A schizophrenic woman in California
Filed an Emergency Red Flag protection order
Against a relative in Texas.
Because the Texas man
Was unable to get to California
To face the judge in the case
In only a matter of days
He can no longer purchase firearms
Because the federal database
Has him flagged.
Source:
A best case path by which US gov could overcome their debt:
1. Buy as much bitcoin as they can get their hands on.
2. Mark the dollar value of all of the bitcoin they hold at equal to 110% their total outstanding debt + interest.
3. Officially default, and use their bitcoin holdings instead of dollars to pay off all treasury bonds.
We get the same massive upheaval in the economy we're gonna get anyway, but we also get a rapid widespread distribution of bitcoin comparable to the current dollar distribution. There's also an incredibly simple direct translation of value between dollars and bitcoin to the layperson. The value calculation would be off by some order of magnitude, but it would be as smooth a transition to hyperbitcoinization as possible.
I had Trump Derangement Syndrome, back from late 2015 through early 2021.
I knew that some of what I was seeing coming from liberals and the government was insane, but I believed he was in many ways worse. I listened when the media showed him as a fascist tyrant. I even voted for the dementia patient (red state overrode me, thank God) because I chose to risk that over Trump.
Middle of 2021, seeing lie after lie bombard through the covid machine, I did a thorough accounting of where I was getting my information. I determined to verify for myself what news organizations and individuals were liars, and I decided that any who proved to be liars through their own actions, were to be dismissed as valid sources of any information whatsoever. Not lies or truth, but useless noise.
Once the liars had been removed, all of the evidence I had once accepted of Trump's fascist character was gone. Not a single shred remained. He was still an asshole, but all remaining evidence was that he cared about America and was truly fighting for it. That's only been reinforced since.
It is not an ongoing failure to have been wrong. It is to stay wrong when the choice presents itself. There are a number of rather smart people with TDS who, if they were to do the kind of self-assessment I put myself through, would likely recover from it.
I hope this in some small way helps someone wake up.
It would be awesome if the central planners and deep state could be stopped with bitcoin only.
It would be lovely if this were a true bloodless revolution.
It can't, and it isnt.
The leviathan will not go peacefully. The amount of violence that will have to be used to save ourselves from them is not zero.
I only hope that whatever moves are ultimately taken, that they are surgical and precise.
The assassination attempt last night means many things, but an unexpected one is a test on #nostr as a place of true discussion.
Will the lack of a hate driving algorithm plus a generally truth-motivated user base mean that we actually listen across the divide? Even as it turns into a hot war? I pray it does.
I for one am not blocking anyone. Even if I find most of their views on this deranged or reprehensible. I hope you all do the same.
The political conflict in the USA will not be solved at the ballot box.
It will not be solved in the halls of Congress.
It will not be solved with rallies or debate or town halls or YouTube videos. It will not be solved with Fiat or Gold or Bitcoin.
It will ONLY be solved after all but one of the sides unconditionally surrenders.
And that will only happen on top a mountain of corpses.
Future historians will debate where the last exit was; what moment was the point of no return. Today was the final confirmation that it has indeed been crossed.
If your plans depend on peace, make new plans.
Could someone give me an update on using Nostr as a marketplace? I'm trying to see if this would be a good place for my Mom to sell baby blankets. Zaps for answers.
Watched Kyle Hill's vid on the Dead Internet Theory. Watching leftists precisely identify a problem, then fail to properly consider that they are vulnerable to the flaw and create a "solution" to the problem which is nearly certain to exacerbate it is always bizarre.
I think we need to start a movement where we tell everyone in our lives that we will only trust cryptographically signed digital information. Tell friends, family, and coworkers to their face that if it isn't said in person or signed and verified, we will always consider it fake, then follow through. Providing a forged email or deepfake to employers will be helpful in making the point clear. And making sure the tools are available to have all communications be signed is going to be important.
Things Many Bitcoiners Get Wrong Pt 1
Myth: Bitcoin increases in value forever
Reality: Bitcoin is subject to the same value law behind all monetary assets. Here's a formula that can help conceptualize that:
V(mx, t) = [mx / m(t)] * [m(t) / Gm(t)] * W(t)
Where:
V(mx, t) = Value (purchasing power) of a specific amount of a monetary asset at time t
mx = Specific amount of a monetary asset (assumed constant for simplicity)
m(t) = Total amount of the specific monetary asset at time t
Gm(t) = Global Money (all monetary assets) at time t
W(t) = Wealth (all purchasable goods and services) at time t
t = Time
This cannot actually be calculated, since you would need to know all of the monetary assets in the world and all the wealth and that's impossible. It's also a lagging effect, where the current value is chasing this equation. But I am confident this is close enough to Reality to be useful.
The purchasing power of 1 BTC goes up if the total Wealth increases, if the ratio of economic energy in bitcoin compared to the total goes up, or if the amount of accessible bitcoin goes down. The inverse is also true.
Bitcoin could go down to $6,000 per coin and still have the same purchasing power it did at $60,000, if the amount of dollars and dollar derivatives dropped by 10x. Bitcoin could go to $1m per coin and be able to buy less per coin, if the production of goods and services fell by 90% and USD heavily inflated. Both of these are entirely possible, and the latter is currently likely.
The best way by far to increase the value of held bitcoin is to go produce wealth that trades directly with BTC. The best way to decrease it, is to borrow fiat against bitcoin and live on the fiat while you produce nothing. The former directly enhances the purchasing power of BTC. The latter is a parasitic transaction that pressures the sale of bitcoin to make up the imbalance.
Wow noStrudel is killing it. I tried it back when it was first going and wasn't impressed, but I pulled it up now and I'm switching off Primal as my main client, at least when on desktop.
I feel like I was blind and can now see. So much information that this network is running that I wasn't aware of, now I can see it. And so cleanly organized and displayed. It's amazing.
Strongly recommend anyone who's not checked it for awhile to give it another go.
What would you think about a dating app where you talked to an AI dating assistant about who you are and what you are looking for in a partner, and it would go out and find other AI assistants and work out with each other the caliber of the match, only getting the human they work for involved when both assistants have very high confidence that the match is excellent.
We're not at the point where it's that black mirror episode, but it's a lot like agreeing to go on a blind date setup by a less intelligent version of you.
#dating #relationships #ai
Welcome to the party man
@jack mallers When is Strike implementing NWC?
Imagine if the tokens on an altcoin project were issued only by a direct connection to a provably unspendable bitcoin transaction with a permanently fixed ratio. Literally deleting that btc forever, and then creating the token on the alternative. Bitcoin Transmutation.
Such an altcoin wouldn't violate the digital scarcity of bitcoin because of this. It would also act as strong proof that these new token holders really believe the project is a worthy goal, since if they're wrong, they're broke. In many ways, it would be a far more ethical way to make a hard-fork to bitcoin than actually making a hard-fork.
What would you think about a project that did this?
Normally I just dismiss all altcoin projects, but learning about GhostDAG and studying UTXO scarcity for myself, I'm thinking that bitcoin might have it's own 'adapt or die' problem we are not taking seriously enough.
While I love that over here no one really believes that any American President can fix the system, or even will intend to, total unconcern with who wins this one strikes me as the wrong call.
We know the dollar system is going to crash, and take the central powers down with it. We also underestimate how long that can take, and just how much damage authoritarians can do before they can no longer bribe their supporters. America could absolutely go full communist before the dollar collapses if not enough is done to prevent it; and there are plenty pushing that goal with the power to accomplish it.
The next year, and especially the next few months, will likely determine the shape of America's collapse. That shape can be a sharp decline with rapid capital redeployment through bitcoin, a longer, slower breakdown, a nuclear war, or anything in between. A world power of this magnitude does not die silently, and it will have millions of casualties, but there are better and worse ways this can go.
If you are not tracking this election cycle, and using the events as they unfold to inform your own plans, you are making a mistake. If you are able to influence local politics and the community around you, and you are not doing so to the benefit of the good, you are in error.
Don't make this mistake.
Has anyone considered making/using relays that only maintain metadata? Just the core user info, follow list, relays, etc. Also making it easy to clone the relay and attempt to maintain this data for as much of the global network as possible.
Were this to be done, clients could go to these meta-relays first when loading up a user, and the overall user experience could probably be improved some.
Or perhaps I'm just out of date and this has already been considered.
My greatest bitcoin fear: In 2035, I can by as many goods and services with my BTC as it can currently buy me today, but a simple loaf of bread takes the average person 16 hours of labor to earn.
Recently realized that the same tools underpinning Nostr could be used to underpin a decentralized accreditation system for businesses and professionals.
All an accreditation system really is is a reputation tracker. Is business A engaging in their business in a manner compliant with proper business practices? Is the person who is claiming to be a PHD of Physics actually a PHD of physics? Does this psychologist I'm looking to hire for my own treatment have a history of abusing patients? These kind of questions.
So, let's say someone wants to be accredited, I'm going to use Brett Weinstein as an example. He creates a private key (let's say asec and apub, 'a' for 'accrediting'), and sends a message that says simply "I am 'Brett Weinstein' ", adds his professional photo, signs it, and posts it to a bunch of relays as an identity statement. He reaches out to his professional collegues who have similarly put out an identity statement, and they put out signed recognition statements: "I approved Brett's thesis paper for his doctorate in (year)." "I taught alongside Brett between (year) and (year)" "I co-authored (research paper) in (year) with Brett" "I was in a class Brett taught in (year), he is evil incarnate and I'm woke" etc. Then whenever anyone is wondering whether or not to hire Brett for some position, or whether or not to hire him, they can just check his apub to see what his record is.
Relays could consolidate the overall scope of recognition statments they receive, generating what is essentially a score for a person, and by crawling along this web of reputational history a person can be properly recognized for who they are and what their qualifications are. The relays could stay afloat by charging a fee of a few sats for every post they receive and every call for data they get. It's at least as good a system as the current centralized one and it could be implemented at any time, with minimal development effort.
