"unlicensed money transmission" has got to be one of the most egregious and revealing of the **victimless** crimes on the books. Money is a medium that humans use to communicate and trade time and value with each other. being involved in the process of the voluntary transmission of value between multiple consenting parties where nobody has a claim of wrongdoing or damages requires a "license" from the government?

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The author drops his email and requests comments about archive.is. if anyone has a throwaway email they should email him and point out the obvious weakness of decentralized web archives and link him to https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nostr-web-archiver/aegkhiohbkiminnfpaekgpedkiookikg View article →

I cant wait for proper subjective #WoT to melt influencer culture down into a useless fucking slag heap. People who create real value in the world will naturally accrue real, voluntary trust from those who recognize real value. The competence and effectiveness of a trust "sub net" that has bootstrapped itself off actual delivered value will be evident by its proof of work in the real world. You can't influence you way into a network like that, you have to be actively recognized by those within it - they invite you in, you don't buy a ticket. The difference between top-down, inflated influencer attention bubbles and bottom-up, hard-value bootstrapped subjective trust networks is as stark as a cantillionaire clown world economy and a Bitcoin Standard world. --- P.S. It's early days in the WoT wars. Pay attention to who throws their support behind which approaches. What I call "proper" WoT are those where the individual is the center of their own trust perspective, and in this sense are permissionless and disagreement-supportive. "global popularity" is irrelevant when the individual can simply ignore or even "nack" a popular node. This is bad for a certain type of influencer, marketer, VC, and anyone else whose sway would be diminished once their Emperor's Clothes are revealed. You cannot print reputation in that environment.