#asknostr can I create calendar events for "virtual" locations? Like if there's a scheduled Livestream?

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Built a multiplayer voxel world fully on-chain on Bitcoin \ stacker news

Hi all, first post. New to Stacker News, apologies if the format's off. I built BlockForge, a Minecraft-ish voxel world where the engine, the 32x32...

I think my analysis also explains the phenomenon of Jake Paul boxing Mike Tyson on Netflix, Mr Beast doing deals with Amazon Prime, etc -- in the legacy system, creator tips or donations are inherently limited by (a) the fact that they can't accept micropayments below $1 and (b) they're limited to USA/ OFAC-compliant payment rails. So they basically "outgrow" YouTube and its subscription model. In contrast, Netflix can sell their content to (basically) the whole world, so that's who they partner with. On Nostr, hypothetically you could serve content to Billions *and* they can chip in ~Satoshis, what is the limit? View article →

It's " #Longform Festivus" -- I've got issues, and you people are going to hear about it: * @Amethyst can't access Drafts saved to relays -- also, inline links in documents are rendered as big link preview blobs rather than actual links -- appropriate for Kind 1, but doesn't work for longforms. * @Nostria "Numbered lists" get nuked on saving and reloading drafts -- reverts to just multi-line text * longform dot space -- (Still being developed?) black background makes editing real difficult because heading text is also rendered in dark grey, etc... better minding of color schemes? * #habla dot news -- straight-up dead? website 404's... * @Decent Newsroom -- browser crashes when trying to edit draft (Chrome browser). Also, perhaps reconsider large, heavily "serif'ed" font?

Proud to have been "sub-tweeted" by Cory Doctorow in a dismissive swipe at Bitcoin... I'm glad he's at least trying to engage with the idea of Bitcoin as a hedge against State violence, but I suppose the rejoinder is, "you just get wrenched instead!" View quoted note →

This is an example of "Charon's obol", a coin placed in the mouth of the dead, intended as ferryman fare to cross the river Styx... Did you know an early motivation for digital money was as a means for Extropian transhumanists to pay for their cryopreservation? A "brain wallet", like the coins in the mouth of dead Romans, would be motivation for future scientists to resurrect you with "brain intact." Source: "Digital Cash" by Finn Brunton... see my review here: View quoted note → Image source

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#bookstr Just finished the amazing "Digital Cash" by Finn Brunton, a book I found myself highlighting more than any recent non-fiction read. Brunton provides a fascinating social-ideological anthropology of the hackers, cypherpunks and Extropians who were at the heart of the creation of the many strains of digital money that ultimately crystallized into Bitcoin in 2008. To do this, he goes all the way back to the 1930's with obscure futurist movements like "the Technocracy," tracing these forward to early hypertext projects like Xanadu in the 1970's, and ultimately to smoky San Francisco bars in the early 90's occupied by mask-wearing cypherpunks planning the downfall of the Nation-State. What was new to me was just how intermeshed the early cypherpunk community was with the transhumanist "Extropian" movement. Digital money wasn't just a means of escaping and de-legitimizing State control; it was money you could "take with you" when you get cryopreserved, as Hal Finney did. Password-protected digital coins could be loaded "in your brain" for the passage to the future, like the coins placed on the mouth of dead Greeks for Charon to ferry them across the river Styx. The story takes us right up to Bitcoin's inception in 2008, and I would love to hear a continuation of all the high-stakes drama both inside Bitcoin culture and directly adjacent, such as the geopolitical moves of Assange, Taaki, Ulbricht, & etc. But that's another story for another time! In an era where Bitcoiners wear ties and MAGA hats, and extol the virtues of pastoral living, it's important to be continually reminded of the truly radical nature of this stuff. This is money for a radical vision of the future, made by humans who sought to transcend the limits of humanity itself.