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@ 6a3d3f20:6a569bcc

Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol designed to create a censorship-resistant global social network. It achieves this by shifting away from the traditional internet model of "dumb client/smart server" to a "smart client/dumb server" architecture. This means that instead of relying on centralized servers, Nostr uses a network of "relays" to store and distribute data.

Here's a breakdown of key features of Nostr:

• Decentralized Network: Nostr doesn't rely on any trusted central server, making it resilient to censorship. Users can publish their notes (content) to multiple relays of their choice, and followers can retrieve these notes by connecting to these relays.

• Cryptographic Security: Nostr prioritizes security by using cryptographic keys and signatures for user authentication and content integrity. Every note is signed with the user's private key, allowing clients to verify the authenticity of messages and ensuring tamper-proof communication.

• User Control and Data Ownership: Users have complete control over their data and choose which relays to interact with. This allows for more flexibility and customization compared to traditional social media platforms.

• Open Protocol and Diverse Ecosystem: Nostr is an open standard, similar to protocols like HTTP or TCP-IP. This enables anyone to build clients, relays, or other applications on top of it, fostering a diverse ecosystem of software.

• Simplicity and Ease of Use: Nostr is designed to be simple to understand and implement, with a focus on lightweight JSON data structures and straightforward communication protocols. This makes it easier for developers to contribute to the Nostr ecosystem and for users to get started.

Nostr is gaining traction within cryptocurrency communities, particularly among Bitcoin users. Even Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, has shown support for Nostr's development through financial contributions. Some use Nostr through clients like Damus, a microblogging app.

While Nostr offers a promising alternative to centralized social media, challenges remain. The decentralized nature of Nostr necessitates new solutions to issues like spam prevention and content discovery. Developers are actively exploring various approaches, including proof-of-work systems, paid relay options, and reputation-based mechanisms like "orange checks" to address these challenges.

@ d7c6d014:a6abb6b8

結論

大盛況で最高オブ最高という感じでした！（語彙）

初見の人から一度会ってみたかった人、Nostr 上では頻繁にやり取りしてたけどリアルでは会ってなかった人等たくさんの人を verify できたので、参加してよかったーという感じです。

あとはタイムテーブル上でのトラブルなど、リアルで実際にイベントを開催してみたいとわからない unidentified な問題も起きたりなどして、ナマモノであるが故のイベントの醍醐味も久々に痛感できて参加してよかったと思いました。改めて nostr:npub1k0jrarx8um0lyw3nmysn50539ky4k8p7gfgzgrsvn8d7lccx3d0s38dczd さん nostr:npub1zqdnpm5gcfap8hngha7gcp3k363786phvs2etsvxw4nh6x9ydfzsuyk6mn さん、スタッフとして参加した皆さん、スポンサーの皆さん、そして来場者の方々の皆さん、ありがとうございました & お疲れ様でした！

個人的な takeaway

今回は、シーシャ屋業務 + イベント登壇 の二足のわらじを履いていたので、フルスロットルで全力を出し切れたものの、手の回るところと回らないところが生まれた部分もあり、完全燃焼しすぎた感があったので次回はもう少し余裕を持ったムーブで立ち回れると良いかなぁと思いました (とはいえイベント自体を楽しみきれなかった、みたいな不完全燃焼感はなかったのでそこは良かったと思います)

最後に

Nostr に出会って早一年と七ヶ月以上経っていますが、Nostr の知名度は依然として低いままですし、僕自身 Nostr コミュニティに貢献できる部分はまだまだ無限にあると思っています。今後も Nostr に all-in して生きていく所存ですので皆々様何卒引き続きよろしくお願い申し上げます♡

焔ノ香: nostr:npub1dwfj2pw3m428udsrm2xkrpqmgyhxnn82ask3wpgemlcvc8h2xhhs4mawdy

Me: nostr:npub16lrdq99ng2q4hg5ufre5f8j0qpealp8544vq4ctn2wqyrf4tk6uqn8mfeq

@ 101b30ee:18a46a45

昨日 (2024/9/30), お世話になった会社を退職しました。
2023/7/1入社のため、在籍期間は1年3か月でした。

どんな会社だったの？

会社名は伏せますが、BtoBtoCのサブスク課金型Webサービスを展開している会社のインフラエンジニアをやっていました。

職務内容は多岐にわたり、
- 開発・商用環境の構築
- サービスのデプロイ
- DNS関連の設定
- サービス加入時や解約時の定期作業
- 社内のセキュリティ意識向上のための啓蒙
- 情シス業務
- サービスのバックエンド(PHP)のリファクタ
- OS含めた各種ソフトウェアのバージョン移行

などなど。
インフラエンジニアという職種ではあったものの、開発系のタスクも多く経験させてもらいました。

なぜ退職したの？

売上が芳しくなく業務縮小することになり、退職しないかと勧められました。
この希望退職は私だけではなく、ほとんどの社員に話がいっていたようです。
実際、社員数は半分以下になっていたようで、統合により消えた部署や、1人しか残らなくなった部署もあります。
個人的にはまだ1年少ししか在籍しておらず少し未練はあったものの、これをチャンスと捉えて希望退職に乗ることにしました。
幸い、いくつかコミュニティ活動をしているので、リファラルで声をかけて頂いている会社様が何社かあります。

会社の良かった所

大きなカンファレンスで複数回登壇されているような凄い方と一緒に仕事が出来たり、レンタル出来る技術書が多かったり、月一で社内LT大会兼交流会があって会社経費でピザや寿司が食えたり、良かった所は沢山ありました！
最後に参加したLT会は、これで最後かと思うとちょっと泣きそうになりました。
ちなみに、私は社内LT会の運営をやったり、LT自体もこの1年で4回ほど行いました。

これから

色々ありましたが、会社への恨みのようなものは全くありません。感謝しかないです。
ただ、自社の仕事がもう少し楽になるような土台を作りたかったな、というのは心残りではあります。
人数も減って状況は厳しくなっていると思いますが、V字回復してくれることを祈るばかりです。

次の会社も、自社開発系の企業でバックエンドないしインフラ系の職種で働けたらと考えています。
今日 (2024/10/1)から無職です！会社受けまくります！頑張るぞい！

@ 5f010feb:3ae9756b

こんにちは。小牧りらです。 こちらは「Nostrasia2024 逆アドベントカレンダー」2日目の記事です。 1日目はしのさんの「Nostrasia イベントレポート #1」です。

この記事はオタクなら一度は考える夢、「コスプレ」(主語デカ)を夢見ていたオタクの、人生初のコスプレを記録したものです。

Nostrasia2024の開催が現実味を帯びる

2024年7月、四谷ラボDiscordで「Nostrasiaをもう一度。」と高まっていた機運が動き出しました。Nostrasia2024の始動です。テイザーサイトの作成、サイトやNostr、Connpasでの告知に始まり、会場の選定、当日のタイムラインの作成など、7月〜9月前半でNostrasiaはその全貌を顕にしていきました。私はDiscordには入っているものの、仕事が忙しく(という言い訳)特に貢献もしないままグループを眺めていました。そんな中当日スタッフとして協力させていただけることとなり、何か盛り上がりに貢献できないか？と考えた結果、「コスプレするしかない」との結論に至りました。

1週間前に動き出すコスプレ製作記

以前から技術書典など「Nostr関連のイベントでNostr関連キャラクターのコスプレができたらな〜」、という思いや、「オタクたるもの人生で一度はちゃんとしたコスプレをしたい！」、という思いを抱えていた私。ではこのNostrasia2024で誰のコスプレをするか？が課題となっていきます。自律分散型コミュニティのNostr、日本人コミュニティも成立から1年以上が経過し、実に多くのキャラクターが生み出されてきました。その中でも直近で話題沸騰中のキャラクター、「りとりん」のコスプレをしよう！と思い、生みの親であるかすてらふぃさんとたーごいるさんの許可を得て製作に取り掛かりました。女オタクの聖地、池袋に繰り出しウィッグや毛糸などの買い出しを行いました(この時点で1週間前)。池袋は新しくなったアニメイトにコスプレコーナーがあったり、今回は入っていないですがウィッグ専門店のアシストウィッグさん、そしてユザワヤなどの手芸店に100均などコスプレに必要な資材を購入する店舗に事欠きません。3時間近く店舗を渡り歩いた結果、アニメイトとダイソーで必要な資材を揃えました。

資材一覧

＜アニメイト＞

・ピンクのウィッグ

・水色の毛束

・耳を取り付けるためのピン

・ピンクのアイブロウ

・ウィッグ固定用の両面テープ

＜ダイソー＞

・ピンクの毛糸(耳としっぽ)

・針金(耳としっぽの芯)

・ヘアアクセサリー(ヘアピン、ヘアゴム)

・ウィッグネット

・ペット用ブラシ

Nostrasia当日

平日仕事終わりに作業を進める時間もなく、前日、前々日の土日でぶっつけ本番のウィッグ製作に取り掛かりました。ミディアムボブのウィッグを、動画やメイキング記事を見ながら切ったり、毛束をつけたり、結んだり…。失敗したら即終了の緊張感が走る中、慎重に作業を進めていきます。並行してアクリル毛糸と針金でけも耳・けもしっぽを作りました。ペット用ブラシをガシガシして毛並みを作っていく作業、そしてその過程で発生した抜け毛はもはやリアル。膝の上にりとりんが居るのではないか、と思いながら作業を進めました。最終的に当日スタートのギリギリまで作業し(会場でポニテにしたり耳を取り付けたりしていました)、ギリギリオープニングには間に合いました。ウィッグを付けた瞬間は「重い！暑い！」となりましたが、意外と室内半日であれば耐えられるな、という感想でした。 これはマグロを心待ちにするりとりん

まとめ

・とりあえず池袋に行けばなんとかなる

・ウィッグの構造に驚く

・ネットで調べれば扱い方、作り方が分かる

・製作には余裕を持って(当日会場で作業するな)

おわりに

Nostrasiaとりとりんというビッグウェーブに乗りながら、オタクとしての夢であったコスプレが実現できたこと、とても良い経験になりました！そして世の中のだいたいのものごとは調べてやったらなんとかなると感じました。次回、Nostr関連でコスプレする機会があればさらにバージョンアップしたりとりんをやりたい！という気持ちと、衣装製作も楽しめるキャラクターをやりたい！という気持ちが湧き上がってきました。その時はちゃんと工程管理します…。

3日目はjunさんの「Nostr のフォロワーネットワークにおけるクラスタリング係数」です。

@ 2fc29418:8bce6b0a

朝早くついてしまったので、会場付近をうろうろしてたら 入口付近でUGMさんを発見 Bsky以来だけど、こちらのハンドルを思い出して頂けました^^

よく見たら隣に仕事でいないはずのHさんがいた＠＠ しかし、Hさんはのす味に申し込んでいないというのだから なかなか興味深い状況ｗ つづく

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

How to do curation and businesses on Nostr

Suppose you want to start a Nostr business.

You might be tempted to make a closed platform that reuses Nostr identities and grabs (some) content from the external Nostr network, only to imprison it inside your thing -- and then you're going to run an amazing AI-powered algorithm on that content and "surface" only the best stuff and people will flock to your app.

This will be specially good if you're going after one of the many unexplored niches of Nostr in which reading immediately from people you know doesn't work as you generally want to discover new things from the outer world, such as:

• food recipe sharing;
• sharing of long articles about varying topics;
• markets for used goods;
• freelancer work and job offers;
• specific in-game lobbies and matchmaking;
• directories of accredited professionals;
• sharing of original music, drawings and other artistic creations;
• restaurant recommendations
• and so on.

But that is not the correct approach and damages the freedom and interoperability of Nostr, posing a centralization threat to the protocol. Even if it "works" and your business is incredibly successful it will just enshrine you as the head of a platform that controls users and thus is prone to all the bad things that happen to all these platforms. Your company will start to display ads and shape the public discourse, you'll need a big legal team, the FBI will talk to you, advertisers will play a big role and so on.

If you are interested in Nostr today that must be because you appreciate the fact that it is not owned by any companies, so it's safe to assume you don't want to be that company that owns it. So what should you do instead? Here's an idea in two steps:

1. Write a Nostr client tailored to the niche you want to cover

If it's a music sharing thing, then the client will have a way to play the audio and so on; if it's a restaurant sharing it will have maps with the locations of the restaurants or whatever, you get the idea. Hopefully there will be a NIP or a NUD specifying how to create and interact with events relating to this niche, or you will write or contribute with the creation of one, because without interoperability this can't be Nostr.

The client should work independently of any special backend requirements and ideally be open-source. It should have a way for users to configure to which relays they want to connect to see "global" content -- i.e., they might want to connect to wss://nostr.chrysalisrecords.com/ to see only the latest music releases accredited by that label or to wss://nostr.indiemusic.com/ to get music from independent producers from that community.

1. Run a relay that does all the magic

This is where your value-adding capabilities come into play: if you have that magic sauce you should be able to apply it here. Your service -- let's call it wss://magicsaucemusic.com/ -- will charge people or do some KYM (know your music) validation or use some very advanced AI sorcery to filter out the spam and the garbage and display the best content to your users who will request the global feed from it (["REQ", "_", {}]), and this will cause people to want to publish to your relay while others will want to read from it.

You set your relay as the default option in the client and let things happen. Your relay is like your "website" and people are free to connect to it or not. You don't own the network, you're just competing against other websites on a leveled playing field, so you're not responsible for it. Users get seamless browsing across multiple websites, unified identities, a unified interface (that could be different in a different client) and social interaction capabilities that work in the same way for all, and they do not depend on you, therefore they're more likely to trust you.

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Does this centralize the network still? But this a simple and easy way to go about the matter and scales well in all aspects.

Besides allowing users to connect to specific relays for getting a feed of curated content, such clients should also do all kinds of "social" (i.e. following, commenting etc) activities (if they choose to do that) using the outbox model -- i.e. if I find a musician I like under wss://magicsaucemusic.com and I decide to follow them I should keep getting updates from them even if they get banned from that relay and start publishing on wss://nos.lol or wss://relay.damus.io or whatever relay that doesn't even know anything about music.

The hardcoded defaults and manual typing of relay URLs can be annoying. But I think it works well at the current stage of Nostr development. Soon, though, we can create events that recommend other relays or share relay lists specific to each kind of activity so users can get in-app suggestions of relays their friends are using to get their music from and so on. That kind of stuff can go a long way.

@ 76ea2cfb:60905955

Bitcoin representa para el dinero y la propiedad lo que Internet significó para la información: una disrupción fundamental que desafía los cimientos del Estado-nación tradicional, erosionando las estructuras basadas en el mundo físico y dando paso a una nueva realidad digital. En este nuevo paradigma, Bitcoin emerge como la primera forma de propiedad digital absoluta en la historia de la humanidad, prometiendo redefinir no solo nuestras transacciones económicas, sino también nuestra comprensión del valor, la confianza y la soberanía individual.

Esta fase es importante porque nos revelará progresivamente cómo puede Bitcoin llegar a convertirse en un nuevo activo monetario con cualidades hasta ahora nunca vistas en la Historia de la Humanidad

Brecha generacional y conceptual

Al igual que las personas del siglo XIX no podían concebir que enormes máquinas de acero pudieran en el futuro surcar los cielos, muchos individuos educados bajo el paradigma del mundo físico encuentran difícil, si no imposible, comprender plenamente el alcance y las implicaciones presentes y futuras de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta y como dinero. Esta brecha conceptual no es meramente una cuestión de edad o resistencia al cambio, sino un profundo desafío cognitivo que requiere una reorientación fundamental de nuestros modelos mentales sobre el dinero, el valor y la propiedad en la era digital.

Bitcoin: La primera propiedad digital absoluta

Bitcoin se distingue como la primera y única forma de propiedad digital verdaderamente absoluta por varias razones:

1. Escasez digital verificable: Con un suministro máximo de 21 millones de unidades, Bitcoin introduce por primera vez el concepto de escasez digital incorruptible.

2. Inmutabilidad: Gracias a la prueba de trabajo acumulada, una vez registrada una transacción en la cadena de bloques de Bitcoin es prácticamente imposible de alterar o revertir.

3. Resistencia a la censura: Gracias a la descentralización ofrecida por la amplia red de nodos de Bitcoin, ninguna entidad central puede congelar, confiscar o impedir la transferencia de bitcoins entre partes.

4. Soberanía individual: Los usuarios de Bitcoin tienen control total sobre sus fondos, sin intermediarios ni custodios obligatorios.

5. Programabilidad: Como dinero programable, Bitcoin permite nuevas formas de propiedad y contratos que, hasta ahora, eran imposibles en el mundo físico.

El camino hacia la adopción masiva

La transición hacia una adopción generalizada de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta no será instantánea ni lineal. Se estima que serán necesarias al menos tres generaciones, cada una de aproximadamente 33 años, para que se desarrolle una masa crítica de individuos que vivan y operen cómodamente bajo este nuevo paradigma digital no físico. Este proceso no estará exento de obstáculos y desviaciones:

1. Ciclos de innovación y fracaso: Aunque Bitcoin se mantiene como la forma más pura de propiedad digital absoluta, veremos múltiples ciclos de nacimiento y muerte de otras criptomonedas alternativas (altcoins), ofertas iniciales de monedas (ICOs), tokens no fungibles (NFTs), activos del mundo real tokenizados (RWAs) y otros fenómenos inspirados en Bitcoin. Estas "distracciones" son parte integral del proceso de innovación y aprendizaje colectivo, y sus auges y caídas reforzarán con el tiempo la posición única de Bitcoin.

2. Evolución regulatoria: Los marcos legales y regulatorios evolucionarán, muchas veces de manera reactiva, tratando de adaptarse a las realidades cambiantes que Bitcoin introduce como forma de propiedad digital absoluta.

3. Transformación de instituciones financieras: Los bancos tradicionales y otras instituciones financieras se verán obligados a adaptarse o arriesgarse a volverse obsoletos, lo que llevará a una reestructuración significativa del sector financiero global en torno a los principios de propiedad digital absoluta que Bitcoin encarna.

4. Educación y alfabetización en Bitcoin: Surgirán nuevas formas de educación financiera y tecnológica para preparar a las generaciones futuras para operar en este nuevo paradigma, centrándose en la comprensión de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta y sus implicaciones.

5. Adopción por etapas: La adopción de Bitcoin probablemente seguirá un patrón por etapas, que irá de la mano de su evolución tecnológica y económica:

6. Primero, como reserva de valor digital.

7. Luego, como medio de intercambio, tanto para pequeñas transacciones a nivel local como para transacciones internacionales y de alto valor.

8. Finalmente, como unidad de cuenta global y patrón para la fijación de precios.

9. Resistencia institucional: Gobiernos y entidades financieras centralizadas probablemente resistirán la adopción de Bitcoin, lo que podría resultar en períodos de volatilidad regulatoria y de mercado.

10. Mejoras tecnológicas: Continuarán desarrollándose soluciones de escalabilidad y privacidad para Bitcoin, como la Lightning Network y las actualizaciones de privacidad, que facilitarán su adopción masiva.

Implicaciones más allá de lo económico

El impacto de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta se extenderá mucho más allá del ámbito financiero:

• Soberanía individual: Bitcoin ofrece una forma de preservar y transferir valor fuera del control de gobiernos y entidades centralizadas, potenciando la soberanía financiera individual.

• Redefinición de la ciudadanía: La capacidad de poseer y transferir valor globalmente sin restricciones podría llevar a nuevas formas de ciudadanía y pertenencia no vinculadas a estados nacionales.

• Nuevos modelos económicos: La naturaleza deflacionaria y la divisibilidad de Bitcoin podrían fomentar nuevos modelos económicos basados en el ahorro y la inversión a largo plazo.

• Privacidad financiera: Bitcoin ofrece un grado de privacidad financiera que puede proteger a individuos contra la vigilancia y el control gubernamental excesivo.

Conclusión

La revolución iniciada por Bitcoin va mucho más allá de ser una mera innovación financiera. Representa un cambio de paradigma fundamental en cómo concebimos la propiedad y el dinero en la era digital. A medida que avanzamos hacia este futuro, es crucial comprender que Bitcoin no es simplemente una nueva forma de dinero, sino la primera instancia de propiedad digital absoluta en la historia. Este concepto tiene el potencial de reestructurar fundamentalmente nuestras sociedades, empoderando a los individuos con un nivel de soberanía financiera sin precedentes.

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NUD: Pubkey to waveform

This NUD defines how to convert pubkey to waveform.

Live demo

Why?

• npub is nonsense to display.
• too long.
• npub1bla...bla is nonsense to display.
• npub1 takes too much space.
• ... means nothing.

Specs

• Uses hex pubkey.
• Converts 64 characters into 32 scalars.
• Splits 64 with 2 length chunks.
• Converts each chunk into a scalar.
  • 0 ~ 255 to -1.0 ~ 1.0

Code

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どうも、こんにちは。 この投稿はあなたに見えていますか？ 見えているのであればそれはとても喜ばしいことです。
良い１日を。

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Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #2

Nostr doesn't subscribe to any ideals of "free speech" as these belong to the realm of politics and assume a big powerful government that enforces a common ruleupon everybody else.

Nostr instead is much simpler, it simply says that servers are private property and establishes a generalized framework for people to connect to all these servers, creating a true free market in the process. In other words, Nostr is the public road that each market participant can use to build their own store or visit others and use their services.

(Of course a road is never truly public, in normal cases it's ran by the government, in this case it relies upon the previous existence of the internet with all its quirks and chaos plus a hand of government control, but none of that matters for this explanation).

More concretely speaking, Nostr is just a set of definitions of the formats of the data that can be passed between participants and their expected order, i.e. messages between clients (i.e. the program that runs on a user computer) and relays (i.e. the program that runs on a publicly accessible computer, a "server", generally with a domain-name associated) over a type of TCP connection (WebSocket) with cryptographic signatures. This is what is called a "protocol" in this context, and upon that simple base multiple kinds of sub-protocols can be added, like a protocol for "public-square style microblogging", "semi-closed group chat" or, I don't know, "recipe sharing and feedback".

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これが私の最初の記事です ここに日記を書くのも良いと思っています

以下は https://markdown-it.github.io/ のサンプルです

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• pica - high quality and fast image resize in browser.
• babelfish - developer friendly i18n with plurals support and easy syntax.

You will like those projects!

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書いてみた。。

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⚠️一部のクライアントでは表示が崩れている場合があります。HablaやYakihonneから見てください

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NIP-51のkind:30007に関するPull Requestが承認され、2024/08/20時点で本家NIPsにもマージされました。今後「リポスト」や「リアクション」などの特定のkind^1をミュートするためのセット^2が対応するクライアントで使えるようになります。

kind mute set(kind:30007)にて、"d"タグには対応するイベントの種類の番号(リポストなら"6"、リアクションなら"7")を入れ、"p"タグにはユーザの公開鍵(pubkey)を入れるそうです。

nostrクライアントのnostterは、これに対応したことで、Twitter(現:X)の「リポストをオフのする」機能のように"特定ユーザーのリポストをクライアント上で非表示にする"といったことができるようになりました。リアクションも同様に非表示にできます。 nostterでは、2024/07/29以降、ユーザーのプロフィール画面からこれらの設定を行えるようになっています。

2024/06/22 20時の時点では、nostter上ではこれを設定する画面が用意されていなかったので、別アプリを用いたり、イベントを自分で投げるなどして別途設定する必要がありました。 以下は、別アプリを用いて設定した際の手順です。

手順

kind:30007はのすとびうあというWebアプリで設定しました。 以下のようにのすとびうあのホーム画面「リストの種類」で30007を入力するか、

https://nostviewstr.vercel.app/<npub文字列>/30007にアクセスして設定画面にいけました^3。

左下の方にある≡を押して

ポップアップの「編集」を押して

ここではリポストのミュートのため、IDの欄に対応するイベントの種類の番号である「6」を入れて

右下にある青いボタン押して

Userの欄にリポストをミュートするユーザーの公開鍵のnpub文字列を入れ、public(ミュート状況が公開される)あるいはprivate(非公開)のボタンを押したら

そのユーザーが追加されて設定完了！

この設定を行うことで、入力した公開鍵(ユーザー)のリポストをnostter上でもミュートできました🙌

リポストやリアクションがどのように表示されるかをユーザーがコントロールできると便利なので、今後いろんなクライアントで対応されればいいな〜と思います！

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Changes

Rusty Russell (3):

• Makefile: fix missing dependencies on bolt11 headers.
• bolt11: update to latest version from CLN
• bolt11: remove unneeded fields.

William Casarin (1):

• ndb_filter_from_json

pushed to nostrdb:refs/heads/master

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Objavte, ako avatari a pseudonymné identity ovplyvňujú riadenie kryptokomunít a decentralizovaných organizácií (DAOs). V tejto prednáške sa zameriame na praktické fungovanie decentralizovaného rozhodovania, vytváranie a správu avatarových profilov, a ich rolu v online reputačných systémoch. Naučíte sa, ako si vytvoriť efektívny pseudonymný profil, zapojiť sa do rôznych krypto projektov a využiť svoje aktivity na zarábanie kryptomien. Preskúmame aj príklady úspešných projektov a stratégie, ktoré vám pomôžu zorientovať sa a uspieť v dynamickom svete decentralizovaných komunít.

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Jan Kolčák pochádza zo stredného Slovenska a vystupuje pod umeleckým menom Deepologic. Hudbe sa venuje už viac než 10 rokov. Začínal ako DJ, ktorý s obľubou mixoval klubovú hudbu v štýloch deep-tech a afrohouse. Stále ho ťahalo tvoriť vlastnú hudbu, a preto sa začal vzdelávať v oblasti tvorby elektronickej hudby. Nakoniec vydal svoje prvé EP s názvom "Rezonancie". Učenie je pre neho celoživotný proces, a preto sa neustále zdokonaľuje v oblasti zvuku a kompozície, aby jeho skladby boli kvalitné na posluch aj v klube.

V roku 2023 si založil vlastnú značku EarsDeep Records, kde dáva príležitosť začínajúcim producentom. Jeho značku podporujú aj etablované mená slovenskej alternatívnej elektronickej scény. Jeho prioritou je sloboda a neškatulkovanie. Ako sa hovorí v jednej klasickej deephouseovej skladbe: "We are all equal in the house of deep." So slobodou ide ruka v ruke aj láska k novým technológiám, Bitcoinu a schopnosť udržať si v digitálnom svete prehľad, odstup a anonymitu.

V súčasnosti ďalej produkuje vlastnú hudbu, venuje sa DJingu a vedie podcast, kde zverejňuje svoje mixované sety. Na Lunarpunk festivale bude hrať DJ set tvorený vlastnou produkciou, ale aj skladby, ktoré sú blízke jeho srdcu.

Podcast Bandcamp Punk Nostr website alebo nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3xamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvhsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qpqguvns4ld8k2f3sugel055w7eq8zeewq7mp6w2stpnt6j75z60z3swy7h05

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Workshop je zameraný pre všetkých, ktorí sa potýkajú s vysvetľovaním Bitcoinu svojej rodine, kamarátom, partnerom alebo kolegom. Pri námietkach z druhej strany väčšinou ideme do protiútoku a snažíme sa vytiahnuť tie najlepšie argumenty. Na tomto workshope vás naučím nový prístup k zvládaniu námietok a vyskúšate si ho aj v praxi. Know-how je aplikovateľné nie len na komunikáciu Bitcoinu ale aj pre zlepšenie vzťahov, pri výchove detí a celkovo pre lepší osobný život.

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Ak ste v Bitcoine už nejaký ten rok, možno máte pocit, že už všetkému rozumiete a že vás nič neprekvapí. Viete čo je to peňaženka, čo je to seed a čo adresa, možno dokonca aj čo je to sha256. Ste si istí? Táto prednáška sa vám to pokúsi vyvrátiť. 🙂

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Bojovať s rakovinou metabolickou metódou znamená použiť metabolizmus tela proti rakovine. Riadenie cukru a ketónov v krvi stravou a pohybom, časovanie rôznych typov cvičení, včasná kombinácia klasickej onko-liečby a hladovania. Ktoré vitamíny a suplementy prijímam a ktorým sa napríklad vyhýbam dajúc na rady mojej dietologičky z USA Miriam (ktorá sa špecializuje na rakovinu).

Hovori sa, že čo nemeriame, neriadime ... Ja som meral, veľa a dlho ... aj grafy budú ... aj sranda bude, hádam ... 😉

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Predikčné trhy predstavujú praktický spôsob, ako môžeme nahliadnuť do budúcnosti bez nutnosti spoliehať sa na tradičné, často nepresné metódy, ako je veštenie z kávových zrniek. V prezentácii sa ponoríme do histórie a vývoja predikčných trhov, a popíšeme aký vplyv mali a majú na dostupnosť a kvalitu informácií pre širokú verejnosť, a ako menia trh s týmito informáciami. Pozrieme sa aj na to, ako tieto trhy umožňujú obyčajným ľuďom prístup k spoľahlivým predpovediam a ako môžu prispieť k lepšiemu rozhodovaniu v rôznych oblastiach života.

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AI hype vnímame asi všetci okolo nás — už takmer každá appka ponúka nejakú “AI fíčuru”, AI startupy raisujú stovky miliónov a Európa ako obvykle pracuje na regulovaní a našej ochrane pred nebezpečím umelej inteligencie. Pomaly sa ale ukazuje “ovocie” spojenia umelej inteligencie a človeka, kedy mnohí ľudia reportujú signifikantné zvýšenie produktivity v práci ako aj kreatívnych aktivitách (aj napriek tomu, že mnohí hardcore kreatívci by každého pri spomenutí skratky “AI” najradšej upálili). V prvej polovici prednášky sa pozrieme na to, akými rôznymi spôsobmi nám vie byť AI nápomocná, či už v práci alebo osobnom živote.

Umelé neuróny nám už vyskakujú pomaly aj z ovsených vločiek, no to ako sa k nám dostávajú sa veľmi líši. Hlavne v tom, či ich poskytujú firmy v zatvorených alebo open-source modeloch. V druhej polovici prednášky sa pozrieme na boom okolo otvorených AI modelov a ako ich vieme využiť.

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Čo vznikne keď spojíš hru SNAKE zo starej Nokie 3310 a Bitcoin? - hra Chain Duel!

Jedna z najlepších implementácií funkcionality Lightning Networku a gamingu vo svete Bitcoinu.

Vyskúšať si ju môžete s kamošmi na tomto odkaze. Na stránke nájdeš aj základné pravidlá hry avšak odporúčame pravidlá pochopiť aj priamo hraním

Chain Duel si získava hromady fanúšikov po bitcoinových konferenciách po celom svete a práve na Lunarpunk festival ho prinesieme tiež.

Multiplayer 1v1 hra, kde nejde o náhodu, ale skill, vás dostane. Poďte si zmerať sily s ďalšími bitcoinermi a vyhrať okrem samotných satoshi rôzne iné ceny.

Príďte sa zúčastniť prvého oficiálneho Chain Duel turnaja na Slovensku!

Pre účasť na turnaji je potrebná registrácia dopredu.

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Co se nomádská rodina již 3 roky utíkající před kontrolou naučila o kontrole samotné? Co je to vlastně svoboda? Může koexistovat se strachem? S konfliktem? Zkusme na chvíli zapomenout na daně, policii a stát a pohlédnout na svobodu i mimo hranice společenských ideologií. Zkusme namísto hledání dalších odpovědí zjistit, zda se ještě někde neukrývají nové otázky. Možná to bude trochu ezo.

Karel provozuje již přes 3 roky se svou ženou, dvěmi dětmi a jedním psem minimalistický život v obytné dodávce. Na cestách spolu začali tvořit youtubový kanál "Karel od Martiny" o svobodě, nomádství, anarchii, rodičovství, drogách a dalších normálních věcech.

Nájdete ho aj na nostr.

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Lístky na festival Lunarpunku sú už v predaji na našom crowdfunding portáli. V predaji sú dva typy lístkov - štandardný vstup a špeciálny vstup spolu s workshopom oranžového leta.

Neváhajte a zabezpečte si lístok, čím skôr to urobíte, tým bude festival lepší.

Platiť môžete Bitcoinom - Lightningom aj on-chain. Vaša vstupenka je e-mail adresa (neposielame potvrdzujúce e-maily, ak platba prešla, ste in).

Kúpte si lístok

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Čo nám prinášajú exotické protokoly ako Nostr, Cashu alebo Reticulum? Šifrovanie, podpisovanie, peer to peer komunikáciu, nové spôsoby šírenia a odmeňovania obsahu.

Ukážeme si kúl appky, ako sa dajú jednotlivé siete prepájať a ako spolu súvisia.

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Podnikanie je jazyk s "crystal clear" pravidlami. Inštrumentalisti vidia podnikanie staticky, a toto videnie prenášajú na spoločnosť. Preto nás spoločnosť vníma často negatívne. Skutoční podnikatelia sú však "komunikátori".

Jozef Martiniak je zakladateľ AUSEKON - Institute of Austrian School of Economics

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Ako sa snažím praktizovať LunarPunk bez budovania opcionality "odchodom" do zahraničia. Nie každý je ochotný alebo schopný meniť "miesto", ako však v takom prípade minimalizovať interakciu so štátom? Nie návod, skôr postrehy z bežného života.

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Tento rok vás čaká workshop na tému "oranžové leto" s Jurajom Bednárom a Mariannou Sádeckou. Dozviete sa ako mení naše vnímanie skúsenosť s Bitcoinom, ako sa navigovať v dnešnom svete a odstrániť mentálnu hmlu spôsobenú fiat životom.

Na workshop je potrebný extra lístok (môžete si ho dokúpiť aj na mieste).

Pre viac informácií o oranžovom lete odporúčame pred workshopom vypočuťi si podcast na túto tému.

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What Can We Get by Breaking NOSTR?

"What if we just started over? What if we took everything we have learned while building nostr and did it all again, but did it right this time?"

That is a question I've heard quite a number of times, and it is a question I have pondered quite a lot myself.

My conclusion (so far) is that I believe that we can fix all the important things without starting over. There are different levels of breakage, starting over is the most extreme of them. In this post I will describe these levels of breakage and what each one could buy us.

Cryptography

Your key-pair is the most fundamental part of nostr. That is your portable identity.

If the cryptography changed from secp256k1 to ed25519, all current nostr identities would not be usable.

This would be a complete start over.

Every other break listed in this post could be done as well to no additional detriment (save for reuse of some existing code) because we would be starting over.

Why would anyone suggest making such a break? What does this buy us?

• Curve25519 is a safe curve meaning a bunch of specific cryptography things that us mortals do not understand but we are assured that it is somehow better.
• Ed25519 is more modern, said to be faster, and has more widespread code/library support than secp256k1.
• Nostr keys could be used as TLS server certificates. TLS 1.3 using RFC 7250 Raw Public Keys allows raw public keys as certificates. No DNS or certification authorities required, removing several points of failure. These ed25519 keys could be used in TLS, whereas secp256k1 keys cannot as no TLS algorithm utilizes them AFAIK. Since relays currently don't have assigned nostr identities but are instead referenced by a websocket URL, this doesn't buy us much, but it is interesting. This idea is explored further below (keep reading) under a lesser level of breakage.

Besides breaking everything, another downside is that people would not be able to manage nostr keys with bitcoin hardware.

I am fairly strongly against breaking things this far. I don't think it is worth it.

Signature Scheme and Event Structure

Event structure is the next most fundamental part of nostr. Although events can be represented in many ways (clients and relays usually parse the JSON into data structures and/or database columns), the nature of the content of an event is well defined as seven particular fields. If we changed those, that would be a hard fork.

This break is quite severe. All current nostr events wouldn't work in this hard fork. We would be preserving identities, but all content would be starting over.

It would be difficult to bridge between this fork and current nostr because the bridge couldn't create the different signature required (not having anybody's private key) and current nostr wouldn't be generating the new kind of signature. Therefore any bridge would have to do identity mapping just like bridges to entirely different protocols do (e.g. mostr to mastodon).

What could we gain by breaking things this far?

• We could have a faster event hash and id verification: the current signature scheme of nostr requires lining up 5 JSON fields into a JSON array and using that as hash input. There is a performance cost to copying this data in order to hash it.
• We could introduce a subkey field, and sign events via that subkey, while preserving the pubkey as the author everybody knows and searches by. Note however that we can already get a remarkably similar thing using something like NIP-26 where the actual author is in a tag, and the pubkey field is the signing subkey.
• We could refactor the kind integer into composable bitflags (that could apply to any application) and an application kind (that specifies the application).
• Surely there are other things I haven't thought of.

I am currently against this kind of break. I don't think the benefits even come close to outweighing the cost. But if I learned about other things that we could "fix" by restructuring the events, I could possibly change my mind.

Replacing Relay URLs

Nostr is defined by relays that are addressed by websocket URLs. If that changed, that would be a significant break. Many (maybe even most) current event kinds would need superseding.

The most reasonable change is to define relays with nostr identities, specifying their pubkey instead of their URL.

What could we gain by this?

• We could ditch reliance on DNS. Relays could publish events under their nostr identity that advertise their current IP address(es).
• We could ditch certificates because relays could generate ed25519 keypairs for themselves (or indeed just self-signed certificates which might be much more broadly supported) and publish their public ed25519 key in the same replaceable event where they advertise their current IP address(es).

This is a gigantic break. Almost all event kinds need redefining and pretty much all nostr software will need fairly major upgrades. But it also gives us a kind of Internet liberty that many of us have dreamt of our entire lives.

I am ambivalent about this idea.

Protocol Messaging and Transport

The protocol messages of nostr are the next level of breakage. We could preserve keypair identities, all current events, and current relay URL references, but just break the protocol of how clients and relay communicate this data.

This would not necessarily break relay and client implementations at all, so long as the new protocol were opt-in.

What could we get?

• The new protocol could transmit events in binary form for increased performance (no more JSON parsing with it's typical many small memory allocations and string escaping nightmares). I think event throughput could double (wild guess).
• It could have clear expectations of who talks first, and when and how AUTH happens, avoiding a lot of current miscommunication between clients and relays.
• We could introduce bitflags for feature support so that new features could be added later and clients would not bother trying them (and getting an error or timing out) on relays that didn't signal support. This could replace much of NIP-11.
• We could then introduce something like negentropy or negative filters (but not that... probably something else solving that same problem) without it being a breaking change.
• The new protocol could just be a few websocket-binary messages enhancing the current protocol, continuing to leverage the existing websocket-text messages we currently have, meaning newer relays would still support all the older stuff.

The downsides are just that if you want this new stuff you have to build it. It makes the protocol less simple, having now multiple protocols, multiple ways of doing the same thing.

Nonetheless, this I am in favor of. I think the trade-offs are worth it. I will be pushing a draft PR for this soon.

The path forward

I propose then the following path forward:

1. A new nostr protocol over websockets binary (draft PR to be shared soon)
2. Subkeys brought into nostr via NIP-26 (but let's use a single letter tag instead, OK?) via a big push to get all the clients to support it (the transition will be painful - most major clients will need to support this before anybody can start using it).
3. Some kind of solution to the negative-filter-negentropy need added to the new protocol as its first optional feature.
4. We seriously consider replacing Relay URLs with nostr pubkeys assigned to the relay, and then have relays publish their IP address and TLS key or certificate.

We sacrifice these:

1. Faster event hash/verification
2. Composable event bitflags
3. Safer faster more well-supported crypto curve
4. Nostr keys themselves as TLS 1.3 RawPublicKey certificates

@ 2c7cc62a:622a5cdc

todo-mattn #todo

Nostr 上で todo 管理する仕組み

bot と対話する？

vim-jp radio のイベント自動投稿

今欲しい要件としては、vim-jp radio のオフィシャルアカウントを作る事なのだけど、秘密鍵は別の方(Nostr にはいない)の管理としたい。代理で投稿する人間には秘密鍵は持たせたくない。 ここでは手動投稿に加え自動投稿が必要になるので、代理署名機能が必要になる。

代理署名としては NIP-46 が考えられる。NIP-46 は 3way handshake の様に機能する。

まず投稿者は bunker: という認証情報を使ってリレーに代理投稿依頼を投げる。kind は 24133 の短命イベント。 このイベントを署名者が監視(代理署名サーバ)していて同じ bunker に書かれているパスワードを使って解読、署名を行って返信する。キーはオリジナルのイベントのIDを使うので、同じ時刻の同じコンテンツでさえなければバッティングする事はない。 投稿者はその返信をリレー経由で受け取って署名済み投稿をリレーに投げるという事になる。

今回の要件を満たすかを考えた場合、Nostr にいない vim-jp radio の発案者に秘密鍵のみを渡す事を考えた場合、この代理署名サーバを常時稼働させておく必要があるという事。しかも現状は pubkey 1つに対して1つ起動する必要がある。ちょっとリソース食い。

また代理署名サーバを起動する際に秘密鍵が必要になる。この時点で初めの要件である「代理で投稿する人間には秘密鍵は持たせたくない」を満たせなくなる。特にイベント発案者が Nostr にいないならなおさらである。

という事で本件で NIP-46 を使うアイデアについては一旦保留。

@ 2c7cc62a:622a5cdc

Nostr で見掛けた焼肉店情報。いつか見返す。

ちょうしゅう

石垣島

http://yugafu-llc.com/

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とらじ

http://www.toraji.net/

大阪上新庄

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瑞園

https://tabelog.com/osaka/A2701/A270307/27001977/

大阪上新庄

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たん清

https://www.tankiyo.com/

東京秋葉原

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@ 21ac2956:09d1e2df

簡単にブログが作れそうだし実際開設は簡単すぎたけど、設定がようわからん。

Long-form Contentも初めてなのでとりあえず habla でポストしてみる。

どうやらマークダウンも覚えなきゃならないようだ。

追記：編集もできるのか！

@ 7361ca91:252fce6d

フル動画はこちら

サイエンス・フィクションは、可能な未来を想像する思索的な演習です。サイファイは可能性の空間を拡張します。暗号通貨は極端な種類のサイファイであり、未来のビジョンを提供するだけでなく、その未来を実現するためのツールも提供します。暗号通貨は現在、ソーラーパンクと呼ばれるサイファイのジャンルによって活気づけられています。サイバーパンクから進化したソーラーパンクは、楽観主義によって特徴づけられる未来のユートピア的なビジョンです。ソーラーパンクにとって、未来は明るいのです。ソーラーパンクはサイバーパンクのディストピアの影を払いのけ、混沌とした地平線を越えた世界を照らし出します。多くの人気のあるDeFiチェーンでは、ソーラーパンクのハッカーが公共財を資金調達するための透明なインフラを構築しています。共有された信念はシンプルです。分散型で透明な金融システムへの公共アクセスが、より公正で正義のある世界をもたらすということです。ソーラーパンクは暗号通貨の意識的な心です。明るく、自信に満ち、未来志向です。

しかし、ソーラーパンクの信念に対する反対はルナーパンクの懐疑主義です。ルナーパンクはソーラーの影の自分たちです。彼らはこのサイクルの無意識です。ソーラーパンクがDAOに参加する一方で、ルナーパンクは戦争の準備をし、コミュニティを守るためのプライバシー強化ツールを構築します。ルナーパンクは最初、ソーラーパンクのサブセットとして登場しました。常にイーサリアムや類似のチェーンで提供されるプレーンテキストのパラダイムよりも暗号化を好んでいました。時間が経つにつれて、ソーラーパンクの傾向によって生じた緊張はますます増大しました。ルナーパンクはソーラーパンクの遺産から離れ、自分自身のアイデンティティを主張するようになりました。

ルナーパンクの空想では、暗号通貨と既存の権力構造との間の対立は基本的にプログラムされています。規制によって暗号通貨は地下に追いやられ、匿名性が増大します。ルナーパンクのビジョンは、ベアリッシュな悪夢として拒絶されます。その根本的な対立――国家が暗号通貨を禁止すること――は、人々が金を持って逃げるような恐怖を生むため、ソーラーパンクによって却下されます。ソーラーパンクの楽観主義はブルマーケットのサイクルと同義になり、悲観主義はベアと関連付けられています。ルナーパンクはこの単純なエスカレーションを超える何かを提供します。それは市場サイクルの間の洞察の瞬間、ホログラムの中のグリッチであり、ソースコードが輝いて見える瞬間です。

ソーラーパンクは脆弱です――揺れ動くと壊れるものです。アンチフラジャイルとは、ショックを吸収し強くなるものです。次のことを考慮してください。暗号通貨の核心的なイノベーションは適応的です。ユーザーをエンパワーメントしつつ、その攻撃面を等しく拡散させます。ユーザーのエンパワーメントは脆弱性と負の相関があります。ユーザーベースが重要であればあるほど、ネットワークはよりアンチフラジャイルになります。ユーザーのエンパワーメントとシステムのアンチフラジャイルは互いにポジティブなフィードバックを形成します。

しかし、このサイクルは逆方向にも進行します。透明なシステムでは、ユーザーはさらされます。外部環境が敵対的になると、この情報が彼らに対して武器として使用される可能性があります。迫害に直面したユーザーは脱退を選び、それが脆弱性への下降を引き起こします。ソーラーパンクの考え方は本質的に楽観的です。ソーラーパンクシステムの透明性は、外向きに投影された楽観主義の精神です。透明なシステムを構築することで、ソーラーパンクは「法律が自分に不利にならないと信じている」と言っています。楽観主義の強調は、最悪の事態に備えることを妨げます。これがソーラーパンクの脆弱性の核心です。

暗い選択肢とアンチフラジャイル性は未知性に依存しています。未来は暗く、意味のある確実性を持って予測することはできません。選択肢は、その暗闇を利用して有利に働くため、アンチフラジャイル性の武器と呼ばれています。選択肢は、予言がほとんどの場合間違っていると仮定します。間違っていることは安価ですが、正しいことは不釣り合いに報われます。ルナーパンクは最悪の事態において成功するため、選択肢を取り入れています。ルナーパンクの仮説が間違っていれば、スーパーサイクルは続きます。正しければ、暗号通貨は適切な防御を備えた次の段階に進みます。しっかりと防御されることは、暗号化を使用してユーザーの身元と活動を保護することを意味します。

予言

匿名性は、まず大量監視への適応として生じます。しかし、その存在自体が監視努力をさらに正当化します。これは、匿名性と監視がエスカレートする運命にあることを示唆する正のフィードバックループです。このループが十分に続くと、ルナーパンクの予言の次の段階が引き起こされます：規制トラップ。この段階では、政府は匿名性の増加を口実にして、暗号通貨に対してその力を最大限に活用します。しかし、暗号通貨を取り締まることで、敵対的な力はその正当化をさらに強化するだけです。暗号通貨の実用性は、取り締まりの程度と相関します。各打撃を受けるたびに、不釣り合いに拡大します。

ルナサイクル

太陽はその透明性とアイデンティティへのこだわりを通じて、自然の象徴であり暴政の象徴でもあります。ソーラーパンクはその中央の象徴の二重の特徴を受け継いでいます。ソーラーパンクシステムは、ユーザーが危険にさらされる砂漠の風景です。ルナーパンクは森のようなものです。暗号化の密集した覆いが部族を保護し、迫害された人々に避難所を提供します。木立は重要な防衛線を提供します。ルナの風景は暗いですが、生物にあふれています。ルナテックは、自由のために人々自身によって所有され、運営されています。ルナサイクルは、権威主義的な技術に対して民主的な技術を支持します：監視に対する自由と、単一文化に対する多様性です。システムに透明性を重視することで、ソーラーパンクは悲劇的にその運命を作り上げています。監視、すなわち権威主義のメカニズムは、ソーラーパンクの運命に結びついています。ソーラーパンクが成功するためには、ルナーパンクの無意識を統合する必要があります。ソーラーパンクが成功する唯一の希望は、暗闇に移行することです。

@ 7361ca91:252fce6d

リベラリズムにおいて、自由とは他人が不適切と感じるかもしれない決定を個人が行うことを許容することを意味します。ただし、その決定が第三者に害を及ぼさない限りです。つまり、自由は各個人が自分の人生計画を構築し、実行する権利を守るものであり、他人にとって誤っていると見なされる決定も含まれます。

個人の決定を批判することと、その決定を妨げるために強制力を使用することの間には大きな違いがあります。

リベラリズムは、たとえ悪い決定を批判することができても、それらの決定を妨げるために（国家の）強制力を使用すべきではないと主張します。ただし、これらの決定が他人に害を及ぼす場合は例外です。

リベラリズムにおける認識的慎重さは、どの決定が正しいか常に確信できるわけではないことを認識しています。したがって、他人に誤っているように見える場合でも、個人が自分の決定を下す自由を許容しなければなりません。

非常に一般的な例として、薬物の使用が挙げれます。リベラルな視点からは、他人がこれを悪い決定と見なすかもしれなくても、個人が薬物を使用する自由を持つべきです。鍵となるのは、これらの個人的な決定が第三者に害を及ぼさないことです。

リベラルな哲学においては、個人の自由と自己決定が重要視されます。他人が悪いと考えるかもしれない決定を行う権利も尊重されるべきであり、その決定が第三者に害を及ぼさない限り、（国家が）強制力を使用して妨げるべきではないという立場をとります。この認識的慎重さが、リベラリズムの核心の一つです。

@ 862fda7e:02a8268b

I am someone who thinks independently without abiding to a group to pre-formulate my opinions for me. I do not hold my opinions out of impulse, out of the desire to please, nor out of mindless apadtion to what others abide to. My opinions are held on what I belive is the most logical while being the most ethical and empathetic. We live in a world with a nervous systems and emotions for animals and humans (same thing) alike, thus, we should also consider those feelings. That is not the case in our world.

Cyclists are one of the most homosexual GAY ANNOYING people to exist on EARTH

I hate cyclists with a burning passion. These faggots are the GAYEST MOST ANNOYING retards to exist. They wear the tightest fitting clothing possible to show off their flaccid cocks to each other and to anybody around them. And if that weren't enough, they present their ass up in the air, begging to be fucked by their cyclist buddies, as they ride their bike in the middle of the road. It's homosexual. Look at the seat they ride on, it looks like a black cock about to go up their ass. Don't get me started on their gay helmets, the "aerodynamic" helmets they wear. YOU FAGGOTS AREN'T IN THE TOUR DE FRANCE, YOU'RE IN FRONT OF MY CAR IN AN INTERSECTION IN A MINNESOTA TOWN WITH A POPULATION OF 5,000. They LIKE the look of the costume. And that's just what it is - a costume. You're required to have a "look" as a cyclist - you aren't really a cyclist if you don't spend hundreds of dollars on the gay gear. God forbid you just get a bike and ride it around on a trail like anyone else. These people LIKE to be seen. They WANT to be seen as cool, which is why they ride right in front of my fucking car at 15mph in a 45mph zone. I swear, every time I pass one of these cyclists, I am this close to yelling "FAGGOT" out the window at them. The only reason I haven't is because they like to record everything on their gay bikes and upload it to Youtube, so then I'd have to deal with you people knowing where I live just because I called some fruit on a bike a faggot. Think I'm exaggerating? Think again. These homos have an entire community built on "catching" drivers who dare drive too close or blow their exhaust at the poor little faggy cyclist. There's Youtube channels dedicated to this. Part of their culture is being a victim by cars. Almost like it's dangerous to be in the middle of the road going 15mph on a 45mph road. Oh but I'm sure cars almost hitting you is surely a personal attack and nothing to do with the fact that what you're doing is DANGEROUS YOU RETARD. I've seen these "share the road" signs in the most insane and dangerous places. I've seen them on HIGHWAYS, yes, HIGHWAYS, where the cyclist would BARELY have any room next to the car. It's insanely dangerous and I guess to some people, the constant threat of dying is fun... until it actually happens. I will never understand the mind of a cyclist. You are not in the fricken' Tour de France. You look like a homosexual that's inconveniencing HEAVY METAL HIGH POWERED CARS RIGHT BEHIND YOU. It's incredibly dangerous, and you can't rely on the very heavy, high powered cars and the people driving them to honor your life. Road rage is real, you might be the tipping point for some angry old boomer in his Ram to RAM INTO YOU and kill you. God I hate cyclists, their gay look, their cocky "better than you" attitude. Hey fudge stripe, in a battle between my CAR and your soft body, my CAR WILL WIN. Get off the road and go suck some cocks instead. Stop riding the bikes and go ride cocks instead, you homo.

@ 862fda7e:02a8268b

Pictured above is a female body that looks incredibly similar to mine. So similar that it could be mine if I didn't have a c-section scar. Actually her boobs are a bit bigger than mine, but mine do look like that when they swell.

Nudity should be normalized

I don't understand why people get offended or sensitive over the human body. Especially the female human chest. We all have nipples, we all know what they look like, so I don't understand why a female being topless is unacceptable, whereas a male topless is normal. I've seen shirtless men with more shapely, larger breasts than mine. Personally, I have stopped caring if other people see the shape of my breasts or my nipples if they were to be poking in the freezer section of the grocery store. I stopped wearing bras years ago. I often times want to be topless outside in my yard because it feels good and natural. I like the sun on my skin, and I especially love the rain on my skin. It's very unfortunate that our natural human body is massively shamed, by who I believe, is the reptilians (for a number of reasons). Logically, it makes no sense to be outraged by the female human chest. We all know what nipples look like, we all have them, I truly believe women should be allowed to be topless like men are. If it's hot out and you're doing yard work - pop your top off, who cares?

I understand that males and some females sexualize the human chest. However, that is not my problem. That is none of my concern what others think about my body. I should be allowed to wear my human body as it is just like anyone else should be. What I can't wrap my mind around is why people are shocked or offended by the human body, since we ALL know what these parts look like and we all have them. I understand in certain scenarios being topless or nude would likely be inapproriate, or that perverts would use it as a way to expose themselves to children. In an ideal world, we could live like tribes where the human body is normal, it's not overtly sexual. This is why we're so offended over the human body - it's constantly concealed, so the moment we get to see a female chest, it's suddenly sexual because it's normally tabboo to be seen. I wish I could be shirtless outside, I envy males who get to truly feel the wind, the earth on their backs and their chest. Female and male nipples look the same, I don't understand why it should be illegal for me to experience nature in my natural state.

Anyways, I highly dislike the "nudist" people because it is NOT about accepting the human body in its natural state. It's completely co-opted by pedophiles who want to expose themselves to childen or for children to expose themselves to others for sexual gratification. There are nudist resorts pedophile parents force their children to go to (as a child you have no personal autonomy and are completely a slave to your parents - trust me, I know this because I couldn't LEGALLY decide which parent I wanted to live with up until I was 18 years old. If your parent wants you to do something, a child in the US has no legal say over that, so if your parent wants to go to a nudist resort, you must go). A human body should simply be a human body, it's unfortunate that being unclothed immediately brings on sexualization. This is mostly an issue because clothes is the expected default. The more tabboo something is, the more naughty the thing is.

I am not a nudist. However, I do believe that at the very least, females should have the right to be topless in similar settings as males are allowed to. I don't think a woman is a slut if she's in her natural state, in her human body, and proceeds life as normal. How one acts portrays slutty behavior. Living your life in your natural human body should be a right without caviots. I feel detached from people who constantly see the human body as flawed (e.g. circumcision industry, body hair removal industry, clothing industry). These industries are harmful for the victims in them (infant boys, and modern day slaves in sweatshops), and the main motivating factor is money among all these industries.

@ 6ad3e2a3:c90b7740

I’ve written about this before, and I’ve also tried to illustrate it via parable in “The Simulator.” I even devoted most of a podcast episode to it. But I thought it might be useful just to cut to the chase in written form, give the tldr version.

Utilitarianism is the moral philosophy of the greatest good for the greatest number. That is, we calculate the prospective net benefits or harms from a course of action to guide our policies and behaviors. This moral framework deserves scrutiny because it (unfortunately) appears to be the paradigm under which most of our governments, institutions and even educated individuals operate.

The philosophy is commonly illustrated by hypotheticals such as “the trolley problem” wherein a person has the choice whether to divert a runaway trolley (via switch) from its current track with five people in its path to it to an alternate one where only one person would be killed. In short, do you intervene to save five by killing one? The premise of utilitarianism is that, yes, you would because it’s a net positive.

Keep in mind in these hypotheticals these are your only choices, and not only are you certain about the results of your prospective actions, but those are the only results to consider, i.e., the hypothetical does not specify or speculate as to second or third order effects far into the future. For example, what could go wrong once people get comfortable intervening to kill an innocent person for the greater good!

And yet this simplified model, kill one to save five, is then transposed onto real-world scenarios, e.g., mandate an emergency-use vaccine that might have rare side effects because it will save more lives than it costs. The credulous go along, and then reality turns out to be more complex than the hypothetical — as it always is.

The vaccine doesn’t actually stop the spread, it turns out, and the adverse effects are far more common and serious than people were led to believe. Moreover, the mandates destroyed livelihoods, ran roughshod over civil liberties, divided families and destroyed trust in public health.

Some might argue it’s true the mandates were wrong because the vaccine wasn’t sufficiently safe or effective, but we didn’t know that at the time! That we should judge decisions based on the knowledge we had during a deadly pandemic, not after the fact.

But what we did know at the time was that real life is always more complex than the hypothetical, that nth-order effects are always impossible to predict. The lie wasn’t only about the safety and efficacy of this vaccine, though they absolutely did lie about that, it was that we could know something like this with any degree of certainty at all.

The problem with utilitarianism, then, is the harms and benefits it’s tasked with weighing necessarily occur in the future. And what distinguishes the future from the past is that it’s unknown. The save one vs five hypothetical is deceptive because it posits all the relevant consequences as known. It imagines future results laid out before us as if they were past.

But in real life we deal with unknowns, and it is therefore impossible do a rigorous accounting of harms and benefits as imagined by the hypotheticals. The “five vs one,” stated as though the event had already happened, is a conceit conjured from an overly simplistic model.

In short, in modeling the future and weighing those projected fictions the same way one would historic facts, they are simply making it up. And once he grants himself license to make things up, the utilitarian can create the moral imperative to do what coincidentally benefits him, e.g, Pfizer profited to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, for the greater good!, which turned out not to be so good. Once you make the specious leap of purporting to know the future, why not go all the way, and make it a future where the greatest good coincides with enriching yourself to the greatest extent possible?

So in summary, as this has gone on longer than I intended, utilitarianism is moral bankruptcy because the “greater good” on which it relies is necessarily in the future, and we cannot predict the future with enough accuracy, especially over the medium and longer term, to do a proper moral accounting.

As a result, whoever has power is likely to cook the books in whatever way he sees fit, and this moral philosophy of the greatest good for the greatest number paradoxically tends toward a monstrous outcome — temporary benefits for the short-sighted few and the greatest misery for most.

@ 0d2a0f56:ef40df51

Dear Bitcoin Blok Family,

In my last post, I shared how Bitcoin became my personal antidote, rescuing me from destructive behaviors and opening up a world of knowledge. Today, I want to explore how Bitcoin is becoming an antidote for my entire family, solving problems I didn't even know we had.

As I've delved deeper into the Bitcoin rabbit hole, I've realized that I was searching for something beyond personal growth – I was looking for a solution to give my family an identity. When you look at successful families of the past or thriving organizations, you'll notice they're known for something specific. Some families are known for real estate, others for owning businesses, and some for establishing various institutions. This identity ties a family together, giving them a shared purpose and legacy.

For my family, I want that identity to be rooted in Bitcoin. Why? Because Bitcoin brings a focus I haven't seen in anything else. It neutralizes much of what I consider toxic behavior in modern society.

Take TikTok, for example. While there's nothing inherently wrong with the platform, it often promotes content that I find concerning – gender wars, gossip, and sometimes even false information. This issue extends to most social media platforms. Our kids are learning to dance, but they're not learning about money. They're absorbing various behaviors, but they don't understand inflation. We're turning to social media for education and information, which isn't necessarily bad, but it requires careful vetting of sources and filtering out the noise.

What's truly dangerous is how these platforms steal our attention subconsciously. We're wasting time, putting our attention in unproductive places without even realizing it. This is a toxic part of our culture today, and I believe Bitcoin can help solve this problem.

It's challenging to teach kids about money in today's fiat standard. How do you explain the concepts of time and energy when the measuring stick itself is constantly changing? But with Bitcoin, these lessons become tangible.

Moreover, Bitcoin opens up possibilities that seemed out of reach before, particularly in the realm of family banking. In the past, wealthy families in the United States understood the risks of keeping their family's worth in another person's hands or in external institutions. They recognized that protecting wealth comes with certain risks, and establishing a family protocol was crucial.

With Bitcoin, family banking becomes not just possible, but easily achievable and more secure than ever before. Through multi-signature wallet arrangements, we can create a true family bank where each family member holds a key to the family wallet. No funds can be moved without the permission of other family members. This technology eliminates what has been a major stumbling block in the past: trust issues. Now, we can have transparency, trust, and access for all family members.

Imagine a family account where parents and children alike have visibility into the family's finances, but movements of funds require agreement. This not only teaches financial responsibility but also fosters open communication about money within the family. It's a powerful tool for financial education and family cohesion.

This is something we should definitely take advantage of. It's not just about storing wealth; it's about creating a financial system that aligns with our family values and goals. Bitcoin provides the infrastructure for this new form of family banking, one that combines the best aspects of traditional family wealth management with the security and transparency of modern technology.

When it comes to teaching about compound interest and value, Bitcoin provides the perfect use case. Over its lifetime, Bitcoin has been averaging an astonishing 156% year-over-year return. While this number is significant, it's important to note that past performance doesn't guarantee future results. However, even with more conservative estimates, the power of compound interest becomes clear. I challenge you to use a compound interest calculator with a more modest 30% annual return. The results are still astronomical. Imagine teaching your children about saving and investing with potential returns like these. It's a powerful lesson in the value of long-term thinking and delayed gratification.

What I'm getting at is this: there are many forces in our society that hinder positive behavior and promote negative, toxic culture. These forces are stealing our children's time, attention, energy, and of course, money. Bitcoin is the antidote that can start correcting and curing some of that behavior, while also providing tangible lessons in finance and economics, and even reshaping how we approach family wealth management.

By making Bitcoin a central part of our family identity, we:

1. Provide a shared purpose and legacy
2. Encourage financial literacy from a young age
3. Teach valuable lessons about time, energy, and value
4. Promote long-term thinking and delayed gratification
5. Offer an alternative to the instant gratification of social media

Bitcoin isn't just an investment or a technology – it's a paradigm shift that can reshape how we think about family, legacy, and education. It's an antidote to the toxic aspects of our digital age, offering a path to a more thoughtful, intentional way of living.

As we continue this journey, I invite you to consider: How could Bitcoin reshape your family's identity? What toxic behaviors could it help neutralize in your life? Until next time check out the below video on what some may know as the "Waterfall or "Rockefeller Method". https://youtu.be/MTpAY1LKfek?si=s7gA4bt_ZoRGAlAU

Stay sovereign, stay focused,

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Lately it seems like I keep noticing people that are sympathetic to anarchism and libertarian ideas completely misunderstanding governance. It really seems like this might be one of the biggest mental blocks people have. I wonder if it is mostly the fault of libertarians and anarchists.

Those in the liberty movement (broadly) rant and demonize the government. This is completely justified. I've done it for years. I've noticed that more experienced communicators will tend to say "The State" instead of government. Years ago I heard someone explain how to think about three terms often used incorrectly.

• The country is the land
• The nation is the people
• The state is the government

I don't recall learning this in school. It is possible it was in a textbook but I doubt it. The country part I think most people do get. Nation less so. The best example of a nation without a country are Native Americans. Tribes are nations without a country (their historical lands). Tribes have their own governments and a certain amount of sovereignty in the lands they are allowed to inhabit.

The state is the word that I have found most people are confused about. People used to tell me, you hate the government so much. Why don't you leave. Well, I don't hate the nation(people) or the country(land). It is the governance system I hate. I don't even hate the people that are working in it.

Its funny to me that people on the red or blue team seem to hate the government when their side isn't in power but if someone points to issues in the system itself, well that's just crazy.

So what about those people that are sympathetic to libertarian values? Many of them say things like this. Well, I agree with you on taxes and the corruption of the government. But you always need a government. My usual response is yes. You do need governance. But you don't need a state or government. My home is governed by my wife and I. Businesses have their own governance models. Bitcoin does as well. But we do not need a single entity with a monopoly on violence.

So why is there so much confusion on this topic? I think there are two reasons.

The first is ignorance. The state of the world is largely invisible to most people. We are purposely kept ignorant of how our world works. The State isn't really discussed as a separate entity from the country and nation.

The second reason for the confusion is how libertarians and anarchists communicate. There are some that just foolishly believe people do not need governance. Honestly in my experience they are either just young or do not think deeply enough. They haven't steel manned their arguments yet. In my experience this is a small percentage of people though.

I think people in the liberty movement just need to do a better job communicating ideas. Instead of saying we need to get rid of the government one might say we need to get rid of the state. Another way to lead into this is to speak about the empire vs. the government. Talk about the monopoly which the state holds. How competition leads to better outcomes vs. monopoly.

What do you think? Have you noticed this hurdle as well? I think many people hear good ideas and agree but assume we are just dummies that believe in a fairy tale.

If private or decentralized governance is interesting to you, you might enjoy reading Chaos Theory by Bob Murphy. Its short and answer many common objections to private governance.

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"If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today." - Benjamin Franklin

Seize the Day

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There are two conflicting approaches to life: Delay gratification today for a wealthy tomorrow and carpe diem Seize the Day and live like today is your last. Usually, when someone prescribes delayed gratification they refer to finances; save a dollar today for a hundred tomorrow. Carpe diem often refers to smelling the coffee, enjoying the little things and not putting off for tomorrow what could've been done today. 

I've never felt the two of those prescriptions collide more violently than now as a father of two beautiful kids.  I find it more difficult than ever before to make decisions that might benefit my future over being present for my kids. Time being the finite thing that it is, often I can only choose one. 

Image from Adobe ImagesTwo Fathers, Two Approaches: Enough Small Moments Equal A Big Moment My brother in-law and I have different approaches to this. He tends to delay gratification. More often than not, he's out on business and misses minor family events and outings. Meanwhile, I often choose to attend even the smallest family events as opposed to going on business. 

I should mention, my brother in-law doesn't dare miss the big events. He's always there for a birthday, baptism, or graduation but he misses outings to the beach or spring. He misses the books read by the bed and the dimming of the light just before a kiss goodnight. 

If you miss enough small moments, you a miss big one. 

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Since my children were born I vowed to live as much in the moment as I could. In the moment, I'm happy to be with my kids stitching together cherished mementos that will be the tapestry of our lives. These indelible memories not only serve to make me happy but, I believe they'll work as the sinews and tendons that come together to form my children's personality and identity. My relationship with my kids and family will tighten as their persona grows.

I don't have facts from studies or scientific analysis, but I have a gut feeling its the strength of the tapestry of our lives that determines how resilient my children will be. When they encounter hard times they'll carry the uplifting memories of good times and they'll have the comfort of knowing there's a tightknit family at their backs to get through it.

That said, I've never heard my brother in-law complain about money. 

I can't say I struggle for cash either. I make ends meet, but my wife and I have experienced that nervous rush when the AC blows out mid-summer and we wonder if we would have enough to pay for the down payment of a new unit and the mortgage at the beginning of the month. 

What's been bothering me most as of late is my damn near non-existent retirement fund.

 

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Commitments- To My Nation, To My Self

My biggest conflict today is tied to the commitment I made to the United States Army Reserves years before the birth of my children. While I can decide not to go on business like my brother in-law does, I can't simply not attend drill (one weekend a month) or go off on annual training (2–3 weeks a year). Failure to attend to my military obligations can result in a dis-honorable discharge. Having that hanging over my head will forever ruin any lucrative opportunities for employment and public service. 

More often than not, my relatively small obligation to the Army Reserves has stood in direct conflict with my desire to be present in my kids lives as well as the lives of my friends and family. Some how, I've had the misfortune of having drills and annual training scheduled on major events like weddings, baptisms, and birthdays; the very things I vow never to miss. 

There are ways to request those special days off and make it up on a later date and when I can, I do. However, I've been forced to go unaccounted for on several occasions when special events are back to back and overlap with already requested days off. That's led to conflict in the past but, I've been fortunate enough to have good leaders who've understood why I preferred to be absent in the military over absent in a major life event.  It would be easiest, and most convenient, to resign my congressional commission as an officer and leave the Army Reserves. This is when I feel that great internal conflict. 

Serving in the Army Reserves allows me to give back to my nation and grants me several financial benefits that would otherwise be completely lost. Medical insurance is remarkably cheaper than what I would have to deal with as a civilian. I get a world of benefits when purchasing a house and I can apply for special grants if ever needed. Perhaps most important of all, if I stick around for the full 20 years (I have almost 9 now) I will have a very nice retirement pension waiting for me when I turn 65. This is where that differed gratification really kicks in. 

When I really boil it down to pros and cons, there's just way too many pros to staying in the Reserves than cons. 

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Phases of Life Approach

World renown psychologist Jordan Peterson says "you have little kids for 4 years and if you miss it, its done." For Jordan, this is time period is peak experience for your kids. As I write this, my eldest just turned two and my youngest is 9 months. I'm not quite halfway there yet and I can't let up now. 

I don't want to test to see if what Jordan Peterson says is true, I'm going to continue living as much in the moment as is possible during these early years of my children's lives. If I stay in the army reserves throughout this time I will have had 13 years of service by the time my youngest is 4. 

Taking this approach, I will have been very present in the first 4 years of my kids lives and will only have to serve seven more years to acquire that retirement. 

For me, today is Gold and tomorrow is Silver.

People have sacrificed worse. 

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In a stunning turn of events, Bitcoin's value has nosedived a staggering 15%, falling from an all-time high of $72,000 per BTC to $61,000. The cause? None other than former United States president, Donald J. Trump, whose recent comments and rumored policies have sent shockwaves through the global Bitcoin community.

In a recent rally, Trump declared, "We want all the remaining bitcoin to be made in the USA." This bold statement has left many scratching their heads, wondering if the ex-president fully grasps the decentralized nature of Bitcoin. Nevertheless, his followers cheered, and the markets trembled.

Adding fuel to the fire, rumors are swirling about a proposed tariff on offshore bitcoin brought into the United States. Whether such a measure could work in practice is still to be determined, but the idea of taxes on foreign sourced bitcoin has many American businesses with international operations nervous.

But that's not all. In a move that could only be described as draconian, whispers of a plan to use recursive covenants on Bitcoin have emerged. The scheme aims to ringfence all the bitcoin currently held in US custody, such as those held by the "too big to fail" Coinbase, the primary custodian for corporate america, wall street and the popular ETFs. These covenants would effectively prevent those coins from ever being sent outside of whitelisted US addresses. If true, this would essentially create a digital Berlin Wall around American Bitcoin, isolating it from the rest of the world.

Critics argue that these policies are nothing more than a misguided attempt to assert dominance over the borderless digital cash. By prioritizing a "USA first" approach, Trump risks alienating global partners and further isolating the United States on the international stage. Neighboring countries, already wary of America's unpredictable policies, are likely to view these moves as antagonistic and regressive.

And let's not forget the opportunists lurking in the shadows. Trump's buddies and notorious shitcoiners are reportedly licking their chops, hoping that once he's in charge, they'll have a free hand to write regulations that allow them to prey on the public with their dubious shitcoin offerings. These unregistered securities are a haven for scams, and with the right legislation, these predators could wreak havoc on unsuspecting investors.

The fear of Trump's rising popularity and his policy direction for Bitcoin has undoubtedly contributed to the recent market uncertainty. Investors are apprehensive about the future of bitcoin in the US under a potential second Trump administration.

As the 2024 US presidential election looms, the Bitcoin community can only watch and wait, bracing for more market volatility. Will Bitcoin recover from the "Trump Dump"? Only time will tell. For now, it seems the ex-president's quest to "Make America Great Again" might just come at the expense of their burgeoning Bitcoin economy.

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Vincent van Gogh is one of the most prominent artists in the history of global art, with a significant influence on modern artistic movements. He was born in the Netherlands in 1853 and passed away in 1890. Despite not achieving fame during his lifetime, his works later became among the most impactful in fine arts.

Van Gogh's works are characterized by vibrant colors and rapid brush strokes, giving his paintings a unique style. His pieces often reflect nature and everyday life with a touch of deep emotion and drama. Some of his most famous works include "Starry Night," "The Night Cafe," "Irises," and "Wheatfield with Crows."

Throughout his life, van Gogh faced numerous personal and psychological challenges, which imbued his works with a sense of depth and contemplation. He struggled with severe mental disorders and social tensions, which greatly influenced his art.

After his death, public interest in his works grew significantly, and he came to be regarded as a pioneer of expressionism and modern art. His profound impact on global art is evident in the many movements and subsequent artists who drew inspiration from his techniques and subjects.

In summary, Vincent van Gogh remains an exceptional artistic figure, leaving an unforgettable legacy in art history. His works continue to inspire and captivate audiences worldwide with their beauty and artistic depth.

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Privacy, Security, and Real-World Applications

We Are Still Early

Concerning Bitcoin, privacy and security remain paramount. As an enthusiast in Ecash privacy and security, I aim to shed light on some of the most promising and undervalued Bitcoin frameworks. These frameworks offer robust solutions for enhancing privacy, security, and scalability, making Bitcoin more adaptable for various industries. Lets's examine their strengths and weaknesses, supported by real-world examples.

1. Mimblewimble: Enhancing Privacy and Scalability

Overview

Mimblewimble is a privacy-centric blockchain protocol designed to enhance the confidentiality and scalability of Bitcoin transactions. Mimblewimble uses cryptographic innovations to obscure transaction details while ensuring network security.

Strengths

• Enhanced Privacy: Mimblewimble transactions are confidential, hiding transaction amounts and addresses.
• Scalability: The protocol significantly reduces blockchain bloat, improving efficiency and speed.
• Security: By using cryptographic primitives, Mimblewimble ensures that transactions are secure and verifiable.

Weaknesses

• Compatibility: Mimblewimble is not fully compatible with Bitcoin’s existing infrastructure, requiring significant changes to the network.
• Complexity: The protocol's complexity can be a barrier to understanding and adoption.

Real-World Example: Grin and Beam

Grin and Beam are two cryptocurrencies that have implemented Mimblewimble. Grin focuses on simplicity and community-driven development, while Beam emphasizes user-friendly interfaces and governance structures. Both projects demonstrate Mimblewimble’s potential in providing enhanced privacy and scalability.

2. Lightning Network: Scaling Bitcoin Transactions

Overview

The Lightning Network is a second-layer solution designed to enable fast and low-cost transactions on the Bitcoin network. By creating off-chain transaction channels, the Lightning Network alleviates congestion on the main blockchain.

Strengths

• Speed: Transactions on the Lightning Network are nearly instantaneous.
• Low Fees: Off-chain transactions significantly reduce transaction costs.
• Scalability: The network can handle millions of transactions per second, far exceeding the main blockchain's capacity.

Weaknesses

• Liquidity: Users need to lock up funds in channels, which can limit liquidity.
• Complexity: Setting up and managing channels can be technically challenging.
• Security: Off-chain transactions require robust security measures to prevent fraud and ensure reliability.

Real-World Example: El Salvador’s Bitcoin Adoption

El Salvador’s adoption of Bitcoin as legal tender showcases the Lightning Network’s capabilities. The government and businesses use the network to facilitate everyday transactions, demonstrating its effectiveness in a real-world economy.

3. Taproot and Schnorr Signatures: Improving Privacy and Efficiency

Overview

Taproot and Schnorr signatures are recent upgrades to the Bitcoin protocol that enhance privacy, security, and efficiency. Taproot allows complex transactions to appear as simple ones, while Schnorr signatures enable aggregation, reducing data size.

Strengths

• Privacy: Taproot masks the complexity of transactions, enhancing privacy.
• Efficiency: Schnorr signatures reduce the data size of transactions, improving blockchain efficiency.
• Security: Both upgrades maintain Bitcoin’s robust security model.

Weaknesses

• Adoption: Widespread adoption of these upgrades is still in progress.
• Complexity: Implementing and understanding these changes require technical expertise.

Real-World Example: Taproot Activation

The activation of Taproot in November 2021 marked a significant milestone for Bitcoin. It demonstrates the network’s ability to evolve and adopt new features that enhance privacy and efficiency. Various Bitcoin services and wallets are beginning to integrate Taproot, showing its practical benefits.

4. Sidechains: Expanding Bitcoin’s Capabilities

Overview

Sidechains are independent blockchains that run parallel to the Bitcoin mainchain. They enable experimentation with new features and scalability solutions without affecting the main network.

Strengths

• Flexibility: Sidechains allow for the development and testing of new features.
• Scalability: They can handle additional transactions, reducing load on the main blockchain.
• Interoperability: Sidechains can interact with the main Bitcoin network, enhancing its functionality.

Weaknesses

• Security: Ensuring the security of sidechains can be challenging.
• Complexity: Developing and maintaining sidechains require significant technical expertise.

Real-World Example: Liquid Network

The Liquid Network, developed by Blockstream, is a sidechain that enhances Bitcoin’s functionality for traders and exchanges. It provides faster settlements and confidential transactions, showcasing the practical benefits of sidechains.

5. CoinJoin: Strengthening Transaction Privacy

Overview

CoinJoin is a privacy-enhancing technique that combines multiple Bitcoin transactions into a single transaction, making it difficult to trace individual inputs and outputs.

Strengths

• Enhanced Privacy: CoinJoin obscures transaction details, improving user privacy.
• Community Support: Widely supported by the Bitcoin community and integrated into several wallets.

Weaknesses

• User Experience: The process can be complex and may require additional steps for users.
• Partial Privacy: While it improves privacy, it is not foolproof and can still be subject to analysis.

Real-World Example: Wasabi Wallet

Wasabi Wallet is a Bitcoin wallet that implements CoinJoin to enhance user privacy. It provides an intuitive interface for conducting private transactions, illustrating CoinJoin’s practical application.

Make The Ecosystem Happen

The evolution of Bitcoin frameworks continues to push the boundaries of what is possible in the realm of digital currency. From Mimblewimble’s privacy and scalability enhancements to the Lightning Network’s speed and efficiency, these frameworks offer promising solutions to current challenges. Real-world examples like El Salvador’s Bitcoin adoption and the Liquid Network’s advancements highlight the practical benefits and potential of these technologies. As the Bitcoin ecosystem evolves, these frameworks will play a crucial role in shaping the future of digital finance, ensuring privacy, security, and scalability for users worldwide.

Further Reading

For those interested in delving deeper into the frameworks discussed in this article, here are some recommended resources:

1. Mimblewimble:
2. Mimblewimble: What is it? How It Works?
3. Grin

4. Beam

5. Lightning Network:

6. The Lightning Network For Businesses and Developers
7. Historical Look At Bitcoin Adoption In El Salvador

8. Telegram Adoption As A Good Thing In The Long Run

9. Taproot and Schnorr Signatures:

10. Taproot: The Next Major Upgrade for Bitcoin

11. Schnorr Signatures: The Future of Bitcoin Transactions

12. Sidechains:

13. Blockstream’s Liquid Network

14. Block Stream Education Hub

15. CoinJoin:

16. Wasabi Wallet
17. Understanding CoinJoin

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The Superiority of Asymmetric Encryption

Cryptography plays a pivotal role in protecting sensitive information. Two primary forms of encryption—symmetric and asymmetric—are utilized to secure data. This essay argues that while both symmetric and asymmetric encryption have their merits, asymmetric encryption offers superior security and practical advantages in most contemporary applications. By exploring the fundamental differences, strengths, and weaknesses of each type, this essay will demonstrate why asymmetric encryption is the preferred choice for modern cryptographic needs.

Symmetric Encryption

Definition and Mechanism

Symmetric encryption, also known as secret-key encryption, involves the use of a single key for both encryption and decryption. Popular algorithms include AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and DES (Data Encryption Standard). The process is straightforward: the sender encrypts the plaintext using the key, and the receiver decrypts the ciphertext with the same key.

Strengths of Symmetric Encryption

1. Speed and Efficiency: Symmetric encryption is generally faster and more efficient than asymmetric encryption, making it suitable for encrypting large amounts of data quickly.
2. Simplicity: The mechanism of symmetric encryption is relatively simple, which can be advantageous in systems with limited computational power.

Weaknesses of Symmetric Encryption

1. Key Distribution Problem: The primary challenge with symmetric encryption is securely distributing the key to both parties without interception by malicious actors.
2. Scalability Issues: As the number of users increases, the number of unique keys needed for secure communication grows exponentially, complicating key management.

Asymmetric Encryption

Definition and Mechanism

Asymmetric encryption, or public-key encryption, uses a pair of keys: a public key for encryption and a private key for decryption. Notable algorithms include RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) and ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography). The public key is openly shared, while the private key remains confidential.

Strengths of Asymmetric Encryption

1. Enhanced Security: The separation of keys eliminates the need for secure key distribution channels. The public key can be freely shared, reducing the risk of key interception.
2. Scalability: Asymmetric encryption scales efficiently. Each user has a single pair of keys, simplifying key management in large networks.
3. Authentication and Digital Signatures: Asymmetric encryption enables digital signatures, which verify the sender's identity and ensure the integrity of the message. This is crucial for secure online transactions and communications.

Weaknesses of Asymmetric Encryption

1. Computational Intensity: Asymmetric encryption is computationally more intensive and slower compared to symmetric encryption, which can be a drawback for real-time applications.
2. Complexity: The algorithms involved in asymmetric encryption are more complex, requiring greater computational resources and more sophisticated implementation.

Addressing Resistance against Secure Secret Sharing

Performance Concerns

Critics argue that the computational intensity of asymmetric encryption makes it impractical for certain applications. However, hybrid systems, which combine the strengths of both symmetric and asymmetric encryption, effectively address this concern. In such systems, asymmetric encryption is used to securely exchange a symmetric key, which is then used for the bulk encryption of data. This approach leverages the efficiency of symmetric encryption while maintaining the security benefits of asymmetric encryption.

Complexity and Resource Requirements

While it is true that asymmetric encryption requires more resources, advancements in computational power and optimization techniques have significantly mitigated these challenges. Modern hardware and software are increasingly capable of handling the demands of asymmetric encryption without compromising performance.

Practical Applications and Real-World Relevance

Securing Communications

Asymmetric encryption is integral to securing online communications, including email encryption (e.g., PGP) and SSL/TLS protocols used in securing web traffic. The ability to securely exchange keys and authenticate identities is essential for protecting sensitive information transmitted over the internet.

Digital Signatures and Certificates

Digital signatures, enabled by asymmetric encryption, are crucial for verifying the authenticity and integrity of digital documents. They are widely used in financial transactions, software distribution, and legal agreements, ensuring that the content has not been tampered with and confirming the sender's identity.

Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain

Asymmetric encryption underpins the security of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Public and private keys are used to manage wallet addresses and sign transactions, ensuring secure and verifiable transfers of digital assets.

To Consider

While symmetric encryption offers speed and simplicity, asymmetric encryption provides superior security and scalability, making it the preferred choice for most modern cryptographic applications. The ability to securely distribute keys, authenticate identities, and verify the integrity of messages are critical advantages that asymmetric encryption holds over symmetric methods. By understanding and leveraging the strengths of asymmetric encryption, we can build more secure and resilient digital systems, protecting sensitive information in an increasingly interconnected world. Embracing asymmetric encryption as the foundation for digital security not only addresses current challenges but also prepares us for the evolving threats of the future.

Securing Communications Coventions

1. Email Encryption (PGP/GPG): Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and its open-source counterpart, Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), use asymmetric encryption to secure email communications. They ensure that only the intended recipient can decrypt and read the message, maintaining privacy and security.

2. SSL/TLS Protocols: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are protocols that use asymmetric encryption to secure data transmitted over the internet. They are widely used to secure web traffic, ensuring that data exchanged between a user’s browser and a web server is encrypted and secure.

3. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs): VPNs use asymmetric encryption to establish a secure connection between a user's device and the VPN server. This encryption ensures that data sent through the VPN tunnel is protected from eavesdropping and interception.

4. Secure Shell (SSH): SSH protocols use asymmetric encryption to secure remote login and command execution over an insecure network. SSH ensures that the communication between the client and server is encrypted, preventing unauthorized access.

5. Messaging Apps (e.g., Signal): Secure messaging applications like Signal use asymmetric encryption to encrypt messages end-to-end. This means that only the sender and recipient can read the messages, ensuring that the communication remains private and secure.

Digital Signatures and Certificates Conventions

1. Software Distribution: Software developers use digital signatures to sign their software. This ensures that the software has not been tampered with and verifies the identity of the developer. Users can trust that the software they download is authentic and has not been altered.

2. Financial Transactions: Digital signatures are used to verify the authenticity and integrity of financial transactions. For example, banks and financial institutions use digital signatures to ensure that transaction details are not altered during transmission.

3. Legal Documents: Digital signatures are widely used in signing legal documents and contracts. They provide a way to verify the signer's identity and ensure that the document has not been altered after it was signed.

4. Code Signing Certificates: Developers use code signing certificates to sign their code. This process ensures that the code is authentic and has not been tampered with, providing trust to users who download and install the software.

5. Electronic Invoices and Receipts: Businesses use digital signatures to sign electronic invoices and receipts. This practice ensures the integrity and authenticity of the documents, making them legally binding and verifiable.

Assets and Blockchain Conventions

1. Bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions are secured using asymmetric encryption. Public and private keys are used to manage Bitcoin addresses and sign transactions, ensuring that only the rightful owner can verify their Bitcoins.

This forms the backbone of security for modern client server systems enabling change via communities

The Cashu Protocol: Digital Transactions with Enhanced Privacy and Flexibility

So you want to run a mint? When? Sometime Soon?

In the anonymity ecosystem of digital transactions, maintaining privacy and security while ensuring seamless interoperability among Bitcoin layers is paramount. The Cashu protocol, an open-source ecash protocol designed for Bitcoin, offers a groundbreaking solution that leverages the Blind Diffie-Hellmann Key Exchange (BDHKE) to facilitate secure and private digital transactions. This argues that the Cashu protocol's innovative cryptographic mechanisms and open-source nature position it as a superior framework for digital currency transactions, fostering a secure, private, and interoperable ecosystem. By examining the protocol's technical foundations, practical applications, and potential challenges, this essay aims to demonstrate why adopting the Cashu protocol is a forward-thinking choice for digital financial systems.

The Technical Foundations of the Cashu Protocol

Blind Diffie-Hellmann Key Exchange (BDHKE)

At the heart of the Cashu protocol is the BDHKE, which ensures the privacy and security of ecash tokens through a robust cryptographic scheme. The BDHKE involves three key actors: Alice (the sending user), Bob (the mint), and Carol (the receiving user). The process involves a series of steps that obscure the transaction details, making it difficult for unauthorized parties to trace or tamper with the transaction.

• Mint (Bob): Bob publishes a public key (K) derived from his private key (k).
• Alice: Alice picks a secret (x) and blinds it using a random factor (r) to create a blinded message (B_).
• Bob: Bob receives the blinded message and signs it, returning a blinded key (C_) to Alice.
• Alice: Alice unblinds the key to obtain a proof (C), which she can use as a token.
• Carol: Carol can verify the token by sending it to Bob, who checks its validity and adds it to the list of spent secrets if it is genuine.

This process ensures that transactions are conducted privately and securely, with the blinding and unblinding steps preventing any correlation between the tokens and their origins.

Cashu NUTs (Notation, Usage, and Terminology)

The Cashu protocol's specifications are meticulously detailed in the Cashu NUTs, providing comprehensive guidelines for implementation and ensuring compatibility across various applications. These specifications enable developers to create interoperable software that adheres to the protocol, fostering a cohesive and secure ecosystem.

Practical Applications and Implementations

Language Support and Flexibility

The Cashu protocol is supported by multiple programming languages, enhancing its accessibility and implementation flexibility. Examples include:

• Python: Cashu Nutshell Python Library
• TypeScript: Cashu-TS TypeScript Library
• Rust: Cashu-crab and cashu-rs Libraries
• Golang: Cashu-Feni Golang Library
• Kotlin: Cashu Client Library in Kotlin
• Dart: Cashu Dart Library

These libraries allow developers to integrate the Cashu protocol into a wide range of applications, promoting widespread adoption and innovation.

Cashu Mints

Several mint implementations, such as Nutshell (Python), Moksha (Rust), Cashu-rs-mint (Rust), and Feni (Golang), provide robust solutions for secure transactions. The LNbits extension further empowers users by allowing them to run their own Nutshell mint, enhancing control over the security and privacy of their transactions.

Why You Should Focus on Cashu Development

Operational Concerns

Critics might argue that the cryptographic complexity of the Cashu protocol could impact performance and scalability. However, the protocol's design includes optimizations that mitigate these concerns. For instance, the use of efficient cryptographic algorithms ensures that transactions are processed swiftly, even as the volume of transactions increases. Additionally, the open-source nature of the protocol allows for continuous improvements and optimizations by the developer community.

How would I use this and Would Others use it

Alot of users worry about the usability and chance of others using the protocol. While the technical nature of the Cashu protocol might seem daunting to some users, the availability of detailed documentation (Cashu NUTs) and implementation libraries in multiple programming languages lowers the barrier to entry. By providing clear guidelines and versatile tools, the protocol facilitates broader adoption and practical implementation across diverse platforms. Partaking in continued constructive dialogue also around ecash future and past

Considering The Protocol

The Cashu protocol represents a significant advancement in digital transaction privacy and security. Its innovative use of the Blind Diffie-Hellmann Key Exchange (BDHKE) ensures that transactions are conducted privately and securely, while the open-source nature of the protocol fosters interoperability and widespread adoption. By addressing potential performance and usability concerns through continuous improvement and comprehensive documentation, the Cashu protocol is well-positioned to become a cornerstone of secure digital financial systems. Embracing the Cashu protocol not only enhances the privacy and security of digital transactions but also promotes a more flexible and interoperable ecosystem, making it a forward-thinking choice for the future of digital finance.

Real-World Applications of the Cashu Protocol

ChatNut: Privacy-Preserving Chat Application

ChatNut is an innovative chat application that integrates the Cashu protocol to offer privacy-preserving interactions with large language models (LLMs). Users pay-per-request using an integrated Cashu wallet without the need to create accounts, ensuring privacy and security. This application highlights the versatility of the Cashu protocol in enabling secure and anonymous communication services.

SpaceNut: Cashu-Enabled Gaming Experience

SpaceNut is described as the "sickest Cashu-enabled game" available. By integrating the Cashu protocol, SpaceNut offers a gaming experience where players can earn and spend Cashu tokens, demonstrating the protocol's applicability beyond traditional financial transactions. This use case underscores the potential of Cashu to revolutionize the gaming industry by introducing secure and private in-game economies.

NutMiner: Proof-of-Work Based Cashu Faucet

NutMiner is a proof-of-work based Cashu faucet that continuously releases Cashu tokens. This innovative approach leverages the principles of proof-of-work to distribute tokens fairly and securely. NutMiner exemplifies how the Cashu protocol can be integrated into decentralized token distribution systems, providing a steady and transparent method for distributing digital currency.

The manner in which you choose to run the processes of your mint could be the first step to understanding the power of unlocking transactional freedom on Bitcoin base layer while contributing to future resources around the budding sphere of Sovereign Privacy via Ecash, as an anonymous freedom driver and system to implement provably fair anonymous value systems.

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The history of art represents a comprehensive study of the evolution of human creativity through the ages, embodying aesthetic and cultural expression from ancient times to the modern era. This article includes an overview of various historical periods and key artistic movements that have shaped what we know today as the fine arts. It provides a comprehensive look at visual, architectural, and literary arts that deeply influenced art history.

1. Ancient and Classical Periods*: - Artistic history begins with ancient arts in the Near East and Far East, where religious significance and expressions of power and daily life were central to creativity. Examples include the arts of the Egyptian Pharaohs, Sumerians, and Assyrians.

1. Greek and Roman Art:

2. Western art was significantly influenced by Greek and Roman art, characterized by geometric dimensions and aesthetic elegance in architecture, sculpture, and painting.

3. Byzantine Art:

4. Byzantine art represents a blend of religion and art with its distinctive style and symbols that influenced Islamic art and rural architecture.

5. Art in the Middle Ages:

6. This period focused on Christian and scientific art in Europe, evolving from Romanesque styles.

7. The Renaissance:

8. In Italy, this period reflects the flourishing of science, philosophy, arts, and humanitarian movements, represented by works of artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael.

9. Modern and Contemporary Art:

10. This modern art movement reflects the impact of World Wars I and II, and includes movements such as Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and Abstraction.

11. Contemporary Art:

12. Contemporary arts have evolved into a diverse mix of techniques and concepts, with varied styles and experiments that reflect contemporary cultural identity.

Through this article, we delve into the details of these historical periods, including analyses of major artworks and prominent artists who have shaped the face of art throughout history. We will discuss how techniques and styles of art have changed from one period to another, and how they have been influenced by the social, cultural, and political contexts of each era.

art #artstr #history

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Today, I want to explore a question that's fundamental to our community: What is Bitcoin?

At its core, Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, without a central bank or single administrator, that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a public distributed ledger called a blockchain.

But Bitcoin is so much more than this technical definition. It's a revolution in finance, a beacon of hope for financial freedom, and arguably, the antidote to many of the economic ailments plaguing our world today.

When I say "Bitcoin is the Antidote," I'm making a bold, abstract claim. An antidote is a remedy or solution to a problem or difficult situation. To truly explain why I believe this, I need to share my personal journey.

My story begins long before Bitcoin. In my mid-20s, I was living what many would consider a successful life. I had finished school and became an electrician, owned real estate, and was earning $120,000 to $140,000 a year. I was growing my family and excelling in my career. Yet, something was missing.

I wanted to be legendary, but for all the wrong reasons. My success came with a misguided sense of entitlement and a desire for luxury. This mindset led to depression and hopelessness. By night, I was a thrill-seeking, woman-chasing, money-wasting, alcohol-abusing party animal. This lifestyle nearly killed me, crashing down in early 2018 and resulting in months of recovery at the University of Chicago.

After this wake-up call, I promised myself I'd make better use of my time. I quit alcohol and partying cold turkey, transitioned to a less physically intense career, and started seeking something meaningful to build for my family.

In 2019-2020, I diversified my interests. I took classes on digital marketing, blockchain, social media entrepreneurship, and even MIT classes on the future of work. I dabbled in various investments - classic cars, private equity, cryptocurrencies, stocks, and metaverse properties. I was particularly drawn to altcoins and their ambitious whitepapers.

Then COVID hit, and the world as we knew it changed. Markets crashed, economic downturns accelerated. Amidst this chaos, I found myself reading the Bitcoin whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto. It was a pivotal moment.

The whitepaper aligned realities for me, unblocking my perception to view the world differently. Concepts like peer-to-peer cash, time, energy, central authorities, money, inflation - it all sparked something inside me. I began converting all my assets into Bitcoin.

As an electrician, I quickly saw Bitcoin as a much-needed reference point, a tool to measure against and better understand value. It wasn't just coincidence that Bitcoin went from a fraction of a penny to $20,000 per coin by 2020. This price action reflected the devaluation of the dollar and highlighted the misuse of money by states against their own citizens.

Reading the Bitcoin whitepaper led me down a rabbit hole of research into politics, economics, social science, and money. It helped me better understand how to preserve energy and value, what property is, and how to store and conserve it.

I discovered voices like Robert Breedlove, Michael Saylor, and Max Keiser, who elaborated on the problems Bitcoin solves. I was introduced to the Bitcoin community through conferences like Oslo Freedom Forum. Bitcoin began to feel like something spiritual, where people gathered with purpose, spreading awareness and fighting for a better way.

For someone like me, with an obsessive and addictive personality and a relentless appetite for knowledge, Bitcoin became the antidote. It was the truth serum I needed to shine a light on my toxic behaviors. But more than that, Bitcoin offered something I had been searching for without realizing it - an unlimited pursuit of knowledge and wisdom.

In many ways, diving into Bitcoin reminds me of a spiritual journey or the pursuit of God. It's a never-ending quest for understanding, always offering new layers to uncover, new concepts to grasp, and new implications to consider. This property makes Bitcoin a perfect transition for people with past addictive behaviors.

Where I once channeled my addictive tendencies into destructive habits, I now find myself addicted to learning. I'm constantly reading about economics, cryptography, game theory, and philosophy. I'm engaging in discussions about the nature of money, the role of the state, and the future of human coordination. This intellectual stimulation provides the same rush I used to seek in less healthy ways, but instead of destroying me, it's building me up.

The Bitcoin rabbit hole is deep and wide. It touches on so many aspects of human knowledge and experience that it can keep even the most voracious minds occupied indefinitely. For those of us who struggle with addictive behaviors, this can be a lifesaver. It provides a positive outlet for our obsessive tendencies, a constructive way to channel our energy and passion.

Moreover, the Bitcoin community, with its conferences, meetups, and online forums, offers a sense of belonging and purpose that many addicts seek. It's a global movement united by shared values of freedom, sovereignty, and honest money. This sense of community and higher purpose can fill the void that many try to fill with substances or destructive behaviors.

It's not simple to explain in a few pages how life-changing Bitcoin can be, but I promise that if you take on the task of better understanding Bitcoin and the problems it solves, it can become your antidote too. Whether you're battling addiction, seeking purpose, or simply looking to understand the world better, Bitcoin offers a path forward.

Bitcoin is the antidote to complacency, to financial illiteracy, to centralized control. It's a beacon of hope in a world that often seems hopeless. It's not just about money - it's about freedom, understanding, and reclaiming our sovereignty. It's about finding a positive addiction that enriches your life rather than depletes it.

As we navigate these uncertain times, I invite you to explore Bitcoin not just as a financial tool, but as a paradigm shift, a new way of thinking, and potentially, a new way of life. It might just become your antidote too.

Stay curious, stay sovereign,

Joe Thomas Founder, The Bitcoin Blok

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はじめに

2023年末にこんな文章を書いていました

今はNostrに夢を見ていますが、半年後には失望しているかもしれませんし、もっとのめり込んでいるかもしれません どうなるのかはわからないですが、わからないからこそ未来はいかようにも想像できるし、良くしようと関わることでまた違う楽しみがあります... ...来年はもう少しやれること・やれたことが増えるといいなと願っています。願うことができるなら、きっと動くこともできるでしょう BitcoinとWeb3と私とNostr

あれから半年という区切りが良い？タイミングでもあり、且つ会社を退職することも決め、社内で振り返る機会がなくなったので、私的な出来事だけですが振り返ってみようと思って走り書きします

0. Umbrel Homeを買った

Nostrで見聞きしていたUmbrel OSとUmbrel Home 私はBig-Techが嫌いな人間ではないんですが、こういうガジェット、欲しいじゃないですか なので買いました。理由はそれだけです（使い道は買ってから考えろ！）

1. ライトニングノードを運用し始めた

Nostrでnostr.wineという有料リレーを購入しようとしたときに、とある方にwineに対してチャンネルを貼って決済を助けていただいたことが、いつか自分でもやってみたいなと思い始めたきっかけです。自分も同じように困ってる人を助けられたら、それは小さくても幸せだなと

Umbrel Homeでワンクリックでノードを建てられたことや、Nostrで知ったDiamond Handsという日本発のコミュニティが、ルーティングに関する情報発信を積極的にされていたことで、実際に踏み出しました

私のLNノード→Hokusai

DHメソッドの仕上げが期待通りにいかなかったことが要因なのか、残念ながらルーティングは全然発生していません。なので人助けにはなっていないのですが、いつか改善していこうと思いながらデジタル盆栽をしています

2. ドメインの取得

Umbrel Homeを持ったことで、既存のサービスの代替を自分でやってみたいなと思い始めました

1PasswordをBitwarden（Vaultwarden）に Google PhotoをImmichに Apple MusicをPlexに

ウェブにある先人の知識や公式ドキュメントを読み、ChatGPTにも尋ねながらやっていくなかで、Tailscale内の通信をhttpsにすることに苦戦していました

オレオレ証明書？Caddyでリバースプロキシ？？全然わからん...（このときCaddyがUmbrel Homeのポートをとってしまい、ただの黒い箱なりかねなかったところを、夜遅くにも関わらずNostrのみなさんに助けていただきました。改めて、ありがとうございます）

夜な夜な酒を飲みながらやっていたこともあり、だんだん面倒になってきて「埒があかないからもう世界に公開してしまっていいや！」とCloudflare Tunnelを使うことを決断。そうなるとドメインが必要になるので、流れで買いました。Nostrに来てから、どんどん一般人から逸脱している（）

3. メディアサーバー

Nostrで投稿するとなかなか消せません。なので他の方にならって画像を投稿するときは、外部のサービスを利用しています 多くのクライアントと連携しているnostr.buildを有料プランで長らく利用しているのですが、アップした画像を時間が経ったら消す癖がある私にとっては、容量がtoo much 多い分には困らないのが普通の感覚だと思いますが、私にとっては「ちょうど良い」ものではないことがあまり心地よくありません

諦めていたとき、Blossomという仕組みを開発したという話がNostrで流れてきました Nostrの秘密鍵と連携する仕組みで、これ使ってみたいなぁ（単にあたらしいもの好き）と思っていたら、CloudflareでBlossomを動かすコードが公開されているわけです。OSSってすげー

Cloudflareは一定は無料で使えることをドメインを買うときに把握していたので、これはもうやるしかない！ということで自分用メディアサーバーを建てて利用しています。Cloudflare R2を利用しているので、一定時間経過後にオブジェクトを自動削除することもできて、とても快適

4. リレー運用

Cloudflareで色々遊べそうだとわかったことで、Nostrリレーも一度は建ててみたいという気持ちがだんだん強くなります およそ一年もNostrやGithubを見ていると、誰かがコードを公開しているはずだろうとわかるわけです そして案の定ありました、Nosflareというリポジトリが（OSSってすげー）

建立されたリレー→wss://relay.mymt.casa

Cloudflareの無料枠で運用したいので「日本国内からのみアクセス可能」「保存したイベントは24時間後に破棄」する運用にしています

5. まだできてないこと

本当はこの文章をUmbrel Homeでホストしようと考えていたのですが、Potainer.ioとghostの扱い方が全然わからない Bostrというrelay proxyも全然デプロイできない ということで毎晩ChatGPT-4oと一緒に苦戦しています。Cloude 3.5に切り替えたい（何もしていないのにアカウントBANされた...）

終わりに

振り返ってみると、エンジニアさんみたいにゼロから何かを作ることはできないですが、Nostr ecosystemに対しては少しは貢献できているんじゃないかなという気がしてきました いや、ほとんど他人の褌なんですが。ほんとOSSってすげー

次の半年で「まだできてないこと」をできるようになっているといいなぁと思いつつこの文章を終わります

知らんことをやるのは楽しいですね！

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数日前、スペインでインスティトゥト・フアン・デ・マリアナが主催する「自由の晩餐会」が開催されました。このイベントは、リベラルな組織にとって最も重要で象徴的な行事の一つで、毎年開催され、スペインや他の国々から自由の擁護者たちが集う場となり、ネットワーキングやリベラルなアイデアに関する議論の場を提供します。

この晩餐会では、自由の擁護において卓越した献身を示した個人や団体に贈られる権威ある「フアン・デ・マリアナ賞」が授与されます。この賞は、経済、政治、哲学の分野で著名な人物に贈られており、彼らは個人の自由と自由市場の進展に大きく貢献しています。

今回は、スペインの著名な経済学者、弁護士、作家であり、レイ・フアン・カルロス大学（URJC）の政治経済学の教授であるヘスス・ウエルタ・デ・ソトが、アルゼンチンの大統領で現代リベラリズムの主要な知識人の一人であるハビエル・ミレイに賞を授与しました。ウエルタ・デ・ソトは、リベラルな思想において影響力のある人物であり、ミレイの知的指導者として、その自由の擁護における見事な業績を称賛しました。

スピーチの中で、ウエルタ・デ・ソトは、これは彼の人生で最も重要なスピーチであると述べました。それが彼の最も重要な知的貢献とは考えていないものの、これまでに行ってきた自由の理念の擁護と普及に関するすべての仕事をある意味で総括する、彼のキャリアにおいて最も重要な言葉であると考えています。

以下、ハビエル・ミレイを深く感動させ、彼の目に涙を浮かべさせたスピーチの翻訳になります。

今日は、恐れを知らず、世界を変えるために自己を犠牲にすることをためらわない一人の男に敬意を表します。自由という言葉を聞くだけで心が力強く鼓動する男、ハビエル・ミレイは、休むことなく、譲ることなく、自由を追い求めています。それは彼の大きな夢であり、そのエネルギーと情熱は、歴史上の偉大な自由の英雄たちにしか見られないものです。ハビエル・ミレイは、まさにそのような存在になりました。

まず、経済学を学ぶ人々にとって、彼は優れた経済学者としてその分野を完全に掌握しており、謙虚に理解しています。周囲の世界を理解するには、オーストリア学派の経済学の動的で企業家的、創造的なアプローチに従うことが必要であると。実際には、それはスペインの黄金時代のスコラ哲学者たちに由来するため、スペイン学派と呼ばれるべきです。

彼の言葉を借りるならば、ハビエル・ミレイは、主流派のネオクラシカル経済学の限界を見抜くことができました。その仮定の非現実性、形式的および方法論的な還元主義、そして何よりも、最悪の場合には社会工学と国家主義を助長し、最良の場合でも市場を誤った理由で擁護するという重大な誤りを犯している、幻想的な均衡モデルに基づいているからです。オーストリア学派が教えてくれるように、市場は自発的で素晴らしい人間の協力のプロセスであり、創造性と調整を促進します。このプロセスは、国家主義によって改善されることはなく、その科学的な不可能性もまたオーストリア学派によって証明されています。

さらに、ハビエル・ミレイは、今日の政治家にとっての模範となっています。彼は、自身が擁護する主張の科学的基盤を完全に理解し、確信と知的誠実さをもって自由を守ることができるからです。ちょうど、どの医師も医学を完全に習得することなくしてその職務を果たすべきでないのと同様に、いかなる政治指導者、議会議員、大使、あるいはどの省庁の高官も、オーストリア学派が教える経済学、自由、倫理の基本理論を事前に知らずしてその役割を果たすべきではありません。

現在、民主主義が、嘘と税金で得た資金による票の買収に基づく、歪んだシステムへと変わりつつある中で、ハビエル・ミレイは、常に真実を語り、厳しい現実を市民に説明しつつ、なおも自由の理念に対する圧倒的な支持を得ることが可能であることを示しました。彼のリーダーシップは、日々の政治の制約に左右されることなく、決して方向を見失わず、さらに自由を推進する努力を怠りません。したがって、各国でミレイのモデルに従うことを求める者たちは、すでにその道筋とすべきことを知っています。それは、ミレイのモデルを忠実に守ることです。

また、ハビエル・ミレイはすべての人々、特に若者にとっての模範ともなっています。人間の魂に感染する最も致命的なウイルスである国家主義に対抗する中で、ハビエル・ミレイは、他の誰よりも自由の理念を広めるという並外れた功績を持っています。彼は、文字通り、街頭や広場で、そしてメディアを通じて、何千人もの人々に経済理論を教え、知的かつ道徳的に国家主義の理念を打ち破ってきました。彼の言葉によれば、それはこれまで良識ある人々を縛りつけていたものです。特に、若者にとって、ミレイは模範的な存在であり、まだ完全に汚染されておらず、国家主義の罠に陥っていない彼らが、少し勉強し、オーストリア学派の理念に従えば、自由の熱心な擁護者となり、国家が課す組織的な暴力と強制に対する強力な反対者へとすぐに変わることができるでしょう。

自由、生命、財産を象徴する善と、暴力と国家による強制を具現化する悪との間の永続的な闘争において、今日、我々は知的にも道徳的にも歴史的にも、国家主義が死に瀕していると断言できます。この新たな時代において、ハビエル・ミレイと彼を間違いなく支持する者たちの力を借りて、我々の使命は、国家主義に最終的なとどめを刺すことです。未来は、自由を愛し信じる我々のものです。現在、あらゆる派閥の政治家や国家主義者たちが、本当にショックを受け、恐怖におののき、防御的になっているのは驚くべきことではありません。ハビエル・ミレイが言うように、それは「世界中のファシストたち」、そしてハイエクを引用すれば、それは左翼も右翼も含むすべての政党です。

最後に、ハビエル・ミレイは、寛大さの模範でもあります。彼は、出身に関係なく、かつての対立者たちに対しても寛大です。自分の過ちを誠実に認め、自由の理想を抱く勇気と知的誠実さを示す者たちは、彼の寛大さを受けます。多くの人々が、ミレイの話を聞いて、自分が実はアナルコ・キャピタリスト（無政府資本主義者）である、またはそうなりたかったことに気づいています。ハビエル・ミレイは決して自分を神格化することはなく、常に機会があるごとに、自分の偉大な師たちを引用します。それは、ミーゼス、ハイエク、ロスバード、ギットナー、ホッペといった巨人たちと肩を並べるにはふさわしくない私のような者も含まれます。このすべて、そしてハビエル・ミレイが私の人生のこの段階で私にもたらしてくれた大きな個人的な幸福のために、私は彼の知的寛大さに対して、個人的にも道徳的にも感謝しなければなりません。

さらに、リチャード・ソモンテにも感謝したいと思います。彼は、社会主義から逃れてマドリードにやってきたキューバの芸術家で、大人物の壮大な肖像画、とりわけ私の祖父がファンだったフアン・ベルモンテのような闘牛士の肖像画を得意としています。ソモンテは、21世紀の政治の真の闘牛士、ハビエル・ミレイの巨大な肖像画を完成させるというアイデアを私に提案してくれました。この場合、戦って倒すべき「牛」は、間違いなく国家です。

今日ここにあるこの肖像画は、この場で彼に贈るためのものです。話を終えるまでの1分半後に、皆さんがご覧になれる献辞が書かれています。それはこう書かれています。「自由の巨人、ハビエル・ミレイ大統領へ、彼の教授であるヘスス・ウエルタ・デ・ソトより、今日の日に。」

そして、マーティン・ルーサー・キングを引用して、こう締めくくります。「I have a dream」、私には夢があります。私は、国家が最終的に解体され、暗く恐ろしい歴史的な遺物としてのみ記憶される日を夢見ています。私は、国家の論理と理性、そしてそれが引き起こす社会的な紛争や無限の暴力が完全に、そして永久に消え去る世界を夢見ています。私は、人間を財政的に搾取することを目的とする国家が存在しない世界を夢見ています。私は、官僚たちが私たちの子供たちを洗脳せず、彼らを国家の所有物と見なさない世界を夢見ています。

私は、福祉国家という嘘が、特に最も困窮し、弱い立場にある人々のために、国家のない真の福祉に取って代わられる世界を夢見ています。私は、強制的で歪められた社会正義が、自由市場の無限の繁栄と愛に基づいた自発的な人間の連帯によって取って代わられる世界を夢見ています。それは、自由であるからこそ真実であり、強制や暴力によって押し付けられるものではありません。私は、したがって、自由意思による、自己調整された、無政府資本主義の世界を夢見ています。

私は、オーストリア学派が説明するように、今日では強制的で非道徳的なすべての公共サービスが、道徳的かつ効率的で、民間によって提供される世界を夢見ています。要するに、私は、人間がついに国家主義の鎖から解放され、自由に神を選ぶことができる世界を夢見ています、もしそう望むなら。

ハビエル・ミレイと、常に私たちを見守る天の力のおかげで、今日は未来の歴史が始まり、私の夢が現実になり始めました。そして最後に、四つの万歳を叫びます。オーストリア学派の経済学に万歳！偉大なるアルゼンチンと、その大統領ハビエル・ミレイに万歳！そしてもちろん、自由に万歳！カーラホ！

注釈：

ヘスス・ウエルタ・デ・ソト・バリェステルは、スペインの著名な経済学者、弁護士、作家であり、レイ・フアン・カルロス大学（URJC）の政治経済学の教授です。オーストリア学派の代表として、彼は『社会主義、経済計算と企業機能』("Socialismo, Cálculo Económico y Función Empresarial")において、企業の機能と社会主義の不可能性に関する重要な理論的貢献をしています。さらに、彼は『マネー、銀行信用と経済サイクル』("Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos")において、オーストリア学派の景気循環理論の発展と動的効率性の擁護で知られています。ウエルタ・デ・ソトは、社会の現実は理論的、歴史的、倫理的なアプローチを組み合わせて分析すべきであると主張し、アナルコキャピタリズム（無政府資本主義）と完全な経済の自由化を支持しています。彼の作品は多くの言語に翻訳されており、経済の自由と金融改革の擁護において、影響力のある人物としての地位を確立しています。

インスティトゥト・フアン・デ・マリアナ（IJM） は、スペインのマドリードに本拠を置くリベラル志向のシンクタンクで、2005年に設立されました。その目的は、その定款によると、「スペイン、ヨーロッパ、およびヒスパニックアメリカの広い大衆に対し、私有財産、自由な企業活動、および公共権力の行動範囲の制限がもたらす利益を紹介すること」です。その名称は、サラマンカ学派の後期の代表者であるフアン・デ・マリアナに由来しています。また、マドリードのレイ・フアン・カルロス大学の法学部および社会科学部において、オーストリア学派の経済学修士課程を後援しています。

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Why pay steep commissions at conventional exchange offices? Instead, exchange your Bitcoin P2P for Japanese yen in cash, right here in Tokyo, privately through @hodlhodl​ .

• I will meet you at your hotel or any convenient location within Tokyo area.
• No Hidden Fees: best rates, just market price, with no extra costs (just care about onchain fees).

Initiate a transaction to get all the details and ensure a smooth exchange process.

Let’s make your currency exchange the easiest part of your trip.

Here: https://hodlhodl.com/offers/9fOp7JucCeIdqonT

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(DM for Lightning transactions)

Safe travels!

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Using p2p Electronic Cash

by Blogging Bitcoin

“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account.” ― Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism

I write a free and open source blog about using bitcoin as peer to peer electronic cash. This is a compilation of some blogs I've written over the last two years. I wanted to write a book, but always felt paywalls are contrary to the free and open-source software movement. I still might publish this on dead trees, but want it to be free for anyone to read like the code you can find on https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/. This is also an example of what bitcoin makes possible. Andreas Antonopolis once compared bitcoin to the invention of the printing press.

I may not agree with everything he says, but he was right about that. Bitcoin allows me to get paid directly by the consumer. It is possible to sell my words without jumping through the Amazon hoops. App developers can publish apps, but Apple will not be levy their 30% tax. I'm not advocating tax evasion or fighting the IRS, but why should we pay corporations to publish and censor us when we can be paid directly from our audience?

This is a compilation of 21 of my favorite blogs I wrote on nostr over the last two years. It is written using the Value 4 Value model. To support my work, please pay the paywall, send zaps, or contribute your time treasure, or talent in another way.

Most bitcoin books try to convince you to buy bitcoin. They talk about how bitcoin is worth more today than ten years ago. You should buy bitcoin because it's going to a moon 69,420 light-years away in a galaxy called WhenLambo. I get it. 125 sats will most likely buy you something at the dollar tree one day. At the time of this writing, 1,922 will buy you a single item at the dollar tree, but 1,538 sats will buy you a paper NFT with George Washinton's mug shot. This is not about NFT's, trading crypto, or how many dollars 100,000,000 sats are worth. It's the musings of some nerd on the Internet who believes cryptography equals freedom in the electronic age. It's about how I use bitcoin and freedom tech in an unfree fiat tech world.

All of my work is written under a Creative Commons Licence. To support my work, please pay the paywall or send zaps. I have published this blog behind this paywall. Paywalls kinda suck because they block so many people from reading your work--At least they think they do. Most paywalls can be bypassed by a simple google search

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Using p2p Electronic Cash, by Blogging Bitcoin

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1)My Nym Is Blogging Bitcoin

2 Support Yo0ur Local Circular Economy To Drain The Exchanges

3)Then They Fight You

4)Use Bitcoin To Protoest Inflation

5)Stacking Sats On Substack

6)Bitcoin Is Not A Belief

7)Why I Write On Nostr

8)The Nostr Tip Jar

9)Privacy Is Necessary For An Open Society In The Electronic Age

10)Fix The Money, Fix The Music

11)Build The Bitcoin Economy On Nostr

12)I don't trust the Cold Card: How to Verify Dice Rolls Using Tails

13)Recurring Bitcoin Donations with OakNode

14)Crypto Means Cryptography

15)Doge Is Dumb

16)Instransigent Tipping 17)Explain The Blockchain To Me(Like I don't Know How To Use The Command Line)

18)Freedom On The Internet

19)How Bitcoin Works In A Nutshell

20)Stacking Sats Is For Everybody

21)Using p2p Electronic Cash

₿logging ₿itcoin 848,675 debtclock 🧡 Support this by using the ⚡Value 4 Value model⚡

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NUD: Pubkey to colors

This NUD defines how to convert pubkey to colors.

Live demo

Why?

• npub is nonsense to display.
• too long.
• npub1bla...bla is nonsense to display.
• npub1 takes too much space.
• ... means nothing.

Specs

• Uses hex pubkey.
• Converts 64 characters to 8 colors.
• Splits 64 with 8 length chunks.
• Converts each 2 in 8 into
  • Alpha (0-255 -> 0.0-1.0)
  • Hue (0-255 -> 0.0-360.0)
  • Saturation (0-255 -> 0.0-1.0)
  • Light (0-255 -> 0.0-1.0)
• Supports dark and light theme.
• When Light is 1.0, flip the Light for light theme (0.0).

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Nostrで最近マイナンバーカードについての投稿が多くなった気がします。おそらく都内の選挙のためだろうと思います。マイナンバーカードは、多くのサービスを便利にする可能性があります。行政手続きが迅速になり、医療情報が一元管理されることで医療の質が向上し、金融取引が簡便になるといったメリットがあります。このような便利さを享受し、税金を払うことに問題を感じない人もいるでしょう。しかし、税金の（こと）問題を別として、マイナンバーカードの便利さの裏には、プライバシーとセキュリティに対する大きなリスクが存在することを見逃してはなりません。

まず、日本はサイバーセキュリティに関して非常に脆弱であるという現実があります。過去には政府機関や企業がサイバー攻撃を受け、多くの個人情報が流出した事例が数多く報告されています。最近の例を挙げると、2024年5月には静岡県浜松市で、ホームページに誤って約1000人分の名前や住所、携帯電話番号といった個人情報が公開される事件が発生しました 。このような背景から、マイナンバーカードが導入されると、個人情報が一元化されることにより、情報漏洩のリスクが格段に高まるのは明らかです。攻撃者がこのデータにアクセスすることで、大量の個人情報が盗まれ、アイデンティティの盗難が発生しやすくなります。例えば、詐欺者が被害者の名前を使って銀行口座を開設したり、ローンを申請したりすることが可能になり、金融詐欺のリスクも増大します。 　ちなみに実際、2023年度には企業や行政機関からの個人情報の漏洩件数が過去最多の1万3279件に達し、そのうち334件がマイナンバーに関するものでした 。。。

データが一つの大きなデータベースに集約されると、そのデータベースはハッカーにとって美味しいターゲットとなります。日本のサイバーセキュリティの弱点を考えると、このデータベースが侵害される可能性は高く、何百万もの人々の個人情報が漏洩し、深刻なプライバシーの侵害が起こるリスクが高まります。データベースを管理する組織の従業員が不正にアクセスすることで、内部からの誤用やプライバシーの侵害も十分に考えられます。

マイナンバーカードは、政府や企業が個人の行動や活動を追跡するのを容易にし、個人の同意なしに監視が行われることに等しい状況を生み出します。個人の取引や活動が細かく追跡され、自由な生活が制限される恐れが出てきます。自分が買い物、SNS、投資行動などから示した思想や傾向は、ある意味反社会的であることとして判断されたら、雇用、保険、クレジットなどでの差別につながるリスクも、現実的な懸念となります。まさに、自由に発想することすらできなくなるでしょう。

これらのリスクを考えると、マイナンバーカードは、便利さと引き換えに多くのプライバシーと自由を犠牲にしていると言えます。個人情報の保護はデジタルにおいて個人の最優先事項であり、利便性と個人のプライバシー権をバランスよく保つための対策が不可欠ですが、プライバシーは一度失われると取り戻すのが非常に難しい、というのも忘れてはなりません。日本政府などにご自分のすべての個人情報をわたして任せても良いか、改めて考えてみる価値があると思います。ではでは。

@ f70851e7:f1ee9109

(original manifesto of Cypherpunk Meetup 2024)

"I cleared the space for the younger generation. But no one came..." - Anonymous cypherpunk, 2024

The founding fathers of the cypherpunk movement had quite wild predictions for the Y2K+: Anonymous communication and ubiquitous encryption should have led to decentralization of power, freed markets and individual liberty. Looking realistically at today's world - a world in which surveillance is totally normalized and we're stuck between being dominated by megacorps and governments - we fucked up big time, even though we created islands of liberty for the few of us that understood what these technologies are for.

Bitcoin is an exemption and an exceptional success of their story, but looking at its current development, we come to argue that we're now vulnerable to failing even there. The crowds are coming again and they don't even know why they need anonymous money. But wait, do we know?

Once “rebels with a cause” turned into “grandmas with ETFs” and “garage economists with a Twitter account”.

Where do we go from here? What can we do? Is this what cypherpunk is now? Are we bitcoiners just because we can, or can we still look for and successfully find a purpose not lost from the founders' vision?

Emptiness of purpose can be easily hijacked. Looking at the past of the movement, experiencing its presence and foreseeing its future we ask ourselves the question:

Is the movement still relevant?

@ 3f770d65:7a745b24

Several months ago, nostr:npub1hqaz3dlyuhfqhktqchawke39l92jj9nt30dsgh2zvd9z7dv3j3gqpkt56s and I set out to do tackle a task that had never been done before throughout Nostr's short history. We decided adopt the "go big, or go home" mentality and give our best effort to Purple Pill all of the nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r conference.

We couldn't accomplish this monumental task without the help of the Nostr community. From every day Nostriches and plebs, to legendary developers putting their blood, sweat, and tears into building this new protocol, to several companies within the Nostr ecosystem, everyone was going to need to do their part to turn this dream into a reality.

The mission

For the original vision of Nostr at BTC Prague, we planned on supporting the smallest available booth and a small panel on the secondary stage. The plan was for any Nostr developer to contribute what they could and then use the Nostr booth as a central hub to onboard users to their applications, provide support to their users, and meet the community. I embarked on my first crowdfunding journey and was able to initially raise over 10M sats thanks to the greater Nostr community donating towards our efforts.

Shortly afterwards, I was approached by nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m from Satlantis. He had planned on doing a mainstage presentation at BTC Prague on his new Nostr powered application. He asked me if I wanted to combine our efforts to upgrade the Nostr booth to the largest booth possible to give Nostr an even larger presence. I reached out to Avi and several other trusted Nostriches to see their opinions on this potential upgrade and everyone seemed to agree that we should continue with the "go big, or go home" mentality and try our best to Purple Pill all of Prague.

Now with a larger goal at hand, we were able to garner even more support from the Nostr community in addition by adding Highlighter from nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft and Primal from nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr as larger contributors.

The final tallies for funds raised were 16M+ sats from the greater Nostr community and 38M+ sats raised from Satlantis, Primal, and Highlighter. (We did have to raise a little more than originally anticipated because the Bitcoin 58K Gang made the fiat value of Bitcoin dip down for a bit right when we were trying to finalize payment.)

Putting it all together

This support enabled us to secure one of the four large booths at BTC Prague and a main stage panel. Given that these three companies made significant contributions, enabling our acquisition of the largest booth, we decided that it was logical to feature these companies more prominently. However, it was crucial to strike a delicate balance here. While emphasizing that this booth represented the Nostr community and was a true community effort, we also wanted to acknowledge and showcase those who made it possible. These companies could have opted for smaller individual booths, but their collaboration in a unified space demonstrates Nostr's principles of openness and interoperability—demonstrating that everyone and everything can work together seamlessly.

Therefore, we included as many logos across the Nostr ecosystem as possible throughout our iconography.

And, we also had a dedicated area of the booth highlighting our larger contributors.

The results exceeded all expectations. For three days during the BTC Prague conference, the Nostr booth was continuously bustling with activity. Attendees ranged from individuals who had never heard of Nostr before to those who were curious, active users within the ecosystem, and developers creating the applications we use daily. It was a remarkable community effort, with unexpected volunteers stepping up to onboard new users and provide support. Recognizing our busy schedules and flocks of new Nostriches hatching, they chose to assist in our efforts, offering help, and answering questions. It was a truly inspiring experience. Despite the busyness, the enthusiasm and support of so many people made each day enjoyable and dynamic, ensuring there was never a dull moment and we were always surrounded by friends.

Booth takeaways

As this was our very first attempt at doing something like this, I'd like to do a personal post mortem and highlight many of our successes and even some areas where I feel we can improve upon in the future.

Several Nostriches went above and beyond, helping onboard people and answer questions for three days straight. nostr:npub17plqkxhsv66g8quxxc9p5t9mxazzn20m426exqnl8lxnh5a4cdns7jezx0 nostr:npub1spdnfacgsd7lk0nlqkq443tkq4jx9z6c6ksvaquuewmw7d3qltpslcq6j7 nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 nostr:npub1k6tqlj78cpznd0yc74wy3k0elmj4nql87a3uzfz98tmj3tuzxywsf0dhk6 nostr:npub1md39ua3h2s7204a7v5p9sdxmxx9qc7m4kr3r6naeuwfznad6d7nsxpctp9 nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w nostr:npub1zga04e73s7ard4kaektaha9vckdwll3y8auztyhl3uj764ua7vrqc7ppvc were the lifeblood of the booth, always answering questions themselves or referring them to others if they were unable to help, didn't know the answer or were busy at the time. You all put in the work and deserve much credit and thanks. Even nostr:npub1995y964wmxl94crx3ksfley24szjr390skdd237ex9z7ttp5c9lqld8vtf was helping with onboarding!

Additionally, beyond general use case questions, we also had many developers stop by and answer many more technical questions for those wanting to learn a bit more too. nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5 nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49 nostr:npub1arkn0xxxll4llgy9qxkrncn3vc4l69s0dz8ef3zadykcwe7ax3dqrrh43w nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft were often seen answering more technical questions on various developmental topics.

Identifying areas for improvement is challenging, as the entire team of Nostriches performed exceptionally well, exceeding expectations. The event was a whirlwind of activity, with constant engagement and zero downtime. Volunteers seamlessly rotated at the front counter answering questions and distributing items to attendees. (Thanks nostr:npub1cgcwm56v5hyrrzl5ty4vq4kdud63n5u4czgycdl2r3jshzk55ufqe52ndy . Your nostr.how and nostrapps.com business cards were a HUGE help here!)

Full disclosure, I personally didn't leave the booth for three days all that much for two reasons. 1) Because I love to #GrowNostr and talk to people and 2) Because I was worried that the booth would turn into a corporate Primal or Satlantis show. However, this wasn't the case. While these teams did have a large presence with many team members all wearing t-shirts, none of my fears became a reality. If people asked questions about Nostr in general, that was discussed. If people asked questions about Primal or Satlantis, that was discussed. I personally recommended numerous social apps, Damus, Amethyst, Primal, Nostur, Nos.social - all of them. The booth was a true decentralized effort and I absolutely did not need to worry as much as I did, but I felt like I had an obligation to fulfill and I wanted to be there to see it through.

If I had to choose an area that needed improvement, I'd say that the three Satlantis women that nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m brought with him were supposed to shadow some of us to learn more about Nostr, so that they could then use this information to do the initial intake booth questions before making the referral to those with more information, but this just didn't happen. We were all so busy. Sorry! It was just too hard to coordinate. Maybe in the future we can prepare a bit more in this area. Although, nostr:npub1hz5alqscpp8yjrvgsdp2n4ygkl8slvstrgvmjca7e45w6644ew7sewtysa did a fantastic job, jumping right in there head first!

Secondly, we could have improved our television capabilities. We rotated from showing the live dashboard from the booth's Zap.stream livestream, to showing Primal.net/explore Nostr statistics, to showing nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz 's Nostr Documentary on loop, to playing the Satlantis promotional video. The majority of the time our TV was playing the same Nostr Documentary. It's great! I love that video, but we may be able to work out a better schedule and rotation mechanism in the future to showcase more content equally. Plus, I don't want to always be on the TV. I don't want people getting the wrong idea.

Nostr takeaways

After speaking with hundreds of people at BTC Prague, I feel that I've discovered the best way to describe Nostr.

Nostr has a portable digital social identity, allowing you to be in control of your digital social identity for the very first time, allowing you to take your entire social graph with you, every time you use a different application from Nostr's ecosystem.

Nostr is the social glue that binds all of your apps together.

In general, at BTC Prague, while explaining Nostr to people, the digital social identity route was what clicked with the most people. From there, it's not a long stretch to understand building a reputation and web of trust either.

Many people do not use the "Other Stuff" and explaining to them how to use these applications is hard. People want a native application.

Damus, Primal, and Amethyst seem to be the number one apps that people are using, with maybe Primal being the number one altogether? This is probably due to Primal being available on Android, iOS, and the web. Also, many people don't know that Damus still supports Zaps via the Nostr script workaround. I had to show many how to enable Zaps.

Everyone wants Nostr at their conference

There is significant interest in featuring Nostr at various conferences. Although not everyone has reached out, numerous individuals at BTC Prague expressed enthusiasm about incorporating a Nostr booth, along with several Nostr talks and sessions, into their upcoming events. They recognize the critical role Nostr and free speech play globally and acknowledge Nostr's popularity within the Bitcoin community. However, they also understand that more work is needed, and we must continue our efforts to onboard and engage new users.

I have two primary observations on this matter:

• The community effort demonstrated here serves as a blueprint for success. We have proven that this approach to growing Nostr is effective, desired, and necessary. The engagement at our booth and attendance at our panels prove this with ease.

• This fundraising initiative is likely a one-time effort. I cannot, in good conscience, continue to ask the community to bootstrap these endeavors. If we are to sustain these booths and promote Nostr at similar conferences, the conference organizers themselves must provide substantial support or discounts to foster broader Nostr adoption. While I understand that conferences entail significant operational costs, it is not feasible for Nostr developers and the broader Nostr community to finance these efforts continuously. Additionally, I would not feel comfortable requesting financial contributions from you all again for this purpose.

Looking forward

Will we do _this _again? I don't know. While our initial endeavor was a complete success, it would be unfortunate to cease our efforts just as we are gaining momentum.

Avi and I have a lot to discuss between ourselves and a lot to discuss with all of you.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. Thank you nostr:npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr for making all of this possible. Thank you to every single Nostrich that donated your hard earned sats to make this possible. Thank you to all of the developers that built all of this to make all of this possible. Thank you to everyone else <3

Keep building.

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"I'm thinking perhaps one day, I'll sell my bitcoin and pay off my mortgage" I hear through the din of a crowded bar.

It is the number one thing everyone is willing to openly consider selling their sats for - that little slice of that good American dream nostalgia: a house on the prairie, a yard, the dog, and no one to answer to. Security. The middle class of yesteryear's golden ticket to stability and prosperity. To most it's far beyond just being another financial asset- it's a tangible hallmark card vibe - something that even your mom would understand meant you got this.

So then - should you sell that risky BTC for your slice of picket fence and grass?

Not before you look at this:

Reality check: housing has been crashing for years versus BTC, and it is not even close.

So there is no second best- BTC all the way. 100% portfolio, am I right?

Not so fast. You gotta have someplace to live, yes?

So then, time to learn about the housing market, here with your Bitcoin Yimby.

I invested in housing for over a decade, flipping houses, cleaning up rentals, helping homeowners buy and renovate their homes, making plans and advising people. All that good LinkedIn-ready stuff. One thing I learned doing this: the housing market operated nothing like I had imagined from the outside- and is in many ways intentionally broken.

So let's crack a beer and vent about it. I will be writing this for Nostr, so no AI content, no googlefarming social media spam, no clickbait - just pure, unfiltered opinion: no apologies, no concerns.

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

Why relay hints are important

Recently Coracle has removed support for following relay hints in Nostr event references.

Supposedly Coracle is now relying only on public key hints and kind:10002 events to determine where to fetch events from a user. That is a catastrophic idea that destroys much of Nostr's flexibility for no gain at all.

• Someone makes a post inside a community (either a NIP-29 community or a NIP-87 community) and others want to refer to that post in discussions in the external Nostr world of kind:1s -- now that cannot work because the person who created the post doesn't have the relays specific to those communities in their outbox list;
• There is a discussion happening in a niche relay, for example, a relay that can only be accessed by the participants of a conference for the duration of that conference -- since that relay is not in anyone's public outbox list, it's impossible for anyone outside of the conference to ever refer to these events;
• Some big public relays, say, relay.damus.io, decide to nuke their databases or periodically delete old events, a user keeps using that big relay as their outbox because it is fast and reliable, but chooses to archive their old events in a dedicated archival relay, say, cellar.nostr.wine, while prudently not including that in their outbox list because that would make no sense -- now it is impossible for anyone to refer to old notes from this user even though they are publicly accessible in cellar.nostr.wine;
• There are topical relays that curate content relating to niche (non-microblogging) topics, say, cooking recipes, and users choose to publish their recipes to these relays only -- but now they can't refer to these relays in the external Nostr world of kind:1s because these topical relays are not in their outbox lists.
• Suppose a user wants to maintain two different identities under the same keypair, say, one identity only talks about soccer in English, while the other only talks about art history in French, and the user very prudently keeps two different kind:10002 events in two different sets of "indexer" relays (or does it in some better way of announcing different relay sets) -- now one of this user's audiences cannot ever see notes created by him with their other persona, one half of the content of this user will be inacessible to the other half and vice-versa.
• If for any reason a relay does not want to accept events of a certain kind a user may publish to other relays, and it would all work fine if the user referenced that externally-published event from a normal event, but now that externally-published event is not reachable because the external relay is not in the user's outbox list.
• If someone, say, Alex Jones, is hard-banned everywhere and cannot event broadcast kind:10002 events to any of the commonly used index relays, that person will now appear as banned in most clients: in an ideal world in which clients followed nprofile and other relay hints Alex Jones could still live a normal Nostr life: he would print business cards with his nprofile instead of an npub and clients would immediately know from what relay to fetch his posts. When other users shared his posts or replied to it, they would include a relay hint to his personal relay and others would be able to see and then start following him on that relay directly -- now Alex Jones's events cannot be read by anyone that doesn't already know his relay.

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For reading the article with proper Latex, head over to pippellia.com

Introduction

The emergence of decentralized social networks with sovereign identities (e.g. Nostr is a pivotal moment for the web, and it comes at the perfect time. In the age of AI, where it's getting cheaper and cheaper to impersonate people, distort videos and images, or just make them up, how is it possible to know what's true? What does truth even mean these days?

These are questions I will not attempt to answer. However, even if the ontology of truth has eluded philosophers forever, a more practical approach is needed if the Web is not to degenerate into a nihilistic place where nothing is real, or worse, a place where everything requires identity verification and the approval of a central authority.

In this paper, you will find a definition of the social graph, principles for thinking about it, and practical ideas for using it for DoS prevention, social discovery, anti-impersonation, accurate ratings, and more. You will also learn about alternative mechanisms that can be used in conjunction with social graph analysis to provide more compelling and complete solutions.

Social Graph

First, what is a graph? A graph G is a mathematical structure consisting of a set of nodes or vertices V and a set of edges E.

In mathematical notation, we write G = (V,E).

Edges are defined by a relation on the set V x V = {(v,u) : v,u in V }; for example, if node v and node u are related (e.g. v follows u), then the pair (v,u) is contained in the set E. In the notation

E = { (v,u) in V^2 : v is related to u }

The relationship can be symmetrical or asymmetrical, distinguishing between undirected and directed graphs.

A social graph is simply a graph in which the nodes are human entities (such as individuals, companies, groups, etc.) and the edges represent some form of social relationship, such as being friends with, following, or being zapped.

Before we go any further, we need to define another important notion, that of a neighborhood.

The neighborhood of a set of vertices S subset of V in G is another set of vertices whose defining property is to be connected to a vertex in S. In mathematical notation

N_G(S) = { u in V : exist s in S, (s,u) in E }

What problem is the social graph solving? The answer is many, in many different ways and forms. We are talking about using it as a defense mechanism against impersonation, as a way to prevent DoS attacks, to facilitate social discovery and connections, and to calculate more accurate ratings. But before we dive into the implementations, I ask you to pause for a moment to understand the magnitude of what we are discussing.

Principles

Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the engineers at YouTube were evil when they designed their algorithm. As the saying goes, the road to hell (read: open-mouth theater) is paved with good intentions (read: the desire to over-optimize engagement).

If your implementation is successful, people's behavior will be affected. That's why it's important to establish principles that can guide designers and developers in creating systems that are healthier than the world we're leaving behind.

Principle of least interference

A good rule of thumb when designing systems that affect social dynamics is to follow the principle of least interference.

Principle of least interference: solve the problem by implementing whatever mechanism has the least possible impact on social dynamics.

As an heuristic based on this principle, it is generally better to focus on solving only one problem at a time, since it is unlikely that solving multiple problems at once will not lead to a greater impact on those social dynamics.

A great example to analyze is the WoT score implemented by Coracle, which tries to "reduce spam, impostors, and objectionable content", all at once.

Let's start by analyzing how it works as an anti-impersonation mechanism.

If you search for 'Lyn Alden', it is very likely (if you are part of a "good" network) that the npub with the highest WoT is the real Lyn, while all others are impersonators.

However, a simple warning icon above all other Lyns would have accomplished the same goal without introducing a rating that can alter social dynamics.

In fact, the WoT score represents the opinion of the crowd around you, which doesn't offer any nuance when comparing the reputation of different real people. Crowd thinking is one of the biggest problems of the world we are leaving, and it would be a silly exercise to bring it with us.

Besides, we do not walk around with a number on our forehead in meatspace, nor should we in cyberspace, even if that number depends on the observer.

There is also another, more fundamental problem, which is that the user v only has information about a limited subset of the network, namely N_G^2(v) = N_G(N_G(v)), where G is the graph defined by the relation "follow OR mute" relation.

Therefore, if you set the WoT threshold above zero, you won't see anyone outside of N_G^2(v), which certainly prevents spam, but at the cost of discoverability.

We'll come back to how to design a more effective anti-impersonation system later.

Principle of Relativity in cyberspace

The current Web, and our societies in general, are built on an outdated paradigm that relies on and requires consensus about what is true, false, good, or bad. Unspeakable atrocities have been committed to achieve and maintain such consensus.

However, we must move beyond this legacy of the past if we are to usher in a new era of freedom.

The notion of a commonly shared belief or social truth is as dead in this new millennium as God was in the 19th century.

Principle of Relativity in Cyberspace: You cannot and should not dictate what is true or false, what is good content or bad content or spam, for another person.

If you do, you will simply be replacing the beast with a new set of beliefs. It's true that there are many different clients to choose from, but there were many different web browsers back in the day, and that didn't end well.

The reality is that a global agreement on things has seldom been necessary. In fact, relative canonicality can be achieved without the need for a central authority.

Wikifreedia (a nostr alternative to Wikipedia, as you have probably guessed) fully embraces this idea of relative canonicality. Each topic contains multiple entries; there is no single source of truth that aims or claims to be neutral. Of course, this doesn't mean that all entries are equally good or useful. On the contrary, there is a very opinionated and biased way of sorting them, which depends on the observer. Regardless of the specific implementation (again, number on the forehead), this is the way to go, this is relativity in cyberspace.

There is no Global

This point is arguably a corollary of the previous principle, but it's so important that it needs to be fully explained. The notion of global is also dead.

Despite being the largest indexer in the world, Google only indexes a small portion of the web. The engineering challenges behind indexing absolutely every person and piece of content in an ever-growing, open and hostile decentralized network will likely exacerbate this outcome: Nostr will outgrow every index.

As spammers become more sophisticated, crawlers will have to become more selective, limiting the percentage of the network that is indexed. Therefore, as a client designer or developer, you really only have a limited view of what's happening.

This reinforces the statement that you cannot decide for someone else what is good or bad, true or false. You can't possibly know, because what you have is a local, limited view, just like everyone else's.

Let's take Nostr Band for example. As much as I appreciate their cool statistics, it's important to know their limitations. The version of Trust Rank that Nostr Band implements:

1. runs on the subset of the network they are aware of
2. uses an arbitrarily chosen set of NIP05 providers for determining the so called good seeds

This approach is fine if it's used to defend the service provider against spammers (see DoS prevention section for improvements).

However, such an arbitrary view (all are, but some less than others) shouldn't be imposed on the end user, but only used as a way for the service provider to select the customers it wants to serve.

Principle of natural patterns

I believe that technology is made for people, so it should serve us and improve our quality of life. We shouldn't adapt to technology, technology should adapt to us.

This context is no exception to the rule. Humans are social creatures, and our social dynamics and behaviors have evolved through our long history. Therefore, before introducing new and artificial social dynamics, it's wiser to mimic the natural dynamics that have evolved with us for millennia.

Principle of natural patterns: When in doubt, try to mimic the social dynamics of meatspace

For example, in meatspace, a friend of a friend is not a stranger, but it's not a friend either. It's something in between, and a good candidate for a potential future friend.

Another example is something that will hit home if you've ever been to a bitcoin conference. When you're among people with the same interests, and I would argue mostly overlapping values, even if you've never met them, you can't say they're strangers.

Examples abound, so there is really no reason to try to impose any artificial dynamics before exhausting what nature has given us.

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To summarize, we take from this section three principles that will inform our analysis and design decisions going forward:

• The principle of least interference
• The principle of relativity in cyberspace
• The principle of natural patterns

The Problems

Finally, we can start discussing some concrete problems and ways to solve them. There are several well-defined problems that social graph analysis can help with. Again, it's important to define them well if we want to follow the principle of least interference.

The first problem we will analyze is protection against impersonation, one of the most important pieces to get right.

Anti-impersonation

Social endorsement

Who is the real Giacomo? In this case, it's pretty simple

First of all, let's talk about what won't help us decide:

• the name
• the profile picture
• the bio
• the date of creation

And no, not even the number of followers, as this is a completely irrelevant metric in an open and hostile network. See an example

What helps us is the line below:

"Followed by Bitcoin Africa Story, Nostr Wallet Connect, and 666 others you follow".

This is the signal. Follows can be faked, but follows from people you trust cannot be faked (or are more expensive to get). This is a particularly good design because it adheres to the principle of relativity in cyberspace. It doesn't prescribe who the real Giacomo is, it doesn't summarize the data for you (like the aforementioned WoT score, where every follower has the same weight), but it shows you clues that you can decide to interpret in the way you want.

The same idea can be applied to mutes, which gives you a few more clues.

Obviously, such a system can be extended not only to the people you follow, i.e. N_G(v), but also to the people who are 2 hops away from you, i.e. N_G^2(v) = N_G(N_G(V)), or n hops away from you, i.e. N_G^n(v).

However, the signal becomes increasingly diluted and unreliable the farther you go.

This approach is a good start, but it can't really solve the impersonation problem on its own because it's limited in reach and suffers from a bootstrapping problem for new users, which is really the same problem if you think about it.

There is also a subtle issue worth mentioning. What if a reputable person tries to impersonate someone else? This attack is possible because it won't be detected immediately, but the more prominent the person, the faster this attack will be detected, causing the attacker to lose their hard-earned reputation.

Furthermore, for truly prominent figures such as heads of state, this problem can be mitigated (but not completely solved) by third-party credentials that can be displayed by clients.

NIP05 providers

Another approach that has been tried is to rely on NIP05 providers. If I trust a NIP05 provider to verify the people they serve, then I can assign a non-zero level of trust to their customers. However, this approach obviously requires trust, which isn't ideal since there are trustless approaches that provide better guarantees.

PoW keys

When we see a stranger enter the pub where we are, or when we are crowded on the subway, we find ourselves potentially vulnerable to strangers. In most civilized places, however, we don't live in a constant state of fear, and that comes from the fact that others are vulnerable as well. Everyone has skin in the game, even the aggressors, which means that the best way to play this game is not to mess with other people.

On Nostr, however, the only consequence you can feel is the loss of your reputation, which by definition is worthless when the npub is brand new.

However, there is a way to add skin in-game for new keys, i.e. PoW keys.

The process works like this: while creating your identity, your machine can generate a new private key sk until the corresponding public key pk, as a binary number, satisfies the following inequality:

pk <= t ; where t is a threshold of your choice.

Since there is no efficient way to do this (allegedly), this process requires the expenditure of computing power and energy. This adds a quantifiable and verifiable cost to any identity, making credible impersonation expensive.

However, PoW keys can't work at scale, because:

1. they require commitment at key creation, which is bad UX because it reverses the "try before you buy" rule
2. the PoW can't be updated over time
3. It is not possible to delegate the work without delegating the key (supposedly)

The last point implies that the economy of scale favors the attacker, because they have multiple targets, whereas the defender can only defend himself.

However, there is a similar approach that offers what I believe are more appropriate tradeoffs: PoW Endorsement.

PoW endorsment

A PoW endorsement is a simple unsigned user metadata event containing a target npub, a difficulty commitment threshold $t$, and a nonce.

The nonce is randomly generated until the following condition is satisfied:

h(event) <= 2^t ; where h is a cryptographic hash function such as SHA256

If the condition is met, the PoW endorsment is valid, and the target npub's "PoW weight" becomes 256 - t.

What I am describing is basically NIP13, except that it should use kind 0, and it doesn't need a signature (what's the problem if someone wants to add PoW to someone else's npub?).

What makes PoW endorsements different from PoW keys is that:

1. it doesn't require any commitment at key creation
2. the PoW can be updated over time
3. it's possible to delegate the work without delegating the key
4. requires data availability, because the work is separate from the key

Point 3 is what makes this approach feasible and scalable, especially for mobile devices constrained by CPU and battery limitations.

Point 4 isn't particularly bad because the events are small, public, and the user has an incentive to store them.

Example of how it works

• Alice gives a npub to the Miner
• Alice pays the Miner $10
• The Miner mines the PoW endorsement, with the target npub
• The target npub now has a non-zero PoW weight

How does it help?

If the target npub has a non-zero PoW weight, credible impersonation attempts require a cost. The attacker's social capital (PoW weight) becomes less and less valuable, and is eventually lost, as more people discover the attack and mute the attacker's npub.

Furthermore, assuming that most of the PoW weight is allocated to real people (1), it's possible to use its distribution to fix the shortcomings of social endorsement.

For example, a new user can be presented with the choice of following the npubs with the highest Trust Rank, where the good seeds are the npubs with non-zero PoW weight. The same principle can be applied to an existing user trying to get information about an npub that is many hops away from him/her.

If you want to summarize this idea to the maximum, if the number of followers is meaningless, that's not true for the number of followers with non-zero PoW weight (under assumption 1).

I have started working on this idea and preliminary results are promising, but more thought is needed

Colored halo

Another anti-impersonation mechanism tried by Nostrudel is to use a few characters of the public key (in hex format) to identify a unique color that is displayed around the user's profile picture.

The idea is that if I am already following the real Lyn, a credible impersonation attempt would require generating many times the key pair to get the same or very similar color. This requires energy, which means cost.

However, this information is only useful if I already follow the real Lyn and remember her color. Asking my trusted network for the color of a particular person is no different task than asking her npub directly.

This means that this approach, while interesting, is not very useful.

DoS attack prevention

When analyzing Denial of Service attacks, we should distinguish between defense mechanisms that work at the network level, at the service provider level, and at the user level.

Talking about the first case may seem to contradict the principle of relativity in cyberspace, but here by network we mean any set of network participants who are willing to cooperate but not necessarily trust each other.

Network level

PoW events basically apply the concept of Hashcash not to email messages but to notes. There is not much to say here, except to note that the PoW can be outsourced to service providers that can most likely outcompete the attackers in efficiency.

Service provider level

The best tool the service provider can use to prevent DoS is money. A paid service, either pay-per-use or subscription-based, can work both for monetization and as a defense mechanism. However, not every service (or sub-service) is directly monetizable, which is where social graph analysis can help.

The idea is to selectively choose which npubs are considered potential good customers and filter out everyone else. If this needs to be said, I'll say it: this is not censorship, this is simply a business deciding who to serve.

Many different criteria can be used to select what is a good customer, especially since this definition depends on the service being provided.

A general approach is to use Trust Rank or Spam Mass Estimates (with a suitable measure for selecting the good seeds, such as PoW weight) as the criteria for deciding the "good customers". Those who don't qualify will simply not be served for free.

User level

Here we consider a simple defense against DoS attacks on user DMs.

The user $v$ has a whitelist of npubs that can directly DM him/her for free. If the sender is not on the whitelist, the DM will only be displayed by the client if it is preceded by or comes with a payment above a certain threshold.

The whitelist can be edited manually, but it's automatically populated based on some social graph criteria that the user has approved.

For example, all npubs in N_G(v) U N_G^2(v) U N_G^3(v) can be automatically added to the whitelist of user v.

Personalized Ratings

The idea that every opinion or vote is equally important to everyone is a byproduct of political democracy and its sanctification. This is never the case in any social context.

Imagine you want to buy a product that has thousands of good reviews, but your friend recently bought it and tells you it's not good. It's natural for you to give more weight to your friend's opinion, contrary to the belief that each opinion has equal weight.

When computing an average, there is always an assumption about the weight distribution, i.e. how important each vote is.

Given a list of ratings (r_i)_i and a weight distribution (w_i)_i such that the sum of the weight is 1, the average is sum r_i w_i

The democratic average assumes each opinion has exactly the same weight.

Social graph analysis can be useful to design more accurate and even personalized ratings, i.e. ratings that reflect who the viewer is and what he/she is looking for at any given time.

For example, you might want to give more weight to people who have similar interests to you, or more weight to your friends and friends of your friends. Many different criteria for calculating weight distributions are possible, making this an exciting area for future research.

It's important to note that the most trustworthy ratings will be those that are independently verifiable, both in the ratings and in the weight distributions.

Practically speaking, there are two steps involved in computing a weight distribution:

• Select the support, i.e. the set of npubs that have a non-zero weight.
• Assigning a specific weight to each npub that is part of the support.

These two steps can be done simultaneously or one after the other. In the next section, we'll look at support selection, a problem that arises in another, seemingly unrelated context: social discovery.

Social Discovery

How many times have you discovered something thanks to a friend's recommendation? This phenomenon can actually be productized to streamline the discovery of content, places, and people that are relevant to the end user.

Here is a mathematical formulation of the problem:

Consider a social graph G = (V,E), where the nodes are ordered, i.e. V = { v_1, v_2, ... v_n}.

The goal is to construct another graph G' = (V,E'), where E' consists of the recommendations for each of the users we want to serve. This is a simplified scenario, where what is being recommended are other nodes in the graph.

What we need is a function f : G --> G' that takes G as input and returns G' as output, i.e. the recommendations we are interested in.

I'll now introduce a definition to simplify the problem.

Adjaciency matrix: Given a graph G = (V,E), its edges can be represented as a matrix called the adjacency matrix A, defined as follows:

A_ij = 1 if and only if v_i is related to v_j

In light of this new definition, the problem is to construct f : A --> A', which is a function that takes an n by n boolean matrix A as input and outputs the n by n recommendation matrix A'.

With this notation, the recommendation list of the node v_i consists of the nodes corresponding to the non-zero elements of the i-th row of A'.

Look at the example in the picture. By applying an unknown (for now) function f, we get the recommendation matrix A'. Only the first row contains a non-zero element whose position is (1,3). This means that node v_1 has node v_3 as a recommendation.

There are (2^{n^2})^{2^{n^2}} of such functions (exercise: why?), but only a few of them make sense and mimic the heuristics humans use.

The first social dynamic we want to replicate is the "friend of a friend" dynamic, or more specifically, if v_i _follows _v_j, and v_j follows v_k, then v_k is added to v_i's recommendation list.

In other words, we want A'_ij = 1 if and only if v_i is connected to _v_j _by a path of length exactly 2. In this case, we are not interested in how many such paths exist, but only in whether there is at least one.

This rule is encoded in the function f: A --> A' = A @ A = A^2, where @ is the product between Boolean matrices ( exercise: check that it's correct).

Inspired by this simple yet powerful result, previous research has investigated the class of candidate functions f_M: A --> A' = A @ M.

Here are some examples of such matrices M.

Applying each of these functions to f_M adds new relations to the graph, and this process can be repeated many times until the desired result is achieved.

For example, in the matrix A + A^2 + A^3 + ... + A^m, node v is connected to node u if and only if there exists a path of length <= m from v to u in the original graph G.

Formulating the problem of social discovery as an iteration of atomic propagation rules has many advantages, since:

• It's simple, yet can accommodate many different propagation rules
• It's passive, since it doesn't require the user to specify anything other than the rules and the number of iterations desired
• It's efficient, since its space complexity takes advantage of the sparsity of social graphs, and its time complexity can be estimated to be O(n^{5/2}) (Learn more about the time complexity of Boolean matrix multiplication ).
• It's well supported by most programming languages, given how ubiquitous matrix multiplication is
• It's transparent and independently verifiable in its operations

Furthermore, as highlighted in the previous section, this approach is applicable to compute transparent and personalized weight distributions.

Considering again the direct propagation rule (friend of a friend), we can start assigning weights based on the distance to the user.

If the distance is 1, meaning a direct connection, the weight is set to 1. Whenever the distance increases by 1, the weight decreases by a factor of gamma in [0,1], a parameter potentially chosen by the user.

On a practical level, this means that the service providers compute and store the matrices A, A^2, ... A^m for a reasonable m.

Each user v_i _can choose _gamma_i in [0,1], and k_i <= m, and the personalized weight distribution he/she gets is

A_i + gamma_i A^2_i + ... gamma_i^{k_i-1} A^{k_i}_i

with A_i representing the i-th row of the matrix A.

• If gamma_i = 0, the user chooses to consider the ratings of only those he follows as relevant.
• If gamma_i = 1 and k_i = m, the user chooses to give basically the same weight to everyone in the network, and will get a democratic average rating.
• If gamma_i = 0.5, then the weight of direct followers is 1, that of two hops is 0.5, then 0.25 and so on.

By combining and experimenting with propagation rules and weighting criteria, it's possible to efficiently compute personalized, verifiable and dynamic ratings for each user, making this an exciting area for future development.

Conclusion

This is a comprehensive yet superficial paper, as it touches on many different areas without exhausting any. This was done intentionally to stimulate interest in the field of social graph analysis. More importantly, it aims to help the reader understand the significant impact this exciting new field can have on the Web, although not without its risks.

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Interested in implementing the social graph into your App? Reach out, I would be more than happy to help

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For reading the article with proper Latex, head over to pippellia.com

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The Chamorros: People of my island They islanders for centuries took care of the island. They fished, farmed, hunted, voyaged, made tools, art, had stories, had marriages within clans. Then, the Spanish came. When they first came, the Chamorros boarded their boat to greet the weird people(I'm sure they thought they were weird too). It started peaceful until the Spaniards coffer's slowly dried up. This led to the occupation of the island and grew oppressive. Eventually, The Spanish lost the war to the Americans. Guam was then sold to the American gov't as spoils of war, trading one oppressive regime for another.

The TakeOver Process-1

The TakeOver Process-2

The TakeOver Process-3

Get a job, you lazy islanders. We need to tax you, come work for us. This was the price to become American to the indigenous islanders.

Then the war came. close up

Guam was hit first before Pearl Harbor(The international Date line puts Guam timezone first ahead) but after this, The Japanese invaded and then occupied the island. Note at the bottom, The American Naval governor surrendered. This led to the islanders thus to become slaves to the Japanese Empire.

Recall "Day of Infamy" by FDR

Life under Japanese Rule Note Northern Marianas islands are the smaller islands above Guam. See the next image below.

Map of the island geography. Guam is referred as NYC in the Marianas. The rest are really, really small.

Nearly 16k of indigenous islander died, by the end of the war less than 6kish Chamorro survived.

The Federal Government then claimed parts of the land and since then and haven't returned it. They've returned some of it. This was a long time ago, I think it's time to let it go. Some islanders demand war repatriations. It makes zero sense to demand money from future Americans to pay for those war repatriations. The enemy is not the people, it's those that wield the pen to create unreasonable bills and the ones that enforce it.

Final Words. The islanders lived peaceful. There was no room to be a bad person of the colony because that person was risked getting shunned. Often, they sent the bad natives (thus becoming 2nd class citizens) inland, barring them from getting access to the ocean. But the land is rich and fertile. Instead of saltwater fish, they had fresh water 🐟fish, 🐍eel, 🦐shrimp and 🦞crawfish and plenty of fruit to eat and farm.

They didn't ask to become Spanish or American. It was this way or the highway. When countries want to expand they need more territories, land, money and human capital(your life energy). History doesn't repeat, it just rhymes.

🦋The best way to combat this is go back to a similar economy that is less corruptible. I believe Bitcoin can do this. History gives clues. Don't trust, verify.

Thank you for joining me on this walk (lol, reading) through the museum, please comment if you enjoyed this.

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日本は貧しい。 どうして日本が貧しいと言えるのでしょうか？多くの点で豊かであることは確かです。例えば、一人当たりのGDPでは、日本は世界で38位で、平均の221%の富があります。また、日本を訪れた人は誰でも、その都市や活動、そして豊かさと幸福感を感じるでしょう。鹿が安全に歩き回る公園さえあります。さらに、文化的にも非常に豊かです。日本文化が嫌いな人はいないでしょう。日本は貧困ランキングでは多くの国よりもずっと上位にあります。そして、これらすべては、第二次世界大戦後の非常に厳しい状況から達成されたものであり、アメリカの要求に従うことによって実現しました。

それでは、なぜ日本が貧しいと言えるのでしょうか？それは、日本がアメリカの要求に従い始めた時点でのことです。日本の真の富が少ない状況を探ってみましょう。そして、その危機的な状況が他の国々にどのような信号を送っているか。この信号を読むことができれば、「Buy Bitcoin」と示していることがわかるでしょう。

日本の10年国債は先日5%下落し、金利は1.08%に達しました。あなたは言うかもしれません、「1.08%？それほど危険には見えない」と。しかし、この水準は10年以上達成されていなかったものであり、その間に日本は大いに借金を増やしました。日本は世界経済の主要な役割を果たしており、アメリカの国債を持つ第二位の保有国であり、その通貨は誰もが安く資金を調達するために利用します。つまり、円を買い、低い利息（約1%）で借りて、もっと高い利息が得られる他の場所に投資します。これらの理由から、日本は特に安い資金を見つけたい人々にとって非常に訪れる場所です。

しかし、もちろん、先日のように国債の金利が上昇すると、この取引に悪影響を及ぼします。10年国債の金利が上昇すれば、円で借りる金利と、他の場所で得られる金利との差が縮小します。例えば、アメリカやオーストラリアの国債、あるいは他の場所の国債です。これは確かに真実であり、国債の金利が上昇するたびにその魅力は減りますが、同時に国債の金利が上昇するたびに、負債のコストも大幅に増加します。

日本は多額の借金を抱えています：9.2兆ドルの負債です。負債の金利が0.01%上昇するたびに、それは920億ドルの利息が追加されることを意味します。

状況を想像してみてください。火曜日に日本は1.02%の金利を支払っていて、水曜日の終わりには1.08%を支払っています。これは途方もない衝撃を与えるでしょう。一度にすべてを再資金調達する必要はありませんが、それでも紙の上ではほぼ60億ドルの影響があります。再資金調達が昨日よりも60億ドル多くかかることを知っている一日を想像してみてください。その日は良い日ではなく、いくら寿司を食べて気分を上げようとしても無駄でしょう。そのため、通貨はドルに対して下落し続けます。

しかし、日本は豊かです。何十年もの間、日本は大量の魚やその他の製品を世界中に輸出してきました。日本はこれまでに得たすべての利益をうまく投資してきたに違いありません。そして、今、困難な時期が来て、日本の状況が微妙な時に、貯蓄を使って円を買い、通貨を守り、次の日に向けて戦い続けることができるでしょう。

日本はアメリカの言うことに従うようになりました。アメリカが大好きなのは、自分の国債を買ってもらうことです。アメリカ人が最も喜ぶのは、自分たちの債務を買ってもらうことです。アメリカ人に気に入られたいなら、国債を買ってあげるといいでしょう。日本は第二次世界大戦以来、アメリカに従順であり、基本的に外国為替の準備としての国債のアイデアを発明しました。これはどういう意味でしょうか？つまり、アメリカの国債に貯蓄するというアイデアを発明したのです。「お金を稼いで貯蓄するなら、他の国の国債や債務として持っておけばいい」という考えです。

全国民の努力と、世界中への商品やサービスの輸出によって得られたすべての貯蓄をアメリカの国債に投資し始めました。日本と他の国々の金の保有量を総準備高の割合で見ると、日本はそのうちのわずか4.3%しか金を保有していない一方で、ドイツ、アメリカ、イタリア、フランスなどの他の国々は60%以上の準備高を金で保有しています。

日本が貧しいと言うとき、それは実質的な富がないことを意味します。すべての貯蓄がアメリカの国債に投資されています。日本は、アメリカの都合に合わせて、そしてある程度は日本自身もそれが良い考えだと思って、これらの国債を購入してきました。日本には多くのアメリカ国債がありますが、今の危機を解決する役には立ちません。

日本は、その通貨の価値を守り、通貨の価値が下落するのを防ぎ、市民の生活費が上昇しないようにする必要があります。市場で円を購入するために、その貯蓄を使って準備金を売却し、通貨を保護するべきです。しかし、その準備金はアメリカの国債にあるため、それらを売ることは現実的ではありません。アメリカの国債を売ると、その価格が下がり、市場での供給が増えて、国債の金利が上昇します。国債の価格が下がるほど、支払う金利は高くなります。

たとえば、100の価格で5%の利息を支払う国債を持っているとします。その国債が市場で売られ始めて価格が95に下がった場合、依然として5%の利息を支払います。しかし、95に対する5%は、100に対する5%よりも多いです。したがって、国債の価格が下がるたびに、利息が上がります。これにより、さらに多くの人々が日本に行き、低利で円を借りて（少ない利息を支払って）、高利を支払うアメリカの国債を購入することを奨励します。これが通貨をさらに下落させることになります。そのため、日本の準備金は役に立ちません。アメリカの国債を売却することなく、自国の通貨の価値をさらに低下させることはできません。このような困難な時期に日本を救うはずのものが、何の役にも立たないのです。

その結果、日本は多くの貯蓄があっても抜け出せない悪循環に陥っています。状況の深刻さは、円と金のチャートを見るとよくわかります。本来なら多くの馬鹿な国債の代わりに準備資産として購入すべきだったものです。円と金のチャートを見ると、過去15年で75%も下落していることがわかります。「日本は貧しい」と言うとき、それは実質的な富が欠如しているという意味で、この貧困は他の分野にも現れ始めています。通貨の価値を守ることができないことが、日本の成長と市民の生産能力を阻害しています。

日本は1人当たりのGDPが高いため、貧しくはないと言いました。しかし、1人当たりのGDPを見てみると、1990年以来停滞しています。また、実質的な貧困のレベルを見ると、日本の実質的な貧困が増加しており、間違った方向に進んでいることがわかります。日本の相対的貧困率は、G7諸国の中でアメリカに次いで2番目に高いです。

要するに、誰の負債でもなく、必要なときに売ることができる資産がなければ、富を持っているとは言えません。困難な時期に対応するために売却できる、他人の債務に依存しない資産が必要です。それが富であり、他のすべてはただの煙に過ぎません。

数年前、ロシアはアメリカの国債ではなく、自国の貯蓄を失いました。アメリカがそれらの債券を没収したのです。今日の日本も同様に、国債を持っていますが、売却することができず、実質的には役に立ちません。まるでそれが奪われたかのようです。これらの状況は、非常に明るくカラフルなネオンサインのように、国であれば固い資産に貯蓄するべきだという明確なシグナルです。

そのため、最近ではすべての中央銀行が記録的なレベルで金を購入しているのでしょう。そして、同様にビットコインも購入することになるでしょう。ビットコインは、金よりも没収されにくく、金よりも移動が容易で、金よりも価値が上昇する可能性が高いという追加の利点を持っています。日本は、これを今、教えてくれているのです。

コラボw @alberto_mera (X、文)& nostr:npub1wdsu4yfj6s5vkcktfx2l7y9tvprfsmwp55e2gj5xp266gff0eeks9cjda5 (Nostr、訳)

@ 4bc7982c:4cb5c39d

I rarely use smartphones for their intended purpose, instead using them as cheap and portable "mini machines" thanks to termux. Since joining nostr and learning how relays work, I got to wondering if running a relay from my test phone would be possible. After many hours of failed attempts and chairs thrown through windows, here's how I finally got python nostr_relay to work on my device.

YOU WILL NEED - An android device with latest Termux from FDROID OR GITHUB (The Google Play version will not work). You will need python 3.x,clang, and git installed in this environment.

Step 1. Start sshd in termux and log into your device.

Step 2. User must modify their python sysconfigdata manually, since the Android NDK with latest clang does not support the -fopenmp-implicit-rpath flag and will cause any .toml based python wheel builds to fail. Simply run the following commands in your termux terminal to fix this (A backup up your original sysconfig files will be saved, this example shows the steps being performed for python 3.11):

_file="$(find $PREFIX/lib/python3.11 -name "_sysconfigdata*.py")"
rm -rf $PREFIX/lib/python3.11/pycache
cp $_file "$_file".backup
sed -i 's|-fno-openmp-implicit-rpath||g' "$_file"

Step 3. Make a directory for the install and switch to it, I am using "devel" in this example:

mkdir -p devel && cd $_

Step 4. Clone the nostr_relay repo, I have mirrored the latest version to Github for those that hate fossil as much as I do:

git clone https://github.com/Shinoa-Fores/nostr_relay.git

Step 5. Make a python virtual environment and activate it:

python3.11 -m venv nostr_relay
cd nostr_relay
source bin/activate

Step 6. Pycares is a required dependency for toml-based projects, and also will not install properly via pip under termux so we will install it from sources in the venv and apply a quick fix to that too:

wget https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/1b/8f/daf60bbc06f4a3cd1cfb0ab807057151287df6f5c78f2e0d298acc9193ac/pycares-4.4.0.tar.gz
tar -xf pycares-4.4.0.tar.gz
sed -i s/'#define HAVE_GETSERVBYPORT_R 1'//g ./pycares-4.4.0/deps/build-config/config_android/ares_config.h
pip install ./pycares-4.4.0
rm -rf pycares-4.4.0 pycares-4.4.0.tar.gz

Step 7. Now install the remaining dependencies and nostr-Relay itself:

pip install -e .

Step 8. Make a cup of tea and shitpost on nostr until the build completes.

Step 9. Once build is finished, copy the included sample config and open in your preferred text editor to adjust the parameters to your liking:

cp nostr_relay/config.yaml .

Step 10. Make a startup script for the relay and fire up your portable relay. In the example below I start it in a screen session so the process does not die if I lose ssh or termux connection.

cat >start-relay.sh << EOF

!/usr/bin/env bash

set -eu
set -o pipefail
bin/nostr-relay -c ./config.yaml serve
EOF

chmod +x start-relay.sh

screen -S relay -dm bash ./start-relay.sh

Step 11. If all goes well you should see something like this:

Still here? Good! The reader is invited to tinker with this configuration and enhance it. Things like setting up DNS and tor are beyond the scope of this post, but information on the latter can be found on the termux wiki: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Bypassing_NAT .

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Nostr: Decentralized Identity for the Internet

Nostr is a protocol enabling censorship-resistant social media.

Bring your audience seamlessly from one app to another.

And earn bitcoin for the content you create!

Why Do We Need Nostr?

Because.. social media is broken. Centralized oligopolies control the public square of free speech. These companies control (often in ways they don't even understand) what we read, who we talk to, and what ideas gain traction in our culture.

Social media as we mostly know it today:

⚠️ uses your attention to sell ads

⚠️ uses psychological tricks to keep you addicted

⚠️ decides what content to show you based on a secret profit algorithm you can't inspect

⚠️ can ban you

⚠️ is filled with bots and spam

Traditional social media thrives on engagement, attention and outrage. This has had negative effects on society. Trust in media (and institutions) has plummeted, and people are increasingly valuing free speech, something which centralized platforms can't provide.

What is Nostr?

Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) fixes this! It's a simple protocol that allows users to sign and share notes (passed around as plain JSON text).

Using websockets, a client software relays these notes to a distributed set of servers (relays). Or to define Nostr even more simply: "Signed messages relayed".

Clients, Relays, Public/Private Key Pairs

Nostr is a protocol that you access via a client. A client can be a web, mobile, or desktop app. Some popular clients are e.g. nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg and nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 .

Users have cryptographic key pairs (public and private key) to sign notes and to verify a note source. The public key is presented as a string with a prefix "npub", and the private key with a prefix "nsec". You can also think of your "npub" as a username and "nsec" as a password.

But on Nostr, there is no tech support to recover your password, so you have to take good care of it either with a password manager, browser extension such as e.g. nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm or write it down on a piece of paper.

"Npub" looks like this and you can follow users on Nostr on any client by searching for their npub:

"npub15vxdlmhftkh452a06vnr3mmks2dy8hqejeuxuv6sgy5rgtf0jllsccfzg7"

You can also search users by a more readable "NIP-05 identifier", such as "teemupleb_at_getalby.com"

For a step-by-step guide on how to create an account on Nostr, you can watch this tutorial by nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 .

Permissionless, Interoperable and Open-Source

Using Nostr and building on it is completely permissionless. No need to provide phone number, email, ID card etc.

Cool thing about Nostr is that your private key (and your audience) follows you from one client to another. E.g. if you have built a large following on a microblogging client built on Nostr, you can bring that following to the new video streaming client that just launched.

Nostr is not an app that you sign up for, but an open standard on which anybody can build! This takes the power of "walled gardens" away from centralized web behemoths! Also devs can access an existing user base easier in order to bootstrap new apps.

Relays Receive and Send Data

Relays are like back-end servers for Nostr. They allow Nostr clients to send them messages, and then broadcast those messages to all other connected clients.

Relays are very simple and "dumb". Their only job is to receive and send Nostr data. For this reason, you can easily run your own relay with e.g. a Raspberry Pi single-board computer (but of course, you don't have to run your own relay to use Nostr).

Relays don't have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side. Because Nostr doesn't rely on a small number of trusted servers to relay data, it's very resilient. The protocol assumes that relays will disappear and allows users to connect to multiple relays that they can change over time. If you notice that your Nostr client feels slow, try adding more relays.

Notes

Notes can be text, links and other media types. They are digitally signed and timestamped. You can also like, repost, reply etc. There is no character limit on notes or replies, but if you upload videos, there might be limits (then you can just host the video somewhere else and link to it on Nostr). Notes can't be edited (encourages accountability!)

NIPs for Interoperability

The Nostr protocol is defined in a set of NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities). These standards allow different clients to communicate with each other. Only NIP-01 is mandatory (describes the basic protocol), and others are optional.

NIPs exist to promote interoperability. It's not a good idea for developers to implement ideas only in their own client app. It's better to come up with compatible solutions, and NIPs coordinate this process.

Bitcoin Lightning Network to Monetize Content

Nostr uses Bitcoin's Lightning Network to monetize content value. Users can instantly tip (zap) small micropayments in bitcoin to creators, and their npub works as a Lightning address.

Great idea: let's pay with sats instead than with our personal data and attention!

This value4value model is a revolutionary concept. Creators don't have to rely on advertising, subscriptions and paywalls, and followers can only pay for the content they like. Most followers won't tip anything, but some tip a little and the hardest fans tip a lot.

For the first time in history, we can link information to value. As the volume of information becomes infinite, the supply of bitcoin (value) remains scarce. Attaching this value to information will highlight the highest quality information (web of trust).

Nostr + Bitcoin search engine that indexes all information on a decentralized internet could be a real Google killer.

nostr:npub1sx9rnd03vs34lp39fvfv5krwlnxpl90f3dzuk8y3cuwutk2gdhdqjz6g8m is trying to do something along those lines, indexing the entirety of Nostr and making it searchable. https://twitter.com/MaxAWebster/status/1614003577730760704

Nostr infrastructure providers can also monetize their services via Lightning payments. When Nostr gets more users, relays may have to scale up their infra and charge clients for usage (worry not, there would most likely still be free relays and clients for the end user).

Orange Honeybadger and Purple Ostrich

Nostr doesn't need Bitcoin, and Bitcoin doesn't need Nostr. They're completely independent protocols. However, each one makes the other one better.

Bitcoin decentralizes money, and Nostr decentralizes free speech. With Nostr npub as a Lightning address, Nostr can become a directory for Lightning payments.

The creator of Nostr, nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 and many early Nostr developers are also Lightning developers, which seems to make the synergistic relationship inevitable. Bitcoin Lightning payments could be integrated to ANY app with nostr:npub19hg5pj5qmd3teumh6ld7drfz49d65sw3n3d5jud8sgz27avkq5dqm7yv9p . Once an app connection is created, the app can request bitcoin payments through a Nostr relay! 🤯 Open-source and non-custodial! With Nostr, all messages and commerce could be done in an open-source and self-custodial super app. Send remittances as an instant message! Sell goods via a tweet!

Crowdsourced Content Moderation?

What about content moderation? All humans should have the right to free speech, but no one should be obliged to listen.

Nostr relays can ban users, but these users can always find another relay to publish, or host their own. Since users are identified by their public key, they don't lose their followers if they get banned from a relay.

Bitcoin tips can also work as a crowdsourced content moderation tool. If a wide majority of users think that e.g. posting some images is unacceptable, maybe users wouldn't even see those posts because the web of trust doesn't grant them any tips.

Lacking Privacy Features

The downside of Nostr currently is the lack of privacy features. DMs on Nostr are encrypted, but the metadata (who you DM with and when) is public. This obviously currently hinders the prospect of secure bitcoin payments on apps using Nostr.

Also, relays and clients can collect users' IP addresses. The intention of this feature was to tackle spammers and bots (if enough spammy data comes from a single IP address, that address can be blocked.) Maybe best to normalize using VPN with Nostr?

Not Just Social Media

Decentralized social media is just the first instance: there are many Nostr-based competitors to established web2 corporate platforms: Twitch-alternative, GitHub-alternative, Meetup-alternative.. even a P2P bitcoin exchange nostr:npub1m0str0d7z2ww8rdh20t2n9lx520xjwhaq24p68umqp06wwrwtsnqen40un!

X (Twitter) could also benefit from becoming a Nostr client. It could partially solve the content moderation problems it is having:

→ If the user-generated content was on Nostr, maybe X wouldn't have to resort to censorship when facing government pressure?

Easy for Developers

Are you a developer? Starting out with Nostr is easy. Any junior dev can build a functioning simple client in a couple of hours.

Here's a great website called Nostr Apps to discover the world of Nostr: What do you think about Nostr?

Will it replace the internet as we know it today?

Additional Resources

nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays by Nostr's Creator fiatjaf nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6

A 2-Minute Video Introduction to Nostr by LNbits

Nostr, an Introduction

Why I'm Betting Big on Nostr by Max Webster from Hivemind Ventures nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3

Why Nostr Matters by Jameson Lopp nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp

The NOSTR Protocol: Social Media 3.0 by Jessica Chasteen nostr:npub1r8wdfruydenz84fxfespcswuhcvyatx6umtd5xguexup49u500xskf50hn

Nostr Resources by Dollar Parity

Project Information

Website GitHub

@ 577781c0:fdc71ebd

Often something like "get outside and touch grass" is posted online encouraging folks to, well, get outside, get offline, touch nature, and live. Essentially, it's a shortened version of Thoreau's Walden.

Henry David Thoreau on touching grass.

Source: https://forestnation.com/blog/transcendentalist-walk-woods-ecology-lesson-plan/ and the broader quote from https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2690-i-went-to-the-woods-because-i-wished-to-live:

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...”

Anyway, this is essentially what my wife and I did yesterday. We loaded the kayaks, drove, got a little lost, got found, launched, paddled, found a remote spot, picnicked. Skinny dipping was considered, but that is unconfirmed.

@ 0f1b5961:868242bd

Ever since reading Darwin's Origin of Species a couple years ago, one part of the book has always stuck with me. In the seventh chapter, Instinct, Darwin says that certain species of ants appeared "fatal" to his entire theory. Here is a longer quote from the section:

I will ... here ... confine myself to one special difficulty, which at first appeared to me insuperable, and actually fatal to my whole theory. ...neuters or sterile females in insect-communities: for these neuters often differ widely in instinct and in structure from both the males and fertile females, and yet, from being sterile, they cannot propagate their kind. — Origin of Species, Chapter VII, Page 236

The idea that all of the genetic information of these sterile ants had to be passed along, but not expressed, by the breeding males and females was a difficult challenge. Darwin had been focusing on natural selection at the level of the individual organism, but a sterile ant has exactly zero fitness when analyzed at this level. As an individual organism, it can't pass on its genes!

This led Darwin to expand his concept of natural selection in the following way:

This difficulty, though appearing insuperable, is lessened, or, as I believe, disappears, when it is remembered that selection may be applied to the family, as well as to the individual, and may thus gain the desired end. — Origin of Species, Chapter VII, Page 237

I think this example really stuck with me because it represents one of the main biases of the conventional Darwinian approach. It seems like the more intuitive a form of natural selection is the more its power is overestimated. Darwin was overcommitted to natural selection at the level of the individual organism and didn’t really consider selection at the level of the family until forced by a real world example.

I said “intuitive” forms of natural selection are overestimated, but I think these could also be described as “low order”, “tangible”, “concrete”, or “basic”. It’s part and parcel with the dawning insight that the enlightenment project overcommitted to bottom-up explanations and neglected top-down ones.

I think this is important because we stand at a moment where the popularized mathematical explanations of how life develops are breaking down. It becoming clear that life has the ability to move through the combinatorial genetic space staggeringly fast in a way that simply must deny a blind search through random mutation.

Perhaps a top-down natural selection can cover some of the distance present by this obstacle that is coming into focus.

@ 0861144c:e68a1caf

Lot of debates has been surrounding the Donald Trump veredict and how can affect our markets a decision of one running president[^1] who support openly cryptocurrencies in general and my friends...the answer is the same we give each time these kind of topic is opened:

Bitcoin is for me Bitcoin is for my family Bitcoin is for my friends Bitcoin is for terrorists Bitcoin is for help Gaza citizens Bitcoin is for Israel Bitcoin is for my enemies

Why?

• Bitcoin is for me, it helps my economy and prevents that inflation come and eat all my savings. As a said in other posts, I don't invest but save money with bitcoin. It's the best.
• Bitcoin is for my family, I teach them about hard money and the inflation. It's an ongoing work and I want the security I have with bitcoin for theirs.
• Bitcoin is for my friends, each time they approach to me asking me the basic stuff of crypto, I ask them not to see rainbows and fall in the charm of buzzwords; I don't have control over their actions but I try my best with them.
• Bitcoin is for terrorists...well, what your government call terrorism. Imagine being arrested for money laundering, imagine you're helping terrorism because you...write code.
• Bitcoin is for all Gaza citizens who needs your help, people suffering and right now a piece of hope in form of sats comes handy.
• Bitcoin is for Israel, who is struggling since always their right to have a piece of land[^2] and fought inflation in the past.
• Bitcoin is for my enemies, for the Lazarus Group and Donald Trump[^3]

Oh, you don't like that way? Well my dear friend, the exit is called fiat money, supported by high centralized moral standards.

[^1]: I'm not too much political guy but I think he'll win, I'll bet later on that with my sats. Democracy is overrated :) [^2]: I know you don't like what you're reading, I smell it from here [^3]: Did you consider it that, from now on, he's a criminal using bitcoin? It's funny now that I'm writing. BTW, I consider Trump a threat to democracy but hey!...that's the beauty of the systerm, you can disagree.

@ 4c96d763:80c3ee30

Here's a quick script for generating git shortlog longform notes on git push. It currently powers the Damus Code nostr account:

Let's say you are hosting a bare git repository on a server at git/project. You can add a post-receive hook that generates a longform note when you push to the server:

In server:git/project/hooks/post-receive:

```bash

!/usr/bin/env bash

commit_body="" last="" project="my-project" # update this with your project name sec="abcdef..." # update this with your secret key branch="master"

while read oldrev newrev refname; do branch=$refname last=$newrev relays="wss://relay.damus.io wss://nos.lol" commit_body=$(git shortlog $oldrev..$newrev | awk -f /home/user/markdown-shortlog.awk) done

if [[ $branch == "refs/heads/master" ]]; then

nostril --content "# Changes

$commit_body" \ --envelope \ --kind 30023 \ --tag title "$project" \ --tag summary "Latest codebase changes to $project" \ --tag t gitlog \ --sec $sec \ | nostcat --connect-timeout 1000 $relays fi ```

you'll need nostril, nostcat, and markdown-shortlog.awk:

```awk /^[^ ]/ { if (author) { print "" } author = $0 print "## " author }

/^ / { print "-" substr($0, 6) } ```

Now when you push, it will generate a longform note that looks something like this:

Example

William Casarin (10):

• fix warnings
• readme: add usage
• textmode: fix coloring of abbreviated names
• profiling: update puffin version
• refactor: move note into its own widget
• refactor: rename widgets to ui
• ui: simplify note widget
• get all missing ids from all timelines
• initial inline note previews
• fix until filters

kernelkind (6):

• Add custom visual themes
• Add modular custom text styles
• Apply app style to AccountLoginView
• Add MobileAccountLoginView
• Refactor 'ui tests' conception to previews
• Use custom style in app

@ b804f68e:2fb0fa1f

The main reason you struggle to stop something you "know" is bad for you, or to continue something you "know" is good for you, is because you don't actually know. True knowledge goes beyond hearing it once, reading it somewhere, or being told it’s good or bad.

I used to be a sucker for sweet things. Luckily, my mom limited my access to sugary snacks when I was young. But as I grew older, I made up for lost time, indulging in sweets, particularly Japanese sodas. In England, I snacked on English sweets all the time. Oh, and those energy drink sodas called Lucozade—I was a complete sucker for them. I had so many that I ended up winning a Lucozade hoodie. Yeah I know, it was bad!

Even then, as an athlete, I thought, "I know it's bad for me, but I work out all the time, so it balances out, right?" Wrong!

Fast forward almost a decade, and I’m much fitter, stronger, and healthier than I was at 18. The difference? I took the time to learn, apply, and understand the actual knowledge about things labeled as good or bad for you. With sugar, once I understood what it is and why it could harm my body and brain, it was easier to lay off it. Now, I only eat sweets knowing the potential cons or I might consume sugar when I need immediate energy or to replenish my glycogen stores.

This approach applies to carbs as well, since sugars are a form of carbohydrate. Carbs consist of glucose, a monosaccharide that our body uses for energy. Sucrose, or table sugar, is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose. Glucose can be used immediately for energy but can cause harm if it stays in the bloodstream too long. High blood sugar levels can lead to insulin resistance and diabetes. Table sugar is often considered worse because fructose can only be metabolized by the liver, potentially causing issues like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Given our high sugar consumption today, it's easy to overdo it. Understanding why sugar is bad has turned me off from drinking soda completely, and I probably won't touch one again.

The same principle applies to maintaining good habits. You need to understand why something is good for you to find purpose and direction. I heard cold showers were beneficial, so I tried them. But without understanding their benefits, I lacked consistency. Once I learned and understood their purpose, I became consistent. Now, my body and brain know the benefits, urging me to take cold showers.

If you struggle to quit a bad habit or maintain a good one, it's because you just don't know. You might think you know it’s good or bad for you, but in reality you don't truly understand and that ultimately shows in your inability to stay consistent.

The great news though is that if I can do it, then absolutely so can you, and you, and even you! Choose one thing that you've been struggling to quit or wanting to start, and take the time to learn about it. The reason why Stackers are consistent with stacking sats is because we've all done our due diligence to learn about Bitcoin, about the fiat system, and about all the other subjects that we come across in the rabbit hole journey. Same goes with developing healthy habits and kicking bad ones to the curb for good, we have to know exactly why we are doing it.

Knowledge is power.

@ b804f68e:2fb0fa1f

This thought came to me while a YouTube ad of Tony Robbins abruptly interrupted a video I was watching. I skipped past the ad, but from the 5 seconds I was forced to watch, it seemed like Robbins was about to pitch his course on how to escape the 9 to 5 grind at the low cost of whatever.99! This got me thinking: this is the new product of an "ideal life" we are being sold. The previous version of the "ideal life"—the good old 9 to 5 with degrees, promises of a stable income, a house, a nice car, a family, and retirement—isn't as fashionable or in demand as it once was.

Instead, the new and improved version is to buy into products that promise to teach you how to be "financially free," "how to work wherever you want, whenever you want," "how to invest so your money works for you instead of you working for it," and so on. The product list and possibilities of advertisement are as plentiful as there are influencers.

I'm not saying this to mock those who refuse to settle for a 9 to 5, because I, too, don't see myself settling for the conventional 9 to 5. On the flip side, I know plenty of people who have found success, fulfillment, and meaning in life going the 9 to 5 route. I'm just expressing an observation: the life path we choose may come down more to conditioning and being sold an artificial representation of a happy life than to a conscious choice made from free will.

@ 0861144c:e68a1caf

El cansado reflexiona y no hace nada para crear un para-algo. Con el consumismo de hoy, el cansado no reflexiona y hace algo para-nada

Ahorrar tiene demasiados significados aventajados para la época. Los esclavos ahorraban de su mísera paga para comprarse su libertad, los comerciantes iban a depositar todo lo que tenían a los banqueros en busqueda del apalancamiento y más importante de todos: el ahorro te descontaba el futuro, te lo hacía fácil de digerir y hay caídas, te ayuda a caer en buenos términos. Entonces, ¿que pasa que hoy te parece insípido ahorrar y te ofrecen nuevos super-mega-proyectos usando buzzwords yadayadayada como si eso solucionara todos tus problemas?

Una reflexión para nada

En un post anterior, he defendido una perspectiva reflexiva de Byung-Chul Han acerca de bitcoin. Este filosofo, muy crítico al tipo de capitalismo que todo bitcoiner debería oponerse, nos enfatiza como la reflexión y la meditación han sido completamente desorientados de su propósito original al ponerle un precio a todo, donde la actividad del descanso ya no se trata de contemplar y descansar sino tomar una cerveza en un bar y consumir las promociones vigentes para hablar de futuros proyectos laborales.

¿Que va entre esto y bitcoin?

Bitcoin tiene una propiedad monetaria muy fuerte, arraigada en su propio código: la escasez. Esto nos permite hacer planificaciones a largo plazo, teniendo en cuenta cientos de miles de escenarios pero donde la propiedad monetaria no cambia, los eventos y jugadores si, la propiedad no. Vayamos al campo contrario donde tenemos lo que los mismos proponentes llaman una deflación dinámica, ¿que nos encontramos? Que los proyectos de ahorro no son bienvenidos tanto como lo son los de inversión.

La inversión es el nuevo ahorro del mundo fiat y eso se traslada al día de hoy en aquellos proyectos que necesitan liquidez hoy para morir mañana, por supuesto hablamos de las memecoins. Una cosa la cual aquí podemos aprender de un modo bastante pragmatico es que bitcoin y memecoins no pueden ir juntas, por eso bitcoin no es un vehículo de inversión. Explicamos esto.

Bitcoin como inversión: el caso de los ordinals

Mucho fuego se prendió alrededor del caso de los ordinals y las inscripciones durante casi 18 meses consecutivos en los entornos de bitcoin, puede que más. Resumen rápido: podemos incluir memecoins con BRC20, podemos poner NFTs gracias a los ordinals y podemos tener coleccionables por las inscripciones de la misma forma que lo hacen con Ethereum. Parecía buena idea, de hecho y si vamos al caso especifico, incluso los ordinals son superiores.

Intentaron hacer algo pero fue para nada. ¿La razón? Salió caro el experimento y vieron que simplemente moverse rápido en una red que proporciona seguridad no es lo mismo que moverse en Solana, Ethereum y otras ciudadelas donde la degeneración financiera es la norma. Bitcoin no sirve para eso, no sirve para invertir por que no puede darte rendimiento, no puede APYs ni puede darte intereses compuestos, solo puede darte una cosa y es la certeza de que tu dinero estará ahí cuando firmes con tus claves privadas, a prueba de confiscaciones, falsificaciones y emisiones inflacionarias.

Bitcoin como ahorro y reflexión

En un post anterior también he señalado como el ahorro es mejor vehículo que la inversión cuando hablamos de tenencia de bitcoins y es aquí donde la reflexión entra en proceso, donde bitcoin te permite comprar y dejarte llevar por la reflexión de la vida, por eso cuando Jameson Loop hizo un estudio acabado sobre la cultura maximalista descubrió que hay grupos que desean volver a costumbres que se van dejando de lado o tratos sociales que de repente ya no son bienvenidos en un mundo acelerado.

¿La razón? Una hipotesis que ha estado dando vueltas en mi cabeza es la posibilidad de que estas personas están nuevamente entrando en la reflexión social que, como sociedad, hemos reemplazado y automatizado todo, incluyendo la reflexión razonable por lo racional, donde se dictan normas técnicas igualitarias pero no equitativas, donde la racionalidad es apoyada con inteligencia artificial excluyendo la reflexión humana-social, los debates de este tipo lo único que agregan es algoritmos incomprensibles a la crítica razonable, generando un estéril debate racional donde solo existe unos y ceros.

Ese debate es el que se dejó de lado y cuando se renueva esto en diferentes estratos digitales, los internautas lo califican de absurdo, primitivo, troglodita y otros calificativos que van hacia lo antiguo pero desfasado negativo.

El debate en la comunidad bitcoiner nos permite tomar pasos y decisiones razonables en el tiempo, nos permite retomar debates inconclusos y que muchos ya dieron por cerrado sin más preambulo pero debemos traerlos de vuelta. Con bitcoin, esto se puede hacer dado que nos enseña a reflxionar sin perder la marca más importante de todas: todos verificamos la moneda en conjunto.

Bitcoin, en la inactividad de tu wallet, construye tu futuro. Bitcoin hace nada para-algo

@ b12b632c:d9e1ff79

One other day on Nostr, one other app!

Today I'll present you a new self-hosted Nostr blog web application recently released on github by dtonon, Oracolo:

https://github.com/dtonon/oracolo

Oracolo is a minimalist blog powered by Nostr, that consists of a single html file, weighing only ~140Kb. You can use whatever Nostr client that supports long format (habla.news, yakihonne, highlighter.com, etc ) to write your posts, and your personal blog is automatically updated.
It works also without a web server; for example you can send it via email as a business card.

Oracolo fetches Nostr data, builds the page, execute the JavaScript code and displays article on clean and sobr blog (a Dark theme would be awesome 👀).

Blog articles are nostr events you published or will publish on Nostr relays through long notes applications like the ones quoted above.

• habla.news
• yakihonne
• highlighter.com

Don't forget to use a NIP07 web browser extensions to login on those websites. Old time where we were forced to fill our nsec key is nearly over!

For the hurry ones of you, you can find here the Oracolo demo with my Nostr long notes article. It will include this one when I'll publish it on Nostr!

https://oracolo.fractalized.net/

How to self-host Oracolo?

You can build the application locally or use a docker compose stack to run it (or any other method). I just build a docker compose stack with Traefik and an Oracolo docker image to let you quickly run it.

The oracolo-docker github repo is available here:

https://github.com/PastaGringo/oracolo-docker

PS: don't freak out about the commits number, oracolo has been the lucky one to let me practrice docker image CI/CD build/push with Forgejo, that went well but it took me a while before finding how to make Forgejo runner dood work 😆). Please ping me on Nostr if you are interested by an article on this topic!

This repo is a mirror from my new Forgejo git instance where the code has been originaly published and will be updated if needed (I think it will):

https://git.fractalized.net/PastaGringo/oracolo-docker

Here is how to do it.

1) First, you need to create an A DNS record into your domain.tld zone. You can create a A with "oracolo" .domain.tld or "*" .domain.tld. The second one will allow traefik to generate all the future subdomain.domain.tld without having to create them in advance. You can verify DNS records with the website https://dnschecker.org.

2) Clone the oracolo-docker repository:

bash git clone https://git.fractalized.net/PastaGringo/oracolo-docker.git cd oracolo-docker

3) Rename the .env.example file:

bash mv .env.example .env

4) Modify and update your .env file with your own infos:

```bash

Let's Encrypt email used to generate the SSL certificate

LETSENCRYPT_EMAIL=

domain for oracolo. Ex: oracolo.fractalized.net

ORACOLO_DOMAIN=

Npub author at "npub" format, not HEX.

NPUB=

Relays where Oracolo will retrieve the Nostr events.

Ex: "wss://nostr.fractalized.net, wss://rnostr.fractalized.net"

RELAYS=

Number of blog article with an thumbnail. Ex: 4

TOP_NOTES_NB= ```

5) Compose Oracolo:

bash docker compose up -d && docker compose logs -f oracolo traefik

bash [+] Running 2/0 ✔ Container traefik Running 0.0s ✔ Container oracolo Running 0.0s WARN[0000] /home/pastadmin/DEV/FORGEJO/PLAY/oracolo-docker/docker-compose.yml: `version` is obsolete traefik | 2024-05-28T19:24:18Z INF Traefik version 3.0.0 built on 2024-04-29T14:25:59Z version=3.0.0 oracolo | oracolo | ___ ____ ____ __ ___ _ ___ oracolo | / \ | \ / | / ] / \ | | / \ oracolo | | || D )| o | / / | || | | | oracolo | | O || / | |/ / | O || |___ | O | oracolo | | || \ | _ / \_ | || || | oracolo | | || . \| | \ || || || | oracolo | \___/ |__|\_||__|__|\____| \___/ |_____| \___/ oracolo | oracolo | Oracolo dtonon's repo: https://github.com/dtonon/oracolo oracolo | oracolo | ╭────────────────────────────╮ oracolo | │ Docker Compose Env Vars ⤵️ │ oracolo | ╰────────────────────────────╯ oracolo | oracolo | NPUB : npub1ky4kxtyg0uxgw8g5p5mmedh8c8s6sqny6zmaaqj44gv4rk0plaus3m4fd2 oracolo | RELAYS : wss://nostr.fractalized.net, wss://rnostr.fractalized.net oracolo | TOP_NOTES_NB : 4 oracolo | oracolo | ╭───────────────────────────╮ oracolo | │ Configuring Oracolo... ⤵️ │ oracolo | ╰───────────────────────────╯ oracolo | oracolo | > Updating npub key with npub1ky4kxtyg0uxgw8g5p5mmedh8c8s6sqny6zmaaqj44gv4rk0plaus3m4fd2... ✅ oracolo | > Updating nostr relays with wss://nostr.fractalized.net, wss://rnostr.fractalized.net... ✅ oracolo | > Updating TOP_NOTE with value 4... ✅ oracolo | oracolo | ╭───────────────────────╮ oracolo | │ Installing Oracolo ⤵️ │ oracolo | ╰───────────────────────╯ oracolo | oracolo | added 122 packages, and audited 123 packages in 8s oracolo | oracolo | 20 packages are looking for funding oracolo | run `npm fund` for details oracolo | oracolo | found 0 vulnerabilities oracolo | npm notice oracolo | npm notice New minor version of npm available! 10.7.0 -> 10.8.0 oracolo | npm notice Changelog: https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v10.8.0 oracolo | npm notice To update run: npm install -g npm@10.8.0 oracolo | npm notice oracolo | oracolo | >>> done ✅ oracolo | oracolo | ╭─────────────────────╮ oracolo | │ Building Oracolo ⤵️ │ oracolo | ╰─────────────────────╯ oracolo | oracolo | > oracolo@0.0.0 build oracolo | > vite build oracolo | oracolo | 7:32:49 PM [vite-plugin-svelte] WARNING: The following packages have a svelte field in their package.json but no exports condition for svelte. oracolo | oracolo | @splidejs/svelte-splide@0.2.9 oracolo | @splidejs/splide@4.1.4 oracolo | oracolo | Please see https://github.com/sveltejs/vite-plugin-svelte/blob/main/docs/faq.md#missing-exports-condition for details. oracolo | vite v5.2.11 building for production... oracolo | transforming... oracolo | ✓ 84 modules transformed. oracolo | rendering chunks... oracolo | oracolo | oracolo | Inlining: index-C6McxHm7.js oracolo | Inlining: style-DubfL5gy.css oracolo | computing gzip size... oracolo | dist/index.html 233.15 kB │ gzip: 82.41 kB oracolo | ✓ built in 7.08s oracolo | oracolo | >>> done ✅ oracolo | oracolo | > Copying Oracolo built index.html to nginx usr/share/nginx/html... ✅ oracolo | oracolo | ╭────────────────────────╮ oracolo | │ Configuring Nginx... ⤵️ │ oracolo | ╰────────────────────────╯ oracolo | oracolo | > Copying default nginx.conf file... ✅ oracolo | oracolo | ╭──────────────────────╮ oracolo | │ Starting Nginx... 🚀 │ oracolo | ╰──────────────────────╯ oracolo |

If you don't have any issue with the Traefik container, Oracolo should be live! 🔥

You can now access it by going to the ORACOLO_DOMAIN URL configured into the .env file.

Have a good day!

Don't hesisate to follow dtonon on Nostr to follow-up the future updates ⚡🔥

See you soon in another Fractalized story!
PastaGringo 🤖⚡

@ f77dfdcf:17e93422

Proof of Work เป็น concept ที่คนที่เคยศึกษาการทำงานของ bitcoin อาจจะเคยได้ยินผ่านหูมาบ้าง แต่จริง ๆ แล้ว สิ่งนี้สามารถนำมาประยุกต์ใช้กับชีวิตประจำวันของเราได้อย่างเป็นธรรมชาติมาก

Proof of Work สำหรับ bitcoin เอาแบบสั้น ๆ คือ การที่เราเจอ ตัวเลขที่ถูกต้อง (Proof) ซึ่งได้จากการขุด ที่จะเกิดขึ้นได้โดยการใช้พลังงานและเวลาของเครื่องขุดในการคำนวณตัวเลข (Work)

ยิ่งมี Proof of Work ใน chain เยอะขึ้น ก็ทำให้ transaction มี confirmation มากขึ้น

ถ้าจะให้เขียนให้ครบจบตรงนี้ คนอ่านน่าจะตาลอย แนะนำให้ลองอ่านต่อใน Inventing Bitcoin ดูครับ

พอเราซูมออกมาเป็นภาพกว้าง ๆ Proof of Work จะหมายถึง “หลักฐาน” ที่เกิดขึ้น จากการทำ “งาน”

งาน (Work)ในที่นี้ คือ การลงทุนทาง “เวลา” ไปกับการทำส่ิง ๆ หนึ่ง ซึ่งจะได้ผลตอบแทนเป็น Proof of Work ในรูปแบบใดรูปแบบหนึ่ง

Proof ที่พูดถึง ไม่จำเป็นต้องเป็นชิ้นงานที่มองเห็นหรือจับต้องได้ มันอาจจะหมายถึงทักษะ ความรู้ หรือ ประสบการณ์ ก็ได้

ตัวอย่างในชีวิตประจำวันชัด ๆ เลยก็อย่างเช่น

• การที่บางคนที่มีหุ่นดี สุขภาพแข็งแรง มีกล้ามเนื้อกำยำ ก็เป็น Proof of Work ของการออกกำลังกาย กินอาหารที่ดี และความมีวินัย
• การที่เราเรียนรู้เรื่องใหม่ ๆ แล้วเรารู้สึกว่ายังไม่แน่ใจกับสิ่งที่รู้ เราเลยศึกษาเพิ่ม สิ่งนี้ก็เป็นการเพิ่ม Proof of Work ตัวเรา ซึ่งคือ knowledge ของสิ่งนั้น ทำให้เรามั่นใจในองค์ความรู้นั้น ๆ มากขึ้น และสามารถนำไปส่งมอบ valueให้กับคนอื่น ๆ ได้
• หรือจะเป็นการฝึกทักษะการทำงาน ถ้าเรารู้ว่ายังไม่เก่ง Work ที่เราจะทำเพิ่ม ก็คือการหมั่นฝึกฝน และ Proof of Work ที่ได้ คือ ทักษะที่ดีขึ้นของเรา พอมองแบบนี้ เราจะชั่งน้ำหนักได้ง่ายขึ้น ว่าเราอยากจะลงทุนเวลาของเราไปกับ Proof of Work แบบไหน เพราะทุกคนย่อมอยากได้ผลตอบแทนที่คุ้มค่าจากการลงทุน

แต่มันมีข้อสังเกตอยู่อย่างหนึ่ง คือ เราต้องมองให้ออก ว่าอะไรเป็น Proof of Work จริง ๆ ของแต่ละสิ่ง

อย่างบางที เราบอกว่า เราเข้าใจเรื่องนี้นะ เพราะเราเคยเรียนคลาสนี้มา และเราอาจจะคิดว่าเอารูปถ่ายหรือประกาศนีย์บัตรมันเป็น Proof of Work ได้ แต่จริง ๆ แล้วไม่น่าใช่ มันคือ Proof of อะไรไม่รู้

อ่ะ ๆ มันอาจจะเป็น Proof ว่าเราเคยไปเรียนมาจริง อันนี้ยอมรับได้ แต่ไม่ใช่ว่ามันจะเป็น Proof ว่าเราเข้าใจเรื่องนั้นได้โดยตรง

เพราะ Proof ของ Work ที่เรากำลังพูดถึง มันคือ knowledge ที่อยู่ในหัวเรา ถ้าเราอยากโชว์ว่ามี Proof of Work จริง ๆ เราต้องเอาสิ่งที่ได้เรียนรู้ มาแชร์ให้คนอื่นฟังได้

และสังเกตดี ๆ จะเห็นว่า Proof of Work ที่ได้พวกนี้ มันเป็นสิ่งที่จะติดไปกับตัวเราทั้งหมดเลย มันจึงเกิดเป็น quote ที่ว่า

“You are your Proof of Work”

ซึ่งสื่อว่า สิ่งที่เราเป็น ล้วนเป็น Proof of Work มาจากสิ่งที่เราทำทั้งสิ้น และยิ่งเรามี Proof of Work เยอะขึ้น เราก็จะยิ่งเติบโตขึ้นเรื่อย ๆ

บางทีเราสามารถมองได้ด้วยตาเปล่าด้วยซ้ำ ว่าใครมี Proof of Work ที่มากหรือน้อย เพราะมันจะมันสะท้อนออกมาในรูปแบบของความมั่นใจ

พอรู้จักสิ่งที่เรียกว่า Proof of Work แล้ว สุดท้าย เราต้องกลับมาถามตัวเอง ว่าสิ่งที่เราทำอยู่ มันกำลังให้อะไรกับเรา กำลังสอนอะไรกับเรา หรือมันจะมอบ Proof of Work ที่เราต้องการ สำหรับเป้าหมายของเราในอนาคตหรือเปล่า

พิจารณามันให้ดี และอย่าลืม

หมั่นสร้าง Proof of Work ให้กับตัวเอง

Reference

https://youtu.be/E0LYMhjHnBU?si=AY6ySrTy5t-OgYFT

@ 7bdef7be:784a5805

I wrote Oracolo (see the announcement below) because I was brainstorming about Nostr "long format" and thinking about how to promote it. There seems to be little love for this format, why?
Long posts should have interesting value because the author usually put effort into them, and are produced for a long-term fruition. In the end, blogging was one of the most productive strands on the web, and still holds considerable importance.

But in standard (kind-1) social clients they are rather hidden. I think many people don't even know they exist, they probably intuit something just because they see a particular formatting. This is quite evident if you compare the responses/zaps/reactions of the short notes with the long ones, the latter have far fewer interactions, a fact that I read as less exposure to readers.

Interlude: don't know what this "long format" stuff is?
Check https://habla.news or https://highlighter.com

I think the situation can be largely improved with some adjustments in kind-1 clients:

• Add a tab/section to the user's profile, next to the usual posts/responses, that lists only the long format notes;
• Highlight/pinning recent long notes in the user's profile to give them visibility; the user picture could also have a special mark that alerts about fresh content available;
• In the feed show the preview of long notes with a special design, and allow the user to read them in a separate/immersive view (or just link to njump.me);
• In an appropriate context (es. at the footer of a long note) invite the user to discover long format and post his own content;
• Offer a filtered feed that display only long format notes;

Finally, we should probably also evaluate and agree on a new labeling in clients, because “long notes” is self-explanatory but also a bit confusing next to "plain notes”. Perhaps “articles” might be a better term.

If clients bring more interaction on articles, content creators are naturally incentivized to invest their time in this area, thus increasing the production of in-depth content that may be of interest even to those who are not as involved in social media dynamics.

Memo for kind-1 clients: interoperability is our superpower and currently your are the main entrance to Nostr, so don't be fearful or lazy, please embrace it.

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@ fa984bd7:58018f52

I'm happy to announce that Shipyard is now roaming the nostr relays as a DVM.

Ok, what the hell does that even mean?

Ok, so DVMs, or Data Vending Machines, are just programs that take requests over nostr to deliver... well, data.

And what is Shipyard?

Shipyard, as it's slogan "A Quiet Place for Loud Ideas" implies, is a write-only Nostr client. One of the instrumental features that Shipyard.pub implemented was the ability to SCHEDULE posts and reposts. No more fighting to publish your notes to defeat the evil Timezone Cabal; you can write your note when you see fit, and then schedule so it's published whenever it makes most sense to you.

Groundbreaking stuff, I know.

Ok, so now, Shipyard's scheduling superpowers can be accessed as a DVM:

meaning that any Nostr client can now easily add scheduling capabilities without much fuss!

For example, this long-form post was actually written a day before it was published, and the publishing was handled by the Shipyard DVM.

How does it work?

Client developers can use NIP-89 to find kind:5905 DVMs, right now only Shipyard, and when a person wants to schedule a post they simply send the post via an encrypted DVM request to Shipyard. That's it, at the time the event's created_at timestamp reaches the event will be published to the specified relays!

What can it look like? Up to clients developers to decide; here's my take:

https://cdn.satellite.earth/e05f366b61b9b9b68f716eb297563e5dbbae6b7f7f73fdd5177a389bd2de36fb.mp4

@ b804f68e:2fb0fa1f

As I've gotten into writing more regularly, I've realized the majority of my 'writing' comes from typing things up on my laptop. It's my preferred method of writing as I find it faster to do but also kind of therapeutic being able to see my thoughts being transferred onto something visible and structured in real time. However, being that I probably type more than 95% of the time compared to physically writing pen to paper, I got curious and did a little bit of research on what may be the advantages and disadvantages of both. It would seem the primary difference is typing offers a faster and more time efficient way to write things out, whereas traditional writing is better suited for brain stimulation and development in regards to better memory retention, focus, and creativity. I don't know if I'll ever go 50/50 with my physical writing to typing ratio, however, with what I have just learned, I do feel it would only serve to benefit my life and overall writing ability if I increase the amount of physical writing I do on a regular basis.

Do stackers type or write more, or is it somewhere in between? And why so?

@ 6ad08392:ea301584

Release announcement & short overview

Two years, six drafts, and 125,000 words later, and The Bushido of Bitcoin is almost complete. 

Before the book’s release in Q3 of this year I will be doing a few things: 

1. Making it available for pre-order on Geyser. For the general paperback, digital and audio copies, it will save you roughly 50%. I will also include some limited edition options, like a short run of 21 leather-bound versions of the book. More on that in the coming weeks.
2. Drip-feeding snippets from the book, in the form of quotes, lessons, etymology progressions and insights, across all my socials. On Substack I’ll do longer form posts, on Twitter & Nostr, I’ll keep them more succinct, and finally, I’m reviving my Instagram to wrap the insights in beautiful, shareable, bite-size visuals. 
3. Jumping on a bunch of podcasts, both Bitcoin and not Bitcoin-related to dig into the content of the book. I’ve recorded with Breedlove already. Many more to come - and who knows, I may even revive my old Wake Up Podcast and do a few short episodes there too.

I want to treat this book as both an ongoing work and a piece of art. So alongside the book, I’m also going to produce some pieces of visual and physical art. The video trailer, alone, I promise will blow your mind., as will the warrior-samurai artwork I’m going to have commissioned in collaboration with some soon-to-be-announced artists. I’ll probably even do a tradings cards pack with Bitcoin Trading cards next year, and some other collaborations along the way. 

In any case, it’s been an incredible journey writing this book and I’m honoured to have had people like John Carter help me edit it, and Ross Stevens agreeing to do the foreword. I can’t wait to have the final version completed and in your hands.

For those who might be wondering what I am talking about…

**What is The Bushido of Bitcoin? **

This is a book I’ve been writing for almost two years now. Its genesis was a conversation I had with Erik Cason on my old Wake Up Podcast - also called “The Bushido of Bitcoin.” It was Episode 65: you can check out here. The inspiration for that episode came from a shared love of the book by James Clavell, called: Shogun (now a HBO series - which it seems they didn’t make woke..thank God), and of course we related the idea of Bushido (Way of the warrior: Code of Virtue) back to Bitcoin.

I felt that this was a seed of an idea, well worth watering. So after that, I decided to go on a history binge and start collecting ideas. What ensued was a real journey. I must’ve listened to a thousand hours of history books and Dan Carlin podcasts in the first six months and the concept began to form. But before I tell you what the concept is - let me tell you what it’s not.

This is NOT another book about the history of money, nor does it make an Austrian case for sound money, or an economic case for Bitcoin as sound money. Neither is it concerned with how Bitcoin works, or any of the technicals. We have enough of those books, and I don’t think I will add anything new to that corpus of knowledge. What this book IS about, is something so much deeper and more profound: The behaviour, virtue, culture and civilisation of greatness.

The book seeks to answer the question: “What happens when Bitcoin wins?”   What happens to those who rise to the top, and become the socio-economic elite of the world? 

• Will we become a new parasitic class? 
• Will we become self-indulgent degenerates? Or.. 
• Will become men and women of virtue?

The latter is not a given, and it’s certainly not enough to just say “Bitcoin Fixes This.” To become men and women of stature and character requires actively developing the virtues which give rise to a culture of excellence. This is the only way to reclaim and rebuild civilisation - complaining and wishing about the past won’t cut it.

Over the coming weeks, I will introduce you to the Ten Virtues that make up The Bushido of Bitcoin. The book of course is more complete, but I will hold nothing back. We’ll follow the historical and etymological genesis of these virtues with an in-depth analysis on how they were embodied by the greatest leaders and warriors throughout history. We’ll also draw lessons from this analysis that will help us navigate the road ahead.

What lies before us may be a “clown world” but hope is far from lost. We’ve been here before. Many times, and against greater odds. This is our generation’s opportunity for a re-conquista. 

The Bushido of Bitcoin is written to remind you there is something greater inside of you, and the only way through hell, is forward. I hope you find value in the up-coming content, and that should you pick up a copy of the book, it greatly inspires you. 

Thankyou Aleksandar Svetski

Per-order the book here: https://geyser.fund/project/bushidoofbitcoin Get a free introductory chapter here: BushidoOfBitcoin.com Follow my work here: Linktree.com/Svetski

@ 362ebffa:492e2719

Consciousness is the subjective experience arising from the brain (as the viewer, the beholder) While reality encompasses both the objective external world and our subjective perception of it.

The two are deeply interconnected, with consciousness shaping our experience of reality and reality influencing the state and content of our consciousness.

Therefor we do live in various bubbles of reality, my reality (my perception of reality) is my own.

What do you think?

@ 2ecde0a6:10022dcb

Opinion about KeepKey (hardware)

KeepKey is a hardware wallet with a high level of security and supports more than 40 different crypto assets.

The device provides a PIN code and recovery seeds. It has a feature where it switches your PIN code numbers from time to time, making it impossible for malware to copy our code. Also, the device has a system for trade where you have to press and hold to confirm the transaction to avoid external hacks.

KeepKey has only one button to manage it. This button is used for turning the device on and off. All the other processes can be managed through the mobile app. That includes entering your PIN code and setting up the recovery seed, which makes it very simple to use, unlike other complex wallets. The device has a wide screen that allows you to see the entire cryptocurrency address without the need to scroll back and forth. But it's easy to break or scratch if you don't have a protecting casing.

Its price is around $80.

But you have to remember that the device is a little big and heavy, compared to other hard wallets, so it's difficult to carry around with it.

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

Join the conversation!

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

About Nostr, email and subscriptions

I check my emails like once or twice a week, always when I am looking for something specific in there.

Then I go there and I see a bunch of other stuff I had no idea I was missing. Even many things I wish I had seen before actually. And sometimes people just expect and assume I would have checked emails instantly as they arrived.

It's so weird because I'm not making a point, I just don't remember to open the damn "gmail.com" URL.

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I remember some people were making some a Nostr service a while ago that sent a DM to people with Nostr articles inside -- or some other forms of "subscription services on Nostr". It makes no sense at all.

Pulling in DMs from relays is exactly the same process (actually slightly more convoluted) than pulling normal public events, so why would a service assume that "sending a DM" was more likely to reach the target subscriber when the target had explicitly subscribed to that topic or writer?

Maybe due to how some specific clients work that is true, but fundamentally it is a very broken assumption that comes from some fantastic past era in which emails were 100% always seen and there was no way for anyone to subscribe to someone else's posts.

Building around such broken assumptions is the wrong approach. Instead we should be building new flows for subscribing to specific content from specific Nostr-native sources (creators directly or manual or automated curation providers, communities, relays etc), which is essentially what most clients are already doing anyway, but specifically Coracle's new custom feeds come to mind now.

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This also reminds me of the interviewer asking the Farcaster creator if Farcaster made "email addresses available to content creators" completely ignoring all the cryptography and nature of the protocol (Farcaster is shit, but at least they tried, and in this example you could imagine the interviewer asking the same thing about Nostr).

I imagine that if the interviewer had asked these people who were working (or suggesting) the Nostr DM subscription flow they would have answered: "no, you don't get their email addresses, but you can send them uncensorable DMs!" -- and that, again, is getting everything backwards.

@ 126a29e8:d1341981

Esta es la traducción de una carta de Ross Ulbricht que se publicó en su blog en Septiembre de 2019. Podéis leer el artículo original aquí: https://rossulbricht.medium.com/bitcoin-equals-freedom-6c33986b4852

Algo especial sucedió en el primer año después de que Satoshi nos regalara Bitcoin. Algo que nadie esperaba y que muchos pensaban que era imposible. Intenta imaginar Bitcoin en aquel entonces, antes de que pudieras comprar cosas con él, antes de que hubiera un tipo de cambio, antes de que nadie supiera realmente qué pasaría con él, si es que pasaba algo. Bitcoin no empezó como dinero. Se convirtió en dinero, pero lo hizo de forma distinta a cualquier dinero anterior. A pesar de todas las cosas que Bitcoin ha hecho posibles, a pesar de todas las formas en que está cambiando nuestro mundo, no apreciamos plenamente o ni siquiera entendemos lo que sucedió en aquellos primeros días, cuando era sólo un juguete para geeks.

Cualquier otro dinero anterior al Bitcoin -en la larga historia de la civilización humana- se valoraba por razones distintas a su uso como dinero. El ganado en África, los sellos de correos en las prisiones, las conchas marinas y los metales preciosos se han utilizado como dinero y encajan en este patrón. La única excepción es el dinero fiduciario -algo declarado como dinero por una autoridad-, pero incluso las monedas fiduciarias nacionales estuvieron en su día respaldadas por algo con valor previo, como el oro.

Bitcoin cambió todo eso. Bitcoin no tenía ningún valor previo y nadie estaba obligado a utilizarlo, pero de alguna manera se convirtió en un medio de intercambio. Las personas que no entienden y se preocupan poco por Bitcoin pueden, sin embargo, aceptarlo como pago porque saben que puede ser utilizado para pagar por otra cosa o ser intercambiado por dinero convencional.

La gente suele mencionar las pizzas que se compraron por diez mil bitcoins y, en retrospectiva, se burlan del tipo que se comió lo que se convertiría en un almuerzo multimillonario. A mí me interesa más la persona que renunció a dos pizzas en perfecto estado por meros bitcoins. ¿Qué vio en esos bits y bytes, en esa firma digital de algo que la gente llamaba cadena de bloques? Lo que motivó al vendedor de pizzas pudo haber llamado también la atención de los primeros mineros, que no podían vender pero acumulaban alegremente. Quizá inspiró a los que simplemente regalaban bitcoins por miles. Fuera lo que fuese, era algo nuevo.

La teoría económica clásica dice que un intercambio no se produce a menos que ambas partes valoren más lo que reciben que lo que entregan. Entonces, ¿de dónde viene el valor? Bitcoin nunca debería haber despegado, pero lo hizo. Incluso un producto nuevo tiene algún tipo de valor, y los primeros en adoptarlo corren el riesgo de no obtener el valor de su dinero, pero aún así esperan ganar con el intercambio.

En cambio, los primeros usuarios de Bitcoin no tenían ni idea de lo que sabemos ahora. Todo lo que tenían era un sueño, una convicción y el entusiasmo suficiente para convertir un artilugio digital en un fenómeno multimillonario del que sólo estamos empezando a ver los efectos.

Te diré lo que creo que pasó, aunque lo cierto es que nadie lo sabe. Es casi magia que Bitcoin pudiera surgir de la nada y, sin valor previo ni decreto de autoridad, convertirse en dinero. Pero Bitcoin no se originó en el vacío. Fue la solución a un problema con el que los criptógrafos llevaban lidiando muchos años: Cómo crear dinero digital sin autoridad central que no pudiera falsificarse y en el que se pudiera confiar.

Este problema persistió durante tanto tiempo que algunos dejaron la solución a otros y soñaron en cambio con cómo sería nuestro futuro si el dinero digital descentralizado llegara a existir de alguna manera. Soñaban con un futuro en el que el poder económico del mundo estuviera al alcance de todos, en el que el valor pudiera transferirse a cualquier lugar con sólo pulsar una tecla. Soñaban con que la prosperidad y libertad dependieran únicamente de las matemáticas de una encriptación robusta.

Bitcoin nacía pues en terreno fértil y era reconocido por quienes lo habían estado esperando. Fue un momento histórico para ellos, mucho más importante que las pizzas o las facturas de la electricidad generadas por la minería. La promesa de libertad y el encanto del destino dieron energía a la comunidad inicial. Bitcoin se adoptó consciente y espontáneamente como dinero mientras nadie lo veía, y nuestro mundo nunca volverá a ser el mismo.

https://freeross.org

@ 3c827db6:66418fc3

With the previous articles, we found the disconnect between paid-for work and paid-for time. We also understood that if you want to get paid you have to provide work that is valuable for others. So when the person consumes the benefit of your work, the exchange happens value for value - work for sats. But what happens if the benefit that the consumer experiences is not a momentary but a continuous process? There are a few examples of this. I will start with the one that is not that captivating but still valuable.

Streaming services, like other industries, grapple with the limitations of the fiat payment system. The burden of fees and the absence of suitable technology for streaming payments have compelled them to adopt similar mitigations as other industries. This translates to charging users on a monthly basis.

With the Lightning Network, we have the technology to stream sats for content. No longer confined to monthly subscriptions, you pay for what you consume in real time. Whether you watch sporadically or binge extensively, streaming payments allow for a more personalized and efficient payment model. This way the creator of the content and the user have a direct connection for each minute the content is broadcasted. With streaming payments now you can say goodbye to subscription payments.

Unveiling A New Era Of Fair Compensation And Accountability In Movie Production

Imagine you've created a movie or documentary. Traditionally, you'd charge people for a ticket, essentially asking them to pay upfront for future value, creating a slight disconnect. Now, with streaming payments using sats, consumers can pay as they watch. If your movie sucks, they might only pay for the first 30 minutes. However, you still receive value, and viewers won't feel overcharged for something they didn't enjoy. If your movie is great they not only stream sats the whole time but at the end, they leave a tip.

On the receiving side of the movie most people involved in it received a salary for doing their job. As we already know this is not aligning the whole structure in the same direction. Some people do not care at all how good the movie is if they have already been paid and do not receive a bonus further. Some people might care about reputation in the market but very few just want to do the best job. Again, we went through this, and as you are guessing you just do a split payment in the backend where all the people in the credits actually receive sats or even milisatoshis based on their contribution. This was something I did not expect that Bitcoin would disrupt. This way the reputation is directly linked to the payment and a lot more people will fight to have the best movie. You can be someone who contributed to a project and wants to stay anonymous for whatever reason but still receive money - Lightning instant settlement is the way to do it.

These concepts should not be new if you read through the last 3 articles. In addition, people in the Bitcoin space are familiar with the Value for Value (V4V) podcasting and that is very close to what I am describing above. While the technology for podcasting is already in place, it's surprising how few podcasts leverage this technology to implement split payments effectively. They give that responsibility to some hosting service that decides to take a 5% split for themselves and the other 95% goes to the wallet of the show. Why not do the split the proper way? The hosting service provides value so they should get a percentage but if you are 3 people involved in the production of the podcast you should have that 95% split so it goes to those individuals. There's no excuse, especially for Bitcoin podcasts, not to make this effort and implement split payments appropriately.

The Dynamic Future Of Pay-as-you-go In Content Consumption

In this example, the pay-as-you-go model holds true for continuous experiences, like streaming. Now, let's revisit the movie example. If you're a theater, you are essentially the hosting provider for the movie. The quality of the theater experience can vary; one theater might have uncomfortable chairs, while another boasts luxurious massage chairs. The theater with subpar seating might receive a 3% share of the movie's streaming sats revenue, while the one with comfortable massage chairs might earn 5% for each sat stream paying for the movie. Furthermore, if a viewer activates the massage function of the chair, additional sats are streamed for each second that the function is on. I do not know the exact payment dynamics between theaters and movie studios but I bet there are prepayments and funds held at multiple points in the fiat payment process. With the adoption of the Lightning Network, theaters no longer have to prepay for movies to be projected on their screens. They can now observe which movies are most popular in real time and adjust their projections accordingly to optimize revenues. This benefits the consumer and optimizes profits for themselves and the creators of the movie.

Now you see the content gets its value stream for the continuous experience and everyone in the film industry will fight to give the best experience for the most amount of time. The better the experience the more sats flow their way. Due to the highly subjective nature of content, where one person might deem a movie subpar, another might label it as their favorite. This subjectivity is why I believe most content streaming will not have a predetermined price. Even movies may adopt the V4V model, similar to what Adam Curry is pioneering in podcasting. For instance, you watch a movie, and during the credits, a prominent QR code appears, allowing you to decide how much you want to send to the creators of the movie. You will listen to a song or a podcast the same way. Whether you predefine a streaming rate per minute or request payment at the end, both options are technically possible. However, the market will ultimately determine which option prevails as the better one.

Also, why not have a bidding competition for any event that has assigned seats? The person who bids the most for a ticket gets to be in the first row of the concert or a sports stadium. This way the subjectivity is left for all the viewers to decide how valuable it really is. This way it ensures a full stadium also because if there is no value in attending the event people are not going to bid for the seats or just pay 1 sat for it.

Revolutionizing Taxi Transactions For Drivers And Passengers Alike

The continuous experience or service for streaming could be anything in the physical realm. I will take a look at how instant settlement could look like in transportation services. One such transportation service is the taxi service. Even though Uber decentralized the taxi companies which is great they did nothing about decentralizing the payment process. Lightning Network fixes that and more.

With a streaming payment option for each meter of movement, taxi drivers no longer need to wait until the end destination to receive their payment. In a world of instant settlement, payment occurs as you go, eliminating the risk for the taxi driver regarding whether the passenger will pay at the end of the journey. While this might not be a groundbreaking improvement, there are several additional benefits to consider.

Why do most taxis operate with cash? Taxi drivers in most places need a POS device for the customers to be able to pay for a better user experience (UX). It may be a better UX but on the other hand, it creates problems for the drivers either way:

• They have to acquire clunky devices.
• They must pay payment processing fees, negatively impacting their margins.
• Operating solely with cash exposes them to the honeypot problem, carrying a substantial amount of money, and making them vulnerable to theft.

With an app tailored for the taxi experience and integrated with the Lightning Network, these issues become irrelevant. There is no need for additional equipment, no payment processing fees for receiving money, and no exposure to visible cash, reducing the risk of being a target for theft. Now you can have a better UX with better security and better margins - an additional benefit is that it will be paid with Bitcoin. Not only that but just like the example with the movie theater chairs drivers will be incentivized to make the travel experience even better. They can offer - to watch a movie, video games like PlayStation, or massage chair. If you choose to use those extra experiences on top of the travel experience you have to increase the sats streaming their way.

An additional benefit for the travel experience of customers arises when multiple passengers in a taxi have different destinations. Traditionally, the taxi meter ticks for the entire journey, and when the first person is dropped off, determining a fair amount for their portion becomes complex. However, with the Lightning Network, it's conceivable to streamline this process. Imagine a scenario where three passengers enter a taxi, each with distinct destinations. Each person scans a QR code upon entering, linking their streaming sats to the taxi app. The app manages split-receiving, dynamically adjusting the distribution of streaming payments based on how many people are in the taxi. As passengers are dropped off one by one, the app seamlessly adjusts the split-receiving, providing a fair and efficient payment solution for each individual's share of the journey.

Optimizing City Transportation With Streaming Sats

The proposed model of split-receiving through QR codes and streaming sats can extend beyond taxi services to other modes of transportation, such as buses. The idea is to calculate the average cost per mile (or meter/foot) for providing the transportation service, including factors like fuel, maintenance, and driver salary, and add a margin for profit. Passengers entering the vehicle scan a QR code, and the app dynamically adjusts the streaming payments based on the number of people on board.

For buses, this model allows for real-time adjustment of streaming payments as passengers enter and exit. If there are 30 people on the bus the split is between them. At the next stop, 10 people are dropped off and 5 people get on board - now the sats stream is divided by 25 people. As the number of people on the bus changes at each stop, the streaming sats are proportionally divided among the passengers. This approach can lead to more efficient and flexible city transportation. Late-night buses will be more expensive for the passengers because of the fewer riders, while buses during peak hours may offer a more cost-effective traveling experience as payments are shared among more passengers.

This system encourages transportation optimization around events, such as concerts or sports games, where private buses or minivans wait to fill up before departing. Routes can be dynamically adjusted because you will have a system tracking how many people are in the vehicles at what time and at what location on the map. Importantly, this data remains anonymous, as no KYC information is required for the Lightning Network payments.

The Streamlined Pay-from-a-distance

Now with this streaming money feature, it can be applied differently. Let’s go back to the taxi service for a moment. The pay-from-a-distance feature that is available in the Lightning Network can significantly enhance the experience of ordering a taxi. Instead of the traditional model where drivers wait patiently and charge fixed fees when passengers enter the car, this model introduces streaming sats from the moment the passenger accepts the ride. Here's how it works:

• The passenger places an order in the app, specifying the destination. Nothing new here.
• Drivers see the order and can apply for it, similar to platforms like Uber.
• Streaming sats start the moment the passenger accepts the driver, and streaming payments commence. This fee will be less than the actual transportation but the user is still paying for the service of the car coming to him and not the other way around.
• The taxi arrives at the passenger's door, and the streaming payments continue. There is a fee for waiting at the door per minute.

By shifting the waiting cost to the passenger, there's a strong incentive for both parties to be prompt, and the system becomes more efficient. Additionally, the passenger's responsibility to follow the car reduces operational costs related to alerting passengers via message or a call. Any inefficient time management becomes a cost for the passenger. This model aligns incentives for both drivers and passengers, creating a more seamless cost and time-effective taxi experience.

The concept of paying from a distance can be creatively applied to various scenarios, providing convenience and peace of mind. For instance, when it comes to sending your child somewhere with a taxi, traditional concerns about trusting them with money or the driver's reliability may arise. However, with the ability to stream sats for the ride, you gain real-time visibility on your device, tracking your child's journey and ensuring they reach the intended destination safely. This pay-from-a-distance feature extends beyond transportation and can be applied to other continuous services. For example, daycare services charge per minute, allowing you to stream payments in real-time, ensuring accurate and fair compensation for the duration your child spends there. Additionally, you can send a present to a friend, such as a massage session, and pay for it in a streaming fashion, covering the cost continuously based on the duration of the service. The flexibility of streaming payments not only offers real-time tracking and control but also opens up new possibilities for various services where charging per minute or duration is relevant. Those services can be paid on the spot or from a distance. image2

I know that now it looks like we are going backwards from the original point of never paying money for time. The key distinction here is that you may be paying for time past for the service but in that time you get a continuous stream of value (work done) so you are streaming value back to pay for it. In some cases the time spent is actually an accurate measure of the work done.

It's true that developing apps with such functionalities is technically feasible, and there might be entrepreneurs and developers willing to explore these possibilities. However, a significant challenge arises when considering custodial control over users' funds. Small startups might find it financially burdensome and complex to operate as custodians, potentially steering away from such responsibilities. This will take not only high responsibility but also a very big financial wall and expertise to obtain the licenses that comply with the ever-changing regulations. On the other hand, large tech companies with substantial resources could afford to take on the role of custodians, presenting both a business opportunity for them and a risk for the users. The move by some tech giants, like X(formerly Twitter), to obtain such licenses can be seen as a strategic measure for self-preservation over their own finances. This is also an opportunity to consolidate control over not only user data but user finances within their platforms.

The Breez SDK offers a powerful solution, empowering developers to create diverse applications without having to worry about payment intricacies. Its non-custodial nature is a key advantage, eliminating the need for licenses. The infrastructure of it is made in such a way that it is peer-to-peer so no one is holding money for someone else. The app developers focus on the experience within the app and just plug in the code. This combination of features gives startups a competitive edge and reverses the advantage held by large tech companies. While they go through the complex process of getting a license the startup can integrate the global payment network (the Lightning Network) in one day. Even if certain tech giants choose to lock users' funds within their applications, alternative options will continue to be developed, and users will have the freedom to opt-out. Just like people are choosing Bitcoin over fiat.

Now who is ready to give all of us those experiences in their app?

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Consistently writing on SN and Obsidian has underscored for me the critical role of application in the learning process. Writing allows me to visually process, reflect, analyze, and organize the myriad ideas generated within my brain. Through this ongoing practice, I can physically sense my improvement in articulating thoughts to others and myself, both in writing and speech. However, both forms of expression still require significant practice, especially the latter.

Before I began writing regularly, I didn't fully appreciate the importance of purposeful learning. Previously, I viewed reading a book, watching an educational video, or listening to a podcast as the primary components of learning. But these activities are merely the initial stimuli that prepare our brains for deeper engagement, much like a warm-up before a workout. True learning extends beyond passive consumption; it involves actively practicing and applying what we've learned, reflecting on our experiences, and continually revisiting the material to fill in gaps and deepen our understanding. Sharing and discussing our insights with others further enriches this process, as it exposes us to diverse perspectives and feedback we might not have considered on our own. For me, writing acts as the bridge that connects acquired knowledge to practical application.

After writing on SN consistently for over a month, I've come to realize what it truly means to learn and acquire knowledge. Writing daily has exposed gaps in my understanding, often revealing that I lack the depth of knowledge I assumed I had. When I reach the limits of what I know, I'm compelled to research further, which reinforces and expands my comprehension.

Even if you never write publicly, I believe everyone can benefit from the act of writing. The more I write, the more intentional my learning process becomes, and the more organized and structured my thoughts are.

@ 75da9402:77a65b5c

Empezare este articulo indicando que iba hacer publicado como un hilo en Twitter o X o como diablos se llame ahora por que mi intencion era trasmitir a otros que existe algo mucho mejor donde pueden empezar nuevamente a disfrutar de otra forma de comunicarse, pero mi sorpresa fue grande al momento de enviar el hilo de tweets, me salio el mensaje "no se puede enviar" usted debe UPDATE TO PREMIUM para atreverse hacer un post en esta empresa que protege la libertad de expresion...lol...(:-O). Como yo casi ya no escribo nada en X y lo uso solo para informarme de lo que pasa en mi pais, no sabia esta nueva limitacion. Ahora volvi a recordar por que deje de usarlo. Pero bueno, aqui voy a desahogar mi hilo para luego compartirlo en X, por que me van a leer quieran o no, jajaja.

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Te cuento una pequeňa historia.

Alguna vez me preguntaron por qué me gustaba Twitter (hoy X) más que otras redes sociales ya que yo era un joven audaz que siempre interactuaba ahi jaja. Y mi respuesta fue simple en esos aňos: Twitter es una selva digital donde se genera el debate público e informativo a nivel mundial y aqui puedo decir lo que yo quiera (pobre iluso). Pero luego las cosas fueron cambiando en mi RRSS favorita, en algun momento se convirtio en un hueco lleno de toda clase de basura digital de la cual habia huido siempre, hasta que llego un familiar mio a comprar la empresa y pense: AL FINNN... volveran los dias de gloria, y efectivamente algo parecio mejorar y con eso me conforme, pero aclaro que no me gusto al final el rumbo que tomo la empresa familiar después que mi tío Elon la compró pero es lo que habia en ese entonces y aguante. HASTA AHORA..

Te gusta twitter pero a la vez estás arto de lo mismo?

Hace meses hice 1 post de por qué me gustaba X, pero también explicaba el rumbo que está tomando el mundo de la tecnología con respecto a las redes sociales. Y ahora te explicaré de qué se trata.

Todo ha evolucionado en el mundo de la tecnologia a velocidad vertiginosa, por ejemplo tu tia antes enviaba un Piolin de BUENOS DIAS todas las mañanas en su muro de Facebook a sus amigos y familiares que la seguian, ahora hace lo mismo por el WAZA (grupo familiar que pasa silenciado por siempre) y si ya no lo hace es por que TU eres la TIA del Piolin ahora jajaja, pero volviendo al tema las RRSS no han evolucionado desde hace 20 años, ojo me refiero a la forma de generar contenido, monetizar y consumir, todo es lo mismo que cuando abrí mi cuenta de Twitter hacer 15 años. Han aparecido muchas otras RRSS si es cierto, #tiktok la última. Pero todas hacen lo mismo darte a ti el usuario: entretenimiento, distracción ludica y tal vez “informar”; y esto entre comillas por qué lo que lees, escuchas y te informas es lo que los dueños de estas RRSS, las marcas auspiciantes y quienes pagan su verificación quieren, NO lo que TÚ quieres. Ellos dictan y te “Sugieren el contenido que puedes ver” pero tu no te das cuenta y crees que lo que estas viendo es por que tu asi lo decidiste. Lo cual es una triste y deprimente mentira....

Y no es invento mío, te adjunto una entrevista a Jack Dorsey fundador de Twitter, donde él explica detalladamente por qué sucede esto que afirmó anteriormente. Léelo en tu tiempo libre, no tiene desperdicio. Usa traductor si no le haces mucho al inglés:

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

Y si te preguntas, Alguien está haciendo algo para mejorar esto? SI, un montón de gente (Jack incluido) y otros mas que aportan con muchos recursos: técnicos, económicos, tenologicos y sobre todo tiempo y amor a su profesion. Esta gente está trabajando en cambiar todo esto que esta mal y de ese esfuerzo en conjunto nacieron soluciones como Mastodon, Bluesky y Nostr.

Pero que son Mastodon, Bluesky y Nostr?

Mastodon y Bluesky son básicamente lo mismo, nuevas RRSS donde encuentras de todo. Nacieron con la idea de enfrentar a Twitter la primera, y mejorarlo la segunda como lo explica Jack en su entrevista. Pero al final terminaron teniendo lo mismo, es decir marcas asupiciantes, moderadores verificados y dueños o juntas directivas. Mas de lo mismo....

Nostr en cambio es el giro de tuerca que las RRSS y las comunicaciones humanas necesitan para el futuro, y de hecho Instagram (Threads) y otros ya lo están probando en sus plataformas lanzando puentes desde sus empresas para que sus usuarios tengan interoperatibilidad entre diferentes rrsss del fediverse.

-Y por qué sucede esto con Nostr?

Por qué Nostr no es una RRSS ni una empresa, ni tampoco tiene dueños o moderadores de contenido que dictaminan lo que puedes o no ver, leer, escuchar y consumir en tu feed, ya que es un protocolo de comunicación como los que usas para el correo, para navegar en internet, etc.

-Y que ganamos los usuarios?

Ganamos un largo etc. de beneficios para consumo de contenido REAL, mas humano y mas limpio, pero lo que si diré que NO encontraras es nada de lo que te tiene hastiado de las otras RRSS. Aquí un video que te gustaría ver para entender de lo que escribo:

https://youtu.be/aA-jiiepOrE?si=iaMu5K3qKqh_JxsR

Te interesa usar y aprender que puedes hacer con Nostr?

Te dejo unos link 🔗 para que empieces a explorar una nueva forma de comunicarse entre seres humanos. Usa alguno de estos servicios, pruebalos.

• Lives: https://zap.stream/
• Música: https://wavlake.com/
• Blogs: https://yakihonne.com/
• Podcast: https://www.fountain.fm/

Y muchas más aplicaciones y sevicios en: https://www.nostrapps.com/

Si lo tuyo es consumir contenido en algo como Twitter/X estás apps son para ti:

En iOS: - Primal: https://primal.net/ - Damus: https://damus.io/ - Nostur: http://nostur.com/ - NosSocial: https://nos.social/

En ANDROID: - Primal: https://primal.net/ - Amethys: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vitorpamplona.amethyst&hl=en

En WEB: - Primal: https://primal.net/ - Nostrudel: https://nostrudel.ninja/ - Snortsocial: https://snort.social/ - Coracle: https://coracle.social/

Debes saber que puedes con el mismo usuario y contraseña (en #Nostr se dicen llaves) puedes ingresar a TODAS las aplicaciones mencionadas en este articulo, y esto puede lograrse por que el protocolo es el mismo, es NOSTR.

Ya vas en tendiendo? no hay empresas, no hay dueños..😏, TU eres el dueño del contenido que produces y del contenido que consumes.

Quieres saber mas informacion sobre Nostr, visita estas web. Resolveran muchas de tus dudas.

https://nostr.com/ https://nostr.how/

Para terminar con este pequeño hilo... (te odio Elon) jajaja

Nostr esta empezando y tiene mucho por mejorar pero al dia de HOY ya existen cosas increibles que puedes hacer y son mejores que en otras RRSS y te aseguro algo, TODOS nosotros terminaremos tarde o temprano usandolo en el futuro, es inevitable si queremos evolucionar nuestra forma de comunicarnos.

Si tu quieres ser uno de los primeros en experimentar una nueva era de las RRSS. Anímate y empieza a usar NOSTR como TU quieras. Solo haz lo siguiente:

1. Descarga cualquier aplicacion en tu movil tipo Twitter detallada en este articulo.
2. Crea el Usuario (npub....) llave 1
3. Crea la contraseña (nsec....) llave 2
4. Guarda tus llaves, que no se te olviden. (anótalas)
5. Envia tu primer post colocando al final el hashtag #introductions
6. Y a disfrutar de #nostr

Si te gustó este hilo (Elon de >:{ #$%&) dale RT o cómo diablos se diga ahora 😂 o postealo y compartelo donde quieras para que mas gente lea sobre Nostr. Tal vez a alguien le interese.

Si deseas seguirme en #Nostr •𓅦

primal.net/p/npub1whdfgqn66sytcta0l6c7vlt3h2lg67xcnsmzpk3pyvpmsaaxtdwqr8vs60

Alla nos vemos...escríbeme y pregunta lo que quieras.

Saludos, johnny

@ ec965405:63996966

Re #introductions

For the next couple of months, the team at nos.social, led by @Rabble@nos.social, is supporting me in building engaging social media for my community with their new Nostr client. I'm an activist who is dedicating this season of my life to learning how computers and the Internet work. After stumbling across Nostr last year in search of better social media experiences, I entered a blogging contest with https://nostr.build and won a creator account. My interest and enthusiasm for this protocol has only grown.

RE #introducciones

Durante los próximos meses, el equipo de nos.social, liderado por Rabble@nos.social, me ayudará a crear una experiencia atractiva para mi comunidad con su nuevo cliente de Nostr. Soy un activisa dedicado a aprender cómo funcionan las computadoras y el Internet. Despues de encontrar a Nostr el año pasado en la busqueda de mejores experiencias en las redes sociales, participé en un concurso de blogs con [[nostr.build]] y gané una cuenta de creador. Mi interés y entusiasmo por este protocolo no ha hecho más que aumentar.

Liberation Tech

The world is having a moment right now. Social media is evolving into a tool for collective liberation. It couldn't have come at a better time. We have an opportunity to reconstruct a digital public commons. Tools like Nostr are blueprints for building resilient social media and represent a rejection of the factory of manufactured consent that defines our current political realities. A liberated fifth estate built on open protocols could channel people power into material improvements within our lifetimes. We are not going back to the way things used to be.

Tecnología de Liberación

Actualmente estamos viviendo un momento critical. Las redes sociales se estan evolucionando hacia una herramienta para nuestra liberación colectiva. No podría haber llegado en mejor momento. Tenemos una oportunidad de reconstruir la plaza digital del pueblo. Herramientas como Nostr son modelos para construir redes sociales resistentes y representan un rechazo a la fábrica de consentimiento manufacturado que define nuestras realidades políticas actuales. Un quinto estado liberado, basado en protocolos abiertas podría canalizar el poder del pueblo hacia un cambio material en el transcurso de nuestras vidas.

Explore my Asteroid

I host my main web page from an asteroid with Uberspace, a small team of supportive technologists who provide an affordable Linux server that runs on renewable energy. On it I run a personal relay for on-boarding my community to Nostr as well as learning to code. Find resources and more about what I'm working on at https://miguelalmodo.com.

Explora mi asteroide.

Mi pagina web principal se encuentra en un asteroide con Uberspace, un equipo chiquito de tecnólogos solidarios que ofrecen un servidor Linux barata que funciona con energía renovable. En él, gestiono un relevo personal para incorporar a mi comunidad a Nostr, además de aprender a programar. Encuentra rescursos y mas sobre lo que estoy creando en https://miguelalmodo.com

@ d830ee7b:4e61cd62

P.S. This article is translated from my original Thai article, which you can read here: My original Thai article

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Have you ever felt like you're running on a treadmill that's constantly tilting upward?

No matter how much you run, you never seem to get anywhere, and eventually, you just end up exhausted... That's exactly how many people feel in the traditional economic system.

Inflation eats away at the value of your money every day. Governments impose regulations on capital, ban this and that, force you to spend your money in ways they see fit, and then tax you heavily, as if they see citizens as "cash cows" to milk endlessly.

The money you work so hard for loses value every single day. You have to work harder to earn the same amount, and the government constantly monitors and controls our spending, erecting tax barriers that exacerbate inequality.

This is the world we're familiar with... a world where power is centralized in the hands of the government and financial institutions. They set the rules that control our money and determine our destiny.

If you're one of the people who are fed up with this system... then you've come to the right place!

From a Sinking Ship to a New World of Freedom

Back in 1997, two forward-thinking writers, James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg, wrote a book called "The Sovereign Individual." They saw the future and dared to tell us that the world was about to transition into the information age, an era where technology would disrupt everything... even "nation-states"!

It's a world where power will be decentralized, governments will weaken, and anyone can become "free" both financially and in how they live their lives. They called these individuals "Sovereign Individuals."

Sounds like science fiction from the early days of the internet, right? But in 2024... the world Davidson and Rees-Mogg envisioned is no longer a fantasy!

Think about it... every day we live more and more of our lives online. We work, shop, invest, and communicate across borders without intermediaries, without relying on the government. The internet has become like a new "borderless world", opening up opportunities for us to access information, connect with people, and generate income from all corners of the globe without being restricted by government rules or regulations.

As the book states, "The internet" will give rise to new businesses, new forms of work, and online communities that connect people worldwide. This aligns with their vision of "individuals" gaining more power in the information age.

Today, we see that the internet has created numerous opportunities for those who dare to be different and refuse to succumb to the system. People are working remotely, able to work from anywhere in the world (like the Right Shift team). Digital nomads travel the globe while working. E-commerce businesses thrive without physical storefronts.

The internet frees us from geographical limitations and allows us to connect with the world in ways never before possible. Isn't this the beginning of the "Sovereign Individual era"?

And Bitcoin is the crucial "weapon" for the Sovereign Individual in this age. It unlocks the shackles of the old financial system. You can send money to anyone in the world without going through banks, without worrying about exorbitant fees, and all while remaining safe from government interference.

It's like we have a "submarine" that helps us escape from a sinking ship!

But wait! Can a book written in the early days of the internet truly provide answers for the decentralized and technologically advanced world of Bitcoin?

The answer is... yes!

This book is still packed with sharp insights and powerful ideas that remain applicable in today's world.

Want to know what those insights are and how they can help you achieve financial freedom in the world of Bitcoin? Read the review in this article and look forward to the Thai translation by Piriya and his team in the near future!

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Before we move on... some of you might be wondering, "What exactly is a Sovereign Individual?" It sounds grand and impressive, but is it really something attainable?

Literally translated, "Sovereign" means "supreme ruler," while "Individual" refers to a "single person."

Combining these two words, "Sovereign Individual" can be literally translated as "supreme individual ruler," which I'll simply refer to as "The Great Individual." It sounds like they're kings or emperors, right?

But hold on... the meaning of "Sovereign Individual" within the context of this book doesn't refer to ruling over others. It means having the "power" to shape one's own life.

Think of kings in ancient times... they held supreme power in their lands, free to enact laws, collect taxes, and control resources as they pleased. But the "Sovereign Individual" of this era doesn't desire that kind of power. What they seek is freedom and the power to control their own lives without being subject to any government or system.

They are the "kings" of their own kingdoms!

Davidson and Rees-Mogg believe that "technology" is the key to empowering "individuals." It helps us transcend geographical limitations, access information, and connect with people worldwide directly, without intermediaries.

For instance, Bitcoin allows us to conduct financial transactions without banks. The internet allows us to work, learn, and generate income from anywhere in the world. As individuals gain more power, the power of governments diminishes. This is what Davidson and Rees-Mogg predicted in their book, and it's becoming a reality today.

Therefore, a "Sovereign Individual" is someone who can control their own finances without relying on banks or government-issued currencies. They can generate income globally without being restricted by borders or government regulations. They can shape their own lives, choosing where to live, work, and how to spend their time.

They are "free individuals" who refuse to be "slaves" to the system!

Hopefully, you're starting to understand the meaning of "Sovereign Individual."

Now, are you starting to feel the desire to become one yourself?

27 Years On, the Predictions Still Hold True (Especially Regarding Bitcoin!)

When I revisited this book in 2024, I was once again amazed by the foresight of Davidson and Rees-Mogg, who accurately predicted major changes far in advance. First published in 1997, this book predicted the transition from the industrial age to the information age, which would revolutionize social and economic structures.

Comparing the world in 1997, when the internet was just emerging, to the world in 2024, where the internet has permeated every corner of the globe, we can see that many predictions in this book are coming true.

The most striking example is the exponential growth of digital technologies. Smartphones, high-speed internet, and AI have become part of our daily lives, transforming the way we live, work, and communicate worldwide.

The small smartphone in your hand has more processing power than the computer NASA used to send humans to the moon! You can access information, connect with people worldwide, work, learn, shop, and conduct financial transactions anytime, anywhere. Many people may not recall where we were before this book was published...

In 1997, the internet in Thailand was in its infancy and not as widespread as it is today. Average internet speeds were quite slow, typically using dial-up modem connections over telephone lines, with a maximum speed of around 56 kbps (kilobits per second). Downloading large files or streaming videos was difficult and time-consuming (back then, just downloading a jpeg image was cause for celebration).

As I write this article... I'm using a 1,000 MB (1,000,000 kbps) internet connection. That's about 17,857 times faster than the average internet speed in 1997, or a whopping 1,785,614%!

Back then, popular internet usage in Thailand revolved around BBS (Bulletin Board System), online forums where users could exchange information, chat, and download files. Email was also gaining popularity as a means of electronic communication. Websites were starting to emerge, though their numbers were limited, mainly belonging to government agencies, universities, and large companies.

Communication in those days was still predominantly traditional, relying on landline phones, letters, fax machines, and pagers (anyone remember those? They were small devices for receiving short messages, popular among teenagers and businesspeople at the time).

So there you have it... Davidson and Rees-Mogg foresaw that these technologies would be crucial tools for liberating "individuals" from the grip of the state and the traditional economic system. No longer would they need to rely on or be controlled by governments or large corporations.

The book explained that in the information age, power would flow into the hands of those who could effectively control and leverage information, which are the "individuals." And "artificial intelligence" (AI) is one of the technologies that will play a critical role in enabling these non-conformists to control and utilize vast amounts of information with ever-increasing efficiency.

In their book, Davidson and Rees-Mogg recognized the potential of AI in work, decision-making, and innovation. They believed that AI would become a vital tool for pioneers to work smarter, make accurate decisions, and innovate rapidly.

Today, we see AI increasingly integrated into our daily lives, such as using ChatGPT and Gemini for writing, translating, and content creation, using AI trading for data analysis and stock trading decisions, or employing AI-powered tools in various tasks like design, video editing, and music composition.

AI is the "artificial brain" that will help us transcend human limitations and another essential "weapon" that self-reliant individuals in the information age must possess.

One of the most notable predictions in this book is the emergence of "digital currencies," and in 2024, Bitcoin stands as a clear testament to this prediction. Bitcoin is a decentralized currency, free from the control of governments and central banks, enabling us to conduct financial transactions without intermediaries, without worrying about expensive fees...

and most importantly... it's safe from government interference or confiscation (at least for now). Bitcoin utilizes encryption technology, ensuring highly secure transactions that are difficult for governments to hack or trace.

Davidson and Rees-Mogg saw encryption as a vital "shield" for those seeking to escape the shackles of the information age, where governments and organizations constantly attempt to spy on and control our data.

They used examples like data encryption to protect personal information and financial transactions from government surveillance, providing us with "private space" in the digital realm. In today's world, data protection is even more crucial as our information is scattered across the internet, vulnerable to theft or misuse.

We see the use of data shields in various forms, like VPNs to encrypt data while browsing the internet, privacy coins like Monero and Zcash that prioritize transaction anonymity, and end-to-end encryption in messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal.

Encryption is the "secret weapon" that helps us maintain privacy and security in the digital world, and another essential tool for those who defy the system.

Imagine living in a country with a highly controlling government that restricts freedoms and confiscates citizens' assets. How secure would you feel keeping your money in a bank? The emergence of Bitcoin provides an alternative. It allows anyone to truly own and control their own "money." Davidson and Rees-Mogg called this "financial secession," a crucial step in becoming self-determining individuals.

Beyond Bitcoin, the efforts to develop and utilize platforms like DeFi (Decentralized Finance) further exemplify Davidson and Rees-Mogg's vision. DeFi is poised to disrupt the traditional financial system with its intermediary-free financial platforms. Today, DeFi enables us to borrow, lend, exchange currencies, and invest in digital assets conveniently, quickly, and securely, bypassing the complex procedures and high fees of traditional banks or financial institutions (although DeFi, while intriguing, still has much to prove in the eyes of Bitcoin enthusiasts).

Davidson and Rees-Mogg didn't just focus on technology; they envisioned the impact on "people" and how lifestyles would change in the information age. Knowledge, skills, and adaptability would become more valuable assets than physical possessions.

Today, we see a growing number of young people choosing to become freelancers. They work online, generate income globally, and don't want to be tied down to any company or location. They have the freedom to choose their work, their working hours, and their workplaces. The book refers to these individuals as the "Nomad Class," a group of people who can live and work anywhere in the world.

Moreover, we see a migration of wealthy individuals and investors relocating to countries with more favorable laws and lower tax burdens. They no longer want to be "cash cows" for governments to exploit. They want to be "free individuals" who can control their assets and determine their own destinies. Examples include the significant number of wealthy individuals and entrepreneurs relocating to Singapore, Hong Kong, or Dubai, which offer business-friendly tax systems and robust economies.

All of this reflects the world Davidson and Rees-Mogg imagined, a world where the power of nation-states is being challenged and "Great Individuals" are rising to prominence. The world in 2024 proves that "The Sovereign Individual" is not just a science fiction novel, but a "blueprint" for the future that we must prepare for.

Why Bitcoin Is the "Weapon" of Those Who Seek to Shape Their Own Futures

In a world where technology is rewriting all the rules and borders are fading in the digital realm, the question arises: Is the power of nation-states still as strong as before?

The book suggests that in the information age, power will decentralize, governments will weaken, and "individuals" will play a larger role. They will have greater freedom to control their lives and assets. Bitcoin is a prime example of this shift. It's the "weapon" of those seeking liberation, unlocking the chains of the old financial system and paving the way to true financial freedom.

Even though the book was written in 1997, before Bitcoin's inception, its ideas surprisingly resonate with the philosophy of Bitcoin. Both emphasize "breaking free from government control" and "achieving financial independence." Davidson and Rees-Mogg foresaw that technology would lead to "decentralization" and empower "individuals" to have greater control over their lives.

The book explained that in the past, governments and financial institutions held control over the world's economic and financial systems. People had to rely on and accept the rules they set.

But in the digital age, technologies like "Bitcoin" have brought about a significant change. It allows anyone to own and control their "money" without intermediaries. Imagine a world where you don't have to rely on banks, where you don't have to worry about the government seizing your assets or controlling your finances... that's the world Bitcoin is slowly building.

Bitcoin operates on blockchain technology, a public ledger that records all transactions. This blockchain is distributed across a network of computers worldwide, making it impossible for anyone to control or alter the information.

There are three main characteristics of Bitcoin that align with the book's ideas:

Firstly, Bitcoin is a decentralized system with no central authority. No one can control, command, or seize your Bitcoin, whether it's a government, bank, or even Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin. The Bitcoin network is spread globally, making it difficult to block or control, mirroring the book's mention of the decline of nation-states and the rise of "microstates." Bitcoin could be part of this transformation by becoming the "currency" of microstates or independent communities.

Secondly, Bitcoin offers privacy. Although Bitcoin transactions are recorded on the blockchain, a public ledger accessible to everyone, your personal information remains undisclosed. You can conduct transactions anonymously, echoing the book's emphasis on "privacy" in the information age. Bitcoin empowers you to control your personal data and conduct financial transactions without revealing your identity.

Lastly, Bitcoin is secure. Bitcoin utilizes cryptography to ensure security, making it difficult to forge or hack data. Just as the book highlights the importance of "asset protection," Bitcoin's security and resistance to hacking make it a trustworthy "asset" for freedom seekers.

These three characteristics make Bitcoin more than just "money." It's a tool that empowers you to be a sovereign individual in the digital world. Let's look at real-world examples of Bitcoin usage that reflect the "Sovereign Individual" concept.

In Venezuela, which faced hyperinflation, people turned to Bitcoin as a store of value to protect their assets. This echoes the book's warnings about the dangers of inflation and government control over currency. Migrant workers use Bitcoin to send money back home without paying exorbitant fees to Western Union, cutting out intermediaries and reducing costs, aligning with the book's concept of "cost reduction."

(Read more about Venezuela's story here > Why are Venezuelans seeking refuge in crypto-currencies? )

Furthermore, NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) and activist groups use Bitcoin to raise funds globally without being blocked or censored by governments. Therefore, Bitcoin is not just a "currency" but a symbol of "freedom." It's a tool that empowers you to shape your own financial destiny and truly be your own boss.

Take, for example, WikiLeaks, the media organization founded by Julian Assange, which publishes leaked government documents. Traditional banks and financial institutions blocked WikiLeaks from receiving donations. Consequently, WikiLeaks turned to Bitcoin as a means to accept donations, allowing the organization to survive and continue its work despite government pressure.

Or consider #EndSARS, the protest movement in Nigeria against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for its abuse of power. The Nigerian government froze the bank accounts of protesters, prompting them to use Bitcoin as a means to receive donations to support the movement and assist affected protesters.

Human rights groups like the Human Rights Foundation use Bitcoin as a channel to receive donations from supporters worldwide for their work in countries where freedoms are restricted. Humanitarian aid organizations operating in conflict zones or countries with unstable financial systems find Bitcoin to be a convenient, fast, and secure way to send aid.

For instance, in Syria, Bitcoin was used to deliver financial assistance to war victims. Similarly, during the 2019-2020 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, numerous protesters and activists turned to Bitcoin to raise funds and evade tracking by the Chinese government.

In an era where Bitcoin is thriving and blockchain technology is reshaping the world, the ideas of Davidson and Rees-Mogg are becoming increasingly relevant. It serves as a reminder that true power is returning to the hands of "individuals."

Freedom... Doesn't Come with a Bonus

Of course, the path to becoming a "Sovereign Individual" or "Great Individual" is not paved with roses. Davidson and Rees-Mogg didn't just tell us about the good times; they also pointed out the obstacles and challenges that lie ahead.

It's like embarking on an adventure in a new land filled with treasures but also fraught with dangers at every turn. You must be prepared to face uncertainty and unseen enemies. One of the most significant challenges is the increased "responsibility" that comes with stepping away from the familiar and sometimes stifling traditional systems. We must be ready to truly become our own "bosses."

Imagine this... you might currently be an employee at a company where, despite a nagging boss and numerous rules, there's a system, benefits, and a steady paycheck every month. But if you choose to become a "free individual," you have to throw away those "crutches"!

There's no boss, no benefits, no regular salary. Everything depends solely on "you."

You have to make decisions, plan, and take responsibility for every action, from small things like time management to big things like investment, tax planning, and protecting yourself from various dangers. In this fast-paced world, continuous learning and self-development are indispensable. Pioneers must be like "explorers" who never stop learning and are always ready to adapt to change.

Because "knowledge" is the most powerful weapon in this new world.

Apart from the increased responsibility, the digital world, while full of opportunities, is also filled with "risks."

While blockchain technology and Bitcoin are known for their security and resistance to hacking, if you lose your private keys or accidentally click on a fake link, you could wave goodbye to your Bitcoin forever. Unlike being cheated by a bank where you might have a chance to recover your funds or file complaints with authorities, in the decentralized world... no one, not even the government, can help you!

You bear full responsibility for all losses.

Therefore, becoming a "self-determining individual" is not just about declaring independence and enjoying a carefree life. It demands "discipline" in managing your life, "knowledge" for making decisions, and "caution" in protecting yourself. It's like a mountain climber who must train rigorously, prepare equipment, and plan meticulously before ascending to the summit, because a single misstep could be fatal!

But the good news is... once you overcome these challenges, the rewards waiting for you are equally immense.

Financial freedom, control over your own life, and becoming the "king" of your own kingdom are the dreams envisioned in the book.

And the world in 2024 has proven that these are not mere fantasies!

Just look at Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, who dared to resign from his company to pursue blockchain and Bitcoin full-time. He chose to leave his comfortable "golden cage" with its hefty salary to chase his dreams and build the world he believes in. This is the true spirit of a "self-determining individual."

This example demonstrates that...

Individual sovereignty is not just about "money" or "power," but about "belief," "vision," and "taking action."

And in 2024... this book still offers invaluable lessons we can apply.

First and foremost, we must be "forward-thinking." The world is changing rapidly, and free individuals cannot cling to old frameworks. They must be willing to constantly learn and adapt to change. Furthermore, taking control of your own finances is crucial. Don't let governments or financial institutions control your life. Instead, learn to manage your money and invest wisely. Remember that relying on a single income stream is risky.

Therefore... it's essential to explore new opportunities and create multiple income sources from around the world. Technology is a tool that empowers you to be free, so learn and utilize it to its fullest potential. And finally, dare to be different, dare to challenge yourself, dare to step out of your comfort zone, and carve your own path.

This is not just a book; it's an idea that sparks hope and inspiration for "free individuals" worldwide. It's a "blueprint" for the future, and you can choose to be a part of it.

Are you ready to step into the world of the "Sovereign Individual"?

A Final Call to Action...

"The Sovereign Individual" is a book that serves as a compass, offering a fresh perspective to guide us in this rapidly changing world.

Even after 27 years, the lessons and vision conveyed by Davidson and Rees-Mogg are even more powerful and relevant. It reflects the reality that the world is not static, power and systems are subject to the laws of change, and only those who adapt, learn, and control their own destinies can overcome volatility and seize opportunities in the future.

They didn't just highlight the "problems"; they also offered "solutions" by presenting "ideas" and "strategies" for becoming "freed from the shackles."

Their language isn't overly academic or heavy; it's a blend of storytelling, situational analysis, and future forecasting with an engaging, insightful, and often humorous style.

They compared governments to "mafia gangs" that extort taxes from citizens, likened the education system to a "human factory" that brainwashes people into obedience, and portrayed technology as a powerful "weapon" for liberating individuals from government control.

They didn't speak of these things in a vacuum but drew upon historical events, from Roman times, the Middle Ages, to the present day, analyzing them sharply and connecting them to future trends.

Powerful quotes in the book reflect their vision of technology challenging state power. Governments will not be able to control, dominate, or even touch the digital economy as they once did.

For example:

"The good news is that politicians will no more be able to dominate, suppress, and regulate the greater part of commerce in this new realm than the legislators of the ancient Greek city-states could have trimmed the beard of Zeus."

Or the line:

"Soon, the cows will have wings."

This is another example of their sharp and humorous writing style. It signifies the end of an era where governments could easily collect taxes from citizens. In the digital world, wealth will move freely and borderlessly.

And the line that serves as a "declaration" of a new age where beliefs, knowledge, and systems we once held dear are being challenged and crumbling:

"The future is disorder. A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It is the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."

This book is packed with content that is both "provocative," "thought-provoking," and "inspiring." If you want to understand the world in ways that "the powers that be" don't want you to see and desire to become a "free individual" who can truly shape their own destiny...

"The Sovereign Individual" is a book you can't miss!

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The Curious Case of DSNP: Years of Effort, Minimal Output

It's been a while since I looked at DSNP. There’s news that its backer, Frank McCourt, is trying to put together a team to buy TikTok. That’s insane. The DSNP and Project Liberty team are well-meaning, but they’re even less equipped to run a social network or protocol than Elon Musk at his lowest point when he was firing engineers based on how many lines of code they’d written.

To check what’s happened with DSNP since I last looked a year ago, I just read the entire spec, and there's not actually that much to it. The amount of time and money spent on developing so little is quite stunning. While the spec is fine, it is minimal.

Key Features and Odd Choices

DSNP allows users to have a key pair, write content into a datastore, follow people, and sign messages. However, the protocol seems to mix up layers, specifying the wire protocol, signing system, and at-rest specification format that clients and user data servers might use (pds in atproto, instance in fedi, relay in nostr). They use the ActivityStreams 2.0 schema, which is a good choice. Many new protocols have created their own schemas, but I appreciate DSNP's use of the standard. I wish more protocols had not tried to reinvent the wheel in this respect.

Encrypted Direct Messages and Metadata Privacy

There’s mention in the whitepaper about encrypted direct messages, suggesting it’s possible to hide metadata using techniques from Ethereum’s Whisper. Although the specs or code about DMs don't elaborate much on this, it’s good to see an attempt to hide metadata. However, there’s nothing about double ratchet encryption, forward secrecy, or any advanced encryption techniques. So, overall, it feels quite basic.

Data Storage and Interesting Choices

For storing user data and posts, they're using Apache Parquet, a file format from Hadoop. This is probably the only neat or interesting aspect. I've been searching for a supported data format like Parquet for a while because I think it can facilitate privacy-preserving contact discovery, so it’s cool to see its inclusion here.

Minimal Data Types and Following Options

DSNP supports very minimal data types: post, follow, reaction, profile, and, oddly, location. You can follow publicly or privately, the latter being a neat feature that Scuttlebutt had but most of the current generation of emerging social protocols don't.

Lack of Comprehensive Features

There does not appear to be any client app or server code, which might not be needed. There is an SDK for some core functions, but that’s it. Their documentation lacks information on user discovery, algorithms, or anything beyond the basics.

The Verdict: A First Draft After Years of Work

It feels like someone spent millions and ended up with a naive first draft, despite working on this for years. It’s similar to the early sketches of Farcaster and Lens, but those protocols have grown significantly over the past couple of years, with real users, lots of functionality, and apps.

DSNP remains as vaporware today as it was four years ago. These clowns have wasted tens of millions of dollars on nothing. Some academics have happily taken the money to fund their research labs. Consultants have written and thrown away countless prototypes nobody’s ever used.

There are lots of serious projects to build decentralized social media protocols. All these folks had to do was either work with others or even copy them. This stuff is all open source. Yet DSNP keeps sending folks to conferences without talking to anybody or attending any talks.

It’s a shame because they’ve got their hearts in the right place. The Unfinished conferences are really well put together with lots of great speakers. They hired the supremely talented and savvy Karl Fogel and James Vasile to help them make their code and process open, but you can’t fix DSNP.

Fundamentally, software and specs are a social enterprise, even more so if you’re working on social protocols. But these folks… they’ve never figured out how to play well with others. The money and good intentions couldn’t overcome their fundamental failure to have the humility to learn and play well with others.

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KRIS menjamin semua golongan masyarakat mendapatkan perlakuan sama dari rumah sakit, baik pelayanan medis maupun nonmedis.

Demi memberikan peningkatan kualitas layanan kesehatan kepada masyarakat, pemerintah baru saja mengeluarkan Peraturan Presiden (Perpres) nomor 59 tahun 2024 tentang Jaminan Kesehatan. Melalui perpres itu, Presiden Joko Widodo (Jokowi) telah menghapus perbedaan kelas layanan 1, 2, dan 3 dalam Badan Penyelenggara Jaminan Sosial atau BPJS Kesehatan.

Layanan berbasis kelas itu diganti dengan KRIS (Kelas Rawat Inap Standar). Berkaitan dengan lahirnya Perpres 59/2024 tentang Perubahan Ketiga atas Perpres 82/2018 tentang Jaminan Kesehatan, Presiden Joko Widodo telah memerintahkan seluruh rumah sakit yang bekerja sama dengan BPJS Kesehatan melaksanakannya.

Kebijakan baru itu mulai berlaku per 8 Mei 2024 dan paling lambat 30 Juni 2025. Dalam jangka waktu tersebut, rumah sakit dapat menyelenggarakan sebagian atau seluruh pelayanan rawat inap berdasarkan KRIS sesuai dengan kemampuan rumah sakit.

Lantas apa yang menjadi pembeda dari sisi layanan dengan layanan rawat inap sesuai Perpres 59/2024? Dahulu sistem layanan rawat BPJS Kesehatan dibagi berdasarkan kelas yang dibagi masing-masing kelas 1, 2, dan 3. Namun, melalui perpres, layanan kepada masyarakat tidak dibedakan lagi.

Pelayanan rawat inap yang diatur dalam perpres itu--dikenal dengan nama KRIS—menjadi sistem baru yang digunakan dalam pelayanan rawat inap BPJS Kesehatan di rumah sakit-rumah sakit. Dengan KRIS, semua golongan masyarakat akan mendapatkan perlakuan yang sama dari rumah sakit, baik dalam hal pelayanan medis maupun nonmedis.

Dengan lahirnya Perpres 59/2024, tarif iuran BPJS Kesehatan pun juga akan berubah. Hanya saja, dalam Perpres itu belum dicantumkan secara rinci ihwal besar iuran yang baru. Besaran iuran baru BPJS Kesehatan itu sesuai rencana baru ditetapkan pada 1 Juli 2025.

“Penetapan manfaat, tarif, dan iuran sebagaimana dimaksud ditetapkan paling lambat tanggal 1 Juli 2025,” tulis aturan tersebut, dikutip Senin (13/5/2024).

Itu artinya, iuran BPJS Kesehatan saat ini masih sama seperti sebelumnya, yakni sesuai dengan kelas yang dipilih. Namun perpres itu tetap berlaku sembari menanti lahirnya peraturan lanjutan dari perpres tersebut.

Kesiapan Rumah Sakit

Berkaitan dengan lahirnya kebijakan layanan kesehatan tanpa dibedakan kelas lagi, Kementerian Kesehatan (Kemenkes) menegaskan mayoritas rumah sakit di Indonesia siap untuk menjalankan layanan KRIS untuk pasien BPJS Kesehatan.

Kesiapan itu diungkapkan oleh Dirjen Pelayanan Kesehatan Kemenkes Azhar Jaya. “Survei kesiapan RS terkait KRIS sudah dilakukan pada 2.988 rumah sakit dan yang sudah siap menjawab isian 12 kriteria ada sebanyak 2.233 rumah sakit,” ujar Azhar.

Sebagai informasi, KRIS adalah pengganti layanan Kelas 1, 2, dan 3 BPJS Kesehatan yang bertujuan untuk memberikan layanan kesehatan secara merata tanpa melihat besaran iurannya.

Melalui KRIS, rumah sakit perlu menyiapkan sarana dan prasarana sesuai dengan 12 kriteria kelas rawat inap standar secara bertahap. Apa saja ke-12 kriteria KRIS itu?

Sesuai bunyi Pasal 46A Perpres 59/2024, disyaratkan kriteria fasilitas perawatan dan pelayanan rawat inap KRIS meliputi komponen bangunan yang digunakan tidak boleh memiliki tingkat porositas yang tinggi serta terdapat ventilasi udara dan kelengkapan tidur.

Demikian pula soal pencahayaan ruangan. Perpres itu juga mengatur pencahayaan ruangan buatan mengikuti kriteria standar 250 lux untuk penerangan dan 50 lux untuk pencahayaan tidur, temperature ruangan 20--26 derajat celcius.

Tidak hanya itu, layanan rawat inap berdasarkan perpres itu mensyaratkan fasilitas layanan yang membagi ruang rawat berdasarkan jenis kelamin pasien, anak atau dewasa, serta penyakit infeksi atau noninfeksi.

Selain itu, kriteria lainnya adalah keharusan bagi penyedia layanan untuk mempertimbangkan kepadatan ruang rawat dan kualitas tempat tidur, penyediaan tirai atau partisi antartempat tidur, kamar mandi dalam ruangan rawat inap yang memenuhi standar aksesibilitas, dan menyediakan outlet oksigen.

Selain itu, kelengkapan tempat tidur berupa adanya dua kotak kontak dan nurse call pada setiap tempat tidur dan adanya nakas per tempat tidur. Kepadatan ruang rawat inap maksimal empat tempat tidur dengan jarak antara tepi tempat tidur minimal 1,5 meter.

Tirai/partisi dengan rel dibenamkan menempel di plafon atau menggantung. Kamar mandi dalam ruang rawat inap serta kamar mandi sesuai dengan standar aksesibilitas dan outlet oksigen.

Azhar menjamin, Kemenkes akan menjalankan hal tersebut sesuai dengan tupoksi yang ada. “Tentu saja kami akan bekerja sama dengan BPJS Kesehatan dalam implementasi dan pengawasannya di lapangan,” ujar Azhar.

Berkaitan dengan perpres jaminan kesehatan itu, Direktur Utama BPJS Kesehatan Ghufron Mukti menilai, perpres tersebut berorientasi pada penyeragaman kelas rawat inap yang mengacu pada 12 kriteria. "Bahwa perawatan ada kelas rawat inap standar dengan 12 kriteria, untuk peserta BPJS, maka sebagaimana sumpah dokter tidak boleh dibedakan pemberian pelayan medis atas dasar suku, agama, status sosial atau beda iurannya," ujarnya.

Jika ada peserta ingin dirawat pada kelas yang lebih tinggi, kata Ghufron, maka diperbolehkan selama hal itu dipengaruhi situasi nonmedis. Hal itu disebutkan dalam Pasal 51 Perpres Jaminan Kesehatan diatur ketentuan naik kelas perawatan.

Menurut pasal tersebut, naik kelas perawatan dilakukan dengan cara mengikuti asuransi kesehatan tambahan atau membayar selisih antara biaya yang dijamin oleh BPJS Kesehatan dengan biaya yang harus dibayar akibat peningkatan pelayanan.

Selisih antara biaya yang dijamin oleh BPJS Kesehatan dengan biaya pelayanan dapat dibayar oleh peserta bersangkutan, pemberi kerja, atau asuransi kesehatan tambahan.

Ghufron Mukti juga mengimbau pengelola rumah sakit tidak mengurangi jumlah tempat tidur perawatan pasien dalam upaya memenuhi kriteria KRIS. "Pesan saya jangan dikurangi akses dengan mengurangi jumlah tempat tidur. Pertahankan jumlah tempat tidur dan penuhi persyaratannya dengan 12 kriteria tersebut," tegas Ghufron.

Penulis: Firman Hidranto Redaktur: Ratna Nuraini/Elvira Inda Sari Sumber: Indonesia.go.id

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"In what follows and in accordance with Nature, one should not complain against the gods, because neither voluntarily nor involuntarily do they lack anything, nor against men, because they do not err spontaneously in anything, so no one should be blamed." -Marco Aurelio

In a world driven by the frenzy of cryptocurrencies, where the market's volatility can send emotions on a rollercoaster ride, perhaps there's wisdom to be found in the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic emperor, left us with profound insights in his "Meditations," urging us to embrace acceptance and eschew complaint, even in the face of adversity. Let's explore how these Stoic principles resonate in the realm of Bitcoin.

1. Accepting the Nature of Bitcoin: Just as Marcus Aurelius emphasized accepting events as they unfold according to nature, so too must we accept the nature of Bitcoi

2. Resilience Amidst Market Fluctuations: Stoicism teaches us to find tranquility amidst chaos. Similarly, in the volatile world of cryptocurrencies, maintaining a stoic mindset can help investors weather the storms of market fluctuations. Rather than being swayed by euphoria during bull markets or despair during bear markets, embracing stoic principles allows for a more resilient approach to investing in Bitcoin.

3. No Blame in Bitcoin: Marcus Aurelius reminds us not to blame the gods or humans for events beyond our control. Similarly, in the realm of Bitcoin, assigning blame for market movements or technological developments is futile. Whether it's regulatory crackdowns, technological glitches, or speculative frenzy, understanding that these are natural occurrences within the Bitcoin ecosystem can alleviate frustration and resentment.

4. The Virtue of HODLing: HODLing, a term derived from a misspelling of "hold" in a Bitcoin forum post, embodies the stoic virtue of endurance. Instead of succumbing to the temptation of short-term gains or panicking during market downturns, HODLers maintain a steadfast resolve, trusting in the long-term viability of Bitcoin.

5. Finding Freedom in Decentralization: Stoicism extols the virtue of inner freedom, unaffected by external circumstances. Similarly, Bitcoin's decentralized nature offers a form of financial sovereignty, free from the control of central authorities. Embracing Bitcoin means embracing this ethos of independence and self-reliance, echoing the stoic pursuit of inner tranquility.

In conclusion, the philosophy of Stoicism provides a powerful framework for navigating the unpredictable terrain of Bitcoin. By embracing acceptance, resilience, and inner freedom, investors can find serenity amidst the volatility and uncertainty of the cryptocurrency market. As Marcus Aurelius reminds us, in the grand scheme of things, there is no one to blame, and true wisdom lies in embracing events as they unfold, in harmony with nature.

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Relay is the soul of the decentralized Nostr network. In previous articles, we discussed who would bear the ongoing operational costs of Relay. To ensure a thriving storage network, Relay needs to be incentivized. In order to achieve better decentralization of media, YakiHonne has launched the Relay's early incentive plan to support the development of 50 Relays for a period of 6 months.

The details of the grant program are as follows:

• Grant amount: A total of $50,000, with each grant ideally being $1000.
• Application period: From May 15, 2024, to December 31, 2024.
• Applicants: Existing Relay node hosts or new hosters, with a funding ratio of 20 existing Relay nodes and 30 new Relay nodes.

Relay operational requirements:

1. The minimum requirements for Relay deployment are according to [1]:

2. 1.1. High performance Intel

3. 1.2. 1 vCPU
4. 1.3. 2048 MB Ram
5. 1.4. 50 GB NVMe SSD

6. 1.5. OS Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

7. There are no restrictions on storage service providers, and you can choose any stable provider.

8. There are no restrictions on the location of Relays, but it is recommended to have geographical diversity to maintain a balanced distribution of Relays.

9. Relays need to operate continuously for the next 6 months with downtime not exceeding 30 minutes.
10. You can choose from the already existed relays implementations: nostr-rs-relay based on Rust, nostr-ts-relay akk nostream using Typescript, or strfry using C++.
11. Relay models can be of any type: thematic Relays relying on keyword filtering for specific topics, invitation-only Relays that restrict publishing permissions through public keys, or paid and free public Relays corresponding to paid publishing and fully open modes, respectively. However, to maintain a balanced incentive, the proportion of paid and invitation-only Relays will not exceed 20%.
12. Monthly reports on Relay stability and availability need to be shared to maintain good operational status.

Application process:

You need to submit a proposal including whether you are already hosting a Relay, the name of the existing Relay, specifications of the Relay hosting service, possible service provider choices, Relay development environment, Relay model, and more details to help you secure funding.

Submission: npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q

Grant Evaluation and Disbursement:

Within one week of receiving the application, we will provide feedback on the grant decision. The grant amount will be disbursed in two installments, with 50% being provided initially and the remaining 50% being disbursed after 3 months.

Rewards:

In the early incentive program, nodes that contribute consistently to improving Relay performance, expanding functionality, and ensuring stability will receive special rewards and have the opportunity to earn more income.

The goal of this incentive program is to further decentralize Nostr, enhance its performance, and promote the development of Relay functionality. Through the early incentive program, we aim to explore sustainable incentive models for Relays and lay the foundation for their sustainable development.

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Thought 1: Content Creation, Discovery & Remixing

Recently I’ve been thinking about ways we could highlight nostr’s unique properties while at the same time attracting creators to the platform.

There’s been a lot of discussion about what might spark nostr’s next wave of growth. I pointed out that people come for either other people, or for content. But, I also failed to realize that people also seek ways to express themselves via new tools that enable easy or unique ways of expressing yourself.

One thing we can say with certainty is that people are not coming to nostr for other people. While generally following influencers is a proven growth strategy - after all, many of us followed Jack, we still have a catch 22 problem of lacking audience and incentives for those creators to come here. Even if we managed to convince some large influencers to try the platform, it is not likely that they would stay. They’d need to be really passionate about nostr’s principles and vision to buckle in for the long term.

Problem: creators and influencers won’t come to nostr unless they can grow their audience, and nostr lacks the audience. We’ve seen this play out with Matt Taibi. He joined nostr but was reluctant to stay because there’s little incentive to share with a small audience when Twitter/X can bring in many more eyeballs.

Possible Solution: Instead of brining creators to the platform, enable some of the current passionate user base to become decent creators themselves. We don’t need influencers with giant audiences, we just need good content that keeps people around. If we apply the 80/20 rule (Pareto’s principle), it turns out we don’t need that many creators to have a great flow of content. Enabling just a handful of people to create great content might just do the trick.

How to get there: focus on creating tools that enable expression of creativity. One such tool is Pinstr, but its value is largely untapped. On its own, pinstr is nothing interesting, it’s practically a clone of Pinterest. But, given the interoperable nature of nostr, it would be interesting to see pinned boards / content surfaced within kind 1 clients. People could then explore the board or that user’s other boards further by making their way to Pinstr.

How do we encourage more people to curate interesting pins? How about a pin extension that makes it easy to do so?

How do we enable people remixing other pins? Allow them to re-pin the content to their own boards. These are all mechanics that made Pinterest interesting, but lack in pinstr (as far as I’m aware).

Other ways that we might encourage content creation:

1. Multi-account support. Can we make it SUPER easy to switch between identities when posting some curated content? Yes we can. (Select a different identity when posting)
2. Surfacing “Other stuff” with a call to action to do that thing. For example, if someone shares a list, a kind 1 client should be able to render that list in a way that’s easy to browse, share and encourages to create your own list. If someone shares a music playlist (hopefully via native nostr kind), a person should be able to see the playlist and be encouraged to create their own. Watch stream? > prompt to start your own
3. Gif / meme discovery with a call to action to create your own. (Plebhy, Memester)
4. Styling tools (more complex) to style media, add soundtracks etc (perhaps via integration with Wavlake or other nost-native music events).

5. Content scheduling - help existing users become power users. Instead of posting everything at once, allow users to schedule it out for even distribution. Tools like Shipyard enable this already, but having this ability in-client might make it more accessible and useful.

6. Content pinning extensions - bring the outside world to Nostr. How can people 1-click pin content to nostr without having to switch tabs constantly?

7. App discovery - I think this is already in the works, but being able to surface other apps within kind 1 clients would be super interesting.

8. Enable surfacing of highlighted content and paid content - with highlights, nudge people to read more of the content if it comes from within one of the nostr clients. With paid content, indicate that it is premium content and encourage creation of premium content “Become a creator” or “Join creator studio”.
9. Encourage people to write long-form opinion content. When reading a long form article, perhaps have a call to action to start your own nostr publication. “Publish on Nostr and earn”
10. Surface and encourage audio creation - we don’t have a nostr podcast client yet, but if there was one, kind 1 clients could surface that content automatically and encourage people to start their own podcasts, audio diaries, audio chats (nostr nests) or audio stories. Kind 1 clients could surface audio clips with waveforms and subtitles built in, or create a framework by which other developers could create this type of interaction with your kind 1 client. Can users create their own clip playlists from audio content fetched from the nostr podcast app? Why not?

The common objection to all of this might be that “you can already do all of this just by copying links”. Yes, and no. Copying links does share content - albeit in a boring preview way. It does not enable interactivity, nor prompt people to create that type of content. I think this is where nostr could shine.

Thought 2: Interoperability

One of the greatest strengths of nostr is the ability to display events across clients. I think of kind 1 clients as the glue that holds together the “other stuff”. The other stuff apps can be used to create the stuff, and kind 1 can enable discovery of said stuff, while encouraging to visit those tools to create their own.

Traditional social media platforms are encourage to put up walls and discourage leaking of users to other places. The more time a user spends on a website or app, the better for that company. But, with nostr, there’s a virtuous positive loop that does not punish leaking of attention, but instead, rewards it. The more content people create, the more interesting your kind 1 discovery client becomes.

How to get there: It’s going to take a lot of work to integrate the other stuff, but it’s already under way. As a client developer, partner up with other stuff clients to figure out how to best support them. Open up nostrapps.com to see what exists, and how your client can accommodate the surfacing of that stuff with minimal effort (since our resources are so scarce). Tap into product designers to help conceptualize and visualize interactions and growth loops. #nostrdesign is ready to help with this.

Type of content kind 1 clients could surface and create loops for:

1. Playlists
2. Pin boards (pinstr)
3. Audio chats (nost nests, corny chat)
4. Highlights (highlighter)
5. Payments
6. Fundraisers (Heya, Geyser)
7. Communities
8. Events (Flockstr)
9. Streams (zapstream)
10. Long form content
11. Job posts / boards
12. Recipes (zap cooking)
13. Lists
14. Torrents (Stan)
15. News feeds
16. Calling functionality
17. DMVs
18. Podcast clips, playlists
19. Audio clips
20. Marketplace items (Shopstr, Creatstr, Plebeian Market)
21. Paid content (highlighter)

Recap

1. Build tools to aid content creation
2. Surface “other stuff” in kind 1 clients
3. Prompt people to create their own stuff

I’m probably missing a ton, or not thinking of unique experiences that are just under the nose. What am I missing? What other cool interactions could be enabled by nostr’s interoperabilit

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『マーダーボット・ダイアリー』マーサ・ウェルズ著・中原尚哉訳・東京創元社

「マーダーボット」と呼ばれる主人公“弊機”は保険会社に所属する人型警備ユニット。顧客に貸し出される警備システムの「構成機体」でありながら、自分で統制モジュールをハッキングして、“自由”な存在になっている。でも彼がその“自由”を使って行うのは大好きな連続ドラマ『サンクチュアリムーン』を繰り返し繰り返し見ること。――とにかく“弊機”が可愛い！　一人称を“弊機”と訳した訳者さんがすごい！　人間の作ったドラマにどハマりしながら「人間とは付き合いたくない」と思ってる自意識過剰な引きこもりオタbotによる一人称日記形式のSF小説。安倍吉俊さんの表紙イラストも可愛いので是非！

アーケードゲーム・タイポグラフィ ビットマップ書体の世界 (大曲都市・著/グラフィック社)

パックマンのフォントを覚えているでしょうか？

本書は、70〜90年代のアーケードゲーム黄金期に生まれた様々なゲームのために作られた、個性豊かなフォントを取り上げています。 そこはわずか8✕8ピクセルの小さな文字の世界。その中で工夫を凝らされた数百にも及ぶフォントにはひとつとして同じものはなく、視認性と世界観の演出を追求した試行錯誤と進化の歴史を感じることでしょう。

いわゆる8bit風、ピクセルアートがひとつのジャンルとして市民権を得て久しいですが、キャラクターや背景だけではなく、フォントにもこんな奥深い世界があることを感じてほしいと思います。

ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ 答えの出ない事態に耐える力 (帚木蓬生/朝日選書/朝日新聞出版)

本書は、医師たちが「ネガティブ・ケイパビリティ=答えの無い状況を耐える力」を発見するまでの道程からはじまります。以降、それが「医療」、「創作」、「教育」、および平和の源泉たる「寛容」の点から、実践的にも極めて重要である理由を述べています。

本書は読み物として面白いだけでなく、文献の列挙など参考書としても役に立つ様に書かれています。物語作家であり、現役医師でもある帚木氏ならではです。多くの人に一読をお薦めできます。

面白く読め、困難に直面した際に誰もが持つ根源的な力について、理解を助けてくれます。豊富な解説は、現代的な問題を俯瞰する際に、辞書的に参照することもできる一冊です。

王様のプロポーズ 極彩の魔女 (橘公司/富士見ファンタジア文庫)

この物語の始まりは不意に誘 (いざな) われた異世界、目の前で殺されたのは世界最強の魔女。 彼女に託された最後の魔法を受け取り、その犯人に迫っていく。 一見するとシリアスに感じられるストーリーに色を付けるのは主人公の一途さ。一目惚れから始まった彼女への恋愛感情はどこまでも愚直であり、故に周りから奇異の目で見られ滑稽なやり取りが発生することもある。しかし一途であるために犯人が露見した場面で主人公の決意がより重いものとなり、それまでの伏線の美しさが強く感じられる。

「人生が整うマウント大全」著:マウンティングポリス 技術評論社

登頂者(マウンティングピープル)たちの能力バトル開幕ッッ！お前の“普通”で相手を殴れｰｰｰｰ！

強者は何気無い発言の全てが他者を傷つけていることに向き合え。弱者はマウントの型を取り入れて精神武装を身につけろ。

書籍の半分を占める圧倒的なマウンティング実例で、今日から実践可能な知識をインプット可能。マウンティングする“剛”の技だけではなく、マウンティングを受ける“柔”の技も身につく、全方位に特化した業界トップのハウツー本。

5年間Twitterでマウント警察をし続け、“体系的な学問”としてのマウントフルネスをぶち上げた筆者に涙が止まらない、感動の一冊。

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Here is a simple chart for developers to understand when to "Nostr Native" and when to "Nostr Integrated"

Definition:

Nostr Native: Uses relays as the only network layer and storage layer and business logic is 99%+ client side.

Nostr Integrated: Has in-house solutions and only connects partially to Nostr.

Both categories could be open sourced or close sourced.

| Features | Benefit From Network Effect | Don't benefit from Network Effect | | --- | --- | --- | | Contribute To Network Effect | All in Nostr Native | Recommend Writing to Nostr | | Harm Network Effect| Don't Write to Nostr and could read from Nostr | Should be in-house solution and not write to Nostr |

Category 1

If we think we should be all-in Nostr Native no matter what (like 99%+), we are limiting ourselves to only features that both benefit from Nostr and contribute to Nostr. This is a totally valid proposition as long as developers are consciously aware that they are indeed making a product within this category.

Pretty much all public facing social features fall into this category.

But, there are many products that need features that fall into other 3 categories.

Category 2

For features that benefit from Nostr but harms it, you are basically stealing data from Nostr without contributing back. My advice to is not write to Nostr at all and only read from Nostr if you have to do it, but you should minimize this product design in general.

Pretty much any massivly bot/batch job/pipeline generated data fall into this category. Machine generated data do not necessarily mean spam data. In the data engineering & machine learning world, it's very common to generate intermediate data in data pipelines for downstream analytics. This kind of data is huge and can also be purely textual. Don't write to Nostr relays.

Category 3

Is it even possible to have features that don't benefit from the network effect of Nostr and can contribute to it?

I can't think of any. But if it exists, consider writing to Nostr even if you don't use relays as the primary storage.

Category 4

These are features that don't benefit from Nostr and also harm Nostr if writing to it.

Slack style internal organization communication falls into this category. In fact, we want to actively prevent these features from having network effects because having these data in an open network might reduce their security.

Writing them to Nostr also harms the network because these data, encrypted or not, only have semantic meaning within the organization. Posting them to Nostr reduces the overall signal(value) density of the network.

Outtro

It is very common and almost inevitable for a single product to have both lots of category 1 and lots of category 4 and some % of category 2 & 3.

Using this chart, you will know how to make wise engineering decisions that help your product design instead of harming it and help the network at the same time.

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Kevin F. Boehnke, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan for The Conversation

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency announced in late April 2024 that it plans to ease federal restrictions on cannabis, reclassifying it from a Schedule I drug to the less restricted Schedule III, which includes drugs such as Tylenol with codeine, testosterone and other anabolic steroids. This historic shift signals an acknowledgment of the promising medicinal value of cannabis.

The move comes in tandem with growing interest in the use of psilocybin, the active component in magic mushrooms, for treatment of depression, chronic pain and other conditions. In 2018 and 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted a breakthrough therapy designation to psilocybin, meant to expedite drug development given that preliminary studies suggest it may have substantial therapeutic value over currently available therapies for treatment-resistant depression and major depressive disorder.

Both of these developments represent a dramatic change from long-standing federal policy around these substances that has historically criminalized their use and blocked or delayed research efforts into their therapeutic potential.

As an assistant professor of anesthesiology and a pain researcher, I study alternative pain management options, including cannabis and psychedelics.

I also have a personal stake in improving chronic pain treatment: In early 2009 I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a condition characterized by widespread pain throughout the body, sleep disturbances and generalized sensory sensitivity.

I see cannabis and psilocybin as promising therapies that can contribute to bridging that need. Given that an estimated 50 million Americans have chronic pain – meaning pain that persists for three months or more – I want to help understand how to effectively use cannabis and psilocybin as potential tools for pain management.

Cannabis versus other pain medications

Cannabis, also known as marijuana, is an ancient medicinal plant. Cannabis-based medicines have been used for at least 5,000 years for applications such as arthritis and pain control during and after surgery.

This use extended through antiquity to modern times, with contemporary cannabis-based medications for treating certain seizure disorders, promoting weight gain for HIV/AIDS-related anorexia and treating nausea during chemotherapy.

As with anything you put in your body, cannabis does have health risks: Driving while high may increase risk of accidents. Some people develop cyclical vomiting, while others develop motivation or dependence problems, especially with heavy use at younger ages.

That said, lethal overdoses from cannabis are almost unheard of. This is remarkable considering that nearly 50 million Americans use it each year.

In contrast, opioids, which are often prescribed for chronic pain, have contributed to hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths over the past few decades. Even common pain medications like nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen, cause tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths each year from gastrointestinal damage.

Furthermore, both opioids and nonopioid pain medications have limited effectiveness for treating chronic pain. Medications used for chronic pain can provide small to moderate pain relief in some people, but many ultimately cause side effects that outweigh any gains.

These safety issues and limited benefit have led many people with chronic pain to try cannabis as a chronic pain treatment alternative. Indeed, in survey studies, my colleagues and I show that people substituted cannabis for pain medications often because cannabis had fewer negative side effects.

However, more rigorous research on cannabis for chronic pain is needed. So far, clinical trials – considered the gold standard – have been short in length and focused on small numbers of people. What’s more, my colleagues and I have shown that these studies employ medications and dosing regimes that are far different from how consumers actually use products from state-licensed cannabis dispensaries. Cannabis also causes recognizable effects such as euphoria, altered perceptions and thinking differently, so it is difficult to conduct double-blind studies.

Despite these challenges, a group of cannabis and pain specialists published a proposed guideline for clinical practice in early 2024 to synthesize existing evidence and help guide clinical practice. This guideline recommended that cannabis products be used when pain is coupled with sleep problems, muscle spasticity and anxiety. These multiple benefits mean that cannabis could potentially help people avoid taking a separate medication for each symptom.

Traditional hurdles to studying cannabis

Since the Controlled Substance Act was passed in 1970, the federal government has designated cannabis as a Schedule I substance, along with other drugs such as heroin and LSD. Possession of these drugs is criminalized, and under the federal definition they have “no currently accepted medical use, with a high potential for abuse.” Because of this designation and the limits placed on drug manufacturing, cannabis is very difficult to study.

State and federal regulatory barriers also delay or prevent studies from being approved and conducted. For example, I can purchase cannabis from state-licensed dispensaries in my hometown of Ann Arbor, Michigan. As a scientist, however, it is very challenging to legally test whether these products help pain.

Reclassifying cannabis as a Schedule III drug has the potential to substantially open up this research landscape and help overcome these barriers.

The emerging role of psychedelics

Psychedelics, such as psilocybin-containing mushrooms, occupy an eerily similar scientific and political landscape as cannabis. Used for thousands of years for ceremonial and healing purposes, psilocybin is also classified as a Schedule I drug. It can cause substantial changes in sensory perception, mood and sense of self that can lead to therapeutic benefits. And, like cannabis, psilocybin has minimal risk of lethal overdose.

Clinical trials combining psilocybin with psychotherapy in the weeks before and after taking the drug report substantial improvements in symptoms of psychiatric conditions such as treatment-resistant depression and alcohol use disorder.

Risks are typically psychological. A small number of people report suicidal thoughts or self-harm behaviors after taking psilocybin. Some also experience heightened openness and vulnerability, which can be exploited by therapists and lead to abuse.

There are few published clinical trials of psilocybin therapy for chronic pain, although many are ongoing, including a pilot study for fibromyalgia conducted by our team at the University of Michigan. This treatment may help people develop a healthier relationship with their pain by eliciting greater acceptance of it and decreasing rumination often related to negative thoughts and feelings around pain.

As with cannabis, some states, such as Colorado and Oregon, have decriminalized psilocybin and are building infrastructure to increase accessibility to psilocybin-assisted therapy. One recent analysis suggests that if psychedelics follow a similar legalization pattern to cannabis, the majority of states will legalize psychedelics between 2034 and 2037.

Challenges ahead

These ancient yet relatively “new” treatments offer a unique glimpse into the messy intersection of drugs, medicine and society. The justifiable excitement about cannabis and psilocybin has led to state policies that have increased access for some people, yet federal criminalization and substantial barriers to scientific investigation remain. In the years ahead, I hope to contribute toward pragmatic studies that work within these difficult parameters.

For example, our team developed a coaching intervention to help veterans use commercially available cannabis products to more effectively treat their pain. Coaches emphasize how judicious use can minimize side effects while maximizing benefits. Should our approach work, health care providers and cannabis dispensaries everywhere could use this treatment to help clients in chronic pain.

Approaches like these can supplement more traditional clinical trials to help researchers determine whether these drug classes offer benefit and whether they have comparable or less harm than current treatments. As our society connects to the rich history of healing using these ancient drugs, these proposed changes may offer safer and substantive options for the 50 million Americans living with chronic pain.

This article is from The Conversation, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to sharing knowledge with the public.

Kevin F. Boehnke receives funding from the National Institutes of Health, the State of Michigan Veteran Marijuana Research Program, and has received grants from Tryp Therapeutics and Journey Biosciences. He is affiliated with Doctors for Drug Policy Reform as an unpaid expert. He also has received honoraria for speaking at conferences as well as for participating in a podcast on fibromyalgia from the European Medical Journal funded by Viatris Inc.

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#lastword

A few weeks ago, Mike proposed the addition of a feature to nostr. The content of the proposal itself isn't important, but the resulting conversation illustrated something important about nostr development that I wanted to draw attention to.

If you're interested, you can find the issue here. The idea was basically a tag that disabled comments to a reply, for when you wanted to gracefully exit a conversation that had outlived its usefulness.

While I definitely sympathize with the experience of getting stuck in an unproductive argument and being unable to leave because you have to have the last word, I do think it's better to take responsibility for leaving the conversation, rather than make other people do it for you. You can either outlast your opponent, let them have the last word, or tell them "I don't want to talk about this any more, I'm not going to reply".

This is just my opinion, and it's really not important whether I'm right or not. What was interesting was how Vitor responded:

I am not sure if the NIP review process should consider "what's good for the user" in the discussion. That kind of nanny state thinking is what went wrong with regular social media in the first place.

Permaculture and Ethics

What it sounds like (although I have a hard time believing this is actually his position), is that Vitor is dismissing the relevance of an ethical framework in designing a protocol, preferring to stick to the mechanics of what is being suggested. As Vitor says, "Clients can do whatever they want, of course." This is true, but ignores the question of why a client developer might want to do any particular thing.

In a recent Thank God for Nostr episode, I interviewed Scott Mann of the Permaculture Podcast. When I asked him his opinion on how to manage decentralized protocol design and build effective consensus, here's what he had to say:

[You] don't need to frame it as a software development project, or even a protocol. I would look at it as a distributed community-based and community-supported project, whatever that is. Because permaculture is such a large umbrella, I like to go up to that 50,000 foot view and pull away from what the details are. Because the details are what we're going to build our solutions from.

And that's one of the things I didn't mention earlier — there's kind of a hierarchy within permaculture that goes, at the top are the ethics of permaculture: earth care, people care, fair share. Beneath that are the principles, then usually we have strategies and techniques.

But there's a dividing line between ethics and principles and the strategies and techniques, that we start at that top, and use the ethics to decide whether or not we're even going to launch a project.

He goes on to say:

I'm going to use the principles and see how can I apply those principles to my research and original design. To make sure that whatever I'm creating creates some kind of a surplus, to have a refinement process in place before I even launch, like what is that going to look like, even if I have to change it later, just having some of these building blocks in place.

And then once I've done that and have gone deep into my research into what this might look like, how I might launch it, that's where I would start going into strategies and going ok, how do I want to market this? How do I want to get this out to the people who are going to use it, how do I want to maintain this, how do I want to do distributed decision making, and then as I start to think about distributed decision making, looking at what is the form that I want to use for that?

Scott's thesis is that ethics and principles should be in the front of your mind both as you're considering a project, and as you continue to build it out. This not only makes sense as something to do if you want to succeed, it's categorically true. Action can't happen without agency, and it is your agency that informs what you choose to do, and how you plan to go about it.

The word "ethics" comes from the Greek ēthos, meaning "moral character". In other words, your ethic is who you are. Your values, hopes, preferences, faults all factor in to your actions.

This is not always clear, because in fiat-world, many people suspend their values in order to "get something done". If you want to protect your savings, you invest it in index funds, propping up the stock price of companies that hate you. If you want to make money, you go work at a job where you're berated quarterly for being racist. People think that they can exercise their own values in their private life, while actively undermining those values with the majority of their time and purchasing power.

But this is not how people with integrity act. And I think if you can say one thing about nostr — both its developers and the community at large — is that they have a very high level of integrity. In other words, their actions are clearly informed by their ēthos.

This is a very good thing. What is the point of building an entirely new internet if we're not going to impose our values upon it? What an absolute waste of effort.

A Nostr Manifesto

This is not to say that any one developer has the right to imposing his own vision on the protocol because of his own personal values and reasons for contributing, which is what I think Vitor was being cautious about. But there are lines I think we can draw as a community that can't really be crossed without excluding yourself from what I might call the "nostr group ethic".

So what are those boundaries? What is a nostrich? Here are some values I've observed to be generally shared among nostr developers and users. Not everyone would full agree with these (including myself), but I think they're a fair characterization of the community.

1. Free speech absolutism. No central entity should be able to globally censor any content. This comes with the trade-off of objectively evil content continuing to exist. This trade-off is acceptable, both because of the value of free speech, but also because evil will continue to exist regardless of attempts to suppress it.
2. Empower individuals over institutions. No centralized entity can be trusted to safeguard the interests of the individual. Institutional incentives are asymmetric and easily corrupted. Better to have many subjective views of the world, than a single, centrally managed view of the world.
3. Advertising-based business models should be viewed with great skepticism and caution. Advertising is a system of incentives that is central to the institutional corruption we see around us. Broadly, this includes paid ads, monetization of engagement, public/private partnerships, and "crypto".

There are others that are shared by many within nostr, although not as widely agreed upon. Two I can think of are:

• Economic activity should be voluntary. Software and content should be free, and creators should be amply rewarded via zaps or other value-for-value models.
• Social media should support real life community and relationships, not detract from them. We should all take time to touch grass.

I'm personally skeptical of the first of these, and strongly in support of the second. Much of my energy as a nostr developer has gone into attempting to subvert and reform traditional patterns of social media to not only support, but also resemble relationships that exist in the analog world God made, and placed us in.

This particular principle is the one at play in the conversation I linked to at the top of this post. My comments weren't an accusation that anyone was acting "unethically" in a universal sense, only that the proposed feature was incompatible with my vision for what nostr should be.

But of course, my vision is not shared by everyone, and the principle of "support real life" is clearly subservient to core ethic #2, which admits the value of a diverse set of opinions about the world. I have no right (or ability) to invalidate anyone else's core principles. But by the same token I'm free to express my own, and attempt to convince other people to share them. This is the basic value proposition of freedom of speech itself.

Ethical Cohesion

I would go further, and say that not only is it permissible to talk about ethical reasons for building one thing or another on nostr, it's essential. By having these conversations we fuse our individual ethics into a shared ethic. By calibrating our moral compasses to point in (roughly) the same direction, we also decrease the friction involved in getting something done.

I think this was a significant part of the idea behind Sovereign Engineering — get a bunch of people in a room together sharing meals and going on hikes, and the work will accelerate! This is also the way a church works. By meeting weekly together we strengthen our shared identity and build one another up through our activity. In fact, this is the basic definition of a community as Scott Mann puts it. In his words, a community can provide:

a series of connections, and a knowledge base, and a skillset that we can't fulfill as an individual, while having a social relationship with people in such a way that we can call on them for help.

So maybe, as I've said before, the real protocol is the friends we made along the way. Disagreement and discussion is a healthy thing for a community to have, and we should never stop asking "why?"

@ 266815e0:6cd408a5

Lot of people are starting to talk about building a web-of-trust and how nostr can or is already being used as such

We all know about using the kind:3 following lists as a simple WoT that can be used to filter out spam. but as we all know it does not really signal "trust", its mostly just "I find your content interesting"

But what about real "trust"... well its kind of multi-denominational, I could trust that your a good developer or a good journalist but still not trust you enough to invite you over to my house. There are some interesting and clever solutions proposed for quantifying "trust" in a digital sense but I'm not going to get into that here. I want to talk about something that I have not see anyone discuss yet.

How is the web-of-trust maintained? or more precisely how do you expect users to update the digital representation of the "trust" of other users?

Its all well and good to think of how a user would create that "trust" of another user when discovering them for the first time. They would click the "follow" button, or maybe even rate them on a few topics with a 1/5 star system But how will a user remove that trust? how will they update it if things change and they trust them less?

If our goal is to model "trust" in a digital sense then we NEED a way for the data to stay up-to-date and as accurate as possible. otherwise whats the use? If we don't have a friction-less way to update or remove the digital representation of "trust" then we will end up with a WoT that continuously grows and everyone is rated 10/10

In the case of nostr kind:3 following lists. its pretty easy to see how these would get updated. If someone posts something I dislike or I notice I'm getting board of their content. then I just unfollow them. An important part here is that I'm not thinking "I should update my trust score of this user" but instead "I'm no longer interested, I don't want to see this anymore"

But that is probably the easiest "trust" to update. because most of us on social media spend some time curating our feed and we are used to doing it. But what about the more obscure "trust" scores? whats the regular mechanism by which a user would update the "honestly" score of another user?

In the real world its easy, when I stop trusting someone I simply stop associating with them. there isn't any button or switch I need to update. I simply don't talk to them anymore, its friction-less But in the digital realm I would have to remove or update that trust. in other words its an action I need to take instead of an action I'm not doing. and actions take energy.

So how do we reflect something in the digital world that takes no-energy and is almost subconscious in the real world?

TLDR; webs-of-trust are not just about scoring other users once. you must keep the score up-to-date

@ 97c70a44:ad98e322

I think there's been an inflection point recently in NIPs that are being proposed. Some examples:

• Products with pubkeys: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1225
• Shared-ownership events: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1192 and https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1015
• Spreadsheets: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1189
• Relational databases: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1168
• Relay-specific notes: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1146
• Editable notes: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1090
• Restricted events: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1083
• Relay-based access control: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1030
• Protected events: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1029
• Closed groups: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/875

Some of these I like, some I don't. But most of them go beyond adding new features to nostr (for example audio, video, speedruns, resumes, etc), and begin to change how nostr actually works.

Nostr can be an everything app, but I think that means something very specific. Nostr can represent data types from pretty much any domain, but it can't actually support all the semantics needed to build any arbitrary system.

I would suggest conservatism in what we build on nostr, but of course anyone can build whatever they want. But I do think it's possible to identify things that nostr is good at, and things it's bad at, and play to nostr's strengths.

Nostr's strengths:

• Being able to model any data type orthogonally to the rest
• Single-owner, self-authenticating, atomic data types
• Potential for robust content dispersal and retrieval if we can flesh out NIP 65 etc.

Nostr's weaknesses:

• Mutable state, non-atomic state
• Shared ownership, key delegation/rotation
• Privacy — metadata will always leak, lack of consistency makes key rotation harder
• Consistency — not everyone has the same view of the world
• Transactionality — nostr isn't good for updating multiple pieces of data in lockstep

It happens that the original use case of nostr — public broadcast social media — benefits greatly from nostr's strengths, and isn't bothered by any of nostr's weaknesses. Blob storage like what blossom is building also works well in this paradigm. A lot of the use cases @PABLOF7z​ has identified work beautifully well because of the single-owner public-read nature of nostr, which makes forks easy to model.

But things like access control, relational data, collaborative document creation, heavier datasets, or anything that requires a solution to the double-spend problem become very awkward (or impossible) to model on pure nostr. A simple example of this is lists. Not only is it common for a single user to mess up his follow lists because of a lack of consistency between clients or devices, but commonly requested features like shared ownership lists immediately result in a huge increase of complexity, either on the key management side or on the data structure side. Both of these problems are difficult to solve on nostr due to lack of consistency — keys can't always be reliably or safely shared, and linked data structures spanning multiple events by different authors can be hard to assemble reliably.

I think the danger here is that if we as a developer community fail to realize the limitations of nostr and try to adapt the protocol to fit every possible use case, on an ad-hoc basis, we're going to end up with a tragedy of the commons, where no developer can comprehend what must be done to get his work done, and all kinds of weird artifacts appear for end users that no one can explain.

Here are some suggestions I have for preventing this from happening. I realize no one is going to follow them. But maybe they can be helpful for avoidance of wasted time.

• Don't overload event kinds. Many people (including myself) have tried to extend kind 0 with attributes for forms, products, and groups, but that leads to madness. Instead, create a new metadata event signifying a different kind of agent.
• Don't model things as replaceable events if you can avoid it. This creates the problem of shared mutable state, which nostr doesn't have a good story for resolving. They also have a hard limit on how big they can be.
• Use different keys for different things. For domains where some kind of access control needs to be implemented, not tying everything to your main pubkey makes it possible to create and burn keys as needed. Incidentally, this can help users maintain better privacy. An example of this is private groups, which have a dedicated key separate from the group creator's own key.
• Event ownership should always be (is) single-key. If you need shared ownership, figure out a way to share keys. More work needs to go into key invalidation and rotation for this to really work.
• Explore the fork model — this is "my" version of the same thing, and coexists with rather than supersedes the original. This has potential not just for groups or wiki entries.
• Distinguish between different ways to use relays. Relays may be used as indexers (holding specific event types or supporting different features like search/count), repositories (holding many diverse events, to be used with filters), or curated feeds (to be used without filters, or with only a few filters).

These are just suggestions, and many of them may be wrong. Nostr development is hard, and getting harder. Keep it simple.

@ 6ad3e2a3:c90b7740

I remember reading a while back about how Omega 6 fatty acids found in seed oils (soybean, sunflower, corn, vegetable, etc.) promote inflammation while Omega 3s like the kind found in wild salmon or grass-fed beef reduce it. Of course, both are essential. If you were unable to produce inflammation, then you might bleed to death from a cut, rather than having it clot into a scab.

The problem was the proportion we consume of each has changed drastically over time. Our ancestors apparently had somewhere between 3:1 and 1:1 Omega 6 to Omega 3, while the standard American diet has between 30:1 and 10:1. That’s a lot of excess inflammation.

And it’s no surprise then that most of our modern diseases are inflammatory in nature — diabetes, cancer, auto-immune disease, heart attacks and strokes are all diseases of a body that’s too inflamed, hyper-responsive, over-sugared, clotting internally. Few people die of too little blood sugar anymore, at least in the calorie-abundant West.

. . .

I listened to a Jocko Willink podcast a few years ago wherein he told the story of a soldier who survived years in a Vietnamese prison camp. The takeaway was that while he was ardently optimistic about his ultimate fate, he remained steadfastly agnostic about the particulars. He said the soldiers who were sure they’d be home for Christmas, for example, were always the first to break when Christmas came and went.

The key was to be generally optimistic only. Think of it as the difference between someone who thinks God will help him pick the right lottery numbers vs one who believes whatever happens to him is in his best interests because God only provides exactly what he needs to learn. The latter is probably going to make it, the former not so much. . . .

The phenomenon of hyper-inflammation is not restricted only to the alimentary diet and the physical body. We are overstimulated by information too. In particular, the amount of threatening news we consume from all over the world is far in excess of what we’ve evolved to process. As such, despite being physically more secure than ever before, we’re in a state of chronic mental inflammation. There’s a word for chronic mental inflammation: “anxiety.”

. . .

I used to think I could overcome fears and other negative emotions by imagining the undesirable outcomes in detail and allowing myself to become okay with them. For example, if someone said something negative about me, I thought I could go over the slight repeatedly and in detail and have it not bother me one bit. But I came to realize the thinking of the slight was itself the being bothered by it. I couldn’t both think I had gotten over it and really get over it. I had to choose to think about it and not be over it, or not to think about it and actually get over it. I couldn’t have it both ways.

. . .

Even if you see through the fears endlessly promulgated by legacy institutions: climate change, terrorism, covid, the unvaccinated, Trump, Putin, the insurrectionists!, you are tuned into a new set of anxieties: CBDCs, the WEF, the WHO, GMOs, mRNA mandates, the impending collapse of the financial system. I’ve come to realize lately that even being aware of all the so-called real threats is also mentally inflammatory.

. . .

If being agnostic as to specific positive outcomes was the key to survival in the prison camp, perhaps it follows one should be agnostic as to negative ones too. While it’s easy to see the folly in the poor, tortured soldier clinging to the hope of being home for Christmas, it’s harder to see it in the anxious housewife fretting over the lives for her children in the face of near-certain climate doom. But it’s essentially the same error — being overly certain about the future outcome on which the hope or fear rests.

The alternative is to be on guard generally about threats of ruin, but agnostic about the specifics. It could be a car crash, a heart attack, a nuclear war, financial collapse, virus or dystopian new world order. You can read the signs, but you never really know. What makes the future the future is precisely this quality. You can protect yourself generally by taking care of your health to the best of your ability, putting your finances on solid ground to the greatest extent practicable and, it might turn out, decreasing your exposure to an information diet that leads to chronic inflammation of mind.

. . .

In the information age, there is a fine line between head-in-the-sand denial of real threats and inflammatory paranoia, one the new media (social algorithms) are designed to make ever more difficult to walk. You need the capacity to defend yourself against acute threats, to clot the cut so to speak when they arise, and yet chronic inflammation will kill you if you try to stay on high alert for every potential attack vector.

You have to choose, it seems, between being prepared generally, trusting yourself to face unknowable threats with the best acute response you can muster, and being specifically armed in advance, at the cost of making yourself sick.

There is no guarantee you survive, but that was ever the case, no matter your preparations.

@ 955e5a04:c03b3cc3

"If the things that cause you unease or disturb your peace don't come to you, but you, in a certain way, go to them, remaining unmoved, then judgment must cease warring against them. And thus, you will no longer desire them nor flee from them henceforth." –Marco Aurelio

"In this meditation, Marco Aurelio reflects on how our emotional reactions are influenced by our desires and aversions, rather than external circumstances.

Here's an interpretation for each line, based on all the principles applied in Stoicism and his Meditations, this is in the 11th book:

"If the things that cause you unease or disturb your peace don't come to you": Marco Aurelio points out that the things that cause us emotional distress don't actively pursue us, but it's our own reactions to them that create that distress. "But rather, you, in a certain way, go to them, remaining unmoved": Suggests that it's us who, in some way, seek out those disturbing emotions, even when external circumstances remain unchanged. "Therefore judgment must cease warring against them": Here, Marco Aurelio advocates for ceasing to fight against those disturbing emotions with the power of judgment or reason. Instead of resisting them, he suggests we should accept them as part of our human experience. "And thus, you will no longer desire them nor flee from them henceforth": By freeing ourselves from the struggle against those emotions, we cease to desire or fear them in the future. By accepting them peacefully, we lose interest in them and no longer actively pursue or avoid them."

Embrace inner strength. Master reactions. Find peace. That's the true path to empowerment and serenity.