Beneath The Ink

How many gigs of data does your average American have? I was wondered. Naturally, I asked the greatest data thieves in existence, the AI. The response was: Gemini: "The average American stores about 500GB of data in personal cloud storage, with photos and images accounting for the largest portion at 46%. Other types of data, such as text documents, take up 129GB, while music and audio files make up the remaining 6%." We "store" this hoping it doesn't one day disappear. How many countless family memories lie in an Instagram profile when once people held them in cherished albums relentlessly protected?

GM Saw some videos last night that have me strapped in. This might be a rocky ride coming.... https://www.youtube.com/live/Zy4WQAtWvs4?si=PRixc3S9s14Za1xs

If AI is trained on a collection of all the content that has been posted to the internet wouldn't it be fair that we, the content creators got a cut of what ever revenue is generated from it? Why instead do be pay for it? They are farming our data and spitting it back to us in a quick control F of our human knowledge. At least that's what they want to think. The moment people only use the internet for simple transactions and no content expression AI will only serve as a highly efficient transaction recognizer and organizer.

If every post on Nostr always had 800+ zaps, you'd see a tidal wave of people wanting to use nostr. Once the word gets out that this network always zaps instead of likes people's curiosity will get the better of them. When they get here the content should be so quality driven that it would seem truly foolish to use any other platform. (Ps i know nostr is more than a social media platform.)

Anyone know what's a good source for DRM free ebooks?

Folks this thing drops past 98k and we might see a worse drop... or it'll jump off the 98k support

We might see 98k today

My only question is why long term holders would think to sell at all? My reasoning is if they are long term holders then they must have been exposed to the ethics and culture that underlies bitcoin. They experienced the upward benefits over the long term so outright selling for the sake of selling would not be rational. Perhaps they are using their money, sure, but for what do you use millions and in some cases billions of dollars? I can only justify it with the purchasing of stocks so the liquidity is rotating into stocks. The question remains though, why take money out to put into an asset that grows at a lower rate of return? In addition, now its easier to get a loan on your bitcoin than ever before. So what's the deal?

When was the last time you zapped a good article or video on nostr? nostr:naddr1qqgr2wfcxd3kye3kxejrgdr9v4snyq3q4hq5lgadtyy9dhvtszq46dnl0s0xwdddqr7e32rdqqhma8a4xhssxpqqqp65wrmcu96

I think there's a portion of the mind that has gotten used to being the product and thus getting content for free on other platforms. The algorithm game has trained us well to use likes and shares but there is nothing like going direct to the source and giving value where values worth. The content here should be creme de la creme because of the ability to skip the need for sponsors, skip the need to develop a huge following. Pure signal can only come when we decide to tune in!

Great article encompassing the shift in mindset nostr can achieve for our society. nostr:naddr1qqgr2wry8p3nje3evsunsvtrvs6nyq3q4hq5lgadtyy9dhvtszq46dnl0s0xwdddqr7e32rdqqhma8a4xhssxpqqqp65wc7urxe

My brother works in big tech and everytime I bring up nostr he mentions that its ridiculous that people are building something for no compensation. He always says, we'll whats in it for them to try and build something great that will only be copied by the next guy. Its a shame because he is a very talented software engineer. In fact its funny because his political Philosophy is very liberal and borderline socialist yet he can't grasp the concept of nostr. Not to say nostr is socialist, rather that him being of a socialist political bent is wrapped up in a techno capitalist monopoly style mind set when it comes to software.

Not sure who mentioned it yesterday but with large miners focusing their rigs toward AI, this may be the move that serves to naturally decentralize a bit more the mining side of Bitcoin. I can imagine after a couple more halfings it wont make economic sense to have a large corporate approach to mining and a mining app on your phone will be enough to run a mining node literally on any phone that wants to. Is that a feasible future or naw?

Really cool way of looking at how the overton window is shifting for tradfi https://youtu.be/wZo5UEqW1b8?si=OO3uL-GPR5bo3-5b

Anyone here know where I might be able to find a bitcoin meet up in Miami?