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O Planetinha

Fumaça verde me entrando pelas narinas e um coro desafinado fazia uma base melódica.

nos confins da galáxia havia um planetinha isolado. Era um planeta feliz.

O homem vestido de mago começava a aparecer por detrás da fumaça verde.

O planetinha recebeu três presentes, mas o seu habitante, o homem, estava num estado de confusão tão grande que ameaçava estragá-los. Os homens já havia escravizado o primeiro presente, a vida; lutavam contra o segundo presente, a morte; e havia alguns que achavam que deviam destruir totalmente o terceiro, o amor, e com isto levar a desordem total ao pobre planetinha perdido, que se chamava Terra.

O coro desafinado entrou antes do "Terra" cantando várias vezes, como se imitasse um eco, "terra-terra-terraaa". Depois de uma pausa dramática, o homem vestido de mago voltou a falar.

Terra, nossa nave mãe.

Neste momento eu me afastei. À frente do palco onde o mago e seu coral faziam apelos à multidão havia vários estandes cobertos com a tradicional armação de quatro pernas e lona branca. Em todos os cantos da praça havia gente, gente dos mais variados tipos. Visitantes curiosos que se aproximavam atraídos pela fumaça verde e as barraquinhas, gente que aproveitava o movimento para vender doces sem pagar imposto, casais que se abraçavam de pé para espantar o frio, os tradicionais corredores que faziam seu cooper, gente cheia de barba e vestida para imitar os hippies dos anos 60 e vender colares estendidos no chão, transeuntes novos e velhos, vestidos como baladeiros ou como ativistas do ônibus grátis, grupos de ciclistas entusiastas.

O mago fazia agora apelos para que nós, os homens, habitantes do isolado planetinha, passássemos a ver o planetinha, nossa nave mãe, como um todo, e adquiríssemos a consciência de que ele estava entrando em maus lençóis. A idéia, reforçada pela logomarca do evento, era que parássemos de olhar só para a nossa vida e pensássemos no planeta.

A logomarca do evento, um desenho estilizado do planeta Terra, nada tinha a ver com seu nome: "Festival Andando de Bem com a Vida", mas havia sido ali colocada estrategicamente pelos organizadores, de quem parecia justamente sair a mensagem dita pelo mago.

Aquela multidão de pessoas que, assim como eu, tinham suas próprias preocupações, não podiam ver o quadro caótico que formavam, cada uma com seus atos isolados, ali naquela praça isolada, naquele planeta isolado. Quando o hippie barbudo, quase um Osho, assustava um casal para tentar vender-lhes um colar, a quantidade de caos que isto acrescentava à cena era gigantesca. Por um segundo, pude ver, como se estivesse de longe e acima, com toda a pretensão que este estado imaginativo carrega, a cena completa do caos.

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Uma nave-mãe, dessas de ficção científica, habitada por milhões de pessoas, seguia no espaço sem rumo, e sem saber que logo à frente um longo precipício espacial a esperava, para a desgraça completa sua e de seus habitantes.

Acostumados àquela nave tanto quanto outrora estiveram acostumados à sua terra natal, os homens viviam as próprias vidas sem nem se lembrar que estavam vagando pelo espaço. Ninguém sabia quem estava conduzindo a nave, e ninguém se importava.

No final do filme descobre-se que era a soma completa do caos que cada habitante produzia, com seus gestos egoístas e incapazes de levar em conta a totalidade, é que determinava a direção da nave-mãe. O efeito, no entanto, não era imediato, como nunca é. Havia gente de verdade encarregada de conduzir a nave, mas era uma gente bêbada, mau-caráter, que vivia brigando pelo controle da nave e o poder que isto lhes dava. Poder, status, dinheiro!

Essa gente bêbada era atraída até ali pela corrupção das instituições e da moral comum que, no fundo no fundo, era causada pelo egoísmo da população, através de um complexo -- mas que no filme aparece simplificado pela ação individual de um magnata do divertimento público -- processo social.

O homem vestido de mago era mais um agente causador de caos, com sua cena cheia de fumaça e sua roupa estroboscópica, ele achava que estava fazendo o bem ao alertar sua platéia, todos as sextas-feiras, de que havia algo que precisava ser feito, que cada um que estava ali ouvindo era responsável pelo planeta. A sua incapacidade, porém, de explicar o que precisava ser feito só aumentava a angústia geral; a culpa que ele jogava sobre seu público, e que era prontamente aceita e passada em frente, aos familiares e amigos de cada um, atormentava-os diariamente e os impedia de ter uma vida decente no trabalho e em casa. As famílias, estressadas, estavam constantemente brigando e os motivos mais insignificantes eram responsáveis pelas mais horrendas conseqüências.

O mago, que após o show tirava o chapéu entortado e ia tomar cerveja num boteco, era responsável por uma parcela considerável do caos que levava a nave na direção do seu desgraçado fim. No filme, porém, um dos transeuntes que de passagem ouviu um pedaço do discurso do mago despertou em si mesmo uma consiência transformadora e, com poderes sobre-humanos que lhe foram então concedidos por uma ordem iniciática do bem ou não, usando só os seus poderes humanos mesmo, o transeunte -- na primeira versão do filme um homem, na segunda uma mulher -- consegue consertar as instituições e retirar os bêbados da condução da máquina. A questão da moral pública é ignorada para abreviar a trama, já com duas horas e quarenta de duração, mas subentende-se que ela também fora resolvida.

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No planeta Terra real, que não está indo em direção alguma, preso pela gravidade ao Sol, e onde as pessoas vivem a própria vida porque lhes é impossível viver a dos outros, não têm uma consciência global de nada porque só é possível mesmo ter a consciência delas mesmas, e onde a maioria, de uma maneira ou de outra, está tentando como pode, fazer as coisas direito, o filme é exibido.

Para a maioria dos espectadores, é um filme que evoca reflexões, um filme forte. Por um segundo elas têm o mesmo vislumbre do caos generalizado que eu tive ali naquela praça. Para uma pequena parcela dos espectadores -- entre eles alguns dos que estavam na platéia do mago, o próprio mago, o seguidor do Osho, o casal de duas mulheres e o vendedor de brigadeiros, mas aos quais se somam também críticos de televisão e jornal e gente que fala pelos cotovelos na internet -- o filme é um horror, o filme é uma vulgarização de um problema real e sério, o filme apela para a figura do herói salvador e passa uma mensagem totalmente errada, de que a maioria da população pode continuar vivendo as suas própria vidinhas miseráveis enquanto espera por um herói que vem do Olimpo e os salva da mixórdia que eles mesmos causaram, é um filme que presta um enorme desserviço à causa.

No dia seguinte ao lançamento, num bar meio caro ali perto da praça, numa mesa com oito pessoas, entre elas seis do primeiro grupo e oito do segundo, discute-se se o filme levará ou não o Oscar. Eu estou em casa dormindo e não escuto nada.

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Kendisini aynada ilk defa gördüğü o gün, diğerleri gibi olduğunu anlamıştı. Oysaki her insan biricik olmalıydı. Sözgelimi sinirlendiğinde bir kaşı diğerinden birkaç milimetre daha az çatılabilirdi veya sevindiğinde dudağı ona has bir açıyla dalgalanabilirdi. Hatta bunların hiçbiri mümkün değilse, en azından, gözlerinin içinde sadece onun sahip olabileceği bir ışık parlayabilirdi. Çok sıradan, öyle sıradan ki kimsenin fark etmediği o milyonlarca minik şeyden herhangi biri. Ne olursa.

Ama yansımasına bakarken bunların hiçbirini bulamadı ve diğer günlerden hiç de farklı başlamamış o gün, işe gitmek için vagonunun gelmesini beklediği alelade bir metro istasyonunda, içinde kaybolduğu illüzyon dağılmaya başladı.

İlk önce derisi döküldü. Tam olarak dökülmedi aslında, daha çok kıvılcımlara dönüşüp bedeninden fırlamış ve bir an sonra sönerek külleşmiş, havada dağılmıştı. Ardında da, kaybolmadan hemen önce, kısa süre için hayal meyal görülebilen, bir ruhun yok oluşuna ağıt yakan rengârenk peri cesetleri bırakmıştı. Beklenenin aksine, havaya toz kokusu yayıldı.

Dehşete düştü elbette. Dehşete düştüler. Panikle üstlerini yırtan 50 işçi. Her şeyin sebebiyse o vagon.

Saçları da döküldü. Her tel, yere varmadan önce, her santimde ikiye ayrıla ayrıla yok oldu.

Bütün yüzeylerin mat olduğu, hiçbir şeyin yansımadığı, suyun siyah aktığı ve kendine ancak kameralarla bakabildiğin bir dünyada, vagonun içine yerleştirilmiş bir aynadan ilk defa kendini görmek.

Gözlerinin akları buharlaşıp havada dağıldı, mercekleri boşalan yeri doldurmak için eriyip yayıldı. Gerçeği görmemek için yaratılmış, bu yüzden görmeye hazır olmayan ve hiç olmayacak gözler.

Her şeyin o anda sona erdiğini sanabilirdi insan. Derin bir karanlık ve ölüm. Görmenin görmek olduğu o anın bitişi.

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Ben geldiğimde ölmüşlerdi.

Yani bozulmuşlardı demek istiyorum.

Belleklerini yeni taşıyıcılara takmam mümkün olmadı. Fiziksel olarak kusursuz durumdaydılar, olmayanları da tamir edebilirdim ama tüm o hengamede kendilerini baştan programlamış ve girdilerini modifiye etmişlerdi.

Belleklerden birini masanın üzerinden ileriye savurdu. Hınca hınç dolu bir barda oturuyorlardı. O ve arkadaşı.

Sırf şu kendisini insan sanan androidler travma geçirip delirmesin diye neler yapıyoruz, insanın aklı almıyor.

Eliyle arkasını işaret etti.

Polislerin söylediğine göre biri vagonun içerisine ayna yerleştirmiş. Bu zavallılar da kapı açılıp bir anda yansımalarını görünce kafayı kırmışlar.

Arkadaşı bunların ona ne hissettirdiğini sordu. Yani o kadar bozuk, insan olduğunu sanan androidi kendilerini parçalamış olarak yerde görmek onu sarsmamış mıydı?

Hayır, sonuçta belirli bir amaç için yaratılmış şeyler onlar. Kaliteli bir bilgisayarım bozulduğunda üzülürüm çünkü parasını ben vermişimdir. Bunlarsa devletin. Bana ne ki?

Arkadaşı anlayışla kafasını sallayıp suyundan bir yudum aldı. Kravatını biraz gevşetti.

Bira istemediğinden emin misin?

İstemediğini söyledi. Sahi, neden deliriyordu bu androidler?

Basit. Onların yapay zekâlarını kodlarken bir şeyler yazıyorlar. Yazılımcılar. Biliyorsun, ben donanımdayım. Bunlar da kendilerini insan sanıyorlar. Tiplerine bak.

Sesini alçalttı.

Arabalarda kaza testi yapılan mankenlere benziyor hepsi. Ağızları burunları bile yok ama şu geldiğimizden beri sakalını düzeltip duruyor mesela. Hayır, hepsi de diğerleri onun sakalı varmış sanıyor, o manyak bir şey.

Arkadaşı bunun delirmeleriyle bağlantısını çözemediğini söyledi. O da normal sesiyle konuşmaya devam etti.

Anlasana, aynayı falan ayırt edemiyor mercekleri. Lönk diye kendilerini görüyorlar. Böyle, olduğu gibi...

Nedenmiş peki? Ne gerek varmış?

Ne bileyim be abicim! Ahiret soruları gibi.

Birasına bakarak dalıp gitti. Sonra masaya abanarak arkadaşına iyice yaklaştı. Bulanık, bir tünelin ucundaki biri gibi, şekli şemalı belirsiz bir adam.

Ben seni nereden tanıyorum ki ulan? Kimsin sen?

Belleği makineden çıkardılar. İki kişiydiler. Soruşturmadan sorumlu memurlar.

─ Baştan mı başlıyoruz, diye sordu belleği elinde tutan ilk memur.

─ Bir kere daha deneyelim ama bu sefer direkt aynayı sorarak başla, diye cevapladı ikinci memur.

─ Bence de. Yeterince düzgün çalışıyor.

Simülasyon yüklenirken, ayakta, biraz arkada duran ve alnını kaşıyan ikinci memur sormaktan kendisini alamadı:

─ Bu androidleri niye böyle bir olay yerine göndermişler ki? Belli tost olacakları. İsraf. Gidip biz baksak aynayı kırıp delilleri mahvetmek zorunda da kalmazlar.

Diğer memur sandalyesinde hafifçe dönecek oldu, o sırada soruyu bilgisayarın hoparlöründen teknisyen cevapladı.

Hangi işimizde bir yamukluk yok ki be abi.

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Ama bir son değildi. Üstlerindeki tüm illüzyon dağıldığında ve çıplak, cinsiyetsiz, birbirinin aynı bedenleriyle kaldıklarında sıra dünyaya gelmişti.

Yere düştüler. Elleri -bütün bedeni gibi siyah turmalinden, boğumları çelikten- yere değdiği anda, metronun zemini dağıldı.

Yerdeki karolar öncesinde beyazdı ve çok parlaktı. Tepelerindeki floresan, ışığını olduğu gibi yansıtıyor, tek bir lekenin olmadığı ve tek bir tozun uçmadığı istasyonu aydınlatıyorlardı.

Duvarlara duyurular asılmıştı. Örneğin, yarın akşam kültür merkezinde 20.00’da başlayacak bir tekno blues festivalinin cıvıl cıvıl afişi vardı. Onun yanında daha geniş, sarı puntolu harflerle yazılmış, yatay siyah kesiklerle çerçevesi çizilmiş, bir platformdan düşen çöp adamın bulunduğu “Dikkat! Sarı bandı geçmeyin!” uyarısı. Biraz ilerisinde günlük resmi gazete, onun ilerisinde bir aksiyon filminin ve başka bir romantik komedi filminin afişleri, yapılacakların ve yapılmayacakların söylendiği küçük puntolu çeşitli duyurular... Duvar uzayıp giden bir panoydu. On, on beş metrede bir tekrarlanıyordu.

Tüm istasyonun eni yüz metre kadar. Genişliği on metre civarı.

Önlerinde, açık kapısından o mendebur aynanın gözüktüğü vagon duruyordu. Metro, istasyona sığmayacak kadar uzundu. Bir kılıcın keskinliğiyle uzanıyor ama yer yer vagonların ek yerleriyle bölünüyordu.

Hiçbir vagonda pencere olmadığı için metronun içi, içlerindekiler meçhuldü.

Sonrasında karolar zerrelerine ayrılarak yükseldi. Floresanın ışığında her yeri toza boğdular ve ortalığı gri bir sisin altına gömdüler. Çok kısa bir an. Afişleri dalgalandırmadılar. Dalgalandırmaya vakitleri olmadı. Yerlerinden söküp aldılar en fazla. Işık birkaç kere sönüp yanarak direndi. Son kez söndüğünde bir daha geri gelmedi.

Yine de etraf aydınlıktı. Kırmızı, her yere eşit dağılan soluk bir ışıkla.

Yer tamamen tele dönüşmüştü. Altında çapraz hatlarla desteklenmiş demir bir iskelet. Işık birkaç metreden daha fazla aşağıya uzanamıyordu. Sonsuzluğa giden bir uçurum.

Duvarın yerini aynı teller ve demir iskelet almıştı. Arkasında, birbirine vidalarla tutturulmuş demir plakalardan oluşan, üstünden geçen boruların ek yerlerinden bazen ince buharların çıktığı ve bir süre asılı kaldıktan sonra ağır, yağlı bir havayla sürüklendiği bir koridor.

Diğer tarafta paslanmış, pencerelerindeki camlar kırıldığı için demir plakalarla kapatılmış külüstür bir metro. Kapının karşısındaki aynadan her şey olduğu gibi yansıyordu.

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Bir konteynırın içini andıran bir evde, gerçi gayet de birbirine eklenmiş konteynırlardan oluşan bir şehirde “andıran” demek doğru olmayacağı için düpedüz bir konteynırın içinde, masaya mum görüntüsü vermek için koyulmuş, yarı katı yağ atıklarından şekillendirilmiş kütleleri yakmayı deniyordu. Kafasında hayvan kıllarından yapılmış grili siyahlı bir peruk. Aynı kıllardan kendisine gür bir bıyık da yapmıştı.

Üstünde mavi çöp poşetlerinden yapılmış, kravatlı, şık bir takım.

Masanın ayakları yerine oradan buradan çıkmış parçalar konulmuştu: bir arabanın şaft mili, üst üste konulmuş ve üstünde yazı okunamayan tenekeler, boş kitaplar, boş gazete balyaları... Hiçbir şeye yazı yazılmıyordu, gerek yoktu da zaten çünkü merkez veri bankası onları fark ettirmeden, merceklerden giren veriyi sentezleyerek insanlar için dolduruyordu. Yani, androidler için. Farklı şekilde isimlendirmek bir fark yaratacaksa.

Onların mercekleri için değil. Bağlantıları çok önceden kopmuştu.

─ Hayatım, sofra hazır, diye bağırdı yatak odasındaki karısına.

Sofrada tabak yerine düz, bardak yerine bükülmüş, çatal ve bıçak yerine sivriltilmiş plakalar.

Karısı salonun kapısında durakladı ve ancak kulaklarına kadar uzanan, kocasınınkine benzeyen, cansız, ölü hayvanların kıllarından ibaret peruğunu eliyle düzeltti. Dudağını, daha doğrusu dudağının olması gereken yeri koyu kırmızı bir yağ tabakasıyla renklendirmeyi denemişti. Biraz da yanaklarına sürmüştü.

─ Nasıl olmuş, diye sordu.

Sesi tek düzeydi ama hafif bir neşe olduğunu hissettiğinize yemin edebilirdiniz.

Üzerinde, çöp poşetlerinin içini yazısız gazete kağıtlarıyla doldurarak yaptığı iki parça giysi.

─ Çok güzelsin, diyerek kravatını düzeltti kocası.

─ Sen de öylesin, sevgilim.

Yaklaşıp kocasını öptü. Kocası da onu. Sonra nazikçe elinden tutarak, sandalyesini geriye çekerek oturmasına yardım etti.

Sofrada yemek niyetine hiçbir şey yoktu. Gerek de yoktu zaten.

Konteynırın kapısı gürültüyle tekmelenip içeri iki memur girene kadar birbirlerine öyküler anlattılar. O gün neler yaptıklarını. İşten erken çıkıp yemyeşil çimenlerde gezdiklerini, uçurtma uçurduklarını, kadının nasıl o elbiseyi bulmak için saatlerce gezip yorulduğunu, kocasının kısa süreliğine işe dönüp nasıl başarılı bir hamleyle yaşanan krizi çözdüğünü ve kadının yanına döndükten sonra, alışveriş merkezinde oturdukları yeni dondurmacının dondurmalarının ne kadar lezzetli olduğunu, boğazlarının ağrımasından korktuklarını...

Akşam film izleyebilirlerdi, televizyonda -boş ve mat bir plaka- güzel bir film oynayacaktı.

İki memur. Çıplak bedenleriyle birbirinin aynı. Ellerindeki silahları onlara doğrultmuşlardı. Mum ışığında, tertemiz bir örtünün serili olduğu masada, bardaklarında şaraplarla oturan ve henüz sofranın ortasındaki hindiye dokunmamış çifti gördüklerinde bocaladılar.

Hiç de androidlere bilinçli olarak zarar verebilecek gibi gözükmüyorlardı.

─ Sessiz kalma hakkına sahipsiniz, diye bağırdı içeri giren ikinci memur. Söylediğiniz her şey...

Cümlesini bitiremedi. Yatak odasındaki, masanın üzerinden gördüğü o şey, onunla aynı hareketleri yapan android, yoksa, bir aynadaki yansıması mıydı?

Bütün illüzyon o anda dağılmaya başladı.

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2020 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

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

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

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

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

Imagen relativa a la lucha contra el patriarcado

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

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

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

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

Imagen representativa del binarismo de género

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

Imagen alegórica al embarazo

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

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

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

Imagen de mujeres de distintas razas

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

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

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English version

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

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

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

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

Image relating to the fight against patriarchy

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

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

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

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

Representative image of gender binarism

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

Allegorical image of pregnancy

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

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

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

Image of women of different races

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

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

Créditos | Credits

Bibliografía consultada | Consulted bibliography:

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

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

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Chef's notes

Serving these two dishes together will create a delightful centerpiece for your Thanksgiving meal, offering a perfect blend of traditional flavors with a homemade touch.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 30 min
• 🍳 Cook time: 1 - 2 hours
• 🍽️ Servings: 4-6

Ingredients

• 1 whole turkey (about 12-14 lbs), thawed and ready to cook
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 2 tablespoons fresh thyme, chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh rosemary, chopped
• 2 tablespoons fresh sage, chopped
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 onion, quartered
• 1 lemon, halved
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• Apple and Sage Stuffing
• 1 loaf of crusty bread, cut into cubes
• 2 apples, cored and chopped
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 stalks celery, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup fresh sage, chopped
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter
• 2 cups chicken broth
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Directions

1. Preheat the Oven: Set your oven to 325°F (165°C).
2. Prepare the Herb Butter: Mix the softened butter with the chopped thyme, rosemary, and sage. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Prepare the Turkey: Remove any giblets from the turkey and pat it dry. Loosen the skin and spread a generous amount of herb butter under and over the skin.
4. Add Aromatics: Inside the turkey cavity, place the quartered onion, lemon halves, and garlic cloves.
5. Roast: Place the turkey in a roasting pan. Tent with aluminum foil and roast. A general guideline is about 15 minutes per pound, or until the internal temperature reaches 165°F (74°C) at the thickest part of the thigh.
6. Rest and Serve: Let the turkey rest for at least 20 minutes before carving.
7. Next: Apple and Sage Stuffing
8. Dry the Bread: Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet and let them dry overnight, or toast them in the oven.
9. Cook the Vegetables: In a large skillet, melt the butter and cook the onion, celery, and garlic until soft.
10. Combine Ingredients: Add the apples, sage, and bread cubes to the skillet. Stir in the chicken broth until the mixture is moist. Season with salt and pepper.
11. Bake: Transfer the stuffing to a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for about 30-40 minutes, until golden brown on top.

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Nas blockchains PoW o consenso é alcançado por meio de prova de trabalho computacional e o objetivo principal é evitar que atores mal intencionados consumam ou ataquem a rede de forma perigosa. Este método de consenso requer um grande poder computacional para criar novos blocos, mas é muito simples, por parte de outros, verificar esse trabalho. Por isso se diz que PoW é uma estratégia assimétrica.

Nas blockchains PoS o objetivo é o mesmo, criar blocos e chegar a um consenso, mas nas PoS não é necessário um poder de processamento tão grande como nas PoW. Em média as PoS gastam menos de 1% da energia das PoW. Nas PoS os mineradores são chamados de validadores. Enquanto que nas PoW quem fica com a recompensa é quem resolve primeiro a charada matemática, nas PoS o validador que vai ganhar a recompensa é escolhido de forma aleatória, mas dando maior probabilidade aos que respeitem determinados critérios. A comunidade bitcoin é muito relutante em relação a PoS porque é mais fácil conseguir uma grande quantidade da moeda em causa do que mais que 51% de poder processamento. Logo as PoS são mais vulneráveis no que toca a segurança. Mas aqui cada caso é um caso e é preciso fazer essa análise para cada moeda.

As blockchains PoW tendem a ser mais descentralizadas enquanto as PoS mais centralizadas, não só em acesso, mas também em operação. Mais de metade dos validadores de ethereum estão na cloud da amazon. As blockchains PoW apresentam grandes desafios na escalabilidade de operação, muitas vezes exigindo soluções de segunda camada (L2), enquanto que as PoS possuem mecanismos de escalabilidade muito mais flexíveis. Os algoritmos PoW são muito mais simples de implementar do que os PoS e, portanto, menos suscetíveis a erros. Um bom exemplo é o PoS da ethereum que estava a ser implementado desde 2018.

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nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.

It doesn't rely on any trusted central server, hence it is resilient; it is based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, therefore it works.

Very short summary of how it works, if you don't plan to read anything else:

Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc. To publish something, you write a post, sign it with your key and send it to multiple relays (servers hosted by someone else, or yourself). To get updates from other people, you ask multiple relays if they know anything about these other people. Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others. Relays don't have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side.

This is needed because other solutions are broken:

The problem with Twitter

• Twitter has ads;
• Twitter uses bizarre techniques to keep you addicted;
• Twitter doesn't show an actual historical feed from people you follow;
• Twitter bans people;
• Twitter shadowbans people.
• Twitter has a lot of spam.

The problem with Mastodon and similar programs

• User identities are attached to domain names controlled by third-parties;
• Server owners can ban you, just like Twitter; Server owners can also block other servers;
• Migration between servers is an afterthought and can only be accomplished if servers cooperate. It doesn't work in an adversarial environment (all followers are lost);
• There are no clear incentives to run servers, therefore they tend to be run by enthusiasts and people who want to have their name attached to a cool domain. Then, users are subject to the despotism of a single person, which is often worse than that of a big company like Twitter, and they can't migrate out;
• Since servers tend to be run amateurishly, they are often abandoned after a while — which is effectively the same as banning everybody;
• It doesn't make sense to have a ton of servers if updates from every server will have to be painfully pushed (and saved!) to a ton of other servers. This point is exacerbated by the fact that servers tend to exist in huge numbers, therefore more data has to be passed to more places more often;
• For the specific example of video sharing, ActivityPub enthusiasts realized it would be completely impossible to transmit video from server to server the way text notes are, so they decided to keep the video hosted only from the single instance where it was posted to, which is similar to the Nostr approach.

The problem with SSB (Secure Scuttlebutt)

• It doesn't have many problems. I think it's great. In fact, I was going to use it as a basis for this, but
• its protocol is too complicated because it wasn't thought about being an open protocol at all. It was just written in JavaScript in probably a quick way to solve a specific problem and grew from that, therefore it has weird and unnecessary quirks like signing a JSON string which must strictly follow the rules of ECMA-262 6th Edition;
• It insists on having a chain of updates from a single user, which feels unnecessary to me and something that adds bloat and rigidity to the thing — each server/user needs to store all the chain of posts to be sure the new one is valid. Why? (Maybe they have a good reason);
• It is not as simple as Nostr, as it was primarily made for P2P syncing, with "pubs" being an afterthought;
• Still, it may be worth considering using SSB instead of this custom protocol and just adapting it to the client-relay server model, because reusing a standard is always better than trying to get people in a new one.

The problem with other solutions that require everybody to run their own server

• They require everybody to run their own server;
• Sometimes people can still be censored in these because domain names can be censored.

How does Nostr work?

• There are two components: clients and relays. Each user runs a client. Anyone can run a relay.
• Every user is identified by a public key. Every post is signed. Every client validates these signatures.
• Clients fetch data from relays of their choice and publish data to other relays of their choice. A relay doesn't talk to another relay, only directly to users.
• For example, to "follow" someone a user just instructs their client to query the relays it knows for posts from that public key.
• On startup, a client queries data from all relays it knows for all users it follows (for example, all updates from the last day), then displays that data to the user chronologically.
• A "post" can contain any kind of structured data, but the most used ones are going to find their way into the standard so all clients and relays can handle them seamlessly.

How does it solve the problems the networks above can't?

• Users getting banned and servers being closed
• A relay can block a user from publishing anything there, but that has no effect on them as they can still publish to other relays. Since users are identified by a public key, they don't lose their identities and their follower base when they get banned.
• Instead of requiring users to manually type new relay addresses (although this should also be supported), whenever someone you're following posts a server recommendation, the client should automatically add that to the list of relays it will query.
• If someone is using a relay to publish their data but wants to migrate to another one, they can publish a server recommendation to that previous relay and go;
• If someone gets banned from many relays such that they can't get their server recommendations broadcasted, they may still let some close friends know through other means with which relay they are publishing now. Then, these close friends can publish server recommendations to that new server, and slowly, the old follower base of the banned user will begin finding their posts again from the new relay.

• All of the above is valid too for when a relay ceases its operations.

• Censorship-resistance

• Each user can publish their updates to any number of relays.

• A relay can charge a fee (the negotiation of that fee is outside of the protocol for now) from users to publish there, which ensures censorship-resistance (there will always be some Russian server willing to take your money in exchange for serving your posts).

• Spam

• If spam is a concern for a relay, it can require payment for publication or some other form of authentication, such as an email address or phone, and associate these internally with a pubkey that then gets to publish to that relay — or other anti-spam techniques, like hashcash or captchas. If a relay is being used as a spam vector, it can easily be unlisted by clients, which can continue to fetch updates from other relays.

• Data storage

• For the network to stay healthy, there is no need for hundreds of active relays. In fact, it can work just fine with just a handful, given the fact that new relays can be created and spread through the network easily in case the existing relays start misbehaving. Therefore, the amount of data storage required, in general, is relatively less than Mastodon or similar software.

• Or considering a different outcome: one in which there exist hundreds of niche relays run by amateurs, each relaying updates from a small group of users. The architecture scales just as well: data is sent from users to a single server, and from that server directly to the users who will consume that. It doesn't have to be stored by anyone else. In this situation, it is not a big burden for any single server to process updates from others, and having amateur servers is not a problem.

• Video and other heavy content

• It's easy for a relay to reject large content, or to charge for accepting and hosting large content. When information and incentives are clear, it's easy for the market forces to solve the problem.

• Techniques to trick the user

• Each client can decide how to best show posts to users, so there is always the option of just consuming what you want in the manner you want — from using an AI to decide the order of the updates you'll see to just reading them in chronological order.

FAQ

• This is very simple. Why hasn't anyone done it before?

I don't know, but I imagine it has to do with the fact that people making social networks are either companies wanting to make money or P2P activists who want to make a thing completely without servers. They both fail to see the specific mix of both worlds that Nostr uses.

• How do I find people to follow?

First, you must know them and get their public key somehow, either by asking or by seeing it referenced somewhere. Once you're inside a Nostr social network you'll be able to see them interacting with other people and then you can also start following and interacting with these others.

• How do I find relays? What happens if I'm not connected to the same relays someone else is?

You won't be able to communicate with that person. But there are hints on events that can be used so that your client software (or you, manually) knows how to connect to the other person's relay and interact with them. There are other ideas on how to solve this too in the future but we can't ever promise perfect reachability, no protocol can.

• Can I know how many people are following me?

No, but you can get some estimates if relays cooperate in an extra-protocol way.

• What incentive is there for people to run relays?

The question is misleading. It assumes that relays are free dumb pipes that exist such that people can move data around through them. In this case yes, the incentives would not exist. This in fact could be said of DHT nodes in all other p2p network stacks: what incentive is there for people to run DHT nodes?

• Nostr enables you to move between server relays or use multiple relays but if these relays are just on AWS or Azure what’s the difference?

There are literally thousands of VPS providers scattered all around the globe today, there is not only AWS or Azure. AWS or Azure are exactly the providers used by single centralized service providers that need a lot of scale, and even then not just these two. For smaller relay servers any VPS will do the job very well.

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I'm learning as I go, so take the text below for what it is: my notes on the process. These steps could become outdated quickly, and I may have some wrong assumptions at places. Either way, I have had success, and would like to share my experience for anyone new to the process. If I have made any errors, please reply with corrections so that others may avoid potential pitfalls.

!!! If you have "KYC Bitcoin", keep it in separate wallets from your "Anonymous Bitcoin". Any Anonymous Bitcoin in a wallet with KYC Bitcoin becomes 100% KYC Bitcoin.

!!! It took me several days to get all the right pieces set up before I could even start an exchange with someone.

!!! Using a VPN is highly recommended. If you're not already using one, take the time to find one that suits you and get it running.

!!! If you don't normally buy Amazon Gift Cards, start doing so now, and just send them to yourself, or friends that will give you cash in return, etc. For my first trade, Amazon locked me out of my account for about 22 hours, while I was in the middle of an exchange. All because I had never purchased an Amazon Gift Card before. It was quite nerve wracking. My second trade was for $300, and although my Amazon account wasn't shut down, that order had a status of "Sending" for about 22 hours, due to the large amount. In each of these cases I had multiple phone calls with their customer support, all of whom gave me false expectations. Had I already been sending gift cards to the anonymous email address that I created in the steps below, and maybe other anonymous email addresses that I could make, then I might not have been stalled so much.

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1. Install Tor Browser for your OS. The RoboSats.com website issues a warning if you are not using Tor Browser. If you don't know what Tor is, I won't explain it all here, but trust me, it's cool and helps keep you anonymous. If you use Firefox, the interface will look very familiar to you.

2. Create a KYC-free e-mail address. I used tutanota.com in Firefox, as it would not allow me to create an account using Tor Browser. After the account was created, using Tor Browser to login, check emails, etc. has been working perfectly. Tutanota requires a 48 hour (or less) waiting period to prevent bots from using their system. You'll be able to login, and even draft an email, but you won't be able to send. After you've been approved, you should be able to login and send an email to your new address. It should show up in your Inbox almost instantly if it's working.

3. Have, or create, at least one Lightning wallet that is compatible with RoboSats.com and has no KYC Bitcoin in it. The RoboSats website has a compatibility chart available to find the best wallet for you. During an exchange on RoboSats, you will need to put up an escrow payment, or bond, in Satoshis. This amount is usually 3% of the total amount being exchanged. If the exchange is successful, the bond payment is canceled, leaving that amount in your wallet untouched, and with no record of it having been used as escrow. If you don't hold up your end of the trade, the bond amount will be transfered from your wallet. I created a wallet, using my new email address, with the Alby extension in the Tor Browser. This anonymous wallet was empty, so I used a separate wallet for the bond payment of my first trade. This wallet had KYC Bitcoin, but since it is being used for a bond payment, and no transaction will be recorded if everything goes okay, I don't mind taking the minuscule risk. After the first trade, I don't need to use the "KYC wallet", and I will use only my anonymous Lightning wallet for transactions related to performing a trade.

4. Create a new Robot Token by going to RoboSats using the Tor Browser. Copy the Token (Robot ID) to a text file as a temporary backup. It is recommended to create a new robot-token for every session of exchanges you make.

5. Select "Offers" to browse what others are presenting. "Create" is for when you want to create an offer of your own. You may need to create your own offer if none of the existing offers match your criteria.

6. Select "Buy" at the top of the page.

7. Select your currency (USD).

8. Select your payment methods by typing "amazon" and selecting (Amazon Gift Card). Repeat this process and select (Amazon USA Gift Card).

9. Determine Priorities - If you prefer to trade quickly, and don't care as much about premiums, look for users with a green dot on the upper-right of their robot icon. If you're not in a hurry, sort users by premium and select the best deal, even if they are inactive. They may become active once they are notified that their offer has activity from you.

10. The Definition of Price = the price with the premium added, but not the bond

11. A. Find A Compatible Offer - Select the row of the desired offer and enter the amount you would like to buy. i.e. $100 If you do not find a compatible offer, you will have to create your own offer.

    B.  **Create An Offer** - First, take a look at "Sell" offers for your same currency and payment method(s) that you will be using.  Take note of the premium those buyers are willing to pay.  If your premium is drastically less than theirs, your offer may get ignored.  Select "Create" at the bottom of the screen.  There is a slider at the top of the screen, select it to see all the options. Select "Buy". Enter the minimum and maximum amount that you wish to spend.  Type "amazon" to select the methods that you would like to use (Amazon Gift Card, Amazon USA Gift Card).  For "Premium Over Market", enter an amount that is competitive with premiums you saw at the start of this step and do not use the % sign!  You can adjust the duration, timer, and bond amount, but I leave those at their default settings.  Select the "Create Order" button, and follow the instructions for making a bond payment.
    

12. Pay the Bond - Copy the invoice that is presented. From your wallet that contains bond funds, select "Send", and paste the invoice as the recipient. This money will never leave your account if the exchange completes without issue. No transaction will be recorded. If there is a complication with the exchange, it is possible that this transaction will complete.

13. Create and Submit Your Invoice for Their Bitcoin Payment To You - Select "Lightning", if not selected by default.* Select the Copy Icon to copy the correct amount of Satoshis. This amount already has the premium deducted. From your anonymous Lightning Wallet, select "Receive", and paste the Satoshi amount. If you enter a description, it's probably best to keep it cryptic. Copy the invoice and paste it into RoboSats; then select "Submit".

    * If you plan on "mixing" your Bitcoin after purchase, it may be better to select "On Chain" and pay the necessary fees swap and mining fees. In the example this comes from, Sparrow wallet is used and has whirlpool ability in its interface.

14. Connect With Seller and Send Funds - Greet the seller in the chat window. The seller has now provided RoboSats with the Bitcoin to transfer to you. Your move is to buy an Amazon eGift Card for the amount of the trade. Log in to your Amazon account and start the process of buying an eGift card. For delivery there is the option of email or txt message. Ask the seller what their preference is, and get their address, or phone number, to enter into Amazon's form. Complete the purchase process on Amazon, and check the status of your order. Once you see the status of "Sent", go back to RoboSats in your Tor Browser.

15. Confirm Your Payment - Select the "Confirm ___ USD Sent" button and notify the seller to check their e-mail/txt messages.

16. Seller Confirmation - Once the seller select their "Confirm" button, the trade will immediately end with a confirmation screen.

17. Verify - If you check the anonymous wallet, the new amount should be presented.

@ 8fb140b4:f948000c

Testing a brand new YakiHonne native client for iOS. Smooth as butter (not penis butter 🤣🍆🧈) with great visual experience and intuitive navigation. Amazing work by the team behind it! * lists * work

Bold text work!

Images could have used nostr.build instead of raw S3 from us-east-1 region.

Very impressive! You can even save the draft and continue later, before posting the long-form note!

🐶🐾🤯🤯🤯🫂💜

@ e6817453:b0ac3c39

The Zooko’s Triangle is a concept in the realm of naming systems, specifically for decentralized or distributed networks. It was named after Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, a computer scientist and cypherpunk known for his work on the Zcash cryptocurrency. The triangle illustrates a trade-off between three desirable properties in a naming system:

1. Human-meaningful: Names are easily understood and remembered by humans.
2. Decentralized: No central authority controls the allocation or management of names.
3. Secure: Names are unique and cannot be easily taken or manipulated by others.

Zooko’s Triangle posits that achieving all three properties in a single system is difficult. Traditionally, a system could have only two of the three properties, leading to various combinations of naming systems with their respective advantages and disadvantages.

However, recent developments in cryptographic and distributed systems have led to solutions that challenge the traditional constraints of Zooko’s Triangle. One such system is the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs).

DIDs

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new identifier for verifiable, decentralized digital identity. DIDs are designed to be self-sovereign, meaning that individuals or organizations control their identifiers without relying on a central authority. DID systems are built on top of decentralized networks, such as blockchain or distributed ledgers, providing a secure and tamper-proof infrastructure for identity management.

DIDs aim to achieve the three properties of Zooko’s Triangle:

1. Human-meaningful: While DIDs may not be human-meaningful due to their cryptographic nature, they can be associated with human-readable names or aliases.
2. Decentralized: DIDs are managed on decentralized networks, removing the need for a central authority.
3. Secure: The decentralized nature of DIDs, combined with cryptographic techniques, ensures that identifiers are unique, secure, and resistant to tampering.

In summary, Zooko’s Triangle presents a trade-off between human-meaningful, decentralized, and secure properties in naming systems. Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are an example of a system that seeks to overcome the traditional limitations of the triangle by leveraging decentralized networks and cryptographic techniques to provide a more comprehensive solution for digital identity management.

@ fa0165a0:03397073

I just tested building a browser plugin, it was easier than I thought. Here I'll walk you through the steps of creating a minimal working example of a browser plugin, a.k.a. the "Hello World" of browser plugins.

First of all there are two main browser platforms out there, Chromium and Mozilla. They do some things a little differently, but similar enough that we can build a plugin that works on both. This plugin will work in both, I'll describe the firefox version, but the chromium version is very similar.

What is a browser plugin?

Simply put, a browser plugin is a program that runs in the browser. It can do things like modify the content of a webpage, or add new functionality to the browser. It's a way to extend the browser with custom functionality. Common examples are ad blockers, password managers, and video downloaders.

In technical terms, they are plugins that can insert html-css-js into your browser experience.

How to build a browser plugin

Step 0: Basics

You'll need a computer, a text editor and a browser. For testing and development I personally think that the firefox developer edition is the easiest to work with. But any Chrome based browser will also do.

Create a working directory on your computer, name it anything you like. I'll call mine hello-world-browser-plugin. Open the directory and create a file called manifest.json. This is the most important file of your plugin, and it must be named exactly right.

Step 1: manifest.json

After creation open your file manifest.json in your text editor and paste the following code:

json { "manifest_version": 3, "name": "Hello World", "version": "1.0", "description": "A simple 'Hello World' browser extension", "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["<all_urls>"], "js": ["hello.js"] //The name of your script file. // "css": ["hello.css"] //The name of your css file. } ] }

If you wonder what the json file format is, it's a normal text file with a special syntax such that a computer can easily read it. It's the json syntax you see in the code above. Let's go through what's being said here. (If you are not interested, just skip to the next step after pasting this we are done here.)

• manifest_version: This is the version of the manifest file format. It's currently at version 3, and it's the latest version. It's important that you set this to 3, otherwise your plugin won't work.
• name: This is the name of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• version: This is the version of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• description: This is the description of your plugin. It can be anything you like.
• content_scripts: This is where you define what your plugin does. It's a list of scripts that will be executed when the browser loads a webpage. In this case we have one script, called hello.js. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.
• matches: This is a list of urls that the script will be executed on. In this case we have <all_urls>, which means that the script will be executed on all urls. You can also specify a specific url, like https://brave.com/*, which means that the script will only be executed on urls that start with https://brave.com/.
• js: This is a list of javascript files that will be executed. In this case we have one file, called hello.js. It's the script that we'll create in the next step.
• css: This is where you can add a list of css files that will be executed. In this case we have none, but you can add css files here if you want to.
• //: Text following these two characters are comments. They are ignored by the computer, You can add comments anywhere you like, and they are a good way to document your code.

Step 2: hello.js

Now it's time to create another file in your project folder. This time we'll call it hello.js. When created, open it in your text editor and paste the following code:

js console.log("Hello World!"); That's javascript code, and it's what will be executed when you run your plugin. It's a simple console.log statement, which will print the text "Hello World!" to the console. The console is a place where the browser prints out messages, and it's a good place to start when debugging your plugin.

Step 3: Load and launch your plugin

Firefox

Now it's time to load your plugin into your browser. Open your browser and go to the url about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox. You should see a page that looks something like this:

Click the button that says "Load Temporary Add-on...". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the file manifest.json. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.

Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!

Chrome

Open your browser and go to the url chrome://extensions/. Click the button that says "Load unpacked". A file dialog will open, navigate to your project folder and select the folder hello-world-browser-plugin. Your plugin should now be loaded and running.

Note the difference, of selecting the file manifest.json in firefox, and selecting the folder hello-world-browser-plugin in chrome. Otherwise, the process is the same. So I'll repeat the same text as above: (for those who skipped ahead..)

Go to a website, any website, and open the inspector then navigate to the console. You'll find the inspector by right-clicking anywhere within the webpage, and click "Inspector" in the drop-down menu. When opening the console you might see some log messages from the site you visited and... you should see the text "Hello World!" printed there, from our little plugin! Congratulations!

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As you can see this isn't as complicated as one might think. Having preformed a "Hello-World!"-project is a very useful and valuable first step. These setup steps are the basics for any browser plugin, and you can build on this to create more advanced plugins.

@ 8fb140b4:f948000c

As the title states, scratch behind my ear and you get it. 🐶🐾🫡

@ d830ee7b:4e61cd62

A Show for Thai Nostrs That Aligns with Austrian Economics

The initiative behind the specific program #สภายาม่วง (The Purple Council, hosted by nostr:npub1ejn774qahqmgjsfajawy7634unk88y26yktvwuzp9kfgdeejx9mqdm97a5) emerged from blending various concepts together. My objective is thus diverse and dynamic.

Benefits to the Community

• Supporting Austrian Economic Principles: When you create value out of self-interest, leading to genuine benefits to the community, you deserve to be rewarded.
• Open to All: This space is for everyone in our community who contributes value through their proof of work, expecting more than just personal gain.
• Opportunity for Recognition: Individuals can voluntarily reveal their stories, helping the community to appreciate and understand different aspects of their identities.
• Promoting a Culture of Respect and Admiration: We push a new culture where value creation is not seen as futile or ignored.
• Accessible to All, Not Just Influencers: The platform is for anyone who deserves it, even if the positive value they bring is just making others laugh.
• Inspiring Community Engagement: Motivating everyone to benefit others without expecting anything in return other than personal satisfaction, while respecting each other through creative and positive contributions.
• Fostering a Positive Community Atmosphere: Connecting values and interactions among community members.
• Self-Value and Pride in the Community: Encouraging unity and cooperation to achieve greater things in the future.
• Content Rich in Value: Easygoing and comfortable viewing culture, full of warmth and fun, with a free and interactive chat environment.
• Unique Experiences with Influencers: Exclusive content on Nostr that differs from mainstream media, offering new experiences and fun.
• Space for Special Agendas and Topics: A place for sharing knowledge, experiences, and discussions beneficial to the community, not necessarily requiring interviews.

Benefits to Individuals (Crew, Guests, Audience)

• Freedom of Speech: Discuss topics that are hard to find a platform for, without self-censorship (while still being responsible for one's actions). Allows for full expression of personality (if distributed further, some parts may be cut to prevent negative impacts on the speaker and our community).
• On-Camera Presence in Live Shows: Practice real-time, unscripted interaction. Mistakes and slip-ups are allowed, fostering a more relaxed expression without the pressure of production quality expectations. This leads to habituation in public speaking and skill development.
• Spontaneous Interaction: As I am the only one aware of the content and the identity of the guests in each episode, other participants must respond spontaneously to unforeseen situations (known at the same time as the audience). It's a practice in handling unprepared presentations, unexpected questions, and developing quick thinking, reducing panic in similar future scenarios (especially for my team members).
• Listening Skills Development: Cultivate mindfulness, attention, and the ability to think, analyze, and discern. Design approaches to respond to unscripted events and create content with a forward-thinking approach, while considering the experiences and values the audience will gain.
• Boost in Self-Confidence: Pride in handling unforeseen events effectively, overcoming fears and perceived obstacles.
• Learning Responsibility: Understand the consequences of actions, decisions, and immediate responses, as well as the digital footprint created. These experiences are valuable for personal development.
• For the Audience: Enjoy uncensored, friendly, and relaxed content (even if some topics are mentally challenging). The informal setting allows for engaging and entertaining discussions in chat, alleviating loneliness.
• Using Satoshi through Zaps: A beneficial use-case for both giver and receiver. It allows one to appreciate and marvel at the value of their choices. Receivers gain pride and recognition for their contributions, supported by positive reinforcement. Givers feel fulfilled, contributing to the community's value creation.
• Inspiration for Self-Improvement: Encourages bold suggestions for both the program and the platform, aiming for future improvements. Participate in the development of these improvements.

My Contribution to the Global Nostr Community

One thing I believe I have contributed to the global Nostr community is bringing into practical use the creations of developers. By implementing these developments, I have helped realize beneficial use-cases that genuinely add value in various aspects. Moreover, I strive to demonstrate that these contributions significantly benefit a large number of people, creating a ripple effect that extends both within and beyond the community.

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There are many things in my mind, but let me just share a part of it. I hope this gives you some understanding of my intentions behind producing this program.

Although I don't have enough time to personally acknowledge everyone who contributes value extensively (and there are many who are not comfortable being in the media - no problem there), as long as this Purple Field exists, there will come a day when I can express my appreciation to everyone.

If there is anyone you would like to know more about, I am more than willing to listen to suggestions and invite these individuals to join and share their value in future episodes of The Purple Council.

Another thing I want to emphasize about the value of this program (even if it seems self-praising) is that I've never intended to appear in the media or any programs before. It's still the same today, except for very important and necessary occasions.

This program is the only one I've chosen to be a part of, to show the "price" of the value created here, to demonstrate how much I value this principle and love our Purple Field community.

Please continue to follow The Purple Council. If there's anything I can improve or develop, don't hesitate to give your suggestions.

Thank you. 🙏

P.S. We now have #Siamstr Radio on #Nostrnest operating 24/7. It's a similar space for our Purple Field community. You can join and have fun with friends there without having to wait for The Purple Council.

I've been quite busy with various tasks lately and haven't been as active in the Purple Field as before. I apologize for this.

@ e6817453:b0ac3c39

Organizational identifiers

Organizational identifiers have different sets of requirements and functions. It is not enough to have per-to-peer private communications. Organizations are more public, so we need publicly resolvable identifiers. DID:key satisfy this condition entirely but fails to fulfill the organization's needs.

• Organizations quite often act as issuers of credentials or attestations. For issuance, it is critical to have the possibility to rotate signing keys or even deactivate or delete identifiers if keys or issuer get compromised or to comply with security company policies.
• Organizations often require a split between the Controller of the identifier and the Identifier subject or even a transfer of the identifier subject.
• Organizations must have complete control of infrastructure and effectively manage resources and costs. The price of a single identifier should be fixed, and the method of creating new identifiers should be scalable.
• One of the essential requirements is trust and governance and transparent mechanics of proving and binding an identifier to an organizational entity and creating trust relations.
• Access to Identifier management is quite often controlled by a group of users

Nonfunctional requirements

• portability
• interoperability
• scalability
• Autonomous and control
• security

In my previous articles, we talk about Autonomous identifiers and how they differ from regular DIDs.

To recap

Autonomous identifiers (AIDs) are DIDs generated algorithmically from a crypto- graphic key pair in such a way that they are self-certifying, i.e. the binding with the public key can be verified without the need to consult any external blockchain or third party. KERI is an example of a decentralized identity technology based entirely on AIDs. © https://trustoverip.org/blog/2023/01/05/the-toip-trust-spanning-protocol/

In a previous article, I show how to create and use a did:key as an Autonomous identifier that feet well to private person-to-person secure communication.

Architectures and protocols that build on top of AIDs have few critical properties

• self-hosting and self-contained
• self-certified and Autonomous
• portable
• interoperable
• full control of infrastructure
• cost management

Nowadays, I discovered a few AIDs methods

• did:key — self-contained and public
• did:peer — self-certified, upgradable but private
• KERI based did — we waiting for did:keri method to be announced soon, but KERI infrastructure could be used to build internals of did:peer or similar methods.
• did:web — public, self-certified, and self-hosted method, but still, we have active community discussion and critics as far as it fully relays to ownership of domain name that could be stolen or re-assigned.

So we have to choose from did:key did:web and I hope in a future from did:keri.

To move forward, we need to understand the DID architecture better and how all parts are connected.

In many cases of personal or sovereign entities Subject and the Controller are the same, but for Organisations, it could have a crucial difference.

DID Subject

The DID subject is the entity that the DID represents. It can be a person, organization, device, or other identifiable entity. The DID subject is associated with a unique DID that serves as a persistent, resolvable, and cryptographically verifiable identifier. The subject is the primary focus of the identity management process and typically has one or more DIDs associated with it.

DID Controller

The DID controller is the entity (person, organization, or device) that has the authority to manage the DID Document associated with a particular DID. The DID controller can update, revoke, or delegate control of the DID Document, which contains the public keys, service endpoints, and other information required for interacting with the DID subject.

In many cases, the DID subject and DID controller can be the same entity, especially for individual users who create and manage their DIDs. However, in some situations, the DID controller may differ from the DID subject, such as when an organization manages the DIDs on behalf of its employees or when an administrator manages a device.

In summary, the DID subject is the entity the DID represents, while the DID controller is the entity with authority to manage the associated DID Document. Depending on the specific use case and requirements, these roles can be held by the same or different entities.

Key Pair

It is simple from the first point of view. Key-Pair is an asymmetric public and private key. One of the main DID functions is the distribution of public keys. DIDDoccument could contain multiple public keys with authorization rules and key roles.

Identifier

Representation of did itself. is a part of DID URI.

DID:Key

did:key identifier

DID web

did:web

Relations

Relations between all parts of DID identifier can be illustrated in the following diagram. DID method dictate how DID identifier gets created, updated, deactivated, and resolved.

Focusing on the relations of the controller, key pairs, and the identifier is more interesting for us.

The most significant power and benefit of DID are decoupling a key pair from a controller and identifier. It allows the rotation of keys and changes the ownership of the identifier and its subject and controller. It is the main competitive advantage of DID and SSI over web3 wallets and raw keys.

The ideal case is KERI infrastructure that decouples all parties via cryptographic binding and protocols.

To discover more, read the paper.

We used did: keys as AID in the previous article. DID:key is a cryptographically bound identifier to the public key but cannot change the binding. As a result, keys couldn't be rotated in the future. The controller has no binding except to prove private key ownership via the signature-based protocol.

On the other side, DID:web does not have a cryptographic binding of an identifier to a key pair from one side. It gives an easy possibility to rotate keys but loses the verifiability of the identifier.

The most interesting part is the Controller to identifier binding in a did: web. It is based on proof of domain name ownership and website resource. As I mention, it has some security considerations and critics in a community. Still, at the same time, we get a critical mechanism that settles trust and connects identifiers to the organization entity.

The mechanism of web domain ownership is well-defined and easy to explain to other users, even outside of SSI and web5 domain. It is getting wider adoption and creating a lot of use cases for organizations. So it helps to create a trust relationship between an identifier and organizational entity in a very transparent, human-readable, and self-explained way — the identifier hosted on the corporate domain belongs to the organization. On another side, it makes the transfer of the controller almost impossible. That's why it is critical to differentiate between a subject and a controller.

I believe that did:web still covers a lot of organizational cases and is suitable for issuing Verifiable Credentials and attestations on behalf of organizations.

Step-by-step guide on how to create and manage did:web you could find in my article

More detailed step-by-step coding guide with the live example you could find in my SSI notebooks book

@ f647c956:90f43673

I'd love to share a message with you about coffee and its quality to help brighten your day and ward off any feelings of sadness.

There's something truly magical about a perfectly brewed cup of coffee. The aroma alone can be enough to lift your spirits and invigorate your senses. But the quality of the coffee you choose can make all the difference in your overall experience.

When it comes to coffee, freshness is key. Coffee beans start to lose their flavor as soon as they are roasted, so it's important to buy beans that have been roasted recently. Look for beans that have a roast date on the package, and aim to use them within a week or two of that date for the best flavor.

Grinding your own beans just before brewing can also help to preserve their freshness and enhance their flavor. A burr grinder is the best option, as it produces a consistent grind size that allows for even extraction during brewing.

The quality of the water you use can also impact the taste of your coffee. Use filtered or bottled water if your tap water has a strong taste or odor. And be sure to clean your coffee maker regularly to prevent any buildup of minerals or oils that can affect the taste of your coffee.

When it comes to the type of coffee you choose, there are so many options to explore. From light and fruity single-origin coffees to rich and chocolatey blends, there's a flavor profile to suit every palate. Experiment with different roasts, origins, and brewing methods to find your perfect cup.

But ultimately, the most important thing is to savor and enjoy each sip. Coffee is more than just a drink; it's an experience that can bring people together, spark creativity, and provide a moment of respite in a busy day. So take a few moments to slow down, savor the flavors, and let the warmth and comfort of a quality cup of coffee bring a smile to your face. 😁☕

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

Cultura Inglesa e aprendizado extra-escolar

Em 2005 a Cultura Inglesa me classificou como nível 2 em proficiência de inglês, numa escala de 1 a 14 ou coisa parecida. De modo que eu precisaria de 6 anos de aulas com eles pra ficar bom. 2 anos depois, sem fazer nenhuma aula ou ter qualquer tipo de treinamento intensivo eu era capaz de compreender textos técnicos em inglês sem nenhuma dificuldade. Mais 2 anos e eu era capaz de compreender qualquer coisa e me expressar com razoável qualidade.

Tudo isso pra documentar mais um exemplo, que poderia passar despercebido, de aprendizado de tipo escolar que se deu fora de uma escola.

@ f6488c62:c929299d

airdrop เหรียญ

เป็นการแจกจ่ายเหรียญคริปโตเคอร์เรนซีหรือโทเคนโดยไม่มีค่าใช้จ่ายใด ๆ ให้กับผู้ใช้งาน มักใช้เป็นกลยุทธ์ทางการตลาดในการโปรโมทเหรียญที่เพิ่งออกมาใหม่ ให้เป็นที่รู้จักและมีการใช้งานอย่างกว้างขวาง

เปรียบเทียบง่ายๆ ก็เหมือนแจกของฟรี เพื่อดึงดูดความสนใจของผู้คน ลองนึกภาพเหมือนบริษัทแจกน้ำอัดลมรสใหม่ โดยแจกขวดเล็กๆ ให้ชิมฟรีตามร้านสะดวกซื้อ นั่นแหละคือหลักการเดียวกันกับ airdrop เหรียญ

ประเภทของ airdrop: 1.ประเภททั่วไป (standard airdrop): ลงทะเบียนด้วยอีเมลหรือ wallet address และติดตามช่องทางของทีมผู้พัฒนา 2.ประเภทเงินรางวัล (bounty airdrop): ทำกิจกรรมตามที่กำหนด เช่น รีทวีต ติดตามโซเชียลมีเดีย เฉพาะกลุ่ม (exclusive airdrop): แจกให้ผู้ที่มีส่วนเกี่ยวข้องกับโปรเจกต์ เช่น ผู้สนับสนุนช่วงแรก 3.ฮาร์ดฟอร์ก (hard fork airdrop): แจกให้ผู้ถือเหรียญเก่า เมื่อมีการแยกแขนงบล็อกเชน ผู้ถือเหรียญ (holder airdrop): แจกให้ผู้ที่ถือเหรียญบางประเภทอยู่

ข้อดีของ airdrop:

1.ได้เหรียญฟรี 2.รู้จักเหรียญใหม่ๆ 3.ชุมชนของโปรเจกต์ขยายใหญ่ขึ้น

ข้อเสียของ airdrop : 1.อาจเป็นกลลวงหลอก (scam) 2.เหรียญใหม่มักมีความเสี่ยงสูง 3.ต้องเสียเวลาร่วมกิจกรรม

ก่อนเข้าร่วม airdrop:

ศึกษาข้อมูลโปรเจกต์อย่างละเอียด ระวังเว็บไซต์ปลอมและหลอกลวง เลือกโปรเจกต์ที่น่าเชื่อถือ ใช้ wallet ที่ปลอดภัย

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Test Bounty Note

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This plan was GPT generated originally but then tweaked by myself as the idea fleshed itself out. All feedback welcome and encouraged.

Shenandoah Bitcoin

1. Executive Summary

Shenandoah Bitcoin is a for-profit community organization based in Frederick County, VA, uniquely blending the world of agriculture and STEM. Our mission is to foster community spirit, stimulate interest in agricultural technology, and promote understanding of Bitcoin, while providing enriching educational opportunities and ensuring sustainable business operations.

2. Company Description

Shenandoah Bitcoin is committed to delivering value to our local community. Our unique approach intertwines traditional agricultural practices, modern STEM concepts, and the world of digital currencies, specifically Bitcoin. Our activities cater to all age groups, focusing on fostering community engagement, hands-on learning experiences, and contributing to the overall welfare of our community.

What’s in a name?

Shenandoah Bitcoin. Shenandoah - an old and historied land. Bitcoin - a cutting edge technological advancement. Both encompass multiple industries, from energy and manufacturing, to farming and data centers. Both built using Proof of Work.

3. Services

We offer a range of services, including:

Family-friendly events: Agriculture, STEM, and Bitcoin-themed festivals, fairs, workshops, and community gatherings. Educational programs: Classes, seminars, and workshops on agricultural technology, STEM principles, and understanding and using Bitcoin. Facility Rentals: Spaces available for private events, business meetings, and community gatherings.

4. Membership Benefits

We offer tiered membership packages with benefits such as:

a. Silver Membership: Includes access to regular events, discounts on educational programs, and priority booking for facility rentals.

b. Gold Membership: All Silver benefits, free access to select educational programs, and further discounted facility rentals.

c. Platinum Membership: All Gold benefits, free access to all educational programs, highest priority and maximum discounts on facility rentals, and exclusive invitations to special events.

Member’s opting to pay in Bitcoin receive 10% off all pricing.

5. Market Analysis

Our primary market is the local community in Frederick County and Winchester, VA, which consists of various demographic groups. Our secondary market includes neighboring communities, tourists, businesses, and educational institutions interested in the intersection of agriculture, STEM, and Bitcoin. Understanding that facility use and events to be a drawing factor for all demographics, we outline demographic specific analysis below.

STEM professionals in the area may work remotely or commute toward DC and not interact much with their agricultural neighbors, but a desire for good quality food exists for many. In addition to events, drawing the STEM demographic in will be connections to CSAs, ranchers, and homesteaders for access to fresh locally grown food. Offering a child's play room adjacent to some office space, is a compelling benefit for the laptop class that is often in STEM professions.

Non-industrial food producers and homesteaders may not have the focus or resources for marketing and sales. By offering a physical touch point for them and direct connections to consumers, food producers benefit from membership. Having more options for drop off/pick up of various produced goods, makes it attractive for both the consumers and producers as coordination can be asynchronous.

Bitcoiners have a wide range of sub-demographics, including farmers and software engineers. Some travel hours over car and plane to attend bitcoin themed events. The topics of STEM and agriculture are of shared interest to non-trivially sized communities of bitcoiners. Having a physical touch point for bitcoiners will draw in some members just for that. Building fellowship is desired and sought in bitcoin.

5.1 Market Trends

The blending of agriculture, STEM fields, and Bitcoin is a unique concept with increasing interest in sustainable farming and ranching, food sovereignty, and health. Shenandoah Bitcoin is poised to tap into this growing interest and offer unique value to our community.

5.2 Market Needs

Our market requires initiatives that foster community engagement, promote understanding of agri-tech and Bitcoin, and provide a versatile space for events and learning.

6. Marketing and Sales Strategy

We will employ a blend of digital marketing, traditional advertising, and strategic partnerships. Our main marketing channels will be word of mouth, social media, local press, and our website. Partnerships with local small businesses, homesteaders, schools, agricultural organizations, and bitcoin companies will form a key part of our outreach strategy.

7. Organizational Structure

Shenandoah Bitcoin will be led by a CEO, supported by a management team responsible for daily operations, event planning, marketing, and community outreach. Event management and logistics will be handled by part-time staff and volunteers.

8. Financial Projections

Our revenue will be generated from membership fees, charges for events and educational programs, and facility rentals.

9. Funding Request

[If seeking additional funding, describe your needs and how the funds will be used]

10. Exit Strategy

Should it become necessary to dissolve the business, assets such as property, equipment, and any remaining cash reserves after meeting liabilities will be sold. Investors would receive their share of the remaining assets according to their proportion of ownership.

11. Conclusion

Shenandoah Bitcoin is a unique community organization bringing together agriculture, STEM, and Bitcoin in Frederick County, VA. Our distinctive approach is designed to deliver both profits and social impact, resonating strongly with our target market and positioning us for sustainable growth.

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Intro

This short tutorial will help you set up your own Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) on your own LND Node that is not using Umbrel. If you are a user of Umbrel, you should use their version of NWC.

Requirements

You need to have a working installation of LND with established channels and connectivity to the internet. NWC in itself is fairly light and will not consume a lot of resources. You will also want to ensure that you have a working installation of Docker, since we will use a docker image to run NWC.

• Working installation of LND (and all of its required components)
• Docker (with Docker compose)

Installation

For the purpose of this tutorial, we will assume that you have your lnd/bitcoind running under user bitcoin with home directory /home/bitcoin. We will also assume that you already have a running installation of Docker (or docker.io).

Prepare and verify

git version - we will need git to get the latest version of NWC. docker version - should execute successfully and show the currently installed version of Docker. docker compose version - same as before, but the version will be different. ss -tupln | grep 10009- should produce the following output: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 0.0.0.0:10009 0.0.0.0: tcp LISTEN 0 4096 [::]:10009 [::]:**

For things to work correctly, your Docker should be version 20.10.0 or later. If you have an older version, consider installing a new one using instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

Create folders & download NWC

In the home directory of your LND/bitcoind user, create a new folder, e.g., "nwc" mkdir /home/bitcoin/nwc. Change to that directory cd /home/bitcoin/nwc and clone the NWC repository: git clone https://github.com/getAlby/nostr-wallet-connect.git

Creating the Docker image

In this step, we will create a Docker image that you will use to run NWC.

• Change directory to nostr-wallet-connect: cd nostr-wallet-connect
• Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
• The last line of the output (after a few minutes) should look like => => naming to docker.io/library/nwc:latest
• nwc:latest is the name of the Docker image with a tag which you should note for use later.

Creating docker-compose.yml and necessary data directories

• Let's create a directory that will hold your non-volatile data (DB): mkdir data
• Indocker-compose.ymlfile, there are fields that you want to replace (<> comments) and port “4321” that you want to make sure is open (check with ss -tupln | grep 4321which should return nothing).
• Create docker-compose.ymlfile with the following content, and make sure to update fields that have <> comment:

version: "3.8" services: nwc: image: nwc:latest volumes: - ./data:/data - ~/.lnd:/lnd:ro ports: - "4321:8080" extra_hosts: - "localhost:host-gateway" environment: NOSTR_PRIVKEY: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate a fresh key and place it inside ""> LN_BACKEND_TYPE: "LND" LND_ADDRESS: localhost:10009 LND_CERT_FILE: "/lnd/tls.cert" LND_MACAROON_FILE: "/lnd/data/chain/bitcoin/mainnet/admin.macaroon" DATABASE_URI: "/data/nostr-wallet-connect.db" COOKIE_SECRET: <use "openssl rand -hex 32" to generate fresh secret and place it inside ""> PORT: 8080 restart: always stop_grace_period: 1m

Starting and testing

Now that you have everything ready, it is time to start the container and test.

• While you are in the nwcdirectory (important), execute the following command and check the log output, docker compose up
• You should see container logs while it is starting, and it should not exit if everything went well.
• At this point, you should be able to go to http://<ip of the host where nwc is running>:4321 and get to the interface of NWC
• To stop the test run of NWC, simply press Ctrl-C , and it will shut the container down.
• To start NWC permanently, you should execute docker compose up -d , “-d” tells Docker to detach from the session.
• To check currently running NWC logs, execute docker compose logs to run it in tail mode add -f to the end.
• To stop the container, execute docker compose down

That's all, just follow the instructions in the web interface to get started.

Updating

As with any software, you should expect fixes and updates that you would need to perform periodically. You could automate this, but it falls outside of the scope of this tutorial. Since we already have all of the necessary configuration in place, the update execution is fairly simple.

• Change directory to the clone of the git repository, cd /home/bitcoin/nwc/nostr-wallet-connect
• Run command to build Docker image: docker build -t nwc:$(date +'%Y%m%d%H%M') -t nwc:latest . (there is a dot at the end)
• Change directory back one level cd ..
• Restart (stop and start) the docker compose config docker compose down && docker compose up -d
• Done! Optionally you may want to check the logs: docker compose logs

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There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.

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There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified.

I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve learned and experienced through my past actions as a Twitter co-founder and lead:

1. Social media must be resilient to corporate and government control.
2. Only the original author may remove content they produce.
3. Moderation is best implemented by algorithmic choice.

The Twitter when I led it and the Twitter of today do not meet any of these principles. This is my fault alone, as I completely gave up pushing for them when an activist entered our stock in 2020. I no longer had hope of achieving any of it as a public company with no defense mechanisms (lack of dual-class shares being a key one). I planned my exit at that moment knowing I was no longer right for the company.

The biggest mistake I made was continuing to invest in building tools for us to manage the public conversation, versus building tools for the people using Twitter to easily manage it for themselves. This burdened the company with too much power, and opened us to significant outside pressure (such as advertising budgets). I generally think companies have become far too powerful, and that became completely clear to me with our suspension of Trump’s account. As I’ve said before, we did the right thing for the public company business at the time, but the wrong thing for the internet and society. Much more about this here: https://twitter.com/jack/status/1349510769268850690

I continue to believe there was no ill intent or hidden agendas, and everyone acted according to the best information we had at the time. Of course mistakes were made. But if we had focused more on tools for the people using the service rather than tools for us, and moved much faster towards absolute transparency, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation of needing a fresh reset (which I am supportive of). Again, I own all of this and our actions, and all I can do is work to make it right.

Back to the principles. Of course governments want to shape and control the public conversation, and will use every method at their disposal to do so, including the media. And the power a corporation wields to do the same is only growing. It’s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path towards centralized control.

I’m a strong believer that any content produced by someone for the internet should be permanent until the original author chooses to delete it. It should be always available and addressable. Content takedowns and suspensions should not be possible. Doing so complicates important context, learning, and enforcement of illegal activity. There are significant issues with this stance of course, but starting with this principle will allow for far better solutions than we have today. The internet is trending towards a world were storage is “free” and infinite, which places all the actual value on how to discover and see content.

Which brings me to the last principle: moderation. I don’t believe a centralized system can do content moderation globally. It can only be done through ranking and relevance algorithms, the more localized the better. But instead of a company or government building and controlling these solely, people should be able to build and choose from algorithms that best match their criteria, or not have to use any at all. A “follow” action should always deliver every bit of content from the corresponding account, and the algorithms should be able to comb through everything else through a relevance lens that an individual determines. There’s a default “G-rated” algorithm, and then there’s everything else one can imagine.

The only way I know of to truly live up to these 3 principles is a free and open protocol for social media, that is not owned by a single company or group of companies, and is resilient to corporate and government influence. The problem today is that we have companies who own both the protocol and discovery of content. Which ultimately puts one person in charge of what’s available and seen, or not. This is by definition a single point of failure, no matter how great the person, and over time will fracture the public conversation, and may lead to more control by governments and corporations around the world.

I believe many companies can build a phenomenal business off an open protocol. For proof, look at both the web and email. The biggest problem with these models however is that the discovery mechanisms are far too proprietary and fixed instead of open or extendable. Companies can build many profitable services that complement rather than lock down how we access this massive collection of conversation. There is no need to own or host it themselves.

Many of you won’t trust this solution just because it’s me stating it. I get it, but that’s exactly the point. Trusting any one individual with this comes with compromises, not to mention being way too heavy a burden for the individual. It has to be something akin to what bitcoin has shown to be possible. If you want proof of this, get out of the US and European bubble of the bitcoin price fluctuations and learn how real people are using it for censorship resistance in Africa and Central/South America.

I do still wish for Twitter, and every company, to become uncomfortably transparent in all their actions, and I wish I forced more of that years ago. I do believe absolute transparency builds trust. As for the files, I wish they were released Wikileaks-style, with many more eyes and interpretations to consider. And along with that, commitments of transparency for present and future actions. I’m hopeful all of this will happen. There’s nothing to hide…only a lot to learn from. The current attacks on my former colleagues could be dangerous and doesn’t solve anything. If you want to blame, direct it at me and my actions, or lack thereof.

As far as the free and open social media protocol goes, there are many competing projects: @bluesky is one with the AT Protocol, nostr another, Mastodon yet another, Matrix yet another…and there will be many more. One will have a chance at becoming a standard like HTTP or SMTP. This isn’t about a “decentralized Twitter.” This is a focused and urgent push for a foundational core technology standard to make social media a native part of the internet. I believe this is critical both to Twitter’s future, and the public conversation’s ability to truly serve the people, which helps hold governments and corporations accountable. And hopefully makes it all a lot more fun and informative again.

💸🛠️🌐 To accelerate open internet and protocol work, I’m going to open a new category of #startsmall grants: “open internet development.” It will start with a focus of giving cash and equity grants to engineering teams working on social media and private communication protocols, bitcoin, and a web-only mobile OS. I’ll make some grants next week, starting with $1mm/yr to Signal. Please let me know other great candidates for this money.

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1.アショカビルドコン： IDBIキャピタルはこの道路・高速道路会社の評価を「買い」に据えており、目標株価は206ルピーで、30.8％の上昇余地があることを示している。アナリストのヴィシャル・ペリワル氏とシュバム・シェラー氏はMOPA空港（ゴア）を訪問し、6億7千万ルピーのプロジェクトの進捗状況を報告した。この計画には 3 つの高架橋、道路工事、インターチェンジセグメントが含まれており、2024 年 8 月の予定より早く完了する予定です。

Ashoka Buildcon は 9 つのハイブリッド年金モデル (HAM) プロジェクトの資産収益化の最終決定に近づいており、株式購入契約は 24 会計年度までに署名される予定です。アナリストらは、HAMとBOT（建設・運営・移転）資産を含むこの収益化が、同社の連結負債72億ルピーの削減に役立つと考えている。ただし、BOT 資産の収益化は NOC の承認を待っているため、25 年度に延期されます。

アナリストのペリワル氏とシェラー氏は、国際プロジェクトからの収益が増加すると予測している。また、EBITDAマージンは24年度の8％から25年度には11％に改善し、受注高は1万4800億ルピーを超えると予想している。

2.アーヴィンドのファッション： Nuvama Wealth は、こ​​の繊維会社の格付けを「買い」、目標株価を 660 ルピーとし、36.1% の上昇余地を示唆する報道を開始していますアナリストのパラシュ・カワレ氏は、同社は近年、複数の赤字ブランドから撤退しており、その結果、負債が減少し、過去5年間で営業利益率が500bps増加したと指摘している。同氏は、製品と店舗の拡大計画により、24～26年度にかけて収益が12％CAGR増加すると予想している。

同社の運転資本サイクルは20～23年度にかけて改善し、72日から43日に短縮された。それに加えて、優れた小売チャネル構成とより良い回収により、債務者日数は 74 日から 46 日へと短縮されました。Palash Kawale 氏は、運転資本サイクルの改善により、同社は 23 年度に 13% の ROCE を記録したと考えています。Arvind は、利益率と運転資本サイクルを改善することで、中期的に 20% 以上の ROCE を目指しています。

同社は中核ブランドに重点を置くことで、インドで続くプレミアム化の傾向から恩恵を受けることが期待されている。Kawale 氏は、同社の USPA、Arrow、Calvin Klein、Tommy Hilfiger ブランドからの収益が大幅に増加すると予測しています。24年度にはUSPAの売上だけで20億ルピーの収益が見込まれると予想されている。現在、USPA からの売上は同社の総収益の 40% 強を占めています。アナリストらは、健全な営業キャッシュフローと二桁の利益率のおかげで、これらのブランドをさらに拡大することを目指していると述べている。

3.メトロブランド： Motilal Oswal は、この履物小売業者の目標価格を 1,530 ルピーで「買い」評価を維持し、22% の上昇を示唆しています。現在、国内の裁量商品に対する需要が低迷しているにもかかわらず、アナリストのアリアスガー・シャキール氏、タンメイ・グプタ氏、ハーシュ・ゴカルガンディ氏は依然として楽観的であり、「同社は着実な事業展開拡大に導かれ、業界をリードする成長を続けている」と述べている。

アナリストらは、同業のバタ・インディアと比較して2倍の収益生産性を誇るメトロ・ブランズの堅実な店舗経済性に注目している。彼らは、同社の適切な店舗サイズ、多様な製品ポートフォリオ、プレミアム化への注力が健全な店舗経済に貢献すると信じています。彼らは、FilaやFoot Lockerなどのブランドの追加により、Metro Brandsには今後3～5年間でインドで15億～20億ルピーの売上を生み出す機会があると付け加えた。

アナリストらは、24～26年度の同社の収益とEBITDAがそれぞれ21％と26％増加すると予想している（フィラとフットロッカーの利益を除く）。また、メトロ ブランドは年間 250 店舗の新規出店計画に資金を提供するため、同期間に 6,000 億ルピーの営業キャッシュ フローを生み出すと予想しています。

4. JTL産業： アクシスダイレクトは、この鉄鋼製品メーカーに対する目標価格を300ルピーで「買い」コールを維持している。2024 年度第 3 四半期の同社の純利益は前年比 48.8% 増の 302 億ルピーとなり、証券会社の予想を 6% わずかに下回りました。しかし、収益は前年比101.9%増の5億6,830万ルピーとなり、証券会社の予想を5%上回った。

アナリストのアディティヤ・ウェレカー氏は、JTLインダストリーズの13億1000万ルピーの調達発表を受けて、生産能力拡大計画が進行中だと述べた。この資金により、27年度末までにその生産能力が年間200万トン（MTPA）に増強される予定である。同氏は、プロモーターからの5億4000万ルピー、非プロモーターからの2億7000万ルピー、そしてQIPによる5億ルピーを含む資金調達計画が成長に拍車をかけると信じている。生産能力は27年度末までに2MTPAに達すると予想され、28年度には高い稼働率（業界標準の約65％）が見込まれる。アナリストは、「段階的な量の拡大が進行中であるため、24～26年度の収益と利益のCAGRはそれぞれ42%と45%になると予測しています。」と述べています。

5.タタ コンサルタンシー サービス(TCS): シャレカンはこのITコンサルティングおよびソフトウェア会社に対する「買い」コールを維持し、目標株価は8.8％の上昇幅を示す4,200ルピーに設定している。2024 年度第 3 四半期の同社の純利益は前年比 2% 増の 11,058 億ルピーとなり、収益は前年比 4.6% 増の 61,445 億ルピーとなりました。シャレカンのアナリストは、「エネルギー資源と公益事業、製造業、ライフサイエンスとヘルスケア分野の成長に牽引され、季節的に軟調だった四半期の中で、第3四半期の収益は当社の予想を上回った」と述べている。

アナリストらは、受注件数が前四半期比で減少したにもかかわらず、受注パイプラインは依然として堅調であると考えている。経営陣は、セクターの逆風が和らぎ、次の四半期にはBFSIセクターの成長が見込まれるため、25年度の回復に期待している。アナリストは、24～26年度の売上高が9％、利益が11.7％のCAGRになると予想している。彼らは「TCSは、セクターの逆風が後退し、その強力なドメイン能力、状況に応じた知識、強力な実行力により、成長の勢いが大きく加速する中、コストの最適化と変革の機会を活用するのに有利な立場にあると信じています。」と結論付けています。しかし、TCSを含むインドのトップIT企業の今四半期の米国からの収益は減少しており、アナリストらはこれが長期的な傾向になるのではないかと懸念している。

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Welcome to the quest of decoding the mysterious world of quality assurance! Buckle up, because we're about to navigate through the twists and turns, bringing you a colorful journey through the realm of modern challenges and witty insights.

Old Wisdom vs. New Dilemmas:

In the good ol' days, quality was the undisputed king, but as we splash some colors into the mix, we discover that it's not that simple. Picture this: A forever-lasting product might make customers jump for joy, but it's like having a pet rock—cool initially, but not great for repeat business. On the flip side, products that break easily lead to frustrated customers and potential returns. Finding the sweet spot—products that delight without being invincible—is the secret sauce.

Budget Squeeze and Quality Dilemmas:

Fast forward to the modern era, where budget cuts often play the villain, especially in the tech world. Quality assurance becomes the unsung hero sacrificed in the name of automation, like choosing emojis over words because, well, who has the time?

QA Maverick to the Rescue:

Quality assurance engineer—the unsung hero of our tech tale. Faced with the challenge of doing a quality tap dance within a limited scope and time, they become the Sherlock Holmes of the tech world, solving mysteries and finding the right clue.

Here's the game plan for our QA detective:

1. Define Product Value:

2. Unravel the secrets of what makes the product click for customers.

3. Channel efforts into keeping those key functionalities top-notch.

4. Automation Magic:

5. If time allows, sprinkle some magic into automation for regression sets.

6. Bug Bonanza:

7. Create bug buckets: Tiny, Medium, High impact.

8. Match bugs with the Customer Journey - Yes or No?
9. Prioritize bugs: Go big on Customer Journey-related or High-priority non-CJ bugs.
10. The rest? They're like background extras in a movie—important but not stealing the show.

Saving the Day, and life balance:

By focusing on bugs that are the true rockstars in the business, our QA detective is the hero we didn't know we needed. It's like having Batman in a world full of emojis—definitely the hero Gotham deserves.

So, as we navigate this tech wonderland, remember: Bugs are the villains, QA is the hero, and the tech world is the rollercoaster we all signed up for.

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After reaching the milestone of 100 million users in September 2020, the Bitcoin network will now have more over 130 million members, having exceeded the 100 million user threshold. Because these are simply estimations, I will speak in the conditional tense.

You are probably aware that the Bitcoin network is pseudonymous, and that each user has the ability to use numerous addresses on the network if they so want. At any given moment, it is difficult to get an accurate count of the number of people that are connected to the Bitcoin network. However, it is feasible to gain access to extensive information about the number of addresses that are currently being used on the network.

In order to eventually get at some estimations about the total number of users, cross-checking is performed. This number was somewhat more than 130 million at the time of writing.

This is both a great deal and a little amount at the same time. When you take into account that Bitcoin was created a little more than 13 years ago, you realize that this is a significant amount. Therefore, a peer-to-peer payment system that was unknown to the general public and did not have a marketing staff attempting to attract new users has managed to convince more than 130 million individuals in only 13 years. That is just remarkable!

On the other hand, when you are aware of the defects in the existing monetary and financial system, you may think that this is not too much when you compare it to the existing problems. And all the more so when you take into account the fact that Bitcoin is the answer to all of these problems. If you've come to the conclusion that Bitcoin represents a crucial paradigm change that will eventually lead to a better society for the majority of people, you could be disappointed.

Why are so many people still so scared of Bitcoin?

You might be forgiven for thinking that it's because of the negative reputation that's been perpetuated by prominent individuals in the present system, some of whom still refer to Bitcoin as a hoax from time to time. You might also be under the impression that they see Bitcoin as a speculative bubble. Others have the misconception that Bitcoin is founded on nothing, which seems to frighten them.

Imagine for a moment if they concluded that the value of paper money is not based on anything at all, other than the fact that governments mandate it all across the globe. When they found out the horrible reality, they would be appalled. However, in order to make progress for the better and regain control of your life, you will have to go through this unfortunate but essential step. However, there are those folks who just aren't prepared just yet.

Some people believe that people are afraid of Bitcoin because of the high degree of volatility in its price. At the end of the year 2021, one bitcoin cost $69K, but one bitcoin costs slightly under $40K right now. Those who are used to the existing system, which sees the powerful manipulating markets, may find this to be quite unsettling. Those not used to a free market that consistently puts the consumers in control may experience apprehension.

It's possible that some people would argue that Bitcoin is largely used in unlawful endeavors, and that they don't want to give legitimacy to this notion by purchasing Bitcoin. However, it would seem that this line of reasoning is no longer valid given that even Janet Yellen recently said that Russia could not have utilized Bitcoin as a means of evading American sanctions in light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

The real reason lies in the fear of assuming the responsibility that freedom implies

To summarize, if Bitcoin continues to terrify such a large number of individuals, I believe there is another reason behind it. I came across this Sigmund Freud remark not too long ago, and it seems to me that it provides an answer to the issue that I posed to you a little while ago:

"The vast majority of people do not really want freedom because being free comes with responsibility, and the vast majority of people are terrified of responsibility."

Bitcoin grants you unrestricted freedom. The autonomy to choose how one should direct one's life and pursue one's goals. This is an incredible liberation, and as human beings, it ought to be something that we all naturally strive towards. You may probably anticipate that having so much power also comes with a significant amount of obligations.

There is a cost associated with gaining Bitcoin's power, and that cost must be paid. You should be aware that you are required to take responsibility for the results of your hard work, even if I do not consider this a particularly expensive price. You are about to be put in a position in which you will have complete control over the results of your work for the very first time in your life.

In the event that you misplace your 12- to 24-word seed phrase, you will never be able to access your Bitcoins again. As a result, you will no longer have access to your money in any way. In contrast to dealing with a banker, you won't have someone to contact in order to complain with. You are the one who is to blame for this. This requires you to take responsibility for the things you do.

This seems like a once-in-a-lifetime chance, but unfortunately, a lot of people are too afraid to take advantage of it. Nevertheless, doing so is the one and only way to attain genuine autonomy over the results of one's work. If you have not yet acquired Bitcoin or if you have not yet taken complete custody of the private keys associated with your Bitcoin wallet, I encourage you to give some consideration to the information that I have just provided.

Final Thoughts

I want to encourage you to have a conversation with yourself about the importance of assuming complete responsibility for your life and seizing control of it. This is necessary since no short cuts can be taken in this situation. You can't say you want untraceable and tax-free physical currency without being willing to take on the responsibility of assuring its complete safety.

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Most bitcoiners have their own, much different definition of what it means to orange pill a person. I’ve seen mentions of getting a taxi driver to download a lightning wallet and sending the payment in sats to them. Is that truly orange-pilling? Hmm… no. It is a great first step, but what makes you believe that that person won’t go on to shitcoins after learning about the ease of using cryptocurrency?

So, let’s define what that is in the terms of this guide.

To orange pill someone means to get them to take the first step into learning about bitcoin, money, self-custody, being sovereign, and to teach them to start questioning the world of lies we’ve been fed our entire lives.

Too poetic? Okay, here’s a more specific one:

To orange pill someone means showing them how to send and receive a bitcoin transaction, explain to them the importance of keeping their seed words safe, and showing them more articles, books and guides so they can go further down the rabbit hole.

I think that’s better, don’t you?

No matter what your definition of orange-pilling is, let’s discuss a few things first.

Orange-pilling comes from the scene in the Matrix where Morpheus offers the blue and the red pill to Neo.

This your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more. ~ Morpheus

The fact that the terms comes from the Matrix is absolutely perfect, because the Matrix is based on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Everybody knows the Matrix so let’s talk about the Cave. Inside the cave, people are chained up, in the dark. The only thing they can do is talk to each other and stare forward, where there’s a dim light on the cave’s wall. Someone is moving around objects, throwing shadows on the wall. The people can never see the three-dimensional object, they can only see a shadow, a projection of it, so their world is limited by that knowledge.

Someday a group of people manage to break out of the Cave. They go out into the light, their eyes hurt, the world is massive, they get a panic attack by the lack of a rock ceiling on top of them. It’s vast, it’s too much to bear. And they run back into the cave and tell everyone what they saw, that it’s too bright, too open, too much everything. Objects are real, there’s light everywhere and colours. So many colours, not just the flame, the rock and the shadow.

And they don’t believe them. Maybe they even get angry at them and attack them. Who are these fools to claim that the world is not what they think it is? Who are they to suggest that we’ve all been lied to all our lives?

And that’s the first thing you need to keep in mind when trying to orange pill someone.

Why do some people find it so hard to believe in bitcoin?

The answer is simple. It’s because understanding bitcoin requires acknowledging you’ve been tricked your entire life.

The culture shock is real, I’ve been through it. The stages are as follows:

What is money? You start to learn what money really is, and how fundamentally flawed the Keynesian system has become. You see that the only way forward is by a hard money standard, whether that’s gold or bitcoin. Then you realise that in a world of information, the only logical step is bitcoin. Then why bitcoin? You start to read about it’s properties. It’s antifragile, decentralised. Why is that important? Nobody can control, it great. Why is it like gold that can be attached to an email? Then there’s the anger and disbelief. We’ve been fooled. Why doesn’t everybody see this? You read everything about bitcoin, you listen to podcasts, talk on bitcoin twitter and nostr with other plebs. Nobody seems to have all the answers but they make far more sense than the lies of the mainstream media. You talk to your friends and family, you come off as crazy at best. As I said, you have to acknowledge the trauma the other person is going through. It’s a culture shock, and not many want to go through with it. Think of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, people who got out into the world went back and told everyone that there’s more to life than the shadows on the wall. Or, the same allegory being told by the Matrix, with Cypher wanting to go back, to forget.

We call that Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome, BDS. It’s hilarious but it’s so real. Many early bitcoiners, people who have spend years of their lives either advocating for it or working on it, some making or losing fortunes in the process, go back to the fiat world, shift gears completely, rant and rave against bitcoin and dive back in the Matrix, the Cave, taking the blue pill. They want to be fiat rich, they lie and delude themselves that everything is okay in the world and if they get just enough money they’d be okay.

But they won’t. This is real, and no matter how many lies they tell themselves things will not change unless we change them ourselves. Babies are dying, that’s true. In wars, in artificially induced poverty, in carrying on with the Keynesian ways of thinking of endless imperial expansion and exploitation.

I’ll be honest, bitcoin rewires your brain.

Do you really wanna force that on people?

Yes?

Then let’s read on.

Why is it sometimes so hard to explain, persuade or convince people about bitcoin? Here’s a harsh truth. It’s because you’re the counterparty risk.

When your car breaks down, you go to a mechanic, you seek expert knowledge. He tells you what’s wrong and you generally accept it. Why? Because unless you’re an expert on cars, you don’t have pre-existing knowledge about this specific situation. Nature abhors a vacuum. The mechanic’s knowledge and expertise fills up that vacuum of knowledge.

Why is it different with bitcoin, then?

Because most people believe they already understand money. There’s no vacuum for their knowledge to fill. Like a woman going to a male gynecologist thinking she knows better because she’s the one with the female body, a nocoiner believes they know better because, see? They have been handling and making money all their lives! Who are you to claim things aren’t how they used to think they are?

Yes, sure. You’re the one with the female body, you’re the one with the wallet. But have you actually taken the time to study it? Have you invested the necessary six years in medical school or the 100 hours it takes to grasp bitcoin?

No.

But they don’t accept that. When you make statements about bitcoin, it collides with their pre-existing frame of reference. When that happens, their mind reflexively casts doubts on the new information, actively fights it and rejects it, because it doesn’t conform to what they know. Their mind is the bearer asset, you are the counterparty risk.

Okay, great. How do you overcome this, then?

By taking the time with them. You can’t force someone to get orange-pilled, it’s not shoving knowledge down their throats. They have to do it themselves, so you start small. Plant a seed. Make them question what they know. That tiny seed, just like in Inception, will grow and push aside the other propaganda in their minds, leaving some space for new information to fill the void.

“Why did they stop having money backed by gold?”

That’s one seed.

“Who prints all these new billions?”

Another. Take your pick, it depends on the person you’re talking to.

A good question makes the nocoiner access their accepted knowledge. They usually think they have the answer and you should listen to it, not shutting it down. Ask them to research it further, to back their claims, to look things up. If they don’t have the knowledge, a new vacuum is created and their curiosity will want to fill it up.

Nocoiner: Bitcoin isn’t backed by anything.

You: Okay. Then what would make good money in its place?

Make them talk by asking questions. As they talk, they’ll realise they have massive gaps in their knowledge. You can help them then, but they themselves have to fill up those gaps by asking more questions and getting them to talk more. Why? Because if someone tells something to themselves they will believe it much easier than having you say it to them. Try and lead them to conclusion, a revelation.

When persuading someone, the person talking the most is the one really getting persuaded. Why? Because when you talk you engrave those words into your brain as facts.

Nocoiner: Bitcoin wastes too much energy.

You: How do you determine how much is too much energy to use?

You will never change their minds, they have to change it themselves. You can only help show them the way, they’re the ones that have to do it. Questions are the key to that process.

Tell them less, ask more.

What questions make people curious about bitcoin? You never know, it depends on what ails the person. Think about their pain. If they’re living in Turkey or Argentina, for example, their pain is massive inflation. You might say, “You’re already using USD to protect your monetary value against inflation, right? How about adding BTC to the mix?”

People in those countries generally grasp this concept a lot quicker. The local lira is the crap kind of money, they spend it often. The USD is the good kind of money, they save it, spending it only when absolutely necessary. And gold is the best kind, keeping it hidden in safes and mattresses. Only to be spent in an emergency. They don’t have the financial privilege to insulate them from the need for bitcoin, they already get these layers of hardness in their money, so bitcoin is a lot easier for them.

“What is money?” is another good question. Most people will answer it, and of course it will be flawed and all over the place. Then you might say, “It’s the promise of future value,” and then discuss how bitcoin has a monetary policy that’s planned out for the next 120 years and how nodes and miners facilitate that design. And especially point out how hard it is to change.

“What happened in 1971?” That’s a good one. Get them to look up the fiat monetary system and figure out how it’s not backed by anything. Get them angry at the Keynesian economists, how they’ve ruined entire countries. 2008 money crisis? Inevitable, under the fiat standard. Forget about bitcoin, point your finger towards the rot. It’s all historical fact, they can’t call you a conspiracy theorist. Most people still think that money is backed by gold. Get them to tell it to other people, see their reactions.

This was a part of my guide. Let me know what you think. Soon to be posted at https://georgesaoulidis.com/how-to-orange-pill-people/

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火曜日の米国株、$Advanced Micro Devices(AMD.US)$市場はMicrosoft、Google、OpenAIなどの企業が成長すると楽観的となったため、株価は8%以上上昇し、2021年11月以来の高値終値で取引を終えた。人工知能チップの需要。

バークレイズ銀行のアナリスト、トム・オマリー氏は、AMDの目標株価を120ドルから200ドルに引き上げ、「買い」の評価を与え、AMDの人工知能チップの売上高は今年40億ドルに達する可能性があると指摘した。 AMD の最もハイエンドのサーバー機械学習チップである MI300 に対する市場の需要。

KeyBancのアナリストらは火曜日、人工知能サーバーに対する市場の強い需要を理由に、AMDとNvidiaの目標株価をそれぞれ195ドルと740ドルに引き上げた。

AMDは火曜日、株価の最高値を約2%下回る158.74ドルで取引を終えたが、一方、Nvidiaは3%上昇して563.82ドルとなった。NVIDIAはAIチップ市場の大半を占めており、最もパフォーマンスの良い銘柄となった。昨年のS&P500指数。

2023 年末、AMD は、OpenAI がモデルのトレーニングとサービスに使用する Nvidia の H100 および A100 GPU と競合する新しい人工知能サーバー チップを発売しました。

AMD と Nvidia は GPU の 2 つの主要メーカーです。以前は GPU は主にゲームに使用されていましたが、現在では人工知能モデルのトレーニングと実行に不可欠です。過去 2 年間で AI アプリケーションが投資家の注目を集めているため、Nvidia同社は 10 年以上前に自社チップ用の AI ソフトウェアを開発したため、大きな恩恵を受けてきました。

ベンチャーキャピタリストのジム・ブライヤー氏は火曜日のインタビューで、「彼らはチップの周りにソフトウェア層を構築したが、私が投資した会社はこのニーズを満たすことができなかった」と語った。

アナリストは一般に、AMDが人工知能ソフトウェアを改善していると信じており、クラウドプロバイダーやハイテク大手などの大手チップ購入者がAMDのGPUの使用を真剣に検討すると予想している。

「私たちはNVIDIAの最先端を過小評価しているわけではありませんが、第2のソースを手に入れたいという願望がソフトウェアエコシステムの困難を克服すると信じています」とオマリー氏は語った。

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How IPFS is broken

I once fell for this talk about "content-addressing". It sounds very nice. You know a certain file exists, you know there are probably people who have it, but you don't know where or if it is hosted on a domain somewhere. With content-addressing you can just say "start" and the download will start. You don't have to care.

Other magic properties that address common frustrations: webpages don't go offline, links don't break, valuable content always finds its way, other people will distribute your website for you, any content can be transmitted easily to people near you without anyone having to rely on third-party centralized servers.

But you know what? Saying a thing is good doesn't automatically make it possible and working. For example: saying stuff is addressed by their content doesn't change the fact that the internet is "location-addressed" and you still have to know where peers that have the data you want are and connect to them.

And what is the solution for that? A DHT!

DHT?

Turns out DHTs have terrible incentive structure (as you would expect, no one wants to hold and serve data they don't care about to others for free) and the IPFS experience proves it doesn't work even in a small network like the IPFS of today.

If you have run an IPFS client you'll notice how much it clogs your computer. Or maybe you don't, if you are very rich and have a really powerful computer, but still, it's not something suitable to be run on the entire world, and on web pages, and servers, and mobile devices. I imagine there may be a lot of unoptimized code and technical debt responsible for these and other problems, but the DHT is certainly the biggest part of it. IPFS can open up to 1000 connections by default and suck up all your bandwidth -- and that's just for exchanging keys with other DHT peers.

Even if you're in the "client" mode and limit your connections you'll still get overwhelmed by connections that do stuff I don't understand -- and it makes no sense to run an IPFS node as a client, that defeats the entire purpose of making every person host files they have and content-addressability in general, centralizes the network and brings back the dichotomy client/server that IPFS was created to replace.

Connections?

So, DHTs are a fatal flaw for a network that plans to be big and interplanetary. But that's not the only problem.

Finding content on IPFS is the most slow experience ever and for some reason I don't understand downloading is even slower. Even if you are in the same LAN of another machine that has the content you need it will still take hours to download some small file you would do in seconds with scp -- that's considering that IPFS managed to find the other machine, otherwise your command will just be stuck for days.

Now even if you ignore that IPFS objects should be content-addressable and not location-addressable and, knowing which peer has the content you want, you go there and explicitly tell IPFS to connect to the peer directly, maybe you can get some seconds of (slow) download, but then IPFS will drop the connection and the download will stop. Sometimes -- but not always -- it helps to add the peer address to your bootstrap nodes list (but notice this isn't something you should be doing at all).

IPFS Apps?

Now consider the kind of marketing IPFS does: it tells people to build "apps" on IPFS. It sponsors "databases" on top of IPFS. It basically advertises itself as a place where developers can just connect their apps to and all users will automatically be connected to each other, data will be saved somewhere between them all and immediately available, everything will work in a peer-to-peer manner.

Except it doesn't work that way at all. "libp2p", the IPFS library for connecting people, is broken and is rewritten every 6 months, but they keep their beautiful landing pages that say everything works magically and you can just plug it in. I'm not saying they should have everything perfect, but at least they should be honest about what they truly have in place.

It's impossible to connect to other people, after years there's no js-ipfs and go-ipfs interoperability (and yet they advertise there will be python-ipfs, haskell-ipfs, whoknowswhat-ipfs), connections get dropped and many other problems.

So basically all IPFS "apps" out there are just apps that want to connect two peers but can't do it manually because browsers and the IPv4/NAT network don't provide easy ways to do it and WebRTC is hard and requires servers. They have nothing to do with "content-addressing" anything, they are not trying to build "a forest of merkle trees" nor to distribute or archive content so it can be accessed by all. I don't understand why IPFS has changed its core message to this "full-stack p2p network" thing instead of the basic content-addressable idea.

IPNS?

And what about the database stuff? How can you "content-address" a database with values that are supposed to change? Their approach is to just save all values, past and present, and then use new DHT entries to communicate what are the newest value. This is the IPNS thing.

Apparently just after coming up with the idea of content-addressability IPFS folks realized this would never be able to replace the normal internet as no one would even know what kinds of content existed or when some content was updated -- and they didn't want to coexist with the normal internet, they wanted to replace it all because this message is more bold and gets more funding, maybe?

So they invented IPNS, the name system that introduces location-addressability back into the system that was supposed to be only content-addressable.

And how do they manage to do it? Again, DHTs. And does it work? Not really. It's limited, slow, much slower than normal content-addressing fetches, most of the times it doesn't even work after hours. But still although developers will tell it is not working yet the IPFS marketing will talk about it as if it was a thing.

Archiving content?

The main use case I had for IPFS was to store content that I personally cared about and that other people might care too, like old articles from dead websites, and videos, sometimes entire websites before they're taken down.

So I did that. Over many months I've archived stuff on IPFS. The IPFS API and CLI don't make it easy to track where stuff are. The pin command doesn't help as it just throws your pinned hash in a sea of hashes and subhashes and you're never able to find again what you have pinned.

The IPFS daemon has a fake filesystem that is half-baked in functionality but allows you to locally address things by names in a tree structure. Very hard to update or add new things to it, but still doable. It allows you to give names to hashes, basically. I even began to write a wrapper for it, but suddenly after many weeks of careful content curation and distribution all my entries in the fake filesystem were gone.

Despite not having lost any of the files I did lose everything, as I couldn't find them in the sea of hashes I had in my own computer. After some digging and help from IPFS developers I managed to recover a part of it, but it involved hacks. My things vanished because of a bug at the fake filesystem. The bug was fixed, but soon after I experienced a similar (new) bug. After that I even tried to build a service for hash archival and discovery, but as all the problems listed above began to pile up I eventually gave up. There were also problems of content canonicalization, the code the IPFS daemon use to serve default HTML content over HTTP, problems with the IPFS browser extension and others.

Future-proof?

One of the core advertised features of IPFS was that it made content future-proof. I'm not sure they used this expression, but basically you have content, you hash that, you get an address that never expires for that content, now everybody can refer to the same thing by the same name. Actually, it's better: content is split and hashed in a merkle-tree, so there's fine-grained deduplication, people can store only chunks of files and when a file is to be downloaded lots of people can serve it at the same time, like torrents.

But then come the protocol upgrades. IPFS has used different kinds of hashing algorithms, different ways to format the hashes, and will change the default algorithm for building the merkle-trees, so basically the same content now has a gigantic number of possible names/addresses, which defeats the entire purpose, and yes, files hashed using different strategies aren't automagically compatible.

Actually, the merkle algorithm could have been changed by each person on a file-by-file basis since the beginning (you could for example split a book file by chapter or page instead of by chunks of bytes) -- although probably no one ever did that. I know it's not easy to come up with the perfect hashing strategy in the first go, but the way these matters are being approached make me wonder that IPFS promoters aren't really worried about future-proof, or maybe we're just in Beta phase forever.

Ethereum?

This is also a big problem. IPFS is built by Ethereum enthusiasts. I can't read the mind of people behind IPFS, but I would imagine they have a poor understanding of incentives like the Ethereum people, and they tend towards scammer-like behavior like getting a ton of funds for investors in exchange for promises they don't know they can fulfill (like Filecoin and IPFS itself) based on half-truths, changing stuff in the middle of the road because some top-managers decided they wanted to change (move fast and break things) and squatting fancy names like "distributed web".

The way they market IPFS (which is not the main thing IPFS was initially designed to do) as a "peer-to-peer cloud" is very seductive for Ethereum developers just like Ethereum itself is: as a place somewhere that will run your code for you so you don't have to host a server or have any responsibility, and then Infura will serve the content to everybody. In the same vein, Infura is also hosting and serving IPFS content for Ethereum developers these days for free. Ironically, just like the Ethereum hoax peer-to-peer money, IPFS peer-to-peer network may begin to work better for end users as things get more and more centralized.

More about IPFS problems:

• IPFS problems: Too much immutability
• IPFS problems: General confusion
• IPFS problems: Shitcoinery
• IPFS problems: Community
• IPFS problems: Pinning
• IPFS problems: Conceit
• IPFS problems: Inefficiency
• IPFS problems: Dynamic links

See also

• A crappy course on torrents, on the protocol that has done most things right
• The Tragedy of IPFS in a series of links, an ongoing Twitter thread.

@ aa55a479:f7598935

Nostrica is the shit.

@ 634bd19e:2247da9b

かけるのこれ？ 日本語入力の取り扱いイベントがおかしいw

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

A vision for content discovery and relay usage for basic social-networking in Nostr

Or how to make a basic "social-networking" application using the Nostr protocol that is safe and promotes decentralization.

The basic app views

Suppose a basic "social-networking" app is like Twitter. In that, one has basically 3 views:

• A home feed that shows all notes from everybody you follow;
• A profile view from a specific user that shows all notes from that user;
• A replies view that shows all replies to one specific note.

Some Nostr clients may want to also provide another view, the global feed which shows posts from everybody.

A simple classification of relays

And suppose that all existing relays can be classified in 3 groups (according to one's subjective evaluation):

• spammy relays, in which people of any kind can post whatever they want with no filters at all;
• safe relays, in which there are some barriers to entry, like requiring a fee, or requiring some cumbersome user registration process, and spammers or people who post bad things are banned -- but this is still a relay fundamentally open to anyone (although this is also subjective depending on the kind of restrictions);
• closed relays, in which only certain kinds of people enter, for example, members of a group of friends or a closed online community.

How to follow and find posts from a given profile

To follow someone on Nostr, it is necessary to know one or more relays in which that person is publishing their notes, otherwise it is impossible to fetch anything from them.

When a user starts to follow someone, that may be done through 4 different ways:

1. from seeing that person in the app
2. using an nprofile URI
3. using a NIP-05 address
4. using a bare pubkey ('npub`)

Situation 1 may happen when that person is seen in the replies of yours or someone else's post, on a global feed post, or from a note referenced or republished from them by someone else. When that happens, it is expected that the references (in e and p tags) contain relay URLs. We must them inject that information to tentatively associate that person with a relay URL at that first contact.

In situations 2 and 3 both the nprofile and the NIP-05 addresses should contain a list of preferred relays for that person, so we can bootstrap the relay list for that person based on that.

In situation 4 there is no relay list, so we must either prompt the user through an annoying popup or something -- or it can try searching for that pubkey in one of their known relays. This remains an option for the other methods too.

Once we have relay URLs for a given profile we can use these relays to query notes from that pubkey. As time passes that user may migrate to other relays, or it may become known that the user is also posting to other relays. To make sure these things are discovered, we must pay attention to hints sent in tags of all events seen everywhere -- from anyone --, and also events of kind 2 and 3, and upgrade our local database that has the knowledge of relationship between profiles and relays accordingly.

Rendering the app views

From what we've gathered until now, we can easily render the home feed and the profile view. To do that it just uses local information about relationships between profiles and relays and fetch notes:

• for the home feed, from all people we're following;
• for the profile view, from just that specific profile.

Since we'll be asking for very specific data from these relays, we do not care about where they're safe or not. They will never send us spam (and if they do that will just be filtered out since it wouldn't match our strict filter).

Now whenever the user clicks on a note we will want to display the replies view. In this case we will just query only the safe and the closed relays, since otherwise spam might be injected into the application. The same principle applies to the global feed view.

Other heuristics and corner cases

There are probably many corner cases not covered in this document. This was meant to just describe one way that seems to me to be sufficiently robust for a decentralized Nostr.

For example, how to display a note that was referenced by someone? If it has a relay hint we query that relay. If it doesn't we can try the relays associated with the person who have just mentioned it, or the same relay we've just seen the note that mentioned it -- as, when mentioning it, one might have published it directly to their own relays -- and so on. But all this may fail and then it is probably not a big deal.

Final thoughts

More important than all, is that we must keep in mind that Nostr is just a very loose set of servers with basically no connection between them, there are no guarantees of anything, and the process of keeping connected to others and finding content must be addressed through many different hackish attempts. To write Nostr applications and to use Nostr one must embrace the inherent chaos.

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Bluesky is a scam

Bluesky advertises itself as an open network, they say people won't lose followers or their identity, they advertise themselves as a protocol ("atproto") and because of that they are tricking a lot of people into using them. These three claims are false.

protocolness

Bluesky is a company. "atproto" is the protocol. Supposedly they are two different things, right? Bluesky just releases software that implements the protocol, but others can also do that, it's open!

And yet, the protocol has an official webpage with a waitlist and a private beta? Why is the protocol advertised as a company product? Because it is. The "protocol" is just a description of whatever the Bluesky app and servers do, it can and does change anytime the Bluesky developers decide they want to change it, and it will keep changing for as long as Bluesky apps and servers control the biggest part of the network.

Oh, so there is the possibility of other players stepping in and then it becomes an actual interoperable open protocol? Yes, but what is the likelihood of that happening? It is very low. No serious competitor is likely to step in and build serious apps using a protocol that is directly controlled by Bluesky. All we will ever see are small "community" apps made by users and small satellite small businesses -- not unlike the people and companies that write plugins, addons and alternative clients for popular third-party centralized platforms.

And last, even if it happens that someone makes an app so good that it displaces the canonical official Bluesky app, then that company may overtake the protocol itself -- not because they're evil, but because there is no way it cannot be like this.

identity

According to their own documentation, the Bluesky people were looking for an identity system that provided global ids, key rotation and human-readable names.

They must have realized that such properties are not possible in an open and decentralized system, but instead of accepting a tradeoff they decided they wanted all their desired features and threw away the "decentralized" part, quite literally and explicitly (although they make sure to hide that piece in the middle of a bunch of code and text that very few will read).

The "DID Placeholder" method they decided to use for their global identities is nothing more than a normal old boring trusted server controlled by Bluesky that keeps track of who is who and can, at all times, decide to ban a person and deprive them from their identity (they dismissively call a "denial of service attack").

They decided to adopt this method as a placeholder until someone else doesn't invent the impossible alternative that would provide all their desired properties in a decentralized manner -- which is nothing more than a very good excuse: "yes, it's not great now, but it will improve!".

openness

Months after launching their product with an aura of decentralization and openness and getting a bunch of people inside that believed, falsely, they were joining an actually open network, Bluesky has decided to publish a part of their idea of how other people will be able to join their open network.

When I first saw their app and how they were very prominently things like follower counts, like counts and other things that are typical of centralized networks and can't be reliable or exact on truly open networks (like Nostr), I asked myself how were they going to do that once they became and open "federated" network as they were expected to be.

Turns out their decentralization plan is to just allow you, as a writer, to host your own posts on "personal data stores", but not really have any control over the distribution of the posts. All posts go through the Bluesky central server, called BGS, and they decide what to do with it. And you, as a reader, doesn't have any control of what you're reading from either, all you can do is connect to the BGS and ask for posts. If the BGS decides to ban, shadow ban, reorder, miscount, hide, deprioritize, trick or maybe even to serve ads, then you are out of luck.

Oh, but anyone can run their own BGS!, they will say. Even in their own blog post announcing the architecture they assert that "it’s a fairly resource-demanding service" and "there may be a few large full-network providers". But I fail to see why even more than one network provider will exist, if Bluesky is already doing that job, and considering the fact there are very little incentives for anyone to switch providers -- because the app does not seem to be at all made to talk to multiple providers, one would have to stop using the reliable, fast and beefy official BGS and start using some half-baked alternative and risk losing access to things.

When asked about the possibility of switching, one of Bluesky overlords said: "it would look something like this: bluesky has gone evil. there's a new alternative called freesky that people are rushing to. I'm switching to freesky".

The quote is very naïve and sounds like something that could be said about Twitter itself: "if Twitter is evil you can just run your own social network". Both are fallacies because they ignore the network-effect and the fact that people will never fully agree that something is "evil". In fact these two are the fundamental reasons why -- for social networks specifically (and not for other things like commerce) -- we need truly open protocols with no owners and no committees.

@ 81870f53:29bef6a6

OpenAIのCEOであり、ChatGPTの父でもあるサム・アルトマン氏は、ダボス世界経済フォーラムで、AIは人々の予想よりもはるかに多くの電力を消費するため、将来の人工知能にはエネルギーのブレークスルーが必要であると述べた。

同氏は、気候変動をより促進するエネルギー、特に核融合や安価な太陽エネルギーとエネルギー貯蔵が人工知能の発展の方向性であると述べた。 「ブレークスルーがなければ、この目標を達成することは不可能です」と彼は言いました。 「これにより、私たちは核融合にさらに投資するようになりました。」

2021年、アルトマン氏は米国の民間核融合会社Helion Energyに3億7,500万ドルを個人的に提供し、その後同社は今後数年間にわたってMicrosoftにエネルギーを供給する契約を締結した。 Microsoft は、人工知能用の計算リソースを OpenAI に提供しています。 アルトマン氏は、世界も核分裂をエネルギー源として受け入れることを望んでいると述べた。

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

Bolo

It seems that from 1987 to around 2000 there was a big community of people who played this game called "Bolo". It was a game in which people controlled a tank and killed others while trying to capture bases in team matches. Always 2 teams, from 2 to 16 total players, games could last from 10 minutes to 12 hours. I'm still trying to understand all this.

The game looks silly from some videos you can find today, but apparently it was very deep in strategy because people developed strategy guides and wrote extensively about it and Netscape even supported bolo: URLs out of the box.

The two most important elements on the map are pillboxes and bases. Pillboxes are originally neutral, meaning that they shoot at every tank that happens to get in its range. They shoot fast and with deadly accuracy. You can shoot the pillbox with your tank, and you can see how damaged it is by looking at it. Once the pillbox is subdued, you may run over it, which will pick it up. You may place the pillbox where you want to put it (where it is clear), if you've enough trees to build it back up. Trees are harvested by sending your man outside your tank to forest the trees. Your man (also called a builder) can also lay mines, build roads, and build walls. Once you have placed a pillbox, it will not shoot at you, but only your enemies. Therefore, pillboxes are often used to protect your bases.

That quote was taken from this "augmented FAQ" written by some user. Apparently there were many FAQs for this game. A FAQ is after all just a simple, clear and direct to the point way of writing about anything, previously known as summa[^summa-k], it doesn't have to be related to any actually frequently asked question.

More unexpected Bolo writings include an etiquette guide, an anthropology study and some wonderings on the reverse pill war tactic.

[^summa-k]: It's not the same thing, but I couldn't help but notice the similarity.

@ 4657dfe8:47934b3e

Hey,

We're trying to maintain the most up-to-date and interesting list of various "LN apps" (Lightning and Nostr web apps) that can be used with Alby, calling it our Discover Page

However, for the past few weeks... we couldn't encounter anyting fresh and working. And it is very possible we overlooked some must-visit website.

What should we add to the Discover Page? Asking for nice recommendations.

We'll pay 2,100 sats per each! 😊 Cheers 🚀🚀

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

IPFS problems: Community

I was an avid IPFS user until yesterday. Many many times I asked simple questions for which I couldn't find an answer on the internet in the #ipfs IRC channel on Freenode. Most of the times I didn't get an answer, and even when I got it was rarely by someone who knew IPFS deeply. I've had issues go unanswered on js-ipfs repositories for year – one of these was raising awareness of a problem that then got fixed some months later by a complete rewrite, I closed my own issue after realizing that by myself some couple of months later, I don't think the people responsible for the rewrite were ever acknowledge that he had fixed my issue.

Some days ago I asked some questions about how the IPFS protocol worked internally, sincerely trying to understand the inefficiencies in finding and fetching content over IPFS. I pointed it would be a good idea to have a drawing showing that so people would understand the difficulties (which I didn't) and wouldn't be pissed off by the slowness. I was told to read the whitepaper. I had already the whitepaper, but read again the relevant parts. The whitepaper doesn't explain anything about the DHT and how IPFS finds content. I said that in the room, was told to read again.

Before anyone misread this section, I want to say I understand it's a pain to keep answering people on IRC if you're busy developing stuff of interplanetary importance, and that I'm not paying anyone nor I have the right to be answered. On the other hand, if you're developing a super-important protocol, financed by many millions of dollars and a lot of people are hitting their heads against your software and there's no one to help them; you're always busy but never delivers anything that brings joy to your users, something is very wrong. I sincerely don't know what IPFS developers are working on, I wouldn't doubt they're working on important things if they said that, but what I see – and what many other users see (take a look at the IPFS Discourse forum) is bugs, bugs all over the place, confusing UX, and almost no help.

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

Castas hindus em nova chave

Shudras buscam o máximo bem para os seus próprios corpos; vaishyas o máximo bem para a sua própria vida terrena e a da sua família; kshatriyas o máximo bem para a sociedade e este mundo terreno; brâmanes buscam o máximo bem.

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

Thoughts on Nostr key management

On Why I don't like NIP-26 as a solution for key management I talked about multiple techniques that could be used to tackle the problem of key management on Nostr.

Here are some ideas that work in tandem:

• NIP-41 (stateless key invalidation)
• NIP-46 (Nostr Connect)
• NIP-07 (signer browser extension)
• Connected hardware signing devices
• other things like musig or frostr keys used in conjunction with a semi-trusted server; or other kinds of trusted software, like a dedicated signer on a mobile device that can sign on behalf of other apps; or even a separate protocol that some people decide to use as the source of truth for their keys, and some clients might decide to use that automatically
• there are probably many other ideas

Some premises I have in my mind (that may be flawed) that base my thoughts on these matters (and cause me to not worry too much) are that

• For the vast majority of people, Nostr keys aren't a target as valuable as Bitcoin keys, so they will probably be ok even without any solution;
• Even when you lose everything, identity can be recovered -- slowly and painfully, but still --, unlike money;
• Nostr is not trying to replace all other forms of online communication (even though when I think about this I can't imagine one thing that wouldn't be nice to replace with Nostr) or of offline communication, so there will always be ways.
• For the vast majority of people, losing keys and starting fresh isn't a big deal. It is a big deal when you have followers and an online persona and your life depends on that, but how many people are like that? In the real world I see people deleting social media accounts all the time and creating new ones, people losing their phone numbers or other accounts associated with their phone numbers, and not caring very much -- they just find a way to notify friends and family and move on.

We can probably come up with some specs to ease the "manual" recovery process, like social attestation and explicit signaling -- i.e., Alice, Bob and Carol are friends; Alice loses her key; Bob sends a new Nostr event kind to the network saying what is Alice's new key; depending on how much Carol trusts Bob, she can automatically start following that and remove the old key -- or something like that.

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One nice thing about some of these proposals, like NIP-41, or the social-recovery method, or the external-source-of-truth-method, is that they don't have to be implemented in any client, they can live in standalone single-purpose microapps that users open or visit only every now and then, and these can then automatically update their follow lists with the latest news from keys that have changed according to multiple methods.

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

litepub

A Go library that abstracts all the burdensome ActivityPub things and provides just the right amount of helpers necessary to integrate an existing website into the "fediverse" (what an odious name). Made for the gravity integration.

• https://godoc.org/github.com/fiatjaf/litepub

See also

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@ 81870f53:29bef6a6

投資するのに良い企業を定義するにはどうすればよいですか? 投資家によって意見は異なります。しかしピーター・サレン氏にとって、投資するのに良い企業は 10 のルールで定義できます。そのような企業は非常に少ないはずです。それは品質と成長の両方に反映されます。品質とは成長とは、企業の貸借対照表、資産の質、経営の管理レベルによって定義され、企業の実績、貸借対照表の強さ、採用さ​​れている会計基準、経営の質などが含まれます。一方、売上高、利益率、キャッシュフローの成長を達成する企業の能力によって測定されます。

優れた企業が株式市場の不安定な浮き沈みから完全に免れることはできませんが、長期的な収益性が長期にわたって平均を上回っており、盤石なバランスシートに支えられている限り、長期的な利益は維持されます。これは、企業の過去のデータを研究したい投資家にとって観察可能な経験的事実です。

イノベーションは、質の高い成長企業にさまざまな影響を与えますが、Selene では、質の高い成長企業について、次の 3 つのカテゴリに分類しています。

一流の高品質成長企業はイノベーションの内容が低く、例えば大手消費者企業はすべてこのグループに属しており、研究開発費はほとんどかからず、ほとんどがマーケティングに費やされていることが多い。

2 番目の質の高い成長企業は、イノベーションを重視しますが、イノベーションを追求するサイクルが長く、イノベーションに十分な投資を継続する大企業は競合他社に先んじることができますが、それに応じて追いつくのが難しくなります。 3 番目の質の高い成長企業とは、急速なイノベーションが可能な企業のことであり、その存続には革新的な事業が不可欠であり、一旦イノベーションをやめ、変化する市場力学に適応しようとすることをやめてしまえば、そのような企業は急速に消滅してしまいます。

投資ポートフォリオを作成する際の最初の課題は、代替範囲を定義することであり、企業が事業を展開している 1 つ以上の国の GDP 成長率よりも成長率が高くなければならない産業を特定することです。セレン氏の長年の実践に基づいて、彼は 10 の産業をリストアップしました。特定の業界で最も業績の良い企業を定義し、選択するための黄金律。

1. 拡張可能なビジネスモデル 高品質で成長するビジネスには、拡張可能なビジネス モデルが必要です。拡張可能なビジネス モデルとは、企業が収益と利益を持続的に成長させることができるモデルです。さまざまな製品の市場は十分に大きく、十分にオープンでなければなりません。企業の継続的な成長を吸収する必要があります。企業の市場が企業の成長をサポートするには小さすぎるか、閉鎖的すぎる場合、その売上と収益は必要な速度で拡大しません。企業がスケーラビリティを達成するためのさまざまな方法は、この基盤の上に構築される必要があります。需要を拡張できる 2 種類のビジネス モデル: プラットフォーム モデルと機能主導型モデル。

プラットフォームモデル

プラットフォームは、異なるグループ間の交流を生み出すためのメカニズムです。最も一般的なのは、商品やサービスの生産者、発明者、消費者を含む対話型グループです。このモデルの成功は、2 つの重要な要素に基づいています。継続的な収益成長の余地と、ビジネスのコストを制御する能力。プラットフォーム モデルには、価格モデルと数量モデルという 2 つの主要なサブモデルもあります。価格モデルを通じて市場を拡大する企業は、通常、安定したコスト ベースを持ち、このモデルに基づく収益の成長は高くなります。主に価格設定権によって生み出されます。ボリューム モデルでは、価格決定力よりもボリュームの増加により推進されます。このモデルでは、インフラストラクチャ コストは安定しており、収益のほとんどは製品数の増加によって生み出されます。

能力主導型モデル

能力主導型モデルの成功または失敗を決定する重要な要素は、市場の収益成長スペースでもあります。スケーラブルなビジネス モデルが良好な運営を維持できるという前提は、市場にまだ成長の余地があるということです。競争力を維持するには、高額の費用をかけて買収を行い、事業の中核部分を売却し、主要地域市場での戦略を再定義する必要があるが、これらの調整がうまくいくという保証はないが、同時に確立されたビジネスは困難である。これは、質の高い成長投資家にとって、理想的な投資の質や成長を脅かす市場の動向に常に注意を払う必要があることを思い出させるのに役立ちます。

2. 業界の優れた成長 収益は長期的に株価を動かします。企業の収益が長期にわたって成長し続ければ、それに応じて株価も上昇します。複利の驚異的な力の助けを借りて、この成長はより高い利益につながります。長期にわたって投資家に平均を上回る持続可能な利益をもたらすため、優れた成長率を示す産業は重要な商業的属性である 成長産業とは、GDPを上回る成長率を示し、基本的に景気の浮き沈みの影響を受けない産業を意味するこの成長は通常、現金から電子決済への移行、世界的な水不足、人口の高齢化など、経済および商業活動の長期的な傾向によって推進されています。

構造的成長に有利な他の産業と比較すると、その産業の構造的成長の価値が理解しやすくなります。出版、ビデオおよびビデオストア、あるいは長年衰退してきた石炭産業を考えてみましょう。業界全体の成長が鈍化するか完全に停止する場合、売上を増やす唯一の方法は市場シェアを獲得することです。これは個々の企業にとっては公正で、理解でき、立派なビジネス戦略ですが、業界全体にとってはゼロサムゲームです— すべての勝者の陰には敗者がおり、それは長期的な成長の持続可能な源ではありません。

景気循環産業は、景気循環が拡大するときにのみ例外的な成長をもたらします。成長と衰退の間をさまようことがよくあります。投資家が景気循環の転換点を正確に予測できる場合、これらの産業の企業の株式の保有を検討することもできます。しかし、真実は次のとおりです。たとえ投資家が景気循環を予測できたとしても、これらの企業は高品質の成長投資家が求める基準を満たすことはできません。

3. 業界のリーダーシップの継続 構造的な事業成長を実現できる業界に属する企業であれば、長期継続的な成長を実現する可能性が高くなりますが、たとえスケーラブルなビジネスモデルを持ち、優れた成長を遂げる業界で事業を展開していたとしても、100%成功が保証されているわけではありません。また、業界で主導的な地位を占め、一定期間にわたって業界のリーダーシップを発揮し続けなければなりません。その理由は、スポーツなどの多くの業界では、競争によって勝者が生まれることがよくあるからです。テイクオール市場: 業界で 1 位または 2 位にランクされている企業が、市場シェアと利益のほとんどを獲得しています。

企業が業界のリーダーシップを獲得し、当社の基準を満たすには、何年もの投資、忍耐、目標の達成が必要になる場合があります。これが、高品質の成長企業がよく知られ確立された一流企業であることが多く、それらを見つけるのが簡単である理由です。先進国市場では、業界のリーディングカンパニーとして、通常、すでに数十億ポンド、ユーロ、ドルに達する巨額の資本を持っていますが、時価総額がはるかに小さい優良企業も存在しますが、時価総額が小さすぎる場合は、 , 投資家は流動性の潜在的な損失のリスクに直面しており、これはまた、投資家がいくらでも株式を見積もって売却することが困難になる可能性があることも意味します。特に関与する株式の数が増えるほど、投資家が不利な価格変動に直面するリスクが大きくなります。関与する銘柄が多いほど、投資家が不利な価格変動に直面するリスクが大きくなります。資本が大きい企業に投資する場合、これは依然として無視できない重要な要素です。なぜなら、高品質企業の株式は非常に高値で表示される場合があるからです。価格。

「一度業界で支配的な地位を獲得した企業の最大の利点は、それを破壊するのが難しいことだ。コカ・コーラに最も挑戦するブランドを構築するのにどれほどの時間と困難がかかるか想像してみてほしい。業界をリードする企業は巨額の利益を得ている」過去 20 年間にわたり、労働組合の緩やかな衰退と、グローバリゼーションとインターネットの急速な発展により、価格変動のプロセスが加速しました。 「生産者から消費者への力が供給され、その結果、インフレ率が歴史的に低い水準に保たれた。高品質の成長企業が長い間業界を支配してきたため、マクロ経済に反映される低価格傾向に抵抗することができた。また、次のような企業にとっても論理的であるように思われる」これにより、市場シェアを失うことなく独自の価格を設定し、より高い保険料を得ることができます。

デフレ下では、価格決定力が投資家にとって特に重要であり、特にデフレが差し迫っている場合には、経済の低成長期に価格と利益の継続的な成長を維持することに成功した企業は、より高い株価収益率を獲得することになります。より高い株価収益率で取引する株式投資家は、ポートフォリオの下落が市場全体よりも少なくなり、これも資本を保護する重要な方法です。

4. 持続的な競争優位性 高品質に成長する企業は、複数の競争上の優位性を同時に享受し、正のフィードバック サイクルを形成し、時間の経過とともに競争上の地位を継続的に強化します。企業の競争優位性は、優れた製品やサービスと、優れたビジネスモデルの2つに分類できます。

持続的な競争優位性とは、企業が競合他社が太刀打ちできない価格で商品やサービスを生産できるように進化したことを意味します。同じ業界の他の企業がその企業のモデルを真似して低価格で競争しようとしても、少なくとも成功することはほとんどありません。持続可能な競争優位性を持つ企業が、必需品、つまりあらゆる経済状況において必要とされる製品やサービスを提供する場合、その企業は「プライスメーカー」になります。世界の平均価格の足跡や基準に追随することなく、独自の価格を設定できるため、より高い価格を設定することができ、値上げ後も市場の需要が減少することはありません。市場の優位性により、業界リーダーがその達成を支援することで達成されます。

本当の競争上の優位性を持つ企業は、古くからある利益減少の法則にも対抗することができます。利益減少の法則によれば、非常に高い利益を生み出し、成長を続けている企業は、ある時点で必ず大きな課題に直面することになります。市場を掌握し、既存の業界リーダーの競争優位性を段階的に排除することを目的としていますが、例外もあり、たとえば、価格差を付けられなくても競争優位性を維持できる企業もあります。競争上の優位性は、質の高い成長を求める投資家にとって中心的なものです。持続的な競争上の優位性を持つ企業は、価値のあるものでなければなりません。その背後には多くの理由があります。競争上の優位性により、企業の収益とキャッシュ フローが成長し続けることが可能になり、また、投資家が将来を予測する上でより信頼できるようになります。成長と投資リスクの低減を実現します。

5.力強い有機的成長 一般に、質の高い成長企業は、経済サイクル全体にわたって、数年間、場合によっては 10 年、場合によっては 20 年にも及ぶ傑出した成長を享受します。優れた成長率は、景気低迷期でも収益とキャッシュ フローが増加し続けることを意味します。国の平均 GDP 成長率が 5% 未満の場合、質の高い企業の成長とは、企業の売上高成長率が可能な限り 2 桁に近いことを意味します。平均的な企業の成長率が中～高の場合、逆に、売上成長率が 1 桁後半よりも低く、純利益率が 2 桁未満の企業は、質の高い成長企業になる可能性が低くなります。

英国規制当局の指針となる見解は、「過去の実績は将来の実績の指針と同等ではない」というもので、厳密な論理的観点から判断すれば、この見解は正しいが、他の状況では、とんでもなく間違っているとしか言えない。実際、ペロマン氏は、経験豊富な投資家にとって、過去の業績は、多くの場合、投資家が将来の結果を知るための最も信頼できる指針となると主張している。英国規制当局のガイダンスは、自動車製造などの景気循環ビジネスに適している可能性がある。 5 年間は上昇傾向にありますが、通常は大幅な下落が起こります。

高品質の成長投資家にとって、過去の好調な業績は必要な判断条件であり、その企業が投資する価値があるという必要な兆候です。しかし、過去の業績だけではその企業の株が理想的な投資対象になるわけではありません。最も重要なのは、投資家が理解する必要があることです。優れた成長実績を持つ企業がどのようにしてこの理想的な状態を達成できるのか、質の高い成長投資家は、その企業がどのような競争上の堀を獲得し、その競争上の優位性をどのように守ってきたのかを判断する必要がある。ビジネスは、遠い将来も量、利益率、利益の増加を続ける可能性があります。

理想的には、これらの潜在的な企業が享受する成長は有機的なもの、つまり自社の活動によって生み出されるものですが、企業の過去の業績が主に有機的な自己生成ではなく、買収を通じて達成された成長によるものであるという別の状況もあります。企業の将来の成長が持続可能であるかどうかを判断する際、投資家は、たとえ企業自体が有機的成長に焦点を当てていたとしても、この成長がどのように達成されるかに注意を払う必要があります。理想的なビジネスは、本業の売上成長を通じて利益の成長を推進します。

6. 地域や顧客の多様化 多角化の目的は、いわゆるバルク リスクを軽減することです。つまり、卵を 1 つのカゴに入れるべきではありません。少数の顧客が企業の顧客ベースを占めすぎる場合、企業の最大の懸念は、 「これらの顧客のビジネスを失うことになる。したがって、重大なリスクを軽減するには、企業は地理的および顧客分布が健全である必要がある。これは、投資家にリスクが集中している企業から遠ざかるよう警告する黄金律の中核でもある」特にリスクが会社によって制御されていない場合、私たちが投資する必要があるのは生産性の向上を生み出す能力であり、これは真に質の高い成長企業の中核となる能力です。収益源を事前に確保しておけば、営業リスクを軽減することは可能ですが、企業は多角化戦略を採用することで、単一の販売グループや販売チャネルへの依存を脱し、需要の突然の変化の影響に耐えることができます。対象範囲が拡大するにつれて、企業はこの種のビジネス拡大に対応する運用能力を継続的に開発する必要があります。

7. 低い資本密度と高い資本収益率 企業の特徴が低い資本密度である場合、これは、少ない資本で高い生産性が得られることを意味します。高い資本利益率を達成するには、企業は損失を回避し、資本に依存せずに成長資金を調達できなければなりません。しかし、利益を上げている企業が必ずしも現金を生み出す十分な能力を持っているわけではないため、資本密度が非常に重要です。企業が資金調達に必要な資本が少なければ少ないほど、借入する可能性は低くなります。同時に、資本密度が高ければ高いほど、企業が資本から得られる利益が大きいほど、時間の経過とともにより多くの価値を生み出すことができます。価値の創造は、投下資本利益率がコストを上回るときに起こります。高い資本利益率を長期間維持できるほど、企業と企業にとってより有益になります。これは、真に質の高い成長企業の特徴です。

8. 安定した財務状況 Salen Investment Management の特徴的な投資手法の 1 つは、負債回避企業です。この手法を黄金律として使用することは、同社の長期投資アプローチの基本であり、また不必要なリスクを取ることを嫌う姿勢を示しています。財務上の問題が発生すると、株主の権利は会社の債権者よりも優先されるため、株主にとってのリスクは大きくなります。会社のバランスシートの強さを評価する際には、考慮すべき複雑な要素が数多くあります。たとえば、収益が不安定な会社、低い利益率と組み合わせると、負債と収益の比率が健全であるように見えることがありますが、これは誤解を招きます。状況は瞬時に変化する可能性があり、負債と収益の比率はすぐに不健全になる可能性があるためです。負債がほとんど、あるいはまったくない企業を探すべきです。

9. 透明性のあるアカウント 賢明でリスクを回避する投資家として、企業が透明性と責任ある会計を行っているかどうかを検討することは、投資の重要な前提条件です。質の高い成長投資家にとって、企業の会計は投資判断において重要な役割を果たすため、企業の経済動向を理解することが重要です。企業の価値とそれに伴う投資リスクの評価 質の高い成長企業の決算は理解しやすく、緻密なデータ情報は提供されない 投資家は利益を容易に現金化できる企業を求めているが、そのような企業はほとんど存在しない「調整後の」収益結果と公表されている財務結果との差異 企業が非従来型のプロジェクトアカウントを多数抱えている場合、投資家が企業の実際の業績を理解することが難しいため、これは警告メッセージです。

10. 優れた経営陣とコーポレート・ガバナンス 企業が良いか悪いかは、経営トップの質にも左右されます。質の高い成長投資家は、経営陣の利益と株主の利益の一致を判断する必要があります。これは、通常、経営陣も企業の株主になることを意味します。私たちは、企業は、魅力的な経済的利益に加えて、経営陣が株主の利益を最優先に行動することに尽力していると判断できること。そのためには、個人の誠実さと経験だけでなく、企業全体が良好なガバナンスを遵守することも求められる株式文化が定着すればするほど、企業経営は株主にとって有益なアプローチを採用する可能性が高くなります。投資家が質の高い成長企業に期待するのは、経営陣が良い時も悪い時も欠点や間違いを積極的に認め、コミュニケーションを常にオープンに保つことで、企業と投資家の相互信頼が高まることです。さらに、企業による完全かつ正直な情報開示は職業上の規範であり、投資家は企業と十分な情報に基づいた高度な対話ができるよう、事業を完全に理解する責任があります。

セレーネは、質の高い成長投資のための 10 の黄金律は数十年にわたって変わっておらず、政治や経済の出来事によっても変わることはなく、すべて健全な常識に基づいており、国、地域、国籍、言語を超えていると信じています。多くの人的要因があるため、これらの 10 の黄金律により、投資家は株式市場の評価よりも企業の基本的なビジネス面により注意を払うことができます。これらの 10 のルールに従うことは、投資家がひどい永久的な資本損失を避けるのに役立つだけでなく、投資リスクを軽減しながら投資家の利益も増加します。

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Recent Upgrades to Nostr (AKA NIPs)

1) (Proposed) Update to NIP-07: Nostr Browser Extension

monlovesmango is proposing updates to the capabilities of the Nostr Browser Extensions. Currently, browser extensions are primarily used to enable usage of Nostr clients without giving that client your Nostr private key.

Since NIP 44 was adopted, there are a few new Nostr actions creating encrypted content over Nostr that clients will want users to authorize without requiring users to input their private key. This NIP adds those new Nostr actions as something browser extensions should support going forward.

2) (Proposed) NOSTR Decentralized Advertising Network

ionextdebug is proposing creating a marketplace for advertising that runs over Nostr.

For those unfamiliar, there’s a constant bid and ask process for advertising space on platforms like Youtube or Google Adsense. The sell side is offering up ad space (for example 5-25 seconds at the beginning of a Youtube video for users within a specific demographic), and the buy side is bidding to put their ad in that spot. The highest bid wins the spot. This all happens in milliseconds every time you see an ad online.

This proposal outlines how this could be coordinated over Nostr instead of in Google’s walled garden. The use case would require Nostr to operate in ways it wasn’t designed for, so it may struggle to work in practice, but the NIP is early in the process of development.

Notable Projects

nsecBunker Update 🔐

nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft announced an update to nsecBunker that allows users to an OAuth-like experience when logging into Nostr clients.

Bunker providers are able to provide account creation to Nostr users that feels a lot like signing up for any legacy tech service (username, password, control over what each Nostr client can do on their behalf, etc). This creates a set of Nostr keypairs which are necessary to operate in the Nostr-verse, but they’re stored in the bunker.

When a Nostr client wants a user’s permission to read or write with those keys (e.g., to pull their timeline or help a user post something), the client asks the bunker for permission, which then asks the user if they want to grant that permission. Users are also able to have their bunker remember their selections of grant/reject permissions for a given Nostr client so that things are easier with fewer popups the next time around.

Additionally, users that are created and managed via nsecBunker have a lightning wallet and lightning address created automatically. If nsecBunker could also help folks manage their full Nostr profile (Kind 0 data like profile picture, name, etc,) this could be an out-of-the box solution for clients looking to add a simpler signup/login experience to new users that don’t mind giving up some control.

From what I saw in the code, the data (including Nostr private keys custodied by the bunker) are encrypted at rest, but currently that’s one key to encrypt all keys in the bunker. It may make sense in the future to extend the functionality to give users the ability to encrypt their keys with their own password, but there are downsides to that which may make self-custody the easier option.

There’s no lock-in for users since bunker providers can help users download their keys if they want to self custody or move to another provider.

This could be a foundational tool that allows an ecosystem of bunker providers emerge. Bunkers may be offered as part of Nostr clients, or independently; they may be offered for free, or for a fee. But the opt-in and interchangeable nature means that users will be able to choose what works for them, including moving to self-custody once they see the benefits. And self-custody may even just be a self-hosted bunker. 😉

Faaans 🎨

This is another project from nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft and although it’s still pre-launch, it has been teased as a Patreon replacement built on Nostr.

It seems like this project is one whose purpose and value is clear, but requires many capabilities that are novel to Nostr to be built first. From what I can see Faaans has built:

1. Oauth-like flow using new nsecbunker functionality from 👆
2. Ability to gate content until a Nostr user pays for it
3. The presence of uploads and NIP 98 HTTP Auth makes me think that there’s a non-Nostr backend for handling uploads (maybe to also help with gating the content?)

Anyway, I’m excited to see how it turns out. Cutting out middlemen and giving creators full control over their relationship with their audience could be the killer app that brings a flood of usage and business to the Nostr ecosystem. 💪

Relay Auth to support privacy 🤫

NIP 42 allows relays to require clients to authenticate the user before the relay will take a requested action. This is useful, for example, for keeping DMs private.

By default all Nostr events can be queried by anyone that can connect to the relay. This is part of the magic of Nostr. But there are some kinds of Nostr events that likely should only be readable by a few folks. In the case of DMs, it makes sense to restrict who can download DM-type Nostr events to only those people involved in the DM.

This can be accomplished by relays requiring the user to authenticate with the relay before it returns DM-type Nostr events for that user. This announcement is that Damus looks to be adding support for Relay Auth, which may help with any number of features that can benefit from more privacy.

Latest conversations: Web of Providers

The culture of Nostr currently highly values self-custody, decentralization, and “don’t trust, verify” which is very admirable. It’s woven into the protocol itself. There are downsides to operating on these principles, but most of us judge it to be worth it.

It’s usually possible to have our cake and eat it too (have a nice experience and maintain our values), but it requires technological advances and building products based on those advances. This takes time.

In the interim, devs may build something that’s less self-custodial, less decentralized, but far easier to use. Most of the time this middle ground is far better than using some legacy system that’s completely custodial, centralized, and locks users in. But that’s only the case if it’s a stepping stone to a solution that is everything we need.

Example: Custodial Lightning Wallets

When Wallet of Satoshi stopped operating in the US, I definitely felt how vulnerable the zap ecosystem was to some overzealous bureaucrats. But I was able to switch providers in a matter of minutes and get back to sending and receiving zaps.

I definitely considered moving to Zeus or Mutiny or reviving my own Lightning Node on my Bitcoin Node, but it’s all still too difficult to manage a reliable experience passively.

On net, I’d argue that using custodial lightning is better than using Venmo or something to send and receive zaps. At least we’re operating in Bitcoin and not fiat.

A must have: a competitive ecosystem

The trade offs of a middle ground are easier to live with if there’s a robust and competitive ecosystem.

In the case of custodial lightning wallets, we’re encountering the issue of a lack of robustness. There are only a handful of providers that are able to handle zaps. Losing Wallet of Satoshi was a significant blow. We definitely need more lightning wallet providers in order to be robust against nation-state attack.

The ecosystem must also be competitive. People need to be able to switch providers or move to self custody with little or no cost.

NSecBunker

NSecBunker is an excellent example of a middle ground solution that maintains manageable trade offs while working to discover a more perfect solution.

If Nostr users want to use bunkers, it’s trivially easy to spin up a bunker and provide it to them. Existing clients may spin them up, or people looking to start a business in the Nostr ecosystem may create bunkers (maybe with some extra features) and charge for them.

At the end of the day, this technology is built in such a way that interoperability is easy and users aren’t locked in. The lift for Nostr clients to support bunkers is small, so bunkers may soon be as widely used as the Nostr browser extensions. Since users aren’t locked in to any bunker provider, it’ll be easy for a web of providers to pop up and serve users in unique ways to discover what works best.

Build tech to enable a web of providers

Building Nostr tech that has interoperability top of mind supports the Nostr ethos and enables the ecosystem to develop incrementally without giving up our values. Luckily, the protocol itself encourages interoperability with its very architecture. 🫡

Let’s reward devs when we see them doing this important work, they’re building an immense amount right now and it’s an incredible privilege to witness and beta test. 🍻

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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IPFS problems: Shitcoinery

IPFS was advertised to the Ethereum community since the beggining as a way to "store" data for their "dApps". I don't think this is harmful in any way, but for some reason it may have led IPFS developers to focus too much on Ethereum stuff. Once I watched a talk showing libp2p developers – despite being ignored by the Ethereum team (that ended up creating their own agnostic p2p library) – dedicating an enourmous amount of work on getting a libp2p app running in the browser talking to a normal Ethereum node.

The always somewhat-abandoned "Awesome IPFS" site is a big repository of "dApps", some of which don't even have their landing page up anymore, useless Ethereum smart contracts that for some reason use IPFS to store whatever the useless data their users produce.

Again, per se it isn't a problem that Ethereum people are using IPFS, but it is at least confusing, maybe misleading, that when you search for IPFS most of the use-cases are actually Ethereum useless-cases.

See also

• Bitcoin, the only non-shitcoin

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Over the last few months it feels the bitcoin community has gotten more and more jaded on lightning. To be honest, this is for good reason, back in 2017 we were promised a decentralized payment network that would always have cheap payments and everyone would be able to run their own node. Nowadays, the average lightning user actually isn't using lightning, they are just using a custodial wallet and the few of that do run lightning nodes often find it a burdensome task. For us at Mutiny Wallet, we are trying to make this better by creating a lightweight self-custodial wallet and in my opinion we have been executing on that dream fairly well. In this post, I'll analyze these issues and present a new way to view lightning and what that means for bitcoin going forward.

First and foremost one of the hardest UX challenges of lightning is channel liquidity. No other payment system has these problems today besides lightning so this often confuses lots of users. To make matters worse, there aren't any practical hacks that we can do to get around this. Muun Wallet used an on-chain wallet + submarine swaps to get around the channel liquidity problem, this worked very well until fees went up and everyone realized it wasn't actually a lightning wallet. The better solution is JIT liquidity like we do in Mutiny or splicing like that is done in Phoenix. These solutions abstract some of it away but not enough, we often get support questions confused on why some payments have fees and others do not. The fact is channel liquidity is not a usable UX for most end users.

The other major pain point of lightning is the offline receive problem. Inherently, you must be online with your private keys to sign and claim a payment. There is technically an ongoing spec proposal to be able to work around this (essentially creating a notification system of when people are online to receive payments), but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem and still has limitations. There has been a few attempts to get around this, most notably was Zeus Pay lightning addresses. These essentially worked by just creating stuck payments and waited for the user to come online to claim, this caused a ton of problems for people and even forced us at Mutiny to block users from paying them because it caused so many force closures. This is a hard problem because the entire rest of the bitcoin/crypto ecosystem works by just copy-paste an address and you can send to it whenever, there isn't caveats around asking your friend to open their wallet. This is further exacerbated by things like lightning address that requires a webserver to even get an invoice in the first place.

Channel liquidity and offline receives in my opinion are the two most obvious reasons why self-custodial lightning is not popular. When most users hear about any of these, they just think screw that and move to a custodial wallet because it is so much easier. If these were our only two problems, I think self-custodial lightning would be fine, it may never be the predominant way people use lightning, but we could get the UX good enough that we have a significant portion of people using lightning in a sovereign way. However, there are more problems under the surface.

Channel liquidity is a problem, but it is also deceptive. When you have 100k sats of inbound liquidity you would think you could receive up to 100k sats, but this isn't the case, often you can't actually receive any. This is because of on-chain fees, when a payment is being made in lightning you are creating pre-signed transactions that have outputs for every in-flight payment, these outputs cost potential on-chain fees and the high on-chain fees go the more it eats into your liquidity. After we've solved most of our force close issues Mutiny this has been number one support request. Even if you do everything right, understand liquidity and have enough for your payment, sometimes it still won't work because on-chain fees are too high. This is always really discouraging because isn't the whole point of lightning to not have to pay on-chain fees? Fundamentally, all current lightning channels could become entirely useless if on-chain fees went high enough because a single payment would require too many reserves. Obviously this is hyperbolic, but I hope I am getting the point across that on-chain fees don't just effect the opening and closing costs of channels, even if you are a diligent node runner that only opens channels when fees are low, that is not enough, your channels need to be large enough to pay for the on-chain fees of each HTLC at any future on-chain fee rate. As on-chain fees go up and up this problem will only get worse.

The proposed solution to these reserve issues are things like anchor channels, package relay, ephemeral anchors, etc. These are all well and good but kind of just mask the problem. They do solve it so the fee reserve can be much lower and possibly zero, however with the tradeoff that you need on-chain funds available to fee-bump your force closes so they can actually get into a block. This again breaks the UX for self-custodial users because they have hold on-chain funds alongside their lightning funds so they can do those on-chain fee bumps. The size requirements for their on-chain funds is still dynamically based on how high on-chain fees can spike. Solutions for this can include having someone else bump your transaction fees but this brings basically a trusted 3rd party into the mix and isn't ideal.

When you lay out all the different tradeoffs a lightning node needs to make, especially in a high fee environment, it makes me think, what are we doing here, are we going down the wrong path? Lightning is still fundamentally a fantastic payment protocol but its limitation is that it requires scale. Basically every problem I've outlined goes away when you have a large lightning node with lots of liquidity and high uptime so many we should optimize for that. The market has been telling us this for years already, +90% of lightning users are using custodial wallets because it works so much better at scale. So how can we use large scale lightning nodes without custodial wallets?

Combining existing large scale lightning infrastructure with self-custodial solutions sadly, isn't totally possible. The only real way to do that as of now is Muun Wallet which as we talked about earlier, doesn't really solve the problem because everything is just an on-chain transaction. However, Muun was onto something. The architecture of having a simpler protocol interface with lightning is genius and gives us the best of both worlds. We can make fast cheap payments and let the big boys collect fees for running the lightning node. Aqua Wallet just launched which is essentially a Muun Wallet but on top of Liquid, this is a good bandaid fix but doesn't get to the root of the problem.

Before we go further we should take a step back and break down what problems we are trying to solve. Bitcoin has a fundamental scaling limitation through the block size, if we could make infinite, then we wouldn't necessarily need any layer 2s because we could just make on-chain payments. However, we live in the real world and have a 1mb block size limit, and this limits the number of transactions we can make on-chain. Lightning is a huge improvement to bitcoin because we don't need to put every transaction on-chain, we just need to open a channel and can make seemingly countless payments. So why isn't lightning the silver bullet? Lightning lets us move payments off-chain but what it doesn't do is let us move ownership off-chain. Fundamentally lightning still relies on that, at the end of the day, a utxo goes to single user. So even if every on-chain transaction was a lightning channel, we still run into the limit of how many people can actually own those channels. What we need is another layer 2 that can scale utxo ownership and caninterop with lightning, that way we have a way to scale ownership combined with scaling payments.

So how do we scale ownership? Simply put, the answer today is custody, whether that is pure custodial like a Wallet of Satoshi or in the grey area like fedimints and liquid, the only way to do it today is through custody or federated bridges. In bitcoin, the only way to delegate ownership of a utxo to multiple parties is through multisig, however, that requires every user to be online when anyone wants to transact, and when you take go down this path far enough you end up just reinventing lightning.

Are we doomed then? Is there no way to scale bitcoin in a self-sovereign way? Luckily, the answer is no, but we need some soft-forks. Covenants are the way to scale bitcoin ownership. There are a bunch of covenant proposals but at their core what they propose to do is to add a way, so you can have a bitcoin address that limits where and how the coins in it can be spent. This can seem scary, but we already have these in bitcoin today, OP_CTLV (Check LockTime Verify), which was soft forked in 2016, only allows you to spend from a bitcoin address if the transaction has a given locktime, this lets you gate when a utxo can be spent. What the current covenant proposals do is let you gate where a utxo can be spent. With that simple primitive many different protocols can be built that allow for scaling ownership.

There are a lot of current covenant proposals, the main ones being: OP_CTV, OP_VAULT, OP_CSFS, OP_TXHASH, OP_CAT, and APO. They all have different functionality and tradeoffs but in my opinion we should be looking towards activating a form of covenants because otherwise we will likely be moving towards a future of less sovereign bitcoin users.

The future is not bleak however, even without covenants we can still scale bitcoin for the world, just not in the ideal way. At Mutiny, we are full steam ahead on implementing fedimint into the wallet, in my opinion (and the rest of the team's) it looks like the best current scaling solution for bitcoin. Fedimints give us the ability to dynamically share ownership over a group of utxos and is able to interop with lightning through gateways. It is the pinnacle of the scaling dream for bitcoin with current technology and I can't wait to help make it reality while we can.

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algia

nostr CLI client written in Go

Usage

``` NAME: algia - A cli application for nostr

USAGE: algia [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

DESCRIPTION: A cli application for nostr

COMMANDS: timeline, tl show timeline stream show stream post, n post new note reply, r reply to the note repost, b repost the note unrepost, B unrepost the note like, l like the note unlike, L unlike the note delete, d delete the note search, s search notes dm-list show DM list dm-timeline show DM timeline dm-post post new note profile show profile powa post ぽわ〜 puru post ぷる zap zap note1 version show version help, h Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS: -a value profile name --relays value relays -V verbose (default: false) --help, -h show help ```

Installation

Download binary from Release page.

Or install with go install command. go install github.com/mattn/algia@latest

Configuration

Minimal configuration. Need to be at ~/.config/algia/config.json

json { "relays": { "wss://relay-jp.nostr.wirednet.jp": { "read": true, "write": true, "search": false } }, "privatekey": "nsecXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" }

If you want to zap via Nostr Wallet Connect, please add nwc-pub and nwc-uri which are provided from https://nwc.getalby.com/apps/new?c=Algia

json { "relays": { ... }, "privatekey": "nsecXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "nwc-uri": "nostr+walletconnect://xxxxx", "nwc-pub": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" }

TODO

• [x] like
• [x] repost
• [x] zap
• [x] upload images

FAQ

Do you use proxy? then set environment variable HTTP_PROXY like below.

HTTP_PROXY=http://myproxy.example.com:8080

License

MIT

Author

Yasuhiro Matsumoto (a.k.a. mattn)

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Economics

Just a bunch of somewhat-related notes.

• notes on "Economic Action Beyond the Extent of the Market", Per Bylund
• Mises' interest rate theory
• Profits, not wages, as the originary factor
• Reisman on opportunity cost
• Money Supply Measurement
• Per Bylund's insight
• Maybe a new approach to the Austrian Business Cycle Theory, some disorganized thoughts
• An argument according to which fractional-reserve banking is merely theft and nothing else
• Conjecture and criticism
• Qual é o economista? (piadas)
• UBI calculations
• Donations on the internet

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tempreites

My first library to get stars on GitHub, was a very stupid templating library that used just HTML and HTML attributes ("DSL-free"). I was inspired by http://microjs.com/ at the time and ended up not using the library. Probably no one ever did.

• https://github.com/fiatjaf/tempreites

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source - testing crosspost to nostr from the ~Agora...

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Report of how the money Jack donated to the cause in December 2022 is being spent.

Bounties given

December 2023

• hzrd: 5,000,000 - Nostrudel
• awayuki: 5,000,000 - NOSTOPUS illustrations
• bera: 5,000,000 - getwired.app
• Chris: 5,000,000 - resolvr.io
• NoGood: 10,000,000 - nostrexplained.com stories

October 2023

• SnowCait: 5,000,000 - https://nostter.vercel.app/ and other tools
• Shaun: 10,000,000 - https://yakihonne.com/, events and work on Nostr awareness
• Derek Ross: 10,000,000 - spreading the word around the world
• fmar: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/frnandu/yana
• The Nostr Report: 2,500,000 - curating stuff
• james magoo: 2,500,000 - the Obsidian plugin: https://github.com/jamesmagoo/nostr-writer

August 2023

• Paul Miller: 5,000,000 - JS libraries and cryptography-related work
• BOUNTY tijl: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/github-tijlxyz/wikinostr
• gzuus: 5,000,000 - https://nostree.me/

July 2023

• syusui-s: 5,000,000 - rabbit, a tweetdeck-like Nostr client: https://syusui-s.github.io/rabbit/
• kojira: 5,000,000 - Nostr fanzine, Nostr discussion groups in Japan, hardware experiments
• darashi: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/darashi/nos.today, https://github.com/darashi/searchnos, https://github.com/darashi/murasaki
• jeff g: 5,000,000 - https://nostr.how and https://listr.lol, plus other contributions
• cloud fodder: 5,000,000 - https://nostr1.com (open-source)
• utxo.one: 5,000,000 - https://relaying.io (open-source)
• Max DeMarco: 10,269,507 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-jiiepOrE
• BOUNTY optout21: 1,000,000 - https://github.com/optout21/nip41-proto0 (proposed nip41 CLI)
• BOUNTY Leo: 1,000,000 - https://github.com/leo-lox/camelus (an old relay thing I forgot exactly)

June 2023

• BOUNTY: Sepher: 2,000,000 - a webapp for making lists of anything: https://pinstr.app/
• BOUNTY: Kieran: 10,000,000 - implement gossip algorithm on Snort, implement all the other nice things: manual relay selection, following hints etc.
• Mattn: 5,000,000 - a myriad of projects and contributions to Nostr projects: https://github.com/search?q=owner%3Amattn+nostr&type=code
• BOUNTY: lynn: 2,000,000 - a simple and clean git nostr CLI written in Go, compatible with William's original git-nostr-tools; and implement threaded comments on https://github.com/fiatjaf/nocomment.
• Jack Chakany: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/jacany/nblog
• BOUNTY: Dan: 2,000,000 - https://metadata.nostr.com/

April 2023

• BOUNTY: Blake Jakopovic: 590,000 - event deleter tool, NIP dependency organization
• BOUNTY: koalasat: 1,000,000 - display relays
• BOUNTY: Mike Dilger: 4,000,000 - display relays, follow event hints (Gossip)
• BOUNTY: kaiwolfram: 5,000,000 - display relays, follow event hints, choose relays to publish (Nozzle)
• Daniele Tonon: 3,000,000 - Gossip
• bu5hm4nn: 3,000,000 - Gossip
• BOUNTY: hodlbod: 4,000,000 - display relays, follow event hints

March 2023

• Doug Hoyte: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/hoytech/strfry
• Alex Gleason: 5,000,000 sats - https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/mostr
• verbiricha: 5,000,000 sats - https://badges.page/, https://habla.news/
• talvasconcelos: 5,000,000 sats - https://migrate.nostr.com, https://read.nostr.com, https://write.nostr.com/
• BOUNTY: Gossip model: 5,000,000 - https://camelus.app/
• BOUNTY: Gossip model: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/kaiwolfram/Nozzle
• BOUNTY: Bounty Manager: 5,000,000 - https://nostrbounties.com/

February 2023

• styppo: 5,000,000 sats - https://hamstr.to/
• sandwich: 5,000,000 sats - https://nostr.watch/
• BOUNTY: Relay-centric client designs: 5,000,000 sats https://bountsr.org/design/2023/01/26/relay-based-design.html
• BOUNTY: Gossip model on https://coracle.social/: 5,000,000 sats
• Nostrovia Podcast: 3,000,000 sats - https://nostrovia.org/
• BOUNTY: Nostr-Desk / Monstr: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/alemmens/monstr
• Mike Dilger: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip

January 2023

• ismyhc: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/Galaxoid-Labs/Seer
• Martti Malmi: 5,000,000 sats - https://iris.to/
• Carlos Autonomous: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/BrightonBTC/bija
• Koala Sat: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/KoalaSat/nostros
• Vitor Pamplona: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst
• Cameri: 5,000,000 - https://github.com/Cameri/nostream

December 2022

• William Casarin: 7 BTC - splitting the fund
• pseudozach: 5,000,000 sats - https://nostr.directory/
• Sondre Bjellas: 5,000,000 sats - https://notes.blockcore.net/
• Null Dev: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/KotlinGeekDev/Nosky
• Blake Jakopovic: 5,000,000 sats - https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostcat, https://github.com/blakejakopovic/nostreq and https://github.com/blakejakopovic/NostrEventPlayground

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ต่อจาก 2 ตอนก่อนหน้านี้ครับ จดบันทึกสิ่งที่เรียนรู้จาก Principles of Economics ตอนที่ 1 จดบันทึกสิ่งที่เรียนรู้จาก Principles of Economics ตอนที่ 2

Chapter 6 - Capital

Capital ทรัพย์สินประเภททุน ต่างจากสินค้าอุปโภคบริโภค มันคือสินค้าที่ใช้ในการผลิตสินค้าอุปโภคบริโภคอื่นๆ อีกที เช่นเครื่องจักร อาคาร หรือรถยนต์ที่เป็นได้ทั้งสองอย่าง ขับเที่ยวก็ได้ขับหาเงินก็ได้

Capital ช่วยทำให้สังคมก้าวหน้าขึ้นในการผลิตสินค้าจำเป็นเช่น เราสามารถผลิตเสื้อผ้าไว้ล่วงหน้า หรือในการสร้างความสามารถของบริการต่างๆ ที่ใช้เวลาในการสร้างความเชี่ยวชาญเช่น แพทย์ นักกฏหมาย

การสร้างหรือสะสม Capital good นั้นต้องใช้เวลาและความอดทน โดยเริ่มต้นจากการต้องประหยัดการบริโภคอื่นๆ เพื่อใช้มันสร้างประสิทธิภาพในการผลิตในระยะยาว เช่นเบ็ดตกปลา หรือเรือหาปลา การที่คนจะสร้างเครื่องมือเหล่านี้ได้ต้องยอมเสียสละเวลา หาปลาด้วยมือเปล่าน้อยลง หรือเสียสละเวลาพักผ่อน เอาเวลามาใช้สะสมวัตถุดิบและสร้างอุปกรณ์ เบ็ดตกปลาหรือเรือ เพื่อจะหาปลาได้มากขึ้นกว่าการใช้มือเปล่าในระยะยาว

ในปัจจุบันเงินทุนมักมาจากการอดออมของ investor ทำให้บางทีเรามองข้ามความจำเป็นของความอดออมไป

ทรัพย์สินทุน ช่วยเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในการผลิตอย่างต่อเนื่อง นำไปสู่การพัฒนาเทคโนโลยีและนวัตกรรมใหม่ๆ ด้วยเวลาที่ผ่านไป ชีวิตและการดำรงอยู่ของผู้คนก็ดีขึ้น

Capital good ทรัพย์สินทุนอาจไม่คงทนตลอดไป อาจเสียหายจากภัยพิบัติหรือการใช้งาน ต้องการการบำรุงรักษา หรือในอนาคตอาจมีทรัพย์สินใหม่ที่ดีกว่าทำให้ของเก่าหมดค่า หมดประโยชน์ไปได้

แม้การสะสม Capital good และเอามาใช้งานในการผลิต อาจจะยาก แพง มีความเสี่ยงที่จะล้มเหลว ทำแล้วสู้คนอื่นไม่ได้ หรือช้าเกินไป แต่การไม่มีการสะสมทุนไม่มาลงทุนทำอะไรให้พัฒนาขึ้นเลย อาจจะทำให้สภาพชีวิตแย่ยิ่งกว่า

เศรษฐกิจแบบเคนเซียนและมาร์กซิสที่ไม่เข้าใจในความสำคัญของการอดออมเพื่อสร้างทรัพย์สินทุน และไปให้ความสำคัญกับการขยายเครดิต ผลิตเงินเพิ่มมาเป็น Capital ซึ่งจะส่งผลเสียตามมาอย่างมากมาย เคนเซียนไม่ต้องการให้คนเก็บเงิน แต่ต้องการให้คนใช้จ่าย ไม่สนใจ time prefrence เพราะ ”เดี๋ยวเราก็ตายกันหมดอยู่แล้ว” และให้รัฐวัดผลงานทางเศรษฐกิจในรูปของการใช้จ่าย เปิดช่องให้รัฐเป็นผู้ให้ Capital แทนการอดออมของผู้คน ส่วนมาร์กซิสไม่อนุญาตให้คนเก็บออมได้

ทรัพย์สินทุนไม่สามารถสร้างได้ทันที ทำให้ต้องอาศัยความเข้าใจใน time preference เห็นคุณค่าของการลงทุนเพื่ออนาคต เมื่อประสิทธิภาพการทำงานดีขึ้น เราใช้เวลาทำงานน้อยลง และมีเวลาสำหรับ Leisure มากขึ้น

Chapter 7 - Technology

อีกรูปแบบนึงของทุนคือ เทคโนโลยี ไอเดีย สูตร หรือสิ่งที่ไม่สามารถจับต้องได้ ซึ่งสิ่งเหล่านี้สามารถมีอยู่ได้ไม่จำกัด (ยกเว้นถูกจำกัดด้วยสิทธิบัตร ลิขสิทธิ์) แต่ช่วยเพิ่มประสิทธิภาพในการผลิตได้

หลายคนมักจะคิดว่าเทคโนโลยีจะทำให้คนตกงาน แต่ในความเป็นจริงที่เกิดขึ้นคนจะสามารถย้ายไปสู่งานใหม่ได้เสมอ และมันยังทำให้ประสิทธิภาพและสภาพการทำงานดีขึ้นด้วย ความต้องการในแรงงานไม่เคยหายไป แต่เปลี่ยนแปลงไป เปลี่ยนงานที่ทำ ในอดีตเราอาจใช้แรงงานทาส แต่เมื่อถึงจุดนึงที่เทคโนโลยี และการใช้พลังงานที่ดีขึ้นเข้ามาแทน การมีแรงงานทาสก็ลดความสำคัญลง สุดท้ายก็ทาสหายไป

เทคโนโลยีสามารถถูกแชร์ และทำซ้ำได้ โดยไม่ทำให้คุณค่าของมันหายไป ยิ่งทำให้ทุกอย่างพัฒนาอย่างรวดเร็ว เมื่อคนหลายคนช่วยกันคิดค้นไอเดียและสร้างเทคโนโลยี

เทคโนโลยีในอดีตส่วนใหญ่พัฒนาขึ้นเพราะบุคคลต้องการเอาชนะตลาดด้วยสินค้าที่ดีกว่า จึงทำให้มีแรงขับเคลื่อนทางเศรษฐกิจในการคิดเทคโนโลยีมากกว่าทางสายวิชาการ

Software เป็นตัวอย่างของเทคโนโลยีที่พัฒนาจากความต้องการควบคุมเครื่องจักร ซึ่งภายหลังกลายมาเป็นการวิวัฒนาการที่ก้าวกระโดดของทุกอุตสาหกรรมและเศรษฐกิจเอง

ไอเดียและเทคโนโลยีไม่ควรนับเป็นสินทรัพย์ เนื่องจากมันไม่ได้มีจำกัด แต่คนสามารถทำให้มันจำกัดได้ โดยการเก็บเป็นความลับ ไม่ให้ผู้อื่นเลียนแบบได้ หรือใช้รัฐปกป้องมันโดยกฏหมายทรัพย์สินทางปัญญา ซึ่งส่งเสริมการนำไปสู่การผูกขาด และบริษัทก็จะไปโฟกัสกับการสร้างสิทธิบัตรมากกว่าการทำสินค้าที่มีคุณค่าจริงออกมาสู่ตลาด

Chapter 8 - Energy and Power

พลังงานควรจะเป็นหัวข้อสำคัญเวลาพูดถึงเศรษฐศาสตร์ เนื่องจากการใช้พลังงานมีความสำคัญต่อแรงงาน และการสะสมทุน มนุษย์ได้รับพลังงานจากอาหารและแสงอาทิตย์ ซึ่งทำให้มนุษย์มีพลังในการคิดและพลังทางกายภาพ เครื่องจักรก็ใช้พลังงานเช่นกันแต่ในรูปแบบต่างไป

การใช้พลังงานผ่านเครื่องจักร เครื่องมือต่างๆ ทำให้มนุษย์มีชีวิตรอดและมีประสิทธิภาพที่ดีขึ้น ตัวอย่างเช่น การใช้พลังงานในการขนส่งระยะทางไกล ถ้าใช้แรงงานมนุษย์จะใช้พลังงานได้ไม่มีประสิทธิภาพเท่าม้า และรถที่อาจจะมีประสิทธิภาพมากกว่ามนุษย์หลายพันเท่า ซึ่งช่วยลดเวลาการทำงานของมนุษย์และส่งผลถึงการพัฒนาเศรษฐกิจ

การใช้พลังงานของมนุษย์ได้พัฒนาต่อเนื่องตั้งแต่สมัยโบราณ แสงอาทิตย์ แม่น้ำ ในการปลูกพืชสร้างอาหาร ใช้แรงงานสัตว์ กังหันลม/น้ำ ไม้ฟืน น้ำมัน ก๊าซธรรมชาติ จนถึงพลังงานนิวเคลียร์ ทุกยุคสมัยเราเปลี่ยนไปใช้พลังงานที่มีประสิทธิภาพดีขึ้นเรื่อยๆ

พลังงานในโลกนี้มีอยู่อย่างไม่จำกัด ด้วยเทคโนโลยีที่ดีขึ้นทำให้เรามีประสิทธิภาพในการค้นหาพลังงานได้มากขึ้น ถ้าดูข้อมูลย้อนหลังจะเห็นได้ว่าปริมาณสำรองน้ำมันมีแต่จะเพิ่มขึ้น เพราะเราค้นหาได้มากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ ตามความสามารถที่ดีขึ้น

ด้วยความที่มันมีไม่จำกัด พลังงานจึงไม่ควรนับเป็นสินค้าทางเศรษฐกิจ แต่เนื่องจากมันต้องมีคนลงแรงค้นหามัน ผลิต ขนส่ง หรือแปรรูป เพื่อให้มันใช้ได้สะดวก ทำให้พลังงานกลายเป็นของมีคุณค่าทางเศรษฐกิจ ความขาดแคลนพลังงานจะเกิดจากค่าเสียโอกาสในการทำสิ่งอื่นที่มีผลตอบแทนสูงกว่า

ในสังคมทันสมัยแบบปัจจุบัน เราพึ่งพาพลังงานจาก hydrocarbon เป็นอย่างมาก ทั้งเครื่องจักร ขนส่ง และการผลิตไฟฟ้าที่ช่วยให้การผลิตมีประสิทธิภาพ ปริมาณการบริโภคพลังงานมีความสัมพันธ์กับคุณภาพชีวิตและความเจริญรุ่งเรืองของสังคม ตัวอย่างเช่นเรือเครื่องจักรไอน้ำ พัฒนาไปใช้ถ่านหินหรือ hydrocarbon ชนิดอื่น

ข้อดีของ hydrocarbon คือมันพร้อมใช้ และให้พลังงานสูงเมื่อเทียบกับปริมาตร ซึ่งเป็นข้อจำกัดของพลังงานที่จะมาทดแทนอย่างลม หรือ solar cell เพราะเราควบคุมธรรมชาติไม่ได้ ทำให้ต้นทุนของพลังงานทดแทนเหล่านี้มีราคาสูง ยิ่งรัฐผลักดันก็จะยิ่งทำให้เกิดปัญหาเงินเฟ้อจากค่าใช้จ่ายพลังงาน

ในยุคที่มนุษย์ไม่มีพลังงาน ไม่มีเทคโนโลยี ผลผลิตของมนุษย์แต่ละคนต่ำมาก ทำให้แรงงานมนุษย์แม้เพียงไม่กี่คนก็มีคุณค่า นำไปสู่การบังคับและการเป็นทาส เมื่อมีเทคโนโลยีและการใช้พลังงานแทนแรงงานคน ทำให้ได้ประสิทธภาพมากกว่า การเป็นทาสก็หมดความสำคัญ

คนจะมีอิสระในการเต็มใจทำงานแลกค่าตอบแทนมากกว่าถูกบังคับแบบทาส ยกเว้นก็แต่ในบางสังคมที่ยังใช้พลังงานน้อยอยู่ รวมถึงความเท่าเทียมทางเพศของผู้หญิงก็เช่นกัน เมื่อเครื่องจักรทำในส่วนที่ต้องออกแรงไปแล้ว ผู้หญิงก็มีความสามารถที่จะมาแข่งขันกับผู้ชายในงานด้านความคิดได้

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Copilot Pro の個人版が登場しました!

現地時間の月曜日 (1 月 15 日)、Microsoft は Copilot Pro を正式にリリースしました。これは、企業と同じように、個人ユーザーも AI 主導の Office 機能の使用を開始できることを意味します。Office ソフトウェアの AI 機能を使用し、最新の OpenAI モデルへのアクセスを優先します。 、さらには独自の Copilot GPT を構築することもできます。

具体的には、Copilot Pro は次のサービスをサポートしています。

OfficeのAI機能

生産性を向上させること以上に重要なことはありません。

Copilot を使用して Office の AI 機能を実装すると、チャットボット モードと同様に、言語コマンドを入力して Copilot を呼び出すことで、次のことが可能になります。PPT の完全なセットの生成、Word テキストの段落の生成、単語セクションの再統合、Excel データの分析と生成グラフ、メールへの自動返信など。

おそらく、以前のエンタープライズ バージョンで実行できたことは、Copilot Pro でも実行できます。

また、Copilot Pro は、PC、Mac、iPad など、ほぼすべてのデバイスで動作します。

ただし、Copilot ProはMicrosoftのGraph技術をサポートしていないため、Copilotを呼び出して「Wordの内容を基にPPTを生成する」ようなデータ連携操作を行うことはできません。

OpenAI の最新モデルにアクセスして Copilot GPT を構築する

Copilot Pro ユーザーは、OpenAI の最新モデル (GPT-4 Turbo) に優先的にアクセスでき、ピーク時間帯に高速なパフォーマンスを得ることができ、モデル間を素早く切り替えることができます。

壮大な Copilot Enterprise アップデートの後、ChatGPT の最も便利な高度なデータ分析機能も同期される予定です。

さらに、ユーザーは独自の Copilot GPT を構築し、Microsoft が起動する Copilot GPT Builder ツールで Copilot ソフトウェアをパーソナライズすることもできます。

デザイナーAIスケッチ

Copilot Pro サブスクリプション プランには、Designer の AI を使用して画像を生成する機能も含まれています。

現在、Copilot Pro サブスクリプションの料金は 1 人あたり月額 20 ドルで、11 月初めに開始された Enterprise サブスクリプションの料金は 1 人あたり月額 30 ドルです。

ただし、以前に Microsoft 365 Personal または Home に加入していないと、Office ソフトウェアの AI 機能を体験することはできません。 、実際の月額サブスクリプション料金は少なくとも 53 ドルです。

現在、テクノロジーメディア The Verge によると、Copilot Pro サービスは、OpenAI が開始した ChatGPT サブスクリプションと同様、主に上級 Copilot ユーザーを対象としているとのことです。Microsoft の検索および人工知能のグローバル マーケティング責任者である Divya Kumar 氏は次のように述べています。

「これらの上級ユーザーは多くのニーズを持っています。最新モデルへの迅速なアクセス、より高速なパフォーマンス、創造性ツールを望んでいます。」

個人ユーザーに加えて、Microsoft は Copilot の使いやすさをより多くのビジネス ユーザーにも拡張しようとしています。Microsoft は Office 365 E3 および E5 サブスクリプション プランでいくつかのソフトウェア機能を公開しましたが、以前はこれらを使用するには Microsoft 365 にサブスクライブする必要がありました。特徴。

さらに、Microsoft は無料の Copilot サービスの機能を拡張しています。

報道によると、Microsoft は今後、過去 1 年間にわたる Copilot の継続的なアップデートと同様に、さらに多くの新しい Copilot Pro 機能もリリースする予定です。

「AI はすでに Copilot に加えて多くの機能を提供しています...私たちはさらなる品質の価値を提供し続けたいと考えており、実際、すぐに前進する予定です。」

この記事がお役に立てば幸いです。 もしそうなら、チップをおくるどうぞ https://getalby.com/p/bitcap

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nix

Pra instalar o neuron fui forçado a baixar e instalar o nix. Não consegui me lembrar por que não estava usando até hoje aquele maravilhoso sistema de instalar pacotes desde a primeira vez que tentei, anos atrás.

Que sofrimento pra fazer funcionar com o fish, mas até que bem menos sofrimento que da outra vez. Tive que instalar um tal de fish-foreign-environment (usando o próprio nix!, já que a outra opção era o oh-my-fish ou qualquer outra porcaria dessas) e aí usá-lo para aplicar as definições de shell para bash direto no fish.

E aí lembrei também que o /nix/store fica cheio demais, o negócio instala tudo que existe neste mundo a partir do zero. É só para computadores muito ricos, mas vamos ver como vai ser. Estou gostando do neuron (veja, estou usando como diário), então vou ter que deixar o nix aí.

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Riot was forced to reduce its activities and save a total of 11,717 megawatt-hours as a result of the increase in temperature brought on by mother nature. As a result of the decreased energy usage, the firm received energy credits for the amount of power that it did not use, and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas recognized the company for its efforts (ERCOT).

"As energy demand in ERCOT hit all-time highs this past month, the firm voluntarily restricted its energy use to guarantee that more power would be accessible in Texas," stated Riot Blockchain CEO Jason Les.

The firm made a profit of around $9.5 million, which is equivalent to approximately 439 BTC thanks to the sale of energy credits. This compensated Riot for the revenue it had lost at that period of time due to the suspension of operations.

Riot was able to make this happen because they planned ahead and purchased power from the grid in advance based on their anticipated usage for the month of July. However, they ended up not using the electricity they purchased and instead gained credits for selling it back.

Electric Reliability Council of Texas It is reasonable to assume that in the future, buildings that are more energy-efficient and that contain their own renewable capabilities might go much farther.

For example, there are organizations that are now constructing large banks of solar power arrays and batteries in order to balance off the energy that they use. The construction of the mining facility that Blockstream and Jack Dorsey's Block are planning might make this a possibility. Due to the fact that it is powered by Tesla's 3.8 megawatt solar PV arrays and 12 megawatt-hour Megapacks, it has the potential to actually feed excess energy back into the grid during times of high demand.

The offer for this facility is that it would become an emission-free operation, but the possibility that it may also provide extra support for the ERCOT system with more energy might be a bonus under severe situations such as those that have occurred lately.

Blockstream and Jack Dorsey's Block Riot was not the only firm that halted operations during the heatwave in order to relieve the stress on the struggling electricity system in the state of Texas, which witnessed a significantly increased demand during the record heat wave.

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Today marks the biggest release so far in Coracle's history. There have been many good days, like when I introduced Coracle to the nostr telegram group, or when I got my fellowship with FUTO, or when I got my grant from OpenSats, or when I got to speak at Nostrasia. But in terms of realizing the vision I've had for the software - for over two years - today is the day.

Coracle now has private groups.

This means you can now send almost any nostr event over an encrypted channel to the rest of the group's members. This is substantially different from group chats, in that it uses rotating shared keys to provide weak forward secrecy, better scaling, and dynamic member access. This more closely approximates one of the most popular social media products in existence - The Nostr is now a direct competitor of The Facebook.

I built this for my community. I wanted something "good enough" to entice people to leave the advertising-fueled surveillance honeypot that is Facebook. In order to work, it needed to at least support notes, events, and marketplace listings. Although support is still quite basic, Coracle has checked all three of these boxes.

Before I get into the details though, it's important to mention that these groups should not be considered "private" any more than Facebook groups or Mastodon servers are (although privacy is substantially better). A better analog might be WeChat, which uses encryption with the same set of trade-offs. So don't post anything to private groups that might get you in trouble!

With that said, it's possible to run a highly private group. The backbone of this spec is e2e encryption, but relay selection can play an important part in hiding metadata from the rest of the network. If you have a relay you trust to protect notes and not share metadata, your security is significantly increased.

Prior art

Nostr-compatible group products aren't a totally novel thing, as it turns out. In fact draft NIP 112 has been around since June, and is already implemented in ArcadeCity. So why am I creating a new standard? I'l get into the positive benefits of my approach more below, but the quick answers are:

• The new encryption standard is going to break compatibility anyway. If we can end up with a better spec, now is the time.
• ArcadeCity development seems to have stalled.
• NIP-72 communities already have a ton of traction, and match what I'm trying to achieve with encrypted channels.

Of course I'm highly indebted to the project, the design of which is still visible in my final design.

Another product that exists to do something similar in a nostr-compatible way is Soapbox by Alex Gleason. This is a great project, particularly since his Mostr project bridges the ActivityPub world and Nostr. ActivityPub works well for highly centralized communities, but the architecture suffers from this centralization too. In particular, not even DMs are e2e encrypted, and just like regular notes are protected only by authentication enforced by servers.

Finally, there's NIP 29, which is fiatjaf's competing groups project. This has some interesting properties, for example the ability to "fork" a group by linking events together. However, similar to ActivityPub it relies exclusively on relays to protect user privacy, and in a fairly non-standard way. You do get to take advantage of nostr's multi-master architecture though, and signatures are also stripped from events in order to discourage propagation through the network.

None of these solutions quite satisfied me, so I built my own.

How it works

One of the coolest things about a NIP 72 community-based group spec is that is supports a spectrum of privacy requirements. A group admin might choose to publish group metadata privately so that it's only visible to the group, publicly so that other people can find the group and ask to join, or leave off a private component entirely.

Likewise, since private groups are backwards-compatible with public communities, it's easy to add a private component to existing groups. This can be useful especially for groups run by a business or content publisher, since public exposure is a good thing but certain group members might have more or less access. This could be used to support a patreon-type model, automating group membership based on subscription tier, for example.

An important aspect of the design that makes automation possible is the concept of a dedicated administration key. By decoupling this key from the original creator of the group, ownership can be shared as simply as sharing the key. This allows multiple admins to manage the group simultaneously either manually or using automations built into the group relays or special purpose bot-clients.

This of course raises the issue of admin access revocation, which isn't possible - that is, until we have a solution for key rotation for normal accounts. Once that's in place, the same process can be used to rotate group admin keys.

In the meantime, it's also trivial to reduce the exposure an admin key gets. You wouldn't generally want to simply paste the key wherever it's needed, but luckily that problem has already been solved as well. Instead of giving every admin or admin bot the key, it's trivial to set up an nsecbunker that authorizes each admin client - and can revoke access as needed.

This level of administration is of course fairly complex, but I think it's important to think through the requirements businesses and other advanced users will eventually impose and anticipate them as we're able, not through over-engineering, but through simple concepts that can be reused.

One other neat feature of this NIP is the definition of invite codes, which are essential for running a private group at any kind of scale. When requesting access to a group, a user can send along a "claim", which can be anything - for example a static invite code, a payment receipt, or an explanation of why they want to join. This claim can be validated by hand by a human, or processed by a bot to instantly admit the new member to the group.

When a new member is admitted to the group, the admin can either share an existing access key with them, or they can rotate the key for the entire group. If relays expire access keys after a certain amount of time, this can create a weak form of forward secrecy, where attackers won't be able to access old content, even if they gain access to the admin key.

Limitations and Future Work

The bar for new nostr clients has risen significantly since I first put Coracle out there. The new groups component is far more mature than Coracle was for much of its early life, but it has its rough edges. Many of these just need to be smoothed out through further UX work, but some are more technical in nature.

• The groups spec relies on NIP 44, which isn't yet available in most signer extensions. That means that unless you log in with your private key (please don't), you won't be able to create or gain access to any private groups.
• Hybrid groups (public groups with a private area) aren't really tested yet, or fully supported in Coracle's UI. It's an open question whether this is even a good idea, since it becomes pretty hard for users to know if they're posting publicly or privately in every context.
• Moderation is not implemented, so if you're creating a public group there is currently no way in Coracle to approve posts. Also, groups created in Coracle don't show up in Satellite for some reason — this is something I'll be working on improving.
• Whether this approach actually scales is another question. It's very hard to build member lists of hundreds of thousands of people, and without a relay helping to filter events, it might become prohibitively expensive to download and analyze all the events posted to a group. We'll see what develops as the design matures and the implementation undergoes stress testing.

Conclusion

Something I like about both nostr and bitcoin is that it empowers the users of the software. The corollary of this of course is that it's important to exercise this power with care - real damage can be done with this group spec, just as real damage can be done to bitcoin holders through low entropy key generation or poor key handling practices. So please, if you're going to implement this spec, communicate clearly with your users its limitations, and encourage them to run their own relays.

Nevertheless, I am stoked to be another 1% closer to my goal of helping my community - and anyone else who uses nostr - to exercise individual sovereignty and protect their freedom and privacy. Let's keep at it.

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Today, I'm going to talk about how Nostr wins. I asked a bunch of people how Nostr wins because I wanted to see what people answered. I got a bunch of different answers, but from a few people, I got, "Do we even want to win?" which is okay. I said okay; I'm going to just address that part. Yes, we do want to win. The argument that people gave me for why we don't have to win is that they want to keep the signal of it's a few people in Nostr, so it's pure signal. If you want that, you can just create a relay white list, add the current pubkeys, and never see another person. That is not Nostr. To this date, ever again. Perfect, that's optionality; that's what Nostr is about. You have the option of interacting with Nostr in whatever way you want.

Defining Winning

Let's define a little bit more precisely what winning means. It just means adoption; it's not fancy. It just means more people using it, more relays existing, more economic activity, more businesses, more, just more. Nostr has a very cool design that it's very much you choose what you see. The way it works is you go and fetch data even at the protocol level. It is very much a protocol where you decide the nodes that you're getting. When you see airdrop spam, you went and asked for that spam; no one sent you the spam; you went and got it. So, it's pretty cool because you can create your own experience on how you feel Nostr.

How Do We Not Win

The first is how do we not win. Let's get that part cleared out because I think it helps us think.

The first one is very hard to out-Twitter Twitter. I don't think you can win by just being Twitter. They've been around for longer; they are much better funded; they used to have name recognition.

We have a bit of a mantra, a bit of a cliche that for a product to disrupt another product, it needs to be at least 10x better; it's a very well-known cliche; it's a very valid cliche.

In my opinion, we don't win (this might be a bit controversial) by censorship resistance. People don't care for the most part. Most people will see censorship resistance as a problem to be fixed. We don't win by focusing on censorship resistance; it's just not appealing. It's not appealing except for a very small cohort of people.

It is not something that conveys or pushes people to act, and wishful thinking; there's a lot of wishful thinking in Nostr. There's a lot of wishful thinking in Bitcoin. Bitcoin has already won; it is inevitable. It's pre-ordained by the gods. It leads to complacency. That's not the way we should go about thinking about how to improve things, how to improve the world because if the efficient market hypothesis is correct, then we don't have to do anything. Everything has been done, and we're good, right? That's not how we win. We win by acting, by doing things, and we don't win if we centralize. It's funny because I have in the same slide; I have censorship resistance and centralizing is the other side of censorship resistance. If we are not censorship resistance, we centralize and the other way around. Even though it's not a good pitch, it's not something that will make people move into learning about relays and all these things and private keys and all these things, it is absolutely fundamental. When I say centralizing, I mean both relays and clients; either of those could centralize or both could centralize. If we end up with a model that requires just connecting to one or two hubs, that means that we are under risk of first failing, which is the most likely case, we first failing because the network can't scale, and when there is an influx of new users, everything crushes. We've seen that a couple of times when I think was when Snowden came or when Jack came, it was one time that the basically relays were just non-functional, like the big relays or if a client owns a very large chunk of the market share, which is one of the things that has been worrying me about Nostr for quite a while. If a client becomes very popular that gains a bunch of market share, it could be very easily used to command the design of the protocol, and it could very easily capture it. That's why I've been trying to talk a lot about the micro apps and the micro apps ecosystem because if culture has a lot of power to shape things, there's a saying that culture is a strategy for breakfast, and it's very true, and establishing a culture of using micro apps and being used to create using different apps is very important because it preempts the move of a large capitalized client from capturing a lot of market share.

Not to be naive because this is still very possible; we are nowhere near being like safe on this part. To me, this is a very important one. Tomorrow we're going to have a panel about this, but the lack of an outbox model, and I use the term outbox model very loosely. It simply means having some kind of decision tree or algorithm on how you decide to which relays you're going to write and from which relays you're going to read. It's a bit technical, but it basically means how easy is for a person to run their own relay, and even though they are banned and censored from all the main hubs, they can still have a voice where the users that want to interact with that person don't even realize that person is being banned. That's the ultimate test; if a server goes down, if a relay goes down, and the users realize that it went down, then that means that the network is not decentralized enough.

Making Blaster Irrelevant Again

Basically, if there is an economic incentive to use Blaster, which is simply a relay that when you publish to it, it just sends it to 300 other relays. As long as there is an incentive to use that, then we know that we are still not there yet. There's still a lot of work to be done.

How Does Nostr Win

We went through a bunch of reasons why it would not win. Okay, if you're here, I'm going to guess what's the answer that I'm going to give. Oh, first, when I say that it's the other stuff, that doesn't mean that microblogging, the Twitter use case is not important; it's absolutely fundamental. Having a myriad of different clients, solid, well-done executed clients is a necessity; it's just not sufficient. It's necessary but not sufficient. Well, network effects are incredibly powerful; they are almost everything. There is a reason why it's very rare to see that an incumbent like a social network is replaced by something else. They can make horrible, terrible decisions. Facebook has abused their users to no end. Snowden revealed how much this was going on, and this has happened so many times yet people still flock to it. Network effects make the product incredibly sticky. When all your friends are on a network, clearing this 10x better bar, the cliche that I was referring to earlier, clearing that is very, very, very hard. And Nostr has not cleared that bar; I mean it's nowhere near close to clearing the bar where it's 10x better at anything than something else. But there are many, many good chances, there are many good reasons why Nostr has a really good chance of clearing this, and only one of them is enough.

And to me, that reason is interoperability, just the transparent like a magic interoperability of Nostr because when you have this basically for free interoperability, it unleashes something that is even more powerful than network effects; it's one of the very few things in reality that is more powerful than network effects. It's Network effects time, Network effects time, Network effects time, Network effects time. We can summarize it to raise to the power of Network effects, raise to the power of use cases. Why? Each use case that is implemented in Nostr gains a bunch of really cool properties, and it multiplies; it makes all the other products that are completely independent of the use case of this one application of this one use case, it makes them a little bit better. It's like saying eBay Network effects times Netflix Network effects times Twitter Network effects, etc. This is very powerful; we are so much at the very early stages of this compounding of network effects that it is really hard to see.

Something interesting that happened when I was going to Miami that I noticed. I created Subster, which is like a music app, and Nostr integrated support for Subster. So, users that were uploading music to Subster had their music maybe sapped or listened to, at least from Nostr users, and then Amethyst implemented Subster support, and now Coracle implemented support for web, or Subster. This is super crazy, this leaking of the different use cases that improve the product throughout the spectrum of the Nostr ecosystem. It's really wild when you think about it. It means that Facebook, which has an enormous advantage over Nostr, obviously, Facebook has to compete with the rest of the world when it comes to building stuff on Nostr, and then Twitter has to compete with the rest of the world that comes on Nostr. Like each independent, completely vertical corporation as big as they are, they must compete with the rest of the world. Right now, the rest of the world is almost nothing, but my thinking is that it's going to gain more and more momentum. But we need to do a couple of things.

The Role of Entrepreneurs

The first one that I think we need to do is we need to change the way we think and define Nostr. So far, usually, we are defining Nostr by what it's not; we say it's censorship resistant, there are no manipulative algorithms hidden, there are no Masters, so it's great, and it's real, but it's hard to relate. It's like finding, "Oh, my wife is great; she almost never manipulates me." You would talk about her beautiful attributes that she's very smart, that she's very supportive, or whatever attribute she has; you wouldn't say, "Oh, she doesn't do this really ugly thing to me," but this is the way we tend to define and explain, and even reason around Nostr, and it just puts the energy in the wrong place. There are so many positive things to say about Nostr that focusing on what it is, and it's like missing the possibilities. And when I think about how do we explore these possibilities, I think that what we need to explore these possibilities is entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs. We have a very healthy ecosystem of developers currently, and it's fantastic, and we need more. I think the groundwork that we've done in the past few months to bring more developers to be able to create applications, and create robust applications, and create applications that kind of work, which is pretty surprising. It's really good, and we've done great; the developers are coming. I see my DMs a lot, and that's fantastic; we need the tinkerers because we are still largely on unexplored territory, but we have very few entrepreneurs; we have very few businesses thinking long term. One of the things that a business has, regardless of scale, that a developer doesn't have is usually focus. I mean, a million things, but usually for these talks, it's focus on a vision for a product. Developers tend to get very excited about technology, and we want to play with this, play with that, and we end up with a bunch of abandoned wear or stuff that is buggy or stuff simply does not have a robust road map of where we are going. We definitely need to bring more entrepreneurs into the fold to help us find a bunch of things that still need to be discovered, and I think businesses are going to help us unlock these things.

Building Non-Extracting Businesses

There's a very interesting chance of creating very compelling, very powerful businesses that are non-extracting. If we think about how big Tech has evolved over the past 20, 25 years, they didn't really create that much value. Facebook has an enormous valuation, but they didn't really create it; they were just lucky; they were definitely in the right place at the right time to be able to capture the value that is intrinsically created by network effects. They just happen to be able to capture it, and they obviously execute it magnificently well, and that part of that execution is what we need in Nostr, but the value created by network effects, what's going to happen; it's just capturable or is it not capturable. I think there are many reasons to build a business on Nostr. It sounds kind of weird because businesses on Nostr, I mean there are no profitable businesses on Nostr, but that's simply that the Nostr economy is way too small; it's impossible to create a sustainable business at this stage, and I don't think businesses should be thinking about monetizing; I know some people are thinking about monetizing now; I think that's insanely early, and it's going to lead you to poor decisions; it's going to lead you to wrong conclusions; like stuff that would have worked but it didn't work yet just because the economy is so small, but why would you build a business on Nostr? Why not just build a typical SaaS or just try to deplatform Google or go Blue Sky style? There is a philosophical answer to this is and it's that Nostr aligns with nature much better, which means that by aligning that your energy and your business, you benefit from having to exert less force; it's more sound; it's more thermodynamically sound. It's like deciding whether to swim against the current or with the current. A few months ago, I emphasized that all companies with a social component will eventually become either Nostr clients or cease to exist. The compounding force of network effects is unstoppable; any business lacking this adaptation will succumb. Almost every internet activity involves a social layer, and Nostr operates as a social framework. Anything with a social aspect benefits from being integrated with Nostr. If a business doesn't embrace Nostr and it emerges victorious, nature will crush any use case not built on Nostr.

Despite these potential strengths, numerous questions remain unanswered. Censorship resistance, economic sustainability of relays, and other vital aspects have yet to be thoroughly tested. Theoretical discussions are abundant, but real-world economic activity and entrepreneurs leveraging Nostr are essential for finding practical solutions. Convincing entrepreneurs of Nostr's potential is a challenging task due to its small economy. Yet, if one looks closely, powerful building blocks are emerging, as evidenced by the growing number of developers joining the ecosystem. This trend, while promising, demands resilience and determination from those involved.

Questions and Answers

With that, I would like to express my gratitude. If you have any questions, we have three minutes.

Audience Question: Is there a concept of a Nostr United Nations?

Answer: The idea of a Nostr United Nations makes me uneasy. Can you elaborate on what you mean by that?

Audience Question: We have various builders working towards the same goal of expanding the Nostr ecosystem. Would it be beneficial to have more intercommunication and collaboration between them? Is anyone trying to organize such efforts?

Answer: Currently, there is no coordinated effort like that in place. In fact, if such an initiative were to arise, I would consider working on Blue Sky or even forking Nostr. The truth is often discovered through competition and conflict, much like how nature operates. Consensus and roundtable discussions tend to lead to poor decisions. Client competition is a healthy aspect of our ecosystem.

Audience Question: In the past, platforms like Myspace were more appealing to creators than Facebook. Why do you think Facebook ultimately prevailed over Myspace?

Answer: Facebook succeeded by initially targeting a specific niche and conquering it. They didn't attempt to be a global social network from the start. They solved one particular use case, expanded to nearby universities, and grew from there. Myspace's downfall included a major code base rewrite, a common startup killer. Such decisions can make it incredibly challenging for startups to survive.

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หลายครั้งหลายหนเรามักจะได้ยินนโยบายภาครัฐกล่าวถึง “สวัสดิการขั้นพื้นฐาน” โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งสาธารณสุข ถือเป็นสิทธิ์เชิงบวก (positive rights) เพื่อสมควรมอบให้กับคนทุกคนเพื่อเข้าถึงปัจจัยสี่และแก้ไขปัญหาที่คนไม่ได้รับโอกาสเท่าเทียมกับคนอื่นได้สามารถใช้บริการการรักษาจากรัฐได้ ทว่าข้อเสนอเกี่ยวกับสวัสดิการมีทัศนะที่ตรงกันข้ามกับมุมมองของสำนักเศรษฐศาสตร์ออสเตรียน (Austrian School of Economics) ที่ว่าคุณภาพชีวิตที่ดีและความเป็นอยู่ที่ดีของประชากรโดยรวมไม่ได้มาจากรัฐแต่มาจากทุนนิยมที่มีสัดส่วนทางเศรษฐกิจมากกว่ารัฐ และเมื่อกล่าวถึงสาธารณสุขที่จัดการโดยรัฐก็มองว่ามันไม่มีประสิทธิภาพในตัวเอง เพราะรัฐเป็นองค์กรที่ไม่ได้บริหารจัดการแบบธุรกิจจึงไม่สามารถคิดตามแบบกำไรหรือสูญเสียเพื่อจัดสรรทรัพยากรได้อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพได้

คำถามปลายเปิดถัดมาก็คือ “สวัสดิการรักษาพยาบาลถือเป็นสิทธิขั้นพื้นฐานหรือไม่?” ตามหลักการเศรษฐศาสตร์ไม่ได้มองว่ามันเป็นสิทธิขั้นพื้นฐานที่ทุกคนสมควรได้รับแต่อย่างใด แต่ถือเป็นเศรษฐทรัพย์ (economic goods) ที่มีความขาดแคลน (Newman 2017) และมีไว้เพื่อตอบสนองต่อความต้องการของมนุษย์ผ่านการแลกเปลี่ยนทรัพยากร ความต้องการ ความสามารถและทักษะระหว่างกันกล่าวคือ ผู้ที่มีหน้าที่ในการรักษาโรค อาการบาดเจ็บหรืออะไรต่าง ๆ มีการแลกเปลี่ยนความสามารถของเขาผ่านการบริการกับผู้ป่วยหรือผู้ที่ได้รับบาดเจ็บที่จะต้องจ่ายหรือแลกเปลี่ยนอะไรบางอย่างกับผู้ที่มีหน้าที่รักษาตัวเขาเอง (ในรูปของ “เงิน”) ดังนั้นในความเป็นจริงแม้แต่สิ่งที่มักจะเป็น “สิทธิ์เชิงบวก” (Deist 2021) มักจะต้องมีอะไรแลกเปลี่ยนภายใต้คำว่า “ฟรี” (Free) กระบวนการของคำว่า “ฟรี” ตามความหมายของรัฐไม่มีอะไรมากไปกว่าการนำทรัพย์สินของอีกคนมาให้อีกคนอย่างไม่สมัครใจ พวกเขาจะอ้างอย่างมีมนุษยธรรมว่าการจัดเก็บภาษีเพื่อคนกลุ่มน้อยที่ไม่มีความสามารถในการเข้าถึงเป็นสิทธิ์โดยไม่สนใจว่าวิธีการในตอนแรกที่พวกเขาจะ “บีบบังคับ” นำทรัพย์สินของอีกคนมาให้อีกคนนั้นแทบจะไม่มีมนุษยธรรมมากกว่า กล่าวได้ว่าสวัสดิการรักษาพยาบาลไม่ใช่สิ่งที่ทุกคนสมควรได้รับการเข้าถึงอย่างเท่าเทียมกัน แต่มันคือสิ่งที่จะได้มาจากการแลกเปลี่ยนอย่างสมัครใจเท่านั้น

คำกล่าวที่ว่าสวัสดิการรักษาพยาบาลเป็นสิทธิ์ขั้นพื้นฐานยังส่งผลกระทบต่อเนื่องเลยคือ การผลักภาระทุกอย่างไปที่กลุ่มคนกลุ่มเดียวอย่างบุคลากรทางการแพทย์ส่วนใหญ่และผู้ที่ได้รับประโยชน์มากที่สุดคือผู้ใช้บริการ มันได้ก่อให้เกิดปัญหาอาทิเช่น (a) การขาดแคลนบุคลากรทางการแพทย์อันเนื่องมาจากการขาดแรงจูงใจในการทำงาน (ขยายส่วนของการขาดแรงจูงใจสามารถอธิบายต่อได้ว่ามาจากผลตอบแทนที่น้อย, ชั่วโมงการทำงานที่มาก และอื่น ๆ) โดยที่การขาดแคลนบุคลากรทางการแพทย์มักจะสวนทางกับการเพิ่มขนาดงบประมาณภาครัฐต่อสาธารณสุขและจำนวนบุคลากรที่เป็นผู้บริหารงานสาธารณสุข (Woolhandler 1991) ยกตัวอย่างกรณีระบบบริการสาธารณสุขถ้วนหน้าแห่งชาติของสหราชอาณาจักร หรือ NHS ที่งบประมาณค่าใช้จ่ายนั้นเพิ่มขึ้นทุกปีตั้งแต่ปี ค.ศ.1949 ถึง ค.ศ.2015 และถึงปัจจุบันซึ่งคุณภาพการรักษาสวนทางกับงบประมาณที่เพิ่มขึ้น; (b) การรักษาพยาบาลมีต้นทุนสูงจนทำให้ค่าบริการแพงจนเกินไป บ่อยครั้งเป็นเพราะกฎระเบียบทางเศรษฐกิจเพื่อกระชับให้โรงพยาบาลเอกชนต้องทำตามนโยบายภาครัฐจึงเป็นสาเหตุหลักที่ทำให้การบริการของเอกชนที่มักจะมีคุณภาพที่ดีก็ต้องแลกกับราคาที่สูง (ซึ่งปราศจากการแข่งขันตามกลไกตลาด) และการขาดแคลนอุปกรณ์ทางการแพทย์ หรือ อุปกรณ์ทุกอย่างในโรงพยาบาลที่เกิดขึ้นภายใต้การจัดการของรัฐ (Holly 2017) และ (c) อันตรายบนศีลธรรม (moral hazard) ที่อาจเกิดขึ้นในหมู่คนไข้ที่มีแนวโน้มที่จะจงใจให้ตัวเองป่วยง่ายหรือมีปัญหากับสุขภาพง่ายกว่าคนทั่วไป เหตุผลเพราะว่าพวกเขาไม่จำเป็นต้อง “จริงจัง” กับสุขภาพของตนเอง พวกเขาคิดว่าถ้าตนเองป่วยก็สามารถใช้สิทธิ์รักษาพยาบาลได้ฟรี หมายความว่าสวัสดิการรักษาจำเป็นต้องรองรับคนไข้ประเภทนี้เอาไว้ด้วย (Hülsmann 2018)

อย่างไรก็ตามสิ่งที่ผู้เขียนต้องการจะบอกกับทุกท่านก็คือ ปัญหาของสาธารณสุขแท้จริงมาจาก "รัฐ" ที่เข้าไปแทรกแซงและกำกับดูแลเพื่อข้ออ้างว่าสิทธิ์ในการรักษาของทุกคนเท่าเทียมกัน, ทุกคนสามารถเข้าถึงบริการสาธารณสุขที่ฟรีได้และข้ออ้างต่าง ๆ นอกจากนี้ ซึ่งข้ออ้างเหล่านี้ไม่ได้คำนึงถึงต้นทุนที่ต้องแบกรับเบื้องหลังของคำว่า "สิทธิ์การรักษาอย่างเท่ากัน หรือ การรักษาฟรี" เลยแม้แต่น้อย ส่งผลให้การตอบสนองของกลไกตลาดต่อการแทรกแซงของรัฐทำให้หลากหลายชุมชนเล็ก ๆ เริ่มมีสถานบริการรักษาพยาบาลเอกชนอย่างคลินิก (clinic) หรือ สถานรักษาพยาบาลเอกชน แม้แต่การมีร้านขายหลายร้ายแถวชุมชนที่มีผู้คนจำนวนมากมาแทนที่ ซึ่งทั้งคลีนิคและร้านขายยาอาจกล่าวได้ว่าเป็นเรื่องของกลไกตลาดที่แทนที่โรงพยาบาลเอกชนขนาดใหญ่ที่ราคาแพงจนเกินไปและโรงพยาบาลรัฐที่ไม่มีคุณภาพมากในหลายด้าน หากจะแก้ไขปัญหาสาธารณสุขที่ถือได้ว่าเป็นหนึ่งในปัญหาเรื้อรังที่สุดในประเทศไทยก็คือ การเอารัฐออกจากสาธารณสุขและปล่อยให้เอกชนจัดการด้านสาธารณสุขของประเทศเอง ในขั้นแรกราคาสินค้าและบริการจะยังไม่ลดลงมากซึ่งอาจถือเป็นความเดือดร้อนในช่วงแรก แต่ในระยะยาวมันจะเกิดการปรับตัวตามกลไกตลาดซึ่งจะทำให้คนทั่วไปสามารถเข้าถึงการบริการที่มีราคาถูกและคุณภาพได้อย่างแน่นอน

บรรณานุกรม

Deist, Jeff. Can Economics Save Medicine?. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute. October 24, 2021.

Hülsmann, Jörg Guido. "What Causes Moral Hazard?" The Free Market 26, no. 4 (April 2008): 1–6.

Holly, Mike. How Government Regulations Made Healthcare So Expensive. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute. October 24, 2017.

Institute for Fiscal Studies. "Health spending". London, United Kingdom: Institute for Fiscal Studies. https://ifs.org.uk/health-spending.

Newman, Jonathan. Healthcare Is Not Immune to the Laws of Economics. Auburn, AL: Mises Institute. October 24, 2017.

Woolhandler, S, and D U Himmelstein. “The deteriorating administrative efficiency of the U.S. health care system.” The New England journal of medicine vol. 324,18 (1991): 1253-8. doi:10.1056/NEJM199105023241805

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สวัสดีครับ ยินดีต้อนรับสมาชิกใหม่สู่สังคมชาวม่วง ด้วยความยินดียิ่ง

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ในเบื้องต้นเข้าไปเรียนรู้และศึกษาการใช้งานตามโน๊ตของพี่แจ๊ค กู๊ดเดย์ พี่ใหญ่ของเราก่อนเลยครับ (จะรู้ว่าโลกใบนี้กว้างใหญ่กว่าที่เห็น)

===================== แล้วก็ไปเพิ่มกระเป๋า LN Wallet สำหรับรับ zap ง่าย ๆ ได้จากบทความของจารย์ Notoshi (อาจารย์อาร์ม RS)

• หากใช้ Nostr บนคอมพิวเตอร์เป็นประจำ สามารถผูกกับ Browser Extension เพื่อใช้งานง่าย ๆ แนะนำ "Getalby​" ครับ

• หากเล่นบนมือถืออาจจะเหมาะกับ "Wallet of Satoshi​" และ "Blink​ wallet​" มากกว่า

แต่แนะนำว่าควรมีทั้ง 2 แบบครับ ท่านจะได้ใช้ประโยชน์ในเวลาที่เหมาะสมอย่างแน่นอน 5555

===================== จากนั้นไปเพิ่ม Siamstr Relay - wss://relay.siamstr.com - wss://teemie1-relay.duckdns.org

ที่สนับสนุนโดยพี่ตี๋ เพื่อให้เราชาวไทยเชื่อมสายสัมพันธ์ต่อกันและมองเห็นกันได้ ตามนี้เลยครับ

และก็ลืมไม่ได้ที่จะเพิ่ม Siamstr Relay อีกหนึ่ง ..ที่สนับสนุนโดยอาจารย์อาร์ม RS ของเราเองเช่นกันครับ - wss://relay.notoshi.win

ทั้ง 3 Relay นี้ เป็น Free paid Relay นะครับ สามารถใช้งานได้เลย ^^

หรือหากใครยังไม่จุใจ.. อยากได้รีเลย์เพิ่มเติมอีก แนะนำไปดูที่ อัพเดทลีเรย์ 9/12/2023 จากพี่ใหญ่ของเราได้เลยครับ

===================== และอย่าลืมไปสร้าง NIP-05 NOSTR ADDRESSES "@siamstr.com" เท่ห์ ๆ ได้ที่ siamstr FREE NOSTR ADDRESSES. เพื่อทุกคน เพื่ออิสรภาพ ใครมาก่อนได้จับจองชื่อก่อนน้าาา ... ^^

===================== อ้อ ... หากอยากเรียนรู้พื้นฐาน Nostr แบบเชิงเทคนิคคอล หรือการเก็บ nsec (Private key) ของเราให้ปลอดภัย ... เชิญได้ที่บทความของพี่อาร์ม Righshift ของเราครับ

Npub​ และ​ Nsec​ คืออะไรกันนะ

หรือจะเข้าไปอ่านจากในนี้ก็ได้เช่นกัน

Nostr: โซเชียล​มีเดีย​เสรีไร้ศูนย์กลาง

ภาพ : Network diagram จาก https://nostr.how/en/the-protocol

===================== สุดท้ายผมหวังว่าเราจะได้รู้จักกันมากขึ้นกว่านี้ เพื่อร่วมกันสร้างสังคมที่เต็มไปด้วยคุณค่า และความรู้สึกดี ๆ ให้แก่กันต่อไปครับ

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I've been experiencing a bit of writer's block recently, which is somewhat strange because it's about topics I genuinely want to write about. In a way, I have so many different ideas that I want to express, I can't pin them down, leading to writing nothing at all.

It's funny because, for me, Nostr was that place where I could say anything. It didn't matter whether people hated or loved it. But now, I feel this daunting responsibility to share highly impactful words that can't be easily criticized by haters or lovers. It's as if suddenly, Nostr isn't my safe place anymore; it's become my serious place.

If, when reading this, you think it sounds as ridiculous as I feel, trust me, I won't take any offense. I am pushing myself here just by writing it down. The reason I'm writing this on a blog is due to this daunting feeling of needing perfection, which I like to call the 'traditional social media effect.'

The Traditional Social Media Effect

Definitely not a medical term or diagnosis, but I am now self-diagnosed with it, and well, "delulu makes trululu."

If you hang out long enough on Nostr, you'll start noticing some traditional social media patterns that freak me out. And because they freak me out, I feel the need to write them out, perhaps to leave them behind.

Everyone is now fighting over something, and whoever is the loudest will win the 'shitposter' award. And I love shitposting... but there's no need to disparage others' projects to ensure mine is the best.

Everyone is begging for attention. Guys, there's no algorithm; there is a high chance absolutely no one will read this, and that's okay with me. I am just creating this blog because I have things I want to get off my chest, and because nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 is hosting a cool contest that I just want to contribute to.

And the last part, everyone is begging for an easy fix. An easy fix that will get them zaps, an easy fix that will get them followers, an easy fix that will make them the next Nostr superstar, and solve all their life's issues.

This is just sad. What happened to PoW?

Yes, This Is about PoW!

I came into Nostr because I am a Bitcoiner, and I love complicated stuff that requires hours of my time, for me to barely understand anything, and then look at the rest of the world like, "Ha! You losers don't know what I know..."

Therefore, Nostr is not for anyone who is lazy... or at least it wasn't. It required effort; videos had to be carefully crafted to go viral and get zaps.

Actually, even e-girl content isn't top-notch anymore. A bunch of AI-generated fake content is getting more zaps than nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u's feet on #footstr.

Actually, these are the last feet to make it on Footstr, and they are from Walker, back in August... https://cdn.nostr.build/i/fb64c0f064e11dabff69d56e7e4edfd47aebd1c752b84e76d50fb0e43f9f7e6b.jpg We are lacking that good feet content.

Is She Going to Stop Ranting or Explain This Effect Thing?

Okay, here I go. What I mean is that it seems to me that we are here looking for something different, but wanting that same dopamine hit Instagram and Twitter gave us.

Where am I going with this? Well, I just wanted to post on Nostr because it made me happy. I just wanted to come here and say whatever silly thing came to mind.

But now, I just see a bunch of posts of people either fighting over which federation is going to fix layers and lighting or the latest e-beggar. And these beggars are seeking everything from attention to zaps, no limits or questions asked. Just "look at my sad face, fix my life please."

And these things are not PoW. PoW is about creating the best new federation, and I believe you did, just work on it and show it. Don't waste your time disparaging the other one.

You want a life change, a path change? Instead of coming here to complain, ask for advice, ask questions, look for a mentor.

STOP WHINING! Okay, I was trying that writing in caps thing to seem angry and badass. But now I just feel cringe...

This Was It, This Was the Rant...

I usually don't say anything because if I'm as annoyed as I am about the way feeds are starting to look, I think I will produce that same feeling in everyone else.

I've said it hundreds of times: the cool thing is that I choose what I want to see. And that's how I plan to fix this writer's block and get back to being more hands-on... back to building the Nostr I want to see!

I want to stop feeling the need to drop the most perfect note, and to do so, I am pushing myself to do a 30-day photography challenge.

I won't win anything, and if you want to join me, the prize is also absolutely nothing.

Why photography? Well, because I suck at it. I have no idea how to do it; I just started asking for help, and everyone loves to critique the composition of "art"... and I doubt anyone will call my terrible photography skills art... so I'm putting myself out there to be critiqued.

My 30-day challenge, starting today, will include daily reminders to take a picture of whatever I can, and an explanation of what I was trying to achieve.

It will also come eventually with more blogs and vlogs, with less ranting and more building. The world is just starting... at least that's how it feels to me.

We are so early... https://media.giphy.com/media/z85pBkLFP6izGn6see/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47kcqu2k7sshjuox6wsy8zrbms9210r1obb1d9ytof&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g

But for real, it is early... and that is why there's a lot we can do. And also why for real "There Is So Much Noise... I Can't Think Straight..."

So, join me or don't, in this challenge or just be challenged to put out there a better version of the things you see that bother you.

I think I sometimes feel angry and tired, but before I resort to running off to the woods and becoming a hermit, I'm going to stay hopeful and try to give to the world what I want the world to give me.

And yeah, that's it... This was the whole rant. I was just being louder so I could start thinking again.

If you are here and you've read the whole thing, thank you; you are truly resilient! I'm sure not even my mom made it all the way here (but just in case: Hi mom! I love you 🫶🏽).

With this, I say goodbye... going to try that photography thing and be back with another note in a bit!

Marce 💜

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NVK- It's just that interesting dynamic that I think it should be more reflected on, where you may be causing harm, when you are funding a project because it could be sucking the oxygen on things that could be independent.

BEN ARC- I would say the whole computer science that needs to be free open source, if they want to build a company around the project they were doing great, but morally a free open source project.

ROCKSTAR- Here is the thing like doing company like creating product, it takes a different set of skills than doing the same size open source project funded by grants, it plays a different threads, to me like, that's kind of the thinking because if i do CEO my second point will be community, but for people that thrive on open source work, these are people that have completely different set of skills, most of them are unhire-able, in a good way, but thats also, like if you are trying to make it a for profit company, like you need to be way more political and you need to have those political skills, compared to if you are a open source project where you are only evaluated on a basis of merit of your contributions.

NVK- I think that like the main issues until we had bitcoin, we never really have like a true permissionless, the internet is permissioned, everything else is permissioned, we have linux developed and then feng, facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and google, they are the biggest beneficiary of open source, they make all the money out of linux right? Mostly because the internet is permissioned right? There is a massive barrier of entry for you to sort of run your SP or do other things. Bitcoin did change everything, Nostr subsequently sort of did that too, where you have full access to protocol, so you don't need to have that skill to monetize open source, but it's really a choice to have the push of granting charity right? Sort of bootstrapping these people, so they can focus on this. We are running out of time, it feels this, the state is coming, winter is coming, like they really want us to stop talking to each other without their permission. So being able to bootstrap all these is really very important,

BEN ARC- I have the same feeling of urgency and I think, I don't know sometimes I just think with Bitcoin, you kind of like get a bit lost and okay it's fine, it works for me, do you feel that the world will need the solution ready and workable, sooner rather than later? I think that there is a natural self correcting mechanism when it comes to proprietary for profit activities and freeing up open source project, there has been some free open source project which then got off to company for profit to help support free open source project, and so often that doesn't happen so much less now, since its a great example of a failing utterly. Before they would have an enterprise version of the software which is paid, then have a community version, then you do that, then you are going to have a good version and a shit version which is in support whereas, we have examples like wordpres allen which is very like wordpress for bitcoin for your node, so we look at wordpress, its an example of having a company and also having a software programme which is very successful. Got a lot of very infused free open source developers. The trick is to not let, not corrupt or try and take control of free open source project, you are offering services on top of it, like being up to spin with wordpress, wordpress.com for example or wordpress managing the plugin in app store and then that's how, its automatically the insurance company presses a 7.5 billion dollar company, it's not a small company and it still manages to keep that very successful, infused and happy free open source development community.

NVK- I think that one thing that is very important is, i think we do a disservice to people working open source like encouraging them to find a path to monetization, like do sort of like work on the software is like a common good, like making it a full free open source, but like try to find a path to monetize it, because the free market is a much more efficient way to inform better decisions, that is what nature does, nature is the most complex things, they whale will tell the fish to go one direction, this direction, if you don't, you die, i like, i think we are seeing more of this now, where a lot of people who work in open source even finding grants, there is a mix there, they are trying to find the path forward\, where it is a mixed source of funding, i think that's tremendously good.

ROCKSTAR- Listen you actually made my second point , because i was waiting to jump in with the second point which was community , like that's also what you are studying to touch on here, what i wanted to know that if it seem me fiddling with film, i am just trying involve our remote community that is also watching this stream, so if you have any questions, please post it in comment of the stream and i will run them by the guest. But the thing NVK you re saying to me is exactly about how do you get that value from the community that is using your product and thats where to me, you are such a great example of a person who built community around the product, that built that network, and it has a set of skills monetizing at the level you want to stay and scale the company, but you have found the sweet spot and you have the skills, this is where i see open Sats and other organization like that, where i invite developers that do not have that set of skill to ask for grant from organization, and when they get grant, maybe they get not just money but mentorship on developing skill set or staying at the level where i don't just want to get $30 a year from my community, i want to maybe find someone who is good at that.

NVK- You know i found out that often times, especially people who are very good at codes, there is a fear of making money, and there is this, mostly because of fear, there is this horrible sort of thing that came with the money, the money is dirty kind of thing somehow, but its not, money is freedom, like if you have more money, you have more freedom, and because of bitcoin we have more ethical money and just capacities of receiving money without permission. Now you can now be, we have seen this a lot, especially security researchers, a guy living next door, or India somewhere, making Sats, doing security, paying taxes. There is a path I want to encourage people to try to take that leap and charge for that product, people can still use your software for free, but charge for that product, there is a value add right?

ROCKSTAR- I mean it's not just like fear of charging money, from my perspective, it is like fear of losing yourself and changing your daily limit of being a developer to being more of a sales product person, to me it's more like fear of losing yourself.

BEN ARC- find a co-founder

ROCKSTAR- sure yes sure.

BEN ARC- I would say on efficiency, free open source is very efficient in the good ideas of eventually rising to the top, but whereas the free market of capital can be very efficient, like how many failed startups have we end up with and how much capital fails, but failure is the market. What i am saying is that if you can marry both of these together, so if you have a piece of software that is been developed by free open source community which is then useful because people are developing it because they want to use it, and then you can offer services, then you kind of get in both world, you have not get centralized capital, as a few people just trying to second guess what people want.

NVK- There are people actively building. There is not a single answer to every problem right? So if you are offering lightning, host solutions right? That is one thing and the answers trying to monetize that, will be different in different scales as well. You are going to have to dance around to make that happen through time as you expand or shift. Like not being stuck in thinking there is one way of skinning a cat.

ROCKSTAR- It comes down to what I was saying, raising funds, doing business operations, and it's a skill, and if you get into that game you need to win. What gets me really in bitcoin not so much in nostr, but really in bitcoin is the operating system before that, is how much free open source software technology developed and then it was just, using the value that was collected by people that don't have anything to do with development or technology.

NVK- We now have a shared commons that is monetized by definition like bitcoin, we all have bags, we are more likely to put bitcoin first and our company second, because if bitcoin fails, not just my company fails, it fails, it's a completely different incentive.

ROCKSTAR- Look at the amount of value that was captured by people that did not contribute almost nothing to bitcoin and people that were actually bad for bitcoin, like FTX, how many billions of dollars worth of bitcoin were destroyed by people that are actually bad.

NVK- It was the fiat people who lost money.

ROCKSTAR- it's not only fiat people that lost money, also people that, if it weren't for those crypto investors and whatnot, some of that money would have flown into bitcoin funds.

NVK- I used to have an account on twitter, but I am past that now, moved on, itt has already happened, bitcoin is binary, it's either going to be million dollar per coin or it's going to be zero. So if you just have enough confidence that this technology is going to win, you can then stop focusing on that and start focusing on adding value to the network, because every circle that happens, all your bitcoin savings are worth more . you don't have to focus on being a selfish actor, you can still be a selfish actor in the aspect that you want to capitalize, but contributing back to the network, it has this beautiful loop that makes you wealthier.

ROCKSTAR- I do think we need to help kick start some people way more than you are saying, I agree, but we need to help kickstart people more, because a recent example that pisses me off is with light spark doing the whole universal money protocol by just stealing. I have a huge problem with it, it is just like taking the protocol.

BEN ARC- Often we think of shitcoin as a kind of testnet for bitcoin, and i was thinking like a traditional finance see bitcoin as a testnet, and i think they probably do, because things like lightning, E cash.

NVK- Let them do, the thing they are doing is teaching the other 9 billion people in the world about bitcoin, if that is to losing money, that's another way of learning, but at the end you have no choice, even if you have been buying, you still have to buy again, so you don't feel left behind.

ROCKSTAR- I agree with you to a point, but this is a company that has raised 170 plus million, did their research in development that boiled down into taking what was developed in false, and not giving back anything to false but if they did that and donated to like a million dollars, NVK- Would you say Linux is winning?

ROCKSTAR- Yes of course,

NVK- that's the same model, you look at feng, they make 100's of millions of dollars out of linux, they don't actually contribute as much as they should. You know the technology itself is winning, the reason we don't feel it is because we don't have a shared protocol on linux. It's not like if linux. price of linux goes up. We feel it, its a little different. Bitcoin changed the dynamics because we are physically linked to each other. Even the bad people have no choice but to have bitcoin, and i feel like nostr is the same way, we are in the same network.

BEN ARC- Well we should always separate bitcoin and nostr, even though they do go together like bread and butter.

NVK- The CEO of nostr is a bitcoiner so,

ROCKSTAR- who is the CEO of nostr?

BEN ARC- We are all CEO. When we talk about values, I think if I were to pay to have that bill, to have that proprietary piece of software, there is probably like 10 million worth of software development so far. But all these stuff is, all these amazing free open source contributors are building stuffs they want to see exist, so the motivation is less so the pursuit of capital on their behalf and more so, they want something to exist , they want to experiment, be the first to build something and i think that motivation, clearly we have the free open source world and a lot of technologies stacks now rely upon, is a really driving force, and there is a corrupting element to capital, which we need to be aware of and take free open source project and to capitalize them. There are so many examples like i mentioned before i think it's a lot easier now to build capital on free open source.

ROCKSTAR- One thing that opens source projects are still under appreciated is development of the people involved in the open source project when i look at LNbit, LNbit team is phenomenal, you have coli, dni, black coffee, these are people that make the world a better place because they can spend their day focusing on building technology that is then freely available to everyone.

NVK- You know technology alone doesn't go anywhere, you need the entrepreneurs who will then prototypes things, essentially in a way, all you trying to do is find a product market fit, people are not going to come because you have a great technology , that does nothing, its amazing for us, we are all nerds, but like how do you get this to the hands of the people who will benefit from this, it is through product.

ROCKSTAR- What I am trying to say goes beyond this development. I remember jack talking about what false has done for him because he was following linux was developed , that is the thing that i think is always overlooked, there are young developers right now in these audience watching the stream, around the world that are better than any of us here but they do not have the same level of access and they need 5 years to develop so that they sprawl a new nostr, like if you look at the way nostr was developed, like ben when you added me to that telegram channel, look at fiajaf and ben just wasting time instead of developing something, and then a year two years later, look at us, look at where we are and how much value was created, and that's the thing i do want to point out, i really believe open Sats , i think that kind of organization is a missing link and beyond that,, just making sure that organizations that take that and captures value from the false software, like give back. Like light spark you are not upset, i am upset, i wouldn't be upset once they donate to non profit.

NVK- You know there is always going to be leeches right, there is a reason why torrent trackers always have the ratio, there is always going to be leeches, you cannot prevent the leeches , there are ways to handle the leeches, so they don't cause harm, that's part of humanity.

ROCKSTAR- We can fight them a little bit. Yeah we can make their life difficult, and there comes some pleasure from that but we do have awesome organization that is not just open source and there is more that i will probably just forget the name, and they are all going to have their own take and the competition from both sides is important too, and i think the are all also doing ethical work which is great, i think we are winning, this stuff is happening, people are happy and funded i don't subscribe to their is no money for people to work on, there is, you have to move your ass to go find it.

BEN ARC- And this is why i have been impress with open Sats, is like i mentioned the GG example there is an inherent danger when you have a big part of money and somebody allocating that money to projects, like you say can wasp, i think that it is very important to be mindful, half of the community group you can generate decision so that doesn't happen much.

ROCKSTAR- Corruption will slow down.

NVK- Humans do that, humans will corrupt any system. I remember in that first nostrica and we were talking with Rabel, he said one of the things in nostr is its foundation and instantly all the bitcoiners were like uh uh, but we having this amazing set of experiences of protocol being centralized and bitcoin because there is a monetary values attached and i think that's very healthy to carry those ideas into nostr.

NVK- This level of adversarial thinking on this scale has never happened before, it really is like a remarkable way, everybody is paranoid about everything in a healthy way, it's constructive, and I think this is why stage actors look at this shit and go like there's nothing you can do about this. I am not even going to try, because you are going to look stronger right? Look at what I did.

BEN ARC- We were talking about the space being infiltrated by spooks and all that the other day, blacklisting, yeah, we were like we are probably infiltrated and it's probably some wealthy spooks within bitcoin and our community is happy in cyberpunks, but the reality is not really anything they can do which is amazing in itself all they are actually doing is contribute.

NVK- There is no corruptible person or group, like bitcoin core devs, could disappear tomorrow, it's okay, we are still going to make it right. Maybe the software won't be as good, but like it's still going to go right? Yeah and that is why there is some kind of sophisticated mindset of not making changes or not adding concentration of power in anything so important because remaining uncorruptible by design is hard and it's hard to maintain it that way.

ROCKSTAR- yeah well that diversity is definitely a strength and since we are out of time, i will start closing the discussion, i wish there was Q&A, i think we are going to do a Q&A privately there, like especially tonight, there is a bitcoin meetup. I just want to close with the thought that if you are a developer with a desire to get into something false, my biggest advice is find your community, two, find the point of contact in that community, you like ndk the most?

NVK- The first thing to do is build something , then find the point of contact whether it's Ben Arc.

BEN ARC- i agree completely, i have unnoticed in the bitcoin free open source community if you have attempted to build something, even if it's terrible and you have attempted and can see you have attempted and you go on reach out to the community and say, i could need help with this thing, people are so welcoming.

ROCKSTAR- This is why I hangout with these gentlemen. They make me better. Step one is to build something and step two, find that point of contact. I will be glad to be your point of contact, that is, concludes this panel. Thank you.

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“หาอะไรแดกกันเถอะพวกเรา..”

คุยกันจนลืมเวล่ำเวลา.. ทุก ๆ ประเด็นปัญหาภายในสังคมถูกหยิบยกขึ้นมาถกเถียงแลกเปลี่ยนกันอย่างต่อเนื่อง ผมเป็นทั้งผู้พูดและผู้ฟังในเวลาเดียวกัน.. ในวงสนทนาแรก เรามีเจ้าของร้านกาแฟที่อาจจะเรียกได้ว่าเป็น Nocoiner ท่านนึงมาร่วมแจมด้วย..

การตั้งคำถามของเขาเป็นประโยชน์ต่อวงสนทนาของพวกเรา มันไม่แปลกที่เขาจะสงสัยในศักยภาพของตัวบิตคอยน์ นั่นเปิดโอกาสในเราได้ลองสลับกันอธิบายและไขข้อข้องใจในประเด็นต่าง ๆ ผมรู้ว่าคนที่เหลืออาจกำลังมุ่งหวังที่จะ “ป้ายยาส้ม” แขกพิเศษท่านนี้ให้จงได้ แต่ผมคิดว่านั่นอาจยังไม่ใช่สิ่งจำเป็น..

“เราควรเริ่มตั้งธงในใจว่าเราจะไม่พยายามป้ายยาส้มใครให้ได้ทั้งนั้น เราแค่ให้ข้อมูลและตอบในสิ่งที่พี่เขาสงสัยด้วยมุมมองตามความเข้าใจของตัวเองก็พอแล้ว..”

ผมเลือกตัดตอนจิตวิญญาณในการขายของทุกคนภายในประโยคเดียว

คนบางคนเราดูออกตั้งแต่ต้นว่าเราควรจะรับมือกับเขายังไง แขกท่านนี้ดูมีความสนใจใคร่รู้ และเท่าที่ผมสอบถามมาคร่าว ๆ เขาเป็นคนที่มีตรรกะในการคิด ชอบเรียนรู้อะไร ๆ ด้วยตัวเอง สิ่งที่ผมอยากให้ทำก็แค่ทิ้งไพ่ใบต่าง ๆ ที่เป็นคำถามไว้บนโต๊ะ แล้วปล่อยให้เขาหยิบมันไปหาคำตอบในหลุมกระต่ายด้วยตัวเขาเอง

หากบุญพาวาสนาส่ง.. วันนึงเราอาจได้เจอเขาคนนั้นวิ่งเล่นอยู่บนทุ่งม่วงร่วมกับเรา

ผมไม่ได้ชวนทุกคนมาป้ายยาส้มใครทั้งนั้น ผมแค่หาโอกาสให้พวกเราได้เจอกัน ได้คุยกับเพื่อนที่อยากเจอตัวกันมานานแล้ว คุยอะไรก็ได้ไม่จำเป็นต้องเกี่ยวข้องกับบิตคอยน์ แต่จนแล้วจนรอด ไม่ว่าเราจะเปลี่ยนไปคุยประเด็นไหน เราก็มักเชื่อมโยงมันเข้ากับบิตคอยน์จนได้ทุกที ซึ่งก็รวมถึงตัวผมเองด้วย (อืมมม… บิตคอยเนอร์คงเป็นแบบนี้สินะ)

คุณ nostr:npub1ckqr980578cdlc63yx24lanrvcql0q85rpxaugr07vlm2rgtvl9shwce2q ได้สัมผัสกับบรรยากาศการสนทนาของรายการที่ตัวเองติดตามมาตลอดเป็นครั้งแรก เรียกว่าแทบหลุดเข้าไปในหลุมดำเลยทีเดียว..

“เหมือนผมกำลังนั่งอยู่กลางรายการสภายาส้มเลยนะพี่.. แต่พิเศษใส่ไข่ตรงมันมีพี่ตั้มมาแจมด้วยนี่สิ”

มีบางช่วงที่ผมได้เผยถึงเป้าหมายบางอย่าง ผมชี้ให้ทุกคนเข้าใจเพนพ้อยร่วมของพวกเราชาวคอมมูนิตี้ ซึ่งคุณวิน หรือเอ็ม nostr:npub1r27yp3vmr53gx9z2ltzxt8pah07p5xext2u7eeeg5zs5cmxkpeqst2hxu8 ก็ดูอินไปกับปัญหาเหล่านี้มากเลยทีเดียว..

เมื่อตลาดคริปโตเดินเข้าสู่ขาขึ้น ซึ่งเราเองก็ไม่รู้หรอกว่าจะเป็นช่วงเวลาไหน ในวันนั้นจะมีผู้คนมากมายกรูกันเข้ามาในระบบนิเวศน์ที่พวกเรายืนอยู่ในตอนนี้ ผมเข้าใจว่าคนส่วนใหญ่จะถูกความโลภชักนำพวกเขาเข้ามา ซึ่งมันก็คงไม่แปลกหรือจะผิดอะไรทั้งนั้น เราไม่ได้มีหน้าที่มานั่งวิพากษ์วิจารณ์หรือตัดสินว่าใครจะกาก ใครเลว ใครดี

เป้าหมายแรกเริ่มเดิมทีของผม มันคือการหาทางช่วยให้พวกเขามีช่องทางเข้าถึงความรู้หรือความเข้าใจในบิตคอยน์ เข้าสู่คอมมูนิตี้ของเรา เมื่อถึงเวลาที่พวกเขาต้องการมัน

ความสนใจของแต่ละคน ย่อมมีความแตกต่างกันออกไป บางคนชอบศึกษาเทคโนโลยี บางคนชอบเศรษฐศาสตร์ บางคนชอบถกปรัชญา ฯลฯ ผมเรียกทางเข้าที่จะพาพวกเขาไปสู่สิ่งที่ตนสนใจนี้ว่า “ประตู”

จะเห็นได้ว่าเรามีประตูอยู่ด้วยกันหลายบาน.. ประเด็นก็คือประตูแต่ละบานนั้นเราได้สร้างเส้นทางไปสู่จุดหมาย (ความเข้าใจ, ความรู้, ชุมชน) ไว้ให้กับพวกเขาแล้วหรือยัง ทางเดินที่ดีควรจะเริ่มจากง่ายไปหายาก คนใหม่ไม่มีทางเข้าใจเรื่องยาก ๆ ได้ตั้งแต่ช่วงแรก เส้นทางที่ไล่เรียงองค์ความรู้ไว้อย่างดีนั้นจึงสำคัญ

Right Shift มีคนไม่พอ เวลาไม่พอ ที่จะสร้างเส้นทางทั้งหมดนั่นได้ในระยสั้น ๆ ผมจึงต้องการคอมมูนิตี้ อยากให้มีคอมมูนิตี้ เพื่อช่วยกันทำเรื่องพวกนี้เอาไว้นั่นเอง.. และตัวคอมมูฯ ของเราเองก็ควรเป็นที่ ๆ เหมาะกับการต้อนรับมือใหม่เหล่านั้นด้วย

ผลลัพธ์ของการ “มี” กับ “ไม่มี” สิ่งที่ว่านี้ ผมเชื่อว่าพวกเราคงเดากันเองได้ไม่ยากเท่าไหร่นัก..

แล้วผมมาเรียกร้องให้เกิดสิ่งนี้ไปเพื่ออะไร?

ลองเลื่อนกลับขึ้นไปอ่านองก์แรกของบทความนี้ดูอีกสักครั้ง

เพราะผมต้องการทำลายวงจรอุบาทก์ให้มันสิ้นซากไปเสียทียังไงล่ะครับ.. ผมอยากเห็นแนวทางที่เราจะชนะได้อย่างยั่งยืนและยังสามารถส่งต่อสิ่งเหล่านี้ไปสู่ลูกหลานของเราในอนาคตได้อีกด้วย.. แน่นอนว่านี่คือเรื่องระยะยาว

“ผมเอาด้วย.. ถ้ามีอะไรให้ผมช่วยก็บอกได้เลยนะพี่ ผมอยากช่วย..”

วินกล่าวกับผมโดยไม่มีความลังเลเมื่อบทสนทนากำลังใกล้จะจบลง..

ยาส้ม ยาม่วง ยาแดง

"เสียดายนะพี่ อยากให้หลาย ๆ คนได้สัมผัสอะไรแบบนี้บ้าง.. มากันน้อยไปหน่อย"

"มันเกิดขึ้นได้ทุกที่แหละวิน.. เกิดเวลาไหนก็ได้ เรื่องแบบนี้มันไม่ต้องรอให้พี่มาจัดก็ได้ ใครอยากจัดก็จัดกันไปเลย จะกินส้มตำกันก็ได้ ไม่จำเป็นต้องมาแดกเบียร์แบบเราหรอก.. เราไม่เห็นได้ใช้งบอะไรกันมากมายเลย ก็เหมือนนัดเพื่อนมาเจอกันหรือป่าววะ?"

มันจะมีแต่ความทรงจำที่ดีให้เก็บกลับไป มันจะมีแต่บทสนทนาที่เราใฝ่ฝันจะเข้าร่วมมาโดยตลอด มันจะมีแต่คนในแบบที่เราอยากคุยด้วย มันแค่หาโอกาสให้คนในคอมมูนิตี้ได้มาเจอกันดูสักครั้ง..

ผมเล่าให้น้อง ๆ ในวงสนทนาฟังว่าผมคาดหวังอะไรเมื่อครั้งที่ผมแคมเปญ Local Bitcoin Circle ซึ่งเป้าหมายเหล่านั้นไม่มีอะไรที่ Benefit ทางตรงกับผม หรือ Right Shift เลยแม้แต่เรื่องเดียว แต่มันจะให้ผลลัพธ์และประสบการณ์ดีๆ กับใครก็ตามที่ได้เข้าร่วม

จิงโจ้, วิน และเอ็ม ต่างก็พยักหน้ารับรู้ในสิ่งที่ผมได้พูดออกไป คุณค่าที่เกิดขึ้นนั้นแลคล้ายเป็น Subjective บางอย่างจับต้องไม่ได้ แต่เรารับรู้ถึงมันได้

ตลอด 12 ชม. ที่เราได้อยู่ร่วมกัน ผมน่าจะพูดคำว่า "Value" ไปมากกว่า 100 ครั้ง เพราะนั่นคือสิ่งเดียวที่จะคอยทำหน้าที่เชื่อมพวกเราเข้าหากัน และความสัมพันธ์ที่เกิดขึ้นมันจึงจะยั่งยืน คุณค่าเกิดขึ้นได้ในทุกที ทุกเรื่อง ทุกเวลา

ที่ร้านคราฟท์เบียร์เป็นที่ ๆ จิงโจ้ได้ปลดปล่อย "ยาแดง" ออกมาอย่างเต็มคราบ ตลาดความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างชายกับหญิง ช่างเป็นหัวข้อที่ใครก็ขย้อนลงคอได้ยากยิ่งนัก ผมสังเกตุเห็นวินที่ตั้งใจฟังและเริ่มออกอาการหัวบวมขึ้นทีละนิด ๆ

เอ็มอาจไม่ได้เข้าใจในสิ่งที่จิงโจ้พูดไปเสียทั้งหมด แต่ด้วยประสบการณ์คุณพ่อลูก 1 ก็ทำให้เค้าสามารถเข้าสู่บทสนทนาหัวข้อนั้นได้อย่างไม่เคอะเขิล

หัวข้อสนทนาบนโต๊ะเต็มไปด้วย Dynamic มันถูกสวิทช์ไปมาระหว่างยาส้ม, ยาแดง และยาม่วงอย่างไร้รอยต่อ ถ้าผมสามารถ LIVE ได้ มันก็คงจะกลายเป็นคลิประดับตำนานได้เลยทีเดียว เอ็มและวินคงได้เห็นแล้วว่า อะไรที่เคยได้ยินเราคุยกันผ่านหน้าจอนั้น ช่างเทียบกันไม่ได้เอาเสียเลยกับการได้ฟังมันแบบสดๆ

สิ่งที่จิงโจ้พูดเหมือนว่า Exclusive มากพออยู่แล้ว สิ่งที่ผมเป็นคนพูดยิ่งเป็นสิ่งที่ไม่เคยมีใครได้ยินมาก่อนเลยทั้งสิ้น.. ซึ่งมันก็แหง๋ล่ะ.. ก็ผมไม่เคยไปออกรายการหรือเคยไปโผล่ตามสื่อที่ไหนมาก่อนนี่นา

เราโชคดีที่ได้เจอคู่นักร้องรุ่นลายครามมานั่งเล่นเพลงให้เราฟัง หะแรกที่ผมได้ยินเสียงร้องดังกล่าว (ซึ่งน่าจะเป็นเพลง Surrender ของ Dido) มันทำให้ผมจินตนาการไปถึงเสียงร้องของ Karen Carpenter ผมเชื่อเหลือเกินว่าพี่คนนี้จะต้องร้องได้ดีอย่างแน่นอน..

“ขอเพลงอะไรก็ได้ของวง Carpenters ครับ..”

เด็ก ๆ ยังค่อนข้างงุนงงว่าผมรู้ได้อย่างไรว่าพี่คนนี้จะร้องเพลงของวงสองพี่น้องออกมาได้ดี แต่หลังจากเพลง Yesterday once more ได้เริ่มบรรเลงขึ้น บทสนทนาของยาหลากสีก็โดนหยุดลงไปโดยทันที

ผมยังไม่รู้สึกเมาเลยแม้แต่น้อย แต่อาการเคลิ้ม ๆ ของผมที่กำลังหลับตานั่งยิ้มวาดมือไปตามเมโลดี้ ก็สะกดทุกคนให้ต้องตั้งใจฟังตามผมไปด้วย

“ขนลุกเลยพี่..” วินกล่าว

“ดูสิ.. พี่ตั้มแกฟังแต่เพลงรุ่นพ่อผมทั้งนั้นเลยนะ พ่อผมก็ฟังแต่เพลงพวกนี้แหละ”

จิงโจ้แซว.. จะบอกว่าผมแก่ตรง ๆ ก็คงเกรงใจ ผมแค่สงสารวินที่เริ่มเบิร์นเอ้าท์กับเม็ดยาที่กินเข้าไปตลอดทั้งวัน ผมต้องเปลี่ยนหัวข้อและบรรยากาศภายในวงไปเป็นอย่างอื่นดูบ้าง

จากจุดนั้นมันทำให้วงของเราเริ่มค่อย ๆ ผ่อนคลายกันมากขึ้น บทสนทนาเริ่มคืบคลานไปยังเรื่องส่วนตัวของแต่ละคน เราเพลิดเพลินกับการเรียนรู้ซึ่งกันและกัน.. ทั้งหมดนั้นได้นำพวกเราไปสู่ความสนิทสนมโดยไม่ยากเท่าไหร่นัก

วงเหล้าที่ให้ประสบการณ์ที่ดีกับเรานั้น.. นอกจากตัวเหล้าที่ต้องดีและบรรยากาศที่ต้องได้แล้ว คู่สนทนาที่อยู่ในวงเหล้าก็ต้องเป็นอะไรที่เข้ากับจริตของเราได้ด้วย.. แต่เรื่องนี้เราจะข้ามมันไปเลยก็ได้

เพราะพวกเราต่างก็เป็นบิตคอยเนอร์ด้วยกันอยู่แล้ว เราคุยภาษาบิตคอยน์ได้โดยธรรมชาติ มันต่อกันติดได้ง่ายจะตายไป

ป้ายยาส้มยังไงให้ดูหน้าม่อ

“น้องเค้าอยากได้ตุ๊กตาปิรันย่าน่ะพี่”

ผมหันไปเจอน้องผู้หญิงที่มาคอยชงเบียร์ให้เรา กำลังทำท่าทางลับ ๆ ล่อ ๆ อยู่หลังต้นไม้ถัดออกไปไม่ห่างจากเรานัก

“น่ารักดีค่ะ หนูอยากได้..” เด็กสาวพูดออกมาอย่างเขิน ๆ

“มาเอาของพี่สิ พี่ยกให้”

ผมก็ตอบแบบป๋า ๆ ไปอย่างอัตโนมัติ พวกคนที่เหลือส่งเสียงฮิ้วฮา เหมือนกำลังต้องการจะแซวว่าผมนี่ช่างทำตัวเจ้าชู้ประตูดินเอาเสียจริง ๆ ในท้ายที่สุดผมก็ปลดพวงกุญแจหัวปิรันย่าให้กับน้องคนนั้นไป.. เสือกพูดจาปากไวไปแล้วด้วยไง

“พี่ตั้มนี่ร้ายเหมือนกันนะเนี่ย.. แต่น้องมันได้ของดีไปง่ายเกินไปหรือเปล่าวะ?”

ไอ้เด็กพวกนั้นมันแซวผม.. ผมยิ้มรับอย่างเสียมิได้ ภาพมันเห็นอยู่คาตากันซะขนาดนั้น

“วันหนึ่งน้องคนนี้อาจจะกลายเป็นบิตคอยเนอร์คนนึงในคอมมูนิตี้ของเราก็ได้เหมือนกันนะ..”

ผมชวนให้ทุกคนคิดตาม ว่าแท้จริงแล้วผมทำเรื่องเมื่อกี้ไปเพื่ออะไรกัน ซึ่งหลังจากนั้นอาการของเด็กสาวคนนั้นก็เปลี่ยนไป นางรู้สึกว่าเราเป็นมิตรจึงกล้าคุยเล่นกับเรามากขึ้น ๆ

ผมคิดไม่ผิด.. เด็กคนนี้ยังเรียนอยู่ในระดับมหาวิทยาลัย คณะวิศวะ หรืออะไรสักอย่างได้ยินแว่ว ๆ วันนี้น้องก็แค่มาทำพาร์ทไทม์เพื่อหารายได้ไปส่งตัวเองเรียน เพื่อนของเขาจะได้เห็นปิรันย่าในสักวัน และหนึ่งในนั้นอาจอยากได้มัน และสุดท้ายดีมานด์จะพาไปหาโซลูชั่นได้ตามธรรมชาติของตัวมันเอง..

ผมได้ให้เว็บแอดเดรส rightshift.to และเปิดให้น้องดูช่องยูทูปของพวกเรา Right Shift

“อ๋อ… พวกพี่ทำเกี่ยวกับบิตคอยน์เหรอ?”

“ใช่ครับ.. ตุ๊กตานี่เป็นมาสค๊อตของพวกเราเองแหละ ดูคลิปนี้สิ.. นี่ไงพี่จิงโจ้ ไอ้เสื้อเหลืองนั่นก็เป็นพี่เองยังไงล่ะ..”

ผมชี้ไปที่ อ.พิริยะ

“คนนี้เค้าเป็นคนดังระดับประเทศเลยนะ ผู้ก่อตั้งของพวกเราเอง”

จิงโจ้สวนขึ้นมาทันที..

“เค้าเป็นคนดังระดับโลกไปแล้วนะพี่!”

“อ่อ.. ขอโทษๆ พี่พูดผิดสินะ”

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ผมได้แบ่งชิ้นขนมปังที่ผมให้กับปลาตัวหนึ่งไปแล้ว.. วันนึงปลาที่หิวโหยจะกินขนมปังที่ผมให้ไว้นั้นด้วยตัวมันเอง ขนมปังอาจจะไร้ค่าถ้าให้กับปลาที่กำลังอิ่มหมีพลีมัน เราก็แค่มารอดูกันว่า.. เราให้คุณค่ากับปลาที่ถูกตัวหรือเปล่าเท่านั้นเอง..

ทั้งสามคนเริ่มมองผมด้วยสายตาแบบใหม่ ซึ่งเอาเข้าจริงพวกเขาก็รู้แหละว่า.. ผมไม่ได้ต้องการจะจีบเด็กร้าน.. ก็อย่างที่ผมพึ่งบอกกับวินไป.. ประตูของแต่ละคนไม่จำเป็นต้องเป็นบานเดียวกัน แต่ละคนที่เป็นบิตคอยเนอร์เหมือนเราในวันนี้ เส้นทางของเขาย่อมมีความเฉพาะในแบบของตัวเขาเอง

ตุ๊กตาที่ให้ไปนั้นมันมีคุณค่ากับตัวพี่มาก.. พี่ก็แค่ส่งต่อคุณค่านั้นไปสู่มือคนอื่น.. พี่ไม่รู้เหมือนกันว่าพี่คิดถูกหรือพี่คิดผิด.. อะไรที่เราเลือกทำไปแล้ว เราก็ตัดสินใจด้วยความเชื่อที่ว่ามันจะดีกับเราทั้งนั้นแหละ.. เอาน่า.. ซื้อเอาใหม่ก็ได้ อย่าคิดมาก

เด็กคนนั้นเดินถือตุ๊กตาปิรันย่าอวดคนไปทั้งร้าน อวดพี่ ๆ พนักงานในร้านเป็นการใหญ่ ผมเห็นแล้วก็อดยิ้มไม่ได้.. ปิรันย่าแกได้แอร์ไทม์อีกแล้วสินะ..

ระหว่างที่เรากำลังรอเช็คบิล และร้านกำลังจะปิด ผ่านเหตุการณ์ปะทะทัวร์จีนเล็กน้อยไปพอหอมปากหอมคอ ซึ่งมันก็ไม่ได้มีประเด็นอะไรเกิดขึ้น ผมหันไปเจอจิงโจ้กำลังก้ม ๆ เงย ๆ ทำอะไรบางอย่างอยู่กับน้องคนนั้น

มันเอาตุ๊กตาของมันไปแลกกับของที่น้องพึ่งได้จากผมไป!

ผมไม่รู้ว่ามันคุยอะไรกัน.. แหม.. มึงก็ร้ายเหมือนกันนะจิงโจ้

การมีตอัพที่จัดกันเล็ก ๆ นี้ ได้มอบความสุขอันยิ่งใหญ่ให้กับเราทุกคนที่มีโอกาสได้เข้าร่วม เราถูกเน้นย้ำให้เห็นถึงคุณค่าในแง่มุมต่าง ๆ ผ่านการกระทำ คำพูด และความรู้สึก เราจากกันด้วยความรู้สึกอันอิ่มเอม และหวังว่ามันจะเกิดขึ้นอีกครั้งไม่ว่ากับเราหรือกับใคร

การสร้างคุณค่า และการส่งต่อคุณค่าเป็นเรื่องที่ใครก็สามารถทำมันได้ง่าย เราทำมันได้ในทุก ๆ ที่ ในทุกโอกาส ไม่จำเป็นต้องเลือกปฏิบัติหรือมัวหน้าบางขวยเขิน ทำมันในแบบของคุณ แบ่งปันมันกับเพื่อนของคุณ กับคนที่คุณรัก และเพื่อนร่วมโลก

มาร่วมกันสร้างคุณค่าและส่งต่อมันกันเถอะพวกเรา!

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"ขอร้องล่ะแจ็ค ตัดผมก่อนไปด้วยนะ"

แม่โบวิงวอน เพราะรู้ว่าผมไม่ยอมตัดผมอีกเลย นับตั้งแต่จบงานคอนเฟอเรนซ์

"ได้แม่.. ผมก็ว่าจะไปตัดที่โคราชอยู่พอดี"

ผมวางแผนว่าจะไปถึงโคราชให้ไว เพื่อจะเหลือเวลาพอไปตัดผมก่อนจะเจอกับคนอื่น ๆ ผมรู้ว่ามันไม่เท่นักหรอกที่คนจะเห็นว่า Jakk Goodday แม่งเหมือนกับพวกฮิปปี้

แต่... ผมดันอยากกินเบียร์มากไปหน่อย วันแรกจึงชวดไปโดยปริยาย..

"เอาน่า.. พรุ่งนี้พี่จะไปตัดก่อนเรานัดเจอกัน 10 โมงเช้า"

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ซึ่งผมก็ชวดอีกครั้ง.. เพราะมัวนั่งเอ้อละเหยรับแดด ไถฟีด #Siamstr จนเวลาผ่านไปเปล่า ๆ ปลี้ ๆ

"เรานัดเจอกันอีกทีที่ร้านตอน 5-6 โมงเย็นเลยไม่ใช่เหรอ? ยังมีเวลาๆ เดี๋ยวพี่ไปตัดช่วงนี้แหละ"

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และผมก็ชวดอีกตามระเบียบ เพราะผมเลือกขึ้นไปแน๊ปหลับสั้นๆ บนที่นอนนุ่ม ๆ ของทางโรงแรม.. จนแล้วจนรอดตลอดงานมีตอัพทุกคนก็ได้เจอกับ Jakk ในเวอร์ชั่นสุดแสนสมถะและรกรุงรังเสียเหลือเกิน..

ท้ายที่สุด.. หลังทุกคนแยกย้ายผมก็ไปตัดผมเสียจนเหี้ยนเตียน.. อย่างน้อยแม่โบก็ว่าอะไรผมไม่ได้แล้ว

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"ผมตัดผมแล้วนะครับ.. แต่ทุกคนกลับกันไปหมดแล้วนะ"

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Jakk ผู้ผลัดวันประกันพรุ่งในเรื่องไม่เป็นเรื่อง

@ c31052c1:493a1c56

Mineral是世界上第一个由比特币挖矿现实世界资产（RWA）支持的BRC-420的铭文，在一波meme铭文的热潮过后，市场对于应用型铭文的需求将形成新趋势，Mineral在这时应运而生。

产品设计：

1.通过在二层质押Mineral获得比特币：不需要碰运气去等待价格起飞，无论市场如何变化，质押Mineral获得比特币收益。而在过往每个牛市，矿机（算力）本身也有不俗表现。

2.通过质押挖矿还可以获得二层国库代币Mner,国库将会随着项目发展不断增持新的RWA生息资产。除此以外，Mineral将与同样基于BRC-420环境中的其他项目合作，并在L2中，通过抵押Mineral铭文来实现一币多挖。

3.打铭文的用户都需要支付交易费，因此矿工挖矿收入也会随着铭文生态而水涨船高，铭文生态蓬勃发展逐渐成为共识。质押Mineral，即可像矿工一样，赚取交易费，赚取生态红利。

4.不会归0的铭文：meme铭文因投机而市场热度上升，当热点褪去可能就无人问津，所以铭文需要应用和赋能才能进一步推动生态的永续发展。Mineral除了有巨大的增长潜力，更重要的从RWA中捕获更坚实的底层价值。二层的路线路中,远期更有丰富DEFI玩法打造未来RWA DeFi航母.

铭文将带来ICO和DeFi的文艺复兴

我们之所以说铭文可能是比特币L1和L2上ICO和DeFi的文艺复兴，是因为DeFi的成熟和更具前景的市值和想象空间。有这么一个有趣的说法，以太坊和EVM就像比特币的测试网，大家都会记得他们在DeFi Summer的激情，并且在受过充分的市场教育后，深刻知道DeFi是如何运作的，BTC生态是铭文生长的沃土。此外，比特币的市值在加密货币的市值占主导地位。许多比特币持有者正在寻找建立在比特币网络上的原生应用，而铭文是基于比特币L1的产品，继承了比特币的优点，因此也将获得市场认可。Mineral结合比特币挖矿这个原生机制与铭文DeFi应用形成一种比特币专属的原生应用创新。Mineral非常适合大多数热爱并相信比特币和铭文的投资者。

Mineral是BRC-420上的进阶DeFi创新

Mineral受到良好的Defi模型启发，在其基础上更加精进和永续。

基于OHM（Olympus）和Infra（Blast）的成功，Mineral则是一种更为精进和永续的经济模式。OHM的高APY飞轮吸引了人们的注意，但我们团队坚信需要引入像比特币挖矿的正外部收益，让这个飞轮能够更持久而不会因为巨大的抛压归零。另一方面，我们认为Blast是实现生态系共荣的成功模式。我们结合并且优化这两个模型，让Mineral的持有人实现一币多挖而且永续感受到飞轮的刺激。

Mineral将很快在BRC-420官网发布，具体Mineral公平发射计划如下：

首批mint价格：等值50U的比特币

总量：40,000个

具体发射时间待定，请继续关注我们的官方推特。

Twitter: https://twitter.com/mner_club Telegram: https://t.me/mnerclub Discord: https://discord.gg/aB4KXpTv Website: https://www.mner.club/

@ e1ff3bfd:341be1af

A bunch of people have been shilling Liquid has a scaling solution with on-chain fees on the rise. I wanted to take the time to breakdown why this is a fool's errand and there are better ways to go about this.

Liquid is based on Elements which as they claim in their README is a collection of feature experiments and extensions to the Bitcoin protocol. Liquid is just another blockchain. It is a fork of bitcoin with a few fancy things added (Tokens, CT, covenants) and bundled together with a 1 minute block time, federated custody, and some blockstream branding.

Blockchains do not scale. As we are seeing today, the bitcoin blockchain does not have enough throughput for everyone's transactions. This is for good reason, keeping the cost of running a full node low is a priority, this was one of the main reasons the blocksize wars were fought.

So why does Liquid exist? People lately have been touting it as a way to ease fee pressure but in my opinion this is a fool's errand, no different than people back in 2017 saying to use litecoin because fees on bitcoin were too high. Liquid is just a fork of bitcoin, it has the exact same scaling problems and the only reason it has smaller fees is because it is never really been used. For now, it can work as a temporary stop-gap (essentially finding arbitrage for fees), but building actual infrastructure on top of liquid will run into the exact same problems as on-chain bitcoin.

The problem is that Liquid is trying to use trust as a scaling solution but did it in a completely inefficient way. When you are trusting the 11-of-15 multisig, you don't need all the benefits that a blockchain gives you, everything is dictated by the functionaries anyways. The problem is if liquid gets any meaningful amount of users it will also end up with huge fees and we'll be back to square one because Liquid's architecture didn't actually leverage any of the trust tradeoffs it took and just inherited all the same problems of on-chain bitcoin.

There are real solutions available. Lightning is the obvious alternative but it does have it's own problems, I think a lot of people have been seeing the problems with small scale self-custodial lightning, it is extremely hard to scale. This is why I am extremely excited about fedimint. Fedimint has almost the exact same trust model of Liquid (a federated multisig) but is built on a much better architecture that actually allows for scaling. Fedimints don't have a blockchain but instead operate as a chaumian ecash mint. This allows for them to do actually innovative things instead of just being bitcoin plus a couple features. There isn't a block size, instead the transaction throughput is just gated by the processing power of the guardians. Smart contracts are limited by having to do everything on-chain with bitcoin script, they are pure rust code and allows for all sorts of crazy things. And it all still interoperates with Lightning, essentially giving a Wallet of Satoshi with way less rug-pull risk, tons of new features, and is extremely private.

All this said, it is sad we aren't talking about self-custodial scaling solutions. Today the only real one is Lightning and with current fees, it isn't reasonable unless you have a few million sats. The problem is that this is just inherently a limitation with Lightning. Lightning is excellent when you have high value channels and can make payments across the network, but it does excel at "pleb nodes" where one guy puts 100k sats to try it out, this comes with too many limitations with paying on-chain fees and needing to have reserves to pay future on-chain fees. However, this is potentially solvable. Lightning has solved the problem of scaling payments, where if you have channels, one on-chain transaction can represent many actual payments. What lightning did not solve is that one utxo still represents one user, and this is the limitation we are running into today. Currently the only way we solve this is using a multisig sig (Liquid and Fedimint), but we can solve this in a self-custodial way if we activated covenants. Covenants essentially let us give fine grained control of what is going to be spent from a UTXO before the UTXO even exists. Currently, there are a few proposals (CTV, APO, TXHASH) all with varying ways to do it and different tradeoffs, but imo something like this is desperately needed if we want any chance to scale bitcoin in a self-custodial way.

@ ecda4328:1278f072

Intro

I've left Twitter (X), WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Facebook and Google. The driving force behind this decision was the escalating overzealous censorship. I cannot condone platforms that actively indulge in this practice. In all honesty, I've always felt uneasy using "free" platforms riddled with ads where the user is the product and doesn't own the content they produce.

Let's be real: hardly anyone thoroughly reads the Terms of Service (ToS).

Censorship and Shadow Banning

The final straw was when I resorted to a text editor for drafting messages/comments, hoping to rephrase them so they wouldn't get deleted moments after posting. This isn't exclusive to just one platform; I've encountered it on YouTube and LinkedIn too. Twitter (or X, as I now refer to it) has a history of shadow banning users' posts. It's been beyond frustrating to get banned from Telegram groups simply for posing legitimate questions.

You can test LinkedIn's censorship mechanism too, simply add "Binance" word (without quotes) to any of your comment and your post will disappear. At least that is what I've seen couple of months ago. Similarly, comments on YouTube often disappear precisely 60 seconds after posting if they contain specific keywords. I know they call it filtering, but it does not make any sense. In my opinion, legitimate companies and links shouldn't trigger these filters.

Community and Connections

Recently, I attended the Cosmoverse 2023 conference in Istanbul. Most attendees exchanged their Telegram or Twitter (X) contact information. Since I didn't have either, I gladly shared my Nostr and SimpleX Chat details. Many privacy advocates were quick to connect on SimpleX with me, though several didn't.

I learned about SimpleX Chat from Jack Dorsey, who mentioned it during a conversation in July:

While Signal has its shortcomings, I still keep it as a backup communication tool.

One More Last Straw

During the conference, I temporarily reinstalled Telegram to communicate with my group. Convincing nine individuals to switch to SimpleX on the spot seemed impractical.

At the conference, I bought a Keystone hardware wallet. Shortly after, I connected with the seller, Xin Z, on Telegram. However, I was banned from the official Keystone Telegram group right after posing a question.

Upon inquiring, Xin Z clarified that Telegram's official team had banned me, not the group's admin. 🤯

Business and Community: Collateral Damage

Censorship doesn't just silence voices; it hinders potential growth and stifles innovation. When platforms arbitrarily or aggressively censor content, they inadvertently create barriers between businesses and their potential clients. New users or clients, when encountering such heavy-handed moderation, may feel discouraged or unwelcome, causing them to retreat from the platform altogether.

Moreover, for businesses, this form of censorship can be devastating. Word-of-mouth, discussions, and organic community engagements are invaluable. When these channels are hampered, businesses lose out on potential clientele, and communities lose the chance to thrive and evolve naturally.

Censorship, in its overzealous form, breaks the very essence of digital communities: open dialogue. As platforms become more censorious, they risk creating sterile environments devoid of genuine interaction and rich discourse. Such an atmosphere is not conducive for businesses to foster relations, nor for communities to flourish. The ultimate price of overcensorship isn't just the loss of a few voices—it's the fragmentation of digital society as we know it.

Freedom to Choose

I strongly advocate for the adoption of Free and Open Source Software (aka FOSS) products. In these platforms, you aren't treated as the product. However, supporting them through donations/contributions is always an option. Platforms like Nostr and SimpleX Chat are excellent starting points.

My Nostr account: npub1andyx2xqhwffeg595snk9a8ll43j6dvw5jzpljm5yjm3qync7peqzl8jd4

Disclaimer

This article reflects my personal experiences and opinions. It is not intended to criticize or demean the Keystone hardware wallet product or its quality. Furthermore, the actions taken by Telegram are not a direct representation of the views or policies of the Keystone Telegram group admins. Any reference to specific events or entities is made in the context of broader concerns about platform censorship.

@ 4ef93712:97fe79c0

Introduction

Resolvr is building Open Source Justice by empowering sovereign communities to peacefully and voluntarily resolve their own disputes with open-source tools.

Our first product is designed for a community close to home: the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) development ecosystem. We've built a peer-to-peer bounty marketplace that:

• gives developers assurances of payment for solving bounties,
• decentralizes and grows FOSS funding sources,
• unlocks access to the global talent pool,
• provides a frictionless on-ramp to earn Bitcoin (₿).

Resolvr does this by:

• limiting discretion of bounty grantors through reputational stakes and a Bitcoin (₿) escrow powered by Discreet Log Contracts🔮,
• resolving disputes through crowdsourced review of bounty solutions,
• using nostr🦩 for interoperable and censorship-resistant bounty discovery,
• using Lighting⚡ zaps for instant bounty payouts.

The alpha webclient is now live at resolvr.io.

The Problem

The root problem with conventional bounty marketplaces is all the trust that's required to make them work.

Satoshi Nakamoto (probably)

1. Centralized Custodians are Security Holes 🕳️

❌ Centralized bounty marketplaces that hold bounty funds can exit scam or go bankrupt.

• This year, BountySource (5,445 listed bounties worth $406,425 in 2019) stopped paying out bounties to developers.

❌ Existing bounty marketplaces, like Replit, don't have instant or free payouts:

• Devs are rewarded in Replit's 💩-coin and must request USD conversion by email.
• Replit charges a 25% withdrawal fee and requires a minimum withdrawal of $350.

❌ Knowledge workers in developing countries, many of whom rely on mobile wallets, have lost their funds via bank and telco attack vectors ($3M USD via 2,000 SIM cards, lost).

❌ Centralized bounty sites can censor posts for projects the site-owners disagree with or find unsavory.

2. Bounty Grantors are Judge 👩‍⚖️ and Jury 🏛️

❌ Bounty grantors have unlimited discretion over whether a solution meets their bounty criteria. And they can change the criteria after the dev has satisfied the original bounty.

❌ The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) recently changed its criteria on a nostr bounty after a dev provided a solution to the originally posted bounty. HRF decided to pay the dev only half the bounty.

❌ This is inherently unfair and inefficient!

Resolvr's Solution ✔️

1. 📡 Distributed, interoperable, censorship-resistant communication protocol for bounty posting and discovery,
2. (₿) Peer-to-peer lightning payouts and non-custodial escrow system,
3. ⚖️ Decentralized Dispute Resolution

How it Works

Check out the Walkthrough here.

Zap Payouts and Crowdsourced Dispute Resolution

1. Login to resolvr.io with your existing nostr keys (or let resolvr.io generate keys for you - remember to back them up!)
2. Set up your profile by
3. Linking your GitHub identity to your nostr profile (through resolvr.io or Amethyst on android) following NIP-39 instructions
4. Getting a lighting address for zap payments (getalby.com)
5. Maker (entrepreneur, foundation, FOSS project) - post a bounty with a detailed criteria and amount.
6. Taker (freelance developer) - find a bounty to solve, apply to the bounty.
7. Maker - assign a Taker to solve your bounty.

Ideal Path

1. Taker - solve the assigned bounty and provide a link to the work product in the comments (e.g., github repo or PR)
2. Maker - click "pay" to zap bounty reward

Happy Path

1. If either party disputes the bounty: Taker or Maker clicks "poll" to initiate a nostr zap poll,
2. Community members (other Makers/Takers) review bounty/solution and vote to resolve the dispute,
3. Maker - if community votes in favor of Taker, zap payout.

Sad Path

1. Maker does not comply with community decision, burns reputation and cannot find developers for future projects.

Innovations

Resolvr's success is aligned with the success of nostr🦩 and bitcoin. We're advancing the tech with novel applications:

• Authored NIP-43: bounties over nostr
• Discovered new use-case for NIP-69 zap polls: dispute resolution
• First p2p bounty marketplace with instant payouts over lightning
• First p2p bounty marketplace with integrated dispute resolution
• New frictionless onramp to earn bitcoin, grow circular economy

What's Next for the Resolvr Bounty Marketplace?

The next dispute resolution feature on the roadmap for the Resolvr bounty marketplace is on-chain DLC🔮 escrow. We're putting DLCs🔮 on nostr🦩 and building a desktop client to do it!

The desktop client will allow Makers and Takers to post, apply and assign bounties just like the web client. But it will also create and broadcast DLC🔮 escrow contracts. In the event of a dispute, the Resolvr oracle will attest to the results of the crowdsourced zap poll to release the funds to the winning party.

In the future, Resolvr will allow Makers and Takers to select their own oracles, and communities can be listed as "review association" oracles, earning bitcoin for resolving disputes over bounties (think: foundations, hackerspaces, bitdev meetup groups).

For more details about our DLCs🔮 on nostr, check out the Resolvr's escrow repo on GitHub!

In addition to DLCs🔮, Resolvr's roadmap includes:

• Decentralizing the default Resolvr oracle through FediMint🔅 protocol and FROST🥶.
• Scaling escrow through Lighting⚡ DLCs🔮
• Bounty review and code testing with AI🤖 (DVMs)

Beyond Bounties...

The Resolvr Project is building an open-source dispute resolution system on bitcoin and adjacent protocols.

Resolvr will revolutionize dispute resolution on a global scale, offering secure, open-source, customizable, decentralized, and radically cost-efficient mechanisms for infinite use cases.

Dispute Resolution is a big opportunity, with increasing demand driven by AI services and microtransactions.

Thanks for joining us on this journey to make FOSS funding more fair and efficient, expand access to Bitcoin, and provide communities with the tools to peacefully resolve their own disputes!

Visit resolvr.io to post and claim bounties today!

The Team

• Dave Schwab (🦩 | 𝕏): Chief Product Officer for a legal tech SaaS.
• Aaron Daniel (🦩 | 𝕏): Appellate attorney and dispute systems designer. Author of the Bitcoin Brief newsletter and regular contributing author to Bitcoin Magazine.
• Chris@Machine (🦩 | 𝕏): Nostr developer and creator of Blogstack.io, a longform nostr platform. Streaming nostr programming workshops on Zap.Stream and Youtube.
• Utibe Essien (🦩): Product designer and web adventurer.
• Ras (𝕏): Bitcoin hacker. Founder of Bitcoin Grove, a community accelerator and physical hacker space in Miami.
• Brian: Front end web developer and crypto enthusiast.
• Tommy (🦩): Google Software Engineer who enjoys making the State obsolete in his free time
• Randy (𝕏): Full-stack developer currently working on Greenlight at Blockstream
• Derek Hinkle: Backend Developer for a legal tech SaaS; machine learning and AI powered automation.
• Justin Moeller (🦩 | 𝕏): Spiral and HRF grantee working on Fedimint.

Connect with Resolvr!

• Post and Claim Bounties on the Resolvr Bounty Marketplace TODAY: https://www.resolvr.io
• Questions/Suggestions? Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/DsqRw8My4m
• Stream the team's weekly All-Hands Call, live every Monday @ 1:00pm ET on Zap.Stream
• Contribute to the project on our GitHub!!
• Witness Resolvr's evolution through our previous #buildinpublic weekly updates.

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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) (Proposed) NIP 71: Video Events

If Nostr wants to disrupt Netflix or Youtube, we’ll need support for video content.

So far Nostr devs have mostly shied away from storing full files (videos, PDFs, images, etc) on relays in favor of storing files on dedicated file storage/CDN solutions (e.g. nostr.build). That has meant that to bring file-based content into the nostr-verse it has to be referenced within a note or (via NIP 94 ) just publish a Nostr event that is just a reference to a file.

NIP 94 is powerful because we can wrap something that’s not on Nostr in a Nostr event which makes it referenceable and make that reference shareable natively via relays.

This proposal is to create a wapper around NIP 94 to help facilitate more than just hosting the video content. This proposal helps allow video-based clients to do two things: 1) create a replaceable nostr event for the video (so if the creator uploads a new version or switches hosts, people can still reference the same Nostr event). 2) Track video view counts.

It’s still under development but could be helpful as we try to bring more content creators over to Nostr 💪

Author: zmeyer44

2) (Proposed) NIP 44: Places 🌏

Much physical commerce is discovered by consumers via map apps. You go on Google or Apple Maps to find an art supply store near your apartment, or coffee shops that are open right now when you’re in a new city. These centralized solutions have dominated, but Yondar seeks to change that.

Yondar is a Nostr client that allows users to publish places on a map. This could be places of business or events, really anything that has a location. It could unlock crowdsourcing the place-based apps we’re used to using, so we can wrest control back from the tech giants.

This NIP is a proposal to make “place” events a protocol that’s available to any Nostr client. So that the idea can spread beyond just Yondar. Can’t wait!

Author: arkin0x

Notable Projects

Updates to negentroopy and strfry 🛜

nostr:npub1yxprsscnjw2e6myxz73mmzvnqw5kvzd5ffjya9ecjypc5l0gvgksh8qud4 is the primary author of the StrFry relay. It’s one of the most popular relay implementations used by relay operators because it’s performant and extensible.

Doug announced a slew of improvements this week to a library underpinning strfy, called negentropy. Negentropy (from my limited understanding) is a protocol for set-reconciliation, which I would summarize as optimizing the process of syncing two sets of data quickly and with minimal compute resources and data transfer.

I don’t know the innards of strfry but I do know that when scaling systems like relays much of the difficulty comes from distributing data onto many servers so that the relay can hold increasing amounts of data but still serve users requests quickly. You usually can’t have your cake and eat it too.

Improvements to projects like negentropy allow us have relays which are both larger and more performant. They’re not the sexiest advances and usually go un-celebrated, but Nostr will be faster for users and relay operation should get cheaper because of this project.

Thanks Doug!

StrFrui ✔️

Relays are inundated with new events constantly and sometimes relay operators want to “sift” through new Nostr events pushed to the relay to ensure that unwanted content can be rejected. This has been done for rate-limiting, spam filtering, and sometimes outright npub censorship. Which as a relay operator is their right.

Problem is, as Nostr usage scales, relay operators will need more sophisticated tools to manage content on their relays. nostr:npub168ghgug469n4r2tuyw05dmqhqv5jcwm7nxytn67afmz8qkc4a4zqsu2dlc built StrFrui which is a framework for building sifters for relays running strfry (common, performant relay). Thanks for helping Nostr scale 🫡.

Latest conversations: nsecBunker

The landscape for security of Nostr keys is rapidly evolving. Here are the current options:

1. Paste your nsec into the client - yikes, but sometimes there’s no alternative, like on iOS Nostr Browser Extension (nos2x, Nostr Connect, etc) - good if you’re on a browser, not encrypted at rest.
2. Android Signing App - great if you’re on Android and the client supports it.
3. nsecBunker - great security if you want to be hands on managing a bunker

We’re early so we’re still learning the architectures that work the best and those that will be compatible with future, more user-friendly experiences. I’m starting to think nsecBunker has the most potential, because it’s cross platform, encrypted at rest, and can be built so that users never have to manage Nostr keys if they don’t want to.

How does nsecBunker work?

Short answer: it’s complicated. Slightly longer answer: 1. Give the bunker your nsec (or let it generate one). 1. You authorize a client with certain permissions (can publish kind 1 notes for 10 hours, etc). 1. That generates and npub+token that you can use to log in to clients that support nsecbunker. 1. While that authorization lasts, that client can take authorized actions on behalf of the user who’s key is in the bunker.

There’s also a flow in reverse (starts with the client wanting to take an action), but I’m not going to get into it right now. It’s much harder to explain.

How is this better?

NsecBunker has a few advantages over other solutions:
1. Users never need to copy/paste the nsec 1. Nsec is encrypted in the bunker with a passphrase so even if bunker is hacked you’re ok.
1. Bunkers can work in any Nostr context (browser, mobile app, hardware device, whatever).

The biggest downside to nsecBunker is that you need a Nostr account to be the admin of the keys stored in the bunker. Whereas the Nostr Browser Extensions you can have one account and self-manage it.

The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

There are always going to be people that want to custody their own Nostr keys, but most humans likely won’t have the knowledge nor inclination to do so. What they want is something that’s more like the “Login with Twitter” button.

In this future, a user would sign up with a Bunker provider (these could be paid services). The user would use a email/password to manage their account with the provider. The user could generate as many Nostr accounts as they like, but the Bunker custodies the keys.

Clients would then have a “Login with Bunker” button that allows the user to put in their Nostr address (NIP 05) and that will be de-referenced to a bunker and a few relays to help the client and the bunker do all the coordination to get the user logged in and ready to use the client. It will basically be OAuth but using Nostr events as the transfer protocol instead of just HTTP requests.

This architecture allows the least technical users to have a familiar experience while benefiting from all the security and control tools that sophisticated companies still struggle with.

Best of all, if users can export their keys in the future, then they can always migrate out of a custodial solution and self-custody once they learn the advantages. More freedom for users and freedom tech still gets more accessible to everyday folks. nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft created a proof of concept of just such an onboarding flow, check it out here.

What needs to be built

While bunker providers would need to build some management software around nsecBunker (user/subscription management, passing along permission requests to users, etc) most of the work to make this possible is client-side.

More clients will need to support the authorization scheme that nsecbunker requires. This would require new login capabilities, as well as supporting nsecBunker style remote signing capabilities (to delegate authorization to the nsecbunker instead of relying on the user’s nsec being on the same device as the client).

It’s not insurmountable, but it is not trivial; and if history is any guide, client adoption will take time. We’ve seen that Nostr browser extensions still haven’t become universal, even though most developers will tell you they should be mandatory at this point.

My prediction is that iOS clients will lead the charge because iOS doesn’t have the same ability as android for apps to interact with each other (via Android Signing Apps) so nsecBunker may be their only way for iOS clients to stop requiring users to paste in their nsec directly into the client 😬.

I think we’re well on our way to this future, and it’s one that will be much easier for normies to utilize while still allowing for people to opt-out and self custody if they wish.

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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🌟中文版: 投资 Nostr 初创项目 🌟日本語: Nostr Startupsへの投資 🌟Español: Invertir en empresas emergentes de Nostr

Okay, good morning, everyone. How are you guys feeling? All right, first of all, how badass is it that we're in Tokyo right now? Thank you guys so much. Yeah, thank you so much to the organizers. it's crazy that just seven months ago, we were all meeting up in Costa Rica, and now I think we're got to be in the coolest city on the planet. So this is really awesome. You guys pulled it off. I'm personally super excited to meet more Japanese users as well and learn more how the community here is using nostr. I think that's awesome. Also, I just want to say that the last presentation by Bob was mind-blowing. So round of applause for Bob. That was so cool. In fact, the presentation before it was also mind-blowing. Like so much cool stuff to talk about.

So I'm going to keep this talk pretty simple today. No slides, in fact, and my goal is to give you guys, perhaps a slightly different perspective on nostr and what I'm thinking about right, and so as an investor in this space, I'm extremely excited about what nostr means for freedom and for the world, but I also think we have the opportunity to build some of our generation's defining companies here, and I want to give a little bit of that perspective and then quickly, hopefully move into Q&A to answer whatever questions you guys have about, does it make sense for me to potentially build a startup on nostr.

So three things I want to touch on today. One, why am I excited about nostr personally and professionally? Number two, what does my model look like as a venture capitalist, and what am I looking for in founders, and then number three, what are some of the ideas that I would love to see explored and potentially built today. Sounds good? All right.

So first of all, why am I excited about nostr? In nostrica, about seven months ago, I talked a LNbit about this, so I want to give some of my updated thinking here today, which I think continues to evolve. First of all, I think humanity is at a turning point. I think everyone here agrees with that. I think that the technology of the day determines how humans organize, and so the state made a lot of sense when we needed information from the edges to be recentralized so decisions could be made and sent back out to the edges.

That made sense. Nothing bad with it. In fact, it was necessary, but the reality is, in today's world, when we have instant communication with information technology and now, as Bob just showed, instant value transfer as well. When you pair those things together, I think we have the opportunity to create what my fund is named after, which is a real-time coordinating hive mind. I think, in fact, the hive mind is inevitable. I think the technology of today necessitates that this hive mind is going to exist, a hive mind of eight billion humans and who knows how many trillions of machine intelligences. This is inevitable in the sort of Kevin Kelly sense of the word when he says that there are forces, sort of universal forces, that are forcing the structures of what technology and societal organization will happen, but I think there is a question, and that question is, will this hive mind be a decentralized hive mind where each neuron has autonomy or a centralized version? And I think that question remains to be answered.

So I think that our mission today, all of us here as builders, as investors, as promoters, as whatever, is obviously to make that latter vision the reality, the centralized or the decentralized version of this. So that's why I'm excited about nostr, just as an individual. I think together, as Bob just showed, when you have an entire stack of decentralized payments, decentralized money, and now decentralized communications and data, there's a tremendous amount of opportunity to build there as well, and this is what gets me excited as an investor, right? We're still at a very early stage in terms of even Bitcoin adoption. Maybe we have 200 million users, something like that. That's akin to 1997 levels for the internet from 97 to 2007 and a little bit later. That's when we saw some of the biggest companies of our generation ever built. The Googles, the Facebooks, the Twitters, all came about in that last wave. Now, whether or not we're ever going to see companies that big again, I think that remains to be seen. That's an open question.

It may or may not be a good thing for humanity, but I think that right now, as we go from 200 million users to two billion users in Bitcoin, things are going to happen over the next several years, and I think nostr is going to be, as we just saw with Bob, the messaging layer that pulls many of those applications into reality and so for me, when I look at this as an investor, I see the opportunity to rebuild the entire web that we have today as an open web on that open protocol stack and potentially build something many orders of magnitude bigger because once you include all the billions of people who are more or less cut off from markets today and all the trillions of artificial minds that are coming as well, I think no one has any idea of how big this is going to be. That sounds exciting to me. So that's why I'm excited personally. That's why I'm excited as an investor.

The second thing I want to talk about is what does that mean? So for you guys, I know the sort of world of investing in venture capital is kind of a little bit opaque. It's kind of weird. In fact, I was not an investor for most of my life before getting into investing just a few years ago. I was also a builder working on actually decentralized energy systems, solar in Mexico, and eventually came into the investing landscape, but I think it's important for you guys to understand how does an early stage investor think? What is it that I'm looking for and why? And every investor is going to be different. For me, to give you guys a sense, I think the true sort of best platonic ideal of venture capital is risk capital, right? I think a lot of what you think of as venture capital today has nothing to do with what I'm doing. It's become sort of late-stage private equity investing, which is looking for,what kind of boring enterprise, I don't think of that as real venture capital. What I'm interested in is can we try and build something radically new and still take risk, maybe even before anyone has traction in order to do that? That's why I have a very small fund. I've tried to keep my funds very small so that I can go in super early, write small checks, be that absolute first yes for an entrepreneur. If you have a really wild and ambitious idea.

Now, for me, the way my model works to keep this really simple is imagine if I have a $2 million fund that I'm investing. I write $100,000 checks. This is all just to make the math simple. Each of those checks that I'm writing in the back of my head is one question. If this thing gets really big, just imagine stuff goes right, really, really right, could I at least return the fund on that $100,000 investment? That means could my $100,000 check turn into $2 million with a 20x return? That's like the absolute minimum of what I'm looking for, and by the way, I think that there is a model where maybe smaller companies don't have to get to a Google or Twitter or Facebook size to make those kinds of returns. If you're a very lean and capital-efficient company and maybe you only raise once, maybe I'm the only check you ever take, which is great.

The other option, though, is that I'm thinking, well, what if this goes really, really, really right? Is there a chance that $100,000 check could thousand x and then, then all of a sudden you're talking about $20 million or more return to the fund. That's what I'm really interested in. So whenever you hear a venture capital say, maybe this idea isn't big enough, that's what they're thinking in the back of the head. That's what I'm thinking is if this goes right, what could this look like? And that's why I like betting on really wild ideas and founders that are exploring areas that could get really big.

So when I am looking and meeting with a founder, the three or four things that come to mind.

Number one: Could this market be big? Are they asking questions in a market where things go right? I could potentially thousand X on this.

Number two: Is this founder someone that has a unique insight about the world? I love listening to people that have discovered something new that lights me up, and almost every entrepreneur that I've had the fortune to work with has had some interesting insight about the world. In fact, I would say the insights that I just heard from Bob, that was certainly a big one for me, and then, from Stuart before that, he had a lot of incredible insights. I want to hear that you have something new, that perhaps I haven't thought of before, or if I have, it's a completely new sort of flavor.

The next thing I'm looking at is: Can you ship super fast? And the reason is, at the stage that I'm betting, I like to be the absolute first money in. I like to work with you at the very earliest stage, and so I'm thinking, is this person going to learn fast? Because no one knows what's going to work, right? Like, I love coming to conferences like this because people are experimenting with five, ten different things, and that's awesome because we don't know what's going to work and what's not. We need feedback from the market, but in order to get that feedback, we have to ship fast, we have to iterate.

And then the last thing I'm looking for is: Does someone have exceptional taste? At the end of the day, to build a truly great and lasting company, the only thing that really matters is taste, because as we see with open protocols, you can't just rest on your laurels with network effects anymore. That's not the case, and that's awesome. In order to build something that grows and becomes something valuable for society, you need to continue to keep iterating, continue to improve your user experience, to make something beautiful, right? And so to me, that's something that I'm always looking for. Is whatever you're shipping fast, does it have heart and soul, and is it beautiful? One example, a company I've been very fortunate to work with here is Stacker News. I think that Keon, first of all, he's a very lean machine. Most of what he was shipping was just one person. Now it's a very small team, but everything he ships, he ships fast, and it's always beautiful, and that's kind of the ideal of what I'm looking for in a founder. Someone that can iterate quickly and learn.

So I hope that's useful to give you guys some context on what a VC is thinking about investing at the early stages. Obviously, with a few caveats, this is only my model. Everyone has different models, but that's what I'm looking for, and I think a lot of people are probably in similar boats.

Number two, to be clear, venture capital is probably not the right instrument for most companies, and that's awesome. What I love about Nostr is that it enables the long tail. You know, growing up in the '90s, I just loved how weird the internet was. Being able to spend hours, looking for torrent, looking for all kinds of bizarre websites that frankly look pretty ugly but were cool because they were unique and personal, and what I'm excited about with Nostr is reiring the internet, and in doing that, I think and my hope is that, a lot of these businesses are going to be able to get profitable on their own. They don't need to raise venture, and that's awesome, but if you do want to work on something big that could get big, these are the kinds of things that I'm looking for.

Okay, so the final thing that I'll throw out there: What are some of the ideas that I'm excited to fund today? Some of these ideas that I'm really excited about are around, four different categories.

Number one: Completely net new apps that couldn't have existed before. Right? So in this sense, I'm thinking about open marketplaces where the order book is shared, and there's one shared liquid backend that's super interesting to me. I think this is obviously going to take place in many different places. I think digital goods first is super interesting. Things around oracles, the nostr asset protocol, I think local Bitcoins can make a lot of sense on here, and hopefully, things I haven't even thought of. That's one area that I'm super excited about.

The second area that I'm super excited about is completely open-sourcing and applying free markets to the AI stack. I think this can be absolutely huge. So my last investment that I made or that's announced is in a company called GPUtopia. This excites me tremendously, and, actually, I think just last week, they paid out their first bounty for Nostr integration. This is super exciting to me because with GPUtopia, anyone can plug in, a GPU, they get paid out sats. Okay, now all of a sudden, we have a marketplace, a free market for computation for GPUs, but that's just the start. I personally am excited to see what does the whole AI stack look like if we apply free markets to it? So that could be something like Hugging Face, where you upload a model and get paid. RHF, where you're providing feedback for these models and you get paid. I think there's so much work to be done here as the AI wave, which I believe is very real, continues to crest. For people to apply free and open markets, and I think Nostr and lightning payments are going to be a huge part of that.

The next thing I'm very interested in is, as a continuation of that, marketplaces for other physical goods that are consumed digitally, and so for me, this includes bandwidth, storage, and compute. We already talked about compute, right? , I actually, I made kind of a tongue-and-cheek comment a few months ago on Twitter and Nostr, where I was like, if you go to, like, any of the altcoin or the shitcoin, as it were, ecosystems and look for the good ideas, there are good ideas out there, and they're probably going to get just rebuilt with lightning and nostr, and so for me,I look at things like, Filecoin or Storage. Are we going to have open markets for storage? Absolutely, we are, and it's probably going to get built on top of nostr. I look at things like, obviously, we talked about Jensen and Gollum. We already have projects like GPiA on compute. What about bandwidth? Projects like Helium that were interesting on actually paying for Wi-Fi. In fact, I think I saw NVK had a very interesting, take on this yesterday as a first step, but I think all of those marketplaces for real-world, resources consumed digitally are going to be absolutely huge.

And the last thing that I'm really excited about is search and discovery. This is something that Stuart was talking LNbit about as well, but in an age when the amount of information on the Internet is about to go exponential, LLMs and generative models are about to create so much information. We're already swimming in information. It's going to get so much worse. We have to find some way to index and discover that information. I think this is probably the biggest opportunity, the thing that I'm most excited about. How can you use an open social graph and an open value graph to find that information? , I've been stoked to take a bunch of bets here, looking at this from different angles, but I think that, no one knows how this is going to work, so I want to take many, many, many more chances to work with entrepreneurs and solving this problem we have.

I know, Mr. Millian, in the audience who's doing some really interesting things on Primal. I know a lot of the other clients' projects like nostr, Band, and others that are exploring this stacker news to its own degree, but I think this is only the very beginning, and by the way, there're going to be subservices that come out of that. Things like reputation as a service. I was having a fascinating conversation with Oscar from Fountain yesterday, and he made the great point to me that so many more people would be prototyping on nostr and trying new things like Bob was talking about. Imagine pay 100 SATs or a thousand SATs if you sign up, but they need to know this person's on a bot, and one way to do that is to have nostr reputation, right? So I think whoever builds those services, you can offer that as an API, paid API. It's going to be very interesting, and that's an idea that I am right now looking to potentially support.

So I hope this guy, I hope this gives you guys a decent overview of how I'm thinking about building on nostr. To sum, I think we have a chance to completely rebuild an open web, potentially more significant in magnitude, with free markets all around it. I think nostr is emerging at just the right time. I think it's not coincidental. I think the fact that the amount of information in the world is going exponential with AI right now means that we need something to fight back, and I think an open social graph with value ranking is going to be a big part of that.

Number two, I hope you guys took away a little bit about how a VC thinks. I know this world is pretty opaque to those that are not in it. So I hope that's a helpful clarification, and again, for most people, VC is probably not the right model, but for some people that want to take really ambitious swings, I think it absolutely is, and finally,I have a couple of ideas that I'm excited about, but the thing that I love the most is if you an entrepreneur, entrepreneur out there, and you have a unique insight that I haven't thought of, I'm way more excited. So with that, I am going to go ahead and open this up to questions because I think frankly hearing from you guys on. What are you actually thinking about like when you're starting a company, what questions do you have? I think that's probably the most useful thing I can do. So with that, we'll go ahead and maybe, take whatever questions you guys have on your mind.

Hi. Thanks for your talk there. I'm just interested as an investor in this space. I mean, so many of the projects are open source, which is obviously a great thing for the community, but what is your ultimate plan for monetization when you're investing in an open-source project?

Ye. So the question is how do we monetize open-source projects? So first of all, this is the trillion-dollar question, and I don't presume to have the answer here. what I'm betting on in a very sort of general sense is if we can onboard 8 billion people and who knows how many machines, the markets are going to be so large that there will be opportunities to monetize. One way of thinking about this on the payment sort of system is, the margins that you're going to take are probably going to be much lower on things, but potentially on a much bigger pie. So today, let's say you're paying 2.9% to Visa or Mastercard. Maybe in the future, with Lightning, payment rails, that comes down to one 100th of the cost. However, if you're onboarding 8 billion people around the world, all kinds of artificial intelligences, maybe the size of the economic pie, total GDP, is actually a thousand times bigger than it is today.

I think that's one way of thinking about it, but there are like very clear models that I think we're going to try and probably will work for a while. One of those models is, looking at how open-source software companies have monetized today. One way is by hosting, right? You go out there, you produce the absolute best product, you get distribution. Distribution is what matters the most, and the way I think about it is if you're using software, everyone pays for it, but you pay for it in the currency that you have. So in the case of a corporation, they have a ton of money. So they would much rather pay someone to host it and potentially offer an SLA, some kind of service and support around that. If you're a hacker with the time and the skills, great. You should be able to use that for free, but you're paying for it with time. So you don't have the money, but you have the time, and I think that's always going to be the case.

If you're a business, you want to focus on what drives revenue for you, and if you can, outsource hosting and service, great. I think another thing that's going to be very interesting is, even though these marketplaces, as an example, are going to be decentralized, there still are going to be pretty sticky and important user interfaces for using the marketplaces. So as one example, how do you become, imagine an open market for everything? LNbits has their marketplace software. It's very interesting today. Anyone can run their own instance, but where are most people in the world going to go and look for that? Like, is there an opportunity to be, maybe it's not Amazon, but maybe it's the Amazon for digital goods where, you have whatever 30% of market share. Maybe it's not 80 or 90% like today, but because people trust you, it comes down to having the best user interface, the best brand, potentially the best guarantees and service around that. So short answer, TBD, long answer, a couple of things we can test.

Other questions for Max?

I remember this topic being discussed at nostr as well, but maybe have different perspectives now. How are we going to avoid centralization because of the VC funding in the space?

Ye. Well, the question is how are we going to avoid VC or centralization due to VC funding in the space? I think a couple of things. Number one, architecturally, what I love about nostr is, even if there is some amount of centralization that occurs, which there will be, at different points in time, we don't know how this is going to look out five, 10, 15 years. There might be different levels of centralization depending on when you're looking out, but you always have that right of exit, and you always have the ability to bring your social graph and go somewhere else. Now, I do think that there are some very critical challenges that need to be solved, for example, before we onboard the next 10 million users.

Some of the stuff that Pablo is working around with some of the gossip relay models and the ability to have potentially topic-related relays, I think that's pretty important, and it's important that stuff builds up before any individual clients or browsers or whatever get too big, but I think in the long run, I'm still not nearly as concerned about that problem. Like, to be clear, there will be big businesses and relatively centralized interfaces which surface, but unlike in today's world where if you're on Twitter, there or X, there's just no way out, you know In this world, as long as we always preserve the right to exit, I think that's the absolute most critical thing, but I do think it's important that we get some more diversity in relays before we get too big. That's one of the bigger threats, I would say.

I'm coming Rockstar on faster, faster.

Hey, Max. So I must say, like, I'm really impressed with you as an investor, and I'm curious, like, who are your in? Who are the investors you're impressed with so we can, like, orange and purple fill them, like, get them in nostr so that they support founders. Because I agree with what you said in the presentation. Like, a lot of investors nowadays, it's all about, oh, can I make 3x on this deal. There are not many VCs that are taking these big risks and betting on founders and helping them develop themselves to, like, hit that window of opportunity that's extremely important in startups. So who are the investors like you that we should, like, orange and purple fill.

First of all, thank you, Roxar. I appreciate it, it's interesting. My girlfriend just showed me this morning an excellent tweet. I actually don't know who it was, but I really resonated with it, where it's like it's kind of ridiculous that Venture Capital has become synonymous with a way to fund sort of SaaS businesses. The reality is for SaaS businesses and the to build an internet business, you can really do that pretty much anywhere today, and frankly, you probably don't need Venture Capital. It's probably not the best way to even be doing it. Like, what Venture Capital, like, at its Platonic ideal, what makes it so beautiful is when it's truly financing something with real risk. Now, for some people, that just means market risk, but I like even more technology risk. That's where venture capital is at its best. So I think, for things like biotech, for things like new forms of energy, I want to see a lot more investing in those types of fields. One day, and, one day when we all ride off into the sunset, everyone has their own INB and their own lightning wallet. That's the kind of stuff I'm excited to be investing in.

Quantum Computing and stuff like that, but in terms of, where we are today, we do still, I do still see a lot of risk in the nostr Community. Like personally, I have strong conviction here and a lot of it just comes down to my gut, but most investors are not going to be comfortable with a lot of these unsolved risks. Like things we were just talking about with relays and whatnot. So I think you have to look for people that really love, again, the Platonic ideal of going super early and also who are mission-aligned, right? I think that's one important thing Is, I am an investor, but I haven't really been an investor for most of my life and don't plan to do this forever, right? Like, I truly believe, I view myself as much as anyone as one of the movement, right? And so we do need more Mission-aligned capital for sure, but then I think we need people that, yeah, that are willing to take those big reps. So you asked me for specific investors. Who would I like to see orange-pilled? First of all, I mean, I have to say I love, for example, what Y Combinator has done over the years, EMB betting when it's just a technical founder or a hacker.

I think that's beautiful, and I think I would like to see a lot more of that. In my own little small way, that's kind of what I'm doing. I'm trying to bet on people when it's just a hacker, and I think that's amazing, in terms of, funds and firms, I will say this, like, there are a lot of funds and investors I used to really look up to and idealize, killed a lot of my heroes over the last four years, seeing people, get kind of, I don't know, taken away, even Sequoia here in FTX or whatever, like, you're kind of like, what's going on? and so it's given me a little bit more confidence of like, okay, maybe the last generation, maybe that's not who we're going to get. I hope we do eventually, but, I would personally love to see, just to give you a couple of specific names, and I am working on some of this. I think there's a lot we can do to build Bridges with Silicon Valley. They don't fully get it yet. They all kind of got swindled in crypto land, but there are smart people there, and I think they will come back, and there are people with good hearts and good consciences as well that want to see a decentralized world.

So to give you specific examples, I think Union Square Ventures, I basically cribbed a lot of their playbook from the early 2010s, and I'm just applying it to nostr and lightning. I would love to see them come out of Ethereum land and come back to nostr and lightning. That would be a really great one for me. Obviously, getting some of the big-name firms, Sequoia coming back in. I think that would do a lot to signal to everyone else that this is real. I think, I always, in certain ways, really appreciate guys like Bill Gurley and I think, someone like him maybe if he looked at this with fresh eyes would probably get excited about the upside and the opportunity, but I think, again, at the end of the day, hopefully it'll be new investors. I know there's other people out there besides me, but people that really, in their hearts, believe nostr and Bitcoin and lightning are what the world needs. so I wish I had a better answer for you.

Give it up for Max. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Appreciate It

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ROCKSTAR: Ever since I started coding personally, which now is, yeah, decades ago, I've been looking up to my fellow developers and hackers around the world. Look at this situation - I get to sit with them now because Ben Arc, first, what he is doing in Bitcoin and Foss is just amazing, man, telling you.

BEN ARC: Can I say, though, that one of the first conferences I went to was a lightning hack day in New York? It was about five years ago, four years ago when I first met you, and you gave me this. Do you remember this note? Oh, nice. And I keep it. I still keep it on me. It's Yugoslavian. How many series do we have on there? Oh, man, that should be like five billion, right? 10 billion, I think it is. Oh, 10 billion. Yeah. And then if you show it, like there is Nicola Tesla on the other side. So, and actually, I will say that the note has remained in amazing condition. So although they weren't good at keeping the currency, you know, liquid and solvent, they were good at producing the actual physical currency.

ROCKSTAR: Well, I mean, when you need to have a quality toilet paper, but we have our guest. Can you hear us, special guests? No.

RABBLE: Nope, he's hiding as always.

ROCKSTAR: I mean, I need to upgrade him so that he also does a mask and everything else. This is also nice because we did basically a similar session in Costa Rica, yes. And then, so it would be nice to recap what's happened over the past year, not even a year, but our special guest, can you hear us? Because we can't start this without you. Yes, there, yeah, hear me? Can you hear me here? We are. Can you hear the applause?

fiatjaf: Yes, I can hear the applause.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, I mean, you don't need an introduction, but yeah, for those that don't know that famous voice, it's Fiatjaf. And this now calls for the introductions. Yeah, Ben Arc already introduced as a FOSS Advocate and our fellow bitcoiner, and then Rabble, you also don't need an introduction. I mean, anarchist.

RABBLE: Anarchist, hacker, troublemaker. Was around when Jack was like, I think we should make something with this dispatch system and the text messages. You guys have been hacking on, and it blew up.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, it blew up really well. And then on the remote, we have Fiatjaf, the CEO of the Nostr, right? And that's the first question I have here is, who is actually CEO of Nostr, like Ben, is it you or Fiatjaf?

BEN ARC: I think we're all CEO of Nostr. That's the correct answer.

RABBLE: Is it like the dread pirate Roberts?

ROCKSTAR: So everyone in the audience is also CEO.

RABBLE: I guess that we are all the CEO.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, I guess that's where D comes in.

BEN ARC: We should probably. The next conference should have name tags with the nostr. Everyone should get a name tag with nostr on it.

ROCKSTAR: We are doing that, but Ben, let's start with a question. Like, how would you describe Nostr?

BEN ARC: I think the everything app of freedom. That there's so many things you can rebuild using that paradigm of smart client DOM server, which empowers users. It can have a profound impact across multiple platforms and industries. I think that's the way because that's like the elevator pitch when people say, you know what is Nostr? It's like, how can I summarize it in a way which captures someone's attention? And I feel that that's the everything at freedom. You know, is is is a good way putting it.

ROCKSTAR: Maybe Rabble?

RABBLE: Yeah, I mean, that's a fascinating question because Nostr inverts the way apps work, just like that, you know, Bitcoin inverts the way money works in terms of instead of it being an essential authority that defines it. In Nostr, every user, because we sign our messages, gets to participate in the network, and we can build permissionless applications on top of it inverts the power of building social applications. And so Nostr is this is the thing, but it is also not the thing because it underlies it, you know, the way TCP/IP underlies the internet, the way things like RESTful web services and JSON do. Nostr is the layer in which we can build social applications.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah. And then Jaf, how would you describe Nostr?

fiatjaf: I think it's like RSS, but everybody gets a server which is theirs and a domain name which is their pub key. Maybe that's a description. I was thinking about this description today, so it was nice that you asked. Well, you wouldn't that be true someone who doesn't know what RSS is or whatnot?

ROCKSTAR: Well, I would think this audience knows about RSS, but let's then switch to a different question. Like the title of this panel is the future of Nostr and when you don't think about describing Nostr but do you think about the future of Noster, from what Ben told me, yeah, you think very clearly about it. What is the future of Nostr?

fiatjaf: I'm not sure I think very clearly. I think Nostr eliminates all the other social networks and all the other proto-social networks on the internet, and then we reign over everybody.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, that deserves an applause. So Ben, Total Domination on Fiatjaf and Nostr, are we ready for it?

BEN ARC: Yeah, I mean if there's ever going to be something that exists which replaces the current way we do things with social networks, for example, because I think Nostr goes beyond social networks, it would have to be something where you could have that gravity of user effect and a network which these big platforms have. So it makes it very hard to move to a new platform and you have that with Nostr because you can just make a client and then you have access to x amount of users instantly. So the future's bright for Nostr. I think it's the solution when it comes to replacing some of these legacy systems.

RABBLE: I think we don't have the future assured. I think we still need to struggle for it. I think we need to build it. I think we need to evangelize. But in the early days of Twitter, Twitter didn't invent anything. All Twitter was was this API, and anyone could build an app that connected to it. And that meant that people built tons of different crazy apps. And that's what we're doing with Nostr today. So anyone who wants to build an app can just take the NDK libraries and they can put it together, and that's why we have all these different apps. What we need to do to assure Nostr's future is figure out how to get to other communities because we have one community of core users which are the bitcoiners which gives us a developer community, it gives us a user base, it gives us a financial model. But what we need to do to assure Nostr's future is figure out how to make it work for people into knitting or different language communities or different, you know, there are a hundred million ways in which people can identify and connect, and Nostr can solve all of those problems and be apps for those problems if we make space for people to find their communities and yes then do financial transactions and zaps and all that stuff. So I think we are in a very good place, and we've got a tremendous technology base for a new model of applications.

ROCKSTAR: Well, it's been six months since the last gathering. We had more than six months. What is the most exciting development that you have seen since then and that you would like to see more in the near future, Rabble?

RABBLE: What's the most exciting development? I would say the most exciting development is the maturity of things, the maturity of relays, the maturity of the apps themselves, the polish that we're getting on top of it, and the maturity of the underlying libraries. I feel like our user growth has become stable, but our work on the back end and the technical infrastructure has been really phenomenal. So to me, the exciting part is seeing that it's getting easier to build Nostr apps, that they're getting better and they're getting faster, and then we're exploring more things.

ROCKSTAR: What about you, Fiatjaf? What's been most exciting since the last time we did this type of panel?

fiatjaf: I don't know, better ask Ben first, I must think of it.

ROCKSTAR: Is okay, Ben. This is where you jump in while Fiatjaf thinks?

BEN ARC: It's that a permissionless development environment, which we're used to in Bitcoin and any open source software in general, but with Nostr, we have that blank canvas, the open protocol where anyone can develop anything, and then by having permissionless development, it means that you have this just this renaissance of clients and people experimenting with the technology, which has been really exciting to see over the past six months. And, to be honest, just the fact, like it was such a new concept and way of building a client and with relays, and the fact that it didn't really break. We had a bunch of users come in, like people built a bunch of stuff, and it's functional. It still works. It's getting better, and it's improving. So yeah, no, it's been a great six months of seeing all the new clients, which are being built, like Rabble said, and then just the momentum and the enthusiasm by the Nostr community. You go on the repo and look at NIPs, the amount of like conversations there on arriving at consensus on how NIP will take shape and form and be committed. So there's clearly just a really great community of very infused, clever, and interesting inspiring people working on Nostr stuff, which is great. That's what we want. That's where the value is. The value in the developers in the community, that's you know.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, Community is continuing to be strong, and Jaf, anything came to your mind?

fiatjaf: Yeah, I have an answer now. I think one of the most important things, the shift towards No Global State, was the increasing realization. Like people, developers, and people involved the most are realizing that Nostr doesn't have a global State, and they're starting to work around that. They're realizing that, for example, Nostr cannot be censorship-resistant if the clients don't. Well, when we at Nostrica, all the clients, they were just mostly talking to a fixed set of relays, for example, and I thought that was very bad. And now all the clients have some way of reaching to other relays or are working on that. So for the social microblogging aspect of the client, they are much more censorship-resistant, and other experiments are being made on the realm of not assuming everything has a global State like with counts of total number of likes and stuff like that that people used to in Twitter and yeah, that kind of stuff.

ROCKSTAR: So you're saying, a general shift, yeah, go ahead, go ahead.

fiatjaf: No, I was saying that I saw a general shift in the mentality of most people, most developers.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, just accepting that mindset of not having a global State. I am a little bit disappointed though. I mean, the Nostr and the Fiatjaf that has been a major development. I thought you were going to mention that like how did that come up, man?

fiatjaf: Well, it was just a joke, right? Or should I assume should I pretend it wasn't? But I don't know. I don't even know what these things mean. I don't know why everybody found that so funny. I don't speak English, and I don't know what that means to put that the before the words.

ROCKSTAR- Well, I mean, you merged it into NIPs. Now it's officially the Nostr, right?

fiatjaf: No, I merged it to the repo that has my old article that I wrote introducing Nostr. I have to rewrite that and put some something else there that explains it better, I think. But yeah, well, maybe if anyone wants has a suggestion, like for people that just arrive at that repo, if they can see something better than that old text, sure. I mean, yeah, I merged, but it's Derick's fault.

ROCKSTAR: Derick, Nostr developer. I don't know. I really enjoy your blog posts. Like I think every major event like that should be accompanied by a blog post just a suggestion. But on my end as well, going beyond the Nostr open SATs has been a major development, and it's great to see that Nostr contributors, Nostr developers, Nostr designers, like anyone that contributes to Nostr now has that option of being supported through open SATs. How has been that work going, Jaf, and like is it demanding on your day to day, like does it take too much of your day today? Would you want to go back to like full-time coding just how is it working with open Sats?

fiatjaf: It's not much work, no. It's basically the same things I would do already, like looking at projects. I already spent a lot of time looking at everybody what everybody's doing. Hello, yeah, that's it. What I don't know. Open SATs is like I'm not the one doing the heavy work there.

ROCKSTAR: Well, that's then a testament to how well G has organized things and the rest of the board. I don't know, Rabble, you wanted to say something on open SATs?

RABBLE: Yeah, I mean, I think one thing we have to realize is that open SATs and the very support that we've been able to get from Jack has been really critical in keeping this technology independent and keeping folks from trying to launch shitcoins to fund it all or go to VC funding or do all these things. The ability to sustain the development of many projects and many people working on it means that we can do the work to make the systems function well and as opposed to just doing quick adaptations. So I felt like at the beginning of the year, we had really quick hacks of like, oh my God, I can build a Nostr app really quickly. Now we can be like, I'm working on this, and I'm going to keep working on it, and I will have money to work on it next year, and I'm going to do it right. And so that's transformational, and we see it in the quality of all the applications in the libraries, and like Nostr design is a great site, a huge resource. And without that support, then those resources would just go to people who could have companies that could pay them.

BEN ARC: Yeah, Nostr has done a fantastic job of just freeing up all those minds. I'm always amazed in the free and open source world. I mean, I'm lucky enough to be able to work on my things full-time, but switching from like a fiat job and doing work to working on something like Bitcoin or working on something like Nostr, I think like those people are heroes, man. I don't know how they can. I mean, they enjoy what they do, and I did it for a while as well

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, it's when you look at open SATs as an organization, like it's amazing. Not only, we mentioned Fiatjaf takes time, Gigi takes time, but like everyone involved, the whole board does it in their free time, and now they're volunteers. So it's just amazing to have an organization like that that supports Nostr. But also, there is a Bitcoin part of that organization, and that's where, like BTC Pay Server is supported by open SATs. It allows what you're saying, like, hey, we can. We know that we have a year to develop something instead of focusing on, hey, something is launched, there needs to be a result right away. We mentioned daily active users. What are your thoughts on what all of us can do to like push that number up? And should that be our focus right now, or is the focus on what you said, like last six months, just the developer community? Like what are your thoughts on that, Rabble?

BEN ARC: I mean, I would say to Rabble's point before as an onboarding experience because I mean, Nostr isn't Bitcoin, okay, but because it's being built by a bunch of bitcoiners, the majority of the community is bitcoiners. And then you open up the client, and if the client has a global feed, then it's going to be Bitcoin stuff. So when I was at the Human Rights Foundation in Oslo, I was onboarding activists. And, of course, they love the idea, you know, like for the first time you have this easy-to-access freedom of speech tool which hasn't existed before, right? And then so you explain the Nostr proposition, and then you but then you get them to download a client, and then you install the client, and then there's just a bunch bunch of bitcoiners on there just talking Bitcoin stuff which we all love but normal people might not love. So having people have access to content which is relevant to them is probably like our biggest battle. That's the thing which can really onboard the most on the people. I mean, I had it literally just, you know, onboarding a coffee shop to Nostr, and the guy in the coffee shop, he downloads a client, and then it's just a bunch of Bitcoins, and he's like, and it's the content which puts him off. So yeah, Fiatjaf, I was interested in this because we were talking about this yesterday, and Rabble, I know you've been working on a similar thing. Is making more use of the relay system to deliver relevant content like, Fiatjaf, how do you think that will take shape over maybe the next six months or year?

fiatjaf: Well, there, I think it's natural, and I hope we get that soon. Relays don't have to be dumb. They can have special filtering abilities, and there can be communities that form around relays. And the clients can basically just display all the posts from on a relay that has a specific niche, and we can onboard people using that. Like we can make people install an app somehow, and they open the app, and they're already inside that relay, and that relay doesn't have anybody talking about Bitcoin. And then they can expand later, they can add more relays, follow people outside of that relay, but the first experience doesn't have to be a generic relay that will be populated only by bitcoiners. And I think I've been talking about this for a long time, but I should have built something, but it's coming. But if you look at those Mastodon activity Pub websites, they have a bunch of directories of servers, and the servers have special topics like they have servers for Education, servers for gaming, whatever. And I don't see why you can't have that; it's much more natural to have that on Nostr than on Activity Pub because in Activity Pub, your identity is tied to a server. So if you choose a server about gaming, you're basically telling everybody that your entire personality is gaming. But on Nostr, you can have your personality, and you can participate in different communities. So it's much easier to have these specialized relays.

RABBLE: Yeah, I would agree that the problem isn't that there are half a million bitcoiners using Nostr. The problem is that when someone joins and they're not a bitcoiner, they only see the bitcoiners on Nostr. And so the problem isn't the existing community; the existing community is what sustains us and what makes it real, and we can develop for it. What we need to do is through the communities, through the relays, through content discovery, through the, you know, and, you know, my talk later today, I think it, I think I've decided I'm going to call it Nostr for normies. And because it's about making it so that it's not just for bitcoiners, and if you come from a crypto experience the idea of a wallet and a key makes total sense, and the idea of logging into a web app using a browser extension makes sense. But to normal users, that's a crazy concept and it's a huge barrier. And so, you know, a bitcoiner would be like I don't want to use a non-custodial solution, I don't want someone else to hold my keys that's scary. But to a normal user, that's the normal way in which they want things to work and they understand it. And so what we need are services that let you log into all these Nostr web apps and but using oo or using a passkey where the users own their keys, they have a backup of their keys, they can move it off so they're not stuck in that service but we don't have to explain so much to them. And right now when you go to the Nostr website, it's for developers like I just did a screenshot of it like it's got the code for what a Nostr event looks like and not a description of what it feels like to you know, find community and connection and be able to have all these different kinds of apps. And so we need to start doing user experience research and start having those personas that describe how people are working on stuff and start sitting down with communities like the Oslo Freedom Forum and others and saying okay, what would it look like to start onboarding people in that community and make sure that they find their people.

BEN ARC: Yeah, we do need to be in defense. He's been bugging me for ages because for us to change the No.com website, I really like the design of it. I think it looks pretty, but yeah, you're right. You're totally right.

RABBLE: And it works for me. The problem is, and it works for us, but it doesn't work for all these other people that we know would benefit from getting on Nostr.

BEN ARC: It's a very good point. We'll do that, fix that one. I have to take the opposite view, though, with public key crypto. I'm kind of a public key crypto extremist. I think that it's an inevitable path that average people, just as they had to learn about email and whatever else, that at some point, they would just have to learn Key Management because passwords will get too hard and too long for people to remember, and captchas will get too crazy, and public key crypto fixes a lot of things. So I'm almost of the opinion that we shouldn't obfuscate the complexity of Nostr key using public keys in Nostr to a more traditional logging experience, that we should just ignore the traditional logging experience and have users just get used to Key Management because I want to see a lot more work on Key Management. So Hardware devices, delegated keys, those sorts of things. But it's a very interesting debate as we transition into a platform of Freedom where, you know, the way in which you're autonomous and you have your own data is secured by the keys in which you secure and then whether that can be done in a way where you Outsource that to some other service. Again, Fiatjaf, like what's your opinion on that, like the just the key management system and whether do we need, would you, could you like to see kind of like a login more traditional login system for managing keys?

fiatjaf: Yes, I would. I was thinking about that recently. I think there could be some services. The problem is that people think these servers will scam people, will steal their identity, but I don't think that has to be the case. Like you could have a system, and then someone goes there and logs in with their mail, and they get a confirmation mail like they like to do. And the servers like the apps, the clients can connect using NIP 46 or something or NIP 07 to these services to get the signatures, and the keys never leave the services. The current bitcoiner crowd of Nostr will probably hate this and think it's evil like they do with the Z social app that most people like to own, but I think it's working very well for a big segment of users who wouldn't care about Nostr otherwise, and they're using it, and I think we need more of that, and people shouldn't ever lose the ability to have their own keys, but it's if we want to grow, I think we need these kinds of things. Yeah, but it shouldn't be everybody focusing on that. We don't want to lose the spirit of Nostr.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, I mean segment of users for Zeb app is like cute girls from California. Like someone needs to get to the bottom of that. Like what's happening in Zeb Fiatjaf, we'll figure it out. But one thing that I'm really missing as a user of Nostr is the ability to obsolete my private key. I mean, I'm sorry, guys, but I just love dying online, as everyone knows that follows Uncle Rockstar. What are your thoughts on this, Ben?

BEN ARC: Like you should make a NIP, like I should. I should do the death NIP where you can just kill your keys.

ROCKSTAR: But I talked about this with Fiatjaf, and Jaf, you disagree with the Key Rotation and Identity Broadcasting approach where I would just broadcast that key is obsolete and optionally point to a new key. Like, are you against that approach?

fiatjaf: No, I like it. I just don't think people should do it. Like people shouldn't think this is a correct way of doing this. There's a NIP from Pablo proposed for doing this in a way that is not that bad. It's like, it's reasonably safe. Like you can't, because if you do it the naive way, someone can steal your key and then broadcast that your new key is actually their key. So they steal all your followers and something like that. But we can do it like in a not so bad way but still like a catastrophic event. Like you wouldn't want to do this every month or like you wouldn't want to rotate your keys every month using these techniques. It's for when you lose your key and you want to say, we want to broadcast this thing that says you have a new key and then hopefully, most people will catch that event, and they will use some special client or their normal client to automatically switch from following you on the old key into the new key, and that way you won't lose 100% of your followers and your identity; you still keep some. And similarly, there could be a way to say this key is dead forever, and you broadcast that, and then everybody just stops following that key, but the key continues to exist, but everybody that got the message just stops following that and stops treating that key as if it was you. This could be done too.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, but again, it's not guaranteed. I mean, for me, it's just the ability to do this. Like it is critical in a sense because right now everyone that opened a Nostr account is forever stuck on whatever the key is created, but whatever app they use. What are your thoughts on this, Rabble?

RABBLE: No, I think that the key rotation stuff that Pablo proposed is a great idea, and I think it's important, and I think that if we do the like Cloud hosted copy of the keys, then you can. I was talking to Matt working on NOS about how this could be a way in which you could use a cloud-hosted key. You could set up the signatures for the backup, which you keep, and then if that cloud provider that you're using for authentication and login went bad, then you have a way out. And you could say, okay, well, now I no longer trust this, or they've been hacked. And so one of the things that makes blue sky easier for people to onboard in is that there's a default app, but another way that it's easier is that it does use keys under the surface they just don't explain it to the users. And I think we don't need to make that the only way things work, but we do need key rotation. We need the ability to do that and we need the ability to do, you know, basically custodial Nostr as an option for folks, and not everyone's going to use it, and not everyone has to use it, and users have to own their keys, but I use Coinbase. I use Binance. Thankfully I don't use didn't use FTX.

ROCKSTAR: I'm waiting for the booze to start.

RABBLE: But yeah, the point is those exchanges and their custodial services that let people log in, give their ID, connect to their bank account, buy Bitcoin. That worked, you know? I use Cash App all the time, and it has keys under there, it has wallets, but I don't have to see them. I don't have to worry about them, and it lets me interact with this larger network. So we need more of that in Nostr, and we need the key rotation so that you aren't stuck forever on that.

BEN ARC: But then we need that similar thing in Bitcoin where we have that community, you know, not your keys, not your Bitcoin, not your keys, not your data, and then just some terms to remind everybody that they should probably hold their own keys and hold their own data if you're using custodial services.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, the last big development that I want to get your thoughts on - from my side, big development was the prisms. Did you see prisms on Nostr with the ability to send certain prisms, and then sets are distributed to everyone that signed up? So, you Rabble saw it?

RABBLE: Yeah, super exciting.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, because for me, the thought is, what if I, as someone that ideologically supports Nostr, I'm up to send SATs every day as long as there is a prism that sends that to nature photographers or the Japanese community. Like, those are my thoughts in that direction. What about yours?

RABBLE: Or, for example, if you are using Nostr to do paid content - paid newsletters, videos, photos, anything like that - then you want to be able to easily send a portion of those sets to the platform creators, to the person who's doing the curation and sharing, to the original creator. And prisms let you do that. I was looking at how to do that before prisms came along, and there's some individual wallet setting things or a push to go towards the Ethereum smart contract world because you could implement it there. So, I think the prism stuff - split payments and prisms - is super exciting and opens up possibilities. One thing I want to think about when we think about payments - we can't change Apple, we can't change their rules. But what we can do is support using Lightning when and where we can and fall back to Apple, Google, and Samsung taking their cut when they need to. So, I think that the services that sell content using Lightning, using payments, and everything else should be built with a fallback where, yep, you get 30% less. It's a shitty deal, and we should fight for that to be changed, but we shouldn't give up on the idea of paid content.

BEN ARC: Man, split payments or prisms, as you call them, is a subject dear to my heart. So, I was just about to say in LNbits - well, in LNbits, yeah. So, Fiatjaf, Draff, and Crypto Graffiti - Crypto Graffiti did a DJ set during Covid to cheer us all up. The idea was that he'd have a video stream, and then in the QR code, when you paid, when you donated, if you donated enough, you would get a link to download the track he was playing. When you donated, a portion was split between the DJ and then also the music producer themselves within the LNbits community.

That was a great extension - the live extension. And within the LNbits community, we all really got excited about this idea of just splitting payments. Suddenly, we have microtransactions, and we can split payments. That's really powerful for just the money management. So, we then created a new extension called split payments where you can just say, okay, when he hits this wallet, we want x amount to go to this wallet, this wallet, this wallet - which then eventually turned into you give LN your Payln addresses, and it would push the payments to those different addresses.

But the idea is that at the point of sale, so you could have like a group of people making coffee, and then at the point of sale, they could all decide, okay, you're going to get 30%, you're going to get 20%, you're going to get x%, and then when someone actually buys the coffee, everybody gets taxed into their wallets. Then you can extend this out to larger scale production where you buy a laptop, and then distribution gets this, manufacturing gets this, and then marketing gets x amount. And then those percentages are predefined, and within those different departments, it then gets fanned out again.

You have this like tree of payments. We have micro-payments. We have this micropayment technology now, right? So then on the factory floor, you have the guy cleaning the toilets, and you can see in his wallet the SAT dribbling in. And then all of a sudden, they start slowing down, and then it's like, well, why are they slowing down? And then it's because, oh, we decided to take x% away from marketing and put it into R&D. And then the cleaner on the shop floor - well, that sucks. I want more SATs. And it's like, well, okay, but we'll get more SATs in a month's time or a year's time when that comes to fruition.

I think it's impossible for people not to become socially conscious in a production environment when they have this access to split payments. It just makes money management within a corporation, a business, so much more efficient. So, it's great that prisms are doing this on Nostr. And yeah, Fiatjaf, like, that was such a cool extension. There was a coffee producer in Lugano, and they were selling coffee in Lugano. Then they were using LNbits. So when they did the point of sale, the payments were split, and the producers were getting the money directly. They were getting five times the amount of money they would get selling the coffee on the open market because you haven't got all those middlemen in the distribution model, particularly when you're dealing with unbanked people. So they can just get ripped off because they haven't got bank accounts, right? So now they have this access to these digital payments. You don't need to have a registered citizenship or whatever. You have access to digital payments that can also exist for Nostr and prisms. So, it's very, very exciting, very profound, and can have real benefit and impact on the world, I think. Yeah, let's use it more. Okay, that's been it for this session. Thank you, Fiatjaf, for joining. Thank you, Rabble. We've got time for Q&A here.

ROCKSTAR: Have 5 minutes, 10 minutes, how many questions? Anyone has a question, Emperor right away.

AUDIENCE 1: Actually, I have several, but maybe we don't have time, so we go short. One time we saw that, I think it was Apple, that kind of censored one app because of the... and they don't get their cuts. I think there is a way to work around that that might work. If we take it as a community, very often something is forbidden, but if you split it into two different services, both of the services can be allowed. Somehow, if you connect them, finding solutions for private key security together, it does the same picture as was originally intended. So, a typical idea I was thinking, for example, Zap - if they say, okay, no Zap in the app, okay, I cannot do that. But maybe I can. If I have my own server and I say, okay, every time you see a Zap coming from me that has this word, then you send the Zap, for example, you send a message Zap to Ben, then the server interprets that as sending money to Ben. And you have basically the same pictures that are basically Zap, but Apple cannot complain about it. And it's the same thing with... you were talking about custodian Nostr, where the custodian has the private code. Nostr, there is no law against this. Why is it not possible to give a private key so that when you send a special message, send money? Typically speaking?

ROCKSTAR: Are we up for that approach? Yes, yeah, that's the question. I mean, what's up with you, Nicholas? You're always taking on big entities, you know, like BitPay. I will make you AB. It's in my blood. Yeah, it's in your blood.

BEN ARC: I like... I mean, this is the adversarial development thinking which is certainly born out of the Bitcoin environment, or is the king of course. And we need it in Nostr because, of course, like the... we're attacking power bases, big corporations like Apple and Twitter and whatever else Facebook. They are going to, before they end up adopting and using Nostr, which they will, they are going to attack it. So this adversarial development thinking is... it comes from, you know, a large part comes from the Bitcoin development environment, which I think is a healthy thing we have.

RABBLE: Yeah, I agree. I would also say that as difficult and bad as it has been, the fights between Damos and Apple, it's been good for Damos and good for the community because it exposes the values of what we're doing in Nostr. We're not just concerned about closed social platforms on centralized servers but like closed development environments and application environments like exist with iOS. I'm an iOS developer, that's a problem. And so yeah, we should make, you know, and there are hacks to do end runs around it, and I know that Will has done tons of experiments with, like, rapid uploading like the shelf that appears so you can see the profile and send the Zap from that, which I've started using, it's great. And so and Nostr wallet connect so you don't have to put the wallet in the app. We just need to keep experimenting with that, and we can be the rebel army that just sits out there and continues to try things and figure out what works because we can try a thousand things.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, agreed. Next question. What's that Cipher Punk quote with the censorship is damage and route around? It's like big corporations will not give us rights out of their benevolence but rather we need to fight for them. So, yeah, any more questions.

AUDIENCE 2: Let's go, this is a quick one. I get nervous every time I need to give my Nostr private key to a client. When I'm using it, are we expecting to always give the private key to the clients?

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, well, this is what we were talking about. I do like Pablo's ANC bunker and his proposals that are coming, but we kind of discussed this, right?

BEN ARC: Like we're excited; we have like some hardware stuff. So, we made, like, a hardware Nostr signing device on NSD. And I think more people will be using these Nostr signing devices. I think there's a bunch of solutions. I mean, the entire Nostr is a very good commercial opportunity for all these industries to step in and build a whole bunch of hardware and relay services and whatever else. Actually, I was interested in Fiatjaf's take on that, like the commercialization of Nostr. How do you think that's because obviously it's very much a free and open-source development environment currently, and people are running relays for altruistic reasons. There hasn't been really an experiment running relays for in a business context to be able to support the relay service. So, like Fiatjaf, how do you feel that will go? Do you think that's something we're going to see more of? And is it something you welcome?

fiatjaf: I don't see many business opportunities for relays to make a lot of money. Maybe there are, but I think it'll be very marginal. I think relays can exist forever and expand on a scale based on communities, and having a relay that is restricted or a relay that just accepts, doesn't accept spam, like it filters spam somehow, and then it's very cheap to run a relay. I don't think that's a problem. I think there will always be people running relays, and there could be free usage of relays for businesses, like businesses made around the relays that they will sell something, and they will just give the relay usage for free for people that are around their business doing something.

BEN ARC: What about things like data storage? So, for users who want everything stored forever, like who pays for that?

fiatjaf: Yeah, no, for this kind of stuff, you can pay, but it'll be very cheap, and the margin will be very low. Like Nostr.Wine already has a relay that stores everything for you and for all EPO. You can export your Twitter stuff from 2007, 2006, and all your tweets, and you put them all on this Nostr.Wine relay, and you pay a very cheap fee, and they store it for you forever. But there's not a big business to be made out of it.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, so Fiatjaf not bullish on relays commercializing it but on other use cases maybe. And to answer your question, then come to Ben's Workshop tomorrow 1 pm, right? Do you have a hardware signing device?

BEN ARC: I've got some. No, I've got... I'll do the physical hardware workshops probably throughout the next couple of days. We're doing a Zap lamp, so this is Black Coffee BC's work. He works with LNbits, and he's created a Zap lamp. So when you get zapped, the lamp goes off. It's pretty flipping cool. So we'll be doing that and then maybe making some Nostr signing devices and then some Bitcoin points of sound and stuff, the usual hardware workshops.

ROCKSTAR: There you go. So you don't need to enter McShan. Do we have one more question? One more question here.

AUDIENCE 3: Yes, hi, guys. So on Nostr, we've seen a lot of versions of things that exist, like Twitter feeds on Nostr, blogs on Nostr. I'm curious if you have seen any or have thought of any new concepts, ideas, applications that are not versions of something that already exists but are some completely new idea or application that Nostr enables, Streamster.

BEN ARC: Dude, so like this is, again, this is a subject close to my heart because we recently did a net 107 for IoT. I have a bunch of IoT devices in my house, and I want to be able to turn them on and off without having to sign the horrible terms and conditions involved in IoT software. We're buying all these surveillance devices and installing them in our homes, and actually, I just want to send a DM and say, "Can you turn on, please? What's the temperature of my boiler?" and using Nostr for that. I don't know, maybe it's not the most efficient way of doing it, but again, BC's been working on an example, and it's dope. We have an app, like a client, and then you can just turn the light on and off, and you can tell your heater to turn up, and I can just DM those things, and then you're accessing that permissions developing environment. So for me, it's IoT. I think it's really exciting, and we also have a more public IoT system which Fiatjaf got a nit for, where you could like weather data and things could be a bit more open.

RABBLE: I would say the data Marketplace stuff is super interesting in terms of making it easy to build stuff, but I'd also say that there is nothing new under the sun. All we are doing is remixing the same human activities over and over again with different technological rules underneath it. You know, there were apps like Twitter before Twitter, and it was the same behavior of giving people updates over being able to have mobile phones. There are newspaper articles and sections called Twitter from the 1920s, which have tweet-length updates of the status of what people are doing because that is a thing that exists. So, we don't need to reinvent everything; we just need to figure out how it makes sense in this permissionless network for building social applications.

ROCKSTAR: Yeah, to me, the biggest value of Nostr is that data format, and like I think this is the data format. Fiatjaf, your thoughts, closing thoughts?

fiatjaf: Yeah, I think the DVM stuff, the way for AI to communicate, is a new thing. I think people doing the AI stuff are mostly using centralized platforms, and if you do it on the open with public data, you can have some interesting things that we haven't seen yet, like with interaction between these, and like someone doing something, and other people seeing that and expanding on that. I don't know what will happen the same way you can do that for IoT, like the way that IoT devices capture stuff and publish that stuff to the world, and someone else takes that and does something. There could be new things arising from that. I don't know, that's it. I don't have any more thoughts.

ROCKSTAR: Well, Fiatjaf, thank you for working to make sure that Nostr has a bright future. Thank you, Ben, as well. Thank you, Rabble, and thank you, Nostr, for joining us for this session.

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ความบ้าพลังของผมผสมกับความเจ๊าะแจ๊ะของสมนึก ทำให้เกิดโคตร Long-form ขึ้นใน FB Messenger มันมากเกินกว่าคุณจะใช้เวลาว่างๆ ในแต่ละวันมาตามเก็บให้หมดได้

ในเวลานั้น อ.ตั๊ม ก็คงชักจะอ่านไม่ไหวแล้ว สุดท้ายจึงต้องเบิกตัวภรรยา nostr:npub1e963pmyq9q6873njkzxu279l8rh3mymxj9y5lq3x3hkeyj5s2pkqut3z4f เพื่อมารับมือกับไอ้บ้าสองคนนี้

ถ้าลองย้อนกลับไปสักเกือบ 2 ปีที่แล้ว ในตลาดบ้านเราแทบไม่มีใครรู้จักแม่โบมาก่อนเลย คุณไม่มีทางเดาได้หรอกว่า ผู้หญิงที่เป็นคู่ชีวิตของปิรันย่าจะมีหน้าตาและลักษณะนิสัยแบบไหน..

และถ้าย้อนไปสัก 5-7 ปีก่อน ผมเองก็มีประสบการณ์โปรเจคพังยับแบบงี่เง่ามามากกว่า 2-3 ครั้งเพราะ "เมียเจ้าของ" มาเกือบทุกรอบ จะมีสักกี่คนที่ยอมรับสไตล์ของผมได้ โดยเฉพาะเมื่อเป็นผู้หญิง แถมยังเป็นเมียของคนสำคัญอีกด้วย

ผมเหมือนเป็นภัยคุกคามที่ยังมีลมหายใจต่อสามีของใครก็ตามที่หวังจะกลายเป็นผู้เกรียงไกร ซึ่งผมบอกตรงๆ ว่าทั้งหมดคือคิดกันไปเองทั้งนั้น

ก่อนหน้า Covid-19 ผมเคยเปิดใจกับเฮียคนหนึ่ง เกี่ยวกับประเด็นนี้…

“ผมผิดตรงไหนที่ตั้งใจทำงานให้พี่.. ทำไมเมียพี่ถึงดูเกลียดผมจังเลยวะ”

ผมเป็นคนที่ไม่ชอบอ้อมค้อมหากมีประเด็นต้องเคลียร์ใจ ผมซัดแสกหน้าตรงๆ แบบนั้นเลย ผมไม่ชอบให้ใครมาเสแสร้งหรือแต่งคำพูดเอาอกเอาใจ ผมต้องการความจริงเท่านั้น และผมดูออกเสมอหากเขาคิดจะโกหก..

“มึงอย่าไปคิดมากสิวะ.. ผูหญิงมันก็เป็นแบบนี้แหละ.. พี่ยังบอกมันอยู่เลยว่าถ้าพี่ไม่เอามึงมาทำงานด้วยวันนี้ วันหนึ่งข้างหน้ามึงก็หาทางไปเองได้อยู่ดี และมึงอาจจะโตกว่าการอยู่กับกูด้วย มึงเป็นคนแบบนั้น.. มันไม่ใช่บุญคุณ กูแค่อยากได้คนแบบมึงมาช่วย”

ผมรู้สึกว่าผมไม่ได้คำตอบที่อยากได้ นอกจากคำปลอบประโลมปลอมๆ และอาการบ่ายเบี่ยงอย่างเห็นได้ชัด แต่ในใจผมมันมีคำตอบที่ชัดเจนแล้วกับอนาคตของตัวผมเอง ซึ่งมันไม่ใช่ที่นั่นแน่นอน..

สิ่งเหล่านี้ทำให้ผมเหมือนมีผีตามหลอกหลอน ผมรู้สึกแย่ทุกครั้งที่ “เฮีย” มักจะพาคนสนิทอย่าง “เมียตัวเอง” มาร่วมงานกับผม.. เพราะผมมันคนแปลก ผมลูกทุ่ง ผมไม่ได้จบ MBA ห่าเหวอะไรนั่น มันยากที่ใครจะเข้าใจวิธีคิดในแบบผม (ซึ่งผมมารู้เอาทีหลังว่าผมได้สมาทานแนวคิดออสเตรียนมาเต็มประตูแบบระลึกรู้เอาเอง nostr:npub16hpaqcm8zhc6n4d79tu2mtsf9464093r4v3r7l5hq5tpsng3txesw3tu5f มันว่ามาแบบนั้น..)

มันจะมีลูกเกรงใจ.. มีเรื่องของความสัมพันธ์ การให้เกียรติ และความกดดันบางอย่างที่ผมเองก็อธิบายไม่ถูกเมื่อต้องทำงานกับ “เมียเฮีย” เอาเป็นว่าผมไม่ชอบเลยก็แล้วกัน.. แต่ในที่สุดผมก็ต้องมาเจออะไรแบบนี้อีกครั้ง และไวกว่าที่ผมคิดเอาไว้ด้วย..

แต่ท้ายที่สุด.. ผมก็เลือกจะปล่อยวางทิฐิของตัวเอง ผมเลือกที่จะไม่เอาอคติเหล่านั้นมาบดบังเรื่องอื่นๆ เพราะผมรู้สึกว่าการปล่อยให้ปัญหาหรือความชอบส่วนตัวมาขัดขวางทางเดินคงเป็นอะไรที่ไม่ฉลาดนัก ผมพยายามเข้าใจให้ได้ว่ามันอาจไม่ใช่ทุกคนที่จะเป็นแบบเดียวกัน ผมไม่ควรทึกทัก "เหมารวม" ไปเสียหมด

ก็ในเมื่อมันต้องเป็นแบบนี้ ทำไมเราไม่ลองทำให้มันออกมาในทางที่ดีดูสักตั้ง..

“สวัสดีครับแม่...”

นั่นคือสรรพนามแรกๆ ที่ผมเลือกใช้แทนตัวเขา ผมเลือกจะแสดงออกก่อนถึงระดับความสัมพันธ์และการให้เกียรติที่ผมมอบให้กับเขา พวกเราเชื่อหรือไม่ว่าคำๆ เดียวมันทำลายกำแพงทุกอย่างลงในทันที.. ไม่ใช่แค่กับผม มันหมายถึงกับ อ.ตั๊ม และ อ.โบ ในเวลาเดียวกัน

ผมเลือกจะเรียกเค้าว่า “แม่” จนชินปาก มันทำให้ อ.ตั๊ม ไม่ต้องมากังวลกับความสัมพันธ์ของผมกับเมียตัวเอง มันอาจทำให้ อ.โบ รู้สึกว่าผมเป็นมิตรมากขึ้น ไม่ต้องมามีเชิงอะไรต่อกัน และเธอไม่ใช่คนธรรมดาอย่างแน่นอน..

“พวกเราอายุไม่ต่างกันมาก เราก็เหมือนเพื่อนๆ กันนั่นแหละ”

คุณจะรู้สึกเป็นเกียรติขนาดไหนที่คนระดับที่เรายกให้เป็นไอดอลมาพูดแบบนี้กับเรา ผมเองก็ผ่อนคลายและรู้สึกได้รับการปลดปล่อยเป็นอย่างมากนับจากนั้น ซึ่งผมเดาว่า อ. ทั้งคู่คงรู้สึกว่าตัวเองผิดพลาด ไม่น่าไปพูดแบบนั้นกับมันเลย.. จากเดิมที่คาดหมายว่าผมจะเข้ามาช่วยแบ่งเบาภาระในด้านต่าง ๆ ให้กับ อ.ตั๊ม

สุดท้ายแล้ว.. ผมทำให้ อ. วุ่นวายไปยิ่งกว่าเดิม ฮ่าๆๆ

คิดได้ตอนนี้มันก็สายไปแล้วล่ะ..

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The Silent Sacrifices Behind Grand Achievements

ผมไม่อยากฉายซ้ำในเรื่องที่ nostr:npub15l5mxmljftnnqur8gf2nkjj2yuemqy2kuly7yc29lx7x598svx5s447rgk เคยพูดไปแล้ว ตัว อ.โบ เองก็พึ่งโน๊ตเพื่อฉายเบื้องหลังเกี่ยวกับเรื่องนี้ เพราะถ้าไม่มีกองกลางหรือกองหลังที่ดีพอ กองหน้า อย่างผม กับ อ.ตั๊ม ก็ทำประตูกันไม่ได้

อะไรก็ตามที่เป็นงานเอกสาร รายละเอียดหลังบ้านปลีกย่อย งานง่วน ๆ ที่ไม่ค่อยมีใครอยากทำ เราก็ได้ อ.โบ นี่แหละที่เข้ามาช่วยกันประสานงานกับสมนึก ผนึกกำลังทำให้มันลุล่วงไปได้ ผมเดินไปข้างหน้าได้โดยไม่ต้องเหลียวหลัง ต่อให้ผมจะเป็นกวางน้อย ผมเองก็ไม่ต้องมาคอยพะวง ผมสามารถทะยานไปข้างหน้าได้อย่างสบายใจ

มันต้องมีใครสักคนที่ทำงานหนักอยู่เบื้องหลัง มีเด็กยกเปียโนให้กับโมซาร์ท การแสดงโชว์ที่ยิ่งใหญ่จึงจะเกิดขึ้นได้

เรื่อง “การเสียสละ” นี้ไม่ได้เกิดขึ้นแค่กับ Founder

มีครั้งหนึ่งที่ภายในทีมของเราตกอยู่ในภวังค์แห่งความรู้สึกแบบนี้เช่นกัน มันเป็นช่วงกลาง ๆ ของการเติบโตเฟสแรก ที่เรามีหัวหอกบางคนในทีมกลายเป็นที่รู้จักในคอมมูนิตี้มากกว่าคนอื่นๆ ที่คอยทำงานซัพพอร์ตให้อยู่เบื้องหลัง..

พวกเขาอาจกำลังน้อยเนื้อต่ำใจที่ก็ทำงานหนัก แต่กลับไม่มีใครรับรู้ พวกเขาอาจรู้สึกว่ามันไม่ยุติธรรมที่ต้องถูกผมมอบหมายให้ไปทำงานที่ต้องคอยหลบอยู่หลังเสา ในขณะที่บางคนถูกผมเลือกให้อยู่หน้าฉาก.. สิ่งเหล่านี้เป็นธรรมชาติทางจิตวิทยาที่มันอาจเกิดขึ้นได้ แม้ว่าใครจะปากหนักสักแค่ไหนก็ตาม..

วิธีที่ผมจะเยียวยาความรู้สึกนี้ มันไม่มีอะไรดีไปกว่า ไปลองเป็นพวกเขาด้วยตัวเอง..

ผมแสดงให้เห็นชัดเจนว่า.. ผมเองก็หัวอกเดียวกัน ผมจะอยู่ซัพพอร์ตทุก ๆ คนในเบื้องหลัง และปฏิเสธทุกแสงสปอร์ตไลท์ที่จะถูกสาดส่องเข้ามา ผมมองไปที่ผลการแข่งขันมากกว่าคะแนนส่วนตัว นั่นคือเหตุผลที่แทบไม่มีใครเคยรู้จักกับ Jakk Goodday มาก่อนเลย จนกระทั่งการเกิดขึ้นของ Nostr

เพราะเชื่อว่าเมื่อถึงเวลาที่เหมาะสม.. ทุกคนจะได้เจอทาง เจอโอกาส เจอช่วงเวลาที่จะได้แสดงคุณค่าของตัวเอง คุณต้องไม่รีบร้อน คุณต้องอดทนทำงานหนัก รอวันเวลาของตัวคุณเอง...

Just lower your time preference

“เพราะในทีมของเรามีคนที่ยอมทำงานหนัก เรามีคนที่เสียสละทำในสิ่งที่ไม่มีใครเห็น เรามีคนที่ยอมทำในสิ่งที่ไม่มีใครให้ค่า เรามีคนที่ยอมทำงาน “ธรรมดา ๆ” เพื่อเปิดโอกาสให้คนที่เหลือได้ไปทำในสิ่งที่ยิ่งใหญ่กว่า”

เพราะเรามีคนแบบนี้ เราจึงสามารถสร้างคนที่ยิ่งใหญ่ขึ้นมาได้

“ใครก็ตามที่มีคนรู้จักหรือมีชื่อเสียง จงขอบคุณเพื่อนของคุณที่เสียสละทำบางอย่างเพื่อให้คุณได้รับผลตอบแทนในวันนี้”

ผมจำประโยคเป๊ะ ๆ ไม่ได้ แต่นั่นคือหนึ่งในข้อความแชทน่ารำคาญ ซึ่งผมได้พิมพ์ให้ทุกคนได้อ่านในกลุ่ม Discord ของทีมเรา ผมอยากให้น้อง ๆ ทุกคนรู้ว่า พวกเขาสำคัญสำหรับผมในระดับที่เท่าเทียมกัน ไม่มีใครเป็นที่รักของผมมากไปกว่าใคร ขาดคนใดคนหนึ่งไป เครื่องยนต์ของเราคงไม่พาให้เรามาถึงตรงนี้…

หากคุณอยากให้คนรับรู้ถึงคุณค่าในตัวคุณ มันควรเริ่มจากตัวคุณเองก่อนที่เห็นในคุณค่าของตัวคุณเอง คุณอาจกำลังทำเรื่องยิ่งใหญ่โดยไม่มีใครรู้อยู่เลยก็ได้

สิ่งนั้นไม่ใช่เหรอที่สำคัญกับเราจริงๆ..

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ณ ขณะที่คุณกำลังอ่านบทความนี้อยู่ ผมคงกำลังเตรียมตัวหรืออาจกำลังเดินทางไปสู่งานมีตอัพครั้งแรกในแบบ Local ของเราที่นครราชสีมา..

งานเล็ก ๆ ที่กำลังจะกลายเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นของสิ่งที่ยิ่งใหญ่ที่กำลังจะเกิดขึ้นตามมาในอนาคต

เฉกเช่นเหตุการณ์ในวันที่ 3 พฤศจิกายน 2022

การจดทะเบียนจัดตั้งของกลุ่มคนเล็ก ๆ ที่ได้กลายมาเป็นจุดเริ่มต้นอันยิ่งใหญ่ของคอมมูนิตี้บิตคอยน์ไทยในเวลาต่อมา..

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End credits

ภาพฉากต่าง ๆ ในวันนั้น สลับตัดไปตัดมาในความทรงจำของผมแบบเมา ๆ มันมีฉากหนึ่งที่ผมนั่งคุยกับพี่ชิตอย่างออกรสออกชาติ ผมจำคำว่า “Make saving great again” ได้อย่างขึ้นใจก็วันนั้นเอง

ภาพต่อมาคือพี่ชิตพาพวกผมขึ้นไปเยี่ยมชม Bitcoin ATM เครื่องแรกๆ ของเมืองไทย เสียงเพลงรุกเร้าในจังหวะน่าส่ายสะโพก ผมแหกปากแทบฟังไม่ได้ศัพท์ ผมกับพี่ชิตกอดคอกันเต้นราวกับเพื่อนร่วมรุ่น มีแสงไฟหลากสีสาดไปมากระทบสิ่งต่าง ๆ รอบตัว

ภาพถัดมาผมเห็นตัวเองค่อย ๆ พยุงตัวเพื่อเดินให้ตรงทางเดินตรอกเล็ก ๆ บนเกราะเกร็ด มีน้องนิ่มหรือใครสักคนที่คอยพยุงผมอยู่ไม่ให้เผลอหล่นตกลงไปในเจ้าพระยา..

“พี่ตั้มเดินเลื้อยเป็นงูเลยค่ะ..” น้องนิ่มมาเล่าให้ฟังหลังจากนั้น

ภาพต่อไป เป็นภาพพี่เป็ด nostr:npub1ysvk3na2kzmfy3yw9mj2947srkqpm7w3m4nmhey2sdet9xg9480qjn54x4 ที่แสดงสีหน้าห่วงใยผมสุดฤทธิ์ พี่เป็ดต้องไปส่งผมที่สถานีรถไฟเพื่อเดินทางกลับบุรีรัมย์ให้ทันรอบ 4 ทุ่มกว่า ๆ เป็นบัตร รฟ. นอนที่ผมจองล่วงหน้าเอาไว้

ผมวางแผนทุกอย่างไว้แล้ว.. ผมจะเมาให้เต็มคราบเมื่อได้เจอพี่ชายสุดที่รัก (พี่ชิต) และหลับยาวๆ บนที่นอนนุ่มๆ ของ รฟ. ไปตื่นตอนสว่างที่บ้านพอดี

ผมร่ำลาพี่เป็ดที่หน้าสถานีรถไฟเรียบร้อย รีบวิ่งไปหาที่นั่งบริเวณชานชะลา..

อนิจจา.. ถ้าผมไม่เอาแอลกอฮอล์ออกจากท้องให้หมดก่อน ผมคงขึ้นรถไฟไม่ไหวแน่.. ตรงนั้นมันมีพุ่มไม้เล็กๆ ที่แสงไฟสาดไปไม่ถึง

ไม่มีที่ไหนเหมาะจะอ้วกเท่ากับที่นี่อีกแล้ว..

“แก๊ง ๆ แก๊ง ๆ“

“ขบวนรถไฟดีเซลรางธรรมดา ขบวนที่ xxx จะจอดเทียบชานชะลาที่ 2 ในเวลาตี 1..”

ผมจำไม่ได้ว่าเวลาเท่าไหร่แน่.. ที่แน่ๆ คือผมตกรถไฟขบวนที่จองไว้ไปเรียบร้อยแล้ว มันเกิดอะไรขึ้น ผมฟื้นขึ้นมาอย่างงง ๆ และจำอะไรแทบไม่ได้

ทำไมผมมานอนกองอยู่กับพื้นแบบนี้?

ตรงนั้นมีรอยอ้วกของใครสักคน.. พุ่มไม้ในที่มืด ๆ สถานีรถไฟในเวลาเลยเที่ยงคืน..

“ชิบหาย.. กูตกรถ!!”

…

“ไก่ย่าง ๆ ๆ ส้มตำ ไส้กรอก ร้อนๆ ก็มีจ้า..”

“น้ำเย็น ครับน้ำเย็น โค้ก เป๊บซี่ สไปรซ์ น้ำมะนาวเย็น ๆ มาแล้วจ้า..”

“มะม่วง จ้า มะม่วง มะม่วงเปรี้ยวๆ หวานๆ มันๆ น้ำจิ้มรสเด็ด…”

สารพัดเสียงเห่กล่อมจากพ่อค้าแม่ขายที่เวียนกันมาไม่ซ้ำหน้าตลอดเส้นทางบนรถไฟสายข่มขื่นที่สุดครั้งหนึ่งในชีวิต

ความจริงแล้วมีผู้โดยสารเต็มขบวน แต่ผมเป็นคนเดียวในโบกี้นั้นที่ได้นอนคุดคู้อยู่คนเดียว ไม่มีใครกล้ามานั่งข้างผม ผมหนาวมาก ๆ ผมไม่มีผ้าห่ม ลมโกรกพัดตลอดเส้นทาง เบาะนั่งก็แข็งเอนหลังไม่ได้ และเสียงอื้ออึ้งรอบทิศ

ที่หนาวที่สุดคือสิบกว่าสายที่โทรเข้ามายิก ๆ ซึ่งผมไม่กล้ารับสายเลยแม้แต่น้อย.. หลังจากวันนี้ ถ้าผมรู้ว่าใครเอาเรื่องนี้ไปบอกกับเมียผม ผมจะเลิกคบและบล็อกคุณอย่างถาวร และแจ้งความคุณในข้อหาสร้างความร้าวฉานให้กับครอบครัวผม

ไม่ว่าคุณจะเป็นใคร หรือ สำคัญขนาดไหนก็ตาม.. ไม่เชื่อก็ลองดู

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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.

@ e6ce6154:275e3444

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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Wow.

Mind blown.

Just last night I had the pleasure of speaking with Pablo for the first time.

After only a few minutes on the call, he’d had time to explain what he was already building, and why an article of mine had spurred him to reach out.

Love it.

This is the power of content.

This is the power of community.

This is the power of belief.

For 45 minutes we flew through a series of fascinating concepts, showing clearly that his insights are simply years ahead of anyone else I’ve spoken with yet, and leaving me more excited about the potential of Nostr than ever before.

What a ride this last few weeks have been.

So how have I reached this point?

My coach Mark Moss recently told me, that regardless of one’s choice of platform, there is no future without content.

I couldn’t agree more.

As he says, we’ve moved from a) “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know”, to another process of b) “who knows you?”

What had been holding my content flow back however, was this strange feeling of irrelevance.

Why bother putting all my energy into building a YouTube account, to one day be cancelled?

Do I really want to burn myself out responding to thousands of comments on Twitter, addicted to answering notifications?

Was sharing literally every single part of my day on Instagram, a strategy I actually enjoyed?

But along comes Nostr.

This feels different.

A key step no doubt was deciding to delete all my status quo social media apps.

Thank you Piriya for the inspiration.

This I couldn’t recommend more to people.

But then I started a new habit.

Get up before my kids, everyday, and scratch the creative itch I’d been feeling to write.

Feel into it.

Where does my meditative mind take me?

What thoughts are appropriate to expand on publicly?

How can I show the impact my mindset has had?

These articles this last week have been the creative output of this process.

I endeavour to continue.

Indeed, as we closed the call last night, I promised Pablo I would be happy to focus exclusively on posting content on the new client he is about to release.

Nostr is the uncensorable foundation.

This is what I had been looking for.

Here is a place I know that my creative output can never be taken away from me…

What a problem it solves!

Another important reflection, is not only had Pablo read an article of mine, he had also been tagged in a note I posted by another Nostr user.

I’d shared an idea about an uncensorable equivalent of Anchor to host podcast RSS feeds.

The tagger knew that Pablo had been working on something to solve that problem.

Bingo.

Having multiple eyeballs on a single idea is well worth it.

In fact, as I reflect on the meditation work I’ve been doing, this is an example of a thought I had had attracting into my life a person already solving that problem.

Fascinating.

This shows brilliantly why I like to think of content creation as akin to leaving digital breadcrumbs.

You just don’t know who might be watching.

Perhaps they’ll follow your trail…

Is there a possibility to build this product together?

For sure.

But let’s not get ahead of myself.

What’s the first step?

For me: content, content, content.

Use the product, continue to share my most prominent thoughts, and pave a way for other creators to see just how Nostr can be used to solve the platform risk problem.

Boom! What a start to the day writing this has been.

Frankly, if this doesn’t show you the power of content, community, and using our thoughts to manifest our future… Then I am sorry, I am not sure you’ll ever see it.

Until tomorrow!



Best,
 Jake

Ps - over the years I’ve been as bad as anyone at sitting around with ideas, procrastinating, and not putting into action what I can feel is a good concept. Really listen to your body. Home in on the most reoccurring thoughts that you have. I am fast realising that being more preceptive with myself, is not only a far superior internally-driven strategy setting process, but a skill that can be developed. Fun times ahead!

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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.

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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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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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"Six months from now, we'll have our own YouTube channel…"

This sentence left me stunned for a moment. It was December 18, 2025, and we were at B.O.B Spaces, the first place where the pioneering members of Right Shift had gathered in person.

Two couples (nostr:npub1prya33fnqerq0fljwjtp77ehtu7jlsjt5ydhwveuwmqdsdm6k8esk42xcv & nostr:npub1e963pmyq9q6873njkzxu279l8rh3mymxj9y5lq3x3hkeyj5s2pkqut3z4f) at the table seemed confident that this dream would become a reality. As I looked around, I couldn't help but notice the diverse emotions filling the room.

Arm (nostr:npub1qd6zcgzukmydscp3eyauf2dn6xzgfsevsetrls8zrzgs5t0e4fws7re0mj) was still lost in his thoughts, Nim (nostr:npub1eahsj3ngx39s3dvk78frad0dwsw09q8nqprudy8vld4sjqd8uafsu362ah) was searching for courage, Dr. New (nostr:npub1wzlj8qxwzwfls9fez23ne90rjey6kxkaqz7nltfajqx5kmp7w2tqfkkad0) was motivated but directionless, and Sharky (Munich nostr:npub1vm0kq43djwdd4psjgdjgn9z6fm836c35dv7eg7x74z3n3ueq83jqhkxp8e) struggled to even say "yes." ITSsra (nostr:npub1z7k4pffj7250eaydd3ya0v07mmzecylcq9cw5af68zu39q0k4u3qj6xre4) was just a kid with unknown potential, Khing (nostr:npub1a8wreeghu0j8g4zqgzex53sq38gjwjdp5czxnu3rfydnz8n8yu2spqkavy) seemed the most promising but had yet to take the first step, and JingJo (nostr:npub15l5mxmljftnnqur8gf2nkjj2yuemqy2kuly7yc29lx7x598svx5s447rgk) wanted to stick to writing articles for now.

None of us had any experience in doing something like this before.

A soft-spoken man (nostr:npub1prya33fnqerq0fljwjtp77ehtu7jlsjt5ydhwveuwmqdsdm6k8esk42xcv) looked into my eyes as if to say, "Well?" I met his gaze and thought, "Alright, let's do this," while contemplating deeply.

Back then, Right Shift was just a name that Mr. Piriya had recently announced to the public. We were entering a market filled with Bitcoin giants, seasoned experts, and countless influencers. How could we possibly stand out?

But I had something that no one else had, and from that point on, no one else could ever have: the privilege of being the first to do it.

A voice in my head told me to overlook the initial hurdles and to go back to square one.

If a newcomer were to enter the market today, interested in learning about Bitcoin, do we have the right resources for them?

Apart from Mr. Piriya, how many people are seriously producing Bitcoin content?

The younger members must be excited to try something new. For some, it might even be a dream come true. They have no idea what challenges lie ahead, and I had been pondering this for quite some time.

For me, it wasn't just about starting; it was about sustainability, personal development, emotional intelligence, scalability, and the value we could pass on to our audience. It was more than just the minor details that others might see.

Starting is never easy

Even though we set a six-month timeline to figure out how to launch our new Bitcoin YouTube channel, the timeframe seemed a bit loose to me. We stretched it out just to relieve the team's pressure. They needed ample time to grow.

We never specified who should do what; we opened opportunities for them to brainstorm and design what they wanted to do.

The most important thing is to make sure you enjoy it and are happy with it.

I'm not a YouTuber, not a celebrity, and I've never seriously worked behind the scenes on this. I'm just someone who has studied and understood various topics. I've watched a lot, seen a lot, and analyzed every detail I've encountered. I can distinguish what's good and what needs further improvement.

I'm at a point where I can offer valuable advice to them. They may lack confidence initially, and that's to be expected...

The Challenges We Face: A Closer Look 🧐

We're all scattered across different locations, so forget about professional studios or shooting sets. We're just ordinary folks who happen to love Bitcoin and Mr. Piriya. This doesn't exactly make us experts in video production.

We've never had to be in front of a camera before. Yes, this is a first-time experience for many of us. We don't have fancy equipment like the pros. We make do with whatever is within reach or affordable.

We don't have a professional video editor on board. So, the editing baton was passed to me. Yes, I took on the editing duties initially until we were fortunate enough to bring in Soup (nostr:npub16hpaqcm8zhc6n4d79tu2mtsf9464093r4v3r7l5hq5tpsng3txesw3tu5f) later on.

We all know that company funds and personal finances are two different ball games. It's not about whether the owner is rich or poor; we didn't start with a huge capital investment. So, saying we started from scratch wouldn't be far from the truth. We had to bootstrap our way up with the resources we had at hand.

The youngsters on the team always respect and listen to my advice. Even though I'm not MrBeast, nor have I ever been a YouTuber or a celebrity, they trust that I can guide them to victory.

There's one thing I always tell them, from day one and repeated at least three hundred times:

"Don't imitate others; be yourself. That's the only rule from me."

Why, you ask?

Because I know that people won't remember an echo; they won't remember the next so-and-so. No matter how much better you might be than the original, you're still just old wine in a new bottle.

To be memorable, you not only have to produce quality work but also be "Original" in your own unique way.

Remember the distinct vocal styles of famous singers? What are they known for?

Finding oneself is already a tough journey. Getting comfortable speaking in front of a camera is even more challenging. It may seem easy, nothing special, until you try it for the first time. Then, your perspective changes dramatically.

In All Honesty...

Though I've never had to teach anyone in this particular manner before,

I may not be an iron-chef, but I do know what a tasty steak should be like.

So, I know what kind of steak I want to eat.

But... I also understand that my team members probably haven't had any culinary training either. So, what's the game plan? How can they whip up a mouth-watering steak for us to savor?

I know this market well. I know what people want to eat. But I'm not going to spill the beans to my team just yet.

You see, they need to experiment on their own. Sure, the first dish might be a bit hard to swallow, especially when everyone is still finding their way. But that's the stepping stone to becoming a five-star chef in the future. That's a story for another day.

In the beginning, I was bombarded with feedback from all sorts of gurus, both genuine and keyboard warriors. But I didn't let these voices reach my team. My job is to shield them and instill confidence and love.

They should be in a safe space, learning comfortably, and focusing on honing their skills to chase their dreams. The only people who should be critiquing them are me and our internal team (who have already filtered external feedback).

I believe in the Proof of Work. I always emphasize to them that a bad start is inevitable.

It's an opportunity for us to learn and grow, to understand our shortcomings, and to see the potential for becoming better versions of ourselves.

And when necessary, don't dwell on it too much. Just go back and invest in self-improvement.

I was the one who faced the external criticisms and took them all in stride (since I was almost the sole admin of all platforms in the beginning). I greeted every critique with a patient smile.

We've been criticized to the extent of, "What are you guys doing? This is so amateurish!" But we've been there, done that.

I never directly criticized my team because I knew it wouldn't help them grow.

Even if some were stubborn, had their own ideas and beliefs, I understood that it was a matter of experience. I chose to let them follow their own path and learn from the outcomes.

During that time, I had to battle external voices and my own inner thoughts quite intensely...

• "Are you sure about letting the team continue like this, knowing it's not quite there yet?"

• "Are you willing to risk the reputation of Right Shift by going down this path?"

• "Why don't you just tell them straightforwardly what they should be doing? Wouldn't that be easier?"

• "Are you not going to give them a reality check? The results might not be worth it, you know?"

• "You are supposed to be smart, right? Why can't you figure this out?"

These were the kinds of questions that bombarded me almost daily in the early days. I won't say who they came from; it doesn't matter. The only person who needs to know is me.

I was fortunate to have partners who were true mentors. (nostr:npub1prya33fnqerq0fljwjtp77ehtu7jlsjt5ydhwveuwmqdsdm6k8esk42xcv & nostr:npub1e963pmyq9q6873njkzxu279l8rh3mymxj9y5lq3x3hkeyj5s2pkqut3z4f) Both understood what I was trying to achieve and knew well that nurturing growth involves a certain process.

Even though my conscience nagged at me every day, it was only out of concern, fearing I might be overwhelmed.

For me, every question already had an answer. I am who I am today because I had the chance to make mistakes and learn from them. The lessons, the self-awareness, are incredibly "sustainable" for me.

I'm betting our future on this. It's about "sustainable growth."

• If Right Shift has to take a risk, now is the best time—when not many people know us yet.

• If I tell them everything they should do, from 0 to 100, what will they learn? They would become mere robots, dependent on my instructions.

• Breaking someone's soaring confidence is like standing in front of a speeding train. It's like telling a Shitcoin enthusiast that the coin they are hyping is a scam.

• I'm not smart; I just understand how intelligence comes about, what factors contribute to wisdom. And I'm just waiting for that to happen to my team.

But maybe I'm a bit reckless, daring to let my child play with a sharp knife, even allowing them to cut themselves once.

Making mistakes when you're still unknown is better than falling from a height.

All of this is necessary. Absolutely necessary. For me, it's the right thing to do.

As a leader, I'm also proving my own advice, using time and the results of actions as my tools.

So, let's just wait and see what unfolds...

Giving Value to Others, Not Ourselves

As time passed, my team matured through valuable experiences. There was a time when we received sage advice from Mr. Piriya, a seasoned veteran in the field. Despite his busy schedule, he always found time to offer insightful comments to the younger team members.

Some needed more than a dozen pep talks, motivational nudges, and heart-to-heart conversations from me. I've spent hours talking, earning me the nickname "Jakk 8 Hour."

Sometimes, it's not just about work. They see me as an elder brother, a last resort for sound advice. I'm no smarter than they are; I just have more experience.

Our content began to mature and evolve in unexpected ways. Team members started to come into their own. Was this aligning with my vision? Well, that's not for me to answer. The "market" will be the judge of that.

And that's what I'm waiting for—to see when they'll grasp the true meaning behind it all.

It's not surprising. When we acquire new knowledge, we often get carried away with innovative ideas. We become passionate and think of content that excites us.

But that can be a pitfall for creators. They might think what they're doing is fantastic because they're too caught up in it.

When you're looking through your own lens, how can you not like what you see? It's good for you, so you want to share it. But have you asked others if they feel the same?

Is the market craving what you think is so great?

Are you doing this to satisfy your own ego and pride, to show off your skills and feel superior? Or are you doing it to genuinely add value to the majority—to "help" them in a way they truly need?

I've been a salesman, an entrepreneur, and have learned marketing psychology through real-world experiences—both my own and others'. I know what should and shouldn't be done.

What we should be doing is not catering to market whims or following trends. It's about trying to help and provide value to them in a way they genuinely need, not to satisfy our own desires.

So how do we understand them? How do we know what the market truly wants?

Walk in Their Shoes, Understand Their Needs

So, try to put yourself in the shoes of your market. Become the consumer, if you will.

The phrase "Know thy enemy, know thyself" isn't just for the battlefield.

It's not just about conquering or defeating others; it's also about helping, building relationships, and passing on value to one another.

Over time, I've instilled and conveyed this philosophy to my team. I hammer this point home whenever I get the chance.

We've been practicing this even before I had ever heard the term "Value for Value" or V4V for short.

In my mind, I already have some ideas about what valuable content should look like. But I'm not one to spill the beans so easily.

"Have you ever wondered why our weekly Discord chat, attended by fewer than ten of us, has listeners all year round?

Some just listen, from start to finish, without ever turning on their mic.

Have you ever sought the answer to why that is? What do they like?

What are they looking for?"

No one could answer me immediately. I thought I might have to set an example for them to learn from.

I invited several people from our Discord community to participate in a Bitcoin discussion. Many of you might have seen it under the name "Bitcoin Gangster," which is the prototype for the "Orange pill Council" show.

What we want is to have a conversation, to listen to someone talk about something we're mutually interested in.

With a group of people who already understand Bitcoin well, we don't know what we could teach them. They could probably teach us more than we could teach them.

They just want to talk to fellow Bitcoin nerds.

Bitcoin Gangster later inspired the creation of the Orange pill Council. It's an example of thinking beyond our own desires to create value for others.

But multi-host content turned out to be a challenge down the line. It's not as easy as everyone thinks.

However, the word 'obstacle' is not in my dictionary. It's an opportunity for growth and self-improvement.

Unity of Diversity

Blending diverse elements into a harmonious whole is no small feat. Yet, it's not an insurmountable challenge if we understand the nature of humanity.

When working in a group, we often find that we're not quite in sync with each other. The coordination isn't as smooth as it should be. When this happens frequently, tension and anxiety start to manifest through body language.

Initially, I let the team try to resolve these issues on their own during the early episodes. But the friction persisted. Whether it was stumbling over what to say, struggling to listen to others' stories, or avoiding contradicting each other to the point of annoyance, the problems remained.

Finally, I posed a simple question for them to ponder:

"Do you know which soccer team wins championships?"

"It's not just because the team is filled with superstar players. Why have multiple stars if they're all playing solo acts?"

"Do you want to be lone stars who never win anything?"

I used the analogy of "teamwork" in soccer to explain the concept to them. In our culture, we call it "playing in harmony."

So, how does teamwork happen?

Firstly, frequent practice together is essential. Play enough together to understand each other's playing styles. Know how your teammate likes the ball to be passed, what they dislike, and so on.

For example, one person might like to fake out the opponent three times before passing the ball. Another might prefer a quick one-two rhythm, while another enjoys a long pass followed by a sprint to beat the defense.

These nuances are developed in practice and applied in real games, evolving over time. Speaking of time, it inevitably relates to the concept of "Proof of Work."

However, we can accelerate this process by paying more attention to our teammates and the team's performance, rather than just focusing on our individual achievements. Support each other and pass the ball in a way that maximizes the team's benefit. In short, play as a team.

When we win with a style that captivates the audience and enjoy our way of playing, our morale naturally improves. And when we're in good spirits and happy, we perform even better.

Character Matters

I encourage young people to study the speaking styles of talented hosts, but I never permit them to mimic them. Absolutely not.

Don't strive to be like anyone else; you have to be the best version of yourself. One day, you might even surpass your idols.

Instead of worrying about what your voice will sound like or whether your appearance will be professional, just be you. People will remember you for who you are.

When you act naturally, which requires no effort on your part, your mind frees up space for other tasks. I don't want you to conform. I'm not looking for the standard news show format you see on free TV.

What I want is diversity. I want uniqueness. I want the value that comes from a plethora of choices.

And you're talented enough to make it happen.

You should appreciate your own efforts, be thankful for every piece of advice, criticism, and every lesson that comes your way. Take pride in yourself and never forget your roots, your struggles, and who you were when you started.

When you can seamlessly blend diverse qualities, you create a "Collective outcome" that is a new entity, something that has never existed before.

Here at Right Shift, I don't need demigods with extraordinary abilities. I don't need all-rounders. Whether you're a straight-A student or a valedictorian doesn't matter to me.

What I need are people who can fill in our gaps, who can enhance our collective qualities, and who won't destroy the hard-earned value we've built. I don't want show-offs or people who will become enemies within the team.

I just want individuals who will fit into our team and play well with our existing members. Let's have fun together.

I've always applied this philosophy to foster our community. The value of diversity and the power of bringing it all together.

The unity of a diverse group of people...

"Unity of Diversity."

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End Credits

As the conference came to an end, we all began to disperse. I took the lead, walking ahead of everyone, lost in my thoughts. Trailing behind me were my wife, Dr. New, and Nim.

"Jakk is more than a brother to me; he's like a father,"

Dr. New commented, probably trying to impress my wife.

"Yes, Jakk has given me a lot of valuable advice,"

Nim chimed in. I wondered if Dr. New had nudged her to say that.

"Really? Jakk, the chatterbox? New, you're a doctor. Why would you say that?"

My wife raised her voice in disbelief, as if she couldn't fathom Dr. New praising her straightforward husband.

"Well, Jakk is also a doctor. But even though I'm a Doctor, I don't know everything. There's still so much for me to learn. There are things that Jakk can do that I can't,"

Dr. New elaborated.

I hurried my pace, not wanting to hear my wife's inevitable sarcastic remarks. I started to distance myself but couldn't help but smile.

Even if no one knows the value I've created, even if I haven't gotten richer from doing all this, what Dr. New said warmed my heart.

Is this all we really want?

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"I think I understand almost everything, but there's one thing I just can't grasp,"

Khing suddenly said, shaking his head in a mix of frustration and laughter.

"And what's that?"

"It's his skill in reading people, Jakk. How do you know what someone is capable of? What their potential is? I just don't get how you can tell,"

Khing rambled on, causing everyone at the table to burst into laughter.

I couldn't help but smile. In my mind, I thought,

"Well, that's because I am Jakk Goodday."

@ 000002de:c05780a7

Last night my lovely wife and I watched the film Kill the Messenger. It had been on my list for some time but we'd never gotten around to watching it.

From the book of knowledge

It is based on the book of the same name by Nick Schou and the book Dark Alliance by Gary Webb. The film stars Jeremy Renner, who also produced the film. The film was released on October 10, 2014, and depicts a reporter's suppressed attempts to cover the CIA involvement and secret support of large scale cocaine sales to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.

I have been familiar with the story but never read either of the books. What hit me after watching the movie was the fact that despite the many times that the absolute evil of the state is exposed, we do not see significant change. It is pretty depressing to come to the conclusion that even when the US government's lies and evil is exposed it continues to go on largely unabated. As far as I know little of consequence happened due to Gary Webb's brave work.

It reminded me of Edward Snowden's revelations. I believe they have had a larger impact but still not nearly the impact I had hoped for. In the film they do a good job of showing some of the many tactics used when someone starts exposing the state for what it is. First they change the focus of the allegations making them harder to believe or harder to prove. They overstate the case. In Webb's case the media pushed a narrative (pushed by the CIA) that Webb was saying the CIA targeted the black community with crack cocaine. Actually Webb discovered that the CIA used drugs to fund their operations. He didn't claim the CIA was directly selling drugs to blacks. See the difference. What happened was a consequence of the CIA's action but unlikely the goal. But this framing makes Webb sound more extreme.

This happened with Snowden and also during the Covid19 pandemic. Its a tactic that works on the masses. Make your opponents sound unreasonable. Make them toxic. The second tactic they point out is attacking the messenger. They go after the person and find flaws. Highlight them and do character assassination. Never mind that most of the "leaders" in most democracies are full of similar character flaws and mistakes. That is never brought up in this context.

The third tactic that jumped out at me was the divide and conquer strategy. The CIA actions that are the subject of this film happened under Reagan, a Republican. So of course his opponents show much interest and John Kerry investigated it. The common thread I see here is that these types of things are bi-partisan. If you don't believe me you aren't paying attention or you have been indoctrinated into the matrix. The CIA is a permanent fixture in US government like many tentacles of the state yet when something like this is exposed it quickly becomes consumed by party politics. I get it. I don't think it is a conspiracy, it is simple game theory. Politicians simply want power and will use anything to win over their opponents. The result however is that the real root issues are never solved. The CIA is not reformed or dismantled. Real change doesn't happen because real consequences never occur. I don't think the filmmakers intend to make this point but it struck me. If you study the history of the CIA you will see that they have a long track record of this type of behavior. If it is a strategy, its genius. Get the public focused on party politics on the puppets, not the real power centers.

The final tactic that saw expressed was on the black community. It is possible that the CIA intentionally wanted to push crack into these communities. I just haven't seen that demonstrated. In truth, it doesn't matter. The real issue is that the CIA didn't care. The ends justify the means. The consequences of the CIA's actions led to massive death and destruction in places like Los Angeles. It makes me sick as I write this. For what? To fund fighters in a foreign conflict? Please. In the film they show various "leaders" in the black community from that time. It seems obvious to me that these people while they are speaking many truths seem to be doing so for their own profit just as the politicians do. Some of them were politicians. Did they actually put their necks on the line and keep pushing for change? I would argue no. They focused on the CIA's tactic. They sold the distortion that Webb was clamming the CIA targeted their communities.

Now, this all left me feeling depressed. Many believe that if we could just expose the evils of the world that would be enough. It isn't sadly. The masses do not have the attention span nor the desire to question their programming. That's my experience at least having talked with many friends and family over the years. I've been aware and a follower of politics since my early years as a pre-teen. I was and still am a nerd. I have a fairly long memory and it still to this day blows my mind how little people seem to notice. How they seem to not notice that politicians always promise things they can't or won't deliver. Yet they still seem to believe in democracy and their team. They are blind to the manipulation. To the repeated failures. To the repeated exposures of the truth.

So, I am sitting there feeling down about all this. Talking to my wife about it and then I remembered bitcoin exists. And I told her, this is one reason why bitcoin is hopeful for me. The state has much of its power due to its ability to print money. Taking that power from them alone will not affect the change we want but it is a huge start. It would limit the ability to wage these wars that kill so many people. It would limit their reckless spending and force them to steal in more obvious ways. Ways that will piss more people off. So bitcoin is hopeful.

What do you think? I was a teen when these events happened. I'm curious what I've missed and maybe if I got some things wrong. I remember this story being published and I also remember Webb's death which is a whole other story.

@ d8a2c33f:76611e0c

This is part of a series of articles that I am writing to better understand and explain how AI agents will transform how we create and consume content in the near future. If you want to start from the first article, please start here.

In the previous article, 2: What makes an AI agent unique?, I discussed how AI agents become unique through their specific instructions, domain knowledge, and actions.

Let's delve into the concept of knowledge. Simply put, you visit a dentist for teeth cleaning, an accountant for financial management, and a primary care physician for health check-ups. In each scenario, you seek their services because they possess the domain expertise that you require.

Consider another instance. Suppose you use a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for payments and encounter a question. Your first instinct might be to initiate a Google search, which often results in a barrage of ads and irrelevant site links. After some scrolling, you find the correct website, click on it, and are presented with FAQs and support articles. Now, you must sift through this information to determine if it answers your question.

Imagine, however, if there was an AI agent equipped with FAQs, blogs, articles, and other useful information. All you would need to do is pose your question to this AI agent, and it would provide the appropriate information. This approach not only saves time and effort for the user but also enhances the overall user experience.

The importance of domain-specific knowledge in AI agents cannot be overstated. These agents, armed with specialized knowledge, can offer more accurate and insightful responses, thereby revolutionizing the way users seek information and interact with platforms. This is the future of AI - niche applications that are tailored, efficient, and truly transformative.

To see how this works, we created this functionality on PlebAI, where anyone can create AI agents. When creating them, you can add knowledge by attaching a PDF document, text file, or even a URL from a website. Behind the scenes, these data are retrieved, transformed into vectors, and stored in a vector store. This data can be both public and private as it is stored securely and only shared with LLM (Large Language Model) in the form of embeddings.

With this knowledge, the LLM can easily answer the user's questions correctly.

Here's how to add knowledge:

1. Go to PlebAI
2. Click 'Create Text AI agents'
3. Fill in all the necessary information
4. Add knowledge in the form of documents or website URLs
5. Start using them either privately or publicly

Once you add all the necessary information, the AI agent is now equipped to answer any user question related to the stored knowledge. You can also enable user web browsing so that it can retrieve any additional knowledge available on their website. Here's the response from the Zaprite Help AI agent answering a question from its FAQ.

Marc Andreessen, a renowned entrepreneur and investor, has been quoted as saying, "The content of each new medium is the old medium." This quote encapsulates the idea that each new form of media tends to repurpose the content of its predecessor.

With this view, we can start to push website and app content into AI agents and make them available inside any chat interface.

Let me know what you think and if you have any feedback or comments.

@ d1e60465:c5dee193

Todos los que hemos utilizado Bitcoin alguna vez sabemos lo básico sobre una wallet y de la importancia de la frase de recupero (las 12 o 24 palabras). Esa frase de recupero es única para toda la wallet. También somos conscientes de que las direcciones no deben ser reutilizadas para proteger nuestra privacidad, entonces nuestra wallet genera virtualmente infinitas direcciones. Ahora bien, ¿cómo es eso posible teniendo sólo una única frase de recupero? ¿Acaso hay algo más, además de dicha frase, que determina dónde están nuestros bitcoins?

Aquí es donde entran las wallets HD (hierarchical deterministic = jerárquicas determinísticas) y los “derivation paths” (caminos de derivación). Dicho esto, no hay mejor momento que este para tomar nuestra pala e irnos a enterrar riquezas.

Enterrando nuestra riqueza

Supongamos que tenés un tesoro que querés resguardar y se te ocurre la genial idea de enterrarlo (lo hacían los piratas, por qué vos no?). Lo primero que hacés es buscar un terreno muy MUY grande, elegís una ubicación lo más aleatoria posible, tomás la pala, cavás el pozo, y enterrás el tesoro. Por último, y muy importante, te anotás las coordenadas de dicha ubicación (llave privada) para volver luego por tu riqueza cuando la necesites.

Supongamos ahora que pasa el tiempo y seguís generando riquezas que querés proteger. Siguiendo tu idea original volvés al mismo terreno a cavar mas pozos, enterrar más tesoros y anotar más coordenadas. Si esto se repite varias veces más llegará un momento en el que guardar tantas coordenadas resultará incómodo para llevar un correcto registro, y riesgoso ya que si perdés una de ellas perdés un tesoro.

Con la pala en mano, sentado sobre un pozo, y mirando el horizonte se te ocurre una genial idea. Podrías sólo anotar la coordenada de un único punto arbitrario y diferente a los demás dentro de ese terreno (llave privada maestra), en donde no vas a enterrar nada. Pero hacés que todos los pozos, donde sí enterrarás tesoros, se ubiquen de forma relativa al punto inicial de una manera específica (camino de derivación). De esta forma llegarías a cualquier pozo partiendo de esa ubicación original. Por ejemplo: “los tesoros estarán ubicados en intervalos de 10 pasos hacia el norte desde el punto origen”. Incluso podrías definir ciertos recorridos fijos y complejos dependiendo el tesoro. Por ejemplo: “caminando hacia el norte, cada 10 pasos, pozos con oro; caminando hacia el este, cada 5 pasos, joyas; y para regalos misceláneos irás con intervalos de 4 pasos al oeste, pero cada vez que caves caminarás 2 más al sur (es decir, como si formases una letra L)”.

Todo este mecanismo parece complejo a primera vista, pero tiene una ventaja fundamental y es que los recorridos no tienen que guardarse de manera secreta ya que sin la coordenada origen nadie podrá encontrar el tesoro. Gracias a esta particularidad podríamos definir patrones de recorrido que sean públicos y todos compartamos, e incluso convertirlos en un estándar global (BIP44 o BIP86). En otras palabras, los caminos para llegar a cada pozo serán de público conocimiento y podrán estar anotados en múltiples lugares, mientras que las coordenadas de partida serán secretas de cada individuo.

Para repasar, tenemos presente que para encontrar el tesoro necesitamos la coordenada original y el recorrido de pasos. Física y visualmente podríamos pensarlo como una hoja transparente donde están dibujados los recorridos, y otra hoja con un mapa (secreto) que marque el punto origen. Ambos superpuestos darán la información necesaria (wallet HD) para encontrar todos los tesoros enterrados. Ambos son necesarios, pero sólo uno de ellos necesita ser secreto.

Cambiando la pala por criptografía

En Bitcoin, esta idea de tener una llave privada maestra (el punto de origen) y luego diferentes caminos de derivación fue introducida en el BIP 32. Explicado en términos (muy) simples podemos partir de que nuestra llave privada maestra no es más que un número, y lo que hace este mecanismo es realizar operaciones matemáticas sobre ese número para obtener nuevos números: las llaves hijas.

En la práctica, una situación habitual que genera pánico en aquellas personas que comienzan en Bitcoin se da cuando restauran una wallet utilizando la frase de recupero y la wallet no muestra su balance. El terror de ver “0 BTC” en lugar de sus ahorros detiene el tiempo durante unos segundos. Sin embargo, un poco más de atención sobre la situación revelaría que no sólo se muestra un balance en 0, sino que tampoco se muestra ninguna de las transacciones realizadas previamente. Es decir, es como si estuviésemos mirando otra wallet. Lo que sucede en estos casos es que, si bien la frase de recupero y por ende la llave privada maestra (coordenada original) se restauró correctamente, la wallet en cuestión utiliza otro derivation path, otro camino. Entonces, por más que partimos desde el mismo punto a caminar, estamos caminando para el lugar equivocado para encontrar el tesoro. Esto se debe a que, si bien existen estándares de derivation paths, no todas las wallets los respetan al 100%. Esta web detalla los diferentes caminos utilizadas por cada una de las diferentes wallets conocidas que existen en el mercado, y así evitar situaciones desagradables: https://walletsrecovery.org

Existen más particularidades no cubiertas por la analogía, como que en este esquema también se hace presente una llave pública maestra que puede tener derivaciones y así generar múltiples direcciones (y monitorearlas) pero sin tener acceso a las llaves privadas de cada una para mover los fondos asociados. Aparece también el concepto de “hardened” (fortalecido o endurecido), que hace referencia a sub-llaves derivadas de las principales ajustando el algoritmo para evitar filtración de datos sensibles y que un atacante pueda reconstruir nuestra llave privada maestra. Todos estos detalles están explicados en el BIP para quien le interese.

Epílogo

En Bitcoin, una llave privada maestra sería el equivalente a elegir una coordenada origen cualquiera en todo el planeta (incluyendo agua)… de entre más de 900000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 planetas Tierra. Podemos estar tranquilos que la coordenada que elijamos seguramente no sea elegida por otra persona.

Links útiles

• https://walletsrecovery.org Wallets Recovery — Derivation paths por wallet
• https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki BIP32 — “Hierarchical Deterministic Wallets”
• https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0044.mediawiki BIP44 — “Multi-Account Hierarchy for Deterministic Wallets”
• https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0086.mediawiki BIP86 — “Key Derivation for Single Key P2TR Outputs”

Este artículo está inspirado en un hilo de Twitter que hice en 2021: https://twitter.com/diegogurpegui/status/1408931266616041475

@ d360efec:14907b5f

โจ๊ก ไม่ใช่เรื่องตลก เป็นเมนูอาหารค่ะ

ย้อนเวลาไปสัก 1.000 ปี

พระเจ้าไฮว๋จงแห่งราชวงศ์หนานซ่ง (宋怀宗) ผู้กำลังจะสิ้นแผ่นดิน จากการรุนรานของมองโกล หลบหนีภัยสงครามจากกองทัพมองโกลไปไกลถึงเมืองกวางตุ้ง

ตอนนั้นเอง

ทั้งพระองค์และทหารอารักขาต่างหิวข้าวกันมาก จึงเข้าไปขอข้าวชาวบ้านกิน

"ลุงเจ้าของบ้านไม่มีอาหารอะไรเหลือติดบ้าน คงเหลือเพียงเศษข้าวเย็นที่จะเก็บไว้เลี้ยงแมว จึงเอามาต้มเป็นโจ๊ก"

พระองค์และทหารจึงได้โจ๊กจากข้าวแมวนี่แหละรองท้องประทังความหิวกันโดยทั่วหน้า พอมีแรงให้หนีกันต่อไป จนได้ที่หลบภัย

พระองค์ก็เกิดติดอกคิดใจโจ๊กจากข้าวแมวชามนั้นหละค่ะ

สั่งให้พ่อครัวไปทำมา แต่พ่อครัวทำไม่เป็น จึงพายเรือย้อนกลับไปขอวิชาทำโจ๊กจากลุงคนนั้น

หลังสิ้นแผ่นดิน พ่อครัวหลวงคนนั้นได้เปิดร้านขายโจ๊ก แพร่หลายมาถึงทุกวันนี้

ทำให้คนจีนแต้จิ๋วนิยมให้ลูกหลายกินโจ๊กก่อนไปโรงเรียน

มันมีตำนานค่ะ

ชาวกวางตุ้งเรียกเครื่องในไส้หมูว่า ฮาโสย (下水) หรือสับไต๋ (杂底) ซึ่งเป็นคำที่ไม่สุภาพ ไม่เหมาะจะเขียนเป็นชื่อรายการอาหาร จึงเลี่ยงไปใช้คำว่า คับไต (及第) ในความหมายที่หมายถึงเครื่องในหมู ดังนั้น จากที่น่าจะเรียกว่า สับไต๋จุก (杂底粥) ก็กลายมาเป็น คับไตจุก (及第粥) ซึ่งหมายถึงโจ๊กใส่เครื่องในหมู และเนื่องจากใส่เครื่องในหมูอยู่ 3 อย่าง จึงมีชื่อเรียกเต็มๆว่า ซำเหวี่ยนคับไต (三元及第粥)

แต่คำว่า คับไต (及第) บังเอิญไปมีความหมายว่า สอบติดราชการ และมักหมายถึง การสอบติดในตำแหน่งจอหงวน (及第状元) เสียด้วย จนเกิดเรื่องเล่าพิสดารประเภท Fiction Story อยู่ 2-3 เรื่อง ซึ่งล้วนเกี่ยวข้องกับการสอบติดจอหงวน

ข้าหลวงตรวจการที่เกษียณแล้วคนหนึ่ง มาเยี่ยมจอหงวนหลินเจาถาง จอหงวนยกโจ๊กใส่เครื่องในหมู 3 อย่างที่ว่านี้ออกมาเลี้ยงข้าหลวง ข้าหลวงถามว่านี่อะไร จอหงวนรู้อยู่แล้วว่า ข้าหลวงเฝ้าหวังให้ลูกชายสอบจอหงวนมานาน แต่ยังไม่สมหวังสักที จึงตอบเพื่อเอาใจเขาว่า คับไตจุก (及第粥) ในความหมายว่า โจ๊กสำหรับผู้สอบผ่านข้อสอบหลวง ซึ่งมีโอกาสได้เป็นจอหงวน

ข้าหลวงกลับบ้านไปสั่งพ่อครัวทำโจ๊กตำรับนี้ให้ลูกชายกินทุกวัน ต่อมาลูกชายข้าหลวงเกิดสอบเป็นจอหงวนขึ้นมาได้จริงๆ ข้าหลวงเลยเที่ยวอวดข้อดีของโจ๊กตำรับนี้ไปทั่ว จน “คับไตจุก” แพร่หลายไปทั่วมณฑลกวางตุ้ง สืบมาจนถึงทุกวันนี้

ลิน่าก็กินโจ๊กทุกเช้านะคะ จะได้สอบได้ ไม่สอบตก

แต่ไปอยู่ญาติที่เป็นจีนเคะ ไม่ได้กินค่ะ ปลาทอด หมูตั่ง ผัดผัก เต้าหู้ ไข่ดาว ทุกเช้าก่อนโรงเรียนค่ะ

@ 03742c20:2df9aa5d

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

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

แล้วจะเอามาจากไหนล่ะ​ lightning​ wallet​ นั้นเอง

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

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มาเริ่มกันเลย

Wallet​ of​ satoshi​

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

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

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Blink​ wallet​

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

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

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

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เป็นบทความแนะนำสั้นๆ หวังว่าจะมีประโยชน์​สำหรับ​ผู้เริ่มต้น​ใช้งานใหม่ครับ

ขอให้มีความสุข​กับการใช้งาน​ nostr​ อย่าลืมมาแชร์​ประสบการณ์​ให้เราฟังด้วยนะ

ขอบคุณ​ทุกคนที่แวะมาอ่าน​แล้วเจอกันใหม่ครับ

lightning​ #Zap #Nostr #Siamstr

@ 21b41910:91f41a5e

An Intro to Creating Reports for Invoices and Payments for the LND tool

by @vicariousdrama 714130–714326

Summary

The purpose of this article is to guide users through use of some of the command line operations to query their lightning node, and produce summary reports using basic formatting and JSON processing tools. This article assumes that you already have a lightning node running LND, and access to the command prompt. If you don’t yet have a lightning node, consider checking out assorted node projects, or even setting up a node using voltage.cloud. Commands are presented in a way that builds up the overall result gradually so that we can better understand each part that goes into the result. You can jump to the end of major sections if you just want to copy-pasta the end result.

Change History

| Date | Description | | --- | --- | | 2022-03-11 | Initial Document | | 2023-02-26 | Conversion to Markdown | | 2023-11-17 | Crosspost to Nostr via Yakihonne |

Invoices

Invoices are payment requests that have been initiated from a lightning node for which another should pay. The creation of requests is out of scope of this article and is often created using applications or interfaces like ThunderHub, Ride The Lightning, or a Lightning capable wallet.

Listing Invoices

From the command line, we can use the lncli tool, the control plane for your lightning network daemon (lnd) with the listinvoices command.

This will output some invoices in JSON format. We can use the jq command to easily apply some formatting and color syntax coloring to improve readability. Later we will use this tool for filtering as well.

If there are invoices, they will be listed in JSON format with several fields for each. While all these fields have their purpose, the ones we are most concerned about for reporting are the ones for memo, value, settled, creation_date, settle_date, amt_paid_sat, and state.

In follow up sections, the highlighted colors depicted here will be included in commands to draw attention to where they are used.

Only List Paid Invoices

This is the command to filter the results to only show those which were paid

shell lncli listinvoices | jq '.invoices[] | select(.state=="SETTLED")'

Only List Failed Invoices

This command alters the filter to show those which were eventually cancelled due to timeout before being paid.

shell lncli listinvoices | jq '.invoices[] | select(.state=="CANCELLED")'

List Invoices Paid for a Period of Time

To limit the invoices to a period of time, we will establish some variables and update the filter of those invoices that are being selected. The date command will return the seconds since epoch, and start on the first second of that day. Each day is comprised of 86400 seconds. For the end date, we will want to advance the result by one day, minus one second to ensure the entire day is included in the period.

Similarly, we can limit the invoices selected to a single month

Controlling the Output for Invoices

Up until now, our output has just been JSON. For reporting purposes, we will begin cleaning up the output to report information on a line by line basis. With the selected objects, we can further use the jq command line JSON processor to direct output concatenating values for a string.

Here is a sample result formatted from the string

Let’s use some trivial formatting to right align the value field by creating spaces padded on the left side. This makes it easier to read numbers when there are multiple rows. In this example, we take the value field, convert to a string using a builtin tostring function. This will then be written out with spaces before it up to 8 minus the length of the value using the built in length function. For example, if the value is 123, it has a length of 3, and to give it a total overall length of 8, 5 spaces will be written in front.

Here is the revised sample result showing the additional padding of spaces on the left side of the value.

To show our values lined up, let’s run the same report with all invoices. To do this, we’ll change the begin date to an earlier time. Your results will vary depending on how many invoices you’ve had in the past.

And here are some sample results showing alignment of the values.

Capturing Filtered Results for Invoices

Going forward, we’ll be performing multiple queries against the dataset. To avoid putting unnecessary load on the service itself, and ensure that we are always working with the same data between queries, we can capture the results to a variable and use that in our formatting.

Here, we capture the data to a variable named REPORT_DATA

Now lets use that, and change our output to display the date in a readable format, followed by the memo field, and finally the amount right aligned.

To convert the date, we take the string, convert to a number using the builtin tonumber function, and then pass that through todateiso8601 another builtin function before parsing the Year, Month, and Day portions from it.

The memo field will be left aligned, whereas right aligned fields create spaces before it, we want to write out extra spaces after its value.

Finally, for the value field, lets extend the length which will better account for a header later on.

And here is our revised sample results with the new formatting.

Creating a Header for Invoices

We can add a header to the report to put context to the data presented. Lets add both a report header for the period of time, as well as column names.

For the period of time, we’ll convert the numeric start and end date in seconds back to a readable time stamp. The column headers will be spaced out to match that of the data, and finally, we’ll create a line between the header and the data.

Our sample results

Let’s combine them so the command output runs together without interspersing the command line prompt.

The header looks much cleaner now.

Calculating the Total for a Footer for Invoices

It would be helpful if we summarized the total sats recieved for the period. We can do this by taking the inputs, converting the value to a number, reducing the array, initializing a temporary variable, and adding the value to it for each item in the array. That may sound more complicated then it is but don’t worry, it’ll become clear with the command and results. The results we will store in another variable.

To see the value, we can echo it out

Sample result

With the total, we can now put it into a footer. We’ll draw another line closing out the data and report the total

The sample footer

Overall Report of Invoices

Now lets combine all the portions of the above into one simple set of commands. We can take this and save it to a file for reuse later.

And here is the sample report of invoices

Payments

For reporting with payments, we’ll assume some of the same concepts that were outlined in the invoices section.

Listing Payments

To list successful payments, we can use the lncli command with the listpayments operation, and then follow up with filtering with the jq JSON processor.

If there are payments, they will be listed in JSON format with several fields for each. While all of these fields have their purpose, the ones we are most concerned about for reporting are value, creation_date, fee, and status. In follow up sections, the highlighted colors depicted here will be included in commands to draw attention to where they are used.

Within the htlcs field (hashed timelock contracts), there are more details about the routing path the payment took, and fees down to the millisat that were paid for each hop. For this basic report, we’ll stick to the basic rollup of fees rounded to the next sat.

Capture the Filtered Payment Results

Let’s setup our reporting begin and end dates, and capture the matched payments to a variable.

Capture the Totals for Payments

Next, for reporting purposes, lets sum the total of invoices paid, the fees, and the overall total.

Overall Report of Payments

Similar to the invoices report, we prepare a payments report with a header block followed by data lines, and then a footer with the calculated sums.

Here’s a sample report output

Conclusion

Using the command line, we built up a report for invoices created with a lightning service. Basic filtering by date periods allows for flexibility in our reports. Textual alignment of data, formatting dates, and creation of headers and footers help make for a useful summary report. We then applied the same concepts to creation of a report for payments made. You may consider using this as a stepping stone to more reports and automation. If you think I should create more guides like this, or expand on it, please leave a comment on the article.

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“เราจะมีช่องยูทูปในอีก 6 เดือนข้างหน้าให้ได้…”

ประโยคที่ทำให้ผมสตั๊นไปชั่วขณะ เมื่อวันที่ 18 ธันวาคม 2565 ณ บ๊อบ เสปซ สถานที่แห่งแรกที่ชาวไรท์ ชิฟท์ รุ่นบุกเบิกได้มาพบเจอกันตัวเป็น ๆ

สองสามีภรรยาคู่นั้นค่อนข้างเชื่อมั่นว่าสิ่งนี้จะเกิดขึ้นได้ ในขณะที่ผมมองไปรอบ ๆ โต๊ะ..

วันนั้นอาร์มยังพูดติดอ่างอยู่.. น้องนิ่มยังค้นหาความกล้าไม่เจอ.. หมอนิวมีความตั้งใจแต่ไร้หนทาง หลาม (มิวนิค) ยังลำบากกับการแค่พูดตอบออกมาว่า “ครับ” ในขณะที่อิสรยังเป็นเพียงเด็กมีของที่ผมก็ยังไม่รู้ว่าเขามีอะไร ขิงดูมีแววมากที่สุดแต่ยังไม่เคยมีครั้งแรก ส่วนจิงโจ้ขอทำบทความอย่างเดียวก่อน ฯลฯ

เราไม่มีใครสักคนที่มีประสบการณ์ทำเรื่องแบบนี้กันมาก่อนเลย..

ผู้ชายเสียงนุ่มหันมามองตาผมแบบว่า… ผมมองตาเขา.. โอเค ๆ เอาก็เอา.. ผมพยักหน้าให้ พลางคิดหนักอยู่ในใจ

วันนั้น ไรท์ ชิฟท์ ยังเป็นแค่ชื่ออะไรสักอย่างที่ อ.ตั๊ม พึ่งประกาศออกไปสู่สาธารณะ ชื่อของเราถูกนำเสนอออกสู่ตลาดที่เต็มไปด้วยบิตคอยเนอร์ระดับพระกาฬ เต็มไปด้วยผู้รู้และมากประสบการณ์ และอินฟลูเอนเซอร์อีกมากหน้าหลายตาในระบบนิเวศน์นี้ ที่ชื่อชั้นช่างต่างจากเราเสียเหลือเกิน

เราจะกลายเป็นช่องบิตคอยน์เบอร์ต้น ๆ ของประเทศได้อย่างไร?

แต่ผมมีสิ่งหนึ่งที่ไม่มีใครเคยมี และจากนี้ไป.. ก็ไม่มีใครสามารถมีแบบที่ผมมีได้ คือ การเป็นคนแรกที่ได้ทำมัน

เสียงที่บอกผมในหัว มันสั่งให้ผมมองข้ามความยุ่งยากในการเริ่มต้นไปให้หมดสิ้น มันสั่งให้ผมย้อนเวลากลับไปยังจุดเริ่มต้น..

ถ้าวันนี้มีมือใหม่เดินเข้ามาในตลาด คนหน้าใหม่ที่สนใจอยากศึกษาบิตคอยน์ พวกเรามีแหล่งความรู้ที่เหมาะกับพวกเค้าแล้วหรือยัง?

วันนี้เรามีคนทำสื่อบิตคอยน์จริงจังมาก ๆ กันสักกี่คนนอกจาก อ.ตั๊ม?

น้อง ๆ คงรู้สึกตื่นเต้นที่กำลังจะได้ลองทำอะไรใหม่ ๆ สำหรับบางคนนี่อาจเป็นเหมือนฝัน พวกเค้ายังไม่รู้ว่าหนทางข้างหน้าต้องเจอกับอะไรบ้าง.. ผมขบคิดเรื่องนี้อยู่นานพอสมควร

สำหรับผมมันไม่ใช่แค่เริ่ม.. แต่ผมต้องคิดไปถึงความยั่งยืน การพัฒนาส่วนบุคคล ภาวะอารมณ์ การต่อยอด และคุณค่าที่จะถูกส่งต่อไปยังผู้รับ และอีกหลายเรื่องที่บางคนอาจยังจินตนาการไปไม่ถึง

มันไม่ใช่แค่เพียงจะเริ่มต้นกันอย่างไร หรือจะโปรดักชั่นไปในทิศทางไหน.. สิ่งที่ผมคิดในตอนนั้นมันเป็นเรื่องอื่น เรื่องที่สำคัญกว่าแค่รายละเอียดปลีกย่อยที่คนอื่นมองเห็น

การเริ่มต้นนั้นมันไม่เคยง่าย

แม้เราจะวางเป้าหมายกันไว้ที่ 6 เดือน เพื่อหาวิธีให้เราพร้อมจะทำช่องยูทูปบิตคอยน์ขึ้นมาใหม่..

กรอบเวลามันดูหลวมไปหน่อยสำหรับผม เราแค่ยืดมันออกไปเพื่อไม่ให้คนในทีมรู้สึกกดดันกันมากเกินไปเท่านั้นเอง เราต้องการเวลามากพอให้พวกเขาได้ฟูมฟักตัวเอง

เราไม่เคยมีการระบุว่าใครต้องทำหรือควรทำอะไร เราเปิดโอกาสให้พวกเค้าได้นำเอาโจทย์ไปครุ่นคิด และลองออกแบบสิ่งที่ตัวเองอยากจะทำ

สำคัญที่สุดคือต้องแน่ใจว่าตัวเองจะสนุกและมีความสุขไปกับมัน

ผมเองไม่ใช่ยูทูปเบอร์ ไม่ใช่คนดัง ไม่ได้เคยทำงานเบื้องหลังจริงจังกับเรื่องนี้ ผมก็แค่คนที่เคยศึกษาและทำความเข้าใจในเรื่องต่าง ๆ มาบ้าง ผมดูมาเยอะ เห็นมาเยอะ วิเคราะห์ขอดเกร็ดทุกอย่างที่เคยเห็น ผมพอแยกแยะได้ว่าอะไรดี อะไรยังต้องพัฒนาเพิ่มเติม

ผมอยู่ในจุดที่สามารถให้คำแนะนำที่เป็นประโยชน์ต่อพวกเขาได้ พวกเขาจะยังไม่มีความมั่นใจในช่วงแรก แน่นอนว่ามันต้องเป็นแบบนั้น..

ลองมาดูโจทย์ของพวกเรากันหน่อย

พวกเราอยู่กันคนละที่.. ดังนั้นลืมเรื่องกองถ่ายหรือการใช้สตูดิโอไปได้เลย พวกเราเป็นคนธรรมดาที่ชื่นชอบบิตคอยน์และ อ.ตั๊ม ..สิ่งนี้ไม่ได้ให้องค์ความรู้อะไรในการทำวิดีโอกับพวกเราทั้งสิ้น

พวกเราไม่เคยต้องแสดงออกหน้ากล้องกันมาก่อน.. ใช่.. นี่จะเป็นครั้งแรกในชีวิตสำหรับพวกเขา.. พวกเราไม่มีเครื่องมืออุปกรณ์แบบที่มืออาชีพเค้ามีกัน.. อะไรใกล้มือหรือพอจะซื้อหาได้ก็ต้องเอามาใช้ไปพลางๆ ก่อน

พวกเราไม่มีคนตัดต่อวิดีโอมืออาชีพ.. หวยจึงมาตกที่ผม.. ใช่.. ผมตัดต่อเองทั้งหมดในช่วงแรก จนกระทั่งเราได้ประธานซุปเข้ามาในภายหลัง

เราต่างก็รู้กันดีว่า.. ทุนบริษัทมันคนละกระเป๋ากันกับเงินของเจ้าของ มันไม่เกี่ยวกับว่าเจ้าของจะเป็นคนรวยหรือยากไร้ เราไม่ได้จดทะเบียนกันด้วยเงินที่สูงมากขนาดนั้น

ดังนั้น หากจะบอกว่าพวกเราเริ่มต้นกันแบบเสื่อผืนหมอนใบก็คงไม่ผิดเท่าไหร่นัก ..เราต้องหาทางเริ่มกันเองให้ได้ ด้วยทรัพยากรเท่าที่เรามี

น้อง ๆ ในทีมนั้นเคารพและฟังคำแนะนำของผมเสมอ แม้ผมจะไม่ใช่ Mr. Beach ไม่เคยเป็นยูทูปเบอร์หรือคนดังจากที่ไหนมาก่อนก็ตาม แต่พวกเขาต่างก็รู้และเชื่อมั่นว่า ผมจะพาพวกเขาไปถึงเส้นชัยได้สักวัน

มีสิ่งหนึ่งที่ผมบอกกับพวกเขาอยู่เสมอ บอกตั้งแต่วันแรกจนถึงทุกวันนี้ ย้ำไม่ต่ำกว่าสามร้อยรอบ

"อย่าทำแบบคนอื่น.. จงเป็นตัวของตัวเอง นี่คือกฏเพียงข้อเดียวของพี่"

เพราะอะไรน่ะหรือ..?

เพราะผมรู้ดีว่า.. คนจะไม่จำเงาเสียง ไม่จำ The next… ไม่จดจำคนที่ทำได้แบบคนอื่น ๆ ต่อให้เขาจะทำได้ดีกว่าต้นฉบับมากแค่ไหนก็ตาม

มันก็แค่เหล้าเก่าในขวดใหม่เท่านั้นเอง

คนที่ถูกจดจำ นอกจากจะสร้างคุณค่าให้เกิดขึ้นได้แล้ว นอกจากจะสร้างผลงานที่มีคุณภาพแล้ว ยังต้องมีความเป็น "Original" ในแบบของตัวเองให้ได้อีกด้วย

พวกเราจำได้ไหมล่ะครับ ว่าเงาเสียงของนักร้องดัง ๆ แต่ละคนมีชื่อว่าอะไรบ้าง?

การค้นหาตัวเอง กลับไปสู่ความเป็นตัวเองให้ได้นับว่าเป็นเรื่องที่ยากแล้ว.. การฝึกให้เคยชินกับการนั่งพูดหน้ากล้องนั้นยากยิ่งกว่า..

มันดูเหมือนง่าย.. ไม่เห็นมีอะไรเป็นพิเศษ ก็จนกระทั่งคุณมีโอกาสได้ลองทำมันเป็นครั้งแรกแล้วนั่นแหละ คุณจะเปลี่ยนความคิดไปโดยปริยาย

ด้วยความสัตย์จริง..

แม้ผมไม่เคยต้องสอนใครในเรื่องแบบนี้มาก่อน ผมอาจไม่ใช่เชฟกระทะเหล็ก แต่ผมก็รู้ว่าเสต๊กรสชาติดีมันเป็นยังไง ดังนั้นผมรู้ว่าผมอยากจะทานเสต๊กแบบไหน..

แต่… ผมก็เข้าใจว่าน้องๆ ของผมก็คงไม่ได้มีใครเรียนเชฟมาก่อนเหมือนกัน แล้วจะทำยังไงล่ะ.. ทำยังไงพวกเขาถึงจะทำเสต๊กรสเด็ดออกมาให้เราเชยชิมได้?

ผมรู้จักตลาดนี้ดี ผมรู้ว่าผู้คนอยากกินอะไร แต่ผมจะยังไม่บอกน้อง ๆ ในตอนนี้..

คุณก็แค่ต้องปล่อยให้พวกเค้าได้ลองฝึกทำมันด้วยตัวเอง ซึ่งรสชาติจานแรกก็คงต้องแดกยากก่อนค่อนข้างแน่ ในตอนที่ทุกคนยังจับทางอะไรไม่ได้ ก่อนจะไต่ระดับไปสู่ระดับเชฟ 5 ดาวได้ในอนาคต แต่นั่นก็เป็นเรื่องของอนาคต

ในช่วงแรกผมจึงได้รับฟีดแบ้กจากเหล่ากูรูทั้งหลายทั้งของจริงและเซียนคีย์บอร์ดกันแบบพังยับเลยทีเดียว แต่ผมไม่ปล่อยให้เสียงเหล่านี้ดังไปถึงหูน้องๆ ผมมีหน้าที่ต้องปกป้องและคอยมอบความรักความเชื่อมั่นให้กับพวกเขา

พวกเขาควรได้อยู่ในที่ๆ ปลอดภัย เรียนรู้สิ่งต่าง ๆ ได้อย่างสบายใจ และมีสมาธิกับการมุ่งมั่นฝึกฝนทำตามความฝันของตัวเองกันต่อไป.. คนเดียวที่จะกล่าวตำหนิหรือให้ฟีดแบ้กอะไรแก่พวกเขาได้ ก็คือผมและคนในทีมของเราเอง (ที่กรองฟีดแบ็กจากภายนอกมาแล้วชั้นหนึ่ง)

ผมเชื่อใน Proof of Work ผมเน้นย้ำกับพวกเขาอยู่เสมอ ว่าการเริ่มต้นที่ไม่ดีคือเรื่องที่มันจำเป็นต้องเกิดขึ้น

ก็เพื่อให้พวกเราได้เรียนรู้และพัฒนาตัวเอง เพื่อให้เราเข้าใจว่าเรายังขาดตกบกพร่องอะไร เพื่อให้เรามองเห็นโอกาสในการเป็นคนที่ดีกว่าเดิม

และเมื่อมันจำเป็น ก็อย่าได้ไปนอยด์อะไรกับมันให้มากนัก กลับไปทุ่มเทพัฒนาตัวเองให้ได้นู่นไป

ผมได้แต่ออกรับหน้าและรับคำติชมจากภายนอกรอบสารทิศแต่เพียงผู้เดียว (เพราะผมแทบจะเป็นคนเดียวที่ทำหน้าที่แอดมินของทุกแพลตฟอร์มในช่วงแรก) ผมยิ้มรับทุกคำติชมอย่างอดทน

เราเคยถูกตำหนิระดับที่ว่า.. มึงทำอะไรกันปัญญาอ่อนจังวะ? ก็เคยมาแล้ว..

ผมไม่เคยตำหนิน้องๆ แบบตรงๆ เพราะผมรู้ว่านั่นจะไม่ช่วยให้พวกเขาพัฒนาอะไรได้

แม้บางคนจะหัวรั้น มีแนวคิดและความเชื่อในแบบของตัวเอง ผมก็เข้าใจได้ว่านั่นมันเป็นเรื่องของประสบการณ์ ผมเลือกจะให้พวกเขาได้ทำตามแบบที่ตัวเองตั้งใจ และเรียนรู้มันเองจากผลลัพธ์ที่จะเกิดขึ้นตามมา..

ในช่วงเวลานั้นผมต้องสู้กับเสียงรอบด้านและจิตใจของตัวเองอย่างหนัก..

• ตั้มแน่ใจแล้วเหรอว่าจะปล่อยให้น้องทำแบบนี้ต่อไป ทั้งๆ ที่ตั้มก็รู้ว่าแบบนี้มันยังไม่ใช่?

• ตั้มจะเสี่ยงเอาชื่อ Right Shift มาทำแบบนี้จริงๆ เหรอ?

• ทำไมตั้มไม่บอกกับน้องไปตรง ๆ ว่าควรทำยังไง.. มันไม่ง่ายกว่าเหรอ?

• ตั้มจะไม่เบรคน้องสักหน่อยเลยเหรอ ผลที่ตามมามันอาจไม่คุ้มค่านะตั้ม?

• ไหนว่าตั้มฉลาดไง.. ทำไมเรื่องแค่นี้ตั้มถึงคิดไม่ได้ล่ะ?

สารพัดคำถามเชิงลบที่มีเข้ามาไม่เว้นแต่ละวันในช่วงแรก ๆ ผมคงไม่บอกว่ามันมาจากใครบ้าง มันจะไม่มีใครได้รู้หรอก นอกจากตัวผมเอง..

ผมโชคดีที่หุ้นส่วนของผมนั้นเป็นคุณครูของแท้ทั้งสองท่าน ทั้งคู่ต่างเข้าใจว่าผมกำลังทำอะไร ทั้งคู่รู้ดีว่าการฟูมฟักคนให้เติบโตนั้นต้องผ่านกระบวนการอะไรบ้าง

แม้สมนึกจอมจุ้นจะคอยถามผมไม่เว้นแต่ละวันเลยก็ตาม.. สมนึกก็แค่เป็นห่วง กลัวผมจะเครียดจนเกินไป

ทุกๆ คำถาม มันมีคำตอบในตัวมันเองอยู่แล้วสำหรับผม ผมโตมามีวันนี้ เป็นคน ๆ นี้ได้ ก็เพราะผมมีโอกาสได้ลองทำผิดทำถูกมาหลายอย่างด้วยตัวผมเอง บทเรียนที่ได้รับ องค์ความรู้ การตระหนักรู้ด้วยตัวเองนั้น สำหรับผมมัน "โคตรยั่งยืน"

ผมกำลังเดิมพันอนาคตของพวกเรากับสิ่งนี้.. มันคือ "การเติบโตอย่างยั่งยืน"

• หาก Right Shift จะต้องเสี่ยง ช่วงเวลาที่ยังไม่ค่อยมีใครรู้จักเรานี่แหละ เหมาะสมที่สุดที่เราจะเสี่ยง

• หากผมต้องบอกทุกอย่างที่ควรทำ จาก 0 ไปถึง 10 น้องๆ ของผมจะได้เรียนรู้กันจากอะไรล่ะ? พวกเขาจะกลายเป็นแค่หุ่นยนต์ที่ต้องพึ่งพาและคอยรับคำสั่งจากผมไปตลอด

• การเบรคคนที่กำลังมั่นใจสุดขีด มันไม่ต่างอะไรกับการเอาตัวเข้าไปขวางรถไฟความเร็วสูง.. ไม่ต่างอะไรกับการไปบอกชิตคอยเนอร์ว่าเหรียญที่เค้ากำลังไฮป์มันคือแสกม

• ผมไม่ได้เป็นคนฉลาด.. ผมแค่รู้ว่าความฉลาดมันเกิดขึ้นได้อย่างไร ปัญญา การรู้แจ้งมีเหตุปัจจัยมาจากอะไร และผมก็แค่กำลังรอให้สิ่งนั้นเกิดขึ้นกับน้อง ๆ เท่านั้นเอง

แต่ผมอาจโหดไปหน่อย ที่กล้าให้ลูกลองเล่นมีดคม ๆ และปล่อยให้ลูกโดนมีดบาดมือดูสักที..

ผิดพลาดในตอนที่ยังไม่รู้ ก็ดีกว่าต้องตกลงมาจากที่สูง

ทั้งหมดนี้คือสิ่งจำเป็นที่ต้องเกิด.. จำเป็นที่สุด.. สำหรับผมแล้วมันถูกต้องที่สุดที่ต้องเป็นแบบนี้

ในฐานะผู้นำ.. ผมเองก็กำลังพิสูจน์คำแนะนำของตัวเองโดยอาศัยเวลาและผลของการกระทำเป็นเครื่องมือเช่นเดียวกัน..

ก็แค่มารอดูว่าอะไรจะเกิดขึ้นเท่านั้นเอง..

มอบคุณค่าให้กับผู้อื่น ไม่ใช่ตัวเราเอง

ผ่านเวลามาเรื่อย ๆ พวกเขาค่อย ๆ เติบโตขึ้นด้วยประสบการณ์ที่พึงมี มีช่วงหนึ่งที่เราเคยได้รับคำแนะนำดีๆ จากผู้ที่เก่งกาจและเต็มไปด้วยประสบการณ์คร่ำหวอดอย่าง อ. พิริยะ ซึ่งมักจะหาเวลา (ที่มีอยู่น้อยนิด) มาให้คอมเม้นท์ดี ๆ กับน้อง ๆ อยู่เสมอ

บางคนก็ต้องผ่านการให้คำแนะนำ การกระตุ้นและให้กำลังใจ การสร้างแรงบันดาลใจจากตัวผมมากกว่าสิบครั้ง หลาย ๆ ครั้งผมต้องพูดนานเป็นชั่วโมง ๆ ฉายา "Jakk 8 Hour" ก็ได้มาเพราะแบบนี้

บางครั้งมันก็เป็นเรื่องอื่นที่ไม่ใช่เรื่องงาน พวกเขาเห็นผมเป็นเหมือนพี่ใหญ่ เป็น Last resort ที่จะคอยให้คำแนะนำดี ๆ กับพวกเขาได้เสมอ ผมเองก็ไม่ได้เก่งอะไรไปกว่าพวกเขา ผมแค่มีประสบการณ์มากกว่าเท่านั้นเอง

คอนเทนต์ของเราเริ่ม Mature และมีวิวัฒนาการแปลกตาออกไปเรื่อย ๆ น้อง ๆ เริ่มแสดงบทบาทได้เป็นตัวเองกันมากขึ้น ถามว่าสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นในขณะนั้นคือแบบที่ตรงใจกับผมแล้วหรือยัง?

มันไม่ใช่หน้าที่ของผมต้องมานั่งตอบคำถามอะไรแบบนี้.. "ตลาด" ต่างหากที่จะให้คำตอบนั้นกับเรา

และนี่คือสิ่งที่ผมเองก็รอด้วยเช่นกัน.. รอว่าเมื่อไหร่น้อง ๆ จะเริ่มเข้าใจความหมายของมัน..

มันไม่แปลกหรอก.. ที่เมื่อเราพึ่งได้รับองค์ความรู้อะไรใหม่ ๆ มาหมาด ๆ เรามักจะมีไอเดียต่อยอดแสนบรรเจิด เรามักร้อนวิชาและคิดคอนเท้นท์อะไรได้ในแบบที่ตัวเราเองก็อดรู้สึกตื่นเต้นไปกับมันด้วยไม่ได้

แต่นั่นมักจะกลายมาเป็นหลุมพลางของบรรดาครีเอเตอร์.. พวกเขามักจะคิดว่าสิ่งที่กำลังจะทำนั้นมันโคตรดี เพราะคิดทีไรก็อดไฮป์ไปกับมันไม่ได้

มันก็แหง๋ล่ะ ในเมื่อคุณกำลังมองมันด้วยเลนส์ของตัวเอง มันจะเป็นไปได้ยังไงที่คุณจะไม่ชอบมัน.. มันดีสำหรับคุณ คุณจึงอยากส่งต่อและคิดจะแบ่งปัน..

แต่คุณถามคนอื่น ๆ แล้วหรือยังว่าเขาชอบแบบที่คุณกำลังชอบอยู่ไหม?

ตลาดอยากได้ในสิ่งที่คุณคิดว่าดีนักดีหนานั่นหรือเปล่า?

คุณกำลังจะทำสิ่งนั้นเพื่อสนองความต้องการของตัวเอง สนองต่ออีโก้และความภาคภูมิใจในความเก่งกาจของตัวเอง คุณทำเก่งเพื่อให้ตัวเองดูเหนือกว่า เพื่ออัตตาบางอย่าง

หรือคุณกำลังทำมันเพื่อมอบคุณค่าให้กับคนส่วนใหญ่เป็นที่ตั้ง "ช่วย" พวกเขาในแบบที่พวกเค้ากำลังอยากได้มันอย่างแท้จริง ?

ผมเป็นนักขายมาก่อน ผมทำธุรกิจมาก็มาก ผมเรียนรู้จิตวิทยาทางการตลาดมาจากประสบการณ์จริง ทั้งของตัวเอง และเคสของคนอื่น ๆ ผมเห็นว่าอะไรควรทำและไม่ควรทำ

สิ่งที่เราควรทำหนึ่งในนั้นไม่ใช่การทำเพื่อเอาอกเอาใจตลาด ไม่ใช่การทำตามกระแสความต้องการ แต่มันคือการพยายามช่วยและให้สิ่งที่มีคุณค่าแก่พวกเขา ในแบบที่พวกเค้าจะต้องการมันจริงๆ

ไม่ใช่เพื่อสนองความต้องการของตัวเราเอง

แล้วเราจะเข้าใจพวกเค้าได้อย่างไร? เราจะรู้ได้อย่างไรว่าตลาดจะต้องการอะไรจริง ๆ ?

คุณก็ลองพาไปทำตัวเป็นคน ๆ หนึ่งที่อยู่ในตลาดนั้น ไปลองทำตัวเป็นผู้รับจริง ๆ ดูเสียสิ..

"รู้เขา รู้เรา" ไม่ได้ถูกใช้เพียงแค่กับการรบราฆ่าฟัน

ไม่ได้ใช้เพียงเพื่อการเอาชนะหรือการเข้าห้ำหั่นกัน มันยังถูกใช้ในการให้ความช่วยเหลือ การสร้างความสัมพันธ์ และการส่งต่อคุณค่าให้แก่กันได้อีกด้วย

ในเวลาต่อมาผมได้ปลูกฝังและถ่ายทอดแนวคิดนี้ให้กับน้อง ๆ ผมย้ำตอกหมุดไปแทบทุกครั้งที่มีโอกาส

พวกเราพยายามฝึกที่จะทำสิ่งนี้โดยที่ในตอนนั้นผมยังไม่เคยได้ยินคำว่า Value for Value มาก่อนเลยด้วยซ้ำไป.. แต่สิ่งที่เรากำลังมุ่งหมายที่จะทำนั่นแหละคือ V4V

ในหัวผมนั้นมันพอมีไอเดียบ้างแล้วว่ารายการทรงคุณค่าที่ควรจะเกิดขึ้นมันคืออะไร.. แต่ผมจะไม่ชอบบอกอะไรไปง่ายๆ แบบนั้น

"พวกนายเคยสงสัยกันไหมว่า.. รายการพูดคุยประจำสัปดาห์ใน Diacord ที่มีคนพูดอย่างพวกเราแค่ไม่ถึงสิบคน แต่ทำไมตลอดหนึ่งปีที่ผ่านมามันจึงมีคนเข้าไปนอนฟังเราได้ตลอด

บางคนฟังอย่างเดียว ฟังมันทุกครั้งตั้งแต่ต้นจนจบ แต่ไม่เคยเปิดไมค์สักครั้งเลยก็มี

เคยหาคำตอบกันไหมว่ามันเพราะอะไร? พวกเขาชอบอะไร?

อะไรคือสิ่งที่พวกเขามองหา? "

ไม่มีใครตอบผมได้ในทันที ผมคิดว่าผมคงต้องแสดงตัวอย่างอะไรบางอย่างให้พวกเขาได้เรียนรู้..

ผมได้ชักชวนหลายท่านในคอมมูนิตี้ Discord ให้มาลองทำรายการสนทนาภาษาบิตคอยน์กัน หลายคนคงเคยดูมาแล้วในชื่อรายการ Bitcoin Gangster และนี่แหละคือโปรโตไทป์ของรายการ "สภายาส้ม"

สิ่งที่พวกเราต้องการคือการได้คุย ได้ฟังใครสักคนคุยกันในเรื่องที่เราสนใจคล้าย ๆ กัน

กับกลุ่มคนที่มีความรู้ความเข้าใจในบิตคอยน์ดีอยู่แล้ว เราไม่รู้จะสอนพวกเขาไปทำไม เขาจะสอนเราได้ดีกว่าที่เราสอนเขาเสียด้วยซ้ำ

เขาก็แค่อยากคุยกับบิตคอยเนอร์ด้วยกันเท่านั้นเอง..

อ่านจุดจุดเริ่มต้นของสภายาส้มกันได้จากโน๊ตนี้ : กำเนิดสภายาส้ม

Bitcoin Gangster ได้กลายเป็นแรงบันดาลใจให้เกิดสภายาส้มขึ้นในเวลาต่อมา.. เป็นตัวอย่างหนึ่งของการคิดทำประโยชน์และสร้างคุณค่าให้กับผู้อื่น มากกว่าการเล็งเห็นแค่เพียงปรารถนาของตัวเราเอง

แต่คอนเท้นต์ประเภทที่มีผู้ดำเนินรายการหลายคนก็ได้กลายเป็นอุปสรรคในเวลาต่อมา.. มันไม่ได้ง่ายแบบที่ทุกๆ คนคิด

เพียงแต่ผมไม่เคยมีคำว่าอุปสรรคอยู่ในพจนานุกรม.. มันคือโอกาสในการจะพัฒนาและก้าวข้ามตัวเราเองได้ต่างหากล่ะ..

Unity of Diversity

การผสมความแตกต่างให้เข้ากันได้อย่างกลมกลืนนั้นเป็นสิ่งที่ยากเอามาก ๆ แต่มันก็ไม่ได้ยากจนเกินไปหากเราเข้าใจธรรมชาติของมนุษย์

การดำเนินรายการหลายคน เราเจอว่าเรายังมีจังหวะที่คร่อมกันอยู่ การสอดประสานยังทำได้ไม่ไหลลื่นเท่าที่ควร เมื่อเกิดเหตุการณ์เช่นนี้บ่อย ๆ ทุกคนก็เริ่มกดดันและแสดงความกังวลออกมาผ่านทางภาษากาย

ผมปล่อยให้พวกเค้าลองแก้ปัญหานี้กันด้วยตัวเองก่อนในช่วง EP แรก ๆ แต่จนแล้วจนรอดก็ยังติด ๆ ขัด ๆ กันอยู่เช่นเคย ไหนจะพะวงเนื้อหาที่ต้องพูด ไหนจะต้องจับใจความฟังเรื่องเล่าของคนอื่น ไหนจะต้องคอยระวังไม่ให้พูดสวนกันจนดูน่ารำคาญ

ที่สุดแล้วผมจึงได้ตั้งคำถามง่าย ๆ ให้พวกเขาได้นำไปขบคิด

"รู้ไหม.. ทีมฟุตบอลแบบไหนที่จะได้แชมป์?"

"มันไม่ใช่แค่เพราะว่าทีมมีนักเตะเทพๆ เต็มไปหมด มันจะมีเทพไปหลายคนเพื่ออะไร ถ้ามันเอาแต่ต่างคนต่างเล่นต่างโชว์กัน?"

"พวกแกอยากเป็นเทพที่ไม่เคยคว้าแชมป์อะไรเลยอย่างงั้นเหรอ?"

ผมได้นำเอา Analogy เกี่ยวกับสิ่งที่เรียกว่า "Teamwork" ในกีฬาฟุตบอลมาอธิบายให้พวกเขาฟัง.. ที่บ้านเราเรียกว่า "เล่นเข้าขากัน" นั่นแหละครับ..

ทีมเวิร์คจะเกิดขึ้นได้อย่างไร?

อย่างแรกคือการฝึกซ้อมร่วมกันบ่อย ๆ เล่นด้วยกันให้มากพอ จนเราเข้าใจสไตล์การเล่นของเพื่อนร่วมทีม จนเราเข้าใจว่าเพื่อนของเราชอบให้เราส่งบอลแบบไหน แบบไหนที่มันไม่ชอบ ฯลฯ

หมอนี่ชอบสับขาหลอก 3 ทีถึงจะส่งบอล อีกคนชอบเบิ้ลจังหวะเดียวแบบ 1-2 อีกคนชอบให้สาดยาวไปข้างหน้าแล้ววิ่งแข่งกับกองหลังไปเอาบอล ฯลฯ

สิ่งเหล่านี้จะเกิดขึ้นได้ในสนามซ้อม นำไปใช้กันในสนามจริง และสั่งสมไปเรื่อย ๆ ตามกาลเวลา เมื่อพูดถึงเวลาเราก็เลี่ยงไม่ได้ครับว่า มันเกี่ยวกับ Proof of Work อีกครั้งแล้ว

แต่เราเร่งให้มันเกิดเร็วขึ้นกว่านั้นได้ ด้วยการใส่ใจกับเพื่อนร่วมทีม และผลการแข่งขันของทีมให้มากขึ้น มากกว่าแค่สนใจผลงานของตัวเอง ซัพพอร์ตซึ่งกันและกันและส่งให้เพื่อนในแบบที่ทีมจะได้ประโยชน์สูงสุด ..เล่นให้เป็นทีม

เมื่อคว้าชัยชนะ ด้วยสไตล์การเล่นที่ได้ใจคนดู ด้วยวิธีการเล่นที่ตัวเราเองก็สนุกไปกับมันได้ ขวัญกำลังใจของเราก็จะดีขึ้นตามมา และเราจะยิ่งทำได้ดีขึ้นมากเมื่อเราอารมณ์ดีและกำลังมีความสุข..

แคแรคเตอร์

ผมสนับสนุนให้น้องๆ ไปศึกษาการพูดของพิธีกรที่เก่ง ๆ แต่ไม่เคยอนุญาตให้ไปเลียนแบบเขา

อย่า.. เด็ดขาด

อย่าพยายามทำให้ได้แบบใคร ๆ แต่เราต้องเป็นในแบบของเราเอง เป็นธรรมชาติของตัวเราเองในแบบที่ดีกว่าไอดอลของเราในวันหนึ่งให้ได้

แทนที่จะมาคอยนั่งพะวงว่าน้ำเสียงของเราจะเป็นแบบไหน สีหน้าเราจะเป็นมืออาชีพไหม ท่าทางเราจะเป็นแบบใคร

มึงก็แค่เป็นตัวของมึงเอง มึงเป็นแบบไหนคนก็จะจำพวกมึงแบบนั้นไปเอง

เมื่อทำได้อย่างเป็นธรรมชาติ ซึ่งเป็นสิ่งที่ตัวเราไม่ต้องพยายามอะไร แค่นี้สมองก็มีพื้นที่เหลือเพิ่มมากขึ้นเพื่อไปใช้กับการทำเรื่องอื่นแล้ว

ผมไม่ต้องการให้น้องพยายามทำอะไรเหมือน ๆ กัน ผมไม่ต้องการรูปแบบหรือท่ามาตรฐานแบบรายการข่าวยามเช้าตามฟรีทีวี

ผมแค่ต้องการความหลากหลาย ผมต้องการความแตกต่าง ผมต้องการให้เกิดคุณค่าอันมาจากทางเลือกอันหลากหลาย.. และในที่สุดน้อง ๆ ก็เก่งพอที่จะสามารถทำมันได้

พวกเขาต้องขอบคุณในความพยายามของตัวเอง ขอบคุณทุกคำแนะนำ คำติชมและทุกบทเรียนที่ผ่านเข้ามา พวกเขาควรต้องภาคภูมิใจในตัวเอง และไม่ควรหลงลืมว่าตนเองเคยผ่านความลำบากอะไรมาบ้าง ไม่ลืมรากเหง้าที่แท้จริงของตน ไม่ลืมว่าเราเริ่มมาจากจุดที่เรานั้นเป็นใคร

เมื่อคุณสามารถรวมเอาคุณสมบัติอันหลากหลายเข้าด้วยกันได้อย่างกลมกลืน คุณจะได้ "ผลรวม" ที่เป็นสิ่งใหม่ที่ไม่เคยมีที่ไหนมาก่อน

ที่ Right Shift ผมจึงไม่เคยต้องการผู้ที่เก่งกล้าสามารถระดับเทพเมฆาอัคคี ผมไม่ได้ต้องการคนเก่งที่ก็ทำอะไรได้เหมือน ๆ กัน คุณจะติด ร. หรือได้เกียรตินิยมเหรียญเพชรก็ไม่ได้สลักสำคัญอะไรสำหรับผม

ผมต้องการคนที่จะเข้ามาช่วยเติมเต็มในสิ่งที่เราขาด คนที่ทำให้เรามีคุณสมบัติองค์รวมเพิ่มมากขึ้น คนที่จะไม่เข้ามาทำลายคุณค่าที่เราสร้างได้สร้างกันไว้อย่างยากลำบาก ไม่ต้องการพวกชอบโชว์ออฟ ไม่อยากได้คนที่จะเข้ามาเป็นศัตรูกับคนในทีม

ผมแค่ต้องการคนที่จะเข้ามาสู่ทีมและเล่นเข้าขากันกับผู้เล่นในทีมของเราได้ สนุกไปด้วยกัน

แนวคิดนี้ผมยังได้ใช้มันกับการผลักดันคอมมูนิตี้ของเรามาโดยตลอด คุณค่าของความหลากหลาย และรวมเอามันเข้าไว้ด้วยกัน

ความเป็น Unity ของผู้คนที่มีความแตกต่างกันมากมาย..

"Unity of Diversity"

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ผมคิดว่าเรื่องราวในส่วนของการสร้างยูทูปในแบบของเรายังผ่านมาเพียงแค่ 1/10 เท่านั้น เห็นทีผมคงต้องมีภาคต่อในบทความถัดไป..

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ระหว่างที่เรากำลังทะยอยต้องแยกย้ายกันหลังจบงานคอนเฟอเรนซ์

ผมเดินดุ่ม ๆ นำหน้าทุกคนไปก่อนและกำลังครุ่นคิดสิ่งต่างๆ อยู่เพียงลำพัง ถัดไปด้านหลังก็มีภรรยาของผมเดินมากับคู่ของหมอนิวและน้องนิ่ม..

"พี่ตั้มนี่เป็นยิ่งกว่าพี่ชาย แกเป็นเหมือนพ่อของผมเลยนะ.."

หมอนิวกล่าว.. คงอยากจะอวยพี่ตัวเองให้เมียเค้าฟัง

"ใช่ค่ะ.. พี่ตั้มให้คำแนะนำนิ่มเยอะมาก ๆ"

น้องนิ่มช่วยเสริมได้อย่างเข้าขา ผมไม่รู้ว่าเพราะหมอนิวหยิกแขนให้พูดด้วยหรือเปล่า..

"จริงเหรอ? ตั้มเนี่ยนะ มันพูดเพ้อเจ้อจะตาย.. นิวเป็นถึงหมอเลยนะ.. ทำไมพูดแบบนั้น?"

เมียผมทำเสียงสูงแบบไม่อยากจะเชื่อว่าหมอนิวกำลังชมผัวซื่อบื้อของตัวเอง

"พี่ตั้มเค้าก็หมอ.. แต่ถึงผมจะเป็นแพทย์ ผมก็ไม่ได้เก่งไปทุกเรื่องหรอกครับ ยังมีอะไรที่ผมต้องเรียนรู้อีกเยอะ อะไรที่พี่ตั้มเค้าทำได้นี่ผมทำไม่ได้สักอย่างนะ.. ทำโน่น.. ทำนั่น.. ทำนี่ เต็มไปหมด.. ฯลฯ "

ผมรีบเดินจ้ำอ้าวหนีไอ้พวกชอบอวยพวกนี้ให้ไวที่สุด ..เปล่าหรอก ขี้เกียจรอฟังเมียหันมาแขวะ เพราะเดี๋ยวนางต้องแซวผมแน่ ๆ

ผมเริ่มเดินทิ้งระยะออกมาไกล ผมเดินช้าลงแต่ก็พลันอดอมยิ้มไม่ได้

ถึงแม้ไม่เคยมีใครรู้ว่าผมสร้างคุณค่าอะไรไว้ ถึงแม้ผมจะไม่รวยขึ้นมา จากการทำเรื่องพวกนี้

แต่สิ่งที่หมอนิวพูดออกมามันก็ดีต่อใจผมเหลือเกิน..

แค่นี้หรือเปล่าที่เราต้องการ..?

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"ผมว่าผมเข้าใจอะไรๆ ได้ดีเกือบทุกเรื่องนะ แต่มีเรื่องหนึ่งที่ผมคิดยังไงก็ยังไม่สามารถเข้าใจมันได้สักที.."

เจ้าขิงพูดไปพลาง ส่ายหัวไปพลาง อย่างหงุดหงิดด้วยอาการขำ ๆ ทีเล่นทีจริง

"คือสกิลในการดูคน อ่านคนของพี่ตั้มนี่แหละ พี่รู้ได้ยังไงว่าคนนั้นจะทำแบบนี้ได้ มันจะเก่งไปทางไหน มีศักยภาพอะไร ผมไม่เข้าใจเลยว่าพี่ดูออกได้ยังไงว่า.. @#฿#!:?(*-#90#; "

ขิงบ่นอุบเอาฮาเป็นหมีกินผึ้ง ทุกคนบนโต๊ะต่างพากันหัวเราะอย่างสนุกสนานให้กับอาการของขิง..

ผมเองก็อดหัวเราะตามไม่ได้ ในใจผมก็พลางคิดไปด้วยว่า..

"ก็เพราะว่าพี่คือ Jakk Goodday ยังไงล่ะขิง…"

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@ 81870f53:29bef6a6

過去 1 年間、金は多くの資産の中で好調なパフォーマンスを示し、年間を通じて累計 13% 以上増加しました。流行は2023年に沈静化し、高金利を背景にインフレ率は低下し、連邦準備理事会は利上げペースを徐々に減速させた。同時に、パレスチナとイスラエルの間の紛争は世界的な地政学リスクを高めた。全体として、スポット金は値上がりし、1 オンスあたり 2,146 米ドルの高値に達しました。

2024 年を見据えて、多くの大手銀行は 2024 年の金の動向について楽観的です。

JPモルガンは、金が2024年半ばに「画期的な利益」をもたらすと予測している。FRBが利下げすれば、目標のピークは2,300米ドル/オンスに達することになる。

UBSは、利下げが実現すれば、金価格は2024年末までに1オンス当たり2,150ドルの記録を樹立する可能性があると考えている。

ゴールドマン・サックスは、当社は金に対して前向きな見方を維持しており、12カ月の目標は1オンス当たり2,175ドルに変更はないと述べた。」

具体的には、連邦準備制度の金融政策が依然として金の主要な取引ロジックとなっています。同時に、米国債券金利、地政学的リスク、米国選挙、金の需給面の安定などのブランチ取引ロジックにも投資家の注意が必要です。

FRBの金融政策は緩和方向に移行しており、貴金属価格は引き続き上昇の勢いをもたらす可能性がある 米連邦準備理事会（FRB）が利下げするとの期待が金価格の上昇に寄与するだろう。米ドルと金価格は同じ中央銀行準備資産です。この 2 つは交互の効果をもたらします。価格はシーソー関係を示します。ドルが下落すると金の価格は上昇し、その逆も同様です。現在、米ドル安の主な原因は、連邦準備理事会が大幅な利下げを行うとの期待によるものです。米ドルの相対的な弱さは、金の魅力を高めるのに役立ちます。

一部の機関アナリストは、2024年の金価格の動向を見据えて次のように述べています。

現時点で見ると、第 1 四半期と第 2 四半期の金価格は景気の低迷や安全逃避要因に牽引され、強い変動傾向を示しており、再び過去最高値を更新する可能性も排除されません。第 2 四半期の終わりか第 3 四半期の初めまでに、連邦準備制度による利下げの実施が近づき、金価格は主要な上昇局面に入りました。第 4 四半期には、金が完全に取引されると、米国のインフレが回復する可能性があります。このため、市場はFRBの利下げの間隔と頻度について懸念を抱く可能性がある。その際、金相場は変動、調整する可能性がございます。

スンダラム・ミューチュアル・ファンドのマネジングディレクター兼最高経営責任者（CEO）のサブラ・マニム氏は次のように述べた。

利下げサイクルが2～3年延長され、その後ドル安が進むと予想されることを考慮すると、金は現在良い投資選択肢となっている。彼の意見では、積極的な投資家にとって理想的な配分は株式の 3 分の 2 で、リスクのバランスをとるために金を使用することです。より保守的な投資家にとっては、株式、金、債券の配分比率を 50:25:25 とするのがより適切でしょう。

アナンド・ラティ・シェアーズ・アンド・ストック・ブローカーズの商品・通貨担当ディレクター、マッサ氏は次のように述べた。

昨年、金はほとんどの取引商品よりも優れたパフォーマンスを示し、今年の見通しも非常に堅調に見えます。「利上げの影響が今後数四半期の経済成長に影響を及ぼし始めるなか、市場参加者は来年第１・四半期末に利下げが行われると予想している。同氏は、歴史的に、金利が停止されている期間中、金の月間平均収益率は常にプラスであったと考えています。今後については、金価格は 2024 年に過去最高値に達すると予想されており、2024 年前半には依然として 2,250 米ドル/オンスの水準に達する可能性があります。

短期的には、12月のコア消費者物価指数（CPI）は予想を若干上回ったものの、2024年の緩和サイクルに対する市場の期待は依然として存在しており、これが金価格に大きく反映されている。投資家は現在、金価格の上昇を促す触媒に細心の注意を払っている。

世界的な地政学的な緊張が高まるか、国際的な金価格を支える 戦争や混乱は資本市場にある程度の影響を与えます。伝統的な安全資産として、金は経済危機や地理的リスクを背景に投資家に求められています。地政学の影響は金融政策ほど長くは続きませんが、より強力です。

地政学的リスクは、2 つの方法で国際金価格に影響を与えます。1つは、リスクによって多額の資本が安全な逃避先を求めるようになるかどうか、もう1つは、リスクが米ドルの安定を損なうかどうかだ。

まず、市場心理により、地政学的な紛争が段階的に激化するときに、国際金価格が最も大きく変動することがよくあります。地政学的な紛争が激化し、世界の資本市場でリスク回避の動きが強まるにつれ、金はいくぶん上昇するだろう。第二に、米国政府が地政学的紛争への介入を発表すれば、米ドルの安定が損なわれ、安全通貨である金のさらなる上昇が促進されるだろう。

中央銀行は買い戻しを増やし、需要面は着実に成長した 需要と供給の観点から見ると、金の供給には硬直性があります。したがって、需要側の変化も金の価格に大きな影響を与えることになります。2022年以降、世界中の中央銀行による継続的な金購入が、金価格を押し上げる重要な要因の1つとなっています。

金のファンダメンタルズは、地政学リスクの高まりによる中央銀行の力強い購入によって依然として支えられている。World Gold Council と IFS のデータによると、中央銀行は 2023 年の最初の 3 四半期に 800 トンの金を蓄積したと推定されています。

HSBCによると、中銀による大規模な資金購入の主な理由は以下の5つだとい​​う。

投資ポートフォリオの多様化。金は、他国の通貨や債券を保有するリスクを軽減するための投資ポートフォリオの多様化ツールとして使用でき、金を購入することで大量のドルの保有を減らすことができます。

リスクを軽減します。金には取引相手がいないため、信用リスクがありません。

主要な財務リスクへの対処。国際収支危機（1997～1998年のアジア金融危機など）では、金は必要な輸入品の支払いや自国通貨の維持に使用でき、また融資の担保としても使用できます。

緊急資金調達。金は緊急時に国の頼りになる資本です。国が非常事態または紛争にある場合、法定通貨は現金化できない場合がありますが、現時点では金が使用できます。

評判を高めます。一部の新興市場の中央銀行は、先進国の金保有に接近し、国内の信用を支持する傾向があるかもしれない。

今後についてHSBCは、中央銀行の金購入ブームは2024/2025年も続くが、その勢いは2022/2023年に比べて若干弱まると考えている。

今年は、上記の影響要因に加え、米国選挙でのトランプ大統領の復活、経済・金融リスクの高まり、日銀のマイナス金利政策の解除など、予期せぬ大きな出来事もあり、経済情勢が混乱する可能性があります。金の価格。

1月は黄金の伝統にとって力強い月です 短期的には、1 月は通常、伝統的に金が強い月でもあります。

WGC の分析によると、金は毎年最初の月に好調なパフォーマンスを示すことがよくあります。1971年以来、1月の金の平均収益率は1.79%で、長期月平均のほぼ3倍となった。2000 年に遡ると、この期間に 1 月の金の 70% が増加を記録しました。WGC は、今年 1 月に金のパフォーマンスを押し上げる可能性のある 3 つの要因を特定しました。実質利回りの季節的な弱さ。そして旧正月前の東アジアの金補充。

それにもかかわらず、WGCは投資家に慎重に行動するようアドバイスしています。同協会の分析によれば、次のようになっている。

これは、金の価格が毎年 1 月に上昇するという意味ではありません。これが起こらなかった年もあります。最後の 2 回は 2021 年と 2022 年でした。ただし、1 月に金のリターンがマイナスになった年は通常、米ドルが上昇した時期と一致し、通常、後者は急激に上昇しました。

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Anglicismos estúpidos no português contemporâneo

Palavras e expressões que ninguém deveria usar porque não têm o sentido que as pessoas acham que têm, são apenas aportuguesamentos de palavras inglesas que por nuances da história têm um sentido ligeiramente diferente em inglês.

Cada erro é acompanhado também de uma sugestão de como corrigi-lo.

Palavras que existem em português com sentido diferente

• submissão (de trabalhos): envio, apresentação
• disrupção: perturbação
• assumir: considerar, pressupor, presumir
• realizar: perceber
• endereçar: tratar de
• suporte (ao cliente): atendimento
• suportar (uma idéia, um projeto): apoiar, financiar
• suportar (uma função, recurso, característica): oferecer, ser compatível com
• literacia: instrução, alfabetização
• convoluto: complicado.
• acurácia: precisão.
• resiliência: resistência.

Aportuguesamentos desnecessários

• estartar: iniciar, começar
• treidar: negociar, especular

Expressões

• "não é sobre...": "não se trata de..."

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18. แสงแห่งความหวัง

"ปัญหาพื้นฐานของระบบสกุลเงินปกติ อยู่ที่การยังจำเป็นต้องใช้ความเชื่อใจเพื่อให้มันทำงานได้ โดยธนาคารกลางนั้นจำเป็นต้องได้รับความเชื่อใจว่าจะไม่ทำเงินให้เสื่อมค่า แต่ในประวัติศาสตร์ของสกุลเงินเฟียตกลับเต็มไปด้วยการละเมิดความเชื่อใจนั้น”

–ซาโตชิ นากาโมโตะ

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

แต่เป็นเวลากว่า 7 ทศวรรษแล้วที่ธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF กลับตั้งตัวเป็นศัตรูกับทั้ง 4 สิ่งนี้

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

บิตคอยน์เป็นสิ่งที่อยู่ตรงข้ามกับระบบเดิมที่ถูกออกแบบโดยธนาคารโลกและกองทุน IMF แต่ทว่าบิตคอยน์จะสามารถเปลี่ยนพลวัตในโครงสร้างอำนาจและโครงสร้างทรัพยากรของโลกระหว่างประเทศแกนกลางและประเทศชายขอบได้จริงหรือ?

คุณ Nabourema นั้นเต็มไปด้วยความหวัง และไม่เข้าใจว่าทำไมฝ่ายซ้ายโดยทั่วไปมักประณามหรือไม่สนใจบิตคอยน์

“เครื่องมือที่สามารถทำให้ผู้คนสร้างและเข้าถึงความมั่งคั่งได้อย่างเป็นอิสระจากองค์กรที่มีอำนาจควบคุมนั้น สามารถที่จะมองว่ามันเป็นเครื่องมือของฝ่ายซ้ายได้เลยด้วยซ้ำ” เธอกล่าว “ในฐานะนักเคลื่อนไหวที่เชื่อว่าประชาชนควรได้รับเงินสกุลที่ให้ค่าต่อชีวิตและการเสียสละของพวกเขาแล้ว"

"บิตคอยน์คือเป็นการปฏิวัติของประชาชน”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ดังนั้นพวกเขาอาจจะเริ่มพิจารณาการเป็นผู้ลงทุนร่วมมากกว่าจะเป็นผู้ปล่อยกู้ แปลว่าพวกเขาจะต้องสนใจความยั่งยืนและความสำเร็จที่แท้จริงของโครงการที่พวกเขาสนับสนุนมากขึ้น เนื่องจากพวกเขาต้องรับความเสี่ยงในการลงทุนนั้น

การขุดบิตคอยน์เป็นอีกสิ่งหนึ่งที่สามารถสร้างความเปลี่ยนแปลงได้

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

บางทีการลงทุนเพื่อเก็บออมบิตคอยน์เป็นเงินสำรอง และเพื่อใช้งานโครงสร้างพื้นฐานของบิตคอยน์ (ซึ่งโดยเนื้อแท้แล้วมันเป็นสิ่งที่ต่อต้านระบบเงินเฟียต) น่าจะเป็นทางออกและเป็นเส้นทางสู่การเอาคืนระบบเดิมที่กดขี่พวกเขามายาวนาน

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

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

“แต่มาตรฐานบิตคอยน์” คุณ Booth กล่าว “จะหยุดสิ่งนี้”

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

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

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

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

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

“เป็นคุณจะปล่อยกู้งั้นเหรอ?” เขาถาม “แล้วจะเอาบิตคอยน์ของใครไปปล่อยกู้ล่ะ?”

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⚡️ กด Zap ที่ลิงก์นี้ เพื่อเป็นกำลังใจทีมงานผู้เรียบเรียงบทความ

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

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[REVIEW] Primal, freeform On IOS

ในบทความนี้เป็นการรีวิวการใช้ client ต่าง ๆ บน IOS ของผมและเพื่อน ๆ ที่ช่วยกันลองเล่นและทดสอบเพื่อหา client บน IOS ที่จะใช้ป้ายยาคนใหม่ ๆ ให้เขาไม่รู้สึกว่าการเข้ามาในทุ่งม่วงแห่งนี้เป็นเรื่องยาก เมื่อได้ทดลองแล้วเลยอยากมาแชร์ผลที่ได้กับทุก ๆ คนบน Nostr เพื่อเป็นแนวทางหรือเป็นส่วนประกอบการตัดสินใจในการเข้าไปลองเล่น client ใหม่ ๆ

ทั้งนี้ทั้งนั้น สิ่งที่ปรากฏภายในบทความนี้เป็นเพียงแค่ความคิดเห็นของผู้เขียนและแอพต่าง ๆ ที่ลอง เป็นเวอร์ชันก่อนวันที่ 23/10/2023 หากโหลดมาใช้แล้วไม่เหมือนในรีวิวแปลว่าแอพมันอัปเดตไปแล้วนะครับ

Primal

Primal เป็นอีก client นึงที่มีฟังก์ชันต่าง ๆ ค่อนข้างครบครันและมี UX/UI ที่ดี สวยงามและปรับแต่งได้ในระดับหนึ่ง นอกจากนี้ยังสามารถ zap ผ่าน โน้ตต่าง ๆ ได้โดยตรงและนอกจากนี้ยังรองรับ one-click zap ผ่าน NWC ได้อีกด้วย ส่วนการดาวน์โหลดในปัจจุบันสามารถทำได้ดังนี้

Primal ในตอนนี้ทาง IOS สามารถดาวน์โหลดได้ผ่านทาง TestFlight เท่านั้น โดยสามารถเข้าไปรับ redeem code ได้ทางเว็บไซต์ของ primal จากนั้นให้ปุ่มดาวน์โหลดบน navbar แล้วเลือก IOS จากนั้นจะมีหน้าต่างโปรแกรม TestFlight ขึ้นมาให้เราดาวน์โหลด

• • หากไม่เคยใช้ TestFlight มาก่อน แนะนำว่าให้ทำการดาวน์โหลดและ login ให้เสร็จเรียบร้อยก่อนไปรับ redeem code บน primal ส่วนในแง่ของ ข้อดี – ข้อเสีย ที่ผมพอสรุปได้จากการใช้งานมีประมาณนี้ครับ

ข้อดี

• UI สวยงาม ตัวแอปลื่นไหลไม่สะดุดรองรับฟังก์ชันพื้นฐานครบ
• Zap ผ่านโน้ตได้ และรับรอง NWC เพื่อทำ one-click-zap ได้
• มีการแจ้งเตือนครบครันและปรับแต่งได้ตามความต้องการ
• สร้างฟีดของ # ต่าง ๆ ได้ (ตรงนี้จะแตกต่างจากการติดตาม # ของ client อื่น ๆ )
• UI ต่าง ๆ ของแอพเช่น ขนาดตัวอักษรสามารถปรับขนาดได้

ข้อเสีย

• จัดการรีเลย์ผ่านทางแอพไม่ได้ อาจต้องมี client อื่น ๆ บนเครื่องเพื่อทำการจัดการต่าง ๆ เกี่ยวกับรีเลย์
• การแจ้งเตือนในบางครั้งซ้ำซ้อนมีแจ้งเตือนเดิม ๆ เด้งหลาย ๆ ครั้ง
• การแสดงจำนวนเช่น ผู้ติดตาม, คนตอบกลับ, คนกดไลค์มากกว่าความเป็นจริง
• Upload วีดีโอตรง ๆ ไม่ได้ (เป็นลิ้งได้ครับ)
• เวลาเราโพสต์และติด tag event ของโพสต์เราจะไม่มี tag ในช่อง tag ทำให้คนที่ติดตาม tag บน client อื่น ๆ ไม่เห็นโพสต์เรา (ร้ายแรง)

ข้อสรุป

Primal เป็นอีก client นึงที่เหมาะสมกับการแนะนำมือใหม่มาก ๆ ครับเพราะถ้าสมัครบน primal มันจะเก็บ keys เข้าไปในมือถือเราไม่ต้องให้เรา copy ไปเก็บเองเหมือน client อื่น ๆ และนอกจากนี้ยังไม่ต้องให้มือใหม่ปวดหัวกับการจัดการรีเลย์ในช่วงแรกที่เล่นได้อีกด้วย

Freefrom

สำหรับทวิตเตอร์ เอ้ย freefrom เป็นอีก client ที่ใช้งานง่าย UI เป็นที่คุ้นเคย (ทวิต) แบบแทบจะเหมือนกันเลย และสามารถใช้งานฟังก์ชันต่าง ๆ ได้เหมือนกับโซเชี่ยลมีเดียโดยทั่วไปจุดเด่นที่ชอบในตัวของ freeform คือการที่เราสามารถส่ง contact card และ album ให้กันได้ด้วย ส่วนการดาวน์โหลดในปัจจุบันสามารถทำได้ดังนี้

ตอนนี้สามารถดาวน์โหลดได้ผ่านทาง App Store ได้ตรง ๆ เลยครับ รูปนกตัวอ้วนกว่านกฟ้านิดนึง

ข้อดี

• UI สวยงาม ใช้งานง่าย และหลาย ๆ คนน่าจะคุ้นเคยกับ UI รูปแบบนี้อยู่แล้ว
• ระบบ DM สวยและมีลูกเล่นเยอะเช่น การส่ง contact card, album
• Reaction ด้วย emoji ได้หลากหลายเป็นพื้นฐานอยู่แล้ว

ข้อเสีย

• ไม่สามารถ zap หรือทำอะไรเกี่ยวกับ Lightning ได้เลยบนแอพ
• ฟังก์ชันต่าง ๆ ที่เล่นได้ค่อนข้างน้อย ไม่รองรับ Follow # หรือการ Upload video ไม่ได้ (ต้องเป็นลิ้ง)

ข้อสรุป

Freeform เป็น client ที่เหมาะสมกับการแนะนำมือใหม่มาก ๆ โดยเฉพาะกลุ่มคนที่ไม่ได้เข้าใจ Bitcoin หรือ lightning เข้ามาเริ่มก่อนได้ง่าย ๆ และหากเขาสร้างคุณค่าในสังคมมากพอที่คนอยากจะ zap ให้เขา เดี๋ยวเขาก็หาทางใช้ client อื่น ๆ เพื่อมารับ zap เอง ;)

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ทั้งนี้ที่บทความนี้เกิดขึ้นมาได้ต้องขอขอบคุณ nostr:npub1mqcwu7muxz3kfvfyfdme47a579t8x0lm3jrjx5yxuf4sknnpe43q7rnz85 ที่แนะนำ primal มา และขอบคุณ nostr:npub1r6g3v8nd0xmu3w080qaeevwz5pzk3qfh7vdx7ayd7dv0szr96ywsh7dlap ที่ยอมกระโดดมาเล่น Nostr และ ยอมช่วยทดลองและมารีวิวช่วยกันเทสจนสามารถได้บทความนี้ขึ้นมา

@ 52b4a076:e7fad8bd

Nostr has a funding problem. Developers and infrastructure is severely underfunded and reliant on flawed economic models, and this could pose a risk to the future of Nostr as a protocol.

To understand it, we need to understand what resources are needed to make Nostr work, how they aren't funded properly and what could happen next.

The costs of what makes Nostr work

Nostr works because: 1. Developers build clients on it 2. There is infrastructure to support clients

If there are no developers, there are no clients. If there is no infrastructure, clients have no purpose.

The costs of developing a client, and the reliance on developers

Clients require time to develop the client, and money to run infrastructure for it.

Without developers, there would be no clients, and no Nostr.

Developers have lives and need to make money somehow in exchange for the time they spend. Developing a client is a significant cost, even for small ones (assuming 1 hr/day, no infrastructure costs and the average salary of a software developer, $1500) and needs to be covered somehow.

We have multiple models, all of which have large downsides: 1. Donations/V4V/Bounties:
This model suffers from the problem that a minority pays for the majority, which will lead to the majority demanding exclusive benefits for their money or otherwise cutting off funding since they have no reason to pay.
This also suffers from the fact that donations are unreliable. 2. Grants from OpenSats and similar non-profits:
These suffer from the same problems as the donations model, but also suffer from the following problems: - the managers of these non-profits may have views not aligned with their donors, leading to misfunding. - that such projects are mostly stopgaps that add additional complexity to a direct donation model. 3. Paywalled features:
It is very hard to find the balance between paywalling enough features to make money, and discouraging too many users from using the client. There may not even be such a sweet spot. 4. Cuts: It is extremely hard to balance these so that people don't complain, and it is likely that there will be forks of FOSS clients that remove these features by some users.
5. Paid clients:
People do not want to spend a lot on services that they expect to be free or cheap, and spending $5/month on this client, $10/month on that client, so on won't scale, even though that is way less than the actual value they are getting. 6. Ads:
Ads are usually underpaying and mostly make money for the ad companies instead of the client developers. Ads are also an invasion of privacy and may not be well received by some users. 7. VC funding:
VCs put profit above protocol health, which may accelerate some issues that I will discuss later. They also may disincentivize the development of some apps (uncensored social media for example) for pushing their own agenda.

Even if we find some good way to fund clients, it doesn't end there...

The cost of infrastructure

There are multiple types of infrastructure for Nostr, such as relays, services like Noswhere's search relay, push notifications, etc. All of these cost money to operate, and are the other half of what make Nostr work.

These have even more limited funding options, which have even bigger downsides: 1. Client funding:
Clients already struggle on funding as I discussed in the previous section. This would mean infrastructure is even more underfunded. 2. User payments:
Users do not understand the details and importance of infrastructure, and have no reason to fund it. Making this problem worse, infrastructure providers can falsely advertise their services, diverting money away from infrastructure that is higher quality and should be funded. This is already happening. 3. Grants from OpenSats and similar non-profits (relays only):
Again, these suffer from problems specified in the last section about grants. These entities will likely want the highest value from their donations, therefore leading them to encouraging a few big relays than many medium sized ones. Since relays are more important infrastructure, and they could have more control, these entities can also exert more control over the network. 4. Data harvesting and selling:
This would discourage people from using their providers, but this is likely going to happen to some extent. The issue is that it would not generate sufficient revenue for the amount of users it will drive away.

Both infrastructure and developers being underfunded can lead to issues that may kill the protocol, which I'll discuss in the next section.

The risks of improper funding

1. The protocol fizzles out and dies without reaching critical mass

This is one of the less likely options since there will probably be people developing for the sake of it, but is likely. With client developers being underfunded and infrastructure shutting down, Nostr would become smaller and worse to use until it completely fizzled out except maybe a few people.

2. The enshittification of Nostr

This is the most likely outcome, and the worst one. As Nostr continues developing, developers and infrastructure developers will want to maximize revenue, so they will begin by making good products to attract users at a loss.

After they have a sufficiently large user base, they would slowly erode bridges to their competitors, only leaving what is required so that their users won't complain.

After this stage, it is likely that clients will start merging with other ones to make larger "everything" apps and kill the last bridges, turning them into proprietary walled gardens, returning us to where we are today.

How do we fix this?

I have no idea. Please share your opinions if you do :)

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

Pequenos problemas que o Estado cria para a sociedade e que não são sempre lembrados

- **vale-transporte**: transferir o custo com o transporte do funcionário para um terceiro o estimula a morar longe de onde trabalha, já que morar perto é normalmente mais caro e a economia com transporte é inexistente.
- **atestado médico**: o direito a faltar o trabalho com atestado médico cria a exigência desse atestado para todas as situações, substituindo o livre acordo entre patrão e empregado e sobrecarregando os médicos e postos de saúde com visitas desnecessárias de assalariados resfriados.
- **prisões**: com dinheiro mal-administrado, burocracia e péssima alocação de recursos -- problemas que empresas privadas em competição (ou mesmo sem qualquer competição) saberiam resolver muito melhor -- o Estado fica sem presídios, com os poucos existentes entupidos, muito acima de sua alocação máxima, e com isto, segundo a bizarra corrente de responsabilidades que culpa o juiz que condenou o criminoso por sua morte na cadeia, juízes deixam de condenar à prisão os bandidos, soltando-os na rua.
- **justiça**: entrar com processos é grátis e isto faz proliferar a atividade dos advogados que se dedicam a criar problemas judiciais onde não seria necessário e a entupir os tribunais, impedindo-os de fazer o que mais deveriam fazer.
- **justiça**: como a justiça só obedece às leis e ignora acordos pessoais, escritos ou não, as pessoas não fazem acordos, recorrem sempre à justiça estatal, e entopem-na de assuntos que seriam muito melhor resolvidos entre vizinhos.
- **leis civis**: as leis criadas pelos parlamentares ignoram os costumes da sociedade e são um incentivo a que as pessoas não respeitem nem criem normas sociais -- que seriam maneiras mais rápidas, baratas e satisfatórias de resolver problemas.
- **leis de trãnsito**: quanto mais leis de trânsito, mais serviço de fiscalização são delegados aos policiais, que deixam de combater crimes por isto (afinal de contas, eles não querem de fato arriscar suas vidas combatendo o crime, a fiscalização é uma excelente desculpa para se esquivarem a esta responsabilidade).
- **financiamento educacional**: é uma espécie de subsídio às faculdades privadas que faz com que se criem cursos e mais cursos que são cada vez menos recheados de algum conhecimento ou técnica útil e cada vez mais inúteis.
- **leis de tombamento**: são um incentivo a que o dono de qualquer área ou construção "histórica" destrua todo e qualquer vestígio de história que houver nele antes que as autoridades descubram, o que poderia não acontecer se ele pudesse, por exemplo, usar, mostrar e se beneficiar da história daquele local sem correr o risco de perder, de fato, a sua propriedade.
- **zoneamento urbano**: torna as cidades mais espalhadas, criando uma necessidade gigantesca de carros, ônibus e outros meios de transporte para as pessoas se locomoverem das zonas de moradia para as zonas de trabalho.
- **zoneamento urbano**: faz com que as pessoas percam horas no trânsito todos os dias, o que é, além de um desperdício, um atentado contra a sua saúde, que estaria muito melhor servida numa caminhada diária entre a casa e o trabalho.
- **zoneamento urbano**: torna ruas e as casas menos seguras criando zonas enormes, tanto de residências quanto de indústrias, onde não há movimento de gente alguma.
- **escola obrigatória + currículo escolar nacional**: emburrece todas as crianças.
- **leis contra trabalho infantil**: tira das crianças a oportunidade de aprender ofícios úteis e levar um dinheiro para ajudar a família.
- **licitações**: como não existem os critérios do mercado para decidir qual é o melhor prestador de serviço, criam-se comissões de pessoas que vão decidir coisas. isto incentiva os prestadores de serviço que estão concorrendo na licitação a tentar comprar os membros dessas comissões. isto, fora a corrupção, gera problemas reais: __(i)__ a escolha dos serviços acaba sendo a pior possível, já que a empresa prestadora que vence está claramente mais dedicada a comprar comissões do que a fazer um bom trabalho (este problema afeta tantas áreas, desde a construção de estradas até a qualidade da merenda escolar, que é impossível listar aqui); __(ii)__ o processo corruptor acaba, no longo prazo, eliminando as empresas que prestavam e deixando para competir apenas as corruptas, e a qualidade tende a piorar progressivamente.
- **cartéis**: o Estado em geral cria e depois fica refém de vários grupos de interesse. o caso dos taxistas contra o Uber é o que está na moda hoje (e o que mostra como os Estados se comportam da mesma forma no mundo todo).
- **multas**: quando algum indivíduo ou empresa comete uma fraude financeira, ou causa algum dano material involuntário, as vítimas do caso são as pessoas que sofreram o dano ou perderam dinheiro, mas o Estado tem sempre leis que prevêem multas para os responsáveis. A justiça estatal é sempre muito rígida e rápida na aplicação dessas multas, mas relapsa e vaga no que diz respeito à indenização das vítimas. O que em geral acontece é que o Estado aplica uma enorme multa ao responsável pelo mal, retirando deste os recursos que dispunha para indenizar as vítimas, e se retira do caso, deixando estas desamparadas.
- **desapropriação**: o Estado pode pegar qualquer propriedade de qualquer pessoa mediante uma indenização que é necessariamente inferior ao valor da propriedade para o seu presente dono (caso contrário ele a teria vendido voluntariamente).
- **seguro-desemprego**: se há, por exemplo, um prazo mínimo de 1 ano para o sujeito ter direito a receber seguro-desemprego, isto o incentiva a planejar ficar apenas 1 ano em cada emprego (ano este que será sucedido por um período de desemprego remunerado), matando todas as possibilidades de aprendizado ou aquisição de experiência naquela empresa específica ou ascensão hierárquica.
- **previdência**: a previdência social tem todos os defeitos de cálculo do mundo, e não importa muito ela ser uma forma horrível de poupar dinheiro, porque ela tem garantias bizarras de longevidade fornecidas pelo Estado, além de ser compulsória. Isso serve para criar no imaginário geral a idéia da __aposentadoria__, uma época mágica em que todos os dias serão finais de semana. A idéia da aposentadoria influencia o sujeito a não se preocupar em ter um emprego que faça sentido, mas sim em ter um trabalho qualquer, que o permita se aposentar.
- **regulamentação impossível**: milhares de coisas são proibidas, há regulamentações sobre os aspectos mais mínimos de cada empreendimento ou construção ou espaço. se todas essas regulamentações fossem exigidas não haveria condições de produção e todos morreriam. portanto, elas não são exigidas. porém, o Estado, ou um agente individual imbuído do poder estatal pode, se desejar, exigi-las todas de um cidadão inimigo seu. qualquer pessoa pode viver a vida inteira sem cumprir nem 10% das regulamentações estatais, mas viverá também todo esse tempo com medo de se tornar um alvo de sua exigência, num estado de terror psicológico.
- **perversão de critérios**: para muitas coisas sobre as quais a sociedade normalmente chegaria a um valor ou comportamento "razoável" espontaneamente, o Estado dita regras. estas regras muitas vezes não são obrigatórias, são mais "sugestões" ou limites, como o salário mínimo, ou as 44 horas semanais de trabalho. a sociedade, porém, passa a usar esses valores como se fossem o normal. são raras, por exemplo, as ofertas de emprego que fogem à regra das 44h semanais.
- **inflação**: subir os preços é difícil e constrangedor para as empresas, pedir aumento de salário é difícil e constrangedor para o funcionário. a inflação força as pessoas a fazer isso, mas o aumento não é automático, como alguns economistas podem pensar (enquanto alguns outros ficam muito satisfeitos de que esse processo seja demorado e difícil).
- **inflação**: a inflação destrói a capacidade das pessoas de julgar preços entre concorrentes usando a própria memória.
- **inflação**: a inflação destrói os cálculos de lucro/prejuízo das empresas e prejudica enormemente as decisões empresariais que seriam baseadas neles.
- **inflação**: a inflação redistribui a riqueza dos mais pobres e mais afastados do sistema financeiro para os mais ricos, os bancos e as megaempresas.
- **inflação**: a inflação estimula o endividamento e o consumismo.
- **lixo:** ao prover coleta e armazenamento de lixo "grátis para todos" o Estado incentiva a criação de lixo. se tivessem que pagar para que recolhessem o seu lixo, as pessoas (e conseqüentemente as empresas) se empenhariam mais em produzir coisas usando menos plástico, menos embalagens, menos sacolas.
- **leis contra crimes financeiros:** ao criar legislação para dificultar acesso ao sistema financeiro por parte de criminosos a dificuldade e os custos para acesso a esse mesmo sistema pelas pessoas de bem cresce absurdamente, levando a um percentual enorme de gente incapaz de usá-lo, para detrimento de todos -- e no final das contas os grandes criminosos ainda conseguem burlar tudo.

@ 7076f659:ca493321

Bienvenido a la web de la Comunidad de Meshtastic en España.

Aquí iremos poniendo tutoriales y diferente información sobre Meshtastic y su desarrollo en España.

Desde esta Comunidad queremos fomentar, ayudar y desarrollar el uso de Meshtastic en España como red descentralizada de comunicación p2p sobre LoRa utilizando el protocolo de Meshtastic.

Contacto:

Nostr: https://njump.me/npub1wpm0vkfduxz0n6gjcctugmj7swadj8fm07yt0d2vcual3jjfxvssm3cml9

Telegram: https://t.me/meshtastic_esp

@ 81870f53:29bef6a6

1月12日、$CHOW TAI FOOK(01929.HK)$ Jewellery Groupは、2023年12月31日までの3か月（第3四半期）の未監査の主要な営業データを発表しました。データは、期間中の周泰の小売価格?$を示しています。 #@$ (01929) は前年同期比 46.1% 増加し、その内、本土の小売売上高は 42.2% 増加し、香港、マカオおよびその他の市場では 70.8% 増加しました。 1月15日の終値では、周大福の株価は2％以上上昇した。

当期の既存店売上高は、ホリデー需要と良好な比較基盤の恩恵を受けて増加傾向にあり、本土の既存店売上高は22.7％増を記録し、引き続きインバウンド観光客の回復が続いていることや毎年恒例のプロモーションが業績を下支えしました。香港とマカオは66.6％増、うち香港は58.8％増、マカオは100.7％増となり、中国本土の既存店売上高は17.5％増、香港とマカオは49.8％増となった。

商品分類別では、中国本土の既存店におけるゴールドジュエリーおよびその製品の売上高は前年比32.5％増、香港とマカオでは前年比104.3％増となり、本土のジュエリーセッティング、プラチナ、ゴールドジュエリーの既存店売上高は前年比104.3％増加した。カラットゴールドジュエリーカテゴリーは前年比1.9%減少したが、香港とマカオは前年比4.3%増加した。

周大福経営陣によると、昨年11月、12月と月次既存店売上高伸び率は引き続き顕著に改善し、年末の低水準の影響もあったものの、正月三連休は大幅に売上を伸ばしたという。休日は前年比60%増に達しており、経営陣はホリデーギフトと金投資の需要により第4四半期も全体的に堅調な売上傾向が続く可能性があると予想している。

Chow Tai ?$#@$ は、2024 会計年度の第 3 四半期に本土で純 47 の小売店をオープンしました。これには、Chow Tai FC ジュエリーの小売店の純オープン 43 が含まれます。2024 会計年度の最初の 9 か月間で、グループは、中国本土、香港、マカオ、その他の市場で、純232店と9店の周泰?$#@$宝飾品小売店をそれぞれ開設した。

1月15日のリヨン調査報告書によると、周大福の2024会計年度の本土既存店売上高成長見通しは変わらず、依然として前年比4％増の見通しとなっている。 300～400店舗の下限内に収まるようにする。

金価格をみると、11月中旬以降、金の国際価格が大きく反発し、一時2,000ドルの大台を突破しましたが、昨年12月以降、金価格は2,000ドルを超える値動きを続けており、米国のマクロ経済の影響を受けつつあります。中国招商基金は、米国の利下げ後、ドルは下落局面に入る可能性が高いと見ている。新たな下降サイクルが起こり、それが金の価格を押し上げることになります。

金価格の「高騰」はすぐに消費者市場に伝わり、金宝飾品などの価格が高騰し、10月末には国内の金価格は1グラム当たり600元に達しました。金の宝飾品は1グラムあたり600元以上と高水準であり、割引後の金の価格は1グラムあたり570元から590元の範囲で推移している（人件費は含まない）。 2023年初めの金価格は1グラム当たり約420元だったが、40％以上上昇した。

春節が近づき、金の消費はピークシーズンを迎えています。CCTVの財務報告によると、武漢の江漢路歩行街にある金店はインターネット上で非常に人気です。年の最初の週末は人々が行き交い、辰年に作られた金のジュエリー、金の延べ棒、ブレスレットが最も人気があり、レアメタルの本質的な価値に加えて、職人技、伝統、新中国古代の金の促進に重点が置かれていることが理由の1つです。なぜ若者は金の購入を選ぶのか。

オンライン側でも金の消費は活況で、Vipshopのデータによると、周年プロモーションの開始以来、金建ての売上は前年比20％以上増加しており、ウェディング用のゴールドジュエリーの人気は依然として高いという。金やジュエリーのブランドも増加傾向にあり、たとえば、中国での金の売上は前年比 176% 増加し、Lukfook Jewellery の売上は前年比 41% 増加しました。

金消費ブームを受けて、金ブランド各社は積極的に店舗展開を進めており、周泰三は1月11日夜、2023年12月の新規自営店舗・店舗総数に関する報告書を発表した。合計11の新たな自営店舗が加わり、2023年12月31日時点で、同社の総店舗数は5,106店舗となり、うち自営店舗は331店舗、フランチャイズ店舗は4,775店舗となった。統計によると、同社は2023年の累計純増店舗数が490店舗となり、従来の純店舗目標である400店舗を上回り、うち自社店舗純増は82店舗、フランチャイズ加盟店純増は408店舗となった。

2023年第3四半期末までに、Chao Honji Jewelryは203店舗の純増を達成しており、Chao Honjiは2023年通年の純店舗出店目標に変更はなく、今後2年間の店舗拡大計画は次のとおりであると述べた。現在も年間300店の純増ペースで推移しており、2025年までに2,000店の目標達成を目指している。

国海証券は、一方では金技術の向上と金価格の上昇、金・宝飾品業界の利益の長期安定成長、そして価値の増加が金の成長を支えると期待されていると考えている。一方、ジュエリー加盟店の回収期間は短縮されており、出店意欲は十分にある。

1月15日の調査報告書によると、JPモルガン・チェースは周大福の収益成長に自信を持っており、製品ポートフォリオのアップグレード、香港市場の力強い回復、好調な業績のおかげで、予想される通期業績は経営見通しを上回る可能性があるという。また、周大福の今年度下半期の売上高は前年同期比21％増、コア営業利益（COP）は24％増となる見込みで、通期のコア営業利益は2019年3月期比で24％増加する見通しだ。同銀行は、市場の過小評価されている商品ポートフォリオのアップグレードと香港市場の回復が寄与すると考えている。

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Mineral Trade Instructions A.BRC-420 trading instructions B.iDclub trading instructions C.Abnormal trading illustration

Reminder: This is not a financial advice, please take risks into consideration, and please be rational.

https://brc420.io/

https://idclub.io/home

A. BRC420 trading instructions

1.Invest in Mineral: Browse BRC-420 official website and connect your UniSat wallet.

2.Hit the “Buy” button and follow the instructions of 3 steps. Would recommend doing the trade while the transaction fee is low

3.Use the Sweep function to invest in batches! You could check your transaction information in My Orders

4.Sell your Minerals: Find your Minerals in My BRC-420 on website. Hit the “List” button, fill in the selling price you prefer, and hit the “Sign” button in the pop-up window

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B. iDclub trading instructions

1.Invest in Mineral: Browse iDclub official website and connect your UniSat wallet

2.Select the target you want to purchase, click the purchase button, and follow the prompts to proceed

3.Trading process on iDclub is similar to BRC-420. Follow the instructions, set the transaction fee, and sign the contract

4.Sell your Minerals: Hit the “Ordier” button on the top right, click your wallet address to see the Minerals you owned, and select Mineral to list

5.Set your selling price and hit the “List/Update for sale” button to list. iDcloud support listing in batch

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C. Abnormal transaction illustration

There are several scenarios that make transactions unsuccessful ： 1.Balance on UniSat is insufficient. Just send more Bitcoin to the address. 2.You see the transaction could not complete successfully and pop up the notice that transaction failed. This scenarios is especially common when trading price is around floor price. The truth is that other already purchased the item and there is latency of data transmission. We would recommend to purchase the listing items with higher price to increase the chance of successful transaction

Reminder: This is not a financial advice, please take risks into consideration, and please be rational

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I think it's undeniable at this point that the creation of Lightning Address has made the usage of custodial Lightning solutions increase -- or at least be more prominent. We see these stats everywhere of how many of Nostr Lightning Addresses are custodial, and how services like Nodeless and Geyser only work if you give them a Lightning Address, and that probably sounds like a lament to many people who thought Lightning would be this amazing network of self-hosted nodes that everybody runs, and is indeed sad.

Well, on the other hand the Lightning Address flow is clearly an improvement -- to most people -- over the cumbersome invoice flow. Since the early days of Lightning people had been complaining about the fact that there is no way to "just send money to an address". Even though I personally liked the invoice flow much more (especially if they had structured, signatures, clear descriptions and amounts, payment proofs and so on) the fact is that most people didn't and slowly invoices were losing their meaning entirely anyway.

This improvement in the payment flow, along with the open, easy and interoperable way that Lightning Addresses work, has opened space for new use cases that maybe wouldn't have existed otherwise -- like the services mentioned above, and others. So we can't really say this was all a bad thing.

We also shouldn't say it was a bad thing to have Lightning Addresses being invented at all, because if they hadn't been invented like they were, there is a high probably they would have been invented in other forms, probably much worse, that would involve private deals and proprietary integrations with ad-hoc APIs, SDKs and JavaScript widget buttons with iframes. I even remember some of these things starting to happen at the time Lightning Address was created, and we have more evidence of these things even after Lightning Address, like some "partnerships" here and there and the "UMA" protocol. So maybe Lightning Address was just the best possible protocol at the best time, and all its problems are not really its problems, but symptons of the problems of the Lightning Network (or maybe you wouldn't call these "problems", just natural properties, but doesn't matter).

The saddest realization of all this process, for me, was that Lightning payments are mostly used for tipping and not for commerce as I thought they would in the beginning (hence my love for the invoice flow). Specifically, LNURL-pay and its cool hidden features that went mostly unsupported, were all designed with the goal of enabling new use cases for commerce in the real life, outside the web, and Lightning Addresses would have tied nicely into that vision too -- but that was all definitely an irredeemable failure.

I thought I had more things to say about this, but either I didn't or I forgot. The end.

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Mineralは、Bitcoinマイニングの実物資産（RWA）に支えられた、初のBRC-420インスクリプション(Inscription)です。ユーティリティとシナリオを持つインスクリプションは、Memeインスクリプションによる盛り上がりの後、新たな流行となっています。Mineralは以下の特徴を持ち、この市場のタイミングとニッチを捉えています。

1. Mineralをステーキングすると、毎月BitcoinマイニングからBitcoinを得られる特徴があります。価格上昇を待つだけでなく、MineralをステーキングすればBitcoinマイニングの収益を得られます。前回のブルマーケットでは、マイニングリグ（ハッシュパワー）自体が価格上昇を見せました。
2. Bitcoinだけでなく、L2での資金ガバナンストークンの$MNERも得られます。資金は、プロジェクトの成長とともに、より多くの利息を生むRWAを含むようになります。Mineralは、BRC-420エコシステム内の他のプロジェクトとコラボします。Mineralのインスクリプションの保有者は、L2でMineralをステーキングすることで、このようなコラボから得られる多様な利益をマイニングできます。
3. インスクリプション取引の手数料をサポートします。保有者は、マイナーに取引手数料を支払う必要があります。そのため、インスクリプションの繁栄とともに、マイナーの収入は増加する可能性があります。この繁栄は市場の合意になっております。Mineralをステーキングすることで、Mineral保有者はマイナーのようにエコシステムの成長から取引手数料を得ることができます。
4. Mineralは価値がゼロにならないインスクリプションです。実際、Memeインスクリプションは投機的な理由で人気がありますが、市場の焦点が変わると人気はすぐに衰えるようになります。そのため、シナリオとユーティリティは、インスクリプションの持続可能な成長を推進するキーとなります。Mineralは成長の大きな可能性を持っており、より重要なのは、RWAからの堅固な基本価値を持っています。L2では、長期的な計画を持つ豊富なメカニズムを設計し、RWAのDeFi世界を築き上げます。

InscriptionsはICOとDeFiの復興 InscriptionsがBitcoinのL1およびL2でICOとDeFiの復興であると言う理由は、DeFiの成熟さと市場規模のポテンシャルにあります。興味深い言い方として、EthereumとEVMはBitcoinのテストネットのようなものだというものがあります。人々はDeFi Summer中に得た情熱を思い出し、DeFiがどのように機能するかを完全に理解しています。これがInscriptionsの成長にとって有利です。さらに、Bitcoinの市場規模は暗号通貨の市場の多くを支配しています。多くのBitcoin保持者が、Bitcoinネットワーク上で構築された元々のアプリケーションを探しており、その中には利子を生むアプリケーションも含まれています。InscriptionsはBitcoin L1に基づいており、Bitcoinの良さを受け継ぎ、市場の注目を集めています。MineralはBitcoinに基づいて元々構築された革新的なアプリケーションを作成し、Inscriptions DeFiとBitcoinのマイニングメカニズム（Bitcoinネットワークの起源でもある）を組み合わせています。Mineralは、Bitcoinを愛し信じる投資家の大多数にとって完璧な選択肢です。

Mineralは、BRC-420の先進的なDeFi革新 Mineralは、良いDeFiモデルに触発され、より進んで持続可能になります。OHM(Olympus) とInfra(Blast)の成功に基づいて、Mineralは進んで持続可能なモデルです。OHMの高いAPYは注目を集めますが、私たちのチームは、ビットコインマイニングの収益のようなポジティブな外部収入を導入して、単発でなく収入をより持続可能にするべきだと考えています。一方で、私たちはBloastをエコシステム内での集団的成功を達成するための成功したモデルと考えています。私たちはこれら2つのモデルを組み合わせ、保有者が手にするMineralで複数のマイニングを実現し、フライホイールからの興奮を持続的に感じられるようにします。

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การยอมรับความเป็นจริงโดยอดีตนักศึกษา สมศักดิ์ เจียมธีรสกุล (Somsak Jeamteerasakul) ที่ออกมากล่าวว่าขบวนการนักศึกษาในทศวรรษที่ 70s โดยเฉพาะผู้ที่อยู่ในเหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลา (“6 October 1976 massacre”) ในประเทศไทยนั้นเป็น “คอมมิวนิสต์” เป็นเรื่องที่ไม่มีใครสามารถปฏิเสธได้นอกเสียจากกลุ่มบุคคลรุ่นใหม่ที่พึ่งเข้ามาศึกษา – “รู้เรื่อง” – การเมืองไทยเพียงแค่ไม่กี่ปีเท่านั้นหรืออาจจะเป็นพวกประชาธิปไตยนิยมที่มองทุกอย่างที่ตรงกันข้ามกับเผด็จการทหารว่าเป็น “เสรีนิยมประชาธิปไตย” ทั้งหมด ในขณะที่พวกเขาไม่สามารถทำใจยอมรับความเป็นจริงได้ว่าขบวนการนักศึกษาดังกล่าวก็มีแนวคิดเผด็จการไม่ต่างอะไรจากศัตรูหรืออาจจะเผด็จการเสียมากกว่าทั้งในแง่เศรษฐกิจและกรรมสิทธิ์-ทรัพย์สินส่วนบุคคลกว่าศัตรูที่พวกเขาอ้างว่าเผด็จการนักหนา การเสนอเหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลาในแง่ของ “ประวัติศาสตร์ที่เพิ่งสร้าง” นั้นควรที่จะถูกเสนอในแง่ที่เป็นกลางมากที่สุดและในแง่ของการตั้งคำถามกับภาพจำ (“historical revisionism”) ซึ่งก็ต้องรวมไปถึงการปฏิเสธมุมมองการมองประวัติศาสตร์ทางการเมืองแบบซ้ายที่เน้นให้ความสนใจไปกับการสร้างความสงสารให้กับผู้ถูกกระทำ (“ผู้ถูกกดขี่”) เท่านั้น ในเรื่องนี้กลุ่มฝ่ายซ้ายมักจะสร้างความชอบธรรมให้กับขบวนการนักศึกษาฝ่ายซ้ายผ่านการเชิดชูว่านักศึกษาเหล่านั้นเป็น “วีรบุรุษ” ไปเลยโดยไม่สร้างเข้าใจความเป็นมาอย่างแท้จริงหรือแม้แต่การพยายามที่จะหลีกเลี่ยงประเด็นเรื่องที่ว่าทำไม “ประชาชนและกองกำลังกึ่งทหารในช่วงนั้นถึงถึงออกมาสังหารโหดขบวนการนักศึกษาได้อย่างเลือดเย็น?” ในปัจจุบันกลับมีแต่พวกนักเขียนประวัติศาสตร์ฝ่ายซ้าย (left-wing historiography) ที่มักจะนำเหตุการณ์นี้ขุดขึ้นมาซ้ำ ๆ หรือในคำพูดของพวกเขา – “การผลิตซ้ำความรุนแรง – เพื่อ “ตอกย้ำ” ความ “โหดร้าย” ของการกระทำที่เกิดขึ้นโดยพยายามที่จะป้ายสีว่าฝ่ายที่กระทำนั้น “ไม่มีเหตุผล” ราวกับว่าเป็น “กลุ่มคนฟาสซิสต์ที่ไม่มีเหตุผล” แต่ใช้เพียงอารมณ์รักชาติ-พระมหากษัตริย์และความเกลียดชังในการตัดสินใจ ซึ่งก็เป็นหนึ่งในเครื่องมือของฝ่ายซ้ายที่มักจะใช้ได้ผลมาตลอดในการป้ายสีฝ่ายอื่นว่า “ด้อยในด้านวิชาการ” ถ้าเป็นเช่นนี้ตลอดไปเราก็จะไม่สามารถตั้งคำถามได้ต่อฝ่ายซ้ายที่มักอ้างศีลธรรมของเหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลาไปได้ตลอด ในบทความนี้ทางผู้เขียนไม่ได้ต้องการให้เป็นไปในทางที่บรรยายเล่าถึงเหตุการณ์แต่เป็นการตั้งคำถามและวิเคราะห์จากมุมมองของทฤษฎีชนชั้นนำ (elite theory)

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พยายามยึดอำนาจชนชั้นนำโดยฝ่ายซ้าย: เหมือนกับการปฏิวัติสยาม พ.ศ. 2475 (Siamese revolution of 1932) ที่ผลลัพธ์คือราชอาณาจักรสยามเปลี่ยนรูปแบบประเทศจากระบอบสมบูรณาญาสิทธิราชย์ไปเป็นราชาธิปไตยภายใต้รัฐธรรมนูญ การตั้งคำถามต่อเหตุการณ์ปฏิวัติในครั้งนั้นเป็นเรื่องที่ไม่สามารถยอมรับกันได้ในแวดวงประวัติศาสตร์-การเมืองไทย ผู้ที่ตั้งคำถามกับการปฏิวัติดังกล่าวก็จะถูกกล่าวหาบ้างว่า “ล้าหลัง”, “ต่อต้านประชาธิปไตย” และ อื่น ๆ อีกมาก เหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลาก็เช่นกัน มักมักจะถูกย้ำเตือนให้เป็นเพียงแค่ภาพจำที่ว่า “ปีศาจร้ายฆ่าสังหารนักศึกษาผู้บริสุทธิ์” แต่พวกเขาเหล่านั้นไม่ได้มองถึง “การแย่งชิงอำนาจระหว่างฝ่ายซ้ายกับฝ่ายรัฐไทย” ที่เป็นแรงผลักดันในการนำไปสู่การสังหารหมู่ดังกล่าวแม้แต่น้อย มากไปกว่านั้นเหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลานั้นถึงแม้จะเป็นเหตุการณ์ที่พวกเขาเน้นย้ำว่า “นักศึกษาผู้บริสุทธิ์ถูกฆ่าสังหารหมู่อย่างเลือดเย็น” พวกเขาก็ได้มองข้ามประเด็นที่ว่าทำไมชนชั้นนำของรัฐไทยในสมัยนั้นถึงเลือกที่จะเดินไปทางนั้น ในประเด็นนี้มันเริ่มจากการที่ประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกาเริ่มที่จะเข้ามีบทบาทมากขึ้นต่อการเมืองไทยหลังสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 2 (Lau 2014) โดยเฉพาะในแง่ของการต่อต้านลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์ที่กำลังแพร่ระบาดในภูมิภาคอินโดจีน (Indochina) ในขณะนั้น เราควรตั้งคำถามว่าถ้าเราไม่ได้รับแรงสนับสนุนจากสหรัฐอเมริกาเลยนโยบายการต่อต้านลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์ของรัฐไทยจะเป็นไปทางไหน? ทางผู้เขียนมองว่าสิ่งที่สำคัญมากไปกว่านั้นก็คือ “มนุษย์” (human elements) เราควรจะทำความเข้าใจว่าทำไมสังคมไทยมาถึงจุดนั้นได้อย่างไร? พรรคคอมมิวนิสต์แห่งประเทศไทย (พคท.) มีส่วนเกี่ยวข้องและมีบทบาทเพียงใด? และ การปฏิวัติทางวัฒนธรรม (Cultural Revolution) ในจีนนั้นสร้างอิทธิพลมากเพียงใดต่อขบวนการนักศึกษาฝ่ายซ้ายในสมัยนั้น? คำถามเหล่านี้มักจะถูกหลีกเลี่ยงโดยเหล่านักประชาธิปไตยนิยม อีกอย่างมันเป็นเรื่องที่ปฏิเสธไม่ได้อย่างชัดเจนว่า เหตุการณ์ 14 ตุลา (1973 Thai popular uprising) ที่เป็นการล้มอำนาจเผด็จการทหารของ ถนอม กิตติขจร (Thanom Kittikachorn) สร้างความแตกแยกให้กับกลุ่มทางการเมืองหลายฝ่ายและประชาชนที่ไม่ได้เห็นด้วยกับ “ความหลากหลายของประชาธิปไตย” ที่เกิดขึ้นจากเหตุการณ์ดังกล่าวแต่อย่างใด การขึ้นมาของฝ่ายซ้ายในช่วงหลังเหตุการณ์ 14 ตุลาและความขัดแย้งที่ตามมาจึงเป็นเรื่องที่หลีกเลี่ยงไม่ได้นอกเสียจากฝ่ายใดฝ่ายหนึ่งจะทำการล้มกระดานอีกฝ่ายให้หายไปจากสังคมอย่างสมบูรณ์ (Unger 2016)

การที่ชนชั้นนำเผด็จการทหารและประชาชนชาวไทยมองว่าการสังหารหมู่นักศึกษาเป็นเรื่องที่ยอมรับกันได้และจะทำให้ไม่เกิดผลเสียต่อภาพลักษณ์ของพวกเขาใด ๆ นั้นทางผู้เขียนมองว่าเป็นเพราะ (a) รัฐบาลในสมัยนั้นมองว่ารัฐไทยมีการสนับสนุนโดยรัฐบาลสหรัฐฯ อย่างเต็มรูปแบบ การที่จะสังหารกลุ่มคนที่ถูกกล่าวหา/หรือเป็นคอมมิวนิสต์จริงนั้นจึงไม่ใช่เรื่องที่น่าสงสัย; (b) การที่รัฐบาลและประชาชนชาวไทยในสมัยนั้นมองว่าภัยคุกคามของลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์มีความอันตรายต่อ “ชาติ, ศาสนา และ พระมหากษัตริย์” ซึ่งเป็นพื้นฐานของรัฐไทยนั้นมีน้ำหนักพอสมควร การลุกฮือของขบวนการนักศึกษาฝ่ายซ้ายต่อการกลับมาของนาย ถนอม ถือว่าเป็นพฤติกรรมที่ควรจะถูกยับยั้งในมุมมองของพวกเขา; (c) ในสมัยสงครามเย็นนั้นปฏิเสธไม่ได้ว่าลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์เป็นภัยอันตรายอย่างแท้จริงในโลกที่ถูกแบ่งเป็นสองขั้วอย่างชัดเจนและประเทศไทยก็โดนล้อมไปด้วยรัฐสังคมนิยม เช่น ลาว, เวียดนาม และ เขมรแดง; (d) การที่พวกเขาสังหารหมู่นักศึกษานั้นถือว่ามีความชอบธรรมตามหลักการและทฤษฎีชนชั้นนำที่มองเห็นภึงภัยคุกคามอันแท้จริง ซึ่งก็คือ “พรรคคอมมิวนิสต์แห่งประเทศไทย” ที่วางหมากเอาไว้หมดแล้วตามตะเข็บชายแดนและในภาคเหนือกับภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ โดยการแตกหักมันเริ่มจากการที่ฝ่ายชนชั้นรัฐไทยพยายามที่จะเดินหมากเพื่อยุติวิกฤตทางการเมืองให้เร็วที่สุดหรือก็คือการนำนาย ถนอม กลับมา (Lau and et al 2014) ทั้งหมดจึงสรุปในแง่ของการมองประวัติศาสตร์แบบตามที่มันเกิดขึ้นมากกว่าที่จะมองในมุมมองของการเขียนประวัติศาสตร์โดยฝ่ายซ้ายเสียส่วนใหญ่ที่มักป้ายสีว่าอีกฝ่ายไม่มีมูลเหตุในการสังหารหมู่ ในประเด็นนี้ทางผู้เขียนแนะนำให้ท่านผู้อ่านเปรียบเทียบกับเหตุการณ์สังหารหมู่อื่น ๆ ที่เกิดขึ้นบนโลกตามประวัติศาสตร์ที่เกิดขึ้นมา ในทุกวันนี้เราก็เห็นได้ชัดในสงครามระหว่างยูเครนกับรัสเซียหรือสงครามระหว่างฮามาสกับอิสราเอล ทุกอย่างมันมีเหตุผลและการที่นักวิชาการฝ่ายซ้ายพยายามที่จะเบี่ยงว่านักศึกษาสมัยนั้นบริสุทธิ์และต้องการที่จะเปลี่ยนประเทศไปใน “ทางที่ดี” เช่น ในทางเสรีนิยมประชาธิปไตย จึงเป็นเรื่องหลอกลวงที่พวกเขามักหยิบขึ้นมาเล่นประจำเพื่อสนองความชอบธรรมทางประวัติศาสตร์

“โดยทั่วไปอาจกล่าวได้ว่าอิทธิพลของเหมาเจ๋อตงและความคิดเหมา [(Maoism)] ในขบวนการนักศึกษาไทย มาพร้อมกับอิทธิพลของ พคท. ในลักษณะที่เป็นเรื่องเดียวกัน” (เจียมธีรสกุล 93, 2001)

“ต้นปี 2517 องค์การนักศึกษามหาวิทยาลัยธรรมศาสตร์จัดนิทรรศการ ‘จีนแดง’ ซึ่งต้องนับว่าเป็นเหตุการณ์ประวัติศาสตร์ มีคนไปดูหลายต่อหลายหมื่นคนจนหอประชุมใหญ่ดูคล้ายจะ ‘แตก’ ขึ้นมาจริง ๆ หนังสือ ปรัชญานิพนธ์เหมาเจ๋อตง ที่ตีพิมพ์เพื่อประกอบงานจำนวนหนึ่งหมื่นเล่มขายหมดในพริบตา พิมพ์อีกหมื่นเล่มก็หมดในเวลาอันรวดเร็ว” (เจียมธีรสกุล 93, 2001)

ทั้งหมดนี้สามารถกล่าวได้ว่า “การเปลี่ยนผ่านของชนชั้นนำและอำนาจ” คือใจความหลักของการเข้าใจการขึ้นมาของขบวนการนักศึกษาฝ่ายซ้ายในไทยที่มีทั้งฝ่ายที่เอาเสรีนิยมประชาธิปไตยและประชาธิปไตยในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ ที่เปิดทางให้เป็นเครื่องมือของพรรคคอมมิวนิสต์แห่งประเทศไทยและเหล่าเหมาอิสต์อีกที ฉะนั้นใจความสำคัญของเหตุการณ์ 6 ตุลานั้นควรถูกมองไม่ต่างอะไรจากประเทศฝรั่งเศสในช่วงที่เกิดการปฏิวัติอย่างรุนแรง สถานการณ์ที่ขบวนการนักศึกษาทำสำเร็จและพรรคคอมมิวนิสต์แห่งประเทศไทยสามารถใช้โอกาสที่เกิดจากการปฏิวัติดังกล่าวเพื่อยึดครองประเทศจึงเป็นเรื่องที่ไม่ไกลตัวมากนัก ซึ่งก็หมายความว่าการสังหารหมู่นักศึกษาก็เป็นหนึ่งในสิ่งที่ชนชั้นนำไทยมองว่า “มีความจำเป็น” แต่น่าเสียดายที่ชนชั้นนำและทหารในสมัยนี้มองไม่เห็นถึงภัยคุกคามของ “ลัทธิซ้ายใหม่” (“New Left”) ที่เน้นไปที่การแทรกซึมสถาบันทางสังคมและการแปรเปลี่ยนทางวัฒนธรรมทีละเล็กน้อย อีกทั้งในแง่ที่ว่าพวกเขาคุ้นเคยกับการอยู่ร่วมกับแรงกดดันของประเทศเสรีนิยมประชาธิปไตยตะวันตกที่เลิกที่จะจัดการฝ่ายตรงข้ามด้วยอำนาจแข็ง (hard power) ใน “โลกยุคหลังความจริง-สงครามทางวัฒนธรรมและข้อมูล” (“post-truth world—culture and information war”) เหตุการณ์แบบ 6 ตุลานั้นในสมัยนี้จึงเกิดขึ้นได้ยากและมันเป็นเรื่องที่น่าเสียดาย

ข้อยกเว้นที่ไม่มีหลักการ: “[...] หลังจากนั้น ที่นักศึกษาเข้าป่า แล้ว ‘เอาคืน’ ก็ไม่ต้องเล่า หรือไม่ก็เล่าเป็นอีกเรื่องหนึ่ง ไม่เกี่ยวกัน ‘6 ตุลา’ เป็นอะไรที่ ‘โดด ๆ’ ตั้งให้เป็นเหตุการณ์ ‘ฆาตรกรรม’ ที่ ‘รัฐ’ ไม่ยอมชดใช้ ‘อาชญากรรมรัฐ’ จึงเหลือเพียงด้านเดียว สะดวกดี” (สมศักดิ์ เจียมธีรสกุล ผ่าน Facebook, ตุลาคม 6 เวลา 11:20 น.)

“เรื่องนี้ผมอยากให้เราคิดให้ดี เมื่อคราว ‘6 ตุลา’ นั้น เรามุ่งสร้าง ‘สังคมใหม่’ อย่างหนึ่ง หารู้ไม่ว่า ‘สังคมใหม่’ ที่เราหวังจะสร้างนั้น มันร้ายกาจเพียงใด แน่นอน คนที่ ‘ศัตรู’ ฆ่าตายเมื่อ ‘6 ตุลา’ นั้น ไม่สมควรตาย แต่คนที่ ‘เรา’ ฆ่าก่อนหน้าและหลังจากนั้น ก็ไม่สมควรตายเช่นกัน” (สมศักดิ์ เจียมธีรสกุล ผ่าน Facebook, ตุลาคม 6 เวลา 16:50 น.)

ในมุมมองของผู้เขียนลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์อย่างน้อยในรูปแบบของลัทธิมากซ์–เลนิน (Marxism-Leninism) ก็มีรูปแบบการปกครองและการจัดการทางการเมืองแบบประชาธิปไตยรูปแบบหนึ่ง ซึ่งเรียกกันว่า “ประชาธิปไตยรวมศูนย์” (“democratic centralism”) โดยกระบวนการก็คือการตกลงที่จะทำอะไรในการเมืองไม่ว่าจะเป็นการบังคับใช้กฎหมาย, ทำนโยบายของพรรค และ อื่น ๆ นั้นจะต้องผ่านจากการตกลงเห็นชอบร่วมกันของสมาชิกภายในพรรคคอมมิวนิสต์เท่านั้น ซึ่งก็ถือว่าเป็นประชาธิปไตยในรูปแบบหนึ่งที่กลุ่มคนต่าง ๆ สามารถออกเสียงและตกลงหารือกันเพื่อบริหารประเทศหรือเขตที่ตนมีสมาชิกอยู่ได้ นี่ก็ถือเป็นการบริหารจัดการทางการเมืองการปกครองรูปแบบหนึ่งที่ประเทศคอมมิวนิสต์มหาอำนาจ อย่าง สหภาพโซเวียต ได้เคยใช้ไปแล้ว “ประชาธิปไตย” ไม่ได้มีเพียงแค่ “เสรีนิยมประชาธิปไตย” เพียงอย่างเดียว และการที่คนรุ่นใหม่และฝ่ายซ้ายในสมัยนี้ที่พึ่งเข้ามาศึกษาการเมืองเพียงแค่ผิวเผินนั้นไม่สามารถสร้างความเข้าใจได้หรือพยายามหลีกเลี่ยงประเด็นที่ว่าสิ่งที่นักศึกษา 6 ตุลาต้องการคือการสร้าง “สังคมใหม่” การไม่ยอมรับถึงความเป็นจริงและวิเคราะห์ถึงสาเหตุที่ว่าทำไมฝ่ายหนึ่งถึงเข่นฆ่าอีกฝ่ายได้อย่างโหดเหี้ยมนั้นถือว่าเป็นพฤติกรรม “ข้อยกเว้นที่ไม่มีหลักการ” (“unprincipled exception”) ของเหล่าคนรุ่นใหม่และฝ่ายซ้าย นิยามของมันก็ประมาณว่า “สิ่งที่พวกเขาทำก็คือการพยายามเลี่ยงประเด็นไปทีละเล็กน้อยเพื่อปกป้องความต้องการที่พวกเขาหรือนักวิชาการที่พวกเขาบูชาต้องการอย่างแท้จริง พวกเขาทำไปเพื่อหลีกหนีความเป็นจริงที่ว่าปัญหาที่เกิดขึ้นมามากมายในสังคมนั้นเกิดจากพวกเขาหรือบุคคลที่พวกเขานับถือ” ท้ายที่สุดแล้วพวกเขาควรจะภูมิใจว่าขบวนการนักศึกษาฝ่ายซ้ายที่พวกเขายกย่องเชิดชูนักหนามักจะถูกสร้างให้เป็นภาพจำที่เป็น “ความดี [นักศึกษา] ต่อต้านร้าย [ชนชั้นนำและประชาชนไทย]” เพียงแค่นี้พวกเขาก็สามารถชนะสงครามทางวัฒนธรรมผ่านการใช้ประวัติศาสตร์ให้เป็นประโยชน์

โดย TheReactionarist

บรรณานุกรม

Lau, Albert, et al. Southeast Asia and the Cold War. United Kingdom: Routledge. September 12, 2014.

Unger, Daniel H. and Chandra Mahakanjana. Thai Politics: Between Democracy and Its Discontents. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. April 6, 2016.

เจียมธีรสกุล, สมศักดิ์. ประวัติศาสตร์ที่เพิ่งสร้าง. สำนักพิมพ์ 6 ตุลารำลึก. กันยายน 2001.

@ c31052c1:493a1c56

Q: What is Mineral? A: Mineral is the first BRC-420 inscriptions backed by real-world asset (RWA). After the heat in meme inscriptions, there is a growing demand for utility-oriented inscriptions. Mineral is born at the right time to capture the market niche.

Q: What is MNER? A: MNER is our treasury token on the Bitcoin Layer 2. Staking MNER could unlock the possibilities of diversified DeFi mechanisms on L2 in the future. Stay tuned for our updates. ** Q: How can I achieve multi-mining?** A: Based on our Layer 2 design, staking Mineral to get stMineral grating you with the access to Bitcoin mining net yield and MNER. If you stake MNER and get stMNER, you could access to Bitcoin mining net yield + MNER + other tokens under BRC-420 ecosystems.

Q: Why was Mineral issued at the beginning? A: When retail investors want to get into bitcoin mining, they would face various challenges, including purchasing mining machines, maintenance, and high electricity costs. The Mineral is here to help. We acquire profound experiences and advantages in the industry to help you tackle the challenges. Users only need to hold the Mineral without worrying about those nightmares.

Q: Why could Mineral make it? Though Mineral’s strategic partnership with Bit Origin Ltd (a mining enterprise listed on NASDAQ), are there any uncontrollable risks associated with mining which participants should be aware of? A: Generally speaking, NASDAQ-listed company gets the highest management standards in the industry. However, any industry has uncontrollable risks, such as war, earthquakes, other natural disaster, BTC price drop and so on. What we can do is to collaborate with leading suppliers and management teams that could react to emerging crisis timely and transparently. The listing requirements from NASDAQ do not ask for zero risk because no one can achieve it. It is all about risk assessment beforehand and risk management during which. In addition, to disclose such risks as early as foreseeable which could better assist in making decisions.

Q: Among alternative mining farms, how ccan Mineral make the decision? A: First, the Mineral team acquires more than 8 years of experience in the mining industry of different aspects, including mining farm, mining rigs, and mining companies. It is fair to say that we get direct access to 80% of the Bitcoin mining industry chain worldwide. On selecting mining farm, we will try our best to collaborate with companies which have stable environment, good reputation in the industry, and guaranteed mining rigs online rates. Currently, Mineral has announced the strategic partnership with Bit Origin, a Nasdaq-listed company that has mining farm in many countries. We also get a list of comparable companies as reserve. We will pick the most suitable mining farm based on the delivery time of mining rigs and vacancy of racks. After mining rigs online, we will disclose an observation link to the mining pool so that users can see the real-time mining status. We won't reveal the specific locations of mining farms, but we confirm that our mining servers are not deployed in mainland China.

Q: In the past, tokens with mining utility could not survive for more than two years. What is the difference between Mineral and all of them? Is there any suggestion on the duration of staking? A: The product life of token with mining utility is related to its economy design. Such tokens are bound to mining machines. In fact, the lifespan of mining machines is usually 2-3 years, and such tokens are generally sold on a daily basis, such as BitFuFu's products. Mineral is a net-yield certificate that is not bound to exact hash power. Therefore, you will not face the decay of mining machines without replenishment. Our Treasury will continuously purchase new RWA to replenish the total hash power backed. If Treasury keep running as plan, Mineral will keep receiving net yield from Bitcoin mining. As for staking incentives, users who stake for a longer period will definitely acquire more weights in earning rewards. We will announce this in the future. Each holder will have his/her own decision about the balance between staking duration and staking rewards.

Q: Can you provide legal documents for purchasing mining machines? How can the authenticity and effectiveness in mining be monitored? A: The series of mining machines purchased in each batch will be announced on the official website, and the announcement of the first batch has already been done https://www.mner.club/announcements/mineral-development-journal After going online, the observation link will be made public, and the authenticity of mining can therefore be proved. This is also a common practice in the industry. The observation link is the most prominent proof of hash power in operation. If one has mining experiences, he or she would know how important the observation link is! Through this link, one can observe the operation 24/7 without revealing specific mining locations, a protection from potential harm.

Q: Who covers the cost of maintaining mining equipment? A: Currently, we have signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Nasdaq-listed company named Bit Origin Ltd. to host and maintain Mineral’s mining machines. Such mining enterprise acquires mining farms in multiple countries around the world, and the belonging electricity costs vary by regions. Mineral will choose the most suitable regions to deploy based on the spareness of racks in mining farms and specs of mining machines. There is a relevant announcement on our official website at https://www.mner.club/announcement. ** Q: How much earnings is deposited into the Treasury monthly? A: The Treasury will receive monthly deposit from the net yield of Bitcoin mining, which is calculated by subtracting electricity and management costs from mining gross yield in Bitcoin. Rewards are distributed based on the weights with mechanism that will be disclosed in the future. Q: When can we begin mining and staking?**** A: 1. We have completed the purchase of Bitmain’s S19XP mining machines, and we that the mining machines will go live on January 20th. The net yield from mining after official operation date will be deposited into the Treasury on L2 for DeFi rewarding after Mineral’s L2 is launched. The Mineral team will help reserve the net yield from mining before L2 goes online, and users can verify it through observation link. Due to uncertainty coming from freights, customs, and onsite fine-tuning, the timing to begin mining is not yet confirmed. We will keep everyone posted and release observation link. Please stay tuned to our Twitter and official website for announcements and update. Our community manager will also share the news timely on Discord. 2. The development of both BRC420’s Layer 2 and Mineral’s product are underway simultaneously. The launching of L2 depends on the development of BRC420 Layer 2 protocol, development of Mineral product, and audit. It is expected to go live in February. Once L2 is launched, Mineral could fulfill the staking and other DeFi mechanisms. Specific details will be provided through public announcements.

Q: How many Mineral do I need to buy to match the hash power of one mining machine? A: Mineral is not a cloud computing product, nor is it the purchase of a mining machine. This is because mining machines typically last only 2-3 years, while Mineral's L2 has a lifecycle that far exceeds such duration if we run smoothly.

Q: During the AMA, someone suggested combining Mineral with other real estate or automobile RWAs. Is this possible? A: Based on the current plan, our collaboration with other projects will focus on hash power related products and other high-quality PoW tokens. Our shor-term goal is to complete L2 development, fill up the Treasury, and boost TVL. In terms of APY, hash power related products surpass other types of RWA. In addition, crypto users have a greater appreciation for native assets on Bitcoin.

Q: What is the yield of Mineral? Could you provide a detailed explanation? A: There are two parts: net yield from Bitcoin mining and multi-mining from DeFi on L2. The net yield from Bitcoin mining depends on factors such as Mineral's entry price, BTC price, and mining difficulty. Multi-mining from DeFi on L2 includes Mineral's own Treasury token MNER and other tokens within the BRC420 ecosystem. Overall, the yield depends on market momentum, collective success of BRC420 ecosystem, and Mineral's L2 performance. Exact yields are hard to be calculated but compared with similar products, there is at least BTC mining net yield as fundamental. High returns can be expected if the project succeeds.

What sets this BTC mining apart from similar products is our transparency through observation link, partnership with Nasdaq-listed mining company to diversify the risks, and rewards that can be claimed at any time without locking periods like cloud mining do. After L2 goes live, liquidity will increase and premium might occur on Mineral’s price.

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@ d830ee7b:4e61cd62

"One day, you guys will be speaking on stage, in the Orange pill council on stage..."

The disbelief was apparent on everyone's faces with my serious demeanor, despite my apparent inebriation. I thought at the time, we were venturing towards Beer's tower 3.

The sparkle in nostr:npub1a8wreeghu0j8g4zqgzex53sq38gjwjdp5czxnu3rfydnz8n8yu2spqkavy 's eyes... nostr:npub15l5mxmljftnnqur8gf2nkjj2yuemqy2kuly7yc29lx7x598svx5s447rgk seemed thrilled, nostr:npub1z7k4pffj7250eaydd3ya0v07mmzecylcq9cw5af68zu39q0k4u3qj6xre4, nostr:npub1qd6zcgzukmydscp3eyauf2dn6xzgfsevsetrls8zrzgs5t0e4fws7re0mj and others cheered out loud, While nostr:npub16hpaqcm8zhc6n4d79tu2mtsf9464093r4v3r7l5hq5tpsng3txesw3tu5f ...nearly shed tears.

I have a penchant for uttering such whimsical statements... Then, when what I said turned into reality, Everyone thought of me as someone "diviner."

Not at all... I never knew anything...

I just had to stand by my words, That seemingly fanciful goal became the driving force, pushing us to find ways to reach it... Eventually, my prediction never came true because I was a prophet, but because we made it come true.

Today, I've told many that... one day we will see tens of thousands of Thais on Nostr -- I'm not predicting the future, but I have set a goal. And I just have to find a way to make it happen... sustainably.

Some might think I tend to push myself too hard. Truth be told, I've never felt pressured when striving to improve. It's exhilarating, lively, challenging, and keeps me intrigued each day.

On the flip side, I'd wither away seeing the same old scenario day by day... that's just who I am.

The youngsters were apprehensive, not yet daring to let loose and follow my rhetoric...

They were just settling down with a cold beer after a hectic conference. They still saw themselves scurrying around like busy ants across the hall... once mere admirers of others on online platforms.

How will I get to sit there one day?

"That's why we need to find a way to make it happen. Since we don’t know how to do it today, it's the difficulty that urges us to find a way."

The more I spoke, the more baffled the youngsters got.

Sometimes, when you're at the forefront, you simply have to make others believe... you're leading them from the "impossible" to the "possible." You need to find a way to assure them they’re good enough to do it, or even better than just enough…

Motivation and confidence are not built merely by words. The process, various strategies, and gradual results along the adventurous path reinforce them far better.

I made a promise to the youngsters,

"If you guys strive to improve yourselves enough, I promise to strive to find ways to make it happen too... We are Bitcoiners, we believe in the 'Proof of Work' philosophy and that's our way forward.

From here on... we just have to make sure... we're ready when it's time to really sit on those seats. We’ll hone every necessary skill to have enough confidence to make it happen. We'll evolve to be worthy of the upcoming opportunity..."

Clangggg!!!

The sound of clinking glasses resonated without any prior arrangement, with some slightly spilling their beer. It revealed the flaming determination simmering within them. They clinked their glasses with utmost sincerity.

At that moment, I secretly harbored a thought...

Don't break those glasses, guys... heh, heh.

"Would you dare to do that for real?"

Someone chimed in, saying...

"I will try not to let you down."

I stared at the speaker for no less than 5 seconds, without uttering a word.

His eyes were trying to tell me... Was that merely sweet talk, or did it spring from his true intent?

"Good!!"

That's all I exclaimed.

"Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise."

Eventually, they strived to improve themselves, to one day sit alongside the professors they idolized...

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You need to have a goal to make your tomorrow intriguing. You will go out and live to find the way to that goal. The expectations you set for your own amusement and personal joy will not create any pressure on you. There's no timeline, just the desire to make it happen swiftly.

It opens up opportunities for us to explore and learn new skills.

It keeps us constantly striving to improve ourselves. It makes us review every action of ours to find points that can still be better. We are open to criticism and welcome every suggestion because we want to be good enough to get there...

Today, you guys have gone through the Work and Proofed yourselves worthy of what's happening in the picture...

The only person you should thank is yourself...

Thank yourself for the effort and absorb those good feelings.

As for me?

I sit smiling, watching you guys grow from a distance. I am happy too...

It's just a pity that I don't have a cold craft beer in hand.

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When I say... we will have tens of thousands of people on Nostr using #siamstr, it's not going to happen because I predicted it.

But it can happen when all of us in the community come together, helping each other out, each contributing a bit, finding ways to make it happen. Whether the results are slow or fast, we will always be aware that we are doing various things for a reason...

We will set goals for ourselves to fill in what's lacking, to complete every factor that will take us there. We will see every unknown as an opportunity, an opportunity to enlighten ourselves.

At the very least, not knowing what we don’t know is valuable, as it will help guide us to the answers...

I just hope to see everything happening and growing sustainably going forward... I mean the sustainable happiness of every community member...

"What's your dream, Nim?"

Young Nim, on a day filled with both daring and dread, was asked this by me months before the conference event unfolded...

"I want to interview Bit, I enjoy listening to Bit."

"Okay... If I make it really happen, will you do it?"

"Will that day really come?"

"It will... if you strive to improve yourself enough..."

There is no greater weapon than a prepared mind. — Zhuge Liang

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