Loving how Nostr has altered the landscape around paid promotion. Advertisers pay users to receive ads. Advertise to me harder!

People plan on disintermediating financial transactions to cut out payment processors; they plan on taking custody of their money to cut out banks; and finally they plan on using Self-Sovereign Identity to cut out government from surveiling them and controlling them.

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ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

As I listen to @ThomasEWoods and @saifedean talk about Saif's new treatise on economics, without having read his book yet, I have some thoughts on the general tone and framing of economics in all schools. The focus is on human action based on the scarcity of resources and marginal value. I feel like there is opportunity to expand economic thought by recognizing value is based on value systems rooted in human life. This view of value helps reframe economics from bean counting (i.e., metrics based on money) to standards of living (quality of life). This unifies material value (priced in money) with spiritual, fulfillment, aesthetic, and all other forms of value. This obviates the need to treat externalities exceptionally. This framing puts human purposes and outcomes (goals and achievements), and thus value-systems that model human purposes, at the heart of economics. Incidentally, it also brings ethics into the economic realm. As it should, because ethics is fundamental to human action. I feel that this unification would benefit economic theory.

@Guy Swann sounds like you are describing Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), where a person has self-custody of their own private key, and use their pubkey as universal identity everywhere on the net. https://open.spotify.com/episode/7H4M27MZ86cPv8fRWZNuvu

When reading replies in Amethyst, I don't see any threading, so I can't figure out which reply is in response to another reply. What a mess. It is unreadable.

August 25, 2023: the EU DSA begins enforcement on 19 Big Tech platforms. I anticipate a rapid ramp-up in censorship and a loss of speech freedom. We should plan for contingencies, such as migrating to decentralized platforms (Nostr) that are ungovernable. Very Large Online Platforms and VLO Search Engines are being targeted for enforcement by the DSA. If allowed to stand, we should consider these to be dead platforms.

Digital Services Act - Wikipedia

To whoever sent me 100 sats, not tied to a note, thank you. What's weird is aside from an LN invoice id, there is no hint to identify who sent it or what it is for. Is this money flow etiquette (anonymous transfers showing up in the wallet for not reason) something we should expect to be normal moving forward?

I'm not really understanding Wallet of Satoshi. You can't back up your keys with a seed phrase? I guess, if you uninstall the app or lose your device, you lose your keys and says with them?

Awkward about zap: from Amethyst (Android) it goes to Wallet of Satoshi to send the sats, but then there is no natural return to where you were reading. This needs to be smoother.

Bought $50 of sats using Moonpay, and they are delivering me $42 worth to my wallet. 16% is quite a fee.

Installed Wallet of Satoshi. It assigned me a LN Address with a very female name. I can't see a way of changing it. This is not a happy situation.

The anti-speech Nazis are coming for us.

Is there a step-by-step tutorial for a Lightning newbie on how to get started according to best practices (self-custody of keys) to begin sending and receiving Nostr zaps?

@nostrdirectory Verifying My Public Key: "jetpen"

Rumor is Linda Yaccarino of NBC Universal and WEF is Elon Musk's choice for Twitter CEO. If true, expect a mass migration of users to Nostr.

Is it only Amethyst app that displays replies in a thread without proper thread linkage except for the one reply in focus? All other replies appear randomly.

Cas App creator Bob Lee, 43, stabbed to death in San Francisco

Cash App founder Bob Lee, 43, killed in San Francisco stabbing | New York Post