdear Bitcoin no es sencillo para las masas. Imaginate que tenés un activo en tu cartera, o compraste a 100 dólares y ahora vale 1.000. Lo venderías verdad? Y si vale 20.000 dólares? Ahí si lo venderías? Estarías multiplicando tu inversión como nunca. Bueno, a esa decisión se enfrentaron y se enfrentan TODOS los holders de Bitcoin más temprano o más tarde. Incluso aquel loco que compro por el 2017 en un precio de 20.000 hoy puede decidir vender y multiplicar casi por 4 su dinero en unos pocos años. Ni hablar de ese estresante momento que habías comprado en 69.000 dólares y lo viste bajar hasta los 17.000 dólares, unos cuantos meses de sufrimiento y temor... Más de uno se asustó de verdad y vendió todo, solo para verlo unas horas más tarde por arriba de los 20.000 y un año más tarde nuevamente en 70.000 dólares.

Si bien no me gusta poner el foco en el precio, lo que intento ilustrar es lo DIFICIL que puede ser ver tu inversión en máximos o en mínimos y aún así decidir mantenerla unos cuantos años más. Es dificil, aún para los que viven su tercer o cuarto ciclo de mercado. Pero se hace más y más fácil a medida que uno avanza en el famoso "rabbit hole" de Bitcoin y empieza a entenderlo desde las bases, cada vez mejor. Este camino también es arduo, entender de Bitcoin requiere un poco de conocimiento en cada campo, hay que saber un poco de tecnología, un poco de redes, un poco de seguridad informatica, una pizca de teoría de juegos, una apasionante cantidad de macroeconomía, y hasta un interés genuino en lo que Mises llamó "La acción Humana". Y todo esto, uno lo va a prendiendo con ganas y de a poco sólo para llegar a la conclusión, meses o incluso años después, de que Bitcoin tiene que ser un activo por siempre en la cartera de uno, no se vende. Incluso hay quienes llegan al punto (como este humilde ser que escribe) que no poseen otro tipo de ahorro o inversión que no sean sus pocos o muchos satoshis en Billetera Fria.

Mi recomendación siempre será que DYOR, "do your own research", investiguen, lean, pregunten, únanse a #nostr que tiene la mejor comunidad del mundo a la hora de ayudar a otros usuarios, pero si no llegan a tener el tiempo de leer y progresar sólo tómenme estos dos consejos:

• Háganse el tiempo para leer.
• Stay humble y stack sats (De a poco y constante, todo ahorro mensual que uno haga, está mejor guardado en Bitcoin, siempre gastando menos de lo que ingresa esto no debería ser dificil).

Otra dificultad que encontramos además de la parte emocional y humana relacionada con los precios y el desconocimiento, es la custodia. Cientos de personas perdieron TODO su Bitcoin por no saber almacenarlo correctamente. Decenas de maneras de almacenar claves y sin embargo muchos usuarios de Bitcoin no se sienten del todo seguro durante sus primeros años de inversión, y no están el todo equivocados... Por un lado puede ser tan sencillo como guardar 24 palabras. Por otro lado, puede no ser tan fácil, dependiendo del tipo de usuario. Entraremos en detalles de custodia en el próximo artículo.

Saludos!

El Tío.

PD: No es consejo de inversión.

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Taryn Christiansen

Discussions with Eric Zhang.

The first part of this critique can be found here. A Nostr mirror publication of this article can be found here.

Section 1:

In the previous article, our Interns argued that autonomy is the principal end of the state. Human subjectivity can be divided into at least two parts, one quantitative and the other qualitative. Both have their respective needs, whose dissatisfaction results in dehumanizing conditions. The state’s aim is not merely to provide conditions by which people can pursue their self-interests. It is also concerned with promoting the development of their capacities for reflective deliberation and choice.

The present article will move to focusing on means rather than ends. The relevant question will be: How should a network state achieve this end? Fortunately, Balaji Srinivasan offers an approach to answer this: the idea of a one-commandment. That is, a one-premise moral critique of one or several preexisting nation-state(s) that will serve as a basis, a foundational starting point, to build a network state. However, his examples of one-commandments in the book tend to be impoverished in two senses. First, while his suggestions of one-commandments tend to be moral, they lack meaning. His example of a keto-diet society could be understood and expressed in moral terms, such as criticism regarding the public and private health of a society, but that doesn’t mean it will be meaningful enough to provide a vision about a greater good, whatever that may be, which people identify with and pursue, and that provides certain kinds of motivations to act on. The second issue is that one-commandments are also supposed to function as principles that guide the legal decision-making procedures of the society. The worry is that an individual commandment will be unable to accommodate all cases that arise in legal matters, and will easily devolve into morally troublesome situations. As will be discussed below, Balaji offers a solution by suggesting that network states adopt a preexisting legal codebase from a nation-state after formulating a one-commandment. This, too, has its difficulties. Throughout this article, I will use the United States as an example, and when such a case is invoked, it can be seen that, if Srinivasan’s proposal is employed, a network state would be beset by its attempt to reconcile the various preexisting legal parameters of a nation-state’s legal codebase, such as its forms of legal reasoning, modes of justification, and precedent, with its one-commandment.

There are therefore two conditions that a one-commandment must meet. It must be moral and sufficiently meaningful, and, secondly, it must be capable of generating principles that can guide the legal reasoning within the society, which will form consistent, coherent, and precedented justifications that establish the authority and legitimacy of the state. However, by satisfying these two conditions, a further problem arises. If a one-commandment is meaningful and can guide decision-making procedures within the society, it won’t be able to be formulated in a formal language that is appropriate for smart contracts. This is a problem because of certain statements made by Balaji in his book. At several points, he suggests that the constitution of the society will be in the form of a smart contract. However, smart contracts require certain properties that one-commandments should not, in principle, have if it is to satisfy the conditions above. For example, smart contracts operate by a set of fixed and specified rules that either hold or do not hold. Their functioning properly requires that the rules programmed into the contracts are determinate and should not require interpretation or discretion. A good one-commandment, though, should not be of this kind. This will all be explained in more detail below. For now, what’s important is understanding that one-commandments must satisfy the conditions. The task now is to understand these two conditions better. Let’s begin with the first.

Section 2:

The first condition is one about meaning. Not only should a one-commandment be a moral critique; but it should also be meaningful. Now, questions like ‘What is meaning?’ are inherently difficult to answer, and I will not attempt that. A more manageable approach is to look at the effects of meaning. It’s fair to say most have an instinctual grasp of what meaning is. We may not be able to conceptualize and articulate it, but we have an intuitive feel that allows us to point it out. Finding answers to difficult and troubling questions, writing a book, getting a dream job, and achieving goals are meaningful experiences. Many may not be able to express why, but they know and feel them to be so, especially through how they affect those who have them. The same approach can be adopted here. A meaningful society would produce certain kinds of effects indicative of meaning. But what are these effects supposed to look like? An important one is the effect of people being captured by what society presents as the good, which people identify with, take up, and develop in their lives. If a society is meaningful, and if what it presents is worth adopting, then one outcome should be that individuals within the society concern themselves with developing and understanding it. One apparent way to see this is when individuals create out of what a society presents. The United States serves as an example of this. Before turning to that example, something more should be said about why meaning is central to founding network states.

What makes meaning important is that it has to be admitted that reaching diplomatic recognition amongst other sovereign states is an arduous enterprise. To be sovereign is to compete with other nations, which is a potential threat to their sovereignty. And because such recognition must be leveraged; because it is highly plausible that nations primarily act from self-interest and rarely from any motivation that borders on goodwill, network states must be sufficiently motivated by a vision that they find meaningful enough to strive toward, and are willing to persevere through the issues and hardships that arise. Therefore, it should be a principal concern of any founder to undertake a serious and thorough investigation of what is worth criticizing about preexisting nation-states that will get at the heart of the issues that people find disillusioning, alienating, oppressive, dehumanizing, or obstructing about modern societies, which, when well understood, can be articulated and expressed in ways that positively affect people’s motivations, and that moves them to join a network state.

Let’s turn now to the United States as an example of a country that proved to be meaningful. I propose that the founders of the United States offered a project worth wrestling with. That is, they provided an ideal worth poeticizing and writing literature about, that was worth developing and coming to terms with which was meaningful enough to salvage and maintain despite its flaws and contradictions. It produced images that moved people and provided a sense of being a part of something bigger and more significant than themselves. The fact that many artists, writers, and philosophers devoted their creative resources toward the American project, who tried to work out its tensions and make progress in its promises of equality and freedom by understanding and elucidating its foundations and concepts, is evidence of the reality of what the United States attempted to do. Despite what the country got wrong and what it grossly failed to live up to, it grasped something true, which can be seen by how the society breathed life into the imaginative capacities of its people.

It is well known that the Founders of the United States were deeply influenced by the Enlightenment, especially the philosopher John Locke. It was Locke who offered a certain conception of a state of nature, where human beings are born free and equal and where each has a natural right to life, liberty, and property, that was expressed in Thomas Jefferson’s famous declaration that certain truths are held to be ‘self-evident’. These are truths supposedly discernible to anyone with the rational faculties necessary for ascertaining them. Locke believed that once someone has done the reasoning themself; who has followed the light of reason on its definite paths, these moral propositions will be illuminated as if they were mathematical axioms or basic expressions of arithmetic. They would be so firmly impressed upon the mind that no rational person could deny them. He writes in his Second Treatise on Government, “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges everyone: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker.” If all the layers of society are peeled away, what lies underneath is a natural condition of equality and freedom. No divine hierarchy orders human beings by referring to their relation to an infinite being that justifies Monarchic authority, or the Church's claims to legitimacy. In a natural state preceding all social conventions and rules are natural laws that grant rights to those under it, and a legitimate government, one that may be properly said to have and wield authority, establishes the protection of people’s rights through the rule of law. Because in a state of nature, people must self-govern, they may easily overstep and try to violate the rights of others. They may steal the property of another person, restrict or take the freedom and liberty of someone else, or even take someone’s life; and since there is no central authority but only individuals, enforcing rights can be dangerous and costly. A good government would reduce and channel people’s dispositions toward self-interest and vice, directing it toward better, more productive ends. Thomas Paine, who played a fundamental role in galvanizing the people for the cause of revolution, wrote in his famous pamphlet Common Sense in 1775, “Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise.” So, he agrees with Locke: government is a necessary evil because human beings cannot sustain and enjoy their natural rights to freedom and equality independent of external constraint.

Now, whether or not normative natural laws exist is not important here; what matters is that Locke held such a view and that the Founders were influenced by it when writing the country's founding documents. In having this view, Locke provided the initial concepts of freedom and equality at the forefront of how the United States conceived of itself over time.

What’s essential to this view of natural rights is that underlying it are claims about an ahistorical element of human nature that is not subject to social and cultural conditions. This aspect of human beings stands outside of time. As Locke believed, human beings’ capacity for reason is the locus of dignity and respect owed to each person. By having contact with truth, with being able to reason to it, and because truth is good, the ideal of a good society is to promote the right human faculties that have access to it. And to achieve this, a free, democratic, liberal society is necessary. Only if human beings exercise these faculties for themselves, enabling them to rationally discern these ‘self-evident’ truths, can this vision of human potential be realized. The people must be able to self-govern and not depend on a patriarch or dictator to do it for them. For human beings to realize the fundamental dignity that characterizes them; for a free, equal, and just society of autonomous individuals to exist, the people must be able and willing to participate and uphold a democracy that places the responsibility of their well-being in their own hands. However, as the French philosopher Montesquieu points out in his work Spirit of the Laws, which was also profoundly influential for the founders, democracy, as a form of government, requires virtue. He writes that in an aristocracy or a monarchy, “the force of laws in one, and the prince’s arm in the other, are sufficient to direct and maintain the whole. But in a popular state (like a democracy), one spring more is necessary, namely, virtue.” If the people are not virtuous; if they do not act from the right source that grounds their dignity and respect but from human wickedness and vice; if unable to actualize what is necessary for self-governance, then democracy will not work, and the American project will fail.

The takeaway from this philosophical vignette is that the foundations established in the United States held freedom, equality, and democracy as fundamental values that would animate the society, and that would lead to reimaginings of what those concepts mean over time. These are deep sources of meaning for those who identify as Americans, regardless of what part of the political spectrum one is on. Every political speech has to pay homage to these ideas. The use of the word freedom alone by a politician in the US can legitimize what they say to the public, even if their words are empty and lack significance. But when used properly and with meaning, they culminate into the highest expression of American society. While the language of Martin Luther King Jr is religious, it is also fundamentally American, and it was his ability to understand, develop, and wield that language that made him such an influential figure. Since America’s inception and development, the language of rights, freedom, equality, and democracy has become ubiquitous in the context of morality and human value, which points to how meaningful these concepts are. American literature also played a central role in this development.

American literature is an example of those within the society trying to come to terms with what these ideas mean, how to understand them, and how life should be lived in light of them. The example I want to look at is the 19th-century American Transcendentalist movement, with figures like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. As thinkers, these three certainly have their differences, but what is continuous is the attempt to expound an individualism that is the source of a universal nature. By being an individual, as someone free and ‘self-reliant’, who does not conform to external constraints but relies on their internal intuitions, who trust themselves through and through, a truly democratic society may be realized. One should not be a product of mere circumstance; one must actively shape it. Emerson writes in his essay Self-Reliance that “there is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is a new nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.” Each individual has a unique and authentic self, differentiated from everyone else, and the noble life to pursue is one of uncovering this potential. To carve a path distinct from all that has come before is to lead a virtuous, spiritual life of freedom.

In the case of Henry David Thoreau, he gives his individualism a political salience, especially in his essay Civil Disobedience. There he argues that until people can participate in a democracy by using their conscience, by their capacity to discern the right for themselves, independent of what others say, think, or do, will the government be less liable to corruption. He begins the essay in agreement with Locke and Paine, saying, “I heartily accept the motto - ‘That government is best which governs least.’” Government is an expedient, he says, something purely instrumental, and what matters for society is for the people within it to realize their own moral conscience, which, of course, requires the exercising of their faculties, of their capacity for moral deliberation and choice. No one can do this for anyone else; in a democracy, where a majority may easily wield power unjustly by the sheer use of numbers, it is the responsibility of the individual to participate in the political processes by thinking for themselves, which must be directed toward justice and virtue, just as Montesquieu argued. And when government fails, when it does live up to its sole purpose which is to promote the well-being of the society, then it is the duty of its citizens to peacefully disobey the law, to obstruct its processes, until justice emerges and the rights of people are restored. This has been one of the most lasting contributions made by an American: it provided Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. a way to demonstrate the injustices they dedicated their lives to eradicating.

Whereas Thoreau and Emerson focused more on individualism, Walt Whitman focused more on what unites and what is universal about human beings in a democratic context. The political scholar George Kaleb writes, “Together with Emerson and Thoreau, Whitman tries to draw out the fuller moral and existential significance of rights. These are the rights that individuals have as persons and that the political system of democracy exists in order to protect.” Whitman’s poetry attempts to animate a democratic spirit, a national identity, that ‘the people’ identify with, and that moves them to feel the sanctity of individual rights. If democracy is going to work, the society must be animated by a sense of connectedness whose source produces the tolerance, sympathy, understanding, and moral conscience necessary for people to self-govern, and for individuals to choose the lives they wish to live. But this can only be achieved if the notion of rights sparks feelings of reverence, of emotions that dispose one to care for the dignity of other people, both in action and thought; otherwise, the society will surely either devolve into a tyranny of the majority or an elite aristocracy that governs over the community. In America, as the Transcendentalists saw it, what is universal is the individual, with each one’s infinite potential for becoming, and democracy and its virtues must promote the right of the individual to cultivate this potential for themselves.

The founding of the United States, then, and its underlying principles of rights, freedom, equality, and democracy, were sufficiently rich enough for subsequent generations to reimagine and reinterpret, through poetry, literature, and philosophy, what it means to be an American. Those who identified with the country and found it meaningful were willing to direct their efforts toward developing an ethos within the United States. This is of course a tall order, and the expectation of what a network state is, or what it should become, will likely be less than this example. Nevertheless, the U.S. is founded on principles rather than ethnicity or religion - or at least in principle - which serves as a model for network states and their one-commandments.

Satisfying the first condition means putting forth a project worth investigating, developing, and creating out of. If a network state is to have longevity, then the founders must spend their time establishing principles that will move people to envision a better mode of life that elicits motivating reasons to care for its inception and growth. And, of course, there will and should be a great deal of diversity between what networks states formulate as principles worth living by. There is likely a plurality of solutions that have the potential to make people better off. The environments people grow and develop in, the cultures they're embedded in, and the values instilled, are diverse. Therefore, the socio-political structures most conducive to each group's well-being will be too. However, what should not be diverse is the goal to provide a vision of a better life for those who desire to leave preexisting nation-states and join a network state.

Section 3:

Let’s turn now to the second condition. The question to be turned to is how principles can be formulated that will guide the decision-making procedures within a network state. This question can be thought of as one about the nature of principles. What should principles look like? I don’t aim to offer an exhaustive answer to this question, but, again, if the focus is on a significant aspect of principles, it will be helpful to look into and analyze it. Such an aspect can come to light by distinguishing principles from rules. What is significant in this discussion is that, whereas rules can be encoded into smart contracts, principles cannot. Rules are mechanical by nature, whereas principles require interpretation when applying them in context, especially in unprecedented situations. An example of this is the United States. When the Declaration of Independence states that all people are created equal, the document presents a principle by which the society will operate. Such a principle cannot be captured by a formal language appropriate to technologies like smart contracts. This will be explored with more detail below, but to herald what that will look like, think about how this principle could be captured by a language that is by its nature binary. That is, a language that necessitates formulating conditions that either obtain or do not obtain. A smart contract that is prone to ambiguity, and that lacks resources to determine whether something has been met or not is a defunct one; one that hasn’t been properly coded according to possible situations that will or may arise. On the other hand, rules are of a kind that do exactly this and are therefore viable candidates for smart contracts. Principles guide a society’s decision-making procedures, which generates rules that align with the principles themselves. This will also establish the legitimacy of a network state. When people join a network state, what they’re essentially agreeing to is the set of principles that will used to govern the society. And if no principles are formulated, or if they are but are poorly articulated and understood, then the justifications employed by the state will be impoverished in quality as well. Punishment is a great example of this. Every state must have an apparatus to administer punishments for those who violate the rules, and if those rules do not correspond to a firmly established standard that creates consistency and coherence between them, then the applications of those rules can easily produce inequalities, unfairness, injustices, etc. And what right does a state have to punish if it does so arbitrarily and not for the sake of reasons that can be justified according to a set of principles that the members of the society initially agreed to? Imagine a group of friends who all adopt the rule that promises must always be lived up to, but who then only adhere to it when it applies to some friends rather than others, and who attempt to enforce the rule by blaming and criticizing someone who breaks it, even though they all do so. It would be fair to say then that the rule has little to no legitimacy because it’s applied arbitrarily. There must be some acknowledged, rational basis to ground the rules that supply a measure of consistency and coherence that can be applied when broken. Therefore, it is important to distinguish between rules and principles to be clear about what the target concept of a one-commandment is and to eliminate potential confusion that may result in harm to those willing to join a network state.

As mentioned above, this distinction is relevant because Srinivasan seems to believe that smart contracts can function like constitutions which, as in the United States, consist of principles and not rules. So, it is significant to see how smart contracts cannot achieve this.

Turning to the book then, when Srinivasan offers his complex definition of a network state, one of the clauses of the definition states that it is “a consensual government limited by a social smart contract.” Then in section 2.4.3, he seems to suggest that law is reducible to smart contracts, and suggests optimistically that one day they will be the primary bearers of legal codes. This indicates that he believes one-commandments will operate through smart contracts, as sets of conditions that function more or less mechanically. Again, the issue is that it oversimplifies the nature of law. If a one-commandment may sufficiently guide the decision-making procedures of the society, then it will be unable to be formalized into a smart contract. The distinction between rules and principles helps us see this. Recall that rules, by their nature, have an all-or-nothing character. A rule in baseball states that when there are three strikes someone is out, which either obtains or does not. There is no wiggle room or discussion about whether the rule is valid or not. Exceptions to this rule are not about the validity of the rule itself but about whether the rule applies, as is the case when deciding whether a pitch is a strike or a ball. Disputes about whether a player is out or not is a matter of whether the proper conditions for the rule have been met. Laws in a society share similar features. For example, when a police officer issues a speeding ticket, they are merely applying a rule that either holds or does not hold. And when someone disputes the validity of the ticket, they are disputing whether the law (the rule) was broken or not, and not whether the law itself is valid. Now, one-commandments which satisfy the second condition will not be amenable to these kinds of constraints. One-commandments will operate more like principles than rules. As the legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin points out, principles have two dimensions that rules do not. First, principles are not all-or-nothing but require discretion when being applied to cases. For instance, the principle ‘always be fair’ cannot be formulated in rule-like terms. In other words, principles cannot be exhausted by enumerating their parts and accounting for all the possible cases it is relevant to. Of course, there will be clear cases when the principle is violated, but there will remain countless cases that have to be understood by applying and interpreting the principle. In the case of baseball again, imagine if one of the game’s rules was ‘to always be fair’. How could this be formulated in a way that gives it an all-or-nothing quality, which will render it mechanical and unambiguous? It’s impossible. Rules will have to be formed in light of the principle. For instance, perhaps the three-strike rule is the fairest standard by which the game can be played; a rule can then be established accordingly. But this again requires distinguishing between rules and principles.

Rules are candidates for being encoded into smart contracts because of their mechanical nature. Principles, on the other hand, are not and require interpretation when cases arise that are ambiguous or unprecedented. Because one-commandments are tasked with guiding the decision-making procedures of the society and of formulating laws that will constrain the behavior of its members, they should not be understood as being rules themselves but rather as normative principles, as reasons for forming certain judgments about the law and the conduct it is meant to regulate. It’s important to understand one-commandments this way because if they are seen as rules; if they are treated as being reducible to all-or-nothing propositions, then the higher, more complex legal procedures, the ones that require interpretation and discretion, will be unable to deal with cases that elude a rules application, and therefore will be unable to fully guide the society, which one-commandments are supposed to do. If they are treated as principles, as standards to produce rules and to apply when ambiguity arises in exceptional cases, a society will be better equipped to form consistent and fair legal precedents. For instance, the First Amendment in the US Constitution is a principle about free speech; it protects individuals’ and groups’ right to freely express their opinions and beliefs. When cases arise that pertain to this right, and if the case contains a sufficient degree of complexity, then the Supreme Court examines the case based on the First Amendment and past cases with similar conditions. Now, ideally, they would resolve the case by merely referencing precedent, and not on considerations regarding their own moral and ethical opinions. They would observe how previous judges may have applied the First Amendment in similar cases to the one being adjudicated, and draw their conclusions accordingly. What’s important is that they appeal to a document of principles that serves as a standard by which cases can be resolved, or, if the case is novel enough, generate new laws that will serve as future precedents.

As mentioned, one of the essential functions here is to provide justifiable reasons for decision-making, which eliminates the degree of arbitrariness inherent in the conclusions drawn by the state. In the US, when issues arise regarding rights, duties, laws, or any other politico-legal issue, the constitution serves as a basic frame of reference, a justifiable grounding for one’s judgments and assertions, that gives weight to the forms of reasoning that occur within the society. Of course, that doesn’t mean the Constitution cannot be morally evaluated. It has, and it should be. But because moral opinion can vary so widely, and because there must be some shared standard by which the society can operate in its deliberative processes, without which disorder and confusion would dominate its operations, the constitution provides a general basis for achieving this. It is essential, then, as a founder of a network state, to carefully consider the principles that will be adopted to govern the society.

An example of a one-commandment will illustrate the point. In his book, Srinivasan presents an FDA-free society as a possible network state and formulates a principle that undergirds it: Your body, your choice. Because of the history of the FDA, Srinivasan imagines a founder who would desire to create a network state that would address those issues by implementing this principle and eliminating third-party institutions that limit people’s ability to make choices regarding what they wish to produce and consume. But Srinivasan then makes the following suggestion, which creates issues: With this principle, “you could then take the existing American codebase and add one crucial new feature: the absolute right for anyone to buy or sell any medical product without third party interference.” The problem is that the US legal codebase is derived from the US Constitution, and because that document consists of twenty-seven amendments and not one, substantial revisions will be necessary for making Your Body, your Choice the principal standard within the society’s legal system. For instance, if regulation like what the FDA does is eliminated, then the commerce clause of the constitution that states “Congress shall have (the) Power . . . To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, should be either eliminated or greatly reduced in bearing any significance in future cases of law. That means of course that any part of the legal codebase derived from this amendment must be altered as well.

Now, while this problem is technically difficult because founders have the responsibility to hierarchically organize principles by their relative weights, it also has moral concerns. For instance, imagine a case where someone starts a private school within the FDA-free network state and decides to only admit persons of a certain race. Imagine further that the principle Your body, your choice has been interpreted by the judiciary sector of the society to mean that producers of goods and services like education can do what they please insofar as they obtain consent. Now, because they adopted the US legal codebase, and because I took this to mean that legal precedent has been carried over as well, then what if another member, one who has been discriminated against by the new school, appeals to Brown v. Board of Education, which relies on the Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution? Either the decision made will have to uphold the conduct of the school by appealing to Your body, your choice, which will mean the Fourteenth Amendment is reduced in significance, or they will have to prioritize that amendment over Your body, your choice. Either option has its difficulties, but clearly, the first option is far worse because of its oppressive and discriminatory nature. Therefore, founders mustn't merely establish a principle and then adopt a codebase. The principles expressed in a one-commandment should be deeply considered to avoid these kinds of potential catastrophes.

Let’s look at another case. In the absence of regulatory institutions, and this being so based on principle, is there no restriction regarding what someone within the society may produce and consume? Could someone choose to sell one of their kidneys in exchange for other goods? Could pharmaceutical manufacturers sell a carcinogenic drug by misrepresenting it as being capable of curing other diseases, and where the consumers who purchased the drug are told they’re out of luck? These are possible cases that are not ruled out by an unspecified and ambiguous principle like Your Body, your Choice. Unless a founder wishes to bite the bullet on these kinds of cases, this means further principles need to be developed that will interact with one another and can be used to form legal judgments that align with basic moral intuitions like having some form of consumer protection that prevent wrongful forms of exploitation, as is the case with misrepresentation of goods and services that undermines consumer consent.

A single, all-encompassing one-commandment that can guide a society’s decision-making procedures is difficult to formulate. Committing to a principle like Your body, your choice will likely lead to complications, as the previous two examples demonstrate. To avoid this, a good approach is to make a general enough principle that can be universalizable; one that is applicable and appropriate in all cases. The philosopher Immanuel Kant and his moral philosophy offer excellent examples of this. One of Kant’s famous contributions to moral philosophy is the idea of a categorical imperative. How Kant gets to this idea is complicated, and I’m not going to attempt an explanation of that. But from it, he generates universally applicable principles that a one-commandment should strive for, one of which can be called the humanity principle: never act in such a way that we treat humanity, whether in ourselves or in others, as a means only but always as an end in itself. An entryway into understanding an application of this principle is in the case of friendship. When two people are friends, this typically means that both persons treat one another as ends-in-themselves. Both friends represent each other as deserving consideration that does not use the other for any purpose other than for their own sake. When promises are made and decisions are acted upon in the context of the friendship, both share the responsibility of respecting the other by holding the other as the end one is directed toward. This doesn’t mean the friend is never treated as a means - that would be impossible. Sometimes people need a ride to work when their car has broken down, or one friend knows someone who can help the other get the job, and so one uses the other by obtaining the contact. But both are never to use the other as merely a means. Certain benefits may be derived from having a friend, but one is never a friend for those reasons: one is a friend because the other is intrinsically valuable.

In a society, this principle is general enough to guide the decision-making procedures. That’s not to say its application will be easy. It will often be difficult to understand what this principle amounts to and how it should be interpreted, but it won’t run into the same issues as Your body, your choice. The difference in generality between these two principles can be seen in the way failures occur when trying to follow them. Your body, your choice inevitably runs into cases that question its validity because certain moral intuitions desired to be preserved are violated. The humanity principle doesn’t easily run into this problem. When a case arises that seems to question the principle, it’s not so much whether it is valid because it fails to live up to intuitions but because it is difficult to live up to it as an ideal. Out of these two problems, failing to live up to a principle is better than adopting one that fails to satisfy moral expectations. The US Constitution is a great example of this. The idea of self-evident truths that hold human beings to have intrinsic value by virtue of their natural rights has proven to be a powerful resource for recognizing and upholding the moral worth of persons. The country has failed to live up to this throughout its history, but as an ideal, it has persistently pointed to a path forward to resolve the mistreatment of those within the society. While the contradiction of slavery in the United States was for a long time suppressed and rationalized, the language of natural rights provided the conceptual resources to dig it back up and shed light on it. As many have pointed out, the language of rights is self-correcting. If mistreatment of others exists, then the language illuminates it, brings it out into the open, and directs attention and concern for rectifying the moral shortcomings. Therefore, one-commandments should aim for universalizability, and avoid narrow and constrained principles that fail to capture moral intuitions. Having an ideal that one fails to live up to is far better than an impoverished one that lacks the proper resources.

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Chef's notes

I got the recipe from the byanjushka website. She includes a lot more information on there, and lots of pictures and instructions. But it's all in German, so here's my quickie, English version. I've doubled the amounts, as I first baked this for the #PurpleKonnektiv meetup, and I knew I'd have some hungry guests.

The cookies are vegan, but they're mostly just peanut, so it's sort of irrelevant. Just make sure you get the really high-quality peanut butter that is 100% peanut. You can usually identify it by the fact that the oil separates from the base, a bit. Everything else is probably with hardened palm oil, or something.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 15 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 10 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 30 cookies

Ingredients

• 500 g peanut butter, normal or crunchy
• 300 g brown (or raw) sugar
• 160 ml plant-based milk (or cows' milk, if you don't care about vegan)
• 1 pkg vanilla sugar (bourbon is nice) or 1 tsp vanilla
• 250 g flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 2/3 tsp salt

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 180 °C (350 °F).
2. Beat together the peanut butter and the sugars, with an electric mixer.
3. Mix in milk and vanilla.
4. In a separate bowl, stir together flour, salt, and baking powder.
5. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, and then knead the dough a bit.
6. (At this point, I put the dough in the fridge overnight, and baked it the next day.)
7. Line your baking sheet with baking paper.
8. Form tbsp-spoon-sized balls of dough.
9. Press each one flat, with a fork, dipping the fork in water, before each press (to keep the dough from sticking to the fork).

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พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา สร้างชาตินี้ เจริญชาติหน้า

นี่ไม่ใช่บทความสรุปเนื้อหาไลฟ์ ผมแค่จะหยิบเอาโควทเจ๋งๆ ของพี่ชิตมาขยายความต่อตามความเข้าใจของผมเท่านั้นนะครับ (ใครยังไม่ได้ชมไลฟ์ตัวเต็ม กดดูเลยนะครับ) Right Talk EP.1

"พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" ไม่ใช่พรรคการเมืองตามนิยามทั่วไป แต่เป็นแนวคิด หรือ อุดมการณ์ (พี่ชิตนิยามว่ามันเป็นโปรโตคอล) ในการพัฒนาอย่างยั่งยืน

คำว่า "พรรค" ในที่นี้จึงเป็นการใช้ในเชิงสัญลักษณ์ หมายถึงกลุ่มคนที่ร่วมอุดมการณ์เดียวกัน (เหล่าบิตคอยเนอร์) คือการสร้างความเปลี่ยนแปลงเชิงบวกในระยะยาว

"สร้างชาตินี้" ก็คือการเน้นย้ำถึงการลงมือทำอย่างจริงจังในปัจจุบัน ไม่ใช่แค่นอนฝันหรือรอคอยอนาคต การสร้างรากฐาน การพัฒนาตนเอง การสะสมความรู้และทรัพยากร ล้วนเป็นการสร้างเพื่ออนาคต

"ชาติหน้า" ในที่นี้ไม่ได้หมายถึงชาติภพหน้าทางศาสนา แต่เป็นการเปรียบเปรยถึงอนาคตระยะยาว ผลลัพธ์ของการ "สร้างชาตินี้" อาจไม่ปรากฏในทันที แต่จะส่งผลดีในอนาคตอย่างแน่นอน เหมือนกับการลงทุนระยะยาว หรือการปลูกต้นไม้ที่ต้องใช้เวลากว่าจะเติบโตและออกดอกผลิผล

1. "Free Market Capitalism ในอดีตมันมีจุดอ่อนอยู่จุดเดียว มันยังไม่มี Free Market Money"

พี่ชิตมองว่าระบบทุนนิยมเสรีที่ผ่านๆ มายังไม่ใช่ของจริง มันเหมือนเล่นเกมส์ที่มีคนโกง คือมีรัฐเนี่ยแหละที่เป็นตัวแสบ คอยแทรกแซงตลาดอยู่ตลอด ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการควบคุมเงินตรา การออกกฎหมาย การเก็บภาษี พวกนี้แม่งโคตรบิดเบือนตลาดเลย

ทีนี้ "จุดอ่อน" ที่พี่ชิตแกพูดถึงก็คือ "Free Market Money" หรือเงินที่เป็นอิสระจากการควบคุมของรัฐนั่นเอง

คือถ้าเงินแม่งยังอยู่ในมือรัฐ มันก็จะคอยปั่น คอยแทรกแซง ทำให้ตลาดแม่งไม่เสรีจริงๆ สักที เหมือนเราเล่นไพ่ แล้วเจ้ามือแม่งแอบดูไพ่มึงเร่ เราจะชนะได้ยังไง?

แล้ว "Free Market Money" มันคืออะไรวะ?

ก็ Bitcoin ไง Bitcoin แม่งไม่มีใครควบคุมได้ ไม่มีรัฐบาลไหน ธนาคารไหนมาสั่งซ้ายหันขวาหันได้ มันเป็นเงินของประชาชนอย่างแท้จริง

พอมี Bitcoin เข้ามา ระบบทุนนิยมเสรีก็จะสมบูรณ์แบบ ตลาดก็จะเสรีจริงๆ สักที เล่นไพ่แล้วเจ้ามือแม่งยุติธรรม เล่นตามกติกา แบบนี้ถึงจะแฟร์

นี่แหละ Key สำคัญที่พี่ชิตแกพยายามจะสื่อ คือถ้าอยากให้ระบบทุนนิยมเสรีมันเวิร์ค มึงต้อง "Fix the Money" ก่อน แล้วโลกแม่งก็จะค่อยๆ ดีขึ้นเอง

2. "Fix the Money, Fix the World"

แกหมายความว่า.. ปัญหาโลกส่วนใหญ่ เช่น ความเหลื่อมล้ำ ก็มาจากระบบเงินตราที่ห่วยแตกนี่แหละ เงินเฟ้อ รัฐบาลพิมพ์เงินมั่วซั่ว พวกนี้แม่งโคตรทำลายชีวิตคน

ถ้าเราแก้ระบบเงินได้ เปลี่ยนไปใช้ Bitcoin ที่ไม่มีใครควบคุม ไม่มีใครปั่นได้ โลกมันก็จะดีขึ้นเอง ปัญหาต่างๆ ก็จะค่อยๆ หายไป

เหมือนกับการซ่อมรากฐานบ้าน ถ้ารากฐานมันดี บ้านมันก็จะแข็งแรง อยู่ได้นาน แต่ถ้ารากฐานมันพัง ต่อให้ทาสีบ้านสวยแค่ไหน สุดท้ายมันก็พังอยู่ดี

3. "Bitcoiner ก็เป็นสมาชิกพรรคพี่ชิตหมดแล้ว"

มันไม่ได้หมายความว่า Bitcoiner ต้องไปสมัครพรรคการเมืองอะไร

"พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" มันไม่ใช่พรรคการเมืองจริงๆ แต่มันคือแนวคิด คืออุดมการณ์ คือวิถีชีวิต ที่เน้นการพึ่งพาตัวเอง การกระจายอำนาจ เสรีภาพ และ Bitcoin ตอบโจทย์ทั้งหมดนี้เลย

Bitcoiner ส่วนใหญ่ก็จะมี Mindset คล้ายๆ แบบนี้ คือไม่ชอบให้ใครมาควบคุม ชอบอิสระ เชื่อในการกระจายอำนาจ เพราะงั้น Bitcoiner ก็เลยเหมือนเป็นสมาชิก "พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" โดยอัตโนมัติ โดยที่ไม่ต้องไปสมัครอะไรเลย มันอยู่ในสายเลือด อยู่ใน DNA ของ Bitcoiner อยู่แล้ว

4. "Work, Saving, Stacking นี่คือพวกเราทำงานให้กับพรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา"

พวกเราที่ทำงาน หาเงิน เก็บออม แล้วเอาเงินไปซื้อ Bitcoin สะสมไว้เนี่ย มันคือการทำงานให้กับพรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนาในทางอ้อม

เพราะการที่เรา Stack sats มันคือการสนับสนุน Decentralization การต่อต้านอำนาจรวมศูนย์ และการสร้าง Free Society ซึ่งเป็นหัวใจหลักของพรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนานั่นเอง

พวกเราเป็นเหมือน "เซลล์" ที่ช่วยกันขับเคลื่อนพรรคให้เติบโต ยิ่งเรา Stack sats มากเท่าไหร่ พรรคก็ยิ่งแข็งแกร่งและเข้าใกล้เป้าหมายมากขึ้นเท่านั้น

มันเหมือนกับการที่เรา Contribute ให้กับ Open Source Project เราอาจจะไม่ได้เป็น Developer เขียนโค้ด แต่เราก็สามารถสนับสนุนโครงการได้ด้วยการบริจาคเงินหรือช่วยโปรโมทได้ ซึ่งมันก็เป็นส่วนหนึ่งในการขับเคลื่อน Project นั้นๆ ให้ประสบความสำเร็จเช่นกัน

มันคือการทำงานเพื่อ "อุดมการณ์" เพื่อ "อนาคต" ในแบบที่เราอยากเห็น ไม่ใช่แค่การทำงานเพื่อเงินเดือนหรือผลประโยชน์ส่วนตัว

5. "Decentralization มันอยู่ใน DNA ของคำว่าสุวรรณภูมิ"

พี่ชิตต้องการจะสื่อว่า Decentralization มันเป็นรากเหง้า เป็นแก่นแท้ของภูมิภาคสุวรรณภูมิมาตั้งแต่โบราณแล้ว

สมัยก่อน.. แถบนี้ไม่ได้มีรัฐบาลกลางที่แข็งแกร่ง มีแต่ชุมชนเล็กๆ เมืองเล็กๆ กระจายอยู่เต็มไปหมด

ต่างคนต่างปกครองตัวเอง พึ่งพาตัวเอง ค้าขายแลกเปลี่ยนกันอย่างอิสระ ไม่มีใครมาบังคับ

มันก็เลยเหมือนกับ Decentralization ในโลก Bitcoin ที่ไม่มีใครคุม ไม่มีตัวกลาง ทุกคนมีอำนาจเท่าเทียมกัน

Decentralization แบบนี้แหละ ที่ทำให้สุวรรณภูมิเจริญรุ่งเรืองในอดีต และพี่ชิตก็เชื่อว่า Decentralization นี่แหละที่จะเป็นกุญแจสำคัญในการพัฒนาประเทศไทย และภูมิภาคนี้ในอนาคต

6. "รวมกันเราอยู่ แต่ไม่อนุญาตให้ใครเอาเปรียบซึ่งกันและกัน"

การอยู่ร่วมกันในสังคมมันต้องมี "กฎ" มี "กติกา" ที่ทุกคนต้องเคารพ เพื่อป้องกันไม่ให้ใครเอาเปรียบใคร

เหมือนในโลก Bitcoin ที่มี "Consensus Rules" คอยควบคุมระบบ ทำให้ทุกคนเล่นตามกฎเดียวกัน ไม่มีใครได้เปรียบเสียเปรียบ

แต่กฎที่ว่านี้.. มันต้องมาจากความสมัครใจ ไม่ใช่มาจากการบังคับหรืออำนาจรวมศูนย์ ทุกคนต้องมีส่วนร่วมในการสร้างและยอมรับกฎนั้นๆ

พูดง่ายๆ คือ รวมกันเราอยู่ก็จริง แต่มันต้องแฟร์ ต้องยุติธรรมด้วย

ไม่ใช่รวมกันเพื่อให้ใครบางคนรวย หรือ รวมกันเพื่อให้ใครบางคนมีอำนาจ

7. "ความจริงมันมีอยู่แล้ว แต่ความจริงแม่งช้า"

พี่ชิตพูดถึงธรรมชาติของ "ความจริง" ซึ่งความจริงมันก็มีอยู่แล้ว มันไม่ได้ขึ้นอยู่กับความเชื่อ หรือความคิดเห็นของใคร

แต่มันอาจจะต้องใช้เวลา กว่าที่คนส่วนใหญ่จะเข้าใจและยอมรับความจริงนั้น

เหมือนกับตอนที่คนสมัยก่อนเชื่อว่าโลกแบน แต่ความจริงคือโลกกลม กว่าที่คนส่วนใหญ่จะยอมรับความจริงนี้ได้ก็ปาไปตั้งหลายร้อยปี

Bitcoin ก็เหมือนกัน..

พี่ชิตเชื่อว่า Bitcoin คือ "ความจริง" คือ "อนาคตของเงิน" แต่ตอนนี้คนส่วนใหญ่อาจจะยังไม่เข้าใจ ยังมองว่ามันเป็นแค่ของเล่น การพนัน หรือ แชร์ลูกโซ่

แต่สักวันหนึ่ง.. ความจริงของ Bitcoin จะปรากฏ และทุกคนจะยอมรับมัน เหมือนที่พี่ชิตบอกว่า..

"อีก 10 ปีมึงไม่ต้องเชิญเลย"

คืออีก 10 ปี คนจะเข้าใจ Bitcoin กันหมด ไม่ต้องมาจัดสัมมนาหรือเสียอธิบายอะไรกันอีกแล้ว

มันก็เหมือนกับ "ความจริงเป็นสิ่งไม่ตาย"

ต่อให้ตอนนี้คนส่วนใหญ่จะยังไม่เชื่อ ไม่เข้าใจ แต่สุดท้ายแล้วความจริงก็จะชนะ และเปิดเผยตัวเองออกมาเอง

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8. "Leave me alone"

สะท้อนแนวคิด Libertarian ที่เน้น "อิสรภาพส่วนบุคคล" แบบสุดๆ

คือพี่ชิตไม่อยากให้ใคร แม้แต่รัฐบาล มาควบคุม หรือบังคับแก แกอยากจะทำอะไรก็ทำ อยากใช้ชีวิตยังไงก็ใช้ โดยที่ไม่ต้องมีใครมาจุ้นจ้าน

พี่ชิตมองว่า.. รัฐบาลควรมีบทบาทน้อยที่สุด แค่คอยดูแลความสงบเรียบร้อยและรักษาความยุติธรรมก็พอ ส่วนเรื่องอื่นๆ ประชาชนควรจัดการกันเอง

"Leave me alone" จึงเป็นเสียงสะท้อนจากใจของคนที่เบื่อระบบราชการ กฎระเบียบและการแทรกแซงจากรัฐ

แกอยากให้ทุกคน "Take care yourself" พึ่งพาตัวเองให้ได้ ไม่ใช่รอคอยความช่วยเหลือจากรัฐบาล มันก็เหมือนกับโลก Bitcoin ที่ไม่มีใครควบคุม ไม่มีตัวกลาง ทุกคนมีอิสระในการทำธุรกรรม โดยไม่ต้องขออนุญาตใคร

สังคมที่ดี คือ สังคมที่ให้อิสระกับปัจเจกชน

ให้แต่ละคนได้เลือกและรับผิดชอบชีวิตตัวเอง โดยไม่ต้องมีใครมาบังคับหรือชี้นำ

9. "Overhead 70% ไอ้สัส! Payload 30%"

พี่ชิตเปรียบเทียบ (ด่าแหละ) รัฐบาลเหมือนกับบริษัท ที่ดันมี Overhead (ค่าใช้จ่ายในการบริหารจัดการ) สูงถึง 70% ในขณะที่ Payload (งานที่ส่งมอบให้ประชาชนจริงๆ) มีเพียงแค่ 30%

คือ.. รัฐบาลเอาภาษีประชาชนไปใช้จ่ายกับอะไรก็ไม่รู้ (อาทิ.. เงินเดือนข้าราชการ ค่าดูงานต่างประเทศ ค่าจัดเลี้ยง ค่าสัมมนา ฯลฯ เต็มไปหมด) แต่ผลงานที่ประชาชนได้รับกลับน้อยนิด

แกเลยด่าว่า "ไอ้สัส!" ด้วยความฉุนเฉียว เพราะมันไม่สมเหตุสมผล ไม่คุ้มค่า และเป็นการเอาเปรียบประชาชนชัดๆ

พี่ชิตอยากให้รัฐบาล "Downsize" ลดขนาดองค์กร ลดค่าใช้จ่ายและเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในการทำงาน เพื่อให้ Payload มันสูงขึ้น ประชาชนจะได้ประโยชน์มากขึ้น

รัฐบาลไม่ควรใหญ่เกินไป ไม่ควรเข้าไปยุ่งกับชีวิตประชาชนมากเกินไป ควรปล่อยให้ประชาชน "Take care yourself" จัดการตัวเอง

10. "เขาคุยเรื่อง "UBI, Universal Basic Income กันแล้ว, You own nothing but you'll be happy"

พี่ชิตพูดถึงกระแส UBI ที่กำลังมาแรง คือการที่รัฐบาลแจกเงินให้ประชาชนใช้ฟรีๆ ทุกเดือน แล้วก็มีคำพูดที่ว่า "คุณจะไม่มีอะไรเป็นของตัวเอง แต่คุณจะมีความสุข" ซึ่งแม่งโคตรย้อนแย้ง และโคตรอันตรายเลย

คือพี่ชิตมองว่า UBI มันเป็นแนวคิดสังคมนิยมสุดโต่งที่ทำให้คนขี้เกียจ ไม่ยอมพึ่งพาตัวเอง รอแต่เงินแจกจากรัฐบาล แล้วพอคนไม่ทำงาน ไม่สร้างมูลค่าเพิ่มให้กับสังคม เศรษฐกิจมันก็พังพินาศ

ส่วนประโยค "You own nothing but you'll be happy" แกมองว่าแม่งโคตรหลอกลวง

คือมึงจะไม่มีอะไรเป็นของตัวเองเลย ทุกอย่างเป็นของรัฐ แล้วมึงจะมีความสุขได้ยังไงวะ?

มันเหมือนอยู่ในคุก มีข้าวกิน มีที่นอน แต่ไม่มีอิสระ มึงจะมีความสุขหรอ?

พี่ชิตเชื่อในเสรีภาพ เชื่อในการพึ่งพาตัวเอง เชื่อในการสร้างเนื้อสร้างตัว ไม่ใช่รอเงินแจกจากรัฐบาล UBI มันเลยสวนทางกับแนวคิดของแกโดยสิ้นเชิง แล้วแกก็มองว่ามันเป็นภัยคุกคามต่อเสรีภาพของมนุษย์ด้วย

11. "ในขณะที่โลกฝักใฝ่ทางซ้าย แต่พวกมึงดันมุ่งไปทางขวา เพราะพวกมึงแม่งคือ Right Shift"

พี่ชิตแกหมายถึงโลกปัจจุบันกำลังไปทางซ้าย คือแนวคิดสังคมนิยม รัฐสวัสดิการ รัฐบาลใหญ่ ควบคุมทุกอย่าง แจกเงิน ฯลฯ

แต่พวก Bitcoiner หรือกลุ่มคนที่เชื่อในแนวคิดแบบเดียวกันกับแก ดันไปทางขวา ซึ่งก็คือแนวคิดเสรีนิยม เน้นความรับผิดชอบ พึ่งพาตัวเอง กระจายอำนาจ รัฐบาลเล็กลง

"Right Shift" ก็คือการเปลี่ยนทิศทาง จากซ้ายไปขวา จากการพึ่งพารัฐ ไปสู่การพึ่งพาตนเอง

นี่แหละ.. ชื่อนี้ (ชื่อเรา) จึงสอดคล้องกับแกนหลักของแนวคิดพี่ชิต ที่พยายามจะสื่อให้เห็นว่ามันมีอีกทางเลือกหนึ่งที่ไม่ใช่การพึ่งพารัฐบาล แต่เป็นการสร้างความมั่งคั่งและความเจริญรุ่งเรืองด้วยตัวเอง

12. "Right Shift, Take care yourself, Self Regulate, Decentralization นั่นคือ Right Shift"

"Right Shift" หรือการ "ขยับไปทางขวา" "มุ่งไปในทิศทางที่ถูกต้อง" ในความหมายของพี่ชิต มันก็คือ การดูแลตัวเอง (Take care yourself) การควบคุมตัวเอง (Self Regulate) และการกระจายอำนาจ (Decentralization) นั่นเอง

ทั้งหมดนี้มันเชื่อมโยงกัน คือ ถ้ามึงดูแลตัวเองได้ ควบคุมตัวเองได้ และเชื่อในการกระจายอำนาจ แทนที่จะพึ่งพารัฐบาล มึงก็จะก้าวไปสู่ "Right Shift" ได้

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13. "กบกำลังถูกต้มอยู่ในหม้อ มันต้องร้อนขึ้น"

นี่คือการเปรียบเปรยสถานการณ์ปัจจุบันที่หลายคนอาจไม่รู้ตัวว่ากำลังเผชิญกับปัญหาใหญ่กันอยู่

เหมือนกบที่ถูกต้มช้าๆ มันจะไม่รู้ตัวว่าน้ำกำลังร้อนขึ้นเรื่อยๆ จนสุดท้ายมันก็ตาย

ปัญหาต่างๆ เช่น เงินเฟ้อ ความเหลื่อมล้ำ ระบบราชการที่ไร้ประสิทธิภาพ มันก็ค่อยๆ ร้อนขึ้นเรื่อยๆ จนถึงจุดที่รับไม่ได้

พี่ชิตใช้ประโยคนี้เพื่อเตือนสติว่า.. อย่าได้ประมาท อย่าปล่อยให้ตัวเองถูกต้มจนตาย ต้องตระหนัก และหาทางออกก่อนที่มันจะสายเกินไป

14. "ลิงมันขายไอเดียไม่ได้"

เปรียบเทียบมนุษย์กับลิง เพื่อเน้นย้ำถึงความสามารถเฉพาะตัวของมนุษย์ในการสื่อสาร และโน้มน้าวใจผู้อื่น

ลิงอาจจะฉลาด แต่ก็สื่อสารหรือขายไอเดียไม่ได้เหมือนมนุษย์

มนุษย์มีความสามารถในการสร้างเรื่องราว สร้างแรงบันดาลใจ โน้มน้าวใจ เพื่อให้คนอื่นเชื่อและทำตาม

นี่แหละคือข้อได้เปรียบที่มนุษย์มีเหนือสัตว์อื่นๆ และเป็นสิ่งสำคัญในการขับเคลื่อนสังคม และโลกใบนี้

15. "เบียร์ไม่มีช้อยส์"

พี่ชิตพูดในบริบทที่หมายถึง.. บางครั้งในชีวิต เราก็ไม่มีทางเลือกหรือมีทางเลือกจำกัด

เหมือนเวลาเลือกดื่ม.. บางทีก็มีแค่เบียร์ให้เลือก ไม่มีอะไรอื่น มันก็ต้องดื่มเบียร์ไป

นั่นแหละ.. บางทีชีวิตเราก็เป็นแบบนั้น ต้องยอมรับ และเลือกสิ่งที่ดีที่สุดในสถานการณ์นั้นๆ ไปก่อน

16. "อเมริกาแอบแดกฟรีอยู่"

หมายถึงนโยบายต่างประเทศของอเมริกา ที่ใช้ดอลลาร์เป็นอาวุธ เพื่อรักษาอำนาจ และเอาเปรียบประเทศอื่นๆ

อเมริกาใช้ดอลลาร์เป็นเงินทุนสำรองโลก ทำให้ประเทศอื่นๆ ต้องพึ่งพาดอลลาร์ แล้วอเมริกาก็ใช้จุดนี้เป็นข้อได้เปรียบในการควบคุมเศรษฐกิจและการเมืองโลก

เหมือนกับการที่มึงมีของดี แล้วมึงก็บังคับให้คนอื่นต้องซื้อของมึง โดยที่มึงไม่ต้องลงทุนอะไรมากมาย

พี่ชิตแกมองว่า นี่คือการ "แอบแดกฟรี"

คือได้ประโยชน์มหาศาลโดยที่ไม่ต้องลงทุนและไม่คำนึงถึงผลกระทบต่อประเทศอื่นๆ เป็นการใช้ประโยชน์จากระบบที่ไม่เป็นธรรม

17. "กรรมที่อเมริกาต้องชดใช้"

ประโยคนี้พี่ชิตไม่ได้หมายความว่าอเมริกาจะต้องไปนรกหรืออะไรแบบนั้น.. แกใช้คำนี้ในบริบทของการวิเคราะห์ระบบเศรษฐกิจโลกและการกระจายอำนาจ

อเมริกาเคยใช้อำนาจของตัวเอง โดยเฉพาะ "ดอลลาร์" เพื่อครอบงำและเอาเปรียบประเทศอื่นๆ มานาน นั่นคือ "กรรม" ที่อเมริกาได้สร้างขึ้น

แต่ตอนนี้.. ระบบการเงินและอำนาจกำลังเปลี่ยนแปลง

Bitcoin กำลังมา ซึ่งเป็นระบบที่กระจายอำนาจ ไม่มีใครควบคุมได้ อเมริกาจึงกำลังเผชิญผลของการกระทำในอดีต นั่นคือ การสูญเสียอำนาจและอิทธิพล

นั่นแหละ "กรรม" ที่ต้องชดใช้

18. "มึงเป็นไก่ ไอ้สัส! ทำไมทำตัวเป็นกา เป็นปรสิต?"

"กา" และ "ปรสิต" คือพวกที่ไม่สร้างคุณค่าอะไรให้กับสังคม แต่ดันพึ่งพา เอาเปรียบคนอื่น เหมือนกาที่ขโมยกิน หรือปรสิตที่อาศัยดูดเลือดคนอื่นอยู่รอด

ส่วน "ไก่" ในที่นี้ หมายถึงคนที่สร้างคุณค่า ทำงานหาเลี้ยงชีพด้วยตัวเอง

พี่ชิตแกเลยอยากให้ทุกคนเป็นไก่ พึ่งพาตัวเอง สร้างคุณค่าให้กับสังคม อย่าไปเป็นภาระ หรือเอาเปรียบใคร

การเปรียบเที่ยบด้วยโควทนี้ก็เพื่อให้เราได้สติ ได้คิด มันเป็นการตักเตือนที่ค่อนข้างตรงไปตรงมา แต่ก็แฝงด้วยความหวังดี

อยากให้พวกเราพยายามเปลี่ยนแปลงตัวเองไปในทางที่ดีขึ้น

19. "โลกยังหมุนรอบตัวเองเลย"

นี่คือการตอกย้ำหลักการพื้นฐานของธรรมชาติ คือทุกอย่างต้องทำงาน ต้องสร้างคุณค่า เพื่อความอยู่รอด

พี่ชิตใช้ประโยคนี้ต่อจากการพูดถึงการพึ่งพาตัวเอง การสร้างคุณค่า การไม่เป็นภาระสังคม

จะเห็นว่าแกพยายามจะสื่อว่า การดำรงอยู่ไม่ใช่เรื่องง่าย ทุกอย่างแม่งต้องทำงาน ทุกอย่างแม่งต้องหมุนเวียน

เหมือนโลกที่ยังหมุนรอบตัวเองอยู่ทุกวันนี้ มนุษย์ก็เช่นกัน ต้องพึ่งพาตัวเอง สร้างคุณค่า เพื่อให้ตัวเองอยู่รอดได้ ไม่ใช่รอให้คนอื่นมาเลี้ยงดู

20. "กูเกลียดคำว่า Policy"

พี่ชิตไม่ได้เกลียดนโยบายโดยทั่วไป แต่แกเกลียด "Policy" ในบริบทของระบบราชการ ที่มันยุ่งยาก ซับซ้อน ไร้ประสิทธิภาพและมักไม่ตรงกับความต้องการของประชาชน

คือพี่ชิตมองว่า Policy ส่วนใหญ่ มันเป็นแค่ตัวหนังสือ เป็นแค่กฎเกณฑ์ที่สร้างขึ้นโดยคนกลุ่มเล็กๆ เพื่อที่จะควบคุมและบริหารจัดการคนส่วนใหญ่

แต่สุดท้าย.. มันกลับกลายเป็นอุปสรรค เป็นภาระ ที่ทำให้การทำงานต่างๆ ช้าลง ไม่คล่องตัว และเสียค่าใช้จ่ายมหาศาล

พี่ชิตเลยอยากเห็นระบบที่เรียบง่าย โปร่งใส ทุกคนมีส่วนร่วม ไม่ใช่ระบบที่ถูกควบคุมด้วย Policy ที่ยุ่งยาก และไร้ประสิทธิภาพ

21. "Democratize retail work"

พี่ชิตหมายถึง.. การกระจายงานให้คนมีส่วนร่วมมากขึ้น ไม่ใช่แค่ให้คนกลุ่มเดียว หรือองค์กรเดียว ทำ

ยกตัวอย่างเรื่องการจัดการผักตบชวา.. แทนที่จะให้รัฐบาลจัดการเอง ซึ่งใช้เวลา งบประมาณมหาศาลและประสิทธิภาพต่ำ แกเสนอให้กระจายงานออกไป ให้คนในชุมชนหรือคนที่มีความสามารถเข้ามาทำ โดยมีระบบตรวจสอบและให้รางวัลคนที่ทำงานได้ดี

แบบนี้มันจะทำให้ประสิทธิภาพสูงขึ้น ประหยัดงบประมาณและคนในชุมชนก็ได้มีส่วนร่วม สร้างความรับผิดชอบและความยั่งยืน

เป็นการเปลี่ยนจากระบบรวมศูนย์ ไปสู่ระบบกระจายอำนาจในเชิงปฏิบัติ

22. "นี่คือ Future of Work"

พี่ชิตมองว่า.. อนาคต การทำงานจะไม่ใช่การทำงานเพื่อนายจ้างหรือองค์กรใหญ่ๆ อีกต่อไป

แต่จะเป็นการทำงานแบบกระจายอำนาจ ทุกคนเป็นอิสระ รับผิดชอบงานของตัวเอง สร้างมูลค่าเพิ่มด้วยตัวเอง แล้วก็ได้รับผลตอบแทนตามความสามารถ

เหมือนกับ Bitcoin ที่มันไม่มีเจ้านาย ไม่มีคนกลาง ทุกคนมีส่วนร่วม ทุกคนได้ประโยชน์

23. "ชิดซ้าย เพื่อ Make a U-turn"

ชิดซ้าย แต่กูไม่ใช่ฝ่ายซ้าย! (ฮา) กูชิดซ้าย (นามสกุลซ้ายเกล้า) เพื่อเตรียมจะยูเทิร์นไปทางขวาโว้ย!

เอาจริงๆ นัยยะของพี่ชิตแกไม่ได้หมายถึงการขับรถ แต่เป็นการเปรียบเปรยถึงการเตรียมตัวก่อนเปลี่ยนแปลงครั้งใหญ่

ในบริบทของบทสนทนา มันหมายถึงการเตรียมตัวก่อนที่จะเปลี่ยนจากระบบเดิมๆ ที่เน้นการพึ่งพารัฐ ไปสู่ระบบใหม่ที่เน้นการพึ่งพาตนเอง การกระจายอำนาจ (Right Shift)

"ชิดซ้าย" จึงเป็นเหมือนการเตรียมตัว การวางแผน ก่อนที่จะ "Make a U-turn" หรือหักเลี้ยวเปลี่ยนไปสู่เส้นทางใหม่ ซึ่งก็คือการก้าวไปสู่โลกแบบ Decentralization นั่นเอง (คิดได้..)

24. "หลอกพวกมึงด้วยการสร้างกุศลบายให้มึงเชื่อในนรกสวรรค์"

พี่ชิตแกไม่ได้ต่อต้านศาสนาโดยตรง แต่แกกำลังวิจารณ์การใช้ศาสนาเป็นเครื่องมือควบคุมคน การใช้ความกลัว ความเชื่อเรื่องนรก-สวรรค์ มาบังคับ มาควบคุม มาชี้นำพฤติกรรมของคน โดยที่ไม่ได้เน้นเหตุผลหรือการลงมือทำจริง

มันเหมือนกับการใช้ "กุศโลบาย" หรือกลอุบาย มาหลอกลวง ให้คนเชื่อและทำตาม โดยที่ไม่ได้ให้ความรู้หรือสร้างความเข้าใจที่แท้จริง พี่ชิตแกอยากให้คนใช้เหตุผล ใช้ความรู้ และลงมือทำ ไม่ใช่แค่เชื่ออย่างงมงาย

25. "ถ้ามันจะเกิดในอีก 5 วัน พวกมึงจะไปทำอะไรได้?"

พี่ชิตเน้นย้ำถึงความรวดเร็วและความไม่แน่นอนของการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่อาจจะเกิดขึ้น โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งกับโอกาสที่จะเกิดขึ้นจาก Bitcoin

ซึ่งถ้าโอกาสดีๆ มันมาถึงเร็วมาก มึงจะเตรียมตัวทันมั้ย? มึงจะรับมือไหวมั้ย?

(ในบริบทของการสนทนาคือ หากทรัมป์ได้รับเลือกเป็น ปธณ. อเมริกา มีการคาดหมายว่าจะส่งผลดีต่อบิตคอยน์)

เอาจริงๆ มันเหมือนเป็นการเตือนสติว่า อย่าประมาท อย่าชะล่าใจ เพราะโอกาสอาจจะมาถึงเร็วกว่าที่คิด

ส่วนประโยค "ขายตูดซื้อไม่ทันเลย" ของอิสร

นี่คือมุขตลก ถ้ามึงไม่ทัน มึงก็จะเสียโอกาส เหมือนกับมึงต้องขายของมีค่า เพื่อเอาเงินไปซื้อ Bitcoin แต่ก็ยังไม่ทัน มันโคตรเสียดาย

แล้วคุณล่ะ..

อยากให้ใครได้เป็นประธานาธิบดีสหรัฐ?

26. "มันคือการเอาเงินคนอื่นไปทำบุญ"

พี่ชิตวิจารณ์นโยบายประชานิยม โดยเฉพาะการที่รัฐบาลเอาเงินภาษีของประชาชนไปแจก หรือไปทำโครงการต่างๆ โดยที่ไม่ได้รับความยินยอม หรือไม่ได้เกิดประโยชน์อย่างแท้จริงกับประชาชน

แกมองว่า.. มันก็เหมือนกับการที่รัฐบาลเอาเงินของประชาชนไป "ทำบุญ" โดยที่ประชาชนไม่ได้เป็นผู้ตัดสินใจว่าจะบริจาคเงินไปทำอะไร

มันเป็นการกระทำที่ไม่โปร่งใส และไม่เคารพสิทธิ์ของประชาชน

แกเน้นย้ำว่า การทำบุญหรือการใช้เงิน ควรมาจากความสมัครใจ ไม่ใช่การบังคับ หรือการใช้เงินโดยไม่คำนึงถึงความต้องการหรือประโยชน์ของผู้ที่ถูกใช้เงิน ไม่ใช่ตัวเองได้บุญ ได้หน้าอยู่คนเดียว แต่คนทั้งประเทศต้องมาคอยรับผิดชอบหนี้ร่วมกัน

จริงๆ แล้วในไลฟ์นี้มีประโยคเด็ดอีกมากมายจากพี่ชิตเต็มไปหมด ถือเสียว่าผมแค่เอาน้ำจิ้มบางส่วนมาให้ลองชิมก็แล้วกัน ถ้าจะเก็บให้ครบทั้งหมดควรต้องไปดูด้วยตัวเองครับ

สุดท้ายแล้ว "พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" มันคืออะไรแน่?

เอาง่ายๆ เลยนะ พี่ชิตแกเห็น Pain Point หลักๆ มาจาก 2 อย่างใหญ่ๆ คือ ระบบการเงินโลกที่บิดเบี้ยว และ ระบบการเมืองที่ล้าหลัง ซึ่งทั้งสองอย่างนี้เชื่อมโยงกันอย่างแยกไม่ออก

ระบบการเงินที่บิดเบี้ยว คือ รัฐบาลมีอำนาจควบคุมเงิน พิมพ์เงินมั่วซั่ว ทำให้เกิดเงินเฟ้อ ความเหลื่อมล้ำ คนจนยิ่งจน คนรวยยิ่งรวย

นี่แหละคือต้นตอของปัญหาสารพัด พี่ชิตเลยมองว่าต้องแก้ที่ระบบเงินก่อน ด้วย Bitcoin ที่เป็น Free Market Money อิสระจากรัฐบาล

ส่วน ระบบการเมืองที่ล้าหลัง คือ รัฐบาลใหญ่ แทรกแซงทุกอย่าง ประชาชนอ่อนแอ พึ่งพารัฐอย่างเดียว ไม่มีเสรีภาพ ไม่มีการกระจายอำนาจ

พี่ชิตเลยคิด "พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" ขึ้นมา ไม่ใช่พรรคการเมืองจริงๆ แต่เป็น Protocol หรือแนวคิด ที่จะ Empower ประชาชน ให้พึ่งพาตัวเอง มีเสรีภาพทางการเงินและมีส่วนร่วมในการกำหนดอนาคตของตัวเอง โดยใช้ Bitcoin เป็นเครื่องมือสำคัญ

ทำไมต้องปี 2575?

นี่น่าจะเป็นการตั้งเป้าหมายระยะยาวมากกว่า อาจจะหมายถึงช่วงเวลาที่ Bitcoin และแนวคิด Decentralization แพร่หลายมากพอ จนสามารถสร้างการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่แท้จริงได้

หรืออาจจะเป็นแค่การเปรียบเปรย เพราะการสร้างอะไรใหม่ๆ มันต้องใช้เวลา เหมือนการปลูกต้นไม้ กว่าจะโต กว่าจะออกผล มันต้องใช้เวลาหลายปี

การตั้งเป้าหมายไว้ที่ปี 2575 ก็อาจจะเป็นการสร้างแรงบันดาลใจและความหวังให้กับผู้คนก็ได้ ไม่ใช่เป้าหมายที่ตายตัวอะไรขนาดนั้น

(หรือไม่ก็ล้อไปกับเรื่องการปกครองที่เปลี่ยนแปลงมาตั้งแต่ปี 2475 แต่ก็ไม่พัฒนาไปถึงไหน ครบรอบ 100 ปีก็ควรจะ Change กันได้แล้ว)

ทั้งหมดนี้คือสิ่งที่พี่ชิตแกอยากจะสื่อ และเป็นแรงจูงใจที่ทำให้แกผุดแนวคิด "พรรคชาติหน้าพัฒนา" (as a protocol) ขึ้นมานั่นเองครับ

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About Dragonbane Creation

Dragonbane Creation is a project to create an original epic space saga and represents the next generation of science-fiction, worldbuilding and concept art.

Humanity had to leave Earth behind after a massive invasion. Following an arduous exodus, they arrive on a new planet they call Heavngard, where they have to build everything anew.

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• Dragonbane Creation was founded in May 2020 in Wrocław, Poland.
• We publish NFTs on the Stacks (STX) chain.
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You don't choose software. You choose software developers.

I've done lots of internal and external software project audits. The clue to a good audit, is that you are judging the building and the builder, because the former determines the present state of the code and the latter determines how things will be built going forward.

Here's what to look for in a good developer:

• curious : eager to learn from others
• humble : seems slightly embarrassed, when you report an issue, and tries to reproduce and fix the problem
• responsive : they try to get back to you within 24 hours, or they arrange a sub or post a notice, when they'll be away for a while. They feel bad, if they leave someone waiting, so they'll send updates, even if it's just to ask them to be patient.
• diligent : they don't leave websites rotting, abandoned. They either maintain it or pull it down. They check their repos regularly and actively manage the PRs and issues.
• egalitarian : they care about all of their users, whether they are rich or poor, famous or unknown, premium or freewarers
• agile : they don't let the system go stale, for months, and then dump a gigantic commit
• honest : they don't lie, ever. Never ever. They're not sneaky or evasive. If something they promised won't work out, they announce it. They readily admit to things that make them look bad.
• calm : they are not histrionic, hyperventilatory or prone to needing a Wellness Break, to recover from the stress of dealing with humans and code
• centered : they have a plan, for their software, that they regularly refine, but they don't flit from one Next Big Thing, to another. They resist hype and examine concepts soberly and analytically.
• concerned : they test their software before giving it to other people because they want them to have a positive experience, while using it. If something is just a prototype, they make that clear, when announcing it.

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The rapid development of modern technology, especially in the field of intelligence, is profoundly affecting our lives and industries. Take jammer and signal detector for example. They are not only the products of high technology, but also play a vital role in specific occasions. They are also a microcosm of our understanding of modern intelligent transformation.

You may have heard of signal jammers. The function of this device is very simple, that is, to interfere with a certain communication signal by emitting interference waves stronger than the target signal. This may sound a bit "anti-social", but in fact, its application is very beneficial in some specific occasions.

With the popularity of wireless networks, wifi signal jammer have quietly entered our field of vision. As the name suggests, WiFi jammers make wireless network connections unstable by interfering with WiFi signals. This device can protect the network security of enterprises in some cases and prevent hackers from invading the company's internal systems through WiFi networks.

Speaking of recorder jammers, no one may refuse such a privacy protection device. Its working principle is similar to that of signal jammers. It emits noise of a specific frequency to cover the sound of conversations, thereby preventing them from being recorded. Imagine that in some sensitive business negotiations or private conversations, using a audio recording jammers can make participants feel more at ease without worrying about their voices being eavesdropped.

Relatively speaking, signal detectors are a more positive and positive technology product. It can help users identify various wireless signals in the surrounding environment, including WiFi, Bluetooth and other devices. Signal detectors can help individuals and companies identify potential signal interference or monitoring behaviors, thereby enhancing security and privacy protection.

For companies, using signal detectors can help them better manage network traffic and monitor the stability of internal signals. At the same time, when encountering signal problems, signal detector can also help quickly locate the source of faults and improve work efficiency.

The emergence of these technical products has made us more deeply aware of the opportunities and challenges brought by intelligent transformation to industry. With the continuous advancement of technology, more intelligent devices will appear in the future to help us protect safety and improve efficiency in complex information environments.

Of course, while enjoying the convenience and fun brought by these technologies, we must also use these devices reasonably and legally. I hope that in the future, we can seize every opportunity brought to us by technology in this rapidly changing world.

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What’s happening in El Salvador today is nothing short of extraordinary. Under the leadership of President Nayib Bukele, the country has become a catalyst for hope and progress, stirring interest and inspiring minds around the world. Bukele’s vision has fostered a social and economic environment that not only prioritizes safety but also sets the stage for innovation, decentralization, and grassroots transformation. Dubbed a “Bottom-Up Renaissance,” this movement holds the potential to inspire a global shift toward community-driven change.

Building the Foundation: Security and Sound Money
El Salvador’s transformation began with a firm focus on security. By establishing a stable environment, Bukele enabled the groundwork for a new society where citizens and innovators alike can thrive. But this rebirth is far from limited to security measures. In an era of economic instability, Bukele’s decision to embrace Bitcoin as legal tender has introduced "sound money" into the economy—a concept central to this new Renaissance.

Historically, in the Renaissance of 16th-century Florence, only the wealthy could access gold-backed currency, while the working classes were relegated to coins made of cheaper, often debased metals. This disparity in wealth preservation has often perpetuated class divides. But in El Salvador, Bitcoin's decentralized nature has disrupted this model. Unlike the dollar, Bitcoin cannot be devalued by centralized authorities, giving ordinary Salvadorans access to the “world’s soundest money.” This model offers the average citizen a chance to save, invest, and build in a way previously reserved for the elite.

Bitcoin’s presence in El Salvador has not only brought the country to the global stage but has also drawn the attention of those seeking stability in a volatile world. For the first time, the power of money lies not in the hands of a few but in the collective hands of a nation’s people.

Decentralization: Real-World Applications and Financial Sovereignty
El Salvador is diving into decentralization like never before. From establishing Bitcoin banks to creating open-source health solutions on decentralized platforms like NOSTR, the country is pioneering real-world applications that disrupt traditional systems. Through such decentralization, El Salvador empowers its citizens, reducing dependency on large financial institutions and foreign influences. By embracing these technologies, the country has not only created a fertile ground for innovation but has also set a precedent for other nations.

Fostering Community: The Renaissance of Ideas and Collective Efforts
In a way reminiscent of Paris during the Enlightenment, El Salvador is becoming a gathering place for critical thinkers, entrepreneurs, and change-makers from around the globe. This international influx of intelligent, driven people is reshaping El Salvador’s future, breathing life into what many are calling a “new vision of hope.” The sense of community here is profound; projects are forming, partnerships are being established, and new ventures are taking shape. For those leaving countries that feel stagnant or in decline, El Salvador is a beacon of possibility and purpose.

At the heart of this transformation is the ethos that real change comes from the ground up. Bukele’s policies have paved the way, but it is the people who are building El Salvador’s future. This grassroots approach is critical to the Renaissance spirit—one that calls on individuals to take responsibility, innovate, and foster a society founded on shared values and mutual goals.

An Invitation to the Future: The Adopting Bitcoin Conference
For those eager to witness this Renaissance firsthand, El Salvador will soon host the Adopting Bitcoin Conference. This event offers a unique opportunity to meet the innovators, builders, and visionaries driving this movement. The conference will spotlight the strides made in Bitcoin adoption, community development, and the groundbreaking projects that are shaping El Salvador's future.

A Global Grassroots Movement Inspired by El Salvador
El Salvador’s Bottom-Up Renaissance is a testament to the power of community-driven progress and a symbol of what’s possible when a nation invests in sound money, decentralization, and a vibrant collective spirit. President Bukele’s vision has laid a foundation, but the future lies in the hands of those willing to build it. Whether or not this movement reshapes the world as it has El Salvador, it has shown us a glimpse of what the future could be—one where people everywhere have the opportunity to take part in building a brighter, more prosperous tomorrow.

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The Fibonacci Sequence

The Fibonacci sequence is a simple sequence of numbers where a number is the sum of the two preceding numbers in the series:

X_n = X_n-1 + X_n-2

0 - 1 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 8 - 13 - 21 - 34 - 55 - 89 - 144 - 233 - 377 - 610 - 987 - 1597 - 2584 - 4181

Modified Fibonacci Sequence

Sequence With Polarities and a Master or Neutral Element

1 - 2 - 3 - 5 - 8 - 13 - 21 - 34 - 55 - 89

Sequence With Polarities (-1 From the Fibonacci Sequence)

0 - 1 - 2 - 4 - 7 - 12 - 20 - 33 - 54 - 88

The Fibonacci Sequence in Reality

Now that we have these two lists, we can apply them to concrete elements to see their manifestation in the physical world.

1 Element

• Something

2 Elements

• Duality
• Electric Current
• Yin & Yang
• Sun & Moon
• Holy Trinity
• Day & Night Cycle
• Man & Woman
• Cat & Dog
• Tea & Coffee
• Wine & Beer
• Good & Evil
• Inclusion & Exclusion
• Plus & Minus
• Binary Code

4 Elements

• Cardinal Directions
• Four Alchemical Elements (Five Counting Aether)
• Five Chinese Alchemical Elements (Five Counting Metal)
• Four Seasons
• Four Tarot Minor Arcana Suites & Major Arcana

7 Elements

• Seven Colors of the Rainbow
• Seven Musical Notes & Octave
• Seven Chakras
• Seven Days in a Week
• Seven Classical Planets

12 Elements

• Twelve Months in a Year
• Traditional Tarot Minor Arcana Suite

20 Elements

• Twenty Amino Acids
• Number of Paths Between Sephirah in the Kabbalah (If Two Elements Are the Same Aspect of One or One Is Removed)

Fibonacci Worldbuilding Master Table

The table is available at:

https://www.dragonbanecreation.com/en/worldbuilding/energy/fibonacci

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😱 การทบทวนสมมติฐานไขมันกับโรคหัวใจ: มุมมองใหม่จากหลักฐานทางวิทยาศาสตร์ 😱 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/16/10/1447?fbclid=IwY2xjawGOTtxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHa2lVBffVeuI0SC8RgzbvQgtkbIsLwat1tDzxZKQ8UoEWYJuwC-Y7no7zA_aem_Qtv0GQuxhWxk0P2KCUFDmw . 🩸บทความนี้นำเสนอการวิเคราะห์เชิงลึกเกี่ยวกับสมมติฐานไขมันกับโรคหัวใจ (Lipid-Heart Hypothesis) ที่มีอิทธิพลต่อแนวทางโภชนาการทั่วโลกมาเกือบ 70 ปี โดยรวบรวมหลักฐานจากการศึกษาวิจัยที่สำคัญและผลกระทบที่เกิดขึ้น . โดยสมมติฐานไขมันกับโรคหัวใจถูกเสนอโดย Ancel Keys ในปี 1953 โดยตั้งอยู่บนความเชื่อว่าการบริโภคไขมันทั้งหมด ไขมันอิ่มตัว และคอเลสเตอรอลในปริมาณสูงจะนำไปสู่การเกิดโรคหัวใจ อย่างไรก็ตาม

สมมติฐานนี้มีข้อบกพร่องสำคัญหลายประการ: . 1. การรวมไขมันทรานส์กับไขมันอิ่มตัว: - ไม่แยกแยะผลกระทบที่แตกต่างระหว่างไขมันทั้งสองชนิด - ละเลยผลเสียของไขมันทรานส์ที่เกิดจากกระบวนการอุตสาหกรรม . 2. การส่งเสริมการบริโภค PUFA โดยไม่จำกัด: - ขาดการกำหนดขีดจำกัดการบริโภคกรดไขมันไม่อิ่มตัวหลายพันธะ - ไม่คำนึงถึงสมดุลระหว่างโอเมก้า-6 และโอเมก้า-3 . 3. การมองข้ามปัจจัยอื่น: - ไม่พิจารณาผลของน้ำหนักตัว การออกกำลังกาย และปัจจัยด้านวิถีชีวิต - ละเลยบทบาทของการอักเสบและความเครียดออกซิเดชัน .

ซึ่งเมื่อมาดูหลักฐานจากการศึกษาระยะยาวต่างๆเช่น . .

😲 Framingham Multi-Generational Study (1948-ปัจจุบัน) การศึกษาระยะยาวที่สำคัญนี้ได้พบข้อมูลที่น่าสนใจ: - ไม่พบความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างการบริโภคไขมันกับระดับคอเลสเตอรอล - ยิ่งบริโภคไขมันอิ่มตัว คอเลสเตอรอลและแคลอรี่มาก ระดับคอเลสเตอรอลในเลือดกลับยิ่งต่ำ - ความดันโลหิตสูงและเบาหวานเป็นปัจจัยเสี่ยงสำคัญมากกว่า .

😲Seven Countries Study (1957-1984) การศึกษาในประชากร 7 ประเทศ รวม 12,763 คน พบว่า: - ไม่มีความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างระดับคอเลสเตอรอลกับการเสียชีวิตจากโรคหัวใจ - ประชากรในเกาะครีตที่บริโภคไขมันสูง (36.1%) กลับมีอัตราการเสียชีวิตต่ำที่สุด - น้ำมันมะกอกและกรดไขมันโอเลอิกสัมพันธ์กับอัตราการเสียชีวิตจากโรคหัวใจที่ต่ำ - .

😲PURE Study การศึกษาขนาดใหญ่ในประชากร 18 ประเทศ พบว่า: - การบริโภคไขมันสูงสัมพันธ์กับความเสี่ยงการเสียชีวิตที่ต่ำลง - ไขมันอิ่มตัวสัมพันธ์กับความเสี่ยงโรคหลอดเลือดสมองที่ต่ำลง - ผลิตภัณฑ์นมไขมันเต็มส่งผลดีต่อสุขภาพหัวใจและหลอดเลือด .

รวมถึงการศึกษาทางคลินิกที่สำคัญต่างๆ .

😟Minnesota Coronary Experiment (1968-1973) ผลการศึกษาในผู้เข้าร่วม 9,423 คน แสดงให้เห็นว่า: - กลุ่มที่บริโภคน้ำมันข้าวโพดมีอัตราการเสียชีวิตสูงกว่า - ผู้ที่ระดับคอเลสเตอรอลลดลงมากที่สุดกลับมีความเสี่ยงสูงที่สุด - ไม่พบประโยชน์ของการแทนที่ไขมันอิ่มตัวด้วย PUFA - . 😟Sydney Diet Heart Study (1967-1973) การศึกษาในผู้ชาย 458 คน พบว่า: - กลุ่มที่บริโภคน้ำมัน safflower มีอัตราการเสียชีวิตสูงกว่า - ความเสี่ยงการเสียชีวิตจากโรคหัวใจเพิ่มขึ้น 74% - การลดคอเลสเตอรอลไม่ได้นำไปสู่ผลลัพธ์ที่ดีขึ้น .

ทำให้เกิดผลกระทบของในส่วนการแนะนำให้บริโภคอาหารไขมันต่ำ ซึ่งส่งผลให้เกิดการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่สำคัญ: 😱😱😱 1. การเพิ่มขึ้นของโรคเรื้อรัง: - โรคอ้วนเพิ่มจาก 48.8% (1960) เป็น 82.3% (2017-2018) - เบาหวานเพิ่มจาก 6.2% (1994) เป็น 14.7% (2021) - โรคอัลไซเมอร์เพิ่มจาก 4.5 ล้านคน (2000) เป็น 6.7 ล้านคน (2023) . 2. การเปลี่ยนแปลงรูปแบบการบริโภค: - เพิ่มการบริโภคอาหารแปรรูป - ลดการบริโภคอาหารที่มีคุณค่าทางโภชนาการสูง - เพิ่มการบริโภคคาร์โบไฮเดรตและน้ำตาล . โดยบทความนี้ได้เสนอแนะสำหรับแนวทางโภชนาการใหม่ดังนี้ 😉😉😉 1. การปรับปรุงคำแนะนำด้านอาหาร: - ทบทวนการจำกัดไขมันอิ่มตัว - กำหนดขีดจำกัดการบริโภค PUFA - ส่งเสริมการบริโภคอาหารธรรมชาติ . 2. การพิจารณาปัจจัยรอบด้าน: - คำนึงถึงคุณภาพอาหารโดยรวม - ให้ความสำคัญกับการลดการบริโภคอาหารแปรรูป - พิจารณาปัจจัยด้านวิถีชีวิตและสิ่งแวดล้อม . จากหลักฐานทางวิทยาศาสตร์จำนวนมากไม่สนับสนุนสมมติฐานไขมันกับโรคหัวใจ การจำกัดไขมันอิ่มตัวและส่งเสริมการบริโภค PUFA โดยไม่มีขีดจำกัด อาจส่งผลเสียต่อสุขภาพ จำเป็นต้องมีการทบทวนแนวทางโภชนาการโดยอาศัยหลักฐานที่ทันสมัยและครอบคลุม เพื่อส่งเสริมสุขภาพที่ดีของประชากรในระยะยาว .

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ตะเกียงฟักทองที่เห็นกันในวันฮัลโลวีน หรือที่เรียกกันว่า Jack O’ Lantern ถือกำเนิดมานานหลายร้อยปี โดยมีรากฐานมาจากตำนานพื้นบ้านของชาวไอริช ว่าด้วยเรื่องของ “แจ็กจอมขี้เหนียว หรือ แจ็กจอมตืด” ซึ่งเป็นหนึ่งในเรื่องเล่าที่ถ่ายทอดจากรุ่นสู่รุ่น และมีหลายเวอร์ชัน แต่เวอร์ชันที่แพร่หลายที่สุดเล่าว่า แจ็กเป็นชายที่เจ้าเล่ห์มาก ถึงขั้นสามารถหลอกลวงซาตานได้

เรื่องเริ่มต้นเมื่อแจ็กเชิญซาตานมาดื่มเหล้าด้วยกัน แต่แทนที่จะจ่ายเงินเอง แจ็กกลับวางแผนให้ซาตานแปลงร่างเป็นเหรียญเพื่อจ่ายค่าเหล้า ซาตานยินดีทำตามแผนนี้ แต่แจ็กกลับนำเหรียญใส่ไว้ในกระเป๋าที่มีไม้กางเขนอยู่ ซาตานจึงไม่สามารถคืนร่างเดิมได้

หลังจากการเจรจา แจ็กยอมปล่อยซาตาน โดยมีข้อตกลงว่าซาตานจะต้องไม่ยุ่งกับเขาเป็นเวลา 1ปี และเมื่อแจ็กตาย ซาตานจะไม่มีสิทธิ์ครอบครองวิญญาณของเขา

เมื่อครบหนึ่งปี ซาตานกลับมาหาแจ็กอีกครั้ง คราวนี้แจ็กใช้กลอุบายใหม่ หลอกให้ซาตานปีนขึ้นไปเก็บแอปเปิ้ลบนต้นไม้ แล้วจึงสลักกางเขนไว้บนต้นไม้ ทำให้ซาตานลงมาไม่ได้ แจ็กจึงต่อรองเพิ่ม โดยซาตานต้องสัญญาว่าจะไม่มายุ่งกับเขาอีกเป็นเวลา 10ปี

แต่เมื่อแจ็กเสียชีวิต วิญญาณของเขากลับไม่ถูกต้อนรับเข้าสวรรค์ เนื่องจากพฤติกรรมหลอกลวงที่เขาทำเมื่อยังมีชีวิตอยู่ และแม้ว่าเขาจะลองไปหาที่พึ่งในนรก ซาตานก็ปฏิเสธการรับวิญญาณของเขาเช่นกัน ตามคำสัญญาที่เคยให้ไว้

สุดท้ายแจ็กจึงต้องกลายเป็นวิญญาณเร่ร่อน โชคดีที่ซาตานยังปราณีทิ้งก้อนถ่านที่เรืองแสงให้แจ็กไว้ส่องทาง แจ็กจึงคว้านหัวผักกาด เจาะช่องแสงแล้วใส่ถ่านลงไป เพื่อใช้เป็นตะเกียงนำทาง

ชาวไอริชจึงตั้งชื่อ “แจ็กกับตะเกียง” ว่า Jack of the Lantern ก่อนจะเพี้ยนกลายเป็น Jack O’ Lantern ในเวลาต่อมา และธรรมเนียมนี้ก็แพร่หลายในหมู่ชาวไอริชและสกอตแลนด์ ผู้คนนิยมแกะสลักหัวผักกาดหรือหัวมันฝรั่งให้ดูน่ากลัว จากนั้นใส่ไฟด้านใน แล้วนำไปวางที่หน้าต่างหรือประตูเพื่อป้องกันวิญญาณเร่ร่อนอย่างแจ็กไม่ให้เข้ามารบกวนในคืนฮัลโลวีน

ส่วนฟักทองที่ใช้กันอย่างแพร่หลายในปัจจุบันนั้น เพิ่งถูกนำมาใช้หลังจากที่ผู้อพยพจากยุโรปเดินทางไปยังอเมริกา เนื่องจากฟักทองเป็นพืชที่หาง่ายและมีขนาดใหญ่ ทำให้ง่ายต่อการแกะสลัก คนอเมริกันจึงเริ่มใช้ฟักทองแทนหัวผักกาดหรือมันฝรั่งในการทำตะเกียง Jack O’ Lantern

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Have you ever heard that cryptocurrencies are primarily used by criminals? This is a common idea, but it doesn’t reflect reality. In this article, we will explore what cryptocurrencies are, how they work, and why the notion that they’re only for illegal activities is a myth. We will also compare the use of cryptocurrencies with traditional money and understand how blockchain technology brings transparency and security to transactions.

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What Are Cryptocurrencies?

Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use cryptography to secure transactions. The most well-known is Bitcoin, but there are many others, like Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple. Unlike traditional money, cryptocurrencies are not controlled by governments or central banks. They operate on a decentralized network called blockchain, which records all transactions publicly and immutably.

The Origin of the Myth: Cryptocurrencies and Illicit Activities

The myth that cryptocurrencies are mainly used for crime began with cases like Silk Road, an illegal online marketplace where Bitcoin was used to buy and sell illicit products. This type of news captured attention and created a negative image of cryptocurrencies. However, it’s essential to understand that these cases are exceptions and don’t represent the majority of cryptocurrency use.

Current Data: Cryptocurrencies and Illicit Activities

According to the 2024 Cryptocurrency Crime Report from Chainalysis, only 0.34% of cryptocurrency transactions in 2023 were linked to illegal activities. This means that the vast majority of people use cryptocurrencies legitimately, for investments, shopping, sending money to family in other countries, and other legal activities.

## Comparison with Traditional Money

When we look at traditional money, like the dollar or the euro, we see that it is much more used in criminal activities. According to a report by Verafin, about 3.1 trillion dollars are used annually in financial crimes such as drug trafficking, terrorism, fraud, and money laundering. This represents approximately 3.87% of all money in circulation.

In comparison, the illicit use of cryptocurrencies is a much smaller fraction. This shows that traditional money remains the main tool for financial crimes, not cryptocurrencies.

The Transparency of Blockchain

One of the great advantages of cryptocurrencies is blockchain technology. Since all transactions are recorded in a public ledger, it’s possible to trace the path of money. This makes it harder for criminals to hide their activities. Unlike cash, which can change hands without leaving any trace, cryptocurrency transactions leave a permanent record.

Companies and law enforcement agencies use this transparency to identify and combat illegal activities. This makes cryptocurrencies less appealing to criminals who prefer methods that leave no trace.

How Much Money Is There in the World?

To understand the scale, it’s interesting to know that, according to the World Population Review, about 80 trillion dollars are in circulation globally, including physical and digital money. Out of this total, only 5 trillion dollars is in physical cash. This shows that most transactions are already digital, even in the traditional financial system.

## Cryptocurrencies Promote Economic Freedom

Cryptocurrencies offer people more control over their own money. Without the need for intermediaries like banks or governments, transactions can be made directly between individuals. This is especially useful in countries with unstable financial systems or where the population lacks easy access to banking services.

This financial autonomy can bother traditional institutions that are used to controlling the flow of money. Therefore, we sometimes see criticism of cryptocurrencies from these institutions, which may try to link them to criminal activities to discredit them.

Myths and Realities

It’s a myth to say that cryptocurrencies are mainly used for crimes. The reality is that they are primarily used for legal and legitimate purposes. People around the world invest in cryptocurrencies, use them for online shopping, send money to family in other countries, and even protect their savings from inflation.

Conclusion: Are Cryptocurrencies Really the Villains?

The evidence shows that cryptocurrencies are not the villains some believe them to be. On the contrary, they offer a safe, transparent, and efficient way to conduct financial transactions. While traditional money continues to be the main means used in criminal activities, the illicit use of cryptocurrencies remains a small exception.

If you have doubts about the reliability of cryptocurrencies, remember that the technology behind them is designed to be safe and transparent. With current data and information, it’s clear that cryptocurrencies are closer to being a solution for financial problems than a cause.

And You, What Do You Think?

Are cryptocurrencies being unfairly accused? Share your opinion and join the discussion!Have you ever heard that cryptocurrencies are primarily used by criminals? This is a common idea, but it doesn’t reflect reality. In this article, we will explore what cryptocurrencies are, how they work, and why the notion that they’re only for illegal activities is a myth. We will also compare the use of cryptocurrencies with traditional money and understand how blockchain technology brings transparency and security to transactions.

What Are Cryptocurrencies? Cryptocurrencies are digital currencies that use cryptography to secure transactions. The most well-known is Bitcoin, but there are many others, like Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple. Unlike traditional money, cryptocurrencies are not controlled by governments or central banks. They operate on a decentralized network called blockchain, which records all transactions publicly and immutably.

The Origin of the Myth: Cryptocurrencies and Illicit Activities The myth that cryptocurrencies are mainly used for crime began with cases like Silk Road, an illegal online marketplace where Bitcoin was used to buy and sell illicit products. This type of news captured attention and created a negative image of cryptocurrencies. However, it’s essential to understand that these cases are exceptions and don’t represent the majority of cryptocurrency use.

Current Data: Cryptocurrencies and Illicit Activities According to the 2024 Cryptocurrency Crime Report from Chainalysis, only 0.34% of cryptocurrency transactions in 2023 were linked to illegal activities. This means that the vast majority of people use cryptocurrencies legitimately, for investments, shopping, sending money to family in other countries, and other legal activities.

Comparison with Traditional Money When we look at traditional money, like the dollar or the euro, we see that it is much more used in criminal activities. According to a report by Verafin, about 3.1 trillion dollars are used annually in financial crimes such as drug trafficking, terrorism, fraud, and money laundering. This represents approximately 3.87% of all money in circulation.

In comparison, the illicit use of cryptocurrencies is a much smaller fraction. This shows that traditional money remains the main tool for financial crimes, not cryptocurrencies.

The Transparency of Blockchain One of the great advantages of cryptocurrencies is blockchain technology. Since all transactions are recorded in a public ledger, it’s possible to trace the path of money. This makes it harder for criminals to hide their activities. Unlike cash, which can change hands without leaving any trace, cryptocurrency transactions leave a permanent record.

Companies and law enforcement agencies use this transparency to identify and combat illegal activities. This makes cryptocurrencies less appealing to criminals who prefer methods that leave no trace.

How Much Money Is There in the World? To understand the scale, it’s interesting to know that, according to the World Population Review, about 80 trillion dollars are in circulation globally, including physical and digital money. Out of this total, only 5 trillion dollars is in physical cash. This shows that most transactions are already digital, even in the traditional financial system.

Cryptocurrencies Promote Economic Freedom Cryptocurrencies offer people more control over their own money. Without the need for intermediaries like banks or governments, transactions can be made directly between individuals. This is especially useful in countries with unstable financial systems or where the population lacks easy access to banking services.

This financial autonomy can bother traditional institutions that are used to controlling the flow of money. Therefore, we sometimes see criticism of cryptocurrencies from these institutions, which may try to link them to criminal activities to discredit them.

Myths and Realities It’s a myth to say that cryptocurrencies are mainly used for crimes. The reality is that they are primarily used for legal and legitimate purposes. People around the world invest in cryptocurrencies, use them for online shopping, send money to family in other countries, and even protect their savings from inflation.

Conclusion: Are Cryptocurrencies Really the Villains? The evidence shows that cryptocurrencies are not the villains some believe them to be. On the contrary, they offer a safe, transparent, and efficient way to conduct financial transactions. While traditional money continues to be the main means used in criminal activities, the illicit use of cryptocurrencies remains a small exception.

If you have doubts about the reliability of cryptocurrencies, remember that the technology behind them is designed to be safe and transparent. With current data and information, it’s clear that cryptocurrencies are closer to being a solution for financial problems than a cause.

And You, What Do You Think? Are cryptocurrencies being unfairly accused? Share your opinion and join the discussion!

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This is not just the first or the second time; it's the third time I'm on Nostr.

Like everyone new to Nostr who isn’t 100% knowledgeable on how decentralised protocols works like Jack, Alex, or other great minds in this space, we have, one way or another, lost our first private key (Nsec).

Well, funny enough, i lost mine

I started with the Amethyst Nostr client, but unfortunately, I lost my private keys.

Then I moved to Primal, where I lost my private keys again. However, this time it’s not going to be the same story!

I’ve learned from my lessons.__

We all make mistakes, but it’s time to learn from them!

I look forward to delving into the decentralized world of Nostr, and this time I’m going to take this freedom tech more seriously!

I’m excited to grow and connect with great minds here.

Don't forget to give me a follow to support my journey here.

Thank you for reading!

PS: I'm Currently Using Yakihonne client...

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It’s right to build an open-source wallet, but that shouldn’t be the first feature displayed on your website if you’re aiming for the mass market.

We’re at a pivotal moment for Bitcoin, particularly in terms of adoption. Bailey, a marketing expert with top-tier experience, explains why. With a decade as the Head of Retail Marketing at Apple from 2002 to 2012—the era of revolutionary products like the iPhone and iPad—plus years as Vice President of Marketing at Samsung Smart-Things, he’s now Chief Marketing Officer at Azteco. Speaking with Bitcoin Train, Bailey discusses how Bitcoin’s messaging must evolve to engage the true mass market by focusing less on technicalities and more on tangible benefits for the average user.

Bailey’s message is clear: to achieve mass adoption, Bitcoin’s public presentation needs a shift toward emphasizing practical benefits over technical details. This shift would entail moving from a narrative focused solely on “hodling” to one that highlights Bitcoin’s qualities as a payment tool as well.

The full interview with David Bailey is available on YouTube; the following is a summary of the most significant points.

Let’s start by discussing your past: what was the sentiment at Apple when launching global hits like the iPhone or iPad?

At Apple, we could quickly observe the interest and adoption of our products. Whenever we entered a new country, demand was high: retailers wanted entire shelves stocked with iPods and accessories. This let us gauge sales trends early on. But the key lay in how we presented the product. If you described it as “an MP3 player” or “an e-book reader,” the response was lukewarm. However, if you framed it in terms of user value, like “having a thousand songs in your pocket,” people got excited, and adoption followed.

Today, if you search online for “What is Bitcoin?” you find technical explanations about blockchain, mining, and more. But the real question is, what does Bitcoin mean for the consumer? It’s a way to spend and save, to send money globally in seconds without fees.

Bitcoin’s technical foundations have drawn developers, enthusiasts, and advocates. Why change the narrative now?

There’s a book written about twenty years ago called Crossing the Chasm. It’s one of those books that has stood the test of time. Like any business text, it’s not a magical formula but offers a good conceptual framework for thinking about these issues.

The essential idea is that customers of a tech product are divided into two groups. On one side is the early market, about 15% of the total market, and on the other, the mass market, which covers around 85%. Between the early market and the mass market is a “chasm,” a kind of gap to bridge.

The adoption cycle

The early market consists of innovators and early adopters, followed by the early majority, late majority, and finally, the “laggards,” the last group to adopt technology. Innovators and early adopters are the ones who, for example, were among the first to use the internet or are experimenting today with virtual reality headsets and Apple Vision Pro. But the approach between those in the early market and those in the mass market is very different.

Are you saying interests vary greatly between these two types of customers?

Exactly. Early adopters are attracted to the technology itself; they want to experiment and explore what they can do with it, even if it’s limited or imperfect. The early majority, however, isn’t interested in technical details; they care about tangible benefits: they want the product to work immediately, they want a simple, straightforward experience.

A similar example is the evolution of the internet 20-25 years ago. Initially, it was discussed in highly technical terms, making it seem like a niche technology with no apparent need for most people. Only when the practical benefits, such as sending emails or browsing the web, were highlighted did the broader public start to see its value. People didn’t need to understand VPNs or DNS; they just wanted to use the internet for practical purposes.

Early email users had to manage complex command-line interfaces. The early majority came on board only when email clients became user-friendly. At that point, it was enough to enter a username and password without worrying about technical details. The mass market simply wants things to work effortlessly.

The point is, to move from the early market to the mass market, we need to cross the “chasm.” Achieving this requires a deep understanding of what the consumer truly wants: not pure technology, but immediate and tangible benefits.

Where do we stand in Bitcoin’s adoption cycle? Do we need to make the leap?

Yes, I’d say we’re right on the “chasm.” We’re near the end of the early adoption phase, and Bitcoin’s challenge is to cross this gap without getting lost in the middle. We must stop talking about how the technology works and start explaining how people can use it safely to gain real, practical benefits in their everyday lives.

Isn’t there a risk of abandoning Bitcoin’s foundational principles like privacy, open-source philosophy, and censorship resistance?

Success lies not in changing the product but in adjusting the message and marketing strategy. It’s not about diluting Bitcoin’s fundamentals for the sake of simplicity but rather presenting its features in a way that resonates with the early majority.

It’s right to develop an open-source wallet, but that shouldn’t be the first feature displayed on a website if the goal is to attract a wider audience. While I support open-source and privacy, we must realize these aren’t the priorities for the next 100 million users. This doesn’t mean trivializing Bitcoin’s technology but rather tailoring the message to speak to people differently. Trying to convert everyone to the early adopter mindset, with the concept of the “orange pill,” is an ineffective strategy.

What kind of messaging should be used to effectively reach the masses? How should the marketing strategy change?

We can tell stories of everyday people using Bitcoin for daily activities. Last year, around $669 billion was sent globally in remittances by people working in countries like the United States or Mexico to support their loved ones. Here’s a tangible use case: with Bitcoin, you can send funds to your family members wherever they are, instantly and without fees. And with services like Bitrefill, they can easily use them. Whether it’s paying a freelancer or sending money to someone on the other side of the world, the utility becomes real.

For those, like me, living in the UK, where the financial system is relatively stable, it may not seem so significant. But for people in the United States sending money to Mexico, or those living in Argentina or Brazil, where financial uncertainty has been a constant for decades, Bitcoin becomes a far more attractive choice. I know people in South Africa who prefer to save in bitcoin instead of the local currency, which they view as corrupt and unstable.

The goal, then, is to find everyday, concrete use cases. Currently, though, media narratives are almost exclusively focused on Bitcoin’s price, its volatility, or scandals involving the crypto world. We need to get past these distractions.

You mentioned daily payments as a use case that appeals to the mass market. However, there are many staunch proponents of hodling at all costs. How do you view this debate in the context of the adoption cycle?

One thing I’m firmly convinced of is that if we focus solely on accumulating bitcoin and holding it, Bitcoin will never reach its full potential.

The truth is that Bitcoin can be both digital gold and digital cash. Right now, there’s an overabundance of attention on its store-of-value aspect, while we lack sufficient focus on making it a tool for daily payments. Enough people already view Bitcoin as a form of investment or savings. What we need to concentrate on now is promoting its everyday use, so it genuinely becomes a medium of exchange.

If millions of people start using Bitcoin for their daily transactions, it will sustain the system and increase its value for those who choose to save in bitcoin as well. We can’t have one without the other.

Azteco was created with precisely this goal: to promote Bitcoin adoption among consumers by making the process as simple as possible. We want people to be able to purchase Bitcoin easily, even for just $10, without having to go through an exchange, with no bank accounts or ID documents required.

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Chef's notes

This is great to start in the morning, and come home to a nearly finished meal. I like to make tacos that day, then use any remaining for just about anything from chili to omelets. Fun way to prepare ramen too.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min, plus 15 before serving
• 🍳 Cook time: 8 hours
• 🍽️ Servings: 10-12

Ingredients

• 3-4lb Chuck Roast, bone-in preferred
• 1 large White Onion, quartered
• 6-8 cloves Garlic, peeled
• 5 Roma Tomatoes, halved
• 6-8 dried Arbol Chiles, seeded
• 3-4 Guajillo Chiles, seeded
• 2 tsp Coriander seeds
• 2 tsp Cumin seeds
• 2 Tbsp Oregano, Mexican Oregano if available
• 1/2 tsp ground Cinnamon
• 2 whole Bay Leaves
• 1 tsp Salt
• SPG style seasoning mix to coat the roast
• 3-4 cups beef broth, just enough to cover roast plus additional for thinning sauce if desired
• Any toppings desired (avocado, cilantro, sour cream, queso fresca, cheddar, fresh onion, etc)

Directions

1. Preheat large frying pan to med/high, add oil for searing
2. Add onions and tomatoes, sear until edges char, add garlic and saute until fragrant, transfer to slow cooker
3. Pat roast dry, season all sides, transfer to pan
4. Sear roast on all sides, 2-4 minutes or until golden brown, transfer to slow cooker
5. Add all seasonings and beef broth to slow cooker
6. Cook on low 8+ hours or until the meat is falling apart
7. Remove bone and bay leaves
8. Transfer liquid and vegetables to a blender with loose fitting lid, blend until smooth, transfer to large bowl
9. Shred roast in slow cooker, pour sauce mix back in and stir. Adjust ratio by adding more beef broth if desired. Salt to taste.
10. Serve, drained as tacos, nachos, omelets, etc. Serve with broth as stew or mix with ramen

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From now on, when, i open my phibe for distraction, i will write something, anything, cheers

Okay, daarnet heeft het niet gewerkt. Nu wel? of houdt het me nu tegen van iets anders te gaan doen? bof ook oke. Het ruikt hier naar kak en da stoort mij zohard, zeer afleidend. Vandaag was een goeie dag, we zijn in de voormiddag een walbootboom tegen gekomen, en later, in Vailly sur aisne, heb ik die allemaal gekraakt terwijl Tim de kettingen kuiste. Was wel leuk, al kreeg ik er rugpijn van, net als nu. Zitten geeft mij meer rugpijn dan fietsen deze dagen, surtout zitten en iets doen met mijn handen, mijn rug sen schouders gaan dan als een egeltje poef inelkaar. 

We zitten nu een beetje in een maanlandschap, temidden industriele velden, bij een kleine haag, sleedoorn. We hebben iets te lang doorgefietst, we passeerden een goeie plek on half zes, maar toen kwam de schemering en sloeg de vermoeidheid toe net voor we toekwamen. Ik ben moe, ook al hebben we niet zoveel gefietst vandaag, nog geen 50km. We hebben batuurlijk wel 3 uur op het kerkplein van Vailly gezeten. Was heel leuk om het rustige dorpje, waar nog wel een beetje leven was, een bakker, een traiteur, een paar winkels, zo te zien. Mensen passeerden, zeiden goeiendag, smakelijk, of kwamen een hele babbel doen. Tussendoor luisterde ik wat muziek. Een heel leuk werkke, walnoten kraken, ik denk dat ik nog niet vaak zo van de herfst genoten heb als daar, op dat bankje. De kleuren in het bos, en de dans van de spreeuwen stonden mij nog kevendig voor. De mensen wensten ons veel succes, je zag dat ze ons zot vonden om door de grijze herfst te fietsen. 

Vanaf hier is er een grote oranje vlek op de horizon te zien, de stad van licht. Parijs! 

@ 0e501ec7:de5ef3a4

Buizerd in de mist. Spreeuwen op een elektriciteitspaal. Je komt een beetje dichter, ze zwermen op in een dansende wolk. Zwerm voor mij niet identificeerbaar, tsjirpende vogels. Een blaadje valt, bijna in je pot met thee. Aan een hoge tak, maar toch de onderste, hangt een verloren vissershaak. Het water aan de kant ziet er vies en slijmerig uit. Vannacht was ik bang erin te vallen, slaapdronken op tocht naar een plek om pipi te doen. Het verlangen naar een middagmaal zonder pindakaas. Een klein lapje kleinschalige landbouw, met groentebedden op mensenmaat, in de zee van industrie-veld. In de verte een boer die met zijn halve oorlogsmachine zijn gewas beschermd. In de bossen hangt het vol lianen, veel meer dan thuis. Op de weg een overreden marter. Naast de weg, dappere kamille, teder bloeiend. Als de schemering valt: vermoeidheid. In de nacht stilte, gepruttel van ons stoofpotje, aangevuurd met brandalcool. In de ochtend: mist. Een buizerd.

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Nos últimos anos, a narrativa dominante retrata a mineração de Bitcoin como um consumidor voraz de energia, com impactos ambientais desproporcionais. Embora a mineração de Bitcoin exija uma quantidade significativa de energia, esta visão ignora um ponto crucial: o seu potencial para promover a sustentabilidade ambiental e remodelar a integração de energias renováveis.

Este artigo vai além dos debates convencionais sobre a pegada de carbono, explorando como a mineração de Bitcoin pode mitigar os impactos ambientais e catalisar uma transição energética sustentável, transformando o que alguns consideram uma inutilidade num aliado contra a dependência dos combustíveis fósseis e a adversidade climática.

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Desafios da Energia Renovável

Alcançar um futuro sustentável depende da adopção de fontes de energia renovável, mas estas enfrentam desafios únicos. Gerir o excesso de energia produzido durante períodos de baixa procura e lidar com as limitações da actual tecnologia de baterias são obstáculos significativos. Além disso, a transmissão de energia a longas distâncias permanece ineficiente, o que impede que recursos renováveis remotos alcancem mercados mais amplos.

Por exemplo, as linhas de corrente contínua de alta tensão (HVDC) perdem aproximadamente 3% de potência por cada 1.000 km, enquanto as linhas de corrente alternada de alta tensão (HVAC) perdem cerca de 7% por cada 1.000 km. Isto significa que, por cada quilómetro, as linhas HVDC perdem cerca de 0,003%, e as linhas HVAC perdem cerca de 0,007% (as linhas de alta tensão são projectadas para diminuir perdas, as perdas são ainda maiores na media tensão). Estas perdas, aliadas à dificuldade de transportar energia de parques renováveis remotos, sublinham a necessidade de soluções localizadas.

Por exemplo, em 2018, cerca de 6,5 milhões de MWh de produção de energia solar fotovoltaica foram descartados, ou "mandados fora", no Chile, na China, na Alemanha e nos Estados Unidos conjuntamente. É importante notar que, à medida que a capacidade de energia renovável continua a crescer rapidamente (com o aumento das adições de capacidade renovável global anual em quase 50%, para quase 510 gigawatts em 2023), a quantidade absoluta de energia desperdiçada é susceptível de aumentar, a menos que se façam melhorias significativas na infraestrutura da rede, no armazenamento de energia e na gestão da procura.

Monetizar o Excesso de Energia através da Mineração de Bitcoin

Fontes de energia renovável, como a solar e a eólica, muitas vezes geram mais electricidade do que a rede necessita em determinados momentos, criando um excedente de energia que normalmente é desperdiçado. Este excesso permanece subutilizado porque:

• As soluções de armazenamento em grande escala são limitadas e dispendiosas ou mesmo inexistentes;
• A capacidade de transmissão muitas vezes não é suficiente para distribuir energia a longas distâncias;
• E a procura nem sempre coincide com os períodos de produção máxima de energia renovável.

A mineração de Bitcoin apresenta uma solução apelativa, ao actuar como um consumidor de energia flexível, capaz de ajustar rapidamente o seu consumo para se alinhar com a oferta. Operações de mineração localizadas perto de instalações de energia renovável — como centrais hidroeléctricas ou parques solares — podem absorver o excesso de energia que, de outra forma, seria desperdiçado, monetizando-o. Esta configuração não só reduz o desperdício de energia renovável, como também proporciona fontes de rendimento fiáveis para projectos renováveis, incentivando o investimento em infraestruturas verdes.

Mineração de Bitcoin como Consumidor Flexível

As operações de mineração de Bitcoin podem ajustar dinamicamente o seu consumo de energia, actuando como uma "carga flexível" na rede. As principais vantagens incluem:

• Escalabilidade Rápida: Os equipamentos de mineração podem aumentar ou diminuir o seu consumo de energia quase instantaneamente, respondendo às flutuações na disponibilidade de energia.
• Independência Geográfica: A mineração de Bitcoin pode ser realizada em qualquer local com ligação à internet, permitindo que os mineradores se situem perto das fontes renováveis, independentemente da infraestrutura da rede.
• Capacidade Modular: O equipamento de mineração é altamente escalável, permitindo que os produtores de energia desenhem sistemas modulares que se adaptem à capacidade energética disponível.

Incentivos Económicos e Benefícios

A utilização do excedente de energia para a mineração de Bitcoin permite que os produtores de energia renovável gerem receitas a partir de energia que, de outra forma, seria desperdiçada. Este impulso económico aumenta a rentabilidade dos projectos de energia renovável, tornando-os mais atractivos para os investidores. Os benefícios adicionais incluem:

• Estabilização da Rede: As operações de mineração ajudam a equilibrar a oferta e a procura na rede, contribuindo para a resiliência e estabilidade da mesma.
• Redução do Desperdício: Ao consumir electricidade excedente, a mineração de Bitcoin reduz significativamente a quantidade de energia renovável desperdiçada.
• Aumento do Financiamento para Renováveis: Os lucros provenientes da mineração de Bitcoin podem ser reinvestidos em novos projectos de energia renovável, soluções de armazenamento e infraestrutura de rede, criando um ciclo positivo de reforço para a energia verde.

Aplicações no Mundo Real

Vários exemplos ilustram como a mineração de Bitcoin monetiza eficazmente o excedente de energia:

• No Texas, os mineradores de Bitcoin aproveitam o excesso de energia eólica, apoiando a rede através de programas de resposta à procura que aumentam a fiabilidade da rede durante períodos de alta e baixa procura.
• No Quebec, o excesso de energia hidroeléctrica é canalizado para operações de mineração de Bitcoin, o que ajuda a estabilizar a rede e a reduzir o desperdício de energia renovável.
• Um estudo da Universidade de Cornell descobriu que projectos de energia renovável nos EUA poderiam gerar milhões de dólares ao minerar Bitcoin durante estágios pré-comerciais, demonstrando a viabilidade económica desta abordagem.

Potencial Impacto na Transição para Energias Renováveis

Ao monetizar o excedente de energia através da mineração de Bitcoin, esta abordagem acelera a transição para energias renováveis. Os benefícios incluem:

• Viabilidade Económica para Renováveis: A monetização da energia desperdiçada torna os projectos renováveis mais rentáveis e, portanto, mais atractivos para investidores.
• Flexibilidade da Rede: A mineração de Bitcoin fornece uma fonte de procura escalável e adaptável, ajudando os operadores de rede a gerir as flutuações de oferta.
• Pegada de Carbono Reduzida: Ao utilizar fontes renováveis, o impacto ambiental da mineração de Bitcoin diminui, alinhando-se com os objectivos de sustentabilidade.
• Adopção Acelerada de Energias Renováveis: A maior rentabilidade e a redução do desperdício incentivam um maior investimento, impulsionando a adopção de tecnologias de energia renovável.

Essencialmente, a mineração de Bitcoin oferece uma solução única para os desafios da produção intermitente de energia renovável, criando uma procura flexível e independente da localização para a electricidade excedente que, de outra forma, seria desperdiçada. À medida que mais projectos renováveis adoptam este modelo, a mineração de Bitcoin pode desempenhar um papel crucial na promoção de um panorama energético sustentável e descentralizado.

Fornecimento de Energia a Regiões Isoladas e Subdesenvolvidas

Um dos impactos mais promissores da mineração de Bitcoin é a capacidade de levar electricidade a regiões remotas e subdesenvolvidas. Pequenas centrais hidroeléctricas e instalações solares são opções cada vez mais viáveis para comunidades isoladas que não têm acesso a redes tradicionais. Mineradores de Bitcoin, em busca de energia barata e excedente, podem apoiar e financiar estas instalações, reduzindo a lacuna energética e permitindo o acesso a energia limpa para estas comunidades.

Por exemplo, aldeias em África que anteriormente não tinham electricidade podem agora operar escolas, clínicas e empresas, graças a pequenos projectos de energia renovável apoiados pela mineração de Bitcoin. Este acesso catalisa o crescimento económico, criando um ciclo virtuoso onde a energia leva a investimentos, educação e melhor saúde — elevando comunidades inteiras para fora da pobreza.

Redução de Emissões através da Mitigação de Metano

A mineração de Bitcoin também contribui para a redução das emissões de metano — um gás de efeito estufa com um potencial de aquecimento global 28 a 34 vezes superior ao do CO₂ num período de 100 anos. As emissões de aterros sanitários, resíduos agrícolas e poços de petróleo abandonados representam uma ameaça climática significativa, mas a mineração de Bitcoin oferece uma solução única ao converter este poluente em energia.

Quando o metano é queimado para gerar electricidade, é convertido em CO₂ e vapor de água, que, embora também sejam gases de efeito estufa, são muito menos potentes do que o metano. Na verdade, o metano é responsável por cerca de 25% do aquecimento global que experimentamos actualmente, apesar da sua concentração relativamente baixa na atmosfera. Ao capturar e utilizar o metano, as operações de mineração de Bitcoin transformam um dano ambiental numa fonte de energia produtiva, reduzindo as emissões globais de gases de efeito estufa e criando novas fontes de rendimento.

Por exemplo, nos EUA, o metano de poços de petróleo abandonados está a ser capturado para alimentar a mineração de Bitcoin, criando um sistema fechado que evita que o metano seja queimado ou liberado directamente na atmosfera. Esta abordagem não só mitiga as emissões, como também apoia o crescimento económico em regiões com recursos de metano não aproveitados.

Resiliência e Flexibilidade da Rede

A integração de fontes renováveis, como a eólica e a solar, introduziu desafios para a estabilidade das redes eléctricas. Com as renováveis, os operadores de rede enfrentam flutuações de frequência mais frequentes e uma resposta inercial reduzida — as renováveis não fornecem a mesma resposta inercial que as centrais térmicas tradicionais, tornando a rede mais susceptível a mudanças rápidas.

A flexibilidade da mineração de Bitcoin pode desempenhar um papel fundamental na estabilização das redes eléctricas. Durante a tempestade de inverno Uri, no Texas, os mineradores de Bitcoin reduziram o seu consumo de energia para libertar capacidade para serviços essenciais, mostrando o papel da mineração de Bitcoin como uma carga flexível e reactiva de energia.

Ao ajustar o consumo de energia com base na disponibilidade de oferta, os mineradores de Bitcoin podem ajudar a equilibrar as redes com elevada penetração de renováveis. Esta sinergia com energias renováveis e nucleares fornece uma solução robusta para a gestão da procura energética, especialmente à medida que a rede transita para fontes de baixo carbono.

Impacto Ambiental de Longo Prazo

A mineração de Bitcoin tem o potencial de revolucionar a produção e o consumo de energia. Ao integrar energias renováveis, aproveitar o metano e oferecer gestão flexível da carga, o Bitcoin pode desempenhar um papel fundamental num futuro energético sustentável e descentralizado. Inovação política, responsabilidade industrial e colaboração intersectorial são essenciais para concretizar o potencial do Bitcoin na transição verde.

Diante dos desafios ambientais actuais, a mineração de Bitcoin oferece mais do que inovação financeira. Representa um poderoso aliado na construção de um futuro sustentável e equitativo — onde os objectivos digitais e ambientais alinham-se para criar uma economia global mais limpa e resiliente.

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Introduction

In today's fiat based economic landscape increasingly characterized by monopolization and the dominance of institutionalized credit, innovative technologies and protocols are emerging that have the potential to change the foundations of our economy and society.

At the forefront of this are Bitcoin and Nostr—two groundbreaking protocols that together can usher in a new era of innovation, free from the constraints of the fiat system.

This article will examine how the fiat system blocks human progress, how Bitcoin breaks the state monopoly on money, and finally discuss how Nostr, as a censorship-resistant communication tool, builds on this foundation to allow innovation to emerge from the free market. This will show how, together, Bitcoin and Nostr act as catalysts for innovation and human progress, highlighting the history and mechanisms that enable this transformation.

Innovation under Hard Metal Currencies

In the days of hard metal currencies, especially during the gold standard, innovation was primarily driven by individuals and private companies who were largely independent of the state apparatus and institutional lenders. Some of the greatest breakthroughs in science, philosophy and economics were made by private entrepreneurs.

• In 600 BC, a Greek named Thales observed that amber, when rubbed with silk, attracted feathers and other light objects. He discovered static electricity. The Greek word for amber is 'ëelectron', from which the words 'electricity' and 'electron' are derived.
• The Greek philosopher Plato (ca. 428-347 B.C.) is widely considered to be the first person to develop the concept of an atom, the idea that matter is made up of an indivisible component on the smallest scale. He also wrote a number of important books on science, philosophy, economics, politics and mathematics.
• Wei Boyang was a Chinese writer and Taoist alchemist of the Eastern Han dynasty. He is the author of The Kinship of the Three (also known as Cantong Qi), which is considered the earliest book on alchemy in China, and is noted as one of the first individuals to document the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 AD.
• The car was invented in 1886 by German engineer and automobile manufacturer Carl Benz, who was inspired by Nikolaus Otto, who invented the first gas engine in 1861.
• The Wright brothers are considered the inventors and the first to fly a powered airplane on Dec. 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• The creativity and ingenuity of the Wright brothers has been well documented. In this photo you can see Wilbur Wright at the controls of the damaged Wright Flyer, on the ground after an unsuccessful trial on December 14, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina: https://image.nostr.build/65e20422344092090ec61d9673536625f4220562c1c786f0cafd8c7b23cd6bfa.jpg

The funds for the Wright brothers' ventures, including equipment, travel, and their testing site in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, came from the bicycle shop they operated. They apparently spent just $1,000 over four years (1899-1903) to develop three flying machines, two of which had no engines. The Wright brothers lived during a time when the U.S. was on a gold standard, and saving allowed entrepreneurs to accumulate enough capital to finance innovations, giving them the time and resources needed to pursue their pioneering work in aviation.

The ancient Greeks, such as Thales and Plato, also operated under hard metal currencies, contributing to a stable economic environment that fostered philosophical and scientific advancements. Similarly, Wei Boyang exemplified the pursuit of knowledge during the Eastern Han dynasty in China, which experienced fluctuating monetary conditions, including periods of stability that contributed to intellectual growth in various fields.

Just as the Wright brothers and other innovators thrived in an environment where saving in sound money enabled them to focus on their inventions, today's private entrepreneurs, startups, thinkers and bicycle shop owners find it increasingly difficult to earn enough to take the time to think about innovations and finance their implementation.

Inflation has significantly driven up labor and material costs, particularly in industries like aviation and automotive, where advanced technology and greater material requirements demand extensive research and development. As a result, entrepreneurs and freelancers often rely on third-party loans.

How the Fiat System Blocks Human Progress

The fiat-based monetary system has made it increasingly difficult for innovation to emerge without institutional funding. Monetary inflation erodes purchasing power, limits financing options, and creates obstacles for new ideas to flourish.

This is problematic because the institutions that typically fund innovation, including large venture capital firms, banks, and universities, are mostly dependent on the state in one way or another (either because they are regulated by law or because they receive government funding) and therefore have an incentive to support projects that follow the current political climate. The result is a banal misallocation of capital and social stagnation, as can be observed in most countries around the world.

Venezuela is an extreme example of what state control of the economy can lead to. About two decades after the introduction of socialism, gross domestic product fell by 88% from 2010 to 2020, plummeting from $372.59 billion to $43.79 billion, the lowest level in over 30 years. This dramatic decline has severely impacted the country, leading to economic stagnation and widespread shortages of basic supplies. The following photo captures the stark reality of this crisis, featuring a man sitting in front of empty shelves in a Venezuelan supermarket. In the 1950s, Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world; today, its economic performance mirrors that of the pre-1920 era https://image.nostr.build/c70df0ab2ed2f0e2ce9c7fca09722aff117dc56ca24967c3d5fabef47265fc5f.jpg

Credit, Fiat and the State Monopoly on Innovation

Credit has become part of a system of control that nation states use in conjunction with fiat money to maintain their monopoly position. Historically, technologies and social movements that undermine the monopoly power of the state and its affiliated institutions were typically banned. At the very least, there was usually an attempt to do so.

A good example is the way Bitcoin is treated by most states, how poorly it is spoken of in most universities, and how most banks used to consider it speculation at best, because Bitcoin threatens the very existence of these institutions. This behavior is generally observed among monopolists and initially makes it difficult for entrepreneurs to enter new disruptive markets like Bitcoin and shifts competition in favor of the monopolist (the state).

Money creation and the granting of credit are fundamental to maintaining the state's monopoly position. As a result, the reliance on the institutionalized credit system to finance innovation has led to a dependence on a central authority (the state). This disrupts the progress and prosperity of humanity that results from a free market in which capital and information can be freely exchanged and suppresses the collective creativity of humanity.

Bitcoin and the weakening state monopoly on innovation

With the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009, the state monopoly on money was broken. Due to its limited supply and excellent monetary properties (absolute scarcity, durability, fungibility, divisibility, mobility, resilience), bitcoin is the hardest money ever created.

This allows entrepreneurs to preserve the value of their efforts, giving them time and, in the long term, capital to focus on problems and find and fund appropriate solutions. Which, in turn, creates opportunities for innovation to emerge from the free market in a bottom-up manner.

Innovation and communication

Innovation, especially in the age of the Internet, requires more than capital and people with time. There is a need for efficient and secure real-time communication and collaboration options for people around the world. Communication and collaboration are crucial for efficiently solving increasingly complex problems in a connected world.

Cunningham's Law states that the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; instead, to post the wrong answer because others will correct you. This underscores the importance of collective intelligence. The law is named after Ward Cunningham, who invented the Wiki software that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages or entries via a web browser. The most famous example is wikipdia.com. Collective intelligence, social technologies and network organizations are closely linked and enable each other.

https://image.nostr.build/edf84e0b6351af8f5e4792e856c47234b8b66d1aeeed1946b75bb2bb05a41fdf.jpg (Seppala, M. 2018. Collective Intelligence 2018: From Open Knowledge and Network Organizations to Technology-enabled Intelligence. Medium).

Nostr: Communication as a tool for innovation

With Nostr, a new protocol was introduced that adds a layer of censorship-resistant information sharing to the Bitcoin and Lightning protocol suite, opening up a new territory of freedom within the same tech stack. People can now successfully save in bitcoin, communicate via Nostr, and transact with each other through the Lightning Network, potentially independent of any central authority.

Although individual applications that use Nostr can be switched off, the protocol itself cannot be effectively controlled or turned off by a central party, because there is no central point of failure. Even though there were a number of other decentralized communication networks besides Bitcoin before Nostr (Bittorrent, Limewire, Napster, etc.), none of these had the potential to have a universal long-term impact on collaboration to solve complex problems facing humanity.

Nostr has the potential to enable bottom-up innovation and rapid problem-solving that no one can keep a lid on. With Nostr, Bitcoin, and the Lightning Network, market participants can communicate, collaborate, and reward each other in real time globally, potentially independent of any central authority. Personally, I am particularly fascinated by Nostrocket, a client designed to coordinate decentralized, Bitcoin-based economies by rewarding contributors who work together to find solutions to global challenges. At this year's Nostriga unconference, Nostrocket founder GSovereignty gave an interesting talk about the importance of Nostr in the process of separating business and state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddvHagjmRJY&t=1s

Conclusion

The Bitcoin protocol was created as an alternative to the fiat system. A decentralized, permissionless peer-to-peer electronic cash system, outside the reach of the state. Satoshi Nakamoto created arguably one of the most important innovations by a private individual or group of people that humanity has ever produced, because he/they laid the foundation for anyone to be able to trade and act independently of the state. As a solid foundation for a freer economy, the Bitcoin network enables other network layers to “dock” to the base, creating new ways to use bitcoin and opportunities for users. The Lightning Network, as a second-layer payment protocol for fast transactions and micropayments, partially addresses the problem of how to scale Bitcoin so that it can be used by all of humanity.

The introduction of Nostr creates a new territory of freedom within the same protocol suite as Bitcoin and Lightning, enhancing Bitcoin's usability for diverse applications. By facilitating seamless communication and collaboration, Nostr further aids in scaling Bitcoin, empowering us to innovate faster and reward ingenuity. This protocol suite allows innovation to emerge from the free market once again, with Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr working together to foster a truly free Internet.

I would like to thank Uncle R0ckstar for the inspiring conversations and encouraging words. What began as a conversation before my trip to Nostrica led to months of introspection and ultimately this article. I look forward to exploring and understanding the possibilities of Nostr deeper as I continue my journey! 🙏💫

Sources * historycollection.com - 23 Photos of the Wright Brothers’ Flights https://historycollection.com/23-photos-wright-brothers-flights/ * quora.com - How did the Wright brothers obtain the financing to build the first airplane given that the notion of flying was such a crazy idea then? https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-Wright-brothers-obtain-the-financing-to-build-the-first-airplane-given-that-the-notion-of-flying-was-such-a-crazy-idea-then * statista.com- Venezuela: Gross domestic product (GDP) in current prices from 1986 to 2025 https://www.statista.com/statistics/370937/gross-domestic-product-gdp-in-venezuela/ * thepolicycircle.org - Socialism: A Case Study on Venezuela https://www.thepolicycircle.org/minibrief/socialism-a-case-study-on-venezuela/ * Display image: Wilbur and Orville Wright. Getty Images.

If you are interested in more of my work, you can visit my website: www.leonwankum.com

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Introduction

In today's fiat based economic landscape increasingly characterized by monopolization and the dominance of institutionalized credit, innovative technologies and protocols are emerging that have the potential to change the foundations of our economy and society.

At the forefront of this are Bitcoin and Nostr—two groundbreaking protocols that together can usher in a new era of innovation, free from the constraints of the fiat system.

This article will examine how the fiat system blocks human progress, how Bitcoin breaks the state monopoly on money, and finally discuss how Nostr, as a censorship-resistant communication tool, builds on this foundation to allow innovation to emerge from the free market. This will show how, together, Bitcoin and Nostr act as catalysts for innovation and human progress, highlighting the history and mechanisms that enable this transformation.

Innovation under Hard Metal Currencies

In the days of hard metal currencies, especially during the gold standard, innovation was primarily driven by individuals and private companies who were largely independent of the state apparatus and institutional lenders. Some of the greatest breakthroughs in science, philosophy and economics were made by private entrepreneurs.

• In 600 BC, a Greek named Thales observed that amber, when rubbed with silk, attracted feathers and other light objects. He discovered static electricity. The Greek word for amber is 'ëelectron', from which the words 'electricity' and 'electron' are derived.
• The Greek philosopher Plato (ca. 428-347 B.C.) is widely considered to be the first person to develop the concept of an atom, the idea that matter is made up of an indivisible component on the smallest scale. He also wrote a number of important books on science, philosophy, economics, politics and mathematics.
• Wei Boyang was a Chinese writer and Taoist alchemist of the Eastern Han dynasty. He is the author of The Kinship of the Three (also known as Cantong Qi), which is considered the earliest book on alchemy in China, and is noted as one of the first individuals to document the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 AD.
• The car was invented in 1886 by German engineer and automobile manufacturer Carl Benz, who was inspired by Nikolaus Otto, who invented the first gas engine in 1861.
• The Wright brothers are considered the inventors and the first to fly a powered airplane on Dec. 17, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
• The creativity and ingenuity of the Wright brothers has been well documented. In this photo you can see Wilbur Wright at the controls of the damaged Wright Flyer, on the ground after an unsuccessful trial on December 14, 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina: https://image.nostr.build/65e20422344092090ec61d9673536625f4220562c1c786f0cafd8c7b23cd6bfa.jpg

The funds for the Wright brothers' ventures, including equipment, travel, and their testing site in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, came from the bicycle shop they operated. They apparently spent just $1,000 over four years (1899-1903) to develop three flying machines, two of which had no engines. The Wright brothers lived during a time when the U.S. was on a gold standard, and saving allowed entrepreneurs to accumulate enough capital to finance innovations, giving them the time and resources needed to pursue their pioneering work in aviation.

The ancient Greeks, such as Thales and Plato, also operated under hard metal currencies, contributing to a stable economic environment that fostered philosophical and scientific advancements. Similarly, Wei Boyang exemplified the pursuit of knowledge during the Eastern Han dynasty in China, which experienced fluctuating monetary conditions, including periods of stability that contributed to intellectual growth in various fields.

Just as the Wright brothers and other innovators thrived in an environment where saving in sound money enabled them to focus on their inventions, today's private entrepreneurs, startups, thinkers and bicycle shop owners find it increasingly difficult to earn enough to take the time to think about innovations and finance their implementation.

Inflation has significantly driven up labor and material costs, particularly in industries like aviation and automotive, where advanced technology and greater material requirements demand extensive research and development. As a result, entrepreneurs and freelancers often rely on third-party loans.

How the Fiat System Blocks Human Progress

The fiat-based monetary system has made it increasingly difficult for innovation to emerge without institutional funding. Monetary inflation erodes purchasing power, limits financing options, and creates obstacles for new ideas to flourish.

This is problematic because the institutions that typically fund innovation, including large venture capital firms, banks, and universities, are mostly dependent on the state in one way or another (either because they are regulated by law or because they receive government funding) and therefore have an incentive to support projects that follow the current political climate. The result is a banal misallocation of capital and social stagnation, as can be observed in most countries around the world.

Venezuela is an extreme example of what state control of the economy can lead to. About two decades after the introduction of socialism, gross domestic product fell by 88% from 2010 to 2020, plummeting from $372.59 billion to $43.79 billion, the lowest level in over 30 years. This dramatic decline has severely impacted the country, leading to economic stagnation and widespread shortages of basic supplies. The following photo captures the stark reality of this crisis, featuring a man sitting in front of empty shelves in a Venezuelan supermarket. In the 1950s, Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world; today, its economic performance mirrors that of the pre-1920 era https://image.nostr.build/c70df0ab2ed2f0e2ce9c7fca09722aff117dc56ca24967c3d5fabef47265fc5f.jpg

Credit, Fiat and the State Monopoly on Innovation

Credit has become part of a system of control that nation states use in conjunction with fiat money to maintain their monopoly position. Historically, technologies and social movements that undermine the monopoly power of the state and its affiliated institutions were typically banned. At the very least, there was usually an attempt to do so.

A good example is the way Bitcoin is treated by most states, how poorly it is spoken of in most universities, and how most banks used to consider it speculation at best, because Bitcoin threatens the very existence of these institutions. This behavior is generally observed among monopolists and initially makes it difficult for entrepreneurs to enter new disruptive markets like Bitcoin and shifts competition in favor of the monopolist (the state).

Money creation and the granting of credit are fundamental to maintaining the state's monopoly position. As a result, the reliance on the institutionalized credit system to finance innovation has led to a dependence on a central authority (the state). This disrupts the progress and prosperity of humanity that results from a free market in which capital and information can be freely exchanged and suppresses the collective creativity of humanity.

Bitcoin and the weakening state monopoly on innovation

With the introduction of Bitcoin in 2009, the state monopoly on money was broken. Due to its limited supply and excellent monetary properties (absolute scarcity, durability, fungibility, divisibility, mobility, resilience), bitcoin is the hardest money ever created.

This allows entrepreneurs to preserve the value of their efforts, giving them time and, in the long term, capital to focus on problems and find and fund appropriate solutions. Which, in turn, creates opportunities for innovation to emerge from the free market in a bottom-up manner.

Innovation and communication

Innovation, especially in the age of the Internet, requires more than capital and people with time. There is a need for efficient and secure real-time communication and collaboration options for people around the world. Communication and collaboration are crucial for efficiently solving increasingly complex problems in a connected world.

Cunningham's Law states that the best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; instead, to post the wrong answer because others will correct you. This underscores the importance of collective intelligence. The law is named after Ward Cunningham, who invented the Wiki software that allows users to create and collaboratively edit web pages or entries via a web browser. The most famous example is wikipdia.com. Collective intelligence, social technologies and network organizations are closely linked and enable each other.

https://image.nostr.build/edf84e0b6351af8f5e4792e856c47234b8b66d1aeeed1946b75bb2bb05a41fdf.jpg (Seppala, M. 2018. Collective Intelligence 2018: From Open Knowledge and Network Organizations to Technology-enabled Intelligence. Medium).

Nostr: Communication as a tool for innovation

With Nostr, a new protocol was introduced that adds a layer of censorship-resistant information sharing to the Bitcoin and Lightning protocol suite, opening up a new territory of freedom within the same tech stack. People can now successfully save in bitcoin, communicate via Nostr, and transact with each other through the Lightning Network, potentially independent of any central authority.

Although individual applications that use Nostr can be switched off, the protocol itself cannot be effectively controlled or turned off by a central party, because there is no central point of failure. Even though there were a number of other decentralized communication networks besides Bitcoin before Nostr (Bittorrent, Limewire, Napster, etc.), none of these had the potential to have a universal long-term impact on collaboration to solve complex problems facing humanity.

Nostr has the potential to enable bottom-up innovation and rapid problem-solving that no one can keep a lid on. With Nostr, Bitcoin, and the Lightning Network, market participants can communicate, collaborate, and reward each other in real time globally, potentially independent of any central authority. Personally, I am particularly fascinated by Nostrocket, a client designed to coordinate decentralized, Bitcoin-based economies by rewarding contributors who work together to find solutions to global challenges. At this year's Nostriga unconference, Nostrocket founder GSovereignty gave an interesting talk about the importance of Nostr in the process of separating business and state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddvHagjmRJY&t=1s

Conclusion

The Bitcoin protocol was created as an alternative to the fiat system. A decentralized, permissionless peer-to-peer electronic cash system, outside the reach of the state. Satoshi Nakamoto created arguably one of the most important innovations by a private individual or group of people that humanity has ever produced, because he/they laid the foundation for anyone to be able to trade and act independently of the state. As a solid foundation for a freer economy, the Bitcoin network enables other network layers to “dock” to the base, creating new ways to use bitcoin and opportunities for users. The Lightning Network, as a second-layer payment protocol for fast transactions and micropayments, partially addresses the problem of how to scale Bitcoin so that it can be used by all of humanity.

The introduction of Nostr creates a new territory of freedom within the same protocol suite as Bitcoin and Lightning, enhancing Bitcoin's usability for diverse applications. By facilitating seamless communication and collaboration, Nostr further aids in scaling Bitcoin, empowering us to innovate faster and reward ingenuity. This protocol suite allows innovation to emerge from the free market once again, with Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr working together to foster a truly free Internet.

I would like to thank Uncle R0ckstar for the inspiring conversations and encouraging words. What began as a conversation before my trip to Nostrica led to months of introspection and ultimately this article. I look forward to exploring and understanding the possibilities of Nostr deeper as I continue my journey! 🙏💫

Sources * historycollection.com - 23 Photos of the Wright Brothers’ Flights https://historycollection.com/23-photos-wright-brothers-flights/ * quora.com - How did the Wright brothers obtain the financing to build the first airplane given that the notion of flying was such a crazy idea then? https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-Wright-brothers-obtain-the-financing-to-build-the-first-airplane-given-that-the-notion-of-flying-was-such-a-crazy-idea-then * statista.com- Venezuela: Gross domestic product (GDP) in current prices from 1986 to 2025 https://www.statista.com/statistics/370937/gross-domestic-product-gdp-in-venezuela/ * thepolicycircle.org - Socialism: A Case Study on Venezuela https://www.thepolicycircle.org/minibrief/socialism-a-case-study-on-venezuela/ * Display image: Wilbur and Orville Wright. Getty Images.

If you are interested in more of my work, you can visit my website: www.leonwankum.com

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Table Of Content

• The Origins of Bitcoin's Civil War

• Lessons Learned from Bitcoin's Civil War

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin, the revolutionary digital currency, has garnered significant attention and adoption since its inception. However, its path to success was not without obstacles. In this article, we delve into the intriguing tale of Bitcoin's Civil War—a conflict that shook the cryptocurrency community to its core. Through examining the lessons learned from this historical event, we uncover their modern relevance and shed light on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

The Origins of Bitcoin's Civil War

The seeds of Bitcoin's Civil War were sown in 2017 when a heated debate emerged regarding the scalability and future direction of the Bitcoin network. The conflict primarily revolved around the issue of block size—whether to increase it to accommodate more transactions or maintain the original size to preserve decentralization.

The Block Size Debate: To Scale or Decentralize?

The proponents of increasing the block size argued that larger blocks would allow for faster and cheaper transactions, thereby enhancing Bitcoin's usability as a currency. On the other hand, those advocating for maintaining the block size believed that prioritizing decentralization was crucial to preserve the fundamental principles of Bitcoin.

The clash of ideologies led to a profound divide within the Bitcoin community, resulting in a fork that created two distinct cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. This event, often referred to as the "hard fork," marked a critical turning point in Bitcoin's history.

The Forked Path: Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash, born out of the hard fork, aimed to address the scalability concerns by increasing the block size to 8MB. In contrast, the original Bitcoin network, commonly known as Bitcoin Core, chose to pursue alternative solutions such as Segregated Witness (SegWit) and the Lightning Network.

Lessons Learned from Bitcoin's Civil War

The conflict and subsequent split in the Bitcoin community taught us valuable lessons about the nature of consensus, governance, and the challenges inherent in scaling decentralized systems. Here are some key takeaways:

1. Consensus is a Delicate Balancing Act

Maintaining consensus within a decentralized network is a complex task. Bitcoin's Civil War exposed the challenges of achieving widespread agreement among stakeholders with diverging opinions. It highlighted the need for effective governance mechanisms to navigate contentious issues.

2. Decentralization is the Bedrock of Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin's Civil War emphasized the importance of preserving decentralization in cryptocurrency networks. Decentralization ensures censorship resistance, security, and resilience against attacks. Striking a balance between scalability and decentralization remains a fundamental challenge for blockchain-based systems.

3. Innovation Requires Collaboration and Compromise

The conflict spurred a wave of innovation as both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash sought to improve their respective networks. However, it also underscored the necessity of collaboration and compromise. The competing factions could have potentially achieved more by working together to find scalable and decentralized solutions.

4. Community Consensus Trumps Technical Merit

The Civil War demonstrated that achieving consensus within the community can override technical merits. Despite technical arguments favoring one approach over another, it was ultimately the community's support that determined the success of a particular path.

5. Adaptability is Key to Long-Term Survival

Bitcoin's ability to adapt and evolve in the face of challenges played a vital role in its survival. The Civil War highlighted the importance of flexibility and the ability to embrace new technologies and ideas while staying true to the core principles.

6. External Factors Can Influence Internal Conflicts

External factors, such as market dynamics and regulatory developments, can intensify internal conflicts within cryptocurrency communities. Understanding and navigating these external influences is crucial for the long-term success of cryptocurrencies.

Conclusion

Unlocking the Secrets of Bitcoin's Civil War provides valuable insights into the journey of Bitcoin and its ongoing evolution. The lessons learned from this historical conflict remain relevant as the cryptocurrency ecosystem continues to grow and face new challenges. Balancing scalability and decentralization, fostering collaboration, and adapting to a changing landscape are key factors that will shape the future of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. By understanding the past, we can better navigate the road ahead, unlocking new possibilities and embracing the potential of decentralized digital currencies.

FAQ

What caused the Civil War in Bitcoin? The Civil War in Bitcoin was primarily sparked by a debate over the block size—whether to increase it for better scalability or maintain the original size for decentralization.

What is the significance of the Bitcoin Civil War? The Bitcoin Civil War highlighted the challenges of achieving consensus and balancing scalability with decentralization in cryptocurrency networks.

Did Bitcoin's Civil War have any positive outcomes? A: Yes, the conflict spurred innovation and prompted both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash to explore new solutions for scaling their respective networks.

How did the Bitcoin community handle the Civil War? The Bitcoin community navigated the Civil War through a hard fork, which resulted in the creation of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash as separate cryptocurrencies.

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**Hey Nostriches! **

Thrilled to launch the latest YakiHonne update—Simpler, Easier, Faster! After a lot of hard work, we bring you a highly optimized, user-friendly decentralized media experience on both web and mobile. This version focuses on two main aspects:

1. Complete Redesign:

Our UI/UX now puts simplicity first, minimizing technicalities for creators and social users alike. Here’s what’s new:

• Onboarding: Easily create a non-custodial wallet with Npub & Nsec, experience zapping (Lightning payments), or browse as a guest. • Home & Discover: “Discover” is designed for creators, focusing on rich formats like long-form content, videos, and curated works. “Home” offers a social feed with short notes and curated contents, making it quick and easy for creators to share their work. • Wallet: Simple setup with easy creation, direct YakiHonne node linking, and multi-wallet support. • Dashboard: Manage all published and drafted content, check stats, and pick up right where you left off—all in one place. • Notifications: Reactions, Reposts, Mentions, Zaps, Comments, and Follows now appear in clear, categorized cards. • Settings: Completely revamped for simplicity, now including profile customization, appearance, relay settings, and wallet management.

2. Enhanced Performance: Our re-engineered core now supports the outbox model with extensive functionality. Furthermore, Thanks to @PabloF7z we now have seamless data fetching, caching, and full support of the NDK implementation.

Hope you enjoy the new decentralized media experience! 🌐✨Try it out here: •Web: yakihonne.com •App Store (iOS): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yakihonne/id6472556189 •Google Play (Android): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yakihonne.yakihonne&hl=en

Thank you for your incredible support on this decentralized media journey!

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In today's fast-paced business landscape, staying ahead of the curve requires embracing cutting-edge technology. Emerging trends are transforming the way professionals work, interact, and innovate. Let's delve into the top technologies redefining productivity and efficiency.

1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Automation

AI-powered tools are streamlining workflows, enhancing decision-making, and freeing up resources. Automation enables businesses to:

• Process large datasets efficiently
• Enhance customer service with chatbots

• Predict market trends and optimize strategies

• Cloud Computing and Collaboration

Cloud-based platforms facilitate seamless teamwork, scalability, and data accessibility. Professionals can:

• Access files and apps from anywhere
• Collaborate in real-time

• Integrate services for streamlined workflows

• Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Workspaces

IoT devices create intelligent environments, boosting productivity and convenience. Smart workspaces:

• Optimize energy consumption and resource allocation
• Enhance security and surveillance

• Foster innovative thinking

• Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)

Immersive technologies are revolutionizing training, communication, and customer engagement. Professionals can:

• Create interactive presentations
• Conduct remote training sessions

• Visualize complex data

• Blockchain and Cybersecurity

Blockchain technology ensures secure data transmission and storage. Professionals can:

• Protect sensitive information
• Verify transactions and authenticity
• Ensure compliance

Conclusion:

Incorporating these emerging technologies can significantly enhance productivity, efficiency, and innovation. As professionals, embracing these trends will enable you to:

• Stay competitive in the market
• Drive business growth
• Unlock new opportunities

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Cryptocurrency trading involves buying and selling digital currencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin. It's a decentralized market that operates 24/7, allowing traders to profit from price movements.

Key Concepts:

1. Cryptocurrencies Digital assets that use cryptography for secure financial transactions.
2. Trading Platforms: Online exchanges where traders buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
3. Wallets: Software programs that store, send, and receive cryptocurrencies.
4. Market Volatility: Cryptocurrency prices can fluctuate rapidly, creating opportunities and risks.
5. Leverage: Borrowed capital to increase trading positions, potentially amplifying gains and losses.

Trading Strategies:

1. Day Trading: Buying and selling within a single trading day.
2. Swing Trading: Holding positions for a shorter period, usually a few days.
3. Long-Term Investing: Holding positions for an extended period, potentially years.

** Risks and Considerations:**

1. Market Risk: Price fluctuations can result in losses.
2. Liquidity Risk: Difficulty buying or selling due to low trading volume.
3. Security Risk: Hacking and theft of cryptocurrencies.
4. Regulatory Risk: Changes in laws and regulations can impact trading.

Best Practices:

1. Educate Yourself: Understand cryptocurrency markets and trading strategies.
2. *Set Clear Goals": Define your trading objectives and risk tolerance.
3. "Use Secure Platforms*: Choose reputable trading platforms and wallets.
4. "Diversify*: Spread investments across different cryptocurrencies and asset classes.
5. Stay Informed: Continuously monitor market trends and news.

Remember, cryptocurrency trading carries risks, and thorough research is essential for successful trading.

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tldr

ai might revolutionize mental health, but still theres risks it could worsen inequality for a while; to get through this transition understand your strengths and take control of your environment as much as possible rather than taking shitty drugs

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mental health and the future

~ biology approach

even if ai helps cure mental illness with ai-generated new drugs, that might not solve the whole problem, our lives, our homes, friends, jobs, and money; its difficult to understand how these social factors are connected to our brains yet, people struggling with their mental health often turn to medication for quick relief... these ugly drugs dont typically cause addiction now(?), because they arent personalized well, but what happens if ai creates perfect, personalized drugs for everyones brain? focusing only on biological fixes without improving a persons overall life situation(environment) wont be a long-term solution, people might become dependent on these drugs and lose the ability or motivation to solve their problems by changing their circumstances...

~ psychiatry + psychology approach

psychiatry + psychology seems offer valuable tools for understanding and addressing mental health today. but the question is, can ai truly grasp the complexities of our individual situations? can ai understand family problems, daily struggles, and personal experiences? for ai to real help, it might need to experience and learn about the ACTUAL world in a way similar to our lives (i need tesla robot, looks sexy af)

can we solve?

i believe ai will eventually solve many mental health challenges (the "☆HAPPY UTOPIA☆" era), but, improving psychiatry + psychology approach with ai will take longer than medical approach i guess, because its easier to study the biology of the brain than the complexities of human behavior. before ai can effectively address behavioral aspects of mental health (the "☆HAPPY DYSTOPIA☆" era) – theres inequality, ppl in difficult situations with limited resources, might worsening existing poverty and social divisions... this is a serious concern i think.

surviving the "☆HAPPY DYSTOPIA☆"

we need to focus on improving our environments and circumstances, this includes understanding how our actions affect others and minimizing harm. changing ones environment is a main challenge for those lacking of resources or facing limitations imposed by others, also, understanding our impact on others requires self awareness, which is a skill many people struggle with still. those lacking might have trouble fitting into societys norms.

lastly, if ai cant fix how we act, more poor people might use drugs to seem okay(happy niconico mode), even though their lives are getting worse and poor. concerning