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私がNostrを知ったのはアクティブユーザーが３人ぐらいの極小のMastodonのコミュニティーで、2023年２月ごろですかね、 Nostrで時間溶かしたとかPostしているリモートフォローしている方がブツブツ言ってました。気になって、Nostrのサイトにいってアカウントを作成して入るも(この時点ではアカウントが作れたかどうかもわかってない)、訳の分からないスパムのタイムラインを目の当たりにし「わからん！」ってなってブラウザを閉じました。 それからも、その方はああだこうだとPostしていて、何回かアカウント作成ボタンを押して入ってみるもののスパムの嵐で、「やっぱりわからん！」ってなってほっていました。

Nostrで楽しそうにしているその方をみてると、再度、アカウントを作ってみようかとおもい、その方のblogの"Nostrに手を出して時間を溶かしている話"https://showhyuga.blogspot.com/2023/02/nostr.html、scrapboxのhttps://scrapbox.io/nostr/showV3を手がかりに挑戦し、無事、スパムのいないNostrに参加できました。 で、もったいぶってましたがその方とはNostr村にいる方なら誰もがご存知の一般の主婦でBotを作り、のす本に執筆したひゅうがさんです。

まあ、ひゅうがさんはすごいって話ですわ。一度はオフ会でお会いできればなと思ってます。

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Chef's notes

👩‍🍳 Dear Honeys

We're thrilled to share this bee-kissed recipe with you! These cookies are not just treats; they're tiny, edible pieces of holiday joy... like bitcoins. Each cookie is unique and holds its value in every bit. Whether you're baking for family, friends, or just treating yourself, remember that each cookie is a canvas for your creativity. Enjoy the sweet aromas filling your kitchen and the smiles these cookies will bring.

Happy Baking and Happy Holidays! 🎉🎁

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 80
• 🍳 Cook time: 10
• 🍽️ Servings: 6

Ingredients

• 1 cup honey 🍯
• 3/4 cup brown sugar 🧂
• 1 large egg 🥚
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice 🍋
• 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 🌾
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• Pinch of salt 🧂
• Powdered sugar for buzz ❄️

Directions

1. Preheat Oven: Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C). Line baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Mix Wet Ingredients: In a large mixing bowl, combine the honey from friendly honeybees and brown sugar. Beat in the egg and lemon juice until well blended.
3. Combine Dry Ingredients: In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, and salt.
4. Combine Mixtures: Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture, stirring until a dough forms. If the dough is too sticky, add a little more flour.
5. Chill the Dough: Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
6. Roll Out Dough: On a floured surface, roll out the dough to about 1/4 inch thickness
7. Cut Out Cookies: Use hexagon-shaped cookie cutters to cut out shapes and place them on the prepared baking sheets to look like a honeycomb
8. Bake: Bake for 8-10 minutes or until the edges are just starting to brown.
9. Cool and Decorate: Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with powdered sugar to add some buzz.
10. Enjoy your honey-infused Alby Christmas cookies with a warm cup of tea or coffee!

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Table Of Content

• Is Dubai Crypto-Friendly?

• Steps to Buying Bitcoin in Dubai

• Other Buying Options

• Banking with Bitcoin in the UAE

• A Word of Caution

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Dubai, often referred to as the "City of Gold," has always been at the forefront of financial innovation. Its towering skyscrapers, bustling markets, and technological advancements make it a hub for global investors. In recent years, the allure of cryptocurrency, particularly Bitcoin, has caught the attention of many in this desert paradise. With its strategic location and forward-thinking policies, Dubai offers a unique blend of traditional finance and the emerging world of digital currencies.

Is Dubai Crypto-Friendly?

Dubai's progressive stance on technology and finance is well-documented. The city and the broader United Arab Emirates (UAE) have embraced the digital currency revolution with open arms. Not only does the UAE offer enticing tax benefits like zero tax on cryptocurrency trading, but there's also an absence of income or capital gains tax. This fiscal environment, combined with a robust regulatory framework, has positioned the UAE as a global leader in the crypto space. While the government doesn't recognize cryptocurrencies as official legal tender, it has ensured a safe environment for enthusiasts to purchase, hold, and trade digital assets without legal hindrances.

Steps to Buying Bitcoin in Dubai

Choose an Exchange

The digital currency market is vast, and choosing the right exchange is paramount. It's essential to prioritize security, given the digital nature of these transactions. Potential investors should not only research the exchange's history but also delve into user reviews and any reported security breaches.

Prominent exchanges in the UAE, such as eToro, OKX, HTX, and Binance, have built a reputation for reliability and security.

Register

The registration process is the first step towards your crypto journey. Most exchanges require basic information like email and a strong password. It's crucial to use unique passwords and enable two-factor authentication, if available, to enhance account security.

The Know Your Customer (KYC) checks are standard procedures to prevent illicit activities. This often involves submitting a government-issued photo ID.

Fund and Buy

After setting up your account, the next step is funding. Most exchanges accept funds from bank accounts, credit cards, or even other cryptocurrencies.

Once funded, you can navigate the platform to purchase Bitcoin or explore other available digital currencies.

Storing Your Bitcoin Safely

Online Wallets: Digital wallets, often referred to as "hot wallets," are online storage solutions for your cryptocurrencies. They are convenient for regular traders as they offer quick access to funds. Platforms like Trust Wallet and Electrum are popular choices. However, being online, they are susceptible to hacks, so it's essential to use them judiciously.

Hardware Wallets: For long-term investors or those with significant holdings, hardware wallets are the gold standard in security. These physical devices store your private keys offline, making them immune to online hacks. Brands like Trezor or Ledger Nano have become synonymous with crypto security.

Other Buying Options

Bitcoin ATMs: A testament to the UAE's progressive crypto stance is the presence of Bitcoin ATMs. These machines, like traditional ATMs, allow users to purchase Bitcoin. The Rixos Premium Dubai Hotel, a symbol of luxury, houses Dubai's first Bitcoin ATM, offering tourists and residents alike a quick way to enter the crypto market.

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Trading: P2P platforms facilitate direct transactions between buyers and sellers, bypassing intermediaries. While centralized exchanges dominate the Dubai market, platforms like Binance, Paxful, and OKX offer P2P options, combining the best of both worlds.

Banking with Bitcoin in the UAE

The banking sector in the UAE, known for its robustness and innovation, has shown a keen interest in the crypto realm. Several banks have adopted crypto-friendly policies, making it easier for investors and businesses in the crypto space. The First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), one of the region's largest banks, stands out in this regard. While it doesn't directly offer crypto trading, it facilitates its customers to link their accounts with crypto exchanges. This integration, combined with FAB's future plans around digital assets, showcases the bank's commitment to financial innovation.

A Word of Caution

The world of cryptocurrencies, while exciting, is also fraught with volatility. Dubai's vibrant financial landscape offers numerous opportunities to engage with digital currencies. However, like any investment, it's imperative to approach it with caution. Prices of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies can swing dramatically, often within short time frames. Aspiring investors should arm themselves with knowledge, stay updated with market trends, and perhaps most importantly, never invest more than they can afford to lose.

Conclusion

Dubai, with its blend of tradition and modernity, has once again proven its mettle by embracing the digital currency revolution. The city's progressive policies, combined with a robust financial infrastructure, make it an attractive destination for both novice and seasoned crypto investors. From the presence of global crypto exchanges to the integration of Bitcoin ATMs, Dubai offers a comprehensive ecosystem for those keen to explore the world of cryptocurrencies.

However, as with all financial ventures, it's essential to tread with caution. The volatile nature of cryptocurrencies demands thorough research, continuous learning, and a measured approach. While the allure of digital gold is undeniable, it's crucial to remember the age-old adage: "Invest only what you can afford to lose.

FAQ

Are there any taxes on cryptocurrency trading in the UAE? No, the UAE offers zero tax on cryptocurrency trading, and there's no income or capital gains tax.

How can I buy Bitcoin in Dubai? You can purchase Bitcoin through crypto exchanges, Bitcoin ATMs, or P2P platforms available in Dubai.

Are there Bitcoin ATMs in Dubai? Yes, Dubai's first Bitcoin ATM was installed at the Rixos Premium Dubai Hotel in 2019.

Which banks in the UAE are crypto-friendly? Several banks, including the First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), have crypto-friendly policies.

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Chef's notes

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 20 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 30 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 4 whole chicken breasts
• 2 TBS Olive oil
• 2 tbs butter
• 6 shallots, chopped
• 2 pared carrots, sliced into 1/4 inch rounds
• 1/4 cup brandy or cognac
• 1 cup dry white wine
• 1/4 cup chopped or 2 tsp dried tarragon
• 1/2 tsp dried chervil leaves
• 1/2 TSP salt
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1 cup light cream
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 TBS flour
• 1/4 lb. Mushrooms
• 2 more TBD butter
• Springs of fresh tarragon

Directions

1. Photo in notes.

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El gobierno de Estados Unidos reveló detalles este lunes sobre la detención del exdiplomático Víctor Manuel Rocha en Miami, el primero de diciembre, bajo la acusación de cometer "múltiples delitos federales" al actuar durante cuatro décadas como agente secreto del gobierno de Cuba.

"Esta acción expone una de las infiltraciones de mayor alcance y más duraderas del gobierno de Estados Unidos por parte de un agente extranjero", dijo el Fiscal General Merrick B. Garland.

Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Charged with Secretly Acting as an Agent of the Cuban Governmenthttps://t.co/XdDv7LDzCO pic.twitter.com/N0kCmKfjZR

— National Security Division, U.S. Dept of Justice (@DOJNatSec) December 4, 2023

El comunicado del gobierno estadounidense señala además que Rocha, de 73 años y exempleado del Departamento de Estado, sirvió en el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional entre 1994 y 1995 y fue embajador estadounidense en Bolivia de 2000 a 2002.

"Alegamos que durante más de 40 años, Víctor Manuel Rocha sirvió como agente del gobierno cubano y buscó y obtuvo puestos dentro del gobierno de Estados Unidos que le proporcionarían acceso a información no pública y la capacidad de afectar la política exterior. Quienes tienen el privilegio de servir en el gobierno de Estados Unidos reciben una enorme confianza del público al que servimos. Traicionar esa confianza prometiendo falsamente lealtad mientras se sirve a una potencia extranjera es un crimen que será castigado con toda la fuerza del Departamento de Justicia", indicó Garland.

Former U.S. Ambassador and National Security Council Official Charged with Secretly Acting as an Agent of the Cuban Government https://t.co/U7F6UgnzZP pic.twitter.com/59SsJ5TxJ0

— FBI (@FBI) December 4, 2023

El director del FBI, Christopher Wray, recordó que "los diplomáticos estadounidenses hacen un juramento de apoyar y defender la Constitución. Actuar como agente de Cuba –una potencia extranjera hostil– es una flagrante violación de ese juramento y traiciona la confianza del pueblo".

"El FBI continuará defendiéndose rigurosamente contra gobiernos extranjeros que tengan como objetivo a Estados Unidos. Encontraremos y responsabilizaremos a cualquiera que viole su juramento, sin importar cuánto tiempo tome", enfatizó Wray.

El Fiscal General Adjunto Matthew G. Olsen, de la División de Seguridad Nacional del Departamento de Justicia, dijo que durante décadas "Rocha supuestamente trabajó como agente encubierto para Cuba y abusó de su posición de confianza en el gobierno de Estados Unidos para promover los intereses de una potencia extranjera".

El fiscal federal Markenzy Lapointe para el Distrito Sur de Florida insistió en que las personas que violan la ley al participar en actividades clandestinas para estados extranjeros hostiles y al proporcionar información falsa sobre esas actividades al gobierno de EE.UU. ponen en peligro la democracia.

"Esto es especialmente cierto para los empleados pasados o presentes de Estados Unidos que prestaron juramento de respetar la Constitución y para los ciudadanos estadounidenses que se benefician de las libertades y oportunidades de este país. La Fiscalía Federal y nuestros socios encargados de hacer cumplir la ley en el sur de Florida y en otros lugares continuarán haciendo cumplir enérgicamente todas las leyes federales", subrayó.

La denuncia reveló que desde 1981 hasta el presente, Rocha, de origen colombiano y naturalizado como estadounidense, apoyó secretamente a la República de Cuba.

"Su misión clandestina fue de recopilación de inteligencia contra Estados Unidos sirviendo como agente encubierto, agente de la Dirección General de Inteligencia de Cuba", precisó el texto.

Con el objetivo de cumplir ese papel, el diplomático obtuvo empleo en el Departamento de Estado entre 1981 y 2002, en puestos que le proporcionaron acceso a información clasificada que tiene la capacidad de afectar la política exterior.

Al finalizar su trabajo en el Departamento de Estado, participó en otros actos destinados a apoyar a los servicios de inteligencia de Cuba. Este período lo ubican entre 2006 y 2012, cuando Rocha fue asesor del Comandante del Comando Sur de Estados Unidos, cuya área de responsabilidad incluye al país caribeño.

El comunicado destaca que Rocha mantuvo en secreto su condición de agente cubano para protegerse a sí mismo y a otras personas y participar en actividades clandestinas adicionales.

El exdiplomático está acusado de proporcionar información falsa y engañosa a Estados Unidos para mantener su misión secreta. La acusación alega que "viajó fuera del país para reunirse con agentes de inteligencia cubanos" y asegura que "hizo declaraciones falsas y engañosas para obtener documentos de viaje".

Rocha comenzó su carrera en el Departamento de Estado en 1981. Desempeñó una amplia variedad de funciones, entre las que sobresalen:

• Desde febrero de 1989 hasta 1991 fue primer secretario de EE.UU. en la Embajada en la Ciudad de México.
• Desde noviembre de 1991 hasta julio de 1994 fue jefe adjunto de Misión en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Santo Domingo, República Dominicana.

• Desde julio de 1994 hasta julio de 1995 fue empleado del Departamento de Estado, como director de Asuntos Interamericanos en el Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de Estados Unidos, con responsabilidad especial, entre otras cosas, sobre Cuba.

• Desde julio de 1995 hasta julio de 1997 fue oficial principal adjunto de la Sección de Intereses de Estados Unidos en La Habana.

• Desde julio de 1997 hasta noviembre de 1999 se desempeñó como jefe adjunto de misión en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en Buenos Aires.

• Desde noviembre de 1999 hasta agosto de 2002 fue embajador en Bolivia en la Embajada de Estados Unidos en La Paz.

• Durante 2022 y 2023, en reuniones con un agente encubierto del FBI que se hacía pasar por representante encubierto de la Dirección General de Inteligencia cubana, Rocha confesó sus "décadas" de trabajo para Cuba.

• El agente le dijo a Rocha que era un representante encubierto en Miami cuya misión era ser su nuevo contacto y establecer un nuevo plan de comunicación. "Rocha respondió 'sí' y procedió a entablar una conversación larga durante la cual describió y celebró su actividad como agente de la inteligencia cubana", detalla el comunicado.

• Durante varias de esas reuniones el exembajador se mostró como un agente cubano, refiriéndose a Estados Unidos como "el enemigo" y utilizó el término "nosotros" para describirse a sí mismo y a Cuba.

En esos encuentros también se le acusa de haber elogiado a la figura de Fidel Castro, llamándolo "el Comandante" y haciendo referencia a sus contactos en la contrainteligencia cubana como sus "compañeros".

Además, Rocha llamó a los servicios de inteligencia cubanos como la "Dirección" y describió su trabajo como "un grand slam".

Víctor Manuel Rocha se enfrenta a una acusación de conspirar para actuar como agente de un gobierno extranjero sin notificación previa al Fiscal General.

También se le acusa de "actuar como agente de un gobierno extranjero sin notificación previa al Fiscal General y con el uso de pasaporte obtenido mediante declaración falsa".

Este 4 de diciembre debe producirse su comparecencia inicial ante un juez federal en Miami.

La investigación sobre este caso se mantiene abierta y bajo responsabilidad de la Oficina de Campo del FBI en Miami, con colaboración del Servicio de Seguridad Diplomática del Departamento de Estado y la Oficina de Campo del FBI en Washington.

"Los fiscales federales adjuntos Jonathan D. Stratton y John C. Shipley del Distrito Sur de Florida, junto con las abogadas litigantes Heather M. Schmidt y Christine A. Bonomo de la Sección de Contrainteligencia y Control de Exportaciones de la División de Seguridad Nacional están procesando el caso", según especifica el comunicado.

Las autoridades estadounidenses recordaron que una denuncia penal es solo una acusación. "Se presume que todos los acusados son inocentes hasta que se demuestre su culpabilidad más allá de toda duda razonable en un tribunal de justicia".

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El pasado 22 de noviembre, la Policía Nacional de Nicaragua acusó a Karen Celebertti, directora del certamen Miss Nicaragua, de los delitos de “traición a la patria”, “conspiración” y “crimen organizado”.

Estas acusaciones se suman a una serie de señalamientos relacionados con su supuesta participación en un fallido Golpe de Estado en 2018.

El comunicado oficial, emitido por la Policía Nacional, vincula a la familia Celebertti, propietaria de la franquicia Miss Nicaragua y otras empresas de modelaje, con eventos ocurridos en 2018, denominados por el régimen de Daniel Ortega como un “intento de Golpe de Estado”.

Además, se afirma que desde 2019, la familia mantuvo contacto con “exponentes de la traición a la patria”, con la intención de utilizar sus plataformas y concursos de belleza en una “conspiración” contra la dictadura que impera en el país centroamericano. La acusación también incluye crímenes como ciberdelito, “lavado de activos, financiamiento al terrorismo y financiamiento a la proliferación de armas de destrucción masiva”.

Este inesperado anuncio representa la primera vez que el gobierno se refiere directamente a Karen Celebertti, quien fue impedida de entrar a Nicaragua el pasado noviembre después de acompañar a Sheynnis Palacios, Miss Universo 2023, en una visita a México.

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Según informes de prensa, la hija de Celebertti, Luciana, también habría sido afectada por esta medida. La situación se complicó cuando se reportó que Martín y Bernardo Argüello, esposo e hijo de Celebertti, estaban “desaparecidos” tras supuestamente ser arrestados por la policía en su vivienda al suroeste de Managua. Sin embargo, el régimen no ha confirmado oficialmente estas versiones.

La elección de Sheynnis Palacios como Miss Universo, siendo la primera nicaragüense en lograrlo, desató celebraciones en todo el país. Sin embargo, estas manifestaciones de júbilo fueron interpretadas por la policía como parte de un “complot” y una “trama” política.

El gobierno señaló que aquellos que celebraron la victoria de Palacios planeaban “tomar nuevamente las calles en un reprís de lo peor de la historia de la ruindad”.

La prohibición de ondear la bandera nacional en público, impuesta por las autoridades tras las protestas de 2018, llevó a que estas celebraciones fueran vistas como actos desafiantes.

Medios críticos al régimen de Ortega interpretaron la elección de Palacios como “una esperanza” y destacaron la ausencia de manifestaciones desde 2018, debido a las restricciones impuestas por las autoridades.

La situación actual deja a la familia Celebertti en una posición incierta, con acusaciones graves que podrían tener consecuencias legales significativas.

La reacción de la comunidad internacional y la evolución de los acontecimientos en Nicaragua serán seguidas de cerca, ya que este caso se suma a la creciente preocupación sobre los derechos humanos y la libertad en el país centroamericano.

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Este lunes 4 de diciembre del 2023, con 90 años cumplidos, murió Juanita Castro, la hermana menor del dictador Fidel Castro, quien con su exilio en el sur de la Florida desde 1964 marcó una clara postura de oposición al régimen comunista instaurado en Cuba.

De acuerdo con un reporte de Univisión, la señora murió por causas naturales en un hospital de Miami. La familia detalló a la prensa que no ofrecerá entrevistas sobre el tema y el funeral será totalmente privado.

#4Diciembre Muere en #Miami a los 90 años Juanita Castro, hermana de Fidel y Raúl Castro, informó la periodista María Antonieta Collins, coautora de su libro biográfico. 1933-2023 Guetty Images #Cuba pic.twitter.com/LAJwS1kTBH

— José L. Ramos (@bacu29) December 4, 2023

Luego de la muerte de su hermano en 2016, Juanita ofreció una entrevista exclusiva para América Tevé donde abordó el significado de la desaparición física del dictador y dio detalles de los motivos que propiciaron el rompimiento de sus relaciones con Fidel y Raúl a inicios de la década de 1960.

La exiliada comentó que no celebraba la muerte de ningún ser humano, incluso si era su enemigo. Recordó que Fidel pudo haber sido maravilloso para Cuba, pero resultó ser lo contrario. Juanita mencionó que no tiene recuerdos agradables de su hermano, describiendo cómo su relación y percepción de la revolución cambiaron con el tiempo. Hablaba sobre cómo Fidel siempre prometía resolver problemas, pero nunca lo hacía, y cómo se declaró marxista-leninista.

Hace siete años, la anciana afirmaba de forma visionaria que la muerte de Fidel no era el fin de la dictadura y hacía un llamado al pueblo cubano para unirse por una patria libre.

En ese sentido, deseó que Cuba eliminara la “cortina de odio, tragedia, miseria y aislamiento” y avanzara hacia la libertad. Juanita enfatizó la importancia de la unidad, el trabajo y la lucha por la libertad, y la necesidad de dejar de combatirse y odiarse entre los cubanos.

En ese momento, declaraba que nunca volvería a Cuba, ni siquiera después de muerta, prefiriendo que sus cenizas permanecieran en Miami. En este diciembre de 2023, su familia cumplirá su voluntad en una ceremonia sin acceso al público ni la prensa.

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Those of fiat royalty want to smash their boots in our faces. Janet Yellen and her royal entourage made some announcement last week. They fined Binance billions of boomer bucks and threatened to sue Bitcoin Magazine for making fun of FedCoin. The Communist Canadian Government forced UTXO to shut down the laptop he used to run nodeless.io. The US **Treasury department wants everyone running a node to have a **money transmitter licenceThey say these draconian laws are designed to keep Hamas from buying oranges or whatever they buy with money. Nevermind the fact that a nurse on TikTok complains about being broke while the price of bitcoin has doubled within a year. We also had the biggest bank failures this year. Must be a coincidence.

royals

We are in what Andreas Antonopolis calls the "then they fight you" stage. The concept comes from the five stages of grief. Say someone goes to the doctor and receives some very bad news. The Dr. says she has 6 months left to live. Very bad news indeed. Humans react to this news in [five stages] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief)

• Denial

• Anger (This is the then they fight you stage.

• Bargaining

• Depression

• Acceptance

On January 3rd, 2009, banks and the governments they control got this bad news. Bitcoin eliminates the need for our Royal, unelected Central Banks. Bitcoin is a terminal illness for them. For a long time, they ignored it. It could never work. Who the hell would wait 10 minutes to buy a cup of coffee? Then people started buying illegal herbs, fungus and flowers on the Silk Road. They thought they they killed bitcoin because they were able to shut it down. Denial. They have been in this denial for almost a decade. Bitcoin was declared dead 1771 times since then.

My favorite death certificate was issued after the regulated exchange FTX blew up, some economist went on JRE to declare it dead for good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrSj2RmRtbs&t=2

$ 16,000 was supposed to go to zero. Now 1000 sats is about 38¢, which means 100,000,000 sats is about $38,000 if you care about that sortnof thing.

What really died is the first stage of grief and they, the central bank royalty, are pissed. So they said bitcoin is used by terrorists to buy heroin porn, imaginary weapons of mass destruction, nerf guns, or whatever the fuck terrorists buy with money these days. These heroin porn purchaces must be stopped with regulation.

Nevermind that you've been sellin' your soul, workin' all day, overtime hours for bullshit pay. Focus on how terrorists can buy heroin porn with bitcoin so you don't lament the fact that law-abiding fiat maxis will never be able to afford a mortgage anymore. In my state, the median price of a home is $799,000. A first time buyer with a 3.5% down payment would have a monthly mortgage payment of **$5,603.92. **

That's not income, that's only the mortgage payment. You still need to buy essentials like groceries, electricity, gas, and weed. My wife is a principal at a school and would not qualify for a mortgage based on her income alone, not even for our house that is worth much less than the median price home under current market conditions.

The same people that has stopped all but the very rich from buying a home now wants to stop everyone from buying or using bitcoin without a regulated exchange like FTX. The regulations did nothing to stop "CrYpTo investors" from getting wrecked, but here they are fighting unregulated exchanges.

They can stop a few people with computers for sure, but can they stop 10,000 people with computers all over the world? The fines don't stop Binance like the fines don't stop money laundering banks. Shutting down one laptop does not erase the code he wrote. It's still out there. If they shut down GitHub we can put it on BitTorrent and Nostr.

The government thinks they are at war with unlicenced money transmitors like Spaceboi thinks bitcoin is a weapon. They have not yet learned bitcoin is not a weapon. Bitcoin is code and code is speech.

We lost our 4th amendment protections after 9/11. We still take off our shoes at airports because one idiot tried to make a shoe bomb. Now our government wants to eliminate or 1st amendment protections and turn us into a totalatarian nightmare like China or Canada. Bitcoin is not a weapon. Bitcoin is a protest. I stack sats as an alternative to redressing the government of my grievences like the fact that most college graduates won't be able to buy anything but chattel real with our broken money.

The new world war is financial and the American royalty does not want you to flee. If you haven't seen it, watch Andreas's talk on YouTube. I know he's not a bitcoin maxi, but his words still resonate today. Despite this doomer style post, I am optomistic because we can opt out of the dystopian novel that is unfolding. We can choose bitcoin. Yeah, it's volotile. They say it wastes water, boils the oceans and is uselesss because we already have digital money.

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No cenário educacional contemporâneo, onde os desafios se multiplicam e as transformações sociais se desenham de maneira acelerada, um novo olhar se faz necessário. É nesse contexto que um recente artigo acadêmico emerge, trazendo à tona reflexões profundas sobre a crise de autoridade na Educação. O estudo, ancorado em uma abordagem analítica textual discursiva (ATD) e respaldado pelas contribuições teóricas de Honneth e Gadamer, direciona seu foco para um elemento muitas vezes esquecido: a voz dos alunos.

O ponto de partida da pesquisa é a percepção da crise de autoridade não como um mero sintoma isolado, mas sim como um reflexo de uma carência mais ampla de valorização da escola e de seus protagonistas. Esses protagonistas, no caso, são os próprios alunos e professores, cujas vozes muitas vezes ecoam em comentários postados na plataforma do YouTube, um espaço digital onde aspectos do cotidiano escolar são retratados e debatidos.

Ao adotar essa abordagem, o estudo coloca em destaque a importância de escutar atentamente o que os alunos têm a dizer sobre sua experiência educacional, em especial, na relação professor-aluno. Os comentários e "discussões" juvenis presentes nos vídeos analisados revelam conflitos sociais que não devem ser simplesmente desconsiderados, mas sim compreendidos como expressões de uma luta por reconhecimento e uma esperança de diálogo.

A "crise de autoridade em Educação", conforme apontado pelos autores, é, em sua essência, uma crise do reconhecimento recíproco. Trata-se de uma deficiência na capacidade dialógica que impede a compreensão mútua. Os conflitos manifestados pelos alunos não devem ser encarados apenas como obstáculos, mas como oportunidades. O reconhecimento desses conflitos como potenciais catalisadores para a construção de entendimento e resolução produtiva é crucial.

O embasamento teórico fornecido por Honneth (2003) e Gadamer (2002) adiciona profundidade à análise, delineando a importância do reconhecimento mútuo na construção de relações saudáveis e produtivas. A pesquisa destaca que a superação da crise de autoridade demanda não apenas medidas disciplinares, mas um esforço conjunto para restabelecer a capacidade dialógica na educação.

Diante desse panorama, reconhecer e compreender as nuances dos conflitos sociais expressos nas plataformas digitais possibilita desencadear um diálogo construtivo, capaz de transformar a crise em oportunidade. Afinal, é no ato de promover um diálogo capaz de sustentar reconhecimento mútuo que reside a chave para um fortalecimento da autoridade educacional e para a promoção de um ambiente escolar mais inclusivo e enriquecedor.

Acesse o artigo completo em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/article/view/47957

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Compreender os impactos da Inteligência Artificial na sociedade e ser capaz de usar esta ferramenta com consciência tecnológica aguçada, permite melhor gerenciar os fenômenos transformadores que a sociedade está exposta, bem como, direcionar uma nova forma de educação que parece emergir, com suas consequências prós e contras.

A Inteligência Artificial, ou I.A., é uma área da ciência da computação que busca desenvolver sistemas capazes de realizar tarefas que, normalmente, demandariam a inteligência humana. Esses sistemas são projetados para aprender, raciocinar, perceber o ambiente ao seu redor e interagir de maneira autônoma. Ao combinar algoritmos avançados com o poder de processamento de computadores modernos, a I.A. tem se mostrado fundamental em uma variedade de campos, desde diagnósticos médicos até carros autônomos, passando por assistentes virtuais e recomendações personalizadas.

No cenário dinâmico da revolução tecnológica, a Inteligência Artificial emerge como uma força transformadora, e seu impacto estende-se a diversas esferas da sociedade. Entre essas áreas, a educação destaca-se como um terreno fértil para a aplicação inovadora da Inteligência Artificial (I.A.). Essa revolução educacional não se trata apenas de incorporar tecnologia em sala de aula, mas sim de redefinir a própria natureza do processo educacional.

O papel da Inteligência Artificial na educação se estende desde ferramentas simples, como sistemas de tutoria virtual, até soluções mais complexas, como a análise preditiva para identificar possíveis desafios de aprendizagem. A personalização do conteúdo, adaptado ao ritmo e estilo de aprendizado de cada aluno, torna-se uma realidade tangível, proporcionando uma abordagem mais inclusiva e eficaz para educar diversas mentes.

Além disso, a I.A. também contribui para a automação de tarefas administrativas, permitindo que educadores foquem mais em interações significativas com os alunos. A análise de dados pode oferecer insights valiosos para aprimorar currículos, identificar lacunas de conhecimento e melhorar continuamente as práticas pedagógicas.

Entretanto, essa revolução não está isenta de desafios, incluindo questões éticas, preocupações com a privacidade e a necessidade de garantir que a tecnologia seja acessível a todos. Ao explorar o papel da Inteligência Artificial, em especial na educação enquanto formação dos jovens, é imperativo considerar esses desafios para desenvolver abordagens sustentáveis e éticas que impulsionem positivamente a educação do futuro.

A transformação está em andamento, e a Inteligência Artificial na educação promete não apenas otimizar processos, mas também inspirar uma nova geração de aprendizes a abraçar o conhecimento de maneiras inovadoras e colaborativas. Estamos diante de uma era emocionante, inovadora e arriscada, onde a tecnologia e a pedagogia convergem para moldar um futuro educacional mais acessível, personalizado e preparado para enfrentar os desafios contemporâneos.

Se você é professor, educador, ou alguém que deseja entender vantagens e riscos dos possíveis impactos da tecnologia, em especial da Inteligência Artificial na vida das crianças. Acessar literatura de qualidade vai proporcionar a você uma melhor maneira compreender como gerenciar esta nova realidade em acelerada evolução.

Por este motivo separamos alguns conteúdos de livre acesso para fortalecer sua compreensão sobre o tema.

Acesse: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BOJVxb-aHZhiNGN7q4XwVuSGRk6xPH8r?usp=sharing

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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) Deleted NIP 22: created_at limits

By its very nature Nostr has trouble reliably knowing when a piece of content was published. NIP 22 was an attempt to allow relays to be the authorities on when an event was created/published by only accepting events with a “created_at” that was recent according to the relay.

The challenge with this is rebroadcasting. The “created_at” can’t be modified because then the signature on the event that confirms the user authorized the event would be invalid (the signature is created by taking into account the created_at field). So if relays reject events that weren’t created recently, then events can’t be moved around (if a user wants to move relays or back up their content).

Overall, not many relays implemented NIP 22 because it caused too many problems. On top of that, whenever the “created_at” has to be reliable, devs are tending to use OpenTimestamps which is a non-Nostr but much more reliable system.

So, nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 deleted NIP 22.

2) (Proposed) NIP 88: Relay Notifications

The impetus for this NIP was the difficulty for paid relay providers to get their subscribers to pay their subscriptions. Currently it’s difficult to manage a monthly subscription with lightning, and most of the time you have to manually authorize the monthly payment every month.

This NIP outlines a way for relays to ask clients to pass along a message to users. The first use case is for relays to remind users to pay their subscription and include a link to pay it easily.

What’s nice about this is: 1) The protocol is more general than that specific use case, as the relay can send any kind of message to the user. Lots of possibilities! 2) This doesn’t require clients to enforce subscription agreements between the user and the relay, preserving decentralization and the opt-in nature of Nostr development.

Author: nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

3) (Proposed) NIP 29: Image Metadata

There’s often metadata on images that is useful for clients displaying images (alternative text, dimensions, blurhashes, etc). There isn’t a standard way to provide that content to clients; this proposal changes all that.

It proposes an “imeta” tag to Nostr events so that when a user publishes an event with an image in it, their client can include this metadata to help future clients render it well. 💪

Author: staab

Notable Projects

Search and NostrDB 🔍

NostrDB is essentially a relay that lives within a Nostr client. This has many advantages for clients because it simplifies the client logic around managing events from many relays.

From what I can tell in my research, Damus uses NostrDB as the main relay that the app reads from when rendering the user experience in the app. Then it’s NostrDB’s job to sync events between NostrDB and the user’s desired relays.

Without NostrDB clients have to connect to all the users’ relays simultaneously and sync events. As syncing is going on, the client then needs to update the user’s experience. Doing both at once causes the client’s code to be more complicated and usually less performant. By separating the concern for syncing with the user’s relays to NostrDB, the client can focus on the user experience.

The new news here is that nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s has improved NostrDB to support very performant search. That means a client can sync events from the user’s relays, and then search that content in milliseconds without making a network call.

Without this, clients will need to reach out to each relay individually and make a filter request and wait for responses to trickle in. Then the client has to aggregate all the responses and show the user a result.

An architecture where there’s a NostrDB on the client, and/or a NostrDB powered relay that specializes in search, could make the work of discoverability much easier for clients. LFG!

Onboarding Normies 🛝

Rabble’s Talk on Nostr for Normies has motivated many thoughtful discussions (and some less-kind discussions) around how to attract and retain more regular folks on Nostr. But it seems no one is as prolific (in general but specifically) in their motivation to solve this problem as nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft .

This project is a demo of an experience for Nostr users to sign up for Nostr without ever touching the public and private keys. They create a username (NIP 05 address) and use an email to authorize any future recoveries of access to the Nostr account.

The experience is familiar to anyone that’s signed up for a service by logging in with Google or Twitter (which is most internet connected westerners). The experience still preserves choice for the user (where are they going to host their NIP 05 address, which nsecBunker will custody the keys, which email they will use to do recoveries, etc).

This could be the foundation of an onboarding experience that’s great for regular folks. Great work Pablo!

Better Backups 📦

Without the ability for users to move relays, Nostr isn’t truly censorship resistant. So, backup services will always be a core tool for the freedom-loving user of Nostr. nostr:npub1cmmswlckn82se7f2jeftl6ll4szlc6zzh8hrjyyfm9vm3t2afr7svqlr6f just released an update to NostrSync.

It feels more performant and feels simpler for the user. On top of that, users can now manage their backups, which means that we can start to take snapshots of our Nostr data. All stored locally so you continue to own your data.

Latest conversations: Onboarding Normies

The people in our community with the most experience building social products that people have adopted at scale have been telling us that Nostr is not ready for normies yet. ( Rabble’s Talk on Nostr for Normies and Jack’s latest assessment )

But we are seeing a ton of development that is making Nostr better for normies, and it seems like we’re close to all the lego pieces being ready. Here’s what I’ve seen lately.

Abstracting keypairs

Regular folks don’t understand public/private keypairs. It took decades for regular folks to accept usernames and passwords, and best case it’ll still be a while before regular folks understand public/private keypairs.

To help people join Nostr today, it’s sensible to offer services that wrap Nostr keypairs with a username/password experience that’s recoverable by email. People will understand it, and as long as they can still download their keys, they can self-custody whenever they want. If service providers end-to-end encrypt the actual Nostr keys, it could even be said to be non-custodial.

Pablo’s recent demo of an easy signup flow without managing Nostr keys is orders of magnitude easier to understand and educate new Nostr users on. Clients that adopt workflows like this could see retention increase quite a bit.

Finding and Filtering content

Decentralized systems are hard to search for specific content. It took a while for Google to solve the issue for web content. Twitter did incredibly well because of their search functionality. Nostr currently struggles to help people of all interests find the content and content creators they want.

Will’s work on NostrDB (as mentioned above) seems like it could be the foundation of performant search of Nostr content. Purpose-built search relays would be a valuable tool for clients helping users solve the discoverability, and we may be close to a truly great technological solution.

Approaches like Coracle’s introduction of “web of trust” based content discovery could also tackle the discoverability from a different direction. As is, it makes the global feed a bit more enjoyable. In the future, this pattern could power everything from discoverability, to semi-algorithmic feeds, to opt-in content moderation based on your social graph.

Part of making content enjoyable for regular folks is allowing and aiding people in filtering their feed how they like. Content moderation should not be forced on anyone, as that’s not in the spirit of Nostr, but rather allowing users to opt-in to filtering algorithms.

Rabble’s Nos.lol is taking the first steps towards using web of trust to help filter content in an opt-in way. Labeling tools like Ontolo could soon aid users in generating content warnings or lists of pubkey that are sources of content that people may want filtered.

Web of payments

Another challenge for normies is paying for all the services that power a great Nostr experience.

Quality relays Hosting images/videos Usernames (NIP 05) Translation Zaps

Currently there are free or custodial solutions but those can’t be run as charities forever, especially if there’s a surge of adoption.

Users are already not used to paying directly for social media, but paying independently subscriptions for all these services without being able to even use a credit card is jarring.

The problem of users paying with fiat but service providers receiving sats or a different fiat currency may soon be solved by Strike, but this is an area of underdevelopment.

Super-clients

For the freedom tech literate among us, it makes sense to sign up for services independently and manage your own self-custody lightning node/wallet to pay for services with sats. When you add up all the services this may be more expensive, and it’s definitely more work to manage, but those costs are worth it to many of us.

To service normies, we may see the development of super-clients. Where larger, well-funded clients (Primal, Nostr.Band, Damus, Amethyst, or even new players) may start to build services into the client to give an all-in-one solution for normies.

These super-clients may provide a NIP-05 address host, hosted nsecBunker with username/password interface, image/video hosting, translation, a quality relay, discoverability relays, translations, a few optional managed content moderation schemes, etc. All paid for via their hosted custodial lightning wallet the user can load with fiat but pay with sats.

Despite its trade-offs, this will make more sense to normies than the current paradigm. From what I can tell, we’re already seeing Primal working towards this level of capability. I imagine it’s very tempting for any team who wants their client to achieve scale. On balance this may not be a bad thing, but there are trade-offs to manage to minimize centralization.

Maintaining decentralization and censorship resistance

In a world that has super clients, they would be centralizing forces. They may even start to break from the protocol to build features they feel are necessary or give them a competitive advantage. This would have the side effect of decreasing interoperability and therefore decentralization.

To maintain the heart of Nostr, censorship resistance and freedom, while still offering an experience that can handle the needs of normies, it’s important to keep pressuring centralizing players to at least maintain perfect interoperability.

Users on super-clients should always be able to opt-out of aspects of the all-in-one solutions offered by these super-clients. If someone joins a super-client and wants to swap out the wallet, or the provider of content moderation, they need to be able to do that.

Users on super-clients should always be able to use other Nostr clients. If a user has their keys in a Primal nsecBunker they should be able to use that to log in to other clients and use them without difficulty.

Symbiosis with Normies

There is an exciting future equilibrium where everyone in the world is more free because of the work being done today on Nostr. A future that moves the needle for a good portion of humans requires us to find ways to onboard normies.

Normies bring more usage, and the possibility of more monetization. Through monetization we can attract more development and fund even more ambitious projects. Can’t wait to see it. 🙂

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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Have you ever thought you remembered something exactly, only to realize you never did? You may be a victim of the Mandela effect.

Our brain processes and stores a large amount of information daily, even when we sleep. It is a complex organ that has evolved over our history, even increasing in physical size to allow us to understand complex concepts such as coding, genetics, or aeronautics.

There are numerous studies that investigate the capabilities that this organ has and could have, but experts agree that, even today, the brain is a great mystery. And one of the most intriguing cognitive aspects is the functioning of memory, the process that allows us to retain the knowledge and experiences we receive from our environment and retrieve them in the short or long term, voluntarily or involuntarily.

What is the "Mandela Effect" ?

The Mandela effect is, in simple terms, a collective false memory.

It is a mistaken belief in the form of a vivid memory that is shared by a large group of people, despite the fact that it never actually happened or did not happen in the way it is remembered.

This discrepancy between reality and memory is a mind phenomenon that occurs because short-term memories are modified by our brain, which completes and subjectively personalizes the information we perceive.

This is how we end up storing data in our brain that contains some errors and that will lead to memory lapses, a very common occurrence. However, a curious phenomenon occurs when these individual brain failures occur simultaneously in several people with specific cases.

Why does this happen ?

The truth is that it has not been possible to stipulate a concrete cause for this phenomenon from the point of view of brain mechanisms, with each expert proposing a plausible explanation applied to their field.

From a psychological point of view, it is argued that, due to the fact that memory is highly suggestible, some false memories may have already reached the mind modified, and may even have been implanted externally unconsciously, taking into account that we are in constant communication with other individuals.

Quantum physics, on the other hand, proposes that sporadic connections between parallel realities occur, thus explaining why several unrelated people can share the same false memory.

5 Famous examples of the "Mandela Effect"

The best way to understand a theory is to use an example. Fortunately or unfortunately, there are countless examples of the Mandela effect that are shared by a large part of the population. Some of them are explained below:

• The Monopoly man does not wear a monocle, although most people remember him as such from the image on the game box.
• Darth Vader never said the phrase "Luke, I am your father" that became part of popular culture. The actual phrase in The Empire Strikes Back is "No, I am your father."
• The man who stood in front of the tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests (China, 1989), whose photograph made the rounds of the world, was not run over by the tank, but managed to stop it. However, many people claim to remember his murder.
• Geographical location can also produce the Mandela effect: New Zealand is located below, to the right, of Australia, and not on top, as is often thought.

The Reason for Its Famous Name

What do a South African activist and this memory phenomenon have in common?

In 2013, when the international announcement of Nelson Mandela's death due to a severe lung infection was made, thousands of people around the world revealed that they were convinced that Mandela had died during his time in prison in the 1980s.

Fiona Broome, an American blogger, was the first to comment and inquire about this event, even years before his death. In 2009, she coined the term "the Mandela effect" in a popular blog post in which she first commented on the popular belief that the activist had died, when in fact he was still alive.

These observations aroused much curiosity, and since then, Broome has begun to collaborate with scientists who have provided different theories and perspectives (this and that, for example) on the cause of this effect on collective memory.

Through this investigation, they discovered that the Mandela effect occurred with many other facts, events, and situations, transforming it from an isolated case into a recognized phenomenon.

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Translated from: National Geografic Portugal - O efeito Mandela, um fenómeno de memória intrigante

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Chef's notes

Intermediate baking skills needed or not... Be sure to use a mixer to mix ingredients together. Dough gets pretty sticky, be sure to use flour for dusting

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: ~ 2 Hours 30 Mins
• 🍳 Cook time: ~ 30 Mins
• 🍽️ Servings: 16

Ingredients

• 1 Packet of Yeast
• 1/4 cup Warm Water
• 1/2 cup Milk (whole/skim/half/evaporated)
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 stick (1/4cup) Butter
• 1/3 cup Sugar
• 1 tsp Salt
• 3 1/2 - 4 cups - All Purpose Flour
• Oil for Frying (Olive/Avacado/Vegetable/Ghee)

Directions

1. Mix 1 Packet of Yeast & 1/4 cup Warm Water in a small bowl,
2. Cover & let sit for 5-10 mins
3. Use a Hook attachment & Mixer for best results,
4. In mixing bowl, add 1/2 cup Milk, 2 eggs, 1/2 stick Butter, 1/3 cup Sugar, 1 tsp Salt, & 3 1/2 - 4 cups All Purpose Flour.
5. Mix for 10 - 20 mins , dough should not stick to the side of the bowl, but stick a little at the bottom.
6. Cover, & let it double in size for 45 mins - 1 hour .
7. Dust rolling area with flour & roll out the dough to 1/2inch thickness
8. Lay out parchment paper on a surface to put donut shapes on,
9. Cut out donut shapes as desired, (If there is more dough, roll out again & repeat)
10. Cover donut shapes & let rest for 1 hour.
11. Medium Low; Heat up oil to fry donuts!
12. Enjoy!

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A actividade económica está a mostrar sinais de fraqueza, possivelmente estamos com uma recessão à vista, os investidores procuram refúgio nas activos mais seguros.

Hoje o ouro atingiu a sua máxima histórica em relação ao dólar.

Observando o gráfico é notório que o Ouro superou ou esteve muito perto dos 2000$, por 5 ocasiões. - Setembro de 2011 – 1920$ - Agosto de 2020 – 2075$ - Março de 2022 – 2070$ - Março de 2023 – 2009$ - Dezembro de 2023 – 2146$

Com a iminência de uma recessão, o ouro possivelmente irá manter-se acima dos 2000$, mas será realmente o seu máximo histórico?

Em dólares será, mas em poder de compra não será. Hoje tem praticamente o mesmo valor de há 12 anos, mas o dólar perdeu imenso poder de compra neste período.

Só neste século o dólar perdeu mais de 40% do seu poder de compra e desde 2011 perdeu 25%. Estes dados são baseados na CPI, apesar de eu não acreditar nos valores oficiais, eu vou utilizá-los nesta análise.

Agora aos dados do ouro adicionamos a desvalorização do dólar:

Isto demonstra, que neste século, a alta histórica aconteceu em Setembro de 2011 e ao preço de hoje, o ouro perdeu 18% de poder de compra em relação a 2011.

Índice BTCsdr

O #Bitcoin começou a ter um volume de mercado interessante por volta de 2011 e nesse mesmo ano o ouro atingiu o seu máximo histórico (como vimos em cima) e como o bitcoin é o ouro digital, vamos utilizar esses valores como referência. Assim um "bom" preço para o Bitcoin será o preço do ouro.

Em setembro de 2011, o market cap do ouro atingiu por volta dos 11 Triliões de dólares, mas para facilitar nas contas, vou fazer um pequeno ajuste, vou utilizar os 10.5 Triliões de dólares como referência para este índice.

Assim, quando o Índice BTCsdr atinguir o 1, BTC valerá 500.000 dólares com o poder de compra de 2011 e o marketcap do BTC quase atingirá o marketcap do ouro de 2011. E quando atinguir 2, será $1milhão por BTC.

Como o Bitcoin é uma commodity global, para calcular a desvalorização, eu utilizei as moedas e percentagens dos SDR do FMI e seus respetivos CPIs.

Resultado:

Para mim, entre 1 e 2 é uma boa referência para o BTC, este índice é apenas uma referência para acompanhar a evolução do poder de compra do #Bitcoin.

Este texto é derivado de um outro, que eu escrevi em abril mas não tinha sido públicado no #nostr, assim decidi fazer uma actualização e publicar aqui.

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You're happily talking with your partner, then notice out of the corner of your eye that they left their dirty socks on the floor — again. You feel a surge of anger, any good feelings immediately fading away. All you can see are the socks, and all you can now think about are all of the other times they let you down. You snap at them, "Why can't you ever do what you promise you'll do?!"

In this moment, your entire experience has been colored by the intense emotion that you're feeling. This is called the refractory state, a term coined by UC San Francisco psychologist Paul Ekman.

When you're in the refractory state, you are temporarily unable to look for or internalize any new information that doesn't 'fit' with the emotion you're feeling. All you can focus on is the source of your anger, or look for more reasons to be angry, or think about why your anger is justified.

The refractory state can last for a second or two, or last for many minutes. It all depends on our past history, our overall well-being, our choices in the moment, and how the other people involved behave.

Here's a tip that can change your life.

Make it a rule for yourself: I will never make a decision in the middle of an emotional wave. Instead, I will wait it out, take some space, and care for myself until it passes — then, and only then, I will choose how I want to respond.

Once the emotion has passed, you'll be far more able to tap into your wisdom and connect to your compassion.

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Translated from: O que significa ser maximalista do Bitcoin ? Carol - Area Bitcoin - Kaká Furlan

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A Bitcoin maximalist is someone who blindly believes that Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency worth owning. These people see Bitcoin not only as a digital currency, but also as a revolutionary technology, a great way to store value, and an alternative to the failed fiat system.

Some maximalists go further and completely disregard the value or potential of altcoins, seeing them as unnecessary distractions or even harmful to the progress of Bitcoin. Because of this extreme stance, many are labeled as toxic.

But, why does this happen?

In this article, you will understand the origins of maximalism and why some people consider themselves Bitcoin maximalists.

What is maximalism and how did it emerge?

The term "maximalist" is used to refer to Bitcoin enthusiasts who do not own, support, or even debunk scams and cryptocurrency projects. They share principles that support Bitcoin as the only truly decentralized project, considering that other cryptocurrencies are likely to depreciate against it.

This may seem strange and too closed-minded, but when you understand the importance of Bitcoin's organic decentralization as a unique event, the discovery of absolute monetary scarcity, digital immutability, and the separation of money from state control, any other fiat or cryptocurrency asset seems insignificant in comparison.

However, few people really understand the meaning of this, and most prefer to attack maximalists instead of trying to understand their viewpoints. This results in the naive assumption that more complexity is better for cryptocurrencies, which, in fact, entails more centralization and vulnerabilities.

These are the biggest risks associated with cryptocurrencies.

Bitcoiners vs. Multicoiners

The term "maximalism" was already being used in debate forums since the early days of Bitcoin, but it became popularized in 2014 when Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, used the term in an article to criticize the premises of maximalists.

This article marked the consolidation of the term "maximalist" and intensified the tribalism between Bitcoiners and multicoiners. However, here comes a very interesting behavior. Many Bitcoiners see the use of insults as a badge of honor or a symbol of counterculture to neutralize any type of narrative attack, and with the term maximalist it was no different.

Several Bitcoiners embrace maximalism with pride, interpreting it as follows: - "If being a maximalist means I don't support scams, then I'm a maximalist"; - "If being a maximalist is being against the degenerate culture of entering pump n' dump, in a collective scam to take money from newbies, then I'm a maximalist"; - "If altcoins create lies and attack Bitcoin to displace liquidity and attention, then I'm a maximalist".

And that's how the term maximalist went from insult to a symbol of intellectual honesty.

Although many Bitcoiners do not embrace this label, considering it pejorative, it has become a concise way to summarize the different market views and the maturation of users over time.

Bitcoin attacks

As cryptocurrencies gained visibility and market capitalization, attacks on Bitcoin began to emerge, claiming that it is outdated, slow, and consumes a lot of energy. However, these arguments are biased, aiming to promote other cryptocurrencies at the expense of Bitcoin, even if they do not have half of its properties.

Toxic maximalism

As the attacks on Bitcoin increased, Bitcoiners also became more emphatic and, at times, rude in their responses. This dynamic led to the emergence of a derivative known as "Toxic maximalism," when some Bitcoiners began to expose the fraud, inconsistencies, and lies of other cryptocurrencies in an intense way. This, in turn, led altcoiners to attack Bitcoiners, creating the "anti-maximalist" movement.

Even journalists, including one from the New York Times, wrote to "ignore maximalists, arguing that Bitcoin cannot be separated from other cryptocurrencies."

She couldn't be more wrong.

Differences between Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin is completely different from other cryptocurrencies because: - it does not have a known creator; - it does not have pre-mining; - it does not have a CEO; - it does not have constant hard forks; - it does not have a centralized foundation that concentrates decision-making power; - it does not depend on data centers; - and it did not have venture capital injecting money for insiders like a startup.

Bitcoin has nothing in common with other cryptocurrencies because it is a protocol, while they are companies.

In an attempt to highlight these differences, maximalists began to create their own culture of memes, including laser eyes in profile pictures and sharing screenshots with undeniable evidence of fraud in cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies.

Even the maximalist culture is copied!

Just as Bitcoin is open source and many projects have copied the code to create their own coins, the culture of Bitcoiners has also been copied in a shameless way.

Maximalists from other projects have emerged, copying terms such as "ultra sound money," stealing the idea of "sound money" from Bitcoin, which is known as digital gold; the "triple halving," falsely claiming that the Ethereum merge would have an effect equivalent to three Bitcoin halvings (which did not happen).

All of this is affinity fraud, a mix of terms to falsify fundamentals and deceive those who are just arriving.

When you expose the fraud, those who benefited from it get angry, as it ends the affinity fraud that was being applied or they don't want to believe that they fell for the talk of a promising "shitcoin."

Vitalik Exalts Maximalism?

Eight years after his first article, in 2022, Vitalik Buterin wrote another article, no longer attacking maximalism, but exalting it.

This time, giving in to defend Bitcoin maximalism as a defensive cultural tool. In addition, he criticized the crypto culture that the blockchain industry brought, which focuses on seeking quick profits at any cost, either through pre-mining or by distributing these tokens to developers and insiders. In contrast, Bitcoin took the opposite approach, focusing on establishing sound principles.

In the same article, he shared an image (below) that demonstrates how Bitcoin did not have any type of allocation for insiders, while all other projects did, which weakens protocols and makes them centralized.

Vitalik considered Bitcoiner values – sovereignty, privacy, and decentralization – as a defense against narrative attacks. Additionally, he added that it is better to be courageous and fight for your values, even if it may seem aggressive (or toxic) to some, than to try to please everyone and not achieve anything concrete.

Is maximalism a cult?

It is due to the firm stance and no exceptions for other cryptocurrencies that people began to call maximalism a cult, a worship of the Bitcoin divinity. This has become a form of bullying, with people claiming: "If they don't like my coin, they're the fanatics, I'm not the one exposing myself to liquidity for VCs and founders."

And this dynamic is always the same, even in pyramids. Even after people realize they have been scammed, they still hold out hope that it is real, that they will get their money back, and that the project will deliver on what it promised.

The same thing happens with many "promising" cryptocurrencies. People don't want to admit that they've been scammed, and instead of investigating where they invested their money, they outsource the blame and point the finger at Bitcoiners, who have nothing to do with it and, in fact, warned about the problem.

Many end up defending scams and attacking the messenger, labeling them as extremists, toxic, or even stupid for not being "diversifying."

At this point, most people make a mistake and mix everything up. Fiat strategies don't work with cryptocurrencies, and diversifying with cryptos increases the risk of the portfolio, being totally the opposite of the diversification principle that would normally serve to protect the assets.

In the end, all generalization is wrong. Labeling all maximalists based on the rude comment of one person is unfair and unethical. This prevents the opportunity to better understand and reflect on what market thesis you have embraced and whether you have been fooled by the herd effect.

Most maximalists I know want to help others not lose money with scams and to more easily perceive what is a valid signal and what is just noise in the market.

Bitcoin is not maximalism

In addition, there is no ideological restriction to be a Bitcoiner, and there is no specific code of conduct; Bitcoiners are completely different from each other.

In fact, maximalism is a mixture of various points of view, and generalizing based on the speech or tweet of one person is stretching the truth to create stereotypes.

Unfortunately, most people only become maximalists after learning the hard way: losing money with cryptocurrencies.

Most maximalists were not close-minded as many claim. They were “shitcoiners” in past cycles who learned their lesson. That is why, if you are not a maximalist today, it is possible that you will become one in the future, when you finally understand all of this.

But, is maximalism a good thing?

Maximalism is neither good nor bad; it was born as a response to attacks on Bitcoin. It is not extremist in the pejorative sense, as some maximalists of inferior cryptocurrencies try to make it seem.

In fact, it is a mindset that develops after following the market for a long time and understanding that everything that is not Bitcoin is centralized and is equivalent to fiat currency.

If something claims to be decentralized and is not, then it is a fraud.

Those who criticize maximalists are distracting from the assets to complain about people and create a division of “us versus them,” as if defending fraud were to be on the right side of history.

This is why maximalism is becoming more common.

The differences are becoming increasingly clear, and a growing number of altcoiners have become “bitcoin only” from 2021 to now. This is, in fact, what separates childhood from adolescence in this market.

No matter how hard they try to tarnish the image of Bitcoiners, whether maximalists or not, they have been right so far, because they are based on principles and not on illusions.

In addition, it is likely that maximalism will become the standard in the future, just as everyone uses the internet today.

Hugs and opt out.

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※Nostrのマイクロブログへの共有時のリンクのテストのための投稿第２弾です。
先ほどは本文にAタグを直接記載していたので、今回はHablaのリンク挿入機能を使います。

とうふです。
呪術廻戦第２期渋谷事変編の第14話(通しで第43話)の『理非-弐-』を見ました。
やばいっす。
これ、面白いっす。
面白すぎるっす。
真人は強いぞ、手ごわいぞ！
分身さえも強いぞ！
そんな真人の分身に善戦していた釘崎ちゃんだったけど、本体の真人に殺されちゃった？
目の前で倒れた釘崎ちゃんを見た虎杖はどうする？
次回も楽しみ。
それにしても、、、渋谷事変編終わったとき、誰が生き残っているのやら、、、

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Chef's notes

Bitcoin Only Pleb’s #weedbrownies recipe:

Need about a half ounce to an ounce of Vaped weed OR decarbed weed to start. (Look up online how to decarb if you don’t have vaped weed)

Dump that out into a stainless steel sauce pan large enough to hold everything..(stainless or cast iron will do, no non-stick bc you’ll be simmering for a long time and PUFAs are no joke)

Find out how much the brownie box calls for in oil and then add slightly more of that to the pan with the weed. You’ll want to use oil with a high smoke point, I prefer avocado oil (example: If the recipe calls for 1/2 cup of oil, add a little under 2/3 of a cup to the pan with the weed as you will lose some in the next steps)

Cook weed/oil mixture on simmer (very very low heat) for 2-3 hours, let it cool down to room temp when done.

Take a coffee filter and fix it around a drinking glass (might need someone to help you with this next step), pour the weed/oil mix through the coffee filter and let it drip through. This step can get messy, if you’re impatient like me, twist the open mouth of the filter closed and squeeze everything out carefully. Or if you have time let it drip through.

Take that oil and use it as instructed in the brownie mix.

Pop those bad boys in the oven and enjoy when cool. Remember to never “guess” your edible intake. Better to start small.

Love y’all🧡💜

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 3 hours
• 🍳 Cook time: 30 min
• 🍽️ Servings: 10

Ingredients

• Follow brownie mix ingredients on box after making infused oil

Directions

1. Bitcoin Only Pleb’s #weedbrownies recipe: Need about a half ounce to an ounce of Vaped weed OR decarbed weed to start. (Look up online how to decarb if you don’t have vaped weed) Dump that out into a stainless steel sauce pan large enough to hold everything..(stainless or cast iron will do, no non-stick bc you’ll be simmering for a long time and PUFAs are no joke) Find out how much the brownie box calls for in oil and then add slightly more of that to the pan with the weed. You’ll want to use oil with a high smoke point, I prefer avocado oil (example: If the recipe calls for 1/2 cup of oil, add a little under 2/3 of a cup to the pan with the weed as you will lose some in the next steps) Cook weed/oil mixture on simmer (very very low heat) for 2-3 hours, let it cool down to room temp when done. Take a coffee filter and fix it around a drinking glass (might need someone to help you with this next step), pour the weed/oil mix through the coffee filter and let it drip through. This step can get messy, if you’re impatient like me, twist the open mouth of the filter closed and squeeze everything out carefully. Or if you have time let it drip through. Take that oil and use it as instructed in the brownie mix. Pop those bad boys in the oven and enjoy when cool. Remember to never “guess” your edible intake. Better to start small. Love y’all🧡💜

@ a012dc82:6458a70d

Table Of Content

• Bitcoin's Journey: From Obscurity to Global Spotlight

• Blockchain: The Backbone of Bitcoin's Success

• The Paradox of Bitcoin's Ascendancy

• The Intricacies of Secure Bitcoin Storage

• The Final Word: Entrusting the Right Guardian

• Conclusion

• FAQ

In the digital age, where innovation is often synonymous with intangibility, Bitcoin stands as a testament to the power of decentralized finance. Born from the vision of a cashless society and the promise of financial autonomy, Bitcoin has rapidly transitioned from a theoretical concept to a tangible asset with profound global implications. However, as with any valuable asset, the question of its safekeeping becomes paramount. As Bitcoin's value skyrockets and its adoption spreads, the challenges associated with securely storing it come to the forefront. This article delves into Bitcoin's journey, the technology underpinning its success, the challenges of its storage, and the importance of entrusting its safety to the right hands. Join us as we crack the code of trust in the world of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin's Journey: From Obscurity to Global Spotlight

Bitcoin has charted an unparalleled trajectory, moving from being a fringe digital experiment to a global financial powerhouse. Its allure isn't just in its monetary value, but in the revolutionary potential it brings to the world of finance. While the market's inherent volatility can be jarring, especially during significant industry events, it's essential to recognize that such fluctuations are typical for pioneering technologies. The dot-com bubble's burst is a testament to this: groundbreaking technologies, despite initial hiccups, have historically showcased enduring value and resilience.

Blockchain: The Backbone of Bitcoin's Success

Bitcoin's rise isn't merely a result of market speculation. At its core, the underlying benefits of blockchain technology have been instrumental. Blockchain's decentralized ledger system offers transparency and security, driving an undeniable upward trend in Bitcoin's value and establishing a foundation for its long-term viability. As Bitcoin's value and global interest surge, the emphasis on its safekeeping becomes increasingly paramount.

The Paradox of Bitcoin's Ascendancy

As Bitcoin continues its meteoric rise, capturing the imagination and investment of people worldwide, its very success presents a paradox. This digital currency, once a niche concept known only to a select few, now finds itself in the global spotlight, and with this heightened attention comes a slew of challenges. The popularity and widespread adoption of Bitcoin have inadvertently made it a prime target for cyber threats and potential malfeasance. As more individuals and institutions flock to the Bitcoin ecosystem, the complexities of ensuring its safety become increasingly intricate. While there are numerous challenges that the Bitcoin community must grapple with, the issue of secure storage stands out. It's not just about protecting one's investment; it's about safeguarding the very integrity and trust that Bitcoin has built over the years. The question then arises: in an age where digital assets are becoming as valuable as physical ones, how do we ensure that Bitcoin remains both accessible and secure?

The Intricacies of Secure Bitcoin Storage

Many individuals are drawn to the Bitcoin realm with trading aspirations, aiming for significant returns. This trend is especially pronounced in developed economies. However, in emerging markets, the allure of a decentralized store of value is tangible. As a result, exchanges have become the primary gateway for many to enter the Bitcoin world. While these platforms are equipped with various security measures and are designed for trading, they often house vast amounts of Bitcoin. The challenge? These platforms, despite their security measures, aren't inherently designed for the long-term, secure storage of Bitcoin. A cursory online search about "Bitcoin exchange hacks" reveals numerous incidents, highlighting the risks of relying solely on exchanges for safeguarding one's Bitcoin assets.

The Final Word: Entrusting the Right Guardian

The essence of the Bitcoin storage dilemma revolves around trust. As the ecosystem continues to evolve, both individuals and institutions must critically assess where and how they store their Bitcoin. The goal is to find a balance between trading accessibility and the security required for long-term holding. In this dynamic landscape, understanding the intricacies of Bitcoin storage and placing trust in the right guardians will be pivotal in ensuring the safety and appreciation of one's Bitcoin investments.

Conclusion

As we stand on the cusp of a financial revolution, Bitcoin's prominence in the global financial landscape is undeniable. Its meteoric rise, underpinned by the robustness of blockchain technology, has reshaped our understanding of value, trust, and decentralization. However, with great value comes the pressing responsibility of protection. The challenges of securely storing Bitcoin are not mere technical hurdles but pivotal concerns that will define its future adoption and integration. As enthusiasts, investors, and guardians of this digital gold, our collective responsibility is to ensure its safekeeping. By understanding the nuances of storage, being vigilant of potential risks, and placing our trust in reliable custodians, we can ensure that Bitcoin's promise is not just preserved but flourishes in the years to come. The journey of Bitcoin is as much about innovation as it is about trust, and as we move forward, it's this trust that will shape its legacy.

FAQ

Why is secure storage important for Bitcoin? Given its high value and digital nature, Bitcoin is a target for cyber theft. Secure storage ensures the safety of one's assets against hacks and unauthorized access.

Are exchanges safe for storing Bitcoin? While exchanges have security measures, they are primarily designed for trading. For long-term storage, dedicated Bitcoin wallets or cold storage solutions are recommended.

What is blockchain in relation to Bitcoin? Blockchain is the underlying technology of Bitcoin. It's a decentralized ledger system that records all Bitcoin transactions in a transparent and secure manner.

How can I ensure the safety of my Bitcoin investments? By understanding storage nuances, using secure wallets, regularly updating security protocols, and staying informed about potential risks.

That's all for today, see ya tomorrow

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※Nostrのマイクロブログへの共有時のリンクのテストのための投稿です。

とうふです。
アニメ「薬屋のひとりごと」の第9話『自殺か他殺か』をAmazon Prime Videoで見ました。
亡くなった老官僚についてのお話。
殺す気はなかったけどちょっとした嫌がらせが死に至ってしまった。
ところで、猫猫はお酒が大好きなのか！
次回も楽しみ。

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しーゆー。

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It's been a thrilling month since Botev Plovdiv boldly stepped into the future of finance by embracing Bitcoin and Nostr. Our journey, which began on October 31, has seen big milestones, and it's time to celebrate these.

1. Embracing the Future: Bitcoin & Nostr

Our announcement about adopting Bitcoin and Nostr was a statement of our commitment to stay true to Botev’s history of leadership and pioneering. This move not only positioned us as a forward-thinking club but also opened new avenues for interactions between fans, players, and sponsors.. Shortly after the announcement Botev played one of its strongest matches this season in the derby against Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

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2. The Bitcoin Brand:Shining On Our Jerseys

A week after the announcement, we placed the Bitcoin '₿' on our jerseys for all games.

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On the first game with the ₿ brand, our attacker Antoine Baroan stormed Levski to score Botev’s first goal with a ₿-branded jersey. This move was immediately welcomed by Bitcoiners and Nostriches across the web.

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3. A Special Offer: 10% Discount on Bitcoin Purchases

To encourage our fans to engage with Bitcoin, Botev offered a 10% discount on all purchases made with bitcoin in our fan shops and on the stadium. And who doesn’t love discounts? Our fans do as well, which is why we decided to extend this offer throughout December.

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4. Bitcoin ATM at the Fan Shop

In order to make Bitcoin tangible and to make the 10% discount available even to Bitcoin newbies, the club partnered with CryptoDesk.bg which installed a Bitcoin ATM at our downtown fan shop. This new feature simplifies Bitcoin transactions for our fans, catering to both seasoned enthusiasts and newcomers embarking on their Bitcoin journey.

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5. Bridging Communities: Monthly Bitcoin Meetups

Even before the Botev FC’s first official Bitcoin announcement the club initiated regular monthly Bitcoin meetups, creating a platform where Botev fans and Bitcoin enthusiasts could mingle, exchange ideas, and strengthen our community bonds. It has been inspiring to have an average of 40 people coming to every meetup. Are you visiting Plovdiv? When you do, join us at club Fargo every first Tuesday of the month from 19:30.

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6. Bitcoin Journalist Joe Nakamoto Visited Botev

Adding to the excitement, we had the pleasure of hosting Joe Nakamoto, who is soon releasing a mini-documentary about Botev Plovdiv.

“The most historic team in Bulgaria adopting this new ‘magic’ internet currency that very few people understand, and I wanted to be a part of it.”

His visit underlines the growing interest in our club's tech-savvy steps and the potential impact on the world of football and finance.

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During his visit, Joe joined our Bitcoin meetup, featuring an insightful talk by Zhoro Nikolov on the synergy between Botev and Bitcoin. He also witnessed the Canaries' thrilling 3:1 victory over Pirin.

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7. First Podcast Appearance: Business Bitcoinization

George Manolov, our Bitcoin Director, recently took the stage at the Business Bitcoinization podcast about Botev FC's strategic Bitcoin adoption. He outlined the reasons, vision, and plans, highlighting this as a step towards global recognition and elevating Botev FC to the international level it deserves to play at..

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A Wave of International Recognition and Support

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Looking Ahead

As we celebrate this one-month milestone, we look forward to continuing this journey of improving team performance and integrating Bitcoin into our club's fabric. We're committed to being at the forefront of innovation, and we can't wait to share this exciting future with our fans. Join us in this journey, both on and off the field!

Follow us on Nostr and your favorite social media platforms. See the full list of our social media accounts and subscribe to our newsletter by visiting our website here.

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Summary

A user lost 180,000 sats due to a series of unfortunate events involving nostr clients, user error, lack of validation checks, lack of key rotation or mitigation approaches.

What happened

On Saturday 2023 December 2, a user had their profile set to a zeuspay address. Zeuspay addresses are not readily zappable as the receiver needs to acknowledge each zap sent to them. A request was made that they change their lightning address.

The user chose to change to the getalby address that they had previously setup. After entering an older incorrect value, they went to update their profile, but then managed to accidentally post their LND Wallet connection string instead.

A fellow nostrich realized their mistake and informed them. The user began setting up a stacker.news account, while helper connected via bluewallet using the connection string and moved funds out. Helper noted to user that the alby account can't create a separate wallet per account or rotate to new wallet and in order to continue using getalby, they would need to establish an entirely new alby account with a different email. The funds were sent from helper to user's new stacker.news account.

After this, the user linked their stacker.news account with the alby account having the compromised wallet. The user moved some funds to a different account. Later, after going to sleep, the user found remaining funds were pulled from their stacker.news account. It's believed that Zeus wallet or Bluewallet was used with the wallet connection information to LNURL-Auth login to stacker.news

User believes their NSEC was compromised as well and has setup new Nostr account, marked old as compromised and establishing new wallets for zaps.

Realizations

Not only do Nostr keys have no key rotation, LNURL-Auth suffers from this as well. While implementation approaches can be done, we need to get more work in this area to establish common, consistent patterns for how to rotate to new keys, wallets, etc.

In the case of a lightning wallet being compromised its quite severe as different services have no way to know the wallet is compromised as there is by design no central server to query against.

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Recomendations

Users

• Take extra caution when setting up wallet connect information and lightning address in your preferred clients.

• Make note of where your lightning address and wallet connection information is being used. E.g., track in a password manager.

• Be prepared to immediately take steps to update if ever compromised.

• Where possible, use a dedicated lightning wallet (without funds) for LNURL Auth logins, separate from your extensions for logging in and signing events for Nostr.

General Nostr Clients

• Where user profiles can be edited, add appropriate validation checks on the LUD06 and LUD16 fields. There are plenty of profiles with junk data that dont make sense.

• LUD06 should be deprecated, but should be a LNURL string if provided.

• LUD16 should be preferred, and only allow for values in username@domain format. Here's a sample regex:

[a-z0-9-_]*@(([a-zA-Z]{1})|([a-zA-Z]{1}[a-zA-Z]{1})|([a-zA-Z]{1}[0-9]{1})|([0-9]{1}[a-zA-Z]{1})|([a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9-_]{1,61}[a-zA-Z0-9]))\.([a-zA-Z]{2,6}|[a-zA-Z0-9-]{2,30}\.[a-zA-Z]{2,3})

LNDHub, LNBits, Accounts type systems

• Add support for rotating from a compromised wallet account to a new one.
• Users and Admins should be able to mark a wallet as compromised.
• No spends should be able to performed from the account.
• Received funds should instead be diverted to replacement wallet.
• Can continue allowing LNURL-Auth to function
• Enhance API calls to ascertain if a wallet is marked as compromised

Blue Wallet, Zeus, any using LNDHub like accounts

• Add support for any new API calls that can indicate a wallet as compromised
• Recommend separation of wallets used for receiving value vs for LNURL-Auth

Alby Recommendations

• Where Wallet Connection warning is, make it more prominent. Use bold red colors. Inform the user that this gives full access to the wallet and is non-revocable.

• Add support for multiple wallets on an alby account. Preferably one per subaccount.

• See notes for LNDHub about handling compromised wallets.

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Vor dem Vorwort eine Erklärung

„Die Verdinglichung, kraft deren die einzig durch die Passivität der Massen ermöglichte Machtstruktur diesen selbst als eiserne Wirklichkeit entgegentritt, ist so dicht geworden, daß jede Spontanität, ja die bloße Vorstellung vom wahren Sachverhalt notwendig zur verstiegenen Utopie, zum abwegigen Sektierertum geworden ist. Der Schein hat sich so konzentriert, daß ihn zu durchschauen objektiv den Charakter der Halluzination gewinnt.“ [@DdA_2013 Seite 214]

Wir unternehmen hier den Versuch eines abwegigen Sektierertum, wir skizzieren eine politische Kraft, in Form einer Partei, mit dem Kindeswohle im Mittelpunkt. Wir versuchen uns den wahren Sachverhalt klar zu machen: Wir sind auf einem sinkenden Schiff, seit jeh her war hier die Formel "Kinder und Frauen zuerst". Unser Raumschiff Erde ^[Bedienungsanleitung für das Raumschiff Erde, Buckmister Fuller] ist in einem schlechten Zustand. ^[Diese Bild ist nicht so weit hergeholt wie es im ersten Moment scheint, diese Welt ist voller Wasser und die Kontinente sind Inseln, oder Schiffe in diesen Ozeanen, und diese Schiffe sinken.] Die Skizze umfasst einen theoretischen Teil, der sich mit der Begründung für eine solche "das Kindeswohl in den Mittelpunkt der politischen Aufmerksamkeit Stellenden" Politische Position und den sich daraus ergebenden Konsequenzen befasst.
Wir entwickeln die Metaphysik einer verstiegenen Utopie ^[Wir werden später sehen das uns die Utopie nicht zugänglich ist und warum wir auf sie verzichten müssen.]. Beispielhaft entwickeln wir ein Programm das den Charakter einer "das Kindeswohl in den Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit Stellenden Politik" Anhand konkreter legeslativen Änderungen deutlich macht. Am Ende des Buches ist ein konkreter Bastelabschnitt in dem die notwendigen formalen Strukturen beschrieben sind, um eine solche Partei in Deutschland zu gründen. Weil wir uns abwegig bewegen werden sich viele einfache Vorstellungen im ersten Moment fremd anfühlen, abwegig und verstiegen, hier hilft nur das Üben. Im Kapitel "digging deeper" gehen wir diesen Vorstellungen nach, in einem mehr Praktischen Teil, den FAQ und den Erörterungen zur Begründung, der "Kaderschule". Begründung sind wichtig und dürfen nicht vernachlässigt werden, nur in der Erörterung und der Schriftlichen Begründung öffnet sich das Kritische Denken.^[vgl. Kant ...]
Was sind "wahre Sachverhalte"? Die Antwort darauf kann nicht sein, es gibt keine. Poppers Beispiel ist einfach, ^[K Popper] die Negation eines Falschen Satzes ist ein wahrer Satz. Bescheiden können wir sagen, es gibt wahre Sätze, aber wir können die wahren nicht von den falschen unterscheiden ^[vgl. diggingdeeper/Kaderschule/Denken ist Glücksache]. Die Frage nach den wahren Sätzen ist eine Frage nach der Wirklichkeit.
Eine schöne Frage: Was ist wirklich?
Gibt es Staaten und Betriebe, wie Deutschland und Volkswagen? Oder gibt es nicht vielmehr, oder sagen wir weniger, nur Menschen und Dinge, wie Häuser Produktionsanlagen und dergleichen. Wenn wir uns die einfache Wirklichkeit Vorstellen, d.h. die Erde wie sie um die Sonne Kreist, die Menschen/Wesen und der Stoff aus dem wir alle gemacht sind, dann existieren diese Dinge wie Staaten, Betriebe u.ä. nicht, sie existieren nur dadurch das Menschen sie praktizieren. Wir Menschen produzieren diese "eiserne Wirklichkeit" die uns da "entgegentritt".
Genau deswegen ist sie eine zweite Wirklichkeit, keine erste. Eine von Menschen produzierte und wie alle Produkte menschlichen Handelns ist sie maßgeblich dadurch bestimmt was wir von der ersten Wirklichkeit, der wirklichen Wirklichkeit, glauben zu wissen.
So wissen wir das wir diese Dinge ändern können, das die Halluzination die Wirklichkeit konkreter schöner und wahrer beschreiben und formen kann -in ihrem Bilde.
Das Motto dieses abwegigen Sektieretums wird diese einfache Wirklichkeit sein, radikal trivial ihr Slogan.^[das Meme] Und Nichts weniger als "das retten der Welt" und "ewiger Frieden" das erklärte Ziel.

Kinder #Verantwortung #Zukunft

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Prolog

Die Partei ist ein Vehikel, den öffentlichen Diskurs auf das relevante Thema der Gesellschaft zu lenken. Das relevante Thema, das uns angeht, ist die Zukunft; denn dies ist der Raum, der durch die Gegenwart gestaltbar ist. Hier liegt der Unterschied zwischen Verwaltung und Politik: Verwaltet wird die Gegenwart, das Primat der Politik ist die Gestaltung der Zukunft. Das klarste Zeichen der Zukunft sind die Kinder. Es sind unsere Kinder und sie sind immer auch Kinder der Gesellschaft. In ihnen zeichnet sich Verantwortung am deutlichsten ab. Diese Verantwortlichkeit liegt bei uns, den mündigen Bürgern etwa als Eltern, Großeltern, Erziehern und auch Politikern.

Der Ausgangspunkt soll einfach sein, er soll bei der Frage liegen: Wie kann unsere Gesellschaft aufgebaut und strukturiert sein, sodass sie unseren Kindern eine gute Gesellschaft und Gemeinschaft bietet? Als gute Gesellschaft möge die Fähigkeit gelten, unsere Kinder zu wahreren, klügeren und besseren Menschen zu machen, als wir es sind. Es ist ein Freude anzuschauen. Ausgangspunkt jeden politischen Handelns wird so die Frage nach der Zweckhaftigkeit für unsere Kinder. Das ist ein radikaler Wandel der Perspektive.

Wir folgen im ersten Schritt Hans Jonas, Fürsorge für den Nachwuchs: "Hier ist der Archetyp alles verantwortlichen Handelns [...]" [@DPV_2003 Seite 85]. Jeder von uns war ein Säugling, dessen Bedürftigkeit angenommen und entsprochen, dessen Anspruch auf Leben angenommen und positiv beantwortet wurde. Selbst in den tragischen Schicksalen von Ausgrenzung und Verstoßung sind wir Zeichen dieser Verantwortung, die, wenn nicht von den konkreten Menschen ausgeübt, durch Institutionen angenommen wird. Hier ist eine einfache und klare Natur des Menschen erkennbar^[@camus2013mensch Seite 30] : „Verantwortung im ursprünglichsten und massivsten Sinn folgt aus der Urheberschaft des Seins, an der über die aktuellen Erzeuger hinaus alle beteiligt sind, die der Fortpflanzung durch Nichtwiderruf ihres Fiat im eigen Fall beipflichten, also alle, die sich selber das Leben erlauben“ [@DPV_2003 Seite 241]. Das sind wir: die erwachsenen und mündigen Bürger.

Mit dieser Verantwortung gegenüber unseren Kindern nehmen wir auch die Verantwortung für uns selbst wahr. Denn wir selbst sind das notwendige Hilfsmittel, durch das sich diese Verantwortung realisiert. Wir sind uns selbst gegenüber verantwortlich, weil wir unseren Kindern gegenüber verantwortlich sind und niemand sonst diese Verantwortung übernehmen könnte. Eine Politik, die sich an den Kindern ausrichtet, ist somit immer auch eine Politik, die sich an den Menschen ausrichtet.

So wenden wir uns wieder unserer eigentlichen Verantwortung den Menschen und zuvorderst den Kindern der Gesellschaft zu, unseren Kindern. Mit einer konsequenten Verfolgung der Kindesinteressen werden also ebenso die Interessen aller Mitglieder einer Gesellschaft vertreten und gleichzeitig eine zukunftsfähige und nachhaltige Politik betrieben.

In einer aufgeklärten Demokratie kommt der kritischen Öffentlichkeit eine spezifische Funktion zu: die der Selbstkontrolle. Diese Funktion kann nur mit und durch die Mündigen und ihren kritischen Einsatz des Verstandes erreicht werden. Auch dieser kritischen Öffentlichkeit muss unsere Sorge gelten. Und dies in zweierlei Hinsicht: Ist es nach Kant zum Einen die 'Feigheit und Faulheit' in uns, die unsere Mündigkeit zeitlebens bedroht, und damit auch die Öffentlichkeit, deren unentbehrlicher Teil jeder von uns ist, zum anderen in der Erziehung der noch nicht mündigen, der Kinder. Sie allein bilden nach uns diese kritische Öffentlichkeit. So weist das durch die Verantwortung gestiftete Sorge-System eine differenzierte Struktur auf. Es sind die Mündigen, deren Aufgabe und Pflicht es ist, den Unmündigen zur Mündigkeit zu verhelfen. Unserer aufgeklärte Gesellschaft, ihr ganzes demokratisches System hängt von der Fähigkeit ab, diese Mündigkeit zu bewahren. Im Strom der vergehenden Zeit bedeutet bewahren, dass die nächste Generation von Menschen mindestens so mündig ist wie wir. Die nächste Generation von Menschen ist die unserer Kinder. Das sind keine Fremden: Wir sind ihre Eltern und Großeltern, ihrer Verwandten und die Freunde dieser Menschen. Immer sind wir den Kindern gegenüber in der Pflicht, die sich aus dieser Verantwortung ableitet.

Es besteht ein generativer Vertrag, der sich zwischen Eltern und Kindern, aber im Besonderen auch zwischen Kindern und Großeltern entfaltet. Sie verbinden die Kinder mit dem Vergangenen und angereichertem Kulturellen, dem symbolischen Milieu. Erst in diesem generativen Gefüge ist es den Kindern möglich, eine konkrete Beziehung mit dem gesellschaftlichen, dem symbolischen Milieu, aufzunehmen und selbst in der Abfolge der Generationen diese Rollen ausüben zu können. Durch die Verbindung der Kinder mit den Alten schließt sich der Kreis der Generationen. Durch sie wird der Kreislauf des Werdens und Vergehens, der das Leben ist, erfahrbar. Es sind die langen Kreisläufe, die sich durch dieses intergeneratives Verhältnis erleben und erfahren lassen und nur die langen weiten Kreisläufe sind als Narration geeignet, den Sinn zu stiften. „Die noch lebende Elterngeneration vermittelt ihm [dem Kind] auf diese Weise die durch Generationen angehäufte Erfahrung, die es mit seinen verstorbenen Vorfahren in Verbindung setzt“.[@VAT_2008 Seite 21]

Eine auf den verantwortlichen Zweck bezogene Wirtschaft ist bedürfnisorientiert. Die Bedürfnisse ergeben sich aus unserer Art und Weise, wie wir auf diese Welt bezogen sind. Dies sind die objektiven Zwecke die Wirtschaft begründen können. Das Produzieren von Bedürfnissen, die Basis unsere absatzorientierten Wirtschaft hat keinen Zweck innerhalb dieser Verantwortung. In einer Welt, in der die materiellen Grundbedürfnisse übererfüllt werden, bauen wir Maschinen nicht, um mehr Güter herstellen zu können. Wir bauen Maschinen, um mehr Zeit zu haben. Zeit, die wir unseren Kindern widmen können, wie es unsere Verantwortung ist. Da diese Verantwortung ein originärer Teil unseres Daseins ist, ist hier auch Lust und in der Lust auch Befriedigung, echte Befriedigung, wie sie der Konsum nicht zu leisten vermag. „Mit der Tochter oder dem Enkel spielen bedeutet Lachen und sich mit ihnen <> - ihnen ein wenig von der eigene Zeit zu widmen, und zwar nicht nur für ihr Gehirn, sondern auch für die Entwicklung ihre minderjährigen Aufmerksamkeit ...“[@VAT_2008 Seite 30]

Die Norm wird heute nicht mehr von dem Menschen definiert. Sie ist ein vom Marketing gestiftetes Produkt. Entsprechend enthält sie keine andere Zweckhaftigkeit als die des Konsums. Das Marketing richtet sich speziell an die Kinder und Jugendlichen, um ihre Aufmerksamkeit zu binden. Es zerstört den Generationenvertrag, indem es die Jugendlichen zu Vorbildern für uns Erwachsene macht.

Krieg widerspricht dem Lebenszweck und leugnet unsere Verantwortung gegenüber dem Leben. Wir müssen aufhören mit Krieg und demnach mit der Produktion von Kriegsgerät. Auch hier wird so viel Lebenszeit investiert, die unwiederbringlich verloren geht. Die Zeit, die diese Erwachsenen nicht mit den Kindern verbringen, ist verloren, für die Kinder und auch für die Erwachsenen. Sie ist verloren für uns alle. Es ist die verlorene Zukunft, die wir alle erleben, der Krieg wütet überall auf der Welt. Das Leid und die Verzweiflung wachsen.

Dies alles sind Kapriolen des Rationalen - Die Dialektik der Aufklärung. Diese Rationalität ist auf sich selbst bezogen und nicht mehr auf das Leben, so wird diese übersteigerte Rationalität irrational. "Nicht indem sie ihm die ganze Befriedigung gewährt, haben die losgelassenen Produktionskolosse das Individuum überwunden, sondern indem sie es als Subjekt auslöschten. Eben darin besteht ihre vollendete Rationalität, die mit ihrer Verrücktheit zusammenfällt." [@DdA_2013 Seite 215] Sie sind das Ergebnis einer Rationalität, die sich abgelöst hat vom Zweck und damit auch von der Welt und den Menschen. An diesen Stellen können uns die Kinder helfen, die Welt und die Menschen wieder in den Blick zu nehmen, die Bedürftigkeit zu objektivieren und zu begründen. Die Kinder in den Fokus zu rücken, bewahrt uns vor dem Überschlag des Denkens, sogar vor dem popeligen <>. Hans Johnas "Sieh hin und du weißt"[@DPV_2003 Seite 235] können wir als Vorwegnahme des Spiegeleuronennprinzips verstehen. Wir sind bestens ausgestattet, die Bedürftigkeit in anderen zu erkennen, zu reflektieren und sie zu unseren eigenen zu machen. In der Verantwortung für unsere Kinder finden wir eine ähnliche Subjekt-Entlastung wie im Ritus oder im Spiel. Denn sie macht uns zum Teil eines größeren Systems, eines „Sorge-Systems“. Es entsteht ein generativer Vertrag, der die Geschichte stiftet, in der wir alle eine Heimat finden: Denn was bleibt, sind die bunten Geschichten. Die eigene individuelle Geschichte ist auf Wohl und Wehe mit der Kollektiven verknüpft, die zu Ende ginge ohne unsere Kinder. Traurig und leer wird die Welt der letzten Menschen sein.

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TL;DR: Contemporary regulations not only threaten internet giants with substantial fines if they fail in their censorship efforts, but also undermine truth itself according to one of history's foremost proponents of liberalism. With so many eager censors at work, can our societies still be said to be liberal?

As of August 25 this year, the EU, through new regulation (the Digital Services Act), mandates that very large online platforms must promptly remove illegal content, potentially harmful wording, disinformation, misinformation, and more. Very large platforms are defined as those reaching over 45 million monthly active users. Disinformation refers to intentionally spreading false information, whereas misinformation pertains to untrue information spread without malicious intent. Considering the extensive pollution ongoing in today's information landscape, it's understandable that efforts are being made from various angles to restore it to something more pristine. Failure to comply with these requirements could lead internet giants like Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter) to face sanctions of up to six percent of their annual global revenue, or even being banned from the EU. A total of 19 companies are affected.

Note: this article is also available in Swedish

The censors' handling of our information risks presupposing objectivity that they neither possess nor even can possess. The philosopher John Stuart Mill, who laid the foundations of liberalism, pointed out already in 1869 that all suppression of discussion implies an assumption of infallibility.

In several situations, it is also possible to question the intentions of certain censors. For example, a disinformation expert expressed concern in 2017 about a campaign that risked influencing a Senate election in Alabama. Among other things, the disinformation campaign spread the message that the Republican candidate wanted to ban alcohol – not an election-winning issue in the American South. The following year, it was revealed that this alleged Russian campaign had been created by Democratic Party operatives, and this by a company where the same expert was employed. The company succeeded in its campaign: by a narrow margin, their candidate became the first Democrat to capture Alabama's US Senate seat since 1992. As the poet Juvenal asked: "who will watch the watchmen?"

The growing powers of censors, however, also imply a reduction in the value society can derive from social networks. This is because societal progress is only achievable through the collision and interweaving of many different perspectives. Engineer Robert Metcalfe proposed in 1980 that the value of a network increases exponentially with the number of users, in what is known as Metcalfe's Law. Two telephones enable one connection, with five telephones, ten connections can be established, while twelve telephones have the capacity to create 66 different connections. As more individuals connect, the value of the network increases, creating a positive spiral of increasing value and more connections. At the corporate level, such a positive spiral can lead to a rapid journey to monopolistic greatness; just ask companies like Facebook, Instagram, and X.

But Metcalfe's Law works both ways. If the value of a network increases exponentially as you add users, it decreases just as quickly as users leave it or get disconnected from it (in so-called de-platforming). The same naturally applies when users are prevented from communicating with each other. This occurred with truthful information before the 2020 US presidential election (the story of "the laptop from hell" gives reason to question the intentions of the censors) as well as with vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, according to Metcalfe's Law, the greater the activity of our censors, the lesser the value we as society will derive from our networks.

John Stuart Mill warned in one of liberalism's most central works On Liberty of "... the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."

In sum, censorship not only undermines the truth according to one of history's foremost proponents of liberalism, it also undermines society's knowledge creation as well as societal progress itself. Are we genuinely willing to bear this cost? And if we are, can we still justify labelling our societies as liberal?

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Cover image: Rob Speed (Rob Speed), CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Yakihonneに投稿したいので、わざわざ、のす本演習1-2をnostr-toolshttps://github.com/nbd-wtf/nostr-toolsのサンプルを参考に複数リレー対応のコードを考えてみた。

複数リレーに繋いでいるので、同じPostが繋いでいるリレー分だけ取得するんだろなと思っていて、リレー別のPost を確認しようと試みたがよくわからなくて、見る限りガンガン取得したPostが画面を流れて行くので演習2-3で定義されていたisSafeToReply関数を使ってCOOL_TIME_DUR_SECで設定している秒数以内に取得するすでに取得済みのpubkeyのPostは弾くようにするとそれらしくなったので良しとした。

これであってるかな？

追記 2023/12/03 23:12： SimplePoolで複数リレーのPostを取得したら重複は弾かれてるような気がする。 ちなみにwss://nos.lolを含めているので外国語を取得してるけど除くと外国語がなくなるので、複数リレーで取得しているのが確認できました。

``` const { currUnixtime } = require("./utils.js"); const { SimplePool } = require("nostr-tools"); require("websocket-polyfill");

const relayUrl = [ "wss://relay-jp.nostr.wirednet.jp", "wss://yabu.me", "wss://nostr.fediverse.jp", "wss://relay.nostr.wirednet.jp", "wss://nostr.holybea.com", "wss://nostr-relay.nokotaro.com", "wss://r.kojira.io", "wss://nrelay.c-stellar.net", "wss://r.hostr.cc", "wss://relay-jp.shino3.net", "wss://nos.lol" ];

const COOL_TIME_DUR_SEC = 5 const lastReplyTimePerPubkey = new Map() const isSafeToReply = ({ pubkey, created_at }) => { const now = currUnixtime(); if (created_at < now - COOL_TIME_DUR_SEC) { return false; }

const lastReplyTime = lastReplyTimePerPubkey.get(pubkey); if (lastReplyTime !== undefined && now - lastReplyTime < COOL_TIME_DUR_SEC) { return false; } lastReplyTimePerPubkey.set(pubkey, now); return true; }

const main = async () => { const pool = new SimplePool(); const sub = pool.sub( [...relayUrl], [ { kinds: [1] } ], );

sub.on("error", () => { console.error("failed to connect"); pool.close() });

sub.on("eose", () => { console.log("** EOSE ****"); });

sub.on("event", (ev) => { if (isSafeToReply(ev)) { console.log(ev.content); } }); };

main().catch((e) => console.error(e));

```

@ 76ab1f54:eaec9485

In a world where traditional financial systems are constantly evolving, the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) has become a beacon of innovation, reshaping the way we perceive and interact with money. Welcome to the Crypto Frontier, where the possibilities are as vast as the blockchain itself.

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Chef's notes

I made this about four times already since Thanksgiving, so if you hate those jars from the market as much as I do, here is the perfect laziest recipe to follow for a better version. Also if you can get the items on sale or buy one get one free, you can make a batch for about $3. The supplies, especially the mayo and buttermilk, will go a long way (OR until expired). But seriously, go make this instead. Add herbs if you want...chives are recommended for that oniony, cheesy vibe. Add some seasonings like garlic powder. It is yours to doctor up!

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 5 mins (leave in fridge overnight)
• 🍳 Cook time: 0
• 🍽️ Servings: 8

Ingredients

• half a container of sour cream
• two big spoonfuls of mayo
• a wedge or half a wedge of bleu cheese (YOUR CHOICE)
• a large splash of buttermilk (add more if you want to make it thinner)

Directions

1. Put Sour Cream, Mayo, and Buttermilk into a bowl; mix
2. Crumble in the Bleu Cheese
3. Mix The Bleu Cheese into the Sour Cream, Mayo, Buttermilk Mixture
4. Cover the bowl
5. Refrigerate overnight so it can get married.

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Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (my father), born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty-First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Analysis "A Castaway's Dream"

Introduction

“Sonnet 4 A Castaway’s Dream” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a beautiful piece of poetry that uses vivid imagery and metaphors to convey a sense of struggle, hope, and transformation.

Thematic Analysis

In the octave, the speaker describes a harsh and hostile environment. The speaker uses vivid imagery to depict the destructive power of the sea, which is eroding his shore and threatening his boat. The sea is personified as a cruel entity that destroys the speaker’s cherished pearls and causes him to feel lonely and forlorn. The speaker also mentions the “mad winds” that destabilize his boat, further emphasizing the sense of danger and instability.

In the sestet, the speaker shifts from describing his external circumstances to reflecting on his internal state. He speaks of drowning his old habits with compassion, suggesting a desire for change or improvement. The speaker acknowledges the difficulties he has faced (“my many deaths surpassing my actions”) but expresses hope for the future. This hope is tied to the possibility of dreaming, having other options, and experiencing forgetfulness and new beginnings.

Overall, the sonnet explores themes of struggle, transformation, and hope amidst adversity. The octave sets up the conflict and the sestet resolves it, offering a hopeful outlook for the future. This structure is typical of sonnets, which often present a problem in the octave and a resolution or response in the sestet.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The sonnet “A Castaway’s Dream” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares follows a unique rhyme scheme. Here’s the detailed analysis:

Octave (first eight lines):

Cruel tidal waves rise and fall and combine (A) To destroy little by little my shore (B) Where I grow shells for pearls that I adore (B) And which to match her teeth and eyes I twine. (A) And there are mad winds that my boat incline (A) Till I feel lonely and wait for much more (B) Of this forlorn for the bad spirits roar (B) Not letting my strengths rejoin and aline. (A)

The rhyme scheme of the octave is ABBA ABBA, which is a common pattern in Petrarchan sonnets.

Sestet (last six lines):

I drowned my old habits with compassion (C) To keep afloat when I started sinking (D) My many deaths surpassing my actions. (C) My only hope is to start more dreaming (D) Or days when I can have other options (C) And forgetfulness and new beginning. (D)

The rhyme scheme of the sestet is CDCDCD. This pattern is less common in traditional sonnets but adds a unique rhythm to the poem. The alternating rhymes can create a sense of ongoing struggle or conflict, which aligns well with the themes of the poem.

Analysis of Aspects

The sonnet “A Castaway’s Dream” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a rich and evocative piece of poetry. Here’s a detailed analysis focusing on language, imagery, themes, meter, and overall impact:

Language and Imagery: The language used in the sonnet is highly descriptive and emotive. The poet uses vivid imagery to depict the harshness of the sea and the struggle of the castaway. Phrases like “Cruel tidal waves rise and fall and combine” and “mad winds that my boat incline” create a vivid picture of the hostile environment. The use of personification, such as “bad spirits roar,” adds a sense of danger and foreboding.

Themes: The sonnet explores themes of struggle, transformation, and hope amidst adversity. The speaker’s battle against the sea symbolizes the human struggle against adversities. The act of growing shells for pearls that the speaker adores could symbolize the creation of something beautiful out of hardship. The speaker’s desire to drown old habits and dream of new beginnings indicates a theme of transformation and hope.

Meter: The sonnet appears to follow the iambic pentameter, which is common in traditional sonnets. This means each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, creating a rhythmic pattern.

Overall, the sonnet is a powerful exploration of human resilience in the face of adversity. The vivid imagery, emotive language, and rhythmic meter combine to create a deeply moving and thought-provoking piece of poetry. The unique rhyme scheme adds a distinctive rhythm and flow to the poem, enhancing its overall impact. The sonnet leaves the reader with a sense of hope and the possibility of transformation, even in the most challenging circumstances.

(GPT4)

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Syllable count for each line.

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A Castaway's Dream

10 Cruel tidal waves rise and fall and combine 10 To destroy little by little my shore 10 Where I grow shells for pearls that I adore 10 And which to match her teeth and eyes I twine.

10 And there are mad winds that my boat incline 10 Till I feel lonely and wait for much more 10 Of this forlorn for the bad spirits roar 10 Not letting my strengths rejoin and aline.

10 I drowned my old habits with compassion 10 To keep afloat when I started sinking 10 My many deaths surpassing my actions. 10 My only hope is to start more dreaming 10 Or days when I can have other options 10 And forgetfulness and new beginning. ***

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by Bing; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com A Castaway's Dream

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Bitcoin meetups for the week ahead in the UK 🇬🇧 & Ireland 🇮🇪

Week 49

4th - 10th December

• Canterbury
• Belfast
• London
• Glasgow - Bitcoin Power Workshop
• Derby
• Edinburgh
• Kent

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⚡️Canterbury

Canterbury #Bitcoin will be at the Westgate Inn Wetherspoons, 5th December at 7pm.

https://meetu.ps/c/4B50f/v822r/a

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⚡️Belfast

On Tuesday it’s @nibitcoinnews, see their meetup page for details.

https://meetu.ps/c/4WzmG/v822r/a

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⚡️London - Bitcoin Space

Join @londonbtcspace for their monthly meetup on the 5th

https://www.meetup.com/london-bitcoin-space/events/

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⚡️Glasgow - Bitcoin Power

Join @glasgow_bitcoin for their #Bitcoin Power workshop on Wednesday the 6th.

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-glasgow-buy-sell-learn/events/296108432/

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⚡️Derby

You’ll find @BTCDerby at the Brunswick Inn on Saturday 9th December at 3pm.

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⚡️Edinburgh

Every SATurday @BitcoinWalkOrg trek around Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh and talk #Bitcoin

Join them this week at 12pm

https://bitcoinwalk.org/

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⚡️Kent

You’ll find @kentbitcoin at The Country Hotel in Ashford on Sunday 10th at 12:00pm

https://www.meetup.com/kentbitcoin/events/297134657/

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Dive into the dynamic intersection of Bitcoin and cutting-edge banking services with Victor Romero, the visionary force behind Pilsenga. This article encapsulates a riveting interview that unveils how Pilsenga is rewriting the rules of banking, specifically tailored for the Bitcoin community. Discover the challenges faced by traditional banks and the seamless account opening process that sets Pilsenga apart. Gain unique perspectives on the future trajectory of Bitcoin, intricately woven by Victor Romero's insights.

Explore Pilsenga's commitment to providing an exceptional banking experience, transcending conventional norms. This piece acts as your compass, navigating through Pilsenga's journey in reshaping the Bitcoin landscape. Join the community of curious minds on Croxroad, where each episode unfolds a new dimension of understanding, offering a unique blend of information and entertainment.

Table of Contents:

• The Evolution of Bitcoin Banking

• Pilsenga's Unique Service Model

• Future Projections for Bitcoin and Banking

• Challenges and Solutions in the Industry

• Victor Romero's Insights on Bitcoin's Future

• Conclusion

• FAQs

The Evolution of Bitcoin Banking

The Evolution of Bitcoin Banking marks a significant paradigm shift in the financial landscape, where traditional banking meets the revolutionary prowess of cryptocurrency. Pilsenga, under the visionary leadership of Victor Romero, stands at the forefront of this transformation, offering tailored banking solutions for the burgeoning Bitcoin community.

This exploration begins by introducing Pilsenga and its driving force, Victor Romero, delving into the company's mission to redefine banking services in the digital age. It navigates through the central role of Bitcoin in challenging conventional banking norms, highlighting the increasing integration of cryptocurrency into mainstream financial strategies.

Pilsenga's innovative approach shines as it caters to the unique needs of Bitcoin enthusiasts, emphasising quality service over mere affordability. Victor Romero provides insights into the future trajectory of Bitcoin, projecting a robust and mature industry.

The discussion unveils the challenges and solutions in Bitcoin banking, demystifying the process of opening an account with Pilsenga, and navigating the regulatory landscape with transparency.

As Pilsenga charts its growth forecast, aiming for a customer base of one thousand, the article reflects on Victor Romero's perspective on Bitcoin's price projection, likening it to winning the lottery in slow motion.

Pilsenga's Unique Service Model

Pilsenga's Unique Service Model in the realm of Bitcoin banking unfolds as a game-changer, seamlessly blending cutting-edge technology with a personalised touch. Headed by the visionary Victor Romero, Pilsenga stands apart by offering a banking experience tailored explicitly for the diverse needs of the Bitcoin community.

This section of the article delves into the distinctive features that set Pilsenga apart from traditional banking institutions. It emphasises the company's commitment to providing not only quality services but also a heightened level of customer support, akin to having a personalised banking partner. The use of messaging apps groups for communication, a departure from conventional methods, ensures a quick and efficient exchange between clients and their account managers.

Victor Romero sheds light on Pilsenga's commitment to a personalised approach, acknowledging that each company requires unique attention and care. The article highlights the company's strategy to keep its customer base manageable, ensuring a dedicated and tailored experience for every client.

As Pilsenga eyes an ambitious target of three hundred customers in the next year, scaling up to one thousand by 2025, this segment unfolds the roadmap of growth and innovation. Pilsenga's Unique Service Model emerges not just as a banking solution but as a partner in the financial journey of Bitcoin enthusiasts, paving the way for a new era in digital banking.

Future Projections for Bitcoin and Banking

The Future Projections for Bitcoin and Banking paint an optimistic picture, with Victor Romero foreseeing a bright trajectory for the next five years. As the Bitcoin landscape evolves, Pilsenga positions itself at the forefront, navigating the complexities with a blend of traditional banking values and cutting-edge solutions.

Romero's insights reveal a growing maturity and solidity in the Bitcoin industry. He notes the increasing interest from traditional players like central banks and businesses integrating Bitcoin into their financial strategies. This section underscores the potential for Bitcoin to become more mainstream, fueled by growing adoption and acceptance.

The central theme revolves around the inevitability of Bitcoin's continued growth. Romero likens holding Bitcoin to winning a lottery in slow motion, emphasising the potential for significant value appreciation. As more entities embrace this digital asset, the market is set to expand, breaking down barriers and making Bitcoin more accessible to the masses.

With Romero predicting a significant surge in Bitcoin's value, this segment delves into the factors contributing to this optimism. The inclusion of central banks and traditional businesses signals a shift from scepticism to acceptance, hinting at a future where Bitcoin seamlessly integrates into the global financial landscape.

Challenges and Solutions in the Industry

As the Bitcoin industry continues its upward trajectory, Challenges and Solutions in the Industry emerge as crucial focal points in Victor Romero's discussion. Pilsenga, with its commitment to providing innovative banking services, confronts and overcomes the hurdles posed by a rapidly evolving landscape.

Romero sheds light on the challenges faced by businesses, particularly in the realm of traditional banking. The reluctance of mainstream banks to embrace Bitcoin-related enterprises is a recurring issue. However, Pilsenga stands out by offering a unique service model tailored to the specific needs of its clients, circumventing the obstacles posed by conventional banks.

Regulatory compliance surfaces as another prominent challenge in the industry. Romero emphasises the importance of adhering to regulations and outlines how Pilsenga navigates this complex terrain. The tailored approach to onboarding clients ensures compliance while expediting the account opening process, setting Pilsenga apart from competitors.

Security concerns surrounding digital assets are also addressed, with Pilsenga prioritising the safety and integrity of its clients' holdings. Romero provides insights into the company's robust security measures, assuring clients that their assets are in safe hands.

Victor Romero's Insights on Bitcoin's Future

In an insightful segment, Victor Romero delves into his perspectives on Bitcoin's Future, offering a glimpse into the visionary outlook that guides Pilsenga's journey. Romero's foresight extends beyond current trends, envisioning a robust future for Bitcoin as a mainstream financial instrument.

Romero highlights the evolving nature of Bitcoin adoption, with central banks increasingly integrating it into their portfolios. This institutional embrace, according to Romero, is a testament to Bitcoin's maturation as a credible asset class. Pilsenga, under Romero's guidance, positions itself at the forefront of this transformative shift, aligning its services with the changing dynamics of the financial landscape.

The discussion touches on the democratising potential of Bitcoin, emphasising its role in providing financial access to unbanked populations worldwide. Romero envisions Bitcoin's future as a catalyst for financial inclusivity, breaking down traditional barriers and fostering a more inclusive global economy.

Moreover, Romero anticipates a continued surge in Bitcoin's value, foreseeing a time when one Bitcoin could potentially reach a six-figure valuation. This optimistic projection reflects not only Romero's confidence in the resilience of Bitcoin but also Pilsenga's strategic positioning to navigate and capitalise on such market dynamics.

As Bitcoin continues to evolve, Romero's insights provide a roadmap for Pilsenga's strategic initiatives, aligning the company with the transformative potential of the digital currency. This segment captures the essence of Romero's visionary leadership and Pilsenga's commitment to shaping the future of Bitcoin banking.

Conclusion

In conclusion, this insightful interview on Croxroad has illuminated the progressive strides made by Pilsenga in revolutionising Bitcoin banking. Victor Romero's expertise, shared through the engaging platform of Croxroad, showcases the collaborative spirit at the heart of technological evolution.

This dialogue with Victor Romero sheds light on the evolution of Bitcoin banking, the unique service model offered by Pilsenga, future projections for the industry, and the challenges it faces. As we venture into the future, the marriage of technology and finance, exemplified in this conversation, promises a dynamic landscape.

The journey with Pilsenga underscores the importance of staying ahead in the ever-evolving world of Bitcoin banking. As Croxroad continues to be a driving force in facilitating such enriching dialogues, it reinforces its position as a trailblazer in connecting minds and ideas at the crossroads of finance and technology. The future looks promising, shaped by innovations that push boundaries and redefine our understanding of banking in the digital age.

FAQs

What sets Pilsenga apart in the Bitcoin banking landscape? Pilsenga distinguishes itself by offering a tailored banking experience, specifically designed for Bitcoin-related businesses. Unlike traditional banks, Pilsenga understands the unique needs of the cryptocurrency industry, providing swift onboarding, transparent processes, and dedicated customer support.

How fast can a company open an account with Pilsenga? The account opening process with Pilsenga is remarkably efficient, taking between 48 to 72 hours. For urgent cases, they offer expedited services. The streamlined digital approach, coupled with a clear understanding of diverse business needs, ensures a swift and hassle-free onboarding experience.

What makes Croxroad a noteworthy platform for industry discussions? Croxroad stands out as a dynamic platform facilitating meaningful discussions at the crossroads of finance and technology. Hosting thought leaders like Victor Romero, Croxroad provides a space for in-depth conversations that shed light on industry trends, challenges, and future projections. With a commitment to knowledge-sharing, Croxroad emerges as a vital hub for those seeking cutting-edge insights in the rapidly evolving landscape of Bitcoin banking.

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At sunset, the beach transforms, its tranquility replaced by a new breed of entrepreneur. Not peddlers of coconuts or weed, but influencers capturing their lives' carefree moments. A young woman emerges from the ocean, her smile frozen in a camera's lens, another sips her drink, radiating joy. Behind these scenes, a partner, the unseen cinematographer, ensuring every shot's perfection. Rewarded by a kiss, after the boss checks the shot, of course.

Mocking influencers is easy, yet they've carved a niche, connecting their audience with entrepreneurs, curating content that resonates. The beachgoer in stylish sunglasses, the hipster coffee connoisseur meticulously brewing, the fitness guru, the tech vlogger – each finds their tribe, bridging viewers with brands.

Gone are the days of traditional ad-spending on TV, magazines, and radios. Goodbye pay per click corporate networks. Now, businesses ally with influencers who mirror their customers' tastes and interests.

Even in the dark forest, influencers thrive, albeit in altered forms. Anonymous or pseudonymous, favoring written word over videos, they remain pivotal for certain products and services. Their endorsements, subtle yet powerful, draw customers in this new, enigmatic marketplace.

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As Bitcoin adoption grows and “game theory” plays out, jurisdictions can and will compete for desirable residents (this theory is discussed in more detail in the book The Sovereign Individual). The ease with which you can move and use your Bitcoin wealth globally and the concept of a "Bitcoin Plan B" has led individuals to explore diverse international destinations. This post includes a very high level assessment of the top 14 places for Bitcoiners, examining factors such as residence permits, citizenship, taxes, cost of living, political stability, and quality of life. Each location is evaluated for its Bitcoin-friendliness, and insights into the relocation considerations and resources are provided.

Switzerland: * Residency Process: B permit (temporary residence) and C permit (permanent residence) options. * Citizenship: Complex process requiring years of residency. * Taxation: Cantonal tax rates vary, with favorable treatment in areas like Zug. * Quality of Life: High standard of living, political stability, low crime rates, and excellent healthcare.

Singapore: * Residency Process: Employment Pass and S Pass available with employment sponsorship. * Citizenship: Attainable after several years of permanent residency. * Taxation: Territorial tax system, no capital gains tax. * Quality of Life: Cosmopolitan lifestyle, high-quality healthcare, and low crime rates.

Portugal: * Residency Process: Golden Visa program for residency through investment. * Citizenship: Attainable after six years of residency. * Taxation: Non-Habitual Resident regime with exemptions for certain foreign income. * Quality of Life: Pleasant climate, low cost of living, and rich cultural experiences.

Estonia: * Residency Process: E-residency program for an online business, separate process for physical residency. * Citizenship: Distinct process from e-residency, requiring integration. * Taxation: Competitive tax system, favorable for businesses. * Quality of Life: High-level digital infrastructure, political stability, and a growing tech sector.

Malta: * Residency Process: Individual Investor Program for citizenship through investment. * Citizenship: Granted following a thorough due diligence process. * Taxation: Favorable tax regime for residents. * Quality of Life: Mediterranean lifestyle, historical sites, and a growing tech community.

Georgia: * Residency Process: Visa-free regime, with proof of accommodation and financial means. * Citizenship: Requires extended stay and integration. * Taxation: Flat tax rate of 20%. * Quality of Life: Diverse cultural experience, low cost of living, and a scenic landscape.

Hong Kong: * Residency Process: Quality Migrant Admission Scheme and Employment Visa available. * Citizenship: Challenging, with permanent residency as the primary long-term option. * Taxation: Simple and low-tax system. * Quality of Life: Vibrant city life, robust financial sector, and excellent healthcare.

Dubai, UAE: * Residency Process: Golden Visa for long-term residency. * Citizenship: Typically not available, but stable residency provided. * Taxation: No personal income tax or capital gains tax. * Quality of Life: Luxurious lifestyle, modern infrastructure, and a diverse expatriate community.

Panama: * Residency Process: Friendly Nations Visa for citizens of specified countries. * Citizenship: Attainable after five years of legal residence. * Taxation: Territorial tax system. * Quality of Life: Tropical climate, low cost of living, and a variety of outdoor activities.

Cayman Islands: * Residency Process: Informal process through work permits or business-related visas. * Citizenship: Generally not available, but long-term residency possible. * Taxation: No direct taxes, including income tax and capital gains tax. * Quality of Life: Tropical paradise, beautiful beaches, stable political environment, and a high standard of living.

El Salvador: * Residency Process: Temporary residence available for investors. * Citizenship: Attainable after several years of legal residence. * Taxation: No tax on foreign-source income for residents; Bitcoin is legal tender and is not taxed! * Quality of Life: Tropical climate, lower cost of living.

Antigua and Barbuda: * Residency Process: Citizenship by Investment Program. * Citizenship: Attainable through qualifying investment. * Taxation: No personal income tax, capital gains tax, or inheritance tax. * Quality of Life: Caribbean lifestyle, beautiful beaches.

Costa Rica: * Residency Process: Various options, including Rentista and Investor programs. * Citizenship: Available after several years of legal residency. * Taxation: Territorial tax system, taxing income generated within the country. * Quality of Life: Biodiversity, stable political environment, and healthcare system.

For more details on Costa Rica (and El Salvador) residence permits and other thoughts on the Plan “B,” check out this post from last summer:

https://bitcoinfortress.substack.com/p/plan-b-with-bitcoin

Madeira, Portugal: * Residency Process: Golden Visa program, benefiting from Portugal's regulations. * Citizenship: Attainable after several years of legal residency. * Taxation: Favorable tax treatment, including the Non-Habitual Resident regime. * Quality of Life: Subtropical climate, natural beauty, and a peaceful lifestyle.

Considerations for Moving:

Tax Considerations:

• Research the tax implications of both the home country and the destination to ensure compliance and optimize tax liabilities; most countries only tax income earned in that country (know as a “territorial tax”), which allows citizens to move and pay tax (if any) in the jurisdiction they reside in, while retaining their home country citizenship. The United States and the East African nation of Eritrea are the only countries in the world that tax the worldwide income of all citizens and permanent residents, regardless of where they live or where they earn money. For US citizens who are dual citizens and hold another passport, it is possible to renounce your US citizenship, but you’ll have to pay an “exit tax.” and you’ll need to have another passport to avoid becoming “stateless.”
• Utilize resources such as tax advisors and online platforms to understand tax laws and obligations.

Legal and Regulatory Compliance:

• Be aware of legal requirements related to residency and citizenship in both the home country and the chosen destination. For example, there are typically a minimum number of days you need to be present in a jurisdiction to establish tax residency.
• Engage legal professionals who specialize in immigration and citizenship laws.

Financial Planning:

• Plan for financial stability during the transition, considering the cost of living, potential investment opportunities, and currency fluctuations.

Quality of Life Metrics:

Consider factors such as healthcare quality, safety, environmental conditions, and cultural fit when evaluating potential destinations. Another important consideration is the level of freedom in a country. Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report. Individual freedoms—ranging from the right to vote to freedom of expression and equality before the law—can be affected by state or nonstate actors.

Here’s a list of list of companies and resources for assisting individuals with obtaining second citizenships, residence permits, and other services related to international relocation:

Henley & Partners: Known for its Global Residence and Citizenship Programs (GRCP) and providing comprehensive advisory services for residence and citizenship planning.

Arton Capital: Specializes in residency and citizenship solutions, offering a range of programs for investors and individuals seeking international opportunities.

CS Global Partners: A government advisory firm specializing in citizenship, residence, and investor immigration programs globally.

Passport Legacy: Offers services related to citizenship and residence planning, with a focus on providing tailored solutions for high-net-worth individuals.

Discus Holdings: Specializes in citizenship-by-investment programs, residency planning, and financial services for international clients.

Blevins Franks: Provides financial planning, tax, and wealth management services for individuals considering relocation to countries with favorable tax environments.

Citizenship Invest: Offers expertise in citizenship-by-investment programs, guiding clients through the process of obtaining second citizenship.

Global Citizen Solutions: Specializes in residency and citizenship planning, providing advice and services to individuals seeking global mobility.

Residencies.io: An online platform that provides information on residency and citizenship programs worldwide, offering a valuable resource for research.

Nomad Capitalist: Run by Andrew Henderson, this platform offers insights into offshore strategies, second passports, and global citizenship.

Expat Focus: An online community and information portal for expatriates, offering advice on living and working abroad.

Flag Theory: Provides information on offshore strategies, internationalization, and global citizenship, helping individuals diversify their lives and assets.

International Living: A resource for those seeking to live or retire overseas, offering guides, articles, and information on expatriate life.

The Sovereign Man: Provides information and resources on internationalization, offshore banking, and obtaining second citizenship.

In this era of global mobility, Bitcoiners can navigate the complexities of international relocation with a well-informed and strategic approach, ensuring a seamless transition to a jurisdiction that aligns with their financial and lifestyle goals.

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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"We’ve crafted these technology standards to advance American innovation and account for the industry’s leadership in accelerating methane technology. Thanks to robust public feedback and engagement with states, Tribes, companies, and organizations, we are finalizing this historic action to reduce climate pollution, protecting people and the planet."

— Michael S. Regan, EPA Administrator

Today, the EPA announced new regulations to slash methane emissions by the oil & gas industry.

The press release is a combination of political speech, fantasy land accounting and wishful thinking.

Big oil is welcoming the regulation. They know that's what they need to say to avoid getting in trouble and they do have the dollars to manage the impact. Small oil is more worried because the new regulation will bring significant costs to them.

I hope the oil & gas industry channels their inner Jocko, say the word GOOD, and take this opportunity to embrace Bitcoin mining.

The oil & gas industry can transfer the new methane regulation from an operational cost into a new revenue stream by deploying Bitcoin miners to capture and process the excess methane.

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To change a behavior, change the incentives

It sounds obvious but for some reason, most people don't follow this basic principle of human behavior.

The oil & gas industry leaks a lot of methane to the air. And they do it because it is not cost efficient for them to capture and process this methane.

The government approach to solving the problem is to issue a regulation that forces the industry to capture this methane at a loss.

Bitcoin represents an opportunity for the oil & gas industry to turn this regulation on its heels and make a profit out of capturing and processing the methane that today they are leaking.

They can deploy Bitcoin miners at these locations, powered by the captured methane, and make a profit along the way. Talk about a win-win-win.

If we had an intelligent and unbiased administration, they would encourage the industry to do just so. But we don't.

We have an administration that depends on the ponzi scheme called the dollar to sustain themselves, to continue to promise things that we can't afford, and keep piling up on the national debt.

And so they will never recommend Bitcoin, even if it's the right thing to do.

Just like the Canadian government sees Bitcoin as a threat to its authoritarian mandates, the US government sees Bitcoin as a threat to their ponzi scheme that keeps them in power.

Bitcoin miners is the solution

Daniel Batten is an environmentallist and a Bitcoiner who has done extensive research on this field as part of his work as a climate change venture capitalist.

You can find some of his research on Bitcoin mining and captured methane on this article:

https://batcoinz.com/50-landfills-mining-bitcoin-a-zero-emission-bitcoin-network/

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Recommendations

Daniel Batten

Daniel is an environmentalist and a Bitcoiner who runs a climate change venture fund and perfectly understands the incentives that drive human behavior.

He has done extensive research on the energy usage of the Bitcoin network and the opportunity to use Bitcoin to reduce carbon emissions.

You can follow him here.

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The name of the new international social media platform, listed under the name Tick, has been revealed, which Engineer Amjad will launch in the coming days, according to informed press sources. In his statement, he said: “The work will be done freely and published within the social media platform (Tick) and without any restrictions, as it will be supported.” Media professionals in particular to spread the facts It is worth noting that Sharkas is the founder and CEO of Gold Media, Chairman of the Youth Media Committee of the National Charter Party, author of the book The Story of the Business Kid, one of the most famous autobiography books in the world, and the founder of the new social application (Tick).

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*physics* is the natural science of matter, involving the study of matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force physics is one of the most fundamental scientific disciplines, with its main goal being to understand how the universe behaves.a scientist who specializes in the field of physics is called a physicist.

Physics is one of the oldest academic disciplines and, through its inclusion of astronomy, perhaps the oldest. Over much of the past two millennia, physics, chemistry, biology, and certain branches of mathematics were a part of natural philosophy, but during the Scientific Revolution in the 17th century these natural sciences emerged as unique research endeavors in their own right. Physics intersects with many interdisciplinary areas of research, such as biophysics and quantum chemistry, and the boundaries of physics are not rigidly defined. New ideas in physics often explain the fundamental mechanisms studied by other sciences and suggest new avenues of research in these and other academic disciplines such as mathematics and philosophy.

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Advances in physics often enable new technologies. For example, advances in the understanding of electromagnetism, solid-state physics, and nuclear physics led directly to the development of new products that have dramatically transformed modern-day society, such as television, computers, domestic appliances, and nuclear weapons; advances in thermodynamics led to the development of industrialization; and advances in mechanics inspired the development of calculus.

But advances in physics can very bad including making more nuclear weapons and things like that

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*The roots of physics are tied to mathematics: except the Theory, Read and Seeing different phenomena we must write A mathematical equation about them to prove them:*

Exactly like this

there is two way for prove the E=MC² which is true. In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the relationship between mass and energy in a system’s rest frame, where the two quantities differ only by a multiplicative constant and the units of measurement. The principle is described by the physicist Albert Einstein’s formula: E=MC²

.In a reference frame where the system is moving, its relativistic energy and relativistic mass (instead of rest mass) obey the same formula.

…(So If you have a claim you must prove it with Mathematical language)…

*That is why normally physicist do not believe the GOD*

because there is no equation to prove the god

Recourse:

• Physics
• E=MC²
• [Equation ]((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation)
• Albert Einstein )

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מסכת סנהדרין היא בעיקר מהותה ״מסכת המדינה היהודית״ ולא רק מסכת השופטים, כפי שמציין שמה; כי במסכת סנהדרין מצויה תבנית של המדינה היהודית, והיא עוסקת, בהיקפה הרחב, במכלול הבעיות שיוצרת המדינה היהודית. ובמסכת זו יש פרוט של כל המוסדות היסודיים הקיימים במדינה על פי חוקי התורה, ושל יחסיהם ההדדיים. יתר על כן, אין אפשרות לתאר את קיומה של המסכת בנפרד ובתלוש ממדינה יהודית ריבונית הנוהגת על פי חוקי התורה. דמותה המיוחדת במינה של המדינה היהודית מבוססת על הנחות יסוד עצמיות, אשר מהן נובעות הלכות המדינה לפרטיהן. רעיון היסוד של היהדות המתגלה בחוקיה, מחשבתה ודרכי חייה, הוא שלטונו הכולל של ה׳, בורא העולם ומקיימו. כשם שהוא בורא ומקיים את חוקי הטבע, הריהו במקביל לכך יוצרם של חוקי האדם. המקור הראשון לכל סמכות ולכל שלטון מכל סוג הינו — רצונו של ה׳. רק מכוחו בא השלטון לבני האדם, ורשויות השלטון השונות מקבלות את סמכותן ממנו. ביטוי רב עוצמה ניתן לרעיון זה בדברי הנביא ישעיה ״כי ה׳ שופטנו, ה׳ מחוקקנו, ה׳ מלכנו״. כל רשויות השלטון, לפי החלוקה המקובלת, מנויות בכתוב זה — וכולן מתייחסות לה׳.

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Este artigo foi censurado pelo estado e fomos obrigados a deletá-lo após ameaça de homens armados virem nos visitar e agredir nossa vida e propriedade.

Isto é mais uma prova que os autoproclamados antirracistas são piores que os racistas.

https://rothbardbrasil.com/pelo-direito-de-ser-racista-fascista-machista-e-homofobico

Segue artigo na íntegra. 👇

Sem dúvida, a escalada autoritária do totalitarismo cultural progressista nos últimos anos tem sido sumariamente deletéria e prejudicial para a liberdade de expressão. Como seria de se esperar, a cada dia que passa o autoritarismo progressista continua a se expandir de maneira irrefreável, prejudicando a liberdade dos indivíduos de formas cada vez mais deploráveis e contundentes.

Com a ascensão da tirania politicamente correta e sua invasão a todos os terrenos culturais, o autoritarismo progressista foi se alastrando e consolidando sua hegemonia em determinados segmentos. Com a eventual eclosão e a expansão da opressiva e despótica cultura do cancelamento — uma progênie inevitável do totalitarismo progressista —, todas as pessoas que manifestam opiniões, crenças ou posicionamentos que não estão alinhados com as pautas universitárias da moda tornam-se um alvo.

Há algumas semanas, vimos a enorme repercussão causada pelo caso envolvendo o jogador profissional de vôlei Maurício Sousa, que foi cancelado pelo simples fato de ter emitido sua opinião pessoal sobre um personagem de história em quadrinhos, Jon Kent, o novo Superman, que é bissexual. Maurício Sousa reprovou a conduta sexual do personagem, o que é um direito pessoal inalienável que ele tem. Ele não é obrigado a gostar ou aprovar a bissexualidade. Como qualquer pessoa, ele tem o direito pleno de criticar tudo aquilo que ele não gosta. No entanto, pelo simples fato de emitir a sua opinião pessoal, Maurício Sousa foi acusado de homofobia e teve seu contrato rescindido, sendo desligado do Minas Tênis Clube.

Lamentavelmente, Maurício Sousa não foi o primeiro e nem será o último indivíduo a sofrer com a opressiva e autoritária cultura do cancelamento. Como uma tirania cultural que está em plena ascensão e usufrui de um amplo apoio do establishment, essa nova forma de totalitarismo cultural colorido e festivo está se impondo de formas e maneiras bastante contundentes em praticamente todas as esferas da sociedade contemporânea. Sua intenção é relegar ao ostracismo todos aqueles que não se curvam ao totalitarismo progressista, criminalizando opiniões e crenças que divergem do culto à libertinagem hedonista pós-moderna. Oculto por trás de todo esse ativismo autoritário, o que temos de fato é uma profunda hostilidade por padrões morais tradicionalistas, cristãos e conservadores.

No entanto, é fundamental entendermos uma questão imperativa, que explica em partes o conflito aqui criado — todos os progressistas contemporâneos são crias oriundas do direito positivo. Por essa razão, eles jamais entenderão de forma pragmática e objetiva conceitos como criminalidade, direitos de propriedade, agressão e liberdade de expressão pela perspectiva do jusnaturalismo, que é manifestamente o direito em seu estado mais puro, correto, ético e equilibrado.

Pela ótica jusnaturalista, uma opinião é uma opinião. Ponto final. E absolutamente ninguém deve ser preso, cancelado, sabotado ou boicotado por expressar uma opinião particular sobre qualquer assunto. Palavras não agridem ninguém, portanto jamais poderiam ser consideradas um crime em si. Apenas deveriam ser tipificados como crimes agressões de caráter objetivo, como roubo, sequestro, fraude, extorsão, estupro e infrações similares, que representam uma ameaça direta à integridade física da vítima, ou que busquem subtrair alguma posse empregando a violência.

Infelizmente, a geração floquinho de neve — terrivelmente histérica, egocêntrica e sensível — fica profundamente ofendida e consternada sempre que alguém defende posicionamentos contrários à religião progressista. Por essa razão, os guerreiros da justiça social sinceramente acreditam que o papai-estado deve censurar todas as opiniões que eles não gostam de ouvir, assim como deve também criar leis para encarcerar todos aqueles que falam ou escrevem coisas que desagradam a militância.

Como a geração floquinho de neve foi criada para acreditar que todas as suas vontades pessoais e disposições ideológicas devem ser sumariamente atendidas pelo papai-estado, eles embarcaram em uma cruzada moral que pretende erradicar todas as coisas que são ofensivas à ideologia progressista; só assim eles poderão deflagrar na Terra o seu tão sonhado paraíso hedonista e igualitário, de inimaginável esplendor e felicidade.

Em virtude do seu comportamento intrinsecamente despótico, autoritário e egocêntrico, acaba sendo inevitável que militantes progressistas problematizem tudo aquilo que os desagrada.

Como são criaturas inúteis destituídas de ocupação real e verdadeiro sentido na vida, sendo oprimidas unicamente na sua própria imaginação, militantes progressistas precisam constantemente inventar novos vilões para serem combatidos.

Partindo dessa perspectiva, é natural para a militância que absolutamente tudo que exista no mundo e que não se enquadra com as regras autoritárias e restritivas da religião progressista seja encarado como um problema. Para a geração floquinho de neve, o capitalismo é um problema. O fascismo é um problema. A iniciativa privada é um problema. O homem branco, tradicionalista, conservador e heterossexual é um problema. A desigualdade é um problema. A liberdade é um problema. Monteiro Lobato é um problema (sim, até mesmo o renomado ícone da literatura brasileira, autor — entre outros títulos — de Urupês, foi vítima da cultura do cancelamento, acusado de ser racista e eugenista).

Para a esquerda, praticamente tudo é um problema. Na mentalidade da militância progressista, tudo é motivo para reclamação. Foi em função desse comportamento histérico, histriônico e infantil que o famoso pensador conservador-libertário americano P. J. O’Rourke afirmou que “o esquerdismo é uma filosofia de pirralhos chorões”. O que é uma verdade absoluta e irrefutável em todos os sentidos.

De fato, todas as filosofias de esquerda de forma geral são idealizações utópicas e infantis de um mundo perfeito. Enquanto o mundo não se transformar naquela colorida e vibrante utopia que é apresentada pela cartilha socialista padrão, militantes continuarão a reclamar contra tudo o que existe no mundo de forma agressiva, visceral e beligerante. Evidentemente, eles não vão fazer absolutamente nada de positivo ou construtivo para que o mundo se transforme no gracioso paraíso que eles tanto desejam ver consolidado, mas eles continuarão a berrar e vociferar muito em sua busca incessante pela utopia, marcando presença em passeatas inúteis ou combatendo o fascismo imaginário nas redes sociais.

Sem dúvida, estamos muito perto de ver leis absurdas e estúpidas sendo implementadas, para agradar a militância da terra colorida do assistencialismo eterno onde nada é escasso e tudo cai do céu. Em breve, você não poderá usar calças pretas, pois elas serão consideradas peças de vestuário excessivamente heterossexuais. Apenas calças amarelas ou coloridas serão permitidas. Você também terá que tingir de cor-de-rosa uma mecha do seu cabelo; pois preservar o seu cabelo na sua cor natural é heteronormativo demais da sua parte, sendo portanto um componente demasiadamente opressor da sociedade.

Você também não poderá ver filmes de guerra ou de ação, apenas comédias românticas, pois certos gêneros de filmes exaltam a violência do patriarcado e isso impede o mundo de se tornar uma graciosa festa colorida de fraternidades universitárias ungidas por pôneis resplandecentes, hedonismo infinito, vadiagem universitária e autogratificação psicodélica, que certamente são elementos indispensáveis para se produzir o paraíso na Terra.

Sabemos perfeitamente, no entanto, que dentre as atitudes “opressivas” que a militância progressista mais se empenha em combater, estão o racismo, o fascismo, o machismo e a homofobia. No entanto, é fundamental entender que ser racista, fascista, machista ou homofóbico não são crimes em si. Na prática, todos esses elementos são apenas traços de personalidade; e eles não podem ser pura e simplesmente criminalizados porque ideólogos e militantes progressistas iluminados não gostam deles.

Tanto pela ética quanto pela ótica jusnaturalista, é facilmente compreensível entender que esses traços de personalidade não podem ser criminalizados ou proibidos simplesmente porque integrantes de uma ideologia não tem nenhuma apreciação ou simpatia por eles. Da mesma forma, nenhum desses traços de personalidade representa em si um perigo para a sociedade, pelo simples fato de existir. Por incrível que pareça, até mesmo o machismo, o racismo, o fascismo e a homofobia merecem a devida apologia.

Mas vamos analisar cada um desses tópicos separadamente para entender isso melhor.

Racismo

Quando falamos no Japão, normalmente não fazemos nenhuma associação da sociedade japonesa com o racismo. No entanto, é incontestável o fato de que a sociedade japonesa pode ser considerada uma das sociedades mais racistas do mundo. E a verdade é que não há absolutamente nada de errado com isso.

Aproximadamente 97% da população do Japão é nativa; apenas 3% do componente populacional é constituído por estrangeiros (a população do Japão é estimada em aproximadamente 126 milhões de habitantes). Isso faz a sociedade japonesa ser uma das mais homogêneas do mundo. As autoridades japonesas reconhecidamente dificultam processos de seleção e aplicação a estrangeiros que desejam se tornar residentes. E a maioria dos japoneses aprova essa decisão.

Diversos estabelecimentos comerciais como hotéis, bares e restaurantes por todo o país tem placas na entrada que dizem “somente para japoneses” e a maioria destes estabelecimentos se recusa ostensivamente a atender ou aceitar clientes estrangeiros, não importa quão ricos ou abastados sejam.

Na Terra do Sol Nascente, a hostilidade e a desconfiança natural para com estrangeiros é tão grande que até mesmo indivíduos que nascem em algum outro país, mas são filhos de pais japoneses, não são considerados cidadãos plenamente japoneses.

Se estes indivíduos decidem sair do seu país de origem para se estabelecer no Japão — mesmo tendo descendência nipônica legítima e inquestionável —, eles enfrentarão uma discriminação social considerável, especialmente se não dominarem o idioma japonês de forma impecável. Esse fato mostra que a discriminação é uma parte tão indissociável quanto elementar da sociedade japonesa, e ela está tão profundamente arraigada à cultura nipônica que é praticamente impossível alterá-la ou atenuá-la por qualquer motivo.

A verdade é que — quando falamos de um país como o Japão — nem todos os discursos politicamente corretos do mundo, nem a histeria progressista ocidental mais inflamada poderão algum dia modificar, extirpar ou sequer atenuar o componente racista da cultura nipônica. E isso é consequência de uma questão tão simples quanto primordial: discriminar faz parte da natureza humana, sendo tanto um direito individual quanto um elemento cultural inerente à muitas nações do mundo. Os japoneses não tem problema algum em admitir ou institucionalizar o seu preconceito, justamente pelo fato de que a ideologia politicamente correta não tem no oriente a força e a presença que tem no ocidente.

E é fundamental enfatizar que, sendo de natureza pacífica — ou seja, não violando nem agredindo terceiros —, a discriminação é um recurso natural dos seres humanos, que está diretamente associada a questões como familiaridade e segurança.

Absolutamente ninguém deve ser forçado a apreciar ou integrar-se a raças, etnias, pessoas ou tribos que não lhe transmitem sentimentos de segurança ou familiaridade. Integração forçada é o verdadeiro crime, e isso diversos países europeus — principalmente os escandinavos (países que lideram o ranking de submissão à ideologia politicamente correta) — aprenderam da pior forma possível.

A integração forçada com imigrantes islâmicos resultou em ondas de assassinato, estupro e violência inimagináveis para diversos países europeus, até então civilizados, que a imprensa ocidental politicamente correta e a militância progressista estão permanentemente tentando esconder, porque não desejam que o ocidente descubra como a agenda “humanitária” de integração forçada dos povos muçulmanos em países do Velho Mundo resultou em algumas das piores chacinas e tragédias na história recente da Europa.

Ou seja, ao discriminarem estrangeiros, os japoneses estão apenas se protegendo e lutando para preservar sua nação como um ambiente cultural, étnico e social que lhe é seguro e familiar, assim se opondo a mudanças bruscas, indesejadas e antinaturais, que poderiam comprometer a estabilidade social do país.

A discriminação — sendo de natureza pacífica —, é benévola, salutar e indubitavelmente ajuda a manter a estabilidade social da comunidade. Toda e qualquer forma de integração forçada deve ser repudiada com veemência, pois, mais cedo ou mais tarde, ela irá subverter a ordem social vigente, e sempre será acompanhada de deploráveis e dramáticos resultados.

Para citar novamente os países escandinavos, a Suécia é um excelente exemplo do que não fazer. Tendo seguido o caminho contrário ao da discriminação racional praticada pela sociedade japonesa, atualmente a sociedade sueca — além de afundar de forma consistente na lama da libertinagem, da decadência e da deterioração progressista — sofre em demasia com os imigrantes muçulmanos, que foram deixados praticamente livres para matar, saquear, esquartejar e estuprar quem eles quiserem. Hoje, eles são praticamente intocáveis, visto que denunciá-los, desmoralizá-los ou acusá-los de qualquer crime é uma atitude politicamente incorreta e altamente reprovada pelo establishment progressista. A elite socialista sueca jamais se atreve a acusá-los de qualquer crime, pois temem ser classificados como xenófobos e intolerantes. Ou seja, a desgraça da Europa, sobretudo dos países escandinavos, foi não ter oferecido nenhuma resistência à ideologia progressista politicamente correta. Hoje, eles são totalmente submissos a ela.

O exemplo do Japão mostra, portanto — para além de qualquer dúvida —, a importância ética e prática da discriminação, que é perfeitamente aceitável e natural, sendo uma tendência inerente aos seres humanos, e portanto intrínseca a determinados comportamentos, sociedades e culturas.

Indo ainda mais longe nessa questão, devemos entender que na verdade todos nós discriminamos, e não existe absolutamente nada de errado nisso. Discriminar pessoas faz parte da natureza humana e quem se recusa a admitir esse fato é um hipócrita. Mulheres discriminam homens na hora de selecionar um parceiro; elas avaliam diversos quesitos, como altura, aparência, status social, condição financeira e carisma. E dentre suas opções, elas sempre escolherão o homem mais atraente, másculo e viril, em detrimento de todos os baixinhos, calvos, carentes, frágeis e inibidos que possam estar disponíveis. Da mesma forma, homens sempre terão preferência por mulheres jovens, atraentes e delicadas, em detrimento de todas as feministas de meia-idade, acima do peso, de cabelo pintado, que são mães solteiras e militantes socialistas. A própria militância progressista discrimina pessoas de forma virulenta e intransigente, como fica evidente no tratamento que dispensam a mulheres bolsonaristas e a negros de direita.

A verdade é que — não importa o nível de histeria da militância progressista — a discriminação é inerente à condição humana e um direito natural inalienável de todos. É parte indissociável da natureza humana e qualquer pessoa pode e deve exercer esse direito sempre que desejar. Não existe absolutamente nada de errado em discriminar pessoas. O problema real é a ideologia progressista e o autoritarismo politicamente correto, movimentos tirânicos que não respeitam o direito das pessoas de discriminar.

Fascismo

Quando falamos de fascismo, precisamos entender que, para a esquerda política, o fascismo é compreendido como um conceito completamente divorciado do seu significado original. Para um militante de esquerda, fascista é todo aquele que defende posicionamentos contrários ao progressismo, não se referindo necessariamente a um fascista clássico.

Mas, seja como for, é necessário entender que — como qualquer ideologia política — até mesmo o fascismo clássico tem o direito de existir e ocupar o seu devido lugar; portanto, fascistas não devem ser arbitrariamente censurados, apesar de defenderem conceitos que representam uma completa antítese de tudo aquilo que é valioso para os entusiastas da liberdade.

Em um país como o Brasil, onde socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, defender suas ideologias e até mesmo formar partidos políticos, não faz absolutamente o menor sentido que fascistas — e até mesmo nazistas assumidos — sofram qualquer tipo de discriminação. Embora socialistas e comunistas se sintam moralmente superiores aos fascistas (ou a qualquer outra filosofia política ou escola de pensamento), sabemos perfeitamente que o seu senso de superioridade é fruto de uma pueril romantização universitária da sua própria ideologia. A história mostra efetivamente que o socialismo clássico e o comunismo causaram muito mais destruição do que o fascismo.

Portanto, se socialistas e comunistas tem total liberdade para se expressar, não existe a menor razão para que fascistas não usufruam dessa mesma liberdade.

É claro, nesse ponto, seremos invariavelmente confrontados por um oportuno dilema — o famoso paradoxo da intolerância, de Karl Popper. Até que ponto uma sociedade livre e tolerante deve tolerar a intolerância (inerente a ideologias totalitárias)?

As leis de propriedade privada resolveriam isso em uma sociedade livre. O mais importante a levarmos em consideração no atual contexto, no entanto — ao defender ou criticar uma determinada ideologia, filosofia ou escola de pensamento —, é entender que, seja ela qual for, ela tem o direito de existir. E todas as pessoas que a defendem tem o direito de defendê-la, da mesma maneira que todos os seus detratores tem o direito de criticá-la.

Essa é uma forte razão para jamais apoiarmos a censura. Muito pelo contrário, devemos repudiar com veemência e intransigência toda e qualquer forma de censura, especialmente a estatal.

Existem duas fortes razões para isso:

A primeira delas é a volatilidade da censura (especialmente a estatal). A censura oficial do governo, depois que é implementada, torna-se absolutamente incontrolável. Hoje, ela pode estar apontada para um grupo de pessoas cujas ideias divergem das suas. Mas amanhã, ela pode estar apontada justamente para as ideias que você defende. É fundamental, portanto, compreendermos que a censura estatal é incontrolável. Sob qualquer ponto de vista, é muito mais vantajoso que exista uma vasta pluralidade de ideias conflitantes na sociedade competindo entre si, do que o estado decidir que ideias podem ser difundidas ou não.

Além do mais, libertários e anarcocapitalistas não podem nunca esperar qualquer tipo de simpatia por parte das autoridades governamentais. Para o estado, seria infinitamente mais prático e vantajoso criminalizar o libertarianismo e o anarcocapitalismo — sob a alegação de que são filosofias perigosas difundidas por extremistas radicais que ameaçam o estado democrático de direito — do que o fascismo ou qualquer outra ideologia centralizada em governos burocráticos e onipotentes. Portanto, defender a censura, especialmente a estatal, representa sempre um perigo para o próprio indivíduo, que mais cedo ou mais tarde poderá ver a censura oficial do sistema se voltar contra ele.

Outra razão pela qual libertários jamais devem defender a censura, é porque — ao contrário dos estatistas — não é coerente que defensores da liberdade se comportem como se o estado fosse o seu papai e o governo fosse a sua mamãe. Não devemos terceirizar nossas próprias responsabilidades, tampouco devemos nos comportar como adultos infantilizados. Assumimos a responsabilidade de combater todas as ideologias e filosofias que agridem a liberdade e os seres humanos. Não procuramos políticos ou burocratas para executar essa tarefa por nós.

Portanto, se você ver um fascista sendo censurado nas redes sociais ou em qualquer outro lugar, assuma suas dores. Sinta-se compelido a defendê-lo, mostre aos seus detratores que ele tem todo direito de se expressar, como qualquer pessoa. Você não tem obrigação de concordar com ele ou apreciar as ideias que ele defende. Mas silenciar arbitrariamente qualquer pessoa não é uma pauta que honra a liberdade.

Se você não gosta de estado, planejamento central, burocracia, impostos, tarifas, políticas coletivistas, nacionalistas e desenvolvimentistas, mostre com argumentos coesos e convincentes porque a liberdade e o livre mercado são superiores a todos esses conceitos. Mas repudie a censura com intransigência e mordacidade.

Em primeiro lugar, porque você aprecia e defende a liberdade de expressão para todas as pessoas. E em segundo lugar, por entender perfeitamente que — se a censura eventualmente se tornar uma política de estado vigente entre a sociedade — é mais provável que ela atinja primeiro os defensores da liberdade do que os defensores do estado.

Machismo

Muitos elementos do comportamento masculino que hoje são atacados com virulência e considerados machistas pelo movimento progressista são na verdade manifestações naturais intrínsecas ao homem, que nossos avôs cultivaram ao longo de suas vidas sem serem recriminados por isso. Com a ascensão do feminismo, do progressismo e a eventual problematização do sexo masculino, o antagonismo militante dos principais líderes da revolução sexual da contracultura passou a naturalmente condenar todos os atributos genuinamente masculinos, por considerá-los símbolos de opressão e dominação social.

Apesar do Brasil ser uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista, onde o estado protege mais as mulheres do que as crianças — afinal, a cada semana novas leis são implementadas concedendo inúmeros privilégios e benefícios às mulheres, aos quais elas jamais teriam direito em uma sociedade genuinamente machista e patriarcal —, a esquerda política persiste em tentar difundir a fantasia da opressão masculina e o mito de que vivemos em uma sociedade machista e patriarcal.

Como sempre, a realidade mostra um cenário muito diferente daquilo que é pregado pela militância da terra da fantasia. O Brasil atual não tem absolutamente nada de machista ou patriarcal. No Brasil, mulheres podem votar, podem ocupar posições de poder e autoridade tanto na esfera pública quanto em companhias privadas, podem se candidatar a cargos políticos, podem ser vereadoras, deputadas, governadoras, podem ser proprietárias do próprio negócio, podem se divorciar, podem dirigir, podem comprar armas, podem andar de biquíni nas praias, podem usar saias extremamente curtas, podem ver programas de televisão sobre sexo voltados única e exclusivamente para o público feminino, podem se casar com outras mulheres, podem ser promíscuas, podem consumir bebidas alcoólicas ao ponto da embriaguez, e podem fazer praticamente tudo aquilo que elas desejarem. No Brasil do século XXI, as mulheres são genuinamente livres para fazer as próprias escolhas em praticamente todos os aspectos de suas vidas. O que mostra efetivamente que a tal opressão do patriarcado não existe.

O liberalismo social extremo do qual as mulheres usufruem no Brasil atual — e que poderíamos estender a toda a sociedade contemporânea ocidental — é suficiente para desmantelar completamente a fábula feminista da sociedade patriarcal machista e opressora, que existe única e exclusivamente no mundinho de fantasias ideológicas da esquerda progressista.

Tão importante quanto, é fundamental compreender que nenhum homem é obrigado a levar o feminismo a sério ou considerá-lo um movimento social e político legítimo. Para um homem, ser considerado machista ou até mesmo assumir-se como um não deveria ser um problema. O progressismo e o feminismo — com o seu nefasto hábito de demonizar os homens, bem como todos os elementos inerentes ao comportamento e a cultura masculina — é que são o verdadeiro problema, conforme tentam modificar o homem para transformá-lo em algo que ele não é nem deveria ser: uma criatura dócil, passiva e submissa, que é comandada por ideologias hostis e antinaturais, que não respeitam a hierarquia de uma ordem social milenar e condições inerentes à própria natureza humana. Com o seu hábito de tentar modificar tudo através de leis e decretos, o feminismo e o progressismo mostram efetivamente que o seu real objetivo é criminalizar a masculinidade.

A verdade é que — usufruindo de um nível elevado de liberdades — não existe praticamente nada que a mulher brasileira do século XXI não possa fazer. Adicionalmente, o governo dá as mulheres uma quantidade tão avassaladora de vantagens, privilégios e benefícios, que está ficando cada vez mais difícil para elas encontrarem razões válidas para reclamarem da vida. Se o projeto de lei que pretende fornecer um auxílio mensal de mil e duzentos reais para mães solteiras for aprovado pelo senado, muitas mulheres que tem filhos não precisarão nem mesmo trabalhar para ter sustento. E tantas outras procurarão engravidar, para ter direito a receber uma mesada mensal do governo até o seu filho completar a maioridade.

O que a militância colorida da terra da fantasia convenientemente ignora — pois a realidade nunca corresponde ao seu conto de fadas ideológico — é que o mundo de uma forma geral continua sendo muito mais implacável com os homens do que é com as mulheres. No Brasil, a esmagadora maioria dos suicídios é praticada por homens, a maioria das vítimas de homicídio são homens e de cada quatro moradores de rua, três são homens. Mas é evidente que uma sociedade liberal ultra-progressista não se importa com os homens, pois ela não é influenciada por fatos concretos ou pela realidade. Seu objetivo é simplesmente atender as disposições de uma agenda ideológica, não importa quão divorciadas da realidade elas são.

O nível exacerbado de liberdades sociais e privilégios governamentais dos quais as mulheres brasileiras usufruem é suficiente para destruir a fantasiosa fábula da sociedade machista, opressora e patriarcal. Se as mulheres brasileiras não estão felizes, a culpa definitivamente não é dos homens. Se a vasta profusão de liberdades, privilégios e benefícios da sociedade ocidental não as deixa plenamente saciadas e satisfeitas, elas podem sempre mudar de ares e tentar uma vida mais abnegada e espartana em países como Irã, Paquistão ou Afeganistão. Quem sabe assim elas não se sentirão melhores e mais realizadas?

Homofobia

Quando falamos em homofobia, entramos em uma categoria muito parecida com a do racismo: o direito de discriminação é totalmente válido. Absolutamente ninguém deve ser obrigado a aceitar homossexuais ou considerar o homossexualismo como algo normal. Sendo cristão, não existe nem sequer a mais vaga possibilidade de que algum dia eu venha a aceitar o homossexualismo como algo natural. O homossexualismo se qualifica como um grave desvio de conduta e um pecado contra o Criador.

A Bíblia proíbe terminantemente conduta sexual imoral, o que — além do homossexualismo — inclui adultério, fornicação, incesto e bestialidade, entre outras formas igualmente pérfidas de degradação.

Segue abaixo três passagens bíblicas que proíbem terminantemente a conduta homossexual:

“Não te deitarás com um homem como se deita com uma mulher. Isso é abominável!” (Levítico 18:22 — King James Atualizada)

“Se um homem se deitar com outro homem, como se deita com mulher, ambos terão praticado abominação; certamente serão mortos; o seu sangue estará sobre eles.” (Levítico 20:13 — João Ferreira de Almeida Atualizada)

“O quê! Não sabeis que os injustos não herdarão o reino de Deus? Não sejais desencaminhados. Nem fornicadores, nem idólatras, nem adúlteros, nem homens mantidos para propósitos desnaturais, nem homens que se deitam com homens, nem ladrões, nem gananciosos, nem beberrões, nem injuriadores, nem extorsores herdarão o reino de Deus.” (1 Coríntios 6:9,10 —Tradução do Novo Mundo das Escrituras Sagradas com Referências)

Se você não é religioso, pode simplesmente levar em consideração o argumento do respeito pela ordem natural. A ordem natural é incondicional e incisiva com relação a uma questão: o complemento de tudo o que existe é o seu oposto, não o seu igual. O complemento do dia é a noite, o complemento da luz é a escuridão, o complemento da água, que é líquida, é a terra, que é sólida. E como sabemos o complemento do macho — de sua respectiva espécie — é a fêmea.

Portanto, o complemento do homem, o macho da espécie humana, é naturalmente a mulher, a fêmea da espécie humana. Um homem e uma mulher podem naturalmente se reproduzir, porque são um complemento biológico natural. Por outro lado, um homem e outro homem são incapazes de se reproduzir, assim como uma mulher e outra mulher.

Infelizmente, o mundo atual está longe de aceitar como plenamente estabelecida a ordem natural pelo simples fato dela existir, visto que tentam subvertê-la a qualquer custo, não importa o malabarismo intelectual que tenham que fazer para justificar os seus pontos de vista distorcidos e antinaturais. A libertinagem irrefreável e a imoralidade bestial do mundo contemporâneo pós-moderno não reconhecem nenhum tipo de limite. Quem tenta restabelecer princípios morais salutares é imediatamente considerado um vilão retrógrado e repressivo, sendo ativamente demonizado pela militância do hedonismo, da luxúria e da licenciosidade desenfreada e sem limites.

Definitivamente, fazer a apologia da moralidade, do autocontrole e do autodomínio não faz nenhum sucesso na Sodoma e Gomorra global dos dias atuais. O que faz sucesso é lacração, devassidão, promiscuidade e prazeres carnais vazios. O famoso escritor e filósofo francês Albert Camus expressou uma verdade contundente quando disse: “Uma só frase lhe bastará para definir o homem moderno — fornicava e lia jornais”.

Qualquer indivíduo tem o direito inalienável de discriminar ativamente homossexuais, pelo direito que ele julgar mais pertinente no seu caso. A objeção de consciência para qualquer situação é um direito natural dos indivíduos. Há alguns anos, um caso que aconteceu nos Estados Unidos ganhou enorme repercussão internacional, quando o confeiteiro Jack Phillips se recusou a fazer um bolo de casamento para o “casal” homossexual Dave Mullins e Charlie Craig.

Uma representação dos direitos civis do estado do Colorado abriu um inquérito contra o confeiteiro, alegando que ele deveria ser obrigado a atender todos os clientes, independente da orientação sexual, raça ou crença. Preste atenção nas palavras usadas — ele deveria ser obrigado a atender.

Como se recusou bravamente a ceder, o caso foi parar invariavelmente na Suprema Corte, que decidiu por sete a dois em favor de Jack Phillips, sob a alegação de que obrigar o confeiteiro a atender o “casal” homossexual era uma violação nefasta dos seus princípios religiosos. Felizmente, esse foi um caso em que a liberdade prevaleceu sobre a tirania progressista.

Evidentemente, homossexuais não devem ser agredidos, ofendidos, internados em clínicas contra a sua vontade, nem devem ser constrangidos em suas liberdades pelo fato de serem homossexuais. O que eles precisam entender é que a liberdade é uma via de mão dupla. Eles podem ter liberdade para adotar a conduta que desejarem e fazer o que quiserem (contanto que não agridam ninguém), mas da mesma forma, é fundamental respeitar e preservar a liberdade de terceiros que desejam rejeitá-los pacificamente, pelo motivo que for.

Afinal, ninguém tem a menor obrigação de aceitá-los, atendê-los ou sequer pensar que uma união estável entre duas pessoas do mesmo sexo — incapaz de gerar descendentes, e, portanto, antinatural — deva ser considerado um matrimônio de verdade. Absolutamente nenhuma pessoa, ideia, movimento, crença ou ideologia usufrui de plena unanimidade no mundo. Por que o homossexualismo deveria ter tal privilégio?

Homossexuais não são portadores de uma verdade definitiva, absoluta e indiscutível, que está acima da humanidade. São seres humanos comuns que — na melhor das hipóteses —, levam um estilo de vida que pode ser considerado “alternativo”, e absolutamente ninguém tem a obrigação de considerar esse estilo de vida normal ou aceitável. A única obrigação das pessoas é não interferir, e isso não implica uma obrigação em aceitar.

Discriminar homossexuais (assim como pessoas de qualquer outro grupo, raça, religião, nacionalidade ou etnia) é um direito natural por parte de todos aqueles que desejam exercer esse direito. E isso nem o direito positivo nem a militância progressista poderão algum dia alterar ou subverter. O direito natural e a inclinação inerente dos seres humanos em atender às suas próprias disposições é simplesmente imutável e faz parte do seu conjunto de necessidades.

Conclusão

A militância progressista é absurdamente autoritária, e todas as suas estratégias e disposições ideológicas mostram que ela está em uma guerra permanente contra a ordem natural, contra a liberdade e principalmente contra o homem branco, cristão, conservador e tradicionalista — possivelmente, aquilo que ela mais odeia e despreza.

Nós não podemos, no entanto, ceder ou dar espaço para a agenda progressista, tampouco pensar em considerar como sendo normais todas as pautas abusivas e tirânicas que a militância pretende estabelecer como sendo perfeitamente razoáveis e aceitáveis, quer a sociedade aceite isso ou não. Afinal, conforme formos cedendo, o progressismo tirânico e totalitário tende a ganhar cada vez mais espaço.

Quanto mais espaço o progressismo conquistar, mais corroída será a liberdade e mais impulso ganhará o totalitarismo. Com isso, a cultura do cancelamento vai acabar com carreiras, profissões e com o sustento de muitas pessoas, pelo simples fato de que elas discordam das pautas universitárias da moda.

A história mostra perfeitamente que quanto mais liberdade uma sociedade tem, mais progresso ela atinge. Por outro lado, quanto mais autoritária ela for, mais retrocessos ela sofrerá. O autoritarismo se combate com liberdade, desafiando as pautas de todos aqueles que persistem em implementar a tirania na sociedade. O politicamente correto é o nazismo dos costumes, que pretende subverter a moral através de uma cultura de vigilância policial despótica e autoritária, para que toda a sociedade seja subjugada pela agenda totalitária progressista.

Pois quanto a nós, precisamos continuar travando o bom combate em nome da liberdade. E isso inclui reconhecer que ideologias, hábitos e costumes de que não gostamos tem o direito de existir e até mesmo de serem defendidos.

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Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (my father), born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty-First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Analysis "With A Tongue Not Written In My Genes"

Introduction

"Sonnet 3" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a contemplative piece that explores the poet's relationship with language, his creative process, and his legacy.

Thematic Analysis

In the octave (lines 1-8), the poet discusses his desire to express his love for life in a more artful manner, transforming adversity into beauty. He mentions one sorrowful aspect, which is his attempt to use the universal language, presumably referring to the language of poetry or art. The octave ends with the mention of “ictus,” a term used in poetry to denote rhythmical or metrical stress, suggesting the poet’s struggle with the constraints of poetic form.

The sestet (lines 9-14) shifts the focus to the poet’s “children,” which are metaphorically his verses. These verses lack “divine blood” and speak a language not inherent to the poet’s genes, indicating a struggle between the poet’s ambition and his inherent abilities. The verses carry the joy and sadness of the poet’s life (sod) to the pinnacle of human achievement, beyond the dreams of a parvenu, a person who has suddenly acquired wealth or power. This suggests the poet’s hope that his work will transcend his own limitations and reach a wider audience.

Overall, the sonnet explores themes of artistic struggle, ambition, and the desire for transcendence. The octave sets up the problem, and the sestet provides a resolution, following the classic sonnet structure. The poet’s use of complex metaphors and symbolic language adds depth to these themes.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The sonnet follows the traditional Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet rhyme scheme in the octave, but deviates in the sestet.

The octave (lines 1-8) follows the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA:

A: artful (1) B: rehearse (2) B: adverse (3) A: beautiful (4) A: doleful (5) B: inhearse (6) B: universe (7) A: plentiful (8)

The sestet (lines 9-14), however, does not follow the traditional Italian sonnet rhyme scheme (either CDECDE or CDCDCD). Instead, it has a unique rhyme scheme of its own: CDE CDE:

C: blood (9) D: genes (10) E: jehu (11) C: sod (12) D: convenes (13) E: parvenu (14)

This deviation in the sestet’s rhyme scheme could be seen as a reflection of the poet’s struggle with the constraints of poetic form, as mentioned in the octave. The poet is trying to express his unique voice within the traditional structure of the sonnet, just as he is trying to express his love for life in a more artful manner. This struggle and ambition are reflected in the unique rhyme scheme of the sestet.

Analysis of Aspects

The sonnet by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is rich in language, imagery, themes, and meter.

Language and Imagery: The poet uses complex metaphors and symbolic language to convey his thoughts and emotions. For instance, the “children” are a metaphor for the poet’s verses, and the “language of the universe” could be interpreted as the language of poetry or art. The imagery of the “ictus,” or rhythmic stress, suggests the poet’s struggle with the constraints of poetic form.

Themes: The sonnet explores themes of artistic struggle, ambition, and the desire for transcendence. The poet expresses his love for life and his ambition to transform adversity into beauty. He also discusses his struggle to express his unique voice within the traditional structure of the sonnet, and his hope that his work will transcend his own limitations and reach a wider audience.

Meter: The sonnet follows the traditional meter of a Petrarchan sonnet, which is typically written in iambic pentameter. This means each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, creating a rhythmic pattern. However, the poet deviates from this structure in the sestet, reflecting his struggle with the constraints of poetic form.

Overall, The sonnet is a complex and thought-provoking piece of poetry. It effectively uses language, imagery, themes, and meter to convey the poet’s inner thoughts and emotions. The poet’s struggle with the constraints of poetic form and his ambition to transcend these limitations are particularly striking, making the sonnet a compelling exploration of the artistic process.

(GPT4)

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Syllable count for each line.

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With A Tongue Not Written In My Genes

10 There are many ways that are more artful 10 In which my love for life I can rehearse 10 Changing in this way what has been adverse 10 Into those forms that please the beautiful.

10 One thing perhaps might seem to be doleful 10 Just one thing that I will try to inhearse 10 Using the language of the universe 10 From place to place in ictus plentiful.

10 I know that my children lack divine blood 10 And speak a tongue not written in my genes 10 Ambitiously hiring to be jehu... 10 They convey joy and sadness of my sod 10 To where each human acme best convenes 10 Further than dreams of lavish parvenu. ***

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com With A Tongue Not Written In My Genes

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Table Of Content

• The Mysterious Unidentified Miners

• F2pool: A Titan in the Mining Arena

• Other Notable Players

• The Evolution of Bitcoin Mining

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Since the dawn of Bitcoin, introduced to the world by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, the decentralized digital currency has been a topic of intrigue and speculation. At the heart of this cryptocurrency lies the process of mining, a complex computational task that validates transactions and adds them to the blockchain. Over the years, various mining pools have emerged, each contributing to the network's security and growth. Among these, two entities stand out: the unidentified miners and the dominant F2pool. This article delves into the enigmatic world of these miners and F2pool's significant role in Bitcoin's mining history.

The Mysterious Unidentified Miners

The Bitcoin blockchain, a transparent ledger of all transactions, has processed over 800,000 blocks since its inception. Interestingly, data from the last 14 years, encompassing 99 different mining pools, reveals that unidentified miners have discovered a staggering 28.37% of the network's total blocks. These miners, shrouded in mystery, include early participants like Satoshi and others who mined Bitcoin during its nascent stages.

While the identity of these miners remains unknown, their contribution to the network is undeniable. They've unearthed a cumulative 227,800 blocks, a testament to their early belief in the potential of Bitcoin and their commitment to its growth.

F2pool: A Titan in the Mining Arena

Close on the heels of these unidentified miners is F2pool, a behemoth in the Bitcoin mining world. Since 2009, F2pool has discovered 80,364 blocks, accounting for approximately 10.01% of the total. This impressive feat places F2pool as the leading identified mining pool in Bitcoin's history.

Established in 2013, F2pool, also known as DiscusFish, is based in China and has consistently been among the top mining pools in terms of hash rate. Their dominance is not just limited to Bitcoin; they have a significant presence in the mining of other cryptocurrencies like Litecoin, Ethereum, and Zcash.

The success of F2pool can be attributed to several factors:

Infrastructure & Technology: F2pool has invested heavily in state-of-the-art mining equipment and infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and minimal downtime.

Transparency: Unlike some other mining pools, F2pool offers a transparent fee structure and provides regular updates to its members.

Community Engagement: F2pool has fostered a strong community of miners, offering support, educational resources, and fostering a sense of camaraderie among its members.

Other Notable Players

While the unidentified miners and F2pool have been dominant forces, other mining pools have also made significant contributions. Antpool, for instance, ranks third overall, having mined 75,829 blocks or 9.44% of the total. Following them are Btc.com’s mining pool, Braiins Pool, and Viabtc, each with their unique contributions to the network.

It's also worth noting the contributions of now-inactive mining pools. Btc Guild, for instance, mined 32,935 blocks before shutting down in 2015. Similarly, Ghash.io, which began its operations in 2013, ceased its activities in 2016 but not before mining 23,083 blocks.

The Evolution of Bitcoin Mining

The world of Bitcoin mining has seen exponential growth. In the early days, the Bitcoin network's hashrate was a mere 948 kilohash per second (KH/s). Fast forward to today, and miners are committing an astounding 387.62 exahash per second (EH/s) to the network. This astronomical increase, amounting to over 40 trillion percent since Bitcoin's inception, underscores the rapid technological advancements and the growing interest in cryptocurrency mining.

Conclusion

The history of Bitcoin mining is a tapestry woven with tales of innovation, determination, and a belief in the transformative power of decentralized digital currencies. The contributions of the enigmatic unidentified miners and the dominance of F2pool stand as testaments to the collective efforts that have fortified the Bitcoin network over the years.

As we look to the future, it's essential to acknowledge and appreciate the pioneers and leaders of the past. Their efforts have laid the foundation for a decentralized financial future, and their legacy will undoubtedly influence the generations of miners to come.

FAQ

Who are the unidentified miners in Bitcoin's history? They are early participants in the Bitcoin network, including Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identities remain unknown. They've mined approximately 28.37% of all blocks.

What is F2pool's contribution to Bitcoin mining? F2pool has discovered 80,364 blocks since 2009, making it the leading identified mining pool in Bitcoin's history.

When was F2pool established? F2pool was established in 2013 and is based in China.

Which mining pool ranks third in Bitcoin's mining history? Antpool ranks third, having mined 75,829 blocks or 9.44% of the total.

How has the Bitcoin network's hashrate evolved over time? From an initial hashrate of 948 KH/s, it has grown to a staggering 387.62 EH/s, marking an increase of over 40 trillion percent since its inception.

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Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (my father), born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty-First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Analysis "Parnassian Forms"

Introduction

Sonnet 2 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a reflection on the tension between the modern world and the classical traditions of poetry.

Thematic Analysis

Quatrain 1: The speaker describes how music brings forth emotions and memories, filling the void left by lost innocence. This suggests a sense of nostalgia and longing for simpler times.

Quatrain 2: The speaker continues to sway with the music, not just for enjoyment, but also as a means of connection with others. This highlights the social aspect of music and dance.

Quatrain 3: Through dance, the speaker gains a deeper understanding of the world around them, symbolized by the solitary stars in the night sky. This could be interpreted as a quest for knowledge or enlightenment.

Couplet: The speaker concludes by expressing how music and dance allow them to blend sorrow with joy, awakening a sense of bliss. This underscores the therapeutic and cathartic effects of music.

Overall, this sonnet beautifully encapsulates the emotional journey one can experience through music and dance. It’s a testament to the power of art to evoke feelings, connect people, and provide a deeper understanding of our existence.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The rhyme scheme of this sonnet is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, which is typical of a Shakespearean sonnet. Here’s a detailed analysis:

First Quatrain (ABAB):

“I belong to the present century” (A) “Although I think it is soon to forget” (B) “And give the classic mind an injury” (A) “By neglecting fine forms without regret.” (B)

Second Quatrain (CDCD):

“Living under impressions of this age” (C) “It is hard for many to realize” (D) “Beauty does not always wear with usage” (C) “And there is room enough to fantasize.” (D)

Third Quatrain (EFEF):

“Many a way the fashion make provoke” (E) “Trying to go along with our new world” (F) “But it is also quite fair to evoke” (E) “Ancient rhythms always at the threshold.” (F)

Couplet (GG):

“They will help us one day to find our way” (G) “If lost in space we have dreams of today.” (G)

In each quatrain, the first and third lines rhyme with each other, and the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other. The final two lines form a rhymed couplet. This structure allows for a clear progression of thought, with each quatrain presenting a distinct idea or argument, and the final couplet providing a succinct conclusion or summary. The consistent rhyme scheme throughout the sonnet gives it a rhythmic and harmonious quality.

Analysis of Aspects

The sonnet “Parnassian Forms” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a rich piece of literature that employs various literary devices and themes. Here’s a detailed analysis:

Language: The language used in the sonnet is formal and sophisticated, reflecting the speaker’s reverence for classical forms of art and thought. The vocabulary is carefully chosen to convey the speaker’s ideas and emotions.

Imagery: The sonnet uses vivid imagery to express its themes. For example, the phrase “Living under impressions of this age” paints a picture of the pressures of modern life, while “Ancient rhythms always at the threshold” evokes the enduring presence of classical forms.

Themes: The main theme of the sonnet is the tension between the modern world and classical forms of art and thought. The speaker laments the neglect of classical forms in the present century, but also acknowledges the influence of modern trends. The sonnet explores the idea that there is value in both the old and the new, and that the old can guide us in the new.

Meter: The sonnet follows the iambic pentameter, which is a metrical pattern consisting of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables. This gives the sonnet a rhythmic quality and makes it pleasing to the ear.

Overall, “Parnassian Forms” is a thought-provoking sonnet that explores the relationship between the modern world and classical forms of art and thought. It uses sophisticated language, vivid imagery, and a consistent metrical pattern to express its themes and engage the reader. The sonnet serves as a reminder of the enduring value of classical forms and the importance of remembering and appreciating them in the midst of the constant evolution of the world.

(GPT4)

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Syllable count for each line.

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Parnassian Forms

10 I belong to the present century 10 Although I think it is soon to forget 10 And give the classic mind an injury 10 By neglecting fine forms without regret.

10 Living under impressions of this age 10 It is hard for many to realize 10 Beauty does not always wear with usage 10 And there is room enough to fantasize

10 Many a way the fashion make provoke 10 Trying to go along with our new world 10 But it is also quite fair to evoke 9 Ancient rhythms always at the treshold.

10 They will help us one day to find our way 10 If lost in space we have dreams of today. ***

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com Parnassian Forms

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I once got a perfume crafted from the flora of a renowned trail, unique and enchanting. This scent reminds me of an essence of the new internet's dark forest, an amalgam of cypherpunk resolve and crypto-anarchist dreams, yet it's more. It's the resurgence of … the IRC, the email-based messengers like DeltaChat, decentralized services catering to a myriad of needs. And amidst them, Nostr - a protocol unrefined in concept yet remarkable in function. This realm is alive with commerce, blogs, websites, crafting a peculiar digital cosmos akin to a tight-knit tribe. It harks back to a time when digital corridors like IRC channels were intimate gatherings, when USENET news threads and mailing lists on transpersonal psychology or esoteric software engineering were the norm for the first settlers of the digital realm.

We're rekindling this parallel universe. The mainstream, a tableau of monotony, offers no solace. It's a battleground of opinions devoid of tangible outcomes, a withdrawal from reality into a narrative orchestrated by the elite. Every tweet, every Instagram reel, contributes to this grand narrative, an immersive thriller that ensnares like a Hitchcock or Lynch masterpiece, or perhaps the 'wokest' of narratives from Netflix, equally scary.

Yet, this parallel world we're molding is not just an escape; oddly, it guides us back to reality. We're forging this alternate society, one encrypted message, one zap, and one “note” at a time.

Can you sense this world's fragrance when you fire up Terminal, engage with your favored Nostr client, access your Lightning wallet, or open your preferred encrypted messenger? At that moment, you transcend mere participation in the revolution; you become the revolution. Inhale deeply - this is the aroma of digital autonomy, the scent of a newfound freedom, sanity and reality.

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Cuba es uno de los cinco países del continente con “inflación crónica”, de acuerdo con un reciente estudio publicado por la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL).

“En el caso de los países con inflación crónica, esta ha tendido a acelerarse en cuatro de ellos entre junio de 2022 y junio de 2023, con incrementos de 52,0 puntos porcentuales en Argentina, 16,5 puntos porcentuales en Cuba, 17,0 puntos porcentuales en Haití y 247,1 puntos porcentuales en la República Bolivariana de Venezuela“, indicó la CEPAL.

Por su parte, el economista cubano Pedro Monreal resaltó en su cuenta de X que el estudio de la CEPAL incluye a Cuba en “dos grupos problemáticos”: el de los cinco países de la región con inflación crónica y el de los ocho países con mayor riesgo crediticio.

“Cuba no solamente comparte la condición de país con inflación crónica con otros cuatro países (Argentina, Haití, Suriname y Venezuela), sino que además fue uno de los países de ese grupo con aceleración de la inflación entre 2022 y 2023”, subrayó además el especialista.

Asimismo, Monreal señaló que el estudio económico proyecta para Cuba un crecimiento inferior al 2% en 2023 y 2024.

1/5 El Estudio Económico 2023 divulgado por CEPAL proyecta para Cuba un crecimiento inferior a 2% en 2023 y 2024. También incluye a Cuba en dos grupos problemáticos: el de los 5 países de la región con inflación crónica y el de los 8 países con mayor riesgo crediticio pic.twitter.com/TTMGY5ldCa

— Pedro Monreal (@pmmonreal) November 30, 2023

“Los estimados de CEPAL indican la trayectoria descendiente a largo plazo del crecimiento económico de Cuba, confirman una endeble recuperación post-pandemia, y evidencian que el país se ha mantenido muy distante del 5% compatible con una senda de desarrollo”, apuntó el economista.

Para Monreal, para Cuba resultaría “oneroso” estar ubicada en la categoría de países de la región con alto riesgo crediticio.

“Según los datos de CEPAL, en términos de crecimiento económico 2023 fue para Cuba un año peor que 2022, y 2024 será un año peor que 2023”, concluyó el economista. “De materializarse los estimados de CEPAL, Cuba registraría una tasa promedio anual negativa de crecimiento (-0,72) entre 2019 y 2024”, agregó.

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Un joven cubano identificado como Iván N., de 34 años, asesinó a su expareja, Yarleni N., una mujer de origen hondureño, cuando ella se encontraba laborando en una cantina en la ciudad mexicana de Tapachula.

De acuerdo con los informes de las autoridades compartidos por medios locales, el violento suceso tuvo lugar en horas de la tarde cuando el agresor, presuntamente armado con un machete, llegó al lugar de trabajo de la víctima, quien desempeñaba el cargo de mesera en dicho negocio.

Testigos de este hecho comentaron que el antillano fue detenido gracias a la colaboración de al menos dos empleados de la cantina, quienes lograron atraparlo y poner fin a la escalofriante agresión con la mujer de 34 años.

Los hechos se desencadenaron alrededor de las 2:00 p.m. de ayer jueves, cuando se reportó al centro de emergencia la necesidad de la intervención de las autoridades debido al brutal ataque en establecimiento llamado La Caguarena, ubicada en el camino a una comunidad llamada La Pita.

Como el cubano opuso resistencia a su detención por parte de civiles y arresto tras la llegada de los oficiales, dos personas resultaron heridas y terminaron atendidas por paramédicos de servicios auxiliares de emergencia.

El antillano presuntamente responsable del homicidio quedó bajo custodia de la Fiscalía de Atención al Migrante, enfrentando cargos por el delito de homicidio calificado en agravio de su expareja. Se ha iniciado una carpeta de investigación para esclarecer los detalles del trágico suceso y llevar a cabo el debido proceso legal. En los reportes sobre este caso no se especificó cuáles son las respectivas situaciones migratorias de la víctima y el presunto agresor.

En caso de que las autoridades encuentren evidencias suficientes para reclasificar la acusación al delito de feminicidio, el cubano podría enfrentar una pena de 40 a 60 años de cárcel sin derecho a libertad condicional.

En México, ese acto se considera uno de los delitos más graves y es castigado de manera severa a través del Código Penal Federal y también por códigos penales estatales. Las investigaciones deben arrojar como resultado la existencia de un acto de violencia de género en torno a una relación de parentesco o sentimental.

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Yurquis Companioni, quien durante muchos años ocupó el cargo de segundo jefe de la contrainteligencia militar en Sancti Spíritus, logró obtener un parole para permanecer de manera segura en Estados Unidos y alejarse del régimen castrista que defendió con violencia.

Este comunista, quien ostentó su posición hasta el año pasado, dejó el país a través de Nicaragua y cruzó la frontera hacia Estados Unidos, según información proporcionada por una fuente cercana a su familia a Periódico Cubano.

Se informó que su hermana fue quien fungió como patrocinadora para que el goce de un parole por cuatro años, tiempo suficiente para tramitar su residencia permanente ante el gobierno estadounidense.

La situación ha suscitado interrogantes sobre cómo un individuo con un pasado represivo logró acceder a la libertad condicional, que generalmente se otorga a personas que enfrentan persecución o amenazas en sus países de origen.

En el marco de esta noticia, solicitantes del parole humanitario han esperado alrededor de 11 meses la aprobación de este beneficio por parte del Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de Estados Unidos (USCIS, por sus siglas en inglés).

Esta situación ha llevado a que algunos cubanos, agotados de esperar, tomen la decisión de arriesgar sus vidas en la travesía migrante que comienza con un vuelo a Nicaragua y culmina con su presentación en la frontera sur de Estados Unidos.

Para muchos, vender todas sus pertenencias en Cuba y enfrentar los peligros del camino es la única opción para escapar de un futuro incierto en un país estancando en deficientes políticas comunistas.

La travesía hacia EEUU no solo implica desafíos físicos y emocionales, sino también el riesgo de caer en manos de traficantes o enfrentar políticas migratorias severas, que como único fin tienen la deportación.

Según los informes más recientes de la administración de Joe Biden, desde enero de 2023, un impresionante total de 57.243 individuos de nacionalidad cubana han sido favorecidos por el programa de libertad condicional humanitaria, el cual se encuentra exclusivamente disponible para ciudadanos originarios de Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela y Haití.

Hasta el cierre del mes de octubre de 2023, un notable total de 269,744 personas pertenecientes a estas nacionalidades han recibido los beneficios de este programa. Entre los ciudadanos cubanos, 55.568 han emprendido el viaje hacia suelo estadounidense, ansiosos por dar inicio a una nueva etapa de sus vidas.

Para calificar como beneficiario de este programa, es importante contar con un patrocinador en Estados Unidos dispuesto a cubrir los gastos relacionados con alimentación, atención médica y vivienda. El programa, generosamente, otorga a los migrantes una visa de dos años, brindándoles tiempo suficiente para explorar la posibilidad de obtener la residencia permanente.

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If you have additional questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to our Client Success team.

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In this short weekly post, we’ll fill you in on the latest news from Bitcoin, the city of Atlanta, and fun stuff to do.

This past week in Atlanta

• 👨‍🏫 BitDevs met at NCR for Bitcoin Socratic Seminar #23
  • Here are the topics discussed
• 👕 ATL BitLab launched a CyberMonday sale. 10% off all apparel. Ends at midnight tonight!
• 💻 Stephen is doing UX research: how do you pay for products/services with bitcoin in a web browser?
• 📙 People are looking for bitcoin books to give as gifts. Join the discussion in telegram. Ideas proposed so far:
  • The 7th Property
  • Broken Money
  • Thank God for Bitcoin
  • The Progressive Case for Bitcoin
  • The Bitcoin Standard
  • My First Bitcoin
• 📈 Doug resurfaced his price prediction poll from 6 months prior. The Bitcoin below $30K answers have thus far been incorrect.

Upcoming bitcoin events in Atlanta

• 🧑🏾‍💻 12/02 - Hacker Jam Session: Open Source, Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, Web5
• 🪖 12/06 - Atlanta BitPlebs: SoftWar Part 3
• 🧑🏾‍💻 12/09 - Hacker Jam Session: Open Source, Bitcoin, Lightning, Nostr, Web5
• 🙈 12/13 - Extending Bitcoin with Zero-knowledge Proofs
• 🎄 12/21 - Holiday Bash: Atlanta BitDevs and Atlanta BitPlebs

Global bitcoin community

• 💰 You can earn bitcoin by reviewing transcripts. Get paid to deepen your technical knowledge!
• ⚡️Lightning node operators all around the world have received floods of Satvertising.
  • 👷‍♂️ Bitcoin Coder Bob, who spoke to us about Satograms in September, presented on the topic at Adopting Bitcoin
• 🌊 Ocean Mining launched this week

Fun stuff for this weekend

• 🧙‍♂️ 12/01 - Mystic District Marketplace: The Enchanted Slay Ride Edition
• ☕️ 12/02 - Hot Chocolate Crawl
• 🍿 12/01 - Screen on the Square Movie Series

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Una triste noticia ha estremecido las redes sociales, la comunidad del poblado rural de Aguacate, en Palma Soriano, se encuentra consternada y exige justicia ante el horrendo crimen que ha cobrado la vida de una niña de tan solo 15 años.

Según la denuncia, Dorka Velázquez, la víctima, fue violada y degollada, un acto atroz que ha desencadenado una ola de indignación y sed de venganza en toda la localidad. La noticia fue compartida por el usuario Jeissy Borrell Gamez en Facebook, quien dio detalles sobre cómo se siente la comunidad en estos momentos.

Todo parece indicar, que algunas personas del pueblo saben quién pudo haber cometido el horrendo crimen, pues en un comentario compartido por Borrel, un santiaguero radicado en Estados Unidos, hablan de “este desgraciado”.

“Es doloroso lo que este desgraciado le ha hecho a esta niña. Todo Aguacate está de luto, no se siente ni un radio encendido. Todos estamos con mucho dolor, tristeza, no sabemos a dónde vamos a parar. Yo tengo hijos, y entre ellos una niña de 13 años, la cual es amiguita de ella, y la está pasando muy mal, al igual que mi hijo mayor”, se lee en el comentario.

Después que se hiciera público el lamentable suceso, el mismo denunciante, publicó un post donde comparte una foto del presunto asesino de la niña, un hombre al que llaman “Pipito”, y que estaría prófugo de la justicia.

"Atención Palma Soriano. Esta foto corresponde al asesino de la menor Dorka Velázquez asesinada ayer en el consejo popular de Aguacate en Palma Soriano. Ese hombre responde al apodo de “Pipito”. Es en extremo peligroso y aún está huyendo. Compartan la publicación para que llegue a más personas y pueden capturar a este HP”, posteó el cubano.

La publicación ha sido compartida más de 700 veces, y los comentarios de indignación en Facebook han sido ciento. Una vez más, una mujer, una niña, es asesinada en Cuba, y el pueblo se siente con más inseguridad.

La cruel muerte de Dorka, se suma a una lamentable lista de feminicidios que han marcado el año, en la Mayor de las Antillas, generando luto y consternación en toda la Isla. La falta de medidas contundentes para abordar estos crímenes ha llevado a la sociedad a cuestionar la eficacia de las acciones tomadas hasta el momento.

La plataforma Yo sí te creo en Cuba, dedicada a dar apoyo a personas en situación de violencia machista en Cuba, actualizó el número feminicidios en lo que va de año. El último reporte es del 23 de noviembre, por lo que no se ha tomado en cuenta la muerte de esta niña de un pueblo de Santiago de Cuba.

A través de medios independientes se ha conocido de la muerte de alrededor de 78 mujeres asesinadas, y se han reportado ocho intentos de feminicidios. Lo anterior demuestra la urgencia de medidas eficaces para prevenir y castigar la violencia de género, en Cuba.

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El dictador de Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro amenaza con comenzar una guerra en nuestro continente, tratando de no extenderme demasiado voy a tocar ciertos hechos históricos recientes que a mi manera de ver las cosas nos han llevado a donde estamos hoy.

En la década de 2000s el fallecido dictador Hugo Chávez comenzaba a mostrarse como el dictador que fue y ante la creciente ola de críticas en todo el mundo quiso limpiar su reputación a punta de dinero así que orientó su política exterior a obtener el apoyo de la mayor cantidad de paises del continente americano, para esto hizo donaciones a gobiernos de izquierda, creó el Petro Caribe [1] para poder vender petroleo a crédito sin intereses a los estados miembros, lo cual fue una movida inteligente ya que hay muchas islas en el caribe, cada una de ellas es un país y cada país tiene derecho a voto en los organismos internacionales, podemos decir que con los precios históricos del petroleo chávez hizo operación chequera a cambio de su apoyo en la OEA y ONU, con respecto a Guyana, Chávez a petición de Fidel Castro le permitió explotar los yacimientos de petroleo ubicados en la región que hoy está en disputa entre Venezuela y Guyana, esta región es conocida como El Esequibo.

A la vez, la producción de petroleo iba en decline debido a la mala gestión del chavismo, pero como el precio del barril estaba sobre los 100 USD, no importaba, el chavismo seguía despilfarrando dinero como si no hubiera mañana.

Venezuela pasó de producir diariamente 3 millones de barriles de petroleo en 1999 a producir 703,658 (2022) [2], a la vez que Guyana en 2022 produjo 250,000 barriles diariamente.

Sinceramente creo que Maduro tiene dos razones para invadir Guyana:

1. Obtener control de esos 250,000 barriles que exporta Guyana y las reservas
2. Cambiar su posición en la historia de "El dictador de Venezuela" a el presidente que recuperó el esequibo

Sinceramente creo que si hoy se realizar una encuesta en Venezuela la inmensa mayoría opinaría que se debe recuperar el esequibo, pero probablemente nadie se ha puesto a pensar qué implica recuperarlo.

Actualmente viven 120 mil guyaneses en ese territorio, ¿Qué pasaría con estas personas?

Los venezolanos hemos visto como han actuado las fuerzas armadas cuando se han enfrentado con estudiantes disidentes, hemos sido testigos de relatos donde las víctimas han contado torturas [3], violaciones [4], asesinatos [5], desapariciones y otros crímenes de lesa humanidad, esto lo han hecho los militares tanto a niños de 13 años que han salido a protestar como a adultos, qué podemos esperar de su actuación en medio de la selva donde podrán llevar matanzas sin dejar testigos, donde no habrán personas filmando desde edificios como ocurría en las protestas en Caracas.

Los miserables militares venezolanos tendrán luz verde para realizar inimaginables aberraciones, sinceramente espero que no estalle una guerra porque lo que se viene sería un genocidio, ese sería el costo por recuperar El Esequibo, la destrucción de la vida de miles de personas, por eso no estoy de acuerdo con otra estúpida guerra "Patriota", tengamos o no tengamos razón, la vida de las personas es más valioso que cualquier disputa.

[1] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrocaribe

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vn2vphuy35U

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAP2sYk2AsY

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt0INSx4CEQ

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El gran maestro (GM) cubano Leinier Domínguez, nacionalizado estadounidense desde hace algunos años, ha alcanzado un nuevo hito en su carrera ajedrecística, al avanzar seis lugares en el ranking mundial para llegar al séptimo escaño. En la más reciente actualización, el Ídolo de Guines, acumula un total de 2756 puntos de ELO. Todo ello a sus 40 años de edad.

Domínguez ejecutó el significativo avance al quedar en segundo lugar en la Copa Sinquefield. En el torneo, finalizó invicto con un total de 5 puntos, producto de seis empates y dos victorias. Su última partida fue contra el fuertísimo GM Levon Aronian (2727) en un encuentro que culminó en tablas. Con las piezas negras, Domínguez optó por la Defensa Berlinesa, llevando la partida a una igualdad tras 33 movimientos.

Además del crecimiento significativo en sus resultados deportivos, la competición le otorgó un premio en metálico de 65 mil dólares al quedar como subcampeón. El situarse en el séptimo lugar del escalafón mundial lo posiciona firmemente en la lucha por un puesto en el Match de Retadores para el título mundial.

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La aerolínea Aruba Airlines, de capital venezolano, se sumó a la reciente ola de cancelaciones de vuelos chárteres entre Cuba y Nicaragua por temor a las sanciones anunciadas por el Departamento de Estado de EEUU que buscan disminuir el flujo migratorio irregular de cubanos.

De acuerdo con el periodista cubano de Telemundo, Alexis Boentes, las agencias de viaje que comercializan vuelos en la ruta operada por Aruba Airlines detuvieron las ventas, asegurando que solo volarán aquellas personas que ya habían comprado boletos.

Desde noviembre de 2021, la ruta aérea Cuba-Nicaragua ganó prominencia, especialmente después de que Nicaragua eliminara el requisito de visa para ciudadanos cubanos. Más de 300.000 cubanos han utilizado esta vía para ingresar irregularmente a Estados Unidos, muchos vendiendo sus propiedades y recibiendo ayuda económica de familiares en el exilio.

Hace una semana el gobierno estadounidense dijo que no daría visado a ejecutivos, administradores y personas vinculadas a la operación de vuelos chárteres entre Cuba y Managua. La advertencia ha surtido efecto y ya salieron del mercado las compañías dominicanas Air Century y Sky High, así como las mexicanas Viva Aerobús y Magnicharteres.

Sin embargo, la venezolana Conviasa, administrada por el gobierno de Nicolás Maduro, no ha dado indicios de abandonar el mercado. En ese sentido, analistas indican que ahora se pondrán mejores las condiciones para el único operador que queda. Al disminuir la oferta de vuelos y mantenerse constante la demanda de cubanos que quieren salir de la Isla, los precios de un boleto aéreos a Managua se dispararán.

También circula el rumor en redes sociales que Cubana de Aviación podría aprovecharse de la situación y abriría una ruta comercial entre La Habana y Managua con un avión ruso que recién llegó al país luego de estar sometido a un proceso de reparación en Moscú que duró cuatro años.

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When you feel a difficult or complicated emotion, what do you do?

A. Judge yourself for it ("I shouldn't feel this way.")

B. Beat yourself up for it ("I'm a bad person for feeling this.")

C. Pretend you're not feeling it ("I'm fine, what do you mean?"

D. Accept that you're feeling it ("I am feeling this right now and that's okay.")

If you've answered A, B, or C, We've got a tool for you in this post that can help you to change the way you respond to your feelings. See poll results.

Old Happy: "To cope with my feelings, I have to hide them.”
New Happy: "To work with my feelings, I have to accept them.”

If you are frequently choosing A, B, or C, you’ve probably noticed that these strategies don’t magically make your difficult feelings disappear.

Judging, berating, or hiding your feelings just mutates them into something else, something that ends up hurting ourselves and others. For, quite often, we end up taking out those emotions on other people:

• We judge other people’s emotions

• We feel angry at others for feeling their emotions

• We silence other people’s emotions

Multiple studies have found that accepting your negative emotions is a key contributor to mental health. It is related to less stress, less worry, and less anxiety. Further research shows that, when we believe that all of our emotions are acceptable, we are more likely to choose healthier coping strategies that help us to refrain from lashing out at other people.

Here's a simple way to start accepting your feelings:

• Practice observing them. I like to tilt my head downward, looking at my chest and imagining that there is a box over my heart, full of whatever emotions I am feeling. Try it: what do you see?

• Practice giving yourself compassion. Say to yourself, "It's okay that I'm feeling this," or, "This is hard, and I am here for myself." Consider what this emotion might be telling you about what you need and want in your life.

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The cypherpunk movement, once a bastion of idealism and dedication to the principles of privacy, security, and individual freedom through cryptography, has now fallen prey to a horde of greedy opportunists. These individuals have shamelessly placed profit above the noble ideals of free speech and digital emancipation that the early cypherpunks held dear. Their avarice threatens to obliterate the genius of the sincere individuals who sought to revolutionize the world with cryptography.

The Plague of Profits

In its infancy, the cypherpunk movement thrived on the vision of encryption protecting individual freedoms and fostering a more equitable digital future. Yet, the rapid growth of the crypto industry attracted a swarm of profit-driven charlatans, viewing cryptocurrencies and encryption as a means to amass vast wealth.

These profiteers birthed a crypto landscape rife with scams, get-rich-quick schemes, and projects prioritizing balance sheets over genuine advancements in privacy and security. Their relentless pursuit of profit has tarnished the very soul of the cypherpunk spirit.

The Greed-Infested Crypto Projects

The contemporary crypto realm is flooded with projects that pay mere lip service to privacy and security ideals. Many once-heralded champions of encryption have been unmasked as money-hungry wolves disguised in sheep's clothing. ICOs and other launchpad schemes fleece unsuspecting investors, while speculative trading fills pockets with little regard for the foundational principles of the movement.

The days when crypto projects championed individual liberties are long gone. Now, it's solely about swift wealth accumulation. As the cypherpunk spirit wanes, government agencies exploit this void to enforce control and surveillance.

Government Manipulation and the Cost of Betrayal

The betrayal of cypherpunk ideals in favor of profit empowers government agencies to wield unprecedented control. Through regulatory strangleholds, legal coercion, and intrusive investigations, agencies bend crypto projects to their will. Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations serve as tools for surveillance and control, compromising user privacy.

Shadow Management and Government Access

Popular crypto projects, masquerading as advocates of user privacy, harbor concealed vulnerabilities and grant clandestine government access. These projects deceive users by cozying up to regulators and governments, undermining the very essence of the cypherpunk movement.

The Legacy of Betrayal

The betrayal of cypherpunk ideals for profit disrespects visionary efforts to liberate the digital world with cryptography. The greed-driven crypto industry facilitates government infiltration, jeopardizing free speech and digital freedom.

Closing Note

In this digital battleground, users hold the key to their future. It's time to choose a side—stand with the profiteers or align with conscientious individuals striving for a world where safety and freedom remain uncompromised. Refuse to be misled by projects betraying cypherpunk ideals. Advocate for a digital realm liberated from government restraints and corporate greed.

Stay with us... C¥kuza

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Are you working with JSON data and need to import it into MySQL using the Workbench? Look no further! This quick guide will walk you through the simple steps to seamlessly import your JSON data into MySQL Workbench.

Prepare Your JSON Data: Before diving into MySQL Workbench, ensure your JSON data is properly formatted and ready for import. Validate your JSON structure to avoid any potential issues during the import process.

You can also use the video below for the visual instruction for the importing of the JSON data into the Workbench.

Create a Table in MySQL: Open MySQL Workbench and connect to your database. Create a table that matches the structure of your JSON data. Define columns and their respective data types to accommodate your JSON content accurately.

Use the MySQL JSON Functions: MySQL comes equipped with powerful JSON functions. Utilize the JSON_EXTRACT function to parse and extract data from your JSON files. This function allows you to access specific values within your JSON structure.

Import JSON Data: Once your table is set up and your JSON functions are in place, it's time to import the data. Use the LOAD DATA statement with the JSON keyword to instruct MySQL to interpret the incoming data as JSON format. Specify the path to your JSON file and let MySQL Workbench handle the rest.

``` LOAD DATA INFILE 'path/to/your/file.json' INTO TABLE your_table (json_column);

```

Replace 'path/to/your/file.json' with the actual path to your JSON file and your_table with the name of your MySQL table. Ensure the json_column corresponds to the column where you want to store the JSON data.

Verify and Review: After the import process, verify that your data has been successfully loaded into the MySQL table. Use simple SELECT queries to check the contents of your table and ensure the data integrity. That's it! You've successfully imported JSON data into MySQL Workbench. This streamlined process ensures a smooth transition of your JSON data into a structured MySQL database, ready for further analysis and manipulation.

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In the intricate dance of existence, the parasite emerges as a master of survival, drawing sustenance from its host, yet ensuring the host's survival for continual energy supply. This dynamic, while seemingly symbiotic, remains fundamentally skewed.

This parasitic analogy extends to our relationship with the state. We, the hosts, are drained through various means: direct taxes on profits, consumption, and capital gains, and indirect taxes like inflation. Inflation subtly erodes the value of earnings, yet these devalued gains are still taxed. Even when we merely maintain our purchasing power, the state perceives and taxes it as profit.

But the tale deepens. Regulations layer additional costs across supply chains, inflating prices. Environmental mandates, labor laws, compliance requirements – they all carve out significant portions of created value, often with little visible benefit in return.

Let's crystallize this reality: a staggering 80%, perhaps even 95%, of product and service costs are consumed by these parasitic forces. The host – our economy and society – is left just viable enough to continue its function.

Yet, herein lies an opportunity for the dark forest. Freed from the burdens of these costs, even despite lack of sophisticated long supply chains, economies of scale and specialization down the line, products and services can be crafted more affordably and with superior quality within this second realm. The dark forest isn't just a sanctuary from mainstream constraints; it's a fertile ground for outcompeting the established order and nurturing its own intricate supply networks.

And what to do with the parasite? Let's put it in a museum.

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Need a new cup? A grinder? A new wheel for your kid's toy car? If you are living outside of dark forest, these items would start their journey in China, through shipping container boats, customs and retailers, handed over by a delivery company.

But in the dark forest, we can make use of a new superpower - home 3D printing. Inspired by replicator machines from various sci-fi stories, these devices allow us to make many things right on our desks, in a way that is similar to how 2D printers spill out documents and photos.

Home or local 3D printing might not be optimal. Per unit cost of thousands of widget coming from plastic factory is often lower than 3D printing. 3D printing is a bit more resilient to supply chain shocks. An instruction from printing is data (and thus censorship resistant).

3D printing is conversion of bits to atoms. Have at least one provider of 3D printing services in the dark forest near you.

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In the realm of entrepreneurship, the constraints extend beyond regulations, taxes, and fiat money. A crucial element is market access, specifically the ability to tap into a global talent pool. Picture dwelling in a nation of ten million - your talent options multiply a hundredfold when you reach beyond your borders.

The traditional office, with its physical limitations and expenses, is becoming obsolete in this context. Embracing remote work doesn't just save on rent or the cost of hipster beanbags; it opens the doors to a richer, more diverse talent pool.

The most seamless access to this global talent often occurs in the dark forest, particularly in the virtual space. Immigration policies vary, but in many places, the physical journey across borders – trekking through nature, crossing rivers – remains the most straightforward path, albeit fraught with challenges and devoid of the comforts of legal procedures.

Countries like the United Arab Emirates, with Dubai as a prime example, have thrived by leveraging easy immigration policies. There, immigration is linked to employment, not social benefits, streamlining access to both skilled and unskilled labor without the usual regulatory tangles.

In the dark forest, traditional employment and social security constructs are absent. This space is a true meritocracy: arrive, contribute meaningfully, and earn your keep. However, the challenge arises when the dark forests has a physical form within territories governed by states less receptive to external talent. Some dark forests transcend physical borders, existing entirely in the digital realm, unfettered by territorial policies, epitomising the ideal of unbounded access to global talent and opportunity.

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In the dark forest, collaboration has evolved, transcending the confines of physical walls and geographical boundaries. Gone are the days when proximity dictated productivity, when meetings in stuffy rooms set the rhythm of work. Now, we are untouched by the constraints of time and space.

Picture this: a writer, an editor, a graphic designer, each a solitary wanderer in this forest, their paths intertwining through the ether of the internet. Collaborative document editing becomes their shared canvas, Signal or other encrypted communication system their common ground. They are phantoms to each other, their presence known only by the traces left in the digital – a corrected typo, a graphic design, a fleeting message. Their meetings are not necessities but celebrations, rare gatherings not for coordination but for communion.

This evolution extends beyond mere convenience. It signals a shift in the very fabric of how we work and collaborate. The traditional overseer, the boss pacing corridors, ensuring punctuality and productivity, is now an anachronism, a relic of a bygone era. In this new world, coordination and transaction costs plummet, facilitated by the plethora of apps and the burgeoning sharing economy.

Yet, this transformation is not without its challenges. For tasks still anchored in the physical realm, the digital connection falters. The mechanic mending the tangible, the barista and the cook – their roles remain, for now, less susceptible to this digital transcendence.

Despite these limitations, the potential is immense. As physical barriers dissolve, the global market opens up, offering unparalleled access to talent and resources. The programmer in India, the designer in Europe, each brings their unique skills to this vast digital bazaar. In this world, being a solitary entity – a one-man company – is not a disadvantage but a strength, a testament to agility and adaptability.

But what of economies of scale, that age-old mantra of the business world? Yes, producing a million pots is cheaper per unit than crafting a singular masterpiece. But this efficiency comes at a cost – the need for vast infrastructure, capital, logistics. The narrative is further complicated by the state's preference for the large and established, often at the expense of the small and nimble. Big is fragile.

Digital presence allows for wider cooperation of peer-to-peer network of nodes in the dark forest rather than old-school hierarchical structures. And where will this lead? One interesting development is becoming Satoshi Nakamoto - an anonymous creator in a vast web of dark forest’s anonymous production networks.

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A hollow firm has no offices, no employees. It owns a domain name, customer and producer relationships and its own reputation. The goal of the hollow firm is to adapt to markets. In the times of market expansion, it can seize the market opportunities and create value. In the hard times, it costs next to nothing to own.

The hollow firm is agile, and embracing the philosophy of optionality. This elusive entity owns nothing but the ethereal wealth of know-how and connections. It shuns the physical for the digital, preferring a virtual presence over concrete walls.

The hollow firm is a network, not a hierarchy. Collaborators, not employees, pulse through its veins, their efforts as transient as the firm itself. It forges alliances with delivery and logistics companies, but only as fleeting partnerships, easily made and undone.

Education and marketing are whispers in the digital wind, webinars recorded in solitude, reaching those who seek knowledge at their leisure. The firm avoids the shackles of long-term contracts and fixed payments, instead weaving a web of possibilities, always asking how each tie adds options without obligations.

Responsive to the market's rhythm, the hollow firm expands and contracts with demand. It seizes opportunities, mines them, and fades away when they're exhausted. It's a symbol of adaptability and choice, thriving in the depths of the dark forest.

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In the shadowed groves of the financial world, a different kind of entity thrives – the small, the nimble, the "too small to fail." During the tumult of 2008-2009, giants stumbled, teetered on the brink, their sheer size demanding salvation from the state. Yet, in this crisis, the green spotlight of profit and loss statements turns not to the colossal but to the compact.

Smaller enterprises, individuals even, dance on the edge of a different precipice. They bear not the burdensome overheads of their larger counterparts – the weighty salaries, the sprawling offices, the myriad of fixed costs that chain like anchors. Instead, they glide, unencumbered by the excesses that drag down the giants in times of turmoil.

In this dance of survival, the question arises – is bigger truly better? The corporate leviathans, with their armies of employees, their mountains of infrastructure, stand exposed to market whims. A shift, a tremor in the economic landscape, and they falter, struggling under the weight of their own enormity.

Contrast this with the one-man venture, the independent spirit. Their agility lies in their simplicity – low operational costs, and a direct line from creation to consumer. They are the antithesis of fragility, able to weather storms that would buffet and bruise the behemoths.

The larger entities do hold some advantages – cushions of capital, lines of credit, the ability to pivot, to absorb shocks through sheer mass and resources. Yet, this capacity to 'dump a bag of money on the problem' often masks underlying issues, delays the inevitable reckoning of inefficiencies and missteps.

The main power of the multinational lies in the possibility to buy politicians. But this super-skill is useless in the dark forest.

In this landscape, the small, the individual, holds a unique power – the power of agility, of innovation unfettered by cumbersome corporate structures. They are the embodiment of the dark forest philosophy – standing out in a world where size is often mistaken for strength, where growth is equated with success.

This is the realm of the micro, the domain of the resilient and the adaptable. Here, growth is not a by-product of success, but a choice, a strategic decision weighed against the backdrop of a world that equates bigness with greatness. In the dark forest, the small thrive, not in spite of their size, but because of it.

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In the perpetual dance of political theater, fear reigns supreme, a master puppeteer pulling the strings of the electorate. Like a shadowy figure of society, politicians craft tales of terror – a “far-right” politician, climate change, immigrants, capitalists, terrorists – weaving nightmares to ensnare the minds of voters. This is the age-old recipe for power: concoct a fear, magnify it, then pose as the savior, the knight battling the dragon of societal woes.

Thinking becomes futile in this game; emotion is the currency, and fear the commodity traded. Political rivals are painted as architects of these fears, a boogeyman lurking behind every societal ill. Yet, when the victors ascend their thrones, the fears often dissipate, not because they were addressed, but because they were illusions, mirages in the desert of political discourse.

The antidote to this pervasive fear lies in awareness, in stepping out of the shadows and into the moonlight of understanding. For example Tim Ferriss created "fear setting" as a tool to dissect and dismantle these manufactured terrors. For in fear, critical thinking withers; like prey fleeing a predator, the mind resorts to primal instincts, neglecting reason and logic.

This manipulation is not limited to the political arena. It pervades every facet of society, from insurance sales to marketing strategies. Here, too, fear is a tool, wielded to dull the senses and cloud judgment. But knowledge is power. Understanding these tactics empowers us to resist, to see beyond the smoke and mirrors.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb says we should not measure risks we are taking, but take risks we understand. Yet understanding risks is difficult and thus we are handed centralised measurements - “fear this”!

In the grand scheme of societal control, fear is a double-edged sword. It has been a guardian, a protector in our evolutionary journey, yet it has become a weapon in the hands of those seeking power. The key lies in discerning its true nature, in distinguishing between genuine threats and shadows cast by those who wish to control us.

We should recognize when fear is used as a leash, and to choose whether to break free or remain bound. It's a call to venture into the dark forest, where politician-manufactured fears have almost no power. We should be armed with awareness and critical thinking, to find our path in a world where fear is no longer the compass that guides us.

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Being entrepreneurial is a rare skill these days. It can be learned and trained.

An entrepreneur is not a "startup founder". The goal of the entrepreneur is to create value (profit) and not sell to a venture capital fund. An entrepreneur looks around him/her and identifies "money on the table" opportunities.

You can recognize them by the fact that they solve often diverse problems around them. They see an opportunity and often take it, even though it sometimes is quite different than what they are usually doing. The loop of problem => opportunity => value creation is what tells them apart from median population. And of course how they work with risk.

They are rarely fixated on one area, it is more of a mindset and personality trait than a craft or expertise.

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You can rarely experience true art, one that is interesting, beautiful and is not a manifestation of some woke trauma. Artists, especially in Europe tackle "social issues", mainly because that's where public institutions money are poured to.

The artist trauma is disproportionate, academic and mostly out of touch with reality.

This is not a rant against mainstream art, which is usually based on capitalism and real demand. Mainstream art is simple - sing alongs, pretty pictures, shallow stories. Hollywood movies capture and merge this aesthetic into a few hour blocks, streamed through corporate streaming networks or served with popcorn and Coca Cola in 15D ultrahyperdolbysuperscreen cinemas. Commercial main stream art is more honest than woke trauma art. It is a product that fulfills real needs.

This fact is absolutely hated by the woke art establishment. They despise art that is not approved by them, but is financed by market forces and demand. They want to be gatekeepers, choosing narratives, approved artists. They want to mold the art hierarchy to their liking.

Niche art that is sophisticated, yet not based on academic curators approving grant money can be seen in places where art had not been infected with woke socialism and propaganda. In or near hipster cafeterias and meeting places in Asia. In private residencies and secret events.

Or manifesting as parallel (second) culture... in the dark forest.

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In mainstream society, blending in is a good strategy. If you look like a normie, you don't threaten anyone's position in a hierarchy. There is no envy if you are a normal person in a cheap t-shirt, no expensive watch, or car. You can still enjoy luxuries of the world. You can use the idea by Tim Ferriss - own nothing, but rent and thus have access to everything. Of course you can still own things, no need to comply with old guys in suits ideas from wef, the key is to blend in, and the mainstream society will leave you alone.

In the dark forest is your place to stand out. Present your uniqueness, shine your light. Show what you are made of.

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There is something lurking in the shadows of the commercial world. It's the niche and microbrands created by niche demands, but especially by eccentric entrepreneurs.

The niche represents a return to the essence, a rebellion against the blinding glare of mass consumerism. Just as darkness allows for a genuine, unadulterated perception of reality, microbrands offer authenticity in an era of manufactured appeal. They are the whispers in a world of shouts, providing a personal touch in an otherwise impersonal mass market corporate landscape.

In this quiet rebellion, these brands echo the philosophy of decentralized energy and currency. Like opting for solar power or Bitcoin, choosing a microbrand is a conscious decision to step away from the centralized, controlled norms of consumerism. These microbrands are not just products; they are statements of individuality and choice. In a world oversaturated with stimuli, microbrands offer a sanctuary, a return to simplicity and genuineness.

There are two ways to create a lot of value. Help a lot of people at least a little, or help a few people a lot. There are not many people in the dark forest, so the latter is a more prevalent way to value creation in the dark forest, although both exist.

There is a fashion designer with a microbrand, a special milk producer with a small farm that makes amazing milk for flat whites, a microlot coffee importer and brewer. A massage therapist with a family business of their own techniques. A resilient internet service provider that offers privacy centric server housing. A phone dealer with specialized privacy centric GrapheneOS based phones. A niche musician channeling the energy of a dark forest. An ice cream maker using herbs that grow in the dark forest. A shaman combining various mushrooms and herbs for every situation.

And an anonymous biographer of people living in the dark forest... 👋

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Totalitarian communist countries led people into pretending. Lying all the way, bottom up, just to paint a nice picture with fake numbers.

The corporate culture of meetings and busy-ness is also full of pretend. Wasting time from meeting to meeting, taking notes, pushing paper. The results will come some day, today I'd rather go through the email.

The more the society is free, the harder it is to pretend. You can't fake value creation if it is measured in money, especially hard money.

Status thrives on faking.

Free society that has profit incentives does not need pretending. Nassim Nicholas Taleb said that the only person you should impress is your accountant.

Profit is self-referential. Are you satisfied with what you created? Are you better than yesterday? Did you meet your own expectations?

If you are motivated by internal goals, you can be truly authentic.

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Let's be conscious about energy. After we move away from centralized finance, energy is the next lever of control of the central planners. While it's good to participate in division of labor, we are quite dependent on state monopolized and hierarchical energy grids. We might find ourselves in a situation, when energy is only for companies that pass some ESG certification and it can become part of the emerging social credit scores.

Traveling too much without an approval? Maybe your CBDC wallet won't work at the gas station anymore. Sorry, no plane ticket to Bali. And turn up the temperature on your AC. Energy (for transportation and powering electrical devices) can be controlled centrally both through the financial system and through the distribution grid that is often monopolized, centrally controlled and sometimes government owned.

It's not too hard to upgrade our thinking. Be conscious of your energy usage. If it heats up, it probably uses a lot. If it moves or spins, it's medium. Understand your usage. Connect cheap power meters to outlets to understand what is going on. Optimize when it makes sense.

Solar power is widely accessible, although also quite visible. It won't heat up your home during winter in mild climates, but it will probably cool your home during summers. Learn about batteries. LifePo4 are good for solar. You can put it also on a car. There's also wind and hydro energy.

It does not mean you need to switch. Energy is abundant and cheap and makes many things - including climate change - more bearable. Energy and money allow us to adapt to change.

The dark forest, if it's secluded physically from the mainstream society needs an energy source. Don't count on the grid to work.

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The Shropshire Bitcoiner's Christmas meetup is on Wednesday December 20th at the Tap n Can, Shrewsbury at 1900.

We have a Christmas meetup this month with a quiz and prizes to make up for the cringeworth AI image above.

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In the darkness, we can be invisible. Darkness provides anonymity, we can selectively reveal something about ourselves, but shining just enough light on ourselves.

Darkness eliminates third parties. You need to get close enough to see what is going on. And you will be seen, if you are a third party. Darkness is a whisper to the ear, not a megaphone. Darkness is intimate. We make love in darkness, or by a gentle candle light.

Darkness has been there before light. It is the natural state of being. When we close our eyes, we are with ourselves, by ourselves. Many people fear this situation, we have unlearned to be without sensory distractions, afraid of our (un)consciousness.

Dark forest is nothing to be afraid of. It is booming with life - mycelial networks facilitating energy exchange. Various species of plants and animals, gravitating towards equilibrium. We are guests in the dark forest. Our minds are illuminated by the moon, a symbol of life.

Dark forest is not an escape. Darkness itself is not an escape. It allows us to truly see, truly be, in the present moment, with ourselves. There are no distractions, shining blinking objects. Darkness reveals the reality as it is.

In darkness, there are no distractions.

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In this highly globalized and specialized economy, with long supply chains and advanced technologies, striving for self-sufficiency is not possible - it would put us years behind in the economic development of highly advanced products.

Unless we want to turn old-school, farm to mouth, we need trade with the larger markets outside of the dark forest. With financial surveillance and economic control, this becomes a bit more difficult... especially after the introduction of CBDCs and phasing out of cash.

This problem is being solved by proxy merchants. They get paid in anonymous cryptocurrency and can supply you with whatever you need from the mainstream economy. In many cases they can get around various consumption taxes, or provide privacy (making purchases either anonymous or pseudonymized using special purpose companies or other means).

Proxy merchants also solve the other side of the trade - helping entrepreneurs in the dark forest sell products and services in the mainstream economy.

This sounds like a scifi concept, but there are proxy merchants doing this already.

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Another day, another political drama. A new regulation has passed, new tax is introduced, this politician yelled at that politician, the bad guy is winning, another war has started.

While these things sometimes have real consequences (especially war), in most cases they are but a distraction. For people who take it seriously, it creates fear and there is always a political solution. Vote for us! Give us more money! We need more power! You are powerless to fix this on your own.

Peter Diamandis says that the world's biggest problems are the world's biggest business opportunities. That's what we are being distracted from. That we - either ourselves or some entrepreneur from our community - can solve this problem. Instead we are told we should give away our power to the political and bureaucrat class.

The politicians can't reach the dark forest though. But we are already there. So the distraction makes even less sense for us. Yes, we might fear whatever spooky words come out of the Constant Crisis Networks' talking heads, but we know the politicians can never solve these problems in the dark forest.

The proper approach was described by Paul Rosenberg - the politicians and the old ways should be in our rear-view mirror. Understand enough so it does not affect us, but look forward from the Bronze Age style rulership.

So let's look up to entrepreneurs, and be entrepreneurial ourselves, avoid distractions and build a better future. Ourselves and for ourselves.

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Imagine traveling to another continent 500 years ago… or even a hundred years ago, what you experienced traveling from Europe to Indonesia, from North America to Africa, or from Australia to South America was a completely different cultural experience than what you were used to. People acted differently, thought differently. There were different, almost alien customs.

With globalization, the world turned to a homogeneous cultural soup. We have kids in Laos listening to Taylor Swift and eating burgers. Every hipster in Amsterdam eats sushi three times a day. A startup CEO connects with Pachamama with their Harvard-educated Ayahuasca shaman. Because of global trade and easy travel, we become more alike.

That is not good or bad. It is good to take the best from the world and consciously adopt it as our own. Being different is not a problem either though. It makes us unique and with uniqueness comes specialisation and market edge.

Each part of the dark forest is different. There is no single recipe for a good life, a good society, a magic structure that will solve all our problems. There is no template to copy. There is only our skill to discover what works for us, in our particular situations.

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Entering a forest, most people don't dare to mentally comprehend the dark part of the forest. Its inhabitants are always friendly, exchange ideas and trade, but not every visitor is allowed inside the dark part of the forest.

When people are infected with the statist virus, they might not understand or know how to interact with the booming life of the dark forest. The old ways have to be left outside. People who are free will always find a way.

They are welcome and we gladly interact with them. Together we grow, create and enjoy what liberated life has to offer.

In the dark forest, we are together, free of the old ways.

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To communicate, we need to connect. Mouth to ear, face to face, but also over longer distances.

For our parallel monetary system in the dark forest, we need some form of connectivity as well. That does not necessarily mean internet connection though. Local Cashu mints, or local lightning channels. The peer to peer nature of lightning is underappreciated. We do not need internet connectivity or uninterrupted connection to the whole bitcoin p2p network to be able to make local transactions.

Peer to peer messaging, using encryption and signatures is one of the better researched areas of cryptoanarchy, that's what cypherpunks started with.

Basic infrastructure can be built on email, with even simple apps and encrypted groups. DeltaChat is a good example. For high latency and resilience, mesh networks are even better. Reticulum is media independent (LoRA, tcp/ip, paper qr codes), encrypted by default and dynamic mesh routed protocol suite. For longer distances, take messages few times a day using a long range drone. Old school fidonet style mashed up with high tech UAV.

Btcpayserver, bluewallet or Zeus with local nodes, Cashu and others add payment infrastructure on top of mesh networks. For lightning, you can receive bitcoin state using Blockstream satellite receiver. Determine current prices using on chain data with UTXO.live.

Starlink or other ISPs are nice, but what if internet connection is down? Let's be conscious, play with the tech and know what we'll do. Direct experience is even better. We can do this.

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Something’s in the air.

Speaking to common self-employed folk, the kindergarten owner/guide, the plumber, the wall painter… they can feel it. If you talk to them, they realize something is not right. They have their hand on the pulse of the economy. They get it.

They also live in the dark forest. They do peer to peer, cash to pocket transactions. They have it in their power to protect themselves.

Most of them have heard about Bitcoin. Most of them either have it already or want to get paid in it. Some of them prefer gold, which is OK.

If you live in the dark forest, you get it, you want to escape the declining world and be part of the ascending world. You naturally gravitate towards Bitcoin, towards unschooling, towards liberty, towards creativity and peer to peer relationships. You go where you are treated best, but it often does not mean changing a country or moving - you can change your jurisdiction by opting out of some economic interactions - and opting into the dark forest interactions.

No need to talk to common employee in the coffee shop to try to convince their boss to accept Bitcoin. Talk to the producers and owners directly, interact with people who are not part of a corporation. They know something’s in the air already. They don’t have to go all-in, but they want to have their plan ₿⚡️

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Table Of Content

• TwelveFold: A Fusion of Art and Blockchain

• The Cipher Puzzle Series: A Test of Wit

• The Mechanics: How to Participate

• Competition Rules and Details

• Conclusions

• FAQ

The Bored Ape Yacht Club, a name that resonates deeply within the NFT community, is expanding its horizons. Venturing beyond their typical domain, they have introduced a captivating puzzle-solving competition. This isn't just any competition; it's an opportunity for enthusiasts to engage, challenge their intellect, and stand a chance to win Bitcoin rewards, merging the worlds of crypto and gaming in an exciting new way.

TwelveFold: A Fusion of Art and Blockchain

Behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club is Yuga Labs, an innovative creator that never ceases to surprise. Their latest creation, the TwelveFold collection, is a series of 300 generative art pieces. But what sets TwelveFold apart is its foundation on the Ordinals protocol. This groundbreaking protocol allows for the "inscription" of NFT-like artwork directly onto the immutable Bitcoin blockchain. The TwelveFold collection isn't just about art; it's a representation of the intricate dance between time, mathematics, and variability, offering a fresh perspective on the convergence of art and technology.

The Cipher Puzzle Series: A Test of Wit

Inspired by the Bitcoin-centric artwork, Yuga Labs has unveiled a cipher puzzle series that beckons participants from all corners. These aren't your everyday puzzles; they are intricately designed challenges that reflect the core essence and philosophy behind the TwelveFold collection. Every puzzle solved brings participants closer to Bitcoin rewards, making the challenge not just a test of wit but also a potential gateway to crypto riches.

The Mechanics: How to Participate

For 12 consecutive weeks, Yuga Labs will roll out a new "Moon Puzzle". These puzzles, shrouded in mystery and allure, promise a reward of 0.12 Bitcoin for the first solver. But the climax arrives in the 13th week. Instead of another Moon Puzzle, participants are presented with the "Sun Puzzle". The stakes are higher, with the winner being bestowed with one of the coveted TwelveFold Ordinals. These unique art pieces, which are making waves in the Magic Eden secondary marketplace, have a starting price tag of approximately 0.9 BTC.

Participation is open to all, irrespective of whether you own a TwelveFold asset. However, a subtle hint from Yuga Labs suggests that asset owners might be in for an exclusive treat.

To dive into this challenge, one needs an Ordinals Bitcoin wallet, options include Xverse or Unisat. The process is straightforward: visit the TwelveFold website, pick a puzzle, and let your mind wander into the realms of creativity and logic. Once you believe you've cracked the code, the answer is inscribed on-chain using satoshis, etching its presence forever on the Bitcoin blockchain.

Competition Rules and Details

Every puzzle has room for just one victor. In scenarios where multiple participants arrive at the correct solution simultaneously, the tie-breaker is the inscription number, with preference given to the lower number. Winning isn't just about solving the puzzle; winners must also navigate the formalities, which include filling out requisite tax forms to lay claim to their Bitcoin bounty.

Conclusion

Yuga Labs' TwelveFold challenge is more than just a competition; it's a celebration of art, blockchain, and the spirit of competition. As the crypto community watches with bated breath, participants from across the globe are delving deep into the puzzles, each hoping to emerge as the next Bitcoin victor. With the inaugural puzzle already deciphered, the gauntlet has been thrown. The question remains: are you ready to take on the TwelveFold challenge?

FAQ

What is the TwelveFold Challenge? It's a puzzle-solving competition by Yuga Labs, offering participants a chance to win Bitcoin rewards.

How long does the challenge last? The challenge spans 13 weeks, with a new puzzle released each week.

What are the rewards for solving the puzzles? For the first 12 weeks, winners receive 0.12 Bitcoin. In the 13th week, the prize is one of the TwelveFold Ordinals.

Do I need to own a TwelveFold asset to participate? No, the challenge is open to everyone. However, TwelveFold asset owners might receive special perks.

How do I submit my puzzle answers? Answers are inscribed on-chain via satoshis using an Ordinals Bitcoin wallet.

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Let's play in the Land of Makebelief today. Imagine the Blackrock EFF is aproved. The price of a sat pumps to $0.001. The fiat maxis like on the microblogging company formally known as Twitter rejoice. We have regulatory clarity. The custodial lightning wallets get banned like online poker. NGU for the win. Bitcoin becomes another investment locked into the third party trust paradigm, but nobody uses it as peer-to-peer electronic cash. They sell their bitcoin for CBDC's to buy groceries and pay for their car payment(The van they live in) The government can keep tabs on them no matter where they're parked. Yay suits!

But the US goober-mint decides to levy an emergency inflation tax on anyone who sells their blackRock ETF's. Now, suit-maxi Bitcoiner Bob is required to pay a 50% tax on top of his 15% capital gains tax. Lucky for you, the capital gains tax is programed right into the CBDC so you won't need a CPA. The CPI is "going down", stabilized at 3.3%, but your grocery bill, electric bill, and everthing else you need day to day inexplicably rises 15% every year. Yay democracy!

Meet Alice, Living On The Bitcoin Standard

Alice is sophisticated. Alice is sassy. Not so long ago, she decided she would not send her fiat to Mr. Blackrock. She asked herself, why buy Black rocks when I can buy orange coins? On second thought, why send fiat to some corporation at all? Why not sell stuff for bitcoin instead? Be your own business and be your own bank. She gets on nostr. She makes candles and sells them for Bitcoin on clients like Shopster and Plebian Market. She uses some of her profits to buy coffee and beef with Bitcoin. She saves the rest because she subscribes to Matt Odell's newsletter: She meticuliousy follows the advice of this daily newsletter. "Stay humble. Stack Sats."

Alice sells candles. She has a job, but this side hustle earns about $500 worth of bitcoin every month. She still thinks inflation sucks, but at least she is stacking value that cannot be debased. Therefore she expects to retire in about 2 more halfings. In about 8 years, she plans on buying some land, hooking her van up to water and sewage on this land and growing most of her food. She's rich, according to fiat standards, but doesn't see the need to waste sats on status symbols. Status symbols are a security holes.

The Importance of The Circular Economy

The circular economy is the bitcoin economy. It's composed of hardcore Bitcoiners who use Bitcoin as peer to electronic cash. They prefer this electronic cash to fiat trash. Fiat cash is guaranteed to buy less and less stuff over time. Therefore, those who take part in the circular economy trade goods and services for bitcoin instead of trading bullshit pay for Bitcoin. Some argue there is no circular economy. There is just the economy and it does not make sense to spend sats when it goes up in value so much. I think this is misguided and will explain why in a little bit. For now, we will d efine what the circular economy means: Simply buying goods and services with bitcoin.

Bitcoin used in the circular economy is outside "the system". If this Bitcoin is only used to buy goods and services between Bitcoiners, that p2p electronic cash will never be exchanged for fiat tr, it will be used to buy more things like coffee and and beef. If you're one of the NGU maxis, think about what that means for a moment. The bitcoin used in the circular economy will remain off the exchanges. When the exchagnes run out of bitcoin, what do you think will happen to the "bitcoin price?" The less Bitcoin on the exchanges, the more valuable it becomes. Therefore, the more people who opt to buy clothes, and coffee using bitcoin in the circular economy instead of using credit cards to buy low time preference crap at the mall, the less bitcoin will be available for trading shitcoins like ETH and USD on the exchanges. That's like NGU to the moon.

When viewed from this perspective, stacking sats and buying goods and services from people who accept Bitcoin for their products is akin to stacking harder. In other words, more sats are stacked in aggregate. Ben Franklin once said, "a penny saved us a penny earned". By the same logic, a sat spent in the circular economy is a sat stacked. I'm not saying waste your sats and spend frivolously. Spend sats carefully. Set a budget . Spend on things you will use. But it's better to spend Bitcoin on products and services offered by hardcore Bitcoiners than spend fiat on Amazon. Spending Fiat on Amazon does not put more Bitcoin into the hands of another fellow Bitcoiner. Spending for more things using bitcoin will create the Intransigent Minority Cory from Swan wrote about.

• Buying some art at Home Goods? Why not support an artist on nostr?.

• Do you buy coffee grounds? Buy coffee grounds with bitcoin.

• Need to cover your bald head? Buy a hat with bitcoin.

WTF Are Non-Paid ADs?

You have undoubtedly seen paid advertisements and affiliate marketing. This is not that. V4V ads are more like word of mouth adverting. This makes my ads free from influence. These companies are free to zap me after the fact, but I came up with this list on my own because I believe in these companies and have used them. One of the reasons I started writing a blog about using bitcoin is because I wanted to promote the circular economy. I believe the best way to support this economy is to tell the world about companies that accept bitcoin for payment. In case you didn't get the memo, Cory Klippsten says we need ten million bitcoiners to become an intransigent minority for hyperbitcoinization to occur. To me, this not only means stacking sats, but also using bitcoin as p2p cash. This is not to say saving is unimportant. It is important to save, but you need to eat. Buy some groceries with bitcoin. I don't really need to drink coffee, buy I do, so I will buy coffee with sats. You might think, I would rather spend $ 12 bucks on Foldgers than $ 20 on bitcoin coffee. I'll buy sats with the difference.

Maybe, but if you buy coffee with sats, even sats you insta-converted from fiat on Strike, you contribute to taking more bitcoin off the exchanges. When I bought a 3D printed heater case from Crypto Cloaks, I know those sats most won't end up on an exchange. I assume the same is true for the bitcoin coffee sellers. This is not a new idea. My brother in law owns a business. He likes to shop locally even though he knows he can find a better price at WalMart. Shopping locally helps support his local economy. He wants the money he earns to stay in his community. Bitcoin is a world wide monetary network, but we have our own "local bitcoin economy." That local economy happens to be on The Internet, so you might buy stuff from someone in your own town, or across the world. I may live in California, but I still consider products I buy with Bitcoin from companies located in Canada my local community. In some ways that community is even more local than my meat space community. It's in my pocket. I don't even need to leave my house.

That's more important than an ETF in my opinion. That's why I support participating in the circular economy. The problem bitcoin solves, the Byzantine General's problem, cannot be solved by trusting a third party like Black Rock. The problem bitcoin solves can only be solved if bitcoin is used as peer to peer electronic cash and saved in the bitcoin network. I support companies that support this mission of keeping bitcoin native. You won't see ads for gold or hardware wallet's I don't like or have never used . Bitcoin Panties might be a fine company, but I don't endorse bitcoin panties, because I don't wear panties. There are a few companies I believe have great potential, but are not ready for the masses quite yet. My V4V ads attempt to highlight companies like this and find the best solutions to my own problems.

I Thought The Value 4 Value Model Did Not Use Ads

I disagree. The Value 4 Value model does not use paid ads. These are not those ads. Paid ads often seem disingenuous. Tom Brady is or was a great football player(So I hear) Jillions of people trusted his opinion about FTX because he handles pig-skin balls very well. People associate his pig-skin ball throwing skills with his ability to pick great crypto companies. It's a common rhetorical trick, but it's dumb. That's like saying I can predict the winner of the next SuperBowl because I know how to create a vanity address. This is not true because cryptography and football have nothing to do with each other. I kinda get why people like Jordan's shoes, but doubt sneakers made by Chinese children will improve my jump shot. Nor do I believe Mike would he wear Hanes underwear if Hanes didn't they did not pay him. I often feel the same way when hearing some bitcoiner podcasts talk about certain products. Block-Fi is an obvious examples, but I often feel the same about some of the hardware wallets people shill. I don't have anything bad to say about BitBox02, but I've never used the wallet, so I would not feel comfortable shilling it, even if they offered to pay me. I'm sure it's a fine wallet. I wish BitBox all the best, I just can't vouch for them because I have never used one. I have a ledger nano that is about as old as a certain podcasters ledger nano, but I do not recommend them because I often get phishing emails from their official website among other things. They would pay me \$20 for every customer I refer them if I joined their affiliate program, but I can't accept that money in good conscious.

So these are not ads for Hanes underwear. If the Blackrock ETF gets approved, you won't see me shilling them because I think holding a bitcoin ETF is almost as dumb as letting some website convince you that you own rock jpegs. I don't believe in ETF's or NFT's's

The following is a list of business that I do use:

Coinkite

You have heard of them for sure, the maker of the world famous Cold Card. If you don't have a cold card, you need to get your shit in order, but the company makes at least 50 products. I don't have a discount code for this company, but listen to a bitcoin podcast and I'm sure you will find one. Coin kite does a lot of other cool shit too, like the satschip, a product designed for artists. NFT's are a scam, but physical art is a real thing. Artists who add the satschip to their physical artworks can throw a photo of the artwork on the CoinKite website. These jpegs are not NFT's. They are not Ordinals. They are art with a chip that works similar to the Tap Signer, except the seed can never be revealed. It ties the physical paining, a , et al. to the bitcoin blockchain. It's neat way of tying art to digital scarcity without all the scammy bullshit associated with NFT's

Bitrefill let's Me buy gift cards with bitcoin. I used to use it to pay my bills, but they have since discontinued that service. I still think it's a great company and use it as a way to get discounts on certain stores like CryptoCloaks.

[CryptoCloaks](https://www.cryptocloaks.com/) is a company that sells 3D printed items for sats. I hae bought quite a few things off them. Most recently, a case that my S9 which has been converted into a heater. He has a lot of other cool stuff too. Check him out.

BitcoinHatGuy has sold hats for bitcoin for decades and I have spent more sats on these hats than I feel comfortable admitting, but have never regretted my purchases. In real life, I'm one of those wierdos that wears the same thing everyday: Black T-Shirt and Gray pants, but I have an extensive hat collection. I buy most of my hats with bitcoin and most of those hats were bought from BTChatGuy. They're great, cheaper than MLB or even minor league baseball hats and I don't watch sports anyway. If you wear hats, buy a hat from this dude.

Robosats

Bitcoin exchanges are some of the biggest spenders in the bitcoin content creation market. They are the bread and butter for content creators. This makes sense, because they also get the most in fees. According to David Bennet from the Bitcoin and Podcast, The Cash App had over a billion bucks in revenue from bitcoin sales alone. Good. I'm happy for the Block, but smaller bitcoin only exchanges like RoboSats don't get the exposure they deserve because they don't have the marketing budget. RoboSats is a peer to peer exchange. It's only on TOR, but they also have an app on the Andoroid store for those too timid for TOR.

Robosats is a bitcoin escrow service. They hold bitcoin in escrow and wait for conformation that payment has been recieved. Bitcoin sellers generally sell for about 5% above market value to provide KYC Free Sats to customers. Fiat settlements are made using the Cash App, Strike, or even Amazon gift cards. We should market the p2p exchanges like this more. Robosats incentives this by giving users or referal codes. Refer someone to RoboSats using your referral code and you will get 100 sats for each trade. I would like to see people shill RoboSats and pick up these sats on social media. So I am not only asking you to use RoboSats, but I am also asking you to shill it. I had nodeless.io on the list, but the tyrannical government of Canada shut it down. When I attempt to orange pill normies, the objection I most often need to overcome is "Bitcoin can never work because the government[state] will shut it down. The 100k bitcoiners in the world know it does not work that way, but most CPI believers think the government just needs to shut down the single bitcoin computer to take it all away. Perception is reality as they say. And yeah, we won't all turn off our bitcoin mining heaters or shut off our nodes, but I have seen online Poker get decimated by government policies. They did not succeed at ending online poker, but they essentially ended access to online poker for anyone with a sub 120 IQ. If we want bitcoin to be for everybody, we need to make it easy for people to buy non-KYC bitcoin. RoboSats is making that their mission.

Satoshi Coffee Co

I just learned about this company while searching for nostr icons on github. Full disclosure, I have not vetted them yet because I just made my first order. If this coffee is any good, I'll let you know. I'll add a picture of the coffee when it gets here. You know what else? It's not as cheap as Foldgers, but I'm tired of drinking fucking Foldgers. My wife loves Foldgers by the way, so it's not like I'll stop buying it, but I really hope this satoshi coffee is good because hyperbitcoinization won't start until we demand buying coffee with bitcoin like Jewish people demand Kosher drinks.

BTCPins

BTCPins sells cool bitcoin collectible PINS. They're reasonably priced and look great. He only accepts bitcoin because he is a true ride or die freak. He is also one of the meetup organizers in Southern California and wears hats sold by Bitcoin author, Knut Svanholm. He's the real deal.

Strike

Strike would pay me like five or ten bucks if I had you sign up with them via my referral link, but I'm not recommending them for the referral money. This is about recommending services I use. Strike is the best way to send fiat around the world. I also know that many bitcoiners don't like the idea of spending their own bitcoin, Strike gives you the ability to instantaneously convert fiat to bitcoin and vice-versa. I would rather have the hodl never sodl people spend fiat in the circular economy this way.

In a perfect world, Strike would not comply with KYC laws, but like I said, it's the best way to send fiat around the world.(or people on Robosats who could be anywhere in the world.) I also think if a KYC free exchange is to expensive, you're better off stacking a little on a KYC exchange than not stacking at all. Budgets are tight these days. If you can only stack a penny this paycheck, stack that penny with Strike. Need to send fiat to Mexico, use Strike instead of Western Union.

Seed Signer

Seed Signer is a raspberry pi with no Wi-Fi. You can make your own or buy one from the store. The seed signer does not have a secure element, but it also does not store your seed on the device. Therefore, you must write down your seed and enter it into the device every time you plug it in. This sounds like a pain in the ass, and it is if you do it that way, but it comes with a camera and a unique neat feature. You can create a QR code using a pen and paper.(You'll need access to a printer too) Actually, I recommend using a pencil and paper. It's easy to make a mistake so you might want to erase it. You can always go over it with a felt tip pen later if you're worried about a man in the middle attack. You can also use it for nostr keys I think, but I have not tried this feature. I would not trust all my bitcoin with any wallet, but this is an excellent wallet to use as part of a multisig with Sparrow Wallet or Specter Desktop.

Get Alby

Get Alby is my favorite desktop wallet. I've made some videos about them here and highly recomend it because you can use it as a custodial wallet or hook it up to your own node. I also respect this product a lot. Back in 2017 or 2018 we had the Joule browser extension, but you had basically had to be a lightning engineer to get it to work. I wasted many hours of my life away trying to get it to work on my browser with no dice. Alby is about 100X improvement over the old Joule days. They also have some cool nostr features and make it easy to login to websites. Full disclosure, I have no idea how they make money.

These are not all the products I use, and I will add more over time. If you have a bitcoin side hustle or sell a bitcoin related product, let me know about it. I'm always interested in learning about more bitcoin companies. I'm still searching for the best non-custodial lightning wallet, but it is too early to have an opinion yet. I a also spent my spare time learning about multi-sig during the pandemic and collaborative custody has some of the best trade offs, but there are things I like about them and things I don't. Casa is great for privacy, and I like the hardware wallets, but the ETH thing makes me nervous. I don't have any eth, but if I die, I don't want my wife to sign into Casa and see a big Ethereum ad. Unchained Capital has an awesome bitcoin only collaborative custody model, but retrieving the key requires wills and trusts that I don't understand. I like the self sovereign solution unchained provides, but it's too technical for my wife. Nunchuck is also great for the hardcore, but my wife wants to punch me in the face when I talk about it. Blogging Bitcoin 819,173

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There is a particular annoying scent that you can't forget, it is a scent of regulatory capture. You can of course smell it out if politicians and bureaucrats, but when you recognize it, you can smell it also from "business people" (people who think they are doing business, but actually use the power of government coercion to capture whole industries with their frienemies - their big corporate competition).

Whenever there are conferences on "AI safety", "addictive apps", "disinformation", "energy crisis" and many other topics, you can feel the scent from the airport hotel ballroom where the conference takes place all the way out. The smell comes from the money trying to create regulations to limit competition and make the sponsors' products mandatory in one way or another (one very common way is "certification"), but you can smell it from the people. Everyone comes with well paid homework from these events. Bureaucrats write regulations that increase the power of the stamps in their hands. Politicians have new fears to talk about and new promises to make to make them go away. Corporations are buying small competition for bargain or let them go bust.

If you want to avoid the scent, avoid airport hotel ballrooms, all the conferences where industry experts talk about "we should self regulate and I'll tell you how".

Or even better yet, take a walk in the dark forest. It smells of connections, creativity and it is the home of mycelial networks that connect peer to peer parallel economies.

Cypherpunk evolved into Lunarpunk and lunarpunks manifest the dark forest.

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The dark forest is an idea, it's a place to be, it's a societal structure, a way to look at the world.

It is not the mainstream society nor it aspires to be.

It is a parallel society and parallel economy. It is a place where we value anonymity and human creativity.

Inside the dark forest, it is more important what you create (produce) than who you are. This has many reasons. Anonymity removes status games and hierarchies. You either provide a good product or service or you don't. It does not matter what school you went to, how rich you are, if you are someone's boss or a freelance. Political affiliations don't have any meaning in the dark forest either.

The other reason is that anonymity takes away the power of the state. When the body that can be put to jail disappears, the state is powerless.

The dark forest thrives on bitcoin, one of the few things you can actually really own. It can't be confiscated.

The dark forest is a place you enter with your mind.

The dark forest is a place where you can be free from the influences of a sick mainstream society, where you can thrive and grow.

It is not a "safe space". There are tricksters and scammers, anonumous souls are often mean, but conflict and bad attitude does not help them much in creating and mutually beneficial exchange. Opinions don't matter in the dark forest as much as producing.

The dark forest embodies a societal structure that values anonymity, creativity, and meritocracy over traditional status markers like wealth, background, or political affiliations.

Come in!

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Everyone wants to create something great.

That 'something' varies — a piece of work, a business, a family, an environment, a self, a meaningful relationship, a work of art, a better world, a legacy — but the same urge lies within all of us.

According to research, creative people have four specific skills — all of which can be learned:

• Capturing: they note down the ideas that occur to them

• Challenging: they seek out difficult tasks

• Broadening: they develop new skills and acquire knowledge

• Surrounding: they create interesting environments that can spark new ideas

In a fascinating finding, scientists have discovered that the very best predictor of creative output was capturing. People who pay attention to their passing ideas — no matter how bad or silly or strange they might seem — are significantly more likely to turn them into something real.

Your ideas are a gift to the world, but they can't exist in the world until you capture them and invest your energy into them. They rely upon you.

To create your own great something, start capturing. Grab a piece of paper or start a note on your phone, titling it 'Idea Seeds.' Whenever an idea occurs to you, jot it down. Return to your note every once in a while, reflecting on which ideas call to you the most. What might you be able to make from them?

Your great something is just waiting to become a reality.

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๑) แรงอะไรจูงใจ กับโลกทุนนิยมที่ส่งอิทธิพลไปทุกหัวระแหง ชีวิตของมนุษย์ถูกกระตุ้นรุนเร้าด้วยความมั่งคั่งร่ำรวย ความเป็นอยู่ที่สะดวกสบายมีกินมีใช้ อยากทำอะไรก็ได้ทำ อยากกินอะไรก็ได้กิน หล่อเลี้ยงความสุขด้วยการแย่งชิงผลประโยชน์เพื่อตนเอง ตั้งแต่เด็กจนโต

เบื้องหลังแห่งการดำเนินชีวิตเช่นนั้น สิ่งที่บงการชักใยอยู่ก็คือ ”ตัณหา“ ความอยากได้ อยากมี อยากเป็น สิ่งที่คิด-พูด-ทำก็เป็นไปเพื่อตนเอง และพวกพ้องโดยไม่สนใจว่าจะทำลายใคร ไม่ว่ามนุษย์ สัตว์ หรือสิ่งแวดล้อม เบื้องหน้าแห่งชีวิตเช่นนี้ คือการประชาสัมพันธ์ด้วยความเจริญ โลกาภิวัฒน์ ความหรูหราไม่มีที่สิ้นสุด

แต่ตลอดชั่วชีวิตของเรา การใช้ชีวิตเช่นนี้สามารถมอบความสุขที่แท้จริงให้ได้หรือไม่ เงินซื้อ “ความไม่เจ็บป่วย” ได้หรือไม่ ? เกียรติยศแลกเป็น “ความไม่แก่” ได้หรือไม่ บ้านใหญ่โตหรูหราอยู่อาศัยแล้ว “ไม่ตาย” ได้หรือไม่ คำตอบเดียวที่ได้คือ “ไม่มี” ซึ่งมนุษย์ทุกคนก็ยัง “ทุกข์” อยู่กับความเจ็บป่วย ความแก่ ความตาย อย่างไม่มีเว้น ถึงเวลาหรือยังที่มนุษย์จะหันมาตระหนักกับ ”แรงจูงใจ“ ที่เรียกว่าตัณหานี้

พระพุทธเจ้าทรงเรียนรู้ชีวิตที่มีแต่ความทุกข์ไร้ทางออก หมุนวน จมจ่อม เพราะเหตุจากตัณหาเหล่านี้ชัดแล้ว ได้รู้และเข้าใจว่า “ฉันทะ” หรือความพอใจใฝ่ดี พัฒนาจิตใจให้สูงขึ้น ปลดเปลี้ยงความเห็นแก่ตัว เพื่อใช้ชีวิตคิด-พูด-ทำแต่ความดีงาม สร้างสรรค์สิ่งต่าง ๆ สมบูรณ์เต็มสภาวะของมัน แรงจูงใจเช่นนี้เป็นของยาก ของลำบาก เพราะต้องฝืนตนเอง ฝึกฝนให้จิตใจมีกำลัง ใช้ปัญญาพิจารณาเฟ้นหาประโยชน์จากทุกสิ่งอย่างคุ้มค่า และยั่งยืน

พระอาจารย์ท่านหนึ่ง ได้พูดขึ้นในท่ามกลางสงฆ์ว่า “หลาย ๆ คนที่เป็นคนรวย มีเงินพอได้สิ่งของที่อยากได้มา ตอนสุดท้ายก็มักจะพูดว่า ’นึกกว่าจะดีกว่านี้ อร่อยกว่านี้ มีความสุขกว่านี้ พอได้มาแล้วก็ไม่เห็นดีเหมือนที่คิดไว้เลย’ ซึ่งตรงกันข้ามกับคนที่ปฏิบัติจนเข้าถึงธรรม ไม่มีใครพูดแบบนั้น มีแต่พูดว่า ‘ยิ่งกว่าที่คิดไว้ ดีกว่าที่คิดไว้ ประเสริฐกว่าที่คิดไว้’ ความสุขที่ไม่สามารถจินตนาการได้ ความสุขที่ไม่เคยนำความผิดหวังมาให้ ความสุขประเภทนี้มีแรงจูงใจคือ ”ฉันทะ“ นั่นเอง

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๒) หัวขบวน หากเราอาศัยตัณหานำพาชีวิต ชีวิตของเราก็จะวนเวียนเรื่อยเปื่อย มีแต่ความทุกข์ในปัจจุบัน และทุกข์ที่รออยู่ในอนาคต ชีวิตเช่นนี้ ก็ไม่ต่างอะไรกับชีวิตของแมว-หนู-ปู-กุ้ง-กา-ไก่ เอาแต่ แสวงหาอาหาร-กิน-นอน ได้ความสุขประเดี๋ยวประด๋าว แล้วก็หมดเวลาถึงวาระที่ต้องตายจากไป ไม่เคยรู้จักคุณค่าชีวิตที่แท้จริง ไม่ได้ความสุขสงบเลยสักวินาทีเดียว

พระพุทธเจ้าตรัสรู้แล้ว เล็งเห็นว่า มนุษย์มีศักยภาพที่มากกว่าสัตว์ทั้งหลาย การปล่อยชีวิตให้เต็มไปด้วย “อวิชชา” ความไม่รู้ ก่อให้เกิดตัณหา แล้วก็ชักพาชีวิตทำอกุศลกรรม มีแต่ความทุกข์ตลอดสายนั้น สามารถเปลี่ยนกระบวนทัศน์ได้ โดยมุ่งเน้นที่ “ปัญญา” ความรู้และเข้าใจความเป็นจริง ก่อให้เกิดฉันทะความพอใจใฝ่ดีในชีวิต ขับเคลื่อนเป็นกุศลกรรม สร้างเหตุที่ถูกต้อง ผลที่เป็นความสุข ความไม่ทุกข์ และความพ้นทุกข์ ก็จะตามมา

เพราะฉะนั้นทุกครั้งไม่ว่าทำอะไร หรือไม่ทำอะไร ลองทบทวนดูว่า การตัดสินใจนั้น ๆ มีอะไรเป็นหัวขบวน ”ตัณหา“ หรือ ”ปัญญา“ ใครเหนือกว่าใคร

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๓) หลัก ๑๐ ประการ ครั้งหนึ่งพระพุทธเจ้าได้กำชับกับเหล่าสาวกว่า หากเมื่อใดถูกนักบวชพวกอื่นมาถามถึง หลักธรรมที่พระพุทธองค์ทรงแสดง มีอะไรเป็น ”ที่ตั้งต้น“ และมีอะไรเป็น “ที่จบ” ทรงวางหลักธรรมนั้นไว้ ๑๐ ประการ ได้แก่ * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีฉันทะ เป็นที่ตั้งต้น * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีมนสิการ เป็นที่ก่อตัว * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีผัสสะ เป็นแหล่งเกิด * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีเวทนา เป็นที่ชุมนุม * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีสมาธิ เป็นประมุข * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีสติ เป็นอธิปไตย เป็นใหญ่ * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีปัญญา เป็นยอดยิ่ง * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีอมตะ เป็นที่หยังลง * -ธรรมทั้งปวง มีนิพพาน เป็นที่จบ

หลักธรรมชุดนี้ สื่อสารได้ชัดเจนว่า ระบบการ “ปฏิบัติ” ของพระพุทธศาสนานี้ มีจะพัฒนากุศลได้ตั้งแต่ต้นจนถึงจุดหมาย ขอให้สังเกตที่ “ฉันทะ” ที่เป็นหลักธรรมตั้งต้น เชื่อมโยงไปถึงพระนิพพาน “ฉันทะ” นี้ย่อมกล่าวถึงธรรมไม่ใช่อกุศล แต่เป็นธรรมที่เป็นกุศล พัฒนาต่อเนื่องไปถึง สมาธิ-สติ-ปัญญา ได้

สำคัญคือ ความพอใจในธรรม ความรัก ความสนใจใฝ่ดีที่จะพัฒนาตัว เป็นจุดหมุดหมายเริ่มต้นของพุทธธรรม ยิ่งปฏิบัติไป ยิ่งก่อตัวเป็นธรรมที่ใหญ่ขึ้น มีคุณภาพขึ้น และเมื่อถึงจุดหมาย ความสิ้นทุกข์ก็จะเกิดมี เป็นลำดับขั้นตอนอย่างนี้ไม่เคยเปลี่ยนแปลง

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ตัณหากลัวยาก กลัวลำบาก เมื่อปัญญารู้ว่าดี มีประโยชน์ ถึงยาก ถึงลำบาก ก็ไม่กลัว

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อาศรมขันติสาร ๑๓ ตุลาคม ๒๕๖๖

แหล่งที่มา #Phramaha Fookij Jutipanyo

@ 406a6107:37e9a98f

If you want to know more in detailed about the original idea from Mike please read his good explanation of it here.

More recently, people have been calling it the outbox model, since you go fetch notes from your feed followed contacts declared outbox relays.

There is also the issue of reacting (likes, replies, reposts) to other peoples notes by broadcasting your reaction to their inbox declared relays, which is usually called the inbox model.

A good graphical explanation from Mike is this:

Yana

We believe that by using a good gossip model it helps increase nostr decentralization and censorship resistance.

So how does Yana implement specifically these models?

Yana uses https://github.com/relaystr/dart_ndk lib for nostr interaction and relay connectivity management.

The currently implemented features in the lib are:

Load your followed contacts relay lists

It will try to find each contact relay list using your personal inbox relays merged with a pre-defined bootstrap relays known to have these lists, like for example wss://purplepag.es relay.

Sources are, sorted by priority: - from NIP-65 write (outbox) marked. - from kind3 content (Contact lists NIP-02).

It doesn't merge lists, if it finds a nip-65 it will not use kind3 list.

(in future will also fetch from NIP-05 list as a fallback)

Calculate a relay set for outbox feed

• The calculated set will contain the minimal amount of relays for fetching notes for everybody from at least a configurable amount (setting "Minimal amount of relays per contact").
• It will consider a relay valid to be included in the set if:
• It can connect to it (or already connected)
• It's not on the blocked relay list (NIP-51 kind 10006)
• It will start from the relays that have the most amount of contacts, and go down the list until every contact has at least the minimal amount satisfied.

By changing the minimal amount you are able to better adjust for either less data usage, or more censorship resistance.\ The more relays you load notes from for a given contact, the better the chance you have of avoiding potential censorship by a bad behaving relay.\ A value somewhere between 2-5 is usually a good compromise.

Reactions

• When adding a reaction (likes, replies, reposts) it will calculate a similar relay set as described above for outbox feed, but instead it will take into consideration inbox (read) relays of all the people involved in the conversation plus your own personal write (outbox) relays.
• To increase reach and probability of being seen by as much people as possible you can adjust the maximum amount of relays to which to broadcast (setting "Max amount of relays per reaction")
• You can choose precisely which relays to broadcast as a confirmation step on replies. Likes and reposts will use the configured default values.

A value of 5-15 is usually good.

New posts

• It just uses your configured personal write (outbox) relays

Notifications

• It uses your configured personal read (inbox) relays

Profile notes

• It will use inbox relays for given profile if it is a contact, or default personal inbox relays otherwise.
• TODO - use all declared relays for given profile, both write (outbox for new posts) as well as read (inbox for replies).

Thread view

• TODO (still uses personal read relays)

DMS

• TODO (still uses personal read relays)

@ 1e52c554:21771908

Posthumous work of the Colombian poet born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948.

Welcome to this blog dedicated to the Posthumous work of the Colombian poet Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (my father), born in Don Matias on January 20, 1948-2010. Where I will be publishing each of the 175 sonnets from his unpublished collection 'Sonnets For The Twenty-First Century And A Circadian Musical (1984-1987).' Analyzed with GPT4 artificial intelligence and illustrated with AI tools... I hope you enjoy this garden of words snatched from the solitude of a locked room.

Likewise, any enthusiast of the sonnet form is invited to conduct their personal studies of Arroyave Tabares' work, as it is a collection that, although registered since 1989, has not yet been published.

Frank Duna

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Analysis "Where Consensus Abounds"

Introduction

"Where Consensus Abounds" is a sonnet by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares that explores the struggle of expressing oneself through art, the condemnation of others, the desire to rid oneself of hate, and the need for understanding and consensus. The sonnet follows the traditional structure of 14 lines, with a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG.

Thematic Analysis

The first quatrain introduces the speaker's struggle to find the right words or art form to express his thoughts and feelings. be could This interpreted as the poet's struggle with writer's block or the difficulty of translating complex emotions into language.

The second quatrain delves into the speaker's tendency to criticize others through his poetry, but also his to desire rid himself of hate. This could be seen as a commentary on the power of words and the potential harm they can cause. The speaker acknowledges that hate can spread and corrupt, suggesting a desire for more positive and constructive discourse.

The third quatrain and the first line of the couplet serve as a plea for understanding and judgment. The speaker asks the reader to account for his flaws and to see both his "lights and dark". He also refers to his pen as the tool of a "rustic hind", suggesting humility and a connection to the earth and common people.

The final line of the couplet, and the sonnet as a whole, expresses a hope for unity and consensus. The speaker suggests that through understanding and acceptance, a more harmonious and powerful collective can be formed. This could be interpreted as a call for empathy and unity in a divided world.

Overall, "Where Consensus Abounds" is a thoughtful exploration of the power of words, the struggle of self-expression, and the desire for understanding and unity.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The sonnet “Where Consensus Abounds” follows the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet, which is ABABCDCDEFEFGG. Here’s how it breaks down:

Quatrain 1:

In days this is sparce no verses I could write (A) Nor find words a little close to my thought (B) And not an art or other way so right (A) Could display well what my heart liked or fought. (B)

Quatrain 2:

Often times with condemning rhymes I stone (C) Other minds which think their manners are best (D) But I swear that hate I want from me all gone (C) Because hate yeasts and may corrupt the rest. (D)

Quatrain 3:

Account for me the evils that you find (E) And with insight eyes bear my lights and dark (F) Call my pen the tool of a rustic hind (E) And please read my tears of their human mark. (F)

Couplet:

This way loftier hues may rise in clouds (G) To gather strength where consensus abounds. (G)

Each letter represents the end rhyme of each line. As you can see, the quatrains each have their own distinct rhymes, while the final two lines (the couplet) share a rhyme. This structure is typical of Shakespearean sonnets and helps to create a sense of closure in the poem’s final lines. The rhyme scheme also contributes to the rhythm and flow of the poem, guiding the reader’s journey through the speaker’s thoughts and emotions.

Analysis of Aspects

The sonnet “Where Consensus Abounds” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is rich in language, imagery, themes, and meter. Here’s a detailed analysis:

Language: The language used in the sonnet is formal and poetic, with a sophisticated vocabulary. The poet uses words like “sparce”, “condemning”, “yeasts”, and “rustic hind” to convey complex ideas and emotions. The use of the word “hind”, a skilled farm worker, suggests humility and a connection to the earth. ** Imagery:** The sonnet is filled with vivid imagery that brings the poet’s thoughts and feelings to life. For example, “condemning rhymes I stone” creates a powerful image of the poet using their words as weapons. Similarly, “read my tears of their human mark” evokes a strong sense of the poet’s vulnerability and humanity.

Themes: The sonnet explores several themes, including self-expression, criticism, humility, and the power of consensus. The poet reflects on their journey as a writer, their desire for growth and understanding, and their hope for a world where mutual understanding and consensus can lead to greater heights.

Meter: The sonnet follows the iambic pentameter, which is a common meter in English poetry. Each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, giving the poem a rhythmic flow.

Overall, “Where Consensus Abounds” is a beautifully crafted sonnet that uses sophisticated language, vivid imagery, and a consistent meter to explore complex themes. It’s a reflection of the poet’s inner world and their desire for growth, understanding, and consensus. The sonnet ends on a hopeful note, suggesting that through mutual understanding and consensus, we can achieve greater heights. This gives the poem a universal appeal, making it relatable to a wide range of readers.

(GPT4)

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Syllable count for each line.

```

Where Consensus Abounds

10 In days this is sparce no verses I could write 10 Nor find words a little close to my thought 10 And not an art or other way so right 10 Could display well what my heart liked or fought.

10 Often times with condemning rhymes I stone 10 Other minds which think their manners are best 11 But I swear that hate I want from me all gone 10 Because hate yeasts and may corrupt the rest.

10 Account for me the evils that you find 10 And with insight eyes bear my lights and dark 10 Call my pen the tool of a rustic hind 10 And please read my tears of their human mark.

10 This way loftier hues may rise in clouds 10 To gather strength where consensus abounds. ***

```

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Sonnets For The Twenty First Century And A Circadian Musical Written By Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares (1984-1987)

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by Frank Duna First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com Where Consensus Abounds

@ 83d999a1:46171d19

In a little over a month from now, 21 participants will be joining us and the Mutiny Team for SEC-01, the first Sovereign Engineering Cohort in Madeira. We are thrilled that so many devs and builders decided to join us and can't wait to see what everyone's going to build.

If you've been around the lightning & nostr sphere for a while, you might recognize some of the participants:

• nostr:npub10a8kw2hsevhfycl4yhtg7vzrcpwpu7s6med27juf4lzqpsvy270qrh8zkw
• nostr:npub1l5u0zd00va02ch5n6ke2wwxyzamuy5qcsqcu4uwu7pa3dpapleysf7aap5
• nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5
• nostr:npub1e5tfhk8m65teu25dfx8lcvwn4c8ypqjl72u2sh4rt8zy2kss0j5qct7mh9
• nostr:npub1ez8efu9rjxu64g0lalty2ffmr2tgkzjz92rkafyfyz5463wr8ars8zls5t
• nostr:npub1zel8lcq6w6mtajwj4xcedvvvwts4p6v9l045dmn9rp570dqry7zsyll0dt
• nostr:npub1wf4pufsucer5va8g9p0rj5dnhvfeh6d8w0g6eayaep5dhps6rsgs43dgh9
• nostr:npub1lunaq893u4hmtpvqxpk8hfmtkqmm7ggutdtnc4hyuux2skr4ttcqr827lj
• nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt
• nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p
• nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr
• nostr:npub1rw7hlhmgat6ur9zxcw40vweem49guv6530yk767j8xjpynv0y20q6qsl3w
• nostr:npub1q2s36929z99tv0pfjkqf8jgmn7yxrrjklmsr0wwjl2707vhk965sp7dx3u
• nostr:npub1mz3vx0ew9le6n48l9f2e8u745k0fzel6thksv0gwfxy3wanprcxq79mymx
• nostr:npub1x5nfafs95as966kkkvd773wvv5qtjyd27fy3g67jxyzln93mk02qdgdkan
• nostr:npub1gz8kx67jdlx972vgjqemg37tysglvz43hzjler9nssk6kav0m66sv7xjkt
• nostr:npub1nmr6w7qk0ta36vxysv77jv3d5rqghfc6d8sez8240rf3gja4vsmsd2yha8
• nostr:npub1aljazgxlpnpfp7n5sunlk3dvfp72456x6nezjw4sd850q879rxqsthg9jp
• nostr:npub1gzuushllat7pet0ccv9yuhygvc8ldeyhrgxuwg744dn5khnpk3gs3ea5ds
• nostr:npub1uac67zc9er54ln0kl6e4qp2y6ta3enfcg7ywnayshvlw9r5w6ehsqq99rx
• nostr:npub1m6z9nxv9tej9wa327qgpkt540m00jswe7gvsc8lvzyyyyr6l8njq6t4ttu

In case you didn't make it this time around, don't despair. We're gonna do it again. There will be a 2nd cohort in May, taking place from May 6 to June 28, and applications for SEC-02 are now open.

@ 2863f394:275ed58d

// Find the first event from @jack, and zap it. const jackHexPubKey = "82341f882b6eabcd2ba7f1ef90aad961cf074af15b9ef44a09f9d2a8fbfbe6a2"; const event = await ndk.fetchEvent({ authors: [jackHexPubKey] }); await event.zap(1337, "Zapping your post!");

@ 2863f394:275ed58d

I'm saving the nostr profile to the database, but I'm wondreing if this is a sane way to login just with a nip05. seems like anyone could generate a token and impersonate the user.

How can I do stuff in a hybrid nostr/database app with a nostr profile object and ensure people can't hack their account?

@ 3c72d552:e392ef72

Chef's notes

I’m not chef. Just a Thai guy from

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 10
• 🍳 Cook time: 20
• 🍽️ Servings: 1-2

Ingredients

• 200 g ground beef
• 2 garlics
• 4 red chillies (fresh or dried or both)
• 1 table spoon of Oyster sauce
• 1 table spoon of Green cap seasoning sauce (Golden mountain brand)
• 1 table spoon of White soy sauce
• 1/2 table spoon of Black soy sauce
• 300 ml of soy oil (or sunflower oil, palm oil, olive oil)
• 1-2 eggs (chicken or duck)
• 2 handful of Thai basil

Directions

1. Slice the chillies into pieces
2. Prepare the garlics by roughly pound it into pieces or finely chopped it
3. Turn on the frying pan and add soy oil then let it heated
4. Fry an eggs into the hot oil. (With much enough oil over an egg and fry it until the egg white is crunchy)
5. Take fry egg out of the pan to set aside. And left some of used soy oil in the pan (about 1 table spoon)
6. Add prepared garlics and chillies in the pan and stir until it smell good (you may sneeze more than one time lol)
7. Add ground beef and stir to mixed them together with garlics and chillies. don’t let the beef stick together.
8. Add all Oyster sauce, Green cap seasoning sauce, White soy sauce, Black soy sauce and stir to mix it well.
9. Taste it and add some seasoning you want.
10. Add basil leaf and its inflorescence and stir to mix. Then turn off the fire.
11. Serve in the dish topping with fried egg

@ 52921e1f:1c37981b

Abstract:

In an age marked by pervasive digital surveillance, the need for privacy phones has become imperative. This post delves into the reasons behind the growing demand for privacy phones, explores the process of setting up these devices, recommends optimal networks and phone models, highlights open-source software choices, and addresses the challenges of transitioning from conventional smartphones. Additionally, we will discuss essential privacy-focused applications and conclude with reflections on the trade-off between freedom and convenience, incorporating insights from Michael Bazzell's book Extreme Privacy.

1. Introduction: The Imperative of Privacy Phones

In an era where personal information is increasingly vulnerable to surveillance, privacy phones emerge as a crucial solution for individuals seeking to protect their digital autonomy. As Michael Bazzell notes in Extreme Privacy, "The more private information you expose, the more vulnerable you become." Edward Snowden’s revelation of the US government spying on its own citizens was a major catalyst for a focus on privacy.

If that wasn’t enough, Big Tech does its share of tracking, Google being worse, since it monetizes all your data rather than trying to make money selling phones and services as Apple does. Apple tends to be a little better on the privacy front and gives you more options to protect your privacy, but they still track plenty of your data as you’ll see below.

Google tracks various types of data on your phone, as the company provides a range of services and products that often involve the collection of user data. It's important to note that Google's data collection practices are outlined in its privacy policy, and users can manage their privacy settings to control what information is collected. Here's a detailed overview of the types of data that Google may track on your phone:

Location Data:

GPS Location: Google tracks your device's precise location using GPS data. This information is used for services like Google Maps, location-based search results, and location history.

Search and Browsing Data:

Search Queries: Google records the searches you perform, both through the Google search engine and voice searches using Google Assistant.

Browsing History: If you use Google Chrome, your browsing history may be synced with your Google account if you've enabled this feature.

Device Information:

Device Model: Information about your device, including the make and model.

Operating System: The version of the operating system your device is running.

Hardware Information: Details about the hardware components of your device.

App Usage Data:

Installed Apps: Google may collect data on the apps you have installed on your device.

App Usage Patterns: Information on how often you use specific apps and the duration of usage.

Google Services Interaction:

Gmail: If you use Gmail, Google collects data on your email communications and contacts.

Google Drive: Files stored on Google Drive may be subject to data collection.

Google Calendar: Calendar events and associated data may be tracked.

Google Photos: If you use Google Photos, your photos and videos may be analyzed for features like face recognition.

Ad-related Data:

Ad Interactions: Information about the ads you interact with, including clicks and views.

Ad Preferences: Data used to personalize advertisements based on your interests and online behavior.

Voice and Audio Data:

Voice Commands: If you use voice commands with Google Assistant, recordings of your voice may be stored to improve voice recognition.

User Preferences:

Settings and Preferences: Your preferences for various Google services, such as language preferences, customization settings, and personalized recommendations.

Sensor Data:

Sensor Information: Some Google services may use sensor data from your device, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, to provide context-aware features.

Payment Information:

Google Pay: If you use Google Pay, your payment and transaction information may be stored.

Communication Data:

Call and SMS Data: If you use Google's Phone or Messages apps, information about your calls and text messages may be collected.

Apple places a strong emphasis on user privacy and has implemented various measures to limit the collection and tracking of user data. Apple's commitment to privacy is outlined in its privacy policy, and the company has introduced features like App Tracking Transparency to give users more control over how their data is used. Here's a detailed overview of the types of data that Apple may track on your iPhone:

Location Data:

GPS Location: Apple may collect location data for services such as Maps, Find My iPhone, and location-based suggestions. This data is often anonymized and used in aggregate to improve Apple's services.

Search and Browsing Data:

Safari Browsing Data: If you use Safari, Apple may collect data on your browsing activities. However, with features like Intelligent Tracking Prevention, Apple aims to prevent cross-site tracking.

Device Information:

Device Model: Information about your device, including the make and model.

Operating System: The version of iOS your device is running.

Hardware Information: Details about the hardware components of your device.

App Usage Data:

App Analytics: Developers can choose to integrate Apple's App Analytics to gain insights into how users interact with their apps. However, this data is aggregated and anonymized.

Apple Services Interaction:

iCloud: If you use iCloud services, data such as photos, videos, documents, and device backups may be stored on Apple's servers.

iMessage and FaceTime: Data related to your iMessage and FaceTime communications may be stored to facilitate message synchronization across devices.

Ad-related Data:

Apple Advertising: Apple uses on-device processing for personalized advertising, meaning that ad targeting is done on the device rather than on Apple's servers. Apple does not have access to the personal information used for ad targeting.

Health and Fitness Data:

Health App: If you use the Health app, Apple may collect and store health and fitness data. This data is often encrypted and can be stored securely on your device or in iCloud if you choose.

Voice and Audio Data:

Siri: If you use Siri, voice commands are processed on the device, and Apple retains anonymized voice recordings to improve Siri's performance. Users can choose to opt-out of Siri improvement in privacy settings.

User Preferences:

Settings and Preferences: Preferences for various system settings, customization options, and privacy settings are stored on your device.

Payment Information:

Apple Pay: If you use Apple Pay, payment information may be securely stored on your device through the Secure Element.

Communication Data:

Messages and Calls: Data related to your messages and calls may be stored on your device and synchronized across your Apple devices for continuity.

2. Setting Up a Privacy Phone: A Practical Guide

Setting up a privacy phone involves meticulous steps to fortify the device against potential privacy infringements. Users can either modify existing devices or opt for pre-configured models from reputable sources such as degoogled.it. Michael Bazzell emphasizes the importance of thorough preparation, stating, "Privacy is the result of meticulous planning and careful execution." Here are the basic steps if you are doing it yourself:

Choose a Privacy-Friendly Phone:

Select an Android phone with a good reputation for privacy. Consider models that are compatible with custom ROMs (e.g., LineageOS, GrapheneOS) for greater control over the operating system.

Install a Privacy-Focused Operating System:

Flash a privacy-focused custom ROM like LineageOS, GrapheneOS, or /e/OS on your device. This replaces the manufacturer's operating system with a more privacy-centric version.

Secure Your Lock Screen:

Set up a strong PIN, password, or pattern to secure your device. Avoid biometric authentication methods if possible for additional privacy.

Configure Device Encryption:

Enable device encryption to protect your data in case your phone is lost or stolen. This option is usually available in the security settings of your device.

Opt-Out of Data Collection:

Disable unnecessary data collection features, such as usage statistics, diagnostic data sharing, and personalized ads. Review and adjust privacy settings in the device's settings menu.

Use a Privacy-Focused Browser:

Install a privacy-centric browser like Firefox Focus, Brave, or DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser. Adjust browser settings to block trackers and cookies.

Set Up a VPN:

Use a reputable Virtual Private Network (VPN) to encrypt your internet traffic and enhance online privacy. Choose a VPN provider that prioritizes user privacy and does not log user data.

Install Privacy-Enhancing Apps:

Replace default apps with privacy-focused alternatives:

Messaging: Signal, Telegram

Email: ProtonMail, Tutanota

Search: DuckDuckGo

Maps: Maps.me, OsmAnd

Photo Storage: Nextcloud, Simple Gallery

Browser: Firefox, Brave

Manage App Permissions:

Review and adjust app permissions in your phone settings. Disable unnecessary permissions for apps that don't require certain access to function.

Secure Communication Apps:

Use end-to-end encrypted messaging and calling apps. Encourage your contacts to use these secure apps as well. Apps like Signal and Telegram offer strong encryption.

Secure Email Communication:

Set up a secure and private email account using services like ProtonMail or Tutanota. Ensure that email communication is end-to-end encrypted.

Limit Location Tracking:

Minimize location tracking by disabling location services for apps that don't require it. Use location-sharing sparingly and consider using a location spoofing app if needed.

Regularly Update Software:

Keep your device's operating system and apps up-to-date. Regular updates often include security patches that protect against vulnerabilities.

Back Up Securely:

Regularly back up your data using secure and private methods, such as encrypted cloud storage or local backups.

Educate Yourself:

Stay informed about privacy issues and best practices. Understand the privacy features of the apps and services you use.

3. Optimal Network Choices for Privacy Phones

Choosing the right mobile network is a critical aspect of ensuring privacy. While major carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon offer compatibility, the decision should consider each carrier's commitment to user privacy, but if you choose and configure the right phone the network shouldn’t matter as much. I have heard that privacy phones tend to work better on T-Mobile or AT&T networks and not so good on Verizon and you do need to check network compatibility with the phone you plan to use, which is a little easier if you are buying one already setup. As Bazzell highlights, "Privacy is not only about protecting your information but also about choosing services that respect your need for confidentiality."

4. Recommended Android Models for Privacy Phones

Android phones, with their open-source nature, present a viable option for privacy-conscious users. Notably, iPhones are excluded due to their proprietary software limitations. The main goal to enhance privacy is to disconnect the phone from “services” that typically run in the background of Android phones. This link can be severed with Android phones and they can still be used (with some diminished app functionality) pretty much as normal, but IOS phones cannot. Michael Bazzell underscores the significance of choice, stating, "Every decision in the world of privacy is about finding the balance between what works for you and what you are willing to sacrifice." Some good phones to consider are Purism Librem 5, Google Pixel 6 and Pine64 Pine Phone Pro. For more details, check out this article.

5. Open-Source Software for Privacy Phones

A range of open-source software options exists for privacy phones, each with its pros and cons. Choices such as Lineage OS, Graphene OS, Calyx OS and /e/OS provide users with customizable settings and enhanced security features. I have heard that Graphene OS is best for hard core privacy enthusiasts, but that loading and using apps can be a bit more of a challenge compared to for example, Lineage OS running MicroG. MicroG allows Android apps to access replica application programming interfaces (APIs) that are provided by Google Play Services, including the APIs associated with Google Play, Google Maps, and Google's geolocation and messaging features. It is important to note that as long as you are not signed into a Google account with MicroG, these server connections remain anonymous. The selection of an operating system should align with individual goals, reflecting Bazzell's insight that "true privacy is the result of smart choices, not just relying on technology."

6. Challenges in Transitioning to a Privacy Phone

Transitioning from a fully connected and surveilled phone to a privacy phone may pose challenges. Users accustomed to the conveniences of mainstream devices need to navigate a fairly significant learning curve, depending on the choice of phone and OS. If you are moving from IOS to Android, for example, that’s a unique challenge in itself, independent of the privacy element. It might be easiest to add a line to your phone plan and setup a separate privacy phone to start with, experimenting with the setup and different apps first before migrating everything over from your legacy phone. Bazzell acknowledges this difficulty, stating, "The transition to privacy is not always easy, but it is necessary."

7. Essential Privacy Apps for Critical Functions

Critical functions such as texting, email, search, maps, photo storage, and financial/banking can be safeguarded with privacy-focused apps. Signal, ProtonMail, DuckDuckGo, Maps.me, and using browser login vs apps for financial services exemplify choices that encrypt communications and data, aligning with Bazzell's assertion that "security comes from using the right tools for the job."

8. Freedom vs. Convenience: The Inevitable Trade-Off

The journey to privacy phones underscores the trade-off between freedom and convenience. While these devices offer enhanced security, users must be willing to sacrifice certain conveniences associated with mainstream smartphones. As Bazzell reflects, "Privacy is a luxury, and luxury requires sacrifice."

9. Conclusion: The Price of Digital Freedom

In conclusion, the pursuit of digital freedom through privacy phones necessitates informed choices and conscious sacrifices. Michael Bazzell's insights remind us that privacy is not an inherent right but a conscious effort. As we navigate the digital frontier, we must recognize that freedom isn't free; it demands vigilance, adaptation, and the willingness to make trade-offs in the name of securing our digital autonomy.

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.

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Table Of Content

• 1. San Francisco
• 1. Vancouver
• 1. Amsterdam
• 1. Ljubljana
• 1. Tel Aviv
• 1. Portsmouth
• 1. Miami
• 1. San Salvador
• 1. New York
• 1. London

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin, the pioneering cryptocurrency, has seen a surge in adoption across the globe. As businesses and consumers become more familiar with its potential, certain cities have emerged as hotspots for Bitcoin activity. Based on data up to September 2, 2023, here are the top 10 cities leading the charge in Bitcoin adoption:

1. San Francisco

San Francisco, the tech capital of the U.S., is unsurprisingly at the forefront of Bitcoin adoption. With major cryptocurrency trading platforms like Coinbase and Kraken headquartered here, the city boasts hundreds of merchants accepting Bitcoin. Additionally, the Bay Area is home to 408 Bitcoin ATMs, a significant number considering San Francisco's population of 808,000.

2. Vancouver

In Canada, Vancouver stands out as a Bitcoin-friendly city. Despite the controversy surrounding the now-defunct QuadrigaCX exchange, Vancouver remains a hub for Bitcoin activity. The city has around 30 merchants accepting Bitcoin and 214 Bitcoin purchase locations. Notably, the world's first Bitcoin ATM started its operations in Vancouver in 2013.

3. Amsterdam

The Dutch capital, Amsterdam, is home to Bitcoin hardware manufacturer Bitfury and the European base of BitPay. With over 35 merchants accepting Bitcoin and several Bitcoin ATMs, Amsterdam's 840,000 residents have ample opportunities to engage with the cryptocurrency.

4. Ljubljana

Slovenia's capital, Ljubljana, has embraced Bitcoin with open arms. The city, which has a population of about 293,000, is home to around a dozen Bitcoin ATMs and approximately 150 merchants accepting the cryptocurrency.

5. Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv, Israel's financial hub, has a thriving Bitcoin community. The city has over 20 merchants accepting Bitcoin and five Bitcoin ATMs. The Israel Bitcoin Meetup Group in Tel Aviv is one of the most active globally.

6. Portsmouth

Portsmouth, a small coastal city in New Hampshire, has earned the nickname "Bitcoin village" due to its enthusiastic cryptocurrency community. The city has five crypto-friendly businesses in its downtown area and 48 Bitcoin ATMs, a remarkable number for a town of just 22,000 residents.

7. Miami

Miami is not only a major city but also a significant Bitcoin hotspot. The city has around 48 merchants accepting Bitcoin and a staggering 786 Bitcoin ATMs. Miami also hosts the Miami Bitcoin Conference, a major event in the crypto industry.

8. San Salvador

San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, holds the distinction of being in the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender. The city has 61 Bitcoin ATMs and three businesses that accept the cryptocurrency.

9. New York

New York, a global financial and tech hub, has around three dozen merchants accepting Bitcoin. The city is also a major center for crypto startups and media companies. However, as of September 2, 2023, New York City is yet to have Bitcoin ATMs installed.

10. London

London, the UK's capital, has around 50 merchants accepting Bitcoin. The city is home to several Bitcoin and cryptocurrency meetup groups, fostering a vibrant crypto community.

Runners Up

Other regions like Vietnam, the Philippines, Ukraine, and India are also witnessing rising Bitcoin adoption rates. Countries facing economic challenges, such as Venezuela and Zimbabwe, are increasingly turning to cryptocurrencies.

Conclusion

From its inception in 2009, Bitcoin has come a long way, with its adoption rate indicating that virtual currencies are here to stay. While major financial centers embracing Bitcoin is expected, it's intriguing to see smaller towns joining the movement.

FAQ

Which city tops the list for Bitcoin adoption? San Francisco is currently leading in Bitcoin adoption, with a significant number of merchants and Bitcoin ATMs.

Where was the world's first Bitcoin ATM installed? The world's first Bitcoin ATM began operations in Vancouver in 2013.

How is Bitcoin adoption measured? Bitcoin adoption is gauged by the number of merchants accepting it, the presence of Bitcoin ATMs, and the population size relative to Bitcoin activity.

Which country was the first to make Bitcoin legal tender? El Salvador was the first country to officially adopt Bitcoin as legal tender.

Are smaller towns also adopting Bitcoin? Yes, even smaller towns like Portsmouth in New Hampshire have shown significant Bitcoin adoption.

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Todo comenzó en octubre de 2008, cuando Satoshi Nakamoto publicó un libro blanco sobre una lista de correo de cypherpunk. Podes notar que cuando hablo de Satoshi Nakamoto, me refiero a Satoshi como ellos.  Entonces, debido a que Satoshi podría ser un hombre, Satoshi podría ser una mujer, Satoshi podría ser un grupo de personas. Satoshi podría ser el nombre de un comité o un proyecto. No lo sabemos. Se lanzó el software y el 3 de enero se extrajo el primer bloque, el bloque génesis. Un hecho interesante también es que el bloque génesis, está incluido en toda la cadena. Eso es Bitcoin. Bitcoin es una cadena de bloques que se origina en ese bloque de génesis. Siete días después, Hal Finney, un criptógrafo de renombre mundial, se une a la red y comienza a minar. En este punto, hay dos mineros en la red. Entonces, en términos de descentralización, la red de Bitcoin está mucho más descentralizada hoy. 

Casi 10 meses después, en octubre de 2009, el primer intercambio fiduciario que se registró se realizó en un intercambio en el que $ 1 compró 1000 Bitcoin. Presumiblemente de un minero. Y luego, seis meses después, el día de la pizza. Laszlo Hanyecz salió y dijo: "Me gustaría hacer una transacción comercial " para establecer un valor de referencia para Bitcoin en un ámbito comercial". Y Laszlo Hanyecz consiguió que alguien comprara pizza con bitcoin. Ahora, esto no significa que consiguió que Domino's Pizza aceptara bitcoins. No, esta es una transacción mucho más simple. Convenció a alguien de que usara su tarjeta de crédito para llamar a Domino Pizza y entregar dos pizzas en la casa de Laszlo. Y a cambio, Laszlo envió 10,000 bitcoin. 10,000 bitcoin por dos pizzas,

En diciembre de 2010, casi dos años después de aparecer por primera vez en escena, Satoshi Nakamoto publica el último mensaje y desaparece. Satoshi Nakamoto no ha vuelto a aparecer desde entonces.

Bitcoin es una red, Bitcoin es una cadena de bloques, Bitcoin es una moneda, Bitcoin es un sistema, Bitcoin es una invención, Bitcoin es un libro blanco. Una red peer-to-peer descentralizada que crea consenso sin necesidad de una autoridad central. Ese es el sistema Bitcoin, nombre propio, B mayúscula, bitcoin con una b minúscula es una moneda. Entonces, el dinero se llama bitcoin con una b minúscula. No son bitcoins, ¿verdad? Porque bitcoin se aplica tanto para propósitos singulares como plurales. Tengo muchos bitcoin o no tengo bitcoin. Tengo un bitcoin, tengo tres bitcoin. En ninguna parte digo bitcoins.

Blockchain es un componente de la infraestructura tecnológica del sistema Bitcoin. Un componente. No es el componente más importante, no es el componente más revolucionario. De hecho, esa tecnología ya existía. De hecho, la mayoría de las tecnologías utilizadas en Bitcoin ya existían. Hashes, hash trees, criptografía, criptografía de clave pública, firmas digitales, prueba de trabajo, todas estas cosas existían antes de Bitcoin.

La invención es tomar todas estas cosas juntas y aprovechar la prueba de trabajo como un mecanismo de consenso que nos permite controlar una cadena de bloques de manera descentralizada, cuando nadie tiene el control final sobre ella. ¿Puede crear un algoritmo de consenso diferente a la prueba de trabajo? Si. ¿Puedes construir una cadena de bloques que no esté descentralizada y no use prueba de trabajo? Si. Blockchain no es la tecnología más interesante de Bitcoin, y esto a menudo se malinterpreta. Blockchain es como la transmisión de tu coche. Muy importante, absolutamente necesario para seguir avanzando, pero nadie dijo: "Oh, finalmente " , con la invención del motor de combustión interna "en el automóvil, ahora tenemos la capacidad de construir vehículos basados ​​en transmisión ". 

"Bueno, Bitcoin es interesante, pero ..."

Pero significa que aún no lo he entendido. Bitcoin es interesante, pero "estoy más interesado en la tecnología detrás de Bitcoin, blockchains". Definitivamente no lo has entendido.

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When we look at something with judgment, our attention is focused into a narrow beam. Our brains physically limit what we can see so that we can focus on facing this thing that we perceive as a 'threat.' While this can be essential for our survival, it also has a detrimental effect on our well-being.

But if vou approach the world with an intent to appreciate, your focus broadens into a much wider beam. You are now able to perceive beauty that was previously invisible to you. Adopting a wider beam can help you to become more present, more loving, more creative, more fulfilled, and less stressed.

One place where we're especially guilty of using our narrow beam? On ourselves! We look at ourselves with such judgment. We can't see our good and wonderful qualities, our progress, our humanity.

Today, I want you to look at yourself and widen your beam. Ask “What’s something that I appreciate about myself?”

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If you’re going through something hard right now, you just need to remember one thing: keep going.

Soon, things will change. Soon, life will get better. Soon, this pain will be a memory. Soon, you will feel excitement and wonder and love and happiness again. Soon, you will be able to find a sense of peace.

It’s all coming — soon.

And to get to soon, you have to keep putting one foot in front of the other, trusting that there is happiness waiting for you. That is your only job. Keep going.

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La prueba de trabajo o proof of work es eficiente. La mayoría de la gente piensa que la prueba de trabajo de bitcoin es un derroche, un despilfarro de energía. Tanto las máquinas como la misma naturaleza producen trabajo a través de la utilización de la energía. Tenemos una economía basada no en el dinero, sino en el trabajo y la energía. Todas las cosas en nuestras vidas están estrechamente ligadas al precio de la energía: -purificar el agua requiere energía -transportar productos requiere energía -la fabricación de productos requiere energía -cocinar requiere energía -las heladeras y freezers requieren energía

El costo de cualquier bien refleja en gran medida la energía utilizada en la producción de ese bien. Debido a que los mercados libres fomentan la reducción de costes, la energía utilizada en la producción de cualquier materia se intenta minimizar. El dinero, podría entenderse entonces,como una representación abstracta del trabajo necesario para generar bienes y servicios. También puede entenderse como la energía almacenada en los mismos.

El 31 de octubre de 2008 Satoshi publica el artículo fundacional de Bitcoin. La prueba de trabajo de Bitcoin fue originalmente inventada como una medida contra el spam de correo electrónico por el doctor Adam Back y Satoshi lo adaptó para ser usado en el dinero digital.

Lo que la minería y la prueba de trabajo hacen, es usar máquinas especializadas para convertir la electricidad en Bitcoin. La máquina realiza repetidamente operaciones de Hash, hasta que resuelve un puzzle criptográfico y recibe Bitcoin como recompensa. La solución de este puzzle demuestra que el minero gastó energía eléctrica. Cuanta más energía eléctrica gastas, más pobabilidades tenes de resolver el puzzle. Bitcoin tiene un mecanismo de votación de mercado. Cuanto más dinero arriesgas en electricidad, más poder de Hash tendras para resolver el puzzle y obtener su recompensa. Cuando Satoshi diseñó la prueba de trabajo, cambio fundamentalmente la forma en que se forma el consenso entre los humanos. Cambio de los votos políticos, a los los votos en hashes.

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A través de la conversión de energía eléctrica, la prueba de trabajo es la prueba de consumo. La validación de que la energía fue consumida y esto es importante porque es la forma más simple y justa de que el mundo físico valide algo en el mundo digital. La prueba de trabajo es un concepto físico, no es código informático. Bitcoin es una materia prima acuñada a partir de energía. La prueba de trabajo convierte la electricidad en oro digital. La blockchain de Bitcoin sólo puede ser inmutable si y sólo si es costoso de producir. El hecho de que la prueba de trabajo sea costosa, es una propiedad del sistema, no un error en su diseño. Hasta hace muy poco, darle seguridad a algo significaba construir un fuerte muro físico alrededor de aquello considerado valioso. Este nuevo mundo de la criptografía es poco intuitivo y extraño, no hay paredes físicas para proteger nuestro dinero, ni puertas para acceder a nuestros depósitos. El libro de cuentas público de Bitcoin, es asegurado por un muro más abstracto: la suma de toda la energía gastada para producir cada uno de sus bloques. Para derribarlo, se necesitaría una cantidad equivalente de energía, lo cual es un coste inasumible para cualquier estado o corporación o conjunto de estados o conjunto de corporaciones.

Analizar el consumo de electricidad por transacción en bloque, es engañoso por varias razones: Un bloque puede tener un número variable de transacciones. Más transacciones, no significa que se requiera más energía. El número de transacciones que la red de Bitcoin puede gestionar siempre está aumentando. A medida que bitcoin se desarrolla, cada unidad de energía utilizada, da seguridad exponencialmente a más valor económico. Es por esta razón, que el coste medio por transacción no es una buena métrica para medir la eficiencia de la prueba de trabajo de Bitcoin. Una mejor métrica, sería la seguridad de todo el historial económico que Bitcoin acumula. La energía asociada a todos los bloques extraídos desde su creación en 2009.

El coste total de la minería se compone del coste inicial que se requiere en hardware, personal calificado y los costes de energía para operar. Dado que la ubicación física de los centros mineros no es importante para la red de bitcoin, los mineros suelen operar en áreas que generan un excedente de electricidad y donde los costes son más bajos. A largo plazo esto tiene el potencial de producir mercados energéticos mundiales mucho más eficientes, con la minería de bitcoin realizando un arbitraje de la electricidad. La minería de Bitcoin, solo opera con el precio de electricidad más bajo posible, resolviendo un problema para las fuentes de energía renovables, que tienen una capacidad predecible de desperdicio. Cuando oferta y demanda no concuerdan, algo común en fuentes como la hidroeléctrica, donde la producción de energía no puede ajustarse fácilmente a picos o valles en la demanda, la minería de Bitcoin puede ayudar absorviendo energia producida en los momentos de valles y cediendo energia en los picos. La energía renovable tiene una producción variable. Los productores de energía pueden conectar máquinas de minado y almacenar el exceso energía de sus plantas en forma de Bitcoin. La prueba de trabajo de Bitcoin, es el comprador de último recurso para toda la electricidad sin demanda, creando una base que incentiva la construcción de nuevas plantas de producción de energía alrededor de fuentes que de otra manera, habrían quedado sin explotar. ![[Qué es la dificultad de minería.png]] ![[Qué es el Proof of Work.png]]

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Bitcoin, clave privada y dirección de bitcoin:

"Bitcoin es un numero" Intentemos explicar esta frase: Primero que nada, estamos en un mundo digital y todo debe entenderse como "unos y ceros" (código binario) que es el lenguaje computacional. Si queremos obtener bitcoin, debemos tener una billetera primero. Podemos instalar una en nuestro celular o en nuestra computadora. Esa billetera nos generara nuestra "clave privada". Esta clave, nunca debemos revelarla, ya que en esta clave se almacenara nuestro bitcoin. Perdes la clave, perdes tu bitcoin. Veamos este ejemplo:

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La clave privada, generara la clave publica y de esta ultima, se generaran las direcciones en la que los demás podrán depositarle bitcoin.

Veamos una clave privada:

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En este ejemplo vemos 12 palabras generadas con una billetera llamada "Sparrow". Esa es nuestra clave privada. Ud puede tener una clave privada de 12, 18 o 24 palabras, pero con 12 es suficiente. Pero, de donde salen estas palabras?

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Dejaremos la cuestión técnica de lado por el momento. La billetera, ha generado nuestra clave privada, la que guardaremos como nuestro mayor tesoro. Esta clave privada, nos generara nuestra clave publica. La criptografía de clave pública es la base de todas estas cosas, pero al principio es muy confusa. Entonces, lo que vamos a hacer es usar una analogía.

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Piense en una serie de casilleros, como cajas de seguridad que están en un espacio público. Tal vez esta sea una estación de autobuses o una estación de tren y en las paredes están todas estas cajas de seguridad. Y estas cajas de seguridad están codificadas con PIN. Así que hay un pequeño teclado de código pin en el frente. La otra cosa que es única acerca de estas cajas de seguridad es que todas tienen una pequeña ranura en la parte superior. Y esa ranura significa que podes dejar algo en la caja de seguridad. Bien, si dejas caer algo en la caja de seguridad, ¿Quién puede abrirlo? Quien tenga el pin (la clave privada).

Esta imagen no es perfecta, porque se pierde algo realmente interesante que sucede en Bitcoin. Todas las cajas de seguridad son transparentes. De hecho, puede ver el interior, si hay dinero allí, y puede contarlo desde el exterior de la caja. No podes tocarlo, no podes abrirlo, pero podes ver que está ahí. Y esa es la tecnología fundamental de Bitcoin. Hay un pequeño detalle más. ¿Ves los números en la esquina inferior izquierda? Todas las casillas están numeradas. Esa es la caja de seguridad número dos. Entonces, en un sistema blockchain, esa sería la dirección. Entonces, la dirección es un número de identificación pública. Simplemente, eso es una dirección, un número. Eso le dice qué caja de seguridad necesita usar.

En esta imagen, vemos como se comprime la información con el algoritmo que utiliza el sistema Bitcoin, solo a modo ilustrativo para comprender su seguridad.

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Entonces, una dirección de bitcoin no le dice nada sobre la clave privada. Es una consideración muy importante. ¿Alguna vez podes encontrar la clave privada de la dirección de bitcoin? No, no podes. Tienen una relación matemática, pero esa relación matemática es unidireccional. La dirección de bitcoin se genera a partir de la clave privada, no al revés. No podes retroceder desde una dirección o desde la clave publica.

Casi todo en criptografía se basa en esta idea fundamental, que se puede resumir en que no se puede retroceder. También conocidas como "funciones unidireccionales en matemáticas".

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Alguien le envió a Alice algo de bitcoin. Solo que en realidad no lo envió. Porque bitcoin no se mueve. Bitcoin siempre está en la red Bitcoin. No está en mi bolsillo. No está en mi teléfono. No está en la billetera. Está en la cadena de bloques, siempre.

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