Under the bitcoin standard, many wars wouldn’t happen. But war itself is inevitable. GM

I guess I need a personal website which will say: “Current npub: …” View quoted note →

On numerous occasions, I’ve made the mistake of setting up extensive infrastructure for a project that wouldn’t prove to be viable. This time, I’ll prove that it works first and then put the necessary elements in place. View quoted note →

I hope to get a quote from a development company tomorrow. Let them develop a prototype for me and maintain it for a bit while I: - test it extensively - get some users - ask for their feedback - show it to potential partners If all that works out well, then I’ll bring it in-house. This seems like the fastest route if I don’t want to lose time.

Absolute monarchy is the best system and is the reason it got destroyed almost everywhere on the planet to be replaced with filthy democracy. GM

I’ll have to incorporate when I launch my app. But I’ll make sure to not have a bank account. Bitcoin in, bitcoin out. This is the way.

Centralized algo shitholes for the plebs. Nostr for the elites. View quoted note →

At first, I didn’t understand why exiled Russian oligarchs chose to move to London. A socialist government, shitty weather, unsafe. But then I understood that they just go where their masters are.

Tether is big enough to be monitored by most governments in the world. Apollo has to say those things from time to time. Whatever they’ve blocked and frozen so far is a tiny speck compared to similar activities that they haven’t because they *cannot*. The game is to be seemingly compliant while moving billions upon billions in volumes unrestrictedly. That’s just my opinion. View quoted note →

I guess I need more. View quoted note →

Good job View quoted note →

In 99% cases, eccentricity is a learned or forced trait of character that has the sole goal of attracting attention. Public attention seekers want to sell you something (themselves, goods, services). Private ones just want to fill a psychological void. A true eccentric individual (the like of the Count of Monte Cristo) is rare, and his eccentricity comes from within his soul, often as a result of a deep transformation. View quoted note →

Any eccentric public figure is by default a scammer until proven otherwise over years of positive action. GM

Let’s see how fast Vitalik will freeze the hacker’s wallet addresses. And maybe that will be the whole point of the exercise. View quoted note →

Bureaucracy is probably the most negative thing about Russia. And many bureaucrat dinosaurs are still in the power structure, which directs the stupid “ban everything we don’t like” policy. Sometimes, I think, ok, the times are hard and strong measures need to be taken during this transition period. Ban everything, win over the enemy, transition to a new political system, then reset the legal system. But that may just be my wishful thinking. View quoted note →

It looks like Tailscale doesn’t work in Russia. Ok, Tailscale is banned there but the company itself bans Russian IPs, so it becomes basically unusable when you’re in Russia. Much power, much freedom, wow. Is there a way to run this thing fully self-hosted so that you can *actually* control your Tailnet?

1. Signup/login with Nostr 2. On chain, Liquid, Lightning, Cashu, Ark support 3. Ark for user balances to make it non-custodial 4. Perhaps migrate fully to Nostr instead of SQL, if possible 5. ? I just need a working app that generates revenue. After that, all bets are off. View quoted note →

I have a hard time understanding why exactly they need to “set the official rate” when it has already been decided by the market. View quoted note →

Nope, it didn’t work out precisely for that reason. View quoted note →

When history is written by the victor, and the victor was a bad guy, then most definitely many such cases! View quoted note →