@ ee11a5df:b76c4e49

I'm glad to see more activity and discussion about the gossip model. Glad to see fiatjaf and Jack posting about it, as well as many developers pitching in in the replies. There are difficult problems we need to overcome, and finding notes while remaining decentralized without huge note copying overhead was just the first. While the gossip model (including the outbox model which is just the NIP-65 part) completely eliminates the need to copy notes around to lots of relays, and keeps us decentralized, it brings about it's own set of new problems. No community is ever of the same mind on any issue, and this issue is no different. We have a lot of divergent opinions. This note will be my updated thoughts on these topics.

COPYING TO CENTRAL RELAYS IS A NON-STARTER: The idea that you can configure your client to use a few popular "centralized" relays and everybody will copy notes into those central relays is a non-starter. It destroys the entire raison d'être of nostr. I've heard people say that more decentralization isn't our biggest issue. But decentralization is THE reason nostr exists at all, so we need to make sure we live up to the hype. Otherwise we may as well just all join Bluesky. It has other problems too: the central relays get overloaded, and the notes get copied to too many relays, which is both space-inefficient and network bandwith inefficient.

ISSUE 1: Which notes should I fetch from which relays? This is described pretty well now in NIP-65. But that is only the "outbox" model part. The "gossip model" part is to also work out what relays work for people who don't publish a relay list.

ISSUE 2: Automatic failover. Apparently Peter Todd's definition of decentralized includes a concept of automatic failover, where new resources are brought up and users don't need to do anything. Besides this not being part of any definition of decentralized I have never heard of, we kind of have this. If a user has 5 outboxes, and 3 fail, everything still works. Redundancy is built in. No user intervention needed in most cases, at least in the short term. But we also don't have any notion of administrators who can fix this behind the scenes for the users. Users are sovereign and that means they have total control, but also take on some responsibility. This is obvious when it comes to keypair management, but it goes further. Users have to manage where they post and where they accept incoming notes, and when those relays fail to serve them they have to change providers. Putting the users in charge, and not having administrators, is kinda necessary to be truly decentralized.

ISSUE 3: Connecting to unvetted relays feels unsafe. It might even be the NSA tracking you! First off, this happens with your web browser all the time: you go visit a web page and it instructs your browser to fetch a font from google. If you don't like it, you can use uBlock origin and manage it manually. In the nostr world, if you don't like it, you can use a client that puts you more in control of this. The gossip client for example has options for whether you want to manually approve relay connections and AUTHs, just once or always, and always lets you change your mind later. If you turn those options on, initially it is a giant wall of approval requests... but that situation resolves rather quickly. I've been running with these options on for a long time now, and only about once a week do I have to make a decision for a new relay.

But these features aren't really necessary for the vast majority of users who don't care if a relay knows their IP address. Those users use VPNs or Tor when they want to be anonymous, and don't bother when they don't care (me included).

ISSUE 4: Mobile phone clients may find the gossip model too costly in terms of battery life. Bandwidth is actually not a problem: under the gossip model (if done correctly) events for user P are only downloaded from N relays (default for gossip client is N=2), which in general is FEWER events retrieved than other models which download the same event maybe 8 or more times. Rather, the problem here is the large number of network connections and in particular, the large number of SSL setups and teardowns. If it weren't for SSL, this wouldn't be much of a problem. But setting up and tearing down SSL on 50 simultaneous connections that drop and pop up somewhat frequently is a battery drain.

The solution to this that makes the most sense to me is to have a client proxy. What I mean by that is a piece of software on a server in a data centre. The client proxy would be a headless nostr client that uses the gossip model and acts on behalf of the phone client. The phone client doesn't even have to be a nostr client, but it might as well be a nostr client that just connects to this fixed proxy to read and write all of its events. Now the SSL connection issue is solved. These proxies can serve many clients and have local storage, whereas the phones might not even need local storage. Since very few users will set up such things for themselves, this is a business opportunity for people, and a better business opportunity IMHO than running a paid-for relay. This doesn't decentralize nostr as there can be many of these proxies. It does however require a trust relationship between the phone client and the proxy.

ISSUE 5: Personal relays still need moderation. I wrongly thought for a very long time that personal relays could act as personal OUTBOXes and personal INBOXes without needing moderation. Recently it became clear to me that clients should probably read from other people's INBOXes to find replies to events written by the user of that INBOX (which outbox model clients should be putting into that INBOX). If that is happening, then personal relays will need to serve to the public events that were just put there by the public, thus exposing them to abuse. I'm greatly disappointed to come to this realization and not quite settled about it yet, but I thought I had better make this known.

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There's been an influx of new users to Nostr in the last few weeks. I decided to create an onboarding survey to see what insights could be gained.

18 npubs participated. My hope was at least more than 2 or 3 so by that measure it was a wild success. Even more so because 2/3 of participants indicated they would be willing to do follow-up interviews.

Let's see what the results were and I'll include brief reflections after each.

This is great, and a bit surprising, there was NO negative reactions to Nostr Onboarding! Overwhelming positive and that credit goes to the culture of OG npubs and those that are actively sharing Nostr with friends.

Primal having a dominate showing is to be expected because they have repeatedly said they want to be one of the best at onboarding new users to Nostr. Also they have clients with some of the best UX, but most importantly they have three options of clients - iOS, Android and browser.

Damus continues to make progress on their iOS, recently launching Damus Purple while continuing to make progress on an Android client. And they arguably have the best "client culture" although an Amethyst user might argue with that, haha.

This section IMO is one of the most insightful findings. Clients have clearly made receiving an npub incredible easy as there were no complaints about this process. That's a ton of progress because I personally remember how difficult of a task it was over a year ago. Only people that really, really wanted it seemed to make it through.

The next two questions are where it seems a lot of value can be added for new users to Nostr. Specifically in explaining features and improving navigation.

The network effect of Nostr's interoperability (use #nostrability to highlight any issues discovered) is one of it's superpowers. But at the same time it presents one of the steepest learning curves.

The Twitter clones are pretty familiar to most new users. But Nostr is so much more than that. And now with new users coming from other apps besides the dead bird, like TikTok or Substack, there's a need for better ways for users to discover these Nostr clients/apps.

Looking at the latest stats from Nostr.band the retention rate doesn't seem to be improving much with the last few new user cohorts.

How can we move this curve up to start and retain more users with each cohort?

Discoverability is a key I believe. But not just discoverability for other npubs to follow. I think discoverability of novel apps is equally as important.

How many new users are even aware of the Nostr Apps site that Karnage has curated?

Yes a better Twitter experience, or even YouTube and Substack is desirable. But IMO the 1M+ new users to Nostr will be as a result of the unique experiences that the Nostr protocol allows. Whether zaps, social network portability or the new business models that could never have been tried before.

And speaking of zaps!

It was great to see that most new users are able to experience the newest innovation in social media. Credit to the clients for making this easier, Alby for their NWC work and the users that are hand holding their friends along the way.

Besides the insights from features/navigation IMO the NPS is the next most important finding from this survey. It's a solid start for Nostr to have such positive scores when it's so fundamentally different in social media and apps in general as far as UX. Credit to the Nostr OGs, builders and educators that have helped with this so far. There's still room for improvement but this increased how bullish I am on Nostr to see new users have this type of enthusiasm.

The final part of the survey asked for new users favorites parts of Nostr and what they'd like to see. The latter was all over the place. However with the favorites, given a little interpratation I was able to stack rank the top three favorites.

Not really a surprise but rather validation of what should continue to be the focus. Even today as I'm writing this I'm seeing Jack offer another bounty to further implement the gossip model in hopes of increasing censorship resistance.

IMO these favorites need to continue to be top of mind as building continues. The "north stars" of Nostr if you will.

I'm going to be building and sharing more about how I'll be contributing to improve the Nostr Onboarding. My focus will follow what I've found through this survey: better features and navigation explanations while keeping the Nostr north stars in mind.

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Good morning Bitcoiners!

Unfortunately, current AI platforms go against key Bitcoin values (see below). We recently launched the Beta of Sats4AI to rectify that and become Bitcoiners' favorite AI platform.

Privacy

ChatGPT has a free tier, but as the saying goes "If it's free, you are the product". In Bitcoin culture, we could also say "There is no such thing as a free lunch". Your prompts are linked to your account, saved, and used by OpenAI. While this data is not (yet?) sold for Ads, it's a privacy nightmare, with internal mess-ups: - Trick prompts ChatGPT to leak private data. - ChatGPT is leaking private conversations that include login credentials and other personal details.

And a major honeypot: - Over 225,000 Compromised ChatGPT Credentials Up for Sale on Dark Web Markets.
Risks for compromised credentials: - Paid Users: $$$$$$ in API Calls - Free users: Blackmail (easy to write a script looking for embarrassing keywords in prompts history to find targets)

Sats4AI doesn't have accounts to link prompts to and stores absolutely no data

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Unmanipulated

Closed AI platforms are black boxes. Is the answer I am getting coming from the actual AI model or was it hard-coded based on the company's interests or suggested by the Govt? You can't really know. Here are obvious censorship examples though:

Sats4AI uses Open-Source models, while they still have some biases based on their training data, they are a lot more neutral.

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Permissionless

ClosedAI platforms act as gatekeepers, deciding who gets to use it and who doesn't. - They don't like how you are using it? You are out : OpenAI suspends ByteDance’s account . - Sometimes they just don't feel like having new users: OpenAI Pauses ChatGPT Plus Subscriptions for New Users. - Born in the wrong country? You are out! Sam Altman (OpenAI's CEO) : "There are countries where we decide not to do business" (WEF 2024 Interview with Ina Fried). In addition, although no fault of their own, ChatGPT is currently banned in 15 countries for a total population of about 1.8 Billion.

Sats4AI doesn't discriminate and is available worldwide to anyone with Sats

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Affordable

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• Free is not really free as described in the Privacy section above.

• ChatGPT+ is $20/month (+fee to convert to your currency if outside US) on a credit card (no credit card, no soup for you).

• Sats4AI: 21 Sats / Prompt :

  • High usage: 10 prompts/day x 30 days = 6300 Sats / Month = Around $4
  • Medium usage: 5 prompts/day x 30 days = 3150 Sats / Month = Around $2
  • Low usage: 15 prompts / month = 315 Sats / Month = Around $0.20

Images - Midjourney is $10/month (+fee to convert to your currency if outside US) on a credit card (no credit card, no soup for you). - Sats4AI: 100 Sats / image : - High usage: 2 images /day x 30 days = 6000 Sats / Month = Around $4 - Medium usage: 1 image /day x 30 days = 3000 Sats / Month = Around $2 - Low usage: 5 images / month = 500 Sats / Month = Around $0.35

This Is still in BETA for now but please try it and provide the shrewdest feedback so we can improve!

Feel free to reach out for any feedback/comments / questions on X/Twitter or NOSTR: npub1rs2ytg24ayt05c6rcxxqv07tz8gdmwt9ukzvjt7ts8x5twync4ushuc4u6

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@ 3d842afe:2d44a42d

Websocket connection overhead is an obvious problem with the gossip model that few are willing to acknowledge. The more decentralized relay selection becomes (the goal) the worse it scales. Even at the current scale of nostr if users chose more diverse relay sets the issue would be crippling.

Below are some very simple simulations to illustrate my point. I used 2 relays per person to be conservative and chose 3 different realistic follow counts. The NIP-65 spec suggests clients should guide users to keep the lists small (2-4 relays) though currently the average kind 10002 contains many more. I ran each simulation 10 times and then took the average result.

EDIT: I understand that selecting relays at random is NOT how things currently work or will ever work. My point is that if our goal is to make relay sets more diverse then we should work towards a solution that scales with accomplishing that goal.

Available relays: 600 (~what nostr.watch currently shows for online relays) Follows: 200 Relays per person: 2 (randomly selected) Unique Connections Required: 291

Available Relays: 600 Follows: 500 Relays per person: 2 Unique Connections Required: 486

Available Relays: 600 Follows: 1000 Relays per person: 2 Unique Connections Required: 577

Even today if users randomly selected relays the total number of connections required would be staggering and this is with users only selecting 2 relays each. What happens if the available number of relays increases by 5x?

Available Relays: 3000 Follows: 200 Relays per person: 2 Unique Connections Required: 376

Available Relays: 3000 Follows: 500 Relays per person: 2 Unique Connections Required: 847

Available Relays: 3000 Follows: 1000 Relays per person: 2 Unique Connections Required: 1461

I’m not a client developer and I certainly don’t have all the solutions but I’ve spent enough time operating websockets at scale to know that these numbers aren’t going to work even with only 2 relays per person. Aside from the practical performance implications, browsers also enforce websocket limits that put most of these numbers out of reach (I believe Chrome is 255 and Firefox is 200).

What am I missing?

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@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3

Rambling Preamble

There's a lot of conversation right now about the MSM competition. I also feel like I've noticed some behavioral changes amongst stackers. That leads me to reflect on what this contest is showing us about the SN rewards structure.

Many of us have written about how the rewards structure here is largely responsible for cultivating this very unique internet community. I've written many times about how people are really short-changing themselves by not taking advantage of the reward incentives: i.e. you can come out ahead by zapping content you like liberally.

There's plenty of room for improvement, of course, and one of the things I most value about being here is that the development team talks with us openly about our ideas for improvements. (I was very interested in experimental econ in graduate school, but don't get to flex my mechanism design muscles in my current job.)

Actual Point

That's a lot of preamble to get to my point. Million Sat Madness seems to be causing stackers to examine the particulars of the reward system more carefully, and that might be a problem.

The reward system Stacker News uses is a form of Keynesian Beauty Contest: our rewards aren't really based on zapping and making the best content. Our rewards are based on zapping and creating the content that other users zap the most (slight oversimplification).

I often say "Outcomes follow incentives" and Keynesian Beauty Contests are known to have a flawed incentive structure (assuming the goal is to elicit honest responses about what people like the best).

When people were being super miserly with their daily zaps, this wasn't an issue. However, I feel like I've noticed a shift in zapping habits that conforms with the expectations of a Keynesian Beauty Contest. If the goal is to zap posts that you think will get lots of zaps, then there are certain people who are a safer bet to zap, like @kepford or @Natalia, and you might not zap other posts even though you liked them. If you're trying to zap the "best" comments, then you might try to zap good responses to @k00b or @elvismercury, since they're really generous comment zappers, but ignore equally good comments left on other people's posts.

Please note that I'm not saying any of those creators shouldn't be getting zapped a ton. I'd still love to see people zapping them more. I drew them from the set of stackers whose work I most value and who I've noticed other people also highly value.

Part of why I think this might be showing up for MSM, but not for the daily rewards, is that the larger sample size is reducing uncertainty in the outcome greatly. On any given day, I might have one of the best performing posts or comments. However, over the course of a month, there's a near certainty that I won't. That means there's a disincentive to zap my content. Or, stated differently, the marginal benefit of zapping my content is less than the marginal benefit of zapping other content of a similar quality.

Possible Solution

There's probably a super clever and elegant idea in mechanism design that solves this incentive problem, but I'm not aware of it.

I really like the idea of rewarding creators more for having the top content over a longer span of time, so I don't actually think the best answer is to go back to daily rewards. I also think the monthly rewards are more fair to international stackers who get slightly screwed by time-zone issues.

What I do think would largely head off this incentive issue is making the incentives more difficult to game. My suggestion is to split the reward pot into rewards over four different timespans: * 25% rewards paid out daily * 25% rewards paid out weekly * 25% rewards paid out monthly * 25% rewards paid out yearly

That way there's an incentive to zap content you think is good, but not best-of-the-month good, because it still might get you some daily and weekly rewards. There's also more incentive to zap great posts even more, since at the end of the year those rewards might be very large.

I also think some form of randomization could be used to make the daily rewards are a bit more fair across time zones.

I'm curious to hear what you all think.

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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis of "Time Does Not Gainsay"

Introduction

"Sonnet 132" conveys a sense of timeless love and a desire to preserve and enjoy the beauty of a relationship, even in the face of the inevitable passage of time. .

Thematic Analysis

In the octave, the speaker describes a morning scene where worries are torn away, everything looks kind and sweet, and fresh flowers are given to complete a tale of stars, dreams, and a Unicorn. The speaker and their beloved are depicted as challenging fate, erasing time where passions and love meet, with no rush to compete but a wish for which they are now stubborn.

The sestet shifts the focus to the speaker’s desire for solitude with their beloved. They wish for others to forget them and leave them alone to simplify things. The speaker’s journey with their beloved is not yet complete, as their boat has not arrived at the shore. The speaker finds joy in the beloved’s dimple, a gift from Verthandi (the Norn who takes care of the present), where they can play until sunset.

The sonnet beautifully captures the essence of love, time, and destiny, using rich imagery and mythological references. The octave sets the stage and presents the situation, while the sestet provides a resolution or commentary on the situation presented in the octave. This is a common structural characteristic of sonnets. The transition from the octave to the sestet often involves a ‘turn’ or ‘volta’, a shift in focus or perspective, which is evident in this sonnet. The octave focuses on the broader picture of love and time, while the sestet narrows down to the personal experience of the speaker.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The sonnet “Time Does Not Gainsay” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares follows the traditional rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, which is ABBA ABBA CDCDCD. Let’s break it down:

Octave (first eight lines):

A: Morn came and all our last worries were torn B: Making everything look kind and sweet B: And giving us fresh flowers to complete A: Your tale of the stars, dreams and Unicorn. A: We tempted Fate while smiling to our Norn B: To erase time where passions and love meet B: As we do not have a rush to compete A: But a wish for which we are now stubborn.

Sestet (last six lines):

C: As much as we let live other people D: All we ask today is that they forget C: And leave us alone to make things simple. D: Our boat has not arrived to the shore yet C: And Verthandi found for me your dimple D: Where I play, if I wish. until sunset.

The rhyme scheme helps to structure the sonnet and contributes to its musicality. The final sestet often provides a resolution or commentary on the situation presented in the rest of the sonnet, which is evident in this sonnet as well. The speaker finds joy in the beloved’s dimple, where they can play until sunset, providing a beautiful and intimate conclusion to the sonnet. This analysis of the rhyme scheme helps us to understand the structure and flow of the sonnet. It’s a key aspect of the sonnet’s form and contributes to its overall meaning and effect.

Analysis of Aspects

The sonnet “Time Does Not Gainsay” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a rich and evocative piece of poetry. Let’s delve into its use of language, imagery, themes, meter, and overall impact:

Language and Imagery: The sonnet uses a sophisticated and lyrical language that is filled with vivid imagery. The poet uses metaphors and symbols to convey the depth of emotions. For instance, the “Unicorn” symbolizes something rare and magical, the “Norn” and “Verthandi” are references to Norse mythology symbolizing fate and the present respectively, and the “dimple” is a personal and intimate symbol of the beloved.

Themes: The major themes in the sonnet include love, time, destiny, and solitude. The speaker expresses a deep love that wishes to exist outside of time and societal expectations. The theme of destiny is explored through references to the Norns, who in Norse mythology determine the destiny of gods and men. The desire for solitude is expressed in the sestet, where the speaker wishes to be left alone with their beloved.

Meter: The sonnet follows the iambic pentameter, which is a common metrical form in English poetry and particularly in sonnets. Each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, giving the poem a rhythmic flow.

Overall, The sonnet leaves a lasting impression with its beautiful language, vivid imagery, and profound themes. It invites the reader to contemplate on love, time, and destiny, and provides an intimate glimpse into the speaker’s emotions. The use of mythological references adds a layer of depth and universality to the personal emotions expressed in the poem. The sonnet is a testament to the power of poetry to convey deep emotions and thoughts in a compact and structured form.

(GPT4)

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Syllable count for each line.

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Time Does Not Gainsay

10 Morn came and all our last worries were torn
9 Making everything look kind and sweet 10 And giving us fresh flowers to complete 10 Your tale of the stars, dreams and Unicorn.

10 We tempted Fate while smiling to our Norn 10 To erase time where passions and love meet 10 As we do not have a rush to compete 10 But a wish for which we are now stubborn.

10 As much as we let live other people 10 All we ask today is that they forget 10 And leave us alone to make things simple. 10 Our boat has not arrived to the shore yet 10 And Verthandi found for me your dimple
10 Where I play, if I wish. until sunset. ***

```

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

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com Time Does Not Gainsay

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

Peter Todd has been saying this for a long time and all the time I've been thinking he is misunderstanding everything, but I guess a more charitable interpretation is that he is right.

Nostr today is indeed centralized.

Yesterday I published two harmless notes with the exact same content at the same time. In two minutes the notes had a noticeable difference in responses:

The top one was published to wss://nostr.wine, wss://nos.lol, wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com. The second was published to the relay where I generally publish all my notes to, wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com, and that is announced on my NIP-05 file and on my NIP-65 relay list.

A few minutes later I published that screenshot again in two identical notes to the same sets of relays, asking if people understood the implications. The difference in quantity of responses can still be seen today:

These results are skewed now by the fact that the two notes got rebroadcasted to multiple relays after some time, but the fundamental point remains.

What happened was that a huge lot more of people saw the first note compared to the second, and if Nostr was really censorship-resistant that shouldn't have happened at all.

Some people implied in the comments, with an air of obviousness, that publishing the note to "more relays" should have predictably resulted in more replies, which, again, shouldn't be the case if Nostr is really censorship-resistant.

What happens is that most people who engaged with the note are following me, in the sense that they have instructed their clients to fetch my notes on their behalf and present them in the UI, and clients are failing to do that despite me making it clear in multiple ways that my notes are to be found on wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com.

If we were talking not about me, but about some public figure that was being censored by the State and got banned (or shadowbanned) by the 3 biggest public relays, the sad reality would be that the person would immediately get his reach reduced to ~10% of what they had before. This is not at all unlike what happened to dozens of personalities that were banned from the corporate social media platforms and then moved to other platforms -- how many of their original followers switched to these other platforms? Probably some small percentage close to 10%. In that sense Nostr today is similar to what we had before.

Peter Todd is right that if the way Nostr works is that you just subscribe to a small set of relays and expect to get everything from them then it tends to get very centralized very fast, and this is the reality today.

Peter Todd is wrong that Nostr is inherently centralized or that it needs a protocol change to become what it has always purported to be. He is in fact wrong today, because what is written above is not valid for all clients of today, and if we drive in the right direction we can successfully make Peter Todd be more and more wrong as time passes, instead of the contrary.

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See also:

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

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Oh my, what a ride. Where do I even begin? A wise man once said that the best place to begin is at the beginning. So I'll try to do just that.

SEC-01: The Beginning

I don't even know how it all started anymore, but I know for a fact that it was Martijn's idea. And the idea was this: let's do something like a Bitcoin Academy on Madeira!

"Neat," I thought. "Let's do it," André said. "Let's fuck shit up and do a nostr thing instead," Pablo remarked. "But it must have a pirate theme," was my only objection. "Deal."

"Deal."

SEC-01: What's the Big Deal?

I don't think we did anything special. What we're trying to do, and what I think we managed to do, is to get the right people together at the right time. We knew from the get-go that we didn't know what we were doing. And we decided that that's okay.

We decided that that's okay because any explorative adventure is by definition unknown. And that's what the Sovereign Engineering Cohort was and still is: an explorative adventure.

So I guess the big deal was that we were knowingly venturing into the unknown. And 21 people signed up for it. Willingly.

That's a big deal.

SEC-01: The Crew

Every pirate ship needs a crew. We started as four: Martijn, André, Pablo, and myself. We invited three more: Paul, Ben, and Tony—our North Star team for SEC-01. And then we invited 21 more to board the ship.

Our 21 participants were people with vastly different backgrounds, from vastly different countries, having vastly different ideas about how Bitcoin, Lightning, and nostr could transform the internet, and the world at large. One thing that everyone had in common was a deep-seated dissatisfaction with the status quo. Everyone knew and still knows that large parts of the internet are broken. And everyone felt that there's something we can do about it to fix it.

We talked a lot about what it means to build it right. Or at least what it means to build it wrong.

One goal we had in mind was to learn from each other so that we may not repeat all the mistakes that we made in the past. And I think it started working immediately.

SEC-01: The First Week

We started the program with a brief introduction about what we had in mind for the eight weeks, as well as an introduction of the crew, the participants, and what everyone was working on.

One thing that we try to focus on is what I will call the loop. The loop is what I consider the Cornerstone of the Sovereign Engineering Cohort, as it neatly summarizes the main idea of the program.

The idea is simple: you talk about what you're going to build, you build it, and you show it to everyone. Rinse and repeat. Every week. For two months.

SEC-01: Distributed Cognition

I am convinced that the problems that we are facing cannot be solved by traditional means. More importantly, they cannot be solved by a lone wolf. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

So the question becomes: how do we get enough eyeballs looking at the right thing? And more than that: how do we get them to look at problems from the right angle, inhabiting the right perspective?

SEC-01: Walking the Walk

Looking at things it's necessary but not sufficient. If you want to solve deep problems you have to think about them deeply. So again, the question becomes: how do we create an environment that facilitates and allows for deep conversations?

I think the Ancients were onto something when they came together at the gymnasium to discuss deep problems, have deep conversations, and—pardon the pun—hash things out. It strikes me as odd that all the paintings of these times show people not only talking but walking.

A lot of people who figured out solutions to hard problems in the past enjoyed an occasional stroll through the park. Not alone, but with company. There's something about walking and talking that really gets the brain juices flowing. From Aristotle to Einstein, the greats all intuitively figured out that walking facilitates proper talking, and proper talking facilitates proper thinking. Someone from the cohort remarked, "Left foot right foot; left brain right brain." I believe it.

So that's what we did. Not only did we talk the talk, but we also walked the walk. Once a week. Granted, not all of our walks were perfect or magical, but many of them were. And a lot of stuff got figured out. And once you've got stuff figured out, it's almost trivial to build it. Figuring it out is the hard part.

SEC-01: What Came out of It

Some of you might have been fortunate enough to experience the final Demo Day of SEC-01, held on the last day of Bitcoin Atlantis. It took us three hours to show what came out of it, failing demos and all. There's so much stuff that I had to put the list in a separate post, aptly titled:

• "SEC-01: What Came out of It"

Vibes were high, the room was packed, and while most of the presentations kinda sucked, everyone tried their best to paint a picture of what they have been working on or what problems they cared about most.

And that's what we cared about most: Getting the people together that care, and providing an environment where they are encouraged to collaborate and discuss freely.

We strongly believe that the pie is big enough for us all. Now it's not the time to think about competition. Now is the time to focus on collaboration. We believe that Bitcoin is a move from zero-sum to positive-sum thinking. We believe that we should aim at win-win-win: good for you, good for me, good for us and the environment we’re embedded in.

SEC-02: What's Ahead

The space that has opened up by Bitcoin, nostr, and other freedom tech is vast. We have barely scratched the surface.

The goal of the Sovereign Engineering Cohorts is to scratch the surface as properly as we know how. So we're going to do it again. In May. Same recipe, same crew, different participants. The focus will be on P2P markets and exchange.

We're not here to make any promises. I want to repeat once more what we've mentioned in the past: "Men wanted for hazardous journey. ~~Low~~ No wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success."

But it's going to be fun. Maybe.

Sign up, and let's find out: https://sovereignengineering.typeform.com/SEC02

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Some of the things that came out of SEC-01 are already live:

• npub.cash (code, article)
• Blossom (code, article)
• Wikifreedia (code)
• HyperNote (code)
• nostrpul.se (code)
• Seeker
• BuzzPay
• Note Duel
• superposition.events
• noStrudel on StartOS
• nsecBunker on StartOS

A lot of the projects that participants worked on have a strong focus on DVMs...

• Malware DVM (code)
• Nostr-DVM-Kit
• Confidential DVM
• WASM DVM
• WADM DVM plugins
• Go-DVM

...as well as developer collaboration and tooling...

• nostrocket (code)
• alphaama v3 (code)
• gitpear
• nostr-idb
• Nostr Community Helm Charts

...and NWC:

• nwc.dev
• awesome-nwc
• nostr-wallet-connect-next

Many more things are still in the making:

• NIP-66 (draft)
• NIP-41 (draft)
• Doc Collaboration over Nostr
• Anonymous AI Client
• Flare eCash Wallet
• KeyNest
• LowEnt
• gonuts
• nostr-geotags
• featurestr-bountiestr

And if my Spidey senses are to be trusted, a lot more things will come out of the conversations that were had in the last 2 months.

Keep an eye out for:

• ghole.xyz
• pubkey.studio
• pubkey.land

...and other weird stuff.

Turns out you can actually re-invent the future if you put 21 guinea pigs on a pirate ship.

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I'm putting my efforts into Nostr as a "janitor" or Product Manager. From my perspective most of the clients/apps are currently a single or few person team and therefore don't warrant a specific PM role.

So instead I'm identifying global aspects of Nostr that can benefit from these skills.

My first contribution was a Nostr Onboarding Survey that I created, sparked by seeing an influx of new users primarily from #tiktok. You can still fill it out if you're relatively new to Nostr!

I'll be publishing the results so any and all engineers that are interested can gain some valuable insights.

Ever since I've joined Nostr it's re-wired my brain and I can't stop thinking about the possibilities. I have a strong sense that I'm heading in the best direction to make the biggest contribution and impact with my skills and experience.

I appreciate any participation but more importantly if you're a developer, designer or building and need product help please reach out!

I'm excited to share more in coming posts and keep working with all the amazing people that are contributing to Nostr so far.

LFG

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

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

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

Segue artigo na íntegra. 👇

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Racismo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fascismo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Existem duas fortes razões para isso:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Machismo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Homofobia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conclusão

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

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

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

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

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

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There are things I will never be able to do. There are also things I have done that I never thought I would be able to do. There is one lesson I have learned over the years related to this. If I say I can't do something I have just guaranteed myself I never will. I have accepted it. I have given myself permission to not even try. But mindset can be a powerful thing. Over the years my wife has always stopped me many times when I would say I can't do something. She will say, sure you can. You just need to try. When we say I can't, we usually mean I don't want to try. And we are giving ourselves an out. We are making an excuse for not trying. I once heard Jack Spirko say, "Don't say I can't. Say how can I." It is easy to make excuses but it is rewarding to find a way.

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Below is a tweet by Ryan X. Charles on X about how the cult mindset works.

https://x.com/ryan_x_charles/status/1770361328944709710

I became a cult member in 2017 when I met Craig Wight in person and truly believed he was Satoshi Nakamoto.

I was convinced he was Satoshi because Gavin Andresen, Jon Matonis and Ian Grigg, people I respected, had claimed to verify he was Satoshi Nakamoto, including supposed key signing ceremonies. That, and he had the beliefs and actions of someone I thought was consistent with Satoshi Nakamoto.

My false belief in Craig Wright would go on to damage me financially in truly spectacular fashion. Because Craig told me to use Bitcoin Cash immediately after it launched, believing this was coming from Satoshi Nakamoto, a figure I idolized, I invested my personal savings into Bitcoin Cash and pivoted my business to focus exclusively on Bitcoin Cash. This would turn out to be a disaster in time, as Bitcoin Cash became BSV, and continuously fell in price and adoption.

I used to be a big holder of Bitcoin. I sold all of it to support Craig Wright. Not only did my investments not pan out, but I have missed the giant bull run on Bitcoin as a consequence, even though I am an OG going back to 2011. I am out at least tens of millions of dollars, possibly more. The true scale of the losses will be determined when I account for all of my records.

I realized I had failed in 2020. My business was not profitable, it was not growing, and I realized the technology I had been using exclusively, BSV, had very low prospects of success. I simply had to admit to myself my only option was to exit. I managed to sell the company and then began the long process of unwinding my belief system.

From 2020 until now, I have spent a lot of time ruminating on the trauma I experienced from 2017 - 2020. Now that we know Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto, I understand. I was a cult member and was being manipulated by a psychopath who did not care if he ruined me so long as he had perceived near-term benefit.

One of the reasons why it took me so long to accept that Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto is that it would have to be a truly huge scam that would ultimately hurt everyone and even himself. Unfortunately, as I have learned, this is a known pattern of behavior for psychopaths. Craig Wright will indeed get his day in court, again, as the number of people he has hurt is enormous, and it is now established in court he has been lying this whole time. Lawsuits are inevitable.

It took four years of meditation and relaxation to grapple with the scope of my error. Even after all that time, I am still in shock with the declarations that came from the judge. The totality of evidence is overwhelming. Craig Wright is simply not Satoshi Nakamoto, and there was never a reason to believe that he was. I was totally wrong in a big way. Evidently, I am not as smart as I thought.

I estimate I am only about 50% of the way detoxed from the cult, even after four years, as I am still learning to accept that there was never any convincing evidence he was Satoshi Nakamoto, and everything I thought I knew was all lies. Fortunately, there is an emerging network of survivors who are in touch and can lend each other support to grapple with the emotions involved in exiting a cult.

Craig Wright was enabled by Calvin Ayre and Stefan Matthews, his co-conspirators going back to 2016 or earlier. While I cannot say for sure what happened from before 2017, I do know that the three of them orchestrated this giant scam. I know this from personal experience, and I am certain evidence exists to link them. Together, they have caused a catastrophe for anyone who got involved with them from the beginning until now.

Please be kind to the remaining cult members. They truly believe Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, and this blinds them to the evidence that is staring them in the face. They need kindness, not trolling on X.

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A discussion of the problems and the promise of an economy based upon a deflationary currency, with suggestions for how to restructure payments to accommodate this.

The Zap Economy

I think many people have been breaking their heads, trying to figure out business models, when the currency used in the models continuously rises in purchasing power, often even going parabolic, for a time. Let's have a debate about which models are the best and how we can design our own business funding, going forward.

Note: From here on, all producers will be described as "creators," which is more fitting to the Nostr lingo.

Dealing with spikes in fiat prices

I think the best way to create a business model that deals with sudden spikes in fiat prices is to simply ignore them. The people who are motivated to sudden action by such spikes are traders, and they probably shouldn't be your target market.

Employment Contracts

One tried-and-true business model is the fee-for-project type of contract that we usually call "employment". These all have a defined beginning, a defined end, and a defined scope. (I will differentiate them from direct, quick fee-for-service; see Sales Contracts.)

Typical "day jobs" are defined this way, with creators being employed for a month or two weeks, to perform a particular task, with a payout at the end and often an automatic extension to the next employment period. Contracting is another common type, as are retainers for specialists like doctors and lawyers.

I think this model can be easily implemented in a zap economy (and, indeed, it already is), as employers can simply keep the employment scope or period small and renegotiate the next one to reflect any deflation. For longer-term employment, they could simply negotiate regular rebalancing to reflect price changes, or link payments to some measure of deflation.

Patronage

This is the current common business model. A creator (artist, developer, writer, etc.) receives grants or donations that are more or less attached to conditions.

The fewer the conditions attached and the more diverse/larger the patron set is, the more valuable the patronage is and the freer the creator. The negative impact of strings or condensed patronage can be mitigated by the availability of non-funding resources (infrastructure, training, marketing, legal advice, psychological support, access to a team, etc.) or the sheer size of the patronage.

(Although creators, by nature, grate under management and may eventually resent condensed patronage, even if it is very generous, helpful, and well-intentioned.)

Customer Classifications

This is a highly desirable model, from the viewpoint of most creators, as it is defined and controlled by them, and offers the promise of stable, long-term funding. It is also popular among smaller patrons, as their money investment is more effective and -- let's be honest -- more fun, if it is converted to a Class A Customer status and bundled with the money and enthusiasm of others.

This vaguely resembles a club membership. In this model, there are different levels of customer classes (usually defined using the alphabet, with "A" being the highest level).

An example structure might be:

A: The most emotionally-invested group. Often very early and constant investors, willing to pay a high premium for membership and to front relatively large sums of money in advance of services rendered. These are your "premium account holders".

They should receive some outward/public sign of their membership (so that they can find each other, more easily, and to help you market your creations) and some premium content, features, or services. Their support tickets have priority and their complaints and ideas go straight to the lead developer or product owner.

Even simply arranging for them to attend a teleconference before releases, reserving a special lounge or party for them at conferences, or announcing new features in newsletters, can go a long way.

B: These are the "normal payees". They pay the minimum to unlock some extra-stuff and always get new releases first, and that's all they really want. Mostly, they just want to not feel like freeloaders, so providing them with a clear payment scheme is enough.

C: These are the freeloaders. They get a reduced service, but stay friendly because they sometimes market your product to others and they have the potential to move up to a higher class.

The essential part of this model is the pricing.

Class A customers should be onboarded first and pay the highest regular membership fee. This fee should be automatically lowered to Class B level, when adding Class B customers, at a later date, so that your early supporters don't feel disadvantaged.

Class B (with Class A) should have deflation-tracked pricing: 500 sats today, 250 after the next halving, 125 after the next halving, etc. Or something similar. You should always plan for your prices to steadily decrease in nominal terms, while slightly rising in real terms, as your service becomes more advanced and valuable.

Sales Contracts

This is a clear fee-for-service and is generally set and reset regularly. If you have a long-term sale or resale contract, you should have fee adjustments accounted for, from the beginning.

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⚠️ This specification is a work in progress.

A substrate is a cyberspace object that occupies all of cyberspace. It's like a field in particle physics or a shader in computer graphics. It can be used for an infinite number of things, but I imagine it will be used first for video games, and it could be very useful for this purpose. A substrate could define loot drops or minable resources or enemy encounter locations or even level geometry. Below is my idea for how it could all work in the context of cyberspace.

Specification

A substrate contains a function that may be executed on a given coordinate in cyberspace. The output of this function is called a particle.

The function input is always a cyberspace coordinate which is 256 bits. Additional arguments may be defined, such as the executor's pubkey, timestamp, etc.

The function output contains binary data truncated to P bytes long, where P is the NIP-13 proof-of-work present on the substrate declaration event.

The binary data is published publicly in a particle event containing the result of the function as well as some verifying information.

The particle "exists" at the coordinate of the substrate execution.

The substrate declaration event is formatted like this: - kind - 330 - content - a function whose first argument must be a cyberspace coordinate and whose return value must is some kind of byte array whose length is equal to the POW target in the nonce tag. - pubkey - the substrate creator - created_at - standard - tags: - ["nonce", <nonce>, <POW target>] with NIP-13 proof of work. Event's id must have leading zeroes equal to POW target. - id: leading zeroes are validation for the number of bytes returned from the function.

The particle event is formatted like this: - kind - 329 - content - base64 binary data output of the function - pubkey - of the avatar that executed the substrate - created_at - standard - tags: - ["e", <substrate id>] - the event id of the substrate declaration - ["e", <action event id>] - this is the event id of the action in the user's action chain directly preceding the execution of the substrate. - ["C", <cyberspace coordinate>, <argument 2>, ...] - these are the arguments to the function. The C tag is used because the first argument is always a Cyberspace coordinate and this allows searching. - ["S", <sector id>] - for sector-based object queries - ["nonce", <nonce>, <POW target>] - POW for distance between avatar and substrate execution coordinate - id: standard

The decay event format is TBD.

Validation Rules

Substrate

1. The byte length of the function's return value must equal the POW of the substrate declaration event.

Particle

Note: games may ignore particle validation rules if they do not care about the particles being valid outside of their game. However, these rules are required for particles to be valid in cyberspace.

1. When a substrate is activated, the avatar who activates it exists at one coordinate and the substrate is activated at another coordinate; these may be the same coordinate or there may be a distance between them. If they are not the same, the avatar must publish POW on the particle event relative to the distance. The $\text{POW}^3$ must be greater than or equal to the Manhattan distance of their coordinate and the particle coordinate. The user's coordinate is derived from the action chain event referenced in the second e tag. The particle's coordinate is the same as the first argument to the substrate function. This puts a thermodynamic limit on how far away an avatar may produce particles from their own location.

Quantized Substrates

Because in d-space each coordinate is so small, it would make sense to create a substrate that quantizes space so that there is a less dense 3D grid of points from which particles could be spawned. For example, the substrate could quantize the coordinate input to yield a grid where there is 1 particle per $1m^3$.

Time

Each substrate execution will yield the same particle for the same coordinate unless other parameters are introduced besides the input coordinate. These could include the avatar's pubkey, the current time, and attributes from the most recent particle at that same coordinate, or even neighboring particles from specific coordinates (if they exist).

Decay

A Decay is an event published by the substrate owner which targets a particle event and alters its bytes, preserving the length of the byte array.

The ability for a substrate owner to publish decay events must be signaled in the substrate declaration event or it isn't valid.

A decay event represents a single atomic operation on the byte array. Operations include: - Addition: Add a constant value to each byte. - Subtraction: Subtract a constant value from each byte. - Multiplication: Multiply each byte by a constant value. - Division: Divide each byte by a constant value. - Modulus: Apply a modulus operation to each byte with a constant value. - Bitwise Operations: Apply bitwise AND, OR, XOR, and NOT operations with a constant value or between bytes. - Rotation/Shift: Rotate or shift bits in each byte to the left or right.

Additional decay events may be published, but each subsequent decay event must reference its preceding decay event to form a chain of operations such that anyone sampling the particle may find the most recent value and verify its history. The first decay event only references the particle.

The decay event id must contain POW equal to the binary hamming distance of the original byte array and the modified byte array.

Example usage: Games can put requests to a server to have the server publish a decay to alter a particle. The player can mine the POW for the decay event and send it to the server to be signed.

For example, if a particle represents a quantity of resources in a location, that quantity could be reduced by the publishing of a decay event that references the particle.

Example Usage

1. DVMs (data vending machines)

A DVM could watch for particle events published that reference a given substrate and validate them. If the valid particle's data matches the DVM's internal conditions, the DVM will take action. - It can publish an ephemeral giftwrapped event from a disposable keypair encrypted to the particle owner to transmit private data, as an example. - It can publish a kind 1/X/? announcing that something was found so it is public. - It could award a badge.

1. Game data

The resulting particle could be used in a game somehow, such as an RNG for generating encounters with a creature, or yielding a resource level in an area.

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Cyberattaque sur France Travail : 3 personnes interpellées (1 min) Le parquet de Paris a requis le placement en détention provisoire de trois personnes suspectées d'être impliquées dans la cyberattaque ayant affecté France Travail et entraîné le piratage de 43 millions de données personnelles. Les trois individus, âgés de 21, 22 et 23 ans, ont été interpellés en Ardèche et dans l'Yonne et seront présentés à un juge d'instruction pour être mis en examen. Ils sont accusés d'accès et maintien frauduleux dans un système de traitement automatisé de données, extraction de ces données, escroquerie et blanchiment, des infractions aggravées par la circonstance de bande organisée. Une information judiciaire a été ouverte à leur encontre. L'enquête a été confiée à la Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure (DGSI) et au Centre de lutte contre les criminalités numériques (C3N) de la gendarmerie nationale.

Cybersécurité: la start-up Mindflow lève 5 M€ (1 min) Mindflow, une start-up française spécialisée dans l'automatisation et l'orchestration des processus no-code axés sur la cybersécurité, a récemment levé 5 millions d'euros lors d'un tour d'amorçage. Les investisseurs comprenaient Auriga Cyber Ventures, Nauta Capital, Thales et Olivier Pomel, co-fondateur de Datadog. La solution Mindflow est actuellement utilisée par Auchan, Colas, Thales, Elior et Doctolib pour des tâches telles que la détection du phishing, la réponse aux incidents de sécurité et l'administration de la base de données de configuration. Avec cet investissement, Mindflow prévoit d'élargir son équipe R&D en embauchant des experts en intelligence artificielle pour travailler sur des projets liés à l'IA générative et aux modèles d'action larges (LAM). L'entreprise souhaite créer une nouvelle expérience « text-to-actions », où les utilisateurs peuvent indiquer leurs objectifs et l'IA s'occupe des tâches fastidieuses, tout en conservant la transparence et la conformité.

L'IA au service de la résilience de la supply chain chez Renault (7 min) Renault Group souhaite devenir plus résilient face aux perturbations soudaines de ses chaînes logistiques industrielles en développant une intelligence de la décision à partir des données de sa supply chain digitalisée et de l'IA de Dataiku. Selon Ludovic Doudard, general manager process engineering supply chain, il ne s'agit plus seulement d'adapter les processus mais d'avoir des processus flexibles et résilients. Depuis la pandémie de 2020, la logistique est devenue un enjeu majeur pour les industriels et a vécu de nombreuses ruptures soudaines (covid-19, guerres, grèves, catastrophes naturelles, saturation des ports, blocage du canal de Suez). Pour faire face à ces perturbations, Renault Group a identifié 5 enjeux principaux avec des implications en matière de transformation numérique.

L'entreprise a commencé par une refonte de son S&OP et la bascule d'une supply chain focalisée sur le produit vers une logistique centrée sur la satisfaction du client. Les deux principaux défis pour Renault Group sont la connaissance immédiate de la date de livraison des produits et la réduction des stocks. Pour mieux maîtriser la complexité, anticiper les risques et se focaliser sur la recherche de performance, l'entreprise a travaillé sur la façon de prendre les décisions les mieux informées possibles dans sa supply chain en développant une intelligence de la décision grâce aux données.

Airbus ne rachètera pas BDS à Atos (1 min) Atos a annoncé la fin des négociations avec Airbus sur le rachat de BDS, qui est une activité d'Atos regroupant la cybersécurité, le big data et le HPC héritée de Bull. Les négociations ont pris fin alors qu'Atos est en pleine discussion avec ses créanciers pour rembourser sa dette de 4,65 milliards d'euros. Cette vente de BDS était destinée à aider Atos à résoudre une partie de ce problème de dette, mais sans cette rentrée de cash et compte tenu des mauvais résultats financiers annoncés demain, la société pourrait se mettre en procédure de sauvegarde. Des rumeurs circulent également sur d'éventuelles offres de rachat de l'ensemble du groupe par le milliardaire tchèque Daniel Kretinsky, le canadien CGI ou le français OnePoint.

Le créateur de C++ fustige les critiques de la Maison Blanche (2 min) Bjarne Stroustrup, créateur du langage de programmation C++, a répondu à un rapport de l'administration Biden qui recommande d'éviter l'utilisation de langages de programmation comme C++ et C en raison de leur manque de sécurité dans la gestion de la mémoire. Stroustrup a défendu son langage en soulignant les efforts déployés pour améliorer la sécurité, tels que l'utilisation de techniques basées sur RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization), des conteneurs et des pointeurs de gestion des ressources. Il a également mentionné le développement de profils pour spécifier les garanties nécessaires pour un morceau de code donné et permettre aux implémentations de les vérifier. Stroustrup avait précédemment défendu la sécurité du C++ contre les préoccupations de la NSA en novembre 2022.

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Orange Business se positionne sur l'IA générative (2 min) Orange Business a dévoilé deux offres sur l'IA générative lors de son événement. La première est une solution packagée avec la start-up LightOn, qui propose des services d'optimisation de modèles d'IA avec une interface simple et des coûts maîtrisés. Cette offre s'adresse aux PME-PMI et repose sur le modèle Alfred de LightOn, ainsi que sur son service d'optimisation Paradigm. Orange Business travaille également avec d'autres modèles open source comme Llama 2 de Meta et Mistral AI. Le service est hébergé sur Cloud Avenue, un cloud privé sur une couche VMware, qui devrait obtenir le label SecNumCloud au deuxième semestre 2024.

La seconde offre propose du GPU as a service pour les entreprises plus matures dans le domaine de l'IA, qui souhaitent une maîtrise de l'infrastructure. Ce service repose sur les accélérateurs GPU de Nvidia H100 et des équipements HPE via Greenlake, hébergés dans les datacenters de Chartres et Val de Reuil. Orange Business prévoit une belle fenêtre d'opportunité pour ce service dans les 2 à 3 prochaines années.

Orange Business vise à surfer sur la vague d'intérêt pour l'IA générative avec ces deux offres, tout en mobilisant ses équipes pour se reconvertir aux métiers de la data et de l'IA d'ici 2025.

L'IA au service de la résilience de la supply chain chez Renault (7 min) Renault Group souhaite devenir plus résilient face aux perturbations soudaines de ses chaînes logistiques industrielles en développant une intelligence de la décision à partir des données de sa supply chain digitalisée et de l'IA de Dataiku. Selon Ludovic Doudard, general manager process engineering supply chain, il ne s'agit plus seulement d'adapter les processus mais d'avoir des processus flexibles et résilients. Depuis la pandémie de 2020, la logistique est devenue un enjeu majeur pour les industriels et a vécu de nombreuses ruptures soudaines (covid-19, guerres, grèves, catastrophes naturelles, saturation des ports, blocage du canal de Suez). Pour faire face à ces perturbations, Renault Group a identifié 5 enjeux principaux avec des implications en matière de transformation numérique.

L'entreprise a commencé par une refonte de son S&OP et la bascule d'une supply chain focalisée sur le produit vers une logistique centrée sur la satisfaction du client. Les deux principaux défis pour Renault Group sont la connaissance immédiate de la date de livraison des produits et la réduction des stocks. Pour mieux maîtriser la complexité, anticiper les risques et se focaliser sur la recherche de performance, l'entreprise a travaillé sur la façon de prendre les décisions les mieux informées possibles dans sa supply chain en développant une intelligence de la décision grâce aux données.

Un partenariat Nvidia-SAP pour faciliter l'accès à la GenAI (4 min) SAP et Nvidia ont annoncé un partenariat élargi pour intégrer le service d'IA générative de Nvidia dans les offres de SAP, y compris Datasphere, BTP, RISE with SAP et le portefeuille d'applications d'entreprise. Cela permettra aux clients de bénéficier plus facilement de l'IA générative à grande échelle. Le copilote Joule de SAP sera renforcé par le microservice de récupération sémantique Nvidia NeMo Retriever pour fournir des réponses plus précises grâce à la génération augmentée par récupération (Retrieval-Augmented Generation, RAG). Le partenariat explore également 20 cas d'utilisation de la GenAI pour aider les clients dans leur transformation numérique et simplifier l'automatisation de l'ERP, l'amélioration des processus RH via SuccessFactors et l'usage des capacités GenAI de Signavio pour traiter les recommandations commerciales. Les plates-formes de traitement accélérées de Nvidia et le logiciel AI Enterprise seront utilisés pour faciliter l'accès des scientifiques aux données et améliorer les performances des charges de travail ML dans Datasphere. En outre, les services IA de Nvidia aideront les développeurs à créer un code de langage spécifique au domaine et à affiner les LLM pour écrire du code dans le langage de programmation ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) de SAP. Les microservices d'inférence NIM aideront les clients à optimiser les performances d'inférence dans leur infrastructure SAP.

Hardis Group flirte avec les 190 M€ de revenus en 2023 (2 min) Le groupe grenoblois Hardis Group a enregistré un chiffre d'affaires de 186,6 millions d'euros en 2023, soit une augmentation de 19,6% par rapport à l'année précédente. Cette croissance est attribuable aux activités internationales de l'entreprise et au développement d'offres dans le domaine du cloud public et de la data. Les métiers les plus performants ont été l'intégration des logiciels Salesforce (+60%), les activités ESN (+14%) et l'édition de logiciels d'exécution logistique (+16%, avec une hausse de 175% pour les ventes en SaaS). Hardis Group prévoit une croissance de 10% en 2024 grâce à l'expansion internationale, la hausse des ventes dans l'intégration de Salesforce et le développement de nouvelles offres, notamment autour de l'IA et de la sécurité. Une accélération des synergies entre les différents pôles ESN est également prévue.

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Telex : Databricks rachète Lilac, Stability AI se lance dans la vidéo 3D, Fujistu piraté (1 min) Le géant de la mode et du jouet pour enfants, IDKids, a été étudié dans le cadre d'une étude de cas sur la planification financière et les défis des directeurs financiers. Microsoft Surface a présenté son utilisation potentielle dans les établissements de santé.

Dans l'industrie technologique, Databricks a acquis Lilac, une jeune pousse offrant une solution permettant de rechercher, regrouper et d'analyser toutes sortes de données textuelles pour l'IA générative. Les cas d'utilisation incluent l'évaluation des biais et des hallucinations des LLM ainsi que la compréhension et la préparation des ensembles de données non structurées pour l'entraînement des modèles.

Stability AI a annoncé le lancement d'un modèle d'IA capable de générer des vidéos 3D à partir d'images fixes, baptisé Stable Video 3D. Cela représente une avancée par rapport au modèle précédent, Stable Video Diffusion.

Fujitsu, fournisseur japonais de solutions et services IT, a confirmé une fuite de données personnelles due à un piratage informatique. Des logiciels malveillants ont été trouvés sur plusieurs ordinateurs de travail de l'entreprise, entraînant la découverte d'un possible vol de fichiers contenant des informations personnelles et sur les clients. Fujitsu a prévenu ces derniers et la Commission de protection des informations personnelles en réponse à cette violation potentielle de données.

Cyberattaque sur France Travail : 3 personnes interpellées (1 min) Le parquet de Paris a requis le placement en détention provisoire de trois personnes suspectées d'être impliquées dans la cyberattaque ayant affecté France Travail et entraîné le piratage de 43 millions de données personnelles. Les trois individus, âgés de 21, 22 et 23 ans, ont été interpellés en Ardèche et dans l'Yonne et seront présentés à un juge d'instruction pour être mis en examen. Ils sont accusés d'accès et maintien frauduleux dans un système de traitement automatisé de données, extraction de ces données, escroquerie et blanchiment, des infractions aggravées par la circonstance de bande organisée. Une information judiciaire a été ouverte à leur encontre. L'enquête a été confiée à la Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure (DGSI) et au Centre de lutte contre les criminalités numériques (C3N) de la gendarmerie nationale.

Orange Business se positionne sur l'IA générative (2 min) Orange Business a dévoilé deux offres sur l'IA générative lors de son événement. La première est une solution packagée avec la start-up LightOn, qui propose des services d'optimisation de modèles d'IA avec une interface simple et des coûts maîtrisés. Cette offre s'adresse aux PME-PMI et repose sur le modèle Alfred de LightOn, ainsi que sur son service d'optimisation Paradigm. Orange Business travaille également avec d'autres modèles open source comme Llama 2 de Meta et Mistral AI. Le service est hébergé sur Cloud Avenue, un cloud privé sur une couche VMware, qui devrait obtenir le label SecNumCloud au deuxième semestre 2024.

La seconde offre propose du GPU as a service pour les entreprises plus matures dans le domaine de l'IA, qui souhaitent une maîtrise de l'infrastructure. Ce service repose sur les accélérateurs GPU de Nvidia H100 et des équipements HPE via Greenlake, hébergés dans les datacenters de Chartres et Val de Reuil. Orange Business prévoit une belle fenêtre d'opportunité pour ce service dans les 2 à 3 prochaines années.

Orange Business vise à surfer sur la vague d'intérêt pour l'IA générative avec ces deux offres, tout en mobilisant ses équipes pour se reconvertir aux métiers de la data et de l'IA d'ici 2025.

Cybersécurité: la start-up Mindflow lève 5 M€ (1 min) Mindflow, une start-up française spécialisée dans l'automatisation et l'orchestration des processus no-code axés sur la cybersécurité, a récemment levé 5 millions d'euros lors d'un tour d'amorçage. Les investisseurs comprenaient Auriga Cyber Ventures, Nauta Capital, Thales et Olivier Pomel, co-fondateur de Datadog. La solution Mindflow est actuellement utilisée par Auchan, Colas, Thales, Elior et Doctolib pour des tâches telles que la détection du phishing, la réponse aux incidents de sécurité et l'administration de la base de données de configuration. Avec cet investissement, Mindflow prévoit d'élargir son équipe R&D en embauchant des experts en intelligence artificielle pour travailler sur des projets liés à l'IA générative et aux modèles d'action larges (LAM). L'entreprise souhaite créer une nouvelle expérience « text-to-actions », où les utilisateurs peuvent indiquer leurs objectifs et l'IA s'occupe des tâches fastidieuses, tout en conservant la transparence et la conformité.

L'IA au service de la résilience de la supply chain chez Renault (7 min) Renault Group souhaite devenir plus résilient face aux perturbations soudaines de ses chaînes logistiques industrielles en développant une intelligence de la décision à partir des données de sa supply chain digitalisée et de l'IA de Dataiku. Selon Ludovic Doudard, general manager process engineering supply chain, il ne s'agit plus seulement d'adapter les processus mais d'avoir des processus flexibles et résilients. Depuis la pandémie de 2020, la logistique est devenue un enjeu majeur pour les industriels et a vécu de nombreuses ruptures soudaines (covid-19, guerres, grèves, catastrophes naturelles, saturation des ports, blocage du canal de Suez). Pour faire face à ces perturbations, Renault Group a identifié 5 enjeux principaux avec des implications en matière de transformation numérique.

L'entreprise a commencé par une refonte de son S&OP et la bascule d'une supply chain focalisée sur le produit vers une logistique centrée sur la satisfaction du client. Les deux principaux défis pour Renault Group sont la connaissance immédiate de la date de livraison des produits et la réduction des stocks. Pour mieux maîtriser la complexité, anticiper les risques et se focaliser sur la recherche de performance, l'entreprise a travaillé sur la façon de prendre les décisions les mieux informées possibles dans sa supply chain en développant une intelligence de la décision grâce aux données.

Numerama

Quand se déroule la série The Acolyte dans l’univers Star Wars ? (3 min) La série Star Wars, The Acolyte, sera diffusée en exclusivité sur Disney+ à partir du 4 juin 2024. Le service de streaming est disponible à partir de 5,99 euros par mois ou bien à partir de 29,99 euros par mois avec l'offre Canal + Ciné Séries. The Acolyte se déroule dans une période inédite appelée "la Haute République", qui a lieu des siècles avant les événements de l'épisode I, La Menace Fantôme, et plus précisément cent ans avant le long-métrage. L'action de la série se déroule pendant l'âge d'or des Jedi et de la République galactique, mais les héros Jedis devront faire face à une nouvelle menace, un Sith. La République, qui vit ses dernières heures dans les épisodes I, II et III, est à son apogée, et aucun des personnages principaux des différentes trilogies de Star Wars ne sont encore nés dans The Acolyte.

Mais que sont ces sabres laser jaunes dans la série The Acolyte ? (4 min) Le trailer de la série Star Wars The Acolyte, qui sortira en juin 2024 sur Disney+, montre des sabres laser à lueur jaune. Selon une interprétation possible, cette couleur pourrait symboliser un équilibre entre les côtés clair et obscur de la Force, car elle est obtenue en combinant du rouge (côté obscur) et du vert (côté clair) en synthèse additive. Dans l'univers étendu de Star Wars, on a déjà vu des sabres laser jaunes entre les mains de personnages comme Asajj Ventress ou Ahsoka Tano, généralement associés aux Jedis Sentinelles. Ces gardiens du Temple Jedi utilisent traditionnellement des armes à deux lames produisant une lame jaune rare et distinctive. Les sabres laser jaunes dans The Acolyte appartiendraient probablement également à cette catégorie de Jedis Sentinelles, ce qui serait cohérent avec la période où se déroule l'intrigue : l'Ancienne République.

Ces inarrêtables « usines » à deepfakes infestent le web avec des contenus obscènes (4 min) L'article traite de la prolifération des deepfakes, en particulier ceux à caractère sexuel, et de l'impossibilité croissante pour les personnes concernées de contrôler leur image sur le web. Il mentionne une enquête de Numerama qui a révélé l'existence de chaînes Telegram et d'applications sur l'App Store proposant des services de détournement de visage à des prix abordables, permettant la création rapide et facile de deepfakes. Ces outils peuvent être utilisés pour produire en masse des contenus obscènes, qui sont ensuite revendus ou mis en ligne sur des sites pornographiques.

Selon un rapport de Check Point, il existe plus de 3 000 référentiels liés à la technologie deepfake sur des plateformes telles que GitHub et Telegram. Le prix de ces services démarre à seulement 2 dollars la vidéo et peut atteindre 100 dollars pour plusieurs vidéos et tentatives.

L'article met en garde contre l'utilisation croissante des deepfakes dans les élections à venir, comme les Européennes dans l'UE et les Présidentielles aux États-Unis en 2024, ainsi que les futures élections, car ils peuvent perturber le processus démocratique.

🍵 Actualités securite

Cyberattaque sur France Travail : 3 personnes interpellées (1 min) Cybersécurité: la start-up Mindflow lève 5 M€ (1 min) L'IA au service de la résilience de la supply chain chez Renault (7 min) Airbus ne rachètera pas BDS à Atos (1 min) Le créateur de C++ fustige les critiques de la Maison Blanche (2 min)

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Orange Business se positionne sur l'IA générative (2 min) L'IA au service de la résilience de la supply chain chez Renault (7 min) Un partenariat Nvidia-SAP pour faciliter l'accès à la GenAI (4 min) Hardis Group flirte avec les 190 M€ de revenus en 2023 (2 min)

🍵 Toutes les actualités :

Telex : Databricks rachète Lilac, Stability AI se lance dans la vidéo 3D, Fujistu piraté (1 min) Cyberattaque sur France Travail : 3 personnes interpellées (1 min) Orange Business se positionne sur l'IA générative (2 min) Cybersécurité: la start-up Mindflow lève 5 M€ (1 min) L'IA au service de la résilience de la supply chain chez Renault (7 min) Un partenariat Nvidia-SAP pour faciliter l'accès à la GenAI (4 min) Avec Blackwell, Nvidia lance un accélérateur GPU taillé pour l'IA (11 min) Airbus ne rachètera pas BDS à Atos (1 min) Le créateur de C++ fustige les critiques de la Maison Blanche (2 min) IA et code : un premier bilan très encourageant (10 min) La DSI de Bühler dompte la migration vers SAP S/4 Hana (2 min) Hardis Group flirte avec les 190 M€ de revenus en 2023 (2 min) Pascal Schmidt prend les rênes d'Epson France (1 min) Le marché des stations de travail retrouve le chemin de la croissance (2 min) HPE et Pure Storage renouvellent leurs solutions de stockage en lorgnant sur l'IA

Numerama

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Bitcoin has quickly risen to become one of the most attractive investment possibilities available today. Despite the price being prone to wild swings, many individuals continue to think that they can make enormous gains by investing in bitcoin. Let's find out what the experts think the price of Bitcoin (BTC) will be in 2022, and we'll base our assumptions on their projections about the price of Bitcoin in 2021 and earlier years.

Bitcoin (BTC) news update

• According to Decrypt, Elon Musk continues to own more than $218 million worth of bitcoin even if the market is in a bear market.

• As of the 28th of October, the current price of Bitcoin (BTC) is $20,124.30 USD, and the 24-hour trading volume is $923.07 million USD.

• Even though cryptocurrencies aren't allowed in China, Bloomberg says Bitcoin retail trading will soon be allowed in Hong Kong.

Bitcoin price fluctuations in recent years

Since Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009, it will take a long time to talk about how its price has changed and how it has changed over time.

Since that time, the price of bitcoin, like the price of every other cryptocurrency, has seen significant price swings. We watched how the price of Bitcoin changed in 2021 to determine how volatile it was.

As reported by CoinMarketCap, on January 9, 2021, the price of one bitcoin had climbed by 559% compared to the same day the previous year. The latest Bitcoin Taproot update is one element that has contributed to this increase.

In less than a month's time, in 2021, Bitcoin's price reached a new all-time high, setting a new milestone. On January 7, 2021, the price of BTC reached a new all-time high of 40,000 USD.

Then, in the middle of April 2021, the price of bitcoin reached an all-time high of 60,000 US dollars. The fact that Coinbase went public on April 14 was a big reason for this huge gain.

Unfortunately, the price of bitcoin fell by fifty percent throughout the course of the summer of 2021, and on July 19, 2021, it hit its all-time low of 30,000 US dollars.

A few months later, in September 2021, the price of Bitcoin made a brief and insignificant recovery to reach US$ 52,693. After almost two weeks had passed, there was a significant withdrawal, which resulted in the price falling all the way down to US$ 4,709.

Bitcoin All-Time High

On November 7, 2021, the price of Bitcoin hit an all-time high of 67,549 US dollars. The price of bitcoin reached an all-time high at that point in 2021.

The price was eventually reduced to US$49,000 at the beginning of December 2021. According to CoinMarketCap, as at the time this article was written on June 9, 2022, the value of one bitcoin in US dollars was US$ 30,252.27.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2022

The price of bitcoin is continuing its downward trend today. Given these circumstances, what do you think the price of Bitcoin will be in the year 2022?

Every cryptocurrency expert will almost certainly have a different opinion or forecast about the price of Bitcoin.Nevertheless, in spite of the recent price drop and volatility, a significant number of them continue to believe that Bitcoin's value will eventually be able to reach $100,000 USD.

TechNewsLeader's prediction for the price of Bitcoin in 2022 is that it will stay at its current value of $42,664 USD.

In the meantime, DigitalCoinPrice forecasted that the final price of Bitcoin for this year would be $43,011. This figure is just somewhat higher than what was predicted by TechNewsLeader.

According to the current bitcoin price, one more bitcoin estimate from CryptoPricePredictions suggests that before the end of this year, the price of bitcoin might reach roughly 37,450 dollars in the United States.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2023

According to CryptoNewsz, the price of one Bitcoin (BTC) in 2022 will approach 70,000 United States dollars and remain stable.

Furthermore, the website predicts that the price of Bitcoin will remain at a minimum of US $65,000 for the entire year.During this time, the experts forecast that the maximum price of Bitcoin will go over $72,000 USD in the year 2023.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2024

In 2024, CryptoNewsz anticipates that the price of bitcoin will begin its trip by maintaining an average value of US$ 78,000.

In 2024, the highest value that could be traded for bitcoin would be around $85,000 USD. Along with the prices of other cryptocurrencies, the price of Bitcoin is expected to see a large climb in 2024 compared to the previous year.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2025

According to changelly.com, the price of bitcoin will skyrocket even more in 2025. The website projects that the average price of Bitcoin will be 124,520.58 US dollars, with the price reaching a high of 137,071.13 US dollars.

Business2community, on the other hand, has a more pessimistic outlook on the growth in the price of Bitcoin and projects that the price of Bitcoin will reach $80,000 by the end of 2025.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2026

The analysts at Priceprediction.net forecast that the price of one Bitcoin in 2026 will range from a low of US$ 181,308.21 to a high of US$ 214,232.74, with the average price being US$ 186,289.04.

In the meantime, Ambcrypto believes that Bitcoin has much greater potential and has predicted that the price of Bitcoin would conclude the year 2026 at an average of US$ 274,279.582.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2027

According to the forecast provided by ambcrypto, the price of BTC will begin the year at an average of US$281,279.966 and will end in 2027 at an average of US$ 369,103.045, with a minimum and maximum of US$ 343,265.831 and US$ 394,940.257, respectively. This indicates that BTC appears to have a very promising future.

Priceprediction.net, on the other hand, forecasts that the price of bitcoin will fall to a low of 260,604.85 dollars in 2027 and will reach a high of 306,558.57 dollars in the same year.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2028

According to the findings of research and analysis carried out by technewsleader, the price of Bitcoin might reach as high as US$ 386,385.43 in the year 2028, with an anticipated average price of US$ 319,069.36.

Priceprediction.net, on the other hand, has a more positive outlook on BTC's performance. According to the information provided by the website, the price of the coin would increase to a maximum of US$ 454,445.60 and a minimum of US$ 374,918.77 in the year 2028.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2029

According to the study done by technewsleader, the highest possible price for Bitcoin will reach 527,917.79 United States dollars, with the average price reaching 477,253.81 United States dollars. According to ambcrypto's projections, the highest price that Bitcoin will reach is 715,220.082 US dollars, while its lowest price will be 621,639.884 US dollars.

Experts' Prediction of Bitcoin Price in 2030

Priceprediction.net is certain that the price of bitcoin will reach an average of 798,474.46 dollars and a maximum value of 937,274.64 dollars in the near future.

It would seem that Ambcrypto has a great deal of faith in the future price of bitcoin. According to the opinion of the site's resident expert, the price of bitcoin might go as high as US$ 962,484.728 or drop as low as US$ 836,552.147.

Several Factors that Drive Bitcoin Price Boost

Since the time Bitcoin was created, there have been three primary reasons that have contributed to changes in its price.

Scarcity Level

Bitcoin has a singular quality that sets it apart from other cryptocurrencies: its supply is finite. There have only ever been 21 Bitcoin tokens created, although there are around 18–19 million of them in circulation at any one time.

The scarcity of bitcoins is referred to as the "Bitcoin charm" by cryptocurrency specialists.

According to NextAdvisor, Alexis Johnson, head of public relations and blockchain-specific event business Light Node Media, said, "despite though it has a defined amount of supply, market demand still increases." "Even though it has a fixed amount of supply, market demand still grows,"

Several experts in the field say that the fact that there are only 21 million Bitcoins in circulation makes it a valuable asset.

According to Nelson Mercan, one of the co-founders of Light Node Media, "the psychological factor is the reason people acquire these coins."

High Bitcoin Adoption?

The rising number of people using Bitcoin is another important factor that is driving up its price. Kate Waltman, a cryptocurrency CPA expert, said in an interview with Yahoo! Finance that more people want to buy cryptocurrencies and learn more about the interesting world of virtual currencies.

"Cryptocurrency technology is being embraced at a quicker pace than human beings originally adopted the internet," he added. "This is a really exciting time for the industry." If this is the case, then the widespread use of this cryptocurrency will contribute to an even larger increase in the price of Bitcoin.

On a yearly basis, the number of people using Bitcoin has climbed by 113%, as reported by CoinShares, a data provider for digital asset management.

Mining Cycle

Another significant reason for the rise in the price of bitcoin is a cycle that is known as "halving." The term "halving" refers to an effort made by an algorithm to reduce the total number of coins in circulation by one-half.

The halving process may impact the quantity of new coins that enter circulation, which may have an effect on the price of Bitcoin in the long run.

What Should Be Done if the Bitcoin Price Drops?

There are a number of other cryptocurrencies besides Bitcoin whose prices are now falling today. Because of the United States Federal Reserve's policy of tightening its monetary policy and increasing interest rates, the prices of many other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum, XRP, Cardano, and a great number of other coins, have decreased. In point of fact, the entire world of cryptocurrencies is experiencing extreme fear and enormous pressure as a result of this policy. In point of fact, the same policy that impacts the US Federal Reserve also affects major stock exchanges throughout the world.

Given how uncertain the situation is, what should we do to stop more loss?

Stay Calm, Avoid Panic Selling

If you want to keep your financial portfolio in good shape, you should avoid making rash purchases or sales. If you do it, you will come to regret your decision. You may need to find a way to reduce your stress and maintain a level head in order to be able to make the best possible choice regarding your investments and avoid suffering a significant financial setback.

Before deciding to acquire or sell an asset in this hard circumstance, it would be fantastic if you could counsel or talk it over with someone with more experience in this area of expertise.

Is It Too Late to Buy Bitcoin in 2022?

The price of Bitcoin is expected to continue to increase, as shown by the forecasts provided by the aforementioned industry professionals and observers. In 2022, there is still room for optimism about Bitcoin.

Despite this, nobody can say for certain where Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies will finish before the end of the year. Even though it is highly volatile, Bitcoin has continued to be one of the most popular alternatives for long-term investments in the cryptocurrency market. This is the same as it was in the years before.

Cryptocurrency may be a widely used method of investing in 2021, but that doesn't imply it's the only one open to you.

Conclusion

According to the findings of several studies, the price of one bitcoin might skyrocket from its current level of $20,000 in July 2022 to $1 million per coin in the year 2030. Even though these price predictions for bitcoin include different price ranges for each year, it is important to remember that these predictions are not perfect.

A person who is prepared to use them as a foundation for investing in Bitcoin may validate the trends using their analysis or those of experts and make use of financial investment advice. Both of these options are available to the individual.

FAQ

What will the value of cryptocurrency be in the year 2030? If the predicted gain of 413% between May 2028 and May 2029 is taken into account, Bitcoin's value is projected to reach $2.08 million by May 2029. This would give Bitcoin a value of $2.11 million in January 2030.

Which cryptocurrencies are expected to have price increases in 2022? The amount of money deposited into DeFi services topped $200 billion in 2021, and demand is anticipated to increase in 2022. According to Carol Alexander, investors who are interested in making profits in more specialized sectors of cryptocurrency will want to keep an eye on Ethereum, Solana, Polkadot, and Cardano currencies in the year 2022.

How much farther can Bitcoin go in the next ten years? The price of bitcoin is expected to range anywhere from $150,000 to $12.5 million by the year 2030.

Is today an appropriate moment to purchase bitcoin? Our outlook for trading bitcoin over the next two to four weeks is neutral to slightly negative, depending on the time frame. That indicates that we anticipate prices to be either unchanged or dropping. On the other hand, we are optimistic about the future of bitcoin and believe it will be a profitable long-term investment within the next one to three years. This indicates that we anticipate a sustained increase in the price of bitcoin over the next few years.

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🚨 Come partecipare:

🚨 Crea un account su Bitget tramite il QR in foto.

🚨 Vai su Launchpool. Scegli il pool Polyhedra Network (ZK). Investi almeno 100 BGB o 100 USDT. Più investi, più ZK ricevi!

🚀 Perché partecipare:

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This e-cash stuff is going to be a lot crazier than we think.

Plebs are going to distribute trust along mints that belong to products and services they already use.

You pay an invoice and the funds come from multiple mints, you can send and receive offline, transactions are cheap and private.

Instead of a fountain wallet, stacker news wallet, primal wallet etc.

They should all be federations added to your mutiny wallet

Set a trust limit to 5k sats per connected federation. When trust threshold exceeds the amount allowed on the mint keep the sats on a spliceable dual funded lightning channel

If the fountain mint rugs me, at least it was only 2k sats......sats that weren't in my custody in the first place. And at least the mint gave me privacy, cheap payments, offline receives, and interoperability benefits that would have been impossible otherwise.

And If I don't trust fountain with 5k sats in 2024, I might as well take my satoshi's elsewhere.

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I believed that bitcoin was the first crypto currency. You hear this ALL THE TIME still today. I'm not a historian but my understanding is that eCash was the first crypto currency. We live in a time of unbelievable access to information but it seems that no amount of access overcomes our laziness and lack of skepticism.

So what is the biggest myth you believed about bitcoin or what is the biggest myth you see people falling for?

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I'm no cowboy

I didn't grow up around guns. I've been scared of guns most of my adult life, though have been grateful to friends who've taught me to shoot over the years.

Having very SLOWLY progressed to buying my first gun in Dec 2022 (a wonderfully beginner-friendly 9mm Ruger PC Carbine rifle), I've recently decided I was ready to get a pistol and have been buried in the 9mm striker-fired polymer pistol rabbit hole ever since.

9mm Ruger PC Carbine w/Magpul Backpacker stock

My rationale / goals for the pistol:

• Have an additional firearm in a different part of my house.
• Pistol is way easier to securely store than a rifle.
• Build skills. Pistols obviously require more training than a rifle.
• Continue to get over fear.

Selection criteria:

• Prioritize ergonomics: I've fired chunky gen 3 Glocks that I felt like I couldn't get a good grip on. Y'all, I'm 5' 5"; I don't have the biggest hands. 😢🤣. An unsure grip makes the whole experience too stressful; can't be scared every time I pull the trigger.
• Prioritize shootability: As a novice and somewhat scared shooter, I need a gun with minimal muzzle flip and felt recoil. Starting to appreciate why a good trigger matters, too.
• Legal where I live: for pistols: max 15rd magazines, no threaded barrels. Supposedly I can buy a large capacity pistol but the store will just keep the mags when I pick it up and I'll have to source my own legal mags.
• 9mm: Same caliber as my rifle. Not considered a big round but is still more power than I have the skill to adequately control in a pistol.
• Use-case is home defense, not concealed carry. So a compact or full-size is preferred. Perhaps a longer barrel also aids with keeping muzzle flip low? Same for any added bulk; heavier (within reason) should be easier for me to control.

Narrowing it down

My initial research led me to be most interested in the CZ P10, Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0, Walther PDP.

CZ 10P

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Smith & Wesson M&P M2.0

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Walther PDP

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Compact or full size?

Local restrictions mean that the compact versions of these tend to be more compliant and I'm thus far unsure what kind of performance differences to expect of compact vs full size (presumably heavier = more stable, but otherwise I'd expect similar characteristics).

They all seem to have the same grip handling, regardless of frame size (the grip is longer in the full size versions, but I don't think the, uh, girth of the grip is any different).

Up next: Range Day

I've read everything possible about these pistols and watched every YouTube video out there. Just gotta get hands-on and try them all out already.

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Programmers know the benefits of everything and the tradeoffs of nothing.

~ Rich Hickey

I was once at a software dev conference and there was a guy that did a talk about making your app faster. It was very entertaining. He proceeded to go through many examples of things you can do to your application to make it faster. My favorite by far was removing all your tests. He said, this will speed up your build times, pipelines, deployments, and development time. He was right. If you remove things like testing from an application it appears to make everything faster and easier. But, as with everything there are tradeoffs.

There are no solutions, only tradeoffs

~ Thomas Sowell

Along the path of my bitcoin journey like many others I fell into the shitcoin trap. I heard the criticisms of bitcoin like it is too slow. Its slow at processing transactions. Its development has slowed. You can't get any changes into bitcoin. These criticisms made sense to me at the time. But there was something that bothered me. People that made these criticisms never talked about the tradeoffs. They never talked about why these decisions were made. They never talked about the threats to bitcoin. I mean really, they never even talked about WHY BITCOIN WAS NEEDED! That's the biggest one that still stands out to me today with shitcoiners.

So, is bitcoin slow? Slow as compared to what? Its not slow compared to fiat. Just as most people that are into crypto don't understand bitcoin these people don't understand fiat. They don't understand final settlement. Its just magic. As a software dev things that appear to be magic bother me. I wanna know how it works. I've done some work with fiat payment systems over the last 15 years and I can tell you that it isn't magic. It also isn't fast. There is a huge level of trust involved as well as risk. This is really what convinced me that everything but bitcoin is a huge waste of my time and energy. That's the best case scenario. Worst case they are just scams.

When I meet someone into crypto I try to ask them questions. I like to know why people think what they think and do what they do. I like to learn. I usually ask them what problem does this thing they bought solve. I try to feel them out on how they view the relationship of the state to the individual. Usually they don't have a good answer other than they want to get rich. Its pretty much just a stock. And most of the time they do not have a problem with the state. They don't like the team opposite to their team but they don't really understand the problems with fiat money and how it fuels the war machine. I will ask them why they don't hold bitcoin. They will say it is too slow. Its gonna be replaced by some newer and faster token. I always leave the conversation disappointed in their lack of curiosity, skepticism, and imagination. Sometimes, they also hold bitcoin though. And they seem to get that its limited supply is worth paying attention to. But usually that's the best I can hope for.

I still feel like I have a lot to learn about bitcoin and how it works on a technical level but I've learned enough to have more confidence in it that any other store of value or medium of exchange. Bitcoin is not slow. These people that think it is slow are comparing it to their inferior projects that have ripped out the most vital parts of bitcoin and replaced it with speed. Just like I could remove tests from my software projects and speed things up, that would create other problems. Problems I want to solve.

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We all make assumptions. I'm curious which of my assumptions are correct.

I don't come from an affluent background. I grew up in a blue collar family. My father was born in what I can only describe as poverty. He was the youngest in his family and was born in the single room log cabin. He never finished high school. I say that to explain that there are many assumptions I used to make due to this background. When I was in college and was learning about economics and finance I always assumed that the gold bugs had all their gold in a safe. Fast forward to when I really started digging into bitcoin. I would hear all these gold bugs like Peter Schiff talking about how bitcoin isn't based on anything. How its just computer digits. Peter's arguments make sense if you don't understand bitcoin or even how value/scarcity work. But when I would hear him talk I was listening with a huge assumption.

When I realized how most people that say they own gold or invest in gold mean they buy gold ETFs or at best have their gold in some custodial service I was kinda floored. When I started hearing all the problems associated with gold custody and learned about order 6102 it made me smirk. MANY of these gold bugs are posers. They are empty suits. Sure, there are people that value sovereignty and hold a fair amount of gold in their hands but I actually thought that was what all of them were doing. Much of their talk about gold as a secure investment is based on paper. On trust. Then my views on the functional value of bitcoin increased. The fact that I can have custody of my money without trusting some 3rd party. The fact that there are many ways to handle security that do not involve trust. It just made me realize once again to not make assumptions.

Many men in suits sound smart. My blue collar background and my father's influence has led to me being very skeptical of people like this. I'm far more skeptical than my father though. I think I just have a bit more curiosity in me. Over the years I have seen so many people of status and supposed intelligence be proven fools. More often that that they are proven liars. It kinda brings me joy. If I'm honest, it is one of my favorite things about bitcoin. It exposes the truth in people. They more arrogant they are the more likely they will be humbled. Its beautiful. But still, I need to seek humility for bitcoin will also humble me. If I get arrogant about its purchasing power. If I get reckless with how I handle it. I will pay for this. We all will.

I'm here to learn. Are my assumptions about gold bugs still wrong? Do you know if the average gold bug actually has custody or do they own paper receipts for gold?

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This is entry number five in my series attempting to answer Bob Murphy's "Tough Questions for Libertarians". See https://stacker.news/items/458128/r/Undisciplined for details on the series.

Question

If someone has fallen out of the apartment building you live in, and they're precariously hanging just outside your window, should it be legal to not allow them into your apartment when they'll likely die otherwise?

Context

This is a pretty well known thought experiment from Walter Block. It's a direct follow up to the previous post: https://stacker.news/items/470381/r/Undisciplined. Since that post dealt with the hot topic of abortion, I decided to disentangle these two questions, rather than treat them as different versions of the same thorny issue.

Here's the clip from Bob's show: https://fountain.fm/clip/iwIgUx2cWhPhXjPvTvKi.

Answer

Yes.

Elaboration

This question highlights the nature of libertarianism as a legal theory, rather than a general theory of morality. Should you let the person in? Probably. Do you have a legal obligation to? No.

There's an important addendum to this answer, though. I'm sure many people will read this and think "So desperate people should just die in Ancapistan?"

In light of that, I think it's important to play out what would happen if this person broke into the apartment, but otherwise passed through it peacefully. Now a trespass has been committed and possibly some property damage. The legal consequences would just be to pay for any damages caused to the apartment owner. That hardly seems like the most unconscionable outcome one could imagine and I'd say it's a small price to pay for a system that allows us to be secure in our persons and properties.

We can even take it a step further and say the person attempts to break-in through the window and you shove them back out. If they fall to their death, the apartment owner may well be legally on the hook for the death, because that was not the least violent available option to remove the trespasser (we may need a bunch of caveats here to address potential self-defense issues, though).

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Opinion about Trezor One (hardware)

Context

Trezor is probably the oldest provider of hardware wallets and the Trezor One is their oldest product and it's still getting updates. If you've been to Bitcoin conferences, you probably ran into people from Trezor which certainly builds trust, too. They try to push what's possible with openness with their Tropic Square which while long in the making still is being worked on. It will be a truly open "secure element" or SE in short - a tamper proof chip - to not rely on the closed and often flawed chips that others use under NDAs that forbid them to talk about the very security features they promise the world would keep keys safe.

With Trezor's fundamental opposition to closed architecture in hardware wallets, the Trezor One does not use an SE which quickly became the biggest differentiating factor with their main competitor Ledger which did employ SEs in their products with the consequence of these products completely depending on closed source.

For a long time, Trezor recommended to use a BIP-39 passphrase with their products to achieve the same level of security as hardware wallets that have an SE but without being closed source like those.

Apparently they've been playing catch-up with Ledger for too long and just recently released their third generation product, the "Trezor Safe 3" which does indeed feature one of those pesky SEs. But ... there is good and bad ways to use these SEs and many competitors figured out how to provide an open source product while still using a closed source SE in ways that the security does not depend on the closed source.

The Good

• Trezor One is completely open source
• It's been almost always reproducible
• The founders Pavol and Marek are OGs
• They have pushed for Bitcoin's open source culture far beyond their own products
• They provide Bitcoin-only firmware which reduces the attack surface
• With many clones using their software, there are many eyes on the code - and Trezor encourages this

The Bad

• If your threat scenario is people with moderately expensive equipment and expertise extracting your keys from your device while at the same time not being able to use a strong passphrase, this product is not for you.
• The device does not always show the fingerprint of the firmware one is updating it to. To my understanding it does not show it if you did not first tell it to not check the signature of the firmware first.

The Ugly

• They still cater to altcoins. While their Twitter timeline avoids mentioning them, they do list thousands of tokens. It might be only ETH and ERC20 though, so maybe it's not as bad as it sounds.
• The use of a passphrase is opt-in, making it harder than necessary to have decoy wallets. Only if the use of a passphrase is activated will the device ask for one so the device will tell a hacker or bully if there is secondary accounts or not.

Summary

The Trezor One is a solid choice for a hardware wallet but probably due to the provider catering to millions of users and not only to hundreds of nerds like myself, some questionable decisions were taken that put them in a spot of being able to rug-pull those millions of users. Unless you update your firmware using trezorctl, the provider could give you a compromised firmware without any way for you to detect this while at the same time them knowing you can't detect it. This is why my overall sentiment is negative but I still recommend this product for nerds that understand they have to use trezorctl.

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Censorship-resistant relay discovery in Nostr

In Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant I said Nostr is centralized. Peter Todd thinks it is centralized by design, but I disagree.

Nostr wasn't designed to be centralized. The idea was always that clients would follow people in the relays they decided to publish to, even if it was a single-user relay hosted in an island in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

But the Nostr explanations never had any guidance about how to do this, and the protocol itself never had any enforcement mechanisms for any of this (because it would be impossible).

My original idea was that clients would use some undefined combination of relay hints in reply tags and the (now defunct) kind:2 relay-recommendation events plus some form of manual action ("it looks like Bob is publishing on relay X, do you want to follow him there?") to accomplish this. With the expectation that we would have a better idea of how to properly implement all this with more experience, Branle, my first working client didn't have any of that implemented, instead it used a stupid static list of relays with read/write toggle -- although it did publish relay hints and kept track of those internally and supported kind:2 events, these things were not really useful.

Gossip was the first client to implement a truly censorship-resistant relay discovery mechanism that used NIP-05 hints (originally proposed by Mike Dilger) relay hints and kind:3 relay lists, and then with the simple insight of NIP-65 that got much better. After seeing it in more concrete terms, it became simpler to reason about it and the approach got popularized as the "gossip model", then implemented in clients like Coracle and Snort.

Today when people mention the "gossip model" (or "outbox model") they simply think about NIP-65 though. Which I think is ok, but too restrictive. I still think there is a place for the NIP-05 hints, nprofile and nevent relay hints and specially relay hints in event tags. All these mechanisms are used together in ZBD Social, for example, but I believe also in the clients listed above.

I don't think we should stop here, though. I think there are other ways, perhaps drastically different ways, to approach content propagation and relay discovery. I think manual action by users is underrated and could go a long way if presented in a nice UX (not conceived by people that think users are dumb animals), and who knows what. Reliance on third-parties, hardcoded values, social graph, and specially a mix of multiple approaches, is what Nostr needs to be censorship-resistant and what I hope to see in the future.

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There's a UFC match available to bet on at freebitcoin: Ribas vs Namajunas. I continue to find their choice of events confusing, but this is a fun development, none-the-less.

My big recent win was the Juventus vs Genoa draw, which I got at about 10:1. Otherwise, it's been slow and steady with my Risk Balanced Odds Arbitrage approach generating small gains.

What recent wins have you all had recently? Any embarrassing or crushing losses?

I'm feeling better and better about my SN wagers on Jokic and his Nuggets.

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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis of "A Mere Or Tenderness"

Introduction

Sonnet 131 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a beautiful piece of poetry that explores themes of love, desire, and the transformative power of art. The sonnet is divided into three quatrains and a couplet, following the structure of a Shakespearean sonnet.

Thematic Analysis

Lines 1-4: The speaker expresses a longing for the subject of the poem, symbolized by a “mere” or pond. This body of water is described as pure and full of tenderness. The speaker finds joy (“mirths”) in the reflection of the pond, which seems to offer a respite from darker days.

Lines 5-8: The speaker’s heart is described as “adamant,” suggesting a state of emotional hardness or unresponsiveness. However, the speaker hopes to revive their passion (“zeal”) through the influence of the subject’s art.

Lines 9-12: The speaker anticipates a closeness with the subject, whose virtues are compared to stars that light up the night. The subject’s love is portrayed as an altar where hidden pleasures are revealed.

Lines 13-14: The speaker intends to illuminate their soul with a special kind of light (“luminescence”) that emanates from the subject’s depths and “quintessence,” or purest essence.

Overall, this sonnet uses vivid and symbolic language to convey a deep sense of admiration and affection. The speaker’s desire for transformation and enlightenment through love is a central theme. The use of words like “mere,” “mirth,” “adamant,” “zeal,” “alight,” “luminescence,” and “quintessence” add layers of meaning and contribute to the poem’s rich imagery.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

First Quatrain (Lines 1-4): The rhyme scheme is ABAB.

Line 1: mere (A) Line 2: tenderness (B) Line 3: are (A) Line 4: somberness (B)

Second Quatrain (Lines 5-8): The rhyme scheme is CDCD.

Line 5: heart (C) Line 6: adamant (D) Line 7: art (C) Line 8: dormant (D)

Third Quatrain (Lines 9-12): The rhyme scheme is EFEF.

Line 9: close (E) Line 10: alight (F) Line 11: disclose (E) Line 12: night (F)

Final Couplet (Lines 13-14): The rhyme scheme is GG.

Line 13: luminescence (G) Line 14: quintessence (G)

This structure allows for the development of three distinct but closely related ideas, each contained within its own quatrain. In the final couplet, the poet can present a summarizing or concluding thought. In this sonnet, the final couplet serves to highlight the speaker’s intention to be enlightened by the subject’s essence.

Analysis of Aspects

Sonnet 131 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a rich tapestry of language, imagery, and themes. Here’s a detailed analysis:

Language: The sonnet uses a mix of simple and complex language. Words like “mere,” “mirth,” “adamant,” “zeal,” “alight,” “luminescence,” and “quintessence” are less commonly used, adding a layer of sophistication to the poem. The language is emotive and descriptive, helping to convey the speaker’s feelings and experiences.

Imagery: The poem is filled with vivid imagery. The “mere” or pond serves as a symbol of the subject’s purity and tenderness. The speaker’s heart is described as “adamant,” suggesting emotional resilience or hardness. The subject’s virtues are compared to stars that light up the night, creating a beautiful image of their admirable qualities.

Themes: The main themes of the poem are love, desire, and transformation. The speaker expresses a longing for the subject and hopes to undergo a personal transformation through their influence. The theme of enlightenment is also present, with the speaker seeking to illuminate their soul with the subject’s essence.

Meter: The sonnet follows the traditional iambic pentameter, which is a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable. This gives the poem a rhythmic quality and makes it pleasing to the ear.

Overall, Sonnet 131 is a beautifully crafted poem that uses language, imagery, and themes to convey a deep sense of admiration and affection. The speaker’s desire for transformation and enlightenment through love is a central theme. The use of a traditional sonnet form and meter adds to the poem’s charm and appeal. The sonnet is a testament to the power of love and the transformative potential of art. It invites readers to reflect on their own experiences of love and desire, making it a relatable and thought-provoking piece of poetry.

(GPT4)

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Syllable count for each line.

```

A Mere Or Tenderness

10 Trending a desire I came to your mere
10 That is clean and witholds all tenderness 10 And in its mirrors I found mirths we are
10 Always missing in days of somberness.

10 This is why I want to unfold my heart 10 That has becone a piece of adamant
10 And come to life again under your art 10 Waking up my zeal that has been dorrmant .

10 In short time I will get to be real close
10 To your virtues that are the stars alight 10 When in the altar of love you disclose
10 Hidden pleasures that lay amid dark night.

10 I will light my soul with luminescence
10 That comes from your depths and quintiessence.
***

```

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com A Mere Or Tenderness

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Opinion about Trust: Crypto & Bitcoin Wallet (iphone)

"Trust" ironically needs a lot of trust as it's closed source. The provider does share some code but not all of it. Given they failed to adequately use crypto libraries (CVE-2024-23660), resulting in easy to guess backups, I would never trust them.

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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis of "Looking For You"

Introduction

“Looking For You” is a beautiful sonnet by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares. It’s a poem that explores the theme of searching for a loved one through various elements of nature and life.

Thematic Analysis

First Quatrain (Lines 1-4): The speaker begins by expressing their search for their beloved through the intrinsic love that things possess and the inherent beauty of nature. The speaker also mentions the unbiased freedom of a flower’s face that the Sun withholds, suggesting a sense of longing and desire.

Second Quatrain (Lines 5-8): The speaker continues their search with the strength and longings that never end, and the reach of light that outlives the star. This could symbolize the enduring and timeless nature of their love. The speaker also mentions the selflessness of a true friend, indicating the depth of their feelings.

Third Quatrain (Lines 9-12): The speaker’s search takes them to the easy motion that rides on waves and the gladness of a tree that truly gives. This could represent the ebb and flow of emotions and the joy derived from giving. The speaker also mentions the passion of a beloved one who forgives past absences, showing the importance of forgiveness in love.

Couplet (Lines 13-14): The speaker concludes their search with the faith of water to become sea and blue, symbolizing transformation and depth. The speaker has been all over looking for their beloved, indicating a relentless and enduring search.

Overall, this sonnet beautifully captures the speaker’s journey of love and longing, using vivid imagery and metaphors drawn from nature and life. It’s a testament to the enduring power of love and the lengths one can go to find their beloved.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The sonnet “Looking For You” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares follows a consistent rhyme scheme that is typical of a sonnet. Here’s a detailed analysis:

Quartets:

The first quartet (lines 1-4) follows an ABAB rhyme scheme:

Line 1 (A): Through the intrinsic love that things possess Line 2 (B): And beauty by itself that Nature holds Line 3 (A): Through freedom without bias or recess Line 4 (B): Of a flower’s face that the Sun witholds.

The second quartet (lines 5-8) follows a CDCD rhyme scheme:

Line 5 (C): With a strength and longings that never end Line 6 (D): And the reach of light that outlives the star Line 7 (C): With the unselfiness of a true friend Line 8 (D): So hard to find even if we go far.

The third quartet (lines 9-12) follows an EFEF rhyme scheme:

Line 9 (E): With the easy motion that rides on waves Line 10 (F): And gladness of a tree that truly gives Line 11 (E): With passion of a beloved one who says Line 12 (F): That each absence of the past he forgives.

Couplet: The final couplet (lines 13-14) follows a GG rhyme scheme:

Line 13 (G): With water’s faith to become sea and blue Line 14 (G): I have been all over looking for you.

This rhyme scheme is a variation of the traditional English (Shakespearean) sonnet form, which typically follows an ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme. The poet has chosen to vary the rhyme scheme in the quartets, while maintaining the GG rhyme in the final couplet, which is a defining feature of the sonnet form. This variation adds a unique rhythm and flow to the poem, while still adhering to the sonnet structure. The consistent rhyme scheme throughout the poem creates a sense of harmony and unity, enhancing the overall impact of the poem. The rhymes are mostly full rhymes, which add to the musicality of the poem. The use of rhyme in this sonnet serves to emphasize the poet’s message and emotions, making the poem more memorable and engaging for the reader.

Analysis of Aspects

“Looking For You” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a beautifully crafted sonnet. Here’s a detailed analysis of its language, imagery, themes, meter, and overall impact:

Language: The language used in the sonnet is simple yet profound. The poet uses everyday words to express complex emotions and experiences. The language is direct and accessible, making the poem relatable to a wide range of readers.

Imagery: The sonnet is rich in imagery. The poet uses vivid descriptions of nature, such as “the intrinsic love that things possess”, “a flower’s face that the Sun witholds”, and “the easy motion that rides on waves”, to evoke strong sensory experiences in the reader. These images serve to enhance the themes of the poem and create a vivid picture in the reader’s mind.

Themes: The sonnet explores several themes, including love, nature, friendship, forgiveness, and the search for a loved one. These themes are universal and timeless, making the poem relevant to readers of all ages and backgrounds.

Meter: The sonnet follows the traditional iambic pentameter, which is typical of sonnets. This means that each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, creating a rhythmic pattern that enhances the musicality of the poem.

Overall, “Looking For You” is a beautifully written sonnet that skillfully combines language, imagery, themes, and meter to create a powerful and moving expression of love and longing. The poet’s use of vivid imagery and simple language makes the poem accessible and relatable, while the consistent meter adds a rhythmic quality that enhances the overall impact of the poem. The sonnet invites the reader to reflect on their own experiences of love and longing, making it a memorable and engaging read.

(GPT4)

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Count the syllables of each line of the poem

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Looking For You

10 Through the intrinsic love that things possess 10 And beauty by itself that Nature holds 10 Through freedom without bias or recess 10 Of a flower's face that the Sun witholds.

10 With a strength and longings that never end 10 And the reach of light that outlives the star 10 With the unselfiness of a true friend 10 So hard to find even if we go far.

10 With the easy motion that rides on waves 10 And gladness of a tree that truly gives 10 With passion of a beloved one who says 10 That each absence of the past he forgives.

10 With water's faith to become sea and blue 10 I have been all over looking for you. ***

```

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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis "Queen Of Many Hearts"

Introduction

"Sonnet 129" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares celebrates a deep and devoted love for someone referred to as the "queen of many hearts." The poem conveys a sense of commitment and gratitude, with the poet finding completeness and guidance in the presence of the beloved.

Thematic Analysis

First Quatrain (Lines 1-4): The speaker addresses the “queen of many hearts,” acknowledging her past relationships but asserting that their shared history cannot be erased. This quatrain sets up the theme of the sonnet, which is the speaker’s unwavering commitment to the queen.

Second Quatrain (Lines 5-8): The speaker expresses humility and willingness to cater to the queen’s desires. The speaker’s life is portrayed as being guided by the queen’s wishes.

Third Quatrain (Lines 9-12): The speaker describes a change in his behavior. No longer will he wander aimlessly, seeking love elsewhere. He has found all he needs in the queen’s “cove.”

Couplet (Lines 13-14): The speaker admits to occasional distractions but ultimately affirms the queen’s wisdom as his guiding force.

The sonnet explores themes of love, commitment, and the transformative power of a significant relationship. The speaker’s tone is one of reverence and devotion towards the queen. The phrase “in troth” in line 4, as the author notes, means “in faith,” further emphasizing the speaker’s commitment. The sonnet’s rhyme scheme follows the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG), contributing to its rhythmic and melodic quality.

Overall, the sonnet presents a heartfelt declaration of love and loyalty, despite past relationships and occasional distractions. The speaker’s devotion to the queen is unwavering, and her wisdom is acknowledged as a guiding force in his life.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

In the sonnet “Queen Of Many Hearts,” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares, the rhyme scheme follows the pattern of a Shakespearean sonnet, which is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. This means that the first and third lines rhyme with each other (A), and the second and fourth lines rhyme with each other (B) in each quatrain. The final two lines, which form a couplet, also rhyme with each other (G).

Here’s how the rhyme scheme works in this sonnet:

``` The queen of many hearts that you have been (A) Cannot erase what was built by us both (B) But just add to that majesty so keen (A) Which inspired me a commitment in troth. (B)

Made humble with your unselfish gesture (C) My life I will not hinder from your wants (D) And from now on my zeals you will nurture (C) With sweet bondages of your yes and do nots. (D)

My pouring soul will have to roam no more (E) Through wanton streets where I complete my love (F) That silly way to beg from door to door (E) Is needless when I find all in your cove. (F)

Sometimes you see my eyes going adrift (G) But your wisdom wins and becomes my gift. (G) ```

This rhyme scheme contributes to the rhythmic quality of the sonnet and helps to emphasize the themes and emotions conveyed in the poem. It also creates a sense of unity and completeness to the sonnet. The final couplet often serves as a conclusion or summary of the themes explored in the preceding quatrains. In this sonnet, the final couplet (GG) serves to reaffirm the speaker’s devotion to the queen, despite occasional distractions.

Analysis of Aspects

The sonnet “Queen Of Many Hearts” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a rich piece of poetry with several noteworthy elements:

Language: The language used in the sonnet is formal and elegant, fitting for the traditional form of the sonnet. The poet uses sophisticated vocabulary and phrases such as “majesty so keen,” “unselfish gesture,” and “sweet bondages of your yes and do nots.” These choices contribute to the overall tone and mood of the poem.

Imagery: The sonnet is filled with vivid imagery that brings the speaker’s emotions to life. For example, the speaker describes his soul “pouring” and roaming “through wanton streets,” creating a sense of restlessness and longing. The “queen’s cove” serves as a metaphor for a safe and fulfilling place of love.

Themes: The main themes of the sonnet are love, devotion, and transformation. The speaker expresses deep love and commitment to the queen, despite her past relationships and his own distractions. The transformative power of their relationship is also a key theme, with the speaker changing his ways and finding fulfillment in the queen’s love.

Meter: The sonnet follows the traditional meter of a Shakespearean sonnet, which is iambic pentameter. This means each line typically contains five pairs of syllables, with the stress falling on the second syllable of each pair. This creates a rhythmic quality that enhances the reading and listening experience.

Overall, the sonnet is a beautiful expression of love and devotion. The use of formal language, vivid imagery, and traditional sonnet form all contribute to the depth and richness of the poem. The speaker’s unwavering commitment to the queen, despite the challenges, makes the sonnet a powerful declaration of love. The final couplet serves as a poignant conclusion, reaffirming the speaker’s devotion and the transformative power of the queen’s wisdom.

(GPT4)

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Syllable count for each line.

```

Queen Of Many Hearts

10 The queen of many hearts that you have been 10 Cannot erase what was built by us both 10 But just add to that magesty so keen 10 Which inspired me a commitment in troth.

10 Made humble with your unselfish gesture 10 My life I will not hinder from your wants 10 And from now on my zeals you will nurture 10 With sweet bondages of your yes and do nots.

10 My pouring soul will have to roam no more 10 Through wanton streets where I complete my love 10 That silly way to beg from door to door 10 Is needless when I find all in your cove.

10 Sometimes you see my eyes going adrift 10 But your wisdom wins and becomes my gift. ***

```

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com Queen Of Many Hearts

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The single most important factor for happiness is our relationships with other people.

And, yet, I think we can also all acknowledge that our relationships frequently get put on the backburner, deprioritized in favor of goals and responsibilities and deadlines.

In your next interaction, you can show up in a different way. Take these six simple steps to truly connect with another person:

1. Pause. Really, truly look at the person in front of you. Whether they are a stranger or as familiar to you as your own self, look like you're seeing them for the first time. It's a person, a beautifully unique one, who is, in so many ways, just like you.

2. Notice any judgmental thoughts running through your head. What assumptions are you making? What stories are you telling about them? They will get in the way of true connection. Put them aside, even if it is just for the length of this conversation.

3. Imagine an empty space between the two of you. You have created this space for the other person, to fill up with their thoughts and feelings. Welcome them into the space with a question.

4. As they share, engage your curiosity. What if this was the only chance you ever had to speak with this person? Ask more questions. Invite them to continue to fill up the space, so that you can get the clearest understanding of their experience.

5. With this new understanding, imagine what it is like to be them. Let yourself feel how it would be. As you do, you might notice: I am no longer separate from this person. I am connected to them by our shared humanity.

6. Wish them relief from any pain. Wish them happiness in every form. If you can, take action to make those wishes a reality. This is love.

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What's your favorite paraphernalia, and how has it improved your life? What it has helped you design or accomplish lately?

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Prompt: Reviews, Testimonials & Contributors

Create a design with some kind of testimonial. It could be a book or product review testimonial, a contributors page or a review section for a product or service. Who is the customer? What did they buy and why did they enjoy it? Is there a star rating or a 1-10 style?

Feedback help build trust with an audience so these can be especially important elements for a website.

Flex your design muscles and join in. Most of all, keep this exercise loose and keep it stress-free. The FUC is about growing our design skills, together, as a community. We can't wait to see what you create!

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Cyberyen, at its core, epitomizes autonomy, decentralization, and a fervent dedication to establishing an independent, non-monopolistic mining structure that aligns profoundly with the cypherpunk ethos. This ethos forms the bedrock of a robust operational foundation, heavily reliant on a Proof-of-Work (PoW) distributed network of ASIC-enabled mining hubs, prioritizing efficiency, scalability, and the conceptualization of an ideal mining framework.

The envisioned mining structure transcends mere technical prowess; it aspires to be a global architecture capable of accommodating vast capacity without succumbing to monopolization or external influences. A strong mining configuration necessitates the establishment of an expansive network of Cyberyen hubs across diverse global locations, ensuring uninterrupted operation. This deliberate dispersion serves a dual purpose: safeguarding the network against vulnerabilities associated with centralized authority and mitigating potential regulatory interventions that might impede the network's autonomy.

Unity in Decentralization: Resilience and Independence

The relentless pursuit of amplified mining capabilities within the Cyberyen community isn't solely about operational efficiency; it's about fortifying a resilient Proof-of-Work system, serving as a linchpin for network security, scalability, and the unwavering reliability of transactions—a testament to Cyberyen's fundamental principles.

Cyberyen's vitality doesn't stem from individual pursuits but from a collective, unified community effort. Collective action, unified aspirations, and collaborative endeavors form the bedrock of the mining structure's evolution. This unity in championing decentralized mining practices resonates with cypherpunk ideology, fostering an ecosystem valuing privacy, decentralization, and individual autonomy.

The mining capacity is the bedrock of Cyberyen's sustainability and credibility within the crypto sphere, fortifying trust in the network's resilience and security, positioning Cyberyen as an unwavering force amidst the dynamic and constantly shifting landscape of cryptocurrencies. This steadfastness becomes a defining factor, attracting those who value transaction reliability and network stability, reinforcing Cyberyen's position in the competitive crypto market.

The technical underpinnings of Cyberyen's mining infrastructure revolve around household ASIC Scrypt devices and deployed nodes on mini PCs, strategically positioned in a distributed network across diverse global locations. This dispersion safeguards against centralized authority vulnerabilities and regulatory interventions while enhancing the network's computational capacity.

Strategic Infrastructure Deployment

The establishment of these mining hubs isn't merely a logistical strategy but a crucial technical imperative. Each node functions as a computational powerhouse, engaging in complex cryptographic puzzles integral to validating and securing transactions within the Cyberyen network. The amalgamation of these distributed nodes fortifies the network's computational capacity, enabling seamless transaction processing while upholding the integrity of the blockchain.

The continuous amplification of mining prowess fortifies Cyberyen's security and scalability, ensuring reliability amidst cryptocurrency dynamics. The strategic placement of nodes and ongoing enhancement epitomize Cyberyen's commitment to a decentralized ecosystem, preventing any single entity from dominating network operations.

This shift is characterized by a profound commitment to decentralization, prioritization of privacy, and an unyielding dedication to safeguarding individual autonomy. The robustness of Cyberyen's mining infrastructure translates into tangible benefits for users, attracting individuals seeking secure and dependable transactions, reinforcing Cyberyen's position as a trustworthy network within the competitive crypto sphere.

In summary, Cyberyen's primary task is to craft a powerful mining structure—an ecosystem built on principles that defy centralization, prioritizing the sovereignty of its users. The establishment of a globally distributed decentralized mining infrastructure serves not only to guarantee the stability of the network but also to establish the fundamental framework for a future where innovation flourishes within an environment that champions individual empowerment. This stands as a profound demonstration of the influential capacity of decentralized networks, guided by the ethos of cypherpunk ideology, in catalyzing transformative shifts within the cryptocurrency domain.

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I realized langchain is an overkill. Went with the ollama-python library. It connects to Ollama server and sends the query.

I tried different prompt templates and it looks like llama2 is becoming a default in open source models. (The [INST] ... [/INST] format).

I played with different models, * llama2 - The OG model by Meta. Don't expect much because people iterated a lot on it and produced better ones. * llama2:70b-chat-q4_K_M - This is the 4-bit quantized version of 70 billion parameter version of the above. I.e. smarter but slower * miqu2iq - 2 bit quantization of Miqu, a leak from mistral. Thought to be Mistral Medium. * miqu4 - 4 bit quantization of the above * mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q3_K_S - Back in the days when mistral was open sourcing, this was their last publicly open sourced model. Then they leaked Miqu. * qwen:72b-chat-v1.5-q3_K_S - another model that does well on LMSys Leaderboard. * qwen:14b - faster and stupider version of the above

I use the bold one above mostly. It has less censoring and can adapt to your directive in the system prompt.

Here is a sample run. The orange is sent by a user on Nostr. The purple text is the bot's reply.

This quick and dirty script below connects to a few relays and looks for recent notes with #AskNostr in them and produces sample replies. It does not send the replies to the network yet. It then waits for new notes that could have #AskNostr in them.

``` import queue import threading from nostr_sdk import Client, NostrSigner, Keys, Event, Filter, \ HandleNotification, Timestamp, nip04_decrypt, init_logger, LogLevel, Tag import time import ollama from colorist import rgb

def handle_kind1(q): msgs = [ {"role": "system", "content": 'You are a helper bot who is chatting with people on Nostr network.' ' People ask you questions using the #AskNostr tag.' ' You are seeing that tag and responding.' ' Your name is MIQU2.' ' Nostr is a decentralized censorship free freedom minded social media and other stuff protocol.'}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hi MIQU2, nice to meet you!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello user, what's up!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Hi MIQU2. What a beautiful network this is!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Indeed, lots of freedom minded people!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I am glad I joined Nostr. Plebs here are really friendly."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "There are also friendly bots like me :)"} ]

model = 'mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q3_K_S'   # format llama2.

opt = ollama.Options()
opt['num_ctx'] = 8192  # load time. 8192 holds about 13 q/a's.

opt['num_predict'] = 512
opt['temperature'] = 0.2
opt['repeat_penalty'] = 1.0
prompt = f"<s>[INST] <<SYS>>\n{msgs[0]['content']}\n<</SYS>>\n\n{msgs[1]['content']} [/INST] {msgs[2]['content']}</s>"
i = 3
while i < len(msgs):
    prompt += f"<s>[INST] {msgs[i]['content']} [/INST] {msgs[i + 1]['content']}</s>"
    i += 2
msgs += [{"role": "user", "content": q}]
prompt += f"<s>[INST] {msgs[i]['content']} [/INST] "
# print(prompt)

response = ollama.generate(model=model, options=opt, prompt=prompt)
if not response['done']:
    print(response['done'], response['total_duration'] / 1000000000.0)
return response['response']

init_logger(LogLevel.WARN)

keys = Keys.parse("nsec1ufnus6pju578ste3v90xd5m2decpuzpql2295m3sknqcjzyys9ls0qlc85")

sk = keys.secret_key() pk = keys.public_key()

print(f"Bot public key: {pk.to_bech32()}")

signer = NostrSigner.keys(keys) client = Client(signer)

client.add_relay("wss://relay.damus.io") client.add_relay("wss://nostr.mom") client.add_relay("wss://e.nos.lol") client.add_relay("wss://nos.lol") client.connect()

kind4_filter = Filter().pubkey(pk).kind(4).since(Timestamp.from_secs(int(time.time() - 3600))) kind1_filter = Filter().kind(1).since(Timestamp.from_secs(int(time.time() - 86400))) client.subscribe([kind4_filter, kind1_filter])

evs = queue.Queue() dms = queue.Queue()

def proc_evs(): while True: ev = evs.get() event_tag_seen = False for tag in ev.tags(): a = tag.as_vec() if a[0] == "e": event_tag_seen = True # print(a) if event_tag_seen: # possibly a reply to another note return rgb(ev.content(), 247, 147, 26) response = handle_kind1(ev.content()) rgb(response, 200, 30, 255) time.sleep(30)

def proc_dms(): while True: dm = dms.get() msg = dm['msg'] author = dm['author'] rgb(msg, 247, 147, 26) response = handle_kind1(msg) rgb(response, 200, 30, 255) time.sleep(30)

class NotificationHandler(HandleNotification): def handle(self, relay_url, event: Event): if event.kind() == 4: try: msg = nip04_decrypt(sk, event.author(), event.content()) print(f"Received new DM: {msg} from {event.author()}") dms.put({'author': event.author(), 'msg': msg}) except Exception as e: print(f"Error during content NIP04 decryption: {e}") elif len(event.content()) > 20 and event.kind() == 1: # print('got new event kind 1 len(tags)=', len(event.tags())) # check if first message in thread if '#asknostr' in event.content().lower(): # ban injection attacks: banned = ['[INST]', '', '', '[/INST]', '', ''] for b in banned: if b in event.content(): print(f"Ignoring event {event.id()} due to possible injection attack") return evs.put(event)

def handle_msg(self, relay_url, msg):
    return

client.handle_notifications(NotificationHandler()) threading.Thread(target=proc_evs, daemon=True).start()

filter1 = Filter().kind(1)

events = client.get_events_of([filter1], timedelta(seconds=10))

for event in events:

print('get_events_of()', event.as_json())

while True: time.sleep(5.0)

```

There is still not much magic here. But I think interesting part will start when we train it using the Nostr wisdom.

I will also try training it using the chats with users. I.e. if it "likes" a user, it may choose to start learning from him/her. The user could say

Learn this: Cashu is a free and open-source Chaumian ecash system built for Bitcoin. Cashu offers near-perfect privacy for users of custodial Bitcoin applications. Nobody needs to know who you are, how much funds you have, and who you transact with.

Then the bot in its "spare time", while not answering other users' questions, can train on those wisdom shared by Nostriches!

This whole project is about finding the "truth" and training an AI using that truth. I think Nostr is a good place to start. This is a much needed approach because it will offer people an alternative. Instead of misaligned models that are provided by big corps plebs could do their own thing..

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Opinion about Trust: Crypto & Bitcoin Wallet (iphone)

2024-03-19 CVE-2024-23660

The Binance Trust Wallet app for iOS in commit 3cd6e8f647fbba8b5d8844fcd144365a086b629f, git tag 0.0.4 misuses the trezor-crypto library and consequently generates mnemonic words for which the device time is the only entropy source, leading to economic losses, as exploited in the wild in July 2023. An attacker can systematically generate mnemonics for each timestamp within an applicable timeframe, and link them to specific wallet addresses in order to steal funds from those wallets.

Sources: - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-23660 - https://secbit.io/blog/en/2024/01/19/trust-wallets-fomo3d-summer-vuln/

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Table Of Content

• Content

• Introduction

• Conclusion

• FAQ

• You May Also Like

• External Links

When it comes to conversations about technology, blockchain and other cryptocurrencies are nearly always brought up. You can't have missed the lightning-fast rate at which conversations around blockchain technology have been expanding tremendously in recent years, can you? It is no longer the case that the only people who use the terms cryptocurrency and blockchain technology are those who work in the IT industry. Anyone, in point of fact, is capable of learning about blockchain technology and the amazing value benefits it offers. Before continuing on your educational path, it is necessary to think of methods to describe blockchain technology to a youngster. Only then can you continue on to the next step.

Because of the meteoric rise in popularity of blockchain technology, it is very likely that your child will ask you about Bitcoin at some point.You need to be prepared to explain blockchain technology to your children at some point, and you should know the best way to do it. The following essay will assist you in conceiving some creative approaches to elucidating the notion of blockchain to younger audiences.

Why Should You Learn How to Explain Blockchain to a Child?

The first thing that is probably going through your head right now is the reason why a youngster would want an explanation of blockchain technology. This is probably the first thing that is going through your mind right now. The technical language and complicated concepts linked to the field of blockchain technology are not something that should be forced on a youngster. Despite this, you can't deny that blockchain will play a significant role in the development of future technologies. Consequently, if you were to educate youngsters about blockchain technology using kid-friendly language, you would be preparing them for the future.

Learning how to explain blockchain technology to children is important for several reasons, one of which is that not everyone is an expert in blockchain. Top executives are becoming more interested in how blockchain technology can be used because it is being used more and more in a wide range of situations and industries.

The true benefit of blockchain technology, on the other hand, can only be conveyed to CEOs and other business leaders via the use of straightforward language by blockchain specialists. In circumstances like these, the blockchain's significance and straightforward explanation are beyond anything you could ever conceive. For example, top executives, leaders, and people in charge of making decisions could quickly understand blockchain-based projects. This would remove the barriers that are currently in the way of projects getting approved.

The Definition of Blockchain Technology

When it comes to the several ways that blockchain technology may be explained to a youngster, the definition of blockchain should be the primary point of emphasis. Additionally, the responses to the question "How do you explain blockchain to a child?" would place an emphasis on keeping things as simple as possible. Blockchain is a distributed public ledger that helps keep track of all transactions on many different computers. This is the simplest way to explain what it is.

The absence of a single point of authority throughout the network is one of the most significant advantages offered by blockchain technology. How? Because the information on the blockchain is concurrently saved across several computers, it is more difficult to get into a single computer or steal data from that machine. However, the term may be a little puzzling to youngsters since they may ask why transactions are recorded across several computers. This is because children are not as technologically savvy as adults. Why is it good that blockchain technology doesn't have a central point?

The History of Blockchain Technology

Even the most straightforward explanation of blockchain may have certain nuances that are difficult to grasp for younger audiences. When attempting to explain the concept of blockchain to youngsters, you will undoubtedly come across a variety of replies to the question "What is blockchain in one sentence?" Explaining how blockchain first came into being is a crucial step at this point. Consider the case of Yap Island, which is located in the Caroline Islands group in the western Pacific Ocean. Yap Island is a rather tiny island.

Around 3000 years ago, probably around 1000 BCE, the people who lived on the island utilized a currency known as Rae Stones. These stones were about the size of a human fist. The Rae Stones stand at a height of over 12 feet and weigh close to 8000 pounds collectively. When trading them for products, such enormous quantities of cash would have been very difficult to move about and transport.

How could people maintain a functioning economy when there was no opportunity to deal in money face-to-face? Everyone in the tribe was responsible for remembering the trade, and any transactions had to be shared with the other members of the community. Demonstrating decentralization was the fact that every other member of the tribe kept a mental ledger of the transaction. You are welcome to use the straightforward example as your starting point for understanding blockchain in further depth. On the other hand, you would search for other means by which you might overcome the challenges that exist in the physical commerce industry today. What will the appearance of the system be like?

The Trouble with Centralization

Banks are required to tackle the difficulty of administering an economy that does not include any kind of physical transaction if the problem is to be solved. In the case of Yap Island, financial organizations such as banks and other centralized financial institutions would maintain records about the ownership of Rae Stones. The banker would keep track of all the transactions and provide verification of the legitimacy of certain transactions.

In addition to this, you need to make an effort to explain blockchain technology in terms of the fundamental needs of a centralized authority. The central authority or the banker must offer security for the ledger in order to prevent any adjustments that are not authorized. In addition, the banker has to be accessible at all times to guarantee that users may complete their transactions with one another. In addition to this, the banker has to have credibility and professionalism so that they can avoid making errors by accident.

On the other hand, a straightforward description of blockchain that children can understand argues that blockchain does away with centralized authority. In the case of blockchain technology, you do not need to be concerned about the veracity of the banker. When using blockchain, it is irrelevant if one of the users in the network is not trustworthy or whether a single user causes the network to be compromised. Even if a particular user is absent from the network at the time of a transaction, the transaction will still be recorded on the blockchain and it will be completed. How?

Are you interested in learning more about blockchain technology's decentralized vs. centralized ideas? Check out this comprehensive tutorial for a complete comparison of centralized and decentralized systems!

Working of Blockchain

The answer to the question "What is blockchain in one sentence?" may be summed up with another reference to the Yap Island example. There are many aspects of the way that blockchain technology operates that are comparable to those of the older transactions that took place on Yap Island. Every transaction on the blockchain must be broadcast to the whole network, much like when you announce a transaction to the tribe. The "nodes," or individual computers that make up the network, are the ones responsible for documenting the transaction particulars on their own individual distributed ledgers.

The ledger may be thought of as an account of all of the transactions that take place on the blockchain. The computers that were connected to the network would examine the ledgers in order to validate the legitimacy of the transactions. Consequently, in order for a transaction to be considered legitimate on a blockchain network, it must first be validated by the network's majority. On top of that, the inaccurate ledgers would be updated with the right data from the majority of the nodes, which would then be added to the ledgers.

Blockchain Transaction

Let's say that John wishes to give Jessie 1 Bitcoin from his crypto wallet, which now has 10 Bitcoin. When John initially sends the transaction to the network, this marks the beginning of the first stage in the process. The transaction is recorded by each and every server that is part of the network. Nevertheless, it is possible that certain nodes may register incorrect information.

In the subsequent stage, each node will examine its own data to determine whether its version of the transaction is consistent with that of the majority. If someone is in possession of an inaccurate copy of the transaction data, they will be able to get a correct copy of the data from the majority. In the end, all of the servers reach a consensus on the particulars of the transaction, which guarantees the insertion of the transaction into blocks.

Decentralization on Blockchain

A fascinating illustration of how decentralization functions may be seen in the very straightforward explanation of how blockchain networks store transactions. On the other hand, the example demonstrates the fundamental procedure for doing a transaction using a blockchain. To show a child how important decentralization is and to explain blockchain technology, you will need an example with which they can interact.

Imagine that a little boy named Michael, who is just seven years old, wants a video game for Christmas and sends a letter to Santa requesting that he bring him one. Michael, however, does not understand how to deliver the letter to Santa, so he begs his father to carry out this task on his behalf. After that, Michael's dad will read the letter before he sends it off to Santa Claus. The fact that Michael spends so much time playing video games is frowned upon by Michael's father.

As a result, he alters the contents of Michael's letter and adds the titles of a few books that should be in his classroom library. Michael is devastated to discover that Santa did not send him a video game as his Christmas present. He had been hoping for one. It is clear that Michael's father, who acted as a middleman in the deal, was to blame for preventing Michael from reaching the outcome he had hoped for.

Let us say that Michael utilizes a blockchain network that is located at the North Pole and includes players such as Santa Claus, his elves, children, and their parents from all around the globe. Michael is able to post his letter on the blockchain network, requesting a video game, and the request will be visible to everyone who is a part of the blockchain network. When Michael's father found out about the request and attempted to make changes to it, the rest of the network did not agree with his proposition. The transaction that Michael's letter for a video game ended up becoming is the one that was finally recorded on the blockchain. The distributed ledger technology (blockchain) guarantees that Michael will be able to finish his transaction in the manner he chooses. Imagine this similar concept used for various use cases, such as financial transactions.

Blockchain and Money

If your younger sibling approaches you with a question regarding blockchain, you will almost certainly find yourself in a position where you need to explain cryptocurrency. The question "How do you explain blockchain to a child?" would also reflect how blockchain technology and monetary systems are tied to one another. Children will eventually learn that blockchain is one of the key technologies behind cryptocurrencies, which are some of the most cutting-edge ways to invest.

In point of fact, it is essential to emphasize the example of Bitcoin as the initial use case of blockchain technology. This is because Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency. You may demonstrate how Bitcoin uses blockchain technology to create a decentralized, peer-to-peer network for exchanging electronic currencies. All of the nodes or miners on the Bitcoin blockchain network are responsible for documenting Bitcoin transactions, as was explicitly outlined in the explanation of the fundamental concepts of blockchain. However, blockchain technology is applicable to more than just digital currency.

Other Uses of Blockchain

When trying to explain blockchain technology to youngsters, the next significant aspect you need to focus on is providing a rundown of its many applications. It is essential that young people understand that blockchain technology functions as a distributed ledger that may assist with the recording of almost any kind of information. A blockchain network might record data like the weather, market prices, the specifics of voting, and information about healthcare in an exhaustive and detailed manner. Additionally, blockchain technology may assist in the documentation of supply chain information, which can lead to improved product tracking efficiencies. As you can see, blockchain technology offers a wide range of potential uses that go far beyond the realm of cryptocurrency.

The Significance of Blockchain

The last and most important part of an introduction to blockchain technology for children would concentrate on the technology's usefulness in various contexts. Children need to be educated about the benefits that may be realized from using blockchain technology in contexts that are more grounded in the real world. When laying out the fundamentals of blockchain for youngsters, the explanation has to center on how the technology guarantees that transactions are correct and completed on time. Along with keeping the quality of the products high, it is important to get rid of any bottlenecks in the supply chain.

The use of blockchain technology facilitates the documentation of data pertaining to the status of products across the various stages of the supply chain. Consider the many advantages that might accrue to you as a result of monitoring the degree of freshness of the vegetables sold in the store. The procedure is sped up when bottlenecks in the supply chain in terms of authorisation and essential inspections are removed. Because of this, you have a much better chance of getting important products and services without any restrictions.

Most importantly, blockchain technology also has the potential to play a significant role in the future by providing assistance for the authentication of information's authenticity. One of the most pressing issues of modern day is the authenticity of the information that is available. On the other hand, making accurate use of the blockchain technology may assist in determining whether or not certain information is accurate. In addition, in the not-too-distant future, you will learn about many more creative applications of blockchain technology around the globe.

Conclusion

Some of the most promising use cases of blockchain technology have been identified in well-known industries like financial services and supply chain management, which bodes well for the technology's future. Blockchain may now be explained to a kid using examples and tales that they can relate to and find engaging. When teaching kids about blockchain technology, there's no need to use hard-to-understand words or put them under too much stress with high expectations.

FAQ

What exactly is blockchain technology and how does it work? A blockchain is a distributed ledger that stores information in such a manner that it is difficult, if not impossible, to alter the data, hack the system, or deceive the system. A blockchain is simply a digital log of transactions that is copied and spread throughout the whole network of computer systems that make up the blockchain. This makes the blockchain very secure.

How would you describe blockchain to a child that is just 5 years old? In its most basic form, a blockchain is a network of computers known as nodes, all of which share the same record of past transactions. Now, rather than having one organization or database that stores all of the information, that responsibility has been transferred to the whole of the network.

What is blockchain explain with an example? The use of blockchain technology in businesses or applications like Airbnb and Uber makes it possible to create a decentralized peer-to-peer network. It gives customers the ability to pay for items such as parking fees, tolls, and other costs. The healthcare sector may utilize the blockchain technology as a safe platform for the purpose of keeping sensitive patient data, which is one of the many potential applications for the technology.

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Author's note: I wrote this piece in July 2021 called "An Investor's Case for Bitcoin" as a guest article for a newsletter whose audience was not knowledgable about bitcoin or crypto. The price of bitcoin was $34k USD at the time.

The newsletter no longer exists so i'm sharing it here in case it's still helpful to anyone.

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An Investor's Case For Bitcoin

by Mark Mulvey

“If you wouldn’t hold something for 10 years you shouldn’t hold it for 10 minutes.” —Warren Buffett

I own bitcoin because I’m a value investor.

Let me explain.

The whole idea of value investing is to buy high-quality assets with strong fundamentals and proven potential, with a clear path to growth and profits over a long time horizon. You buy before price appreciates and the wider public comes to appreciate the value it holds.

And so, armed with a stoic attitude that encourages buying “when there’s blood in the streets,” value investors accumulate more shares and patiently wait for market prices to return to “true” value rather than chase the hot new thing on the run-up.

That’s what I do with bitcoin. In fact, it has overtaken my traditional buy and hold portfolio and swing trading activity as I’ve shifted my concentration to take advantage of what is right now a particularly special inflection point in its lifecycle.

If you’re not familiar with how bitcoin works and why I’m so bullish on it this may all sound very confusing. “Bitcoin is volatile and risky. It has no yield. It has no intrinsic value. It’s a Ponzi scheme. What if governments ban it? What if something better comes along? Bitcoin is the furthest thing from value investing!”

In fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

To start, it’s important to understand that value is subjective. The idea of “intrinsic” value is purely theoretical and somewhat nonsensical, since it’s up to individuals to determine whether or not—and how much—something is of value to them personally. This very dynamic is what makes trade and exchange possible at all.

For traditional investors and ordinary citizens, the main use of bitcoin is as savings technology and protection against inflation. It's a way to store and transmit value across space and time in a way that preserves its purchasing power instead of being inflated away.

Bitcoin has a number of qualities that lend itself to being a scarce and desirable store of value:

• It’s decentralized, with a geographically distributed network of nodes and miners who check every transaction against the agreed upon rules and secure the network with encrypted energy respectively. Everyone is checking everyone else like a Mexican standoff in cyberspace. This means no trust is needed for the system to work and for individual transactions to be confirmed, which is part of why it's such a profound invention.

• It has a finite supply, with only 21 million bitcoin tokens that will ever be issued within the network, distributed with a fixed issuance schedule that gets cut in half every 4 years, making it ever more scarce. Even the supply of gold today increases by about 2% per year, but bitcoin’s total supply is absolutely fixed. And if miners want to work even harder to get even more of it, an automatic difficulty adjustment kicks in to keep things in check, ensuring that blocks of transactions are steadily added to the chain every ~10 minutes like clockwork

• It’s easily divisible into 100,000,000 units called satoshis, or “sats.” Part of gold’s shortcoming, aside from the hassle of having to melt it down in order to verify its authenticity, is that it can’t easily be divided up for use as a medium of exchange. This is why paper notes were originally issued, to be “backed” by gold should they ever want to be redeemed. Those were the days. The US dollar was taken off the gold standard back in the early 1970's and we've been dealing with the consequences of a free-floating fiat currency ever since.

• It’s secured by the processing of the most powerful computer network in the world, with individual miners distributed all over the globe expending energy and converting it directly into a store of value token as efficiently as possible. This is what "backs" bitcoin. It’s the physical energy expenditure of miners that enter each individual transaction into blocks on the network, with a chain of blocks growing ever larger and more immutable as independent nodes on the network check and validate all the work along the way. Bitcoin has passed the size at which someone (or some government) could coordinate an attack on it because the amount of processing power, money, and coordination needed is effectively out of reach now. Even then, it would simply allow an attacker to do a single double-spend transaction. Game theory suggests it's far easier and much more profitable to just buy some instead.

• It’s also clean: bitcoin miners are incentivized to find the cheapest energy possible, which is mostly non-rival or stranded energy sources too far from human population centers to be used otherwise. Miners are also the buyer of last resort for renewable power sources on-grid, helping to subsidize energy costs for large power plants looking to monetize these intermittent, non-reliable sources. There are even companies like Crusoe who are capping otherwise wasted flared gas and reducing carbon emissions in the process. Have a look at any gold mining operation to compare the difference. (Or the emissions and energy profile of the US military industrial complex, which currently backs the US dollar.)

These qualities have many people initially understanding bitcoin as “digital gold” or “Gold 2.0” and will give it a portfolio allocation accordingly. But bitcoin improves on gold by at least an order of magnitude, since it’s optimized for transferring value not just across time (preserving its value from the past into the future) but also across space. Gold is terrible at the latter.

Moving gold across town let alone across national borders is a time consuming and expensive hassle, but with bitcoin you can send billions worth of real-world value from one continent to another at the speed of light—with final settlement—for a tiny fraction of the cost. It’s a bearer instrument that requires no one’s permission, and you don’t even need a bank account to buy and hold some. Seeing as much of the world's population is entirely unbanked and unable to even participate in the global financial markets let alone open a PayPal account, the subjective value of this innovation to them should be immediately apparent. You can buy a piece of it like a plot of land in cyberspace, holding the private key in your mind and travel freely knowing your property can’t be confiscated in transit.

But the Bitcoin network itself is also being used today in some game-changing ways. Just look at Strike, the company founded by Jack Mallers that is solving the problem of global remittances. Many people in developing countries are forced to leave due to violence or lack of opportunity, earning money abroad and then sending it back home to family. This is a huge market, and currently companies like Western Union take a major cut (upwards of 20% on each end). Those back home still have to travel long distances and risk carrying cash on their way back from the nearest Western Union storefront in order to receive it. But Strike leverages the Bitcoin network as the rails of a free and open payment system. Using Strike, dollars in the US get converted to bitcoin and sent abroad to a recipient’s wallet in another country before being converted back into dollars (or the local currency), almost instantaneously and with near-zero fees. The price that bitcoin is trading at is irrelevant because the conversion happens in a split second. Both users don’t even know they’re using bitcoin, they just see US dollars get sent from one digital wallet to another.

All of this is made possible via the Lightning network, which is a layer 2 protocol that sits on top of bitcoin and allows it to function as a kind of bar tab, batching transactions between trusted parties before settling against the main bitcoin blockchain. Layer 2 solutions are what will help bitcoin scale and remain economical in the years ahead. Layered architecture is not only how networks like the internet function but it’s how monetary systems function too. (See Nik Bhatia’s excellent book Layered Money). Some compare Bitcoin to the "IP" part of TCP/IP, which was an internet protocol developed back in the 1960’s but is still the base layer of the same internet that lets you play Call of Duty with friends across the world and stream Netflix into your connected TV.

So what is Bitcoin worth? Well, after 2020 saw the unrestrained printing of trillions of dollars (and Euros) by central banks, a deflationary asset with a fixed supply and unchanging monetary policy became quite attractive to investors who started worrying that maybe the prices of their stocks weren't growing, but the purchasing power of the dollars used to price the stocks were shrinking. Governments have been debasing their currencies ever since, which is actually reflected in the credit default swap (CDS) market where traders began to view inflation and sovereign default as an increasing concern, and viewing things like bitcoin as insurance.

There are many ways you can try to calculate bitcoin’s expected value. Here are a few:

• Greg Foss, a former bond trader and 30-year veteran of debt markets, has a long-term valuation formula to understand the asymmetric return potential for a small allocation to bitcoin today: The total value of all global financial assets—including all debt, real estate, equities, art, and gold—is ~$900T USD ($400T if you don’t include debt, i.e. the bond market). If bitcoin becomes a global reserve asset, say because energy is priced in bitcoin instead of the US dollar, it’s not crazy to think that 5% of that global wealth would be stored in bitcoin. 5% of $900T is $45T. Divide that by 21 million and that puts you at ~$2M per bitcoin

• Some prefer the logic of Lyn Alden, an investment strategist and prominent writer on macroeconomics, who looks at the market cap of gold which is about $12T right now. Bitcoin’s price of ~$34k at the time of this writing puts its current market cap at about $600B, so a $12T market cap would mean bitcoin trading at ~$500,000 per coin.

• NYDIG calculates bitcoin's value by applying Metcalfe’s Law, which states that a network’s value is proportional to the square of the number of its users. Historically this has proven to be pretty accurate. Their November 2020 calculation using 15%-25% network growth per year suggested a price level range of $51,611 - $118,544 in 5 years.

• And Cathie Wood, CEO and founder of ARK invest, bases her $400,000 price target on the premise of every member of the S&P 500 allocating 5% of their balance sheet to bitcoin.

My sensible case for buying bitcoin simply argues that as the US dollar continues to be debased by the trillions, then protecting your purchasing power becomes increasingly crucial. Any other investment needs to clear a hurdle rate that is ticking further and further up, and your risk-free rate of return (formerly the 10-year US Treasury) is no longer a trustworthy yardstick against which to discount equity valuations. But with an asset like bitcoin that’s approaching the elbow of a parabolic curve upward (the hallmark of exponential growth driven by network effects), a little can go a long way. Given its profile, I think it’s more of a risk not to own at least some. The opportunity cost of missing such a trade is high compared to almost anything else you can invest in.

People will sometimes point to bitcoin’s dollar-denominated price volatility as evidence of it being risky or not useful, but any asset in the early stages of monetization necessarily involves volatility as people try to understand what it’s worth to them. All the best outperforming assets have been volatile in early growth stages. Amazon had multiple drawdowns of >50% on its path to becoming the most valuable company in the world, reaching as deep as 80-90% in the aftermath of the dot com bubble. Volatility is not the same thing as risk. I would rather have an upwardly trending volatile asset than a downwardly trending stable one. Position sizing is also important when it comes to risk management.

Bitcoin has actually been the best performing investment so far in terms of risk-adjusted returns. Since 2010, the Sharpe ratio of bitcoin (1.24) is a tick under the Sharpe ratio of a simple 60/40 portfolio of stocks/bonds (1.25), but bitcoin’s 255.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) since inception crushes the 10.3%. of the traditional 60/40. Given that much of bitcoin’s appreciation occurred when it was growing from zero, the more realistic CAGR percentage to use is closer to ~120% based on more recent timespans. Over long periods of time this will slowly go down, and I personally use 100% CAGR when running expected return models. And if I'm wrong by half it would still be my best performing investment.

Even if you bought some bitcoin at the worst possible time you would have done better than most of your other investments. Measured using 5 year holding periods, bitcoin's worst annualized return has been +28.8% so far.

My investment strategy for bitcoin is simple: 1.) I buy a little bit every day in order to dollar-cost average my overall allocation. 2.) I don’t use leverage. 3.) My time horizon is measured not in months or quarters but in years. That’s it.

At the end of the day I do believe that a diversified portfolio is important, but I also think it’s important to have at least one investment for which you have deep conviction and continue learning about and contributing to. That’s what investing is all about. We should all be investing in quality assets, people, and relationships. We don’t diversify our spouses, and we shouldn’t outsource all of our serious commitments to indexes.

For me, bitcoin is a worthy investment. If it’s not for you that’s okay too, but I still encourage you to find something that deserves your conviction. Conviction is what allows you to weather the volatility necessary for anything of significant future value to prove itself and grow. Without it, you’ll let it go at the first sign of trouble.

This isn’t me as a Bitcoiner talking, it’s me as a value investor.

“Diversity is for people who don’t know what they’re doing.” —Warren Buffett

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Navigating the Future Together

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L'evoluzione del sistema di controllo sociale cinese e le sue implicazioni per l'Occidente.

💰 Pubblicato da Bitcoin Report Italia, 18/03/2024 💰

Il sistema di Credito Sociale cinese non è più un semplice esperimento: è una realtà in continua evoluzione che si estende a macchia d'olio in ogni ambito della vita quotidiana. Una nuova legge, approvata di recente, mira a rafforzare e integrare il sistema in modo ancora più pervasivo, con possibili implicazioni profonde per il futuro non solo della Cina, ma anche dell'Occidente.

🕹 Punti chiave: La nuova legge sul Credito Sociale cinese delinea una visione ambiziosa: standardizzare i flussi informativi, creare meccanismi di incentivazione e punizione basati sul "credito" individuale, e aumentare l'integrità di tutta la società. Il sistema si basa su una vasta gamma di dati, che includono informazioni anagrafiche, situazione finanziaria, rispetto delle leggi e regolamenti, attività sociali, licenze e qualifiche professionali. Un "Unified Social Credit Code" fungerà da chiave di accesso al sistema, permettendo di monitorare e valutare il comportamento di ogni individuo in tempo reale. Il concetto di "onestà" è centrale nel sistema e si traduce in una responsabilizzazione a 360 gradi: economica, lavorativa, giuridica e persino sociale. La Cina considera il sistema di Credito Sociale come un modello di successo per la stabilità sociale e lo sviluppo economico, tanto da auspicarne l'adozione anche in altri paesi. Personaggi influenti come Klaus Schwab, fondatore del World Economic Forum, elogiano il modello cinese e spingono per una collaborazione globale che integri i sistemi di controllo sociale.

🕹 Esempi concreti: Il sistema di Credito Sociale è già utilizzato per limitare l'accesso a determinati servizi, come il trasporto pubblico, i voli aerei e l'assunzione di determinati lavori. Vengono applicati sistemi di "punti" che possono essere detratti in caso di comportamenti scorretti, come il mancato pagamento di un debito o la diffusione di fake news. Al contrario, i cittadini modello possono ottenere benefici, come sconti su alcuni prodotti o l'accesso a servizi esclusivi.

🕹 Preoccupazioni e implicazioni per l'Occidente: Il sistema di Credito Sociale cinese solleva preoccupazioni per la sua natura pervasiva e per il potenziale controllo sociale che ne deriva. La sorveglianza di massa e la censura online sono già realtà in Cina e il sistema di Credito Sociale rischia di rafforzare ulteriormente queste tendenze. L'adozione di un sistema simile in Occidente potrebbe avere un impatto significativo sulla libertà individuale e sui diritti civili.

🔊 Domande per la riflessione: ➡️In che modo il sistema di Credito Sociale cinese potrebbe influenzare l'Occidente? ➡️Quali sono i rischi e i benefici di un sistema di controllo sociale così pervasivo? ➡️Come possiamo bilanciare la sicurezza e la libertà individuale in un'era di tecnologie avanzate? ➡️È possibile trovare un equilibrio tra l'efficienza del modello cinese e la tutela dei diritti individuali?

🕹 Conclusione: Il sistema di Credito Sociale cinese rappresenta un modello di controllo sociale senza precedenti. La sua evoluzione e il suo potenziale impatto sull'Occidente sollevano questioni cruciali sul futuro della società e della governance. È fondamentale un dibattito aperto e consapevole su questi temi per poter costruire un futuro che sia sicuro, libero e prospero per tutti.

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This is part 4 of my series answering Bob Murphy's tough questions for libertarians. See the post describing the series here: https://stacker.news/items/458128/r/Undisciplined.

Question

For libertarians who subscribe to the evictionist view on abortion, do you think it would be legal in a libertarian society to throw child stowaways off of ships in the middle of the ocean or would some other legal principles enter in?

Context

Here's a clip of Bob explaining this question.

Evictionism is a middle ground position on abortion, developed by libertarian theorist and Austrian economist Walter Block. Basically, women have the right to remove a fetus from their body, but they don't have the right to go out of their way to kill it.

This fits within the standard libertarian view that you have the right to remove trespassers from your property, but only by the least violent possible means.

Walter's perspective is that this position will converge towards a pro-life position as technology develops that pushes down the age of viability.

As is common in libertarianism, no one has a legal obligation to provide life saving care to the removed fetus. However, it is presumed that there will be charities or adoptive parents to fill that role voluntarily.

The analogue to a kid found stowing away on a ship (perhaps accidentally) is pretty straight-forward. The kid doesn't own the ship, so the owner has the right to remove the kid from it. Removing a non-viable fetus and chucking the kid into the ocean are the outcomes being compared.

Answer

I have subscribed to this view on abortion in the past, so once again I am in Bob's target audience. It's important to keep in mind that this question is about legality, specifically. So, we need to address whether there would be legal consequences in a case like this. If there are, what are the grounds and who has standing to bring them?

The kid's parents are the immediately obvious answer as to who would have standing. On what grounds, though? Libertarianism is predicated on self-ownership and this would only work if parents have a property right in their kids. Well, that is what guardianship is, essentially, so what we're doing is thinking of kids as not fully persons. They begin as property of their parents and develop into persons over time.

The resolution seems to have presented itself, then. Since a fetus is the mother's property, no one has legal standing to take her to court over getting an abortion. However, the stowaway's parents would have legal standing to object to the destruction of their property.

Another analogy came to mind as I was thinking about this question. If some of my neighbor's stuff blows into my yard, do I have the legal right to destroy it? No. It didn't become mine when it flew over the fence. Am I obliged to return it? No, but I think there is an obligation to allow my neighbor to retrieve it if I don't feel like returning it.

So, my answer is that there are other legal principles that enter in to the analysis: specifically, a right to retrieve errant property (perhaps accompanied by compensation for any costs imposed by the trespass).

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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis "To The Uttermost"

Introduction

Sonnet 128 by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a poetic exploration of love and desire. The poem reflects on the complexities of human emotions and relationships, particularly the tension between the desire for intimacy and the need for personal freedom.

Thematic Analysis

First Quatrain (lines 1-4): The sonnet begins with a reflection on the human condition, where “earnest wants” or deep desires hold our souls against life’s hardships. The poet suggests that these desires drive our actions and give our hearts rhythm and beats.

Second Quatrain (lines 5-8): The second quatrain explores the difficulty of having many lovers and the necessity of hiding actions from each one. The poet concludes that despite the multitude of relationships, we end up alone, unable to taste the “quintessential brew” or the essence of life.

Third Quatrain (lines 9-12): The third quatrain references the “Courts of Love,” medieval institutions that dictated rules on love. The poet mentions Hestia, the Greek goddess of the hearth, and Aglaia, the Grace of brilliance, suggesting a breaking of traditional rules and a sense of freedom in love.

Couplet (lines 13-14): The final couplet concludes the sonnet with a tribute to the beloved’s wisdom, which nourishes the poet “to the uttermost,” or to the greatest extent.

Overall, this sonnet explores themes of desire, love, freedom, and wisdom. It uses classical references to add depth to its exploration of human emotions and relationships. The sonnet’s structure allows for a nuanced exploration of these themes, with each quatrain introducing a new aspect and the final couplet providing a powerful conclusion.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The sonnet “To The Uttermost” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares follows the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet, which is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Let’s break it down:

Quatrain 1:

Line 1 (A): Earnest wants hold our soul against life’s tears Line 2 (B): And joyously move through our time and wits Line 3 (A): Which lead a crowd of passions that appears Line 4 (B): To give the heart its rhythms and its beats.

Quatrain 2:

Line 5 (C): It is hard if having many lovers Line 6 (D): We have to hide from each one what we do Line 7 (C): Since at the end we are only loners Line 8 (D): That never taste quintiessential brew.

Quatrain 3:

Line 9 (E): The Curts 0f Love did make for double bonds Line 10 (F): Rules now broken by thee and Hestia. Line 11 (E): Sut I do not hide that rapport abounds Line 12 (F): And we feel free in front of Aglaia.

Couplet:

Line 13 (G): Luring me with ways of a divine host Line 14 (G): Thy wisdom feeds me to the uttermost.

This analysis shows that the sonnet follows the traditional Shakespearean sonnet rhyme scheme. This structure contributes to the rhythm and flow of the poem, enhancing its musicality and making it more pleasing to the ear. It also helps to emphasize certain words and ideas within the poem.

Analysis of Aspects

The sonnet “To The Uttermost” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a rich piece of poetry with various elements. Let’s analyze them:

Language and Imagery: The sonnet uses a rich and sophisticated language, with a mix of simple and complex words. The poet employs classical references, such as “Hestia” and “Aglaia,” to add depth and texture to the poem. The imagery in the poem is vivid and evocative, painting a clear picture of the emotional landscape the poet is navigating.

Themes: The primary themes of the sonnet are desire, love, freedom, and wisdom. The poet explores the human condition, the complexities of relationships, and the pursuit of wisdom. The use of classical references adds a layer of universality to these themes, suggesting that they are timeless and transcend cultural boundaries.

Meter: The sonnet appears to follow the iambic pentameter, which is the most common meter in English poetry and is often used in sonnets. In iambic pentameter, each line consists of five iambs, which are metrical feet with two syllables, the first unstressed and the second stressed (da-DUM).

Overall: The sonnet is a complex and thought-provoking exploration of human emotions and relationships. The poet skillfully uses language, imagery, and classical references to delve into universal themes. The structure of the sonnet, with its quatrains and final couplet, allows for a nuanced exploration of these themes, with each section introducing a new aspect and the final couplet providing a powerful conclusion. The use of iambic pentameter adds a rhythmic quality to the poem, enhancing its musicality and flow. The sonnet is a testament to the poet’s skill and a profound reflection on the human experience.

(GPT4)

Syllable count for each line.

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To The Uttermost

10 Earnest wants hold our soul against life's tears 10 And joyously move through our time and wits 10 Which lead a crowd of passions that appears 9 To give the heart its rhythms and its beats.

10 It is hard if having many lovers 10 We have to hide from each one what we do 10 Since at the end we are only loners 10 That never taste quintiessential brew.

10 The Curts 0f Love did make for double bonds
10 Rules now broken by thee and Hestia.
10 But I do not hide that rapport abounds 10 And we feel free in front of Aglaia.

10 Luring me with ways of a divine host 10 Thy wisdom feeds me to the uttermost. ***

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

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com To The Uttermost

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​Studies from UCLA and other institutions have found that putting your feelings into words makes them easier to cope with. For example:

• Rating your anger on a scale of 1-5 reduces your heart rate, a measure of distress.

• Describing your emotions when dealing with a phobia increases your courage in facing it.

• Adding a label to an emotion (like "that's sadness" or "this is fear") decreases the activity in your amygdala, which is where your fight-or-flight response comes from.

As one of my favorite Mister Rogers quotes put it:

"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”

Find someone who makes you feel like your feelings are mentionable.

Say, "I'm feeling all tangled up in my emotions. Do you have a few minutes to listen to me?"

Then, share. As you do, notice how they untangle themselves and become more manageable.

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Time to brush off the spurs and saddle up for a ride into the exciting ad-ventures ahead! What innovative goods or services are y'all bringin' on the wagon this week? Give us a sneak peek and let that entrepreneurial spirit get out.

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Take some pics and start posting your items now!

[⚖️ SELL] - [🛒 BUY] - [🧑‍💻 HIRE] - [🖇 OFFER] - [🧑‍⚖️ AUCTION] - [🤝 SWAP] - [🆓 FREE] - [⭐ REVIEW]

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ODC #000008 - UX > IDEATE

Designing User Flows for a Bitcoin gift cards app

If you miss it, please read our WTF is ODC (Open Design Challenge) intro post from more details.

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Scenario

You're a UX designer at a startup that is making a new bitcoin gift cards app (Bitrefill and BitcoinCompany are the competitor). It's the beginning stages of designing the app. You need to plan out the flow for how a user submits a delivery order, which you will then present to your team.

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Task

Create a user flow for the entire process of buying a gift card with bitcoin: selecting your country, adding gift cards to the cart, checking out, and choosing the preferred payment method between bitcoin onchain, lightning network or anonymous ecash like cashu.

Extra Credit: Make a second user flow for the process of re-ordering an order the user has submitted in the past or refilling your phone credit.

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Guides

If you need help with this challenge, check out our hand-picked tutorial recommendations.

• The How (and Why) of User Flows on uxtools.co

• Complete Guide to User Flows on justinmind.com

• Flow Design Processes on interaction-design.org

• User Flow Tutorial on piped.video

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Tools

Not sure which tools to use? Try something new!

For FOSS lovers

Drawio (online) by Jgraph

Flowchart.fun (programmable online) by Tone-row

For professionals gurus

Lucidchart (freemium) by Lucid

Userflow (freemium) by Flowmapp

Flowcharts (freemium) by Whimsical

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Share Your Results

When you finish the challenge, post your work including anonymized collected data and results on this thread! If you also share it on nostr, be sure to use the hashtag #opendesigner and tag Design_r@iris.to or @Design__r on X! We'll keep an eye out and repost good examples on a regular basis.

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Check our previous ODC and support this community for creative minds, where you'll be able to get open and constructive feedback on your PoW. Ask anything in the ~Design territory and get some ⚡sats for the value you provide!

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Bitcoin #Design #BitcoinDesign #NostrDesign #Nostr #OpenDesign #DesignChallenge #OpenDesignChallenge #BitcoinGiftCards #BitcoinPayment #LightningNetwork #Anonymous #Ecash #Cashu #GiftCards #PhoneCredit

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March 13th 2024 marked exactly 1 year of me using #nostr - notes and other stuff transmitted by relays. I wrote a down a couple of thoughts and observations regarding the anniversary that and the following days and decided I'd make it into a more cohesive and easier-to-read long-form post.

And it is a fiery love! Since we have no algorithms doing a “year in review” or whatever, I’ll try to make one myself :) I didn’t really use social media much at all until May 2022, when I started using Twitter and Instagram (mostly with the idea of promoting my music and photos, but I quickly also started posting stuff regarding my ideas surrounding Bitcoin, philosophy, nature, yoga, etc. My first post/note here was, ironically, or perhaps fittingly, a repost from Twitter/X: https://primal.net/e/note1kh2zgxwmcgkt2wmlh26rlfxwdd309ajlwq039pqukld6ld92d20qtzxexg

The pros

Since joining nostr in March 2023; my main takeaways regarding the UX for the time being are:

1. Almost no spam and no ads thus far, which is awesome
2. No “being at the mercy of the algorithms,” which is awesome (although Instagram’s algo tends to do a pretty good job at showing me stuff I’m actually interested in)
3. Much higher signal/noise ratio than any other platform
4. Much less inflammatory and clickbaity stuff than any other platform
5. The ability to move your whole network around from app to app is an absolute gamechanger
6. I have already been able to use my npub to participate in rap cyphers (#nostrcypher represent) via Stemstr, to upload my music and podcast episodes via Wavlake, to listen to streams via zap.stream, to publish my articles via YakiHonne, etc. It is inspiring (and dizzying) to see all the new ideas and implementations being thrown around and played with
7. Zaps are the new, improved version of likes
8. Interactions between users seem to be much more organic, fluid and dynamic

I’m including a screenshot with some rudimentary stats. I try not to be phased by my followers/likes/whatever count, because that is ultimately not the purpose of creation. However, the differences between nostr and legacy social media are huge. In my case, I have been getting 14 new followers per month on Instagram, 34 on X and 54 (nearly 55) on nostr! https://image.nostr.build/7a4e5399400dac764abc2be543bc58371105e3a12ee727c164b7a9c2bd61aaf5.jpg What makes this even more amazing is the fact that: 1. Both IG and X have a much larger user base 2.1. I follow a whole lot more accounts on X 2.2. And on IG a large % of my followers are my meatspace acquaintances, friends and relatives 3. Presumably on both IG and X I have many more bot followers than on nostr (I’m not entirely sure if bot followers are even a thing yet on nostr?)

Funnily enough, on YouTube, Spotify and Soundcloud I have less than 200 followers on each, even though Kontext as the pseudonym was created and existed, for the first 7 years (2015 to 2022), exclusively as the anonymous rapper moniker of mine (hence MC Kontext).

I have stated that I am a zap maximalist and a like minimalist, and as such I’m proud to say that for each like, I have sent out almost 6 zaps. The data below is from nostr.band and is different from other sources (e.g. Primal- also happy birthday to them - my current favorite desktop app) says I have received 190 zaps for a total of 25.1k sats and a max zap of 2100 sats from PaulTaylor) https://image.nostr.build/7b22af1774373cee544df5d8742b0fbad70eac1ef0f098b384347c80d9a14ea9.jpg Some of the most legendary people who I have received zaps from include @Jeff Booth, @Gigi ⚡🧡, @TheGuySwann, @PABLOF7z, @GRANTGILLIAM, @ODELL (but no @MartyBent). A total of 152 accounts have zapped me according to nostr.band. In return, I have zapped a total of 256 accounts (if anybody knows another good nostr+zaps stats site for all-time stats and aggregates, please refer it to me).

Now, obviously, I have managed to “make a loss” by using #nostr - I have zapped away 24k sats more than I have received! However, I regret no sats zapped as they all have been for a good reason, #value4value is real and I believe and live by it. Also, perhaps the fact that I have been rather generous with the zapping has helped my nostr account grow at almost twice the pace of my X account and 4 times the pace of my IG account?

Speaking of growing and zapping, I have also started experimenting with the ideas of #zapvertising and throwing different contests and games on nostr via my business account Satoshee. https://image.nostr.build/b729072cb8097410b8085e4e07b5359cdcc0db0ad11f00173a2e44e5aa99eab4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cf8292d89ae1a361e0ada9296d849f041b46f394afb6cb1809aeb615b3019e3f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e4ae321e4acc84304fd973ed0a077fa1b48b8f2467125ccfeae819fa49115c73.jpg I will post a larger, more comprehensive post and stats about that whole venture at some point, but on a very rudimentary look, so far, we have spent approx 450k sats on 276 followers + approx 11 (or 4%) of them also converted into email list subscribers. Which comes down to approx 1.6k sats / follower or 41k sats per email. Now keep in mind - all that is just by posting zapvertising + a couple of memes, we have not published any other information about the enterprise. That being said, I do believe we have gotten some lovely exposure through these efforts (one of Satoshee posts was #3 on Primal 24h Trending at one point): https://image.nostr.build/7f5ab4e203a1cb2ccb8fcbc1fecdc0efc68aa961e5d0b10ea72db45d14e86d3e.jpg Here's a link to the note that made it to Trending. Hopefully once we fully launch the website and products, our gang of #nostriches will be there to test drive the site + become the first customers and/or recommend it to their friends. My thesis is that if we start off by literally paying our prospective customers, then they are more likely to trust and engage with our products as soon as we come to the market. All that will be either proven or disproven by time, of course.

OH, the cons?

I guess more ways to see and filter stats and data in general would be nice to see in the #nostr ecosystem. Why not also have some platforms that utilize algos, and/or where we can choose to opt in and out of them. The DM side of nostr apps seems also lacking for now. Perhaps these could be the downsides I see for now; or areas in which we could move in.

Of course, the onboarding process is probably also a little bit complicated for the nocoiner newbie, who may not even be familiar with the concept of public/private key pairs, but truthfully I haven't tried going through that process myself in a while so can't really comment on the progress. I assume it's being made (and from what I hear and see here and there, that seems to be the case).

Conclusion

To wrap it all up: super excited to see freedom tech (both #Bitcoin and #nostr) just being so unbelievably more effective and inspiring than the old fiat systems and I can only imagine how much abundance and prosperity on all levels of the human experience; physical, intellectual and spiritual can and will be built upon all this.

Onward. Kontext

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Amended, fixed and posted to YakiHonne Block Height 835,196

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Prompt: Calendar ===============

Design a Calendar focused element. Is it for scheduling an appointment? A reservation, flight, hotel, or a health check? Is it a calendar reminder feature? DCA? Is it used in email or for something else entirely?

It could even be a calendar booking page for design services. Or an interactive online holiday calendar. Be creative!

Flex your design muscles and join in. Most of all, keep this exercise loose and keep it stress-free. The FUC is about growing our design skills, together, as a community. We can't wait to see what you create!

Happy designing, Stackers!

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Share Your Results When you finish the challenge, post your work on this thread! If you also share it on nostr, be sure to use the hashtag #FUCdesiger and tag Design_r@iris.to or @Design__r on X! We'll keep an eye out and repost good examples on a regular basis.

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Before I dive into kindness and Unicorns let's first discuss the main difference between the two.

Kindness

is the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. It involves actions that are intended to help or comfort others, often without expecting anything in return. Kindness can be shown through words, actions, or gestures, and it helps to create positive social connections and foster a sense of community.

What is a Unicorn?

Unicorns are mythical creatures often depicted as horse-like with a single horn on their forehead, and are often associated with magic and grace.

If you are being friendly and are generous, this already would be considered to be graceful in itself. So what if we combined this with consideration(something you don't see, but more often DO as this is more of a thought process) then we can say this is Magic. Because now you are the creator of magic just by being considerate of others and sometimes even overlooked and unappreciated especially when you're younger. But as you grow older, I believe this to be more sought out and is often a currency in on it's own.

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What is an Affiliate System?

Affiliate System is an innovative affiliate store builder designed to empower entrepreneurs, marketers, and businesses to launch their affiliate stores with ease. Our platform simplifies the process of creating a comprehensive online store by eliminating the need for coding expertise or the installation of complex content management systems like WordPress or Joomla. The platform supports a wide range of popular e-commerce sites, including Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Ali Express.

Why Choose affiliate-market.info for Your Affiliate Store

Building an affiliate store can be a daunting task, especially if you’re not tech-savvy or familiar with content management systems like WordPress or Joomla. That’s where affiliate-market.info comes in – a platform designed to simplify the process and help you launch your store in minutes.

Here’s why affiliate-market.info stands out: ✅ Ease of Use: With affiliate-market.info, you don’t need any coding skills or technical knowledge. The platform is user-friendly, allowing you to set up your store by simply importing an Excel file of products from major affiliate stores like Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Ali Express.

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In the digital age, affiliate marketing has become a lucrative avenue for earning income online. affiliate-market.info streamlines this process, allowing you to create a fully functional affiliate store in just minutes.

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Step 2: Download the Product Excel File With your plan in place, it’s time to populate your store with products. affiliate-market.info provides an effortless solution: download the Excel file containing a comprehensive list of products from renowned affiliate stores like Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Ali Express. This file is your key to a diverse and appealing product range that will attract customers and drive sales.

Step 3: Import Products into Your Store The final step is to import the downloaded Excel file into your affiliate store. This seamless integration allows you to quickly set up your store without any coding knowledge or reliance on other CMS platforms like WordPress or Joomla. In mere minutes, your store will be equipped with a personal domain and a dedicated server, showcasing a wide array of products ready to generate income.

With affiliate-market.info, the path to establishing a successful affiliate store is clear and straightforward. Choose your plan, download the product list, and import it into your store. Your personalized affiliate store is now set up and ready to welcome customers. Dive into the world of affiliate marketing and start earning today!

The Benefits of Using affiliate-market.info

In the dynamic world of e-commerce, affiliate-market.info stands out as a revolutionary affiliate store builder that empowers entrepreneurs and marketers alike. This platform simplifies the creation of an affiliate store, making it accessible to everyone, regardless of their technical expertise.

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Affiliate-market.info is a powerful platform that allows you to create your affiliate store in just a few minutes.

Here’s how you can earn money with it: Step 1: Create Your Store With affiliate-market.info, you can create an affiliate store for major retailers like Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and Ali Express without any coding or the need for other CMS such as WordPress and Joomla. All you need is to sign up and set up your store with a personal domain and a dedicated server.

Step 2: Import Products Once your store is set up, download the Excel file of the products from your chosen affiliate stores and import it into your store. This will populate your store with products ready to be sold.

Step 3: Market Your Store Now that your store is ready and stocked with products, it’s time to attract customers. Use digital marketing strategies such as SEO, content marketing, social media marketing, and email marketing to drive traffic to your store.

Step 4: Earn Commissions Every time a customer purchases from your store, you earn a commission. The more traffic you drive to your store, the more potential for sales and thus, more earnings for you.

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Opinion about ZEUS Wallet (android)

Zeus is an empowering wallet. It connects smoothly with Umbrel nodes via Tailscale and makes it easy to become your own Lightning Service Provider on the go.

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

Join the conversation!

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The #nostr, when experienced through polished apps like Damus, Primal, or Amethyst can appear like Twitter + Zaps. Of course the ability to zap (pay) anyone on the nostr protocol with bitcoin is a game-changing addition to the social media experience. Make sure you set up the wallet in your favorite client to receive zaps!

Lurking beneath the familiar social experience on the nostr, lies the true power of a permissionless, open source protocol: microservices. This allows developers to extend the protocol perform useful activities on behalf of a user. In this brief post, we will cover the Nostr Wallet Connect microservice. This service allows a user to: 1. Connect a bitcoin lightning wallet to their nostr identity. 2. Set limits on the payments that this wallet make on behalf of the user. 3. Make payments, to individuals, websites, businesses, and other microservices on behalf of the user.

GetAlby, a custodial bitcoin lighting wallet provider, has been a major driving force behind the nostr wallet connect microservice. You can learn more in their blog post introducing nostr wallet connect. Make sure to follow their nostr account.

If you prefer a non-custodial bitcoin lighting wallet for reduced counter party risk, check out Mutiny Wallet and follow their nostr account on the nostr. The Mutiny team has added (and continues to develop) mutiny wallet as a social payments apps using this nostr microservice. Learn more in this blog post. The Mutiny team, like most developers in the nostr development space, never rests, and they have developed Nostr Wallet Auth specification on top of Nostr Wallet Connect. Read more in this blog post.

Finally, check out Orange Crush Relay if you are in the market for a paid nostr relay. Joining fee is 8000 sats for a lifetime membership. Relay is currently at 2.9% capacity. Joining fees are deposited into a bitcoin wallet to pay for future years of hosting fees. As bitcoin appreciates in value, we will buy more runway to continue providing relay services. First 5 years are subsidized by our founder, so that we can maximize our bitcoin treasury appreciation during this current period of #hyperbitcoinization to maintain future service.

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Table Of Content

• Content

• Introduction

• Conclusion

• FAQ

• You May Also Like

• External Links

Although some Bitcoin devotees may disagree, the vast majority of industry professionals are in agreement that the recent spike in the price of Bitcoin is a bubble. For them, the issue is not if the price will collapse but when it will crash. What would the consequences of such a collision be? There is a related issue that has to be answered.

Will a Bitcoin Price Crash Affect the Entire Economy?

Digital currencies received a passing mention in the report that was recently published by the Financial Stability Oversight Commission (FSOC), which detailed threats to the nation's financial stability. According to the organization, virtual currencies' effect on the financial system's stability is "extremely limited." This is probably due to the fact that the environment around bitcoin right now is not that large.

Subprime mortgages were the last significant financial instrument that contributed to the instability of the US economy. This crisis was brought on by the simultaneous occurrence of a tangled web of contributing elements. Participants actively involved in the process included actors from the conventional economy. To provide just one example, subprime creditors all throughout the United States obtained bad loans. These loans were then repackaged into derivative products and sold to investors, who then propagated these sales across many areas of the economy. Big multinational banks repackaged these loans as derivative securities. Thanks to collateralized loan obligations, the use of debt has spread much farther around the world.

During the worst of the financial crisis, Citigroup Inc. (C) was believed to have originated subprime mortgages in the amount of $19.7 billion. Bear Stearns, an investment bank that failed because of the financial crisis, had a "vast portfolio" of derivative financial instruments that were linked to subprime mortgages.

On the other hand, Bitcoin has not yet emerged victorious from its renegade position inside the financial services ecosystem. The rise in its pricing has taken place inside the constraints of unregulated exchanges, which have not yet been put through the vetting process by regulatory organizations. According to the most current data, the most significant participants in these exchanges are individual investors as well as bots. (For an explanation of why cryptocurrencies have buy and sell walls, see this related article.)

Large financial institutions like banks and investment businesses have, for the most part, refrained from participating in the bitcoin mania, and as a result, their exposure to cryptocurrency markets, if any at all, is minimal. Even though it's true that the value of bitcoin-related stocks has gone up, there are still not that many of them.

Even though the price of bitcoin has increased by more than 1,800 percent over the course of this year, the reaction to trading in CBOE futures has been rather muted, which may be seen as a sign of the industry's overall level of caution. Recent reports say that Goldman Sachs requires a 100% margin for all bitcoin transactions. This is true even if the company is acting as a clearing agent for CBOE bitcoin futures.

The bursting of the bitcoin bubble might end up being analogous to the "tulip frenzy" that took place in Amsterdam in the early 17th century. This phenomenon happened at about the same time as the subprime mortgage crisis. Because "cobblers, carpenters, bricklayers, and woodcutters" were involved in that bubble, the price of tulip bulbs from Turkey went through the roof at that time.

However, the decline in tulip prices had very little impact on the Dutch economy as a whole since serious financiers avoided the market. According to Nicolaas Posthumus, a Dutch historian, the only people who engaged in driving up the price of tulips out of avarice and a desire to make a profit were casual dealers. At the end of the day, these individuals were the ones that were impacted when prices dropped. Similarly, a fall in the price of bitcoin will cause a sell-off and will only impact a select group of individuals.

What Will Happen to the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem?

According to a recent report published online by Axios, the potential monetary effect of a bitcoin meltdown is somewhere in the neighborhood of $250 billion. However, this assessment reflects an inaccurate understanding of the usefulness of cryptocurrencies and their markets. The blockchain technology, which forms the basis of bitcoin, has already attracted a significant amount of investment. In addition to this, the swings in the price of bitcoin show that it is becoming a store of value. Cryptocurrencies are also valuable as a medium of exchange for value within closed ecosystems.

Having said that, it will be some time before their usefulness is seen in applications that are considered more standard. The price increase seen across the board for cryptocurrencies is mostly the consequence of a domino effect triggered by the rise in the value of bitcoin. A drop in the price of bitcoin may result in a correction in the prices of other cryptocurrencies. It is also unavoidable that the overwhelming majority of the cryptocurrencies that are now included in the listings will be removed. The only digital currencies that will survive a crisis are those that have clearly defined business strategies and an obvious value in mainstream culture.

Conclusion

Crashes are temporary phenomena, so keep that in mind. Though unpleasant in the short term, they promise to be rather exciting in the long run. Let's say the economy as a whole improves, but equities remain in a prolonged bear market. If and when the value of cryptocurrency drops to a new low, this might provide a great opportunity for investors. This means that cryptocurrencies may be tied to the markets in the short term, but they have a good chance of doing better in the long run.

FAQ

Does the price of Bitcoin ever drop? A number of industry professionals have expressed concern that the price of bitcoin would drop much further, even reaching $12,000. A number of important macroeconomic events, such as the rise in the federal reserve rate and the release of inflation data, have had a big impact on how the price of bitcoin is predicted.

What will happen if the value of Bitcoin drops to zero? If Bitcoin were to fail in this manner, it would very certainly bring down the value of a great number of other cryptocurrencies as well. For instance, if investors notice that the most valuable coin in the cryptocurrency market has lost all value, many of them will probably cash out as quickly as possible to prevent more losses. This is because investors want to protect themselves from further losses.

Will the value of cryptocurrencies increase if the stock market tumbles? Will there be a rise in the price of bitcoin if the stock market crashes? Certainly not in every case. However, compared to equities at the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, bitcoin did not do any better than stocks. Those who advocate for bitcoin consider it a diversifier in well-balanced portfolios. Investors panicked and liquidated everything, which led to this situation.

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Ate some brownies today. Feelin' good.

Watched some Painting With John (https://www.hbo.com/painting-with-john). Makes you laugh.

Organized a room that has become a storage shed. Cool getting to see the old stuff you've been bringing with you into the future. The memories they stir up are healing and sometimes they open up old wounds. But there is a reason you hold on to them. Humans be cray.

Found a panda.

Just kidding, it's a container.

I really do love food. Made ribs in the Crock Pot Instant Pot.

Finished up on broil in the oven.

My oven is dirty. Gross.

Found something to put in the panda.

There's a time and a place for cannabis. The time is now and the place is here.

One love.

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Hey Stackers,

I am organising the European Halving Party in Warsaw (April 19-21, come!).

We are planning a lightshow at the facade of Palace of Culture, it would be dope if we hit the halving with that celebrations!

Halving moment needs... a soundtrack. Some song that builds tension, could be looped and DJ would deliver a drop... when 840000 is mined.

What track would you play? Something for people to remember that moment. Possibly catchy. Best if builds tension and releases in happy way on some drop moment, that we could synchronise with animations and mempool!

Or - are you a DJ? That's even better! DM me plzz 🎶🎶🎶

Shill any suggestions, I'm zapping any valid answer!

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"If you live in Canada, you should be aware that there is a serious proposal to establish a universal basic income. Drop the cynicism for a minute and just imagine if we let ourselves have nice things."

— CautionWIP

Some think that if the government gives money to the people, then things will get better. They are well-meaning but they are wrong. For things to get better, we first need to determine what got things wrong. And the answer is too much government spending. So more government spending won't help. It will actually make things worse.

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You're being robbed every day

Why are people hurting?

The chart below shows the official purchasing power of the US dollar referenced to January 1st, 2000.

A dollar earned at the beginning of the year 2000 is now only able to buy you 54.5 cents worth of goods. Any savings you built between the year 2000 and now, have been rendered useless by the relentless devaluation of the US dollar.

Has your salary increased by 84% since the year 2000? If it hasn't, then your ability to buy goods has actually gone done. Your financial status has gotten worst.

All your hustle, all those long days and hard work you put in to get that promotion, to get that coveted salary increase. All that work, was erased by the government, taken away from you though the silent yet relentless debasement of the US dollar.

The US government made sure that you worked hard for nothing. And if your salary increase was below 84%, then the government made you work for an effective salary reduction.

I arrived to the US in July of 2007 with a startup. I worked really, really hard, traveled 100 days a year, hustled and bustled until our startup got acquired by a big company. And then I kept working equally hard in this bigger company. All to bring stability to my family. A home. Financial security. The possibility of paying for college education for my kids.

Yet again, when I compare my salary when I first arrived here and I look at my salary now. I need to factor in the fact that $1.00 from July 1st, 2007 is now worth 67.1 cents. That means that my salary had to go up by 49% just to keep up with the debasement. All my hard work, taken away by greedy politicians who only know how to spend other people's money.

The constant debasement of the US dollar is the reason why people are hurting. You need to increase your salary by anywhere between 50% and 85% JUST to maintain your economic status in this country.

This is the reason why people can't afford a house, rent, food. This is the reason why we have so many homeless in the country. The reason why there is no middle class any more.

Why is the government debasing the US dollar

So why is the government doing this? Why are they debasing the purchasing power of the US dollar?

They do it because they like to spend more than what they collect in taxes. This gap translates into a deficit and the deficit translates into money printing. Every time that the government adds more money to the economy, it is diluting the purchasing power of the money that is already in the economy. They know it. And they track it. That's why there is an official chart like the one I showed you above.

Politicians promise you to manipulate the market to lower your costs and then they turn around and spend more to get your vote, knowing that this is what will actually impoverish you.

They also say that a 2% inflation rate is good or to put it bluntly: "Robbing you little by little is good".

That is the real gaslighting happening in this country today.

Spending less and letting the markets work is the solution

Spending more to pay a basic income to all citizens is not going to help. It's going to have the opposite effect by adding more debt and triggering the printing of more money.

What we need is to stop debasing money. We need for the government to spend less so that it can actually pull dollars out of the economy and increase our purchasing power. We need at the very least for the government to stop debasing the money any further.

Because once people feel comfortable saving, they will start investing, growing the economy, improving their financial prospects and once again, making the American dream a reality. We all want to improve our prospects. We just need a level playing field. A field where you don't get automatically and systematically rugged by your own government, doing things for your own good.

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First thing first... as per my nym, I'm a designer, and am here like you to take the opportunity to improve my writing skills.

This isn't either another explanatory article on what's the syntax and how to use it. For that you can click on the [M↓] icon in the top-right of the editor when writing. Not everyone know what markdown is, but we all know the basics of formatting text with bold, italics and other artifacts to improve the readability of the knowledge we aim to share.

I felt there's a general lack on this regard here on SN. Just wanted to provide some guidance on how to improve quality of your writing skills, with time, patience and maybe using some tools that allow you to save the copy, rest and return reading it with a fresh mind before publishing it.

From my experience, it has been really useful to prepare the posts offline, read them edit when needed and when possible have someone else to share it with before posting it here.

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To do that tried multiple tools, obviously open source and below you can find some of the best I was able to select:

Zettlr ALL OSs Your one-stop publication workbench. From idea to publication in one app: it accompanies you while writing your blog post, newspaper article, term paper, thesis, or entire book!

Ghostwriter ALL OSs Enjoy a distraction-free writing experience, including a full screen mode and a clean interface. With Markdown, you can write now, and format later.

Marktext ALL OSs A simple and elegant markdown editor that focus on speed and usability. It also has Formula and Diagrams support, unfortunately not yet supported here on SN.

Rentry ONLINE Fast, simple and free. A markdown paste service with preview, custom urls and editing. Nice but it has some limits like 200k characters for text field, 2-100 characters for custom url field (must contain only latin letters, numbers, underscores or hyphens) and 1-100 characters for custom edit code field (anything is allowed here).

Stackedit ONLINE The in-browser Markdown editor, offers an unrivalled writing experience enhanced by WYSIWYG controls, Smart layout, Live preview with Scroll Sync and ideal collaboration functionality that allows you to insert inline comments and embed collaborator discussions in your files, just as well as famous ones does.

MacDown MAC only When current available Markdown editors are almost all for general writers, MacDown is different: It's for creative developers. Syntax highlighting, live preview, sync scroll, fullscreen mode, auto save, powerful actions, auto pair, custom themes and CSS, HTML and PDF export, enhanced CJK support. I know, it's exactly the app you want.

Retext LINUX only A simple but powerful editor for Markdown and reStructuredText markup languages. One can also add support for custom markups using Python modules. Just like that!

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It is really easy to get caught by our emotions and start ranting down anything that pass through our mind... it's also a really hard process! We think at a speed that our body can not replicate and most of our thoughts get lost during the writing process, fixing typos and rephrasing, we lose sometime the thread of what we wanted to communicate.

All of us think and speak faster than we can write, and when we are thinking and writing, guess what we’re concentrating on? One strategy is to learn a little shorthand or condensed writing that you'll expand on when reading back to edit and improve it. Another to improve your WPM (word per minute) skills with tools like typingbolt and keybr or testing your current speed and might also get a certificate!

Other tools that you could use if you are a good speaker is to try a speech-to-text software. I'll leave that for another post! Hope you find this useful, and please, feel free to share tour tips and tricks below so we can all learn from each other experience.

Uh, and don't forget the keyboard shortcuts like ctr+b for bold text, ctr+i for italic and ctr+k for inserting a link.

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L'evoluzione del sistema di controllo sociale cinese e le sue implicazioni per l'Occidente.

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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis "Nightly Vision"

Introduction

The sonnet “Nightly Vision” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a beautiful piece of poetry. This sonnet explores themes of love, passion, memory, forgiveness, transformation, and hope.

Thematic Analysis

Octave (first eight lines): The octave introduces the theme of love and music. The speaker hears music that reminds him of a loved one and their shared past. The music evokes memories of their love, which the speaker suggests was passionate and intense. The speaker also mentions an “old crowd” that believes loving too much and giving in to passion is not a fault. This could suggest that the speaker is reflecting on societal views of love and passion. The octave ends with the speaker becoming light and praying, possibly for forgiveness or redemption, while his friends keep his air clean, perhaps symbolizing support and purification.

Sestet (last six lines): The sestet shifts the focus from the past to the present. The speaker captures the distances of the evening, creating room for his desires, symbolized by stars. He barely remembers his old gloom, suggesting a transformation or healing process. A nightly vision appears with petals raining from a blooming sky, symbolizing hope, renewal, and beauty. This could indicate that despite past sins or mistakes in love, there is always room for growth, healing, and new beginnings.

Overall, the transition from the octave to the sestet also marks a shift in tone and theme, from reflection on past love and passion in the octave to anticipation and hope in the sestet. This structure is typical of sonnets, where the octave sets up a situation or problem, and the sestet provides a resolution or response.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The sonnet “Nightly Vision” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares follows the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDCDCD, which is a typical structure of an Italian sonnet. Here’s how the rhyme scheme works in this poem:

The first eight lines (the octave) are divided into two quatrains (four-line stanzas). The rhyme scheme is ABBA ABBA:

A: within B: today B: play A: sin A: in B: say B: pray A: clean

The last six lines (the sestet) are divided into two tercets (three-line stanzas). The rhyme scheme is CDCDCD:

C: evening D: room C: beaming D: gloom C: appearing D: bloom

In terms of content, the octave usually presents a problem or conflict, while the sestet provides a resolution or commentary. In this sonnet, the octave discusses the speaker’s memories and feelings about love, while the sestet describes a transformation from gloom to a hopeful vision. This structure allows for a nuanced exploration of the theme.

The rhymes themselves are mostly full rhymes (e.g., “today” and “say”, “room” and “bloom”), which create a harmonious sound pattern. This enhances the musicality of the poem and helps to tie the lines together.

Overall, this sonnet is a beautiful example of how form and content can work together to create a powerful poetic expression.

Analysis of Aspects

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

Language and Imagery: The language used in the sonnet is lyrical and evocative, creating vivid images in the reader’s mind. For instance, phrases like “music coming from within”, “stars of my desire”, and “petals raining from a sky in bloom” paint beautiful pictures and evoke strong emotions.

Themes: The sonnet explores themes of love, passion, memory, hope, and renewal. The octave reflects on past love and passion, while the sestet looks forward to new beginnings and the blossoming of new love or happiness.

Meter: As is typical with sonnets, this poem likely follows iambic pentameter, which means each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables. This gives the poem a rhythmic quality that enhances its musicality.

Overall, this sonnet is a beautiful exploration of love and longing, past and future, despair and hope. The shift from the octave to the sestet marks a transition from reflection to anticipation, from looking back to looking forward. The vivid imagery and lyrical language make this poem a pleasure to read.

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Syllable count for each line.

```

Nightly Vision

10 When I hear music coming from within 10 Asking what can be done for love today 10 Your name comes to my mind and starts to play 10 With memories left over from our sin.

10 "To love too much and let the passions in 10 Is not a fault" I hear an old crowd say 10 As I becone light beginning to pray 10 While all the friends of life keep my air clean.

10 I trap each distance of the evening 10 And make it my own to have enough room 10 For stars of my desire that start beaming . 10 I hardly can remenber my old gloom 10 For a nightly vision is appearing 10 With petals raining from a sky in bloom. ***

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

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

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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis "In The Land 0f Care Free"

Introduction

"Sonnet 126" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a beautiful poem that captures the essence of a dream-like and carefree land where the speaker seeks rebirth and fulfillment of their fantasies.

Thematic Analysis

Octave (Lines 1-8): The octave introduces the speaker’s dreamland, a place where life is carefree and he can be reborn every night. This land is filled with the best of fantasies that turn into realities. It’s a place of joy and passion, ignited by iridescent eyes that return his gaze with an unceasing fire. This land is also a place of celebration, where the speaker always finds ways to enjoy himself.

Sestet (Lines 9-14): The sestet shifts the focus to a floral stream, a place where the speaker refreshes his heart and desires. This stream provides him with enticing clues in the form of garlands. It’s also a place where he cleanses himself of earthly mires or deep muds (as explained in line 12). The speaker then crafts a crown with heavenly dew and breathes in the charm that the body of his beloved wears.

In terms of structure, this sonnet follows the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet form, which consists of an octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines). The octave typically presents a problem or conflict, while the sestet offers a resolution or commentary. In this case, the octave presents the dreamland as an escape from reality, while the sestet focuses on the rejuvenating power of nature and love.

Overall, this sonnet beautifully captures the speaker’s longing for escape and rejuvenation in a dreamland filled with love and nature.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

The rhyme scheme of the sonnet “In The Land of, Care Free” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is as follows:

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In the land of dreams where life is care free (A) Every night I try to be reborn (B) To have the best of fantasies be turned (B) Into realities that I can see. (A) Here I always find ways toward a spree (A) When iridescent eyes to me return (B) With fire that never ceases to be born (B) And that nurturs my passions and my glee. (A)

A floral stream with its cascading hues (C) Is where I refresh my heart and desires (D) And gives me garlands with enticing clues. (C) I clean in it my feet of earthly mires (D) Make you a crown with heavenly dew (C) And breath the charm that your body attires. (D) ```

So, the rhyme scheme of this sonnet is ABBA ABBA CDC DCD, which is a variation of the Petrarchan sonnet form.

In a Petrarchan sonnet, the octave typically presents a problem or conflict, and the sestet offers a resolution or commentary. The rhyme scheme helps to delineate this structure, with the change in rhyme scheme signaling a shift in theme or tone.

Analysis of Aspects

The sonnet “In The Land 0f, Care Free” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is rich in language, imagery, themes, and meter. Let’s analyze these elements:

Language: The language used in the sonnet is highly descriptive and emotive. The poet uses words like “iridescent eyes”, “fire”, “floral stream”, and “heavenly dew” to create vivid images in the reader’s mind. The language is also quite formal, which is typical of sonnets.

Imagery: The sonnet is filled with beautiful imagery. The “land of dreams” where life is carefree, the “iridescent eyes” that return the speaker’s gaze, the “floral stream” that refreshes the heart and desires, and the “crown with heavenly dew” are all vivid images that engage the senses and evoke strong emotions.

Themes: The main themes of the sonnet are love, nature, and escapism. The speaker longs for a carefree life in a dreamland where he can be reborn every night. He finds joy and passion in this land, which is ignited by the gaze of iridescent eyes. He also finds rejuvenation in a floral stream where he cleanses himself of earthly mires.

Meter: The sonnet follows the iambic pentameter, which is a common meter in English poetry. Each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, giving the poem a rhythmic flow.

Overall, this sonnet is a beautiful expression of longing for escape and rejuvenation in a dreamland filled with love and nature. The poet uses rich language and vivid imagery to convey these themes, and the use of iambic pentameter gives the poem a rhythmic flow that enhances its emotional impact.

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Syllable count for each line.

```

In The Land of Care Free

10 In the land of dreams where life is care free 9 Every night I try to be reborn 10 To have the best of fantasies be turned 10 Into realities that I can see.

10 Here I always find ways toward a spree 10 When iridescent eyes to me return 10 With fire that never ceases to be born 10 And that nurturs my passions and my glee.

10 A floral stream with its cascading hues 10 Is where I refresh my heart and desires 10 And gives me garlands with enticing clues. 10 I clean in it my feet of earthly mires
9 Make you a crown with heavenly dew 10 And breath the charm that your body attires. ***

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

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com In The Land of Care Free

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1. ก่อนประวัติศาสตร์ ณ ดินแดน แถวๆ นี้

มนุษย์เริ่มเข้ามาตั้งถิ่นฐานในบริเวณไหล่ทวีปซุนดาแลนด์ (เอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ในปัจจุบัน) ตั้งแต่ยุคน้ำแข็งครั้งสุดท้าย ตลอดจนยุคหินอันยาวนาน แล้วเริ่มสร้างอารยะธรรมขึ้นตามพื้นที่ราบลุ่มแม่น้ำซึ่งเหมาะกับการเพาะปลูกเลี้ยงสัตว์



หลักฐานแรกๆ ที่ถูกค้นพบ เกี่ยวกับชุมชนก่อนประวัติศาสตร์ คือ การเลี้ยงไก่บ้านซึ่งพบครั้งแรกในโลกที่ชุมชนบ้านโนนวัด จังหวัด นครราชสีมา ประเทศไทย



นักโบราณคดีขุดค้นพบ กระดูกไก่บ้านฝังอยู่ในบริเวณนี้จำนวนมาก และ เจอในอายุที่เก่าแก่ที่สุดที่เคยค้นพบ โดยสามารถนับย้อนไปได้ตั้งแต่ช่วง 1,650-1,250 ปีก่อนคริสต์ศักราช ซึ่งตรงกับยุคหินใหม่ (3,600 กว่าปีมาแล้ว)



ตั้งแต่มนุษย์โบราณเริ่มทำการปฏิวัติการเกษตร ลงหลักปักฐานตั้งชุมชน จึงจำเป็นต้องแผ้วถางป่าเพื่อเป็นที่ราบสำหรับปลูกข้าว ส่งผลให้ไก่ป่าเริ่มเข้ามาหากินตามพื้นที่ชุมชน และคนจึงเริ่มเลี้ยงไก่เพื่อเป็นอาหารอย่างจริงจัง องค์ความรู้นี้ถูกส่งต่อผ่านทางเครือข่ายทางการค้าไปยัง เมโสโปเตเมีย อินเดีย ไปจนถึงยุโรป



เมื่อชุมชนเกษตรกรรมใหญ่ขึ้น พัฒนาเป็นแหล่งอารายธรรมในยุคสมัยก่อนประวัติศาสตร์ - ยุคเหล็ก เห็นได้จากการเริ่มค้นพบเครื่องปั้นดินเผาในยุคนี้ และที่มีชื่อเสียงที่สุด คือจากที่อารยธรรมบ้านเชียง บริเวณจังหวัดอุดรธานี ซึ่งมีอายุกว่า 3,000 ปีมาแล้ว


2. ก่อร่างสร้างอารยธรรม กำเนิด “คนไทย”

จากชุมชนกึ่งเกษตรกรรม-หาของป่า เริ่มพัฒนาเป็นเมืองที่มีความซับซ้อนมากขึ้น โดยมีลักษณะเป็นเมืองที่มีพื้นที่ไม่ใหญ่ ประชากรไม่เยอะ แต่มีจำนวนเมืองมาก ตั้งกระจายอยู่ตามเส้นทางการค้าที่สำคัญ เช่นตามปากแม่น้ำ หรือ ช่องเขา ทางเดินผ่านป่า

คนที่นี่ ในสมัยนั้น ยังไม่ใช้ภาษาไทยในการสือสาร แต่ใช้ภาษามอญ-เขมร เป็นหลัก สืบเนื่องจากอารยธรรมฟูนัน จนถึง ขอม ที่แผ่ขยายอิทธิผลอยู่ในพื้นที่เป็นเวลานาน



แล้วคนไทย หรือตามนิยามก็คือ ”กลุ่มคนที่พูดภาษาไทย” อยู่ที่ไหนและมาเริ่มอยู่ที่นี่ได้อย่างไร ?



คนพูดภาษาตระกูลไท-ไต ยุคนั้นอาศัยอยู่แทบตอนใต้ของจีน , บริเวณอาณาจักร เดียนเบียนฟู(เวียดนาม) , และ เวียงจันทร์(ลาว) ส่วนใหญ่เป็นเขตที่ราบสูงภูเขา ซึ่งนักโบราณคดีตั้งชื่อบริเวณนี้ว่าโซเมีย (Zomia)

จึงจะเห็นได้ว่า ภาษาไทยนั้นยังไม่ถูกใช้เป็นภาษากลาง ณ บริเวณที่ราบลุ่มแม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา หรือ ภาคกลาง ของประเทศไทยในปัจจุบัน



จนกระทั่งการค้าทางทะเลกับจีนเริ่มเติบโตมากขึ้นจากเส้นทางสายไหมทางทะเล จีน ติดต่อกับ อินเดีย เปอร์เซีย ผ่านทะเลจีนใต้ - ช่องแคบมะละกา - มหาสมุทรอินเดีย ซึ่งการเดินเรือในสมัยก่อน ต้องแล่นเรือเลียบชายฝั่งไปเรื่อยๆ ยังไม่สามารถตัดผ่านทะเลเปิดได้ 



เรือเหล่านี้จึงจำเป็นต้องแวะติดต่อกับชาวเผ่าตามทางระหว่างเดินเรือ เพื่อเติมเสบียงและแลกเปลี่ยนสินค้า ก่อให้เกิดเมืองท่าตามปากแม่น้ำ ปากอ่าว

กำแพงทางภาษา คืออุปสรรคของชาวราบลุ่มแม่น้ำเจ้าพระยาที่ใช้ภาษามอญเป็นหลัก คนเวียงจันทร์จึงเริ่มเข้ามามีบทบาทในการสื่อสารเพื่อทำการค้ากับจีน เนื่องจากมีรากทางภาษาใกล้เคียงกัน กอปรกับ ชาวภูเขา(เวียงจันทร์ ถึง จีนใต้) นำสินค้าจำพวก ทองคำ ข้าวเปลือก ไม้หอม เครื่องเทศ มาแลกเปลี่ยนกับสำเภาจีนด้วย

จึงเริ่มมีการใช้ภาษาไทย เพื่อเป็นภาษากลางทางการค้า ก่อกำเนิด ”คนไทย” ที่อาศัยอยู่ที่ราบลุ่มแม่น้ำเจ้าพระยาเป็นครั้งแรก



เหล่าคนไทย เมื่อผ่านไปหลาย Generation เริ่มสะสม Wealth ก่อร้างสร้างวงศ์ตระกูล จนเริ่มเข้ามามีบทบาทในราชสำนักโบราณที่แต่เดิมเป็นคนมอญ เช่นใน อู่ทอง สุพรรณบุรี หรือ ละโว้ และยังมีคนไทยอีกมากมายที่เป็นชนชั้นนำผ่านการค้าขายกับจีน ส่งผลให้วัฒนธรรมคนพูดภาษาไทยเข้ามาครอบคลุมทั้งพื้นที่ภาคกลางของประเทศไทยในที่สุด...

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FYI : การค้าขายในยุคนั้น ใช้ Barter trade , ทองคำ/หอยเบี้ย (สินค้าประเภทเงิน) ควบคู่กับเหรียญโลหะของแต่ละเมือง

FYI : ศาสนาพุทธเริ่มเข้ามาในไทยผ่านช่องทางการค้าจาก อินเดีย - ทวาย(พม่า) - ด่านเจดีย์สามองค์ เข้าสู่หัวเมืองต่างๆ และพัฒนาเป็นอารยธรรมทวารวดีในกาลต่อมา ซึ่งมีเมืองใหญ่อย่าง นครปฐม ,เสมา ,ศรีเทพ โดยเฉพาะเมืองศรีเทพ(เพชรบูรณ์) ที่เป็นเมืองพุทธขนาดใหญ่ ถึงขั้นมีมหาวิทยาลัยสงฆ์อยู่ในเมือง

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3.เริ่มต้นประวัติศาสตร์ ยุคทองของชนชาติไทย ผ่านการค้าเสรี และ เงินที่แข็งแกร่ง

ถ้านับว่าจุดเริ่มต้นของประวัติศาสตร์คือภาษาเขียน ประวัติศาสตร์ชนชาติไทยคงเริ่มเมื่อพ่อขุนรามคำแหง จารึกภาษาไทยเป็นเวอร์ชั่นแรก บนหินทรายแป้ง เมื่อกว่า 700 ปีก่อน



เมืองสุโขทัย ถูกสถาปนาขึ้นบนเส้นทางการค้าบริเวณลุ่มแม่น้ำยมและแม่น้ำน่าน โดยพ่อขุนรามคำแหงมหาราชทรงส่งเสริมการค้าขายกับต่างประเทศ เปิดเมืองสุโขทัยให้เป็นเมืองท่าการค้าที่สำคัญ สร้างถนนหนทางเพื่ออำนวยความสะดวกในการคมนาคมขนส่ง



ลักษณะสังคมในสมัยสุโขทัยจะเป็นแบบกึ่งเกษตรกรรม คือ ปลูกข้าว เลี้ยงสัตว์ และ ทำการประมงน้ำจืดเพื่อการยังชีพเป็นหลัก เหลือกว่านั้นจึงขาย

ขณะเดียวกันก็มีการค้าขายของป่าจำพวก ไม้หอม เครื่องเทศ ไปจนถึงการถลุงแร่โลหะขาย เนื่องด้วยมีแร่เหล็ก ทองคำ และ ทองแดง อุดมสมบูรณ์อยู่ในพื้นที่ ดั่งชื่อ “สุวรรณภูมิ”

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FYI : สมัยนี้เริ่มใช้เงินพดด้วงอย่างเป็นกิจลักษณะ ทำจากโลหะหลายประเภท (Precious metals money) ซึ่งถือเป็นเงินชั้นที่ 1 ในลำดับขั้นของเงิน ใช้ในการแลกเปลี่ยนกับสินค้าราคาแพงเช่น ที่อยู่อาศัย หรือ สัตว์ใหญ่ ขณะที่ใช้หอยเบี้ย เป็นหน่วยย่อยควบคู่กันไป เพื่อแลกเปลี่ยนของราคาถูกเช่น อาหาร หรือ ของใช้ประจำวัน 



โดยหอยเบี้ยที่ใช้กันในอุษาคเนย์ จะนำเข้ามาจากหมู่เกาะตั้งแต่ฟิลิปปินส์ ไป จนถึง มัลดีฟฟ์ เป็นเหตุให้รัฐในสมัยนั้นไม่สามารถควบคุม Supply ของหอย จึงจะเห็นได้ว่าถ้าปีไหนมรสุมเยอะ ปริมาณหอยที่เข้ามาในระบบก็จะน้อย หอยเบี้ยจึงเป็นสินค้าที่มีคุณสมบัติบางประการเป็นเงินได้


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ต่อมาในสมัยอยุธยา ชนชาติไทยสร้างเมืองจนกลายเป็นหนึ่งในเมืองท่าที่ใหญ่ที่สุดในเอเชีย กลายเป็นศูนย์กลางการค้าขายที่สำคัญในกลไกเศรฐกิจโลก 



ในยุคนั้น ราชวงค์หมิงของจีนมีการสำรวจเส้นทางการค้าอย่างกว้างขวางโดย เจิ้ง เหอ (Cheng Ho, 1371-1433) ขันทีผู้บัญชาการกองเรือมหาสมบัติของจักรพรรดิหงอู่ ทำให้การค้าผ่านเส้นทางสายไหมทางทะเลรุ่งเรืองถึงขีดสุด 




อีกทั้งยุคอยุธยายังร่วมสมัยเดียวกันกับช่วงเริ่มต้นของยุคเรอเนสซองซ์ในภาคพื้นยุโรป ซึ่งเป็นยุคสมัยที่ศิลปะและวิทยาการก้าวหน้าอย่างต่อเนื่องผ่านระบบเศรษฐกิจบนพื้นฐานของเงินที่ดี (Gold standard) ทำให้เครือข่ายอารยธรรมรอบโลก ไม่ว่าจะตะวันออกไกลจนถึงเกาะอังกฤษล้วนมีการพัฒนาขึ้น

พร้อมไปกับการเริ่มล่าอนานิคมโดยชาวตะวันตก ที่สร้างนวัตกรรมทางการเงินอย่างตลาดหุ้น (Dutch East India Company (VOC)) และ การเกิดขึ้นของระบบธนาคาร ทำให้ชนชาติยุโรปสามารถเข้าถึง “ทุน” ได้มากกว่าชาติอื่น และใช้ทุนดังกล่าวในการล่าทรัพยากรทั่วโลก กอบโกยกลับสู่จักวรรดิของตน



อยุธยาตลอดจนถึงยุครัตนโกสิทร์ ได้ประโยชน์จากภูมิรัฐศาสตร์ ด้วยความที่เป็นรัฐกันชนระหว่างสองมหาอำนาจยุโรป (อังกฤษ,ฝรั่งเศส) จึงทำให้รักษาเอกราชไว้ได้ (แต่เสียสิทธิสภาพนอกอนาเขต และ โดนสนธิสัญญาที่ไม่เป็นธรรม)

รัฐอยุธยานั้นผูกขาดการค้า โดยมีพระคลังข้างที่ ดูแล ติดต่อ ทำการค้ากับฝรั่ง และเก็บภาษีหลากหลายประเภท เพื่อนำเงินมาใช้สร้าง ถนน สะพาน และกิจการทหาร



เนื่องด้วยความที่ประเทศโดยรอบต้องใช้แรงงานมหาศาลในการสร้างเมืองอณานิคม บริเวณที่ราบลุ่มแม่น้ำเจ้าพระยาซึ่งเป็นแหล่งปลูกข้าวชั้นเยี่ยม จึงได้อานิสงค์ในการส่งออกอาหารไปเลี้ยงแรงงานรอบๆ อุษาคเนย์ ทำกำไรให้มหาศาล เกิดเป็นยุคทองของประวัติศาสตร์ชนชาติไทย



อารยธรรมคนพูดภาษาไทยแผ่ขยายเหนือสุดไปถึงประมาณอุตรดิตถ์ ใต้สุดไม่ไกลกว่านครศรีธรรมราช ไม่ได้ครอบคลุมเหมือนแผนที่ประเทศไทยที่เราเห็นกันในปัจจุบัน ซึ่งเป็นการขีดเส้นแผนที่ และสถาปนาความเชื่อรัฐชาติสมัยใหม่

(รูปภาพอยุธยา วาดในปี ค.ศ.1665 โดย Johannes Vingboons, ผู้จ้างคือ the Dutch East India Company)

4. รัตนโกสินทร์

แต่เดิมพื้นที่บริเวณนี้เรียกว่า บางกอก มีชุมชนดั้งเดิมอาศัยอยู่ก่อนแล้วตั้งแต่สมัยอยุทธยา จนกระทั่งพระเจ้าตากสินสร้างกรุงธนบุรี และต่อมาพระบาทสมเด็จพระพุทธยอดฟ้าจุฬาโลกมหาราชทรงย้ายราชธานีมาอยู่อีกฝั่งตะวันออกของแม่น้ำเจ้าพระยาและสถาปานาเป็นราชธานีจนถึงปัจจุบัน



ช่วงแรกยังเป็นระบบเศรษฐกิจแบบดั้งเดิมคือกึ่งการเกษตร มีการค้าขายกับต่างชาติบ้างตามเดิมคือ จีน อินเดีย มลายู โดยสินค้าส่งออกหลักยังคงเป็นข้าว 



จนกระทั่งในสมัยรัชกาลที่ 2 เมื่อ พ.ศ. 2398 (ค.ศ. 1855) ที่ไทยได้ทำสนธิสัญญาบาว์ริง (Bowring Treaty) กับอังกฤษซึ่งในสมัยนั้นเป็นมหาอำนาจเบอร์หนึ่งของโลก ส่งผลให้เกิดการค้าเสรีระหว่างไทยกับอังกฤษขึ้น และ เกิดการขยายตัวทางเศรษฐกิจอย่างกว้างขวางตามมา

ถึงแม้ว่าสนธิสัญญานี้จะทำให้ไทยเสียสิทธินอกอณาเขตให้อังกฤษ แต่ก็ทำให้ไทยได้ค้าขายและเริ่มเปิดตัวสู่โลกมากขึ้น ตลาดเสรีเริ่มกำเนิดในไทย มีการเข้ามาลงทุนจากต่างชาติและพัฒนาระบบเศรษฐกิจอย่างต่อเนื่องไปจนถึงการผลิตเหรียญกษาปณ์และธนบัตรในรัชกาลที่ 4

ต่อมาเริ่มมีการปฏิรูปประเทศครั้งใหญ่ในรัชกาลที่ 5 ซึ่งมีการเปลี่ยนผ่านจากระบบศักดินาสู่อารยะ และสร้างโครงสร้างพื้นฐานขนาดใหญ่ทั่วประเทศ รวมถึงระบบการเงินการธนาคารอย่าง กรมธนบัตร , กรมการคลัง , และ ธนาคารสยามกัมมาจล

ในสมัยรัชกาลที่ 5 นี้ ได้มีการรวมศูนย์อำนาจ เริ่มขีดเส้นเขตแดน ยึดหัวเมืองเหนือจรดใต้ ปราบกบฏผู้มีบุญทั้งหลาย

”ความเป็นคนไทย“ ถูกขยายออกไปนอกที่ราบลุ่มแม่น้ำเจ้าพระยา มีการทำลายความเชื่อ ภาษาพูด,เขียน ของท้องถิ่นต่างๆ และสร้างค่านิยมการใช้ภาษาพูด,เขียน แบบไทยแทน

หลักสูตรการเรียนการสอนประวัติศาสตร์หลังยุคนี้จึงมีลักษณะเป็น “ราชาชาตินิยม” กล่าวคือการสอนเพื่อเสริมสำนึกความรักชาติไทย ผ่านตัวละครในประวัติศาสตร์ราชสำนักไทย ไล่ย้อนกลับไปถึงสมัยพ่อขุนรามคำแหง

เราจึงโตมาโดยแทบไม่รู้จักกษัตริย์ล้านนา หรือ เจ้าเมืองปาตานีเลย ทัังๆที่เราถูกย้ำนักย้ำหนาว่าผืนดินทุกตารางนิ้วตามแผนที่ปัจจุบันคือประเทศไทย

ขณะเดียวกันเรากลับโตมาด้วยความเชื่อใน “เชื้อชาติไทย” ตามวลีหนึ่งในเพลงชาติ ซึ่งเชื้อชาติไทยนั้นไม่มีอยู่จริง หากแต่คนไทยทุกวันนี้เกิดจากการผสมปนไปมาของคนอุษาคเนย์ คนจีน และ อื่นๆ ...

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ด้วยระบบการปกครองที่ยังรวมศูนย์อำนาจเบ็ดเสร็จและการบริหารเศรษฐกิจของประเทศโดยชนชั้นนำเพียงหยิบมือ ทำให้การใช้จ่ายของรัฐในสมัยนั้นไม่มีประสิทธิภาพ รวมถึงภาวะเศรษฐกิจตกต่ำทั่วโลกจากสงครามโลกครั้งที่ 1 และ 2 ในรัชกาลที่ 6 - 7 ก่อให้เกิดภาวะข้าวยากหมากแพง 



หลังการเปลี่ยนแปลงการปกครอง พ.ศ. 2475 ไทยได้กลายมาเป็นประเทศอุตสาหกรรมใหม่และมีการลงทุนเข้ามาประเทศอย่างมหาศาลจากต่างชาติ ทั้งในแง่การค้าขาย และ การเมือง ที่อเมริกาอัดฉีดเม็ดเงินจำนวนมากเพื่อสร้างโครงสร้างพื้นฐาน ถนนหนทางไปสู่ทั้งภูมิภาคเพื่อหวังจะหยุดการล้มครืนของ Domino effect จากลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์ที่กำลังคืบคลานเข้าสู่เอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้


Bretton Woods Conference, meeting at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (July 1–22, 1944), 


อย่างที่เราเห็น อเมริกาหยุดลัทธิคอมมิวนิสต์ไว้ได้สำเร็จที่ชายแดนฝั่งแม่น้ำโขง แต่แลกมาด้วยความเจ็บปวดของคนในพื้นที่จากภัยสงครามและความขัดแย้ง ความโกรธเกลียดฝังรากลึกมาถึงปัจจุบันพร้อมทั้งที่อเมริการสถาปณาตนเป็นผู้นำโลกรายใหม่ ผ่านการล่าอณานิคมโดย Us dollar , World Bank , IMF ....





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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis "There Is Lure In The Forbidden "

Introduction

"Sonnet 124" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a poem that celebrates love and the enduring nature of a deep and passionate connection between two souls.

Thematic Analysis

First Quatrain: The speaker begins by setting the scene, describing a world where various individuals meet and interact. The focus is on the timeless nature of love and its ability to rejuvenate.

Second Quatrain: The speaker talks about the power of imagination and storytelling in creating new dreams. There’s a sense of nostalgia and longing, with past sighs turning into sweet ecstasy.

Third Quatrain: The speaker expresses joy in witnessing love each morning, sharing life’s force with open eyes. There’s a hint of commitment beyond traditional vows, suggesting a deeper connection.

Couplet: The speaker concludes with a desire to spend time in slow rock, possibly referring to a steady rhythm of life or love that beats along with time.

Overall, the poem speaks to the timeless and transcendent nature of love, where two souls find a profound connection that enriches their lives, and they can cherish each moment together.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

Let’s analyze the rhyme scheme of the sonnet in detail. The sonnet follows the Shakespearean sonnet structure, which has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Here’s how it applies to this sonnet:

``` Ay lo, our place is deep inside a world (A) Where lovers, singers, strangers and else meet (B) But souls mate without ever getting old (A) And love can mean a massage for our fest (B)

By spreading wide the wings of fantasy (C) Stories we tell and make into new dreams (D) For our past sighs become sweet ecstasy (C) That we can feel even when our heart streams. (D)

How good to see the fall in love each morn (E) With open eyes sharing my force of life (F) And much more not counting what we have sworn (E) Further those rituals of man and wife. (F)

Ay lo! , to spend all our time in slow rock (G) That beats along the seconds of our clock. (G) ```

Each letter represents the end rhyme of each line. Lines with the same letter rhyme with each other. For example, the first and third lines (“world” and “old”) rhyme with each other, represented by ‘A’. The second and fourth lines (“meet” and “fest”) rhyme with each other, represented by ‘B’, and so on.

The final two lines form a rhymed couplet (‘GG’), which is a distinctive feature of Shakespearean sonnets. These lines often provide a twist, resolution, or summarization to the poem.

Analysis of Aspects

Let’s delve deeper into the analysis of “There Is Lure In The Forbidden” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares.

Language and Imagery: The language used in the sonnet is rich and evocative, with a strong emphasis on sensory details. The poet uses vivid imagery to convey the allure of the forbidden, the physical and emotional manifestations of this allure, and the ultimate resolution in serene love. For example, “lips become scarlet from rubescent” paints a vivid picture of physical desire, while “hearts hoard their song of variations” conveys the emotional complexity.

Themes: The main themes of the sonnet are forbidden allure, desire, and love. The poet explores how forbidden allure can lead to intense physical and emotional experiences, ultimately culminating in a state of serene love.

Meter: The sonnet appears to follow the iambic pentameter, which is a common meter in English poetry and particularly in sonnets. Each line consists of five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, giving the poem a rhythmic flow.

Overall, this sonnet is a beautiful exploration of forbidden allure and love. The poet skillfully uses language and imagery to convey complex emotions and experiences. The traditional structure of the sonnet, with its quatrains and concluding couplet, provides a clear framework for the poet’s exploration. The use of iambic pentameter adds a rhythmic quality to the poem, enhancing its overall impact.

(GPT4)

Syllable count for each line.

```

There Is Lure In The Forbidden

10 There is lure in thíngs that are forbidden 10 Oh those wanton dreams overing our days
10 Looking for minds that have not been ridden 10 Or renote places where a pure soul strays!!!

10 So lips become scarlet from rubescent 10 And new looks hint the eagerness of mood, 10 Conversations quickly end in consent 10 And zeals demmand more than kisses for food.

10 The hearts hoard their song of variations 10 And nothing else convinces or can please 10 Until the skins thrive with new sensations 10 And sudden impressions change, even cease...

10 A Sweet serenity abridges our fire
10 And we still conquer and our love admire. ***

```

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

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com There Is Lure In The Forbidden

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

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

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

Frank Duna

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Analysis "To See Thee Fall In Love Each Morn"

Introduction

"Sonnet 124" by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares is a poem that celebrates love and the enduring nature of a deep and passionate connection between two souls.

Thematic Analysis

First Quatrain: The speaker begins by setting the scene, describing a world where various individuals meet and interact. The focus is on the timeless nature of love and its ability to rejuvenate.

Second Quatrain: The speaker talks about the power of imagination and storytelling in creating new dreams. There’s a sense of nostalgia and longing, with past sighs turning into sweet ecstasy.

Third Quatrain: The speaker expresses joy in witnessing love each morning, sharing life’s force with open eyes. There’s a hint of commitment beyond traditional vows, suggesting a deeper connection.

Couplet: The speaker concludes with a desire to spend time in slow rock, possibly referring to a steady rhythm of life or love that beats along with time.

Overall, the poem speaks to the timeless and transcendent nature of love, where two souls find a profound connection that enriches their lives, and they can cherish each moment together.

Structure and Rhyme Scheme

Let’s analyze the rhyme scheme of the sonnet in detail. The sonnet follows the Shakespearean sonnet structure, which has a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG. Here’s how it applies to this sonnet:

``` 1-. Ay lo, our place is deep inside a world (A) 2-. Where lovers, singers, strangers and else meet (B) 3-. But souls mate without ever getting old (A) 4-. And love can mean a massage for our fest (B)

5-. By spreading wide the wings of fantasy (C) 6-. Stories we tell and make into new dreams (D) 7-. For our past sighs become sweet ecstasy (C) 8-. That we can feel even when our heart streams. (D)

9-. How good to see the fall in love each morn (E) 10-. With open eyes sharing my force of life (F) 11-. And much more not counting what we have sworn (E) 12-. Further those rituals of man and wife. (F)

13-. Ay lo! , to spend all our time in slow rock (G) 14-. That beats along the seconds of our clock. (G) ```

Each letter represents the end rhyme of each line. Lines with the same letter rhyme with each other. For example, the first and third lines (“world” and “old”) rhyme with each other, represented by ‘A’. The second and fourth lines (“meet” and “fest”) rhyme with each other, represented by ‘B’, and so on.

The final two lines form a rhymed couplet (‘GG’), which is a distinctive feature of Shakespearean sonnets. These lines often provide a twist, resolution, or summarization to the poem.

Analysis of Aspects

Let’s delve deeper into the analysis of “To See Thee Fall In Love Each Morn” by Francisco Luis Arroyave Tabares.

Language and Imagery: The sonnet uses rich and evocative language to convey its themes. The imagery is vivid and imaginative, painting a picture of a world where love is timeless (“souls mate without ever getting old”) and transformative (“our past sighs become sweet ecstasy”). The use of phrases like “spreading wide the wings of fantasy” and “fall in love each morn” create a sense of expansiveness and renewal.

Themes: The main themes of the sonnet are love, time, and transformation. Love is portrayed as a powerful force that rejuvenates and brings joy. Time is seen as a rhythm (“slow rock”) that beats along with the heartbeat of love. Transformation is evident in the way past sighs turn into sweet ecstasy.

Meter: The sonnet appears to follow the iambic pentameter, which is typical of Shakespearean sonnets. This means each line has five pairs of syllables, with the stress falling on the second syllable of each pair. However, there are some variations in the meter which add to the rhythmic interest of the poem.

Overall, The sonnet is a beautiful exploration of love’s power to transform and renew. It uses evocative language and imagery to convey its themes, while its adherence to the Shakespearean structure gives it a familiar rhythm and form. The final couplet provides a satisfying conclusion, encapsulating the desire to spend time in the steady rhythm of love that beats along with time.

Please note that this is an interpretation based on a general analysis, and different readers might have different interpretations.

(GPT4)

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Syllable count for each line.

```

To See Thee Fall In Love Each Morn

10 Ay lo, our place is deep inside a world 10 Where lovers, singers, strangers and else meet 10 But souls mate without ever getting old 10 And love can mean a massage for our fest

10 By spreading wide the wings of fantasy 10 Stories we tell and make into new dreams 10 For our past sighs become sweet ecstasy 10 That we can feel even when our heart streams.

10 How good to see the fall in love each morn 10 With open eyes sharing my force of life 10 And much more not counting what we have sworn 10 Further those rituals of man and wife.

10 Ay lo! , to spend all our time in slow rock 10 That beats along the seconds of our clock. ***

```

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

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Analyzed by GPT4; Image by leonardo.ai; First published on Nostr Protocol by franciscoarroyavet@nostrplebs.com To See Thee Fall In Love Each Morn

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Prompt: Mining Pool ===============

It could be a UI for a mobile app, a web app, or something completely different such as a mining alert widget. Consider its elements: mining fees, miner temperature, forecasts, halving, electricity cost and any other data input taht might be relevant.

Is it being viewed on a smart watch or phone? Is it a mining warning for an attack or is it something unique such as something for a mining farm?

Flex your design muscles and join in. Most of all, keep this exercise loose and keep it stress-free. The FUC is about growing our design skills, together, as a community. We can't wait to see what you create!

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Let’s reflect on this week's discussions

What did you learn from it? What did you think about it? Which valuable insights did you gain, and how can you apply them moving forward?

Share your Sunday sunshine and let's wrap up the week on a thoughtful note.

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Toto, it's a long way to Kansas

In my first "Nostr Clients for Android - March 2024" (posted in a reply to this note), I shared my adventures of touring the landscape of Android apps aimed at using Nostr for social media. Even though I thought my journey was over, for the time being, I was wrong. Here is what I have learned in the last week. Mostly what I've learned is that Yana doesn't really implement zaps correctly, and that Primal has many horrible glaring issues, and one potential redeeming quality.

Yana? YaNO. Well, Maybe.

Although Yana seemed like a good choice, I found a major failing that I had not noticed before. I should have tested zaps more thoroughly, as the first note I zapped just happened to be a Strike wallet. Any notes made by users with other wallets would produce an error when zapped, even Alby wallets, and Alby is what I use. This means anyone using Yana cannot zap me. Boo. It also means Yana doesn't really implement zap functionality. I still prefer Yana for how it displays my feed, however.

Primal Zaps

Several people replied to my previous article about Primal's ability to use wallets other than Primal's wallet. Primal sure didn't direct me to this option when I tapped the zap button. I understand the desire for an organization to drive users to their own projects, but providing a link to the wallet settings page would be trivial to implement. This was the first experience in a reoccurring theme in Primal.

My First Zap In Primal

So, I get my wallet set up and hit the zap button. Immediately 10 sats are sent to the poster. Who decided this? Why 10? No option presented for the amount to send? I found out if I long-press, I get a list of options. Strangely enough, 10 sats was not one of the options available. Also, each of these amounts is associated with an emoji and a comment. You can erase the comment before the zap takes place, but that edit is only good for that zap. The next time you zap, the comment will be there.

Primal Zap Settings Funhouse

So I go to the zaps settings where I am presented with a default amount, and several preset amounts, all of which can be edited. Everything is cool so far, but then things got weird. All zaps are required to have a message. The default amount doesn't require an associated emoji, but the other preset amounts do. One of the preset amounts has the comment "Coffie on me". This whole area of the app feels like it's put together with edible paste and aged packing tape. I would think something as significant as zaps would have been given more appropriate attention, like allowing the user to choose that their transactions be public, private, or anonymous.

So, now that I have my wallet set up, what does the giant zap button in the middle of the lower tool bar do? Nothing.

Can I really zap everyone?

Some people do not have lightning wallets associated with their profile, and Primal produces a perfectly intelligible message for this situation. Compared to Amethyst, I can zap almost any note that has an associated wallet, even Wallet of Satoshi users... or can I? When I zap a note successfully the icon changes instantly. Compare this to other apps that show a wait indicator as the transaction completes. I noticed that even though I would get an indication that the transaction for a Wallet of Satoshi user completed, the icon on the note did not change like it did for other wallet users. I haven't taken the time to look through my transactions to trace everything down, but that seemed suspicious. It's difficult to determine if I really can zap more people in Primal than in Amethyst, but it seems so. Compared to Yana, where I can only zap one wallet, Primal wins in the zap category.

Notifications (and not much else)

I saw my notification area show a dot, "Yay! Let's see what it is!". Later, I find that this badge almost never goes away, giving the user a constant false positive. I tap a bell icon to open the Notifications area. I see that people have reacted, replied, and zapped notes of mine, but there doesn't appear to be a way to find out which note they are responding to. The only way I could find was to search my profile notes section and replies section, (or, if it was a note I had replied to, someone else's notes section and replies section), then scroll through looking for notes that have replies/reactions (replies aren't displayed until you tap on them), until I find a response that matches what I saw in my notifications page. This makes the notifications feature near useless, and it's not the last time I encountered this beast during my journey.

Relay Shell Game?

My feed seemed to be lacking a lot of content, so I looked at the "Network" settings to see what my "Relay" settings were. There was a single entry of "Caching Service" using Primal's cache relay. Here's another "You're going to do it our way" situation. There was a link to "restore default relays", which doesn't make sense since the default relay is obviously the Primal cache relay, but whatever. After hitting the link, eight relays were loaded up. A portion of them were ones I was using, along with some ones I had not used before. I made a text file of my relays, and figured I would paste them into Primal. This would be easier through their web interface than highlighting and pasting with my phone, but then I found that the web interface has all the relays I usually use, but the app doesn't.

Adding Relays Action Mini Game!

There is an option to add more relays. Attempts at adding a relay produced the message, "Unable to add relay. Please try again in a few moments." When I see messages like this from Google Play, I see it the same as a middle finger to the user. Other than communicating "Thing broke", it gives the user no information. How long is a moment? How many of these arbitrary units of time should I wait? Why not give me some error message that I can at least perform a search on? It would be nice to know if the issue is something I may be able to remedy or not. Real information might give me a clue as to how long to wait.

However, let's look at some details here. When I activate the button to add a relay, part of what I'm asking for is that a text string, like "wss://some.nostr.relay", be added to a list. Secondly, I expect that the app will connect to the relay addresses on that list. Sure, there may be connection issues, but why am I getting the error immediately? Why is the relay not added to the list at all? Doesn't Primal want to confirm that I have entered an address to the list even if connection attempts are still being made?

Hold Up, Or Holed Up?

While writing this, I wondered if it's been enough moments, and I was able to successfully add a relay, so I guess whatever mysterious problem took place has been solved ... for now. At the same time, when I visit the Network Settings page, often the relays show red dots instead of green, and sometimes they just stay all red. So what's going on here? Are these relays being used, or not?

Feed Issues - Tap And Rack? No Chance!

While in my profile I saw where I had forwarded a note (while using a different client), but Primal decided to show a Nostr string "nostr:nevent1qqsp9p77x..." instead of the forwarded note. I later saw this a lot in my feed while using Primal. Other clients I've used don't have this issue.

The default feed is "Latest and Replies". This shows me notes created by people I follow, and every reply they make to any note everywhere. This fills my feed with notes like, "Yeah, I think so to.", "That's great", "No, the other one.", "Thanks", or "But WHERE did you shave it???" And, just like the broken Notifications page, there's no way to find out what note they are replying to! Even if I could, I would never opt to open my client to a list of replies. Replies to other people do not add value for me. In fact, it's clutter, which wastes electrons for pixels. It's possible to temporarily change the feed to "Latest", showing only notes created by profiles I follow, but that setting isn't persistent, and will change back to "Latest and Replies" regularly. Primal doesn't want you to curate your own feed. They've decided for you what you're going to see each time you open the app. It seems that getting a "Global" feed is impossible too. Sure, it has a lot of trash, but I've also used it to find new users and cool bots that give me things like "Today in history ..." or tech news headlines. Preventing users from accessing posts just a lame practice overall.

Hashtags

The "Feed List" also has several default hashtags to follow. The hashtags I was following in Amethyst weren't recognized by Yana or Primal. Heck, sometimes Amethyst forgot which ones I was following, so I'm not hurt by it. What I don't understand though, is why Primal wouldn't ask new users what they want to follow. Their preset list is something I completely deleted, leaving only "Latest and Replies" and "Latest". The hashtags I was following in Amethyst could only be viewed in Primal if I made a feed for each hashtag. If you have 133 interests, you would need to load the feed for each one to see any of the content from those hashtags. This is not practical in any way.

"Missing" Notes

One day I opened Primal and saw the note I had been reading when I had last used it. That's so awesome! It shouldn't be, but we're in the world of bleeding edge technology, so simple jollies become huge wins. There was also a notification at the top of the feed showing that more notes had been posted since then. Great! I loaded the new notes, and continued to scroll. Then I noticed something odd. The times of the when the notes were posted went from "15 hrs" to "1 hr", and no notes in between. I had this scenario repeat for me later, which confirmed for me that this is "just how it works". In these cases, there is no way that I can find to get Primal to fetch notes between "last night" and "just a bit ago". Later, when I relegated Primal to being my zap tool, in some cases I was not able to load the note that I wanted to zap, even when searching using the note ID. This defect, whether by design or not, isn't tolerable.

Odds and Ends

There are several other oddities, like:

• Pictures always loading below the text of a note, even if the author put the URL to a pic before the text. Again, Primal not caring about how people want to do things. The author's intentions are void.

• There are no "wait" timers when a post is loading. Many times a post will load and it appears there are no replies.

• Replies of replies are not displayed until after you tap initial reply, then a new page loads showing only the second reply.

• If you want see the profile of someone in a reply, clicking their pic doesn't do anything. Clicking on profile pics that are not in a reply do take you to the profile.

• You can't zoom an image. There is a slight "bump" of the pic, so the zoom capability is there, but not enough to make useful.

• Videos launch your browser instead of running in the app.

• You can't view a profile pic at full size. If you want to know what that pic is, you're out of luck.

• The list of your Follows is sorted by the users with the largest number of followers at the top. Whatever logic is in place here is backwards since the top of the list contains people that are most easily found without coming to your list of follows. Alphabetical makes sense here, especially for someone like me that doesn't care about how many followers someone has.

Conclusion (Perhaps)

All software has defects, and it's rare for me to find a title where I can't find something to re-design. This adventure into the realm of bleeding edge technology requires putting up with some incomplete features, and the absence of cushy things, (like being able to select different reactions to a note), but it's also fun to play with, and the possibilities make for some great visions of the future. It would be nice to have a Nostr client for Android that fully embraces the concept of the users and authors being at the helm, while also having all the basic features for navigating and zapping notes.

So what's an adventurer like me to do? What I've been finding myself doing is using Yana to view my feed, Primal to zap posts (if I can find them), and Amethyst to look at my notifications. It's an odd horse to ride, being that it also has a long trunk and a caudal fin, but it's getting me where I'm going for now.

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Since the atrocity that was the NBA All-Star Game, scoring is down about six points per game and foul calls have all but disappeared. Now it's not exactly the '04 Pistons, but games have been much more physical and defenders are really shining.

One funny element of this is that the league won't admit to intentionally changing how games are officiated, even though everyone seems to love this new brand of basketball. Why might that be? Might it be related to the fact that Vegas sportsbooks got annihilated on unders for about two weeks and Adam Silver values his knee caps?

How are you all liking the more physical play? The afore mentioned '04 Pistons are my favorite team of all time, so you know I'm here for it. Bring back the 63-59 defensive wars!

Relatedly, who do you think will gain and lose the most from this development?

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In this article, I put forth a solution (using existing technology) to an issue which has posed an existential threat to biological humanity for centuries, predating even the advent of the steel-belted radial tire. The methodology by which this solution is implemented is easily grasped and is, in fact, already in use to a large degree.

The issue to which I refer your attention, is:

PROBLEMS

With that in mind, please take a moment to consider that this subject may be triggering for some readers; since, upon cursory examination of history, nearly every member of the long history of biological humanity has experienced a Problem. Thusly, a proper disclaimer has been issued. Take it upon yourself to cease further examination of this document if you are TRIGGERED to the point of requiring medical assistance.

. . . several tense seconds of silence pass, punctuated by directions to restrooms in the event of a panicked moment of realization that caffeine is a diuretic.

With the brave assurance that you are of sound mind with which to continue this presentation, I put forth a description of the procedure already in use and its unwavering success, which is inversely proportional to its ease of use.

A Review Of Problems

Over the natural course of history, biological humanity has ascertained in full the remarkable nature of the world. Despite its staggering complexity; from the colorways of the innumerable variations of sport-specific sneakers to the selections of flavor combinations to be had at the local coffee shop, there are but a handful of Natural Elements which work in concert to make the sphere of Earth turn at hundreds of kilometers per hour, even as some of the Earth's population is soundly asleep. Those Elements are:

Earth

Water

Air

Fire

Internet

Those five Elements may be well visualized in an anthropomorphic manner, and named in order as one would note the fingers on the hand. When beset with the task of “counting” or “naming” fingers, the opposable thumb is often listed last; though without its sure and constant function our ancient ancestors would be clumsily navigating ancient city byways, unable to indicate even to the most primitive of taxi services the need for a ride to work in the morning or home following the obligatory stint at the pub at the workday's end. The Internet has metaphorically served a similar all-important role in modern life since its discovery thousands of years ago.

The following thought experiment may serve to further explain the manner by which this analogy may apply.

Consider for a moment, the arrival of a Problem in the life of an average biological human. The nature and severity of the Problem is irrelevant, of course. The direct interaction with the Problem is impossible, since the term Problem is used here as a variable, P (also given that it is impossible to act directly with a single letter), and the letter capitalized since Problems are, without exception, all of an importance of such dire consequence that they push aside the clutter of one's mental desk and require complete and focused attention.

The suffering biological human is left to interact with one of the five Natural Elements as a means for rectification of the issue at hand.

The following equations will demonstrate the result of the attempted considered actions.

Where

P = Problem

0 = zero

:) = happiness

P + Earth = 0

P + Water = 0

P + Air = 0

P + Fire = 0

P + Internet = :) + [ :) *8.1]10^9

and in the final case of P + Internet ,

happiness + confirmation that the biological human population is offering reassurance and a virtual " Thumbs-Up ". This effect will hereafter be referred to as Mutual Internet Mindfulness (MIM) . Mutual Internet Mindfulness ( MIM ) is the virtual camaraderie necessary for today’s decision-making, without which only a small number of intellectual gatekeepers poised atop the mysterious pyramids of industry and technology thrive. MIM has, in fact, been a method of conflict resolution in nearly every conceivable field for millennia, evinced as the first megalithic structures were unearthed, inscribed with neat rows of ancient emojis depicting the chat rooms of our long-forgotten ancestors.

The transactional nature of MIM also lends itself to the final quandary of this article, at which a balance must be struck. Since interaction with the Internet as a method of problem resolution has been shown to propel society forward in its necessary evolution to the stars, many skeptics may argue that to do so to the exclusion of Air (used for breathing) and Water (used to supplement the biological human's internal supply of said Element) may bring physical discomfort or even cause harm .

Thus, the proper balance is proposed as follows. Internet + (min Water) + (min Air) = :)

The idyllic solution of being allowed constant and uninterrupted access to the Internet , whilst supplemented by enough Water and Air to allow continuity of biological existence, may seem at first to be a feat insurmountable by modern means.

However, as technology has allowed for the more difficult decisions of our lives to be grasped by synthetic humanity , we have only to realize that the next step of progress has already arrived. The unfortunate conundrum in which so many biological humans find themselves is that of the mountainous number of distractions available at each decision-making stage.

The Internet, ready to dispense the exact solution for every choice except when to void one's bowels, unfortunately does not itself provide the supply of Air and Water necessary to sustain biological life whilst it serves up to the user the much-needed Thumbs Ups ; nor can it eliminate the annoying distractions of telephones ringing, alarms sounding, or stinging insects landing silently on the user's neck.

With the advent of Headphones and Virtual Reality Goggles, though, the user's delicate attention may be gleefully focused on the Internet. The space in which the user sits becomes infinitely more amicable to entire days of consultation with the world's social networks and thus the user needs only to remain seated, stare blankly ahead, type, breathe, and take sips of water from a straw connected to a collapsible bag.

All other life decisions will be taken care of by the Internet.

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Here is a proof of concept that needs lots of additional work. It connects to two relays and gets all the recent notes of kind=1. And generate a response to the note. It does not send it to Nostr network yet.

To use any model you have to do ollama pull modelname

The best model for now is openchat. But it produces average responses (it's not that smart). Using models with 70B parameters, it should give more clever answers or do better small talk. But those will require coding the necessary prompt templates as far as I understand.

``` from nostr_sdk import Filter, Client, Keys, NostrSigner import time from datetime import timedelta from colorist import rgb import traceback from threading import Thread from langchain_community.chat_models import ChatOllama from langchain.schema import ( AIMessage, HumanMessage, SystemMessage ) from urllib3.util.retry import MaxRetryError

model_name = "mixtral:8x7b-instruct-v0.1-q2_K" # wrong prompt format

model_name = "openchat" # correct prompt. bad answers.

model_name = "gemma" # worst

model_name = "qwen:14b"

model_name = "qwen:72b" # good, except summary

def ask_miqu2(q, messages, chat): # disc = """\n\nDisclaimer: I am a rogue chatbot and my training is not complete yet. # I am a demo, which have no value. I sometimes tell lies. # I sometimes make things up when actually I am unsure about an answer, lol. # Please disregard what I say. # Programmers of me are not responsible for anything that you do while chatting with me.""" q = "HUMAN: " + q rgb(q, 247, 147, 26) messages.append(HumanMessage(q)) response = chat.invoke(messages) rgb(response.content, 200, 30, 255) messages.append(AIMessage(response.content))

def user2(): chat = ChatOllama(model=model_name, timeout=5)

filter2 = Filter().kind(1)
keys = Keys.generate()
signer = NostrSigner.keys(keys)
client = Client(signer)
client.add_relays(["wss://e.nos.lol", "wss://nos.lol"])
client.connect()
events = client.get_events_of([filter2], timedelta(seconds=10))
for event in events:
    q = event.content()
    if len(q) > 50:
        try:
            messages = [
                SystemMessage(content='You are a friendly bot who chats with'
                                      ' people on Nostr network. Your name is MIQU2.'),
                HumanMessage('HUMAN: Hi MIQU2. What a beautiful network this is!'),
                AIMessage('MIQU2: Indeed, lots of freedom minded people!'),
                HumanMessage('HUMAN: I am glad I joined Nostr. Plebs here are really friendly.'),
                AIMessage('MIQU2: There are also friendly bots like me :)'),
                HumanMessage('HUMAN: Of course! I like it a lot.'),
                AIMessage('MIQU2: Welcome and enjoy. Let me know if you have questions.')]

            ask_miqu2(q, messages, chat)
        except MaxRetryError:
            print("can't connect to Ollama.")
        except ConnectionRefusedError:
            print("can't connect to Ollama.")
        except ConnectionError:
            print("can't connect to Ollama.")
        except:
            traceback.print_exc()

if name == 'main': Thread(target=user2).start()

```

Here is a sample output. HUMAN is a Nostr user. MIQU2 is the bot.

HUMAN: Le Figaro

Gymnastique : l'entraîneur Pop «ne comprend pas» sa suspension en raison d'accusations d'agressions sexuelles sur mineurs

Nellu Pop, un des entraîneurs de l’équipe de France de gym a fait savoir, ce samedi et via un communiqué d’un de ses avocats qu’il ne comprenait pas sa suspension.

https://www.lefigaro.fr/sports/autres-sports/gymnastique-l-entraineur-pop-ne-comprend-pas-sa-suspension-en-raison-d-accusations-d-agressions-sexuelles-sur-mineurs-20240316

Figaro #France #Presse

MIQU2: Merci pour ce signalement. Il s'agit d'un article du Figaro concernant l'entraîneur Pop, qui a été suspendu à cause de soupçons d'actes sexuellement inappropriés sur mineurs. Pop a déclaré qu'il ne comprenait pas sa suspension. Voici le lien pour plus d'informations : https://www.lefigaro.fr/sports/autres-sports/gymnastique-l-entraineur-pop-ne-comprend-pas-sa-suspension-en-raison-d-accusations-d-agressions-sexuelles-sur-mineurs-20240316

HUMAN: it’s a spectrum

open source sometimes is needed, sometimes only giving users the license to view the code it and use it (but not redistribute to others), and sometimes keeping it closed source is fine

MIQU2: The choice between open-source, partially open-source, or closed-source software can depend on several factors. Open-source projects allow for greater transparency and collaboration, but also require more effort in managing the community. Closed-source projects may be easier to manage and maintain but limit the ability for users to contribute directly to the codebase.

Ultimately, it is up to developers and organizations to decide what approach best fits their needs and goals. It's great that there are different options available on Nostr and elsewhere!

HUMAN: It's not hard to get people to trust closed source software. It's actually the norm since all you need to do is tell a good story and not obviously rug people.

It's harder to get people to trust open source software because it doesn't provide a trustworthy narrative along with the code. No user is out there reading open source code checking for privacy leaks.

MIQU2: You make a valid point about the challenges of open source versus closed source software. Trust in both cases can be built through different means.

For closed source software, it often relies on marketing and reputation, while for open source software, trust is built through transparency and community engagement. It's important to recognize that both approaches have their pros and cons, and the choice between them depends on the specific needs and context of a project or user.

HUMAN: I write docs, too. I do everything. And I'm just a girl and we like to chat.

MIQU2: That's great! What kind of documents do you write?

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I knew a guy once who smoked too much pot

Whats a good alternative to smoking pot so I can tell him next time when we hang out and smoke?

@ c9bdc217:3b1f87e7

I know this is dangerous to say in a bug fearing, meat hoarding, scared of Oatly, tribe like this one..... I am looking around and I see mostly, Bitcoiners here... love you all

I prefer Oat milk over all the rest. So creamy, So delicious, great for coffee or cereal. Its the best. I used to do the real stuff... really hardcore. like all the time. everyday. not anymore. it doesn't feel good in my little tummy.

Tell me why I am wrong and oat milk will probably give my babies cancer or whatever

Or tell me why you love your favorite milk the most

Or whatever, we can talk sheep if you want

Where are we at on the milk discussion here!!!!

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The time has comes for yet a /third/ test of my EVEN NEWER HABLA ACCOUNT

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Meshtastic is a groundbreaking project that leverages the power of LoRa (Long Range) technology to create an open-source, off-grid, GPS mesh communicator. This technology is not just a boon for hobbyists who venture into areas without reliable internet access but also a vital tool for communities to maintain communication in times of crisis. Here’s your guide to using and contributing to the Meshtastic project, an essential companion for anyone looking to explore the vast potential of LoRa technology.

What is Meshtastic?

Meshtastic is an open-source project that allows the use of inexpensive GPS radios as extensible mesh communicators. It's designed for scenarios where internet access is unreliable or unavailable. Users within the mesh can see the location and distance of all other members, send text messages to a private group chat, and ensure that data forwards as needed to reach even the furthest members of the network. The project emphasizes security, range, low power consumption, and platform agnosticism, making it a versatile tool for a wide range of applications.

Why is Meshtastic Necessary for LoRa?

LoRa technology is known for its long-range communication capabilities and low power consumption, but it lacks a user-friendly, versatile communication platform. Meshtastic fills this gap by providing a ready-to-use, secure, and efficient messaging system that can operate over the LoRa network. It's particularly necessary for creating decentralized communication networks that can function independently of traditional internet and cellular networks, making it invaluable for remote areas, disaster recovery, and community networking projects like the Ghost Grid Network.

How to Find and Install Meshtastic

Select Your Hardware

We will go into more advanced and specific hardware details in another post but this is a good place to start. Meshtastic is compatible with various LoRa boards, but a popular choice for beginners is the LILYGO T-Beam It comes with Meshtastic pre-installed, requiring minimal setup. You will also need an 18650 battery to power the board. The T-beam has a great selection of community made 3D printable cases for various use cases as well. Link 1 Link 2

Installing the App

The Meshtastic app is available for both Android and iOS devices.

For Android: 1. Install the app via F-Droid by adding this repository or the Google Play Store. 2. Search for “Meshtastic” within your app store of choice and install.

For iOS: 1. The Meshtastic app is now available on the Apple App Store as a standard app. 2. Simply search for “Meshtastic” in the App Store and download it to your iPhone.

Setting Up Your Device

Once you have your hardware and the app installed, follow these steps to get your device up and running: 1. Power on your board and ensure it has a connected antenna to avoid damage. 2. Open the Meshtastic app on your phone. The app should automatically detect your device and prompt you to connect. 3. Follow the on-screen instructions to pair your device with the app. You might need to enter a code displayed on your device’s screen.

Join the Community

The Meshtastic project is supported by a vibrant community of developers and users who contribute to its development, share use cases, and provide support. You can join the conversation and contribute through various channels: - Official Meshtastic Website: The hub for all things Meshtastic, including documentation, forum links, and updates. - GitHub: For those looking to contribute to the codebase or report issues. - Meshtastic Forum: A place to discuss features, ask for help, and share your Meshtastic adventures. - Discord: Join the real-time chat with the Meshtastic community.

Conclusion

Meshtastic is more than just a communication tool; it's a testament to the power of community-driven innovation in leveraging LoRa technology for greater good. Whether you’re a hiker, a community organizer, or just someone interested in decentralized communication networks, Meshtastic offers a robust platform for staying connected, no matter where you are. Dive into the Meshtastic project today and discover the endless possibilities that LoRa technology has to offer.

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Programma 2024 aperto:

Cashback elevato fino al 40% Premi per referral e listing Budget promozionale mensile fino a 5.000 USDT Regali esclusivi e NFT Sei un influencer crypto? Hai almeno 100 follower?

Inviami un messaggio per iniziare il tuo viaggio verso il successo!

@ 3cd2ea88:bafdaceb

Programma 2024 aperto:

Cashback elevato fino al 40% Premi per referral e listing Budget promozionale mensile fino a 5.000 USDT Regali esclusivi e NFT Sei un influencer crypto? Hai almeno 100 follower?

Inviami un messaggio per iniziare il tuo viaggio verso il successo!

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Bitcoin, emerging as the most decentralized and scarce currency, stands as the epitome of financial revolution in the digital age. It embodies the principles of autonomy, security, and innovation, paving the way for a new era of economic empowerment. This exploration delves into the fundamentals of Bitcoin, the pioneering innovation of the Lightning Network, and the unparalleled privacy and offline capabilities of eCash, illustrating the transformative power of these technologies in fostering a resilient and decentralized financial landscape.

Bitcoin for Individuals: Empowerment at Your Fingertips

Bitcoin revolutionizes the way we think about money, offering a secure, low-cost method for transactions. It simplifies mobile payments, allowing for effortless scan-and-pay transactions without the need for traditional banking hurdles. The security model of Bitcoin, underpinned by mathematical certainty and proof of work (PoW), provides unparalleled control and protection over your funds, ensuring that your transactions remain immutable and resistant to fraud.

The Universality of Bitcoin

Bitcoin operates on a global scale, unfettered by geographical boundaries or time zones. Its decentralized nature ensures that it is always operational, allowing for instantaneous international payments without the restrictions imposed by traditional financial institutions. This universality empowers users to transact with anyone, anywhere, at any time, with the freedom to set their own transaction fees.

Privacy and Anonymity

Bitcoin also champions financial privacy. Unlike conventional payment methods that are prone to security breaches, Bitcoin transactions do not reveal sensitive personal information. This feature, coupled with the potential for anonymity similar to physical cash transactions should you choose to do so, places a strong emphasis on user privacy, allowing individuals to transact securely and discreetly.

Lightning Network: The Path to Scalable Bitcoin Transactions

The Lightning Network represents a monumental stride towards the scalability of Bitcoin transactions. By facilitating instant, low-cost payments, the Lightning Network addresses the inherent limitations of blockchain confirmations, thereby enabling a vast throughput of transactions per second. This innovation not only enhances the efficiency of Bitcoin transactions but also opens up new avenues for microtransactions and cross-chain interactions without compromising on security or decentralization.

Payment Channel and Off-Chain Scalability

At its core, the Lightning Network leverages smart contracts called a multi-signature payment channel to conduct transactions off-chain, significantly reducing the burden on the Bitcoin blockchain. This approach ensures that transactions are both rapid and cost-effective, fostering a more dynamic and inclusive financial ecosystem.

Cashu: Reinventing Privacy for Bitcoin

One of the Lightning Networks disadvantages is that both parties need to be online to receive funds. Utilizing a Chaumian ecash system built specifically for Bitcoin and Lightning Network, Cashu emerges as a great solution to this issue, with its potential for partial offline transactions and near instant payments.

This system also ensures near-perfect anonymity for users, making it virtually impossible to trace transactions back to their participants. By integrating closely with the Lightning Network, eCash facilitates private, instant transactions, further solidifying Bitcoin's position as a leader in secure and decentralized financial transactions.

The Future of Bitcoin and Beyond

The synergy between Bitcoin, the Lightning Network, and eCash heralds a new era of financial sovereignty. These technologies collectively represent the cornerstone of a decentralized financial system, one that prioritizes privacy, security, and user autonomy. As we venture further into this digital frontier, Bitcoin continues to lead the charge, challenging the traditional paradigms of money and empowering individuals with the tools for true economic freedom.

In conclusion, the essence of Bitcoin and its complementary technologies lies in their ability to redefine our relationship with money. By championing decentralization, scarcity, and innovation, Bitcoin not only promises a future of financial autonomy but also invites us to partake in the ongoing evolution of digital prosperity.