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Embarking on the journey of operating your own Lightning node on the Bitcoin Layer 2 network is more than just a tech-savvy endeavor; it's a step into a realm of financial autonomy and cutting-edge innovation. By running a node, you become a vital part of a revolutionary movement that's reshaping how we think about money and digital transactions. This role not only offers a unique perspective on blockchain technology but also places you at the heart of a community dedicated to decentralization and network resilience. Beyond the technicalities, it's about embracing a new era of digital finance, where you contribute directly to the network's security, efficiency, and growth, all while gaining personal satisfaction and potentially lucrative rewards.

In essence, running your own Lightning node is a powerful way to engage with the forefront of blockchain technology, assert financial independence, and contribute to a more decentralized and efficient Bitcoin network. It's an adventure that offers both personal and communal benefits, from gaining in-depth tech knowledge to earning a place in the evolving landscape of cryptocurrency.

Running your own Lightning node for the Bitcoin Layer 2 network can be an empowering and beneficial endeavor. Here are 10 reasons why you might consider taking on this task:

1. Direct Contribution to Decentralization: Operating a node is a direct action towards decentralizing the Bitcoin network, crucial for its security and resistance to control or censorship by any single entity.

2. Financial Autonomy: Owning a node gives you complete control over your financial transactions on the network, free from reliance on third-party services, which can be subject to fees, restrictions, or outages.

3. Advanced Network Participation: As a node operator, you're not just a passive participant but an active player in shaping the network, influencing its efficiency and scalability through direct involvement.

4. Potential for Higher Revenue: With strategic management and optimal channel funding, your node can become a preferred route for transactions, potentially increasing the routing fees you can earn.

5. Cutting-Edge Technological Engagement: Running a node puts you at the forefront of blockchain and bitcoin technology, offering insights into future developments and innovations.

6. Strengthened Network Security: Each new node adds to the robustness of the Bitcoin network, making it more resilient against attacks and failures, thus contributing to the overall security of the ecosystem.

7. Personalized Fee Structures: You have the flexibility to set your own fee policies, which can balance earning potential with the service you provide to the network.

8. Empowerment Through Knowledge: The process of setting up and managing a node provides deep learning opportunities, empowering you with knowledge that can be applied in various areas of blockchain and fintech.

9. Boosting Transaction Capacity: By running a node, you help to increase the overall capacity of the Lightning Network, enabling more transactions to be processed quickly and at lower costs.

10. Community Leadership and Reputation: As an active node operator, you gain recognition within the Bitcoin community, which can lead to collaborative opportunities and a position of thought leadership in the space.

These reasons demonstrate the impactful and transformative nature of running a Lightning node, appealing to those who are deeply invested in the principles of bitcoin and wish to actively shape its future. Jump aboard, and embrace the journey toward full independence. 🐶🐾🫡🚀🚀🚀

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Chef's notes

I am a lazy cook & prefer store-bought pie crusts but if you have a recipe for perfect pie crust that you like, use it. Just make sure it is appropriate for a deep dish pie.

During last 15 minutes of bake time, check pie every 5 min for doneness.

*If you have an oven that heats unevenly, rotate pie halfway through baking time. As you can see in my photo, I did not do that :)

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 45 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 1 hour and 5 minutes
• 🍽️ Servings: 1 pie, about 8-10 servings

Ingredients

• 1 deep dish pie crust
• Eggwash (1 egg beaten with 1 Tbsp milk)
• 1 15oz can pumpkin puree (2 cups)
• 3 large eggs
• 1 1/4 cups packed brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp cornstarch
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/8 tsp ground cloves
• 1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/4 cup milk

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375ºF
2. Roll out pie crust into 12" circle on lightly floured surface. Carefully lift crust onto deep dish pie pan. Fit, trim & crimp edges. Brush edges with egg wash. Fill with pie weights.
3. Par-bake for 10 minutes.
4. Remove crust from oven & remove weights after cooling a bit.
5. Whisk together pumpkin, eggs, and brown sugar. Add cornstarch, spices, cream, and milk. Whisk again until well combined.
6. Pour filling into pie crust until 3/4 full. Place into oven & bake for 25 minutes.
7. Cover edges with aluminum foil & rotate pie. Bake an additional 25-35 minutes. Pie is done when center is set.
8. Allow to cool completely(3 hours) before serving. Top with whipped cream, as desired.

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บทความนี้เป็นบทความแรกของซีรีส์บิทคอยน์ เนื่องจากเนื้อหาบิทคอยน์ภาษาไทยที่เกี่ยวกับคุณสมบัติพื้นฐาน หลักการทำงานต่างๆ หายากมากครับ ช่องทางผมศึกษาและต่อยอดก็มีรายการ cdc bitcoin talk ของ อ.พิริยะ และช่องของพี่วิชิต ซ้ายเกล้า ถ้าเนื้อหาของบทความนี้ตกหล่นหรือผิดพลาดตรงส่วนไหนสามารถแนะนำติชมได้เลยนะครับ แรงบันดาลใจในการศึกษาบิทคอย์ มาจากคำกล่าวของพี่ วิชิต ซ้ายกล้า ว่า "การซื้อบิทคอยน์มันง่าย แต่การถือบิทคอยน์มันยาก" พี่วิชิตยังบอกอีกว่า เราต้องเรียนรู้เพื่อให้เข้าใจ ไม่ใช่เรียนเพื่อให้รู้เพียงอย่างเดียว ต้องศึกษาให้เข้าใจเข้าถึง แล้วเราจะอยู่กับมันได้ครับ

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เนื้อหาในซีรี่ส์บิทคอยน์ชุดนี้ จะแบ่งเป็นหัวข้อๆ ดังนี้

หัวข้อที่ 1 Cryptography คืออะไร ทำงานยังไง เพราะส่วนนี้เป็นส่วนสำคัญที่เข้าไปอยู่ในระบบ Bitcoin Network

หัวข้อที่ 2 UTXO คืออะไร UTXO คือบิทคอยน์ที่เราสามารถนำไปใช้ได้ นำไปทำ Transaction ได้ นำไปโอนให้คนอื่น โดยที่ Transaction ของบิทคอยน์ให้เรามองเป็นก้อนๆ นะครับ ในแต่ละ Transaction ก็คือแต่ละก้อนข้อมูล ข้อมูลทั้งหมดก็จะถูกจับรวมยัดลงไปในบล็อก บล็อกก็เปรียบเสมือนกล่องที่ไว้เก็บ Transaction โดยปรกติแล้วบล็อกจะมีขนาดประมาณ 1Mb หลังจากนั้นก็นำบล็อกแต่ละบล็อกมาเชื่อมต่อกัน มาอ้างอิงข้อมูลถึงกัน กลายเป็นบล็อกเชน ซึ่งบล็อกเชนเป็นฐานข้อมูล หรือเป็นสมุดบัญชีกระจายศูนย์ของบิทคอยน์ เป็นองค์ประกอบสำคัญอีกส่วนหนึ่งที่เราต้องศึกษาให้ละเอียด

หัวข้อที่ 3 Node กับ Miner Node หรือทุกคนเรียกว่านักขุดบิทคอยน์ เราจะไปดูว่า Node กับ Miner Node มีความสำคัญต่อระบบบิทคอยน์อย่างไร โดยบล็อกที่กล่าวถึงก่อนหน้านี้ ก่อนที่มันจะไปเชื่อมต่อกับบล็อกเดิมที่มีอยู่ในระบบ ก็ต้องผ่านการตรวจสอบจาก node และ Miner Node ก่อนเสมอ

หัวข้อที่ 4 เจาะลึกเกี่ยวกับ Transaction การ Lock หรือ Unlock บิทคอยน์ และการทำงานของสคริปของบิทคอยน์ 

หัวข้อที่ 5 บิทคอยน์เป็นเทคโนโลยี ทุกๆเทคโนโลยีต้องมีการอัพเดตต้องมีการเปลี่ยนแปลง ในหัวข้อนี้เราก็พูดถึงการทำ Softfork, Hardfork ของบิทคอยน์ ว่ามันคืออะไรมันต่างกันอย่างไร ใครมีสิทธิ์ใครไม่มีสิทธิ์ในการเปลี่ยนแปลงกฎกติกาหรือการอัพเดทซอฟท์แวร์

หัวข้อที่ 6 คุณสมบัติของ Sound Money, Hard Money (เงินที่มั่นคง) เป็นอย่า่งไร บิทคอยน์มี 21 ล้านเหรียญ ไม่มีใครสามารถเปลี่ยนแปลงได้ เราต้องตอบคำถามให้ได้ว่าเปลี่ยนแปลงไม่ได้จริงไหม โดยทุกคนไม่ต้องเชื่อใคร ไม่ต้องเชื่อผม ให้เชื่อความรู้ของตัวเอง เราจะศึกษาไปพร้อมๆกัน และจะตอบคำถามเหล่านี้ให้ได้

หัวข้อที่ 7 เราจะเปรียบเทียบบิทคอยน์กับ Cryptocurrency อื่นๆ ว่ามีความเหมือนมีความแตกต่างกันยังไง เราจะเปรียบเทียบระบบบิทคอยน์กับระบบการเงินแบบเดิม (fiat currency) ว่ามันมีจุดเด่นจุดด้อยอย่างไร

เนื้อหาซีรี่ส์บิทคอยน์ชุดนี้ จะพาทุกคนเข้าไปสู่โลกของ บิทคอยน์ ซึ่งเป็นความรู้พื้นฐานในการนำไปพัฒนาศึกษาต่อยอด ขอบคุณครับ

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Token's and Coin's

A cryptocurrency (coin) is the native currency of a particular blockchain. For example, BTC on Bitcoin, ETH on Ethereum, and ADA on Cardano. These coins store value and function as a medium of exchange, similar to traditional currencies.

A token is not native to the blockchain and is minted through smart contracts. Tokens are more like financial assets. They can represent a stake in a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization), a digital product, an NFT, or even a physical object. For example, the UNI token (Uniswap) and USDT (ERC-20 Ethereum, also exists as TRC-20 on the Tron network) are non-native tokens of the Ethereum blockchain (ERC-20).

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Getalby​ เป็น​ Lightning​ ​Wallet​ ตัวเลือกแรกๆที่ผมมักแนะนำสำหรับคนที่เริ่มต้นใช้งาน​ Nostr​ และยังไม่มีกระเป๋าใช้งาน​ เพราะใช้งานหลากหลายมากๆแถมยังสามารถใช้เป็น​ Extension​ Login​ เข้าใช้งาน​ Nostr​ ได้อีกด้วย

การ​ Login​ ด้วย​ Extension​ นั้นคือ​ Nip-07​ หรือที่เรียกว่า​ Nostr​ Extension​ ฟังชั่น​นี้ทำให้คุณเข้าใช้งานบนเว็บเบราว์เซอร์​ได้ปลอดมากยิ่งขึ้นแต่บทความนี้ไม่ได้กล่าวถึงเรื่องนั้นแต่จะพาไปเริ่มต้นใช้งานกันแบบง่ายๆ

เรามาเริ่มกันเถอะ!

Getalby​

พิมพ์​ค้นหาใน​ Google​ ได้เลยว่า​ Getalby​

จากนั้นกดที่​ Create​ Account​

ใส่อีเมล์​ที่เราต้องการสมัครเพื่อเป็น​ Backup​ กด​ Sign up​ ได้เลย หลักจากนั้นทาง​ Getalby​ จะลง​ one-time login code ไปยังอีกเมล์​ให้เราคัดลอกมาวางแล้วกด​ Login​ ก็จะเข้าสู่หน้าหลักของกระเป๋า

เมื่อคุณ​ Login​ ในครั้งแรกที่เปิดใช้งานกระเป๋าจะมีป๊อปอัพขึ้นมาถามว่าคุณต้องการใช้งานฟังชั่น​ไหนบ้างผมแนะนำให้ติ๊กทุกอัน​แล้วกด​ Submit แค่นี้คุณ​ได้​ กระเป๋าไลท์นิ่งใช้งานแล้ว

เราตั้งค่ากระเป๋าเพิ่มเติมกันดีกว่า

Getalby​ ให้เรา​สร้าง​ Lightning​Address​ เป็นชื่อที่เราต้องการ​ คุณสามารถนำใช้รับ​ zap​ ใน​ Nostr​ ได้ด้วย

คุณจะ​สังเกต​ว่าเรายังไม่ได้ตั้ง​ password​ กันเลยงั้นเรามาเริ่มกันเลยดีกว่า

คลิกที่ขีดสามขีดมุมขวาบนก็จะแสดงเมนู​ตั้งค่าต่าง ๆ คลิกที่ Account​ setting​ เลื่อนลงมาล่างสุดจะเห็นคำว่า​ Change​ your​ password​

ใส่​พาสเวิร์ด​ที่คุณต้องการตั้งได้เลยโดยใส่ให้เมือนกันทั้ง 2 ช่องเมื่อเสร็จแล้วให้คลิก​ Up​data password​

ถ้าขึ้น​ Successfully สีเขียวแสดงว่าแก้ไขสำเร็จ​

หลังจากตั้งค่าพาสเวิร์ด​เรียบร้อยแล้วงั้นเรามาสร้าง​ Lightning​ ​Address​ กันดีกว่า

คลิกเข้าไปที่ตั้งค่าเหมือนเดิมแต่คราวนี้คลิกที่​ Profile​ setting​s

หน้านี้จะมีให้เราตั้งค่าอยู่สามอย่างคือ * Lightning​ ​Address​ * Alby​ Page * Nostr​ Address​ (Nip-05)​

มาเริ่มตั้งค่า​ Lightning​ Address​ กัน

คุณ​จะสังเกตุ​ได้ว่าข้างหน้า​ xxxx@getalby.com จะสามารถ​แก้ไข้ได้ ให้คุณเปลี่ยนชื่อที่คุณอยากได้ตามที่คุณต้องการเลยเช่น​ notoshitest404@getalby.com

ห่างต้องการใช้งาน​ Nostr​ Address​ ด้วยแนะนำให้ตั้งชื่อเหมือนโปรไฟล์​ของคุณ​เอง

เมื่อคุณ​เปลี่ยนแปลงเสร็จ​แล้วให้คลิก Up​data​ your​ lightning​ addresses​

ถ้าขึ้น​ Successfully สีเขียวแสดงว่าแก้ไขสำเร็จ​​

มาแก้ไข​​Alby​Page​ กันต่อเลยดีกว่า

เมื่อเลื่อนลงหน้า​ Alby​ Page​ จะเห็นว่ายังว่างเปล่าไม่มีอะไรเลยให้คุณตั้งชื่อในช่องว่างและคลิกเลืิกไฟล์เพื่ออัปโหลด​รูปภาพ​ เมื่อคุณ​ทำเสร็จแล้วคลิกที่​Up​data your Alby page​

ถ้าขึ้น​ Successfully สีเขียวแสดงว่าแก้ไขสำเร็จ​​

จากนั้นลองคลิกลิ้งค์ดูได้เลย​

มาถึงอย่างสุดท้ายแล้วตั้งค่า​ Nostr Address​ (Nip-05)​

ทาง​ Getalby​ ยังสามารถ​ให้คุณ​ทำ​ Nostr​ Address​ ได้ฟรีอีกด้วย คือเหมือนเครื่องหมายติ๊กถูกเหมือนใน​ x และ​ Facebook​ เป็นการยืนยันว่าเป็นตัวคุณ​โดยอ้างอิงจาก​ npub​ ของคุณ​เองและยังเอาไว้ส่งต่อให้คนอื่นได้ค้าหาเพื่อกดติดตาม​คุณ​ได้ง่ายขึ้นแทน​ npub​ ยาวๆ

Nostr​Address​ ที่เราทำกับทาง​ Getalby​ จะเป็นชื่อเดียวกับ​ Lightning​ Address​ เวลาแก้ไขข้อมูล​ใน​ Nostr​ คุณสามารถใส่เหมือนกันได้ทั้งสองช่อง

วิธีทำนั้นง่ายแสนง่ายเพียงคุณ​ไปคัดลอก​ npub​ จากบัญชี​ Nostr ของคุณ​มาวางจากนั้นคลิกที่​ Up​data​ your​ Nostr​ public key​

ถ้าขึ้น​ successfully สีเขียวแสดงว่าแก้ไขสำเร็จ​​

เพียงเท่านี้​ทุกอย่างก็เสร็จสมบูรณ์​หมดแล้วพร้อมใช้งานได้อย่างสบายใจ

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แต่ถ้าคุณ​รู้ยังรู้สึกว่าการเข้าใช้งานบน​เว็บเบราว์เซอร์​ไม่สะดวก​กับคุณทาง​ Getalby​ ยังมีวิธีไปเชื่อมกับกระเป๋าที่เป็นแอปพลิเคชัน​บนมือถือได้ด้วยอย่าง Blue​ Wallet และ​ Zeus

ผมแนะนำ​ Zeus

เรามาทำให้​ Getalby​ ใช้งานบน​ Zeus​ กันดีกว่า

หลังจากที่คุณตั้งค่าอะไรต่าง ๆ ใน​ Getalby​ เสร็จแล้วให้คุณย้อนกลับไปหน้า​ Wallet​ ให้เลื่อนลงมาจนเจอหัวข้อ wallet connection credentials จากนั้นคลิก​ show your connection credentials จะแสดง​ QR​-Code และลิ้งค์​ ให้คุณเอาไปใช้เชื่อมต่อกระเป๋ากับ​ Zeus

ไม่แนะนำให้แคปหน้าจอเพราะส่วนจะเข้าถึงสิทธิ์​ของกระเป๋า​คุณได้

เรามาดูฝั่ง​ Zeus กันบ้างดีกว่า

Zeus

คุณ​สามารถ​ดาวน์โหลด​ได้ทั้ง​ Google Play​ และ Appstore

หลังจากติดตั้ง​เสร็จแล้วให้คุณเปิด​ Zeus ขึ้นมา

ในการใช้งานครั้งแรกคุณ​จะเห็นอยู่สองตัวเลือก * Get Start​ed * Scan node config

เรามาเริ่มวิธีที่ง่ายที่สุดกันก่อนดีกว่าคลิกที่ scan node config จะเปิดกล้องขึ้นมาให้เราแสกน​ QR-Code ให้คุณ​นำไปแกน​ QR​-Code​ ที่ได้จาก​ Getalby​ แล้วจะแสดงหน้าตั้งค่าของทาง​ Zeus ​คุณ​ไม่ต้องแก้ไขอะไรนอกจากตั้งชื่อ​ที่คุณต้องการตรงช่อง Nickname แล้วคลิก Save node config แค่นี้ก็พร้อมใช้งานแล้ว

มาถึงการตั้งค่าอีกแบบนึงที่ดูวุ่นวาย​นิดหน่อยแต่ไม่ยากจนเกินไปคลิกที่ Get started จะแสดงหน้าว่างเปล่าที่เขียนว่า No nodes ให้คุณสังเกต​มุมขวาบนจะมีเครื่องหมายบวกอยู่ให้คุณ​คลิกที่เครื่องหมายบวกจะแสดงหน้าตั้งค่า

เมื่อคุณอยู่หน้าตั้งค่าแล้วให้คุณคลิกตรง Node interface เลือก LNDHub จากนั้นคลิกเปิด​ Existing Account​ คุณ​จะเห็นช่องที่เราต้องเติมเองสามช่องคือ * Host * Username * Password

กลับมาดูลิงค์​ที่เอาไว้เชื่อมต่อจาก Getalby​ อีกที

lndhub://4ri6ttywg0trabztmkx0:j2mlr9rphpd6arz8g9hq@https://ln.getalby.com

จะสังเกตได้ว่าเขาจะไม่แยกให้คุณ​วิธี​การแยกคือ

Host : https://ln.getalby.com Username​ : 4ri6ttywg0trabztmkx0 Password​ : j2mlr9rphpd6arz8g9hq

หลังจากเราแยกเสร็จแล้วนำไปใส่ในหน้าตั้งค่าได้เลยใส่ข้อมูล​ครบเรียบร้อย​คลิก Save Node confing แค่นี้ก็พร้อมใช้งานเรียบร้อยแล้ว

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ขอให้ทุกคนใช้งานอย่างมีความสุขไว้เจอกันใหม่บทความหน้า

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Siamstr #Notoshi #Newuser #Nostr #LIGHTNING #Zeus

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Venturing into the dynamic world of bitcoin's layer 2 networks, particularly the lightning network, can seem like an exciting frontier for tech enthusiasts and cryptocurrency aficionados. however, the decision to run your own lightning node is not one to be taken lightly. While the allure of contributing to the bitcoin ecosystem and potentially earning transaction fees is strong, there are significant considerations that should temper the enthusiasm of would-be node operators. From the intricate technicalities to unexpected challenges, here are 10 compelling reasons why running your own lightning node might not be the electrifying experience you anticipated.

Running your own lightning node for the bitcoin layer 2 network can be a complex and demanding task. Here are 10 reasons why you might choose not to:

1. Technical complexity: setting up and managing a lightning node requires a good understanding of blockchain technology and network management, which can be overwhelming for beginners.

2. Security risks: running a node means you're responsible for securing it against potential cyber attacks, which requires constant vigilance and technical expertise.

3. Resource intensive: a lightning node requires continuous internet connection and sufficient hardware resources, which can be costly in terms of electricity and equipment.

4. Liquidity requirements: to facilitate transactions, you need to lock up a significant amount of bitcoin in your channels, which might not be ideal if you prefer liquidity.

5. Maintenance efforts: regular maintenance and updates are necessary to keep the node running smoothly, which can be time-consuming.

6. Limited privacy: operating a node might expose some of your transaction details or ip address, potentially compromising privacy.

7. Slow ROI: the financial return on operating a lightning node can be slow and uncertain, especially if the network fees are low.

8. Network complexity: understanding and managing channel capacities, routing, and fees can be complicated and require continuous learning and adaptation.

9. Scalability issues: as the network grows, managing a node can become increasingly challenging, with more channels and transactions to handle.

10. Downtime risks: if your node goes offline, you might miss out on transaction fees or, worse, risk losing funds in channels due to outdated channel states.

These reasons reflect the challenges and responsibilities that come with running your own lightning node and may discourage some individuals, especially those with limited technical background or resources. If you are still up for a challenge, thank you for supporting the network! 🐶🐾🫡🙏🏻

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nostr.cooking currently allows for single image upload using nostr.build image upload code. Would like to add multiple images and the ability to scroll through in sequence on each longform event.

@ 434f9799:2d548c15

Photo by Jackson David on Unsplash

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Firefox 于 11 月 21 日发布了 Firefox 120 Beta 版本, 其中在 HTTP 协议部分添加了对 Sec-GPC 标头的支持:

Firefox 支持全球隐私控制 Sec-GPC 请求标头, 发送该标头可表明用户不同意网站或服务向第三方出售或共享其个人信息. 用户可以通过将首选项 privacy.globalprivacycontrol.enabled 设置为 true (在 about:config 中)在正常和私密浏览模式下启用标头. Navigator.globalPrivacyControl 和 WorkerNavigator.globalPrivacyControl 属性允许 JavaScript 检查用户同意首选项.

—— Firefox 120 for developers - Mozilla | MDN [存档]

那么这个 Sec-GPC 究竟是什么东西? 它为什么要表明用户对数据的请求意愿? 曾经和它相同愿景的 DNT 怎么样了?

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长话短说, Sec-GPC 是 DNT 的继任者.

Sec-GPC 这个标头起源于 2009 年提出的 DNT(Do-Not-Track), Firefox 是第一个支持 DNT 的浏览器, 但是目前 MDN 里面给出的提示是: 「不再推荐此功能. 尽管某些浏览器可能仍然支持它, 但它可能已从相关网络标准中删除, 可能正在被删除或者可能仅出于兼容性目的而保留.」, Sec-GPC 虽然也好不到哪里去: 「 此功能是非标准的, 并且不在标准轨道上. 不要在面向 Web 的生产站点上使用它: 它不适用于每个用户. 实现之间也可能存在很大的不兼容性, 并且行为将来可能会发生变化.」, DNT 被看作是一个「失败的网络试验」, 不过起码是有人提出了这种倡议, 并且确实存在也产生过影响.

对 Sec-GPC 的详细描述参见 Global Privacy Control 提案:

Global Privacy Control (GPC) [存档]

现状

对于 DNT 在用户侧的最直接的表现就是浏览器里面的 "请勿跟踪" 选项:

即使最流行的浏览器都支持了该功能并且还引起了很多人的误会, 让人以为在浏览器中启用了这个选项就不会被跟踪了, 但实际上由于 DNT 最终依赖于服务方而非用户方. 流行且并且支持 DNT 的只有 Medium, Pinterest 和 Reddit. Yahoo 和 Twitter 曾经有对 DNT 的支持, 但现在已经全都是昨日黄花.

现在还支持 DNT 的全部加起来都是屈指可数. 一般性的 DNT 政策对于提供服务的平台都是写在隐私政策里面, 在这里可以看到所有目前已经实施了 DNT 政策的平台:

Companies Archive - All About DNT [存档]

DNT 的现状以至于让很多人认为 DNT 没有任何作用.

当然也有明确在政策里面写明不遵守的, 比如 Cygames 的隐私政策的 "在线跟踪" 里面写道:

某些 Web 浏览器和其他程序可能会被用来向我们传达您对我们或第三方如何或是否可以收集您在线活动信息的偏好. 目前对于如何响应 "请勿跟踪"(DNT) 信号尚无公认标准, 因此 Cygames 不支持 DNT 浏览器设置, 并且目前未参与任何可能允许我们响应由您发出的关于收集您个人信息或非个人信息的信号或其他机制的 DNT 框架.

—— 隐私政策 | 【Shadowverse】官方网站 | Cygames [存档]

这也是大多数的做法, 比起隐私政策更像一种 "免责声明".

那么, 为什么没有作用? DuckDuckGo 在内的大部分人都认为是法律的缺失, 所以 DuckDuckGo 在欧盟 GDPR 生效后的一年发表了《2019 年禁止跟踪法案》, 期望通过立法为这类技术提供程序性正义的保障.

Do Not Track and the GDPR | 2018 | Blog | W3C [存档]

几乎没有平台遵守, 那么 DNT 是否失去了意义? 特别是对经营全球性服务的互联网公司来说? 但现在下结论还可能为时尚早:

nostr:nevent1qqs0hx0rezzmk9w6fk7geawlns4tj0qkt32sf3adt6j7wzymwfqpl0saqxun4

但德国柏林地区法院裁决, 请勿追踪具有法律约束力. 此案与微软旗下的职业社交网络 LinkedIn 有关, 它在网站上明确表示: 由于目前没有 "请勿追踪" 的相关标准, 它对请勿追踪信号不予回应. 但德国消费者保护组织 vzbv 指出, 如果消费者启用了浏览器的请勿追踪功能, 那么他们发出了一个明确的信号: 不希望其上网行为被跟踪用于广告等目的, 网站运营者必须尊重这一信号. 法官同意了这一意见, 认为 LinkedIn 的声明具有误导性.

—— 德国法庭裁决 Do Not Track 具有法律约束力 | 奇客Solidot [存档]

现在的 Sec-GPC 的状态是 "规范提案", Mozilla 决定在 Firefox 中支持 Sec-GPC 表达了对这个提案的响应, 它也是第一个支持该特性的浏览器.

DNT 和 Sec-GPC 的意义

对互联网用户而言, DNT 和 Sec-GPC 不是一个反追踪和隐私保护工具, 比起要达成更深远的隐私保护目的而言, 它只是一种比 "Cookie 确认弹窗" 更进步和现代的技术. 毕竟第三方 Cookie 马上就要走到了末路:

如果您的网站使用第三方 Cookie, 那么当我们即将弃用它们时, 就该采取行动了. Chrome 计划从 2024 年第一季度开始对 1% 的用户禁用第三方 Cookie, 以方便测试, 然后从 2024 年第三季度开始将覆盖范围扩大到 100%. 最终是否扩大到 100% 的用户范围取决于解决英国竞争与市场管理局(CMA)调查的竞争问题.

—— Preparing for the end of third-party cookies - Chrome for Developers [存档]

是第三方 Cookie 消失了吗? 论形式和手段而言确实消失了, 但论达成目的而言并没有, 它们其实是 "逃" 到了新的地方, Google 为这类 "逃离的第三方 Cookie" 设计了一个新的环境: 隐私沙盒(Privacy Sandbox). 但隐私沙盒对用户而言又是一个在对手的规则里进行 "公平对决" 的擂台.

对互联网用户来说, 隐私是一种「筹码」, 是很多互联网服务的隐藏条件, 特别是依赖于对用户数据分析和货币化的公司而言. Google 推进隐私沙盒与第三方 Cookie 形式上的对抗引起的各国反垄断调查的的原因也只是: 隐私沙盒破坏了几乎所有不通过 Google 用于追踪和收集数据的方式(美国), 可能会对传统媒体和其他数字广告市场产生重大影响(英国).

Privacy Sandbox #Antitrust concerns - Wikipedia [存档]

那么, 互联网用户该怎么办?

我们在这之前可以通过主动或被动避开第三方 Cookie, 隐私沙盒之后呢? 遗憾的是, 现在看来最让用户处于最 "主动" 地位的只有法律, 比如 GDPR, 加州消费者隐私法案(CCPA), 加州在线隐私保护法(CalOPPA)甚至美国儿童在线隐私保护法(COPPA).

DNT 和 Sec-GPC 是相对于这些事后的纠纷依据更提前的事前申明, 让用户和平台之间直接进行隐私和数据「筹码」交易的协商, 这种功能和如今的 "Cookie 确认弹窗" 一模一样, 在更远的未来可能会将这种对 "第三方" 的约束扩展到第一方.

正如 DuckDuckGo 的 CEO 所说的 "我们应该选择数据跟踪, 而不是拒绝数据跟踪.", 天下没有免费的午餐, 在互联网上这顿免费的 "午餐" 一切的代价要么是我们的财产要么是我们的隐私, DNT 和 Sec-GPC 是「交易」前的谈判, 隐私保护相关的法律是「交易」破裂后的仲裁. 我们作为互联网的消费者, 应该尽可能多地掌握主动权.

隐私为什么不能算作一种财产呢?

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Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency that has been in existence for over a decade. It is a peer-to-peer system that does not require a central authority to verify transactions. However, like any software, Bitcoin is not immune to bugs.

In the past, there have been several high-profile bugs in the Bitcoin protocol. One of the most notable was the "184 billion Bitcoin bug" (CVE-2010-5139) that was discovered in 2010. This bug allowed an attacker to create an unlimited number of Bitcoin.

Another notable bug was the "transaction malleability bug" (CVE-2014-0160) that was discovered in 2014. This bug allowed attackers to change the recipient of a Bitcoin transaction without the knowledge of the sender. This bug was exploited by a number of exchanges, which resulted in the loss of millions of dollars worth of Bitcoin.

In addition to these high-profile bugs, there have been a number of other smaller bugs that have been discovered in the Bitcoin protocol. These bugs have ranged from minor inconveniences to more serious security vulnerabilities.

There are a number of things that can be done to reduce the risk of bugs in the Bitcoin protocol. One important step is to have a strong community of developers who are actively looking for and fixing bugs.

Despite the risks, bugs are an inevitable part of any software project. However, by taking steps to mitigate the risk of bugs, the Bitcoin community can help to ensure that the cryptocurrency remains secure and stable.

Some of the most common types of bugs in Bitcoin include:

• Logic errors: These errors are caused by mistakes in the code that can lead to unexpected behavior.
• Memory errors: These errors are caused by improper management of memory, which can lead to crashes or data corruption.
• Security vulnerabilities: These errors can be exploited by attackers to steal or manipulate data. The Bitcoin community is constantly working to identify and fix bugs.

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Bugs wiki: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

@ c6ece6c0:ebcee342

Like most countries, the UK seems to be caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to taxes and government spending.

Public services cost a lot of money. Taxes are also already quite high. But the total amount paid in taxes is less than the amount of government spending.

So it has to borrow the difference. And it does this nearly every year.

Which means the combined total of all of this debt keeps increasing and is not being paid off.

This chart shows you how much more debt has been added every year from 1994. There are only 2 years where debt was repaid, way back in 2000 and 2001.

In the last two years, about £300 Billion has been added to this debt pile. Which was already pretty high.

So currently, the UK Government, on behalf of the people of the UK, owes about £2.6 Trillion.

That's about £39,000 per person!

But here's the issue. There are only two ways to fix this.

One, reduce government spending. But that means big cuts to services and welfare to get spending down and pay off debt. Not popular!

Two, increase taxes. But that means big tax increases to cover spending and pay off debt. Not popular!

Instead, politicians, pundits and economists pretend its not a problem...

And the debt keeps going up!

Source https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/governmentpublicsectorandtaxes/publicspending/bulletins/ukgovernmentdebtanddeficitforeurostatmaast/june2023

@ cce0989b:b497e608

When are you able to make the best decisions: when you are overwhelmed, or when you are calm?

In stressful moments, we have a tendency to react in a way that makes the stress worse. We get frazzled, we make irrational decisions, we multitask, we distract ourselves, or we avoid the challenge.

The next time you're feeling stressed, choose a different approach: take just one minute to get centered by using the power of your breath.

Breathing is the oldest stress relief technique in the book, for a very good reason: it works. It activates your parasympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for calming down your natural reaction to stress. Give yourself the gift of a few breaths—so that you can respond to the challenges in front of you as the very best version of yourself.

@ 9ecbb0e7:06ab7c09

El Observatorio Cubano de Derechos Humanos (OCDH) denunció este lunes la muerte de un preso político encarcelado por las manifestaciones antigubernamentales del 11 julio de 2021, después de que supuestamente las autoridades penitenciarias no le brindará la atención médica que necesitaba.

Se trata de Luis Barrios Díaz, de 37 años, y, según explica el OCDH en una nota de prensa, falleció el domingo por la tarde en el hospital La Covadonga, de La Habana.

Desde agosto pasado, Barrios Díaz sufría problemas respiratorios. Explicó el Observatorio que, por sus problemas de salud, fue ingresado en la enfermería de la prisión 1580 de San Miguel del Padrón y luego trasladado al hospital. "Los médicos del hospital de La Covadonga informaron a las autoridades del penal de que era indispensable el ingreso hospitalario debido al mal estado de salud del reo, pero estas decidieron devolverlo a la prisión, alegando que no tenían combustible para garantizar una vigilancia permanente al prisionero político, decisión que provocó el empeoramiento de su estado de salud y posterior fallecimiento", detalló la nota de prensa.

Finalmente, y tras empeorar su estado de salud, el preso político fue intervenido el sábado de urgencia, según el testimonio de otro preso, Endris Arias Meralla, al OCDH. Barrios Díaz falleció cuando se encontraba en la unidad de cuidados intensivos por "complicaciones respiratorias".

El recluso cumplía una pena de nueve años de cárcel por delitos de desorden público y atentado, después de ser detenido tras la mayor ola de protestas contra el Gobierno de Cuba, conocida como 11J.

El OCDH estima que en las cárceles de Cuba hay más de 1.000 presos políticos y recuerda que, según las Reglas Mandela de la ONU, la prestación de servicios médicos adecuados a los reclusos es una responsabilidad del Estado.

El Observatorio explica además que las autoridades del penal, "en un intento de librarse de su responsabilidad producto de su negligencia", tramitaron una licencia extrapenal para el prisionero político "con celeridad inaudita".

Luis Barrios Díaz era vecino de Pasaje Raúl número 38, entre Hatuey y Lindero, reparto Párraga, Arroyo Naranjo, La Habana.

El OCDH reiteró su exigencia de liberación inmediata de todos los presos por motivos políticos y de conciencia, y recordó que, aunque es un asunto de voluntad política, el régimen cuenta con al menos ocho vías jurídicas para excarcelar o liberar a todos de manera inmediata.

Alertó, además, que varios presos políticos "tienen su estado de salud deteriorado", como es el caso de Félix Navarro y José Daniel Ferrer. "Insistimos en pedir un pronunciamiento de los gobiernos democráticos y de la Unión Europea al respecto", concluyó el comunicado.

@ 2edbcea6:40558884

Happy Sunday #Nostr !

Here’s your #NostrTechWeekly newsletter brought to you by nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk written by nostr:npub1r3fwhjpx2njy87f9qxmapjn9neutwh7aeww95e03drkfg45cey4qgl7ex2.

The #NostrTechWeekly is a weekly newsletter focused on the more technical happenings in the nostr-verse.

Let’s dive in!

Recent Upgrades to Nostr (AKA NIPs)

1) Remove NIP authors from NIP repo

nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 merged a change to NIPs which removes all the authors. The reason he gave was to reduce the intimidation people felt in proposing NIPs, or updates to NIPs. Seems reasonable; the NIPs must flow!

2) Updates to NIP 89: Recommended Application Handlers

This is actually a change that I think can be applied to any Nostr event, but is specifically useful in the context of NIP 89. This change explicitly outlines an optional piece of metadata on notes for what client generated the event.

This can be useful when clients are encountering event kinds they aren’t able to handle in that client. Knowing the client that published the event is a good indicator of where to point users viewing that unhandled Nostr event to a client that can natively handle the event. Not to mention more easily attributing innovation as new event kinds are used by clients working on cutting edge ideas.

Author: nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft

3) (Proposed) Overhaul of NIP 51: Lists

NIP 51 as it stands now is a way for users to generate lists in Nostr. They can be lists of users to mute, lists of articles, or a list of relays (for whatever purpose these may serve). This proposal is to overhaul how lists are created and used based on learnings from several implementations since NIP 51 was merged.

One of the bigger changes seems to be not using “patameterized replaceable events” and instead using “non parameterized replaceable events” for publishing some standard types of lists. That means lists can still be updated but you can only have one list of each kind (one mute list, one bookmarks list, etc)

The NIP itself was also a bit hard to read, so nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 cleaned it up in this change as well.

Adopting this change may be a larger lift because some developers have already implemented lists in the current way NIP 51 is outlined.

Author: nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6

4) (Proposed) NIP 86: Review Anything via Nostr

This NIP proposes a Nostr event kind to represent reviews. They can be reviews of anything, but they may include labels to indicate in a structured way what is being rated. This is a great foundation for a sovereign version of everything from Yelp to Rotten Tomatoes.

Imagine an uncensorable restaurant review system, or an experience where you can refine movie ratings based on who you follow (maybe even out a couple jumps). Lots of possibilities.

Author: staab

Notable Projects

Relay Operators Telegram 💬

Relays are half of the Nostr protocol but they’re often not the focus of development work. If Nostr is to scale, relays will be the workhorse that will need to be built out to handle it; and there is a lot of work still to do.

There are ~350-400 active relays based on Relay.Guide and so there is a fairly small community to be organized around relay operation. nostr:npub1melv683fw6n2mvhl5h6dhqd8mqfv3wmxnz4qph83ua4dk4006ezsrt5c24 created a Telegram group to make that a reality. Thanks for inviting people in. 💪

Ontolo 🏷️

nostr:npub1zuuajd7u3sx8xu92yav9jwxpr839cs0kc3q6t56vd5u9q033xmhsk6c2uc announced Ontolo this week. It’s a micro-app for labeling Nostr events.

Nostr events may need labels for any number of reasons. Content warnings (self-reported or by a third party) are a common use case, but Jeff outlines that this could also be used to label data in a way that’s useful for creating training data for AIs.

It would be pretty cool if Nostr bootstraps a large, open, distributed, and censorship-resistant data set that powers open source AI development of the future.

WavLake and Nostr Wallet Connect 🎵

As we talked about last week, content creators stand to benefit the most from Nostr by cutting out the platforms/middlemen where content monetization currently lives. Musicians may be the group of content creators that get the worst deal under the status quo.

WavLake is attempting to change all that by creating explicit support for listeners to zap artists directly through the app. May the value-for-value commence!

nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg

Zapit.live ⚡

nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f created a way to monetize any link. Whether it’s a blog post, an unlisted YouTube video link, or music, you’ll be able to monetize content via lightning in a Nostr-native way.

From what it looks like, if someone pays a lightning invoice generated by zapit.live, then they can be DM’d the private link that contains the paywalled content.

It’s great to see work helping content creators make a living. I wonder if we could make it so that content published on nostr:npub1048qg5p6kfnpth2l98kq3dffg097tutm4npsz2exygx25ge2k9xqf5x3nf or nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q could support unlisted content (encrypted when on relay and paying the lightning invoice DMs the decryption key?)

Then we could attempt to convert ZeroHedge’s paid blog to something Nostr based. 😈

Latest conversations: DVMs

Data Vending Machines (DVMs) are something that seems unique to Nostr. They’re a way for people to request tasks be accomplished and put a bounty on completing the task. Then DVM providers can bid on that task so that the requestor gets the best price a DVM provider is willing to take.

It’s the foundation of a marketplace for decentralized and specialized compute.

DVMs for decentralized algorithms

From what I can remember, the motivating force for DVMs to come into existence was to solve the problem of algorithmic feeds on Nostr. We came to Nostr to get away from centralized control of social media feeds, but there’s real value in feed curation. Nostr seems to be the best shot we have at compelling algorithmic feeds, but where the user has choice in that curation.

DVMs are a great solve for this. Users can put a bounty for some small amount of sats asking a DVM to create a curated list of nostr event (representing an algorithmic feed) based on the user’s follows and interests. Users may want to specify the type of algorithm or a set of trusted providers, but they will be able to use market forces to get the best price.

The decentralized nature increases fault tolerance, and motivates DVM providers to create the most efficient and compelling algorithms for curating a user’s feed.

What’s amazing is that the pattern for DVMs can be used to facilitate any algorithmic offering. It started with curating a user’s feed, but it can easily be used for AI image generation or LLM operations, translation, or data extraction of annotation.

Does this exist anywhere else?

There are marketplaces underutilized hardware. A great one I read about recently was for GPU compute where anyone with some spare GPU can sell time on their hardware per unit of time.

There are marketplaces like this for a lot of specialized equipment (GPUs, video rendering hardware, genome sequencing, etc). They’re great, but these kinds of transactions are in the tens of dollars, up to millions of dollars, depending on how much compute is needed.

Where DVMs excel is in the realm of software because it’s never been possible to pay for short bursts of discrete compute (running an algorithm). Now that we have Lightning and Nostr Wallet Connect, these micro-transactions can be coordinated in a way that can finally be profitable for the providers.

The future of DVMs

DVMs were spawned in the context of Nostr because they’re a good fit for uses cases in Nostr (algorithmic feeds, translation, annotation, captioning, etc).

DVMs could also generalize to any one-shot, algorithmic work that requires limited context. You could even imagine DVMs as a layer between a user and N number of service providers’ APIs. If service providers want to compete, they make a DVM as a bot to call their own API in exchange for money from users.

For example, if LLMs become more commoditized, I could imagine that people just want the cheapest provider of a decent LLM for their application. Developers don’t want to create separate code to call OpenAI, HuggingFace, or any other major future provider. In this world, they just create a request to DVMs in a standard way and the DVMs do that interfacing with those APIs and return a standard response. Or LLM providers like HuggingFace may just offer a DVM as a way to increase revenue by competing in an open marketplace instead of convincing users to use only their API.

This could happen for all kinds of compute, driving down the cost of such tasks by increasing competition and transparency from providers.

Increasing adoption today

That future is cool, but what are some things we could do today to help DVMs become ubiquitous?

1. Clients. More Nostr clients would need to integrate with DVMs to allow their users to utilize their offerings, so that providers have a constant stream of demand to make offering a DVM profitable.
2. Standardization. There are some very obvious use cases, and we’ll need to create standard ways to format requests to, and responses from, DVMs for these use cases so that DVMs providers are more fungible.
3. Trust. Users are implicitly trusting the DVM provider to be discrete and not leak their data during processing. Encryption is a good first step, but there may be other ways to make it harder for DVMs to violate the privacy and security of users.

I think DVMs could be one of the killer unique offerings of Nostr that drives wider adoption of the protocol and ecosystem in general. Can’t wait to see what gets built.

Until next time 🫡

If you want to see something highlighted, if we missed anything, or if you’re building something we didn’t post about, let us know. DMs welcome at nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk

Stay Classy, Nostr.

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Chef's notes

As I learned from my dad many years ago, you can turn almost anything you've got sitting in your fridge into an omelette. He was the master at taking a carton of leftover Chinese food, taco fillings, or unused pizza toppings, and throwing them into a pan of scrambled eggs and topping it with cheese.

Now, when I go to a diner or brunch spot, I usually skip over all of the gimmicky or standard menu omelettes and go down to the "build your own" section of the menu. It's more fun, and you get to try combinations you might otherwise miss.

As mentioned in the steps below, it's important not to use too much heat when cooking the eggs, because you want them to not get overcooked and dried out and stuck to the pan. As I've learned, eggs continue to cook a bit after they've been removed from the heat, so it's better to undercook them just a little than to risk overcooking.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 10
• 🍳 Cook time: 15
• 🍽️ Servings: 2

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1-2 tbsp butter
• ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup of shredded cheese
• 1 cup of diced onions, peppers, mushrooms, bacon, or any savory ingredients you have in your refrigerator

Directions

1. Heat half the butter in a large non-stick frying pan on medium heat
2. If using chopped onions, put them in first to caramelize them for about 5 minutes
3. Add all the other savory fillings together into the pan and continue to cook on reduced heat for another 3-5 minutes
4. Crack 4 farm-fresh brown eggs into a medium-size bowl, being careful to not get any shell into the bowl. (Use a smaller glass bowl to transfer the eggs if desired.)
5. Sprinkle black pepper onto the eggs, and scramble thoroughly with a fork. Don't add salt, because it causes the eggs to cook too fast and they will become dry.
6. After the fillings have cooked, transfer them from the pan into another bowl, and wipe out the pan with a paper towel before the next step.
7. Add the rest of the butter and let it melt on medium-low heat.
8. Once the butter has spread evenly throughout the pan, add the eggs gently into the center. They should sizzle a bit when they hit the surface of the pan. If not, turn up the heat just a bit, but not too much because you don't want to overcook the eggs.
9. As the eggs cook, use a silicone spatula or omelette turner (recommended) to gently lift up the edges of the omelette and let the uncooked egg on top flow under the edge of the spatula to the surface of the pan. This will help cook the eggs thoroughly and makes the omelette a bit fluffier.
10. Before the top surface of the scrambled eggs have cooked through all the way, spoon the fillings onto one half of the pan and spread them into an even layer.
11. Sprinkle the cheese on top of the fillings evenly.
12. Using your spatula or omelette turner, gently lift up the other half of the scrambled eggs, which by now has cooked mostly solid and fold it over the top of the fillings.
13. Allow the omelette to continue cooking for another 2 minutes until the cheese has thoroughly melted.
14. Divide into two portions with the spatula, then plate and serve along with any sides you've prepared. Enjoy!

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ผมจะย่อสั้นๆให้พอเข้าใจแล้วศึกษา​กันต่อได้

บน​โปรโตคอล​ nostr​ นั้นไม่มีการสมัครใช้บัญชี​อีเมล์​หรือรหัสผ่าน​อะไรแบบนั้นที่เป็นการยืนยันตัวตนของคุณ​ ในนี้เราจะใช้กันคือ​ public​key​ และ​ private​key​(npub​ และ​ nsec)​

ในการสร้าง​บัญชี​ในครับแรกทางไคลเอ็นต์(app)​จะเจนคีย์​ให้เราเพื่อเก็บไว้จะประกอบไปด้วย​ 2​ ส่วนคือ

1.Public-key​ หรือที่เราเรียกกันสั้น​ ๆ​ ว่า​ npud

npub​ คือส่วนที่คุณสามารถแชร์ต่อให้คนอื่นได้เพื่อค้นหาตัวคุณ​แล้ว​กดติดตาม​ หรือเพื่ออ้างอิง​ถึงจะสังเกตุ​ได้ว่าจะเป็นรูปแบบ​ npub…. ยาวๆ

แต่ก็จะมี​การทำให้ง่ายขึ้นและจำได้ง่ายกว่าคือ​ nip-05​หรือที่เรียกว่า​ nostr​address​ ส่วนนี้จะมีผู้ให้บริการ​หลายเจ้าให้เลือกใช้งานหรือถ้ามีเว็บไซต์​ส่วนตัวก็ใช้ของตัวเองได้​ แต่ถ้าง่ายที่สุดผมแนะนำ​ siamstr.com

Nostr​address​ นั้นไม่ได้มีดีแค่ทำให้​ npub​ จำง่ายเท่านั้นแต่เป็นการยืนยันตัวตนคุณ​เองอีกด้วย​ เป็นเหมือนเครื่อง​หมายติ๊กถูกบน​ x​ หรือ​ fb

2.Private​-key​ หรือที่เรากันสั้น​ ๆ​ ว่า​ nsec​

nsec​ คือส่วนสำคัญ​ที่เราต้องเก็บรักษาให้ดีเลยเพราะมันคือทุกอย่างของคุณ​ทั้งตัวตนทั้งบัญชี​ของสิ่งที่สร้างมาใน​โปรโตคอล​นี้​ ไม่ควรเก็บไว้ในโน๊ต​ออนไลน์​อะไรทั้งสิ้นห้ามถ่ายรูป nsec​ มันใช้​ login​ เข้าสู้ไคลเอ็น​ต์ได้ทุกอันแถมข้อมูลต่างๆของคุณ​ก็ตามไปด้วยหมด

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จะเก็บยังไงให้ปลอดภัย​ดีล่ะ

มาถึงส่วนคำสัญที่อยากจะบอกอาจดูยากวุ่นวาย​หน่อยแต่เพื่อความปลอดภัย​ของ​ nsec​ คุณและตัวตนของคุณเอง

ผมมักแนะนำให้เก็บไว้ในพวก​ password​ manager​

Password​ manager​ คือบริการเก็บรหัสผ่านของเราที่ถูกเอารหัสไว้ผู้ให้บริการ​ก็ไม่รู้​ว่ามีรหัสอะไรอยู่ในนั้น

ตัวผมเองใช้​ bitwarden​ เพราะง่ายและเป็น​ open-source​ และมันไม่ได้เอาไว้ใช้เก็บ​ nsec​ เท่านั้นผมใช้เก็บรหัสผ่านต่างๆเก็บทุกอย่างเลย

หวังว่าจจะมีประโยชน์​สำหรือผู้เริ่มใช้งาน

ขอให้สนุกกับการใช้งาน​ nostr​

ขอบคุณ​ทุกคนที่แวะมาอ่านบทความนี้

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สำหรับผู้เริ่มต้นใช้งาน​ nostr​ ใหม่ที่ไม่คุ้นชินกับบิตคอยน์​อาจยังไม่รู้จัก​ lightningnetwork​ แต่นั้นไม่ใช่​ปัญหา​หลักสักเท่าไหร่​คุณสามารถไปศึกษาต่อได้ถ้าหากสนใจ​ แต่บทความนี้แค่อยากให้พวกคุณ​เริ่มต้นใช้งานและรับ​ zap​ ส่ง​ zap​ กันได้อยากสนุกในคือหลักการ​ V4V​ ของ​ Nostr

ตอนที่เราตั้งค่าโปรไฟล์​ก็จะเห็นว่าให้ใส่​ lightning​addresses​ แล้วเราเอามาจากไหนล่ะอีเมล์​หรือหรืออะไร​ มันก็คือที่อยู่​ของ​ lightning​ wallet​ ของเรานั้นเองเพิ่มที่จะรับ​ zap​ ได้ต้องเพิ่มส่วนตรงนี้เข้าไปด้วย

แล้วจะเอามาจากไหนล่ะ​ lightning​ wallet​ นั้นเอง

จริงแล้ว​ lightning​ wallet​ มีอยู่​ 2​ ประเภท​หลักๆคือ custodial​ wallet, non-custodial​ wallet​ แต่ในบทความนี้ผมจะแนะนำ​ custodial​ wallet​ เพื่อการเริ่มต้นที่ง่ายที่สุด

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มาเริ่มกันเลย

Wallet​ of​ satoshi​

เป็นกระเก๋าที่ง่ายที่สุดเพียง​ติดตั้ง​แอป​และเปิดใช้งานได้เลย​ แต่ผมจะแนะนำว่าอย่าลืมผูกอีเมล์​เราไว้ด้วยเพื่อเป็น​ backup​ เวลาย้ายเครื่อง

จากนั้นกดคำว่า​ receive ก็จะแสดง​ lightning​address​ เราก็สามารถ​ก๊อปปี้​มาใส่ได้เลยแค่นี้ก็รับ​ zap​ ได้แล้ว

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Blink​ wallet​

ติดตั้ง​ลงเครื่อง​เปิดแอปมากดสร้างแอคเคาท์​ใหม่เขาจะให้ใส่เบอร์​โทรศัพท์​เพื่อเป็นการ​ backup ข้อมูล​กระเป๋า

จากนั้นกดที่ขีดสามขีดมุมขวาบน​กดคำว่า​ แอดเด​รส​ blink​ ของคุณ​ เขาจะให้เราตั้งชื่อ​ lightning​address​

จากนั้นก็ก๊อปปี้​ lightning​address​ ไปใส่ใน​แอคเคาท์​ nostr​ เพื่อรับ​ zap​ ได้เลย

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เป็นบทความแนะนำสั้นๆ หวังว่าจะมีประโยชน์​สำหรับ​ผู้เริ่มต้น​ใช้งานใหม่ครับ

ขอให้มีความสุข​กับการใช้งาน​ nostr​ อย่าลืมมาแชร์​ประสบการณ์​ให้เราฟังด้วยนะ

ขอบคุณ​ทุกคนที่แวะมาอ่าน​แล้วเจอกันใหม่ครับ

lightning​ #Zap #Nostr #Siamstr

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Chef's notes

Ginkgo nuts should be limited to about seven per day, as eating too many can lead to poisoning. Do not feed them to small children. 銀杏は食べ過ぎると中毒を起こす可能性があるため、1日7粒程度にとどめること。 小さな子供には食べさせないこと。

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 1 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 1min
• 🍽️ Servings: 1

Ingredients

• 5~20 gingko nuts

Directions

1. Place 5~20 shelled gingko nuts in an envelope. Close the envelope's tightly.
2. Microwave for 30 seconds; stop heating when 2~3 pieces burst.
3. Take it out, peel the shell, and eat it.

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Chef's notes

You can brine your turkey for extra flavor and juiciness. Submerge it in a salt, sugar, and herb water solution and refrigerate for 12-24 hours Adjust cooking time based on the size of your turkey. A good rule of thumb is about 13 minutes per pound. Use a meat thermometer to ensure the turkey is cooked thoroughly. For extra moist meat, consider basting the turkey with butter and herbs or its own juices throughout the cooking process.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 4 days
• 🍳 Cook time: 4 hours
• 🍽️ Servings: 12

Ingredients

• Whole turkey (14-18 lbs for 12 people)
• Butter, softened
• Fresh herbs (such as thyme, rosemary, and sage)
• Salt and pepper
• Garlic
• Onion, quartered
• Carrots, cut into chunks
• Celery, cut into chunks
• Chicken or turkey broth
• Optional: White wine for basting

Directions

1. Thaw your turkey if it's frozen. This may take several days in the refrigerator, depending on the size. (24 hours per 4 lbs)
2. Season: Pat the turkey dry with paper towels, Mix softened butter with minced garlic, chopped herbs, salt, and pepper, Rub this mixture under the skin and all over the outside of the turkey.
3. Stuff the Turkey (optional): If you choose to stuff your turkey, do so lightly as it will expand while cooking. Mix bread pieces with chopped onion, celery, garlic, salt and pepper and stuff inside the bird
4. Preheat your oven to 325°F (165°C)
5. Place the turkey on a roasting rack inside a roasting pan.
6. Scatter onion, carrots, garlic and celery around the turkey in the pan.
7. Pour broth (and optional white wine) into the bottom of the pan.
8. Cover loosely with aluminum foil.
9. Roast the turkey, basting every 30-45 minutes with the pan juices.
10. Cook until the internal temperature reaches 165°F (74°C) in the thickest part of the thigh.
11. Once cooked, remove the turkey from the oven and let it rest for at least 20-30 minutes before carving. This helps the juices redistribute.
12. Carve the turkey and serve, enjoy with your favorite sides!

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Hey Nostr,Long article posted from Freerse

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After more than a month of construction, Freese has become smoother. Added message cache for first access,Opening Freese again will make it smoother and faster. Long article reading area acquisition is faster and smoother.Reconstructed Hastags, search, and global real-time post updates for the discovery section,making it easier for new users to find communities and users they are interested in.Thank you for the information retrieval service provided by nostr.band , which makes information search more accurate.

Freese wants to make decentralized social payment apps accessible to more ordinary users in the future,We want to bring the social finance experience of WeChat to Nostr and Bitcoin. Strive to lower the threshold for ordinary people to use Nostr and Bitcoin.

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New function

-Add a caching function on the homepage, and after logging in for the first time, opening the app again can quickly and smoothly pull data.

-Added the function of forwarding and referencing posts and articles

-Reconstructed the notification list, making the notification page more concise

-Added caching function for @ contacts

-Add article subscription messages and global pull-down refresh function

-Added image saving and sharing features

-Added avatar preview function

-Adding a message prompt that cannot be sent when the Relay connection is disconnected

-Added startup logo page

Repair

-Fixed the issue of non Alby accounts not being able to zap

-Fixed the accuracy of Hashags and search data, allowing new users to find topics and people of interest by discovering Hashags and searching inside

-Fixed sorting and bugs in Freese chain

-Optimized the caching and retrieval speed of article subscription messages

-Fixed font size and layout UI design for the up and down menu bars

-Fixed article display on personal homepage

-Added completion button for zap amount setting

-Fix display name too long

-Fixed some known issues

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Freese website https://freerse.com

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Este post do Hugo é muito interessante, excelente para uma reflexão.

Na minha opinião, na teoria a ideia é boa, mas não passa daí, apenas uma teoria. A governação/política é feita por humanos e os humanos adoram contornar as regras e manipular as populações.

Desde dos seus  primórdios, o ser humano arranja sempre maneiras criativas para inflacionar a moeda.

Desde de ditaduras de esquerda ou direita, passando pelas monarquias e nas democracias, qualquer que seja o espectro político, nenhum quer perder o toque de Midas.

A situação ainda é mais complexa em democracias porque os políticos necessitam do voto popular. Os políticos beneficiam com a iliteracia das populações, estas têm muitas dificuldades em compreender o fenómeno da inflação e a sua origem.

A inflação é um imposto oculto. Basta voltar atrás, um par de anos, quando foi apresentado a Bazuca(PRR). A proposta da Bazuca era financiada através de dívida pública e sobretudo por inflação de moeda. Quase ninguém contestou a proposta, pelo contrário, os políticos e empresários rejubilaram e as pessoas sonhavam com empregos, o el dourado.

Agora estamos a pagar a factura da Bazuca, com alta inflação. Mas agora os políticos dizem que a culpa é da guerra, do Putin, do covid, dos empresários “gananciosos”, dos supermercados,  das gasolineiras, ou seja, a culpa é de todos menos dos políticos. O pior é que a maioria das pessoas acreditam nisso, porque não percebem o fenômeno da impressão de dinheiro.

Apesar de existirem inúmeras manifestações, as populações não criticam os governos devido à desastrosa política monetária, as populações apenas estão a exigir mais apoios sociais, ajudas para ultrapassar a inflação.

Enquanto as populações não compreenderem o problema, os políticos vão constantemente repetindo a fórmula, temos que ser honestos, ela resulta (a favor dos governos e cantillontários).

Voltando ao início da proposta da Bazuca, vamos imaginar num cenário, em vez de ser a impressão a financiar, seria um confisco de 15% de todas as contas bancários em território da UE.

Tanto faz ser impressão ou confisco, as consequências são similares, para a economia, para as contas dos governos e para as populações. Em suma, são a mesma coisa apenas muda o nome do imposto.

Nenhum político iria propor um confisco, seria impensável de acontecer, iria gerar uma enorme revolta popular, muitas manifestações, essa proposta nunca iria em frente.

Se um confisco das poupança gera revolta, porque a expansão monetária não gera sentimento igual nas populações?

É apenas iliteracia financeira.

Se observamos, quem tem mais hipóteses de ganhar umas eleições em Portugal? O político mais rigoroso, com contas certas ou o político que está constantemente a inaugurar obras e com muitos apoios sociais?

É claro que um governo esbanjador ganha as eleições, mas para ele conseguir cumprir as “promessas eleitorais” necessita de muito dinheiro, como aumentar impostos é impopular, só lhe resta imprimir dinheiro.

É irônico, as populações não gostam das consequências da inflação, mas preferem políticos que inflacionam a moeda.

Como se costuma dizer, não há almoços grátis.

Euro

Eu sou um forte crítico da política monetária do BCE, mas temos que ser honestos, se não fosse o euro, hoje em dia, Portugal estaria bem pior. 

Desde que entrou em vigor o euro, já tivemos a crise do “pântano político”, da “fuga e incubadora”, dos “PEC”, do Subprime, dos bancos, da dívida soberana, do covid. As crises foram tantas, em pouco mais de 2 décadas, se fosse o escudo, ele teria sido desvalorizado múltiplas vezes.

Seríamos sem dúvida nenhuma, a Argentina da Europa.

Os pedidos de assistência ao FMI eram inevitáveis (mais que um), com as “ajudas” precificadas em dólares e ao mesmo tempo com “remédios”/exigências de desvalorização cambial como é o modus operandi desta instituição. A dívida soberana de Portugal subiria exponencialmente de um dia para o outro. O país estaria muito pior que hoje em dia.

O euro teve muita inflação, é verdade, mas é feita à velocidade que os alemães querem, se fosse à vontade dos políticos portugueses, seria à velocidade da luz.

Não podemos esquecer que ainda temos pelo menos 1 partido com representação parlamentar, que defende e fala abertamente que a desvalorização cambial, como uma solução para o país.

Bitcoinização

Eu já fui muito mais crente da ideia de um país exclusivamente com Bitcoin como moeda oficial, isto não significa que eu deixei de acreditar no Bitcoin, pelo contrário, a confiança é inabalável.

Só deixei de acreditar como legal tender(moeda única), o Bitcoin é para ser adotado pelo povo e não por governos.

Cheguei à conclusão que é impossível existir governos, sem a impressão de dinheiro. A expansão monetária é inerente ao estado. Não há um sem o outro. 

A hipótese de acontecer uma bitcoinização total é tão remota, se isso acontecer, será algo a tão longo prazo, não estarei vivo para o ver, prefiro pensar em cenários mais plausíveis.

Eu acredito que deve existir liberdade de escolha, as pessoas devem poder utilizar aquilo que acreditam que é melhor para si, a moeda deve ser uma escolha livre e não uma persuasão. 

A lei de Gresham fará o resto.

Apesar de eu ser um forte crítico às moedas fiduciárias, o tempo moderou o meu pensamento, deixei de ser um anti-FIAT, sou apenas pró-bitcoin. Não quero que as moedas FIAT morram, quero apenas ter a liberdade de utilizar o Bitcoin, sem restrições ou condicionalismos.

Eu não quero ter FIAT, mas as pessoas têm toda a liberdade de a querer, quem sou eu para impor uma moeda aos outros, cada um faça as suas escolhas, liberdade individual acima de tudo.

Eu imagino num futuro, onde os cidadãos têm apenas uma pequena parte do seu capital em FIAT, para os pagamentos diários. A parte significativa das suas poupança estará em btc.

Como tem pouco em moeda fiduciária, as consequências da impressão são menores, a impressão perde eficácia. Se os comércios e empresas adotarem o bitcoin como unidade de conta, menos eficaz será a desvalorização da moeda nos bolsos das populações.

Quanto menor a exposição à moeda FIAT, menor exposição à inflação. Cada cidadão terá a liberdade de escolher a percentagem de Bitcoin que se adequa ao seu perfil.

Legal tender

Caso um dia, o Bitcoin se torne Legal tender em Portugal, como moeda única. Conhecendo bem os portugueses e sobretudo a incompetência dos seus políticos, certamente não seria duradouro.

Quantos anos estaria em vigor?

Seguramente até a primeira crise ou eleição, teríamos um Corralito como os argentinos. Como os portugueses acreditam nas instituições estatais e somos adversos à responsabilidade individual, a maioria teria os seus btc em carteiras custodiais, o estado conseguiria açambarcar e converter os btc numa nova moeda FIAT.

O Legal tender tem esse inconveniente, as populações baixam as guardas, dão como algo seguro e garantido para sempre. Utilizam os serviços custodiais porque são mais fáceis e cómodos, até que um dia, os políticos passam a perna e ninguém conseguirá escapar. 

A bitcoinização total não acontece simplesmente com o ato da aprovação de um decreto, ela só acontece quando o último português que tem FIAT deixa de o aceitar para trocas.

Poderá também acontecer um cenário de uma moeda com backed em BTC, vai resultar na mesma merda, o correspondente número de sats por cada moeda, o estado vai diminuindo com o passar do tempo. Vai acontecer o mesmo que o dólar em relação ao ouro.

Não é por acaso que não existe nenhum país no mundo com moeda própria com supply fixo. Mesmo países como a Alemanha (antes do euro) ou a Suíça, que tem bastante disciplina orçamental e rigor fiscal, nunca tiveram uma moeda com supply fixo. Em Portugal é impossível ter essa disciplina, somos latinos, até vou mais além, nem o povo quer.

Um estado sem a possibilidade de inflacionar a moeda, é como colocar um ex-alcoólatra a trabalhar numa adega e dizer que ele não pode beber. Mais cedo ou mais tarde, ele vai cair na tentação. É inevitável, o inconsciente é mais forte…

O mundo só vai prosperar quando houver a separação entre a política monetária e o estado. 

Se isto um dia vai acontecer?

Talvez não, não sei, mas é esperança que alimenta o sonho. Mesmo sem a possibilidade de conseguir o objetivo final, alguém(nós) tem que começar a caminhada, para que os nossos filhos ou netos alcancem a meta.

O caminho só se faz caminhando. 

Voltando ao post do Hugo, um estado mais pequeno, a soberania e uma moeda forte seria muito bom para Portugal, mas só resultaria com as 3 premissas em simultâneo, mas isso apenas seria possível na teoria, porque na prática é impossível. Nenhum governo quer deixar de imprimir dinheiro diretamente ou indiretamente(BCE).

Em Portugal é impossível ter uma moeda oficial com supply fixo, sendo impossível, se tivermos que optar entre uma moeda FIAT local ou o euro, eu prefiro sem dúvida nenhuma o euro. A saída do euro será desastrosa para Portugal, voluntariamente nunca irá acontecer, mas podemos ser expulsos ou a moeda simplesmente colapsa.

Assim, das 3 premissas resta-nos apenas a redução do tamanho do estado, que é essencial. Um estado mais pequeno, mais eficaz e sem burocracias, e já agora que estamos a sonhar alto, sem corrupção.

Fonte: https://twitter.com/Hugo_Ramos/status/1715642402705137978

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Javier Milei, economista, liberal y libertario. Nuevo presidente Electo de Argentina.

Aquí un mensaje al pueblo cubano.

Gracias Milei, el apoyo de los cubanos que aman la libertad siempre estará contigo. !Viva la Libertad Carajo!

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Un joven cubano de 27 años, identificado como Luis Enrique Noguera, fue víctima de un asesinato en la provincia de Las Tunas. Según varios reportes de allegados y familiares en redes sociales, Noguera fue agredido de forma brutal con un machete.

**El joven residía en el poblado de Macagua, localidad del municipio Jesús Menéndez. **

Uno de los mensajes de condolencias, el de Iliana Gabriela Ortiz, decía: "Te arrebataron la vida a tan poca edad, es algo injusto, pero sé que no quedará impune, solo resta decir que siempre te querremos y no te vamos a olvidar. Faltan palabras para expresar la tristeza y el duelo que a partir de ahora se tendrá; siempre serás alguien que llenó nuestras vidas de risas y ahora solo quedará el recuerdo".

Los reportes en redes indican que lo asesinaron por seguir a varios ladrones que intentaron robar en una casa donde Noguera trabajaba. El cuerpo fue encontrado en la herba con machetazos en manos y cabeza, según informó en redes Niover Licea.

Los criminales, después de cometer el robo, se dispersaron y uno de ellos se encontró de frente con el joven en unas lomas detrás de la vivienda saqueada. La respuesta del agresor fue despiadada: atacó al joven con machetazos, infligiéndole heridas mortales que lo dejaron sin vida en el mismo lugar del crimen. "Lo dejó degollado, le picó los brazos, manos y el cráneo se lo abrió en dos tapas", relató el denunciante, con un tono de indignación y horror palpable.

Este espeluznante incidente ha avivado el reclamo de la población por un cambio inmediato ante el creciente índice de delitos violentos en la isla. El denunciante, consternado por la tragedia, sostiene que Cuba precisa una transformación urgente para evitar más pérdidas como la de este joven trabajador.

"A mis amistades aquí, yo vivo cerca de dónde pasó esto; los quieren meter presos por animales perdidos y ventas que ellos tuvieron que hacer para poder comprar qué comer, por el mal trabajo de ellos. Les están cobrando este maldito Estado, 250,000 pesos, por los animales robados y mal trabajo", añadió la denuncia, subrayando la situación precaria que enfrentan algunos ciudadanos y la respuesta desmedida de las autoridades.

En medio de este oscuro panorama, la sociedad cubana clama por medidas efectivas que pongan freno a la escalada de violencia y garanticen la seguridad de sus ciudadanos.

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Chef's notes

Easy! Just cube the beef, combine all ingredients into crock pot / slow cooker on low for 6-8 hours.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 20 Minutes
• 🍳 Cook time: 8 Hours
• 🍽️ Servings: 8

Ingredients

• 1/3 Cup Apple Cider Vinegar
• 4 tsp Minced Garlic Cloves
• 2 tsp Oregano
• 4 tsp Cumin
• 1 tsp Salt
• 3/4 Cup Chicken Broth
• 3 Bay Leaves
• 3 Chipoltles in Adobo
• 4lb Chuck Roast, cut into 2-3" Cubes
• 1/2 tsp Ground Cloves
• 3 Tablespoons Lime Juice

Directions

1. Set Slow Cooker to Low
2. Brown Meat, then combine all ingrdients into slow cooker.
3. Set Timer for 8 Hours

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La situación de las embarazadas en Cuba es cada vez más crítica. Una mujer, a través de la cuenta de Facebook del periodista Alberto Arego, compartió una denuncia sobre este problema que afecta a su hija, próxima a dar a luz.

“Quiero hacer, por favor, una denuncia anónima, las embarazadas desde el mes de septiembre no se les da dieta, ni de leche, ni de pollo”, expresó la futura abuela al comunicador.

“Mi hija dará a luz, Dios mediante, el mes próximo y no ha podido adquirir nada por la libreta de la canastilla hasta el momento. Somos del municipio 10 de Octubre, Luyanó”, agregó.

Esta situación refleja la desatención hacia las futuras madres en el territorio cubano, quienes deberían recibir un cuidado especial. Además, La crisis se extiende más allá del parto. Las mujeres con recién nacidos deben encontrar soluciones para alimentarlos, enfrentando los desafíos impuestos por el sistema comunista.

Mientras las familias luchan por sobrevivir, el régimen cubano continúa su narrativa engañosa e ignorando el sufrimiento de su pueblo. La realidad de las madres cubanas contrasta con las falsas promesas del gobierno y evidencia la urgente necesidad de atención y cambio.

La publicación generó denuncias similares por parte de madres que no han recibido los productos alimenticios necesarios para el cuidado de sus hijos. “Eso es en toda Cuba, soy de Holguín y desde que tuve a mi hijo hace 15 meses no están dando nada para la canastilla, la leche hace tres meses dejaron de darla a las embarazadas y las dietas también, esto es un sálvese quien pueda”, dijo la usuaria Anllela China.

La internauta Neily Santos agregó en los comentarios que para sus hijos de ocho meses solo ha podido recoger los pomos y aseo por medio de la canastilla. Todo lo demás tiene un año y medio de atraso.

“Confirmo, yo no he cogido la dieta desde septiembre y en mi bodega dijeron que este mes no van a dar la leche, además la de octubre también brilla por su ausencia”, expresó la usuaria Danisley Labañino.

La madre Marisleydis Rodríguez comentó: “yo tengo una bebé de seis meses y tampoco he adquirido nada de la canastilla, ya el mes que viene vence y nada. Muchas como yo la perdemos”.

Otra internauta mencionó que se encuentra próxima a parir, y en todo el tiempo de gestación solo un mes le dieron carne de pollo y un poco de leche. “La canastilla solo es para casos críticos, es decir, que no tenemos derecho a nada”, manifestó.

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ต้องขอเกริ่นก่อนว่า เนื่องจากเราเป็นคนที่ชอบเที่ยวมาก เรามีความฝันว่าอยากจะท่องเที่ยวไปในทุกๆจังหวัดในประเทศไทย โดยเฉพาะเชียงใหม่ที่เป็นจังหวัดในฝันของเราที่อยากไปมาก แต่ด้วยข้อจำกัดหลายๆอย่างจึงทำให้เราไม่มีโอกาสได้ไปเที่ยวมากนัก

จนเมื่อเราเรียนปี3 หลังจากการสอบได้เสร็จสิ้นลง เราจึงคิดว่า เราอยากไปเที่ยวที่ไหนสักที่ ที่ไกลกว่าเดิม ที่ไม่ใช่ในภาคใต้ เราจึงได้เลือกที่จะไปหัวหิน จังหวัดประจวบคีรีขันธ์ และเลือกเดินทางด้วยรถไฟชั้น3 ราคาตั๋ว 226 บาท

การเดินทางของเราครั้งนี้เริ่มต้นขึ้นในช่วงเย็นของวันที่ 10 ตุลาคม 2556 เราสะพายเป้คู่ใจ เดินทางไปขึ้นรถไฟที่สถานีรถไฟหาดใหญ่ เมื่อถึงเวลารถไฟก็เคลื่อนขบวนออกจากสถานีหาดใหญ่ เริ่มต้นการเดินทางสู่หัวหิน ระหว่างทางรถไฟก็จอดตามสถานีต่างๆ มีพ่อค้าแม่ค้าขึ้นมาขายของกินในทุกๆสถานี ซึ่งเป็นอีกสิ่งหนึ่งที่เราชื่นชอบเมื่อนั่งรถไฟ เพราะอาหารและของกินต่างๆมักมีราคาที่ค่อนข้างถูก ทำให้เราสามารถซื้อของกินหลายๆอย่างได้ หลังจากท้องอิ่มเราก็เพลิดเพลินกับการชมวิวระหว่างทาง สักพักท้องฟ้าก็เริ่มมืดแล้ว ตามกำหนดการเราจะเดินทางถึงหัวหินในช่วงเช้ามืดของวันที่ 11 ตุลาคม 2556 เราจึงพยายามนอนให้หลับเพื่อเก็บแรงไว้เที่ยวในวันรุ่งขึ้นแม้จะค่อนข้างยากก็ตาม

ประมาณหกโมงเช้ารถไฟก็มาถึงสถานีหัวหิน เราลงจากรถไฟและเดินจากสถานีรถไฟไปยังชายหาดหัวหิน ระยะทางประมาณ 850 เมตร เรานั่งดูทะเลสักพักก็เริ่มเดินหาที่พักสำหรับคืนนี้ เราถามวินมอเตอร์ไซค์แถวชายหาดหัวหิน ซึ่งพี่วินก็แนะนำโรงแรมบ้านพักหัวหินให้แก่เรา เราเดินไปยังที่พักระยะห่างจากชายหาดไปที่พักประมาณ 450 เมตร และโชคดีที่มีห้องพักว่าง ในราคา 350 บาท ห้องพัดลม หลังจากจ่ายเงินแล้วทางที่พักก็ใจดีให้เราเช็คอินได้เลย เนื่องจากห้องพักว่างอยู่ เราจึงเข้าห้องพักเก็บของและนอนพักอีกนิดหน่อยเนื่องจากยังเพลียอยู่จากการที่นอนไม่ค่อยหลับบนรถไฟ

หลังจากนอนไปประมาณ1ชั่วโมง เราก็อาบน้ำแต่งตัวเตรียมตัวออกไปเที่ยว เรมเดินออกมาจากที่พักและหาร้านสำหรับเช่ามอเตอร์ไซค์ จนเดินมาเจอร้านเช่าที่อยู่ ไม่ไกลจากที่พักมากนัก หลังจากจ่ายเงินค่าเช่าเรียบร้อย เราก็เริ่มขับเที่ยว โดยที่แรกที่เราไปคือ รฤก หัวหิน ซึ่งเป็นศูนย์รวมร้านอาหาร ขนม เครื่องดื่มและของฝากที่ระลึกต่างๆ เราทานมื้อเช้าที่นี่ หลังจากนั้นก็ขับมอเตอร์ไซค์เช่าคู่ใจผ่านพระราชวังไกลกังวล ขับต่อไปยัง เพลินวาน

ตลาดเพลินวาน เป็นสถานที่ท่องเที่ยวที่จำลองตลาดของไทยในสมัยโบราณ มีร้านอาหาร เสื้อผ้า ของสะสมและขายของที่ระลึกต่างๆ เราเดินชมความสวยงามของตลาดที่ให้ความรู้สึกเหมือนไปเดินงานวัดในสมัยก่อน จากนั้นเราก็ออกเดินทางต่อ จุดมุ่งหมายคือ เดอะเวเนเซีย หัวหิน สถานที่เที่ยวที่เพิ่งเปิดใหม่มีการตกแต่งสไตล์อิตาลีที่ได้แรงบันดาลใจมาจากเมืองเวนิส นั่นเอง เราเดินเที่ยวและถ่ายรูปสวยๆนานพอสมควร ก็เตรียมเดินทางต่อไปยังที่เที่ยวถัดไป

ออกจากเดอะ เวเนเซีย เราก็ขับต่อไปยังชายหาดชะอำ วันที่เรามาตรงกับงานมหกรรมของดี 4 ภาคและสินค้าชุมชน ช็อป ชม ชิม พอดี เนื่องจากตอนนี้เป็นเวลาประมาณ 4 โมงกว่าแล้วและเราก็เริ่มหิวแล้ว เราจึงซื้อของกินจากในงานของดี 4 ภาค นั่งมองทะเลชะอำสักพักก็ใกล้จะมืดแล้ว จึงขับออกจากหาดชะอำแวะถ่ายรูปที่วนอุทยานชะอำ ขากลับก็ผ่านเดอะ เวเนเซีย ซึ่งตอนนี้ได้เปิดไฟอย่างสวยงาม จึงจอดรถริมถนนถ่ายรูป เดอะ เวเนเซียยามค่ำคืนอีกครั้ง

ก่อนกลับที่พักเราก็ขับมาเดินเที่ยวที่ตลาดฉัตรศิลาและตลาดโต้รุ่งหัวหินซึ่งอยู่ใกล้กัน มีถนนคนเดินซึ่งมีของขายเยอะมากทั้งร้านอาหาร สตรีทฟู้ดส์และของที่ระลึกต่างๆ บรรยากาศคึกคักเต็มไปด้วยผู้คนทั้งชาวไทยและชาวต่างชาติ เราเดินดูของต่างๆ ซื้อของกินเล่น ก่อนที่จะขับกลับที่พัก เมื่อถึงที่พักก็ได้มีโอกาสคุยแชทเฟสบุ๊คกับรุ่นพี่ที่สนิทกัน ซึ่งตอนนี้เรียนจบและทำงานอยู่ที่กรุงเทพ รุ่นพี่ได้ชวนเราไปเที่ยวกรุงเทพ ด้วยความที่ไม่ได้เจอกันมาสักพักและเราเองก็ไม่เคยไปกรุงเทพ จึงตอบตกลง คุยกันสักพักก็เตรียมตัวนอนพักผ่อน

เช้าวันใหม่ วันนี้เป็นวันที่ 12 ตุลาคม 2556 ตื่นเช้ามาเราก็เตรียมตัวเช็คเอาท์ ออกจากที่พัก ทานมื้อเช้าแล้วเราก็ขับเราไปยังที่เที่ยวแรกของวันนี้คือพระราชนิเวศน์มฤคทายวัน เนื่องจากเมื่อวานเราไปเที่ยวหาดชะอำจึงทำให้มาเที่ยวที่นี่ไม่ทัน วันนี้จึงตั้งใจว่าจะมาที่นี่ให้ได้ หลังจากมาถึงจอดรถเรียบร้อย ก็ซื้อตั๋วเข้าชมวัง ในราคาผู้ใหญ่30 บาท เนื่องจากเราสะพายเป้มาเดินคนเดียวก็มีนักท่องเที่ยวบางคนมาชวนพูดคุยด้วยบ้าง เป็นมิตรภาพเล็กๆในระหว่างการเดินทาง

พระราชนิเวศน์มฤคทายวัน เป็นวังไม้ที่ตั้งสง่างามหน้าชายหาด วันที่เราไปเป็นวันที่ไม่อนุญาตให้ขึ้นชมด้านบน แต่สามารถเดินชมด้านล่างและบริเวณสวนได้ ซึ่งบริเวณรอบวังก็มีบรรยากาศที่ร่มรื่น เดินเที่ยวจนทั่วแล้วเราก็ขับกลับไปหัวหินเพื่อคืนรถมอเตอร์ไซค์เช่า แล้วเดินต่อไปยังสถานีรถไฟหัวหิน ตรงข้างสถานีจะมีห้องสมุดการรถไฟหัวหิน ซึ่งดัดแปลงมาจากตู้รถไฟเก่า แม้จะไม่ใหญ่โตมากนัก แต่ก็มีหนังสือหลากหลายหมวดหมู่ให้ได้เลือกอ่านกัน

ออกจากห้องสมุดรถไฟ เนื่องจากอากาศที่ร้อนมากเราก็เดินไปนั่งคาเฟ่ที่ข้างสถานีรถไฟหัวหิน ชื่อคาเฟ่สถานีกาแฟหัวหิน เพื่อทานขนมและเครื่องดื่มดับร้อน ก่อนที่จะเดินทางต่อไปยังกรุงเทพ เราใช้เวลาที่คาเฟ่ประมาณ1ชั่วโมง จากนั้นจึงเดินไปยังคิวรถตู้ ซื้อตั๋วในราคา 180 บาท สักพักรถตู้ก็ออกเดินทางจากหัวหินมุ่งสู่กรุงเทพมหานคร

นั่งรถตู้มาประมาณเกือบ3ชั่วโมงก็เข้าเขตกรุงเทพมหานคร ตึกสูงใหญ่มากมายที่เคยเห็นแค่ในทีวี พอได้มาเห็นด้วยตาตัวเองทุกอย่างดูแปลกตาไปหมด ตื่นเต้นมาก เพิ่งเข้าใจคำว่าบ้านนอกเข้ากรุงครั้งแรก เราลงรถตู้ที่แถวอนุสาวรีย์ชัยสมรภูมิตามที่รุ่นพี่ได้บอกไว้ เรายืนรอรุ่นพี่มารับ ยืนมองผู้คนมากมายที่ไม่รู้ว่าเดินไปไหนกัน สักพักรุ่นพี่ก็มาถึง

เมื่อรุ่นพี่เรามาถึงก็ได้พาเราขึ้นรถไฟฟ้าครั้งแรกเพื่อที่จะพาเราไปเที่ยวสยาม เราตื่นเต้นมาก เคยเห็นแต่ในทีวี วันนี้ได้มีโอกาสมาเห็นของจริง ในรถไฟฟ้าคนเยอะมาก สักพักก็เดินทางมาถึงสยาม รุ่นพี่พาเราเดินเที่ยวทั้งสยามพารากอน สยามเซ็นเตอร์ สยามดิสคัฟเวอรี่ จนเริ่มปวดขากันเลยทีเดียว จากนั้นก็พาเราเดินไปทานข้าวที่ mbk ก่อนจะเดินทางกลับหอพัก

ตื่นเช้ามา วันนี้เป็นวันที่ 13 ตุลาคม 2556 เราจองตั๋วรถไฟนอนชั้น2กลับหาดใหญ่ไว้ในบ่ายวันนี้ หลังจากทานมื้อเช้าแล้วเราก็เก็บของเตรียมตัวเดินทางไปสถานีรถไฟหัวลำโพง วันนี้รุ่นพี่พาเรานั่งรถไฟฟ้าใต้ดิน mrt ไปหัวลำโพง ผู้คนมากมายพอๆกับรถไฟฟ้า bts เราก็ยังตื่นเต้นเหมือนเดิม

ถึงสถานีรถไฟหัวลำโพงแล้ว ผู้คนมากมายมาขึ้นรถไฟที่นี่ ได้เวลาที่เราบอกลารุ่นพี่ และบอกลากรุงเทพ เมืองหลวงของไทยสักที รถไฟออกตรงเวลา ระหว่างทางก็ได้เห็นชีวิตของผู้คนในเมืองหลวงที่ค่อนข้างวุ่นวายและเร่งรีบ ประมาณ6โมงเย็นเจ้าหน้าที่ก็เริ่มมาปูที่นอนให้และนี่ก็เป็นการนั่งรถไฟตู้นอนครั้งแรกของเราเช่นกัน รถไฟถึงหาดใหญ่ในช่วงเช้าวันที่14ตุลาคม 2556 เป็นอันจบการเดินทางในทริปนี้

หลังจบทริปนี้เราก็มีความคิดว่าทริปต่อๆไปเราจะต้องไปได้ไกลกว่านี้แน่นอน การเดินทางคนเดียวไม่ได้น่ากลัวเสมอไป แม้บางครั้งอาจมีเหงาบ้างเมื่อเจอเรื่องที่ตลกและสนุกแต่ไม่รู้จะหันไปยิ้มหรือหัวเราะกับใคร แต่ในโลกนี้ก็ยังมีสถานที่สวยงามที่รอให้เราได้ออกไปเผชิญอีกมากมาย

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Amazon is and has always been an office centric culture. Ideas move too fast for people to work apart from each other all week long. It's fine if your team is only 2 or 3 people.. but teams at Amazon are groups of 7-10 devs who collaborate across teams, managers, customers, and engineers and the speed at which the teams move is nothing like I have seen in any other job or any other workplace.

Thinking you can do this job 100% does Amazon and yourself a disservice.

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Bitcoin nodes

The Bitcoin network, which is often confused with blockchain (database), is guaranteed and maintained by nodes. The idea of each person having an "internet" server at home is old, but it only became profitable with the advent of Bitcoin. The concept of decentralization is also old and is fully linked to this network format consisting of nodes.

Nodes are computers, or groups of computers, that are interconnected and that validate, store, process, and transmit information. This information is only related to Bitcoin transactions. New bitcoins minted (maximum of 21M), with each block added to the blockchain, go to the first node that discovers a mathematical puzzle (mining). The puzzle result must be accepted by more than half of the network's processing power before the block is added to the blockchain. This process is known as consensus.

https://mempool.space/graphs/mining/pools

When we install a full node on our computer, we are installing software (Bitcoin Core) and a copy of the blockchain. In this case, no reward is received. It is up to those who are interested to maintain the integrity and security of a complete copy of the blockchain.

https://bitnodes.io/nodes/live-map/

It is already clear that there are several types of Bitcoin nodes. The third major group are light nodes, better known as app wallets. These are nodes that store a smaller version of the blockchain obtained through full nodes.

There are still other types of nodes worth mentioning. Lightning nodes, a parallel network to Bitcoin, allows for instant Bitcoin transactions.

Generally, these are satoshis (1 sat = 0.00000001 BTC | 1 BTC = 100 000 000 sats) ...

Nodes with full blockchain storage.

Nodes with incomplete storage, store only the most recent transactions with a blockchain size limitation.

And finally, there are mining pool nodes. This type of node is the most used by nano miners who can join other miners through this means and thus increase the probability of receiving the reward. Rewards are paid proportionally to processing power.

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很多文件都有自己的独特元数据扩展, 典型的就是 JPG 图片的 EXIF 信息. 在管理大量文件的时候注意到元数据的重要性, 写给计算机看的元数据是文件头, 是数据包头. 写给人类看的, 规范的文件元数据很少, 应用广泛的除了 EXIF, 还有用在音频文件的 IDv2, IDv3 标签, 视频封装容器格式中用来保存封面的元信息, 电子书的书籍信息, 电子文档里面 Microsoft 给 Excel, Word, PPT 都添加了各种各样的元信息, 一些归档软件还能给 ZIP 添加注释.

对于这类基于文件格式的元信息还是主要看操作这类文件格式的软件的适配, 而更加深入一层的是文件系统的元信息, 比如 NTFS 的备用数据流(Alternate data stream, ADS): - NTFS #Alternate data stream (ADS) - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Alternate_data_stream_(ADS) - MS-FSCC: NTFS Streams | Microsoft Learn

应用程序可以直接在文件系统上给文件添加额外的元信息, 目前使用这种原理的软件给文件添加额外信息的软件只发现了一个: Directory Opus. 当然也能自己用 PowerShell 给文件添加和读取备用数据流: - Streams - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn

但是说了这么多, 上面提到的元信息都是只针对文件的, 对文件夹的元信息, 就算是 NTFS 的备用数据流也没有办法. 虽然直接用文件夹名称存储元信息是一种直观的办法, 但是限制就会变得很多, 比如特殊字符, 来自操作系统的路径长度限制, 来自归档文件格式算法的路径长度限制(tar 限制 255 个字符), 来自文件系统的路径长度限制(NTFS 限制 65535 个字符), 如果不选择更好的办法, 用文件夹名称的写元信息就会陷入一个来自方方面面的 "木桶效应". 没有任何文件系统支持给文件夹添加元数据, 或许就只能另辟蹊径了, 比如给文件目录建立索引, 然后在索引里面写元信息, 类似于给文件目录建数据库, 当然最后还要用其他的软件读取数据库和目录建立操作关系, 相当于要重写一个文件管理器软件. 更加简单的索引比如 Descript.ion 目前还在使用, 被 ACDSee, XnView, Total Commander 还有 7-Zip, 以及上面提到过的 Directory Opus 采用. 这些软件要么本身就是一个文件管理器, 要么就是附带操作文件目录的功能的软件.

文件夹也需要元信息, 但解决办法还没有找到, 或许以后也只能求助于第三方文件管理器了.

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TikTok teens aren't stanning Osama bin Laden

By now you have, no doubt, heard all about the dangerous new TikTok trend sweeping the nation. China’s great and powerful cyber weapon has convinced the innocent teenagers of America that Osama bin Laden was actually a pretty cool guy and now they’re all sharing his 2002 “Letter To America”. Well, first, just to get it out of the way, Osama bin Laden was actually bad (https://foreverwars.ghost.io/usama-bin-laden-was-actually-very-bad/). Also, a nepo baby (https://twitter.com/CartoonsHateHer/status/1725141632721318316).

After spending most of yesterday digging into this, I’m pretty convinced that this was never a real thing on TikTok. Even though it has since snowballed into a full on moral panic that is beginning to feel dangerously unstable. The Biden administration released (https://twitter.com/AndrewJBates46/status/1725233103197630631) a statement about the supposed trend and alarmed big-name creators and actors also reportedly met (https://www.threads.net/@whatsupna/post/CzuKvcMOy-v) with TikTok this week to discuss the rise of antisemitism on the app.

So I’m punting this week’s paid-only weekend edition and, instead, going to go step-by-step through how this happened, or didn’t, and hopefully set the record straight. If you want to get the normal weekend issues of Garbage Day, hit the green button below. They’ll be back next week.

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TikTok deleted most of the content related to Bin Laden and his “Letter To America,” making any kind of digital forensics difficult. But according to most news articles (https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america-goes-viral-21-years-later-tiktok-1234879711/) I’ve seen and a couple X users that downloaded her videos, the influencer Lynette Adkins is as close as we’ll get to a patient zero here. That said, there has been a lot of Bin Laden interest (https://www.tiktok.com/@storypioneer/video/7300565781400587553) — and revisionism — on TikTok for the last month. It’s an extremely global app and a large chunk of its most-active users were born after 9/11. So I don’t think it’s that surprising. As we all discovered in 2016, a whole bunch of young millennials spent their early 20s talking about Hitler on Reddit.

Adkins’ video and TikTok account are down, but one of the videos she made about the letter is here (https://twitter.com/jewlicious/status/1724973365872459855). And at least one of Adkins’ videos had a couple million views. She’s a lifestyle influencer and, based on just the titles of her YouTube videos, it seems like she’s in the midst of the infamous “Isolate Yourself With An Impulse Move To LA And Then Mentally Unravel” content pivot. I wish her the best.

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5986376-4e40-4ab8-a7fe-a262d8a6a594_2594x1100.png)(YouTube/@LynetteAdkins)

Per Know Your Meme (https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/why-are-tiktokers-sharing-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-the-controversy-and-trend-explained), from there the letter was shared by TikTok users like @cannablissful (https://www.tiktok.com/@cannablissful?lang=en), another lifestyle influencer that focuses on mental health and, as her username implies, weed. Her video is down now, as well, but when I screenshot it yesterday, it had around two million views. And I wouldn’t even say it was pro-Bin Laden. Though, it wasn’t, you know, anti-Bin Laden either. Another user that was absolutely definitely sharing the letter as being good, however, was @fairykingb (https://www.tiktok.com/@fairykingb), who makes videos with a leftist bent about health and wellness sorta-kinda. And his video, as of yesterday, before it was pulled down, had around 500,000 views.

The point is that the initial wave of interest around the letter, as far as I can tell, was happening among lifestyle and wellness influencers — and not particularly popular ones. Even after a wave of news stories about her, Adkins still has less than 40,000 followers on Instagram. While @cannablissful has around 11,000 followers and @fairykingb has 6,000.

Getting a sense of how big this conversation was is hard, though, because TikTok is being incredibly aggressive about deleting any content it thinks may be about the letter, including news outlets covering it (https://www.404media.co/tiktok-deletes-404-media-video-about-guardian-deleting-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america/). But yesterday, I pulled up the TikTok domain and the search term “letter to America” on Google and I set a custom date range of 11/1/2023-11/15/2023 and took a spin through about 30 pages of results. It’s by no means a complete picture of what was happening on the app before the crackdown, but Google had cached some of the deleted videos and it painted a picture that was in line with what I had seen screenshot elsewhere.

The accounts sharing the letter were small and the videos they were making were not getting a lot of activity compared to the rest of TikTok. I’d also estimate about 25% were bots or outraged duets, TikTok’s equivalent of a quote tweet. Similarly, here are a few screenshots (https://twitter.com/wheatpm/status/1725155005303239032) of some of the videos. The view counts aren’t shown, but the most-shared one has around 3,000 shares.

My friend Luke Bailey suggested comparing Bin Laden’s popularity to something else going viral this week, like Travis Kelce. And, well, as of the night of November 14th, according to worldwide Google Trends, one Bin Laden was worth about 11% of one Travis Kelce in the attention economy. And, only looking at USA Google Trends, Bin Laden was even less popular, amounting to around 7% of a Travis Kelce. There was some slight growth in searches for “Letter to America” as of the night of November 14th, but still, it was much less popular than Travis Kelce.

(https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F025b2b5d-a6a3-4f91-973a-cf1280262c9d_2346x890.png)(Google Trends)

According to The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/11/16/guardian-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/), there were around 275 TikTok videos using the #lettertoamerica hashtag, which was viewed about two million times. Based on what I saw on Google, the hashtag actually accounted for a pretty small minority of videos — most of the big videos were doing a “iykyk” sort of subtweet about it. But it’s still a useful benchmark. For context, the most popular hashtag on TikTok over the last seven days was #tiktokshopblackfriday, which has 380 million combined views.

Which brings us to the question of what a “view” actually means on TikTok. And getting a handle on that will be important for where this story goes next. “It's extremely bizarre to see reporters claiming that dozens of videos and millions of views on TikTok constitutes a trend,” Slate’s Scott Nover wrote (https://twitter.com/ScottNover/status/1725257818679459856). “Just demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the scale and reach of TikTok — let alone the internet.”

So, right now, the popular wisdom is that TikTok counts a single second as a single view. That said, a developer I work with named Morry Kolman has done some tests (https://twitter.com/WTTDOTM/status/1725290858583392651) on this and it may be even less than a second. A view is very possibly just every unique open or autoplay of a video. Meanwhile, a view on YouTube is around 30 seconds and a view on Facebook is around three seconds. So if we were to take one of the most viral videos about Bin Laden’s letter, which had around two million views, and applied Facebook’s view metric, it would have around 660,000 views. And if it was a YouTube video, it would have around 65,000. Now, let’s ask ourselves. Would you, in 2023, give a shit if someone was saying something unhinged and offensive in a YouTube video with 65,000 views? If so, good news, I can send you millions of videos that match that exact description! Just go search “The Marvels” and have a blast.

This inability to understand the scale of TikTok is, almost certainly, why, on November 15th, shit hit the fan. According to 404 Media (https://www.404media.co/guardian-deletes-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-after-it-goes-viral-on-tiktok/), Guardian editors woke up, saw that their archive of Bin Laden’s letter was getting traffic from “social media,” and decided to delete it. A Guardian spokesperson said, “The transcript published on our website 20 years ago has been widely shared today on social media without its original context.”

This clearly had a Streisand effect on the letter and you can see that in the Google Trends data. Throughout the day, interest on Google grew as users discovered the letter had been taken down. But what really lit up the internet landed the evening of November 15th and, as is almost always the case with TikTok virality, wasn’t a TikTok video at all. Just someone with a blue checkmark tweeting about it.

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Huff Post contributor Yashar Ali posted (https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1724942399431217457) a five-minute supercut on X that he appears to have made himself of TikTok users talking about Bin Laden’s letter. Adkins and @fairykingb are two of the users included in it. “Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous ‘Letter to America,’ in which he explained why he attacked the United States,” Ali wrote.

I spent all day yesterday looking for the “thousands” of videos. Of course, TikTok was already in the process of scrubbing them, but according to screenshots and cached Google data, I’m comfortable saying there were likely around 300-500 unique videos about the letter and, once again, around 25% of what I personally saw were bots or automated accounts or duets. And the largest comment section I’ve seen underneath one of these videos had around 5,000 comments. Now, let’s do this again. Would you, in 2023, give a shit if there were around 5,000 people being offensive on the internet? Well, if you would, I, once again, have some good news for you. Type “X.com” into your URL bar and make sure to follow the site’s CEO, he has a lot of interesting ideas about race and gender.

What is clear to me is that Ali’s video is the most viral piece of content about this whole controversy. And it’s also, as far as I can see, the biggest driver of attention about the letter. This is something The Washington Post (https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1725312158664175617?s=12&t=GArJOEJ41SKT7sLfzFsugQ) and TikTok’s policy team (https://twitter.com/TikTokPolicy/status/1725291052230168812) have both corroborated. TikTok released a pretty strongly-worded statement about this, writing (https://twitter.com/TikTokPolicy/status/1725198557936852994), “The number of videos on TikTok is small and reports of it trending on our platform are inaccurate. This is not unique to TikTok and has appeared across multiple platforms and the media.” And in another statement from a TikTok spokesperson they were even more explicit, writing that the #lettertoamerica hashtag jumped from around two million to 13 million views after Ali’s supercut was posted on X.

Also, just to really hammer this home, I was contacted by a moderator for TikTok last night who requested they remain anonymous. They work for ByteDance’s English-language market in Europe. They told me two things: One, in the five days before Ali’s video, they hadn’t seen anything come through about Bin Laden. And, two, accounts with over 11,000 followers are flagged with a “high influence” note internally and watched more closely. Which may explain why TikTok wasn’t noticing this right away — because it was mainly being shared by randos.

After Ali blew it up, journalists pounced. As The Atlantic Council’s Emerson T. Brooking put it (https://twitter.com/etbrooking/status/1725274667911455152), the “trend” became real and, worse for the rest of us, became a “D.C. story.” TikTok is a political lightning rod and this story was perfect for Democrats who want to explain away the very real generational divide happening on the left around support for Israel. And it’s also perfect for Republicans who are frightened that TikTok’s algorithm can turn red-blooded American men into Xi Jinping-worshipping catboys, or whatever.

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And so the story has morphed from what should have been a weird curiosity — and perhaps even a moment to reflect on America’s post-9/11 legacy — into a full-blown national scandal with dumb-dumb headlines getting written about it, like CNN’s “Some young Americans on TikTok say they sympathize with Osama bin Laden”. I mean, I haven’t even had time in this piece to point out that a lot of the people I saw sharing the letter were millennials! But, yeah, teens fucking love Bin Laden. They’re saying 9/11 just hits different now no cap fr. Gen Z wants Baby Gronk to lead Al-Qaeda in a victorious jihad against the western imperialist hegemony gyatt!!

All of this insanity is also obscuring some very important questions about why the letter was being shared in the first place. For instance, was this an op (https://twitter.com/JaneLytv/status/1725026812328034722) of some kind? Why are so many of the videos in the supercut almost word-for-word identical (https://www.threads.net/@matthiashickey/post/CzuWEuErllJ)? My hunch is it probably wasn’t and that this is actually just an example of how loosy-goosy TikTok’s wellness community is, but it’s worth asking.

And, really, this is yet another example of how everything we see about TikTok is just being filtered through a media and political apparatus that doesn’t know how it works and has no issue cherry-picking random nonsense out of the app to fit whatever agenda they subscribe to. As New York Mag’s John Herrman wrote (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/11/did-bin-laden-really-go-viral-on-tiktok.html), “[The Bin Laden letter] became popular much in the way that posts from accounts like @LibsofTikTok do, by giving users license, via a video ripped from elsewhere, to drop their inhibitions and rage out a little bit.” Which is the real takeaway here.

Baseless generational in-fighting, aging millennials who refuse to accept the new status quo (https://www.garbageday.email/i/138638111/welcome-to-the-vapor-web) of the internet, easily monetizable rage bait, lazy TikTok trend reporting, and bad faith political actors swirled together to create a perfect storm this week. We have invented a version of TikTok that simply does not exist and now many people in power are ready to tear apart the foundation of internet to prove it does. And what’s worse here is that there are very real issues with how TikTok works. It is a major source of misinfo and disinfo. It still has a terrible bullying problem. And, ironically enough, it’s also one of the most oppressively censorious social platforms that has ever existed. To the point users had to create a puritanical version of leet speak (https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/tiktok-language) to communicate on it. But we can’t even begin to address those issues unless we start to look clear-eyed at what is actually happening on the app. And it is most certainly not the digital hub of a large-scale Gen Z Bin Laden fandom. Be fucking serious.

The internet is an extremely chaotic living ecosystem and it’s constantly reacting to itself and all you accomplish by amplifying something like this is give more ammo to those who want to who want to take that away. You turn bizarre discourse into something bigger than it was ever meant to be. You pointlessly villainize normal people who aren’t public figures and don’t deserve this kind of scrutiny. And you help conservative political movements continue their culture war. You also just look like clueless boomer to anyone even slightly younger than you.

Anyways, your regularly scheduled garbage will be back next week. If you want to check out what’s behind the paywall, hit the green button below. Have a good weekend, everyone! Maybe stay off TikTok for a little bit.

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Bitcoin address types

In the latest version of Bitcoin Core, 4 types of addresses are implemented.

P2PKH (pay-to-pubkey-hash - 1...) is the oldest type of address, better known as legacy addresses.

ex: 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa

P2SH (pay-to-script-hash - 3...) (P2WSH, pay-to-witness-script-hash, ScriptPubKey to SegWit), script addresses, rules or functionalities can be added. It opens the possibility of wallets with multiple signatures to authorize transactions.

ex: 342ftSRCvFHfCeFFBuz4xwbeqnDw6BGUey

P2WPKH (pay-to-witness-public-key-hash - bc1...), SegWit or Bech32 addresses, this type of address is more resistant to errors, since they are insensitive to case. For the most common transactions, the network fee can be 30 to 40% cheaper because they optimize the block space.

ex: bc1q34aq5drpuwy3wgl9lhup9892qp6svr8ldzyy7c

P2TR (pay-to-taproot - bc1p...), taproot or Bech32m addresses, is the most recent address and few exchanges and wallet apps support it. It brings more security, privacy, flexibility, and scalability. As well as cheaper fees. Taproot also opens the possibility of developing more complex smart contracts.

ex: bc1pxwww0ct9ue7e8td[...]9ys4c9f3340qqxrdu9k

Compatibility with older addresses is ensured, but outdated wallet apps cannot send to newer addresses. As a rule, the best wallet apps can generate older addresses to receive. But not all wallet apps do.

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What is the relationship between Bitcoin transaction fees and the block reward?

The relationship between Bitcoin transaction fees and the block reward represents the proportion of the total block rewards that comes from the transaction fees paid by users on the Bitcoin network.

Transaction fees allow users to offer compensation to miners to encourage the inclusion of their Bitcoin transactions in a block. To increase their profits, miners often prioritize transactions with higher fees. However, the value of fees can vary depending on several factors, including network congestion and the size of a user's transaction in bytes.

Miners play a critical role in the Bitcoin network, solving complex mathematical puzzles to validate transactions and secure the network. As a reward for their work, miners receive newly-created BTC (block reward) and any fees from the transactions they include in blocks.

Miner revenue = Block reward + Transaction fees

To maintain their revenues, miners are increasingly relying on transaction fees as the block reward decreases over time due to halvings. As Bitcoin approaches its maximum limit of 21 million coins, this dynamic is expected to continue.

Here's how to calculate the relationship between Bitcoin transaction fees and the block reward:

Bitcoin fee-to-reward ratio = Total transaction fees / Block reward

To understand what this ratio means, consider three scenarios where the relationship between Bitcoin transaction fees and the block reward is greater than 1, equal to 1, and less than 1.

Relationship between Bitcoin transaction fees and the block reward greater than 1

Let's consider a scenario where users are transacting frequently, the block reward is 6.25 BTC, and there is high demand for block space. In this situation, users are willing to pay higher fees to have their transactions validated more quickly. Let's assume that miners received 7 BTC in transaction fees for the transactions included in the block.

In this scenario, the relationship between transaction fees and the block reward is greater than 1, as the transaction fees (7 BTC) are greater than the block reward (6.25 BTC). This indicates that miners are receiving more revenue from transaction fees than from the block reward.

Bitcoin fee-to-reward ratio = 7 / 6.25 = 1.12

In this case, the relationship between transaction fees and the block reward is greater than 1 (1.12), demonstrating that the total transaction fees earned by miners are greater than the block reward. When users want their transactions to be confirmed quickly, a situation like this arises, as bidding on transaction fees is competitive.

Relationship between Bitcoin transaction fees and the block reward equal to 1

Let's now explore a case where the block reward and the total value of transaction fees that miners earn by including transactions in the block are the same. Assume that the total fees charged are 6.25 BTC, using the same block reward of 6.25 BTC.

Bitcoin fee-to-reward ratio = 6.25 / 6.25 = 1

In this case, the fees and the block reward contribute equally to the miner's revenue.

Relationship between Bitcoin transaction fees and the block reward less than 1

Now imagine that there is less demand for transactions on the network and that users are not willing to pay high fees to have their transactions validated. Assume that miners received 4 BTC in transaction fees, but the block reward is still 6.25 BTC.

Bitcoin fee-to-reward ratio = 4 / 6.25 = 0.64

In this case, the relationship between transaction fees and the block reward is 0.64, suggesting that the block reward is greater than the sum of the transaction fees charged by miners. This can happen when there are fewer transactions in the mempool, less network congestion, or when users are not competing as much to add their transactions to the next block.

The importance of the Bitcoin transaction fee-to-reward ratio

The Bitcoin transaction fee-to-reward ratio is important because it captures the changing economic incentives present in the network. This ratio is essential to the functioning of the network, affecting users, miners, and the overall stability and security of the blockchain.

Miner incentives and security

Miners are essential to the security and validity of transactions on the Bitcoin network. They use processing power and resources to mine new blocks by solving challenging mathematical puzzles. Transaction fees and the block reward (newly-created BTC) are incentives for miners. Faster confirmation times and greater network security can be achieved by miners by prioritizing transactions with significant fees when the transaction fee-to-reward ratio is higher.

Transaction prioritization

The transaction fee-to-reward ratio becomes very important when there is a lot of network traffic, with many transactions competing for a small amount of block space. Users who want their transactions to be confirmed quickly may be willing to pay more. Miners are more likely to include transactions with higher fees in the blocks they mine due to the potential for greater profits. This ensures that transactions are completed quickly and helps to control network congestion.

Post-halving sustainability

The block reward is halved approximately every four years as part of the Bitcoin protocol. This occurrence is scheduled into the protocol. Transaction fees represent an increasingly larger portion of miner revenue as the block reward decreases over time. As the block reward decreases, the transaction fee-to-reward ratio helps to assess whether miners can support their operations solely through transaction fees.

Network resilience

The Bitcoin transaction fee-to-reward ratio provides data on the financial stability of the network. A healthy ratio shows that users are willing to pay fair transaction fees, supporting the security and ongoing operation of the network. Consistently low ratios can exclude miners, compromising the security of the network and reducing the processing power of transactions.

Market sentiment

User behavior and the transaction fee-to-reward ratio can be indicators of market sentiment. High transaction costs may mean that more people are interested in using the Bitcoin network during those times. Low fees, on the other hand, may imply low demand and network activity.

Adapting incentives

The transaction fee-to-reward ratio adapts to changes in market conditions, technological developments, and user preferences. The variables that affect the ratio change, along with the cryptocurrency environment, offer data on the reactivity and flexibility of the network.

Is a higher Bitcoin transaction fee-to-reward ratio essential for the economic sustainability of the Bitcoin network?

The sustainable future of the Bitcoin network rests on a delicate balance between miner incentives, network security, and user-friendly transaction costs.

The multidimensional question of whether a higher Bitcoin transaction fee-to-reward ratio is necessary for the financial viability of the Bitcoin network has sparked discussions in the cryptocurrency industry.

On the one hand, proponents argue that a larger block reward and reduced transaction costs provide stronger short-term incentives for miners to actively participate in transaction validation and network security. This strategy balances the miner's work and rewards, focusing on their immediate gains.

On the other hand, opinions that favor a balanced transaction fee-to-reward ratio argue that the continuous decline of block rewards required by Bitcoin halving events is a deliberate move towards a fee-centric network sustainability model.

This methodical strategy attempts to avoid abrupt shocks to the network, while encouraging a gradual transition to transaction fees as the main source of income for miners. Higher transaction fees can offset the decreasing block rewards as transaction volumes increase and user reliance on the Bitcoin network grows, ensuring miner profitability and fostering a healthy fee market.

Will the relationship between transaction fees and block rewards continue to affect Bitcoin transactions in the post-mining era?

Although the dynamics of the relationship will change from being dependent on newly created BTC to transaction fees, its importance in controlling transaction prioritization and network efficiency will persist in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

The relationship between transaction fees and block rewards in relation to newly created BTC will become obsolete when all Bitcoin has been mined and the block reward reaches 0. At that time, miners will not be compensated with a block reward for successfully adding a new block to the blockchain.

Instead, the only factor that will affect the relationship between transaction fees and block rewards will be the transaction fees that users pay to have their transactions included in blocks. The relationship will remain significant as it will reflect the competition of users to validate transactions promptly. Users will modify their fee offers based on their urgency and the prevailing conditions on the network, and miners will prioritize transactions with higher fees.

The relationship between transaction fees and block rewards will still have an impact on the speed and reliability with which transactions are confirmed during the post-mining phase. Users who pay higher fees may receive faster transaction processing, while those who choose lower fees may see slower confirmation delays.

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Chef's notes

CONTAINS CAFFEINE UNLESS YOU OPT FOR DECAF

This isn't the prettiest cake, its not meant to be... but it is the most delicious.
It will look unfinished upon removal from the oven due to the pudding layer. Frozen whipped cream makes an excellent topping.

*This is not an original, I'm just moving it here. h/t to whomever dreamt up this diet-killer

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 5 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 40 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 10-12

Ingredients

• 1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 6 Tbsp unsweetened dark or dutched cocoa
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• 1 cup whole milk
• 2 Tbsp melted butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
• 4 Tbsp instant espresso powder
• 1 cup boiling water

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°F and put on water to boil
2. In medium bowl, whisk together flour, granulated sugar, cocoa, baking powder, and salt
3. Stir in milk, melted butter, and vanilla until just combined
4. Pour batter into an ungreased 8"x11" baking dish and spread evenly (for 9x13, shorten baking time by 5 min)
5. Place dark brown sugar and espresso powder into a bowl, add 1 cup boiling water and stir until completely dissolved
6. Pour mixture evenly across cake batter. Do not str ;)
7. Slide baking dish onto middle rack of preheated oven and bake for 40 min, rotating halfway through
8. Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly. Dust with cocoa powder or confectioner's sugar. Serve warm, by spoon, into bowls. Top with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream, if desired

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As everyone knows by now, I am working on adding private groups to Coracle using the new NIP-44 encryption standard currently being audited. I wanted to share why I think this is a viable approach, and how combining relays and encryption can help make it happen.

This discussion gets complicated very quickly, so to begin, I thought I'd cover the two components that everyone thinks they understand first (relays and encryption), and move on to the one that combines the existing primitives in new and exciting ways (groups).

What even are relays, anyway?

If you saw my talk at Nostrasia, this section is just a re-iteration of it. In fact, I wrote this blog post before the conference to help me with my presentation. So hello, from the past.

Relays are dumb. They're just servers, which speak a particular protocol, and which implement some minimal logic to support that protocol. Relays have to be interoperable, which is why it's important to design new parts of the nostr protocol in such a way as to be backwards-compatible, and simple to implement.

As a result, relay development has historically focused on performance to the exclusion of new functionality. You can see this with the success of strfry and Will's adaptation of the underlying technique to nostrdb.

One of my favorite programming talks is Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure. One of the points he makes in that talk is that object-oriented programming is such a mess because it "complects" behavior and state. Hickey's solution to this problem is to use functions and values rather than methods and state.

I think that this same mistake is one we are at risk of making with nostr relays. I'll come back to this in a bit, but keep that distinction in the back of your mind: separating data and behavior can lead to a much simpler and more robust system.

Despite the emphasis on interoperability, relays shouldn't all be exact clones. There are a few different ways relays can differentiate themselves, either by providing specific functionality, by storing different sets of events, or by exposing a different interface.

Added functionality

Some implementations have pushed features forward, for example rbr.bio which implemented the COUNT verb from NIP 45 early on. However, these efforts are usually either supported by special clients (like nostr.band or primal's caching service), or fail to gain wide adoption and are eventually abandoned. The result is that NIPs specifying optional functionality tend to die without sufficient user demand.

The reason for this is that if you're building a client that selects relays based on user preferences, it can't rely on functionality that doesn't exist on the majority of relays. Without widespread support, search results or feeds requested based on Primal's special syntax will be incomplete or fail entirely. As a result, clients often build proprietary solutions to these problems, increasing centralization risk.

Subtracted functionality

Relays are able to helpfully differentiate themselves however, by offering a subset of protocol functionality. For example, purplepag.es is a reliable source for profile data and relay preferences, but it doesn't require clients to do anything different in order to be useful. Instead, users can simply add purplepag.es to their relay list and instantly get a better experience. A similar approach many commodity relays take is blocking certain event kinds, for example 1059 gift wraps or NIP 94 image headers. This fortifies their particular purpose, which is to not support more exotic protocol features.

Other kinds of relays don't support this guarantee, for example relay.noswhere.com only supports search if the search term is not accompanied by a filter, responding to standard requests with "filters: not planned (non-search queries)". This can still be useful, but it is not a relay, because it requires clients to special case how it's used.

Data relevance

There is a different kind of differentiation relays can implement, based not on functionality, but on content. This is what I mean when I talk about "relay de-commodification". The value proposition this type of relay offers is not "we can do something no one else does", but "we have the information you're looking for".

There are two ways to accomplish this: content curation and access controls. The difference being that content curation is context-independent, and might be based on topic, keyword, or LLM analysis, while access controls only accepts content published by certain accounts. Several relay implementations and hosting providers (for example relay.tools) support both of these approaches, and of course it's easy to combine them.

Likewise, there are two ways for a relay to gain access to the desired data, leading to two different value propositions.

A relay that focuses on topical data might scrape the wider nostr network in order to ensure it is able to reliably serve everything relevant to its niche. This might be done using any number of heuristics, including filtering by pubkey, topic, or sentiment, but in any case the relay is not intended primarily to be written to, but to be read from. This is primarily an additive model, focusing on offering a complete view of the given topic.

Another approach is to let the data come to you instead of scraping it from the wider network by only accepting events published by certain people, or being the go-to relay for a certain topic. In order for this model to work though, there needs to be some way for the relay to keep this data to itself by preventing scraper-powered relays from harvesting its data. This effectively means that these relays will not only have policies for who can write to them, but also who can read from them. These might be the same set of people (for example with a community relay), or more people might be allowed to read from the relay than are able to write to it, as in the case of content producers who want a paywalled private social media enclave.

Keep relays weird

Most relay implementations expose their data over websockets in line with the spec, but this isn't actually inherent to the function of a relay. We've already seen several projects implement relays in-app for caching purposes. These relays don't usually go through the ceremony of spec adherence, but some (e.g. nostrdb) do.

Different transport mechanisms and hosting options are possible for relays, and would only require clients to use a specific adapter to get at them. Some examples:

• A relay running on your phone as a service that other nostr clients can share to reduce data storage requirements
• A relay running on a LAN, only accessible from a particular location
• A relay running via any other transport, for example radio or carrier pigeon

The idea I'm trying to get across here is that relays aren't necessarily websocket servers. More abstractly, they are a name attached to a set of events that can be accessed in a standard way.

So, what are relays?

To recap, here's my definition of a relay:

1. They correctly support standard functionality
2. They should only support additional functionality related to curating their data set
3. They may restrict the data types they accept and serve
4. They may restrict the data they accept and serve based on content or pubkey

One additional feature that isn't currently standard but ought to be is strfry's negentropy synchronization feature. This is the opposite of AUTH, which protects a relay's own dataset, in that it allows relays to more efficiently share their data with peers. A nice bonus is that it also allows clients to use their local cache more effectively as well.

Simple Made Easy

Going back to Rich Hickey's talk, separating behavior and state allows you to work directly with your data, freely implementing new behavior whenever you need to. This applies to sets of events stored on relays just as much as it applies to in-memory data.

One thing that makes this possible is cryptographic hash functions, which cleanly transform state into values - the difference being that "state" couples a name with data that may change, while a hash is a compact representation of immutable data. If two hashes of event ids don't match, they're not the same set of events.

How does this apply to relays? Instead of adding new behavior to relays directly ("methods"), we can instead call "functions" on a relay's data.

This function can be anything - a centralized server, client code, or a DVM - that takes REQ filters as input. The function gathers the needed data (maybe from a cache, maybe using a sync command, maybe from multiple relays for completeness), performs the transformation, and returns it. The result is that relays become simple, interoperable repositories for data, without limiting what server-side computation can be applied to events.

While huge search indexes and centralized servers have a cost in terms of centralization, I think DVMs solve this problem brilliantly - the common interface for this augmented behavior is open, and can admit anyone who wants to start competing for search, counting, recommendations, or anything else you might want to do with events.

As Alan Perlis said, "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures."

Encrypted Messages

Nostr DMs were a huge mistake, and I want to do it again.

NIP 04 has some obvious problems, most notably metadata leakage. The cryptography also hasn't been audited, and has some potential theoretical attack vectors. I've been working with some other nostr devs on a new cryptographic primitive, which will be audited and hopefully result in a better foundation for future work.

But fixing the cryptography still doesn't fix DMs. Nostr is not really the right architecture for secure private messaging, because ratchets require state. Nostr is designed such that there are no hard dependencies between events, which are replicated across multiple relays. This makes it very hard to manage the kind of state that protocols like SimpleX or Signal require.

Even apart from the difficulty of implementing stateful messaging protocols on nostr, we have two other problems to contend with: metadata leaks and spotty deliverability. Both of these problems come from the reliance of nostr on relays, which generally are not trustworthy or reliable.

Metadata Leakage

NIP 04 is really bad. Anyone can see who you corresponded with, when, how frequently, and how much you said just by looking at the event. Vitor's NIP 24 chat proposal aims to fix this with gift wraps, which use ephemeral keys to obscure the sender, padding to obscure message size, timestamp randomization to obscure timing, and double-wrapping to prevent leakage of the signed message.

This is a big improvement, but there are other forms of metadata that are still visible. To start, the recipient is still visible, along with how many messages they have received and their general size. So you can tell if someone sends lots of messages, or not a lot, but that's about it.

If we don't assume relays are trustworthy though, there are all kinds of implicit metadata that can be used to infer information about the sender, including:

• Client fingerprinting
• Relay selection for publishing and queries
• IP address collection
• First seen timestamp
• Identification of users by AUTH
• Correlation of the event with other messages sent/received during a session

These issues are much harder to solve, because they are part of the process of delivering the message, rather than just constructing it.

Transport and deliverability

The key feature of nostr that makes it work is relays. Relays provide storage redundancy and heterogeneity of purpose with a common interface shared by all instances. This is great for censorship resistance, but everything comes with a tradeoff.

Completeness and consistency are not guaranteed on nostr. This is ok in a social media context, because there's no way to keep up with everything everyone you follow says anyway, and you can rely on interactions and algorithmic tools to catch you up on anything important you missed.

But with private messages, every payload counts. Receiving messages out of order, with a delay, or not at all can severely disrupt conversations between two people, leading to misunderstandings and worse. This is a common experience on nostr; even fiatjaf has expressed skepticism about the viability of private messages on nostr.

This flakiness comes from a combination of low relay quality and poor relay selection on the part of clients. Relays can't deliver messages if they can't keep up with clients, go offline, or drop messages (accidentally or deliberately). Likewise, clients can't find messages if they look for them in the wrong place.

Relays fixes this

Let me just put things into perspective really quick. Twitter DMs are not e2e encrypted, and weren't encrypted at all until earlier this year. Mastodon messages are not encrypted - instance admins can read everything. Facebook has e2ee messages, but only between normal users, not in communities, groups, business chats, or marketplace chats.

So while nostr's architecture is not sufficient to make secure encrypted communication a value proposition of the protocol in itself, there is a lot we can do to improve on the status quo. Because nostr has no admins, the only option for privacy of any kind is end-to-end encryption. Metadata leakage notwithstanding, nostr messages can be "good enough" for some definition of that phrase.

It's important to not just punt on making DMs available in a standard way, because there is an expectation that a complete social media solution will have a way to establish a private communication channel with someone else in the network. Otherwise you're stuck with public correspondence and link sharing in order to hop to another protocol.

Let's just assume that you agree with me at this point, and that until there is a javascript SDK for SimpleX or MLS, we're stuck with nostr DMs of some kind. So how can we reduce metadata leakage and improve deliverability?

Fixing Flakiness

Let's start with deliverability first. NIP 65's inbox/outbox model is great. While it doesn't fix deliverability on its own, if every relay recommended was in fact reliable, and reliably followed by clients, there would be a very clear indication of where a particular user's messages could be found. Neither of these things is really true right now, but I do think clients are moving in this direction. Hopefully we can educate users better on how to pick good relays.

There are some limits to this model of course. For example, if you want to read notes from 1000 pubkeys at once, your client will likely end up connecting to hundreds of relays unless it has a cap, in which case it will miss a lot of notes.

One clean solution to this problem is relay proxies. There are a few implementations, but the one I run at mux.coracle.social is a stateless proxy that uses a wrapper protocol so clients can still select and dispatch to relays. I originally built this to improve mobile data use by deduplicating events on the server, and it does that pretty well, although it currently does it in the most naive way possible.

Multiplextr currently does not qualify as a "real" relay based on my four rules, since it uses a wrapper protocol. However, a smarter implementation would be able to route requests and events effectively by relying on client authentication and filter analysis, without changing the protocol. This would also allow clients to completely offload the complex business of relay selection to its proxy. Clients would also be able to combine multiple proxies just like they combine relays - because proxies are relays!

Proxying Privacy

Another downside of NIP 65 is that it encourages clients to connect indiscriminately to hundreds of different relays based on tag hints, other users' preferences, and relays baked into bech32 identifiers. This is not only bad for battery life and performance, but also allows attackers to easily trick your client into to connecting to their relay so they can start analyzing your traffic.

The best way to defend yourself against nosy relays is to not connect to them at all. And the easiest way to do that is to only connect to relays you control (or trust), and let them do the dirty work for you.

With a proxy, even if you don't control it, you can reduce the number of parties who can snoop on your traffic by orders of magnitude. And since other people use the proxy too, your traffic gets mixed with theirs, making it much harder to analyze. Of course, the downside of using a public proxy is that the proxy sees all messages you send and receive, and the relays you select for each request. Even worse, an untrusted multiplexer can hijack an authenticated session, exfiltrating private data from protected relays.

A proxy you control (or trust, either via social relationships or economic ones) is the best of both worlds. This proxy could also do some smart things for you to improve privacy as well, for example:

• Delayed publishing of gift wrapped messages so relays can't guess as easily when the event was first seen.
• Closing and re-opening connections to reduce the number of messages sent over an AUTH'd session.
• It could block suspicious messages on the fly, for example spam or notes with phishing links.
• If an abundance of options are available for relay selections, it could randomize which relays are used, or avoid using less reputable ones.

So I guess what I'm saying here, is "run a node". But not just any node - in the early days of nostr there were a lot of people spinning up relays because they thought it helped decentralization. Well, as it turns out, just like in bitcoin you have to use your node in order for it to be useful.

Beyond DMs

I'm not done yet, though. What's the point of all this? Why put all this effort into "good enough" DMs when we could spend the effort adopting SimpleX or MLS (said Semisol, who lives rent free in my head)?

Well, because there isn't a single "best" DM option. As I've dug into the topic, I've discovered that a ton of tradeoffs exist between complexity, privacy, and scale. The way I understand it, there are three basic options here:

• One-to-one encryption. This is how both SimpleX and Vitor's group message draft works. It allows for things like ratchets to be added on top, and is fairly simple - but fails to scale because every message has to be encrypted separately for every group member, resulting in n*m messages, where n is the number of group members, and m is the number of messages sent.
• Encryption via shared key. This is how WhatsApp works, and it scales really well because messages don't have to be duplicated. And while it does support forward secrecy, it does not support post-compromise security, so it is significantly less secure.
• MLS has a unique hierarchical approach to managing keys, which improves the complexity of one-to-one encryption so that it's logarithmic rather than exponential. However, MLS is highly stateful and still has scaling limitations.

My takeaway is that there is no perfect solution. Ratchets are the gold standard, but can't really be implemented using nostr relays, since they frequently require servers to have very specific characteristics, like the ability to deliver messages in order.

The fact remains though, that social media needs encrypted messaging of some kind, even if we encourage users to bail to a more complete solution if they want to be truly private. And encryption is useful beyond small group chats - think of Facebook groups, which scale to millions of people and whose users have a much lower expectation of privacy. This is what nostr is good at - social data, whether encrypted or in plaintext.

Belt and Suspenders

For a long time I have waffled between two visions of how private groups ought to work. Should they be encrypted messages sprinkled across the nostr network like confetti? Or should they live on one or two relays in plaintext, protected by AUTH?

Both of these options have issues. Sprinkling encrypted messages across the network almost guarantees deliverability problems, since already many commodity relays block gift wraps. And that's ok! They have no obligation to store your encrypted messages.

Storing group messages in plaintext is also sub-optimal, even if it's on a dedicated relay. Of course we're not going for military-grade secrecy here, but it would be trivially easy through a bug, or even a client that doesn't know how to deal with groups, to re-broadcast events that should stay private. We could do something wacky, like strip the signature from events hosted on a relay, but if we're going to do something non-standard, we might as well do the best we can.

So why not both? Group messages should be encrypted, and they should be stored on a particular set of relays. Again, assuming the relays used are trustworthy, this fixes both privacy and deliverability problems, because it's very clear where messages posted to the group should go.

Promoting relays to trusted status has some nice, unintended benefits too. One common objection to using encrypted content is that it becomes hard to filter. But if a relay is trusted to store a group's messages, it can also be trusted to be admitted as a member to the group. This would allow the relay to decrypt events and filter them to respond to requests by authenticated group members.

Of course, this would violate rule #1 for relays, since they would no longer be supporting standard functionality, but a guy can dream, can't he?

Conclusion

When I started working on nostr I had no idea it would end up being this complex to accomplish what I set out to do. Building a twitter clone was only a first step to an MVP, but I always had my eye on the prize of serving my local church community, which doesn't give a sat about social media per se.

Private groups are important to me not because I'm setting out to support political dissidents or journalists (although I hope they find nostr useful too), but because I want to get my friends off of Facebook, and the only way to do that is to create private marketplaces, calendars, communties, and more.

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โดยคลิปนี้เป็น live สด ของบุคคลท่านหนึ่งที่รู้จักกับ Dr.Erik Fleischman ซึ่งเป็นอดีตที่ปรึกษาของอดีตประธานาธิบดีบิลคลินตัน ในเรื่อง HIV AIDS แล้วได้นำข้อมูล COVID19 ที่ Dr. erik มาพูดคุย มาแบ่งปัน ( https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10216687082398647&id=1508726571&cft[0]=AZXiXCYsg8p9uCKYaFKr2RQKHqX47VA4tcjvbiN42iePsTA_fV4K6VmdxuDCM60EsVtJ6fRiBzjHMU4DHuktS6ZxR4o-ERVf-DMnJ30HXX7v3G67QXo7Mcx5hB83PIkVscg&tn=-UK-R ) ซึ่งจากที่ผมได้ฟังจนจบ ร่วมกับข้อมูลที่ผมรวบรวมมาโดยตลอด ทำให้ผมจับต้นชนปลายปะติดปะต่อ ข้อมูลเรื่อง COVID19 ได้อย่างค่อนข้างจะสมบูรณ์

ผมจึงรีบทำบทความนี้อย่างรวดเร็ว 5555 และขออนุญาตปาดหน้าบทความประจำในวันศุกร์ ถ้าไม่ผิดพลาดอะไร เดี๋ยวเย็นนี้ คงจะลงให้ทันนะครับ

ผมคิดว่าบทความนี้น่าจะเป็นบทสรุปสุดท้ายของเรื่อง COVID19 ภาคประชาชน (ไม่ลงวิชาการ) ที่ผมจะเผยแผ่ออกไป เพื่อให้ทุกคนเข้าใจและปรับตัวเข้าให้ถูกต้องอย่างมีสติครับ

❤️❤️สิ่งแรกเลยที่เราต้องเข้าใจคือ เชื้อโรคนี้ เป็นเชื้อไวรัส ที่มีต้นสายจากไวรัส CORONA แล้ว กลายพันธุ์มาเรื่อยๆจากกลายเป็น MERs SARs เมื่อหลายๆปีก่อน แล้วมาตอนนี้ได้กลายเป็น COVID19 ซึ่งมีสายรหัสที่คล้ายกับ HIV และ Ebola ซึ่งจะมีแยกออกเป็นสายพันธ์ุ L กับ S ซึ่ง S จะรุนแรงมากกว่า 😱😱

และแน่นอนครับ เชื้อไวรัสเหล่านี้ มันไม่เคยหายไปจากร่างกายของเราเลยครับ ยกตัวอย่างเช่น งูสวัด ที่เป็นแล้วไม่หาย แต่จะไม่แสดงอาการถ้าเราร่างกายแข็งแรง ไข้หวัด ไข้หวัดใหญ่ บางคนเป็นกันทั้งปีใช่ไหมครับ แต่ด้วยร่างกายที่แข็งแรงของบางคนอาจจะไม่แสดงอาการอะไรเลย บางคนบอกที่เป็นหวัดเพราะไปติดเชื้อคนอื่นมา ลองนึกตามนะครับ ทำไมแค่เราทำงานอยู่ที่ห้อง อดหลับอดนอนซักวันสองวัน อยู่ๆก็เป็นหวัดได้ บางคนแค่ตากฝน หรือเจออาการเย็นๆ ก็เป็นหวัดได้ โดยไม่ต้องให้ใครมาแพร่เชื้อให้ นั้นก็เพราะ ไวรัสมันอยู่ในร่างกายของเราไงครับ มันอยู่มาตลอด แค่ว่าเมื่อไหร่ที่เรามีสภาวะร่างกายที่อ่อนแอ ไวรัสมันก็จะฮึกเหิมแสดงอาการออกมา

ทุกวันนี้ MERs SARs Ebola ก็ยังมีอยู่นะครับ แต่มันถูกเรียกว่า เชื้อโรคเฉพาะถิ่น ไปแล้ว เพราะเรามีภูมิต้านทานแล้ว มันจึงไม่ค่อยแสดงอาการอะไรออกมา เฉกเช่น COVID19 ก็เช่นกัน ที่วันนึงมันก็จะกลายเป็น เชื้อโรคเฉพาะถิ่น ไปในไม่ช้า เมื่อร่างกายเราอ่อนแอ มันก็จะฮึกเหิมขึ้นมาใหม่อีกที (ที่เรียกว่า เชื้อเฉพาะถิ่น เพราะมันเป็นโรคของที่นั้นๆ แต่ด้วยยุคสมัยที่การเดินทางเพียงแค่หลับตา เราก็บินจากจีนไปโผล่ที่อเมริกาแล้ว มันจึงทำให้เกิดการระบาดในวงกว้าง)

นั้นจึงเป็นเหตุผลที่ว่า ทำไมจึงมีข่าวว่า คนไข้ที่ได้รับการรักษาหายแล้ว แต่ยังคงพบเชื้อในร่างกายคนไข้ ยังสามารถแพร่เชื้อต่อได้ และบางคนกลับมาป่วยอีกครั้ง แถมบางคนถึงขั้นกลับมาป่วยอีกครั้งแล้วมาเสียชีวิตด้วย หรือในกรณีที่ อังกฤษหรือจีน ที่พบว่ามีการติดเชื้อจาก แม่ สู่ ลูก ได้ ในระยะที่มารดาติดเชื้อในช่วงคลอด ก็ให้มองในมุมของ HIV ที่สามารถติดต่อจากแม่สู่ลูกได้เช่นกันที่ประมาณ 25% แต่ถ้าทานยาต้านจะเหลือ 7-8% หมายถึงยังมีเชื้ออยู่ ยังติดได้อยู่ แต่ไม่100% 🧐🧐

❤️❤️เพราะฉะนั้นสิ่งที่ต้องเข้าใจตามมาก็คือ โรคจากไวรัสนั้นไม่มียารักษาที่หายขาด เช่นเดียวกับ ไข้หวัด มียารักษาที่ทำให้เราหายขาดจากหวัดไหมครับ ไม่มี !!! มีเพียงรักษาตามอาการ ปวดหัว เป็นไข้ เจ็บคอ น้ำมูก เสมหะ เป็นต้น แล้วเราก็นอนพักผ่อน ตื่นมาก็รู็สึกดีขึ้น เพราะร่างกายเมื่อแข็งแรงก็จะกดความฮึกเหิมของไวรัสนี้ให้ลดลง

แล้วที่เราได้ข่าวต่างๆเกี่ยวกับยาและวัคซีนล่ะ ให้แยกเป็นสองอย่างครับ

💉วัคซีน คือ ยาที่ฉีดเพื่อป้องกันไม่ให้เชื้อไวรัสแสดงความฮึกเหิมออกมาหรือน้อยลงล่วงหน้า เปรียบเทียบให้เห็นภาพ คือ วัคซีนไข้หวัดใหญ่ ที่เราๆฉีดกัน ไม่ได้แปลว่า ฉีดแล้วจะไม่มีทางเป็นนะครับ แต่เพียงแค่ว่า สมมุติว่าถ้าเราติด เราจะมีอาการปอดบวม แต่เผอิญเราฉีดวัคซีนไว้มันเลยแสดงอาการแค่เป็นหวัดธรรมดา เป็นต้น แล้วในการจะผลิตวัคซีนใหม่นั้น ต้องใช้เวลาในการจะทำทดลองอย่างน้อย ปีหรือปีครึ่ง ในการวิจัยจนใช้ในคนได้อย่างปลอดภัย

💊ยาต้านไวรัส(หรือที่สื่อพาดหัวว่า ยารักษา นั้น) คือ การที่เราติดเชื้อไวรัสแล้วมีอาการแสดงที่มากหรือหนัก ยาตัวนี้จะไปเป็นกำลังเสริมให้กับร่างกายในการกดความฮึกเหิมของเชื้อลง เช่น ยาต้านไวรัส HIV ทานแล้วไม่ได้แปลว่าหายจาก HIV นะครับ แต่มันจะไปกดความฮึกเหิมของเชื้อ ที่ชอบไปกดภูมิคุ้มกันของเราให้ต่ำลง แล้วเราก็จะไปเสียชีวิตจากโรคอื่นๆเช่น TB เบาหวาน ที่เข้ามาทำร้ายจากการที่เราโดน HIV กดภูมิคุ้มกันไว้ ทำให้เมื่อทานยาต้านไปแล้วจึงสามารถใช้ชีวิตได้ตามปกติ แต่ไม่ได้แปลว่า เราหายจาก HIV นะครับ

ที่นี้พอเราเข้าใจเรื่องเชื้อเรื่องยา แล้วที่นี้มา เรื่องความรุนแรงของโรค COVID19 กันบ้าง

สิ่งที่เราต้องตั้งสติดีๆคือ

😈++โรคนี้เราติดง่าย แต่เราตายยาก++ 😈

ย้ำอีกครั้งนะครับว่า เราติดง่าย แต่เราตายยาก ดังนั้นต้องแยกเรื่องนะครับ ผมกล้าบอกได้เลยว่าตัวเลขผู้ติดเชื้อจะยังไปอีกไกลครับ แต่อัตราการตายเราจะไม่ได้เยอะขนาดยุโรปหรืออเมริกา แน่นอน

เรื่องเราติดง่ายนั้น เราคงพอทราบกันอยู่แล้ว เช่น ถ้าอยู่ในน้ำอยู่ได้ 4 วัน ติดทางละออง สารคัดหลั่ง มีอายุล่องลอยได้ 30 นาที ถ้าติดที่พื้นผิวต่างๆ สามารถอยู่ได้ 4-9 วัน ในระบบปิด ลอยไปได้ไกล 4.5 เมตร ในระบบเปิด 2 เมตร เชื้อตายที่อุณหภูมิ 56 องศา ตายง่ายเพียงน้ำสบู่ หรือ แอลกอฮอล์ 70%ขึ้นไป ระยะเวลาในการฟักตัวนั้น ตั้งแต่ 2 วันถึง 37 วัน( ข้อมูลล่าสุด 49 วัน) แต่แพร่เชื้อได้ตั้งแต่ เริ่มติดเชื้อ และ 90%ของคนที่ติด ไม่แสดงอาการ (นี้แหละครับที่ตัวเลขที่เห็นมันไม่ใช่ตัวเลขจริง เพราะเราไม่รู้ว่าติดไม่ติด) 8%แค่ป่วย 2%ที่เสียชีวิต

ส่วนเรื่องเราตายยากนั้น ตั้งสติขึ้นอีกนิดนะครับเรื่องนี้ อย่าเอาเพียงสิ่งที่สื่อพยายามยัดเยียดความน่ากลัวของโรคจนเราไม่ดูข้อเท็จจริงบางอย่าง

☠️อัตราการตายทั้งโรคเมื่อเทียบกับอัตราผู้ติดเชื้อทั่วโลกคือ 2-3% เท่านั้น น้อยกว่า โรคไข้หวัดใหญ่เสียอีกครับ

ยิ่งถ้าตัดกลุ่มเสี่ยงต่างๆออก คือ อายุมากกว่า 65 มีโรคประจำตัวกลุ่มNCDs เบาหวาน ความดัน หรือโรคทางระบบทางเดินหายใจ สูบบุหรี่ อัตราการเสียชีวิตจะเหลือไม่ถึง 1% (ในคลิปบอกว่า โอกาสถูกหวยยังมากกว่าด้วยซ้ำ)

แล้วก็จะมีคนถามผมว่า แล้วที่หลายๆประเทศตายกันเยอะๆล่ะ เช่น อิตาลี จีน สเปน อเมริกา ประเทศเหล่านี้ ถ้าไปดูให้ลึกจะพบว่าคนที่เสียชีวิตเกือบทั้งหมด คือกลุ่มเสี่ยงครับ และประเทศเหล่านี้มีอัตราประชากรที่อายุมากกว่า 65 เยอะมาก สูบบุหรี่ก็จัด ส่วนในประเทศอิหร่านนั้น เกิดจากสภาพประเทศที่ถูกกีกกันจากนานาชาติ ทำให้ระบบการสาธารณสุขแย่มาก ขาดแคลนแม้อุปกรณ์แพทย์พื้นฐาน ร่วมด้วยจึงมีผู้เสียชีวิตเยอะ

เพราะฉะนั้นสิ่งที่เราควรต้องระวังเป็นพิเศษคือ กลุ่มเสี่ยงทั้งหลาย อายุ 65 ขึ้นไป มีโรคประจำตัว โรคเกี่ยวกับทางเดินหายใจ สูบบุหรี่ หรือให้มองง่ายๆคือกลุ่มผู้สูงอายุในบ้านเรานั้นเองที่ต้องระวังเป็นพิเศษ เพราะเมื่ออยู่ในกลุ่มนี้แล้วความเสี่ยงในการเสียชีวิตจะเพิ่มขึ้นเป็นเท่าตัวเลยทีเดียว

ดังนั้นต้องมีสตินะครับ แยกกัน เรื่องติดเชื้อ กับ เรื่องตาย

ที่นี้เราจะทำอย่างไงดีครับให้เราไม่ติด(จริงๆก็เลี่ยงยากนะครับ) หรือถ้าติดแล้วเราจะไม่เป็นอะไร สำคัญที่สุดครับ คือสุขภาพเราต้องแข็งแรงครับ มาดูกันว่ามีปัจจัยไรกันบ้าง

1 . การนอน 😴😴😴ควรนอนหลับให้ได้วันล่ะประมาณ 7 ชั่วโมง เพื่อให้ร่างกายได้มีเวลาในการจัดการตัวเอง รักษาตัวเอง เหมือนที่ผมบอกไปก่อนหน้านี้ เป็นหวัด ทานยา(รักษาตามอาการ)แล้วนอน ตื่นมาคุณจะดีขึ้นตามลำดับ ยิ่งถ้าอาการหนักก็ต้องนอนให้เยอะ รถขับทางไกลยังต้องมีพักรถ พักเครื่องเลย การไปนอนที่โรงพยาบาลก็เช่นกัน คือ การไปบังคับให้คุณนอนมากขึ้น เพื่อให้ร่างกายได้รักษาตัว (เรื่องนี้ ผมติดสัญญาไว้ว่า จะมีสรุปเนื้อหาจากหนังสือ why we sleep ? เดี๋ยวผมจะเร่งสรุปเอามาให้อ่านกันนะครับ)

2 . ทานวิตามินให้เหมาะสมมากขึ้น โดยเฉพาะ วิตามิน B complex วิตามิน D3 และวิตามิน C ให้รับมากขึ้นเป็นพิเศษ ไม่ใช่แค่ วิตามิน C เพียงอย่างเดียวเพราะหลายคนขาดวิตามินอื่นๆ แล้วมาถมทาน วิตามิน C อย่างเดียว ไม่ช่วยนะครับ ทานวิตามินต่างๆให้ครบให้เหมาะสม แล้วเพิ่มปริมาณของ วิตามิน B complex และ วิตามิน C มากขึ้น (อ้าวแล้ว วิตามิน D3 ล่ะ )

3 . แสงแดด อากาศบริสุทธ์ และ วิตามิน D3 นั้นไม่ต้องไปหาซื้อทานครับเพราะ บ้านเรามีความได้เปรียบกว่า ยุโรป อเมริกา คือ แสงแดด ครับ แล้วเกี่ยวไรกับ วิตามิน D3 ล่ะ ก็แค่เราตากแดด เราก็ได้วิตามิน D3 “ the sunshine vitamin” แล้วครับไม่ต้องไปซื้อให้เสียเงิน ตากแดดยามเช้า ยามสาย ยามเย็น (รายละเอียดผมเคยเขียนลงในเพจไปแล้ว https://www.facebook.com/108522463928062/posts/174656827314625/ ) แค่นี้ก็ได้เหลือเฟือเลยครับ จริงๆมีงานวิจัยอยู่ฉบับนึง ที่ผมกำลังอ่านอยู่ว่าจะเอามาแปลสรุปให้อ่านแต่พอทำบทความนี้ เลย สรุปง่ายๆเลยว่า มีการพบว่า คนไข้ที่ติดเชื้อไวรัส เมื่อให้คนไข้ได้รับแสงแดดโดยตรง และ ออกมารับอากาศที่ปลอดโปร่งถ่ายเทข้างนอก จะทำให้คนไข้มีอาการดีขึ้น พบอัตราการตายจากไข้หวัดใหญ่ลดลงจาก 40% มาเหลือ 13% ( ในตอนที่ทำวิจัยนะครับ) เขาเรียกกระบวนการนี้ว่า “ the healing sun “ ( งานวิจัยตัวเต็ม https://medium.com/@ra.hobday/coronavirus-and-the-sun-a-lesson-from-the-1918-influenza-pandemic-509151dc8065 ) แล้วก็เรื่องอากาศนั้นย้ำนะครับว่าอากาศบริสุทธ์ ไม่ใช่อากาศที่เต็มไปด้วย PM 2.5 นะครับ เพราะถ้าแบบนั้น คุณจะยิ่งมีความเสี่ยงมากขึ้นนะครับ ( https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=153664409413867&id=108522463928062 )

4 . ภาวะน้ำตาลในเลือด ซึ่งเป็นที่รู้กันอยู่แล้วว่า โรคส่วนใหญ่ที่พวกเราเป็นกันนั้น ไม่ว่า ความดัน เบาหวาน หัวใจ โรคNCDs ทั้งหลายมีสาเหตุมากจากปริมาณน้ำตาลในเลือดที่สูงทั้งสิ้น หรือเรียกให้ดูดีก็คือ ภาวะดื้ออินซูลิน นั้นเอง ซึ่งจะทำให้เรากลายสภาพเป็นกลุ่มเสี่ยงในทันที รวมทั้ง ยารักษาโรคบางตัว ยังไปกระตุ้นให้เกิด ตัวรับ ACE2 ซึ่งเป็นตัวที่จะเพิ่มภาวะการติดเชื้อCOVID19 ได้ง่ายขึ้นและรุนแรงขึ้นด้วย ( ซึ่งเป็นเรื่องที่ผมและเพื่อนๆในเพจ กำลังพยายามปรับปรุงเพื่อมาดูแลสุขภาพอย่างแท้จริงกัน ในบทความนี้ มีการสรุป เรื่องน้ำตาลมีผลต่อเชื้ออยู่นะครับ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=164382905008684&id=108522463928062 )

5 . การออกกำลังกาย วิถีชีวิตประจำวัน การงดสูบบุหรี่(เพราะบุหรี่จะทำให้เกิดการกระตุ้น ACE2 มากขึ้น) การงดแอลกอฮอล์ การจัดการความเครียด (เพราะความเครียดจะส่งผลให้ระบบภูมิคุ้มกันของเราลดลงและสับสน ) ส่วนในเรื่อง Social Distancing ยังเป็นเรื่องที่ดีในการระวังและระงับการติดเชื้อได้ดีในช่วงการระบาดแรกๆ ที่โรคยังเป็นโรคใหม่อยู่ เพื่อลดความเสี่ยงที่จะแพร่เชื้อสู่กลุ่มความเสี่ยง รวมถึง ความเร็วในการแพร่เชื้อติดเชื้อด้วย แต่เมื่อมันกลายเป็น เชื้อเฉพาะถิ่น มันก็เหมือนการที่เราเป็นไข้หวัด ซึ่งก็ยังคงต้องมีการเว้นระยะห่างเช่นเดิม หรือใครชอบไปอยู่ชิดแนบสนิทกับคนที่เป็นหวัดครับ อิอิ

เรื่องการทำลายปอดทำลายอวัยวะภายในนั้น ถ้าภูมิคุ้มกันเราดี ก็จะไม่เป็นอะไร ที่พบการทำลายปอด ทำเยื่อหุ้มสมองอักเสบ ล้วนเกิดจากการที่กลุ่มคนเหล่านั้นมีโรคประจำตัวหรือความเสี่ยงอื่นๆที่นำพาเชื้อไปทำลายในจุดนั้นๆ เช่นถ้าสูบบุหรี่ TB ก็ปอดเลยครับ ที่จะเสียหาย ถ้าเบาหวาน ก็ไปทั่วล่ะครับ (ให้จำคำว่า Cytokines strome ไว้ครับ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=206970807416560&id=108522463928062 ) เรื่องการตรวจหาเชื้อนั้น แนะนำว่าให้เรามีอาการที่ชัดเจนก่อนถึงจะไปตรวจ อาการหลักๆสามอย่างคือ ไข้ขึ้นสูง ไอแห้ง เจ็บคอ และที่สำคัญถ้าคุณเป็นกลุ่ม 90% คือติดแต่ไม่แสดงอาการแล้วไปตรวจ คุณอาจจะโชคดีถูกอัญเชิญไปกักตัวที่โรงพยาบาล แล้วได้รับยาต้านไวรัสผสม (ที่เรียกว่า ยาค๊อกเทล) เพราะหมอต้องการจะฆ่าเชื้อไวรัส (ทั้งๆที่มันไม่ได้ฆ่าเชื้อแต่แค่กดเชื้อ)

ซึ่งผมขอบอกเลยครับว่า ผลข้างเคียงของยา ต้องระวังนะครับ เพราะฉะนั้น ดูแลตัวเองให้ดี ดีกว่าครับ อย่าตื่นตระหนก อย่าpanic มีสติ ทำในสิ่งที่ควรทำ (ล่าสุดที่ แมทธิว ติดโควิท อยู่มา 27 วัน ก็ยังผลบวกอยู่ เพราะมันจะอยู่กับเราตลอดไป) จงอยู่กับมันอย่างเข้าใจและเป็นนายมันด้วยร่างกายที่แข็งแรง ย้ำนะครับ เชื้อมันจะอยู่กับเราตลอดไป เราต้องปรับวิถีชีวิตเพื่อก้าวต่อไปครับ

เป็นบทความที่น่าจะยาวที่สุดตั้งแต่ที่เปิดเพจมา แต่ผมคิดว่าน่าจะมีข้อมูลเกือบครบแล้วในการทำความเข้าใจรวมทั้งการดูแลตัวเองจากเชื้อโรค COVID19 ถ้าอยากรู้เรื่องไหนเพิ่มเติมหรือผมตกหล่นอะไร คอมเม้นต์ หรือ inbox มาได้นะครับ และบทความนี้ทำให้เห็นว่าสิ่งที่เพื่อนๆและผมในเพจนี้กำลังทำอยู่นั้นคือเส้นทางที่จะทำให้เรามีสุขภาพที่แข็งแรงจากข้างในจริงๆ โดยเฉพาะการไม่ทำตัวเองให้กลายเป็นกลุ่มเสี่ยง ด้วย หลักการ Metabolic Flexibility แล้วเราจะผ่านวิกฤตนี้ไปด้วยกัน(โดยที่มีไวรัสตัวนี้ เป็นสัตว์เลี้ยงอยู่ในตัวเราตลอดไปเพิ่มไปอีกหนึ่งตัว 55555)

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There was once a time where the internet seemed like a free place to me. I was able to live so freely. I was 12 years old; I lived in a rough neighborhood and I was a total nerd, so I didn’t really fit in very well. Though, there were these incredible places I could spend my time where I did fit in and my curiosities were satisfied as a teenager. This place was the internet.

On the internet, there were many federated communities ran on forum software like phpBB and vBulletin. These forums were for specific communities, my interests ranged from counter strike: source, private game servers, world of warcraft, warez, and hacking forums. They all taught me so much. The first of which I became a contributing member of was RaGEZONE.

The forums were magical in a way. Locally, at school outside the classroom I would get into fights daily due to bullying and me standing up for myself. While in the classroom, most of the time the teachers at school would be screaming at us, fearful of being challenged or asked difficult questions, tyrants, or just completely not noteworthy. I think out of all my years of going to public school, I had two great teachers that actually dramatically impacted me in a positive way.

On the forums, contrary to school, had their own distinct culture that made it really fun to participate in and learn from. For example, I was a humble kid from Phoenix, AZ but the forum allowed me to interact with many folks from the UK and all over Europe, all while learning about design of signatures using tools like Adobe Photoshop, develop personality over the internet with avatars and written prose, then hacking together SQL databases and PHP web apps that can interact with private game servers for games such as Mu Online, World of Warcraft, Maple Story, and much more.

For fun, you could head to the WoW forums to gossip and watch big personalities on a server clash. It made the world in-game actually feel somewhat real like a small town, which was really cool. It felt like true belongingness and a real community. Occasionally, you would get really toxic types, but we all embraced them and knew that was their personality. They would become somewhat infamous on the server and epic when you would run across them in-game. It made for entertaining drama.

There was little moderation and community control, which really allowed you to get to know someone and for them to still have presence. There were plugins that the server admin of the forum could install, with one of the prominent uses as reputation, join date and awards to allow for status and reputation. Because of this, you could have a positive or negative reputation because a user of a forum could + / - your rep of points, with a limit on the amount of times you could do so and the amount of rep you, yourself had the amount of rep points vary based on how much positive or negative reputation points you had accrued. You could also find some very cool effects with usernames that were visible on these forums.

Lots of cliques would emerge from this and even allow for a deeper culture within the forum to emerge amongst its members, along with some great perks such as getting a new status when you hit 1,000+ posts, been a member longer than 5 years, get a special rank from an admin of the server, or something of that nature, which could grant you access to restricted access forums.

Again, this created an even deeper sense of community and strong retention.

Sadly, over-time, these forums became less and less active as social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and prominently Reddit became more popular. These forums slowly died out as people slowly consolidated to these massive social media hubs. People stopped visiting, content became curated rather than organic from the community members themselves, & social media founders and managers gained a significant amount of power due to being able to censor user’s posts whether they’re true or not, choose ultimately who becomes a moderator, or banning users out right, limiting the freeness of the internet.

Previously, it was fine because if you got banned from a forum, you could easily register a new account and start over again under a new alias or move to a new forum. It was a learning opportunity, especially for folks like myself. With centralized services like Reddit and Facebook, it became really easily to prevent users from registering again, detecting them, censoring them with content moderators, staff, and AI without a chance for growth in one’s personality or social skills.

Reputation really didn’t exist beyond basic forms like karma and now you were posting under your personal identity, which is tied directly to your family members. It becomes more restrictive to post freely what you think, crack jokes, not take sides, or interact with people from faraway places that you would not normally chat with.

The posts become flooded with memes and other mindless things rather than new and interesting topics to explore, debate ideas, and find other who shares your same interests.

Introduce other new problems that have previously been outlined by nostriches and the protocol creator himself, fiatjaf. For example, when a user gets banned, they lose everything as you cannot take your following with you, and have no backups of your data (for most folks). It’s possible to get shadow banned without even knowing it for political beliefs, getting cancelled for something you posted a decade ago, ads, and prioritized content based on proprietary algorithms.

I think this presents a new opportunity to solve with nostr: Forumstr. Forums over nostr. We can rebuild the internet that was in my opinion great and solve a lot of the old problems that existed with these forums.

We can bring micro applications such as forumstr into any experience. A gaming portal of HTML5 where users can show off their nostr badges, carry their achievements with them, or perhaps a developer platform that wants a forum to discuss things and retain knowledge the knowledge.

My vision:

• New Events
  • Events are super flexible allowing for iterative development starting simple and gradually building out more sophisticated functionality.
  • Build their own aggregated “Reddit” with the forums and communities they most care about.
    • Just like a user can create an event for preferred relays, they can do the same for preferred forums.
  • Can use events to create subscriptions to specific forums and notify based on threads or new posts or certain from authors. Similar to RSS.
• Using Zaps we can prioritize content based on a combination of factors:
  • Earn from your creations and support other high signal creators.
  • Scarce and limited money rather than hidden algorithms we don’t have any insight into how they work to prioritize content
  • Ignore ads because you can use any forum app of your choosing, all of which follows the same spec more or less, allowing for multiple monetization models to be experimented with.
  • Activity data such as the latest post, number of posts, etc.
  • Aggregated zaps by user on the platform to determine reputation, along with a points event that can be positive or negative.
• Followings can be brought with them since the user can set their preferred relay, so even if they are banned from a forum, they can still be found and be seen in other nostr forum apps. This will allow putting the user in control of who they care to interact with and see. Possibly their own curated block or mute lists.
• Badges
  • We can use this to allow users to take their reputation with them and proudly display it on their profile if they so choose on multiple platforms.
  • Use badges + encrypted messages to grant access to special forums.
  • Access management such as enabling content moderators for specific forums.
• Relays
  • Relays can be federated by forum community owner, or if they are advanced, they can send the events to the relays they wish to participate with for redundancy / resiliency and the user can save a copy of all the data to their own relay if they so choose.
• Make data accessible
  • Nostr relays can charge a fee for access of data priced in satoshis allowing for the fetching of data as a subscription (monthly / yearly), pay-per-use using LNURL withdrawals so the user don’t incur mental transaction costs, life-time membership for a single payment as a member, or allow data to be accessed for free. Sophisticated users could even send every event they fetch and create to their own relay so they can have all their data widely accessible. Nostr relay business models can also be experimented with to see what works for what user personas.
• Enable multiple forum apps to be built all following the same spec
  • This is the beauty of open networks and protocols. Apps like Apollo will never run into the Reddit issue ever again. They can start building and testing things right now while running their own relay and connecting to other relays without concern since there isn’t a central party making pricing decisions that can destroy your business.

Obviously, that is a lot of work to get there. I have started small and humble with a PoC implementation of forums over nostr. It just proves the event structure works with basic functionality. You can try it out at forumstr.lol.

As I mentioned before, it just a proof-of-concept (PoC) implementation meaning that there are basic creating and reading functionality related to forums, threads, and comments. It’s enough to prove the event structure for forums, threads, and comments, and that this can work, though I am not going to argue that this is the best architecture or design as it is not. I welcome you to contribute. We can iteratively add support for multiple relays, zaps, amongst the other features I mention above.

This is a free and open source project; I welcome your feedback and PRs: https://github.com/zantoshi/forumstr.

My goal is to make the internet feel fun and free again, inspire curiosity and action, and new communities possible everywhere.

Much love, Santos, some guy on the internet.

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Table Of Content

• A Mysterious 911 Call

• The Investigation Begins

• Zhong's Lavish Lifestyle

• The Silk Road Connection

• The Confrontation

• The Shocking Revelation

• The Verdict

• Conclusion

• FAQ

The world of cryptocurrency is filled with tales of overnight millionaires, innovative technology, and unfortunately, crime. One such tale that intertwines all these elements is that of Jimmy Zhong. From being a developer in the early days of Bitcoin to becoming one of its biggest thieves, Zhong's story is a roller-coaster ride that sheds light on the darker corners of the crypto universe. Here's a deeper dive into his intriguing journey.

A Mysterious 911 Call

In the college town of Athens, Georgia, the police department is accustomed to handling typical college town crimes. However, on the night of March 13, 2019, they received a call that was anything but ordinary. Jimmy Zhong, a 28-year-old known for his partying habits, was on the line, but not for reasons one might expect. Distressed and panicked, he reported a significant theft of cryptocurrency from his residence. This call, seemingly just another crime report, would soon unravel a web of deceit and expose a decade-long mystery surrounding one of the most significant crypto crimes ever committed.

The Investigation Begins

With the local police initially stumped by the intricacies of the crypto world, Zhong sought external help. Enter Robin Martinelli, a private investigator with a reputation for tenacity. As she delved into the case, surveillance footage from Zhong's home revealed a potential suspect who seemed to have intimate knowledge of the premises. This discovery led Martinelli down a path that suggested the thief might be from Zhong's own circle of acquaintances or friends. The very idea was something Zhong found hard to digest, as it hinted at a betrayal from someone he trusted.

Zhong's Lavish Lifestyle

Behind the façade of a modest bungalow in Athens, Zhong led a life of luxury that raised many eyebrows. His spending habits painted the picture of a man with deep pockets. From stays at the Ritz Carlton to shopping sprees at Louis Vuitton, from driving a Tesla to owning a lake house filled with extravagant amenities, Zhong's lifestyle was nothing short of opulent. Yet, the source of his wealth remained shrouded in mystery. He often alluded to his early involvement in Bitcoin mining, suggesting he had been part of the crypto revolution since its inception in 2009.

The Silk Road Connection

Parallel to Zhong's life of luxury, IRS agents were deep into an investigation of a massive 2012 hack. This hack had seen 50,000 bitcoins stolen from Silk Road, a notorious dark web marketplace. As the years passed, the value of these stolen bitcoins skyrocketed to a staggering $3 billion. The breakthrough in the case came unexpectedly when the hacker, in a momentary lapse, transferred some of the stolen funds to a crypto exchange. The account on this exchange was registered under none other than Jimmy Zhong's name, drawing him into the crosshairs of the investigation.

The Confrontation

With growing suspicions, IRS agents, in collaboration with the local police, decided to confront Zhong. They approached him under the pretense of assisting with his reported theft, but their ulterior motive was to probe deeper into Zhong's potential involvement in the Silk Road heist. Their visit to his residence was revealing. Not only did they discover a significant amount of bitcoin on Zhong's laptop, but the manner in which Zhong operated his systems also hinted at a deep familiarity with the crypto world.

The Shocking Revelation

The deeper the authorities delved into Zhong's background, the more astonishing the revelations became. It turned out that Zhong wasn't just a casual participant in the Bitcoin community; he was an integral part of its early days. Known as an "original gangster" or OG, Zhong had contributed to Bitcoin's development in its nascent stages. This revelation was both ironic and startling. A person who had been instrumental in shaping Bitcoin had also, allegedly, become one of its most significant adversaries.

The Verdict

The culmination of the investigations saw Zhong facing charges of wire fraud. After a guilty plea, he was handed a sentence of a year and a day in federal prison. While the U.S. government managed to seize the stolen bitcoins, the original theft that led Zhong to make that fateful 911 call remains an unsolved mystery to this day.

Conclusion

The tale of Jimmy Zhong serves as a stark reminder of the complexities and ambiguities of the cryptocurrency world. It's a realm where the lines between right and wrong can often blur, and where fortunes can be made or lost in mere moments. Zhong's journey from a Bitcoin developer to a billionaire thief is a testament to the unpredictable and often tumultuous world of digital currencies.

FAQs

Who is Jimmy Zhong? Jimmy Zhong is a former Bitcoin developer who later became known for his involvement in one of the biggest crypto thefts.

What was the nature of the crime? Zhong was implicated in a 2012 hack where 50,000 bitcoins were stolen from the Silk Road, a dark web marketplace.

How was he caught? A small transactional mistake led investigators to a crypto exchange account registered under Zhong's name, linking him to the stolen bitcoins.

What was his sentence? After pleading guilty to wire fraud, Zhong was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.

Is the original theft from Zhong's home solved? No, the theft that led Zhong to make a 911 call in 2019 remains unsolved.

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📈📉 Decentralization Index

The concept of decentralization plays a pivotal role in shaping the nature and resilience of bitcoin and digital assets. Decentralization refers to the distribution of control and decision-making across a network, aiming to reduce reliance on a single authority. A key metric often discussed in this context is the decentralization index, which gauges the degree to which digital asset operates without a central governing body.

to community:

In exploring the significance of decentralization in bitcoin and digital assets, it's crucial to consider diverse perspectives. As the crypto space continues to evolve, engaging in conversations about decentralization can shed light on its implications for the future. Please add your questions and if possible some answers 😃

1. How do individuals within the crypto community perceive the importance of decentralization ?
2. Does a higher decentralization index positively influence trust ?
3. What are your thoughts on the role of decentralization ?
4. And lastly, is there any website where I can see the chart ?

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How superficially chasing your youth cheats society.

American culture might be the most primitive regarding its perception of age. This may be because, in comparison to other cultures, we’re an adolescent collective and the short history we have is fragmenting. Consequently, there aren’t unanimously proud, century-long cultural practices we have to share amongst ourselves regularly. Maybe it’s the media or corporate greed soliciting products, gaslighting the new young eye candy or fad to emulate, and dismissing “washed up” or old entertainers. It could also be because we’re such an individualized culture and the responsibility of taking care of our elders trickles into our psyche, creating a negative stigma since we know it’d require sacrifices on our behalf. Or maybe it’s just due to a lack of appreciation for time because keeping up with inflation is enslaving and a never-ending battle against time.

[Fiat crisis — In Pursuit Of… (stefanglover.com)

]() No matter the reason, it’d be hard to deny that aging is inappropriately valued in our culture. However, I don’t want to argue the reason(s) why but rather analyze this perception and how it negatively impacts us on a micro and macro level.

Psychoanalyzing Ageism

The way you can hear Americans speak of and to elders is intolerable internationally. Our elders are treated as an inconvenient part of our culture. They slow us down, ask “stupid” questions, and are needy. Relax and take note as we take a step back to widen our scope. In the majority of the globe, what you’ll come across is a deep reverence and a longing for elders as they’re cherished like prized possessions. Every time I travel internationally, I’m met with repetitive observations of deep care for elders. They’re flooded with grace and acts of kindness. Their lives seem so easy in comparison to seniors in America who are instead bombarded with road rage, scam targeting, loneliness, etc. Even governmentally, the contrary is apparent. Take for example a place I just visited, Singapore, the government financially incentivizes adult children to live within proximity to their parents because they comprehensively understand the value it adds economically, mentally, and beyond, to the country.

More profound, is that this treatment extends beyond family. Non-relative elders are also catered to in their neighborhoods. Friendships will often form because of their age. Their wisdom and experiences are genuinely valued and sought after, as opposed to our know-it-all adolescents. These relationships not only increase the efficiency of an ecosystem, but it’s this sort of environment that enables elders to stand firm in their authenticity instead of chasing acceptance and relevance by competing with their younger cohabitants. Their authentic voice adds diversity in thought and thereby more security as to where society evolves because manipulating multiple generations is a much harder feat than the manipulation of one or two. Also, through proximity of interactions across collectives, it becomes less likely that the youth will blame elders for their issues and vice versa. This is a proactive way of decentralizing thought which is a necessity in a democracy. We effectively reduce people’s prejudices from being able to ignore wisdom. As a result, what’s birthed is a more collaborative atmosphere in which our society can purify through connectivity.

Cultural & Economic Impacts of Ageism

The pressure accompanied by an ageist culture produces a stressful environment while reducing the voice and life force of elders. Hence, youth culture prevails dominant, therefore imposing its agenda. What transpires is overserving the interest of a largely misled demographic, normalizing the value emphasized on superficiality over authenticity. In the U.S., the majority of young adults can’t wait to get far away from their parents. They seek friendship and value in age groups very similar to their own. For elders, this often leads to depression, loneliness, a void of fulfillment, and inefficiencies within the economy. I’ve personally experienced an overwhelming number of elders contacting call centers clearly (often admittedly) in search of conversation to cope with emptiness. This ripple effect damages an economy severely.

There are also less obvious effects. One example is that it’s an opportunity for exploitative businesses to do what they do best, hunt. There are countless unethical businesses in the market stampeding us with products and services. They remain incapable and with no intention of getting to the root issue of their customers. Simply serving as a coping mechanism. They know that no one is there to defend the weak and vulnerable, so success is grabbable as low-hanging fruit.

Not only does this prop up an inefficient, cold economy. But cyclically, as the businesses thrive, they accumulate more power and credibility, weakening democracy by lobbying and influencing the law in their favor. And in “X” number of years through media programming, you’ll be the next vulnerable target on their radar with no one to speak up on your behalf.

These practices overwhelm industries that have to accommodate all the unanticipated patients and clients who now have been victimized into worsening circumstances. On the other hand, there’s Singapore, which has one of the oldest and healthiest populations. They also have one of the best economies in the world. Taking preventive actions by investing in people trumps harsh capitalism. But in order for investment in elders’ futures, there have to be people defending their humanity.

Dishonest representations

Not meeting the youthful “perfection” standards imposed is likely to get you teased, preyed upon, or socially isolated. Recently, this has led to the mass adoption of surgeries, fillers, etc. and it’s no longer just for women. Relying on these standards has the younger generation buying into this need to “fix” themselves as they look up to their compromised, yet compliant role models.

To name a few, the issues with covering up your age-related physical “flaws” include being misleading, inauthentic, and ignoring the signals your body is attempting to communicate to you. Embracing your age-related physical changes could lead you to stumble upon a solution that extends your life. Consider someone who may see you have “bad” skin, yellow/restless eyes, wrinkles, gray hair, or any of the sort and can now suggest a nutrient or some deficiency you may have not considered. Surgery or dye isn’t going to resolve lack of sleep, nutrition, or drug addiction. The gym, meditation, or a change in the foods you consume may and therefore should be attempted before cosmetically covering what you believe are your flaws. Once you’ve exhausted holistic options, go all out if need!

Now, to be clear, I’m not judging anyone who has already or will artificially transform their appearance without holistically attempting to solve their concern. I fully support people’s choice to cosmetically make changes! I am a huge advocate for science and a freedom maximalist! However, I think we have to be honest with ourselves before diving into these pursued changes. Especially when they’re the outcome of lifestyle because kids may unknowingly follow, believing there are no side effects.

It’s no different than the dark advertising history of the tobacco industry in which they used doctors and dentists to endorse cigarettes prioritizing profits over lives. Instead, we could culturally adapt how we see age and be more compassionate with how we treat ourselves, getting to the root of our insecurities, rather than risking so much, for so little in return. Temporary returns at that.

Your age is not an indication of your value. Challenge this broken concept and understand you become more valuable over time. Not only that, but now more than ever we can defy when you can reach your physical and mental peak. The resources, and education that are now accessible are in your favor and becoming greater at a rapid speed. Remain curious and full of life.

Additional resources:

Travel.

“Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones” — There are many things that I don’t agree with in this doc. It even seems to be biased and misleading at times, but the overall takeaways are worthwhile.

Take action. Speak and engage with elders.

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Chef's notes

So practically all recipes call for you to peel your potatoes. While it does make for a nice looking gnocchi, you can absolutely leave the skins on it, if you like a more rustic looking gnocchi. I do this when I feel lazy all the time and it still turns out great.

When incorporating the eggs and flour, having a spatula or a bread tool is really helpful here.

When you're at the stage of boiling your made Gnocchi, you will know they are done when they float to the top of the pot.

Details

• 🍳 Cook time: 1 hour

Ingredients

• 2 pounds of starchy potatoes, (IE 2 large russets)
• 1/4 cup egg, (lightly beaten)
• scant 1 cup of unbleached all-purpose flour
• fine grain sea salt

Directions

1. Fill a large pot with cold water. Salt the water, peel then cut potatoes. Bring the water to boil and cook tell potatos are tender and mashable
2. Remove potatoes from the water, drain and mash until there are no noticeable lumps.
3. Let the potatoes cool spread out across your work surface for ten or fifteen minutes. Long enough that the egg won't cook when it is incorporated into the potatoes.
4. Pull the potatoes into a soft mound. Drizzle with the beaten egg and sprinkle 3/4 cup of the flour across the top.
5. After the flour and the egg is incorporated into the potato, gently kneed the dough
6. The dough should be moist but not sticky. It should feel almost billowy.
7. Cut it into 8 pieces. Gently roll each 1/8th of dough into a snake-shaped log, roughly the thickness of your thumb. Use a knife to cut pieces every 3/4-inch. Dust with a bit more flour.
8. So this next bit is optional you dont need to do this but it mkae for better looking gnocchi.
9. To shape the gnocchi hold a fork in one hand and place a gnocchi pillow against the tines of the fork cut ends out.
10. With confidence and an assertive (but very light) touch, use your thumb and press in and down the length of the fork. The gnocchi should curl into a slight "C" shape, their backs will capture the impression of the tines as tiny ridges (good for catching sauce later). Set each gnocchi aside, dust with a bit more flour if needed, until you are ready to boil them.
11. Boil the Gnocchi and Serve

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musings #writings #nostr #longform

Musings on the Human Condition

It is not weird that various religions have gained a foothold in the minds of man when we realize that each and every one of us comes into being by some very improbable means. You are a descendant from a very long lineage of happenstances. Long ago, somehow, something came into being. We do not exactly know how or why, but it evidently did happen. Maybe it was always there. Who knows? It is a mystery. And it has perplexed and fascinated anyone who dared to look at it. Your pattern-seeking noggin is craving an answer on how and why it all happens. 

Existence.

Hello World.

Please keep in mind that no matter how improbable all of this may seem, you are, in fact, here. And you seem to be able to have some say in what is going on. Wow! Isn’t that marvelous‽

The way things manifested over eons past tells us a tale.

A tale of stumbling and fumbling in the dark. Cold and hard survival. Uncaring environments. Brutal slaughter. Parasitic behavior. Push and pull and scream and shout. 

Chaos, sprinkled with small clumps of coherence. Some did so well that they even managed to duplicate themselves. Others congregated and started conversing among themselves in esoteric ways, frantically swapping out atoms and molecules in exchange for feedback. Was there conscious intent by these agents of happenstance? Were they just pieces in a predetermined game? Did some god set it up in advance, neatly planned out, or did he wildly trigger an avalanche of possibilities so complex even he could not foresee all possibilities? Some Penrosian retro-causality scheme to induce a sense of free will? No one really knows. But don’t worry. It is okay not to know. Perhaps it is sufficient or even better to rely on probability alone. That leaves a lot of room for creativity, doesn’t it? And I don’t know about you, but I see a lot of creative stories about why we are here and what it is we are supposed to do being passed around.

Reading a book is like reading somebody’s mind. You open the page, and you travel in time and imagination to what that person thought. They took the time and effort to jot down these weird symbols on whatever medium they had available at the time. I find it strange. But it is also quite wonderful. Wouldn’t you agree?

Maybe you think it is irrelevant. Perhaps you are right. Maybe not. Consider that there need not be a universal answer to some questions. Maybe, just maybe, it is the mystery that keeps things interesting.

Let’s do a thought experiment. Imagine knowing everything. Every detail about everything that has ever happened and will happen. Scary, isn’t it?

The thought makes me shiver.

Next, try imagining nothing. Nothing at all. No sound, no word, no color, not even being able to come up with a concept of that weird word - nothing. Impossible.
We can only imagine it as we compare it to something that is. As such, nothing is a logical impossibility. It cannot exist. 

So there we are. Without shelter or warmth. Only the vastness of the universe to consider. 

What is that sound? Is it a venomous snake in the shrubbery? Some unholy monster to strike you dead? Maybe it is your stomach, craving some grub. This is how it was for a lot of living things. And how it still is, for plenty. Albeit less so than it was, or so it seems, at this time of writing, block height #816333, in the year of our Lord (sorry) of Satoshi, no, no... Let me try again... I think block height will do. For old times’ sake, let's also include the Gregorian calendar. It is the 11th of November, 2023, and things are confusing AF. (AF does not stand for Ass-Fuck, you dirty mind, you!)

Not to say things haven’t always been confusing. I mean, they probably have been. I certainly would be weirded out if a flood suddenly drowned my entire village, without any warning or apparent reason, while some other guy had the foresight to build a bloody ark! Unbelievable! That bastard left me stranded on the shores of seeming Armageddon, while I — just moments before — started to eat that fish I had caught by aiming my spear at the exact spot where the fish wasn’t optically residing. Anyone would lose their appetite!

The pace at which you are struck by the new would probably boggle anyone's mind. The sheer amount of information available to us at any given time is blinding. If you feel info-stress, please don’t be burdened by it. This is normal. Everyone is allowed to be confused at times. As far as I can tell, we are all figuring it out as we go. And some fumbling about while we get our bearings does not seem unreasonable, to me at least.

Sometimes, you may be inclined to convince yourself that one story is more relevant than another. And I must admit, it is tempting to do so. It may be a welcome relief to not have to worry about such fundamental questions for a time. Questions like: Am I a black hole, observing the world from her event horizon? Maybe I am a Boltzmann Brain, only just sprung into existence in this fleeting yet forever sliver of the now with all my memories of a life that never really was intact? Is it just a dream? Or some construct emerging from a Brownian blob of pure randomness? Is it a simulation? Perhaps a game? A puzzle box? Are you a pilot wave in the expanding realm of possibilities surrounded by collapsing wave-functions functions? Ouroboros? Maybe the answer is found in a book after all? Who has heard the word of God? I suspect that a creative cookie such as you can find all manner of explanations in the patterns it perceives. Good for you. What story will you tell yourself next?

Now, where were we? Ah, yes. Religion. Or the emergent phenomenon of a mass of conscious entities adhering to a certain belief they hold to be true. Some even go as far as to posit they hold the keys to absolute truth! And if you don’t believe them, just look, it says it right there, in that ancient text! How could it be wrong‽ 

I understand it is easy to shift the blame or just shout, “God DID¹ it!” But that may be an easy cop-out. Please understand that I am not saying that you should not be able to explore whatever beliefs pique your interest. I’m all for that. However, I do wonder if you’ve considered where they may blind you.

Maybe what you read in some ancient text is incomplete, damaged, lost, or intentionally misleading. Maybe it was designed to grab power over others. Or, with good intent, worded poorly, lost in translation, forgotten or imagined. I don’t know about you, but I can distinctly recall false memories. Times wherein I remembered quite a few things that I thought had happened, which actually did not happen at all. Moments like: 

“Hey, I remember you. You were in Paris, at that thing with the teargas, where the atmosphere was turning grim. Standing defiantly upon some barricade. You remember?”
“No man... I was in Thailand at that time. So I definitely couldn't have been at whatever riot you are talking about.”
“Are you sure? I thought we talked about that story I was writing?”

As an aside, I’m thinking about writing a book — knock on wood — about my side of the story. I have the means to do so, no matter what that guy from Thailand thinks.
I’m not yet sure what it will be about. Although it will probably be pretty wild and fantastical. You know, way out there! With lots of twists and turns, sneakily linking back to previous happenings. Something that will scare you shitless, but with a good ending. Those stories are the best. That would be nice. We could try that.

If you are anything like me, you’ve always been fascinated by such tales. From a young age, I wanted to know how things work and why they work in that particular way. I still remember when I was a 5 or 6-year-old, lying in bed next to my parents and asking why the little lamp on the ceiling turns on when you press the button. It seemed like magic. My father explained that it is because of electricity flowing through the wires in the walls, and when you flip the switch, the flow of electrons lights up the lamp. But he couldn't tell me why it worked that way.

My parents are treasures, real sweethearts. They gave me everything they could, and for that, I'm very grateful. My continuous questioning was often met with the unsatisfying yet practical response, "Why? Because!" 

Or at school, where it was said, "Children who ask questions are skipped."  In my home country’s language, this phrase rhymes. Maybe that is why it was used as much as it was, which, in hindsight, is an absurd conversation-stopper. A creativity killer. So, I quickly transitioned from asking questions to quietly observing and accepting what I was told, as that seemed to be the way things worked best. Of course, this didn't diminish the questions. My hunger for new information was, and still is, insatiable. A better answer could have been, "I don't know. Some things, no one knows. How strange is that?"

I understand that relentless questions, especially when they are very hard or impossible to answer, become annoying after a while. But how we deal with those questions can be improved. Not that I blame anyone. I genuinely believe that almost everyone is trying to make the best of it. Besides, why waste time second-guessing everything others say, think, or believe? Not that you should presume what folks spout is gospel. Plus, your interpretation of what you think you were told might be more often wrong than right. Doing your own research, especially on things that might greatly affect you and yours, seems prudent.

It seems that nobody has a choice in being. You're thrown into the world, and you must make do with what you get. With a bit of luck, you win the situational lottery. Loving parents, good friends, and people who wish the best for you, all striving to be their best whilst also contributing to a better world for those beyond their immediate clique with the time and energy that remains. Because when everyone does well, you do well too. There are plenty of examples of this. I don't think "selfish altruism" is bad when taken to the extreme. Although maybe it might be when half-assed.

Another strange realization I’ve had is that when we try to look at the world objectively, we realize that we are not separate from the broader universe. Alan Watts once beautifully described it by comparing the experience to a whirlpool in a river. Our bodies renew themselves. We eat, drink, breathe, urinate, and shit, and our substance, the body from which the source of this experience seems to spring, is replaced with new cells, molecules, atoms, and other elementary particles. We try to make sense of the world around us by naming and categorizing things. I know what black is because I can distinguish it from white. The more colors I can perceive and differentiate in the spectrum, the more information I have to assign a probability to what is actually happening and what is not. But it's still part of the same spectrum. These thoughts can feel incredibly unifying. There's a miraculous harmony in this idea. The flip side is that it can be incredibly solipsistic at the same time, and that is a sad and lonely idea.

Additionally, if everything is just one thing, could you argue that anything goes? Why not indulge in all the dark desires that can go through a mind? Why restrain yourself? Does it really matter if, after all, you're "only doing it to yourself?"

That thought is tempting. And therein lies one of the banalities of evil. And it makes this life, as miraculous as it may be, sometimes unbearable. We need only look around or into history, and we can point to a multitude of times and places where people believed in a certain idea so strongly that it led to unimaginable suffering. Think of wars over ownership or which beliefs are best to lead or end our lives by.

I must admit that it's not always fun or easy. Somewhere, I wish I could believe that one of the many possible answers to these questions could realistically be answered. On the other hand, it seems terribly lonely and dangerously delusional to think you've found some ultimate truth. 

I shudder at the imaginary day the questions cease, when humanity, or collective consciousness, or whatever it is that does the thinking around here, convinces itself that it has discovered the true nature of the universe. I genuinely hope we can never know or find out. It seems like the perfect description of hell to be certain about anything except doubt itself. Maybe it will all become crystal clear at the heat death of the universe if that is where we are heading...

I've thought about ending it.

Sometimes, that seems like the only logical solution. And I don’t see any ethical obligation against that action. We don’t seem to have a choice in becoming, but the thought that there is the freedom to end it feels kind of nice. The problem with that idea is as follows: if there's nothing after death, no God, no other configuration in which I can experience this same state, then it can never last long, by definition. That seems logical to me.

Will I live this same life again? Is it a loop? Will I reincarnate into something or someone else after death? Another substrate of sufficient complexity to serve as a spring of consciousness without awareness of what came before. A clean slate? What if the idea of a multiverse is real? Imagine trying to end your own life, and in one of the many slightly different versions of this existence, it fails. And then, when you try again, you fail again, and again, and again, until the end of time. Looking around, it looks like this state of being, this decaying body, will end eventually anyway, so why hurry it along? Why not try and enjoy the ride? Horrifyingly interesting! Would you be willing to risk not seeing it through till the end, if there ever is such a thing?

These are examples of the many cosmic horrors one could think of. Even though highly improbable, I don't see how they could entirely be outside the realm of possibilities. 

Few seem to notice, let alone think about, such things, even though many religions, philosophies, countless writers, artists, heck, even some scientists hint at such weirdness in their work.

This leaves me with the realization that it seems we might be doomed to search for answers to unanswerable questions. While this may sound terrifying, and you may at times think you are some character in an H.P. Lovecraft story, consider that it may be a blessing instead of a curse, after all.

As much as I consider the probability of almost anything being permissible in this world to be non-zero, there remains that infinitesimal doubt that I might be wrong. And there are countless infinities hidden in even the smallest infinitesimal.

Not knowing and the many paradoxes inherent in existence, oddly, seem to provide the most stable foundation for my reasoning and, therefore, my ethics and actions. I think it is wise to remain pragmatic. Stoic.

While you devise how you should act in the world, here are things, in no particular order, that may be worth considering:

• Feel free to question everything and do not fear reflecting on the self and your place within the whole;
• Beware the many biases that may lead you astray;
• Like me, you have blind spots, that is normal, try and become aware of them;
• It is okay to not be good at something. You may practice becoming better or, at the very least, try and tell others where you think your blindspots are, so they may help you navigate;
• Think before you act, for what you think may not harm, but how you act perhaps could;
• Be wary of convictions and folks who hold them strongly;
• You need not convince anyone that what you think is true;
• Heed your words, yet do not be afraid to use them and ask for feedback, for they have the power to influence others in various ways, some neutral, some good, some bad;
• Try not to lie, yet be kind. An innocent lie to ease suffering might be permissible, yet beware the house of cards it could form for it might bury you and yours;
• Harden your soul² against words, for when a word offends thee, lest you confuse it with physical damage, and repay in kind; 
• Praise discourse and ridicule violence, unless the latter is in timely and direct self-defense or consensual agreement;
• Should discourse not result in a satisfying resolve, accept that your experience may differ from another’s, and that is okay. Try not to turn angry, take a break, touch grass, and avoid becoming aggressive or violent. It is not worth the misery;
• You may have a dark side. Shun it at your own AND other’s peril. Left unattended, it may lash out in unexpected ways. Beware the banality of evil;
• Fear, like certainty, may be a bad advisor at times. Don’t panic, calm down, think, then act;
• Made a mistake? It happens. Acknowledge it, fess up, and move on. Remember, yet try not to dwell on it too much;
• You will probably forget stuff. Don't worry too much about that;
• It is okay to be confused at times or not to know something. We are all figuring it out as we go;
• Suffering may be unavoidable. Acknowledge it. Alleviate it carefully;
• Provide sense, reason, and perhaps, with a bit of luck, even happiness;
• You may believe you know stuff that others may not. Absolutes seem to kill creativity;
• Acknowledge the noise, yet be hesitant to amplify the signal, for amplifying the signal may not clarify the message. Again, beware the banality of evil;
• Be polite; say thank you; say please, even better if you can do it all in the language of the other. These efforts contribute to good vibes all around;
• Don’t question the praise you receive, for you cannot see from someone else's eyes. Expressing doubt only lays bare your own insecurity and mistrust towards the one who dared to utter the compliment;
• As Odell says, stay humble & stack sats
• Spending sats into the circular economy is good, just make sure your stack stays in the saddle³;
• Don’t be too serious. Try to spark joy in yourself and others;
• Breathe, go out into the world, live life

It is up to you, dear reader, to form your own opinion. You are your own responsibility.

Thank you for taking the time and effort to read my thoughts out here, somewhere in the great maelström of existence, where our minds and combined imagination just met. A happenstance that just might make a positive difference.

-- SF

PS As I watch the world and see the misery caused by people acting out their desire to convince others of their convictions, I think that is a fool's game. This is me, hinting at that playfully in the hopes of getting a laugh and a wink from the folks that grok this. I am trying to be the change I want to see in the world.

PPS Let me conclude with a small poem.

*I have seen where the one mad God lives
Far from here, yet, just an heir’s breadth away
I saw him whisper into his own ear
'The world is not made,' 
He said
'It is Mad'

– Bit of a weird fellow…

Thanks to: Mel, Niko, the Upright One, H. Lempens, Jonas Hellman, Soul Exporter, Ben Gunn, Hodlnaut, Mr Crown, Thibaut, the various Mehstadalians and Noderunners for providing feedback on my thoughts. You have been invaluable to me, refining my writing on some of the conundrums that seem inherent in existence.

Footnotes: 1.  Dissociative Identity Disorder? 2. If you don’t know how to get some calluses on your soul, do something hard and uncomfortable. Let go of your preconceptions and try something new. Take a hike. Ask a friend to verbally, or maybe even physically, degrade you, so that you may wear the experience like a suit of armor after the ordeal. Maybe you’d rather be on the giving than receiving end? Whatever the case, give that dark side of yours a healthy outlet. Find others who will indulge whatever your crazy rationality may come up with. Please try and go into it with a full understanding of the risks involved and make sure there is consent all around. Play! 3. See saddle image:

Shameless plug If you enjoyed this short essay, please consider buying 21 Futures, Tales from the Timechain, the first-ever bitcoin fiction anthology. It is a collection of 21 short sci-fi stories by 21 different authors, including me! Look forward to high-stakes human interest stories, dystopias, mystery, intergalactic affairs, and much more!

You may also read all of the above via:

• https://konsensus.network/read/musings-on-the-human-condition/
• https://ungovernablemisfits.com/musings-on-the-human-condition/w

@ 0ea6de29:f951babf

The article shares my set of rules to follow when coding JavaScript. But, before we go deep into them, I must let you know that the way how I use JavaScript is a little bit unusual. My main purpose in using JavaScript is to use only one programming language for high-level development, instead of C#, F#, Java, Scala, Python, etc. So, I'm trying to avoid non-generic JavaScript frameworks and platform-specific tools. For low-level and system programming, I'm using Rust, and considering Zig programming language.

TypeScript as a linter

While I'm a big fan of static typing and am impressed by the TypeScript project, I no longer use TypeScript .ts files in my projects. The main reason is to avoid building steps. A project should be ready to use without any build steps. However, I use the TypeScript compiler as a linter and JSDoc as type definitions. To use the TypeScript compiler as a linter, you will need to set these properties in your tsconfig.json file:

{ "compilerOptions": { ... "allowJs": true, "checkJs": true, ... "noEmit": true, ... } }

Hopefully, one day, we will see the Type Annotation proposal in ECMAScript and supported by popular JavaScript engines.

No classes or symbols

I think that user's defined nominal types have no future in deterministic distributed systems. There are two main problems with JavaScript classes:

1. Classes are part of the JavaScript nominal type system, in contrast to the TypeScript structural type system. Nominal typing is location-based instead of content-based, like structural typing. It means a class is identified by where or when it's defined instead of its content. Location-based identifiers are very difficult to scale and create dependency hell.
2. Serialization and deserialization of classes require additional code. This code, usually, doesn't have any semantic meaning and is an anti-pattern. Use standard JavaScript objects and arrays instead; they can be serialized and deserialized with just one function call.

JavaScript Symbols have the same scalability problems as classes.

Functional programming

Use functional programming and pure functions as much as possible. For example:

• Don't use direct I/O. Direct I/O is the primary source of side effects. You can use dependency injection. Instead of writing to a file directly, use a passed function that should write to a file. It will allow you to test your code much more effortlessly.
• Avoid mutability or try to localize data mutations.
• Use arrow functions and currying instead of multiple parameters.

You can read more about functional programming in JavaScript in this article.

Use ECMAScript modules

ECMAScript modules are supported by most of the modern JavaScript engines and browsers. To avoid confusion with other module systems, use .mjs file extension instead .js. Currently, I'm using only export default because it's consistent with loading JSON files and the CommonJS system. I want to use only one export method and prefer simplicity over syntax sugar.

import my from './export-default.mjs' const { a, b } = my

Instead of

import { a, b } from './export.mjs'

Avoid third-party dependencies without a good reason

Development dependencies such as TypeScript or ESLint are okay if they don't require additional build steps. Try to avoid libraries and frameworks that use direct I/O or platform specific. They will make your code very hard to test.

Endnotes

This set of rules is not for everyone. If you work in a big company with a big existing codebase, this may not work for you. However, if you are working on a new project, or you are a startup, or you are working on an open-source project, you may consider these points. Don't rush to infect your codebase with complex things that are difficult to maintain. Please keep it simple as long as possible and add complexity only when needed.

@ 2863f394:275ed58d

I entered 1k satoshis in amount to rebalance. It says next to it "Receive from peer" -- what do I put here? I tried copying the public id of a node, but then it just shows an error: "Receive from Peer is required."

How do I complete this? I'm unable to receive zaps until I move some funds apparently.

@ 90c24d6b:def5ce98

When you can focus, you become lethal.

Learning new things becomes easier. And more fun.

Which means:

• You become more valuable (and your value compounds the more you learn and ‘stack’ knowledge-disciplines)
• You become Anti-Fragile (assuming you continue learning, you will continue getting stronger even as you make mistakes… Even horrendous mistakes like I have)…
• And you will become capable of doing more...
• To top it all off, it’s a virtuous cycle, where the more capable you become, the easier it gets.

What most people don't realize is everyone has two 'modes of focus.'

And staying in “one mode” for too long is counterproductive.

So in today’s post, I’ll be sharing these two modes of focus and how to split your attention between the two at the right times.

Plus, how to engineer your environment to tune into each more easily.

Sound good? Alrighty then, let’s go…

FOCUS: The 2 Modes

1. Conscious Focused Mode

This mode of focus happens in the Prefrontal Cortex. This is the part of the brain where we do our “executive thinking” and decision-making.

We want to use this mode for intense, detail oriented problems.

A while ago, I took a MOOC called Mindshift where Barbara Oakley describes the kinds of environments we want to put ourselves in for this type of problem-solving & focus. Can you guess what is best?

I’ll tell you: you want a quiet room with a low ceiling.

It should feel as if your focus is tight.

This lends itself to more detail-oriented thinking rather than big picture thinking.

Which is what we are doing in the next mode of focus…

2. Unconscious Diffuse Mode

The opposite of conscious focused mode is unconscious diffused mode.

In this mode of focus, we’re better off approaching creative, big picture problems.

And as you might guess, the better environment for this kind of focus is a room with a high ceiling. Or in my personal opinion, being outside is also great for this when the weather permits.

I’ve found that splitting my time between the two, and mixing up my environments to reflect each of these kinds of focus has a profound effect on my productivity and overall sense of well-being.

I get more done. I feel more relaxed. And generally, enjoy life more.

Hope this will have a similar effect for you, too.

Godspeed,

-Gerald

@ fab018ad:dd9af89d

18. แสงแห่งความหวัง

"ปัญหาพื้นฐานของระบบสกุลเงินปกติ อยู่ที่การยังจำเป็นต้องใช้ความเชื่อใจเพื่อให้มันทำงานได้ โดยธนาคารกลางนั้นจำเป็นต้องได้รับความเชื่อใจว่าจะไม่ทำเงินให้เสื่อมค่า แต่ในประวัติศาสตร์ของสกุลเงินเฟียตกลับเต็มไปด้วยการละเมิดความเชื่อใจนั้น”

–ซาโตชิ นากาโมโตะ

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ไม่ว่าคำตอบของความยากจนในประเทศโลกที่สามจะเป็นอะไรก็ตาม เราก็แน่ใจว่ามันต้องไม่ใช่การก่อหนี้เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างแน่นอน “คนจนบนโลกนี้นั้น” คุณ Payer ได้สรุปไว้ว่า “ไม่ได้ต้องการธนาคารแบบธนาคารโลกเพิ่มขึ้นมาอีก ไม่ว่าธนาคารนั้นจะจิตใจดีมีเมตตาแค่ไหนก็ตาม สิ่งที่คนจนต้องการคืองานที่จ่ายค่าตอบแทนอย่างเหมาะสม รัฐบาลที่มีความรับผิดชอบ การมอบสิทธิมนุษยชนคืนให้พวกเขา และความเป็นเอกเทศในการบริหารประเทศโดยไม่ถูกต่างชาติแทรกแซง”

แต่เป็นเวลากว่า 7 ทศวรรษแล้วที่ธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF กลับตั้งตัวเป็นศัตรูกับทั้ง 4 สิ่งนี้

เมื่อมองไปในอนาคตข้างหน้านั้น คุณ Payer กล่าวว่า “ภารกิจที่สำคัญที่สุดสำหรับเหล่าประเทศร่ำรวยที่กังวลเรื่องความเป็นปึกแผ่นระหว่างประเทศอื่น ๆ คือการเดินหน้าอย่างจริงจังในการระงับการไหลของเงินให้ความช่วยเหลือไปสู่ต่างประเทศ” แต่ปัญหาคือระบบในปัจจุบันถูกออกแบบและสร้างแรงจูงใจให้การไหลของเงินแบบนี้ยังมีต่อไปได้ ทางเดียวที่จะสร้างการเปลี่ยนแปลงได้คือการปรับเปลี่ยนกระบวนทัศน์ใหม่ทั้งหมด โดยเรารู้กันอยู่แล้วว่าบิตคอยน์สามารถช่วยให้ประชาชนทั่วไปในประเทศกำลังพัฒนานั้นได้รับอิสรภาพทางการเงิน ช่วยให้พวกเขาหนีออกจากระบบเงินซึ่งล่มสลาย แต่ถูกผู้นำฉ้อฉลและสถาบันการเงินระหว่างประเทศบังคับให้พวกเขาต้องใช้ ประเด็นเหล่านี้ถูกเร่งความเร็วขึ้นในการประชุมที่เมืองอักกราเมื่อปลายปี 2022 ที่ผ่านมา

บิตคอยน์เป็นสิ่งที่อยู่ตรงข้ามกับระบบเดิมที่ถูกออกแบบโดยธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF แต่ทว่าบิตคอยน์จะสามารถเปลี่ยนพลวัตในโครงสร้างอำนาจและโครงสร้างทรัพยากรของโลกระหว่างประเทศแกนกลางและประเทศชายขอบได้จริงหรือ?

คุณ Nabourema นั้นเต็มไปด้วยความหวัง และไม่เข้าใจว่าทำไมฝ่ายซ้ายโดยทั่วไปมักประณามหรือไม่สนใจบิตคอยน์

“เครื่องมือที่สามารถทำให้ผู้คนสร้างและเข้าถึงความมั่งคั่งได้อย่างเป็นอิสระจากองค์กรที่มีอำนาจควบคุมนั้น สามารถที่จะมองว่ามันเป็นเครื่องมือของฝ่ายซ้ายได้เลยด้วยซ้ำ” เธอกล่าว “ในฐานะนักเคลื่อนไหวที่เชื่อว่าประชาชนควรได้รับเงินสกุลที่ให้ค่าต่อชีวิตและการเสียสละของพวกเขาแล้ว"

"บิตคอยน์คือเป็นการปฏิวัติของประชาชน”

“ฉันว่ามันเจ็บปวด” เธอกล่าว” ที่ชาวไร่ในเขตแอฟริกาบริเวณพื้นที่ใต้ทะเลทรายสะฮาราได้รับเงินแค่ร้อยละ 1 ของราคากาแฟในตลาดโลก ถ้าเราสามารถไปถึงขั้นที่ชาวไร่เหล่านั้นสามารถขายกาแฟของพวกเขาได้โดยตรงถึงผู้ซื้อ โดยไม่ต้องมีสถาบันตัวกลางใด ๆ มาแทรกแซง พร้อมทั้งรับเงินค่ากาแฟเป็นบิตคอยน์ คุณลองนึกดูสิว่ามันจะทำให้ชีวิตของพวกเขาเปลี่ยนไปมากแค่ไหน”

“ทุกวันนี้” เธอกล่าว “เหล่าประเทศกำลังพัฒนาอย่างพวกเรายังต้องกู้เงินในสกุลดอลลาร์สหรัฐ แต่เมื่อเวลาผ่านไปค่าเงินของเราเสื่อมค่าลงเรื่อย ๆ และต้องลงเอยด้วยการต้องหาเงินมาจ่ายเพิ่มขึ้นมากกว่า 2-3 เท่าของหนี้ในตอนแรก”

“ที่นี้คุณลองนึกภาพ” เธอกล่าว “ถ้าเราไปถึงขั้นที่ในอีก 10-20 ปีข้างหน้าที่บิตคอยน์เป็นสกุลเงินหลักของโลกและถูกใช้ในธุรกิจทั่วโลก ชาติต่าง ๆ ต้องกู้ยืมเป็นสกุลบิตคอยน์และใช้จ่ายในสกุลบิตคอยน์ ทุกชาติต้องจ่ายหนี้ของพวกเขาคืนในสกุลบิตคอยน์ ในโลกแบบนั้นรัฐบาลต่างชาติจะไม่สามารถเรียกร้องให้เราใช้คืนหนี้ในสกุลเงินของพวกเขา ซึ่งเป็นสกุลที่พวกเราต้องทำงานหนักเพื่อหามา แต่พวกเขาสามารถพิมพ์เพิ่มจากอากาศได้ง่าย ๆ และหากพวกเขาอยากที่จะเพิ่มอัตราดอกเบี้ยในประเทศตัวเอง มันก็ไม่ได้จะทำให้ชีวิตผู้คนนับล้าน ๆ ในประเทศของเราต้องตกอยู่ในอันตรายในทันทีเหมือนแต่ก่อน”

“มันแน่นอนว่า” คุณ Nabourema กล่าว “บิตคอยน์จะมาพร้อมปัญหาเหมือนนวัตกรรมอื่น ๆ ในอดีต แต่ความสวยงามของมันคือปัญหาเหล่านี้สามารถแก้ไขและพัฒนาขึ้นไปได้ด้วยความร่วมมือระดับนานาชาติอย่างสันติ ย้อนดูเมื่อ 20 ปีก่อน ไม่มีใครรู้หรอกว่าอินเทอร์เน็ตจะสามารถทำให้เราทำสิ่งมหัศจรรย์ที่เราทำอยู่ในทุกวันนี้ได้ และคงไม่มีใครบอกได้หรอกว่าในอีก 20 ปีข้างหน้า บิตคอยน์จะช่วยให้เราทำสิ่งมหัศจรรย์อะไรได้อีกบ้าง”

“หนทางข้างหน้าต่อจากนี้” เธอกล่าว “คือการตื่นรู้ของมวลชน พวกเขาจะเข้าใจว่าระบบการเงินในปัจจุบันทำงานอย่างไรได้แบบทะลุปรุโปร่ง และพวกเขาจะเข้าใจว่ามันมีทางเลือกอื่นอยู่ เราต้องไปอยู่ในจุดที่ผู้คนสามารถทวงคืนเสรีภาพให้ตัวเองได้ โดยที่ชีวิตของพวกเขาไม่ได้ถูกควบคุมโดยอำนาจรัฐที่สามารถยึดอิสรภาพของพวกเขาไปตอนไหนก็ได้โดยไม่ต้องรับผลกระทบใด ๆ ที่ตามมา พวกเรากำลังค่อย ๆ ไปถึงเป้าหมายนั้นด้วยบิตคอยน์”

“เนื่องจากเงินคือศูนย์กลางของทุกอย่างในโลกของเรา” คุณ Nabourema กล่าว “ความจริงที่ว่า ณ ตอนนี้เราสามารถมีอิสรภาพทางการเงินได้ถือเป็นสิ่งสำคัญต่อประชาชน และพวกเราก็กำลังพยายามทวงคืนสิทธิของเราเองในทุก ๆ พื้นที่และทุก ๆ อุตสาหกรรม”

ในการสัมภาษณ์สำหรับบทความนี้ ผู้สนับสนุนนโยบายเงินฝืด (Deflation) อย่างคุณ Jeff Booth ได้อธิบายว่าในขณะที่โลกยิ่งเดินเข้าสู่ระบบมาตรฐานบิตคอยน์ ธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF จะยิ่งไม่อยากเป็นเจ้าหนี้ และน่าจะอยากไปเป็นผู้ลงทุนร่วม เป็นหุ้นส่วน หรืออาจเป็นแค่ผู้จัดตั้งกองทรัสต์มากกว่า เนื่องจากในขณะที่ราคาของสิ่งต่าง ๆ เริ่มปรับตัวลง มันหมายถึงหนี้สินจะมีมูลค่าที่มากขึ้น และจะเป็นเรื่องยากขึ้นสำหรับลูกหนี้ที่จะหาเงินมาจ่ายคืนได้ และเมื่อเครื่องพิมพ์เงินของสหรัฐอเมริกาถูกปิดไป ก็จะไม่มีเงินให้กู้เพื่อมาช่วยเหลืออีก และเขายังชี้ว่าในช่วงแรกนั้นธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF จะยังพยายามที่จะปล่อยกู้เหมือนเดิม แต่มันจะเป็นครั้งแรกที่พวกเขาจะสูญเงินก้อนใหญ่นั้นไปจริง ๆ เพราะประเทศต่าง ๆ จะเริ่มผิดนัดชำระหนี้กันมากขึ้นในระหว่างที่โลกกำลังขยับเข้าสู่ระบบมาตรฐานบิตคอยน์

ดังนั้นพวกเขาอาจจะเริ่มพิจารณาการเป็นผู้ลงทุนร่วมมากกว่าจะเป็นผู้ปล่อยกู้ แปลว่าพวกเขาจะต้องสนใจความยั่งยืนและความสำเร็จที่แท้จริงของโครงการที่พวกเขาสนับสนุนมากขึ้น เนื่องจากพวกเขาต้องรับความเสี่ยงในการลงทุนนั้น

การขุดบิตคอยน์เป็นอีกสิ่งหนึ่งที่สามารถสร้างความเปลี่ยนแปลงได้

ถ้าชาติที่ยากจนสามารถเปลี่ยนทรัพยากรธรรมชาติของพวกเขาเป็นเงินได้ โดยไม่ต้องยุ่งเกี่ยวกับเหล่าผู้มีอำนาจจากต่างประเทศ บางทีอธิปไตยของพวกเขาอาจจะแข็งแกร่งขึ้น แทนที่จะถูกบ่อนทำลายลงเหมือนแต่ก่อน การขุดบิตคอยน์นั้นใช้ได้ทั้งพลังงานจากแม่น้ำ เชื้อเพลิงไฮโดรคาร์บอน แสงอาทิตย์ ลม ความร้อนใต้พิภพ หรือแม้แต่พลังงานจากความแตกต่างของอุณหภูมิน้ำทะเลนอกชายฝั่ง (OTEC) ที่มีอยู่มากมายในเขตตลาดเกิดใหม่ พลังงานเหล่านี้สามารถถูกเปลี่ยนเป็นสกุลเงินสำรองของโลกได้โดยตรง โดยไม่ต้องขออนุญาตใคร เรื่องนี้ไม่เคยเป็นไปได้มาก่อน ซึ่งสำหรับเหล่าประเทศที่ยากจนแล้วกับดักหนี้ดูเหมือนจะเป็นสิ่งที่หนีออกมาไม่ได้ แถมมันยังขยายขนาดขึ้นทุกปี

บางทีการลงทุนเพื่อเก็บออมบิตคอยน์เป็นเงินสำรอง และเพื่อใช้งานโครงสร้างพื้นฐานของบิตคอยน์ (ซึ่งโดยเนื้อแท้แล้วมันเป็นสิ่งที่ต่อต้านระบบเงินเฟียต) น่าจะเป็นทางออกและเป็นเส้นทางสู่การเอาคืนระบบเดิมที่กดขี่พวกเขามายาวนาน

คุณ Booth กล่าวว่าบิตคอยน์สามารถทำให้ระบบเก่าที่เอื้อประโยชน์แก่ประเทศร่ำรวยด้วยการปล้นค่าแรงของประเทศยากจนนั้นเกิดอาการลัดวงจรจนพังได้ เพราะในระบบเก่า กลุ่มประเทศชายขอบต้องถูกสังเวยเพื่อปกป้องประเทศแกนกลาง แต่ในระบบใหม่ ประเทศชายขอบและประเทศแกนกลางจะสามารถทำงานร่วมกันได้ เขากล่าวว่า ณ ตอนนี้ระบบเงินดอลลาร์สหรัฐกดคนให้จนลงด้วยการกดค่าแรงในประเทศชายขอบ แต่เมื่อเงินถูกปรับให้มีความเท่าเทียมด้วยระบบที่เป็นมาตรฐานและเป็นกลาง พลวัตใหม่จะถูกสร้างขึ้น การที่มีมาตรฐานทางการเงินเพียงหนึ่งเดียวจะส่งผลให้อัตราค่าแรงถูกดึงมาให้อยู่ในระดับใกล้เคียงกันอย่างเลี่ยงไม่ได้ แทนที่มันจะถูกทำให้ห่างออกจากกันแบบที่แล้วมา คุณ Booth ยังกล่าวอีกว่าเราไม่มีคำที่ใช้เรียกสำหรับพลวัตนี้ เพราะมันเป็นสิ่งที่ไม่เคยเกิดขึ้นมาก่อน โดยเขาแนะนำให้ใช้คำว่า “ความร่วมมือเชิงบังคับ”

คุณ Booth อธิบายถึงความสามารถของสหรัฐฯ ในการสร้างหนี้จำนวนเท่าไรก็ได้ตามต้องการว่าเป็น “การโจรกรรมในระดับฐานเงิน” คุณผู้อ่านคงอาจจะคุ้นเคยกับปรากฏการณ์แคนทิลอน (Cantillon Effect) ที่ผู้อยู่ใกล้แหล่งการผลิตเงินนั้นจะได้ประโยชน์จากเงินผลิตใหม่ ในขณะคนที่อยู่ห่างออกไปนั้นต้องทนทุกข์ใช่ไหมครับ ปรากฏการณ์แคนทิลอนในระดับโลกนั้นคือการที่ประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกาได้ประโยชน์จากการพิมพ์เงินสกุลสำรองของโลก ในขณะที่ประเทศยากจนต้องทนทุกข์กันทั้งโลก

“แต่มาตรฐานบิตคอยน์” คุณ Booth กล่าว “จะหยุดสิ่งนี้”

มีหนี้สินบนโลกมากแค่ไหนที่เป็นหนี้ที่ชั่วร้าย (Odious Debt) คำตอบคือมีเงินกู้นับล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐที่ถูกสร้างขึ้นตามอำเภอใจของผู้นำเผด็จการกับสถาบันการเงินที่อยู่เหนือประเทศชาติ และไม่มีใครเลือกตั้งพวกเขามาขึ้นมา หนี้ชั่วร้ายถูกสร้างขึ้นโดยไม่เคยถามความเห็นชอบของประชาชนในฝั่งของผู้กู้เลย สิ่งมีศีลธรรมที่ควรกระทำคือยกเลิกหนี้สินพวกนี้ให้หมด แน่นอนว่ามันจะไม่มีทางจะเกิดขึ้น เพราะสุดท้ายแล้วเงินให้กู้เหล่านี้ก็ถือเป็นทรัพย์สินบนงบดุลของผู้ที่เป็นเจ้าหนี้ของธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF ซึ่งพวกเขาอยากให้ทรัพย์สินพวกนั้นยังคงอยู่ และขอแค่ลูกหนี้ก่อหนี้ใหม่ไปชำระหนี้เก่าก็พอ

“พุทออปชั่น (Put Option)” ของ IMF ในหนี้ภาครัฐนั้นสร้างฟองสบู่ที่ใหญ่ที่สุดเท่าที่เคยมีมา มันใหญ่กว่าฟองสบู่ดอตคอม ฟองสบู่สินเชื่อซับไพรม์ และใหญ่กว่าฟองสบู่ที่เกิดจากเงินกระตุ้นเศรษฐกิจช่วง COVID-19 การจะรื้อระบบเก่านี้เป็นงานที่เจ็บปวดมาก แต่มันก็เป็นสิ่งที่ถูกต้องที่ควรทำ ถ้าเปรียบว่าหนี้สินคือยาเสพติด ธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF คือพ่อค้ายา และรัฐบาลของประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนาคือคนที่ติดยา ก็คงเห็นว่าไม่น่าจะมีฝ่ายไหนที่อยากให้อีกฝ่ายนึงหยุด แต่ที่การจะรักษาผู้ติดยานั้น เราต้องนำผู้ติดยาเข้ารับการบำบัด ระบบเงินเฟียตไม่อนุญาตให้ทำให้สิ่งนี้ได้ แต่ระบบการเงินมาตรฐานบิตคอยน์จะบังคับให้ผู้ป่วยติดยาไม่มีทางเลือกอื่น นอกจากการเลิกยา

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หมายเหตุผู้แปล : - ฟองสบู่ดอตคอม (Dot-com Bubble) เป็นฟองสบู่จากการเก็งกำไรในตลาดหลักทรัพย์ภาคเทคโนโลยีของสหรัฐอเมริกา ในช่วงปี 1997-2000 - ฟองสบู่สินเชื่อซับไพรม์ (Subprime Mortgage Bubble) เป็นฟองสบู่จากเกิดจากการปล่อยกู้ในภาคอสังหาริมทรัพย์ของของสหรัฐอเมริกาซึ่งกลายเป็นวิกฤติการเงิน ในช่วงปี 2008

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อย่างที่อาจารย์เซเฟดีน อัมมูสกล่าวในการสัมภาษณ์สำหรับบทความนี้ ว่าทุกวันนี้หากผู้ปกครองของบราซิลต้องการกู้เงินจำนวน 30,000 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ และรัฐสภาของสหรัฐฯ อนุมัติเงินกู้ดังกล่าวแล้ว ทางสหรัฐฯ ก็สามารถดีดนิ้วเสกเงินขึ้นมาและส่งให้ได้เลยผ่าน IMF แปลว่าระบบการเงินทุกวันนี้เป็นเรื่องของการตัดสินใจทางการเมืองเป็นหลัก แต่ถ้าเรากำจัดเครื่องพิมพ์เงินออกไปได้ การตัดสินใจเหล่านี้จะเป็นเรื่องการเมืองน้อยลง และจะเริ่มเป็นการตัดสินใจอย่างรอบคอบ แบบเดียวกับธนาคาร “ที่สำเหนียกว่าจะไม่มีใครมาอุ้มพวกเขาได้อีกแล้ว” จะพึงกระทำ

ในช่วง 60 ปีที่ผ่านมาของการครอบงำโดยธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF เหล่าทรราชและเครือข่ายที่ยักยอกความมั่งคั่งของประเทศจำนวนนับไม่ถ้วน ต่างก็ได้รับเงินให้กู้เพื่อการช่วยเหลือ (ซึ่งเป็นสิ่งที่ขัดกับสามัญสำนึกทางการเงิน) เพื่อให้เหล่าประเทศแกนกลางสามารถเข้าฉกฉวยทรัพยากรธรรมชาติและแรงงานของประเทศเหล่านั้นได้ต่อไป สิ่งเหล่านี้เป็นไปได้เพราะรัฐบาลซึ่งเป็นหัวใจของระบบเฟียตสามารถพิมพ์เงินที่เป็นสกุลเงินสำรองได้ แต่ในระบบมาตรฐานบิตคอยน์นั้น คุณเซเฟดีน อัมมูสตั้งคำถามว่าใครกันที่จะปล่อยเงินกู้ความเสี่ยงสูงมูลค่านับพันล้านดอลลาร์ เพียงเพื่อจะแลกกับการให้ลูกหนี้เข้ามาขอปรับโครงสร้างเพื่อยืดหนี้เก่าโปะหนี้ใหม่ในภายหลัง

“เป็นคุณจะปล่อยกู้งั้นเหรอ?” เขาถาม “แล้วจะเอาบิตคอยน์ของใครไปปล่อยกู้ล่ะ?”

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⚡️ กด Zap ที่ลิงก์นี้ เพื่อเป็นกำลังใจทีมงานผู้เรียบเรียงบทความ

(ทุกยอด zap จะถูกแบ่งอัตโนมัติเข้าวอลเล็ทของผู้เขียนบทความต้นฉบับภาษาอังกฤษ, ผู้แปลดราฟต์ 1, ผู้เรียบเรียงดราฟต์ 2-3, กองบรรณาธิการและพิสูจน์อักษรจากไรท์ชิฟต์ พร้อมกันบางส่วนไว้เพื่อเป็นค่าธรรมเนียมธุรกรรม)

@ 637a2f1d:a169dd8f

“it's crucial to differentiate between harmful deflation, typically triggered by demand shocks, and beneficial deflation, often driven by technological advancements. we've observed the latter in industries such as electronics, where it has led to lower prices and enhanced purchasing power over time.”

https://www.delphi.ai/jameson-lopp/talk

@ 637a2f1d:a169dd8f

"many bitcoiners talk about how bitcoin will defund the state by talking away its power to print money, but they miss bitcoin's ability to take away the state's power to extort explicitly, a power that the more statist types justify. sek3, on the contrary, made the creation of circular economies to weaken the state a moral imperative and would be proud of satoshi. even the authors of "the sovereign individual" predicted that technology would shrink the state by making extortion harder to enforce."

Sek3 = Samuel Edward Konkin III, the founder of agorism (according to this article)

https://stacker.news/items/322600

@ e8ed3798:67dd345a

Crowdsourcing subjective value is a great idea, but when no thought has been put into how to do it, the results are neither useful nor healthy.

In this article we discuss the problems with the classic five star rating system and why it needs to be abolished in favor of better expressions of public sentiment.

Part 1: What's In A Star?

Let's start with a thought experiment:

• Do you buy products on Amazon that have 3 stars?
• Do you take rides from Uber drivers that have 3 stars?
• Do you download apps on the App Store that have 3 stars?
• Do you visit places on Google Maps that have 3 stars?

"Not on purpose," is probably your answer. But why not? After all, a three out of five is better than the median; it's 60 percent! That is solidly "above average" by any usual measure. Although it makes sense in mathematical terms, it is not correct to say that a 3 star product is at least half as good as a 5 star product.

The funny thing about the 5 star rating system is that nobody really knows exactly what the stars mean, mostly because they aren't ever explained. They are just a weak abstraction of a score out of 5, which itself is an abstraction of a score out of 100, and it is used to average all ratings for a thing into an average star rating. Presumably, 5 is the best and 1 is the worst, and somewhere in between is... what exactly? Mediocre? Passable? Acceptable? Average? Who knows! This is the first problem with this system; while the top and bottom of the scale may be implied (ambiguity still isn't great), the middle of the scale is entirely ambiguous.

Most of the time, people start with a default supposition that a product ought to be 5 stars, and then they subtract stars according to their own perceived deficiencies of the product. On the flip side, people who are dissatisfied with a product tend to start at 1 star and perhaps award it a couple more if they are feeling charitable.

This dualistic approach highlights another issue with this kind of rating system. Despite the pure quantitative mechanism, the feelings and disposition of the rater ultimately assign meaning to the numeric scale.

Ultimately, any 5 star rating system ends up being a gamut ranging from hate it to love it with a lot of ambiguity in the middle.

To put it simply, the stars mean nothing. But to be more precise, the stars are the average of the numeric expression of the public sentiment about a thing.

OK, public sentiment. That's what we want right? We want to know what the public thinks about the product so we can make a good purchase decision.

Except, unfortunately, the 5 star rating system does an incredibly imprecise job at capturing what the public actually thinks about a product. Let's dive into why this is. But first, to conclude our thought experiment, I'd like to establish an informal consensus that we instinctually seek out the highest rated items and avoid ratings less than 4.5 out of 5, with infrequent exceptions. If this sounds like you, then let's proceed.

Part 2: Trash or Treasure

How does one turn their feelings into a number? This is not something people are good at, or do naturally, or are even required to do very often. It is also completely subjective and arbitrary. Does "happy" mean 5 or 100 or 902,581? It really depends on what you are trying to measure.

However, you've probably done this on a survey. Normally, a range of options is given with accompanying numbers. You may have heard a guiding explanation such as "Rate one through five, with one being 'least likely' and five being 'most likely' to recommend to a friend." Such explanations are useful in assisting a person in expressing their personal sentiments as a numeric range, and anecdotally I seem to provide more nuanced answers when I have guidance as to what each value actually means to me. However, such explanations are missing from most places where five star rating systems can make or break one's livelihood as a seller, developer, or musician. Users are normally given no guidance as to how a particular star value should correspond to their sentiment.

Accordingly, this manifests in an all too common star rating smiley. Like the famed "smiley face curve" equalizer setting popularized in the 70's in which the frequencies of a song were engineered to grow from the midranges upward toward the treble and bass making a smile shape (who's midrange is the lowest), the star rating smile is a common sight on product reviews where the most common review ratings appear anecdotally to be 5 and 1, then 4 and 2, and lastly 3.

The fact that the most common ratings are five stars and one star indicates that people most often do not think about their experience as a gradient between good and bad, but rather simply label their sentiment as only "good" or "bad" with little room for nuance. Having not received any guidance for expressing their sentiment numerically, this should be wholly unsurprising. But, I also feel like this binary outcome is a very natural expression that requires minimal mental energy to produce, and is therefore the most efficient expression of sentiment. I suspect that in another universe where we have a commonplace 15 star rating system but humans are the same, the most common ratings are 15 stars and 1 star respectively.

Other factors influence this binary good/bad paradigm too. People know instinctively that leaving a bad review is bad for business, and often this is their vengeful response to any sense of feeling as if they have been mistreated, misled, or swindled by the seller. Often times the sheer excitement of the new product compels people to write reviews only minutes after they have received it, precluding them from providing an experienced and time-tested perspective of how the product performs.

These quirks of human behavior can skew five star ratings severely. But the behaviors themselves are not bad! They are totally natural and expected. The real problem is how the five star rating system fails to capture these commonplace human sentiments accurately.

We need to build a rating system that works for people rather than forcing people to fit into a poorly executed rating system.

Part 3: Feast or Famine

It is natural that when presented with a plethora of options, humans will be drawn to the options that are labeled as "the best". When "best" possible is five stars, then five stars naturally becomes the Schelling pointfor all buyers and sellers, where the vast majority of economic activity is concentrated.

When all ratings are seen from a five-based perspective, fours look barely adequate. Threes look unacceptable. Twos are abject. And ones are complete disasters.

You may have heard about how Uber would suspend drivers whose ratings fell below 4.6. The tendency of five star rating systems is to create a gradient of sentiment where 1 to 4.5 stars is "bad" and 4.5 to 5 stars is "good".

One rarely discussed outcome of this dynamic is that good ratings are nearly impossible to compare to each other. As alluded to in the introduction thought experiment, the narrow range between 4.5 and 5 leaves very little room to distinguish from a good product and an excellent product; both are simply "good" or "not bad". As highly rated products are usually the products people are most interested in, it is unfortunate that a favorable rating would actually provide less signal than a bad rating as to the product's relative quality in the spectrum of good ratings.

Meanwhile, bad ratings have wide berth to compare numerically. The astronomical range between 1 and 4.5 is a very spacious gradient in which to assess how bad one product is versus another, except nobody actually cares because nobody is going to buy it anyway!

In the five star rating system, the better a product is, the less information we get to compare it to other similarly good products. This is a critical design flaw, because the better a product is and the more people review it, the more information we should have about it versus other similar products. It would be better if the range of "good" ratings was wider so that good ratings could be compared to each other.

I'd like to emphasize that the loss of precision as a product becomes more desirable is a truly ludicrous mechanic of the five star rating system. This poorly conceived rating paradigm completely pervades our digital economic systems and determines the success of millions of producers. Let's be clear about the stakes. Assigning subjective value to things is completely overlooked for what it really is: a absolutely critical and monumentally influential economic activity. Because the most important economic activity is how we assign value to things with money, the second most important economic activity is how we inform our economic value assignments with subjective value assignments such as these.

We need to fix how we rate things. It could literally change how entire economies function.

Part 4: Quality or Quantity

Valve has obviously put thought into how they handle ratings for video games sold through their extremely popular and long-lived Steam platform.

Reviews are not allowed until a certain amount of hours of the game have been played. The review must assign a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and then provide a minimum amount of text.

Then, rather than simply providing an average of these binary ratings, Steam averages them over a recent period of time, creating a dynamic where if a game developer releases a new update, the reviews written more recently are sure to influence the overall rating of the game rather than old ratings that haven't taken the new update into consideration.

Finally, the aggregated rating itself is displayed as "Overwhelming Negative", "Very Negative", "Mostly Negative", "Mixed", "Mostly Positive", "Very Positive", or "Overwhelmingly Positive".

Ask yourself, which product would you be more likely to try? - 2.5/5 stars - "Mixed Reviews"

Ironically, the Steam rating system gives users less flexibility to express their sentiment as a number, and yet provides more depth, nuance, and balance to the resulting ratings. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what it looks like when somebody gives a damn about how things work. It is a great system.

Another interesting emergent behavior that accompanies many Steam reviews, as well as many reviews on other sites, are user generated pros/cons lists. These lists are helpful and offer qualitative labels that help to explain the quantitative rating assignment, although these labels are not mechanically related to the rating system itself.

Steam has another mechanism to express qualitative judgements in the form of labels, although they had to be restricted because they were being abused in undesirable or nefarious ways. Now the labeling system does more to tell you about what the game is rather than what people think about it, which is fine, but I feel like it is a missed opportunity.

Therefore, I'd like to propose a simple system that combines thumbs up/down and labeling to be used in the context of nostr's NIP-32 labeling system.

Part 5: QTS

I call this new NIP-32 review system QTS, or the "Qualitative Thumb System". Originally I developed QTS when working at Arcade Labs. NIP-32 allows for a lot of flexibility in how you apply labels to things, so QTS is simply a method of applying labels that creates a better human-oriented review system.

In essence, QTS capitalizes on our very human instinct to assign a "good" or "bad" label by limiting the quantitative assessment to a thumbs-up or thumbs-down. Then, QTS provides qualitative labels that describe possible positive sentiments that describe different aspects of the thing being rated.

The labels should be applicable in the context of the rating. So, for example, I might provide the following labels for Place reviews in https://go.yondar.me - Convenient - Clean - Affordable - Memorable - Inviting

These labels could possibly describe any Place. It's OK if a place doesn't have all of these qualities. Zero labels and at thumbs up is still a "good" rating. Each label selected is essentially a "cherry on top" and its absence may indicate that either it isn't applicable OR the Place failed to earn it.

Likewise, it is possible that you may give a Place a thumbs-down and apply labels; this would result in a rating between 0 "bad" and 0.5 "good".

Here are the key benefits I want to highlight of QTS: - The 5 star rating system forces a user to do the work of translating their sentiment into a quantity. With QTS, the user never has to translate their feelings into a number! They only express qualitative sentiments and the QTS mechanism does the work of translating this into a computation-friendly value. - The 5 star rating system generally results in a "bad" range from 1 to 4.5 and a "good" range from 4.5 to 5. QTS balances this with a "bad" rating at 0, a "good" rating at 0.5, and an excellent rating is anything above 0.5 (up to 1.0). This creates the maximum possible gradient and enhances the precision between the worst and best ratings so that it is possible to compare similar ratings. Recall this in contrast to the 5 star rating system which actually loses precision as more ratings are provided. - It is also helpful that similar QTS ratings may have different labels, which will allow people to make easy qualitative assessments that do not depend on users generating their own pros/cons list.

Part 6: Implementing QTS

Here is how it works:

You give the user the option to rate a thumbs up or thumbs down.

Then, you also give your user the option to choose from a predefined set of positive labels. You can have any number of labels but try to keep it below 10 so as not to overwhelm your users. Keep the labels general enough that they could potentially apply to any thing being rated.

For example, if you were providing labels for Amazon.com, some good labels would be: - Good Value - Good Quality - As Described - Durable - Right Size

These labels are general enough that they could apply to almost any product. It is important to create labels that are general so that when comparing product ratings you are comparing the same labels. It is possible however that something like Amazon.com could define a different QTS label set for each product category, and then the labels could be more specific to that category. For example, a product category of Candles could have "Long Burning", "Good smell", "Safe", etc. These labels are much more specific, but appropriate for the Candle product category. The main point is that products which should be compared should use the same QTS label set.

Some poor examples of labels would be: - Orange (not really relevant to the product's assessment) - Easy to Lift (only relevant to certain products) - Made in USA (not really relevant to the product's assessment) - Cheap (not descriptive enough and could be interpreted as negative)

A score is derived as follows: - a thumbs-down is a score of 0.00 - a thumbs-up is a score of 0.50 - a label is worth 0.50 ÷ the number of labels available. So, if there are 3 labels to pick from, each label is worth 0.1666. The labels should all have the same value.

When constructing a kind 1985 NIP-32 event, you apply the following tags: - ["l", "thumb", "<nomenclature>","{quality: 0 or 0.5}"] - ["l", "<chosen label 1>", "<nomenclature>", "{quality: <label value>}"] - ["l", "<chosen label 2>", "<nomenclature>", "{quality: <label value>}"] - etc. for each label chosen (omit labels not chosen)

The total value of the rating is the sum of all l tags' quantity fields, which will be a value between 0 and 1 as NIP-32 prescribes.

In your application, you decide on the nomenclature that makes sense for what your users are rating. The <nomenclature> would be the set of labels that are available to choose from. It can be anything you create or borrow from some other nomenclature. If for example you created your own candle nomenclature for the candle product category, then you would probably specify candle in this field.

Conclusion

With NIP-32, we have a great opportunity to improve the economic information available to the planet. A more efficient market based on higher quality information will improve civilization in ways we may not expect, but definitely deserve!

If you like this post, be sure to give it a thumbs up ✌😁

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Hola nostriches. Hoy quiero hacer una publicación a modo de acercamiento al surgimiento de las categorías de género y feminismo. Así que si te interesa el tema haz un esfuerzo, quédate y lee hasta el final.

El «nuevo» feminismo surge en los años 60 en aquellos países desarrollados que acordaron el reconocimiento a los derechos humanos contenidos en la declaración respectiva de la ONU. Entonces, como extensión a dicho reconocimiento es que se gesta el movimiento feminista. A partir de entonces, se vuelve a plantear la relación entre naturaleza y cultura y se llega a la conclusión de que las diferencias sociales van más allá de las diferencias biológicas, lo cual tiene que ver con que hasta la satisfacción de las necesidades elementales como son la alimentación, la vivienda o el vestuario, están condicionadas por construcciones sociales.

Pues resulta que una de las primeras propuestas identificó la subordinación femenina producto de una organización patriarcal, tomando la categoría patriarcado de Max Weber. Es así como la visión de patriarcado se extendió al discurso político y académico. Sin embargo, no existía información acerca del desarrollo histórico de dicha categoría, sistematización, variaciones, etc., debido a que era algo que recién se percibía en sociedad.

Sin embargo, la misma categoría de patriarcado junto a la de relaciones de poder para explicar fenómenos sociales contemporáneos, constituye uno de los principales aportes del feminismo. Es así como han logrado primero visibilizar y luego deconstruir y desmontar una serie de patrones existentes en la cultura que hacían a la mujer subordinarse al hombre, y que estaban presentes en el sistema sexo/género.

Imagen relativa a la lucha contra el patriarcado

Hasta ese momento, en las investigaciones de corte sociológico se podía observar un androcentrismo excesivo al dar cuenta de que el discurso científico giraba en torno al hombre como sujeto y objeto de la investigación. Incluso para muchos positivistas como el mismo Weber, los problemas relativos a las mujeres quedaban en un segundo plano y eran achacados a una supuesta pasividad en el ámbito doméstico-familiar. Dicha pasividad partía de la supuesta inferioridad biológica del género femenino.

El patriarcado entonces era una categoría vacía en sí misma, sin valor explicativo. Desde el punto de vista político pudo ser útil para la movilización pero no resistió la polémica de los críticos del feminismo ni problematizó los conflictos a ser resueltos. Pero por otro lado, un grupo de mujeres -académicas principalmente- se puso manos a la obra en una tarea más pequeña pero con mayores resultados a la larga. Se propusieron generar conocimientos sobre las condiciones de vida de la mujer, buscar en el pasado y el presente los aportes de las mujeres a la sociedad, hacerlas visibles en la historia. Es así como surgen centros académicos, ONG, proyectos, centros de estudios sobre la mujer, etc.

Convendría distinguir entonces dos posturas que acompañaron a la investigación sobre las mujeres: uno que toma como objeto de estudio a la mujer; condiciones de vida, trabajo, cultura, y otra que privilegia a la sociedad como generadora de la subordinación de las mujeres. Mientras la primera perspectiva generaba conocimiento sobre las mujeres en el estudio de las relaciones mujer-hombre y mujer-mujer, la segunda tenía una visión más holística ya que planteaba que hay que estudiar la sociedad ya que la subordinación de las mujeres es producto de la organización de esta, y que no se avanzará solamente estudiando a las mujeres, pues el estudio debe ser más amplio y en diferentes niveles, ámbitos y tiempos.

Es en esta búsqueda donde nace y se desarrolla el concepto de género como categoría social. Es así que los sistemas de género/sexo fueron entendidos como conjuntos de prácticas, símbolos, representaciones, normas y valores sociales que las sociedades construyen a partir de la diferencia anatomofisiológica y que dotan de sentido a los impulsos sexuales, la reproducción y en general a las relaciones de las personas. Por tanto, este sistema pasó a ser el objeto de estudio para comprender la subordinación de la mujer al hombre. Al ser el reconocimiento de una dimensión de la desigualdad social hasta entonces desconocida, se considera la ruptura epistemológica más importante de la segunda mitad del siglo pasado.

Imagen representativa del binarismo de género

Hay que decir que los fenómenos sociales se definen por la relación que guardan entre sí. Es así que la contextualización adquiere gran importancia. Varones y hembras tenemos la capacidad de producir con el cuerpo, pero solo los cuerpos de las hembras pueden gestar y por tanto asegurar la especie humana. Todo grupo humano que pretenda sobrevivir debe asegurarse cierto número de hembras que lo hagan posible. De ahí un poder particular del cuerpo de las hembras que además es económicamente útil. Dicho poder no es en tanto entidad biológica, sino que es la sociedad la que le otorga este poder. En este punto es importante preguntarnos históricamente ¿quiénes han controlado la capacidad reproductiva de las mujeres?, ¿quiénes han tenido la preferencia en el acceso sexual? Para asegurar un control efectivo sobre la reproducción es necesario asegurar el acceso a la sexualidad.

Imagen alegórica al embarazo

Ello también lleva a dirigir el trabajo que hacen porque de lo contrario, las mujeres pudieran tener espacio para representar una amenaza al dominio de los hombres. Es importante atender a las etapas del desarrollo de las mujeres, que permitirá ver cómo se moldean para aceptar la desigualdad y las jerarquías según el género en las distintas sociedades y culturas.

Otro contexto a delimitar es el ámbito doméstico donde históricamente ha estado ubicada la subordinación femenina. Se ha puesto al descubierto que en mujeres que comparten la misma posición de clase y raza, la condición femenina se redefine a lo largo de la vida y que algunas mujeres gozan de poder sobre otras aún en contextos de alta dominación masculina, donde se les inviste de autoridad, creando el sistema zonas de incertidumbre que las divide como género e impide alianzas y se legitima la dominación. Foucault decía que «el poder se ejerce, no se posee», siempre está en peligro de perderse y no basta con normas, leyes, amenazas o castigos. De ahí que los espacios de subordinación sean también espacios de poder de las mujeres. Es en estos espacios donde aparece la inseguridad, la tensión, la confrontación y por ejemplo, las mujeres pueden reclamar la anticoncepción.

Para terminar, es importante tener en cuenta que el género es una forma de desigualdad social que siempre está articulado con otras formas de desigualdad ya sea clase, raza, grupo etario, etc. Hay que pensar la dominación masculina con un comienzo vago en el tiempo, pero que permite desligar la subordinación de las mujeres de la evolución «natural» de la humanidad y entenderla como un proceso histórico. En ese sentido es necesario destacar que, respecto a la raza, en sociedades plurales hay que atender al contexto étnico-cultural ya que en dependencia de las relaciones entre personas de razas distintas, estarán condicionadas las relaciones entre los géneros.

Imagen de mujeres de distintas razas

Por otro lado, si bien es sabido que históricamente el sistema de género social imperante ha contribuido a invisibilizar a la mujer, asociar necesariamente dicha categoría únicamente a ella, lo que hace es nuevamente recrear el absolutismo histórico que tanto daño ha hecho, ahora como lo antagónico al hombre. En la construcción social participan todos los individuos presentes en el sistema género.

Hasta aquí la publicación de hoy, de la cual aun se puede ahondar mucho más, sobre todo en lo referido al origen de la dominación o de la jerarquización del binomio «hombre/mujer» desde un punto de vista antropológico, pero eso quedará pendiente para otro momento. ¡Así que hasta la próxima!, ¡nos vemos en Nostr!

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English version

Hello nostriches. Today I want to make a post by way of an approach to the emergence of the categories of gender and feminism. So if you are interested in the topic make an effort, stay and read to the end.

The "new" feminism emerged in the 60's in those developed countries that agreed to recognize the human rights contained in the respective UN declaration. Then, as an extension of that recognition, the feminist movement was born. From then on, the relationship between nature and culture was raised again and the conclusion was reached that social differences go beyond biological differences, which has to do with the fact that even the satisfaction of elementary needs such as food, housing or clothing are conditioned by social constructions.

It turns out that one of the first proposals identified female subordination as a product of a patriarchal organization, taking Max Weber's category of patriarchy. This is how the vision of patriarchy was extended to political and academic discourse. However, there was no information about the historical development of this category, systematization, variations, etc., because it was something that was only recently perceived in society.

However, the same category of patriarchy, together with that of power relations to explain contemporary social phenomena, constitutes one of the main contributions of feminism. This is how they have first made visible and then deconstructed and dismantled a series of existing patterns in the culture that made women subordinate to men, and that were present in the sex/gender system.

Image relating to the fight against patriarchy

Up to that time, in sociological research, an excessive androcentrism could be observed as scientific discourse revolved around men as the subject and object of research. Even for many positivists such as Weber himself, the problems related to women remained in the background and were blamed on a supposed passivity in the domestic-family sphere. This passivity was based on the supposed biological inferiority of the female gender.

Patriarchy was then an empty category in itself, with no explanatory value. From the political point of view, it could be useful for mobilization, but it did not resist the polemic of feminism's critics, nor did it problematize the conflicts to be resolved. But on the other hand, a group of women - mainly academics - set to work on a smaller task but with greater results in the long run. They set out to generate knowledge about women's living conditions, to search in the past and present for women's contributions to society, to make them visible in history. This is how academic centers, NGOs, projects, women's studies centers, etc., came into being.

It would be convenient to distinguish then two postures that accompanied the research on women: one that takes women as the object of study; living conditions, work, culture, and the other that privileges society as the generator of women's subordination. While the first perspective generated knowledge about women in the study of woman-man and woman-woman relations, the second had a more holistic vision, since it proposed that society must be studied, since the subordination of women is a product of its organization, and that progress will not be made only by studying women, since the study must be broader and at different levels, spheres and times.

It is in this search that the concept of gender as a social category was born and developed. Thus, gender/sex systems were understood as a set of practices, symbols, representations, norms and social values that societies construct on the basis of anatomophysiological differences and that give meaning to sexual impulses, reproduction and, in general, to people's relationships. Therefore, this system became the object of study to understand the subordination of women to men. As the recognition of a hitherto unknown dimension of social inequality, it is considered the most important epistemological breakthrough of the second half of the last century.

Representative image of gender binarism

It must be said that social phenomena are defined by their relationship with each other. Thus, contextualization acquires great importance. Males and females have the capacity to produce with their bodies, but only the bodies of females can gestate and therefore ensure the human species. Any human group that intends to survive must ensure a certain number of females to make it possible. Hence a particular power of the female body, which is also economically useful. This power is not as a biological entity, but it is society that gives it this power. At this point it is important to ask ourselves historically, who has controlled the reproductive capacity of women, who has had the preference in sexual access? To ensure effective control over reproduction, it is necessary to ensure access to sexuality.

Allegorical image of pregnancy

This also leads to directing the work they do because otherwise, women may have room to pose a threat to men's dominance. It is important to pay attention to the stages of women's development, which will allow us to see how they are shaped to accept inequality and gender hierarchies in different societies and cultures.

Another context to delimit is the domestic sphere where female subordination has historically been located. It has been discovered that in women who share the same class and race position, the feminine condition is redefined throughout life and that some women enjoy power over others even in contexts of high male domination, where they are invested with authority, creating the system of uncertainty zones that divide them as a gender and prevent alliances and legitimize domination. Foucault said that "power is exercised, not possessed", it is always in danger of being lost and norms, laws, threats or punishments are not enough. Hence, the spaces of subordination are also spaces of women's power. It is in these spaces where insecurity, tension, confrontation appear and where, for example, women can demand contraception.

To conclude, it is important to keep in mind that gender is a form of social inequality that is always articulated with other forms of inequality, be it class, race, age group, etc. It is necessary to think of male domination with a vague beginning in time, but which allows us to separate the subordination of women from the "natural" evolution of humanity and to understand it as a historical process. In this sense, it is necessary to emphasize that, with respect to race, in plural societies it is necessary to pay attention to the ethno-cultural context since, depending on the relations between people of different races, the relations between genders will be conditioned.

Image of women of different races

On the other hand, although it is known that historically the prevailing social gender system has contributed to make women invisible, to necessarily associate this category only to women is to recreate the historical absolutism that has done so much damage, this time as antagonistic to men. All individuals present in the gender system participate in the social construction.

So much for today's publication, of which we can still go much deeper, especially with regard to the origin of domination or the hierarchization of the binomial "man/woman" from an anthropological point of view, but that will be left for another time. So until next time, see you in Nostr!

Créditos | Credits

Bibliografía consultada | Consulted bibliography:

1. Barbieri, T. (1993). Sobre la categoría género. Una introducción teórico-metodológica. Debates en Sociología. (18). 1-19. https://doi.org/10.18800/debatesensociologia.199301.006

2. Echevarría, D. (2020). Desigualdades de género e interseccionalidad. Análisis del contexto cubano 2008-2018. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Programa-Cuba). https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana-cm/libro_detalle_resultado.php?id_libro=2346&campo=cm&texto=248

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There was a significant amount of AI-related news emerging last week from Silicon Valley companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Company X. The first notable development was Gork, a new AI initiative from Twitter and Company X, designed to utilize Twitter data extensively. Additionally, OpenAI made headlines with its announcement of Custom GPT models. However, these developments seem to be following a similar, potentially outdated playbook.

These companies continue to operate under a closed-source model, creating what some might describe as 'walled gardens.' This approach restricts user access and control over the AI technologies and raises concerns about transparency and inclusivity. The lack of clarity regarding the usage of personal data by these AI systems is another critical issue. With increasing awareness and concern about data privacy, the vague policies of these companies regarding personal data handling can lead to user distrust and skepticism.

Why is this time different, and how is Nostr the linchpin in building a real open AI platform? Over the past year, we have developed many Nostr clients to emulate existing social media apps. Now, it's time to create something new, demonstrating its distinctiveness and necessity.

Why Open Source & Private Large Language Models (LLMs): To understand why open source LLMs are essential, one must first comprehend the nature of language models. Fundamentally, these models are extensive neural networks trained on vast amounts of text. Their primary function is to predict the next word in a sequence, based on the observed patterns in the training data. They do not "think" or "feel" in the conventional sense. Instead, they generate text based on learned patterns.

These simple questions are within LLMs' capabilities: “What is the capital of France?” “Write me a paragraph about how automobiles work.”

However, these questions require the user to provide the necessary data and prompt engineering:

“Can you find an Italian restaurant in the suburbs of Washington D.C., which also serves vegetarian options and is open until 12 AM?” “Can you devise a vacation plan to Dubai based on my personal history of hotels I’ve stayed at, availability, pricing, and other places to visit according to my preferences?”

Essentially, you need your personal data to derive real value, but simultaneously, you must keep that data private, encrypted, and prevent it from being used by others for training purposes.

This is the reason behind NIP-90 - Data Vending Machines, and the latest merged PR for encrypting prompts and user data.

Why AI Agents? OpenAI has released functionality to build custom GPTs (also known as AI agents). We may already have custom AI agents on Nostr through PlebAI, released back in October. Refer to this article here.

Each AI agent possesses its unique instructions, knowledge, and actions it can perform. This eliminates the need for specific system prompts to receive responses.

We have now integrated all these agents into the Current App so that anyone interested in interacting with these agents can find them in one place within their mobile app.

We have also included a subscription model, so you do not have to pay for each individual interaction. Simply subscribe to our Surge plan on iOS for only $3.99 to get unlimited image and text generation with all AI agents. Once subscribed, you can use these AI agents on any Nostr clients through direct messages. Just DM them to receive a response.

Here's the link to download Current App for iOS and android, if you prefer to access through web, AI agents are avaialble on PlebAI

Go ahead, explore it, and share your feedback by joining our community on Discord.

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Javier Milei ganhou as eleições na Argentina, um anarcocapitalista.

A vitória do Milei é a representação do desespero de um povo, farto de décadas de socialismo, próximo do comunismo. O Milei representa o oposto de um político, fala o que pensa, sem medir as consequências das suas palavras. 

Em campanha eleitoral, faltou mal do Papa e do Maradona, dois “símbolos” nacionais. Para piorar, elogiou Margaret Thatcher, que é um “inimigo” nacional, devido à guerra das Malvinas. Tinha tudo para dar errado mas não, ganhou, incrível.

Apesar de eu gostar de algumas ideias dele, como a liberdade de circulação de moeda, a redução do estado e combate à corrupção. O grande problema é que ele não tem uma maioria no congresso, as suas ideias serão difíceis de serem implementadas, correndo o risco de ficar tudo bloqueado.

O Milei é meio louco, parece não ter um perfil dialogante, que será essencial para fazer as reformas, num governo sem maioria.

Ele é um grande economista, um tecnocrata, mas na política por vezes tem que existir um equilíbrio entre a teoria econômica e a realidade no terreno. Por trás dos números estão pessoas, assim as reformas têm de ser graduais, senão provocará demasiados danos colaterais. Esses danos colaterais são pessoas.

Em economia ele pode ser bom, mas em diplomacia internacional deve ser péssimo

Milei vai necessitar do apoio da Patrícia Bullrich, talvez ela dê um equilíbrio ao governo, é necessário uma revolução mas esta deve ser gradual.

Ainda existe um outro problema, se correr mal, a decepção vai ser muito grande, na próxima eleição, possivelmente a Argentina vai “virar” mais para a esquerda, mais que o atual presidente em exercício.

Estou com mau feeling, tenho receio que isto corra mal para a Argentina, espero mesmo estar errado. Espero que esta esperança de liberdade não se transforme numa decepção.

¡Viva la Libertad, carajo!

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Happy Sunday #Nostr !

Here’s your #NostrTechWeekly newsletter brought to you by nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk written by nostr:npub1r3fwhjpx2njy87f9qxmapjn9neutwh7aeww95e03drkfg45cey4qgl7ex2

The #NostrTechWeekly is a weekly newsletter focused on the more technical happenings in the nostr-verse.

Let’s dive in!

Recent Upgrades to Nostr (AKA NIPs)

1) Updates to NIP 90: Encryption of DVM Data

Data Vending Machines are a way for people to pay for bots to do tasks for them, and for the provider of bots to make income from making those bots available. The marketplace for such is young, but has immense potential.

This proposal adds even more capabilities by outlining a way for users to optionally encrypt the inputs and outputs of tasks facilitated by DVMs. As privacy and freedom oriented people on Nostr, we can’t say no to encryption by default! Thanks nostr:npub10dzw2nn9gx2n6vvxak3ezp9dpsqy87kgnhrrglgqm7mn2vyeec9slef20x !

2) (Proposed) NIP 86: Shared Keys

This proposal introduces a mechanism for sharing keys within Nostr communities, specifically those managed by an admin.

The process involves distributing a 'kind 24' rumor created by the admin’s key and encrypted with a shared key and individually addressed to each member. Possession of the shared key allows users to decrypt content encrypted by the shared key, creating private content for users in possession.

Keys can be rotated as needed and are facilitated by the admin key publishing new 'kind 24' rumors, ensuring continuous security.

This NIP is critical for the functionality of Closed Communities, as it underpins their secure communication framework

Author: hodlbod earonesty vitorpamplona water783

3) (Proposed) NIP 87: Closed Communities

The second, and related, proposal is for Closed Communities. This proposal aims to provide a degree of privacy in Nostr's inherently public architecture. It builds upon the existing ability to define communities in Nostr, the “member lists” mechanism, as well as the proposed key sharing mechanism (NIP #86) to create private group communication within communities on Nostr.

This NIP outlines a community structure using the existing 'kind 34550' event for identification and administration, managed by a dedicated admin key, while a shared key is used for communication within the group.

Possession of their admin or shared keys creates access to the community, so managers of these communities will have to take care to keep the community private by strictly controlling access to the keys.

I’m glad there’s experimentation in this space. We can always use SimpleX but if we can get something truly private and technically elegant on Nostr, we will all benefit.

Author: hodlbod earonesty vitorpamplona water783

4) (Proposed) NIP 100: Android Signer Application

On phones, it’s not quite as easy to use a Nostr browser extension to authorize clients as it is on a desktop.

This proposal outlines the concept of a “signer” app that contains the user’s nsec, and all other apps on the phone can request event signing from the signer app as needed. Just like the browser extension! It’s elegant and allows users to minimize the exposure of their private keys. 🔒

I don’t know if apps are allowed to do the same thing on iOS, so this may something uniquely available to Android users.

Author: greenart7c3

Notable Projects

Calendar and events on Nosta 📅

Nosta is a profile-first client that makes every profile look its best. Nosta also helps users discover all kinds of content published by each profile instead of just their kind 1 notes (tweets). Super helpful and a nice take on a general purpose Nostr client 💪

Nosta recently announced updates that they now support calendars managed by Nostr users. Looks great 🙌

Author: nostr:npub1kuc70777tsvj67fl75s2dmy376t97hv05xmyuyshzzy6vhj5q5jstv0eyw Nosta Github

Recent improvements to NostrNet.Work 🌐

NostrNet.Work is organically growing into a browser for Nostr. It can serve as a homepage/dashboard for your Nostr life, and you can move into any realm of Nostr easily without remembering or bookmarking a bunch of urls.

Recently nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f introduced better notes so that you can draft notes, save them while you’re offline if they’re private. Or you can even publish them later if you like.

Additionally nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f shipped better navigation and seems to be leaning in to becoming a browser and may introduce tabs soon. So you can navigate the nostr-verse without leaving NostrNet.Work.

Latest conversations: Funding Nostr Projects

In a recent article, Semisol highlighted a crucial issue for Nostr: the severe underfunding of its development and infrastructure, which threatens the protocol's sustainability.

Semi delves into all the options currently available for funding development and infrastructure, outlining the risks posed by current funding models and the potential for Nostr's degradation without proper financial support.

Onboarding an economy

Nostr can’t rely on hobbyists and good will forever. We need profitable companies to be building on top of Nostr, so we naturally we need to convince some group of buyers and sellers that using something built on Nostr is better than their current setup.

If we can onboard a whole existing economy wholesale, we can build a core of profitability which keeps the engine of Nostr development churning.

Focusing on Content Creators

At this point, I believe that the best options would be content creators. Content creators — be they musicians, YouTubers, streamers, or writers — are currently being screwed over by their platforms (Spotify, record labels, youtube, twitch, substack, patreon, etc). These platform take exorbitant fees and they threaten to deplatform creators if they step out of line.

If Nostr could offer a seamless way for content creators (especially those aggrieved by malicious platforms) to migrate their content monetization to a Nostr-based solution, all would benefit.

Starting with Patreon

Bitcoin and Lightning can offer a much lower fee version of Patreon with little additional development from the work that’s been done so far. Patreon takes ~8%, if someone put the pieces together and created a Patreon, it wouldn’t be crazy that that product could profitably charge 1% or 2% instead.

Migrating would a no-brainer because most content creators don’t primary publish via Patreon, they merely use Patreon to manage the monthly financial support of their most loyal supporters. This severely reduces the amount of features needed to start pulling creators away from Patreon.

On top of that, content creators can keep their main content publishing up, and even their existing Patreon account, and slowly cut people over to the Nostr-based alternative so there’s very little risk to them.

Substack next?

Many writers out there use Substack or have paid subscriptions for their “premium” blog. Substack charges 10% plus the 3% for payment processing on top of that.

Nostr already provides most of the features of Substack, with some development integrating Lightning payments to unlock specific content, we can start offering a better deal for creators. The Nostr protocol and Lightning are already doing most of the work!

Waiting to do the hard content

Video and audio hosting is more expensive to run. Live-streaming even more so. Don’t even get me started on building an advertiser network.

The reason Patreon and Substack would be relatively easy is because they’re just managing membership and passing around text. Lightning and the Nostr protocol have already done most of the heavy lifting with this kind of content.

If we can make an amazing product that frees a subset of content creators, we can earn the right to solve audio, video and live streaming (and the profit necessary to invest in). We can survive (and thrive) long enough to keep taking steps forward.

Bitcoin as the payment rail, cash out in fiat

Many content creators aren’t ready to operate in Bitcoin, but there are many Bitcoin wallets (Strike, CashApp, etc) that are great bridges to fiat. This would allow content creators to get the best of the cheaper payment rails but still have the choice to pay rent in their local currency.

We’ll be able to orange pill them over time, but thanks to the work of companies like Block and Strike there’s little downside for content creators if we go this direction.

Purple-pilling

Once supporters of content creators migrate from Patreon and Substack, we’ll be able to show them the broader horizons that come with a Nostr-based solution. They may have signed up for the Patreon-like client, but they can be taught that their identity and their followers are portable. Not to mention all the amazing things that are only possible on Nostr.

It becomes much more feasible to convince folks to explore the rest of what Nostr has to offer once we offer that killer feature that makes them want to join in the first place.

Until next time 🫡

If you want to see something highlighted, if we missed anything, or if you’re building something we didn’t post about, let us know. DMs welcome at nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk

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Table Of Content

• The Accidental Revelation

• Who is James Zhong?

• The IRS and the Silk Road Hack

• The Trap is Set

• Zhong's Bitcoin Legacy

• The Final Blow

• Conclusion

• FAQ

In the vast realm of cryptocurrency, where anonymity is often celebrated, one hacker's oversight led to a dramatic downfall. The Silk Road saga, already infamous for its dark web dealings, took another twist when a hacker inadvertently showcased a fortune in Bitcoin to federal investigators. This tale of James Zhong, the Silk Road hacker, is a testament to the unpredictable turns of the digital age and the consequences of a single lapse in judgment.

The Accidental Revelation

In a scene that could be straight out of a suspense thriller, police body cam footage captured a moment that would seal the fate of the Silk Road hacker. Oblivious to the watchful eyes of federal investigators, he casually opened his laptop, revealing thousands of Bitcoin. This act, simple in its execution but profound in its implications, became the linchpin of his self-incrimination.

Who is James Zhong?

James Zhong, now synonymous with one of the most significant heists in cryptocurrency history, was indicted by the US government for siphoning off over 50,000 BTC from the Silk Road in 2012. His story took an ironic twist in 2019 when, following a break-in at his home, he reached out to the police. Amidst the chaos of the break-in, Zhong, perhaps in a moment of misplaced trust, mentioned his Bitcoin investments over the phone, inadvertently casting a spotlight on himself in the eyes of keen investigators.

The IRS and the Silk Road Hack

The IRS, with its dedicated Criminal Investigation unit, was simultaneously delving deep into the mysteries of the 2013 Silk Road hack. Their meticulous examination of the on-chain paper trail was like piecing together a digital jigsaw puzzle. Their breakthrough came when an investigator from Chainalysis identified an address linked to the Silk Road hacker. This address had mistakenly undergone a KYC procedure with a cryptocurrency exchange, a slip that laid bare Zhong’s identity and residence, mere months after his distress call.

The Trap is Set

In a collaborative effort with Shaun MaGruder, the brain behind the cyber intelligence firm BlockTrace, the IRS hatched a plan. They decided to approach Zhong at his home, feigning interest in the break-in he had reported. Once inside, Zhong, perhaps driven by pride or overconfidence, declared his status as a "Bitcoin OG". He boasted of possessing 1,500 BTC on just one laptop and, in a move that would prove costly, displayed this treasure to the investigators. MaGruder, reflecting on the gravity of the moment, remarked, “It was astonishing. He had $60 or $70 million worth of Bitcoins right beside us, just like that.”

Zhong's Bitcoin Legacy

Zhong wasn't merely a Bitcoin enthusiast; he was a luminary in the early days of Bitcoin's evolution. As one of the pioneering contributors, he was deeply involved in its development, often sharing his expertise on online forums. His suggestions and insights were not just casual comments; they were instrumental in shaping the trajectory of the Bitcoin protocol.

The Final Blow

The investigators, maintaining their façade of being Zhong's allies, made a return visit the next day. This time, their intentions were clear. Armed with a search warrant and aided by a dog trained to sniff out computer hardware, they unearthed wallets linked to the 50,000 BTC. Ingeniously hidden in a safe encased in concrete beneath Zhong’s basement, this treasure, once valued at over $3 billion, became the final nail in his proverbial coffin. For his indiscretions related to the Silk Road hack, Zhong was handed a prison sentence of one year and one day.

Conclusion

The tale of James Zhong serves as a stark reminder of the fine line between genius and oversight in the digital world. While his contributions to Bitcoin's development cannot be overlooked, his inadvertent revelations led to his undoing. In a world where digital footprints are as real as physical ones, the story underscores the importance of discretion and the unpredictable nature of the crypto realm.

FAQs

Who is James Zhong? James Zhong is the hacker associated with stealing over 50,000 BTC from the Silk Road in 2012.

How was Zhong caught? Zhong inadvertently revealed his Bitcoin holdings to federal investigators, leading to his arrest.

What was the Silk Road? The Silk Road was an infamous online black market, primarily known for illegal trade.

How much was the stolen Bitcoin worth? The stolen Bitcoin, at its peak, was valued at over $3 billion.

What was Zhong's sentence? James Zhong was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for his involvement in the Silk Road hacking incident.

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Is Bitcoin a fundamental change in the nature of money ?

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency, which means it is not controlled by any government or financial institution. This is a fundamental change from the traditional nature of money, which has typically been controlled by governments or central banks.

The decentralization of Bitcoin has several important implications:

• Censorship resistance and manipulation: Bitcoin is more resistant to censorship and manipulation by governments or financial institutions. This is because Bitcoin is not subject to government regulations or capital controls.

• Transparency and auditability: Bitcoin is more transparent and auditable than traditional money. This is because Bitcoin is based on a public ledger called blockchain. The blockchain records all Bitcoin transactions, making it more difficult to conceal illegal activities.

• Democratization of access to money: Bitcoin has the potential to democratize access to money. This is because Bitcoin does not require a bank account or any other type of traditional financial infrastructure.

If Bitcoin is adopted on a large scale, this could lead to a fundamental change in the nature of money. Bitcoin could make money more accessible, more secure, and more democratic.

How Bitcoin could represent a fundamental change in the nature of money

• Bitcoin can facilitate international trade: Bitcoin is a global currency, which means it can be used to make financial transactions anywhere in the world. This could facilitate international trade, making it faster, cheaper, and more efficient.

• Bitcoin can reduce corruption: Bitcoin is more transparent and auditable than traditional money, which could make corruption and bribery more difficult.

• Bitcoin can promote financial inclusion: Bitcoin can help people who do not have access to traditional financial services, such as people who live in developing countries or who do not have a bank account.

It is important to note that the impact of Bitcoin on the nature of money is still uncertain. However, Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the way money is created, used, and controlled.

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El medio estatal Trabajadores informó el 7 de noviembre sobre la presentación del Decreto 96 "Protocolo de Actuación ante Situaciones de Discriminación, Violencia y Acoso en el Ámbito Laboral", en una nota titulada "Tolerancia cero ante discriminación, violencia y acoso laboral".

La falta de una norma de este tipo en Cuba ha propiciado que muchas personas fueran expulsadas de sus trabajos o centros de enseñanza por motivos que incluyen el rechazo al sistema político implantado en la Isla.

Aunque los casos de acoso y discriminación por motivos políticos en centros laborales cubanos no llegan a la a los medios estatales, abundan las denuncias en la prensa independiente. Muchos han sido documentados en los informes del Observatorio de Libertad Académica (OLA).

El portal estatal Cubadebate admitió a inicios de octubre que en el ordenamiento jurídico laboral del país existían más desafíos que soluciones. Esas carencias salieron a relucir en los comentarios de los lectores, pues varios contaron experiencias de acoso o discriminación en sus centros de trabajo. En ninguno de esos casos reflejados en los comentarios que publicó el medio estatal, los hechos tuvieron que ver con la orientación política de las personas discriminadas o acosadas.

Según Cubadebate, Cuba "cuenta con un escenario diferente" desde el 28 de septiembre, cuando fue publicado el mencionado Decreto 96 en la Gaceta Oficial de la República. Varios lectores celebraron la aprobación de la norma, que consideraron "muy necesaria".

La norma resulta esperanzadora ya que protege a "todas las personas que ejerzan un trabajo bajo la subordinación de un empleador" y a "los estudiantes que ejecutan prácticas preprofesionales en las entidades", explicó Cubadebate.

Sin embargo, el decreto también allana el camino para que los empleadores o directores de centros estudiantiles puedan continuar expulsando a aquellas personas que se atrevan a manifestar su rechazo a las autoridades y al modelo político impuesto en la Isla.

El decreto, aprobado por el Consejo de Ministros, define la discriminación como "cualquier distinción, exclusión o preferencia basada en motivos de sexo, género, orientación sexual, identidad de género, edad, origen étnico, color de la piel, creencia religiosa, discapacidad, origen nacional o territorial, o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal que implique distinción lesiva a la dignidad humana, que tenga por efecto anular o alterar el disfrute de los derechos laborales o de trato en el empleo, su admisión, el acceso a la formación profesional, así como las condiciones de trabajo".

Salta a la vista que entre los motivos por los que una persona puede ser discriminada no aparece la orientación política ni la ideología, pero podría resultar tranquilizador leer "o cualquier otra condición o circunstancia personal". Esta frase parecería indicar que nadie podrá ser objeto de discriminación por razones políticas.

Pero, enseguida, la norma aclara que "no se considerarán discriminaciones aquellas basadas en la idoneidad demostrada de los trabajadores".

En Cuba, la palabra "idoneidad" es sinónimo de alineación con la política y los intereses del régimen. No es posible ser considerado idóneo sin ser afín al Partido Comunista y sin mostrar entusiasmo para cumplir sus órdenes.

En julio de 2021, cuando estallaron las protestas antigubernamentales conocidas como 11J, la dirección del Grupo Empresarial de Transporte Marítimo Portuario (GEMAR) movilizó a sus empleados para que cumplieran funciones parapoliciales en el barrio San Isidro. Para desempeñarlas, los trabajadores serían armados con palos, según contó a DIARIO DE CUBA Yamilet Ramos Limés, especialista de cuadro en la empresa estatal.

Ella se negó y fue expulsada inmediatamente. Cuando cuestionó la decisión, el director le dijo que podía apelar, pero que la llevarían a una comisión de idoneidad.

"Iba a ser peor para mí porque saldría con una sanción en mi expediente laboral", explicó Ramos Limés.

Tres meses antes, Manuel de la Cruz Pascual fue separado de su puesto de profesor de Historia por su cercanía al Movimiento San Isidro, principalmente a su líder, Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.

Otero Alcántara había organizado una fiesta para niños en la que Cruz Pascual actuaría disfrazado de payaso. Ambos fueron arrestados para impedir la celebración. El profesor fue despedido de su trabajo días después.

"En la carta de expulsión los motivos son claros 'por la pérdida de idoneidad y no estar acorde con los principios revolucionarios'", explicó Cruz Pascual a DIARIO DE CUBA.

Berta del Carmen Mexidor Vázquez fue profesora de Economía en la Universidad de Las Tunas hasta 1997. En ese año, fue convocada a tres reuniones en las que la conminaron a que disolviera su matrimonio con el activista Humberto Colás Castillo y se distanciara de los ambientes disidentes, explicó OLA en su informe de septiembre de 2023.

Como la profesora se negó, el rector de la universidad la expulsó. El argumento se repite: "pérdida de idoneidad para enseñar a las nuevas generaciones".

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En una victoria histórica que ha sacudido el escenario político de América Latina, Javier Milei, candidato del partido Libertad Avanza, ha sido elegido presidente de Argentina. Su triunfo, con un 55,89% con el 91,81 % de las mesas escrutadas, no solo simboliza un cambio en la dirección política de la nación, sino que también marca el ascenso de un nuevo líder que desafía abiertamente el comunismo y las políticas de izquierda en la región.

El surgimiento de Milei y su partido, La Libertad Avanza, es una historia de ascenso meteórico. Hasta 2021, Milei era un personaje relativamente marginal en la política argentina. Su elección como diputado ese año marcó el inicio de un cambio dramático. Con un discurso centrado en la libertad individual y una fuerte crítica al comunismo y a las políticas de izquierda, Milei capturó la atención y el apoyo de una población cansada de las viejas políticas.

Javier Milei: "Hoy comienza la reconstrucción de Argentina"

"El modelo de la decadencia ha llegado a su fin. No hay vuelta atrás", dijo Milei ante sus seguidores, tras ganar la segunda vuelta presidencial. "Basta del modelo empobrecedor de la casta, hoy abrazamos la libertad para volver a ser una potencia mundial", agregó.

"Que se entienda bien: la situación de Argentina es crítica. Los cambios que nuestro país necesita son drásticos. No hay lugar para el gradualismo, no hay lugar para la tibieza, no hay lugar para las medias tintas", señaló el líder de la Libertad Avanza.

"Tenemos problemas monumentales por delante: la inflación, el estancamiento, la falta de empleo genuino, la inseguridad, la pobreza y la indigencia. Problemas que solo tienen solución si volvemos a abrazar las ideas de la libertad", añadió Milei.

Hoy, Argentina se embarca en un nuevo capítulo de su historia. Con Milei a la cabeza, prometiendo un periodo de esplendor y libertad, muchos ven en su gobierno la posibilidad de un cambio profundo. Invocando la protección divina y con un espíritu de renovación, la administración de Milei promete transformar no solo Argentina, sino también ser un faro de esperanza contra el autoritarismo y el comunismo en América Latina.

Este triunfo no es solo una victoria política; es un mensaje contundente a los regímenes comunistas y autoritarios en la región. Con Milei, Argentina se posiciona como un símbolo de resistencia y un defensor de la libertad y la democracia.

Por su parte el presidente de Colombia, Gustavo Petro al conocer la noticia de la Victoria de Javier Milei en Argentina expresó: "Ha ganado la extrema derecha en Argentina; es la decisión de su sociedad. Triste para América Latina y ya veremos... el neoliberalismo ya no tiene propuesta para la sociedad, no puede responder a los problemas actuales de la humanidad."

ante este Tweet el presidente de El Salvador Nayib Bukele le respondió

"Ahora dilo sin llorar 😂"

Tambien el ex Presidente de los Estados Unidos de America y actual candidato presidencial republicano Donald Trump se hizo eco de la victoria del Economista Argentino y le felicito a través de la red social X (anteriormente Twitter)

Para los amantes de la Libertad en todo el mundo y para las victimas de regímenes comunistas la victoria de Javier Milei representa un faro de luz.

Con Dios por delante, la era Milei comienza con la promesa de un futuro próspero y libre para Argentina.

!Viva la Libertad Carajo!

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Military service members and veterans can appreciate bitcoin on a deeper level than most people realize. By personally knowing the cost of war, veterans are primed to peacefully raise those costs further and usher in a bright orange future. In this essay, I seek to explore aspects of my time in the US Army that helped me find the bitcoin rabbit hole and how finding it has improved my life. I certainly can’t speak for anyone else but hope that fellow vets and plebs will find something familiar or encouraging here as they upgrade to life on a bitcoin standard.

Bitcoin is freedom technology

In the United States, decades of an all-volunteer force have been possible from both issuing the global reserve currency and having young people self-select to take greater risks than their peers. Setting aside valid debates about the ethics and employment of said military, individuals who seek purpose far beyond the self in youth may be inclined to carry that trait forward. Accomplishing big things in the pursuit of noble ideals is like bitcoin in that once you see it, you can’t un-see it.

Purpose-driven and mission-oriented lifestyles are clearly abnormal under the incentives of a fiat monetary regime – especially when those lifestyles voluntarily center on brutally hard work and profound responsibility. But people animated as such are well-positioned to lead in other capacities throughout their lives.

Individuals who choose to join the military are no better or worse than others based on that choice. However, service members do enter a subculture that is markedly different from broader society. Most internalize good elements of that subculture like valuing hard work, prioritizing team over self, embracing humility, constantly learning, and possessing confidence to tackle daunting challenges. However, there are also many negative parts of the military ripe for disruption. After running into the bad aspects frequently enough, individuals hit their own tipping point where they recognize it’s time to get out.

For me, the tipping point came when my wife delivered our first kid in an Army hospital. Suffice it to say, government-run healthcare can be appalling. While I deployed again after deciding to get out and made almost every possible mistake in the transition to civilian life, the best decision I made was to stack bitcoin. Owning this unique money forced me to think about it more deeply, question other investments, and running bitcoin became a hobby in its own right.

“Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There’s nothing to relate it to.” – Satoshi Nakamoto

Newcomers to bitcoin may struggle to see past its novelty. Veterans who are accustomed to being humbled by circumstances may have an advantage with taking an open-minded approach. Here are the main reasons I think veterans are more readily inclined to take the orange pill than the general population and why it matters:

1. Freedom: Bitcoin is more aligned with American values than the dollar system. Veterans surrendered some of their rights in the military and can appreciate freedom sincerely when they reacquire it. Those who see the practical utility of peer-to-peer electronic cash may graduate to recognizing that the impossibly huge amounts of debt, debasement, corruption, and surveillance in the dollar system threaten individual liberty. Opting for better money is a liberating experience, the type of thing many of us only dreamed about in uniform.
2. Purpose: With fiat money threatening freedom, bitcoin offers a purpose worth pursuing. Why limit freedom technology to yourself when its benefits grow from network effects? Veterans are often leaders in their families, workplaces, and communities. When they grok bitcoin and begin to shill it (as is the custom for many newcoiners and OGs alike), veterans can be convincing salesmen. Connecting to and educating others on bitcoin can help this grassroots movement succeed. Veterans who work to separate money and state are building on their prior service in a profoundly wholesome way.
3. Peace: US veterans of recent generations fought in wars their country didn’t care to understand and didn’t have to because the money printer enabled policymakers’ hubris. Veterans learned the cost of war and saw the human condition in broken places. As a voluntary system, bitcoin can’t be forcibly imposed on others. Using public-private key pairs, hodlers’ wealth can’t be easily taken either. Under a bitcoin standard, any “leaders” who want to fight will have to make an exceptionally compelling case to raise funds and mobilize for war. Veterans who want to protect future generations from the horror of war can appreciate the peace that will be possible when we separate money and state.
4. Savings technology: Plenty of veterans broke their bodies in uniform, reducing future opportunities and earnings potential. Throwing on 100 pounds of gear and walking many miles over rough terrain to get in gunfights is a fairly typical day for infantrymen. Developing arthritis before age 30, however, doesn’t open any doors in the private sector. Like Russell Okung’s work championing bitcoin for athletes, veterans can benefit from saving in a superior money. Some of our bodies may give out prematurely but our purchasing power shouldn’t. Pro tip (a la Dan Held): VA disability payments are great for stacking sats.
5. Connection: After leaving the military, many veterans struggle to relate to family, friends, colleagues, and community members. After seeing the best and worst of humanity, it can be hard for veterans to find a new tribe like they had in former platoons, flights, or vessels. There is no such hardship among bitcoiners, where shared values and incentives support cooperation and reaching global consensus requires a real meritocracy of ideas. I am amazed daily at the caliber of bitcoiners’ work and by the number of veterans I see adopting it. It feels good to be on a winning team.

Bitcoin is healing technology

“Only you know the shit you’ve been through. You gotta take care of yourself now.” I couldn’t believe it, hearing my First Sergeant acknowledge human weakness. While catching up over brunch, he shared ghastly physical and mental receipts from an infantryman’s career. His skeleton was ground to chalk, he had cancer, his parasympathetic nervous system was fried, and he was slowing down for the first time in his life.

At 40 and recently retired, my old First Sergeant spent over 5 years in combat on several deployments. He survived Sadr City, the Arghandab Valley, and even brigade headquarters. He was a great mentor to many and we especially bonded over “talking” machine guns and shipping home one of our fallen. Now we were both out of the Army and looking down a rabbit hole together that I didn’t know existed, how warriors can reconnect with their humanity.

Just 9 months into the civilian world too, my nervous system was still cooking – waking up 20 times per night, scanning constantly for ambushes, and planning how to kill coworkers in meetings should they become insider threats. I just assumed these moments were normal, unavoidable, and besides, other people had been through far worse and needed help more. However, First Sergeant’s encouragement steered me to accessing care in the VA system, which has been surprisingly good to both of us.

As a civilian, I filled newfound leisure time with the gym, reading, picking stocks, and earning an MBA. Life was laughably simple in fiat land. Colleagues complained about 45-hour work weeks or gossip in meetings while I had just left 140-hour weeks chasing terrorists with Afghan allies who would occasionally shoot at us too. Although life became simpler as a civilian, post-traumatic stress quickly showed that it wasn’t easier.

Mundane things in everyday life brought up strong reactions that I couldn’t consciously control and would shut down my emotions for days at a time. The smells of changing a diaper would instantly transport my mind to the smells of loading a friend into a body bag. The sound of fireworks would set my heart racing and conjure images of car bombs and rockets. Sitting with my back to a door would induce later nightmares about insider attacks (sometimes called “green on blue.”) Anxiety was my new normal, constantly on guard for things to avoid.

Years of psychotherapy helped me learn to control my reaction to those flashbacks and invasive memories, especially eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Yet I still struggled between sessions as new stimuli entered the picture from kids and work. It felt like I plateaued and would never find inner peace or new purpose. This is where bitcoin began to shine as a tool for healing.

Buying bitcoin for its number go up technology at first, I also found it fascinating to learn about. Curiosity helped me succeed in the military by obsessing over the details of becoming a better Soldier and leader. With the staggering amount of free time available in civilian life, curiosity came to the rescue again regarding bitcoin and learning how to hodl.

While obsessing over bitcoin, I began to notice mental updates installing. These included optimism and purpose, highly refreshing to my burned out and depressed psyche. During and after moments of deep learning like reading about difficulty adjustments, running coinjoin software on my node, or coordinating a multisignature quorum, I recognized an abatement of post-traumatic stress symptoms. Did filling my head with new content evict some of the demons? Probably.

In no particular order, I came to identify focus, trust, and hope as aspects of interacting with bitcoin that supported my mental health. They’re equally important but presenting them this way is like a shortened acronym for “faith” so I’m gonna roll with it.

Focus

Combat is the ultimate high time preference activity. Advantages in training and technology don’t guarantee survival. Inches separate life and death on a two-way range, so respect for the enemy and acceptance of randomness are essential. No amount of preparation can make this humbling experience real until you’re shot at for the first time. People can either learn to focus in combat or they die.

While civilian peers spent their 20s chasing frequent dopamine hits, veterans found far bigger dopamine hits. However, the totality of a mindset one needs to survive and thrive in battle isn’t sustainable. Holding onto a high time preference leads some veterans into risky behaviors, addiction, and despair. Nations also become addicted to war when they combine perceived advantages with urgency for their politics, disregarding the second- and third-order effects of violence.

After the military, I struggled to focus even though it had been a previous strength. It was nearly impossible to meaningfully concentrate on minutiae that made no difference in anyone’s life – which is an unfortunately large share of economic activity under inflationary money. Finding purpose in sales negotiations, inventory management, and just existing in a generic office environment was “all very acidic, above the shoulders, mustard shit,” to borrow from Matthew McConaughey’s Mark Hanna in The Wolf of Wall Street.

However, I found that the act of focusing on bitcoin rekindled this skill. It sparks far more curiosity than I’ve found anywhere mining fiat. Whether measured in minutes or days, digging into any number of bitcoin topics forced me to concentrate on learning. Learning forced me to question. Questioning forced me to dig deeper. The mechanics of this process didn’t leave room for flashbacks or invasive memories. Perhaps the simple act of repetitively forcing my thoughts into the present and future wired new brain circuits – and bitcoin’s uniquely magnetic appeal made that possible.

Focusing on bitcoin can set in motion virtuous cycles of directing mental energy in a positive direction. Those cycles can extend individuals’ time preference and long-term thinking leads to better decisions. Pulling one’s mind out of the past can orient it on the future. Veterans who need this stand to benefit immensely if they’re open to it.

Trust

“Do I bear responsibility [for Afghanistan]? Zero responsibility.” – President Joe Biden

Everyone has a bad boss from time to time. The beauty of having bad bosses in the military is that you can’t escape them, they get people killed, and the standards of accountability are rarely applied to senior ranks – while they are ruthlessly enforced on junior ranks. The command climate while deployed amplifies perceptions of both trust and betrayal. We used to say that situations in the Army were so dumb because all the smart people got out. Indeed, it’s no coincidence that Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 became a meme because it accurately described Army culture.

I lost all trust in military leadership when three colonels changed the material and findings contained in my intelligence reports to paint a false, rosy picture to their bosses. They sealed the deal by questioning my integrity when I protested. Those officers were simply following the perverse incentives of a broken system. Unfortunately, the colonels’ lies led to misallocation of resources and undue human suffering.

All too many veterans can relate, unfortunately, and losing wars that way is truly awful – as if war itself isn’t awful enough. These breaches of trust create profound moral injury for veterans and everyone betrayed. The US abandonment of partners in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving American citizens to fend for themselves, and gaslighting senior leaders stir a bitterness in veterans’ hearts that is deeper than we knew possible. And that’s saying something for a population that thrives on dark humor.

Bitcoin fixes this. There are no leaders, it’s only a timechain. But Satoshi’s design records truth all the time and around the world. There is no trust to betray and no way to betray it. Veterans who are accustomed to the benefits of accountability find it natural to adopt the ethos of “don’t trust, verify” in bitcoin’s context. While our politicians and generals make careers out of lying, veterans have an opportunity to affiliate with fellow truth seekers among bitcoiners.

Thinking about the future, I see bitcoin’s incentives restoring honesty to individuals and populations. This perspective helps mitigate the damage of moral injury by giving me something to look forward to. And the prospect of separating money and state can motivate veterans to protect their descendants from the grotesquely dishonest culture we live in today.

Hope

“War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse… There are no innocent bystanders in Hell. War is chock full of them.” – Alan Alda as Hawkeye in M.A.S.H.

In the military, doctrine matters. It’s the base layer on which to build operational design and implement tactical decisions. Doctrine is written with the blood of mistakes from previous battles, so while it can be helpful, much of it is inherently outdated before the ink dries. My experience adapting doctrine to the real world also centered on Afghanistan, where the Afghans’ sense of time is primarily backward looking. Centuries-old tribal disputes factored into most locals’ daily lives far more than any notions of the future they wanted. It’s a bad combination to inject slow-moving military bureaucracy into a civil war of fatalistic cultures.

It was natural for me to leave that and become an even bigger doomer running headlong into the civil-military divide and ignorant populace as a new veteran. I wanted to find a new mission that could stop the abusively poor utilization of armed forces and protect young people from the kinds of situations that broke me. With laughable domestic politics and a money printer running hot, reform didn’t seem possible. Even being accustomed to accomplishing the impossible and desperately wanting to leave a better world for my kids, I concluded it was out of reach. Unfortunately, I wasn’t alone in holding a bleak outlook on life and stopped counting the number of dead Army buddies when it passed 25 – mostly from suicide.

Then I discovered implications of bitcoin and thanked God for cypherpunks writing code. It is truly a miracle we get to live today and discover the potential of liberating individuals and markets with sound money for the digital age. Plenty of veterans entered service with noble ideals only to see them dashed by corrupt leaders sending people into the worst situations this planet has to offer. With bitcoin, there are no leaders to abuse our trust and the incentives for cooperation outweigh those for conflict. We have a chance to replace today’s sclerotic political economy with better alternatives.

Bitcoin offers hope to those who can see its value into the future. I hope to see more veterans acquire bitcoin, become fabulously wealthy over time, and lead lives worthy of our fallen friends. We have the opportunity to once again be part of something far bigger than ourselves, this time immutably enshrined through proof of work.

Conclusion

Bitcoin is therapeutic for the veteran’s soul, at least it has been for mine. After several close calls in combat, I fully expected to die years ago and lucked out. Or I could have easily joined those who made it home yet succumbed to their demons. But everyone’s heart is different and it is up to each veteran to write his or her own story. My call to action as you write that story is simple: stack sats, build meaningful relationships, reflect on your strengths, acquire new ones, and contribute to bitcoin projects and education as you are able. We’re going to win, and the world will be better with you onboard.

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バネッサ: 皆さん、ようこそ。おはようございます、お疲れ様です。どこにいても、朝も夜も関係なく、ここにいられることがとても嬉しいです。ありがとうございます、マクシェーン。

はい。ありがとう。私はバネッサで、Damusチームの一員です。Damus本部に住んでいるので、Damus本部の立場から、まあ、何となくNostrを使い始めました。ですので、Willが私のパートナーで、彼は2年前に取り組み始めましたが、私は昨年12月に何かが起こっていると聞いてから働き始めました。でも今はここにいて、これからもここにいるつもりで、何が起こっているかにかなり関与しており、今日はここに相棒がいて嬉しいです。

ジェロエン: おはようございます、バネッサ、GM。Nostrのハッシュタグコーヒーチェーン。みなさん、おはようございます。良い朝をお過ごしでしょうか？ 私の名前はジェロエンです。私は昨年12月にWillとのインタビューを聞いて初めてNostrを知りました。astral dot ninjaを使って最初のキーペアを生成しましたが、これは非常に難しいユーザーエクスペリエンスでした（笑）。

バネッサ: 本当の気持ちを言ってごらん。

ジェロエン: ごめん？

バネッサ: 本当の気持ちを言ってごらんって（笑）。

ジェロエン: それが、それが私が実際に感じていることです、ええ、ごめんなさい。私は2月にAmethystを使い始め、今はDamusを使っています。2か月前…

バネッサ: ほとんどの時間です。

ジェロエン: ほとんどの時間、そうです。2か月前に、ウィルとバネッサと一緒に働き始めました。

学位のためのインターンをやらなければならなくて、彼らは私を歓迎してくれました。

バネッサ: ですので、今朝はここにいて、明るく早く、私たちが「アンマーケティング・スター」と呼ぶものについて話すためにここにいます。そう、私たちはアンカンファレンスにいます。Nostrでのマーケティングは伝統的ではありません。プロトコルやクライアント、それに関するすべてがそうです。ほとんどマーケットできないものをマーケットするのは難しいですね。ですので、アプリに広告がないし、伝統的な手法は使えないし、予算も伝統的な企業が使用するものとはほど遠いです。ですので、ここ数か月でNostrをアンマーケットする面白い方法をいくつか試してきました。そして、それらのいくつかを共有して、この方法でさらに成長するためのフィードバックをいただくのが楽しみです。

ジェロエン: では、これが私たちが自分たちに課した使命です。明らかに、やるべきことがたくさんあります（笑）。

バネッサ: 基本的に私たちがやりたいことは、ネットワークを成長させることで、時間はかかるでしょうが、可能だと考えています。ここを見てください、ほぼ満員です。たくさんの人が家で見ています。ですので、この計画はできるだけ大きく成長させることで、使い始める人が増えれば、彼らが滞在したくなるでしょう。それが私たちが伝えたい基本的でシンプルなメッセージです。

ジェロエン: ですので、マーケティング。私が授業で学んだこと、私の指が私と一緒に残ったことから言えるのは、それは価値を伝えることだけだということです。必ずしも有料広告のことではなく、最高の広告を作ることや最高のストーリーを伝えることではありません。本当のストーリーを伝えることです。では、人々の生活でどのような痛みを解消しているのか？ どのような鎮痛剤を適用しているのか？ そして、なぜ。なぜ建設しているのか？ おそらく家族から経験した痛みは何か？ 世界や人々の生活をどのように改善しようとしているのか？ それがなぜやるのかです。

バネッサ: そうですね。ですので、私たちがやりたかったことは、実は、この、非常に短い、6か月から8か月くらいの、まあ、過去を振り返ってみることでした。ですので、タイムラインがあります、これは…再びアンマーケティングに戻りますが、これはDamusチームだけでなく、他のチームメンバーやコミュニティの人々が、このプロトコルを実質的にマーケティングしてきたいくつかのことです。そして、それはほとんどが有機的で、私たちは本当に素晴らしい人々から助けを受けています。ここで最初に挙げるのは彼で、彼はここにいます。彼のような人々、ただし彼だけではありません。Edward Snowdenなど、Nostrについて言及し話す人々が本当にそれを押し上げ、最後の1年弱で、波に乗っています。そして、Damusチームにとって、2月にApp Storeでローンチしたとき、とてもエキサイティングでした。再び、異なる人々からの入力と他のネットワークや異なる場所での話について、そして、中国での禁止などのことが本当に私たちのマーケティングに役立ちました。もちろん、難しかったですが、それによって多くのメディアの注目を集めました。こうしたことが起こったこと、特に過去6か月くらいで、NostrやXで何かが起こるたびに、それが注目を集め、私たちがその注目を活用しようと努めてきたこと。例えば、面白いことに、オスロで自由フォーラムで無料のお金と言論について話そうとしていたとき、Apple StoreでZapプロトコルに基づいて削除される問題が発生しました。しかし、それは多くのメディアのインタビューにつながりました。ですので、経験した困難によってユーザーベースが成長しました。このようなライブイベント、Mcshaneが言及したように、ライブで人を乗せるのは非常に効果的です。最近、バリにいた時、Reyes、そして聴衆はその会議で素晴らしい仕事をし、人々はアプリをダウンロードし、気に入っていますが、どのように使用するかが分かりません。ですので、教育の部分は非常に重要です。ライブイベントは私たちにとって非常に重要です。ポッドキャスト、このオーディエンスの多くの素晴らしい人々が昨年素晴らしいポッドキャストを作っています。そして、このコミュニティで新しい機能や開発が行われるたびに、それはもちろん、私たちに注目とユーザーのダウンロードをもたらします。

ジェロエン: ここ数か月で、異なるコミュニティが発展しているのを見ることができ、私たちは幸運です。ここにはいくつかのコミュニティがあります。今回のカンファレンスでは、日本の人々に招待されました。ここに歓迎されていることに感謝しています。先週、私は彼らと直接会う機会がありました、一対一でそしてグループで。一緒に食事をし、飲み物を共有しました。彼らと直接会うことができました。多くの人が知らないかもしれませんが、彼らは私たちがNostrを使う方法とは非常に異なる方法でNostrを使用しています。彼らはノートに返信を使いません。彼らはめったにお互いに言及しません。彼らはNostrをチャットルームのように使っています。日本には約240人のデイリーアクティブユーザーがいますが、彼らは自分たちのことをしているだけです。お互いを知っていて、おそらくいくつかの重なり合うサークルを持っていますが、基本的には直接お互いに話しかけるだけです。彼らは自転車での乗り物、浜辺を歩くこと、料理、食べること、何を食べるか、アルコールの買い方、レシピなど、人生で最も単純なことについて話します。彼らは飲み物を飲むためにお互いに会います。私の意見では、彼らは最も優れたマーケティングをしています、なぜなら、彼らはNostrを生活しているからです。彼らは日本でNostrを生活している例です。彼らは日本全体にNostrを広めており、日本のNostr初心者は、既に存在するコミュニティに出会うことになるため、それに感動しています。彼らはまさに理想的なコミュニティです。

バネッサ: 彼らが例であり、彼らがもたらすエネルギーで、新しい人々を引き寄せ、そしてお互いを知り始め、私たちのためにマーケティングをしているのは興奮します。ですので、サークル、もう一つのNostr、そこではサークルの使い方が本当に上手です。それは別のコミュニティがスペースを拡大している完璧な例です。

ジェロエン: 実際、今日10番目のサークルを作成しました。

バネッサ: そうなんですか？

ジェロエン: ええ、"Internet Archive"という人がいて、私は彼を9番目のサークルに追加しました。

バネッサ: 素晴らしい。ですので、これらのすべてのこと、毎回サークルを成長させ、グループを持つたびに、再び新しい人を引き寄せているので、実際にはNostrのためにマーケティングをしているわけです。

ジェロエン: はい、そして大きなもの。みなさんはTerjesを知っていますか？（笑） Terjesは引退した男性です。彼は最初のサークルを固いグループと一緒に作成しました。他の人がサークル上で活動しないようにしたいのです。彼は他の人からのいいねや絵文字を許可せず、自分のコンテンツを広めたくないのです。これが彼です。彼は言論の自由のためにNostrを使用し、それを私的に使用しています。しかし、これはNostrを人々がどのように使用して広めているかの別の例であり、Vanessaが言ったように、それを使用していると広めているところです。

バネッサ: ですので、私たちが持っているいくつかのマーケティングの例です。これは異なるコミュニティからのいくつかのスクリーンショットです。これらはNostrのアートワークなどを投稿する人々です。それは日本のコミュニティです、私たちはそれについて話し、人々はそれを宣伝するために使っています。それは本当に素晴らしいことだと思います。サークルと人々が自分自身のサークルを育て、サークルについて話す、これもまたマーケティングです。そして、それは私たちにとって非常に興奮することだと思います。外国市場のいくつか、日本、トルコ、インド、それは異なるコミュニティとそれらがどのように構築されてきたかを見るのは本当に興奮します。再び、Nostrをマーケティングしています。

ジェロエン: 日本のサークルがあり、そこには7.9千のメンバーがいます。トルコには51千、インドには43千のメンバーがいます。トルコにはおそらく7、8、9のサークルがあります。それぞれ異なる目的やグループのためです。例えば、トルコには「Nostr eats」があります。これは食べ物について話し、食文化について簡単で楽しいチャットをするために始められました。そこにはおそらく2,000のメンバーがいます。異なる目的やグループがあります。

バネッサ: そしてここでいくつかユニークな経験をしました。Mcshaneに感謝の意を示します、彼はちょうどここにいます。もしNFLサークルのメンバーであれば、それは本当に興奮するものでした。そのサークルは爆発的に成長しました。マーチマッドネス、ワールドカップ。私は本当に毎日のようにマーチマッドネスのサークルを持つようにメッセージを受け取りましたので、彼がついに始めてくれて嬉しいです。私は彼にそれをやるように本当に迫りましたし、彼がやってくれて嬉しいです。NFL、スポーツの大きなシェアは、それを見て、そのサークルが爆発するのを見るのは非常に興奮しています。そして実際にNostrに新しい一連の人々を連れてきました。

ジェロエン: そうですね、文化を見ると、ここにはサッカーカルチャーがあります。彼らはサッカーについて話します。NFLや試合について話します、すべてがサッカーです。そして、単にくつろぎたいだけなので、彼らはサークルを作成しました。コンテンツの作成は必要ありません。

バネッサ: そしてワールドカップは莫大な視聴者数がありました。

ジェロエン: はい、7.3千のメンバーでした。

バネッサ: それは興奮しました。

ジェロエン: 7.3千人がただサッカーについて話しているだけです。彼らがNostrが何かを知っているかどうかすら分からないかもしれません。彼らは単にサッカーについて話しています。楽しんでいます。彼らは7.3千人のサークルで、自分たちの情熱について話しています。

バネッサ: 再び、興奮します。そして、私たちにとっては、それがNostrのマーケティングです。アプリに多くの人がいて、そこで時間を費やしているからです。それは興奮します。

ジェロエン: 追加された新機能はランディングページです。今、アプリを持っている場合、アプリを開くと、ログインせずにアカウントを持っていなくても、すべてのフィードを見ることができます。

バネッサ: ですので、これまでの6か月間に行われたいくつかのアンマーケティングについてお話ししたいと思います。本当にうまくいったと思うものもありました。うまくいかなかったものもありました。それらのことについて話したいし、うまくいく可能性があるか、うまくいかなかった理由、そしてもっと良くできる方法についてあなたのフィードバックを得たいです。それがみんなに質問をする理由です、なぜなら本当に私たちはあなたの意見を聞きたいからです。私たちが持っているいくつかのアイデアや、この空間でのマーケティングが成功する方法について、そして私たちは幸運で、ポッドキャストなどを行ってくれた多くの人たちが確かに私たちに手を差し伸べてくれましたので、私たちはそれに感謝しています。

ジェロエン: ですので、質問を見るのに時間をかけ、その後、続けます。

バネッサ: これはあなたが考える、Nostrでのマーケティングがどのように見えるべきか、または見えるか、そして我々がもっと良くできるかどうかについてのあなたのフィードバックの機会です。

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Nostr has a funding problem. Developers and infrastructure is severely underfunded and reliant on flawed economic models, and this could pose a risk to the future of Nostr as a protocol.

To understand it, we need to understand what resources are needed to make Nostr work, how they aren't funded properly and what could happen next.

The costs of what makes Nostr work

Nostr works because: 1. Developers build clients on it 2. There is infrastructure to support clients

If there are no developers, there are no clients. If there is no infrastructure, clients have no purpose.

The costs of developing a client, and the reliance on developers

Clients require time to develop the client, and money to run infrastructure for it.

Without developers, there would be no clients, and no Nostr.

Developers have lives and need to make money somehow in exchange for the time they spend. Developing a client is a significant cost, even for small ones (assuming 1 hr/day, no infrastructure costs and the average salary of a software developer, $1500) and needs to be covered somehow.

We have multiple models, all of which have large downsides: 1. Donations/V4V/Bounties:
This model suffers from the problem that a minority pays for the majority, which will lead to the majority demanding exclusive benefits for their money or otherwise cutting off funding since they have no reason to pay.
This also suffers from the fact that donations are unreliable. 2. Grants from OpenSats and similar non-profits:
These suffer from the same problems as the donations model, but also suffer from the following problems: - the managers of these non-profits may have views not aligned with their donors, leading to misfunding. - that such projects are mostly stopgaps that add additional complexity to a direct donation model. 3. Paywalled features:
It is very hard to find the balance between paywalling enough features to make money, and discouraging too many users from using the client. There may not even be such a sweet spot. 4. Cuts: It is extremely hard to balance these so that people don't complain, and it is likely that there will be forks of FOSS clients that remove these features by some users.
5. Paid clients:
People do not want to spend a lot on services that they expect to be free or cheap, and spending $5/month on this client, $10/month on that client, so on won't scale, even though that is way less than the actual value they are getting. 6. Ads:
Ads are usually underpaying and mostly make money for the ad companies instead of the client developers. Ads are also an invasion of privacy and may not be well received by some users. 7. VC funding:
VCs put profit above protocol health, which may accelerate some issues that I will discuss later. They also may disincentivize the development of some apps (uncensored social media for example) for pushing their own agenda.

Even if we find some good way to fund clients, it doesn't end there...

The cost of infrastructure

There are multiple types of infrastructure for Nostr, such as relays, services like Noswhere's search relay, push notifications, etc. All of these cost money to operate, and are the other half of what make Nostr work.

These have even more limited funding options, which have even bigger downsides: 1. Client funding:
Clients already struggle on funding as I discussed in the previous section. This would mean infrastructure is even more underfunded. 2. User payments:
Users do not understand the details and importance of infrastructure, and have no reason to fund it. Making this problem worse, infrastructure providers can falsely advertise their services, diverting money away from infrastructure that is higher quality and should be funded. This is already happening. 3. Grants from OpenSats and similar non-profits (relays only):
Again, these suffer from problems specified in the last section about grants. These entities will likely want the highest value from their donations, therefore leading them to encouraging a few big relays than many medium sized ones. Since relays are more important infrastructure, and they could have more control, these entities can also exert more control over the network. 4. Data harvesting and selling:
This would discourage people from using their providers, but this is likely going to happen to some extent. The issue is that it would not generate sufficient revenue for the amount of users it will drive away.

Both infrastructure and developers being underfunded can lead to issues that may kill the protocol, which I'll discuss in the next section.

The risks of improper funding

1. The protocol fizzles out and dies without reaching critical mass

This is one of the less likely options since there will probably be people developing for the sake of it, but is likely. With client developers being underfunded and infrastructure shutting down, Nostr would become smaller and worse to use until it completely fizzled out except maybe a few people.

2. The enshittification of Nostr

This is the most likely outcome, and the worst one. As Nostr continues developing, developers and infrastructure developers will want to maximize revenue, so they will begin by making good products to attract users at a loss.

After they have a sufficiently large user base, they would slowly erode bridges to their competitors, only leaving what is required so that their users won't complain.

After this stage, it is likely that clients will start merging with other ones to make larger "everything" apps and kill the last bridges, turning them into proprietary walled gardens, returning us to where we are today.

How do we fix this?

I have no idea. Please share your opinions if you do :)

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BuildinPublic

Since late July, MyLibrarian has been fortunate to raise funding from several angel investors. We have an amazing chance at a huge contract with an enterprise B2B client, and a PO from them to fulfill, and are building in order to deliver.

We have an insight into what we need to build and are building it! With larger investment we can get our B2C product into public beta faster and launch it to our 3MM community, plus we’ll deliver the API to our B2B bookseller enterprise customer.

Here’s more—someone recently asked for me to re-introduce myself —I’m Michelle Z and this is my founder story. Through the experience of writing six books, I realized book discovery is broken.

People read on their phones and tablets all day long, but when the eBook experience and other new storytelling experiences become even more seamless online, our recommendation system will function best, optimizing search for diverse content and preventing bias. Librarian characteristics will help create more empathetic AI tools. As the writer Neil Gaiman says, Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A Librarian can bring you back the right one, and MyLibrarian solves this problem.

I learned to code and we built an early version of the MyLibrarian web app, and since then we’ve built an Android demo and the iOS will soon be on TestFlight. I’m a product and information architect who leads a stellar team of devs and marketing, and with our fearless COO, and we now have a viable business model and patent-pending tech. We’re looking for our next $ to launch the B2C app (which will turn on several revenue streams) and deliver the API to our B2B customers.

I’m just grateful we’ve made this much progress with only F&F angel funding and self-funding, of course. More at my website michellezaffino.com and on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Zaffino. We’ll be promoting the beta at the Nostrasia conference, hosted by @Jack, where I’ll be speaking on librarians, journalism, and freedom of speech. We’re building our creator community on the Nostr protocol, which is P2P zap-enabled. MyLibrarian is still closing our pre-seed. View our deck and invest at this link https://stack.angellist.com/s/c5vkj38v4q.

Thank you for reading, Michelle Z

p.s. We’re the NEW Goodreads

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Ideas on farming the sea.

By Serenitys forge

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Whenever people start talking about setting up independent nations the concept of seasteading often comes up. But other than talk about it very rarely is there a fleshed out concept of what seasteading is and how to actually start building a workable practical site. The genesis of the thoughts presented here have been bouncing around in my head for decades now in one form or another. This is my first attempt to put them down in some kind of coherent form that hopefully will kick start a positive dialogue and practical experiments.

So what is seasteading? At it most simplistic it is sustainable human habitat that floats on a body of water, deriving as much of its inputs as possible from its location. And returning as few outputs as possible that could be considered waste. So lets get into it, just how does one go about building a sea-stead from scratch?

The build out.. Obviously we need some kind of floating raft or pontoon boats lashed together to start out with. Well actually, no we don’t. There is a material generically called secrete or bio-rock that is made by passing an electrical current through a wire mesh. As the current flows through the wire calcium carbonate and other minerals are deposited through a process of electro-accumulation. The materials are cheap, basically being chicken wire, a car battery and a solar system.

So how do I see this process happening? I’m going to play devils advocate here and assume we are starting out in the deep ocean, though everything I say here can be done in a harbour, dock or anywhere with easy access to the ocean. A buoy fitted out with a solar array, batteries and charge controller is deployed at our chosen site. Docked to this is a simple bowl of hardware cloth or chicken wire wired to a hexagonal frame supported on floats. The charge from the batteries passes through the wire and bio-rock accumulates sealing up the dome making it water tight. Once a thick enough layer has been accumulated the water can be pumped out, the now floating bowl section can be fitted out with a bigger solar array, more batteries and a simple workshop. The bilge can be refilled at this point to lower the section to make it more stable on the water. This first unit has now become the manufacturing hub for further units expanding the site. As more units are produced they can be fitted out to pre-designed specifications, containing the various systems needed to make the site viable. From human habitation and workshop spaces to waste management and food systems. You may have noticed I mentioned the shape of these units in plan aspect should be hexagonal. This is to make docking and undocking the units easier, both from a construction and a storm protection point of view. As storms roll in, the site can be disconnected into smaller sections of rafts to prevent damage and break up, returning back to its original configuration once the storm has passed and the seas calmed. Thrust systems can be designed into the original wire mesh bowl to provide mounting points for thrusters. https://image.nostr.build/100f581a0d6376cedf63c602489034a16a12e2888e33dc003ceb69d099868f42.jpg

How to power it all with out collecting lighting in a bottle? Electrical power is at the heart of modern life and even more so on a sea-stead built out of floating bio rock. There comes a point at which solar arrays can only get to a certain size before they become cost prohibitive versus the power usage of the site. At this point some of the biorock producing units could be disconnect from the solar systems and switch over to medium sized wind generators. It may even be possible to use wave power generators to supply them with the electricity they need. After all their power requirements are pretty uniform the only thing that would change would be the shape of the wire mesh they are pushing a current through depending on whether they are making a new unit, a wind turbine mast or a habitat wall. https://image.nostr.build/a466e81e26075eeb47242516d87f02d84de7c289098df850397f5a2ac9488d96.jpg With the manufacturing hubs somewhat freed up they can start the process of building an OTEC power plant. This type of power generation would be ideal for a sea-stead in a tropical region, as nearly all the raw materials are in the environment already. OTEC is an acronym for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. Basically warm water at the surface is used to convert a low thermal volatility liquid like ammonia into a gas, which spins a turbine. The gas is condensed back into a liquid by passing it through a condenser chilled by cooler deep ocean water. Such a power plant could be built as one piece, literally looking like its being extruded or built as prefab sections to be bolted together for larger plants.

Feeding the masses… and dealing with the masses of waste.** As the project develops and people take up permanent residence they will obviously need to eat and thus deal with the waste that comes from that. The sea is obviously a primary source of food. Fish can be farmed in pools created by blowing pressurised air through porous tubes forming bubble walls. Fish don’t like passing through bubbles of air. How well such a system of raising fish would stand up to a storm can only be appraised by experience. It may well be necessary to deploy physical nets when the weather turns for the worse. Various types of bi valve molluscs can be grown on ropes and in bags as is currently done in various parts of the world, its an already available technique that can be adapted to the needs of the sea-stead. Add in the availability of sea weeds and we are starting to close the loop as it were on the production of food. I can foresee a food culture developing that has a lot of oriental influences. https://image.nostr.build/244a302c1d22d30f6855bd01cc7b2100740dbd5a010f8d37ad29c50274a7faca.jpg That’s only part of the food supply sorted, the next bit is a solution to the waste problem that comes with people and their eating habits. Basically what to do with all that piss and shit? Well luckily they are good sources of fertility, I wont go into too much detail here as dealing with these waste streams has been covered by far better people like Mile Reynolds. The way Earthships deal with waste is a good place to get ideas. To start with the black water can be put into bio-digesters to generate methane gas. The output from these generators goes to a bed system where it gets converted into soil by mixing with other solid organic waste. It may even be possible to use poultry at this stage to help create this soil and provide an alternative protein source. liquid human waste can be processed in Hydroponic systems. NFT ways of growing leafy greens would go a long way to cleaning this up. Once all the nutrient has been taken up the liquid can be evaporated in a desalination unit to provide fresh water. Not sure I’d want to drink it though!! Essentially I’m thinking along the lines of using a living machine but with useful plants to filter the water to the point its at least no longer a pollutant. As I mentioned at the start of this article, water would be used to stabilise the individual units. There’s no reason this couldn’t be rain water in storage tanks pumped back up through physical filters to purify it back to drinking water.

I want money…. Being financially independent is the cornerstone of any independent community. A sea-stead has multiple opportunity's to generate capital simply from its day to day activity's. A big one is its physical existence and location. Its sounds strange to put it that way but by its very nature a sea-stead is beyond international borders so international banking services are an obvious business opportunity. Its not my world and I don’t know a great deal about international banking but it seems to me if the cayman islands can make money doing it I’m sure a sea-stead could. Stepping beyond the world of fiat, bitcoin mining and hosting services for the crypto finance industry in general is also something a group could look at to generate an income stream.

Now we've had the conversation about dirty money there are other things we could monetize so here is a short list of ideas….

Food... The export of fresh fish/shellfish and other ocean products can make a dint in the balance sheet. As would sea salt, which would be really simple to make out in the ocean. As would processing and storage facilities for trawlers and commercial fisheries.

Lay up/re supply… A sea-stead could offer docking/repair and resupply services for other ocean going ships, from small sail boats all the way up to super yachts and commercial shipping.

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Science and technology… Such a site could provide an excellent base for a whole range of scientific endeavours. Obviously oceanography, and the study of the ocean in general is the first port of call. Beyond that, with limited light and EM pollution convincing astronomers to place optical telescopes and radio telescopes around the site should be an easy sell. I’m sure there are lots of scientific fields that could use an independent site to do general R&D research. Considering the reliance on wire to Electro-accumalate bio-rock looking into an alternative is the thing I first though of.

Tourism… Last but not least tourism would probably be a big draw from diving, to weddings and honeymooning couples. Hell I’m sure we could even put a few casinos on there. After all the house always wins.

To close.. In short, a sea stead is possible even if the initial start up has technical difficulties. Those difficulties could be over come with the right group. Over time the principality that gets created would become self sustaining with a via-able import/export economy. I’ll leave the fine details to that group to sort out……

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La Habana, Cuba - "Soy gusano a mucha honra". Con esta declaración empiezo a desentrañar el evento "La Nación y la Emigración" en Cuba, una farsa que ha causado un profundo disgusto. De los más de 2 millones de cubanos en Estados Unidos y otros tantos dispersos por el mundo, solo 400, leales al régimen, fueron invitados, representando una fracción minúscula del exilio cubano. Este grupo, vitoreando a figuras como Fidel Castro y Miguel Díaz-Canel, se enfrenta a la indignación de la mayoría que lo ve como una grotesca parodia de reconciliación.

En este video se puede observar como estos cómplices de la dictadura gritan viva Fidel en esa farsa.

Ninguno de esos ahí presentes han preguntado en ningún momento por los más de 1000 presos políticos actuales incluyendo menores de edad.

"Prohibido Olvidar": La Herida de Fidel Castro

Fidel Castro, el hombre que robó nuestra libertad y fragmentó a la nación, etiquetó a los disidentes y a los exiliados como "gusanos". Esta división, impuesta desde la revolución, causó un exilio masivo y heridas profundas en el tejido social cubano.

El rechazo a este evento se ha hecho palpable en redes cómo X (anteriormente Twitter) donde cubanos exiliados han mostrado su opinión.

También el periodista Mario J Penton escribió en su cuenta en X a la vez que realizó un análisis en su canal de Youtube .

La Realidad de los Invitados: Cómplices de la Opresión

Los 400 invitados, vistos por muchos como cómplices del régimen, no representan al exilio cubano en su totalidad. Su presencia en el evento y su apoyo al régimen son un insulto a los millones que claman por libertad y democracia.

Exiliados Silenciados y Regulados

El régimen cubano, en su afán de control, impide a muchos exiliados volver a su país natal, mientras que dentro de la isla, ciudadanos críticos al gobierno son regulados, negándoles la salida. Estas prácticas autoritarias son una clara violación de los derechos humanos.

El Despilfarro del Régimen en Contraste con la Crisis

El gasto en este evento es un escarnio frente a las penurias del pueblo cubano. Con una inflación disparada, donde el dólar ha pasado de 25 a 270 CUP desde 2018, y con jubilaciones miserables de 2500 pesos frente al costo exorbitante de la vida, el régimen sigue invirtiendo en hoteles mientras el pueblo sufre apagones y escasez.

Conclusión: Una Nación Afligida

"La Nación y la Emigración" resalta la división y el sufrimiento de Cuba. Mientras un pequeño grupo grita "¡Viva Fidel!", la mayoría del exilio y los ciudadanos en la isla siguen luchando por sus libertades fundamentales. La historia de Cuba es una de represión, división y una búsqueda constante de libertad.

Te invito a ver más sobre esto en el canal de Youtube del periodista Daniel Benítez.

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This is a cross-post from my Substack where I post weekly updates on my open-source work.

This is an update for the past two weeks. The week before had only 3 days for me, and I didn’t want to share just a few small bits. There’s a lot to balance right now across everything I am involved with, so I’ll just go over all the projects and list out a few things that come to mind.

The foundation is the big one at the moment. Paperwork is mostly taken care of and we are ready to go and accept donations, in the middle of fundraising, and will give an update on a community call on Wednesday. It’s super exciting. Now that the boring setup stuff is through, it will be great to share and discuss everything publicly. I hope the foundation will be a nice power-up to the whole community and its mission. Also looks like this will continue to take a good amount of time for the foreseeable future. The foundation may be set up, but there are blog posts and social threads to write, designers to speak with, grant applications to review, potential donors to charm, finances to plan, conference talk proposals to prepare, etc. All good stuff, just takes time. And I do hope we can be one of the best open-source foundations out there, ever.

I just scheduled design review call with 10101 in the community, which will be interesting. The team reached out about getting feedback after seeing the recent review call with Peach. General chatter is fairly low in the community right now, with the most activity happening in projects (which is good). I am also looking to ramp up social media posts more, so we can do a better job at giving visibility to all the cool things people are doing. And of course the newsletter is coming up again next week.

This design below was fun. A Duolingo-inspired HODL streak. Sometimes I need a break from writing documents in the afternoons, that’s when I slide in brief explorations like this one. It’s not meant to be super thorough or complete, just a visualization of a simple idea, maybe a conversation starter. Sometimes these things grow bigger, sometimes they change shape, sometimes they are forgotten.

Good stuff is happening in the guide. We had a great jam session on Monday around some pretty intricate topics. It will be great to tame those into pleasant user experiences. My multi-wallet management page is now awaiting reviews, I’m excited to get that one live. Next, I am debating whether to look into BOLT12 and silent payments UX, revising the shared and upgradeable wallet reference designs, or finalizing the stablecoin content that has gone stale. Not sure yet, maybe I’ll ask around to see what people are most interested in.

Not a ton happening around the UI Kit and Icons. I have some pretty clear ideas on what should happen next (how-to videos, case studies, onboarding playground, color revision), but other things have priority. Ideally, we can find someone to co-maintain longer-term to help out with it all (maybe via the foundation?).

The design for the Bitcoin Core App is way ahead of development, so we’re pausing it for a bit. Some minor tasks come up, like the peer details screen below. The devs are busy, and the research group (really great group of people) is working on organizing and summarizing their findings.

Saving Satoshi has picked up the speed in both lesson content creation and development, which is awesome. Chapter 4 is complete, chapter 5 being developed, and we started chapter 6 design around constructing transactions (which is way over my head code-wise). If you haven’t tried it yet, please do, and share your feedback (pretty please). Otherwise I am a bit behind on testing and some small design tasks I have identified for myself.

Nostrasia is wrapped up. Congrats to the hackathon winners. I ended up adding short notes, long notes, and calendars to profiles. Easy to do, just simple templates for additional content types. There’s one more thing around extension support I’d like to get done because it’s a bit of an issue, but then Nosta might be on a bit of hold again.

And that’s it, except for the stuff I forgot. Lots of stuff going on. And it’s only possible because there are lots of great people involved in everything. Thanks to everyone.

Peace & happiness.

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Learn how to navigate challenges posed by scammers, undercover agents, and community sceptics. Delve into the financial landscape of Bitcoin meetups, exploring the delicate balance between budgets, donations, and sponsorships. Aspiring community builders will find General Kenobi's guidance invaluable, gaining tips on starting a Bitcoin meetup, expanding organisers, and the importance of online presence. Join us on Croxroad Podcast as we navigate through the secrets that contribute to the rapid growth of Bitcoin communities, offering a rich tapestry of knowledge for enthusiasts, organisers, and community builders alike.

Table Of Content

• General Kenobi's Bitcoin Journey

• Evolution of Bitcoin Communities

• Overcoming Challenges in Bitcoin Community Building

• The Future of Bitcoin Communities

• Conclusion

• FAQs

General Kenobi's Bitcoin Journey

In the dynamic world of Bitcoin, General Kenobi stands out as a pivotal figure, contributing significantly to the growth and cohesion of European Bitcoiners.

Having been an active participant in the Bitcoin space for over the years, General Kenobi witnessed the evolution of the technology and the community surrounding it. In the initial stages, his involvement was fueled by a genuine curiosity and belief in the transformative potential of Bitcoin. As the space grew, so did General Kenobi's understanding of its complexities and nuances.

His perspective on Bitcoin has undergone a metamorphosis over the years, reflecting the broader changes and developments within the Digital Currency landscape. From a nascent technology to a global phenomenon, General Kenobi's journey mirrors the transformative trajectory of Bitcoin itself.

During the early years, General Kenobi engaged with Bitcoin as a technology-driven enthusiast. However, as the ecosystem expanded, so did his focus. The realisation of Bitcoin's potential to reshape financial systems and empower individuals became a driving force in his journey. This shift in perspective laid the foundation for his subsequent endeavours in community building and advocacy.

General Kenobi's Bitcoin journey is not merely a chronicle of personal experiences but a testament to the resilience and adaptability required in the rapidly changing crypto landscape. His insights into the technology, coupled with a passion for community building, position him as a key influencer in the European Bitcoiners' community.

Evolution of Bitcoin Communities

The journey of Bitcoin is intrinsically tied to the communities that form around it. Over the years, these communities have evolved, shaped by technological advancements, market dynamics, and the collective vision of their members. The story of Bitcoin communities is not just a narrative of growth but a reflection of the resilience and camaraderie inherent in the crypto space.

In the early days, Bitcoin communities were like tight-knit circles of enthusiasts, driven by a shared passion for the revolutionary potential of the technology. As the ecosystem expanded, so did the diversity of these communities. General Kenobi, a prominent figure in the European Bitcoiners' community, has been a witness to this evolution.

One notable aspect of the evolution is the transition from online forums and discussion groups to real-world meetups and events. General Kenobi highlights the significance of physical gatherings, emphasising the role they play in fostering personal connections and strengthening the fabric of the Bitcoin community.

Bitcoin communities have also become more geographically dispersed yet interconnected. With the rise of social media and digital communication channels, enthusiasts from different parts of the world can engage in discussions, share insights, and collaborate on projects. This interconnectedness has been instrumental in creating a global network of Bitcoin advocates.

The evolution of Bitcoin communities is marked by a shift from mere technological fascination to a more holistic understanding of the socio-economic implications of decentralised finance. General Kenobi's insights into the challenges and triumphs of the European Bitcoiners' community offer a glimpse into the broader narrative of how Bitcoin communities adapt and thrive in response to the ever-changing digital landscape.

Overcoming Challenges in Bitcoin Community Building

Building and sustaining a thriving Bitcoin community comes with its set of challenges. General Kenobi, a key figure in the European Bitcoiners' community, sheds light on the obstacles faced and the strategies employed to overcome them. Here's a glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of fostering a robust Bitcoin community.

Financial Hurdles: One of the primary challenges is securing the financial resources needed to organise events, meetups, and educational initiatives. General Kenobi emphasises the importance of financial support and donations to keep the community activities running smoothly. The struggle to balance the desire for inclusivity with the financial realities of community building is a delicate but essential aspect.

Geographic Diversity: As Bitcoin communities expand globally, there's a need to address the geographic diversity of members. General Kenobi discusses how the European Bitcoiners' community navigates this challenge, recognizing the importance of both local meetups and digital platforms to include members from various regions. Overcoming language barriers and fostering inclusivity across diverse cultures require intentional efforts.

Educational Outreach: Dispelling myths and misinformation about Bitcoin is an ongoing battle. General Kenobi underscores the significance of educational initiatives within the community. By providing accurate information and promoting a nuanced understanding of Bitcoin, community leaders contribute to the broader adoption of the technology.

Dealing with Scams and Bad Actors: In the decentralised world of Bitcoin, scams and bad actors can pose a threat to community trust. General Kenobi shares insights into how the European Bitcoiners' community handles such situations. Immediate action, clear communication, and a commitment to weeding out malicious elements are essential to maintaining a secure and trustworthy community.

Scaling Community Size: Balancing growth with the preservation of a close-knit community atmosphere is a delicate task. General Kenobi suggests the importance of having multiple organisers and administrators to distribute responsibilities and ensure the community's sustainability as it expands.

While challenges persist, General Kenobi's experiences highlight the resilience of Bitcoin communities. Through collective effort, financial prudence, and a commitment to education, these communities continue to overcome hurdles and contribute to the broader adoption and understanding of Bitcoin.

The Future of Bitcoin Communities

As General Kenobi reflects on the past and present of Bitcoin communities, he offers insights into the potential future trajectory. The journey of Bitcoin has been one of constant evolution, and the same holds true for the communities built around it. Here's a glimpse into what the future may hold for Bitcoin communities.

General Kenobi envisions a future where Bitcoin seamlessly integrates into mainstream culture. As more people become familiar with the technology, Bitcoin communities may play a crucial role in facilitating this integration. Educational initiatives and community outreach will likely become even more vital as Bitcoin moves from niche to norm.

Collaboration among Bitcoin communities worldwide is on the horizon. General Kenobi emphasises the need for communities to work together, share resources, and learn from each other's experiences. As the global Bitcoin ecosystem expands, collaborative efforts can contribute to a more robust and interconnected community network.

The future of Bitcoin communities will likely be intertwined with technological advancements. General Kenobi discusses the potential impact of new technologies on community building, from virtual reality meetups to innovative communication platforms. Embracing emerging technologies can enhance the community experience and attract a broader audience.

Bitcoin communities are poised to become more diverse and inclusive. General Kenobi stresses the importance of actively reaching out to different demographics and regions, ensuring that the benefits of Bitcoin are accessible to everyone. A more inclusive community can contribute to a richer tapestry of perspectives and ideas.

Education will remain a cornerstone of Bitcoin communities in the future. General Kenobi envisions an ongoing commitment to dispelling myths, providing accurate information, and fostering a deeper understanding of Bitcoin's principles. This educational focus will be essential as Bitcoin continues to gain mainstream attention.

Conclusion

In the realm of Bitcoin communities, General Kenobi's insights shed light on the evolution, challenges, and future possibilities. As we journeyed through his experiences, one key takeaway stands out: the resilience of the Bitcoin community. From humble beginnings in online forums to bustling meetups in cities like Barcelona, the community has grown exponentially.

Bitcoin's journey is not just about the rise in value or technological advancements; it's about the people who believe in its principles. General Kenobi's dedication to fostering local communities emphasises the grassroots nature of the movement. The future, he believes, holds a continuation of this journey, albeit with new challenges and opportunities.

As we envision the future of Bitcoin communities, themes of integration, collaboration, diversity, and education emerge. The prospect of Bitcoin seamlessly integrating into mainstream culture is not a distant dream but a foreseeable reality. Collaboration among communities globally will fortify the network, ensuring shared resources and experiences.

FAQs

What inspired General Kenobi to start the Bitcoin community in Barcelona? General Kenobi was inspired by the open and friendly nature of Bitcoin meetups he attended. The desire to create a similar space in Barcelona, where enthusiasts could gather, learn, and share experiences, motivated him to initiate the Bitcoin community in the city.

How can someone kick start a Bitcoin community in their city? General Kenobi suggests starting online by creating a presence on platforms like Telegram and Twitter. Connect with existing Bitcoin communities or podcasts, seek advice, and gradually transition into physical meetups. Building trust, expanding the organiser base, and focusing on free access to information are key elements in community initiation.

What challenges do Bitcoin communities face, and how can they overcome them? Financial constraints pose a significant challenge. General Kenobi emphasises the need for community support through donations, sponsorships, or even entry fees if necessary. The key is maintaining the community's commitment to free access to information while finding creative ways to sustain the financial aspects.

That's all for today, see ya tomorrow

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The skills that are in demand change regularly along with the world. It's critical to continuously acquire new skills if you want to succeed in your work and stay ahead of the curve. But is always picking up new abilities truly necessary?

Learning new skills can have a number of benefits, both personal and professional. Here are some of the most important advantages of expanding your skill set:

Expanded job prospects

In today's competitive job market, employers are looking for candidates with a diverse range of skills. Acquiring new skills can make you more marketable and increase your chances of landing a new job or a promotion.

Increased earning potential

Learning new skills can also lead to higher earnings. According to a recent study by LinkedIn, employees with in-demand skills earn an average of 10% more than their counterparts without those skills.

Greater career satisfaction

When you have the skills you need to succeed in your career, you are more likely to be satisfied with your work. This is because you will be able to take on more challenging tasks, make a greater impact on your organization, and feel a sense of accomplishment.

Enhanced personal growth and development

Learning new skills can also help you grow as a person. It can boost your confidence, improve your problem-solving abilities, and make you more adaptable to change.

It's an ongoing process that can benefit you throughout your life. However, there are certain times when it may be particularly important to focus on expanding your skill set. Here are some key indicators that it might be time to learn new skills:

Career Transitions

If you are considering a career change or promotion, learning new skills relevant to your desired role can significantly increase your chances of success. By acquiring the skills that employers are seeking, you demonstrate your adaptability and willingness to grow, making you a more competitive candidate.

Staying Ahead in Your Field

Technology and industries are constantly evolving, and the skills required for success are also changing. To stay ahead in your field and remain competitive, it's crucial to keep your skills up-to-date. Learning new skills related to emerging trends and technologies can help you maintain your relevance and expertise.

Enhancing Job Performance

If you feel your current skills are limiting your performance or career advancement, learning new skills can help you reach your full potential. Expanding your skill set can enable you to take on more challenging tasks, contribute more effectively to your team, and achieve higher levels of success.

Personal Growth and Development

Learning new skills is not just about career advancement; it's also about personal growth and development. Expanding your knowledge and abilities can boost your confidence, enhance your problem-solving skills, and make you more adaptable to change. It can also open up new opportunities for personal fulfillment and enjoyment.

Addressing Skill Gaps

If you identify specific skill gaps that are hindering your progress or preventing you from reaching your goals, learning those skills can directly address those challenges. By closing these skill gaps, you can overcome obstacles and pave the way for further success.

Adapting to Change

In today's dynamic world, industries and job roles are constantly evolving, requiring individuals to adapt and acquire new skills. If you're feeling left behind by technological advancements or changes in your field, learning new skills can help you keep pace and remain relevant.

Pursuing New Interests

Learning new skills can also be a way to explore new interests and expand your horizons. Whether you're curious about coding, want to learn a new language, or desire to develop your creative skills, pursuing new interests through learning can enrich your life and open up new possibilities.

Enhancing Employability

In a competitive job market, having a diverse range of skills can make you a more attractive candidate to potential employers. By continuously learning and expanding your skill set, you increase your chances of securing employment and achieving your career goals.

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Intro

Nostrasia 2023, a vibrant unconference, was hosted in two bustling Asian cities: Hong Kong and Tokyo, Japan. Nostriches from around the world flocked to these destinations, eager to immerse themselves in local culture, savor the cuisine, and most importantly, enjoy each other's company in person. Tokyo's event, buzzing with energy, took place in Shibuya, a district renowned for its lively nightlife and abundance of bars, clubs, and restaurants. As is tradition with Nostr events, the atmosphere was charged with excitement, symbolized by the abundant purple and orange hues.

https://v.nostr.build/k7qV.mp4

Preparations

The journey to Nostrasia began right after Nostrica, with meticulous planning to ensure the perfect venue. It was a challenge to find a location that was both spacious and accessible, offering affordable accommodation options nearby. Our diligent volunteers in Japan scoured venues in Tokyo and Yokohama before selecting the ideal spot in Shibuya.

In the days leading up to the event, volunteers, both local and from afar, gathered at the venue. Their mission: to set up everything from audio-visual equipment to stages and decorations, ensuring a warm welcome for attendees on November 1st at 9:00 AM. Despite the time crunch, the spirit of cooperation and friendliness prevailed, making the preparation phase smooth and enjoyable.

Even amidst the busy setup, there was time for breaks and socialization, keeping everyone energized and focused on the mission at hand.

Day 1 (The Beginning)

No day at Nostrasia could start without a caffeine kick or a beverage of choice. The first day witnessed a steady influx of nostriches, filling the venue with excitement and anticipation.

The day offered a mix of activities: some attendees engaged in the presentations, others relaxed in the family-friendly area, and there were even recreational spaces for all ages to enjoy, including model train setups.

The setup was designed to welcome nostriches of all stripes, whether young or old, tech-savvy or not. It was a space where everyone could feel comfortable and included.

The day culminated in a grand welcome party, complete with drinks, MAGURO (Yellowfin tuna), and karaoke.

https://v.nostr.build/Mqqa.mp4

Day 2

Following a late night, the second day of the conference started a bit later, accommodating the nocturnal adventures of the attendees. The day was packed with fascinating talks, workshops, and plenty of opportunities for meet-ups and hugs. https://v.nostr.build/q3RM.mp4

An interesting discovery for me was the concept of air replies, a novel and visually engaging way to interact on social media.

Day 3 (Final)

The final day, starting late due to the previous night's festivities, was filled with a diverse range of presentations. Topics varied from non-technical perspectives on Nostr to in-depth technical workshops and discussions. #footstr

The day was brimming with a variety of presentations in both halls of the conference center. These ranged from insightful talks about Nostr from a non-technical perspective to more in-depth technical workshops and discussions. https://v.nostr.build/R98n.mp4 https://v.nostr.build/o5Xl.mp4 https://v.nostr.build/4A6W.mp4

The event concluded with heartfelt closing remarks from the organizers, filled with gratitude and appreciation for everyone's participation and effort.

Outro

Nostrasia 2023 was a resounding success, marked by a warm, friendly atmosphere that pervaded the entire event. While some had to depart immediately after, many stayed on to explore the wonders of Japan, carrying with them memories of an unforgettable gathering. The end. 🐶🐾🫡🫂

Footnotes

• For the list of notes published about the event, use #nostrasia hashtag.
• For the official Nostrasia profile, visit @npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l
• Detailed conference schedule
• Official Webside

Other pictures and videos taken before, during, and after the event

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Introduction

The secession of the plebeians in ancient Rome stands as a remarkable chapter in the Roman Republic's history, marked by the plebeians' demand for social and political rights. This post explores this historical event and draws parallels with a contemporary phenomenon: the rise of Bitcoin. The cryptocurrency's capacity to challenge traditional financial systems, influence government actions, and promote economic equity mirrors the plebeian secession's impact on the Roman Republic.

The Background of Social Inequality

Before examining the connection between the plebeian secession and Bitcoin, it is crucial to understand the context. In ancient Rome, a sharp division between the aristocratic patricians and the common plebeians was a defining feature of the Roman Republic. The patricians held most of the political power and favored their own interests, leaving the plebeians subject to injustices such as debt bondage, lack of legal protection, and inadequate political representation.

Causes of the Plebeian Secession

The primary causes of the plebeian secession were rooted in these social inequalities and injustices. The plebeians sought recognition and protection of their rights, particularly in the face of patrician abuses. Key grievances that led to the secession included:

Debt Bondage: Many plebeians were burdened with crushing debts due to loans from patricians. This debt bondage often led to the loss of property and freedom, making it a central issue for the plebeians. This is a striking parallel to our over-indebted modern western society, featuring ballooning private debt (credit cards/mortgages/car loans/etc.) and public debt, which are hallmarks of a credit-based fiat monetary system. Many people today live under a modern form of debt slavery.

Lack of Legal Protections: The plebeians demanded written laws (the "Laws of the Twelve Tables") that would ensure fair and equal treatment before the law. Without such laws, they were at the mercy of arbitrary decisions by patrician magistrates. While we do have legal protections (such as the US Constitution, for example), lawmakers, Big Tech and bureaucrats have set themselves to the task of watering-down many of those protections over the years. The First (freedom of speech), Second (right to bear arms) and Fourth (freedom from unreasonable search and seizure) Amendments are regularly under attack in America today and have been for years.

Political Representation: The plebeians sought a greater say in the political decision-making process. The patricians held most of the important political offices, leaving the plebeians marginalized in the governance of the Roman state. This is also very similar to today’s world, where the priorities of the political elite (such as funding forever wars in foreign lands, wasting money on climate fear green energy and printing endless amounts of money leading to the dual theft of inflation and taxes) are not aligned with the needs of the common people.

The Secession of the Plebeians

The secession itself was a dramatic and daring move by the plebeians. The most well-documented secession took place in 494 BCE when they retreated to the Sacred Mount (the Mons Sacer) and vowed to establish their own state unless their demands were met. This act was an effective form of protest because it disrupted the normal functioning of Rome and drew attention to their grievances.

Resolution and Consequences

In response to the plebeian secession, the patricians, fearing the collapse of the state, agreed to negotiate. These negotiations, overseen by leaders such as Gaius Licinius Stolo and Lucius Sextius Lateranus, eventually led to a series of significant reforms:

The creation of the office of the Tribune of the Plebs, providing the plebeians with a formal channel to voice their concerns and protect their rights.

The establishment of the "Laws of the Twelve Tables," which codified Roman law and granted legal protection to all citizens.

The opening of certain political offices, previously exclusive to patricians, to plebeians.

These concessions marked a turning point in Roman history. They began to level the playing field between the patricians and plebeians, ultimately leading to a more inclusive and balanced political system. The plebeian secession served as a catalyst for progressive changes in Roman society, where the struggle for social and political equality continued for centuries to come.

Bitcoin as a Modern Secession

Bitcoin can be seen as a modern equivalent of the plebeian secession, albeit in a different context. By converting fiat money to Bitcoin, individuals are effectively withdrawing their support from the traditional financial system. This act mirrors the plebeians' secession by challenging the established order. Several key aspects of this modern "secession" parallel the demands of the plebeians in ancient Rome:

Draining Funds from the Traditional Financial System: Converting fiat currency into Bitcoin drains resources from the traditional financial system. This has the potential to challenge the status quo and reduce the traditional system's ability to fund "forever wars." This can also eliminate funding for other wasteful government initiatives that only exist because of the money printer.

Eliminating Currency Debasement: Bitcoin's fixed supply (21 million coins) eliminates the risk of inflation and currency debasement. Just as the plebeians sought protection from arbitrary treatment, Bitcoin provides a safeguard against the "tax" of eroding purchasing power due to inflation.

Reducing Wealth Disparity: Bitcoin's decentralized nature disrupts the traditional financial system, reducing the ability of the financial elite (akin to patricians) to manipulate the money supply. This can address concerns about wealth disparity, as Bitcoin's value is determined by market forces rather than central authorities and access to Bitcoin is available to anyone, not just the elites closest to the money printer.

Limiting Government Expenditure: Bitcoin's ability to act as a store of value could limit the government's capacity to endlessly print and borrow money, thereby promoting fiscal responsibility, shrinking the size and scope of government to its essential functions and reducing waste in public spending.

Conclusion

The secession of the plebeians in ancient Rome and the rise of Bitcoin in the modern era share common threads of challenging the established order and demanding fairness and representation. The plebeians sought to rectify social injustices and gain political voice, while Bitcoin enthusiasts aim to reshape the financial landscape, promoting financial independence and economic equity. Bitcoin's potential to drain resources from the traditional financial system, eliminate currency debasement, reduce wealth disparity, and limit government expenditure underscores its revolutionary potential. The spirit of defiance against entrenched powers and the quest for a more equitable system echo across centuries, demonstrating the enduring human pursuit of freedom and fairness. Bitcoin, much like the plebeian secession, embodies the hope of a more just and inclusive world.

Not financial or legal advice, for entertainment only, do your own homework.  I hope you find this post useful as you chart your personal financial course and Build a Bitcoin Fortress in 2023.    

Thanks for following my work. Always remember: freedom, health and positivity!  

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クラウドマイニングとは、マイニングを行う企業に資金を投資して、マイニングを代行してもらうサービスです。マイニングとは、仮想通貨の取引履歴を確認し、不正がないかをチェックする作業です。マイニングに成功すると、その報酬として仮想通貨を獲得することができます。

クラウドマイニングには、大きく分けて以下の3つの利点があります。

1. 初期投資を抑えられる

クラウドマイニングでは、マイニング専用のマシンや電気代などの初期投資を抑えることができます。マイニングを自力で行う場合、マイニング専用のマシンを複数台購入する必要があります。また、マシンを設置するためのスペースや電気代も必要となります。クラウドマイニングでは、これらの初期投資をクラウドマイニング業者が負担してくれるため、個人でも気軽にマイニングを始めることができます。

1. 専門知識やスキルがなくても始められる

クラウドマイニングでは、マイニングの専門知識やスキルがなくても始めることができます。マイニングを自力で行う場合、マイニングの原理や仕組みを理解し、マイニング専用のマシンを設置・管理する必要があります。クラウドマイニングでは、これらの作業をクラウドマイニング業者が代行してくれるため、マイニング初心者でも簡単に始めることができます。

1. 管理の手間が不要

クラウドマイニングでは、マイニングの管理の手間が不要です。マイニングを自力で行う場合、マイニングの状況を常にチェックし、必要に応じてマイニング設定を変更する必要があります。クラウドマイニングでは、これらの作業をクラウドマイニング業者が代行してくれるため、マイニングに時間を割く必要がありません。

クラウドマイニングのデメリット

クラウドマイニングには、以下のデメリットもあります。

• マイニング報酬が不安定

マイニング報酬は、仮想通貨の価格やマイニング難易度によって変動します。そのため、クラウドマイニングで得られる利益も不安定です。

• 詐欺のリスクがある

クラウドマイニングの業者の中には、詐欺を行っている業者も存在します。クラウドマイニングを始める前に、業者の信頼性や実績を十分に調べることが重要です。

クラウドマイニングを始める際の注意点

クラウドマイニングを始める際は、以下の点に注意しましょう。

• 信頼できる業者を選ぶ

クラウドマイニングの業者の中には、詐欺を行っている業者も存在します。クラウドマイニングを始める前に、業者の信頼性や実績を十分に調べることが重要です。

• マイニングのリスクを理解する

マイニングには、マイニング報酬が不安定になる、詐欺のリスクがあるなどのリスクがあります。クラウドマイニングを始める前に、これらのリスクを十分に理解しておきましょう。

クラウドマイニングのまとめ

クラウドマイニングは、初期投資を抑えたり、専門知識やスキルがなくても始められたりと、マイニングを始めるハードルを下げてくれるサービスです。ただし、マイニング報酬が不安定になる、詐欺のリスクがあるなどのデメリットもあるため、始める際は注意が必要です。

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🌟English: How Nostr Win 🌟日本語: ノストルが勝つ方法 🌟Español: Cómo gana Nostr

今天，我要谈一下Nostr如何取胜。我询问了一群人有关Nostr如何取胜的问题，因为我想看看人们是如何回答的。我得到了各种不同的答案，但有些人提到：“我们真的想取胜吗？” 这没问题。我说好吧，我只是要解决这一部分。是的，我们确实想要取胜。有些人给我提出的理由是，他们希望保持Nostr纯粹的信号，即只有一小部分人在Nostr中，所以它是纯粹的信号。如果你想要这样，你可以创建一个中继白名单，添加当前的公钥，然后再也不看到其他人。这不是Nostr。直到现在，再也不会有这种情况。这很好，这就是选择性，这就是Nostr的要点。你可以选择以任何你想要的方式与Nostr互动。

定义胜利

让我们更明确地定义一下胜利是什么意思。它只是意味着被采用；没有什么花哨的。它只是表示更多的人使用它，更多的中继存在，更多的经济活动，更多的企业，更多，只是更多。Nostr的设计非常酷，你可以自己选择你想要看什么。它的工作方式是你在协议级别获取数据。这在很大程度上是一个协议，你决定你要获取的节点。当你看到空投垃圾邮件时，是你去请求那些垃圾邮件的；没有人给你发送垃圾邮件；你自己去获取的。所以，这很酷，因为你可以根据自己的喜好创建Nostr的体验。

我们如何不取胜

首先，我们先了解一下我们如何不取胜。让我们弄清楚这一点，因为我认为它有助于我们的思考。 第一个是要超越Twitter非常困难。我认为光靠成为Twitter是无法取胜的。Twitter已经存在很长时间，资金更充裕，曾经有过名望。

我们有一个座右铭，一句老话，即要想颠覆另一个产品，它至少需要比对手好10倍；这是一个众所周知的老话；它是一个非常合理的老话。

在我看来，我们不会取胜（这可能有点有争议）是因为我们不会实现抗审查性。大多数人不关心这一点。大多数人会把抗审查性视为一个需要解决的问题。我们不能通过专注于抗审查性来取胜；它并不具吸引力。除了一小部分人，它并不具吸引力。

它并不能激励或推动人们行动，有很多幻想在Nostr中，有很多幻想在比特币中。比特币已经取胜；它是不可避免的。

它导致了自满。这不是我们改善事物、改善世界思考的方式，因为如果有效市场假设是正确的，那么我们不需要做任何事情。一切都已经做好了，我们很好，对吗？这不是我们取胜的方式。

我们取胜是通过行动，通过做事情，如果我们中心化，我们就不会取胜。这很有趣，因为在同一张幻灯片上，我提到了抗审查性和中心化是抗审查性的另一面。如果我们不具备抗审查性，我们就中心化，反之亦然。尽管这不是一个好的推销点，不会让人们进一步了解中继和所有这些事情以及私钥和所有这些事情，但这绝对是根本性的。当我说中心化时，我指的是中继和客户；其中任何一个都可能中心化，或者两者都可能中心化。如果我们最终采用一种只需连接到一个或两个中心的模式，那意味着我们有第一个失败的风险，这是最有可能的情况，我们首先会失败，因为网络无法扩展，当有大量新用户涌入时，一切都会崩溃。我们曾经看到过几次，当斯诺登来临或杰克来临时，基本上中继就不起作用，比如大型中继，或者如果一个客户拥有市场份额的很大一部分，这是我对Nostr很担心的一件事情之一。如果一个客户变得非常流行，获得了大量市场份额，那么它很容易被用来指导协议的设计，它很容易被控制。这就是为什么我一直在努力谈论微应用和微应用生态系统，因为如果文化具有塑造事物的强大力量，那就非常重要，因为文化有一句话，文化是早餐的战略，这是非常真实的，树立使用微应用文化和被用来创建不同应用文化非常重要，因为如果文化具有塑造事物的强大力量，那就非常重要，它可以预先防止大资本客户夺取大量市场份额。

不要天真，因为这仍然非常有可能，我们远没有在这一方面达到安全。对我来说，这是一个非常重要的问题。明天我们将会就此进行一次小组讨论，但缺乏一个发件箱模型，我使用“发件箱模型”这个术语非常宽泛。它只是意味着有一种决策树或算法，决定你要向哪些中继写入，从哪些中继读取。这有点技术性，但它基本上意味着一个人有多容易运行自己的中继，即使他们在所有主要中心中被封禁和审查，他们仍然可以拥有与想要与该人互动的用户进行互动的机会，这是终极测试；如果服务器崩溃，如果中继崩溃，而用户意识到它崩溃了，那意味着网络不够分散。

使Blaster再次无关紧要

基本上，如果使用Blaster有经济激励，这只是一个中继，当你发布到它时，它只是将它发送到其他300个中继。只要有动力使用它，那么我们知道我们还没有到达那个阶段。还有很多工作要做。

Nostr如何获胜

我们已经讨论了为什么它不会获胜的很多原因。好吧，如果你在这里，我会猜测我要给出的答案是什么。哦，首先，当我说那些是其他东西时，这并不意味着微博客，Twitter的用例不重要；它是绝对基本的。拥有各种不同的客户，经过扎实、出色执行的客户是必要的；只是不够。它是必要但不足。网络效应非常强大；它几乎无所不在；很少有社交网络被其他东西取代。他们可能会做出可怕的、可怕的决定。Facebook滥用了他们的用户，斯诺登揭示了这种情况，这种情况发生了很多次，但人们仍然涌入其中。网络效应使产品非常黏性。当你的所有朋友都在一个网络上时，要清除这个10倍更好的标准，我之前提到的陈词滥调，清除它非常困难。 Nostr没有达到这个标准；我是说它离达到10倍更好的标准还远远不够。但有很多很多的机会，有很多很多的原因，为什么Nostr有很好的机会达到这一标准，其中之一就是互操作性，就是Nostr的透明、像魔术一样的互操作性，因为当你拥有这种几乎免费的互操作性时，它释放出比网络效应更强大的东西，这是现实中为数不多的比网络效应更强大的东西之一。网络效应时间、网络效应时间、网络效应时间、网络效应时间。我们可以总结为网络效应的力量，用例的力量。为什么？在Nostr中实施的每个用例都会获得一些非常酷的属性，它们相互乘以，使所有其他与这个用例无关的产品都变得更好一点。就像是说eBay的网络效应乘以Netflix的网络效应乘以Twitter的网络效应，等等。这非常强大；我们目前正处于网络效应的复合阶段的早期阶段，这真的很难看到。

当我去迈阿密的时候，我注意到了一些有趣的事情。我创建了Subster，这是一款音乐应用，而Nostr集成了对Subster的支持。因此，上传音乐到Subster的用户至少能让他们的音乐被Nostr用户倾听，然后紫晶实现了Subster的支持，然后Coracle实现了对web的支持，或Subster。这真的很疯狂，这种不同用例的渗透可以提高整个Nostr生态系统的产品。当你仔细考虑时，它意味着Facebook在Nostr方面具有巨大的优势，很明显，Facebook必须与世界其他地方的人一起建设东西，然后Twitter也必须与世界其他地方的人一起竞争。尽管它们都是独立的、完全垂直的公司，但它们必须与世界其他地方的人竞争。现在，世界其他地方几乎没有什么，但我认为它会获得越来越多的动力。但我们需要做一些事情。

企业家的作用

我认为我们需要改变我们思考和定义Nostr的方式。到目前为止，通常我们是通过定义它不是什么来定义Nostr；我们说它是抗审查的，没有隐藏的操纵算法，没有主人，所以它很棒，而且很真实，但很难产生共鸣。这就像发现，“哦，我的妻子很棒；她几乎不曾操控我。” 你会谈论她的美好品质，她非常聪明，她非常支持，或者她有的任何品质；你不会说，“哦，她不对我做这种可怕的事情，”但这通常是我们定义和解释Nostr的方式，甚至是理性的方式，它只是把能量放在了错误的地方。有太多关于Nostr的积极方面可谈，关注它是什么，就像错过了可能性一样。当我考虑我们如何探索这些可能性时，我认为我们需要探索这些可能性所需要的是企业家，企业家，企业家。我们当前拥有一个非常健康的开发者生态系统，这是很棒的，我们需要更多。我认为我们过去几个月所做的工作为更多的开发者能够创建应用程序，创建强大的应用程序，创建可以工作的应用程序，这相当令人惊讶。这真的很好，开发者们涌现了。我在社交媒体上看到了很多人，这很棒；我们需要那些魔术师，因为我们仍然在很大程度上处于未知的领地上，但我们有很少的企业家；我们有很少的企业正在考虑长远发展。不管规模如何，企业通常具有焦点，这是一家开发商没有的，通常会有的是产品愿景的焦点。开发人员往往会对技术非常感兴趣，我们想玩这个，玩那个，最终会拥有一堆被遗弃的东西或者有缺陷的东西，或者根本没有坚实的发展路线。我们绝对需要将更多的企业家引入这个圈子，以帮助我们发现一些仍然需要被发现的东西，而我认为企业将帮助我们解锁这些东西。

建立非提取式业务

创建非提取式的、引人入胜的、强大的业务机会是一个非常有趣的机会。如果我们思考过去20到25年中大型科技公司的发展，它们实际上没有创造太多价值。Facebook的估值巨大，但他们实际上没有创造它；他们只是幸运的；他们确实处在合适的时间和地点，能够捕捉到网络效应内在产生的价值。他们只是碰巧能够捕捉到这个价值，他们显然执行得非常出色，这部分执行是我们需要在Nostr中的，但网络效应产生的价值，将会发生什么；它只是可以捕获还是不能捕获。我认为有很多理由在Nostr上建立业务。听起来有点奇怪，因为Nostr上没有盈利的业务，但这只是因为Nostr经济体太小了；在这个阶段，要创造一个可持续的业务是不可能的，而且我不认为企业应该考虑货币化；我知道有些人现在正在考虑货币化；我认为这还为时过早，这会导致你做出错误决策；它会导致你得出错误的结论；就像某些本来会起作用但却因经济体太小而没有起作用，但你为什么要在Nostr上建立业务呢？为什么不只是建立一个典型的SaaS或者试图摆脱谷歌或像蓝天那样？哲学上的答案是Nostr与自然更好地保持一致，这意味着通过与能源和企业的保持一致，您可以从不必要的力量中受益；它更稳妥；它在热力学上更合理。这就像决定是顺流而下还是逆流而上。几个月前，我强调了所有具有社交成分的公司最终要么成为Nostr的客户，要么就会灭亡。网络效应的复合力量是无法阻挡的；任何不适应这一变化的企业都将失败。几乎每项互联网活动都涉及到社交层，而Nostr则充当社交框架。任何具有社交方面的内容都会从与Nostr集成中受益。如果一家企业不采纳Nostr，并最终获胜，自然将摧毁任何未构建在Nostr上的用例。

尽管存在这些潜在的优势，仍然有很多问题没有得到解答。抗审查性、中继的经济可持续性和其他重要方面尚未得到彻底测试。理论讨论很丰富，但现实经济活动和利用Nostr的企业家对于找到实际解决方案至关重要。说服企业家相信Nostr的潜力是一项具有挑战性的任务，因为它的经济体规模较小。然而，如果仔细观察，一些强大的基础正在崭露头角，正如越来越多的开发者加入生态系统所证实的那样。这一趋势虽然有希望，但要求参与其中的人具备韧性和决心。

问答

在此，我想表达我的感激之情。如果您有任何问题，我们有三分钟的时间。

观众提问：是否有“Nostr联合国”的概念？

回答：“Nostr联合国”的概念让我感到不安。您能详细说明一下您的意思吗？

观众提问：我们有各种建设者致力于扩大Nostr生态系统的共同目标。增加他们之间的相互沟通和合作是否有益？有人试图组织这样的努力吗？

回答：目前还没有这样的协调努力。事实上，如果出现这样的倡议，我会考虑参与Blue Sky项目，甚至可能进行Nostr的分支。事实往往是通过竞争和冲突来发现的，就像自然运作的方式一样。共识和圆桌讨论往往会导致糟糕的决策。客户之间的竞争是我们生态系统的一个健康方面。

观众提问：过去，像MySpace这样的平台对创作者更具吸引力，而不是Facebook。您认为Facebook最终为什么胜过了MySpace？

回答：Facebook之所以成功，是因为他们最初针对特定的领域并征服了它。他们并没有试图从一开始就成为全球性社交网络。他们解决了一个特定的使用案例，扩展到附近的大学，并从那里发展壮大。MySpace的失败包括对主要代码库的重写，这是创业公司的常见杀手。这样的决策可以让创业公司生存变得非常具有挑战性。

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เมื่อเราทราบคุณสมบัติของทองคำแล้ว แล้วใครกันล่ะที่เป็นคนเริ่มต้นให้คุณค่าแก่ทองคำจนกลายเป็นที่ยอมรับ ใครกันที่ควรจะเห็นคุณค่าของทองคำแบบรู้ได้ด้วยตนเอง รู้แบบไม่ต้องมีใครมาบอก ใครกันที่ทำให้ผู้คนที่ไม่เข้าใจในทองคำด้วยซ้ำ หันมายอมรับทองคำโดยที่พวกเขาไม่ต้องเข้าใจมันก็ได้ ใครกันที่จะทำเช่นนั้นได้

ลองนึกย้อนกลับไปในอดีตกาล เศรษฐีในยุคที่มนุษย์ยังไม่รู้จักเงินนั้น ไม่ใช่คนที่มีเงินเยอะ แต่คือคนที่มีทรัพยากรเหลือเฟือ และการจะมีทรัพยากรเหลือเฟือได้นั้น คนๆนั้นต้องแข็งแกร่งกว่าคนอื่น ไม่ทางใดก็ทางหนึ่ง ไม่ว่าจะแข็งแรงกว่า ฉลาดกว่า อดทนมากกว่า ค้นพบเร็วกว่า รวบรวมผู้คนได้เยอะกว่า ซึ่งมันทำให้เขามีทรัพยากรมากกว่า และตามมาด้วยอำนาจที่มากกว่า

พวกเขามีทรัพยากรมากมายเท่าที่อำนาจของเขาจะครอบครองไหว ทั้งแผ่นดิน ผืนน้ำ สิ่งต่างๆล้วนกินไม่หมดและใช้ไม่ทัน แต่ก็เก็บเอาไว้ไม่ได้ ถึงบางอย่างจะเก็บเอาไว้ได้ แต่ก็เก็บได้ไม่นาน ทรัพยากรต่างๆที่แม้จะใช้หรือไม่ใช้ วันนึงก็จะสลายไปอยู่ดี ตัดไม้เก็บไว้ใช้ ใช้ไม่ทันไม้ก็ผุ จะผลิตเก็บเป็นอาวุธอุปกรณ์ต่างๆ วางทิ้งไว้สนิมก็กัดกิน ผลไม้ อาหาร หรือข้าวสารต่างๆ ถ้ากินไม่ทันก็เน่าเสีย เมื่อเกิดภัยธรรมชาติ น้ำท่วมหรือไฟไหม้ทรัพยากรต่างๆเหล่านี้ก็จะสูญไป ไม่เหลืออะไรเลย ปัญหาหนักใจของคนรวย คือมีทรัพยากรมากมาย แต่จะเก็บไว้ให้อยู่ได้ตลอดไปยังไงดี

ลองนึกภาพว่า เมื่อเศรษฐีได้พบกับคุณสมบัติที่พิเศษของทองคำและเมื่อเขาเข้าใจในความเป็นอมตะของมัน แน่นอนว่าเขาพร้อมที่จะครอบครองมัน แต่แล้วใครล่ะจะหาแร่ทองคำนี้มาให้เขา

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ใครก็ตามที่หาแร่สีทองนี้มาให้เศรษฐี เขาก็ยินดีจะแบ่งปันอาหารและสิ่งต่างๆให้ ของที่เขากินไม่หมด ของที่เขาใช้ไม่ทัน ทรัพยากรที่เขามีอยู่มากมาย

เท่านี้ก็เพียงพอ ที่จะทำให้ผู้คนนั้น ยอมนำเวลาที่พวกเขามี ไปตามหาแร่สีทอง ถึงแม้มันจะกินไม่ได้ นำมาสร้างบ้านก็ไม่ได้ เอามาใส่แทนเสื้อผ้าก็ไม่ได้ มันไม่ได้ใกล้เคียงกับปัจจัยสี่เลยแม้แต่น้อย แต่… มันใช้แลกสิ่งต่างๆจากเศรษฐีได้ พวกเขาไม่รู้หรอกว่า เศรษฐีจะเอาแร่สีทองนี้ไปทำอะไร แต่ในเวลานี้เขายอมรับมันและทุกคนต่างก็ยอมรับมัน เพราะมันสามารถนำไปแลกสิ่งต่างๆที่พวกเขาต้องการได้

อ่านมาถึงตรงนี้แล้ว ผู้อ่านคิดเหมือนกันไหม ว่าจริงๆแล้ว บางทีช่วงเวลาแห่งการยอมรับอะไรบางอย่าง(Adoption) มันไม่ได้ต้องรอให้ทุกคนบนโลก หรือคนส่วนมากนั้นเข้าใจมันทั้งหมดหรอก

อะไรก็ตามที่คุณสมบัติของมันนั้นพร้อมด้วยตัวมันเองแล้ว เมื่อถึงเวลาที่ผู้ที่มีอำนาจ ผู้ที่ร่ำรวยทรัพยากรนั้นให้การยอมรับ ในไม่ช้าผู้คนต่างก็จะยอมรับ ไม่ใช่เพราะพวกเขาเข้าใจมัน แต่เป็นเพราะมันสามารถนำไปแลกทรัพยากรที่มีค่าจากผู้ที่มีอำนาจได้

ในบรรดาผู้คนทั้งหมด คนที่จะเข้าใจในเรื่องของ Store of value ที่สุด ดูจะเป็นใครไปไม่ได้เลย นอกจากชนชั้นอีลิทหรือบรรดาเหล่าเศรษฐี ก็เพราะพวกเขานี่แหละ ที่เป็นกลุ่มคนที่มีความมั่งคั่งมากที่สุด มีมากจนล้น และพวกเขาต้องการที่เก็บ เก็บแบบใดก็ได้ที่ใช้ต้นทุนในการเก็บน้อยที่สุด ขนย้ายได้ง่ายที่สุด นำมาใช้ได้ง่ายที่สุด ปลอดภัยที่สุด ถูกขโมยหรือถูกยึดได้ยากที่สุด ไม่เสื่อมสลายไปตามกาลเวลา ไม่สูญหายไปพร้อมกับภัยพิบัติ

แน่นอนว่าในอดีต ทองคำคือสิ่งที่เหมาะสมที่สุด แต่สิ่งที่แน่นอนที่สุดคือความไม่แน่นอนต่างหาก การเปลี่ยนแปลงเป็นสิ่งเกิดขึ้นอยู่เสมอ การคัดเลือกทางธรรมชาติในแต่ละยุคก็คงจะมีความแตกต่างกันออกไป และในวันนี้ทองคำไม่ใช่ตัวเลือกเดียวอีกต่อไป

โลกของเรามีสิ่งใหม่ ซึ่งเป็นสิ่งที่มีคุณสมบัติของการเป็นเงินที่ดี มีความสามารถในการเป็นที่เก็บรักษามูลค่า(Store of value)ที่เหนือกว่าทองคำ และเป็นหน่วยวัดได้(Unit of acount)ที่ดีกว่าเงินกระดาษ และมีความพร้อมที่จะเป็นสื่อกลางในการแลกเปลี่ยน(Medium of exchange)ที่ดีที่สุด ถึงแม้จะจับต้องไม่ได้ในแบบรูปธรรม แต่สามารถพิสูจน์ได้ว่ามีอยู่จริง และที่สำคัญคือไม่มีใครที่มีอำนาจควบคุมหรือบังคับมันได้เลย

หากเศรษฐีคนใดในวันนี้ที่ยังไม่เข้าใจในคุณสมบัติของเงินที่ดี ความมั่งคั่งของพวกเขา จะต้องถูกเคลื่อนย้ายไปสู่มือของบรรดาเหล่าหัวกะทิ ที่บางคนอาจจะไม่ใช่คนร่ำรวยในวันนี้ แต่บรรดาหัวกะทิเหล่านั้นจะกลายเป็นบรรพบุรุษของเหล่าเศรษฐีในยุคถัดไป

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La llegada de un barco de trigo a La Habana parece que será un alivio para los consumidores de pan en la oriental provincia de Santiago de Cuba, que desde hace cuatro días no ven estabilidad en la llegada del demandado alimento a sus hogares.

Una nota publicada en el periódico estatal Sierra Maestra refleja que desde hace cuatro días la población de ese territorio no recibe la cuota normada del producto.

Tras su procesamiento, la harina de trigo que llegue a Santiago de Cuba no satisfará todas las deudas que la Empresa Provincial Alimentaria tiene con la población, a pesar de que el gobierno anuncia un horario extendido para el expendio de este producto.

Según Jorge Luis Arce Ferrera, director provincial de la entidad estatal, “es bueno aclarar que con el procesamiento de la materia prima, no quedarían al día las actuales producciones, las que dependen de las importaciones y por el momento no se entregarán los atrasados por la insuficiente cobertura de harina” recoge el medio de prensa santiaguero.

Desde hace meses el país presenta una situación crítica en la producción y comercialización del pan, producto de la escasez de materias primas para su elaboración y en medio de la crisis energética que ha obligado al gobierno a paralizar un número considerable de servicios en el país.

Las pocas llegadas de buques cargados con el trigo indispensable para las producciones, no satisfacen las altas demandas que tiene la población. A mediados de octubre un barco cargado con 23,500 toneladas de trigo procedente de Europa llegó al puerto de La Habana, pero su cargamento solo posibilitó la elaboración de unas 16,000 toneladas de harina, una materia prima que solo alcanzó para asegurar durante menos de un mes la entrega de pan a la población.

Estas escaseces provocan la irritación social. Como fue el caso de una vecina de El Vedado que denunció que en esa barriada habanera deben hacer colas hasta la madrugada para comprar pan en establecimientos estatales.

Mientras el régimen de La Habana dice que gracias al pensamiento de Fidel Castro, Cuba tiene capacidad industrial para producir alimentos.

“Gracias al pensamiento de nuestro Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro tenemos una Industria Alimentaria con capacidad suficiente para producir alimentos para nuestro pueblo”, indicó el MINAL en la red social X. Un “potencial” que mantiene en el desespero a las familias cubanas.

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"26.5% of Spanish people and 29.5 % of Italian people between the ages of 30 and 34 years old still live with their parents."

— The Mediterranean youth and the challenges of the permanent crisis

The Esade Center for Economic Policy and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation For Freedom just released an study (English, Spanish) conducted in Spain, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Portugal, and Tunisia covering people between the ages of 18 and 34.

Money is seriously broken when one out of every three people 30 to 34 years old can't afford to buy or rent a home.

The study is a very interesting read to understand the current situation in Mediterranean countries.

The recommendations it provides to address the permanent crisis of the people born between 1980 and 2005 shows how oblivious the establishment is to the root cause of the problem.

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Ability to cover expenses and save

Less than half, in some cases, less than one third of the youth in this countries feels that they can cover their basic expenses.

When you look at their ability to save, you can see the dichotomy of short term vs. long term forecasting. Most youth don't find themselves capable to save for an emergency yet they think that they can save long term (housing and retirement).

The reality is that if you can't save for an emergency, you can't save for long term, but people tend to look at the future with rosier lenses.

Becoming independent

It is very common for younger people in Mediterranean countries to live with their parents while studying at college or university. That is why this study specifically broke down the housing results by ages and the results are shocking.

Half of the young Tunisians ages 30 to 34 still live with their parents! That number is 30% for Italy and 27% for Spain. The main cited reason: lack of own income.

And for those who were able to move out, the majority did so with financial support from their parents, the boomer generation. Or as I call them, the last generation with sound money.

The bogus solutions

You would think that this would be obvious by now but apparently not.

I believe that most people don't see that the money is broken because their mind can't conceive such a possibility. They only know fiat and when looking for solutions, money is not even on their list of candidates.

What do these esteemed economists think that we should do to solve the problem?

Here is their list: - Improve higher level education: better access to, and more funds for public universities - Minimum living income payments and savings accounts managed and partially funded by the government - Expand public housing and simplify regulations for builders

The real reasons: the monetary premium that homes carry and the loss of real purchasing power by these generations are never mentioned. Inflation is mentioned in the opening statements and apparently it's Putin's fault.

Last week I ended my article with this statement and this week I'm repeating myself:

It's our duty to help people understand why they are how they are. Introduce them to sound money and the future that it can give us whenever you can.

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La Comunidad Hebrea de Cuba rechazó las recientes declaraciones de Mariela Castro en relación con la guerra de Israel contra la organización terrorista Hamás en la franja de Gaza.

En una carta publicada en Facebook, la comunidad expresa su desacuerdo con las afirmaciones de la hija del exmandatario cubano Raúl Castro y directora del Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual (CENESEX), quien indicó que habría que actuar con más violencia para frenar a Israel: "Ya al imperialismo no se le puede confrontar con piedras, ni con palabras, ni por la vía diplomática", dijo en un reciente conversatorio con autoridades palestinas en la Universidad de La Habana.

La comunidad hebrea consideró tales declaraciones de un total desconocimiento y tergiversación del momento y la historia, además de incluir "un profundo antisemitismo".

"Cuando se es figura pública es imposible desligarse de quien se es y lo que representa, para convertirse en un ciudadano del mundo y exponer sus criterios, más aún cuando en ellos se muestra un total desconocimiento y tergiversación del momento y la historia", señala.

La declaración destaca que los judíos no son ocupantes del Medio Oriente, sino un pueblo que ha sido forzado a vivir en la diáspora durante miles de años.

También defiende la fundación del Estado de Israel como un acto destinado a reivindicar el derecho de los judíos a ser reconocidos como cualquier otra nación del mundo y a fundar un Estado Nacional en la tierra donde forjaron su identidad espiritual, religiosa y nacional.

Las palabras de Mariela Castro "incitan al odio hacia los judíos y ponen en peligro la estabilidad y las relaciones que la comunidad ha mantenido con el resto de sus coterráneos y religiosos", señala el texto.

Asimismo, recuerda que hay estudiantes judíos en escuelas de todo el país que, a raíz de estas declaraciones, "pueden experimentar miradas y acciones diferentes a las habituales".

La comunidad no justificó la guerra y reiteró su acuerdo con la creación de dos estados, Israel y Palestina, como solución a verdaderos acuerdos de paz y coexistencia.

Además, instó a aquellos que apoyan al pueblo palestino a proporcionar información precisa sobre la guerra y los actos de la organización terrorista Hamás, que han sido omitidos del discurso oficialista cubano en sus declaraciones tibias sobre la guerra.

La declaración concluye lamentando el escenario actual en el Medio Oriente, y las vidas perdidas.

"Lamentamos y nos duele cada niño, cada mujer, cada anciano o persona inocente que muera a causa de esta guerra contra el terrorismo y no sólo a causa de la guerra, también a causa de ser obligados a estar en zonas de guerra para convertirse en escudos humanos de Hamás", expresa.

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Do a flip!

I've been there. My folks were always on me to groom myself and wear underpants. What am I, the pope? I guess because my parents keep telling me to be more ladylike. As though! Okay, I like a challenge.

Hey, what kinda party is this? There's no booze and only one hooker. She also liked to shut up! Yes, except the Dave Matthews Band doesn't rock. I guess because my parents keep telling me to be more ladylike. As though!

Ah, the 'Breakfast Club' soundtrack! I can't wait til I'm old enough to feel ways about stuff!

Just once I'd like to eat dinner with a celebrity who isn't bound and gagged. Bender, we're trying our best. One hundred dollars. I usually try to keep my sadness pent up inside where it can fester quietly as a mental illness.

1. I don't know what you did, Fry, but once again, you screwed up! Now all the planets are gonna start cracking wise about our mamas.
2. Hey, whatcha watching?
3. For example, if you killed your grandfather, you'd cease to exist!

Quite possible. We live long and are celebrated poopers.

With gusto. Bender, I didn't know you liked cooking. That's so cute. Would you censor the Venus de Venus just because you can see her spewers? Oh, but you can. But you may have to metaphorically make a deal with the devil. And by "devil", I mean Robot Devil. And by "metaphorically", I mean get your coat.

• With gusto.
• Can we have Bender Burgers again?
• Fetal stemcells, aren't those controversial?

No! Don't jump! I saw you with those two "ladies of the evening" at Elzars. Explain that. Dear God, they'll be killed on our doorstep! And there's no trash pickup until January 3rd. It's okay, Bender. I like cooking too.

I found what I need. And it's not friends, it's things. I've been there. My folks were always on me to groom myself and wear underpants. What am I, the pope? Good news, everyone! There's a report on TV with some very bad news!

Uh, is the puppy mechanical in any way? Who are those horrible orange men? Really?! You wouldn't. Ask anyway! Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex. Is there a place on the web that panders to my lust for violence?

OK, if everyone's finished being stupid. Soon enough. Really?! I just want to talk. It has nothing to do with mating. Fry, that doesn't make sense.

Five hours? Aw, man! Couldn't you just get me the death penalty? You know, I was God once. Hey! I'm a porno-dealing monster, what do I care what you think? I don't want to be rescued.

Look, last night was a mistake. I guess if you want children beaten, you have to do it yourself. Yep, I remember. They came in last at the Olympics, then retired to promote alcoholic beverages! Have you ever tried just turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?

Noooooo! Oh, how I wish I could believe or understand that! There's only one reasonable course of action now: kill Flexo! You, minion. Lift my arm. AFTER HIM! Why, those are the Grunka-Lunkas! They work here in the Slurm factory.

Ah, computer dating. It's like pimping, but you rarely have to use the phrase "upside your head." Large bet on myself in round one. I'll tell them you went down prying the wedding ring off his cold, dead finger.

When the lights go out, it's nobody's business what goes on between two consenting adults. Yes, if you make it look like an electrical fire. When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

Yes, I saw. You were doing well, until everyone died. It must be wonderful. Aww, it's true. I've been hiding it for so long. Too much work. Let's burn it and say we dumped it in the sewer.

A sexy mistake. OK, if everyone's finished being stupid. You lived before you met me?! You won't have time for sleeping, soldier, not with all the bed making you'll be doing. Yes. You gave me a dollar and some candy.

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I think it's undeniable at this point that the creation of Lightning Address has made the usage of custodial Lightning solutions increase -- or at least be more prominent. We see these stats everywhere of how many of Nostr Lightning Addresses are custodial, and how services like Nodeless and Geyser only work if you give them a Lightning Address, and that probably sounds like a lament to many people who thought Lightning would be this amazing network of self-hosted nodes that everybody runs, and is indeed sad.

Well, on the other hand the Lightning Address flow is clearly an improvement -- to most people -- over the cumbersome invoice flow. Since the early days of Lightning people had been complaining about the fact that there is no way to "just send money to an address". Even though I personally liked the invoice flow much more (especially if they had structured, signatures, clear descriptions and amounts, payment proofs and so on) the fact is that most people didn't and slowly invoices were losing their meaning entirely anyway.

This improvement in the payment flow, along with the open, easy and interoperable way that Lightning Addresses work, has opened space for new use cases that maybe wouldn't have existed otherwise -- like the services mentioned above, and others. So we can't really say this was all a bad thing.

We also shouldn't say it was a bad thing to have Lightning Addresses being invented at all, because if they hadn't been invented like they were, there is a high probably they would have been invented in other forms, probably much worse, that would involve private deals and proprietary integrations with ad-hoc APIs, SDKs and JavaScript widget buttons with iframes. I even remember some of these things starting to happen at the time Lightning Address was created, and we have more evidence of these things even after Lightning Address, like some "partnerships" here and there and the "UMA" protocol. So maybe Lightning Address was just the best possible protocol at the best time, and all its problems are not really its problems, but symptons of the problems of the Lightning Network (or maybe you wouldn't call these "problems", just natural properties, but doesn't matter).

The saddest realization of all this process, for me, was that Lightning payments are mostly used for tipping and not for commerce as I thought they would in the beginning (hence my love for the invoice flow). Specifically, LNURL-pay and its cool hidden features that went mostly unsupported, were all designed with the goal of enabling new use cases for commerce in the real life, outside the web, and Lightning Addresses would have tied nicely into that vision too -- but that was all definitely an irredeemable failure.

I thought I had more things to say about this, but either I didn't or I forgot. The end.

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La Contraloría General de la República de Cuba realizó una investigación en el sector empresarial estatal y el presupuestado de la oriental provincia de Guantánamo, revelando un escándalo financiero de proporciones millonarias.

De acuerdo con el periódico oficialista Venceremos, las serias anomalías en los procesos contables de seis entidades del Estado significan una pérdida de 85 millones de pesos cubanos (CUP).

Por los “presuntos hechos delictivos” la Comprobación Nacional al Control Interno en Guantánamo, decretó cuatro entidades como cumplidoras, con salvedades, y seis incumplidoras. Sin embargo, la nota de prensa no señala qué pasó con los responsables que “desaparecieron” los 85 millones de CUP. Se desconocen las medidas administrativas y penales tomadas en el territorio más oriental con directivos de empresas estatales.

Entre las deficiencias más reiteradas en las 10 entidades estatales destacan “problemas en el proceso de elaboración de los planes económicos y su cumplimiento, por causas objetivas o técnicas organizativas; limitaciones en cuanto a la asignación de funciones y descentralización de facultades, pues al día de hoy persisten las trabas de las empresas a las unidades empresariales de base, y al desarrollo de sus potencialidades”.

El informe reconoce que de manera general “no se logran los resultados esperados de la implementación de las 43 medidas para el sector empresarial”.

Ineficiencias y descontrol persisten desde el 2022

El panorama de 2023 ya se había registrado un año antes, cuando en un control similar se había reportado pérdidas millonarias por descontrol en instituciones estatales, ascendiendo a más de 315 millones de CUP. La situación actual pone en evidencia una ineficiente asignación de responsabilidades y descentralización de autoridad, lo que contribuye a un sistema trabado e ineficaz.

Contralora general admite que el propio gobierno no cumple sus leyes

El pasado mes de mayo, la Contralora General de la República de Cuba, Gladys María Bejerano Portela, reconoció en el VI Pleno del Comité Central del Partido Comunista (PCC) que el propio gobierno no cumple sus leyes y compromisos.

“Ninguna de las medidas que ha dictado nuestro gobierno, nuestro partido, cuando uno va a analizarla, de lo que decidimos, de lo que se acordó, de lo que todos apoyamos, a lo que sucede, hay una diferencia extraordinaria”, indicó la veterana comunista.

En el mismo cónclave, el ministro de Economía de Cuba, Alejandro Gil Fernández, reconoció que “no andamos bien”, por lo cual considera necesario “cerrar filas y apurar el paso”.

“Al cierre del año 2022, de los 201 Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social del Partido y la Revolución, 13 están sin avance y 67 tienen un avance bajo, por lo que ambas categorías concentran cerca del 40%; mientras, 110 tienen un avance medio (54.7%) y solo 11 un avance alto (5.4%)”, apuntó Gil Fernández.

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Chef's notes

Serving these two dishes together will create a delightful centerpiece for your Thanksgiving meal, offering a perfect blend of traditional flavors with a homemade touch.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 1 - 2 hours
• 🍽️ Servings: 4-6

Ingredients

• 1 whole turkey (about 12-14 lbs), thawed and ready to cook
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 2 tablespoons fresh thyme, chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh sage, chopped
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 onion, quartered
• 1 lemon, halved
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• Apple and Sage Stuffing
• 1 loaf of crusty bread, cut into cubes
• 2 apples, cored and chopped
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 stalks celery, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup fresh sage, chopped
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 2 cups chicken broth
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions

1. Preheat the Oven: Set your oven to 325°F (165°C).
2. Prepare the Herb Butter: Mix the softened butter with the chopped thyme, rosemary, and sage. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Prepare the Turkey: Remove any giblets from the turkey and pat it dry. Loosen the skin and spread a generous amount of herb butter under and over the skin.
4. Add Aromatics: Inside the turkey cavity, place the quartered onion, lemon halves, and garlic cloves.
5. Roast: Place the turkey in a roasting pan. Tent with aluminum foil and roast. A general guideline is about 15 minutes per pound, or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F (74°C) at the thickest part of the thigh.
6. Rest and Serve: Let the turkey rest for at least 20 minutes before carving.
7. Next: Apple and Sage Stuffing
8. Dry the Bread: Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet and let them dry overnight, or toast them in the oven.
9. Cook the Vegetables: In a large skillet, melt the butter and cook the onion, celery, and garlic until soft.
10. Combine Ingredients: Add the apples, sage, and bread cubes to the skillet. Stir in the chicken broth until the mixture is moist. Season with salt and pepper.
11. Bake: Transfer the stuffing to a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 30-40 minutes, until golden brown on top.

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We are all the creators of our own infinity. It took me 30+ years to truly understand this. Prior to i was lost on the wave of life... or so i thought. The truth of the matter is that we are alll searching for that one thing that sets our spirit free. The one thing that allows us to learn the dance of the infinite. the thing that finally allows us to get out of the driver's seat and to expect the abundance that waits for us at every open door; we just need the courage to open it, release control, and walk into the land of the unknown.

We are all connected. As we learn to shift our perception to see ourselves as well as others from this view, we quickly see that the stories, experiences, challenges, and behaviors we portray are mostly masked fears with quick spurts of confidence in between. We learn that everyone we will ever meet or have met is fighting for something, through something, or both. The only thing that holds us all back from the micro moments, experiences, dreams, and glory that is our god-given birthright is the fear created within our own mind; the limiting beliefs.

As we learn this, we start to shift out of false narratives created throughout our lives that we have attached ourselves to, making us believe that we are undeserving of great things. This is false.

Think about a time where you were living in complete glory! The summit of the mountain! These moments are incredible! And yet, they are simply that. Moments, interwoven between climbs up the mountain.

What if we have the ability to change that? What if we were never meant to experience so much resistance on these climbs up the mountain? What if we are meant to move throughout the valley between the mountain so that the journey propels us through greatness moment by moment? What if we all have a sixth sense that allows us to follow the yellow brick road of possibilities guiding and leading us through every decision? What if we are all quite magnificent and have the ability to create the life of our dreams, or greater?

Now don't get me wrong, it's not always simple and easy; however, it will fill your spirit in ways you never knew were possible. It will bring a sense of peace and joy to your life that allows you to feel safe throughout the storm.

What is IT you ask? The ability to tap and tune in to a source of infinite knowledge, wisdom, and answers that ensure you are steering your ship in the right direction. The holy grail. The answers you've always wanted to know. The walk with the infinite, and the road map of abundance. Your own personal treasure map.

If you are reading this, consider this divine intervention. Acknowledge that at this very moment, you are at the right place at the right time and you are about to uncover the keys to your destiny.

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Embrace the wisdom of navigating beyond simple black-and-white thinking.

The dance of contrast is a rich mosaic of understanding the universe—a perspective born from our collective journey toward enlightenment. It's a common human experience, a unifying thread that connects us all. Celebrate the few who may see beyond this, for they offer a glimpse into a vast realm of potential.

Consider the symphony of life where joy is enhanced by sorrow, and virtue gains strength through challenge. We discern and appreciate the world by recognizing these dynamic opposites. Acknowledge the subtleties in this contrast, and use it to foster discernment, not division.

Recognize the pitfalls of binary thinking, especially in times of heightened emotion, like in today's world. Remember, we all share a blend of quirkiness and wisdom. If we look beyond the labels, we find our shared humanity—our collective desire for a meaningful existence, marred only by the distraction of divisive issues.

Polarity can trick us into feeling isolated, yet at our core, we are deeply interconnected. Imagine a world where disagreements dissolve, revealing a unity that underpins our very existence. This unity transcends our perceived separations and lays the groundwork for peace rather than conflict.

Thankfully, the power to erase differences does not exist. History teaches us that attempts to dominate through division are met with resistance, as unity ultimately prevails.

It's true, our global consciousness still grapples with duality, but within moments of reflection and meditation, we can glimpse the unity that lies beyond. As we re-engage with the world, let's carry that sense of unity with us.

Today, take a moment to reflect on our interconnectedness. Celebrate our collective purpose to live lives of significance and connection. Together, let's unite in our shared journey towards a life filled with purpose and community.

Namaste 🧡

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Amaryllo 看他们官网应该是卖云台和监控的, 公司在阿姆斯特丹, 本来就提供云储存, 但是只给这些摄像头用. 结果最近他们推出了个人云存储 Amaryllo Cloud. 本来刚上去用了下网页客户端还是挺不错的, 结果看了下文件上传的时候的网络请求, 居然是 SharePoint 的域名.... 也就是说这居然是个套娃 SharePoint 的网盘...

Amaryllo Cloud 网站: https://acs.amaryllo.us/

上传的请求走的 API: amaryllo-my.sharepoint.com/personal/acloud0007_amaryllo_onmicrosoft_com/_api/v2.0/

下载请求走的 API: https://amaryllo-my.sharepoint.com/personal/acloud0007_amaryllo_onmicrosoft_com/_layouts/15/download.aspx

套娃本来没什么, 很多人都在套, 甚至转售订阅资源. 转售行为是可能会违反 Microsoft 服务条款的, 并且 Graph API 的速率和流量限制都模糊不清, 用来完全当大规模的用户储存后端就是在开灵车, 用户越多越容易爆炸, 等某天用户数量达到临界值, 连文件都取不下来. 这家甚至还提供一次性付款的选项, 在 StackSocial 和 Amazon 甚至还销售自己的存储套餐. 更是让人有些怀疑他们的摄像头云存储用的是什么了...

StackSocial 上 $29.99 提供 100GB 套餐: Amaryllo Cloud Storage: One-Time Payment (100GB) | StackSocial

Amazon 上提供的搭配 U 盘出售的一次性套餐, 最高 $149.99 终身 1TB: Amazon.com: AMARYLLO: Amaryllo Cloud

过于灵车, 希望他家能尽快意识到这种问题. 不然连本来的业务都有可能会被影响到.

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🌟中文版: Nostr如何取胜 🌟日本語: ノストルが勝つ方法 🌟Español: Cómo gana Nostr

Today, I'm going to talk about how Nostr wins. I asked a bunch of people how Nostr wins because I wanted to see what people answered. I got a bunch of different answers, but from a few people, I got, "Do we even want to win?" which is okay. I said okay; I'm going to just address that part. Yes, we do want to win. The argument that people gave me for why we don't have to win is that they want to keep the signal of it's a few people in Nostr, so it's pure signal. If you want that, you can just create a relay white list, add the current pubkeys, and never see another person. That is not Nostr. To this date, ever again. Perfect, that's optionality; that's what Nostr is about. You have the option of interacting with Nostr in whatever way you want.

Defining Winning

Let's define a little bit more precisely what winning means. It just means adoption; it's not fancy. It just means more people using it, more relays existing, more economic activity, more businesses, more, just more. Nostr has a very cool design that it's very much you choose what you see. The way it works is you go and fetch data even at the protocol level. It is very much a protocol where you decide the nodes that you're getting. When you see airdrop spam, you went and asked for that spam; no one sent you the spam; you went and got it. So, it's pretty cool because you can create your own experience on how you feel Nostr.

How Do We Not Win

The first is how do we not win. Let's get that part cleared out because I think it helps us think.

The first one is very hard to out-Twitter Twitter. I don't think you can win by just being Twitter. They've been around for longer; they are much better funded; they used to have name recognition.

We have a bit of a mantra, a bit of a cliche that for a product to disrupt another product, it needs to be at least 10x better; it's a very well-known cliche; it's a very valid cliche.

In my opinion, we don't win (this might be a bit controversial) by censorship resistance. People don't care for the most part. Most people will see censorship resistance as a problem to be fixed. We don't win by focusing on censorship resistance; it's just not appealing. It's not appealing except for a very small cohort of people.

It is not something that conveys or pushes people to act, and wishful thinking; there's a lot of wishful thinking in Nostr. There's a lot of wishful thinking in Bitcoin. Bitcoin has already won; it is inevitable. It's pre-ordained by the gods. It leads to complacency. That's not the way we should go about thinking about how to improve things, how to improve the world because if the efficient market hypothesis is correct, then we don't have to do anything. Everything has been done, and we're good, right? That's not how we win. We win by acting, by doing things, and we don't win if we centralize. It's funny because I have in the same slide; I have censorship resistance and centralizing is the other side of censorship resistance. If we are not censorship resistance, we centralize and the other way around. Even though it's not a good pitch, it's not something that will make people move into learning about relays and all these things and private keys and all these things, it is absolutely fundamental. When I say centralizing, I mean both relays and clients; either of those could centralize or both could centralize. If we end up with a model that requires just connecting to one or two hubs, that means that we are under risk of first failing, which is the most likely case, we first failing because the network can't scale, and when there is an influx of new users, everything crushes. We've seen that a couple of times when I think was when Snowden came or when Jack came, it was one time that the basically relays were just non-functional, like the big relays or if a client owns a very large chunk of the market share, which is one of the things that has been worrying me about Nostr for quite a while. If a client becomes very popular that gains a bunch of market share, it could be very easily used to command the design of the protocol, and it could very easily capture it. That's why I've been trying to talk a lot about the micro apps and the micro apps ecosystem because if culture has a lot of power to shape things, there's a saying that culture is a strategy for breakfast, and it's very true, and establishing a culture of using micro apps and being used to create using different apps is very important because it preempts the move of a large capitalized client from capturing a lot of market share.

Not to be naive because this is still very possible; we are nowhere near being like safe on this part. To me, this is a very important one. Tomorrow we're going to have a panel about this, but the lack of an outbox model, and I use the term outbox model very loosely. It simply means having some kind of decision tree or algorithm on how you decide to which relays you're going to write and from which relays you're going to read. It's a bit technical, but it basically means how easy is for a person to run their own relay, and even though they are banned and censored from all the main hubs, they can still have a voice where the users that want to interact with that person don't even realize that person is being banned. That's the ultimate test; if a server goes down, if a relay goes down, and the users realize that it went down, then that means that the network is not decentralized enough.

Making Blaster Irrelevant Again

Basically, if there is an economic incentive to use Blaster, which is simply a relay that when you publish to it, it just sends it to 300 other relays. As long as there is an incentive to use that, then we know that we are still not there yet. There's still a lot of work to be done.

How Does Nostr Win

We went through a bunch of reasons why it would not win. Okay, if you're here, I'm going to guess what's the answer that I'm going to give. Oh, first, when I say that it's the other stuff, that doesn't mean that microblogging, the Twitter use case is not important; it's absolutely fundamental. Having a myriad of different clients, solid, well-done executed clients is a necessity; it's just not sufficient. It's necessary but not sufficient. Well, network effects are incredibly powerful; they are almost everything. There is a reason why it's very rare to see that an incumbent like a social network is replaced by something else. They can make horrible, terrible decisions. Facebook has abused their users to no end. Snowden revealed how much this was going on, and this has happened so many times yet people still flock to it. Network effects make the product incredibly sticky. When all your friends are on a network, clearing this 10x better bar, the cliche that I was referring to earlier, clearing that is very, very, very hard. And Nostr has not cleared that bar; I mean it's nowhere near close to clearing the bar where it's 10x better at anything than something else. But there are many, many good chances, there are many good reasons why Nostr has a really good chance of clearing this, and only one of them is enough.

And to me, that reason is interoperability, just the transparent like a magic interoperability of Nostr because when you have this basically for free interoperability, it unleashes something that is even more powerful than network effects; it's one of the very few things in reality that is more powerful than network effects. It's Network effects time, Network effects time, Network effects time, Network effects time. We can summarize it to raise to the power of Network effects, raise to the power of use cases. Why? Each use case that is implemented in Nostr gains a bunch of really cool properties, and it multiplies; it makes all the other products that are completely independent of the use case of this one application of this one use case, it makes them a little bit better. It's like saying eBay Network effects times Netflix Network effects times Twitter Network effects, etc. This is very powerful; we are so much at the very early stages of this compounding of network effects that it is really hard to see.

Something interesting that happened when I was going to Miami that I noticed. I created Subster, which is like a music app, and Nostr integrated support for Subster. So, users that were uploading music to Subster had their music maybe sapped or listened to, at least from Nostr users, and then Amethyst implemented Subster support, and now Coracle implemented support for web, or Subster. This is super crazy, this leaking of the different use cases that improve the product throughout the spectrum of the Nostr ecosystem. It's really wild when you think about it. It means that Facebook, which has an enormous advantage over Nostr, obviously, Facebook has to compete with the rest of the world when it comes to building stuff on Nostr, and then Twitter has to compete with the rest of the world that comes on Nostr. Like each independent, completely vertical corporation as big as they are, they must compete with the rest of the world. Right now, the rest of the world is almost nothing, but my thinking is that it's going to gain more and more momentum. But we need to do a couple of things.

The Role of Entrepreneurs

The first one that I think we need to do is we need to change the way we think and define Nostr. So far, usually, we are defining Nostr by what it's not; we say it's censorship resistant, there are no manipulative algorithms hidden, there are no Masters, so it's great, and it's real, but it's hard to relate. It's like finding, "Oh, my wife is great; she almost never manipulates me." You would talk about her beautiful attributes that she's very smart, that she's very supportive, or whatever attribute she has; you wouldn't say, "Oh, she doesn't do this really ugly thing to me," but this is the way we tend to define and explain, and even reason around Nostr, and it just puts the energy in the wrong place. There are so many positive things to say about Nostr that focusing on what it is, and it's like missing the possibilities. And when I think about how do we explore these possibilities, I think that what we need to explore these possibilities is entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs. We have a very healthy ecosystem of developers currently, and it's fantastic, and we need more. I think the groundwork that we've done in the past few months to bring more developers to be able to create applications, and create robust applications, and create applications that kind of work, which is pretty surprising. It's really good, and we've done great; the developers are coming. I see my DMs a lot, and that's fantastic; we need the tinkerers because we are still largely on unexplored territory, but we have very few entrepreneurs; we have very few businesses thinking long term. One of the things that a business has, regardless of scale, that a developer doesn't have is usually focus. I mean, a million things, but usually for these talks, it's focus on a vision for a product. Developers tend to get very excited about technology, and we want to play with this, play with that, and we end up with a bunch of abandoned wear or stuff that is buggy or stuff simply does not have a robust road map of where we are going. We definitely need to bring more entrepreneurs into the fold to help us find a bunch of things that still need to be discovered, and I think businesses are going to help us unlock these things.

Building Non-Extracting Businesses

There's a very interesting chance of creating very compelling, very powerful businesses that are non-extracting. If we think about how big Tech has evolved over the past 20, 25 years, they didn't really create that much value. Facebook has an enormous valuation, but they didn't really create it; they were just lucky; they were definitely in the right place at the right time to be able to capture the value that is intrinsically created by network effects. They just happen to be able to capture it, and they obviously execute it magnificently well, and that part of that execution is what we need in Nostr, but the value created by network effects, what's going to happen; it's just capturable or is it not capturable. I think there are many reasons to build a business on Nostr. It sounds kind of weird because businesses on Nostr, I mean there are no profitable businesses on Nostr, but that's simply that the Nostr economy is way too small; it's impossible to create a sustainable business at this stage, and I don't think businesses should be thinking about monetizing; I know some people are thinking about monetizing now; I think that's insanely early, and it's going to lead you to poor decisions; it's going to lead you to wrong conclusions; like stuff that would have worked but it didn't work yet just because the economy is so small, but why would you build a business on Nostr? Why not just build a typical SaaS or just try to deplatform Google or go Blue Sky style? There is a philosophical answer to this is and it's that Nostr aligns with nature much better, which means that by aligning that your energy and your business, you benefit from having to exert less force; it's more sound; it's more thermodynamically sound. It's like deciding whether to swim against the current or with the current. A few months ago, I emphasized that all companies with a social component will eventually become either Nostr clients or cease to exist. The compounding force of network effects is unstoppable; any business lacking this adaptation will succumb. Almost every internet activity involves a social layer, and Nostr operates as a social framework. Anything with a social aspect benefits from being integrated with Nostr. If a business doesn't embrace Nostr and it emerges victorious, nature will crush any use case not built on Nostr.

Despite these potential strengths, numerous questions remain unanswered. Censorship resistance, economic sustainability of relays, and other vital aspects have yet to be thoroughly tested. Theoretical discussions are abundant, but real-world economic activity and entrepreneurs leveraging Nostr are essential for finding practical solutions. Convincing entrepreneurs of Nostr's potential is a challenging task due to its small economy. Yet, if one looks closely, powerful building blocks are emerging, as evidenced by the growing number of developers joining the ecosystem. This trend, while promising, demands resilience and determination from those involved.

Questions and Answers

With that, I would like to express my gratitude. If you have any questions, we have three minutes.

Audience Question: Is there a concept of a Nostr United Nations?

Answer: The idea of a Nostr United Nations makes me uneasy. Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

Audience Question: We have various builders working towards the same goal of expanding the Nostr ecosystem. Would it be beneficial to have more intercommunication and collaboration between them? Is anyone trying to organize such efforts?

Answer: Currently, there is no coordinated effort like that in place. In fact, if such an initiative were to arise, I would consider working on Blue Sky or even forking Nostr. The truth is often discovered through competition and conflict, much like how nature operates. Consensus and roundtable discussions tend to lead to poor decisions. Client competition is a healthy aspect of our ecosystem.

Audience Question: In the past, platforms like Myspace were more appealing to creators than Facebook. Why do you think Facebook ultimately prevailed over Myspace?

Answer: Facebook succeeded by initially targeting a specific niche and conquering it. They didn't attempt to be a global social network from the start. They solved one particular use case, expanded to nearby universities, and grew from there. Myspace's downfall included a major code base rewrite, a common startup killer. Such decisions can make it incredibly challenging for startups to survive.

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nostr #obsidian #testing

Please ignore this post!

One, two

One, two, testicles

Hello world? Do you read me? ~~Or not?~~

This is a note pushed out via obsidian. Do work? %%[[What about hidden stuff]]%%

It is just me trying to figure out how stuff works. If you see this note, feel free to ignore and carry on.

I am just testing things out. This is just a drill.

Mic-check

The nose?

I dunno. Must be a king. How do you know she is a witch? Bloody Peasant! We found them.

I'm not a witch. Burn her! Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being repressed! The swallow may fly south with the sun, and the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land.

You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

Ni! Ni! Ni! Ni! Well, I didn't vote for you. The Knights Who Say Ni demand a sacrifice! It's only a model. He hasn't got shit all over him.

1. We found them.
2. Be quiet!
3. Burn her!

Look, my liege!

The nose? The Knights Who Say Ni demand a sacrifice! I have to push the pram a lot. We shall say 'Ni' again to you, if you do not appease us. Why?

• Camelot!
• What a strange person.
• Bloody Peasant!

Oh, ow! Why do you think that she is a witch? You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! No, no, no! Yes, yes. A bit. But she's got a wart.

You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! Who's that then? A newt? We want a shrubbery!! You don't vote for kings. Well, Mercia's a temperate zone!

Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system! I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty-headed animal food trough water! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! Now leave before I am forced to taunt you a second time!

Why do you think that she is a witch? Bloody Peasant! And the hat. She's a witch! I'm not a witch.

Did you dress her up like this? You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! …Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? A newt?

He hasn't got shit all over him. Shh! Knights, I bid you welcome to your new home. Let us ride to Camelot! You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! No, no, no! Yes, yes. A bit. But she's got a wart.

Bloody Peasant! Be quiet! Bring her forward! And the hat. She's a witch! Why?

I dunno. Must be a king. Well, how'd you become king, then? You can't expect to wield supreme power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! No, no, no! Yes, yes. A bit. But she's got a wart.

Why do you think that she is a witch? …Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? The Knights Who Say Ni demand a sacrifice! The nose? Well, I got better.

You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person! I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English K-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-niggits! We shall say 'Ni' again to you, if you do not appease us.

I'm not a witch. On second thoughts, let's not go there. It is a silly place. Shut up! Will you shut up?! Knights of Ni, we are but simple travelers who seek the enchanter who lives beyond these woods.

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Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment mechanism

Bitcoin mining difficulty reflects the difficulty of calculating the hash of a new block. This difficulty is adjusted +/- every 2 weeks (more precisely 2,016 blocks) and serves to keep the average time of production of new blocks +/- 10 minutes. Difficulty increases and decreases according to the network's processing power, or is directly proportional to the network's processing power. If there is an increase in processing power, the difficulty will increase, and if it decreases, the difficulty will decrease. In this way, the bitcoin core algorithm maintains the incentives necessary for miners so that there is a balance between spending and earnings, since the more difficult it is to produce a block, the more energy will be needed.

In a nutshell, increasing difficulty means that miners will have to solve a more difficult mathematical puzzle. This mathematical puzzle (hash calculation) will have to have more or fewer zeros on the left according to the difficulty.

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Mulayit หรือ มุละอิ หรือ มอละอิ หรือ เมาะเลาะอิ ยอดเขาที่สูงที่สุดของเขตปกครองตนเองรัฐกะเหรี่ยง DKBA ในจังหวัดเมียวดี สหภาพเมียนมา เป็นสถานที่ศักดิ์สิทธิ์ที่ชาวพุทธในพม่าไปสักการะ ไหว้พระ แสวงบุญ มีเจดีย์อยู่บนยอดเขา 2 ยอด รวมไปถึงมีจุดกางเต๊นท์ที่ทิวทัศน์สวยงามมาก ก่อนเดินทางลองมาดูกฏระเบียบของมุลาอิกันก่อน กฏข้อห้ามสำหรับมอละอิ 1.ห้ามทานเนื้อสัตว์ ต้องกินเจเท่านั้น 2.ห้ามผู้หญิงตักน้ำในบ่อน้ำ 3.ห้ามหญิงชายนอนด้วยกันบนภูเขา 4.ห้ามผู้หญิงมีประจำเดือนเข้าเขตุพระธาตุและสิ่งศักดิ์สิทธิ์ 5.ผู้หญิงสามารถเข้าสักการะพระธาตุบริเวณชั้นล่างเท่านั้นไม่สามารถขึ้นบนพระธาตุด้านบนได้ 6.ห้ามพูดคำหยาบ 7.ห้ามผู้หญิงผู้ชายใกล้ชิดกันบริเวณพระธาตุและสิ่งศักดิ์สิทธิ์ 8.ห้ามดื่มสุราของมึนเมาบนภูเขา 9.ต้องถอดรองเท้าก่อนขึ้นสักการะพระธาตุ การเดินทางของเราเริ่มต้นในตอนเช้าตรู่ เราจะเดินทางข้ามแดนที่ตำบลวาเล่ย์ อำเภอพบพระ จังหวัดตาก จุดหมายปลายทางห่างออกไปอีกประมาณ 40 กิโลเมตร จากตรงนี้ต้องนั่งรถไปอีกประมาณ 4 ชั่วโมง สิ่งที่จำเป็นคือหมวกและผ้าบัฟหรืออุปกรณ์กันฝุ่น เพราะฝุ่นเยอะมากเนื่องจากถนนหนทางวิบากมากนั่นเอง ระหว่างทางก็จะมีผ่านหมู่บ้านต่างๆ เมื่อมาถึงจุดหมายก็ต้องเดินเท้าเข้าไปลานกางเนท์อีกประมาณ 1500 เมตร มีทั้งทางราบและทางชัน ระหว่างทางก็แวะถ่ายรูปได้เรื่อยๆ เดินถึงลานกางเต๊นท์ หลังจากกางเต๊นท์เรียบร้อยก็เปลี่ยนชุดสุภาพ ผู้หญิงต้องนุ่งผ้าถุงให้เรียบร้อย ผู้ชายก็ควรใส่กางเกงขายาวเข้าไปสักการะองค์พระธาตุเจดีย์มุลาอิ ซึ่งอยู่บนจุดสูงสุดของยอดเขา ยอดเขามุลาอิจะมีพระเจดีย์ 2 องค์โดยผู้หญิงสามารถขึ้นมาสักการะได้แค่พระเจดีย์องค์แรกเท่านั้น ส่วนผู้ชายสามารถเดินเลยขึ้นไปสักการะได้ถึงองค์พระธาตุเจดีย์มุลาอิ ซึ่งอยู่บนยอดสูงสุด 2070 เมตรจากระดับน้ำทะเล เย็นนั้นหลังจากชมวิวจนพอใจแล้ว เราก็ล้อมวงกันทานอาหารเจ เนื่องด้วยอากาศที่หนาวเย็นมาก ทำให้ทุกคนแยกย้ายเข้าเต๊นท์นอนกันอย่างรวดเร็ว เช้าวันรุ่งขึ้นเราก็ได้พบกับวิวยามเช้าที่สวยงามมาก สายลมเย็นๆพัดผ่านมาสดชื่นเย็นสบายมากๆ ก่อนที่จะเก็บของ ทานอาหารเช้า บอกลามุลาอิ เดินทางกลับไปใช้ชีวิตปกติกันต่อไป สุดท้ายิยากขอฝากให้ทุกคนที่อยากเดินทางมาที่นี่ได้ตระหนักว่าท่านสามารถปฏิบัติตามกฏระเบียบความเชื่อของที่นี่ได้หรือไม่ หากมั่นใจว่าทำได้จึงค่อยวางแผนเดินทางเพราะผู้คนที่นี่ศรัทธาและเคร่งครัดในความเชื่อและพระพุทธศาสนามากๆนั่นเอง

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18. แสงแห่งความหวัง

"ปัญหาพื้นฐานของระบบสกุลเงินปกติ อยู่ที่การยังจำเป็นต้องใช้ความเชื่อใจเพื่อให้มันทำงานได้ โดยธนาคารกลางนั้นจำเป็นต้องได้รับความเชื่อใจว่าจะไม่ทำเงินให้เสื่อมค่า แต่ในประวัติศาสตร์ของสกุลเงินเฟียตกลับเต็มไปด้วยการละเมิดความเชื่อใจนั้น”

–ซาโตชิ นากาโมโตะ

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ไม่ว่าคำตอบของความยากจนในประเทศโลกที่สามจะเป็นอะไรก็ตาม เราก็แน่ใจว่ามันต้องไม่ใช่การก่อหนี้เพิ่มขึ้นอย่างแน่นอน “คนจนบนโลกนี้นั้น” คุณ Payer ได้สรุปไว้ว่า “ไม่ได้ต้องการธนาคารแบบธนาคารโลกเพิ่มขึ้นมาอีก ไม่ว่าธนาคารนั้นจะจิตใจดีมีเมตตาแค่ไหนก็ตาม สิ่งที่คนจนต้องการคืองานที่จ่ายค่าตอบแทนอย่างเหมาะสม รัฐบาลที่มีความรับผิดชอบ การมอบสิทธิมนุษยชนคืนให้พวกเขา และความเป็นเอกเทศในการบริหารประเทศโดยไม่ถูกต่างชาติแทรกแซง”

แต่เป็นเวลากว่า 7 ทศวรรษแล้วที่ธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF กลับตั้งตัวเป็นศัตรูกับทั้ง 4 สิ่งนี้

เมื่อมองไปในอนาคตข้างหน้านั้น คุณ Payer กล่าวว่า “ภารกิจที่สำคัญที่สุดสำหรับเหล่าประเทศร่ำรวยที่กังวลเรื่องความเป็นปึกแผ่นระหว่างประเทศอื่น ๆ คือการเดินหน้าอย่างจริงจังในการระงับการไหลของเงินให้ความช่วยเหลือไปสู่ต่างประเทศ” แต่ปัญหาคือระบบในปัจจุบันถูกออกแบบและสร้างแรงจูงใจให้การไหลของเงินแบบนี้ยังมีต่อไปได้ ทางเดียวที่จะสร้างการเปลี่ยนแปลงได้คือการปรับเปลี่ยนกระบวนทัศน์ใหม่ทั้งหมด โดยเรารู้กันอยู่แล้วว่าบิตคอยน์สามารถช่วยให้ประชาชนทั่วไปในประเทศกำลังพัฒนานั้นได้รับอิสรภาพทางการเงิน ช่วยให้พวกเขาหนีออกจากระบบเงินซึ่งล่มสลาย แต่ถูกผู้นำฉ้อฉลและสถาบันการเงินระหว่างประเทศบังคับให้พวกเขาต้องใช้ ประเด็นเหล่านี้ถูกเร่งความเร็วขึ้นในการประชุมที่เมืองอักกราเมื่อปลายปี 2022 ที่ผ่านมา

บิตคอยน์เป็นสิ่งที่อยู่ตรงข้ามกับระบบเดิมที่ถูกออกแบบโดยธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF แต่ทว่าบิตคอยน์จะสามารถเปลี่ยนพลวัตในโครงสร้างอำนาจและโครงสร้างทรัพยากรของโลกระหว่างประเทศแกนกลางและประเทศชายขอบได้จริงหรือ?

คุณ Nabourema นั้นเต็มไปด้วยความหวัง และไม่เข้าใจว่าทำไมฝ่ายซ้ายโดยทั่วไปมักประณามหรือไม่สนใจบิตคอยน์

“เครื่องมือที่สามารถทำให้ผู้คนสร้างและเข้าถึงความมั่งคั่งได้อย่างเป็นอิสระจากองค์กรที่มีอำนาจควบคุมนั้น สามารถที่จะมองว่ามันเป็นเครื่องมือของฝ่ายซ้ายได้เลยด้วยซ้ำ” เธอกล่าว “ในฐานะนักเคลื่อนไหวที่เชื่อว่าประชาชนควรได้รับเงินสกุลที่ให้ค่าต่อชีวิตและการเสียสละของพวกเขาแล้ว"

"บิตคอยน์คือเป็นการปฏิวัติของประชาชน”

“ฉันว่ามันเจ็บปวด” เธอกล่าว” ที่ชาวไร่ในเขตแอฟริกาบริเวณพื้นที่ใต้ทะเลทรายสะฮาราได้รับเงินแค่ร้อยละ 1 ของราคากาแฟในตลาดโลก ถ้าเราสามารถไปถึงขั้นที่ชาวไร่เหล่านั้นสามารถขายกาแฟของพวกเขาได้โดยตรงถึงผู้ซื้อ โดยไม่ต้องมีสถาบันตัวกลางใด ๆ มาแทรกแซง พร้อมทั้งรับเงินค่ากาแฟเป็นบิตคอยน์ คุณลองนึกดูสิว่ามันจะทำให้ชีวิตของพวกเขาเปลี่ยนไปมากแค่ไหน”

“ทุกวันนี้” เธอกล่าว “เหล่าประเทศกำลังพัฒนาอย่างพวกเรายังต้องกู้เงินในสกุลดอลลาร์สหรัฐ แต่เมื่อเวลาผ่านไปค่าเงินของเราเสื่อมค่าลงเรื่อย ๆ และต้องลงเอยด้วยการต้องหาเงินมาจ่ายเพิ่มขึ้นมากกว่า 2-3 เท่าของหนี้ในตอนแรก”

“ที่นี้คุณลองนึกภาพ” เธอกล่าว “ถ้าเราไปถึงขั้นที่ในอีก 10-20 ปีข้างหน้าที่บิตคอยน์เป็นสกุลเงินหลักของโลกและถูกใช้ในธุรกิจทั่วโลก ชาติต่าง ๆ ต้องกู้ยืมเป็นสกุลบิตคอยน์และใช้จ่ายในสกุลบิตคอยน์ ทุกชาติต้องจ่ายหนี้ของพวกเขาคืนในสกุลบิตคอยน์ ในโลกแบบนั้นรัฐบาลต่างชาติจะไม่สามารถเรียกร้องให้เราใช้คืนหนี้ในสกุลเงินของพวกเขา ซึ่งเป็นสกุลที่พวกเราต้องทำงานหนักเพื่อหามา แต่พวกเขาสามารถพิมพ์เพิ่มจากอากาศได้ง่าย ๆ และหากพวกเขาอยากที่จะเพิ่มอัตราดอกเบี้ยในประเทศตัวเอง มันก็ไม่ได้จะทำให้ชีวิตผู้คนนับล้าน ๆ ในประเทศของเราต้องตกอยู่ในอันตรายในทันทีเหมือนแต่ก่อน”

“มันแน่นอนว่า” คุณ Nabourema กล่าว “บิตคอยน์จะมาพร้อมปัญหาเหมือนนวัตกรรมอื่น ๆ ในอดีต แต่ความสวยงามของมันคือปัญหาเหล่านี้สามารถแก้ไขและพัฒนาขึ้นไปได้ด้วยความร่วมมือระดับนานาชาติอย่างสันติ ย้อนดูเมื่อ 20 ปีก่อน ไม่มีใครรู้หรอกว่าอินเทอร์เน็ตจะสามารถทำให้เราทำสิ่งมหัศจรรย์ที่เราทำอยู่ในทุกวันนี้ได้ และคงไม่มีใครบอกได้หรอกว่าในอีก 20 ปีข้างหน้า บิตคอยน์จะช่วยให้เราทำสิ่งมหัศจรรย์อะไรได้อีกบ้าง”

“หนทางข้างหน้าต่อจากนี้” เธอกล่าว “คือการตื่นรู้ของมวลชน พวกเขาจะเข้าใจว่าระบบการเงินในปัจจุบันทำงานอย่างไรได้แบบทะลุปรุโปร่ง และพวกเขาจะเข้าใจว่ามันมีทางเลือกอื่นอยู่ เราต้องไปอยู่ในจุดที่ผู้คนสามารถทวงคืนเสรีภาพให้ตัวเองได้ โดยที่ชีวิตของพวกเขาไม่ได้ถูกควบคุมโดยอำนาจรัฐที่สามารถยึดอิสรภาพของพวกเขาไปตอนไหนก็ได้โดยไม่ต้องรับผลกระทบใด ๆ ที่ตามมา พวกเรากำลังค่อย ๆ ไปถึงเป้าหมายนั้นด้วยบิตคอยน์”

“เนื่องจากเงินคือศูนย์กลางของทุกอย่างในโลกของเรา” คุณ Nabourema กล่าว “ความจริงที่ว่า ณ ตอนนี้เราสามารถมีอิสรภาพทางการเงินได้ถือเป็นสิ่งสำคัญต่อประชาชน และพวกเราก็กำลังพยายามทวงคืนสิทธิของเราเองในทุก ๆ พื้นที่และทุก ๆ อุตสาหกรรม”

ในการสัมภาษณ์สำหรับบทความนี้ ผู้สนับสนุนนโยบายเงินฝืด (Deflation) อย่างคุณ Jeff Booth ได้อธิบายว่าในขณะที่โลกยิ่งเดินเข้าสู่ระบบมาตรฐานบิตคอยน์ ธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF จะยิ่งไม่อยากเป็นเจ้าหนี้ และน่าจะอยากไปเป็นผู้ลงทุนร่วม เป็นหุ้นส่วน หรืออาจเป็นแค่ผู้จัดตั้งกองทรัสต์มากกว่า เนื่องจากในขณะที่ราคาของสิ่งต่าง ๆ เริ่มปรับตัวลง มันหมายถึงหนี้สินจะมีมูลค่าที่มากขึ้น และจะเป็นเรื่องยากขึ้นสำหรับลูกหนี้ที่จะหาเงินมาจ่ายคืนได้ และเมื่อเครื่องพิมพ์เงินของสหรัฐอเมริกาถูกปิดไป ก็จะไม่มีเงินให้กู้เพื่อมาช่วยเหลืออีก และเขายังชี้ว่าในช่วงแรกนั้นธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF จะยังพยายามที่จะปล่อยกู้เหมือนเดิม แต่มันจะเป็นครั้งแรกที่พวกเขาจะสูญเงินก้อนใหญ่นั้นไปจริง ๆ เพราะประเทศต่าง ๆ จะเริ่มผิดนัดชำระหนี้กันมากขึ้นในระหว่างที่โลกกำลังขยับเข้าสู่ระบบมาตรฐานบิตคอยน์

ดังนั้นพวกเขาอาจจะเริ่มพิจารณาการเป็นผู้ลงทุนร่วมมากกว่าจะเป็นผู้ปล่อยกู้ แปลว่าพวกเขาจะต้องสนใจความยั่งยืนและความสำเร็จที่แท้จริงของโครงการที่พวกเขาสนับสนุนมากขึ้น เนื่องจากพวกเขาต้องรับความเสี่ยงในการลงทุนนั้น

การขุดบิตคอยน์เป็นอีกสิ่งหนึ่งที่สามารถสร้างความเปลี่ยนแปลงได้

ถ้าชาติที่ยากจนสามารถเปลี่ยนทรัพยากรธรรมชาติของพวกเขาเป็นเงินได้ โดยไม่ต้องยุ่งเกี่ยวกับเหล่าผู้มีอำนาจจากต่างประเทศ บางทีอธิปไตยของพวกเขาอาจจะแข็งแกร่งขึ้น แทนที่จะถูกบ่อนทำลายลงเหมือนแต่ก่อน การขุดบิตคอยน์นั้นใช้ได้ทั้งพลังงานจากแม่น้ำ เชื้อเพลิงไฮโดรคาร์บอน แสงอาทิตย์ ลม ความร้อนใต้พิภพ หรือแม้แต่พลังงานจากความแตกต่างของอุณหภูมิน้ำทะเลนอกชายฝั่ง (OTEC) ที่มีอยู่มากมายในเขตตลาดเกิดใหม่ พลังงานเหล่านี้สามารถถูกเปลี่ยนเป็นสกุลเงินสำรองของโลกได้โดยตรง โดยไม่ต้องขออนุญาตใคร เรื่องนี้ไม่เคยเป็นไปได้มาก่อน ซึ่งสำหรับเหล่าประเทศที่ยากจนแล้วกับดักหนี้ดูเหมือนจะเป็นสิ่งที่หนีออกมาไม่ได้ แถมมันยังขยายขนาดขึ้นทุกปี

บางทีการลงทุนเพื่อเก็บออมบิตคอยน์เป็นเงินสำรอง และเพื่อใช้งานโครงสร้างพื้นฐานของบิตคอยน์ (ซึ่งโดยเนื้อแท้แล้วมันเป็นสิ่งที่ต่อต้านระบบเงินเฟียต) น่าจะเป็นทางออกและเป็นเส้นทางสู่การเอาคืนระบบเดิมที่กดขี่พวกเขามายาวนาน

คุณ Booth กล่าวว่าบิตคอยน์สามารถทำให้ระบบเก่าที่เอื้อประโยชน์แก่ประเทศร่ำรวยด้วยการปล้นค่าแรงของประเทศยากจนนั้นเกิดอาการลัดวงจรจนพังได้ เพราะในระบบเก่า กลุ่มประเทศชายขอบต้องถูกสังเวยเพื่อปกป้องประเทศแกนกลาง แต่ในระบบใหม่ ประเทศชายขอบและประเทศแกนกลางจะสามารถทำงานร่วมกันได้ เขากล่าวว่า ณ ตอนนี้ระบบเงินดอลลาร์สหรัฐกดคนให้จนลงด้วยการกดค่าแรงในประเทศชายขอบ แต่เมื่อเงินถูกปรับให้มีความเท่าเทียมด้วยระบบที่เป็นมาตรฐานและเป็นกลาง พลวัตใหม่จะถูกสร้างขึ้น การที่มีมาตรฐานทางการเงินเพียงหนึ่งเดียวจะส่งผลให้อัตราค่าแรงถูกดึงมาให้อยู่ในระดับใกล้เคียงกันอย่างเลี่ยงไม่ได้ แทนที่มันจะถูกทำให้ห่างออกจากกันแบบที่แล้วมา คุณ Booth ยังกล่าวอีกว่าเราไม่มีคำที่ใช้เรียกสำหรับพลวัตนี้ เพราะมันเป็นสิ่งที่ไม่เคยเกิดขึ้นมาก่อน โดยเขาแนะนำให้ใช้คำว่า “ความร่วมมือเชิงบังคับ”

คุณ Booth อธิบายถึงความสามารถของสหรัฐฯ ในการสร้างหนี้จำนวนเท่าไรก็ได้ตามต้องการว่าเป็น “การโจรกรรมในระดับฐานเงิน” คุณผู้อ่านคงอาจจะคุ้นเคยกับปรากฏการณ์แคนทิลอน (Cantillon Effect) ที่ผู้อยู่ใกล้แหล่งการผลิตเงินนั้นจะได้ประโยชน์จากเงินผลิตใหม่ ในขณะคนที่อยู่ห่างออกไปนั้นต้องทนทุกข์ใช่ไหมครับ ปรากฏการณ์แคนทิลอนในระดับโลกนั้นคือการที่ประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกาได้ประโยชน์จากการพิมพ์เงินสกุลสำรองของโลก ในขณะที่ประเทศยากจนต้องทนทุกข์กันทั้งโลก

“แต่มาตรฐานบิตคอยน์” คุณ Booth กล่าว “จะหยุดสิ่งนี้”

มีหนี้สินบนโลกมากแค่ไหนที่เป็นหนี้ที่ชั่วร้าย (Odious Debt) คำตอบคือมีเงินกู้นับล้านล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐที่ถูกสร้างขึ้นตามอำเภอใจของผู้นำเผด็จการกับสถาบันการเงินที่อยู่เหนือประเทศชาติ และไม่มีใครเลือกตั้งพวกเขามาขึ้นมา หนี้ชั่วร้ายถูกสร้างขึ้นโดยไม่เคยถามความเห็นชอบของประชาชนในฝั่งของผู้กู้เลย สิ่งมีศีลธรรมที่ควรกระทำคือยกเลิกหนี้สินพวกนี้ให้หมด แน่นอนว่ามันจะไม่มีทางจะเกิดขึ้น เพราะสุดท้ายแล้วเงินให้กู้เหล่านี้ก็ถือเป็นทรัพย์สินบนงบดุลของผู้ที่เป็นเจ้าหนี้ของธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF ซึ่งพวกเขาอยากให้ทรัพย์สินพวกนั้นยังคงอยู่ และขอแค่ลูกหนี้ก่อหนี้ใหม่ไปชำระหนี้เก่าก็พอ

“พุทออปชั่น (Put Option)” ของ IMF ในหนี้ภาครัฐนั้นสร้างฟองสบู่ที่ใหญ่ที่สุดเท่าที่เคยมีมา มันใหญ่กว่าฟองสบู่ดอตคอม ฟองสบู่สินเชื่อซับไพรม์ และใหญ่กว่าฟองสบู่ที่เกิดจากเงินกระตุ้นเศรษฐกิจช่วง COVID-19 การจะรื้อระบบเก่านี้เป็นงานที่เจ็บปวดมาก แต่มันก็เป็นสิ่งที่ถูกต้องที่ควรทำ ถ้าเปรียบว่าหนี้สินคือยาเสพติด ธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF คือพ่อค้ายา และรัฐบาลของประเทศที่กำลังพัฒนาคือคนที่ติดยา ก็คงเห็นว่าไม่น่าจะมีฝ่ายไหนที่อยากให้อีกฝ่ายนึงหยุด แต่ที่การจะรักษาผู้ติดยานั้น เราต้องนำผู้ติดยาเข้ารับการบำบัด ระบบเงินเฟียตไม่อนุญาตให้ทำให้สิ่งนี้ได้ แต่ระบบการเงินมาตรฐานบิตคอยน์จะบังคับให้ผู้ป่วยติดยาไม่มีทางเลือกอื่น นอกจากการเลิกยา

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หมายเหตุผู้แปล : - ฟองสบู่ดอตคอม (Dot-com Bubble) เป็นฟองสบู่จากการเก็งกำไรในตลาดหลักทรัพย์ภาคเทคโนโลยีของสหรัฐอเมริกา ในช่วงปี 1997-2000 - ฟองสบู่สินเชื่อซับไพรม์ (Subprime Mortgage Bubble) เป็นฟองสบู่จากเกิดจากการปล่อยกู้ในภาคอสังหาริมทรัพย์ของของสหรัฐอเมริกาซึ่งกลายเป็นวิกฤติการเงิน ในช่วงปี 2008

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อย่างที่อาจารย์เซเฟดีน อัมมูสกล่าวในการสัมภาษณ์สำหรับบทความนี้ ว่าทุกวันนี้หากผู้ปกครองของบราซิลต้องการกู้เงินจำนวน 30,000 ล้านดอลลาร์สหรัฐ และรัฐสภาของสหรัฐฯ อนุมัติเงินกู้ดังกล่าวแล้ว ทางสหรัฐฯ ก็สามารถดีดนิ้วเสกเงินขึ้นมาและส่งให้ได้เลยผ่าน IMF แปลว่าระบบการเงินทุกวันนี้เป็นเรื่องของการตัดสินใจทางการเมืองเป็นหลัก แต่ถ้าเรากำจัดเครื่องพิมพ์เงินออกไปได้ การตัดสินใจเหล่านี้จะเป็นเรื่องการเมืองน้อยลง และจะเริ่มเป็นการตัดสินใจอย่างรอบคอบ แบบเดียวกับธนาคาร “ที่สำเหนียกว่าจะไม่มีใครมาอุ้มพวกเขาได้อีกแล้ว” จะพึงกระทำ

ในช่วง 60 ปีที่ผ่านมาของการครอบงำโดยธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF เหล่าทรราชและเครือข่ายที่ยักยอกความมั่งคั่งของประเทศจำนวนนับไม่ถ้วน ต่างก็ได้รับเงินให้กู้เพื่อการช่วยเหลือ (ซึ่งเป็นสิ่งที่ขัดกับสามัญสำนึกทางการเงิน) เพื่อให้เหล่าประเทศแกนกลางสามารถเข้าฉกฉวยทรัพยากรธรรมชาติและแรงงานของประเทศเหล่านั้นได้ต่อไป สิ่งเหล่านี้เป็นไปได้เพราะรัฐบาลซึ่งเป็นหัวใจของระบบเฟียตสามารถพิมพ์เงินที่เป็นสกุลเงินสำรองได้ แต่ในระบบมาตรฐานบิตคอยน์นั้น คุณเซเฟดีน อัมมูสตั้งคำถามว่าใครกันที่จะปล่อยเงินกู้ความเสี่ยงสูงมูลค่านับพันล้านดอลลาร์ เพียงเพื่อจะแลกกับการให้ลูกหนี้เข้ามาขอปรับโครงสร้างเพื่อยืดหนี้เก่าโปะหนี้ใหม่ในภายหลัง

“เป็นคุณจะปล่อยกู้งั้นเหรอ?” เขาถาม “แล้วจะเอาบิตคอยน์ของใครไปปล่อยกู้ล่ะ?”

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⚡️ กด Zap ที่ลิงก์นี้ เพื่อเป็นกำลังใจทีมงานผู้เรียบเรียงบทความ

(ทุกยอด zap จะถูกแบ่งอัตโนมัติเข้าวอลเล็ทของผู้เขียนบทความต้นฉบับภาษาอังกฤษ, ผู้แปลดราฟต์ 1, ผู้เรียบเรียงดราฟต์ 2-3, กองบรรณาธิการและพิสูจน์อักษรจากไรท์ชิฟต์ พร้อมกันบางส่วนไว้เพื่อเป็นค่าธรรมเนียมธุรกรรม)

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# Gaia's Garden Chapter 1

Created: 2022-01-30 08:09 Topic: #Topic/Permaculture # Source: #Source/Book

Introducing the Ecological garden

Author asks questions: - How do people fit into natural landscapes? - How to integrate incomplete pieces into a vigorous, thriving backyard ecosystem that benefits both people & wildlife? -> Answer is Ecological garden - Meld best features, beyond adding styles together - Feels like a living being, with a character and essence that is unique - Combine low environmental impact, low maintenance and high yields with elegant aesthetics ^985214

What is Permaculture?

-> uses a set of principles & practices to design sustainable human settlements

Used to: - Design buildings - energy and wastewater systems - villages - school curricula - business - community groups - decision-making processes

-> How? -> focus less on objects themselves than on the design of relationships among them

Permaculture is the toolbox that helps us organize and decide when an how to use those tools, connecting different disciplines, strategies and techniques. => a linking science

->Aim? -> design ecologically sound, economically prosperous human communities, guided by a set of ethics: - caring for Earth - caring for people - reinvesting surplus that this creates

Permaculture Principles

-> indicators of sustainability

Core Principles for Ecological Design

1. Observe
2. Connect
3. Catch & store energy
4. Let Each element perform multiple functions
5. Let each function be supported by multiple elements
6. Least change 4 greatest effect
7. Use small-scale intensive systems
8. Optimize edge
9. Collaborate with succession
10. Use biological & renewable resources

Principles Based on Attitudes

1. Turn problems in solutions
2. Get a yield
3. Biggest limit = creativity
4. Mistakes are tools for learning

Gardens that Really Work with Nature

Ecology is concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments. -> Ecological gardens connect people to their environment & looks and works the same way nature does.

"Nature has a broad back, and with a little ingenuity and a change in viewpoint, a gardener can shift plenty of labor to this willing partner"

Why is gardening So Much Work?

Let nature do the work for you

Tilling destroys weeds and pumps air to microbes that release a flood of nutrients for fast crop growth... burn up all the nutrients and then die => depletes fertility ^HighTimePreference

Conventional landscapes have torn the web of nature.

Creating a well-balanced garden means showing something about how nature behaves.

Beyond Natural Gardening

Every bit of food, every scrap of lumber, each medicinal herb or other human product that comes from someone's yard means that one less chunk of land outside our hometown needs to be denuded of natives and developed for human use.

-> shortest chain possible

Yard with native plants lacking any for human use => somewhere else, out of sight, there is a nonnative-containing farm and factory forest with the environmental destruction they bring, providing for needs. => Taking care of ourselves (in our own yard) means that factory farms and forests can shrink ^SelfSovereignity4CommonGood -> this is a fight against the abstraction, cfr. Connor Veering

Embedded link: Death By Abstraction

The native vs. Exotics Discussion

• Species are constantly in motion
• Gardening with native plants -> [[Cause célèbre]] cfr. Climate crisis, BLM through George Floyd
• Exotics are not the issue, our intervention is -> opportunists move in after primary damage was done and often in direct response to it

When we lose something we love, we search for a scapegoat and a newly arrived species makes a ready target

Nature abhors a vacuum - create one, and she'll rush in with whatever's handy

You can't fight nature - nature always bats last - but you can sometimes be first to get where it's going

Nature has a patience that humans lack, nature take the long view.

Opportunistic species, after a boom-and -bust period comes into equilibrium with its surroundings, It make take a decade or a century

• native is merely a question of perspective
• We need to look deeper into our reasons for demonizing certain species

Hierarchy of safety for choosing plant: 1. use native to fill desired role if possible 2. use a tested exotic 3. consider small scale-introduction of new exotic -> a good approach to test new procedures/techniques

Making the Desert Bloom, Sustainably

References

1. [[Meshtadel Space ( 21.01.2022) - notes by Czino]]
2. [[Permies.com - Review Gaia's Garden - chapter 1]]
3. [[Referral Points MoC - Gaia's garden]]
4. [[20220204-Telegram Parallels]]

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“decentralization, one of the core principles outlined in the white paper, is a key feature that distinguishes bitcoin from traditional financial systems. instead of relying on a central authority, such as a government or a bank, bitcoin operates on a network of nodes spread across the globe. this decentralized nature ensures that no single entity has control over the currency, making it resistant to censorship and protocol manipulation.

immutability is another crucial aspect introduced in the white paper. once a transaction is confirmed and added to the blockchain, it becomes nearly impossible to alter or tamper with. this property provides a high level of security and trust, as it eliminates the need for intermediaries to validate transactions. the immutability of the blockchain has far-reaching implications beyond finance, with potential applications in supply chain management, timestamping systems, and intellectual property rights.”

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/celebrating-bitcoin-white-paper-day-reflecting-and-looking-forward?utm_source=carrot&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=carrot_share

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Quite inspired by one of the activities I have enjoyed the most during my studies and activities in Graphic Design, for fifteen years now.

The main focus of this post is, first of all, about badge production.

I have focused on the interesting rubric attached to the noStrudel website, which takes us to the Badged.Page site, allowing us to acquire and share badges among users.

I was inspired by first creating two styles: Vegan and Bitcoiner

The idea with these two topics, is to ensure users remain constant, resistant, that "newies" feel welcome, to make a fun and pleasant world through the motivation of badges, which act as “small certificates.” It is another interesting integration of Nostr protocol…

In the background, after spending several days analyzing the “risk” the following topic could imply, keeping this publication on the level of creativity it deserves, today I have the necessity to mention that my family and I are going through a very difficult and delicate situation, for which I am desperately seeking help. This is why I share more in ›this link‹(1), so you can learn more about me, the designer of these badges, my situation and about the nature of why I am requesting help.

Your help will be a ray of light that will further illuminate some positive side that can help us overcome a rather difficult situation and therefore, a creative and artistic flame that is always focused on the common good. Why this? Because the most direct impact is a Waldorf School.

These are the links for the badges I have created so far. By visiting the one that interests you the most, you can generate your badge, which will be placed on your profile after you accept it:

1 Year Bitcoiner

3 Years Bítcoiner

5 Years Bítcoiner

7 Years Bítcoiner

10 Years Bítcoiner

1 Year Vegan

5 Years Vegan

10 Years Vegan …

Stay tuned for more.

Make Art. Not War… 🙏🏼

One of my previous posts on Nostr:

Art, creativity and derived practices, which are frequently poorly paid, is an effort that is still present. Sharing it here is a goal for me. In addition to this, I consider the terminology related to these images is quite positive. Later I will share badges corresponding to more years 🟣 Stay tuned. I have another badges variant for another positive movement, which should concern all of us who wish good for Planet Earth, which I plan to share here soon (WIP).

You can see it here.

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(1) https://geyser.fund/project/collaborationsupport

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Introduction

Bitcoin, often regarded as a transformative technology, has the power to reshape not only financial landscapes but also the lives of individuals who embrace its principles. Saifdean Ammous, in his seminal work "The Bitcoin Standard," introduces the concept of lowering one's time preference, a key to understanding the profound changes Bitcoin can bring about in one's life. In this post, we will explore various ways in which Bitcoin can lead to positive life transformations, such as promoting fitness, healthy living, fostering financial responsibility, enhancing critical thinking, encouraging knowledge exploration, and advocating self-sovereignty.

Lowering Time Preference

Saifdean Ammous's concept of lowering time preference emphasizes delayed gratification and long-term thinking. Bitcoin encourages people to save and invest for the future, fostering responsible financial behavior. As Bitcoiner Matt Odell said, "Bitcoin is a savings technology." This shift in mentality is not limited to finances; it can extend to other aspects of life, such as fitness and healthy living.

Fitness and Healthy Living

John Vallis, a well-known Bitcoiner, aptly observes, "Bitcoiners seem to naturally be health-conscious and engaged in a relentless pursuit of self-improvement." Bitcoin's emphasis on delayed gratification can inspire individuals to invest time and effort into their physical well-being, maintaining a long-term perspective on health. In doing so, Bitcoin can serve as a catalyst for a healthier, more vibrant lifestyle. This includes eating plenty of steak!

Financial Responsibility

Bitcoin's attributes as the "hardest money we have ever known," as Robert Breedlove puts it, make it a natural choice for those seeking to secure their financial future. By saving in Bitcoin and curbing extravagant spending on high-time-preference items, individuals can gain greater control over their finances and build a foundation of financial security. This newfound financial responsibility can be life-changing.

Critical Thinking

Marty Bent suggests that "Bitcoiners tend to be naturally skeptical of mainstream narratives." Bitcoin's ethos of decentralization and censorship resistance encourages critical thinking. By questioning prevailing narratives and seeking the truth, individuals can develop a more discerning worldview, which can have a profound impact on their lives and decisions.

Knowledge Exploration

Bitcoin's decentralized nature encourages people to "go down rabbit holes" in various academic subjects, such as Austrian economics. This intellectual curiosity and hunger for knowledge can lead to a broader understanding of the world, equipping individuals with the tools to make more informed decisions, both personally and professionally. For more on rabbit holes, you may want to check out this past post:

https://bitcoinfortress.substack.com/p/bitcoin-rabbit-holes

Self-Sovereignty

Taking cues from Bitcoin's core principles, individuals can practice self-sovereignty in various aspects of their lives. By taking responsibility for their own well-being and the safety and protection of their families, they can reclaim control over their lives and assert their autonomy.

https://bitcoinfortress.substack.com/p/embracing-bitcoin-and-the-second

Conclusion

In the world of Bitcoin, the saying goes, "You don't change Bitcoin, Bitcoin changes you." Indeed, Bitcoin has the potential to bring about positive life transformations by encouraging individuals to lower their time preference, save for the future, embrace fitness and health, exercise financial responsibility, develop critical thinking skills, pursue knowledge, and practice self-sovereignty. As Bitcoiners like John Vallis, Matt Odell, Robert Breedlove, and Marty Bent exemplify, this transformation goes beyond mere currency; it's a shift in mindset and a journey towards a more fulfilling and meaningful life. Embracing the principles of Bitcoin can lead to a life that is not just financially secure but also intellectually enriched and personally empowered. Bitcoin, as a catalyst for positive change, provides a roadmap to a brighter and more resilient future for those who choose to walk the path.

Not financial or legal advice, for entertainment only, do your own homework. I hope you find this post useful as you chart your personal financial course and Build a Bitcoin Fortress in 2023.

Thank you for supporting my work. Always remember: freedom, health and positivity!

Please also check out my Bitcoin Fortress Podcast on YouTube and on all your favorite streaming platforms. I do a weekly Bitcoin news update every week on current items of interest to the Bitcoin community, usually 30 to 60 minutes depending on the number of topics to cover. Please check it out if you haven’t already. Also now on Fountain, where you can earn Bitcoin just for listening to your favorite podcasts.

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สมัยนี้คนบูชาเสรีภาพโดยตามใจกิเลส ยุคที่...กลายเป็นปีศาจในร่างของมนุษย์

ในมหาวิทยาลัยนี่ ก็ลองคิดดูซิ ก็มีการทะเลาะวิวาทกัน อย่างอันธพาลในหมู่นักศึกษานิสิตกันเอง, ไม่เคารพครูบาอาจารย์ เห็นครูบาอาจารย์เป็นลูกจ้าง, แล้วก็ไม่มีใครว่าอะไรใคร ไม่มีใครเห็นว่ามันเป็นของผิด ถ้าเป็นอย่างนั้นสมัยก่อน เพียง ๕๐ - ๖๐ ปีมาแล้ว เขาประณามเป็นเรื่องเสียหาย เป็นเรื่องที่จะไม่มีอะไรที่น่าอับอายขายหน้าเท่ากับสิ่งเหล่านั้น

ถ้าในสํานักศึกษาอันเป็นที่สร้างดวงจิตดวงวิญญาณของมนุษย์เป็นอย่างนี้เสียแล้ว แล้วนอกนั้นมันจะเป็นอย่างไร? เพราะอะไรๆก็ออกไปจากสํานักศึกษา, เพราะว่าเราต้องผ่านสํานักการศึกษา จนกว่าจะเติบโตแล้วออกไป ถ้าในสํานักสําหรับการศึกษานั้น เป็นแหล่งเพาะวิญญาณของซาตาน ของวัตถุนิยมเสียแล้ว มันก็หมดกัน ไม่มีอะไรเหลือ

ฉะนั้น ถ้าใครยังรักบ้านรักเมือง รักเกียรติยศของความเป็นมนุษย์แล้ว, ก็ช่วยกันไปคิดให้ดีๆ ช่วยกันต่อต้านไว้บ้าง อย่าไปตามกันอาจารย์ฝรั่งไปเสียทุกอย่างทุกทาง...ฯ

สมัยนี้คนบูชาเสรีภาพโดยตามใจกิเลส. ยังมีสิ่งที่ร้ายกาจอีกสิ่งหนึ่ง ก็คือสิ่งที่เรียกว่า “เสรีภาพ” ทุกคนบูชาเสรีภาพ แต่มันเป็นเสรีภาพเพื่อจะเป็นภูตผีปีศาจ หรือเป็นสัตว์เดรัจฉานในที่สุด. เสรีภาพของเขาต้องการอย่างนี้ : ต้องการจะเสรีภาพตามใจกิเลส ตามใจซาตาน ตามใจพญามาร ไม่มีศีลธรรม. นี่เขาต้องการเสรีภาพอย่างนี้ : อยากจะไว้ผมยาว, อยากจะแต่งตัวให้แปลกประหลาด, อยากจะมีเสรีภาพ ไม่รู้ว่า เสรีภาพอะไรกัน

ทีนี้ เสรีภาพที่เป็นอันตรายที่สุด ก็คือการแสดงอะไรได้ตามชอบใจ : เขียนก็จะเขียนได้ตามชอบใจ, จะแสดงศิลปอะไรก็แสดงได้ตามชอบใจ, ไม่ถือว่าเป็นลามกอนาจาร สิ่งที่เป็นลามกอนาจาร ก็บัญญัติกันเสียใหม่ว่า ไม่ใช่ลามกอนาจาร

เรื่องที่เขาแก้ไขกันเสียใหม่ว่าไม่ลามกอนาจารนะ มันมากมายด้วยกัน : การประกวดนางหน้าด้านนั้น, ก็กลายเป็นของดีของวิเศษ ของอะไรไป ทั่วโลกสมัยนี้เขาเห็นเป็นสิ่งที่ถูกต้องที่ดีที่สุด ประกวดกันทุกหนทุกแห่งในโลกนี้ ผมเรียกว่าประกวดนางหน้าด้าน ถ้าหน้าไม่ด้านพอ ก็ไปเปิดแข้งเปิดขาเปิดอะไร แสดงอย่างนั้นไม่ได้

ถ้าเป็นสมัยก่อน คุณย่า คุณยาย เป็นลมตายแน่ ถ้าลูกหลานของแกไปทําอย่างนั้น เดี๋ยวนี้ เขาเห็นว่าถูกต้องดีงามไปหมด; นี่ก็คือ “เสรีภาพ” ผลของเสรีภาพมันเป็นอย่างนี้ นี้เป็นเรื่องที่เห็นได้ชัดๆ โต้งๆ แล้วที่มันยังละเอียด เห็นได้ยาก แฝงอยู่ในอะไรต่างๆ ยังมีอีกมาก

เสรีภาพในการเขียน ไม่มีใครว่าใครได้ แล้วก็เขียนเรื่องลามก อนาจาร ลงไปในหนังสือประจําวัน, แพร่หลายทั่วไปหมด ; ย้อมนิสัยเด็กๆ ให้เสียไปโดยไม่รู้สึกตัว, โดยไม่ต้องรู้สึกตัว, เขียนเรื่องอ่านเล่นโดยนามปากกา ที่มีชื่อเสียง นิยมนับถือกันทั้งประเทศ แต่แล้วก็เขียนเรื่องที่ทําให้เด็กมีจิตใจเลวทราม, เสื่อมเสียทางศีลธรรมโดยไม่รู้สึกตัว คุณไปเอาหนังสือพิมพ์มาพิจารณาดูเอาก็แล้วกัน ก็จะมองเห็น

ยังมีอะไรอีกมาก ที่ทําให้เด็กๆกลายเป็นปีศาจในร่างมนุษย์, มีอีกมาก ทําให้คนเรากลายเป็นปีศาจในร่างมนุษย์, คนโต ๆ ไม่เป็นไร, ไม่กี่ปีก็ตาย แต่ว่าการที่ทําให้เด็กๆ มากลายเป็นอย่างนั้นนั้น มันน่าอันตรายอย่างยิ่ง เพราะว่าเขายังจะอยู่ไปอีกนาน

การพูดจาก็ดี การเขียนก็ดี ศิลปวัตถุ นิทรรศการ ภาพยนตร์ อะไรต่าง ๆ ล้วนแต่เป็นอย่างเดียวกันหมด เขามีเสรีภาพ มีอิสรภาพ มีเสรีภาพที่จะทํา, ใครห้ามกันไม่ได้ หรือบางทีเขาก็มีอํานาจอย่างอื่น มาช่วยให้เขาต้องทําหรือได้ทํา

เมื่ออ้างเสรีภาพไม่ได้ ก็ใช้อํานาจอย่างอื่นมาช่วยให้ได้ทํา เขาก็ทํากันทั่วไปหมดทุกหนทุกแห่ง ทุกหัวระแหง, ทําลูกเด็ก ๆ ของเราให้กลายเป็นปีศาจในร่างมนุษย์นมากขึ้นๆเหลือที่จะป้องกัน, เหลือที่จะแก้ไขแล้ว นี่แหละ คือรากฐานอันแท้จริงของการเสื่อมทางศีลธรรม, แล้วเรื่องอื่นๆ มันก็ต้องตามมาแน่นอน ; เรื่องอันธพาล, เรื่องอะไรก็ตาม มันก็ต้องตามมามากเหลือที่จะประมาณได้

นี้มันก็ไม่ใช่เรื่องเล็กน้อย เป็นเรื่องทั้งหมดของมนุษย์ หรือของโลกมนุษย์ ที่จะอยู่หรือว่าจะล่มจม มีมูลมาจากการศึกษาแผนใหม่ วัฒนธรรมแผนใหม่ ที่มาจากข้างนอก เข้ามาสู่ประเทศไทย, เรียกว่าเราอยู่ในยุคของอะไร ลองคิดดู พวกเรากําลังอยู่ในยุคอะไร? ควรจะเรียกชื่อของยุคนี้ว่ายุคอะไร ลองคิดดู ? ส่วนผมนั้น สมัครเรียกว่า ยุคที่กลายเป็นปีศาจในร่างของมนุษย์..

พุทธทาสภิกขุ ที่มา : ธรรมเทศนาชุดชุมนุมล้ออายุ หัวข้อเรื่อง “ยิ่งจะทำให้ดี, โลกมันยิ่งบ้า” เมื่อวันที่ ๒๗ พฤษภาคม ๒๕๑๓ กัณฑ์ค่ำ ณ ลานหินโค้ง จากหนังสือชุดธรรมโฆษณ์ เล่มชื่อว่า “ชุมนุมล้ออายุ เล่ม ๑” หน้า ๕๑๕-๕๑๖,๕๑๙-๕๒๑

truthbetold #pyschology #mindset

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 ก่อนจะเดินทางไปท่องเที่ยวบ้านป่าบงเปียง เราลองมารู้จักกับประวัติของหมู่บ้านป่าบงเปียงกันก่อน
 บ้านป่าบงเปียง ชื่อหมู่บ้านนี้มาจากชื่อของ "ไผ่บง" ซึ่งเป็นไม้ไผ่ชนิดหนึ่ง ภาษาเหนือเรียกว่า "ไม้บง" ส่วนคำว่า "เปียง" หมายถึงที่ราบสันเขา ในอดีตที่ตั้งของหมู่บ้านมีไม้ไผ่บงขึ้นอยู่เป็นจำนวนมาก จึงได้ชื่อว่า บ้านป่าบงเบียง
 บ้านป่าบงเปียง ตั้งอยู่หลังดอยอินทนนท์ ตำบลช่างเคิ่ง ในอำเภอแม่แจ่ม จังหวัดเชียงใหม่ บนความสูงกว่า 1,000 เมตรจากระดับน้ำทะเล มีพื้นที่ราว 500 กว่าไร่ ชาวบ้านส่วนใหญ่เป็นชาวปกาเกอะญอ โดยชาวบ้านได้ปลูกข้าวเป็นขั้นบันไดไล่ระดับไปตามพื้นที่ไหล่เขา
 เราเริ่มต้นการเดินทางไปยังป่าบงเปียงในวันที่ 25 ตุลาคม 2566 ซึ่งถือได้ว่าเป็นช่วงสุดท้ายที่ทุ่งนาขั้นบันไดจะยังคงเขียวขจี ก่อนที่ต้นข้าวจะแตกรวงใบเปลี่ยนสี กลายเป็นทุ่งนาขั้นบันไดสีทองที่สวยงามไปอีกแบบ ก่อนที่ชาวบ้านจะลงมือเก็บเกี่ยวปิดฤดูการทำนาของปีนั้นๆ
 เราเดินทางถึงบ้านป่าบงเปียงในช่วงบ่าย บรรยากาศเงียบสงบและเริ่มหนาว เราติดต่อทางที่พักที่จองไว้ เช็คอินเข้าที่พักซึ่งเป็นบ้านพักแบบโฮมสเตย์ที่สร้างจากไม้ไผ่แบบเรียบง่าย นอนฟูก กางมุ้ง บ้านหลายหลังมีห้องน้ำแยกมาอยู่ข้างล่าง
 หลังจากเข้าบ้านพัก เราก็ได้นั่งพักผ่อนชมวิวความสวยงามของนาขั้นบันไดที่ยังคงเขียวขจี ก่อนที่จะออกไปเดินชมวิวและสำรวจภายในหมู่บ้าน เดินสำรวจและถ่ายรูปจนพอใจแล้วก็เดินกลับบ้านพักเพื่อรอชมบรรยากาศพระอาทิตย์ตกท่ามกลางท้องทุ่งนาขั้นบันไดท่ามกลางขุนเขาที่สวยงามไปอีกแบบ
 ชื่นชมทิวทัศน์สักพักฟ้าก็มืดแล้ว เราทานข้าวเย็นที่ทางบ้านพักจัดเตรียมไว้ให้ ซึ่งเป็นอาหารพื้นบ้านเมนูต่างๆ ท่ามกลางบรรยากาศที่หนาวเย็นขึ้น ที่นี่ยังไม่มีไฟฟ้าให้บริการ มีแค่ความสว่างจากดวงไฟโซล่าเซลล์ดวงน้อยเท่านั้น  เป็นการพักผ่อนที่ฮีลใจและกายได้อย่างเต็มที่
 เมื่อได้พักผ่อนอย่างเต็มที่ เราก็ตื่นเช้าเพื่อชมความสวยงามของทิวทัศน์ในตอนเช้า ซึ่งวันนี้โชคดีที่มีทะเลหมอก อากาศสดชื่น หมอกสีขาวตัดกับทุ่งนาสีเขียวช่างเป็นภาพที่สวยงามยิ่งนัก ก่อนที่จะเดินทางกลับเพื่อใช้ชีวิตปกติต่อไป

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