Bittorrent DHT is great. It is probably the best you could possibly do. People have misinterpreted my recent post. I'm trying to counter the belief that "pubkey is uncensorable and nostr is censorable". In fact they are on the the same order of uncensorability. Yes, pubky is better on this, but not by as much as people seem to think. They both have the same requirements (have to start somewhere) and from that starting point, both of them can get what you want, nostr being more hit-and-miss though.

You cannot use pubky or nostr if you don't have access to the Internet. You cannot use pubky or nostr if you've just been hit by a 2000 lb bomb. BOTH systems require you to connect to SOMETHING to get started. Everything is censorable.

Wow I just found @Big Bad John. He is so *smart* and not at all "retarded." 😏 I'm not sure if I should bother correcting his misunderstandings of nostr, or his misjudgements of what is and isn't censorable and why, or just ignore him. Does he listen or just talk? We will see. I like pkarr. I like using Mainline DHT directly even more. I'm using it in Mosaic. But it is also censorable. The bittorrent DHT may not be subject to sybil attacks, but it only has 3 (AFAICT) public well-known on-ramps. Take those three down and people who don't already have a node list can't get on. Nostr is not better for bootstrapping (finding a person's relays) but it isn't much worse. There is a weak centralizing pressure to put relay lists on a the same well known popular relays, but those change over time and the pressure changes over time, and good clients republish to the current popular set which can move. The main issue is that client devs are all over the map in terms of how they choose to deal with the situation, and some aren't even using outbox model. IMHO (emphasis on H) the main benefit of the DHT is someone new with a single key they want to follow can get started without knowing anybody nor any relays/servers. There is no censorability difference between homeservers in pkarr and relays in nostr. You can run your own, or you can outsource it, in both cases. One isn't more censorship resistant than the other. When I look at

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Pubky

Unlock the web. Pubky has 35 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

I see among top rpos "pubky-app" which says it is a deprecated repository, and will be replaced with pubky/franky. But pubky/franky does not exist. So IMHO there is no opensource pubky, which means I won't be using it and I recommend against.

Despite what I wrote yesterday or 2 days ago about Epstein, I do think there are a lot of shenannagans going on, and a lot we are not being told. View quoted note → Alan Dershowitz also came out saying he knows many other names and files that are being hidden. Trump was clearly nervous when the Epstein quesiton was asked a few days ago, so nervous he said crazy things: "Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? This guy's been talked about for years. Are people still talking about this guy? This creep? That is unbelievable. I can't believe you're asking a question on Epstein at a time like this, when we're having some of the greatest success, and also tragedy with what happened in Texas. It just seems like a desecration." Back when Lex Friedman interviewed Trump before the election, he was nervous about it then too.

425 Too Early

Not the Onion: Israel Wants to Build the Most Moral Concentration Camp in the World (I didn't read it, I just laughed at the headline, but the link is proof this is a real article) https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-07-10/ty-article-opinion/israel-wants-to-build-the-most-moral-concentration-camp-in-the-world/00000197-f0b3-d963-addf-f4b7029a0000

A lot of people seem to believe that Jeffrey Epstein recruited underage girls in order to videotape them having sex with rich and powerful people as compromat for an intelligence agency, perhaps Mossad, and that he was murdered in prison to cover up the loose end. While I cannot prove that this is not true, there is almost no evidence for this story. The evidence points to a simpler story: Jeffrey Epstein was a socialite and financier who had connections with lots of famous and powerful people, and he also liked having sex with minors and so he recruited minors so that he could have sex with them. Several famous people also took the opportunity to have sex with minors facilitated by Epstein, but not as videotaped compromat. The second time he was imprisoned for it he committed suicide by strangulation. The hyoid bone can be fractured by hanging, but more often by strangulation, and the description of Epstein's body as found is more like strangulation. You can commit suicide by strangulation (please don't). The strange occurance of the camera being off, the cell not being monitored, could have been guards who were turning their backs to let him commit suicide ("fucking pedo should die, let's let him do it."). Papers related to Epstein said he was a suicide risk prior to his death. US Attorneys office offered a plea deal to the correctional officers if they claim they fell asleep, who rejected it claiming they did nothing wrong, but clearly the Justice Department suspected the guards. Earlier on July 23 Epstein attempted suicide, which put him on suicide watch. But Epstein's attorney argued against it and he was taken off suicide watch but stull was supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes. So the bedsheets were not toilet paper in this cell as some claim. The claim that Alexander Acosta said "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone" has only one source, an editorial in The Daily Beast by Vicky Ward who says it came from an interview she did with a former senior White House official and this is what she claims Accosta told the Trump team. It is not in court documents or congressional testimony from Accosta as far as I can tell, and regarding it Accosta said "I would hesitate to take this reporting as fact." Maxwell is in prison for assisting Epstein in recruiting underaged girls for sex with Epstein. The famous people that various girls claimed were involved in sex acts in this situation may or may not have been. The evidence doesn't strongly favor either side. I have found no evidence of video tapes recovered from the Island with the names of famous people on their labels. I vaguely remember seeing it in a video way back when, but either I am mistaken or the Internet has been scrubbed of such a thing. If anybody has it, please share. I'm currently assuming this was a myth at the time and never happened. The conspiracy theory was fun, but it is too flimsy.

This is how the gossip client works:

X (formerly Twitter)

Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) on X

The most surreal vehicle you will see today

Jeffrey Epstein never even existed. Trust me bros.