Recap 24 hrs: 1. Samourai devs arrested on AML 2. FBI warning about self custody, non-KYC 3. SEC letter to Consensys re: Metamask

US GDP lower. Inflation higher. I had stagflation on my 2023 bingo card. But whatever 🤷 . 2024 will do.

Spike in #Nostr users. https://stats.nostr.band/

Spike in #Nostr users. https://stats.nostr.band/

Mempool & fees back to pre-halving levels.

See evil? Do something. Every time you see tyrants... Steal -> exercise Property rights -> Bitcoin Censor -> exercise Free Speech -> Nostr Kill -> protect Life -> self-defense Spy -> protect Privacy -> Matrix, Simplex

See evil? Do something. Every time you see tyrants... censoring --> promote Nostr stealing --> promote Bitcoin killing --> teach self-defense

Another day, another reason why #Nostr is necessary. Elon has already failed to prevent #censorship in Australia, he is just defending the last, weak trench of "Australia cannot censor in the US". Twitter has already failed to defend free speech in 95% of the world.

I see an inflow of new users with no LN⚡ address. Are these the tiktok refugees? Or something else? https://stats.nostr.band/

Slowly but surely... Nostr zaps ⚡

Buffer zones / DMZs are extremely useful for large distances (Ukraine/Russia) but as weapon range increases their usefulness in peacekeeping is reduced. In Israel/Palestine they would make little sense. Information sharing would be the best guarantee of lasting peace, eventually. Information sharing combined with gradual disarmament is extremely effective at creating trust. Transparency is even better: if the entire population is aware of the information being shared, if they can see disarmament happening live and information being increasingly shared, they will also gradually increase their trust in a lasting peace and start changing attitudes and behaviour.

Peaceful dispute resolution in high complexity, chaotic, low trust systems is a most interesting study subject. The game theory is bonkers... and yet, it has many historical precedents... The Holy Roman Empire, Renaissance Italy, Greek City states... are all worthy of study. Achieving peace is never about "who is right" because you can bet your ass that each side has a different version of the truth and won't agree on that. It's about "we will both lose more by continuing to fight than finding a way to live together". The most extreme case is ofc the MAD of nuclear war. But there are many degrees of the same. Think post WWII German-French relations or the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic wars. A very medieval method was to mix peace treaties with marriage. The Hapsburg motto: 'ALII BELLA GERUNT, TU FELIX AUSTRIA NUBE' Is the medieval equivalent of "make love, not war" Hostage exchange, peace marriage, external guarantors, mixed law enforcement, DMZs, neutral arbitrators, etc, etc... there are many, many peacemaking and peace-keeping techniques with a long track record. When trust is very low, there is also the gradual, incremental approach to build trust. After several steps of increasing trust you can start building more long lasting agreements. 1. Ceasefire 2. Hostage exchange 3. Buffer zones (extend ceasefire) 4. Negotiations (neutral ground) 5. Peace Treaty 6. Guarantees 7. Coordinated disarmament 8. Economic cooperation 9. Social integration 10. Long lasting peace

Lightning Network ⚡ really proved its usefulness during high fee environment. I tested and both custodial solutions like Primal, WoS and self-custody like Phoenix worked smoothly. Obviously it was not a good time to open or close channels. High fees provide the incentive to continue to innovate and scale. LN ⚡ can probably take us to the next billion users, but beyond that we are going to need even more scaling solutions. For 8 billion people to use Bitcoin we are going to need a LOT more.

Wow. That is a silly level of spam.

Tucker's interview with Pavel Durov is excellent. It highlights the pressure that govts put on social media companies. He speaks with a lot of experience of the reality of #censorship This is why we need #Nostr

Wikipedia idelological memory-holing is ramping up. It used to be just on very popular and controversial topics, but now thanks to AI they are re-writing history in real time 1984 style. Thankfully #Nostr #Bitcoin #FOSS are here. They will be the tools to defend free speech and save a record of the past.

pre halving mempool froth...

What would they do differently if they were trying to start a bank run?

Central Planning never fails to bring disaster.

#timeline #history work in progress... 20