The greatest thing about Nostr is coming back after a week and finding it 100% better. #[0] #[1] #[2] #[3]

GM I've been away too long, Nostr

Coinbase wants an 'inflation tracking stablecoin - flatcoin' on its new chain ... Since someone would have to manage the inflation measure, this is nothing more than another managed fiat trick. Bitcoin is the inflation tracking stablecoin.

#[0] My windows install of gossip was updated to 0.5.3 but won't launch because you're not signing the releases, but the 0.5.3 release isn't up on github.

Humans are lazy. We want to shed responsibility. That's the natural part. Water flows downhilll; humans seek less responsibility, more leisure. We will always choose, in some degree, to give over some power if it relieves us of a responsibility that makes room in our mind and lives to focus more accutely on the responsibilities we choose. Work, family, etc. Removing the friction of turnover is the most important bit. Governments, Massive and central, are entirely too hard to turn-over. To turn-over a bad policy about schools would require violent revolution against the military, the courts, the police, the roads, the power plants, etc. all. We need micro-government such that we can turn over the schools without disrupting the police. Turn over the militia without turning over the money we have saved our whole lives in. Turn over the power plant administration without losing the court of law.