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延迟退休终究还是落地了。

9月13日，第十四届全国人民代表大会常务委员会第十一次会议通过，同步启动延迟男、女职工的法定退休年龄，用十五年时间，逐步将男职工的法定退休年龄从原六十周岁延迟至六十三周岁，将女职工的法定退休年龄从原五十周岁、五十五周岁分别延迟至五十五周岁、五十八周岁。实施渐进式延迟法定退休年龄坚持小步调整、弹性实施、分类推进、统筹兼顾的原则。

那么对于广大的网络安全从业者们来说，延迟退休落地是该哭还是该笑呢？FreeBuf通过小范围的问卷调查活动收集了部分网安人的回答，发现了一些有意思的观点。

注：篇幅有限，大家共同反馈的共性观点这里不再叙述，只针对网络安全行业进行梳理。

先说说悲观点的

1、加班现象严重，年龄大了熬不动

大部分受访者都认为网络安全行业加班现象较为严重，而随着年龄持续增加，身体素质不断下降，越来越难以抗住加班。

《2023网络安全产业人才发展报告》数据显示，73%的网络安全从业者每周工作时间超40个小时。其中，33.8%的从业者每周工作41-50小时，22.2%每周工作51-60小时。因工作性质原因，网络安全从业者需要时刻保持警惕，随时应对可能或已经发生的网络安全漏洞和风险，因此工作强度较高，加班情况较为普遍。

2、技术更新太快，年龄大了跟不上

网络安全技术迭代速度非常快，这在当下的数字化+AI时代更加体现的淋漓尽致。随着数字化撰写加速，网络攻击的表面和深度都在不断变化，对于网络安全提出了新的需求。而AI大模型技术的广泛应用为网络安全领域提供了新型防御方式，同时也为攻击者提供了新的攻击工具、方法和路径。这对于年轻从业者来说接受度更高，但对于年龄较大的网安人却难以快速掌握。

同时，网络安全技术学习需要抱有极大的热忱与兴趣，保持对新的安全技术和研究成果的求知欲、好奇心，但随着年龄的持续增长，很多网安人都表示有种力不从心的感觉，也无法像以前一样融入社区和圈子之中。因此，当延迟退休落地后，网安人将面临更严峻的就业压力，也需要付出更多的汗水和努力。

再说说乐观点的

1、网络安全是一个相对稳定的行业

延迟退休，行业稳定性的含金量将会越来越高。和其他互联网、科技企业相比，网络安全行业的稳定性相对较高，可以一辈子持续深耕和发展。随着数字化进程的加速和网络攻击的增加，网络安全的重要性日益凸显，再加上如今已经上升为国家安全战略，将成为国家安全和经济发展不可或缺的一部分，行业稳定性将会越来越高。

同时网络安全市场规模持续增加。据中国信通院的统计测算，从2020年的1729.3亿元，到2022年的2200亿元，该行业市场规模连年扩大且不容小觑；从支出来看，据IDC数据显示，2021年中国网络安全相关支出为122.0亿美元左右，初步统计，2022年中国网络安全行业规模达到137.6亿美元，增长率为12.8%，行业增长较为稳定。

另外，网络安全就业广泛，网安毕业生可以在多个领域从事相关工作，包括政府机关、金融机构、电信公司、医疗机构等。网络安全领域也提供了从初级职位到高级职位的广泛职业发展机会，包括网络安全分析师、渗透测试专家、安全架构师、CSO等，完全可以满足大家在职业发展、晋升上的诉求。

2、网络安全行业没有35岁魔咒

和互联网行业存在35岁魔咒不同的是，网络安全行业对于人才年龄的限制远没有那么严苛，身边不乏年纪较大但依旧在企业安全岗位上发光发热的网安人。在笔者采访的诸多行业人物中，从业时间超过20年的不在少数，既有企业安全负责人、技术大佬也有安全创业者，他们也是引领网络安全行业发展不可忽视的力量。

《2023网络安全产业人才发展报告》数据显示，2023年，31-40岁的网络安全从业者占比最高，达到35.2%，是网络安全行业人才的重要组成部分。某种程度上来说，网络安全行业与医疗行业类似，经验和技术的积累使得资深专家在职场上的价值逐渐提升。

3、人才缺口大，尤其缺专家级人才

随着信息技术的飞速发展，全球范围内网络安全事件的日益增加，关键信息基础设施、重要数据和个人隐私都面临新的威胁和风险，网络安全人才缺口也越来越大。报告显示，网络安全专业人才缺口较大，目前全球有340万网络安全职位正在招聘但未能找到相应人才。

与此同时，网安行业更缺的还是具有实战攻防能力的专家级人才。据调研统计，用人部门在招聘时最关注的是网络安实战能力(60%)，其次才是网络安全专业知识(45%)。企业更加需要的是具有实际操作能力，能够解决实际问题的安全技术人员。

除了那些天赋型选手，每一位优秀的网络安全专家都需要时间的积累。网络安全专家不仅要熟悉产品、熟悉网络攻防技术、熟悉黑客攻击手段，熟悉各种安全策略，还要具备优秀的理论基础，解决方案实践等，这些没有个十年左右的时间很难达到。

4、网络安全内容体系庞大，需要终生学习

干过网安的都知道，整个行业学科交叉现象十分严重，涉及计算机科学、网络技术、信息安全、通信技术、数学、密码学等多个领域，内容体系极为庞大。多学科交叉不仅提升了网络安全的复杂性和深度，也增加了网安人的学习难度，需要我们持续学习，终生学习。

一个最常见的现象是，Gartner、IDC，FreeBuf咨询，每年发布大量安全报告，各种新名词、新概念、新方向层出不穷，高频更新，令人应接不暇。哪怕只有6个月脱离网安学习，你会发现这个行业又出现了许多听都没听过的英文字母缩写，或者是又新出台了几部法规，企业安全合规要求出现了新的变化等。如果公司还有海外业务，那么所需的知识量还要上一个台阶......

但从这个角度来看，网安行业对于延迟退休的接受程度会更高，毕竟延不延迟网安行业依旧是要活到老，学到老。

与时间做朋友

其实，网络安全是一个与时间做朋友的行业，选择深耕网络安全，意味着选择了一条不断学习和探索的道路。随着技术掌握的越来越多，实战经验越来越丰富，行业的视野也会越来越开阔，很多以前不懂的问题会有一种豁然开朗的感觉，个人价值与竞争力也将不断上升。

网络安全也是一个很“实在”的行业，付出了时间、精力总会得到相应的技能与经验，而专业技能和丰富经验将会成为个人网安职业生涯中硬通货。

永远保持热爱，永远保持好奇，一路勇往直前，延迟退休只会成为你的加油站。

本文作者：流苏_， 转载请注明来自FreeBuf.COM

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Table Of Content

• Factors behind the Rise in Bitcoin's Hash Rate

• Implications of the Rise in Bitcoin's Hash Rate

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin's hash rate has been skyrocketing lately, with the mining difficulty hitting all-time highs. This surge in hash rate has left many wondering about the reasons behind it and its implications for the cryptocurrency industry. In this article, we will explore the factors contributing to the rise in Bitcoin's hash rate and the implications of this development.

Factors behind the Rise in Bitcoin's Hash Rate:

Increase in the number of miners

One of the primary factors behind the rise in Bitcoin's hash rate is the increase in the number of miners. As the price of Bitcoin continues to surge, more and more people are entering the mining space, trying to capitalize on the opportunity to earn profits. This has led to an increase in the number of miners, which, in turn, has resulted in a surge in hash rate.

Improved Mining Hardware

Another reason for the increase in hash rate is the improvement in mining hardware. As the demand for Bitcoin continues to rise, mining hardware manufacturers are constantly innovating and improving their products to meet the demand. This has resulted in more efficient and powerful mining hardware that can process more transactions in less time, leading to an increase in hash rate.

Increase in Institutional Investment

Institutional investors are increasingly investing in Bitcoin, resulting in an increase in the overall hash rate. These investors have more resources and can afford to purchase high-end mining equipment, which leads to an increase in hash rate.

Halving

Bitcoin undergoes a halving event every four years, which reduces the reward for miners. This event is designed to control the supply of Bitcoin and maintain its value. However, it also has the effect of reducing the number of miners, which results in a drop in hash rate. After each halving event, it takes some time for the hash rate to recover, and this could be a contributing factor to the recent surge in hash rate.

Implications of the Rise in Bitcoin's Hash Rate:

Increased Security:

The rise in hash rate means that the Bitcoin network is becoming more secure. The higher the hash rate, the more difficult it becomes to launch a 51% attack, where an attacker gains control of the network. This increased security is good news for Bitcoin investors as it reduces the risk of a security breach.

Reduced Mining Rewards

As the hash rate increases, mining rewards become more difficult to obtain. This means that smaller mining operations may be forced to shut down, resulting in a more centralized mining ecosystem. This could be seen as a negative development as it goes against the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies.

More Transactions

The increase in hash rate means that more transactions can be processed on the Bitcoin network. This is good news for Bitcoin users as it reduces transaction times and fees. With the rise in hash rate, Bitcoin is becoming a more practical payment method, which could lead to increased adoption.

Conclusion

The rise in Bitcoin's hash rate is a result of several factors, including an increase in the number of miners, improved mining hardware, institutional investment, and the halving event. While there are some potential drawbacks to the increase in hash rate, such as reduced mining rewards and a more centralized mining ecosystem, the benefits of increased security and faster transaction processing make it a positive development for the cryptocurrency industry. As Bitcoin continues to gain mainstream acceptance, it is likely that the hash rate will continue to increase, leading to further innovation and improvements in the network.

FAQ

What is Bitcoin's hash rate? Hash rate is the measure of the computational power of the Bitcoin network. It is the number of calculations that the network can perform per second.

Why is the hash rate important? The hash rate is important because it determines the security of the Bitcoin network. The higher the hash rate, the more secure the network becomes.

How is the hash rate calculated? The hash rate is calculated by counting the number of calculations that the network can perform per second.

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I went 2-3 last week to bring my two-week mark to 3-7. I’m not drawing dead yet, but obviously you don’t get many of those stretches if you expect to cash in this contest.

This week I feel more strongly about a couple games:

I love the Bengals laying the 7.5 at home against the Football team. The Giants should have beaten them in Washington last week (but for not having a kicker and Malik Nabers dropping an easy 4th-down conversion at the end.) The Bengals will get Ja’Marr Chase going and blow them out.

I like the desperate Ravens in Dallas laying only one point. It’s usually not a great idea to think, “I can’t imagine them at 0-3” so I have to bet them when they’re 0-2 because you probably didn’t foresee them at 0-2, either, and once they’re 0-2, they only need to lose one road game to get to 0-3. That said, I think they’ll be focused, and the Cowboys would have to bring their A game to beat them.

Give me the Falcons getting the 3.5 at home against the Chiefs. Atlanta should hang with them.

I like the Texans laying less than a FG in Minnesota. The Vikings have played well, but I’ll sell high off the big win over the 49ers.

I was on the Bucs initially, but something feels off about it. It’s too obvious, the Broncos aren’t getting nearly enough points with Bo Nix. I’ll stay away.

My last choice is between the Colts as a buy-low at home and the way overpriced Lions on the road.

The Colts are ugly, can’t stop the run, missing DeForest Buckner, etc. But really the names on the jerseys, the details of that sort are already priced in, not the way to handicap games. The better way is to get a sense of the league’s ebb and flow. I think the Colts win at home, maybe Anthony Richardson plays better this week.

The Lions should be 2.5-point underdogs, so this line caught my attention — something is off, and it gives me a feeling I’m missing something, makes me want to take them. But that’s probably overthinking it. I’ll take the Colts with the last pick.

Final Picks

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This was one of those games where I’m grateful to be in Portugal and not catching it in real time. I have Rhamondre Stevenson in one league unfortunately, but none of the prominent players on the Jets (who I don’t have) went crazy, either. And I finally got a Thursday night ATS win in the books. I probably should have used it in the Circa Millions, but I hate submitting the whole slate on Thursday.

• Aaron Rodgers looks sharp at 40 still. He even moved well in the pocket and scrambled for some yards. The Jets might actually be good.

• Breece Hall is getting the requisite work (16 carries, five targets), but Braelon Allen (11 carries, 3 targets) looks more or less just as good. On the one hand, Hall won’t dominate the workload the way say Jonathan Taylor or Saquon Barkley might on their respective teams, but on the other, he’ll stay fresh and still get plenty. If Hall goes down, Allen is probably a top-five back instantly.

• Rodgers spread the ball around, but the Jets tree is pretty narrow: Garrett Wilson, Allen Lazard, Mike Williams, Tyler Conklin and the backs. Wilson had a modest game, but it was a good sign they kept going to him and eventually got him the TD (while he was covered by top corner Christian Gonzalez) even with a big lead.

• Conklin looks like a top-10 TE right now. I’d expect Williams to overtake Lazard before long as the team’s No. 2 wideout. He’s just better and more explosive.

• There’s not much to say about the Pats. Antonio Gibson looked okay after Stevenson was pulled following his fumble. DeMario Douglas took Hunter Henry’s place as the lone productive pass catcher. Maybe you could use one of those two in a pinch.

• It’s time to see more of Drake Maye who looked comfortable and confident in mop-up duty. The circumstances are rough, but Jacoby Brissett is best suited as a stop-gap game-manging backup, not someone who should block real prospect.

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Overview of the Infrastructure

1. Umbrel/Citadel/RaspiBlitz/Start9 Server
2. Purpose: Acts as your personal Bitcoin and Lightning Network node.
3. Setup: Installed on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Debian or Umbrel OS.
4. Benefits:
   • Participate in Bitcoin Consensus: Validates transactions and blocks independently.
   • Lightning Network Routing: Facilitates faster transactions and earns routing fees.
5. Cold Storage Wallets
6. Coldcard: A highly secure hardware wallet designed specifically for Bitcoin.
7. Ledger Nano X: A versatile hardware wallet supporting multiple cryptocurrencies.
8. Purpose: Store your Bitcoin offline to protect against online threats.
9. Secure Devices
10. Encrypted Computer: A notebook with encrypted storage for managing your wallets and nodes securely.
11. Android Phone with Secure Area:
    • Old Device: Repurposed without a SIM card to minimize exposure.
    • Secure Area for Apps: Uses features like Samsung's Secure Folder/Knox to isolate sensitive applications.
12. NerdMiner
13. Purpose: A compact mining device like the Nerdminer V2 to engage in Bitcoin mining.
14. Function: Attempts to mine Bitcoin blocks, offering a chance (albeit very low) to earn block rewards and learn about the mining process.

### Advantages of This Setup

• Self-Sovereignty: You have complete control over your funds without relying on third-party services.
• Enhanced Privacy:
• CoinJoin Transactions: Mix your coins with others to obfuscate transaction history.
• No SIM Card Devices: Reduces the risk of SIM swapping attacks.
• Network Participation:
• Consensus Involvement: By running a full node, you help maintain the network's integrity.
• Lightning Network: Improve transaction speeds and network scalability.
• Security:
• Cold Storage: Keeps your private keys offline, away from potential online threats.
• Encrypted Devices: Protects data even if physical devices are lost or stolen.

### Simplifying the Perceived Complexity

While the infrastructure may seem daunting, it's more approachable than it appears:

• Starting Point: Use an old computer or phone as a cold wallet with software like Electrum or Sparrow.
• Step-by-Step Setup:
• Begin with setting up the Umbrel/Citadel/RaspiBlitz/Start9 server.
• Gradually add hardware wallets like Coldcard, SeedSigner DIY, Jade, Ledger, Trezor or Onekey.
• Implement security measures on your existing devices.
• Community Resources: Numerous guides and communities are available to assist with each step.

### Embracing Freedom and Privacy

Practicing self-sovereignty and custody isn't just about securing your Bitcoin—it's about embracing freedom and privacy in the digital age. By taking control:

• Financial Independence: You're not dependent on banks or exchanges.
• Data Privacy: Your financial data remains confidential.
• Empowerment: Gain a deeper understanding of how Bitcoin and blockchain technology work.

Remember: Even simple steps like using an old device as a cold wallet can significantly enhance your security. The journey towards complete self-sovereignty is a progressive one, and each step you take strengthens your position in the digital world.

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Lá na outra rede, o Dov havia feito um post bacana mostrando como usar a Electrum mobile de cold wallet nessa playlist.

Então ao comentar que a minha primeira cold wallet havia sido uma Electrum num notebook velho e formatado só pra isso, algumas pessoas me perguntaram sobre meu setup atual.

Então preparei o seguinte esboço:

No geral é: * Server Umbrel para os nodes * Coldcard e Ledger (coldwallets) * Computador criptografado e celular android com área segura p/ apps

É um caso de uso extremo mas além da auto-soberania e custódia dos meus satoshis, essa estrutura ainda me permite:

• Participar do consenso do Bitcoin
• Auxiliar no roteamento de sats na Lightning Network
• Fazer coinjoin facilmente para aumentar a privacidade

E embora a estrutura pareça complicada, é bastante simples:

• Raspberry Pi 4 com Debian e Umbrel (p/ os nodes e servers)
• Celular antigo android com área segura e sem simcard
• Notebook com storage criptografada
• Ledger Nano X
• Coldcard

E ainda pude evoluir de N.O.I.A. (Network Operator Innovator and Advocate) para M.A. (Minerador Anônimo), com uma Nerdminer pra tentar um ticket da sorte a cada 10 minutos

Não esqueça que uma cold wallet para a auto-custódia pode começar com um computador ou celular velho!

É mais simples do que parece e praticar sua auto-soberania e custódia significa na verdade liberdade e privacidade nesse mundo digital!

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Table Of Content

• Bitcoin Beach Wallet Rebrands as Global Shore Wallet

• Feature-Rich Wallet for Enhanced User Experience

• Partnerships to Drive Adoption and Education

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin Beach Wallet, originally developed to support the Bitcoin community in El Salvador, has made significant strides since its inception. The wallet started as a grassroots project aimed at driving Bitcoin adoption in a small coastal town, and has now transformed into a global force. With a new name and a plethora of innovative features, the wallet is set to become a major player in the world of cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin Beach Wallet Rebrands as Global Shore Wallet

As part of the wallet's evolution, it has been rebranded as the Global Shore Wallet. This name change reflects the wallet's expanded focus beyond El Salvador, as it aims to promote Bitcoin adoption and financial inclusion in communities across the globe. The new name signifies a broader commitment to empowering individuals and businesses with a versatile cryptocurrency wallet that caters to their unique needs.

Feature-Rich Wallet for Enhanced User Experience

The Global Shore Wallet comes packed with features designed to enhance the user experience and promote widespread adoption. Some of these exciting new features include:

1. Multilingual Support

To cater to a global audience, the wallet now supports multiple languages, ensuring that users worldwide can navigate and use the wallet with ease.

2. Multi-Currency Compatibility

In addition to Bitcoin, the wallet now supports various cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum, Litecoin, and more, making it a one-stop solution for users looking to manage multiple digital assets.

3. Lightning Network Integration

To facilitate faster, cheaper, and more scalable transactions, the Global Shore Wallet has integrated the Lightning Network. This upgrade allows users to make instant payments with minimal fees.

4. Advanced Security Features

The wallet offers cutting-edge security features, such as biometric authentication, two-factor authentication, and encrypted backups, ensuring that users' digital assets are well-protected.

5. Seamless Onboarding

The Global Shore Wallet simplifies the onboarding process with a user-friendly interface and step-by-step guidance, making it easy for new users to get started with cryptocurrency.

Partnerships to Drive Adoption and Education

To further its mission of promoting Bitcoin adoption and financial inclusion, the Global Shore Wallet team has entered into strategic partnerships with various organizations. These collaborations aim to provide educational resources and offer support to communities looking to embrace cryptocurrency.

Conclusion

The transformation of the Bitcoin Beach Wallet into the Global Shore Wallet marks an important milestone in the journey towards global cryptocurrency adoption. With a new name, cutting-edge features, and strategic partnerships, the Global Shore Wallet is poised to become a leading wallet solution for individuals and businesses around the world. By fostering financial inclusion and empowering users with the tools they need to thrive in the digital economy, the Global Shore Wallet is set to make a lasting impact on the cryptocurrency landscape.

FAQ

What was the original purpose of the Bitcoin Beach Wallet? The Bitcoin Beach Wallet was initially developed to support the Bitcoin community in El Salvador, focusing on driving Bitcoin adoption in a small coastal town.

What is the new name of the Bitcoin Beach Wallet? The Bitcoin Beach Wallet has been rebranded as the Global Shore Wallet.

Why was the name changed to Global Shore Wallet? The name change reflects the wallet's expanded focus on promoting Bitcoin adoption and financial inclusion in communities across the globe, beyond just El Salvador.

How is the Global Shore Wallet promoting Bitcoin adoption? The Global Shore Wallet is fostering adoption through its user-friendly features, educational resources, and strategic partnerships with organizations to support communities looking to embrace cryptocurrency.

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มีเรื่องจะประกาศครับ ถ้าสามารถแชร์ออกไปได้ก็ยินดีมากครับ

เป็นความตั้งใจตั้งแต่ก่อนงาน Thailand Bitcoin Conference 2024 ว่าจะเป็นงานสุดท้ายที่ผมจะใช้คำว่า ขนมคีโต

ตลอดเส้นทางที่ผ่านมา หมวกอีกใบนึงของผมคือ การถ่ายทอดความรู้ที่ศึกษามาในแขนงโภชนาการ และคำถามตลอดกาลคือ "อันไหนเป็นอาหารคีโต"

จริงอยู่ครับก็ยินดีตอบให้ได้ แต่ลึกๆมันก็มีความขุ่นๆนิดๆว่า หากเป็นขวบปีแรกของคีโตก็ยังพอเข้าใจ แต่ขณะนี้ก้าวเข้าวปีที่ 8 แล้ว อีกไม่เท่าไรก็ 10ปีคีโตในไทยแล้ว สิ่งแรกที่คนคีโตมองหาเวลาซื้ออาหารคือ ฉลากคีโต

แล้วพอเจอบางสินค้าแปะป้ายคีโต แต่มีวัตถุดิบที่ต่างจากกูรูต่างจากเจ้าพ่อเจ้าแม่คีโต ได้บัญญัติไว้ ก็เกิดความสับสนวุ่นวายทะเลาะเบาะแว้ง ว่าตกลงมันเป็นอาหารคีโตหรือไม่

ผมเลือกทางนี้ครับ หักดิบไปเลย

ต่อไปนี้ผมจะไม่ใส่คำว่า คีโต ในชื่อเรียกอาหาร ต่อไปนี้จะไม่มีชีสเค้กคีโต ดาร์คชอคกานาซคีโต หน้าไก่คีโต บลาบลาบลา ที่มีคีโตเป็นชื่อเรียก อีกต่อไปครับ พอกันทีกับสิ่งนี้

ของกินทุกอย่างที่ผมทำ จะใช้ความเชี่ยวชาญด้านโภชนาการ ความสะอาด สุขอนามัย ฉลากสารอาหาร ใช้การคำนวนแบบเผื่อข้อผิดพลาด(บวก ไม่ลบ) ด้วยการใส่ Macro Nutrient ให้ในทุกเมนู !!!!

เพราะผมเชื่อว่า การกินคาร์บต่ำ เป็นการกินแบบ "ปกติ" การกินคาร์บมากก็เป็นการกินแบบ "ปกติ" เหมือนคนไม่ชอบกินผิก ไม่ชอบกินปลา ไม่ชอบกินเนื้อ อันนี้มันก็แค่คนไม่ชอบกินคาร์บสูงเกินไป แค่นั้นครับ เป็นการกินแบบปกติ ย้ำ เป็นการกินแบบปกติ คาร์บต่ำแบบคีโต เป็นการกินแบบปกติ ที่ควรเป็นมานานแล้วด้วย

การยัดทะนานคาร์บสูงมากๆ ในมุมมองผมคือ นี่แหละที่ไม่ปกติ

ทีนี้ความไม่ปกตินี้มันก็ไม่ผิดอะไรด้วย ถ้าคนกินไม่ปกติ นิยามไม่ปกติคือ ไม่ใช่คนทั่วๆไปเช่น นักกล้าม นักกีฬา ผู้ที่ใช้ "พลังงาน" สูงมากๆแลละต้องการใช้คาร์บ เพื่อการใดการหนึ่งโดยเฉพาะ ดังนั้นไม่มีอะไรที่ผิดเลยครับ ใครอยากกินอะไร กิน ตราบใดที่เรารู้ตัวเราเองว่าทำอะไร

ผมอยู่ในวงการธุรกิจทั้งอาหารและการโฆษณา เข้าใจดีครับว่าการแปะป้ายคีโต คือการช่วยให้คนตัดสินใจง่ายขึ้น เข้าใจง่ายขึ้น ช่วยในการขายให้สะดวกขึ้น แต่ ผมพอแล้วครับ เหรียญอีกด้านนึงของป้ายนีคือ มันไม่ได้ช่วยให้คนคีโต เรียนรู้การทำความเข้าใจด้านสารอาหารเท่าที่ผมคาดหวัง เพราะถ้าไม่มีป้ายพวกนี้ คนคีโตหลายๆคนถึงกับไปไม่เป็นกันเลยทีเดียว แล้วทุกวันนี้เหรียญมันออกด้านนี้ซะเยอะด้วย

นอกจากนี้ประเด็นที่หลีกไม่ได้คือ การหมอบคลานเข้ารับวัตถุดิบคีโตจากกูรู ซึ่งไม่เคยได้เหตุผลในการ "ห้าม" ของหลายๆอย่างเช่น สารหวานบางประเภท แครอท ฟักทอง(ตัวนี้มีคนถามและส่งมาให้ดูเยอะ เดี๋ยวจัดให้เคลียร์ๆ)

ซึ่งใครที่เลือกกินสิ่งนี้แล้วแชร์ความรู้ให้คนคีโตว่ากินได้ ก็จะโดนตรรกะวิบัติจากกูรูด้วยการแปะคำว่า "อยากกิน เลยชวนคนอื่นกิน ชวนคนให้ไม่เคร่ง" เป็นตรรกะวิบัติที่เรียกว่า Ad Hominem หรือ การโจมตีที่ตัวบุคคล นั่นเอง (ref : https://siripun.com/2023/06/09/logical-fallacies-2-ad-hominem ) ทั้งที่ถ้าจะนิยามคำว่าเคร่ง สิ่งที่กูรูให้ทำ ไม่สามารถมีคำตอบที่สร้างสมการสมดุลได้ (ทำไม A ได้แล้ว B ไม่ได้ถ้าเทียบบริบทเอามาชนกันชัดๆเลย)

จริงๆก็อยากรณรงค์ให้ผู้ประกอบการอาหารคีโต ร่วมโครงการนี้ แต่เข้าใจว่ามันคงไม่สามารถทำได้ เพราะอาจจะมองในมุมที่ต่างกัน ผมเข้าใจในสิ่งนั้นครับ แต่มุมของผมคือ การทำอาหารคีโตให้กลับมาอยู่ในประเภทอาหารปกติ จะยิ่งขยายมูลค่าตลาดออกไปได้มากกว่าทุกวันนี้

ตลาดคีโตมันซบเซา เพราะเราทำให้มัน "ประหลาด" ทำให้มันกลายเป็นของ "ไม่ปกติ" พอได้น้ำหนัก หุ่น ลูก สมปรารถนาแล้วก็ถวิลหาการ "ออกไปกินปกติ" นั่นคือการทำให้ตลาดหายไปเรื่อยๆเพราะพวกคุณเองครับ ผมกลับมองว่าทำให้คีโตคืออาหารปกติ แล้วกินกันไปตลอด ไม่มีการขอออกจากเผ่า หานเป็ดอะไรคือทางที่ดีกว่า ได้สุขภาพที่ดีกว่า

คีโตคือการกินปกติ ไม่ควรต้องมาแยกเป็นชนเผ่าอะไรเลย คีโตคือคนเมือง คนมีความรู้ คือ วิทยาศาสตร์ คือความฉลาดในการเลือกสารอาหาร อย่าไปยัดเยียดความ "ไม่ปกติ" ให้อาหาร "ปกติ"

ก็เลยคิดว่า ไม่เป็นไร ร้านคีโตร้านใดอยากร่วมเรายินดี แต่ถ้ามองว่าไม่เอาด้วยก็ยินดีเหมือนกัน เพราะการค้าเสรี อยากทำอะไรก็ทำได้ครับ ในส่วนตัวผม เราทำของเรา เราเริ่มของเราเลยก็ได้ เพราะเส้นทางที่ผ่านมา เราก็เดินอยู่ในเส้นทางของเราอยู่แล้ว และผมเชื่อใน Proof of Work ครับ ผมสามารถทุ่มแรงกายแรงใจ ลงในอาหาร ลงในการสอน ให้คนตระหนักถึง "สารอาหาร" มากกว่า "ป้ายฉลาก"

แล้ววันนึง มันจะส่งผลที่ impact ครับ ผมเชื่ออย่างนั้น Proof of Work สามารถส่งต่อได้ และ พลิกโลกได้ มานับต่อนับแล้ว

ทุกวันนี้ผมทุ่มเนื้อหาด้าน ฉลากอาหาร เพื่อให้คนหัดอ่าน รู้เท่า รู้ทัน มันก็ทำให้ผมยิ่งรู้สึกว่า ผมไม่ควรแปะคำว่าคีโต ลงไปเลย มันเหมือนไปสปอยให้คนลืมพื้นฐานสำคัญ

ไม่ใช่ว่าไม่ง้อคนคีโตนะ คนทำการค้าต้องยินดีกับทุกการค้าอยู่แล้ว แต่ผมกลับมมองว่า ตลาดของผมขอเป็นตลาดที่มีการอ่านฉลาก มีการหัดพิจารณาสารอาหาร ดูคาร์บเป็น เลือกวัตถุดิบที่เหมาะกับแต่ละคน มากกว่าวัตถุดิบที่ต้องได้รับการโปรดจากกูรู

ผมมองว่า คนกินคลีน คนกินไฮโปรตีน หรือแม้แต่แค่คนที่ไม่อยากกินน้ำตาล ก็จะสามารถกินอาหารที่ผมทำได้ ไม่โดนปิดกั้นจากป้ายคีโต ที่โลกประเคน mind set ให้ว่าต้อง high fat เท่านั้น

ซึ่งถ้าผมทำอาหารในแบบของผม + คนกินพิจารณาได้เองว่าสารอาหารเหมาะกับเขาไหม = การกินแบบมีความรู้จริง เหมาะกับตัวเองจริงๆ

ถือว่าเป็นอีกเส้นทางที่ผมต้อง fight for ครับ ถ้าสำเร็จ มันจะช่วยให้คนในสังคมหลุดกรอบ และมองสารอาหารได้ ดูแลสุขภาพได้ ด้วยพื้นฐานความรู้ที่มากขึ้นครับ ไม่ใช่ทางที่สบายแน่นอนครับ แต่พวกคุณจะได้ประโยชน์ติดตัวไปแน่ๆ

ถามว่าทำเพื่อการค้าใช่ไหม ก็ใช่ครับ การค้ามันคู่กับโลก ผมไม่ค่อยเข้าใจในมุมของการต้องการอะไรฟรีๆอยู่ตลอด ถ้าคุณเคารพใน value แล้วยินดีส่งต่อ value for value คุุณจะยินดีในการค้าที่ไม่ยัดเยียด (fiat) คุณจะยินดีในการส่งต่อ value ด้วยคุณค่า คุณจะยินดีในการมองคุณค่าของ "เวลา" ที่ผู้สร้างผู้ทำลงทุนลงไป (เวลาคือทรัพยการที่มีค่าที่สุดในโลก) แล้วถ้าคุณให้เกียรติกับสิ่งเหล่านี้ คุณจะไม่อยากได้มันฟรีๆ คุณจะกระดากใจที่จะหยิบมันมาเปล่าๆ นี่คือเหตุผลที่ผมไม่เคยมองว่า การทำการค้า มันจะเลวร้ายอะไร แต่ที่แน่ๆ ผมจะไม่ทำ FIAT keto ครับ ผมจะไม่เร่งเร้า ไม่ขู่เข็ญ ไม่ใช้ตรรกะประเภท "ของมันต้องมี" ผมจะแบไต๋แฟร์ๆด้วยสารอาหารครับ

แม้มันจะแลกมาด้วยการขาดโอกาส จากป้าย "คีโต" ก็ตาม แม้คนคีโตจะมองว่า ไม่มีป้ายคือไม่คีโตก็ตาม แม้จะไม่ได้รับการรับรองจากกูรูใดๆ ว่า "คีโตกินได้" ก็ตาม ถ้าจะให้สังคมมีการเรียนรู้สารอาหารขึ้นได้ ผมยอม

pirateketo #ตำรับเอ๋ #siripun #siamstr

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Hello [[Nostr]]! For my first post, an introduction feels appropriate with [[Nostr]], but why is that? Why do so many of us talk about our discovery of [[Nostr]] like we just discovered the next best thing? We don't act that way with any other social media.

Simply, I think it is because we have discovered the next best thing. And not just the next best thing, but the thing that will change online communication forever.

[[Nostr]] revolutionizes social media and is fundamentally different from anything else due to how our information is shared through relays and different clients instead of a single source. This change alone has the potential to disrupt current social media, and is the path forward to [[Freedom]] communication channels for the world.

My journey to [[Nostr]] started with [[Bitcoin]]. I first heard about [[Bitcoin]] in 2020, but didn't really start learning about it until late 2021. I heard about [[Nostr]] from the [[Bitcoin]] influencers and podcasters I listened to. My understanding of how #Bitcoin worked was fundamental to me understanding [[Nostr]] and it's importance. The #Freedom provided by these two beautiful inventions is set to change the world in a way we can't fully see yet.

The note app Obsidian is also a big part of this start for me. I’ve wanted to improve and organize my thoughts for a long time, as well as learn better ways to articulate my thoughts. I found Obsidian, and there is a community plugin to publish notes directly to [[Nostr]].

So this is the start of my journey with the future of social media and communication.

• Jared

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Python Introduction Guide

1. What is Python?

Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language known for its simplicity and readability. It's widely used in various fields, including web development, data science, artificial intelligence, and more.

2. Installing Python

Visit python.org to download and install the latest version of Python for your operating system.

3. Your First Python Program

Open a text editor and type:

python print("Hello, World!")

Save this as hello.py and run it from the command line:

python hello.py

4. Basic Syntax

Variables and Data Types

```python

Strings

name = "Alice"

Integers

age = 30

Floats

height = 5.5

Booleans

is_student = True ```

Lists

python fruits = ["apple", "banana", "cherry"] print(fruits[0]) # Outputs: apple

Dictionaries

python person = { "name": "Bob", "age": 25, "city": "New York" } print(person["name"]) # Outputs: Bob

5. Control Flow

If statements

python age = 18 if age >= 18: print("You're an adult") elif age >= 13: print("You're a teenager") else: print("You're a child")

Loops

```python

For loop

for i in range(5): print(i)

While loop

count = 0 while count < 5: print(count) count += 1 ```

6. Functions

```python def greet(name): return f"Hello, {name}!"

message = greet("Alice") print(message) # Outputs: Hello, Alice! ```

7. Modules

Python has a vast standard library and many third-party packages. You can import them like this:

python import math print(math.pi) # Outputs: 3.141592653589793

8. Exception Handling

python try: result = 10 / 0 except ZeroDivisionError: print("Error: Division by zero!")

9. Classes and Objects

```python class Dog: def init(self, name): self.name = name

def bark(self):
    return f"{self.name} says Woof!"

my_dog = Dog("Buddy") print(my_dog.bark()) # Outputs: Buddy says Woof! ```

10. Next Steps

• Practice writing small programs
• Explore the Python standard library
• Learn about virtual environments and package management with pip
• Dive into specific areas like web development (Django, Flask) or data science (NumPy, Pandas)

Remember, the best way to learn Python is by writing code. Happy coding!

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/09/19/an-attack-on-belarus-will-be-the-beginning-of-the-third-world-war/

An attack on Belarus will be the beginning of the Third World War

usa #belarus #russia #ukraine #war #politics

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สวัสดีครับ

ผมว่าจะลองเขียนบทความหรืออะไรที่มีประโยชน์ ในสิ่งที่ตัวเองได้รู้และมาเเชร์ หลังจากได้ฟัง

'Stoic' ปรัชญาเปลี่ยนชีวิตและพัฒนาการทำงานของ 'ทอย DataRockie' มีช่วงนึงพูดไว้ว่า

คนไทย consume กับ social media ลำดับต้นๆ ซึ่งหลายคน consume อย่างเดียว จะเป็นได้แค่ effect ของส่วนที่เรา content ที่เราเสพ แต่ถ้าเราสร้าง content ที่มี value เราก็จะเป็น เหตุ ที่มี effect กับคนอื่น สร้างเเรงกระเพื่อมส่งต่อไป

รู้สึกว่าน่าสนใจ เพราะก็เป็นหนึ่งในคนที่รับสารมาตลอด ไม่เคยลองที่จะ create ขึ้นมา เพราะเขิน ไม่ค่อยได้โพสอะไรอยู่เเล้ว บวกกับ คิดว่ารู้ไม่พอ เเต่คนเราก็น่าจะมีความรู้อะไรที่รู้ดีกว่าคนอื่นเค้าบ้าง

คิดว่าลองเริ่มดู ก็คงไม่เสียหายอะไร หวังว่าน่าจะเป็นประโยชน์กับใครก็คนใดคนหนึ่งครับ

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Nos últimos anos, as Organizações Autônomas Descentralizadas (DAOs) emergiram como uma das inovações mais significativas no ecossistema das criptomoedas e da tecnologia blockchain. Elas prometem ser uma evolução dos sistemas tradicionais de governança, oferecendo um modelo em que as decisões são tomadas coletivamente por meio de tokens, sem a necessidade de intermediários. No entanto, à medida que esse conceito se populariza, problemas relacionados à manipulação de votos e à corrupção dentro das DAOs tornaram-se cada vez mais evidentes.

Recentemente, um novo desenvolvimento criptográfico foi proposto para combater essas fraudes: a Prova de Conhecimento Completo (Complete Knowledge Proof). Este avanço, com a colaboração de Vitalik Buterin, criador do Ethereum, e pesquisadores da Universidade de Cornell, traz uma abordagem inovadora para resolver um dos maiores desafios de governança descentralizada: a segurança e integridade dos votos. Neste artigo, vamos explorar detalhadamente como funciona essa tecnologia e o impacto que ela pode ter no futuro das DAOs.

O Problema das DAOs: Manipulação de Votos e Fraudes

O conceito de DAOs é fascinante, pois permite que qualquer pessoa com tokens tenha voz ativa nas decisões de uma organização descentralizada. A governança é realizada através da votação, onde os detentores de tokens participam para aprovar ou rejeitar propostas. No entanto, a prática tem revelado alguns problemas críticos, principalmente a manipulação de votos e o aluguel de tokens.

Em muitos casos, indivíduos ou grupos podem "alugar" tokens de outros participantes para ganhar mais poder nas votações. Isso corrompe o processo de governança, pois aqueles que deveriam votar com seus próprios tokens acabam utilizando tokens de terceiros, prejudicando a descentralização genuína. Em algumas situações, esse processo leva a decisões que beneficiam poucos, enquanto os interesses da maioria são ignorados. Um dos exemplos mais críticos desse problema ocorreu quando tokens foram delegados ou alugados para manipular decisões em uma DAO, permitindo que certos atores controlassem resultados vitais.

A Solução: Prova de Conhecimento Completo (Complete Knowledge Proof)

A Prova de Conhecimento Completo surge como uma solução promissora para mitigar esses problemas de governança. O objetivo dessa tecnologia é garantir que o processo de votação seja legítimo e que somente os verdadeiros detentores dos tokens possam participar de forma válida, sem delegar ou vender seus direitos de voto.

O que é Prova de Conhecimento Completo?

A Prova de Conhecimento Completo é um conceito criptográfico que permite a alguém provar que tem conhecimento de uma informação (como uma chave criptográfica) sem precisar revelar essa informação. Ou seja, você pode provar que tem os direitos para votar com seus tokens sem precisar divulgar suas chaves privadas ou delegar os tokens para outra pessoa.

Essa solução utiliza uma combinação de Zero-Knowledge Proof (Prova de Conhecimento Nulo) e Proof of Work (Prova de Trabalho) para garantir que os votos sejam realizados apenas por aqueles que realmente detêm os tokens e que estão participando de forma legítima, sem manipulação ou fraude. A Zero-Knowledge Proof permite que alguém prove que possui a chave privada associada aos tokens, sem revelar a chave em si, e a Proof of Work adiciona uma camada adicional de validação, exigindo que um trabalho computacional seja realizado para confirmar a autenticidade do voto.

Como Funciona a Prova de Conhecimento Completo?

A ideia central da Prova de Conhecimento Completo é simples, mas poderosa. Imagine que você possui tokens de uma DAO e deseja participar de uma votação. Para garantir que o voto seja válido, a Prova de Conhecimento Completo exige que você utilize um dispositivo específico ou um ambiente de execução confiável, que possa validar que você realmente é o dono dos tokens e que não os compartilhou com outra pessoa.

Este processo pode ser feito através de um hardware dedicado, como um dispositivo ASIC (circuito integrado de aplicação específica), que é programado para validar os votos de maneira segura. Os votos são computados diretamente a partir desse hardware, que usa algoritmos criptográficos complexos para provar que você tem os tokens e está votando de forma legítima. Isso evita que os votos sejam manipulados ou alugados, pois só o verdadeiro detentor dos tokens pode usá-los para votar.

Uso de Zero-Knowledge Proof e Proof of Work

A combinação de Zero-Knowledge Proof e Proof of Work é o que torna esse processo especialmente robusto. A Zero-Knowledge Proof garante que a sua identidade como votante seja preservada, ou seja, você pode provar que tem os tokens sem revelar publicamente quem você é ou quantos tokens possui. Já o Proof of Work adiciona um nível extra de segurança, exigindo que o hardware dedicado realize um certo número de cálculos antes que o voto seja validado. Isso impede que pessoas usem múltiplas contas falsas ou tokens alugados, já que seria computacionalmente inviável manipular o sistema.

O Impacto na Governança Descentralizada

A implementação da Prova de Conhecimento Completo pode transformar completamente a forma como as DAOs operam, eliminando os problemas de manipulação de votos e garantindo uma governança mais transparente e justa. Além de aumentar a segurança, essa solução também promove uma maior confiança nas DAOs, já que os participantes podem ter certeza de que as decisões estão sendo tomadas por aqueles que realmente possuem os tokens, sem interferências de atores externos.

Aplicações Além das DAOs

Embora o foco inicial da Prova de Conhecimento Completo seja a governança descentralizada, essa tecnologia tem um potencial muito maior. Ela pode ser utilizada em várias outras áreas, como votação eletrônica, identidade digital, autenticação de usuários, entre outros. Em sistemas de votação eletrônica, por exemplo, a Prova de Conhecimento Completo poderia garantir que cada voto é legítimo sem comprometer a privacidade dos eleitores, o que seria uma revolução na forma como conduzimos eleições em todo o mundo.

No campo da identidade digital, essa solução poderia permitir que usuários provem que possuem determinadas credenciais (como uma identidade ou uma carteira de motorista), sem a necessidade de expor essas informações a terceiros. Isso poderia ser extremamente útil em situações que exigem alto nível de privacidade e segurança, como em contratos eletrônicos e autenticação de serviços.

Conclusão

A Prova de Conhecimento Completo é uma inovação significativa no campo da criptografia e da governança descentralizada. Ao combinar as vantagens da Zero-Knowledge Proof e da Proof of Work, ela oferece uma solução eficaz para prevenir fraudes e manipulações nas DAOs, garantindo que os votos sejam realizados de forma segura e legítima.

Com a participação de nomes de peso como Vitalik Buterin e pesquisadores da Cornell, essa tecnologia tem o potencial de se tornar um pilar fundamental na governança descentralizada e em várias outras aplicações no mundo digital. À medida que as DAOs continuam a ganhar espaço no ecossistema blockchain, soluções como essa serão essenciais para assegurar sua integridade e transparência.

O futuro das DAOs pode estar mais seguro com a Prova de Conhecimento Completo, e este é apenas o começo de um novo capítulo na governança descentralizada.

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Assista ao vídeo:

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Recently, I wrote this: https://stacker.news/items/684558?commentId=684701 and asked whether three emails were "legit"...did Satoshi write them. Still wondering, I thought a wider explanation might be worthwhile.

Somehow, I'm finding myself lost in a techno labyrinth and then mired in a quandary of muck. Here's why...

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The background

In 2019, I edited a book called "Kicking the Hornet’s Nest: The Complete Writings, Emails, and Forum Posts of Satoshi Nakamoto, the Founder and Creator of Bitcoin" with the goal of logging all of Satoshi Nakamoto's public writings in chronological order (links here). There were other similar resources out there, and a somewhat similar but incomplete book, yet none were arranged strictly by chronology or without heavy editorial commentary added as a layer on top of Satoshi's writings.

I wanted Satoshi's words, alone, in order, all of them.

A second edition of "Kicking" came out when three "Satoshi emails" were released in 2020. Since the goal was to include all of Satoshi's writings, a new edition was needed.

Then, with the "COPA trial" in early 2023 a new slew of never-before-seen emails were released by Adam Back and Martii Malmi as evidence in the case. This was a couple of hundred more emails, half from Satoshi and the other half to Satoshi. So, a third edition of "Kicking" was needed.

The start

My current quandary started when I got a ping via X saying I'd missed Wei Dai's emails with Satoshi.

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Wei Dai's work is the first citation in the bitcoin whitepaper (page 9) and Dai is a cypherpunk legend, of course. This omission was a rather egregious error on my part, "How did I miss that?" I wondered. Like finding an overlooked golden nugget, I eagerly wrote back to thank BITCOINALLCAPS: "This is defitely [sic] something to include. I'll investigate, and thanks for the heads up!"

That feeling

Since I'm currently still tweaking out the third edition, this Wei Dai email discovery came at an opportune time to make adjustments. However, I had, and have, a funny feeling.

The link that BITCOINALLCAPS gave was to what I thought was a semi-sketchy looking video. (See the YouTube video linked on the X post above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkcwUortfWE) The vid was interesting in that it talked about Satoshi reaching out to Wei Dei pre-whitepaper. Then it analyzed nuanced differences between the drafted whitepaper title and summary when compared to the final title and summary of the whitepaper.

A little searching pointed the "source" for this missing Wei Dai email as bitcoin.com. That site has a list of Satoshi emails, forum posts, etc. I noticed two correspondences that I'd missed: Wei Dei's two emails and Jon Matonis's one. However, the likely more-respected Nakamoto Institute at https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org did not include those three emails. That feeling came back to me, with the question, "Are these emails for real?"

If you're unfamiliar with bitcoin.com, then you may not realize why I got a funny feeling and why I began to wonder about the emails at all. It's a long, sordid story, but I'll try to briefly summarize.

At first there was bitcoin. Then, around 2017 as bitcoin grew and struggled to scale in size, the "block size wars" went down. Some wanted to increase the block size to unclog the chain, others wanted to retain the small block size that Satoshi had coded. The big blockers eventually forked Bitcoin (BTC) to start Bitcoin Cash (aka, "B-cash") and took the symbol BCH.

There was much animosity, and frankly, there still is. Bitcoin "maxis" today consider BTC the only bitcoin. Maxis even say there is bitcoin and no other...that there actually are no other cryptocurrencies...that all others are merely scam-coins. These folks consider themselves purists by retaining Satoshi's original small block size. The B-cashers consider themselves purists, retaining Satoshi's "electronic cash" ethos so that someone could buy-a-cup-of-coffee with a transaction on the main chain.

If you're keeping score:

|coin/chain:|Bitcoin|Bitcoin Cash| |-|-|-| |symbol/nickname:|BTC|BCH or B-cash| |block size:|small blocks like Satoshi coded|big blocks so electronic cash can exist like Satoshi wrote| |website:|bitcoin.org|bitcoin.com| |site founder/owner:|started by Satoshi|owned by Roger Ver| |Satoshi's writings logged at:|nakamotoinstitute.org|nakamotostudies.org|

And, to really throw gas onto the fire, and I hate to even bring this up, but there is Craig Steven Wright. His "Bitcoin SV" (BSV) coin spun-off from Bitcoin Cash. BSV claimed to be the even more pure purist coin as "Satoshi's Vision," hence the "SV." If you're reading this, you know about Wright...and the COPA trial...and his debunking as Satoshi...and all that. I'll return to this topic in a moment.

Like I said, this is a long and sordid story.

So, why dig up this muck here?

Back to the emails

My question was/is, "Did Satoshi write the emails to Wei Dai and Jon Matonis?" And this is where I entered the techno-labyrinth.

The video source I mentioned above aroused skepticism. The narrator focused on certain items, namely the emphasis on "electronic cash" or "ecash" or the "b" in "b-money." He didn't mention "b-cash" that I caught, but the I wondered if that was the allusion projected. In other words, I wondered if there was/is an agenda, as if to say, "b-money is b-cash which is the real and original bitcoin."

And, back to Craig Wright. I was unfamiliar with Jon Matonis, so I searched, and this article came up: https://jonmatonis.medium.com/how-i-met-satoshi-96e85727dc5a. The upshot is that in 2016 Matonis believed Craig Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto. (I'm curious as to his opinion now.) Suddenly, the reason for excluding the Jon Matonis email from the Bitcoin (BTC)-friendly NakamotoInstitute.org was apparent. This was high blasphemy.

The labyrinth got more convoluted. The website NakamotoStudies.org is Bitcoin Cash (BCH)-friendly. (See the left-leaning green "B" symbol? It's the same as on the BCH symbol instead of the familiar, right-lighting and orange BTC symbol.)

For some reason, the NakamotoStudies.org (BCH-friendly) site does not currently show the Matonis email, see this link. Actually, all "Emails" are "forbidden."

Though not live now, the Internet Archive Wayback Machine has captured the emails here.

At this point, the tecno-labyrinth is confusing and the muck is deep.

It seemed simple. I just wondered if Satoshi wrote the emails, but now I'm mired in website inclusion/exclusion censorship and gamesmanship, B-cash talk, and Craig Wright-is-Satoshi nonsense. Labyrinth and muck.

Canon or canon not?

In Christianity, there is the idea of Biblical canon. Canon is what should be included in the Bible, non-canon is everything else. Christians believe canonical works are inspired scripture, where the Holy Spirit guided the authors of the books of the Bible. As man used his own words and writing styles to literally write, the Holy Spirit actually guided each word perfectly so that the finished work was not just man's words, but "God-breathed" words.

The early Christian church, then, had to figure, "Which works are God-breathed canon and which are not?" Or, practically speaking, what goes into the Bible and what does not?

This gets into the weeds a bit, but there was no official meeting to decide what gets into the Bible and what did not. The "Early Church," that is, the body of Christian believers in the first couple of centuries A.D., essentially agreed as a collective on certain books as being in line with Christian thought and agreed that others were not. As a group, they nodded and said, "Yep, this is in," to the 66 books we recognize in the Bible today, and they said, "Nope, not this" to everything else.

I say this gets into the weeds, and it does. The Catholic Church may bring up the books of the Apocrypha. And, even then, the church might distinguish the Old Testament Apocryphal books versus New Testament Apocryphal books. It gets complicated.

What's more, some may argue that official church councils or positions officially codify or accept certain books as doctrine, or not. That is, the official church officially deems canon, or as deems non-canon. Yet, others may argue, as I do, that it is not an official church that is the gatekeeper of canon, but rather that it is instead the decentralized body of believers as a group, guided by the Holy Spirit, which accept canon and reject non-canon. If canon is God-breathed, it is not a council of church men who decide canon or not. Rather, it is the church, the believers, guided by the Holy Spirit that decides.

This is now deeply in the weeds, but the point remains...some works get in, some does not.

Bitcoin is not a religion

To be clear, I'm very much not a fan of throwing religion onto bitcoin. We do it at times, maybe in a solely fun way, such as with the "Genesis block" or in other ways. Bitcoin is a lot of things: economics, computer science, physical science, mathematics, philosophy, game theory, and more. But, it's not religion.

The reason I even included the religious discussion here is to illustrate the point of including or excluding text. Recall my question, "Should the Wei Dai and Jon Matonis emails be included in Satoshi's writings?"

And, I mentioned two ways above what made Biblical canon or non-canon: (1) official decree or (2) unofficial acceptance by the people. In the first case, I wouldn't want an official bitcoin meeting of people to decide yes or no as to what is Satoshi's writings and what is not (of course, being decentralized, there can be no official bitcoin meeting!). And, to the second, I don't want the bitcoin community to collectively agree yes or no, "This is in, this is not," as the early Christian Church did with Biblical canon. My desire is this:

If Satoshi wrote it, I want it included in "Kicking."

Yet, the question still nags, are these emails Satoshi's words? Are they bitcoin canon or not?

My hope

To include or not to include is my question? My reason for writing this is to hopefully get unstuck from the muck and mire. My options at the moment, as I see them, are:

1. Don't include those emails in "Kicking the Hornet's Nest."
2. Include them alongside all the others in the chronological place they would go.
3. Include the emails, but add an editor's comment effectively as an asterisk saying: *here is the email, but take itwith a grain of salt.

Currently, I'm really not sure which option I'll go with. If I had to choose today, I'd choose option 3. I've already done this with the "I am not Dorian" post, as below.

This is odd in a way. I'm a Christian, by faith. Faith, by definition, is believing in what cannot be proven. And yet, I love bitcoin, who's #1 mantra may be, "Don't trust (believe), verify." So, my hope is to find an answer to whether these emails are Satoshi's or not. Perhaps there is a telling clue or clues in the source or metadata of those emails that proves or disproves them. My hope is to verify yes or no, legit or not. Maybe someone who reads this, more adroit than I, can enlighten me on a telling point that reveals whether Satoshi wrote the Wei Dai and Jon Matonis emails, or not.

I'm curious and listening.

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¿Qué es una dirección Lightning o Lightning address?

Una dirección Lightning es una dirección que visualmente se asemeja a una dirección de correo electrónico legible para los humanos, por ejemplo usuario@dominio.com pero que en realidad te permite recibir pagos en bitcoin instantáneos y económicos, sin la necesidad de tener un nodo en linea en tu dispositivo ni tener que generar facturas de forma manual cada vez que alguien te quiere hacer un pago.

¿Suena bien no?

¿Y cómo funciona?

Funciona utilizando el protocolo de pago LNURL.

Aquí se muestra un sencillo esquema de lo que ocurre en segundo plano.

En resumen, cuando otro usuario quiere pagarte usando tu dirección Lightning, tu billetera convierte la dirección Lightning en una solicitud de pago LNURL. Luego se utiliza esa solicitud de pago LNURL exitosa para obtener una factura BOLT11.

💡 Dirección Lightning > LNURLp > Factura BOLT 11.

Suena bien, pero ¿cuál es el problema?

Por el momento, muchas de las implementaciones de Lightning Address son de custodia, porque se necesita un dominio para que Lightning Address funcione y un nodo que esté siempre en línea para recibir los pagos. Debido a que es de custodia, el custodio puede atacarte en cualquier momento y monitorear tus transacciones.

Tienes que confiar en el propietario del dominio para no cambiar el registro de tu dirección Lightning. Y no funciona si el servidor LNURL no está en línea.

Bitcoin Txoko ofrece una sencilla solución de Lightning Address respaldada por LNbits. Esto también es de custodia, así que por favor mantén solo una pequeña cantidad en tu billetera Bitcoin Txoko y ve retirando a tu billetera de autocustodia a medida que recibas más sats.

Estoy listo, ¿qué necesito para empezar?

¡Todo lo que necesitas es un teléfono móvil o un ordenador y una conexión a Internet!

1. Creando tu billetera

Si aún no lo has hecho, navega a https://bitcointxoko.com y crea una nueva billetera. Puedes elegir el nombre que quieras.

2. Activar extensiones

Hace falta la extensión Pay Links para que las direcciones Lightning funcionen.

Abre Extensiones en la barra de herramientas y activa Pay Links.

3. Creando tu enlace de pago

• En a la extensión Pay Links, haz clic en New Pay Link.

• Elige la billetera que has creado.

• Para la descripción del artículo, puedes escribir lo que quieras.

• Elige un nombre de usuario de tu dirección Lightning. Tu dirección Lightning se verá como username@bitcointxoko.com.

• Desmarque Fixed amount y cambia el valor mínimo a 1 y el valor máximo a 500000.

⚠️ También puedes cambiar el valor máximo a algo más alto, pero es más probable que los pagos más grandes fallen debido a la limitada capacidad de entrada del nodo Lightning de Bitcoin Txoko. Así que recomendamos mantenerlo en 500000 sats.

• Ahora abre Advanced options y cambia Comment maximum characters a 799. Este paso no es necesario pero permite más funcionalidades más adelante.

• Marca Enable nostr zaps en la parte inferior, para que puedas utilizar tu dirección Lightning para recibir zaps.

• Las demás opciones avanzadas son opcionales, puedes configurarlas si quieres o dejarlas en blanco.

Al final debería verse algo así.

• Cuando hayas comprobado que todo es correcto, sigue adelante y haz clic en Create Pay Link.

Probando

Puedes probar si tu nueva dirección Lightning funciona yendo a otra cartera, pulsando en Enviar y escribiendo tu dirección Lightning como destino, y luego enviándote una pequeña cantidad de sats.

Vuelve a tu billetera Bitcoin Txoko y comprueba si has recibido tu propio pago. Es posible que tengas que actualizar la página.

Si todo funcionó correctamente, ¡enhorabuena! 🥳

Si no es así, háznoslo saber. Siempre estamos aquí para ayudar.

Próximos pasos

Nostr zaps

Puedes añadir tu dirección Bitcoin Txoko Lightning a tu perfil de nostr y usarla para recibir zaps. Normalmente, esto se hace yendo a Perfil > Editar > Dirección Lightning y cambiando la dirección Lightning.

LNDhub

Puedes importar tu billetera LNbits como un LNDhub en tu teléfono utilizando una aplicación como Zeus o BlueWallet, en lugar de visitar la billetera en el navegador cada vez que desees comprobar tu saldo o realizar un pago. Echa un vistazo a nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqkvlvlma7a55ccp6d5rrdc27h3ssmdmael286mjaq5uxmqslk04fqqxnzd3exuerqdfkxccnyv3cs0uvul sobre cómo hacer esto.

Código QR

También puedes compartir o imprimir tu código QR LNURLp para que la gente pueda escanearlo fácilmente con sus teléfonos. ¡Muy útil si estás introduciendo bitcoin a tu comerciante local favorito para que pueda recibir propinas Lightning!

Simplemente comparte el enlace a tu página compartida, o imprime el código QR como PDF yendo a View Link > Print.

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In modern society, technology is everywhere, especially the popularity of wireless signals, which makes our lives extremely convenient. However, with the widespread use of wireless communications, the mysterious technology gadget of signal jammer has gradually surfaced. Today, let's unveil it together!

Signal jammer, the name sounds a bit mysterious and complicated, but in fact its principle is very simple. It interferes with the transmission of other wireless signals by emitting signals of a specific frequency, thereby causing communication interruption. Although this sounds a bit shady, signal jammers do play an important role in some cases.

Imagine that you are immersed in a wonderful TV series, and suddenly, the network signal disappears, and the video freezes and makes people crazy. At this time, some places may actually be quietly using wifi disruptor. It covers or interferes with the original WiFi network by emitting powerful signals, causing a situation where it is impossible to connect to the Internet.

In some environments, WiFi jammers are also valuable. For example, in some sensitive occasions, such as prisons, military bases or important meetings, in order to protect the security of information, WiFi jammers become "bodyguards". It keeps information private by blocking unnecessary external communications.

Next, let's talk about UHF jammer. UHF signals are widely used in television broadcasting, mobile communications, wireless microphones, etc. UHF jammers are also a signal jammer that can block or interfere with these wireless signals. At concerts or large events, using UHF jammers can prevent interference with wireless microphones and ensure the smooth progress of the event.

Interestingly, UHF jammers can also be used to disrupt the communications of criminals in some cases. For example, when the police are chasing suspects, they may use UHF jammers to interfere with their communications, thereby reducing the suspect's chance of escape.

When it comes to signal jamming, military jammers are definitely the best. In modern warfare, the security of information and communications is directly related to the victory or defeat of the battle. Military signal jammer effectively weaken the enemy's combat capabilities by interfering with the enemy's wireless communications, radars, and missile guidance systems. Its powerful transmitters can block the enemy's signals, making it impossible for the enemy to obtain intelligence or command troops in time.

In addition to being used for attack, military jammers can also counter the interception of one's own telecommunications signals by the enemy. In some cases, the military will also use signal jammers to protect their secret communications from being eavesdropped by the enemy.

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Signal jammers, seemingly mysterious and powerful, are actually an important product of the development of modern science and technology. In certain situations, they can protect information security, maintain system stability, and even support the maintenance of law and order in some cases.

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Table Of Content

• The Psychology of Scarcity

• Trust in Decentralization

• The Power of Network Effects

• The Role of Intrinsic Motivation

• Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristics

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin has been the talk of the town since its inception in 2009. While most people primarily view it as a digital currency, it offers much more than that. In this article, we will examine the various aspects of Bitcoin that set it apart from traditional currencies, focusing on behavioral economics. By understanding these unique features, we can better appreciate the true value and potential of Bitcoin in the world's financial landscape.

The Psychology of Scarcity

The limited supply of Bitcoin, capped at 21 million coins, contributes to the perceived value of the cryptocurrency. This scarcity can drive increased demand, as people are generally drawn to scarce resources. This phenomenon is well documented in behavioral economics, and it can lead to irrational decision-making, fear of missing out (FOMO), and even price manipulation.

Trust in Decentralization

Bitcoin operates on a decentralized network, meaning no central authority or government can control its supply or value. This aspect appeals to many users who have lost faith in traditional financial institutions due to corruption, mismanagement, or economic instability. From a behavioral economics perspective, the trust in decentralization can lead to a preference for Bitcoin over conventional currencies.

The Power of Network Effects

The value of Bitcoin is further enhanced by its growing network of users, developers, and investors. As more people adopt and use the cryptocurrency, its utility and demand increase, further driving up its value. This positive feedback loop is a classic example of network effects in behavioral economics, and it helps explain the rapid growth and adoption of Bitcoin.

The Role of Intrinsic Motivation

Bitcoin's open-source nature and the pseudonymous identity of its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, have fostered a sense of community and intrinsic motivation among its supporters. This shared sense of ownership and the desire to contribute to the success of the project can drive innovation, development, and adoption of the cryptocurrency. Intrinsic motivation is a powerful force in behavioral economics, often leading to better outcomes than extrinsic rewards.

Anchoring and Adjustment Heuristics

Bitcoin's highly volatile nature can be attributed, in part, to cognitive biases like anchoring and adjustment. People often anchor their expectations of Bitcoin's value to a previous reference point, such as an all-time high or low. As new information emerges, they adjust their valuation, sometimes leading to overreactions and significant price swings. Understanding these heuristics can help explain the often unpredictable behavior of Bitcoin's price.

Conclusion

Bitcoin is more than just a digital currency; it is a complex financial ecosystem that can be better understood through the lens of behavioral economics. By analyzing the psychological factors that drive its value and adoption, we can gain valuable insights into the cryptocurrency's potential and the unique role it plays in our global economy. As the world continues to evolve, so too will Bitcoin and the fascinating interplay between human behavior and digital finance.

FAQ

How does scarcity influence Bitcoin's value? Bitcoin's limited supply creates a sense of scarcity, driving demand and leading to increased value and potential irrational decision-making.

Why is decentralization important for Bitcoin? Decentralization eliminates central authority control, appealing to users who distrust traditional financial institutions and prefer a more trustless system.

How does the psychology of FOMO influence Bitcoin adoption? Fear of missing out (FOMO) drives people to invest in Bitcoin to avoid feeling left out, potentially resulting in impulsive decision-making and increased demand.

How do cognitive biases affect our perception of Bitcoin's value? Cognitive biases like confirmation bias and herd mentality can lead to irrational beliefs and expectations about Bitcoin's value, influencing investment decisions.

Can behavioral economics explain the appeal of Bitcoin for speculative investors? Yes, factors like scarcity, network effects, and cognitive biases can make Bitcoin an attractive option for speculative investors seeking high returns.

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You are Giving Away a Lot of Data with those Pictures

You post pictures on nostr and other social media. You send pictures to friends and sometimes sorta friends. I hate to tell you this but you are giving away a lot more personal data than just what's on the image of the picture.

It all comes down to the metadata. The term Metadata refers to descriptive information about a picture, image, or file. This set of information is so vital as it reveals everything about a picture.

Metadata is key as it explains the privacy and security dangers that you are exposing yourself to everytime you share that file. And not just pictures, but text documents, PDFs and Videos.

What data is in Pictures?

EXIF Data (Exchangeable Image File Format): This is a standard that specifies the formats for sound, images and ancillary tags used by scanners, smartphones and other smart devices.

EXIF contains so much more personal information than you can imagine.

It tells the geolocation of where the picture was taken and it gives the timestamp of when it was taken.

So that creepy guy who follows your accounts knows all your favorite lunch spots because you like to post pictures of your food.

Additionally the metadata contains a description or title of the image. Any tags or keywords associated with the image, author information, and any custom metadata from any image editing software that might have been used including more timestamps, system information, and log of any edits.

So yes your Bumble date knows you are trying to catfish them with that 5 year old picture you doctored up with AI.

Uses in Open Source Intelligence

Open Source Intelligence or OSINT is a fancy term for cyber stalking someone. It is using nothing more than specialized knowledge and freely available information on the internet to find out all kinds of stuff about someone.

Using the GPS metadata and reverse image search of that picture posted online you figure out where that person is from and maybe a first name. Using that to narrow down your search criteria you find their Facebook and Instagram. Now you have their last name, how they spend their time, friends, and maybe where they work. Searching free data brokers you find their address and phone number. Public records tell you how much they paid for their house and Google street view gives you a view of the house from the street.

So other than being a creep, what else is metadata used for?

Analysis of metadata helps to trace the origin and history of digital files. Digital Forensics will know when those files were created, accessed, or modified. Forensics then uses this for additional context about files and other data stored on a computer or network, this information is useful because it provides information that may not be immediately clear from the file itself. Remember your OPSEC rules and be a Nemo when necessary.

There is some good news. (And bad)

Luckily the more popular services out there such as Facebook and Instagram do not display the metadata of the users. You cannot check the metadata of pictures as it does not allow you to download pictures or copy the image link. Although that doesn't mean the companies themselves do not have access to that data.

This is not the case with services like Tumbler and most image hosting or storage services. When pictures are uploaded to cloud services like dropbox or google drive anyone with access to these images can also access the metadata.

Okay I am terrified, how do I remove metadata from pictures?

Thankfully there are several options to take care of this. Most operating systems have methods built in. (see below for instructions for Windows and MacOS). Tails and QubesOS has Metadata Cleaner software preinstalled. There are several online tools that also scrub metadata from pictures. (Shout out to nostr.build)

Windows

• Right Click the image file and select properties

• Click the details tab

• Click Remove Properties and Personal Information

• Choose the level of metadata removal desired

MacOS

• Open the image in the preview

• Go to Tools

• Click EXIF tab

• Select Remove EXIF file

How to remove EXIF data after capture on phones

Let's be honest that most of your photos are taken and reside on your phone now of days.

On iPhone you have to open the Photos app, select the image, tap on 3 dots and select Adjust Date & Time and Adjust Location. You can also get the adjust setting by clicking the little i at the bottom of the picture.

On android it is much the same way. Open Gallery, select image, tap 3 dots, choose details, then the pencil to remove location and timestamp, save.

On Graphene OS no worries, remove EXIF data after capture is an existing setting in the camera and is enabled by default.

It is a total pain that you have to do this each and every time to every picture. But I hope you now realize how important that metadata can be and why you shouldn't just be sharing it with the world.

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Nobody alive has a high enough view of God. Our God, the true God, the God who spoke into existence time and space, matter and energy, things seen and unseen, is more awesome than our earthly minds can comprehend.

This is a very good thing. A God who is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and holy is a God we can trust. A God who is unfathomably complex and able to do things we can’t comprehend is a God worth worshipping.

Wrong View of God

When I first became a Christian, some of the verses about honoring and worshipping God seemed proud and self-absorbed, but I was judging God as a man. He is so far above us in every way and we owe Him our very existence. Of course He should be honored and worshipped. I judged Him as having human motives instead of omniscient, holy motives. I judged Him as just being an above average man instead of being the Creator who spoke everything, even time and space, into existence. I judged Him wrongly because I didn’t fully know Him and who He truly was. The more I learn about Him the more amazed I am at who He is and the more I realize how little I truly comprehend His awesomeness.

I serve a God that is so magnificent that we can’t fully understand who He is or the various traits He has revealed to us. Other religions worship a god that is no more than a superhero. Their gods are understandable because they are made up by people. A god that is fully understandable isn’t a god worth worshipping.

Wrong View of the Law

God has given us a law to follow. He has given us explicit laws like the ten commandments. He has given us things we must do and He has given us things we must not do. Too often we are offended by these commands. We look at every command to do something as a burden and every command to refrain from doing something as a limitation on our freedom and happiness. We only feel this way because our view of God is wrong.

We have an awesome God who loves us so much that he condescends to tell us how to live the best life we can live. He tells us not to do things that are bad for us and will harm our relationships with Him and others. He tells us to do things that will help us grow and help us build relationships with Him and others. He lets us join Him in His amazing plan for humanity. He doesn’t need us, but like a good Father, He includes us in His work and empowers us to do what we could not do on our own.

Instead of resenting God for His commands, we should be grateful that He cares enough to give them. We should be grateful that He cares enough to send Jesus to earth to show us what a perfect life looks like. We should be grateful that He has given us the laws necessary to make family and society work properly. When we obey His commands, we will be glad we did.

Wrong View of Sin

We all view our sin as less bad than it really is. We excuse that “little white lie.” We discount the harm from stealing that pencil from work. We make light of our social actions because we are conforming to the culture around us and because everyone is doing it. We talk about all of the “good” people around us and wonder why God lets “bad” things happen to these “good” people. Does anyone truly see the true horror of their sin?

We have a wrong view of sin for several reasons. First of all, we judge sin by the actions of other people. We judge one person to be a better person than another. We judge some sins, like murder, to be worse than other sins, like a lie of flattery. We don’t judge sins by their rightful measure, the word of God and the life of Jesus.

Beyond that we look at things based on whether the sin seemed to hurt someone. Of course we are only able to look at the external effects, not the effects on the heart. Truth is loving even when it hurts. That definitely doesn’t mean we should tell the truth in a hurtful way to make a person feel bad or to win, but we should tell the truth because the truth always benefits in the long run. A lie, even if it makes the person feel better today and seems to help a relationship, causes harm in the long run. It breaks trust. It leads the person on the wrong path. It hardens the liar’s heart.

Ultimately all sin is about one thing. All sin says, “my way is better than God’s way.” All sin says, “I know better than God.” All sin says, “my opinion is more important than God’s opinion.” Worst of all, all sin says, “I am god of my life and I don’t want God to rule over my life.” Sin is a denial of God and His authority.

If we have a higher view of God then we realize the gravity of our sin. This won’t mean we will never sin, but it should mean we sin much less. It should also mean we repent more because sin is idolatry. We are our own idol.

Wrong View of Hardship

So often when things go wrong in our lives, we question God. We say, “Why me? Why did you let this happen to me?”

We need to remember that God is in control. We need to remember that God loves us. We need to remember that God knows everything that is, that was, and that will be and that He looks at events differently than we do because He has an eternal perspective.

Why do bad things happen to people, especially believers? God told us

Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they kept My word, they will keep yours also. (John 15:20)

God is transforming us to be more like Jesus, so some hardship is given to us to mold us to be more like Jesus. Almost all growth in faith and holiness comes from hardship, not easy times. God knows this and gives us what is for our eternal good instead of what gives us momentary happiness. Looking back with a godly attitude, you will be able to see the good God has done through hardship and be grateful even if it was very difficult in the heat of the trials.

Sometimes God allows hardship as a punishment for sin.

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, and He scourges every son whom He receives.” (Hebrews 12:6)

Sinning unbelievers are often allowed to continue sinning and may not seem to get their punishment here on earth. Christian sinners are more likely to be punished here on earth as a correction, to lead us back to Him and a godly life. If you are going through a hard time, ask yourself, “Is there an unconfessed sin in my life for which I am paying the consequences?” If the hardship is due to sin, usually repenting and turning from that sin will help, but even repentance and turning fully to God does not guarantee that the consequences of sin go away. It does mean that the hardship will become more bearable because everything is better and easier when you have God on your side.

Frequently hardship is preparing you for something. He may be preparing you for additional hardship. He may be preparing you for ministry. He may be preparing you for leadership. You can look at the story of Joseph. He was sold by his brothers, made a slave, tempted and then jailed when he resisted temptation, and then abandoned in jail by those he had helped. I’m sure there were moments when Joseph doubted God. Joseph stayed faithful, but he went through severe hardships for decades. God, however, knew what He was doing. He was preparing Joseph to save the people of the Middle East and beyond. God was moving Joseph from a place far from the seat of power to a place where he could speak God’s word to Pharaoh, the most powerful man in the world at that time. Joseph didn’t know what God was doing, but he stayed faithful and God blessed him immensely.

You may not be made second in charge of the most powerful country in the world, but God has a plan for your life. You have been blessed by the Creator God to be used for His purpose. He will put you through what you need to go through to prepare you for His earthly plans and to prepare you for Heaven. Trust me, it will be so worth it.

Knowing who God is and that He loves us can enable us to go through these hard, desperate times. When we trust God, we don’t just barely make it through, we can thrive and go through horrible circumstances with joy because:

And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)

When we start to get a right view of God, everything is better. We can understand the truth in God’s word and in the world more correctly. We know that our loving God controls everything throughout history with ultimate wisdom. We know that everything happens for a very good reason.

When we start to get a right view of God, it is like the sun coming out from behind a cloud. Everything is clear and bright and joyful.

Trust Jesus.\ \ your sister in Christ,

Christy

Bible verses are NASB (New American Standard Bible) 1995 edition unless otherwise stated

@ 3c9712ff:14fecbc4

Pristine beaches, stunning landscapes, cricket on Christmas, and ever-appreciating house prices. These have long been cornerstones of Australian culture, now considered almost unquestionable.

House prices rise because, well, they always have, and since the 1970's the formula for Australian success has been straightforward:

1. Get any job.
2. Buy a house with leverage.
3. Pay off the loan, sell the house for a profit.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3.

This wealth creation scheme hasn’t just been a strategy for the past 50 years—it’s been a birthright.

What’s shocking is how many people take this as gospel. The idea that house-price-go-up is so deeply ingrained in our psyche and culture most people don’t even question it. But if you ask them why housing has become so unaffordable, especially since 2020, you’ll likely hear one of the following explanations:

1. Property Investors
2. Immigration
3. Building costs
4. Negative Gearing/Tax Concessions

I’m not denying these factors play a role, but they’re secondary to the real culprit. The crisis in Australian housing starts with our flawed monetary policy.

Every year, the amount of Australian dollars in circulation increases by an average of 7%. When savings are diluted and purchases power decreases, we’re incentivised to store our wealth in assets that can’t be easily replicated—like gold, real estate, and equities.

Real estate, in particular, is used more so as a store of value in Australia compared to other Western nations for the following reasons:

1. Our equities market isn’t as deep or liquid as others (ASX at $1.5T vs. the U.S. at $50T).
2. Construction costs are higher.
3. Zoning regulations are stricter, often driven by NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) sentiment.

Given that its hard to build new dwellings, housing has the perfect combination of scarcity and undeniable utility.

The key takeaway is this: House prices didn't soar because they became investment assets; they became investment assets once people saw them as a superior store of value to our dollar. This incentivised shift in attitude opened the door to financialisation.

In response to COVID, stimulus checks and corporate bailouts increased our money supply by around 40%. Predictably, the housing market followed suit, going ballistic. Our median house prices surged by 40% since the pandemic, illustrating that cheap Australian money will always flow into scarce Australian real estate.

To combat inflation, the 13 rate hikes imposed by the RBA are by design making life tougher for Australians. A generation of new homeowners, burdened with large debt balances, now find themselves hanging on for dear life, hit hardest by the interest rate policy. Yet, the market remains irrationally composed. Many who are drowning in mortgage payments choose not to sell and rent for one simple reason: they all believe house prices will always rise in value. If they can just weather the storm and make it over the hill, their house will appreciate and they're in the market for good – it’s an ingrained mindset.

Where do we go from here?

Since housing has been declared a national crisis by the Albanese government, let’s examine the role they play in this.

Supply – The government is entirely subservient to NIMBYs (Not In My Backyard advocates). We lack genuine private property rights in Australia, and as a result, we cannot build enough dwellings (specifically apartments) to meet demand.

Demand – Hand out taxpayer money to first homebuyers trying to enter the housing market. What a brilliant idea! So sustainable, right? What could possibly go wrong?

These two strategies highlight just how inept the Australian government is at addressing the housing crisis. They're also incentivised by the following: * The fastest way to a single term in office is through stagnant house price growth. * A decrease in house prices is a decrease in revenue (land tax, stamp duty, council rates etc)

This Isn’t Looking Pretty

The younger you are, the more likely you are being completely priced out of the housing market, relegating Gen Z to Gen Renters.

Australian home ownership decrease

The traditional Australian model of paying off your home and relying on a pension or superannuation to fund your retirement is now fundamentally broken. If you’re still paying a mortgage past 65, your superannuation alone won’t provide for a comfortable retirement. This is yet another example of the fiat treadmill speeding up, leaving everyday Australians scrambling to keep pace.

The Sound Money Alternative

In an ideal world of sound money, housing doesn't become an investment. No homebuyer would be competing with private equity firms and a slew of housing investors. Even negative gearing wouldn't exist. This simple move relegates housing to it's intended purpose, a dwelling. In my mind this sounds great, but I wonder if this sound money already exists? #bitcoin

Colin Gifford

@ c7eadcf0:7821e562

https://image.nostr.build/c7e3732889827ab0a8e2064de5fa6992e37e035347b0c91d249cb8f312b47087.jpg I love Bitcoin. Let me get that out there first of all. I sincerely believe that Bitcoin has the power to change the way the world functions if we can grow adoption to a global scale. This obviously will take time as the gears of economic change grinds slowly. As of right now, people in the western countries don't really see the need for a sovereign politically neutral money that can't be inflated away. They simply don't have to deal with inflation on a regular basis like the rest of the world.

Citizens in western countries got a small taste of what real inflation looks like and guess what? They didn't like it one bit. Overall the last three and a half years you saw countless news stories about how bad inflation and how its making life for the average American or European more difficult.

Yes inflation does suck but look at countries like Argentina, Turkey, Zimbabwe or Venezuela. The people in these countries are suffering from excessive inflation on a regular basis! According to recent economic data Turkey experienced a decline in inflation from 61 percent to 51 percent in August. This is seen as a win in their book! Can you imagine this level of inflation in America? There would be riots in the streets!

Argentina's inflation rate is an astounding 236 percent over the last 12 months! As Bitcoiners we understand that the problem is the money itself. As long as governments have the ability to manipulate the money supply, they will. This is human nature at its finest. When you give a select few that kind of power it becomes irresistible and becomes a tool to control the masses. This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone to be honest.

What I find shocking is with all of this inflation globally no one is really looking around asking questions to why this is happening and looking for a way to escape this system. Are people really this lazy? Not to be mean but cmon. It seems to me that most people are perfectly fine bitching online about how hard it is to make ends meet or supporting their favored political party and wanting them to fix the problem they created. Newsflash to all the normies out there, its the GD political parties that caused inflation in the first place.

We literally have a solution that is staring them in the face, ready to go to replace the current debt based system that we are currently suffering through and no one wants to take the time to research it? Am I black pilled? No, am I realist, very much so. If 236 percent inflation in Argentina can't get them on a Bitcoin Standard immediately, we as a community have a long road ahead of us. Hyperbitcoinization isn't coming in 5 years. It isn't coming in 10 years. Hell it might not even happen in our lifetimes and we have to be ok with that.

So what is the best way to get more Bitcoin into the hands of the people, so they can see the true value of the digital monetary revolution that is Bitcoin. We need a trojan horse and that trojan horse is nostr.

Enter The Nostr Trojan Horse

https://image.nostr.build/5ffee418133ac80ba14b30abf0d5390b878f676cbf6332d67639f9384764da4c.jpg

It should be plain to see by now that the inflation or the number go up narrative alone isn't going to drive Bitcoin adoption. The reason for that is because people don't see the utility of Bitcoin. They see it as some esoteric digital funny money that drug dealers and terrorist use to do bad things.

The average Joe doesn't see how Bitcoin is helping dissidents on foreign countries fund their activism, escape oppressive regimes or simply earn a living. These stories are never told in the mainstream media because they don't want to highlight the fact that a non-state money can circumvent the status quo.

The best way to highlight these stories is to share it on social media, which again is controlled by mainstream gatekeeper such as Meta, Google and X. It is in their best interest to censor these stories or memory hole them out of existence which I suspect happens quite a bit without us even knowing. But the thing about censorship is that it slowly impacts everyone one by one until no one is allowed to say anything without the fear of being put in jail.

Think this can't happen in western democracies? It's happening already my friend! Take a look at the UK or Australia. Citizens their are being arrested over post made to social media. I sincerely believe that these two countries should be a proving ground for showing the value of nostr and Bitcoin.

Introducing the concept of a censorship resistant messaging protocol to them will go over well and once it is understood will grow like a wildfire because people innately understand that censorship is bad and will see the utility value of having the ability to speak freely again.

It is only a matter of time until they realize that they can monetize their speech and build a life using zaps aka Bitcoin.

Until people see the utility in the tools that lie before them, they will never pick them up and use them. It is really that simple. At the end of the day we are still kind of like cavemen. We only use tools when it makes life easier. Man made the wheel. We use it everyday because it has utility.

Bitcoin in the end will be the same way. Utility first, then mass adoption. Nostr is what will help people see the utility Bitcoin and from there sky is the limit. The best thing we can do as Bitcoiners is to encourage people to learn about nostr and show them how easy it is to use and to switch clients that suit their needs instead of being shoved into a one-size fits all solution on centralized platforms.

People like choices, and nostr is all about choice. The interoperability and thelack of need to give personal information to create an account are HUGE selling points that can be touched on. Go out and spread the good word about nostr!

Bitcoin #Nostr

@ 266815e0:6cd408a5

Not much new this update, mostly just bug fixes

The update is available at nostrudel.ninja and hopefully Start9 and umbrel shortly

New Features

• Add option to wipe wasm relay database
• Add support for showing embedded HLS videos
• Support pinning articles
• Add relay discovery map
• Add option to disable keyboard shortcuts
• Hide avatars of muted users
• Add bookmark button to articles
• Improve notifications timeline rendering performance

Bug Fixes

• Fix search results not being cached
• Fix amber signer missing pubkey
• Fix some tidal embeds not playing
• Fix bookmark view not showing latest bookmarks
• Fix client sending filters with empty #a tags
• Fix client tag breaking POW on notes
• Fix relay notes showing notes from other relays from cache
• Fix keyboard shortcuts activating when replying to notification

@ e477586c:63d94e3f

"The transition from permaculture self-reliance and small business to large organisational roles mentioned previously presents similar structural dilemmas and pitfalls. Creative, ethically driven people in large organisations tend to be co-opted and corrupted by the large-system forces within which they must work." --David Holmgren

Long before I had even heard of #permaculture, I held this view. It goes all the way back to high school. I remember most of my friends working at fast food chains, or as pizza delivery drivers, or the giant regional grocery. Those who were planning on going to college were going for engineering, accounting or business and already had aspirations for working in a fortune500 company.

I on the other hand, mowed lawns, life-guarded at the high-school pool, and worked for the Texas Trampoline Company; a guy building trampolines in his garage with a full-time staff of about 2 and about 5 of us part-time high schoolers. I never worked fast-food, but when I was in restaurants, all except one were one-offs or had fewer than 3 locations. The largest chain I worked at had 30, and only 20 within the contiguous United States.

As I continue to apply for jobs; with each application I'm driven more and more to hoping the TaskRabbit gig-economy self-employment starts producing fast and well before I get desperate and have to say yes to working for my very bleu county government. I was hoping to get this post finished before my Tasker Success Manager call, but got interrupted by cats needing attention and then the call came. It was useful. My TSM said going from zero to one is always the hardest step and sent me a heat-map to compare to my opportunity map. There's evidently a difference.

The opportunity map is more general. It covers Taskr availability vs task requests across the app and under "all skills." Areas more likely to have task requests show up a darker green. The heat map narrows things down a bit. It is filtered by specific skills which the Taskr has listed in his/her profile. It shows hot spots of hits within those categories within the past 15 days. You have to get this app from your TSM, it isn't available through your Taskr app or web portal.

As I wrote and did some things around the house today, I managed to MP3-ify 3 albums for portability. Just the next 3 in line of my record collection: The Graduate soundtrack, Journey; Greatest Hits sides 3 and 4, and The Smiths: The Queen is Dead

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Doug Brown Electronics repair , Microcontrollers , Reverse engineering 2024-09-15

This post has a little bit of everything. Hardware diagnostics, some suspiciously similar datasheets from two separate Taiwan chip manufacturers, and firmware reverse engineering. Read on if that sounds like fun!

Lately, I’ve been enjoying watching random electronics repair channels on YouTube. There’s something oddly satisfying about watching someone take a broken device from totally nonfunctional to perfectly working, all by replacing a $0.05 capacitor that has failed shorted or maybe a blown $0.75 IC. Two of my favorite channels about this topic are Buy it Fix it and StezStix Fix? .

The videos inspired me. I thought, “I should totally try this!” So I went on eBay and looked for broken devices. I have a pretty decent understanding of how video encoders and decoders work, so I thought it would be a fun project to try to fix an HDMI capture card. I found a broken Elgato Game Capture HD60 S USB 3.0 device. The listing said that nothing happened when you plugged it in.

When it arrived, I was able to verify exactly what the listing said. Nothing showed up on my computer when I plugged it in. I cracked it open and had a look at what was happening internally when it powered up. I started by poking around at voltages on the board with it plugged in, and it was pretty obvious that something was dragging the power rails down. Little did I know at that point what I was getting myself into.

Honestly I could tell what was getting hot just by feeling around with my finger, but this was a good excuse to use my thermal camera to take some fun pictures.

In this one, the red cursor indicating the hottest point in the image is pointing to a small chip in the upper-left corner of the board marked “fiVJVE”.

This was pretty clearly some kind of a switching regulator, which I concluded due to its proximity to the “2R2” inductor (meaning 2.2 uH). Measuring the pins, I could see 5V going in, but obviously something was wrong because the voltage at the inductor (the output) was far too low.

There was also another fiVJVE chip on the board, with a pretty much identical circuit next to another 2.2 uH inductor. The circuit was missing a component, but I was pretty sure it was normal because the solder blobs looked like they came that way from the factory. It wasn’t getting hot, but it was also putting out a low voltage so I suspected something was wrong with it too:

In the heat image above you can see another area on the board (near the bottom) that was also getting hot. It turns out it was actually originating from the other side:

Yeah, that’s my finger in the picture. It helped adjust the levels in the image so the chip that’s getting hot is easier to pinpoint. This chip was labeled PFNI:

OK, so what could I do with this information? I found two chips that were getting hot, and another chip that likely wasn’t putting out its correct voltage. I started out by trying to identify what they were. Small chips with markings like this can be quite difficult to figure out. Luckily, there are a few SMD marking code search engines out there. Searching smd.yooneed.one for fiVJ didn’t result in any exact matches, but it did point out that the code “fi” went with the Fitipower FP6121-IS9P. This led me to Fitipower’s website , where I saw they had a bunch of different chips. Using Google’s help I was eventually able to narrow it down to being the FP6373A.

The pinout made sense on the board, and the fiV marking also matched. Yay! Now I had an idea what I was looking for. The PFNI chip ended up being even easier to identify. Google led me straight to the TI TPS60403DBV voltage inverter :

One thing in common with all of these chips is they were all taking in 5V for their input and I was measuring that their outputs all had a pretty low resistance to ground. I started wondering if maybe someone fried this device by somehow putting more than 5V into it. How they did that, I have no idea.

I wasn’t sure why the other FP6373A regulator wasn’t getting hot. It wasn’t putting out much voltage and nothing else was getting hot on the board, so I decided to try injecting voltage on its output power rail instead to see where the low resistance was coming from. I could deduce its correct output voltage because it was going to a Winbond W25Q32JVSSIQ SPI flash chip rated for 2.7 to 3.6V. I was pretty sure it was on a 3.3V rail. I soldered wires to the regulator’s output and ground and used my bench power supply to inject 2.7V into the circuit with a small controlled current that I could slowly turn up. The idea was that I could find what was getting hot on the board and determine what to blame for this power rail being bad.

This process pretty quickly revealed the FP6373A itself as the root problem.

I think maybe during normal operation when it was being supplied with 5V, it was putting itself into some kind of safety shutdown mode and killing its output power rail. The datasheet does mention overcurrent and overtemperature shutdown capability. When I injected voltage directly, the regulator couldn’t shut off the power rail so it had no choice but to get hot and announce “hey, I’m the problem!” through my thermal camera.

This was actually great. I wasn’t totally confident about whether the TI chip was to blame rather than something downstream of it, but since two other chips on the 5V rail were also fried, I thought a good first step would be to replace all three of them and see what would happen. Unfortunately the FP6373A isn’t available at the usual US distributors, but I was able to find it for sale on LCSC at $0.17 a pop, and the TI chip was conveniently also available there for $0.58. Would it really be this easy? Just replace three chips totaling less than a dollar in value, even in quantities of 1? The shipping and handling was orders of magnitude more expensive than just the parts themselves!

After the parts arrived from China, I was able to successfully replace them. I’m always paranoid about upsetting nearby resistors and capacitors when I’m using hot air, so I like to use Kapton tape to shield everything else.

The process of soldering in the new chips was mostly easy, but the ground pins did soak up quite a bit of heat. I think this PCB design doesn’t have great thermal relief on the grounds. I did accidentally lift a pad for one of the regulators, but it wasn’t connected to anything (the “PG” signal) so there was no harm done. The fact that it wasn’t connected to anything was exactly why it was so easy to lift it. Also, the heat that the ground pin was eating up misled me into thinking I could use the same heat on the other pins.

In addition to my lifted pad (middle pin on the right), you can see here how much trouble I had soldering the ground pin (middle pin on the left). It really didn’t want to heat up. I probably could have heated the whole board to help my soldering iron out, but hey, it’s connected.

Anyway, after replacing all three chips, it worked! None of the new chips were getting hot, the HD60 S showed up as a USB device when plugged in, and it worked perfectly for capturing and passing through an HDMI signal. I was pretty excited to successfully fix it, but there was still a problem: none of the indicator lights worked. There are seven white LEDs and seven red LEDs, and they are supposed to do various things to tell you what’s going on . The white lights are supposed to blink twice when you first plug it in, for example.

This was a little deflating. I had kind of fixed it, but not really. Now what?

Back to the drawing board. I looked closer at the PCB to understand how the LEDs work. The relevant chip is the IT1504, made by Innochip . Looking further at its datasheet , it is a 16-channel LED driver chip. You talk to it with a serial data interface that appears to be very similar to SPI. It turns out a lot of LED driver chips from many manufacturers such as Toshiba and ST also use this same communication scheme. At first I though it was odd, but it seems pretty standard. It’s a variant of SPI where you send a particular number of clock pulses to choose which command you want to perform.

I monitored the relevant data input pins on the IT1504 using my oscilloscope, and I could definitely see some traffic being sent to it. By the way, I followed the traces and discovered that the IT1504 is being controlled by a Nuvoton M031LD2AE microcontroller, which is an ARM Cortex-M0.

The presence of SPI traffic here proved it was at least trying to do something, so I assumed that the LED driver chip was probably fried. That presented a pretty big problem though: how could I find a replacement for the IT1504? It wasn’t stocked anywhere. LCSC didn’t have it, and of course none of the US distributors had it either. I couldn’t even find any sellers on AliExpress or utsource.

I reached out to Innotech, who surprisingly wrote back the next day and kindly offered to send me a few free samples for the price of shipping, but then realized they only have full reels in stock so they couldn’t send me any samples. That was nice of them to check, but I definitely wasn’t going to buy a full reel of IT1504 chips just to fix this one problem.

This pushed me toward a huge search all over the internet for LED drivers to try to find a suitable equivalent replacement. The IT1504 datasheet I had access to didn’t include the full command info, so I wasn’t sure exactly what I was looking for. There were several discontinued parts from other well-known manufacturers that looked similar, but I wasn’t finding any exact matches. That’s when I discovered something really strange.

I somehow stumbled upon Macroblock ‘s product offerings. Specifically, the MBI5040. The datasheet seemed to match up pretty well with the IT1504. In fact, a little too well. Here is an example of what I mean (click if you want it larger so you can read it):

Here are a few more side-by-side comparisons to really hit the point home:

They’re almost exactly the same! Everything is laid out in precisely the same order. The current output specs differ slightly, but aside from that, they’re the exact same product, right down to having identical block diagrams. The wording has been tweaked here and there, but both of these datasheets are clearly from the same source. These companies are both based in Taiwan. Maybe one of them licensed the design from the other? Or perhaps there is some industrial espionage going on? There is definitely some funky stuff going on with the fonts on the Innochip datasheet’s general description page. It randomly switches around between serif and sans-serif. It’s the kind of thing you notice when you’re reading an email that somebody sent and you can tell they’ve obviously been copying and pasting while writing it. That doesn’t necessarily mean anything, but I thought it was weird.

Heck, even the part numbers are pretty much the same. If you pretend that the capital letter “I” in MBI5040 is really the number 1, you have MB15040 and IT1504.

I have no idea which product is the original here, but either way, this was really good news for me. I had successfully discovered another chip that would likely be suitable as a replacement for my assumed-to-be-fried IT1504. Additionally, the MBI5040 datasheet actually had command info, so if it came down to it, I could dive deeper and really try to understand what the SPI traffic was doing. I was able to find the MBI5040GF available for purchase on both AliExpress and utsource, so I bought a few.

Replacing the LED driver chip was a pretty simple job. Once again I used Kapton tape to protect me from myself.

I was feeling pretty good about my situation at this point. I cleaned up all the flux residue and anxiously plugged in the HD60 S to my computer.

Video capture worked fine, so I didn’t make it any worse, but the lights were still not working! What in the world? Next I started wondering if perhaps the LEDs themselves were broken. I rigged up my bench power supply and a resistor so that I could pass current through them (without the whole device powered on, of course), and the LEDs all tested out fine physically. I was able to light each one up.

I was totally out of ideas at this point. A brand new chip didn’t fix it, and the LEDs were known good. That’s when I started searching on Google and found something shocking: apparently the LEDs going out on these Elgato HD60 S capture cards is a known problem that multiple people have experienced. In particular I found two different Reddit posts with four unique users complaining about running into this same problem:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/elgato/comments/pcvtqj/why_doesnt_my_elgato_hd60s_light_up/

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/qfdxuu/elgato_hd60_s_can_anyone_help_me_with_this_issue/hhzsvez/

Not only that, but sometime during this whole saga I also bought another “dead” HD60 S on eBay that turned out to work fine but had the exact same LED fault. It was starting to look like this indicator light failure was actually quite common!

So yeah. It’s very likely that the LEDs on this one weren’t working even before the voltage regulators originally got fried. This led me to a new bonus challenge: Could I figure out why the LEDs didn’t work and fix them? After all, I now had two different units both experiencing this failure and I knew of at least four other people with the same problem. If you go to the parent post at the second link above, there’s a video that shows how the white LEDs are expected to flash white twice when you first plug it in.

My first idea was to verify that the actual LED circuitry on the board was functional. To perform this test, I lifted the relevant SPI input pins on my replacement MBI5040 LED driver and soldered wires to them, as well as ground:

This allowed me to rig something up with a Raspberry Pi Pico to manually control the LEDs by sending the appropriate commands as documented in the MBI5040 datasheet. I’ll let this picture speak for itself:

It was at this point that I became very confident there was nothing physically wrong with my repaired HD60 S at all. I could perfectly control the lights with my Pi Pico, so the circuit was fine. The Nuvoton Cortex-M0 microcontroller was simply never deciding to turn them on.

This whole MBI5040 replacement story was all for nothing! I was so proud of myself for finding a suitable substitute IC, but it was all mostly just a big waste of time. The original chip was probably fine all along. I decided to confirm that theory just to be sure. I put the original IT1504 chip back onto the board. In order to avoid having to bend pins, I covered the 3 pads that I wanted to avoid soldering to the chip with Kapton tape. This kept them insulated, and then I just soldered all of the other pins normally.

Then I resoldered the wires and repeated the experiment with the Pi Pico. No surprises here — the original chip was totally fine too. After I was done tinkering, I simply pulled the Kapton tape out and then was able to solder the remaining 3 pins normally. I thought this solution was pretty clever and saved me some time! Here’s a view after I pulled out the tape, but before I soldered them down.

And yes, I know pin 1 looks messy. Once again, it’s a ground pin and I guess they didn’t add thermals on the ground pins on this board. It was a pain to solder. I fixed it up afterward though.

So yeah. The original IT1504 chip worked fine. I was a little annoyed, but this side quest wasn’t entirely a waste of time. Getting ahold of the MBI5040 datasheet importantly gave me a perfect reference for how the LEDs are controlled by software. It was looking more and more like this was a software problem as opposed to a hardware problem. I was invested in this problem at this point. I couldn’t give up now!

I began the next phase of this project with a simple idea: ask Elgato if there is some kind of known issue with the status lights. Maybe there was a setting I was missing that allowed you to disable them. Essentially, they politely told me to take a hike:

That’s okay. I felt like solving it on my own anyway. I decided to focus on understanding what was going on in the firmware running in the Nuvoton M031LD2AE microcontroller. By a stroke of pure luck, I had gained some experience last year with Nuvoton MCUs when working on my Mac ROM SIMM programmer . I already had a Nu-Link2-Me that was bundled with the dev board I bought for that project. The next step was to figure out how to access the programming pins on the microcontroller. It turns out that there are a couple of small JST connectors on the board: a 4-pin one and a 6-pin one. Tracing out the pins one by one, it quickly became apparent that the 4-pin JST connector was for programming the MCU! I hooked it up using the only 4-pin JST cable I had on hand, which had grabbers on the other end.

I didn’t check, but I think it’s a pretty good educated guess that the 6-pin JST connector next to it is for programming the Altera MAX II CPLD that is also on this board. It just makes sense.

I didn’t care about the CPLD though. I tried to read the firmware out of the Nuvoton chip using NuMicro ICP Programming Tool, but of course Elgato protected the contents:

Never fear, though. It turns out that Elgato includes the latest firmware with their 4K Capture Utility:

Reading the included ElgatoDeviceCapabilities.json file in the same folder also provided some insight. This firmware is specifically for the version of the device with USB product ID 118 (0x0076), which definitely matches mine. Elgato refers to this device as the “Game Capture HD60 S Rev.4”:

The firmware was already up to date when I checked in the 4K Capture Utility. You can also control-click the settings icon to enable an Update Firmware button, but it did nothing because the newest firmware was already installed on it:

This was great though! The FW_HD60_S_MCU.bin file looked very much like a normal Cortex-M0 firmware binary. You can tell by looking at the start of it in a hex editor. The very first 4-byte word should be the initial stack pointer, so something in RAM. Then following that is a bunch of interrupt vectors including the reset vector.

This all checked out. 0x20000E70 looks like a valid stack pointer, and each 4-byte word following that looks like a valid flash address. It looks exactly like a Cortex-M0 vector table. I loaded it into Ghidra and also used SVD-Loader to try to map out some of the registers. I had to modify the SVD file (M031AE_v1.svd), which I got from the NuMicro_DFP pack on keil.arm.com , to get it to load with the plugin. Apparently it doesn’t like if you have multiple addressBlocks per peripheral, so I modified the first one in each peripheral to contain the full range of addresses.

And thus began the humongous effort of trying to figure out what this little MCU was actually doing.

The SVD file helped me identify the various peripherals being used: mostly GPIO, a timer, and I2C. Nuvoton’s M031BSP project was very valuable for identifying a ton of functions. I did it by hand, which was probably slightly insane, but I wasn’t sure what compiler had been used. Since I knew which pins were hooked up to the LED controller chip, I was fairly quickly able to identify functions that control the LEDs. It was hard to understand their purpose in the grand scheme of things though. Sometimes they were buried deep inside multiple layers of function calls.

Knowing that I2C was being used was very helpful, because I saw there were other chips onboard that would communicate through it: the ITE IT6802E and IT66121FN. The IT6802E is an HDMI receiver. I don’t have any detailed documentation for it, but I’m pretty sure it converts an incoming HDMI signal into a parallel data stream suitable for the capture portion of the device to read in. The IT66121FN is the opposite. It takes a parallel data stream and sends it out as HDMI. This would be necessary for the passthrough functionality, providing an HDMI output signal to go through to your TV or monitor.

Anyway, I found some ITE driver code in some random GitHub projects such as this one , which quickly helped me identify a bunch of functions and variables as belonging to ITE’s drivers. This helped me gain a better understanding of what was happening in the firmware. I actually spent way too much time on this, but I think it was useful in the long run. Plus, it was good practice with Ghidra.

Once I had a good idea of the overall structure of the firmware, I decided to try figuring out how I could debug the code. The chip was protected, but I figured that I should be able to erase it and reflash the firmware. To be safe, I desoldered the original M031LD2AE chip and put a new empty one onto my board instead. They only cost $1.14 on Digi-Key in quantities of 1. Why not?

When I flashed FW_HD60_S_MCU.bin onto my brand-new blank chip, it definitely worked fine, but it re-protected itself so I couldn’t do any debugging! The offending code was pretty easy to find in Ghidra. There’s a function that is called to update the config registers with the proper locked state as well as the number of 512-byte data flash pages to reserve from the application ROM.

I simply had to hack this function to always leave the chip unlocked. Then I reflashed the chip and I was finally able to debug the code! I inserted some breakpoints and stepped through the initialization code with OpenOCD and GDB to figure out why the LEDs weren’t being controlled. I found some places in the code where LED control would happen, but they were being skipped. I decided to force the code to run by filling in register values and RAM in GDB, and sure enough, I was able to at least force the lights to turn on. So clearly the code was there to control the lights, but it wasn’t running for whatever reason.

This chip unlocking mess led me down another rabbit hole. I assumed that the original Nuvoton MCU I removed had some other protected contents like a bootloader, so I decided to see if I could extract it by installing my new unlocked firmware file as an update through Elgato’s software. The idea was that after my new unlocked firmware was installed, the protection would be disabled and then I could read out the entire contents with my Nu-Link2-Me. Why would I want to do this? Well, it would just be nice to have as a backup in case I screwed up one of the chips, plus the bootloader might contain other clues.

I tried it out on my other HD60 S with broken LEDs which still had its stock Nuvoton MCU fitted. This required modifying ElgatoDeviceCapabilities.json to point to my unlocked firmware. I also had to change the version listed in this same file so that it would think it was out of date. After making these changes, the 4K Capture Utility allowed to install my new firmware through the normal firmware update mechanism. The utility did tell me the firmware update failed after it finished (more on that later).

This totally freaked me out because it appeared to brick the device. It didn’t work as a capture card anymore. But luckily, but I was left with an unlocked chip, just as I had hoped! This allowed me to read out the rest of the content of the flash that had previously been protected, including the LDROM (containing Elgato’s first-stage bootloader), data flash contents, and the correct original config register contents. This was really exciting because it meant I now had everything I would need in order to completely program a brand new Nuvoton MCU to contain Elgato’s stock firmware, including their bootloader. I rewrote the original Elgato firmware back to this second HD60 S’s APROM (application ROM) using Nuvoton’s tools, and re-locked the chip. Thankfully, this fully restored it to working order — except for the LEDs of course.

I also disassembled their small LDROM bootloader that I was able to read out of the chip, but it wasn’t really anything exciting. It receives commands and data over I2C and is capable of reflashing the APROM. Interestingly I discovered that if the chip is set for unprotected mode, the bootloader actually waits around for update commands instead of booting the application firmware. So Elgato is using the locked/unlocked bit as a way of signifying whether it should stay in the bootloader or not, which I find to be a little bit weird. That completely explained why my second HD60 S stopped working after I installed my unlocked firmware — it was stuck in the bootloader waiting forever because the chip was unprotected.

Anyway, I’ve really started to ramble on about things unrelated to the LED problem. Let’s get back on track. The point I’m trying to make here is that I was able to read out all of the stock microcontroller contents, which gave me the confidence I desperately needed in order to start tinkering even further to figure out the LED problem. I was kind of stuck at this point though. Why was the Nuvoton chip not controlling the LEDs? Some of the LED control happened over I2C from something else, so I was beginning to worry that the actual problem was once again at a different level.

Fortunately though, I was gaining a better understanding of the architecture of the entire product at this point. Here’s a broad overview of how it works:

• The main Cypress/Infineon CYUSB3014 USB 3.0 peripheral chip, which I haven’t mentioned until now, is an ARM926EJ-S. It sends commands to the Nuvoton MCU over I2C. This is the chip that actually communicates with the host PC through the USB 3.0 port.
• The Nuvoton ARM Cortex-M0 microcontroller sets up and monitors the ITE video receiver and transmitter chips through a separate I2C bus.
• The Nuvoton MCU also controls the LEDs.
• The Nuvoton MCU communicates status information back to the CYUSB3014 through I2C.
• The CYUSB3014 receives the video data stream from the IT6802E (likely through the MAX II CPLD, putting it in a format suitable for the CYUSB3014 to grab) and sends it to the computer over USB.

I thought I would take a break from the Nuvoton chip for a while and start trying to understand the main Cypress processor instead. Yes, as I just mentioned above, there are two different ARM processors working together to implement the video capture functionality. Fortunately, Cypress/Infineon also provides a free SDK for these USB chips. The firmware is stored unprotected in the Winbond W25Q32JVSSIQ flash chip that I talked about very early on when I thought this was purely going to be a hardware repair project.

I desoldered the SPI flash chip and read it back using a programmer. It’s a 4 MB (32-megabit) chip. I also tried to do it in-circuit without removing the chip first, but I didn’t have any luck. I even accidentally knocked a small 0402 0.1 uF decoupling capacitor (seen above on the right) off the PCB while I was trying to clip onto it. Luckily the capacitor wasn’t damaged and I was able to put it right back on.

After dumping the chip contents, I used it to start trying to work my way through understanding what the CYUSB3014 was doing. I was able to use Cypress’s existing SDK binaries to help identify a lot of the functions in the dump. It turns out that the Cypress SDK uses the ThreadX RTOS under the hood.

I really didn’t want to dive deep into this firmware to the same level that I did for the Nuvoton chip though. I was already worn out from that disassembly. At the very least, I was able to see that the Cypress chip sends commands over I2C to the Nuvoton chip.

Looking through the rest of the SPI flash dump, I could see that starting at offset 0x300000, there were a bunch of small data chunks that looked like little pictures. Here’s an example:

I couldn’t figure out why there would be little pictures in the flash chip here. What would the purpose be? It made me wonder if maybe it was some kind of small icon, since I’ve seen similar data for icons while analyzing old Mac ROM dumps. Given the context of this blog post, you might be screaming at me right now telling me what this data obviously is, but at the time I was totally oblivious.

I ended up solving this mystery as soon as I started looking into what was going on with five unknown GPIO pins in the firmware on the Nuvoton chip. There were a bunch of functions that controlled these pins, but I wasn’t sure what they did. I traced them out on the PCB and discovered they were going to a Diodes Incorporated PI5C3257 quad 2:1 mux/demux bus switch .

This was the magic discovery that finally unblocked me. This bus switch is being used to decide whether the CYUSB3014 chip or the Nuvoton microcontroller should be wired up to the SPI flash chip. Prior to this moment, I thought that the SPI flash was entirely dedicated to the CYUSB3014. In reality, the Nuvoton microcontroller takes over control of the SPI flash after the CYUSB3014 has finished booting. This enabled me to disassemble a bunch of new functions which were all related to bit-banging SPI transactions, as well as higher-level functions for SPI flash chip erasing/reading/writing.

A light bulb went off in my head. Yes, these chunks of data in the flash chip were pictures! But not in the conventional sense. They were describing the various LED animations. Each set of 16 bytes is an animation frame written to the 14 LEDs. In the example above, a single red LED turns on and six of the seven white LEDs do stuff. The last two bytes in each row are a delay time before moving onto the next frame. The first 16 bytes looked kind of weird though. They looked like they possibly contained some header data for the animation or something.

I also found some code that was reading data from the start of the 0x300000 section, but in my SPI flash dump that section was pretty much completely empty:

Everything was starting to make sense. There was a check in the Nuvoton MCU firmware to see if the first two bytes contained the 16-bit word value 0xAA55:

In my dumps of the SPI flash chip contents from my units with nonfunctional LEDs, that section of the chip was empty. It was programmed as all 0x00. The firmware was bypassing all of the LED control code because expected data wasn’t stored starting at 0x300000 in the flash chip! I confirmed this data was missing on both of the HD60 S devices I was testing with.

Unless I wanted to go overboard trying to figure out how to artificially populate all this data from scratch, I had no choice but to buy a third HD60 S that was confirmed to be fully functional. That’s what I ended up doing. Unfortunately it was an older revision and had a completely different PCB, but it was still based on the CYUSB3014. It also used a Nuvoton microcontroller, but it was a different model. It still had an IT1504 for LED control though, as well as a Winbond SPI flash chip, so that was promising.

I confirmed that its LEDs worked fine, and then I dumped the SPI flash. By this point, I had figured out how to dump the flash contents without any soldering by forcing the CYUSB3014 to boot over USB (removing a jumper on the board) and then uploading a Cypress-provided RAM bootloader capable of dumping the SPI flash (cyfxflashprog.img), but I don’t want to stray too far from the LED issue at this point. Here’s the start of the good data at 0x300000:

Okay, that data makes way more sense. The first 16-bit word (little-endian) is 0xAA55 just like the firmware was looking for. It also has a bunch of other header data, indicating there are 26 different LED animations, and including info about whether they are even animations at all. To be honest, I haven’t figured out what every piece of this data actually means, but each animation has a 16-byte summary. They start at 0x300008. I think the last 4 bytes for each animation are probably a CRC-32 of something.

Also, if you noticed in the original chip dump, there was a section starting at 0x3000B8 with a bunch of 0xE5 bytes. This is the dot correction data that gets loaded into the IT1504. Based on the decompilation above, it’s actually supposed to be at 0x3007F8, which is exactly where it is in the good dump:

The 0x521114A7 that follows is a CRC-32 of the preceding 16 bytes of data.

Further inspection revealed that the data in the SPI flash of the broken devices differed quite a bit. In fact, they were different from each other as well. This led me to believe that the animation data was probably corrupted in them. For example, here’s what the animation at 0x31E000 looks like in the good HD60 S’s dump:

Notice how there is no weird header at the top like the original “picture” I was inspecting from one of the other dumps? It just immediately starts with animation data that is consistent with the rest of the nearby data. It’s also longer. This data makes a lot more sense. On the other hand, it was corrupted in two completely different ways in my two HD60 S devices with nonfunctional LEDs.

Several (but not all) of the animations in my nonworking devices started with a weird “AB 03 12 39” header. I don’t think the header is supposed to be there. Maybe there was a bug in an update procedure or something? The Nuvoton firmware indeed has functions capable of erasing and rewriting data to the SPI flash chip. I’m wondering if that code ended up running and somehow destroying the original contents.

You may be able to guess what I did with this new knowledge. I took the original SPI flash contents from the two devices with nonfunctional status lights, and simply replaced all the LED data starting at 0x300000 with the data from the working one. Then I flashed this new “hybrid” image to the non-working devices. Oh, I should point out that each device has its own unique flash dump. The USB serial number is embedded in there somewhere. So I preferred to preserve the data from 0 to 0x2FFFFF for each individual device.

I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect by trying this. The good SPI flash data came from an older revision of the product with a different Nuvoton microcontroller, but it sure looked like it matched what the newer firmware was looking for.

Here’s a picture of what I saw as soon as I powered one of the problematic devices after I reflashed its SPI flash chip:

It freaking worked. The white lights flashed twice, and then the red lights briefly flashed once.

I think the red flash just means the signal was lost, because it also does it every single time I unplug an HDMI source from it. The older model doesn’t do this red flash on every powerup, but maybe it’s just a firmware difference about whether it should say “signal lost” immediately at startup with nothing plugged in. I’ve seen some mention online of red lights meaning that the signal is HDCP-protected, but I think that’s a different longer red blink which I’ve also seen when I first plug in my iPhone as an HDMI source.

I’ve also noticed that some of the animations that Elgato says it should do, like when I start or stop recording, don’t play on this newer model, even though they work fine with the older model. I haven’t been able to figure out if this is just a known difference with how the newer model works. I may try to get a good SPI flash dump of the correct LED animations from a newer matching model to confirm it for sure, but I have a feeling the animation data will be identical.

I also recently realized that the raw data for each animation is sitting around in C:\Program Files\Elgato\GameCapture\Animations if you have the older Game Capture utility installed, or /Applications/Game Capture HD.app/Contents/Resources/Animations on Mac.

Looking through each file (01.ani, 02.ani, etc.), it looks like the animation data perfectly matches my dump of the older working device. The bytes for each LED are out of order, but if I reorder them correctly, I can create an identical copy of all of the animation data that I extracted from the good flash chip.

Since those animations live inside the Game Capture app (or next to it), it seems as though the software has the capability to load them into the flash chip. I wonder if that explains how the stored animation data ended up corrupted in the first place. A botched update perhaps? That would make sense to me. Maybe they disabled the ability for their software to upload them after they discovered it was screwing up people’s devices? It might be interesting to disassemble the Windows and/or Mac software and try to figure out how to convince it to directly upload the animations, but I’m honestly out of motivation to do that at this point. It looks like LedCtrlDll.dll might be an interesting file to look at if anyone else is hooked enough to continue diving deeper. It contains classes with interesting names like Ub530LedSpiRom and I2cIO_Ub530. Some quick disassembly in Ghidra indeed shows it creating a 0x80C-byte array for the header data that would go into the flash chip at 0x300000, and populating the contents with the dot correction data.

One last thing I noticed is if I do a firmware update of the HD60 S inside of Elgato’s 4K Capture Utility in Windows, it doesn’t wait long enough. It seems to work fine on Mac, but Windows has some issues. The firmware update is still in progress when it tells me that it failed. If I sit there and wait, eventually the lights flash on the unit and it successfully reboots into the new firmware. If instead I unplug it quickly after Elgato’s software tells me the update failed, I end up with an incomplete flash. I wonder if this has fooled people into bricking their devices? Especially if the status LEDs don’t work at all. I was able to successfully fix this problem by increasing the updateDurationSec in ElgatoDeviceCapabilities.json from 40 to 80. I get the feeling Elgato’s firmware update functionality is a little flaky, at least on Windows. In Elgato’s defense, they specifically recommend not to update firmware on the HD60 S unless their tech support tells you to . And they hide the functionality behind a special key combination when entering the settings screen.

I would like to figure out a way to share how to easily fix the LEDs for anyone else who runs into this problem, but the process is admittedly quite convoluted. It requires you to begin a firmware update (modifying ElgatoDeviceCapabilities.json to even allow you to install an update in the first place) and immediately unplug the device — otherwise the Nuvoton MCU takes control of the SPI flash, and you really need the Cypress chip to be in control in order to reflash its contents. Then, you remove the jumper on the PCB (instructing the Cypress chip to boot from USB), upload cyfxflashprog.img to RAM using download_fx3, and use a modified version of fx3_spitest to download the entire SPI flash contents and replace it with your patched LED section. Those are tools from the CYUSB3014 SDK. Finally, you unplug it, put the jumper back in, plug it back in, and perform a normal firmware update in 4K Capture Utility to restore the firmware back to the Nuvoton chip. You ignore the update failure message and wait another minute or so, and eventually it boots back up with working LEDs. If there ends up being enough interest in recovering these things, it might be possible for me to throw something together to automate the process, or at least provide binaries for everything. It would also be nice to figure out how to use Elgato’s software to directly reprogram the LED animations. For now though, I’m just going to sit back, relax, and celebrate my victory on this!

So in conclusion, yes, it really was that simple. All I needed to do was replace three chips for a total of less than $1 to bring this thing back to life. Every bit of extra time and money I spent on this project after that was all about figuring out a well-known indicator LED problem that really had nothing to do with my actual repair. I put way more effort into this than I should have, and yes I am probably a tiny bit crazy for actually doing this, but at least I now have an answer and fix for why the LEDs don’t work on some of these capture cards. It’s some sort of software/programming/update bug. I’m not sure which. Way to go Elgato!

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Knocking out one key gene leads to autistic traits

Purkinje cells in the cerebellum, stained and magnified 63 times, revealing fine details of the dendritic spines. (Hatten Lab)

More than 70 genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a developmental condition in which differences in the brain lead to a host of altered behaviors, including issues with language, social communication, hyperactivity, and repetitive movements. Scientists are attempting to tease out those specific associations gene by gene, neuron by neuron.

One such gene is Astrotactin 2 (ASTN2). In 2018, researchers from the Laboratory of Developmental Neurobiology at Rockefeller University discovered how defects in the protein produced by the gene disrupted circuitry in the cerebellum in children with neurodevelopmental conditions.

Now the same lab has found that knocking out the gene entirely leads to several hallmark behaviors of autism. As they describe in a new paper in PNAS, mice that lacked ASTN2 showed distinctly different behaviors from their wild-type nestmates in four key ways: they vocalized and socialized less but were more hyperactive and repetitive in their behavior.

“All of these traits have parallels in people with ASD,” says Michalina Hanzel, first author of the paper and a postdoc in the lab. “Alongside these behaviors, we also found structural and physiological changes in the cerebellum.”

“It’s a big finding in the field of neuroscience,” says lab lead Mary E. Hatten , whose work has focused on this brain region for decades. “It also underscores this emerging story that the cerebellum has cognitive functions that are quite independent of its motor functions.”

An unexpected role

In 2010, Hatten’s lab discovered that proteins produced by the ASTN2 gene help guide neurons as they migrate during the development of cerebellum and form its structure. In the 2018 study, they examined a family in which three children had both neurodevelopmental disorders and ASTN2 mutations. They found that in a developed brain, the proteins have a similar guiding role: they keep the chemical conversation between neurons going by ushering receptors off the neural surfaces to make room for new receptors to rotate in. In a mutated gene, the proteins fail to act and the receptors pile up, resulting in a traffic jam that hinders neuronal connections and communication. This impact could be seen in the children’s afflictions, which included intellectual disability, language delays, ADHD, and autism.

The find was part of a growing body of evidence that the cerebellum—the oldest cortical structure in the brain—is important not just for motor control but also for language, cognition, and social behavior.

For the current study, Hanzel wanted to see what effects a total absence of the ASTN2 gene might have on cerebellar structure and on behavior. Collaborating with study co-authors Zachi Horn, a former postdoc in the Hatten lab, and with assistance from Shiaoching Gong, of Weill Cornell Medicine, Hanzel spent two years creating a knockout mouse that lacked ASTN2, and then studied the brains and activity of both infant and adult mice.

Behavioral parallels

The knockout mice participated in several noninvasive behavioral experiments to see how they compared to their wild-type nestmates. The knockout mice showed distinctly different characteristics in all of them.

In one study, the researchers briefly isolated baby mice, then measured how frequently they called out for their mothers using ultrasonic vocalizations. These sounds are a key part of a mouse’s social behavior and communication, and they’re one of the best proxies researchers have for assessing parallels to human language skills.

The wild-type pups were quick to call for their mothers using complex, pitch-shifting sounds, while the knockout pups gave fewer, shorter calls within a limited pitch range.

Similar communication issues are common in people with ASD, Hanzel says. “It’s one of the most telling characteristics, but it exists along a spectrum,” she says. “Some autistic people don’t understand metaphor, while others echo language they’ve overheard, and still others do not speak at all.”

In another experiment, the researchers tested how ASTN2 mice interacted with both familiar and unfamiliar mice. They preferred to interact with a mouse they knew rather than one they didn’t. In contrast, wild-type mice always choose the social novelty of a new face.

This, too, has parallels in human ASD behavior, with a reluctance towards unfamiliar environments and people being common, Hanzel adds. “That’s a very important result, because it shows that mice with the knockout mutation do not like social novelty and prefer to spend time with mice they know, which corresponds to people with ASD, who tend to like new social interactions less than familiar ones.”

In a third experiment, both types of mice were given free rein to explore an open space for an hour. The ASTN2 mice traveled a significantly longer distance than the other mice, and engaged in repetitive behaviors, such as circling in place, 40% more. Both hyperactivity and repetitive behaviors are well-known hallmarks of ASD.

Miscommunication between brain regions

When they analyzed the brains of the ASTN2 mice, they found a few small but apparently potent structural and physiological changes in the cerebellum. One was that large neurons called Purkinje cells had a higher density of dendritic spines, structures that are spotted with the synapses that send neural signals. But they only detected this change in distinct areas of the cerebellum. “For example, we found the biggest difference in the posterior vermis region, where repetitive and inflexible behaviors are controlled,” Hanzel says.

The scientists also found a decrease in the number of immature dendritic spines known as filopodia and the volume of Bergmann glial fibers, which help with cell migration.

“The differences are quite subtle, but they are clearly affecting how the mice are behaving,” Hatten says. “The changes are probably altering the communication between the cerebellum and the rest of the brain.”

In the future, the researchers plan to study human cerebellar cells, which they’ve been developing for a half-dozen years from stem cells, as well as cells with ASTN2 mutations that were donated by the family in the 2018 study.

“We’d like to see if we can find parallel differences to what we found in mice in human cells,” Hatten says.

She continues, “We also want to look at the detailed biology of other genes that are associated with autism. There are dozens of them, but there’s no agreed-upon commonality that binds them together. We’re very excited that we’ve been able to show in detail what ASTN2 does, but there are a lot more genes to investigate.”

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Every hype cycle in the technology industry continues a steady march towards a shitty future that nobody wants.

CMYKat

The Road to Hell

Once upon a time, everyone was all hot and bothered about Big Data : Having lots of information–far too much to process with commodity software–was supposed to magically transform business.

How do you build technology that can process that much information at scale? Well, obviously, you just need to invest in The Cloud! (If you’re using the Cloud to Butt Plus Chrome extension, this entire blog post may be confusing to you.)

But don’t scrutinize the Cloud too long, you might miss your chance to invest in blockchain .

meme via Tony Arcieri

Blockchainiacs practically invented an entire constructed language of buzzwords. Things like “DeFi”, “Web3”, and so on. To anyone not accustomed to their in-signaling, it’s potent enough cringe to repel even the weirdest of furries.

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But the only thing to know about blockchain is its proponents they like it when the line goes up, and every “innovation” in that sector was in service of the line going up.

Blockchain, of course, refers to cryptocurrency . The security of these digital currencies is based on expensive consensus mechanisms (e.g., Proof of Work). The incentives baked into the design of these consensus mechanisms led users to buy lots of GPUs in order to compete to solve numeric puzzles (a.k.a. “mining”).

For a while, many technologists observed that whenever the line actually goes down or a popular cryptocurrency decides to adopt a less wasteful consensus mechanism, the secondhand market gets flooded with used GPUs.

That all changed with the release of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models.

Now GPUs are a hot commodity even when the price of Bitcoin goes down because tech company leaders are either malicious or stupid, and are always trying to appease investors that have more money than sense. It’s not just tech companies either.

“Our vision of [quick-service restaurants] is that an AI-first mentality works every step of the way.”

Joe Park , CEO of Yum Brands (Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC)

Of all these hype cycles, I suspect that the “AI” hype has more staying power than the rest, if for no other reason than it provides a hedge against the downside of previous hype cycles.

• Not sure to do with the exabytes of Big Data you’re sitting on? Have LLMs parse it all then convincingly lie to you about what it means.
• Expensive cloud bill? Attract more investor dollars by selling them on trying to build an Artificial General Intelligence out of hallucinating chatbots.
• Got a bunch of GPUs lying around from a failed crypto-mining idea? Use it to flagrantly violate intellectual property law to steal from artists with legal impunity!

This “AI” trend is the Human Centipede of technology.

Art: CMYKat

So you can imagine how I felt when I went to add an image to a blog post draft one day and saw this:

Generate with AI? Fuck you.

There is no way to opt out of, or disable, this feature.

WordPress is not alone in its overt participation in this consumption of binary excrement.

Tech Industry Idiocy is Ubiquitous

Behold, Oracle’s AI innovation

EA’s CEO called generative AI the “very core of our business” , which an astute listener will find reminiscent of the time they claimed NFTs and blockchain were the future of the games industry at an earnings call .

Nevermind the fact that they’re actually in the business of publishing video games!

Mozilla Firefox 128.0 released a feature (enabled by default of course ) to help advertisers collect data on you.

Per 404 Media, Snapchat reserves the right to use AI-generated images of your face in ads (also on by default) .

At this point, even Rip Van fucking Winkle can spot the pattern.

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Investors (read: fools with more money than sense) are dead set on a generative AI future, blockchain bullshit in everything, etc. Furthermore, there are a lot of gullible idiots that drank the Kool-Aid and feel like they’re part of the build-up to the next World Wide Web, so there’s no shortage of willing new CS grads to throw at these problems to keep the money flowing.

So we’re clearly well past the point that ridiculing the people involved will have any significant deterrence. The enshittification has spread too far to quarantine, and there are too many True Believers in the mix. Throw in a little bit of Roko’s Basilisk (read: Pascal’s wager for arrogant so-called “rationalists” who think they’re too smart to be Christian) and you’ve got a full-blown cargo cult on your hands.

What can we do about it? Beats me.

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Sanity Check

I’m going to set aside the (extremely cathartic) attempts at shame and ridicule as a solution. Fun as they are, they fail to penetrate filter bubbles and reach the people they need to.

What’s your Bullshit Tech Score?

One way we could push back against this steady march towards a future where everything is enshittified, and the devices you paid for (with your hard-earned money) don’t respect your consent at all , is to turn the first of the buzz words we examined (Big Data) against these companies.

I’m proposing we could gather data about companies’ actual practices and build score-cards and leaderboards based on the following metrics:

1. Does the company strategy involve generative AI?
2. Does the company strategy involve selling NFTs?
3. Does the company strategy involve stitching other unnecessary blockchain bullshit where it doesn’t belong?
4. Does the company make questionable claims about quantum computers?
5. Does the company choose default settings that hurt the user in the interest of increasing revenue (i.e., assuming consent without explicitly receiving it)?
6. Does the company own any software patents?

   • This includes purely “defensive” patents, in industries where their competitors abuse intellectual property law to stifle competition.

     While these circumstances are understandable, we should be objective in our measurements. 7. Is the company completely bankrupt on innovation tokens ? 8. Does the company suffer from premature optimization (e.g., choosing MongoDB because they fear a relational database isn’t web-scale, rather than because it’s the right tool for the job)? 9. Have any of the company’s leaders been credibly accused of sexual misconduct or violence? * Sorry not sorry, Blizzard! 10. Does the company routinely have crunch time (i.e., more than one week per quarter where employees are expected to work more than 40 hours)? 11. Does the company enforce draconian return-to-office policies ? 12. Has the company threatened a security researcher with lawsuits in the past 10 years? 13. Does the company roll its own cryptography without having at least one cryptographer on the payroll?

A passing score is “No” to each of the above questions.

This proposal is basically the opposite of SSO Tax . Rather than shaming the losers (which there will assuredly be many), the goal would be to highlight companies that are reasonably sane to work for.

I’m aware that there are already companies like Forrester that try to do this, but with a much wider scope than the avoidance of bullshit.

Furthermore, they’re incentivized to not piss off wealthy businessmen, so that they can keep their research business alive, whereas I don’t particularly care if tech CEOs get mad at being called a hypocritical hype-huffer.

I mean, what are they gonna do? Downvote me on Hacker News? I don’t work for them anyway.

In Over Our Heads

There may be other solutions available that will improve things somewhat . I’m not immune to failures of imagination.

Some solutions are incredibly contentious, though, and I don’t really want the headache.

For example: I’m sure that, if this blog post ever gets posted on a message board, someone in the peanut gallery will bring up unions as a mechanism, and others will fiercely shoot that idea down.

It’s possible that we, as an industry, are completely in over our heads. There’s too much bullshit, and too many perverse incentives creating ever-increasing amounts of bullshit, that escape is simply impossible.

Perhaps we’ve already crossed the excrement horizon.

Maybe Kurzweil was right about a Singularity after all?

CMYKat

Closing Thoughts

The main thing I wanted to convey today was, “No, you’re not alone, things are getting stupider,” to anyone who wondered if there was a spark of sanity left in the tech sector.

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It’s not just the smarmy tech CEOs that are the problem. The rot has spread all the way to the foundations of many organizations. Hacker News, Lobsters, etc. are full of clueless AI maximalists that cannot see the harms they are inflicting.

It is difficult to get a [person] to understand something, when [their] salary depends on [their] not understanding it.

Original quote by Upton Sinclair.

Though I am at a loss for how to tackle this problem as a community, acknowledging it exists is still important to me.

On WordPress and Generative AI

Years ago, I wrote on Medium, but got tired of the constant pressure to monetize my blog , so I decided to pay for a WordPress.com account. I write for myself , after all, and don’t expect any compensation for it.

Many of you will notice the “adblocker not detected ” popup. That sums up how I feel about the adtech industry.

It’s disheartening that WordPress is pushing Generative AI bullshit to paying customers with no way to opt out of the feature. (Nevermind that it should be off-by-default and opted into .)

For now, I just refuse to use the feature and hope a lower adoption rate causes a project manager somewhere in Automattic to sweat. They’re somewhat notorious for being led by stubborn assholes who don’t listen to critics (even on security matters).

I’ll also continue to credit the artists that made the furry art I include in my blog posts, because supporting artists is the exact opposite of supporting generative AI.

If you’re looking for a furry artist to commission, first read this , and then maybe consider the artists whose work I’ve featured over the years.

New Avenues of Bullshit

If I may be so bold as to make a predication: In the distant future, I expect to see more Quantum Computing related bullshit.

Though currently constrained to the realm of grifters , NIST’s recent standardization of post-quantum cryptography is likely to ignite a lot of questionable technology companies.

Whether any of this quantum bullshit catches on at the same scale as tech industry hype remains to be seen.

If any does, I promise to handle each instance with the same derision as the bullshit I discovered in DFECON’s Quantum Village .

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How to do curation and businesses on Nostr

Suppose you want to start a Nostr business.

You might be tempted to make a closed platform that reuses Nostr identities and grabs (some) content from the external Nostr network, only to imprison it inside your thing -- and then you're going to run an amazing AI-powered algorithm on that content and "surface" only the best stuff and people will flock to your app.

This will be specially good if you're going after one of the many unexplored niches of Nostr in which reading immediately from people you know doesn't work as you generally want to discover new things from the outer world, such as:

• food recipe sharing;
• sharing of long articles about varying topics;
• markets for used goods;
• freelancer work and job offers;
• specific in-game lobbies and matchmaking;
• directories of accredited professionals;
• sharing of original music, drawings and other artistic creations;
• restaurant recommendations
• and so on.

But that is not the correct approach and damages the freedom and interoperability of Nostr, posing a centralization threat to the protocol. Even if it "works" and your business is incredibly successful it will just enshrine you as the head of a platform that controls users and thus is prone to all the bad things that happen to all these platforms. Your company will start to display ads and shape the public discourse, you'll need a big legal team, the FBI will talk to you, advertisers will play a big role and so on.

If you are interested in Nostr today that must be because you appreciate the fact that it is not owned by any companies, so it's safe to assume you don't want to be that company that owns it. So what should you do instead? Here's an idea in two steps:

1. Write a Nostr client tailored to the niche you want to cover

If it's a music sharing thing, then the client will have a way to play the audio and so on; if it's a restaurant sharing it will have maps with the locations of the restaurants or whatever, you get the idea. Hopefully there will be a NIP or a NUD specifying how to create and interact with events relating to this niche, or you will write or contribute with the creation of one, because without interoperability this can't be Nostr.

The client should work independently of any special backend requirements and ideally be open-source. It should have a way for users to configure to which relays they want to connect to see "global" content -- i.e., they might want to connect to wss://nostr.chrysalisrecords.com/ to see only the latest music releases accredited by that label or to wss://nostr.indiemusic.com/ to get music from independent producers from that community.

1. Run a relay that does all the magic

This is where your value-adding capabilities come into play: if you have that magic sauce you should be able to apply it here. Your service -- let's call it wss://magicsaucemusic.com/ -- will charge people or do some KYM (know your music) validation or use some very advanced AI sorcery to filter out the spam and the garbage and display the best content to your users who will request the global feed from it (["REQ", "_", {}]), and this will cause people to want to publish to your relay while others will want to read from it.

You set your relay as the default option in the client and let things happen. Your relay is like your "website" and people are free to connect to it or not. You don't own the network, you're just competing against other websites on a leveled playing field, so you're not responsible for it. Users get seamless browsing across multiple websites, unified identities, a unified interface (that could be different in a different client) and social interaction capabilities that work in the same way for all, and they do not depend on you, therefore they're more likely to trust you.

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Does this centralize the network still? But this a simple and easy way to go about the matter and scales well in all aspects.

Besides allowing users to connect to specific relays for getting a feed of curated content, such clients should also do all kinds of "social" (i.e. following, commenting etc) activities (if they choose to do that) using the outbox model -- i.e. if I find a musician I like under wss://magicsaucemusic.com and I decide to follow them I should keep getting updates from them even if they get banned from that relay and start publishing on wss://nos.lol or wss://relay.damus.io or whatever relay that doesn't even know anything about music.

The hardcoded defaults and manual typing of relay URLs can be annoying. But I think it works well at the current stage of Nostr development. Soon, though, we can create events that recommend other relays or share relay lists specific to each kind of activity so users can get in-app suggestions of relays their friends are using to get their music from and so on. That kind of stuff can go a long way.

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The Nostr protocol is amazing. I love learning about it every day, and it's inspiring to see all the developer activity in this ecosystem. I believe it has a real shot at bringing us closer to a more decentralized internet. However, it won't solve all problems. That's why I decided to write a short post about what Nostr does and doesn't do.

Attacks from Governments

When Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in August 2024, many said that couldn't happen on Nostr. They're right — no Nostr CEO will ever be arrested, as long as there is no Nostr CEO (ok, maybe Derek Ross).

Nostr's strength lies in its decentralized nature, making it difficult to shut down. Anyone can run relays and create notes, which creates a regulatory hydra that is nearly impossible to kill. However, individual users can still be identified and shut down if they don't carefully protect their IP addresses and dissociate from their real identities.

Social Media Ills

Another misconception about Nostr is that it will solve all of social media's problems. Will it? In his manifesto, Fiatjaf identified many issues with the current state of social media. Most of them stem from the fact that it is centralized and therefore vulnerable to censorship by big tech and governments. This is true, and Nostr is a solid answer to the problem of centralization and censorship.

However, some argue that social media's problems go beyond censorship. Social envy, addiction, and other issues persist. While I agree that individuals and their communities, rather than governments, are responsible for addressing many of these problems, they are still real issues, and Nostr can't easily fix them.

Bots

Bots are a major issue on social media, especially on Crypto Twitter, where scams often aim to drain user wallets. Nostr also has bots and a spam problem. It's incredibly easy to create an npub/nsec key pair, allowing for the quick creation of bot armies that post kind 1 notes and other information. So, Nostr is not, nor will it be, free of bots.

However, Nostr has a few valuable tools at its disposal to reign them in: WoT scores, Zaps, and Filters. Let's see how these tools will be used to tackle this problem.

Society

While Pavel Durov's arrest caused an outcry among Nostriches, many commentators said, "Well, that's what you get if you don't censor." I think the need for free speech is still poorly understood and not recognized as a core pillar of free societies. As long as people don't see the importance of uncensored free speech, they will struggle to understand the benefits of Nostr.

Nostr can't fix that, but it can be a bastion of free speech for those who value it and help ignite a fire of free discourse that others can join once they recognize the need.

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One of the most widely recognized ways of saddling sustainable power on the Sunshine Coast is by utilizing sunlight based chargers. Sunlight powered chargers catch daylight and convert it into power that can control homes and organizations. Electricians in Sunshine Coast are fundamental for introducing these sunlight powered chargers. They ensure the boards are put accurately on rooftops or different places where they can get the most daylight. When the boards are set up, circuit repairmen interface them to the electrical arrangement of the structure with the goal that the sunlight based energy can be utilized productively.

1. Setting Up Sun based Inverters

Sunlight powered chargers create power, yet the power they produce isn't promptly usable by most domestic devices. This is where sun powered inverters come in. A sun based inverter changes over the power from the boards into a structure that can be involved by the machines in your home or business. Electricians in Sunshine Coast are talented in introducing and setting up these inverters. Without their ability, the sun based energy gathered by the boards wouldn't be usable.

1. Introducing Battery Stockpiling Frameworks

While sunlight powered chargers create power during the day when the sun is sparkling, they don't deliver power around evening time. For this reason many individuals on the Sunshine Coast are putting resources into battery capacity frameworks. These frameworks store abundance sun based energy created during the day so it very well may be utilized around evening time or on overcast days. Electricians in Sunshine Coast are at risk for introducing these battery systems and associating them to the sun controlled chargers and electrical structures. This ensures that the energy set aside in the batteries can be used whenever it's required.

1. Keeping up with Environmentally friendly power Frameworks

Like some other innovation, environmentally friendly power frameworks require ordinary support to keep them moving along as expected. Electrical technicians in Sunshine Coast are prepared to assess, clean, and fix sunlight based chargers, inverters, and battery stockpiling frameworks. Ordinary support forestalls issues and guarantees that the frameworks work at top proficiency. By keeping these frameworks ready to go, Electricians assist property holders and organizations with getting a good deal on energy charges and decrease their carbon impression.

1. Overhauling Electrical Frameworks for Environmentally friendly power

Many homes and organizations on the Sunshine Coast were worked before environmentally friendly power became well known. Subsequently, their electrical frameworks probably won't be prepared to deal with the requests of sunlight based chargers, inverters, and battery stockpiling. Electrical experts in Sunshine Coast are frequently called upon to update these electrical frameworks. This could include supplanting old wiring, putting in new circuit breakers, or adding more electrical plugs. Updating the electrical framework guarantees that the structure can securely and effectively utilize sustainable power.

1. Supporting the Development of Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles (EVs) are turning out to be more famous on the Sunshine Coast. These vehicles burn power as opposed to gas, making them a cleaner and more practical choice for transportation. Electrical experts in Sunshine Coast are assuming a vital part in supporting the development of EVs by introducing EV charging stations. These stations are where EV proprietors can connect their vehicles to charge the batteries. Without these charging stations, it would be significantly more hard for individuals to claim and work electric vehicles.

1. Interfacing Environmentally friendly power to the Lattice

The power created by sunlight based chargers can be utilized right away, put away in batteries, or sent back to the electrical lattice. The matrix is the organization that conveys power to homes and organizations across the locale. Exactly when sun fueled chargers produce more energy than a home or business needs, the excess energy can be sent back to the cross section. Electrical specialists in Sunshine Coast are responsible for ensuring the relationship between the sustainable power system and the cross section is secured and trustworthy.

1. Instructing the Local area

Electricians in Sunshine Coast additionally assume a significant part in teaching the local area about environmentally friendly power. They help individuals with grasping how sun fueled chargers, inverters, battery structures, and EV chargers work. They can figure out the upsides of exchanging for sustainable power, for instance, lower energy bills, diminished natural impact, and extended energy independence. By sharing their insight, Electricians engage more individuals to do the change to sustainable power.

1. Supporting Environmentally friendly power in New Development

As the Sunshine Coast keeps on developing, many new homes and organizations are being fabricated. Circuit repairmen in Sunshine Coast are associated with the preparation and development of these new structures. They work with engineers and manufacturers to plan electrical frameworks that are viable with sustainable power all along. This could incorporate pre-wiring structures for sunlight powered chargers, introducing energy-productive lighting, and setting up savvy home frameworks that advance energy use. By anticipating environmentally friendly power all along, electrical experts assist with making structures that are more maintainable and future-proof.

1. Advancing Energy Autonomy

Energy autonomy implies depending on your own energy sources instead of relying totally upon the electrical lattice. This is especially significant during blackouts or in distant regions where the network probably won't be solid. Electrical experts in Sunshine Coast assist property holders and organizations with accomplishing energy autonomy by introducing and keeping up with environmentally friendly power frameworks. With sunlight based chargers, battery capacity, and perhaps even wind or hydro power, a structure can create and utilize its own power. This decreases the dependence on petroleum products and expands the strength of the local area.

1. Decreasing Carbon Impression

The carbon impression is how much carbon dioxide (CO2) and other ozone depleting substances that are delivered into the climate because of human exercises. Consuming petroleum products like coal, oil, and flammable gas to create power is a significant wellspring of these discharges. By supporting environmentally friendly power, electrical experts in Sunshine Coast are assisting with decreasing the carbon impression of homes and organizations. Sunlight based energy, for instance, creates no immediate discharges, making it a much cleaner option in contrast to petroleum products.

1. Empowering Advancement

The field of sustainable power is continually advancing, with new advancements and techniques being fostered constantly. Electricians in Sunshine Coast are at the front of this advancement. They are ceaselessly finding out about new items, establishment strategies, and best practices. By keeping awake to-date with the most recent headways, Electricians guarantee that their clients benefit from the most productive and powerful environmentally friendly power arrangements that anyone could hope to find.

1. Giving Master Guidance

With regards to sustainable power, there are numerous choices to browse. Circuit repairmen in Sunshine Coast give master exhortation to assist property holders and organizations with settling on informed choices. They can suggest the best sunlight powered chargers, inverters, and battery frameworks in view of the particular necessities of the client. They can likewise offer direction on the most proficient method to augment energy productivity and make the most of the advantages of environmentally friendly power.

1. Supporting the Nearby Economy

By employing electrical technicians in Sunshine Coast for sustainable power ventures, occupants and organizations are likewise supporting the neighborhood economy. Nearby circuit repairmen are know all about the special necessities of the Sunshine Coast people group and are focused on offering top notch assistance. The cash burned through on inexhaustible effort establishments and support stays inside the local area, making position and helping the neighborhood economy.

1. Adding to Supportability Objectives

Numerous state run administrations and associations have defined manageability objectives to lessen fossil fuel byproducts and advance sustainable power. Electrical experts in Sunshine Coast are assisting the local area with meeting these objectives by expanding the reception of environmentally friendly power. Each sunlight powered charger introduced, each battery framework associated, and each EV charger set up carries the local area one bit nearer to a more manageable future.

1. Adjusting to Environmental Change

Environmental change is a worldwide test that influences everybody, including the Sunshine Coast. Increasing temperatures, more outrageous climate occasions, and changing precipitation designs are only a portion of the effects of environmental change. By supporting sustainable power, circuit repairmen in Sunshine Coast are assisting with relieving these impacts. Sustainable power lessens dependence on non-renewable energy sources, which are a significant supporter of environmental change. Furthermore, sustainable power frameworks can be stronger notwithstanding environment related disturbances, like tempests or heatwaves.

1. Establishing a Cleaner Climate

Environmentally friendly power frameworks like sunlight based chargers produce power without the contamination related with petroleum derivatives. This prompts cleaner air and water, which is better for the strength of individuals and the climate. Circuit repairmen in Sunshine Coast add to this cleaner climate by introducing and keeping up with sustainable power frameworks. Their work diminishes contamination and safeguard the regular magnificence of the Sunshine Coast.

1. Supporting People in the future

The choices we make today about energy use will affect people in the future. By advancing and supporting environmentally friendly power, circuit repairmen in Sunshine Coast are assisting with making a more practical world for people in the future. This incorporates guaranteeing that youngsters and grandkids acquire a planet with cleaner air, water, and a steady environment.

1. Upgrading Property Estimation

Homes and organizations with environmentally friendly power frameworks, as sunlight powered chargers and EV chargers, are much of the time more appealing to purchasers. These properties can offer lower energy bills and a more modest natural effect, which are engaging elements in the present market. Electricians in Sunshine Coast assist with upgrading the worth of properties by introducing and keeping up with environmentally friendly power frameworks. This can have a major effect when it comes time to sell or rent a property.

1. Building a More grounded Local area

At long last, crafted by circuit repairmen in Sunshine Coast in supporting environmentally friendly power helps construct a more grounded, stronger local area. A people group that puts resources into environmentally friendly power is one that is ready for what's in store. A people group values manageability, development, and ecological stewardship. Electrical experts assume a key part in building this sort of local area by giving the skill expected to make sustainable power a reality on the Sunshine Coast.

Conclusion Electricians in Sunshine Coast are essential in promoting renewable energy. They handle everything from installing solar panels to educating the community. Their work helps create a cleaner, more sustainable future. As more people adopt green energy, these electricians will continue to play a key role in fighting climate change and supporting a sustainable world.

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Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 45 minutes
• 🍳 Cook time: 40 minutes
• 🍽️ Servings: 4-6

Ingredients

• 1 frozen puff pastry sheet, thawed
• 2 red organic apples (skin color adds great visual pop)
• Juce of half a lemon
• 1 tablespoon of flour, to sprinkle the counter
• 3 tablespoons of apricot preserve
• Cinnamon (optional)
• Powdered sugar for decorating (optional)

Directions

1. 1. Thaw the puff pastry if you haven't done so yet. It should take about 20-30 minutes.
2. 1. Prepare a bowl with some water and the lemon juice. Cut the apples in half, remove the core and cut the apples in paper thin slices. Leave the peel so it will give the red color to your roses.
3. 1. Right away, place the sliced apples in the bowl with lemon and water, so that they won't change color.
4. 1. Microwave the apples in the bowl, for about 3 minutes, to make them slightly softer. If you prefer, you can also simmer the apple slices in the water in a small pan on the stove.
5. 1. Unwrap the puff pastry over a clean and lightly floured counter. Using a rolling pin stretch the dough a little, trying to keep it in a rectangular shape. Cut the dough in 6 strips. These are about 2 in x 9 in (5 cm x 22 cm).
6. 1. In a bowl, place three tablespoons of apricot preserve with two tablespoons of water. Microwave for about one minute, so that the preserve will be easier to spread. Spread the preserve on the dough.
7. 1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Drain the apples.
8. 1. Place the apples on the dough so that the skin side is facing away from you, and the bottom of the slice is at the middle of the dough (see cover image). Sprinkle with cinnamon if you'd like.
9. 1. Fold up the bottom part of the dough over the apple slices, so that it cups them.
10. 1. Carefully roll, seal the edge, and place in a silicone muffin cup. No need to grease the muffin mold if it's silicone. Otherwise, make sure to grease it.
11. 1. Do the same for all 6 roses. Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for about 40-45 minutes, until fully cooked. If using a convection oven, check the roses after 20 minutes and cover if the apple slices are already sufficiently browned. Convection ovens dry out the apples more quickly and will result in 10 minutes shorter cooking time.

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There is consensus on the internet that the chaotic times we are living is a result of the 4th turning. The trust in old institutions that originated after WW2 is breaking down, which causes chaos around the globe. Most people who experienced the last 4th turning already died. The people currently alive know that authoritarianism is bad, but they don’t realise it because they never lived it. That’s why we have to learn the same hard lessons again.

Another widely accepted view is that this 4th turning will last until at least 2030. That WW3 is still ahead of us and that we will have another 6 years of increasing chaos. Even Wikipedia claims that the current 4th turning started just before the financial crisis in 2008. Since a turning generally last around 20 years but can take some longer, it would make 2030 a good ETA to end.

*According to Wikipedia the current 4th turning started in 2006 and will end in 2033

Recently, another scenario where the 4th turning ends around 2025 popped up in my head. The more I been thinking about it the more supporting arguments I find. What if we are already further in the current 4th turning than everyone thinks? What if we have just one or two years to go before the momentum turns positive again?

*This article is not a prediction, nobody knows the future. However, it’s an alternative scenario that’s in my mind supported by plenty good arguments. I like to think in probabilities, and at the time of writing I give this scenario around 40% chance. What do you think? Leave me a comment!

Could the 4th Turning Almost be Done?

What if the current 4th turning is almost near its end? What if it only last until around 2025? Would it be possible that we will get our D-Day moment somewhere in the coming two years followed by a massive positive momentum shift in society that signals the 1st turning? Or could it be that the transition isn’t that obvious this time and that we slowly smooth into the first turning without a D-Day moment this time around?

2025 would be exactly 80 years after the end of WW2, which is historically exactly a full cycle. Further, if we consider 9/11 as the start of the 4th turning instead of the Great Financial Crisis, it last already 24 years and is already overdue to end. There is more to support this thesis:

The Last 4th Turning

I know many people will get triggered by the comparison between the 2020’s and Nazi Germany. If this is you, stop reading now and go read Donald Duck or some happy fairytale. If you are willing to accept reality, you'll see an obvious similarity between those two era’s:

They are both 4th turnings with a massive wave of collectivism including extreme authoritarianism like censorship, movement restrictions, democide and war. Both times are universally recognised as a time of global chaos and a clear negative momentum in society.

1940 VS 2020

The corrosion of the institutions in Germany started long time before it became obvious in WW2. The real global chaos only took place over the last 5 years of the 4th turning in the form of a massive hot war, occupation of many countries and a genocide known as the Holocaust.

If you compare this to today, I would say that the global chaos started in 2020 with global lockdowns, movement restrictions, heavy censorship and forced medical interventions followed by some very nasty wars. If this last to around 2025 it would be a perfect rhyme!

When Did the 4th Turning Start?

What about the beginning of the 4th turning? Did it really start in the Great Financial Crisis as most people say? In my mind the trust in the institutions really started to break down after 9/11 in 2001. This was the event where the government violated our basic rights on a global scale by reversing the burden of proof and started multiple forever-wars.

Before 9/11 they had to prove whether you are a terrorist, now you have to prove that you are not. Innocent until proven guilty was a universally accepted basic human right in the entire Western world. After 9/11 this was violated on a global scale and this was quickly normalised. Our rights would later be violated again in the same way, when healthy people had to prove that they aren't sick.

It marked a critical breakdown of basic human rights, it was a fundamental change in society and it was the first major step into authoritarianism. In my opinion, this was the end of the free West and the start of the modern surveillance state we lived under since, which is clearly getting out of the hand today.

Realisation Will Come Later

Authoritarianism doesn’t get suddenly implemented, it comes in a long serie of tiny changes. The media is spreading the narrative that these changes are good or necessary. This is how society slowly slides into full blown authoritarianism without the population realising it.

Even in Nazi Germany most people didn’t realise how bad their regime was until it was all over and the Germans were asked for an explanation for what happened. A very famous answer from the general German population after the war was ‘Wir haben das nicht gewurst’, which means ‘we didn’t know’.

Westerners today are busy living their life while their government does really evil shit. The media simply doesn’t tell them what happens or they push the narrative that it is necessary for ‘our safety’. What’s considered murder or genocide when read in a history book, is considered normal and necessary when our government does it today.

People living a 4th turning are clearly not realising how bad it actually is, probably because of a combination of 'the boiling frog' effect, the inability to zoom out because the focus on 'the current thing' and denial of a different worldview. This realisation will only come later when it’s all over and they look back on this crazy time.

The Winner Writes History

We all know and recognise the evil and destruction of WW2. Most of us are probably expecting to get about the same in this 4th turning. We are still far away from that. Aren't we?

The evil stories of the Nazi’s are written by the Allies after the 4th turning ended, while our perception today is formed by the same institutions that cause all the death and destruction. Could it be that the winner this time will write history very differently? Who is going to be the winner this 4th turning and how will history be written?

Our Perspective VS The ‘Winner’ Perspective

Our institutions told us that Afghanistan had to be invaded because scary terrorists were hiding in the caves. Iraq had to be invaded because there were dangerous weapons of mass destruction. We had to do KYC and AML because we had to defund terrorists.

Businesses had to be closed to prevent a dangerous virus from spreading, people had to be injected because it was the only way out, Ukraine had to be supported because otherwise crazy Russians would invade all of Europe and Gaza had to be attacked because they are all terrorists.

What if the winner writes history as follows? The regime murdered 176.000 people in Afghanistan and 150.000 in the Iraq war to enforce the fraudulent dollar standard. Then they starved 500.000 Iraqi children to death with sanctions. KYC and AML rules prohibited billions of people from connecting to the global financial markets which kept them in poverty and caused starvation on a massive scale.

Many businesses were destroyed to monopolise giant corporations and centralise power over the economy. 5 billion people were forced into a medical experiment, which caused massive harm and death, to aim for total control over the people through movement passes and make a lot of money for corrupted organisations in the process.

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It’s Probably much Worse Than We Realise…..

Since the globally forced lockdowns and medical experiments, there is an excess death rate almost all over the world. It’s very hard to figure out how many people died, because the responsible people are still in power, and the media is totally ignoring it. Since 5 billion people are injected, a 1/500 death rate would mean 10 million deaths.

This means that if you believe the death rate was over 1/500, this forced medical experiment was about as deathly as the Holocaust. It’s very speculative at this moment, but a 20% excess deaths in most of the world for multiple years reveals that it might be much bigger than that. We will probably only know and realise when the victor writes history in the next 1st turning.

Do We ‘Need’ a Full Blown War Until 2030?

The consensus on the internet today is that we still have at least 6 years of chaos to go and that WW3 in the form of a massive hot war is inevitable. I call the thesis in this article a white pill scenario, because I believe this doesn’t have to be like that at all. I think there are some good reasons why it may not happen.

Firstly, as described earlier, we might have had a level of death and destruction comparable to the last 4th turning already, we just don’t realise it yet. We may be living it already, but ‘wir haben das nicht gewurst’ until the current regime falls and the winner writes history.

Secondly, humanity tend to get less violent over time, which could reduce the amount of blood spilled in this 4th turning. New technologies could change how war is done. It makes a lot of sense that war was done in an industrial way (tanks and guns) during the Industrial Age, while it would be mostly an information war in the Information Age.

Thirdly, all global powers have nuclear weapons this time around. This enforces the game theory that the biggest powers practically can’t invade each other, because this would mean total destruction of both. Could this be the reason that we see all these relatively small proxy wars and biological warfare instead of a full blown global hot war?

Lastly, if you understand that war is generally used as a way to default on a failing financial system, was this done with the massive Covid liquidity injection? This suspicion was strengthened after I heard how macro trader Raoul Pal described how the current monetary situation looks a lot like the post-WW2 era. Have we had our WW3 already in a very different format?

Is Bitcoin a New Institution for the Next Turning Cycle

Bitcoiners generally think that Bitcoin is a tool to help us through the 4th turning. This can be true, but what if is the new institution to replace the central banks in the new turning cycle? What if Bitcoin crossing te Chasm, which is expected to happen soon, is the Bretton Woods of this cycle?

Bretton woods happened at the end of the war and kicked off the 1st turning. It didn’t happen before the war. Is Bitcoin mass adoption marked by the Bitcoin ETF’s also signalling the end of WW3 like Bretton Woods did for WW2? It would be a perfect rhyme again!

Please let me know what you think in the comments and follow me for more!

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Table Of Content

• An Ideal Environment for Crypto Growth

• Economic Impact of Bitcoin in Texas

• Future Prospects

• Conclusion

• FAQ

The Lone Star State has witnessed a phenomenal rise in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency adoption in recent years. This article will explore the factors behind this surge, the benefits it offers to the local economy, and the potential implications for the future of Bitcoin and the broader crypto landscape in Texas and beyond.

An Ideal Environment for Crypto Growth

A. Energy Abundance

Texas boasts abundant and affordable energy resources, particularly from wind and natural gas. This has attracted a growing number of cryptocurrency mining operations, which require vast amounts of energy to maintain and secure the blockchain.

B. Regulatory Framework

Texas has embraced a relatively open regulatory environment for cryptocurrencies. The state government has shown a willingness to adapt existing regulations and create new ones to support the growth of the crypto industry.

C. Tech-Friendly Population

Texas has a tech-savvy population with a strong entrepreneurial spirit. This has led to the establishment of numerous startups and businesses focused on blockchain technology and cryptocurrency services.

Economic Impact of Bitcoin in Texas

A. Job Creation

The rise of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency-related businesses has created thousands of jobs in Texas. These range from mining operations to software development, financial services, and support roles.

B. Attracting Investment

The growth of the crypto sector in Texas has attracted significant investment from both domestic and international sources. This influx of capital has spurred the local economy and fostered innovation in the state.

C. Increased Tax Revenue

With more businesses and individuals engaging in cryptocurrency transactions, tax revenues have increased. This additional revenue can be used to improve public services and infrastructure in Texas.

Future Prospects

A. Becoming a Global Crypto Hub

As Texas continues to foster a favorable environment for cryptocurrencies, it has the potential to become a global hub for blockchain technology and digital assets. This could help attract even more talent and investment to the region.

B. Wider Adoption of Cryptocurrencies

The rise of Bitcoin in Texas could lead to broader adoption of cryptocurrencies throughout the state and beyond. As more people and businesses become familiar with digital assets, they may increasingly use them for everyday transactions.

C. Challenges and Risks

Despite the promising outlook, there are still challenges and risks associated with the growth of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. These include regulatory uncertainty, potential environmental impact, and volatility in the crypto markets.

Conclusion

The rapid rise of Bitcoin in Texas is a testament to the state's favorable conditions and forward-looking approach to emerging technologies. With continued investment and innovation, Texas has the potential to become a global leader in the cryptocurrency space. However, it remains essential to address the associated challenges and risks to ensure a sustainable and responsible growth trajectory.

FAQ

Why has Bitcoin become popular in Texas? Bitcoin has become popular in Texas due to the state's favorable regulatory environment, its thriving energy industry, and a growing interest in alternative forms of investment.

Is Bitcoin legal in Texas? Yes, Bitcoin is legal in Texas. In fact, the state has taken steps to encourage the development of the cryptocurrency industry.

Can I use Bitcoin to buy goods and services in Texas? Yes, you can use Bitcoin to buy goods and services in Texas. Some businesses in the state have begun accepting Bitcoin as payment.

What does the rise of Bitcoin in Texas mean for the future? The rise of Bitcoin in Texas could be a sign of things to come, as more people become interested in digital currencies and more businesses begin accepting them as payment. It could also lead to increased investment in the cryptocurrency industry and further innovation in the field.

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As I'm sure many of you are aware already, Israel executed an attack on thousands of Hezbollah members in Lebanon earlier today. At the moment, it looks like Israel successfully waged a supply chain attack on the pagers used by Hezbollah members. Intercepting the devices and placing highly explosive material on the batteries that could be triggered remotely by raising the temperature of the batteries.

To my knowledge, this is the first time an attack of this nature and of this scale has ever been waged. This is a very serious and dangerous precedent that should make anyone reading this think long and hard about the ramifications of the normalization of this type of warfare.

It's not clear to me yet whether this is exactly what happened, but this seems to be where all of the reports are pointing. And when you consider the scale of this operation, it is hard to think of alternative ways that this could have been achieved outside of corrupting the supply chain of this particular pager. Regardless, the die has been cast and remote detonation attacks in crowded civilian areas has been battle tested as an appropriate war tactic.

Not only does this set a terrible precedent for war, but it also begs the question; if they can do something like this with a relatively dumb pager, how much damage could they do with something like an iPhone? How vulnerable are the billions of people who hold smartphones in their pockets, or drive internet connected electric vehicles with lithium ion batteries? How trivial was it for Mossad to gain access to these devices and at what part of the supply chain? Now that this attack has been deemed to be "on the table" how long will it take before others begin to wage similar attacks?

War tactics and their costs are rapidly changing right before our eyes. The war between Russia and Ukraine is showing that low cost drones strapped with bombs can be very effective weapons that can do damage to military equipment worth anywhere between tens of millions to billions of dollars. The Houthi rebels have used cheap drones to completely disrupt the Suez Canal for the better part of a year. The world has only seen the tip of the iceberg in regards to how this type of technology can be used at scale to tip the leverage of power towards those with less financial resources, but a willingness to engage in kinetic conflict. Some of these drones are strapped with thermite flame throwers!

Now that new information has been brought to the market - you can turn pagers and (likely) cellular phones into a network of improvised explosive devices via a software push that increases the temperature of the devices' batteries - it is only a matter of time before others figure out how to do it and begin using these tactics themselves. War machines have never been easier and cheaper to deploy. In a world that is becoming increasingly fractured and angry, this is absolutely frightening. Asymmetric warfare as predicted in the Sovereign Individual is upon us.

As it relates to bitcoin hardware, these attacks highlight that an attack that has been long talked about in the industry but not yet exploited to the best of our knowledge is very real. Supply chain attacks, particularly on bitcoin signing devices that store private key information, have just been proven to be very possible by motivated state actors. If a nation state wanted to somehow "prove" that bitcoin is insecure or figure out a low effort way to do a mass confiscation of bitcoin all they have to do is successfully attack the supply chain of a hardware manufacturer, corrupt the devices, and let them flow to the hands of individuals who believe they are securing their bitcoin in the best way possible. The best way to mitigate this risk is to hold you bitcoin in a multi-sig wallet using a quorum of keys produced by different hardware produced by different manufacturers. Companies like Unchained make this process as seamless and possible and supply chain attacks like the one that was laid bare today highlight why these collaborative custody models are so important. Especially if you are holding a large amount of wealth in bitcoin.

This is a sad day for the world. I'll be praying for peace and sanity to prevail.

Final thought... That was a terrible loss by the Birds.

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Hey everyone and welcome to Refinery Life Australia.

“Amen and Amen” has been the theme for the last few Sundays.

This series is a study from the Psalms, in which the psalmist gives voice to prayers that resound in our hearts today.

Today we are discussing, A Prayer for Divine Correction.

Text

Psalm 139:23-24 NKJ

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;\ Try me, and know my anxieties;

24 And see if there is any wicked way in me,\ And lead me in the way everlasting.

Scripture Reading

Psalm 139:1-12 NKJV

God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man

1 O Lord, You have searched me and known me.

2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;\ You understand my thought afar off.

3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,\ And are acquainted with all my ways.

4 For there is not a word on my tongue,\ But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether

5 You have hedged me behind and before,\ And laid Your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;\ It is high, I cannot attain it.

7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?\ Or where can I flee from Your presence?

8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;\ If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

9 If I take the wings of the morning,\ And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,\ And Your right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”\ Even the night shall be light about me;

12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,\ But the night shines as the day;\ The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

Psalm 139:23-24 NKJV

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;\ Try me, and know my anxieties;

24 And see if there is any wicked way in me,\ And lead me in the way everlasting.

Introduction.

A devotional study of the Psalms can be particularly helpful in nourishing our faith and assisting us in our prayer life.

Psalm 139 emphasises that God has unlimited knowledge and also that God is always and everywhere present.

This great psalm celebrates the truth that God is our Creator.

It closes with a prayer against the wicked and a prayer for divine correction as the psalmist faced the present and the future.

1. A prayer for divine probing.

The psalmist was positioning himself on the doctors examination table and asking Him to examine the motives of his heart and the thoughts of his mind.

He recognised that the source of actions and conduct is found in the thoughts and emotions of the inward man.

Perhaps David was motivated to pray this prayer for divine probing because he was being severely tested by his enemies.

He considered himself to be the enemy of those who were enemies of God.

Perhaps he was disturbed by some of his hostile thoughts toward those ungodly enemies of God who were also his enemies

2. A prayer for divine directions.

The psalmist brought his mind and heart under the searchlight of God’s watchful eye, not merely so that he might be informed about himself, but that he might correct his way.

We read in the book of proverbs, “Every way of man is right in his own eyes.”

We also read , “There is a way which seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”

God spoke through Isaiah and urged the wicked to forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts.

Isaiah 55:7, Let the wicked forsake his way,\ And the unrighteous man his thoughts;\ Let him return to the Lord,\ And He will have mercy on him;\ And to our God,\ For He will abundantly pardon.

God spoke further and said in Isaiah 55:8-9, “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,\ So are My ways higher than your ways,\ And My thoughts than your thoughts.

A person may be quite sincere and yet be thinking the wrong kind of thoughts and walking in the wrong way.

The psalmist recognised this truth and urged God to reveal to him whether there was some wicked way within his heart.

The psalmist prayed, “Lead me in the way everlasting.”

He wanted to forsake any false paths that would lead to the wrong destination.

He wanted to be delivered from self deception.

He wanted to be saved from inaccurate thought processes and decision making.

He prayed that God would guide him into paths that would be pleasing to God and that would bring peace to his own heart and mind.

Conclusion.

How long has it been since you have had a thorough physical examination?

How long has it been since you have taken your temperature to see if you had an undetected infection in your body?

How long has it been since you looked into your mouth to see if you had a red spot in your throat?

These are some of the techniques that are used to detect the presence of infection or illness.

How long has it been since you brought yourself into God’s presence for a spiritual examination?

It might be a painful experience, but it could be highly profitable.

We would be exceedingly wise if day by day we would pray, Psalm 139:23-24, Search me, O God, and know my heart;\ Try me, and know my anxieties;

And see if there is any wicked way in me,\ And lead me in the way everlasting.

Until next time

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I went 2-3 in Circa which hurts because I was 1-4 in Week 1. To offset a 3-7 start, you need a couple 8-2s to get back on pace — a tall order. But I don’t want to get ahead of myself.

Last week was better — I barely lost the Texans-Bears, and the Seahawks had their chances against the Pats. The only really bad pick was the Lions, and it was the one I felt least strongly about. The one thing I’m kicking myself about is I originally liked the Bengals and Cardinals but talked myself out of both. “Sean McVay off a loss” in the former and “Andy Reid with 10 days prep” in the latter. My instincts were fine. Have to trust them now that I’m back into it.

I still haven’t looked at the lines, only the schedule. I want to fade the Pats again on Thursday night instinctively — I don’t think their style is sustainable, and I neglected to consider Seattle making such a long distance trip for an early game last week.

I like the Giants this week — they should have won but for the kicker, and Danny Dimes looked at least like an NFL QB. But Myles Garrett might be in his face all day. I don’t know, probably pass on that.

Bears at Colts — maybe buy low on the Colts, but they’re bad, can’t stop the run and lost DeForest Buckner. Pass.

Texans at Vikings. Depends on the line. Maybe sell high on the Vikings, especially if Justin Jefferson is out.

Eagles at Saints. No strong feeling. Saints won’t be fully priced, usually you ride the streak until they are.

Chargers at Steelers. I’d make this a pick ‘em. Pass.

Broncos at Bucs. Bo Nix is overmatched. Line should be at least 10.

Packers at Titans — too ugly, probably take the Titans, but pass.

Panthers at Raiders — Andy Dalton will give them a lift, Raiders cocky off the big win, but I like Antonio Pierce. Pass.

Dolphins at Seahawks — Backup QB, hard to handicap, pass.

Lions at Cardinals. Lions really out of sync, Goff better at home. And yet — might take the Lions, have to look at the line.

Ravens at Cowboys — Two desperate teams, but the Ravens are more desperate. Probably taking them at -2.5 or better. Expect a pick ‘em maybe.

49ers at Rams — No Deebo, no McCaffrey, no problem. Would lay eight-plus, maybe 10 even given how destroyed the Rams are.

Chiefs at Falcons — I like the Falcons though it’s a short week. Chiefs are tough to go against, though, and both teams won on last second plays.

Jaguars at Bills. There’s something wrong with the Jaguars, Bills had 10 days off. Probably take Jacksonville on a hunch with enough points, but pass.

Football Team at Bengals. I think the Bengals get going, probably destroy them.

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• Some small updates at nostr-php.dev
  • https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqrwzmjc5mz0efw9pty8p0r5lhjew789shct452pcgtuac4rc0qq6qqsgvtfguvqv9d64jyeuzfmvzxapz5gfk3wdcltmsq7cq7z775n3fqqan6ne3
• Build a NIP-52 RSVP to Calendar Event Vue / Javascript component which is live on https://nostrdam.com
• My Telegram bot Botstix returns my latest note from my personal relay (using the PHP Framework Symfony for this)
  • https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqpnrnguxe8qszsshvgkvhn6qjzxy7xsvx03rlrtddr62haj4lrm3qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgewaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8xetzv9ehg6tc9ejx2a30qqs8z8ufkgnpejpalpwep7tzu4j53a5skd2tn6vkpeg3qh7h6as23jcx52ufe
• Fix issue were Nostr-PHP was installed as a dev dependency (which it is not) https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/issues/61
• Raising sats at Geyser for our Nostr Booth initiative: https://geyser.fund/project/nostrboothbitcoinamsterdam/ 
• Proof of concept async requests with Http/Guzzle using this package https://github.com/valtzu/guzzle-websocket-middleware
  • Code snippet: https://gist.github.com/Sebastix/857478b161af8074a5cfc22af13be54e

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This is a question that isn't thought about very often but should be reconsidered in my opinion. While I'm not super technical when it comes to Bitcoin, anyone that has been around Bitcoin for awhile can and will notice disturbing trends in the mining space.

What is the first thing that pops into your head when you think about Bitcoin. For me its the 21 million hard cap and censorship resistant money but what does it mean to be censorship resistant? In essence what censorship resistant means is that your transaction can not be stopped arbitrarily by a third party unlike what they can do in the fiat system. In the fiat system there are tons of choke points that can stop your transaction from going through and conducting business with anyone that you want. Banks stop payments all the time for all kinds of stupid reasons.

This is a form of censorship. The government doesn't like you or your political activism, bam there goes your bank account so no you have no way of even conducting commerce in a efficient way. Don't believe me? Here a a few examples of banks and governments censoring individuals and groups they don't approve of.

Chokepoint 2.0: How Regulator Fight Bitcoin With Financial Censorship

[Nigerian Banks Shut Them Out, so These Activists Are Using Bitcoin to Battle Police Brutality]

There are just two examples of how censorship is being used as a weapon to stop people from using their god given rights as human beings to live their lives as they see fit. We know that the fiat world has the power to censor your transactions but what about in the Bitcoin ecosystem?

As a Bitcoiner you would think that you don't have to worry about stuff like that. Well think again. If you have been watching the Bitcoin mining space lately, you have seen the growth of these large companies with a boat load of ASICs and hashrate. As a Bitcoin pleb its hard to compete with that kind of scale, so less regular joes like us can't mine profitably at home thus reducing the decentralization of hashrate to the large public miners.

In addition to less hashrate being controlled by pleb miners, these large miners point there hashrate to the largest pools out there such as Foundry and Antpool.

https://image.nostr.build/fb547485c8414dab4ef0c2997ae10cda89f7d866d255ce4e97613f5d71bf6ed4.jpg

This image is from the minermag.com. What do you notice about this graph? Lots and lots of centralization going on. Between 2020 and 2024 the top three pools went from 50 percent, mind you which isn't great to begin with and now the top 3 pools control 65 percent of the Bitcoin hashrate is scary as hell and is not a topic that I hear anyone on #Nostr talking about. That's not a diss on anyone, just an issue that needs to be more widely discussed as it has wider implications for all of us.

With this much centralization going on in the mining space how easy will it be for governments to target these large mining pools and tell them to start to censor certain types of transactions.

Governments would have this ability because most miners simply provide hash power and leave the construction of what goes into a #Bitcoin block to the pool operators. To be honest I had no idea that this was the case until recently. So basically Antpool and Foundry get to decide what blocks look like, cool right? Bitcoin isn't looking so decentralized now, is it?

It would be rather trivial for governments to tell these pools to exclude things like ordinals, coinjoins or even opening lightning channels for that matter. When you put a gun to their head and threaten them with excessive fines and jail time, guess what these CEO are going to do. Sellout and cover their assess. It happens every time. This is why it is so incredibly important to decentralize mining pools and promote solo mining as much as we can. There are moves being made in that direction with the Ocean Mining Pool and their radically different approach to operating a mining pool.

Ocean Mining only coordinates the payout split and does not payout simply because you are supplying hashrate to the pool such as with the Pay Per Last N Shares (PPLNS) set up that is popular right now.

There are companies that are trying to turn the tide on mining centralization, the one I like the most and is the most accessible to the average person is the Bitaxe miner. Sure its not very powerful when you compare it to the latest and greatest ASIC but it stays true to the Bitcoin ethos of decentralized mining.

Not long ago a Bitaxe miner found a block! The odds of finding a block with these tiny machines is small but hey why not. You have a chance to find a block and you are living up to the ethos of Bitcoin. That's enough for me to be honest.

I hope that this recent trend of centralization can be reversed before its too late. In the mean time spread the word about Bitcoin and Nostr to all of your friends and family!

Bitcoin

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/09/17/why-is-it-necessary-to-reduce-the-population-of-the-earth-the-real-reason/

Why is it necessary to reduce the population of the Earth? The real reason!

usa #georgia #population #billgates #wef #politics #climatechange

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/09/17/harvard-professor-confirms-these-are-bioweapons-of-mass-destruction/

Harvard professor confirms: These are bioweapons of mass destruction

usa #harvard #research #covid #vaccine #bioweapons

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I have been watching the Bitcoin ecosystem grow up very quickly over the last few years. Personally, I agree with the statements that the Nostr protocol will only help enhance adoption. I find this all very exciting, but as a non-technologist it can often be challenging for me to fully comprehend all the nuances and to make meaningful contributions. Something I do understand well is corporate governance, and maybe this is where I can add some value.

On the surface, corporate governance sounds quite boring (and you’d be mostly right to think so), but from my background in private equity and as a company director, I can tell you that how you structure your company can absolutely make or break you. The board room can quickly become a battleground for conflicting interests, and so you need to be careful about who is invited in and how decisions are actually made.

If you believe that every company is eventually a bitcoin company, it might follow that the low time preference of current Bitcoiners offers their companies a strategic advantage over those yet to embrace the Bitcoin network. Beyond benefiting from price appreciation, many current Bitcoiners are already demonstrating the positives are switching their outlook from a quarterly view to a generational view. However, if the businesses Bitcoiners are building are to last for generations, they need to be purposefully structured to do so.

One a side note: The grownup sharks from the fiat world have also been waking up to Bitcoin, and they’ll eat you for lunch if you let them. So, this is in part a heads-up for the naive among us.

What do I mean by corporate governance?

Corporate governance is the system of rules, practices, and processes by which a company is directed and controlled. Basically, it defines at a high level how the company will be run and how decisions will be made.

The simplest governance structure is the “one man show”. Leaving different legal forms aside, this is essentially a single individual running a business on his own. Freelancers, for example, are free to make every personal business decision on their own. They choose their clients, their hours, their location, etc. This arrangement is fine because there is no expectation of business continuity should the freelancer cease working. Where the “one man show” becomes problematic is when other people are introduced to the business (e.g. employees, investors, heirs) and the singe decision-maker becomes a single point of failure for the business.

Now, I am not suggesting that all small businesses need to go out and form a board of directors and bureaucracy on par with S&P 500 companies’. Measures should be proportional. However, a good starting point for all business owners is to consider their inevitable exit from the business. Do you want to pass down a family business? What happens if the kids don’t want the business? Do you want to take on outside capital and aim for an IPO? Every potential path has different implications for the long-term survival (and future value) of the business. So, it’s important to get the basics of governance right before adding more complexity to the organization.

The Basics

\ I will come at this section from the view of a small, family business with a few employees run by the head of the family. Personally, I thought of a pizza shop owner adding bitcoin to the business when working through this (Does he want to eventually sell the shop for his retirement? Does his kid want to take over the business? Does the family want to find investors and expand?). But, of course, think of this in a way that works for you.

Anyway, this list is not comprehensive, as plenty of PhDs can probably confirm, but from my experience, here are some of the fundamental practices of corporate governance that are pretty much non-negotiable for long-term survival.

1. Identify and eliminate single points of failures

Like with your private keys, if your company is to survive you, you need a plan in place for continuity otherwise all could be lost. Sharing and delegating authority can often be difficult for business owners, but it is necessary for survival. Can basic operations continue without you? Do you have potential successors and are they adequately trained? It is better to build redundancy into processes as early as possible so that roles can be replaced, people can be promoted, and business can move forward as the landscape changes.

1. Build checks and balances into decision-making

Business owners can often be bottlenecks. Operational authority can easily be delegated to individuals within the business. For example, you can set thresholds for basic procurement, so that owner approval is not needed for the tiny and insignificant purchases. Have routine checks to make sure there is policy compliance and no theft/fraud, but don’t get sucked into every tiny detail of day-to-day operations. It’s more important to focus on the bigger things, like performance and strategy. When it comes to making the big decisions, it is also worth having advisors to gain feedback and work through possible outcomes. This could be a board or just trusted individuals in a loose committee, but there should be clear roles for the participants, even if the final decision is unilateral, and push-back should be actively encouraged. Such a venue offers two primary benefits: (1) it ensures business owners have properly thought through important decisions and (2) it can serve as a useful training ground for succession planning.

1. Formalize a vision and strategy

Traditionally, strategies have been thought about in five-year increments in order to achieve a longer-term vision for the company. Without getting into the business school woo, you need a rough idea of when it will be time for you to make your exit and what the company should be at that point in time. Then you backcast what would need to be done to achieve this vision and break that down into segments to be achieved over set time increments. Timelines and tactics will be different for every business, but it’s important that the goals are measurable and clearly communicated throughout the business. These are also clearly very big decisions, so make sure to include checks and balances like in Point 2 above.

1. Review business performance and the strategy

It is simply not enough to have a vision and strategy. Performance needs to be measured. Things change, and you need to know when it’s time to pivot and change the strategy. But how do you know if things have truly changed? Does the strategy need amending or just the tactics? If performance is good, is it because your execution was good or because you got lucky with the business environment? Business owners should be asking themselves (and others) these questions routinely. An annual strategic review of business performance and the overall strategy is probably a sufficient starting point. You want to do it often enough where you can correct course, but not so often that you cause chaos internally. Hold yourself accountable for your stewardship of the business, include your checks and balances in the review process.

Getting the basics right should help business owners sleep at night. Like multi-sig and estate planning, you can rest a little easier knowing that structures are in place to ensure continuity. It doesn’t need to all fall on you. You want to be replaceable.

Getting the basics right will also make your exit much easier. Clear records and processes make life much easier for any successor, especially if they were already active in the business and being trained for the leadership role. Buyers and investors will also demand basic corporate governance. Having it in place already will set your business apart from less “professionalized” businesses and thus make yours more attractive.

That being said, if attracting outside capital is a part of plan, there is some higher-level planning you should consider or at least be aware of.

Higher-level Planning

As with wedding planning, if you take money from others, they will want to influence decision-making. It’s completely understandable. Investors put capital at risk, and so they want to be involved in decision-making to protect that investment. Now, each one of the following points could be it’s own chapter in a LinkedIn influencer's book, but here are a few of the things investors will want from you in a Shareholders’ Agreement or other document.

1. Reserved Matters List: a list of things that require special (shareholder) approval, usually designed to protect the interests of certain shareholders (e.g. minority shareholders).

2. Board Seats: investors want a way to control performance, influence decision-making and steer the company. They often also want to limit the influence of others.

3. Audits: this is an easy was to provide checks and balances on operations and finances.

4. Preemptive Rights: if anyone wants to sell shares, investors often want a say in who gets to buy those shares.

None of these things is inherently good or bad. The devil is always in the detail. However, if terms are too one-sided for any party, it could compromise the long-term success of the company. So, make sure to vet your potential business partners. From my experience, how people behave in negotiations reveals a lot about how the partnership will be. If interests are truly aligned (e.g the business should last for generations), then all parties should naturally land on a fair arrangement.

Final Thoughts

No organization is perfect. Initiatives like @OpenSats are freshing because they are at least trying to be transparent and to set a high standard of conduct. However, transparency is not always enough. You need to actively practice the values. This is what is most important. There are plenty of examples in public markets where poor (and transparent) corporate governance is having a clear negative impact on the company. Private markets are frankly black boxes when it comes to corporate governance, but it is clear that private equity and venture cre now viewed as the new boogeymen of society. Probably not without reason.

I’m bullish on Bitcoiners, and I want to see them succeed the right way – generationally. Hopefully, this piece gets you thinking about how to lay the foundation of your citadel.

A few final random thoughts:\ Always keep your own legal counsel (separate from the business’s legal counsel). Going to church doesn’t make someone a good person; people seek power where they can find it. Be a good steward.

Disclaimer: This is food for thought, not advice.

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Our history will be what we make of it And if there are any historians about fifty or a hundred years from now And there should be preserved the kinescopes for one week of all three networks They will there find recorded in black and white and in colour Evidence of decadence, escapism, and insulation from the realities of the world in which we live We are currently wealthy, fat, comfortable and complacent We have a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information, our mass media reflect this But unless we get up off our fat surpluses And recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us And history will take its revenge and retribution will not limp in catching up with us

It may be that he human race is doomed never to learn from its mistakes We are the only animal on this globe who periodically set out to slaughter each other For the best, the noblest, the most inescapable of reasons We know better but we do it again and again, in generation after generation It may be that our empire too is doomed like all those that have gone before it To continue to spill and waste its best blood on foreign soil No matter what we say or do in its place, or think, or believe, or have learned from history But, thank God for us

Band: Maybeshewill Song: Our History Will Be What We Make of It Album: Sing the word Hope in Four Part Harmony Yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XOFy83MoKo

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Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work, or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be! We know things are bad - worse than bad - they're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"

Band: MaybeSheWill

Album: Not for want of triyng

Song: Not for want of trying

YT: https://youtu.be/YvBn2Sd1ju0?si=Ei67KynHu-IALwVx

Movie Scene: https://youtu.be/ZwMVMbmQBug?si=a982zC-b0D0e6dFn

@ 271f516a:33235cdd

In this serie the aim is to post some musics followed by the lyrics and some times a few thoughts that as the name said express and looks for freedom and liberty!

Disclaimer: This serie will not focus about any artist or opinion expressed by them!

I hope you enjoy!

music: I Want out artist: Helloween

I want out

From our lives' beginning on We are pushed in little forms No one asks us how we like to be In school, they teach you what to think But everyone says different things But they're all convinced that they're the ones to see

So, they keep talking and they never stop And at a certain point, you give it up So, the only thing that's left to think is this:

I want out—to live my life alone I want out—leave me be I want out—to do things on my own I want out—to live my life and to be free

People tell me "A" and "B" They tell me how I have to see Things that I have seen already clear So, they push me, then, from side to side They're pushing me from black to white They're pushing till there's nothing more to hear

But don't push me to the maximum Shut your mouth and take it home 'Cause I decide the way things gonna be

I want out—to live my life alone I want out—leave me be I want out—to do things on my own I want out—to live my life and to be free

There's a million ways (Million ways) to see the things in life A million ways to be the fool (Million ways) In the end of it (In the end), none of us is right Sometimes, we need to be alone (Alone, alone, alone)

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no Leave me alone

To live my life alone I want out—leave me be I want out—to do things on my own I want out—to live my life and to be free

I want out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjV8SHjHvHk

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A recent court ruling has thrust Google into the spotlight, sparking debate about its monopoly market position. The ruling centers on Google's deals over the last decade with device manufacturers, such as Apple and Samsung, which set Google as the default search engine on those devices operating systems. The court deemed these deals illegal because they argued they entrenched Google's monopoly.

However, public discourse has quickly shifted from the ruling to the societal issues Google has created using its monopoly power. Frustrations are high, tides are turning, and the mob seems to be coming for their head. Many quickly accepted the ruling as obvious, but I remain skeptical whether it genuinely benefits consumers, the US business landscape, or free market capitalism in general. I disagree, not because Google doesn't have a bias problem – it does – but because government intervention often creates more problems than it solves.

The internet's inherent decentralization and openness have introduced new business paradigms and unprecedented value creation on a global scale. We should ask whether this ruling — and its repercussions — helps or hinders innovation on the web or if our disdain for Google's bias justifies their downfall.

Untangling the ruling

It’s important to drill down into the court's ruling, which I believe has significant flaws. As I stated above, the ruling suggests that Google's deals with device manufacturers, like Apple, were unfair. But what should have happened instead? Manufacturers had valuable space to sell, and it's logical they would sell it to the highest bidder. As the market leader, Google naturally won these bids.

The court's decision effectively penalizes Apple for making a rational business choice, restricting its ability to sell this space to the highest bidder. I am having trouble understanding what the court proposes should have happened as an alternative. In their fantasyland world where Apple and Google have the supposed moral clarity to see this would be controversial, what would have been okay?

Should Apple, knowing Google was dominant, have just handed the space to a competitor out of goodwill? Should they have forced users to choose a default or randomly assign search engines each time the browser opens? Apple should only have to think about what’s the best experience for their customers, and this ruling puts that at risk. The court seems to be ignoring the most fundamental question they should be trying to answer:

What creates the best experience for consumers?

It would be one thing if customers were begging for something else, but Google snuffed out alternatives at every turn. Instead, the court suggests that Apple should have deliberately chosen an inferior product to avoid giving Google a leg up. But penalizing companies for making smart business decisions doesn't help consumers—it just creates artificial competition.

Given a choice, how many would still select Google as their default search engine? What truly changes in a world where Apple can't sell this space? Societal habits have Google ingrained as the default search engine. It's a verb that translates to "searching the web."

The consequences of this ruling may affect Apple more than Google. It's taking considerable revenue opportunities off the table without significantly impacting Google's dominance, as most consumers would likely choose Google anyway.

Didn't consumers already have a choice?

What I also find strange about the disconnect between reality and the ruling is that in terms of mobile,

users already have a choice.

The deals the court found problematic never stipulated that Apple had to force or compel users to use Google under this deal; it was simply a default. There was never a gun to users' heads punishing them for changing their search preferences; it's a simple setting switch. If the search engine did not fulfill their needs, there was no obligation for use.

The court's ruling threatens business success by penalizing a company for simply making an obvious business decision. A business decision that never forced or compelled a user into using a specific service, only what showed up on startup. The user was always free to choose alternative services if they felt the default didn't fulfill their needs.

Interestingly enough, very rarely does anyone feel the need to make the switch. Consumers stay because Google is clearly the best product. People aren’t clamoring for an alternative; they have plenty and have never needed to abandon Google in mass.

Has Antitrust ever helped?

Okay, maybe the courts just got this wrong, especially given that antitrust interventions have appeared to "work" in the past.

But have they really?

Take the Microsoft ruling, for example. In 2000, a court ruled that Microsoft had monopoly power in the PC operating system market, ruling that its OS business practices stifled competition. The initial ruling ordered Microsoft to split into two companies: one for its operating system and one for its software apps. However, in 2001, a settlement was reached where Microsoft agreed to share its APIs, allow oversight, and give PC manufacturers more flexibility.

But what if this ruling never happened, and Microsoft won the case? In theory, Windows and Internet Explorer would have been able to continue their dominance unchecked; would the world today look any different?

My thesis is no.

I think the world would look very similar to today, and it's because, in the grand scheme of things, those applications had little relevance in what came next:

Apple ate their lunch.

Burdened by its size and market dominance, Microsoft missed the next wave of innovation: mobile. The mobile revolution vastly improved the computer experience, solving consumer problems in new ways. Microsoft's operating system couldn't adapt effectively to mobile, and despite their efforts, they couldn't maintain their dominance or even gain a meaningful sliver of the market.

If courts didn't force Microsoft to open up Windows, Internet Explorer would likely still be irrelevant today. I haven't owned a PC in over a decade because, for me, Apple makes superior products. The antitrust ruling didn't pave the way for Apple—

Steve Jobs did that by making something substantially superior.

Steve wasn't concerned with building a slightly better browser; he aimed to revolutionize the entire ecosystem.

The mistake is believing entrepreneurs have the right to market share. What is the point in building a product that adds no additional tangible value to one already being supplied by a market incumbent?

You may have the right to compete, but why waste your time if you aren't going to fill a significant gap in the market? Instead, the focus should be on developing products that add substantial value to users, not on refighting battles over markets already won.

Cui Bono?

If the most critical innovators of our generation aren't benefiting from these regulations, who is?

For this, there's no better place to look than the EU, which has taken a much more heavy-handed approach to regulating the internet. But has this regulation helped their business community?

The answer appears to be no. I can count thriving European internet companies on one hand—and even those, like Spotify, Adyen, and Klarna, rely on US markets for a large portion of their revenue. These companies also face little competition from within Europe.

The EU has embraced heavy regulation with often inefficient results. For example, they recently posted a photo celebrating the completion of AI regulation despite having few AI startups to show for it. This irony didn't go unnoticed and quickly became a meme.

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However, even if we narrow our focus back to Google, European regulators have already taken significant action regarding their business practices. Over the last decade, they have already imposed a series of antitrust fines on Google:

• Google Shopping Case (2017): €2.42 billion ($2.7 billion) for favoring its own price comparison shopping service in search results.
• Android Case (2018): Originally €4.3 billion, reduced to €4.1 billion in 2022, for illegal practices related to Android mobile devices.
• AdSense Case (2019): €1.49 billion ($1.7 billion) for restrictive contract clauses with third-party websites.

In total, the EU has fined Google over €8 billion ($8.6 billion), not including the additional fines in France totaling $864 million for failing to negotiate in "good faith" with news organizations.

What have any of these cases done to "help competition and consumers" in Europe? Did these rulings improve the experience of the web for European citizens?

The Android case is a perfect parallel to the recent US ruling. In 2018, an EU court found them guilty of abusing their dominant position in search and browser markets by adding it as a default on Android phones. Six years later, what has this €4.1 billion fine done for European search and browser competition? I'll save you the research; it's obviously nothing. There are no new search or browser companies in Europe, and existing companies have barely picked up any ground. Google is still dominant, and users still largely prefer and use Google.

These massive fines have done little to promote competition or consumer experience and, instead, have lined mainly the pockets of lawyers and bureaucrats.

The money is going to the wrong people.

It's hard to argue that the money the EU forced Google to spend on fines and years of legal battles was better spent there than if Google had used those resources for innovation and delivering more value to its customers.

These actions are parasitic.

Like the Microsoft ruling, the recent judgments on Google will likely achieve little beyond funneling capital into useless channels—thousands of hours, billions of dollars, and almost nothing to show for it.

Earning Market Share Through Value, Not Regulation

So, if not antitrust, how are companies supposed to succeed?

This idea shouldn't be controversial, but

overtaking market share from an incumbent — especially a competent incumbent — should be hard.

The Government shouldn't award market share because it seems 'fair'—real competition comes from creating something dramatically better, not just being in the game.

For this to happen healthily, I subscribe to Peter Thiel's 10x principle: a product must be ten times better than existing alternatives to overtake an incumbent. Consumers won't switch for marginal improvements; they require true innovation.

This principle drove Google's dominance in the early 2000s. Their superior search algorithm, which prioritized relevance and quality — primarily through its PageRank system — quickly set it apart from competitors like AltaVista and Yahoo! After surpassing those incumbents, newer rivals like Bing and DuckDuckGo could never reach parity, let alone surpass it by 10x. This reality held even when competitors had substantial backing, as in Bing's case. Google's superior product over a long time is why they won—and deserved to keep winning—the market.

Capital should flow to where it can drive significant innovation and add value, not to companies satisfied with copycat products that are always a step behind.

Market share should be earned, not regulated. Dominance is acceptable if the company keeps up with market trends and doesn't betray its customers. Lucky for entrepreneurs, dominance usually leads to stagnation, where an incumbent gets lazy with their market position. This creates opportunities for entrepreneurs to innovate and challenge these dominant players, which is the better way to dethrone market leaders.

Market incumbents should fall because they got lazy and failed to keep up with entrepreneurs innovating with next-generation technologies.

Taking down the frustrating behemoths

So, without antitrust, how does the market correct people's frustration with Google's dominant position?

" When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, don't interrupt him."

Google has had one of the most successful businesses of all time, capitalizing on the early Internet era and helping users efficiently find what they need.

However, with recent developments in innovation, cracks are beginning to show. Google has become a giant bureaucratic machine and is slow and sloppy with its product releases. They have also not been shy about their obvious biases and political leanings.

Over the past few years, entrepreneurs have noticed these vulnerabilities.

Regarding bias, companies built on free speech — like Rumble and X — have risen and taken market share, built on providing a superior experience for freedom of expression.

Companies at the leading edge of AI innovation are starting to chip away at their search market share, offering services that provide a 10x experience over traditional web search.

Companies are also using these technologies in tandem. These free speech platforms no longer have to rely on Google because of improvements in AI and LLMs for search.

For myself, companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, and Brave have already taken a significant portion of my search traffic. While I still use Google for specific tasks, most of my queries now go elsewhere. To me, this is a sign of things to come.

Similar to Microsoft not keeping up with Apple in mobile, Google is behind in the battle in AI, with faster, more innovative competitors like OpenAI leading the way. Interestingly, Meta is also a market leader, seeing an opening to chip away at Google's lead by creating their own open-source models. These open-source models have empowered many startups to innovate and build superior search experiences to Google without having to focus on search themselves.

Market forces are already winning this battle, proving that true disruption comes from innovation, not regulation.

Why now?

Since it's so clear to me that entrepreneurship and innovation will be the downfall of Google, as I feel it's happening in plain sight, I have to ask:

Why now?

Why is this ruling happening just as companies are on the cusp of innovating away Google's market dominance in search?

This ruling is part of a broader global trend, where governments in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere are also ramping up regulation on Big Tech. From the EU's Digital Markets Act to China's crackdown on tech giants, there's growing momentum to curb the power of tech companies. But these actions often have unintended consequences, stifling the innovation driving our digital economy.

Politicians know that taking on Big Tech plays well with voters, especially in an election year. With growing concerns about privacy, data control, and online bias, targeting companies like Google allows them to appear tough on monopolies. But behind the political posturing, these rulings do little to benefit consumers or the market, and that's what concerns me.

Rash actions set dangerous precedents, and we must ensure innovation is left to flourish.

Meanwhile, the tech landscape is rapidly evolving. Google's search dominance is already being challenged by companies like OpenAI and decentralized technologies focusing on digital sovereignty. Innovation, not regulation, is already shifting the balance of power. These newer companies are delivering the kinds of breakthroughs that consumers actually want, leaving Google scrambling to keep up.

It may take longer than a draconian breakup from powerful bureaucrats, but the outcome will be better for technology, innovation, and consumers. We need a little patience—Google's time will come, and I believe we are seeing it happen naturally, without interference, right before our eyes.

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This is the AI-generated transcript from Bitcoin Infinity Show #126 with Derek Ross, lightly cleaned up for clarity and readability. It might not be perfect, but it's pretty good!

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Welcoming Derek

Luke: Derek, welcome to the Bitcoin Infinity Show. Thanks so much for joining us.

Derek: Thanks for having me.

Knut: Yeah. Hi. Glad to have you here, Derek. so let's start off with, the TLDR. who are you and why

Derek: Well, it's, my dad liked Bo Derek, so he chose the name Derek. I don't know if we want to go that far back.

Introducing Derek Ross

Derek: I fell in love with Nostr, back in December of, 2022 when Jack Dorsey, discovered Nostr when he was looking for projects to fund and a bunch of Bitcoin developers and Bitcoiners said, Hey, you should fund Nostr and check out Nostr.

So a lot of Bitcoiners checked out Nostr at the same time too, and I found out that I could build Basic services on Nostr, because it was pretty simple to do so and add a few bells and whistles for people. I just really embraced the technology, really embraced what Nostr could mean for the world and started talking about Nostr And now, that's my passion.

I love going around to conferences, Bitcoin conferences, building and growing Nostr, and that's kind of, I guess, brought me to you guys today.

Luke: Yeah, I mean, we're here at Nostriga, basically the beginning of Nostriga. Still the morning has happened. Yes. But, this place is awesome. We had the Noob day yesterday, and you gave. Nostr 101 at the Noob Day, and so I don't think we need Nostr 101 for this audience necessarily, but can you at least do like a broad strokes of the important points of Nostr just so we have a little bit of a baseline?

Knut: And

The Basics of Nostr

Derek: Well, Nostr is decentralized and censorship resistant, and if that sounds familiar, it's because it shares a lot of the same ethos that Bitcoin shares. So I recognized immediately, you know, how important Bitcoin is for the world. Like I've been a Bitcoiner for a few years now, and I recognize that Nostr shares a lot of the same ethos, where it is censorship resistant, decentralized.

You can control your social information similarly to Bitcoin, where you can control which financial rules you decide to run on your own node. So it gives you A lot of ownership over your financial transactions for Bitcoin. Nostr gives you a lot of ownership over your social transactions, so I really liked the correlation to the two that really resonated with me.

it was really easy to understand if Bitcoin is the freedom to transact, then Nostr is the freedom to communicate, and I really liked that relationship. I really recognized that social media is broken and Nostr fixes a lot of that by giving the power and the choice back to users. I really think that that paired with a portable digital social identity that you own and you control for the very first time that you can take with you.

To whatever application, whatever social application you want to use, it's just really unique because you can't log into Twitter, take your social graph and then log into TikTok with it. You know, you just can't do that now. Nostr, you could technically do that. You could have a video streaming app and you log into an audio streaming app or a podcast app or your general social app, and you have the same followers, the same social graph, your contact list, everything is all there.

And that, that's really, really neat. And I think that that's a unique thing that we've never had before.

you explain the social graph in a little bit of detail? Yeah. So your, your social graph is basically who you are social with. It's your, you know, your circle of friends, your followers, the people you interact with on a daily basis in traditional social media that varies from different app to app. You had, you would have to ask everybody. Hey, what's your Instagram account?

I want to follow you there. What's your Twitter account? I want to follow you there. So your social graph is all of your, the people you interact with, the people you follow, the people that follow you. you're able to bring that with you with Nostr, no matter what app you sign into, all of that comes with you.

that's all portable. your social circle, your social experience.

Luke: Yeah. so the key feature of Nostr in that respect is this portability, but this is all still tied down by the, public private key cryptography similar to Bitcoin. In fact, it's the same, cryptography setup as Bitcoin.

Derek: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So just like Bitcoin, you know, you, you want to keep your private key safe. Nostr is the same way. Your private key unlocks access to your social identity, just like your Bitcoin private key unlocks access to your Bitcoin. So you want to keep them safe. You want to make sure that you're, you're practicing safe nsex and you're, you're storing your, Yeah, like, I like that dad joke.

It's a good one.

But you make sure that key is secure and you're not putting that key into random applications because like I said, it unlocks your identity.

Luke: Yeah. I mean, I think on a practical level, that actually is kind of a scary thing in this early days of Nostr, because first of all, people who are into the Nostr environment early are going to get this extremely strong web of trust with other early Nostr users.

Derek: Oh man, this is a fighting point. Like the Nostr is decentralized. So there's no correct way to say it. I've heard Nostr, Nostr, Nostra, like whatever you want. It's just like the logo. There's no official logo. You know, you can make a logo and you can use it. You can make your own saying and use it.

Luke: Nostr actually seems like the

Derek: say,

Knut: we'll go with no

Derek: I, you know, the next time you're gonna have somebody else in your show, they're gonna say Nostr. It's just how it is.

Luke: Totally.

Trust, Reputation, and Identity

Luke: I mean, the decentralization aspect of it, that's good. But the, so, okay, I think that the point I was getting at is that, yeah, these NSECs are really actually valuable in the sense of that, nothing is going to, from this point onward, if someone loses their NSEC, you're not really going to get back the same kind of network in the same way.

Derek: yeah, that's a valid point. If I spent, let's say, a year building my reputation, building my web of trust, my social graph. And then I leak my NSEC accidentally, I have to start all over again, and that's going to be hard because I essentially lost the last year's worth of work. I lost all that proof of work.

Now, people that know you and interact with you, people you've met in person, they'll immediately, transfer that trust to the new identity, but everybody else that doesn't physically know you, that's going to take time to rebuild that.

Luke: Yeah, and, okay, this is, a point here. Why is it important to have this trust and reputation? Why does Nostr need that to work?

Derek: Well, I think that, in Bitcoin, we say, don't trust verify. But, I think that a certain level of trust for certain social interactions has to happen. You know, if we're constantly afraid of interacting with other humans or, you know, stepping outside our comfort zone and being social with humans because we need verification, it just, paints a negative picture.

It, I think that a certain level of Trust will allow us to be more human, more social because we do have to trust for certain aspects of life. And if we don't want a third party to have to KYC us and we have to play by all sorts of other rules, I think that our reputation becomes our identity.

And that allows us to have all these new types of experiences, new types of interactions. Like if I wanted to sell something on Nostr. I have a lot of people that follow me and they say, Hey, I tried to sell something on Nostr and I wasn't able to do it. I said, Oh, I've sold stuff on Nostr.

They're like, yeah, but you're Derek. And you have a lot of people that follow you. And then I've had people. Come to me and say, hey, can you reshare this item that I'm selling to gain exposure because I have a lot of people that follow me and I say, well, I don't know if I want to do that.

I told a guy recently, I didn't know if I wanted to do that because I didn't know them. He wasn't in my web of trust and I didn't want to promote essentially his item that he was selling. Because I didn't know who he was. Now, if he was in my web of trust, maybe Luke, if you were selling something and you wanted me to, I know you, I I've interacted with you.

Sure. You're in my web of trust. I will help you out. I will reshare the item you're selling. And I think that that type of trust in. You know, human interactions is okay.

Breaking Nostr

Knut: one question I have about this whole thing and that, I still haven't wrapped my head around is like. It's super simple to fire up a cryptographic key pair. So, what's preventing basically DDoS attacks and someone firing up a ton of these and like,

Derek: there's essentially really nothing preventing it. We had a Bitcoin Core developer. Ron Stoner, I believe, recently. He decided to show this exact example. And he mined like four million end pubs and he sent a million of them to follow Will from Damus and just to show that, this is essentially an exploit. maybe, we need clients to start to look at low, I'll call them low value key, accounts that don't really follow anybody that have no credit. interactions, that look like they're spam because ultimately anybody can create an infinite number of new keys. Like that's just, that's kind of how it works.

Knut: Yeah, I know Twitter's way of mitigating that is probably the blue check nowadays, like where they, I love that they kick the celebrities off of their high horses and like now everyone can get a blue check. It's just a small payment per month. I don't know if it's 8 or something, but as I understand it, that's the way to fight the bots because like you need to get above a threshold.

Derek: And that kind of exists, in a way on Nostr. So Nostr has, it's not the same type of verification that you would have on Twitter because nothing is truly being verified except for A website exists that says this person has some way of updating a file on this webpage, it's a NIP05 Nostr address.

Luke: Nostr Improvement Protocol,

Derek: Improvement Protocol, or no, Nostr Implementation Possibility.

Yes. because you don't have to implement it if you don't want to. If you don't want to implement it, you don't have to.

And possibility was a miss, it was proposal I was thinking of, but yeah, possibility. Proposal. Yeah. that rings a bell. . Yeah, so, with these Nostr addresses, like, you can kind of have Some type of verification that somebody exists, but then bots could sit there and just spin up new accounts and constantly just verify themselves over and over and over again. So that's not a really good spam, mitigation technique.

I think the best that we have right now is rate limiting and relays. being paid. It's kind of a paywall. So there's free relays that are public that anybody can write to. But then there is also the paid relays where maybe it's a monthly fee. Maybe it's a one time fee, yearly fee, but it's some type of paywall.

Nostr's Relay Architecture

Luke: Can you lightly refresh the relay client,

Derek: Sure, sure. So Clients are just like your web browser, or just like your email browser, your email client, your email application. They connect to relays that store all of your Nostr data. Relays are just like, servers, they're nodes, and they store all of your events, all your nodes, all your Nostr content.

A client then connects to, All these different relays that a user would be utilizing and downloads or pulls the content from the relays. And then the user sends the content to the relays for other people to pull, to pull down. The relays are the real, real, like dumb part of Nostr. They don't really do anything overly exciting besides store and house information where clients are the power houses.

Clients are the ones that are unique and doing all the, Unique, features and displaying the content differently.

Knut: so is there a risk that it goes the same route as SMTP and email and we end up with your Hotmail and your Gmails are

Derek: centralized servers. Like there's like, what I can remember running email servers, you know, two decades ago and it was like no big deal. And now it's a lot harder. you basically get blacklisted by all the big, all the big companies, for, for being an unknown new host, essentially.

Could we see that? Maybe, but there's a new methodology that clients are starting to adopt that drastically improves decentralization. Right now, we would have to, on the majority of clients right now, for us to communicate and know each other exists on Nostr, we would have to share at least one relay in common.

So that way our content is both sent to and pulled from at least one server that we have in common. So we know each other exists and we can communicate that way. Which means you could then have centralization issues where everybody could be using the same Ten whatever relays in common, and you really don't want that in a true decentralized model.

So there's a new methodology that developers are slowly starting to implement in their clients. It's referred to as the outbox model, and the way that this works is that the client will look at all of the people, or all the end pubs, the profiles that A user is following and go out to that user's relays where they're publishing their content and pull the content down from that user's relays instead of the initial user's relays.

So it drastically improves decentralization because the two users don't have to share a relay in common. The client does all the work pulling the content down from whichever the relays are. So I could, in theory, publish all of my content to just like the Derek relay. And if your client supports this new type of outbox model and you don't use the Derek relay, you could still see my content because your client knows to go to the Derek relay to get Derek's content.

Knut: but nothing is forcing people to implement this model. Right.

Derek: No, no, no, exactly. So that, that's why right now we don't have every single client across Nostr using it, but if clients are built with the, NDK, the Nostr development toolkit, Outbox is supported by default now. Snort, Iris, Amethyst, Coracle, I believe. There's a handful of clients that support it now.

And Dalmas doesn't have it yet. Primal doesn't have it yet, but their developers are both committed to adding it in the future. Once all the major clients are doing it, it's like a social consensus at that point.

And just a quick follow on, on this. I think the distinction, the reason this works in my understanding, right. Is that most of these relays would be anyone can read, but you have to have access to write to it. is that correct? Yeah. Well, yeah. For example, like for my relay, anybody can read from my relay, but only, I only allow my wife and I to write to my relay, but since everybody in the world can read from it with the outbox model, you don't have to specifically tell your client.

Your client will know where my content is and go to my relay to get it for

Luke: right? So a model that actually would in fact work in this scenario is someone signs up for maybe one or two big paid relays, something like that. And that relay just lets anyone read from it. Then this outbox model would just let people pull down from those paid relays.

I think we'll see in the future a lot more smaller community based relays just because that methodology will just work like right now. If you have all sorts of smaller community relays, you have to know where the people you follow publish their content.

Derek: And then if they would start publishing it on a new relay and no longer use that relay, you could lose contact with that person. So this new method will fix that.

Nostr User Experience and Adoption

Knut: It's, I mean, all of this sounds complicated, and I think like, do, does Nostr get the masses, like, and can it be fixed with, improved user interfaces and stuff? Like how? there's always a trade off between usability and security, right? So like, how do you see that

Derek: I like to say that technology works best once it fades into the background. You should not know The protocol that you're using. You shouldn't know how all of the sausage is made. You should just know, man, I like sausage. It's delicious. Like, that's all you need to know. Right? and Nostr needs to, to get to that level.

Are we there yet? Definitely not. relays are important, but maybe in the future, whenever a new user signs in, they don't actually really need to choose the relays that often. Maybe it's just going to randomize. You know, there's a thousand relays out there just randomly picks, six relays or something, a half a dozen relays at random.

So it's drastically increasing decentralization. And it does all this in the background. And then under an advanced setting, you can add your own personal one or something like that. most people won't ever go into advanced settings. they'll just use their app because everything else just fades into the background.

They'll just use it. They won't need to know to go in to add media servers or they won't know to go in and configure relays. The clients will just do all of this for them because the technology stack has improved to the point where this can be done.

Knut: yeah, I'm going to continue on the devil's advocate, like

Derek: Fire away. We need

Knut: attack vectors here.

Ethical Concerns and Open Protocols

Knut: so since it's so open and anyone can develop Nostr stuff, like right now you have the ethos and like all the developers, like, I love that all of these young 180 IQ developers are now, they're not making shitcoins anymore and They're all on Nostr, and like, I love that fact, because that's, that's the right usage of that brainpower.

But going forward, and if this really takes off, or when this really takes off, don't you see, don't you think you'll see, people with not as ethical intentions get into the space and try to like, take over?

Derek: Yeah, I mean, sure. I think that, you know, Nostr is an open protocol. So anything will be tried because it can be tried because it's open. But then we need to look at the free market and we need to look at staying open. If Nostr is truly permissionless, then yes, shitcoiners should be able to come build on Nostr.

I don't want to use their clients. I won't recommend anybody. they should be able to come and try to build something because Nostr is open and maybe they'll only have their shitcoin corner of Nostr and they'll have their own community over here. The rest of us won't be using that.

And that's probably okay. Well,

Knut: It's all about optionality, right?

Derek: that I think is the issue that Nostr really solves is because it's giving people choice. And in legacy social media, you don't really have a lot of choice. You need to use what is spoon fed to you. So if somebody wants to come build, you know, Ethereum tipping or Solana tipping or something on Nostr, I mean, that's,

Cool. Like I'm not going to use it. I'm not going to tell my wife that she now needs to Ethereum zap me, but the fact that somebody could do it would prove that Nostr really is permissionless and open.

Knut: Yeah, this leads me directly to a deeper philosophical question.

Hypernostrification vs. Hyperbitcoinization

Derek: Yeah. Because, in your mind, what happens first? Hypernostrification or hyperbitcoinization? And the reason I ask this now is like, because if we get hyperbitcoinization first, then it might be harder for, for shitcoins Oh yeah.

Knut: But in your mind, what happens first of the two?

Knut: I don't know. Again, we're going to go to a Derekism, another saying I like to say. I like to say that the purple pill helps the orange pill go down. So it's lube.

Derek: I think that we see more Nostr adoption first, and that helps with Bitcoin adoption through just ease of use and fun and frictionless manners.

I really think that, we know the money's broken, but social's also broken too. I don't think, The world is entirely going to move to Bitcoin. we're going to see hyperbitcoinization in the next couple of years, but maybe we'll see hyper Nostrification in the next couple of years as applications slowly start to rebuild and try out Nostr and see how that works for them.

And then from there, they get on boarded to Bitcoin through that.

Knut: So the reason that the web is broken, and the reason social media is broken, is that because of bad money. Like, what's the correlation there? Like, have you thought about that?

Derek: Maybe I like to think back to, you know, two decades ago, if you wanted to run a server out of your house to run your own media server, your own, you know, photos, your own documents, you know, movies, music, whatever you wanted to do, any type of social. you really couldn't do it. Like we didn't really have the infrastructure or the technology to really do it.

It was very expensive to run a server at home. we didn't have point and click installs for the average person. We didn't have point and click, you know, setups for in configurations for routers, we just didn't have the technology. For the average person to do it, you know, if, if you're a, you know, systems administrator, network engineer, sure, you can do all that stuff.

I mean, I was doing that 20 years ago too, but nobody else, you know, besides people in that like profession really did that. Nowadays, you can spend 50 and buy a raspberry pi and Install piece of software on it and touch a couple buttons and boom, you can deploy all these home services.

I think that since we couldn't do that 20 years ago, 30 years ago, we moved the technology stack into these large data centers where. The technology existed for people to run these services because they had the software, they had the high bandwidth, they had the fast servers, computers.

So we moved everything into these data centers and we trusted these large technology companies because they had the resources to do that. But then as technology improves, the infrastructure improves. Software improves and becomes easier. Now we can start pulling that out of the data center and the users can do it at home.

I don't think it's related to bad money. I just think it's related to, you know, we were early, so we moved to centralization because we had to, and now that we've advanced enough, now we can kind of. Recapture that and pull it back.

Knut: Yeah.

Luke: I actually like that argument for this because I mean, it's the gold thing, right? Like the gold physically couldn't do these things, but now Bitcoin does that. so gold centralized into vaults. Because that was just the way that

Knut: And fiat solved that problem.

Luke: exactly. so now maybe what you're saying is that, yeah, at the time, the actual server infrastructure had to be centralized like that.

And now there's a decentralized alternative. I can buy that.

Derek: and here's, a thought on this, maybe fiat money and, you know, our kids take the bill and pushing things forward faster and faster, that led to the computer revolution and the internet revolution. If that had been done in a sounder way, then maybe the internet would have developed slower, but in a more sound way, maybe, you know, technology bills getting published And money printing to fund, you know, so they just build fast and quick and they built too fast. Maybe it wasn't sustainable. The only way to be sustainable was to centralize who knows. It's all related to bad money.

I get it.

Knut: My tip is to not spend 50 on a raspberry pi, but spend a couple of hundred bucks and buy a start 9 instead.

Luke: something that, Definitely has the slightly more resources. And I mean, I think definitely, we, we had, someone asked the question at the noob day about, about running relays and everything. And I mean, it's great that people are actually wanting to do the self sovereign thing with Nostr the same way as they, Do with the Bitcoin nodes and stuff.

And it's great to see that these like node in the box

Derek: Yeah.

Luke: are making that easy for people.

Running Your Own Relay

Luke: So maybe, maybe here's like a, like a practical thing, just like a little bit on running your own relay and being as self sovereign as possible. And Nostr, do you have some thoughts on that?

Derek: Yeah. So I personally run two different relays. I run a relay on my phone just to basically act as a place for my DMs and my offline notes to go. So I can have my, I'm sorry, not DMs. I meant drafts. The other D with drafts for my drafts to go. And then for my offline notes to go, I run a relay in my house for my wife and I to use, as I had mentioned earlier.

And I do a little bit more of a complicated method because I want my relay in my house to be accessible from the outside world. That piece of the puzzle was still a little bit technical because you have to configure some network settings to allow the outside world to connect in to a computer that you're running at home.

So that, portion of it isn't like point and click easy yet. But, if you do have a start nine or you do have an umbral, you can point and click to have a relay at home installed. And then while you're at home on, Wi Fi or if you have a desktop, it's hardwired, whatever, anything that's on your home network can easily use those local relays.

And then if you want to access them from the outside world, you have to know that networking piece that I was just talking about, or you need to use like a home VPN. Or something like tail scale. And then you can accomplish that.

Onboarding and User Accessibility

Knut: so when will my 78 year old mother, fire up a Nostr, keep her?

Derek: I don't know. Maybe does she use social media now?

Knut: Yeah, she does.

Derek: What does she use?

Knut: Facebook, mainly.

Derek: Okay. Well, maybe someday I think Facebook's going to be a holdout on this. Maybe we'll see Elon do it in the next, two or three years, but I think someday we'll see a large legacy.

Traditional social media client turn into a very highly customized Nostr client and users really won't even know it. They'll custody the keys for the user, give you a username and password. They'll do all of that stuff. It'll be a, filtered relay, maybe moderated relay, who knows. But it'll essentially look the same and function the same for users, except they'll be connected to the Nostrverse.

they'll be publishing publicly to Nostr, and they won't even know it yet. So maybe when that happens, then she'll have her keys. Otherwise, I think the onboarding process needs to be improved a little bit

Knut: Mm hmm.

Derek: We can have 78 year olds, actively using Nostr.

I think it needs to be easier.

Knut: Boomer.

Derek: Yeah.

Luke: Well, some 78 year olds are more tech savvy than others,

Knut: yes, most of them are more tech savvy than my mother for sure.

Luke: there you go.

Beyond Twitter Alternatives

Luke: But this actually leads to another point here, is that the Twitter alternatives are really the clients that are the big thing. And actually, I think even people who are in the Nostr ecosystem already, Don't really do much outside of these Twitter alternatives, but there are other ways to display the Nostr information that looks a lot different, right?

Can you go into that a little bit?

Derek: yeah, I think that the reasons that Twitter alternatives are the most popular is because that's what we needed most, you know, and that's what was the most popular use case in the beginning, and it still holds true today, but it's also because These applications kind of manage the key for you, like on your device.

And a lot of this other stuff, a lot of these new unique use cases are web applications, they're websites, and people don't want to just go and paste their private key, their NSEC into a random website, which you should never do anyways. I found out that using extensions is something a lot of people don't use.

Like, with my app, NostrNest. com, so many people just don't use extensions. And you need to use an extension to sign in. The extension manages your key for you on the web. It acts as like your key management signing device. And a lot of people just don't use it. I would tell them, oh, you need to use an extension.

They're like, well, how do I use an extension? It's like, oh, you just need to go here and install that. And so many people just aren't familiar with it. It's really, that was really surprising to me. my point is that the other stuff, while it can be exciting unique and cool, it's not used as much because I think signing into all these web apps is, Very different from the average user.

They're used to using a username and password. They're not used to having to go and install an extension in Safari or install a whole nother web browser on Android or a whole nother app, to access a website. That's weird. it's a little too different. And once that workflow improves, then maybe we'll see, your Twitch alternative or your, medium alternative, blow up.

And become more popular.

Luke: Well, and actually the funny thing is the experience. Once you have the extension set up and you just go

Derek: Oh, it's easy

clients, like frictionless, it's perfect. But once you get over that hurdle of installing the extension, putting your private key into it and logging into that first website where it says, Hey, you're trying to log in and this website wants to know who you are. Do you want to allow it? Yes. you're going to post something and you know, do you want to have this post to your profile?

Yes. Once you understand how that works, then it's a no brainer, but it's just that first technical hurdle that so many people struggle with. But hopefully we Nostr developers can make this easier, in the coming future.

Luke: it's the natural innovation beyond because, a lot of services had been adopting a password lists, authentication model, basically just send a code to your email address. and I like that model. I think that's a lot more secure. You just have to worry about your email being secure

But then you go, one, next level, and it's everything is from that key pair. we are Nostr pilled as far as the use case and what it is. But it comes down to, I think, a little more of the pain points and the usability of it,

Nostr Algorithms

Luke: I will use Nostr, like the, the feed and everything, but I'll also use the, the Twitter feed as well because there's just so much more information on that. and the thing is, my current thing that I would like to see improvement on, or at least my ability to make my own improvements on is the algorithm selection.

and I know you've got a talk, coming up about this, like how to tailor your own algorithm, basically. And so before I give any other specific questions on this topic, could you preview, what you're going to talk about in terms of how to

Derek: Sure. So even though there is no blockchain, time chain, whatever for Nostr, I like to say that Nostr is a proof of work protocol because there are no algorithms at the protocol level. And the content isn't necessarily all the time brought forward for you. You're not spoonfed content.

So that means you have to do the work. You have to put in the work to be social. You have to do the work to get discovered and to discover content. And people aren't so much used to that anymore because they're used to being spoonfed a fire hose of content from your major platform. So with Nostr, we have the ability to regain and control our attention.

And we can control our social experience. So you have to do the work. You have to go out and comment on people's posts and you have to socially engage. You need to let people know that you're here. You have to make your voice heard. You have to interact with people. You have to just be social.

And it's really, it's just an interesting take because right now on these traditional platforms, you can kind of just lurk and have a decent experience because you're fed content. And on Nostr, that isn't the case most of the time, but now we have these, algorithm stores that are starting to pop up, where you can use them if you want to, it's not a requirement, which is, you know, like, maybe on, Twitter or Instagram or something like that, like, the algorithm is there, and maybe you can view a different feed, but It's, not the default.

and right now, like Nostr clients, the default is your chronological feed. if that's what you want, you can always have it. But if you want to do some algorithm, you can choose to do that. And it's open and transparent. So you could go and look at the algorithm to see what it's doing.

And that's just unique. We don't really have that type of user choice. So you can be your own algorithm socially. Or you can use an algorithm that somebody else built.

Knut: All right. so I think this was sort of, at least partially, an answer to my next question. And this is something I talked to Giacomo about, but because of the very reasons you just mentioned, you get very high quality people on Nostr and people who agree with one another and are nice and friendly to one another and you take care, it's your reputational capital and so on.

But. Many people are on Twitter for the opposite reason, that they want to argue with people. So how do we get more assholes on Nostr that are wrong on the internet, you know, and

you know, Yeah.

Derek: but I like to say that these algorithms on these traditional platforms were built to keep us enraged and engaged because if we're constantly upset and engaged, we're going to be using the application more.

We're going to see more ads. Ads are going to make more money. And it's going to fuel them to build bigger, better, more algorithms. We're going to use the app more. We're going to be more engaged and enraged. And it's just a never ending cycle.

I think that sure, if somebody wanted to build an asshole algorithm and just only show you controversial, mean content on Nostr, it's open. You can do that. And then they can have their asshole feed, I guess.

Nostr's Competitiveness

Knut: but, okay, this ties into a more serious point, if the, traditional platforms are optimized for engagement and, you know, to keep you on, how does Nostr take off if it doesn't have that drug,

Derek: Yeah, sure. I think most humans generally, want to be good people and don't want to be bad and negative all the time. It's just that, media really fuels that clown world also is very upsetting to people sometimes too.

And it drives their social experiences that way. another Derek ism is that, we're doom scrolling on other platforms. But humans weren't born to doom scroll, they should bloom scroll, people want to be good, I hope, If you're surrounded by good content, it's going to make you more positive.

If you're surrounded by negative content, it's going to make you more negative.

Knut: yeah, I certainly hope that people will use it more, because it ties into why newspapers that have aggressive headlines and like fearful headlines sell better, because our brains are wired for fear,

Derek: Yeah, exactly. we need to change that. We need to take it back. We need to use Nostr to take it back. we should be selling good stuff, not bad stuff.

I totally agree, Is it going to work in practice?

Knut: we'll see.

Luke: actually, so part of the practical thing on this, you can scroll virtually infinitely on these, Twitter apps. But Nostr, there always is some kind of limit. And let me explain what I mean by that. So in Primal, for example, Primal being the app that I use mostly on the web and the phone now, I do like, some others such as, Amethyst, and I've tried other, clients for the web, great to have the variety, but mostly I use Primal for the ease of use factor.

You got into this, at the noob day a little bit. but the, the two styles of feed that I get there through Primal is basically a latest. a version of latest and a version of, trending and the ways that, so, okay, not to overcomplicate this exactly, but I like, for example, concepts of, your tribe, the people who you follow and who follow you

Li limits based on the web of trust, I think. I think that's good And primal gives you tools to limit. So if you decide you want to see a wider feed, maybe you get the people who your followers follow. And then when I click that, I always get a whole ton of Japanese and Thai stuff like that, right? So, it's funny that it's not quite perfect at that level.

To be able to discover new stuff. Okay. I'm, this is actually going to be multiple questions. So maybe we'll start with that one. But how do you discover new stuff on Nostr that isn't the top, top, top most trending thing? Cause this is another side of the problem. but isn't someone that you already know and already follow.

Data Vending Machines (DVMs)

Derek: so I use my main client is Amethyst and there's several clients now that support these things called DVMs. It stands for Data Vending Machine. it sounds kinda, you know, nerdy but all it is, is an algorithm, really. I mean, an algorithm that is executed when somebody says, hey, I want to obtain this piece of data from you, give it to me.

Some of these data vending machines may be free. Some of them may be like a vending machine where you pay it some sats, and then it gives you the data, the algorithms executed after it gets paid. So I use DVMs to find new content. Like that's part of that whole algorithm to discover content.

There's all sorts of different ones. Like maybe I want to. Find, popular notes of cats or dogs, fluffy friends is what I think it's called. Or maybe I want to find, a trending, or there's a new DVM that was suggested recently. It's really cool. it finds the latest note from people you follow.

So if you constantly are posting in the feed every single day, all day long, and then there's other people that maybe post once a week or something, you would never see their content because they're always drowned out by more active users. So this new data vending machine, like algorithm, it'll go out there and find just the top latest note from somebody you follow.

So it's just a feed of like latest notes and that's a way to find content that you. Might generally miss, and that there's actually one called, something like what, while you were away or find content while you weren't active, or something like that on Nostr. And it tries to find content for you that way.

There's all these unique ways to find content and now that they're showing up more and more clients like no strudel and cortical. Coracle does some really neat stuff on, discoverability, finding content now. And this gets back to building your own algorithm. If you want that and you use these clients and it helps you, you find content and you're right.

Like sometimes they're not perfect. Like maybe you'll see some, content from other languages, you know, but you know, that, yeah.

Luke: It's fine that that exists. It's just not relevant to me at all. I mean, I know there are

Derek: that's a feature, maybe that's a filter or something like that on a client that needs to be built in is only show content from my native, or from my language that I normally post in, or my locale, or something like that is a way to maybe that's a new DVM right there.

If we just figured it out, we need,

Well, how do users find information on DVMs? yeah, well, if you're at, this gets back to the, we're early and Nostr is very technical. They're onboarding on Nostr as a whole generally sucks. It does because it's technical. We need more explanations or we need things to be simpler. And because these things, neither of these exist, there's probably a lot of people that use maybe Amethyst or maybe use.

Nostrudel or Coracle that have no clue what these things are. today, Primal announced their DVM store. Their, algorithm marketplace, essentially. And they do it very, very well. It's gonna be, it looks like it's gonna be kind of front and center for you to choose. And you can configure your feed with just a toggle radio button.

It looks like it's designed really, really nice. And maybe we'll see some of this user experience slip over to other clients, because right now you can get to them on several other clients, but they need a little bit more work, I think, to be, more user friendly.

Luke: Sure, and well, okay, and so, you find this stuff even by asking where to find this stuff on Nostr?

Derek: I can give you a website, I don't know the name of it, but it's something like datavendingmachines. com or nostrdvms. com, I don't remember the exact domain name, but it lists them all and explains what they are and how they work.

You should, we should have some of that in app, I think, to have a better user experience.

Luke: And how difficult is it to make your own?

Derek: to make your own DVM or to use one.

Luke: even, for example, just configure it

Derek: To make your own DVM, you probably need to be a Nostr developer. You need to know how to do some development programming. But if you want to utilize one, it's just a few clicks of a button. The most configurable one that exists today, Coracle. You can build these custom feeds with DVMs, with hashtags, with lists of people, with all sorts of stuff, and you can build a very, very user customized, feed, and I believe Damus NoteDeck is going to have something similar like that, too, where in the future, they'll have these algorithm stores and all these different types of feeds that you're going to be able to very easily point and click and build these feeds, but to build your own feed, Custom DVM, yeah, you should probably be a developer for that.

Otherwise, you'll just use somebody else's DVM that they built.

Luke: Okay, and then, so, I guess the engagement side of it. That's the other way to so called build your own feed?

Derek: right, like if, and this kind of mimics the real world, right, if we're standing outside in the conference hall and you and Knut are talking and I want to interject in the conversation, I'm not gonna just stand there off to the side and hope that you look at me and say, hey, do you want to talk?

I gotta go over and stand there and I gotta join the conversation. And that's really what you need to do on Nostr. if somebody is posting, commenting, replying, whatever, if you want to join the conversation, you need to join the conversation. You need to comment and talk too. And then those people are going to be like, Oh, hey, look, Derek's replying.

Luke: I don't know who he is, but now he's joined the conversation. I liked his reply. Maybe I want to follow him. And it just mimics real world in that. and as I understand it, the primal algorithm is largely reply based, like, the, the trending is, is, notes that get a lot of, replies, and, that, that's, that's important for that algorithm, and that's, this is actually one of these things I would like to personally be able to, to, to toggle, is, is, I don't necessarily look for the things that have the most interest.

replies, maybe I want it, maybe I want, because that's engagement, maybe I want the things that, that have the most likes, or, the most zaps, that one, that one's easy, I like that, that one's usually, pretty available and all this,

Derek: yeah, the mentioning the Primal algorithm for their trending is an interesting topic because over the past year, like when they first announced trending I think their signal indicator might have been zaps and people were doing like fake zaps just to show that this could be gamed and then Primal went back and retooled a little bit and then it was people were doing like spamming like thousands and thousands of reactions and then hitting trending again.

It's an open protocol. Anybody's going to do anything. And then, you know, Primal went back again and retooled and made their algorithm better and, then they, once they, hit a working model that couldn't be gamed as easily, then they published it very transparent. This is how our algorithm works.

You can go review it all on GitHub, yada, yada, yada. And, you know, that's kind of where we're at today. I think that, having an algorithm or having a DVM or something that, You could customize, Hey, I want to see most likes or most zaps or most replies. I think that's cool with it. Cause maybe your signal indicator is different than mine.

And you'll have the one from, the client, like however their algorithm is configured, but maybe you can go in and configure your algorithm just a little bit differently because you like comments, but you want to see those big zaps and there actually is a DVM for top zaps or something like that.

Luke: It sounds like there's something for everyone here, it's just a matter of figuring out how to use it

Knut: It's sort of like the saying with Bitcoin. Bitcoin is for everyone and people pointing out that no, it's not. It's for anyone. Yeah, and that's a better description.

Luke: Well, and actually this is another philosophical question here, right, because still we're going to get people that come into this who aren't going to want to do any customization. They just want to come in and have it work and be like their Twitter.

And then what happens is that the default algorithm of the largest app turns into the new

Derek: into like the default.

Luke: yeah, which also turns into the things that people see and all of this.

Derek: well, right now, as far as I know, there are no clients that the default feed that you get is an algorithm. I think you have to go in and configure that and change that and choose to do that. As long as that stays the case. You know, the chronological, some people might say chronological order is its own algorithm, but as long as the, chronological algorithm is the default one, I really don't see that's that big of a deal, but even if it is, we have user choice, you're right.

If the most popular client would automatically say, Hey, We're gonna switch to using this algorithm. Whenever Facebook makes a feed change, or Twitter would make a feed change, you know people are up in arms and they yell and they complain, but you can't do anything about it. Well, Nostr's different. You, you literally can, you can say, well, I'm going to use a new client.

So I'm curious what would happen if, the most popular client makes a major change like this, they change the algorithm, the default algorithm, would everybody really do what they say they want to do on Facebook? Like I'm never using Facebook again because you changed my feed. Well, they can't go anywhere else.

So they stick to Facebook, but now you could. So would people actually move to another app?

Funny that you should say that, because that's one of the things that made me leave Facebook, right? Because they actually did some social experiment by pissing people off but now you would have a choice, right? Like, so that opens up a whole new

Knut: yeah, and I could take my posts with me.

Derek: You take your content, your social graph with you. so maybe we won't see that, or maybe once someone does it, they shoot some self in the foot and they're like, Oh, we don't, maybe we shouldn't do this.

We should give users a choice.

The Permanency of Online Content

Knut: There's another thing about the social graph and the permanency of it, like how permanent it is, because everyone should know that anything you do on the internet is as permanent as a tattoo. And that's why you can't delete posts from Nostr, like the whole deleting of data is a mirage.

It's not real.

you can delete, but not every relay is going to honor that request. but what I'm coming to here is that, is that going to scare people that their stupid post from when they were 15 years old will be there forever?

Derek: Well, what I'd be curious about is, on legacy social platforms, when you hit delete, Is it actually deleted from a database or is it just flagged as deleted and don't show again?

probably the latter. Yeah, so probably, you can screenshot stuff. Like if you post something on the internet, it's literally never going to go away.

Knut: People just need to learn this. So maybe Nostr is the way that they learn that, because it's more honest.

Derek: it is more honest. Like I can make a request for a deletion from every relay that my content exists on.

Knut: Yeah.

Derek: If I, you know, let's say there's a thousand relays and 999 of them delete the content, but one of them says, yeah, I'm going to archive everything, I'm not deleting it.

Well, then it still exists on the internet, like it just, so that's why we say there's no delete. Yeah, maybe you're right, maybe it is the most honest that you can request it to be deleted, but there's no guarantee that the request is going to be honored.

Luke: Good. Yeah. okay.

Getting the Most Out of Nostr

Luke: So, the principles of Nostr seem to be getting pretty clear here that, it's all about this portability, this decentralization, this new way of doing things, and yes, there is going to be some. Switchover, that people have to do to, really get the most out of it.

But, that said, there's so much cool stuff going on, that once you make that switch, there's this whole new world of it. And, for me personally, the biggest thing that's prevented me from going all in is, I guess I just, haven't got quite The right thing, the right feed, the engagement. I mean, I think timezone right now plays a big role here, because when is everyone actually active?

How do you get involved in conversations? For Europe, it's a bit tough. You almost have to post on Nostr in the European evening to get any engagement with North American users, which at the moment are the majority. At least in the English speaking world.

Derek: That doesn't really happen unless you specifically seek. That on Nostr. So a little hack about being your own algorithm that I've used over the past, year and a half or so is, you know, people used to say it was bad form to retweet your own tweets, but you need to do that.

You need to boost your own content on Nostr. You need to, I do it specifically for different time zones. Like you said, you know, maybe I posted something really good. In 8 o'clock in the morning and then six hours later, I'm like, you know what? There's more people up and out and about in the world right now.

I'm going to boost that because I thought that was really good. I don't do it for every single one of my notes because that's probably overkill. But maybe once or twice a day, if I thought I did something, I think, man, that needs more views.

So this gets back to being your own algorithm. So I would say try that. People aren't going to hate on you for it. people understand that you need to be your own algorithm and bring your own content forward.

Knut: know how Nostr reminds me that I should be more careful on the internet because like sometimes I accidentally like posts that I want to, I want to declick the button and make the like go away, but it doesn't.

Derek: But well, so that depends on the client. So what that would do is that would send a delete request

Knut: yeah, exactly what we talked about before.

Yeah, to all like amethyst supports on, you know, unliking, but it sends a delete request to all the relays saying, Hey, delete that, that reaction. that's the thing. It's, it reminds me of what's actually going on under the hood while the other social media platforms just are optimized for make it simple for the user. Yeah.

Nostr vs Bitcoin

Knut: to take this in a slightly different direction and, a final point here, we've found out why you're so bullish on Nostr.

Why are you bullish on Bitcoin? Like what's, what's your, what are you most excited for in the Bitcoin space right now?

Derek: The most exciting thing about Bitcoin for me is to see these developing communities around the world, like using Bitcoin because it's better than their corrupt money. they're inflated money. And seeing them being able to save for the very first time and being able to essentially like be their own bank, you know, banking the unbanked and just being better money for them.

I think that is so cool. Like I absolutely love watching all these videos of Communities around the world bettering themselves and educating their youth or children on money and finances and seeing the kids being able to have better lives because of this. Like that's the use case. It's cool.

wealth preservation is cool. I understand, sound money Everything is broken, after reading, Safedine's, the fiat standard. thinking about Bitcoin is another element there's a lot of interesting use cases and ways to think about it.

But my favorite is, communities having these circular economies and bettering themselves.

Knut: Great.

Luke: Yeah, fantastic answer and very much aligned with us. And, since we've been, poking at different bits of Nostr this whole time, I also was hoping to end on a, on a optimistic note on the Nostr side as, as well.

Most Exciting Projects on Nostr

Luke: So what are you most excited about that's coming up right now? What do you think is going to make the biggest impact in what you're aware of?

Derek: There's so many really cool projects out there. Oh man. there's probably ones being demonstrated right now that I've never even, you know, wasn't aware of. I really like the ability to have, so the, There's a Nostr app called zap. store. It is a Google Play or App Store, replacement, FOSS, built on Nostr.

It allows us to see, applications that are reviewed and installed by our web of trust. So An application that's really popular and has good reviews by people, you know, people that are in your web of trust versus who knows who they are, if they're bots or whatever on, you know, these other app stores. I think that that's a very neat use case.

You know, we see problems in the Bitcoin ecosystem where apps get removed from app stores all the time, And it just seems that everything is getting choked in this regard. So I think that's a neat use case, especially what's been going on in the Bitcoin ecosystem. I'm really excited to see that continue to grow and get fleshed out.

I think just. Everything being able to be more interoperable on Nostr. I'm really bullish for the next big thing to be built on Nostr and then all these other clients to be like, wow, I want to implement it. And then they all implement it. And that feature then is used everywhere, but there's just so much stuff.

It's hard to be bullish on one thing. Like, you know, Pablo's, Nutsack, Cashew wallet is really cool.

Luke: Yeah. What a

Derek: It takes balls to decide the kind of name. does.

Knut: All right.

Wrapping Up

Derek: So other than Nostr, where can people find you on the internet know what? I got tired of Odell yelling about Nostr only and me being a huge Nostr bull, not being Nostr only. So a couple of months ago I deleted everything. It's all gone. I have no Twitter. I have no Facebook. I have no Instagram, no LinkedIn. I'm Nostr only.

Knut: All right.

Derek: you want to find me, You need to go to Nostr because I don't exist anywhere else anymore.

Luke: any specific things that you're working on that you'd like to tell us

Derek: So the most exciting thing that I've personally done recently is I organized a community led Nostr booth at BTC Prague, where I basically said to the community, Hey, Nostr needs to have a big presence so we can purple pill Prague. Let's have a booth. I want developers to be able to come to the booth, talk to their users, talk about their products.

Getting a booth is expensive. And a lot of these indie, smaller developers, can't afford that. So what if they just donate a little bit of Bitcoin? We pooled those funds together. We had maybe a couple larger, Developers, sponsors, and we pull all these funds together. We have this Nostr booth.

it was great. I think it was one of the most well received booths. I'm a little biased there, but it was busy for three days straight. We had tons of people there all the time. everybody that I talked to absolutely loved it. It was great to see. the whole Nostr community come together for this, essentially an educational slash marketing effort really to help grow Nostr and teach and educate people about Nostr.

I'm excited to do it again. Like I don't know when and where, but I want to do it again. I think it was great and I would love to have the same initiative at some point in the near future.

Luke: thanks a lot for coming on.

Derek: for having me.

Luke: We could probably continue to try and pick your encyclopedic brain on the Nostr stuff, but we'll give you a break. We know you've got another panel

Derek: So enjoy the rest of the conference. Thanks again, Derek. This has been the Bitcoin Infinity Show. All right. Thank you

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The LNbits Pay Links (LNURLp) extension has undergone several updates since the release of version 0.5.0. These updates focus on enhancing functionality, bug fixes, and refining the user interface. Here’s a look at the key changes and the community members who have contributed to these improvements.

Key Updates Since v0.5.0 on May 14th 2024

The Pay Links extension has had a number of updates aimed at increasing reliability and user experience:

• Bug fix where some Nostr Zap receipts were not being published to relays
• Increased LNAddress Length: The limit for LNAddress lengths was increased, allowing users more flexibility in creating payment links.
• Fixes and Improvements: Several key fixes were made, including:
• Parsing URL errors and issues with empty success URLs were corrected to ensure smoother transaction experiences.
• The change of wallet for a pay link and the early return in functions were adjusted to prevent potential disruptions during payment processing.
• The handling of empty string content was refined to prevent errors in data processing.

Contributions from the Community

This series of updates is the result of dedicated efforts from our community contributors. Special thanks to:

@dni: For their continuous involvement in refining the extension’s functionality.

@motorina0: Whose contributions have consistently addressed critical bugs.

@talvasconcelos: For improving webhook integrations.

@Opago-Pay: Notably made their first contribution, enhancing the LNAddress feature.

These contributors have played a pivotal role in ensuring that the LNBits Pay Links extension remains robust and user-friendly.

Looking Forward

The LNbits project is committed to continuous improvement based on community feedback and emerging needs. We appreciate the community’s active involvement and encourage more users to participate in the development process.

Download the Latest Version: Update your Pay Links extension from within LNbits in the extensions control panel.

Thank you to all our contributors for their hard work and dedication to making the LNbits Pay Links extension better with each update.

@ fd208ee8:0fd927c1

But who will identify the spam?

Any relay will get hit with spam. That's just the cost of being a server admin. (Of course, we're all going to end up server admins, now that local and private relays are becoming ubiquitous, but I digress.)

The question is more: What is spam? Who gets to determine which events are spam?

That's actually a completely subjective decision, so I think individual npubs should be determining it. nostr:npub1494rtg3ygq4cqawymgs0q3mcj6hucvu4kmadv03s5ey2sg32df5shtzmp0 was heading in the direction of individually-trained, intelligent spam filters, with Minitru, but npubs need more standardized information, to make effective decisions and to calibrate their personal filters.

6 Confirmations

Information about an unknown npub is gathered by

Examining it in isolation * interacting with it (such as in a conversation), * reading what it has already published, * asking it to pay money * requesting it to perform some task

... and by examining it within a group * asking other npubs if they follow it (the basis of WoT) * or asking others if the npub is already known to them (community membership, articles they've zapped, replies they've given, etc.)

All of these things should leave a sort of audit trail, so that the next evaluator can judge accordingly, or ask for more information. Then the confirmations build up, without someone needing to be followed.

Like with Bitcoin. The transactions aren't "followed", they're confirmed.

This npub has had 3 confirmations... 6 confirmations... 10470 confirmations.

You could have 10 followers, but 12000 confirmations, because you manage to meet everyone's minimum, but didn't make the hurdle to the "follow" list.

Hit two birds with one stone

This would also allow follow lists to become friend lists, again, eliminate the need for an additional "favorites" list, and raise the information value of following.

@ cb084639:2f16502a

รีวิวงาน #TBC2024 สไตล์ #Richter

เรื่องมันเริ่มมาตั้งแต่ช่วงที่ทาง

npub1ejn774qahqmgjsfajawy7634unk88y26yktvwuzp9kfgdeejx9mqdm97a5

ประกาศขายตั๋วงาน TBC2024 และได้ยินมาว่า จะเปิดรับ อาสาสมัครมาช่วยงาน ตั้งแต่วันนั้นก็คิดมาตลอดว่าอยากจะช่วยงานแต่ไม่รู้จะช่วยอะไรดี อย่างน้อยก็ช่วยทำในสิ่งที่ช่วยได้แล้วให้คนที่เราไปแทนได้ไปทำหน้าที่ที่ดีกว่า ก็ถือว่าเป็นการสนับสนุนส่วนหนึ่ง ก็ยังดี เพราะภาพจากปีที่แล้วมันลอยเข้ามา เราเองก็มางานคนเดียวไม่รู้จักใครเลย ได้เห็นพี่นิวและคุณนิ่ม ที่อยู่ร้านขายเสื้อแบบยุ่งมากๆ ถ้ามีคนมาช่วยเพิ่มก็คงดี พอดีเลยที่ทีมงานจับเราลงตำแหน่งนี้ จึงมีโอกาสได้มาช่วยงาน และรู้สึกเป็นเกียรติที่ได้ร่วมงานครับ ขอบคุณทุกคนที่ได้มาเจอกันในงาน ผมอาจจะไม่ได้พูดถึงทุกคนแต่ แค่มองตากันก็เข้าใจแล้ว เจอกันเยอะมากๆ ถ้าใครได้ผ่านร้านขายเสื้อก็จะเจอผมอยู่ตรงนั้น มีเพื่อนๆแวะเวียนมาทักทาย พูดคุย มาป่วน 😄😄 ประโยคที่ส่วนมากจะได้ยินเวลาผมทักทายไม่ใช่ว่าชื่ออะไรนะ ผมจะถามว่า กินข้าวยัง กินอะไรหรือยัง มันอาจจะเป็นคำง่ายๆ แต่มันแฝงไปด้วยความห่วงใยกัน บางคนเห็นไกลๆได้แต่สบตาแล้ว พยักหน้าให้กัน เหมือนทุกคนในงานเป็นเพื่อน เพื่อนที่พูดจาภาษาเดียวกัน ไม่รู้จะบรรยายออกมายังไงมันรู้สึกดี อิ่มเอมไปหมด ได้แนะนำสินค้า ได้มองเห็นกลุ่มเพื่อนคุยกันสนุกสนาน มันเป็นบรรยากาศที่ดีเลยทีเดียว เอาเป็นว่าเป็นประสบการณ์ที่ดีมากๆ เมื่อเทียบกับปีที่แล้วเลยแหละครับ ขอบคุณ อ.ตั๊ม แม่โบว์ npub1ejn774qahqmgjsfajawy7634unk88y26yktvwuzp9kfgdeejx9mqdm97a5

ที่ให้โอกาสได้ร่วมงาน ขอบคุณเฮียโต้ง สำหรับหนังสือและขนมแสนอร่อยที่เอามาให้เราได้จับจ่ายกัน ขอบคุณ เพื่อนทุกคนที่เข้ามาทักทายกัน ขอบคุณลูกพี่สมนึกหัวหน้าแก๊งค์ร้านเสื้อ พี่แองจี้ แฟนพี่สมนึก แฟนพี่ตั้ม และทีมงานน้องเอิ้น ที่ช่วยขายของ รักทุกคน

siamstr #siamstrog #nostr

@ ffbcb706:b0574044

{"name":"Jurjen de Vries","score":0}

@ 64acd5df:8f2159da

@ 6bae33c8:607272e8

After the Sunday night debacle I was braced for the worst, but in the end, I have to give this game an eight out of 10. I don’t mean in quality (LOL), just for advancing my interests. I had the Falcons plus 6.5, and why it looked potentially dicey for a second at the end when the Eagles were chewing clock, up three, in the red zone, it was the right side for most of the game.

I also had Drake London going, and while it was dire for a while, the game-winning TD catch salvaged his day. DeVonta Smith produced all game for me too, and even Dallas Goedert got a couple extra points on the Eagles final drive before the Hurts pick. Yes, Goedert’s 6.8 with A.J. Brown out was disappointing, but he’s a tight end, and we now know that’s not a position that ever produces any scoring, no matter how high you draft them. Punting TE in the Primetime was arguably the best decision I made all draft season.

• Bijan Robinson is an awfully smooth runner, but he doesn’t look as explosive or quick as say Kenneth Walker or De’Von Achane. I just don’t get the sense he’s about to take it to the house. (I’m sure he’ll prove me wrong next week with two long TDs), but I see a glider with vision more than a pure speed back. Nothing wrong with this skill set though. Tyler Allgeier also looked solid and saw nine carries to Robinson’s 14.

• Darnell Mooney led the Falcons in receiving thanks to a long TD on which he stopped on a dime and shed the defender. It’s a pretty narrow tree in Atlanta, so Mooney should have value as Kirk Cousins warms up to the new team.

• Cousins was fine and obviously delivered on the crucial drive. Something is just a little off about all offenses league wide though.

• Jalen Hurts hogged all the production as usual, vulturing the goal-line carry from Saquon Barkley. He made a couple nice runs, extending plays for first downs. He’s a decent quarterback, great for fantasy, but ultimately limited. A top QB drives the Eagles into FG range at the end, doesn’t throw that pick.

• Barkley looked good again and got plenty of usage (22 carries, five targets.)

• DeVonta Smith got his, but he had to catch a few passes in traffic. No one else on the Eagles made a serious impact, either. Just another offense that’s not in sync, though missing Brown was likely a big factor.

• Again the “40-minute” edited version had ridiculous replays of ordinary plays. They seem to love “stuffs”, i.e., tackles behind the line of scrimmage on ball carriers. They will show the stuff from three different angles like it’s the assassination of JFK.

@ 76ea2cfb:60905955

Bitcoin representa para el dinero y la propiedad lo que Internet significó para la información: una disrupción fundamental que desafía los cimientos del Estado-nación tradicional, erosionando las estructuras basadas en el mundo físico y dando paso a una nueva realidad digital. En este nuevo paradigma, Bitcoin emerge como la primera forma de propiedad digital absoluta en la historia de la humanidad, prometiendo redefinir no solo nuestras transacciones económicas, sino también nuestra comprensión del valor, la confianza y la soberanía individual.

Esta fase es importante porque nos revelará progresivamente cómo puede Bitcoin llegar a convertirse en un nuevo activo monetario con cualidades hasta ahora nunca vistas en la Historia de la Humanidad

Brecha generacional y conceptual

Al igual que las personas del siglo XIX no podían concebir que enormes máquinas de acero pudieran en el futuro surcar los cielos, muchos individuos educados bajo el paradigma del mundo físico encuentran difícil, si no imposible, comprender plenamente el alcance y las implicaciones presentes y futuras de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta y como dinero. Esta brecha conceptual no es meramente una cuestión de edad o resistencia al cambio, sino un profundo desafío cognitivo que requiere una reorientación fundamental de nuestros modelos mentales sobre el dinero, el valor y la propiedad en la era digital.

Bitcoin: La primera propiedad digital absoluta

Bitcoin se distingue como la primera y única forma de propiedad digital verdaderamente absoluta por varias razones:

1. Escasez digital verificable: Con un suministro máximo de 21 millones de unidades, Bitcoin introduce por primera vez el concepto de escasez digital incorruptible.

2. Inmutabilidad: Gracias a la prueba de trabajo acumulada, una vez registrada una transacción en la cadena de bloques de Bitcoin es prácticamente imposible de alterar o revertir.

3. Resistencia a la censura: Gracias a la descentralización ofrecida por la amplia red de nodos de Bitcoin, ninguna entidad central puede congelar, confiscar o impedir la transferencia de bitcoins entre partes.

4. Soberanía individual: Los usuarios de Bitcoin tienen control total sobre sus fondos, sin intermediarios ni custodios obligatorios.

5. Programabilidad: Como dinero programable, Bitcoin permite nuevas formas de propiedad y contratos que, hasta ahora, eran imposibles en el mundo físico.

El camino hacia la adopción masiva

La transición hacia una adopción generalizada de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta no será instantánea ni lineal. Se estima que serán necesarias al menos tres generaciones, cada una de aproximadamente 33 años, para que se desarrolle una masa crítica de individuos que vivan y operen cómodamente bajo este nuevo paradigma digital no físico. Este proceso no estará exento de obstáculos y desviaciones:

1. Ciclos de innovación y fracaso: Aunque Bitcoin se mantiene como la forma más pura de propiedad digital absoluta, veremos múltiples ciclos de nacimiento y muerte de otras criptomonedas alternativas (altcoins), ofertas iniciales de monedas (ICOs), tokens no fungibles (NFTs), activos del mundo real tokenizados (RWAs) y otros fenómenos inspirados en Bitcoin. Estas "distracciones" son parte integral del proceso de innovación y aprendizaje colectivo, y sus auges y caídas reforzarán con el tiempo la posición única de Bitcoin.

2. Evolución regulatoria: Los marcos legales y regulatorios evolucionarán, muchas veces de manera reactiva, tratando de adaptarse a las realidades cambiantes que Bitcoin introduce como forma de propiedad digital absoluta.

3. Transformación de instituciones financieras: Los bancos tradicionales y otras instituciones financieras se verán obligados a adaptarse o arriesgarse a volverse obsoletos, lo que llevará a una reestructuración significativa del sector financiero global en torno a los principios de propiedad digital absoluta que Bitcoin encarna.

4. Educación y alfabetización en Bitcoin: Surgirán nuevas formas de educación financiera y tecnológica para preparar a las generaciones futuras para operar en este nuevo paradigma, centrándose en la comprensión de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta y sus implicaciones.

5. Adopción por etapas: La adopción de Bitcoin probablemente seguirá un patrón por etapas, que irá de la mano de su evolución tecnológica y económica:

6. Primero, como reserva de valor digital.

7. Luego, como medio de intercambio, tanto para pequeñas transacciones a nivel local como para transacciones internacionales y de alto valor.

8. Finalmente, como unidad de cuenta global y patrón para la fijación de precios.

9. Resistencia institucional: Gobiernos y entidades financieras centralizadas probablemente resistirán la adopción de Bitcoin, lo que podría resultar en períodos de volatilidad regulatoria y de mercado.

10. Mejoras tecnológicas: Continuarán desarrollándose soluciones de escalabilidad y privacidad para Bitcoin, como la Lightning Network y las actualizaciones de privacidad, que facilitarán su adopción masiva.

Implicaciones más allá de lo económico

El impacto de Bitcoin como propiedad digital absoluta se extenderá mucho más allá del ámbito financiero:

• Soberanía individual: Bitcoin ofrece una forma de preservar y transferir valor fuera del control de gobiernos y entidades centralizadas, potenciando la soberanía financiera individual.

• Redefinición de la ciudadanía: La capacidad de poseer y transferir valor globalmente sin restricciones podría llevar a nuevas formas de ciudadanía y pertenencia no vinculadas a estados nacionales.

• Nuevos modelos económicos: La naturaleza deflacionaria y la divisibilidad de Bitcoin podrían fomentar nuevos modelos económicos basados en el ahorro y la inversión a largo plazo.

• Privacidad financiera: Bitcoin ofrece un grado de privacidad financiera que puede proteger a individuos contra la vigilancia y el control gubernamental excesivo.

Conclusión

La revolución iniciada por Bitcoin va mucho más allá de ser una mera innovación financiera. Representa un cambio de paradigma fundamental en cómo concebimos la propiedad y el dinero en la era digital. A medida que avanzamos hacia este futuro, es crucial comprender que Bitcoin no es simplemente una nueva forma de dinero, sino la primera instancia de propiedad digital absoluta en la historia. Este concepto tiene el potencial de reestructurar fundamentalmente nuestras sociedades, empoderando a los individuos con un nivel de soberanía financiera sin precedentes.

@ d2384c4a:433151aa

Did you know our Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited exclusively from our mothers?

(If you got them from your dad, which is rare, you would very likely get a mitochondrial disease and die an early death)

This finding was discovered by the evolutionary biologist Dr. Doug C. Wallace in the 1980s

(and mainly conveyed to the masses by Dr Jack Kruse)

This is important because the environment a mother experiences during pregnancy directly affects the mtDNA health of her baby.

An important measurement of mtDNA health & function is something called % heterosplasmy.

As % heteroplasmy rises in mtDNA due to energy deficiencies caused by the environment, so does the prevalence of genetic mutations leading to progressive aging & diseases.

When an expectant mother lives in a stressful environment, marked by disrupted light cycles, toxins, and nnEMF. The baby is born with a higher heteroplasmy rate. This means the baby’s mtDNA could function like that of a much older person, leading to earlier aging and disease. This may explain why children today are getting sicker compared to previous generations, due to our increasingly toxic environments.

This means that although at birth the baby is physically 0 years old, biologically speaking, their mtDNA may be born as a 40 year old

and thus aging and disease will manifest sooner than that of a baby born with a low heteroplasmy rate.

This is why our children are becoming more and more sick today when compared to previous generations. This is because humanity has created a chronically toxic environment.

The brain, the heart and the immune system contain the most mitochondria in the body

(oocytes or female egg cells contain 100,000 mitochondria in each cell)

Is it a coincidence that heart disease, neurodegeneration and autoimmune diseases are booming?

**Could it be related to high % heteroplasmy rates in our mtDNA? ** If you look into Dr Kruse's work,

you'll realise that's the case.

@ a012dc82:6458a70d

Table Of Content

• Nostr: A new player in the social media space

• The Problems with Existing Social Media Platforms

• How Nostr is Different

• The Features of Nostr

• The Benefits of Nostr

• The Future of Nostr

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Social media has been an integral part of our lives for more than a decade now. From Facebook to Instagram, and Twitter to Snapchat, social media platforms have revolutionized the way we communicate and interact with each other. However, as these platforms continue to grow, they have also become breeding grounds for misinformation, hate speech, and cyberbullying. The need for a new social media platform that addresses these issues has never been more pressing. Enter Nostr, a new social media platform that promises to revolutionize the way we interact with each other. In this article, we explore why Nostr might be the future of social media as we know it.

Nostr: A new player in the social media space

Nostr is a new social media platform that has been making waves in the social media space. Founded in 2021, Nostr aims to be a platform that is different from the rest. Unlike other social media platforms, Nostr focuses on creating a positive and safe environment for its users. The platform is designed to encourage meaningful conversations and connections between users.

The Problems with Existing Social Media Platforms

Existing social media platforms have several problems that have been well documented. The platforms have become echo chambers, where people are only exposed to information and opinions that align with their own beliefs. This has led to a rise in polarization and the spread of misinformation. Additionally, social media platforms have become breeding grounds for hate speech, cyberbullying, and harassment. The lack of moderation on these platforms has allowed these problems to fester and grow.

How Nostr is Different

Nostr is different from existing social media platforms in several ways. Firstly, Nostr is designed to be a positive and safe environment for its users. The platform has a strict code of conduct that prohibits hate speech, cyberbullying, and harassment. Additionally, the platform has a robust moderation system in place that ensures that users who violate the code of conduct are dealt with swiftly.

Secondly, Nostr is designed to encourage meaningful conversations and connections between users. The platform is designed to be an antidote to the echo chamber effect that is prevalent on existing social media platforms. Nostr users are exposed to a variety of opinions and viewpoints, which helps to broaden their horizons and foster meaningful connections.

The Features of Nostr

Nostr has several features that set it apart from existing social media platforms. These include:

1. Privacy: Nostr is designed to be a privacy-first platform. Users have complete control over their data, and no data is shared with third parties without the user's explicit consent.

2. Moderation: Nostr has a robust moderation system in place that ensures that the platform is a safe and positive environment for its users.

3. Groups: Nostr has a group feature that allows users to connect with like-minded people and have meaningful conversations.

4. News Feed: Nostr's news feed is designed to be a diverse and engaging space. Users are exposed to a variety of opinions and viewpoints, which helps to broaden their horizons.

The Benefits of Nostr

Nostr has several benefits that make it an attractive alternative to existing social media platforms. These include:

1. Positive Environment: Nostr is designed to be a positive and safe environment

2. Privacy: Nostr puts privacy first and ensures that users have complete control over their data. This is in contrast to other social media platforms that have faced criticism for their handling of user data.

3 . Meaningful Connections: Nostr's emphasis on meaningful conversations and connections makes it an attractive alternative to existing social media platforms. Users are exposed to a variety of opinions and viewpoints, which helps to foster connections and broaden horizons.

4. Diverse News Feed: Nostr's news feed is designed to be a diverse and engaging space. Users are exposed to a variety of opinions and viewpoints, which helps to combat the echo chamber effect that is prevalent on other social media platforms.

The Future of Nostr

Nostr has the potential to be the future of social media as we know it. With its focus on creating a positive and safe environment for users, Nostr addresses the problems that have plagued existing social media platforms. Its emphasis on meaningful connections and diverse perspectives helps to combat the echo chamber effect that is prevalent on other platforms.

Nostr's privacy-first approach and robust moderation system set it apart from other social media platforms. As users become more concerned about their privacy and the impact of social media on their mental health, Nostr's approach may become increasingly attractive.

Conclusion Nostr may be the future of social media as we know it. With its emphasis on creating a positive and safe environment for users, Nostr addresses the problems that have plagued existing social media platforms. Its focus on meaningful connections and diverse perspectives helps to combat the echo chamber effect that is prevalent on other platforms. As users become more concerned about their privacy and the impact of social media on their mental health, Nostr's approach may become increasingly attractive. If Nostr continues to grow and develop, it may become a significant player in the social media space.

FAQ

Is Nostr available worldwide? Yes, Nostr is available worldwide.

How does Nostr differ from other social media platforms? Nostr is different from other social media platforms in several ways. It focuses on creating a positive and safe environment for users and encourages meaningful conversations and connections between users. Nostr also has a privacy-first approach and a robust moderation system.

Is Nostr free to use? Yes, Nostr is free to use.

Can businesses use Nostr for marketing purposes? Yes, businesses can use Nostr for marketing purposes, but they must follow the platform's advertising guidelines.

Does Nostr have a mobile app? Yes, Nostr has a mobile app available for both iOS and Android devices.

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เหนื่อยกาย อาบน้ำก็หาย ความประทับใจ มันจะประทับไปอีกนาน

น้ำนี่มีประโยชน์กับมนุษย์สูงมาก โดยเฉพาะน้ำใจ

Thailand Bitcoin Conference 2024 ที่ผ่านมา 2 วัน 14-15 september 2024 block 861367 เป็นงานที่ตอนนี้ผมนั่งตกตะกอน บันทึกไว้ใน long form ของ YakiHonne ที่ต้องขอบคุณมากๆ เพราะคุณ Wendy มาที่บูธผม หลังจากแนะนำตัว ผมบอกว่าใช้ YakiHonne อยู่ คุณ Wendy ถามว่า user ชื่ออะไร พอเปิดแอพถึงแค่หน้า feed ที่มีรูปผมกลมๆเล็กมุมขวาบน ยังไม่ทันกดเมนู profile เพื่อแสดงชื่อ คุณ Wendy ก็ชี้รูปแล้วบอก i know you ทันที ซึ่งน่าตกใจและประทับใจมากๆ

ใน YakiHonne ผมมีหัวข้อ ”เจอนี่“ ที่เอาไว้บันทึกเรื่อง เจอนี่ อยู่แล้ว การที่ได้เจอ ชาวบอทคอยน์,ทุ่งม่วง และ Wendy จึงเหมาะกับคอลัมน์ เจอนี่ที่สุดแล้ว

หลังจากแผน Mission unknown ลุล่วงไปได้ มี error ไว้ให้แก้บ้างซึ่งวางแผนสองไว้แล้ว แต่ก็เหนือความคาดหมาย จาก Mission unknown กลายเป็น Mission Impossible ไปด้วยการทำ world records ของตัวเอง 2 วันซ้อนคือ 64ก้อน ภายใน 2 ชั่วโมงในวันแรก และ 80ก้อน ภายใน 50นาที (8:30-9:20) วันที่สอง

เรื่องเค้ก เดี๋ยวไปสวมหมวกกุ๊กเขียนในตำรับเอ๋บนสื่อมาร์กนะครับ ในนี้ผมอยากบันทึกเรื่องคอมมูทุ่งม่วงมากกว่า

ต้องขออภัยที่ไม่ได้แทกหรือระบุชื่อใคร เหมือนตอนซื้อสติกเกอร์อะครับ ผมรักพวกคุณเท่าๆกันหมดเลย กลัวว่าเอ่ยชื่อไม่หมดผมเองจะเสียใจ

ครั้งนี้เป็นครั้งแรกที่ผมได้เจอชาวทุ่งม่วง ขอบคุณที่แนะนำตัวกันด้วยชื่อในทุ่งม่วง ไม่งั้นนี่ผมต้องไปไม่เป็นแน่ๆครับ โชคดีที่ชาวทุ่งม่วงมารวมกระจุกตัวที่ตลาดสายฟ้า ขอบคุณ มิก ที่เป็นแม่เหล็กดูดคนไว้ไม่ให้ไปไหน จนฝั่งทุ่งม่วงคาเฟ่ของเรา กลายเป็นจุดรวมพลคนทุ่งม่วงไปเลย

ตามที่ตั้งใจไว้ครับ ว่าชีวิตผมหลังจาก 31 กรกฎาคม 2567 จะเป็น chapter ใหม่ ของการใช้ชีวิต ผมจะพยายามหลอมรวมทรัพยากรที่มีค่าที่สุดในโลกที่เรียกว่า “เวลา” มาใช้จ่ายให้คุ้มที่สุด หลังจากที่เลือกหันหลังให้อาชีพที่หลายๆคนมองว่ามั่นคง แต่มันดูดเวลาผมไปแทบจะหมดตัว จนตัวเองมองว่า ทรัพย์ในมือเราแท้ๆ จริงๆแล้วเวลามันอยู่ในกระเป๋าเรา ตัวเราเองไม่ใช่เหรอที่หยิบมาจ่ายออกไป เราเลือกจะจ่ายให้กับอะไรไม่รู้ แทนที่จะจ่ายให้คนที่เรารัก นี่มันสุรุ่ยสุร่ายนี่หว่า

ดังนั้น

ผมกลับมาใช้บั้นปลายชีวิต ด้วยการจ่ายที่มีคุณค่าขึ้น ผมเรียกการใช้จ่ายนี้ว่า spend time ยิ่งเหลือน้อยยิ่งต้องใช้แบบมีคุณค่า ผมไม่ได้ออมเวลามาตั้งแต่วัยรุ่น ผมเลยไม่มั่งคั่งในเวลา นี่จะ 50 อยู่รอมร่อ ถ้าคำว่า make saving great again ไม่ผ่านหูผ่านตามา ผมคงไม่ save time เพื่อเอาไป spend time ที่มีคุณค่าได้ครับ เรียกว่า กลับตัวยังทันในวันที่มีลมหายใจ จึงเลือกที่จะ ประหยัดเวลาเพื่อเอาไปใช้จ่ายกับสิ่งที่มีคุณค่า

ความอบอุ่นที่ได้รับจากคอมมูนิตี้ มันมีพลังมากๆเลยครับ ไม่ผิดกับที่คาดไว้หลังจากได้อ่านมาจากหลายๆอีเวนท์ที่เกิดขึ้น

เหมือนที่ยืนคุยกับหมอเอก กับ คุณริช ครับว่าภาพความสำเร็จของงานมันแสดงออกมาทางหน้างานนี่ละครับ ความครึกครื้น การพูดคุยกัน sats สะพัด มันเหมือนเราเห็นภาพอนาคตได้ในวันนี้ บรรยากาศแห่งน้ำใจ บรรยากาศการใช้บิทคอยน์แลกสินค้าที่มาจากความตั้งใจในการทำ ผมมั่นใจเลยว่า สินค้าตลาด lighting ล้วนเกิดจากอิทธิบาท4 แม้แต่ฝั่งเบียร์ มันมาจาก passion ทั้งนั้นเลย ภาษาบิทคอยน์อาจเรียกว่าตลาดนี้เป็นศูนย์รวมของ proof of work

นึกถึงตอนวัยรุ่น เวลาคนมีไฟมารวมกัน มันคือพลังระดับ ดวงอาทิตย์

ถ้ามันเป็นแบบนี้ตลอดไป ก็ไม่มีอะไรที่ภายในทุ่งม่วงนี้ ที่ทำไม่ได้แล้วหละครับ

ยินดีและปรีดา ที่ได้พบทุกท่านจริงๆครับ ทุกท่านกลายเป็นตัวหนังสือที่ออกมาโลดแล่นบนโลกจริงๆ ภาพในหัวตอนนี้เวลาเห็นตัวหนังสือก็จะฝังหน้าลงไป embed เรียบร้อย เหมือนแต่ละ block ที่ฝังเหตุการณ์เอาไว้

ท้ายสุด ด้วยความนิยมชมชอบในงานของกันและกัน พ่อมดคริปโต ได้มอบการ์ด prototype จากบอร์ดเกมส์ Age of Bitcoin Boardgame ให้ผมเป็นที่ระลึก ก่อนรับรางวัลที่ 1 กิจกรรม geyser ทำให้เป็น rare item ในทันที ขอบคุณ ชับบี้ มากๆครับ

ขอบคุณพี่ป้ำ เป็นพิเศษสำหรับ DM ตอนก่อนเตรียมงานและการสนทนาภาษา baker ในงานครับ

ถึงทีม Right Shift ทุกคนครับ "ผมเป็นอีกคนที่มีความสุขนะครับ" ผมในฐานะที่อยู่วงการโฆษณา ประเภท below the line และ ออกาไนเซอร์ มาก่อน ยืนดูงานแล้ว ต้องขอขอบคุณที่เหนื่อยกันนะครับ break the leg จริงๆ

ปล. ด้วยว่าส่วนตัวความจำระยะสั้นผมแย่มาก ผมมักจำด้วยภาพ ใครที่ผมได้มองหน้าบ่อยผมจะ match ชื่อไปกับหน้าด้วยเลย แต่งานนี้ information overload ทั้งขายของ ทั้งทักทาย ประกอบกับนอนน้อยมากด้วย ผมจำใครไม่ได้บ้างก็โปรดให้อภัยครับ คิดเลขยังเครื่องคิดเลขเลย

ถ้าได้เจอตามท้องถนน เรียกทักกันด้วยนะครับ ผมยินดีและอยากคุยครับ ส่วนถ้าผมเดินผ่านคุณไปทักเลยนะครับ เพราะนอกจากความจำสั้นแล้วสายตายังยาวด้วยครับ

@ 862fda7e:02a8268b

I was in some sort of nice romantic building and I met this nicer middle aged blonde woman who looked a lot like one of my old teachers. We got to chatting and things started moving quickly, we were going to have sexy lesbian sex but she told me she wanted me to shave my vagina before we started. I said fine, went to a bathroom and started shaving. If it meant I was going to slang some tang, I was gonna do it. It took me a long time to complete this daunting task, as I've mantioned many times before, I have a very thick and dense bush. I also wanted to make sure no hair was left behind, if my sweet lesbian lover saw that I had a hair on my vagina, she would probably freak out and call me disgusting for having a feature that naturally grows on me.

Anyways, I finished shaving my vagina and went to go meet her. Sadly, she decided to not have lesbian sex with me anymore since I took too long and she had some time to think about it. I got screwed without getting screwed. And now I had a gross hairless vagina.

I think I know why this dream occured. It's because my so called "fans" have judged me on my fan page for having hair on my vagina. Yes, I sometimes maintain it and keep it trimmed, sometimes. But sometimes I just let it go if I'm too lazy. Now the lesbians in my dreams want me to shave, and even at that, they still don't want to have sex with me. One time I remember cumming from a wet dream I had, which is very rare for me to do. I was watching 2 Japanese chicks dressed up in the school girl uniform scissor, and I remember waking up with a hard clit and it pulsated. I felt embarassed waking up, because I didn't even voluntarily masturbate but I still climaxed.

@ 1b5ee74d:bb1aae6e

A Law to define the boundaries within which Bitcoin and digital assets can be legally considered private property. This is what the UK's Ministry of Justice is contemplating. On September 11, alongside Labour MP Heidi Alexander, the ministry introduced a bill to Parliament titled The Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill.

The UK government announced this through a press release, stating that digital assets are currently "not included within the scope of property law," leaving owners "in a legal gray area in case of interference with their assets."

According to the government, the new law would "provide legal protection to owners and businesses against fraud and scams, while also aiding judges in managing complex cases where digital assets are disputed or part of agreements, such as in divorce cases."

It has not yet been decided if and when the bill will be discussed in Parliament, and thus, when it will be voted on. However, the significance of this first-mover initiative is worth analyzing because, if implemented, it could become a benchmark for other jurisdictions in the future.

The Bill

The proposal is based on a report prepared by the Law Commission, an independent body established by the Law Commissions Act of 1965, whose main function is to review and reform the country's laws.

The document argues that digital assets cannot be easily classified as either "things in possession" or "things in action," thus proposing the addition of a third category.

Traditionally, British law distinguishes between things in possession (physical assets, like a car or house) and things in action (legal rights, such as debts or bonds).

According to the commission, digital assets do not fully fit into either of these categories and should, therefore, be assigned to a third category. This category would be called digital objects, and items within it should meet three fundamental criteria:

• Independent Existence: Digital assets must exist independently of individuals and the legal system. This is true for Bitcoin, which exists within the timechain.
• Non-Duplicability: When an individual uses or possesses a digital asset, another individual cannot possess it at the same time, similar to traditional money.
• Not Belonging to Traditional Categories: The assets cannot be simultaneously classified as things in possession or things in action.

More specifically, the commission believes digital assets can be considered property when they allow for:

• Making payments for goods and services;
• Transferring or communicating value through electronic means;
• Expanding market reach and access;
• Speculating and investing.

The Role of Common Law

One of the most interesting aspects of the UK's approach is the reliance on Common Law to determine which digital assets can be the subject of property rights.

British Common Law is a legal system based on precedents and judicial interpretation of laws. It is mainly distinguished from the civil law system (like the Italian or French systems) by characteristics such as binding precedents—court decisions constitute precedents that must be respected by courts in future cases with similar facts—and the central role of judges who not only apply existing laws but often interpret norms to fill legislative gaps.

In such a system, jurisprudence can adapt to the specifics of each case, treating digital assets more flexibly than traditional written laws.

The Limits of Interpretation

According to the Law Commission, digital assets—including cryptocurrencies and NFTs—have the potential to be treated as items of personal property. English Common Law has already shown some flexibility in integrating certain instruments into property categories, recognizing that they can be subject to personal rights such as control and transfer.

However, a significant limitation of the document is the constant generalization of the term "digital asset" or "digital object." Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, NFTs, tokenized assets, etc., are all included in this category.

While it is true that Bitcoin perfectly meets the requirement of independent existence, the same cannot be said for everything else. Other cryptocurrencies, including Ethereum, NFTs, stablecoins, and tokenized assets, exist due to the presence of companies or consortia that manage and determine their rules, maintenance, and ultimately, existence.

Paradoxically, Bitcoin has much more in common with what the Law Commission calls things in possession (house, car, etc.) than with the rest of the digital assets.

Private Property in Bitcoin

Just as ownership of a property is manifested through control of physical keys, ownership of bitcoin is realized through the control of cryptographic keys. The keys to a house are not the house itself but grant access to it to their possessor. Similarly, private keys in Bitcoin are not the bitcoins themselves but constitute the exclusive power to control and transfer them. This element of exclusivity—whoever possesses the keys holds access—is a foundation of property rights: in Bitcoin, the same principle applies in digital form.

Asymmetric cryptography is the means by which Bitcoin achieves its end: enabling the exercise of private property in the digital realm without the presence of trusted intermediaries.

An exercise that offers more guarantees than those we have been accustomed to for decades. Real estate, precious metals, bank accounts—all these are elements whose private property is subject to the protection of the bank or the law and thus dependent on an intermediary, whether private in the case of the bank or public in the case of the legal system. Numerous historical events demonstrate this, such as the confiscation of gold by the US government in 1933 and the forced withdrawal from Italians' bank accounts by the Amato government in 1992.

Indeed, the same exercise of ownership that Bitcoin allows cannot be associated with the rest of the digital assets, where the very existence of the digital asset depends on one or more intermediaries.

Fortunately, as highlighted above, the document delegates much of the interpretative responsibility to the judges of individual cases thanks to the form of Common Law: it will be up to them not to fall into the trap of generalization.

@ e27ae11e:e0c36580

Electrical emergencies can happen out of nowhere and be hazardous if not handled rapidly. Issues like blackouts or electric shocks require prompt consideration from an expert. This article covers the common electrical emergencies and how emergency electricians can help. 1. Blackouts Blackouts are normal and can occur because of tempests, broken wiring, or issues with the power framework. While short blackouts are simply badly arranged, longer ones can prompt more pressing issues like ruined food, security dangers, and distress in outrageous climate. Tip: Have an electric lamp and battery-fueled radio prepared for blackouts. How Emergency Electricians Can Help: An emergency electrician can see whether the issue is inside your home or because of an external issue. Assuming it's your electrical system, they'll fix it and securely reestablish your power. 2. Electric Shocks Feeling a shock while contacting a machine or switch is a difficult issue. It frequently implies there's a wiring issue or a broken machine, which can be exceptionally risky. Tip: Turn off defective machines right away and try not to utilize them until they're checked. How an Electrician Can Help: On the off chance that somebody encounters a shock, call an emergency electrician. They'll review your wiring and machines, fix the issue, and guarantee your house is protected. 3. Consuming Smell or Ignites In the event that you smell something consuming or see flashes from an outlet or machine, it's an indication of a serious electrical issue. This could be from overheating wires, harmed outlets, or over-burden circuits. Tip: Turn off the power to the affected areas and try not to utilize the power source until it's fixed. How an Electrician Can Help: Emergency electricians will really look at the pain point, supplant broken wiring, fix outlets, or redesign your electrical switch to deal with the heap, forestalling expected fires.

1. Oftentimes Stumbling Electrical switch Circuit breakers safeguard your home by removing power during over-burdens or shortcircuits. Notwithstanding, in the event that your breaker continues to trip, it's an indication of an issue like over-burden circuits, defective wiring, or failing machines. Tip: Spread out the utilization of high-power gadgets to try not to over-burden circuits. How an Electrician Can Help: An emergency electrician can sort out why the breaker continues to excursion and fix the issue, whether it's reallocating the heap, supplanting wiring, or fixing broken machines.
2. Glimmering or Darkening Lights Glimmering or darkening lights might show a greater electrical issue, as free wiring, over-burden circuits, or power supply issues. Tip: Try not to utilize machines that influence lights to gleam, as they might be over-burdening the circuit. How an Electrician Can Help: An emergency electrician will examine the reason and fix free associations, rearrange the heap, or fix defective wiring to forestall more critical issues.
3. Murmuring or Humming Sounds In the event that you hear murmuring or humming from your electrical board, outlets, or switches, it's an admonition indication of free wiring, over-burden circuits, or issues with your electrical board. Tip: Turn off the power to the affected area and contact an emergency electrician. How an Electrician Can Help: An emergency electrician will find the wellspring of the commotion and fix the issue, whether it's fixing associations, adjusting circuits, or updating your electrical board.
4. Flawed Outlets and Switches Assuming an outlet or switch quits working, becomes hot to the touch, or gives indications of consuming, it's pivotal to promptly fix it. Defective outlets and switches can prompt electrical shocks, fires, and different risks. Tip: Try not to utilize harmed outlets or switches and cover them until they're fixed. How an Electrician Can Help: An emergency electrician will survey the flawed outlet or switch, supplant harmed parts, and fix wiring to guard your electrical system.
5. Brought down Electrical cables Brought down electrical cables are a serious emergency and represent a huge gamble of electric shock or fire, frequently happening during tempests or mishaps. Tip: Remain far away from brought down electrical cables and call emergency benefits right away. How an Electrician Can Help: An emergency electrician will work with service organizations to deal with the circumstance securely and really look at your home or business for any connected harm.
6. Successive Electrical Floods Electrical floods can occur because of lightning strikes, power system issues, or defective apparatuses. While one flood may not cause recognizable harm, incessant floods can hurt your gadgets after some time. Tip: Use surge protectors for your gadgets to forestall harm. How an Electrician Can Help: An emergency electrician can introduce flood defenders and fix any hidden issues causing the floods, as defective wiring or hazardous apparatuses.
7. Water and Electrical Hazards Water and electricity don't blend well. Assuming you experience flooding, breaks, or water harm close to electrical outlets or machines, it's crucial to promptly resolve the issue. Tip: Turn off the power to affected areas and avoid using wet appliances. How an Electrician Can Help: An emergency electrician will survey what is happening, securely shut off the power if necessary, and fix any harm to your electrical system to forestall future issues.

@ 6ad3e2a3:c90b7740

I posted the following hypothetical on Twitter, and the responses did not disappoint:

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A few people speculated that the post was about vaccines, which it was not (at least not specifically). and others wondered why the guy didn’t just do the jumping jacks to save the waiter’s life.

But nowhere in the hypothetical does it say the gunman won’t just kill him anyway if you do what he says. To think it makes any difference whether you do the jumping jacks, you have to believe simultaneously that the gunman is capable of killing a person for no reason, yet still a man of his word. That for him killing the waiter is fine, but misleading you is beyond the pale.

Even so, people wondered why the guy didn’t just do the damn jumping jacks — I mean in the unlikely event this heartless murderer was a man of his word, maybe you could have saved the waiter’s life!

Another thing the hypothetical doesn’t imply is that the man with the gun, after seeing you comply with his request, will either relinquish it or leave the restaurant. In other words, even if you do the jumping jacks, and miraculously he is a man of his word, he still has the gun, and next thing you know he might ask you to do 10 pushups, maybe some squats and leg raises too. The man is still there, he still has the gun, and if for God knows what reason it is important to him to force you to exercise, it follows that the jumping jacks are unlikely to be his final request.

I also found it telling that people blamed the guy who refused to do the jumping jacks at all — he was merely at a restaurant eating his meal when a gunman burst in and killed someone for no reason. Any fair apportionment of responsibility for the waiter’s murder falls solely on the gunman, and not on the guy who refused to jump through an arbitrary and pointless hoop the gunman set up at his whim.

But one’s response to this hypothetical is a good indication of how one relates to power. The people who intuitively know might does not make right realize the gunman is the only violent actor and solely responsible for the shooting. But some have learned to be careful — run afoul of the powerful, and there will be consequences. To them, the gunman is an immovable and terrifying fact, and it is up to the guy to do the damn jumping jacks. That he does not do this simple act is unthinkable, and hence they see it as contributing to the waiter’s death. Going along with the will of the powerful is the best option, and those who rock the boat are merely making trouble for everyone. They prefer to keep their heads down, hope it passes, so that no one will get shot.

If someone does rock the boat, the careful, being unable to face the terrifying prospect of taking on power, will turn on the boat-rocker who they will see as the problem, the person making it worse for everyone, even though he is only the ostensible trigger — and never the actual cause — of the powerful person’s oppressive responses.

Even if the careful prevail in getting everyone to go along, as we established above, there is no basis for believing the gunman will be satisfied with jumping jacks, which are a pointless and arbitrary request that only serves as a precedent — that when he asks, you comply. It’s possible he will run out of uses for you — not necessarily a good thing given his proclivity for murder — but until he does, you can rest assured there will be further asks.

I brought up the hypothetical because after “three weeks to flatten the curve” something that did not seem arbitrary at the time, there has been ask after ask, and it’s become increasingly clear to me the asks are unlikely to end on their own. Zero COVID is not possible for what’s almost certainly an endemic virus, there are plans for digital movement licenses, and if cases tick up according to their latest benchmark/criterion, I would expect to see calls for renewed lockdowns in the fall. And that’s not even counting the usual — and often deadly — seasonal non-COVID respiratory viruses that can also be fear-mongered if we micro-track their spread in a similar manner.

The root of the problem is we did not take the gun away from the gunman in exchange for our jumping jacks, and while at one time, public health might have been the central aim, that phase has long passed, and pandemic measures — and even pandemic-specific rituals and behaviors — have congealed into a semi-permanent ecosystem. The gunman has made himself at home in the restaurant and has some of the patrons cooking his meals and washing his dishes, a few of whom are getting paid handsomely for their trouble.

There is only one thing that could end this hostage situation, and that’s to do what the man in the hypothetical did — decline his request. If he wants to shoot the waiter, that’s up to him — chances are he’s bluffing, and in any event, he was free to shoot the waiter at any point, no matter what we did. Once we stop fearing the gun, we can avail ourselves of whatever measures we deem necessary, including vaccines, medicines, masks or nothing at all. We are free to stay home, or go out, according to our own risk tolerance, and we will live with the consequences like free people always have.

@ 75bf2353:e1bfa895

I've been writing this blog as a nym for about a year. I like to wear a mask because my real life job is in an area wear most people get most of their information from MSNBC. To most of my co-workers, bitcoin is boiling the oceans, making people sick, and using more energy than the entire shithole country of whatever. Why would I want to use a cryptocurrency that destoys the planet when it only does 7 transactions per second? To them, bitcoin is evil because a noble prize winning economists said so. It is also useless, but used by criminals.

I got tired of hearing about quantum computing and other ridiculous arguments so I began writing about how I use bitcoin over the lightning network everyday. I followed K3tan's guide and set up a blog on a virtual private network. Then I used Yunohost on a raspberry pi until I learned about blogstack. Suddenly, I could host a blog without paying a monthly fee or becoming a Linux Systems Administrator.

I have also started coming out of my shell. I started a meetup and began meeting other hard-core bitcoiners and teaching Coinbasers how to take self-custody, why video games on a blockchain are scams, and how bitcoin can be used as a medium of exchange.

@ 361d3e1e:50bc10a8

https://forex-strategy.com/2024/09/16/instead-of-science-and-education-in-germany-schoolgirls-are-taught-dating-30-year-old-migrants/

Instead of science and education in Germany, schoolgirls are taught dating 30-year-old migrants

germany #education #migrants #politics

@ 17538dc2:71ed77c4

Quiztime

Oil and gas

Oil and gas is naturally occurring. The prevalent worldview is that oil & gas has a biotic origin. There are real world examples of abiotic oil deposits, which proponents of the status quo have a difficult time reconciling.

Irregardless, when oil & gas is burned, it simply turns to plant food (carbon dioxide + water).

Oil and gas greens the Earth, and increases fertilization and agricultural crop yield across the globe.

The energy density of oil and gas is only surpassed by that of nuclear power.

Energy produced by oil and gas combustion is generally on-demand, reliable, economically storable & transportable.

Solar

The sun is an abudant energy source, which keeps Earth warm, and alive. Thank you sun 🌞!

With the exception of places such as the UK, where it is unclear if inhabitants have ever seen the sun, solar rays keep plants, animals, and humans happy & alive on most of planet Earth.

Inventions such as solar panels harness the sun's energy, and convert it to electricity.

Solar panels consist of silicon, rare earth metals, and require toxic metals.

Solar panels have an expected life of decades, are not readily or economically recyclable.

A very low solar energy density practically means that land is inefficiently utilized in solar energy production. Solar used on arable land can no longer be farmed, and where no plains exist solar is known to cause deforestation and landslides.

Solar energy is not reliable, not can it be summoned on demand. Solar energy is not economically storable, and is many cases is not produced at the point of demand.

Despite central planner mandates & subsidies in the US, the #EULAG and elsewhere, due to its intermittent nature, solar power cannot be counted on to replace reliable power generation in nuclear, hydro, or carbon fuel thermoelectric plants.

What this means is that solar does not replace, and yet ratheradds to reliable energy generation, as most people in the developed world would not be OK with having electricity for at most 1/3 of the day. This increases the price of electricity, which in turn increases energy poverty, and drives businesses to shut down manufacturing, or move to a more energy competitive jurisdiction.

The capital wasted by central planners could have been used to reduce burden on consumers, and businesses, or fund healthcare, infrastructure, or other services.

It should be noted that off grid applications where there is no grid, or energy alternatives can be massively useful for folks otherwise without electricity.

Which energy source would you consider renewable?

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It didn’t have to be this way. I was set up for an epic week.

I had to choose between Marvin Harrison and Tank Dell at WR (I chose Harrison, thank God) and JK Dobbins and Brian Robinson at RB (I chose Dobbins), so my Primetime team was set up for a 200-point week with good days from Chris Godwin, the Chargers defense and enough from Jordan Mason and Jahmyr Gibbs. I just needed a good game from CJ Stroud and Stefon Diggs in the Sunday night game. Plus I was 1-2 ATS in the Circa contest, and I needed Houston to cover 6.5

Of course, Stroud had a modest game, Diggs did little and the Bears backdoored the 6.5 thanks to a roughing the passer penalty on 3rd-and-14 that kept the FG drive alive. What a dud of a game.

It’s not all bad, I still have 157.5 points with Dallas Goedert (sans AJ Brown) going. But it could have been so much better, and after two weeks, I’m almost drawing dead in Circa Millions (2-7), pending the Falcons tonight, as a result.

• It’s still early, but so far Garrett Wilson has not been worthy of a first-round pick. Everyone loved him with Aaron Rodgers, but a new QB and a player who had never put up first-round value before gave me pause. Obviously plenty of time to change this, but only six targets yesterday.

• I love that Braelon Allen vultured two TDs. Fantasy football is a zero-sum game, and if you don’t have Breece Hall, that’s a win. Of course, Hall did just fine, but it could have been a lot more.

• Tony Pollard was the alpha for the second straight game. Tyjae Spears got hurt, but Pollard had only three more snaps than in Week 1.

• The Giants loss was tragic. Not only did they lose three PATS after Graham Gano got hurt on the opening kickoff, but Malik Nabers dropped an easy fourth-down conversion that would have sealed the game.

• Nabers had 18 targets, and several were in the end zone. He played well overall, the game-losing drop notwithstanding. I know a bit of, “Otherwise, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?” Watching him play reminds me (maybe in part because of the number?) of Ja’Marr Chase. Smooth and effortlessly explosive.

• Devin Singletary is the clear workhorse — he ran well, and the offensive line held up pretty well.

• Danny Dimes played okay too. No turnovers, only one sack, pretty good game management.

• Brian Robinson is a good, tough runner with a little wiggle for a big man. But Jayden Daniels gets his share of designed runs, and Austin Ekeler is in on passing downs and even gets some rushes.

• Daniels is slippery as a runner, a bit like Lamar Jackson. He’s still a work in progress as a passer though, maybe like rookie Lamar.

• I got a lot of bad information this preseason. You read something, you don’t know, so you believe it. For example, that the Saints had a terrible offensive line, and their offense would be bad rather than the most efficient by far in the NFL. (I was out on Alvin Kamara too, even felt a bit sorry for the dumb schmos drafting him in the third or fourth round!)

• The thing about Kamara is not just the monster start, but he passes the eye test too. He looks spry and fast out there.

• I wondered why Rashid Shaheed was getting drafted nine rounds after Chris Olave when they’re both about the same size and speed, and all Shaheed does is make huge plays. He did it again and even got three carries too.

• The Cowboys looked good in Cleveland, but got worked by the Saints. Ezekiel Elliott moved okay, but the production was poor. I still think Dalvin Cook could get a shot before long — he’s from the same class as Kamara, Joe Mixon and Aaron Jones.

• CeeDee Lamb produced early in the game, but was quiet in the second half. I remember he got off to a sluggish start last year too.

• Amon-Ra St. Brown got back into it with 19 targets, but left with a leg injury late in the game, and Jameson Williams saw 11. Sam LaPorta is getting almost no looks, not sure why.

• Godwin was the only Bucs player to do anything. Rachaad White was an inefficient runner last year, too, so maybe Bucky Irving gets more work.

• I have Anthony Richardson in two leagues — WTF was that? I was told this preseason Shane Steichen was a QB whisperer!

• Alec Pierce is a poor man’s Rashid Shaheed — makes more big plays than he should.

• The Packers receivers are unusable until Jordan Love comes back.

• Sam Darnold played great, zipping in a couple nice downfield throws in pressure spots. Of course, his numbers were inflated by a 97-yard TD pass to Justin Jefferson, but he put that on the money too, even if Jefferson made an amazing cut just after tracking down the ball to take it to the house. Jefferson had to leave the game with a bruised quad, but it doesn’t sound too serious.

• Ty Chandler outproduced Aaron Jones who fumbled on the goal line. Not sure there’s anything to make of that just yet.

• Jordan Mason is in an ideal situation, but he’s also a tough runner who gets extra yards. Odd that George Kittle left on a cart and then came back and played. If you leave on a cart you should be disqualified — have some dignity.

• I can’t believe people were still taking Christian McCaffrey 1.1 after he got hurt. I took him before it happened and should have known it was dumb, given his workload into the Super Bowl and age.

• Deebo Samuel made some awfully tough catches on high throws over the middle in traffic. Toughest receiver in the league.

• I lost on Seattle -3.5 vs at the Pats. Maybe I neglected to price in the travel distance and early body-clock game. Jacoby Brissett has gotten away with two weeks as mistake-free game manager, but it’s a hard way to win.

• I had Jaxon Smith-Njigba on my bench in the Primetime, but it was nice to see him go off. He had 16 targets, DK Metcalf 14 and Tyler Lockett only two.

• The Chargers are good. Unlike the Pats they can run and play defense with Justin Herbert able to make throws when he needs to. Not that he needed to against the 32nd-best team in the league.

• Dobbins had another big game, though Gus Edwards saw 18 carries to his 17. Dobbins’ ceiling hinges on getting more involved in the passing game, but gameflow has made that unecessary to date.

• Quentin Johnston caught two TDs and led the team in targets. Year 2 is when receivers break out, and while they usually need to show more than Johnston did as a rookie, the overall coaching is such a huge upgrade from the clueless, nerd-run prior regime.

• I don’t know what to say about the Panthers except avoid.

• I know the Browns have a good defense, but there’s something broken with the Jaguars. Maybe Trevor Lawrence is bad, maybe it’s the offensive line or the play calling. I’m not sure, but there’s no juice here and no consistency, and you’d expect there to be with Travis Etienne, Brian Thomas and Christian Kirk. (The late Evan Engram scratch probably didn’t help.)

• Deshaun Watson is basically Russell Wilson at this point give or take a massage.

• I was shocked to see they’re still (in fall of 2024!) running covid vaccine commercials during games. They have to know by now it’s unsafe, ineffective and that only the most credulous fools are still willing to poison themselves for no reason. I guess it’s like OJ finding the real killers in that if you really want to pretend you did nothing wrong you have to act like it works. The only person more ironically named than Andrew Luck is John Legend (the tool in the ads.)

• Part of why my ATS picks have been bad is I’ve been a nutless monkey about it. I liked Antonio Pierce as a coach and wanted to take the Raiders, but after his preposterous punt last week I started thinking maybe he was moron, and I had just imagined he was good because he wasn’t a stats nerd. But no, he can coach, and the Raiders typically show up.

• It’s crazy the biggest favorites in both Week 1 (Bengals) and 2 (Ravens) both lost. People will be splitting the Circa prize in Week 8.

• Speaking of which, it turns out the Mike Gesicki TD that was overturned in Week 1 was subsequently ruled a bad call by the NFL, i.e., it should have counted, and the next play where Tanner Hudson fumbled never should have happened. The Bengals lost 16-10, less than the margin of that TD, though to be fair they had many chances to come back in the second half anyway and still blew it. Just more salt in the wound — I won’t be petitioning for resurrection. (Nor will I make the joke that Aaron Hernandez could resurrect his career, or Henry Ruggs could have a breakout.)

• Brock Bowers is the TE1 now, correct?

• Isiah was unLikely to repeat Week 1, but three targets seems a bit light. Every offense seems like a slow-motion version of itself, no one (except the Saints and Cardinals) is really in sync.

• Marvin Harrison reminds me a bit of Randy Moss — super tall and lanky, looks like he’s not even moving because of his strides. He had two TDs early, but could have had a couple more, had Kyler Murray not missed him on some fades.

• James Conner will have a huge year if he stays reasonably healthy. He’s gashing defenses, and now the offense has a lot of weapons to set up light boxes and scoring opportunities.

• The Rams are cooked. Too many injuries. It’s funny because I was kicking myself last week for not taking Cooper Kupp over Harrison at 2.2, and now I’m awfully relieved I didn’t do that. Moreover, I would have taken Puka Nacua, but he went at 2.1. Now my big regret is taking Diggs over Nico Collins at 3.2, but I’ll probably have a different set of regrets next week.

• Justin Fields did just enough to keep the job. I’d like to see him against an offense that can score points, though.

• Jaylen Warren seems back to use usual role again, but the Steelers didn’t need to throw much.

• Courtland Sutton went from 12 targets to 4, and Jaleel McLaughin’s workload disappeared too. Bo Nix was just overmatched by the Steelers defense though.

• I still expect Ja’Marr Chase to go off despite the slow start. Joe Burrow is dink and dunking to scrubby tight ends, but at some point things will open up.

• Isiah Pacheco played well but now he’s apparently out indefinitely with a broken leg. Carson Steele and Samaje Perine are next in line, but I could see them trading for or signing someone too.

• Patrick Mahomes did just enough to get the win, but it wasn’t pretty. The only reason Travis Kelce is still startable with confidence is there are no other tight ends you could rely on anyway, so you might as well keep trotting his carcass out there. Xavier Worthy did very little in Week 2 also.

• Harrison Butker won the game on a 51-yard kick, but I was disappointed he didn’t get to attempt a 68-yarder at the end of the first half. The Chiefs were lining up for it, but with 24-seconds left they changed their minds and punted.

• The Chiefs could have punted on the final drive on 4th-and-16 with 48 seconds left and all three timeouts. They could have gotten the ball back with 25-odd seconds and only needed a FG to win it. But they elected to go for it and got the first down and into FG range on a PI penalty. Can’t commit the PI on that play no matter what.

• As disappointing as the offenses have been so far, the kicking has been insanely good. Everyone can drill a 55-yarder now. It’s like everyone’s Justin Tucker except Tucker.

• I don’t know how many of you watch the 40-minute version of games, but it’s annoying how many unimportant replays they fail to edit out of them. Like I don’t need to see a tackle for one-yard loss three times from every angle. The whole point of that version is to keep it moving. The other annoying thing is they always keep in the ref’s full penalty call. So someone jumps, announcer says “false start”, cut to ref making the circle motion with his arms, and that should be it, next play. No need to leave in the ref saying, “False start, number 62 offense, five yard penalty, still second down.”

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Week 35

• Wrote my first (out of four) 90-day reports for OpenSats https://nostrver.se/blog/nostr-php-90-day-opensats-report-1-may-july-2024
• Found this 💎 package for doing async requests with websockets and Guzzle 😎 https://github.com/valtzu/guzzle-websocket-middleware
• Exploring the use of ngit working with NIP-34 https://gitworkshop.dev/r/naddr1qqykummnw3ez6urgwqqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dspzqpnrnguxe8qszsshvgkvhn6qjzxy7xsvx03rlrtddr62haj4lrm3qvzqqqrhnyyx5cnk
• Nostr-PHP release 1.4.0 with relay response classes https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/releases/tag/1.4.0

Week 36

• I placed a Nostr billboard ad besides the highway here
  • Received a ton of interactions / feedback through Nostr on my notes sharing this!
  • As a result, a fundraiser started (and got fully funded after a couple of days) for doing the same in Brasil: https://geyser.fund/project/nostrifybrazil 
  • Repo with all the assets: https://gitlab.com/sebastix-group/nostr/nostr-ads

• Alex Gleason and his wife were are couple of days in Amsterdam, so I drove to the city for a meetup.
  • https://njump.me/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqprpljlvcnpnw3pejvkkhrc3y6wvmd7vjuad0fg2ud3dky66gaxaqydhwumn8ghj7emvv4shxmmwv96x7u3wv3jhvtmjv4kxz7gprpmhxue69uhkummnv3exjan99eshqup0wfjkccteqqsv0u9n3vm84ffgm4cfkxkh338uy89xmpqvy97gxzlunk4g70gmy3gh75csl
• Did not write much code for the Nostr-PHP library, but started to work on a proof-of-concept of executing async requests with guzzle-websocket-middleware. Also bookmarked some links I need to read for doing concurrency with Guzzle.
  • https://gorannikolovski.com/blog/asynchronous-and-concurrent-http-requests-in-php
  • https://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/quickstart.html#concurrent-requests

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A VPN is Not Magic

A VPN is a virtual private network. A VPN service provides an encrypted tunnel between your device and a server they own or rent. You then connect to the internet from this server thus making your IP address appear to the wider internet as the server IP. That's it. That's all it does.

Your Device -> VPN -> Website

Your Device sees that you are connecting to a website through a VPN. Your ISP sees that you are connecting to a VPN server but nothing after. The website sees that someone from a VPN is connecting to them but doesn't know who. The VPN sees your device connected to their server and that you then connected to a website.

VPN Anonymity and Privacy

VPNs do a lot to protect your privacy, they keep your ISP from seeing and logging every single thing you do online and they spoof your location and IP to any website that you visit. Although this website protection isn't 100% anonymous because of cookies, trackers, and if you have to log into a site with your information. If you are using a VPN on a mobile phone then you are still broadcasting your location to the cell towers even if you are not telling the website you are browsing.

Then there is the elephant in the room. The VPN knows all and sees all. How much do they log? How long do they save it? Can you trust them? This is going to vary VASTLY between VPN providers. I always prefer if they are setup where they cannot know the information in the first place and limit what I tell them in the first place by paying through the use of bitcoin or monero. Just because they have a no log "policy" in place it doesn't always fill me with confidence.

VPN Security

How much security does a VPN give you? Some in certain circumstances but not a lot. A VPN is not going to stop malware or viruses. A VPN can provide some protection from a man in the middle or evil twin attack as it provides a encrypted tunnel between your device and the VPN server, so always use a VPN when joining public WIFI spots. Just remember a VPN cannot protect you downstream on the connection between the VPN server and the website, always use secure encrypted connections and be aware that MITM attacks can still happen on the backside. A VPN can prevent DDoS attacks since the attacker doesn't know your real IP address and a fantastic use of VPNs is to protect IoT devices. Those smart devices around your home love to scream out all their data insecurely and a VPN can change their IP and encrypt their data in transit protecting them from hacking.

VPN Legality

In many countries VPNs are banned, blocked, or outright illegal:

Bahrain Belarus China Cuba Egypt Iran Iraq Libya Myanmar North Korea Oman Russia Syria Turkey Turkmenistan UAE Uganda Venezuela Vietnam

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1. Связь мультимедийности и пользовательского контента. Пользовательскому контенту мы обязаны появлением крупнейших ресурсов мультимедийного контента: видео и фотохостингам, социальным сетям и т.д, а до этого — большим архивам контента, созданного различными фанатскими сетями.

2. Предшественники социального веба: эфирщики, фидошники. Связь медиафанатизма (или чрезмерного медиапотребления) с появлением социального веба по Г. Дженкинсу.

3. Развитие медиатехнологий в контексте централизации, лицензирования и государственного контроля (хороший источник — Тим Ву «Главный рубильник» читать тут)

1. Web 2.0: его технологическое и общественное значение для развития Интернета

2. Проблемы современных социальных медиа в контексте возможностей и ограничений Web 2.0

3. Web 3.0. Перспективы и новые технологии развития социальных медиа

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Предшественники социального веба

У социального интернета 2000-ых было множество предшественников в других медиа. Начиная с радио начала 20 века, заканчивая "фидошниками", которые использовали Интернет, но совсем не в том формате, в котором мы его знаем. Генри Дженкинс называет это партисипаторной культурой, хотя его идеи вряд ли можно отнести к радиолюбителям.

Радиолюбители

Эфирщики

FIDO

Сайты 1990-х

1. Space Jam 1996

1. Arngren

1. Aliweb

Старейший поисковик

1. Ещё подборка дизайна популярных сайтов 1990 годов

2. Neocities

Очень крутой каталог современных сайтов в стиле 1990

Web 2.0. Социальный веб, на который мы надеялись

Web 3.0. Устраняем недостатки второго веба

Децентрализованные соцмедиа: Fediverse

Screenshot из Fediverse.party

Децентрализованные соцмедиа: Nostr

Screenshot из Nostrapps.com

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If you are a nostr user or developer you're probably familiar with nostr identifiers. These identifiers are used to represent public/private keys or event ids. They allow for a human-readable representation of these values that can be used for copy-pasting, sharing, nostr URIs, rendering QR codes or referencing entities in text content.

The identifier start with a prefix that indicates the type of the identifier: npub for public keys, nsec for private keys and note for note ids. The prefix is followed by a separator character (1) and a payload that is encoded using the Bech32 encoding scheme.

The pubkey 7fa56f5d6962ab1e3cd424e758c3002b8665f7b0d8dcee9fe9e288d7751ac194 is represented as npub107jk7htfv243u0x5ynn43scq9wrxtaasmrwwa8lfu2ydwag6cx2quqncxg.

Context matters

There are special variants of the identifiers that include metadata to provide more context. The extra information enhances nostr client UX and interoperability since it allows to more easily find and display these entities.

The nprofile prefix is used to represent a public key with a set of relays where the user profile can be found. The nevent prefix is used to represent an event id (not necesarily a kind 1 note) with an optional set of relays where the event has been seen, the author of the event and an optional kind number. The naddr prefix is used to represent an address with kind, author, identifier (d) and an optional set of relays where the event has been seen.

For those variants the content is a binary-encoded list of TLV fields. Check out NIP-19 for a breakdown of which types are used for each prefix.

Pubkeys

Although there are relays that aggregate profile metadata and relay lists such as Purple Pages and profiles.nos.social, a bare npub is not enough to find a user's content. The nprofile alternative prefix tells clients where they can find the user's profile and posts.

Some great options for the relay hints included in an nprofile are the relays on the user's relay list metadata event.

Events

An nevent identifier can contain additional metadata about the event such as relay hints, the author of the event and the kind number. The relay hints can be used to find the event on the network and the author can be used to display the author's profile picture and name.

Including the kind number in the identifier is useful for clients since they can know if the event is compatible with their rendering logic. A client that only supports kind 1 notes can ignore kind 9802 highlights or show their .content field. A better alternative would be to query the nostr network to find compatbile apps via NIP-89 Recommended Application Handlers or even embed the apps in the client itself.

Addresses

There are certain types of events that do not have stable identifiers since they can be replaced anytime. A user can publish new versions of long-form articles or their profile. The naddr prefix is used to represent these events with an identifier that can be used to find the latest event. The d field is used to represent the identifier of the event that the address points to.

Similary to nevent, the naddr prefix can include relay hints to find the event on the network. The author field can be used to display the author's profile picture and name. The kind field can be used to know if the event is compatible with the client's rendering logic.

tl;dr

I encourage developers to use the variants with added context whenever possible. This means that clients will need to keep track of which relays an event has been seen on and which relays a user is posting to and reading from. The trade-off between longer identifiers and better interoperability is worth it if we want to make the nostr network decentralized and resilient.

You can use tools such as nak to get familiar with the different types of identifiers, add or remove metadata to your identifiers and decode them.

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Opinion about Exodus: Crypto Bitcoin Wallet (android)

Logins

WalletScrutiny #nostrOpinion

Join the conversation!

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/09/16/this-is-what-drugs-are-injected-into-women-who-want-an-abortion-and-fentanyl-is-included-in-the-list/

This is what drugs are injected into women who want an abortion, and fentanyl is included in the list

usa #politics #abortion #drugs #children #health #medicine #fentanyl

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Chef's notes

This granola is a wholesome, nutrient-dense option that's free from sugar, oil, and artificial additives. The activated nuts and seeds are sprouted to enhance their nutritional value and digestibility, while the natural sweetness comes from apples and bananas. Dehydrating at low temperatures ensures the ingredients retain their raw, living enzymes. Enjoy this crunchy delight as a breakfast topping, snack, or straight from the jar!

The picture shows my delightful breakfast: creamy oat milk with chia seeds, topped with crunchy granola and fresh cubes of apple and pear 💚

Enjoy your crunchy, nutrient-packed granola⚡️

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 10 min (soaking 24 hours)
• 🍳 Cook time: 16 hours (Dehydration)
• 🍽️ Servings: 6

Ingredients

• 1 cup raw almonds
• 1 cup raw sunflower seeds
• 1 cup raw pumpkin seeds
• 1/2 cup raw cashew or walnuts
• 2 ripe banana
• 1 apple (cored)
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp raw cocoa powder
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
• Pinch of sea salt

Directions

1. Activate and Sprout the Nuts & Seeds: Soak the almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and cashews or walnuts in water for 24 hours. Drain and rinse thoroughly.
2. Prepare the Fruit Mixture: In a blender, puree the banana and apple until smooth. Add the vanilla extract, cocoa powder, cinnamon (optional), and a pinch of sea salt to the puree.
3. Mix and Combine: In a large mixing bowl, combine the activated nuts and seeds with the fruit puree. Stir well until everything is evenly coated.
4. Dehydrate: Spread the mixture evenly on dehydrator trays. I use silicone sheets with a border. Dehydrate at a temperature at 42°C (115°F) for 12–16 hours, or until the granola is completely dry and crispy. If you don’t have a dehydrator, you can use your oven at its lowest setting, leaving the door slightly open.
5. Break Apart & Store: Once fully dehydrated, break the granola into chunks. Store in an airtight container in a cool, dry place for up to 2 weeks.
6. Serving Suggestions: Sprinkle on top of smoothie bowls, or eat as is!

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Table Of Content

• What is a Bitcoin Bull Market?

• Why Analysts Believe a New Bull Market is on the Horizon for Bitcoin

• Bitcoin's Recent Performance

• The Analyst's Prediction

• On-Chain Data

• Bitcoin's Future Prospects

• Conclusion

• FAQ

A cryptocurrency analyst recently suggested that Bitcoin is on the brink of a new bull market, which could potentially lead to a period of significant price appreciation. With an increasing number of institutional investors entering the market, the analyst believes that Bitcoin could soon see a significant rise in value.

What is a Bitcoin Bull Market?

Before we dive into the details of why a new bull market could be on the horizon for Bitcoin, let's first define what we mean by the term "bull market."

A bull market is a period of time when prices are rising, and investor confidence is high. In the case of Bitcoin, a bull market is characterized by a significant increase in the price of the cryptocurrency, with many investors buying in anticipation of future gains.

Conversely, a bear market is a period of time when prices are falling, and investor confidence is low. During a bear market, many investors will sell off their holdings, and there may be a sense of pessimism in the market.

Why Analysts Believe a New Bull Market is on the Horizon for Bitcoin

There are several reasons why analysts believe that Bitcoin is on the cusp of a new bull market. One of the most significant factors is the growing acceptance of Bitcoin by mainstream financial institutions.

Over the past few years, several major banks and financial institutions have announced plans to integrate Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies into their businesses. For example, Mastercard recently announced that it will allow merchants to accept certain cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, as a form of payment. PayPal also recently launched a cryptocurrency trading platform, making it easier for individuals to buy and sell Bitcoin.

In addition to these developments, many investors are also becoming more aware of the potential benefits of Bitcoin. As a decentralized currency, Bitcoin is not subject to the same restrictions and regulations as traditional currencies. This means that it can be used for a variety of purposes, including online purchases, international money transfers, and even as a store of value.

Bitcoin's Recent Performance

Bitcoin's recent performance has been marked by significant volatility, with the cryptocurrency reaching an all-time high of nearly $69,000 in November 2021 before experiencing a rapid decline in December that saw it lose more than 40% of its value in just a few weeks. Factors contributing to the volatility include economic uncertainty due to the ongoing pandemic, increasing regulatory scrutiny, and growing acceptance of cryptocurrencies by mainstream financial institutions. While some analysts remain optimistic about the long-term potential of Bitcoin, investors should approach it with caution and do their own research, as the high level of volatility and lack of regulation in the cryptocurrency market means that investing in Bitcoin can be risky.

The Analyst's Prediction

Analyst Willy Woo has suggested that Bitcoin could confirm a new bull market within a week, based on the cryptocurrency's on-chain data. Woo has been known for his accurate predictions in the past and is considered a respected figure in the crypto community.

On-Chain Data

Woo's prediction is based on Bitcoin's on-chain data, which suggests that the cryptocurrency is in the accumulation phase, with long-term holders accumulating more Bitcoin while short-term holders are selling. This trend is seen as a bullish sign by many analysts.

Bitcoin's Future Prospects

If Woo's prediction is correct and Bitcoin does confirm a new bull market, it could be a significant development for the cryptocurrency's future prospects. A new bull market could potentially lead to a surge in Bitcoin's price, as more investors become interested in the cryptocurrency.

Conclusion

Despite the recent volatility in Bitcoin's price, there are indications that a new bull market may be on the horizon. Some analysts suggest that the cryptocurrency's recent price correction was a healthy market correction that will pave the way for further growth in the future. They point to the increasing adoption of Bitcoin by mainstream financial institutions, as well as the growing number of individuals and companies that are using it for a variety of purposes.

FAQ

What is Bitcoin's new bull market? A bull market is a financial term used to describe a period of time in which asset prices rise significantly.

Why are analysts suggesting a new bull market for Bitcoin? Analysts are suggesting a new bull market for Bitcoin due to several factors such as increased institutional adoption, global economic uncertainty, and government stimulus packages.

How high could Bitcoin's price go in the new bull market? It's difficult to predict exactly how high Bitcoin's price could go in the new bull market, but some analysts are predicting prices of $100,000 or more.

Should I invest in Bitcoin during the new bull market? It's important to do your own research and consider your own financial situation before making any investment decisions. While some analysts are bullish on Bitcoin, investing in any asset comes with risks and uncertainties.

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You Abuse the Earth when you Refuse to Reuse. Every household, industries or IT companies have electronic waste that they dump in bulk. E-waste needs to be dumped at the right place by getting associated to the e waste services companies. They collect these dumps and recycle it to form a new product out of it, which can be used alter on.

What is E-waste? E waste is the electronic waste that are dumped when they are not of use anymore. The e-waste is very significant source of metals such as gold, silver, copper and aluminium that can be recovered and made into useful products. The significant role that the waste plays is that it has important economic potential in the efficient recovery of valuable materials.

E- waste can be only managed by sustainable management procedures. The sustainable management refers to donate the used electronic waste or household hazardous waste for reuse as it extends the life of valuable products. Recycling electronics is important as it prevents valuable materials going into waste stream and dumping yards. Sustainable management is a long-term approach towards the environment’s health. https://thekingofrecycling.com/discard-the-e-cluster-with-king-recycling/

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/09/15/trump-dodged-the-bullet-again-but-this-time-the-shooter-was-caught/

Trump dodged the bullet again - but this time the shooter was caught.

trump #usa #america #florida #shooting

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/09/15/see-how-long-the-average-patient-has-to-wait-for-emergency-care-in-the-uk/

See how long the average patient has to wait for emergency care in the UK

uk #unitedkingdom #emergency #health #medicine #politics

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Python for Absolute Beginners

Welcome to the world of Python programming! This guide will introduce you to the basics of Python, a powerful and beginner-friendly programming language.

What is Python?

Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language known for its simplicity and readability. It's widely used in various fields, including web development, data science, artificial intelligence, and more.

Why Choose Python?

• Easy to learn and read
• Versatile and powerful
• Large community and extensive libraries
• Used in many industries

Getting Started

1. Installing Python

Visit the official Python website (https://www.python.org) and download the latest version for your operating system.

2. Your First Python Program

Open a text editor and type the following:

python print("Hello, World!")

Save the file as hello.py and run it using the Python interpreter.

Basic Python Concepts

Variables

Variables store data in your program:

python name = "Alice" age = 30 height = 1.75

Data Types

Python has several built-in data types:

• Strings: "Hello"
• Integers: 42
• Floats: 3.14
• Booleans: True or False
• Lists: [1, 2, 3]
• Dictionaries: {"name": "Bob", "age": 25}

Control Flow

If Statements

python if age >= 18: print("You're an adult") else: print("You're a minor")

Loops

For loop: python for i in range(5): print(i)

While loop: python count = 0 while count < 5: print(count) count += 1

Functions

Functions help organize and reuse code:

```python def greet(name): return f"Hello, {name}!"

message = greet("Charlie") print(message) ```

Next Steps

1. Practice writing simple programs
2. Learn about modules and libraries
3. Explore Python documentation
4. Join Python communities and forums

Remember, programming is a skill that improves with practice. Don't be afraid to experiment and make mistakes – it's all part of the learning process!

Happy coding!

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Chef's notes

The ginger, lemon, and spicy peppers are optional ingredients that can be added to enhance the flavour and potential health benefits of the fermented garlic honey.

Details

• ⏲️ Prep time: 20 minutes
• 🍳 Cook time: 1 month (or longer)

Ingredients

• Garlic cloves, peeled and cracked open (if possible)
• Local, unfiltered honey
• Ginger root, peeled and cut into 1/8 to 1/4 inch pieces (optional)
• Lemon, cut into small pieces (optional)
• Spicy peppers like bird's eye peppers (optional)

Directions

1. Peel and crack open the garlic cloves. The cracked cloves will ferment faster.
2. Add the peeled and cracked garlic cloves to a clean jar, filling about half the jar.
3. Add the honey to the jar, leaving about 1 inch of headspace at the top.
4. If using, add the ginger, lemon, and/or spicy peppers to the jar.
5. Seal the jar tightly and shake well to combine the ingredients.
6. Burp the jar (open it to release built-up gas) and gently shake it once or twice a day for the next 1-2 weeks to allow the fermentation process to occur.
7. After 1-2 weeks, refrigerate the fermented garlic honey. Continue to burp the jar once or twice a week.
8. Use the fermented garlic honey within 2-3 months for best quality and safety.

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https://forex-strategy.com/2024/09/15/the-end-of-the-german-economy-is-coming-companies-over-200-years-old-are-going-bankrupt/

The end of the German economy is coming - Companies over 200 years old are going bankrupt

germany #business #finance

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People don't realise how hard it is to speak the truth, to a world full of people that don't realise they're living a lie. —Edward Snowden

Good morning, Bitcoiners! I hope you're enjoying your Sunday morning.

There are 11 meetups across the country this coming week, including a big day at Cyphermunk House in London and another gathering at Tooting Market, where 15 merchants now accept Bitcoin as payment. All the details are listed below.

I hope you've been enjoying the newsletter over the past couple of months. This is the Nostr version of the newsletter which is ad-free and relies on V4V to keep the lights on.

Let's get into it...

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Upcoming Bitcoin Meetups

Happening this week...

1. Newcastle upon Tyne Bitcoin Meetup: The next Newcastle meetup is on Tuesday 17th September at The Ware Rooms Bar. 6:30 PM.
2. Tooting Market Bitcoin Hub: Another big meetup at Tooting market this week. 15 merchants are now accepting bitcoin at the market. Head along to see what all the fuss is on Wednesday 18th at 6 PM. Join the Tooting Bitcoin Telegram group to stay updated on what's happening each month.
3. Bitcoin Glasgow: Bitcoin Glasgow meet every 3rd Wednesday of the month and this month will be at The Maltman, 59-61 Renfield Street at 6 PM to 8 PM, on the 18th.
4. Shropshire Bitcoin: On the 18th, the Shropshire crew will be meeting at the Admiral Benbow in Shrewsbury at 7 PM.
5. Preston Bitcoin Meetup: Preston will be meeting at Plau Gin and Beer House, Fairgate. This month on Thursday the 19th of September. New faces welcome.
6. Brum Bitcoin & Beer: These guys are one of the longest and most consistent running meetups in the UK. If you're in the Birmingham area head along to meet them on Thursday 19th at 7 pm at The Wellington, Bennett's Hill.
7. Bitcoin Surrey: Something a little different for the Surrey meetup this month. A wine-tasting session at Hawkins Bros Fine English Wines plus a guest speaker. You'll need to get a ticket for this one too as space at the venue is limited.
8. Cyphermunk House: Join them for a day of education, pizza and art at the 'BE YOUR OWN BANK' event. A host of events will be happening, including workshops, a book launch by Bill Aronson, Protocol presentation with Angor and a talk from former politician Steve Baker about Bitcoin and the state. Grab a ticket here.
9. Bitcoin Walk - Edinburgh: Every Saturday they walk around Arthur's Seat in this historic city. Join them at 12 pm to chat about all things Bitcoin and keep fit.
10. Bitcoin Derby: On Saturday the 21th September, Bitcoin Derby will be at Ye Olde Dolphin, DE1 3DL. Join them for some great conversations and get to know your local Bitcoiners.
11. Bitcoin Bristol: From 6.15pm on Weds 21st. At the Wiper and True Brewery & Taproom, Old Market. Next week there'll be some news on a big event Bitcoin Bristol is organising in November.

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Upcoming Special Events

These events aren’t happening next week, but they’re important to add to your calendar now as tickets are selling fast.

• Bitcoin Racing - Networking Experience: Missing the roar of engines at Brands Hatch? Join us on September 26th for an adrenaline-filled event that blends high-speed thrills with valuable business networking. Take exhilarating passenger rides in a JCW MINI with Chris Mackenzie, connect with industry leaders during networking sessions featuring speakers from companies like Archax and Green Mining DAO, and sharpen your skills with professional driver tuition in the Bitcoin Racing C1 car. Enjoy complimentary lunch, beverages, and test your limits with sim racing experiences. This is the ultimate experience for motorsport enthusiasts and business professionals alike. Book your spot now! 🏁
  

• Southampton Trip to Real Bedford: The Satoshi Society in Southampton are pleased to announce an upcoming trip to cheer on the Pirates in their league game against Ware on Saturday the 28th of September. All meetups around the country are welcome to join them. After the game, there will be food and drinks in Bedford at La Terrazza and The Auction Room. Check out the link for more details. ⚽️🍺
  

• Bitcoin Whitepaper Party: Celebrate Bitcoin’s 16th birthday on Bitcoin Whitepaper Day at the Dockside Vaults this Halloween. Currently, you can buy two tickets for £28.68 as an early bird deal, the regular price is £21.40 for a single ticket. Get involved with the chocolate making workshop with Roger9000. Enjoy a performance by Roger9000 and DJ sets from MadMunky, itsTOMEKK, and ZAZAWOWOW. The party kicks off at 19:30. Bitcoin is accepted at the venue, and you can also pay for tickets with Bitcoin here.

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Get Involved

• Volunteer Opportunities: Bridge2Bitcoin is actively seeking volunteers who share our passion for merchant adoption. We'd be delighted to connect if you're eager to contribute. Reach out to us on Twitter or through our website.
• Start Your Own Meetup: Interested in launching a Bitcoin meetup? We’re here to support you every step of the way. We’ve assisted numerous UK Bitcoin meetups in getting started. Get in touch via Twitter.
• Telegram users: You might find our Telegram Channel another useful way to keep up-to-date with UK meetups.
• Feedback and Suggestions: We value your input! Share your ideas on how we can enhance this newsletter.

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Get out and support the meetups where you can, visit Bitcoin Events UK for more info on each meetup and to find your closest on the interactive map.

Stay tuned for more updates next week!

Simon.

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Get ready, because the future of digital content is here and it's decentralized live streaming! Imagine a world where you have complete control over what you watch without any interference or censorship. Say goodbye to YouTube and hello to a new era of content creation. One of the key players in this exciting shift is Owncast hosting.com – a revolutionary platform that empowers creators by giving them the freedom to broadcast live streams directly to their audience, without relying on centralized platforms. With Owncast hosting.com, content creators are in charge, able to share their passion and message without fear of being silenced. But it doesn't stop there. Decentralization means embracing the power of the fediverse, a network of interconnected social platforms that allows for seamless communication and sharing across various independent servers. This interconnectedness is a game-changer, as creators and viewers are no longer confined to one platform. The possibilities are endless, and the audience expands exponentially. Now is the time to celebrate the end of YouTube's dominance. We're witnessing a thrilling rise of decentralized live streaming, where users determine the direction of content. No more worrying about algorithms pushing certain narratives or shadowbanning creators. This new wave ensures that freedom of expression is preserved, making way for diverse voices and ideas to flourish. So buckle up and get ready to embrace the future of digital content. Be part of the revolution, where the power lies in your hands, and creativity knows no bounds. Exciting times are ahead as decentralized live streaming takes center stage, bridging communities and enabling more authentic connections. The way we consume content will never be the same again! For a perfect example of a no censorship decentralized live streaming network,please explore wowzatv.network