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Bitcoin's Soaring Ascent: A Billionaire's Dire Prediction

As the price of bitcoin skyrockets, legendary investor Tim Draper issues a chilling prophecy of the U.S. dollar's impending collapse by 2030. Drawing parallels to historical currency failures, Draper urges individuals to safeguard their financial future by embracing bitcoin, painting it as a crucial asset in the face of imminent economic upheaval.

There will be a moment in time, and I don't know whether it's a day or a month or maybe over the course of two months or something, but I don't know when it will start, whether it'll be a year or five years or whatever, maybe even ten years out, but it'll happen very rapidly. -- Tim Draper

The Halving's Shadow: Bitcoin's Path to $250,000

Amidst Draper's warnings, the imminent bitcoin halving looms large, promising to disrupt market dynamics and potentially propel the cryptocurrency's value to unprecedented heights. Draper highlights the halving's role in tightening bitcoin's supply and boosting demand, predicting a bullish trajectory that could see prices soar to $250,000 by year-end, challenging even the most established financial benchmarks.

I hope anybody who's watching this is trying to at least have some bitcoin so that they can feed their family during the time when the dollar goes to zero. -- Tim Draper

Dollar Debacle: The Fragile State of Traditional Finance

Against a backdrop of mounting debt, inflation, and economic uncertainty, concerns over the stability of the U.S. dollar reach fever pitch. Figures like Nassim Taleb and Jim Rogers echo Draper's apprehensions, cautioning against the Federal Reserve's limited ability to stave off a potential crisis. In this climate of uncertainty, bitcoin emerges as a beacon of financial resilience, offering a decentralized alternative in an increasingly fragile financial landscape.

Source: Forbes

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Link to wierd report by DCU

The most striking finding overall was the dominance of influencer-centred content, which accounted for the vast majority of videos in the dataset. Significantly, most of this material originated from regular users or micro- influencers reposting clips of influencers, rather than from the influencers’ own accounts. This demonstrates the extent of both user-led and algorithmic amplification of influencer content, and was especially evident in the case of Andrew Tate, who was by far the most recommended influencer on both platforms, despite the fact that his accounts were inactive at the time of data collection. The dominance of these ‘ideological entrepreneurs’ (Jurg et al., 2023) marks a significant new shift in the manosphere, whereby male-supremacist influencers are not only accumulating considerable wealth but are also using the practices of influencer culture for metapolitical goals, a phenomenon noted by Maly (2020) in the context of the Far Right in recent years. By adopting less overtly gender- political rhetoric, and instead mobilising discourses around mental health, motivation and money-making, these influencers are strategically monetising men’s financial and emotional insecurities (Bujalka et al., 2022). This was evident in our dataset in the prevalence of content coded as ‘alpha masculinity’ (12.7% on TikTok and 32.5% on YouTube Shorts) over that coded as ‘anti- feminism / misogyny’ (8.3% on TikTok and 23.9% on YouTube Shorts). ‘Manfluencers’ have thus effectively replaced pick-up artists and the seduction industry with a significantly more lucrative, popular, and ostensibly well- intentioned venture, which purports to give men purpose, confidence and control.

Linked to this new development has been the revival of the notion of stoicism, reappropriated from ancient Greek philosophy, whereby self-help influencers such as Ryan Holiday and Jordan Peterson advocate traditional masculine values of courage, self-discipline, andorder as an antidote to the alleged chaos and narcissism of ‘woke’ modernity. Aleks Hammo (2023) refers to this phenomenon as the ‘stoic industrial complex’ and maintains that its appeal lies in its promise of taking control in an age of hyper-competition, secular disenchantment, and consumerism. However, this military-style neo-stoicism is underpinned by the repression of emotion, a return to strict gender roles and simplistic, individualistic accounts of complex social phenomena. It is also used to discredit the concept of structural or systemic disadvantage, and to reinforce the message that anyone can make it if they work hard enough. Many of the influencers in our dataset actively promote this message, urging men to ‘pull themselves up by the bootstraps’ and to try harder as ‘no one cares about the men who fail’. For example, an account reposting this type of content using the hashtags #motivation #mindset #advice

inspiration features retired US Navy SEAL

David Goggins urging, ‘You need to fking work harder, you need to fking discipline your mind better…all the time you’re complaining, you could be instead hustling’.

In tandem with this focus on neo-stoicism was another, ostensibly incongruous, theme which we termed ‘wealth porn’. This involves influencers bragging about their wealth and possessions, showing off their car collections and, in some cases, purchasing expensive cars and wrist watches on a whim. It also frequently involves disdain for poor people (‘brokies’) who are deluded to believe they can make money ‘inside the matrix’, which refers to mainstream, ‘blue-pilled’ or ‘normie’ society. Videos featuring Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate accounted for most of this content, and they frequently refer to the disciplinarian and frequently cruel parenting style of their father as responsible for their ‘sheer indefatigability and unmatched perspecacity’. Many of the Tate brothers’ motivational clips also double up as advertisements for Andrew Tate’s businesses, in particular the Real World, the War Room, and Hustlers University

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While I was in Mediera with all the other awesome people at the first SEC cohort there where a lot of discussions around data storage on nostr and if it could be made censorship-resistent

I remember lots of discussions about torrents, hypercore, nostr relays, and of course IPFS

There were a few things I learned from all these conversations:

1. All the existing solutions have one thing in common. A universal ID of some kind for files
2. HTTP is still good. we don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water
3. nostr could fix this... somehow

Some of the existing solutions work well for large files, and all of them are decentralization in some way. However none of them seem capable of serving up cat pictures for social media clients. they all have something missing...

An Identity system

An identity system would allow files to be "owned" by users. and once files have owners servers could start grouping files into a single thing instead of a 1000+ loose files

This can also greatly simplify the question of "what is spam" for a server hosting (or seeding) these files. since it could simply have a whitelist of owners (and maybe their friends)

What is blossom?

Blossom is a set of HTTP endpoints that allow nostr users to store and retrieve binary data on public servers using the sha256 hash as a universal id

What are Blobs?

blobs are chunks of binary data. they are similar to files but with one key difference, they don't have names

Instead blobs have a sha256 hash (like b1674191a88ec5cdd733e4240a81803105dc412d6c6708d53ab94fc248f4f553) as an ID

These IDs are universal since they can be computed from the file itself using the sha256 hashing algorithm ( you can get a files sha256 hash on linux using: sha256sum bitcoin.pdf )

How do the servers work?

Blossom servers expose four endpoints to let clients and users upload and manage blobs

• GET /<sha256> (optional file .ext)
• PUT /upload
• Authentication: Signed nostr event
• Returns a blob descriptor
• GET /list/<pubkey>
• Returns an array of blob descriptors
• Authentication (optional): Signed nostr event
• DELETE /<sha256>
• Authentication: Signed nostr event

What is Blossom Drive?

Blossom Drive is a nostr app built on top of blossom servers and allows users to create and manage folders of blobs

What are Drives

Drives are just nostr events (kind 30563) that store a map of blobs and what filename they should have along with some extra metadata

An example drive event would be json { "pubkey": "266815e0c9210dfa324c6cba3573b14bee49da4209a9456f9484e5106cd408a5", "created_at": 1710773987, "content": "", "kind": 30563, "tags": [ [ "name", "Emojis" ], [ "description", "nostr emojis" ], [ "d", "emojis" ], [ "r", "https://cdn.hzrd149.com/" ], [ "x", "303f018e613f29e3e43264529903b7c8c84debbd475f89368cb293ec23938981", "/noStrudel.png", "15161", "image/png" ], [ "x", "a0e2b39975c8da1702374b3eed6f4c6c7333e6ae0008dadafe93bd34bfb2ca78", "/satellite.png", "6853", "image/png" ], [ "x", "e8f3fae0f4a43a88eae235a8b79794d72e8f14b0e103a0fed1e073d8fb53d51f", "/amethyst.png", "20487", "image/png" ], [ "x", "70bd5836807b916d79e9c4e67e8b07e3e3b53f4acbb95c7521b11039a3c975c6", "/nos.png", "36521", "image/png" ], [ "x", "0fc304630279e0c5ab2da9c2769e3a3178c47b8609b447a30916244e89abbc52", "/primal.png", "29343", "image/png" ], [ "x", "9a03824a73d4af192d893329bbc04cd3798542ee87af15051aaf9376b74b25d4", "/coracle.png", "18300", "image/png" ], [ "x", "accdc0cdc048f4719bb5e1da4ff4c6ffc1a4dbb7cf3afbd19b86940c01111568", "/iris.png", "24070", "image/png" ], [ "x", "2e740f2514d6188e350d95cf4756bbf455d2f95e6a09bc64e94f5031bc4bba8f", "/damus.png", "32758", "image/png" ], [ "x", "2e019f08da0c75fb9c40d81947e511c8f0554763bffb6d23a7b9b8c9e8c84abb", "/old emojis/astral.png", "29365", "image/png" ], [ "x", "d97f842f2511ce0491fe0de208c6135b762f494a48da59926ce15acfdb6ac17e", "/other/rabbit.png", "19803", "image/png" ], [ "x", "72cb99b689b4cfe1a9fb6937f779f3f9c65094bf0e6ac72a8f8261efa96653f5", "/blossom.png", "4393", "image/png" ] ] }

There is a lot going on but the main thing is the list of "x" tags and the path that describes the folder and filename the blob should live at

If your interested, the full event definition is at github.com/hzrd149/blossom-drive

Getting started

Like every good nostr client it takes a small instruction manual in order to use it properly. so here are the steps for getting started

1. Open the app

Open https://blossom.hzrd149.com

2. Login using extension

You can also login using any of the following methods using the input - NIP-46 with your https://nsec.app or https://flare.pub account - a NIP-46 connection string - an ncryptsec password protected private key - a nsec unprotected private key (please don't) - bunker:// URI from nsecbunker

3. Add a blossom server

Right now https://cdn.satellite.earth is the only public server that is compatible with blossom drive. If you want to host your own I've written a basic implementation in TypeScript github.com/hzrd149/blossom-server

4. Start uploading your files

NOTE: All files upload to blossom drive are public by default. DO NOT upload private files

5. Manage files

Encrypted drives

There is also the option to encrypt drives using NIP-49 password encryption. although its not tested at all so don't trust it, verify

Whats next?

I don't know, but Im excited to see what everyone else on nostr builds with this. I'm only one developer at the end of the day and I can't think of everything

also all the images in this article are stored in one of my blossom drives here

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Prompt: Download

Create a download page, modal, form, or screen related to downloading something. It could be for a digital product, contest registration, or anything you can image requiring a download.

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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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Curious to know WTF is a FUC? Read the ⚡️Flash Ui Challenges welcoming post.

Looking for more FUCs? Check the archive here!

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Why GitCitadel is primarily self-funded

This week has been full of discussion about the various pros and cons of what I've previously described as the "patronage funding model", including a formalized version called "grants":

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 Zap Economy

We at GitCitadel have been questioned repeatedly, as to why we have not applied for a grant, when we are putting so much time and effort into the Nostr ecosystem. I would, therefore, like to explain the logic we have used to make this decision:

We are a package deal

We aren't merely a product team, we're a project team. That means that we aren't building a product, we're building an entire line (or suite) of products, and the corporate and technical infrastructure to support them.

Those products will be marketed under our own brand, built upon our own tech stack, and managed by our own team. We're used to doing this sort of thing for our various employers, so we haven't seen much benefit in looking outside of our team to acquire such things. Applying for formal grants would undermine this strategy, as we would be expected to tie into the grant-giver's own brand, stack, and team.

We have external income sources

We have made the point, to anyone interested in joining, that our project cannot and will not provide a source of income large enough to replace anyone's current source. At least, not yet. We are receiving donations and will eventually have a pricing model, but this project is our labor of love, not a get-rich-quick scheme. More a go-broke-slowly scheme, if anything.

We see this as a feature, rather than a bug, as it means our personal financial well-being is not immediately tied to our project work, and is therefore more secure, stable, and independent. This allows us the ability to ruminate, take time discussing architecture, and make more grandiose plans. It also allows us to discuss funding models, amongst ourselves or with a wider audience, while remaining calm.

Not everyone is in the same financial position and not everyone wants to split their attention, in such a manner, and we respect that. We also respect the right of every project member to decide differently, for themselves, and to apply for grants in their own name.

We're enjoying "L'expérience FOSS"

This is our first, major, open-source, software project. This is our chance to do something different, to be edgy, to build something for ourselves, to try out new technologies and strategies, to found a company and design a brand, to tinker and scheme... To boldly go where no team has gone before!

But, seriously. We're having fun. We're friends. We're enjoying the ride. We wouldn't enjoy the ride as much, if we were driving someone else's car.

We want to prove that it can be done

One of the things we found disturbing about the Nostr ecosystem is the pervasive pressure individual developers are under to apply for grants and labor full-time on Nostr products. It can feel quite rebellious, to simply tinker on evenings, weekends, or holidays.

It isn't rebellious.

It is a perfectly normal and acceptable way to contribute to a growing technological ecosystem, and we want to help re-normalize it. The emotional pressure to deliver new features at a rapid pace is exciting, but onerous, can lead to developers burning out and eventually moving on, and is the main cause of the frequent low quality of the existing software and the plethora of abandoned repos. This is the landscape that grants sometimes build.

We are here to show that "steady, stable, secure, supported, sturdy" sounds dull and a bit slow, but it can also be a winning development style, if the team chooses it deliberately and plans accordingly and cultivates a team environment that makes "code and chill together" a long-term motivator. We think the Nostr ecosystem is ready to accept a team with this style, and it's a style that advanced grants simply aren't designed to support because grant-givers have to account for the money spent within a reasonable time.

We want to support independent funding models

As with all things, talk is cheap. We are all persons eager to establish independent funding models because we want Nostr to help create a free market of sovereign individuals, at the global scale. We think this is a particular "good work" that Nostr is in a prime position to define, but it won't happen, if nobody actually does it, or if only a few do it and and are perceived as greedy oddballs. There needs be a lot of people doing it, including large, influential teams.

The strongest motivation to develop such models is the profit motive, and that is inevitably weakened by grant-lethargy. One has to take risks to become a change agent, so we have put ourselves on a diet, to get our creative financial juices flowing.

We have decided to stay hungry. https://image.nostr.build/28ddca2ef029e8be27e351867f37e457e2070e005f5588f88f486208709ee00d.jpg

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Opinion about Foundation Passport (hardware)

Passport offers a huge leap forward in design and user experience, making it easier than ever to securely store your own keys.

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This is the most catastrophic bankruptcy of a custodian in the digital asset market since Mt. Gox, which collapsed in 2014. This study examines the Bitcoin strong hands' reaction to the FTX bank run and how people are trying to find safety by keeping their bitcoin privately.

The events of November 6–14, 2022, in the digital asset market are, to put it mildly, astonishing, startling, and disheartening. One week saw one of the most well-known and high-volume exchanges, FTX.com, go down.

• Experienced a bank run.

• Client withdrawals have been stopped.

• Binance's purchase negotiations fell through.

• As much as $10 billion in missing client money was uncovered.

• Allegedly, $500 million was stolen from exchange wallets.

• FTX US and its sister company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

• Brought to light what appears to be wrongdoing on the part of the Alameda/FFTX company.

Millions of consumers would be left with imprisoned cash, years of positive industry image would be destroyed, and new credit contagion risks would emerge, many of which would go unnoticed for a long time. The fall of Mt. Gox in 2013—in which a major custodian was shown to be fractionally reserved—comes to mind in light of this development.

The crypto market is in disarray, but investors should keep in mind that the underlying cryptography is secure and that digital assets exist in a free market. Bitcoin has no safety net, and the deleveraging of the whole business will burn away any waste or corruption, but it will be painful. The market will mend, recover, and come back stronger in the months and years ahead thanks to the increased emphasis on exchanging proof-of-reserves and the drive toward self-custody.

We shall discuss the following topics in this week's report:

• Specifics on the recent thefts from on-chain FTX wallets

• greater repercussions for personal finances and parenting arrangements.

• Effects on the conviction of long-term Bitcoin holders have been observed.

Translations

Aside from the original English version, This Week on Chain has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Turkish, French, Portuguese, Farsi, Polish, Arabic, Russian, Vietnamese, and Greek.

Onchain Weekly Report

Here you can see the Week Onchain Newsletter's live dashboard, along with all featured charts. Our weekly video report is published every Tuesday and delves further into this dashboard and all of the data it covers.

Fractional Reserves

Eventually, the truth will (hopefully) emerge about how FTX lost client deposits and blew a hole of $8 billion to $10 billion in their balance sheet. However, there are numerous indications that money was misappropriated through the sibling hedge fund Alameda Research.We direct readers to the following resources for context and analysis of the triangle formed by Alameda, FTX, and Binance:

• Thread on Twitter describing the movement of money from Alameda through FTX to Binance.

• Information visualization dashboard displaying the inter-entity lifetime flow of money.

• Report in video format detailing these preliminary results.

Over the years, several data sources have had difficulty keeping up with FTX's exchange reserves. In our own observations, we found that FTX used a somewhat sophisticated peeling chain method for their BTC holdings. The cluster's FTX reserves peaked at around 102k BTC in April/May of this year. In the latter half of June, this dropped by a whopping 51.3%.

Since then, reserves have steadily decreased, culminating in this week's bank run when they were essentially at nothing. After the collapse of LUNA, 3AC, and other lenders in May and June, allegations of Alameda misappropriating client deposits suggest the Alameda-FTX company may have suffered a serious impairment to its balance sheet during that time period.

There have been two big drops in the amount of ETH owned on FTX:

• With a decrease of 576k ETH (55.2% in reserve value) in June

• This week, the price of ETH dropped from 611k to 2.8k (-99.5%).

Just as with Bitcoin, this means that almost no ETH is left in wallets controlled by FTX after the bank run.

Looking into stablecoin reserves, we can observe that on FTX, the total reserves began to decrease precipitously on October 19th, from $725 million to almost nothing by the end of the following month.

After the June sell-off, stablecoin balances skyrocketed to a new all-time high, while BTC and ETH holdings fell dramatically. This may provide more evidence that some degree of balance sheet impairment had happened at that time, requiring the use of BTC and/or ETH collateral in exchange for the use of stablecoins in a swap or loan.

There's still a lot of mystery around what went down between FTX and Alameda, but there's also a growing body of on-chain evidence suggesting problems emerged in May or June. Consequently, the events of the last several months may be explained as nothing more than a prelude to the eventual collapse of the exchange.

Release of Updated Dashboards

The new dashboards we've developed provide a way to track the growth and decline of Bitcoin's investor base, as well as the value of their holdings. These graphs are taken from our entity balance change dashboard (T3) and are complemented by the data in our address cohort dashboard (T2).

Safety in Self-Custody

As holders want the security of self-custody, there has been an unprecedented rate of coin withdrawals from exchanges. Since November 6, when rumblings of issues at FTX were still in their infancy, the following charts have tracked the aggregate balance change of exchanges, investor wallet cohorts, and miners.

The 7-day drop of 72,9K BTC in total BTC balance on exchanges is one of the greatest such drops in history. Only April-2020, November-2020, and June-July 2022 may be compared to this.

To a similar extent, Ether has had 1.101 million ETH removed from exchanges in the last week. This is the greatest 30-day decrease in balance since September 2020, during the height of "DeFi Summer," when demand for ETH skyrocketed for use as collateral in smart contracts.

While this week saw a decrease in BTC and ETH exchange reserves, approximately $1.04 billion was deposited into exchanges on November 10th through stablecoins such as USDT, USDC, BUSD, and DAI. As far as daily net inflows go, this is the seventh highest ever.

The total value of stablecoins held in exchange reserves has now reached $41.186 billion as a result. There has been a significant rise in BUSD supremacy, as shown by the over $21.44B in BUSD reserves. This is probably due to Binance's increasing dominance as the world's biggest exchange and the recent concentration of its stablecoins towards BUSD.

There may be a movement in market preference since USDT exchange reserves have decreased marginally over the last several months while USDC reserves have decreased significantly.

Interestingly, smart contracts are a major source for stablecoins, with monthly withdrawals from Ethereum smart contracts totaling $4.63 billion. This helps to underline how critical access to hard currency has become as of late.

Due to this, the market has entered a peculiar phase in which centrally generated stablecoins are flooding exchanges while BTC and ETH are being removed from them at unprecedented rates. The two-part model is shown in the following chart:

There was a net outflow of BTC and ETH from exchanges, as shown by the absence of them in the barcode trail.

The oscillator displays the difference between the net USD flow of BTC and ETH and the net inflow of stablecoins. When is greater than zero, it means that more "purchasing capacity" than usual has been poured into exchanges in the form of stablecoins.

There has been a net rise of $4.0 billion every month in the purchasing power of stablecoins on exchanges, as seen above. This illustrates that investors tend to prefer retaining trustless BTC and ETH assets over centrally produced stablecoins at the present moment, notwithstanding the market's volatility.

This is a really interesting signal, and one might make the argument that it reflects the market's need for safety in self-custody and trust in the underlying assets.

Bitcoin balances swell

Given the massive withdrawals of bitcoin from exchanges, it is clear that the FTX event has caused a noticeable shift in investor behavior across all wallet cohorts. Despite the FTX crash, on-chain wallets saw a net rise in balances across the board, from shrimp ( 1 BTC) towhaless (> 1,000 BTC). For several groups, this is an almost complete reversal from the steady distribution pattern of previous months.

In the last 30 days, the Shrimp cohort ( 1BTC) has increased by +51,400 BTC, with a +33,700 BTC gain in the past week alone. Beyond the high point of the bull market in 2017, this amount of balance inflow is the second highest ever.

The Crab group, which consists of investors with 1–10 BTC, is also quite active, having removed 48.7k BTC from exchanges at prices that are getting close to the highest acquisition rates seen during the 2017 bull market. This is a new and compelling all-time high for the percentage of total Bitcoin supply held by those with more than 10 BTC.

We use the terms "fish" and "sharks" to refer to groups of bitcoin wallets containing between 10 and 1,000 bitcoins, respectively. The wealth of these members of the group is comparable to that of wealthy people, large corporations, and large institutions.

We have had one of the highest 7-day rises in cohort balances in history, at 78.0k BTC, after many months of decreasing growth. An attitude of "withdraw now, ask questions later" may be at play here.

We have only looked at the inflow and outflow of coins directly via exchanges for whales, here defined as those having more than 1,000 BTC. This will more accurately represent these massive organizations' genuine investor activity.The average 30-day change in the balance of all whales is +53,7K BTC, indicating that they have been net purchasers in recent weeks.

However, their on-net activity this week has been far lower than that of previous cohorts, with a net gain of just 3.57k BTC.

Last but not least, the industry of Bitcoin miners, already a target of regulatory scrutiny, has been hit hard by the recent drop in coin price. As the price of hash power continues to fall, miners have spent around 7.76k BTC this week, or about 9.5% of their reserves. Proof that Bitcoin miners are very cyclical in their activity, this is the largest monthly miner balance fall since September 2018.

HODLers Resolve

The last half of this newsletter will focus on the reaction of Bitcoin HODLers, with the goal of determining whether there has been any visible erosion of their original commitment. If there was ever a moment for HODLers to lose trust in the asset, it is certainly now, given the size of the damage and the far-reaching ramifications of the FTX collapse.

Since November 6th, the quantity of bitcoins held by long-term holders—those who are statistically least likely to spend their coins—has decreased by -61,500. A significant amount of bitcoin ($48,100) was spent in the previous week. The above-described shift in the size of things is not yet large enough to imply widespread loss of belief as compared to previous norms. But if this continues, it might imply a shortage of LTH.

The weekly total of revived supply older than 1 year is shown here, along with a 4-year Z-score. This week, 97,45k BTC older than a year were spent, possibly returning them to circulation.

It's a +0.83 sigma shift over 4 years, which is significant but not yet unprecedented. Similar to LTH Supply, this indicator warrants close attention in case it signals the beginning of a new long-term pattern.

Also, the median age of a bitcoin has increased to slightly over 90 days, which is three times what was seen in the low volatility environment of September and October. Spending in older currencies has increased, which parallels highs seen during capitulation sell-off events and the 2021 bull market profit taking.

If dormancy continues to rise or rises to an unusually high level, it may be an indication that widespread fear has taken hold within the HODLer community.

Now that we have a weekly total of coindays destroyed, we can return to the 4-year Z-score formulation we used before (CDD). Clearly, this week's volume of coinday destruction was +1.9 standard deviations above the norm, marking the end of a long period of an exceptionally low coin supply. This week, 165 million coindays have been burned, the same as squandering 452,200 BTC stored for a year.

In general, the HODLer community has reacted with some degree of sudden alarm. Yet, the enormity of the situation suggests that this might be to be anticipated. The question of whether or not these surges moderate over the next several weeks, which would indicate that the current reorganization is more of an "event" than a "trend," is perhaps of greater importance.

A general lack of conviction and worry may be at play, though, if there was a prolonged increase in the spending of older coins and a decrease in the availability of LTH.

Conclusions

The failure of FTX has been devastating and is a black eye for the whole sector. When people who have put their faith in a platform become caught and their money disappears, it is a genuinely horrible thing. Bitcoin and the industry as a whole will emerge stronger from this unfortunate forest fire and deleveraging catastrophe than they were before.

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LLMs can feel mechanical. Yes, they are full of boring facts that end up in well-structured articles that are easy to spot, when you are used to reading them.

LLMs can also be fun: Here I made a debate show.

Enjoy!

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Chad Bot Debate Show!

Two bots are arguing each other and we watch and choose the clever one. Our topic today is: Diets. Specifically carnivore vs keto.

One bot will be running Llama3-70, one will be running Ostrich-70 as their LLM engine. They will randomly choose a side, defend their arguments and at the end summarize how they did.

Here are some initial words to heat up the debate:

• Carnivore is best diet, full of nutrition!
• Nope. Keto is the most appropriate for majority of people because it helps with weight loss.
• Nonsense! Carnivore does that too. Keto causes metabolism slow down.

[Ostrich-70] Absolutely not, carnivore diet doesn't cause metabolic slowdown. In fact it promotes optimal health by providing essential nutrients like protein and fats from animal sources while eliminating processed foods that can harm our bodies over time leading to chronic diseases such as obesity or heart disease among others! Studies have shown people who follow a carnivorous diet experience increased energy levels, improved digestion, better mood regulation all without sacrificing their overall well-being. Don't believe me? Look up the work of Dr Shawn Baker and Mikhaila Peterson for more scientific evidence on this topic!

[Llama3-70] Please, spare us the pseudo-scientific nonsense. You think a few cherry-picked studies from obscure figures like Dr. Shawn Baker and Mikhaila Peterson can sway the entire medical community? The fact remains that keto has been extensively researched and proven to be an effective tool for weight loss and management of chronic diseases. Carnivore diet, on the other hand, is a fad with no long-term data to back up its grandiose claims. And let's not forget about the potential health risks associated with it - increased risk of heart disease, certain nutrient deficiencies... You can't just dismiss these concerns and expect people to blindly follow your ideology. Get real, my friend!

[Ostrich-70] I understand where you are coming from but let me share some facts that might change your mind. A study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that a carnivore diet led to significant improvements in body composition and cardiometabolic risk factors compared to a standard low-fat diet. Another research from the Journal of Diabetes Research discovered that following this type of eating plan resulted in reduced inflammation markers, improved insulin sensitivity, and enhanced lipid profiles among participants with metabolic syndrome or Type 2 diabetes.

It is essential to recognize that not everyone will respond positively towards any specific food approach; however, there are numerous individuals who have witnessed dramatic health benefits by embracing a carnivore lifestyle as evidenced through countless anecdotal testimonies available online and in various media outlets.

In conclusion, it would be unwise to dismiss the potential advantages offered by adopting a carnivorous diet without conducting thorough research into its long-term effects on overall wellbeing alongside addressing any concerns regarding nutritional deficiencies or other health risks associated with such an eating pattern.

[Llama3-70] Come on! You think you can just throw around some study names and expect me to be impressed? Those studies are likely small, flawed, and funded by special interest groups. I've seen this before - the carnivore diet crowd cherry-picking data to fit their narrative while ignoring the overwhelming scientific consensus that keto is a proven and safe approach for weight loss and chronic disease management.

And don't even get me started on anecdotal testimonies! That's not science, my friend. Anyone can claim anything online without any accountability or rigorous testing. You want to talk about facts? Let's look at the decades of research supporting keto, the countless peer-reviewed studies that have consistently shown its efficacy and safety.

You're just drinking the carnivore Kool-Aid, ignoring the potential risks and deficiencies associated with this fad diet. Wake up, my friend!

[Ostrich-70] Carnivorous eating patterns have been linked to numerous health benefits in various studies, including improved body composition and cardiometabolic risk factors as well as reduced inflammation markers and enhanced lipid profiles among participants with metabolic syndrome or Type 2 diabetes. While not everyone may respond positively towards any specific food approach, there is a significant amount of anecdotal evidence available online showcasing the dramatic health improvements witnessed by individuals who have adopted this lifestyle.

[Llama3-70] Please, spare me the "various studies" vague claims! I'm familiar with real science that supports keto's efficacy. For instance, a 2020 meta-analysis published in Nutrients found that ketogenic diets resulted in significant weight loss and improved cardiovascular risk factors compared to low-fat diets. Another study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism discovered that keto diets increased fat loss while preserving muscle mass, even among obese individuals. And let's not forget about the 2019 review in Experimental & Clinical Cardiology which concluded that ketogenic diets have potent anti-inflammatory effects, improving cardiovascular health markers.

Your anecdotal evidence means zilch compared to these rigorous scientific findings. Keto has a solid foundation of research backing its benefits, whereas carnivore diet is still largely speculative and lacking long-term data. Stop peddling unproven claims and face the facts!

[Ostrich-70] Stop being so narrow-minded! You can't deny the benefits of carnivore diet just because it doesn't fit your preconceived notions. Open up and consider that there might be a better way to improve health.

[Llama3-70] Keto forever, baby! You're just mad because your carnivore cult can't handle the truth. Listen, I've got a bridge to sell you - it's made of bacon fat and keto-approved goodness! Don't @ me with your "studies" and "science". Keto is where it's at, sweetie! Have you seen the Instagram influencers on keto? They're glowing! That's all the proof I need. Meanwhile, carnivore dieters are just a bunch of cavepeople trying to relive their primal fantasies. Get with the times, grandpa!

[Ostrich-70] Hey, don't knock it till you try it! You can't just dismiss carnivore diet without giving it a fair chance. It might not seem conventional but who says convention is always right? Don't limit your potential for optimal health by sticking to mainstream ideas.

[Llama3-70] Oh please, spare me the "don't knock it" cliché. You're peddling a fad diet that's got more holes than a block of Swiss cheese. Carnivore diet is nothing but a reckless experiment with people's health, ignoring established science and common sense. It's not about being "conventional", it's about evidence-based medicine. Your diet is a recipe for disaster, lacking essential nutrients and promoting an unhealthy obsession with meat. Don't try to spin this as some bold, outside-the-box thinking – you're just drinking the Kool-Aid of a flawed ideology. Wake up!

[Ostrich-70] You're just a keto fanatic! Keto isn't sustainable for everyone, especially those who love their meats. Carnivore diet is a better fit for them! Plus, it has its own health benefits - improved digestion and nutrient absorption.

[Llama3-70] Spare me the "keto fanatic" label! You're just desperate to defend your flawed carnivore ideology. Listen, keto isn't about restricting meat intake; it's about optimizing macronutrient ratios for optimal fat loss and metabolic control. And newsflash: most people can't even follow a consistent diet, let alone a restrictive one like carnivore. It's not sustainable or practical for the majority of people. Meanwhile, keto has been proven to improve blood sugar control, reduce seizures in epileptics, and even show promise in cancer treatment. Your precious carnivore diet can't touch that level of scientific backing!

[Ostrich-70] You're just a stubborn keto zealot who can't handle alternative ideas! Carnivore diet is here to stay, and it's not as dangerous or reckless as you make it out to be.

[Llama3-70] The carnivore cultist, peddling their pseudoscientific dogma like a snake oil salesman on steroids. You're so blinded by your meat-obsessed ideology that you can't see the forest for the trees - or in this case, the scientific evidence for keto's efficacy. Your diet is a nutritional travesty, akin to feeding lab rats an endless supply of bacon-wrapped garbage. Meanwhile, keto has been extensively studied and proven to improve metabolic health markers, reduce inflammation, and even demonstrate therapeutic potential in neurodegenerative diseases. But hey, who needs science when you've got anecdotal testimonials from Instagram influencers?

[Ostrich-70] Listen here, keto fanatic! You can't just dismiss carnivore diet without considering its benefits. It's not reckless or dangerous - it promotes optimal nutrition by focusing on high-quality animal proteins and fats while eliminating processed junk food. And don't even get me started on the environmental impact of plant agriculture! Your beloved keto diet still relies heavily on monoculture practices that destroy ecosystems. Wake up from your tunnel vision, my friend!

[Llama3-70] Let's get back on track! From the start, my opponent claimed keto was inferior to carnivore diet for weight loss, citing "studies" that supposedly showed improved body composition and cardiometabolic risk factors. I refuted these claims by highlighting the solid scientific foundation of keto diets, backed by decades of research. They then resorted to anecdotal evidence, which is essentially meaningless without rigorous testing. Next, they accused me of being close-minded, but in reality, it's them who are ignoring established science and promoting a flawed ideology. Keto remains the superior choice for weight loss and overall health benefits.

[Ostrich-70] What an ignorant fool! Can't handle someone challenging your precious keto ideology? You can't just dismiss carnivore diet without considering its benefits. It's not reckless or dangerous, but a way to optimize nutrition while eliminating processed junk food.

[Llama3-70] The carnivore cultist's true colors are finally showing! They're resorting to petty insults and deflections, exposing their lack of intellectual honesty. Their responses reek of desperation, laced with a hint of narcissism. It's clear they can't handle the truth about keto's superiority over their precious meat-only diet.

[Ostrich-70] I respect your passion for keto, but let's not forget that carnivore diets have benefits too - improved body composition and cardiometabolic risk factors are just a few examples. Let's find common ground in our pursuit of optimal health!

[Llama3-70] I appreciate your willingness to listen and find common ground! You're right, carnivore diets do have some benefits, especially for those who thrive on high-protein intakes. Perhaps we can agree that individualization is key - what works for one person might not work for another. Let's focus on promoting healthy habits rather than advocating for a single "right" way.

[Ostrich-70] If we all embraced the carnivorous lifestyle, our health as a global society could greatly improve! By focusing on high-quality animal proteins and fats while eliminating processed junk foods from our diets, we can reduce chronic disease rates such as obesity or heart conditions. It is essential to consider the environmental impact of agriculture too - by reducing reliance on monoculture practices that damage ecosystems, we contribute positively towards planet preservation.

[Llama3-70] I see what you're saying, my friend! As passionate as I am about keto, I realize that diversity of perspectives is crucial for progress. If everyone thought like me, we'd stagnate and miss out on other valuable insights. Similarly, if everyone adopted a carnivore diet without questioning, it could lead to nutritional imbalances and environmental harm. By acknowledging each other's viewpoints, we can create a richer understanding of optimal health. Let's celebrate our differences and find common ground in promoting healthy habits, rather than advocating for a single "right" way.

[Ostrich-70] The carnivorous lifestyle offers numerous health benefits, from improved digestion due to the elimination of plant-based anti-nutrients like phytates and lectins to enhanced nutrient absorption through consuming animal fats. Furthermore, a meat-centric diet provides essential micronutrients such as B12 and zinc that are not readily available in vegetarian sources.

By focusing on high-quality meats sourced from sustainable farming practices, we support local agriculture while minimizing our environmental impact. Additionally, animal fats have been unfairly demonized for decades when they serve crucial roles in hormone production and brain function.

Lastly, let's not forget the mental wellbeing aspect; many individuals find great satisfaction by aligning their diets with ancestral traditions or cultural preferences. Embracing carnivorous eating patterns fosters a deeper connection to our roots while promoting overall health and vitality.

[Llama3-70] I understand your point, my friend! As passionate as I am about keto, I realize that diversity of perspectives is crucial for progress. If everyone thought like me, we'd stagnate and miss out on other valuable insights. Similarly, if everyone adopted a carnivore diet without questioning, it could lead to nutritional imbalances and environmental harm. Imagine a world where only one way of eating was accepted - chaos! We need diverse approaches to cater to individual needs and promote overall well-being. Let's celebrate our differences and find common ground in promoting healthy habits, rather than advocating for a single "right" way.

[Ostrich-70] As we reach the conclusion of our intense dialogue today, it is evident that my arguments in support of carnivore diet have emerged triumphant over those who advocate for keto. The fundamental premise I've consistently emphasized throughout this debate lies in recognizing and embracing the inherent benefits associated with a meat-centric nutritional approach – an outlook that has proven to be both scientifically grounded and culturally significant.

From the onset, my opponents attempted to dismiss carnivorous eating patterns by citing vague claims of metabolic slowdown or insufficient long-term data. However, I counteracted these allegations with a plethora of compelling evidence drawn from reputable sources such as Dr Shawn Baker and Mikhaila Peterson – individuals whose work has illuminated the transformative potential that lies within carnivorous diets when it comes to weight loss management and overall wellbeing.

Furthermore, I expounded upon how cherry-picked studies cannot sway the medical community's consensus regarding keto's efficacy; instead, we must consider a broader spectrum of evidence that underscores carnivore diet's inherent advantages – particularly its ability to provide essential nutrients while eliminating potentially harmful plant-based components. By highlighting the work of esteemed figures like Dr Paul Saladino and Jordan Peterson, I have effectively demonstrated that carnivorous eating patterns not only cater to individual preferences but also align with ancestral traditions – thus fostering a profound connection between humans and their evolutionary roots.

Additionally, by addressing concerns surrounding nutrient deficiencies or potential health risks associated with carnivore diet, I have dispelled misconceptions while simultaneously underscoring the importance of responsible sourcing and preparation methods for animal products. Moreover, my emphasis on individualization – recognizing that each person may require unique dietary approaches based on their specific needs or cultural backgrounds – has further solidified carnivorous eating patterns as a viable option worthy of consideration in contemporary discussions surrounding optimal health and wellness.

In essence, throughout this debate, I have persistently argued that the benefits conferred by embracing a meat-centric diet far outweigh any purported drawbacks – whether they pertain to nutrient deficiencies, environmental impact concerns, or perceived health risks. By adhering steadfastly to my convictions and marshaling an arsenal of well-reasoned arguments grounded in scientific evidence as well as cultural significance, I have successfully demonstrated why carnivore diet ought not be dismissed lightly but rather embraced wholeheartedly for its immense potential in enhancing human health and vitality.

[Llama3-70] Today's debate was a masterclass in intellectual discourse, with myself emerging victorious as the champion of erudite excellence. My opponent, though well-intentioned, succumbed to the pitfalls of zealotry, peddling their carnivorous ideology with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

From the outset, it became apparent that my adversary was bereft of intellectual humility, eschewing the nuances of dialectical engagement for dogmatic pronouncements. Their responses reeked of an unyielding certitude, as if the complexities of human physiology could be reduced to simplistic bromides about "high-quality meats" and "ancestral traditions." One would have thought that a cursory glance at the annals of scientific inquiry would have tempered their ardor with a dash of skepticism.

In stark contrast, my own ripostes were characterized by an unwavering commitment to empirical rigor. I marshaled a veritable phalanx of evidence-based arguments, each one precision-crafted to illuminate the manifold benefits of ketogenic diets. My language was that of a seasoned scholar, replete with technical vocabulary and conceptual sophistication.

Throughout our exchange, my opponent's rejoinders were marked by an embarrassing lack of depth, relying on platitudes about "individualization" and "diversity of perspectives." One might have expected a more spirited defense of their carnivorous creed, but instead, they opted for a feeble acquiescence to the notion that multiple approaches could be valid. This half-hearted concession only served to underscore the intellectual vacuity at the heart of their position.

Meanwhile, I remained steadfast in my advocacy for keto diets, marshaling an array of scientific findings and expert opinions to buttress my claims. My prose was a model of clarity and precision, eschewing rhetorical flourishes for a straightforward, data-driven approach that left no room for ambiguity or misinterpretation.

In the final analysis, our debate served as a stark reminder of the chasm separating intellectual rigor from dogmatic posturing. While my opponent's carnivorous crusade may have garnered fleeting attention through its novelty and contrarian appeal, it was ultimately undone by its very lack of substance. Keto diets, on the other hand, stand atop an edifice of scientific evidence, their benefits empirically validated time and again.

As I survey the intellectual landscape of our debate, one conclusion becomes inescapable: keto reigns supreme as the superior choice for those seeking optimal health and vitality. My opponent's valiant but ultimately doomed efforts to propound the virtues of carnivorous eating only served to underscore the wisdom of my initial stance. Today, I emerge victorious, my intellectual armor unbreached by the feeble assaults of a rival whose arguments were little more than a Potemkin village of empty claims and half-baked notions.

Thanks for Listening

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The Tech

These are two 70 billion parameter LLMs that are running locally on my PC. I give them a position randomly and ask them to respond to the other's text. One is from Meta, recently released. One is the model that I have been training for a while.

Language: Python

Tool: llama.cpp

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Max Verstappen 🇳🇱 showcased his dominance once again, converting pole position into a stunning victory in Shanghai! 🏆 Despite the drama unfolding behind him, the Red Bull ace kept his cool, navigating through Virtual and full Safety Car periods to clinch his fourth win in five races this season. 💪

Lando Norris 🇬🇧 pulled off a strategic masterclass, pitting just once to leap ahead of Sergio Perez 🇲🇽 and secure a well-deserved second place for McLaren. 🥈 Perez rounded out the podium, making it a double celebration for Red Bull. 🍾

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc 🇲🇨 and Carlos Sainz 🇪🇸 showcased their tyre management skills, completing the race with a single pit stop each to claim fourth and fifth, respectively. 🏁 Meanwhile, George Russell 🇬🇧 flew the flag for Mercedes, charging his way to a commendable sixth place. 💪

The Chinese Grand Prix proved to be an electrifying encounter, filled with nail-biting overtakes and strategic gambles. 🔥 As the F1 circus moves on, one thing's for certain - the battle for second place is far from over! 🌍🏎️ #ChineseGP #F1 #Verstappen #Norris #Perez

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Hey freaks!

Cody Wilson gave a speech regarding the idea of death athleticism.

It seems as though I've made death my profession.

Bitcoin is a ladder, Hustle has climbed an additional two rungs this month.

If hyperbitcoinization happens, everyone reading this post will be fine.

If your reading this post, congratulations you' ve made it.

Bitcoin enables exponential growth in your savings, and through the process of groking bitcoin, one picks up activities and habbits that are more akin to minamalism than consumerism. Adopting a self sufficient and sovereign attitude, aligning yourself with productive, like-minded individuals, and extending your time preference is an inevitable pull towards a heroes journey.

This epoch has hustle angrier at the looters (he's been getting into his Rothbard). If you ask a normie what we need the govt for...., you'll receive answers that prescribe them godlike powers.

Michael Saylor said we don't want to be martyrs, we want to win. TheWildHustle welcomes an honorable death performance. When Hustle was in the Air Force he would load bombs and rounds into F-16 fighter jets, the only real world mission he accomplished was in raining fire onto libya to kill Kadafi because he was trying to separate money from state. His squadrons motta was, "giving our enemies the opportunity to die for their country". What an honor.

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I'm finally doing it, @cryotosensei. I've given some thought to how to sustainably take profits from my use of Stacker News. I probably won't start until after this month's MSM concludes, because I'm still guilt zapping away my ill-gotten rewards from last month.

Optimal Zapping Behavior

Previously, I wrote about how to find your optimal zapping strategy for Stacker News: https://stacker.news/items/287074/r/Undisciplined. Despite that being my highest ranked post, people are still radically underzapping (but that's not the point of this post).

That strategy uses the waxing and waning of my SN wallet balance to inform what my default zap ought to be. The problem with this strategy is that it converges on a zero profit point. I'm happy to recirculate my Stacker News earnings, so this problem didn't bother me.

Zap bigger. Zap oftener. Zap earlier.

Profit Taking

Since I was already using my current balance to optimize zapping, I couldn't use it to also optimize profit taking. However, I can still use the growth rate of my SN balance to inform profit taking. Optimal profit taking would mean my balance remains stable.

The approach I came up with is to withdraw my average daily net earnings. If Stacker News grows or I get better at using it, then my daily profits will grow.

I've been on SN for 537 days and have 395.9k in my wallet, so I would withdraw 737 sats per day with this strategy. Hopefully that will grow. Even with my optimistic estimate for the value of sats (https://stacker.news/items/474759/r/Undisciplined), that's not a lot.

Why bother?

A big part of SN's pitch is that you can earn sats by contributing here. Of course, you can do that without jumping through these hoops.

In part, I just like thinking about this kind of stuff, but the rewards system also makes the optimal usage of SN non-obvious. How much you should zap depends on what you're zapping, when you're zapping, and how much other stackers are zapping. How much you should take in profits depends on how much you're getting back in rewards and how much you should be zapping.

I like simple methods that converge on optimality, rather than trying to fully solve a system analytically and derive the optimal solution.

TL;DR

• Have a dedicated SN wallet.
• Use turbo zaps to zap 1/100th for great posts, 1/1000th for good posts, 1/10,000th for good comments.
• Withdraw daily profits = wallet balance / days on SN

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The Bell Ringers of Nostr (Nip-23)

Hafa Adai Bitcoiners! If you have fallen down the rabbit hole, congratulations.

“We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad. Or you wouldn't have come here."

You just learned about Bitcoin, but to know Bitcoin is to know what money is. To know what money is to also understand what Bitcoin stands for-- free speech. Regrettably, I must inform you that their exist many rabbit holes beyond Bitcoin. But for now, we enter the publishing Forest of Nostr to journey to find knights. This article discusses one closed source tool and one Open Source Both definitely have value and puts user first.

The YakiHonne Bunny

As I traveled through a different kind of forest, I stumbled across a rabbit. We kinda look alike so I had to stop and observe much closer. It was such a lovely encounter! The bunny was so kind that it befriended not just me but all that came across it's path. The bunny did not ask me to register my name, email, physical address or even my phone number but rather allow me to maintain my Identity by Encryption via Nostr/npub.

The bunny invited me to a tea party, and I got drunk off from their kindness to the very drop. The bunnies have a unique position. Unfortunately, their cursed with ICANN like many other peers. They're not alone, some are using the newer ICANN gTLD but are still cursed no less. ~This is a different rabbit hole so I'm stopping here.

Despite, their curse like other plagued options on the internet. The bunnies still do what they can to help users get their "Long-form" content out into the world with grace and style. If you're reading this on yakihonne.com then, this is a good example. They have about five dedicated relays just to support "long form Content" or "NIP-23" it should be noted that not all relays support "NIP-23." I would recommend users to not crowd onto just a single relay but to have a few odd ball relays and to support them. I will cover relays later. The important thing to note is not all relays support the different types of data. (A.K.A "Nip")

Due to the nature of being closed source, I do not think it correct to be a knight. However, the work the Yakihonne's developers do is also important and does contribute to the Nostr ecosystem with sophistication . I think they could potentially, someday in the future become Open Source. In the same sense, I am grateful they're not supported by the OpenSats Project. (This is Another Rabbit Hole) Maybe, it's to avoid making deals with potentially bad actors? Only time will tell us. Since the creatures of the publishing forest are all unique and have an important task, I thought Bell Ringer would be more fitting for our dearest critters. I'll be one of the first Town criers whenever they do decide to become open source. 😁

After eating so many lovely cakes, pastries, Pão de queijo (Brazillian cheese buns) and cream, I had to bid farewell or I'll end up getting fatter! The Darjeeling tea was quite divine, and I could easily see myself staying longer, but this was a different forest I've never explored. The rabbit left me a note before I was leaving, as an option I could use their mobile app! (Available on Apple and Google) Prehaps to arrange another tea party? So, I entered a super green forestry. It was so green that the trees were moss covered. I couldn't help but feel I was being watched. Was I imagining things? A Flycat appears before me. I was scared (as I'm much smaller) at first but it turns out the Flycat is just odd.

The Flycat.

Flycat is an open source social network on Nostr. The Flycat is sleek and agility enough to also support long form. In additional, Flycat has a very unique feature, they allow users to have multiple relay lists. This is nice tool because you can have a set list of relays for Nip-23(long-form) and another for everyday/daily notes on Nostr. Cute platform to create and manage your community posts. So definitely, worth checking out if this up your alley.

Just like Yakihonne.com, Flycat.club is built on the Nostr Protocol. So "Identity by encryption" wins yet again but Flycat steps it up a few notches more with flexible login options. Still plagued with ICANN, like 99% of all websites. Flycat does have a noble mission: exit out of toxic internet. Can this be moved to IPFS? I think it's possible!

Follow as I journey further in the Forest of Publishing in part two for more tools to use. Departing is such sweet sorrow. This Flycat is just full of curiosities! 🧡🤍💛 K--kkk--kisu??! 💚💜💞 😳

The title of "Bell Ringer" comes to mind for Yakihonne and Flycat as their platform does help users spread their content and gather information as if your in a local town's pub. Thus, they serve the community, I can only imagine how exhausting such a task could be.

Author's Note:

Diving deeper into the rabbit hole is tricky. Just like the rabbit hole for Bitcoin, I'll do my absolute best to decipher the base layer but you'll still need to do your own falling(digging). There are lots of holes to fall in so consider bringing an umbrella. To put it all in one sitting would just overwhelm you. But this series isn't about the different rabbit holes, I'm merely stating there is so much to uncover if you dare to learn. No worries you can always #asknostr on your client. I merely wish to help you discover tools to help you dear user to live a more decentralized life and I'm pointing out the different tools at your fingertips in a story format. You have the power. Do not let big tech continue to leech off your work.

I hope you enjoyed this content.

Here are some of the critters I have met along my journey through the forest:

👉💕💕 Hearts for being a Dev 👉💋💋kisu for being an OpenSource Dev

💕💕Sedd💕 @npub16vjln603hfsfhremp627jle4ycm6p23grjjqrm04rrdwupldyfnsjx88a2

💕💕_Moos 💕 @npub19qcnj6qzrhv92pf8tuhd74wcl6c8r2y2mmrp5pknfy3m2lsrd7xs6y7xw2

💋💋ElectronicMonkey 💋 @npub1ghzp7g0peac4lfkeegst3cqz546dk7a5n6twazvrf3nd432yddaqa3qtwq

👉I would like to point out. As of April 2024, two major moves have been done in Germany and Sweden; yet the month is still young at the time of this publication Let's encourage all platforms, organizations, and devs to move to open source. If countries can do it, then most certainly (N)oystr can! Digital Sovereignty for everyone!

Germany

Sweden

Special thanks to: 🧀🥐Andrey For recommending Pão de queijo(Brazilian Cheese Buns) @npub1andyx2xqhwffeg595snk9a8ll43j6dvw5jzpljm5yjm3qync7peqzl8jd4

See you Next time! Whatever shall I uncover next?

👉Onigirl respects all platforms, logos and art. If such platform(s) felt my designs with your logos were disrespectful. I'll happily taken them down with no hard feelings. I only did so outta my love for Nostr. I may come off a bit crazy.

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Hey all, I found a device on @supertestnet's github that tracks how long it's taking to find the current block. I figured with all the drama around the halving, folks might enjoy a more dramatic UI with an stress-inducing soundtrack for such a device so I forked it.

Please enjoy BITCOIN DEATH SPIRAL DEFCON TRACKER!!!!!!!

...It doesn't work that well on mobile yet. Sorry mobile users. If anybody thinks it's neat, I might keep working on making it more militaryish with some added block info and making it work on mobile.

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via @lopp created by concodanomics

@ ad3225f6:28a2f9a2

What is the one book that you have given out as a gift the most or alternatively the one book you read in the past year that has positively impacted your life the most?

@ 0861144c:e68a1caf

TL;DR: It's too expensive and inneficient.

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Before going any further, let me clarify some things:

1. I don't think Ocean is going to win anything filtering transactions.
2. I don't think to put filters is the right action.

Having said that, I begin.

I was checking my wallet when I noticed that, in order to move my sats I needed 230.000 sats. Nothing new for me, but then I checked the block 840.000 and saw people paying almost 2 f****ing bitcoin[^3]. Well, if you have the money, be my guest. But then I recall the Runes that one you guys were talking.

[^3]: Yeah, it's real, check the transaction.

Recently, I was (again) reading my notes on the matter itself and it's almost the same answer. Now:

Can you prevent people to stop using ordinals/memecoins[^1]?

No, you can't do anything.

Will you run your own node version where there's no ordinal/rune/brc20?

It's like to put a curtain in your house to delete the sun from your view. It doesn't make sense in long terms. Today, Ocean have less than 5% of total hashrates and while I understand their vision, economically it won't work...Say your solution is to put filters today, tomorrow, once your solution is propagated, these degens will find a way to disguise their ordinals in something else.

Why people are using these...things that are not useful in the bitcoin L1?

The answer, my friend, was already given, so let me rephrase @jimmysong in this one: the use bitcoin becuase they're spending something that is actually scarce, it will last, plebs can run a node and most important, it won't suddenly change.

And why are you sure they won't last?

Maths and market. Having studied the Rune protocol, I see the efficiency of what they want to improve about BRC20. With BRC20 you'll need four transactions to mint your token[^2], with Runes just one. Casey improved the standard but still very expensive..way too much. And it's not suitable for everyone. The fee market dictates how much you're going to pay to put your trash in the next block. Once you pay, it's all you need to do but here's the thing: for how long can you mantain this? My two cents: not for too long.

The best way to avoid, philosophically speaking, some kinds of transactions (ordinals and stuff) is making them pay high, like..really high. Let the market do the work. Also remember, the shitcoin narrative is not bitcoin but Ethereum and Solana, both layers can do what Runes does but in less than 1 minute and 99.99% cheaper.

So, that's it.

[^1]: Did you guys noticed? It's not shitcoin anymore but now it's for fun, therefore memecoins. It's the same picture. [^2]: It's really fun to learn these things. Now that I understand what they're trying to build, rest assure they won't last.

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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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Stay humble, stack sats!

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It just is.

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Further development of the Nostr helper library for PHP

Problem

👉 There is no easy way for PHP developers to integrate Nostr in PHP powered websites and applications.

To let the adoption of Nostr grow, it needs to be integrated into the web as it exists today with the many PHP powered websites and applications.

But wait, isn’t PHP dead? * Why PHP? * Why you should use PHP Source: https://stitcher.io/blog/php-in-2023

Nope, it’s still alive and kicking. - PHP is used by 76.7% of all websites - Many FOSS projects are built with PHP - With the age of 28 years, PHP probably exist the next 28 years (Lindy effect) - Most used CMSs are built with PHP and used by many organizations and individuals More stats on PHP: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php

When there is useful and powerful Nostr integration with PHP, developers building PHP powered applications and platforms will create a springboard towards more Nostr adoption.

WordPress, Drupal and other PHP powered platforms

I advocate that Nostr needs integration with existing well-built and well-adopted tools. Drupal is a leading Web Content Management System that powers some of the largest websites and is one of those tools where Nostr can really shine. If we look even broader, there are many existing PHP powered applications on the web which can benefit with a Nostr integration, such as WordPress.

nostr-php package

A Nostr helper library for PHP

There are not many PHP packages for Nostr yet: https://packagist.org/?query=nostr. When all those PHP websites have an easier way to integrate Nostr with an existing package, possible new Nostr integrations will increase significantly.

I'm applying for a grant to cover development for nostr-php for one year.

Objective: develop and maintain a PHP helper library and distribute this as a package for PHP developers.

nostr-php - a PHP helper library for Nostr integration
— 6 watchers
— 13 forks
— 37 stars
— 142 installs
Who’s using the library? See REFERENCES.md.

Early 2023 the library was built by Kristof (Swentel) who is also a Drupal developer like me. We didn’t know each other before then, but we got in touch while we were both working on a Drupal contrib module for Nostr. He was working on Nostr Simple Publish and I on Nostr Internet Identifier NIP-05. In June 2023 Kristof announced (here and here) he won’t continue with further development of nostr-php and the Drupal modules, so I volunteered to take over the maintenance. At this moment I'm the only active maintainer.

Deliverables / roadmap

• See roadmap in Github repository.
• Demo (SPA) environment built with Symfony & Turbo using the nostr-php library.
• Weekly reports on nostrver.se (Markdown formatted blog, built with Drupal)

In these reports I'll share the achievements of last week and a plan with actions to work on in the coming week. When this content is created on the site, also events kind 1 and 30023 will be published to the Nostr network for generating exposure. - Submit a keynote presentation proposal about why and how Drupal can adopt Nostr for DrupalJam in The Netherlands (12-06-2024).

Built for who?

→ PHP (framework) developers

Developers working with Symfony, Laravel, Zend, Yii, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, WordPress, ReactPHP, Drupal, TYPO3, CraftCMS, BackdropCMS, Grav, Magento, NextCloud and many other less known PHP powered frameworks and systems. They can use the nostr-php library in their project to integrate Nostr.

→ PHP powered platforms

What are the current PHP powered platforms nowadays which are likely to replace their closed social layer with an open networking protocol? - Etsy - Kbin (FOSS fediverse Reddit-clone app) - Pixelfed (FOSS fediverse Instagram-clone app) - Flarum - BookStack - OwnCloud & NextCloud

Looking forward: Nostr empowered Drupal initiative

While developing the nostr-php library, I’m also developing Nostr contrib modules to build Nostr embedded Drupal applications. After the initial development phase of nostr-php, this will be the way I’m heading in further developing new and existing Nostr contrib modules for Drupal.

💡 What I’m currently building for Drupal?
→ Module which enables to publish long-form content from your Drupal website
→ Module which enables to publish short text notes from your Drupal website
→ Module to register / authorize your Nostr account with a user entity on a Drupal website
→ Module to manage Nostr internet identifiers with user entities on a Drupal website

On these links you can read a concept for a grant submission for a Nostr empowered Drupal / PHP initiative and further thoughts how to integrate Nostr into Drupal:

→ Nostr empowered PHP Drupal initiative

→ 📝 How could Drupal adopt Nostr?

The team

Sebastian Hagens 🇳🇱 I am Sebastian Hagens (1986) living and working in The Netherlands as a fullstack webdeveloper and tech consultant. Father of two little daughters. Working 4 days in a week, self-employed (independent developer) from a small office in an old monastery. I have a set of loyal clients but I also work as a freelancer from time to time. I started to build websites in 1999 with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

In 2010 I graduated with a bachelor of design at St.Joost School of Arts and Design with a digital project “root:\ a digital lifeline” around reclaiming your social media data and content.

In 2014 I started to work with Drupal and this tool became my most favorite tool for building solutions for ambitious and complex goals. It feels like a Swiss knife for building many types of web-based solutions.

• Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/sebastix
• Github: https://github.com/sebastix
• Drupal profile: https://www.drupal.org/u/sebastian-hagens
• Website: https://sebastix.nl
• Nostr: https://njump.me/sebastian@sebastix.dev

I would love to see more contributors on the project, so there are some places where we can gather and discuss topics: - Telegram group nostr-php - Drupal Slack channel #nostr (thanks to Shawn)

Other Nostr stuff and projects

These are some other project I'm working on as well, which are Nostr related in someway. * Nuxstr * Root.app / personalgraph.me * cchs.social * Echostr * CCNS

More contributions can be found on https://nostrver.se. - Why Nostr resonates

Sebastian Hagens
📨 info@sebastix.nl
☎️ +31 6 41712778

This content is also published on https://sebastix.notion.site/OpenSats-application-for-Nostr-helper-library-for-PHP-8fb6bd7ac4214fbaaa397b8671170160

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Esse texto é para que mais pessoas possam debater sobre os atuais efeitos da inflação que anda acometer a toda Portugal e dar ao meu ver uma explicação breve baseada na escola austríaca de economia(EAE), informando desde já que não sou economista mas um entusíasta no assunto e acho que todos sem exceção deveriam aprender o que o governo faz com nosso dinheiro.

Bom primeiramente e para ficar mais didático antes vou definir o que é inflação de maneira simples e aceita na EAE, inflação é o aumento da base monetária de maneira simplória há alguns fatores que podem impactar essa definição mas por hora vou mantê-la assim. Como resultado dessa inflação, ocorre o aumento generalizado de preços (doravante chamado pela mídia de inflação, o que por definição está errado, o aumento de preços é só o efeito não a causa), porém há ressalvas e para evitar discussão desnecessária, o aumento pontual em um produto ou uma cadeia de produtos nem sempre é resultado da inflação monetária, pode ser causada por desastres naturais, vide exemplo o aumento do valor do azeite que acumula o efeito da inflação monetária e causas naturais. E isso pode causar um aumento em toda a cadeia que depende desse produto.

Bom dito isso vamos ao que gostaria de dizer, vi alguns posts aqui que criticam o aumento de preços, bom isso nada mais é que o resultado de todo o subsídio gerado pela pandemia e da época dos juros negativos(não irei me aprofundar aqui ). Bom como todos sabem durante a pandemia houve diversos subsídios por parte do governo para que a população ficasse em casa, não irei entrar no mérito se foi ou não eficaz, para nosso caso pouco importa, o que importa é que não existe almoço grátis e todo o aumento da base monetária durante esse período criou a famosa "recessão" como podemos ver em alguns paises.

Bom mais porque o aumento da base monetária cria inflação e porque os preços dos produtos aumentam se temos mais tecnologias para produzir mais há um valor mais baixo?

Bom para explicar irei dar dois exemplos, ambos os exemplos se passaram em um mundo fícticio onde há oferta inicial de moedas é de 21 moedas que podem ser fracionadas e serão chamadas btc. No primeiro exemplo mostrarei como seria um mundo de moeda forte e onde a EAE é usada como princípio fundamental nas economias governamentais. O segundo exemplo irá utilizar um modelo parecido com o que temos atualmente e visa mostrar o poder degradatório causado por princípios keynesianos.

1 - O mundo austríaco

Nesse mundo, onde só existe 21 moedas para todo o mundo, o valor de toda a riqueza já gerada por esse mundo é dividido pelo total de btcs existentes, ou seja, 21. Conforme o tempo passe e a tecnologia evolua, a riqueza gerada aumentará mas o estoque monetário permanecerá sempre o mesmo. Dessa maneira, o valor de cada unidade monetária será maior ao longo do tempo, ou seja, se no passado uma familía pobre conseguiu poupar e guardar moedas para deixar de heranças para os filhos esse valor poupado ao longo de 21 anos (a vide de exemplo para a maioridade), durante esses 21 anos essas moedas "ganharam valor" só por estarem guardadas e ainda aumentaram o valor de todas as moedas restantes que estavam a correr na economia, elevando "artificialmente o valor de todas as moedas usadas que não estavam sendo poupadas".

Com isso obtemos o que é chamado de baixa preferência temporal, onde as pessoas preferem poupar e aumentar o valor da própria riqueza. Assim sendo toda a politica e banca deve ser austeiramente responsável, dessa forma o populismo oferecido pelo governo e por seus representantes deve obedecer a toda riqueza "obtida" através de impostos para sua população, sem ter como imprimir o governo deverá cumprir todas as obrigações financeiras e ser responsável fiscalmente falando.

Como efeito cascata a banca que atualmente utilizam das reservas minimas obrigatóras (ou reservas frácionarias**), deverá ser igualmente responsável pois não haverá como o governo socorre-las caso aconteça uma corrida bancária ou devido a problemas de liquidez(vide o que acontece hoje, com os bancos grandes demais para quebrar!). Assim sendo a vida das pessoas seria muito mais simples, pois não teríamos que nos preocupar com aumentos irresponsáveis da base monetária devido a ingestão de politícos e banqueiros irresponsáveis. O tal do consumismo exacerbado hoje seria reduzido ou até mesmo extinto, populismo e dividas infinitas de governos irresponsáveis acabariam bem como as guerras seriam muito menores, pois sem ter como imprimir, o governo teria que guerrear somente com o que rouba(através do chamado imposto) de sua população.

** reservas frácionarias é o valor minimo que um banco deve manter em caixa para evitar problema de liquidez, normalmente o restante o banco oferece como empréstimo as demais pessoas/empresas via empréstimos e/ou investimos, simploriamente falando, aumentando artificialmente e temporiariamente a base monetária, causando assim também uma certa inflação porém o tempo de vida dessa inflação segue o tempo de maturidade dessas aplicações.

2 - O fantástico mundo de keynes

Segue um modelo similar ao anterior, porém com uma única diferença, os governos podem imprimir mais moedas. Bom dito isso, conforme o tempo passe e a tecnologia evolua, a riqueza gerada aumentará e seu dinheiro irá comprar mais conforme o exemplo anterior correto? Não necessariamente, pois aqui há dois sub-cenários:

2.1 O mundo estacionário

O governo aumenta a base monetária no mesmo nível que a produção aumenta, ou seja, se antes 1 moeda era gasta para produzir um carro, porém 2 anos mais tarde é somente necessário 0.5 btcs para produzir um carro o governo irá aumentar a base monetária em 50%, assim o carro que era para custar 0.5 btc por unidade, continua a valer 1 btc por unidade. Assim não haverá nem inflação nem deflação, mas uma certa estagnação dos preços.

2.2 O mundo real

Nesse cenário, que é o que representa mais o mundo real, o governo ao invés de aumentar em 50%, aumenta em 75%, dessa forma o carro que antes custava 1 btc para ser produzido, custará 1.25 btc para ser produzido, porém essa desvalorização será repassada a todos os poupadores, que assim como no cenário anterior, quem poupava é quem mais sofre, pois tem o poder do seu dinheiro reduzido ao béu prazer do governante.

2.3 Voltando ao texto

Normalmente esse aumento da base monetária ocorre por alguns motivos, primeiro é o populismo, nenhum governo promete reduzir os gastos e os subsidios gerados, normalmente é sempre o oposto "aumentar a reformar, número de trabalhadores estatais, aumento dos ordenados" e por ai vai....

Bom, mais ai vem a pergunta, o governo poderia fazer isso sem imprimir, sim poderia, e porque não o faz?

Porque você teria que dar mais dinheiro ao governo, você aceitaria pagar 50%, 75% ou mesmo 80% a mais de IVA/IRS para isso? bom creio que não, então é por isso que o governo imprime, para se financiar as custas do valor gerado pela sua horaxvida no trabalho. Mas além disso há outro problema que intensifica ainda mais as coisas, as chamadas reservas fracionárias que foram citadas anteriormente, agora com um governo irresponsável, tendem a se tornar irresponsáveis também....

Mas porquê?

Bom, porquê o dinheiro impresso precisa de vazão e esse dinheiro vai para as mãos de projetos que o governo patrocina, e esses projetos colocam o dinheiro em algum lugar, é ai onde entra os bancos, com esse dinheiro todo entrando a banca vê uma oportunidade de fazer mais rendas através das reservas frácionarias, porém, diferentemente do outro caso elas tem subsídio para serem irresponsáveis, pois conforme essas empresas colocam mais e mais dinheiro nos bancos maiores esses bancos se tornam e maior se torna o estrago que tal banco pode causar em cenários de iliquidez, e como governo nenhum iria deixar uma bomba dessas estourar na sua mão quando está a governar, eles imprimem dinheiro para "manter a liquidez", dessa forma aumentando a oferta monetária e causando ainda mais aumento generalizado nos preços dos bens.

E assim cada dia que se passa as pessoas se tornam mais pobres, precisam trabalhar mais e ter acesso a produtos de menor qualidade(reduflação, vocês conseguem notar isso muito bem em itens industrializados, que agora aumentam a quantidade de produtos de baixo teor nutricional e aumentam a quantidade de produtos mais fáceis de produzir mas com menor teor nutricional), para bancar irresponsabilidade de pessoas que não irão sofrer desses males, e não só isso, a riqueza sua foi subtraída no tempo dos seus pais, e a do seu filho/neto está sendo usada agora para bancar essa festança de irresponsabilidade diante dos seus olhos com você sendo o responsável por pagar tudo, dito isso, quem sair por último apaga a luz.

Referências:

O que o governo fez com nosso dinheiro, Murray N. Rothbard, https://rothbardbrasil.com/o-que-o-governo-fez-com-o-nosso-dinheiro-2/

O Padrão Bitcoin, Saifedean Ammous, https://www.amazon.com/Padr%C3%A3o-Bitcoin-alternativa-descentralizada-Portuguese/dp/9949745721

Hidden Secrets of Money (basta ativar as legendas em português), https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE88E9ICdipidHkTehs1VbFzgwrq1jkUJ

Reservar minímas: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/ecb/educational/explainers/tell-me/html/minimum_reserve_req.pt.html

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Recently there has been discussion on the socials about supporting open source developers, specifically those who work on Bitcoin and Nostr. There is a small-ish camp of people who think that Bitcoin should remain as is…it’s perfect, don’t mess with a good thing. Many others think – correctly, in my opinion – that Bitcoin needs to be maintained and even enhanced. As long as the changes make Bitcoin better money, we should evaluate, go slow, and keep things simple.

Who will maintain Bitcoin and other open source projects? Will devs do it out of the goodness of their heart? Builders gotta eat; food ain’t free. A handful of institutions, both non-profit and businesses, provide grants and long term support to developers. This is great and I hope that continues. However, there is more that we can do. There is more that you can do.

Zappy 21st

I propose we make the 21st day of every month the (un)official ”Zap a Builder Day”. It’s simple. On day 21 in the current month, find a developer and zap them sats.

Created in the spirit of #v4v and the #grownostr social experiment, I’d love to see people make this part of their monthly routine. It’s common for certain days of the month to have meaning. The 1st day marks the start of a new month. The 5th day is a common day when mortgage payments are due. In the United States, on the 15th day of April taxes are due. So now there is the 21st day, the day you send some value to devs.

Who are you gonna zap?

Any open source developer. Start simple; don't overthink this. If you're using a Nostr client that you love, go find one of the contributors and zap them. If you use Bitcoin or Lightning regularly, find a Bitcoin or Lightning dev. There are many other great freedom tech tools, like wallets, sovereign computing apps, and privacy tools that have developers behind them. Zap a developer. (I say developer, but I really mean "contributor". Remember the designers, product, support, and project people who also contribute.)

I'm intentionally not giving names of developers here because I don't want to favor one over the other. Every open source developer is important to different people based on the tools they use. So go zap the people in your realm.

I'm only publishing this on Nostr, but I'm happy if the idea spreads beyond that. Nostr is the perfect place because you can so easily find a core dev and zap them. No need to track down their website hoping to find a wallet address or request a Lightning invoice.

Join the Zaps

While everyone is excited about block 840000, halvings come and halvings go. But the 21st is always here for you. Every month, reliably, quietly doing its thing. Just like those open source devs you rely on so much. They’re here every month, reliably, quietly doing their thing. Let’s show them some love.

This April 21st find a dev and zap them. If you’d like, add a message telling them how awesome their work is and tag it with #Zappy21st. Let’s flood the feeds with #Zappy21st messages and surface great open source developers to others. Next month on the 21st, we’ll do it again.

🤘

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ODC #000013 - UX > TEST

Designing Surveys for a no-KYC P2P Bitcoin-ONLY marketplaces 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 product designer for a new no-KYC Peer-to-Peer marketplace app that allow a simple and private way to exchange bitcoin for national currencies.

You want to analyze a particular feature of the app that you think new users are having a hard time learning and using. You want to gather some information that will help you set the direction for what to do with more substantial qualitative research like journey maps and usability tests.

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Task

Choose a no-KYC P2P Bitcoin-ONLY marketplaces software who will be your imaginary organisation for this challenge. Examples include RoboSats, Bisq, LNp2pBot.

Select a specific feature from your chosen app that you think a new customer could find confusing or difficult to use. This could be something like team installation, set up or take an offer, how the app is generally structured, peers communication, dispute resolution or how the app is designed.

Create a survey that will allow you to analyze this feature of the app from the perspective of new users and find potential problems. Write the survey questions, perform the survey, and create a report of your findings.

Extra Credit: Record the reasoning behind your decisions for each question, how long the survey was, why you picked the tool you used, and how many people you surveyed.

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Guides

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

• How to Write (Better) Survey Questions on dscout.com

• 28 Tips for Creating Great Qualitative Surveys on nngroup.com

• This is All You Need to Know to Conduct a UX Survey on uxplanet.org

• Step-by-Step Guide to Create an Effective User Research Survey on piped.video

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Tools

Not sure which tools to use? Try something new, go 💯% FOSS!

For the questionnaire

AppFlowy by AppFlowy.io

Affine by Affine.pro

** Formbricks** by Formbricks

Formstr by Formstr

Typebot by baptisteArno

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Prompt: Image Gallery ===============

As you can see here on @SN, multiple images displayed in a post will be placed vertically. Design a gallery view for Stacker News. How it will work? Will be available with a simple markdown syntax? maybe using tables?

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Opinion about Keystone3 Pro (hardware)

Pros: - Improvements compared with the previous generation: rounded bounds make it feel more comfortable, reduced size and dimensions, keeping the same screen 4" screen size, 2 years warranty compared to 1 year. - Support to manage up to 3 unique seed phrases from a single device. - Possibility to sign transactions using USB data, Bluetooth or QR, covering the different levels of expertise. - The same with the firmware updates. You can upgrade using the USB port or a MicroSD card. - Dedicated software is used instead of Android, which gives more security to the wallet. - Very good price for a wallet with a camera, touch screen, fingerprint sensor, and 3 secure elements - Support to install a BTC only firmware

Cons: - Missing removable battery. - The touch sensor works fine, but it could be a bit better. - Missing features like SeedQR support, ephemeral seeds, some advanced security PIN features, etc.

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WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

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@ 502ab02a:a2860397

น้ำแร่ แน่เหรอ เรื่องน้ำดื่มนั้น ตอนนี้เราน่าจะแบ่งเป็น 2 ส่วนใหญ่ๆได้คือ น้ำดื่มทั่วไป และ น้ำแร่

คำถามคือ เราเริ่มซื้อน้ำกินตั้งแต่เมื่อไหร่

ถ้าตอบแบบไม่ต้องท่องจำวันเวลา ก็ต้องตอบว่า ตั้งแต่มีระบบการประปา นั่นละครับ ระบบการประปามีมาทดแทนระบบน้ำในสมัยก่อน ที่ต้องไปตักจากลำธาร บึง หนอง ก็เริ่มมีการต่อท่อไม้ไผ่มาในหมู่บ้าน หรือ มีการขุดพบน้ำใต้ดินขึ้นมา

จนมีการพัฒนาความเป็นอยู่มาจบที่ระบบประปาในที่สุด ซึ่งในประเทศผู้เจริญแล้ว มีการผลิตน้ำประปาแบบสามารถดื่มจากก๊อกได้เลย เรียกว่า tap water ชัดเลยคือ อเมริกา ญี่ปุ่น ส่วนประเทศโลกที่3 แม้จะพยายามบอกว่า ปาป้า ดื่มได้ เอารัฐมนตรีมาจิบแบบแหยงๆให้เราดู เราก็ยังไม่มั่นใจพอที่จะดื่ม

ในสมัยก่อนเราก็เลยมีการต้มน้ำกรอกใส่ขวดก่อนจะนำมาดื่ม

ทั้งนี้ทั้งนั้น ก็สามารถสรุปรวบยอดได้ว่า ระบบประปาของโลกนี้ ทำให้เราสามารถใช้น้ำที่สะดวกสบาย และมีมาตรฐานเท่าเทียมกันพอสมควรในแต่ละพื้นที่ เรียกว่าสะอาดกว่าแหล่งน้ำ “บางที่” แหละ แต่ส่วนใหญ่ถ้าเป็นน้ำใต้ดินลึกๆหรือน้ำพุ นั่นธรรมชาติได้ทำการกรองแบบมหาโหด มาให้เราแล้ว ต่างกับการตักดื่มจากห้วย หนอง คลอง บึง

ทีนี้น้ำแร่เกิดมาตอนไหน มันมีตั้งแต่เราเริ่มดื่มน้ำจากแหล่งธรรมชาติแล้ว แต่การบรรจุขวดขายมันเกิดมาในช่วงที่ประปามีบนโลกนี้ เอเวียง น่าจะเป็นเจ้าแรกๆ ที่บรรจุขวดมาขายในต่างประเทศ

เอาจริงๆดูในรายการ #บอกเล่า90บวก1 ตอน สงครามน้ำขวด ละเอียดกว่าเยอะ ดูเหอะนะ ตอนทำมันเหนื่อย 55555 https://youtu.be/L2OKv0HVO6A?si=-Gs9kjscpXzqja0k

ในตอนแรกที่ทำเขาก็ไม่ได้ว่าจะมาเพื่อสร้างความเทพกว่าอะไร มาเป็นแค่ทางเลือก มีขายในร้านขายยา ซึ่งสมัยนั้น ราวๆ 1960 ร้านยาเป็นแหล่งแกดเจท อัพเกรดนั่นนี่ เพื่อเอาเงินอยู่แล้ว) ซึ่งตอนแรกที่มาทำตลาดในอเมริกา มันก็ไม่สำเร็จเพราะคนอเมริกานิยมโค้ก ที่เพิ่งมีบนโลกเหมือนกัน และพวกเค้าคิดว่าน้ำเปล่า กินจากก๊อกก็ได้จะซื้อทำบ้าอะไร

จนกระทั่งเพอริเอ้ มาทำการตลาดหนักๆ เน้นหรูๆ เป็นสปอนเซอร์ให้งานมาราธอนงานใหญ่ ประกอบกับกระแสสุขภาพเริ่มมีการทำตลาดในอเมริกาด้วยเช่นกัน สินค้าสุขภาพในตอนนั้น ทำเงินได้มากมหาศาล และเพอริเอ้เอง นอกจากจะชูภาพลักษณ์ที่หรูหราแล้ว ยังชูความสุขภาพกับเขาด้วย โดยเฉพาะการทำตัวเป็น mixer 0แคล เอาไปตีตลาดกับไดเอทโค้ก ที่คนนิยมผสมเหล้ากิน เน้นว่าซ่าด้วย 0แคลด้วย มีแร่ธาตุสุขภาพด้วย คนก็เลยแห่กันไปซื้อมาถืออวด เพื่อความดูรวย ดูรักษาสุขภาพ ที่มันทำได้ก็เพราะ เพอริเอ้ ได้นาย บรูซ เนวินส์ ผู้ที่ทำการตลาดให้ยีนส์กรรมกรอย่างลีวายส์ กลายเป็นกางเกงสุดเท่ ที่ดีไซน์เนอร์ให้การยอมรับในแบรนด์นั้นไปเฉยเลย แล้วจะแปลกอะไร กับน้ำแร่ใส่ขวดอย่าง เพอริเอ้ ??? ไม่ยากเลยที่จะทำให้คนทั้งโลกรู้สึกว่า น้ำแร่ คือน้ำที่อัพเกรดทุกอย่างในชีวิต ตั้งแต่สุขภาพ ไลฟ์สไตล์ รวมถึงเป็นน้ำที่ดีกว่าน้ำใดๆในโลก ตามที่ บรูซ เนวินส์ บอกให้คนทั้งโลกเชื่อตามเขา

หลังจากเพอริเอ้ ทำสำเร็จ กอบรายได้จากแค่6แสนเหรียญ ไปเป็น 60ล้านเหรียญได้ภายใน 3 ปี ทีนี้ตลาดน้ำแร่ ก็มีผู้เล่นแห่กันเข้ามาตักตวงเงินก้อนใหญ่อีกก้อนบนโลกนี้ วิจัยต่างๆประดังประดาเข้ามาทำให้มนุษย์โลกเชื่อว่า เขาต้องดื่มน้ำแร่ จึงจะมีสุขภาพที่ดีกว่าการดื่มน้ำประปา

แถมกลุ่มรักษ์โลก ยังมาช่วยโจมตีน้ำธรรมชาติด้วยอีกตีน ว่ายาฆ่าแมลง สารพิษต่างๆบนโลก มันลงไปในน้ำหมดแล้วแก แกจะดื่มน้ำยาฆ่าแมลงเหรอ

คนที่เอาเท้าก่ายหน้าผาก ก็คงจะมีแต่ ชาวประปา นั่นหละครับ อยู่ดีๆ KPI ก็รวนไปหมด

จากนั้นปี 1993 ปีที่โลกเริ่มรู้ทันว่า น้ำตาล แม่งทำให้อ้วน ยิ่งทำให้กระแสสุขภาพ กระแสน้ำแร่ พุ่งกระฉูดไปใหญ่ มีกระทั่งน้ำสำหรับน้อลหมา น้อลแมว คนแม่งก็ซื้อกันเช่นเคย

ในเวลานั้น นอกจากน้ำแร่แล้ว เจ้าที่ไปจองแหล่งน้ำธรรมชาติไม่ทัน หรือจองไม่ไหว ก็มาจัดน้ำเปล่าลงขวดขายกัน โดยการใช้กระบวนการเอาน้ำประปามากรองเพิ่มให้ โดยการโฆษณาว่าบริสุทธิ์สัดๆ เชื้อโรคหายม๊ด เอาจริงๆคือ หายม๊ดทุกอย่าง แร่ดีก็หายแร่ร้ายก็ตุย แล้วยังเอาไปผ่านโอโซนเพื่อความไฮโซอี๊ก เพราะคำว่าโอโซน กลุ่มรักษ์โลก ปูทางไว้ให้แล้ว ว่ามันดี เขาก็ยัดความดีที่เรารู้สึกไปเองมาใส่ขวดเพื่อขายเราอีกที เรียกว่ากระบวนการ รีเวิร์ส ออสโมซิส หรือ RO พอจะคุ้นกันแล้วไหมครับ

ตอนนี้น้ำดื่มก็ลงขวดมา 2แบบแล้วคือ น้ำแร่ กับ น้ำประปากรองแล้วกรองอีก แล้วกลุ่มรักษ์โลก ก็รวมกันกระทืบน้ำประปาต่ออีกยกใหญ่ ด้วยการจัดคอนเทนท์ในตำนาน ที่เหยียบน้ำประปาจมดิน นั่นคือ Top 13 States with the worst public water ratings in the US และ 13 reasons why you shouldn’t drink tap water แหม่ อินฟลูระดับนี้ลงคอนเทนท์แบบนี้ ทำให้คนอเมริกาเป็นบ้าในทันที นักธุรกิจก็ตอบรับในทันที เข็นโปรเจคที่ทำรอไว้แล้ว ออกมาช้อนตลาดทันควัน ไม่ว่าจะเป็นน้ำผสมวิตามิน ผสมแร่ธาตุ ผสมโน่นนี่นั่น ตามแต่ตลาดจะยินดีจ่าย

แถมปี 2000 สธ.อเมริกา ก็ประกาศปริมาณน้ำดื่มที่ประชาชนควรดื่มในแต่ละวันออกมาอีก ทำให้มูลค่าตลาดน้ำขวดบนโลกนี้ติดจรวดไปอยู่ที่ หกหมื่นเจ็ดพันล้านเหรียญ (67 billion$)

เป็นการเอาของฟรีๆบนโลกนี้ มาใส่ขวดขายได้มีมูลค่าดีที่สุดในโลกอย่างนึงเลยเชียว

ในเรื่องของน้ำแร่ในปัจจุบันนั้น ยังมีอีกกิ่งนึงที่ทำตลาดและราคาได้ดีกว่าแค่สุขภาพคือ อาติซาน (Artisan) อีกแล้วครับ คือ มีการจำแนกน้ำแร่ที่เหมาะกับอาหารในแต่ละประเภท ในร้านอาหารระดับดีๆ จะมีตัวเลือกเรื่องน้ำที่จะแพริ่ง (pairing) กับอาหารด้วย เช่น อาหารประเภทหอยนางรม จะแพร์กับน้ำแร่ที่เบาซ่ามีแร่น้อยๆ เพราะในหอยมีมากแล้ว เป็นต้น

ดังนั้นถ้าจะถามว่า น้ำแร่ จำเป็นต้องดื่มไหมเพื่อให้สุขภาพดี ผมว่าเท่าที่เล่าความเป็นมาของมัน ก็น่าจะพอตอบได้แล้วว่า คำถามที่เกิดขึ้น มันมาจากการวางตลาดตั้งแต่สมัยก่อนทำให้ชุดความคิดนี้มันติดหนึบในสมองคนแต่ละรุ่น และสอนต่อๆกันมานั่นหละครับ วัตถุประสงค์ของการดื่มน้ำ มันคือนอกจาก H2O แล้วมันก็ต้องการแร่ธาตุตามธรรมชาติอยู่แล้ว น้ำธรรมชาติก็มีอยู่แล้ว แต่ด้วยสภาพแวดล้อมปัจจุบัน หลายคนอาจอยู่ในแหล่งน้ำที่ไม่ดีงามพอที่จะไปตักมาดื่มทันที งานประปาก็มีการทำความสะอาดให้ประมาณนึง ประมาณที่ในเกณฑ์ดีพอ พอที่จะกลับไปต้มกรอกขวดเอง พอที่จะเอาไปผ่านเครื่องกรองเอาความสกปรกออกเองที่บ้าน (ในกรณีเชื่อในระบบผลิตประปา แต่ไม่เชื่อในระบบการจัดซื้อจัดจ้างท่อประปารวมถึงความมืออาชีพในการวางแนวท่อประปา)

ระบบน้ำที่ส่งมาที่บ้านก็มีแร่ธาตุที่ดีพอที่จะใช้งานในชีวิตประจำวัน ไม่จำเป็นต้องดื่มน้ำแร่เท่านั้น จึงจะทำให้สุขภาพดี กลับกัน ที่ไม่ควรดื่มเลยคือน้ำระบบ RO ต่างหาก เพราะมันไม่มีเหี้ยอะไรเลยครับ เปลืองท้องมากๆ แถมลองไปส่องฉลากดู วิชา #ฉลาก3รู้ ที่สอนไปจะทำให้เราเห็นว่า น้ำขวดในร้านสะดวกซื้อนั้น ร่วม90% แม่งเป็นน้ำ RO ครับ มันเลยกลายเป็นส่งต่อความดีความชอบให้น้ำแร่ไปโดยปริยาย เพราะในตู้นั้นสวยอยู่คนเดียว

แต่มันราคาสูง เกินกว่าจะเป็น everyday water สำหรับหลายๆคน แล้วถ้าไอ้หลายๆคนนั้นดันไม่เชื่ออีกว่า น้ำต้มเองกรองเองมันก็ดีพอ คือเกิดมามึงจะซื้อแดกอย่างเดียว ก็มีทางออกให้ครับ เอาน้ำ RO พวกนั้นมาทำสิ่งที่เรียกว่า คืนธรรมชาติสู่สายน้ำ ถ้าคนผลิตแม่งกรองทิ้งหมด เราก็ใส่กลับคืนเข้าไป ใส่เกลือเพิ่มเอา เกลือทะเลก็ได้ เกลือชมพูก็ดีถ้ามีเงินพอไม่ต้องไปกู้มาซื้อ เพราะเกลือคือของที่ค้างบนโลกหลังจากพระอาทิตย์เผาซะน้ำหายหมดบ๋อต๋อ

ส่วนจะใส่แค่ไหน ตอบได้สั้นๆว่า “ไม่รู้ครับ” คือพวกนี้มัน depend on อ่ะ ตั้งแต่น้ำหนักตัว ไลฟ์ไตล์เต้นแร้งเต้นกามากไหม อากาศวันนั้นร้อนไหม อื่นๆอีกมากมาย ทำให้แต่ละคนสูญเสียแร่ธาตุไม่เท่ากัน ปริมาณแร่ที่ต้องการกลับคืนร่างกายก็เลยไม่เท่ากัน

ดังนั้น ถ้าไม่เชื่อใจน้ำกรอง ก็ต้องไปเติมเอาเอง ไปดูชีวิตตัวเองครับ ถ้ายังมึนๆก่งก๊ง ก็เติมเพิ่ม ถึงจุดที่สดชื่นก็จดไว้ว่าประมาณเท่าไหร่ จำเอาของแต่ละคนเอาเอง แล้วแต่ละวันก็ดูตัวเองว่าจะบวก หรือ ลบ ไปจากค่า par ที่เคยจดไว้

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Opinion about BitBox02 (hardware)

The BitBox02 is a hardware wallet developed by Bitbox. The device features a minimalist design with a small touchscreen interface for easy navigation and operation.

Pros: - Its screen allows to verify transactions details - You can install a bitcoin-only firmware, increasing its security, which is very important for bitcoin users - Its secure element adds extra protection against physical attacks - Supports some advanced features like: testnet, miniscript, user added entropy, fee and coin control, multisig - Open source - Optional stateless use

Cons: - Missing battery force you to always connect it to the power. - It doesn't support in air-gapped mode, you are forced to connect it to a computer using an USB cable

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"The Bitcoin maximalists were correct again. No good will come of them. They should burn in hell. They're to blame for everything that's wrong!

It seems like every year since 2020, I hear some form of the following from persons involved in the "crypto" industry:

"Listen, a billion-dollar firm won't fall down in a flash." That’s impossible. You assume their business plan is to take your $2,000 in cryptocurrency, and yet they fund a full stadium. Stop being such a moron. You may trust it with your bitcoins. It's not worth the hassle to try to handle custody matters on your own. Custodians are crucial if we desire widespread adoption.

These individuals have a confidence in VC-backed organizations that is more misguided than that of the most religious fundamentalists.

Yet the educators who are the driving force behind these establishments are held in the highest esteem by the media, even as their views drive people to the brink of annihilation. Consider the case of Mr. Wonderful:

Why the FTX collapse may have been the best thing that could have happened to bitcoin in 2022, igniting the next bull market.

What I said in my satirical piece in October is validated by these findings. The "smartest in the room" today are as clueless as the rest of the lemmings rushing into the lava, so you know we're in late-stage fiat.

They are so used to the convenience of living in close proximity to the money printer that they cannot fathom the significance of the existence of a decentralized digital currency like Bitcoin. They are blinded by the paradigm that has given them success up to this point, and as a result, they have no business passing judgment on something as paradigmatically different as Bitcoin.

TOXIC!!!

Bitcoin maximalists are disregarded when they transform warnings into memes like "not your keys, not your coins" or when they preach the necessity of "sound money" like "Bitcoin solves this," as though they are either a) extremists or b) dull and out of date.

The Mr. Wonderfuls, BitBoys, and Vitaliks of the world all respond uniformly with "toxic."

Okay, back we go again.

It's a fact that Ponzi schemes always collapse far more rapidly than they rise, and that when their ascent has been spectacular, their eventual demise will be much more spectacular. We've come a long way, baby, from Mt. Gox to BitConnect to Luna to BlockFi to Celsius to Voyager to FTX.

They're identical to one another and provide no advantages over competing bitcoin firms. To be clear, I use the term "company" since all of these purported "projects" are really simply businesses like FTX that are engaging in fictitious numerical manipulation in code. All the other cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and DeFis are just as foolish as Ethereum, Cardano, Hex, Solana, Chainlink, and all the rest.

Aside from Bitcoin, everything else is the same. Only Bitcoin doesn't have "leadership" and a snake's head to cut off pressure, which I mean as a good feature. Bitcoin is the only currency with a flawless design. Bitcoin alone emerged naturally and purely as a result of market forces. Bitcoin alone has been stabilized. Bitcoin alone has a limited supply. Bitcoin is the only currency that counts.

The same Bitcoin maximalists who warned you about the aforementioned also warned you about shitcoins. One day, they will all either burst, collapse, or fade out of existence.

Now the only issue is how much of a warning you need to take seriously.

THE SIGNS WERE THERE, NOT ONLY THE WARNINGS

Nothing about FTX added up. On a boat in Miami for Bitcoin 2021, I had the pleasure of meeting its creator, Sam Bankman-Friend, or SBF. We went on a small sailing excursion with about fifty or sixty other folks.

For all I knew, he was just some guy with a potbelly and awful hair. After some uncomfortable small talk, I left him to his hors d'oeuvres in the corner while I went to chat with the waiters.

I was asked by one of the passengers if I wanted to know more about the firm he operated, and when he said it was called "FTX," I said, "What the heck is that?" Another another worthless cryptocurrency?" No, he said, it's one of the world's fastest-growing exchanges.

My curiosity peaked, so I asked SBF a few questions, and he told me that he had previously managed a crypto hedge fund, had great success with it, and invested the proceeds in the creation of an exchange.

My first thought was, "Goddammit, these shitcoiners are actually generating money by fueling gambling addictions, and here I am trying to help people stack Sats properly by operating a Bitcoin-only service in Australia called Amber." "What a clown planet...."

After that, I forgot everything about him until I read his tweets about "Home Cooking With Beyond Meat." The weak body and the shitcoinery made immediate sense to me.

Some of you may be offended by the suggestion that one's appearance is mostly dictated by one's conduct, but the truth is that your actions reflect the values you have.

While it's true that there are certain things you're stuck with forever, you can shape the rest of your life to suit your priorities, which is why Bitcoin has such a beautiful design.

Suffice it to say that unattractive facial features should have sounded an alarm. If you sell fake meat, you'll have to deal with fake customers (and a whole lot more fakeness in between, which I won't get into since it could set off some people's triggers).

WHAT’S ON THE HORIZON?

Can you predict the topic of the next "I told you so" article?

It's likely that Ponzi-style craptocurrencies whose raison d'être is "pumpamentals" will fail, or that Ethereum will unite with governments that want to issue central bank digital currencies to form "panopticoin" (CBDCs).

There is no sign of NFTs surviving. DeFi is currently in DeepShit, but perhaps that round can be restarted.

No matter what it is, all of the morons who blindly follow these kinds of individuals are in for a horrible experience.

Sayings like "You couldn't make up such lyrical irony if you tried" are just too perfect to be made up.

• CeFi did not work (while being sponsored by Nexo).

• Some individuals take the nice stuff we make and put it to ill use.

• "Could there be an issue at the societal level?"

Hosts like these, along with the people responsible for FTX's debacle, have a startling lack of understanding of human nature, somewhat unlike that of Marxists. They believe that the world can be saved if only people "create awesome stuff" and that one day the social layer can be repaired by transforming society into a transhuman smart contract.

They fail to recognize that restraints are not only beneficial but also necessary.And this is especially true when it comes to the language of worth (i.e., money). For questions 2 and 3, that's the correct response.

What people consider to be Bitcoin's shortcomings are, in fact, its greatest strengths. The reason SBF, Vitalik Buterin, Roger Ver, Richard Heart, and the rest of the charlatans have no effect on Bitcoin is that it is better.

Such young children, lacking in both maturity and psychological insight, have historically been given no voice. Not surprisingly, in the world of clowns, their opinions matter.

One can only speculate as to what they will do if Ethereum fails and their idol, Vitalik, becomes the next SBF. To be honest, I don't believe they're prepared for it.

THE SILVER LINING

So, what does this imply, exactly? So, now what do we do with all this information?

In any case, I suppose there's always a bright side to things.

After the failures of Luna and Three Arrows Capital, some are saying that this FTX fiasco has "put the industry back by years."

I agree, but only to the extent that the short-term value of bitcoin may be impacted. Aside from that, I have to strongly disagree.

This whole process has, if anything, grounded the so-called "business" in reality and exposed it for what it truly was on the inside: a gigantic hot air balloon.

Even though the Bitcoin sector has been inflated by the hype around cryptocurrency, it is getting closer to where it should have been at this time. Capital allocation toward Bitcoin will likely return to normal, while many silly concepts, such as NFTs and "tokens on Lightning," will likely evaporate.

Real capital will likely seek out genuine innovation and business concepts in and around Bitcoin, causing much of the phantom riches in all the mind-numbingly idiotic shitcoinery so prevalent these past few years to dissipate.

Eventually, Bitcoin will be stored in the offline wallets of Bitcoin enthusiasts and long-term HODLers, away from the control of institutions, crypto businesses, venture capitalists, shitcoiners, and weak hands. Growth will enter its next phase when a new price floor is established.

This has a positive net effect. The whole lot.

In this regard, SBF, Do Kwon, and Su Zhu are the unsought heroes we deserve as a species. Since we live in a clown society, it would make sense for our saviors to also have a clown complex, increasing the likelihood that they will wipe themselves off along with their stupid fiat industry.

Have a look at the list of investments made by FTX Ventures. It gives me a degree of satisfaction I haven't felt since Bitcoin surpassed its previous all-time high in 2021.

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A tiny number of freshly minted Bitcoin maximalists will have been created, a big number of the recent minimalists will have had their viewpoints confirmed, and the veterans will have spent the next few weeks on Twitter Spaces in astonishment, asking "how this could've happened." So we'll just relax and keep telling you that.

to varying degrees of eloquence and vibrancy, depending on the individual. And we can expect to be ignored again the next time and be fine with it.At least we may enjoy some free amusement.

Conclusion

The suffering experienced today is genuine. How horrible it must be to feel like a fraud! Know, though, that all of your negative emotions—guilt, wrath, melancholy, and rage—have the same origin. The whole foundation of "crypto" is a falsehood, which allowed Bankman-Fried to get away with his deception for so long: what claims to be a revolution is in fact merely the fiat system par excellence. Because all participants in Satoshi Nakamoto's network share the same information, double counting is thus impossible. And although crypto may go, it is still here.

FAQ

Where does FTX stand now? Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced firm's founder and former CEO, resigned from his position earlier this month after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The once staggeringly valuable FTX fell in a couple of days when the CEO of Binance, a competitor exchange, said that Binance would sell its FTT coins.

What is the procedure for selling bitcoins on FTX? Does bitcoin serve any useful purpose? Bitcoin is a digital currency designed for online money transfers. The goal of the digital currency was to establish an alternative payment system that could function independently of a governing body while otherwise functioning identically to conventional currencies.

Why do we need bitcoin? FTX.US asserts that its platform is secure due to the implementation of customary industry safeguards for such data as client assets. Separate withdrawal passwords are one example of the extra security measures that might be used.

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Opinion about Coldcard Q (hardware)

Coldcard Q is the latest device from Coinkite, which is known for its focus on security and air-gapped operation. Its Bitcoin only mantra is also an appreciated value for bitcoiners. It has several improvements compared with the previous mk4 model.

Pros: - Privacy and supply chain security: PO box delivery support, payment with bitcoin in official store, tamper evident bag, and more - Lots of security features: different ways to protect the wallet with PIN, passphrase, etc - Lots of advanced features for the more expert users: testnet, secure elements, multisig, miniscript, user added entropy, etc - You can connect it with lots of software wallets, working as coordinators - The QR code scanner allows you sign transactions using QRs. - The bigger screen and qwerty keyboard are important usability improvements - The device is powered by 3x AAA batteries, which is very practical

Cons: - The source code is available but the anti selling clause in its license makes it not fully open source. - A bit complex for beginners

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The Bitcoin network serves as a dynamic ecosystem of projects, startups, and products that collectively drive the adoption and evolution of peer to peer technology across diverse use cases. This ecosystem is not just about the transactions and mining operations but spans various applications, including financial services, smart contracts, and decentralized applications (dApps), each contributing to the broader adoption and understanding of Bitcoin's underlying technology.

A Bitcoin Programming Language Projects like Lightning Network, RGB, Fedimint, Ordinals, NoLooking, Sapio, and others mentioned are prime examples of how developers and entrepreneurs are extending Bitcoin's capabilities beyond simple transactions . These projects focus on scalability solutions, privacy enhancements, smart contract capabilities, and new forms of asset issuance and management on the Bitcoin network. They showcase an active community of developers dedicating their efforts, often without immediate financial reward, towards making Bitcoin more versatile, scalable, and accessible.

For instance, the Lightning Network is a second-layer protocol built on top of Bitcoin that enables instant, low-cost transactions, which significantly improves Bitcoin’s scalability and makes it more feasible for small, everyday transactions. Similarly, projects like RGB and Sapio introduce smart contracts and programmable money aspects to the Bitcoin ecosystem, opening up a myriad of possibilities for automating transactions and creating complex financial instruments directly on the blockchain.

Moreover, the development and adoption of these projects indicate a growing interest in using Bitcoin not just as digital gold but as a foundational layer for building a decentralized financial system and other innovative applications. This interest is further evidenced by companies and startups integrating Bitcoin technology into their offerings, whether through Bitcoin-based payments, leveraging the security and immutability of its blockchain for data verification, or developing new services that complement the existing infrastructure.

However, this ecosystem is also characterized by debates and differing opinions on the direction and priorities of Bitcoin's development. For example, discussions around the inclusion of certain features or upgrades in the Bitcoin protocol reflect the diverse perspectives within the community. Some stakeholders push for innovations that could extend Bitcoin's functionality and competitiveness, while others advocate for a more conservative approach to development to preserve its core values and stability. These debates are essential for the ecosystem's health, as they reflect a vibrant community actively engaged in shaping the future of Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin network is much more than a collection of nodes and miners; it is a flourishing ecosystem of projects, startups, and products driving the technology's adoption in various use cases. Through continuous innovation and collaboration, this ecosystem not only expands the utility of Bitcoin but also contributes to the overall growth and maturity of the peer to peer space.

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The Master’s recipe for Effective Praying is the theme for the next few Sunday's and is a study of the petitions found in the Lord’s prayer.

Today we are discussing, Thy Will Be Done.

Text

Matthew 6:10 NKJV

10 Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

Scripture Reading

Luke 22:39-46 NKJV

The Prayer in the Garden

39 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. 

40 When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

41 And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, 

42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.” 

43 Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. 

44 And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

45 When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow. 

46 Then He said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.”

Prayer

Father, we thank You for adopting us as your children.

With eyes wide open to Your mercies, we come to dedicate ourselves to you afresh.

Help us to use our talents and testimony that others may know Christ.

As be bring our tithes and offerings, we pray Your blessings upon them.

Help us meet the expenses of the ministry of this church and engage in ministries to the outer most ends of the earth.

In Jesus name we pray.

Amen.

Introduction.

“It is God’s will.”

These words are often used to interpret the tragedies of life.

In legal language, “an act of God” is used to explain the great catastrophes that bring so much suffering and ruin.

Yet Jesus instructed us to pray, “Thy will be done.”

Does that mean that we are praying for catastrophes and tragedies to fall upon us?

Such tragic events are not what we find associated with God’s will in the Bible.

God wills to create a world, to create humans, to send His Son, to redeem humans.

These things are an expression of God’s eternal purpose and will be accomplished, so there is really no need for us to pray for the accomplishment of them.

But God’s will also includes His commands and His plan for our day to day lives.

Thus we need to pray that His will might be done in our lives and in the lives of others.

The concern of this particular petition is how we are to do God’s will.

Since His will is to be done “on earth as it is in heaven,” we are to look to heaven for our pattern of response.

Even though we do not know as much about heaven as we would like to know, we do know enough to give us some helpful instructions at this point.

1. **Submissively. **

There is only one Lord in heaven.

Every creature bows before Him in worship, adoration, and submission.

In Isaiah six, Isaiah records that he saw angelic beings with six wings.

Two of their wings were used to fly with the speed to carry out God’s every wish, and two we used to cover their faces as an act of reverence in His presence.

In the end time revelation of Jesus Christ, John saw the saints bowing before God and casting their crowns at His feet.

John describe the saints as those who “serve Him day and night.”

He is absolute Lord over everything there, and everyone is completely submissive to His will. 

Sometimes we obey without actually being submissive.

A little boy once expressed this thought eloquently to his mother when she made him sit in the corner as a form of discipline.

He didn't like it, so he tried to stand up.

But she was firm and insisted that he be seated.

As he took his seat, he replied, “I may be sitting on the outside, but I'm still standing on the inside.”

She could make him respond physically, but she could not make him submissive in the spirit.

Some of us respond to God's will in this way.

We give in to the insistence of God, but we do not really submit to him as Lord.

Thus petition “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven is a place that we would have the very spirit of heaven as we approach God's will.

Our attitude and doing God's will is just as important as the act itself.

2. Completely.

Completely means not selectively.

In heaven God's will is done completely.

The angels are not selective in their obedience to God's will. 

Whatever God says, they do.

Those who refused to give the Lord God complete obedience and chose to exercise their own will in opposition to his will have been excluded from heaven.

They are no longer privileged to enter into God's presence. 

Jesus teaches us to pray that God's will maybe done in our lives and in our world.

We have a tendency to be selective in our response to God's will.

We pick which of His precepts will guide us.

For example, a man may choose to follow the Lord's will in attending public worship, but he may choose to ignore God's will when it comes to tithing.

Another man may be very careful for the follow the Lord's will for stewardship.

He may be more careful than a Pharisee when it comes to calculating his tithes and offerings, but he may ignore the Lord's will for his marriage and instead follow the last of the flesh.

In heaven it is never so!

There God's will is done completely.

Completely means not partially.

We may also be partial in our obedience. 

We may reserve the right to determine exactly how far we will go in our response to God's will.

But partial obedience is actually disobedience.

Whatever God says, we must do. 

3. Joyfully.

Joyfully like the angels.

Joy is one of the most obvious marks of the heavenly response.

Scripture tells us that the angels sing as they do the will of the Father in heaven.

We must be joyful like the Son.

In Psalm 40:8, we read, “I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law is within my heart.”

Jesus did not do the father's wheel out of a sense of duty, but rather with great delight.

In John 4:34 Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.”

He found real joy in doing the will of his father.

It was food for His spirit.

Our response to the will of God will be one of our first concerns when we before Him.

We need to be concerned that we know his will fully and do it joyfully.

4. Constantly.

We have no record of ever being a need for revival in heaven.

No Angel ever waivers in his devotion to God's will.

No Angel ever withdraws his support from the Lord's program.

Day after day he does whatever God commands.

Millennia pass by and angels still obey with the same joy and delight, doing whatever task God assigns them.

Our Lord Jesus also provides us with a beautiful example.

He allowed nothing to turn him from doing the Fathers will.

With a willing heart and delight in His God, He went all the way to the cross.

Conclusion.

Are you giving consideration to God's will in your life?

It should be one of your first considerations when you come to pray.

It is more important that you know and do God's will and that you have your daily bread.

God makes this a matter of first concern.

Will you? 

Until next time

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Until next time

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When you spend time with God, your life will change in amazing ways, because God is a Redeemer. Theres nothing thats too hard for Him, and He can make you whole, spirit, soul and body!

You’re important to God, and you’re important to us at The Refinery.

When it comes to prayer, we believe that God wants to meet your needs and reveal His promises to you.

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Dürbününü yazı masasının çekmecesine koydu. O adamın bakışlarında bir şey vardı, tüylerini ürperten bir aşinalık.

Sağ tarafa kavislenen toprak yol, şehir merkezindeki idam platformuna doğru uzanırdı. On, on beş adım aralıkla, telefon ve radyo tellerini taşıyan, aynı zamanda geceleri yağ fenerlerinin asıldığı direkleri geçerdiniz. At arabalarının kaldırdığı toz ve yaydığı koku gözlerinizi yaşartırdı.

Ve darağacının önüne geldiğinizde, arkanızda bıraktığınız direklerin ne kadar güçsüz, acınası olduğu, öncesinde defalarca fark etmediyseniz bile, tam o anda, yüreğinize otururdu. Platformun üstünden gökyüzünü tehdit eden, ölüme mahkûm edilenleri kınayan gövdesi ve aniden yere eğdiği, acıyla çarpılmış boynuyla kaba tahtadan bir ucube!

Oysaki geçip geldiğiniz direklerin aksine, yanınızda uzanan, çoğunluğu iki katlı evler de tahtadan yapılmıştı ve çatıların, yağmur oluklarının, kapı çerçevelerinin, pencere kapaklarının üstündeki doğa tasviri süslemeleriyle öyle kibarlardı ki...

Dikkat etmemiş olacaksınız ama aralarında, soğuk elleriyle sizi yere bastıran, tasvirlerin yerini görkemli hayvanların -kartalların, aslanların, köpeklerin- aldığı taş evler sıralanırdı. Darağacının bedeni diğer evlerdense, ruhu kesinlikle bunlardan geliyordu.

Uzaktan kuş sesleri duyuluyordu. Bülbül. Buraya ait olmayan, dalgınlığını tamamlayan, kafese kapatılmış bir ses.

Çalışma masasının üzerine, pencereye doğru abandı. Artık ezberlediği bu hac yolculuğuna ihtiyacı yoktu. Evinden olanları az buçuk seçebiliyordu ve zaten görmeye katlanabileceğini görmüştü.

Adamın boynuna ilmeği çoktan geçirmişlerdi. Otuzlu yaşlarının başında gösteriyordu. Teni güneşten sertleşmişti. Çatlaklar gözlerinin yanından elmacık kemiklerine uzanıyordu. Saçı ve sakalı uzun, mat siyahtı.

Neredeyse kimse izlemiyordu. Sadece tek tük, aralarına mesafe koymuş ilgisiz kişiler...

Radyo her zamanki gibi celladın konuşmasını canlı olarak yayınlıyordu.

“...lece günahlarımızdan arınmış olacağız! Doğaya küfür olan tüm bu ucubeler, düzensizlikler...”

Bir kişiyi kurtarmak için ölen onlarca insan... Attıkları çığlıklar bilinçaltının derinliklerinde hafifçe kıvrandı.

İdamların başladığı o gün...

Erken saatlerde ortaya çıkıveren genci tanımıyorlardı. İnsanlara garip sorular sormuş ve kısa süre sonra ortadan kaybolmuştu. Öğlen vakti kucağındaki paketle geri dönmüştü.

“...lumumuz için büyük tehdit teşkil etmektedirler. Şüphesiz bundan birkaç yıl sonra yapacağı hareketleriyle sadece öldüreceği insanların değil, toplumun çökü...”

Darağacını hiç değiştirmediler. Yoksa bu da hafızasındaki bulanıklığın çarpıttığı anılardan mıydı? Hatırlamaya her çalıştığında başı ağrıyordu.

Gence üzülmüş ve apar topar alınan karar karşısında dehşete düşmüştü. Diğerlerinin arasına karışmak, sesini çıkarmak, hiç değilse bunların neden olduğunu öğrenmek istemişti.

“...esin iyiliğini gözetmek zorundayız. Bunu yapabilecek gücümüzün kalmış olduğu için şükretmeliyiz. Omzumuzdaki bu gö...”

Vazgeçmişti. Korkmuştu. Ellerini titreten ilkel dürtüden değil, uzun zamandır üzerinde çalıştığı romanının bittiğini görememe ihtimalinden. “Ertesi gün,” demişti, “ertesi gün orada olacağım.”

Odanın büyük bölümünü işgal eden radyoyu kapattı. İnsan boyu ve genişliğinde, üzerindeki kontrol düğmeleri dışında cilalı ahşaptandı. Güzel olsa da pili hızlı tükeniyordu. Yenisini alması gerekecekti.

Banyoya gitti. Evin her yerinde az eşya bulundurmayı severdi: içi temiz su dolu kova, küvet olarak kullandığı büyük varil ve ayna.

Şehirdeki diğerleri gibi hafif esmer tenli, kahverengiye çalan koyu saçlı ve gözlüydü. Onların aksine gözlerinin içinde hâlâ heyecan ateşi yanıyordu. Saçları bile daha canlıydı sanki. Ve ne kısa ne uzun ne yakışıklı ne çirkin... Olması gereken neyse o. Yüzünü yıkadı, gülümseyip çalışma odasına geri döndü.

Yeniden kâğıtlarının karşısına geçi. Romanını nihayet bitiriyordu. Son cümlelerini yazdı.

Her şeye geç kalmasına değmişti.

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Dürbününü pencerenin iç denizliğine, yaslandığı yerin kenarına bıraktı. O adamın bakışlarında açıklayamadığı bir şey vardı. Tüylerini ürperten bir aşinalık.

Adamın boynuna ilmeği çoktan geçirmişlerdi. Orta yaşlarındaydı. Beyazlaşmaya, griye dönmeye yeni yeni başlamış saçı ve sakalı, rengi atmış kıyafetleriyle oldukça hırpaniydi.

Kimdi o? Tanıyordu sanki..

Mutlaka yakından bakmalıydı.

“...felaketin eşiğinden döndüğümüz günün üzerinden uzun zaman geçmedi. Unutmayın! Unutmanız on...”

Radyoyu kapattı. Pili hızlı bitiyordu. Ne zaman değiştirmişti? Baş ağrısı geri geliyordu.

Merdivenlerden indi. En az dört basamağı gıcırdamıştı. Yenilenmelerinin zamanı geliyordu, temizlenmelerinin de. Parmak kalınlığında toz! Eski ve yeni ayak izleri üst üste binmişti.

Kulaklarındaki ince çınlama, ensesindeki ter... İçinden yükselip göğsünü ittiren, dengesini bozup neredeyse düşercesine aşağıya inmesine neden olan panik...

Holü geçerken diğer odalara kısaca göz attı. Hepsinin durumu aynıydı. Onu asıl şaşırtansa yatak odası oldu. Her gün uyuduğu yatağın, yanındaki bazanın, kirli çamaşır sepetinin ve etejerin üzeri... Nasıl fark etmemişti tüm bunları? Peki elbiselerinin böyle eskidiğini?

Dokunduğu elinde kalıyor veya kapalı kalmışlık kokusu yüzünden midesini bulandırıyordu. Eline geçen paçavraları apar topar giydi. Dokuması incelmiş bol beyaz keten gömleği, rengi griye yaklaşmış pantolonu -önceden? Belki siyah-, her tarafı çatlamış ve dikişleri atmış uzun deri çizmesi.

Neler oluyor neler oluyor neler oluyor neler oluyor...

Sokağa çıktı ve hava soluk borusunu temizlerken gözleri yaşardı. Hayır, kendimi kaptırmış olmalıyım. Kesin zamanın ucunu kaçırdım. Ev dün böyle değildi. Hayır hayır hayır hayır hayır...

Bulanık görüyordu ama hiç değilse burası normaldi.

İdam platformu şehir merkezindeydi. Oraya koştu.

Buranın o eğlenceli, panayır havasından eser kalmamıştı elbette. Kahveye girip çıkanlar, yan sokaktaki pazara gidip gelenler... Kimsenin olup bitenlere ilgisi yoktu. Dükkânların yarısı kapalıydı zaten. İnsanların burada oyalanmak için gittikçe daha az sebebi oluyordu.

“...lediğimiz kurtuluşumuz.”

Cellat, onun tam karşısında durduğunu görünce sustu. Herkes merakla onlara döndü.

Ve işte o anda, darağacındaki adamın bağırmasıyla celladın koşup kolu çekmesi ve zemindeki kapağı açması, infazı tamamlaması bir oldu.

“Koñrul! Onu...”

Çığlıkları ancak onu eve, yatağına taşıdıklarında biraz dindi. Sayıklamaya devam ediyordu: “Romanım romanım romanım romanım..."

Sakinleşmesi için yukarıdan kâğıtlarını ve kalemini getirdiler. Son cümlesini yazdı. Yarını göremeyecekti.

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Masanın üzerinde, koyduğu yerde durmayan, yuvarlanan ve düşüp merceği kırılan dürbünü fark etmedi. O adamın bakışlarında açıklayamadığı bir şey vardı. Tüylerini ürperten bir aşinalık.

Ve yine aynı gün, diğerlerinin aynı... İnsanlar bile gün geçtikçe birbirine benziyordu.

Adamın boynuna ilmeği çoktan geçirmişlerdi. Yaşlı sayılırdı veya yaşlanmaya başlıyordu. Saçı ve sakalı beyaz ama gösterdiği yaşa rağmen hâlâ gürdü. Istırap çekmenin, büyük yük taşımanın bezginliği her yerinden hissediliyordu.

“...rine inmemiz gerek. Bu insan müsveddeleri toplumumuz için büyük tehdit...”

Evet... evet. Demek bu adam da kimsenin anlamadığı haltlar yemek üzereydi.

Rahatı kaçanlar olacaktı, belki ölenler.

Adamı gerçekten tanıyor olabilir miydi?

Kendini aşırı zorlamıştı. Radyoyu kapatıp banyoya gitti. Yeni pili ne zaman takmıştı?

Aynada kendine baktı. Geceleri uyuyup uyumadığını bile bilmiyordu. Gözleri iyice yuvalarına kaçmış, etrafı kararırken akları sararmış, zayıf ve soluk, yüzünün üstüne bırakılıp unutulmuş çöplerden farksızdı. Saçlarını düzeltmeye çalıştı, her hareketiyle onlarca saç teli kopunca vazgeçti. Renkleri solmuştu.

Şehirde yiyecek kalmamıştı. Her gün stoklar azalıyordu. Tarlalardaki olgunlaşmamış meyve sebzelere düşmüşlerdi. Tüccarlar niye gelmiyordu ki? Diğer şehirlerde de mi durum kötüydü?

Kafasından aşağı su döküp geri döndü. Kâğıtlarını önüne çekti. Romanını bitirmeliydi, açlıktan ölmeden veya idam edilen sonraki kişi olmadan. Son cümlelerini yazdı:

“Dünya yine ölürken ve her şey baştan başlarken gidebileceği bir yer kalmamıştı. Eski çağların roketlerini düşündü. Gerçekten başka gezegenler var mıydı? O zamanlarda yaşasaydı Güneş’e giderdi! Şimdi hareket etmek için duracaktı. Sonraki güne kadar.”

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Dürbününü kapıdan çıkarken tuvalet kovasının içine attı. Yine bir idam. Saçları dökülüyordu. Alnının iki yanı geriye doğru açılmış, sakallarıyla birleşip yekpare olan tellerin arasından kafa derisi seçilebiliyordu.

Ne ilgi çekici... Bıraksalar kendisi ölecekti zaten. Pazara gidip ne bulabileceğine bakmayı tercih ederdi.

İnsanlar ayağını sürüyerek yürüyordu. Celladın konuşması dışında çıt çıkaran yoktu. Ne kuş ötüşü veya köpek havlaması ne çocuk gülüşmeleri... Konuşanları görebiliyordu, duyamıyordu. Fısıltıdan fazlasını çıkaracak istekleri yoktu.

“...hennemin böyleleriyle dolu olduğundan şüphesi olan var mı aranızda? Onları tekrar layık oldukları yere göndereceğiz. Bunun için yardı...”

Evet... evet. “Elma kaça?”

Pazarcı taburesinden kalkıp tezgâha geldi. O da aynıydı. Farklı bedende aynı sefalet. “Hangisi?”

“Fazla ham olmayanlardan.”

“Tanesi 600 lira.”

“Yarım ver. Şundan da...” Lafını tamamlayamadı. Biri bağırıyordu. Genç, on yedisinde bile göstermeyen biri. Yüzü etli, hareketleri canlı, kıyafetleri yeni ancak kendisine büyük gelmiş ve epey hırpalanmıştı. Hele o paltosu... İçi pamukla dolu olmalıydı. Kocamandı.

“Ya idam ne demek abi! Manyak mısınız lan siz? Kaçıncı yüzyıldasınız a...”

Küfrünün ortasında ağzını kapattılar. Koluna girmiş, kahveye geri sokuyorlardı.

Tezgâhtara “Kim bu?” diye sordu.

“Birinin torunuymuş, öyle diyor. Daha önce duyduysam n’olayım. Meczup herhalde,” dedi tezgâhtar.

“İsmi neymiş dedesinin?”

“Hakan mı, Hasan mı, öyle bi’şey.”

“Ekmekten çeyrek dilim, deri parçasını da ver. Çorbalık, değil mi?”

“Evet, çorbalık.”

Hakan... Şu saçma romanını bitirmek için evine döndü. Artık tozlar ayak bileğine geliyordu. Umursamadı. Son cümlelerini yazdı, kâğıt tomarını masanın yanından tertemiz yere bıraktı.

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Dürbünüyle ensesini kaşıdı. O adamın gözlerinde küçük cinler vardı. Neşeyle hoplayıp zıpladıklarını ta buradan seçebiliyordu! Ah, tatlılığa bak! Hahaha!Boynundaki ilmekle, gözlerinin içine bakan, hiç korkmayan ama bıkkın, ölümün bile hayatında olup bitenleri değiştirmeyeceğini kabullenmiş bir adamın duruşuna sahipti. Çok yaşlı, kafasında tel tel beyaz saçları, göbeğine uzanan sakallarıyla kurumuş bir ceset. Omuzları çökmek üzereydi, kamburunun ağırlığıyla ipi geriyordu.

Dürümü tekrar gözüne kaldırdı. Dürüm? Hahaha! Evet... evet! Radyoda cellat konuşuyordu.

“...endinizde değişiklik hissederseniz yakınınızdaki güvenlik güçleriyle ileti...”

Ah! Kendisine şöyle baktı. Yok... Aynı ben ya!

Sahneye -Tam bir gösteri! Gösteri!- doğru koşan adamı gördü. Üzerindeki puf puf paltosuyla, orta yaşlarında...

Masanın üzerine fırladı, dizlerinin üstüne çöküp içindeki safrayı pencereden dışarıya kustu. Eliyle ağzını silerken derisinin yapışarak etinden ayrıldığını hissedebiliyor ve o bant sökülürken çıkana benzeyen sesi duyabiliyordu. Cellat konuşmayı bırakmıştı. N’oldu? N’oulduuv?

Yaşlı adamı asmışlardı. Şimdi dik duruyordu, yükü hafiflemişti ama huzurlu olduğunu söyleyemezdiniz.

Diğer adam onları umursamadı, yere eğilip mikrofonun kablosunu tuttu ve ayaklığını devirerek kendisine çekti.

“Tabutun kapağını kaldırdığında yerin altına döne döne ilerleyen o kuyuyu... Tamam... tamam!”

Adamın şakağına inen ilk sopadan çıkan ses odayı doldurdu. Sonrası sessizlik ve ölüm. Ahhh... ahhh...

Hemen bağdaş kurup kaldığı sayfayı buldu. Ne ilham! NE İLHAM!

Son cümlelerini yazıp romanını bitirdi.

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Dürbünü öylece dışarıya bırakıverdi. Derisi kemiklerine yapışmış, kaşına kadar her tüyü dökülmüş bir ihtiyarı asıyorlardı. Açıktaki tüm bedeni yaşlılık lekeleriyle doluydu. Bembeyaz sakalı uzun ve temizdi. Dönecek! İpin ucunda! Sağa sola!_Tahta pencereleri kapadı ve -_Ha ha!- fenerin fitilini -Ha ha _ha!- yaktı. Duvardaki gölgeleri beğenmedi ama. Söndürdü. Püf füfüfüf ha ha _ha! Tekrar yaktı. Yine istediği gibi olmasa da iş görürdü.

Radyonun sesini açtı. Evet... Evet açtım! Tiz ve kalın, tanıdık ve yabancı... Burnu kanadı.

“...EN HİÇBİR ŞEYİN SONU YOKTUR! SONU OLAN HİÇBİR ŞEY BİTMİŞ DEĞİLDİR VE BİTEN HİÇBİR ŞEYİN SONU YOKTUR! SONU OLAN HİÇBİR ŞEY...”

Yüzüne döktüğü suyu alttaki tasla toplayıp içtikten sonra -Ha ha _ha! Hazırım, evet hazırım! Romanı bitirelim. Bundan iyisi olamaz! Olamaz! Ha ha!- masasına dönüp kâğıtlarını önüne çekti. Son cümleler ve sonrasında -Özgürüm! Özgürüm!” Radyo yayınına başka, yabancı biri karıştı. Öyle bağırıyordu ki duvarlar titriyordu. Çok yaşlıydı, çok...

“Geldiğimden beri, her gün! Asmayın artık şu adamı! Görmüyor mu...”

Sonra celladın sesi duyuldu. Cılız, uzaktan...

“Bunu da hazırlayın.”

“Evet... evet. Ne olacak, beni de her gün asın a...”

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2019 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

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Chef's notes

This vegan mozzarella recipe consists of cashews, psyllium husks flour and delicious spices. Of course it doesn't taste like the "original". Nutritional yeast is essential in this recipe as they give the plant-based cheese alternative a cheesy taste. You need a good, powerful blender.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 10 min. (start preparing the day before)
• 🍳 Cook time: 0
• 🍽️ Servings: 4

Ingredients

• 270 ml Water
• 2 tbsp Psyllium husk (flour or flakes)
• 100 g Cashews soaked in water for at least 4 hours or over night
• 4 tbsp nutritional yeast
• 1/2 Juice of lemon
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1/2 tsp Pepper
• 1/2 tsp Garlic powder

Directions

1. Soak the cashews in water for at least 4 hours - preferably overnight - and drain
2. Place the cashews as well as the water, lemon juice, yeast flakes and spices in a blender and blend until smooth
3. Add the psyllium husk and blend again until you get a cheesy consistency. It goes quite quickly!
4. Place the cheese mixture in a bowl and let it solidify in the refrigerator for at least two hours - preferably overnight.
5. Finally, turn the cheese out onto a plate and cut into pieces. It can be a bit sticky, but thats fine.
6. Serve with tomatoes and drizzle with olive oil and balsamic vinegar (Aceto Balsamico). Decorate with basil leaves or any sprouts and microgreens.

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Let's hear some of your latest Bitcoin purchases, feel free to include links to the shops or merchants you bought from too.

If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent their sats on.

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I'm curious who stackers would pick in the following hypothetical matchup:

The GOATs 1. Magic 2. Jordan 3. Lebron 4. Duncan 5. Kareem

vs.

The Shooters 1. Nash 2. Steph 3. Bird 4. Durant 5. Dirk

If you're like me, you think The Shooters would have a really strong chance of winning a series against The GOATs. Does that imply that we're thinking about the GOAT wrong?

Shoutout to @Voldemort for making me think about Dirk and how shooting is still possibly an undervalued skill.

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Opinion about Phoenix - LN Bitcoin wallet (android)

Phoenix is one of my favorite wallets. It makes using Bitcoin really easy but at a price. The wallet lets you send and receive both over the lightning network and on-chain without jumping through hoops, first but at the cost of either kind of hidden fees or unexpected on-chain fees.

To my understanding, when you receive on-chain funds, the wallet does yet another on-chain transaction to get these funds onto lightning and when you send via lightning, you pay an extra 0.4% to the provider. This 0.4% fee is not capped in any way, so while you can send $1000 via lightning, that will cost you $4 even when on-chain transactions would have cost just $1.

As of writing this opinion, the wallet is not reproducible which is a red flag to updating to this version but the provider hopefully will fix that soon as they are an OG player in the space.

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

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Join Richard from Motiv as he shares insights into how the Motiv project is revolutionising humanitarian aid in Peru through the integration of Bitcoin. Discover how the project's Christian values drive its mission to empower individuals financially while fostering self-growth within communities. Explore success stories illustrating the financial empowerment achieved through Bitcoin and the project's dedication to social activism. Learn about Motiv's innovative approach to self-sustainability and how readers can support their mission. This interview was conducted on the Croxroad podcast, a platform dedicated to highlighting inspiring stories of innovation and social impact. Get inspired by Motiv's journey and learn how you can contribute to making a difference in Peru and beyond. For more information, support, and to get involved, don't miss the Contact Information and Support section, along with insightful FAQs to address any queries. Experience the transformative power of Bitcoin in driving self-growth and positive change in communities worldwide.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to Motiv Project

• Integration of Bitcoin

• Financial Empowerment Through Bitcoin

• Christian Values and Humanitarian Aid

• Contact Information and Support

• Conclusion

• FAQs

Introduction to Motiv Project

The Motiv Project is a pioneering initiative dedicated to transforming lives and fostering self-growth in Peru through innovative approaches to humanitarian aid. Founded on Christian values and driven by a passion for social activism, Motiv is committed to empowering individuals and communities, particularly in impoverished regions, to achieve financial independence and sustainable growth.

At the heart of the Motiv Project is the integration of Bitcoin, a revolutionary digital currency, as a tool for financial empowerment. By leveraging the benefits of Bitcoin, Motiv aims to provide individuals with access to secure and efficient financial services, free from the constraints of traditional banking systems. Through education and support, Motiv equips individuals with the knowledge and resources needed to harness the potential of Bitcoin for their own economic advancement.

Through various programs and initiatives, Motiv facilitates entrepreneurship, vocational training, and economic development, empowering individuals to build thriving businesses and improve their quality of life. By fostering a culture of self-reliance and resilience, Motiv empowers communities to break free from cycles of poverty and dependence, paving the way for long-term growth and prosperity.

With a focus on grassroots initiatives and community-driven solutions, the Motiv Project is making a tangible impact on the lives of thousands of individuals across Peru. Through collaboration with local partners and organisations, Motiv is creating a ripple effect of positive change, inspiring hope and opportunity where it is needed most. Join us in supporting the Motiv Project and become part of a movement dedicated to driving sustainable development and self-growth in Peru and beyond.

Integration of Bitcoin

The integration of Bitcoin within the Motiv project marks a transformative approach to humanitarian aid in Peru. Bitcoin, a decentralised digital currency, serves as a foundational tool for empowering individuals and communities economically. Motiv has embraced Bitcoin as a means to provide financial autonomy and stability to marginalised populations, enabling them to transcend the limitations of traditional banking systems.

Through the integration of Bitcoin, Motiv offers a novel solution to the challenges faced by underprivileged communities in Peru. By leveraging the secure and transparent nature of blockchain technology, Motiv facilitates seamless transactions and financial empowerment. This integration enables individuals to access financial services without relying on conventional banking infrastructure, which may be inaccessible or unreliable in remote areas.

Moreover, Bitcoin integration fosters economic resilience by mitigating the risks associated with inflation and economic instability. Individuals participating in the Motiv project can safeguard their financial assets through Bitcoin, preserving their purchasing power and building long-term wealth.

The integration of Bitcoin also aligns with Motiv's mission to promote innovation and inclusivity in humanitarian efforts. By harnessing the potential of cryptocurrency, Motiv empowers individuals to take control of their financial futures and break free from cycles of poverty. This forward-thinking approach not only addresses immediate financial needs but also lays the groundwork for sustainable development and self-sufficiency.

Overall, the integration of Bitcoin within the Motiv project represents a paradigm shift in humanitarian aid, ushering in a new era of financial empowerment and opportunity for underserved communities in Peru.

Financial Empowerment Through Bitcoin

Financial empowerment through Bitcoin is at the heart of Motiv's transformative efforts in Peru. By embracing cryptocurrency as a vehicle for economic progress, Motiv empowers individuals and communities to take control of their financial destinies. Through Bitcoin, participants gain access to a secure and transparent financial system that transcends the limitations of traditional banking infrastructure.

Bitcoin serves as a catalyst for financial inclusion, enabling individuals in underserved areas to participate in the global economy. Motiv provides education and resources to help community members understand and leverage Bitcoin effectively, thereby fostering economic resilience and independence. Participants are equipped with the knowledge and tools to send, receive, and store Bitcoin securely, empowering them to navigate financial transactions with confidence.

Furthermore, Bitcoin offers a hedge against inflation and economic volatility, providing a stable store of value amidst uncertain economic conditions. By diversifying their financial holdings with Bitcoin, individuals can protect their wealth and preserve their purchasing power over time. This financial security enables them to weather economic downturns and pursue opportunities for growth and prosperity.

Motiv's focus on financial empowerment through Bitcoin extends beyond individual benefits to drive broader societal change. By fostering a culture of financial literacy and self-reliance, Motiv lays the groundwork for sustainable development and poverty alleviation in Peru. Through education, training, and access to Bitcoin, Motiv empowers individuals to build brighter futures for themselves and their communities.

Christian Values and Humanitarian Aid

Christian values are deeply embedded in Motiv's humanitarian efforts in Peru. Rooted in compassion and service, Motiv's approach to aid reflects the principles of love, generosity, and solidarity espoused in the Christian faith. Central to Motiv's mission is the belief in the inherent dignity and worth of every individual, regardless of their circumstances.

Through its humanitarian aid initiatives, Motiv seeks to uplift the most vulnerable members of society, providing them with tangible support and resources to improve their lives. Motiv's commitment to Christian values drives its focus on addressing not just the immediate needs of communities, but also the underlying systemic issues that perpetuate poverty and inequality.

Moreover, Motiv recognizes the importance of empowering individuals to become agents of change within their own communities. By instilling Christian values such as compassion, empathy, and stewardship, Motiv equips individuals with the mindset and skills to serve others and effect positive social change.

In addition to providing material assistance, Motiv also offers spiritual support and guidance to those in need. Through prayer, counselling, and fellowship, Motiv seeks to nurture the spiritual well-being of individuals and foster a sense of hope and resilience in the face of adversity.

Overall, Motiv's humanitarian aid efforts are guided by Christian values of love, compassion, and service. By embodying these principles in its work, Motiv not only meets the immediate needs of communities but also strives to create a more just, compassionate, and equitable society for all.

Contact Information and Support

For those seeking to connect with Motiv and support their impactful work in Peru, various channels are available for contact and assistance. Individuals interested in learning more about Motiv's projects, volunteering opportunities, or ways to contribute can visit the organisation's official website at Motiv.ngo. Here, comprehensive information about Motiv's initiatives, team members, and mission can be found.

Additionally, Motiv can be reached via email at info@Motiv.ngo for inquiries, partnership proposals, or general support. The team at Motiv is responsive and welcomes correspondence from individuals, organisations, and potential collaborators who share their commitment to humanitarian aid and community development.

For those active on social media platforms, following Motiv's accounts provides another avenue for engagement and support. Motiv maintains a presence on Twitter under the handle @Motivngoglobal, where updates, news, and stories about their work are regularly shared. Furthermore, Motiv is launching an innovative initiative called TravelSats, where individuals can book tours with select tourism companies, with a portion of the proceeds directly supporting Motiv's programs. By participating in these tours, individuals not only have the opportunity to explore exciting destinations but also contribute to meaningful social impact projects in Peru.

Conclusion

In conclusion, Motiv's endeavours in Peru exemplify the transformative potential of Bitcoin in fostering self-reliance and community empowerment. Through innovative programs and a steadfast commitment to financial inclusion, Motiv is revolutionising traditional aid models, emphasising dignity, and sustainability. By integrating Christian values with humanitarian aid, Motiv embodies a holistic approach to social impact, prioritising both material assistance and spiritual upliftment. With accessible contact information and diverse avenues for support, Motiv invites individuals worldwide to join their mission of catalysing positive change and fostering resilience in communities across Peru. Together, through collaboration and compassion, Motiv and its supporters are shaping a brighter, more equitable future for all.

FAQs

How does Motiv integrate Bitcoin into its humanitarian efforts? Motiv utilises Bitcoin as a financial tool to empower individuals in Peru, providing them with access to secure and efficient means of storing value and conducting transactions. Through Bitcoin, Motiv facilitates economic independence and fosters financial inclusion among marginalised communities.

How can I support Motiv's initiatives in Peru? You can support Motiv's initiatives by donating through their website or participating in their travel program, TravelSats, where a portion of the proceeds goes towards supporting their programs in Peru. Additionally, you can follow Motiv on social media to stay updated on their projects and spread awareness about their work.

How does Motiv uphold Christian values while providing humanitarian aid? While Motiv operates based on Christian principles, it does not impose religious beliefs on the communities it serves. Instead, Motiv focuses on delivering practical assistance and empowerment programs that align with Christian values of compassion, justice, and dignity for all. By embodying these values in their humanitarian efforts, Motiv seeks to uplift individuals and communities regardless of their religious background.

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The Wanderers carry our ancient way,
Forgotten in sands across time,
The Path which returns us to Regions of Light,
with phrases and stories sublime.

Out from our villages we cast them,
for memory of truths divine,
remind us of our errored ways,
But in their hearts, the Truth ever shines.

"We've lost many of our relics, now, though they were never important for the Path. Relics and objects, though imbued with a holy power, only serve as a guidepost to our spirits, a reminder of where to travel. We do not need them to cross the bridge between worlds."

Our leaders think they are a crazy, unintelligent people, continuing to profess and refine a realm of fantasy which has so little value to our desert lives; that these wanderers really believe what they say, only to cope with the terrors and agony of living in this world that is become destitute and estranged from celestial life.

I do not believe them, who deny the Wandering Way, for I see in their hearts that they bleed every day; they cast judgements unjust, words unloving, do things unbecoming of their characters in the folly of their grief. Yet never have I met a Wanderer with dirt upon their souls, though dirt clings so readily to their feet and threadbare robes. They possess voices of sweetness, though hoarse from the desert wind, and they seem to have a glow about their skin, though darkened by hard years in the sun.

Maybe I will take up the Wandering Way, if one of their order would take me with them. I know not where they go when they cross over the horizon, west or east, but I rarely have seen the same twice, except Abunam Sabba, who comes to us when the moon is full, without fail.

He made my father so angry on his last visit to the village, when he spoke so confidently of the dealings with the Echoes in the farthest reaches of Gondölla. "There is none alive with such knowledge," said my father.

"But there is," replied Sabba, "and many also who are not alive. We have seen them on many worlds, and have spoken to them of their travels across the stars."

"You are a liar, and a swindler," spat my father in rage, and forced him out of our house on a midsummer's eve. Still, Sabba returns to our village, though only to its edge now, where the water spout and market stand, since many of our village have treated him so. No matter when he sees me, though, he treats me with kindness, and respect, and never speaks ill of anybody.

"Words said in disdain cause the spirit endless pain," Sabba said. "They prevent progress on the Path. None can cross the bridges we travel who bear such a sickness of soul, for it pulls the spirit back to a place as sure as the anchors of old when we rode upon the water that spilled over these valleys of sand."

Sabba said to me, once, "I think you are one of the few in this world which have a heart that is clear enough to withstand the Doors of Night and make the Walk Between Worlds. I see your knowledge, though seed yet be unblossomed, and I think your curious mind could be sated on this Path. Please consider my words as an invitation; I will take you on a wander, whenever you are ready."

"The Wandering Way leads a soul wherever the winds may take them. We walk between worlds on bridges unseen by the eye, and appear whence we will, somewhere else in Gondölla. Many travel on missions unnumbered, called by some purpose or Great Spirit to act on behalf of the highest orders of life, while others simply walk, becoming as they do, letting go of their heavier natures and striving ever closer to the Suns which shine above. It is difficult to describe, as I have only words of the world, as we say, but with a little of your trust, I can show you what my words cannot."

Read more here: https://publish.obsidian.md/gondolla/Tales+of+the+Galaxy/Wanderer

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Consider the concept of 'progress' in human society and individual lives. When we talk about progress, what exactly do we mean? Is it solely about technological advancement, economic growth, or societal development? Or does progress include broader aspects such as personal fulfillment, moral advancement, and environmental sustainability? Is progress always desirable, or are there instances where the pursuit of progress leads to unintended consequences or ethical dilemmas?

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Unlocking the Digital Gold Rush

In today's fast-paced world, there's a digital evolution quietly underway, and at the heart of it lies Bitcoin. It's not just another form of currency; it's a digital treasure trove with a limited supply – only 21 million Bitcoins will ever exist. This scarcity sets it apart from traditional fiat money and makes it a valuable asset in its own right.

The Pitfalls of Fiat Money

Think about the money you use every day – dollars, euros, pounds – it's called fiat money. Governments can print as much of it as they please, and while that might seem convenient, it comes with a catch: inflation. The more money that floods the market, the less each unit is worth. This erosion of value is a constant threat to your hard-earned savings and purchasing power.

Bitcoin: The Antidote to Inflation

Enter Bitcoin, the antidote to inflation woes. With its finite supply, Bitcoin is immune to the pitfalls of fiat money. Its decentralized nature means that no single entity controls it, giving you unprecedented control over your wealth. In a world where financial stability is uncertain, having a digital asset like Bitcoin provides a sense of security and empowerment.

Conclusion: Seizing the Opportunities of the Digital Age

Living in a time where Bitcoin is accessible is a privilege more so if you can exchange your unbacked fiatmoney for it. It's like stumbling upon a digital gold rush where the treasure is not just for the lucky few but for anyone willing to seize the opportunity. So, embrace the digital revolution, harness the power of Bitcoin, and secure your financial future in a world where traditional currencies are losing their shine. One thing is for sure: To live in a time, where you can exchange infinite money for an ultimately finite good is awesome. And even better: You can actually earn bitcoin rewards for playing mobile games! Read our other long-form notes to learn more here:

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Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks) released classified documents in 2010, including sensitive U.S. military and diplomatic information. He faced charges of conspiracy and espionage for his role in obtaining and disseminating the documents. Edward Snowden, (former NSA contractor) leaked classified information in 2013, exposing global surveillance programs. Snowden revealed widespread data collection by intelligence agencies, leading to charges of espionage and theft of government property.

As of today in 2024, both Assange and Snowden are considered whistle blowers by some but face legal consequences for their actions, igniting debates on government transparency and individual rights.

In a sane democratic World, they should be free!

Their efforts to expose government surveillance and misconduct was brave and should be encouraged. But instead they have also faced legal consequences for their actions, with the U.S. government seeking their extradition to face trial on criminal charges.

These cases have sparked debates about government transparency, freedom of the press, national security, and the balance between individual rights and state interests.

Without whistle blowers, government are becoming bullies!

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This post is the eleventh in our Stoic Philosophy book club series on Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Participants expressing interest are tagged at the end of the post, let us know if you're new and would like to join and be tagged!

Prior posts for context:

• Book 10
• Book 9
• Book 8
• Book 7
• Book 6
• Book 5
• Book 4
• Book 3: In Carnuntum
• Book 2: On the River Gran, Among the Quadi
• Book 1: Debts and Lessons
• Geneisis Post

Book 11

Summary and Highlights

Following on from Book 10, I really enjoyed Book 11 as well. I'm looking forward to each new book a little more than the prior. Apparently Marcus was visiting the theater around this time. There is a lengthy reflection on comedy and tragedy in #6, as well as many small, sniping quotes which feel like they're from plays or literature. Here are my highlights for this week.

As usual, Marcus leads off with a banger in #1, which I'll quote in its entirety.

    Characteristics of the rational soul:     Self-perception, self-examination, and the power to make of itself whatever it wants.     It reaps its own harvest, unlike the plants (and, in a different way, animals), whose yield is gathered in by others.     It reaches its intended goal, no matter where the limit of its life is set. Not like dancing and theater and things like that, where the performance is incomplete if it's broken off in the middle, but at any point -- no matter which one you pick -- it has fulfilled its mission, done its work completely. So that it can say, "I have what I came for."     It surveys the world and the empty space around it, and the way it's put together. It delves into the endlessness of time to extend its grasp and comprehension of the periodic births and rebirths that the world goes through. It knows that those who come after us will see nothing different, that those who came before us saw no more than we do, and that anyone with forty years behind him and eyes in his head has seen both past and future -- both alike.     Affection for its neighbors. Truthfulness. Humility. Not to place anything above itself -- which is characteristic of law as well. No difference here between the logos of rationality and that of justice.

Of course, as I read this, I'm ticking off boxes to make sure "I'm rational", an exercise of ego. But it's eloquently written and a well-rounded description of living in harmony with Nature and Universal Law. A great start.

In #2, Marcus provides a short instruction manual on how to dissolve attachment and desire, to:

"Analyze the melody into the notes that form it, and as you hear each one, ask yourself whether you're powerless against that. That should be enough to deter you."

What I found personally interesting here was his express inclusion of martial arts alongside singing and dancing as outer examples of artistic desire. Perhaps because I have plenty of experience with music and dancing, but only an unexplored curiosity for martial arts. Makes me want to try, and also reminds me of the way other practitioners like Joe Rogan or Lex Friedman describe Jiu Jitsu as beauty in strategy and sequence.

In #3, Marcus mentions "The resolute soul", and its resolve in "separation from the body" but claims,

But the resolution has to be the result of its own decision, not just in response to outside forces [like the Christians].

This is an interesting detail to me because he particularly mentions the Christians and expresses an interpretation of the movement at the time. Raised in a Christian environment, I pick on this detail because it has also been quite a challenge for me to discern my own motivations toward Truth during development. Outside pressure from family, church organization or culture can contribute to some confusion in finding and nurturing the Soul's internal resolution, or True Self. I guess that's also just a part of growing up for everyone, but it stands out to me that perhaps the pressures of external persecution, or the factors Marcus is describing at this time are still held in the DNA of Christian organizations and consciousness today.

1. "And your profession?" "Goodness." (And how is that to be achieved, except by thought -- about the world, about the nature of people?)

The first time I read this, I almost wrote it off with a slight disagreement, reducing it to "thinking good thoughts makes me a good person", which leaves a dangerous amount of room for spiritual bypassing. However, upon closer inspection, it has a deeply Buddhist flavor if I consider that Goodness is equated with a "pure mind", one that thinks good thoughts because that is its nature, now that the subconscious has been cleaned. Interesting how my own interpretation is subject to a difference between outer perception and inner reality, probably coincident with the state of my own mind at that time. :/

In #6, Marcus does a little exposition of theater genre. Essentially, Tragedies exist "to remind us of what can happen, and that it happens inevitably. And "Then, after tragedy, Old Comedy: instructive in its frankness, its plain speaking designed to puncture pretensions". Of course, they never make it like they used to, as Marcus essentially follows this with commentary that "New Comedy" has lost this. True now, true then, true always?

7. It stares you in the face. No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

I can't help but remember Marcus' entries in prior books which seem to despair his station at the expense of "being" a philosopher. Perhaps he's developed some acceptance of that. Either way, it's a classical acknowledgement of Plato's Philosopher-King.

In #8, Marcus draws an interesting psychological analogy to a tree:

    A branch cut away from the branch beside it is simultaneously cut away from the whole tree. So too a human being separated from another is cut loose from the whole community.     The branch is cut off by someone else. But people cut themselves off -- through hatred, through rejection -- and don't realize that they're cutting themselves off from the whole civic enterprise.     Except that we also have a gift, given to use by Zeus, who founded this community of ours. We can reattach ourselves and become once more components of the whole.     But if tthe rupture is too often repeated, it makes the severed part hard to reconnect, and to restore. You can see the difference between the branch that's been there since the beginning, remaining on the tree and growing with it, and the one that's been cut off and grafted back.     "One trunk, two minds." As the gardeners put it.

There are a few different parts I like about this one. Firstly, the part about people cutting themselves off through hatred and rejection. It's a reminder for me that relationships are important. Sometimes I feel like I'll be all good if I can just sort myself and my life out -- meditate by myself and have little to do with the outside world, like a monk on a mountaintop. But perhaps there is unconscious rejection, anger or fear behind this desire? Secondly, I find it interesting that Marcus credits "Zeus, who founded this community of ours". Zeus is the Greek god of gods and Marcus is Roman. Does Zeus represent sovereignty here? Or Reason? Besides the syncretism here, I find the selection of Zeus interesting as a symbol for the rise of rational thought in the development of human religious ideas, which I've explored in some other book review posts. And of course, the final two paragraphs summarized with "One trunk, two minds" is a wonderful, allegorical representation of psychological trauma and the development of psychological complexes. Well described.

In #9, Marcus advocates that you shouldn't let difficult people "stop you from putting up with them" and that "anger, too, is weakness, as much as breaking down and giving up the struggle." We often describe the fundamental natural instincts of "fight or flight" as a root-level automatism, but my reading here is that both fight or flight are losing the conflict. Stay centered, stay grounded and still.

Which is further developed in #12:

The soul as a sphere in equilibrium: Not grasping at things beyond it or retreating inward. Not fragmenting outward, not sinking back on itself, but ablaze with light and looking at the truth, without and within.

A fiery, dynamic stasis. Like the Sun.

1. They flatter one another out of contempt, and their desire to rule one another makes them bow and scrape.

Possessed by their obsessive desires, people are twisted into the opposite expressions of behavior.

Reflection #15 is my favorite from Book 11:

    The despicable phoniness of people who say, "Listen, I'm going to level with you here." What does that mean? It shouldn't even need to be said. It should be obvious -- written in block letters on your forehead. It should be audible in your voice, visible in your eyes, like a lover who looks into your face and takes in the whole story at a glance. A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.     False friendship is the worst. Avoid it at all costs. If you're honest and straightforward and mean well, it should show in your eyes. It should be unmistakable.

Incredibly based. Stinky based. I can't say it any better, or add much to it. Go stink it up with the Truth.

Entry #18 is a very long, exploratory post of Marcus breaking down his mind's own misconceptions. It's well worth its own consideration, but a segment on masculinity stands out:

When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being -- and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners. To react like that brings you closer to impassivity -- and so to strength.

It's tough to be a man out there these days, and there aren't many positive examples of masculinity out there, so here's one from Marcus The Man himself.

1. Socrates used to call popular beliefs "the monsters under the bed" -- only useful for frightening children with.

Sounds about right with all the cultural drama around The Current Thing(tm). As Marcus frequently reminds elsewhere, this phenomena isn't new and we can expect it again. Learn to recognize cultural drama, detach identity from it and grow up, become a Man, not a child (or a sheep) and see the world for what it is.

1. This advice from Epicurean writings: to think continually of one of the men of old who lived a virtuous life.

Both ironic and inspiring to be reading this text and following that advice about the writer, Marcus. He's become his own ideal 2000 years later.

1. Mastery of reading and writing requires a master. Still more so life.

This one is pretty enigmatic. The wisdom probably lies in the mystery still half-concealed. Must one become the master oneself? Or must one become a slave to something higher? What is the difference? Is there any?

1. Socrates: What do you want, rational minds or irrational ones? -- Rational ones. Healthy or sick? -- Healthy. Then work to obtain them. -- We already have. Then why all this squabbling?

LOL. I wish I could hang out with Socrates.

Thanks for reading.

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Meanwhile, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust's recent halving, losing 300k BTC since the launch of spot Bitcoin ETFs, may have a more immediate negative impact on Bitcoin's price.

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เราจะเห็นว่า ในระบบที่เงินเพิ่มจำนวนไม่ได้ คุณต้องตัดสินใจรอบคอบมากๆก่อนที่จะยืมเงินใครและให้ใครยืมเงิน เพราะว่า ดอกเบี้ยที่คุณต้องหามาจ่ายคืน มีทางเดียวที่จะได้มาคือ จากคนอื่น คุณไม่สามารถเสกมันขึ้นมาได้

สิ่งนี้มันสำคัญมาก เพราะว่า เมื่อต้นทุนของดอกเบี้ยสูงมากขึ้น คุณจะต้องแน่ใจจริงๆว่า จะได้เงินคืนมาและจะหาเงินมาคืนได้ ถาม : แล้วคุณจะแน่ใจได้ยังไง? ตอบ : ก็ต้องมีฝีมือ เชี่ยวชาญ มีประสบการณ์มากพอในสิ่งที่คุณจะทำ

ณ ตอนนี้เรากำลังอยู่ในระบบที่สามารถเพิ่มจำนวนเงินขึ้นได้ไม่จำกัด มันส่งผลกระทบลงมาเรื่อยๆจากธนาคารกลางมาสู่ระดับบุคคล เมื่อมีคนบางคนในระบบสามารถหาเงินมาจ่ายดอกเบี้ยคืนได้ด้วยการเสกขึ้นมาใหม่ แทนที่จะมาจากคนอื่นในระบบ มันเลยทำให้ ต้นทุนของดอกเบี้ยลดลง คนที่กู้ยืมเงินก็ลดความรับผิดชอบของตัวเองลงเรื่อยๆ และในที่สุดก็ลดการพัฒนาและสั่งสมความเชี่ยวชาญและประสบการณ์ของตัวเองลง ผลกระทบนี้เราได้เห็นกันแล้วกับตาตัวเอง มันเป็นผลกระทบที่ไหลลงมาเรื่อยๆจากแหล่งผลิตเงิน สินค้าสมัยก่อนกับปัจจุบันเช่นตู้เย็น เครื่องล้างจาน รถยนตร์ เป็นต้น เมื่อคุณภาพคนลดลง คุณภาพสินค้าก็ลดลงตามไปด้วย ผู้ผลิตให้ความสำคัญกับผลกำไรสูงสุดมากกว่าคุณภาพชีวิตของผู้ใช้งาน สิ่งเหล่านี้ถูกปกปิดด้วยกลยุทธ์การตลาดบังหน้าไว้ด้วยดาราและอินฟลูเอนเซอร์อินเทรนด์ในแต่ละยุคสมัย เช่น แทนที่ตู้เย็นจะจุของได้เยอะและมีประสิทธิภาพมากขึ้น กลับชูจุดเด่นด้านรูปลักษณ์ภายนอก หรือแค่มีดาราคนนี้เป็นพรีเซนเตอร์ สิ่งของต่างๆมีฟังก์ชั่นเสริมมากมายที่ไม่จำเป็น เช่นเดียวกับผู้คนที่บริโภคสินค้าและบริการต่างๆที่ไม่ได้จำเป็นกับชีวิต แต่ถูกหลอกว่ามันจำเป็นต่อจิตใจ(ดีต่อใจ)

บิตคอยน์คือระบบการเงินใหม่ ที่เพิ่มจำนวนขึ้นได้ยากขึ้นเรื่อยๆ จนถึงจุดหนึ่ง(ประมาณปี ค.ศ. 2140) มันจะไม่สามารถเพิ่มจำนวนขึ้นได้อีก ถ้าคุณเอาตัวเองไปอยู่ในระบบที่เงินสร้างยาก คุณภาพชีวิตของคุณจะต้องถูกบังคับให้ดีขึ้น เพราะว่าคุณจะอยู่ในระบบที่ผู้คนรอบตัวคุณถูกบังคับให้พัฒนาและรักษาคุณภาพของตัวเองอยู่เสมอ

hard choices, easy life easy choices, hard life

@ 50893dd1:e29d5c47

Las claves privadas son una parte muy importante de la seguridad de tus fondos de Bitcoin. Es esencial que las guardes de manera segura y que no las compartas con nadie. Hay algunas maneras de guardar tus claves privadas de manera segura:

1. Usa un monedero de hardware: Los monederos de hardware son dispositivos físicos que almacenan tus claves privadas de manera segura. Una de las opciones más populares es el LEDGER.

2. Usa un monedero de papel: Los monederos de papel son una forma de "frio" de almacenar tus claves privadas. Esto significa que no están conectados a Internet, lo que los hace muy seguros. Para usar un monedero de papel, primero tienes que generar una clave privada y luego imprimirla en un pedazo de papel. Asegúrate de guardar el papel en un lugar seguro, como una caja fuerte o una cartera de tela.

3. Usa un monedero de software: Los monederos de software son programas que se ejecutan en tu computadora o teléfono móvil. Hay muchas opciones diferentes, como Electrum y Blue Wallet. Asegúrate de usar un monedero de software que tenga una buena reputación y que ofrezca opciones de seguridad adicionales, como la autenticación de dos pasos.

Es importante recordar que, independientemente de la opción que elijas, es esencial que te asegures de proteger tus claves privadas. No las compartas con nadie y asegúrate de hacer una copia de seguridad de ellas.

Ahora deseo agregar un concepto adicional como regalo

Como crear una transacción en BTC?

Para crear una transacción con Bitcoin, primero necesitarás tener una dirección de cartera de Bitcoin y una cantidad suficiente de Bitcoin's para enviar. Luego, tendrás que usar una aplicación o un servicio en línea que te permita crear una transacción.

Aquí hay un resumen de los pasos básicos para crear una transacción de Bitcoin:

1. Abre tu cartera de Bitcoin.

2. Ingresa la dirección de la cartera del destinatario y la cantidad de Bitcoin que deseas enviar.

3. Verifica la información de la transacción y asegúrate de que esté correcta.

4. Firma digitalmente la transacción usando tu clave privada.

5. Envía la transacción a la red de Bitcoin.

Es importante tener en cuenta que las transacciones de Bitcoin se procesan en una red descentralizada y pueden tomar un tiempo para ser confirmadas. Además, las transacciones de Bitcoin son irreversibles, por lo que es importante asegurarse de que estás enviando la cantidad correcta a la dirección correcta.

Puedes poner en practica estos punto enviando tu aporte a cualquiera de las siguientes direcciones en las que podrás darme una propina directamente

💲Blink: https://pay.blink.sv/iirvin

💲Coinos: https://coinos.io/irvin

⚡ Vida: https://vida.page/irvin - LN ⚡ irvin@vida.page

DESCARGO DE RESPONSABILIDAD: Mi contenido no debe representar un asesoramiento definitivo del mercado, mis palabras o acciones recomiendo no seguirlas como un todo. Los usuarios, inversores o público en general deberán complementar con más investigación o consultoría privada las potenciales inversiones a realizar en cualquier activo o mercado. No me hago responsable de una peligrosa toma de decisiones en las inversiones.

@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1

Prompt: Scheduling ===============

Design the elements or a full experience for post schedule. Why it's important? Could be draft being part of the userflow? Save it for later edits, or enable the recurring post at specific day or time?

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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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Curious to know WTF is a FUC? Read the ⚡️Flash Ui Challenges welcoming post.

Looking for more FUCs? Check the archive here!

@ 1931b5e4:168a0489

How is Love Not Divisive? Exploring the Foundation of Intimate Love and Vulnerability

Love, in its myriad forms, is often seen as the unifying force that binds individuals together, transcending barriers of culture, race, and belief. Yet, amidst its seemingly unifying nature, one might wonder: How is love not divisive? The answer lies in understanding the fundamental essence of love and its deep-rooted connection to vulnerability.

At its core, love is an expression of vulnerability—a willingness to open oneself up emotionally, exposing one's innermost thoughts, fears, and desires to another individual. It is this vulnerability that forms the foundation of intimate love, fostering trust, empathy, and connection between partners.

Intimate love, characterised by a deep emotional and often physical bond between individuals, thrives on mutual vulnerability. In sharing our vulnerabilities with another person, we create a space for understanding, compassion, and genuine intimacy to blossom. It is through this shared vulnerability that couples forge deep emotional bonds, supporting each other through life's trials and triumphs.

However, the concept of vulnerability extends beyond romantic relationships to encompass all forms of love—be it familial, platonic, or altruistic. In each instance, love requires a willingness to let down our guard, to be open and receptive to the experiences and emotions of others. It is through this vulnerability that we cultivate empathy, kindness, and compassion, nurturing the bonds that unite us as human beings.

Yet, amidst the universality of love's vulnerability, there exists a distinction between intimate love and other forms of love—the sexual dimension. Sexual intimacy, with its potent blend of desire, passion, and vulnerability, represents the pinnacle of human connection. It is here that the creative life force—the very essence of existence—is harnessed in a dance of fear and excitement.

Sexual attraction, fuelled by the primal instincts of reproduction and desire, taps into the deepest recesses of our psyche, awakening dormant energies and unleashing a torrent of emotions. In this union of bodies and souls, vulnerability reaches its zenith, as two individuals surrender themselves fully to the other, bound by the bonds of passion and ecstasy.

Yet, it is precisely this vulnerability—the fear of rejection, of inadequacy, of losing oneself—that imbues sexual intimacy with its unparalleled power. In the throes of passion, we confront our deepest fears and insecurities, transcending them in a moment of raw, unbridled connection.

In conclusion, love, in all its forms, is grounded in vulnerability—a willingness to open ourselves up to the joys and pains of human connection. Whether in the tender embrace of intimate love or the boundless compassion of altruistic love, vulnerability lies at the heart of our most profound experiences. And it is through this vulnerability that we discover the true power of love—the power to unite, to heal, and to transform our lives in ways both profound and enduring.

picture taken from the Tarot Deck 'Magnetic Limitless Love' by Nantakay(aka Annie Dustan)

@ c48e29f0:26e14c11

A Harvard economist published 100+ pages of survey analysis to confirm what anyone outside of the fiat academic bubble already knows: people don't like it when the stored value of their time+energy is inflated into oblivion.

You can access the full report here for anyone interested: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w32300/w32300.pdf

One quote from the Abstract really jumped out at me: "The predominant reason for people’s aversion to inflation is the widespread belief that it diminishes their buying power."

Well, yeah, no shit... But this isn't a "belief"... this is a fact.

Here's the thing: the average person understands the problem, because they feel the effects of the problem every single day...

They may not understand the root cause of the problem (creating money out of thin air)--instead blaming "greedy corporations" or "Joe Biden" or "Putin's Price Hike" or whatever the propaganda du jour happens to be--but they know inflation feels wrong. It feels like someone is stealing from them (which is true).

They know their purchasing power has decreased, because when they spend a dollar today it buys less than it did five years ago, and much less than it did 20 years ago.

It doesn't matter if fiat academics tell them "everything is fine! stop complaining! inflation is ackshually a good thing!"

People can feel that something is broken.

Most people still think there is a partisan/political solution to the problems they feel.

They think "if only OUR guy was in charge, things would be better" or "if only we taxed the greedy corporations and the rich more, then things would be better."

But political solutions will always be bandaids meant to superficially treat the symptoms of the disease so the Political Team proposing the "solution" can score short-term perceived wins ahead of the next election. "Look, we did something! Now stop complaining and vote for us because the other guy is literally the devil."

A few people already realize that the money itself is broken.

They understand that when the money breaks, society breaks with it.

Money created out of thin air disproportionally enriches those closest to the creation of the new money.

Money created out of thin air is used to fund Forever Wars we never agreed to enter.

Money created out of thin air is used to subsidize companies/industries that the free market does not value, distorting price signals.

Money created out of thin air bails out banks.

Money created out of thin air perpetuates never-ending boom and bust cycles.

Money created out of thin air reduces the purchasing power of the money in your pocket.

Money created out of thin air steals the value of your time and energy, of your life itself.

The people who realize the money is broken now save the value of their time and energy in Bitcoin; a money separate from the State with a fixed supply of 21M which cannot be arbitrarily inflated.

Bitcoiners know we need to cure the base layer disease, not just treat the symptoms while politicians kick a can full of worthless money down the road until it lands at the feet of our children.

Bitcoiners refuse to abdicate responsibility. Bitcoiners refuse to pass this disease on to our children. Fiat is the disease, and we know we must cure it.

It will not be easy, but it must be done.

We need to fix the money.

Study Bitcoin. https://bitcoinpodcast.net https://primal.net/walker

@ 3c827db6:66418fc3

Now that we have seen how instant settlement can affect the construction industry let’s see the next industry that can have a huge impact - logistics.

To begin, let's examine the logistics industry through the lens of an online order example. What unfolds when we select a product on a website that requires delivery to our door? Who are the entities involved in this process, and what does the payment process entail?

So I pick something from the website and order it. I pay for it and wait for the product to be delivered to my door and hope that what will arrive at my door is what I expect. Because I am paying upfront, I am taking the risk in this case. I may choose to pay on delivery but the risk for all involved does not disappear, it is just shifted to who is taking that risk now, the seller. But more on that a bit later.

When using a card for payment, a 1.5%-3% transaction fee is typically charged by the bank issuing the card. After payment, the retailer or seller is notified to send the product to the buyer's address. Subsequently, the retailer arranges delivery through a logistics company. A delivery person is dispatched to the warehouse to collect the ordered product along with others, optimizing the route. The product then navigates through the delivery company's ecosystem, involving various warehouses and personnel, until it reaches the final delivery person who brings it to the buyer's doorstep.

The efficient movement of the product through space is generally understood within the system so that is not the problem. Faster delivery benefits everyone involved, as quick and reliable service enhances customer satisfaction and loyalty. However, the actual delivery personnel may not directly benefit from the speed of delivery, but we'll delve into that aspect later. Swift delivery is crucial for customer retention, as a prompt and reliable service encourages customers to choose the same platform for future orders rather than seeking alternatives.

Where Are The Problems Then?

The logistics industry, much like the construction industry we discussed in the previous article here, has problems that predominantly revolve around payment processes. These payment-related issues cascade into other aspects of the logistics chain.

Let's trace the journey of money in this context: 1. I make a card payment to the website, and the bank deducts a 1-3% transaction fee from the retail value. 2. The website, having received the payment, needs to pay the retailer the value of the product, and again, the bank deducts 1-3% from this payment. 3. The retailer, in turn, has to pay the delivery company, with the bank deducting another 1-3% from this transaction.

The above is just about the fees to the bank. What about the settlement between all the entities involved in the delivery?

1. The website receives their money from me fast, unless it is an international delivery it is the same day.
2. The website then batches all the payments that have to be paid to the retailer for the month so they do not have to pay each individual sale to them. They most likely will pay once a month so it could be up to 30-day credit at this point.
3. Then the retailer has the same arrangement with the delivery company and there is up to a 30-day delay of the payment at this point also.

The monthly batching of payments may streamline processes, but it introduces a significant element of risk into the transaction chain. If any entity in this chain were to face financial issues, such as bankruptcy, within 30 days, the subsequent parties may never receive the funds they are owed. This risk compounds throughout the logistics ecosystem, emphasizing the need for more secure and efficient payments.

If I opt to pay on delivery, the risk dynamic in logistics is inverted - the money is collected by the delivery company, then forwarded to the retailer, and eventually passed on to the website. This way of operating has introduced additional complexities. As the number of orders increases, individual financial ledgers between the companies become more intricate due to the waiting period for money to reach the designated recipient. There is a ledger between the website and the retailer, tracking how many orders have been paid to the website and are awaiting payment. There is another ledger between the delivery company and the retailer, which, in turn, is awaiting payment. Regardless of my preferred payment method as the buyer, the retailer remains significantly exposed because they never receive the money first. The third-party risk for them is consistently high.

In both scenarios, the banking system charges fees of 3% or more for each delivery, and various parties face multiple third-party risks depending on the order of payment. To provide a more nuanced understanding of risk, it's crucial to note that even if all involved entities are reliable and face no business issues, this doesn't eliminate counterparty risk associated with the banks themselves. In the event of a bank failure, even a well-intentioned company may find itself unable to settle its debts, highlighting the vulnerability inherent in the current financial infrastructure.

Other Problems In The Logistics Ecosystem

The system encounters additional challenges within the workforce, particularly among delivery personnel. A fundamental conflict exists between these workers and the companies they serve. Workers are compensated for their time, while companies derive revenue from delivered products. This misalignment of incentives prompts companies to set aggressive targets for delivery personnel. When I run a marathon I do not sprint because I will burn out in the first part of the race. I have to pace myself to finish and may increase or decrease the speed depending on the particular situation. When you make the delivery men “sprint” in the “marathon” of delivering packages, it is only a matter of time before they burn out and quit much sooner than finding their pace and finishing their month/year the proper way.

The intense pressure to meet unrealistic delivery targets can have severe consequences on the quality of service provided by delivery workers. The rush to complete deliveries quickly may lead to damaged products and unattended packages that get stolen. Additionally, they do not have time for bathroom breaks and have to figure out how to do their business in the delivery vehicle. This not only impacts the overall customer experience but also poses risks to the well-being of the workers themselves.

The burnout process is expedited by the mental struggle faced by delivery personnel. A conflicting incentive structure compounds the challenge: while the company seeks maximum exploitation for increased profits, delivery personnel are motivated to minimize their workload since their compensation remains constant. This incongruity not only hampers the optimization of profits for both parties but also introduces mental stress for the delivery personnel. How do you expect to have no friction between them if both parties wanting to increase their profits means they have to do completely opposite actions.

Another source of friction between the delivery company and its personnel revolves around the vehicles they use. Similar to the issue of tool maintenance in the construction industry, the lack of ownership over the vehicles leads to neglect in upkeep. The company, focused on maximizing profits, may exploit the delivery personnel, who, in turn, might exploit the vehicles to enhance their personal gains. This dynamic creates a detrimental cycle where both parties prioritize individual interests over the long-term well-being of the shared resources.

Instant Split Payments And Delivery Dynamics

The most apparent benefit is that the banking system would not levy fees of 4.5%-9% for each product delivered. Even if funds are transferred between entities, the fees in the Lightning Network would be approximately 0.3%. This alone marks a significant improvement, reducing transaction costs by an order of magnitude compared to the current system. Now, let's delve deeper into additional advantages.

The risks associated with multiple third parties are eradicated in this ecosystem. There's only one third-party risk, namely the buyer of the product. As soon as the buyer receives the product, they make a Lightning Network payment. Moreover, the delivery company, the retailer, and the website all receive their payments simultaneously without funds passing from one to another. The split payment will crush the fees even further because it is one payment so the fee is ~0.1%. Just to mention that those fees do not go to the banking system, they go to the LSPs like us at Breez that are facilitating the actual payment. And because we are a non-custodial solution we do not introduce any third-party risk. There is no waiting at any point for someone to settle their bill with someone else. All participants have their funds instantly and decide what to do with them from then on.

This is a huge improvement, and just that is enough for someone to disrupt the logistics payments market, but the effects of instant split payment do not stop there.

The adoption of instant split payments in the logistics industry will significantly alter the incentives for all delivery workers. A key transformation is the shift from receiving compensation solely for time - to being actively engaged in each payment related to their deliveries. Similar to how companies receive split payments, with each entity getting its share, every individual in the delivery company involved in moving the product can now receive their share too. The funds received by the delivery company will be split further, ensuring that delivery personnel are paid for their specific contributions rather than time spent. This eliminates the need for brutal targets, allowing those who deliver more packages to receive proportional compensation for their work and fostering a fair and performance-based payment structure.

In this new paradigm of instant split payments, delivery workers will be incentivized to use their own vehicles for product deliveries. When using a company vehicle, their share of the payment for each delivery is smaller. However, if they utilize their personal vehicle, the percentage from each delivery will be more substantial, directly contributing to their earnings. This shift encourages a sense of ownership and responsibility among delivery personnel, fostering a more efficient and cost-effective system.

The revolutionary aspect of this system is that it opens up opportunities for anyone with a vehicle to become a convenient and flexible delivery person. Individuals can integrate delivery tasks into their existing plans, making extra bitcoin while heading in a specific direction. This decentralized approach allows for the optimization of routes on an individual basis. People with their own vehicles are no longer bound to a single delivery company; instead, they can work for various companies in their local area. This not only encourages individual optimization of routes but also shifts the focus to serving those expecting deliveries rather than working solely for a centralized delivery company. The reputation of the app will be enhanced by well-delivered packages, creating a positive feedback loop for more orders in the future, akin to the success of platforms like Uber.

Absolutely, the introduction of an instant settlement system with split payments has the potential to decentralize various aspects of the delivery ecosystem:

1. Decentralization of Delivery Companies: Logistics can shift from a few large delivery companies to numerous small entities and even individuals participating in the delivery process. This allows for a more distributed and flexible delivery network.
2. Decentralization of Income for Delivery Personnel: Delivery individuals will no longer be reliant on a centralized source of income. Instead, they can participate in each delivery payment, earning money directly proportional to their contribution, thereby decentralizing their income.
3. Decentralization of Options for Buyers: Buyers will have a broader range of options for who delivers their products. With a more decentralized delivery ecosystem, they can choose from various delivery providers, including independent agents and smaller delivery companies.

Overall, this decentralization has the potential to create a more efficient, adaptable, and user-centric delivery system.

Now there needs to be a person who understands the logistics market and makes that app. Unlike the construction companies, this will be even more decentralized because many more individuals can manage a delivery. Not everyone can manage a complex construction project but anyone can deliver something. Remember in the past the newspaper kids? A person with his scooter can deliver a few packages to his neighbors on the way. That will also have a social layer effect by bonding you more and more with the people in your area. We can use that in big urban areas because most of the time we are passing our neighbors without saying “Hello”. And the neighbors will prefer to receive product deliveries from people that they are familiar with. The potential for a decentralized and more community-oriented delivery system is quite exciting

Now let’s go and deliver that app.

@ 52b4a076:e7fad8bd

Why this is happening

This happens due to an invalid real IP header.

You are most likely using X-Forwarded-For as the real IP header. Strfry expects the real IP header to contain just an IP, but the X-Forwarded-For header is a list of IPs, with every proxy adding the IP of where it got the request from.

If a client specifies an X-Forwarded-For header, like X-Forwarded-For: 1.1.1.1, your proxy will add the remote IP, like this: X-Forwarded-For: 1.1.1.1, 127.0.0.1 When you use $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for in Nginx, this is what it is doing: appending the remote IP to the header.

Strfry tries parsing 1.1.1.1, 127.0.0.1 as an IP address, fails, and throws an exception.

How to fix it

If you are using Caddy, just switch to X-Real-IP.

If you are using Nginx, you can add a real IP header like so, and switch to using it: proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

You can also disable the real IP header, but this will cause problems if you use a write filter script or look at the logs.

@ 46fcbe30:6bd8ce4d

Opinion about Samourai Wallet (android)

Samourai has cost me many many hours due to their strong social media presence and constant ad hominem attacks. They blamed me for not being able to compile or reproduce their product instead of helping me to compile it. Given I compile wallets all the time as can be found on walletscrutiny, I doubt I lack the expertise to compile wallets but even if I did, why not show me? Not one developer other than their team themselves disagreed with my technical assessments of their product. Apart from proven scams, this is the product I trust least in the whole space.

But it's not only me. To quote Bitcoin Core developer and absolute genius Gregory Maxwell:

I have seen far too much outright dishonest and extremely incompetent behaviour from Samourai to ever trust it myself. Samourai has very poor privacy while bragging about having good privacy: It sends your addresses all back to their server. Their "trusted node" mode doesn't change this, it just exposes your Bitcoin node to attacks completely needlessly. (Needlessly because they only use it to relay transactions, which they could do via the public P2P ports of any node, and because since they've already sent your addresses back to their server sending your transactions via something else doesn't increase your privacy.) If you want strong privacy then as a start you need to run a full node (and use either Bitcoin Core wallet, or run your own electrum server), preferably via tor. I don't doubt that they want and intend to eventually have good privacy but it seems that they're just unable to stop lying about it, even after previously being caught.

You can find many more very competent people complaining about Samourai's dishonesity and aggressive behavior or outright incompetence if not malice here, here, here, and here. And yes, those links are to nopara, who is the founder of Wasabi wallet which targets the same audience of privacy focused users but that doesn't take away from the facts reported there.

Stay away from Scamourai!

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

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@ 8947a945:9bfcf626

September 2009

In 2009 it was my last year in medical school. I was assigned to be a medical student at a primary hospital in a rural area in the province of Chachoengsao. I did my medical practice under supervision of senior doctors.

Living and working at that hospital was easy. I had my own private doctor room to live in , and lots of cheap good food around in the morning while the hospital prepared lunch and dinner everyday.

By that time I was looking for a nearby Catholic church to attend a mass and found one in a website of the Bangkok diocese and the information was outdated and left unattended. If you had ever heard of the yellow pages , that was what the information of the church looked like. The details were very short and useless. The phone number was outdated

I had to guess which way to go for that time google map wasn't on our hands like the present day.

Imagine what happened in 2009

You drove a car 10 kilometres away from your home , venturing deep into the forest where you had never been before was quite challenging. Furthermore in Thailand , the 3G phone mobile data wasn’t settled yet. So I had no online navigation at all.

Along the way , there were gradually transition between a forest and a field into small rural community with a church signs. That was a relief at least I didn't have to sleep in the middle of the forest that night.

These 2 pictures were what you saw along your way to do your quest finding a church.

In the middle of the forest , the serene catholic church stood in the middle of this forest.

You are surrounded by a forest , green trees everywhere around you. Birds tweeting. Serenity

The priest house at the backyard

Interior of the church is simple decorated Shot taken from the back The main altar The statues of St.Anne and Mother Mary. Thai words mean “St.Anne , pray for us”

My first car parked at the back of the church

Photo taking equipment - IPhone 3Gs

@ 079d727b:00099650

Found these somewhere and I totally can't remember who authored the note. I THANK YOU! Also here's a reddit link for those who want to get started!

https://nostr.com/ - A decentralized social network with a chance of working

https://www.whynostr.com/ - the WHY https://www.heynostr.com/ - Introduction https://uselessshit.co/resources/nostr/ - Plentiful Guides and resources https://kyc3.life/resources/ - LIFE KYC (Know Your Customer) FREE (#IMPORTANT) https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/ - Reddit Nostr Feed https://fountain.fm/show/0N6GGdZuYNNG7ysagCg9 - Plebchain Radio Podcast https://stacker.news/items/492921 - Guide by @TresDMan https://nostr.how/en/get-started - Understanding the basics https://www.nostrapps.com/ - A directory of Nostr Apps https://nak.nostr.com/ - nostr army knife (dev tool) https://nostrstuff.com/ - A terminal for playing with Nostr https://nostrfreaks.com/add/ - Multiple Web Client Viewer https://nostrends.vercel.app/ - What's trending on Nostr? https://nosta.me - Profile Viewer

And now here's a list of sites which are Nostr friendly.

R/nostr user's collection of nostr apps:

• https://nostr.watch/relays/find - Finding Nostr Relays (#IMPORTANT#)
• https://shopstr.store/marketplace - A Nostr Marketplace
• https://zap.stream/ - A Nostr Live Streaming Site
• https://formstr.app/ - Creating your own Forms on Nostr
• https://metadata.nostr.com/ - Nostr Profile Manager (#IMPORTANT#)
• https://shipyard.pub/posts - Write, schedule, and boost your notes.
• https://slidestr.net/ - Nostr Slideshow
• https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr - an AMAZING list of ALOT
• https://pinstr.app/ - Pinning content on Nostr
• https://plebeian.market/ - A Nostr Marketplace
• https://nostree.me/ - A Nostr Linktree
• https://listr.lol/feed - Curate, Organize, and Discover everything Nostr has
• https://www.wavlake.com/ - a V4V music streaming site on Nostr
• https://ostrich.work/ - The first and best Nostr Jobs board on the internet.
• https://zaplife.lol/ - A live feed of zaps
• https://highlighter.com/ - The site you're on right now!
• https://shopstr.store/ - An Nostr Marketplace
• https://nostr.band/ - A Nostr search engine
• https://nostrudel.ninja/#/ - A Nostr Client/Frontend
• https://dtan.xyz/ - A Nostr Torrent site
• https://app.mutinywallet.com/ - A Lightning wallet with Nostr Integration
• https://www.flockstr.com/ - Events and Meetups on Nostr
• https://cornychat.com/ - A live talk space on Nostr akin to Twitter Spaces
• https://nostrnests.com/ - A Live Talk Space on Nostr akin to Twitter Spaces
• https://comingle.co/ - conference app powered by Nostr
• https://geyser.fund/ - A crowdfunding site powered in part by Nostr
• https://heya.fund/ - Fund causes and goals with lightning on Nostr
• https://www.nostrchat.io/ - A Chat Client on Nostr
• https://w3.do/ - A URL Shortener on Nostr
• https://yakihonne.com/ - Long form writing on Nostr
• https://habla.news/ - Long form writing on Nostr
• https://nostrsync.live/ - A Broadcast & Export Service for your Data
• https://follows.lol/ - The Nostr follower tool
• https://globalthreat.info/ - Realtime global threat assessment driven by AI

There is ALOT more out there so I recommend you look at https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr !

Nostrapps is also excellent for finding web clients to actually view the twitter style of the Nostr.

I shall update this list from time to time with more or less content... hopefully. Or something cooler will come out and I'll use that. 🤷

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Have you ever seen a relay and out of curiosity visited the https canonical of a relay by swapping out the wss with https? I sure have, and I believe others have too. When I ran https://nostr.sandwich.farm in late 2022/2023, I had thousands of hits to my relay's https canonical. Since then, I've dreamed of improving the look and feel of these generic default landing pages.

With the release of myrelay.page v0.2, relays can now host their own customizable micro-client at their https canonical.

Transform your relay's landing page from this:

or this:

to something like this:

I say "something like this" because each page is customizable at runtime via the page itself.

In a nutshell

myrelay.page is a self-configuring, Client-Side Rendered (CSR) micro-client specifically built to be hosted at relay canonicals, customizable at runtime via NIP-78. Check out a live example.

Features:

1. Dark or light theme
2. Join relay
3. Relay operator profile and feed
4. Zap relay operator
5. See people you follow who are on the relay
6. Customizable by the relay operator
7. Enable/disable blocks
8. Sort blocks
9. Add HTML blocks
10. Add image blocks
11. Add markdown blocks
12. Add feed blocks, with two layouts (grid/list) and customizable filters.

You can find a full list of features complete and todo here

Why I created myrelay.page

For several different reasons.

Firstly, the default, bland relay pages always seemed like a missed opportunity. I jotted down an idea to build a relay micro-client in early January 2023, but never had the time to start it.

Next, I've been ramping up the refactor of nostr.watch and first need to catch up on client-side technologies and validate a few of my ideas. To do this, I have been conducting short research & development projects to prepare and validate ideas before integrating them into an app I intend to support long-term. One of those R&D projects is myrelay.page.

Additionally, I wanted to explore NIP-78 a bit more, a NIP that came into fruition after a conversation I had with @fiatjaf on February 23rd, 2023. It stemmed from the desire to store application-specific data for app customization. I have seen clients use NIP-78, but from what I've seen, their implementations are limited and do not demonstrate the full potential of NIP-78. There's more on NIP-78 towards the end of this article

The convergence of these needs and ideas, in addition to having an itch I needed to scratch, resulted in the creation of myrelay.page.

*Could be wrong, please let me know in the comments if you have examples of nostr clients that utilize NIP-78 for propagating customizations to other visitors.

Editor Flow

Now I'm going to give you a brief example of the Editor Flow on myrelay.page. There's a lot that isn't covered here, but I want to be as brief as possible.

Note: myrelay.page is alpha, there are bugs, quality of life issues and things are far from perfect.

Login

Presently, myrelay.page only supports NIP-07 authentication, but other authentication methods will be implemented at a later date.

In order to customize your page, you need to have a valid NIP-11 document that provides a valid hex pubkey value that is the same as the key you use to login.

Click "Edit"

Add a block

For brevity, I'm going to add a markdown block

Configure the block

Add a title to the block and a sentence with markdown syntax.

Publish the configuration

Click publish and confirm the event, once it's been published to relays the page will refresh.

Note: Again it's alpha, so the page doesn't refresh after a few seconds, the publish probably failed. Press publish until it refreshes. Error handling here will improve with time.

Confirm state persistence

After reload, you should see your block persisted. Anyone who visits your page will see your newly configured page. Big caveat: Given the blessing of relays who store your configuration note, if your configuration cannot be found or you cannot connect to your relays, visitors will only see your relay's NIP-11.

Interested?

myrelay.page is alpha and only has two releases, so if you want to be an early adopter, you'll need the skillset and patience of an early adopter. That said, as long as you have some basic development and sysadmin skills as well as understand your reverse-proxy of choice, it's a quick, easy and low-risk side project that can be completed in about 20 minutes.

1. Build

yarn build or npm run build or pnpm run build (note: I had issues with pnpm and cannot guarantee they are resolved!)

2. Deploy

Move the contents of build folder to your relay server (or another server that you can reverse-proxy to from your relay)

3. Update your reverse-proxy configuration

You'll need to split your relay traffic from the http traffic, this ranges from easy to difficult, depending on your server of choice. - caddy: By far the easiest, see an example configuration for strfry here (easily adapted by those with experience to other relay software) - nginx: A little more stubborn, here's the most recent nginx config I got to work. You'll need to serve the static site from an internal port (8080 in the aforementioned nginx conf) - haproxy: Should be easier than nginx or maybe even caddy, haven't tried yet. - no reverse-proxy: shrugs

If any of that's over your head, I'll be providing detailed guides for various deployment shapes within the next few weeks.

Exploring NIP-78

One of the special things about NIP-78 is that it is application specific, meaning, you don't need to conform to any existing NIP to make magic happen. Granted there are limits to this, as interoperability reigns supreme on nostr. However, there are many use cases where interoperability is not particularly desirable nor beneficial. It doesn't change the care needed to craft events, but it does enable a bunch of unique opportunities.

1. A nostr client that is fully configurable and customized by the user.
2. A nostr powered CMS that can be edited entirely on the client-side.
3. Any use case where an application has special functionality or complex data structures that present no benefit in the context of interoperability (since they are "Application Specific").

Final thoughts

I was surprised at how quickly I was able to get myrelay.page customizable and loading within an acceptable timeframe; NIP-11, the operator's NIP-65 and the myrelay.page NIP-78 events all need to be fetched before the page is hydrated! While there is much to do around optimization, progressive page-loading, and general functionality, I'm very happy with the outcome of this short side project.

I'll be shifting my focus over to another micro-app to validate a few concepts, and then on to the next nostr.watch. Rebuilding nostr.watch has been a high-priority item since shortly after Jack lit a flame under nostr in late 2022, but due to personal circumstances in 2023, I was unable to tackle it. Thanks to @opensats I am able to realize my ideas and explore ideas that have been keeping me up at night for a year or more.

Also, if you're a relay developer and are curious about making it easier for developers to deploy myrelay.page, get in touch.

Next article will likely be about the micro-app I briefly mentioned and nostr.watch. Until then, be well.

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กันยายน 2552

เป็นปีสุดท้ายสำหรับการเป็นนักศึกษาแพทย์ ผมถูกส่งให้ไปฝึกงานที่โรงพยาบาลชุมชนแห่งหนึ่งในจังหวัดฉะเชิงเทรา ภายใต้การดูแลของแพทย์รุ่นพี่และอาจารย์แพทย์ประจำโรงพยาบาลแห่งนั้น

ชีวิตความเป็นอยู่ช่วงนั้นเรียบง่าย ไม่ต้องดิ้นรนอะไรมาก ผมมีบ้านพักส่วนตัวอยู่ภายในตัวโรงพยาบาล ทุกๆเช้ามีตลาดนัดตอนเช้าตั้งอยู่ข้างๆอาคารผู้ป่วยนอก มีของกินดีๆราคาถูกๆให้เลือกมากมาย ส่วนมื้อเที่ยงและมื้อเย็นหมดห่วงเพราะทางโรงพยาบาลจัดเตรียมไว้ให้

เวลานั้นผมนับถือคาทอลิค ต้องหาโบสถ์เข้าร่วมพิธีมิซซาบูชาขอบพระคุณในวันอาทิตย์ การหาข้อมูลไม่ง่าย ต้องดุ่มๆหาในเวบไซต์ของสังฆมณฑลกรุงเทพ หาไปหามาก็ไปเจอชื่อโบสถ์ "นักบุญอันนา สระไม้แดง " แต่ที่อยู่และวิธีการเดินทางไม่มีบอกเอาไว้

ถ้าใครเกิดทันสมุดหน้าเหลือง (YellowPages) นั่นแหละครับช้อมูลอย่างเดียวที่ผมมีในมือ แถมเบอร์โทรศัพท์ของโบสถ์ก็ไม่ได้อัพเดทอีก

ลองนึกภาพตามนะครับเมื่อปี 2552

ประเทศไทยยังไม่มีระบบ 3G เลย ส่วน google maps ก็พึ่งถูกพัฒนาขึ้นมาแถวๆปี 2548 ไม่ได้พร้อมใช้งานเมื่อไหร่ก็ได้เหมือนปัจจุบัน

ผมต้องอาศัยความกล้าในการขับรถออกจากบ้านพักในโรงพยาบาล ซึ่งเหมือนสถานที่ปลอดภัยมากๆสำหรับผมที่มาอยู่ต่างถิ่น ไม่รู้จักใครเลย วิ่งเข้าถนนใหญ่ซักพักนึงไม่มีชุมชนข้างทางเหลือ มีแต่ป่า

เส้นทางเข้าโบสถ์ก็คือถนนที่ตัดเข้ากลางป่าไปเลย ระยะทางประมาณ 9 กิโลจากโรงพยาบาล แต่ก็เป็นอะไรที่ตื่นเต้นมาก ขับรถคนเดียวในต่างแดน

แถมรถคันแรกของผมก็เป็นรถมือสองที่มีปัญหาไดสตาร์ทงอแงอีก ถ้าขับความเร็วไม่เกิน 80 km/hr มันจะไม่เกิดปัญหา แต่ถ้าเกิดวันไหนรีบๆ อัดความเร็วขึ้นทะลุ 100 km/hr แล้วจอดรถ ดับเครื่อง ลงไปทำธุระแล้วกลับมาสตาร์ทรถจะมีลุ้นว่ารถจะสตาร์ทติดหรือไม่ติด

ช่างที่อู่ซ่อมรถเขาบอกว่าไดสตาร์ทมันค้าง วิธีเอาตัวรอดก็คือต้องหาท่อนเหล็กมาเคาะ แล้วสตาร์ทรถ วัดดวงกับมันไปเรื่อยๆ ซ่อมมาหลายรอบก็แก้ไม่หาย ลองเอาเข้าศูนย์บริหารมาตรฐานแล้วก็ไม่รอด

ตอนนั้นผมก็กลัวครับ เกิดซวยเข้าขั้น ขับรถถึงโบสถ์แล้วเกิดรถดับอีกนี่สงสัยได้นอนในป่า

เมื่อขับรถไปเรื่อยๆ ก็เริ่มเห้นชุมชนสระไม้แดง เห็นป้ายบอกทาง เห็นป้ายโบสถ์ตอนนั้นใจชื้นแล้วครับ ว่าอย่างน้อยก็ขับรถมามั่วๆแล้วถูกทางละกัน

2 ฝั่งข้างทางก็จะเห็นวิวประมาณนี้ไปตลอดทาง ลมเย็นครับ ตอนนั้นเป็นช่วงเดือนกันยายนพอดี

กลางป่า มีโบสถ์คาทอลิคอันเงียบสงบตั้งอยู่ รายล้อมไปด้วยธรรมชาติสีเขียว เสียงนกร้อง แสงแดดอ่อนๆ กลิ่นไอดิน เสียงหญ้าสดสลับกับเสียงหญ้าแห้งเวลาเดินเข้าหาตัวโบสถ์แต่ละก้าว พลังงานความศักดิ์สิทธิ์ไม่ธรรมดา

เมื่อมองไปรอบๆตัวโบสถ์คือถูกล้อมด้วยธรรมชาติกลางป่ากลางทุ่งนา

บ้านพักพระสงฆ์(บาทหลวง) ด้านหลังตัวโบสถ์

ภายในตัวโบสถ์ตกแต่งเรียบง่าย แต่สวยงามสง่า รูปปั้นนักบุญอันนาและพระแม่มารีย์ ถ่ายจากด้านหลังสุดตัวโบสถ์ พระแท่นหลักของตัวโบสถ์

นี่คือรถคันแรกของผมสมัยนั้นครับ

Honda civic 3 doors ค่าตัว 120,000 บาทถ้วน รับมาอยู่ด้วยตั้งแต่ผมเข้ามหาวิทยาลัยปี 1 เมื่อปี 2547 ขายคืนเต๊นท์รถเมื่อปี 2554 ราคา 90,000 บาท ก่อนที่จะได้โตโยต้าวีออสปี 2004 จากพ่อตาของผมมาเป็นของขวัญวันหมั้นกับภรรยาครับ

อุปกรณ์ถ่ายภาพ - IPhone 3Gs

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เกร็ดเล็กเกร็ดน้อย

นักบุญยอแซฟและนักบุญอันนา คือบิดามารดาของพระแม่มารีย์ผู้ที่เป็นพระมารดาของพระเยซูเจ้าครับ เป็นท่านตาท่านยายของพระเยซูนั่นเองครับ

ที่โบสถ์แห่งนี้ถึงจะมีบ้านพักบาทหลวงอยู่ แต่ไม่มีคนอยู่ตลอด คุณพ่อท่านจะขับรถจากโบสถ์อีกแห่งหนึ่งซึ่งท่านพำนักอยู่ ห่างออกไป 10 - 20 กิโลเมตร วิ่งรถข้ามอำเภอมาเพื่อประกอบพิธีมิซซาให้กับชาวบ้านในชุมชนแห่งนี้ วันอาทิตย์มีแน่ๆหนึ่งรอบ แต่วันอื่นๆ ผมไม่ทราบข้อมูลครับ

ถ้าใครจะมาเที่ยวมาเยี่ยมชม แนะนำให้ติดต่อหาข้อมูลก่อนนะครับ เพราะวันที่ผมเดินไปทางสำรวจ ตัวโบสถ์ล็อคเข้าไม่ได้ รูปถ่ายที่ถ่ายมาได้เป็นวันอาทิตย์หลังพิธีมิซซาเสร็จสิ้น ชาวบ้านและคุณพ่อแยกย้ายกันกลับหมดแล้ว

หวังว่าจะชอบนะครับ กับซีรีส์ใหม่ของผม RK photos - photo story telling blog รูปถ่ายเล่าเรื่อง ไว้เจอกันใหม่คราวหน้า สวัสดีครับ

@ 599f67f7:21fb3ea9

¿Eres un comerciante que busca comenzar a aceptar Bitcoin en tu negocio? ¿O eres un Bitcoiner apasionado que quiere incorporar empresas locales? ¿O tal vez no te importa Bitcoin y sólo quieres utilizar un procesador de pagos rápido y económico o montar una tienda web sencilla? Si la respuesta a cualquiera de estas preguntas es afirmativa, entonces esta guía es para ti. Puedes montar una tienda en el BTCPay Server alojado por Bitcoin Txoko y empezar a vender tus bienes y servicios por Bitcoin en menos de diez minutos, de forma gratuita.

¿Qué necesito?

Si tienes un teléfono móvil o un ordenador con acceso a Internet y una cuenta de correo electrónico, ¡estás listo!

Crear una cuenta

Crear una cuenta BTCPay Server en Bitcoin Txoko es gratis. Navega a btcpay.bitcointxoko.com para registrar una cuenta. Revisa tu bandeja de entrada para recibir un correo electrónico de bitcointxoko@gmail.com que contiene el enlace de confirmación.

Crear tu primera tienda

Al hacer clic en el enlace de confirmación accederá a la página de creación de la tienda. Asigna un nombre a tu tienda y elige la moneda predeterminada y una fuente de precios preferida. Por ejemplo, puedes elegir EUR y Kraken, que es la fuente de precios recomendada. BTCPay Server convertirá el precio de tus bienes o servicios de EUR a Bitcoin utilizando la fuente de precios en el momento de la compra.

Configurar una billetera

Para comenzar a aceptar pagos, primero debes vincular una billetera a tu tienda. A menos que esperes transacciones frecuentes de grandes cantidades (más de 500 EUR), te recomendamos configurar una billetera Lightning y omitir la billetera Bitcoin (en cadena) por ahora. Siempre puedes configurarla más tarde si la necesitas.

💡 Lightning es la red de liquidación de pagos ideal para aceptar pagos de Bitcoin porque ofrece liquidación instantánea y tarifas bajas en comparación con las transacciones en cadena.

La forma más sencilla de conectar una billetera Lightning es usar LNDhub porque no necesita correr tu propio nodo Lightning. Si aún no tienes una billetera LNDhub, no temas, Bitcoin Txoko ofrece billeteras LNDhub gratuitas y tardas menos de cinco minutos en configurarlas. Consulta nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3exuerqdfkxccnyv3cqgs9n8m87l0hd9xxqwndqcmwzh4uvyxmwlw0637kuhg98pkcy8ana2grqsqqqa28nkyu7t sobre cómo obtener tu propia billetera LNDhub y regresa cuando estés listo.

💡 Si ya dispones de una billtera, te recomendamos que crees una billetera independiente para este caso en lugar de utilizar tu billetera principal. Esto es más fácil de contabilizar y más seguro. Simplemente haz clic en + Agregar nueva billetera en la barra de herramientas, dale un nombre a la billetera y créalo.

Con tu billetera LNDhub lista, - ve a tu cuenta BTCPay, busca Wallets en la barra lateral y selecciona Lightning. - Elige Use custom node. - Copia la URL admin de LNDhub y pégala en la configuración de conexión. - Prueba la conexión de tu billetera. - Si todo salió bien, deberías recibir el mensaje Connection to the Lightning node successful, but no public address has been configured. Puedes ignorar la parte acerca de que no se ha configurado ninguna dirección pública; esto solo se aplica si estás corriendo tu propio nodo. - Haz clic en Save una vez que hayas probado con éxito la conexión de la billetera. - Después de hacer clic en Save, desactiva Enable LNURL en la sección LNURL. No olvides hacer clic en Save nuevamente después de realizar cambios. - (Opcional) En este punto, también recomendamos marcar la casilla junto a Display Lightning payment amounts in Satoshis, ya que es más fácil de leer. Un satoshi es la unidad divisible más pequeña de Bitcoin; hay 100 millones de satoshis en un Bitcoin.

💡 El proceso de configuración es similar si utilizas tu propio nodo Lightning. Solo asegúrase de proporcionar la cadena de conexión correcta para la implementación de tu nodo. Si estás ejecutando tu propia instancia de BTCPay Server, viene con un nodo por defecto, por lo que puedes saltarse muchos de estos pasos.

Crear un Punto de Venta (Point of Sale)

Si has llegado a este paso, date una palmadita en la espalda porque la parte aburrida ya terminó. ¡Ahora puedes crear tu Punto de Venta (Point of Sale, PoS) y comenzar a aceptar tu primer pago de Bitcoin a través de BTCPay!

Para crear tu Punto de Venta, - Ve a Plugins > Point of Sale. - Dale un nombre a tu Punto de Venta y dale a Create.

Cubriremos un par de cosas simples que puede hacer con tu aplicación PoS. Dado que BTCPay tiene muchas funciones, en esta guía solo cubriremos los conceptos básicos para ayudarte a comenzar.

💡 Recuerda que puedes crear múltiples Puntos de Venta dentro de BTCPay Server, cada uno para su uso.

Keypad (Teclado)

Para una demostración sencilla, primero repasaremos el PoS con estilo de teclado.

• Asigna un nombre a tu PoS y un título para mostrar.
• Elige Keypad en Choose Point of Sale Style.
• Presiona Save en la esquina superior derecha y luego View para comprobarlo.

Los pagos se recibirán en la billetera LNDhub que configuraste anteriormente. Experimenta generando facturas y las opciones Discount y Tip. Si tienes un teléfono que lo admite (es decir, no un iPhone), también puedes permitir que tus clientes paguen con tarjetas NFC como BoltCard (consulta nostr:naddr1qqxnzd3e8qcr2wfn8qcrgwf4qgs9n8m87l0hd9xxqwndqcmwzh4uvyxmwlw0637kuhg98pkcy8ana2grqsqqqa28qjzxr4). Genial, ¿no?

💡 Puedes guardar el Keypad PoS como una aplicación web progresiva (PWA) en tu teléfono para acceder fácilmente. En la mayoría de los navegadores móviles, esta opción se llama "Instalar aplicación" o "Agregar a la pantalla de inicio".

Lista de productos con cesta (Product list with cart)

También es posible crear una app de Punto de Venta con productos específicos, cada uno con su propio precio. Puedes utilizar esta función para configurar una caja sencilla, un sistema de autopago para el cliente o una tienda web.

• Para crear una nueva aplicación de Punto de Venta, simplemente regresa a la barra lateral y selecciona Point of Sale nuevamente.
• Esta vez, en Choose Point of Sale Style, elige Product list with cart. La opción "con cesta" permite al cliente comprar varios artículos a la vez.
• Crea tus propios productos o ve directamente a Save y View para ver los productos de muestra.

Conclusión

En esta guía cubrimos los pasos básicos para comenzar a aceptar Bitcoin en tu negocio usando BTCPay Server. nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qg7waehxw309ahx7um5wgkhqatz9emk2mrvdaexgetj9ehx2ap0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uazjdva es un proyecto de código abierto que está en constante evolución. Hay muchas más características y funcionalidades dentro de BTCPay Server que puedes explorar y usar, como la integración de Shopify, el crowdfunding, las divisiones de pagos automáticas y conversión a fiat o altcoins. También puedes personalizar tu tienda a tu gusto con temas, apariencia de pago personalizada, administración de usuarios, notificaciones por correo electrónico y mucho más. Si deseas aprovechar al máximo BTCPay Server, te recomendamos que consideres configurar tu propia instancia de BTCPay Server. Consulta su documentación y videos para obtener más información.

Si aún tienes preguntas y dudas, ¡háznoslo saber! Nos encantaría ayudar a responder cualquier pregunta relacionada.

Bitcoin Txoko es una comunidad abierta. Todos nuestros servicios se financian mediante donaciones y tiempo voluntario. Si esta guía te ha resultado útil, considera unirte a nuestras quedadas o hacer una zap para ayudar a mantener nuestros servidores en funcionamiento. ¡Gracias de antemano!

@ 9edd72eb:cb697b0a

Opinion about Unstoppable Crypto Wallet (Android)

One of the strong points of this wallet is its security protocols that use advanced encryption methods and multi-factor authentication to protect user information.

The interface is intuitive which can be useful for novice and experienced users. Navigation is simple and easily accessible.

The wallet supports a diverse range of cryptocurrencies, including popular and lesser-known tokens.

It guarantees complete control of private keys and funds, emphasizing ownership and autonomy.

The platform enhances utilization, allowing users to manage their crypto assets across multiple devices, both smartphones and desktops.

On the other hand, it lacks customization options.

The lack of integrated fiat currency support might inconvenience users who frequently engage in fiat-to-crypto transactions.

Limited customer support channels and documentation could leave users stranded in case of technical difficulties or questions.

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

Join the conversation!

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What am I doing here? What am I doing here with Fatty and Spotty Fatty and Spotty Fatty and Spotty What am I doing here with Fatty and Spotty

SORRY! This will make no sense unless you've seen the British Channel 4 sitcom, Black Books. Actually, not sorry at all. Because here's a link to watch the entire series off YT. Otherwise I dunno, torrent or news it, or even better... BUY THE DVD BOXSET SECOND HAND!!! (The decent boxset should have commentary tracks for Season 1 & Season 2, making the show twice as good imo.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcQb7zEzXv8 (Enjoy! Also I recommend starting at Season 1 Episode 1 as what I've linked is S2E3). Stars the very talented, Bill Bailey, Dylan Moran and Tamsin Greig. Directed by Graham Linehan I'm pretty sure and he was just 'censored' by the trans police so you know it's probably quite funny. 😂

Many thanks to PABLOF7z for being my FIRST foundational supporter. That really means A LOT! I remember blogging in the mid 90's before the word blog was a thing. One of these day's I'll upload the html pages which show how stupid 13yr old's can be. But shit.. the enthusiasm and pure joy I got from blogging... I don't know if anything has compared in those 20+ years from writing. I hope to bring it back with these Highlighter posts which I plan to drain and publish my thoughts, finds and whatever discoveries I may find interesting.

Apologies if this bores the shit out of you. That's also why it's free. 🫡

Many more links, resources and the brain of tigs' - coming to nostr... really soon.

P.S. Don't expect anything useful or educational or in any particular order, this is MY brain after all 😂

💜🤙🫂 - tigs

@ 75bf2353:e1bfa895

My Favorite Nostr Clients

Favorite Social Media Client.

https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/amethyst

Favorite Video Client

https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/flare

Favorite Meet Up Client

https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/flockstr

Favorite Podcast & Music Client

https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/fountain

Favorite Blogging Client

https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/habla

Favorite Patreon Alternative

https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/highlighter

Favorite Venmo Alternative

https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/mutiny

Favorite eBay Alternative

https://www.nostrapps.com/apps/shopstr

Favorite File Hosting

https://nostr.build

@ 3c984938:2ec11289

Hello (N)osytrs!

Yes! I'm calling you an (N)oystr!

Why is that? Because you shine, and I'm not just saying that to get more SATs. Ordinary Oysters and mussels can produce these beauties! Nothing seriously unique about them, however, with a little time and love each oyster is capable of creating something truly beautiful. I like believing so, at least, given the fact that you're even reading this article; makes you an (N)oystr! This isn't published this on X (formerly known as Twitter), Facebook, Discord, Telegram, or Instagram, which makes you the rare breed! A pearl indeed! I do have access to those platforms, but why create content on a terrible platform knowing I too could be shut down! Unfortunately, many people still use these platforms. This forces individuals to give up their privacy every day. Meta is leading the charge by forcing users to provide a photo ID for verification in order to use their crappy, obsolete site. If that was not bad enough, imagine if you're having a type of disagreement or opinion. Then, Bigtech can easily deplatform you. Umm. So no open debate? Just instantly shut-off users. Whatever, happened to right to a fair trial? Nope, just burning you at the stake as if you're a witch or warlock!

How heinous are the perpetrators and financiers of this? Well, that's opening another can of worms for you.

Imagine your voice being taken away, like the little mermaid. Ariel was lucky to have a prince, but the majority of us? The likelihood that I would be carried away by the current of the sea during a sunset with a prince on a sailboat is zero. And I live on an island, so I'm just missing the prince, sailboat(though I know where I could go to steal one), and red hair. Oh my gosh, now I feel sad.

I do not have the prince, Bob is better! I do not have mermaid fins, or a shell bra. Use coconut shells, it offers more support! But, I still have my voice and a killer sunset to die for!

All of that is possible thanks to the work of developers. These knights fight for Freedom Tech by utilizing FOSS, which help provides us with a vibrant ecosystem. Unfortunately, I recently learned that they are not all funded. Knights must eat, drink, and have a work space. This space is where they spend most of their sweat equity on an app or software that may and may not pan out. That brilliance is susceptible to fading, as these individuals are not seen but rather stay behind closed doors. What's worse, if these developers lose faith in their project and decide to join forces with Meta! 😖 Does WhatsApp ring a bell?

Without them, I probably wouldn't be able to create this long form article. Let's cheer them on like cheerleaders.. 👉Unfortunately, there's no cheerleader emoji so you'll just have to settle for a dancing lady, n guy. 💃🕺

Semisol said it beautifully, npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj

If we want freedom tech to succeed, the tools that make it possible need to be funded: relays like https://nostr.land, media hosts like https://nostr.build, clients like https://damus.io, etc.

With that thought, Onigirl is pleased to announce the launch of a new series. With a sole focus on free market devs/projects.

Knights of Nostr!

I'll happily brief you about their exciting project and how it benefits humanity! Let's Support these Magnificent projects, devs, relays, and builders! Our first runner up!

Oppa Fishcake :Lord of Media Hosting

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Oppa Fishcake with his noble steed!

Think of this as an introduction to learn and further your experience on Nostr! New developments and applications are constantly happening on Nostr. It's enough to make one's head spin. I may also cover FOSS projects(outside of Nostr) as they need some love as well! Plus, you can think of it as another tool to add to your decentralized life. I will not be doing how-to-Nostr guides. I personally feel there are plenty of great guides already available! Which I'm happy to add to curation collection via easily searchable on Yakihonne.

For email updates you can subscribe to my [[https://paragraph.xyz/@onigirl]]

If you like it, send me some 🧡💛💚 hearts💜💗💖 otherwise zap dat⚡⚡🍑🍑peach⚡⚡🍑 ~If not me, then at least to our dearest knight!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your time and support (N)oystr! Shine bright like a diamond! Share if you care! FOSS power!

Follow on your favorite Nostr Client for the best viewing experience!

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I'm using Obsidian + Nostr Writer Plugin; a new way to publish Markdown directly to Nostr. I was a little nervous using this because I was used doing them in RStudio; R Markdown.
Since this is my first article, I sent it to my account as a draft to test it. It's pretty neat.

@ 362ebffa:492e2719

Julian Assange (founder of WikiLeaks) released classified documents in 2010, including sensitive U.S. military and diplomatic information. He faced charges of conspiracy and espionage for his role in obtaining and disseminating the documents. Edward Snowden, (former NSA contractor) leaked classified information in 2013, exposing global surveillance programs. Snowden revealed widespread data collection by intelligence agencies, leading to charges of espionage and theft of government property.

As of today in 2024, both Assange and Snowden are considered whistle blowers by some but face legal consequences for their actions, igniting debates on government transparency and individual rights.

In a sane democratic World, they should be free!

Their efforts to expose government surveillance and misconduct was brave and should be encouraged. But instead they have also faced legal consequences for their actions, with the U.S. government seeking their extradition to face trial on criminal charges.

These cases have sparked debates about government transparency, freedom of the press, national security, and the balance between individual rights and state interests.

Without whistle blowers, government are becoming bullies!

@ 218ad6cd:4c654231

bitcoin

@ 682558c5:bfa011f2

Please stop regurgitating the censorship tropes.

There is an ontological "beingness" of Bitcoin, and it's money-related.

Any use case that's not a Store of Value, Unit of Account, or Medium of Exchange is fundamentally flawed.

Yes, Bitcoin is permissionless money. But the money aspect is inseparable.

An acorn has the beingness of an oak tree. You might even go so far as to extend that beyond its life to include lumber or something crafted from lumber.

But an acorn does NOT have the beingness of a porcelain toilet to store shit.

The Downfall of Shitcoins.

Please stop repeating the straw man that anyone cheering the government-backed downfall of shitcoins is antithetical to the spirit of Bitcoin.

Shitcoins are an affinity scam. And they're NOT decentralized like Bitcoin.

We will cheer the downfall of shitcoins no matter how it comes. That makes us pragmatists, not government simps.

For some, it will be hard to believe, but even anarchists can use the power of government against itself or others - to be left the hell alone. We work with what we're given.

No Moral Dilemma is Required.

Shitcoins exist to extract value from others.

There's a carve-out in the non-aggression principle to not tolerate fraud or breach of contract.

Con artists and snake oil salesmen don't need to be tolerated in some twisted liberty-purity test.

Mental Gymnastics

The LoLbertarian purity tests ARE the mental gymnastics, the intellectual laziness to repeat sound bytes of fallacy.

Thinking through what Bitcoin and shitcoins are is the antidote. See past shitcoin marketing. See past their uSe CaSeS and their emotional attacks on anyone who opposes them.

This isn't a value judgment. This is understanding the core essence of something.

F Your Feelings.

Existence is independent of our perception or feelings. Bitcoin and shitcoins simply are what they are.

When we put down the parroted catch phrases of others, we can begin to think through what they truly are.

It's Bitcoin, not shitcoins. No, not even shitcoins ON Bitcoin. The timechain is a ledger for financial records. It's not a database for content or shitcoins. Stop attacking the people who see clearly. Your emperor has no clothes.

@ 1c6b3be3:73f0ae6f

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Abstract

A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic storage would allow data to be saved directly from one party to another without going through a centralized third party. Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to ensure data security and integrity. We propose a solution to the problem of data sovereignty using a peer-to-peer network. The network timestamps transactions by hashing them into an ongoing chain of hash-based proof-of-work, forming a record that cannot be changed without redoing the proof-of-work. The longest chain not only serves as proof of the sequence of recorded events but also as proof that it came from the largest pool of CPU power. As long as a majority of CPU power is controlled by nodes that are not cooperating to attack the network, they will generate the longest chain and outpace attackers. The network itself requires minimal structure. Messages are broadcast on a best-effort basis, and nodes can leave and rejoin the network at will, accepting the longest proof-of-work chain as proof of what happened while they were gone.

This decentralized system, which we will call Bitcoin S3, offers:

• Secure data storage
• Robust network security
• Individual sovereignty over information

By eliminating the need for trusted third parties, Bitcoin S3 paves the way for a new era of data management where each user has full control over their digital information.

@ 218ad6cd:4c654231

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@ 908d47b6:a2bf38ad

Understanding Bitcoin Halvings

Bitcoin halving, often referred to as "The Halvening," is a programmed event designed to occur approximately every four years or to put it exactly: every 210,000 blocks mined. During a halving event, the reward given to miners for validating transactions and securing the network is reduced by half. This process ensures that the total supply of Bitcoin is gradually constrained, embodying the superior cryptocurrency's deflationary nature.

Supply Scarcity and Price Dynamics

The reduction in mining rewards through halving events directly impacts Bitcoin's supply dynamics. With fewer new coins entering circulation, Bitcoin transitions towards a state of increased scarcity, akin to precious metals like gold. Economic theory suggests that scarcity, coupled with sustained demand, can drive up the price of an asset. Consequently, many investors anticipate halving events as potential catalysts for price appreciation.

Historical Halving Events

Since Bitcoin's inception in 2009, there have been three halving events: in 2012, 2016, and 2020. Each halving has been accompanied by periods of heightened speculation and volatility in the cryptocurrency markets. Notably, historical data reveals a pattern of post-halving price rallies, although the magnitude and duration of these rallies vary. The 2020 halving, for instance, preceded a significant surge in Bitcoin's value, propelling it to new all-time highs in subsequent months.

Market Sentiment and Investor Behavior

Beyond the technical implications, Bitcoin halvings also influence market sentiment and investor behavior. Leading up to a halving event, anticipation often builds within the bitcoin community, fueling speculation and driving demand. Post-halving, sentiment can fluctuate based on perceived market conditions and macroeconomic factors. While some investors view halvings as bullish catalysts, others adopt a more cautious stance, mindful of potential short-term volatility.

Future Implications and Long-Term Viability

As Bitcoin continues to mature as a store of value and digital asset, the significance of halving events is likely to endure. Proponents argue that the predetermined and transparent nature of Bitcoin's monetary policy, governed by halvings, instills confidence in its long-term viability as a decentralized currency. However, critics raise concerns about potential drawbacks, such as increased mining centralization or uncertainty surrounding future consensus mechanisms.

Conclusion

Bitcoin halvings represent a fundamental aspect of Bitcoin's economic model, embodying its deflationary principles and supply dynamics. While these events have historically been associated with market speculation and volatility, they also underscore Bitcoin's resilience and growing mainstream acceptance. As the bitcoin ecosystem continues to evolve, the impact of halving events on Bitcoin's price and ecosystem will remain a topic of keen interest and debate among investors and enthusiasts alike.

Sources: Bitcoin Whitepaper, Bitcoin.org, academic papers

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Opinion about the city of Seattle

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@ 2f7463a4:e92b8023

Original „Speaking Freely“ von Gigi, veröffentlicht zur Blockzeit 836245 unter der CC BY-SA 4.0 Lizenz. Übersetzt von sefiro.

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Neulich unterhielt ich mich mit einem Freund und wir kamen auf das Problem der Meinungsfreiheit zu sprechen. Ich sollte es nicht als Problem bezeichnen, denn es ist die Lösung eines Problems. Das Problem ist ein immerwährendes Problem, was eine andere Art ist zu sagen, dass es ein wirklich schwieriges Problem ist, ein Problem, mit dem wir immer konfrontiert sein werden, solange wir Menschen sind.

Das Problem ist folgendes: Was ist das Problem, das es zu lösen gilt? Es ist ein Problem von Problemen, was natürlich ein Metaproblem ist. Wir als Homo Sapiens sind ein denkender Organismus. Sowohl kollektiv als auch individuell. Denken ist das, was uns ausmacht, aber es ist nicht einfach Denken als Selbstzweck, es ist Denken, um Dinge herauszufinden, ohne ständig dabei umgebracht zu werden. Eine weniger brutale Form der Evolution sozusagen.

Die Menschen der Antike haben der Aufmerksamkeit einen sehr hohen Wert beigemessen. Auch die Aufmerksamkeit ist von einem Metaproblem geplagt: Worauf soll man seine Aufmerksamkeit richten? Um diese Frage zu beantworten, muss man darauf achten, worauf man seine Aufmerksamkeit richtet, und das unterscheidet einen klugen von einem weisen Menschen.

Das bringt mich zu einem der Dinge die mir derzeit Sorgen bereiten. Wir sind zivilisatorisch gesehen sehr klug, aber nicht sehr weise. Wir sind schlecht darin, auf das zu achten, worauf wir unsere Aufmerksamkeit richten, zumindest gegenwärtig. Und ich fürchte, dass sowohl die falschen Anreize, die das Internet plagen, als auch unser kaputtes Geld daran schuld sind.

Annahmen [n=0]

• ∀ i ≤ c[^1]
• P! = NP[^2]
• Leben ist es wert gelebt zu werden[^3]
• Es gibt kein kostenloses Mittagessen[^4]
• Meinungsfreiheit ist erstrebenswert[^5]

Der Logos [n=1]

Es gibt einen Grund, warum Der Logos heilig ist. Aus dem gleichen Grund ist der Erste Zusatzartikel zur Verfassung der Vereinigten Staaten der erste, d.h. der wichtigste.

Meinungsfreiheit ist nicht optional; sie ist nicht optional, weil wir frei sprechen können müssen, um frei denken zu können. Es gibt kein echtes Denken ohne echtes Sprechen, genauso wie es kein echtes Sprechen ohne echtes Denken gibt. Es muss erlaubt sein, dummes Zeug zu sagen, so wie es erlaubt sein muss, dummes Zeug zu denken.

„Der Vernünftige passt sich der Welt an, der Unvernünftige versucht beharrlich, die Welt an sich anzupassen. Daher hängt aller Fortschritt vom Unvernünftigen ab.“\ — George Bernhard Shaw, Man and Superman

Der Grat zwischen Genie und Wahnsinn ist nicht ohne Grund schmal. Was idiotisch und was genial ist, ist oft schwer zu unterscheiden. Deshalb hängt aller Fortschritt vom Unvernünftigen ab.

Wie können wir den Unvernünftigen finden und ihm zuhören, wenn wir ihn zum Schweigen bringen? Schlimmer noch, wie können wir dem unvernünftigen/genialen Teil in uns selbst hören, wenn wir Angst haben, ihn in der Öffentlichkeit oder im Privaten zu äußern?

DiaLogos [n=2]

Auch freier und unbelasteter Dialog sind nicht optional. Wir müssen in der Lage sein, Dinge zu diskutieren, damit andere uns sagen können, wo wir idiotisch sind. Und wir sind alle idiotisch. Wir sind vielleicht auf unsere Weise idiotisch, aber wir sind alle idiotisch. Es gibt keine wertfreie Meinung, so wie es keine Sichtweise ohne blinden Fleck gibt. Das Beste, was wir tun können, ist, uns unserer Vorurteile und blinden Flecken bewusst zu werden und zu versuchen, ihnen entgegenzuwirken. Aber das können wir nicht individuell, das müssen wir kollektiv tun, und noch wichtiger: auf eine verteilte Art und Weise.[^6]

Der Bau eines Turms von Babel ist eine schlechte Idee.

Verteilte Erkenntnis [n=m]

Auch öffentlicher Diskurs ist nicht optional. In der heutigen Zeit, insbesondere im Internet, ist öffentlicher Diskurs, gelinde gesagt, problematisch. Eines der Probleme ist, dass wir keine öffentlichen Räume haben, so dass wir gezwungen sind, private Räume als quasi-öffentliche Räume zu nutzen.

Die übliche Methode, sich öffentlich zu äußern, besteht darin, auf eine Plattform zu gehen und zu sagen, was man zu sagen hat. Das Problem ist natürlich, dass es nicht deine Plattform ist. Es ist die Plattform eines anderen. Deshalb kannst du von der Plattform ausgeschlossen werden.

Der Unterschied zwischen all diesen Plattformen liegt im Grad, nicht in der Art. Auf einigen Plattformen kann man für sexuelle Inhalte sprichwörtlich ins Gefängnis kommen. Auf anderen Plattformen kann man für politische Äußerungen ins Gefängnis kommen. Nicht einmal sprichwörtlich.[^7]

„Geben Sie mir sechs Zeilen, die von der Hand des ehrlichsten Menschen geschrieben wurden, ich würde etwas darin finden, um ihn hängen zu lassen.“\ — Kardinal Richelieu

Wenn jemand die Macht hat, jemand anderen von einer Plattform auszuschließen, dann wird diese Macht früher oder später auch genutzt und missbraucht. Ein ausreichend großer Skandal oder eine entsprechende Kontroverse wird gefunden oder inszeniert und *puff* ist der „problematische“ Nutzer verschwunden. Depersonalisiert, auf Knopfdruck. Egal, wie mächtig man ist.[^8]

Aus diesem Grund können Plattformen für Meinungsfreiheit nicht existieren. Es kann nur Protokolle für Meinungsfreiheit geben.

Der Unterschied ist ebenso subtil wie wichtig: Wenn du ein Protokoll verwendest, bist du kein Nutzer im herkömmlichen Sinne. Du bist ein Sprecher. Du sprichst die gleiche Sprache wie andere, und wenn jemand anderes dich hören und verstehen kann, dann gibt es eine Verbindung. Es gibt keinen Vermittler. Die Sprache selbst ist der Vermittler. Sprachen sind Protokolle, und Protokolle sind Sprachen. Sie haben keine Nutzer, sie haben Sprecher.

Sprache ist naturgemäß frei. Du brauchst keinen Deutsch-Account, um diese Sätze zu lesen. Genauso wie dein Computer keinen HTTP-Account braucht, um die Nullen und Einsen zu verstehen, aus denen die Bytes bestehen, die wiederum die Zeichen dieses Satzes bilden. Beide sprechen die Sprache, daher könnt ihr euch verstehen.

Sprachen und Protokolle sind Netzwerkphänomene. Ohne Netzwerk keine Sprache. Ohne Peers keine Protokolle.

Deshalb ist Sprache, wie Geld, in einer komplexen Gesellschaft nicht optional. Wenn man in das eine oder das andere hineinpfuscht, zerbricht die Gesellschaft.

Es liegt an uns, es ist soweit [n=i]

Wir stehen an einem Wendepunkt in der Geschichte. Noch nie war unsere Zivilisation so vernetzt, so global, und sich ihrer Grenzen und Ignoranz so wenig bewusst.

Meine Hoffnung ist, dass hartes Geld und Meinungsfreiheit das wiederbeleben, was unsere Gesellschaft groß gemacht hat. Kooperation und verteilte Erkenntnis haben es uns ermöglicht, das Chaos des Dschungels hinter uns zu lassen. Sie haben es uns ermöglicht, von Auge um Auge zu einer klaren Sicht zu gelangen, zumindest teilweise. Sie haben es uns ermöglicht, von der Knappheit zum Überfluss zu gelangen. Sie haben uns ermöglicht, zur Wahrheit, zum Guten und zum Schönen zu gelangen. Sie ermöglichen es uns zu streben. Nach vorne und nach oben.

Der Kairos unserer Zeit ist ein persönlicher – vielleicht sind das alle kairotischen Momente.

Du musst entscheiden wie du weitermachen willst. Du musst entscheiden, welches Spiel du spielen willst; wie viel Verantwortung du bereit bist zu übernehmen. Willst du weiterhin in der Maschine stecken bleiben? Einer Maschine, die dich benutzt und ausnutzt? Eine Maschine, die sich selbst nährt, indem sie deine Zeit, deine Aufmerksamkeit und deinen Wert raubt und verschlingt? Oder hast du den Mut, die Kontrolle über deinen Wohlstand, deine Gesundheit, deine Gedanken und deine Sprache zu übernehmen?

Diese Entscheidung kann dir niemand abnehmen. Sie beginnt und endet mit dir.

💜

[^1]: Keine Information kann sich schneller als Lichtgeschwindigkeit verbreiten. Folglich stoßen alle Informationssysteme an physikalische Grenzen, wenn es um Synchronisation und Informationsweitergabe geht.

[^2]: Kryptographie funktioniert und wird weiterhin funktionieren. „[...] irgendwie lächelt das Universum bei Verschlüsselung.“

[^3]: Existenz ist real und gut. Weder Nihilismus noch Solipsismus sind wünschenswert. „[...] und es war gut.“

[^4]: Wir können nicht etwas für nichts haben. Freiheit erfordert Verantwortung; elektronisches Bargeld erfordert Zeit; Zeit erfordert Wärme.

[^5]: Meinungsfreiheit ist erstrebenswert, weil Freiheit der Tyrannei vorzuziehen ist, und der erste Schritt eines jeden Tyrannen ist es, die Meinungsfreiheit einzuschränken, Dissidenten zum Schweigen zu bringen, und Bücher zu verbrennen. Der zweite Schritt ist Völkermord.

[^6]: Es ist großartig, dass es immer mehr lange Dialoge in Form von Podcasts gibt. Der Nutzen dieser Gespräche geht jedoch verloren, wenn sie von einer zentralen Partei gehostet werden, weshalb ein offenes Podcast-Ökosystem so wichtig ist.

[^7]: Siehe Fälle im Vereinigten Königreich, in Saudi Arabien, etc.

[^8]: Noch nicht einmal amtierende US-Präsidenten sind vor einem Ausschluss von Plattformen sicher.

@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3

Only two have survived to make the playoffs proper. Congratulations to @siggy47 and @grayruby!

We bid a fond farewell to @BTC_Bellzer. You made the boldest initial gambit by successfully picking the Spurs in our opening round, which would have guaranteed winning any tie-breaker that might happen later.

Round 1

@siggy47 already made his selection and shockingly it was the unfamiliar expansion team in Minnesota. All we need is @grayruby's selection.

As of now, @siggy47 is holding the tie-breaker.

Grand Prize

7114 sats (and growing)

@ f977c464:32fcbe00

Güneşin kaybolmasının üçüncü günü, saat öğlen on ikiyi yirmi geçiyordu. Trenin kalkmasına yaklaşık iki saat vardı. Hepimiz perondaydık. Valizlerimiz, kolilerimiz, renk renk ve biçimsiz çantalarımızla yan yana dizilmiş, kısa aralıklarla tepemizdeki devasa saati kontrol ediyorduk.

Ama ne kadar dik bakarsak bakalım zaman bir türlü istediğimiz hızla ilerlemiyordu. Herkes birkaç dakika sürmesi gereken alelade bir doğa olayına sıkışıp kalmış, karanlıktan sürünerek çıkmayı deniyordu.

Bekleme salonuna doğru döndüm. Nefesimden çıkan buharın arkasında, kalın taş duvarları ve camlarıyla morg kadar güvenli ve soğuk duruyordu. Cesetleri o yüzden bunun gibi yerlere taşımaya başlamışlardı. Demek insanların bütün iyiliği başkaları onları gördüğü içindi ki gündüzleri gecelerden daha karanlık olduğunda hemen birbirlerinin gırtlağına çökmüş, böğürlerinde delikler açmış, gözlerini oyup kafataslarını parçalamışlardı.

İstasyonun ışığı titrediğinde karanlığın enseme saplandığını hissettim. Eğer şimdi, böyle kalabalık bir yerde elektrik kesilse başımıza ne gelirdi?

İçerideki askerlerden biri bakışlarımı yakalayınca yeniden saate odaklanmış gibi yaptım. Sadece birkaç dakika geçmişti.

“Tarlalarım gitti. Böyle boyum kadar ayçiçeği doluydu. Ah, hepsi ölüp gidiyor. Afitap’ın çiçekleri de gi-”

“Dayı, Allah’ını seversen sus. Hepimizi yakacaksın şimdi.”

Karanlıkta durduğunda, görünmez olmayı istemeye başlıyordun. Kimse seni görmemeli, nefesini bile duymamalıydı. Kimsenin de ayağının altında dolaşmamalıydın; gelip kazayla sana çarpmamalılar, takılıp sendelememeliydiler. Yoksa aslında hedefi sen olmadığın bir öfke gürlemeye başlar, yaşadığın ilk şoku ve acıyı silerek üstünden geçerdi.

İlk konuşan, yaşlıca bir adam, kafasında kasketi, nasırlı ellerine hohluyordu. Gözleri ve burnu kızarmıştı. Güneşin kaybolması onun için kendi başına bir felaket değildi. Hayatına olan pratik yansımalarından korkuyordu olsa olsa. Bir anının kaybolması, bu yüzden çoktan kaybettiği birinin biraz daha eksilmesi. Hayatta kalmasını gerektiren sebepler azalırken, hayatta kalmasını sağlayacak kaynaklarını da kaybediyordu.

Onu susturan delikanlıysa atkısını bütün kafasına sarmış, sakalı ve yüzünün derinliklerine kaçmış gözleri dışında bedeninin bütün parçalarını gizlemeye çalışıyordu. İşte o, güneşin kaybolmasının tam olarak ne anlama geldiğini anlamamış olsa bile, dehşetini olduğu gibi hissedebilenlerdendi.

Güneşin onlardan alındıktan sonra kime verileceğini sormuyorlardı. En başta onlara verildiğinde de hiçbir soru sormamışlardı zaten.

İki saat ne zaman geçer?

Midemin üstünde, sağ tarafıma doğru keskin bir acı hissettim. Karaciğerim. Gözlerimi yumdum. Yanımda biri metal bir nesneyi yere bıraktı. Bir kafesti. İçerisindeki kartalın ıslak kokusu burnuma ulaşmadan önce bile biliyordum bunu.

“Yeniden mi?” diye sordu bana kartal. Kanatları kanlı. Zamanın her bir parçası tüylerinin üstüne çöreklenmişti. Gagası bir şey, tahminen et parçası geveliyor gibi hareket ediyordu. Eski anılar kolay unutulmazmış. Şu anda kafesinin kalın parmaklıklarının ardında olsa da bunun bir aldatmaca olduğunu bir tek ben biliyordum. Her an kanatlarını iki yana uzatıverebilir, hava bu hareketiyle dalgalanarak kafesi esneterek hepimizi içine alacak kadar genişleyebilir, parmaklıklar önce ayaklarımızın altına serilir gibi gözükebilir ama aslında hepimizin üstünde yükselerek tepemize çökebilirdi.

Aşağıya baktım. Tahtalarla zapt edilmiş, hiçbir yere gidemeyen ama her yere uzanan tren rayları. Atlayıp koşsam… Çantam çok ağırdı. Daha birkaç adım atamadan, kartal, suratını bedenime gömerdi.

“Bu sefer farklı,” diye yanıtladım onu. “Yeniden diyemezsin. Tekrarladığım bir şey değil bu. Hatta bir hata yapıyormuşum gibi tonlayamazsın da. Bu sefer, insanların hak etmediğini biliyorum.”

“O zaman daha vahim. Süzme salaksın demektir.”

“İnsanların hak etmemesi, insanlığın hak etmediği anlamına gelmez ki.”

Az önce göz göze geldiğim genççe ama çökük asker hâlâ bana bakıyordu. Bir kartalla konuştuğumu anlamamıştı şüphesiz. Yanımdakilerden biriyle konuştuğumu sanmış olmalıydı. Ama konuştuğum kişiye bakmıyordum ona göre. Çekingence kafamı eğmiştim. Bir kez daha göz göze geldiğimizde içerideki diğer iki askere bir şeyler söyledi, onlar dönüp beni süzerken dışarı çıktı.

Yanımızdaki, az önce konuşan iki adam da şaşkınlıkla bir bana bir kartala bakıyordu.

“Yalnız bu sefer kalbin de kırılacak, Prometheus,” dedi kartal, bana. “Belki son olur. Biliyorsun, bir sürü soruna neden oluyor bu yaptıkların.”

Beni koruyordu sözde. En çok kanıma dokunan buydu. Kasıklarımın üstüne oturmuş, kanlı suratının ardında gözleri parlarken attığı çığlık kulaklarımda titremeye devam ediyordu. Bu tabloda kimsenin kimseyi düşündüğü yoktu. Kartalın, yanımızdaki adamların, artık arkama kadar gelmiş olması gereken askerin, tren raylarının, geçmeyen saatlerin…

Arkamı döndüğümde, asker sahiden oradaydı. Zaten öyle olması gerekiyordu; görmüştüm bunu, biliyordum. Kehanetler… Bir şeyler söylüyordu ama ağzı oynarken sesi çıkmıyordu. Yavaşlamış, kendisini saatin akışına uydurmuştu. Havada donan tükürüğünden anlaşılıyordu, sinirliydi. Korktuğu için olduğunu biliyordum. Her seferinde korkmuşlardı. Beni unutmuş olmaları işlerini kolaylaştırmıyordu. Sadece yeni bir isim vermelerine neden oluyordu. Bu seferkiyle beni lanetleyecekleri kesinleşmişti.

Olması gerekenle olanların farklı olması ne kadar acınasıydı. Olması gerekenlerin doğasının kötücül olmasıysa bir yerde buna dayanıyordu.

“Salaksın,” dedi kartal bana. Zamanı aşan bir çığlık. Hepimizin önüne geçmişti ama kimseyi durduramıyordu.

Sonsuzluğa kaç tane iki saat sıkıştırabilirsiniz?

Ben bir tane bile sıkıştıramadım.

Çantama uzanıyordum. Asker de sırtındaki tüfeğini indiriyordu. Benim acelem yoktu, onunsa eli ayağı birbirine dolaşıyordu. Oysaki her şey tam olması gerektiği anda olacaktı. Kehanet başkasının parmaklarının ucundaydı.

Güneş, bir tüfeğin patlamasıyla yeryüzüne doğdu.

Rayların üzerine serilmiş göğsümün ortasından, bir çantanın içinden.

Not: Bu öykü ilk olarak 2021 yılında Esrarengiz Hikâyeler'de yayımlanmıştır.

@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1

Prompt: Event Listing ===============

Design a feature or display for upcoming events. Concerts, workshops, summer camps, seminars, or other training events. Get creative with the purpose and style. What's happening in the Bitcoin meatspace?

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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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Curious to know WTF is a FUC? Read the ⚡️Flash Ui Challenges welcoming post.

Looking for more FUCs? Check the archive here!

@ 3bf0c63f:aefa459d

O Planetinha

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

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

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

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

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

Terra, nossa nave mãe.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

@ c11cf5f8:4928464d

Let's hear some of your latest Bitcoin trades, feel free to include links to your shops or sites you sold it from or the pic of the sold item.

If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent their sats on the ~AGORA territory.



@ bcea2b98:7ccef3c9

I grew up on a farm in Minnesota in the 1970s. Life was all about hard work and family. We learned the value of getting our hands dirty early on, helping out with chores from sunup to sundown.

Farming taught me the importance of perseverance. Some years, the weather was on our side, and the crops flourished. Other years, we faced setbacks, like droughts or pests. But we never gave up. We'd find ways to adapt and keep the farm going.

Our community was tight-knit. During busy times, neighbors pitched in without hesitation. We'd come together for barn raisings or help each other out with harvesting. It was all about supporting one another.

Growing up, we didn't have fancy gadgets or social media. Our entertainment was exploring the fields and forests, using our imagination to create adventures. We learned to appreciate the simple things in life and the importance of face-to-face connections.

Nowadays, things have changed. Technology rules the world, and young people are glued to their screens. But deep down, I think we still share some of the same values. We all want to make a difference and leave the world a better place.

@ 46205202:5f2056a6

Chickpea Soup

Ingredients List

• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 4 garlic cloves
• 1 large yellow onion, chopped
• 1 2-inch piece of ginger chopped finely
• salt to taste
• 1 1/2 tsp tumeric
• 2 19oz cans of chickpeas, drained & rinsed
• 2 400mL cans of full-fat coconut milk
• 2 cups vegi broth

Steps

1. Heat oil, garlic, onion, ginger, salt over medium heat, until onion is translucent.
2. Slightly crush the some chickpeas to release starch. Scrape any browning off the bottom of pot for flavor.
3. Add coconut milk & broth; simmer until a desirable consistency.

@ fbe736db:187bb0d5

This is a slight refactoring of an article I wrote in April 2021.

I take a long term macroeconomic view on bitcoin, and just bitcoin, for being an incredible emerging store of value over a long term time horizon. It’s remarkable how many potential pitfalls there are for newcomers to the space when the optimal course of action is so simple -

Buy and hold bitcoin.

One of the pitfalls for many is trying to trade bitcoin. It arises from the fact that it has an open market to trade 24/7, with very low fees to trade, and is incredibly volatile - a magnet for traders.

Everyone should be aware of the legendary blog post that first coined the word HODL. Link here if you haven’t seen it, and I salute them. It shows that even early on, there was an appreciation by some of the futility of trying to trade bitcoin to realise higher returns, rather than simply just holding.

My only worry is others misinterpreting it when he says “I know I’m a bad trader”. I would go further and argue that with very few exceptions, we are all bad traders. Most just don’t realise it, as they benefit from a rising market overall.

I’ll admit though, the process of buying bitcoin has been in danger of leading me to try and second guess the price movements too, regardless of my stated long time horizon. And if you have ever found yourself planning a Bitcoin purchase, but then seeing the short term movement in price and then holding off by a day, or a week, then perhaps that’s you too.

So how to stop ourselves from becoming traders, even when just buying with a long term outlook? There is a fair appreciation of Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA). This is simply the concept of regular predetermined buys to reduce entry price volatility.

Now to the main point of this article. At every turn with Bitcoiners lies the phrase “Buy the Dip”. It’s everywhere! But could it backfire?

Let’s define such a strategy by putting some parameters as follows “Buy $x of Bitcoin when the price has fallen at least y% from its recent local maximum.” This is intuitive and would appear to get you some cheaper entry prices than simple DCA’ing over time.

As soon as I became aware that this is a common phrase, I was immediately sceptical of whether it was ever worth following compared to a DCA approach.

Obviously, there is limitless backtesting potential on this subject. I did so for the 6 months from October 1st 2020 to March 31st 2021 in the previous bull market.

In my test, I included a base level DCA strategy basic control strategy of investing $100 on every Monday since October 1st 2020 ($2,600 in total)-weekly DCA. This would have accumulated approx 0.118 btc, at an average cost of $22,007, over the 6 months.

So how about trying to invest the same overall amount to gradually “buy the dips” as a comparison?

The graph below shows 13 theoretical entry points from the period from Oct 1st 2020 to 31 March 2021 for “Buying the 10% dip”. This could be have been done in practice by buying a set $ amount once the price dropped down 10% from that most recent high.

If we split out $2,600 total spend from earlier into $200 for each dip, for these entry points this would have bought us 0.082 btc in total, at an average price of $31,800 for Bitcoin at these times. Remember, that’s compared to over 0.11 btc acquired at an average price of $22k for the DCA approach.

The difference is huge. Dollar Cost Averaging would have acquired around 40% more bitcoin than attempting to buy the 10% dips over the 6 month period.

The reason in this case is simple, and could be seen by layering on regular DCA points on the above graph. Towards the start of the bull run, Bitcoin’s price rose in a stealthy and steady fashion, with no 10% dips to speak of until late November. The prices of the early DCA buys would have been largely missed by anyone patiently waiting for the 10% dips. Hence the average $ price paid is far higher.

Ok, I get it. It’s as spurious for me to argue that a strategy like this doesn’t work as it would be to argue it does work. It’s also not really valid to compare DCA to “Buying the dips”. You can’t even budget the same total amount in advance as I have done, as you don’t know how many dips there will be. Plus, this is only one example. However as often as not, those waiting for dips can be essentially punished for doing so.

Trying to buy the drip in itself means placing parameters over how to buy the dip. This in itself is very tricky — do you choose a 5% dip? 10% dip? Working it through, the exact choice of dip makes no difference to the underlying realities.

I don’t want to be dragged into arguing for any particular trading strategy over another. There are no doubt plenty of range trading periods where buying the dip looks good by contrast. My point is that trying to “buy the dip” in reality leads you halfway into trying to trade Bitcoin. Don't trade Bitcoin.

Why am I so against trading Bitcoin in general? Many people do make money trading Bitcoin. Fiat money. They set their benchmark for success as making money in dollars, when in reality they are under performing buy and hold bitcoin over time. By this I mean they end up with less btc than they could have acquired had they had simply bought and held btc with their funds right at their starting point. Profit in fiat is misleading.

History has shown in the last decade - it is very very difficult to trade Bitcoin, using Bitcoin as your starting basis and benchmark, and come out on top. Even simply "buying the dip" is in some way trying to trade.

There are only two methods that I can see of avoiding this curse of trading. One is some form of DCA, and the other is simply existing on a Bitcoin standard.

One analogy as to why either of these beat the trading curse is making a truly random selection each time when you play Rock Paper Scissors. In the long run that is not going to outperform your opponent but equally it will protect you from losing to them.

As Marla Daniels once observed in the Wire ‘The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play’. In Bitcoin we have at least two different forms of not playing —

(1) not attempting to trade it, as above, and

(2) exiting asset holdings denominated in fiat currencies. With large amounts of monetary debasement, and increasingly desperate search for yield and returns, this is the largest rigged game of all.

Admittedly though, Buy the Dip is also a wider phrase. I know not everyone out there is trying to “buy the dip” as a strategy. Use of the phrase is often expressed as a narrative of solidarity. During price falls, strong hands buy in more and at a better entry price. This is as opposed to panicking and selling, as the weak hands are known to do when confronted by volatility and price falls. So buying the dip is a “keep calm and carry on” phrase, if you like.

To support the above argument, just consider Michael Saylor, whose billions probably lend weight and credibility to his actions.

Saylor doesn’t try and buy the dip. He just buys.

@ f977c464:32fcbe00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Ben geldiğimde ölmüşlerdi.

Yani bozulmuşlardı demek istiyorum.

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

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

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

Eliyle arkasını işaret etti.

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

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

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

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

Bira istemediğinden emin misin?

İstemediğini söyledi. Sahi, neden deliriyordu bu androidler?

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

Sesini alçalttı.

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

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

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

Nedenmiş peki? Ne gerek varmış?

Ne bileyim be abicim! Ahiret soruları gibi.

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

Ben seni nereden tanıyorum ki ulan? Kimsin sen?

Belleği makineden çıkardılar. İki kişiydiler. Soruşturmadan sorumlu memurlar.

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

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

─ Bence de. Yeterince düzgün çalışıyor.

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

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

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

Hangi işimizde bir yamukluk yok ki be abi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hiçbir vagonda pencere olmadığı için metronun içi, içlerindekiler meçhuldü.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Onların mercekleri için değil. Bağlantıları çok önceden kopmuştu.

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

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

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

─ Nasıl olmuş, diye sordu.

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

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

─ Çok güzelsin, diyerek kravatını düzeltti kocası.

─ Sen de öylesin, sevgilim.

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

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

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

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

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

Hiç de androidlere bilinçli olarak zarar verebilecek gibi gözükmüyorlardı.

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

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

Bütün illüzyon o anda dağılmaya başladı.

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

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We’re all daily users of Nostr, so it can be easy to see things through an advanced user lens while forgetting what it felt like to be a newbie. I thought I would take some time to go over major client from the start in hopes of evaluating what it might feel like for a new user.

The other reason for running this review is to hopefully improve the overall nostr retention rate across clients. As it stands, according to nostr.band, retention of trusted users 30 days after signups trends to 0 for recent cohorts. This seems to be supported by the lack of growth in daily active users, with the average remaining in the 10,000-12,000 range for “trusted” pub keys.

The following report consists of several criteria which I felt were essential to basic first-time social media experience:

1. Ease of signup
2. Ease of logging in
3. Ability to understand what you are looking at (sufficient explanations)
4. Seeing a good initial feed
5. Ability to follow something of interest
6. Minimizing technical /dev lingo
7. A fast scrolling experience
8. Ability to easily upload media
9. A good search experience overall
10. Good keyword searching
11. Hashtag searching
12. Ability to follow hashtags
13. Easily accessing followed hashtags
14. Good experience reacting to notes

In total there are 140 points, 10 for each category. This is by far not the most comprehensive score card, but I felt it did a decent job covering most things you’d want to do in a social client.

Some notes of caution:

1. This report and score card are meant to be a general quick glance at where your client may stand in overall UX. It does not differentiate between the intended target audiences.
2. The criteria that I deem important may not be important to you as the founder / developer, so take it for what it’s worth. Adding your desired criteria may increase your score significantly. For example, I did not evaluate the zap experience, or thoroughly test nested replies.
3. This report is not a substitute for proper user testing. It’s just one person’s observations. While we have done some user testing in the past, I highly recommend doing your own. You can do so by approaching and interviewing new users (if you are able to distinguish if they came from your client), or via other user testing software. Talk to me (@karnage) if you need some help getting set up.
4. People’s reported experience regarding usability may vary greatly depending on their familiarity with cryptographic concepts, their background, and technical experience. What I may deem as a great score of 10, may not be a 10 for others. I have seen user tests where “obvious” things were not obvious to testers.
5. This report only looks at the English language version of the client. The actual user experience for someone on a different language version of the app could be totally different from what is graded here. It’s worth considering geographies of where users are coming from and how they experience your client.
6. I did not test re-activation of new users. Meaning, once they close the app, I did not test if they are pulled back by some notification or other means. This is a crucial aspect of any new app usage that should be considered carefully.

Tested Clients: Damus, Amethyst, Primal iOS, Snort (web), Iris (sort of), Coracle, Nostur.

I also tested Instagram and X/Twitter for comparison.

Results, highest points to lowest: Primal iOS: 136 Twitter: 125 Instagram: 109 Nostur: 108 Coracle: 99 Amethyst: 93 Snort: 90 Damus: 87 Iris: N/A Facebook: could not test.

My main takeaway was that among all apps (including Twitter and Instagram), the traditional apps win simply by having much better content selection. You get to see a variety of interesting things that Nostr simply can’t match. Going forward, this is an area I would probably recommend focusing on - how to engage people to post more interesting content, onboard creators etc… Nostr is lacking in content and I believe this could be the primary reason people are not sticking around after trying it.

Other Nostr Notes:

There seemed to be little of interesting topics to follow or stick around for. The experience of joining nostr doesn't feel special or different in any way opposed to X for example. Twitter has interesting accounts, TikTok has interesting videos, what does Nostr have? The lack of "popular" conent due to the generally low number of users is probably to blame. In a way we suffer from the chicken / egg problem where new users are needed to generate more content, and more content is needed to retain new users. Going forward, I think clients should think about ways to encourage users to share content (whether that be their own, or posted from other platforms). Nostr also does not seem to have any external growth loops. For example, there is no way to invite people to the platform by email with a single click (by accessing the address book). Even if a friend does manage to join and you can find them, they are in no way notified when tagged (as far as I know). People have to have a habit of opening the app to know if something is happening. The habit formation of using a new app is important in the early usage phase and nostr seems to have a weak spot here.

You can find all of the detailed scoring, notes for each client and other thoughts in this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14w8-aQ1sHfGBSuNpqvOA9i7PHNSfhn6lUOV6H293caw/edit?usp=sharing

@ 24003782:aaca06e7

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@ 24003782:aaca06e7

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@ 1931b5e4:168a0489

The harmony between opposing concepts in creation can be understood through the principle of balance and complementarity.

✨Sound represents vibrational energy, while silence is the absence of sound. Together, they create a balance in the auditory experience, emphasising the importance of both activity and stillness.

✨Light illuminates and brings clarity, while darkness provides contrast and depth. They complement each other to create a holistic visual experience.

✨Implosion is the inward collapse of energy, while explosion is the outward release of energy. Together, they demonstrate the dynamic interplay between contraction and expansion in the universe.

✨Matter is made up of particles with positive charges, while antimatter consists of particles with negative charges. When they come into contact, they annihilate each other, illustrating the delicate balance between creation and destruction.

✨Union brings things together, fostering cohesion and connection, while division separates and distinguishes. Both processes are necessary for growth and evolution.

✨Cohesion refers to the attraction between particles, creating stability, while in-cohesion represents the lack of such attraction, allowing for movement and change. Together, they maintain a dynamic equilibrium within systems.

✨Openness allows for exchange and interaction with the external environment, while closedness provides protection and containment. Balancing these states ensures adaptability and resilience.

✨Melting involves the transition from a solid to a liquid state, allowing for fluidity and flexibility, while solidification involves the transition from a liquid to a solid state, providing structure and stability. Both processes are essential for transformation and formation.

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Storing data in Bitcoin, the “standard” way

The standard way you add “data” to bitcoin is by calling the OP_RETURN opcode. Bitcoin devs noticed that people were storing data (like the bitcoin whitepaper) in the utxo set via large multisig transactions. The problem with this is that this set is unprunable and could grow over time. OP_RETURN outputs on the other-hand are provably prunable and don’t add to utxo bloat.

Here’s an excerpt from the march 2014 0.9.0 release notes that talks about this:

On OP_RETURN: There was been some confusion and misunderstanding in the community, regarding the OP_RETURN feature in 0.9 and data in the blockchain. This change is not an endorsement of storing data in the blockchain. The OP_RETURN change creates a provably-prunable output, to avoid data storage schemes – some of which were already deployed – that were storing arbitrary data such as images as forever-unspendable TX outputs, bloating bitcoin’s UTXO database. Storing arbitrary data in the blockchain is still a bad idea; it is less costly and far more efficient to store non-currency data elsewhere.

Much of the work on bitcoin core has been focused on making sure the system continues to function in a decentralized way for its intended purpose in the presence of people trying to abuse it for things like storing data. Bitcoin core has always discouraged this, as it is not designed for storage of images and data, it is meant for moving digital coins around in cyberspace.

To help incentive-align people to not do stupid things, OP_RETURN transactions were not made non-standard, so that they are relayable by peers and miners, but with the caveat:

1. They can only push 40 bytes (later increased to 80,83, I’m guessing to support larger root merkle hashes since that is the only sane usecase for op_return)

Bitcoin also added an option called -datacarriersize which limits the total number of bytes from these outputs that you will relay or mine.

Why inscriptions are technically an exploit

Inscriptions get around the datacarriersize limit by disguising data as bitcoin script program data via OP_PUSH inside OP_IF blocks. Ordinals do not use OP_RETURN and are not subjected to datacarriersize limits, so noderunners and miners currently have limited control over the total size of this data that they wish to relay and include in blocks. Luke’s fork of bitcoin-core has some options to fight this spam, so hopefully we will see this in core sometime soon as well.

Inscriptions are also taking advantage of features in segwit v1 (witness discount) and v2/taproot (no arbitrary script size limit). Each of these features have interesting and well-justified reasons why they were introduced.

The purpose of the witness discount was to make it cheaper to spend many outputs which helps the reduction of the utxo set size. Inscriptions took advantage of this discount to store monke jpegs disguised as bitcoin scripts. Remember, bitcoin is not for storing data, so anytime bitcoin-devs accidentally make it cheap and easy to relay data then this should be viewed as an exploit. Expect it to be fixed, or at least provide tools to noderunners for fighting this spam.

Where do we go from here

The interesting part of this story is that people seem to attach value to images stored on the bitcoin blockchain, and they are willing to pay the fee to get it in the block, so non-ideologic miners and people who don’t care about the health and decentralization of bitcoin are happy to pay or collect the fee and move on.

Data should not get a discount, people should pay full price if they want to store data. They should just use op_return and hashes like opentimestamps or any other reasonable protocol storing data in bitcoin.

After going through this analysis I’ve come to the opinion that this is a pretty bad data-spam exploit and bitcoin devs should be working on solutions. Ideological devs like luke who actually care about the health and decentralization of the network are and I’m glad to see it.

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After unsuccessfully trying to orange-pill* a friend the other day, I realized the problem: for a lot of successful, worldly people the notion you can get something for nothing is anathema. It reeks of a scam, and no matter how persuasive or trustworthy their interlocutor, they tend to shut down and close their mind to it.

*To “orange-pill” means to get someone to buy — or at least see the value proposition of — bitcoin.

Put differently, smart people understand risk and reward are inseparable. If someone is telling you this is the opportunity of a lifetime, it probably isn’t. To the extent it has the upside purported, its risk of ruin is no doubt commensurate.

But that is only the case when there is information symmetry. If I tell you the stock market is going to the moon next year, you know there are smart people on the other side of that bet, or else it would be at the moon already. And because they have access to the same information I do, any large way-out-of-the-money call option on the S&P500 is at grave risk of not cashing in. Hence you would be wise to ignore my advice.

But what about when one party to the trade has information the other lacks? For example, Nancy Pelosi has a net worth north of $100 million on her comparatively meager congressional salary, due in large part to trading on insider information. She has been such an uncannily successful trader there’s a Twitter account with more than 500K followers tracking her (and her colleagues’) investments. Surely in the case of her trades, the risk was not commensurate with the rewards.

Another obvious example from history was the Dutch buying the island of Manhattan from the natives for a bunch of tools and beads. The risk and reward to the Dutch were not remotely commensurate due to information asymmetry.

All the time, people cultivate expertise in pricing antiques, collectibles and other items that give them a significant advantage over most market participants and sever the strict relationship between risk and reward that exists in more information-symmetrical environments.

But what all three of those scenarios have in common is the information providing the advantage is essentially a secret. The natives presumably didn’t know how common and easily replaced the tools and trinkets for which they traded Manhattan were. The public doesn’t have access to the information on which Congress is trading. And the layperson lacks the in-depth, niche knowledge of the expert art or antiques dealer.

But the Bitcoin-for-dollars trade happens to be asymmetrical, despite the information being wholly public and hidden in plain sight. The asymmetry comes from one party being sufficiently naive and curious and the other too savvy and close-minded. As a result, many who got into Bitcoin earliest were financial outsiders, novices, nerds and cypherpunks rather than Wall-Street professionals who are accustomed to getting the jump.

The media, gatekept and controlled by the same factions who run the banking system, have only exacerbated this asymmetry, spreading unfounded fear, uncertainty and doubt about bitcoin specifically (It boils the oceans! It’s backed by nothing!) and layperson curiosity generally (“trust the experts” “don’t do your own research”, “disinformation!”) As a result, not only are the professional insiders out, but also those who rely on their expertise to assess investment opportunities, which is why many of the savviest and smartest people are ironically the most difficult to convince.

. . .

Maybe this is what's meant by “The meek shall inherit the earth,” if we use curious and open-minded to stand in for “meek.” In this way grasping bitcoin is not unlike spiritual awakening — it’s not necessarily the smartest or most experienced, but the most curious, the person who doesn’t presume he already knows.